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WEDNESDAY 161st YEAR • NO. 23 MAY 27, 2015 CLEVELAND, TN 26 PAGES • 50¢ Council to evaluate City Manager Janice Casteel By JOYANNA LOVE and was not available during You have a $6 million building over cerns. Banner Senior Staff Writer Tuesday’s meeting. here. You have 90 wonderful people “She agrees with me that there Councilman Charlie McKenzie was working over there but we don’t have needs to be a change, but she will not A job performance evaluation has the lone dissenting vote. a leader,” Moore said. make a change,” Moore said. been scheduled for City Manager “I think you are doing a good job,” Mark Gibson is serving as interim He expressed concern at a lack of Janice Casteel. McKenzie said to Casteel. chief while a consultant and commit- leadership putting officers in jeopardy The Cleveland City Council voted The motion by Councilman Richard tee review the department’s policies and allowing crime to increase. He Tuesday to evaluate Casteel’s per- Banks came after comments from and suggest changes. Casteel said she said all it would take only one major formance using a Municipal Technical local businessman Ben Moore and will not select a new chief until that incident “to give Cleveland a black Assistance Service evaluation model Banks about the state of the city. process has been completed. eye” and a bad name to other commu- at the June 22 meeting. A copy of the “We have got a real problem in Moore said he had spoken to model will be secured by city staff, Cleveland with the police department. Casteel previously about his con- See CASTEEL, Page 8 Moore Banks Casteel Inside Today School board selects Cash Lone candidate hired after second opts out By CHRISTY ARMSTRONG Banner Staff Writer “It is a passion, it is The Bradley County Board of our future and we have Education has signed a contract to do it well. We are with a new director of schools. required to do it well.” The board chose Dr. Linda Cash — Dr. Linda Cash for the position with a 5-2 vote Tuesday night, mere minutes after questions about everything from the board interviewed her for the test scores to providing professional job. development for school system Cash is the current assistant staff. director of schools in Robertson As she answered the questions, Mariota steps in County, and she will take office in she stressed the most important less than a week — on June 1. Tennessee Titans rookie quar- people in the school system are the “I am excited about working with terback Marcus Mariota showed children. Bradley County Schools,” Cash off his arm and speed in his first “They are not products,” Cash said. organized workout with teamates. said. “They are people that we’re She is the first female school Southeastern Conference football growing.” superintendent Bradley County has coaches want the playing field She also vowed to provide good had since the 1960s, according to leveled when it comes to satellite support to the teachers who work the Bradley County Schools central camps. The Braves fell to the on the front lines educating chil- office. Grace Carroll is said to have Dodgers and the Cleveland dren, and to the principals who served in the role between 1965 and Cavaliers eliminated the Hawks. oversee the operations of each 1969. See Sports, Pages 19-21. school. She said she would like to The board had planned to inter- provide more professional develop- view the top two candidates for the ment opportunities and chances for position Tuesday, but 3rd District Banner photo, CHRISTY ARMSTRONG educators to collaborate on impor- Leadership brings Board Chairman Nicholas Lillios DR. LINDA CASH, the new director of Bradley County Schools, tant issues, like forming a team of said the other hopeful, Director Dr. improved change teachers and administrators to dis- signs her contract with Bradley County Board of Education Bill Heath of Lawrence County cuss academic intervention for Change often strikes fear into Chairman Nicholas Lillios. She starts work June 1. The new direc- Schools, dropped out of the running struggling students. the hearts of many, especially if tor is seen in the inset photo at right. over the weekend. such change removes them from In round-robin fashion, board their comfort zones. This then members took turns asking Cash See SCHOOL, Page 6 points to the importance of strong, quality leadership — the kind that is brought to Cleveland through the annual Leadercast events. Read about this unique Winters praises BHRC; opportunity in the editorial on Page 18 of today’s edition. Forecast Scott Oliver begins role By LARRY C. BOWERS in screening more than 20 applica- Banner Staff Writer tions, and selecting a replacement fol- lowing the recent resignation of former Bradley County Commissioner Bill Administrator Winters is pleased with the operation Dennis Burtnett. of the Bradley Healthcare and The search, and Rehabilitation Center, and he wants hiring, took minimal the community to know it. time under the Banner photo, BRIAN GRAVES Winters, a Commission designee to direction of new PROPERTY ASSESSOR Stanley Thompson (standing