The school board voted Thursday night to give pay raises to the DCHS head football and boys basketball coaches and cheer coaches.

After stopping the meeting to deliberate on the matter, the board awarded Head Football Coach Steve Trapp a $2,500 increase in pay, added to the $5,000 supplement Trapp previously received, his pay for coaching will now total $7,500.

DCHS Head Basketball Coach Lynus Martin got a $1,500 raise, increasing his total coaching supplement to $6,500. The football and basketball cheer coaches will receive a $500 increase each, increasing their pay to $1,335.

The newly hired DCHS girls basketball coach, Nathaniel Kennard, will not get a raise. His supplement will total $5,000.

DCHS Quarterback Club members spoke before the board at an athletic oversight committee meeting Monday night, expressing concerns that the existing pay plan does not reward coaches equally for the value they bring to the school system.

School Board Chairman W.J. (Dub) Evins, III said that the move was only a stopgap measure until the athletic oversight committee “can further look at the pay scales and make some adjustments.”

The school board voted last month to move $5,000 from another line item in the budget to begin to solve the inequities for the four coaches, whose ranks well below that of similar positions statewide.

School Board Members Danny Parkerson, Jerry Wayne Johnson, Kate Miller, Shaun Tubbs and W.J. (Dub) Evins, III voted to approve the increases. Jim Beshearse and Doug Stephens were not present at the meeting.