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The Trion and county school systems will
receive a share of S7B million appropriated
by the 1986 lefiislature for education
E;ants. By state law, the local funds can
used for capital improvements or be us
ed to roll back propertl:fi' taxes. Trion
School Superintendent Bill Kinzy said his
County Schools, Trion Get
‘Tax Rebate’ From State
County School Superinten
dent Don Hayes and Trion
Superintendent Bill Kinzy
have been notified bg the
Georgia Department of Educa
tion that their systems will
receive a share of the S7B
million appropriated by the
1986 legislature as education
grants.
Chattooga County Schools
will receive §281.973 and Trion
will receive $18,5564 —the
smallest amount to a local
sfist.em in the state — when
checks are mailed in August.
The funds can be used to
either roll back taxes or to im
prove education.
Grants to the systems are
based on the resident average
daily attendance in
kindergarten through grade 12
Ambulance Service Cuts
4 Part-Time Employees
Four part-time ambulance
service workers were laid off by
Chattooga Coung Ambulance
Service Director Donny Fowler
this week in attempt to cut
payroll costs.
Chattooga Countf' Commis
sioner Harry Powell has com
plained reoentlg about the high
cost of the ambulance service.
The county, which took the am
bulance service over Jan. 1, is
paying almost twice what the
service cost when it was
operated by the Chattooga
C‘(’)fmty Hospital.
Fowler said the staff is now
essentially the same as when
the ambulance service was
operated under the hospital.
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Chattooga Count{ residents are remind
ed to turn their clocks forward one hour
before going to sleep Saturday night.
Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday.
Rebate To Be Used
for the first four months of the | another system.
year. This means that students Trion Sl‘lflerintendent Kin
are counted for school systems | zy said he disagrees with the
in which they live, even though | state board over the atten
they may attend school in see REBATE, page 6-A
GRANTS TO AREA SCHOOL SYSTEMS
FOR EDUCATION 1986-87
Average Daily Attendance Grant
Chattooga 3,693 $281,973
Trion* 243 $18,554
Catoosa 7,355 $561,580
Dade 2,128 $162,480
Floyd 8,579 $655,036
Gordon 5,227 $399,099
Walker 9,758 $745,057
Rome City 4,476 $341,758
*Smallest ADA and grant in state.
“It's (the layoffs) not going to
affect our service,’’ said
Fowler. ‘‘We went back to the
type of work schedule we had
at the hospital.”
Fowler said a decision was
made to layoff the part-time
workers rather than cut full
time staff. ‘lt would have been
sillX to la{‘off full-time people
and keep the part-time people,”
he said.
The director said the move
will “possibly’’ mean more
overtime pay to the full-time
staff. A recent federal ruling
provides that emergency fier
sonnel be paid time-and-a-half
for overtim:crayment for any
hours worked over 40 hours.
‘Spring Forward’
Che Summerville News
system will likely use the $18,554 for
capital improvements. County
Superintendent Don Hayes said he would
like the school system to use the $281,973
for improvements such as buying new
desks and to be used for several re-roofing
projects.
Powell has com&l)gined
recently about the $21,000 cost
per month to operate the ser
vicee. When the service was
under hospital management
the cost was around $12,000 to
$13,000 a month. Former Com
missioner Wayne ‘‘Pete’’ Den
son paid the service SIO,OOO
monthly.
Fowler said the $21,000
figure Powell said it was
cost.infil to run the service is
“rouge accurate.”
T Xuec tor said the layoffs
were planned for several weeks.
“It was already in the making
to cut payroll,” he said. “‘lt was
not anything against
anybody."
An easy way to remember the time
changes in the fall and spring is “‘fall back,
spring forward.”
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1986
© Copyright 1986 By Espy Publishing Co., Inc.
$4 Million Budget Projected
For City; Tax Cut Is Likely
By JAMES BUDD
News Editor
Summerville Mag':r Sewell
Cash said this week he foresees
a one-mill reduction in ¢ity pro
perty taxes this year, but the
complete abolition of city pro
p?frty taxes may be a few years
off.
