The Antwerp School Board met in regular session on Thursday, February 18. Bob gave an update on the school funding and new legislation from the state. Dennis Recker gave the Vantage report. He said the Open House would be on February 22 for sophomores and it will be virtual. They will also have an option to visit during the week of February 22.
The school received the income tax revenue and it was up about $8,000 from the previous January. 64% of income has been received for the year; 49.83% of expenditures have taken place – And the school is 58% through the fiscal year. With interest rates being so low, Entrust says it might be in the interest of the school to payoff a loan that they funded several years ago for new LED lighting, using a low interest bank loan.
Travis Lichty gave his report – Juniors are taking their ACT on Tuesday. The third quarter of person to person learning is scheduled for March 12. Summer School is scheduled to begin May 24. Sectional play for boys basketball will be on Friday, Feb 26 at home. Wrestling tournaments also starts next week. Antwerp has won back to back GMC tournaments. Travis mentioned the different sports that won placements in wrestling, cheer and gymnastics. A senior trip is scheduled is set for the end of March to Chicago.
April 9-11 is a High School play.; April 17 is the Spring arts festival, and grades 4-8 will have a Middle School Play scheduled for May 7-9.
Tracey Stokes gave the Students of the quarter listed for the board members. The Paulding County Spelling bee Kindergarten Registration and screen is April 7 and 8.
Marty gave his report. He said several things needed repaired and they are needing to hire some people for the janitorial staff.
Harold Gottke ask the board for $87,000 for new computers and he needs to get that ordered right away because of all the delays like last year. A large screen TV will be put in the board room and removed the projector to be used in another class room. There were some sound issues with wires coming out of the wall, but that has been fixed now.
Marty said quite a few students are still on NOVA. The projections for the school year, if things are happening the way the are currently, the school may have to cut a teacher or two as the enrollment looks like it may be lower. Vaccines were ready for the teachers by Friday, February 18.
Antwerp has now exceeded 55 hours of missed school, and May 20 will be the make up day. May 16 is the scheduled day for graduation. If too many days are missed then graduation day will have to be pushed back a week. The NEOLA Policy has made lots of changes due to Title nine requirements.
Synergy has changes coming and that is part of an alternate venue for schooling. Van Wert has decided it wants to break away from Western Buckeye. Van Wert wants to do this alone. The other local schools have to decide what to do for this alternate schooling. Marty believes the new location in Paulding will actually be better by having a smaller system. Antwerp has seven young people at “Synergy Paulding”.
It was noted that teacher Sara Schapper worked with Spangler Candy Co. for helping a special teaching project.
The next meeting is scheduled for March 18 at 6pm.
