That’s 400 MW of solar power in twenty 20 MW PV plants,
just across the state line in Gadsden County, Florida.
Plus ongoing jobs, expanded education, private sources of investment, and customers for the electricity.
In considering the change at West Side, officials noted in last
year’s budget proposal talks that about 73 percent of its students
are bus riders, brought from all parts of the county. The school posts
a per-student transportation cost of $1,198, more than twice the zone
average of $529.
“Why is West Side so important to the county?” parent Brandi Kennedy
asked. “You have buses picking up kids all over the county to go to
West Side.”
Because children are chosen to attend the magnet school through a lottery,
Kennedy said she couldn’t understand funding the fine-arts focus of
the school when it is not more prestigious than other county schools.
As series of decisions, not unrelated to race, made by the “white fathers” of
the city of LaGrange, led the citizens of the city to vote their school system
out of existence and to become a part of the county system.
The quotes around “white fathers” are in the paper.
Hm, back when I first encountered CUEE, they were speaking to SCLC in Valdosta
late last year, Rusty Griffin among them, and the theme was desegregation.
They did not receive a warm welcome.
Funny how CUEE changed its tune to “unification” after that.
But the local “white fathers” are still insisting on making decisions
for all of us.
Make your plans now to attend the first Vote YES public forum on school
unification, which is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at
the Rainwater Conference Center.
Our guest speaker will be Dr. Terry Jenkins, who served as the
Superintendent of
Troup County Schools during the unification process of LaGrange and
Troup County school systems in 1992.
Many of the same issues and rumors being discussed locally were also
debated when
LaGrange and Troup County were voting to unify their school systems. In
his presentation,
Dr. Jenkins will discuss how the school unification issue unfolded in
Troup County, its impact to improving test scores and graduation rates,
and how the decision to unify their school systems has transformed the
community for the better.
Received this morning. Many thanks to Corey Hull and SGRC for sending this correction. -jsq
John,
I reviewed your question, and that project had an error in it, I am
attaching a new spreadsheet, that is slightly revised. It includes the
TIA funding with inflation so that it matches the other project sheets
that we have handed out at the public meetings
The corrected spreadsheet he sent is
on the LAKE website
in Excel spreadsheet and HTML versions.
In the HTML version, I have added three columns.
Name is taken from the
Unconstrained Project Listing.
Difference and Diff% were computed from
the Original total Cost Estimate and the Updated Total Cost Estimate.
Tom Gooding, Chair of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce,
asked the school boards to do the Chamber’s homework.
He got no takers.
Reiterating the Chamber’s demand from its
letter of 9 September 2011,
Gooding asked VBOE superintendent Dr. Cason at the 20 September VBOE
forum to commit to meeting about what to do if the “unification”
referendum passes.
Dr. Cason said that should have happened two years ago, and
Now is not the appropriate time.
He said if the referendum passes, then the two school boards will sit down
together.
Dr. Cason didn’t say anything about inviting the Chamber or CUEE to such
meetings, since, after all, neither the Chamber or CUEE would have any legal
role.
Tom Gooding rebuffed @ VBOE 20 Sep 2011
education, referendum, consolidation, statement,
Forum at Valdosta Middle School, Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 20 September 2011.
Videos by George Boston Rhynes for bostongbr on YouTube.
Because it wasn’t about Troy Davis. Because witnesses didn’t
recant. Because the evidence was clear. Because hundreds of thousands
worldwide didn’t sign a petition for him.
Update 6:30 PM 26 September 2011: Please see the corrected version received from Corey Hull today. -jsq
Received yesterday from Corey Hull, with this cover sheet message,
responding to my request in the T-SPLOST public meeting Monday.
John,
In the attached spreadsheet you will find the each project associated
with four columns: the original estimate, the updated estimate, the TIA
funding (any difference from the TIA and updated cost estimate is a
secondary funding source i.e. federal, state, or local), and whether
that project is currently included in the constrained list.
GDOT provided the updated costs estimates (based on current GDOT bids)
and in some cases those estimates were further revised by GDOT and the
local governments where appropriate. All project scopes remained the
same with the exception of RC11-000049 and RC11-000042 (highlighted in
yellow), these project termini were changed significantly.
I hope this answers your questions, let me know if you have any more.
Georgia operates the fifth-largest prison system in the nation, at a
cost of $1 billion a year. The job of overseeing 60,000 inmates and
150,000 felons on probation consumes 1 of every 17 state dollars.
Last night was the second of the three forums
the Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE) approved
along with its
statement opposing school consolidation.
George Rhynes reports there were 300 people there,
and he videoed everybody who stood up and spoke.
Videos of last night’s Valdosta school forum by George Rhynes
education, referendum, consolidation, statement,
Forum at Valdosta Middle School, Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 20 September 2011.
Videos by George Boston Rhynes for bostongbr on YouTube.
Videos of last night’s Valdosta school forum by George Rhynes
education, referendum, consolidation, statement,
Forum at Valdosta Middle School, Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 20 September 2011.
Videos by George Boston Rhynes for bostongbr on YouTube.
Plus ongoing jobs, expanded education, private sources of investment, and customers for the electricity.
