Friday, June 21, 2002
The board will have a garage sale featuring old high school furniture.
McDONALD -- The board of education agreed Thursday to seek renewal of a 4.5-mill emergency operating levy first approved by voters in 1988.
The issue, which raises $200,147 a year, will be up for its third renewal on the Nov. 5 ballot. It provides funds to avoid an operating fund deficit.
Schools Treasurer Thomas Radabaugh said the Trumbull County auditor must certify the millage for the levy, and the board is expected to vote in July to approve the millage amount to place the issue on the November ballot.
The district will conduct an open house at the high school from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. July 5 to show off the work that has been completed in the $7.9 million renovation, schools superintendent Robert Bloniarz said.
The work is part of more than $14 million in renovation and building in the district that includes construction of a new elementary school, which is now under way behind the high school.
Furniture sale
In a related matter, board member Dr. William Kunkel announced that the district will be selling old furniture from the high school at a garage sale to coincide with the village's annual Fourth of July Homecoming Festival.
The sale will be at the Performing Arts Dance Studio, Ohio Avenue (the old CIO Hall), next to the steel mill at the bottom of Ohio Avenue. It will be from 6 to 9 p.m. July 3, from 5 to 9 p.m. July 5 and from 1 to 4 p.m. July 6 and 7.
The first two days of the sale will be restricted to school district residents and staff members. Sales will be on a cash only basis; no checks will be accepted.
Items to be sold will include such things as student and teacher desks, chairs and other equipment that has been replaced at the high school.
Also the board accepted a donation of $50,000 from the family of Florence F. Kelly to establish the Henry M. Kelly Scholarship Fund. The money was given to the district from the estate of the late Henry Kelly, a grandson of Thomas McDonald, the village's namesake.
McDonald was the first superintendent of the steel mill that was the industry base for the establishment of the town and was started by the Carnegie company. The plant operated until the 1970s as a U.S. Steel plant.
The district has control over how the money will be allocated for scholarships, Radabaugh said, because no stipulations were made as to the type of scholarship to be awarded.
He said the funds will be invested.
Basketball camp
The board also approved holding the annual 2002 summer basketball camp at Lordstown High School for both boys and girls teams. The facilities are being used at no charge to the district. The high school gym is now under renovation, and it cannot be used for the camp, Radabaugh said.
The board also named member Robert Jones its representative on the Trumbull Career and Technical Center Board of Education for six months, from July 1 to Dec. 31. The board will have to reappoint a member to the TCTC board in December for a full two-year term.
In other business, the board:
UHired two new teachers: Anna C. Koulianos, full-time Spanish teacher, and William Bundy, full-time high school teacher at the beginning teachers' salary, which is $24,550 annually. The two will fill vacancies left by a retirement and a disability leave.
UHired as volunteer summer intervention teachers at Roosevelt Elementary, Staci Conley and Judy Fedyski, for one of two intervention programs planned this summer to help students with proficiency tests, for four or five hours a day; part-time computer teacher, Teresa Smolka, for 19.5 hours per week at a rate of $16.12 an hour for the 2002 to 2003 school year, and additional hours available on an emergency basis; Mary Trimbur, part-time elementary school librarian, for 19.5 hours per week for the 2002 to 2003 school year, at a rate of $16.12 an hour (additional hours can be granted on an emergency basis.)