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Buses get green lights Contract not yet finished or signed By Jennifer Pignolet pignolet@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2372
The Germantown Municipal School Board on Monday aired frustrations and reservations about bus company Durham Services but voted 3-1 to allow the administration to sign a transportation contract with the company as soon as one is finished. The board also raised concerns about not seeing the final version of the contract before it is signed, but Supt. Jason Manuel said the items left to negotiate are not major points that would alter the nature of the contract. The lawyers representing each municipal district in Shelby County are negotiating one contract with Durham, which will be billed separately for each district. Manuel, board chairwoman Lisa Parker and their attorney, Debra Owen, will now be able to sign the contract as soon as it’s ready without holding another meeting to run it past the other four board members. Manuel said he would update board members if there are any major changes. Board member Mark Dely was not in attendance Monday. Board member Ken Hoover, the dissenting vote, said he is frustrated with Durham for taking advantage of the fact that the school board is backed into a corner with only one option for transportation and less than a month until the first day of school. “I’m like this far away from saying fine, we’re not going to provide transportation,”
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By hiring two new drivers and buying two new trucks and new 95-gallon recycling carts, Collierville is keeping its recycling in-house, after four years with a private contractor.
MEMPHIS/COLLIERVILLE
Bigger, better bins Towns bring in bigger recycling carts, kick smaller bins to the curb
By Lela Garlington
WHAT TO THROW
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With automated side loader systems, all materials must be inside the cart or such materials likely will be considered trash and not recycled. collierville provided a list of acceptable recycling items. memphis is identical except it doesn’t accept hardcover books: ■ aluminum cans ■ metal food and beverage cans ■ Glass bottles and jars ■ Plastic bottles and jugs (numbers 1-7 with lids) ■ cereal and food boxes ■ Wide-mouth plastic containers ■ mixed paper, newspaper ■ oice paper and junk mail ■ hardcover books ■ magazines, phone books and catalogs ■ aluminum foil and trays ■ rigid plastics like chairs or toys ■ cardboard boxes and pizza boxes
Memphis and Collierville residents began to roll out their new, bigger 90-plus gallon recycling carts last week and Lakeland residents followed suit Monday. Collierville began its recycling collection this week with 95-gallon maroon carts. During the past month, the city has delivered 9,330 carts to existing and new recyclers at some of the 14,500 households in town. Memphis has delivered more than 15,000 of its 38,000 gray recycle carts to areas of Cordova, parts of Hickory Hill and the subdivisions of Countrywood, Berryhill and Hillshire leading to Eads. The rest of the 96-gallon carts will be delivered between now and July 15 as phase one of the rollout. See BINS, 2
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GERMANTOWN
SUMMER LEAGUE
Three start times likely for schools
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Change planned for next year
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By Jennifer Pignolet pignolet@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2372
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Germantown Municipal Schools leaders are telling parents to assume start times will remain the same for the upcoming school year. The district is waiting for bus contractor Durham to supply final costs for if it switches from three bell times to two or adjusts Houston High and Houston Middle’s start time from 7 a.m. to even 15 minutes later. Supt. Jason Manuel said with just
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more than a month until the first day of school, his administration made an executive decision. “As we get closer and closer, it becomes less and less probable” to switch the times, Manuel said. The district’s student information system, PowerSchool, is still transferring information from Shelby County Schools for the bus router to know how many buses and routes are needed. With the lack of information, Manuel said, the risk of adding another variable by changing the times is too great. The school board voted in May to advise the administration to move
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Jason Manuel, Superintendent of the Germantown Municipal School District, tries his new set of keys handed over from the Shelby County School’s on the doors of the front entrance of Houston High School.
to “less than three start times ... as soon as possible.” Members of the community spoke at board meetings advocating for a change in the start times, particularly the 7 a.m. start. Board President Lisa Parker said the board
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