Officials expect this year's
budget to match the record
$4.5 million Fiscal Year 1986
budget. Summerville's fiscal
year ends in June.
Mayor Cash said reduc
tions in Federal Revenue Shar
ing Funds allotted the city and
the expected $1 million cost of
removing city utilities along
Hwy. 27 from Summerville to
Trion will lil(s:llly mean p::é)er
ty taxes can only be reduced by
one mill this year.
“In the next two or three
years I foresee us not having
property taxes,’ said Cash.
“This is a goal I've promised to
work for and I will work for it.”
Summerville residents cur
renth pay a four-mill tax rate
which generates approximate
lg $225,000, acconfing‘ to Cash.
ne mill generates approx
imately $55,000.
City Manager Grady
McCalmon is expected to pre
sent the mayor and council a
rou%h draft of the Fiscal Year
'B7 budget in May.
McCalmon anticipates a 17
fiercent reduction in Fedeéral
evenue Sharing Funds as a
result of the Gramm-Rudman-
Hol.lj:axfs measure to reduce the
federal deficit: The city cur
rently receives $92,000 annual
lg' from Federal Revenue
haring.
.Last year, the eity's
3'4.s63;Ofidygudget prom a
$263,000 surplus whigh has
been spent on recreation pro
jects, according to McCalmon.
“Right now I'm working with
the same projects as we had
last year,”” he said.
City enterprise funds —
those that generate income —
compose a massive amount of
the city’s overall budget.
The 0%38 system produced
$2,417, in income during
Fiscal Year 'B6 and the water
Hearing
Sheriff’s
A hearing for the former
chief investigator of the Chat
tooga County Sheriff's Depart
ment was held Thursday at
Sheriff Gary McConnell's
office.
Cartersville attorney Dave
Archer, who is representing
former investigator Tony
Gilleland, had asked for a
gublic hearing, but McConnell
arred two reporters from the
hearinfi room because Archer
and McConnell’'s attorney
Michael O’Quinn agreed to
hold a closed hearing without
news media present and having
a court reporter present to
make transcripts available to
the media.
Gilleland was fired from the
sheriff's department last Oc
tober for test drivinl& a vehicle
he later gurchased. cConnell,
who had ordered the car im
pounded several months
earlier, charged that Gilleland
“misused evidence in a felony."
The vehicle Gilleland test
drove had been stolen along
with several other vehicles an
brought to Summerville from
Texas.
Rome attorney King
Askew, who represented the
Texas car dealer who owned
the vehicle, said in the hearing
that the cars were never under
a federal court order to be im
fiounded and that Gilleland
ad permission from the owner
Judge Murphy Dismisses
Lawsuit Against Deputy
A federal lawsuit against a
former deput.g of the Chat
tooga Count{y heriff's Depart
ment, Sheriff Gary McConnell
and others was dismissed April
16 for want of prosecution.
According to court
documents, there has been no
?stsign on the case since May,
éystem produced $1,211,000.
ities usually move funds from
enterprise accounts to city
departments that generate lit
tle or no income such as the
police dii)ar;ment.
McC rrxrsaid the council
will conditt a series of
meetings in May and June
before approving the final
bud’lset by July 1.
he city manager said the
annexation of more than 200
-acres into the city including the
industrial park, Georgia
Power, the new &umor high, the
‘high school and other proper
ties along Bolling Road will not
‘affect this year's budget.
The measure allowing for
the annexation, which was ap
proved by this year's General
Assembly, was fined by the
governor two weeks ago.
| Cit{:fficials are also confi
dent that no major increases
will be needed in water rates.
Gas rates are determined by
the cig’s supplier, Southern
xlaat.ur Gas of Birmingham,
‘I feel, based on the
outlook, that we’ll be able to
operate without andy drastic
rate increases,”” said Cash.
The mayor was also pleas
ed that expansion of the city’s
treatment glrant from a two
million to three million fiallon
capacity may be accomplished
with a minimal expense to the
city.
