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Published: Oct 31, 2007 - 02:20:50 pm CDT
School board accepts vo-tech recommendations n Trustees will consider teacher assistant policies. By Mack Spencer Monitor-Herald PITTSBORO - Members of the county school board approved applying for five programs to be offered at a new county vocational center, if the state approves the application. Community vocational planning committee chair Rickie Vaughn said he is confident the new programs - Allied Health, business and computer technology, industrial maintenance, auto mechanics and building trades - will be approved for the planned location, the former Kellwood plant on Madison Street in Calhoun City. State vocational education director Mike Mulvahill “said he had not realized what a gold mine we stepped into with that building,” Vaughn said, recounting a visit by Mulvahill to the county. “I’m of the opinion that the district can remodel the building and furnish it with the money (Superintendent) Hardin says will be available,” he said. The school board also approved exploring the refinancing of some district bonds and extending a series of 3-mill notes to fund renovations and hired architect Gary Shafer to oversee the project. In other business: * Teacher assistant Jessica Adams asked the board to consider changes to district policies concerning teacher assistants. Adams, the last assistant hired in the district, was transferred to Calhoun City in a move to help equalize the student-teacher ratios at the elementary schools. She now drives from her home at the Calhoun-Yalobusha line to Calhoun City and back each day. Adams asked the board to consider changes to the application of seniority rules or creating a salary schedule that gives increases every year. * The board voted to approve a 16th Section lease for the District 4 barn on Highway 9 South and approved terminating a lease held by Willie Mays if taxes on the property are not paid. * The board accepted the new classroom building at Vardaman Elementary School as substantially complete. * Personnel actions included substitute teacher hires Casi Rhodes, Katie Nelson and James Earl Spratlin; substitute removals Leigh Ann Stafford, John Foster and Jenny Hill; resignations by Beth Hardin as superintendent, effective Dec. 31, Jennifer Griffin, LaRhonda Glass and Melba Joyce Wright as instructional intervention tutors, and Tiffany Edmondson as part-time reading instructor; new hires Alisha Tillman, Shauneille Collins, Claudia Gaston, Jenny Hill and Natalie Spencer as instructional intervention tutors and Menisha Gates and Leigh Ann Stafford as assistant reading instructors; new substitute bus driver hires Robert Easley and Donald Logan; new substitute cafeteria workers Sylvina D’Auvergne, Lula Welch, Lisa Westmoreland and Lena Pratt. * Donations to the district, totaling almost $27,000, included: Bruce Fine Arts Club, $125 of bottled water and Weekly Readers for second graders, $260,40; Bruce GRACE Club, $100 to BES reading fair; Bruce Telephone, $250 for BHS debater McKennon McMillan; Dr. Willie Wells, $125 for BHS debater Dustin Vance; Bruce Community Living Center, a whirlpool tub and two exam tables to BHS football team; Bruce Fine Arts Club to BHS debate team, $100; Bruce Band Boosters, $2,049 to band; Mr. and Mrs. Gale Denley, $20 to BHS debate team; Lisa Busby, $150 to BHS debate team; The Creative Group to CCES library, $800; CCHS Baseball Boosters, $1,500 for plaque, caps and balls, and $1,100 for bats; Laura Edwards, $40 to CCHS library; City of Calhoun City, $15,000 to CCHS softball team; Bobby Steele, $200 to CCHS library; Southern Belle III, $1,000 to VHS baseball team; Vardaman School Support Group, $1,619 for gym doors to VHS. RESOLUTION Support of Calhoun County Vocational Center by Calhoun County civic organizations WHEREAS CAlhoun County Schools has limited vocational program offerings to students in the Calhoun County School District; and WHEREAS the Calhoun County School District has established a Vocational Planning Committee for the purpose of determining the need for a vocational center in Calhoun County as well as performing duties related to the application process as required; and WHEREAS the Vocational Planning Committee is compiling information for the application process for seeking the establishment of a secondary vocational center as part of the Calhoun County School District; therefore be it RESOLVED that the herein named governmental and civic organizations in Calhoun County support the Calhoun County School District and the Vocational Center Planning Committee in the application process and its efforts to provide additional vocational education opportunities for students in the school district; be it FURTHER RESOLVED that the herein govenmental and civic organizations in CAlhoun County promote and encourage support of vocational education from the community. Bruce Chamber of Commerce Bruce Lions CLub Bruce Rotary Club Calhoun City Chamber of Commerce Calhoun City Rotary Club Calhoun County Board of Supervisors Calhoun Economic Devlopment Association Calhoun County Retired Teachers Association Fine Arts Club of Bruce GRACE Club of Bruce New Century Club of Calhoun City Twentieth Century Club of BRuce Vardaman Chamber of Commerce Enacted Oct. 24, 2007
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