Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 18, 1984 Page: 1 of 14
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Ready! Aim!
Construction, renovation
bids awarded by Trustees
PISD Board of Trustees open-
ed bids for construction of a new
learning resource center and
classrooms, renovation of some
existing classrooms and renova-
tion of a girl’s restroom at a
special meeting Monday night.
The Trustees accepted a bid
from Sikes Building Company,
of Bellville, Texas for $570,908
for the construction of the
facilities at Eastside Elementary.
Other bids submitted were
from Alcarez & Associates of
Victoria for $603,465; Coastal
Construction Co. of Victoria for
$635,564; and Parker Constructi-
on Co. of Port Lavaca, $649,510.
Warren Young representing the
firm of Young & McCoy, archite-
cts for the current construction
projects, recommended that the
trustees accept the bid from
Sikes Building Co. Bert Miller’s
motion to accept the bid was
approved unanimously. Sikes sa-
id the learning/resource center-
classroom building should be
complete 180 days from the date
of the contract and the classroom
revonation is expected to take
100 days.
The trustees also opened three
bids for the removal of the old
Patman here Friday
for Town Meeting
The public is invited to visit
with Congressman Bill Patman
during a “Town Hall Meeting”
scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Friday at
the Palacios City Hall. Since his
election to Congress in 1980,
Patman has held 85 such Town
Meetings throughout the 14th
Congressional District which tak-
es in 22 counties.
“The more I know of your
personal views, your specific
local needs and problems, the
better able 1 am to serve you as
your Congressman,” Patman
said. “And even after living in
this District for 29 years and
coming to know it well through 23
years of public service, I find 1
still learn something new about it
at every Town Meeting.”
bus barns and the old brick gym
on the Central Elementary School
campus. On a motion made by
Mason Holsworth, the trustees
unanimously accepted the bid
from Griffith Backhoe of Blessing
for $6,500 plus the materials
salvaged on the recommendation
of Asst. Supt. of Business
Charles Mize. Other bids consid-
ered were from Parsley’s Back-
hoe for $21,000 for the entire bid
package and from El Torito
Restaurant for the removal of one
bus barn for $1,050.
Communication Coordinator
Donnie Horton presented her
progress on a “Welcome Back”
tabloid planned for distribution
before school convenes. Items
planned for inclusion are bus
schedules, supply lists, sports
schedules and descriptions of the
different services and programs
provided through the school
district. The estimated cost for
production and mailing is $500.
The method of distribution will
be decided at a later date. Bert
Miller made a motion that the
board proceed with the project
calling it “a worthwhile idea.”
The election of a School
Communications Survey Commi-
ttee was tabled for discussion
until a special meeting July 23
The special meeting will be i
workshop session to review thi
1984-85 budgets and to act oi
setting the salary schedules fo
1984-85.
More than an hour passed in
intense discussion on the new
classroom building at Central
Elementary School and whethei
or not to accept other facilities in
the current construction project
as substantially complete. Upon
completion of a walk through last
week the trustees reportedly
found the floors in the classroom
building to be uneven. At thai
time they chose not to accept any
of the facilities as substantially
complete without first contacting
the school attorney M.L. Null, foi
advice.
They also expressed concert
that Drymalla Construction Co
had failed to complete the worl
in the time specified in th<
contract. Charles Mize, Asst
Supt. of Business was unable ti
contact Null.
Dan Tucker asked
Mile whether the trustees------
jeopardize their positions by
accepting the other projects as
ponded assuring the trustees that
[See SCHOOL, Page 4]
THE SHARP-SHOOTING Gary
Corporon claimed Brat place
honors In the second adult heat
of the Palacios Gun Club trap
shoot held Saturday at the
Corporon Grass Farms. Cedi
Rooks won the first adult heat.
[Beacon Photo by Nick West]
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VOLUME 77. NO. 29
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18,1984
PALACIOS, 1EXAS
FOURTEEN PAGES
Approximately 7-miles of repaving
Street improvements
entering into Phase 2
Approximately seven more mi-
les of Palacios Streets are ex-
pected to undergo major impro-
vements once bids are received
on Phase 2 of the city’s Street
Project.
According to David Neuse of
the city’s engineering firm of
Jones & Neuse, August 6 is the
date for receipt of bids. The
project is expected to run .in the
neighborhood of $205,000, of
which $100,000 came as part of a
matching grant from private
donors.
The city began its street
improvement project with Phase
1 last year. Nearly six miles of
roads were either repaired or
resurfaced during that initial
phase. Streets were placed on a
priority list with some roads last
year left out of Phase 1 due to
scheduled work on the city’s
water and sewer line renova-
tions.
