Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 20, 1994 Page: 1 of 14
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County-wide effort targets economic development
BY UEITA HOOPER B
Bmc<w St»W Writer
In an effort to create a county-wide eco-
nomic organization, the Economic Develop-
ment Task Force presented eight months of
work and planning to the Matagorda County
Commissioner's Court last week in Bay City.
-..’’Attract, develop and retain environmentally
acceptable business/industry in and near
Matagorda County," is the mission statement of
“ proposed county-wide economic develop-
nt committee.
According to Palacios Mayor Geo. Holst, the
task force was appointed by the Commissioner’s
Court to explore the possibility of setting up a
county-wide economic development commit-
tee. „ 4 >
Holst, representing the Palacios Economic
Development Foundation, is one of seven Pala-
cios area members of the task force. The others
include Thomas Holsworth, Navigation District
#1; Sonny Brhlik, County Commissioner Pet. 3;
Chipper Holt, PISD Board of Trustees Presi-
dent; local businessman Gary Hunter, and PISD
trustee David Aparicio.
Task force president is Glen Walker from
STP.
{The task force developed the mission state-
ment, by-laws and has established a tentative
budget of $162,000 per year for the proposed
county economic development committee,
which will be named Matagorda Coumy Eeo-
tor,
Development Corporation (MCEDC),
paid staff will include an executive direc-
a researcher and a secretary/receptionist.
Salaries for the three would total $85,000 per
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year. The proposed site for MCEDC’s offices
would be in Bay City.
The task force promises most of the money
for MCE DC come from public funds, with
$68,000 coming from Bay City, $5,000 from
Palacios, $12,000 from the Navigation District,
$5,000 from the Port of Bay City Authority and
$60,000 from Matagorda County.
Private funds are proposed to come from
Palacios Economic Development Foundation
($1,000); Matagorda County Industrial Foun-
(See TASK FORCE, Page 2)
lVOLUME 87, NO. 29
PALACIOS, TEXAS
-DNESDAY, JULY 20,1994 f \2SECTIONS, 14PAGES)
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Special election on
PISD 'Option 4’ to
nan ^up
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take place
e place Aug, 13
Early voting starts July 25 at Admin. Bldg.
BY NICK WEST
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Palacios ISD voters will
I to the polls on Aug. 13 to
hundred thousands of dollars
from the approximate $30-
milfion it has been sending to
the state.
hi; the district’s sped-----
election on school finance.,
passage of which could result
m: savins the district several
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Public comment
on PISD’s Food
Program July 25
A planning Meeting for
the Palacios ISO’s 1994-95
Food Service Program will
be held at 9 a.m. Monday
(July 25) in the board room
of the Administration Bldg.
Food Service employees
will consider items such as
menus, student nutrition, or-
dering food and supplies and
increasing student participa-
tion.
From 9-10 a.m. students,
parents, teachers and all
school employees are en-
couraged to come in to make
suggestions. All suggestions
need to be typed or hand-
written for submission. How-
ever, lime will not allow the
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iSee FOOP,
will continue through Aug.
from 8 am.-5 p.m. at the PISD
Administration Building, 1209
12th Street,
Voter approval of Option 4
would authorize the PISD
board pf trustees to use local
tax revenues to educate stu-
dents of other school districts,
in this case, the Houston ISD
(HISD).
This would supplant Option
3 which voters (tad endorsed
last year which called for the
school district to send tax rev-
enue in excess of the state-
mandated $280,000 per stu-
dent to the state as part of the
equalized school funding plan.
Under Option 3, the PISD has
been force to send nearly $30-
million in ‘excess’ tax revenue
to the state in order to remain
under the cap.
According to PISD Supt.
Rudy Okruhlik, there are sev-
eral benefits to the district
should the voters, as well as the
Texas Education Agency
(See OPTION 4, Page 2A)
Sailors set sail from sandto
IT WAS another weekend of full sails on the waters of Tres The races, which concluded Sunday, drew competitors from
Palacios Bay as the City-by-the-Sea host the 1994 Hohie Cat throughout Texas. The next major race to take place in
Midsummer Classic Sailing Regatta. The Railroad Park Palacios will be the Labor Day Regatta scheduled tor Sept,
beach area was the launching point for the dozens of 4.5. (Beacon Photo by Nick West)
colorful sailboats which competed in the two-day regatta. __
Cano pleads guilty to capital murder;
sentenced to maximum life in prison
Plea bargain reached in 1992 stabbing deaths of two Markham sisters
In a surprise plea bargain, Jason Scott
Cano pled guilty last Friday to the 1992
stabbing death of 13-year old Julie Zane
Warn of Markham and was sentenced to
life in prison.
Cano had also been charged with capi-
tal murder in the stabbing to death of
Julie’s 17-year old sister, Lisa Warn, in
the attack which occurred at the ^storf’
home in Markham on Dec. 16, 1992. Daniel Sklar. Due to the fact that Cano
lowcver, as part of his agreement with was a minor (17) at the time of the mur-
prosecutors to plead guilty to the capital
murder of Julie Warn, Cano will not be
tried for the murder of Lisa Warn.
The agreement between the District
Attorney s office and Cano’s defense
attorney Ron Piperi was announced at the
start of a hearing on the case in district
court in (Jalveston. Tire maximum life
sentence was handed down by Judge
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ders, he did not face the death penally.
Cano could be eligible for parole in 35
years.
According to prosecutors, had Cano
been tried and convicted of both murders,
state law would have required that both
life sentences run concurrently and that
Canct stilt would have been eligible for
parole in 35 years.
Among the evidence presented by the
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