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"Recording the History around Perkins and Payne County for I 13 Years"
Wednesday-Thursday Edition July 2-July 3, 2003 Volume I 13 No. 39 50¢
refuses
suit
00lement
.settle an ongoing lawsuit initiated by Rural Water
the City of Perkins was declined during a special
Monday evening.
in Oklahoma City federal court, alleges
i selling water to customers that belong
ict is asking for Perkins to surrender it's
Infrastructure located in an area just outside of the
limits.
the site of 30 years of growth the city has
Cimarron Trails Golf Course, Cimarron
Country Estates housing develop-
Plaza, and property belonging to the Per-
is the site of the new high school,
basically called for a $225,000 payment
#3, a royalty payment for water the City sells
to customers in the disputed
residents area, and an agreement for the
Very conscious City to sell water to RWD #3
transfer of at a "bulk/wholesale" rate.
"In reviewing the settlement
to offer - we are confused," said
or to Perkins City Attorney James
Milton.
He said that settlement offers
dames Milton that include a large lump sum
City Attorney payment, such as the $225,000
the water district is requesting,
as a way to pay attorney's fees.
firm has billed $18,000 to the City of perkins for
case.
but it's not $225,000," Milton empha-
say. "It will be very expensive to try this case.
conscious of the huge transfer of
to the water district or to their attorneys."
Rosson agrees, but he declined to comment
He is still hoping Perkins can work out
the water district board that will benefit both
concern about the potential loss of water
the water district's suit prevail.
burden on Perkins would be enormous
are lost."
main source of revenue comes from water
to it's residents. These revenues are then
such as streets, lights, and police
public
cancelled
Lowell
the public
a.m. was
the commis-
meeting
of Perkins
want to
aral Water
had peti-
granted the
parties
Bank,
District
(Perkins-
rate
Development, Inc., Perkins
Whistle Stop, Inc. and Michael
McWherter.
Barto explained the reason
behind the cancellation of the
public hearing was because
the matter has been removed
from the Payne County Com-
missioners' district and into the
federal court's. Although there
may be a challenge regarding
this decision, until something
was decided, there was nothing
the commissioners could do on
the matter.
In other business, commission-
See HEARING on 10
Perkins-Tryon superintendent Jim Hyder, far right, explains to board of education members
and local media the functions of some of the furnishings in the Family and Consumer Sciences
classroom of the new high school building prior to Monday night school board meeting. The new
facility is expected to be ready by Aug. 1.
Journal photo by Keith Sheets
Completion set by Aug. 1
New high school getting
closer to completion date
by Claudia Andrews
Contributing Writer
Before the regular Perkins
Tryon Board of Education
meeting Monday evening,
board members were treated
to a second walk-around of the
new high school facility.
entry colors to each classroom.
Markerboard/bulletin boards
have been installed and TV/
VCR's will be mounted in each
room.
The art room, with large win-
dows to the north, has lots of
appropriate storage room and
clean-up sink and will house a
kiln room for pottery art. The
large English/literature room
may have a mini-stage in the
near future.
The science lab will soon have
three work islands jutting from
each side of the room allow-
ing four students per unit. An
adjoining mini room will hold
chemicals and supplies needed
for teaching.
The home-econ room has three
"kitchens" - one gas and two
electric. Sewing modules are
in place as well as a computer
work area. The computer lab
room will have station modules
in place soon and just recently
received career-tech credit sanc-
tion for a new business class
housed on campus.
• There are two safe room/
classrooms, with connecting
doors, and entranced from the
two classroom halls, which will
hold about 500 standing student/
teachers. Each is built with con-
crete blocks filled with concrete
with a 6i concrete ceiling.
A large checkout desk is in
place under the skylight in the
middle of the media center.
and enlarging the fenced play-
ground area. P-T schools will be
able to count the fbur-year-old
children in the ADM (average
daily membership). According
to Superintendent Jim Hyder, it
will be a win-win situation for
both entities.
Jim Hyder stands in front of the checkout desk in the library of
staining of the burch woodwork was to be completed this week. The
ted by Aug. 1.
Journal photo by Keith Sheets
The wide classroom halls Mini-rooms containingtearn- The board also approved
are tiled and lockers are in '8 lab, t ltt¢ thd ", ilil,
place. The heat sensors and da deo ting room are 65'passgetu from Ross
sprinkler system is in place, entranced off the media center. Transportation of El Reno OK
Appropriately placed colorful Two rows of computers, table for $47,583, in time for the
pattern in the tile accents the and chairs, and lounge chairs school start date, This will be
with tables near the large
windows will all be part of the
media center. Double wood
doors with windows connect
this room to the commons area.
