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6 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005 County schools form plans for greater visibility BY LIZ STANLEY STAFF WHITER In the midst of preparing for a new middle school and reassigning students, two concerns have lurked in the back of the minds of Orange County Board of Education mem bers their visibility and commu nication with the community. Now board members are taking the first steps toward bridging the gap by pledging to make themselves more accessible at public meetings and posting more information to their Web site. The ideas came about during a talk by Anne D’Annunzio, spokes woman for the district, about ways the board could improve its rela tionship with its constituents. “We represent the people and were elected by the people to serve the community,” said board mem ber Delores Simpson. “If we want to remain a part of the community, we need to interact with people and be among them.” Among the group’s ideas was a plan to make more frequent visits to each school in the district, either individually or as a group. Besides these visits, board mem bers also plan to meet with parent groups, teacher organizations and the district’s Parent Leadership Council, where they would listen to parents’ concerns and discuss some of the district’s initiatives. During these sessions, board members would also participate in informal discussions with inter ested community members. “I think it is on the mind of every board member: How can we be more accessible?” Chairwoman Bairn rri J 1 PITAS SALADS QmiuljCilCT VEGGIE OPT|ONS rrsk Tkiitkittf, HkaJtky E&ti*? 0.00,,™ „ ccc OPEN LATE 919.933.4456 115 E Franklin St LSAT GMAT GRE MCAT DAT OAT PCAT How would you score? Take a FREE practice test at Kaplan’s Test Drive and find out. 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If you have any questions about the process, please contact Michelle Jarboe (962-4086, mjarboe@email.unc.edu) or Paul Isom (962-0520, pisom@unc.edu). Libbie Hough said. “Most of the time we think of public officials as being all-powerful and remote.” Another suggestion is to start a monthly or quarterly “Lunch with the Board” session, which would be similar to the already successful “Lunch with the Superintendent,” D’Annunzio said. Setting up a table at Hillsborough’s Last Fridays held by the Hillsborough Arts Council on the last Friday of selected months —and establishing town hall-style meetings at various locations were other sug gestions presented Monday. At Last Fridays, rotating board members would meet the public, share information on current issues and answer any questions citizens might have. The town hall-style meetings would provide a venue for citizens to address the entire board in a less formal setting. The board also is hoping to take advantage of new features on its Web site http://www.orange.kl2.nc.us to get more information out to the public. The board plans to post informa tion about its committees on the site by March, and by April, it wants to debut a public comment page on which anyone could respond to questions posed by board members. Though the board did not decide which specific actions it wants to take, Monday night gave members a place to start, D’Annunzio said. “Most of us will want to do as much as we can,” Hough said. “We’ll have to pace ourselves.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. Arms embargo fuels dispute THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS, Belgium President Bush and European leaders settled simmering dif ferences about Iraq but plunged into a troublesome new dispute Tuesday over the lifting of an arms embargo against China. Bush warned Congress might retaliate if Europe revokes the 15-year ban. Bush said lifting the embargo, imposed after the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy activists, “would change the balance of relations between China and Taiwan and that’s of concern.” But French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said the ban should go. “It will happen,” Schroeder said. The China quarrel was a jarring note on an otherwise upbeat day of reconciliation, handshakes and hopes for better relations. “First time I’ve been called charming in a while,” Bush said after a NATO summit. He also met with leaders of the 25-nation Town eyes building policy BY TED STRONG ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR The Chapel Hill Town Council wants to update the town’s Energy Conservation Ordinance and join a unique environmental certification program, all at the same time. A decision on the proposal, which would strengthen environmental standards for all buildings con structed by the town of Chapel Hill, was delayed Monday until May 9. The proposal would require the town to achieve a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design silver-level certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for all new buildings and additions of more than 5,000 square feet. This certification is based on such criteria as water-efficient landscap ing, use of alternative transporta tion and recycled content. The current standard is for town buildings to use 30 percent less energy than the State Building Code required as of Feb. 1,1997. Philip Hervey, senior planner in the town’s planning department, said the certification process pro vides an extra level of environmen - :/ Carolina’s our 9 a Ahhttkl AllArJs IsSM I t \ eLsth 1/ YOU, tU rldrS < 1 \ \ oftLDTH. 4- CAROLINA SPORTS . • ' . But excuse to skip workiny out But fenJe atllete ISlShB— . 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In a show of unity after bitter disputes, all 26 countries in NATO pledged money, equipment or personnel to train Iraqi security forces, though many of the pledges were modest. Estonia said it would send one staff officer to Iraq, and $65,000. France offered one officer to help mission coordination at NATO headquarters, said it would train 1,500 Iraqi military police in Qatar outside NATO’s mission. “The NATO training mission is an important mission, because after all, the success of Iraq depends upon the capacity and the willingness of the Iraqis to defend their own selves against terrorists,” Bush said. “Every contribution matters.” The European Union and the United States, meanwhile, agreed tal protection, but from an outsid er’s perspective. “You’re verifying it through a third-party review,” he said. Council Member Dorothy Verkerk said the new standard would be advantageous because it is not time-sensitive. Hervey said there would prob ably be a slight increase in the cost of buildings under the