The Ingleside Index (Ingleside, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1990 Page: 1 of 20
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Thursday
May 10,1990
Volume 41
Number 14
USPS 264-260
Ingleside, Texas 78362
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TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION
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Council adopts new
employee health care
By Laura Simank
Associate Editor
The Ingleside City Council met
in regular session on Tuesday,
May 8 with the highlight of the
meeting being the swearing in of
Mayor Mark Crawford for his
second term and the swearing in
of incumbant council member
Steve Roberson and newly
elected council members Jane
Ward and Chuck Rittiman. Ritti-
man is a former mayor of Ing-
leside. •
Retiring council member Mike
Haas was honored with the pre-
sentation of a plaque of apprecia-
tion for his service to the council.
In other council business the
ordinance amending the code of
ordinances on payment of bills
for sewer service and allowing the
city manager to adjust sewer bills
up to £50 was adopted.
The council also changed car-
riers for the health insurance for
city employees from Blue Cross
who had been the city’s carrier
since 1986 to the Coastal Bend
Health Plan, Inc. After presenta-
tions from Humana Health Care,
the Texas Municipal League rep-
resentative, the Blue Cross repre-
sentative posed questions about
the financial stability of the plan
offered by Coastal Bend Health
Plan, Inc. and that company’s
ability to pay on claims.
The council listened to all the
presentations and then voted to
go with Coastal Bend Health Plan,
Inc., who was represented by Leo
R. Barrera, Jr. marketing repre-
sentative. The new health plan
adds a £10,000 life insurance
policy to the coverage for city em-
ployees. The new coverage will be
provided at a cost savings to the
city and the two doctors in Ing-
leside will begin participating in
the plan as two of the area health
care providers.
City Manager Steve Fitzgib-
bons also asked the council to
reconsider the current policy on
compensation time pay proce-
dures. In a memo to the council
he strongly recommended that
We Invite
We invite to be our guest at the
picture, “Driving Miss Daisy”,
showing May 11th. -May 17th., at
the Rialto Theatre, M. C. Ritti-
man, Jr. and guest.
This notloe dipped from The
Ingleside Index will serve as your
admission._
the city imediately change its
compensatory time policy and
eliminate the 240 hour bank (480
for public safety) and pay those
workers that are required to re-
ceive overtime by the Depart-
ment of Labor regulations for any
oomp hours they can not use dur-
ing their pay cycle.
He provided the council with a
list of those oomp hours due dty
employees through early April
MIKE HAAS wot honored by the council and the city with a ploqua
of appreciation for his service to the community by servkq) on the
city council. The presentation was mode by Majrar Mark Crawford
at the May • council mooting.
which represents slightly over
£36,000 to the city in costs.
He reoommended that the city
immediately pay one fourth of the
amount owed to all employees
which is about £7,687 (excuding
the Police Chief who has not
turned in comp time) which
would be about £9, when the
fringe benefits are added. The
£5,785 in insurance savings
could be used to fund much of this
cost. The remaining 75 percent
still owed the employees could be
paid in increments with 50 per-
cent being paid December 1,
1990 and the remaining 25 per-
cent paid on December 1, 1991.
Hours earned in the next pay
period would be paid as earned.
In another related issue, he
said that comp time for em-
ployees that the law may not re-
quire being paid overtime,
perhaps should be paid at regular
time rather than the current poli-
cy of time and a half.
The oouncil decided to wait on
a decision until Fitzgibbons can
get information from the Depart-
ment of Labor spelling out exactly
which employees are due comp
time, which are due overtime pay
at what rate according to the law.
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BEING SWORN IN for their now forms ora (not in order)!
Stow Roberson, Chuck Rittiman and Jane Ward. Officiating at the swearing m is l
Cheryl Deal. The ceremony took place during the May 8 dty council meeting. The i
followed by a coffee and cookie reception honoring the new coundl members.
Index/Progress win at the
annual STPA competition
The Ingleside Index has. once
more, claimed statewide awards
for excellence in journalism.
In the recent South Texas Press
Association competition The In-
dex won third place for general
excellence and third place in
headline writing.
