The Ingleside Index (Ingleside, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1991 Page: 1 of 12
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Ingleside firemen
battle brush fire
USD information for
1991-92 school year
Cook Primary faces
exciting possibilities
Free, reduced
cost meals
available
City council
recognizes
fire dept.
Tom Anderson
Staff Writer
When representatives of the By
the Bay Citizens Association
showed up for Tuesday night’s
council meeting, they brought
with them a message of continued
defiance towards the city’s plans
for annexation of the bay area,
and not a message of cooperation
as was generally expected.
City council members had set
up a committee which was sup-
posed to discuss issues concern-
ing city services to the bay area.
The council had asked bay resi-
dents to choose three representa-
tives to be on that committee
along with City Manager Steve
Fitzsgibbons and Council Mem-
bers Judy Storms and Steve
Roberson.
Pat Nye, Barbara May, and
Maxine Vincent were elected by
the bay association from among
seven candidates nominated to
serve on the committee.
The three showed up Tuesday
night and Mayor Mark Crawford
asked Dye to address the council.
When Storms asked on what
nights Nye would be available to
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We invite to be our guest at the pic-
ture, “Robin Hood" showing Aug.
16th. - Aug. 22nd., at the Rialto
Theatre, Laura Bell Crews and guest.
Thia notice clipped from The Ing-
leside Index will serve as your admis-
sion.
Thursday
August 15,1991
Volume 42
Number 28
Recognition from the city
council of the efforts made by
the Ingleside volunteer firefigh-
ters couldn’t have been made at
a more appropriate time than
Tuesday night after firefighters
had battled a brush fire.
The ceremonies for the proc-
lamation of August 25 to
September 2 being named “Ing-
leside Firefighters Apprecia-
tion Week,” were moved from
city hall to the fire station
where the firefighters sat weari-
ly about after their engagement
with a brush fire near the Aran-
sas Pass and Ingleside city
limits.
A cake decorated to look like
a fire truck was delivered to the
fire station by members of the
city staff and city council.
At city hall, during the coun-
cil meeting, Mayor Mark Craw-
ford read the proclamation
which was drawn up to honor
the volunteer departments
efforts on behalf on the Muscu-
lar Dystrophy Association.
“Ingleside firefighters have
been involved in fundraising for
over 30 years in support of the
Muscular Dystrophy Associa-
tion’s important cause” states
the proclamation.
It was anticipate a member of
the volunteer department
would be at city hall to receive
the proclamation and to share
in the cake made in honor of the
department. But, all Ingleside
Volunteer Fire Department
members had joined in the
efforts to control a brush fire
which raged most of Tuesday
afternoon and on into Tuesday
night.
The budget as figured on a tax
rate of .39003 per 100, compared
to the past year’s tax rate of
Ml. 168. This is misleading in that
it would indicate the rate has
been reduced by about one-third.
What actually happened is that
the tax rate of the CED, which is
still undetermined, had to be sub-
tracted from the tax rate of Ing-
leside schools.
If the tax rate of the CED is the
amount expected, then the com-
bined local and CED school tax
that the Ingleside taxpayer will
owe will be 3 cents per £100 high-
er than last year.
Property values had increased
by £54 million, which should
have generated for the schools a
levy of <1,601,323. But an
amount of this yet to be deter-
mined has to go to the CED.
See BUDGET, Page Seven
allowed firefighting teams to be
placed in various sections in
order to put up a front to control
the fire’s spreading.
Ritz said the fire fighting efforts
went on all through Tuesday
night and into early Wednesday
morning.
Fireman were still responding
to flare ups Wednesday after-
noon
Wind speed Tuesday which
drove the fire through the brush
was estimated at gusting between
25 to 30 mph and many property
owners hauled out their garden
hoses to wet down their lawns and
meet as a member of the commit-
tee, his answered stunned the '
council.
“If annexation is to be an issue,
I am not available any night,” said
Nye.
Nye said members of the bay
association would be available to
discuss city services to the bay as
long as those services had no con-
nection with any annexation of
the bay area.
“We would like to meet with
Tom Anderson
Staff Writer
Nearly 100 firefighters from
over a dozen surrounding fire de-
partments joined the Aransas
Pass Fire Department and Ing-
leside Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment in a fight to control a blazing
brush fire Tuesday afternoon.
Aransas Pass Fire Chief Gilbert
Ritz said he believed the fire,
which was reported at 1:30 p.m.
orginated near Rhodes Avenue.
“At first it was moving north-
west, then the wind shifted and it
was all over the place,” said Ritz.
Quick responses from depart-
ments as far away as Refugio
FIVE-YEAR OLD NEIGHBORS, Courtney Bartlett and Tara Farley, check out their new school supplies
as they get ready for the first day of school. They registered together at Cook School for kindergarten.
