Cardington-Lincoln Schools state rating up

By Eve­lyn Long -

The state rat­ing for Cardington-Lincoln schools is up, as reported to the Board of Edu­ca­tion when they met in reg­u­lar ses­sion on Sep­tem­ber 10 in the Patrick Drouhard Auditorium.

Supt. Brian Petrie reviewed the updat­ing of the dis­trict web site and reviewed the 2012 state indi­ca­tors and rat­ing for the Card­ing­ton School Dis­trict. All rat­ings which are unof­fi­cial, show improve­ment. The 2012 per­for­mance index sum­mary for the school indi­cate a three year upward trend and on a max­i­mum per­for­mance index scoreof 120, the school mea­sured at 97.8 as opposed to a 94.9 last year. Other unof­fi­cial scores based on a max­i­mum per­for­mance of 120.0 include the Mid­dle School: 92.2 As opposed to 90.6 last year; high school: 104. Last year 94.5; ele­men­tary school: 109.2; last year 108.3; Inter­me­di­ate school: 95.1 and last year 96.0 and the dig­i­tal acad­emy 90.5 and last year 72.7.

The school year is off to a good start, accord­ing to reports given by the build­ing prin­ci­pals. Report­ing were Scott Hard­wick, K-6 prin­ci­pal; Mar­sha Lev­er­ing, assis­tant K-6 prin­ci­pal; Joe Mills, High School prin­ci­pal and John Brehm, ath­letic director.

Each reported the recent open houses were suc­cesses. The new teach­ers are doing “great,” they said. Mills said the Mid­dle School has been selected for the “Mid­dle Schools that Watch,” program.

Brehm reported on the rev­enue gen­er­ated from the gates at the foot­ball games thus far. Early PA prob­lems have been cor­rected, he said.

Miss Hart from the cafe­te­ria staff, said the kitchen staff had taken train­ing in meal pat­terns — a 16 hour course which 11 peo­ple took and Yvonne Eastep’s 97 was the high­est score. Every­one passed, she said.

The board approved pay­ment of bills total­ing $876,943.09 paid on war­rant checks 81630–81767. The per­ma­nent appro­pri­a­tions and cer­tifi­cate of resources for FY 2013 were approved. Scott Osborne, trea­surer noted they are 2 per cent higher than last year.

Also under finance the board approved the fol­low­ing advances and trans­fers: (1) repay­ment of advance $25,000 from Food ser­vice to Gen­eral Fund; (2) repay­ment of advance $334.22 from the Class of 2017 to Gen­eral Fund; (3) repay­ment of advance $3,945.45 from the Class of 2018 to Gen­eral Fund; (4) trans­fer of $117,504.79 from Gen­eral Fund Bud­get Reserve to Gen­eral Fund; (5) clo­sure of Farm­ers Cit­i­zens Bank Account (Flex­i­ble spend­ing), with remain­ing bal­ance of $1,497.39 to be paid into the Gen­eral Fund due to the end of the Flex­i­ble Spend­ing plan.

The fol­low­ing med­ical, den­tal, and vision insur­ance pre­mium rates were approved for 2012–13: Med­ical –fam­ily $1,766.55 per month; Med­ical — sin­gle $642.40 per month; den­tal — fam­ily $99.69 per month; den­tal, sin­gle $34.50 per month; Vision– fam­ily $14.48 per month; and vision, sin­gle $6.40 per month.

The board approved the Spe­cial Edu­ca­tion Plan for the Card­ing­ton Dig­i­tal Acad­emy as submitted.

Also approved was the con­tract for Autism Unit Ser­vice for FY 13 with the Step by Step Acad­emy FY13 Ser­vice agree­ment for three stu­dents at $60,000 and the five year con­tract with Pepsi Bev­er­ages Com­pany with vari­able commission.

The bid from Cur­rent Sur­faces, of Michi­gan, for $39,860, was approved for the resur­fac­ing of the track. This is the com­pany who orig­i­nally placed the track in the stadium.

