A record you can check yourself

MSBO Meridian Award of Excellence

Statewide award for documented excellence in school business management, presented to John Stoner at Rochester Community Schools. Named in MSBO's award roll and its 2013–14 annual report.

President, Michigan Schools Energy Cooperative (MISEC)

Led the statewide cooperative that pools school districts’ energy purchasing. Archived board rosters place John on the MISEC board from at least 2006 and as president by 2013, while Director of Operations at Rochester Community Schools; he continued on the board as a consultant into the SAG era, when he gave clients the opportunity to purchase energy supplies from outside vendors.

Radon prevention and fresh-air standards at the new Stoney Creek High School

John’s own bylined column as the district’s facility engineer during the Stoney Creek build: radon prevention designed into the new high school, and the 1997 bond’s ventilation standard of 20 cubic feet of fresh air per minute per person at all three high schools. Both came directly from John’s work on the district’s environmental policy, which the board adopted unanimously and which other districts went on to follow.

Schools to get roof upgrades this summer

Bloomfield Hills Schools’ sinking fund roof program, with John, identified in the article as the district’s director of physical plant services, putting the summer’s work at about $2.2 million across 243,000 square feet of roof, almost 20 percent of the district’s total.

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Clipping: C&G Newspapers · Rebecca Jones, staff writer

America’s Best High Schools

Newsweek’s 2003 ranking put the International Academy, hosted by Bloomfield Hills Schools, first among America’s public high schools, with the district’s Andover High also on the list. John was the district’s director of operations at the time.

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Cover: Newsweek · Newsweek’s 2003 list online (opens in a new tab)

Ceiling the Deal

The magazine’s cover story on the Bloomin’ Kids preschool at Lone Pine, built in under five months for Bloomfield Hills Schools, quotes John, identified in the article as the district’s owner’s rep: “The basis for this preschool is to address multiple intelligences.”

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Clipping: Walls & Ceilings · Nick Moretti · read “Ceiling the Deal” online (opens in a new tab)

They keep school buses rolling along, no matter the weather

Pictured with a district bus, John is identified in the caption as Bloomfield Hills Schools’ maintenance director, often out by 3 a.m. on snowy days testing the roads before the buses ran.

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Clipping: The Eccentric · staff photo by Jerry Zolynsky

Stoney Creek High School

The controls maker’s profile of the new Stoney Creek High School, built for Rochester Community Schools with water-source heat pumps and energy recovery units, under the bond John worked on as the district’s facility engineer.

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Profile: Alerton

Invitation to testify on Senate Bill 458

The senator’s office preparing John, then with the Institute for Environmental Assessment, to testify before the Senate Education Committee on SB 458, a bill to regulate asbestos removal in Michigan schools, on the safety and cost case for managing asbestos in place.

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Letter: Michigan Senate