News Bulletin (Castroville, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 2004 Page: 1 of 26
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Softball team finishes
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Truckers complain about police profiling. See
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Volume 44 Eleventh Issue
Thursday, March 11, 2004 Castroville, Texas
West, Scott to meet
in GOP sheriff runoff
Bobbie Nance them and did not return to the
Staff Writer courthouse. Scott and. West were
Kathy West will square off against already ahead.
her former boss Wesley Scott once By 9:40 PM 400 votes for Scott
2 more in the race to be on the had been counted, 297 for West and
Republican ticket for sheriff of 159 for Fuentes.
Medina County, after the primary When the unofficial final results
Tuesday night. were posted at approximately 12:15
Scott previously ran on the am Wednesday, Scott held the most
Democratic ticket, this is his first votes at916, compared to West’s 639,
time on the Republican ticket. but Scott did not have the 50 percent
The 56-year-old Scott was sheriff needed to win.
Perales makes easy work of election
Ron Scott the vote. Breiten came away with 201 of the votes cast,
Staff Writer leading runner up Joe Ramon by 18 votes. Ramon’s
HONDO -- In Precinct 2, incumbent Mike Perales 183 votes accounted for 26.4 percent of the vote and
came away with the sure victory leading all others was 13 votes ahead of Lynn Sides, with his 170 votes
with 477 votes, accounting for 64.5 percent of the accounting for 24.5 percent of the votes cast. The all-
overall vote. Second to Perales was a close race Republican race failed to find a candidate with a 50
between Gary Gavell with 131 votes and Steve Gilliam
with 133 votes.
“I want to thank all those people who came out
to support me today,” said Perales, "I want them to
know I will continue to do the job I have done for the
last seven years.”
percent majority, so will likely face a runoff.
In Precinct 3, the voters were neck and neck
between Stephen Duffy with 110 votes accounting for
40 percent of the vote, and Mark Garrison with 106
votes, or 38.6 percent of the overall vote. The race
between Ronald Ray and Carlos Reyes was close with
of Medina County for 12 years before
Scott held 48 percent of the
being ousted four years ago by vote, West, 33 percent, and Edward
incumbent Gilbert Rodriguez. Scott Fuentesl7 percent. 330 total votes
. also spent 17 years with the DPS. were counted for Fuentes.
West, a former chief deputy from West was not present at the court-
the Medina County Sheriff’s Office, house. Her husband, Bob West,
has 14 years law enforcement expe- was at the courthouse and kept her
rience. She was worked with both informed of the voting results as
Scott and Rodriguez and is the first they were posted via cell phone.
The race for constable was extremely close in Ray having 30 votes, accounting for 10.95 percent of
Precinct 3, where just four votes separated the top the vote and Reyes having 28 votes, or 10.22 percent
two finishers. In other precincts, the margins were of the vote.
a little wider. Precinct 4 was an uncontested race with Elmer
In the precinct 1 constable race, Clifton Breiten Dale Stehle coming away with 401 votes from the
ousted incumbent Darryl Boettcher with 29 percent of Democratic party.
County clerk:
Voter turnout
female to run for sheriff of Medina
County.
After the early voting results were
posted, Edward Fuentes viewed
Bob West left immediately after
viewing the final results.
20 percent
HONDO - Of the 23,525 registered voters in Medina County,
approximately 4700 turned out to vote in the primary election Tuesday.
According to Elva Miranda, serving as the county elections adminis-
trater, her office sent out 155 mail in ballots and as of Monday, had
received 107 of them back. The early ballot process overall, brought in
a total of 1474 votes including the mail in ballots. The remainder of the
votes tallied were from the election day ballots.
