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$32.8M needed Board informed of needs; Windle hopes to present information to commission in March for sales tax extension By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
CHILI COOK-OFF Photos by Cliff Williams / The Record Top: Wendy Fineberg poses with fourth grade representative Vicki Noles Griffin after the fourth grade was named as having the best chili at the inaugural Dadeville Elementary School Chili Cook-off on Tuesday night. The fourth grade teachers won the competition while the kindergarten was named most spirited. There were 18 entries including entries from a few area restaurants. Fifth- and sixth-grade students held a showcase just prior to the tasting where the students had presentations on the Leader in Me program.
Local club reflects growing popularity of folk instrument Dulcimers are stringed instruments mainly designed for mountain music but when Lake Martin Dulcimer Club members gather, everything from “Amazing Grace” to Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” can be heard. “It’s really amazing,” club song leader and former Auburn University music teacher Kim Walls said. “I did not realize it but there are dulcimer festivals all over the country, people getting together with mountain dulcimers, jamming and See DULCIMER • Page A3
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The Lake Martin Dulcimer Club works on a tune during a recent practice. George Curley said the club started with about three people but they realized others owned an instrument but didn’t know how to play it. After learning from a teacher in Loachapoka, the club grew to 30 people, Curley said.
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The Tallapoosa County Commission has asked Tallapoosa County Schools and Alexander City Schools to present their needs to justify a continuation of a 1-cent sales tax passed a little over three years ago. A decision by the commission to do away with the tax has been tabled to give the schools more time to present ideas, something the commission requested when it levied the sales tax in 2015. In an effort to provide answers to the commission the Tallapoosa County Board of Education hired Goodwyn, Mills and Caywood (GMC) in the fall of 2018 to provide a system-wide assessment to have something to present to the commission. The tax was passed so county schools could raise the funds to meet the state requirement of one month’s operating reserve. The tax generates approximately $1.5 million a year for each system but is not in place where the school boards can sell bonds for larger projects. At a school board work session Tuesday, officials with GMC provided assessments of each school and the needs to bring facilities up to code and address issues. The total comes to $17,243,769 and does not include a gym at Dadeville or Reeltown or an auditorium at Horseshoe Bend, projects many have identified as needs. “This only includes replacing systems or refurbishing spaces,” GMC’s Freddie Lynn Jr. said. “It does not include renovating space.” Recommended work at Dadeville Elementary School totals $3.7 million and includes updating worn and outdated finishes such as paint and floor covering, mechanical systems, restrooms that are not American with Disabilities Act accessible, life safety issues including fire alarms and enlarging the kitchen and cafeteria areas. Work at Dadeville High School totals $1.8 million and includes updating the north wing with the media center that was not included in a renovation of the school a few years ago
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