The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 145, No. 85, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1998 Page: 1 of 39
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Volume 145, Number 85
26 pages in three sections plus inserts
Second high
school could
be a reality
A second high school is in the
some-
Soo ELGIN, Page 2A
See SCHOOL, Page 2A
Walicek: Boot camp biggest accomplishment of term
.forecast:
See JUDGE, Page 2A
Looking Ahead
2A
THURSDAY DECEMBER 24. 1998
WEATHER
construction on the land desig-
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trict, possibly the not-too-distant
future. The campus will likely be
located in the Cedar Creek area,
said Superintendent John Walch.
The long range plan is to cap
the enrollment for Bastrop High
School at 2,200 students, said
Walch. Current enrollment is
about 1,600.
Walch said the planned en-
rollment cap will mean a high
school big enough to offer a
broad range of studies and train-
ing programs but not so big as to
become unwieldy.
School district voters would
have to approve funding before a
new high school can be built.
The long range plan antici-
pates continued rapid growth in
the area west and south of Bas-
trop. The district already has an
elementary school in Cedar
Camp Swift and could be open as early as
next month, she said.
“Anything to get a kid on the right path
is by far the most important thing,” she
said.
But she also recalled some tough deci-
sions which faced her and the commis-
sioners soon after she was sworn into
office in 1995. That was the year state
prison officials moved all their inmates
out of the Bastrop County jail, knocking a
hole in county revenue estimates.
Expenses that year ran $200,000 more
than income and the county’s fund bal-
ance fell below $500,000.
But over the next three years, said the
judge, the county’s dependance on jail
revenue has been sharply reduced and the
By Davis McAuley
Editor
By Davis McAuley
Editor
time
Recently, the Elgin council
approved a $431,561 bid by Bay
Maintenance Company, Inc. to
do the work after the company
agreed to renegotiate the price so
it would come in under the pro-
posed budget for the project.
Last month, the city received
a $500,000 grant from the Texas
Department of Housing and
Community Affairs to fund the
project.
But $93,000 of the grant has
been used on administration and
engineering fees, leaving
$407,000 for the actual infras-
tructure construction.
Officials said it was necessary
for the city to pay for the infra-
structure in order to recruit
“We accomplished a lot, got in trouble
a lot and got out of it,” she told commis-
sioners.
Later in her office, the judge said the
accomplishment which pleases her most
is launching a juvenile boot camp pro-
gram for troubled teens in cooperation
with the three cities and four school dis-
tricts in Bastrop County. The alternative
education will be located at
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animal control program, said she
has price quotes from cement
suppliers and plumbers.
“We need to move forward,”
said Commissioner Charles
McKeown.
Hiring the work done piece-
meal should be cheaper than
tumyig the whole job over to a
general contractor, said
Commissioner Lee Dildy.
The trick is to keep the cost of
each piece of the project under
$15,000 to avoid conflict
“It’s been a wonderful four years,”
Bastrop County Judge Peggy Walicek
declared at the end of Monday’s commis-
sioners court meeting, the last one she will
preside over as the county’s chief admin-
istrative officer. *' *
Bastrop County commission-
ers agreed Monday to begin
work on a shelter for the coun-
ty’s animal control program.
Construction will be carried out
with a combination of county
forces and private vendors and
subcontractors.
“We’ll build a pad” for the
planned structures, said
Commissioner Johnny Sanders.
A contractor then will be hired to
build forms for concrete slabs
the buildings will rest on, he sug-
gested.
Betty Wade, who directs the
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High: 40 degrees
Low: 32 degrees
Chance of rain:
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Elgin City Manager Jim
Work to
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begin soon
on Elgin
subdivision
County agrees to
build animal shelter
Creek and construction of a
$10.3 million intermediate-mid-
dle school campus nearby is
scheduled to begin in January. It
should be ready to occupy in
August 2000.
Also on the drawing board is a
second elementary school out-
side Bastrop. It will go up near
the intersection of FM’ 812 and;
FM 20 beginning next summer,
said Walch. Cost is estimated at
$6.8 million.
Projects already on the school
district’s construction calendar
are being paid for with $33.6
million in bond funds already
approved by voters.
Those projects include a $10.8
million middle school now under
construction near Bastrop
Intermediate. School, on Old
Austin Highway. It should be
complete next summer and
replace the current Bastrop
Middle School.
The middle school campus on
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 145, No. 85, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1998, newspaper, December 24, 1998; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1177367/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.