Club Business
President Brian Dement opened the meeting. Jim Cartner prayed and led us in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Randy Perkins introduced his guest, Tanya Fuquay, Mortgage Manager for Movement Mortgage. Jason Crutchfield introduced one of his new coworkers at PIP Printing, Jay Alangia. Ed Woodall presented Stephen Buccini, a software designer for Affirm. Next week Ed Woodall will provide our speaker. Micah Fox passed around a sheet to write down prospective members we are each pursuing. He is looking for 100% participation in our membership drive.
Happy Dollar Announcements
- Sid Little announced his retirement and received a round of applause. He only gave 50 cents due to his now semi-impoverished condition.
Club Member Responsible for Our Program: Mac Williams
Mac has been serving as President of the Alamance Chamber for 14 years. In this capacity, her also serves as the County’s Economic Developer. Prior to coming to Alamance County, he served as the Economic Development Director for the City of Asheville and before that as the VP of Economic Development for the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce. In total, Mac has over 40 years of experience in Chamber and Economic Development management in North Carolina. Mac says that in his role, no two days are the same, and that is what he loves most about this work.
Mac is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill and the Institute for Organization Management at the University of Georgia. Additionally, he holds a Certified Economic Developer credential from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). Mac remains engaged in his community as a member of the Alamance Rotary Club (where he has also served as President). He resides in Elon and enjoys playing golf in his spare time. He has two daughters who are both in college. He has been happily married since 1992. He wife, Stephanie, works for Drury Inns.
Program: ABSS Bond Proposal
The “Cadillac” version of the plan came out to $200 million, which means they had to scale back their expectations. Here’s what Moseley says the school system can do for $149,822,044. (You can access the original document by clicking here.)
- Build a brand new, approximately 240,000 square foot high school, with a hallway capacity of 1,250 students and a core (media center and lunchroom) capacity of 1,500. The estimated cost would be $67,012,616.
- Eastern and Western Alamance High School: Enlarge dining areas and increase square footage to up the capacity from 985 and 1,085, respectively, to 1,250. Also do minor and moderate renovations at both schools. The estimated cost for Eastern is $11,657,249. The estimated cost for Western is $12,400,611.
- Southern Alamance High School: Enlarge dining areas and increase square footage to add classrooms, upping the capacity from 1,100 to 1,500 students. Also do minor and moderate renovations. The estimated cost of this is $20,661,931.
- Do minor and moderate renovations to parts of Graham High School and purchase equipment for the school’s specialized programs to the tune of $7,619,063.
- Do minor and moderate renovations to parts of Cummings High School, focusing on the lobby and auditorium, for $10,867,063.
- Renovate and replace auditorium seating at Williams High School, do some other minor renovations, and replace outdated toilets, all for $4,646,400.
- Add 16 classrooms to South Mebane Elementary School, do minor and moderate renovations to the school, and construct a new kitchen, renovating the existing kitchen to expand the cafeteria for $8,482,880.
- Do a moderate renovation of Pleasant Grove Elementary School for $6,474,192.
Allison said that three proposals will be voted on in November: this bond, a $50 million bond for ACC, and a tax increase to fund these bonds, which will likely include a property tax increase and a sales tax increase.
Conclusion
There was no lottery today. We all stood to recite Rotary’s four way test before Brian adjourned the meeting.