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Thursday, April 5, 1990
Page 2
Opinion
Legislators open
special session in
By Lvndell Williams
Texas Press Assn.
AUSTIN - Legislators rested
briefly as yet another special ses-
sion ended in failure, then re-
turned this week to make another
attempt to reform public school
hnanct.igand received a welcome
reprieve on court reform.
A federal appeals court, acting
on its own initiative, told state
lawmakers to take their time in
making any changes in the way
Texas elects district judges in
nine urban counties.
The 5th U S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in New Orleans said the
state would not be put under any
pressure to change its system of
selecting judges “until this court
has finally disposed of this
appeal” on the merits of the case
Back Burner Issue
After the court’s announce-
ment, Sen. John Montford, D-
Lubboek, said, “The pressure
cooker valve has been opened
and the steam is gone. We’re
pushing it to the back burner.”
This 30-day session will expire
May 1, the deadline the Texas
Supreme Court has ordered for
equalizing public school finance.
Gov Bill Clements repeated
his no-new-taxes warning, and
promised to keep lawmakers in
session beyond May 1, if neces-
sary.
But Democratic leaders con-
tinued to ignore Clements’ warn-
ing, and also waved off the threat
of the closing of public schools
before the end of the semester.
The Supreme Court can close
public schools across Texas on
May 2 if the Legislature doesn’t
abide by its court order, but the
leadership isn’t overly nervous,
explaining they believe the court
will recognize good faith efforts.
Unspoken is the awareness
that several high court justices
are also up for election, and may
feel an angry backlash if they
close the schools near the semes-
ter’s end
Hobby Blames Mosbacher
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby blamed the
Department of Human Services’
<334 million deficit on its chair-
man, Rob Mosbacher, Jr., and ac-
cused the agency of misleading
the Legislature last year with arti-
ficially low projections of case-
loads.
Mosbacher, a Republican
candidate to replace Hobby as
lieutenant governor, said the
Democratic leader’s remarks
were designed to help Mos-
bacher’s opponent, Democrat
Bob Bullock.
Turning to the school finance
crisis, Hobby predicted senators
will pass a <1.2 billion education
bill and called for a tax increase to
cover equalization and the DHS
deficit.
House Needs 10 Days
Speaker Gib Lewis said House
members could resolve their part
of the school finance problem in
the first 10 days of the new ses-
sion, and Ways and Means chair-
man James Hury predicted the
plan would include a half-cent
sales tax hike against the gov-
ernor’s wishes.
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Kent
Grusendorf, R-Arlington, said he
Bv Laura Simank
As I See It
Friends, we are on the threshold of a real crisis, not only community
wide but state wide. If the Texas Legislature does not come to an
agreement, that the Governor won’t kill with his veto power, in the next
25 days or less, there will be no public schools open for our kids to go to.
I don’t know what the answer is. It probably can be remedied by
higher taxes. Somehow, higher taxes is the only way that government
has of solving any problem, but no matter what is done, it had better be
soon.
I’m not sure of what started this Edgewood vs. Kirby thing except that
someone thought their kids were not getting as good an education as
some others because another district had more money, and as the
trickle effect came into play now several years later, the end result is
that the kids in Aransas Pass (most of whom never heard of Edgewood
and think that Kirby is a vacuum cleaner) may not be able to finish this
school year.
It is time to call your legislator in Austin, write him a letter and make
the same call with copies of the letter to the Governor, Lt. Governor and
Speaker of the House. It is time to remind them that they need tocome to
an agreement quickly. It is going to be hard for them to do that since it is
an election year and politicians get very nervous during election years,
becoming even less decisive than usual.
In the meanwhile, it will be very important for the community to
understand that the decisions being made by the school district admi-
nistrators are decisions that are in the best interest of the students. It is
easy for us to be experts and tell them how to handle this situation, but
we are not trained as they are and we are not sitting in their hot seat.
They need our support and encouragement.
Some things are going to have to be eliminated from the students’
lives. There may not be any football in the fall, worse yet there may not
be any school in the fall!! For the remainder of the school year there will
be some cuts of expenditures that are not absolutely necessary. This
may cause some inoonvenienoe, but we must try to understand.
While you are calling your legislator, why not take a minute to call
your school superintendent and/ or members of the school board and let
them know that you understand their frustration. Let them know that
you are aware of the tough decisions they will have to make. It might
make their hot seats easier to endure since this situation is very likely to
get a lot worse before it gets better.
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“could support a tax bill if it
funded something meaningful for
education.” He is opposed in the
general election by Kay Taebel of
Arlington.
The trick to getting a tax bill
past the governor is to pass it
early, allowing enough time to
override it with a two-thirds vote
in both houses. However, 50
House votes or 11 Senate votes
can sustain the veto.
The seven Republicans in the
Senate can not stop an override if
voting breaks along party lines.
There are 60 Republicans in
the House, including Grusendorf,
but his statement signals GOP
strength could be diluted to allow
an override, which didn’t endear
him to Clemen's.
The Political Trail
On the campaign trail, Attor-
ney General Jim Mattox said he
has “sufficient information” to
believe that state Treasurer Ann
Richards used illegal drugs at the
time she was a 46-year-old
elected official who was sworn to
uphold the law.
Ten years ago, Richards was 46
and a Travis County commis-
sioner.
The Mattox accusation drama-
tically reopened the question of
Ricahrds’ past drug use, and GOP
nominee Clavton Williams apolo-
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CITY COUNCIL
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gized for his first biggaffe, a camp-
fire joke comparing bad weather
to rape and saying, “If it’s inevit-
able, just relax and enjoy it.”
