***YARD SALE***
SATURDAY, MAY 18TH
7:00 A.M - 3:00 P.M.
4664 CEDAR ROSE
MILLINGTON, TN
Friday, May 17, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
****FUNDRAISER*****
Yard Sale
This Saturday, May 18th
WHERE: 4664 Cedar Rose Drive Millington, TN (Jay and Julie Forbess’ house)
WHEN: Saturday 18 May from 7:00 am until
Point of Contact - Carole McCullough (901) 872-0664
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
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- Get the word out about the yard sale (it will also be in the Millington Star)
"WE ARE MILLINGTON"
Doug Dakin
488-8857
Monday, May 13, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
PAMS Interview on Live at 9 with Mary Beth Conley
Monday, April 29, 2013, be sure to tune in to Live at 9 with Mary Beth Conley to see Mayor Jones interview about the recent cuts in Millington School personnel and the future of Millington schools.
Click here to see the full interview.
Mayor Terry Jones on Live at 9
Click here to see the full interview.
Mayor Terry Jones on Live at 9
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Meeting Held April 25 with Mayor Jones
P.A.M.S met Thursday April 25, 2013 at the Milllington Civic Center. The scheduled guest speaker was Millington Mayor Terry Jones. however, State Representative Ron Lollar and Aldermen Mike Carruthers and Frankie Dakin attended the meeting and provided some updates as well.
Mayor Jones addressed the timeline of the voting process that will take place now that the municipal schools bill was signed by Governor Haslam. A new vote to approve the municipal school system must take place in July. After the vote for the municipal school system passes, a new school board must be elected in the fall. The school board will select a superintendent who will be charged with hiring the teachers and other employees for the Millington district. Mayor Jones also indicated that he is meeting with the other municipalities in an effort to combine resources to save money.
State Representative Ron Lollar also spoke to those present about the process that was involved in getting the bill through the Tennessee General Assembly. Alderman Mike Carruthers addressed the next steps that Millington faces and the progress that has already been made by the education committee that had previously been formed by the City of Millington. Alderman Frankie Dakin spoke about the hopefulness of the situation and his positive expectations for the municipal schools effort.
The revenue from the Millington Sales Tax for schools was also addressed. Mayor Jones and the Alderman expressed their belief that the sales tax makes municipal schools feasible with its projected revenue of approximately $1.3 million annually.
P.AM.S. will meet again May 7, 2013 to form committees and plan fundraisers. We will also work on a campaign strategy to educate Millington voters that we can support a school system and to vote YES. This meeting is open to the public. If you are unable to make the meetings but would like to help, please send us an email at MillingtonConcernedCitizens@gmail.com.
Mayor Jones addressed the timeline of the voting process that will take place now that the municipal schools bill was signed by Governor Haslam. A new vote to approve the municipal school system must take place in July. After the vote for the municipal school system passes, a new school board must be elected in the fall. The school board will select a superintendent who will be charged with hiring the teachers and other employees for the Millington district. Mayor Jones also indicated that he is meeting with the other municipalities in an effort to combine resources to save money.
State Representative Ron Lollar also spoke to those present about the process that was involved in getting the bill through the Tennessee General Assembly. Alderman Mike Carruthers addressed the next steps that Millington faces and the progress that has already been made by the education committee that had previously been formed by the City of Millington. Alderman Frankie Dakin spoke about the hopefulness of the situation and his positive expectations for the municipal schools effort.
The revenue from the Millington Sales Tax for schools was also addressed. Mayor Jones and the Alderman expressed their belief that the sales tax makes municipal schools feasible with its projected revenue of approximately $1.3 million annually.
P.AM.S. will meet again May 7, 2013 to form committees and plan fundraisers. We will also work on a campaign strategy to educate Millington voters that we can support a school system and to vote YES. This meeting is open to the public. If you are unable to make the meetings but would like to help, please send us an email at MillingtonConcernedCitizens@gmail.com.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Mediation discussed in Shelby County municipal schools litigation
Attorneys involved in the schools litigation fight are moving toward using mediation talks to try and reach a settlement over the issue of suburban municipal school districts.
With a mediation deadline of Nov. 27 looming and U.S. Dist. Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays expected to issue a ruling any day on state constitutional challenges to laws allowing new municipal school districts, attorneys have recently been discussing whether "there would be any meaningful lines of reasoning to resolve issues in mediation," said Memphis City Council attorney Allan Wade.
"Or if it would be fruitless, we needed to tell the judge it would be fruitless."
Mays asked attorneys to correspond with their clients and convene for a conference call on Thursday morning.
Tom Cates, attorney for the suburban governments, said the sides are trying to agree on scheduling, including when the suburban mayors are available. He said the suburbs would enter into the discussion "in good faith."
"Right now we are just talking about the logistics of mediation," said Lori Patterson, one of the Baker Donelson attorneys representing the Shelby County Commission. "We didn't do any actual mediating."
Bartlett Mayor Keith McDonald said he was limited in what comments he could make about the matter. He also invoked the term "good faith," adding: "Our counsel has advised us not to comment while the mediation is in process."
He acknowledged that the prospect for mediation was "out there, and this came up quickly."
A trial in September concerned whether the laws allowing the statewide ban to be lifted on new municipal school districts can be applied solely in Shelby County and are thus unconstitutional. A ruling has been expected any day by Mays, with the City Council, County Commission and City of Memphis aligned as plaintiffs against the state and the suburban municipalities.
Another trial is scheduled for Jan. 3 over what Mays calls the "1983 claims," shorthand for section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871.
That provision allows for federal challenges to constitutional violations by state lawmakers or officials, and the commission, council and City of Memphis claim that allowing MSDs to form in the suburbs will violate civil-rights education laws because it will make schools in the county more segregated.
