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Board approves personnel actions, notifies intent to retain superintendent and approves two business partnerships
Summary
At its July 15 meeting the South Bay School District Board approved a slate of personnel actions including a five‑year retention notification for the superintendent and assistant superintendent, and approved two business partnerships covering AP Innovation Zone participation and a three‑year TeachFX agreement.
At the July 15, 2025 public meeting, the South Bay School District Board approved personnel items 1 through 24 and voted to approve two business agreements described as items 12 and 13.
The board approved a solicitor recommendation, read during the personnel section, to notify Superintendent Dr. Miller that the board intends to retain him for a further five‑year term commencing July 1, 2026, pursuant to “section 10 73 of the school code.” The board likewise approved a solicitor recommendation to notify Assistant District Superintendent Dr. Deichler that the board intends to retain her for a further five‑year term commencing July 1, 2026, pursuant to “section 10 77 of the school code.” The solicitor presented those recommendations as items 8 and 9 in the personnel packet and the personnel motion approving items 1–24 carried on a vote called later in the meeting.
Business items 12 and 13 were moved and seconded and the board approved both items during the meeting. Item 12 is a partnership with the College Board to join an AP Innovation Zone (retroactive to June 29, 2025) that will provide resources, training and previews for new AP courses to district staff at no cost to the district. Item 13 is a recommendation to enter a three‑year agreement with TeachFX as a professional development tool; the superintendent said that agreement would be retroactive to June 19, 2025, and covered by grant funding.
During the personnel vote the board approved a range of hires, resignations and athletics and extracurricular assignments read into the record by Dr. Miller. Those items include: student-teacher placements; substitute and part‑time food service hires and pay rates; bus driver hires and substitute driver rates; extracurricular coach appointments (including assistant and head coach changes for girls tennis and hires for esports and cheerleading); a sabbatical request for an elementary-school counselor for the first semester; teachers hired for the upcoming school year at stated step and salary rates; and resignations effective in July (for example, a second-grade teacher and athletic coaches). Dr. Miller read the personnel slate aloud; the board moved to approve items 1–24, the motion was seconded and the board voted in the affirmative.
The board also approved a motion to suspend the public meeting into executive session after the votes; the chair specified the executive session would include no additional action or votes that evening.
The approved business and personnel items were read into the record during the meeting and will appear in the official minutes and consent agenda materials for the next posted meeting.
