UCF board takes look at reserve funds structure
10-year capital plan gets update, review
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
EAST MARLBOROUGH — The question of whether the Unionville-Chadds Ford needs to keep a dedicated a reserve fund to cover anticipated pension costs was the top point of discussion during Monday night’s Work Session of the Board of Education.
Currently, the district is carrying about $2.5 million in its pension reserve fund...
UCF formally moves to investigate school start times
Timeline, study process formally adopted in district goals
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
EAST MARLBOROUGH — The framework of a process to look at potentially changing the start time for high school and middle school students in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District as soon as the 2017-18 school year was more formally laid out during Monday night’s Board of Education meeting.
The investigation...
‘Brexit’ could mean bond savings for UCF
Refi plan for UHS bonds could net $450K annually
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
EAST MARLBOROUGH — While the pending departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union may be sewing chaos in world financial markets, it appears that the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District may be able to benefit from “Brexit” by refinancing the bonds that paid for the renovation of Unionville High School.
Although...
Questions raised over school board retreats
Unionville-Chadds Ford challenged on private gatherings
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
When the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District Board of Education meets for a work session tonight, one of the main topics will be establishing the long-term goals for the district, but while it will be the first time the board discusses the issue in public, it won’t be the first such discussion by the board.
The...
UCF board opts to pull funds from reserve, cut tax hike to 2.66%
Lindner: colleagues are ‘kicking the can down the road’
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
EAST MARLBOROUGH — Apparently, appearances matter.
At the end of the day, it seemed that the optics of having a tax increase higher than 3% in Delaware County outstripped concerns over long-term finances and the state of the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District’s balance reserve, as the Board...
UCF looks at cuts to proposed tax hike
Discussion focused on whether to maintain or spend reserves
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Pocopson Elementary School Principal Clif Beaver offers congratulations to retiring teacher Dennis Nelms during Monday night’s Board of Education meeting.
POCOPSON — It appears that the final tax increase for the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District will drop some from its initial estimate, after...
UCF board likely to look at UHS rankings again
Directors seek to add data to student rankings
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
EAST MARLBOROUGH — It appears the much-discussed subject of student ranking will make a return at next week’s Unionville-Chadds Ford Board of Education meeting, less than two months after the board agreed to a compromise proposal to end decile rankings of students at Unionville High School.
What remains to be seen...
UCF board moves toward decile rank compromise
Final decision expected at March 28 meeting
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
EAST MARLBOROUGH — After a four-hour, marathon work session Tuesday, the Unionville-Chadds Ford Board of Education appears to be moving toward a compromise on the issue of classifying Unionville High School Students by which tenth of the class, or decile, they fall into based on grade point average.
While the district administration...
Letter: A plan for UCF to cut costs
To The Editor:
As promised a few weeks ago, I am now proposing cost savings that could be useful to the UCF budgets, now and in the near future:
1) Heating systems could have their settings lowered lto 2 degrees in all buildings. Similarly the cooling systems could be raised 1or 2 degrees.
2) Geo-thermal systems could be installed at all buildings to naturally lower costs for heating and air...
UCF should end decile ranking, period