BAINBRIDGE -- North Putnam school board members made the cuts of 15 certified staff members official at their Thursday night meeting.
The board voted 5 to 1 to cancel teacher contracts for Lisa Asher, Lori Baker, Heather Connor, Alicia Cupp, Holly Depp, Julie Evans, Janet Haarbauer, Lara Lawrence, Sandra McDaniels, Julia Nesbitt, Rachel Clygenpeel Pierce, Jill Schreiber, Paul Stinemetz, Jamie Treash and Hillary Vaughan.
Mark Hoke was the lone dissenting vote.
The board also hit a stalemate, putting a halt to superintendent Dr. Mary Lovejoy's request to even out class sizes for grades three and four at Bainbridge and Roachdale Elementary schools.
Currently, Bainbridge has class sizes for the three sections of third grade classes running at 26, 27 and 27 students each. The fourth grades have 30, 29 and 28 students.
Roachdale's third grade has 17 students in each of two class sections. The fourth grade has two sections with 21 students each.
Lovejoy gave a presentation showing the numbers for the school and outlining a timeline that would eventually only give parents seven days notice if their children were being moved to Roachdale. This is because school officials have to wait for registration to be completed in the fall prior to the start of school in order to know the class sizes at Roachdale.
Lovejoy's plan would require anyone moving into the Bainbridge Elementary district with a third or fourth grader to go to Roachdale Elementary. Parents choosing to move their children to Roachdale from Bainbridge would have their names put into a lottery. Families would be kept together in the elementary schools.
Changes were approved for summer school participants at the high school. It is the only school that will offer summer classes to students.