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Volume 71, No. 290
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Tuesday, October 5,1993
Baytown, Texas 77520
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Bond proposals to be developed
By Amit Z. Baruch
of The Baytown Sun
Goose Creek trustees Monday
agreed to prepare lists of community
representatives to serve on a steering
committee and three separate commit-
tees to develop proposals for an
upcoming bond election.
The committees will each address
different areas the school board would
like to target with the bond funds —
including renovations, new facilities
and technology. The steering commit-
Goal:
$1,400,000
As of Oct. 1
UrritaufVMu $650,032
tee will oversee the overall project.
“The first step (in bond elections) is
to appoint committees to provide
insight and make recommeridationc,”
said Dr. Harry Griffith, school super-
intendent. “It is very important to work
with citizen groups for their advice.”
The board intends to have a broad
cross section of the community repre-
sented on these committees.
“We’ve got to touch all the folks and
include everyone,” said Edward L.
Hildebrand, board president. “Because
it takes a concerted effort to convince
the community we really need these
things.”
Hildebrand added the committees
will also have to promote the bond
election because state statutes prohibit
the use of school funds for promotion.
School funds, including materials and
work hours, can only be used to explain
the issue and not promote it.
“How big wifi the committees be?”
asked Trustee Rick Trout. He added
that it is easy for members to get lost in
large committees of 70-80 people.
““We should keep it as small as
possible,” suggested Trustee Jim Jef-
frey. ,
“We’ll build as big a committee as
you bring in names,” Hildebrand
replied, suggesting that such commit-
tees have a potential to grow in size as
the work becomes more detailed.
Griffith agreed with that position and
explained the 1992 bond study which
trustees are using as a jumping-off
point, required about 800 school per-
sonnel hours and 1,200 hours combined
from committee members.
span of several months,” Griffith said,
explaining that committees might need
to be large because the work commit-
ment that is involved.
Griffith suggested the board appoint
committee chairmen and co-chairmen
with the authority to add more people
to the committee as they need.
School board members will prepare
their lists this week and present them to
Hildebrand for review by Monday’s
“They did about a year’s work in the' regularly scheduled board meeting.
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Pholo by Carrie Pryor Newman
Stephen, Hugo and Megan Davis are among clients at the Bay
The Baytowo Sun Area Rehabiltiation Center, a United Way agency.
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Therapy for children with disabilities
Editor's note: This is the third in a weekly
series of stories about United Way agencies.
Bay Area Rehabilitation Center (BARC) pro-
vides physical, occupational and speech therapy
services for children with disabilities.
The center also provides day care as well as
before and after school day care.
BARC woiks with children with mild and se-
vere problems. Other services offered by the cen-
ter include an infant-parent swim grdup, an arthri-
tis swim group and recreational swimming for
children and adults.
Pasadena and Clear Lake branches of BARC
provides services to children in those areas.
“We are continuing to schedule seven new
clients a week and funds "from the United Way
help this agency meet the Increasing needs of the
children and families in our community,” Suzanne
Cates,, interim director, said.
\ report front the Texas Council on Earl fife-
tervention listed BARC as the lowest cost per
client program in the state.
In 1992. the center served 369 clients, an in-
crease pf more than 3 percent from the previous
year.
At the same lime, the number of employees at
the center remained close to 1991 levels.
Consequently, staff members have had to per-
form a number of different functions in addition to
their regular duties.
Also in 1992, with the help of volunteers,
BARC moved into a new facility.
By Elizabeth Froehlich
of The Baytown Sun
Mary Sitarski had her chance
to go to Russia, and is glad she
didn’t. On the other hand, her
twin sister Margaret Tipton
boarded the plane Friday and is
now in Moscow.
The sisters, who arc the
daughters of retired Baytown
math teacher Viola Lannou, arc
both teachers in the Channel-
view school district.
Tipton, a math instructor, had
been chosen by the People to
People Citizens Ambassador
Program and the National Coun-
cil of Teachers of Mathematics
to spend two weeks in Russia to
attend a math conference and to
teach math in classrooms. Each
person selected to go was allow-
ed to invite another teacher, and
Tipton chose her sister, Sitarski,
who is a computer literacy
instructor.
In all, 97 U.S. teachers were
set to make the trip for the first
week, with 54 staying a second
week.
Tipton, 42, arrived at the
Cosmo Hotel in Moscow Satur-
day afternoon. Sitarski said the
family heard from Tipton Mon-
day and she was unaware of the
battle taking place at the Rus-
sian parliament building.
Boris Yeltsin Monday was
victorious as his tanks and
paratroopers flushed hard-line
opponents from the flaming
building.
Sitarski said her sister told the
family that the events had not
been covered by Russian media
and the visiting teachers had not
witnessed any evidence of the
turmoil.
“They say everything’s fine
over there,” Sitarski said. “They
had no idea. It’s not on the
media or on the radio.”
Because of lltc political situ-
ation, all the meetings for the
first day were canceled and the
group was taken to a circus
instead. However, the group
will remain in Moscow and start
a regular routine Tuesday.
Tipton is scheduled to return
Oct. 14 alter the two-week
seminar is completed.
Sitarski said she made the
decision not to join her sister
after watching stories about
Russia. ‘‘It was a hard decision
for me to cancel out, or chicken
out,” she said. “We discussed it
the night before, and l said it’s
not really worth going over
there and being shot at.
“I feel very good (about the
decision)," Sitarski added.
“Now we’re over here worry-
ing.”
Sitarski now risks losing the
$5,500 she had to pay in
advance for the trip, which had
been planned since February.
There are live other Texans
participating in the program.
