GALION—The Northmor Local School District held their monthly meeting on Tuesday evening.
Gina Deppert, the school’s treasurer, gave board members a quick rundown of the five-year forecast for the school.
“Something that is bothering me is that we are hearing Governor DeWine issuing quarantines and discussing all of the social distancing, but he has fallen silent in regard to the budget reductions that have impacted us unexpectedly in May,” Deppert said. “Right now, we are still being funded on those reductions, which takes us back to the fiscal year ‘17-’18 funding levels. What the forecast is representing is that we are hoping to be made whole to where the governor will fund us at last year’s funding level, or fiscal year ‘19. If you recall last year, we were frozen. So now we are hoping and projecting that we are going to be back to funding levels from two years ago.”
Deppert projected that the five-year forecast is going to look more conservative.
Although Northmor has been doing strictly remote learning since November 12 and will continue to do so until students come back from Thanksgiving break on November 30, the school still currently has students actively involved in athletics.
Redmon said that it was suggested that the school stop athletics for the time being, but he fought against it. “Some of these kids, sports are their driver, their motivation to keep them balanced. It’s important for their mental health.”
The board accepted the donation of a cloth flag that was flown over the White House from Richard and Pat Miller. Mr. Redmon, the superintendent, is looking to get a flag case so that it can be proudly displayed at the school.
Amongst other donations were $2,000 from the VFW Ohio Charities Amvets Post 87 to purchase toys for students and a $1,500 donation from Barth and Sarah Burgett for the JOG program and will be used to purchase books for the younger students.
The January board meeting was moved to January 12 at 6 p.m.
The next regular board meeting is December 15 at 6 p.m.