The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 3

4-A Wednesday, At 7, 1S71 THE SHRVEPORT TIMES lienville School Board Bienville Panel Launches Projects Authorises Sale of Bonds bond issue represented the limit of bonded indebtedness the Saline area was allowed by state law. Tlaiei Ruston Buan ARCADIA The Bienville Parish School Board Tuesday authorized its bonding attorney for the $2 million Arcadia High School project to seek the sale of revenue bonds for that construction. Bill Beck, the board's New Orleans bonding attorney, said revenue from a one-cent sales tax in Bienville Parish School District No. I (Arcadia) totaled more than $20,000 for the first quarter of collection. Using this as a basis, Beck revenue bonds, which use the tax revenue as a base, could total 1500.000 for addition to the construction funds for the new school.

The sales tax was passed in Gibsland Councilman Quits Post Times us ton Bureau GIBSLAND Pero Henson, a member of the Gibsland Town Council, Monday night resigned from that town's governing body. According to town officials, no appointment had been made as of Tuesday to fill that vacancy. In other business, the council was informed that the final payment had been made on a $16,416 water well construction project. That well is currently serving the town. The council also discussed various types of water meters presently used in the town as to which kind might be preferable for future purchases, officials said.

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Merrywoods Baptist Church Highway 80 And Piatt Dr. Kow Accepting Applications for Enrollment Grades IC-12 Just yesr of New gpnasiua classrocn building State certified teachers Sports pgran Dress cade and strict discipline Varied curriculum (Incldiag typing, ists Eedianics, etc.) Sound school financial starctaro Tuition rates or 20-30 Lower than other private schools because ot opea-cancept classrooms We Are Meeting The Need for Quality Education In A Christian Atmosphere. Enrollment Is Limited And Restricted. VSSHVtCE IYMUUEMHEIE THEM IS SttFFICiEBT tEMMI. proposed new classroom building and multipurpose building complex at Saline High School.

According to Yeager, the classroom building will include elementary and high school classes with those divisions separated by a library or media center. A multipurpose building for a kitchen, auditorium and dining area would also be built on the site of the former classroom building and those two major buildings would be joined by an administrative office area. Marshall Hough, Saline High School principal, said the complex will be a one story structure and will occupy the same area as the old main classroom building. He said the new classroom building would house all the grades at the school and would be built on the open concept throughout. Yeager said if the bids are within the money, construction on the new complex could be finished within a year.

The board agreed to advertise for bids on both projects to be received on Sept. 10. Hough said funding for the new complex will come from a $225,000 bond issue passed prior to the fire, and an insurance settlement of more than $177,000. Hough also said the $225,000 By Bill Ebarb Times Ruston Bureau ARCADIA An architect outlined plans Tuesday to the Bienville Parish School Board to reconstruct the Arcadia and Saline high schools and, after hearing the report, the board voted to launch the two projects. Architect Scott Yeager of Alexandria made the presentations.

The board voted to advertise for bids for site preparation work for the proposed Arcadia High School and to advertise for bids for construction of the proposed new classroom building complex at the Saline High School. Both schools were heavily damaged by fire last year. Yeager presented to the board a proposed land use plan for the 40 acre tract purchased for the new Arcadia High School. The plan includes the planned school facility, separate recreation areas for lower and upper elementary students, and for junior high and high school students. The proposed land use plan, which was approved by the board, also includes a baseball field, two soft ball fields, a football practice field -and a 120 slot parking area.

Yeager also presented building plans for the The board agreed that janitors and NYC workers should be used wherever possible to reduce the cost of preparing that section of the school for use this year. In other action, the board accepted bids for air conditioning units and electrical work at Castor High School. The bid of $3,839 40 for providing and installing 12 window air conditioners at the school was submitted by White's Auto Store and was accepted by the board-Best Electric Service submitted a bid of $3,2. 50 for performing the electrical work needed for the air conditioners, and the board also accepted that lone bid. The board also accepted the bid of Best Electric Service for setting up heating and cooling systems in the school board office.

