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Sunday, November 5,2006
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“I’ve already talked the super-
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The fell carnival will be held
from 10 a.m. to 2 pm. on Nov.
11 on the campus, 2615 Virginia
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will be a barbecue plate sale and
a country store.
Donations from alumni of the
school can be made at the carni-
val or at the main office of the
school. For more information,
contact Fred Aguilar, organizer of
the alumni drive, at 281-427-
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Retail stores may not sell them, many vehicles or any public
being in the majority party. Still, he
noticed a change.
“It took a long time for some folks
who had been in leadership positions on
committees to adjust to the status of
being in the minority,” he said.
The Republicans had swept in with
their highly touted “Contract With
America,” promising to reform a House
that had been plagued by scandals under
the Democrats.
Just over a decade later, the
Republicans themselves have been front
and center in a number of scandals.
Green, who sits on the House Ethics
Committee, said if the Democrats take
control of the chamber on Tuesday, he
expects there will be renewed interest in
reform.
• Green said he expects the Democrats,
under a new House Speaker, Nancy
Pelosi of California, would press for an
increase in the federal minimuimwage,
which has not been raised since 1996.
But Green, who is considered more
conservative on some issues than many
of his Democratic colleagues, said he
out
Keith said sheh excited that the
playground project is something
that has brought school staff and
the parents and surrounding com-
munity closer together.
“Our motto at San Jacinto is
San Jacinto, a community of
excellence. Itk very important for
me as a principal, and our staff,
that we join with our parents and
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intendent about it, and she’s more one united community,” she said,
than willing to have that conver-
sation with us,” she said.
Once the amount of money
that will be available is deter-
mined, Keith said she plans to
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Riggs) with different vendors
before deciding on a unit
Keith said she decided to
remove all of the four old play-
the two in most need of repair, so
that when a new, more colorfol
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geared toward the students who $20,000 she said. Installation and
came to the district following last other extras would drive the cost
year’s hurricanes. Some of those higher.
funds were directed to buying
new playground equipment at
Pumphrey Elementaiy, where
many of those students attended,
he said.
About two weeks ago, Keith
and Norma Garcia, president of
equipment in a partnership with
the school.
Suzanne Keith, now in her sec-
ond year as San Jacinto’s princi-
pal, said PTO members had long
wanted to replace the aging
equipment, which was installed
when the school was completed
in 1982. Many felt it was an eye-
sore and possibly hazardous to
children because of the risk of
splinters or other injuries.
Keith, who previously had
been assistant principal at
Highlands Elementary, said her
first year on the job was a period
for her and the parents of the stu-
dents to get to know each other.
For that reason, the PTO didn’t
do much fundraising that year,
although it already had some
money in savings.
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While “very useful,” there are
no requirements under the Texas
Education Code or other regula-
tions that a school have play-
ground equipment, making it a
somewhat extraneous expense,
(ration developed the budget over he said.
the summer, Superintendent
Barbara Sultis approved Keith’s
$10,000 request
After the school year began,
employs of Goose Creek’s opera- visibility, and because it’s an
tions department did an annual
“maintenance walk-through” of
the campus. One of the things
they noted was that the equip-
ment was in need of replacement
“We talked with them, and
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said.
Robby McGowen, assistant
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hopes the Congress would begin govern-
ing with the interests of “middle
America” in mind.
Green said under the Republican lead-
ership, Democrats have felt increasingly
frozen out from adding amendments to
bills or being allowed to speak on the
House floor.
He said he expects if the Democrats
take charge, the new majority would
allow Republican members more access.
Green is being challenged by
Republican Eric Story and Liberian Justo
J. Perez, but is expected to win easily.
Poe, who is seeking reelection for the
first time since winning the newly creat-
ed 2nd District in 2004, said that as “an
independent Republican,” he would not
expect things to change for him very
much under a Democratic majority.
But, he said, he expects the Democrats
would move toward some significant pol-
icy changes. Among them: not extending
many of the tax cuts passed under the
Bush Administration, and a quick with-
drawal of American forces fronting.
Poe said he believes it is in the interest
of both parties to enact reforms of the
House.
Like Green, Poe is heavily favored to
win re-election. He is challenged by
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ing up her budget requests last
March, she included a request for district (or other districts, for that
$10,000 toward the purchase of
some new equipment in partner-
ship with the PTO, which was
going to begin fundraising again like playground equipment
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“Playground equipment is one
of those things, you start looking
at it, planning for it It’s about a
yearlong process,” she said.
As the Goose Creek adminis-
Keith said the plan is now to
wait until after the Nov. 11 festi-
val to see how much the PTO
can raise altogether, and whether
with the $10,000 committed
from the district there will be
enough-If not, she said, she will
the PTO and a first-grade teacher ask Sultis if the district can pro-
at the school, met with Bruce
Riggs, the district’s project man-
ager, and a vendor to consider
new equipment.
Keith said modem playground
equipment tends to be “modular,”
so that it can be purchased piece
by piece. And because the avail-
able space at the school is smaller meet (along with Garcia and
than at other schools, there is
some limitation on what the
school can buy, she said.
The vendor showed them a
self-contained unit —including a ground pieces, rather than just
slide, a craw-through space and *u- ‘—1----- “
jungle-gym bars—that could
the district used grant funds cost between $15,000 and
“It’s not required, but it’s cer-
tainly something we want to pro-
vide for you kids,” he said. “It’s
very common, because of the
enrichment-type tiling, it’s very
common for a PTO to want to
contribute some of the funds they
raise toward that” n
That was recently the case at
Austin Elementary School,
tid, ‘Yes, that’s our goal,”’ Keith McGowen noted. The only
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had been done differently was
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Democrat Gary Binderim and Libertarian
Clifford Messina.
Richard Murray, a noted political sci-
ence professor at the University of
Houston, said if the Democrats take con-
trol of the House, it would mean less
influence among the Texas delegation.
After the 2003 redistricting in the
Texas Legislature, five veteran
Democratic members from Texas lost
their seats, as did freshman Chris Bell,
Murray noted.
“Terrible timing for Texans if the
majority switches,” Murray said.
“Now you’ve got a lot of freshman
Republicans that are in the minority, and
the minority counts for very little. So it
really puts the state at a significant ongo-
ing disadvantage,” he said.
Murray said he expects both parties
would work together toward ethics
reform, and possibly immigration reform.
“There will be a lot of pressure on both
sides to fry to do something on the immi-
gration issue, and that’s truly a bipartisan
issue in my view,” he said.
Murray said based on his readings of
polls, he expects the Democrats will
indeed win the House, although there is
only a one in three chance that they
would win the Senate.
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Clements, Clifford E. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 345, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 5, 2006, newspaper, November 5, 2006; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1192346/m1/6/?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.