About The Georgia post. (Knoxville, Crawford County, Ga.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 2022)
Issue 8 Thursday, FEBRUARY 24, 2022 The Voice of Crawford County Since 1921 also serving Byron and Peach County 1 Section 10 Pages, 3 Inserts One Dollar QUItTOQ QlliT Because of a basketball game, not all of the softball team was in attendance. Those attending are pictured with coaches and board of education members. BY KRISTI WATKINS The Georgia Post It was recognition evening for the CCHS softball team and coaches by Crawford County School Board last week with plaques presented on their outstanding year. The softball team made history making it to the Elite 8 for Crawford County Schools. Crawford County High School will be receiving a new turf field in the near future. The board approved to use SPLOST funds for the $200,000 increase from the $300,000; funds originally approved coming from the Capital Project Funds. Since the SPLOST is doing well according to Lowe and they are above their project budget for the year paying bonds, Raymond Dickey sug gested using SPLOST funds for the $200,000 increase for the additional padding under the turf. A $700,000 donation from Thunder Bay Foundation will complete the funds needed to give the high school a state of the art field for football and soccer. A timeline is unknown when the turf will be installed due to many schools upgrad ing their fields to turf as well. Lowe will have to get informa tion and a timeline from the company to give to the board. There will be a new struc ture in personnel heading the schools in the new school year. After discussion from two of the board members on having only one princi pal at the new middle/high school, the board passed the new structure 3-2. Two of the board members stated the new middle/high school should have two principals, with Lowe explaining there needs to be one person in charge of all faculty; not two as he has explained in other meetings. The structure will consist of one principal and two assis tant principalsfone middle; one high school). There will be one principal and one assistant principal at the ele mentary school. The Primary School will have one principal and one assistant principal. There will be a CTAE Director and Athletic Director and a Director of Success Academy. The decision will increase positions by one. Superintendent Brent Lowe addressed the board with Policy Manual revisions ac cording to the GSBA. Several changes were made due to wording or were outdated and no longer used. The proposed changes to the Policy Manual is now available on the board website for public viewing. The adoption will be voted on in the March meeting. When discussing the finan cials, questions were brought to Lowe about the school board taxes and when the update will be added. Lowe explained he had talked to the county tax commissioner and stated, “They are working with new software and still working out the kinks.” Board member Al Hatch er brought up conversation about the assistant principal supplement which still had not been addressed after four meetings. Lowe stated he looked for the approval from the board, but it was never voted on which Vice Chair man Tim Johnson also stated he could not find the vote in the minutes. Chairman Raymond Dickey stated they approved it in the budget meeting; but the actual vote was not cast in a regular meeting. Dickey stated it was in the budget to pay the assistant principals with Lowe stating they did not officially approve the supplement. Hatcher stated the problem needs to be resolved since they assistant principals have not had an increase since 1992. Currently, there is a range of pay for assistant principals along with other supplements for coaches. Jackson DeFore, Hatcher and Johnson under stood why they had the range scale and stated they need to review all supplements with ranges in a meeting. Lowe was asked if there had been any problems with the new equipment at the middle/ high school. Lowe explained one piece of equipment to malfunction due to the city’s water being so clean and pure, the filter wasn’t catching anything, so the equipment malfunctioned. FBLA re-emerges at high school Above are four members of the 15 member FBLA club at CCHS. This is the first Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) at CCHS in over 20 years. They have accomplished many goals and plan on more. They attended the Fall Rally at Perry Fair in October and are going to attend the Spring Conference at the Hyatt in Atlanta. They sponsored a food drive for a local church at Thanksgiving and a Toy Drive at Christmas. They have pro vided breakfast for faculty/staff three times. They have received cash gifts during club meetings and won over $500 in EOPA fast cash in Smith’s Business Class. The faculty advisor is Brannen Smith, Mercer University and Stetson School of Business in 1989. From left: Lance Tingle, Christian Braswell, Noah Willard, and Da’Nasia Preston Officers are: Da’Nasia Preston- President, Jada Neeley- Vice President, and Elizabeth O’neal- Sec retary. Rep. Dickey will seek re-election State Representative Robert Dickey announced his re-election cam paign for the Georgia House of Representatives on Thursday. Representative Dickey, farmer and agribusiness man, chairs the House Agriculture and Con sumer Affairs Committee. He also serves on Appropriations, Banks and Banking, Energy, Utilities and Telecommunica tions, Higher Education, Natu ral Resources and Environment and Way and Means Committees. Speaker Ralston also appointed him to serve on the Agricultural Exposition Authority Overview Committee and the Agricultural Education Advisory Commission. Representative Dickey is currently serving his sixth term in the Georgia House of Repre sentatives. With his son and his wife, Representative Dickey owns Dickey Farms, Inc., a peach, imber and agritourism farm hat has been in his family since 1897. Dickey Farms is a ocal tradition that has support ed our local community and created jobs for generations of local families. He is also a member of the Middle Ocmulgee Regional Water Planning Council and a board member and past President of the Crawford See DICKEY, pane 6 County manager recommends new youth center for CDBG BY CASEY MOORE The Georgia Post Fabian Hollis, County manager wants to start work on the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for 2022 by June or July, and gave a recom mendation on a project at last week’s meeting of the Crawford County Board of Commissioners. There is a list, not a complete list, of around 42 different items that can be applied for the CDBG grant. Hollis recommends the new youth center/ boys and girls club/4H building for the grant. The minimum to apply for the grant is $750,000 up to $1 million. Hollis said he has a building in mind that would have four offices, three conference rooms, a full kitchen as well as a full gymnasium. There was even a recommendation of a pool or at least a splash pad for the kids. The location for the new youth center would be where the current county shop is located. LMIG paving recommen dations for 2022 the board unanimously agreed on the ranking of doing the following roads: 1. Rumph 2. Whitaker 3. Collins 4. Rowland 5. Tribble 6. Union Church 7. Rowell 8. Zenith Mill. Engineers will be told to stop paving once the cost has gotten to $1 million. It should be around 7-8 miles paved. Roads 1-4 equals to 7.32 miles. There was a discussion of a RV Park. The RV Park would possibly be to the left side of the fuel station at the recreation depart ment. There would be power, water, and dump station. There would also be a limited number of days allowed for campers to stay. More details will be discussed at a later time but to get things started Hollis will need a layout from the commissioners. The county shop person nel need to decide what is needed for the new county shop building and bring it back to Hollis and they are waiting on an engineer and architect. Hollis noted that the animal shelter is set up and has had at least one dog every day until last Monday. Gideons make donation to fifth graders The Gideons representatives, Charles Allen and Steve Wid- ener (pictured with Principal Paris Raines), visited CCES on February 17,2022, to distribute pocket-sized New Testament Bibles to the 5th Grade students. Although no Bibles were distributed by the teachers, any 5th grader who wished to receive one did voluntarily accept one from Gideons.
