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Local Survey Data Sought
Newspaper Asks Views On Issues, Institutions
A survey on local govern
ments, issues, institutions,
schools and quality of life is
ggain beir;fi conducted by The
ummerville News.
The 21 categories for which
reaction is being sought are
featured in this week’s edition
of The News. Anyone receiving
the paper by mail or buying it
on a newsstand may par
ticipate in the non-scientific
samplindi:f opinion. .
Deadline for submitting the
completed forms is 5 p.m. Mon
day, April 1. Resullgs of the
survey will be published as
Ty Summerville News
Patience On A Windy Day
soon as they are tabulated.
CATEGORIES
Five categories of residents
are listed: county residents
who live outside the city limits
of any town, Summerville,
Trion, Lyerly and Menlo
residents. Those categories
aren’t necessarily binding but
they will help in scoring the
survey.
Those reElying to the
survey are asked to rate each
category from one to 10, with
10 being the highest. 1f you are
happy with the county schools,
on red wi%glers despite a steady wind
that rippled the surface of the lower
lake. He fishes “‘everytime I get a
chance” despite a game leg that
limits his activity. (Staff Photos).
for example, you might score
the system with a nine or 10.
If you are unhappy with roads
or streets in your area, fyou
may score them a three or four
or lower. The same method
should be used in all categories.
No photocte?ies of the forms
will be counted or allowed. On
ly those cfipgc}nf;:)m an actual
copy of The erville News
wifl be counted. No more than
two survey forms may be mail
ed in one envelope (for example,
a husband and wife may vote
differently on the issues and
see LOCAL SURVEY, page 9-A
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RVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1991
Pool Repairs Receive OK
Council Approves Water Service For Smallen Road
Unbudgeted funds to repair
the ci%v swimming pool and to
extend water service along
Smallen Road to just west of
Lyerly have been approved b{
the Summerville City Council.
The expenditures mean
that the city swimming pool
will be renovated in time for its
scheduled opening this sum
mer, and that between 40 and
50 Chattooga county residents
with contaminated wells will
have a ready supply of clean
water this year.
In other action Monday
evening, the council:
* Learned that more than
$51,000 in delinquent city
taxes are being turned over to
a county magistrate judge for
collection.
* Agreed informally to
work with the Georgia ery
Fourth Judge Down Tubes Again
By BUDDY ROBERTS
Associate News Editor
The Georgia General
Assembly this year funded two
boot camp detention centers to
be constructed in Chattooga
County, although no money
was available to create a fourth
superior court judgeship for
the Lookout Mountain Judicial
Circuit.
That’s the word from Fifth
District Rep. Tim Perry and
Sen. Waymond ‘“Sonny" Hug
gins of the 53rd District. The
1991 legislative session ended
last week. The lefiilslature ap
proved two local bills this year,
and took action on statewide
measures that will directly af
fect Chattooga County, the
solons said.
A total of $11.25 million
was included in the state's
1992 budget for the construc
tion of nine boot camp deten
tion centers for first-time, non
violent offenders, including
two facilitiesin Chattooga. In
itial construction of the camps
began this month at Hays Cor-
Old Timer’s Festival
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By TOMMY TOLES
Editor
Chattooga Receives Two State Boot Camp Operations
NINE CAMPS
Chattooga County’s Population By Age And Race
auwaoss [ msanbovemowy
1990 enet [T o vPt e g e s
Al ... ....... 0 0 Lase 3 | 1,416 61 | 4.12% 1,085 0 | 1,036| 49 | 4.51%
Cloudland-Teloga ...... | 1,010 4 | 1,006 0| 0.0% 771 2 769 0| 00%
C01dwater............. | 307 0 209 98 | 31.92% 227 0 150 | 77 | 33.92%
Dhtee11er...........c.. 1 1151 .0 115 0| 0.0% 89| 0 89 0| 00%
Dirttown-Haywood .... | 1146 | 7 971 | 168 | 14.66% 821 5 700 | 116 | 14.13%
Lyerly-Seminole ....... | 1554 14 1,464 76 4.89% 1,141 6 1,075 60 5.26%
Pennvi11e.............. 1. 1318 11 1,291 11 0.84% 998 7 984 % 0.70%.
Subligna .............. 563 | 2 560 1| 0.18% 401 2 398 1| 0.25%
Summerville. .......... | 9398 | 20 | 7.939| 1,439 | 15.31% ||| 7.042| 16 | 6,058| 968 | 13.75%
THom ... L BESS L. 20 | 5249 87 | 1.62% 3973 13 | 3,901 59 | 1.49%
T0TAL5.............. [23,242| 81 [20,220| 1941 | 873% |]/16,548| 51 |15160| 1,337 | 8.08%
National Guard in installation
of a sewer for a planned new ar
mory that would also serve
new restrooms at Fairway
Recreation Center.
* Held a closed meeting to
set a price on property in the
city industrial park for a pro
spective new industry that
would provide some 200 new
jobs.
* Agreed to buy a piece of
e.(}uipment for the ci(tiy water
filter plant that was damaged
in recent flooding, and okayed
a service contract for the plant.
The council also agreed to seek
bids on a surplus city tanker
truck, and bids on a
transformer for the sewerage
plant.
POOL
The Summerville Recrea
tion Board met at 5:30 p.m.
Monday at city hall to consider
bids for repairing the city
swimming pool on Bollin
Road. The panel didn't finisfi
its deliberations at 6 p.m.,
when the council meeting
rectional Institution.
