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BETTY WOLSTEIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF HOSPITAL, POINTS TO GRADING :
Work Has Started On $1.47-Million Expansion Of Oak View Nursing Home
Oak View Groundbreaking
Ceremonies Friday Morning At Nursing Home
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been extended twice since then
to allow financing details to be
completed.
FEBRUARY
The 63-bed addition, which
is expected to be finished bfi
sometime next February, wi
boost Oak View’s capacity to
153 beds. It is being built on
the north and west sides of the
current nursing home. It will
be one of the la;‘gest in Georgia
when comglet L
It will contain 14,808
square feet and 30 two
bedrooms, along with three
¥rivate rooms. It will also
eature a new kitchen and din
ing room, which will also serve
the hospital, and two nursing
stations, an employee lounge
and a treatment room.
MONDAY MEET
Meanwhile, the Autherity
plans to hold its June meeting
at 7 p.m. next Monday at the
hosßital.
ne of the major items is
expected to be another meeting
with Ken Williams of Ken
Williams and Associates,
Atlanta. Williams on June 8 of
fered to manage and then buy
the hospital, which has been
losinf money during the last
couF e of years.
t would cost the facility
$7,000 per month for the
management contract and a
purchase e(f)rice wouldn't be
determined until an inspection
and valuation of its assets, in
ventory and accounts payable
and receivable, Williams in
dicated at the time.
DISFAVOR
Williams told the panel that
he looked with disfavor on the
Authority taking on an addi
tional $1.47-million debt with
the Oak View addition but was
told that the project had pro
ceeded too far to halt.
Williams said at the time he
made his proposal that local ci
ty and county officials must be
willing to make a shortterm
commitment to provide for in
digent care costs so that a
longrange solution could be
reached for keeping the facili
ty open.
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A contract between the low bidder on an
addition to Oak View Nursing Home and
the Chattooga County Hos%it.al Authori
ty was signed last week. Tn-City Con
struction Co. Inc., LaFayetge, submitted
the $1,241,000 bid for the project. Shown
from left in front are John Fones, presi
dent of Tri-City; Katherine Camp, chair
He offered to buy the
hospital on terms with an in
itial downpayment that would,
by law, go into a fund to pro
vide for the care of indigents.
However, Williams saig, his
plan called for no payments for
the first two years of owner
ship. It would also take about
seven years to build up enough
reserve in the indigent fund to
take care of those costs, he
added.
CONDITIONS
During the period of
man::lgement, the Authority
would have to be willing to ac
cept recommendations by his
firm for any possible staff cut
backs or more efficient
management of the facility,
Williams said.
bags to be burned at Trion last week.
Some $527,000 in marijuana plants was
seized at 31 locations around the county
during the early part of last week, said
Shorifl' Gury M‘cl:CPonnell. (Staff Photo).
Oak View Contract Signed
Williams also assured the
Authority that he had no inten
tion of guying the hospital,
operating it for a few months
and then closing the facility.
“It won't happen,” he said.
Williams plans to meet
Monday with the Authorit
and the hospital’s medical stag;
to respond to questions about
the proposed management and
purchase contracts.
Meanwhile, the Authority
will also review the financial
statements for the hospital and
nursing home for May.
TRAFFIC DEATHS
One out of 60 children born
today will die in a traffic acci
dent, according to the Georgia
Extension Service.
man of the Authority; Sherry Bishop,
Authority member; in back, Rita Nave,
corporate secretary of Tri-City; Authori
ty attorney Carlton Vines; architect M. G.
Turner; Betty Wollstein, executive direc
tor of the hospital and nursing home; and
Authority member Bobby Haygood.
(Staff Photo).
Berry Announces
Summer Courses
A number of continuing
education courses will be of
fered by Berry College this
summer.
They will include landscap
ing for your home, stress
management, adult beginning
swimming, songwriting
workshop, penmanship for
children and computer courses.
For more information, call
Berry at 236-2270.
Card of Thanks
We are sincerely grateful to
friends and neighbors for their
many kind acts of sympathy
during our sad bereavement.