The headline that won the
award was Water compiiants
reach high tide’’ The general ex-
cellence award third place was
NAVSTA officers receive
meritorious service awards
Two officers at Naval Station
Ingleside received medals on
Wednesday, May 9 in recognition
of performance in their duty
assignments prior to coming to
Ingleside
Lt. Comdr. Richard A. Wall and
Lt. Bruce A. Cole both received
Navy Commendation Medals for
meritorious service. It was the
second such medal for both
officers
Lt. Comdr. Wall, the Naval Sta-
tion’s Public Works Officer was
Officer in Charge for the Che-
sapeake Division of the Naval
Facilities Engineering Command
in Washington. D.C. Among his
many projects while in that posi-
tion, he oversaw the construction
efforts for a new Presidential Heli-
copter Complex at the White
House Communications Center.
Lt. Cole, Public Affairs Officer
at Naval Station Ingleside, was
cited for his performance as a
media information officer with
the Navy Office of Information at
daily with national and interna-
tional news organizations on a
wide range of Navy topics of in-
terest to the public such as the
Navy’s Strategic Homeporting
Program, which includes the
navy's new installation at Ing-
leside
The medals were presented by
Capt. Edward Kroelich, who
serves on the staff of the Com-
mander. Naval Surface Forces,
Atlantic in Norfolk, Va. as Assis-
tant Chief of Staff' for Shore Acti-
cited for his work as Resident the Pentagon. Lt. Cole worked vines.
Voters return Crawford and
Roberson to council seats
By Laura Simank
Associate Editor
Mayor Mark Crawford was re-
elected by a margin of 90 votes in
the May 5 election. His challen-
ger, Council member Judy
Storms polled 316 votes to Craw-
ford’s 406
The voters returned iucum-
bant Council member Steve
Roberson to his seat with 453
votes followed by former Mayor
Chuck Rittiman with 421 votes
and newcomer to the political
arena Jane Word with 333 votes.
Incumbant Mike Haas was de-
feated aa was write in candidate
Domingo Adame. Haas received
302 votes and Adame received 42
votes. There were a total of 728
votes cast in the election for a
mayor and three city council
members. That total included 47
absentee votes.
After the results were
announeed Mayor Crawford told
The lnde\ that he hoped that the
council could put the election be-
hind them and start out fresh,
adding, “We have a lot of work to
do for the heUermeut of Ingleside
and we must all work together."
Council member James Voss,
whose place was not on the ballot,
said, “I hope that we can all get
behind the mayor, put our perso-
nality differences aside and get
behind the man and get some
Y>rk dune.”
The candidates from the city
election and the candidates from
the school board election than
gathered, with their supporters,
at the garden center building for
an "Election Jubilee" and an
opportunity to visit and con-
gratulate each other.
In the races for the school
board scats incumbant Bennie
Diegel was returned with 306
votes in place 7 as was Jacob
Lopez with 245 votes in place 6.
Lopez was challenged by Cindy
Wilson who received 151 votes.
In .the school board election
1 thtt'dSh* A tutla of383 votes cast
with 21 absentees.
based on the entire newspaper,
with the judges comments,
‘Good job of covering news” The
judges were from the Kansas
Press Association. The awards
were presented at the South
Texas Press Association conven-
tion last week in San Antonio.
The Index's sister publication.
The Antnsm Pam Pragmas re-
ceived three awards.
In the column writing categ-
ory, Associate Editor Laura
Simank won a second place. Two
of her columns were judged, one
appearing in the May 10 iaeue
dealing with the Supreme Court
rulingon the burning of the Amer-
ican Flag and the other appearing
on June 28 dealing with the high
school band. The judges com-
mented, “On the May lOoohunn,
good focus on local event with
tight writing, reads easily and
holds interest. June 28 good, not
local but of importance. The qual-
ity of writing is good and holds tha
reader’s attention.”
A second place award was re-
ceived for a news photo which
appeared in the May 3, 1989
issue. The photo, taken by Mary
Cole, associate editor, was one of
Faulk Elementary School student
Matthew Freeze getting instruc-
tion from Du Pont employees on
how to safely climb out a window
during a fire.
In the feature picture category,
a photo which appeared in tha
September 6,1989 issue received
a third place. The photo, entitled
“Baby Kisses" shows MDA beauty
pageant winners in the toddler
division kissing. The photo was
taken by Mrs. Cole.
In the same photo category, a
photo which appeared in the June
28 issue entitled “Can I win thia
one?” of Paul Denser awaitingre-
sults of a weigh-in at the Tri-
County EMS received excellent
comment.
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