David Scoggins
Scoggins, a partner in the public accounting firm of Winter & Scoggins in Calhoun, was appointed on Tuesday to replace Eddie Hall, who resigned earlier this year. The board had the option to wait until next year’s general election for someone to be elected to fill the seat, but chose to appoint Scoggins following an interview process.
“Mr. Scoggins will represent our community well on the board of education,” said Calhoun City Schools Superintendent Michele Taylor. “We are pleased to have him as part of the Calhoun City Schools’ team.”
Scoggins was appointed unanimously at Tuesday’s board meeting. Board chairwoman Amy Atkinson indicated that the board felt it had received sufficient interest in the position to appoint someone rather than wait until the election.
In his letter of interest about the vacant position, Scoggins said:
“I would like to serve because I want input into the future of Calhoun and our children are our future. Even though these children come from varying backgrounds, ethnicity and socioeconomic conditions, they all deserve a quality education and I would like to help make sure that they have that chance.”
Scoggins is currently Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, and past treasurer for the Voluntary Action Center and Habitat for Humanity. He has served as Rotary Club President, according to information for the school district.
He was a director of the Gordon County Training Center. Scoggins holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting and a minor in Business Administration. With 23 years of experience in the field of accounting, he now serves as his firm’s director of audit and accounting services. Also, both children attend Calhoun City Schools.
Since there is no deficit, according to education monitors here, why again are taxes being raised?
Evidence: GA Education's annual budget is $10.7 billion.
Real: City BOE requires yearly Tax Anticipation Notes to tide them over.
Good luck breaking bad habits of city BOE accounting specialist Scoggins.
Legend or also ran?
In an ideal situation schools would limit their activities to basic academic pursuits and thus limit the funding now required. But, that is not the case. The State, Federal and locals want the schools to do activities and provide services not traditionally part of the historical educational environment. Such as:
Providing services for special education (both gifted and non-gifted), Transporting students, Athletics programs, Providing some medical care, Music programs, Feeding students once or twice a day, Drama programs, Test administration for such items as no child let behind, etc.
The local boards of education must provide administrative services mandated by the State. In days past school administration was limited to direct administration of teachers but the State of Georgia, Washington and us locals desire to have many programs where administrative staffs are now required. This change in philosophy now forces school systems to spend about one third of their total personnel costs on administrative costs.
The school systems in Georgia can hire teachers and administrators but they have little control on their compensation levels. Those schedules are set at the state level. Until recently compensation levels were directly effected by degrees obtained by administrators and teachers alike regardless of the applicability of the degrees to the job function of the administrator or teacher.
The cost of education is directly dependent upon what “WE” want our education system to do.
On my way home from work minutes ago, stopped while six street employees, four trucks and a backhoe cleared one storm drain.
Anyone else thinks these are a waste of taxpayer dollars or make you wonder about public supervision in our community?
You can become a local legend and solve Calhoun Schools System deficit in five minutes.
Here's how.
Adopt a resolution that says anytime there is a deficit in the city education budget, all sitting members of the BOE are ineligible for re-election.