Board handles routine business at June meeting

    BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio – The Ohio Hi-Point Career Center Board of Education met for their regular monthly meeting Wednesday evening in the Hi-Point Inn for a meeting that included routine business in preparation for the upcoming 2010/11 school year. 
    Amy Main, who has served as the program coordinator of the Nancy J. Knight School of Nursing in Adult Education received a one-year limited contract to serve as Adult Education Supervisor.  As Main assumes her new administrative role, long-time Adult Education employee Julia Barton, who currently serves as Student Services Coordinator, resigned for the purposes of retirement effective August 31, 2010.
    In the high school, the board accepted the resignation of Melissa Rofe, English Instructor, effective June 30, 2010, for other employment in another district.  Former Ohio HI-Point Career Center student Cory Calland was approved to join the staff as an Assistant Technology Coordinator during the 2010/11 school year.  The board also approved a public notice regarding a public hearing to be held during the July 28, 2010 Board of Education meeting to consider rehiring Deborah Baker, retired instructor, into the same position effective September 1, 2010.
    Lori Ludwig and Julia Barton were on hand at the meeting to deliver an update to the board on the status of Adult Education’s on-going accreditation process with the North Central Association and the Office of Student Services.  Ludwig reported good news on the findings of the accreditation’s findings, listing Ohio Hi-Point’s Adult and Continuing Education Division in the two highest earning categories in all seven areas of measurement.
    Barton reported that 85% of current full-time Adult Education students were receiving financial aid, being managed through the Office of Student Services.       
    In other board action:
•    Approved the report of the treasurer
•    Heard the legislative liaison report from board member Warren Stevens (Urbana City Schools)
•    Adopted the Annual Appropriation Resolution for the period of July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011, in the amount of $16,189,759 and authorized the Treasurer, the Superintendent and the Board President to sign certificates certifying the availability of funds to cover the annual appropriations measure
•    Approved the employment of the following certified substitutes for the 2010/11 school year: Karen Alloway, Tammy Bales, John Beck, Cookee Boyer, Bill Davis, Ken Davis, Sabrina Glett, Aaron Gregor, Carol Hartley, Don Macalusa, Debra Purk, Tim Schneider, Deb Schroeder, Ginger Shellenberger, George Tuttle
•    Approved the employment of the following classified substitutes for the 2010/11 school year: Shirley Core, Barbara Culp, Kathy Huey, Nikki Smith, Susan Weiser
•    Approved the employment of Jeff Cross to a one-year limited contract, 4/8 (part-time) for Career Based Intervention and Ryan Gilbert as a Virtual Learning Academy Summer Camp Instructor
•    Approved the following Adult Basic Literacy Education (ABLE) volunteers for the 2010/11 school year: Stephen Phillip, Mela Patterson, LaGina Hill
•    Approved the employment of the following ABLE instructors for the 2010/11 school year: Eldonna Ashley, Nancy Gillman, Amanda Hanford, Nancy Harmon, Linda Kerns, Jim King, Dave Ozimek, Cindy Price, Rachel Sheeley, Christen Smith, Mary Ann Smith, Sheryl Risner, Anita Slayer
•    Approved the employment of the ABLE aides Cynthia Drumm and Angela Kalb, assessment proctors Marylu Clute, Janet Hunt, Tanya Knief, Joan Manns, Michelle Rutledge, Mari Stormer, GED proctors Hunt and Knief, EMS instructors Gail Dodds, Mike Dodds, Brett Evilsizor, James Foust, Mary Foust, Benjamin Kennedy, Charles Keeran, Melissa Keeran, special topics instructor John Flora, career enrichment instructors Todd Baker, Jann McBrien, Jill Rincon, Michael Shepherd, Troy Shively, Roxanna Wilt, business and industry instructors Jeff Bendert, Tracy Franck, Joel Headington, Fred Henry, Perry Hodies, Knief, Manns, Lisa McCullough, Rutledge, Megan Straker, Tamara Troyer, David Willoby, health occupations instructors Karen Aldo, Natalie Bracy, Lacey Campbell, Hazel Holmes, Pamela Nichols, Holly Burch, Cheryl Skeins, Susan Alger, Melony Baker, Laura Brown, Alyce Kalb, Knief, Mari Stromer, Carson Stratton, Paul Strebig, Jeffrey Combs, student services guidance counselor Jau Hunt, evening coordinator Rutledge, evening coordinator (as needed) Knief and Manns, tech support Franck, HVAC instructors Kent Amey and Jeff Dysert, as well as ABLE secretary Marylu Clute for the 2010/11 school year
•    Approved customer service fees, Virtual Learning Academy student fees and student fees for the 2010/11 school year
•    Approved the Adult Education Student Handbook for the 2010/11 school year
•    Authorized the renewal of membership in the Ohio Association of Career Technical Superintendents for the 2010/11 school year
•    Designated Joel Staudter (Associate High School Director) and Shelly Swaney (Associate High School Director) as the non-discrimination designee for the district
•    Appointed Board Vice President Bill Ramsey (Benjamin Logan) as the Ohio School Boards Association voting delegate for the 2010/11 school year and Jeff Burroughs (Madison-Champaign County ESC) as the alternate
•    Approved a resolution for the district to cooperate in service areas for special education regional resource services
•    Approved a monthly cell phone stipend for approved staff members of $50 for a standard phone and $100 for a “smart” phone
The next meeting of the board of education will be held on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, at 7 p.m. in the Hi-Point Inn.
 

Board Members Present: E. Susanne Bline (Mechanicsburg), Russ Blue (Kenton), Kim Boswell (Indian Lake), Tom Brookhart (Waynesfield-Goshen), Chuck Buck (West Liberty-Salem), Jeff Burroughs (Madison-Champaign Co. ESC), Doug Lassiter (Marysville), Bill Lowery (Upper Scioto Valley), Joe McKirahan (Logan County ESC), Larry Mouser (Hardin County ESC), Bill Ramsey (Benjamin Logan), Anne Reames (Bellefontaine), Warren Stevens (Urbana), Pat Wagner (Graham), Robert White (Ridgemont), Brian Wright (Riverside)
Board Members Not Present:  William McDaniel (Triad)