Galion BOE hears 3rd grade results

By Matt Echelberry

Inquirer Reporter

The Galion Board of Edu­ca­tion held its final meet­ing for 2012 on Dec. 12. First, Super­in­ten­dent Kathy Jen­ney and Board Pres­i­dent Den­nis Long rec­og­nized two play­ers from the 2012 vol­ley­ball team: Reanne Neal, First Team NCC and Dis­trict 6 Sec­ond Team, and Car­o­line Del­Greco, Hon­or­able Men­tion NCC. Head Coach Jaime Valen­tine was in atten­dance as well and announced the team had a record of 15–9 this season.

After the Board approved the finan­cial report, Dr. San­dra Pow­ell, direc­tor of cur­ricu­lum, pre­sented the Third Grade Fall OAA Results. Out of 151 stu­dents tested, 68 per­cent were graded pro­fi­cient or above. Pow­ell said the dis­trict has not had scores that high since 2007. She added that most school dis­tricts in Craw­ford County improved as well.

Another item brought up was bus fuel options. Jen­ney explained the dis­trict has been look­ing at ways to pur­chase fuel more effi­ciently and will con­tinue look­ing at dif­fer­ent options.

The fol­low­ing per­son­nel were approved for Race to the Top Com­mit­tees: Lead­er­ship Team — Shelly Bar­ton, Amy Buzard, Ash­lee Cut­titta, Sue Jarvis, Andy John­son, Cindy Par­rott, Sandy Pow­ell and Cindy Voss; Assess­ment Team — Kyle Baughn, Kim Chan­dler, Judy Cortel­letti, Ash­lee Cut­titta, Lynn Evans, Jes­sica Ham­mond, Andy John­son, Nicci Lam­bright, Krista McK­ibben, Cindy Par­rott, Sandy Pow­ell, Heidi Rietschlin, Jon Stine­hour, Jaime Valen­tine, Cindy Voss, Troy Yunker and Mira Zeisler.

The Board also approved Lynn Evans as Tutor Coor­di­na­tor for Advance­ment via Indi­vid­ual Deter­mi­na­tion, as well as Cindy Rode and Joy­lyn Finch as AVID team members.

Char­lotte Sipes and Susan Sparks were approved as sub­sti­tute cooks, and Ronald Kostel­nik was approved as Mid­dle School wrestling coach. The Board also accepted the res­ig­na­tion of Sean Maguire as weight train­ing coordinator.

A date was set for the Orga­ni­za­tional Meet­ing for Jan. 10 at 6 p.m., imme­di­ately before the next reg­u­lar meeting.

Trea­surer Terri Day asked the Board to autho­rize her to “annu­ally adjust the mim­i­mum salary for non-contractual sub­sti­tute per­son­nel to the extent nec­es­sary in order to com­ply with fed­eral and state min­i­mum wage laws,” and also “adjust all other non-contractual sub­sti­tute per­son­nel salaries by the same amount (dollars/cents) to main­tain the dif­fer­ence among var­i­ous salary levels.”

Day noted that fed­eral min­i­mum wage will increase in Jan­u­ary and the change would not effect con­tracted per­son­nel. The Board voted in favor, with Board mem­ber George McEl­lig­ott dissenting.

In agree­ments, the Board approved an addi­tional 10 days of psy­chol­o­gist ser­vices through North Cen­tral Ohio Edu­ca­tional Ser­vice Cen­ter, at a cost of $3,183. (School dis­tricts are required by law to use such ser­vices in order to iden­tify spe­cial needs children.)

It also approved an agree­ment with McGown and Markling, LPA for 10 com­pli­men­tary hours of legal ser­vices for the school year, renewed mem­ber­ship to the Galion Area Cham­ber of Com­merce, and a con­tract for Med­Cen­tral Health Sys­tem Ado­les­cent Psy­chi­atric Unit Pupils.

Dona­tions were accepted from 1) Galion Build­ing and Loan for solar cal­cu­la­tors for all grade six stu­dents and new sev­enth and eighth grade stu­dents for a total value of $2,386.50. This is the 21st year for this dona­tion from Galion Build­ing and Loan with over 4,700 cal­cu­la­tors donated. 2) Galion Youth Foot­ball Asso­ci­a­tion for reim­burse­ment of paint for the foot­ball field.

In a final item of busi­ness, the Board approved a sec­ond read­ing for the fol­low­ing cur­ricu­lum: 21st Cen­tury Skills (grades 6–8), 21st Cen­tury Skills (grades 3–5) and Math Intervention/Enrichment (grade 5).

The Galion Board of Edu­ca­tion will meet next on Jan. 10, 2013 at 6:30 p.m., inside the Mid­dle School com­puter lab.

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