See "Runoff," page 2
See’Vote,” page 2
SHERIFF,
Republican runoff.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE,
District 80
Pifimarg highlights
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ELECTION
HAVING SOME FUN: Many people attended a silent auction and raffle
on Saturday, March 6 in conjunction with a Happy Birthday Texas affair at
a restaurant in Hondo. Shown in the photos are Wanda Haby, inset, as she
speaks to the audience. Congressman Henry Bonilla makes the rounds to
speak to visitors during the event. (Photos by Jeff Wilton)
COUNTY commISSIOnER,
Precinct 1
Hartmann-D Mitchell-R
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
38th Judicial District
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D Effort to end or
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M mandates requiring
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Sincreases
Low income development
possible in Castroville
Some citizens upset over Geneva Street proposal
Bobbie Nance n 7 7 ,
STAFFWRITER It's the opportunity for
CASTROVILLE An affordable housing 1+507€ (4227; 77 1
tax credit application for Alsace Village, a clEEzers OJ castrovitte, tO
proposed low income senior development, to voice their opinions ...”
be built at 2101 Geneva Street, was submit-
ted to the Texas Department of Housing and
Community Affairs, Jan. 9.
Affordable housing tax credits are funding
mechanisms to encourage private developers
and private capital into affordable housing,
Developers with successful TDHCA appli-
Gordon Anderson,
Texas Department of Housing
and Community Affairs
representative
cations are granted dollar value credit build,
applied to federal tax liability. For example, a The application phase is competitive. Last
developer who applied in 2004, and received year, approximately 260 tax credit applica-
$70,000 in tax credits against its bill every tions were submitted to the TDHCA, and 67
year for ten years, could sell its $700,000 developers awarded credits. A score system
in credits to investors at a lower price and
immediately gain the equity they need to
See "Low," page 2
Public works director
Alexander, employees
receive kudos from city
Bobbie Nance age, and refused to comment on the
Staff Writer situation.
CASTROVILLE -- The spotlight was “Bruce and his crew are always
on public works during a Monday night responding,” Payne said, “better than the
city council meeting when two citizens police department.”
publicly thanked Public Works Director In the past Payne has brought the
Bruce Alexander and his crew for their abuse of city vehicles to the attention
dedication and swift response time. of Councilman Jerald Foxworthy and
Mayor Robert Hancock and it has “fallen
on deaf ears,” she said.
“I’m sorry it happened to Bruce,”
Payne said, “he’s not the only one [who
has used a city vehicle for personal use].”
The letter of reprimand needs to be
taken out of Alexander’s file, and instead,
Alexander be verbally warned, Payne
said.
“It’s election time, this is a good time
Kolasa hesitation frustrates
some River Bluff residents
Bobbie Nance “I’m really upset that Kaki takes
Staff Writer no position when it’s obvious what her
CASTROVILLE -- District 1 constituents are saying,” River Bluff
Councilwoman Kaki Kolasa again sug- resident Rick Baes said,
gested tabling the issue of a letter from “She was elected
the city concerning the proposed Alsace to be our voice, she’s
Village, a low-income senior develop- not expressing the
ment Monday. Her decision disappoint- wishes ofher constit-
ed constituents in the River Bluff sub- uents,” another resi-
division where the development will be dent, Mike Gallant,
Amelia Payne
expressed her displea-
sure over a written
reprimand Alexander
received after driving
his city work truck
to his son’s baseball
game, 54 miles away
in Uvalde.
€ Alexander reim-
bursed the city for
the round trip mile- ALEXANDER
built, if awarded tax credits from the
state.
River Bluff residents had asked alder-
men to write the state and oppose the
development, because of unanswered
said.
Kolasa said she
wanted more infor-
mation about the
project in order to
questions, and because they feel it does make a clear deci-
not meet the housing needs of the city.
Tax credits used to build these devel-
opments are awarded to developers on
a score system. A negative letter from
the city would result in a loss of three
points for the developer and is unlikely
to block it.
KOLASA
sion. Kolasa has visited similar develop-
ments in San Antonio and found them
to be high quality.
“I thought we put this thing to
bed once,” said Councilman Jerald
See "City," page 2
See "Kolasa," page 2
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