VCSC delays action on SMWC football agreement to July 25 | Local News

With particulars however currently being finalized, the Vigo County Faculty Board was asked to delay action on a proposed agreement with Saint Mary-of-the-Woods School for the college’s new sprint football program, which begins this fall.

The arrangement is for the college’s use of the West Vigo High University football subject for house game titles.

The delay “has almost nothing to do with our commitment to viewing Saint Mary-of-the-Woods start their football application. It is a few of the information in just the deal,” Superintendent Rob Haworth informed the board.

Board motion is envisioned at the July 25 meeting.

The operational information relate to insurance policy and concessions.

Concessions “is not a sticking stage. We just want to make guaranteed when they have concessions at their games, they are thoroughly in charge” and there is no expectation that VCSC supplies workers for it, Haworth mentioned.

The college’s use of the West Vigo soccer discipline would not interfere with the significant faculty schedule “as these (SMWC) game titles would arise on Saturday afternoon, comparable to what you would find in university football around the region,” Haworth explained.

The faculty declared its new team sport last 12 months. It is a founding member of the Midwest Dash Soccer League.

The Pomeroys are slated to play the program’s initially dash football home activity Sept. 24 at West Vigo, according to the SMWC inaugural timetable.

 In other issues, the board approved a minimize in elementary textbook charges and slight boost for middle university textbook fees.

The new rates, reducing for elementary grades, would be kindergarten, $124 (down from the present $125) Grade 1, $123 (down from $138) Quality 2, $109 (down from $124) Grade 3, $114 (down from $128) Grade 4, $100 (down from $114) and Grade 5, $102, (down from $116).

Charges for middle faculty are as follows: Quality 6, $158.60 to $178.10, in contrast to $158 to $177.50 this past 12 months Quality 7, $161.25 to $179.25, as opposed to $160 to 178 this past 12 months and Quality 8, $158.50 to $176.50, in contrast to the previous year’s $157.25 to $175.25.

At the superior faculty stage, the only changes are for new math resources adopted this summer season, stated Donna Wilson, main monetary officer.

Elementary costs declined simply because the district opted to invest in math textbook/curriculum products equivalent to what has been utilized for several many years, but the precise solution picked out was considerably much less costly, reported John Newport, formerly the district’s curriculum coordinator for math.

Also, the new merchandise also has a “far more sturdy” electronic system, he explained.

Faculty board member Hank Irwin pointed out that though the district has moved to more of a digital system by use of Chromebooks, “We have to spend fees to obtain that digital product and we even now have consumables we use just about every yr to go with it.”

The the greater part of the price is in the development of the material, no matter whether digital or print, not the genuine textbooks on their own, and school rooms do sustain sets of textbooks for pupils to use, the district states.

The board also executed a public hearing and took final motion to move forward with a limited-term $5.8 million typical obligation bond situation.

Bonds will be sold afterwards this summer.

The bond problem would be applied for these kinds of facility advancements as heating/ventilation/air conditioning paving internet site improvements and invest in of gear and technologies.

The assignments “are not only basic maintenance, but alternative tasks,” reported Newport, the new VCSC director of facility help and transportation.

They are part of an ongoing district routine maintenance prepare and are re-visited every year to critique present-day priorities or wants of the district, he claimed.The district is functioning on prospective initiatives for next summer months.

At the meeting’s summary, Haworth informed the board the district is planning for the new faculty yr, with the first college student day on Thursday, Aug. 11.