new system 2 1/2 to 4 percent of construc tions cost, based on an estimate from the U.S. General Services Administration. But that cost might be offset by later energy savings. He said the increase in construction costs would have some impact on town develop ment decisions, but not a huge one. “It’s just another factor in the overall project,” Hervey said. The council delayed action because members wanted the change to take the form of an ordinance. Town staff had recommended a policy resolution, which would allow the staff more flexibility in determining to which projects to apply the standard. Town Manager Cal Horton reit to jointly host a conference to rally and coordinate international aid to Iraq. Consulting with his harsh est critics on Iraq, Bush met with Chirac over dinner Monday night, will travel to Germany on Wednesday to visit with Schroeder and meets Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in Slovakia. Chirac said America’s attitude is becoming “more realis tic ... It is progress.” Bush’s broad unpopularity in Europe because of the U.S.-led invasion was evident in the pro tests on the streets of Brussels. Police targeted demonstrators with water cannons Tuesday, after protesters, which numbered in the hundreds, threw a fire bomb and glass bottles at them near the European Union headquarters. Many Europeans also are ner vous about a possible U.S. strike against Iran to stop its suspected nuclear weapons program, and Bush gave mixed signals about American intentions. erated to the council that an ordi nance would be constraining. “I think having it in an ordinance will give council no discretion, and I will have to bring every project to you with a LEED certification,” he said. “You would have to do things that you don’t want to do.” Council members said they wanted the Council Committee on Sustainability, Energy and Environment to further tweak the proposed ordinance. They also asked the committee to redesign the section detailing which buildings can be exempted from the requirement. The committee’s original ordi nance allowed the council to grant waivers of the new requirement for projects below the 5,000-square foot cutoff. The staff’s proposed resolution had no specific trigger. Council members wanted the reworked proposal to include waiv ers for larger structures that were too simple in design to meet the new cri teria, such as large storage sheds. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. £l?p oa% Sar Hppl “This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous,” the president said with a slight smile. “Having said that, all options are on the table.” He made a simi lar statement last week, saying a president never says never about military action. Europe is trying to persuade Iran to abandon its uranium enrichment program in return for technological, financial and politi cal support. The United States, reluctant to reward Iran, has refused to get involved in the bargaining and has suggested asking the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions. “It’s in our interests for them not to have a nuclear weapon,” Bush said. Schroeder said he urged Bush to fully back Europe’s diplomatic approach toward Iran. “We have to go down the road of negotiations together,” the chan cellor told reporters. Vandiver, 86, former governor THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA Former Gov. S. Ernest Vandiver, who won office vowing that “no, not one” black child would sit in a Georgia classroom with whites yet went on to preside over the peaceful desegregation of public schools, has died at age 86. Death came Monday evening and followed a long illness, the family said through Gov. Sonny Perdue’s office. Governor from 1959 to 1963, Vandiver was elected on an anti integration platform but at a criti cal moment persuaded lawmakers to desegregate the state’s schools rather than close them. His stand was credited with sparing the state the turbulence that swept much of the rest of the South in that period but cost him political support. After leaving office in 1963 when his four-year term expired, his career was finished. Keeping the schools open was “my political suicide,” he said years after leaving office. In memory of Vandiver, Perdue ordered flags on state buildings lowered to half staff until sunset on the day of the funeral. “Governor Vandiver will be remembered as an honest and con scientious leader and for his strong commitment to public service,” Perdue said in a statement. Survivors include his widow, Betty; a son, Samuel Ernest “Chip” Vandiver III; two daughters, state Rep. Jane Vandiver Kidd and Vanna Elizabeth Vandiver, and four grandchildren. A mild-mannered, courtly man with a distinctive drawl and wavy hair, Vandiver was a politically well connected man when he won his first statewide elected office lieu tenant governor in 1954. A Democrat at a time die state was run entirely by that party, Vandiver was a close ally of then-Gov. Herman Talmadge, who had appointed him as the state’s adjutant general. Vandiver’s wife, Betty, also had political credentials. She was a niece of then-Sen. Richard Russell, one of the most powerful Southern politicians in Washington. Vandiver easily won the 1958 gubernatorial election over a weak field, but the “no, not one” phrase would come back to haunt him. It was devised by his strategists to counter the liberal label which a Democratic opponent sought to hang on him after a speech in which Vandiver had said integration of Georgia’s schools should “evolve.” In later years, he acknowledged it was probably unnecessary, since he was virtually assured of election. Hoping to concentrate on cor recting the abuses and alleged corruption of a previous admin istration, Vandiver quickly found himself facing an even bigger chal lenge when a series of federal court rulings forced the integration first of Atlanta public schools and then of the University of Georgia. Integration was inevitable, but that meant the schools would be closed, thanks to a 1955 statute that required state funds to be cut off to any college or school that admitted a black student. George Busbee, a young legisla tor at the time who later served as governor, told historians in a video taped interview that it was an era of inflamed passions. “If the people in Georgia could have voted at that time, they would’ve voted to dose the schools. It was a time that people in the heat of passion would have voted just for the hell of it against the fed eral government, against the judi ciary. They would’ve voted to close the schools down.”
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