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Oakland Board packet lists resignations, leave-replacement hires and revised emergency teams
Summary
The Oakland Board of Education agenda packet for Oct. 14, 2025, lists resignations and leave-replacement appointments for certificated and non-certificated staff and supplies a revised 2025–2026 emergency-team roster including Crisis, Threat Assessment and AED teams.
The Oakland Board of Education packet for its Oct. 14, 2025 regular meeting lists personnel actions and an amended set of building emergency teams for the 2025–2026 school year.
Under Personnel (Board Liaison: Ms. Cooper) the materials ask the board to accept resignations and retirements and to amend appointments. The packet records a resignation by Jennifer Westervelt, a paraprofessional at Manito, effective Sept. 25, 2025, and lists multiple leave-replacement appointments, including Alissa Brandl as a leave-replacement speech-language teacher at Heights (9/1/2025–9/30/2025) and Olivia Salazar at Manito (date range and salary details shown in the packet). Several appointments are marked “pending satisfactory completion of all employment obligations.”
The agenda also enumerates non-certificated appointments and daily substitute personnel for the 2025–2026 school year (bus aides, paraprofessionals, ABA therapists), with effective dates and contractual hourly rates where provided.
Separately, the packet contains an amended roster titled “2025–2026 School Emergency Teams,” revised 10/14/2025, which assigns staff to Crisis Teams, Threat Assessment Teams and AED teams at each school. Named staff on the rosters include Sean Bowe, Jackie Christiano, Adam Silverstein, Jennifer Zimmerle, Gregg Desiderio and Kevin Smith (SLEO), among others; several staff are listed as CPR-certified and some names are identified as back-ups.
The packet presents these as agenda items for board action; it does not include a recorded motion or vote outcome in the materials provided. The personnel listings include salary amounts and date ranges for leave replacements and new tenure-track positions, and several entries note that employment is contingent on completion of required paperwork.
