July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
FR moves ahead with two projects
School board chooses bid for security measures
FORT RECOVERY — The school board hit the ground running Tuesday, making moves to set two projects in motion.
In its first meeting of 2014, Fort Recovery School Board selected a bid from SecurCom to install a keyless entry and camera system at the high school and approved moving funds from the 2015 budget for installation of a rubberized floor in the student activity center that is currently under construction.
The board also discussed the 2015 calendar and its recent use of three E-Days and elected new leadership at its organizational meeting prior to its regular session.
The keyless entry and camera system, which will be paid for with money left over from the high school renovation project as well as a $5,000 School Security Grant, will be installed this summer. After the system is place, all doors to the school will be locked and visitors will be screened before being buzzed in to the building.
The board chose the low bid of $39,470 from SecurCom, Minster, Ohio, over a bid of $53,000 from NuWave Technology Inc., Coldwater, Ohio.
Board members Jose Faller, Jinny Fortkamp, Dave Hull, Amy Bihn and Aaron Guggenbiller also voted unanimously to transfer $55,000 from the 2015 budget to 2014 to install the floor in the student activity center. There had been previous discussion about waiting to install the flooring, but after some research school officials determined waiting could cost an extra $10,000 to $15,000.
It would also lead to extra labor for Fort Recovery staff.
“I think the biggest thing that played into it for me … is I figure about two or three days on both ends of it if our guys move all the equipment in and then they have to move it all back out and then move it all back in if we don’t do the flooring now,” said FRHS principal Jeff Hobbs. “I know how hard our guys worked to take everything out of the old weight room and take it out to the bus garage and set all that up.”
Hobbs noted that the low quote for the flooring was $55,000 from Top Shelf Sports, with other quotes coming in about $20,000 higher. The project will still have to go through an official bid process before a company is chosen for the work.
Superintendent Shelly Vaughn discussed with board members a survey that will be sent to parents, students and teachers about the school system’s first use of E-Days Jan. 6 through 8.
She said most of the comments she has heard have been positive, although there are some areas in need of improvement.
“I’m anxious to see,” said Vaughn of the surveys. “I think we probably have a good sense because we’ve talked to enough parents, and parents have volunteered their opinions to us. I think we have a pretty good sense of what the survey will say, but it’ll be interesting to see if there were any glaring issues that we haven’t thought about.”
Problems tended to involve students who either don’t have internet access at home or had difficulty printing assignments.
But Vaughn also said children of some of the parents who were most skeptical of the E-Days had their work turned in during the first week after returning to school. Students have two weeks to turn in their E-Day assignments.
The board also reviewed the proposed calendar for the 2014-15 school year, which is similar to this year’s with a start date for students of Aug. 20 and an end date of May 21.
Members will review the schedule, and it will be up for approval at a later meeting.
During its organizational meeting, the board elected Jose Faller president for 2014 by a 4-1 vote over Ginny Fortkamp.
Faller cast the lone vote for Fortkamp, who was then unanimously elected vice president.
The board also set its regular meetings for 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.
In other business, the board:
•Approved motions to set bonds of $50,000 for the board president and $100,000 for the treasurer.
•Accepted an anonymous donation of $6,860 to the athletics department for a video camera, which is being used to record events at Fort Site Fieldhouse. Also accepted donations totaling $3,250 from Tom and Mary Pat Zitter and $1,750 from Fort Recovery Industries, as well as anonymous donations of $135 to the Kirsten Schlarman Scholarship and $65 to the choir, and grants of $1,530 from Darke Rural Electric Trust to the elementary school to help with music therapy for disabled children.
•Approved hiring Jerry Byram as a substitute bus driver for the remainder of the school year.
•Appointed Guggenbiller as Ohio School Board Association legislative liaison with Fortkamp as the alternate, Amy Bihn as student achievement liaison and treasurer Lori Koch as representative for Mercer/Auglaize Benefit Trust. It also renewed its OSBA membership at a cost of $3,724.
•Set committee meetings for supplemental review at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 27, personnel at 5 p.m. Feb. 4, and facilities at 2 p.m. Feb. 17. The joint committee will meet at 5 p.m. Feb. 18 prior to the board’s next regular meeting.
