Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 47, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 23, 1983 Page: 1 of 12
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NOTICE: The Palacios Beacon will
be closed Thursday and Friday for
Thanksgiving. Items for the Bea-
con may be slipped under the door.
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City-wide drainage to
require bond election
BY NICK WEST
Action ranging from studying a
city-wide drainage program that
would require a bond election to
passing of an ordinance regulating
the keeping of wild animals inside
the city was undertaken by the
Palacios City Council in two
meetings within a week.
The council met last Tuesday in a
special session and again Monday
night in regular session.
The council agreed to authorize
the engineering firm of Jones &
Neuse to file a pre-application
permit with FmHA for a $500,700
loan at 9 Vi -percent interest to
cover the cost of the proposed
city-wide drainage project that
would be done in conjunction with
a previously outlined street paving
work. Should the pre-application
meet with favorable response from
FmHA the council will then have to
decide whether to proceed with the
project and call for a general
obligation bond election.
It will then be up to Palacios
voters to either pass the bond issue
dr vote it down. According to David
Neuse, city property taxes would
have to be increased 20-percent in
order to repay the loan.
Property owners are currently
levied with a tax rate of 51-cents
pdr $100 valuation oh their proper-
ty. A tax increase of 10-cents would
be necessary if the bond election is
called and is passed.
A person with property with an
assessed property value of $20,000
would incur a yearly tax increase of
$20, or $1.67 per month. Those
having property valued at $40.00Q
would have their taxes go up $40
per year, or $3.33 per month.
Neuse said it would take a few
weeks before any wold is received
from FmHA concerning how favor-
able the chances were of Palacios
receiving the loan. Once that is
received, the council would then
decide whether to call an election
and based on the election’s out-
come, either proceed with the
formal loan application or halt it.
When first presented to the
council last week, the drainage
proposal was primarily earmarked
for Foley Addition. However the
council realized that the chances of
getting city-wide support in a bond
election for a project in just one
area of town was slim. The council
then instructed Neuse to compile a
proposal that would incorporate
drainage work on a city-wide scale
and also work hand-in-hand with
paving projects on a number of
streets. Those streets were ones
outlined earlier in the year by the
street and drainage committee, but
not included in the Priority 1 list.
In other action during the past
week, the council agreed to amend
its resolution limiting the increase
of tap size and expansion of water
and sewer lines outstide the city.
At the same time it agreed to revise
its exisiting ordinance to increase
the surcharge for exisiting service
outside the city.
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City offices to
close Thursday
In observance of Thanksgiv-
ing, the offices of the City of
Palacios will be closed on
Thursday, November 24.
There will be regular gar-
bage pickup on Thanksgiving
Day.
Tax offices to
close on holidays
The Matagorda County Tax
Substation at 405 Commerce
and the administration offices
and tax office of the Palacios
Independent School District
will be closed on Thursday
and Friday, November 24 and
25.
School taxpayers are remin-
ded that the school tax office
is now located in the new
school administration building
located at 1209 12th Street.
This location is at the inter-
section of North Highway 35
and 12th Street.
Cheese, butter
distribution set
The Economic Action Com-
mittee of the Gulf Coast
schedule of distribution for
free cheese, butter and rice is
as follows:
Tuesday, Nov. 29 at the
Blessing Community Center
from 10 a.m.-12 noon; Wed.,
Nov. 30 at the Second Pres-
byterian Church, 900 Morton,
Palacios for handicapped and
senior citizens from 9 a.m.-12
noon and from 1-4 p.m. for all
other participants.
Eagles spaghetti
dinner Saturday
The Fraternal Order of
Eagles 3021 will hold a
spaghetti dinner Saturday
from 12-3 p.m. at the Eagles
Hall. The dinner will include
spaghetti, sauce, bread, salad
and drink. Tickets are $3.50
per person. Proceeds will go
toward the scholarship and
building funds. A drawing for
a Remington shotgun will also
be held.
Features local businesses, groups
Palacios game on sale
The “Game of Palacios” is now
on sale by the Palacios Parks and
Recreation Committee.
The game is very similar to
“Monopoly", except that instead
of the familiar properties of Board-
walk and Park Place, etc.....
players can buy and sell 30 Palacios
businesses or organizations. Each
game set includes a personalized
Palacios gameboard, six playing
tokens, 30 property title cards, 50
wheeler-dealer cards, one pair of
dice, playing instructions, one
calculator card, over $2 Vi- r .illion
in “Wheeler-dealer” play money,
and a parchment history of Pala-
cios.
