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THE DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
Wednesday, June 28, 1978
DISD financial plan
meets ‘minimal needs
Bv CAROLYN BARNES plan with an accident supplement and term life coverage was
Education Writer 323 per person per month. Based on 700 employees, the plan
Denton public schools trustees last night gave their tentative would cost the district approximately $200,000 annually — and
approval to an $11.5 million 1978-79 budget which contains no that would mean a tax rate increase of between 6 and 7 cents
provision for an employee insurance plan and virtually no Such an increase would mean, for example, that the owner of
capital outlay expenditures but maintains the current tax rate, a 340,000 home valued at 324,000 (based on 80 percent of the
The budget, with which the district “can meet its minimal assessed valuation) for tax purposes, who now pays around
needs for the coming year,” according to Superintendent $376.80 a year in taxes, would pay 3384 00 if the tax rate was
Robert T. McGee, calls for total operating and debt service increased to $1.60.
expenditures of $11,549,402 - $10,542,766 designated for the Capital outlay expenditures are expected to total 8231.211.
former and 31 006 636 for the latter. That total represents an only 2.1 percent of the budget and $8,634 less than last year. An
increase of $396,138 over last year. additional 3100,000 in capital expenditures requested by the
Based on an estimated 3341 million in property valuations, principals of the individual schools was not included in the
the 31 57 per $100 valuation tax rate ($1.28 for operations and 29 budget Approval of the items, which consisted primarily of
cents for debt service 1 is expected to generate $4,219,318 in tax requests for both additional and replacement classroom
collections. State funds are expected to total $6,230,211, with equipment, building repairs and maintenance and field trip
another $124,600 in other local funds bringing total operating funds, would mean around a 3-cent hike in the tax rate,
revenues to $10,574,129. Less an estimated $10,542,766 in Board members appeared reluctant to increase the tax rate,
operating expenditures the district would have a surplus of with thoughts of Proposition 13 (a California move by citizens
only $31,363. to decrease property taxes) and the mood of taxpayers toward
However, the 29 cents debt service tax will only generate higher taxes obviously on their minds. They also seemed
approximately 3996,399 in revenue of the $1,006,636 needed to displeased however, with, as Ruth Webb said, “an 311 million
meet debt service obligations. Therefore, the district will budget and a contingency fund of 321.000 and no money in the
“borrow” 310 237 from the operating surplus to make up the budget for capital improvements or equipment."
difference, leaving an excess of only 321,126. “I don't like to think that a tax increase is in our future," she
Although the budget contains no funding for an employee in- said. “But I don’t see how we can get by without maintenance.
surance program, board members did have an opportunity to I don’t see how we can get by without hospitalization ins-
view bids for group plans submitted by eight insurance firms, urance. 1 realize raising taxes is a difficult thing to do, but how
The low bid, submitted by a Dallas firm, for a hospitalization else are we going to do things?"
2 hearings
to precede
€
budget OK
Last night’s tentative approval of an
$11.5 million Denton public schools budget
is contingent upon two factors — a public
tax rate hearing and a public budget
bearing
Trustees have set the hearings for July
10 and 11. respectively, both at 7 p.m. in
the board room of the administration
annex. 909 Linden e
As required by the "truth in taxation
clause of the school finance bill, school
districts must for the first time hold a
bearing prior to setting a tax rate.
By law, a school district must hold a
public hearing if it intends to set a tax rate
higher than that needed to generate the
same amount of tax revenue produced the
previous year.
DISD Tax Assessor-Collector Chester
Crabille has determined that the district
would have to levy a $1.53 rate to produce
those funds, 4 cents below the current tax
of $1.57 per 9100 valuation. Since the
district intends to set a rate at least equal
to 31.57, on which the preliminary budget
is based, the hearing must be held.
Trustees will not set the tax rate at the
July 10 hearing. That will be done the
< following night during the budget hearing.
The only purpose of the tax rate hearing is
to allow citizen input
Mrs wewssg-qtsere shared by board member Bill ( “g^0^^ anything to
Thomas, who said, “The longer we put off doing things, the • s alsnahar programX he said. Approximately 1,000
more it’s going to cost us thegedtacatl oi. between one-fourth and one-third of all bus
“I know what’s down the road, and I know it won t get any Sundiants _ live within a mile and a half of the nearest school
cheaper,” he said “were falling behind each year in main-
tenance I do not want to raise taxes, but we’re operating so Saying that it is “inevitable" that taxing bodies are going to
close, that if we had two buses go out at the same time, we'd be have reduced taxation powers, Dr George Holliday said both
in a bind " the district and the taxpayers "are going to have to live with a
Sennett Kirk said “ome of the most obvious areas" where decreased budget."
money could be saved is increasing the one and a half-mile m- aWe may have to reduce the teaching core, we may have to
inimum distance for school bus transportation to two miles. C- % mares classes, but I’m telling you now, it’s my i-
urrently. any student who lives at least one and a half miles ROpfSSRUE we're going to have to live with a reduced budget."
from the nearest school he is eligible to attend may ride a bus m said "Taxpayers need to understand that they can have
However, the state minimum distance for which all pays lower taxes if they wish. but t hey re also going to have to pay
transportation costs is two miles; the DISD must pay all costs the consequences of lower taxes - reduced services and
for the extra half-mile, which amount to "around $100,000 a the consequences
year." Kirk said reduced quality
Wednesday,
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Janet Tandy
said Austin, w
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“housing boot
Total new c
over the Janu
said, with 48
since Jan. 1.