It will take another two years,
Neuse said, before completion of
work on all the streets in Palacios
that need repairs.
The majority of streets includ-
ed in Phase 2 wi slated to
receive a hot mix asphalt paving
with a few to undergo a one-
course surface treatment.
“This year we are doing more
hot mix in proportion to surface
treatment compared to Phase 1,”
Neuse pointed out. “As the years
go by we will be concentrating
more on quality that on the
quantity of roads repaired.”
Main streets in the mid-section
of town included in Phase 2 will
be Filth Street from Duson to
Commerce and cn Fourth Street
from South Bay Blvd. to Comm-
erce and from Main to Hen-
derson. Those surfaces will re-
ceive hot mix asphalt paving. The
stretch of Fifth Street from Main
to Henderson will have a one-
course surface treatment provid-
ed that the entire package comes
within budget.
Commerce Street from 1st to
4th and from 5th to 8th Street will
also have hot mix asphalt.
Anticipated to be done separ-
ately from those streets in Phase
2 will be Duson Street from 2nd
to 4th Streets. That street will be
[See STREETS, Page 41
Change order
method questioned
by councilmen
Pillow power,.
DIVER Buddy Lovell Is handed
a variety of pillows to be used
to plug up a large hole In the
hall and keep . the shlmp boat
Miss Sugar afloat after It came
perilously close to sinking in
Tumha Basin No. 1 Saturday
evening. The Dost, out of
Bayou La Batre, Ala. received
the hofe as It came Into port.
Nearly two dozen persons,
including members of the
Palacios VFD worked feverish-
ly manning four pumps for over
two hours to save the boat
which had been sinking rapid-
ly. Following the successful
rescue attempt, the Miss Sugar
was put Into drydock for
repairs. [Beacon Photo by Nick
West |
Methods of implementing cha-
nge orders involving contracts let
on city projects drew the atten-
tion of the Palacios City Council
during its regular session Mon-
day night.
The council instructed David
Neuse of the city’s engineering
firm of Jone & Neuse that all
future change orders totaling
more than $2,000 must first be
approved by the council. In the
past, necessary change orders
that did not involve a very large
amount of money, were normally
approved by the mayor.
The procedure of authorizing
change orders was brought up
after the council was informed
that street patching over sewer
line work in three areas had been
changed to allow the contractor
to completely pave the roadway.
Although the council agreed that
the change was to the benefit of
city (since the repaving was
necessary and was done at a less
cost than what the city had
orglnally planned) they felt the
change should have received
their approval.
According to Neuse, the road-
ways involved in the change
order were Duson and the alleys
to the north and south of Main
between 4th and 5th Streets.
Duson had been slated for
repaving under the 1984 Street
Improvements Project, however
work first had to be completed on
a sewer line down the middle of
the street. Once that was comple-
ted, the contractor, Jerry Naiser
Corp., was to lay a four-foot
patch over the excavated area.
The road would then have been
completely repaved.
Instead of almost duplicating
the job, the contractor agreed to
do the eniire hot mix paving, in
lieu of the patch work for an
additional $5,000 -an amount
below what it would have cost
the city to pay for repaving after
the patching. The cost on repav-
ing the two alleys was only $800
more than laying the planned
four-foot patch.
The councilmen Jolmny Sard-
elich and Cliff Elliott said they
had no qualms about the work
involved in the change order, but
questioned whether change or-
ders for large amounts should be
given without councils’ first
[See COUNCIL, Page 4j
Sheppard concert
slated tonight
A concert featuring Tim
Sheppard will be held (today)
Wednesday in the Palacios
Fine Arts Complex at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $7 in advance.
$8 at the door, and $4 for
groups (10 or more).
For advance ticket reserva-
tions, call the Texas Baptist
Encampment at 972-2717.
2nd Presbyterian
VBS July 23-27
All children ages 4-13 years
are invited to attend Vacation
Bible School at Second Pres-
byterian Church, 9th and
Morton St., on July 23-27.
Classes will be held from 6-8
p.m. The theme of the course
is "God Bless Our Native
Land”
Co-ed Umpires
Clinic Friday
There will be a Co-ed
Umpire Clinic Friday at 7 p.m.
at the softball field.
Bible school is
July 30-Aug. 3
The joint Methodist-Presby-
terian Bible School will be
held July 30-August 3 from
8:45-11:30 a.m. The opening
session will be at the First
United Methodist Church.
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