OTSEGO LOCAL SCHOOLS
Superintendent's Weekly Update - June 22, 2018
We modified our calendar and set graduation last night at the board meeting. The calendar changed slightly because of conferences falling on the same day as halloween.
Conferences will now be in the evening of November 7th and all day on the 8th. There will be no classes on November 8th or 9th. We also moved a PD/Work day to November 2nd.
Graduation is May 19, 2019.
The full calendar can be found HERE
Do not forget about the summer food service program. More information below.
I hope everyone is having a great start to their summer!
GO KNIGHTS!
Adam
Dirt Update
Update: We will still have dirt available this summer, but I am not sure of the exact dates. It will likely be in early July. I will have a week or so notice when they will be loading it up for everyone. I will send out several emails with the dates and times that you can arrange for your trucks to be here to haul it away.
We will have a company here loading dirt for ANYONE who wants it. You are responsible for finding someone haul it for you, but there will be equipment here to load it for you. If you are interested please email me and I will give you more information. The dirt isnt the best but its free and we need to get rid of as much as we can. Local 18 Operators Engineers will be providing this service for us at no cost. They have a large training site in Cygnet and will be coming to Otsego to train and complete a lot of work on campus.
I would like to personally thank Ben Brooks, Otsego Community member and parent for setting this up for us. Ben and the Operators Engineers will be grading a large portion of our campus at NO COST to us. We are extremely fortunate that they are willing to do this with their training program. This will save us well over $400,000!! We have needed this done for a long time, but we could not justify spending the money for this, but now we are going to be able to get it done! Thank you Ben and Local 18!! #OtsegoProud
Board of Education Meeting Highlights
Board Meeting Date Changes: Due to scheduling conflicts July and August Board Meetings are July 26th and August 23rd. Both meetings will start at 6 pm in the HS Library.
Treasurer’s Financial Reports / Recommendations
A. Approved the Financial Report per Exhibit 2
B. Approved new funds 006-9032 Cafeteria Summer Program; 300-9272 Stem Manufacturing Camp
C. Fund Transfer Agreement with First Federal (gives Treasurer authority to make debt payments)
D. Approved the transfer of $108,997 from 003 to 034 Classroom Maintenance
E. Approved FY18 Final Appropriations, FY18 Certificate of Estimated Resources, and FY19 Temporary Appropriations
F. Approved the Property Casualty and Fleet Insurance through Wood County Insurance effective July 1, 2018
G. Approved all donations to Otsego Local School District
H. New Funds to be added: 439-9019, Public Preschool, 451-9019, Public School Connectivity, 516-9019, IDEA-B, 572-9019, Title I, 584-9019, Drug Free Grant, 587-9019, ECSE-B, 590-9019, Title II-A
I. Approved the Food Service Transfer from the General Fund of $23,000
J. Approved the Advance to the Endowment Grant Fund of $16,000
Superintendent Recommendations
A. Approved the agreement with Gardiner for HVAC controls - This contract will update our HVAC control system for our entire campus. This will allow us to increase our efficiencies throughout the campus. We will use our classroom maintenance fund to complete this work. The contract is $45,000 and we anticipate that this software upgrade save the General Fund 10,000 to 15,000 annually.
B. Approved the CRC Contract for the 2018-2019 school year
C. Approved the Maxim Healthcare Agreement
D. Approved the Software Development Agreement
E. Approved the revision to the 2018-2019 School Year calendar
F. Approved the resolution and MOU adopting a Calamity Day Alternative Make-Up Plan
G. Approved the MOU adding an Assistant Varsity Volleyball supplemental
H. Approved children of employees to fall under the guidelines of our open enrollment policy
I. First reading of the 2018-2019 Junior High and High School Student Handbook
J. Final reading and approval of the Athletic Coach’s Handbook
K. Final reading and approval of the Athletic Code of Conduct
L. Approved the following employment changes:
Resignations: Kendra Hartenstein, Intervention Specialist, effective at the end of the 2017/2018 school year
Amend the supplemental contract for Chad Gregory from .5 Assistant Softball to the full contract for Assistant Softball
Classified Employee One-Year Limited contract for 2017-2018 School Year:
David Ingle Custodian II Step 0
2017-2018 School Year Substitute Non-Teaching Employee:
Sharon Adams, Kody Nyler
Transportation Substitute Incentive Pay for 2017-2018 School Year.
