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Elyria City School Board approves personnel slate, adopts reduction-in-force resolution and holds executive session
Summary
The board unanimously approved the March personnel slate — including new appointments, retirements and supplemental contracts — adopted a reduction-in-force resolution referencing Ohio Revised Code 3319.172, and entered executive session under Ohio Revised Code 121.22(G)(1) with no action to follow.
The Elyria City School Board on March 25 approved superintendent and personnel action items that included appointments, resignations, retirements and supplemental contracts, and adopted a resolution authorizing a reduction in force under Ohio Revised Code 3319.172 and the applicable negotiated agreement.
Superintendent Ann Sles presented the slate of personnel actions: appointment of student tax workers and substitutes, payment authorizations for short-term work, OSAA tournament game workers, several certified and classified staff appointments, and resignations and retirements including Sharon Duffner. The board also approved revised athletic supplemental contracts to add a JV softball team for the coming year.
The personnel motion was moved, seconded and carried by roll-call vote; the treasurer recorded each member’s vote. Board members also publicly acknowledged Adrien Shytower’s expanded role absorbing communications/executive assistant responsibilities after Mary Wright’s retirement. “Adrien’s been doing a wonderful job of picking up the pieces,” one member said in congratulating the new appointee.
During the personnel presentation the superintendent cited the statutory basis for reductions in force, referencing Ohio Revised Code 3319.172 and article 7, section 14 of the district’s negotiated agreement with support staff. The board adopted a resolution that, according to the superintendent’s summary, allows the district to order a reasonable reduction in non-certificated employees for financial reasons; details of which positions and timelines were referenced as “listed below” in the personnel packet but were not read aloud in detail during public remarks.
After finishing business the board voted to enter an executive session to consider topics permitted under Ohio Revised Code section 121.22(G)(1) — appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion or compensation of a public employee — and stated there would be no action following that session.
Next steps and follow-up: the treasurer said she will provide an update on the district’s reduction plan and the financial report at the April 1 meeting; formal details about specific reductions and timelines were not presented for public record during the March 25 meeting.
