MINUTES THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE EAST CLEVELAND … · Tiffany Smith f. Fire Safety, Occupational Safety and Incident Command Instructor for Shaw High School’s Private Security

MINUTES

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION

OF THE

EAST CLEVELAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT

REGULAR BOARD MEETING

BOARD CONFERENCE ROOM – 7:01 P.M. MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2020

For the record…

The first Board of Education member listed among the roll call represents the member

who made the motion; the second Board of Education member listed among the roll call

represents the member who seconded the motion.

I. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

II. ROLL CALL-BY TREASURER

Present: Dr. Keenon, Ms. Westbrooks, Dr. Rice, Mr. Robinson, and Ms. Stedmire- Walls

Also Present: Dr. Henry Pettiegrew, CEO & Superintendent,

and Diana C. Whitt, CFO/Treasurer

III. APPROVAL OF THE MARCH 9, 2020 MEETING AGENDA

MOTION TO APPROVE THE MARCH 9, 2020 MEETING AGENDA. 38-20

Ayes: Dr. Rice, Ms. Westbrooks, Dr. Keenon, Mr. Robinson, and Ms. Stedmire- Walls.

Nays: None. The Motion carried.

MINUTES – Regular Meeting Board of Education

East Cleveland City School District

March 9, 2020

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IV. COMMUNICATIONS

V. DISCUSSION ITEMS

VI. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

A. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS MR. VERNON ROBINSON

DR. MARY E. RICE


B. EDUCATION MS. EVE LYNN WESTBROOKS

MS. STEPHANIE STEDMIRE-WALLS

1. RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE A CONTRACT WITH AND PAYMENT TO

CLEVELAND MARRIOTT EAST HOTEL 39-20

WHEREAS, the East Cleveland City School District will contract with Cleveland

Marriott East Hotel to provide facilities and services for the senior class prom that

includes a reception, dinner and dance for Shaw High School seniors on May 22, 2020

at a cost not to exceed $12,100.00; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that this Board authorizes the Treasurer to encumber and pay an amount

not to exceed $12,100.00 for said services from the Senior Class Activity Fund-200.

Ayes: Ms. Westbrooks, Ms. Stedmire- Walls, Dr. Keenon, Dr. Rice, and Mr. Robinson.




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2. RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE AN AGREEMENT WITH MCGREGOR AT

OVERLOOK TO SERVE AS A CLINICAL SITE FOR SHAW HIGH SCHOOL

HEALTH SCIENCE STUDENTS 40-20

WHEREAS, the East Cleveland City School District will enter into an agreement with

the McGregor at Overlook facility to provide a Clinical Site Experience that is a

requirement for certification for the Shaw High School, Health Science students, for the

2019-2020 school year at no cost to the District; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that this Board approves this mutual agreement between both parties for

the purpose of providing a Clinical Site for the Shaw High School Health Science

students.



3. RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE A CONTRACT WITH AND PAYMENT TO THE

EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER 41-20

WHEREAS, the East Cleveland City School District will contract with the Educational

Service Center to serve as a conduit for Ohio Reading Corps to provide reading

intervention services for students in grades K-3 in the East Cleveland City School

District during the 2019-2020 school year; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that this Board authorizes the Treasurer to encumber and pay an amount

not to exceed $10,000.00 for said services from the General Fund-001.





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4. RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE A CONTRACT WITH AND PAYMENT

TO GIOVANNA EVANS 42-20

WHEREAS, the East Cleveland City School District will contract with Giovanna Evans

to provide mindfulness services for four hours a day four days a week

WHEREAS, the teachers during the professional development days and students during

their physical education will be engaged in 30 minutes of yoga, for the 2019-2020

school year; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that this Board authorizes the Treasurer to encumber and pay an amount not to exceed $30,000.00 for said services from the Wellness Grant–Fund 467. Ayes: Ms. Westbrooks, Ms. Stedmire- Walls, Dr. Keenon, Dr. Rice, and Mr. Robinson.


5. RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE A CONTRACT WITH AND PAYMENT TO

UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CLEVELAND, INC. 43-20

WHEREAS, this Agreement is made between United Cerebral Palsy Association of

Greater Cleveland, INC (UCPA) and East Cleveland City School District to provide

district wide Individualized Education Program services for the purpose of providing

occupational therapy in the public school setting to students with a wide range of

abilities from March 10, 2020 to June 30, 2020; and

WHEREAS, the District shall pay UCPA Eighty Dollars ($80.00) per hour of OTR, and

Sixty Dollars ($60.00) per hour of COTA service; and mileage of fifty-five cents

($0.55) per mile between District sites; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the East Cleveland City School District Board of Education accepts the

March 10, 2020 through June 30, 2020 United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater

Cleveland, Inc., Therapy Agreement and authorizes the Superintendent or her

representative to enter into said agreement with United Cerebral Palsy Association of

Greater Cleveland Inc., and further be it

RESOLVED, that this Board authorizes the Treasurer to encumber and pay an

amount not to exceed $121,150.00 for said services from the General Fund 001.





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C. FINANCE DR. MARY E. RICE

MR. VERNON ROBINSON

1. RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE TAX AMOUNTS AND RATES AS DETERMINED

BY THE BUDGET COMMISSION (see exhibit 1)

44-20

Ayes: Dr. Rice, Mr. Robinson, Ms. Stedmire- Walls, Dr. Keenon, and Ms. Westbrooks.


2. RESOLUTION TO ACCEPT THE EAST CLEVELAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT

MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT FOR JANUARY 2020 45-20





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3. RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASE OF FOUR SCHOOL BUSES 46-20

WHEREAS, the East Cleveland City School District is a member of the Ohio Schools

Council’s Cooperative Bus Purchasing Program, and

WHEREAS, the Ohio Schools Council on behalf of the East Cleveland City School

District received bids for the purchase of four (4) 65 passenger conventional school bus

bodies, and

WHEREAS, Rush Truck Centers of Ohio, Inc. based in Akron, Ohio is the successful

bidder, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the East Cleveland City School District

authorizes the purchase of four (4) new 65 passenger conventional buses so described as

2021 Integrated CE S Bus (PB105) for the amount of $81,233.00 each and be it further

RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the East Cleveland City School District

authorizes the Treasurer to encumber an amount not to exceed $324,932.00 from the

Transportation Department’s FY20 budget account of the General Fund-001.





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D. SPECIAL ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE DR. MARY E. RICE

DR. UNA H.R. KEENON


E. WELFARE & PUBLIC RELATIONS MS. STEPHANIE STEDMIRE-WALLS

MS. EVE LYNN WESTBROOKS

1. ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION 47-20

BE IT RESOLVED, that the East Cleveland City School District Board of Education

accepts the following donations:

SOURCE PURPOSE ITEM VALUE

Johnny Cochran Law

Firm

Shaw High School PBIS Check $500.00

AbbVie Employee

Engagement Fund

Shaw High School PBIS Check $40.00

Ayes: Ms. Stedmire- Walls, Ms. Westbrooks, Dr. Keenon, Dr. Rice, and Mr. Robinson.




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2. PROFESSIONAL LEAVE FOR BOARD MEMBERS

48-20

Vernon Robinson

Eve Lynn Westbrooks

NSBA 2020 Annual conference & Exposition

National School Board Association

Chicago, Illinois

April 3-6, 2020

General Fund-001 ($2,242.00 each)

Ayes: Ms. Stedmire- Walls, Ms. Westbrooks, Dr. Keenon, Dr. Rice, and Mr. Robinson.


VIII. UPDATES FROM THE CEO

A. APPOINTMENTS - CERTIFICATED CEO 3-20

The following have been appointed to the positions as indicated:

1. New Appointments – Certificated

a. Summer Guidance Counselors (June and July 2019)

(Funding: General Fund-001) ($30.18 per hour, not to exceed $1,500.00)

Effective: 2019-2020

Molly Mossman April Trotta

b. Amend Board Agenda February 10, 2020 CEO Updates Third Grade

Saturday School Teachers

(Title I-572) ($30.18 per hour not to exceed $3,000.00)

(Contingent upon enrollment)

Effective: 2019-2020 school year

Gilda Roberts

Change from:




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CEO 3-20

Change to:


c. Long Term Substitute Teachers

(General Fund: 001) (BA Step 1, $40,893.00)

Substitutes who have worked sixty consecutive days

Effective: 2019-2020 school year)

Selwyn Barfield Susan Washington

Sarah Blaine Kelly Williams

Mary Davis

d. Health Science Instructor for Shaw High School’s State Tested Nursing

Assistant (STNA) Certification

(General Fund-001) ($30.18 per hour not to exceed $3,140.00)


Darlene Mallett

e. Criminal Justice/Private Security Instructor for Shaw High School’s

Private Security Academy

(General Fund-001) ($30.18 per hour not to exceed $2,113.00)


Tiffany Smith

f. Fire Safety, Occupational Safety and Incident Command Instructor for

Shaw High School’s Private Security Academy

General Fund-001) ($26.00 per hour not to exceed $520.00)


Gregory Winston Sr.



