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..The Summerville News, Thursday, February 28, 1991
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Staff Photos By Tommy Toles
BOTTOM OF PUMP CHECKED FOLLOWING BLAZE
Gasoline Device Catches Fire On Thursday
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A small gasoline fire at a
Rome Boulevard service sta
tion caused a short gleriod of
excitement last Thursday
afternoon.
The Summerville Fire
Department res&mded to acall
to the Chevron Service Station,
103 Rome Boulevard, at 4:31
p.m. Thursday. One of the sta
tion’ sagasoline pumps had been
pulled over by a departing van
which had the pump's nozzle
still in the tank inlet.
When the pumaY was yank
ed over, electrical wires ap
parently caused gasoline in the
pump to catch fire. Firemen
were on the scene in a minute
and extinguished the blaze.
An employee of the station
had apparently left the nozzle
in the van's inlet and bid driver
Gary Duke farewell. Duke
drove off not realizing the noz
zle was stillin his van's outlet.
EQUIPMENT
Logging equipment caught
fire in the woods south of
Chapel Hill Baptist Church
Monday, according to Chat
tooga éounty Sheriff's Dep.
Tara Van Pelt. The fire was
reported by Jerry Burton.
A mobile home owned by
Anita Pendergrass, Lyerly,
caught fire Saturday and
received extensive damage, ac
cording to Dep. Steve Duncan.
Summervi?le firemen ex
tinguished a dumpster fire on
U. S. Highway 27, south of the
city, on Feb. 20. :
A chimney at the home of
Larrar Kellett, Back Berryton
Road, caught fire about 6 a.m.
qu(xiday, Summerville firemen
said.
Attends Meeting
Registered Nurse Sherylon
Smith, Summerville, assistant
administrator of North
Georgia Home Health Agency
Inc., attended a recent
organizational meeting of the
North Georgia Association for
Continuity of Care in Calhoun.
For further information on
the organization, contact
Registered Nurse Eva Webster
at 1-800-233-0958.
Trion BOE Tries To ‘Buy Time’
By BUDDY ROBERTS
Associate News Editor
The Trion Board of Educa
tion on Tuesday considered
how to “buy time” to assess
the school system’s long-term
needs while meeting immediate
needs. Administrators discuss
ed staff and space needs with
the board during the called
work session. @
Superintendent Bill Kinzy
called the session to ‘‘consider
items that could impact the
1992 bggget." Classroom and
staff needs due to increasing
enrollment, construction pro
jects and expenses, and
athletic department needs were
discussed. Board members in
dicated that action may be
taken on some of the items at
the panel’s March meeting.
lginzy said that although
Trion Schools have a demand
for enrollment, ‘‘we’re not try
ing to get big.”” But increasing
numbers of mcoming students
will require more teachers and
classroom space.
“The board is buying time.
We need to look at our needs
for a year or two before jump
ing into a major building pro
gram.” Options for a major
construction program were
outlined for the board, in
cluding & recommendation in a
facilities plan to build three
classrooms at Trion Elemen
tary and High Schools, as well
as two additional elementary
classrooms to house art and
music classes.
Kinzy said, accordinf to the
plan, Trion has about $462,000
in facility needs. The system
may afi)ly for state capital
outlay funds this summer with
whicfi to build the new
classrooms. The superinten
dent said that the Georgia
General Assembly usuafiy
funds capital outlay projects
on a SIOO million scale, mean
ing that Trion's share this year
could be as much as $31,400.
He added that the schools
have accumulated $92,100 in
capital outlay funds during the
past three fiscal years, pro
vidin%aenough funds to build
four classrooms. The question,
he said, is to determine how
many rooms should be con
structed at each school.
A second option was to
have been proposed to the
board last year, but the plans
were halted due to last,
February’s flood. “We had a
plan to solve ou;rroblem, but
the flood delayed us a {gar,"
Kinzy said. “T'nis would be one
construction project that
would solve the high school
and elementarly school’s con
struction problem for years to
come.”
The superintendent propos
ed building a classroom com
plex on the high school cam
pus, at the corner of Park
Avenue and Dalton Street.
Eight classrooms would be
housed in the new building.
But at least two problems
exist with the plan, Kinzy said.
If the eight classrooms are
built, Trion’s seventh grade
would be moved to the high
school. “One obstacle to that is
that the state would not fund
its part of it, because it said if
we move the seventh grade to
the high school, we would need
to expand our library. There’s
another Eroblem we'll have to
deal with.”
The f)roposed classrooms
would likely have to be
elevated more than five feet
above the floor level of Trion
High School to be out of the
flood plain. “We argued heavi
ly about that at the time, but
we won't argue now,”’ com
mented Principal Clarence
Blevins.
Elevating the classrooms
could increase their cost by
SIO,OOO each, Kinzy said.
“We no longer have the con
fidence in this proposal as we
had before the Hood We don't
know the long-term effects on
our present building.”
“Well, you can’t put the
world on hold waiting to see
what happens to an old
bulldinfi,’ said board Chair
man Harold Peek. Kinzy
agreed, and reminded the
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Capital Improvement Needs Assessed
board that the project remains
as an option. t
If the board :Frees to con
struct the eifht asses, about
$130,000 in local funds would
be needed.
