South Range approves two retire/rehires

By ROBERT CONNELLY

rconnelly@vindy.com

NORTH LIMA

South Range Board of Education approved two retire-rehires Monday night.

Sandy Toy, an elementary teacher, and Daniel Yeagley, a math teacher and football coach, were both given two-year contracts under the retirement and rehiring process.

They both will make $35,000 next year. Combined, their salaries were $143,076.60 for the 2014-15 school year, or more than double what they will make next year.

Financial records show Yeagley made $70,152.30 and Toy made $72,924.30. Both have been with the district for 29 years.

No residents spoke in favor of or against either teacher at a public hearing last month.

In another South Range schools matter, Americans For Prosperity, a national conservative advocacy and anti-tax group funded by billionaires Charles and David Koch, issued a news release Tuesday regarding the levy on the May 5 ballot in Green and Beaver townships.

AFP is providing one to two informational mailings and one to two phone calls to residents for the ACT Now for South Range Schools group. ACT stands for Accountability, Clarity and Transparency.

“It seems that the South Range School District should go back to the drawing board and focus on fiscal responsibility rather than requesting more taxpayer money from area families,” said Baylor Myers, deputy state director of AFP Ohio.

The levy is a three-year, 4.9-mill operating levy that would generate $931,838 annually and cost the owner of a $100,000 home $171.50 a year. It is to address a projected deficit beginning in the 2016-17 school year.

School officials, when asked about ACT, Now have said they are open to questions from residents.