Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 31, 2008 Page: 6 of 20
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By Phil Reynolds
South Jetty reporter
City council members expect few,
if any, surprises tonight, Thursday,
July 31, when they get their first look
at a proposed city budget for 2008.
The proposal contains few substan-
tive changes from last year’s budget,
said City Manager Michael Kovacs.
It does, however, give the council
some leeway to make changes. They
have until Sept. 11, the date when
they’re scheduled to meet to adopt
budgets and to levy property taxes
for the coming fiscal year.
Between now and then, they’ll
• Hold a budget workshop and
special meeting to discuss the budget
; (Monday, Aug. 4)
• Hold a public hearing on the tax
rate and on the budget (Monday,
Aug. 25)
• Hold another public hearing on
the tax rate (Thursday, Aug. 28).
The Recreational Development
Corporation - the council-appointed
board that oversees spending of the
city’s half-cent sales tax for recre-
ational purposes - will follow the
* same schedule.
The proposed city budget for the
; coming year totals $7,672,879. That’s
$1,447,162 less than the current
budget, although Kovacs anticipates
a total income of $153,889 more next
year than this year. That would easily
be eaten up by inflation and surging
fuel prices.
“We’re proposing no major staff
increases and no change in the
interest and sinking fund tax rate,”
Kovacs said.
The biggest hits in the upcom-
ing budget will be to beach ser-
vices (down $52,953), the mayor and
council fund (down $833,150), city
administration (down $55,316), the
police department (down $312,178),
the volunteer fire department (down
$38,672), emergency medical ser-
vices (down $34,352) and public
buildings (down $12,686).
Beach services will lose budget
funds because this year money was
spent to buy a four-wheel-drive ve-
hicle, to buy portable toilets, to repair
toilets, to rent equipment and to build
beach barricades and signs.
The mayor and council fund loses
$750,000 that had been held in re-
serve, as well as money for profes-
sional fees and for grant matching.
At the police department, $10,900
less is budgeted for contract person-
nel - the off-duty officers from neigh-
boring cities who often come to help
during Spring Break. The department
will also receive no new vehicles, no
radios, no body armor, no computers
and no office furniture.
Volunteer firefighters will see less
in this year’s budget for leasing a
ladder truck and a rescue truck and
for the breathing equipment they use
when they enter fires.
Most of the decrease in emergency
medical services is because that de-
partment won’t be buying an ambu-
lance next year, as it did this year.
Budget increases of $76,526 and
$64,146 will go to the planning
department and the public works
department, respectively. This year,
the planning department had a bud-
get of $128,913; public works was
budgeted for $1,192,713 - next to
police, the city department with the
largest budget.
Kovacs said council members will
also have a chance to look at the pos-
sibility of new city facilities, includ-
ing meeting spaces, a fire station and
a public works facility.
The first priority in city facilities is
a parks and recreation headquarters
building, however, he said.
Parks and recreation is housed
in a building formerly used by the
Port Aransas ISD as a temporary
classroom. Boards cover holes in
the floor in at least two places in the
building.
Beach ’ball
Football season is approach-
ing once again, and even
though you won’t see any or-
ganized gridiron action at Port
Aransas High School, which
has no football program,
the occasional casual game
breaks out among beach-
goers. On Monday, July 28,
about a dozen teen-age visi-
tors from various Texas towns
competed in a pick-up game
just south of Avenue G. In
the photo at left, 15-year-old
Cody Haak of Alvord leaps
high in front of Andrew Pak,
18, of Fort Worth, as the two
try to catch a pass.
Staff photo by Dan Parker
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Judson, Mary Henkel. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 31, 2008, newspaper, July 31, 2008; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth496571/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.