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CEO 3-20

B. SUPPLEMENTALS

1. Spring Sports Supplemental

(General Fund-001) (per the ECEA Negotiated Agreement)


A. Shaw High School

(Amt. not to exceed)

a. Baseball

Rodney McFall Head Coach $5,480.00

b. Softball

Rebecca Taylor Head Coach $4,089.00 c. Boys and Girls Track & Field David Brown Head Coach $5,480.00 Marlene Barbee Assistant Coach $3,517.00 Bruce Harrell Assistant Coach $3,517.00 B. Heritage Middle School (Amt. not to exceed) a. Baseball

Fred Carano Head Coach $3,680.00

b. Softball

Shawn Inmon Head Coach $3,680.00



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CEO 3-20 c. Boys and Girls Track & Field Khadijah Desilva Head Coach $3,680.00

William Woods Assistant Coach $2,535.00

Yolanda Bush Assistant Coach $2,535.00

C. NON-RENEWAL - SUPPLEMENTALS

1. Non-Renewals Sports Supplementals

Effective: at the end of the 2019-2020 school year

A. Shaw High School

Football:

Rodney Brown Head Coach

Bruce Coffey Jr. Interim Head Coach

Rodney McFall Assistant Coach

Reginald Smith Assistant Coach

Steven Thomas Assistant Coach

William Woods Assistant Coach

Volleyball:

Denise Watkins Head Coach

Cortney Hunter Assistant Coach

Cross Country:

David Brown Boys Head Coach

Amanda Stanoszek Girls Head Coach

Girls Soccer: Nim Bryant Head Coach Bruce Harrell Assistant Coach



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CEO 3-20

Boys Basketball

Reginald Harwell Head Coach

Bernard Delk Assistant Coach

Diaz Laster Assistant Coach

Girls Basketball

Lamont Fields Head Coach

Ronald Donaldson Assistant Coach

Caroline Steward Assistant Coach

Wrestling:

William Viancourt Head Coach

Anthony Welchans Assistant Coach

Cheerleader Advisor:

Valerie Sowell Head Coach

Kelly Drake Assistant Coach

Ticket Manager:

Renee Hinton

Clock Operator Volleyball:

Steven Thomas

Clock Operator Boys Basketball:

Steven Thomas



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Clock Operator Girls Basketball:

Steven Thomas

Scoreboard Operator Boys Basketball:

Denise Watkins

Scoreboard Operator Girls Basketball:

Cortney Hunter

Clock Operator Football:

Alfred Sanders

Announcer Football:

Henderson Deal

Announcer Basketball:

Henderson Deal

Substitute Announcer Basketball/Football:

Terrance Curtain Jr.

B. Heritage Middle School

Football:

Iben Ali-Fike Head Coach

Lawrence Perry Assistant Coach



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Bruce Coffey Sr. Assistant Coach

Volleyball:

Khadijah DeSilva Head Coach

Yolanda Bush Assistant Coach

Boys Basketball:

Terrell Husband Head Coach

Bruce Coffey Jr. Assistant Coach

Girls Basketball:

Iben-Ali Fike Assistant Coach

Tiffany Holmes-Smith Head Coach

Wrestling:

Nim Bryant Head Coach

Joseph Motley Assistant Coach

Clock Operator Football:

Terrell Husband



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CEO 3-20

Clock Operator: Boys Basketball

Londa Byrd

Clock Operator: Girls Basketball

Londa Byrd

Scoreboard Operator: Boys Basketball

Londa Byrd

Scoreboard Operator: Girls Basketball

Londa Byrd

Scoreboard Operator: Volleyball

Londa Byrd

Clock Operator: Volleyball

Londa Byrd

Clock Operator: Wrestling

Londa Byrd

Cheerleader Advisor:

Nicole Martin



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CEO 3-20

Faculty Manager:

Bruce Coffey Jr.

