The St Joseph School Board was faced with some large issues Monday, so they moved their meeting to the Troester Media Center. The TMC Conference Room still wasn’t large enough. An estimated 260 people turned out. A lot of those on hand were there to complain about the district’s contract with food-services firm OPAA!

The board’s Vice President Martin Rucker told the crowd the board decided to pull the contract extension from the agenda for further study.

“There’s been some questions raised and there’s some more information that needs to be vetted,” Rucker told the crowd. The board took no action on that item.

The board nixed an effort to revisit a salary schedule which included stipends in administrators’ salaries. The panel voted 4-2 to pass the overall salary schedule, parts of which they’d already passed in January. Two board members, Kappy Hodges and Chris Danford voted no. An earlier motion to rescind the salaries approved in January fell on a vote of 3-to-3. The board then voted to approve the remainder of the salary schedule, which includes a 2 percent raise for teachers, support staff and administrators.