Discus qualifier recognized at Galion school board meeting

Sarah Ein­se­len — Staff

Super­in­ten­dent Kathy Jen­ney, cen­ter, and school board mem­ber Jen­nifer Kuns, left, con­grat­u­late senior Michaela Car­pen­ter on qual­i­fy­ing for the regional dis­cus competition.

By Sarah Einselen

Inquirer Reporter

The Galion school board con­grat­u­lated senior track and field com­peti­tor Michaela Car­pen­ter at its monthly meet­ing Nov. 10 for reach­ing fourth place in the OHSAA dis­trict track and field com­pe­ti­tions. She threw the dis­cus 109 feet, seven inches to qual­ify for the regional com­pe­ti­tions. The ath­lete is already prac­tic­ing for next year in area open gym nights, toss­ing sand-filled bags against the gym walls until the weather warms again for out­door prac­tice. She has been accepted at both Kent State Uni­ver­sity and Bowl­ing Green State Uni­ver­sity and hopes to receive a sports schol­ar­ship from one of them.

Dur­ing the superintendent’s report to the board, Kathy Jen­ney advised board mem­bers that the Ohio School Board Asso­ci­a­tion would be offer­ing webi­nars on dif­fer­ent types of school levies. She said the Galion board may need to take advan­tage of the webi­nars to pre­pare for fund­ing future years’ bud­gets. Statewide, new oper­at­ing levies fared badly in this month’s elec­tion, she said, quot­ing unof­fi­cial fig­ures that showed just one in seven new or replace­ment levies passed. Renewals fared bet­ter, with 15 pass­ing out of the 16 on ballots.

Jen­ney also intro­duced Kyle Solomon to the board as a prospec­tive stu­dent rep­re­sen­ta­tive. The Galion high schooler is a junior nat­u­ral­ist at the Ohio Bird Sanc­tu­ary and a mem­ber of the ten­nis team.

The board went into exec­u­tive ses­sion after com­plet­ing its busi­ness to con­sider the appoint­ment, employ­ment, dis­missal, dis­ci­pline, pro­mo­tion, demo­tion or com­pen­sa­tion of pub­lic employees.

School board mem­bers George McEl­lig­ott, Marge McCum­ber, Jen­nifer Kuns and Robert Zeisler were present for the meet­ing; Kuns presided in Den­nis Long’s absence. The next meet­ing of the Galion board of edu­ca­tion will be held at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 8 in the mid­dle school com­puter lab. The pub­lic is encour­aged to attend.

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