Courtney is the dau^hler of Jim and Linda Pugh Bartlett and Tara is the daughter of Tom and Martha
Farley, who live across the street from one another on Inglewood Drive.
you and explore services without
annexation,” said Nye.
However, council members
made it clear the position of the
city was that annexation would
be required for city services to the
bay.
“We have to annex you to pro-
vide you with sewer service, ” said
Council Member Jane Ward.
City Manager Fitzsgibbons sug-
gested the idea of.a committee be
dropped until after the vote on
annexation had been made.
“If annexation is not to be dis-
cussed, it would be pointless to
meet,” said Fitzsgibbons.
Council Member Roberson told
the representatives from the bay
they had missed an opportunity
to have input into decisions
which will affect bay residents.
“Consquently those decisions
will be made without any input
from the bay, and that is too bad,”
he said.
Issues such as how assess-
ments on property would be
made, how city assistance could
be offered to those unable to pay
See DEFY, Page Seven
The first day of classes in Ingleside schools will be Tuesday,
Aug. 20.
Superintendent Gilbert Mircovich said all students should be
\ at school by 7:55 a.m. prepared to attend classes all day. Buses
will run their normal schedules.
Teachers will report for their first contract day of 1991-92 at 8
a m. Monday, Aug. 19. The first two hours, they will meet in the
high school auditorium to receive information from the superin-
tendent’s office.
At 10 a.m., they will go to their respective buildings to receive
information from their principals for one hour. Principals will
direct them for the balance of the day’s schedule.
The superintendent urges all parents whose children qualify
for free or reduced price lunches to fill out application forms,
whether or not they want to receive the meals. He said it is
important to the school district as money allocated to the schools
for such program as vocational training and special education is
based on the number of students who qualify for free or reduced
price lunches.
Further information and applications for the lunch program
are available through the office of the superintendent or the
principals. Lunch prices will remain the same, Hl for grades K-6
and £1.25 for grades 7-12.
Pre-registration information is available at the offices of the
principals for students new to the district.
At Cook Primary School, Pre-K-3, at 417 First Street, Brenda
Richardson is principal and the phone number is 776-2231.
Pre-packaged supplies are available now. Class lists will be
posted on classroom doors Monday, Aug. 19 for children who
One of the exciting things about the beginning of a new year at
Cook Primary School is that children of five new Navy families
have enrolled.
At the same time the children are welcoming these new
classmates, Principal Brenda Richardson is equally enthusiastic
about their parents. She found the Navy families eager to volun-
teer in the schools, to help with tutoring or carnivals, or whatever
is needed. She said they want to be a part of community and are
going to make important contributions.
Another child enrolled, new to the community, is Jonathon,
son of the Rev. Don French, new minister at the First Baptist
Church of Ingleside, and his wife.
For the first year, a full time counselor will be available at
Cook, shared with Sheldon. She is Patty Douglas, who was
previously teaching in the transitional first grade. There are now
See COOK, Page Seven
V
School bells trill ring
An eight million dollar budget
was adopted by the board of the
Ingleside Independent School
District Monday night after a pub-
lic hearing, at which no citizen
appeared to question or com-
ment.
The board approved expendi-
tures of £8,43 7,263, which is only
slightly above the figure for the
1990-91 school year, which was
£8,229,056.
Revenues are another matter.
The budget adopted projected re-
venues of £9,281,333, which
Business Manager Bob Spaulding
called a “wild guess. "The tax rate
has not been adopted. There is
great uncertainty about how
much money will be lost because
of the court-mandated school law
which created a new taxing struc-
ture called a County Education
District (CED).
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The Ingleside School District
serves meals each day.
The regular price of meals is
£1 for students kindet through
sixth grade and £1.25 for stu-
dents 7th through 12th. Break-
fast is 50 cents for all students.
Parents who receive food
stamps or AFDC for their chil-
dren, may get free meals for
their children. For those whose
total household income is the
same or less than the amounts
on the income chart accom-
panying this article, their chil-
dren may get free meals or re-
duced price meals. A foster
, child may get free or reduced
price meals regadless of the
household income. The re-
Wuced price is 30 cents for
breakfast and 40 cents for
lunch.
To get free or reduced price
meals for their children, pa-
rents must complete an ap-
plication and return it to the
school.
How to apply
If you now get food stamps
or AFDC for the children you
are applying for, the applica-
tion must have the children’s
names, a food stamp or AFDC
case number for each child,
and the signature of an adult
household member.
If you are applying for a fos-
ter child, the application must
have the childn’s name, the
child's “personal use” income,
and an adult signature.
If you do not Hat a food
stamp or AFDC case number
for all children you are ap-
plying for, then the application
must have the children’s
names, the names of all house-
hold members, the amount of
income each person got last
month and where It came
See LUNCH, Page Seven
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Cole, Mary. The Ingleside Index (Ingleside, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1991, newspaper, August 15, 1991; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1598796/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.