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30. One-time monetary unit
of Greece
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The reason stated in the letter
explained the following:
• the site is located in the city’s
ETJ, but not within the city’s
limits;
• the proposed development
may be located in the ETJ, but
will increase the value of the area
if the city chooses to annex the
area in the future;
• Clayton Homes is proposing
to maintain existing features that
are similar to the adjacent subdi-
vision. The developments in the
area consist or an open roadside
ditch drainage system;
• the adjacent subdivision to
the north consists of half-acre
lots with an open roadside ditch
drainage system;
• Brazoria Drainage District
No. 4 requires a minimum de-
tention rate of 0.65 acre-foot
ev-
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Home burglary
A home in the 1400 block of
Rosharon Road was burglarized
between 6 p.m., Feb. 26 and 2
p.m., March 4. The home was
also vandalized inside.
by the Alvin Police Department.
The city will provide police de-
partment equipment.
35. Serbian mythological demon
36. Bulgarian currency
37. Midway between south
and southeast
39. Makes sense
40. A way to single out
41. Criminal (slang)
42. Former Tigers third baseman
Brandon
44. Wobbled
45. Singapore’s second highest peak
46. Grossly overweight
47. Radioactivity units
48. Famed Spanish painter
51. Internet router algorithm
52. Expression of sorrow or pity
53. Druidic mother goddess
54. Electronic counter-
countermeasures
58. Midway between east and
southeast
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2. Canadian folk musician
3. Evergreen trees and shrubs
4. Meat from a pig (French)
5. Secretion
6. Quality of yielding nothing
of value
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8. Father
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25. Tooth caregiver
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34. Obsolete home-ent. device
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5. Walmart founder Walton
8. Los Angeles time zone
II. Gallantry
13. Early Supreme Court
justice Bartlett
14. One-time governor of MD
15. Act of imitating
16. Popular basketbailer Jeremy
17. Round Dutch cheese
18. S. American rodents
20. Comic opera “Princess__”
21. Commodities buyers and
sellers (slang)
22. Hovers
Breland wanted to be clear
that if council approved this, it
would set a precedence for oth-
er non-profit groups in the city
when they also request an exclu-
sive-use agreement with the city
type of homes that surrounded
this land. She said there is a
mixture of manufactured homes
on larger lots and single family
homes on smaller lots.
“It definitely fits in with the
surrounding area in lot size and
house type,” Segovia said.
During the meeting, a Clayton
Homes representative said there
would not be any manufactured
homes being constructed on the
lots.
Adame had noticed that the
City Planning Commission had
voted 7-2 to approve the two
variance requests at its Feb. 21
meeting. In the packet he re-
ceived from city staff, it didn’t
explain which City Planning
Commission members voted no
or their reason behind it.
911 call interference
Officers responded to the 2200
block of North Gordon Street in
regard to a physical disturbance
that occurred around 1:33 p.m.,
March 3. During the investiga-
tion it was determined that a
woman was the victim of an
interference with emergency
request for service. The report
showed that a 911 call was hung
up.
Thompson about this designa-
tion I thought it was a wonderful
idea and I’m so grateful it has
come to fruition.”
Murphy said she got the idea
to ask Thompson for help in
honoring her classmate because
of the admiration she had for
Tisdale.
“I went to school with Roy
since kindergarten. I don’t have
a lot of memories with him, but
after his tragic death I learned
what an amazing husband, fa-
ther, friend, soldier he had be-
come. If anyone is worthy of this
lasting tribute, it’s Lt. Col. Roy
Lin Tisdale. He is our hometown
hero,” she said.
Linda Tisdale, Tisdale’s moth-
Vehicles burglarized
A vehicle parked in the 1400
block of Victory Lane was
burglarized around 3:07 p.m.,
March 4.
A second vehicle parked in the
same block of Victory Lane was
burglarized around 4:36 p.m.,
March 4.
Alvin City Council have issued
proclamations supporting the
honorary designation being add-
ed to part of FM 1462.