QOur appreciation cannot be
adequately expressed.
The family of Ernest L.
Hawkins
IN LOVING MEMORY
Of Katie McGuire
Who Passed Away
June 23, 1983
GRANDMA
She was always there
when we needed her
She never complained
or sighed
She truly did love us
And that love will
never die.
We will never forget
her
Never regret the time
We all spent together
For she’s always on our
minds.
We miss our
Grandmother
Whom we loved and
lived with for so long
For now she lives with
another
God has taken her
home.
Your children
miss you
Written by
Linda Howell
Fairway Restrooms Get
Nod From City Council
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the Fairway swimming pools.
— Repairing the fence
around the pool.
— Installing lifesaving
equipment at the pool.
— Providing clothing
baskets for youngsters using
the pool.
— Providing benches for
the pool's dressing rooms.
— Renovate the gym at the
Bolling Road complex to in
crease the air flow and reduce
the heat buildup during the
summer. Stanlefl said money is
in the 1988-89 budget for the
renovation.
— Operating a concession
stand at the pool.
— Resurfacing the outside
basketball court area.
— Improving lighting at
the pool and recreation center.
— Establishing and posting
rules of conduct at the pool.
: PINE TREES
Cash said, however, that
the city couldn't grant the
CCO's request that it cut down
Eine trees adjacent to the pool
ecause they belong to the
county government.
Terry Money, chairman of
the Recreation Board, said the
panel would hold a called
meeting in the near future to
consider the group’s demands.
Ralph Stanley, recreation
director, said several times
that the recreation department
could operate only on the funds
that were made available by
the city government. ‘“You
can't spend what you ain't
got,”" he said.
POSITIONS
The recreation official
pointedly asked Brown to ask
Parker and Wright for their
specific positions on the coun
ty providing funds to the city
for the recreation department.
“They're right behind you,
Mr. Brown,” Stanley said. He
said the blacks shouldn't ac
cept a statement from the can
digates that they would mere
ly review the issue if they were
elected.
However, Parker said only
Commissioner Powell knows
now what money is available,
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“*and you can only spend what
is available.” Until he finds out
what resources are available to
the county, the Democratic
candidate said, he couldn't
‘make a commitment on possi
ble specific action if he were to
be elected.
Councilman Hankins inter
jected that the recreation
department is growing at a
rate of approximately 100
youngsters per year.
Powell ““can do what he
wants to do,’’ said Wright. The
GOP candidate promised to
remove the pine trees at the
gool and put in new facilities at
airway if he is elected.
DODGE BULLET
““The commissioner,
whoever is running, needs to
quit dodging the %)ullet" on
recreation, Stanley said during
the back-and-forth discussion
Tuesday.
The recreation director also
said that the county govern
ment should pick up between
one-half and two-thirds of the
city’'s total recreation budget,
based on the number of non
city participants involved in
the program, ‘‘or they're not
doing their job. Kids are the
most important thing we
have.”
In Rome and Floyd County,
Stanley noted, the county
picks up about two-thirds of
the recreation budget and the
city one-third.
DRAW LINE
Mayor Cash, at the beginn
ing of the debate over recrea
tional responsibility, said ‘‘the
line has got to be drawn
somewhere”’ on activities in the
future unless the city receives
revenues from the county. The
city can't continue to bear the
entire burden for increased an
nual costs, he said.
Charles Elsberry, a member
of the Recreation Board, said
the city will be faced with
charging non-city residents a
fee. He expressed concern that
the action would prevent some
youngsters from participating
in recreation programs in the
county. .
The county in the past con
tributed $25,000 annually from
its federal Revenue Sfiaring
funds toward city recreation,
Cash noted, but w¥len that pro
gram ended, so did the regular
county funding. Commissioner
Powell has given $17,000 to the.
city this year, he said, but most
of that was for renovating the
Bolling Road swimming pool.
