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Thursday, April 14, 2011 ★ Crowley Star ★ Page 3A
SALES TAX
Crowley’s revenue nears budget for year
By DAVE SORTER
crowleystar@thestargroup.com
The past year has been
a moderately good one for
sales-tax revenue in Crowley.
The city received a check
for $85,737.85 from the state
comptroller’s office Friday, re-
flecting tax revenue from Feb-
ruary sales that were collected
by the state in March. That’s
a 9.68 percent increase from
the $78,164.83 Crowley got in
April 2010, according to sta-
tistics released by the comp-
troller’s office. This is the 10th
month of the past 12 that the
COUNCIL ROUNDUP
city has received more than
it did in the corresponding
month of the previous year.
For the fiscal year to
date, the city is keeping its
double-digit advantage over
Fiscal 2009-10. Crowley has
received $808,343 since the
beginning of Fiscal 2010-
11 on Oct. 1, up 11.56 per-
cent over the $724,609.65
collected in the first seven
months of the previous fis-
cal year. The total intake for
the current fiscal year is 94.5
percent of the $855,000 in
sales-tax revenue that was
estimated in the 2010-11
city budget.
Some of the sales-tax rev-
enue, however, goes toward
the Type B community-de-
velopment fund and not in
the city’s general operations
coffers, city finance director
Lori Watson said in January.
So even though it is all but
certain the sales-tax check
Crowley will receive May
13 will put the city over the
$855,000 mark, more will
still be needed to hit the goal.
Meanwhile, the Crowley
Crime Control District saw
its streak of double-digit per-
centage-point gains snapped,
but continued its streak of
sales-tax revenue increases.
The half-cent sales tax for the
district netted $22,964.18,
a 7.89 percent gain from
April 2010. For the calendar
year to day, the district has
earned $125,818.04, some
23.38 percent better than the
101,973.45 it had received by
this time last year.
Crowley fared better than
most of its neighboring cities
as well as Tarrant County as
a whole. That surprised some
people, since this sales-tax
period includes the week of
Super Bowl XLV, which took
place at Cowboys Stadium in
Arlington. Fort Worth had a
4.01 percent increase in rev-
enue, while Everman netted
8.77 percent more and Ben-
brook had a huge 28.44 per-
cent increase. Arlington real-
ized a 4.52 percent hike, and
Tarrant County’s improve-
ment was 3.8 percent.
Among other nearby cities,
Burleson remained relatively
steady with an 0.47 percent
increase in revenue, while
Joshua saw a 10.81 percent
rise and Godley led everybody
with a 130.28 percent hike.
Crowley’s statistics looked
a lot like Texas’ as a whole.
The state collected $1.6 bil-
lion, a 9.9 percent increase
from the previous year — a
figure Comptroller Susan
Combs was pleased with.
Texas cities received $274.9
million, up 5.5 percent from
April 2010.
“State sales tax revenue
has now increased for 12
straight months,” Combs
said. “Strong consumer and
business spending helped
increase revenue in large sec-
tors of the economy, such as
retail, manufacturing and the
oil and gas industry.”
Staffing levels set for recreation center, animal shelter
By DAVE SORTER
crowleystar@thestargroup. com
With Crowley’s new ani-
mal shelter open and the
city’s recreation just a little
more than two months from
completion, the City Coun-
cil last Thursday approved a
plan to staff the facilities.
Under the plan, which
passed on a 5-0 vote, with
Mayor Billy Davis and Coun-
cilman Jerry Beck absent,
Sandy Mansfield and Lor-
rie Thrasher would officially
be transferred out of their
code enforcement jobs and
become animal control su-
pervisor and animal control
officer, respectively. One
additional full-time code
compliance officer would be
hired.
The recreation center
would be staffed with a full-
time coordinator, two full-
time assistants and two part-
time building maintenance
workers. One of the assis-
tants would be responsible
for maintenance and opera-
tions, and the other would
work on administrative office
functions, according to city
personnel director Lisa Han-
sen.
“We’ll do part of the staff-
ing with SOS workers,” Han-
sen said, referring to the
AG-SCIENCE STUDENT OF THE WEEK
Rosa Hernandez
Parents: Stephen and
Deanna Gonzales.
Adviser: Becky DeShazo.
Reason selected: “Rosa
Hernandez is a first-year
FFA member and a junior
at Crowley High School,”
DeShazo said. “Rosa has
been very active in band and
ROTC, and this year she has
added FFA to her plate.
She is extremely active
and a great leader for some of
our younger FFA members.
She never misses a meeting.
Right now, Rosa is currently
on the dairy cattle career de-
velopment event and is work-
ing very hard to get ready
for the area contest at Texas
A&M-Commerce.
She is also volunteering
many hours at the Deer Creek
Animal Hospital in hopes to
receive her Certified Veteri-
nary Assistant Certification
through our veterinary medi-
cal applications program
here in Crowley.”
FFA/ag activities:
Dairy cattle career develop-
ment event, vet tech program
Other school activi-
ties: Mighty Eagle Band
Plans after high
school: “Go to the military
and college,” Hernandez said
Favorite FFA/ag
memory: “Going to Tar-
leton State for dairy cattle
competition,” she said.
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Sharing Our Skills program
for senior citizens. SOS work-
ers will, for example, work
the front desk to check in rec
center users.
The rec center coordina-
tor and animal control super-
visor would be paid at least
$36,000 per year, the same
pay classification as a fire-
fighter and police patrol of-
ficer. The animal control offi-
cer would be in a salary range
starting at $27,000, the same
as code-enforcement offi-
cials. The recreation assis-
tants would be paid $24,000,
which matches up with the
classification of several clerks
in city departments.
Crowley’s 2011 budget in-
cludes $85,000 for the new
positions. The moves of Man-
sfield and Thrasher won’t re-
quire additional funding at
this time, Hansen said.
“Not all of these positions
will be immediate because of
the budget,” Hansen said.
Mansfield and Thrasher
will continue to perform code-
enforcement duties until a new
compliance officer is hired.
The rec center director will
likely be hired soon, with the
assistants and maintenance
workers to come on board
closer to the center’s opening.
In other business, the City
Council:
HE'S THE TOP
DAVE SORTER/CROWLEY STAR
Crowley police Sgt. John Wenman, left, was named the city of
Crowley's employee of the month for the first quarter. He received
a plaque recognizing the award from Lt. Eric Godwin at last Thurs-
day's City Council meeting.
■ Approved a contract
with Lone Star Unlimited
Services of Crowley for land-
scaping services at city facili-
ties, plus an option to main-
tain the lawn around the
quarter-mile walking track at
Bicentennial Park. The annu-
al cost of $12,934.80 is less
than the $13,355.04 the city
had been paying.
■ Approved special event
permits for the Crowley
Youth Association baseball/
softball opening day parade
— at 9 a.m. Saturday from the
Crowley ISD Administration
Building on Peach Street to
Crowley High School — and
for the Celebration of Free-
dom July 9.
■ Approved adoption of
the 2006 edition of the In-
ternational Fire Code, which
will match up with the 2006
International Building Code
and give Crowley the same
codes as Burleson, Fort
Worth and most other near-
by cities.
■ Canceled the May 14
council election and certi-
fied the victories of unop-
posed incumbents Tina
Pace in Place 5 and Beau
Yarborough in Place 6. The
two will likely be sworn
in at the May 19 council
meeting.
All items were passed
unanimously, with council
members Jim Hirth, Jesse
Johnson, Pace, Johnny Sho-
twell and Yarborough voting
in favor. Johnson, as mayor
pro tern, presided over the
meeting.
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