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Page 12 - TUesday-Wednesday, December 24-25,2013 - Ennis Daily News
Public quiet on
zone proposal
Phil Banker take; the CETRZ would simply help
phil@ennisdailynews.com
The Ellis County Commissioners
Dourt opened the floor to public com-
nent on the proposed creation of a
lew county energy transportation
reinvestment zone, while also taking
:ime not only to approve the county's
participation in a next-generation
storm tracking system.
Only two citizens signed up to
speak about the proposed county en-
ergy transportation reinvestment
none: county resident Ginger Cole
md Precinct 4 Commissioner candi-
iate Dave Vance.
Vance said he wanted to know
whether or not the zone would cause
;axes to increase for county resi-
ients, to which County Judge Carol
3ush said it would not.
“The CETRZ would not increase or
iecrease taxes,” she said.
According to the Texas Depart-
nent of Transportation, “a CETRZ is
i specific contiguous zone, in a
sounty that is determined to be af-
fected because of oil and gas explo-
ration and production activities,
iround a planned transportation
project that is established as a
nethod to facilitate capture of the
property tax increment arising from
;he planned project.”
County Engineer Joe White said
lis office preliminarily identified
pne stretch of rural road in western
511is County that could fall within
he boundaries of a reinvestment
;one, because of damage to the road
paused by overweight trucks used by
he energy industry. He said when the
tone's boundaries are approved by
TxDOT, that would make the county
eligible for $270,000 in 80/20 matching
grants from the state to be used in
pounty transportation infrastructure
projects.
“Once we select that zone and de-
pide to pursue this, we can have proj-
ects in every precinct,” White said.
White said road projects that could
pe paid for through the grants are
’oad improvement projects the
pounty will already have to under-
offset their cost.
“They're very clear that this is a
reimbursement,” White said.
The court has 30 days to make a de-
cision on the creation of the rein-
vestment zone. Cole said she was
initially unsure about the concept,
but after hearing White's presenta-
tion supported the zone's creation.
“Get all the money you can,” Cole
said.
The court approved the expendi-
ture of $3,000 from the general fund
to subscribe to the Collaborative
Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere
(CASA WX) system. The system,
brought to the Dallas/Fort Worth re-
gion by the North Central Texas
Council of Governments, uses an in-
terlocking network of smaller, faster
radar devices to create much more
detailed weather reports than cur-
rently used systems for less money.
Amanda Everly, NCTCOG
spokesperson, said three of the eight
planned radar devices are online as
of this week: one at the University of
North Texas in Denton, one at the
University of Texas in Arlington and
one most recently installed at the
Midlothian Justice Center.
“The installation in Midlothian is
very exciting,” Everly said. “This
was our first public-private installa-
tion.”
She said the council of govern-
ments worked with Midlothian gov-
ernment as well as private
businesses in the area to help erect
the tower on which the radar system
is mounted.
Precinct 2 Commissioner Bill Dod-
son said he initially thought the
CASA system was a waste of money.
However, after seeing how data from
the CASA system is received faster
and is more detailed than data from
the current generation NEXRAD
radar system, he said became a be-
liever.
“After we had the tornado go
through Lancaster, and after the tor-
nadoes in Oklahoma hit the schools,
and watching all this over a period of
time, I'm convinced,” Dodson said.
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