The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1995 Page: 1 of 16
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Llano, Llano County, Texas 78643
Volume 107, No. 45
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Thursday, August 24, 1995
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Four new
directors
elected
at CTEC
The 44th annual meeting of
Central Texas Electric Cooperative
was held Tuesday evening at the
Gillespie County Fairgrounds in
Fredericksburg.
A record crowd of approximately
1000 people was in attendance.
Board President Fred Kettner of
Mason announced that this figure,
along with 1679 proxy votes re-
ceived earlier, established a quorum
for the meeting.
To start things off, four new
members of the Board of Directors
were elected to represent their
respective areas. They were:
• Temple Henderson, Directorate
District Two (Kerr, Real, Southern
Kimble County area).
• Bert Nesloney, Directorate
District Three (Mason, McCulloch,
Menard, Northern Kimble County
area).
• Sammy R. Garrett, Directorate
District Four (Llano County area).
• Kermit Kothe, Directorate Dis-
trict Five (Gillespie County area).
All four wera
.. for Co-Op Reform. In all, there are
11 board members.
After the meeting, the Board of
Directors met in a special session
and elected Joe Frantzen to the
office of president replacing
Kettner, William (Bill) Whitworth,
as vice president, replacing Dayton
Leifeste; and re-elected Joan LCnnon
as secretary treasurer for the coming
year.
However, t in other business,
Kettner announced the board's plans
to form a member advisory
committee for the purpose of
reviewing the current nominating
\ and election process for the Board of
Directors. He said this group will
consist of 22 iriembers and encour-
aged those interested to Contact the
CTEC office.
General Manager Robert A. (Bob)
Loth III gave a review of the past
year. He reported that 1994 had
been a very busy year in the con-
struction and maintenance area of
the Cooperative. He said 728 me-
ters were added to the system last
year for a growth rate of 4 1/2 per-
cent, and that these new services
required almost 63 more miles of
distribution line. Excellent growth
has continued into 1993, with
another 400 new meters added as of
June.
Loth also reported on a recent
member telephone survey on a rate
comparison of the cooperative to
other area cooperatives and munic-
ipalities. Loth then recognized
twenty employees and two direc-
tors, for receiving awards ac-
counting for a total of 273 years of
combined service to the Coopera-
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BAYING THANK YOU.... Retiring county agent, John Kuykendall enters his appreciation
barbecue as his wife Patty follows, (above). The event was held Saturday at Oestrelch'a
Rose. He la retiring after 28 1/2 years of service to Llano County. Below, David Willmann
shows Kuykendall a small saddle, saying it was all they could afford. However,
Kuykendall did receive a gift certificate for a new saddle. Photo courtesy of Carolyn Osbourn.
City Council
dismisses
city secretary
Following an executive session Monday of the Llano City Council, a
4-1 vote dismissed city secretary Margaret Hardin for "a lack of
confidence."
Terry Hutto, Randolph Franklin, Charles Simpson, and Patty Pfister ,
voted to let Hardin go while Kelly Oestreich voted against the motion.
Hardin, who was hired as an administrative assistant in April of 1990,
was placed on probation and her position was changed, temporarily, to
city secretary in May when city manager Tom Donaldson resigned. After
90 days, the council had to decide wheather to dismiss her, extend the
probation, or reinstate her to her original position.
Mayor Ross Bauman could not expand on any of the discussion that
took place in the closed session, but did say that council members
discussed and decided to have an ordinance written that will terminate the
position of administrative assistant all together.
"We'll do that in open meeting," Bauman said.
Hardin said Tuesday that her attorney had advised that she not
comment on the situation at this tihie.
Also on the agenda for the closed session was discussion of a hearing
regarding police officer Pete Simanskis. The hearing was set for 10 a.m.
Tuesday morning but no action had been taken As of press time Tuesday
afternoon.
Llano's tax rate
triCTeases three
cents from '94
Mark Rose, General Manager of
the Lower Colorado River Author-
ity (LCRA) spoke briefly of the
past successful partnership with the
cooperative, and gave his pledge of
continuation of keeping rates as
low as possible.
Special guest for the evening was
Jim Morriss, retiring executive vice
president of the Statewide As-
sociation of Texas Electric Cooper-
atives, Inc.
He stated that it was very
important for the Cooperative to
position itself favorably for the
future, considering possible deregu-
lation and wholesale competition.
He also said to the members that
the future will depend heavily on
the competence of the Board of
Directors making decisions in the
best interest of the membership,
and that this would require
experience, dedication, and a
commitment of tine for each of
them.
The gathering concluded with the
drawing for over $2,000 worth of
attendance prizes. The grand prize,
DBS Satellite System, was won by
Jesse James, Jr. of Llano. Next
year’s annual meeting of CTEC
members is scheduled to be held in
Mason.
The Llano City Council set the
1996 tax rate at $0.28 in Mondays
regular meeting.
Also, September 3 was set as the
date of a public hearing to adopt the
increase.
