Wawasee Eyes $25 Million Budget For '99
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
SYRACUSE - Wawasee School board members looked over the proposed 1999 school budget last night.
Director of finance Don Huber told the board the budget would be advertised Aug. 19 and Aug. 26.
He also told the board there would be a public hearing on the proposed budget Sept. 1 and that the budget could be adopted at the Sept. 15 meeting.
Wawasee is expected to advertise a total budget of $25,038,759 for 1999.
The current tax rate for Wawasee schools is $4.8027 per $100 of assessed valuation. Based on that rate, Wawasee collected approximately $10.7 million in property taxes.
After the budget is advertised, the state evaluates the district's assessed valuation and computes the tax rate.
Superintendent Mark Stock passed out copies of board goals for 1998-99.
He asked board members to study them and said the goals will be up for approval at the next board meeting.
Goals were proposed in areas of communication, curriculum, community, staff development, facilities, assessment and instruction.
Stock reported that 635 facility surveys were returned by patrons of the school corporation.
Approximately 13,000 surveys were mailed out to all households in the corporation. The survey seeks to gain opinions from patrons on the direction the school corporation should take in its building program.
Stock plans to tabulate the surveys and give a formal report on them at the Sept. 1 meeting.
He encouraged any patron who has not yet submitted a survey to do so before the Sept. 1 meeting.
Huber gave an update on the construction of tennis courts at the high school.
He said soil problems and a fencing contractor's emergency surgery have delayed the project, but that it should be completed in September.
Stock announced a settlement between the school corporation and the Wawasee Community Education Association.
The settlement involved the the schools' 403B plan, which is the public equivalent of a 401K plan in private business.
Changes in IRS regulations forced some vendors into non-compliance with the schools' 403B plan. Teachers using those vendors for their investments sought to have those vendors reinstated.
The settlement allows for those vendors to be reinstated.
Stock publicly thanked David and Susie Butler for their work on the high school gym floor.
The Butlers own a sign company in Syracuse and donated materials and labor to paint the gym floor.
Each end of the floor has an Indian painted at the baseline. A Northern Lakes Conference logo is painted in each free throw lane and an ornate border surrounds the entire floor.
Sharon Fowler, a Wawasee taxpayer, was critical of the board's decision to build tennis courts.
She said the eight courts the corporation already has should be sufficient.
Stock said drainage problems caused the ground underneath the courts to wash out and that it would be more cost effective to replace them than to attempt repairs.
Fowler also gave her opinion on the schools' building plans.
She was critical of one proposal to tear down North Webster Elementary. "I don't understand tearing down a school that could be used as a vocational school," she said.
The board also accepted the following resignations:
• J. Jill Cook, half-day special education teacher and half-day Reading Recovery paraprofessional at North Webster School.
• Alissa Roberts, family and consumer science teacher at Wawasee Middle School.
• Roza Salazar, English as a second language paraprofessional at Wawasee High School.
• Paula Ratliff, special needs paraprofessional at Wawasee Middle School.
• Carol Rogers, payroll/bookkeeper at the administration office.
• Dana Arthur, paraprofessional at Syracuse Elementary.
The board recommended the following hirings:
• Marsha Van Lue as athletic department secretary.
• John Wagoner as driver of bus number 29, a North Webster Elementary route.
• Michael McCoy as guidance counselor at Wawasee Middle School.
• Bert McLaughlin as teacher of special needs at Wawasee High School.
• Barbara Bean as a half-time special needs teacher at North Webster Elementary.
The board granted a one-year unpaid leave of absence to Elaine Miller, guidance counselor at Syracuse Elementary. Miller is recuperating from injuries suffered in an automobile accident. [[In-content Ad]]
SYRACUSE - Wawasee School board members looked over the proposed 1999 school budget last night.
Director of finance Don Huber told the board the budget would be advertised Aug. 19 and Aug. 26.
He also told the board there would be a public hearing on the proposed budget Sept. 1 and that the budget could be adopted at the Sept. 15 meeting.
Wawasee is expected to advertise a total budget of $25,038,759 for 1999.
The current tax rate for Wawasee schools is $4.8027 per $100 of assessed valuation. Based on that rate, Wawasee collected approximately $10.7 million in property taxes.
After the budget is advertised, the state evaluates the district's assessed valuation and computes the tax rate.
Superintendent Mark Stock passed out copies of board goals for 1998-99.
He asked board members to study them and said the goals will be up for approval at the next board meeting.
Goals were proposed in areas of communication, curriculum, community, staff development, facilities, assessment and instruction.
Stock reported that 635 facility surveys were returned by patrons of the school corporation.
Approximately 13,000 surveys were mailed out to all households in the corporation. The survey seeks to gain opinions from patrons on the direction the school corporation should take in its building program.
Stock plans to tabulate the surveys and give a formal report on them at the Sept. 1 meeting.
He encouraged any patron who has not yet submitted a survey to do so before the Sept. 1 meeting.
Huber gave an update on the construction of tennis courts at the high school.
He said soil problems and a fencing contractor's emergency surgery have delayed the project, but that it should be completed in September.
Stock announced a settlement between the school corporation and the Wawasee Community Education Association.
The settlement involved the the schools' 403B plan, which is the public equivalent of a 401K plan in private business.
Changes in IRS regulations forced some vendors into non-compliance with the schools' 403B plan. Teachers using those vendors for their investments sought to have those vendors reinstated.
The settlement allows for those vendors to be reinstated.
Stock publicly thanked David and Susie Butler for their work on the high school gym floor.
The Butlers own a sign company in Syracuse and donated materials and labor to paint the gym floor.
Each end of the floor has an Indian painted at the baseline. A Northern Lakes Conference logo is painted in each free throw lane and an ornate border surrounds the entire floor.
Sharon Fowler, a Wawasee taxpayer, was critical of the board's decision to build tennis courts.
She said the eight courts the corporation already has should be sufficient.
Stock said drainage problems caused the ground underneath the courts to wash out and that it would be more cost effective to replace them than to attempt repairs.
Fowler also gave her opinion on the schools' building plans.
She was critical of one proposal to tear down North Webster Elementary. "I don't understand tearing down a school that could be used as a vocational school," she said.
The board also accepted the following resignations:
• J. Jill Cook, half-day special education teacher and half-day Reading Recovery paraprofessional at North Webster School.
• Alissa Roberts, family and consumer science teacher at Wawasee Middle School.
• Roza Salazar, English as a second language paraprofessional at Wawasee High School.
• Paula Ratliff, special needs paraprofessional at Wawasee Middle School.
• Carol Rogers, payroll/bookkeeper at the administration office.
• Dana Arthur, paraprofessional at Syracuse Elementary.
The board recommended the following hirings:
• Marsha Van Lue as athletic department secretary.
• John Wagoner as driver of bus number 29, a North Webster Elementary route.
• Michael McCoy as guidance counselor at Wawasee Middle School.
• Bert McLaughlin as teacher of special needs at Wawasee High School.
• Barbara Bean as a half-time special needs teacher at North Webster Elementary.
The board granted a one-year unpaid leave of absence to Elaine Miller, guidance counselor at Syracuse Elementary. Miller is recuperating from injuries suffered in an automobile accident. [[In-content Ad]]