The following incentives will be paid in June 2018 based on the following hours worked:
500+ hours worked equals $1,500 incentive pay
250 – 499 hours worked equals $1,000 incentive pay
100 – 249 hours worked equals $500 incentive pay
Payment to Penta teachers for 2018 Otsego University:
Debbie Ayers, Ashley Severt, Jessica Vollmar
Summer 2018 Extended Care Substitutes:
Mollie Layton, Carrie Reynolds, Zion Richardson
Summer 2018 Student Workers:
Adam Baty, Jared Little, Erin Mielewski
Summer Feeding Program – Jeanne Jeffers
Summer STEAM Camp:
Peggy Apple, Joan Coates, Annette Godosky, Nichole Hunsberger, Karen Ludwig, Jessica Martinez, Kirstina Roberts, Megan Solle, Gina Swartz, Katy Word, Natasha Zsigray
Extended Day Contracts 2018-2019:
Debbie Ayers Extended time 11 days
Jennifer Wronkovich-Clark Extended time 11 days
Elizabeth Syrowski Extended time 11 days
Kristen Zender Extended time 11 days
Certified Employee One-Year Limited contract for 2018-2019 School Year:
Rachel Brooker Masters – Step 3
Elizabeth Gerken Bachelors – Step 0
Classified Employee One-Year Limited contract for 2018-2019 School Year:
David Ingle Custodian II Step 0
2018-2019 Supplemental Contracts:
Garry Armstrong Assistant Cross Country – High School
Scott Bernthisel Head Girls Basketball
Jim Bostdorff Head Boys Basketball
Scott Bylow Assistant Varsity Football
Scott Bylow Assistant Varsity Wrestling
Kayla Chalfant Head Varsity Girls Soccer
Matt Dzierwa Head Football
Rachel Eckel Assistant H.S. Cheerleading
Emily Eicher Assistant Volleyball
Kelli Euler JV Volleyball
Thomas Ferdig Assistant Varsity Football
Brandon Fitch Junior Varsity Girls Basketball
Joe Gerwin Head Varsity Wrestling
Bryce Graven Assistant Varsity Football
Patrick Hackney Freshmen Boys Basketball
Kendra Henck H.S. Cheerleading
Cheryl Jones Head Volleyball
Cody Lehman Junior Varsity Football
Nathan Luce Head Girls Golf
Nathan Luce Junior Varsity Boys Basketball
Mark Nofziger Junior Varsity Football
Don Smith Head Boys Golf
Johan Svanberg Head Varsity Boys Soccer
Dale Wimmer Assistant Varsity Girls Basketball
2018-2019 School Year Substitute Non-Teaching Employee:
Sharon Adams, Marissa Langley, Kody Nyler
2018-2019 School Year Volunteer:
Ed Estep, Laura Gantt, Bill Gerwin, Josiah Rupp
Financial Discussion: We continued to discuss our finances at board meetings. We will have year-end financial statements in July, but we have decided to continue our discussions into the fall. We will not be putting a levy on the ballot in November. We will want to continue to find every savings we can before we ask our community for additional revenue. We have not had a new operating levy since 2002. There are a lot of uncertainties with our economy, state budgets, pipelines, and enrollment. We feel that waiting a few more months is the best way course of action. We will continue to update the community throughout this process. We also plan on taking our board meetings on the road this fall. We did this a few years ago and held them in each one of our communities. We will let you know in July or August the dates and locations of these board meetings. As always, if you have any questions, please contact me anytime.
