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COUNCIL MEETING
Thursday
February 13,1992
Volume 43
Number 2
USPS 264-260
Ingleside, Texas 78362
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LT. CMDR. BRUCE COLE
Cole to be
transferred
in June to
Middle East
By Juliet K. Wenger
Feature Editor
Lt. Commander Bruce
Cole, the voice of Naval Sta-
tion Ingleside in the Bay
Area, will take over public re-
lations for the Middle East
Forces Command. He will be-
come a part of the admiral’s
staff emboarded on the
flagship there, the USS La
Salle.
He will leave South Texas
for his new station in June.
There are 26 ships in the
command in the Middle East,
in the Arabian Gulf and Red
Sea.
Commander Cole said his
area of interest will be hand-
ling media relations and com-
munity relations.
His wife, nine year old
daughter and five year old
son will accompany him. The
family will live in Bahrain, an
Arab Emirate which is in the
Persian Gulf, linked by
causeway to Saudia Arabia.
His relief will be Lt. Com-
mander Nettie Johnson who
will come to Ingleside Naval
Station from Naval Training
Center, Orlando, Florida.
A plankowner, Cole came
to the Bay Area as a lieute-
nant, the fourth officer to ar-
rive and the fifth military
personnel. There were three
civilians. The offices of the
Naval Station were at North
Bank Terminal.
He has been largely re-
sponsible for shaping the
public relations program and
establishing the patterns of
community and military rela-
tions
The officer has represented
the Navy at many community
events, been the contact for
the civilian population with
the military, provided in-
formation for the news
media, and has become wide-
ly known personally and in
television appearances. Last
year, ne received his promo-
tion to lieutenaht com-
mander.
Who will file for city council seats?
Filing opens Monday for May 2nd election
By Juliet K. Wenger
Feature Editor
Chuck Rittiman is thinking ab-
out running for mayor of Ing-
leside. He says that by Feb. 17 he
will make up his mind whether to
run for mayor or another term as
city councilman. Feb. 17 is when
filing begins for a May election.
Rittiman said he will be talking
to some of the residents of the city
whose opinion he values in
reaching a decision. Although he
is a first-term councilman this
time around, he served as mayor
from 1980 to 1982 and on the city
council for a term before that.
Rittiman is Memorial Medical
Center pharmacist.
Mayor Mark Crawford is in a
heated race for the seat held by
Senator Carlos Truan and has
told friends he will not run again
for mayor, that his time of city
politics is at an.ewd-.
The name of Steve Robersort
mayor pro tern, is heard frequent-
ly in discussion of possible candi-
dates. Roberson said that at this
time, he does not expect to run
either for mayor or council. He
does not close the door complete-
ly but said if he had to give an
A May 2 election was called by
Ingleside School District trustees
to fill the seats of two board mem-
bers, Terms of board members
Jim Rose and David Belcher are
expiring.
Lilly Dawson was named elec-
tion judge. Judges for absentee
voting will be Janice Hartley and
Jimmie Morris in the school tax
office.
Rose, who is serving his twelfth
year on the board said he doesn't
answer today, it would be “no.”
Roberson, employed by Brown
and Root, is working toward a
bachelor of business administra-
know whether he will run again.
He has served as board chairman
and is now the board’s repre-
sentative to the Central Educa-
tion District.
Belcher, who is serving his
third year on the board, said he
has not made a decision but is
pretty sure he will run.
Another election coming up is
that of members of the board of
the Education Service Center in
tion at Corpus Christi State Uni-
versity. He is on the board of the
Little League, and he and his wife
are deeply involved in activities of
this district. John Matzinger, who
was an elementary school prin-
cipal in Ingleside, has repre-
sented Aransas Pass, Ingleside,
Flour Bluff and Aransas County
for six years, since he retired as
principal. I le has said he does not
wish to serve again.
Superintendent Gilbert Mirco-
vich said that if board members
know of someone interested in
being nominated, he has informa-
tion available.
Two school board places on ballot
Local businessmen tour USS Truett
Four Ingleside/Aransas Pass
businessmen were in Washing-
ton, D.C. Wednesday, Feb. 5,
seeking guarantees for affordable
housing and apartments.
