{"id":82687,"date":"2016-12-16T09:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=82687"},"modified":"2016-12-17T07:56:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T12:56:14","slug":"crestview-board-praises-football-team-hears-tif-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/12\/16\/crestview-board-praises-football-team-hears-tif-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview board praises football team"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

CONVOY — The Crestview Local Board of Education honored several members of the Knights\u2019 regional runner-up football team and learned of the demise of a financial software project during a brief final meeting of the year on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Crestview Head Coach Jared Owens (standing right) introduces football players (from the left) Luke Gerardot, Braden Van Cleave, and Chase Clark during Thursday’s meeting of the Crestview Local Board of Education<\/strong>. Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Board members honored Head Coach Jared Owens and three members of the football team — Chase Clark, Luke Gerardot, and Braden Van Cleave — who attended Thursday\u2019s board meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very proud of these young men and wat they were able to do,\u201d Owens said of his team. The Knights narrowly lost to McComb in a bruising double-overtime regional championship game during the Division VII football playoffs held in November.<\/p>\n

Treasurer Ashley Whetsel also announced Thursday that the district\u2019s MUNIS financial software project has been canceled.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe worked really, really hard to implement this software,\u201d she said, adding: \u201cIt just wasn\u2019t meant to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whetsel said the software package needed some tweaks to make it serviceable for small, centralized school districts such as Crestview, but Tyler Technologies, which created the software, didn\u2019t want to make those changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey weren\u2019t willing to make changes to accommodate us,\u201d she told the board.<\/p>\n

Whetsel also noted that Crestview would be refunded 85 percent of the money it spent on the project, and receive a 15-percent credit on the cost of any new financial software package it purchases. In the meantime, the district will continue to use a software package originally implemented in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt still works,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Crestview High School Principal Mike Biro called the turnout for the school\u2019s parent-teacher conferences disappointing, noting that only about 240 of a possible 888 face-to-face conferences were held.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to look at ways to increase the face-to-face (meetings), or what we can do to improve our parent-teacher conferences at the high school level,\u201d Biro said.<\/p>\n

Superintendent Mike Estes reported that the district has used 27\u00bd hours, about half of the 57 hours it could use before make-up days are required. He also noted that the district LED lighting project will be done mostly in-house, with outside contractors needed for installation of exterior lighting only.<\/p>\n

In personnel action, the board accepted the resignation of paraprofessional Susan Watts, while also learning of the reassignment of paraprofessionals Amy Wyatt and Candace Sites following Watt\u2019s resignation, effective January 2, 2017, after two years with the district.<\/p>\n

The board also learned that Casey Dowler should have been listed as a member of Crestview\u2019s Building Leadership Team instead of Julie Cook.<\/p>\n

Union Township trustees also attended the meeting to talk about a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) agreement with a local farming operation that the board would need to approve.<\/p>\n

Board President John Auld was also appointed as president pro tempore for the organizational meeting being held on Thursday, January 9, starting at 6 p.m. That meeting will be followed by the board\u2019s budget hearing and regular meeting.<\/p>\n

The board also went into executive session to discuss personnel matters, with no action taken following the session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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