WHAT: Board of Education meeting Thursday

PRESENT: Terry Kelly, Elizabeth Dunn, Cory Freeman, Steve Gilanyi and Megan Gibbs

The board:

• Hired Victoria Ryser as a music teacher / marching band director at $37,732 on a one-year contract and Taylor Pishotti as an intervention specialist for special needs students at $47,232;

• Named Robert Marino, a science teacher in the district, as athletic director;

• Named Kelly as delegate and Dunn as alternate for the Ohio School Boards Association annual meeting in November;

• Approved the use of the football practice field by Southington Little Wildcats from July through October, as long as their practices do not interfere with high school activities;

— Bob Coupland