DCSC ponders proposed budget
By Dee Dellenbach

At the Delphi Community School Corporation Board of Trustees meeting on Monday evening, interim superintendent Fred Minnick summarized the 2007 estimated budget. It consisted of: + General Fund, $9,906,785 + Debt Service Fund, $2,149,085

+ Capital Projects Fund, $1,654,906 + Transportation Operating Fund, $1,151,494;

+ Transportation New Bus Purchase Fund, $329,000

+ Special Education Pre-School Fund, $60,000

+ Retirement/Severance Bond Debt Service Fund, $192,505

The proposed budget will be advertised in the legal section of the Aug. 23 and 30 issues of the Comet. The public hearing is scheduled tentatively for Sept. 5. Adoption of the budget is scheduled for Sept. 18.

Delphi Community High School principal Barry Stone reported that he is interviewing for a business teacher. He has a substitute in place but hopes to have a new hire in place by Monday. The Back to School Bash will be Aug. 21 at 7 p.m.

During the board meeting, principal Bill Shidler was hosting the kindergarten orientation at Hillcrest Elementary School. In his written report, he said he was expecting 100 students and their parents to attend.

HES Meet the Teacher Night will be tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. in the back parking lot. There will be plenty of food. Kids, parents and friends of HES are invited.

Principal Debby Williams reported that counselor Natalie Betz will be working at Camden Elementary School every Wednesday. The remainder of the week, she will be at HES.

Camden's Meet the Teacher Night is Aug. 22; ice cream cones will be served.

Delphi Community Middle School Meet the Teacher night will be Aug. 23.

The board voted to let bids for a new running track. One firm has estimated that the work will cost $440,000 for an eight-lane track and $348,500 for a six-lane track with an eight-lane straightaway. Work could begin near the end of football season and finish in the spring.

Everett Snoeberger of Camden commented that he and his family attended freshman orientation. He said the mentor program was very commendable.

Stone later explained that the program matches freshmen with upperclassmen mentors and aims to help freshmen understand what seniors expect of them, to help more students achieve graduation, to help freshmen understand that they are wanted at the school and to give them a resource they can use all year long.

Snoeberger also requested from the board a progress report on the renovations that are being accomplished at each of the buildings and a plan of what will be accomplished in the near future.

The next school board meeting will be Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. at the administration building.