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The Summerville News, Thursday, December 17, 1987
ARC Grant Asked For County
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dropout rate in Georgia. School
officials thereafter began
developing a prgfi\ram for
reducing that rate. The Educa
tion Committee of the Chat
tooga Chamber of Commerce
has already endorsed a second
grant application for the
program.
ASBESTOS
In other action, the board
accepted a low bid of $77,000
from United Asbestos Control
Inc.,, Rossville, to remove
asbestos from the Lyerly,
Pennville, Summervili’e
Elementary, North Summer
ville Elementary and Chat
tooia Hifh schools.
owell Kirkman, Kirkman
Associates, Inc., Dalton, told
the board that the $77,000
would not be the final price
because the bid form also con
tained unit prices for removing
asbestos from some pipes in
the ceilings at CHS. l-fi:wever.
the srstem's architect told the
panel that even with the unit
prices, the system wouldn't ex
ceed its 3103,.000 budget. Supt.
Hayes said the loca%e system
will pay for $12,000 of the work
with the rest being financed by
the state.
Other bids submitted were
All Gulf Contractors Inc.,
Mobile, Ala.,, $135,450;
Asbestos Abatement?
Associates Inc., Chattanooga,
Tenn., $181,206.11; Asbestos
Abatement Technology Inc.,
Chamblee, $149,995; CNH
Construction Inc., Dade City,
Fla., $141,000; DPC General
Contractors, Atlanta,
$136,611; Hazardous Materials
Engineering Inc., Opelika,
Ala., $159,563; and North
Brothers Construction, Rome,
$94,000.
CHS PART
The most costly portion of
the project will be the removal
of asbestos from the hallway
ceilings of CHS, Supt. Hayes
said. That part of tl‘:e project
will amount to a base cost of
$51,590 plus unit costs for
removing the material from
piping at the school.
Hayes pointed out that the
board must have a written
asbestos management plan in
?lace b{ October, 1988, or face
ines of up to $5,000 per day.
Kirkman said the pfim must
include taking periodic air
samples during a school day a*
a cost of about $1,200 per sam
ple. The superintendent
pointed out that most floor tile
at CHS contains asbestos.
PENNVILLE
The board spent almost an
hour at the beginning of the
meeting going over proposed
Blans for new classrooms at
ennville School.
At the end of the lengthy
session, Cook told Kirkman to
develop new plans for four new
classrooms and for renovating
the school'’s science building in
to two more classrooms. He
also told Kirkman to develop
plans for two new classrooms
at Lyerly School, giving the
board the option o%lletting a
contract on one classroom or
both. e
~ Kirkman said he would
return with the new plans at
the board’s Jan. 11 meeting.
~Supt. Hayes asked
Kirkman whether it would be
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best for the board to seek cost
plus bids with a maximum cost
cap, or regular sealed bids for
the ’?rojects.
irkman said while the
board could seek cost plus bids,
the best agrroach would be to
seek sealed bids on the pro
jects. In most cases, the ar
chitect said, cost plus bids are
awarded oniy when there is an
extreme rush to complete a
pro’hect.
ill{ “Jug” Hayes, prin
cipal of Pennville School, told
the board that the mobile
classrooms at the school must
be replaced. They range from
11 to 20 years old, he said.
Cook said the[\; were originally
intended to be ‘‘temporary’
facilities.
“We don't need anythin
elaborate,” the principal saixf
But when winds start%lowing
heavily, ‘‘it scares you there
sometimes ... we need to get
those kids on solid grouns."
Several Pennville parents were
present at the meeting.
HOT PART
The hottest part of the
meeting came when Cook ask
ed Thad Putnam, sales
manager for Vulcan Life, to ap
pear before the board.
Cook told Putnam that the
board had told him and Vulcan
to straighten out problems
with the srstem‘s ‘“‘cafeteria’
benefits plan. But, Cook con
tinued, he understood that Put
nam wasn't explaining the pro
gram to teachers but was try
ing to sign them up for another
year.
The Vulcan official said he
had understood from the
board’s November meeting
that it wanted a ‘‘short year”
from April to the end o¥ this
month and then to start over
with a new plan year in
January. For tfiat reason, he
had started gathering new data
from teachers for next year,
Putnam said. But after tafldng
with Supt. Hayes and Cook,
the sales manager said, he
understood that the board
wanted all problems with the
plan corrected between then
and next April, when the first
year will expire.
Putnam asked permission
to continue with the latter ap
proach and then to come back
to the panel's March, 1988
meeting to discuss renewing
the plan for another year.
