The mission of the Tipp City Exempted Village Schools is to provide an
exemplary education so that all students become responsible participants in society.
School Board Notes
2010-2011 June 1, 2011
The Tipp City Board of Education resumed the Monday, May 23rd, 2011 regular board meeting, which was postponed due to the Tornado Warning, on Wednesday, June 1st, 2011. The board meeting took place at the Board of Education office. Board members present: Carla Frame, president; Tom Merritt, vice president; Frank Maus, Kate Johnsen and Scott Dixon.
The mission of the Tipp City Exempted Village Schools is to provide an
exemplary education so that all students become responsible participants in society.
After the Pledge of Allegiance the board picked up at:
Superintendent’s Report
A) Update on Design Firms – Dr. Kronour reminded the public that the board toured the Dayton Boys Prep Academy and the Community Center to interview the Design Firm, LWC Incorporated on May 16th. Then on May 18th the board toured the Milton Union Schools Construction site to interview the Design Firm, Ruetschle Architects. Dr. Kronour asked the board if they had come to a decision on which Design Firm to choose.
Scott Dixon asked that Dr. Kronour get quotes from both firms stating what the percentage of fees will be for the Community Engagement portion of their contract.
There was discussion on the firms and there will be a recommendation at the next board meeting.
B) Summer School Updates – Dr. Kumpf reported that the first week of Summer School will be for 3rd thru 8th graders from 6/13 – 6/24 at L.T. Ball. She also stated that the first rounds of letters for summer school have already been mailed. The second Summer School session will be 8/1 – 8/5 for grades K-2. The session for OGT will be 6/6 – 6/20 with testing from 6/13 – 6/20. The extended school year will be 7/6 – 7/22. OdysseyWare will be available a few hours a day for Credit Recovery. Due to popularity, StageCrafters will have two sessions this summer. First session will be 6/13 – 6/25 with the performances being 6/24 & 6/25. The second session will be 7/5 – 717 and performances will be 7/16 & 7/17.
C) Personnel Updates – Dr. Kronour told the board that in order to reduce expenses without cutting positions the cuts were made possible through attrition and moving teachers around. Those changes will be reflected later in the board notes.
D) Language Arts Curriculum – Dr. Kumpf presented the Language Arts books and explained the curriculum that will be used for the next 7 years.
E) iPad donation – Dr. Kronour thanked Tina Clark, manager at Best Buy, for donating an iPad to Mrs. Johnson’s Intervention Class at Nevin Coppock.
F) Administrative and Instructional cost related to our total expenditures. – Dr. Kronour shared the below graph to show board members how Tipp City Schools rank in spending and revenue compared to other Miami County Schools.
SCH / ADMIN. SPENDING PER PUPIL / INSTRUCTION SPEND PER PUPIL / TOTAL SPEND PER PUPIL / TOTAL REV. PER PUPILBethel / $1,337 / 5079 / 9088 / 8322
Bradford / 1316 / 4428 / 9518 / 9982
Covington / 1254 / 4865 / 9037 / 8922
Miami East / 1175 / 5253 / 9170 / 9075
Milton Union / 1250 / 4869 / 8389 / 8321
Newton / 1739 / 4356 / 9039 / 9799
Piqua / 863 / 5652 / 9377 / 9032
Troy / 962 / 5820 / 9202 / 9696
Tipp / 1011 / 5322 / 8938 / 8457
G) Levy Discussion – Dr. Kronour reported that two Emergency Levies will come due in 2012. There was much discussion on whether to combine the levies and have them last for 10 years rather than every 3 years, so the district will not have to go to the voters so often.
It was decided to look at the levy ballot language and then make a decision what kind of levy will be put up. It was also decided to start the process to put a levy on the Ballot in November.
Treasure’s Report
The Financial Report was approved.
Old Business
Carla Frame congratulated the H.S. Softball team for making it to the State Tournament, the four high school track members that made it to the State Meet and James Trevino for placing 4th at State for boy’s tennis.
New Business
a) Personnel
Approved the following retirement:
Wilber Wade Mizer Effective June 30th
Approved the following resignations:
Richard Brenneman JV Volleyball Coach
Alexis Dedrick Freshman Volleyball Coach
Approved the following supplemental positions for the 2011/2012 school year:
Aaron Jackson, Head Varsity Girls Basketball Coach.
Approved 2010/2011 school year employment for Substitute position:
Karen Foster Substitute Teacher
Approved employment for the following positions for the remainder of the 2010/2011 school year:
Geoff Enz HS Teacher As of May 13th
Shelley Stewart Intermediate Teacher As of May 4th
Approved employment for the following certified position for the 2011/2012 school year:
Tara Barnes Art Teacher
(replacing Chris Betz)
Approved a change in assignment, beginning the 2011-2012 school year.
