{"id":142616,"date":"2021-05-06T22:40:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T03:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=142616"},"modified":"2021-05-08T00:36:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T05:36:12","slug":"vantage-oks-school-bond-issue-learns-of-husted-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/05\/06\/vantage-oks-school-bond-issue-learns-of-husted-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Vantage OKs school bond refunding issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent writer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Financial and personnel matters were among the agenda items handled during Thursday night\u2019s meeting of the Vantage Career Center Board of Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vantage Superintendent Rick Turner reads from his report during Thursday evening’s Board of Education meeting. Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Board members agreed to issue nearly $9.3 million in school improvement refunding bonds, which should save Vantage a substantial amount of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCurrently we\u2019re looking at saving our taxpayers approximately $983,000,\u201d Treasurer Laura Peters said. \u201cBasically we\u2019re expecting to have a 10 percent savings by refunding these and refinancing them. Usually you look at refunding them when it\u2019s three percent but we\u2019re saving a lot more for our taxpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peters also noted Vantage has a \u2018AA\u2019 credit rating, which has been a big help in refinancing existing bonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board also approved the updated five-year financial forecast, which may change if state lawmakers approve the Fair School Funding Plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his report to the board, Superintendent Rick Turner said Vantage\u2019s Career Placement Signing Day will be held at 1 p.m. today. 27 employers and 32 students will participate in the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re just very proud of our students for their hard work and their persistence in obtaining the technical skills that our programs teach and our local businesses value,\u201d Turner said. \u201cWe\u2019re also very appreciative of our business partners for supporting our students and considering them for employment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Turner also informed the board that Lt. Governor Jon Husted will be on hand to give opening remarks prior to the signing day event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner reminded the board that the annual Senior Awards program will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 18, in the Van Wert High School gymnasium. Due to capacity limitations, each senior will be limited to three guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adult Education Director Kit Tyler told board members that it\u2019s been a strong school year for the adult ed program and she noted work continues on starting an RN program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In personnel matters, the board hired Heather Brickner and Brooke Webster as intervention specialists; Mickey McConahay, part-time guidance; Penny Baucom, Karen McGilton and Isaac McKanna, summer maintenance; Amanda Michel, medical assistant instructor; Samantha Joseph, medical assistant\/CPR instructor; Kit Tyler, adult education consultant and James Rosen, CDL consultant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board accepted the resignation of In-School Discipline Coordinator Amy Wiechart-Bayliff and the retirement resignation of Dave Young, custodial\/maintenance supervisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other business, board members approved a 15-year, 100 percent Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) agreement with Unverferth Manufacturing in Kalida and a 15-year, 100 percent Enterprise Zone agreement with Alliance Automation in Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board also agreed to auction off a Keplar Street, Van Wert house built by carpentry students. The auction is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 22, at the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very proud of the job our students and instructors have done on this project and we really appreciate our partnership with the local economic development office and the land bank,\u201d Turner told the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A grant of $157,446.34 was accepted from the Van Wert County Foundation for the purchase of electronic items, along with a $72,069 grant from AEP Ohio for the installation of an EV charging station. The board also accepted a grant of $1,468.62 from the Patricia M. Lichtensteiger Memorial Fund of the Van Wert County Foundation for the literacy program at Vantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next meeting of the Vantage Career Center Board of Education will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent writer Financial and personnel matters were among the agenda items handled during Thursday night\u2019s meeting of the Vantage Career Center Board of Education. Board members agreed to issue nearly $9.3 million in school improvement refunding bonds, which should save Vantage a substantial amount of money. \u201cCurrently we\u2019re looking at saving our taxpayers approximately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 14:33:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}