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Sunday Edition June 23, 2019 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 Chick-fi l-A Supply celebrates Cartersville groundbreaking in Bartow approves BY JAMES SWIFT The fast food juggernaut — which saw its sales [email protected] last year increase by 16.7% — announced plans to millage, open the fi rst-of-its-kind distribution center in April. For Chick-fi l-A President and Chief Operating Bartow County documents indicate Chick-fi l-A D2 Offi cer Tim Tassopoulos, Friday’s festivities in services, LLC paid roughly $4 million for the ap- utility rate Bartow County were truly groundbreaking — proximately 50-acre site, which is nestled in-between both physically and symbolically. the Asta Door Corp. facility and the local KOA “This is an unexpected opportunity,” he said at Campgrounds site. After 51 years of consecutive increases the site of what will one day be Chick-fi l-A Sup- sales growth, Chick-fi l-A Supply Chain/Distribution BY JAMES SWIFT ply, LLC’s fi rst distribution center off Cass-White Executive Director Paul Trotti said consumer de- [email protected] Road. “You don’t expect to begin to outgrow your mand has grown so large — and so fast — that the industry’s distribution or supply chain system, but Georgia-based company had to pursue non-tradition- The Cartersville City Council vot- that’s the challenge that Chick-fi l-A has, because in al solutions to its supply chain and logistics issues. ed unanimously Thursday evening JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS A groundbreaking ceremony for the Chick-fi l-A Supply distri- many cases, we’re growing so quickly, we’re going to adopt its fi scal year 2020 budget bution center off Cass-White Road took place Friday morning. faster than the industry can support.” SEE CHICK-FIL-A, PAGE 2A — and with it, increases to the mu- nicipal millage rate as well as resi- dential gas, water and sewer rates. “The proposed budget is bal- anced,” said City of Cartersville New principals Finance Director Tom Rhinehart at the public meeting. “It includes take the helm salary adjustments throughout all our departments … it includes an at 5 schools Do You Believe in MAGIC increase in health insurance for City employees.” He said the key numbers are in Bartow, identical to those presented in the Teen girls learn fi rst reading of the budget, albeit Cartersville it with one change — a $2,000 re- duction in the City’s outside agency BY DONNA HARRIS about world of funding, which ultimately brings [email protected] the FY 2020 general fund budget construction at to $26,653,300. Students at four Bartow Coun- Under the FY 2020 budget, the ty schools and one Cartersville City’s millage rate is set to increase City school will fi nd new peo- MAGIC Camp from 3.228 mills to 4.228 mills. ple sitting behind the principal’s The impact on the median Car- desk when they return to class in BY DONNA HARRIS tersville home valued at $170,000, August. [email protected] Rhinehart said, would be an addi- Two Bartow principals moved tional $68 in City property taxes to other schools within the sys- Renee Conner has been conducting each year. tem; one was promoted from as- Mentoring a Girl in Construction Camps The total FY 2020 budget sistant principal; one moved to across Georgia every summer for years, comes out to about $165 million. the central offi ce; and one is new but she said she’d never had a group of It includes about $47.1 million in to the district. young women like the bunch she had at electric enterprise funds, about The new Cartersville princi- the Bartow County camp this year. $45.3 million in water and sewer pal came from Bartow’s central “This is the best group of girls I’ve enterprise funds and about $28.8 offi ce to replace his retiring pre- ever had in my whole life,” she said. million in gas enterprise funds. decessor. “They are so respectful. They listen. The three highest-budgeted gener- In April, Woodland High Prin- They’re like sponges. They soak up ev- al fund expenditures are fi re ($7.5 cipal Dr. Wes Dickey was tapped erything you tell them. Things that I told million), police ($6.1 million) and as the fi rst leader of the rebrand- some of them two, three years ago, they parks and recreation ($3.7 million.) ed South Central Middle, which repeat to me. They want every piece of As part of the budget, council was renamed Red Top Middle information.” also unanimously approved an or- School last month. South Cen- The national executive director of dinance amendment increasing the tral’s last principal, Tia Windsor, MAGIC Inc. called the Bartow camp fi xed monthly base rates for City gas retired at the end of the school “the top.” customers. Beginning July 