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Gainesville
THURSDAY, May 11, 2017
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City officials
unfazed by
sales tax slump
Local share of retail sales
tax down 36 percent
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bond board
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By MEGAN GRAY-HATFIELD
Staff Writer
mhatfield@ntin.net
Cooke County Judge Jason Brinkley has sug-
gested the idea of creating a bail bonds review
board in the county.
Brinkley requested input Monday during a
Cooke County Commissioners Court meeting
from the county’s commissioners.
In counties with a population of more than
110,000, bail bond boards are automatically
created, according to a handbook created for
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purchased through U.S. Army surplus for the
department to use across the state.
“It was our dump truck of the early 1900s,”
she said, noting it was fully restored last year
in preparation of their 100th anniversary.
Cooke County resident Stephen Harlow said
he recalled seeing something about the truck’s
stop in town so he decided to “come check it
out.”
“It’s quite a strong truck,” Harlow said while
looking over the historic vehicle. “I’m glad they kept
it. It’s quite valuable to possess.”
Lewis said the 100th year celebration in Gainesville
was held in conjunction with Travel Rally Day at the
travel center.
Several area vendors, including the Frank Buck
Zoo and the Denton Convention and Visitors Bureau,
were present to promote tourism.
Lewis said the Liberty truck will tour the state
through June and then will be placed on permanent
display at a TxDOT museum in Austin. To z
“track the truck” visit www.txdot.gov.
Gainesville’s share of retail sales taxes col-
lected by the state took a big hit last month, but
city officials say it’s nothing unusual.
The Texas Comptroller’s office reported
Wednesday that the city’s allocations for April
were down 36 percent compared to a year ago.
According to the state, the
city’s 1.5 percent tax rate gen-
erated $590,199 in sales tax last
month, compared with $930,343
for the same period last year.
For the year, the city’s share
of local sales taxes is down 12
percent.
City Manager Barry Sullivan
called the decline an anomaly.
“That’s not a shock. Around
this time last year, we had an incredibly large pay-
ment that was abnormal,” Sullivan said.
Sullivan said that when the city builds its
annual spending plan, they factor in the possibil-
ity of large, unusual sales one month with less
coming in the same month the next year. He said
last year’s allocation for the month was an abnor-
mal payment after someone sold a couple of “big
pieces of equipment.”
Above: George Kreidler, left, a road maintenance technician with the Texas Department of Transportation, shows off the
agency's refurbished 1918 Standard B Liberty Truck Wednesday to Cooke County resident Stephen Harlow
TxDOT celebrates 100 years
Photosand story by
MEGAN GRAY-HATFIELD
StaffWriter
mhatfield@ntin.net
The appearance of an 1918 Standard B Liberty
Truck drove many people to the Texas Department
of Transportation’s Travel Information Center in
Gainesville on Wednesday.
The truck, along with several other artifacts from
TxDOT’s early days, were part of a traveling display
celebrating the agency’s 100th anniversary, according
to Adele Lewis, a spokeswoman for TxDOT’s Wichita
Falls District.
On April 4,1917, the Texas Highway Department,
now TxDOT, was born, according to a news release
from the Wichita Falls District.
The government agency started with 10 employees
and has since grown into one of the state’s largest
agencies with more than 11,000 team members, the
release states.
Lewis said the Liberty truck was one of several
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Armstrong, Mark J. Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 179, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 11, 2017, newspaper, May 11, 2017; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1323970/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cooke County Library.