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The Wylfe News
Devoted To The Best Interest Of Wylie Since 1947
Wylie, Collin County9 Texas
Volume 40, Ihhuc 12
Wednesday, September 2, 1987
Three Sections - 40 Pages
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The Wylie Pirates finished their scrimmage schedule last Friday night and are preparing foi
their first regular season game with Cedar Hill this Friday night. The Pirates are pre-season
favorites to win district according to the Harris poll.
9Pirates Open Season
At Cedar Hill Friday
The Wylie Pirates com-
pleted their scrimmage
schedule this past Friday
evening and will now ready
themselves for a trip to Cedar
Hill to do battle with an ex-
plosive Longhorn team. The
Pirates scrimmaged
Midlothian and Forney in
preparation for their season
opener.
No team really ever wins a
scrimmage contest. The pur-
pose of these practices-for
that is all they are--is to
discover areas which need im-
provement. This ultimately
allows a coaching staff to put
together the best squad
possible. The Pirates showed
flashes of their awesome of-
fensive potential at
Midlothian. Jason Brown
directed some nice drives and
demonstrated good running
and passing abilities. Several
Pirates had excellent runs,
but Dan Heischrnan ran 70
yards for Wy lie's first
touchdown. Later in the
scrimmage, Wade Womack
pulled in a pass from Brown
which covered eight yards for
the Pirates' only other score
of the evening.
Wylie played Forney
without the services of
Brown who suffered a hairline
fracture on the thumb of his
nonthrowing hand; however,
senior Darren Mayfield did a
nice job filling in and led the
Pirates to three touchdowns.
Dan Heischrnan once again
exploded with runs of 70 and
46 yards for scores. Aaron
Jones turned a broken play
into a 68 yard touchdown run
in which he picked up a loose
ball, reversed his field, and
raced untouched for the
score. The offensive line play
remained solid with strong
performances from Troy Hib-
bitts, Tony Pullen, and John
Hickman. Keith Hart,man did
a commendable job filling in
for an injured Tommy Wink.
Curtis Herrera returned to
his tight end position and
blocked extremely well.
Both the freshman and JV
squads competed well against
Forney and Midlothian. The
freshman yielded a
touchdown against the Pan-
thers while the JV has yet to
be scored upon. The freshman
Pirates will play Cedar Hill at
6:00 on Thursday and will be
followed by the JV game
around 8:00.
Cedar Hill will be attemp-
ting to avenge a 22-0 defeat
last year at the hands of the
Pirates. The Longhorns
return six offensive and six
defensive regulars from last
year's squad which finished
4-6. They compete in what
might be the toughest AAAA
district in the entire state.
Both Wilmer-Ilutchins and
Corsicana are rated in the top
ten in all of the preseason
polls. Cedar Hill has tremen-
dous athletes at the skill posi-
tions. Junior Byron Geter
heads up a strong receiving
corps which also includes
•returning starters Bert
Milner and John Quesenbury.
Continued On Pr-rc 2
Owner Of Mobile Home Park
Meets With Council Over
Water And Sewer Service
The Wylie City Council met
in regular session on Tuesday
evening, August 25, 1987.
Joined by city staff, Code En-
forcement officer Roy Faires,
City Engineer Ron Homeyer
and Director of Public Works
Don White, and Acting City
Manager James Johnson,
council met developer Roger
Finholt head on.
Finholt is the developer of
the Lake Ray Hubbard
Mobile Home Park located at
the south end of FM 544 and
Vinson Rd. The park was
slated to open spring of 1987
but important issues like
water and sewer service re-
main in question. Finholt's
presence Tuesday night was
to address these problems
and request council to ap-
prove the park's opening.
Finholt, who requested the
city to annex the property
two years ago, had met with
former city manager Gus
Pappas at pre-development
meetings, which according to
Finholt were tape recorded.
According to Finholt, Pappas
assured him that the city
would provide sewer service
and water service to the park.
Finholt explained that Pap-
pas had told him that the
sewer line would come up to
the rear of the property and
consequently, Finholt
secured a 50 feet easement to
accomodate the line.
Finholt insisted that
throughout the construction
of the park, in weekly conver-
sa! /ns with Pappas, he was
assured that the city was
working on the sewer line and
that sanitary sewer would be
provided. Finholt also stated
that Pappas backed up the
promise saying that if
necessary, the city would
pump and haul the sewage
from holding tanks. Finholt
also stated that Pappas had
quoted him that his lift sta-
tion fees would be a $125 per
lot or $28,000.
Currently there is still no
sewer line to the property and
City Engineer Ron Homeyer
explained to council that the
route now being engineered,
at the advice of engineering
firm CH2M-Hill, follows FM
544. Finholt said that he did
not know of the change in
plans until June and that he
was still assuming the city
would be putting in the line.
However, as pointed out by
Councilman Chris Ditotq, ac-
cording to the city's Mobile
Home Park Ordinance, the
developer is required to in-
stall necessary sewer lines.
