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Lorain board reopens severance enrollment window, approves personnel and operations packages
Summary
The Lorain City School District Board of Education voted April 28 to walk on and approve a resolution reopening an employee severance plan enrollment period tied to STRS changes and approved multiple personnel and operations items; one board member abstained on a personnel vote and another repeatedly voted "no" on packages.
At its April 28, 2025, meeting, the Lorain City School District Board of Education approved a resolution reopening the Employee Severance Plan (ESP) enrollment window and adopted several personnel and operations items by roll call votes.
The board voted to "walk on" item 9.07, described in the meeting as "Lorain City School District Board of Education Resolution ESP Employment Severance Plan Addendum." The addendum would reopen the ESP enrollment window until February because of a recent change in eligibility from the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS). The resolution, as read at the meeting, authorizes the superintendent and his designees "to take any and all actions necessary or desirable to implement, maintain, and administer the plan." The motion to add the item to the agenda carried on a recorded roll call.
The board approved several grouped personnel items. Items 9.01 and 9.02 were approved on roll call. When the board voted on item 9.03 (personnel), Mr. Ferguson said, "I have to abstain. I have a close relative on there," and that vote was recorded as an abstention; the roll call for 9.03 recorded Dr. Ballard and Mr. Sturgill voting yes, Mr. Ferguson abstaining, Ms. Washington voting no, and Ms. Nazario voting yes. The board then approved items 9.04 through 9.07 by roll call; those votes were recorded as unanimous among the named members present.
The board also approved operations items 10.01 through 10.11 by roll call; the transcript shows Dr. Ballard, Mr. Sturgill and Mr. Ferguson voting yes, Ms. Washington voting no, and the presiding member voting yes. Earlier routine business included approval of the minutes of the April 14 regular meeting and the April 17 special meeting; that motion passed on roll call.
The meeting included procedural votes earlier in the evening: the board voted to suspend the order of business and later voted unanimously to move into an executive session for "A2," employment matters; both votes passed on roll call. The board returned from executive session later in the meeting and completed the evening’s agenda.
No policy changes were adopted beyond the ESP addendum language read into the record; several personnel and operations items were routine approvals. The transcript does not specify all individual personnel names or the text of every motion beyond the ESP addendum language and the abstention explanation noted above.
