Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 108, Ed. 1 Monday, August 19, 1991 Page: 1 of 16
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a, very no,ay
Listening?
execute* ii soccer drill Thursday iil'icrnoon id the liurleson Soccer Com-
plex. Fowler and two other Englishmen have been in the states eight
weeks administering soccer camps.
Paul Overstreet will headline
Huguley Labor Day activities
Huguley Hospital and radio sta-
tion KLTY FM 94.1 will join forces
m sponsoring special Labor Day
weekend lestiviiic^'Ujuguley's L.a-
bor Day Classic Kuh and Concert.
The weekend begins on Sunday,
Sept. I, with a pre-race concert fea-
turing country music and gospel sing-
ing star Paul Overstreet. This concert
will be on the campus of Huguley
I lospilal, anti will begin at 7 pm. The
ovoning'sevonlsare I lugulcy's salute
to the labor force in the Fort Worth/
I Lilias Me Implex.
"What belter way is there to show
our support to the deserving heroes
we have ui our'neighborhood than
with an extravaganza event?" noted
Merlin Aalborg, Huguley's execu-
tive vice-president and chief operat-
ing officer. Besides Overstreet's
concert, the audience will be treated
to an air show, displays from the
hospital's neighbor corporations,
plenty of food and refreshments,
clowns, and lots of g<x)d old-fash-
ioned American fun.
Tickets for the pre-race concert
are S7 per person. Proceeds from the
concert will go toward the Harvest
House in Burleson and Huguley
I lospicc House. Harvest House, from
us new location at the intersection of
Renfro and Thomas streets, provides
food,clothing,rent, and utility money
tor needy families in the Burleson
area. The planned Huguley Hospice
House will be constructed on the
*Shining ' Example
of Civic Involvement
Rosie Perez, takesa turn asshoe shine boy polishing the foot we; if Roger
Yates while Bill Allen looks on. You can get your shoes shim I all this
week by the employee of your choice at Burleson State Bank for a $5 or
more donation to Harvest House. The barber chair will beat F&M State
Bank and First National Bank in the weeks ahead so you can really make
your banker work for you and help Harvest House at the same time.
Full state funding's a , but it's
not the only uncertainty of budget
campus of Huguley Hospital. The
house w ill provide a home for termi-
nal ly-i II patients during their last few
months of life.
Monday, Sept. 2, at 7:15 a.m.,
the races begin! At that time the one-
mile Munchkin runners will hit the
starting blocks along with the onc-
mile in-line skaters. The 5K run will
start at 7: .30and the 15K run begins at
7:4.5. The course covers scenic coun-
try roads and the races should be
completed before the temperatures
soar too high.
Along with prizes for the win-
ners of the races, numerous dtxir
prizes will be drawn, such as dinners
at area restaurants, entertainment
Please see UK'S, Page 2A
Imagine trying to make your
household budget for the next year
w ithout knowing what your salary is
going to be.
Now imagine being responsible
for a budget hundreds of times larger
than that and still being unsure of
your exact income.
Burleson ISD officials do more
than imagine that financial nightmare.
They've been living it every day for
months. The only constant has been
the continuing uncertainty about the
state of state funding.
That and the uncertainty about
the validation by voters of the county-
wide education district (CED) con-
cept.
Plus the fact that the BISD still
doesn’t even have a tax roll to figure
revenue from local ad valorem taxes.
And even if it did havea tax roll,
the BISD hasn't had the exact lax rate
that the CED will be assessing (al-
though it is certain that the minimum
rate will be $.72 per SUM) valuation).
Factor into all that the normal
uncertainties of assembling a school
budget, such as the number of stu-
dents who will be attending classes,
the exact staffing needs for that inde-
terminate amount of students, and
how many of those students will have
special needs and you've got a king-
ozed headache if you're a BISD
'Chool board member or administra-
:or.
But alter many hours of work,
md no telling how many aspirin, the
USD has a budget that—using the
rest available information and an
rccasiortifl educator giiciS—IS*bal-
anced.
Of course, there arc a few big
"ifs," but perhaps the biggest one of
all—that of state funding—has been
answered. The legislature did approve
full funding of the education finance
bill. Not only that, but a two-thirds
majority was obtained for passage of
the bill, making it effective immedi-
ately.
That means that distribution of
state funding will not be held up.
Also on the plus side of the
ledger, at least as far as the BISD is
concerned, is that Supreme Court
Justice Scott McCown ruled that the
recently passed education plan was
constitutional contingent on full fund-
ing by the legislature.
Some of the state's wealthier
New faces
abound on
campuses
districts have been challenging the
constitutionality of the law since it
takes money from one school district
and redistributes it in another.
ThofiSj|irc still a few questions to
be Sctllc<tf%ui the school district's
S21.26 million 1991-92 budget is
Court—to more equalize educational
funding among the state's school dis-
tricts. Burlesons county wide district
in actuality consists of live counties.
