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No findings, issues veal the news.
"I'm pretty happy," Churchill said
Wednesday. "We've got a great busi-
for 6th straight year ness manager."
Churchill attributed the lion's
share of the success to Scott Blom-
By KEVINSPRADLIN berg, business manager. Churchill
I~x~uin@masonco~n~y.cum, said prior to six years ago, the district
......................................................... had "a couple of minor things" to fix.
Churchill lauded Blomberg's improve-
Whew! ment over the years.
Another report by the state Au- "The more veteran people get, the
ditor's Office gave the Hood Canal better they get at their job," Churchill
School District a clean bill of health, said.
It's the sixth consecutive year the Lucky for Churchill, the district
district has received no findings or didn't face the same problems as the
issues with its recordkeeping and fi- Tumwater School District in neigh-
nancial reporting processes, boring Thurston County.
The state inspector met with Su-There, state auditors took issue
perintendent Tom Churchill and the with more than $90,000 paid to sev-
elected board Tuesday .morning to re- en employees during the period from
Sept. 1, 2010 through Aug. 31, 2011.
The Tumwater district has an an-
nual budget of $60 million. Churchill
said it's to his district's benefit to
manage a $4.6 million annual budget
and employs 57 people.
"I think the larger districts have
a harder time keeping their arms
around it," Churchill said.
In a district-wide email sent on
Tuesday, Churchill said the success-
ful audit showed the district "is in
compliance with all state and federal
financial regulations and require-
ments."
"In short, we are following all the
rules and being responsible with tax-
payer money," Churchill wrote.
,The report is to be posted on the
state Auditor's Office website at www.
sao:wa.gov.
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Handcuffed, Shelton resident Stanely Conklin is helped onto
County Sheriff's Office personnel apprehended Conklin, who
and local warrants, on Friday near Olympic Middle School.
Journal photo by Kevin Spradlin
a gurney by paramedics. Mason
was wanted on outstanding state
Fugitive ght
middl
school
Schools placed on lockdown during search
By KEVIN SPRADLIN
kevin@m, as(mco~nty.com,
A Shelton man was ap-
prehended by Mason Coun-
ty Sheriffs Office personnel
on Friday after an initial
report the man was near
Olympic Middle School
with a handgun.
Stanley Conklin, 19, of'
Shelton, was apprehended
in a treeline near the inter-
secton of Shelton Springs
Road and East Wallace
Kneeland Boulevard.
Conklin was wanted on
multiple outstanding state
and local warrants.
The search focused north
from Mason General Hos-
pital, where Lt. Les Wat-
son said Conklin had been
visiting someone earlier
the same day, and the area
between Olympic Middle
School and Oakland Bay
Junior High School.
All four area schools were
placed on lockdown. Police
were on the lookout for a
man with close-cropped
hair wearing a burgundy T-
shirt and blue jeans -- and
possibly armed.
At the time of Conk-
lin's arrest, Watson said
no handgun had yet been
°' found.
On Tuesday, Watson
said the search had contin-
ued, with the assistance of
a county K-9 unit, for "an-
other 45 minutes or so" and
still no handgun was found.
At about 10:48 a.m. on
Friday, Watson said the
sheriffs office received a
phone call that Conktin
had been visiting someone
at Mason General Hospital
and had recently left the
i
"When the
police caU[ a
]ockdown,
we go into
Jockdown
mmediate yo
We don't
ask a lot of
questions°"
premises.
A report
included
Conklin
was "possi-
bly armed,"
Watson
said.
Conklin
was in po-
lice custody
approxi-
mately 45
minutes
later. Wat-
son said
Conklin
was "ex-
tremely
agitated"
upon ar-
rest.
Conklin was subdued
and handcuffed.
"Our feeling was that the
jail would not take him in
that mental state without
medical clearance," Watson
said.
Police followed protocol
and took Conklin to Ma-
son General Hospital for
evaluation. As of Tuesday,
he was booked on the out-
standing w, arrants at the
county j ail.
Watson said Conklin
faces possible additional
charges of resisting arrest
and obstruction of justice.
The event underscored
the importance of a high de-
gree of cooperation between
local law enforcement and
the Shelton School District.
Eric
Barkman,
principal
at Olym-
pic Middle
School, said
the call for
a lockdown
came from
the Ma-
son County
Sheriff's
Office.
"They
told my
secretary
there was
armed
suspect in
the area,"
Barkman
said. "When
the police call a lockdown,
we go into lockdown imme-
diately. We don't ask a lot
of questions."
Students were sent back
from the cafeteria to their
classrooms as a security
precaution. Any classes
outside are immediately
moved indoors.
Forty-five minutes,
Barkman said, "feels long
for a lockdown."
But Barkman didn't
question law enforcement's
call for one.
"The police don't call a
full lockdown on us very
often," said Barkman, who
could recall "less than a
handful" of such instances
in his eight years at the
school.
In an effort to keep staff
and students as updated
as possible, Barkman said
contact was made with
the sheriffs office midway
through the lockdown.
They asked about the pos-
sibility of returning to a
normal schedule.
Barkman said there was
a brief conversation with
his school's resource offi-
cer.
"His only response?
'Stay in lockdown,'" Bark-
man said. "At that point,
we knew this was serious."
Barkman said he un-
derstands there is likely
confusion throughout the
campus community in such
situations. However, school
officials do the best they
can under the circumstanc-
es.
"We try to give the in-
formation that we have,"
Barkman said. "During the
lockdown ... they just have
to have trust we're taking
care of things."
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