Of that tota
residences, 3
for apartmen
Of the 32 ou
residential co
the largest pei
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area
deotfis
Mae Ethel Jackson
f uneral services for Mae
Ethel Jackson, 73, of 1803
Boyd, will be held at 2 p.m.
Thursday at the Krum
Methodist Church The Rev.
Carl Robertson will conduct
the services, with burial to
follow at Jackson Cemetery
in Krum .
Mrs. Jackson died Wed-
nesday at Denton Hospitality
House
She was a lifetime resident
of Krum, born in Slidell June
17, 1903 She was a member
of the Methodist church, was
a housewife, and was the
widow of David Paul
Jackson, who preceded her
in death in 1980
Survivors include four
sons, Elmer Jackson of
Denton, Billy Jackson of
Coppell. Jerry Jackson of
Krum and Gary Jackson of
Farr; two brothers, Hal
Greene of Haskell and Edwin
Greene of Fort Worth, two
sisters. Myrtle Turnbow and
Bobbie Kregar, both of
Haskell, and eight grand
children
The famuy will be at the
Schmitz-Floyd-Hamlett Fu-
neral Home from 7 to 8 p.m
Dr. B. Jeanne Fisher
Wednesday night
visitation
Mike Mueller
for
TW U’s Fisher to fill
student affairs post
Dr B Jeanne Fisher has been
appointed vice president for student
affairs at Texas Woman's University
A Michigan native. Dr Fisher was
most recently assistant dean of the
office of student development and
director of admissions at the Johns
Hopkins University School of Health
Services
Dr Fisher received her doctorate
fron. Michigan State University She
will assume her duties Monday
“Her basic values in the total
development of the student and the
total program of student life are
compatible with the longstanding
traditions of TWU," TWU President
Dr Mary Evelyn Blags Hues said in
making the announcement “Her
background includes working im al
phases of student Me activities,
housing, counseling, orientation,
registration and financial aid."
Sosbee indicted for murder
Clifton Duane Sosbee, 23, was indicted for capital murder by
a grand jury called into special session yesterday evening,
action which apparently will halt an examining trial scheduled
for the defendant at 4 p m today
Sosbee was also named on a second indictment, along with
Lester Patton on a charge of aggravated robbery for the April
9 attempted hold-up of a Lewisville gas station
Sosbee is charged with capital murder in the shooting death
of Melvin Matthew Roberts, 27, whose body was found near an
1-35 service road in Lewisville June 21 He had been dead some
seven days when his body was found
Roberts was shot once in the head, and the defendant is
accused on the indictment of shooting the victim "in the course
of commiting robbery," a capital offense that calls for life in
prison or the death penalty upon conviction
Sosbee was arrested Friday for the Lewisville murder while
he was in custody of Irving police, and he was subsequently
taken before 211th District Judge Sam Houston who set his
bond at $150,000 That amount was continued by Judge Bob
Scofield, who received the grand jury indictments and
Scofield set bond on the robbery indictment at $25. 000 for each
defendant
Sosbee remains in jail under a total 9325 ,000 bond including
Rosary will be recited at 7
. p.m Wednesday night at the
Jerry Crane Funeral Home
Chapel in Dallas, for Mike
Mueller, 92, of Dallas Mass
of the Christian Burial will
bonds on two other counts of aggravated robbery • other
counties
At the arraignment. Houston scheduled a June Mexamining
trial for the defedant at the request of court appointed defense
attorney Michael Whitten, but Whitten later filed a motion for
an earlier examining trial
In that motion, filed before Peace Justice Law Dariey.
Whitten requested an "immediate examining mat ••
grounds that unless the defendant was given eme. the ware
would undoubtedly indict and forever deponre him of an
examining trial.'
Whitten added that he understood the case wudd be
presented to a grand jury prior to June 30
Four witnesses, two of them trnng police officers and two
Lewisville officers, were subpoened by Whmtem for the
examining trial and ordered to bring tapes, wranem stacememts
other records concerning the defendant and any allegations
concerning capital murder aggravated robbery robbery and
bank robbery
the blotter
Warrants prompt arrests
of two for auto burglary
Denton police arrested an 18-year-old man
yesterday on two warrants, one alleging
indecency with a child and another charging
him with automobile burglary
A second man, 20, was also arrested on the
automobile burglary warrant
The two are accused of a June 19 break-in of
a car.
