Manchester Schools Reduces Budget
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jen [email protected]
The plan reduces the corporation's budget by more than $900,000 between now and 2011.
Along with switching from trimesters to semesters, reducing the number of secondary teachers in grades 4-6, moving grades 7 and 8 to the high school building and reducing the number of counselors and administrators, the corporation will close a part of the junior high school building beginning this fall.[[In-content Ad]]Manchester Intermediate School will be closed and fifth- and sixth-grade students will be moved to the junior high school beginning in the fall of 2011.
Several teachers also announced plans to retire at the end of this school year or at the end of the 2010-11 school year.
Because 10 teachers announced their retirements, the reduction in force list was reduced from 28 to about seven or eight. The retiring teachers represent 262 years of experience in the classroom.
Tom Hess, fifth grade at Manchester Intermediate School (31 years); Steve Bowman, Spanish at Manchester Junior Senior High School (12 years); Terry McKee, band and music at MJSHS (40 years); Becky Unger, special education (30 years); Karen Peterson, business at MJSHS (one year); Susan Weller, tech coordinator at MCS (21 years); Deborah Manges, fourth grade at MES (26 years); Janet Clevenger, kindergarten at MES (27 years); Kathy Rinearson, art at MES (32 years); and Tom Brown, sixth grade at MIS (43 years), all will retire by the end of the 2011 school year.
The only part of the proposed plan that was changed for Tuesday night's meeting was the closing of the Maple Park Educational Center. Because the administration is not sure there will be enough room for offices in the junior high school building, the plan to close Maple Park has been postponed. The possibility of closing MPEC is still a possibility, but more infomation is necessary before that decision is made.
In other business, the board:
n Approved a motion to allow girls basketball, boys basketball, football, volleyball, and soccer summer camps at the high school. All the camps are self-supported and do not cost anything for the corporation.
n Approved a motion to accept Crossroads Bank for the corporation's tax anticipation warrants. Crossroads Bank was the only bank to bid and offered a 3.574 percent interest rate.
n Heard from a paernt concerned about the school's discipline policies regarding fighting. The woman said she has started a petition and will present it at the next board meeting.
Manchester Community School Board members are Sally Krouse, president; Brian Schilling; Kent Terrill; Steve Flack; Steve Lambert; Jan Fahs; and Tony Miller. Superintendent is Dr. Diana Showalter and business manager is Steve Shumaker. Krouse was absent from Tuesday's meeting.
The plan reduces the corporation's budget by more than $900,000 between now and 2011.
Along with switching from trimesters to semesters, reducing the number of secondary teachers in grades 4-6, moving grades 7 and 8 to the high school building and reducing the number of counselors and administrators, the corporation will close a part of the junior high school building beginning this fall.[[In-content Ad]]Manchester Intermediate School will be closed and fifth- and sixth-grade students will be moved to the junior high school beginning in the fall of 2011.
Several teachers also announced plans to retire at the end of this school year or at the end of the 2010-11 school year.
Because 10 teachers announced their retirements, the reduction in force list was reduced from 28 to about seven or eight. The retiring teachers represent 262 years of experience in the classroom.
Tom Hess, fifth grade at Manchester Intermediate School (31 years); Steve Bowman, Spanish at Manchester Junior Senior High School (12 years); Terry McKee, band and music at MJSHS (40 years); Becky Unger, special education (30 years); Karen Peterson, business at MJSHS (one year); Susan Weller, tech coordinator at MCS (21 years); Deborah Manges, fourth grade at MES (26 years); Janet Clevenger, kindergarten at MES (27 years); Kathy Rinearson, art at MES (32 years); and Tom Brown, sixth grade at MIS (43 years), all will retire by the end of the 2011 school year.
The only part of the proposed plan that was changed for Tuesday night's meeting was the closing of the Maple Park Educational Center. Because the administration is not sure there will be enough room for offices in the junior high school building, the plan to close Maple Park has been postponed. The possibility of closing MPEC is still a possibility, but more infomation is necessary before that decision is made.
In other business, the board:
n Approved a motion to allow girls basketball, boys basketball, football, volleyball, and soccer summer camps at the high school. All the camps are self-supported and do not cost anything for the corporation.
n Approved a motion to accept Crossroads Bank for the corporation's tax anticipation warrants. Crossroads Bank was the only bank to bid and offered a 3.574 percent interest rate.
n Heard from a paernt concerned about the school's discipline policies regarding fighting. The woman said she has started a petition and will present it at the next board meeting.
Manchester Community School Board members are Sally Krouse, president; Brian Schilling; Kent Terrill; Steve Flack; Steve Lambert; Jan Fahs; and Tony Miller. Superintendent is Dr. Diana Showalter and business manager is Steve Shumaker. Krouse was absent from Tuesday's meeting.
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