School Board to Get Budget Briefing Superintendent to Reveal During a Budget Workshop in the Auditorium of the School Board Ance When the Year Closes
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1 TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM School board to get budget briefing Superintendent to reveal during a budget workshop in the auditorium of the School Board ance when the year closes. an hour before the regular Administrative Complex, with the regular The fund balance is divided into several district financial distress board meeting. meeting following at 7 p.m. sections, including the restricted fund bal- at special workshop today. “This has been a Huddleston said Monday that he hopes ance and the unassigned fund balance. train that’s going to to provide the board with an accurate sum- The unassigned fund balance is cash and By AMANDA WILLIAMSON wreck,” County School mary of where the district will be finan- essentially the most important part to the [email protected] Superintendent Terry cially on June 30, the end of the fiscal year. district. Huddleston Huddleston said during He had staff preparing the information on At the end of 2010-11, the district had Columbia County School Board mem- the May 28 board meet- how much was spent during the 2012-13 $2,685,624 in the unassigned fund balance; bers plan to discuss the current state ing. “It’s finally wrecked.” school year and how much the district can of finances in the school district today The financial discussion will be at 6 p.m. expect to have in the unassigned fund bal- BUDGET continued on 3A Officials Frolic in the fountain see good in FCAT results Improved scores at Niblack credited to curriculum changes. By AMANDA WILLIAMSON [email protected] Columbia County FCAT scores revealed that recent curriculum changes at Niblack Elementary School helped boost scores for fourth- and fifth-graders there, School Superintendent Terry Huddleston said. Huddleston said he looked at Niblack Elementary scores first to see how the new meth- ods impacted the school’s scores. The school district imple- mented instructional changes at Niblack during December, he said, and they should have provided a jump start to the test scores. According to the released data, it must have helped. Fifty-six percent of students at Niblack scored a achieve- ment level 3 or higher in read- ing, compared to 34 percent in 2012. In math, the percentage of students who passed rose JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter from 54 percent in 2012 to 60 Sara Harrington, 5, slaps a column of water while visiting the fountain in Olustee Park in downtown Lake City on Monday. percent in 2013. For fifth grade, Niblack scores in reading increased from a 28 percent passing rate in 2012 to a 38 percent pass- Deputies: Man says he grew marijuana to eat ing rate this year, compared to the 2013 state average of 60 Dozens of marijuana J u r i s d i c t i o n a l possession of marijuana with plants in the shed and kept seed- percent. Task Force found intent to sell and possession of lings inside, the report said. “We have Niblack now turn- plants seized during 34 pot plants in drug paraphernalia, according to “(Raid) said that once he har- ing the corner and moving in search in Fort White. a shed on his the report. vested the plants in the shed he a positive upward direction,” property, accord- After arriving at Raid’s home, would move the seedlings so said Kitty McElhaney, direc- ing to a Columbia Deputy Jeffrey Watson asked Raid that he had a continuous crop,” tor for curriculum, assess- By DEREK GILLIAM County Sheriff’s how many marijuana plants he Watson wrote. ment and accountability. [email protected] Raid Office arrest had in his shed. Raid told Watson Raid told Watson he was grow- In contrast, Five Points report. he had 35 to 40 plants in the shed ing marijuana for personal use, Elementary has seen a steady A Fort White man who eats mari- Earl Brian Raid, 49, 418 SW and about the same number in his the report said. In Raid’s home, juana was arrested after members Bangor Way in Fort White, faces house, the report said. SCORES continued on 3A of the Columbia County Multi charges of producing marijuana, Raid said he kept the mature POT continued on 3A No jurors seated for murder trial Testimony delayed Franklin is scheduled to be tried for the March 2012 as questioning of stabbing death of Columbia individuals goes on. County corrections officer Sgt. Ruben Thomas III. By TONY BRITT Franklin is charged with [email protected] first-degree premeditated murder, aggravated bat- Opening statements in tery on a law enforcement the Richard Franklin capi- officer and possession of tal murder trial have been contraband in prison. delayed another day and Jury selection for the the trial is now expected trial began Thursday morn- to begin Wednesday — ing as Circuit Judge Paul provided a jury has been Bryan and attorneys from selected. both sides look to seat a The trial was slated to jury. begin Monday and last the A full day of interviews remainder of the week, pos- was conducted Monday, JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter sibly taking two or three with 37 potential jurors With the greatest of ease days of next week, too. The being questioned. Of the penalty phase of the trial, 37, all but 17 were excused. 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