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In addition to the enforce
ment responsibilities, the
Department provides staff sup
port to the Perry Downtown
Deveelopment Authoirty,
which is presently working on
plans for the future of Perry’s
Central Business District, as
well as approving business
signs and exterior modifica
tions of buildings within the
district.
The building official is
charged with secretarial duties
to the Perry Planning
Commission. This commission
is responsible for hearing
appeals and variances to the
Perry Land Development
Ordinance and acts as a recom
mendation body to the Perry
City Council in areas such as
amendments to the text, rezon
ing requests and general plan
ning for the city of Perry.
The City of Perry operates
with a team concept with all
departments cooperating with
each other and giving assis
tance when needed. This
would not be possible without
the support and encourage
ment from the Mayor. City
Council and City Manager.
We exist to provide service
to the public and we look
foward to working for you in
the future.
(Persons with questions
concerning the management of
the city of Perry can address
them to the Houston Times-
Joumal.)
Walker
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recommend, but the mayor and
council must approve any action,”
Walker said. “This bill makes it
crystal clear.”
Walker said the proposed cuts in
state funding for school adminis
trative personnel “may be too
serve even though he supports
cuts in administrative positions.
As far as how it would affect
Houston County, Walker said there
were approximately 66 central
office jobs, but only 38 are sup
ported by state funds.
Although cuts are proposed for
central office positions, the budget
includes a 6 percent pay increase
for teachers and 5 percent for other
stat employees. Walker said.
Walker is on the conference
committee that will resolve differ
ences between the House and
Senate versions of the budget.
“Four of the six members of the
conference committee are from
Middle Georgia, so I don't see too
many local projects that won’t
receive funding,” he said.
Letters
were some problems with the .round
and size of the slide show, but those
problems were not and are not suit
able excuses for blantant rudeness
and disrespect.
The D.A.R.E. program teaches
our children the dangers of drug
abuse and violence and Officer Bill
Hathcock deserves our respect and
praise tor his hard work, not the dis
play of rude, disrespectful selfish
ness that was displayed by those
individuals who couldn’t wait the
extra five minutes until the end of
the program.
Eric. B. Johnson
Perry
Players' ticket woes
Editor:
This is a letter of apology to indi
viduals who wanted to see “The
Sound of Music” but who were
turned away because our perfor
mances had bee sold out.
This letter also expresses frustra
tion regarding individuals who
made reservations, then chose to
neither come nor call to cancel their
reservations.
But mostly, this is a letter of
explanation to a public whose trust
we’ve worked to earn for 13 years.
“The Sound of Msuci” has been a
very popular show. We scheduled 11
performances, three more than
we’ve ever done. Further, we’ve
held the show over for three addi
tional performances.
Yet only two of the performances
to date have been presented to a full
house. The worst situation was this
past Friday when there were 44
empty scats more than one
fourth of our capacity!
This situation is one where all of
us lose. The cast and crew plays to
Brown
Brown was bom in Vienna and
moved to Hawkinsville at the age of
4. He still lives there.
He was employed at Robins Air
Force Base in the early days of com
puters on the base. It was his job to
watch their operation at night. As
long as they were operating well, he
had idle time which he used to drew
pictures of farm scenes on the backs
of old computer cards.
James McKinley, one of Perry’s
mayors, had hired Brown for the
job. Brown worked his first day at
County
the house.”
He added that if you measure that
cost with potential problems that
would come without doing it, “I
don’t think there’s any question at
all as what everyone would prefer to
do.”
The matter is being referred to
the Planning and Zoning
Commission. In the interim, county
engineer. Robbie Dunbar will have
discretion to accept or reject
designs.
Another local surveyor, Terry
Airport
ty bills for 18 months; and the authority either hire two
employees who would work for Phoenix Aviation or
give the company the funds necessary to hire two peo
ple.
Phoenix Aviation also wants the right to build T
hangers after the authority paid for all ground prepara
tion, which the authority interpreted to mean the author
ity would have to pay for leveling and paving.
Authority Member Ralph Dorsett was the most vocal
in his opposition to the proposal.
“There was another company in Atlanta who came
down here and looked us over and offered to pay us
$l5O a month until the dispute over the ownership of the
Police department accreditation study continues
By Jj JOHNSON
Times-Joumal Editor
The effort by the Perry Police
Department to become one of the
few accredited police agencies in
the United States is about to take a
major step forward.
Members of a Georgia law
enforcement agency will conduct a
mock accredication visit to the
department beginning March 13,
Perry Policeman Jeff McCormick
said March 6.
Speaking to Perry Rotarians,
McCormick said the several-year
effort by the department to join the
335 police departments out of about
15,000 in the country which meet
the professional standards to
become accredited continues.
McCormick, who has headed the
effort in Perry for the past three
years, said the standards have result
ed in several policy changes and
procedural changes for department
less than a full audience. The indi
vidual who wanted to attend but was
told “reservations are full” loses an
opportunity. And Perry Players
loses credibility and much-needed
revenue our building renovation
remains in dibt that much longer!
Our Board of Governors will be
considering alternatives to address
this problem. It you have sugges
tions for improvement, please call
me at 987-4529 or write us at P.o.
Box 143.
Dennis Hooper
President, Perry Players.
