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/ From Page 1 From Page 1 ept. 17) ~harpen ~ention selling hased will be to have • ne out pular el have • There 30 PM. mnt of nclude with &ler or how of ~inally hat we vyers - oming Lnnual nuing We go ~eeds. ~rittle H) we t don't Tl.We ;TO0 , and . )ooks. !, All be Lation will hold 2nd and ement of ~ ! or or N@ i8. Iht 9 ~anChu~ :reship 9:30 ; 1 a.m., 725 ~0 or 2fi2- L. Frey ~ur(:h h Madam= m. Wilier : 466-4Z=e, ~.m. Moro- n., Even~ r, Wednea. ~er) )itatof'~ev. :lay~ ~lp 11 Lm. ~lay Night ~randBbie h ~or, Orvll~ 10:90 ~¢ 1t:00 Shxly7:00 • dp 7 pro, ,~'y 7 pm. k'l. Ion: Sun- 4e 11:00 IO JuniOr Evenln V 5 m tlC. £ ! l st | IAL ran m )RS L Mathews said she should havemotion passed by unanimous vote. come before the Board at the last Jack Harvey, driver, asked ff the meeting. =Had you been here and Boardsupportedhiminhieeffortsto presented your side it might have support the band and if the issue of been entirely different." He toldher insurance had been settled. =I "the people responsible for you not thought that it was settled three beingheredidyouagraveinjustice." years ago." It keeps coming up, he Tassos said she shouldn't have to continued. "I would like for it to be come before the Board. =No profes- settled once and for all. For sional person in the school system everybody's benefit. For mine and should ever have to come up here yours and the bandy before this Board and present their Mathewe agreed saying that the side." school should hire an attorney to Dillon said the child "must have examine the school systems insur- been a qualified band participant ance coverage "and if he says every- because on the first night she per- thing is clear.~ formed. Did she perform?" =Why is it that you can't take the "Yes,~ she said. =She road the word of the State Inspectors that bus..." were sent to my home?" Harvey Di]loninterruptedherathirdtime asked. =You were the one that sent seying, ~If she wasn't in the band the letter to Charleston." then why was she there?" "I want to see that letter," =How was I to know?" She asked him. "that was two weeks before school started." Dillon continued his questioning. =This is an after school activity, is it not?~ ~It is after school but you get credit for it," she explained. "I know that!" Dillon snapped back. "You was not polite enough to allow me to finish. This is an after school activity, although a grade is involved, correctT' "Right." She said. Dillon told her because she per- forms d at the first game "irregar~ese whether she was in or not. I felt like Mathewa told him. "I wrote no such letter and if you say I did, rm here to say that that's not so. If it does exist, it's a forgery." Following the meeting Mathews said he forgot that he did write a letter last year to the State Superin- tendent of Schools questioning ifit is legal for Harvey to be the driver of the bus and the liability in the event of an accident. Mathews said he would make a public apology. A group hiring policy plan was approvedbya split vote ofthe Board. According to the policy the =School Superintendent, Assistant Superin- tendent, principal from school where 1 But Neely told him if he didn't think they could get a =just decision" before Marockie. =I'm not going to pay a lawyer the rest of my life when I don't think I have a chance to win." =If you are accused of something," Tassos asked Neely, and you thought you might lose the first round =but you had a chance to go on and fight it again andifthey were making you out to be something that you weren't. Wouldn't you fight it?~ .NO! If I didn't think I had a. chance to win I would rather take the loss." Neely told him. =I make a motion," Mathews said, %hat we do not have this state hear- ing because it is pointless and use- less. That we allow Mr. P,~les and Mr. Ball to go down and represent the people, as I said earlier, they are the ones involved. They should have the right to go down there and de- fend themself." =I have to second that motion," Neely said. Board member Bud Shanks said he believed =we should have the hearing. Ourcount shouldbejust as good as the state. I think it would be just as accurate, if anything better.~ Business manager Joe Kessler said if the Board votes against the hearing =your next step in due proc- she was a member of the band." vacancy exists, and a board member ess" it will put both Redes and Ball BoardmemberCharlssNeelysaid from the district where the school is at a disadvantage when they meet j she shouldn't make classroom rules located" will interview "all appli- with the State Department. "What ., or policies, sayingthatis the respon- cants, both professional and service you have told the State Board of sibility of the School Board. "I don't personnel, for any and all job open- Education is regardless of the out think the teacher has the right to inks." come. Forget the rest of our due make policy.