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Monday, March 14, 1983
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Double fun
because of his late appointment volving up to $500.
to the chairmanship.
A third bill the association
His January appoinment would like to see passed regards
tion board members vote on
session.
ted. All of his expenses are paid chairman Joe Davis, a Tarrant
County Justice of the Peace.
ment was done by the president Swaner.
tage when it comes to the lobby- fine the accused offender, but
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office equipment for the office Swaner, is about half the
have been contacting senators may furnish the items.
Staff Photo by Michela Garcia
cases involving up to $1,000.
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Time plan considered I
Allen trustees will consider ing that to one full day of
Swaner has been in Austin for
the past six Tuesdays and
Wednesdays and will return
there when he is called to testify
about the bills he has submit-
of the Justice of the Peace. Pre-
sent law states that the court
“I can see how his late ap-
pointment can be a disadvan-
of the J.P./Constable associa-
tion, Judge George Patzig of
Richardson.
Shane and Shawn Meek, 5-year-old twin brothers, enjoy a cool, but brisk
afternoon day at the park. The youths are the sons of Danny and Sherry
Meek of Allen.
waiving blood test examina-
tions for some marriages.
“The public is complaining of
the high expenses involved with
would be the J.P.
The decision not to create the
night court came in January,
and Patzig then appointed
number of bills filed during the
last session.
Swaner also said that the
Another bill, if passed, would
allow the court to collect
restitution on bad checks.
“This would give citizens and
businessmen quicker action on
bad checks,” Swaner said. Pre-
sent law states that courts can
With the exception of
Womack, the only expenditure
for council candidates has been
the $20 fee due upon announce-
ment of one’s candidacy.
School board candidates are
allowed to run for election free
of charge.
Womack’s expenditure state-
ment lists $80 for a postage per-
mit and $277.20 in yard signs
purchased from Denton’s
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vative,” he said.
The bills Swaner had heard
See LOBBYIST on page 7
Glen Swaner
Local JP lobbies in Austin as state chairman
Justice of the Peace Glen Swaner was recently named chairman of the JP
legislation committee of the Justice of the Peace and Constables Associa-
tion of Texas. Swaner has been in Austin lobbying for and against propos-
ed House and Senate bills.
by the association.
Swaner was named chairman
of the legislation committee in
January and will keep that posi-
tion for a one-year term, unless
he gets reappointed.
Stating he did not know he
was to be chairman of the com-
mittee, Swaner said his appoint-
revisions to the equivalency
time plan for teachers in the
Allen Independent School
District. The trustees will meet
at 7 tonight at the Allen High
School Library.
According to reports compil-
ed by the school district,
teachers can be granted one-
half day equivalency time for
attending workshops sponsored
by the Region 10 service center.
The board will consider chang-
see one of the legislators.”
running against incumbent
Ward Paxton for Place 5.
Joe Farmer, incumbent in
Place I, is the only candidate
running unopposed.
See ELECTION on page 7
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equivalency.
State law requires that
teachers must have 175 days of
instruction and eight days of in-
service education and prepara-
tion for a total of 183 days.
Regulations provide that not
more than three of the eight
days of in-service may be
designated as days of prepara-
tion for teachers. The remaining
five days must be used for in-
See AISD on page 7
Absentee voting begins today
for the local spring elections,
and will run through Tuesday,
March 29. Election day is
Saturday, April 2.
The only contested races are
for Allen and Lucas city council
positions. Other area elections,
including the Fairview City
Council and Allen and Lovejoy
school boards, have incumbents
seeking re-election unopposed.
The Allen American will
publish candidates’ responses
to current issues prior to elec-
tion day. Fairview council can-
didates will be featured Mon-
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day, March 21; Allen and Love-
joy school trustees Thursday,
March 24; Lucas mayoral and
council candidates Monday,
March 28; and Allen council
candidates Thursday March 31.
Allen council
In the Allen City Council elec- i
tion, Rex Womack has challeng-
ed incumbent H.R. Daugherty |
for Place 3, and Larry Reeves is f
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came after Patzig found he
could not reappoint former
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association’s opposition to
other bills.