Kim Hocott, who is executive
director of communications for
Pearland Independent School
District, agrees with the proc-
lamations and supports Thomp-
son’s effort in the statehouse.
“Roy and Kim were high
school classmates of mine. I
grew up close to FM 1462. It’s
such an honor for Representa-
tive Thompson to ask for this
designation in memory of Roy.
He was a wonderful person who
is dearly missed by his friends
and family.”
32. Beloved Cubs third baseman Ron
33. Shapes
38. Giants signal caller Manning
41. Moves all the way around
43. Babe Ruth retired as one
45. Relinquishing
48. Native religion in China
49. Not well
50. Fill with high spirits
55. In bed
56. Type of pet
57. Somewhere to go
59. Smaller quantity
60. Ingested
61. Singer and Jacobs are two
25. Having had one’s head cut off 62. Anger
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per acre for new development.
Clayton Homes has done an eco-
nomic feasibility study on the de-
velopment. Due to the 8.45 acres
needed for detention, the project
would be economically feasible
with one-acre lots and an open
roadside drainage system. The
project would not be economi-
cally feasible with half-acre lots
with a storm sewer system.
Councilman Gabe Adame
asked Segovia if the variance
was being requested to benefit
Clayton Homes only.
Segovia told Adame it would
be much easier to sell half-acre
lots than one-acre lots in that part
of the city’s ETJ. She added that
changing the lots from one acre
to half acre would now mean that
Brazoria County would be per-
mitting for septic tanks not wells.
meet the Alvin City Council
during its regular meeting at 7
p.m.
Aggor said the last session
will be quite hectic as the Al-
vin Upfront attendees will be
formally recognized for their
participation in the program by
councilmen. It’s a “graduation”
of sorts.
Among the directors who
have participated in the Alvin
Upfront sessions are Kendall
Hunting and Matt Cornell (Al-
vin Volunteer Fire Department);
John Covington and Christian
Greengrass (Alvin EMS); and
the Alvin Police Department.
and Moody was comparable
with the first session - admin-
istration with Finance Director
Junru Roland and City Man-
ager Sereniah Breland. Aggor
said there was a lot of back and
forth between the Alvin Upfront
attendees and the administra-
tion staff regarding questions
and answers during their Feb. 6
meeting.
The last Alvin Upfront ses-
sion will be with Economic
Development Director Larry
Buehler and Engineer Michelle
Segovia when they speaks to the
group, March 16. They will also
visit the Public Services Build-
ing and then later in the evening
also served in the Army for over
20 years and he still has such a
hard time processing loosing his
big brother. You see he is the one
that called me to tell me Roy Lin
had been killed. My husband
died back in 1991. I cry numer-
ous times each and everyday.
I had not seen my son in three
years and the day I buried him
was the day he and his family
were due at my house on vaca-
tion,” Linda said.
Tisdale’s two children are Me-
gan, who is currently a student
at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi,
and Roy, who is a junior in high
school.
Both the Brazoria County
Commissioners Court and the
er agreed with Murphy.
“My son was loved by
eryone and I think that
need to honor those that have
fought for out freedom. He did
numerous tours in Iraq and Af-
ghanistan and then come home
to be killed here is horrible. At
his funeral, hundreds of people
formed in 100- degree heat what
they called “The Maroon Wall”
to keep out the protesters that
were suppose to show up. This
as well as the people lining the
streets with flags and signs for
the funeral procession was all on
national news,” Linda said.
It was around 3:30 on June
28 of 2012 when Tisdale was
killed, according to news reports
fore they were to be dismissed
for a block leave for July 4th
holidays. He was behind the
staging area talking to some of
his people when this young man
came up behind him and start-
ing shooting him. There were no
other personnel in the hundreds
in the area with a weapon that
could have shot this guy before
unloading his gun with eight
shots into my son.”
Surviving the loss is tough on
the family, but they do strive on.
