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Thursday, April 1,1999
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County adopts jail position
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MARCH 1999
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Patton gets official
nod from LISD Board
Rain this week:
Rain this month:
Total for year: 1999
Mar. 23
Mar. 24
Mar. 25
Mar. 26
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Mar. 28
Mar. 29
High
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70
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70
62
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61
Low
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Llano, Texas 78643
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“I really don’t want to give
them an out,” said Jack Pat-
ton, newly appointed superin-
tendent. “I think we need to
hold them to the contract.”
One big concern of the school
board is the fact that it is just
now being made aware of the
problem.
“Why wasn’t this caught in
January or February, why
now?” asked Christi Hopf.
“Every time'we’ve asked the
general contractor for a status
report, he says that things are
okay,” said board member
Mark Chapman. “Sometimes
you just have to have a little
trust.”
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Delays expected
Packsaddle Elementary construction causes concern
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Deaths:
Charles Young West
Jean L. Goulding
Wynoma Louise Lippe
Ernest Oliver j
Harold Leon Broach
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Courtesy of Bob Rose,
-CRA Meteorologist
Thursday:
Partly to mostly cloudy skies,
windy and warm. High 80.
Friday-Saturday:
Mostly cloudy skies with a
slight chance for rain and
thunderstorms. High of 80.
10-Day Outlook:
Temps: Above Normal
Rain: Above Normal
River Flow
Llano River flowing at
231 CFS as of Tuesday
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SAVING TIME
Data collected by Luke Rogers,
Wolf Mountain Ranch, Llano,
Texas.
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In a special called meeting Monday, the Llano I.S.D. Board of
Trustees officially named Jack Patton, the current superinten-
dent of Hereford I.S.D. as the superintendent elect of Llano to
replace Dr. Lawrence Lane.
Patton has been at Hereford IS since 1997. While there five of
his campuses received a Texas Successful School Award for aca-
demic performance, two of which were listed exemplary.
Before that, Patton spent six years as superintendent at
Menard IS.
Patton, 43, received his undergraduate degree from Texas
A&M, a Master of Education from Stephen F. Austin State Uni-
versity and Post Graduate from Colorado State University.
He has spent time as an assistant superintendent in Poteet,
as principal for Latexo IS, where he was also a teacher and
administrative assistant to the superintendent.
He will officially take over the reins as Llano IS Superinten-
dent July 1. However, has plans to spend time working with
. school officials on the new school construction immediately.
He and his wife, Cheryl, have two children, a 13-year-old son,
Clayton, and a 10-year-old daughter, Jackie.
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interested parties.
The position paper states that
Llano County is undertaking
a feasibility study concerning
the construction of a new law
enforcement center which
would include offices for the
sheriffs department, dis-
patchers, other law enforce-
ment agencies and modern
jail facilities. The scope of the
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Llano TX 78643
A six-month old burglary
case was solved by the City of
Llano Police Department over
the weekend.
Saturday, Interim Police
Chief James Schilling took
into custody, Raymond J.
Puckett, 64, for the September,
1998 burglary of the Llano
Motel. According to Schill-
ing, Puckett is accused of theft
of jewelry and cash from the
motel office and the residence
of the motel owners. It was re-
ported that $15,000 in jewelry
and cash was taken.
“On Thursday, March 28, we
received information that our
suspect was in the Town and
Country Motel in Ft. Stockton,
Texas,” Schilling said. “We
i Recent meetings with offi-
cials from WI.C.H Con-
struction have sparked con
cern of more delays on the
completion of Packsaddle
J Elementary in Kingsland.
I The LISD Board of Trustees *
held a special meeting Mon-
I day to discuss possible alter-
I natives should the lakes area
I primary school not be ready
I for occupation in the fall of
I 1999.
I “We’re looking at October or
I November before construction
1 will be complete,” said the dis-
V trict’s architect Chuck Fields.
J “We haven’t put (WI.C.H.)
I on notice yet but they are look-
| ing at about $60,000 in liqui-
I dated damages.”
I The contract between
and wildlife and DPS offices.
The jail, opened in 1982, is lo-
cated on the third floor and
has a capacity of 19 prisoners.
Jail space consists of three
single occupancy cells, five
double-capacity cells and one
cell that will hold six.
According to the paper, the
present jail cannot be expand-
ed and in fact, does not meet
the minimum standards set
by the State Jail Standards
Commission. Any addition to
the present facility would re-
quire the renovation of the ex-
isting facility to conform to
the new standards. Repairs
would be major and very ex-
pensive.
Overflow inmates must be
transferred to a facility in
Kerrville where Llano County
is charged $35 per day, per
prisoner.
