The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 107, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 5, 1989 Page: 1 of 24
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State coffers
get big boost
By AMY HUB „
The fndts of Texas economic
recovery are Mowing up in the
Slate Comp-
sales tax rawwrn. which rant
by to percent lad year. Miacfc
said Revenues are 19 by more
thaa II
Bah Bullock told the
Baytnwn Chamber of Commerce
Friday
Bullock who has held hit pad
dace 1*75 said the stale will
take m MS billion in revenues ut
■(•Ml - Ml billion over what
was collected MIM7
Employment statdtics have
ate been promising. Bullock
padded ant la October IMS. he
said, there were «74 million ex-
isting )sbs In Texas - a record
high la Harris Coaaty alone
MAM now jobs were created in
MB.
BuBeck said reaaarch can-
ducted by his office shows that
lib new petrochemical construe
- are under way an the Texas
■‘Forty-five percent of the aa- He also suggested raising the
lion's petrochemical capacity is cigarette tax by 7 cents which
In Uds area. " he emphasised, ad- he said would rate *10* million
ding that expansion has ripple and would net another *174
effects an other tsetses of the million in matching federal
year , he added
Services which the stale pro-
vides "at minimal levels." In
Bullock s ated. are. edacatian.
the prison system and hsaRh
care
He prtpaaid that the budget
can he balanced and semens
upgraded without new taxes by
revamping the state's beshhste
tag system to allow temporary
transfers to the general land
Texas exports
have reached $20
billion annually, \
second only to
California.
■ "MJS is It. Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dale loid
Congress an Friday, warning that President Bush
would veto any attempt to fatten the hourly in-
crease that the admintslrauon would phase in over
three yarns
Mrs Dale said the rate to S4 2S must ate be
coupled with a sub-minimum training wage" for
the first six months employ meat lor all newly
hired workers And die would expand the current
from the minimum to all small
Ipe Bush plan put' the administration at «M-
with Sen Edward M Kennedy. D-Mass. chairman
of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Com-
mittee. and Ms bill to gradually rate the mimmum
toMManhour
There are ilhpdly lamer than 4 million people
working for the mimmum wage according to the
Labor Department
The BS floor has net been raised since Ml
Since then said Kennedy inflation has cut the pnr-
chastag power of that wage byte percent
The Labor committee will begin considering the
minimum next week, and Senate Majority Leader
George Mitchell says he would like to bring it to a
vole by the fun Senate by the end of the month —-
Texas experts. Bullocfc can
turned, have reached t» billion
annually, second only ta CalHor
tua. and hnsmrss investment in
the stale hi IMP reached its
highest level since IMS. Texas
retail sales are thud highest in
thraatton
Baytown has seen the results
af the states econsmtr com-
eback in the form of hsosted city
Buttock concluded that people
are Texas' mast valuable
mpyree and deigrvc awt of
credit far the state's semmnie
Fields'views.
Fields
* write ta Sens Ueyd Beaten.
PhD Gramm or I S Reps
Mkhey Lsiaud. Mike Andrews
and Bil Archer
t "Yea can even write letters ta
-ms." he added “Even thaugb
yen knew haw I stand, it backs
am up as I can say this is what
School bus stop won't be moved
hM M» Mr. PUL Ut wase
always jaMna af Cast* We
cart he aa
Baytown school I rust res have
la save a schaol has stop at
Bayway Drive and Courtyard
Boulevard
Gtonda Pryor. presidmi ef
The Courtyards of Baytown
Itamrowwrn Asaociation. ashed
lag the bus step after a Nwv S.
ing a Travis Elementary School
School officials gathered m
formal ion aa the matter and
referred N to the heard lor a
works tor First Western Capital
Carp of Houston, which Is
remodeling much ol the
buHdlngi and property at The
Courtyards ef Baytown
moved to the end of Courtyard
Boulevard at ihe bach of the pro-
perty Ms Pryor soul First
Western would dure the read
curbs aad provide the district
with a non Hobday clause tor
any damage a but might cause
to the street or property she
said
Oamge eaa Ms Pryor told trustees me moved.
Whether or aal the bus slap la
the company plans to
rebuild the covered bus shelter
at the complex. Ms. Pryor told
In a memo to board members.
Interim Superintendent Ralph
Panrce said the district received
information that thr student gal
off the but the day of the acci-
dent. went home! got bis bicycle
and rode back to Bayway Drive
before thr mishap
Recommending the but stop
remain where R is Pearce said
Ihe covered shelter near
Bayway aad Courtyard
Boulevard provides enough
room well oft thr roadway tor
children to wart lor thr bus
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Beach City Council rejects rate hike proposed by HLAP
J
By LOS M RODRIGUEZ
Beach City Council has pamed an or-
dinance denying Houston Lighting A
Power Go 's proposed rale Increase
All Rusty" Scnac. Beach City
mayor, said thr stale Public Utility t om
be congratulated for
MILA MORRISON has a new
took Harris Cemrty Judge
Jan Lindsay enjoys Jim Kyle’s
*^."*!^ ******- ■ allowing Beach City and other cities m the
Judy Ftoley busy with puns hLAP service area to be able to represent
tor Pxbtic Sente Week Pap Spending rate care
n tTz Earlier this month, thr PUC decided
anmterjwyvwww iw- r— HLAP had to pay city rate care ex
Nancy Hehmr Hawks fate pmaaaan a timely bash
The Smi newsroom staff as aasis HLAP is mending tens of rndtions <>f
tout Dteamtaa editor.. Helen dollars m an effort to get ratepayers lo
Khmanma stops by The San pay much hlgier ejectric rate. " Sense
Alice Garrtosn a Jpiisgrtk
Gary Cachraa
m the Coalition of Cities tar Fair Utilrty
Rate iC-Fl'R1 will help to ensure that
electric rates will he considerably tower
Hun HLAP s current request
HLAP Is requesting a S percent m
creaar m rates -approximately MM
million' over thr next three years with a
is percent increase starting next year
On Nov a. ISM HLAP filed thr request
to increase Beach City electric rates The
rales were to gs into effect an Dec *•
Beach City officials however adopted an
nnhnanrr which halts any rate increase
action tor a to-day period
The suspension of rates ends on March
S l aid then. Beach City was faced with
cither accepting the increase, setting a
different rate or denying it altogether
The ordinance passed last week denies
r Beach CMy Cowrit is
HLAP is looking oat tor their
said resident
Who s looking ont
Margaret Kmnamon
for
preparing to take action on an appeal
HLAP can appeal to the PIXT
Thr bast- rate increase HLAP is re-
questing is MS million lo cover costs tor
phaaeonrof the South Texas Project and Senac said. It is currently estimated
the Limestone l nit that HLAP spent as much as LVu million
The RE million that we art- talking tor lawyers and outside expert, in its ef
about is phase one only There are two tort to try to show that the expenditures
other phases to follow Scnacsaid tor the South Texas Nuclear Project were
Zaur tlnpi district manager for Pfwdexlly tacurrui.
HLAP said dm company realizes that thr "I hope that the action taken by C-FIR
project has taken toogrr to construct and to obtain timely reimbursement of the
cost more than it should have coot of our legal fees and experts wgl
At a public hearing on the proposed rale b f B> 11L "'.I a"d
increase. Joyce Jemma" Mb*- "A* • P*®- unK,,a
prrty owner and a business person, thr Beach City helped to establish C-FVR
whole idea Is preposterous that HLAP in I Ml C-FVR now includes Galveston,
sugars! we pay any portion of thr 110* Freeport. Lake Jackson. Clute
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 107, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 5, 1989, newspaper, March 5, 1989; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1052966/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.