The equalization part will come into
play w hen the Cilcn Rose ISD has to
start sharing the enormous lax wealth.
Proposed BISD budget contains no
tax hike and a 6% employee raise
Not all the eager young faces
around campus these days arc new
students.
In fact, none of them arc today
since school doesn't even start for the
kids until tomorrow (Tuesday).
Approximately 80 new teachers
will be there on the big day to greet
students. About a third of them were
only employed at the Aug. 12 meet-
ing of the BISD Board of Trustees.
Twcnly-scvcn new teachers were
approved for employment by the
board on that dale.
But then again, there will be a lot
of old faces that will be missing from
campus this year. The board accepted
resignations from 17 teachers and
approved a one-year leave of absence
to another at the same meeting.
Among the new teachers who
showed up for ncw-icachcr orienta-
tion last Wednesday were these re-
cently employed teachers:
Elementary—Karen Annette
Bums, Cynthia Eppcrly, Linda Lee
Lyons, Kimberly Lee, Kay Patton,
Wcnd-y Taylor, Patricia Wistncr,
Kerri Brown Owens, Laura Davis
Storicr. Stacy Asble, Diane Williams,
and Michelle Watkins.
Secondary—James Weller,
Teddy Tomchcsson, Molly Ann
Brown, John R. Eaton, Richard Cur-
tis, Scott Allan Jackson, Mark Steven
Sims, Janie Lynn Stovall, Lucrctia
Basham, David Bellows, Wendy
T utile, S uzan nc Borshk i, Brian S weet,
Lynn Elliott Faglicr,and John Wright
Please sgg BASHAM. Page 6A
balanced i! the following conditions
arc met:
— There will be a • ) student
increase in the average daily atten-
dance (not total enrollment: state
funds is determined by how many
students arc actually in class each
day).
Stale funding to the BISDwill
increase S2,082,()()() over the 1990-
91 fiscal year (this is probable, due to
full funding, but local school offi-
cials still haven't been sent exact fig-
ures by> the state).
—The CED lax rate will be S.72
and the local rate is set at SMI24.
—Tax collections hit 99 percent.
- Johnson County Central
Appraisal District (JAD) estimates
of the BISD tax roll arc accurate.
—$300,000 is used from debt
service reserve funds.
--Qlhcrdislricts within theCED,
have reasonable success collecting
taxes (the JAD, because of delin-
quent taxes and penalties, often col-
lects more than 100 percent of the
current year's tax levy lor Burleson).
"1 ihlrif Wvc used pretty con-
servative figures," Howard Ycary of
the BISD finance department told the
sch(X)l board Monday night.
Providing all those assumptions
arc reasonably close, the good news
is that the budget will be balanced
with no increase in the total tax rate.
Of course, you'll have to use
some simple arithmetic to sec that the
lax rate is the same since the lax levy
will come from a pair of taxing enti
tics instead of just the BISD. You'll
only get one lax bill, however, and
continue submitting your taxes to the
JAD «or your mortgage company if
it's included with your house pay-
ment ).
The CEDs were formed by the
state legislature—in response to a
directive from the Texas Supreme
oflheCoinanchc Peak Nuclear Power
Plant with the much poorer districts
(all 36 of the other districts are much
poorer than Glen Rose).
That's where the S.72 tax rate
will come in if,as expected,that is the
rate set by the CED Board, which
consists of one member per sch<x>l
district. Burleson and 35 other school
districts will receive more tax money
from that S.72 levy than from a like
rate in their own districts (few of
which—none of which, in fact, con-
tain their very own nuclear power
plant).
The local districts will then seta
companion tax rate to the S.72 to
accomplish the balancing of their
respective budgets. One area of con-
cern to the BISD Boaril is whether or
not the CED will be as good at col-
lecting taxes as it is at levying taxes.
Board Member Ronnie Johnson,
who is the BISD representative on
the CED Board, told trustees Mon-
day night that one school among the
37 had a collection rate of less than 80
percent.
More than half of them have
collection rates below,90 percent. All
37 districts will continue to collect
taxes the way they have been doing.
It will be up to the collecting entity
then to distribute a pro rata share to
the CED.
At Thursday night's CED meet-
ing in Glen Rose, the Stcphcnville
ISD was selected to provide adminis-
trative services. A tentative figure of
96.08 percent collection for the en-
tire CED was mentioned at that
meeting, but not all reported collec-
tion rales were using the same crite-
ria.
James Warlick, director of busi-
ness operations for the BISD, esti-
mated dial the district as a w hole will
have a collection rate of 94 percent.
Please see IHSI), Page 2A
Costume day at the Burleson Library
Librarian Sherry Warren stands with 3-year-old "princess" Mekina
Saylor and her older brother, 6-year-old Zane Saylor, alias "Batman."
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