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Cowboys now focusing on Super Bowl champs / Sports, IB
Hectic week in college football, Big 12 / Sports, IB
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George Takei to speak
at UNT this month
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Shifting data rattles some on council
Mayor, others express
concerns as center’s
cost rises to $28.9M
By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe @ dentonrc. com
The Denton City Council’s newest
members appeared less convinced of
the convention center project than
those in the middle of their terms after
another discussion of the deal Monday.
During a meeting over lunch, the
council learned that the convention
center’s construction is expected to cost
$28.9 million. About $500,000 that
the city has already sunk into drawings
and other project work won’t be folded
into the financing, nor will the con-
struction manager’s fee, staff said.
Mayor Chris Watts and council
members John Ryan and Greg Johnson
asked about the agreement, which now
sees the city borrowing about 15 percent
more than the $25 million originally
budgeted. The project now calls for a
smaller-than-expected facility to be
built on University of North Texas land
near Apogee Stadium.
But others appeared to be reassured
by an unofficial estimate of $13 million
of new spending that would come to the
city annually with a new convention
center. Council member Kevin Roden
restated concerns he blogged over rede-
velopment in the area, particularly
since UNT announced its desire to ac-
quire the parcel of land where Sack &
Save now sits.
Council member Jim Engelbrecht
said he was not concerned about the
changing scope of the project, which
seemed to cause the new members the
most consternation.
“I’ve never had a problem with that,”
Engelbrecht said.
Developer Tim O’Reilly told the City
Council that he and his family, who
make up the Missouri-based develop-
ment partnership that will build the
project, have fallen in love with Denton
See CENTER on 5A
TODAY
IN DENTON
Mostly sunny and hot
High: 94
Low: 69
Three-day forecast, 2A
LOCAL
Property tax statements
should land in Denton
County homeowners’
mailboxes soon, with
about 500,000 of them
set to be mailed out this
week.
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A critically ill Ebola pa-
tient began receiving an
experimental drug in
Dallas, while a nurse in
Spain became the first
person known to catch
the virus outside the
outbreak zone in West
Africa.
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INTERNATIONAL
Islamic State fighters
backed by tanks and
artillery pushed into an
embattled Syrian town on
the border with Turkey on
Monday, touching off
heavy street battles with
the town’s Kurdish de-
fenders.
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Denton
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where
work con-
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Plan looks at how to minimize disasters
By Christian McPhate
Staff Writer
dmcphate @ dentonrc.com
The North Central Texas Council of
Governments and Denton County are
conducting a public hearing at 1 p.m.
Wednesday to discuss the Denton County
Hazard Mitigation Action Plan.
The public hearing will be at the Den-
ton County Emergency Services building,
9060 Teasley Lane.
Denton County’s five-year plan identi-
fies hazards such as flash flooding, torna-
does and wildfires and what measures the
city and county should take to lessen the
impact of such potential hazards.
‘We’ve got certain areas that may be
prone to more flooding,” said Jody Gon-
zalez, director of Denton County Emer-
gency Services. “So do we need to look at
widening certain culverts to reduce the
impact of flooding?”
This year’s proposed plan will also ex-
pand its jurisdiction to include 16 cities
across the county. The last five-year plan
covered only Denton, Corinth, The Colo-
ny, Lewisville and unincorporated por-
tions of the county.
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Court
rejects
appeals
on bans
Same-sex marriage
effectively made
legal in 30 states
By Mark Sherman
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Supreme
Court unexpectedly cleared the way Mon-
day for a dramatic expansion of gay mar-
riage in the United States and may have
signaled that it’s only a matter of time be-
fore same-sex couples can marry in all 50
states.
Rejecting appeals from five states seek-
ing to preserve their bans, the Supreme
Court effectively made such marriages le-
gal in 30 states, up from 19 and the District
of Columbia, taking in every region of the
country.
Challenges are pending in the other 20
states.
Almost immediately, exuberant cou-
ples began receiving marriage licenses
previously denied to them. “This is the
dream day,” said Sharon Baldwin, a plain-
tiff in a challenge to Oklahoma’s ban, as
she and her partner got their license in the
Tulsa County Clerk’s Office.
Directly affected by Monday’s orders
were Wisconsin, Indiana, Oklahoma,
Utah and Virginia. Officials in those states
had appealed lower court rulings in an ef-
fort to preserve their bans. Couples in six
other states — Colorado, Kansas, North
Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia
and Wyoming — should be able to get
married in short order since those states
would be bound by the same appellate rul-
ings that have been on hold.
While county clerks in a number of
states quickly began issuing licenses to gay
and lesbian couples, in some other states
affected by the court’s action officials did
not sound ready to give up the fight. How-
ever, their legal options are limited.
Monday’s terse orders from the court
See COURT on 5A
Splash park part of
parks proposition
Southeast Denton park
recommended as site
for new water features
By Britney Tabor
Staff Writer
htabor@ dentonrc.com
Denton Community Splashpark sup-
porters hope residents vote in favor of the
project come Nov. 4.
The splash park is among park system
improvements recommended by the citi-
zen advisory committee in the Nov. 4 bond
election. Although it’s a $98.2 million
package, there are four propositions. The
parks proposition is the fourth proposi-
tion and is separate from propositions on
streets, drainage and other public im-
provements. According to the city’s 2014
bond program booklet, the splash park
will include spray jets and features such as
water cannons and dumping buckets and
would cost $200,000 to construct.
Within 12 months, about $12,000 has
See SPLASH on 5A
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Carl Young Sr. Park in Southeast Denton has been recommended by city staff as
the site for a new splash park, included in Denton’s Nov. 4 bond election.
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