Murphysboro CUSD 186 approves multiple hires and votes to consider 2024–25 salary increases

The Murphysboro CUSD 186 school board approved multiple staff hirings and transfers and voted to consider salary increases for nonunion, noncertified and administrative staff for the 2024–25 school year.

A presenter announced certified hires “employing Matt Burke as MMS social studies teacher and Amy Stewart as MHS special ed,” and the board approved those hires following a motion and roll-call affirmation by members present. The same meeting recorded approval of several voluntary transfers, including Baron Hankins (assignment changes involving General John A. Logan and MMS), Andrew Waddington (to dean of students at General John A. Logan), Katie Russell (from MMS sixth-grade special education to ELL teacher), and Riley O'Rourke (reassignment at General John A. Logan).

The board also approved a noncertified hire, Abigail Oestis, described in the record as an ELL noncertified position, and approved an athletics appointment for Taylor Morgan as MHS head volleyball coach. Each personnel action was moved, seconded and adopted via roll call; members answering in the roll calls were identified in the meeting audio by the following spoken names: Mister Green; Missus Bridal (transcript spelling); Mister Brown; Missus Judy; Mister Greenhurst; Mister Beavers; Missus Doody. The transcript includes a variant spelling 'Missus Brazel' in one roll-call line and also a separate variant 'Missus Grama' in another roll-call sequence; those spellings could not be independently verified from the meeting record and are reported here as they appear in the transcript.

Board members recorded the motion to consider salary increases for nonunion, noncertified and administrative staff for the '24–25 school year. The motion to "consider" these increases was moved and seconded and passed on roll call; the meeting record contains no proposed percentage changes, position-by-position rates, or dollar totals. As stated in the transcript, the motion was to consider salary increases rather than to adopt specific salary schedules or dollar amounts during this meeting.

What happened next or any staff direction to prepare specific proposals was not recorded in the transcript. The meeting record does not list a mover or seconder by name for each motion; much of the personnel reporting was made by an unidentified presenter. No formal ordinances, statutes or external authorities were cited in the personnel items recorded in the transcript.

The personnel actions and the approved motion to consider compensation changes were recorded as formal motions and roll-call approvals in the meeting audio; the transcript does not include detailed supporting documents, salary figures or implementation timelines.