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September 20, 2012

ND approves budget

By Andrea McCann Washington Times Herald The Washington Times-Herald Thu Sep 20, 2012, 08:34 AM EDT

ELNORA — The North Daviess Community Schools Board approved the 2013 proposed budget, Capital Projects Fund Plan and School Bus Replacement Plan at its regular meeting Monday evening.

The 2013 advertised tax rate is $1.3602, and the total budget advertised is $12,301,492. The budget proposal will be submitted to the Department of Local Government Finance for their approval. According to Superintendent Bob Bell, the 2012 advertised tax rate was $1.6127 and the approved rate was $.8734; the advertised budget total was $12,729,126 in 2012, and $12,067,043 was approved. He told the board the corporation’s 2013 assessed valuation is $376,145,588 — up 4.88 percent from 2012.

In other financial news, Bell said the schools’ Title I Grant was approved, and the $432,110.65 will be used to hire three teachers and five instructional assistants. Projected state support is $6,715,329, according to the superintendent, down $143,031 from 2012.

Bell said the cash balance as of Aug. 31, 2012, is $1,413,921 — down $290,415 from the same time in 2011 and $859,750 from the same time in 2010.

“$859,750 has been lost in the past two years,” Bell said. “Most of it has been from state cuts. We’ll see cuts for two more years.”

Bell gave the principals’ reports in their absence, telling the board there are 454 students in the junior/senior high school and 666 in the elementary. The elementary administrators have begun the walk-through portions of RISE teacher evaluations, he said, and the junior/senior high staff is undergoing training on RISE and SLO, student learning objectives.

Professional development time was approved for Brian Whitney, Nicole Cook, Robin Strange and Brent Dalrymple to RTI training; Linda Streepy and Jean Lancaster to algebra I acuity training; Streepy, Lancaster and Andrea Sutton to math core curriculum training; Whitney and Strange to English and language arts (ELA) 10 acuity training; Lucas Calhoun, Patricia Brochin, Tammy Byrer, Laura Shafer, Jodi Berry and Jed Jerrels to Indiana Teacher Appraisal System training; Crystal McBride to ELA K-2 common core standards workshop; Shafer to ELA 3-5 workshop; Shaya Smith to ELA 6-8 workshop; and Tabitha Lengacher to math core standards workshop.

The board also approved a field trip: Gary Stuckey will take 11 FFA members to national convention in Indianapolis Oct. 24-27.

Under personnel, the board approved: Roger Carrithers and Steven McNabb, assistant varsity boys basketball coach; Clay Raber, JV boys basketball coach and assistant baseball coach; Brian Whitney, seventh-grade boys basketball coach; Randy Blevins, junior high volunteer boys basketball coach; John Britton, fifth- and sixth-grade boys head basketball coach; Joe Higgins, Cole Wolford, Gabe Swartzentruber and Ethan Wilson, volunteer assistant boys basketball coach for FCP; Bob Buehler, assistant baseball coach; Jon Berry, volunteer assistant softball coach; Kim Wade, John Stevens and Megan Dyal, assistant boys and girls track coach; Lorna Tribby, boys junior high track coach; Stacy Wagler, junior high cheerleader coach; and Crystal McBride, Audra Litherland and Kim Wesner, Just Say No coach.

In other business

Bell reported:

• There’s a 10- X 15-foot section of the auxiliary gym floor that has warped, and Benny Grimes of T&G Construction has looked at it. Another company will do a moisture test.

• Indiana Insurance inspected the corporation facilities looking for any potential liability issues and will report back.

• FCC requirements have changed, and 21 bus and 15 handheld radios must be switched to narrow banding by Jan. 1, 2013. Bell is working with different communication companies on how best to proceed. The change is part of an effort to ensure more additional channel capacity and to support more users.

• With the help of Daviess-Martin REMC, the corporation was awarded a Hoosier Energy Solar Technology in Schools Grant for a solar thermal system to supplement the high school’s hot water.

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