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Good News:
MHMR ‘Waiting List’ Declines
BY DON GILBERT
Commissioner, Texas Department of Mental Health
and Mental Retardation
News From Congressman
Umar Smith
Congressman Lamar Smith
Monday hailed Postal Service
action toward construction of a
new post office in Fredericksburg.
"The Postal Service this week
will begin advertising for bids for
a site for a new post office to
replace the current, overcrowded
facility on Main Street," Smith
revealed.
"The Postal Service's current
timetable," Smith said, "calls for
the acquisition of a site by the
end of the current fiscal year and
construction in FY 2000."
However, Smith said he is
hopeful that the timetable can be
fast-forwarded and that
construction' might be possible
earlier.
"Fredericksburg has
experienced major growth in
recent years and this new post
office will be adequate to serve
that growth as well as future
needs," Smith said.
"I have worked for several years
with Postal Service officials
urging their attention to the very
pressing needs of
Fredericksburg," Smith said, "and
am delighted at this major step
forward."
Smith said Postal Service
officials in Fredericksburg, San
Antonio and Dallas are to be
commended for redognizing the
critical need for a new postal
facility in Fredericksburg and
moving the facility to the top of
the Service's priority list.
The Postal Service this week is
also scheduled to begin
advertising for bids for a new post
office location in Kerrville.
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Here is a bit of
news to lighten the
pervasive gloom
about government
malfunction: For
_^ the first time since
L gm/k such records have
jgSB v J||M been kept, (he
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longer to receive
help with mental illness or mental
retardation subsiamially declined Iasi
year.
The Texas Deparlmenl of Menial
Health and Mental Retardation keeps
track of those waiting for our services—
we call it the wailing list' — and believe
it to be an indicator of how efficiently we
are helping our consumers.
The waiting list also suggests how
much and in what way our scarce public
resources should be allotted to the care of
some of our most needful citizens.
Unless you are one of those waiting
fur services, it may not mean much to
you. but for the tens of thousands of
persons w ho are in mental anguish or who
live with the challenges of mental
retardation, this is good news of the
highest order.
And quite frankly, if you are the
administrator of a 27,000 employee, SI.5
billion state agency looking for some
indicator you are making progress in
providing services to those who need
them, it is the kind of news that makes
your day.
The numbers are these: In 1995, there
were 31,074 persons waiting to enter one
of our programs, generally at a local
mental health-mental retardation commu-
nity center.
Last year, this number dropped by
9.000 persons to 22,030.
The numbers show there were 9,508
persons waiting for mental health
services. Of these, 1,803 (19 percent)
were children and 7,705 (81 percent) were
adults.
There were 10,807 Texans waiting for
services from local mental retardation
authorities. Of those, 4,825 (45 percent)
were children and 5,982 (55 percent) were
adults.
In addition, there were 1,715 persons
wailing for home and community services
on private provider waiting lists.
What, exactly, docs this mean? It
means that if you are one of the estimated
160.000 Texans whom we believe needs
public mental health or mental retardation
services in this state, your wait for those
programs is getting shorter.
To keep these numbers in perspective,
TXMHMR and its local affiliates, the
mental health-mental retardation commu-
nity centers, served 171,567 persons in
1996.
This is not to say that Texas is in great
shape in serving its citizens with mental
illness or mental retardation. After all, we
still have a waiting list of some size and
we still rank in the bottom tier of states in
funding.
But it does mean that taxpayers are
seeing some result for the dollars they
have spent for our programs.
It also shows that we are more
efficient in providing those services,
which is what I believe Texans have been
telling public servants they want.
The board that oversees my agency,
for example, last year authorized the
return of $10 million in savings, which we
achieved through administrative efficien-
cies, to local communities for direct-care
services.
That certainly cut into the number of
persons waiting to enter one of our
programs.
We also have been better at the
seemingly simple, but maddeningly
difficult, task of keeping an accurate
account of the changing needs of our
clients and patients.
And while I would love to say the
decline in the waiting list came about as a
result of our work in Austin, it probably
has more to do with the hard work done
by our doctors, nurses, social workers and
other direct care staff in the 48 local
community centers in Texas who are
ultimately responsible for all of our
successes.
So, while it is not news that you can
get a bank loan on, or something that will
likely change your diet or improve your
golf game, it is worthy of your consider-
ation — especially at a time when we all
seem a little cynical about government,
and the belief is held by many that
nothing gels better.
But things do gel better, and if you
were one of those 9,000 persons who
were waiting for a MHMR service last
year, it gets dramatically belter.
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There was a light run on cattle Friday
at Junction Stockyards. The market was
active on all classes. Calves sold steady
to stronger. Packer cows and bulls were
$ 1 - $3 lower with Stocker cows holding
steady.
