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Wednesday, July 22, 1992
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Parolee accused in kidnap attempt
of ^The Baytown Sun keys. The woman immediatelv began susoect Thev ramumi >h« man an^ ..^:i u. i_j ».
me Baytown s«n suei^for' hlfrf ^ ^1caPturcd *e man and held him until term. He was paroled in June 1990, according to
paTg 1)0 amuved at scene* offi“rs said. authorities. Police said his parole was revoked iS
A man paroled from prison Tuesday is back be- “tea fewlomSs sh?wM^lhK^^ « , ^en .u?e stePP^ out of the house to March of 1992 and he was sent back toprisS in
hmd bars after he allegedly tried to kidnap a Bay- of the rasinM?SS’tS v^i?Ihnfl meet arming officers, she saw three men and a May of this year, but was paroled again on
town woman and her son, police said. ^JEEPthS,? nL^l^k.^lSUS' u °man hold,ng “I** ^^mediately Tuesday. P eu again on
A, about 2 pan., to viotas. a H-yetf-old ffi g” ““'S <”"« , >" aMita «, to .bug cba*e. Menia has a,
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$10,000, authorities said.
The victims, though shaken, were not injured
during the incident, according to police.
Goose Creek school trustees got their first
look at the district’s 1992-93 budget at a
work session Tuesday night.
“We had prepared a budget with no tax
increase and a small teacher pay raise, until
the state dropped the bomb on us June 15,”
Superintendent Harry Griffith told the
school board.
On June 15, Goose Creek officials learned
they can expect $5 million less in state aid
than they had planned originally.
As a result, the budget submitted to
trustees Tuesday contains a $5 million
deficit. The district expects to take in about
$84,600,000 in revenue, but the budget
of foodI sendee employees and 12 elemen- $5 million deficit, Griffith said “There are
f1 ,he "Sr ?ows- »ny ®° aofcTwe«iKS
The distnct s sayings from the early or cut salaries. There reallv isn’t anvwhere
retirement plan are included in the budget, else to cut.” y y
Officials plan to pay $1.1 million less in The county education district’s tax rate
salaries and pension plan costs in 1992-93 will likely increase 9 cents next year Kins
because many distnct employees took said. The owner of a $50000 home in
retirement mcentives last Baytown would pay $50 more in property
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benefits to those retirees, saving the district
a total of about $300,000 next year, accord-
ing to the overview.
The teacher pay increase would provide
an extra $500 over the year for a teacher
with no experience in the district and no
graduate-level courseworic. At the other end
of the pay scale, a teacher with a 30 years’
experience in the district and a doctorate
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to the budget overview trustees received, the director of Somel%eivices y’ ttve ?e mnef'snt*S^5j?^ease’ would
increase is due almost entirely to a .tT 7 “Five hundred dollars i« reaiiw k Post dle °^?.e.r a $50,000 Goose Creek
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trustees. ‘Our teachers are implementing
some tremendous changes, and we need to
reward them for it.”
Asked how the district might reduce the
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The CED tax rate is not under the control
of trustees or district officials. “It’s some-
thing that’s handed down by the state of
Texas,” Griffith said.
The CED tax increase will not affect the
district’s $5 million deficit. District officials
estimate that a 10-cent increase in the
district tax rate would be required to
eliminate that shortfall, if trustees rely solely
on taxes to make up the difference.
increase is due almost entirely to a $3.2
million increase in payroll costs.
“That’s mostly because we’re adding the
new (De Zavala) Elementary,” said Alan
King, assistant superintendent for business
services. The increase includes the addition
taxes, according to the overview.
The concensus Tuesday night was that a
total 19-cent increase in CED and school
district taxes is unacceptable. “That won’t
fly, concluded Trustee Sam Mowrey.
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Council to look at audit report
By Betsy Claggett
of The Baytown Sun
At a meeting Thursday, Baytown City
Council is expected to receive the 1990-91
audit report from Gerace, Andrews and
McQueen.
City officials have not yet received a final
bill for the cost of the audit.
Prior to the start of the replar meeting,
council will meet in a wo* session at 6:15
p.m. to discuss appointments.
At the regular meeting, set to begin at
6:30 p.m., council will hear an annual report
from Wayne Gray, chairman of the Parks
and Recreation Advisory Board.
In the report, Gray will discuss several
major projects the paries board is woiking
on, including the Bayland Park marina and
hotel development project, the Goose Creek
Stream greenbelt and the Baytown Nature
Center and park in the Brownwood subdivi-
sion.
Gray will also discuss accomplishments
for 1991-92, and other remaining projects
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for 1992.
^ Also at the meeting, council is expected
Review the guidelines and criteria for
granting tax abatement in a reinvestment
zone and renew such guidelines and criteria.