“We still have good days and
bad days. I know that Roy would
want us to be happy and make
the most out of each day and that
is what we try to do,” Kim said.
“I have one other son who
payment.
“What we are asking is that
(Sunrise Rotary) provide fund-
ing for security; we ask that they
contact Alvin PD first and if we
don’t have available people, that
they then contact Alvin Commu-
nity College, Brazoria County
Sheriff’s Office or Alvin ISD
peace officers and in return we
install concrete streets measuring
24 feet wide.
The second variance for new
subdivisions with roadside ditch
drainage systems is required to
have road rights-of-ways with
minimum widths of 70 feet.
Clayton Homes had requested
to be allowed to utilize a 60-foot
wide right-of-way for the portion
of Stonewall Road that crosses
the neighboring property from
CR 143 to the west boundary
line of the property planned for
platting.
“They would be basically
turning a dirt road into a con-
crete road in this portion of ac-
cess easement and leaving 60
foot wide instead of 70 foot wide
right-of-ways,” Segovia said to
councilmen. “It’s still adequate
for ditches in this location.”
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Sanger said he had heard
citizens from both sides saying
keeping lots “as large as pos-
sible” was best and then there
was the “value proposition,” as
he termed it.
“Then you have the other side
of the value proposition with be-
ing able to cut those (acres) up
and monetize them, which is go-
ing to provide a good economic
benefit (to the city) so I may ire
on the side of economic ben-
efit because that is something we
need,” Sanger said.
Councilmen Adam Arendell,
Keith Thompson and Brad Rich-
ards voted no, resulting in Mayor
Paul Hom casting the deciding
vote.
Hom voted yes and his only
input in the matter was when
he asked Segovia what were the
from the time.
He was the commander of the
525th Brigade Special Troops
Battalion. He had just given a
safety briefing to some of his
men near the unit’s headquar-
ters when a gunman appeared
and shot Tisdale. Tisdale was
42-years-old.
“I didn’t receive a lot of de-
tails that day,” Kim said. “My
complete focus went to my chil-
dren.”
“I did not find out until 5 hours
after he was killed. I had heard
of a soldier being killed at Fort
Bragg on TV, but had no idea
it was my son,” Linda said.
“He had just finished giving a
safety briefing to his troops be-
and the city discussed these is-
sues 46 days in advance.
“At 46 days, (non-profit
groups) have already budgeted
their money [in advance] and
now they’re stuck,” Thompson
said.
Councilman Chris Sanger
asked if an agreement to pay for
security by the city is exclusive
only to the Sunrise Rotary Club.
He was told that the city has gen-
erally waived the park and user
fees for every non-profit group
that use the parks in the same ca-
pacity for a festival.
Breland and a councilmen said
the amount of money paid for se-
curity varies and is mandated on
the amount of people that attend
the events. Breland said 18 APD
officers were hired to work the
music festival, which attracted
11,000 people. By comparison,
Steak of the Arts had only one
officer who was already working
a shift and didn’t warrant addi-
tional officers.
“It’s the crowd that mandates
how many officers you need,”
said Councilman Gabe Adame,
who admits the Steak of the Arts
event, hosted by the Alvin Noon
Lions Club, attracted far fewer
people than organizers expected.
One cost-cutting move that
was suggested by Adame for
events like these was paying law
enforcement officers through the
Alvin Police Officers Associa-
tion (APOA). It would come at
a lower rate.
“Whenever you’re paying
some of our officers, you’re also
paying for FICA, retirement,
benefits, so it’s more of a cost to
When Councilman Glenn
Starkey moved to approve the
item, he read a long account of
what the city was granting as a
result of passage.
“Council has taken into ac-
count the nature of the proposed
use of the land involved, the
existing use of the land in the
vicinity, the number of persons
who will reside or work in the
proposed subdivision, and the
probable effect of such varianc-
es upon traffic conditions; and
council finds no probable nega-
tive effect upon public health,
safety, convenience and welfare
in the vicinity,” Starkey said.
