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County School Board Takes First Step In Tracking Goods' Location, Movement BY SUSAN USHER All major pieces of equipment, furniture or other fixed assets known to school system's fi nance department have been logged onto a com puter, but Finance Officer Rudi Connor said Tuesday more work will be needed to keep track of all forms of school-owned property. Meeting Tuesday night at Supply Elementary School for more than four hours, the Brunswick County Board of Education accepted for immedi ate use a fixed assets inventory procedures manu al developed by I'am Deans. Deans was recently hired as a temporary assets/inventory control co ordinator. Policies will be adopted in the near future to give staff the authority or "teeth" needed to insure compliance with those procedures?Something that's missing now. said Connor. 'Ilic greatest weaknesses in the existing sys tem isn't in logging in newly purchased or donat ed items, but "keeping up with them once they're here" and in employee compliance. 'Hie policy covers both real property such as buildings, land improvement and land, as well as personal property valued at $500 or more. Having more detailed procedures available to all employees will help, she said, as will having a chain of responsibility and enforcement options tto follow when school-owned property can't be located. She emphasized that the cooperation of all schools is "imperative" for the fixed assets system to work. The manual addresses school check-out of computers for use by parents and staff, but not employee "borrowing" of other equipment; and clarifies the process used in disposing of all sur plus items. "Surplus items are no longer fair game," said Connor. The handbook details how items declared not usable by the school system must be disposed of according to law, "not just taken home." Questions were raised by the board about fixed assets accounting and sale of surplus prop erty this fall after an employee sold surplus cafe teria to a local restaurant owner in violation of state law. The board later fired an employee for his alleged role in the sale, then reinstated him, saying it had acted hastily. in a reiated matter. Assistant Superintendent Bill Turner that all Auxiliary Services employees are getting handbooks that contain job descrip tions, salary range lists, and policies and laws re lating to their work area. The material will be re viewed with them page by page and employees will sign off that they have received the informa tion. Connor said her staff identified needs in sev eral other areas while working on fixed assets. These include bar coding and/or a software pro gram so individual schools can track inventories of supplies and equipment of lesser value; and the need to establish centralized purchasing and re ceiving, and centralized storage of new and re tired items. Developing an alternative "learning center" for students whose needs are not being met in a regular school setting will be the top priority of a new Children in Crisis Planning Committee. The committee, which first planned a county wide forum on Children in Crisis last month, in tends to expand its membership as well as chang ing its name. The larger panel will include greater representation by agencies, civic groups, churches and businesses, and will be charged with seeking incorporation as a not-for-profit Communities in Schools affiliate. Oscar Blanks, assistant superintendent for support services in the Brunswick County Schools, said the group will develop a more de tailed proposal for establishment of an alternative school, for example identifying what age and grade levels would be served. He invited any interested person or group to contact him at either 754-9282 or 457-5241 about participation. Other Business In other business the board: ?approved a fundraising effort proposed by West Brunswick High School Principal Ed Le mon and school athletic program boosters to fi nance a field house that will include a concession area, public and team restroom facilities and team shower/locker areas. Lemon said the facility is expected to cost between $80,000 and $100,000. ?accepted the Minority Recruitment Task Force report and authorized the superintendent to begin implementing its recommendations and seeking resources for that purpose. A key recom mendation of the plan is hiring a minority recruit ment specialist to coordinate implementation. Rev. Walter Welsh, a member of the Southport Brunswick County NAACP's Education Com mittee, commended the work of the task force and school board and urged re-election ot current school board members because "this work needs to continue". ?approved the superintendent's school system achievement objectives for the coming year, and approved a budget schedule and a new "bottoms up" budget development process that will create a onc-ycar operational budget as well as a five-year plan to coincide with the county's long-range planning. Superintendent Ralph Johnston said the individual school budgets will be "driven" by needs and goals outlined in each schools' perfor mance-based accountability plan (PBAP) with parent involvement, and refined in consultation with central office support staff. ?adopted the 1994-95 high school course of study as recommended by Assistant Super intendent Jan Calhoun, incorporating course addi tions and deletions recommended earlier. Ad ditional "distance-learning" courses may be ap proved later for West Brunswick High School, which will link to the N.C. Information Highway and a learning network this fall. ?agreed to ask the N.C. Department of Transportation to consider installing a control lable signal at the intersection of N.C. K7 and Cougar Drive, the access road to South Bruns wick High and South Brunswick Middle schools, and on Old Fayetteville Road near Leland Middle School. ?received a packet of proposed hiring proce dures for discussion in a policy workshop at 1 p.m. today (Thursday). Proposed changes include requiring criminal record or driver's license