Drunken Knife Carrying Man Found in the Street Arrested by Police

June 14, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

Smithville Police have charged a man with disorderly conduct and public intoxication after encountering him in the middle of a city street carrying a knife and a bottle of whiskey

33 year old Cory Wade Foster of 990 Bright Hill Road is under a $2,500 bond.

Chief Mark Collins said police acting on a complaint encountered Foster holding a knife and a bottle of whiskey while standing in the street on Morgan Drive. Foster yelled at the officer saying that he (officer) would have to shoot him. After the officer talked with him for several minutes, Foster dropped the knife and was taken into custody without incident.

June 14, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

DeKalb County students and teachers will have a shorter fall break but a longer Thanksgiving holiday for the next three years.

During Thursday night’s monthly meeting, the Board of Education adopted the school calendars for the 2020-21 and the 2021-22 school years. The school calendar for the upcoming year 2019-20 had already been adopted by the board months ago.

For the upcoming year 2019 and for the following two years 2020 and 2021 students will have a one week fall break in October and one week off for Thanksgiving.

This past year, 2018 the school district observed a two week fall break with only three days off for Thanksgiving.

Board members said by adopting calendars for the next two years now parents and teachers can better plan for future fall vacations.

Registration for the upcoming school year will be Thursday, August 1 followed by an administrative day for teachers only on Friday, August 2.

The first full day of school for 2019-20 will be Monday, August 5.

A system-wide in-service day will be Monday, July 29 with in-service continuing at individual schools on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 30 & 31.

June 14, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

In an effort to save money and relieve each school of the in-house burden, the DeKalb County Board of Education has decided to outsource custodial services at all school owned buildings beginning next month.

During Thursday night’s regular monthly meeting, the Board voted to enter into a contract with Southern Management Services, LLC (SMS) effective July 1, 2019.

The DeKalb County School District will pay SMS $494,184 for the year at a rate of $41, 182 per month. The initial term of the contract runs through June 30, 2020 but the agreement will renew on an annual basis for four- one year renewal periods unless either party provides written notice at least 90 days prior to the expiration date of the term.

Under the agreement, SMS will provide complete janitorial/custodial services at DeKalb County High School, DeKalb Middle School, DeKalb West School, Northside Elementary, Smithville Elementary, and at the Ernest Ray Education Center.

SMS will provide all equipment and supplies. Much of the work will be done after school hours. The company will also provide clean-up following school athletic events.

The School District will no longer employ custodians but those who have worked for the school system may apply with SMS and if re-hired could find their pay to be better than what the school system was able to offer.

Director of Schools Patrick Cripps said the school system will save about $35,000- $40,000 a year by outsourcing the custodial services and it will relieve the district from having to recruit and retain employees itself. He said SMS partners with other school systems and comes highly recommended.

*About SMS (according to the SMS website):

“Southern Management Services (SMS) is a privately held facility management services provider, headquartered in Nashville Tennessee, with regional partners and locations across the Southeast. SMS was established in 2007 and was acquired and restructured in 2015. Since its inception, the SMS core business model has been the provision of facility management services to education partners, ranging from K-12 districts to higher education institutions.

The SMS management team, and its trusted partners, has over 100 years of experience in the janitorial and contract cleaning industry, and we firmly believe that cleanliness aids in the scholarship and achievements for students within all educational facilities and learning environments.

The leadership within our organization is comprised of accomplished business executives with extraordinary experience in large-scale startups, daily operations, quality control, safety, training, recruitment, and customer relations. We are experts in our field, and value customer satisfaction as our highest priority.

SMS is ISSA CIMS Green Building Certified, and currently provides facility services to over 100,000 students, teachers and administrators each day, encompassing nearly 20 million square feet”.

https://smsfacilities.com/

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