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Volume 104, Number 31
Thursday, August 2,1990
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lYA'LL COME... Participants in the annual Medina County Horse Show and Roping invite everyone to attend the 1990 event scheduled for Friday
land Saturday, Aug. 3 and 4, at 7 p.m. The Kids and their horses will perform at the MCRA arena on Hondo airbase. Judged events will be held
[Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Medina County Fair Association Show Barn. The young people appreciate the support they have received from
numerous supporters, including Community National Bank and Hondo Texaco, sponsors of the Junior and Senior All-Around saddle prizes.
iPictured with saddle sponsor representatives Tommy Rothe and Sammy Nooner (in back) are (front row, l-r) Kyle Clary, Stephenie Rummel,
Laura Zinsmeyer, Dana Frerich; (on saddles) Ryan Rummel and Kolten Thigpen; (third row) Kate Havel, Rakel Thigpen, Emily Clary, Kandi
lRummel; (fourth row)Stacy Gilliam, Tracy Gilliam and Rachel Carrigan .
LaCoste council likes MHMR facility
The City of LaCoste would like to**
have the proposed MHMR facility but
at the present city officials cannot see
where they can obtain the money
needed to participate.
MHMR, according to Kerrville
State Hospital personnel Ed Baskin
and Neil Matthews, needs a 10 per-
cent participation from the city or
other entity which gains the facility.
The facility being offered in La-
Coste is the implement building
owned by Elmo Pope.
City Council members conducted
a public hearing Monday night and
those present heard Matthews dis-
cuss the background on the need of
such a facility what has happened to
this date and what he hopes will take
place shortly.
Matthews said that originally the
deadline for site proposals were set
for July 9, but that Medina County
Judge Butch Campsey had extended
the deadline so that additional pro-
posals might be obtained.
"Time is of the essence, we are in
the latter stage of the process," Mat-
thews said.
"The process of coordinating both
the site decision and the in-kind or
local participation has been handled
by Judge Campsey," he continued.
"The Judge extended the deadllne but
we would hope that decision making
time would not go far into August"
He advised the Council to send a
letter to the Judge and to Ed Baskin in
Kerrville telling them of their interest
in the facility. "I would send this letter
immediately and follow up with a
phone call to Mr. Baskin, because I
would not suggest that a decision
would not be made this week,” he
said.
It has been said in the past few
weeks that MHMR could pay up to
$5,000 per month in rent for such a
facility containing more than 8,000
square feet plus parking spaces for at
least 35 cars.
This would place the 10 percent
local participation at $500 per month.
The County has been paying rent on
a building in Devine for at least two
year at the rate of $250 per month and
has indicated in open court that this
payment would continue. That leaves
pay only $250 per month.
Matthews said the center would be
serving more than 100 of the approxi-
mately 276 consumers now being
housed in home care facilities in
Medina County, mostly in the south-
eastern portion of the county.
He did say that the lease arrange-
ment does not have to be with govern-
mental entities, but can also be ac-
complished with individuals or or-
ganizations.
A question was asked that "if the
department is in such a hurry to
obtain a facility why is it considering
applications for new buildings not
even on the drawing board.?”
He did not go into detail on his
answer to the question.
The facility will employ 15 to 18
people with most of them being in the
medical service area, but Matthews
did say that two-thirds of the staff is
presently on board.
He said that these type training
services will be the fastest growing
field in the state MHMR picture. "We
will be serving more than 100 con-
the local city or other entity having to sumers per week on a six hour per day largest in services.
Qjtta weattafl| County joins water quality study
Irrigators
efficient
Legislative committee
hears testimony in Uvalde
Farmers who irrigate in Medina
and Uvalde counties Monday night
received good reviews from experts
who spoke before a special legisla-
tive committee.
The committee, comprised of Rep.
Terrell Smith, R-Austin, Jeff Wen-
tworth, R-San Antonio, Harvey
Hilderbran, R-Uvalde, Edmund
Kuepipel, R-Seguin and Sens. Judith
Zaffirini, D-Laredo and Ken Arbris-
ter, D-Victoria, met in a public hear-
ing in Uvalde Monday night
Committee members received in-
formation from several water agency
representatives and the public. Ac-
cording to Ralph Winingham, San
Antonio Express-News reporter,
some 150 attended the meeting.
