Centerville superintendent proposes YMCA takeover of Voyager after‑school; board delays vote after parents object

Centerville City Superintendent Wazni proposed a contract to move the district’s Voyager after‑school program to the YMCA, saying the partnership would keep programming on school sites, offer additional staff and scholarship support and could slightly lower family fees. After roughly an hour of questions from board members and a string of public comments from Voyager staff and parents asking for more details, the Board of Education voted to table the proposal for two weeks and to hold a special meeting to allow further community input.

Wazni told the board the YMCA already serves 16 school districts in the region and had approached Centerville with a proposal that would keep all K–5 after‑school programming at the district’s elementary buildings rather than moving it off site. He said the Y had offered to hire Voyager staff “at the rate of pay they are now, at the very minimum,” provide two staff members in each elementary building daily (a district value of about $60,000), and to make scholarships and other public funding available to families who need help paying fees. “I know there’s been a lot of communication…