Schools
A
sking
$13.5
Million For 93-94
Budget
BY SUSAN USHER
Brunswick County Commis
sioners will be asked to provide
more funds for school operations
and school construction this coming
year, approximately S13.5 million,
or $4 million more than a year ago.
A proposed S19.25 million budget
adopted by the Brunswick County
Board of Education last Wednesday
includes SI 1.4 million in operating
costs and S7.85 million for capital
outlay, including part of the money
needed to build a new elementary
school in the Lcland area and to ren
ovate and expand West Brunswick
High School.
Of that total, the schools will be
asking the county for S9.43 million
for current expenses, or day-to-day
operations, a 26.53 percent increase
over the S9.43 million received last
year. In addition to the usual capital
expenditures for equipment and site
improvements, the board is seeking
$4 million from the county for the
two school construction projects,
with another $1.2 million to S1.3
million expected from state half-cent
sales tax revenues.
The current expense budget is di
vided into a S10.57 million continu
ation budget and an $827,454 ex
pansion budget. The continuation
budget would maintain cunent pro
grams and reflects increased costs
for insurance, custodial supplies and
maintenance, and a 2 percent salary
increase for locally paid employees
to match that expected for state-paid
employees.
Expansion budget items include
funds to pay 10 lead tcachers which
are a key element in the county's
school improvement plan for 12
monih rather than 10-month em
ployment, S300.000 to continue up
grading the school systems' use of
technology; S20.000 to tie in to a
fiber optics network provided by a
projcct headed the University ot
North Carolina at Wilmington, a
proposed new pay schedule for clas
sified workers and a $300 annual
supplement for all bus drivers.
In a related public comment,
Glcnda Browning, PTA Council
president, and Tina Child, Lincoln
Primary PTA President, both of
Leland, urged the school board to
keep expansion of North Brunswick
High School as a high priority, given
the current and expcctcd residential
and commercial growth of the area.
"I don't think we're going to be
able to service the growth," said
Browning. "It's going to be phe
nomenal."
Assistant Superintendent Bill
Turner said the North High project
is ranked third in the system's 10
year plan, behind the West Bruns
wick and new northern area elemen
tary school projects.
Technology Plan Approved
A plan by Technology Director
Gene Zuck to put Level I of a 3- to
5-year technology plan into place
before the start of the 1993-94
school year won the board's ap
proval last week.
"We want something we can grow
with, that won't be outdated in two
years," said Zuck.
Level I allocates existing funds. It
will provide a computer lab for each
of the county's 12 schools, with at
least 15 computer workstations for the people who are in these posi
students, a file server, and a laser lions."
printer and dot matrix printer; an un- However, Fallon said the changes
interrupted phone line, modem and proposed would increase the cost of
related software to provide telecom- funding those salaries to $90,000 for
munications capabilities in each a complete fiscal year. Based on
school media center; and several op- years of experience and educational
tions from which principals may level, the largest cost increase was
choose, at the rate of $45 per stu- for media specialists and assistants,
dent, based on average daily mem- and adding in the information man
bership at the sixth month of the agemcnt system operators at the 12
current school year; additional com- schools.
putcr workstations in the lab, an in- The plan was two years in the
structional . management system, making and when finally presented,
multimedia equipment, courseware, did not address several categories of
or stand-alone classroom computer employees which then had to be
systems. added, changing the short-term and
The proposed 1993-94 budget in- long-term cost of the plan.
eludes funds for software and hard- The board had committed to pay
ware that will be needed to begin ing the salary changes retroactive to
implementing the next phase. Jan. 1, but Fallon said that sufficient
Pay Plan Needs More Work funds, wcrc budftfd lo, halfc lhc
initial version of the plan, but not
To the frustration of committee the most recent.
members, the board referred back "We don't want to promise some
for still more work a proposed pay thing we can't deliver," said Chair
plan for classified clerical workers man Donna Baxter.
Other Business
after Finance Director Rudi Fallon
said the last configuration of the
four-step plan would cost more than In other business the board:
the schools can afford to pay. Bapprovcd a flextimc four-day
"I would prefer to develop some- workweek for the central office and
thing we can live with in the long schools June 14-Aug. 16 with all of
term," said Fallon. ficcs closed on Friday. Employees
Board members Polly Russ and will work either from 7:30 a.m. to 6
Yvonne Bright expressed dismay p.m., or if they are qualified and
and frustration at the referral. choose to take Friday as annual
"I feel we're spinning wheels on leave, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
this," said Bright. Soon we won't ?referred to Turner and the school's
need to worry about it for this year." principal a request from Union
Added Russ, "As a committee Elementary PTO President Sam
member I am going to have trouble Edwards for money to help com
changing this. We came up with a plete Phase I of the school's baseball
plan we feel is equitable and fair to field. Edwards said a backstop fence
aria oases arc needed, at an estimat- oration would provide more oppor
cd cost of SI ,500. tunitics for students to use what they
?approved personnel recommenda- have learned in the classroom, while
lions (see related story this issue), also providing staff development
with member Thurman Gause vol- and help in instructional reform for
ing no. He said later he objected be- participating schools.
cause he thought a school system ?appointed Susan Gibblc to the
employee was qualified and should Brunswick County Teacher of the
have been promoted to a cafeteria Year selection committee,
management post at Shallolte ?learned from Turner that Bruns
Middlc School. wick County school buildings are
?supported continued involvement valued at 572,343,000, and the con
in a clinical teaching project with tents at S9 million, for a total value
the School of Education at the Uni- of more than S81 million.
versity of North Carolina at Wilm- Bhcard from Turner that North
ington, and expansion of the collab- Brunswick and West Brunswick
orativc relationship if funds are high school cafeterias are showing a
available. Two schools, Bolivia and profit this year for the first time in
Southport Elementary, arc sites for many years, in part because they
the project, in which student teach- surveyed students to see what foods
ers and their mentors learn from they preferred to cat. Two schools,
cach other. Coordinator Hathia South Brunswick High and South
Hayes said expansion to additional port Elementary, arc operating at a
schools and a higher level of collab- loss so far this year.
