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BoE holds millage rate for 2012
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Crissie Elric
Bryan County News
Updated: Sep 1, 2011, 12:00 PM
Published: Aug 31, 2011, 3:57 PM

The Bryan County Board of Education unanimously approved Monday to hold the current millage rate for its 2012 budget and also discussed possible uses for some excess fund balance.

During a called meeting at the Board of Education office in Pembroke, the board OK’d the current rate of 15.537 mills for 2012 and also discussed the new budget, which was approved in June and stands at about $48.7 million, according to Melanie James, finance director for the school system.

James told the board that officials expected the year-end general fund balance to be around $9.8 million, though the optimum balance, she said, should be around $7.3 million.

“The fund balance, according to state law, should be no more than 15 percent of your next year’s budget,” James said.

She added that reducing the balance to $7.3 million would leave the board about $2.3 million to use for other things.

Read more in the Aug. 31 edition of the News.

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Groups hand out scholarships
RH theater scholarship
Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer shows her Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. With her are Tom Harris, Ashlee Farris, Brett Berry and Kim Diebold. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016. - photo by Photo provided.
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Updated: May 17, 2018, 8:11 PM
Published: May 17, 2018, 8:37 PM

Three reports recently presented scholarships

Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer received the Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016.

Garden Club

The Richmond Hill Garden Club recently awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Katherine Wood and a $500 scholarship to Carly Vargas, both seniors graduating from Richmond Hill High School.

The awards were presented May 8 during Honors Night at RHHS.

Wood plans to attend Green Mountain College in Vermont and major in environmental studies.

Vargas plans to attend Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, to pursue a degree in either environmental studies or biology.

The garden club awards a $1,000 scholarship annually to a local high school senior who plans to major in a field related to environmental concerns, plants and/or gardening.

This year, due to having two exceptional candidates, the garden club awarded an additional $500 scholarship.

Exchange Club

The Exchange Club of Richmond Hill recently named Caroline Odom as its student of the year.

The club each month during the school year names a student of the month, and the student of the year is chosen from among those winners.

Awards are based on academic performance, community involvement and leadership.

Monthly winners receive $100, with the annual winner getting a $1,000 scholarship.

The Exchange Club has been recognizing students for more than 30 years.

Odom will go on to compete in the Georgia District Exchange Club against students from across the state.

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