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THE ALVIN SUN
MONDAY, MAY 1, 2000
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EDITORIAL/OPINIONS
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to serve. Please join me in voting These are all facts that you can
for Pete Vincent for school board check out for yourself and these
on May 6. are only a few of the reasons why
Remember, you can vote early I believe Mr. Tyson should not be
through May 2 at the Alvin City reelected. This is not the kind of
Hall if you live in the Alvin, person we should have represent-
Hillcrest, Liverpool areas and at ing us.
the Iowa Colony City Hall if you
live in Iowa Colony or Rosharon.
If you live in Manvel, vote at the
Manvel City Hall. Dear Editor,
Willie May Freeman You and 1 as private citizens can
Alvin approach City Council about our
concerns at any time. You and I
Dear Editor: coming together as a group such
To be sure that the voters know as a youth organization, church
some facts about candidate for group, service club, etc., can
City Council, J.R. (Dick) Tyson, I choose a spokesperson to talk
submit the following: with our City Council regarding
" (.After one mogth in office, the issuesaWs ifegsider importast
City had to pay for an outside Ehese cights offreemspeech und
attorney, at taxpayer’s expense, to self-government are constitution-
get a “gag order” from the Court ally guaranteed. What is not guar-
to prevent Mr. Tyson from releas- anteed is the action that any given
ing “confidential” information. City Council (especially in Alvin)
2.Mr. Tyson came into office will take on the information or
owing the City approximately requests received. That’s what
$7,500. The City again had to makes living here so interesting at
hire outside legal counsel at tax- times!
payer’s expense to pursue this The Alvin Police Officers, as a
matter. The Court agreed with the group, would like the same right
City and filed an injunction to talk with their City Council,
against Mr. Tyson requiring the Under state law, they cannot speak
As voters and taxpayers in the $7,000 in one year alone with
Alvin ISD, we have the opportuni- questionable expenses he still has
ty to vote on May 6, 2000 for a not satisfactorily explained or
man who has the wisdom, vision documented as required,
and knowledge to help lead the 5.Mr. Tyson received a cease
Alvin ISD into the new century, and desist order from Alvin
That man is Pete Vincent. Pete Community College’s legal repre-
Vincent is a man of character and sentatives for threats made against
integrity who will work with all a fellow council member and ACC
the staff members in the district to employee because they disagreed
provide the young people of Alvin with him.
with a quality educational expert- 6.Mr. Tyson has also received
ence. (and it’s been covered in the
He and his wife Janelle know newspapers) in the past two years
their four children received a good several cease and desist orders
education in the Alvin schools, from the Texas Real Estate
Now they want the same for their Commission for representing him-
grandchildren and all children in self as still in the real estate busi-
the Alvin ISD. Pete Vincent has ness. His license was revoked by
always been involved in and sup- the Commission in the 1980s for
portive of the school district, keeping a client’s escrow money,
especially during the 28 years that Even after numerous requests
Janelle was Alvin ISD food ser- from the Commission, he has con-
vice director. tinued to advertise the “Tyson
Pete Vincent deserves my vote Real Estate” name in the Houston
and your vote for Position 1 on the yellow pages - even today.
Alvin ISD School Board on May 6 7.Mr. Tyson’s name is still on
because he has the desire to do the delinquent tax rolls dating
what is right for all children in the back to 1982, contrary to what
school district. He has no agendas you may have read in the newspa-
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25. Time to decide
cares about its peo- If the Commissioners
whatever needs to be verify the petition, then an elec-
done will be done by this com- tion coula be called.
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minority, who say the people of be for the
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vote because, although we determined and th
continue to search for private determined and —
funding sources, there is that
possibility that we will have to
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city to garnish his $200 a month as a group to Council unless
wage as a City Councilperson. Collective Bargaining is passed.
3 .The entire time Mr. Tyson has Alvin Police are Not a union. By
been in office he has contended law they cannot strike, slow-down
that he didn't really owe “back or sick-out. ,
rent". However, in the last two Collective Bargaining only
days before the deadline for filing allows the Police the opportunity
for reelection, he paid the remain- to speak with and hopefully nego-
der due of approximately $5,600. tiate a contract with the City.
He was required to be free of debt The City Council is under no
(to the City) in order to run for obligation to offer a contract, can-
office - a 1999 City Charter ‘ not be “forced” to raise taxes, and
change passed overwhelmingly by is not bound in any manner other
the voters. He didn’t see fit to pay than to show the same respect and
his debt because it was the “right consideration to them as to any
thing to do”, but to be able to file other citizen or organization, by
for reelection. listening to their concerns and
4 .Of a $15,000 travel budget for ideas.
seven council members and the See fetters, page 10A
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Schwind, Jim & Holton, Kathleen. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 36, Ed. 1 Monday, May 1, 2000, newspaper, May 1, 2000; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1602506/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.