Norwalk school board to elect new president, vice president
Jan. 9—NORWALK — The Norwalk City Schools board of education will hold its first meeting of 2023 on Tuesday with the first action to elect a new president and vice president.
Lisa Wick is the current president and Jeremy Norris is the current vice president.
The organizational meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Fisher-Titus Learning Center at Norwalk High School, followed by the records retention meeting at 6:45 and the regular meeting at 7 p.m.
Here are the agendas for the three meetings:
Organizational meeting
— Nomination and Election of Board President.
— Nomination and Election of Board Vice President.
— Annual Tax Budget Hearing and adoption.
— Ratify the proposed schedule for regular Board meetings of the Norwalk City School District Board of Education for calendar year 2023.
— Norwalk Ohio News and the Norwalk Reflector as newspapers of general circulation in which school legal notices will be published.
— Establish the Board Service Fund for the fiscal year 2023 at $2,500.
— Board Member compensation at $125 per meeting per Board resolution January 2020 for new members, $80 for current members due to state law elected official compensation rules.
— Appoint a Board Member to serve as a Trustee for the Endowment Fund for Norwalk City Schools, to represent the Norwalk City School District's Board of Education.
— Appoint a Legislative Liaison member of the Norwalk City School District's Board of Education to the Ohio State School Boards Association.
— Appoint a Student Achievement liaison member of the Norwalk City School District's Board of Education to the Ohio State School Boards Association.
— Designate the Treasurer and/or Superintendent as designee for public records training.
— Audit.
— Finance.
— Buildings/Grounds.
— Authorize the Treasurer to pay all bills within the limits of appropriations as bills are received and when the goods and/or services have been received as ordered and provide a list of invoices paid to the Board of Education at its next regular meeting.
— Authorize the Treasurer to modify appropriations as deemed necessary provided all such modifications are reported to the Board of Education at its next regular meeting.
— Authorize the appointment of legal counsel, as needed: Pepple & Waggoner, Ches Sumpter & Associates, Squire Sanders, LLP, and Bricker & Eckler
— Authorize Treasurer to purchase liability insurance for board members, Superintendent and Treasurer.
— Authorize the Treasurer to borrow money from commercial sources.
— Authorize the Treasurer to credit interest earned on the following funds in 2023 to those respective funds, with all other interest earned to be credited to the General Fund.
Auxiliary Service Fund:
401-9023 Norwalk Catholic Schools
Trust Funds/Endowments:
007-9031 Edwin Fessenden Scholarship
008-9043 Elizabeth A Craig Music Support
008-9044 Ken-Mar Scholarship
Construction Fund: 004 H.S. Building Fund
Food Service: 006 Cafeteria Fund
— Authorize the Treasurer to request tax advances from the County Auditor per ORC 321.34.
— Authorize the Superintendent to hire between Board Meetings.
— Authorize the Superintendent, during periods when this Board is not in session, to make offers of employment directly to candidates for either teaching or non-teaching positions on behalf of this Board, and to acknowledge acceptance of such offers on behalf of this Board, subject to subsequent vote of ratification by this Board; provided however, that upon ratification by this Board, the employment shall be deemed effective as of the date and time of the employee's acceptance of the Superintendent's offer. Nothing in this resolution shall supersede state or federal requirements.
— Authorize the Superintendent to accept resignations.
— Authorize the Superintendent, on behalf of this Board, to accept resignations which have been submitted to the Superintendent by employees during times when this Board is not in session, subject to ratification by this Board; provided however, that upon ratification by this Board, such resignations are deemed effective as of the date and time of the Superintendent's acceptance.
— Ohio School Board Membership, OSBA Legal Aid Fund, Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy and Ohio Educational Policy Institute membership for 2023.
Appoint the following building cashiers for calendar year 2023:
High School: Rebecca Chapin/Sharon Linder
Middle School: Stacey Horner/Jackie Kelley
Main Street School: Michelle Wise
League Elementary: Brenda Kraus
Pleasant Elementary: Lori Cook
Maplehurst Elementary: Sharon Myers
Athletics: Josh Schlotterer/Ray Scheid/Kim McConegly
Records Retention meeting
ORC 149.41 School district records commission.
There is hereby created in each city, local, joint vocational, and exempted village school district a school district records commission . . . Each records commission shall be composed of the president, the treasurer of the board of education . . . and the superintendent of schools in each such district . . . The commission shall meet at least once every twelve months.
The function of the commission shall be to review applications for one-time disposal of obsolete records and schedules of records retention and disposition submitted by any employee of the school district or educational service center. The commission may dispose of records pursuant to the procedure outlined in section 149.381 of the Revised Code. The commission, at any time, may review any schedule it has previously approved and, for good cause shown, may revise that schedule under the procedure outlined in that section.
Regular meeting
RECOGNITION — EDUCATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Main Street School's 5th Grade Academic Challenge Team — Huron County 1st place winners — quad county qualifiers
Krista Bergman
Malayna Sullivan
Blaz Seljak
Dhruvin Bhatt
Jessica Chappell
Advisers: Allison Crooks & Stephanie Riggs
Norwalk Middle School's 8th Grade Academic Challenge Team — Huron County 1st place winners — quad county qualifiers
Isaac Bohne
David Perez
Leeland Ramsey
Beau Riley
Lydia Trost
Advisers: Becki Fries & Penny Lassen
RECOGNITION — STATE QUALIFIERS — CROSS COUNTRY
Xavia Immel
Zurina Immel
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
Each person who wishes to address the board will be asked to give his/her name and address. Remarks should be limited to three minutes in length. If after everyone who wishes to do so has had an opportunity to speak, additional comments can be made up to a total allotted time of 30 minutes.
RECOGNITION — School Board Recognition Month
Alison Crawford
Duane Moore
Jeremy Norris
Ralph Ritzenthaler
Lisa Wick
TREASURER'S REPORTS
December 2022 Financial Reports
Re-approve MOU with Oapse union with July 1, 2018 date removed.
Donations
PERSONNEL
Resignation
Paula Lukac, Educational Assistant — ELL, effective 01/13/2023
Jacqueline Weisenberger, Cook Helper, effective 1/4/2023
Employment
Step correction for Anthony Rourke, bus mechanic, step 5, administrator contract, effective Dec. 14, 2022
Employment — Substitutes
Paula Lukac, classified, effective 01/18/2023
Special Contracts — Norwalk High School
Baseball
Tim (Dale) Snyder, Asst. Coach, code 7, step 0
Softball
Brandon Viock, Asst. Coach, code 7, step 0
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORTS
Authorize the Superintendent to notify administrators of the dates of expiration of their contracts and to notify them that they have the right to meet with the board to discuss their contracts:
Jennifer Gerber
Jennifer King
Josh Schlotterer
Cory Schmidt
V. Janice Smith
Gary Swartz
Presentation on Usage of ESSER Funds
Items for Information
EHOVE News
Legislative Report