That lone bid totaled $6,122.80. The board also agreed to purchase two new buses, one each for Arcadia and Saline high schools, and to purchase a replacement bus for Ringgold High School. The new buses will be purchased from the general fund, and the replacement bus will be purchased with 3-mill monies. Salary Hike OKd By Rapides Board That $225,000 includes a $200,000 bond issue and $25,000 in certificates of indebtedness. tMHM 3Q tan knit 949-3926 949-3831 oulM City Hunt Sears save 4 meii9 to 6 on liamclsoiiie Times Alexandria Bureau ALEXANDRIA Splitting 9-to-6, members of the Rapides Parish School Board Tuesday raised their monthly salary from $40 to $200.

Supt. Allen Nichols also announced that students will attend the same schools starting this September they attended last year. He pointed out, in an attempt to clarify the situation for parents, no decision had been reached by a federal judge here in a U.S. Justice Department suit asking the court to order new desegregation guidelines in Wards 1, 8 and 3. The wage increase was contained in the $18,643,352 budget adopted under the split vote that anticipated a 1974-75 fiscal surplus of $153,434.

The increase, said Nichols, was under a line item in the budget allocating $34,400 for mileage and per diem for board members. Nichols said that figure was almost double the $18,000 spent during the 1973-74 fiscal year. Gary Hays, a Ward member, moved to have the budget adopted after Dist. Atty. Edwin O.

Ware said parliamentary rules would prohibit any money adjustments until the September meeting. Ware added, however, the budget could be adjusted before the board voted. '''t -v Approval of Hays' motion, before other motions to -amend the budget were put before the board, stopped any adjustment moves. Voting against the budget were Dick Crowell, Mrs. Lena Conella, Miss Gladys Higdon, Paul White, Sabina Kelley and Raymond Willett.

Those voting for it were board president J. I. Barron, Ruth Orange, William Squires, Terry Farrar, Hays, Howard Jackson, Henry Cloud, Oscar Robinson and Douglas A. Jenkins. Absent from the meeting were Mrs.

Tia Tattersall, Dr. John Demihg and Harold Gam-burg. Hays said he felt the board had been delaying action on the budget too long and it should be approved and ton 1 1 will- the same election as a $1,364 million bond issue for the school. Revenues from the sales tax are to be used to pay revenue bonds, and monies derived from the sale of those revenue bonds is to go toward the construction costs. Those issues, combined with approximately $160,000 in insurance settlements on the Arcadia High School fire, would allow approximately $2 million for the building of the new school.

In conjunction with that action, the board noted that construction of a metal roof over the basement area of what was the gymnasium at that school has begun. That area will be used for the football program at Arcadia High School. modifications made at a later date. At least two board members, Mrs. Higdon and White, said the board should consider giving teachers pay raises and institute educational programs dropped over the past couple of years when the board was in the red before voting themselves a pay raise.

Mrs. Higdon, stressing that she wasn't against the total budget, said the pay increase for board members was the only objection I have White was unable to get on the floor a motion aimed at keeping the per diem payment at $40 a month. He also expressed surprise at the increase in the budget by saving it had not been discussed with him. The board, in other action on the budget, included about eight speech therapists under a car depreciation allowance that kept the allowance at $55 a month. "I don't think its fair to ask these people to use their cars in our business and cause them to lose money," com-' merited Jackson.

Jackson said if the board felt a sliding depreciation scale was necessary, he would put on the floor a motion to do away with the allowance and have the board buy cars for staff personnel, therapists and supervisors covered under the allowance. Barron, citing what it costs to operate a car in the late 1940s and now, said he would favor raising the allowance. In addition to the allowance, employes using personal cars for school board business are paid 15 cents a mile. Following an earlier request by Willett, Nichols read to the board the sliding scale. It ranged from $25 a month to 25 to 199 miles, to $55 for all mileage over 500.

Nichols said that would save the board about $4,000 a year. Willett, who has continually questioned financial practices of the board, said $55 was being payed to some employes that didn't drive their cars on school business during particular months. 'it. 0253 sleeve sold last now only Each year for $8, $9 and $10 These beautiful double knit shirts are a stretch woven Dacrone polyester blend. Just machine wash and tumble dry.

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