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News
Chamber president
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Sports
Lady Dawgs now
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Index
Police Blotter......Page 3A
Texas History......Page 4A
Coffee Talk........Page 4A
Cove Living.......Page 6A
Sports ...........PagelB
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Vol. 117, No. 95
Copperas Cove
Leader-Press
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Photo by LEE LETZER
An unidentified Copperas Cove runner picks up yardage
against Abilene in a scrimmage last week. The Bulldawgs
play for keeps tonight when they travel to College Station
to take on former district foe A&M Consolidated. Kickoff is
7:30 p.m.
Sports Spectacular
inside today’s edition
The annual Sports The section also features photos
Spectacular, with stories, and names from other CCHS groups,
schedules and photos from such as the band, Copperettes and
the Copperas Cove High cheerleaders.
School teams, is inside Grab a copy of the Sports Spec-
today’s edition of the tacular as the Dawgs compete in a
Leader-Press. new but familiar district this year.
Hurricane Isaac steers clear
of direct hit on New Orleans
Hurrican Isaac’s predicted path now has it turning east instead of
west and into Texas.
By CAIN BURDEAU
And MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Associated Press
GULFPORT, Miss. - Hurricane
Isaac sidestepped New Orleans on
Wednesday, sending the worst of its
howling wind and heavy rain into a
cluster of rural fishing villages that had
few defenses against the slow-moving
stonn that could bring days of unend-
ing rain.
Isaac arrived exactly seven years
after Hurricane Katrina and passed
slightly to the west of New Orleans,
where the city's fortified levee system
easily handled the assault.
The city's biggest problems
seemed to be downed power lines,
scattered tree limbs and minor flood-
ing. Just one person was reported
killed, compared with 1,800 deaths
from Katrina in Louisiana and Missis-
sippi. And police reported few prob-
lems with looting. Mayor Mitch Lan-
drieu ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew
just to be sure.
But in Plaquemines Parish, a
sparsely populated area south of the
city that is outside the federal levee
system, dozens of people were strand-
ed in flooded coastal areas and had to
be rescued. The stonn pushed water
See ISAAC, Page 5A
Council
lowers
tax rate
slightly
By LYNETTE SOWELL_
Staff writer
During the second of two public hear-
ings Tuesday night, the Copperas Cove city
council opened the floor for individuals to
speak out about the proposed 2012-2013
budget and property tax rate.
Peg Fleet, former Copperas Cove
library director, spoke out again against the
budget cuts which directly affect the library.
The city’s plan cuts more than 10 percent of
funds for staffing. The proposed library
budget for operating expenditures and
appropriations for the 2012-2013 fiscal year
is $433,730, down from $535,581 expendi-
tures and appropriations in fiscal year 2010-
2011, and $510,482 for the current year.
“I don’t see this changing,” said Fleet
in a phone conversation Thursday with the
Leader-Press. “There was also an action
item Tuesday night that included the per-
sonnel plan for next year and included those
cuts.” Currently, the library has no director,
with the position being vacated by Margaret
Handrow with her retirement in February
2012.
“I don’t think it’s a good thing, not for
our city and not for the service to our com-
munity,” said Fleet. “I hope that my speak-
ing up will at least draw the public’s atten-
tion to this. All the information I have
comes from the city’s budget proposals and
past budgets.”
Fleet lives in Kempner and thus doesn’t
pay city taxes that would benefit the library.
There was no one to speak out during
the hearing about the city’s proposed prop-
erty tax rate of 76 cents per $100 of
assessed property valuation. The rate is 0.36
cents lower than the current rate, but it will
generate about $128,000 more, bringing the
city’s total revenue to about $8.9 million.
Part of that tax revenue, about 19.11
cents per $100 of property valuation, will
generate about $2.1 million that will go
toward the city’s debt.
The council has its next regular meet-
ing at 6 p.m. Tuesday, when it will make a
final decision on the tax rate.
School board
approves tax
rate, budget
By LYNETTE SOWELL_
Staff writer
The Copperas Cove Independent
School District Board of Trustees voted
Tuesday night to approve the district’s
budget and property tax rate for the new fis-
cal year.
The unanimous vote adopted the 2012-
13 budget which includes $77.5 million in
revenue, as well $77.5 million in expenses.
This includes $2.2 million for student
transportation, $1.5 million for facilities
construction and $4.7 million for debt serv-
ices payments. The majority of the budget,
about 80 percent, goes to staffing and
salaries.
The budget was the result of months of
planning and deliberation by the board,
which approved bridging the budget short-
fall by using about $1.6 million of the dis-
trict’s fund balance. The district faced the
second year of state funding cuts to the tune
of $4 million. Besides using part of the
fund balance, the board approved an incen-
tive for employees to give early notice of
resignation. In the end, four positions were
cut from the employee roster, with only one
of those not securing another job in CCISD.
In addition to approving the CCISD
budget, the board also approved a total
property tax rate of $1.21 per $100 of
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