Citizens' Advocate (Coppell, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 20, 2004 Page: 2 of 28
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EDITORIAL
Citizens’ Adborate • August 20, 2004
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by Jean Murph
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COUNCIL
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Speed Limits to allow cities the authority to
set residential speed limits by local ordinance
without performing a street specific engi-
neering and traffic investigation. City Man-
ager Jim Witt addressed the need for the leg-
islation that would allow reduction in speed
without doing exhaustive studies. City En-
gineer Ken Griffin said changes in speed on
some streets would be 25 or 20 miles per
hour.
•Authorized the Planning and Zoning Com-
mission to hold a public hearing concerning
amendments to the Tree Preservation Ordi-
nance.
•Approved Sandy Lake Crossing Addition
Site Plan and Replat of the Sandy Lake
Crossing Addition, to allow construction of
an approximate 7,200-square-foot retail
building on 0.737 of an acre of property lo-
Fort Worth
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Houston
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Monday through Friday,
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El Paso
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cated along the south side of Sandy Lake
Road, 200 feet west of Denton Tap Road.
•Approved Vista Point II zoning change re-
quest to attach a Detail Site Plan to Tract 1
to allow construction of three office/assem-
bly/warehouse buildings on 9.1 acre on the
south side of State Highway 121, west of
MacArthur Boulevard and a replat for the
first phase of the development.
•Approved The Mercantile Addition, Lot 2,
Block A, Site Plan Amendment to revise
the size and configuration of an office build-
ing on 1.3 acres of property located along
the east side of Denton Tap Road, north of
Belt Line Road. The building will house a
dental office and other office space.
•Approved Coppell Florist zoning change
request from Single Family-12 to Planned
Development-203-Retail to allow construc-
tion ofa florist shop and office uses on 0.42
of an acre of property located at the south-
west corner of Sandy Lake and Moore
Roads.
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
HIGHLIGHTS
By Mike Cox
AUSTIN — It’s back to school this
week for most Texas students, but a so-
lution to the school finance issue will
be marked absent.
In fact, school finance reform ap-
pears to be dodging the truant officer.
DOTSON
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las-Fort Worth area to her home in Jackson-
ville, where her husband, Dale, is athletic
director and head basketball coach at Lon
Morris College.
“By moving to Corsicana, it cuts my
weekend drive from about three hours to one
hour,” she said.
Dotson said she has a history with
Corsicana ISD, having taught there for 12
years. Both of her sons graduated from
Corsicana High School, where one is now
head basketball coach, and her granddaugh-
ter now attends school there.
Turner said he and Dotson had worked
together for nine years, beginning when he
was superintendent for Jacksonville ISD and
she was a secondary curriculum director. She
followed Turner to Burleson, where she
served as assistant superintendent until the
move to Coppell.
“I’m really sad to lose her,” Turner said,
adding that Dotson is recognized through-
out the state for her expertise in curriculum
and instruction. “She’s done an outstanding
job,” he said.
Turner said the District would take its
time finding a replacement for the job, which
includes a broad range of duties relating to
curriculum, instruction and implementation
of the five-year Strategic Plan.
“We’re not going to make any quick
moves,” he said.
The District recently restructured its cen-
tral office, creating two new positions for el-
ementary and secondary curriculum direc-
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Martin Aldridge Publisher: Jean Murph Chris Helterbrand
Fred Conger Associate Publisher: Lou Duggan Jane Moore
Rachel Euhus Manager: Kathryn Walker Janice Stovall
Trey Hares Jay Westfahl Courtney Flatt Zach Webb
A second special session appeared likely
earlier this summer to deal with school
finance, but failing to reach any con-
sensus, the leadership opted to await the
outcome of a school finance case pend-
ing in state district court.
District Judge John Dietz is expected
to rule later this month or in early Sep-
tember on whether the present system
constitutes an unconstitutional statewide
property tax. And that ruling, of course,
can be taken to the Third Court of Ap-
peals.
Last week, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst
said dynamite wouldn’t be enough to get
the Legislature involved in the issue any
time soon if Dietz upholds the current
system.
He later said he was just joking with
the dynamite remark, but admitted that
a ruling for the state would make it
harder for the Legislature to reform the
system.
tors, and Turner said those directors would
take over a big part of the curriculum work
that is underway. Former Lakeside Princi-
pal Jean Boyd is the new elementary curricu-
lum director and Shannon Buerk, who as a
consultant helped audit the curriculum last
fall, will head up secondary curriculum work.
“I feel like our curriculum is in good
hands,” Turner said. “Both of them are on
the ground running and I think we’ll be able
to continue our work with the programs
we’ve got going.”
Under Dotson’s direction, the District
audited the entire CISD curriculum and be-
gan changes that would align instruction
from kindergarten through high school
graduation. She was also involved in the
creation ofa new staff development program
and the implementation of a hands-on, in-
quiry based elementary science program. In
the technology arena, she supported the mo-
bile laptop program, the new portal system
and placement of integration specialists on
campuses. She also worked with two fed-
eral programs relating to innovative pro-
grams and school improvement. Dotson was
also an internal facilitator for the Strategic
Plan, which Turner and his staff members
will now oversee. The plan, which includes
about 20 different objectives related to cur-
riculum and technology, is well underway,
with about 85 percent in the implementation
stage completed, Dotson said.
Turner said the District probably won’t
post the assistant superintendent opening
until spring, and will then look for someone
who can build on the changes underway.
“We want to make sure they fit the needs
of Coppell,” he said.
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urged to call the City’s Noise Monitoring Hotline at 972-393-4888 and repeat the same
complaint so they can be verified.
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