Adame and Councilmen Chris
Sanger also voted yes to the item
but not before Adame asked
Sanger for his real estate opinion
on this land’s “marketability.”
reimburse them for the amount
that they spent,” she said during
the council meeting.
Any reimbursements to the Al-
vin Sunrise Rotary Foundation
for security expenses will only
be for security services provided during council meetings. She
said it would be at the council’s
discretion on how the agreement
language would read in terms
of reimbursement for each non-
profit group until the end of this
fiscal year, which runs through
Oct. 1,2017.
Another part of the agreement
that Breland said was never en-
forced was the city receiving 10
percent of all revenue from non-
profit groups for their festivals.
According to the city, in 2009
the city council adopted an ordi-
nance authorizing the city to as-
sess park user fees (equal to 10
percent of gross revenue derived
from an event’s admission fees).
“To be very frank, it’s been on
the books but we’ve never actu-
ally carried it out,” Breland said.
Breland reiterated that these
two items - 10 percent and secu-
rity funding - were discussed in
2016 but that the council never
voted on it.
Councilman Keith Thompson
said for the council to act on this
a month and a half away and the
possibility for any non-profit
group to disagree with the city
on the status of paying for secu-
rity or even a 10 percent clause
was teetering on cancellation of
an event entirely.
Breland said she would do a
better job in the future to give
groups more time to organize.
She said the Sunrise Rotary Club
on the matter.
“That’s not what this is; I think
having data would work in our
advantage,” Sanger said to Ar-
endell.
Although Breland provided
“conservative” numbers when
the music festival is on and its ef-
fect on “heads in beds,” the data
wasn’t hard.
She said there has never been
a thorough study done during
these festivals and its economic
impact to the city. Breland told
councilmen all of the lodges lo-
cated in Alvin account for a to-
tal number of 294 rooms. There
was no way to assume that every
room in Alvin was occupied as a
result of a two-day festival but
she went and came out with a
figure anyway.
She multiplied $20 by every
attendee who went to the Music
Fest (11,000 total) and came out
with a figure, but again, it wasn’t
a true figure.
“Do we believe music fest is
beneficial to the community -
yes we do, can I tell you how
much dollars it bring in - I can-
not,” Breland said.
A suggestion was made to
perhaps give each person who
comes into the festival a survey
card but Adame shot down the
idea, saying people would not
thinking about filling out a sur-
vey when all they have is food
and music on their minds. He
said if a card was handed to him
upon entry into the festival, he
would throw it away.
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the city,” Breland said. “For me
to provide APD officers, it may
cost (up to) $11,000.”
She said doing it through the
APOA would be significantly
less - around $4,000 lower she
estimated for the music festival.
Councilman Adam Arendell
said the city has, and in his opin-
ion, would continue to pay vari-
ous costs associated with non-
profit groups putting on events
such as this one and Alvin Ro-
tary Club’s Frontier Days at Na-
tional Oak Park.
Arendell said he doesn’t see
why changes in paying for se-
curity have to be made. He also
alluded to other departments, be-
sides police, that are affected by
the city’s festivals.
“The grass is still going to get
mowed, the trash is still going to
get dumped,” he said.
He questioned why the coun-
cil was even discussing the issue
when many surrounding cities
don’t have parades, festivals, or
the hometown “Mayberry” feel.
“We’re spending a whole lot
of time arguing about destroy-
ing [the festival], in my opin-
ion,” Arendell said. “It would be
real smart to know that we had
10,000 (people) show up instead
of 1,200. It’s right.”
He brought this up because
Sanger wanted to see what was
the financial impact was by hav-
ing not only these festivals in the
city but also the monies the city
forks over to put them on.
Sanger, who was the lone
councilman to vote no on the
item during the meeting, dis-
agreed with Arendell’s opinion
Two vehicles along
Victory Lane burglarized
Firearm theft
A home located in the 1400
block of Rosharon Road had
a firearm stolen around 12:18
p.m., March 2.
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