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Show if Uli.l 3 CENTENNIAL T 896-1 996 7.. Volume One Hundred One Ml A. by Laurel Brady , The Nebo School District got a clean financial bill of health in a recent independent audit by Peterson and Associates of Span TV in; v r . .. m Community Church calls new pastor The Springville Community Presbyterian Church has called a new pastor, the Rev. James Shroyer. His service will begin November 26, 1996. Shroyer preached for a call October 27 and the congregation voted unanimously to call him. He will replace the Rev. Lesley Davies, who has served the church as interim minister for the past two years. Shroyer is a graduate of Columbia Co-lumbia Theological Seminary in Georgia and has pastored small churches in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Virginia and North Carolina. FmmiSing ski II Is ledum sefws h eg inns Thursday at Jr. High Parents and Springville and Mapleton who want to learn more about parenting are invited to attend the first in a series of monthly lectures on parenting skills and family solidarity on Thursday, November 7, at 7 p.m. in the Springville Jr. High School. Admission is free, but those attending are asked to pick up tickets at the jr. high. Popular speaker Dr. Alvin H. Price, professor of family science at Brigham Young University, JsL Alvin H. Price gOmD ish Fork. .Kim Peterson told the board his firm's study of the district financial records concluded conclud-ed its financial statement were free of misstatements and its Most recently, he was pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Little Rock, AK. He has also acted as Sunday School director for First Korean Presbyterian Presby-terian Church in that city. He will be moving to Springville from Little Rock. His wife Linda is an LPN and social worker who has been working with troubled youth. Their daughter, Mary, 13, is a talented figure skater. The Shroyers will be living in a church-owned home next to the Springville church. will present the first lecture in the series of eight. He will speak on "Understanding Why Children Do What They Do. The lectures will be held the first Thursday of each month. Price is well qualified to participate in this lecture series. He earned a BS Degree from BYU and MS and PhD Degrees from the University of Minnesota. Minneso-ta. He has published extensively and has been involved in numerous numer-ous workshops and media productions. pro-ductions. The main focus of his publications publica-tions and lectures has been child development. In 1979 he received the Karl G. Maeser Outstanding Teacher Award, one of the most prestigious awards given at BYU. He spent his sabbatical leave (1990) in Bucuresti, Romania training teachers of handicapped children and working with or SPRINGVILLE, UTAH Instirllcti Wk operations conformed with generally gener-ally accepted accounting principles. princi-ples. The district's expenditures were within its budget in all areas Rev. James Shroyer phans. The early formative years of a child determine the character of the man or woman the child becomes. Fathers need to be involved in the education of their children to insure that the twig is bent in the right direction. These words penned by George Herbert further validate the essential role of fathers in the education of their little children: "One father is more than a hundred hun-dred schoolmasters." In Springville there are approximately ap-proximately 3,000 children in grades kindergarten through sixth grade. And there are about 100 teachers to guide them in their learning experience. There are hundreds more in the upper grades. Teachers cannot teach these kids everything. The lectures are a community-wide community-wide effort to secure the ties that . i .-ft' i f 84663 - November 6, 1996 except capital projects construction. construc-tion. Those expenditures exceeded exceed-ed budget by $1,926,065. Anderson Ander-son attributed that problem to an oversight, occurring partly because be-cause materials purchased in June were billed in July. "It's not a big problem," he concluded. Peterson commended district officials for finally eliminating a long-standing deficit in its food service operation. The district started the year $130,000 in the hole, but closed with a positive balance of $36,000. Peterson told the board, "That really is an accomplishment to get that fund out of the red. " The district's investments were categorized by level of risk, a process Peterson said revealed "No investments are considered at risk. All are Category 1 (insured (in-sured or registered) or a cash equivalent basis, available on a 24-hour call. You have control or collateral for all of them. " Peterson said the district has emphasized control at the level of individual schools. "Substantial dollars are handled at that level. The district has made great strides with issuance of a handbook, hand-book, training and conducting bind home and school together in a common endeavor. Douglas E. Brinley will speak on "Being a Better Parent" on December 5; Robert F. Williams, "Talking So Kids Will Listen," January 2; Terrance D. Olsen, "Parents, Students, Community and Citizenship," February 6; David Dollahite, "Father Work: Stories of Good Fathering Under Challenging Circumstances," March 6; Nancy Livingston, "Parents are VIP's," April 3; Lynn Scoresby, "Teaching Moral Development at Home and School," May 1; and William G. Dyer, "Critical Keys for Building Effective Families," June 5. The lectures are being sponsored spon-sored by the Springville Family Literacy Center, Orem-Based Legacy Foundation and the Springville Spr-ingville Jr. High PTA. W PRESS ASSOC jQ7 M 200 S SUITE 5005 SAL' uke cm, ut 31 Oe,; 93 8411)1 Springville has become a popular spot for filming lately. Two film companies were in the city Monday doing episodes for TV's "Touched By An Angel" and "Promised Land." Working just blocks from each other, Ian Roylance, property manager for "Promised Land," said that although the two programs have the same executive producer, they are two different companies. "Promised Land" is aired on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. on CBS and was filming at the James and Oneita Sumsion home on 100 South and 400 East, shown above. "Touched By An Angel" is on CBS Sunday nights at 7 p.m. and was in sixth place in the ratings last week. Photo by Martin Conover Price $.50 fmm internal audits." Peterson said the increased attention" resulted in compliance that is "substantially better than in the last couple of years." Peterson noted property taxes were collected at over 100 of the amount levied. He said this reflects the improved economic picture of the entire county. "We were behind several years ago. You can gauge the economic situation of an area by property taxes collected." The audit did turn up some problems, but did not characterize character-ize them as serious. One problem Peterson noted for the board showed three out of 45 payroll disbursements of federal funds were missing authorization signatures, signa-tures, but the total affected amount was under $500. The audit report made several suggestions for improved handling han-dling of funds. Because some inventory items in the warehouse were fund to be obsolete or overstocked, it was recommended outdated or obsolete items be removed and written off. It was also recommended food items by limited to one year's stock to prevent items becoming outdated before uses. The district adopted its certified certi-fied tax rate after the June 22 deadline, but it was noted figures from the county and state were 4 ( If r Verne Jeffers of Springville was in line Tuesday to cast his ballot in the general election. It was also Verne's 95th birthday! He said that he first voted in 1915 when he was 14 years old and voted for Woodrow Wilson for U.S. President. He was in the Army at that time and his superior told him that if he was old enough to be in the Army then he was old enough to vote. We don't know who Verne voted for for president Tuesday, but he was there, doing his duty. He told the election judge that he figured he was "old enough to vote." it"' Number Forty Five received too late to meet the deadline.1 "That is' a common problem. The time limit is difficult diffi-cult to meet." Peterson told the board. Peterson said progress has been made by individual schools, but there were several continuing problems to be addressed. "There is still a lot of room for improvement. improve-ment. I encourage you to emphasize empha-size training and continue conducting con-ducting internal audits." Incidents of non-compliance with district policies and procedures proce-dures noted in the audit of individual indi-vidual schools consisted of purchasing pur-chasing office equipment over the school's limit, deposits and postings post-ings not processed daily, posting in the wrong period, failure to maintain proper disbursement documentation, inconsistent receipt numbering, checks voided in pencil and reimbursing sales tax. The report recommended the district take steps to ensure proper prop-er procedures are followed, by continuing to train and monitor individual schools. Concerning recommendations made last year, the report noted one school still out of compliance in several areas including proper backup documentation, proper identification attached to district property and reimbursement of sales tax paid. if UP |