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City updates thoroughfare
BY DAVE Pasley_______
• Staff Writer
The frontage roads along Inter-
state 10 should be made one-way
and portions of several local thor-
oughfares should be widened to
four lanes.
Those were among the recom-
mendations presented Thursday
to the 65 people who reviewed
proposals for updates and
changes in Boerne’s master thor-
oughfare plan.
Planning and Community
Development Director Chris
Turk said the plan, which was
prepared by the consulting firm
Plan includes one-way frontage
roads and wider streets
HDR, could be presented to the
Planning and Zoning Commis-
sion as early as June.
While an adopted thoroughfare
plan provides guidance to the
city in many aspects of roadway
construction and design, perhaps
the most important purpose of
the plan, Turk said, is to secure
right-of-way dedications for arte-
rial roadways from developers
through the subdivision platting
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In preparing the plan, HDR Cascade Caverns Road, Old San
reviewed the Boerne Master Antonio Road and Ranger Creek
Plan and the Kendall County Road. It also suggests widening
Thoroughfare Planning Citizens the Johns Road bridge over 1-10
Committee’s final report. and revamping the I-10 crossing
Recommended roadway at Scenic Loop Road.
improvements in the draft plan
include continuous, one-way
frontage roads on I-10, and the
expansion of several existing
roadways from two lanes to four
lanes, including all of Highway
46, Herff Road, Esser Road,
New arterial streets proposed in
the plan include an “outer loop”
that would serve as an east-west
bypass around the south side of
the city connecting Ranger Creek
See PLAN, page 2
Star photo by Candace Velvin
Dozens of students from schools and churches throughout the Boerne area gathered Saturday to assemble Easter
baskets for children of families served by the Hill Country Daily Bread food pantry. Working in assembly line fash-
ion at the Daily Bread warehouse, the students filled and sealed 1,200 baskets for children ages two years through
high school. Parent volunteers collected the baskets into crates in preparation for delivery on April 2 and April 9.
Agnes and David Hubbard coordinate the annual Easter basket program. Schools represented Saturday included
TMI, the Geneva School of Boerne, Boerne Middle School South and Boerne Champion High School. Volunteers
were also from First Baptist Church and Watermark Church. See more photos online at www.boernestar.com.
Boerne, Kendall County take different
approaches to lobbying for stimulus funds
By Dave Pasley________
• Staff Writer
Boerne and Kendall County have gone
separate ways on the matter of lobbying for
federal stimulus funds.
Kendall County Judge Gaylan Schroeder
has signed an agreement with former District
73 State Rep. Carter Casteel’s lobbying firm
to try to convince state officials to allocate
some of the stimulus funding for Kendall
County projects.
The county will pay Casteel and her partner
Cary Roberts $12,500. The contract with
Casteel and Roberts was signed by Schroeder
on March 12, took effect March 15 and will
expire on June 1.
After a long debate, Boerne City Council
members decided by a 3-2 vote last week that
a proposal to follow the county’s lead and
spend $10,000 on a lobbyist was too risky.
“The chance of getting any stimulus dollars
is slim, but if we don’t do this the chance goes
from slim to none,” said Mayor Dan Heckler.
“You guys have to decide if we want to
gamble $10,000,” City Manager Ron Bow-
man said.
Councilmen Jeff Haberstroh, Bob Manning
and Rob Ziegler voted no. Councilmen Ron
Warden and Jacques DuBose voted yes.
The differences among the council members
appeared to boil down to differing assess-
ments of risk because they all said they
thought it was a good idea to lobby for fund-
ing in Austin and Washington D.C.
Councilmen on both sides of the issue
voiced some support for the other side.
“I really want to support this,” Manning said
before casting a nay vote.
Although he voted in favor of the measure,
DuBose expressed some skepticism.
“We’re behind the eight ball already,”
DuBose said. "$10,000. won’t get us much.
I’m not sure what the county is getting for
$12,500.”
After the meeting, Haberstoh said he voted
against the measure because he did not think
there was enough time to put together an
effective lobbying plan.
“I don’t think we had a focus on what we
wanted,” Haberstroh said. “I would have liked
to have been more prepared. I think we can
put the $10,000 toward projects that we are
trying to build in the community.”
Warden seemed receptive to Heckler’s idea.
“The reason Boerne doesn’t get anything
is because we never ask,” Warden said. “We
need to start asking.”
Haberstroh said he would like to see the
city develop a more disciplined, long-term
approach to lobbying state and federal offi-
See STIMULUS, page 2
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Authorities
investigate
men posing
as deputies
BY Mark J. Armstrong
■ News Editor
For the second time in less than a
month, local authorities received a
complaint about someone imperson-
ating a law enforcement officer,
A resident in the 300 block of Deer
Creek called Boerne Police last week
after he said he was approached at
his home by two men claiming to
be from the Bexar County Sheriff’s
Department. The men said they had
a warrant for his arrest, but refused
to show any identification.
According to the resident, the
two men were in plain clothes and
arrived in an unmarked vehicle.
The resident refused to come out or
allow the men into his house, and
the men left.
Boerne Police Chief Gary Miller
said his office could not find a war-
rant for the man, and no one from
the Bexar County Sheriff’s Depart-
ment reported coming to Kendall
County at that time.
“If they were, they did not check
out on the radio with their dispatch,”
Miller said.
Earlier this month, Kendall County
Sheriff’s investigators were con-
tacted by a woman after she was
pulled over by an unmarked vehicle
with a single emergency dome light.
The woman said she became suspi-
cious of the man because he wasn’t
wearing a uniform and did not show
a badge.
Local authorities said the man
was not working for them. Kendall
County Chief Deputy Matt King
said investigators have also deter-
mined that the license plate number
from the woman’s vehicle was not
checked through the state’s com-
puter system.
“No one working in a law enforce-
ment capacity in the whole state ran
her through,” King said.
Impersonating a police officer is
a felony offense. The crime carries
a 2- to 10-year sentence in the state
penitentiary.
48 Hours
about Shue
case delayed
by game
Due to NCAA Men's Basketball
Tournament, “The Curious Case of
Col. Shue,” scheduled to air Satur-
day night on the CBS program 48
Hours Mystery, was postponed.
According the the CBS Web site,
the program will be rescheduled
for a later date.
Five years after Air Force Col.
Philip M. Shue was killed in a car
wreck, Kendall County Court at
law Judge Bill Palmer ruled that
Shue was murdered even though
the death had been declared a sui-
cide by the Bexar County medical
examiner and then-Precinct 1 Jus-
tice of the Peace Nancy White.
Shue died of massive head inju-
ries on April 16, 2003. Last year, a
jury heard evidence in a civil case
brought by Shue’s widow includ-
ing the examination of his body
which revealed torn and shredded
duct tape wrapped tightly around
his wrists and ankles, his nipples
and areolas surgically removed,
the first knuckle of his left pinkie
finger cut off, an ear lobe half-way
severed and a deep gash carved
from his sternum to his navel.
Those legal proceedings drew
national attention that included the
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