The Georgia Department of
Corrections g’:xpec_ted to con
tribute at least $250,000
toward the $1.2 million project
and state officials have in
dicated Summerville will be a
ptime candidate to receive
grants for the project.
The only drawback to the
city’s resy economic picture is
the nearly $1 million cost of
ifi ing cits: s alon
4.3-mile stretch of Hwy. 27 to
facilitate the wideniné of the
highway by the Georgia
Department of Transportation.
. DOT has pledged $200,000
to help Summerville relocate
the utilities.
Bids on the city project will
be opened May 8 and DOT is
expected to open bids for the
widening project in June.
In other city news, Mayor
Cash said city inmates were
Held For Fired
Investigator
to test drive the vehicle as a
condition of purchase, accor
ding to Archer.
Sheriff Gary McConnell
said Thursday's henrinf was
closed. ““The only thing I have
to say is it was a closer! person
nel hearing and that's all I've
go_tdto say about it,”” McConnell
said.
Gilleland filed a $1.5 million
federal lawsuit in December
against McConnell charging
the sheriff made slanderous
statements to county media
and violated his civil rights and
due process.
Archer said that McConnell
dismissed Gilleland in October
without a hearing to answer
the charges afiainst him.
Gilleland, a public employee,
was entitled to a hearing, the
attorney said.
“‘One of the allegations was
he was not given a hearing
which would comply with due
rocess rights under the U. S.
wastit:etéofn." sa{fil fircher.
“We as or a public hearing
so that we cou?d refute the
charges that were made
against him in public.”
The suit char%es that
ll:de‘c:Connelfl fired lllilleland
ause of ‘‘personal anger,
jealous‘y; and gfike."
Archer said that in Thurs
day's hearing he asked for
reinstatement of Gilleland's
job and back pay, but the
sheriff's ‘‘did not respond.”
The suit was brought by
Donald Ray Roan of Summer
ville who charged he was
mistreated lay a former deputy
and others urin%his arrest.
U. S. District Court Judgo
Harold Murphy dropped the
suit after Roan did not show
cause w:xx' the case should be
continued.
housed at the cou:stgiiail star
ting midnight Tuesday rather
than midnight Sunday as
originally planned.
Cash said the empty jail will
be used for storage, but he in
dicated the s&ace could be us
ed to house the ambulance ser
vice in the future if the commis-
Report Shows Trion Grads
Improve On Earlier
A recent r?ort from the
Georgia Board of Regents
shows that fewer Trion
students entering state col
leges and universities in 1984
needed developmental studies
during their freshman year
than their 1983 counterparts.
The same survey shows
that more Chattooga High
Fraduates entering state col
eges in 1984 needed
developmental studies than
their CHS Class of 1983
counterparts.
Of the 18 Trion High
students entering state institu
tions of higher learning in
1984, only two, or 11.11 per
cent, entered development
study programs.
In 1983, of the 14 Trion
High graduates entering the
state zystem, 42 percent were
placed in develoKmental
studies for remedial help.
Chattooga High showed a
reversal. In 1984, 26 Chattooga
Dispute Shows Trion Error
R RTR
“This is a decision none of
us feels comfortable with,”
stated councilman Larry
Stansell at the called meetiréfi
of the Trion Town Coun
Wednesday evening.
The council was asked to
resolve a dispute between two
residential property owners in
Sunrise Circle during the two
hour meet.in%un
The complaintant asked the
council to enforce its 1962
building code prohibiting con
struction of any permanent
structural addition to a home
that would come closer than 10
feet to a property line. The
10-foot restriction apfli:]s to all
hglé)es and additions built after
1962,
The complaintant stated
that his neighbor had begun
construction of a double car
port at the side of her home
which would come to within
two feet of the property
boundary.
The complaintant felt that
the ca?)ort would lessen the
value of his property because it
was so close to the boundary
line et:ind t!;at it hwould set a
precedent for other property
owners to ignore Trion buming
ordinances.
The neighbor stated that
she had no intention of break
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Recreation Improvements Continue
The City of Summerville is continuing ef
forts to modernize the parks and recrea
tion facilities. Above, construction has
just been completed on a $15,000
filayground renovation at the Fairway
ecreation Center. In addition to
numerous pieces of playground equip
sioner desired.
