Twinsburg board approves personnel, curriculum and service contracts; denies employee grievance

The Twinsburg Board of Education on April 16 approved multiple routine and programmatic items, including personnel recommendations, course adoptions, service agreements and purchases. All recorded roll-call votes on those items were 4–0 in favor.

Immediate action at the start of the meeting removed a recommendation to hire Lydia Gallimore Rainey as a software support specialist. The motion to remove the recommendation was moved by Mrs. Hamilton, seconded by Mrs. Travis and passed on a roll call recorded as yes from Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Travis, Mrs. Egan and Mrs. Crawford.

The board then approved meeting minutes from April 2 and accepted the certified, licensed and classified personnel recommendations and supplemental-contract recommendations pending satisfactory background checks; that employment resolution was moved by Mrs. Travis, seconded by Mrs. Egan and passed 4–0. The board publicly welcomed the newly appointed RB Chamberlain Middle School principal, Ryan Beaumont, who will begin as principal in the 2025–26 school year (the formal personnel packet including the superintendent’s recommendations was approved as part of the employment resolutions).

Other approved items included:

- Program and curriculum actions: approval of a program site agreement with the Alliance for Healthy Youth to provide healthy-relationship education for grades 7–9 (2025–26); adoption of Honors Spanish 3, Honors French 3 and Honors American Sign Language 3 course-of-study documents; approval of a Cybersecurity I course of study; and adoption of a fifth-grade human growth and development curriculum at George G. Dodge Intermediate School. The curriculum adoptions were recommended by the District Curriculum & Technology Committee (meeting date listed as April 7, 2025).

- Vendor, service and purchase approvals: an agreement with Learn Well to provide in-hospital educational services to one student (cost not to exceed $1,775; general fund); agreements with Educational Alternatives for out-of-district tuition for two students (total $15,904; general fund) and for additional 1:1 aide services ($23,182; general fund); rental of Edwin J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall for Twinsburg High School graduation at a cost of $8,210.56 (general fund); and purchase of the Reportaros World Languages materials (Spanish 1–3 class sets plus one year online access) for $102,498.58 (permanent improvement fund).

- Facilities and extracurricular items: approval of an overnight trip for the Twinsburg High School varsity baseball team to Toledo on April 11–12 (paid by the Twinsburg Athletic Boosters); approval of a license/lease agreement with Twin Stays Inc. for Twins Days festival use of district properties; and disposal of media-center items as listed in the attached exhibit.

- Governance and policy: second reading approval of revised board policies and bylaws and later final adoption of renumbered policies noted in earlier items was recorded by roll call.

- Employee grievance: the board voted to deny a level 4 grievance submitted by employee Molly Manley; the motion was moved by Mrs. Hamilton, seconded by Mrs. Egan and approved 4–0.

Each of these items was taken from the meeting packet and passed by recorded roll call with Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Egan, Mrs. Travis and Mrs. Crawford voting yes on the recorded motions. Several items included cost details shown above; where the agenda said information was "sent to the board under separate cover," the board did not read the full contract text into the public record at the meeting.