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Wednesday, August 23, 1989, The Colony Leader 7A
Crowd backs school budget SX03.5EM
ESIGNS
By BEVERLY MARTINDALE school district had done a good job of Euless-Bedford, Arlington, Richard- Branch ISD’s. According to the
Daily Leader staff writer ‘ stacking the audience, son, Plano, Carrollton-Farmers Texas Education Agency, in 1988-
"They did a good job of getting the Branch, Denton, Garland and Lan- 89 the Carrollton-Farmers Branch
An overwhelming majority of teachers out — they had their own caster ISDs will have higher mainte- district had almost $300,000 more in
those at the Lewisville school dis- cheering section,” Berka said. nance and operations tax rates than wealth per student than the LISD.
trict’s public budget hearing last Last week, Berka formed the the LISD in 1989-90. The district also has fewer students.
Tuesday night supported the school Lewisville Education Appraisal Poli- Downing said the district’s debt This wealth explains why Carroll-
board and a proposed 22 percent tax tical Action Committee to petition service tax rate is three times the ton-Farmers Branch will have a tax
rate increase. the school board for an election on state average, however. He said the rate of 92.5 cents per $100 valuation
Only three of the more than 200 the tax rate. rate has remained around 33 cents instead of Lewisville’s $1.07, Down-
people who attended the hearing at A contingent of more than a dozen for the past 10 years even though ing said.
Timbercreek Elementary directly residents of Carrollton attended the the district has built 10 new schools School board supporters like pa-
criticized the board and the prop- meeting, and all but one said they since 1984. rent Tony Tolleson of The Colony
osed budget. supported the proposed budget. "I’ve heard people say we need to are volunteering their time to help
The maintenance and operations More than one person did ask the tighten our belts,” Downing said, the district defeat rollback propo-
budget was put at nearly $63.6 mil- board, however, why the district "We have tightened our belts.” nents.
lion and the interest and sinl ing fund had to raise taxes when it could Downing said the district’s "The question is are we going to
budget was $15.5 million. The prop- afford to repave the parking lot at teachers and administrators are paid sacrifice a quality education for an
osed tax rate is $1.07 per $100 Lewisville High School and install less than those in the Plano, Carroll- easy tax break,” LHS graduate
valuation, an increase of the current Astro Turf at LHS Goldsmith Sta- ton-Farmers Branch, Irving, Chris Nason said.
91.5 cents. Only the maintenance dium. Richardson, Grapevine and Coppell Vernell Gregg, a teacher at De-
and operations part of the budget is Superintendent Clayton Downing school districts — the same districts Lay Middle School, said taxpayers
subject to a voter-initiated rollback, said the parking lot was 21 years old with which the LISD is competing could either pay less than $4,000 a
School board supporters received and had deteriorated. The money for for the best teachers and industry, year for each student or spend
applause from a majority of the audi- the artificial turf and the parking lot Charles Emery, vice president for $12,000 a year for inmates.
ence after their statements, but less came from the district’s building economic development at the Although Berka appeared to have
than half a dozen people applauded fund, Downing said. Money for the Lewisville Chamber of Commerce, minimal support at the hearing, he
the comments of Bill Berka of building fund is raised through public said industry would “absolutely not” said after the meeting that he had
Lewisville. bond elections and is not part of the come to Lewisville if a rollback is received about 30 calls from indi-
Berka said the school board only district’s maintenance and opera- successful. viduals who were concerned about
understands statutes that “arbitrari- tions budget.
ly, capriciously and unreasonably “It’s either the lowest or the next
raise property taxes and fees.” to lowest M&O tax rate in the Met-
After the hearing, Berka said the roplex,” Downing said. The Hurst-
Teen luau at Aquatic Park
The Colony High School’s well-
known disc jockey, Dr. Gotch, will
be at the music controls during the
Teen Night Luau, from 6-9 p.m,
Saturday, at The Colony Aquatic
Park.
Admission is $1 per person and
includes the afternoon public swim
beginning at 1 p.m.
The Aquatic Park will be changing
its’ public swim hours due to the
beginning of the school year.
The pool will be open from 4 to 8
p.m., Aug. 28 thru Sept. 1. Labor
Day weekend hours will be 1 to 5
p.m., Saturday thru Monday.
Following the Labor Day holiday,
public swim hours will run from 1 to
5 p.m., every Saturday and Sunday,
except Sept. 9, in the heated pool.
Admission is $1. Children age six
and under can swim for free if direct-
ly attended by a swimming adult.
All girls interested in joining Girl
Scouts are invited to swim at the
pool from 2 to 5 p.m, Sept. 9 as part
of a special recruitment day.
Interested parents can come and
visit with troop organizers and bring
the registration forms which went
out with the city’s water bill mailing.
“I sell this area throughout this the tax increase.
country,” Emery said, an official Last Friday Berka sent Betty
with Lomas Realty. “And what McCrary, school board secretary, a
makes it easy to sell is its quality of certified letter asking questions ab-
life and its school system.” out the district’s finances, including
Emery and others at the hearing how much administrators are paid.
agreed that more industry must be Berka said he received a letter
attracted to Lewisville to increase from Downing saying his letter had
the district’s tax values. From 1985- been forwarded to the LISD’s
86 to 1988-89, the district’s certified attorney.
tax roll has increased an average of “They didn’t want to answer the
$655 million a year. This year the questions," Berka said after the
values dropped almost $16.56 mil- meeting.
lion. Had the values increased again
by $655 million, the tax rate would Berka’s original letter acknow-
be 93 cents per $100 valuation, lodged that the district had 10 days
Downing said, to respond to his questions. The dis-
The LISD’s tax roll is almost half trict has had Berka’s letter for two
the value of the Carrollton-Farmers days, Downing said.
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Ball, Jeffrey. The Colony Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 23, 1989, newspaper, August 23, 1989; The Colony, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1666607/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Colony Public Library.