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Bragg’s Appliance
baseball team
readies for state
See SPORTS, page 5A
Couple prepares
for lifelong
commitment
See LIVING, page 10A
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Weather
1
Sunday:
Chance of storms
High 98
Monday:
Chance of storms
High 93
Death
GONZALES, Caroline F.
See Page 2
Around town
Bristol Opry
coming
The Bristol Opry
County Music Show is
coming at 7 p.m. July 28
at the Old Bristol
Schoolhouse in Bristol.
The schoolhouse is
located at Union Hill
Road at Church Street
in downtown Bristol
off FM 660. Admission
is free, and donations
are accepted. Profits go
to the Ellis County
SPCA. For more infor-
mation or to be a spon-
sor, call Jim Gatlin at
972-846-2211.
EISD nutrition
program
continues
The Ennis ISD
Summer Nutrition
Program has resumed
at the Boys and Girls
Club of Ennis. Only
lunches will be served,
from noon to 1 p.m.,
Monday through
Friday. The program
will conclude on Aug.
17.
The program is open
to children ages 1 to 18
and available free of
charge. There are no
income requirements
or registration
required to participate
in this program. Meals
were served during the
month of June at
Crockett Early
Childhood Center.
For more informa-
tion, call the Child
Nutrition Office at 972-
872-7030.
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Runoff early voting to begin
Nick Todaro
nick@ennisdailynews.com H E TO GO
Early voting hours run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Elections Office at 106 S.
Monroe in Waxahachie.
Voting is also available from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Ferris Public Library, located at
301 E. 10th St. n Ferris, the Ellis County Sub Courthouse at 207 S. Sonoma Trail in
Ennis, the Acorn Building at 101 Live Oak in Red Oak and the Midlothian Conference
Center at 1 Community Circle in Midlothian.
Early voting for the major party primary
runoffs will be held Monday through Friday.
Voters who cast ballots in one of the
major party primary elections on May 29,
2012 will vote in the runoff election for the
same party in which they cast their primary
ballot, according to a news release from the
office of the Texas secretary of state.
Voters who did not cast a ballot in pri-
mary elections are free to choose either
party’s runoff ballot, but may only vote in
one party’s runoff election.
Ellis County voters will decide a number
of runoffs for positions including Precinct 3
Commissioner and Constable Precinct 1.
Incumbent Commissioner Heath Sims
will face challenger Paul Perry in the
runoff.
See VOTING, page 3
District’s
savings
will cover
deficit
Silent
tribute
Officials with the city
of Ennis ordered flags
lowered to half-staff after
President Barack
Obama issued a procla-
mation to that effect
Friday. City workers
lowered flags at the
Ennis Police
Department, Fire Station
No. 2, Public Works
Department, Ennis
Airport, Bluebonnet
Park, Ennis Regional
Medical Center and the
Ennis Public Library, as
well as relaying word for
the flag at Ennis
Veterans Memorial Park
to be lowered.
Flags are ordered to
remain at half-staff until
sunset July 25 in tribute
to lives lost in Aurora,
Colo., on Friday as a
gunman rampaged
through a movie theater
showing a premier
screening of The Dark
Knight Rises.
Court talks emergency plan
Phil Banker during the workshop. from the plan provisions allow-
phil@ennisdailynews. com
The Ellis County
Commissioners Court met
Friday morning to discuss
additions to the county’s
Emergency Operations Plan.
Fire Marshal and
Emergency Management
Coordinator Joe Stewart pre-
sented a set of additions that
complement the broader plan.
“The Emergency
Operations Plan is required by
the State of Texas to identify
four basic areas— prepared-
ness, response, recovery and
mitigation,” Stewart
explained. “It is important for
the County to have a plan that
is in compliance with the state
standards, because that makes
us eligible for grants, should
they become available.”
The court took no action
The county adopted the
most recent EOP in 2011, but
Stewart said it is prudent to
review the various annexes
frequently as laws change.
Stewart said Texas provides
templates as guidance in devel-
oping each plan, but it’s up to
the individual counties to “tai-
lor the discretionary portions”
of the state plans to fit the
needs of their communities.
Ambiguity regarding the
Ellis County Burn Ban and
fireworks statutes lead to it
being looked at first, Stewart
said.
“(That addition) is one of
the most critical ... because
several other Annexes tie back
into it,” he said.
He also discussed the extent
of emergency powers given to
the Commissioners Court.
Stewart suggested striking
ing for the regulation of flam-
mable products, explosives,
firearms and alcoholic bever-
ages during a state of emer-
gency.
“I do not foresee any cir-
cumstance where the county
commissioners or judge would
need to ban or prohibit these
items, especially since they are
not required by the
Government Code,” he said.
Stewart said language in the
plan regarding “price con-
trols” pertain mainly to the
prevention of price gouging
during emergencies.
“If we had an event today,
and you pulled up to a local gas
station and they’re charging
$30 a gallon, the public could
have a problem,” he said.
See EMERGENCY, page 3A
Phil Banker
phil@ennisdailynews. com
Ennis ISD’s fund balance has
grown steadily over the past 10
years, and Assistant Superintendent
of Finance Lisa Fincher said it won’t
be exhausted any time soon.
Fincher said the administration
will not put the district into a situa-
tion where the fund balance would
be depleted.
“The fund balance will last forev-
er as far as I’m concerned,” Fincher
said. “We’re not
ever going to go
broke at Ennis
ISD.”
The district’s
fund balance
came into ques-
tion during
Tuesday night’s
budget workshop,
after
Superintendent Fincher
Barbara Qualls
revealed preliminary budget calcu-
lations showing the district running
at a $2.4 million deficit for the next
school year.
Trustee Bramlet Beard said dur-
ing last week’s budget workshop that
the district could only operate at
such a deficit for roughly three to
four years before exhausting the
reserve funds.
Fincher remained adamant that
the district would not allow that to
happen.
“We aren’t stupid enough to
carry a deficit forever that will take
us to broke,” she said. “There would
be cuts.”
Statistics provided by Fincher
show Ennis ISD’s general fund
balance increasing every year
since 2001, with the 2010-2011 final
audited fund balance at $15.85 mil-
lion. She said the district passes a
deficit budget every year, but has-
n’t finished a year in the red for
the past 11 years she’s been with
the district.
“They’re out there so that the
school can get what they need, but
rarely does anyone spend their
entire budget,” she said.
See DISTRICT, page 3 A
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