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Math edges out English on final budget tweak

TRACY BELL

Stafford County Sun

he Stafford County School Board agreed to tweak its adopted fiscal 2017 operating budget Tuesday, swapping out five high school English teacher positions in favor of adding four math specialists. The board adopted its final $269.2-million budget, which went generally un-

changed since the adoption of the county’s operating budget on April 19. But the school board decided to ensure that every middle school is staffed with a math specialist, at a cost of approximately $270,000. To cover the funding, the school board swapped out five additional high school English teacher positions budgeted previously, at one for each high school.

Two other English teacher positions are still in the budget, down five from an initial seven. The math specialists will hold half-positions in the middle schools, according to discussion. According to SCPS, priorities in the fiscal 2017 budget were smaller class sizes, increased employee compensation and additional positions to accommodate the

growing enrollment. School board Chairwoman Holly Hazard, Hartwood District, said that the adoption of the budget demonstrates the school board’s improved dealings with the Stafford County Board of Supervisors. The adopted budget represents a 3.17-percent increase over BUDGET the fiscal 2016 adopted PAGE 2 budget and includes 96.5

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additional positions, which will reduce class sizes especially at the elementaryschool level. It includes a 2-percent costof-living adjustment for all employees; a 1-percent Virginia Retirement System salary increase; a starting teacher salary of $42,238 (up from $37,793 two years ago); and pay-scale enhancements. Included in the budget is a joint health insurance plan for school board and county government employees, and additional county and fire-emergency services positions. “We have an obligation to meet the needs of our community. I’m proud to say we worked together with our employees and the board of supervisors to meet many of them,” said Superintendent Bruce Benson. “We made a significant accomplishment in achieving greater efficiencies by closely analyzing our expenditures and more accurately projecting benefits and salaries.” But there may have to be more work done in analyzing expenditures, according to a discussion Tuesday between the school board and its staff. There, the school board deferred a decision on which copier company to use. A $650,000 four-year contract with Ricoh, the Chicago-based company Stafford County Public Schools has used for the past 10 years, was up for action Tuesday. However, the school board decided to further review its options after a representative from Xerox challenged the board as to why its staff recommended Ricoh, despite Xerox being the lowest of the five bidding companies. School board member Patricia Healy,

R-Rock Hill, took issue with SCPS staff recommending what she believed it was simply comfortable with, as opposed to considering the financial impact. Lance Wolff, assistant superintendent for finances at SCPS, said that the staff believes that Ricoh would be the most responsible and responsive of the bidders. In addition, there are concerns about maintenance and service issues based on when it contracted with Xerox 10 years ago. References for all bidders were checked, Wolff added. Healy said that the nearly $250,000 difference over the course of four years is substantial. “It sounds like you would’ve made this decision no matter what,” Healy told Wolff. “…If it’s a disaster then lesson learned, but I have a feeling there wouldn’t be that much difference. … There’s nothing said that the other bidders would not be able to perform.” The issue is the criteria applied, Healy noted. It’s subjective, she said, not statistical, referring to references collected. She said she wasn’t sure SCPS staff could be objective. “We have to start relooking at these things. We have to do business differently,” Healy remarked. School board member Scott Hirons, Falmouth District, agreed with Healy, noting that while Ricoh is a great company, he can’t support the contract for that kind of money. School board member Nanette Kidby, Garrisonville District, suggested a committee form to research the matter, bringing the issue back to board members at their next meeting. It was also suggested that Benson and the SPCS procurement

team be used, as opposed to board committee members or school staff. The board also agreed to look at all five vendors again. In other business, the school board: • deferred a summer school program proposal for 2016. The deferral involves funding only, so tentative class dates will still be available for students. • discussed an $8.3-million surplus that SCPS staff previously found. Benson said he’d like to advocate for the use of the money when he visits the Stafford County Board of Supervisors at its meeting next week. A previous resolution doing so included $1.85 million for summer 2016 infrastructure projects, repayment of debt for a new Enterprise, Resource and Planning system, a $2.15-million repayment of debt for buses and a cash reserve for school capital projects in the amount of $3.5 million. Benson said an amendment to the resolution will seek to redirect $2 million in cash to the Moncure Elementary School rebuild. • recognized Chief Secondary Officer David White, who will leave the schools system in May to become a superintendent in King William County. The board also appointed North Stafford High School Principal Thomas Nichols to the chief secondary office position, to succeed White. • appointed Abigail Martinez as assistant principal at Moncure Elementary School. She is currently the assistant principal at Ferry Farm Elementary School. Tracy Bell can be reached at tbell@staffordcountysun.com.

