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Baytown, Texas 77520
Monday, July 17,1995
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Volume 73, No. 222
GCCISD employees face
rising costs for insurance
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Dayton man
dies in traffic
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policy on firearms and
weapons that expands the
scope of items prohibited
from school premises to also
impose a ban on BB-guns,
pellet guns or any air guns,
spring-loaded or pneumatic
devices “or any other device
capable of projecting an ob-
ject,'' and “any other weapon
or device as defined in the Pe-
nal Code 46.06.”
M Did not, at least for now,
revise Goose Creek school
district’s current policy that
permits children of GCCISD
teachers residing outside of
this school district to attend
Goose Creek schools without
their families having to pay tu-
ition to the school district.
however, will be paying the
same level of payroll-deduc-
tion premiums as during the
1994-95 school year, accord-
ing to the school district.
At their most recent meet-
ing, GCCISD trustees also:
■ Accepted an out-of-court
settlement of a legal dispute
with the Chrysler Credit Cor-
poration under which CCC
will pay the school district
$132,000.
■ Unanimously reappointed
David Kelling as internal au-
ditor of the school district.
Kelling first assumed duties in
that permanent position on
May 24,1993.
■ Unanimously approved a
revision to the school board’s
Goose Creek school board
has renewed by one year the
school district’s health insur-
ance policy with John Han-
cock insurance company, with
the new contract beginning
Sept. 1.
Because of rising medical
costs nationwide, all 868 of
the school district’s employees
who are currently enrolled in
Plan 3 or Plan 4 of the health-
insurance program will, if
they decide to continue with
either of those more generous
policies, face an increase in
their biweekly payroll deduc-
tions ranging from $2.50 to
$50.92.
GCCISD employees en-
rolled in Plan 1 or Plan 2,
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A 46-year-old Dayton man died
Sunday after he had been involved in a
three-vehicle chase about three miles
south of Dayton on FM 1409.
Leroy Bowen, who died at 6:51p.m
at Hermann Hospital, had been chas-
ing a 1986 Ford pickup about two
hours earlier. After he allegedly ran the
pickup off the road, Bowen’s truck
struck a culvert and overturned, eject-
ing Bowen from the vehicle.
The third vehicle involved in the
chase was not damaged, and no one
was injured in the other two vehicles.
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By CHRISTIAN MESSA
The Baytown Sun
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portant to succeeding.
Before beginning at the
work site, students attend
class sessions for five days to
learn about interviewing,
proper work attire, expecta-
tions of employers, and more,
then work at assigned sites for
six weeks through the federal-
ly-funded program.
For more information, call
the GCCISD Alternative
Learning Program at 420-
4555.
In spite of the skepticism of
others, Shugart earned her de-
gree in music at North Texas
State University and has a
successful career as a music
teacher in Austin.
Around 35 GCCISD stu-
dents and others participated
in the JTPA program, through
which students are given the
opportunity to work at non-
profit agencies and organiza-
tions throughout the area.
For many, this is a first job
opportunity and a chance to
gain knowledge and skills im
Nancy Shugart, an author,
educator, and Baytown native,
will be the guest speaker at
Goose Creek CISD’s July 21
banquet marking the end of
the summer JTPA (Job Train-
ing Partnership Act) program.
Shugart, who is blind, is
also a motivational speaker
who shares with others her
story of beating tremendous
odds. Her book, “Challenged
to Win.” inspires readers to
tap into their own strengths
and make the most of their
lives.
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A much-needed facelift has been com-
pleted on the Baker Road water storage
tank and transformed its color from silver
to light beige.
G and M Painting Enterprises Inc. of
Michigan, a company that specializes in
painting water towers, began the $308,950
project on May 24 to eliminate ail the rust
accumulated over the years by the 33-year-
old tower that looms over the Lantern Park
subdivision.
Angelo Vitullo, the city of Baytown’s
director of engineering and inspections,
said the rust problem included the 146-
foot-tall tower’s handrails and fixtures. “It
was going downhill,” he said.
One part of the project involved the ap-
plication of an epoxy paint inside the
500,000-gallon tower after it was cleaned.
Such an application will retard corrosion
and prevent iron from leaching into the
water supply, Vitullo said. Workers water
blasted the outside surface to erase any
trace of rust and applied a yellow clear-
coated rust inhibitor.
