{"id":33701,"date":"2013-01-15T07:42:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T12:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=33701"},"modified":"2013-01-15T07:42:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T12:42:02","slug":"crestview-board-organizes-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/01\/15\/crestview-board-organizes-for-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview board organizes for 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; The Crestview Local Board of Education organized for the new year, while individual board members were honored during \u201cSchool Board Recognition Month\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Board President Pam Motycka was again elected to that position, while John Auld was also re-elected vice president. The board then approved a number of housekeeping items related to its annual organizational meeting and then approved the tax budget as presented by Treasurer Laura Metzger.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33702\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Crestview-board-mtg-1-14-13-Metzger.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33702 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Crestview-board-mtg-1-14-13-Metzger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crestview Treasurer Laura Metzger makes a presentation on the district&#039;s tax budget during the Board of Education&#039;s first meeting of the year Monday evening. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During her treasurer\u2019s report later on, Metzger talked about money to be received from the state as part of casino revenues, which she said was valued at $15 per student this year, but would increase to $50 next January. She also said revenues were also expected this year from the Blue Creek Wind Farm. Metzger did say she was not sure at this point to which fund those revenues should be assigned.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of Superintendent Mike Estes, Metzger also handed out certificates recognizing board members Motycka, Auld, Lori Bittner, Lonnie Nedderman and Mike Schlagbaum as part of School Board Recognition Month.<\/p>\n<p>During its regular meeting, the board heard reports from Elementary Principal Kathy Mollenkopf, who first provided an update on the district Pride Committee, Middle School Principal Dave Bowen and High School Principal Mike Biro.<\/p>\n<p>Mollenkopf talked about the Pride Committee activities over the past month, noting that committee members have been working on ways to improve the district\u2019s value-added score on the School Report Card. Both Bowen and Biro talked about<\/p>\n<p>Also during the meeting, the board accepted, with thanks, the following donations: $500 from Daniel Miller, $931 from the Klein Trust of The Van Wert County Foundation for needy children, and $1,000 from The Van Wert County Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The board also approved a transfer of $1,596 from the General Fund to the Class of 2014 Fund, and also approved the second and final reading of board policies, as recommended by NEOLA.<\/p>\n<p>The next meeting of the Crestview Local Board of Education will be at 6 p.m. Monday, February 18, in the district boardroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor CONVOY &#8212; The Crestview Local Board of Education organized for the new year, while individual board members were honored during \u201cSchool Board Recognition Month\u201d. Board President Pam Motycka was again elected to that position, while John Auld was also re-elected vice president. The board then approved a number of housekeeping items related [&hellip;]<\/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-33701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 15:17:45","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\/33701","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=33701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}