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Votes at a glance: Twinsburg Board approves minutes, personnel actions, contracts and equipment purchases
Summary
At its Feb. 5 meeting the Twinsburg Board of Education approved meeting minutes, accepted personnel recommendations, and approved contracts and purchases including a $21,500 strategic-plan contract and a $249,147 Chromebook purchase.
The Twinsburg Board of Education took a series of routine approvals and contract votes during its Feb. 5 meeting. All recorded motions described below carried by recorded roll call votes where noted.
- Approval of meeting minutes and financial reports: The board approved multiple meeting minutes (organizational meeting 01/12/2025; special meetings and regular meeting of January 2025) and accepted December 2024 financial reports and expenditures as presented. Motion moved by Missus Egan and seconded by Missus Hamilton; roll call vote 5–0.
- Personnel and contracts (acceptance of certified, classified, supplemental and pupil-activity recommendations): Motion moved by Missus Davis, seconded by Missus Travis; roll call vote 5–0. The board noted retirements of two long-serving administrative assistants (Dee Felipski after 25 years at Dodge and Janette Fodor after 27 years at THS).
- Approved agreements and expenditures (action J on the agenda): • Approve agreement with Learn Well to provide educational services to one hospitalized student; cost not to exceed $6,000 (general fund). • Approve agreement with Barbara Shudbery (speech therapy services) for one student; cost not to exceed $735 (general fund). • Approve overnight extended trip for sixth-grade students from George G. Dodge Intermediate School to Camp Y-Noah in New Franklin, Ohio, departing 05/15/2025 and returning 05/16/2025; trip to be paid in full by attending students. • Approve deletion of specified items from inventory (details in board packet). • Approve contract with Rallywell Productions to provide DJ services at Twinsburg High School prom on 05/02/2025; cost not to exceed $4,000. • Approve memorandum of understanding with Twinsburg Support Staff for a long-term substitute instructional assistant/ALE monitor at RV Chamberlin Middle School. • Approve adoption of Cybersecurity I course for Twinsburg High School (approved by curriculum and technology committee 01/13/2025). • Approve revised job description (exhibit). • Approve proposal with Educational Partners Institute LLC for strategic-plan facilitation and consulting, $21,500 (city and county fund expenditure). • Approve purchase from Neonet for Chromebooks in the amount of $249,147 (permanent improvement fund) as part of four-year replacement cycle.
The motion to approve action J was moved by Missus Hamilton and seconded by Missus Davis; the Neonet purchase motion was moved by Missus Travis and seconded by Missus Egan. All votes for these items recorded 5–0.
Votes recorded during the meeting show unanimous approval (5–0) for motions that were seconded and called for roll; where mover/second were recorded in the transcript they are noted above. The transcript indicates documents and exhibits were provided to the board "under separate cover" for several items (contracts, financials, inventory deletions and job descriptions).
