Schools BY TERRY POPE The Brunswick County Board of Education plans to ask county commissioners for $4.3 million in local funds for the 1985-86 fiscal year. New classroom buildings at Lin coin ana union rrimary and South Brunswick Middle schools, three new activity buses and a ten percent across the board salary increase for all employees are a part of the schools' tentative $4,364,160 budget request from the count}'. Last year, commissioners appropriated $348,516 in capital outlay to the school system while refusing to fund new constructions. School business manager Samuel Adcock presented the tentative budget to the school board Tuesday night. Another meeting on the budget has been scheduled for Tuesday, April 30, at 7 p.m. at the Southport administrative building. New construction makes up $3,041,500 of the estimated $4.3 million in capital outlay for the 1985-86 budget request. Including local, state and federal funds, the school budgei wiii total $33,506,77*2 next year, said School Superintendent Gene Yarbrough. The $3.9 million figure for new construction represents a $381,500 increase over last year's $3.5 million estimate due to inflation, Adcock said. A letter from Leslie N. Boney Architects Inc. of Wilmington addressed to Yarbrough on April 15 confirmed the new figures and also stated, "We are ready to proceed immediately." Additional activity buses are needed to replace the central fleet, Yarbrough said. The schools were awarded three bus allotments last year from the state, but chose to purchase yellow school buses instead. i nc average activity Bus has more than 146,000 miles, Yarbrough said, while the youngest bus is a 1876 model. Three activity buses would cost the county $96,000. Program cuts that will be affected by the new budget are the New Model Me and the In-School Suspension programs. It has been recommended Lincoln Holds "library Week Students at l.incoln Primary School celebrated National Library Week April 14-20 by studying Hawaii and Israel and by listening to storytellers. On Monday. Jane Miller, a firstgrade teacher, demonstrated to the students her native state of Hawaii with slides and native costumes. Ms. Esther Smith, also a first-grade teacher, told stories to the children on Tuesday. About 650 balloons were released Wednesday afternoon bearing the inscription, "Pig Out On Books." Each student released a helium-filled balloon with their addresses attached in hopes of receiving a response. On Thursday. Ms. Joyce Greer of the Wilmington Parks and Recreation Department told stories from children's literature. Mrs. Ina Smith, grandmother of one Iincoln Primary student, and Assistant Principal Diana Clark Smith, shared slides, dress and Items from Israel on Friday. Mrs. !na Smith was a Baptist missionary for a year in an Arab hospital on the Gaza strip. FOR TiRES fat tS? bar* pricai, pDi a ?kolt lot mot* o4?<*f JOB Itop at ??r?K? itatioa for, (toy ia ot DYKES TilE CimiN l UXON SfXYICl STATION HWY. 17 SHAUOTTE PHONE 754 6333 SnowbolK $2 50 Shrub* j AjqI?o* $1 00 up ; LEAH'S i NURSERY HWY 17 JUST NORTH Of i SHALIOTTE PHONE 7S4 ?r994 V, / I To Seek that the New Model Me program be discontinued, Adcock said, while the In-School Suspension program will be revised. Dropping the New Model Me pro gram will save the system $89,737 for three teacher allotments. A revised In-School Suspension program will use seven counselors rather than certified teachers. Other changes in the curriculum will include adding a guidance counselor to work at both North Brunswick High and Lincoln Primary schools and a 12-month computer coordinator for the county. "In the In-School Suspension and I I AIL writ V. A f take ( $4.3 Mill New Model Me programs, we will not be doing away with their jobs," Yarbrough said. "Those teachers will be used in other positions." A number of employees will also receive supplement increases such as the assistant to the superintenHont frn.ti tl VW1 ? Cnn. 1 ww?>vy ?vu> yv.vwv kV JJIUUU* tionary teachers, from $406 to $450; career A teachers, from $716 to $800; and career G teachers, from $892 to $1,000. The French foreign language program implemented in the elementary and middle schools last year will also be revised to move teacher positions into state-funded categories. myoulea\ 0 - The Bean lion Frorr saving the schools $33,157 In local funds. In anticipated revenues, the board will receive $190,000 in remaining drug fines and forfeitures for the 1985-86 fiscal year, Adcock said. There will be no anticipated increase in public utilities since the school system is currently negotiating a contract with the A.E. LeBlanc Inc. energy management company, which will guarantee a savings in energy costs. In site improvements, the schools have budgeted $10,000 for water system tap-on fees for North Brunswick, Leland Middle and Un ve the Bri i V \ % N in with yi THE BRUNSWICK BEACW i County coin Primary schools. Other expenses are $20,000 for sewer plant updates for all schools, $5,000 for bleachers and $20,000 for the dishwashing room at Suuthport Elementary. In other action Tuesday night, the hrvnrd onnrmrn/l o 1QQJ cc u.. ~ upi?v?w U iSVTW UUVIgl'l amendment to allow for the collection of $3,002 due to the state for overpayments to employees. An audit of the 1983-84 school year shows the school system paid out $8,002 more than authorized by the state. That figure was reduced to $4,439, but only $3,002 has been labeled collectable. wswickst - p? ? wnfl ?a m mi I Howl ; THE BRIM *OtT Offti %H ALLOTTI For Aword V i a 2 tawi WMCBTTKMI ?? m . B * In Rruntvrick Coon J Be / B R tliawhara.nNorft JIM _ I O da North Cor | r.'Bill Ma Ci^liti 4 Noma ? Addrott City. 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