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The widening of U. S. Highway 27 from
Taylor Ridge to Summerville is nearing
completion. The outside southbound lane
had not been opened to traffic by Tues
day afternoon. Shoulder work remained to
be completed. C. W. Matthews Construc
tion Co., Marietta, took over from
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U.S. 27 Nears Completion
Headrick Construction Co., Summerville,
when the latter defaulted on the project
this past year. Matthews had hoped to
have the work finished by Christmas but
bad weather forced a delay in the comple
tion schedule. (Staff Photo).
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filiance with the National Voter
egistration Act, which pass
ed the House 143-21. The
“motor voter”’ proposal would
allow a centralized voter
registration list and for
registration at driver’s license
and public assistance offices.
It is expected to cost the
state at least $6 million to
implement.
“I couldn’t stomach voting
for it because of all the money
it'll cost us,” said Perry. ‘“This
is a totally unfunded mandate
the feds have Pushed down on
the state ...’
The House voted two weeks
ago to kill the measureelg' tabl
ing it but it was passed after
being supported by Speaker
Tom Murphy and House
Minority Leader Steve Stancil.
Perry supported Gov. Zell
Miller’s proposed SIOO million
tax cut when it passed the
House this week. Tfie plan will
increase the tax break working
parents may claim per depen
dent, and increase the income
cap for the elderly.
“This is the largest tax cut
in the state’s history, and I
think it will be a good stimulus
package,”’ said Perry.
In another matter, he sup
ported a bill setting new
minimum standards for public
schools. The plan lowered the
number of students needed in
elementary, middle and high
schools to qualify for full state
funding.
“I totally supported it and
have worked for it ever since
the day I first was elected to
the legislature,” Perry said.
“In smaller schools, students
receive more personalized at
tention and instruction, and it
has been my observation that
parents and the community
support smaller schools more.”
Superintendent Frank
Stewart has said that many of
the countirl school system'’s
smaller schools may now be
eligible for full state construc
tion money that had previous
ly been unavailable because the
schools did not meet the
minimum size requirements.
The new standards are at
least 200 students for elemen
tary schools, 400 students for
middle schools, and 500
students for high schools.
“Since (the Quality Basic
Education Act), localy school
boards, if they wanted to
receive full state funding for
their schools, have had to con
solidate many fine small
schools into very large
schools,” Perry said. “Not on
ly has consolidation caused the
personal instruction level in
many of these large schools to
decline, it has also cost the tax
gayers millions of dollars to
uild these new large schools,
when in many instances, the
smaller schoo{ buildings were
in excellent shape.”
In the Senate, Sen. Way
mond ‘“Sonny”’ Huggins sup
ported a measure calling for an
instant baclffi:-ound check on
all firearms. The House version
of the bill applied to handguns
only.
Huggins said he expects a
conference committee’s final
?_roposal will include all
irearms.
“I'm for a background
check 100 percent, but
anything beyond that should
be left alone. Beyond that, I
just can’t support anything on
fiun control. What we need to
o is stick it to those who use
them in the wrong way.”
ENROLLMENT
GUN BILL
BOE Renews Principals’ Contracts
By JULIE GRIFFIS
Staff Writer
After a one-hour, 10-minute
closed session, the Chattooga
Board of Education voted to
renew the contracts of seven
principals and five members of
the central office staff.
The board met last Thurs
day in a called meeting, having
cancelled its regular meeting
on Feb. 14, which coincided
Death Knell
For NWGS?
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$795,000 during that one fiscal
year.
Ms. Plant, in her Feb. 11
letter to Jones, said NWGS
would have to provide
“documented evidence that the
$133,000 deficit reflected in the
agency’'s 1992 audit has been
satisfied with the appropriate
fund sources.”
AUDIT
In addition, the agency
would have to provide DHR
with an audit of the period Oct.
1, 1992 through Jan. 31, 1994
“prior to future contract con
sideration.” If a deficit is
revealed in that audit, she con
tinued, NWGS would have to
provide DHR with documenta
tion that it had been satisfied
with funding sources.
Ms. Plant said before DHR
would consider giving NWGS
ang more money, it must also
submit:
A plan on how it would im
¥lement a program if it is
unded.
A description of its finan
cial management system.
A description of how it
would be organized ad
ministratively along with a
proposed organizational chart.