Some of the bills Swaner
would like to see introduced in-
clude an amendment to a pre-
sent law that would make the
commissioner’s court furnish
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by Michela Garcia
Staff Writer
For the past six weeks,
Justice of the Peace Glen
Swaner has been at the state
capital talking with state
senators and representatives.
Swaner is one of the many lob-
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not collect restitution.
The association is opposing
bills that would: increase court
costs; allowing the commis-
sioners court to set all fees for
civil and criminal cases; and
abolish the Justice of the Peace
in counties that have a popula-
tion of less than 50,000.
Swaner estimates that 1,200
bills have been filed for this ses-
sion. That figure, according to
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Swaner began lobbying a bit Presently, the Justice of the
later than most lobbyists, Peace court handles cases in-
Davis lost his re-election bid in the testing,” Swaner said. The
November, but talk of creating test, which can cost $70, “is not
a night court in Fort Worth necessary for every marriage,”
developed, of which Davis the judge said.
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byists who has been filing bills Texas which has 1,400
in Austin during this legislative statewide members. Associa-
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Local political candidates
have filed their first financial
disclosure statements in accor-
dance with the upcoming Allen
City Council and school board
elections.
Rex Womack reported
$420.49 in contributions and
$357.20 in expenditures.
Womack was the only council or
school board candidate to
receive contributions, none of
which exceeded $50.
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elected officials, in September.
“It (the lobbying) has been
real interesting,” said Swaner
in a recent interview. And
while he said he “didn’t know
what to expect,” he said he did
“learn a lot” during the first six
weeks of traveling.
“The work has kept me very
busy,” he said. “Up until now I
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Swaner’s appointment came ing,” said Patzig. “But he’s do-
after he was named to the ing an excellent job so far.”
Board of Directors of the Texas Swaner’s work at the
Association of Counties, an capital consists not only of fil-
organization comprised of all ing bills, but also presenting the
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Sprinsport, Michigan 49284
The bills Swaner is trying to what bills to present each ses-
get introduced were ideas from sion and then tell Swaner.
the organization he represents, Named chairman of the
the Justice of the Peace and association’s Justice of the
Constables Association of Peace legislation committee,
Zoning
change
okayed
A zoning change for property
east of State Highway 5 and a
preliminary site plan for a pro-
posed outlet mall were approv-
ed by the Allen Planning and
Zoning Commission Thursday.
The zoning change, from
residential to planned develop-
ment, was approved for 16.2
acres east of Highway 5 and
south of the Jupiter Road
Church of Christ and the First
United Methodist Church.
It was requested by Weston
Blair, who is proposing con-
struction of a shopping center,
offices and multi-family hous-
ing.
The change from residential
(R-2) zoning, which allows two
homes per acre, was opposed by
several residents of Oak Hill
subdivision at the commission’s
Feb. 10 meeting. The multi-
family portion of Blair’s
development has a maximum
density of 16 units per acre.
Speaking in favor ‘of the zon-
ing change, commissioner Jim
Wolfe said, “The high quality of
this development sets a new
and important trend for multi-
family apartment dwellings in
Allen.”
He said a traffic and
demographic study provided by
the North Central Texas Coun-
cil of Governments showed the
development would have “no
negative impact” on the area,
and added that adjacent proper-
ty owners had not objected to it
during the public hearing.
Jim Pendleton, commission
chairman, said, “I would like
this to be an example for subse-
quent developers.
“I’m asked from time to time
what can be done about the ex-
horbitant amount of rental
housing in Allen,” he said, ex-
plaining the lack of available
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and representatives each day Another bill is a civil jurisdic- legislators “seem to be a little
(he is in Austin) asking them to tion bill that would allow a more liberal” than he expected,
carry the bills for me. I spend citizen to sue in the Justice of “I don’t know why. I just ex-
most of the day just trying to the Peace court for small claims pected them to be more conser-
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