The DeKalb County School System is in the process of a potentially major redistricting and school consolidation process for the 2011–2012 school year. There are 5 public meeting scheduled to hear input about the Centralized Plan, the Decentralized Plan, and/or other ideas the public may have that could result in a thrid option. This meeting is part of the public input workshops, which will be followed by the formal public hearing, and the presentation and approval of the redistricting and school consolidation recommendations by the School Board.
Of particular interest: The Centralized Plan would remove the magnet program from Kitridge, Chamblee Middle and Chamblee High, and move them to Avondale Estates.
Meeting Place: Chamblee High School
Meeting Time: 6:30
Maps of the Centralized and Decentralized options can be found on the DCSS website at http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/redistricting.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Clairmont Bridge
Comments regarding Clairmont Bridge from City of Chamblee
Please be advised that DeKalb County is responsible for the maintenance of the roads within the City of Chamblee as well as most of the other municipalities in DeKalb County. There have been multiple reports by different news media regarding the Clairmont Road bridge and one this morning commented something about the city making one pass at the bridge.
(In inclement weather) the bridge ices over immediately and the Chamblee PD is forced to close it and place the barricades until DeKalb County is able to make it passable. This time is no different. DeKalb County has been advised more than once about the (Clairmont) bridge and I can only assume that they will get to it when they are able and in order of priority.
By law, counties and their municipalities are required to agree on a service delivery strategy in which each jurisdiction agrees which services they are responsible for in order to prevent double taxation for the same services. DeKalb County and it's cities just signed a renewed agreement and pursuant to that agreement DeKalb County is responsible for the maintenance of the roads within the City of Chamblee. In spite of that agreement, and recognizing the severity of this winter storm, Chamblee’s Public Works Department has been working to clear up some of the smaller more manageable road hazards with the equipment we have. The Clairmont Road bridge is far beyond the capabilities of any of the equipment Chamblee has at its disposal.
The City of Chamblee is proud of the services that we offer and I don’t believe it is fair at all to be criticized for the quality of a service which we are not responsible for providing. I am also not going to criticize DeKalb County for the level of service they are providing, as I don’t know how they are prioritizing the problem streets.
If you have any questions about the operations of the City of Chamblee, please call City Hall at 770-986-5018
Please be advised that DeKalb County is responsible for the maintenance of the roads within the City of Chamblee as well as most of the other municipalities in DeKalb County. There have been multiple reports by different news media regarding the Clairmont Road bridge and one this morning commented something about the city making one pass at the bridge.
(In inclement weather) the bridge ices over immediately and the Chamblee PD is forced to close it and place the barricades until DeKalb County is able to make it passable. This time is no different. DeKalb County has been advised more than once about the (Clairmont) bridge and I can only assume that they will get to it when they are able and in order of priority.
By law, counties and their municipalities are required to agree on a service delivery strategy in which each jurisdiction agrees which services they are responsible for in order to prevent double taxation for the same services. DeKalb County and it's cities just signed a renewed agreement and pursuant to that agreement DeKalb County is responsible for the maintenance of the roads within the City of Chamblee. In spite of that agreement, and recognizing the severity of this winter storm, Chamblee’s Public Works Department has been working to clear up some of the smaller more manageable road hazards with the equipment we have. The Clairmont Road bridge is far beyond the capabilities of any of the equipment Chamblee has at its disposal.
The City of Chamblee is proud of the services that we offer and I don’t believe it is fair at all to be criticized for the quality of a service which we are not responsible for providing. I am also not going to criticize DeKalb County for the level of service they are providing, as I don’t know how they are prioritizing the problem streets.
If you have any questions about the operations of the City of Chamblee, please call City Hall at 770-986-5018
Monday, January 10, 2011
Job Posting for Atlanta, GA
(forwarded on behalf of Alan Urech, Stoney River Capital)
SoloHealth continues to experience rapid growth and is preparing to scale our new SoloHealth Station (Vision Screening, Blood Pressure, BMI, etc.). As such, the Company has an immediate need to fill three additional positions, based in Atlanta. If you know anyone in your network who might be a good fit, please forward this along and encourage them to apply. They can send their resume directly to Patty Hopper, phopper@solohealth.com who is managing our recruitment process.