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10 of “Food Network Star.” He was eliminated in the seventh round on a show that aired in July 2014. “I thought I did pretty good and I have no regrets,” he said in an interview with the Stafford County Sun, following the elimination. Kyler also previously won on Food Network’s “Cutthroat Kitchen,” where cooking curveballs are thrown at contestants. He said his mother taught him to cook when he was a child. “Food Network Star,” which premieres May 22 at 9 p.m., features mentor-judges Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay, and their search for the next promising food television start. The show will feature 13 culinary hopefuls competing in challenges and battling it out for the win. The “Food Network Star” season winner will be crowned July 31 at 9 p.m. The web series “Star Salvation” also gives eliminated contestants another chance to make it back onto “Food Network Star.” Didi O’Hearn, senior vice president of programming for the Food Network & Cooking Channel, said that the suspense of the season will be rivaled only by the competitors’ big personalities and talents. Tracy Bell can be reached at tbell@ staffordcountysun.com.

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irginia election law mandates that political-party affiliation be included on the ballot for candidates for statewide, federal and General Assembly seats, but requires that they be omitted for local races. And that’s likely the way things are going to stay, now that Gov. Terry McAuliffe has vetoed legislation that would have added (D) and (R) – and maybe labels of other parties – next to the names of candidates for boards of supervisors, city councils, town councils and constitutional offices across the commonwealth. In his April 8 veto message, McAuliffe said the tradition of leaving political affiliation off of local races dates back to 1870, and has withstood court challenge. “Party affiliation is not useful information when making decisions

about purely local matters, and would only serve to increase divisiveness in local government,” McAuliffe said in a four-paragraph veto message. “We should be working to reduce partisan rancor, rather than creating new places for it to flourish,” the governor said. He is likely to get his way. The vote do not appear to be in hand for those hoping to override the veto. We can see the arguments pro and con on this issue. Particularly when dealing with large jurisdictions, such as Fairfax County, candidates are nominated by various political parties, and that is a piece of information that would prove to be useful to voters. But on balance, we agree with the governor’s reasoning that furthering political divisiveness in local government would be an unfortunate thing.

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t seems to me …the wise saying that stores. Although one remains in Stafford at Staftells us “Change is inevitable. Struggle is ford Market Place, the closing in Fredericksoptional.” doesn’t always apply to what burg’s Central Park sent some diehard Shoppers goes on in today’s ever-increasingly crazy world. basket pushers into a depression. Some switched There are some things to which it does clearly to Walmart, but many changed allegiance in a apply, such as equality of all people. heartbeat when Wegmans opened, and But when it comes down to issues of that devotion has only intensified to lesser importance like the merger sort of a cult group. of grocery chains, the application And, how can we forget Ukrop’s, a of this saying becomes a bit hazy, family owned business from 1937 to especially as we enter the area of 2010? The sadness that spread with corporate loyalty. the closing of Ukrop’s when it was Back in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, purchased by Giant or more accucorporate loyalty was strong, both for rately Giant-Carlisle a subsidiary of the HARVEY GOLD the employee and the corporation. very same Netherlands-based company, It clearly worked both ways and was important Royal Ahold, that is now involved in the merger for both. The employee joined a corporation or with the Belgium-based Delhaize that owns company and became part of a family-like orga- Food Lion. This is beginning to sound a little like nization, giving allegiance and hard work. The “The Young and the Restless.” corporation in turn looked at the employees as So now we have Food Lion, which closed its contributors to its well-being and success. Corpo- store in the Ferry Farm area of Stafford, driving rate rewards were given and in turn the employees some of its customers to tears and ironically gave their time and energy to this mutual, sending them to Giant for their groceries. harmonious, successful marriage. Some of these This has to be perplexing for shoppers, but it marriages still exist but are becoming fewer. is also a different kind of issue for employees. Case in point is the situation with the After all those years of being competitors, like Giant Food grocery chain being merged with the Redskins and Dallas, now the employees the Food Lion chain. Both chains have been have to find a way to be buddies. It may be diffifixtures in Stafford County, the surrounding cult for some to put on a Food Lion apron after counties and in Fredericksburg for a long time. wearing one with the Giant name on it for two Area residents had their favorites not only for or three decades. the products each promoted but because many Many of the Giant folks are not giving their folks developed neighborly attachments to the aprons up easily. As reported last week in this employees of the chain they favored. Recall if newspaper by Jill Palermo, “The union has you will the food shopping trauma that hit a launched a petition drive and is planning to lot of area people when Shoppers closed some bus Giant workers and supporters to a May

The irony, of course, is that some towns and cities across the commonwealth are promoting, perhaps unwittingly, political divisiveness by moving their local elections from springtime to fall. Their reasoning? It will save money and encourage higher turnout if the local races are commingled with bigger-ticket campaigns on the November general election ballot. Our view? The money involved is relatively negligible, and the last thing any locality should want is to have voters with no idea of the issues related to local governance casting ballots for those offices just because they show up for the beauty contest that is the presidential election. It would be better, in our view, if all local races – including those in counties – were held separate from the November election. But we acknowledge that’s just not going to happen.

