YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Board of Education has adopted a series of resolutions that entail establishing a central clearinghouse for normal operations, supporting a longtime community center and dissolving one of its committees.

In one of the moves, school officials have offered their support and recognition to the McGuffey Center, 1649 Jacobs Road, for what they feel is the center serving as an anchor for much of the East Side, as well as the work it has done in the community, Superintendent Jeremy Batchelor said after Tuesday’s regular board of education meeting.

“They’re trying to do positive things for the community,” Batchelor said, adding that such actions include serving as a possible hub for a bus stop beginning in the fall, along with providing after-school programs for some district students.

The center will be celebrating its 100th anniversary during an event set 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 15 at the facility. The gathering also will serve as a community homecoming, according to the McGuffey Center’s Facebook page.

Another resolution called for establishing a Youngstown Leadership Center at Chaney Middle School on South Schenley Avenue, which would serve as a central location and office for nearly all daily district operations, Batchelor said. Currently, a variety of district functions are spread throughout the city, he noted, adding that an exception will be technology operations, which will remain at Choffin Career & Technical Center.

Also during the session, board President Juanita Walker introduced a resolution to discontinue a pair of ad hoc committees, placing one of them under the umbrella of school curriculum.

Among the consent items Batchelor outlined was to officially adopt the names Youngstown High School and Youngstown Middle School for the two schools that will be the result, beginning this school year, of the district’s reconfiguration plan that was announced May 9, 2025. The move also will require a few data pieces to be reported to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce as well as to the Ohio Athletic Association.

One of them is the requirement that each school has its own information retrieval number, the superintendent explained.

An IRN is a state-assigned, six-digit code unique to each school throughout the state and used to identify individual schools and districts for reporting, funding, accountability purposes and program eligibility.

The board also had a moment of silence to remember and honor E’Lexus Connor, a 16-year-old Chaney High School student who was killed in an early-morning crash Sunday at Market Street and East Myrtle Avenue on the South Side. Her sister, En’Dia Connor, 18, was one of the three other people in the vehicle who were hospitalized for their injuries.

The Youngstown Police Department is continuing its investigation of the crash.