New Richmond renews administrators

The New Richmond Exempted Village School District Board of Education rehired four administrators and tabled a proposal to contract with Petermann Bus Company to manage the district’s transportation department at its March 19 meeting.

Renewed for two years were high school principal Diane Spinnati, food service director Brenda Young and transportation supervisor Wayne Prescott. Assistant high school principal Jay Blavatt was given a 1-year contract.

Ms. Spinnati was first non-renewed on her previous 223-day contract and then was re-employed on a 2-year 260-day contract.

“We are moving all of our administrators to 260-day contracts as their contract expires,” explained New Richmond superintendent Tom Durbin for the change in Spinnati’s contract.
Prescott was originally scheduled for non-renewal when the board was considering a contract with Petermann.

“Wayne Pescott was given a 2-year contract because of the Petermann proposal being tabled,” said Durbin. “The Petermann proposal was for 5 years and was for management only.”

The Petermann proposal has to be brought back up at the next board meeting or it dies due to parliamentary procedures.

In other actions the board approved a contract with Clermont County Educational Service Center for special education services; authorized the treasurer to seek bids for a 72-passenger school bus to be paid with stimulus funds; accepted the resignation of teacher Janet Gemma for the purpose of retirement; employed Heather Hansbauer and Carly Knoechel as certified substitutes; employed Clifford Adams, Michael Franklin and Mark Ritter as classified substitutes; Jessica Boys as assistant softball coach; Mike Laub as assistant baseball coach; and John Duncan, Chelsey Noftz and Lauren Wilkins as volunteer coaches.

“The board also approved non-renewal of all supplemental contracts which is routine since they are all one-year contracts,” said Durbin. “The board will vote on each supplemental for next school year as they are recommended.”

The March meeting was held at New Richmond Elementary and attracted a crowd estimated at 200.