Choice light steer calves brought 85
- 1.00#; choice medium steer calves 78
- 92#; choice heavy steer calves 72 -
90#; medium quality steer calves 67 -
72#; choice steer yearlings 67 - 82#;
mixed steer & bull calves & yearlings
55 - 65#.
Choice light heifer calves were 65 -
78#; choice medium heifer calves 63 -
75#; choice heavy heifer calves 64 -
68#; medium quality heifer calves 58 -
65#; choice heifer yearlings 58 - 66#;
mixed heifer calves & yearlings 54 -
60#.
Commercial & utility cows ranged
from 30 - 43#; canners & cutters 26 -
34#; low yielding canners 21 - 26#;
bulls 43 - 48#.
Stocker cows sold from $400.00 -
$565.00 a head with stocker pairs
bringing $450.00 - $675.00 a pair.
SHEEP & GOAT SALE
4,808 head of goats and sheep sold
Monday. Old crop lambs sold steady.
Milk lambs were $2 - $4 higher while
slaughter lambs were steady. Slaughter
ewes and bucks sold steady. Stocker
Angoras were $8 - $10 higher with
slaughter Angora kids and yearlings $9
- $ 11 higher. Slaughter Angora muttons
and nannies sold $ 1 - $3 higher. Spanish
kids were $6 - $8 higher with Spanish
nannies, muttons and billies holding
steady.
Choice spring crop lambs were 1.12
- 1.49#; choice old crop lambs 1.00 -
1.17#; heavy lambs 1.00 - 1.06#.
Fat ewes brought 50 - 58#; thin ewes
40 - 47#; bucks 50 - 55#.
Choice young Angoras were $32.00
- $43.00 a head; medium Angoras
$26.00 - $30.00 a head; choice aged
nannies $34.00 - $38.00 a head.
Angora kids (choice) were 80 - 94#;
(medium) 74 - 80#.
Weighing Angoras shorn (thin) were
42 - 52#; (fat) muttons 57 - 67#, nannies
50-56#.
Big fat Spanish muttons & billies
brought 62 - 83#; fat yearlings 77 - 90#;
big fat Spanish nannies 54 - 70#; stocker
nannies $40.00 - $70.00 a head; fat kids
90 - 1.00#; small kids 94-1.13#.
Junction Stockyards, Inc.
Junction, Texas
1997
Special Sales Schedule
Special Goat Sales
April 7- May 5 - June 2 - August 4
August 25 - October 6
High Dollar Calf & Yearling Sales
July 11 - August 8 - September 12
October 10 - November 10
No Sales
March 28 - March 31 - July 4 - July 7
September 1 - November 3 (1st Monday of Hunting Season)
November 28 (Thanksgiving) - December 22
December 26 - December 29 - January 2
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Your Insurance
TEXAS COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE
“Property Protection Program Gives
Choices to Underserved Areas”
IXOYC
PEOPLE IN INNER-CITY NEIGHBORHOODS and cer-
■ tain rural areas sometimes complain that
they re between a rock and a hard place
when it comes to insuring their homes.
Their choices may be restricted to expen-
sive—yet limited —coverage through un-
licensed tbut legal) surplus lines companies
or no coverage at all
Texas new Property Protection Program
PPP) offers a better solution for many of these
consumers It is available in HI ZIP Codes.
I "he lotal increases 10 163 on April 15. die end
of the PPPs six-month phase-in. The ZIP
Codes were chosen based on statistics associat-
ed with reduced availability of home insurance.
T'ou can tind out if your ZIP Code us on die list
by calling the Texas Department of Insurance
(TDI). toll-free, at l-SOO-252-3439, or by check-
ing TDl's Internet site, uumu.tdi.state.tH.us.
To qualify for a PPP policy, a home must be
insurable, meaning it is well maintained, kept
in good repair, has a sound roof and is free of
obvious tire and accident hazards
a PPP policy is like a cafeteria line or a
Dagwood sandwich because you can add or
remove coverages to tit your pocketbook and
your needs
Any agent licensed to sell property insurance
can sell PPP policies. These policies also are
available through TDl's Market Assistance
Program “(MAP), which" uses a computer bUl-;
letin board to help people in "underserved"
areas tind residential property insurance.
Whenever an insurance agent or company
offers coverage to a property owner in a ZIP
Code designated for the PPP. the offer must
include a PPP policy Insurance companies
have an incentive to sell these policies because
the premiums arc exempt from state taxation
Hie core policies are beefed-up versions of
the least expensive residential property cov-
erages. including the homeowners HO-A pol-
icy and its first cousin, the farm and ranch
owners FRO-A policy
HO-A policies are about 25 percent cheaper,
on average, than the HO-B policy purchased
by most homeowners. They also provide less
coverage. The HO-A normally pays only the
depreciated value of building components
such as roof shingles and kitchen cabinets,
not the actual cost of replacing them. Unlike
the HO-B, the HO-A lacks the option of add-
ing replacement cost coverage for household
contents. The HO-A pays only actual cash
value; if a fire destroys your four-year-old TV, .
for example, the insurance company pays '
only enough for you to buy a four-year-old TV.
