BY ANDREW HEISERMAN 

Staff Writer

ROCHELLE – During their monthly meeting Monday night, the Rochelle Township High School Board of Trustees approved a motion to pass the monthly minutes.

A motion to pay the bills and approve the treasurer’s report was also passed during the meeting.

Another topic during the monthly meeting was the topic of employment for extracurricular activities.

“We hired two new assistant speech coaches and one new assistant wrestling coach,” said Kevin Dale, Rochelle township high school business manager. 

Nephertiti Valle and MacKenzie Lara were hired as the new assistant speech coaches and Chris Hager was hired as the assistant wrestling coach. 

Levy

Board members also proposed a levy for the 2019 taxes. They reviewed and discussed the reported gross Equalized Assessed Valuation increase of about 10.7 percent from last year because of the quadrennial. But school board officials expect this to drop when people begin noticing a big jump in their taxes and begin to appeal. 

“Every year that we get this, the assessors give us a gross EAV of what they asses it at, and every year we have seen it drop,” added Dale. 

No decisions or action was taken on the proposed levy, but the board plans to adopt the levy at next month’s board meeting on Dec. 16. given that their levy does not exceed 5 percent. 

There is no need for a Truth in Taxation hearing. 

The final thing that was brought up during their meeting was a quarterly update to the board policies provided by the Illinoi Association of School Boards. Trustees will have one month to review the summary and ask any questions they may have, then at the December board meeting the policies will be adopted. 

Trustees then when into executive session, but there were no decisions that came from it.