Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 68, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 23, 1980 Page: 1 of 12
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girls 40 years her junior. Here in her full dress
costume, which she made herself, she dances a
fast - paced Tahitian dance for the residents of the
Autumn Hills Convalescent Center. (Staff Photo)
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THE SIGNAL - - Carolyn Gaston, representing she and Don O’Pry of
Meekins Supermarket, accepts a fire settlement check from insurance
company representative Robert Bowen in payment for the total loss in the
June 1 fire This transaction signaled the start of the move for construction
' of a new and large modern supermarket at the Hanson - Travis location.
Blue prints are expected to be finished very soon and then start of
construction. Target date for opening is during February of 1981.
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more than an acre of land in Tarkington Pr________
became a pit in 1962. The carrier who dumped the
waste in the pit was to cover it and bury the waste.
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has hosted since 1969, has become an
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area teachers are invited to come by taxes,
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A 15 member Home Rule Char-
ter Study Committee has been named
by Cleveland Citv Council.
Members of the study committee
were selected through joint nomina-
tion and study between the five
member city council and Mayor Quay
Nicklow.
Named to the committee were:
Wendell Kelly, a local contrac-
tor; Madelyn Kennedy, local business
woman; T. A. Boothe, former Cleve-
land city manager; Ray Bounds,
longtime Cleveland auto dealership
officer; Joe Roark, a Tanglewood
resident and forest industry em-
ployee. -E.
Also Tommy Scott, member of
the Cleveland Housing Authority
Board; Gene Campbell; local con-
crete contractor; Kerry Getter, a
bank officer; Don Gardner, bank
officer; Earl Wood, bank officer;
Bonnie Coe, businesswoman and tax
consultant; Loretta McKinney,
business woman and club worker;
Minnie Penny. bank officer; Richard
Boyett, restaurant owner; and
Mineola McGowan, longtime civic
worker.
Maor Nicklow suggested at the
time of the appointments that the
charter be written in plain language
so that additions or changes can be
made later by a vote of the people
The 15 member committee will
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dominate hearing
Trustee Bernest Mitchell made the motion and Trustee Glen “Bubba”
Toler seconded the motion to approve the proposed $4 7 Million Cleveland
ISD 1980 81 school budget aS recommended by Superintendent Bobby
Wood.
Voting for the motion following the public hearing in the Junior High
Cafeteria were trustees Mitchell, Toler, and Mary Jane Taff.
Board President Tommie Daniel broke what would have been another
tie vote bn the issue.
Incidentally, Daniel’s voting on the issue is consistent with his
announced policy upon assuming the presidency last spring, that he would
vote on every issue coming before the board.
During the public hearing President Daniel was questioned as to
whether he had any feelings of conscience voting for the pay raises when his
wife, a school teacher, was one of the recipients.
In an emotional exchange between Mrs. Faye Tuttle on the floor, Mrs.
Daniel, also on the floor and the board president, Mrs. Daniel indicated that
she would refuse to accept the raise if it presented difficulties. The
remainder of the board snowed no indication it would accept such a
forfeiture of official pay.
During the public hearing the board heard a wide range of questions
and comments from more than 50 citizens.
Other questions ranged from asking why the school administration had
not provided more specific information for budget study to the observation
that comparison of districts for spending budgets is not valid because each
district has a different tax base and some districts are wealthier than
others This was a suggestion for the district to "live within its means.”
School teachers defending both the proposed raises and the
superintendent, citizens and board members complaining about the lack of
leadership by the superintendent and a variety of questions concerning what
is done with maintenance money in the district set the mood of the public
hearing.
A key point in public hearing came when Trustee Bernest Mitchell
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filling the pit with waste, that carrier left the land for
the owner in this condition. (Staff photo)
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Following" the Aug. 14 public
hearing on an intent to increase taxes,
four members of the five man New
Caney ISD School Board voted
unanimously to adopt a tax increase
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For the ninth straight year, sessions devoted to the budget, City A series of articles about the
Cleveland’s city council adopted a Manager Thurmond stressed that his budget, by department has appeared
budget for the coming fiscal year that goals were to maintain current city in the Advocate in recent editions
did notinclude any increase in city services efficiently, raise salaries of Only a few of the itemsand depart
taxes. • city personnel by eight per cent and mental totals received significant
This action came Tuesday night still not increase taxes.changes
following a series of meetings on the The budget as adopted calls for a ■ The budget in its finalIform will
budget where Mayor Quay Nicklow, total estimated budget of $3,237,414 appear soon In the Advocate
the council and City Manager James for the period of Oct. 1, 1980 to Sept Other items addressed at the
Thurmond studied the detailed, line - 30,1981. same meeting include Awarding of
item proposed budget, paring, trim- < As pointed out by Thurmond, bids to Pump and Power Equipment
ming and altering costs toachieve the should property appraisals exceed the Cd. of Houston for $8,749 of pumps and
.goal of not having to increase city current estimates, then the city’s . '
taxes taxing rate would actually be lower-
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School Board president Fred
Wagenfuhr reported that the board
agr -ed to adopt an increase of two
: cents, raising taxes from the present
evaluation rate of $1.60 to81,62.., am ■ - ■ ■ ■ ...
ei School budget .
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blame for the increase. “Without the The Cleveland school board public hearing on a tax increase of 14 .
new taxing program being put on our Tuesday night following a public arid one- half cents to support it. *■
budget, we could have reduced our hearing approved a $4,723,822 budget The new budget is $605,166 MB
budget,” said Wagenfuhr.. and set the wheels in motion for a higher than last year’s planned ex- 2
penditures. SiP
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a _ mem mefe - I ‘costs. Of the $4.7 Million budget a
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mo umimauna mmmamm ' crease came in the instructional costs
CT WOSTC dUmp . jx Is UP 8264,683 over the previous .
. This is due to a blanket raise of
All contents of the chemical ing will be called with the "genera- $90 per month for personnel with "a
waste dump in Tarkington Prairie tors” of the waste; the companies masters degrees and $80 per month
have been identified,. reports Clar- who created the chemical waste for bachelor degree personnel, plus
ence Johnson, of the Texas Depart- which was dumped in 1962 . general raises across the board for all
ment of Water Resources. Before clean - up of the pit can other employees and administrative
"There are two basic wastes in occur the ways of means of doing so personnel. These raises come from
the pit,” says Johnson, “.various, the responsibility and the.costs must local tax funds. The rest of the
substitute phenols and long chain be determined. • personnel raises were awarded by
a alcohols, about 20 compounds of the State.
" each;” The meeting itself is not sche- Another major item in the new
According to Johnson, the doled at this time and cannot be until budget is plant, services. Plant Ser- mE m
appropriate wells near the pit have the test results from the well samples vices in the new budget calls for GBomammmmA
been tested and the department is come in expenditure of $737,634 This is w !■ 1
waiting now on the test results of. Johnson says he believes those $123,760 above last year’s budget for """
those samples results will be in his office by mid • 1979 - 80. However $95,100 of this
Following those results, a meet- September See School Budget, Page 12 MJVMAI ‘
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