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Newspaper Page TextRECREATION FOOTBALL SIGNUPS Monday - Friday see Lindsey at the Probate Court 9 am- 5 p.m. Saturday At the High School Fieldhouse 12 noon-2 p.m. Age 7-12 $75 Flag $25 Contact James -478-258-0110 or Lindsey at 478-836-3313 with Questions! "BACK-TO-SCHOOL BASH" AUGUST 9, 2013 Georgia Family Connection of Crawford County is planning a ”Back-to-School Bash” for the 2013-2014 school year, Friday, August 9,2013,4 p.m.-7 p.m. at Central Georgia Technical College. Get Ready, Tread For Ed 2K Walk- will take place September 21, 2013, 5 p.m. A team honoring Ed Tomberlin WWW. WALKTODEFEATALS. org Issue 31 Thursday, August 8, 2013 The Voice of Crawford County Since 1921 also serving Byron and Peach County Musicians play at Knoxville Store for Customer Appreciation Music has gained popularity in Roberta-Crawford County and the Roberta Musicians’ Foundation meets every Saturday at 5 p.m. next to Duke’s Pawn Shop in the Piggly Wiggly shopping center. You can play with the group if you bring your musical instrument or just sit and enjoy the music. This past Saturday members of the group played during Customer Appreciation Days at Knoxville Store. Chamber asked about scholarship funding By Susan Garnto The Georgia Post Rick Sharon of Central Georgia Tech nical College addressed the Chamber of Commerce board this month about the possibility of the board setting aside some funds for a grant or something similar, every year. If the chamber was interested, the funds would help pay for Education Scholarships for the students who need extra help with financial needs or in need of extra money such as $50.00 or $100.00, to help pay for cost of col lege books or out-of-pocket scholarship needs. Laquita McCrary (Flint EMC) suggest ed to Rick Sharon to check with Flint. Flint has $5,000.00 Scholarships for helping students going to college. After a discussion among the board members, Charles Cook (President) said the matter would be referred to the Budget Com mittee which will take a look at it and see where the Chamber stands for next year. Someone had asked about advertise ments being placed on the quarterly newsletter Charles Cook was not for it but Amy Moncreif suggested that she would like to look into this further. Celia Martin (board member and fonner director) suggested that it could make production costs higher than the benefits received. Cook referred the issue to the Newsletter Committee to look into and discuss further. The meeting on the auction was Back to School Breakfast/Teacher of the Tear changed to August 30, 2013. --RCCC0C postponed until farther notice. The Back to School Breakfast /Teacher of the Year has been changed to August 30, 2013 from 8- 9:30 a.m. at the Crawford County Middle School. Executive Director Patti Temple said she believed the “New Taste in Crawford County” held July 26, 2013 was a suc cess in spite of the weather. Temple noted that planning for the JugFest begins October 10, 2013. This year is the 10th Anniversary. Sandi Ragsdale (Historical Society Member) was not present so Temple reported that she and Sandi have already started working on the Jugfest 10th Anniversary. Charles Cook said he had two recom mendations, (l)”Don't have this event on a Friday because it is the busiest time for the restaurants in the community”. (2) “Advertisements need to be placed in businesses on the windows or boards for the people who do not get The Georgia Post newspaper. The first Saturday of December the 7th, 2013 will be the “Fighting of the Great Tree” for Christmas in Roberta and Crawford County. The board went into an closed Ex ecutive Session which lasted about 15 minutes. They will meet next month on September 5, 2013. Dev. Auth. waiting on signed lease for spec bldg. By Susan Garnto The Georgia Post Everything is in place and on hack for the spec build ing, Vice Chairman Charles Westberry reported to the Development Authority board last week. The underground piping is done and they are waiting on the rain to subside and for the City to help install the sprinkler system. West- berry noted the back overflow problem had been corrected. “We are just waiting on a signed lease,” he said. In other business Roberta Mayor Becky Smith ques tioned the board about a fence interferring with Gregory Webb being able to receive water to his property. The question was posed as to whether or not one of the two fences would have to be taken down and put back up or if the water line could go in between tlie two fences. Chairperson Brenda Carroll asked Webb, who was in attendance, if he was going to do the work him self. Webb indicated he could. There was more discussion and Carroll told Webb to get back with Carole Jackson the mext morning so she could get with tlie Maintenance Com mittee and report back to him. DEVELOPMENT, Page 3 2 Sections, 12 Pages One Dollai School Board Contemplating Tax Increase Public can speak Aug. 13th By Renee Goggins & Victoria Simmons The Georgia Post “We have tried every thing we can possibly do to cut costs,” Supertintendent of Schools, John Douglas stated. “The only thing to consider next is raising the millage rate.” The board of education is contemplating raising the millage rate which is now at 13.5 by 2.5 mills which would put it at 16 mills. This would mean an additional $250 per taxpayer based on a house value of $ 100,000. The system had to borrow money for the 2013 school year and has held the 13.5 mils for several years. No decision has been made on increasing the millage and the board will discuss it further at their regular meet ing Tuesday, August 13,7 p.m. Douglas said the public is encouraged to come early and sign up to voice their opinion. In other business at the called meeting last week, contracting out transpor tion services was up for discussion. John Zeigler of Durham School Sendees (a school bus contractor) addressed the board and attendees of the meeting. Board members are consider ing contracting out transpor tation as another way to save money. Zeigler stated that he may be able to save the county money on their fuel account. He said he would install Zonar GPS systems on the buses, which would detemrine where the bus was enroute in case a parent needed to locate their child, speed tracking, check for sleeping children and manage bus idle times to be sure it is not left idling unnecessarily. Some of the county’s school bus drivers were in attendance and voiced deep concern about then jobs. If the school bus transportation system, is contracted out the drivers pay would remain the same, but the drivers would only be paid for time worked, two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening, unless the route goes longer. If the route is longer addi tional hours would be added. They will also be paid extra for field trips. Drivers would have to apply for unem ployment during holidays and summer months. The employees were told that no decisions have been made at this time. Employees were asked by board chairman Raymond Dickey to write down their concerns and questions and submit them to the board. If the county decided to contract out with Duram, they would have to request a proposal. It would take up to 90 days and would most likely not take place in this school year. The board said they would inves tigate the issue further. A member of the nutrition staff came forward to speak on behalf of the nutrition staff. The nutrition staff’s pay would be cut about 8% due to the 160 day school year. Pay for about 50-55 employees from janitorial service, lunchroom and bus drivers have been affected. This loss adds up to about $13,000 per month. The board stated that everyone is being cut and they are looking for ways to save the county money. They have looked at maybe having to cut school sports, the ROTC program and music due to the budget cuts. One lady not happy with the cuts said they were not fair and suggested that the SCHOOL, Page 3 Parental involvement important to schools 7 education goals By Susan Garnto The Georgia Post A Title 1/Special Educa tion meeting was held July 29th to bring awareness and input for the parents of Crawford County students and community representa tives and foster parental involvement. Title 1 Director Rhonda Harris, facilitated the meeting. The discussion concerned District Paren tal Involvement where the CCBOE (Crawford County Board of Education) will put into operation programs, activities and procedures for the involvement of parents in all of its schools with Title 1, PART A program. Parental involvement is the participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other school GOALS, Page 3 Raising $$$for CCMS softball with car wash Saturday Saturday was a perfect day for a car wash and that’s exactly what members of the Crawford County Middle School softball team held. It was a team fundraiser to help raise funds for the team. The car wash was held in the parking lot at Mincey and Mincey.