1. Director of Field Operations
Lead and manage the day to day operations of SoloHealth kiosks, the internal field teams, as well as 3rd party vendor-partners. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years experience in operations management, project mgt, supervising field teams. BS in engineering preferred. More info
2. Key Account Manager - Retail
Responsible for managing key retail accounts with multiple touch points, including: purchasing, merchandising, marketing, training, store operations, supply chain, etc. The ideal candidate has had headquarter responsibilities for a retail chain (Food, Drug, Mass Merchandisers). More Info
3. Key Account Manager - Advertising
Lead primary customer facing activities for SoloHealth with key Advertising Customers. The ideal candidate has an established track record of successful leadership in maintaining customer loyalty with brand marketers and agencies in any of the following industries: CPG, Pharma, OTC. More Info
Good luck and happy job hunting!
Tom
SoloHealth continues to experience rapid growth and is preparing to scale our new SoloHealth Station (Vision Screening, Blood Pressure, BMI, etc.). As such, the Company has an immediate need to fill three additional positions, based in Atlanta. If you know anyone in your network who might be a good fit, please forward this along and encourage them to apply. They can send their resume directly to Patty Hopper, phopper@solohealth.com who is managing our recruitment process.
1. Director of Field Operations
Lead and manage the day to day operations of SoloHealth kiosks, the internal field teams, as well as 3rd party vendor-partners. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years experience in operations management, project mgt, supervising field teams. BS in engineering preferred. More info
2. Key Account Manager - Retail
Responsible for managing key retail accounts with multiple touch points, including: purchasing, merchandising, marketing, training, store operations, supply chain, etc. The ideal candidate has had headquarter responsibilities for a retail chain (Food, Drug, Mass Merchandisers). More Info
3. Key Account Manager - Advertising
Lead primary customer facing activities for SoloHealth with key Advertising Customers. The ideal candidate has an established track record of successful leadership in maintaining customer loyalty with brand marketers and agencies in any of the following industries: CPG, Pharma, OTC. More Info
Good luck and happy job hunting!
Tom
Monday, November 8, 2010
DeKalb County School System Board Of Education vote on Chamblee Charter High School
The Chamblee Charter High School PTSA encourages parents and community from the CCHS feeder schools to attend the BOE meeting to support the use of the QSC (Quality School Construction) Bonds for the construction of a new building for CCHS. This meeting could determine whether Chamblee receives a new High School or the eventual closure of Chamblee High School and redistricting of students.
when: Monday, November 8 @ 6:00pm
where: DCSS Central Office, 1701 Mountain Industrial Park, Stone Mountain, GA
what: Board of Education will be voting on QCS Bonds.
Additional way you can help? You can communicate directly with the DCSS Board members, in particular with Jim Redovian (who will continue to serve until January 2011 even if he loses the runoff) Pam Speaks and Don McChesney who are our representatives and will be decisionmakers. Send emails or voice mail to Board of Education members stating your support for a new school.
You may cut and paste this web link to the email addresses of Board of Education members.
https://eboard.eboardsolutions.com/AboutBoard.aspx?S=4054#31066 (or go to the DCSS website and click on leadership and click on Board of Education). Parent groups believe it is important to maintain a respectful tone and stick to one issue: a new building for CCHS. We suggest a "bold face" subject line of the email like "Please designate QSCB for Chamblee CHS building" or "Please fund new building for Chamblee CHS" because board members receive numerous emails and we want ours to stand out. It would be best to leave all other issues, no matter how important, to later discussions surrounding redistricting.
Please forward this message on to all in the Chamblee High School feeder school area.
when: Monday, November 8 @ 6:00pm
where: DCSS Central Office, 1701 Mountain Industrial Park, Stone Mountain, GA
what: Board of Education will be voting on QCS Bonds.
