April 2022 Board of Education Regular Meeting

No questions or discussion.  Sent to vote.

Treasurer Schumacher reported as follows:

I attended the OASBO Annual Workshop last week.  This is by far my favorite seminar/workshop.  All learning sessions are pertinent to the job of Treasurer.  We had a Career Tech Treasurers meeting on Monday.  SCView made a presentation and then we finished up with a roundtable discussion. Roundtable discussions are the best learning tool we have. A lot of networking goes on.  I spent a bit of time with Dave Conley and Emily Cannon.  Those of you that were here for our refinance will remember those names.  Emily is now with PNC and is watching our COPS to alert us for a good time to refinance.

We have begun work on the five year forecast update for May.  It is a consensus among most Treasurers that State Foundation will be flat-lined after 2023.  Mostly because we don’t know what will happen in the next biennial budget.

I will be attending the Jefferson Health Plan Semi-Annual meeting this Wednesday.  This is the meeting that they hand out the new premiums for the upcoming year.  Cross our fingers that it isn’t too bad.  I don’t expect it to be.

We also have a revision to the Gorman Family Scholarship fund for your approval.  We have changed the Student Assistance to $5,500 and added National Technical Honors Society of $1,500.

We will be meeting Friday to discuss the spending of the Student Wellness and Success Fund 467.  We also still have $196,240 of GEER monies to spend before September 30, 2022.

 

We received quite a bit of Property Tax monies in March and received the remainder in April. That will help us get our five-year forecast updated.  Some of the area Treasurers are now trying to figure out what is going on with Rover Pipeline payments.  We received about the same amount in delinquent PUPP payments as we did current PUPP payments.  When asked about it, the County Auditor’s office stated that the Treasurer’s office must have posted it that way.  Just keeps getting more confusing.  I am not sure who knows what is going on.  The appeal is still active, but no word yet.   

The journal entry to transfer the $500,000 in appropriations from the General Fund to the Permanent Improvement fund is included in this report for your approval.

Meghan Niswander attended as EAP Representative.

Mr. Grady reported that there are seven candidates being interviewed for State Board Superintendent and three will advance for final interviews in the next couple of weeks.

HB126 went to conference committee and then to the Governor for signing.  This bill prohibits schools for filing appeals on residential and agriculture property taxes, but allows appeals, with restrictions, for commercial valuation disputes.

The projected enrollment for next year is still coming in. We have currently placed 1,241 students and have approximately 32 late applications to be reviewed for the 2022 – 2023 school-year. These continue to be exceptional numbers. We hope to be welcoming our new students and parents at the Pioneer New Student/Parent Orientation on May 11^th.  Students and parents will have the opportunity to visit the Career Technical Labs and learn more about Pioneer and their programs.

At the end of the month, I will be checking enrollment very closely to determine if I need to send out Reduction-In-Force (RIF) letters.  Although things are looking very good, if needed, RIF letters will be delivered by me to the union and teachers by April 30^th.

RIF’s are not acted on until a later board meeting, so I will keep you posted on any reductions that might be necessary.  Until that time, Student Services and instructors will continue recruitment efforts.

This year, after two years where we made minimal textbook purchases, we have several requests to be approved.  The total cost this year is $46,813.84.  The request has been reviewed by Mr. Frye, Director of Operations.  It is his recommendation that the textbooks presented be approved for purchase and use by our teachers.

$15,000 donation of end mills and lathe cutters from Kevin Buchannon of KB Machine in Bucyrus.

Pioneer Administrators will represent Pioneer at all 14 Partner School Awards Programs and Commencement Ceremonies.

Reminders for calendar items are as follows:

April 27           - Awards Night

May 2 – 6        - Staff Appreciation Week

May 6              - Senior Moments

May 11            - New Student Orientation

May 26            - Adult Education Graduation

May 27            - Year-End Staff Appreciation Breakfast

June 1  - Strategic Planning Core Team Meeting

Design work for Security/Facility Protection Equipment.

It is with regret that I recommend the following:

Randy Endsley – Retire (School Counselor)

Dawn Roberts – Resign (Medical Technologies Instructor)

John Cooper – Retire (Math Instructor)

Leanne Bauerdick – Non-Renewal (Retire-Rehire Math Instructor)

Christine Smith – Non-Renewal (Retire-Rehire Auto Tech Level 1)

I am pleased to recommend the following:

Austin Strouse – Employ (Colonel Crawford Satellite Industrial Tech)

Fritz Fagan – Employ (IT Support Instructor)

Ellen Zaebst – Employ (ECE Parent-Coordinator)

Dan Burtscher – Transfer (Student Services Coordinator)

The remainder of the personnel items are common for the month of April.

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