001Uh, good afternoon everybody. We're going to call to order the River Board of Education regular meeting today is Tuesday, August 19th, 2025. Mr. Berdine, please call the role. >> Mrs. Brackett >> here. >> Mr. Haidu >> here. >> Mr. Malik >> here. >> Mrs. Rainey >> here. >> Mrs. Stein >> here. >> All right. If I could ask everybody to stand up so we can do the pledge of allegiance. >> I assume we're leading this, Mr. White. >> Yes, you are. Yes, you are. All right. I pledge allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> So, I know we have a lot of new folks here. So, I asked him that because
002once school starts, we'll have uh students from Richfield Elementary come and lead us in our pledge of allegiance. So, we don't have to start that usually. Sounds good. >> We do have obviously presentation, introduction of all of our new folks. So, Mr. White, I'll let you take it over here. >> Sure. And I'm going to ask Mrs. Nikki Campbell to come forward and she's going to introduce our new gifted coordinator for the district. >> I'm going to first introduce myself because I'm new and I got left off the list. No. Um, I'm going to start by introducing Amy Harker who is our gifted coordinator. So, Amy, if you'd stand please. Amy is going to be housed at Bath Elementary School, but that's just where her office is going to be. She's going to be servicing
003all four buildings on campus here, servicing our students who have those um gifted abilities. Um she has already made an impact talking a little bit about how she'd like to maybe look at some of the testing measures that we use that might have a better ability for us to capture more students and their giftedness by using some different measures. So, we're going to work on that as a as a team. Um but she has this is 40 years in education. uh 19 years as a teacher, some years in there as administration, and this is nine number nine at the ESC. Correct. Okay. Trying to get all this down. Um but Amy will be, you know, part of the team servicing all of our students. Um so we're really excited to have her here. And if
004you all just join me in welcoming Amy. >> Yeah. >> And I will now introduce Kirk Pavich and Angela Smith, our principles of Richfield Elementary School, to introduce their new staff. Now, don't screw up. This is your first time up here. I know I'm a little nervous. Um, good afternoon, everyone. Good evening. Thanks for having me here. It's my pleasure to introduce the new staff members that are here this evening from Richfield Elementary School. First of all, we have physical education teacher Brett Rogers. >> Let's go, Brett. >> Brett is one of our football coaches in the district, uh, seventh grade football. Um, spent the last six years in Crestwood and, uh, before coming over to us, and he and I are going to hit it off right away because we're both fans of Survivor.
005Uh, so we're going to have plenty to talk about when it comes to that. Next up is Ellie Trimble. Ellie is going to be one of our kindergarten teachers this year. She is a recent graduate of Miami University. Um, my thing in common with Ellie is we both live in North Royalton. So, we will probably carpool to work sometimes and uh her boyfriend is a Rever graduate uh from our meeting as well. So, welcome to Ellie. >> Welcome. Welcome. >> Welcome Ellie. >> Isabelle. Isabelle Virag right here. Isabelle is one of our intervention specialists. She's going to be working with our second graders and she is a recent graduate a couple years ago from Kent State University and most recently was a preschool teacher in Bedford. So, welcome to Isabelle. And I think Samantha is
006our last one and she had apologized uh that she couldn't be here. Her sister is like either in labor or about to be in labor. So we we figured we'd give her a pass that that was a good reason to to miss tonight. >> Thank you, Kirk. All right. Next up, we have Dan Fry uh introducing our new staff members at Bath Elementary. Thank you, Mr. Fry. >> All right. Good evening. First, I want to thank the board for getting blinds up there. That's like as soon I walked in, I'm like, "Wait a minute. Something's different." Like, we're not uh on display here with with the sun. So, that's huge difference. So, thank you so much for hanging. >> Um I'm happy to have we we have one new staff member with us today, Jessica
007Welch. And look at how fun. Look at that hat she has. Make the cutest thing in the world. And Jessica joins us as as a new intervention specialist working with our third grade kids at Bath. Um, her husband is an IS here at the high school. I just saw him. He he was walking out with a baby. So, he might come in in a little bit. So, it's kind of nice to have a husband and wife team here in the district. So, which is always a kind of a nice thing. She's a BG grad, which I say go Falcons. Talons's up for sure. All of our Falcon fans out there, we love it. Um, we love having new hires from BG. Also, um, she has seven years experience at Brexel, Bravie Heights, Ayria, and Akran.
