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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
Thursday, September 24,1998
Cost up $400,000
for Smithville job
The cost of Smithville’s deal
with the Lower Colorado River
Authority to rebuild the city's
sewer treatment plant as well as
miles of new water and sewer
lines is headed up sharply.
Supak Construction, Inc. of
Orchard began work on the $2.2
million project in May. But con-
struction ground to a halt the
next month when groundwater
began seeping into some deep
pipeline trenches, according to a
staff report to the LCRA board.
After huddling with consul-
tants, engineers, contractors and
* local officials, LCRA is recom-
mending hiring a specialty con-
tractor to extract the water from
the construction area, stabilize
the pipe bedding material and to
continue laying the planned
sewer line.
The additional work will add
sine $400,000 to the total cost.
This week the LCRA board will
consider authorizing the addi-
tional expense.
How that will affect the water
and sewer rates of Smithville
customers was not immediately
clear.
Smithville has already com-
mitted almost $1.2 million to
the project from a U.S. Depart-
ment of Commerce Economic
Development Administration
grant. LCRA has agreed to fi-
nance the remainder of the cost.
But the agreement between
Smithville and LCRA also binds
the city to pay wholesale utility
rates sufficient to recover all of
LCRA's costs.
The total project includes a
new 300,000-gallon-a-day
treatment plant plus more thaa
four miles of gravity flow sewer
pipe, two miles of water mains
and some 1.5 miles of force
mains.
Total estimated project cost
now tops $2.6 million.
City Manager Bob Miller and
Mayor Renee Blaschke were not
immediately available for com-
ment
'7'
year have
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Raintail In Texas
lower than normal
Moat weather stations across the stat
have reported below average raintai i
the first six months of 1998. r
Although 1997 was an unusualy
wet year during the same Wne -
period, 1996 was especially dry. The
drought Ip 1996*......
trends for the
similar.
Keeping an eye on Texas
Bid---------
Landrum.
Commissioners appeared
ready to listen. “I'm excited
about it” said Commissioner
LeeDildy.
Giles said he'd like to have
Fires —
Speaking for the Fire Mar-
shall's Office, Jones took the
opportunity to point out that de-
spite recent rains, there is still a
serious risk due to low moisture
content in ground cover. He
urged residents to continue
taking precautions such as dig-
ging up around brush and al-
ways having a hose handy be-
fore burning.
And Monday, just before
noon, the Bluebonnet First Re-
sponders led by Assistant Chief
Sharon Duvall, responded to a
McKinney-“
landscape photography and na-
ture illustration.
Music will be provided by
Troika, Ken Brothers and
Johnny DeGollado, a cujunto
trio.
Food vendors, special ex-
M^raConUnuMl from Page 1A
new homes for sale by next
spring. The development will
feature curb and gutter streets
and all-masonry homes priced
around $80,000, he added.
■MMContlnund from Page 1A
mAjor traffic accident on Texas
71 near the AAA Grocery. A
collision between two eastbound
vehicles resulted in injuries to
one of the drivers whose car
was hit on driver’s side door.
She was pinned inside for a
time, and the Jaws of Life were
requested. However, before the
equipment arrived on the acene,
the First Responders had extri-
catedthe woman.
She was taken to Bracken-
ridge Hospital with undeter-
mined injuries.
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hibits and a children's area are
also slated.
McKinney Roughs is on the
north side of Texas 71 west of
Bastrop, just east of Pope Bend
Road. The entrance is marked
by a small windmill.
Pink Santa kicks off 1998 holiday drive
Pink'Santa has kicked off the
1998 annual holiday drive with
enthusiasm and high hopes to
help even more families enjoy a
great Christmas season. But
they need help.
"We may be facing the ex-
tinction of this program this
year," worries Dana Meeks, last
year's organizer. This year,
Meeks has a job and more re-
sponsibilities and demands on
her time.
Now in its 13th year, the pro-
gram has grown tremendously.
In its first year, Clara Maynard,
working at the County Exten-
sion Office, adopted one family,
helping to meet their needs and
Christmas wishes. Last year, the
organization helped 170 fami-
lies and 500 children.
The non-profit organization
is the only one of its kind, in
Bastrop, and Meeks, along with
fellow organizer Claudia Ander-
son, fear that without it many
local families might go without
a Christmas this year.
So the women, with the help
of the Citizen's Police Academy
Alumni have come up with a
plan to spread various aspects of
the drive across the community.
The Police Academy Alumni
Association will be contacting
businesses about placing
"barrels" fbr collections and the
Homecoming Committee has
taken on advertising. '
However, there are many
duties still waiting for volun-
teers and organizations to spon-
sor, says Meeks. For example,
school and group coordinators
are needed, and someone to take
charge of contributions from
local merchants.
Meeks and Anderson also
want to encourage young people
to get involved. They suggest a
fun and easy way to help is the
actual wrapping of the gifts
which will probably be coordi-
nated through the schools.
An organizational meeting is
scheduled fbr October 3 at 1
P.M. at 804 Pecan.
SISD-------
to overcrowding is a new high,
school, tourchase property for a
new site and move the other
schools up the ladder."
Tom had initially requested a
$12 million bond election, but
after discussion, the board ap-
proved the $11.5 million pack-
age.
A brochure will be prepared
by next month's meeting which
will explain the election and
break down the costs fbr all of
the items in the package.
• Financial advisors, who at-
tended Monday’s meeting, told
board members interest rates are
as low as they’ve been since the
1940s. Two recent bond projects
included interest rates of 4.7 and
4.66 percent
The bond package will be
presented as one item, so voters
must approve or reject the entire
package.
Early voting will be from
Nov. 18 through Dec. 1. Hours
will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday
(excluding school holidays) at
the Smithville ISD administra-
tion office.
On election day, hours will
be from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. with
voting at three locations —
Smithville City Hall, 3-N-l Fire
SEMINAR ON THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
At Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
202 Highway 71 West at Eskew Street, across Eskew from Dairy Queen
Saturday, October 3, 1998
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Light Lunch provided
v S10 donation requested
Come learn and share information about the great Bible study discpvery and
its impact on our understanding of God’s word today. All are welcome.
Please call Good Shepherd Lutheran Church - 303-3980 -
by September 30,1998 to register
wH^wHHContlniNd from Pago 1A
Station in Rosanky and theLake . 28 cents fbr Interest and linking. '
Thqpderbird Community, Cen-
ter. .?
The board also gave Tom ap-
proval to enter into a contract to
purchase a tract of land for the
proposed high school and ath-
letic facilities.
In other business, the board
set the SISD tax rate at $1.6594,
which includes $1.3794 fbr
maintenance and operation and
The rate is about eight cents,
higher than last year’s.
The increase was necessary
due to salary increases and in--
creased utility and transporta-
tion costs.
Board members also ap-
proved Smithville’s participa-
tion in the Bastrop County Ju-
venile Justice Alternative Edu-
cation Program.
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