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Board approves routine financial items, personnel actions, curriculum adoptions and labor agreement
Summary
At the meeting the Lebanon City School Board approved the agenda, minutes, financial consent items, a first reading of 29 policies, curriculum adoptions for math and a new zoology text, a set of personnel actions, and an agreement with the Ohio Association of Public School Employees; the board also voted to enter executive session.
The Lebanon City School Board took a series of routine approvals during its meeting, voting to adopt the agenda, approve the March 17, 2025 minutes, accept financial consent items and donations, approve a first reading of 29 policies, adopt curriculum materials for middle‑ and high‑school mathematics and a zoology adoption, approve personnel items and ratify a collective‑bargaining agreement with the Ohio Association of Public School Employees (OAPSE).
Votes at a glance
- Adopt agenda as presented — Motion carried (roll call: Mister Lane, Missus Cope, Missus Dalton, Mister Gliotti, Mister McCutcheon recorded as voting yes).
- Approve minutes of the regular board meeting for 03/17/2025 — Motion carried (roll call recorded as yes by board members present).
- Approve financial consent items A–I (monthly reports, amended appropriations, donations including a donation for the district therapy dog Smoke from Love Like JJ, staff appreciation funds, revised exempt pay grades and then/now certificates) — Motion carried (roll call: Missus Dalton, Mister McCutcheon, Missus Cope, Mister Gliotti, Mister Lane all recorded yes).
- First reading approved for 29 policies — Motion carried (first reading vote recorded yes by board members present); the administration noted some policy changes were minor edits and that further discussion can be requested before final adoption.
- Approve educational items A–C (adopt Amplify/Desmos mathematics materials for grades 7–8, Reveal Math for high‑school geometry, and materials for a new high‑school zoology course) — Motion carried.
- Personnel actions A–N approved (resignations, pending hires contingent on background checks, substitute lists, supplemental positions and volunteers, seasonal workers, leaves of absence, extended summer hours for a new parent‑liaison hire, certified and administrative contracts) — Motion carried.
- Approve agreement between Lebanon City Schools and the Ohio Association of Public School Employees (OAPSE) — Motion carried; administration described market adjustments and one‑time payments to remain competitive in the classified staff labor market.
- Entered executive session to consider the appointment, employment or compensation of a public employee or official; motion to enter executive session passed by roll call. The board stated no action would be taken during or after executive session.
Board members voted in favor of the listed routine items in roll calls recorded on the transcript; where movers and seconders spoke simply as “so moved” and “second,” the transcript did not always identify the member by name. The meeting packet contains the full lists of policies, the detailed financial exhibits and the personnel lists that the board approved.