When an HO-A is sold as a PPP policy, how-
ever, it becomes a richer package.
For one thing, an insurance company that sells
an HOA policy to a PPP customer has the op-
tion of adding replacement cost coverage for
building components — with no increase in
price — if the house is insured for at least 80
percent of the cost of rebuilding it.
You also may receive the option of buying re-
placement cost coverage for your household
goods. Replacement cost means if a fire de-
stroys your four-year-old TV, the insurance
company pays for a new TV as similar as pos-
sible to your old one.
With the PPP version of the homeowners pol-
icy, you can lower your premium by dropping
coverage for theft, vandalism and malicious,
mischief. You can add coverage for collapse
of building, glass breakage and damage from
falling objects — like tree limbs — by paying
$1 extra.
Later, after TDI determines the correct price,
PPP policyholders will have the option of
adding coverage to fill one of the major gaps
in the HO-A policy — its lack of coverage for
water damage.
The PPP is a good option for people on a bud-
get who live in one of the ZIP Codes where it
is available. For many, it can mean more cov-
erage at lower cost. ★
Education Should Be Unbiased
Education is the cnlhv.tiiiiu ul
\ouiig minds We wain in imparl a
basic level ol knowledge to young
people. And we want to develop
in them the ability to think lot
themselves and make informed
decisions. In addition, we want
children to learn that controversial
topics can and should he presented
fairly.
Unfortunately, there is growing
evidence that in one important area,
education about the environment,
we are failing to provide children
with the facts. We are discourag-
ing them from thinking critically
and we are setting a poor example
for how any subject should be
taught.
Michael Sanera and Jane Shaw
wrote in their new book Facts. Not
Fear: A Parent’s Guide to Teach-
ing Children about the Environ-
ment, that in many schools "Unbi-
ased materials are a rare exception.
Most materials either present only
one side of an issue, select worst-
case examples, or omit important
information.”
Sanera and Shaw cite examples
from school textbooks and other
materials used in public schools to
teach that "The Earth is badly pol-
luted, the rain forest is about to dis-
appear, global warming will sub-
merge New York City with
Hoods—to name a few of the im-
minent calamities.”
Your Voice
in Washington
Congressman
Lamar Smith
13m non-alarmist facts such as
the following are omitted: "Air
quality has dramatically improved
in the last few decades.. The
United States has more standing
timber now than it did in 1920...,"
Part of the problem of biased
teaching about the environment is
the struggle we have had with edu-
cating science teachers. A national
study on education in 1993 re-
vealed that less than a quarter of
"...in one important area, education
about the environment, we are failing to
provide children with the facts."
and "Many wildlife populations are
greater than they were 80 or 100
years ago.”
An even more important omis-
sion is information about the Con-
stitutional protection against the
government taking private prop-
erty without paying for it. Sanera
and Shaw cite several cases where
private property rights have in-
creased environmental protection
around the world, "But these posi-
tive examples are rarely discussed
in our children's textbooks."
elementary school teachers teel
fully prepared to teach science. So
when teachers review materials to
use in their classrooms, they are
often at a disadvantage.
A number of environmental
groups have been effective at get-
ting their materials into class-
rooms—materials that, as one
might expect, represent only one
point of view on difficult and of-
ten complex environmental issues.
Sanera and Shaw acknowledge
that it would he difficult for par-
enK to oversee every aspect ol then
children's schooling Bui they rev
ommcml that parents try to "sup-
ple the information that is missing
m tlicit classrooms."
This can he as simple as pat
cuts informing children about one
important fact: "Simply learning
dial reputable scientists often dis-
agree with the claims of imminent
catastrophe will keep your children
from blindly fearing the future."
When we cultivate the minds of
America’s school children, we do
so hoping that children will grow
to become well-informed citizens
We need to teach them how to care-
full) consider all sides of the is-
sues facing our nation and then
decide through their votes and
other activities the course that the
nation will follow.
The best way to protect our en-
vironment is to enlist the supjxirl
ol citizens who understand all sides
of environmental issues and recog-
nize that private property rights are
preserved and protected by the
Constitution.
The debate about our environ-
ment is too important to have
school children—the future citi-
zens and leaders of our society—
receiving a biased education in this
subject.
My office in Washington is
here to serve your needs. Please
don't hesitate to call us at 202-
225-l2M>.
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