MOBILES?
A third option involves
mobile classroom units. “I
don't particularly like them,
but they use them
everywhere,” Kinzy said. Sue
Hayes, curriculum Xlrec tor and
special education coordinator,
pointed out that the use of
mobile units allows schools
time to make long-range
decisions.
Mobile units cost about
$12,000 each, and may be us
ed for 10 to 15 {?ars, Kinzy
told the board. Used mobile
classrooms may be purchased
for about $9,000 each. e
If the arrangement would
be workable with all concerned,
Kinzy proposed changing a
game room in the Trion Com
munity Center into two
classrooms to be used by the
high school. Two mobile units
would then be placed beside the
east wing of the school.
However, the schools would
need apcproval from the Trion
Town Council for use of the
recreation room.
CHANGES
The plan also calls for
changing office s?ace into
classrooms at the elementary
school, and {Jlacing one mobile
unit &aralle to a corridor.
“We're down to new con
struction or mobile units,” Kin
zy said. ‘““The problem with
new. construction is that we
need the classroom space this
September. The mobile units
are options for schools in tight
situations. The problems with
these options can be overcome,
but it won'’t be easy.”
Mobile units may not need
to be elevated as temporary
structures, but if another flood
occurred, ‘I doubt thear would
withstand the kind of flood we
had,” Kinzy said. ‘... If not
for the flood, those classrooms
would have been there last
summer.”’
NEW SCHOOL
The superintendent added
that the ideal solution would be
to build new schools outside of
the flood plain. He said that if
new schools were constructed,
the high school would include
grades six through 12.
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school principal Larry Music
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discussed problems related to
increased enrollment. A total of
417 students was enrolled in
the high school this month,
Blevins said, estimating that
434 will enroll next year.
“About the most we could
house is 430 students. We're
approaching that. We turned
away 40 to 50 students this
year because we did not have
the staff to teach those kids.
11We're loaded to the maximum
imit.”
The current high school
staff includes 19 full-time
teachers, and two that teach
two classes per day. Blevins
outlined for the board how he
determined staff need, and re
?uested two full-time teachers
or the next school year to meet
slightly increasing enrollment.
MAXIMUM
“We're in the situation
where if we had a student move
in, we'd have a very difficult
time enrolling that student.
We're at the absolute max
imum for the high school. For
the time being, two staff
members will do us for three
years, then we’ll probably need
two more,’’ Blevins concluded.
Musick described a ‘‘bot
tleneck’ situation through
which elementary school
students advance to high
school. ‘‘Several years ago, tie
staff considered how to help
Trion High School do the best
job for its students. We don’t
want to be a great, bifi system,
but it was decided that 90 to
100 students feeding into the
high school was enough to have
tl&e number of students need
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To meet that need, he con
tinued, four classes each in
Frades kindergarten through
our were organized, as well as
four fifth grade classes, and
three sixth and seventh grade
classes.
The school did not request
additional staff last year, and
a ‘‘bottleneck’’ has been
created among students enter
ing higher elementary grades.
A total of 187 students is cur
rently enrolled in Trion’s sixth
and seventh grades, and five of
the six classes contain more
than 30 students.
MORALE
Musick said that the situa
tion has hurt teacher morale,
and the school could either pro
vide help in working with the
increased enrollment as it is, or
reduce the enrollment in lower
firades. ‘‘But that's going to
urt the high school as far as
numbers go.” It's decision
time. Hirincf personnel is ex
pfilt;lsive, and it's not a one-time
t : ')1
lfe requested two new staff
members to teach three sub
{'ects each at the sixth grade
evel. Class size could then be
reduced to about 25 students
per class.
Musick added that 70
students were turned away
from the elementary school
this year, and that 23 resident
students have enrolled since
September. “That's a whole ex
tra classroom that we could not
do anything but take.”
“] don’t pretend what
we've considered tonight will
lead us to a land of bliss,” said
Mrs. Hayes, before discussing
the schools’ special education
needs.
NEEDS
The needs include address
ing the high school's small
sgecial education classroom,
the difficulty in obtaining a
psychometrist to evaluate
students, the possible need to
provide instruction for 3 and
4-year-old handicapped
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students, and meeting a need
for a fullrcertified teacher to
work with mentally handicap
ped students.
TS it
tor the boar vide
$45,629.98 in funding for a new
fieldhouse for the athletic
department. The project is ex
pected to cost $80,629.98.
Gable said the Trion
50-Ya6~g sf}ub l}ua.s collecteg
$19,503.64 for the project, an
a grant of $7.508 li'ast\)een
R}edged by the Mount Vernon
ills Foundation. A total of
$7,996.36 is projected to come
from additional community
donations, £ 4 A
The number of students in
the athletic gmams has
made the old fieldhouse out
dated, Gable said. If approved,
the new fieldhouse could be
constructed in about eight
weeks.
The board also discussed
kindergarten registration, pro
viding cost-of-living salary in
creases to non-certified staff,
appointing a teachers’ benefits
committee, working on a long
range strategies plan, anglfay
inq utility fees at the athletic
fieldhouse.