Mayor Mark Crawford, and De-
velopers N.O. Simmons and
Eugene Seamans, along with
John Bailey, president of First
City Bank, Aransas Pass, met
with James E. Schoenberger,
Associate General Deputy Assis-
tant Secretary for Housing, De-
partment of Housing and Urban
Development. The meeting was
arranged through Sen. Phil
Gramm’s office.
Following the meeting with the
Under Secretary, the group vi-
sited in Norfolk, Virginia and
toured some of the ships that are
to be homeported at Naval Sta-
tion Ingleside.
Among the ships they visited
was the USS Truett, a Knox Class
Frigate, designed for anti-
submarine warfare. The Truett’s
complement consists of 22 offic-
ers and 274 enlisted men.
ON BOARD THE USS TRUETT (L-R) Ingleside Mayor Mark Crawford, Commander David E. Jarvis,
Eugene Seamans, N.O. Simmons, and John Bailey.
their children. Roberson said it is
a matter of time and priorities.
Among the rumors being heard
was that Gordon Kemp was going
to make a run for mayor. Kemp
says he is not plann i ng to run. and
the rumors are the result of a joke.
He was sitting in Whataburger
with Gerald Petrus, a former city
councilman He winked at Petrus
and said in a voice loud enough to
be heard, “So you’ll be my cam-
paign manager for mayor?” Pet-
rus said he would. Kemp said they
did it just to see how long the
rumor would take to to get
around, and it didn't take long.
Jane Ward, serving her first
term on the council, is out of the
country and not available for
comment. She has indicated she
does not plan to run for re-
election.
She is a partner in UTEX-USA,
a joint venture as consultants and
entrepreneurs in moving the
Ukraine into a free market eco-
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Computers
provide fast
access to
city records
The city of Ingleside will move
into a new level of proficiency at
the next council meeting. The
council will receive for the first
time an up to the minute financial
report with computer capacity
available to answer any questions
that members of the council
have.
Gayle Goble, finance officer,
said that from now on this will be
on the agenda for each council
meeting. She says it will give the
council complete and accurate
financial information on which to
base decisions.
It is possible because financial
data on all of the city’s operations
is now entered into an integrated
computer operation. The process
began almost two years ago. Up to
that time, the only computer op-
eration was water department
billing In the months since.
See RECORDS, Back Page
USD considers space availability and growth
. Student influx from Navy families uncertain
Ingleside school trustees were
alerted Monday night to the possi
bilitythat 1,000to 1,100 children
may be coming into the area by
September 30. Thia ia an increase
in numbers quoted previously as
a result of Navy activity.
Board members agreed to hold
a workshop meeting at 5:30 p.m.
March 5, before a regular board
meeting, to discuss short and long
range plans for construction,
whether current funds can cover
expansion, or whether a bond
issue should be considered.
Superintendent Gilbert Mirco-
vich told board members they
have to take the figure with a grain
of salt. However, he said the dis-
trict is already experiencing
some new children coming in,
and the number will increase
when Navy ships arrive in the
summer
Board Chairm in Bennie Diegel
said he had been told by a Navy
spokesman that there will be 350
families coming in and 7 5 percent
of them want to live in Ingleside.
In the discussion, the estimate
was made that no more than 35 to
50 percent of the children would
enroll in the Ingleside district.
Mircovioh said existing facili-
ties can handle a pretty good
growth. The school district has
been putting taxes paid by Exxon
into an escrow account because
the amount of taxes due is in
litigation. There is now t326,000
in escrow The superintendent
said if the litigation is resolved in a
way to make this money available
to the school district, it could be
used for construction.
He added that no one knows
what is going to happen with the
Central Education District; that if
Ingleside schools got a break in
taxes imposed in the next few
years, a great deal could be done
out of current funds
Consolidation is another possi-
bility as the state moves to solve
its problems of equalizing school
finances in rich and poor dis-
tricts He said if they have good
facilities, the people of Ingleside
will have those facilities for their
children if consolidate n comes.
He said a decision needs to be
made on what makes sense for the
taxpayers and the future students
of Ingleside.
Diegel said he does not want
this to be a school district of port-
able buildings , and he’d like tosee
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