Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Cobb County Board of Education member David Banks proposes a 1 percent bonus for all school employees.
The large savings that once were common for Cobb County School District construction projects are no longer there, causing SPLOST Chief Administrative Officer Doug Shepard to modify the use of the plan for accelerated SPLOST construction projects. The Cobb County Board of Education will listen to the administration’s proposal during its monthly work session at 8:30 a.m. today in the Central Office boardroom at 514 Glover St. “We’re not seeing the savings in the current construction market that we’ve observed in the past,” Shepard told Patch. In October 2010, the board approved accelerating SPLOST III projects to take advantage of construction costs driven down by the recession. The plan was to be funded through 2013. Over the summer, the …
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Cobb County Board of Education also will consider paving a bus parking lot and using most of the SPLOST reserve fund at tonight's meeting.
The Cobb County Board of Education is expected to vote tonight on an administration-backed school calendar rule that would guarantee at least nine months’ notice for calendar changes. The new rule would create a 29-member committee of community members and district employees that would recommend at least two calendar options to the school board. David Banks of East and Northeast Cobb’s Post 5 told Patch he would prefer for the board to receive “one option that I accept or reject.” “The problem with two is that if one is chosen, the other side has conflict—not only on the board, but in the community,” he said. “So why put that out there?” As he stated at the board’s Oct. 12 work session, Banks thinks the calendar rule modification has no …
Friday, October 14, 2011
The expansion and paving of the Sanders Road bus shop would leave only $100,000 for other overruns.
Improving infrastructure, cutting maintenance costs, increasing parking space and improving driver safety are some of the reasons the Cobb County School District’s transportation department wants to spend $1.1 million to pave its Sanders Road bus shop off Powder Springs Road in Marietta. The Board of Education discussed the paving project, set to be awarded to low bidder Baldwin Paving of Marietta, during its work session Wednesday. The project’s cost grew by $400,000 when its scope increased to add 50 bus parking spots, which would require clearing the tree-lined lot and moving dirt to flatten the proposed back lot, said Doug Shepard, the chief administrative officer for the district’s SPLOST projects. If the board decides to pave only …