A plan that shows the tyges
of programs and services that
would be provided and to
which counties they would be
provided.
The number of employees.
Without a NWGg staff,
Jones said, meeting those re
quirements would be virtually
impossible.
FIRED
When the extent of the
agency’s financial problems
became known to the NWGS
board this past November, it
fired long-time executive direc
tor, Lawrence ‘‘Larry”’ Konrad.
In October, 1993, Konrad had
himself fired Leonard Weiss,
longtime fiscal officer for
NWGS.
Konrad has threatened to
sue Petty & Landis, the Chat
tanooia, Tenn., accounting
firm, that did the 1991-92 audit
for NWGS. He said the audit’s
conclusions were incorrect.
After the agency's pro
blems became known by fun
ding agencies other than HHS
and DHR, they began cutting
off money to NWGS, resulting
in the loss of the entire staff.
HHS transferred the Head
Start program to the Whitfield
Parent-Child Center in Dalton,
and most of the other pro-
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Leads To Gunfire
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nearby woods and disappeared,
the investigator continued.
De’F. Ray Brandon went to
the Tate residence that
Wednesday, Feb. 16, but Tate
fled the scene on foot, Elsberry
said.
The investigator obtained a
warrant and returned to the
Tate residence with Brandon,
Thursday morning, but Tate
asain fled the scene on foot, he
added.
FIRE
When Elsberry heard that
a fire had been reported near
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Or Phone 706/734-2709
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merce’s annual banquet.
After retumingl from the
closed session to discuss per
sonnel, the board rehired David
Jones, Dale Willingham, Ed
Thompson, Alma Lewis, H
Harvey, Mike Poole and Mti‘trx
Williams as principals.
Jack Herrinfig. assistant
superintendent; Emily Bolton,
curriculum director; Diane
Poole, special education direc
gams to the North Georgia
ommunity Action Agency
Inc. in Jasper.
SERVICES
Both HHS and DHR of
ficials have said that regardless
of where the sEonsoring agen
cy is located, the same services
that had been provided in the
past by NWGS would continue
to be provided to all Northwest
Georgia counties, including
Chatt:oo%a.
Members of the NWGS
board, local legislators, and
local county officials had met
with several top DHR officials
on Feb. 2 to ask if the state
would consider fundinfi a
reorganized afigncy with a
basically new board of direc
tors. Ms. Plant’s letter was the
response from that meeting.
She said that DHR would
cease its relationship with
NWGS effective on geb. 5,
which had already been given
as the close-out date by the
state.
Walker County officials had
been especially interested in re
taining the headquarters of a
community action agency in
that county since they said it
was the equivalent of a small
industry or business.
ROCK SPRING
Until funding ran out, it
had been headquartered in a
leased building at Rock Sprin
north of LaFayette. N&’Gg
had satellite offices in each of
the counties served in the nor
thwest part of the state.
HHS's Office of Inspector
General, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Postal In
spector’s Office, and the DHR
are still conducting investiga
tions into NWGS's past finan
cial practices.
NO BACKGROUND
Jones said that the board
was told by HHS officials that
if it submitted an application
to operate Head Start for
1994-95 that its financial con
troversies wouldn’'t be made
known to the regional selection
panel. A Head Start appointee
is picked solely on the basis of
applications submitted by in
terested community action
agencies or other non-profit
groups, Jones said the anrd
was told.
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the Tate home, he returned in
an unmarked car after noon
Thursday and saw Tate with
his back turned near a fence,
watching a forestry unit fight
the blaze.
Elsberry said he approach
ed to within 20 feet of Tate
without being discovered, and
was able to capture the alleg
ed assailant and handcuff his
hands. Tate appeared to be in
toxicated when he was ar
rested, Elsberry reported.
Tate later showed him and
Defi. Thomas Brownlow where
he had hidden a shotgun in the
woods, the investigator said.
tor; John Hayes, school social
worker; and f’,eggy Morehead,
psychologist; also had their
contracts renewed.
Will Hair was renamed
vocational director of Chat
tooga High School.
WRESTLING
In other matters, the board
gave the go-ahead for a group
of parent volunteers to start an
elementary wrestling program.
The parents were granted free
use of the high school wrestling
room two nights a week for five
weeks for one-and-a-half hour
sessions.
