NORTH ROBINSON, OH (CRAWFORD COUNTY NOW)–On Monday evening, the Colonel Crawford Board of Education held its February meeting.
Superintendent Todd Martin announced his resignation at the meeting, effective on July 31. Martin has accepted the position of Deputy Superintendent with the North Central Ohio Education Service Center in Tiffin. He will begin his new position on August 1.
“We wish you the best because you have given us the best. I just can’t express how wonderful you have done for the community, for the school, for the staff; it’s fantastic,” board president Norm Huber said.
Martin has served as superintendent since 2012.
No new superintendent has been announced.
In anticipation of the high school’s upcoming musical, Annie, board members, and all in attendance were able to watch ten minutes of rehearsal as a sneak peek of what is to come. Community members are invited to watch Annie on March 14 and 16 at 7 p.m. and March 17 at 3 p.m.
FFA members, president Cecelia Chase, vice president Sydney Stirm, treasurer Jacob Lucious, historian Haley Kovach, Secretary Gracie Stirm, sentinel Bri Wiparina, reporter Rylinn Edgington, and student advisor Justin Cole, opened the board meeting with the opening ceremonies used for ag meetings.
Members then updated the board on different activities the organization does, including teacher breakfast at the end of each quarter, coat drive, CDEs (career development events), FFA week, Food For America day for second graders, job interviews, public speaking, reading ag-related books to kindergarten through third graders, and tractor troubleshooting.
The FFA chapter also briefly discussed their yard egging event, where parents can fill out a form, and the ag kids will fill Easter eggs with candy and hide them in those individuals’ yards for Easter.
The chapter is also raffling off a 1948 Farmall Cub at the FFA banquet in April that members restored themselves. Tickets are twenty dollars and can be purchased by contacting an FFA member or emailing josh.schieber@cck12.org. You do not have to be present at the meeting to win.
The board approved Jake Bruner as the head football coach, Veronica Halberg as the head girls’ golf coach, Jordan Studer as the head cross country coach, Nathan Hill as the head boys’ golf coach, and Jamie Valentine as the head volleyball coach.
The board approved the 2024-2025 open enrollment application. Open enrollment begins on March 1.
The 2024-2025 school calendar was approved. School will begin on August 20 and end on May 22.
The board accepted donations, including fifty dollars from Gerri Scarbro for the cabin fund in memory of Wayne Erwin, 450 dollars from an anonymous individual for the outdoor education fund, 960 solar eclipse glasses (over 560 dollars) from the Bucyrus Rotary Club, 1730 dollars from the Althouse family in memory of Beverly Althouse for the Marion Althouse scholarship fund.
The progress on the new multi-purpose building is still on schedule for an August finish. Workers will be setting steel this week if the weather holds.
The next board meeting is March 18 at 7 p.m.