Sandy Beck: From 1st grade teacher at Broadway to the Intervention Specialist position (open from Marci Utt’s retirement)
Meredith Connor From 8th grade Science Teacher at Tipp Middle School to 4th grade teacher position at LT Ball (open due to Kem Fischer’s move to 5th grade)
Tammy Derringer: From a 7 hour Aide position at Nevin Coppock to an 8 hour Aide position at Nevin Coppock
Gabrielle Hanke: From .5 Kindergarten Teacher at Nevin Coppock to a 1st grade teacher at Nevin Coppock full time (open position due to Tracy Oldiges’ change in assignment)
Kem Fischer: From 4th grade teacher at LT Ball to a 5th grade teacher at LT Ball (open position from Shannon Varvel’s resignation)
Tracy Oldiges:From 1st grade teacher at Nevin Coppock to the Title 1 Reading Teacher (open position from Judy Crow’s retirement)
Approved the Extended day contract for 17 Certified employees:
Yr.10-11 Yr.11-12
Jon Baumhauer 20 17 days
Steve Hottle 20 17
Bruce Cahill 7 6
Amy Cochran 20 17
Lisa Colebaugh 5 3
Tammy Conley 5 4
Merrilee Dillon 5 4
Susan Drennen 5 4
Paula Goldsberry 5 3
Jean Hargrave 5 5
Becky Holderman 23 23
Marilee Lake 5 5
Carmella Lammers 3 3
Dale Pittenger 5 3
Helen Prichard 5 4
Angie Burris 18 18
Pam Staub 5 3
Approved the following for 2011 summer maintenance employment:
Jean Brumfield
John Fowler
Georgia Hoff
Julie Kihm
Wanda Starner
Approved the following for 2011 Summer School staffing:
K-8 Reading & Math
Angie Anderson
Linda Ares
Sandy Beck
Nancy Carus
Amber Holtzapple
Kari Hake
Melissa Poffenberger
Chris Prokes
Cheryl Peeples
Lynn Shirk
Jodi Duncan
Alexa Vagedes
Amy Bierfeldt
Amanda Molnar
Kara Crawford
Mindy Cvitkovich
Jane Landis
Carrie Robison
Special Education
Jean Hargrave
Melissa Johnson
Lesa Osswald
OdysseyWare-Credit Recovery
Diana Davis Miller
Cindy Hauler
Stagecrafters Drama camp
Jim Sagona
Casey Layer
Brad Stapleton
Miranda Lammers
9-12 OGT- CORE Content Remediation
Math-Dan Malott
Social Studies – Steve Verhoff
Science – Jim Moore
Writing/Reading – Diana Davis- Miller
Multiple Content Areas – Patty Cahill – Nick Culver
Approved the supplemental positions for the 2011/2012 school year.
b) Dr. Kronour recommended Frank Goldsberry, for the 2011/2012 school year, in the classified position of:
Tech Support Specialist
The board members explained to Mr. Goldsberry that they respect him and appreciate all he did at Tipp City Schools, but they felt they couldn’t approve him being hired for the position because in this instance they didn’t want to support the practice of retire/rehire. Some board members had asked a few people in the community what they felt about retire/rehire and it wasn’t favored. The board voted 4-0 to not approve Frank Goldsberry being hired as the Tech Support Specialist.
c) With a 3 -2 vote the board approved the employment of Doug Rabe as the Head Girls Varsity Soccer Coach for the 2011/2012 school year.
d) Approved payment to the following Mentors for the 2010/2012 school year:
Linda Ares Melissa Poffenberger
Sandy Beck Ian Porto
Dan Malott Tim Tipton
e) Approved payment to the following LPDC (Local Professional Development Committee) members for the 2010/2012 school year:
Jan Bishop Deb Fetters
Jennifer Brown Meggan Klein
Lisa Colebaugh Mandy Wood
Nick Culver Heather Yunker
f) Approved the Salary Schedules for the 2011-2012 school year.
Kate Johnsen expressed the board’s gratitude and thanked the teachers for their hard work. She and other board members expressed their sadness for not being able to reward the teachers with a raise this year. All of the board members asked Dr. Kronour to make it a priority if something changes in the new state budget, to give the 19 or so teachers who should have earned a step increase a step raise. Dr. Kronour and the board agreed that if money and time is spent getting more education they should be rewarded. Dr. Kronour said that he disagrees with the Governor and feels more education does make for better teachers.
g) Approved the 2011-2012 membership of Tippecanoe Middle School and Tippecanoe High School in the Ohio Athletic Association and agree to conduct athletic programs in accordance with OHSAA Constitution By-laws and regulations.
h) Approved renewing our District Membership in SOITA (Southwest Ohio Instructional Technology Association) for the 2011-2012 school year at a cost $1,391.50
i) Approved 10th grade tuition student, J. Alexander for the 2011-2012 school year.
j) Approved Juan Molinar Malaxechevarria and Markus Alexander Lumma as foreign exchange students for the 2011/2012 school year. Molinar is from Burgos, Spain and Markus is from Hamburg, Germany. They will both be juniors.
k) Approved the adoption of student fee schedule for the 2011-2012 school year.
Dr. Kronour and the board thanked all of the volunteer parent groups for donating money to keep the school fee increase at a minimum.
l) Approved the adoption of the student handbooks and code of conduct for each school building.
m) Approved the increase of $.10 for regular school lunches for 2011-2012. Elementary lunch prices will be $2.00 and Middle / High School lunch prices will be $2.25.
n) Approved the school calendar for 2012-13. With the start date being September 4th, 2012 to June 7th, 2013.
o) Approved the adoption of Language Arts textbooks for the 2011-2012 school year.
p) Approved the permission to contract with Troy Christian schools for the 2011-2012 school year. Troy Christian will provide transportation for students enrolled in their school, but reside within the Tipp City Exempted Village School district.
q) Approved contracting with Duro-Last Roofing, Inc to re-roof the gymnasium at LT Ball in the amount of $59,362.30 and to re-roof the South West entrance to the High School in the amount of $32,777.15, as per the State term contract.
r) Approved the Policy and Guideline adoptions and changes as recommended by NEOLA.
Adjourned
The next regular Board of Education Meeting will be Monday, June 27th at 7pm.