Our Mission
To provide services and
leadership, in partnership with families, schools and communities, that
improve the learning outcomes and well-being of all children and youth.
Our Goals
• Increase learning growth for students
• Decrease the gap in achievement
• Increase annual graduation rates
• Increase gateways to post-secondary success
Mileage Rate
Effective July 1, 2015 the mileage reimbursement rate increased to $0.41 per mile. Miles driven through June 30, 2015 will be reimbursed at $0.39 per mile. Do not submit expense claims with dates crossing the new fiscal year. Use a separate expense claim if you still have reimbursable expenses, which occurred prior to July 1. August 31 is the last date the Business Office will accept and process any claims for expenses occurring on or before June 30, 2015.
Cell Phone Reimbursement
Although agency business-related cell phone minutes will continue to be reimbursed at $0.10 per minute, the Agency implemented a monthly cap on the number of minutes we will reimburse. As of July 1, 2015 the Agency will reimburse up to 500 minutes ($50) per month. Submit your cell phone minutes monthly with the month identified in the description - for example, ‘Cell Phone Minutes – July’. Employees are still required to retain their cell phone bills along with other receipts in accordance with the Staff Handbook.
If you have questions about either of these reimbursements, contact Mary Heaberlin, Accounting Technician, at mheaberlin@heartlandaea.org or ext. 14818 or Brian Whalen, Business Manager, at bwhalen@heartlandaea.org or ext. 14005.
Beginning Aug. 6, the Business Office will process weekly expense checks on Thursdays instead of Fridays. Employees who use direct deposit for their expense reimbursement will have the funds deposited in their bank accounts the next bank business day, which will generally be Friday. Otherwise, checks will be mailed out on Thursday afternoons. If you have any questions, contact Mary Heaberlin, Accounting Technician, at mheaberlin@heartlandaea.org or ext. 14818.
All Woodward-Granger email addresses will now follow this format: firstnamelastname@wghawks.school. Update your records accordingly.
Just a friendly reminder: there is a form to use when scheduling conference rooms in the Johnston REC and off-site meeting spaces. The Conference Room Request & Set-Up form is to be used when scheduling large events--rooms cannot be reserved until the form is completed. The form captures information about room set-up, catering and technology needs and helps us to better coordinate events to meet the needs of our visitors. The form is archived on the Intranet under Event Planning, Room Scheduling & Set-Up.
Please also note that if you are planning to teach a professional development class, you must have a room reserved for the class before you submit a Course Proposal to Professional Development.
If you have any questions about the room request form, contact Carol McDaniel, Central Office Administrative Assistant, at cmcdaniel@heartlandaea.org or ext. 14002. If you have any questions about course proposals, contact Brandie Gean, Licensure & Conference Center Manager, at bgean@heartlandaea.org or ext. 14459.
Star Staff
This message was sent by Chris Pierson (Regional Director/NE).
A shout out to Greg Wilcox (Technology Support Specialist/JO) who spent an hour on Zoom with an employee to recover a corrupt Microsoft Word file. This saved the employee from redoing hours of research.
New Employees
Paul Cahill (Substitute Van Driver/JO)
Office Changes
Kristen Bloch to AM from JO
Corrine Breitsprecker to RS from JO
Shari Butler to AD from AM
Gwen Fecht to JO from KN
Laura Howell to YESS from RS
Kyle Kehrberg to JO from AD
Jenny Merk to JO from NE
Lauren Nelson to IN from NE
Ashley Panno to JO from NE
Jessica Stumme to AD from IN
Annalise Vandehaar to JO from NE
Danielle Wanninger to JO from CA
Carly Weber to AD from GC
Paige Wintz to AD from JO
Rehired Retirees
Janice McMurry (Substitute Receptionist/JO)
Births
Congratulations to Susan Schrader (Director of Resources & Library Services/JO) on the birth of her first grandchild, August Hernandez Buck. August was born July 19 to parents Laura (Schrader) and Josh Buck.
Congratulations to Julia Thompson (Special Education Consultant/GC) on the birth of her grandson, Camden Douglas Klejch. Camden was born July 1 and weighed 9 lbs. 1.5 oz. and was 21 inches long. His parents are Casie (Thompson) and Jason Klejch of Creston.
Birthdays
August
2 Bryce Carlton
2 Andrea Richmond
3 Gwen Fecht
5 Christine Esser
5 Meghan Rupiper
5 Paige Wintz
7 Jennifer Etnyre
7 David Hammer
7 Keri Steele
8 Vickie DeMoss
9 Jennifer Gilmore
10 Jean Vesely
11 Kristi Allison
11 Candice Green
11 Thanh Le
12 Mary Cabeen
12 Sedona Loy
12 Jana Schneckloth
13 Teri Hazen
13 Hope Johnson
13 Jessica Williams
14 Brenda Fisher
14 Patty Shelton
15 Bob Brown
15 Valerie Hubert
15 Carol Kuhn
15 Amy Pickering
17 Brenda Pierce
17 Rhonda Weiss
18 Cindi Ballard
18 Kris Larsen
18 Jennifer Riedemann
21 Brooke Hamann
21 Shannon Harken
21 Linda McAtee
21 Nicole Patton
22 Sheri Haupert
22 Kim Pickett
23 Lisa Lumbard
24 Jessica Pottebaum
24 Jenny Sumner
25 Vicki Sanders
26 Faye Allen
26 Stephaney Jones-Vo
26 Carrie Van Zanten
27 Tim Blakeslee
27 Sandy Darveau
27 Stacey Warren
27 Linda Wegner
28 Rachel Allen-McHugh
28 Kristin Orton
28 Judy Sofen
29 Mary Heaberlin
29 Robin Heuser
30 Lesley Stucker
30 Kurt Subra
September
1 Megan Schultz
1 Megan Weaver
2 Shelley Payne
2 Caleb Wiegmann
4 Jennifer Burns
4 Audrey Walker
5 Kristen Bloch
5 Shannon Jensen
6 Charlie Johnson
8 Courtney Thomas
