Shared Services

Governor-Elect Kasich has stated several times that school districts need to consolidate or share services. His comments has sparked much concern in the education field as to what he wants to consolidate or share - I have heard services being administrative services like the Rittman and Orrville School Districts currently having only one superintendent and one treasurer; or is it sharing principals between buildings; or belonging to a consortium to save taxpayer dollars when puchasing. Our taxpayers need to be assured that we are already doing the latter by belonging to the Stark County Council of Governments which permits us to purchase our health insurance; workers compensation; unemployment; buses; paper; food service supplies; custodial supplies; diesel fuel; etc. as a group. We also belong to Ohio School Pool for our electricity and Energy USA for our natural gas purchasing and the State of Ohio purchasing coop. This is not something new to Marlington Local Schools for we have been doing this for many years and will continue to look for ways to save taxpayer dollars. Until next time, Sandy Moeglin, Treasurer