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District grades are in: Goose Creek gets a 78
State gives Barbers Hill all AS, sup says
Goose Creek lost 13 instructional days year under the new accountability system.
the fifth straight year. This is the highest brand-new accountability system. While
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BH board OKs state-leading
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Mont Belvieu planning
to hold line on tax rate
Parkway
work set
Summer officially over
for one Baytown school
I commend the efforts to include more
than a letter grade as well as the decision
to delay the complete implementation of
However, all Goose Creek campus-
es achieved a “Met Standard” rating for
Wesson said property tax is the largest
source of revenue for the city and, it is
budgeted at $16.3 million for the 2018-
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rating given to campuses. Individual cam-
puses will be issued a letter grade next
year.
Goose Creek also was awarded 26 dis-
tinctions across the district.
quell his dissatisfaction with the new sys-
tem.
“The State of Texas is implementing a
The Barbers Hill ISD Board of Trustees accepted an
application for what could be the district’s 29th Chap-
ter 313 agreement Monday night.
The district leads the state for the most 313 agree-
ments, according to Superintendent Greg Poole.
“There is so much going on right now in the indus-
try. And they are needing, from a time crunch, to get
this done,” Poole said about calling the special meeting
Monday.
Poole added that there is a big need for processing
plants and pipelines right not that even a two-week de-
lay is a big deal to companies.
The application is for the construction of a hydrocar-
bon fractionator, which would be the fifth Oneok frac-
tionator built within the school district. The project has
an estimated value of $265 million and will provide 15
permanent jobs once it is complete.
The fractionator will process raw natural gas into re-
usable products.
Becky McManus, assistant superintendent of finance,
said Monday night’s application was just the start of the
process that will now go to the comptroller.
After the 90-day review period and after the comp-
troller deems it complete the application will enter
into a 150-day review period. After the 150 days, the
application will be brought before the board for final
approval.
Under Chapter 313, the project is designed to facil-
itate economic stimulus, creating jobs and expanding
the tax base, while easing a company’s economic bur-
den during the first years of a project.
Chapter 313 deals allow the district and a business
to enter into an appraised value limitation agreement.
This type of agreement allows the business to build or
install property and create jobs in exchange for a 10-
year limitation on the taxable property value for school
district maintenance and operations tax.
BY CHRISTOPHER JAMES
christopher.james@baytownsun.com
BY CHRISTOPHER JAMES
christopher.james@baytownsun.com
Photo by Carrie Pryor-Newman
Dr. Anthony Price, Goose Creek CISD deputy superintendent, presents the keys to the new Agriscience Center to FFA
members (from left) Isaiah Gomez and Shannon Schamp, Stuart Career Tech High School; Ashley Ybanez and Kaylee
Dahlquist, Sterling High School; Laney Lawley, Hannah Humphrey and Isabella Garzoria, Goose Creek Memorial High
School and Raelynn Dempsey, Emily Arabie and Korbin Parks, Lee High School. The new facility at 8312 John Martin
Road, which houses classrooms, a practice arena and pens for pigs, goats, sheep and cattle, will be used by nearly
1,000 students from four high schools. The grand opening ceremony is scheduled for Sept. 29. For sponsorship op-
portunities, contact Kenny Rogers atkenneth.rogers@gccisd.net or call 281-420-4500, ext. 84414.
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BY MATT HOLLIS
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BY MATT HOLLIS
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BY MATT HOLLIS
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Sterling romps past
Dobie in straight sets
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BIBLE VERSE
These are the words of
the Amen, the faithful
and true witness, the
ruler of God's creation....
"Here I am! I stand at the
doorand knock. If anyone
hears my voice and opens
the door, I will come in
and eat with him, and he
with me."
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explained what each one would pay in
taxes.
For general homestead, a $200,000
home would be minus a $40,000 ex-
emption, and that would leave $160,000
in new taxable income, according to
Wesson.
For residents 65 and older with a
$200,000 home, they would also have
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this year’s “Hurricane Harvey Provision.”
per valuation to stay the same as it is
now. It was also the same the previous
year.
“We are so happy that we can contin-
ue to provide excellent services to our
residents without increasing the proper-
ty tax rate,” Wesson said. “We are fortu-
nate to live and work in a city where our
City Council has always planned ahead.
Because of that, we can keep our prop-
erty tax rate low.”
this morning, but they will
adjust to their school sleep
patterns very quickly.”
Twardowski also said
students in pre-K through
3rd grade experienced a
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The property tax rate in Mont Belvieu 2019 fiscal year.
is expected to remain the same. Using a chart to show how the tax
Calyn Wesson, Mont Belvieu’s fi- rate would affect a $200,000 home for
nance director, said they are asking for general homestead, residents 65 and
the property tax of $0.436659 per $100 older and people on disability, Wesson
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because of the storm. A total of 108 other
Texas Education Agency’s new A-F school districts in Texas directly also were
accountability system grading system for officially exempted because of the stonn’s
school districts has been released. impact.
While Goose Creek CISD was told they “The state infonned us that if we had
had a grade of 78, or a high “C,” the rat- received a rating this year, it would have
ing will not count as official since the dis- been a 78. But due to the lost 13 instruc-
trict met the criteria for exemption under tional days, this rating will not official-
ly count,” said Beth Dombrowa, Goose Goose Creek CISD Superintendent
Creek spokeswoman. Randal O’Brien had spoken out against
Dombrowa added none of the district’s the new system in January. The fact the
campuses would receive a letter grade this district was exempt due to Harvey did not
Summer came to an
abrupt end for one Baytown
school Tuesday, as students
The construction of two
segments of the Grand
Parkway is set to begin this
summer thanks to a $585
million contract awarded
to the Texas Department of
Transportation. One seg-
ment will include Baytown.
The construction will
begin on a 52.8-mile
stretch of road extending
the Grand Parkway from
Highway 59 to Highway
146 in Baytown. The idea
is to help improve mobili-
ty within the area, accord-
ing to Janice Hayes, Grand
Parkway Infrastructure
spokeswoman.
The Grand Parkway is
expected to be complete by
2022, making it the largest
highway loop in America.
This project will cost an
estimated $1.28 billion,
Hayes said.
The segments include
H and I, which span from
the New Caney area to
Baytown, going through
Crosby and Huffman areas.
“Currently, the construc-
tion date for the (State
Highway) 99 Grand Park-
way Segment 1-1, which is
the segment nearest to the
Huffman/Crosby area, is
scheduled for early 2019,”
Hayes said.
Segments H and I-l mea-
sure about 37.5 miles and
consists of a two-lane toll
road with sporadic four-
lane sections for passing. It
also extends from Highway
59 in New Caney to Inter-
state-10 near Mont Belvieu.
Segment 1-2 is broken
down into two segments,
1-2A and I-2B. Segment
I-2B consists of approxi-
mately 6.1 miles of a new
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reported to their first day of smooth transition, as BCA
school. just added those grade lev-
But all was well at els.
Baytown Christian Acad- “We added Pre K to 3rd
emy according to Head- this year and those students
master James Twardowski, have remained ‘tear-free’
who had over 200 students so far,” Twardowski said,
report to school. “They have experienced
“There are many smiling a smooth transition to
faces and wann embrac- school. To the best of my
es to go around today,” knowledge, their parents
Twardowski said. “I’m were ‘tear-free’ too - at
sure the older students ___________________________
struggled getting out of bed SEE SCHOOL • PAGE 3
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