Liberty

WHAT: Board of Education meeting June 29

PRESENT: Christopher Brookbank, Scott Davis, Diana DeVito, Calvin Jones and David Malone

The board:

l Approved a reading improvement plan for grades kindergarten to sixth as required by the Ohio Department of Education for school districts with less than 80 percent of students scoring at the proficient level or higher on the third-grade English / language arts assessment. The plan was developed by the district’s leadership team;

l Approved the retirement resignation of Marguarite Daniluk as pianist for the choir and band for concerts and solo and ensemble effective May 28;

l Recalled from the reduction-in-force list Emily Fitzpatrick, intervention assistant, effective July 1 and Michael Pollifrone, bus driver, effective Aug. 27, and placed Pollifrone, currently a custodian, on the RIF list effective Aug. 28;

l Approved payment of $4,563 to K-12 School Consultants for consulting for open enrollment services;

l Approved payment of $3,683 to Myers Equipment for bus body work, repair and painting side of a bus;

l Approved payment of $3,000 to Schoolpointe for web hosting services;

l Approved William Green as assistant technology director at $15 per hour for 15 hours per week not to exceed $9,100 effective July 2;

l Hired Lindsay Kovach as a teacher on a one-year contract;

l Accepted resignation of Gerrod Hriusovsky as seventh-grade social studies teacher effective Aug. 24.

• Bob Coupland