Bob Price, district conservationist
for the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture Soil Conservation Service, gave
irrigators in the two counties at least
A- report cards on their use of water.
He said "nobody is going to pump
more water than they have to in order
to make a crop." He also explained
that efficiency in irrigating today is
much better than it was in 1960, or 75
percent today compared to 60 percent
in 1960.
"You can never get 100 percent,"
he said, "but we have reached up to91
percent on some of the farms we have
evaluated."
Another agency representative
who praised the farmers was Paul
Rettman, a hydrologist with the U. S.
Geological Survey office in San An-
tonio. He said, "the irrigators are
hard-working people just trying to
make a living."
Counselor available
to help business people
basis. And we urge the community to
help us form an advisory committee.
The LaCoste Council in conducting
the public hearing could not make any
formal decisions but they agreed to
submit a letter welcoming the facility
to their community should the selec-
ion be made.
There were objections raised with
one person saying that he was uncer-
tain about 100 people coming to the
town each day and what they "might
do."
Matthew said: "Generally the
group of people we are talking abut
are different. They are handicapped
mentally. They might not do every-
thing the way we do it. We are dealing
with a handicap that is an illness. But
they are not violent."
One suggestion was made that the
home-care facilities help pay for new
facilities. It was stated that they are
receiving money from the state and
should help pay for the added ex-
pense.
Matthew pointed out that he super-
vises eight centers and this would be
the largest in size, largest in staff and
The University of Texas at San
Antonio Small Business Develop-
ment Center (SBDC) on Tuesday,
August 7 will begin providing one-
on-one counseling to Hondo area
small business owners or those inter-
ested in starting a business.
These sessions, which will be coor-
dinated through the Hondo Area
Chamber of Commerce and the Med-
ina Economic Development Founda-
tion, will be confidential and will be
held on the first Tuesday of each
month.
Counselors at the UTS A SBDC are
well-qualified to provide assistance
in a variety of areas, and all have
MDA's or specific business degrees.
Having operated their own busi-
nesses, the counselors have a wealth
of resources and experiences from
which to draw. The counselors are
equipped to offer suggestions and
outline specific alternatives to help
the small business owner be a more
effective manager.
"Hondo is fortunate to have been
assigned Sara Jackson as our regular
counselor," said Chamber of Com-
merce Execti ve director Diane Schif-
fers. "Having recently received an
MBA in International Business at the
UTSA, Sara Jackson is an experi-
enced small business owner. She will
combine her business experience and
academic knowledge to help business
people analyze their problems."
The SBDC has already established
a successful program in Kerr County
and Hondo will be the next to begin.
The center's goal is to have programs
operating in all 12 counties covered
by the Alamo Area Council of Gov-
ernments by the end of the year.
An appointment for confidential
counseling may be scheduled by call-
ing the Hondo Area Chamber of
Commerce at 426-3037. "Your ap-
pointment will held in strict confi-
dence," Schiffers said.
HISD measures up
The Hondo Radar Station has sup-
plied the following weather informa-
tion for this past week:
Date High Low Rain
Wed., July 25 93 74 0
Thu., July 26 92 73 0
Fri., July 27 92 75 0
Sat, July 28 92 70 0
Sun., July 23 93 71 0
Mon., July 30 94 72 0
Tue., July 31 90 71 0
Avp. hieh temp, for the week:92.3°
Avg. low temp, for the week: 72.3
High temp, for 1990: 102°
on June 24 and June 25
Low temp, for 1990: 28° on. Jan. 26
Total rain for past week: 0
Total rain for July: 7.68
Number of days in'!990 with
measurable rainfall: 56
Total rain for 1990:20.20
Rain in 1989, thni July 31: 9.82 in.
Rain in 1988, thru July 31:10.10 in.
Medina County will join in the ef-
fort to conduct a study on how to
provide pottable drinking water to
residents in Bandera county and por-
tions of Medina, Bexar and Kendall
counties, but with qualifications.
The Commissioners Court Monday
agreed to "declare its intent to support
the project up to $2,000, providing..."