The phrase, “Baytown. Home of Lee
College,” was also repainted during the
project, which follows Texas Natural Re-
source Conservation Commission guide-
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Despite a cloudy day, the new paint job on Baytown’s Baker Road water tow-
er seems to gleam in the summer sun since workers scraped more than 30
years worth of rust and grime from the structure and repainted it. The job
went faster than city officials expected.
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Methodist youth spend week here repairing homes for elderly
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partment of Human Services and two t unner-up gover-
nor’s awards signed by former governor Bill Clements.
While in the area, participants in the program stayed
at First United Methodist Church in Mont Belvieu.
They prepared their own meals, brought their own
tools and purchasee their own materials for a week of
work that began daily at 5:30 a.m. for those on the
breakfast crew and ended with a worship time each
evening.
The camp included adults and high school students
who have completed their ninth-grade year from Unit-
ed Methodist Churches in Tomball, Houston, Lufkin
and Georgetown.
Armed with hammers and paintbrushes, 75 workers
with a mission descended on the Baytown and Mont
Belvieu areas as part of the United Methodist Action
Reach-out Mission by Youth, Inc., also known as the
U.M. ARMY.
The group is composed of high school-age volun-
teers and accompanying adults who each pay $110 to
spend a week helping those who are unable to help
themselves.
During the week-long mission, members of the
group performed chores and service projects such as
building, repairing and painting wheelchair ramps and
handrails on homes occupied by the disabled.
The group completed repairs to porches, painting
homes and did some minor roof repairs during the
mission.
Referrals for work to be completed are given to the
‘ U.M. Army by the Department of Human Services, as
are recommendations by local churches and communi-
ty organizations.
Nearly 1,800 people are participating in the U.M.
Army in Texas this summer. As a result, an estimated
950 needy families will be helped by the organization.
During its 17 years of service the U.M. Army has
been given several awards statewide. Among those
awards are a volunteerism award from the Texas De-
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Although the work had been expected to
last through most of July, Vitullo said
mostly favorable weather conditions short-
ened the project’s completion.
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$14,153,274 for the current fiscal year to
$14,442,405 for fiscal 1996. Carraway said.
The exact formula for calculating salary increas-
es for individual DISD instructors has not yet been
determined. At a specially called meeting on
Thursday, Dayton school board asked DISD ad-
ministrators to develop that formula, Carraway
noted.
Also at the Thursday meeting, Dayton school
board scheduled a July 31 budget workshop ses-
sion at which the board will discuss the formula
for determining individual teachers’ salary in-
creases.
At its regularly scheduled meeting for next
month, Dayton school board on Aug. 15 is expect-
ed to vote on the proposed increase in the property
tax rate as well as on the proposed new budget,
Carraway said.
this four-county region, Carraway noted. In the re-
gion, only Cleveland ISD has a lower property tax
rate, he said.
Dayton school board members “have always
prided themselves on being able to get the best
value of education for the dollar,” Carraway told
The Baytown Sun.
Contributing to the need for the expected tax in-
crease is an administration-proposed total salary or
wage hike for DISD employees of approximately
$300,000 — $222,000 of which would go to the
district’s 224 full-time teachers, Carraway said.
The Dayton school district administration has
also proposed an increase in its total number of
full-time employees from 397 at present to about
403, the business manager said.
In all, the Dayton ISD administration is propos-
ing a $289,131 increase in the school districts
maintenance and operations budget — from
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olls.
DAYTON — Dayton ISD administrators have
recommended to the Dayton school board that it
approve a property tax increase for the coming fis-
cal year of six cents per $100 of property valua-
v. A
tion.
The six-cent tax rate increase, if it’s officially ap-
proved by the Dayton school board in August,
would still keep the school district property tax
rate here at one of the lowest levels of any school
district in Harris, Montgomery, Chambers, and
Liberty counties, said Jack Carraway, business
manager for Dayton ISD.
The proposed tax rate increase is for the fiscal
year that begins Sept. 1.
The current property tax rate for Dayton school
district is $1.27 per $100 property valuation — the
second lowest rate of any public school district in
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Tonight: Partly cloudy with a 30 per-
cent chance ol showers and thunder-
storms. Lows near 80.
Tuesday: Partly cloudy with a 30 per-
cent chance of showers and thunder-
storms. Highs near 90.
Weather art by Tony Roberts,
Crockett Elementary.
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 222, Ed. 1 Monday, July 17, 1995, newspaper, July 17, 1995; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1157785/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.