Mt. Gilead Schools enrollment up

By LeAnne Gompf –

School is back in ses­sion and enroll­ment across the dis­trict is up, accord­ing to the Mt. Gilead Board of Edu­ca­tion at their August 21 board meeting.

With a full week under their belts, the stu­dents of Mount Gilead got to take a week off for the Mor­row County Fair. Yes­ter­day, how­ever, it was busi­ness as usual and the edu­ca­tion process for the new year was in full swing.

Dur­ing their monthly Board of Edu­ca­tion meet­ing, sev­eral posi­tions were approved by the board and reports given with regard to the finances of the district.

Dis­trict Trea­surer Trevor Gum­mere reported that the fol­low­ing line item accounts will be elim­i­nated effec­tive Sep­tem­ber 1, 2012: Class of 2012, FCCLA, Multi Age, MGEVS Band Fees, Park Avenue Library, Mid­dle School Library, High School Fee, Park Avenue Fee, Mid­dle School Fee. Gum­mere clar­i­fied that fees are not elim­i­nated but will be accounted for dif­fer­ently. Gum­mere reit­er­ated to the board that, with regard to health insur­ance for the dis­trict, the board is going to change their third party admin­is­tra­tor with Med­ical Mutual of Ohio net­work as of Jan­u­ary 1, 2013. He rec­om­mended that they hire a con­sul­tant to help eval­u­ate health cost in order to save the dis­trict money. Axo­ma­tion, LLC was awarded a two-year contract.

“With the con­sul­tants’ engage­ment, we were able to secure a 19% reduc­tion in health and pre­scrip­tion rates for our dis­trict,” Gum­mere told the board. “The sav­ings were not obtain­able until the first week of August due to the claims and such being avail­able. Mov­ing for­ward, if the dis­trict does not save any money on health cost, the con­sul­tant will not receive any pay­ment for services.”

The board took action on the fol­low­ing posi­tions and these indi­vid­u­als were employed in the des­ig­nated posi­tions accord­ing to the adopted salary sched­ule: Mar­ian Easlick, Sub­sti­tute Cus­to­dian; Amy Fisher, Matt Vis­conti and Anna Wal­ter, Aides through Ren­hill; Ryan Cur­tis, Tech­nol­ogy Ser­vices; Susan Delaney, Fis­cal Ser­vices – Accounts Payable; Car­olyn Ebert EMIS Coor­di­na­tor Ser­vices (Pow­er­school); Nancy Goossens, Fis­cal Ser­vices – Pay­roll; Teri Gray, Human Resources Coor­di­na­tor; Chris­tine Anthony, Math Coach (Title I Fund­ing); Bon­nie Bostic , Part Time Cafe­te­ria; Allie Brewer, Sub­sti­tute Teacher; Stephanie Clark, Full Time Bus Dri­ver; Kathy Claf­fey, Part Time Cafe­te­ria; Carla Counts, Sub­sti­tute Aide; Brit­tany Dudgeon1st Grade Teacher; Beth Gerasi­mof, Part Time Cafe­te­ria; Jodi Gordon,Part Time Cafe­te­ria San­dra Har­ris, Part Time Cafe­te­ria Tammy Hin­kle, Sub­sti­tute Bus Dri­ver Vic­to­ria Knuckles4th Grade Teacher Den­nis Richard­son, Sub­sti­tute Teacher Tammy Sell­ers, Full Time Bus Dri­ver Bryan Thomp­son, Sub­sti­tute Teacher Christy Tinch, Full Time Bus Dri­ver Roger Van­Hoose, Sub­sti­tute Cus­to­dian Judy Stan­ton, Aide (Ren­hill) Bran­don Hay­cox, Inter­ven­tion Spe­cial­ist Mike Bar­ron and Gary Bartlett, Fac­ulty Man­agers Cody Cast­line, MS Assis­tant Foot­ball Coach Mike Galle­her, MS Cross Coun­try Coach Michelle Hea­cock, 7th Grade Vol­ley­ball Coach Mark Ken­non, MS Head Foot­ball Coach Joey Pow­ell, Assis­tant Band Direc­tor (Vol­un­teer) Jodi Rich­line, 8th Grade Vol­ley­ball Coach Steve Ringer, Weight­room Coor­di­na­tor Annie Robert­son, Flag Corps Joe Ruhl, MS Foot­ball Coach Ben Saun­ders, Assis­tant MS Foot­ball Coach (Vol­un­teer) Nikki Van­derkooi, HS Cheer Caoch Mike Williamson, HS Head Wrestling Coach Melinda Wood, Occu­pa­tional Ther­apy Inde­pen­dent Con­tract MeMartha Gostely, Occu­pa­tional Ther­apy Inde­pen­dent Contract