The sale of Palacios game-
boards, at $10 each, is part of a
fund-raising drive by Parks and
Recreation, raising money to im-
prove parks in Palacios. Game-
boards are now available at Pala-
cios Area Fund 972-3960, The Hair
Comer 972-5094, The Beacon office
972-2610, Phil's Shell Shop 972-
2340, K Wolen’s 972-2915 and
Games Galore 972-5544. »
Properties appearing on the
gameboard are: K Wolen’s, City
State Bank, Christianson Realty,
Hunt's Food Market, Palacios
Beacon, Palacios Cable TV, Pick &
Pack, Sunshine Farms, Senior
Citizens Center, Mayfield & Bow-
ers, Palacios Floral & Gifts,
Campbell Huitt Insurance, The
Point, Petersen’s Restaurant, Bay
Fest Inc., Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment, Palacios Exxon, Dairy Qu-
een, Phil's Shell Shop, Palacios
Library, Hamlin’s Minimax, Re-
gency Ford, Western Trawl, Pala-
cios Area Historical Ass’n., The
Hair Comer, American Field Ser-
vice, Sealand Texaco, Games Gal-
ore, Shimek Electric, Bay City
Federal Savings and Loan.
Besides the property spaces, 350
area residents and community or-
ganizations are listed on the
gameboard.
Toys, food sought
for Operation Santa
The City of Palacios and the
Palacios Area Fund will join forces
again this year to make the holiday
season a little brighter for the
disadvantaged in our area.
Operation Santa is now under-
way with December 20 set as a
distribution date. All donations of
toys, Christmas wrap and food
items can be dropped at City Hall
or the Palacios Area Fund Office,
next to the Beacon on Commerce
Street. Cash donations are also
needed to buy perishable foodstuff
for the baskets.
This will mark the third year for
Operation Santa. Over 150 families
have received the gifts over the
past two years. Names are collect-
ed from the area churches and an
effort is made to match the gifts to
the needs of the families. Anyone
with questions or wishing to share
in the preparation and delivery of
the packages, contact Mayor Leon-
ard Lamar at 972-2414 or Mary
Eggemeyer at 972-3960 or 972-
5335.
A FIRE completely destroyed a
two-room frame structure belong-
ing to Joe Salinas at 1003 Johnson
last Wednesday morning. No one
was In the house at the time of the
incident. Palacios volunteer Are-
men quickly responded to the call
and extinguished the blaze which
was believed to have started hi the
bedroom. [Beacon Photo by Nick
West]
Additional East Side work studied
PISD reviewing old high school renovation
At the regular November meet-
ing last week trustees of the
Palacios Independent School Dis-
trict spent considerable time re-
viewing and discussing plans for
physical improvements at East
Side Elementary School and the
Palacios Junior and Senior High
Schools.
The East Side Elementary Sch-
ool review and discussion centered
around the question of renovation
of the old high school building into
nine classrooms and gymnasium
plus renovation of the south wing
of the East Side campus into a
learning resource center (library)
or tearing the old building down
and buildine a new resource center
and classrooms. Trustees will met
at East Side at noon Thursday to
tour and inspect the campus and
again Monday night to possibly
make a decision as to their course
of action.
Trustees also instructed Warren
Young of Young and McCoy Archi-
tects and Assistant Superintendent
of Business Charles Mize to
proceed with plans for a new
learning resource center at Pala-
cios Junior High School, and a new
lighting system for Shark Field
(poles and light fixtures).
In other action, the trustees:
-approved the use of the secon-
dary school cafeteria by the First
Baptist Church for November 20,
1983.
-renewed a contract with Young
and McCoy Architects of Victoria
for one year to serve as the Palacios
I.S.D. architects. The fee of six and
one-half percent or an hourly rate
subject to owner/architect negotia-
tion is the same as past contracts.
-approved the 1983-84 textbook
committee for the purpose of
reviewing, screening and recomm-
ending textbook sflections. Text-
books to review for 1983-84 are
English as a Second Language,
grades 6-12; Language and Com-
position, grades 1-8; Geometry,
Trigonometry, Algebra 1 and II,
World History, Advanced Texas
Studies. Vocational Agriculture
and Construction Trades. The
committee members are: George
Holst, Thomas E. Galloway, Travis
Washington, Bill O’Neill, V.J.
Kahlich, Richard Joyce, Wilma
Roades, Glenda Shanks, Bob Gutt-
enberger, Bobbie Kana, E.H.
Hutto, Eileen Corley, Erwin Jans-
zen, Bob Trant and Robert Hester.
-approved the monthly correc-
tions to the Palacios I.S.D. tax roll
relating to voids and additions.
-approved the first reading of
Board of Trustee Policy Update
20-Phase II, which related to
personnel contracts and retire-
ments.
-cast 834 votes for Thomas
Holsworth and 292 votes for Harrv
Lane Powell for the Board of
Directors of the Matagorda County
Appraisal District.
-reviewed guidelines concern-
ing excused/unexcused absences
of 4-H members attendance/par-
ticipation at judging contests. The
trustees approved that 4-H stu-
dents be allowed to attend as many
as two shows in a school year, as a
member of a 4-H Judging Team,
under the supervision of the
County Agent. It will be the
responsibility of the County Agent
to notify the principal of the
student or students involved, one
week prior to the show. The
student will be counted present for
[See SCHOOL, Page 111
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