After questioning {y Cook,
Putnam said the money of all
32 teachers who had wanted
out of the program had not
been refunded because he had
not yet met with them all.
QUESTIONED
Jerry Money, a CHS
teacher who has been vocal in
his opposition to some of
Vulcan's dealings with
teachers, quesgioned Putnam
closely about several aspects of
the program. Money also hand
ed out several sheets of paper
to board members which he
said showed that another
teacher had unknowingly sign
ed up for a 10-year level term
policy and agreed to contribute
$1,600 per year, thinking she
had an annuity. However,
Money, pointed out, she would
gfive no cash value buildup at
Putnam said part of each
year's premium would be in
vested and added back to the
program during the 11th year.
At age 62, he said, the
teacher’s policy would have a
cash value of $85,000.
Will Hair, vocational super
visor at CHS, told Putnam he
had returned an insurance
policy to Vulcan after learning
that it wasn’t an annuity. Hair
asked the insurance executive
if he would receive a refund of
his money.
NO REFUND
Putnam asked if the policy
had been returned within 30
days after it had been received
by Hair. The teacher said it
was returned after about 60
days and Putnam said Hair's
money wouldn’t be refunded.
COUNTRY RUFFLE
CHAIR PADS
20 % Regifice
Putnam told Cook that he
had misunderstood the board’s
action in November and asked
that the matter be straighten
ed out and resolved within the
next two or three weeks.
Money told Putnam and
the boarJ, that the only way he
had received a refund from
P#tnam was to go to the
Georgia Insurance Commis
sioner’s office ‘‘and they're
very interested in this, as you
know."” i N
After Putnam, Money, Hair
and other teachers had ({)i,scuss
ed the cafeteria plan and
specific cases at len%h. Cook
ordered Putnam and Vulcan to
correct the problems im
mediately, including refunds of
money to all teachers who
wanted out of the program.
“LET ’EM OUT”
“The only thing I've iot to
say, Mr. Putnam, is what I
want you to do, is the ones that
want out of this program let
'em out and give their money
back. The ones that want to
stay in it, let 'em stay in it but
I'm tired of the whole thing
myself, now, and I'm ready to
cancel the whole thing and turn
it over to our lawyer and let
him settle it, whatever he has
to do,” Cook said. ‘‘Now if you
want to go in there — and I'm
just speaking for myself, I'm
not stpeaking for anybody else
— if you want to refund
everybody’s monefi' that wants
out and sign up the ones that
want to sign and you tell them
exactly what they're getting to
where they can understang it,
I'm in favor of it. If not, I'm in
favor of cancelling the whole
thing.”
“I think we can do that, Mr.
Cook,” Putnam said.
“I don't want any ‘thing,’ I
want you to do it!” Cook
retorted. *‘ ... I wasn’t involv
ed in any of these discussions
when this thing first started
but the people tell me that they
misrepresented this thing to
em. ‘And ik it wWas
misrepresented, they need to
get their money back. Are you
in a position to give the money
b?ck to the ones that want out
of it?”
MANY HAPPY
“Yessir, I think so,” Put
nam replied. You know,
whenever a lot of people have
come in though and said they
were perfectly happy with the
program ... "’
“They sure are talking dif
ferent to you than they are to
me,”’ Cook interrupte({
“I'm saying some people,
not all of t¥lem e P?ltnam
said.
““Maybe we all need to get
together on this thing and look
each other in the eye and we'll
all get the same words coming
out of the same mouth at the
same time,” Cook said.
VIEWS
“I've had some people tell
me ‘I don’t want any cfianges
in my program, I like it' and
I've had some folks say that ‘I
don’t want to participate next
year,” and I've had some peo
ple say ‘I didn’t participate last
year but I'd like to participate
this year,” Putnam said.
“That’'s fine...l'm not
talking about next year now,
I'm not talking about next
year,” Cook saitf “I'm talking
about this year, right now, is
what I'm talking about.”
“You know, that what I'm
here for to get it straifihtened
out,” Putnam said. “All I want
to know is can I go to work in
the morning?”’
SHAFTED?
“It seems, Mr. Putnam,
that the whole thing comes
down to the teachers have
trusted Vulcan Life to take
their money and use it to their
advantage and it appears to
most of the teachers that
Vulcan Life has taken their
money and used it to their ad
vantage — Vulcan Life's ad
vantage — where they're the
recipients of a bigger share
than teachers feel like they're
entitled to,"” said David Jones,
princigal of Summerville Mid
dle School. “Now the cafeteria
i)lan. most people that I talk to,
hink it's a great plan but the
way that money is being in
vested or whatever else, does
not appear to the average Joe
Blow teacher that it's working
to their advantage. It's work
ing to Vulcan Life's advantage
and they're getting shafted.”