11 “Save My Store” rally at Royal Ahold’s Landover, Maryland, headquarters.” Like the saying goes, “Change is inevitable. Struggle is optional.” Clearly, the employees are struggling against change. Although the merger in the U.S. has to be approved by the Federal Trade Commission, Giant employees undoubtedly have concerns about continuing employment, pensions and where they will be working. These are not uncommon concerns whenever a company is sold or merges with another company. And this is justified , especially for those long-time employees who have created a life based on going to work every day at the same place with the same people. Breaking these bonds can be difficult. Company friendships and allegiances are not easily erased. But it also will be difficult for the customers who have been loyal to their Giant, under the banner of “My Giant.” Who will they root for? Who will they swear allegiance to? Remember when Ukrop’s sold out to Giant? Folks had to choose Walmart, Wegmans or Food Lion. Allegiances rotted like 10-day-old bananas. Also we must wonder what they will call the new company. When Ukrop’s was sold, the name was changed to Martins. In the case of Giant and Food Lion, could it be Giant Lion or My LionYour Old Giant or My Lion/Your Giant? Perhaps in the end we will struggle no more. As Shakespeare had Juliet say, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” In the end I suspect life will go on, allegiances will change once again, the struggle will cease and the new grocery will be called, “My something or other.” Now that has a nice ring to it. Har vey Gold can be reached at info@staffordcountysun.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

There is a limited supply of fresh underground water To the editor:

As a long-time resident of Stafford County, I cannot help but notice the Stafford County Board of Supervisors continually go blindly into the foray of planning and developing new communities, having a tendency to turn a deaf ear and blind eye to the needs of the indigenous people of the districts that they represent. New development comes to rural Stafford County without an exhaustive discovery and research on the impact that follows. The outcome is not always beneficial to the locals that have for

generations enjoyed the land, air and fresh water supply that comes from an underground aquifer system that has been in place long before politics dictated the flow! Recently I purposefully reached out to Paul Milde, supervisor of the Aquia District, to ask a direct question: “What will you do if our existing wells are compromised by high density construction in the same region?” The question is valid so as to gain an understanding of the impact to our water supply that could potentially become compromised by a new, high-density

housing project that is currently on the table with the Department of Planning and Zoning. As is usual business for the board, this project will get their blessing, going full speed ahead without concern for the locals that will feel the potential shortfall of Mr. Milde’s narrowness to investigate the problem. The grave potential of excessive demand on a limited supply of fresh underground water can be greatly compromised by strong consumption in a high-density area, as is being proposed in the Chapel

Hill subdivision that Mr. Milde supports. I would hope that Mr. Milde would not disrespect his constituencies’ concerns and remember that ultimately we the people propelled him into the position as representative of the people. As a voice for the people of Brooke and that of my neighbors that surround this high-density project, I ask the question again: “Mr. Milde, what will you do when our wells run dry?” Bryant Wilkerson Staﬀord County

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Consider planning meals with a support network. “Maybe Sally takes Monday nights, Judy takes Wednesday nights and Sarah takes Friday nights,” says Page. “Cooking for more than one person encourages community, and can be cost-effective if everyone is sharing in the responsibility.” Maintain an active social media presence online to stay connected to friends and family. Those with the same interests as you are just a mouse click away. More information about the book can be found at www.scottpage.com. With smart strategies you can free yourself from worry about aging, while getting wiser over time. (StatePoint)

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You may need to rethink your deﬁnition of a camera An iPhone 6s and a Kodak Brownie the ground you are standing on. There is from 1900 work essentially the same way. no viewfinder, because your photo is not You hold it up, compose your shot and limited to what you see in the viewfinder. We bought one a while back. push a button to take a photo. I thought it would be a good One could argue the 21st century has been a revolution way for my wife to take discreet for photography. Most of us street shots on her trip to Israel. have a phone in our pockets. You just hold it above your There is no longer a cost-perhead, or to the side, and click a shot, where every time we click button. The device itself looks MARK STOUT a picture there is an associated like a TV remote. cost of film, developing and printing. Ours is a Ricoh Theta S, at the time We now can take thousands of shots on the only one on the market. In the last a vacation, where before we may have couple of months others have come on limited ourselves to 36 -- both a blessing the market, such as the LG Cam for $199. and a curse. Samsung has also announced one that And how we share our photos has should ship soon, but there is no pricing changed. We no longer have photo for it yet. albums or slideshows we have to convince These are for consumers. There is also people to peruse. We share our photos a large array of higher-priced models for online. But the camera in our phone is those doing serious virtual reality. Some still a point and shoot camera, as was that of these cost tens of thousands of dollars. early Brownie. Obviously you cannot print out a Until now. 360-degree image, but you can display it There is now a type of camera where on the web. This week’s link post at Famiyou do not compose your shot, because lyTechOnline.com has several we took it takes a photograph of everything, a with our Theta S. complete 360 degrees around you. It If you have a virtual reality headset, gets everything, including you, what’s in even Google’s inexpensive Google Cardfront of you, behind you, above you and board, you can view a 360 degree image