There is a lighted trophy case
near the entrance to the media
room just inside the commons
area and a "career center" is
tucked neatly in an alcove near
the first classroom hall.
A bright and airy, open and
free feeling pervades the entire
building.
The newest classroom
module at the elementary will
be moved to the new school
site to house the history and
alternative classes. All except
the band, vocal, and Ag classes
will be located at the new site.
The new high school will be a
closed campus and the student
handbook will give guidance
concerning this change.
The major area, the com-
mons, will soon have its floor
in place.
Following the tour, Wayne
Weatherbury and Bob Wright
representatives of LWPB archi-
tecture firm and Rob Coleman,
project coordinator and Waco
Bridenstine, project superin-
tendent met with the board to
discuss a problem concerning
the appropriate moisture content
of the floor of the commons.
Staying on schedule and
no dollar amount difference, a
decision was made to lay six-
teen foot squares of porcelain
granite tiles in the commons.
These breathable tiles will be
low maintenance and the color
is light gray with faint black
speckles and will be enhanced
with a black tile placed in pat-
tern running throughout the
commons floor.
In other business, the board
approved an agreement with
United Community Action/
Headstart of Pawnee, to provide
space for a three and four year
old program at the elementary
site.
This will involve adding rest-
rooms to the module to be used
purchas.ed through a lease pur-
chas with Payne Country Bank
carrying the note at 3 percent
interest.
Also approved was the pur-
chase of a security camera
system for the new high
school. Direct Communica-
tions of Tulsa OK was the
low bid at $13,585 for a Pelco
programmer/controller (240gb)
with three outside pan-tilt zoom
cameras and five inside color
cameras, plus labor.
Superintendent Jim Hyder
said, "Pawnee and Bristow
school systems are using these
and are pleased. Security sys-
tems is the only thing Direct
Communications does."
Sol Talley, Intermediate
(4-6 grades)/Junior High (7-9
grades), was employed as spe-
cial education teacher and Jim
Dominquez was employed as
high school evening custodian
for the FY04 school year by
the board.
Hyder stated the audited ADM
for FY03 was 1302.5, up from a
year ago. The general fund carry
over from FY03 is a little over
$724,000, before outstanding
warrants.
Hyder commented that state
aid is still down by about 4.4
percent and schools will know
the allocations, which depend
on collections, in about two
weeks.
The board approved the stu-
dent handbooks with policies
and revisions for each school
site, as well as the 2004 school
calendar.
Approval was given for
the superintendent to be the
district purchasing agent and
Milton Davis was approved
as designated representative of
special education and all federal
programs.
The working budgets for FY04
and administrative salaries and
supervisory salary schedule for
FY04 were approved as pre-
sented. Budget encumbrances
for FY03 and FY04 were
approved as presented.
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Happy
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of Jtlly!
Community
Calendar
• July 3, noon - Perkins
Chamber of Commerce
meeting at Johnson resi-
dence, 11120 S. Perkins
Road.
• ,July 4 - Independence
Day
• July 4 & 5, 8 p.m. - Perkins
Round-Up Club's Annual 4 th
of July Rodeo at arena on
E. Freeman.
Local blood
donors back
bank's drive
Local residents enthusiasti-
cally supported Payne County
Bank during the annual "Battle
of the Banks" Blood Drive.
The local portion of the Ameri-
can Red Cross-sponsored blood
drive, held on Wednesday, June
18, at the Perkins Lions Den gar-
ner,',,d 27 donations of .
venty-two people d
possibly bofit just
27donat/ons, PCB blooddrive
coordinator Kasey Longan said.
She explained that three blood
products can potentially be
derived from one unit of whole
blood donated.
Longan was particularly
pleased to announce that out
of those 27 donors, five were
first-time donors.
PCB joined BancFirst, Citi-
zens State Bank, Commercial
Federal Bank in Cushing, Spirit
Bank in Cushing, Stillwater
National Bank and university
& Community Federal Credit
Union in the annual "battle"
to promote blood donations
during the summer months
when the need for blood is at a
high level.
Several local businesses
assisted PCB by donating door
prizes for blood drive donors.
The winners of those prizes
are as follows:
(5) Silver Eagle Collect-
able Coins donated by PCB:
Amy Scott, Adam Jarvis, Don
Keinholz, Cecil Gann, and Lisa
Carey
El Mexicano Dinner for two:
Georgia Casey
(2) Whistle Stop Gift Cer-
tificates for $5 each: Kendra
Stanek and Jack Rosson
(1) Whistle Stop Gift Certifi-
cate for $10: Justin Grooms
Daylight Donuts $5 Gift Cer-
tificate: • Cindy Sheets
Prairie's Edge Dinner for two:
Cassandra Johnson
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