The current capacity, ac-
cording to Kinney’s report, is
forcing early releases of pris-
oners and forcing a huge
backlog of arrest warrants,
estimated at 1,300 at the pres-
ent time. *_
current situation is that the Chase ends in arrest
fendants know the backlog
project would also include the for the district and county
remodeling of the present courts and in-turn has result-
Sandstone Street Annex ed in a lack of respect for the
Building to convert the top two law.”
floors into court rooms and of- The report goes on to say that
fice space for the various de- in order to solve the many
partments involved in the problems associated with the
county/district judicial pro- present undersized and obso-
cess. lete facility, the commission-
Presently, the sheriff’s office ers are examining the con-
is located on the second floor struction of a new center on
of the annex along with parks property yet to be acquired.
may mean a minimum of
time served, as well as a delay
in the trial process, which dis-
courages plea bargaining,”
the report said. “This then
compounds the trial schedules
A high-speed chase that took pursuit was initiated on Hwy.
Llano County Sheriffs De- 29, traveled east and con-
partment Officers in and out tinued into Burnet County,
of two counties ended without down Park Road 4, across RR
incident Saturday evening. 2342 to RR 1431 and back into
According to a report from Kingsland. The chase then
Sheriff Nathan Garrett, Depu- went down River Oaks Drive
ty David Grandstaff attempt- to Skyline and across Skyline
ed to stop a vehicle for speed- back to RR 1431 The driver
ing on Hwy. 29 near Bucha- then turned down slab road to-
nan Dam. The subject refused ward the Llano River where
to stop and the pursuit began. he was blocked and taken into
Jon David Little, 50, of Bur- custody.
net was arrested and charged A loaded 9mm pistol was re-
with assault on a public serv- covered from the vehicle.
ant, evading arrest and un- “I’m glad we were able.to ar-
lawfully carrying a weapon, rest the subject without further
The assault charge was a re- incident,” said Garrett. “We
suit of Little allegedly kick- appreciated the help from oth-
ing a City of Granite Shoals er departments.”
Marshall during his appre- Burnet County Sheriffs
hension. Deputies also assisted in the
According to the report, the case.
Burglary case solved
WI.C.H. and LISD con-
tail ed a time line for comple-
tion by August. The contract
calls for a $500 per day penalty
after that date.
Fields explained that the
problem lies with obtaining
sub contractors.
The board is discussing the
possibility of alternative
classrooms for the kindergar-
ten and first grade students
who will attend Packsaddle
this fall.
Oqe option is to build portable
classrooms on the construc-
tion site while another is
housing students at the First
Baptist Church on a temporary
basis.
Before passage of a bond
election that created Packsad-
dle, the board explored the pos-
sibility of using First Baptist
as a lakes area school.
Superintendent Dr. La-
wrence Lane said that the
board will have to be careful
when holding the contractor’s
feet to the flame.
“This year, San Antonio IS
passed the largest bond in his-
tory ($300 million) and Austin
passed the third largest,” ho
commented. “These subs can
thumb their noses at us and
find plenty of work out there.”
“We’re just going to have to
work with this contractor as
best we can and hope for the
best,” Fields said. “In the end,
we want the best building we
can get within budget because
long after this is over, Llano
will have to live with it.”
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In a regular meeting held
last Thursday, the Llano
County Commissioners una-
nimously adopted a position
paper concerning the proposed
new law enforcement center.
Drafted by Precinct #1 Com-
missioner Bill Kinney, the
paper outlines the need for
such a facility as well as
thoughts and concerns or all
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Office space will be provided
for the sheriffs office includ-
ing dispatch services, state
troopers, parks and wildlife
wardens, I.N.S. officials,
Texas Rangers, the justice of
the peace and constable. Inter-
view rooms will be included
for attorneys to meet with cli-
ents and the entire facility
will be constructed to meet the
requirements of the Texas
Jail Standards Commission.
Commissioners are hoping
the completion of the Law En-
forcement Center will elim-
inate the current overcrowd-
ing situation plus eliminate
the need to transfer prisoners
to other facilities. Also, the in-
creased cell space will allow
the sheriffs office to serve
more warrants and work
down the court backlog.
The first steps for the com-
missioners court to take is to
identify a site, 20 to 30 acres,
evaluate utility availability,
and secure an architectural
firm to develop general plans
and cost estimates.
SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION .... Matt Richter from the University of Texas Astronomy
Department, gave a spe cial demonstration about refracting light for students in Shannon
Miller’s eighth grade science classes last week. Here, students wear special grooved glasses that
causes light to bend and helped the students answer the question, "Is white light with or without
color?” The students discovered that white light does have color.
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contacted the Ft. Stockton Po-
lice Department and they
were able to arrest him on our
warrant.”
Schilling said that Puckett
had been a suspect from the
time of the burglary but offic-
ers were unable to locate him.
After his arrest, Puckett gave
a full, written confession, ac-
cording to Schilling. Puckett
was from. the San Antonio
area but had been living in
this area for some ‘ me.
He^ faces felony burglary
charges and is currently in
Llano County Jail on $15,000
bond.
“It was nice to be able to get
this one cleared,” Schilling
said.
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Stephenson, Jimmy. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 1, 1999, newspaper, April 1, 1999; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1603143/m1/1/: accessed June 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.