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Board approves hires, resignations, contracts and facility work in voice votes
Summary
At the meeting the Octorara Area School District board approved multiple personnel appointments and resignations, and authorized vendor contracts and facility projects, including signage, interior doors, ADA sidewalk work, courtyard design and a stadium ticket booth.
The Octorara Area School District Board of School Directors approved a slate of personnel appointments, resignations and vendor contracts in a series of voice votes during the meeting.
Board members approved multiple personnel actions including appointments, transfers, salary corrections and summer assignments. Appointments approved at the meeting included a speech-language therapist effective 08/12/2025 at a salary of $65,237 (step 17 to max of the master’s scale, pending completion of employment paperwork), Cindy Bond as administrative secretary to the chief financial officer effective 08/11/2025 at a prorated salary of $60,000, and Stacy Wenzel as accounts payable secretary effective 08/13/2025 at a prorated salary of $49,000. The board also approved a summer curriculum intern position at approximately 25 hours at $15 per hour and summer substitute assignments at $30 per hour for two named substitutes.
The board accepted resignations recorded in the meeting: Scott Domlitz as chief financial officer effective 07/23/2025; Karina Carrillo, instructional assistant, effective 08/01/2025; Jennifer Leonard, food service employee, effective 08/04/2025; and other personnel separations listed on the agenda.
Facility and vendor approvals included:
- Prosign: signage and installation at the Primary Learning Center and the intermediate schools at a cost of $9,890 each. - Economy Glass: furnish and install interior doors in the district office wing of the middle school at a cost of $20,183. - Mendenhall's Trowel Trades: removal and replacement of ADA sidewalk blocks at district buildings at a cost of $16,700. - Noble Terra Designs: design services for the middle/high school courtyard at a cost of $16,600. - White Pine Structures / Spectra Electrical Construction: ticket booth and electrical work for the stadium entrance at a total cost of $36,490; the transcript shows the initial phase will be temporary electric and will be made permanent after the season.
The facilities committee also reported later in the meeting on additional bids and estimates: a revised playground bid from King’s Wings for $91,160, estimates to address a chilling unit at the Primary Learning Center and a $21,639 repair estimate for the OIS cafeteria air conditioner. The committee discussed three HVAC options for the middle school (traditional, hybrid, full geothermal) and noted a $2,400,000 difference between the traditional and full geothermal options; the committee said the geothermal approach may make sense over the long run.
Several motions included standard conditions; for example, several hires were approved “pending completion of employee related documents required by law and the district.” The board used voice votes for the items; the transcript records affirmative voice votes but individual roll-call tallies were not specified in the meeting record.
No contested roll-call votes were recorded on these items during the meeting.
