Filing closes; six hopefuls line up for R-5 seats

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Nevada Daily Mail

Nevada R-5 School District voters will have six candidates to choose from when they vote on April 3 to fill the two open seats on the board.

Denise Hedges, Kim Niestrath and Monty Smith filed for the board Tuesday, joining incumbent board member Mike McCaffree, Tommy Transue and Tim Moore, who had filed previously.

Also on the April 3 ballot will be the R-5 School District's bond issue to finance the construction of a performing arts center, a multi-purpose building, repair the roof and replace the floor and some of the bleachers in Wynn Gymnasium and update the district's technology.

The city of Nevada also will be holding its annual city council election on that date with incumbent council members Jayne Novak and Seth Barrett the only candidates on the ballot.

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Certainly wouldn't hurt to have some new blood on the board. After awhile, it seems like what they are spending is just numbers, not tax money from hard working people.

-- Posted by sam floor on Wed, Jan 18, 2012, at 12:28 PM
I feel the current board has done a wonderful job. We have several great candidates on this ballot. Going to be tough to decide who is the best to vote for. Good luck to all of you.

-- Posted by Gordongekko on Thu, Jan 19, 2012, at 8:53 AM
So what exactly is so wonderful about a board that puts dollars before kids? What is great about shrines instead of education? The education system in the United States has gone from 1st in the world to 30th it is not a race to last place you know. Would this be the same group that was going broke last year, and suddenly found a surplus to build a new performing arts center on tax payer dollars?

-- Posted by USS_Missouri on Thu, Jan 19, 2012, at 3:43 PM
So what are YOUR suggestions USS? What do you suggest the school district do? All I hear is crying and moaning and no offers of ideas. That is the problem with society today. Too many complainers that just like to complain without offering any ideas or solutions.

-- Posted by Gordongekko on Fri, Jan 20, 2012, at 11:26 AM
If you go on down to his place of business he will be glad to discuss this with you. We all know, if he were to post it here he would be deleted so it will be necessary for you to go see him in person.

-- Posted by ccmom on Sat, Jan 21, 2012, at 8:58 AM
I would suggest that the district quit buying property. No one wants to address the fact that they bought a piece of land without checking it out and then the engineers they hired after the fact, tells them the property cannot be used for a school. Oh, and they bought it the last time they were crying that they were broke. And they built Truman where parts of it floods when it rains. They built the gym with a flat roof, never a good idea. How about the money wasted on the drug testing? Tested 300 students, found 1 with MJ use.

-- Posted by sam floor on Mon, Jan 23, 2012, at 7:08 AM
This article is not about the US educational system. It's about the Nevada R-5 school district. Our school board has done a great job prioritizing multiple issues, and the new candidates will as well -- one doesn't spend that much time unless one cares very much about it. Dollars must be spent to improve the kids' educational opportunities. Truman's water issues have been resolved. The flat roof on the gym WAS state-of-the-art when it was built, how long ago? Competent business persons know that capital improvements cost money, and must be made to aging buildings. Drug testing is effective, assuming the district's parents will be supportive of its consequences. Many taxpayers in the district do not have children in school and because of that are hostile to the thought of higher taxes. The school board -- past, present and future -- is aware of this. The students in our district today are the most precious resource and product of the local economy. Do we really want the vast majority of them to mature, have families, and decide to settle in an area where the schools are better?

-- Posted by momssscl on Mon, Jan 23, 2012, at 9:58 AM
I have over the course of the last couple years given several suggestions. I can go through them again when ever your ready Gordon. Why don't we start with bringing the prom back to town, after all these are the businesses you ask to support it why not support them? Perhaps stop looking for the most expensive way to do things thus wasting tax payer dollars, and maybe then we can refocus on educating children. Something that has been in decline.

-- Posted by USS_Missouri on Mon, Jan 23, 2012, at 5:06 PM
Jonesmom I agree with you that the children should be the future of a community. As such the school system is a most important resource in the future development of what our community will become. That must be balanced with the taxes required to run it so that opportunity is not lost today allowing us to get to their tomorrow. So to blindly squander both money and opportunity on failed programs or on big ticket items with minimal return is mismanagement. The concept that we are investing in a school to turn dollars though is also flawed we are trying to make future citizens that the community would be proud to call their own.

-- Posted by USS_Missouri on Tue, Jan 24, 2012, at 4:30 PM
Or possibly we're trying to build a community that future citizens would be proud to call their home.

-- Posted by ccmom on Wed, Jan 25, 2012, at 7:41 AM
How would you say your doing that CC by teaching them that they need to leave here for a good time? Perhaps you think that lesson will be learned when you show them you don't trust them? I got it! you think when they see their favorite teacher leave because we offer no advancement opportunities the future of our community will learn to stay here and be blindly loyal to a community that turns it's back on it's own? Possibly "we're" failing miserably here at home would be closer to the truth!

-- Posted by USS_Missouri on Wed, Jan 25, 2012, at 3:21 PM
I just think it needs to work both ways. Graduate students that can come back into our community and make a difference and improve our community so it is one they want to return to.

-- Posted by ccmom on Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 10:23 AM
so you spend six years teach them to leave and telling them you neither trust them nor offer them any opportunity, then expect them to return? For what to stare at a monument built to satisfy the ego of some aging retiree's or a locust passing through looking for his next big check? Would you honestly go some where they spent so much effort to show you your not welcome? How many of the class of 2008 have returned? Why do you only want to make a place for graduate students? We wouldn't be seeing that elitist class mentality seeping out again would we? It should be our community not your community always seems to be a problem with some around here, but thanking you for summing that up once again for us.

-- Posted by USS_Missouri on Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 9:35 PM
USS...don't you get tired from all that negative energy you carry around....

A lot of former graduates have returned and have been very successful in Nevada...

-- Posted by tigerproud on Mon, Jan 30, 2012, at 12:34 PM
Well the class of 2008 haven't probably even completed college yet, so they haven't completed what they left for...that is a college education. Some will return and some won't. I can think of quite of few successful NHS graduates that have left, become successful and moved back either to continue a family business (and improve it in a lot of cases) or start new business/ventures.

What lady principal left? What am I missing here?

-- Posted by tigerproud on Wed, Feb 1, 2012, at 2:38 PM

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