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BLOUNTVILLE â Sullivan County Board of Education Chairman Randall Jones said the last conversation he had with Jack Bales was about how to increase teacher pay by âright-sizingâ the school systemâs buildings and employee base.
Bales, a former BOE member, died Dec. 9, and at the time of his death, he was serving on the Sullivan County Schools Salary Equalization Committee that has laid out an early retirement incentive plan for teachers that could result in pay scale increases.
The committee was to have met Dec. 15, which would have been Balesâ 79th birthday, but the meeting was cancelled. Bales served 24 years on the school board, from 1992 to 2016.
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