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Resident urges board to investigate counselor turnover and hiring process
Summary
A Perrysburg resident told the board she is concerned about high staff turnover in student support roles and questioned the district’s recent principal appointment process, urging the board to review staff survey results and resignation patterns.
Nikki Clark, a Perrysburg resident, told the Board of Education during public comment on July 21 that the district should examine a recent cluster of resignations among student services staff and questioned the district’s process for appointing a new high school principal. Clark said the resignations include "the third member of [the] student services team to step away in recent months," and asked whether the board is “looking at these resignations for patterns?”
Clark said the costs and operational impacts of turnover are significant and that departures can signal underlying problems. "Because what we permit, we promote," she said, arguing that failing to investigate patterns could perpetuate the same dynamics. Clark asked whether resignations are concentrated by building, department or demographic group and whether the board has reviewed staff-survey results in full.
Clark described the departing counselor as an established contributor to the district, listing programs and recognitions she led: launching a facility dog program that Clark said was funded by $85,000 in donations; leading district-wide implementation and training for a student-support initiative; organizing external coaching visits and raising funds for video-analysis systems; and receiving an Ohio School Counselor Association recognition in 2022. Clark said many high school staff had chosen to relocate within the district after the appointment of a new high school principal "with no outside posting or interviews." She asked whether that pattern is a coincidence or a sign that the board should investigate further.
The board did not take action during public comment; the district did not provide a direct reply on the record during the public-comment period. Clark concluded by urging the board to ensure staff voices are "meaningfully heard" and to examine whether resignations point to preventable issues.
The remarks occurred during the public-comment portion of the regular meeting; the transcript indicates the board then continued to the superintendent's capital projects update and other agenda business.
Ending: The board did not announce an immediate investigation in response to Clark’s remarks during the meeting. The transcript shows the meeting moved on to scheduled agenda items following public comment.
