Sumner Teacher Facing Allegations

The Hendersonville Standard reports on Shafer Middle School teacher Robert Ring facing allegations of inappropriate conduct with five male students. Here's more:

 The parents of five Shafer Middle School students have been granted orders of protection against one of the school’s teachers amid allegations that the teacher used explicit sexual language and gestures around the students who say they are now afraid of him.

Robert Ring, who has taught 6^th grade social studies at the Gallatin school since 2013, was suspended without pay effective May 17 for allegations of inappropriate contact with a student(s), according to a letter in his personnel file.

The suspension will remain in effect until the conclusion of an investigation by law enforcement, the Department of Children’s Services and Sumner County Schools, according to the letter.

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Coming Soon: City Administrator

More on Hendersonville's move to a City Administrator:

Hendersonville will begin the search for a city administrator next year, after the board of mayor and aldermen voted Tuesday on an ordinance to create the position.

After an amendment suggested by Alderwoman Arlene Cunningham, the board will fund the position and begin the search on July 1, 2020. The position would then fall under the 2020-21 fiscal year's budget.

Mayor Jamie Clary noted he's not thrilled with the idea, but he'll accept it should he be re-elected in 2020.

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New Leadership in Sumner Schools

Sumner County Schools has announced new leadership across the district for 2019-2020:

Phillip Holt - supervisor of leadership development and accountability.

*Christy Wall - supervisor of teaching and learning

David Hallman - principal of R.T. Fisher Alternative School.

*Cam MacLean - principal at Station Camp Middle School.

*Mitch Flood - principal at Knox Doss Middle School at Drakes Creek.

*Racheal Mason - principal of Station Camp Elementary.

*Melissa Robbins - principal at Clyde Riggs Elementary.

*Thomas Oglesby - principal at Joe Shafer Middle School.

*Shaun Glasgow - has been named principal at V.G. Hawkins Middle School

Shelley Cooper - principal at Portland West Middle School.

*Kristy Petty- principal at Lakeside Park Elementary.

The Case for a City Administrator

Hendersonville's late audit may be a good example of why Aldermen voted recently to hire a City Administrator.

Here's more on the audit situation:

Municipal audits are due within six months of the end of the fiscal year, which is June 30. On Tuesday, Kraft auditors explained why Hendersonville’s 2018 fiscal year audit was turned into the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office four months passed the Dec. 30, 2018 deadline.

Auditors attributed the problem to an extended vacancy in the assistant finance director position from late August, 2018 through March of 2019.

“The financial statements were unable to be issued timely to allow the users to assess the financial position of the City,” according to the audit.

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City Administrator Coming to Hendersonville

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted Tuesday night to add the position of City Administrator in 2020, just ahead of the Mayoral Election next year.

Tena Lee has more:

According to the ordinance passed by city leaders on Tuesday, the city administrator will:

-          Administer the business of the municipality

-          Employ, promote, discipline, suspend and discharge all employees other than department heads

-          Recommend to the Board the appointment of department heads as well as oversee and discipline department heads

-          Act as a purchasing agent for the city

-          Prepare and submit the annual city budget

The vote was 7-6 in favor of creating the new position.

The move means the City's next Mayor will take office with the benefit of a new position dedicated to handling much of the day-to-day administration of the City.

Current Mayor Jamie Clary, so far largely incapable of actually doing his job, opposed the move. It seems he'd prefer the current chaotic management of city government to being relieved of the most mundane tasks -- tasks which he's mismanaged throughout his brief, tumultuous tenure.

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Trashy FAQ

Tena Lee in the Hendersonville Standard does a great job of explaining what's going to happen with trash starting in July as the city moves to once a week pickup.

Residents won’t receive a new or different trash can. They can provide their own additional cans with a maximum height of 42 inches.

According to Clary, bulk items placed at the curb will be picked up the same day residents’ trash is picked up.

A pilot recycling program was implemented in the fall of 2017 that serves around eight different neighborhoods. However, bids haven’t been issued for a citywide effort.

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More on Trash

The Hendersonville Standard has more on the move to once-a-week trash pickup:

Hendersonville leaders voted 10 to 1 on Tuesday to switch from a twice-a-week back-door trash collection service to a once-a-week back-door service.  The move is estimated to save the city around $2 million each year.

Recycling?

On Tuesday, Debbie Floyd, a member of an advisory committee appointed by board members to explore the issue of solid waste and recycling, said her committee gave a formal recommendation that the city implement curbside trash pick-up along with curbside recycling.

Floyd questioned why several aldermen seemed to be unaware of the recommendation.

The committee determined that if recycling is implemented citywide, the city’s tipping fee, or fee it pays to dump trash at a landfill, will decrease, according to Floyd.

Ward 2 Alderman Scott Sprouse said that he has heard from several residents who would like to keep the service the way it is.

“Of all the options [we’ve been given right now], not one of them includes recycling,” said Sprouse. “That’s not an option right now.”

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