Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 94, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1989 Page: 5 of 10
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AUSTIN < APi — It's time to "keep
the heat on” the Texas Public Utility
Commission, a state senator said
after the commission agreed to hear
a year-old petition to review the im-
pact on utility rates of the 1906
federal tax reduction.
The PUC vote came before the
Senate State Affairs Committee
Wednesday approved a resolution by
Sen Carlos Truan, D ( orpus Christi,
calling on the regulatory commis
sion to consider the federal tax law's
impact on utility rates
But Truan said despite the
regulatory commission s action, “It
is too early to declare victory " The
Senate panel approved his resolution
7.-0.
"In view of (Senate Resolution
2'si achievements up to this point, it
is reasonable to predict that if this
committee voles SK 2 out today, we
will save the ratepayers of Texas at
least tens ot million* of dollars,”
Truan said.
"And it's just as reasonable Io
predict that if the Senate then pass
rd SR 2 and sends it over to the PUC,
they will get the message loud and
clear, and another several hundred
million dollars or so will be saved "
The PI < with a 3-0 vote ordered
that the petition filed in January 19Wt
by the Ofh<e <4 I’ubln I tility
Counsel be placed on its docket, said
PUL' spokesman Hill Dunn
"I don't anticipate an immediate
result on the consumers bill, tail at
least they're realizing this is an
issue that nerds to be addressed, '
said Kingstwry Ottmers, public
counsel Her office represents con
sumrrs in cases before the comm is
mon,
The petition
public counsel
immediate rate reduction Io take Hie
12 percent federal tax <lecrra.se into
account. or for the utilities to tie re
quired to set up a deferred account
for tas savings pending rate cases
Coyle Kelly, PUC executive direr
lor. said some questions exist about
the legality of the public counsel's
request
The commission staff has tieen
Working on the issue. Kelly has said
He called it misleading to look al the
tas reduction without looking <d
other items that make up a utility's
coat of providing service
Ms t turners agreed Ilia I lor some
companies, other expenses will <>H
set the tax reduction Hut she said it
is important to address the issue in s
"comprehensive way "
The PUC staff evaluated utilities
tielleved to have a reasonable
chance of overrarrung because of
the tas decrease, Kelly has said Aa
a result nl one analysis, the PVC
grneral counsel petitioned lor a
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But he said he does favor a pro-
posal by state Comptroller Bob
Bullock to increase the state tax on
cigarettes by 7 cents, to 33 cents a
pack, and dedicate that revenue to
human service programs in order to
capture additional federal funds
He said the extra money could ex-
pand Medicaid coverage to certain
low-income children up to 6-years-
old Medicaid in Texas currently is
restricted to children 2 years old and
under
Under the cigarette tax proposal,
the state would gain S444 1 million —
$167 million in state funds and $277 1
million in federal funds.
Senators also praised Hobby s
plan. Sen. Bob McFarland,
R-Arlington, and chairman of the
Senate Criminal Justice Committee,
said the state must continue to ex-
pand its prison capacity, “but we’re
going to have to do more than just
that ”
Sen Bob Glasgow . D-Stepbenville,
said under current projections.
Texas will have the second largest
inmate population in the world by
1995 “We've got to get to the root of
the problem, ' he said.
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LAS CRUCES. N.M API -
Yucca-nappers and cactus abduc
tors beware the Bureau ot Land
Management is on the lookout for
thieves who take plants from public
lands
Some plant thieves don t even
know they re doing anything wrong,
said Diana ' Punkie ’ Garretson
spokeswoman for the BLM in Las
Cruces
“ 1 honestly think that nine out of 10
ot these acts aren t malicious, she
said Someone just decides they
want a cactus or a bush to decorate
their front yard, so they dig it up and
take it home ”
People who take plants damage
the environment because they in-
crease erosion ot tne loose desert
soil and remove habitat for animals.
Ms Garretson said. She said each
year the theft problem becomes
more noticeable as cactus, sotoi
yucca and desert willow disappear
from public lands
In January. 50 desert willows were
cut down and stolen from an arroyo
east at Las Cruces, said BLM ranger
Marganta Guzman She said a
suspect was caught and will have to
appear in U.S. District Court.
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real lenient agency hut we re not ”
First time offenders caught abus-
ing federal Land are fined $50. Ms
Guzman said Repeat offenders ap-
pear before federal judges who have
a lot of leeway in sentencing. Ms
Garretson said.
Law enforcement in Ulis area is
new. but I think people will begin to
see that this is very serious." Ms
Guzman said
Ms Guzman who worked as a
BLM ranger in California before
moving to Las Cruces, said l alitor
ma public Lands are in terrible condi-
tion because ot plant poachers, and
she doesn t want to see the same
happen in New Mexico.
It’s a difficult job. because the Las
Cruces BLM office has two rangers
to patrol 6.2 million acres ot public
Lands in eight counties There are no
public lands m Texas except for
local, state and national parks
AUSTIN (AF) - U Gov BUI Hot>
by said building more prisons u not
the solution to the state’s crime pra
biems as he unveiled a $164 million
* plan designed to "attack crime at its
roots" through early childhood
education and health care pro
. grams
Hobby also said Wednesday he
favored more state revenue, in-
cluding an increase in the cigarette
tax. to help support human service
programs
Hobby's crime proposal won
kudos from Gov. BUI Clements,
although the governor has said he
will oppose any tax increase, in-
cluding a boost in the cigarette tax.
"A critical function of state
government is to provide a safe en-
vironment for the public and Lt
Gov Hobby is proposing a program
that will do just that,” said
Clements
Hobby told the Senate Finance
Committee that illiteracy, violence
and child abuse is condemning
young children to future lives of
crime "We must see to it that Texas
produces fewer criminals,” he said
Hobby supports the proposed con-
struction ot 11.000 more state prison
beds, coupled with the 11.000 prison
beds already under construction.
However, he said, "The cold hard
tact ot life is that when the 11,000
beds now under constriction are
opened up, they will be lull, and
when the next 11,000 beds are built,
they will be full.”
Hobby s plan would cost $163 7
million tor the 1990-91 biennium. In-
cluded in that amount are $603
million in federal funds and $21
million in existing education funds.
The plan calls for $66 7 million in
new spending
Hobby declined to say whether a
tax increase would be needed to sup
port the new spending
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Surber, Chester C. & Fortney, Paul, Jr. Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 94, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1989, newspaper, February 9, 1989; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1298284/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.