Ross Local board approves superintendent and treasurer recommendations, confirms graduation candidates

The Ross Local School District board voted to approve routine but substantive district business, including personnel actions, summer contracts and a block of treasurer items.

Superintendent Dr. Rice presented recommendations covering employment, resignations, continuing contracts, summer help, supplemental recommendations worked through with the REA, substitute bus drivers for 2026–27, an overnight summer field trip, and a list of potential 2026 graduation candidates that remain pending final steps. A motion to approve those recommendations was moved, seconded and approved by roll call. The board’s roll call included Castager, Krennick, Gunther, Beckman, Webb and Young; all recorded votes were “yes.”

Treasurer Castager asked the board to consider seven items as a single block: monthly investment reports, a pair of donations noted in the packet, a Johnson Controls contract for HVAC controls at Elda, summer paving projects at the middle school and high school, and gym resurfacing/recoding contracts. Board members moved, seconded and approved the block vote by roll call.

The board noted an estimated class size for 2026 graduates in informal discussion (estimates offered in the meeting ranged around 183–185 students); Dr. Rice said final confirmations are pending.

Actions recorded at the meeting set these motions as approved and will allow staff to proceed with contract work and personnel onboarding subject to standard final verifications.

Provenance: Superintendent recommendations introduced at SEG 708 and voted on at SEG 738–763; treasurer items introduced at SEG 781 and voted on SEG 809–818.