Finholt maintained that the
ex-city manager, Pappas told
him that the sewer line would
be run to the rear of the pro-
perty and that if he had
known otherwise he would
have put it in. Ditota quoted
from the minutes of the May
14, 1985 city council meeting
where Pappas and Finholt
In this weeks special
sports tabloid the picture
of the varsity volleyball
team is missing due to a
photographic mishap.
Their picture will appear
in the regular paper at a
later date.
were both present. Pappas
addressed council and stated
the terms of the ordinance
clearly, that the necessary
sewer lints were the respon-
sibility of the developer and
would be installed at the
developers expense.
Councilman Ditota con-
tinued, "Whatever former ci-
ty manager may have promis-
ed verbally is not the issue, it
is the ordinances of the City
of Wylie that must be follow-
ed.
"I am very opposed to any
further pumping and hauling
of sewage in the City of Wylie
and would not want to go
before the Texas Water Com-
mission to request more of
this when they have given us
strong orders to discontinue
this type of activity."
Councilman Crane on the
otherhand stated that in his
opinion the city is not
without blame and he en-
couraged Finholts counsel to
approach Texas Water Com-
mission and Texas Depart-
ment of Health to work out
an agreement to pump and
haul the sewage.
Represented by attorneys,
Stanley Knight and Jimmy
Alan Hall a proposal was
made to council that Finholt
was willing to contract with a
private company to have the
sewage pumped and hauled at
his own expense until the
force main could be com-
pleted, which he estimated
would take about 90 days.
Through his attorneys,
Finholt also proposed that
council set a limit to the
number of mobile homes that
could be moved into the park
at 50, until the sanitary sewer
could be completed.
There was a great deal of
discussion regarding whether
or not council had the
authority to permit another
pump and haul site. Wylie is
under an enforcement order
passed down by the Texas
Water Commission. Sewage
from Lake Ray Hubbard
Mobile Home Park would
have to be hauled 2.2 miles to
a Stone Rd. manhole. The en-
forcement order also limits
the quantity of sewage that
the city may pump to 9,000
gallons a day and while the ci-
ty is currently under the limit
according to Johnson, the
figures used by Knight do not
take into account wet
weather and other factors.
Mayor Pro Tem Sandra
Donovan calculated that 11
mobile homes would bring
the city to the limits of the en-
forcement order. Homeyer of-
fered that 350 gallons of
sewage is generated per unit,
per day and when the park
reaches capacity, 75,000
gallons of sewage will need to
be processed per day.
According to Johnson, not
only is the city restricted by
the Texas Department of
Health and the Texas Water
Commission from pumping
and hauling but the city does
not have the trucks or man-
power to keep up with need of
the park. Attorney Hall of-
fered a number of reasons
why TWC could not enforce
the city's enforcement order
towards the park, but Coun-
cilman Cal Westerhof ex-
plained in no uncertain terms
that, "We're in a tremendous
mess as a city. As a council
we're trying to resolve pro-
blems, not create more. When
the state says to do this, we
need to do it. I'm getting
frustrated with this, trying to
work our way around the
state." Hall accepted the
responsibility of working
things out with the state.
Other concerns were voiced
by Ditota regarding whose
responsibility it would be if
there was a spill. The TWC
order prohibits spills. City
Attorney Robert Dillard ad-
vised council that the truck
Continued On Page 2
Community School Set
Tax Rate At $1.10
The Nevada School board
met in regular session
August 24, 1987 before an au-
dience of approximately 250
interested taxpayers.
The business at hand was to
set the tax rate and school
budget. Like other Collin
County School districts,
Community faces a loss in
valuation of $14 million
dollars and loss of approx-
imately $100,000 in state
funds.
The board had addressed
the challenge of balancing the
budget during an open
workshop earlier August. Ap-
proximately 50 interested
people attended the work ses-
sion according to school
board president Terry Pope.
At that meeting, some
budget cuts were made but
the board shaved another
$10,000 - $15,000 from the ex-
penditures during Monday
nights meeting.
The approved three million
budget represents a $200,000
increase over last year. Ac-
cording to Pope the budget
decision left no one complete-
ly satisfied but everyone com-
mitted to making it work.
On the revenue side the
board set the tax rate at
$ 1.10 and will dip into reserve
funds to lessen the impact on
taxpayers.
According to Pope the effec- •
tive tax rate had been
calculated at $1.31 and could
have gone as high as $1.41
without a roll back.
Pope also stated that the
board answered a lot of the
questions raised by tax-
payers at the July meeting
The questions covered a
broad range of subjects
besides budget and tax
issues.
"I'm hoping," said Pope,
"since the tax rate is set, peo-
ple will pull together and
make it work."
The next regular school
board meeting is scheduled
September 28. It is held at
the Community High School
library at 7:30 p.m.
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