Board approves scholarships, small HRA billing change and multiple policy/handbook updates

During routine business the Wilmot UHS School District board approved scholarship designations, an administrative billing change and a package of policy and handbook updates.

The board identified Ian Kirkman and Josiah Reinholtz as the district’s Academic Excellence Scholarship recipients and named Dylan Masanova as the Technical Excellence Scholarship recipient. The superintendent described the academic awards as annual recognitions for top weighted grade‑point averages; the transcript did not record the students’ exact GPAs.

Administrators presented an amend‑and‑restate to the Mid America Administrative and Retirement Solutions HRA to stop paying monthly service fees for very small active former‑employee accounts by shifting billing to the account holders; the superintendent said the change would save about $1,300 per year. Trustees discussed whether retirees or former employees should be notified; administrators said they could send notice and expected many small accounts would be closed when holders learned of the balance.

The board completed a second reading and approved a large packet of policy updates and adopted handbook amendments aligning jury‑duty and military leave pay procedures (employees are paid wages but must remit jury pay or have their take‑home pay adjusted accordingly). Trustees then held a roll call vote to move into closed session to address resignations, retirements and preliminary notices of non‑renewal for professional staff; the transcript records 'Yes' votes from trustees on the roll call, but no public details were given in the transcript.