igh in urance co t force
o camp, schools claim
,noD
SI!l/[ Reponer
S.RIGGS
DETROIT - Handicapper
and formerly abused public
school children who annually
100 forward to going away to
camp will probably be disap­
pointed this summer and many
summers there after.
During an Dec. 14 Housing
Committee, Darrell Bur , in­
terim general superintendent of
fiscal integrity, reported,
f Michigan Department of
atur I Resources repre­
sentatives "indicated that the
State was interested in acquir-
Board asked
. consu tants
DETRorr - As a part of the
board's efforts to provide
quality education, a staff train­
ing and development program
is on its way at Sampson
Elementary School.
Barbara . Ort-Smith,
Management Effectiveness
deputy superintendent re- .,
quested Dec. 18 that the Equal
Employment Opportunity and
•
Sc olar hlp
a arded
uden
DETROIT - During a Dec. 12
meeting thne Boardof Educa­
ti n reported 49 students as
receiving various cholarships.
Tho c receiving more than
$1,000 were:
Jam Ander on; Leondrae
B d; Annette Pointer and
Aaron Highto r.
Winners of $1,000 scholar­
'hips were: .
C. W�; La onia Rich­
mond; T. Mo:.& . G!een; .'
Carlock; F. R ; M. SlDlDl ;
Yolanda W hington; Alicia
ebb; Ricarla. Allen; Leol
Badks Katrice J ermo ;
Marylynn McTa , Dana H
ney, C trina Vaughn; Tiffany
Thom s; Latricia Monroe;
Nicole King; Michael Pugh;
LacheUe Banks; I.Wnberly Stus;
Heidi Wobbe, Connie
Alexander; Anthony Abner;
Wannetta Perkin; Traci
Featherston; Yolanda
O'Quinn; Diallo Mitchell;
Chad ta Gavin; Regina Scott;
onic Esterling; Erica
Young; Sidney Johnson;
R.D vis; Shonte Tate and
Latonia Harris.
Under $1,000:
D. Parri h; Tene Moore;
Raymond Ponder; Lucinda
Brannon; Darnell Marable;
Monice Mitchell; ita
Thompson and Hamdee Attal­
lab.
ing the now vacant Board­
owned Camp Burt Shurly."
The 1ZI-acre campsite is 10-
cared in Dexter/Lyndon
Townships just north ofCheJsea
Michigan and was last used fot
six weeks in the summer of 1986
for Special Education students.
Board member Rose Mary
Osborne, expressed a strong
concern for the proposed camp
sale.
"The reality is ... we can't af­
ford i ," Osborne said. "It's a sad
situation, but I do understand."
On ov. 30, 1989, members
of the state department
,delivered a f�al offer to pur-
o
ire
Procurement committee
recommend hiring Paula Tissot
of Steamboat Springs, Colo. as
program consultant. If con­
tracted, TJSSOt's will be paid
S400 a day plus expenses. She
wlll work t I 20 days com­
. in out of Michigan to
revie and advise. Tissot
agreed to a maximum $10,000
ct.
Tissot ork experience . in­
eludes being an education and
management consultant for
several institutions and serving
on the Michigan Department of
Education in diverse positions.
Also, Darrell Burks, FIScal
Integrity interim deputy super­
intendent requested contract­
ing the computer consultant
services of Don Williams presi­
dent of Independent Computer
Consultants.Detroit. Williams
contract was stipulated not to
exceed $25,000 hich will come
from the previously funded
school based management ae­
eo
wun ms is a former
empioyer of Guardian Educa­
tional Systme the previous
prime contr ctor for Site Base
Manageme t t the high school
level. The company went
through reorganization nd
pulled all support persons from
the Detroit area.
Ellen Step e Di .. OD of
Educational Quality interim
deputy superintendent ed
that eleven lay readers be hired
to score High School Proficien­
cy a te of SS4 day for 15-
20 day and' permi ion to
exceed a $1,<m maximum.
Reportedly the lay readers
. po se s special skill, meet
pecific educational require­
ments and have 'passed a
screened t About half of the
lay readers are from ou· of
the distrid aDd the other
coui ts of former Detroit
employees.
ale
cha e the entire camp along
with portions of their real estate
appraisal report of the
campsite.
Deputy Detroit Mayor,
Adam Shakoor, who is current- .
Iy searching for boot camps to
P ce problem youths Said Burt
Shurly was no. seriously con-
. dered a choice, despite its
close location.
Reportedly the Chelsea
township passed a resolution
forbidding the establishment of
any type of correctional facility
such as boot camps, Shakoor
said, adding that when this was
_learned Burt Shurly wasn't
given a second thought by the
city. -
"The mayor was not
desirable to going to an, area
hich is hostile to that," he said.
"We don't want this ... our kids
subjected to any hostility."
A public school teacher said
the city's youth need places such
as camp Burt Shurly for
development.
In a camp setting, Urban
children have a sense of total
freedom away from the pres-·
sures 01 a metropoli , the
te cher said, Closing Burt Shur­
Iywill mioimiu their plio to
know life beyond the city and
may hinder their dvancement.
"Camp is a wonderful tbing,"
the teacher said. ·We need
(Burt Shurly)."
Porte· prop
surpr se jo I
Denl re Idency . � be paid accordingly, Ort-
ex mptlon Smith said.
The proposed number of
CfIY retirement and attritio
w;n fill the gap between vacan­
cies and reclassifying
e ployee Porter said, adding
that h will provide further
details at the Jan. 23 board
meeting .
However, he did offer com-
ents regarding a, proposed
recommendation of total job
cuts from the current 20,200
employees to 18,971.
In board action, Porter
recommended denial of a
r idency requirement exemp­
tion for Gilbert Rowe whose
said his job change from Class
A Engineer to District En­
gineer would not support a
change in r ·dency .
The position will be put in a
peol allowing Detroit residents
a Chance to pply. H no eligib e
candidate i found it will be
rcoffered to Rowe, Porter said
A union representative op­
posed Porter's recommend -
tion, aying the only change
made in Ro 's case in the
title name of the position and
not in the amount he u1d be
paid.
Board member Rose Mary
Osborne cast the one novote
agains Porter's recommenda-
tion. .
ICHIGAN CITIZE
ses
. cuts
By FLODEAN S �GGS
DETROIT - Proposed job
cuts will no req e most public
school employe to pack their
bags, but clean g out their
desks may hel moving to
ano er office a ttle easier.
During the 1 91 school
year more than 1000 nonin­
structional posi ions will be
eliminated squ ezing most
employees into er j said
John Porter, general superin­
tendent.
T.hough the school system
will be going through several
phase of reorganizatio, 0
employees will be out of a j b or
suffer any pay cuts, said th
Porter and Barbara art-Smith,
deputy superintendent d� a
Jan. 3 Personnel Committee
meeting.
"On the first round we an­
ticipate no one losing their
jobs: Porter said "We don' see
... people losing posib be­
cause there is a sufficient nUID­
ber of vacancies .•• "
Many employees either will
be bumped up or down in posi­
tions as and will retain their rate
_o.f p y, but when a job reopens
the ne person in the position
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