Lunch and supply fees set, restricted traffic hours set by Northmor Board of Education

By Randa Wagner -

The North­mor School Board got busi­ness under­way for the 2012–2013 school year at their June 21 reg­u­lar meeting.

Super­in­ten­dent Dr. Brent Winand said lunch prices increased, due more to gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tions than an increase in price of commodities.

“We must hit a cer­tain per­cent­age of the reim­burse­ment we receive for free and reduced lunches,” Winand explained. “These (new) amounts round off the min­i­mum increase we must have.”

Lunch prices for the 2012–2013 school year were approved at:

Ele­men­tary lunch $2.15

7–12 lunch $2.40

Adult lunch $2.50

Milk .50

The work­book fee lists for the 2012–2013 school year were approved. They are: Kinder­garten $37, First grade $36, Sec­ond grade $43, Third grade $21.00, Fourth grade $34, Fifth grade $33, Sixth grade $16.

All junior high stu­dents will owe the fol­low­ing fees:

Assign­ment note­book $6.05

English/Reading Jour­nal $8.95

Hon­ey­well Instant Alert $ 2.75

* Ten­nis shoes for gym

Depend­ing on your course choices you may also owe the fol­low­ing fees:

Junior High Liv­ing Skills $10.00

Com­puter Appli­ca­tions $ 8.00

Art $ 5.00

The board dis­cussed the pos­si­bil­ity of ask­ing the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion to spec­ify the restricted hours for the school zone on the signs on State Route 19.

“There have been issues where we have had a num­ber of calls over the year that ask us what are the restricted hours?” Winand told the board. “I said as far as we’re con­cerned, it’s [dur­ing school hours]. But we’ve called the state high­way depart­ment and state high­way patrol with­out get­ting an answer.”

It was even­tu­ally dis­cov­ered if the board makes a for­mal res­o­lu­tion to request the post­ing of times and/or flash­ing lights, they (ODOT) would add that infor­ma­tion to the sign. Winand pro­posed post­ing the times of 7:30 — 9:00 a.m. and 2:30 — 4:00 p.m.

“I’m try­ing to be as least intru­sive as can be for the traf­fic on SR 19 and still cre­ate a safe envi­ron­ment for the buses and kids.”

A res­o­lu­tion was pro­posed to set the hours of 7:30 — 9:00 a.m. and 2:30 — 4:00 p.m as restricted hours for school traf­fic so the board can pur­sue signs with the hours posted.

The board approve the revised Stu­dent Pro­mo­tion and Reten­tion Pol­icy, changes to the Ele­men­tary School Stu­dent Hand­book, changes to the Junior High School Hand­book, and changes to the High School Stu­dent Hand­book for the 2012–2013 school year.

A ser­vice level agree­ment and con­tract with North Cen­tral Ohio Com­puter Coop­er­a­tive was approved at the cost of $24,750. (This equates to approx­i­mately $22.50 per stu­dent x 1100 stu­dents.) Ser­vices include but are not lim­ited to the school account­ing, staff pay­roll and stu­dent admin­is­tra­tion sys­tems, Inter­net con­nec­tion and sup­port, and tech­nol­ogy training.

A Per­sonal Ser­vices Con­tract with Leanna Rentz to pro­vide Occu­pa­tional Ther­apy for spe­cial needs stu­dents attend­ing the Step By Step Acad­emy dur­ing this sum­mer and the 2012–2013 school year was approved.

The out of state trip for the Wrestling Team to travel to Clar­ion, Penn­syl­va­nia on June 24th through June 27th, 2012 was approved.

Four extended days for Chris Coe, Spe­cial Edu­ca­tion Coor­di­na­tor, at her per diem rate was approved.

Employ­ment Recommendations

The board accepted the let­ter of retire­ment from Deb Ruhl effec­tive Sep­tem­ber 28, 2012.

The fol­low­ing emply­ment rec­om­men­da­tions were approved for teh 2012–2013 school year:

Jim Trainer as a Var­sity Assis­tant Foot­ball Coach; Ryan Hostetler as a Var­sity Assis­tant Foot­ball Coach; Nick Good­win as a Var­sity Assis­tant Foot­ball Coach; Tim Laird for the posi­tion of Ath­letic Direc­tor; Doug Wag­ner for the posi­tion of Assis­tant Ath­letic Direc­tor; Versa West­brook as a dou­ble route bus dri­ver; Chris Kaschube for the posi­tion of March­ing Band Direc­tor; Leslie Wise­man for the posi­tion of Cheer­lead­ing Advi­sor; Cari John­son for the posi­tion of JV Vol­ley­ball Coach; Kara Sut­ton for the posi­tion of 7th Grade Vol­ley­ball Coach; Lisa Ked­die for the posi­tion of 8th Grade Vol­ley­ball Coach; Lau­ren Rausch for the posi­tion of Junior High Cross Coun­try Coach; Michelle John­son for the posi­tion of Junior High Cheer­lead­ing Advi­sor; Angela Kaschube for the posi­tion of Assis­tant March­ing Band Direc­tor; B.J. Trainer for the posi­tion of Sum­mer Strength and Con­di­tion­ing Coach (for 2012); Kevin Ruhl for the posi­tion of Fall Strength and Con­di­tion­ing Coach; Amanda Keene for the posi­tion of Assis­tant High School Cheer­lead­ing Advisor.

Employ John Smith to serve as the Facil­ity Man­ager dur­ing the fall sea­son 2012; North­mor Ath­letic Boost­ers to serve as the Facil­ity Man­ager for the spring sea­son 2013; Sara Skel­ton to serve as an Ohio Grad­u­a­tion Test Instruc­tor for a spe­cial needs stu­dent; Rita Weaver to trans­port two spe­cial needs stu­dents to and from Step By Step Acad­emy in Mt. Gilead June 11th though August 3rd; Nancy Gillam to serve as a trans­porta­tion aide for two spe­cial needs stu­dents being trans­ported to Step by Step Acad­emy in Mt. Gilead June 11th though August 3rd; Tammy Hin­kle as a sub­sti­tute bus dri­ver; Angela Cochran as a sub­sti­tute teach­ers’ aide and cafe­te­ria worker.

Rec­og­nize Alyssa Cochran, Shawn Sweeney and Kel­lie Jo Wright as vol­un­teer assis­tant cross coun­try coach for the 2012–2013 school year.

The next Board Meet­ing will be held Thurs­day, July 19, 2012 in the North­mor Board of Edu­ca­tion Meet­ing Room (Old High School Build­ing) at 8:00 p.m.

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