Establish an internal risk pool in the city
to provide medical, pharmaceutical, hospital
and dental benefits to cover individuals and
designate three trustees to oversee the risk
pool.
Authorize the city manager to execute a
Texas Department of Transportation studies
grant agreement. The travel demand/origin-
destination study is funded through a
$45,750 grant.
Authorize final payment of $50,169 to
Naylor Envirosystems for work completed
on the Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Pro-
ject.
Authorize final payment of $17,769 to
Angel Brothers Enterprises Inc. for the
completion of Abbe Sanitary Sewer, Tomp-
kins Road water and sanitary sewer line
extension and the Highway 146 at Massey-
Tompkins sanitary sewer system project.
Authorize a payment of $532,850 to the
Texas Department of Transportation for the
city s share of the cost of replacing the West
Main bridge over Goose Creek Stream, and
for the cost to relocate water and sanitary
sewer lines for this project.
Award a contract for the purchase of
chairs for the Baytown Community Build-
ing.
Award a contract for parts for a 1974
John Deere excavator.
Award the annual sewer hose contract.
Award a contract for a grinder pump
package for the public works department
Consider appointments to the Baytown
Area Water Authority Board, the Paries and
Recreation Advisory Board, the East Grand
Parkway Aviation Committee, the Baytown
Housing Finance Coip. Board and to the
Electrical Board.
Hear the city manager’s report and the
mayor’s report.
Baytown City Council meets in Council
Chambers at City Hall, 2401 Market St
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Mowrey backs Ashbel Smith
move to West Town Annex
By Josh Daniel
of The Baytown Sun
Goose Creek School Trustee Sam Mowrey
said Tuesday he supports the school board’s
decision to move Ashbel Smith students to the
West Town Annex.
Mowrey said he was out of town on business
Monday and could not attend the meeting at
which trustees made the decision.
“No solution is perfect,” Mowrey said. “But
file transportation problem is the overriding
factor, I think. After talking with other trustees
and Ashbel Smith patrons, I think the decision
was the right one. I probably would have voted
for it,” he said.
“But Kenneth (McRay, another trustee)
makes a convincing case against it,” he added.
McRay and Trustee Edward Lowell Hildebrand
both voted against the measure.
Mowrey said he thought that some parents’
suggestion that all Ashbel Smith children move
to De Zavala Elementary was unworkable.
“When you look at the disruption that would
cause across the district, it’s really not viable.
We built De Zavala to relieve overcrowding ail
over the district, to get classes off of stages and
out of hallways,” he said. “Sending Ashbel
Smith to De Zavala would upset all that”
Mowrey also dismissed charges that the
board considers the Ashbel Smith problem
unimportant because it involves poor minority
families.
“I think (those charges) are completely off
base. The decision was never based on that at
all. We built De Zavala to relieve overcrowd-
ing in minority neighborhoods, and we’re
rebuilding Harlem, which is in a heavily black
and Hispanic neighborhood. Race had nothing
to do with it.”
Trustee Dave Robins also did not attend the
Monday night meeting. Employees at Robins’
office said he is out of town on business until
Thursday.
Photo by Carrta Pryor
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Taking stock
Many items in ‘cop shop prop’ room
By Jane Howard
of The Baytown Sun
There’s a place in Baytown that stocks everything from ma-
chine pistols to plastic robber plants and occasionally even a
tombstone ^ or two. No, it’s not the city’s newest department
store it’s the Baytown Police Department’s property room.
In the course of a year, police officers bring in a lot of
held for use in court cases.
On the property room’s homicide shelf, there are boxes
marked with case numbers, and the names of murder victims
or suspects. Some of the cases have already been settled, but
the evidence remains in the event one of these cases is
appealed.
Some of the items in the property room were stolen, then
recovered by police during the course of an investigation.
While some of the owners of that property will eventually get
it back, in other cases police never find the owners. Some of
the items in the property room are things that people find, then
turn over to the police. Other items are taken from people who
have been arrested. Items in these categories include jewelry
tools, household goods, purses, keys, electronic equipment and
anything from birdbaths to doors.
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In the past year, Cox has entered every item placed in the
property room’s inventory since 1989 onto the police depart-
ment S COmDUter svstem. He’s also nmttv familiar with si—
tent earned cheap, small guns — “Saturday Night Specials.”
In me 1990s, suspects are carrying much better weapons
according to Cox. “These aren’t cheap,” he said, pointing at
the dozens of weapons seized in 1992. “Dopere have better
weapons than the police do.” Many of the guns that the depart-
ment ends up with are traded to gun dealers. That’s how the
city armed Baytown officers with new Glock handguns at an
excellent pnee in 1991.
. ?ny of the found, seized or unclaimed items have been
held for 90 days, they can be sold at a city auction. But these
date10”8 mUSt ^ adveit‘sed six months before the auction
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 227, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 1992, newspaper, July 22, 1992; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1020905/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.