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Former South Range Middle School AD promoted
By ROBERT CONNELLY
NORTH LIMA
The South Range Board of Education promoted former middle-school athletic director Donee Feren to be the district’s new AD.
Feren, in the new AD position, no longer will serve as the head softball coach.
T.J. Irons will be the assistant AD and will continue as an assistant on the boy’s basketball team, said Dennis Dunham, South Range schools superintendent.
Both were approved Monday by the school board for one-year supplemental contracts and will continue as teachers in the district. South Range previously had had a high-school and middle-school AD as well as a ticket manager for both schools. Now there is an AD, an assistant AD and one ticket manager.
Sarah Fishel was approved to be the new ticket manager.
The new AD role can have only one supplemental contract with the district. The assistant AD would have had that same stipulation but that was changed and approved Monday night by the board. That allows Irons to continue coaching with the boys basketball team.
Wayne Allegretto had been the AD, but did not pursue the job after it was restructured last month and he stepped down. He was approved by the school board in May to continue as offensive coordinator for the Raider football team.
Last year, the high-school AD received 21 percent of a teacher’s base salary while the middle-school AD received 10 percent. The ticket managers at both schools received 7 percent. That totals 45 percent. The high-school AD also received a $525 stipend for a cellphone.
Based on the base salary of a beginning teacher with a bachelor’s degree making $32,997, the high school AD under the old formula would have made $6,929.37.
The new positions were altered from last month, and those alterations were approved Monday.
The new AD will now receive 24 percent of a teacher’s base salary – originally it had been 22 percent – while the assistant AD will get 13 percent and the ticket manager, for grades seven through 12, will get 10 percent. That now totals 47.
That means based on a first-year teacher with a bachelor’s degree base salary of $32,997, a new AD would make $7,919.28, compared with $7,259.34 at the previously approved 22 percent rate.
Mark Giesy was given a supplemental contract as Web page manager. Last month Giesy was brought back as a high-school teacher after being part of a reduction in force the district implemented. He was a middle-school teacher last year.
The following people were approved as head coaches Monday night: Joe Staffeld, varsity boys soccer; Tony Matisi, varsity girls basketball; Katie Toy, varsity high school cheerleader adviser; John Cullen, varsity boys basketball; Rachell Storm-Baker, high-school volleyball; and Lauri Sauerwein, middle-school volleyball.
Dunham said the board accepted the resignations of Dacia Allen, 22 years with the district and a middle-school science teacher, effective Aug. 31; and Roy Guy, 14 years as a math teacher, effective Aug. 20. The board also approved the retirement of Julie Kurtz, a 24-year employee as a part-time educational aide.