City tax bills in mail
Changes take effect in cable TV lineups
By Greg Mefford
of The Baytown Sun
Baytown cable subscribers will sec major
changes in their channel lineups starling Tuesday,
when some cable operators will shuffle as many
29 channels across the dial.
And some stations — like Houston’s ABC
affiliate, KTRK — may not be available to local
viewers.
TCI spokeswoman Jill Mack said early this
week that the changes, made in response to
mandates from the Federal Communications Com-
mission, will allow more than 20 channels to be at
the same location on the dial in all TCI systems
throughout the greater Houston-Galvcston area.
Major changes for TCI subscribers include:
KPRC — the iocaiiy-owned NBC affiliate —
will be moved at its own request from Channel 2
to Channel 10. The move will put it in a channel
block with other broadcast network affiliates.
QVC, which is a cable satellite shopping
r.ctv „rk, will be replaced by KHSH, a local
broadcast shopping station. The move was man-
dated by the FCC’s new “must-carry” rules.
The cable operator mailed out new lineup cards
last month, Mack said.
In addition to the new lineup cards supplied by
TCI, The Baytown Sun will show the channel
changes in its daily and weekend television
listings beginning Oct. 6.
The result of the 1992 Cable Act, local
broadcast stations are now able to choose whether
a cable operator may carry their signals, and have
the right to grant “retransmission consent.”
Those that choose the consent option require
cable companies to negotiate for their signals,
seeking monetary or other considerations for the
service.
TCI has come to an arrangement with FOX’s
KRIV, NBC’s KPRC and CBS’ KHOU. Some are
short-term agreements, while negotiations con-
tinue for longer agreements, Mack said.
The local ABC affiliate, KTRK, was still being
carried by TCI early Tuesday morning, but TCI
representatives have not reported a breakthrough
in talks with Capital Cities-ABC, which owns the
station.
If an agreement is not reached, ABC could
vanish from the TCI cable lineup on Wednesday
morning, according to Mack, who was unavailable
for comment on Monday.
TCI subscribers stand to lose ratings favorites
like “Monday Night Football,” “Roseanne” and
“Home Improvement.”
By law, if a station exercises a “must carry”
option, cable operators are required to include the
channel in their lineup.
By Jane Howard
of The Baytown Sun
If it seems sometimes all the
mail carrier brings is bills, don’t
expect any relief this week.
Instead, expect an extra bill
from the city of Baytown.
City officials will send tax
bills out this week, according to
Finance Director Monte Mercer.
Since there has been no tax
rate increase in the past year,
those taxes shouldn’t change
from 1992 figures unless the
Harris County Appraisal District
changed a property’s taxable
value.
Property owners have until
Jan. 31 to pay those taxes. Last
year, about 97 percent of the
bills were paid on time.
Later this month, bills for
water, sewer and solid waste
services will arrive and those do
contain a change.
Baytown City Council’s
1993-94 budget provides for fee
increases for those services. The
new budget went into effect
Oct. 1 and sordid the new rates.
Water fees went up 17 cents
per 1,000 gallons — from $1.91
to $2.08. Sewer service fees
increased 11 cents — from
$1.68 to $1.79. Officials also
increased the minimum sewer
cap from 10,000 to 12,000 gal-
lons and increased the minimum
monthly bill for water and sewer
service $1 — from $6.50 to
$7.50 for the first 2,000 gallons
of water and sewage.
Generally, a homeowner with
an average of 7,000 gallons
water usage can expect an
increase in cost of approxi-
mately $3.40 per month.
Solid waste Ices went up 16
cents per month — from $11.66
to $11.82 for most citizens.
Senior citizens’ bills will
increase from $8.90 to $9.07.
Bills reflecting the rate
changes will begin going out
about Oct. 20.
Youth Commission will meet
Baytown’s Youth Commission, formerly the Gang Task Force,
will meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Community Center, 2407
Market.
Several activities proposed by the executive board will be dis-
cussed. Those proposals include plans for “Make A Difference
Day,” where the Commission and volunteers would participate in a
clean-up/enhancement project for the Horace Mann campus.
Executive board members will introduce their proposal for a “Fri-
mundo are8 amonj' locafstations^fdch have da7 NiSht Live” program to the Commission members and status of
exercised their “must carry” optioas, according to mat Program will be reviewed. “Friday Night Live” is a contracted,
TCI representatives one-evening per week supervised program for ages 9 to 14.
Chamber
meeting
JL JL iUttJ
Highway official
to be speaker
Com-
m i s -
sioner
David
Bemsen
of the
Texas
Traffic
Com-
mission
Will be David Bemsen
the featured speaker at the
monthly membership
meeting of the Baytown
Chamber of Commerce at
noon Friday at Goose
Creek Country Club.
Bemsen was appointed
commissioner of transpor-
tation in January of 1993
by Gov. Ann Richards af-
ter serving as a member of
the transportation commis-
sion since November 1991.
The three-member com-
mission oversees statewide
activities of the Texas De-
partment of Transporta-
tion. Formerly responsible
only for highways —
77,000 state highway miles
serving 14 million Texas
vehicles — the depart-
ment’s duties were ex-
panded by the 1991 Texas
Legislature to include
supervision of 22,000
Texas-registered aircraft,
and public transportation
systems that carry more
than 230 million riders per
year.
The Baytown Chamber .
of Commerce membership
meeting is open to Cham-. ;
ber members and guests at
a cost of SI2.50 per person
(lunch included) with a re-
servation. Cost at the door
(without a reservation) is
S14.00. Reservations
should be made by calling
the Baytown Chamber of
Commerce office at
422-8359.
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