Additional way you can help? You can communicate directly with the DCSS Board members, in particular with Jim Redovian (who will continue to serve until January 2011 even if he loses the runoff) Pam Speaks and Don McChesney who are our representatives and will be decisionmakers. Send emails or voice mail to Board of Education members stating your support for a new school.
You may cut and paste this web link to the email addresses of Board of Education members.
https://eboard.eboardsolutions.com/AboutBoard.aspx?S=4054#31066 (or go to the DCSS website and click on leadership and click on Board of Education). Parent groups believe it is important to maintain a respectful tone and stick to one issue: a new building for CCHS. We suggest a "bold face" subject line of the email like "Please designate QSCB for Chamblee CHS building" or "Please fund new building for Chamblee CHS" because board members receive numerous emails and we want ours to stand out. It would be best to leave all other issues, no matter how important, to later discussions surrounding redistricting.
Please forward this message on to all in the Chamblee High School feeder school area.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Healthy Lifestyle Family Fair
Recipes for a Healthy Lifestyle Handbook:
We were not one of the recipients for the grant from the National PTA...we'll keep trying. Funding the printing of the upcoming Recipes for a Healthy Lifestyle Handbook is secured through the sponsors and participants we have attending the Healthy Lifestyle Family Fair.
Intake / input forms will go home EACH Thursday this month to gather the resources / recipes for the handbook from our school body. The handbook will be built over Dec/Jan and distributed in Feb/Mar. Chapters include actual food recipes, sharing shopping tips for where we find favorite nutritional foods, tips for incorporating activity into daily living, favorite books for sending healthy messages, taming the snack monster, family volunteer opportunities, a chapter that captures kids quoting coach Tate and more. Should be a resource book that our school body reads because they are helping to write it.
Healthy Lifestyle Family Fair:
Paid (not the non profits) and registered:
i9 sports (game w/ prizes), YMCA (possible jumpy), Atl. Ctr for Holistic Medicine, Children's Dentistry (giveaways, balloons, etc.), Brookhaven Dental, Adrenaline Fitness (something experiential), Natural Body Spa (chair massage, info on 'going green' w/ cosmetics), Daisy Troops (serving cider), Live Well Studio (screening, instruction), Foundation for Wellness Professionals (screenings), Chamblee Farmers Market, APA PTA will host a table to talk about volunteering / contributing in school community (opportunity to sign up).
Confirmed booths / tables via email: Curves, Operation Bootcamp (mini - bootcamp instruction), Pure Life Healthy Homes, Dr. Tucker, and the Thursday Farmers Market at Ashford Dunwoody and J. Ferry, Whole Foods (hopeful cooking demo), Rite Aid (blood pressure checks), Dekalb Co. Parks and Rec and City of Chamblee Parks and Rec., DCSS Nutrition Dept (to share what's happening w/ our school food programs)
Some of the bigger organizations simply do not 'play' at this level, and certainly do not 'pay to play'.
We've still got lots of invites out w/ interest in supporting us at some point, but for a variety of reasons unable to participate now. It's been a super relationship builder for us. Many are intrigued by our work / efforts and want to be a part of making sure we're successful in supporting the health of our children and community. Once we've completed our contact list in an excel spreadsheet, it will be forwarded onto the PTA business team for future relations (it's close, just need a few blanks filled in).
Big Peach is donating 250 bags and 2 $25 gift cards, Nuts and Berries 10 $10 gift certificates and Adrenaline Fitness a 3 month membership that we'll use as a door prizes. Visitors will be eligible for door prizes upon completing a few health and wellness related questions, answers easy to find w/ our sponsors. Kaiser is giving us pencils.
The PTA hospitality committee has agreed to help greet our visitors and our wellness committee (can you help?) will share the goals of the school's Wellness Council. A SHORT intake form will capture the emails of visiors for immediate feedback in a 5 question survey to be sent w/in a week of the fair and will help determine how many visitors we drew in from outside our school family.