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New Instructors Named For JROTC
Willie L. Gore is coming home, College, National Defense Uni
but the retiring colonel's not giving versity and Command and General
up his U.S. Army uniform. Staff College.
He will replacc William Faught Buff is director of resource man
as Senior Army JROTC Instructor at agemcnt for the U.S. Army Reserve
South Brunswick High School at Personnel Center in St. Louis. He
Boiling Spring Lakes. has had a variety of experience in
Also, Col. Robert Y. Buff, cur- private industry and the U.S. Army
rently of St Louis, Mo., and former- in management and finance, includ
ly of Charlotte, will fill the Senior ing four years as an assistant proles
Army JROTC Instructor slot at West sor of military science at the Uni
Brunswick High in Shallotie. verity of Tennessee, Knoxville,
r, .. . . ,, . Tenn. Buff served as pistol instruc
Both appointments arc effecuve Uon director al RQ-/C Advanccd
y ' Camp and coached the university's
William Jackson, acting senior in- Varsity Rifle Team.
structor at West Brunswick High He also served as chief of the
School, will return to his regular Office of Recruiting & Retention fo
post as West's JROTC instructor, the 108th Division, Charlotte.
Returning as Army instructor at Buff has a master's degree in
South Brunswick High will be Terry business administration from Wint
Gile of Bolivia, who has held that hrop College, Rock Hill, S.C., and a
post at West Brunswick High this bachelor of science in accounting
past year. The two chiefs served in from Western Kentucky University
the interim posts this school year in Bowling Green, Ky. Buff also has
following the death of West Brun: - completed the U.?. Army War
wick's JROTC Senior Army College, National Defense Univcr
Instructor William Cockrell. sity and Command and Staff Col
Gore, of Woodbridge, Va., is cur- lege.
rently administrator for training and He is a certified public accoun
staff development in the contracting tant, formerly employed as an ac
career program of the U.S. Army countant by Arthur Andersen & Co.,
Corps of Engineers. He holds a mas- vice president and general manger
ter's degree in student administra- of North State Motor Co. Inc., and
tion from Howard University and a corporate director of systems and
bachelor of science in biology from data processing for Ervin Industries,
North Carolina A&T State Inc., all in Charlotte.
University. He is a graduate of War In other hirings approved by the
College and its Senior Service Brunswick County Board of
Education last Wednesday, April 7,
Dorothy Reynolds of Wilmington
will join the central office staff as
computer systems coordinator, a slot
that has been vacant since the resig
nation of management information
systems coordinator Liz Locus this
past summer.
Kristyn Bahr of Wilmington was
hired as a special education teacher
at Leland Middle.
The board also:
?hired Elizabeth Aikman of
Ocean Isle Beach, cafeteria manag
er, Shallotte MiddJc; Glenn Dowc,
Leland, 5-hour cafeteria assistant,
Leland Middle; Gcnnie Madison,
Shallotte, teacher assistant. Supply
Elementary; Carla Broach, Long
Beach, teacher assistant, Southport
Elementary;
?approved leaves of absence for
Sharon Vaughn, middle grade
teacher, Leland Middle; and Thelma
Fullwood, elementary teacher,
Bolivia Elementary;
?accepted the resignation of June
Robinson, Supply, cafeteria manag
er, Shallotte Middle; Donna Grissett,
Supply, custodian, Shallotte Middle;
and Ida Mac King, Shallotte, cafete
ria assistant, Shallotte Middle; and
Margaret Dessing, special educa
tion, West Brunswick High and
Bolivia Elementary; Sabrina Parrish,
Supply, 6-hour cafeteria assistant,
Shallotte Middle.
?transferred Naomi Hewett,
Supply, from assistant cafeteria
State Acquires 128.4 Acres
Of Bald Head Woods Property
The stale has acquired 128.4 acres soundside salt marshes and open species. The North Carolina chap
of Bald Head Woods in Brunswick dune systems on the occanfront. ter's mission is to preserve the
County. Also, the subtropical climate allows state's divcrscy plant and animal life
In Phase I of a two-part project, many plants and animals to live at by "finding, protecting and main
the state purchased 96.8 acres for their northern limit." taining the best examples of ecosys
$2.4 million and received a donation The N.C. Division of Coastal tems, communities and spccics na
of 31.6 acres, valued at $500,000. Management will manage Bald Head tive the state."
Negotiations for Phase II will be- Woods as a component of the N.C. The purchase was made possible
gin later this month, according to a Coastal Reserve. The reserve protects by a $4 million grant from the U.S.
news release from the N.C. De- important natural areas for research. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded
partment of Environment, Health education and public enjoyment to the N.C. Division ol Marine
and Natural Resources. The negotiations and purchase Fisheries.
'The ecological significance of were handled by The Nature Con
Bald Head Woods ranks it among servancy's North Carolina chapter
the top three maritime forests in on behalf of the state.
North Carolina," according to The Nature Conservancy is an in
NCDEHNR spokesman Jeannette ternational nonprofit membership
Johnson. "It is unique because it has organiiauon committed to preserv
undcveloped transition /.ones with mg endangered and threatened
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since circa 1748. They lived off the land and sea
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Calabash cuisine and Low Country (region
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very similar. Many of the people who settled this
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