•Approved a Future Business Leaders of America overnight fieldtrip March 6 and 7 to Dublin, Ohio.[[In-content Ad]]
In its first meeting of 2014, Fort Recovery School Board selected a bid from SecurCom to install a keyless entry and camera system at the high school and approved moving funds from the 2015 budget for installation of a rubberized floor in the student activity center that is currently under construction.
The board also discussed the 2015 calendar and its recent use of three E-Days and elected new leadership at its organizational meeting prior to its regular session.
The keyless entry and camera system, which will be paid for with money left over from the high school renovation project as well as a $5,000 School Security Grant, will be installed this summer. After the system is place, all doors to the school will be locked and visitors will be screened before being buzzed in to the building.
The board chose the low bid of $39,470 from SecurCom, Minster, Ohio, over a bid of $53,000 from NuWave Technology Inc., Coldwater, Ohio.
Board members Jose Faller, Jinny Fortkamp, Dave Hull, Amy Bihn and Aaron Guggenbiller also voted unanimously to transfer $55,000 from the 2015 budget to 2014 to install the floor in the student activity center. There had been previous discussion about waiting to install the flooring, but after some research school officials determined waiting could cost an extra $10,000 to $15,000.
It would also lead to extra labor for Fort Recovery staff.
“I think the biggest thing that played into it for me … is I figure about two or three days on both ends of it if our guys move all the equipment in and then they have to move it all back out and then move it all back in if we don’t do the flooring now,” said FRHS principal Jeff Hobbs. “I know how hard our guys worked to take everything out of the old weight room and take it out to the bus garage and set all that up.”
Hobbs noted that the low quote for the flooring was $55,000 from Top Shelf Sports, with other quotes coming in about $20,000 higher. The project will still have to go through an official bid process before a company is chosen for the work.
Superintendent Shelly Vaughn discussed with board members a survey that will be sent to parents, students and teachers about the school system’s first use of E-Days Jan. 6 through 8.
She said most of the comments she has heard have been positive, although there are some areas in need of improvement.
“I’m anxious to see,” said Vaughn of the surveys. “I think we probably have a good sense because we’ve talked to enough parents, and parents have volunteered their opinions to us. I think we have a pretty good sense of what the survey will say, but it’ll be interesting to see if there were any glaring issues that we haven’t thought about.”
Problems tended to involve students who either don’t have internet access at home or had difficulty printing assignments.
But Vaughn also said children of some of the parents who were most skeptical of the E-Days had their work turned in during the first week after returning to school. Students have two weeks to turn in their E-Day assignments.
The board also reviewed the proposed calendar for the 2014-15 school year, which is similar to this year’s with a start date for students of Aug. 20 and an end date of May 21.
Members will review the schedule, and it will be up for approval at a later meeting.
During its organizational meeting, the board elected Jose Faller president for 2014 by a 4-1 vote over Ginny Fortkamp.
Faller cast the lone vote for Fortkamp, who was then unanimously elected vice president.
The board also set its regular meetings for 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.
In other business, the board:
•Approved motions to set bonds of $50,000 for the board president and $100,000 for the treasurer.
•Accepted an anonymous donation of $6,860 to the athletics department for a video camera, which is being used to record events at Fort Site Fieldhouse. Also accepted donations totaling $3,250 from Tom and Mary Pat Zitter and $1,750 from Fort Recovery Industries, as well as anonymous donations of $135 to the Kirsten Schlarman Scholarship and $65 to the choir, and grants of $1,530 from Darke Rural Electric Trust to the elementary school to help with music therapy for disabled children.
•Approved hiring Jerry Byram as a substitute bus driver for the remainder of the school year.
•Appointed Guggenbiller as Ohio School Board Association legislative liaison with Fortkamp as the alternate, Amy Bihn as student achievement liaison and treasurer Lori Koch as representative for Mercer/Auglaize Benefit Trust. It also renewed its OSBA membership at a cost of $3,724.
•Set committee meetings for supplemental review at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 27, personnel at 5 p.m. Feb. 4, and facilities at 2 p.m. Feb. 17. The joint committee will meet at 5 p.m. Feb. 18 prior to the board’s next regular meeting.
•Approved a Future Business Leaders of America overnight fieldtrip March 6 and 7 to Dublin, Ohio.[[In-content Ad]]
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