Announcements of our Healthy Lifestyle Family Fair have gone to our sister schools, the Brookhaven Reporter, Brookhaven Buzz, Atlanta Parent and Dekalb Neighbor. Emails to the neighborhood associations should be out this week with hyperlinks to some of our supporters. Adrenaline Fitness said they'd be talking it up. There is hope of a few flyers going on our sponsors / supporters doors / store fronts this week.
Red Ribbon Week:
Resources for distribution to parents with the plan of activities will go home this Thursday. Buttons are numbered, ribbons cut and ready for tree decorating, red paper for the art essay portion of our week, all ready to go to teachers by the week's end. At our weekly meeting this Friday, our team will stuff the prize baggies for the winners each morning. The schedule of events (wear red day, turn your back on drugs day, etc.) has been coordinated w/ Mrs. Witeczek and Mrs.Fallon. Mrs. Witeczek will do the morning messages and prize distribution. The art / essay papers should be on display for the Healthy Lifestyle Fair.
Wellness Newsletter:
Placed in teacher boxes today. PLEASE share feedback if you have any...good or bad. Printing costs paid for the year by Dr. Philip Hurd, Atlanta Natural Health Clinic. 2 months, due to "translation issues" from one program to another, the printing has had to be repeated. The glitch has been figured out and we should be 'good to go'.
PTA Wellness Month:
In addition to Marcie Hannish offering to do dance instruction for the kids during "teacher directed PE", we have potential mini bootcamp, possible yoga and safety instruction from Think First, a foundation through CHOA (Thanks, Jessa). Details will be reviewed upon approval by Mrs. Fallon and a sign up sheet prepared for teachers to utilize these optional programs. We've secured some supportive handouts (recipe books w/ coupons, coloring books, etc.) to distribute through the month and will have theme days similar to what we did last year during our wellness week (no screen, family walks, etc - detailed in the APWC newsletter)
other updates:
Jill is coordinating the Wellness Committee's obstacle course at the Fall Festival this Sat., apples will be provided by Costco (and maybe Kroger). Any leftover apples will be given out at the Lifestyle Fair.
An Activity Cart for teacher directed PE is tabled right now, no change. Still 'on the list'.
We've secured a yoga instructor (per teacher request) that will donate her time 1 class each Monday at 3:15. At this point, we have a commitment for the remainder of the 1st semester and a few other instructors 'waiting in the wings' to share the load 2nd semester.
We always welcome your feedback, concerns, interest, help, etc.
Our best,
Lisa Engle and Kelly Combs
We were not one of the recipients for the grant from the National PTA...we'll keep trying. Funding the printing of the upcoming Recipes for a Healthy Lifestyle Handbook is secured through the sponsors and participants we have attending the Healthy Lifestyle Family Fair.
Intake / input forms will go home EACH Thursday this month to gather the resources / recipes for the handbook from our school body. The handbook will be built over Dec/Jan and distributed in Feb/Mar. Chapters include actual food recipes, sharing shopping tips for where we find favorite nutritional foods, tips for incorporating activity into daily living, favorite books for sending healthy messages, taming the snack monster, family volunteer opportunities, a chapter that captures kids quoting coach Tate and more. Should be a resource book that our school body reads because they are helping to write it.
Healthy Lifestyle Family Fair:
Paid (not the non profits) and registered:
i9 sports (game w/ prizes), YMCA (possible jumpy), Atl. Ctr for Holistic Medicine, Children's Dentistry (giveaways, balloons, etc.), Brookhaven Dental, Adrenaline Fitness (something experiential), Natural Body Spa (chair massage, info on 'going green' w/ cosmetics), Daisy Troops (serving cider), Live Well Studio (screening, instruction), Foundation for Wellness Professionals (screenings), Chamblee Farmers Market, APA PTA will host a table to talk about volunteering / contributing in school community (opportunity to sign up).