The rate is three cents higher than
last year and will raise taxes on the
average home valued at $33,929 by
an estimated $13.22 per year.
An increase in the ad valorem tax
was necessary to meet the proposed
budget for fiscal year 1995-96 ac-
cording to council. At the end of
this year, projected revenue from
the ad valorem tax is $196,407.
The maximum amount that the tax
could be raised without a rollback
would be $0.2863.
A hearing on the budget itself has
been set for September 11 & 12.
In other action the council:
• Appointed Idus Flowers to serve
on the joint Llano Counly/City
Airport Zoning Board. He replaces
the late Philip Smith, who died this
summer.
• Re-appointed Clyde Dowdic to
serve another term on the Llano
County Appraisal District Board
representing the City of Llano.
• Decided to send letters to the 15
applicants for water/wastewater su-
perintendent stating that there is not
a vacancy at this time. Currently
the water department budget allows
for eight employees and there is a
full staff.
• Engaged the services of George
Chester Draper III to perform an
audit for FY 1994-95. This will
mark the third year Draper has done
the audit for die city at a cost of
$6,400.
The next regular meeting of the
city council will be held September
5 beginning with the hearing for
the new tax rate.
Raises abound in proposed county budget
News office
closed Sept. 4
The Llano News will he
closed Monday, Septem-
ber 4 in observance of
Labor Day.
All advertisers are ea-
couraged to have their ad
copy ready by Friday,
September 1, no later
than 4 p.m. All other
material for the Septem-
ber 7 issue is dne no later
than 2 p.m. on Friday.
The office will be open
during regular hoars
Tuesday, September S.
The proposed 1995-96 Llano
County budget (budget summery)
filed with the county clerk last Fri-
day calls for an expenditure of
$4,603,569 or $25,556 more than
expected revenues for the year.
The current budget which took
effect October 1, 1994 stood at
$4,385,566.
County Judge J.P. Dodgcn said
in last Thursday's called meeting to
approve the FY96 Budget Summery
that salary increases from 1 to 2
percent to "Way on up there" will
be sought for county employees.
He said that the purpose of the
raises at this time is to get all of
the county employees' salaries to
coincide with a pay scale adopted
earlier.
"They'll still be eligible for
raises during the year for
longevity and Job performance."
he said. "This Is Just to get us
into the scale we adopted."
Dodgen went on to point out that
most county elected officials will
receive a $300 a year pay raise.
"However, the judge, sheriff and
county commissioners will not be
getting a raise this year."
The proposed budget does freeze
the county commissioners' salaries
at $23,670 as it is in the 1994-95
budget, however, confer-
ence/mileage for the four commis-
sioners which was $12,000 for all
four last year has been changed and
increased to $4,500 for each of the
commissioners in Precinct #1:
Randy Leifeste; Precinct #2: Keith
Faulkner; and Precinct #4: Marc
Miller. Commissioner of Precinct
#3, Cecil Mings, requested only
$3,000 for his confcrence/travel.
Marc Miller said in defending the
$4,500 jump in confercncc/milcagc
for himself and the two other com-
missioners, "I cannot operate my
pickup for 27.5 cents per mile."
The County Auditor's office staff
salaries came up for discussion.
Auditor Kevin Smith, who
supposedly works half time here
and half time as the Bumct County
Auditor will get a raise from
$14,280 to $14,994. His assistant
auditor will receive a salary of
$19,688 as compared to $18,680
this year. The internal auditor's
salary will jump from $16,000 to
$17,439.
It was explained that District
Judge Clayton Evans set the audi-
tors office salaries and they did not
get a pay raise last year.
Last year's budget included a 3%
pay raise for all county employees.
It is expected that a public hear-
ing on the proposed budget will be
held September 5 beginning at 6
p.m. in the courthouse followed at
6:15 p.m. by a public hearing on
the tax rate.
A meeting of the commissioners
to adopt the budget and lax rale will
be held September 12th.
Bush to
visit in
F'berg
Fredericksburg - Few Americans
may know that all ten U.S. presi-
dents from Franklin Roosevelt to
George Bush served in the military
during World War II. The new Plaza
of the Presidents here at the Admi-
ral Nimitz Museum will make that
more widely known as a major
addition to the national heritage.
The Plaza will be dedicated here
on Sept. 2 at V+50. an event to
mark the 50lh anniversary of the
end of World War II. For the
dedication, former President George
Bush will join hundreds of Pacific
war veterans, including author
James A. Michcncr and nine recipi-
ents of the Congressional Medal of
Honor, here in the hometown of
WWII Fleet Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz. Admiral Nimitz accepted
the Japanese surrender for the U.S.
aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo
Bay on Sept. 2, 1945.
The Plaza will be bordered on one
side by a semicircular arc of ten
stone columns, each weighing
8,000 pounds and standing 4 feet 6
inches wide and 7 feet 6 inches tall.
Atop each monument will rest a
pair of Texas stars on either side of
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1995, newspaper, August 24, 1995; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1140475/m1/1/?q=1966+yearbook+north+texas+state+university: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Llano County Public Library.