1 OF 10
Summerville is one of only
about 10 cities in Georgia that
pick up virtually all the cost for
organized recreation programs,
said Councilman Cavin. Other
cities charge stiff fees for
enrolling in programs, plus par
ticipahts have to buy tfieir own
uniforms and equipment, he
said.
At the beginning of the
meeting, Mayor Cash said the
city had spent $202,912.40 at
the Fairway Park during the
last three years.
The expenditures have in-
cluded swings, picnic shelter,
pool table, plastering of the
pool and a new filter system,
carpet on the pool deck, roof on
the restroom building, new
pump house, new roof on the
recreation building, renovation
of the building’s interior, new
air cond(iitioning system,
ayground equipment, new
Fence at the f?el(f. bleachers,
new lights and aYOIeS' renova
tion otS basketball goals and a
press box, Cash said.
COMPARISON
Stanley said the condition
of Fairway now as comgard to
three years ago would be akin
to a Model A and a Cadillac.
However, Brown said
“‘three years ago isirrelevant”
and ‘‘today's what is impor
tant.”
At one point, Brown com
plained about a bullfrog being
in the Fairway pool and sug
gested that the fence around
the facility was to blame.
Elsberry noted that bullfro?s
sometimes end up in the Boll
ing Road pool, too. “You can’t
keep them out,” he said.
JUSTIFY?
Councilman Hankins noted
that the city was spending
some $9,000 annually on the
Fairway pool when the average
daily use is only four people per
day. ‘‘How can we justify spen
ding $9,000 of the taxpayers’
money a year for four people a
day?" he asked Brown.
The minister insisted that
more than four people a day
use the pool.
Mayor Cash intervened in
the debate and Brown said he
didn’'t want to get into the
issue.
Hankins asked whether the
proposed restrooms at Fairway
would need to be as large as
those at the Bolling Road com
plex. Brown never answered
the query directly but noted
that teams using the Fairway
field would a%so use the
restrooms.
CHAIN
Mayor Cash said he felt it
would be better for any recom
mendation to come from the
Recreation Board but said the
Council wouldn’'t let city
facilities deteriorate in the
Nepotism Charged
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made in late April, some time
before the other gpplicant
telephoned him to find out if he
had any openings at his school.
CONSIDERATION
He also said that if he had
any other openings for which
County BOE Adopts
sl2-Million Budget
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a S3OO supplement for
teachers, but iF the supplement
is not apFroved. $400,000 will
be transferred.
Board member Bill Mitchell
made a motion to increase the
supplement addition to SSOO, it
was not approved. There
wasn't a second.
There is a significant
change in the suns equities
from July, 1987 and July 1,
1988. The fund equity is the
sum of all money in the system.
At the beginning of the
1987-88 fiscal year, there was
about $866,656 in the county’s
fund eci:xities, but this year
that as increased to
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American Glove ‘Pride’ Winner
American Glove Co., Lyerly, has won the
June Optimist *‘Proud”” Award given by
the Noon Optimist Club of Summerville-
Trion. The award is given in recognition
of different Chattooga County companies’
commitment to Chattooga by providing
absence of a recommendation.
Cavin asked Brown
whether it would be adequate
to install outside doors on the
recreation center’s existing
restrooms and keep them open
for extended hours since the
facility is only a short distance
from the balflield at Fairway.
He later noted the distance bet
ween Mitchell Field on Bolling
Road and the nearest available
restrooms.
Brown insisted on the new
restrooms, saying that if ex
isting facilities were used, “‘our
kids would still have to walk."
Councilman Ira Pollard said he
felt the restrooms were a
necessity.
PROPOSAL
Cavin said if some $5,000 in
img‘rovements could be made
to Fairway's indoor restrooms
and to the restrooms at the
swimming pool, that would
leave some $20,000 to spend on
other programs at the center.
A previous low bid for the new
restrooms was $25,000.
However, Brown indicated
his determination that new
restrooms be built and that the
gool‘s restrooms be improved
ecause they were so ‘‘foul.”
The preacher also sug
gested that the city use some
of the $90,000 proposed for the
purchase of the Downtown
Cinema building for a city civic
center on Fairway instead.
