The Colony Courier (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983 Page: 1 of 6
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Shearer offers
Director job created
Budget, departments revised
Public Utility Commission hearing examiner
favored MUD over the City of Frisco in a dispute
scaffolding required 84,000 board feet of lumber.
Cement slabs will be placed inside the scaffold-
ing, decking put on top and a concrete roof
Scaffolding has gone up where a 3-million-gallon
water storage tank will be built by the Colony
Municipal Utility District near Highway 423. The
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Sandra Shearer, Municipal Utility District board
president, tells City Council members that a state
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Colony voters will make their desires known Nov. 8
whether they want a high school in the southern part of the
city.
That’s when they will vote on selling or trading 14.4
acres to the Lewisville Independent School District for a
high school site.
The City Council called the election Monday. The City
needs voter approval to either sell or trade the land
because it was purchased with $159,500 in bond funds.
LISD needs 40 acres for a school site. Fox & Jacobs would
sell the remaining acres needed.
A land trade could involve a portion of the B. B. Owens
tract at the northern city limits.
The LISD board at first wanted a high school at the
Owens site, but Colony residents battled the plan.
Mayor Larry Sample expressed optimism earlier this
month that an agreement could be reached with the LISD
board to build the school at Office Creek.
Councilman Marlene Poole said there could be large
voter turnout because residents want this school.
Sample said the planned school probably would be
known as Colony High School, not B. B. Owens High.
In other matters the council:
Approved Price Waterhouse for a city audit on the
recommendation of Councilman Norman Adeler.
Named Rev. Ron Salfen, pastor of Trinity Presbyterian
Church police chaplain. He has often assisted the Police
Department in crisis intervention.
Heard Nick Oprea of the Colony speak on behalf of
Universal Health Services in its effort to build a hospital in
the city.Oprea said the City’s support and perhaps funds
were needed.
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Persons needing emer-
gency ambulance service
should call 377-3562. That’s
the Denton County sheriff’s
office.
It will serve an area that
includes Little Elm, Lake-
wood Village and Oak Point
plus unincorporated land in
the area.
Little Elm area residents
now depend on the Frisco
Volunteer Fire Department
for ambulance service.
The Little Elm Volunteer
Fire Department has an
ambulance and nine trained
medical personnel.
Persons who would like
to learn more about adopt-
ing a pet and see the
choices should call City hall
at 370-1756.
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Sandra Shearer, presi-
dent of the Colony Munici-
pal Utility District board,
brought good news to the
City Council meeting Mon-
day.
A state Public Utility
Commission hearing exa-
miner, Deborah Miller, has
recommended that Colony
MUD serve a large disput-
ed area north of the Colony,
she said. The City of Frisco
had asked the PUC for
approval to serve the area.
“Colony MUD is better
able to provide service than
is Frisco due to the elevat-
ions involved, the quality of
its present facilities, its
ample water supply, and its
plan and funding for future
development,” Miller said.
The area is bounded by
Little Elm Fire Chief
George Chronister said
Monday ambulance service
is scheduled to begin Sat-
urday.
Dogs offered
for adoption
There are dogs in the
Colony animal shelter that
can be adopted.
They are:
LARGE:
—Setter, a red male, 18
months old and friendly.
—Shepherd, cream co-
lor, 8-month-old female,
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Community Development.
That had meant some du-
plication of equipment,
Sample said.
over Public Works, the
Inspection Department, the
City Library, and Parks and
Recreation. The director
will report to City Manager
Janice Carroll, Mayor Larry
Sample said.
Also, the police chief,
fire chief and city secretary
will report to Carroll.
The City Council shifted
funds among departments
Monday to make the
changes possible. The $2,
314,000 budget and 37-cent
tax rate remain the same.
When the council ap-
proved the 1983-84 budget
it provided a $80,000 con-
tingency fund. The amend-
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Council agreed to provide
$2,800 for the ambulance
service plus $1,000 for fire-
fighting. Lakewood Village
agreed to pay $800 a year
plus a $60 donation for each
ambulance run. Oak Point
agreed to pay $800 plus $60
a run.
ed budget provides $32,640
for the Community Service
director and a 4 per cent
pay increase for city
employes. A director hasn’t
been hired.
