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$1,516 $1,850
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Under state law, the dollar amount of school taxes imposed on the residence homestead
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Farms & Ranches
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Farm Equipment
Crops
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Multi Peril Crop
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HONORING ALL INSURANCE POLICIES
AND
MAJOR CREDIT (.ARDS
7p.m. to Closing
!!!DOOR PRIZES!!!
The Den
Offices in:
Archer City • 574-4827
Electra ® 495-2114
Olney • 564-5566
The coldest temperature ever
recorded in the contiguous 48
United States was -70°F, at Rogers
Pass, Montana, January 20,1954.
Brandon McAlister, junior ad-
visor.
The Electra ISD will hold a public meeting at 5 pm Tuesday, September 21, in the Board
Room of the Administrative Building at 621 North Waggoner, Electra, Texas. The
purpose of this meeting is to discuss the district's budget that will determine the tax
that will be adopted. Public participation in the discussion is invited.
The tax rate that is ultimately adopted at this meeting or at a separate meeting at a later
date may not exceed the proposed rate shown below unless the district publishes a revised
notice containing the same information and comparisons set out below and holds another
public meeting to discuss the revised notice.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS
BUDGET AND PROPOSED TAX RATE
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It is the business of the comic poet to paint the vice and follies of
human kind.
The 1999 Electra High School
seniors who graduated under the
recommended college prepara-
tory program and took the ACT
outscored the national and state
averages in all areas of the col-
lege entrance test.
Fourteen members of the
class fit the above criteria.
Their average in math was 22.0
Notice of Rollback Rate: The highest tax rate the district can adopt before requiring
voter approval at an election is $1.5462. This election will be automatically held if
the district adopts a rate in excess of the rollback rate of $1.5462.
Per Student
$3,387
N/A
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Interest
& Sinking Fund*
$0,100
($0,139)
(Hl7) 495-2107
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Fund Balances
The following estimated balances will remain at the end of the current fiscal year and are
not encumbered with or by a corresponding debt obligation, less estimated funds
necessary for operating the district before receipt of the first state aid pavment
Maintenance and Operations Fund Balance! s) $400,000
Interest & Sinking Fund Balance(.s) $ 20.000
£iectra Florai & Gifts
515 N. Wichita 49&21S2
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Average Market Value of Residences
Average Taxable Value of Residences
Last Year’s Rate versus Proposed Rate per $100 Value
Taxes Due on Average Residence
Increase (Decrease) in Taxes
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What’s a book? Everything or
nothing. The eye that sees it is
all.
DUTT O, N
Funeral Home
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1 AHRY L DUHON
This Year
$22,126
$7,126
$1,516
$108.03
DICKEY, McGANN & ROWE, INC.
INSURANCE
NOW Wl III 2 LOCATIONS IO SERVE YOUR NEEDS
(817) 592-4151
300 E.( ASH.SHIFT.I
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ELECTRA STAR-NEWS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1999 PAGE THREE
FFA Chapter
Names New
Officers Here
New officers have been elected
for 1999-2000 by the Electra
High School FFA Chapter.
PROVIDING ALLTYl’ES OF FUNERAL SERVICES
AND
PRE-ARRANGED FUNERAL PLANS
Comparison of Proposed Levy with Last Year’s Levy on Average Residence
Last Year
$20,910
$5,910
$1.43
$84.51
$23.52
Former Electran Georgia John-
son Park, 87, died Thurs-
day, August 26, in East Ridge
Retirement Village, Miami,
Florida.
Mrs. Park and her husband,
Dabney G. Park, lived in Elec-
tra, Texas, Bogota and Bar-
ranquilla, Columbia, Rumson
’ and South Orange, New Jersey,
District officials expressed
their pride in the work of these
students.
Haywood
Receives
Recognition
information to help them excite
their students.
Officials said that the Insti-
tute if offered annually to ex-
cellent, innovactive and enthu-
siastic teachers to help them get
more NAS/\ related material in
the classroom.
/Yfter attending the Institute
the attendees are now included
in the LiftOff Alumni Associ-
ation.
The Texas Space Grant Con-
sortium is a consortium of
academic institution, aerospace
companies, government agen-
cies and non profit organiza-
tions that supports space related
research, education and public
outreach.
Il is a component of the Na-
tional Space Grant College and
Caracas, Venezuela, and Hous-
ton and Brazoria, Texas, before
moving to East Ridge in 1995.
Born in Mingus, Texas, June 2,
1912, she was homemaker and
secretary
Survivors include her hus-
band; two children, Dabney
(Betty) Park, Jr., and Dixie
(Oren) Tomlinson, and Tour
grandchildren, Morgan Eliza-
beth Park, Thomas (Shari)
Tomlinson, Amy (Jaime) Zam-
brano, and Province Elizabeth
Park.
A memorial service was held
at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28,
at the chapel at East Ridge
Retirement Village, Miami,
Florida.
ans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR)
have praised State Senator Tom
Haywood (R-Wichita Falls) lor
earning a “perfect” tort re-
form voting record during the
76th session of the Texas Leg-
islature. The group singled out
Haywood for special recogni-
tion.
“Senator Haywood is what we
call a ‘one hundred percenter’.
Every time an important civil
justice reform issue came up on
■ the'flo&r of the Texas Senate,
he stood up for the conscientious
citizens of Senate District 30
and voted to eliminate abuses
in our legal system,” said Dick
Weekley, TLR President.
