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THE NASHVILLE HH HH Preserving SouthwestNews-LEADER Arkansas’s Heritage While Leading Through the 21st Century Wednesday, April 17, 2019 u Vol. 16, Issue 42 u 20 pages, 2 sections u 75¢ Leader Nashville schools Board to install cameras www.swarkansasnews.com OPINION 4A at bus barn; salary State budget approved as schedule updated 92nd General By John R. Schirmer cost will be $140,000, Graham said. Assembly ends. News-Leader staff About $100,000 will come from The Nashville School Board increased state aid approved in the approved security cameras for recent legislative session, accord- the district’s new bus barn and ing to Graham. The remainder will JPs receive dealt with a number of other items come from special funds in the Monday night during its regular district’s budget. phone system meeting for April. Classified personnel, excluding report April 15 The board accepted a bid of bus drivers, will receive a three $15,730.90 from Progressive Tech- percent increase. Food services County Judge Kevin nologies of Little Rock for the employees are paid by Aramark. Smith gave an update on bus barn camera system. The Bus drivers will receive a 14- the courthouse telephone bid includes 11 cameras, related cent per hour increase, making system, Monday, at the equipment and training for district their pay for the coming year regular April meeting of personnel. $15.30 per hour. the Howard County Quo- Superintendent Doug Graham The board approved two work rum Court. said the system is the same as order changes for the bus barn and The judge said that Progressive installed at Nashville one at primary school. The chang- new hardware had been Primary, Elementary, Junior High es include $8,500 for an entrance installed, although old and High School. The new system gate with key pad and remotes will provide a complete view of phones are still in use. News-Leader photo/JOHN R. SCHIRMER for entrance at the bus barn, along the bus facility, including “all the with $8,500 for a 25-foot concrete The vendor is transition- WEARING ORANGE AND BLACK AGAIN. Andi Reeves, a equipment and storage,” Graham apron behind the building. ing the system to the former Scrapperette standout, has returned as the Nashville new phones, which could said. At primary, the project includes School District’s first athletic trainer. She holds a doctor of physi- The final project for Progres- a storm drain, catch basin and curb take a couple of weeks, cal therapy degree from UCA. the judge told the news- sive likely will be at ABC pre- at a cost of $3,800. paper which was not at school. The De Queen/Mena The board approved a request the meeting. Co-operative that operates the for the district to join a DMEC Judge Smith said that Former Scrapperette school recently made a number of consortium to write a grant ap- the county would save security improvements. Graham plication for Carl Perkins funds. some on monthly fees said he will probably call a special “We usually get $24,000 to $28,000 with the new equipment. back as athletic trainer meeting or discuss the cameras at in Carl Perkins money,” Graham The automatic answering By John R. Schirmer kids at 7 p.m.,” she said. the regular meeting for May. said. “The co-op said there is more service is still in opera- News-Leader staff “I see the medical side and In other business, the board ap- strength in numbers and asked us tion, he said. For Andi Reeves of Nashville, the sports side,” Reeves said. proved a 10-cent increase in lunch to join to fill out the grant request. JPs approved an becoming an athletic trainer was She has worked at combines prices for 2019-20. Aramark met It will have more detail. We won’t ordinance adjusting the an easy decision. “I wanted to do and pro days. She wants to ob- with Graham and food services get less money, and we might get budget and the brief something in the medical field, tain strength and conditioning director Julie Smith to discuss the more.” meeting was adjourned. and I grew up around sports. certification. effects of Arkansas’s new mini- Assistant Superintendent Joe JPs present included Put them together and you get an Reeves was in athletic training mum wage law on the Nashville Kell will continue to work with the Dick Wakefield, Kerry athletic trainer,” she said. first and then physical therapy. district. The increase in lunch co-op to organize teacher requests Strasner, Bobby Don Reeves was a standout mem- She entered the physical therapy prices is necessary because of the for Perkins funds, Graham