BUCYRUS (CRAWFORD COUNTY NOW) — On Monday evening, the Wynford Board of Education held its May meeting.
Scott Brown, Ohio Auditor of State Liaison, presented the Auditor of State award to Treasurer Leesa Smith and her staff, Dana Rausch and Julie Schoenfelt. Only approximately ten percent of the six thousand organizations receive the award in Ohio.
The board approved the retire/rehire of Mr. David Mason. During the next school year, along with his normal classes, he will teach a career exploration class for middle school students.
Sandra Koehler, the mother of a Wynford boys basketball player, addressed the board and asked about the status of the hiring process for the new boys’ basketball coach, due to her growing concerns with the program.
Superintendent Forrest Trisler informed her they are completing interviews and will hopefully hire the coach at the May 28 meeting.
Previously approved for the summer of 2025, the Spanish trip to Spain with EF Educational Tours has been pushed back to the summer of 2026 to get more people and allow students to fundraise for the trip longer. The Puerto Rico trip is still on for the summer of 2025.
Under the new business section of the meeting, board member Levi Hartschuh pulled aside the line item to approve William Byrnes as the head cross-country coach to be voted on separately. The vote passed 4-1 with Hartschuh being the lone no vote.
The board approved the graduation list for this upcoming Saturday. Eighty-seven seniors will walk across the stage on Saturday night and receive their high school diploma.
Of those eighty-seven seniors, forty will go on to earn their two to four-year degree from college, forty-five will enter directly into the workforce, and two will be enlisting into the military.
General fees for all K-12 students for the 2024-2025 school year will be eight dollars, with a ten-dollar class fee for all 9-12 graders.
Lunch prices for the 2024-2025 school year were also set: elementary breakfast is $2.05 and lunch is $3.50; middle/high school breakfast is $2.05 and lunch is $3.80; and adult breakfast is $2.70 and lunch is $4.65.
The board approved the donation of five thousand dollars from OhioHealth Sports Medicine to assist with purchasing a new football stadium scoreboard.
The board approved the selection of Garmann/Miller & Associates, Inc. as the architect of record for the football field improvements program.
Superintendent Forrest Trisler updated the board on the success of the Wynford Early College Academy. Seventy Wynford students took two hundred and fifty-eight courses through Marion Technical College, totaling seven hundred and seventy-six credit hours. Of those seventy students, twenty-eight were seniors.
This program allows high school teachers to teach classes for college credit and allows for a professor to meet with students in the Media Center to take courses from Wynford. Students can graduate from Wynford with their associates from Marion Tech. if they take college courses in their junior and senior years, leaving less schooling for them in college. Courses and materials are paid for unless a student fails the class, in which case they are responsible for the appropriate funding for that specific course.
The next meeting is a special meeting on May 28 at 5:30 p.m.