Greg Espy, Subligna, who
asked tie board for use of the
room, explained that members
of the high school wrestling
team will coach the youngters,
and parent volunteers will
sxfiervise. Mike Miller, the
CHS wrestling coach, will
oversee the program for
students in grades one through
eight.
Emphasis will be given to
those in grades one through
six, Espy said.
Superintendent Frank
Stewart said that although he
was concerned about students
that young suffering burnout
from the activity, it is ‘“‘a good
idea’ and appreciated parents
taking an active role.
Lewis Strange, Trion area-
Atlanta, blastetf gtll:le board for
postponing its regular meeting
and rescheduling it for last
Thursday ‘‘so members could
hear Sen. Sam Nunn at the
Chamber of Commerce ban
quet at their convenience.”
“I've been asking the board
for years to change its meetinfi
time so it didn’t coincide wit:
the meeting of the Summerville
Citd\;nCouncil." Strange said,
adding that postponing the
meeting for ‘‘a social engage
ment’’ offended him.
“I'm trying to be a good
citizen and want to attend
meetings. I feel like if anyone
else was asking, it would be
changed.”
Stewart explained that, as
mandated by state law, the
school board must set its
regular meeting time at its
January meeting.
He told The Summerville
News that the law also requires
that no more than one meetindg
per calendar year be changed.
Stewart said he tries to wait
until the end of the year, when
waiting on a budget or audit to
change a meeting time.
The meeting Strange ques
tioned was cancelled, not
changed, according to Stewart,
and a called meeting was held.
SAFE SCHOOLS
In other matters, Stewart
re%orted to the board that it
will receive $91,400 from the
state for a system-wide safe
school plan.
When discussing the plan,
Stewart said the price tag
doesn’t include Summerville
and North Summerville
Elementary Schools, which
would cost an additional
$12,000.
However, he said the out
side firm that developed the
plan left enough flexigility to
take cameras, radios, and other
items from some schools where
there were plenty and use them
at the two schools for no addi
tional cost. He asked the board
to approve the measure, allow
ing him the flexibility to in
clude all schools. :
The plan includes the addi
tion of sheriff’s bands radios,
video cameras for all schools,
and black boxes for buses.
The change in the systems’
absences and excuse policy
received a good amount of
discussion at the meeting.
Board member Larry
Durham initiallg: asked for a
set policy on the number of
absences students would be
allowed with no extenuating
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circumstances considered.
“Through no fault of the ap
peals boarfi they have had to
rule in some people’s favor
because of lies and others were
Benahzed' for tel.hx the truth,”
urham explained. ‘‘After so
many days that should be it,
regardless of the cir
cumstance.”
Stewart said there is no
good solution.
“We will get conned a bit,
but we want to be able to make
decisions,” he said.
ATTENDANCE
John Hayes, visiting
teacher, reported that Sum
merville Elementardy had a
93.01 percent attendance rate
in January, followed by Menlo
Elementary with 92.96 Xer—
cent, and Summerville Middle
School with 92.17 percent.
QOverall, the school system
had a 91.08 percent attendance
rate for the month.
Stewart discussed the need
for repairs at the Lyerly school
gymrfx)asiumf. "
“Parts of it are beginning to
sink,” he said. It wili cost get
ween $12,000 and $20,000 for
the repairs, with it to be done
this summer. '
Stewart said the building
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The superintendent read
several letters of recognition,
One letter from the staff of
Summerville Middle School
commended assistant principal
Doug Suits on his first year,
stating that he’s done “‘a good
job and is a good
disciplinarian.”
Stewart also said he’s sent
letters to the winners of the
county-wide sflelling bee.
Strange asked for co‘fies of
the letters so he could have
them framed and give them to
the students, and also said he
would like to present each of
the four winners with a SIOO
savings bond.
Stewart thanked Strange
for his generosity.
Stewart concluded the
meeting by discussiniHouse
Bill 1314. He said that the
Chattooga Schools would be
eligible for 75 to 90 fundin,
from the state on new scho«fi
construction if the bill is
passed.
Leroy Massey, chairman,
commended Stewart for his
writing letters to legislators on
the education committee in an
effort to get the bill passed.
‘“He’s taking a stand and
looking ahead,” Massey said.