Richards called it typical Mat-
tox low-down tactics and went
about her business of touring the
state to get out her runoff vote.
“I think Mattox is a desperate
man,” Richards said. “I think he
must have had a bad poll come
back ”
Former Texas Secretary of
State Jack Raines and Harris
County Judge Jon Lindsey criti-
cized Agriculture Commissioner
John Hightowner as a profession-
al politician who does not have
the backing of farmers and ran-
chers.
They endorsed his opponent,
state Rep. Rick Perry.
Other Highlights
• A bankrupt gun store partly
owned by Speaker Lewis owes the
state more than <24,000 in delin-
quent sales taxes. Aides to Lewis
said the taxes will be paid, “even if
the stockholders have to pay
them out of their own pockets.”
• Texas ranks fourth
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,
This letter is in regard to the
“compromise” that we made with
Mr. Gray. To be quite honest with
you, I feel that Mr. Gray was tre-
ated unfairly. We sat there telling
this man that he has to give the
city 20 feet of his own land to the
city before he can build his
garage.
This man does not have to
Dear Sir,
On behalf of the congregation
of the First United Methodist
•Churoh, we would like to express
our sincere gratitude to the Aran-
sas Pass and Ingleside fire depart-
ments.
The terrible fire that so dam-
aged our building would have
GIVE the city anything for free.
And to sit there and say otherwise
makes me sick! I think people
forget what makes a city. WAKE
UP! It is the PEOPLE that live
here and put their trust in our
government. Mr. Niel Simmons
told me that it was good business.
Good business, GIVE ME A
BREAK! That is not good busi-
ness , I think it is outright stealing.
been much worse had it not been
for the rapid and efficient re-
sponse of these two units.
The Aransas Pass unit was on
the scene within minutes of the
first report. The Ingleside unit
had just completed a call in their
area when they picked up the re-
port of our fire on the radio. Their
Did anyone stop to think that if
we would have nbt tiled to take
Mr. Gray’s 20 feet, which in the
first place is WRONG, and let him
build his garage, that when IF
ever the road was built, that Mr.
Gray would be willing to grant us
the land. But instead we force the
issue, and in return we try to take
something that does not even be-
long to us.
response was immediate.
This prompt action and the
skill of these unselfish men at the
scene quickly contained the fire
and kept the building from sus-
taining much greater damage.
Words can never express the
thanks and appreciation we have
for these men.
Councilman James Voss
The Board of Trustees
Ralph Smith, Pastor
First United Methodist Church
P.S. What great things could be
accomplished for this area with
the same feeling of mutuality and
common cause exhibited by
these men at this fire, in all or
inter-city relationships.
Good work skills mean better productivity
By Juliet K. Wenger
Coastal Bend Council
of Governments
Improving the quality of skills
of the work force in the Coastal
Bend is moving further to the fore
as an issue vital to economic sur-
vival. More and more men and
women in supervisory positions
are finding their production can-
not be the best possible unless the
workers at all levels have voca-
tional skills, read with under-
standing, write with clarity and
figure with accuracy.
When the work force is below
average, it means the local manu-
facturers and providers of ser-
vices cannot turn out the amount
and quality of product that com-
petitors can with a skilled work
force. Today local business is not
competing only with neighbors
who have the same handicap.
Competition today is in a world
market.
What do you do? First, you look
at your existing educational sys-
tem from as many angles as possi-
ble One look was taken at the
system in the Coastal Bend at an
educational summit held in Cor-
pus Chrlsti. Some of the nation’s
largest corporations sent repre-
sentatives to exchange informa-
tion with educators and business-
men and women of this region.
The educators heard first hand
what the businesses have to have
if they are going to keep this coun-
try in a leading position economi-
cally, and that it is economically
that nations are winning or losing
leadership today. Business lead-
ers and some parents heard what
support educators say they must
have to bring up the level at which
the labor force can function.
The COG had worked as part of
a task force organizing the sum-
mit for four months. It works also
with every other grouping of peo-
ple looking for new inroads to
enabling education. There are
many people involved in this
effort.
Community colleges and uni-
versities are among them. They
are doing remedial work and re-
vising programs, using high tech
methods, to train in specific skills
at the same time that the whole
person is being educated to think
and to reason.
Job training programs are
working with school age residents
and older men and women, trying
to find ways to motivate, to open
the mind to accommodate a pro-
cess of learning.
Literacy councils are training
volunteers to sit down, one on
one, and teach people to read and
in that process, hopefully to find
their potential for innovativeness
as well as following instructions
methodically. Sadly, in many in-
stances volunteers oome eagerly
and learn to teach, but illiterates
do notappear aaking to be taught.
Industries are doing their own
training. Scientists are working
rapidly in new areas, particularly
that of how the brain works, how
we learn and what stimulates us
to want to walk through doors
suddenly open to us.
The COG is working with all of
these entities, providing informa-
tion and technical assistance.
The Economic Development
Administration has indicated
that it will continue to make avail-
able a planning grant for another
year to enable the COG to assist
local government and private in-
terests to resolve economic prob-
lems and improve their economy.
One of the most important ele-
ments of that grant is capacity
building and upgrading and re-
training the labor force to make it
possible to diversify the economy
and advance it to levels that re-
quire intelligence and skill. Only
on that level can the economy
offer the kind of jobs that pay
people enough to suppornihem-
selves, their families, and taxes so
they can contribute fully to a
democratic process.
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