The Board shall approve the employment, determine the compensation, and establish the term of said employment for each administrator employed by the Board. Individuals may be employed as administrators pursuant to a limited contract for a term not to exceed three (3) years, unless the individual has been employed by the Board as an administrator in the District for three (3) or more years, in which case his/her term of the contract shall be for not more than five (5) years and, unless the Superintendent recommends otherwise, not less than two (2) years. If, however, the Superintendent so recommends, all subsequent contracts granted to such individual must be for a term of not less than two (2) years and more than five (5) years.

The Board shall only employ those candidates nominated by the Superintendent, unless otherwise authorized by law (see below).

Individuals employed in the categories currently having the following titles shall be considered members of the administrative staff for purposes of evaluation:

A Assistant Superintendent

Any person employed as an assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator shall possess a valid certificate/license issued pursuant to Ohio law and shall file a copy of his/her certificate/license with the District.

To the extent permitted by law, the Board may request the State Board of Education to issue a one (1) year temporary educator license to a candidate recommended by the Superintendent for an administrative position, provided the candidate is of good moral character and has earned at least a baccalaureate degree in a field related to finance or administration from an accredited institution of higher learning or has at least five (5) years of recent work experience in education, management, or administration.

Relatives of Board members may be employed by the Board, provided the member of the Board does not participate in any way in the discussion or vote on the employment when such a conflict of interest is involved.

Applications for employment as an administrator will not be accepted from any current Board member. If a Board member wishes to apply for a position on the administrative staff, his/her resignation must be accepted by the Board prior to submitting an application.

The Superintendent may recommend and the Board may approve the reemployment of an administrative staff member at any regular or special meeting held during the period beginning on the first day of January of the calendar year immediately preceding the year of expiration of the employment contract and ending on the last day of March in the year the employment contract expires.

The Board may, by a three-fourth’s (3/4’s) majority vote of its full membership, reemploy an assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator whom the Superintendent refuses to nominate. If need be, and to the extent permitted by law, the Board may request the State Board of Education to issue a one (1) year temporary educator license to an administrator whom the Superintendent has refused to nominate for reemployment in an administrative position, provided the candidate is of good moral character and has earned at least a baccalaureate degree in a field related to finance or administration from an accredited institution of higher learning or has at least five (5) years of recent work experience in education, management, or administration.

Before taking action to renew or non-renew the contract of any administrator, the Superintendent or Treasurer on behalf of the Board shall notify each such administrator of the date his/her contract expires and inform the administrator that s/he may request a meeting with the Board to discuss its reasons for considering renewal or non-renewal of his/her contract. Upon the request of the administrator, the Board shall meet with him/her in executive session. The administrator shall be permitted to have a representative of his/her choice present at that meeting.

An administrator shall be deemed reemployed upon expiration of his/her contract term unless the administrator notifies the Board to the contrary on or before the first day of June, or unless the Board either reemploys the administrator for a succeeding term or gives written notice of its intent not to reemploy the administrator on or before the last day of March in the year in which said contract expires.

Any administrator’s intentional misstatement of fact material to qualifications for employment or reemployment, or to the determination of salary, shall be considered by this Board to constitute grounds for dismissal.

All administrators shall become familiar with the policies of the Board and other such guidelines, regulations, memoranda, bulletins, and handbooks that pertain to their duties in the District. Any administrator employed by the Board who shall be guilty of any willful violation of the policies of the Board shall be subject to dismissal or such lesser penalty as the Board may prescribe.

Except by mutual agreement of the parties thereto, no administrator shall be transferred during the term of his/her contract to a position of lesser responsibility. Furthermore, no contract may be terminated or suspended except in accordance with State law.

The Superintendent shall prepare administrative guidelines for the recruitment and selection of administrative staff.

R.C. 3319.01, 3319.02, 3319.07, 3319.16, 3319.17, 3319.171, 3319.225
R.C. 3319.27, 3319.36

Adopted 3/26/01
Revised 12/13/04