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School board approves tentative budget
$48 million spending plan offsets $2.3 million loss in local tax revenue
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The Bryan County Board of Education unanimously approved recently a tentative budget of more than $48.7 million for fiscal 2012 that balances a loss of about $2.3 million in tax revenues.

The action was taken last week during the board’s regular meeting at G.W. Carver Elementary School in Richmond Hill but is the board’s first step in approving a final budget. The BoE will vote on its final 2012 budget at a future meeting. The school board’s new fiscal year begins July 1.

Overall revenues for fiscal 2012 decreased only by about 2.5 percent, or $1.2 million. But revenue from local sources, namely the ad valorem tax, took the biggest hit due to the decline of property values in the county. That revenue dropped about $2.3 million from $19.6 million in the current year to $17.3 million for 2012.

But the fact that Bryan County’s schools are growing have helped make up that some of that difference. The school board expects to receive about $1.7 million more, $30.4 million compared to $28.7 million in 2011, from the state because of increased student population.

Read more in the June 4 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.

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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