A new filing in the case on Thursday, by Memphian Eddie Jones, claims that his daughter's right to attend a desegregated school in a desegregated school system will be violated if Shelby County's suburban municipalities are allowed to opt out of the unified countywide district by forming systems of their own.
Jones, also represented by Wade, has asked Mays to allow him to join the commission, the city and Memphis City Council as a plaintiff asserting civil rights-related challenges to the 2011 and 2012 state laws that would lift the statewide ban on new MSDs in Shelby County only.
His proposed complaint says that "the effect of each, or all, of these Municipalities creating their own school districts ... would be to create predominately Caucasian schools in those Municipalities while leaving the Unified Shelby County school district predominately African-American."
The state of Tennessee and six suburban municipalities, aligned as defendants in trials challenging laws that would lift the statewide ban on new municipal school districts, have filed various briefs defending the laws against the equal protection claims. The state and the suburbs maintain that the new MSDs would be desegregated and that residential patterns in the county, and not intentional discrimination, explain why many schools in the city are now and will likely in the future be comprised almost entirely of nonwhite students.
The state and suburbs have filed motions with Mays to dismiss the civil-rights claims altogether, claiming the plaintiffs have failed to prove disparate discriminatory impact and that, even if they could, that they are unable to prove any discriminatory intent on the part of state officials.
Mays originally began presiding over the litigation in February of 2011, when suburban interests filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the forced consolidation of the county's schools. Mays ruled in August of 2011 that the city had legally forced consolidation by surrendering the charter of Memphis City Schools, but upheld key provisions of a 2011 state law aimed at guiding merger of MCS into suburban Shelby County Schools, to be completed by July 1, 2013.
When lawyers met in July to lay out schedules for the two trials, it was Mays who insisted on including a deadline for mediations. Last year, Mays pushed hard for a negotiated settlement to the initial legal wrangling over schools merger issues, eventually succeeding with a consent agreement that followed his ruling in August 2011.
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With a mediation deadline of Nov. 27 looming and U.S. Dist. Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays expected to issue a ruling any day on state constitutional challenges to laws allowing new municipal school districts, attorneys have recently been discussing whether "there would be any meaningful lines of reasoning to resolve issues in mediation," said Memphis City Council attorney Allan Wade.
"Or if it would be fruitless, we needed to tell the judge it would be fruitless."
Mays asked attorneys to correspond with their clients and convene for a conference call on Thursday morning.
Tom Cates, attorney for the suburban governments, said the sides are trying to agree on scheduling, including when the suburban mayors are available. He said the suburbs would enter into the discussion "in good faith."
"Right now we are just talking about the logistics of mediation," said Lori Patterson, one of the Baker Donelson attorneys representing the Shelby County Commission. "We didn't do any actual mediating."
Bartlett Mayor Keith McDonald said he was limited in what comments he could make about the matter. He also invoked the term "good faith," adding: "Our counsel has advised us not to comment while the mediation is in process."
He acknowledged that the prospect for mediation was "out there, and this came up quickly."
A trial in September concerned whether the laws allowing the statewide ban to be lifted on new municipal school districts can be applied solely in Shelby County and are thus unconstitutional. A ruling has been expected any day by Mays, with the City Council, County Commission and City of Memphis aligned as plaintiffs against the state and the suburban municipalities.
Another trial is scheduled for Jan. 3 over what Mays calls the "1983 claims," shorthand for section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871.
That provision allows for federal challenges to constitutional violations by state lawmakers or officials, and the commission, council and City of Memphis claim that allowing MSDs to form in the suburbs will violate civil-rights education laws because it will make schools in the county more segregated.
A new filing in the case on Thursday, by Memphian Eddie Jones, claims that his daughter's right to attend a desegregated school in a desegregated school system will be violated if Shelby County's suburban municipalities are allowed to opt out of the unified countywide district by forming systems of their own.
Jones, also represented by Wade, has asked Mays to allow him to join the commission, the city and Memphis City Council as a plaintiff asserting civil rights-related challenges to the 2011 and 2012 state laws that would lift the statewide ban on new MSDs in Shelby County only.
His proposed complaint says that "the effect of each, or all, of these Municipalities creating their own school districts ... would be to create predominately Caucasian schools in those Municipalities while leaving the Unified Shelby County school district predominately African-American."
The state of Tennessee and six suburban municipalities, aligned as defendants in trials challenging laws that would lift the statewide ban on new municipal school districts, have filed various briefs defending the laws against the equal protection claims. The state and the suburbs maintain that the new MSDs would be desegregated and that residential patterns in the county, and not intentional discrimination, explain why many schools in the city are now and will likely in the future be comprised almost entirely of nonwhite students.
The state and suburbs have filed motions with Mays to dismiss the civil-rights claims altogether, claiming the plaintiffs have failed to prove disparate discriminatory impact and that, even if they could, that they are unable to prove any discriminatory intent on the part of state officials.
Mays originally began presiding over the litigation in February of 2011, when suburban interests filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the forced consolidation of the county's schools. Mays ruled in August of 2011 that the city had legally forced consolidation by surrendering the charter of Memphis City Schools, but upheld key provisions of a 2011 state law aimed at guiding merger of MCS into suburban Shelby County Schools, to be completed by July 1, 2013.
When lawyers met in July to lay out schedules for the two trials, it was Mays who insisted on including a deadline for mediations. Last year, Mays pushed hard for a negotiated settlement to the initial legal wrangling over schools merger issues, eventually succeeding with a consent agreement that followed his ruling in August 2011.
© 2012 Memphis Commercial Appeal. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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