The board declared it imprac­ti­cal to pro­vide trans­porta­tion for a list of stu­dents to their respec­tive schools and their par­ents will be paid an amount in lieu of trans­portaion not to exceed the state aver­age cost to trans­port all stu­dents in the pre­ced­ing school year.

Three sub­mit­ted bus routes with stops were estab­lished: Mount Gilead Util­ity Route, Preschool routes and reg­u­lar routes.

The fol­low­ing stipends (grant paid) were approved: Gin­ger Hol­loway, “Mak­ing Mid­dle Grades Work” coor­di­na­tor , $500 and High Schools that Work coor­di­na­tor, $500.

Approval of monthly mobile com­mu­ni­ca­tions reim­burse­ments for FY 13 were approved effec­tive August 1, 2012 for :Brian Petrie, Joe Mills, Scott Hard­wick, each $50 and Carl Hard­wick, Jr and Cur­tis Adams, each $25.

The fol­low­ing cer­ti­fied teach­ers were approved as tutors at the tutor­ing rate of $20 per hour for sum­mer inter­ven­tion from 8/23/2012 t0 8/31/2012: Jodi Link­ous, one hour; and Angela Con­ley, Jada Urquhart and Kirsten Ebert, each two hours.

Under per­son­nel, the res­ig­na­tion of Matt Stephens, cer­ti­fied employee, was accepted effec­tive August 14, 2012 .The res­ig­na­tion of clas­si­fied employee Carl Hard­wick, Sr., as Mid­day Preschool route dri­ver, was accepted effec­tive August 27, 2012.

Employed on a cer­ti­fied con­tract was Ken­neth Miller and employed on a one year clas­si­fied con­tracts was Linda Brininger, aide; and Cyndi Jor­dan, cus­to­dian, (4 hours a day) was employed on a con­tin­u­ing contract.

Employed as a clas­si­fied bus route dri­ver was Carl Hard­wick, Sr. Morn­ing pre school bus, up to 3.5 hours per day/up to four days per week, effec­tive Sep­tem­ber 6, 2012.

Kirby Fran­cis, sub­sti­tute cus­to­dian, was employed effec­tive August 16, 2012.

Sup­ple­men­tal con­tracts (all one year con­tracts which expire June 30, 2012) were granted Rod­ney Brown, head var­sity boys bas­ket­ball; Jodi Brown, head var­sity girls bas­ket­ball; John Hin­ton, var­sity wrestling; Katie Por­teus, Book Club; Troy King, sev­enth grade advi­sor; Angela Crissinger, eighth grade advi­sor; Angela Con­ley, ninth grade advi­sor; Tammy Wells, tenth grade advi­sor; Angie Bush, eleventh grade advi­sor; Jen­nifer Price, 12th grade advi­sor; Gin­ger Hol­loway, JH Spirit Club; Jada Urquhart, high school stu­dent coun­cil; Angela Con­ley, high school year­book; Jen­nifer Weikle, Span­ish Club; Donna Kill, Junior High Sci­ence Club; Angela Crissinger, Junior high stu­dent coun­cil, Dick Uyak, In the Know; Marty Bar­nett, facil­ity man­ager (.67 FTE) Tracy Williamson, fall play direc­tor and Evan Stick­ney, park­ing lot monitor.

The retire­ment of Brad Watts, clas­si­fied employee, was accepted effec­tive Octo­ber 31, 2012.

Supt Petrie said he will announce dates for pub­lic meet­ings dur­ing which the school dis­trict finances will be dis­cussed. He pro­poses two Octo­ber meetings.

Board pres­i­dent Chuck Jones com­mented on the pre­lim­i­nary state report on the school. “It’s obvi­ously great news for us. I’ve been talk­ing about our dis­trict being excel­lent — we’re mov­ing up the build­ing lev­els — we should be cel­e­brat­ing. Credit to the staff and admin­is­tra­tion for set­ting the pace to fol­low. It’s encour­ag­ing and I think we’re in a great place.”

All board mem­bers con­curred with him. The next reg­u­lar board meet­ing will be held Octo­ber 8 at 7 p.m.

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