TRUE
“Right, and in a lot of in
stances, that's true,” Putnam
acknowledged. “‘And that's the
reason we're refunding some
money because some of the
people have spent money and
they really dign’t get a dollar
for a dollar sgent. You have to
realize number one, that we
don't like to have this par
ticular contract used that was
used. It was all over and done
with before we knew it was be
ing done because it's hard for
;xs to administer internal-
Ny
REFUND
Cook then asked Putnam if
Vulcan was goirs to refund
Hair's mone{. “You told me
down at Lyerly when you came
down there to talk to me that
you were going to make these
people happy and I told you
that what would make me hap-
Ey was to make the teachers
appfi. isn't that correct?”’
i ight.“ Putnam re
sponded. L g
~ ‘““Okay, now he’s not happy
if he doesn't %et his monei
back, I don’t believe,”” Cool
said.
“Okay,” Putnam replied.
LET OUT
Cook said Putnam and
Vulcan should let all teachers
out of the program who want
out and refund their money,
but continue the cafeteria plan
for teachers who want it
through next April, when the
first year of the benefits
package will expire. The board
will then vote on whether to
cancel the program or continue
it “altogetEer. Can you do that
Mr. Putnam?”’
“Yes,” the insurance ex
ecutive replied.
“We're gonna expect you to
do it then, Mr. Putnam,” Cook
said. “The ones that want out
of this lEirogram the rest of this
time that we signed up with
you, you let 'em out and give
them their money back; the
ones that want to stay in it,
you sign them up for any kind
of program they want but you
explain that program where
they can understand it because
I don’t understand it...you
do it where they can unders
tandat ... "
OVERCROWDING
In other action, the board
discussed overcrowding on bus
routes in the City of Summer
ville. No action was taken but
the panel told Supt. Hayes and
Wilgurn Ragland, bus
superintendent, to review the
situation, seek to develog a
new route and add another bus
to help alleviate the
overcrowding.
It also authorized the pur
chase of three water fountains
for CHS and two heaters for
the Pennville School cafeteria.
RESA
The board agreed to join the
Regional Educational Agency
(RESA) for next year.
It also named Billy Martin
physical education teacher at
Lyerly School and Luther
Daniel janitor at Summerville
Elementary.
The board also decided to
meet after the holidays to go
over policy revisions and new
policies reguired by the Quali
ty Basic Education (QBE) Act.
Alfred McDaniel, Lyerly,
asked about a bus passenger
and route policy ancP about an
application filed with the
system by a prospective
teacher. Hayes discussed the
routing situation with
McDaniel, as well as the ap
plication procedures.
McDaniel had asked the
board in early October to
recruit more black teachers and
administrators.
SALES TAX
Hayes told the board that
the system had received a
$98,097.58 sales tax check for
October. Including a
$99,229.14 balance at the
beginning of the current fiscal
year (which began July 1), the
system has received
$572,648.39 so far, he said.
After the meeting, Hayes said
the schools had received
$970,565.44 in sales tax
revenue for the current calen
dar year.
‘Weatherman’
Christopher Noel, a student
at Pennville School, was *‘guest
weatherman'’ for Chattanooga
television channel 3 Wednes
day evening.
The program was started
by meteorologist Paul Barys.
Mailboxes Hit
Four mailboxes were wiped
out on Bill Rich Hill Sunday by
a vehicle, according to a report
filed at the Chattooga County
Sheriff's Office.
The incident was probed by
Deps. Stan Smith and Cindy
Barnett.
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The 37-year-old driver of a
car that became airborne on
Dec. 9 and smashed into the
Bellah Grocery was later
checked for injuries, according
to the Summerville Police
Department.
Billy Wayne Mobbs,
Gaylesville, Ala., Rte. 3, was
driving his car east on Bellah
Avenue on Dec. 9 when he ap
glied the brakes near Oak
treet, said Cart. Fred
Lawson. The vehicle skidded
and became airborne upside
down, Lawson added, and
smashed into the corner of the
grocery store,
Although it appeared that
Mobbs had suffered only a few
cuts on his arm and side, police
said he later was checked for
possible rib injuries as a result
of the accident,
One of the car's tires left a
perfect imfprint of a circle on
the side of the building.