Confirmed booths / tables via email: Curves, Operation Bootcamp (mini - bootcamp instruction), Pure Life Healthy Homes, Dr. Tucker, and the Thursday Farmers Market at Ashford Dunwoody and J. Ferry, Whole Foods (hopeful cooking demo), Rite Aid (blood pressure checks), Dekalb Co. Parks and Rec and City of Chamblee Parks and Rec., DCSS Nutrition Dept (to share what's happening w/ our school food programs)
Some of the bigger organizations simply do not 'play' at this level, and certainly do not 'pay to play'.
We've still got lots of invites out w/ interest in supporting us at some point, but for a variety of reasons unable to participate now. It's been a super relationship builder for us. Many are intrigued by our work / efforts and want to be a part of making sure we're successful in supporting the health of our children and community. Once we've completed our contact list in an excel spreadsheet, it will be forwarded onto the PTA business team for future relations (it's close, just need a few blanks filled in).
Big Peach is donating 250 bags and 2 $25 gift cards, Nuts and Berries 10 $10 gift certificates and Adrenaline Fitness a 3 month membership that we'll use as a door prizes. Visitors will be eligible for door prizes upon completing a few health and wellness related questions, answers easy to find w/ our sponsors. Kaiser is giving us pencils.
The PTA hospitality committee has agreed to help greet our visitors and our wellness committee (can you help?) will share the goals of the school's Wellness Council. A SHORT intake form will capture the emails of visiors for immediate feedback in a 5 question survey to be sent w/in a week of the fair and will help determine how many visitors we drew in from outside our school family.
Announcements of our Healthy Lifestyle Family Fair have gone to our sister schools, the Brookhaven Reporter, Brookhaven Buzz, Atlanta Parent and Dekalb Neighbor. Emails to the neighborhood associations should be out this week with hyperlinks to some of our supporters. Adrenaline Fitness said they'd be talking it up. There is hope of a few flyers going on our sponsors / supporters doors / store fronts this week.
Red Ribbon Week:
Resources for distribution to parents with the plan of activities will go home this Thursday. Buttons are numbered, ribbons cut and ready for tree decorating, red paper for the art essay portion of our week, all ready to go to teachers by the week's end. At our weekly meeting this Friday, our team will stuff the prize baggies for the winners each morning. The schedule of events (wear red day, turn your back on drugs day, etc.) has been coordinated w/ Mrs. Witeczek and Mrs.Fallon. Mrs. Witeczek will do the morning messages and prize distribution. The art / essay papers should be on display for the Healthy Lifestyle Fair.
Wellness Newsletter:
Placed in teacher boxes today. PLEASE share feedback if you have any...good or bad. Printing costs paid for the year by Dr. Philip Hurd, Atlanta Natural Health Clinic. 2 months, due to "translation issues" from one program to another, the printing has had to be repeated. The glitch has been figured out and we should be 'good to go'.
PTA Wellness Month:
In addition to Marcie Hannish offering to do dance instruction for the kids during "teacher directed PE", we have potential mini bootcamp, possible yoga and safety instruction from Think First, a foundation through CHOA (Thanks, Jessa). Details will be reviewed upon approval by Mrs. Fallon and a sign up sheet prepared for teachers to utilize these optional programs. We've secured some supportive handouts (recipe books w/ coupons, coloring books, etc.) to distribute through the month and will have theme days similar to what we did last year during our wellness week (no screen, family walks, etc - detailed in the APWC newsletter)
other updates:
Jill is coordinating the Wellness Committee's obstacle course at the Fall Festival this Sat., apples will be provided by Costco (and maybe Kroger). Any leftover apples will be given out at the Lifestyle Fair.
An Activity Cart for teacher directed PE is tabled right now, no change. Still 'on the list'.
We've secured a yoga instructor (per teacher request) that will donate her time 1 class each Monday at 3:15. At this point, we have a commitment for the remainder of the 1st semester and a few other instructors 'waiting in the wings' to share the load 2nd semester.
We always welcome your feedback, concerns, interest, help, etc.
Our best,
Lisa Engle and Kelly Combs
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