The city is not expected to
pay for housing inmates at the
count{ejnil. Contract negotia
tions between the county and
the city fell through recently
and the city op&‘;g instead to
close the jail forcing the coun
ty to take the inmates. Cash
graduates entered the state
system and 12, or 46.15 per
cent, needed remedial he}g.
Of the 21 Chattooga High
graduates entering state In
stitutions of higher lenmg in
1983, oan 24 percent needed
remedial el%.
Trion School Superinten
dent Bill Kinzy, who was
somewhat shaken by the 1983
freshman class data, said in a
small system such as Trion
there will be more fluctuation.
Kinzy said the 1983 data was
“ou'i;‘ of the %rdmary_ 'h i = ;
rion ig rincipa
Clarence Blevins sans no poficy
changes were implemented
after the dismal ratigfisghe
system received on the of
1983. Belvins said there has
been some discussion on plac
ini more emphasis on the
Sc ofistic Aptitude Tests,
possibly encouraging juniors to
take the SATs and improving
on the scores during their
senior year. Previously, school
ing a Trion ordinance in having
the carport built and was
unaware of both the 10-foot
Trion ordinance and an addi
tional 15-foot ordinance which
is part of the b{,l&ws of the
Sunrise Circle subdivision.
She stated that when she
obtained the deed from the
Chattooga County Courthouse,
she had received only the first
page and was unaware that
two other pages, containing the
building restrictions, were
omitted. Tl
Former City Recorder Deck
Brewster, who inspected the
site along with James Sim-
Food Gets Good Rating
From Chattooga Inmates
Food prepared for inmates
at the Chattooga County Jail
by the county government is
getting a goog review from the
Inmates.
Chattooga County began
preparing meals for oounLtl in
mates last Wednesday. Meals
were formerly supplied by a
local restaurant at $5 a day per
inmate for two meals.
ment, the city hauled dirt to build up the
infield at the Fairwgy softball field. Pic
tured are Ralph Stanley, Recreation
Cenger Director; and B:{; lideStm:khnd,’ >
e ee, atop a new spiral slide at Fair
w?;.%ufi ;?oto by l&y Abbott).
Price 20c
said Menlo, Trion and Lyerly
house ‘their inmates at the
counßr jgflm for free. b
‘At this point we're not go
ing to pay an hm? .’ he said.
R‘ff &ae snrif sent a
reasonable bill the council pro
bably wouldn’t have any pro
blem with it.”
Rating
officials discour?ed juniors
from taking the SATSs.
County il?erintend.nt
Don Hayes said the system’s
graduates who enter college
“are in efiretty good shape.”
ul’m W &m’u h .u'd'
“We're in ball park.”
Both Trion and Chattooga
systems produced graduates
who scored below the state
average on SATSs and entered
state colleges in 1984.
The statewide average on
the SATs for entering
freshmen was 408 on the ver
a;a: pm':h of the test and 444 on
math part. Trion graduates
who entered state colleges in
1984 had a 396.11 mean score
on the verbal SATs and a mean
score of 430.56 on the math
part.
Chattooga County students
entering the state system in
1984 had a mean score of
378.08 on the verbal part and
goo'.l?s on the math part of the
AT.
mons, stated that he made a
mistake in ap})rovingwthe
building permit for the double
carg;)rt.
e stated that he thought
the building addition was
within the figal limit upon
visiting the site, which was
already under construction
before the visit.
Simmons stated that in a
number of cases, residents
start construction of additions
or outbuildings before obtain
ing a building permit.
“‘Sometimes the building is
finished by the time the permit
see DISPUTE, page 3-A
For their first meal last
Wednesday evening, inmates
were served ravioli, green
beans, creamed potatoes, corn
bread and chocolate cake.
A spokesman said the
meals are meeting the court
ordered requirement of 3,100
calories a day. ‘“The food's been
absolutely fine so far,”” the
spokesman said.