3 Rivers board approves personnel contracts, bus routes and summer training for 2025–26 school year

The 3 Rivers Local School District Board of Education on July 22 approved a block of personnel and operational items for the 2025–26 school year, including multiple resignations, one-year nonteaching contracts, revised hourly allocations for aides and dates and pay for district safe-crisis management trainings. Superintendent Dr. Ault said he would “like to block items a through o” and then read the personnel, instruction, operations and athletics items included in the packet. The motion to approve the block passed on recorded affirmative votes from board members Missus Miller, Missus Hughes, Mister McDonald and Mister Adams. The board accepted the resignation of Angela Holmes, identified in the packet as a Title I teacher and tutor, effective July 8, 2025, and the resignation of school nurse Amanda Witterstaetter effective July 2025. The superintendent also presented one-year nonteaching contracts pending background checks and required certifications for several employees: Jonathan Michael Cobb as a BIC coordinator (effective Aug. 1, 2025–July 31, 2026, 7 hours daily, step 8 as listed in the packet), Thomas Getz (effective July 23, 2025–June 20, 2026, 6 hours daily, step 5 as listed) and Amber Rohrer (effective July 23, 2025–June 30, 2026, 6 hours daily, step 1 as listed). Dr. Ault said the district will not replace “the man in the clinic” for the coming year and “we are asking Christie to step up a little bit with some additional hours” by revising a contractor/employee agreement for Christie Atlas to 40 hours per week beginning with the 2025–26 school year. The board also approved a revised contract increasing weekly hours for aide Gina Hahn from 35 to 40 to support media-center coverage during the school year and additional summer/closure hours and pay for Gina Todd, with specific dates listed in the packet. The board approved revised dates for additional hours of compensation tied to safe-crisis management training. The packet lists training on July 30 and Aug. 1–7, 2025; the superintendent read hourly pay rates for the trainings but the transcript contains unclear dollar-amount text for some entries (see provenance). The board also approved revised Taylor High School course-guide language on grade calculation and approved bus routes and an item allowing the transportation department to modify routes and stops as needed during the 2025–26 school year. Athletics items approved included a one-year supplemental contract for Kevin Burrows as middle school cross-country coach for 2025–26 and a revised supplemental contract listed for Nora Fox as middle school head coach with shared responsibilities noted in the packet. The approvals were presented as consent/administrative items during the superintendent’s report; no formal amendments to the contracts were recorded at the meeting.