said. Turner, Andy Hogg, Mar- ber of the Scrapperette softball program at UCA because “I minimum wage increasing to $10 The board approved a resolu- tha Hobbs, Brent Pinker- and tennis teams during her days wanted to further my education. per hour next year, Graham said. tion asking for a math waiver ton and Janice Huffman. at Nashville High School. She I enjoy helping with rehabilita- “This is probably the first of for a course offered through the received her bachelor’s degree in tion. I like to get people back to several trickle-down effects from vocational center at UA Cossatot’s athletic training and her doctor of what they love to do. A lot of it the minimum wage,” Graham Lockesburg campus. “Students physical therapy degree from the is mental.” said. take a course there that’s heavy Center Point University of Central Arkansas. She enjoys the combination of With the increase, student on math. We want them to be Last summer, she made a pre- the two fields because “I don’t lunches will be $2.20 in the com- able to count it as one of the four VFD to hold sentation about athletic training want to do PT or athletic training ing academic year. The district will math units they need here. Every fund-raiser to the Nashville School Board full time.” continue to provide free breakfast school in the co-op is asking for and was later hired as the dis- Reeves has worked at four dif- for all students, Graham said. the waiver,” Graham said. The on May 11 trict’s first athletic trainer. She ferent schools, including Nash- Smith said the summer meal board approved the purchase of a covers games and maintains ville, North Little Rock Sylvan program will be offered again. Last Blue Bird 71-passenger gasoline- The annual fund- “open communication with the Hills and Stanford High School summer, about 275 students were powered bus at a cost of $83,830. raising barbecue and coaches about injured players. in Texas, where she spent 2 1/2 fed each day, she said. Graham said he may ask for an- auction event for the I’m a gateway between the doc- years after PT school. The board approved a new cer- other “if the finances are good” Center Point Volunteer tor and coaches. If a player needs When she returned to Nash- tified salary schedule for 2019-20. toward the end of the fiscal year. Fire Department will be rehab, I get him or her in for It will add $600 to the first 15 steps Saturday, May 11. physical therapy. Sometimes I see See Trainer • Page 5A and $700 for the next one. The total See School • Page 5A The event will be at the community fire sta- tion beginning at 5 p.m. There will be many auction items and a rifle will be raffled. The raffle Legislature wraps up regular session gun is a Weatherby- By John R. Schirmer president pro tempore] Jimmy Hen- funds everything,” Teague said. without a physical presence in Vanguard Premium News-Leader staff dren helped keep things in order. “The Revenue Stabilization Act has Arkansas. 300BWY, one of only “All in all, it was a good ses- Legislators will reconvene brief- three categories - A, B and C. A and “I wanted the internet tax to 146 made. Raffle tickets sion.” ly in Little Rock April 24 to tie up B are fully funded. C will get a little pass because it’s not fair to local are $1 each or six for $5. That’s how Sen. Larry Teague loose ends and consider any vetoes bit of the money. We’re in pretty businesses to give that 10 percent to Four handguns will be of Nashville described the 92nd by Gov. Asa Hutchinson. good shape.” out-of-state companies. It was the auctioned. General Assembly after legislators They are likely to vote to ad- Teague asked the governor’s of- right thing to do. It’s not a new tax, The meal menu went home for a two-week recess journ sine die later that day, ending fice for money for the bladesmith- and it’s fair,” Teague said. includes bbq beef, pork April 10. what would then be an 88-day ing school at Historic Washington. Internet companies were sup- and chicken, beans, “There’s always some bad with session. “I try to help institutions that need posed to have been collecting a coleslaw and homemade the good,” Teague said. “The last The General Assembly passed money,” he said. sales tax on items sold in Arkansas, bread and desserts. The two or three days had the potential the state’s $5.75 billion budget Legislators passed an internet meal is by donation. to be really contentions. [Senate for general revenue spending. “It tax on out-of-state businesses See Session • Page 5A The auction will start at 7 p.m.

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