Friday, January 11, 2013
Mentor Schools is set to receive $166,816.15 in casino tax payments this January
Mentor Public Schools will soon receive $166,816.15 in taxes from the state’s new casinos. However, this money may not impact the district's bottom line. Mentor Schools CFO Daniel Wilson is concerned that -- despite any casino money -- the district will still be dealing with shrinking revenue overall. "We did not budget this as core revenue for this year," Wilson explained. He said the casino tax money has been earmarked for improvements to instructional technologoy. However, that use may change depending on what the governor's proposed 2-year budget looks like. Wilson said he would not be surprised if the district saw the same thing happen to the casino tax money that occurred to the lottery funds. That is, to say, the increase from the …
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
The former elementary school houses the Cardinal Autism Resource Education School, which Hoynes initiated during her tenure as superintendent
The Mentor Schools Board of Education renamed the former Headlands Elementary building as the Dr. Jacqueline A. Hoynes School in honor of the district's erstwhile superintendent Tuesday evening. Several school officials thanked Hoynes for her decades of service with the district during a brief ceremony before the School Board meeting. "One of (Hoynes') strongest characteristics is that she was willing to make the tough decisions that other superintendents in other districts wouldn't," Board President Alan Mihok said. Mihok cited Hoynes' willingness to close Center Street School and then Headlands Elementary -- due to the district's shrinking student population -- as difficult and unpopular, but ultimately correct, decisions she made. Mihok…
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Mentor Schools CFO talks about how the district has dealt with decreasing revenues from the state and taxes
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
"We don't have a spending problem. We have a revenue problem." That is what Mentor Schools CFO Dan Wilson told the district's Citizens Financial Advisory Committee earlier this month when discussing the 2012-2013 annual appropriations. Mentor Schools Board of Education President Alan Mihok repeated the message during the Board meeting last night in which they approved the aforementioned appropriations. This year, Mentor Schools is anticipating $89 million in revenue, Wilson said. That's down from $101 million in revenue during the 2006-2007 school year. Another way to look at it -- the school district has almost the exact amount of revenue it had during the 2003-2004 school year, despite passing a $15 million levy in 2005. Shrinking …
Thursday, July 19, 2012
The CFO for Mentor Schools said the funding for schools from the state remains the same despite record lottery sales
A recent Associated Press article touted how record lottery sales in the state of Ohio would boost the payout to public schools. However, Mentor Schools' CFO Daniel Wilson said more money spent on the lottery will not mean more money for public school districts. "The excess profits are not distributed to the local school districts individually," Wilson said. "It goes to the state general fund." From there, the state has two choices. It can choose to bump the overall amount of money the schools get or simply use the additional lottery funds to offset money they would have given the schools either way. "What the article stopped short of saying is 'this is good for the state revenue fund but it doesn't make a difference for the individual …
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
CFO Daniel Wilson says school district will have about $1.7 million less next school year
The state legislature's conference committee has agreed upon a new two-year budget for the state of Ohio. This means, after months of estimates and forecasts, local schools, governments and libraries have a better sense of what their state funding will look like for the next two years. Mentor Schools CFO Daniel Wilson said the district will receive about $10.6 million fewer dollars from the state over the next two years as compared to 2010-2011 funding levels. However, $2.5 million of that was in stimulus funding, which was one-time money that the district did not expect to get. Overall, Wilson said Mentor Schools is ready for this leaner state budget because it had prepared for a "worst-case scenario." Because of the district's efforts to…
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10:46 am on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Jackie Hoynes was an administrator who managed by intimidation and although she helped get the schools back on their feet financially spent money she didn't have and issued edicts that caused alot of stress throughout the school system. I am so fed up with people praising someone who doesn't deserve it. Let's face it she was in the right place at the right time otherwise she would have never been… more ›