) Sunday, July 19, 2009 THE DALLAS POST PAGE 7 DALLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT By REBECCA BRIA rbria@timesleader.com Members of the Dallas School ¥ Board voted Monday evening to put out a request for proposal (RFP) for a district before and after-school childcare program. Hildebrandt Learning Cen- ters, LLC, was contracted to provide childcare service for the district during the 2008-09 school year and the summer. Thirty-five students were signed up for the program at the begin- ning of last school year. Donna Wren, of Trucksville, asked the board to consider hav- ing the childcare program again this school year. Wren, who has a child entering the first-grade in the district, says the program is beneficial to her because of her work hours. “Not knowing, that’s the issue right now,” Wren said. “You don’t know whether or not you're going to have daycare for your child.” District solicitor Ben Jones prepared an RFP for childcare providers to bid on the service NEXT MEETING The next meeting of the Dallas School Board will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 10, in the adminis- tration building. for the coming school year. Board members had to vote on the RFP at the July 13 meeting because the bid is required to be out for 30 days and classes re- sume on August 24. Grant Palfey, district business manager, says the district made about $2,388 in net profit from LAKE TOWNSHIP Misdirected tax money is repaid By EILEEN GODIN . Dallas Post Correspondent Misdirected tax money and renewing insurance policies headlined the July 9 Lake Town- ship supervisors meeting. Supervisors approved a mo- tion to pay Harveys Lake Bor- 5 ough about $20,000 for misdi- ‘rected funds from Berkheimer Tax Administrator. Township Secretary Carlene Price said the problem occurred when a Harveys Lake resident ‘paid his taxes to Berkheimer Tax Administrator and the mon- ey was mistakenly credited to Lake Township. The oversight occurred over a two-year period, Price said. Supervisors passed two mo- tions to renew insurance poli- cies. The first, with St. Paul In- surance, had a three percent in- crease from last year, totaling $9,236. Effective August 10, the insurance package covers every- thing from tools to vehicles. The Blue Cross/Blue Shield policy covering medical insur- ance has an addition of a $100 Book fund honors former HL resident A memorial book fund has been established in the name of Daniel Enrico Falcucci at the Hoyt Library in Kingston. Falcucci, 50, formerly of Har- veys Lake, was killed in a tragic car accident in March 2009. He was an accomplished violinist, ‘guitarist and pianist, having stud- ied violin under Ferdinand Liva at College Misericordia in the late 1970s. Falcucci’s love of music fol- lowed him throughout his life and, therefore, his mother, Gloria Falcucci, and his son, Daniel, have suggested that donations to this fund be used to purchase books of a musical nature. Contribution, $30 for young adult and older and $15 for chil- dren’s books, should be designat- ed as being intended for the Da- niel Enrico Falcucci Memorial Book Fund and may be mailed to: Memorials, c/o The Hoyt Li- brary, 284 Wyoming Ave., King- ston, PA 18704. What's happening in your community? Find out at mydallaspost.com ympia Estates: SENIOR APARTMENTS 55 and over |4## $EDWARDSVILLE $525-900 a month Most utilities included Efficiencies to 2 Bedroom Available services | Meals, housekeeping Laundry and more! Beautiful grounds with magnificent views Call Barbara at 1.570-288-4410 NEXT MEETING The next Lake Township super- visors meeting will be at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13 at the mu- nicipal building. emergency room co-pay. This will be effective from August 1, 2009 through July 31, 2010. In other news, supervisors an- nounced GeoComm will be in the township to verify that all addresses and street names are up to the 911 emergency systems requirements. Chairman Lonnie Piatt said GeoComm employees will check to make sure all is up-to- date. Price said residents will see the GeoComm white Toyota in the area. Recently, GeoComm has helped Harveys Lake Bor- ough with its 911 addressing conversion. announced that school tax bills were to be mailed on July 15. Tax Collector Donna Kocher the program during the past year, not including expenses for extra lighting, water, etc. Palfey recommended that the board do away with the program because he feels the cost of time, adver- tising and a late start to arrange- ments this year will cause profit to be negligible. Construction update Rick LeBlanc of Crabtree Rohrbaugh & Associates, pro- vided an update on the new high school construction pro- ject. LeBlanc says trucks are re- moving unsuitable soil and ma- terials and that excavation for an access road is underway. Lo- bar Construction Inc. will begin Section A, or the gymnasium section, of the school this week. The board passed a resolution to pay Crabtree Rohrbaugh & Associates $21,439.06 out of the capital projects fund for profes- sional services rendered for the new high school facility. 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Personnel The following people were hired in the district: Kim Nat- itus, long-term substitute ele- mentary . teacher (replacing Crystal Seidel), at Dallas Ele- mentary School, at the second step bachelors level on the sala- ry scale, $35,000, prorated, ef- fective August 20, 2009 through January 18, 2010; Jennifer Perch, ACCESS billing program coor- dinator, a contracted position, at a rate of $18 per hour; and Mela- nie Harry, senior high school housekeeper No. 4. at a rate of $11.68 per hour, effective August 13. The school board accepted the following resignations: Lisa A. Ciampi, an English teacher at the middle school; and Margaret Kaplanski, housekeeper No. 2 at the high school. Board members approved the & mi |Z Law Firm, LLC , Wd I Before/after care program discussed transfer of Tom Pealer from housekeeper No. 2 to house- keeper No. 4 at the middle school. 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