Pleasant Valley School District
The Pleasant Valley School Board approved the following personnel items during their meeting held on Wednesday night:
• Club/Activity adviser — Ski and Snowboard Club, Mark Rehrig, PVHS.
• Hiring of after-school program teachers and paraprofessionals — teachers: Andrea Filachek, Loretta Snyder, Megan Gower, Anne Geffken-Gordon, Sydnie Christman, Jackie Hardy, Gena Orlowski, Meghan Kondisko, Laurie Koonce, April Rice, Jamile Ferrara, Laura Ammermann, Catherine Britton, Lalena Cordova, Paul Nembhard, Edward Slatky, Deborah Butchkoski, Jennifer Mulder, April Evans, Jessica Martin, Daniel Costenbader, Lisa Kandl, Melissa Snyder and Heather Pomposello, $46 per hour; paraprofessionals: India Johnson, Rebecca Benson, Karina Martin, Christine Skvasik, Robin Bank, Shantel Gaton and Melissa Schimminger, $29 per hour.
• Hiring of administrative staff — Michael Slesinski, special education supervisor, $91,063.
• Hiring of LTS professional staff — Koby Staivecki, LTS industrial teacher, PVMS, Step 1: $60,642 (prorated), effective Jun. 20, 2026; replaced employee 1169.
• Hiring of professional staff — Matthew Ciszak, sixth-grade teacher, PVMS, Step 1: $60,642, effective Sept. 2, replaced Jeff Clauson.
• Hiring of support staff — Tracy M. Smith, administrative secretary/receptionist, administration, $36,227.00 (prorated), effective Sept. 22, replaced Holly Tuers (change of assignment); Scott Kroboth, security officer (10 month), districtwide, $17.54/hr., Sept. 25, new position; Kelly Heller, PVMS, and Samantha Kresge, PVES, food service employees, $13.47 per hour, replaced Natasha Hoover; Alicia Granville-Fernandez; Miguel Cruz, security officer (10 month), districtwide, $17.54/hr., effective Oct. 1, replaced Paul Waked; Malgorzata Kaminska, custodian, PVIS, $19.69 per hour, effective Oct. 13, replaced Randy Smith (change in assignment); Justin Hoffman, custodian, PVIS, $19.69 per hour, effective Sept. 29, replaced Avery Cabral (change of assignment).
• Intramural advisers — PVHS: Boys basketball, Joseph Berezwick; girls softball, Michelle Albanese; boys and girls wrestling, Amy Davidson; track and field, Danielle Henry and Daniel Bradley (split stipend); and PVMS: boys basketball and baseball, Jeremy Goff.
• New club/activity (at no cost to the district) — Economics Club, Drew Dymond, PVHS; Pen and Page Society Club, Dalton Marsh, PVHS; and Book Club, Alexandria Gibb, PVMS.
• Resignations — Kristina Singer, monitor, PVES, effective July 28; and Taylor Lenahan, paraprofessional, PVMS, effective Sept. 8.
• Supplemental contracts: athletic non-coaching — Trevor Kresge, Erelene McCormick and Stephanie Gavilanes, fall/winter varsity, junior varsity and middle school worker, $45, $41 and $35 per event respectively; Robert Kays, band trailer driver, $35 per hour.
• Supplemental contracts: non-athletic — building activities monitors: Jamile Ferrara, Catherine Britton, Daisy Genovese, Arianna Weaver and Payton Gregory, PVHS, $28 per hour; PVMS Ecology Club, Carol Priebe, $650; drama set designer, fall, Anthony Long, PVHS, $850; health/physical education (6-12), Kelsey Tompkins, $2,800; SADD, Jamile Ferrara; and FBLA assistant, Suzanne Hunsicker.
• Tenure — Kristin Stanchina and Kyle Zehnbauer, Aug. 24; Kristen Kram, Sept. 16; Michael Adames-Kelly, Oct. 10; Sarah Rodvelt, Oct. 17; and Melissa Vaillant, Oct. 31;
• Updated position start date — Holly Tuers, bookkeeper, was Sept. 15, now Sept. 8, and;
• Volunteers — Megan Foust, Sandra Perry, Alexandra Potenzieri, Natalie Warnitsky, Laura Zollo and Nicole Persinko.