Back to School Week and Open House Information
Back to School Week Information: High School Commons (please park in the back parking lot)
Wednesday, August 8th 8:00 am to 8:00 pm . *** Please note that we are only doing one day of Back to School Week Registration.
- School pictures taken for Elementary, Junior High, and High School 9th-12th grades (including Penta Students)
- School fees-pay Elementary and JH.
- Grades K-5 - $45
- Grades 6-8 - $35
- Athletics-all pay to participate fees, schedules.
- Jeanne Jeffers, Food Service Director, to hand out menus, fill out free/reduced lunch forms, and add lunch money to your child’s account.
- Eva Vasher, Transportation Director, to hand out bus schedules and bus stops.
- Schedule pick up for HS and JH students.
- High School Yearbooks will be for sale
- Otsego Music Boosters will have a table at back to school days to collect Band and Choir fees, Music spirit wear, volunteer sign ups, Music related notification listings and Formal wear fittings.
- Otsego Athletic Boosters will have a table for spirit wear sales and volunteer information.
Picture Forms: Please see below to download the individual school picture form. If you do not want to order online there will be forms available during back to school days.
Open House Information – Thursday, August 16th
Elementary School – 6:00 to 7:00 pm
Junior High – 6:30 to 7:30 pm
High School – 7:00 to 8:00 pm
Community Wide Dinner in the Parking Lot the Night of Open House!
The Otsego Elementary PTO will be sponsoring various food trucks in the parking lot from 4:30 to 8:30 pm. on Thursday, August 16th
Thank you for the support of the Elementary PTO!
We will be bringing in students at different times again next year. See below for the grade level start dates. More updates about this will come from your principals.
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL GRADES 1-6 and 9th MONDAY, AUGUST 20th
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL GRADES 7, 8, 10-12 – TUESDAY, AUGUST 21st
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN – TUESDAY, AUGUST 21st
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL PRESCHOOL – THURSDAY, AUGUST 23rd
If you have any questions please contact the school.
Central Office and Food Service: 419-823-4381 option 1
High School: 419-823-4381 option 2
Junior High: 419-823-4381 option 3
Elementary: 419-823-4381 option 4
Transportation: 419-823-4381 option 5
FREE SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM
FREE Summer Food Service Program
Otsego Local Schools will host our first Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) beginning Monday, June 4th. The nation-wide program is designed to serve FREE meals to ALL students 18 years and under during the summer season. The U.S. Department of Agricultural has designated Grand Rapids and Weston as eligible sites for the summer of 2018. We are excited to announce that we have partnered with the Weston Library as the lunch sites this summer!
The FREE program is available Monday-Friday and runs from Monday, June 4th until Friday, August 10th. No meals will be served July 2nd to July 6th or Wednesday, July 25th. Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to Noon. and has the required five USDA components, which are milk, fruit, vegetable, meat, and bread. All families are encouraged to participate in this program, NO SIGN-UP or REGISTRATION is required. The USDA estimates over 200 million lunches will be served across the country this summer.
Site Locations:
Weston Public Library
13153 Main Street
Weston, OH 43569
Grand Rapids Branch of the Weston Library
17620 Bridge Street
Grand Rapids, OH 43522
Times meals are served:
11:30 am to Noon
Click Here for USDA and Otsego Program Information
If you have any questions about the program, please contact Jeanne Jeffers, Director of Food Service, jjeffers@otsegoknights.org or 419-823-4381 ext. 1104.
Weston Public Library Summer Reading Program
Knight In Shining Armor Nominations
Knight In Shining Armor Nominations
Please use the following form to inform OHS Student Council about a family in need within the school district. While the family does not need to have students in the district, we do ask that they are a member of the Otsego Community. Please use this form to share information about their current situation as well as how they can best be assisted.