008So, she's bringing that experience with us um, to Bath and it's going to be it's going to be her forever place. So, we're we're excited to have her. Um, fun fact that she was an avid swimmer and I was shocked that she at some one point in time swam with Michael Phelps. So, I got to get more information about that. Hopefully, you kind of pushed him to to get better, right? It was part of his training or something, right? But we're happy to have her here with us at Bath. And unfortunately, Jill Nulan could not be here. She is our new art teacher. Um, she's a brand new hireer out of Ohio Northern. Fantastic, fantastic hire. Um, fun fact about her, she designs and created her own her own uh like dinner wear salad. She's
009highly skilled um as a ceramics potter. I'm not quite sure what what that's called, but but um as part of her um college experience, she had to create an entire flatware set, which was phenomenal. So, if you ever need new dishes, she's the person to ask her that. All right. Um but we're thrilled to have her. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Fry. Dr. Oberhouser to introduce our new staff at the middle school. >> Got to put the mic down a little lower here. Um, we are honored to introduce two of our new staff members. If you could stand up, please. So, first we have Leah Paris. She is one of our own from Ravier. She is a graduate. She went to BG. And a fun fact about her, on the eighth grade trip, we
010choose students um who get to lay a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier. and she got to do that in eighth grade. So, yeah, that was pretty cool. And then we have Emily Forester. Oh, sorry. >> And then we have Emily Forester who comes to us from Amherst Schools. So, she was there for two years and now she's she's joining our team as an intervention specialist at River Middle School. And Leah is going to be a math teacher, seventh grade math teacher. And a fun fact about Emily, she didn't tell me this, but I looked her up. She was a cheerleader at Bald and Wallace where she graduated. And one of her fun facts was that when she moved from Vermilion to Akran, she had her car loaded down with plants. She loves
011plants. So, you're going to bring some aura to our school. I appreciate that. And then we also have one new person standing over there, Brian Pachy. So, he will be the assistant principal um at RMS. One fun fact about Brian, him and I have never actually worked together in a building, but everybody confuses us for one another. So that's going to be difficult for parents this year. >> Thank you. Very good. Mr. Ferris, come close us out introducing your new staff at the high school. >> Absolutely. Before I introduce our three amazing staff, just a quick reminder to our entire community that's listening about the uh back to school extravaganza is going to take place this Thursday starting at 5:45. and the first ever uh kindergarten to senior memory walk, a journey walk is what
012we're calling it. That is uh undoubtedly going to bring some tears and some great pictures for our community that night. So, it is uh my pleasure uh on behalf of Miss George to introduce our three new staff members to the River High School. Um we want to welcome each of them. Starting in the middle, we have Miss Jess Hiltbrand. Uh this will be Jess's first year teaching and she is a member of our science department uh focusing on biology. So she graduated from Kent State in May and did her student teaching at Brunswick High School. And what I love about Jess is her ability to persevere and adapt. Her journey through post-secary education took many twists and turns, but she kept showing up. And there's no doubt that she's going to instill that sense of
013resiliency in our kids. Her uh fun fact is that she's an avid reader and sets a goal of 80 books a year. So, welcome Jess. >> Next up to her left is Miss Hannah Gryom, and this will also be Hannah's uh first year teaching. She is a member of our math department, primarily focusing on geometry. Uh she graduated from Capitol University in May and did her student teaching at Beexley Middle School. Um, I see Hannah as a teacher who will truly engage her students with a purpose. The interview committee was very impressed with her ability to uh plan deeply and deliver the lesson and then truly interact with our students in a positive way. Um, she also comes from a line of educators. Your mom's a teacher at Hudson, right? Okay. Uh, it's locked in.
014Then Hannah's fun fact is that she enjoys uh crocheting. So, welcome Hannah. And then next up, our our kind of quote unquote veteran of the group is Tyler Pacificico. Tyler spent the last 10 years as a teacher at Norton High School. Uh the principal at Norton, Ryan Shanner, is a good friend of mine. We actually graduated college together. And so when I called him, uh he didn't even answer. He didn't even say hello. He just picked up the phone. He's like, "You're stealing Tyler, aren't you?" And I said, "Yeah, I am." and then he went on and told me all the great things about Tyler and the things he's done at Norton. Um, so we are excited to have Tyler. There is no doubt that the experience is going to serve him well because he
015is being thrown into the deep end with a rever student and teaching AP calc. So have fun with that because I will just walk by your class quickly um and because I want to understand one thing going on. So Tyler's ability to demonstrate a learner's mindset will will shine though and there's no doubt you're going to do great. His fun fact is that he's a husband, a dad to three young ladies. So he's definitely a girl dad through and through and he plays guitar. So Tyler Pacificico, >> Mr. Malik, since uh Mr. Havoc introduced everybody we asked him to introduce. But since a lot of new people got mentioned, I also want to mention we do have Angela Smith here, our new assistant principal at Richfield Elementary School comes to us from Madison. >> If
