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Strayhorn said Monday that
lawmakers face a total bud-
get shortfall of $9.9 billion
when they return to the
Capitol on Tuesday. That
number represents a $1.8
billion deficit in the current
$114 billion two-year budget
and $8.1 billion extra needed
to maintain current services .
in the next spending plan.
Based on current funding
levels, $9.9 billion is:
■ One-third of the state's
$29.3 billion public education
system
■ Enough to fund two
state prison systems
■ Five-and-a-half times the
$1.8 billion appropriated to
the M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center
■ Equal to seven
Children's Health Insurance
Programs
■ 14 times what the
University of Texas at Austin
got in the current state bud-
get
■ 16 times what Texas
A&M University got in the cur-
rent state budget
■ Enough to pay 252,245
teachers the state average
salary of $39,232
■ Equivalent to 111
record-setting $90 million
gubernatorial campaigns
between Republican Gov.
Rick Perry and unsuccessful
challenger Democrat Tony
Sanchez.
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Geneva Marie Aschenbrenner, Highlands. Burial will follow at
75, of Houston went to be with White Cemetery.
dealing with telephone compa-
nies.”
The city retained attorney Jim
Boyle, a former attorney with property. That item was tabled
the Public Utility Commission, for further discussion because
to handle the matter. Jackson Pickett was not in attendance at
said the process could cost as Mondays meeting.
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the county will not supplement
his pay.
Hayes said he had been
unable to market the incinerator
ey as heavily as planned because
of problems in the construction
schedule and permitting
process. The county is not to be
blamed Hayes said.
Hayes said he expects rev-
enue to increase within a few
months.
“There are four to six new
contracts being negotiated,” he
said. “Two of those companies
have made verbal commit-
ments.”
Hayes said the county is cur-
rently contracted to burn the
waste of 12 companies. The
incinerator is permitted to burn
medical waste and municipal
waste. However, permits are
still being approved for non-
1 by her daugh-
v, Jeanne Stark
,. of Baytown;
milton of San
rs, Frances
Houston; Joy
ingelo; grand-
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laytown; great-
Keats Stark,
and Victoria
HARRIS COUNTY —
BAYTOWN AREA
Senate
John Whitmire, D-Houston,
District 15
District phone: 713-864-
8701
House
Wayne Smith, R-Baytown,
District 128
Capitol phone: 512-463-
0733
CHAMBERS COUNTY
Senate
Tommy Williams, R-The
Woodlands, District 4
District phone: 281-296-
0023.
Kyle Janek, R-Houston,
District 17
District phone: 713-272-
8929
House
Craig Eiland, D-Galveston,
District 23
District phone: 281-534-
4492
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of 21 million people.
“The last several revenue esti-
mates have begun to look a lot
like Christmas,” Strayhorn s?:J
"This year, the stockings
empty."
Texas, which has neither an
income tax nor a statewide prop-
erty tax, gets most of its revenue
from sales, business and auto- Rep. Craig Eiland, D-Galveston.
mobile taxes. When the econo-
my slows, people spend less, and
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during the summer," Smith
said.
A freshman representative,
Smith said the timing of
Strayhorn's announcement is
unimportant because he would-
n't have been able to deal with
the shortfall any earlier.
Cuts will be easier to project
in several weeks after the House
appropriations committee
reviews the budget.
"I think its too early to fore-
cast," he said.
District 15 Senator-elect,
John Whitmire, D-Houston,
said he will oppose cuts in pub-
lic safety, and public and higher
education.
Whitmire said it's doubtful
that the Legislature can balance
the budget and sustain neces-
sary programs without new
taxes, but he has yet to hear
Gov. Rick Perry's plan.
"I do not believe so, but that's
why I ll wait to see," he said
New taxes are not an option
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increase on behalf of its resi-
dents, as well as the residents of
unincorporated areas of
Chambers County.
"I don’t see this as a good way
of doing business,” Jackson
said. “It is not a good principle
to let Alltel go^hrough and do manufactured home in the city.
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The amount is enough to run
the $4.8 billion state prison sys-
tem — twice. Its 14 times larger
than the $706 million spent to
run the 50,000-student
University of Texas at Austin this
budget cycle,
Republican Gov. Rick Perry
has already warned that nothing
is safe from cuts. “In tough eco-
nomic times the focus must be
on government spending less,
not on taxpayers paying more,”
he said.
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promised not to raise taxes.
Williams said user fees and
licenses that have been set at a
flat rate for several years could
be increased.
In addition, cost savings
could be created by merging the
Public Utility Commission with
the Texas Railroad
Commission, he said. Such an
entity would be administered by
three elected commissioners.
Health and Human Services
agencies could also be com-
bined, he said.
District 23 Representative-
elect, Craig Eiland, D-
Galveston, said the scope of
cuts needed to balance the $114
billion budget is heavy since
Just $60 billion is state general
funds that the Legislature can
affect, while the remainder is
federal funds.