Texans for Lawsuit Reform
is a statewide bipartisan coali-
tion comprised of thousands of
citizen volunteers. The organi-
zation has approximately 5,000
members in over 180 Texas
cities, including Wichita Falls.
TLR’s broad based member-
ship consists of members from
over 300 diverse occupations
and businesses, ranging from
accountants to zinc recyclers.
Local TLR Board member and
Wichita Falls physician Dr.
Samuel Waters also thanked
Sen. Haywood for his outstand-
ing voting record and his leg-
islative accomplishments. “We
arc grateful for Tom’s fine work
on behalf of the residents of
District 30 and appreciate his
commitment to ensuring that
Texas has a business climate
second to none,” Waters added.
of a person 65 years of age or older or if the surviving spouse was 55 years of age or
older when the person died, may not be increased about the amount paid in the first year
after the person turned 65, regardless of changes in tax rate or property value.
Youth Symphony Sets
Auditions On Sept. 18
standard ones for symphony or-
chestra.
The YSO rehearses at the
4W
8:30 5:30 M F
CLOSED DAILY FOR UNCI 11:00 to 2 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m. to 12 noon CLOSED SIND 1 F.S’
chestra. Students who have al-
ready auditioned or who played 4
last year are not required to
audition again. If you go to a
or or-
J-G-L Tex-Mex Cafe
Specials Good Thru Sept. 11
Your Choice Of
No. 1-2 betf enchiladas, rice and beans
No. 2- Burrito
No. 3 Hombre Special
No. 4 Nachos
$3.75 (tea included)
Wednesday 5 to 9- Thursday, Friday f 1 to 2 - Saturday 5 to 9
495-3662_____Closed Sunday and Monday
*The Interest & Sinking Fund tax revenue is used to pay for bonded indebtedness on
construction, equipment, or both. The bonds, and the tax rate necessary to pay those
bonds, were approved by voters of this district.
**The Rate to Maintain the Same Level of Maintenance & Operations Revenue & Pay
Debt Service does not reflect revenue available to the district in the 1999-2000 school
year for the pay raise for classroom teachers, full-time librarians, full-time counselors,
and full-time school nurses enacted by the 76th Legislature. The estimated cost of the pay
raise for the 1999-200 school year is $ 195,000.
A bi-partisan statewide group'
Fellowship Program., which is civil justice reformers,JTex-
administercd by NASA.
Comparison of Proposed Rates with Last Year’s Rates
Maintenance
& Operation
Last Year’s Rate $1,330
Less State-Funded $0,095
Tax Relief
Last Year’s
Adjusted Rate for
Tax Relief
Rate to Maintain $1,418
Same Level of Maintenance
& Operations Revenue
& Pay Debt Service’
Proposed Rate
. Welf Jentsch, EHS science
teacher/coach, was selected to
attend the Texas Space Grant
Consortium’s 10th Summer In-
• stitute for Middle and Sec-
ondary School Teachers.
He was one of 25 science
teachers chosen from Texas
and the nation for the Institute
which was held in Houston.
With the launching of the
NEAR satellite to orbit Aster-
oid 433 Eros this year and the
February 7, 1999 launch of the
STARDUST satellite to fly by
three comet nuclei, the Summer
Institute highlighted astcriod,
meteorites and comets.
The Lunar and Planetary
Institute in Houston was the
host facility where the teachers
receive lectures and activities
by scientists that specialize in
astronomy.
Participants visited the I lous-
ton Museum of Natural Science
Planetarium for the 30th an-
niversary of the lunar landing,
the George Observatory for the
Rendezvous with a Comet Mis-
sion and Space Center Houston
for a tour of the facility.
The teachers also toured the
Johnson Space Center to view
the International Space Station
mock ups and the Neutral
Buoyancy Lab.
The teachers were presented
activities to bring back to
the classroom and share with
other local teachers, given
presentations from scientists
from LIP and given handouts,
posters and other miscellaneous
J.'W 'i
Officers are Randi Raschke,
president; Jami Anderson, vice
president; Boomer Davis, sec-
retary; Dani Moenning, trea-
surer; Kayla Smith, reporter;
as compared to the state average Bryan Peterson, sentinel, and
of 21.1 and national oneof 21.8. "
Their scores in reading were
24.4. The state average was
21.4 and the national average
was 22.4.
In science the EHS students’
average was 23.4 while the state
was 21.1 and the national was
21.9.
The English score for EHS
was 22.7 while the state was
20.6 and the national was 21.6.
Composite score for the local
average was 23.3 as compared
to the state at 21.2 and the
national at 22.0.
The recommended high school
college preparatory program
consists of 4 years of English
and three or more years of math
social studies and science.
siULAuanHemems
Pm
Wichita Falls Youth Sym-
phony Orchestra will hold au-
ditions for students who wish to
become new members of the or- First United Methodist Church
in Wichita Falls from 2 until
on Sunday afternoons. They
present concerts in the fall and
in the spring with extra perfor
school that has a band or or- mances and activities scheduled
chestra program, you should be as needed.
a member of one of the organi- If you have questions regard
zations to play in the orchestra, ing the audition or the orches
Auditions will be held on
Saturday, Sept. 18, at 2 p.m.
at the First United Methodist
Church, 10th and Travis, Wi-
chita Falls. A short solo piece
or etude and two scales will
be required. Instruments needed
will be those that are considered
Local Revenue State Revenue
Total Per Student
$1,430 $2,273
($0,044) N/A
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