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El Campo Leader-News, El Campo, TX, Wed., May 23,1984 Page 3-A
Janitors Ask LISD Board For Pay Increase
By CYNTHIA L. MILLER
Maintenance personnel at
Ixmise schools are dissatisfied
with their salaries, it was
revealed at a regular school board
meeting Monday evening
William Blake and Joe Garcia,
who clean and maintain the
I.ouise campus, asked the board
to consider raising their salaries
Blake pointed out that he and
Garcia are able and willing to fix
most maintenance problems with
vehicles, air conditioning, elec-
tricity and plumbing, and “I’m
worth as much as any teacher
you’ve got ”
Blake's salary is about $16,000
per year, based on $7 per hour
rate, according to Super-
intendent John Strnadel Gar-
cia's pay amounts to about $4 50
per hour Both salaries are based
on five hours per week ot over'
time during the school year and
eight hour days in summer.
Blake said he had taken a
second job throwing newspapers
and is receiving some money
from Social Security. Garcia
testified that “I can’t buy
anything.” Blake has been em-
ployed by the school district for
more than three years, while
Garcia has worked there for one
year..
The board agreed to take the
matter up in a future executive
session, since it was not on the
agenda for Monday’s meeting
Trustees again delayed action
on a contract to recover vested
interest in the Meadow Lane
School for mentally and
physically handicapped students.
The El Campo Independent
School District has approved one
plan, but Louise trustees are in
favor of another Action was
delayed pending a meeting bet-
ween board members of both
districts.
In other business, the board
voted to award a contract to the
Wes Grable Comoany for cleaning
and sealing the Hornet gym floor.
Cost is $745. Board members
agreed that the company had
done an excellent job the year
before.
A new contract was also
awarded to McCreary, Veselka,
Beck and Allen, F.C., Attorneys at
Law for collection of delinquent
taxes. The firm's fee is 15 percent
of the total tax, penalty and in-
terest collected.
Superintendent John Strnadel
gave a report on enrollment for
1984 85. Thirty students are ex
peeled to enroll in kindergarten
(27 are already enrolled),
requiring one teacher and a full-
time aide. he said.
Enrollment in other grades
ranges from 22 in fourth and fifth
grades to 35 in the eighth grade,
for a total projected enrollment of
381 Strnadel said this is not a
significant increase, but there the
graduating seniors and the in-
coming kindergarten students are
about even
Chapter 75, the new curriculum
bill, will have an effect on high
school course offerings, Strnadel
pointed out For example, only
three students are enrolled in
advanced math, but under the
new curriculum the school must
offer this course It may be
combined with another math
course, Strnadel said
Trustees Lorine Poncik and
Carl Schoeneberg were selected
as delegate and alternate,
respectively, to the annual Texas
Association of School Boards
convention to be held in San
Antonio Sept. 28.
Trustees also approved con-
tinuing participation in the
Region 111 media and living
materials programs, which
provide films and other media
and biology projects for a fee of
$2 18 per ADA. which w ill amount
to about $763 for 1984-85.
FFA Parents Rally For Support
Show Participants Ask School Board For Help
By CYNTHIA L. MILLER
A room full of Future Farmers of America parents and par-
ticipants made a plea to the Louise ISI) Board of Trustees Mon-
day night for funding to offset travel expenses to stock shows.
No action was taken on the proposal.
Approximately 14 parents and four students were present.
They brought up several points, including the fact that ex-
penses are kept to a minimum. Students stay in a travel trailer
and are required to provide and cook their own meals.
When the trailer is impractical, participants do stay in hotels,
said John Carleston, Louise High School vocational agriculture
instructor.
Transportation for the animals is borrowed from local
farmers, Carleston said. Several parents testified that other
schools have their own trailers for that purpose, and that often
borrowing the trailers is difficult.
The parents also pointed out that Louise FFA students do well
at the shows, and that it reflects favorably on the school
system. They also brought up the fact that LISD provides buses
to students for UIL competitions as well as athletic programs
The board delayed action, but asked Carleston to compile
figures on the cost of fuel for travel to shows for 1983-84
Carleston said that eight students have been involved in the
shows this year, and he expects those eight to return next year.
There are 24 students in the school’s vocational ag program, he
added, with 21 of those showing at the WLarton County Youth
Fair.
Holub expressed concern that the program would be affected
by the new curriculum requirement that students miss no more
than 10 class days for extracurricular activities. Carleston said
that students were taken out of classes eight days this year, and
before that were averaging 10 to 12 days out for stock shows.
Carleston added that dropping a show from the Louise FFA
schedule has hurt their chances with ranchers who sell calves.
“There used to be no problem getting good calves,” he said.
“Now they (ranchers) hem and haw.”
The students show animals in shows in Fort Bend County,
Brazos, Houston and Victoria as well as the local youth fair
Mrs. Jerre Guthrie, one ot the parents, said that the program
teaches participants responsibility as well as how to raise
animals. She and others stressed that the stock shows mean
hard work, and are not “just a fun time’’ out of school.
She added that the students are working to pay for their trip
to San Marcos for the National Santa Gertrudis Show with a
bake sale last weekend and a car wash planned for Saturday.
Several suggestions were made by board members, including
having vocational ag students build their own gooseneck trailer
to haul livestock However, Carleston said that a state inspec-
tion is required for a long trailer, and that building one would be
almost as expensive as purchasing it.
Board members agreed to study Charleston's figures on fuel
costs and take the matter up at a later date
Department Responds
To Three Car Fires
The El Campo Volunteer Fire
Department reports it responded
to three car fires over the
weekend
Three trucks and 24 men
responded to a car fire believed to
be electical in origin at the
American Legion parking lot
Friday at 8:45 p.m The fire
started in the dashboard of the
car, according to Robert Moore,
resident fireman
Saturday, 17 men and one truck
responded to a burning van at
the corner of Wharton Street and
U S. Highway 59. Herman Novak,
emergency service chief, said the
van was destroyed in that fire
Firemen also responded to a
pickup fire Sunday at 10:08 p m
at 1704 Michael St. One truck and
23 men responded to that blaze
that is also believed to have been
electrical in origin That fire was
out before firemen arrived
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Barbee, Chris. El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 99B, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 23, 1984, newspaper, May 23, 1984; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1018318/m1/3/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Wharton County Library.