“I was real proud of the
boot camps,’’ Perry said. ‘‘The
final budget literally insured
that they’ll be built here.”
Huggins said he supported
the governor-recommended
camps ‘IOO percent. I think it
will ge a good thing for Chat
tooga County. It will create
quite a few more jobs.”
The boot camps are ex
pected to be operational by ear
Black Population Remains Static
The percentage of blacks
composin% Chattooga Coun
ty’s poYu ation has remained
relatively static during the
past 30 years, according to
statistics from the U. S. Cen
sus Bureau.
Of the county's 22,242
citizens counted in the 1990
census, 1,941 were black,
representing 8.73 percent of
the total population. That com
pares with a black population
of 8.6 percent in 1980, 9.7 per
cent in 1970, and 9.3 percent in
1960. -
The black population in
Mid-East Care Packages
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began, but members came into
the council chamber later in the
evening to make a recommen
dation on the pool repair.
Bearden Construction Co.,
Acworth, submitted a low bid
of $39,036.42. Tucker's Pools &
Spas, Acworth, submitted a
bid of $42,679, while Atlantis
Pool, Lilburn, submitted a pro
posg'! of $49,228.
Charles Elsberry, recrea
tion board chairman, told the
council and Mayor Sewell Cash
that the panel had accepted the
Bearden bid and recommended
that the council fund the
project.
Elsberry said Bearden, the
low bidder, had a performance
bond and insurance to cover
the project. He also provided
references of previous work.
QUESTIONS
Mayor Cash asked
numerous questions about
whether unknown factors in
volved in the pool repairs could
be more costly than the bid. A
representative of the firm said
ly 1992. Inmate labor will be
used to build the camps, which
will contain a total of 30,000
square feet. Both legislators
previously cited former Chat
tooia Sheriff Gary McConnell
for helping locate the camps in
the county.
McConnell, a long-time
friend of Gov. Zell Mi%er, is
now director of the Georgia
Emergency Management
Agency.
1980 was 1,887. It was 1,984 in
1970, and 1,852 in 1960. The
county’s total population by
year was: 1980 — 21,856, 1970
— 20,541, and 1960 — 19,954.
OTHER RACES
Although the numbers of
other races in the county was
not available for 1980, 1970
and 1960, the 1990 census
showed that there were 81 fleo
ple of races other than black or
white residing in the county.
The Summerville voting
precinct — which is larger than
the actual City of Summerville
his company had considered
the gossibiflty of unknown
plumbing and electrical repairs
that may have to be made once
the perimeter of the pool has
been excavated.
Jerry Brown, a Gore resi
dent who is also in the swimm
ing pool business, has agreed
to inspect the work for the
recreation board, according to
Elsberry and Ralph Stan%ey.
recreation director. Brown had
developed the repair proposal
for the recreation board earlier
this year.
Brown said earlier this
month that he had contacted
local contractors to get a
preliminary estimate on the
cost of the pool repairs. The
estimates were not bids. He
came up with $45,430.
Stanley and Elsberry also
said that Bearden's references,
bond and insurance would be
verified prior to the start of
construction.
CHOICES
The expenditure isn't in the
NO JUDGE
While funds were available
for the boot camps, none were
allocated for a fourth judgeship
for the Lookout Mountain
Judicial Circuit. Four other
{udg%hips were approved by
he legislature, four circuits
listed as greater in need than
Lookout Mountain. No deci
sion was reached as to whether
the post would be elective or
appointed.
— contained the bulk of black
residents, according to the
1990 census. Of the 9,398
residents in that area, 1,439
were black, 20 were of other
races and 7939 were white. The
percentage of blacks in the
Summerville box was 15.31
percent.
The Coldwater district had
the greatest percentage of
blacks — 31.92 percent,
although it had only %8 black
residents, the census indicated.
It had 209 white residents and
no residents of other than
those two races for a total of
STILL
ONLY
25¢€
current fiscal year's city
budget. Mayor Cash said the
council had three choices: (1)
Make the requested repairs, (2)
Ctlose the pool, or (}ll3} Make
stopgap repairs, such as pat
ching t?xe walls and bottorfi of
the pool again.
Plans call for the perimeter
of the pool to be excavated and
all leaking plumbinfi to be
replaced and electrical repairs
made. They also call for resur
facing the pool.
Stanley had warned at
several meetinfgs that a si%m'fi
cant amount of water was leak
ing from the pool’s
underground piping. The
department had ago received
complaints about the rough
surface of the pool.
The board several years ago
awarded a repair contract to an
unbonded Rome pool company,
which the {)anel said fierform
ed unsatisfactory work. Large
chunks of the plaster fell off
the walls or came loose from
the bottom and that remaining
see POOL REPAIRS, page 10-A
The Lookout Mountain cir
cuit has been listed as having
need for an additional judge
since 1982, and was listed
eighth this year, and ‘‘they
would not aflow us to jump
ahead on the schedule,” Perry
said. “I think we were in total
agreement that it would pass if
it had a chance, but we f()mked
around, and the money wasn't
there.”
see FOURTH. page 9-A
307 residents
NO BLACKS
The combined Cloudland-
Teloga boxes listed no black
resigents and only four
residents of other races, along
with 1,006 white residents. The
Dirtseller box had 115 whites
in the 1990 census and no
blacks and no residents of
other races. Subligna had only
one black resident and two
residents of other races, along
with 560 whites. e
Figures for 1980, 1970 and
see BLACK. page 11-A