Sentinel photograph by BROOKE CROUSE
Pictured are (from left) Mifflin County Excessive Faculty senior Ben Snyder, junior Oak Yeater, senior Reina Cirota, and junior Emily Banks on Thursday. Snyder demonstrates the lights and fog machine hooked up to the outfit that the group of scholars designed.
LEWISTOWN — The Mifflin County Faculty Board of Administrators acknowledged college students from the Mifflin County Excessive Faculty Know-how Scholar Affiliation (TSA) Trend Design and Know-how group and mentioned different enterprise Thursday through the Committee of the Entire assembly.
Mifflin County Excessive Faculty college students Emily Banks, Reina Cirota, Oak Yeater, and Ben Snyder labored collectively to win a state title on the Nationwide TSA Convention in Orlando, Fla. The scholars designed an outfit for the marching band theme “Earth, Wind, Hearth, Water.”
Banks defined to the Board that the group used a small fog machine and lights as a part of the design. Administrators congratulated the group for his or her efforts with Yeater answerable for illustrations, Cirota because the seamstress, Banks answerable for the portfolio, and Snyder as a
mannequin and researcher.
“I’m going to be doing style design at Kent State,” Cirota stated.
Later throughout their assembly, the Administrators pulled an merchandise from the paid athletics portion of the personnel sheet to be really helpful for approval at their subsequent assembly. The merchandise was the approval of Andrew T. Baker as the primary assistant women’ basketball coach for the winter 2025 sporting season through the 2025-25 faculty yr.
Administrators tabled a board motion to advocate approval of the 2025-26 athletic program rules.
In the course of the Committee of the Entire assembly, Administrators additionally:
•Really useful approval of the Cafeteria Monetary Report for April 2025;
•Requested authorization to pay Cafeteria Payments for April 2025;
•Really useful approval to rent Casi M. Rodriguez of Krise Transportation retroactive to Could 1, 2025;
•Really useful approval to rent Amy Jo. Kintzel of Fisher Bros. transportation;
•Really useful that Melinda Ok. Kenepp be elected Faculty Board Treasurer for an annual time period efficient July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026;
•Really useful that Nicole M. Lewis be elected Faculty Board Secretary for a time period of 4 years, efficient July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2029;
•Really useful approval of the Lease Settlement between St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and Mifflin County Faculty District for using land for use for varsity associated actions, together with, however not restricted to, athletic or music courses, athletic actions, band follow and extracurricular actions associated to the college, in addition to such different faculty actions or makes use of deemed applicable by Lessee on occasion, and for no different functions in any way for a time period starting July 1, 2025, by means of June 30, 2027;
•Really useful authorizing the next Central Workplace Directors to signal contracts on behalf of the Mifflin County Faculty District for July 1, 2025, by means of June 30, 2026, (any financial limitation on the person’s signatory authority is in parentheses after their title):
Vance S. Varner – Superintendent ($100,000);
Thomas G. White, Jr. – Director of Buildings and Grounds – can be licensed to signal paperwork on behalf of MCSD for the sale and buy of registered automobiles and gear. ($50,000 – a second signature is required by the superintendent if over $50,000 with a cap of $100,000);
Natisha E. Maclay – Athletic Director – ($5,000) ;
Cindi L. Marsh – Director of Scholar Providers – licensed to signal for approval of every day charges and different program prices for scholar placements exterior of and inside MCSD;
Doug R. Cunningham – Director of Info Techniques – licensed to signal for approvals of software program packages/packages and E-Price submissions;
Steven F. DeArment – Chief Tutorial Officer – licensed to signal for approvals of supplemental companies, on-line accounts, and many others., with Textbook purchases, tutorial packages, skilled improvement packages, and many others.;
•Really useful approval for lecturers employed for the beginning of the 2025-26 faculty yr to carry out supplemental work throughout June, July, and Aug. 2025, if wanted;
•Really useful approval of the settlement between the Substitute Instructor Service and the Mifflin County Faculty District for a time period of July 1, 2025, by means of June 30, 2027;
•Really useful approval of i-Prepared Classroom Arithmetic because the core arithmetic useful resource for grades Ok-5 for a interval of six faculty years, 2025-26 by means of 2030-2031, at a complete price of $335,665.41. Title I funds from 2024-25 might be utilized to cowl $214,311.84 of the overall price by means of the front-loaded buy of all consumable supplies for grades Ok-3 for the six-year contract;
•Really useful approval of the next disbursements from the Capital Initiatives Fund:
1. Buy of a dishwasher for Lewistown Intermediate Faculty at a value of $45,327.47;
2. Partial roof alternative at East Derry Elementary Faculty at a value to not exceed $110,000;
•Really useful approval of Metz Culinary Administration, profitable bidder for Meals Service Administration Firm for the interval ending June 30, 2026, renewable by mutual settlement for as much as 4 extra one-year interval(s);
•Really useful approval of the Head Nurse place job description. That is solely a job description change, not an occupation change.
The Mifflin County Faculty Board of Administrators will meet on Monday, Could 19, for a price range work session. Administrators will meet once more on Thursday, Could 22, for an everyday voting assembly on the Mifflin County Faculty District Administration workplace.