Sylvia Brantley will be
head of Parks and Recrea-
tion and Jerry Van-Y will
direct Public Works. Bran-
tley has been recreation
director and Van-Y head of
parks maintenance.
The City is still looking
for a librarian to replace
Ann Beckel who resigned
for personal reasons.
Mowing will be the re-
sponsibility of Public
Works. In the past it has
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The City Council revised
the 1983-84 budget Monday
making it possible to re-
organize some city depart-
ments.
The revised budget pro-
vides $320,000 for a new
Public Works Department.
It also provides $163,443
for a new Inspection De-
partment, and eliminates
funds for the Community
Development Department.
I. R. Bradburry, Comm-
unity Development direct-
or, will head the home
Inspection Department.
A new job has been
created. The director of
Community Services will be
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Revised expenditures for
departments are:
General Administration,
$278,385; City Secretary,
$66,076; Finance, $59,481;
Municipal Court, $30,119;
Parks and Recreation,
$80,598; Inspection De-
partment, $163,443; Fire
and Ambulance Depart-
ment, $371,527; Police De-
partment, $785,280; Lib-
rary, $70,199; Public
Works, $320,541.
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Judge Sam Houston in
Denton has promised a
ruling by Nov. 1.
“If we are providing
water and sewer they won’t
want to go into Frisco,”
Shearer said Tuesday of
property owners in the
disputed area.
Mayor Larry Sample has
expressed optimism in the
past that the Colony will
win the court battle.
“We expect to be out at
the same boundaries
soon,” he said Tuesday.
Sample said the hearing
examiner’s recommendat-
ion boosted his confidence
further.
MUD had sought to ex-
pand its service area to
6,000 additional acres.
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' It’s easy to become sentimental about an
old friend dying. For a brief time you
remember the good things you did together
while youngsters. There was swimming,
I fishing and talking about girls when the
realization came that they were a little
different.
Old newspapers die, too, and gray-hair -
ed editors and reporters become
sentimental for a few hours and toast the
I old girl with sour mash. That’s the way I
| felt a few days ago when I learned the
Press-Scimitar in Memphis, Tennessee
would cease publication. The last issue will
roll off the presses Oct. 31.
It’s circulation had dropped from
1 127,000 in 1973 to less than 80,000.
I Advertising dollars were dropping, too.
[ heck, I had read Press-Scimitar comic
! strips since I was 9 years old. I never
! doubted it would go on forever just like
[ taxes.
[ Back in the early 1950s I asked Null
Adams, P-S city editor for a job as a cub
reporter.
| “What experience do you have?” Null
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the Collin County line on
the east, Highway 423 on
the west, and extends north
to about a mile south of
Highway 720.
The servic areas re-
quested by Frisco and the
Colony overlapped.
The area recommended
for MUD’s jurisdiction
would include a 985-acre
Tomlin Properties tract and
a 800-acre Jackson tract.
A final order in the
dispute will be considered
by the PUC Oct. 20 in
Austin.
Frisco and The City of
The Colony are also engag-
ed in a court battle on
whether the City can annex
to the north. The Colony is
seeking to break through
Frisco’s strip annexation.
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Null said “Go out to the Memphis Zoo,
write a story and I’ll think about hiring
you.”
I didn’t go to the Zoo and write a story. I
didn’t get a job on the P-S. Frank Ahlgren,
The Commercial Appeal editor, did hire me
a few months later as a cub reporter. That
was better because the Commercial Appeal
in Memphis had more prestiege than the
Press-Scimitar. Null Adams turned me
down, but his brother, Malcolm (Mac)
Adams was city editor on the CA.
Both the CA and PS are owned by
Memphis Publishing Company which in
turn is owned by Scripps-Howard News-
papers.
The Press-Scimitar reporters had
lengthy 100-word paragraph leads and PS
editors apparently ignored sloppy writing.
We reporters in the third-floor newsroom
laughed at what was happening on the
fifth-floor PS newsroom.
It was funny till I learned the
Press-Scimitar was near death.
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Blalock, Jack. The Colony Courier (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983, newspaper, September 29, 1983; Little Elm, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1520099/m1/1/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Colony Public Library.