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Board ratifies reorganization, appoints special education, student-support and summer-school leaders
Summary
The North School District Board ratified several of Superintendent Sai’s staffing decisions, creating a separate student-supports division and approving appointments including Mary D’Amato as director of special education and Randy Rosander to an administrator role. The board also approved summer-school principals and a dean appointment.
The North School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday ratified multiple personnel actions from Superintendent Sai, approving a reorganization that separates student supports from human resources and confirming several administrative appointments.
The board voted to ratify the superintendent’s appointments of Randy Rosander to the newly defined administrator of student supports, Mary D’Amato as director of special education (effective July 1), Naomi (last name not specified) as dean at Veterans Elementary, and Melissa Simo and Dan Paquette as principals for the district’s 2025 summer school program. Each item was presented by district staff and approved by voice vote; the board chair called for the ayes and then said, “Motion carries.”
The personnel changes follow an internal realignment the district described as necessary to manage growing special-education needs. Superintendent Sai and district staff told trustees they are separating the student-supports functions from human resources so that Rusty Sullivan, who has been overseeing both areas, will remain focused on human resources while the student-supports work becomes its own division. Brandy (last name not specified), who has served as director of special education, was described in the meeting as taking broader responsibility in the student-supports division after the reorganization.
Mary D’Amato was described in the presentation as the district’s coordinator for student supports and the “resident expert” on special education matters; district staff said she will move into the director role on July 1 with transition time planned for both incoming and outgoing administrators. The board approved the motion to ratify D’Amato’s appointment by voice vote.
The board also approved the superintendent’s appointment of Naomi to the dean position at Veterans Elementary after a hiring process described as compressed by timing. Trustees approved Melissa Simo and Dan Paquette to serve as principals of the 2025 summer school program; presenters noted the summer program overlaps the end of the regular school year and thanked both administrators for taking on the work.
Board members asked clarifying questions during discussion, including about job-title changes and transition timing. No board member recorded a public dissent during the motions for the ratifications.
The personnel approvals were presented during agenda section 5 and recorded as individual motions and votes in the meeting minutes.
