Emma Johnson Joins Board Of Education

Last night the Board of Education moved at the first opportunity to fill the open seat created by Michael Bracy's departure.





Ms. Emma Johnson (shown above) was the person they chose to fill the position until the next election in November of 2008. Ms. Johnson is a native of Bertie County and long time resident of Aulander . . . . who spent her career in education as a teacher and librarian.

Ms. Johnson's biography was published earlier and can be linked here.

Shown below is the new school board. From the left, Gloria Lee, Al Parker, Emma Johnson, Rickey Freeman and Melinda Eure.





The Roanoke-Chowan News-Hearald coverage of the board change can be found here.

After seating the new member, the BOE continued with business to conduct a full meeting. The most important issue being addressed is attacking the long term damage to the high school caused by the intentional abandonment of maintenance adopted by a former Superintendent and using QZAB funds to do it before it is too late. These tax free bonds are the best way for Bertie County to do this work and the former administration almost lost us the money.

Architect Richard Andrews has been asked by the current board to move quickly to use the QZAB bond money the county is about to lose to fix the roof of Bertie County High School. Below are the architectural renderings of what the new sloped metal roof will look like.

Mr. Andrews is doing an excellent job helping us keep from losing the $2 mllion in QZAB bond funds by an extraordinary prompt response on behalf of the county. We lose the funds after December and the roofing project is a six month project. Any delay would have been disastrous.