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Garfield Heights board accepts superintendent's resignation and appoints interim without approving contract
Summary
The Garfield Heights City Schools board unanimously accepted the superintendent's resignation (Resolution 2026-36) and, after amending language to remove contract approval, approved Resolution 2026-30 to appoint an interim superintendent; no interim contract terms were approved or specified.
The Garfield Heights City Schools board on May 26, 2026 voted unanimously to accept the superintendent's resignation and to appoint an interim superintendent while explicitly removing any approval of an employment contract for that interim position.
Board members passed Resolution 2026-36 to accept the resignation by roll call, with Miss Cox, Mister Dudley, Missus Irvin Dozier, Miss Morrison and Miss Thomas recorded as voting yes. A departing official who spoke after the motion thanked the board and staff for four years of partnership, saying, "The school board has been awesome. Everything that we try to do to improve our outcomes for students." That speaker is recorded in the transcript in the context of the resignation remarks and is labeled in the meeting record as the superintendent.
On the subsequent agenda item, the chair introduced Resolution 2026-30 to appoint an interim superintendent and clarified that the board would not be approving an employment contract as part of that motion. The chair moved an amendment to item 2.2 to remove the contract-approval language; Miss Cox moved the amendment and Mister Dudley seconded. The amendment passed by unanimous roll call. The board then approved Resolution 2026-30 (the appointment resolution, without contract approval) by unanimous roll call; the motion to approve was moved by Mister Dudley and seconded by Miss Cox.
Transcript remarks recorded a board member thanking the departing superintendent with the words, "Thank you, Doctor Reynolds." The transcript also contains a spoken name rendered as "Phil Oco"; the record does not make clear that name's role or whether it is a correct rendering. The meeting record does not specify the identity of the interim superintendent, the terms of any interim appointment, or any contract amounts or duration.
The board took the formal votes at the meeting and did not approve any employment contract for the interim superintendent; next procedural steps (for example, naming the interim superintendent or approving a contract later) were not recorded in the transcript.
