The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 291, Ed. 1 Friday, September 13, 2002 Page: 1 of 16
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“Until the bond is awarded, we don’t know
See MONT BELVIEU on Page 7A
Channel 1
under gun
city workers
year Crime Control
The city voted to keep the tax
See PANELS on Page 3A
See CHANNEL ONE on Page 7A
Later Thursday night, City Council
Development District board of directors
denied a $500,000 Texas Parks and
See BOARD on Page 7A
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Critics call school
network subversive
FRIDAY
September 13, 2002
Volume 80 No.291
Superintendent Barbara Sultis.
“Our job is to provide each stu-
Baytown OKs
2.5% raise for
dent with the best education
possible.”
“We owe it to the taxpayers
that we have an effective, effi-
cient use of our school facili-
ties,” Sultis said.
Sights on Saddam
. Bush tells United Nations: Confront Iraq
with us - or let United States go it alone
PAGE 3A
By ALLYSON GONZALEZ
Staff writer
By MATTHEW COOK
Staff writer
Wall Street
Stocks fall sharply on disappointing
economic reports, Bush speech
PAGE 3B
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
Staff writer
$1.3 million in the garage fund
and more than $185,000 in
warehouse operations.
The 2002-2003 overall bud-
get is a 5.2 percent increase
from this year’s, up almost $3.8
By MATTHEW COOK
Staff writer
BAYTOWN — After some confusion
By ALLYSON GONZALEZ
Staff writer
in schools and an influx of stu-
dents in the coming years. •
“We basically don’t care q o
where kids go to school, said the community," said Toby York,
JI will create four adult fields along with
Revisions were made to the contract, soccer, football and sand volleyball
< acre j
Tm not prepared to do that tonight,” three years to complete and will renovate
See COUNCIL on Page 7A
GC junior, elementary
rezoning panels meet
COMMUNITY
Gatorfest 2002
Country crooner Robison
to headline Saturday show
PAGE 5A
and, beginning Oct. i, the cre-
ation of a strategic financial
plan for next year's budget.
The budget covers almost
$43.8 million in general fund percent increase in appraised
debt service fund, more than
$730,000 in hotel-motel fund,
$18.3 million in* water and
sewer, $3 million in sanitation,
BAYTOWN — In a motion
that filled the chamber with
applause, City Council
approved the nejirly $75.6 mil- mmion and includes four-man
firefighter staffing and the par-
Baytown, Texas
Mont Belvieu to decide $24 million bond issue Saturday
Early voting ended Tuesday. City Secretary what the interest rate is going to be," she said, home in Mont Belvieu is currendy $89,455. The
BAYTOWN — State Board
of Education will vote today
whether free schoolwide televi-
sions and satellite systems are
worth the trade-off for 12 min-
utes of news and commercial
programming.
If the 15-member board votes
to recommend the removal of
Channel One systems, school
districts around the state — like
Goose Creek and Anahuac —
will be subject to the 19-tiered
resolution.
Sponsored by board member
Judy Strickland, the resolution
charges Channel One
Communications Corp with
creating “a captive audience”
and with contributing to school-
age violence, childhood obesity
and increased drug use. The res-
olution says Channel One uses
“sophisticated psychological
manipulations" and attempts to
“circumvent parents” with
“subvert critical thinking.”
The resolution complains of
advertisements with movie stars
and musicians promoting their
latest releases, such as with the
movie, “Dude, Where’s My
Car?” The film features two
marijuana-smoking protago-
nists, understood by the critics
as glorifying drug use.
Commercials include the pro-
motion of high-sugar junk food
like Hostess Twinkies, Pepsi,
Mountain Dew and Snickers
candy bars.
Locally, Robert E. Lee and
Ross S. Sterling High, Baytown
Junior, Horace Mann Junior and
the Alternative Learning
Program all use the Channel
One network. The high school
and the middle school in
Anahuac also show the network.
“We’re looking into the pro-
gram to see if there’s anything
objectionable,” said Kathy
Clausen, public information
officer for Goose Creek
schools.
