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Mancelona board accepts clean audit, approves consent items and hears student-supports updates
Summary
Board presentation of the 2023–24 audit found financial statements fairly presented; the board approved the consent agenda that included payroll and large bond payments, multiple resignations and one hire, and administrators reported upcoming events and new health-department agreements for nursing and counseling support.
The Mancelona Public Schools Board of Education on Oct. 8 heard the district's 2023–24 audit and approved routine consent items covering finance, personnel and curriculum.
Business Manager Shelly Meeder reported the audit (conducted the week of July 15) found the district's financial statements "are fairly presented in all material respects." She told the board that the general fund ending balance improved because of additional funding not anticipated in the initial budget; the food service fund balance increased by $2,530 after a prior drawdown. Meeder also noted daycare revenues improved as more children qualified for MDHHS reimbursement.
On a single consent motion (Musselman/Derrer), the board approved minutes from the Sept. 10 meeting; authorized accounts payable transactions in the general fund (including checks dated 9/10/2024 for $128,358.98; 9/24/2024 for $59,478.03; and 10/02/2024 for $72,423.52) and bond-fund checks (including 9/10/2024 for $1,330,915.09 and 9/24/2024 for $160,376.00); accepted resignations from Kenzie Davis, Mariah Kibby and Jon Southwell; hired Scott Howard as a bus driver; and approved the elementary course description and handbook. The consent motion passed 6 0to0.
Administrators provided operational and student-focused updates. Administrator Trent Naumcheff said the lecture room is used daily for Baker College classes, that Homecoming week and the K'12 pep assembly were successful, and that a district college fair on Oct. 10 will include 35'to'2 colleges and trade schools. Naumcheff said 15 students visited East Jordan Iron Works for a career opportunity. Bernadette Pletcher reported that Number Corners instruction began in all classrooms and teachers are meeting monthly with the ISD for training; Rachel Davis is running ELA intervention groups. The 5th and 6th grade wing is expected to reopen in November, and middle school staff continue restorative-practice approaches.
Superintendent Tina Frollo told the board she signed two Health Department agreements to provide nursing and counseling support for students and that Marianne Swank from the ISD assisted district director meetings on restorative practices. There were no action-item public comments on meeting agenda items.
The meeting closed after the board approved a separate resolution to advance a middle-school solar project and adjourned at 5:06 p.m.
