![]() The new school "tickles me to death," Fugate said. Maynardville Elementary will have 350 to 400 students. The school will have 350 to 400 students when half of the Maynardville Elementary population is moved to the new building. "We would have a full house" of supporters when meetings were held, Bailey said, but he noted it is never easy to raise a tax, particularly in a relatively poor area like Union County. The adoption of the wheel tax did not come easily, both educators said. The Union County Commission agreed to the wheel tax in 2009, and it took effect in January 2010 - about three months before the groundbreaking for Paulette Elementary. The $8 million construction program is being funded by a new $30 per vehicle wheel tax. The building program has been a long time coming, as Bailey and Fugate noted. ![]() The other elementary schools, Sharps Chapel, Big Ridge and Luttrell, are each getting four new classrooms. ![]() The new school and additions at the system's three other elementary schools will give the schools room to grow, Bailey said. The overcrowding will end with the next school year when Paulette Elementary School opens, officials said. "They started building projects there - I was in kindergarten when they started," Fugate said. Jason Bailey, who will be the principal at the new Paulette Elementary School, and Missy Fugate, the Response to Intervention coordinator for the system, said they remember portable classrooms and classes held in small spaces when they attended Maynardville Elementary. if the Kickstarter is successful, the machine will ship out October 2016.Two supervisors in the Union County school system - both graduates of the system - remember attending Maynardville Elementary School when it was overcrowded.Ī building program currently under way in the system's elementary schools aims to relieve that overcrowding. The next tier is at €249 (~$400), which is still a pretty good discount over its proposed retail price of €349. The newly named Smach Z starts at €199 but sadly, that tier's all filled up. If that's true, gamers who want to play on the go might just have found the perfect portable system! The most impressive thing about the Smach Z is that the developers claim that their machine can last at least five hours, longer if you use the optional battery packs. On top of that, the unit itself can be a controller for PC titles, as like NVIDIA's Shield devices, the Smach Z can also stream games from your main gaming rig if you do desire. It uses haptic controls though you can also swap in physical buttons, a D-pad and an analog stick depending on the game. The Smach Z is now modular, with its controls taking a page of out of Valve's Steam Controller. Here's a refresh of them, direct from the Smach Z's Kickstarter page. Now Smach, the company behind machine, is gearing up for the final push to make their portable Steam machine a reality by taking it to Kickstarter.ĭespite the name change, the Smach Z is still packing the most of the same proposed hardware it had when it was called the Smach Zero. If the name sounds familiar, it's because we reported about the Smach Z (then called the Smach Zero), in an earlier article. While the jury's still out on whether Steam machines are really what gamers want in their living room, that hasn't stopped Smach from going ahead in trying to get funding for its Smach Z portable Steam machine. Remember the portable Steam machine called the Smach Zero? It's back!
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