center) talks to the Finance Today looks to be partly sunny, the BHRC board, spoke up at the end Board Chair Wendy Committee about what revenue a potential fire tax increase might bring. Clockwise with a high near 85 and a slight of Tuesday’s monthly board meeting. Beck. from Thompson are Commissioners Dan Rawls, Louie Alford, Thomas Crye, County “This is great,” Winters said. “The He was also refer- Mayor D. Gary Davis and Commissioner Milan Blake. chance of showers or thunder- momentum we’ve had here today, and storms this afternoon. Tonight ring to quick and the new administration, I think it’s efficient action by should be mostly cloudy with a 30 important the community knows about Oliver the County percent chance of showers or thun- this.” Commission in Four ranks of firefighter derstorms, and a low around 64. Winters, a former educator, was not unanimously selecting a replacement Thursday calls for a 50 percent just talking about the board meeting, for board member Lonnie Setlich, who raises sought by Finance chance of rain, with a high near 85. or the reception earlier in the evening resigned last month to accept a posi- Thursday night should be mostly to recognize the center’s new adminis- tion with The Caring Place, a local By BRIAN GRAVES receive significant pay increases. cloudy, with a low around 66. trator and a new appointee to the nonprofit. Banner Staff Writer Those pay raises would be funded by Sunset: 8:46 p.m. board. He was referring to several Honored at Tuesday’s reception was the proposed fire tax rate which was things that have happened recently. new administrator Scott Oliver on his The Bradley County Commission’s approved by a Commission resolution in Sunrise: 6:30 a.m. Winters was acknowledging the Finance committee instructed County March. quick and efficient action by the board See BHRC, Page 8 Mayor D. Gary Davis to prepare a budget Index in which four ranks of firefighters would See FIREFIGHTER, Page 8 Classified................................23-25 Comics.........................................16 Golf lease Editorials......................................18 Horoscope....................................16 4 local teachers Lifestyles.................................13-15 agreement Obituaries.......................................2 Stocks............................................4 are among group terminated Sports......................................19-21 TV Schedule................................17 by Council Weather........................................11 of STEM Fellows By JOYANNA LOVE Around Town By TONY EUBANK Banner Senior Staff Writer Banner Staff Writer Holly Jacobsen dodging crit- It’s back to Hole 1 for the ters ... Christie Odom taking CHATTANOOGA — Four area teachers were among the 2014-15 Banner photo, TONY EUBANK Waterville Golf Course. some nice photos of flags flying class recognized here Tuesday for their work and study as STEM BRADLEY COUNTY TEACHERS HONORED at Tuesday’s The Cleveland City Council for Memorial Day ... Ricky Teaching Fellows. STEM Teaching Fellows event, from left, Suzanne Gregory, terminated the lease agreement Tallent still celebrating over a The event was held at the STEM School located on the Chattanooga Heather Hayes and Becca Cathell, stand with STEM Innovation with GSP Business Alliance for recent success ... Mackenzie State Community College campus. managing the golf course during The group, also known as a cohort, is the third to have completed HUB director Keri Randolph, third from left. Dustin Fromm was a meeting Tuesday. Gonzalez going to Texas to visit unavailable for the photo. her grandfather and grandmother the fellowship. The council will also be pursu- for a month ... Maria Gilley and The Bradley County and Cleveland City Schools educators recog- The teachers participated in a yearlong fellowship that included two ing “any and all recourse” for Alesha Noble enjoying their pad- nized were Dustin Fromm, Ocoee Middle School; Heather Hayes, Park summer workshops, quarterly seminars, a job-shadowing experience securing the rent that should dle boards. View Elementary School; Suzanne Gregory, Cleveland Middle School; and a community-partnership project. The Southeast Tennessee STEM have been paid under the lease and Becca Cathell, E.L. Ross Elementary School. Hub is an initiative of Chattanooga’s Public Education Foundation, agreement. They were part of a group of 27 elementary, middle and high school and is made possible via funding from Unum. “Rock Morgan has defaulted teachers from 9 different school districts who worked to expand and Hayes, a second-grade teacher said, “It started out as a ‘What can I on his lease on the golf course as improve science, technology, engineering, and math education as part far as I know,” said Janice of the Southeast Tennessee STEM Innovation HUB. See STEM, Page 6 6489076 75112 See GOLF, Page 8 2—Cleveland Daily Banner—Wednesday, May 27, 2015 www.clevelandbanner.com Colorado theater OBITUARIES (USPS 117-700) Periodical Postage Paid at Cleveland, TN 37320-3600 Post Office shooting victims relive POSTMASTER: Send Address Changes to: Banner, P.O.