New Teachers at Antwerp: Ryan Zuber, Wade Sisson and Chad Schindler.
Board Meeting of Antwerp Local School on Thursday, July 17, 2014.
Board President Dennis Recker gave the Vantage report. He said the government bond was reneged on the bonds, so they went and got new rates. Because of this, it will save about 4 million over a 20 year period.
Kristine Stuart gave the financial report. There was $435,591.73 in receipts and $552,046.85 in expenditures and $1530.86 interest earned. For the 2013-14 Fiscal Year there was $8,184,636.07 in receipts and $7,833,458.78 in expenditures for fiscal year 2013-2014.
High School Principal Bute introduced Mr. Wade Sisson for Integrated Science position. Mr. Ryan Zuber was hired in as Life science position. The Student Handbook was presented by Mike to the board members. The Athletic Handbook was also presented with it’s revisions. Denise Coleman was announced as the new Middle School/High School Secretary. Sports Pictures are scheduled on Friday, August 15 at 9:00 am. Teacher workday will be Monday, August 18. First Day of school Tuesday, August 19. Fall Sports will have first day of coaching on August 1.
Elementary Principal Tim Manz said he is looking to hire a new secretary. The ad was posted in the newspaper and as of the meeting there were 79 applicants. Chad Schindler was hired for pre-school teacher.
Meet the Teacher Night is scheduled for August 18. Preschool is up around 60. Kindergarten is also around 60.
Superintendent Pat Ross stated the Family and Consumer Science staff has not been hired yet. Alexandria Gillis has resigned as Spanish Teacher and the district is looking for someone ASAP. Distance was the primary factor from Bowling Green for Ms. Gillis’ decision.
The school remodeling painting has been started and looks nice and the academic wings are all completed now. The gym bleachers has had a major improvement in cleaning the steps. The gym floor will be resurfaced by a third party contractor this year as the price was better than having the janitorial staff complete the project. The nutrition standards has all been met and approval was signed by Deb Altic.
Harold Gottke, Technology Coordinator, talked about the 1 to 1 computer project. It would solve some problems, but the cost might be too great for the results. The Dell 2100 series and the NL3 series are showing their age. The Atom processors are not powerful computers and should be replaced. He would like to have a five year rotation on all the computers instead of replacing them all at one time with the new i5 processor laptops with SSD’s instead of hard drives. Replacing about 100-150 each year would get the rotation started. He also purchased 150 or LCD screens from Wayne Trace for a great price. He is getting good rates on these computers by the purchasing power getting them with other schools, naming Paulding.
The electric bill was very high and Harold explained the changes in environmental controls to make sure it doesn’t happen again. The system shuts down at 10:00 p.m. for about seven hours per day and should help significantly reduce costs. There was a meeting with American Heat Tech and they have been diligent to get these problems solved. There is a web-based set of controls that the company can monitor everything remotely and would be notified of any problems in the system.