Thomas Phillips, Texas Depart-
ment of Health, told the Court that the
area involving these counties has
"much of its water that is undrink-
able." He said the study will deter-
mine: where water is being used,
where the population is located, pos-
sible future growth, where water is
available and how it can be trans-
ported to the area where it is most
needed.
"The Department has attempted to
bring the water up to standards," Phil-
lips said, "but it has been unable to do
so. That is why the idea of creating a
regional water supply district is being
approached. However, the study must
be done prior to making any decision
like that."
Phillips said that Springhill Water
vlanagement District and Bandera
County will apply for a grant in the
amount of $25,000 which will have to
be matched by area counties with
$25,000.
Since Bandira County has a larger
area affected, Medina County was
asked to put in $2,000.
Commissioner Marvin Bendele,
although asserting that he favored the
study, brougnt up the possibility of
Bexar and Kendall counties not put-
ting in their share. "I would hate to put
money into it if the study would in-
clude them and dieie be no contribu
tion from the two," he said.
Phillips said that neither county has
been contacted on an official basis,
"but they have been approached."
He also said that he envisions that
eventually a new well will be drilled
to supply the area, which is not over
the Edwards Aquifer.
Another question raised by
Commissioners was "will the Court
be approached at a later date for more
money?"
Phillips said he did not think so.
"Once the study has been completed it
will be presented to the Texas Water
Development Board and after that he
said he expects for a water district to
be formed and then the users will be
paying for it.
Commissioner David FitzSimon,
in whose precinct the area rests in,
said that right now "I would estimate
we have more than 900 people living
in the Medina County portion. And I
expect that to increase dramatically in
the future. They have been ’done
wrong’ on several occasions and the
bad water is one of these. Right now
they are asking for help and I think it
will be beneficial to the county to help
them.”
Austin-Last year trustees in the
1,052 Texas school districts adopted
budgets totaling $14 1/4 billion and
increased local property taxes by
another half a billion dollars. School
budgets were 2 1/2 times as much in
1990 as the $5.7 billion at the begin-
ning of the decade, and school prop-
erty taxes were three times as much.
The figures come from the latest
issue of Bench Marks 1989-90 School
District Budgets in Texas, an annual
publication of the Texas Research
League, an Austin-based, educa-
tional corporation engaged in govern-
mental research.
An average of $3,542 per student
for current operations was budgeted
last year plus $302 for repayment of
debt and $461 per student for capital
outlay.
Hondo ISD’s budget provided
$3,373.13 per student for current
operations, $215.90 for debt service,
and $68.64 per student for capital
outlay based on the 1,808 students
enrolled in the fall semester of 1989.
The average salary for classroom
teachers paid by Hondo ISD in 1988-
89 was $22,342 plus supplements for
the career ladder.
In Hondo ISD the average salary
for administrators was $37,148, and
$26,580 for other professional sup-
port employees (librarians, counsel-
ors, nurses, supervisors, etc.).
Four dollars in five were spent for
salaries. Statewide payroll expense
averaged $2,895 per student, as com-
pared to $2,728.94 in Hondo ISD.
Payroll expense is a combination of
salary levels and staffing patterns.
Taxpayers provided one teacher for
16.2 students in Hondo ISD while the
statewide pupil-teacher ratio was
16.6 to one. Because of the existence
See HISD, Page 5
MEDF plans meeting
It’s time to continue economic de-
velopment planning and the public
is invited to lend a voice by attend-
ing the August 8 bi-monthly meet-
i ig of the Medina Economic De vel-
opment Foundation.
The mating is scheduled for 5
p.m. on that date, which is, a
Wednesday, in the Hondo City
Council chamber. Members and
interested individuals are invited to
attend.
Agenda items will include prog-
ress reports on the Learning Center
and the Airport Comprehensive
Plan.
The Learning Center is scheduled
to open soon and input on opportu-
nities to enhance the center's benefit
to the community will be discussed.
The Airport Comprehensive Plan
is of major importance to MEDF. A
goal to develop the airport property
in the most advantageous manner
for Hondo has been established and
will be discussed.
Uther items for discussion and
imput for the community will be in-
vited after the business meeting.
For more information call the
Hondo Area Chamber of Com-
merce/MEDF office at 426-3037.
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