1, resi- year. “This is like coming home for me, it dential customer rates will increase Dickey’s replacement, David really is,” she said. “When I come to this from $10 to $15 a month, while the Stephenson, comes to Bartow af- camp, it’s like coming home.” rate for commercial customers will ter being a teacher and assistant Conner conducted her ninth annual increase from $15 to $20. principal at North Cobb High construction camp for girls ages 14 to 18 Also receiving unanimous coun- School in Kennesaw for 13 years. last week at Cass High School in White, cil approval was another ordinance In March, Matt Gibson, Bar- and some of the 18 young women who amendment, which increases the tow’s executive director of fed- participated are considering careers in base tier rate for residential water eral programs and professional male-dominated areas that once weren’t customers from $9.45 a month to learning, was tapped to replace receptive to the female gender. $9.92 — a measure Rhinehart said retiring Ken MacKenzie as The free camp gives the high school- will result in the average residential principal of Cartersville Middle ers — nine new campers, nine returning customer paying $2.73 more per School. campers — a preview of what it might be month for City services. Dr. Sharon Collum, who served like to have a career as a carpenter, welder, RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS That ordinance amendment also as principal of Euharlee Elemen- electrician or heavy-equipment operator. Sarah Browlee, top, a rising sophomore at Adairsville High School, and Mar- decreases the sewer rate for custom- tary for 10 years, has moved to The girls always start the week with ietta High graduate Courtney Hicks install an electrical outlet during MAGIC ers who live outside the City limits, Camp at Cass High School last week. the central offi ce to take over Occupational Safety and Health Admin- reducing their monthly charge from Gibson’s vacated position. istration day on Monday. they get the certifi cation.” band saws, miter saws, drills and pneu- $4.15 to $3.98. The ordinance also Allatoona Elementary Princi- Robbie Pope from Carroll Daniel They also had a lunchtime speaker, matic nailers to build candle holders. increases the monthly fi re service pal Jim Bishop was transferred to Construction was the safety director Heather Bounds from Northwest Exter- “They actually made wooden candle charges for all pipe sizes by 5% and Euharlee to replace Collum, and who helped the campers earn their 10- minating. holders that they’ll be able to hang on implements the City’s fi rst increase Cloverleaf Elementary Assistant hour OSHA certifi cation. During carpentry day on Tuesday, their wall,” Conner said. “In the after- in high strength waste surcharges Principal Teri Marley was pro- “We actually get the girls six hours on Cass construction instructor Jerome noon, they actually got to paint.” in more than two decades. moted to principal of Allatoona. Monday, and we do an hour each morn- Black, who helps Conner with the camp, ing on safety,” Conner said. “That’s how taught the young women how to use SEE MAGIC, PAGE 4A SEE CARTERSVILLE, PAGE 7A David Stephenson Even though the new school year hasn’t started yet, Stephen- son already has had a sleepless night. Shoppes at Village Hill breaks ground in West Cartersville It came the evening he was no- tifi ed that he’d been approved by BY JAMES SWIFT will serve the community that surrounds here — the Bartow County School Board [email protected] the schools, the parks, the residential and just the as the new principal of Wood- people who work around here.” land High. More commercial developments are coming From the outset, Harris said one of his top pri- “I found out after the board to West Cartersville, as the Shoppes at Village orities for the Village Hill project was to use as meeting where I was announced Hill offi cially broke ground Thursday afternoon. many local contractors as possible. [April 15],” he said. “I didn’t get “It will be a job creator, it will be a nice neigh- “Buy Bartow, right?” he said. “I’m happy to much sleep that night as I was borhood center,” said H&H Realty, LLC broker report that 100% of everything that will go on just so thrilled by the news.” Mark Harris. “We’re having fairly good luck get- at this site will be done by a local contractor or The former assistant princi- ting pre-leasing done — we anticipate having it subcontractor.” pal/magnet coordinator at North about 75% leased by the time we’ve got it com- For Karl Lutjens of Southland Engineering, Cobb said he felt “incredibly pleted, if not 100%.” working on the property was a true blast from honored by the opportunity and The 14,000-square-foot strip center along the past.