The 18-year-old was later also charged with
misdemeanor possession of marijuana after a
small amount of the substance was found in
his possession when he was searched before
being jailed
Deputies took a 39-year-old Denton man
into custody yesterday on a bank robbery
warrant issued by the FBI, according to
sheriff’s office records The man was later
released on a 95.000 bond
A 39-year-old man filed a complaint with
police charging that he was held by one man
and struck by another and then threatened
with a later beating in an incident last night
A woman moving from Greenwood Street to
Sanger reported to police that she returned to
the Denton residence yesterday and found an
old set of silverware, a set of steak knives,
and a mother cat and three kittens
An air compressor and an assortment of
tools were reported stolen from a con-
struction site in the Mayhill area, according
to sheriff’s office reports The loss is
estimated at around $650.
A resident of Cleveland Street reported the
loss of a 32 caliber pistol and a man s
diamond ring in a burglary that occurred
between 5am and 3:45 pm yesterday
A stereo-radio and two wheel centers were
reported stolen from an automobile at
Merrell Inc Fiat yesterday, according to
police reports A window of the vehicle was
broken.
Electric co-op mails
decades-old profit checks
Checks totaling more than $60 000 have
been mailed to some 4,000 users of the Denton
and using the money for improvements have
caused the cooperative to hold its profits since
1969
Before we can refund any profits, we have
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in Dallas, with graveside - , TT c
rites to follow at 1 p.m at St to focus on L .□. women
Thomas Cemetery in Pilot
Point Literary works by American women will be the focus of
Mr Mueller wasborn “Readings for a Summer's Eve," a six-week, non-credit
Sept 9, 1886, in Germany, literature study and discussion program sponsored by the
and was a former resident of president’s council of Texas Woman s University
Pilot Point, where be worked Under the direction of Dr Phyllis Bridges the group will
for many years before meet at 7 p.m each Monday through July 31 on the second floor
retiring in Dallas. . mezzanine of the Administration and Conference Tower
He died Tuesday in Dallas The program is free and open to the public Additional in
He is survived by his wife, formation may be obtained by calling Dr Bridges at 383-2303
Ruth Russell Mueller . The program includes
former Pilot Point teacher, Dr Charles Bruce. "Poems of Emily Dickinson," Monday
of Dallas, ime son Michael Dr Lavon Fulwiller, "Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton July
Mueller of Dallas: • 10: Dr. B.H Fairchild Jr., “Death Comes for the Archbishop
daughter, June Mueller, of by Willa Cather, July 17; Dr Turner S Kobler. "Collected
New York: and several Stories of Katharine Anne Porter.’' July 34 and Dr Suzanne
nieces and nephews in Pilot Webb, Delta Wedding,” by Eudora Welty July 31
Point and Dallas
An examining trial is held to determine if there » sufficient CCounty Electric Cooperative in the form of
evidence to submit the case to a grand jury for further com- profits earned in 1947, 1948 and 1950
sideration The cooperative, a non-profit corporation. • to make profits." Stewart said "What we are
_ . __is required to return all profits to the mem-
The indictment against Sosbee alsomdh Aon bers " serves, and these checks are the first
viction against the defendant for a Dec 8 K dry ■ ___, ___
County issued since 1969
Dallas County Cooperative manager Leonard Herring
trying to do is get the system back on the 20-
The grand jury also returned an indictment —« Harold said he doesn’t intend for consumers to wait
Sheppearold and Bobby L Joiner - a charge of felony so long before the next checks are sent
poseession of over four ounces of marijuana "The board of directors and managemen.
possession 9 have set a goal of a 20-year payback of the
capital credits, and this is our first step
toward that goal " Herring said
Office manager John Stewart said inflation
Stock Market
year rotating basis, while keeping money in
reserve for repairs or improvements "
Stewart said he hopes the cooperative will
be able to send the next checks in about a
Because of address changes, many of the
checks will be returned. Herring said, and
requested that anyone who was a user of the
cooperative from 1947 to 1980, and does not
receive a check should contact the office
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WASHINGTON (AP)
Sen Lloyd Bentsen D
Texas said today that unless
the Soviet Union ends its
policy of confrontation in
Africa and elsewhere, any
arms limitation treaty will
S : almost certainly be rejected
■ a- by the Senate
E: “We simply do not feel that
w. we can enter an agreement
E of such evident significance
with a nation we cannot
trust, with a nation that
speaks of accord while
seeking out confrontation,
Bentsen said in a floor
Bensten said the American
public links the arms talks
with Soviet policies, adding
“Soviet adventurism in
Africa and Soviet lack of
regard of basic human rights
have poisoned the well of
cooperative endeavor even
in a noble undertaking such
as arms limitation "
Saying the Soviet Union
"has taken us for a ride."
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communist nation “is
stronger today, vis a vis the
United States, than it was 10
or five years ago "
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