The board vote follows
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SPORTS
Lee College
Lady Rebels struggle
but down Galveston
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lots.
MONT BELVIEU — Residents will vote j
Saturday on a $24 million bond issue which city improvement of the city’s water and sewer sys-
'• tern. ...
Director of Finance Margie Grimes said the city’s tax rate will increase by
The city’s current tax rate is $.37383 per $100
of property valuation.
Grimes said the average taxable value of a
in January.
The increase comes with a
stipulation that includes an Manager Gaiy Jackson.
immediate review of past and The city voted to keep the tax
future budgets and expenditures rat£ at 73793 per $100 of tax-
able, assessed value — the
same rate the city has applied
since 1992.
However, because*of a 5.5
costs, $8.3 million in general market and taxable values in
2002, a home with a $70,000
market value and a $42,630
officials say is necessary for the city’s growth.
“It’s going to be used to bring our water system
and our wastewater system up to what we need bond will paid off over a period of 20 years. It is to pay down the debt,
now and for the future,” Mayor Lonnie Follis said, currendy unknown what sort of interest rate the — - •
Voting begins at 7 a.m. Saturday at the Mont city will pay.
Belvieu City Hall. The polls will close at 7 p.m. --------J ... 4—"
able approving the project at once.
Baytown and the development district board member and councilman Don four youth-focused athletic fields and approved, they will likely expand the
initially read that the development dis- Murray said,
trict would pay for the design and con-
MDD board approves $224K for sports complex expansion design
struction of the $2.1 million project, and the board approved $224,000 for the courts. The project will be conducted by
which includes renovations of playing design of the project. Construction and Helmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, and no
fields, construction of fields and a cen- other phases will reappear before the disruption of current recreational use is
tral pavilion, lighting, utility construe- board as necessary. expected.
about contract wording, the Municipal tion and landscaping. Later Thursday night, City Council City Parks Director Scott Johnson told
Development District board of directors While the district board plans to even- approved $224,000 worth expansions, the MDD board the city was recently
Thursday approved $224,000 for the tually fund the project in its entirety, renovations and pavilion creation for the denied a $500,000 Texas Parks and
expansion of the Wayne Gray Sports some board members were not comfort- Wayne Gray Sports Complex. The 60- Wildlife grant for the project. However,
Complex. able approving the project at once. acre project is expected to take about the city will reapply in October.
the contract between the city of “I’m not prepared to do that tonight,” three years to complete and will renovate Johnson said that if the grant is
Phyllis Sockwell said 53 citizens cast early bal- “Until the bond issue is passed, we won’t even go average taxpayer will see an increase in taxes of
out for bids. We did use an assumed rate of approximately $130 once all three phases are
Money from the bond sale will go toward the around 6 percent.” * complete.
If approved, the bonds will be sold in three The funds will be used to make several
phases. By the completion of the third phase, the improvements to the city's water and wastewater
' J an estimated $.14 systems in order to accommodate for projected
growth. Some improvements include increasing
the water distribution pipe size, increasing water
lion budget on Thursday, com- firefighter staffing and the par-
plete with a 2.5 percent reoccur- ya| absorption of the $3 million - .
ring pay increase for all full- a year Crime Control
time city employees beginning Prevention District.
“I think this is reasonable and
prudent,” said Interim City
BAYTOWN — Goose Greek
school district employees and
residents who are members of
the elementary and junior Residents representing the
schools rezoning committees district’s 14 elementaries and
established their purpose for jjve junjor schools met for the
reconsidering school boundaries first Thursday and were
at a meeting in the district told hy administrators that they
administration building wm responsible to the com-
Thursday. munity for recommendations
At issue is how the district is (hey make to the board of
going to deal with overcrowding trustees in December.
“As you’ll see, this committee
and the recommendations it
makes are going to be made tty
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to back are Isabella Gonzalez, Anthony Vasquez, Chirquett Morin and Timothy Thomas. More pho-
tos of area schools’ Sept. 11 observances on Page 2A.
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 291, Ed. 1 Friday, September 13, 2002, newspaper, September 13, 2002; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1184851/m1/1/: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.