016we could take a moment to get some pictures, take a little break and get some pictures with the new staff. >> And before we do, I just want on behalf of the board and the community, welcome all of you to River. Uh we obviously think that this is an awesome uh district. Uh you are joining some wonderful educators, uh an administrative team that has uh excellent leadership skills, a wonderful community, our parents are great, and most importantly, we have some really talented and driven students who you guys will all get to meet here in about a week. >> So, welcome aboard. >> Welcome. Welcome. >> All right, let's get some photos. >> All right, how do you want to organize, Mrs. You want to do it by school? >> Whatever you want. >> You're in
017charge. >> Do you want to go by school? Do you want the principles in Let's do high school first. Get the memo. What Where do you want me to go? probably Oh my god. All right. >> I have to Okay, >> pretty much. >> That's the longest part of the meeting. two, three months maybe. >> Did what? >> Your boys ready? >> Eli doesn't even know when to start. They've been getting >> Oh, she's not. I didn't know that. >> All right, Mr. White, are we ready to rock and roll? >> Yeah, I think so. I was going to say that everybody could feel free to go, but they feel free to go. >> Everybody exited the premises. >> Yeah, it is a bus busy week for everyone. So, yeah. >> All right. Uh so
018we do next on the agenda is the board of education uh agenda. There's nothing >> uh on our agenda as far as CBCC. Miss Burk said she did not have any updates. >> So we will move on to >> Yes. >> Roman numeral five public speaks to agenda. >> Oh yeah. >> Sorry. Y >> uh if there's anybody that wants to speak to any agenda items. >> Mr. Ochreer. Mr. Conley, >> thank you. >> Thanks. >> Sorry, I missed that. >> Miss it. >> I could have let you miss it. >> I know. >> Okay, Mr. Berdine. >> Thank you. I would propose taking all of Roman numeral 81 through three, please. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Thank you. Um, approval of minutes for the meetings you see listed. Um, in July we had three
019financial report for July. It's the only time I'll have it perfect and that's just because of the software update that has to happen. It's not anything that I did. So, you're just getting facts in this report. Um, and then the purchase orders. It's pretty typical to have a a list a little longer in July because of closing the prior fiscal year and opening the new year. So, >> there's not a concern about any of that. >> Okay. Are there any questions for Mr. Berdine? >> No. No. No. >> Okay. Go ahead and call the RO. >> Mrs. Brackett. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stein. >> Yes. >> Mr. Haidu. >> Yes. >> Mr. Malik. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Rainey. >> Yes. >> Thank you all very much. >> Thank you. >> Uh, Mr. White, superintendent's agenda.
020>> Yes. I propose that we take Roman numeral 9. 1 A through 1G is one consent item. >> Uh, so moved. >> Second. >> Okay. We have a leave of absence there at A. And then we have a substitute for us at letter B. And then C is a long-term substitute. Letter D, we have our salary increases. They're listed for us. And then E is our co-curricular non-athletic supplemental contracts. All right. F is a list of our mentors and mentees. And G, we have our settlement. >> Right. All right. Are there any questions for Mr. White? >> Okay. Mr. Berdine. >> Mr. Malik. >> Yes. >> Mr. Haidu? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bracket? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Rainey? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stein? >> Yes. >> All right. I also recommend a room numeral number
021nine 2 A through 2F as one item. >> Motion. >> Second. All right, we have a resignation at A. B, we have a new hire. C is our change in hours for one of our transportation aids. E is co-curricular non-athletic supplemental contracts. And F, we have our student auditorium workers for the coming school year. Are there any questions for Mr. White? >> No. >> Mrs. Stein. >> Yes. >> Mr. Haidu. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Brackett. >> Yes. >> Mr. Malik. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Rainey. >> Yes. >> All right. Number three, we have a just an amended settlement agreement for a student uh that pertains to their specific learning needs. >> Okay. So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Are there any questions? >> No. >> Mr. Malik. >> Uh yes. >> Mrs. Stein. >> Yes.
022>> Mrs. Brackett. >> Yes. >> Mr. Haidu. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Rainey. >> Yes. >> All right. >> Did that include number four? >> No, you don't have anything underneath. >> Yeah, there's nothing under there. So, >> I'm done at this point. >> Just And then uh forformational items. Uh I was not at the last work session. I know we did talk about uh a couple of policies. Um I think our intent is to have officer Drestler come back uh at our next uh regular >> meeting in September just have some further discussion uh regarding that um just have uh let everybody have the opportunity to review the current policy and what proposed changes we might be able to put in. >> So does anybody else have any things thoughts about those two at this
023time? All right. Uh and then our next uh board meeting will be uh the September work session on Tuesday, September 9th, uh beginning at 5:30 uh in the uh Rever admin building conference room. And then our regular meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 16th, beginning at 5:30 here in the Reier High School media center. Um, at this time, uh, we do allow for the public, uh, to come forward with any community announcements or any concerns. Is there anybody that would like to come forward? >> Okay, seeing as none, um, there we do not have a need to go into executive session. So, may I have a motion and a second for adjournment? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Mr. Bine. >> Mrs. Stein. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Brackett. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hyu, >> yes.
024>> Mr. Malik, >> yes. Mrs. Rainey. >> Yes. >> Okay. Uh first uh good luck to all our students who are starting next week and teachers and admin and everybody. So enjoy the last few days of summer. It's going fast. So we are adjourned. Thank you. >> Thank you. It's hard to believe our next meeting