{"id":35854,"date":"2013-03-08T08:22:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T13:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=35854"},"modified":"2013-03-09T08:09:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T13:09:22","slug":"vantage-bd-gets-mixed-financial-news-ed-gee-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/03\/08\/vantage-bd-gets-mixed-financial-news-ed-gee-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Vantage bd. gets mixed financial news"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n

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Industrial Mechanics student Aaron Contreras provides information on the school's "Ed Gee" project. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vantage Board of Education members heard a presentation on the modernistic \u201cEd Gee\u201d sculpture and also received some good and bad financial news from Treasurer Lori Davis and Superintendent Staci Kaufman during their March meeting on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Vantage Industrial Mechanics students Dom Ardner, Jacob Blair, Aaron Contreras, Chazz Hahn, Kurt Hoersten, Michael Miracle and Scott Pohlman, as well as Connie Boley, who designed the project, and Industrial Mechanics teachers Mike Klutka and Kevin Van Oss.<\/p>\n

Students provided an overview of the project, which was recently on display in the Ohio Statehouse, where Governor John Kasich took an interest in it.<\/p>\n

In her report, Davis talked about the possible effects of federal sequestration on Vantage, noting that, while Pell Grants are exempt from federal cuts, other funding isn\u2019t. The greatest impact on the school, Davis noted, would be in the area of bonds, since Vantage used a federal bond program for the recent facilities project. Because of sequestration, the building project would increase approximately $17,000 a year, adding more than $400,000 to the building\u2019s cost over the life of the bonds, if no action is taken by Congress to end the automatic budget cuts.<\/p>\n

Davis and Kaufman also talked about career center funding included in the governor\u2019s Achievement Everywhere proposal, noting that, while funding was projected to increase 25 percent for career centers, the formula used for weighted funding, as it now stands, would mean a 28-percent decrease in that area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you put the pieces together, we really aren\u2019t seeing that,\u201d Davis said of the projected funding increase for career centers.<\/p>\n

However, Kaufman said her talks with state officials indicate there were \u201cseveral misnomers in the calculations\u201d used to determine the weighted funding amounts, and that efforts were being made to correct the calculations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey never intended for career centers to lose money,\u201d the superintendent said.<\/p>\n

On the positive side, Davis said that Vantage received its first payment from the wind turbine project in Paulding County. The treasurer noted that the payment totaled $28,861 and she feels the money should be allocated on a percentage basis to the school\u2019s three funds, based on their tax millage share. If approved by the board, it would apportion 64 percent of wind turbine money to the General Fund, 22 percent to the Bond Fund and 14 percent to the Permanent Improvement Fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat just seems fair that that\u2019s where this money should go,\u201d Davis told the board.<\/p>\n

Kaufman also talked about the school\u2019s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program designation, noting that she feels the work and expense to move the certification to the platinum level is not warranted, although she added, \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re in danger of falling out of (the) gold (certification level).\u201d<\/p>\n

Also Thursday, the board:<\/p>\n

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  • Employed Rylee Carlisle as an Adult Education Welding instructor.<\/li>\n
  • Appointed Vantage Director Bob Vennekotter as the district\u2019s homeless liaison, per school policy.<\/li>\n
  • Accepted a donation of scrap steel valued at $4,760 from Crown Corporation of New Bremen for the career technical program.<\/li>\n
  • Approved overnight trips for the state BPA, FCCLA, Skills USA, and FFA competitions and for an overnight field trip to the ACTE Student Showcase in Columbus.<\/li>\n
  • Approved the following personnel contracts: Ben Winans, student services supervisor, three year; Ted Verhoff, T & I supervisor, three year; Lori Balliet, assistant treasurer, continuing; Annette Klinger, media\/public relations secretary, continuing; Dave Young, maintenance supervisor, continuing; and Kristy Rogers and Deborah Eckhart, cafeteria cooks, each a two-year contract.<\/li>\n
  • Authorized a letter opposing the state voucher program expansion be sent to Governor Kasich.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The next meeting of the Vantage Board of Education will be at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 4, with the Vantage All Boards Dinner to follow at 6 that evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Vantage Board of Education members heard a presentation on the modernistic \u201cEd Gee\u201d sculpture and also received some good and bad financial news from Treasurer Lori Davis and Superintendent Staci Kaufman during their March meeting on Thursday. Vantage Industrial Mechanics students Dom Ardner, Jacob Blair, Aaron Contreras, Chazz Hahn, Kurt Hoersten, Michael […]<\/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-35854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-20 23:42:41","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\/35854","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=35854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}