checks for all candidates; racial, ethnic and gen der equity in make-up of screening and interview ing commmittccs at the school and central office levels; a new application form; and creation of a continuously-renewed "pool" of applicants avail able for interview for teacher assistant positions. Board members may also discuss whether to change current practice and give existing employ ees first consideration for vacant positions. Present practice is to give qualified applicants from within the system an opportunity to be inter viewed for any opening, along with top candi dates from outside the system. ?lpprovcd use of 510,950 in state funds for "JumpStart," an intensive remediation program slated June 15-30 for South Brunswick Middle School sixth and seventh grade students who score below passing on end-of-grade tests in com munications and/or math skills, have an average of 55 to 65 for the year or have missed more than 10 days of school. The students will also receive an intensive three day review of basic skills and concepts before school starts in the fall. ?h eard from member Polly Russ, current president of the Cape Fear Area United Way Board of Directors, that nine schools and the cen tral office increased giving to the United Way campaign by 15 percent or better this past year. RAMP UNDER CONSTRUCTION Varnamtown, Landowners Still Working On Parking Lot Lease BY DOUG RUTTER Construction is under way on Var namtown's new public boat ramp, but town officials and land/owners arc still working out the details of a lease for an adjaccnt parking area. Town aldermen and property owners Nicky and Jackie Varnam met behind closed doors for just over an hour at Monday night's town meeting to discuss the lease arrangement. In open session and without dis cussion, the town board voted unani mously to postpone the signing of the lease until several issues are re solved. "The lease was discussed and there's a couple of things that need to be cleared up," Mayor Judy Galloway announced following the lengthy executive session. Town officials plan to lease prop erty next to Garland's Seafood House to serve the ramp at the end of Fisherman Road. A parking plan approved by the town board last month would provide space for 20 vehicles and boat trailers. Aldermen said late last year that the Varnams had agreed to lease the property for 15 years. The town would pay $2,190 per year, with an increase possible after the first five years. Varnam's Docks and Bulkheads is building the new concrete ramp, which will be 16 feet wide and 72 feet long. A 3-foot-wide pier be tween the ramp and Garland's Seafood House is included in the project The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will give the town up to $25,000 to build the ramp and im prove the parking area. The ramp is expected to cost about $19,5(X). Town officials hope to put a fence around the parking lot and install lights. Stormwater Management Varnamtown officials said Mon day they're concerned about storm water runoff and supportive of the county's plan to take the lead in a "The lease was discussed and there's a couple of things that need to be cleared up." ?Mayor Judy Galloway stormwater management plan. However, aldermen weren't pre pared to commit to spending any town funds for a proposed engineer ing study. Brunswick County lingineer Ro bert Tucker recently met with the mayors of eight local towns to gauge interest in forming a regional stormwater management plan. As proposed, the county would pay half the cost of a preliminary study to determine the scope of the proposed project and the towns would pay the other half. It is esti mated that each town would pay be tween $3,(XH) and $4,(XX). Varnamtown officials indicated Monday that they don't think it's fair their community should have to pay the same as other towns because Varnamtown is smaller and has less money. "I'm very much in support of a study for stormwater management," Alderman Ada McDonald said. "I just question the amount we have to pay." Alderman John David Dawson said state agencies have studied stormwater runoiT near Lockwood Folly River for years and have little to show for it. "The only conclusions they could come to was they needed more study," Dawson said. "So 1 question the validity of what they're talking about. These studies can go on and on and on." McDonald said if the town com mits to anything, it must be with the understanding that it is only for an initial study. Further studies could THE BOOK NOOK OF CALABASH 10136 BEACH DRIVE. GOLF PU\ZA Come in and browse! Kjpi?/ Read It & rvew Grand TraHo Sou & riard Cover Qpeninn _ 'Books April T bave UP 10 oG"/0 Special Orders ? Children's Section ? Magazines ? Newspapers ? Comics Baseball Cards ? Greeting Cards ? Gifts ? UPS ? FAX Service PHONE (910)579-1503 ? FAX (910)579-1958 ? .L. ' .. ? cost the town much more than S3,(HK). Other Business In other business Monday, alder men: ?Voted to adopted a resolution opposing the construction of a new county landfill in the Lockwood Folly River watershed. County offi cials are studying possible sites for the landfill, including five in Supply-Bolivia area that are within the river basin. Some area residents are concerned the landfill might leak and contaminate the river. ?Adopted a resolution supporting the routing of Interstate 73 through southwestern Brunswick County. The highway will run from Detroit, Mich., to Charleston, S.C. Some North Carolina officials want the in terstate to swing along the coast and through Myrtle Beach on its way to Charleston. ?1'ransferred $252 from the con tingency fund to pay for the 1992-93 With the start of Lent, BBS wishes to remind everyone that we now carry a large assortment of Cnu?lkui Supplier Bulletins Attendance Charts Rccord Books ? Awards Bibles ? Storybooks Prizes & Gifts Brunswick Business Service Main St., Shallotte 754-8300 Long Bch. Rd., Southport ? 457-4565 audit report. The audit cost Sl,452. ;ind the town had only included S1,2(X) in the budget. 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