Martinsville Board Approves Annual Resolutions Naming Compliance Officers

Martinsville Board of Education | August 20, 2026

Article Summary: The Martinsville Community Unit School District #C-3 Board of Education voted 7-0 on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, to approve a package of eight annual resolutions that assigned the district’s civil rights, grievance and liaison duties for the year and retained the district’s law firm.

Annual Resolutions Key Points:

Superintendent Robert Waggoner was named to five roles: Title IX Grievance Officer, Grievance Officer, Non-Discrimination Coordinator, District Liaison for Homeless Children and District Foster Care Liaison.

Mr. Todd Evers and Mrs. Sheri Cooper were appointed as the district’s two complaint managers for sexual harassment or sexual discrimination complaints.

The board designated Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick and Kohn as legal advisor to the district, a designation the resolution states “will remain” in place.

The package also included a resolution on “Authority of administration to remove students.” The minutes record no text, statutory citation or discussion for that item.

MARTINSVILLE — The Martinsville Community Unit School District #C-3 Board of Education on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, approved its annual resolutions in a single 7-0 vote, setting the district’s designated officers for student discipline authority, civil rights compliance, grievances and legal representation for the coming year.

The motion was made by board member Hollingsworth and seconded by board member Kannmacher. Baird, President Connelly, Hollingsworth, Kannmacher, Maxwell, Parcel and Wilhoit all voted yes.

School boards typically adopt a set of housekeeping resolutions at the start of each school year to name the officials who will carry out duties assigned by law or district policy. The Martinsville package contained eight lettered items, listed identically on the meeting agenda and in the minutes.

Five of the eight named Superintendent Robert Waggoner. He was designated Title IX Grievance Officer — Title IX is the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education programs — and separately appointed Grievance Officer for the district, designated Non-Discrimination Coordinator, designated District Liaison for Homeless Children and designated District Foster Care Liaison.

A sixth item appointed two complaint managers for sexual harassment or sexual discrimination complaints for the district, identified in the resolution as Mr. Todd Evers and Mrs. Sheri Cooper. The agenda identifies Evers as the district’s JH/HS principal and Cooper as elementary principal. Both administrators were recorded present at the meeting, along with Waggoner.

A seventh item designated the district’s legal advisor, “which will remain Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick and Kohn” — language indicating a continuation of the district’s existing representation rather than a change of counsel. Neither the minutes nor the agenda states any terms, rates or scope of that engagement.

The first item in the package, listed only as “Authority of administration to remove students,” carries no accompanying text, statute reference or explanation in either document, and the minutes record no discussion of it.

The resolutions were not assigned numbers in either the agenda or the minutes, and no copies of the resolutions appear in the meeting materials, so the operative language of each designation is not part of the public record reviewed for this story.

The vote on the resolutions preceded, later in the same meeting, the board’s 7-0 acceptance of Waggoner’s retirement letter effective June 30, 2027. The minutes do not address whether or how the five designations assigned to Waggoner would be reassigned at that point.