{"id":179538,"date":"2024-05-20T22:18:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T03:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=179538"},"modified":"2024-05-20T22:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T03:18:48","slug":"board-honors-retirees-approves-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/05\/20\/board-honors-retirees-approves-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Board honors retirees, approves contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONVOY — Personnel items made up the majority of Monday\u2019s Crestview Local Schools Board of Education agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the meeting, a reception was held to honor retiring employees \u2013 Crestview High School Principal Dave Bowen, bus driver\/paraprofessional Linda Clay, elementary teacher Greg Rickard and special education teacher Diane Wilson. Each one was presented with a plaque and well wishes in retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that, the board approved a number of supplemental and other contracts for the 2024-2025 school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greg Rickard, Linda Clay, Diane Wilson and Dave Bowen were honored as retiring Crestview employees. Scott Truxell\/VW independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A two-year administrative contract was approved for Brett Latman as director of curriculum\/instruction. The board accepted his resignation as instrumental music teacher, effective at the end of the current school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alec Reder was approved as the new instrumental music teacher and Elaine Lance and Jennifer Wurster were hired as preschool teachers. Each was given a one year contract. Rachel Wells and Haylie Adkins were approved as paraprofessionals for the 2024-2025 school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board also accepted the resignation of elementary intervention specialist Samantha Recker, who served the district for six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coaching contracts for the new school year were given approval including head coaches Cole Harting, football; Randy Grandstaff, cross country; Jeremy Best, golf; Cindy Lamb, soccer, Tammy Gregory, volleyball; Doug Etzler, boys basketball; Mark Gregory, girls basketball; Jake Sawmiller, wrestling, and Halle Carr, football and basketball cheer coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

A lengthy list of supplemental contracts for assistant coaches, junior high coaches, volunteer coaches and various advisors was approved as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her report, Superintendent Kathy Mollenkopf reminded the board that graduation will begin at 6 p.m. this Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other business, the board:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Heard a recap and highlights of the 2023-2024 school year by Bowen and fellow building principals Trent Kreischer, Lindsay Breese and Casey Dowler.<\/li>
  • Approved various handbooks for the upcoming school year.<\/li>
  • Approved FFA field trips to Urbana (May 28-29) and Muskingum (June 24-28).<\/li>
  • Approved the math curriculum for the next five years.<\/li>
  • Approved the latest five year financial forecast as required by law.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    The next meeting of the Crestview Local Schools Board of Education will be at 6 p.m. Monday, June 17, in the multipurpose room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor CONVOY — Personnel items made up the majority of Monday\u2019s Crestview Local Schools Board of Education agenda. Before the meeting, a reception was held to honor retiring employees \u2013 Crestview High School Principal Dave Bowen, bus driver\/paraprofessional Linda Clay, elementary teacher Greg Rickard and special education teacher Diane Wilson. Each one was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 10:01:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179558,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179538\/revisions\/179558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}