HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93009_0867any equipment. Other than custodial equipment that is amortized
over a five-year period, that is all that Service Masters has.
In response to a question from Commissioner Johnson, the
school board responded that a maintenance man can repair an
additional maintenance problem when he is at a school and generate
a work order on the spot. The only exception would be an
electrician doing a plumber's job, or something like that, out of
his field of knowledge.
Chairman Haire inquired if there are other questions. The
school board members inquired about Commissioner Stewart's health.
Chairman Haire answered that Commissioner Alice Stewart is doing
well and making progress in her recovery from her recent surgery.
Mr. Joel Mashburn is also out with an illness of kidney stones for
which he is taking treatment, she said.
Skip McCall thinks at some point there needs to be a
comprehensive study of the educational system in Iredell County and
address the situation as a whole in order to realize the full
effectiveness of education the children. He said he thinks there
has to be a joint effort between the county commissioners, the
Statesville/Iredell School Board, and the Mooresville Graded School
District to sit down a take some type of comprehensive approach for
a plan for education in this county. He expounded on this approach
and said someone should take the lead and he thought it should be
the county commissioners.
Chairman Haire inquired what he thought the county
commissioners should be doing that they are not doing. Mr. McCall
said there is the issue of districts, of facilities, and growth.
He thinks there needs to be a plan to accommodate the growth.
Commissioner Boone said if he wanted to have a couple of
meetings with these two boards and Mooresville as well, he would
not have any objection to that. Skip McCall said he was not
speaking of just a couple of meetings, but a very concerted effort,
a very involved effort, to address the long-term needs of education
in this county.
Commissioner Boone said he thought these sessions with the
county schools have been very effective. He thought part of the
reason people do not come to a consensus is because of the
different philosophical viewpoints like freedom of choice. Skip
McCall said he thought diversity in viewpoints is good, but
somewhere there has to be some common ground. He thinks someone
has to take the lead in determining where that common ground is.
Chairman Bill Long said the law says you go to school in the
school district you live in. They have been sued on three
different occasions because there are three philosophies on what
they should be doing. Commissioner Boone says the law says you can
allow students to go to school in another system, but Chairman Long
said the law does not say you have to let them go. Commissioner
Boone said the schools have the discretion to allow students to go
to another school system if they so choose.
Commissioner Johnson said he would like to see both school
systems get along. Chairman Haire said she had someone in her
office today who had read in the paper that all the money spent in
the schools is being spent in the southern end of the county. He
asked if she would remind the people in north Iredell that the
people in southern Iredell pay taxes too.
Godfrey Williams said he was not sure that was said. He
thought what was said was that there is a lot of the money being
spent in the south, but what they want is a piece of the pie too.
Dr. Register made some statements about the divisiveness
among the school systems and the county commissioners and said the
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