Ravenna board approves consent agenda, insurance contracts and multiple personnel changes

The Ravenna School District Board of Education approved a number of consent and personnel items during its business meeting.

Consent items approved included minutes for May 13 and May 22; a list of gifts and donations; May financial reports; then-and-now payments; and approval of a new student club account (industrial tech). The board also approved insurance contracts with Love Insurance for a cyber policy and another package for property, auto, liability and pollution coverage as read into the record. The tax budget item was approved as presented.

Personnel actions approved under consent covered multiple certified resignations (including intervention specialists Joe Callahan, Jeremiah Sanders, Emily Sims, Tayah Miller, Shana Bell; social-studies teacher Steven Farhat; Brown Middle School teacher Sarah Lambert), appointments and corrections (a one-year limited contract for Amy Siverston as an intervention specialist at Ravenna High School, and Alexis James, seventh-grade ELA at Brown, who served as a long-term substitute). A school-year appointment for a multiple-disability program (Daniel Stotticker) was also approved.

Classified staffing changes included several resignations and a cascade of bids and reassignments in food services after a retirement, plus employment for extended-school-year vocational aides and educational aides; names included Debbie Yonders, Jamie McCoy, Kyle Lawrence and others who moved into positions via the district bid process.

All motions recorded in the transcript passed on roll call with unanimous 'yes' votes from board members present.

Why it matters: these actions finalize routine operational approvals and staffing adjustments that allow the district to maintain operations and programming for the coming school year.