In fur­ther busi­ness the board accepted the res­ig­na­tions of the fol­low­ing indi­vid­u­als: Mor­gan Hea­cock, Aide (Ren­hill) and 8th Grade Vol­ley­ball Coach Sherry Seckel, Aide (Ren­hill) Dianna Stevens, Cafe­te­ria Mike Williamson, MS Wrestling Coach Katie Wis­lon, 1st Grade Teacher Ash­ley Wit­tel, Inter­ven­tion Specialist.

The board approved the fol­low­ing agree­ments and con­tracts for the 2012–2013 school year: the Adap­tive Phys­i­cal Edu­ca­tion Ser­vice between the Mor­row County Board of Devel­op­men­tal Dis­abil­i­ties and the Mount Gilead Vil­lage School District;

the OnSite, LLC Let­ter of Agree­ment for the required drug test­ing of bus dri­vers through Met­ro­pol­i­tan Edu­ca­tion Council;

pur­chas­ing con­tract with Smith Dairy Prod­ucts Com­pany through Met­ro­pol­i­tan Edu­ca­tional Council;

the pur­chas­ing con­tract with Alfred Nick­les Bak­ery, Inc. through the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Edu­ca­tional Council;

approval of the Speech Ther­apy Ser­vices Con­tract for FY13 for the Tomor­row Cen­ter with North Cen­tral Ohio Edu­ca­tional Ser­vice Cen­ter (NCOESC);

and the approval of the newly revised Admin­is­tra­tive Cri­sis handbook.

Board mem­ber Vir­gil Sta­ley was appointed to attend the OSBA Busi­ness meet­ing on behalf of the board to be held Novem­ber 12, 2012. In an effort to save the dis­trict money on paper cost, the new Super­in­ten­dent is rec­om­mend­ing to the board that, in the future, all agenda items and reports be pro­vided to the board elec­tron­i­cally. It will then become the board mem­bers respon­si­bil­ity to read and pre­pare prior to the meet­ing, as well as all doc­u­ments be made avail­able for oth­ers to exam­ine. He also rec­om­mended that the board begin using a board agenda by con­sent for­mat. This will elim­i­nate the board vot­ing on each agenda item, allow­ing for more flex­i­bil­ity. Items of con­cern can then be extracted if fur­ther dis­cus­sion is merited.

Dur­ing the com­mu­nity and citizen’s com­ments, Super­in­ten­dent Thomp­son was asked by grade school par­ents in atten­dance why he elim­i­nated the after school pro­gram with­out con­sult­ing the par­ents via a sur­vey to see what the inter­est would be for the new year. Par­ents explained the need for pro­gram­ming and ques­tioned Mr. Thomp­son about alter­na­tives for the work­ing par­ents who are unable to pick up their child after school due to work­ing out of town. Mr. Thomp­son had no con­crete answers for them except to explain that the pro­gram was not self suf­fi­cient or able to pay for itself, so he would be look­ing for other ways to meet the com­mu­nity need for after school programming.

With no fur­ther busi­ness or com­ments the board adjoined to meet again on Tues­day Sep­tem­ber 18 at 7:00 p.m.

Posted by Randa Wagner on Sep 5 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.