June 2019 Board of Education Meeting

Treasurer Schumacher pointed out the Temporary Appropriation and Liability Insurance items and stated they are usual items for this month's agenda.  The liability insurance increased by 3.1% from last year.  No questions or discussions.  Sent to vote.

Treasurer Schumacher reported the following:

Temporary Appropriations – all but the amounts in red are 25% of the previous year’s actual expenditures. The ones in red are full appropriations in case they are needed.

The $6,500 in the 019 fund is school safety grant and STEM camp grant that we did not have in FY18 so the original appropriations did not include them. At this point the STEM camp grant is overspent and the remainder will be moved to the general fund at year-end. The remaining red amounts are attached to the bond issues and building project for comparisons.

SORSA – 3.1% increase. As much as I think SORSA has a great product and services, I believe we should go out for new quotes next year.

Monthly Financials – Things have quieted down a little since school is out for the summer. It is quieter, but just as busy. We are winding down for the fiscal year-end and checking and double-checking that all loose ends are tied up. The GAAP conversion accountants will soon be sending us their list of items they need for the GAAP financial statements and then on to the audit.

We are still watching interest rates. A CDAR comes due this week and we are rolling it over into a 6 month CDAR.

Nothing to point out on the fund cash balances. The inventory went up a little bit due to some early ordering for next school year. It should really increase in July as once we have closed the books for July, the orders for supplies will go out for the new school year.

All of the taxes are in. We finally received Richland county Homestead and Roll Backs in June. It is $108,000.00. The PUPP tax of 165% collection is due to Rover paying their entire tax bill in the first installment instead of splitting it up between March and July. Everything else is in line. Line 4.06 that is only at 50.88% is the June payment of Bond Interest and will be paid 100% on the June Financials.

County Official Estimate of Resources – Also attached to the Financial Statements are the updated June appropriations for the County Official Estimate of Resources. We will file this tomorrow after approval and then after year-end we will file the new certificate for FY20.

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Mary Cosker, Language Arts Instructor and Anne Kurtzman, Performing Arts Instructor were in attendance to represent the EAP.

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1. Ensure a safe and secure environment for all District students, staff, and visitors and to ensure the school district is prepared to effectively respond to all emergencies that might affect safety or security of students and staff.

Martin Dzugan, Jolene Young and Matt Parr attended ALICE training at Bellville Elementary School. Shannon Sprang and all counselors attended Suicide Gatekeeper training. Crisis Prevention Training (CPI) – Jolene, Matt and Jim Calhoun.

2. Cultivate Life-Long learners by modeling a culture of professionalism and employability and providing access to career fields of interest in an environment that encourages innovation.

Handshakes, looking people in the eye

Bring Your A Game

Taking risks on activities like Sr. projects that are innovative

Seventy-six students were placed in Early Job Placement and sixteen had Internships this school year.

3.  PCTC employees will identify and incorporate current trends in business and industry across curriculum to ensure program relevance in each career pathway.

4. PCTC staff and students will work to foster a responsive, caring, and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported and empowered.

CTSO’s competing in National Contests this summer. Senior NTHS students volunteered over 233 service hours (Little Sister/Big Brother, Salvation Army, Soup Kitchen, Housing for Individuals with Special Needs and Humane Society).

5. Foster community relationships and communications to advance student opportunities and achievement while boosting Pioneer’s image and outreach.

Administrators attended all Associate School Awards and Graduations. Successful Summer STEM Camp with 50 students in grades 4-6. Participated in the Miss-Ohio parade.

6. Impact educational attainment of our communities in order to meet personal, local, and global workforce demands.

Credentials – 1062 Credentials 400 students up from 910 the previous year. Total Senior credentials 428 students up from 357 the previous year. Two students earned over 33 points.

7. Sustain fiscal stability by optimizing current resources, exploring alternative resources, maintaining facilities to meet staff, student, and community needs. .

Rotary account receipts were more than expenses this year.

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Superintendent Nickoli reported as follows:

It is hard to believe that the 2018 – 2019 school year has already ended. Each year the school year seems to go by faster and faster. The administrative staff attended 28 Awards Night and Commencement Ceremonies over the course of 4 weekends.

As usual, the staff breakfast went very well, thanks to Jason Fortman, our Food Service Manager and his Food Service Staff for catering the breakfast and to Vickie Hunt and Joanne Humphrey for preparing the agenda and ordering the awards and gifts. Many staff awards were given out to recognize and thank the staff for a very exciting year. In addition, a special thank you to Mr. Theaker and Mr. Prater for speaking on behalf of the Board and Mrs. Theaker for selecting the winner of our Kindle this year.

The administrative staff is now beginning to prepare for next year. The next two months will be filled with work to get new staff on board, finalizing teaching assignments, and our normal summer work and professional development. I appreciate the administrative staff’s hard work in preparation for the new 2019 – 2020 school year.

The Pioneer Administrators and support staff went to summer hours the week of June 3rd. We work extended hours four days per week and take Fridays off. This schedule will be in place for the next 6 weeks and we will resume normal hours after that. We have used this schedule for a number of years and it has worked satisfactorily for everyone.

Under the leadership and coordination of Mr. Frye Pioneer hosted a very successful STEM Camp. We had 50 students entering the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades on campus to build and launch rockets, build and fly drones, and build and race solar cars. We provided a Science or Math lesson followed by the hands on activities each morning. It was a huge success and we are already talking about ways to expand it next year!

Given the changes that have occurred over the last two years we have decided to contract for the services of a Truant Officer to assist our Attendance Office operations. Mr. Steve Helbert, who already works with several of our partner Districts, will meet with our Jim Calhoon and our Attendance Office Secretary to coordinate activities. Part of his responsibilities will be to make home visits to habitually and/or chronically absent students as well as represent Pioneer in court when that becomes necessary.

are purchasing a school forms software that will allow our parents and students to complete all school required forms electronically and in a much more efficient manner. Additionally, it will allow us to better track parent/student signatures as well as communicate with parents and distribute forms to teachers and bus drivers. currently ask parents to complete these documents on paper and then have several secretaries document completion, copy and distribute them by hand. In addition, this is the same software that is currently being used or being implemented this year in many of our Partner Schools.

I am asking you to approve an MOU with our teachers’ union that will allow us to permit our Career Coaches to work up to 29 hours without earning benefits. Our Negotiated Agreement grants insurance to employees who regularly work more than 21 hours so it was our intent to limit Career Coaches to 20 hours per week. Because several individuals work in more than one District and our Partner Districts have requested that they be permitted to work more than the 20 hours I approached the EAP leadership to seek their agreement with this arrangement. Coaches will still be limited to the agreed upon total number of hours (180/day/year).

We were notified last week that our fee for using Cisco Phones through NCOCC will increase from $4.50 per phone to $9.00 per phone. This charge is coming as a pass through from MCOECN and not from NCOCC.

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