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Littlestown Area SD approves curriculum placement, staff hires, winter coaches and volunteer renewals; one objection cited past conduct
Summary
The Littlestown Area SD board approved placing a curriculum policy on the Oct. 8 agenda, confirmed staff hires, approved 2024-25 winter coaches, and recommended volunteer renewals; board member remarks objected to renewing Jeremy Ressler as a volunteer, citing prior disruptive behavior.
The Littlestown Area SD board moved several routine personnel and agenda actions during the meeting. An unnamed board member moved to place a curriculum policy on the Oct. 8, 2024 agenda and the motion carried by voice vote. The board also approved staff hires listed in the meeting materials and recommended approval of 2024-25 winter coaches.
The meeting included a short personnel-consent sequence approving several personnel letters and volunteer renewals. The board recommended renewal of volunteer Jeremy Wilson and recommended classroom renewal for Jeremy Ressler; motions to approve volunteer-status items and personnel items were seconded and approved by voice vote where recorded.
Andrew Pritz introduced himself to the board as a new district employee. "I'm very excited to be joining the Littlestown Area School District," Pritz said, expressing eagerness to work with the board, administration, parents and students.
Not all approvals were uncontested. A board member (unnamed in the transcript) spoke against renewing Jeremy Ressler as a volunteer, describing prior behavior and saying, "He screamed at me. He pulled a beer up in front of his wife in the middle of the meeting. He doesn't have good communication skills." The same board member said the choice felt biased against her and described the situation as "two-sided." The transcript shows the objection was raised during the volunteer-renewal discussion; the recorded excerpt does not show a formal roll-call vote with individual names recorded for that specific objection.
The meeting record includes several instances of motions and voice votes approving agenda items and personnel matters; where the meeting recorded only vocal "ayes" the transcript does not list individual vote tallies by name. The personnel and volunteer items were handled as part of the consent sequence and, according to the meeting record provided, the motions carried as announced.