D. APPOINTMENTS – CLASSIFIED

1. Appointments Classified

a. Substitute Food Service

(Food Service Fund -006) ($11.58 per hour)


Lisa Croff Jourdon Young

India Foster Felisha Williams-Boyd

Carmen Lee

b. Substitute Cleaners (General Fund -001)

($11.77 per hour not to exceed $91.12 per day)


Jourdon Young

c. Change from:

Custodial I

General Fund-001

Barbara Jean Lee $32,240.00

Step 6 Change to:

Cafeteria II (Cashier/Cook)

Food Service-006

Effective: February 28, 2020



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Barbara Jean Lee $19,569.60

Step 6

CEO 3-20

E. SERS DISABILITY - CLASSIFIED

Donna Woods Custodial I

Superior Elementary School Effective: July 1, 2019

through March 31, 2026

F. TERMINATION – CLASSIFIED

1. District Classified Termination

Mikeba McCoy Substitute Cleaner

Shaw High School


G. RESIGNATION – CLASSIFIED

1. District Classified Resignation

Ronnie Burnett Bus Driver

Transportation Department


Mario Riley Paraprofessional II Special

Needs

Heritage Middle School

Effective: March 6, 2020



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VIII. PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

Tishawn Benson

Monique Ceasor

Felicia Curtain

Bradley Lanier

Literacy Academy 2020

Ohio Department of Education

Columbus, Ohio

February 18-20, 2020

Title I-572 ($1,007.69 each)

Dawn Johnson

2020 Nutrition and Wellness Show


Columbus, Ohio

March 2, 2020

Food Service-006 ($350.00 each)

Bethany Britt

Ohio Communicative Competence Task Force


Columbus, Ohio

March 6, 2020

IDEA-516 ($189.10)

Alyssa Kaleel Ohio Communicative Competence Task Force


Columbus, Ohio

March 6, 2020

IDEA-516 ($179.90)

Courtney Bean Jones

Tellawanda Moore

Parent Mentor Spring Conference

Ohio Department of Education/Office for Exceptional

Children

Columbus, Ohio

March 12, 2020

IDEA-516 ($197.15 each)

Dennis Bunkley

Tom Domzalski

Hope Hughes-Jones

Chavone Taylor Nash

Harvard Proving Ground Conference 2020

Harvard University Proven Ground

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

March 16-20, 2020

General Fund-001 ($1,121.44 each)



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Shawna LeSure

Gilda Roberts

Harvard Proving Ground Conference 2020

Harvard University Proven Ground

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

March 16-20, 2020

Title I-572 ($1,121.44 each)

John Buckner, Ed.D. Ohio Career Technical Administrators (OCTA) Conference

Ohio Association for Career and Technical Education/ODE

March 18-20, 2020

Dublin, Ohio

Carl Perkins-524 ($1,117.48)

Yulonda Bush

Ann Gabriel

Shalaun Hood

Gloria Mays

Belinda Martin

Earline Proctor

Tina Singer

Eileen Stevens

Robert Starks

2020 Spring Gordon Education Show

Gordon Food Service

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

March 25, 2020

Food Service-006 ($35.00 each)

Phyllis East Grant Management Seminar

Ohio Association of School Business Officials

Westerville, Ohio

March 26, 2020

Title I-572 ($657.25)

Carmen Bryson Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Teacher Academy

Samsung Solve for Tomorrow

New York, New York

March 31 – April 3, 2020

General Fund-001 ($464.00)

Thomas Domzalski

Paula Elder

Courtney Jones

Improvement on Education

Carnegie Foundation Summit

San Francisco, California

March 31 – April 4, 2020

Title I-572 ($2,525.00 each)



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CEO 3-20

Diane Haynes-Windham

Rachel Horowitz

Mental Health Issues in the Classroom

PESI

Beachwood, Ohio

May 4, 2020

IDEA-516 ($346.42)

Andratesha Fritzgerald Learning Forward Ohio Professional Development

Learning Forward Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

June 11-12, 2020

Title I-572 ($1,510.06)



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VIII. REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT

IX. NEW BUSINESS-NEXT REGULAR MEETING:

ADC Meeting scheduled for March 24, 2020 is cancelled

BOE Committee Meeting - Thursday, April 9, 2020 12 noon

BOE Regular Meeting, Tuesday, April 14, 2020 7:00 p.m.

X. EXPRESSIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY

XI. ADJOURNMENT

MOTION TO ADJOURN 49-20

7:27 P.M.

Ayes: Dr. Rice, Ms. Stedmire- Walls, Dr. Keenon, Ms. Westbrooks, and Mr. Robinson.


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