Recognition
Editors:
I would like to recognize some
unsung heroes employed by the
Houston County Board of
Education.
This group is a very skilled one,
and obviously takes great pride in
their work. I am referring to the
“paint crew” under the leadership of
Cecil Parker.
As an eloementary school physi
cal education teacher and an assis
tant basketball coach in this county,
I am priviledged to enjoy their
handiwork on a daily basis. I was
initially introduced to their high
standard of quality while watching
them add finishing touches to our
new P.E./Art/Music facility at
Tucker Elementary School.
The paint job on this project is a
work of art. Recently, minor renova
tions have been completed at Perry
High School gymnasium, and once
again, they have outdone them
selves. This latest endeavor is a
masterpiece.
These dedicated and skilled
workers arc to be commended for a
job Well done.
the base and graduated that night
from high school.
Later, Brown’s wife saw that he
enjoyed sketching. She encouraged
him to paint by giving him a paint
set in 1968. He mixed his own
paints and was about 30 years old
when he began to paint in earnest.
His first paintings were small and
he sold them for $lO to his co-work
ers. People saw his early drawings
recognized his talent.
He retired from the base in 1971
to pursue his career as an artist.
Scarborough, said he thinks consol
idating Planning and Zoning would
be beneficial.
Commissioner Larry Snellgrove
said this is a good idea saying, “We
need to look at this as a county... we
need a combined Planning and
Zoning so surveyors can go to one.”
At present there is a proposal
being looked at which would con
solidate the Planning and Zoning
departments in the county.
Also being referred to P&Z is a
draft proposal for a storm water
(existing) hangers became an issue,” Dorsett said. “I’m
sure once that problem is taken care of, they would want
to resubmit their proposal.”
Dorsett’s argument fell on deaf ears, however, as the
authority, with Dickson and John Houser leading the
way, decided to continue discussions with Phoenix
Aviation.
Authority Chairman Lee Roy Claxton offered anoth
er idea to get a start on upgrading the airport.
“If we don’t agree on a fixed-base operator, let’s take
the bull by the horns and have the authority operate the air
port. We could hire a manager, sell revenue bonds to build
hangers and improve the office building,” Claxton said.
members.
While he could give no statistics
to back the question, he said he
believed accreditation would result
in better law enforcement work in
the city.
He said the accrediation would
mean the department was among the
best, and the most professional, in
the United States. Of the 15 depart
ments accredited in Georgia, all arc
in cities larger than Perry.
McCormick said if the mock
evaluation goes well next week, the
actual accrediation visit for the
police department will come during
May.
“The process is not to tell us
what we are doing wrong, but to
have us study ourselves and
improve ourselves,” McCormick
told the Rotarians.
If the city is not in compliance
with the standards when the real
evaluators come, the visitors will
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Darryl Albritton
Perry
To the county
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This letter
was sent to members of the
Houston County Planning and
Zoning Commission, the Houston
County Commissioners and the
city council of Warner Robins.)
Friends:
My hat is off to all of you for
your recent visionary decisions to
implement very restrictive ordi
nances on outdoor advertising in the
ciy t of Warner Robins and Houston
County. The ordinances should have
the hoped-for effect no new bill
boards.
On behalf of the 17,000-member
Garden Club of Georgia Inc., I
applaud your decisions. Billboards
are visual pollution. When you com
bine visual pollution with messages
which are morally offensive to the
majority of a community’s citizens,
something must be done.
It is the belief of my organization
that beauty is good business. An
attractive community makes a posi
tive statement on all who live, work
and visit this area.
To those who have been critical
and fault our community leaders
with doing too little, too late, I say, I
am glad our elected officials took
this step. It ocuid have gotten much
worse. Let us be proud of what has
been done. We say that we have
taken a great step toward improving
the quality of life in our community.
Billboard proliferation was fast get
ting out of control.
Jaydee Atkins Ager
Kathleen
Professionally, he had his works
displayed in the Ann Tutt Gallery in
Macon, first in 1968.
In addition to oil paintings, he
also paints on ivory that he has
acquired at antique shops and estate
sales.
His son. Anthony is also an artist
and studied at the Savannah
College of Art and Design. He also
paints country scenes, like his dad.
and he also paints still lifes and por
traits.
Brown’s wife. Laverne, has pub
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management drainage ordinance.
“We’ve had terrific problems
here in Houston County,” said
Stafford. “Not only the floods from
last year, but throughout the year.
We need to tighten up what regula
tions we have concerning the man
agement of drainage water.”
A public hearing is expected to
be held no later than May 1 with
recommendations of what can be
done to relieve some of the county’s
drainage problems.
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give McCormick suggestions on
how to meet the standards.
The department has 35 employ
ees including 28 sworn officers,
McCormick said.
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lished a cookbook, “The Butler
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Butler and Anthony illustrated.
The Brown’s daughter, Julie
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Butler’s niece, Katie Brown. The
gallery is open from 10 a.m. until 6
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adorn the walls.
Brown goes into the schools and
paints while the students come in
small groups to oberve and ask
questions.
He has been in 20-25 schools in
Forsyth, Jeffersonville, Cordele,
Sandersville, Perry and Westfield.
He gave an all-day show at Perry
High School in January and is
scheduled to go to the schools in
Hawkinsville in March.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony for
Butler Brown’s Gallery was Dec. 4.
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