POOL
Jessie Mann, the only black
member of the Recreation
Board, expressed her frustra
tion that the surface of the
Fairway pool hadn’t been im
proved. One child “‘almost ruin
ed” her feet on the existing
rough surface, she said. The
firoject was proposed at a
ecreation Board meeting, she
said. ‘I felt this was a necessi
ty but it was not done,” she
added. ‘‘lt could have been
done”” with money available.
Elsberry said that when the
Recreation Board considers its
Eroposed budget, each member
as an opportunity to express
his or her views on priorities.
Mrs. Mann said the project
was proposed but wasn'it) listed
in the budget.
the agplicant was certified, she
would be considered.
Two teachers were hired at
Summerville Elementary at
last week's board meeting.
Poole pointed out that one of
these, Terri Starr, is black.
“I really wanted her to
$1,103,306, a hike of $237,000.
EQUITY
In at least one previous
{ear, fund equity included a
arge amount of sales tax
money for the next year which
had not been allocated by the
beginning of the next fiscal
year. After the final budget is
assembled the fund equity is
reduced. The fund equity for
June 30, 1989 is expee((:]ted to be
$465,731.
Other proposed expen
ditures for the 1987-88 and
1988-89 fiscal years, respec
tively, follow by category:
Pupil support services,
jobs for local citizens ana community in
volvement. Pictured left to right are Op
timist members Tony Jones and Glen
Ezell presenting the plague to American
Glove vice president, Dick Tanner.
Brown also asked that the
recreation center at Fairway be
kept open for lon%er hours dur
ing the summer. It now opens
at 3 p.m., he contended, and
youngsters in the area have
nothing to do from 8 a.m. to 3
p.m. However, Stanley said the
center opens as soon as dail
cleaning at 1 p.m. is complet.e({
If longer gours are approv
ed at the center, the recreation
director estimated, it would
take funds for an additional
two staff members.
Asked about more ac
tivities for the area, Stanley
told Brown that a tournament
is scheduled for this weekend
at the Fairway field.
PROBLEMS
In other matters of concern
expressed by the black groug
at the Council’'s June 1
meeting, Mayor Cash said
Tuesday evening that a
drainage problem had been cor
rected, requests for more street
lights were being considered by
the Council's lighting commit
tee, police protection would be
beefed up, estimates were be
ing obtained on the cost of pro
vifiing a six-inch line and a fire
hydrant for one area in North
Summerville. e
The mayor also promised
several other residents that the
city would investigate their
complaints about trash pro
blems and loitering, drainage
and an expressed need for more
hydrants.
After a five-minute break,
all the black residents and
most of the Recreation Board's
members had left the meeting.
SEWERAGE
Bids were opened on pro
viding sewerage to Councilman
Hankins' subdivision. Echols
Co., Summerville, submitted a
low bid of $15,500, which was
acce};‘)ted by the Council.
Hankins abstained on the
otherwise unanimous vote.
Other bids submitted included
BTC Construction, Coosa,
$27,376.590; Bob Dawson Con
struction Co., $15,971.50; and
C&H Plumbing, $17,496.
It also deciged to table un
til July 13 a decision on
whether to cut off city utility
service to customers who
refuse to pay the city’s fire pro
tection fee.
teach here, and I got her. I just
told her that I was going to be
here 15 more years and I'd like
her to be here when I left. You
get tickled when you get
somebody you know and when
yo.lzl know the family,” Poole
said.
$226,528 and $266,275; im
provement of instructional ser
vices, $252,240 and $313,558;
educational media services,
'5288,842 and $329,540; general
administration, $152,617 and
$172,288; school administra
tion, $481,575 and $689,852;
business support services,
$27,5600 and $22,500;
maintenance and operation,
$863,638 and $920,088; central
support services, $2,000 and
$3,000; school nutrition ser
vices, $762,906 and $728,361;
noninstructional services,
$8,217 and $11,220; facilities,
construction services, $368,418
and $547,003; debt service,
$81,227 and $83,077.