Please be sure to understand that while Knight in Shining Armor (KISA) would love to help all community members in need, we are still a new program, and may not have the funds to do so. With that being said, we will consider each request on a case by case basis. Filling this form out does not guarantee that we will be able to assist the family, but we will try our hardest to do so!
Here are some things that we have done with KISA funds:
- School supplies were purchased for multiple families.
- Gas money has been provided to get to and from medical treatment.
- Food cards have been provided to help families afford meals while going through medical treatment.
- Cash donations have been made to families to help assist in paying bills during medical treatment.
- Gift cards and supplies have been provided to help make ends meet after housing emergencies have occurred.
Please refer to this link at any point during the year as a need arises, and KISA will do their best to help out!
FFA Barn Raising Event
ATHLETICS
WESTON PUBLIC LIBRARY INFORMATION
COMMUNITY EVENTS SECTION
2018
Rhythm on the River
Sponsored by the Grand Rapids Historical Society
Programs at M.J. Wright Pavilion on Towpath
[In case of rain, concerts moved to Old Fire Station]
DC Taylor
Acoustic Guitar Duo – 50’s Through Today’s Hits
Dudley Yetter and Chris Watson
4:00 p.m., Sunday, June 17
Toraigh
Traditional Irish Folk Music
4:00 p.m., Sunday, June 24
Bliss
Acoustic Rock/Folk
4:00 p.m., Sunday, July 1
Quartet Bernadette
Unique Blend of Jazz, Pop and
Gems from the Great American Songbook
Quartet of Four String Instrument Players
4:00 p.m., Sunday, July 15
Buddy Love and the Coconuts
Fun, Energetic, 50’s and 60’s Rock Band
4:00 p.m., Sunday, July 29
North Coast Big Band
Jazz~Swing Music~Big Band Sound
Director: Gary Keller
4:00 p.m., Sunday, August 26
Ol’ Creek Road
Folk Band Playing Bluegrass, Gospel, Americana, 1970’s Tunes
4:00 p.m., Sunday, September 9
Otsego Swing Choir and Otsego Marching Band
4:00 p.m., Sunday, October 7
Local High School Organizations
Directors: Brien Sewell and Rich Dubler
4:00 p.m., Sunday, October 7
Questions, Concerns, Comments, or Rumors
Otsego Board of Education
President: Elizabeth Gorski jegorski@frontier.com
Vice President: Judy Snyder jasnyder715@gmail.com
Board Member: James Harter jameslharter@gmail.com
Board Member: Mark Tolles mdt814@cs.com
Board Member: Brad Anderson banderson.otsego@gmail.com
Adam Koch, Superintendent
Email: akoch@otsegoknights.org
Website: www.otsegoknights.org
Location: 18505 Tontogany Creek Road, Bowling Green, OH, United States
Phone: 419-823-4381
Twitter: @AdamKoch_Otsego
Lisa Austin, Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent/EMIS Coordinator
Email: laustin@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Lauri Dunham, Special Education Director
Email: ldunham@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Stephen Bihary, School Psychologist
Email: sbihary@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Luke Swartz, Technology Director
Email: lswartz@otsegoknights.org
Website: www.otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Katrina Baughman, Elementary Principal
Email: kbaughman@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Twitter: @KBaughman723
Mike Wiley, Assistant Elementary Principal
Email: mwiley@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Twitter: @PrincpalWiley
Kevin O'Shea, High School Principal
Email: koshea@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Twitter: @KosheaOHS
Jon Rife, Junior High Principal
Email: jrife@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Twitter: @OJHS_Principal
Tom Ferdig, High School Athletic Director and Assistant Principal Grades 6-12
Email: tferdig@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Eva Vasher, Director of Transportation and Custodial
Email: evasher@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Jeanne Jeffers, Director of Food Service
Email: jjeffers@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Twitter: @Otsego_Cafe
Rick Haskins, Director of Maintenance
Email: rhaskins@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381