Crestview board takes personnel actions

DAVE MOSIER/independent editor

CONVOY – Crestview Local Board of Education accepted the resignation of longtime Food Service Supervisor Linda Springer and also heard a report from Dan Litchfield of Iberdrola Renewables about progress being made on the company’s wind turbine project.

Springer, who will retire effective July 31, was recognized for her 27 years of service to the district. Board members also reassigned Amy Tomlinson to the position of Middle School teacher beginning the 2011-2012 school year. The assignment is part of the district’s switchover from a junior high educational program to that of a middle school program. No facility physical changes will be made as part of the switchover.

Superintendent Mike Estes also noted that the district is still working on getting rubber tiles reinstalled in the school building, but got some good news from the construction management firm that the district has approximately $1 million in unspent funds that can be used for the work.

Estes said the unspent money should also allow the district to refinish interior doors at the school, but was not sure just when that would be done.

Elementary Principal Kathy Mollenkopf, who headed the Crestview Pride Committee, a group that implemented a number of changes aimed at improving the district’s State Report Card scores, said the district remains cautiously optimistic that the district would receive at least an “excellent” designation when Report Card scores are released in mid-August.

In other action, the board:

• Accepted, with thanks, a $2,000 music department grant from The Van Wert County Foundation.
• Accepted, with thanks, a $694 donation from the Klein Trust of The Van Wert County Foundation to provide assistance to needy students.
• Approved a resolution to place a renewal tax levy on the November ballot.
• Approved September 28 and March 28, 2012, as district waiver days and two hours of instruction time each day for October 12 and November 30 of this year, and January 11, February 1 and February 29, 2012 to be used for staff professional development.
• Approved the Northwest Ohio Area Computer Services Cooperative computer services agreement as presented.
• Approved NEOLA recommendations for new, revised, deleted and replacement policies and bylaws.
• Authorized the 2012 Comprehensive Consolidated Application for federal funds totaling $282,752.44.
• Went into executive session to discuss personnel issues, with no action taken afterward.

The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Crestview Local Board of Education is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, August 15.