in it. As you turn your body while looking through the headset, the image moves too. Technology is changing how we shoot video too. The cameras mentioned above also shoot video. You can store your 360 videos on YouTube. It is now even possible to livestream 360 shows. High tech is also changing other aspects of video. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, showed the Mevo at its latest developers’ conference. The Mevo is a small camera you set on a desk or on a tripod. It shoots 150-degree video. What makes it interesting is it’s an iPad app. It shows the complete video and records it. A user taps on a face in the video and the image will become a closeup of that person. The Mevo shoots 4K high-resolution video so even though a small portion of the image is enlarged to make the close-up, the image is still sharp. The Mevo would be wonderful for shooting a school play, a child’s athletic event, a meeting, or even your own TV show. It would be as if you had your own multiple-camera TV studio like your local TV station has, or networks use to tape shows like The Big Bang Theory, but all for under $500.

If you want true multi-camera production ability on a shoestring, there is a $5 app in the Apple app store called RecoLive. It links together iPads or iPhones all using their own camera. The video feeds are sent to one central iPad via wifi. That central iPad is shooting the scene with its own camera too. The iPad shows all the videos coming from it and the other devices. A user acts as a director and chooses which video shot to record at a given moment. When they want to switch to another shot, they can choose the transition to use. For example, they can choose the wipe transition so it appears the new image pushes the old shot off the screen. This means that for the cost of three iPads at say $500 each and three copies of the app at $15 total, a user can have a three camera setup with video switching. That same capability used to be only available for TV stations at a cost of over $1 million. For links mentioned in the column or to share this column online, go to familytechonline.com. For Mark’s contact information, v isit markstout.info on the web.

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ith the NFL draft upon us, more teams want to make sure they have Blake Frohnapfel’s cell number. Some teams reach out to double check his information. Others might be showing more interest in Frohnapfel than they’ll let on. The Colonial Forge High School graduate isn’t sure what to think. That’s why he’ll keep an open mind when the three-day NFL Draft begins Thursday. Frohnapfel will watch the selection process with his family at a hotel in Amherst (Mass.) uncertain where his football future is headed. The former UMass quarterback could be a lateround pick or more likely a priority rookie free agent when the draft finishes Saturday. Frohnapfel chose to remain at UMass for the draft since he’s finishing classes Wednesday. Frohnapfel spent this semester completing two master’s degrees in business administration and sports management. Frohnapfel showcased his abilities at the East-West Shrine Game in January. He then held private workouts at UMass for the New Orleans Saints and the Tennessee Titans that included teammate Tajae Sharpe. Frohnapfel also did an individual session for the Detroit Lions that worked around UMass’s Pro Day March 30.

Colonial Forge HS graduate Blake Frohnapfel worked out for the New Orleans Saints, Tennessee Titans and the Detroit Lions leading up to this weekend’s NFL Draft. PHOTO COURTESY UMASS.

To prepare for his Pro Day, Frohnapfel trained at UMass with quarterbacks coach Todd Krueger a few times a week. Frohnapfel said he did well in the testing portion of the pro day, but said he didn’t throw as well as he would have liked during the passing drills. Frohnapfel threw more deep passes than short ones to show the scouts and coaches from the 19 pro teams in attendance his range in a pro-style offense. One of the question marks surrounding Frohnapfel is his accuracy. “It was a more high-risk, more highreward,” Frohnapfel said of his approach.

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NFL teams like the 6-foot-5, 238-pound Frohnapfel’s size, arm strength and intelligence. He is rated the No. 22 quarterback prospect by CBSsports.com and NFLdraftscout.com. After transferring from Marshall University, Frohnapfel thrived during his first season at UMass, throwing for 3,345 yards, 23 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. The 2015 season, though, was a disappointment. Injuries to the offensive line and the receiving corps factored into Frohnapfel throwing for 2,919 yards, 16 touchdowns and 13 interceptions.

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Frohnapfel’s twin brother Eric went through this process a year ago and understands first-hand what to expect. Eric Frohnapfel was not selected, but was quickly scooped up five minutes after the draft ended by San Diego as a rookie free agent. Eric was released by the Chargers in August and now works in Ft. Myers (Fla.) after receiving his MBA in December. “For him, he’s more laid back,” Frohnapfel said “I’m more antsy. I’m more competitive. He told me there are things out of your control. So enjoy the moment.”

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