Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 92, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1986 Page: 2 of 30
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Police Inventory Confiscated Items
Story, additional
photo on Page 1.
BPD Sgt. Doug Allen (1), Patrol Officer Kathleen Haton, and Detec- nearly a pound of methamphetamlne. The glassware, found In the
dve Wade Pearcy inventory glassware, suspected stolen merchan- home’s attic, represents virtually an entire laboratory for the
dUe, and pornographic material taken during a raid on a house at manufacture of the controlled substance. Law enforcement agents
817 Judith SL A tip led the officers to the house expecting to find are still looking for one occupant of the residence.
County districts lose $1.1 million
It's a jungle out there, they say,
pnd school districts in Johnson
County must feel like Tarzan has
hit them over the head with a rot-
ten banana stalk. Or, even worse,
taken one of his famous swing-
ing vines and choked off their
supply of state money. That’s a
late almost worse than debt.
, In fact, it would be a fate exac-
tly the same as debt if not for the
(generosity of local taxpayers who
will be coughing up $1.1 million
in lost state revenues this year.
The whole story is not told in
the tale of the tax rates, either.
jThe Burleson ISD, for example,
us the hardest hit of all Johnson
(County school districts and will
actually be lowering its tax rate.
Valuations, however, are up
more than 25 percent, mainly
due to revaluations this year bv
the Johnson County Appraisal
|District, so the bottom line is
• higher taxes for most taxpayers—
about 8 percent is a likely
average tor the BISD.
Exact tax rates have not been
pet, on the advice of the educa-
tion commissioner, since school
districts have not been given final
figures on the amount of state
funds that will be available to
(hem for the upcoming school
Lear Those figures may not be
(available until after the special
session of the state legislature,
filthough sentiment in Austin
Hoes not seem to be in lavor of
rnaking drastic cuts in edu-
cation.
THE ESTIMATED TAX rate
or the BISD is $.8311 per $100
(valuation, down from $.965 last
Kear. Total revenue expected to
•be generated by that tax rate is
S3.25 million In all, the local
‘contribution to the $17.1 million
(budget is just over $4.3 mil-
jlion.
! Expect state revenue to be
•down almost a half million
dollars this school year, Com-
Imissioner of Education Bill
|Kirby has told the BISD. The
jClelbume ISD heard a similar
• story, though not quite so sad.
(That district can expect $334,862
•less state money, Kirby said
j Next hardest hit is Joshua That
'school district will make do with
($204,875 less slate money to
(operate its schools this year,
i Other Johnson County losers in-
!elude Liberty Chapel ISD, a cut
of $45,978; Grandview ISD, a cut
of $20,717; Venus ISD. a reduc-
tion of $20,293 in state aid, and
Godley ISD, which will have to
make do with $29,041 less
state money.
The cuts didn't stall or stop
with Johnson County school’dis-
tricts. In all, 314 districts across
the state will be looking at cuts in
state aid. The other 749 districts
will get as much or more than
they received last year.
THOSE DISTRICTS which did
not face cuts are subject to the 8
percent rollback limitation. That
means they can’t increase taxes
to generate more than 8 percent
in additional local revenue
without being subject to a
rollback election from voters.
Last year 554, or about half the
school districts in the state, in-
creased local taxes more than the
8 percent. All were not necessarily
subject to rollback elections,
however, since funds used to pay
off bonded indebtedness is not
included in calculating the effec-
tive tax rate.
The districts which are losing
state funds are not subject to the
rollback in exactly that same way
as the winners in the slate aid
game. The legislature modited
the rule to exclude the amount of
state aid loss in the effective tax
rate calculations. The modifica-
tion is good for the next two
years.
The Burleson ISD is still not
likely to exceed the 8 percent
limitation, opting instead to
make use of reserve funds to
cushion the amount of tax in-
crease necessary to balance
the budget
SOME TARRANT County cities
were hit even harder than
Burleson. Mansfield, for exam-
ple, faces a loss of $1,851,881 in
state funds. Crowley stands to
lose $1.1 million and Arlington
more than $4.5 million. Everman
will lose more than $50,000
Neither Fort Worth nor Dallas
number among the losers in
state funding.
Increasing values in some
areas of the state coupled with
declining values in the oil patch
and border areas are the reason
for the redistribution of state
funds. BISD Superintendent of
Schools Gordon Cockerham ex-
plained the procedure in terms
of a big pie representing state
funds available for education.
Each district gets a slice of the
pie equivalent to that district's
share of the state’s taxable
wealth.
"We re still not a wealthy dis-
>rict by a long way,” Cockerham
said. "We’re just wealthier than
we were in comparison to some
other districts who have lost
evaluation."
Of the school districts in the
Metroplex, the BISD is near the
bottom in taxable wealth per
student.
TOTAL STATE AID for educa-
tion is expected to be up by $2 4
million this year, but unfor-
tunately most area districts are
among the 314 who are losing a
total of $102 million in state
aid
All those figures are still sub-
ject to change, depending on
what the legislature does both in
special session and during the
regular session which begins in
January. Once a school district
sets its budget, it can amend it as
tar as expenditures go There is
no state provision for changing
the tax rate once it has been
set
The BISD will approve the
1986-87 budget at a 6 30 p m
special meeting Friday, Aug 29.
The tax rate will not be a con-
sideration at that meeting
Second Of 4 9, We ’re Happy
A team of Burleson volunteer firefighters displays the second-place
trophy they won at the Fifth-Annual Miller Brewery Firefighters'
Hose-Off Saturday. Clockwise from left are: Rex Shields; Tommy
Davis; David Wooten; and Coach Stacy Singleton. The story and
more photos are on Page IB.
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