Akron school board approves minutes, personnel slate, calendar adjustments and business items; two abstentions on business affairs

The Akron Public School Board on July 14 approved meeting minutes, a slate of personnel recommendations and a set of division and business-affairs items, including proposed adjustments to the 2025-26 school calendar and approval of Option 2 for the 2026-27 calendar. The board also entered an executive session on negotiations and returned with no action.

The board voted first to approve the regular meeting minutes for June 23, 2025. The motion to approve the minutes was moved by Member Hall and seconded by Vice President Alexander; the roll call vote recorded six yes votes and the motion carried.

The board then approved personnel recommendations covering categories 10 through 20 (professional staff and administrators, substitutes, tutors, support staff, paraprofessionals, child nutrition, maintenance/operations/transportation and security). The motion to approve personnel recommendations was moved by Vice President Alexander, seconded by Member Hall and carried on a 6-0 roll call.

In division recommendations (section 22) the superintendent asked the board to consider an amendment to the 2025-26 calendar (changing Friday, March 27, 2026 from an all-staff professional development day to a staff-and-student day and changing Tuesday, May 5, 2026 from a staff-and-student day to an all-staff professional development day) and to approve Option 2 of the 2026-27 calendar (which includes adding Tuesday, May 4 as an all-staff professional development day). A motion to approve the division recommendations (including those calendar items) was moved by Member Molineux and seconded by Member Autry and carried in roll call votes recorded during the meeting.

The board then considered business affairs recommendations (section 23), including several facilities- and contract-related items and a Trust for Public Land project briefing. The motion to approve the business affairs recommendations was moved by Member Autry and seconded by Member Hall. The board recorded abstentions on specific line items: one abstention on item 23.10 by Doctor Molineux and one abstention on item 23.22 by Vice President Alexander; apart from those exceptions the items passed by the board’s roll-call votes.

Later in the meeting the board voted to go into executive session “pursuant to Ohio Revised Code 121.22” for negotiations or bargaining sessions concerning public employees; the motion was moved by Vice President Alexander and seconded by Member Autry. The board recessed into executive session at 6:26 p.m., returned to open session at 8:25 p.m. and reported no action was required following the executive session. The board then moved to adjourn; the adjournment motion carried on a unanimous roll call.

The meeting minutes list the formal movers, seconders and recorded roll-call tallies for the motions noted above; where the transcript recorded abstentions those are noted here.