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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1989 <br /> <br />At the invitation and request of the Martinsville City School Board, a special <br />and duly-convened meeting of'the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, <br />was conducted jointly with the School Board on Monday, November 20, 1989, 'at <br />the Dutch Inn, Collinsville, Virginia, beginning with dinner at 6:00 P-M. The <br />purpose of this special meeting was to receive from the School Board and its <br />administrative staff a report of the Board's stewardship for the 1988-89 school <br />year, consisting of reports on various facets of the local schoolsystem <br />operations and comparisons thereof in instances with prior years, plus revised <br />estimates of the cost of removing asbestos and re-installing other insulating <br />materials at Albert Harris School. Present at this meeting, representing the <br />School Board and staff, were Vice-Chairman William W. Edwards (presiding <br />officer at this meeting, in the absence of School Board Chairman Worth H. <br />Carter, Jr., who is recovering from illness), School Board members Mrs. Judy K. <br />Matthews and Mr. Johnnie L. Jones, School Division Superintendent S. Harold <br />Lamm, School Board Clerk Mrs. Lynda Wo Pulliam, Mrs. Nancy P. Brammer, <br />Assistant Superintendent for Instruction, Mr. Ronald B. Epperly, Assistant <br />Superintendent for Business/Finance, and Mr. Michael Rolen, Assistant <br />Superintendent for Pupil Personnel Services. School Board member Roger D. <br />Martin was absent because of the death of his father on November 19, 1989. All <br />members of City Council were present, viz., Mayor L. D. Oakes, Vice-Mayor Clyde <br />L. Willjams, and Messrs. William C. Cole, Jr., Alfred T. Groden, and Allan <br />McClain. Also present was City Manager George W. Brown. <br /> <br />First presented by the School Board was a tabulation showing estimated School <br />Board budgets and actual school system expenditures/revenues for the fiscal <br />years 1980-81 through ~1988-89. Said actual expenditures increased from <br />$6,383,000 in 1980-81 to $11,355,000 in 1988-89, or by 77.58%, whereas the <br /> <br /> <br />