~ Tassos said the plan would open. process. We don't want it. Even if i John Lilly complained that the the Board up for any number of law you don't change your figures, the Board of Education is not support- suits. =I'm not aware that there is $100,000 payback, we don't want ing its empolyees. At the last meet- another~ountyin the state that does any further due process. We don't ingthreemembers;Dil]on, Mathews this,'hetoldthem. =Ifyou have this want a hearing before the State and Neely, voted =against" the committee and the superintendent Board, State Superintendent, or "toacher, theprincipalandthesuper- does not recommend who the cam- anybody else." intendent. I think this Board made mitres wants, you have let the door Dillon told him ~)r. Marockie is a grievous mistake." open for a law suit and as I was told going to be the hearing officer, he is =Were not trying to cause you a by a lawyer versed in school law. going to do the final report and sub- , hard time," Dillon said. =We were That's a case that lawyers dearly mit it to himself for a final decision." trying to elevate a problem with a love. Ifyou approve this l think you "You would have to beat him over child that is in that band." are asking for trouble." the head to make him change his : =Sign her up for band and I will Dillon said it wouldn't be the first mind,~ Neely said. :! consider her a part ofthe band." She time and made a motion to adopt the Mathews asked for the vote. i: told him. policy. Neely seconded and the Dillon said if they meet with the ,! ~i~ =AllI,m .asking,~ Green told them, motion passed 3-2. ShanksandLilly State Dept. for the hearing, repre- I~' isgi#~=6bli~Tolof~~%ack!* ~#~glao.:, :" ~ ~ sentedbycounsel,%nceyougetyour ; to me.~ .jl I-~, ~ A policy to appoint board mere- footinthedoory0uaregoingtowant ! Lilly made amotion torescind the bere to committee at the first meet- the door open. So then, evidentially, : Board's action. MemberBudShanks inK in July passed by unanimous ifweloseit'sgoingtobeaskedforan !.i seconded, ltfailed3-2withMathew~, vote. appealtotheCircuitCourtandifwe ", Dillon and Neely voting against the Beckley Replacement Windows lose to the State Supreme Court. By teacher, was awarded thejob ofreplacing the the time all of that process takes Inotheractioninvolvingtheband, windows at the Talcott school with a place Fred will definitely write an- Mathews made a motion to return lowbidof$66,169. The money comes other article that we are wasting tax thebandequipmentbus%otheband from funde available from the State's payer's money. I just feel like we director.~ Shanks seconded and the School Building Authority. would probably be better off to stop -~ it as is. I just think the State Dept. has the funds and they know those rules and regulations down there better than any of us sitting in this room will ever know.~ "Before you vote," Tassos asked, • =if it is a question of money, lets not send an attorney and let us have the hearing and let the administrators go down. It's not going to cost any- ~ thing. Let us go down and present • it." Sp thy Sp Mathews immediately asked the Guest eaker: Timo encer Board to vote on his motion. "I've j .... # # | ! ~ i,#L Pastor: Eddie Johnson asked that the question be voted on and it hasn't been voted on," Mathews complained. "It looks like to me," Lilly said, "that once again, this Boardis throw- inga slap atour teachers. We aren't backing our teachers, our adminis- trators. We are counting pennys here tonight." Lilly said let the administrators attend the hearing. =Why vote down the hearing now? In Memory Of Mrs. Elva Adklns For Her Birthday On Septem. What are we accomplishing? It her 30th. wouldn't cost us anything." Although you are spending your birthday in heaven. "You let us use legal counsel," Tassos exclaimed, =and I'll pay it We are sure these words you will hear as all of us whisper andit won'tcost this Board a penny! Happy Birthday Mother Dear. It's that important to me!" There is a memory in our hearts today that passing years can't "Zt'simportant toourwhole school system," Lilly said. ~We have ablack take away. eye for dishonesty. Let's c]earit up." An empty place no one can fill. "If it is not cleared up does it get We love and miss you, Mother, and we always will blacker, John?" Dillon asked. =How could it get any blacker,~ God took you home to heaven we know this was his will. Lilly replied. But in all of your children's hearts you Ilveth still. "Mr. Tassos has offered to give Sadly Missed By Her Children legalcounsel,"Mathewsqueetioned. "Would he give legal counsel to Mr. Ball and. Mr. Redes when they go down there?" 'lassos turned to Mathews and said. =They are going down there for a discussion with Nancy Thabet, Dr. The family of James P. Cales wish to Math.we NancyThabetcan'tmake thank his friends that came, sent flowers, any decisions. She has to carry it on • up. They know that. We have a/- and helped in anyway, ready discussed it." Also special thanks tO Ronald Meadows Dillon called for a vote and • passed 3-2, with Shanks and Lilly Funeral Home, pallbearers and Rev. Eddie voicing a hardy =NO!" Ziegler, school attorney, said the Johnson for the service. Board did not contact him for his opinion on how well they might doif they went forward with the state hearing. ~Ifthey had pursuedit," he The Family .d, he believed the county school system might have been able to save , J I '' I ' I =between $25,000 and $50,000." 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