Oakland school packet lists personnel hires, resignations and amended appointments for Sept. 16 meeting

The Oakland Public Schools board packet for the regular Sept. 16, 2025 meeting lists a slate of personnel items for the board’s consideration, including rescinded appointments, several resignations and retirement notices, amended hiring paperwork and new certificated and non‑certificated appointments.

The packet identifies Ms. Cooper as the Board Liaison and notes personnel items under the agenda’s Personnel section. Examples in the packet include the rescission and reclassification of a District Translator position at Dogwood (Barbara Cascardi, effective 9/1/2025), a resignation entry for Dogwood teacher Lisa White with a listed resignation code, and the retirement of VMS Social Studies teacher John Messina (effective 2/1/2026). The packet also lists an amended appointment for Melissa Betyeman as elementary music teacher with a prorated salary of $77,910 and tentative employment dates (SEG 028–031). A separate certificated appointment shows Delaney Potter listed as a .6 occupational therapist in a new position with a prorated annual salary of $42,200 (SEG 036–038); the entry is marked pending satisfactory completion of employment obligations.

Non‑certificated appointments and transfers appear later in the packet, including paraprofessionals, bus aides and contractual hourly roles (examples: Jennifer Westervelt, PT RC Paraprofessional at $21/hr; Susan Dishuk listed as bus aide, contractual hourly rate) and a list of daily substitutes and long‑term substitutes provided for the 2025–2026 school year (SEG 042–056). The packet also includes transfers between positions (for example, Ann Marie Gillmore to a full‑time paraprofessional role at Heights) and stipend assignments for summer curriculum and other roles.

These personnel entries are presented in the board packet as items to be approved at the Sept. 16 meeting; the materials in the packet state the hires, resignations, transfer details, step and salary levels and any pending conditions (for example, ‘‘pending satisfactory completion of all employment obligations’’). The packet itself does not show the board’s final vote or the implementation status of each item.

What happens next: These items are listed on the Sept. 16 agenda for board action. The packet provides effective dates, salary/step information and notes where approvals are conditional (pending paperwork or other employment obligations).