"We've got to cut $10 billion
out of $60 billion, so that is a
significant reduction in expen-
ditures," Eiland said. "I'm not
optimistic about it being done."
Significant program cuts will
be difficult to make because of
worth considering because they back of taxpayers," Williams the need for services and the
seldom translate to long-term said. "I'm not at this point will- federal matching funds that
success, said Tommy Williams, ing to consider any tax would be lost if state money
District 4 Senator-elect, R-The increase." spent on a program such as
Medicare is trimmed.
"It's going to be a thousand
knicks perhaps,” he said.
much as $30,000.
However, city attorney
Richard Ferguson said Alltel is
required to reimburse the city
legal costs associated with
opposing the rate hike.
Also Monday, council voted
to change some wording in its
mobile home ordinance. The
city originally charged a $250
permit application fee to place a
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Funeral services will be at 10 Pansy Doris
a.m. Wednesday, January 15, “pgffjQjg” Kdlcy
Pansy Doris "Patricia” Kelley,
87, of Baytown, passed away,
the Lord, Sunday, January 12, Arrangements are entrusted to Sunday, January 12, 2003 at a
2003. Sterling White Chapel, 11011 local hospital. Arrangements are
She was born June 5, 1927 in Crosby-Lynchburg Rd., pending at Earthman Funeral
Flemington, West Virginia to Highlands, 281-426-3555. Home, Baytown, 281-422-8181.
John and Willie Griffith. Geneva www.sterlingwhitechapel.com
worked as a nurse’s aide for a
nursing home. She served in the
Army during the Korean
Conflict. Geneva enjoyed
needlepoint, collecting and
refinishing antiques, but most of
all spending time with her fami-
ly and especially her grandchil-
dren.
Geneva is preceded in death
by her husband of 32 years,
Rodger Aschenbrenner and one
brother, Curtis Griffith.
Geneva is survived by two
children, Dennis J.
Aschenbrenner, Sr. and wife
Sandy of Mont Belvieu; Denise
Zimmerman and husband John
of Houston; three grandchildren,
DJ. Aschenbrenner, Jr. of
Highlands; Beth Zimmerman of
Houston; Ross Zimmerman of
Houston; two great-granddaugh-
ters, Gwyneth Aschenbrenner of
Highlands; Destiny
Aschenbrenner of Highlands,
many other relatives and friends.
hazardous industrial waste. In Commissioners also renewed
the fourth quarter of 2002, the county’s $25,000 annual
Hayes said the incinerator contract with the Baytown/West
brought $156,471 in revenue. Chambers County Economic
Chambers County Development Foundation.
Commissioner Buddy Irby said County Judge Jimmy Sylvia
the county still needs Hayes’ said this was the fourth year the
services. contract has been renewed. The
“We have to have somebody Economic Development
out there trying to bring the Foundation works with the
business to us,” Irby said. county to bring new business to
The county will re-examine the area and increase tourism.
Hayes’ contract in six months. In addition, commissioners
Also Monday, commission- approved the purchase of 26 new
ers voted to abandon Old hand-held radios and four new
Wallisville-Houston Road. ambulance radios for the coun-
Property owner Jack White ty’s Emergency Medical
said he was glad to get the prop- Services.
erty the road occupies back into The radios, which cost a total
his possession. of $50,734, were paid for out of
“That property's been in the funds generated by a half-cent
possession of my family since sales tax designated for use by
the Mexican land grant,” he the county EMS.
said.
that means less money for the
state.
About $54.1 billion in state
money will be available for the
next budget, Strayhorn said,
down from the $61.5 billion in
the current spending plan. That
does not count federal money
and other revenue.
Rep. Talmadge Heflin, the
Houston Republican who’s
expected to be the next chairman
of the budget-writing
Appropriations Committee, is
among the GOP leaders who will
take over both chambers for the
first time since Reconstruction.
He, like others in his party,
Strayhorn has" said the"shortfall promised lawmakers would pass
would be $5 billion but increased a bud8et during the re8ular ses'
the projection when taxes from si°n without raising taxes. He
recent holiday sales were lower didn 1 mle out using the $1 bil-
than expected.
“Nobody said it was going to
be easy. And it’s just become
more difficult,” said Republican
Lt. Gov.-elect David Dewhurst.
“The focus should now be on
cutting spending.”
lion "Rainy Day Fund" to bal-
ance it.
"If I run out of money at home
in the middle of the month, I'm
not going out and hiring some-
body to cut the grass,” Heflin
said. “Even if I had somebody
The"slowdown in tax collec- cutting it before, I’ll go out and
A hiring freeze for state
employees and reductions or
more efficient spending in
schools and health care pro-
said. grams could help, he said. But
; are Democrats stand prepared to
block deep cuts to social services
and other programs.
“It's not like Texas is a big, fat
government handout state,” said
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