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by Melissa Renteria
,2001
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SINCE 1922
SUNDAY-
JUNE 17, 2001
Baytown, Texas
www.baytownsun.com
Volume 79 No. 2()3 $1
Living »
FATHERS
AND SONS
Not as different
you they’d like
to think
INSIDE
BEST DADS
Essayists tell why their pops are tops
PAGE1C |
Chambers
This one’s a keeper
sheriffs fuel
Barbers Hill schools get the move on
See MOVE on Page 2A
! Barbers Hill
ig how he got
ginitspe-
By MA BENGTSON
Staff writer
those sessions, she said.
Waller said administrators set
deadlines for everything from
packing boxes to distributing
keys to new classrooms. Each
classroom was equipped with
check lists of items to be
moved. Boxes were color-coded
to identify the rooms in which
they belong.
All of these details were
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important, Waller said, because
the move involved almost every
school within the district.
With the high school moving
into a new building measuring
309,000 square feet, all other
schools are shuffling to their
new buildings.
The middle school is taking
cussed,” said Waller, 52, special
services director for the district.
In Waller’s second move with
the school district, she worked
primarily with the administra-
tive part of the move.
Waller assisted in brainstorm-
ing sessions that were held prior
to the start of the move.
Everyone is following a moving
schedule that was. a product of
Steve Dauzat plays baseball at his home with his sons, Jake, left, and Ryan. Both boys erftered the Father’s Day et
sored by The Baytown Sun and Wilkenfeld Furniture. For more on area dads, see Page 1C.
BEACH CITY — Steve Dauzat said
winning a lounge chair is nice, but it
doesn’t compare to kind words from his
sons.
“The chair is nice but it’s just furni-
ture. The essays are something I’ll put
away forever,” Dauzat said.
Dauzat’s sons Jake, 9, and Ryan, 13,
both entered the Father’s Day essay con-
test sponsored by The Baytown Sun and
Wilkenfeld Furniture. The grand prize
was a Berkline Rock-a-Lounger.
Jig,
By ANGELA MACIAS
Staff writer
I teaches him
ds to know.
I would want
Ryan’s essay won second place in the
11-13 category. Jake’s essay was picked
in the grand-prize random drawing from
all contest entries.
The boys, who attend Barbers Hill
schools, both said writing about their
father was easy because he does so
much for them.
“He’s always doing stuff for us. He
takes us to the beach and to baseball
games, and he takes us fishing,” Ryan
said.
Jake wrote that his da
lots of things that he nel
i “There is no other dd
to have,” he wrote. I
Steve, who works foq
school district, said knq
the chair will make reldxii
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But he said the essay| are his true
Father’s Day gift. ‘
“It means the world to me,” he said.
-^Melissa Renteria
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deputies live out of the county
and are allowed to drive county
patrol cars to and from work. A
deputy who had been driving the
94-mile round trip from Vidor in
Orange County, northeast of
Beaumont, left the department on
. Friday. Other out-of-county
deputies reside in Jefferson,
Liberty and Harris counties.
The only recourse the
Commissioner’s Court has to
curb what they might view as
abuse of county property, is
through the budget process which
begins in August
—MA. Bengtson
Essays make local man’s
Father’s Day really special
“That is a net increase of
$12,960 over last year,” Shaffer
said.
“Gas prices (for the depart-
ment) are not going to fluctuate
; because we have a contract.”
Because of advanced technol-
ogy in the vehicles the depart-
ment purchases, the cars can
now use regular gasoline at a
lesser cost, so the budget is not
going to increase, Shaffer said.
Law enforcement agencies’
poliCBS vmy on rules for offi-
cers taking patrol cars home.
Sheriff’s deputies in Liberty,
Fort Bend and Harris counties
drive their vehicles home with
certain restrictions.
Both the Baytown Police
Department and the Chambers
County Sheriff’s Department
allow on-call officers to drive
their vehicles home.
Chambers County Sheriff
Monroe Kreuzer and Baytown
Police Chief Charles Shaffer
agree the policy allows officers
to respond more quickly in an
... . emergency.
spent an estimated. $86,400 for But Chambers County has no
motor vehicle supplies, rules in place regarding the dis-
BaytownPolice Chief Charles
Shaffer projects fuel costs for See FUEL on Page 2A
County officials say policy could
figure into next budget workshop
ANAHUAC—How the coun-
ty sheriff spends his budget is his
business, whether money is spent
for more deputies, new equip-
ment or oil and gas because he is
an elected official, according to
Chambers County Judge Jimmy
Sylvia.' '■
The question of how Sheriff
Monroe Kruezer is spending his
budget has arisen due to the sher-
iff’s practice of allowing his
deputies to use county patrol cars
as personal transportation to and
from work The practice was put
in place when Kreuzer took
office in January.
Eight Chambers County
MONT BELVIEU —
Debbeye Waller has done it
before, so she knows the impor-
tance of planning for a task as
involved as moving from one
school building to another.
“Every little thing that could
possibly come up was dis-
costs up 45%
Records show deputies take cars home
his department at $207,360 for
■ the current year.
... p, “That is a net increase of
A combination of increased S]7 qfin nver w VMr,. shqffpr
patrolling, higher gasoline
prices and the practice of allow-
ing deputies to use patrol cars
for transportation to and from
the job no matter where they ’
live, has dramatically increased
the fuel costs for the Chambers
County Sheriff’s Department.
According to former County
Auditor Jimmie Moorhead, oil
and gas costs for the sheriff’s
department increased by 44.9
percent since the beginning of
the year.
Moorhead, who was still in
office during the January
through May period, saw an
increase from $693.39 per
patrol car in 2000 .to $1,143.15
per patrol car in 2001. Total
expenditure for oil and gas in
that period in 2000 was
$19,415. For 2001, the cost of
oil and gas for the sheriff’s
department jumped to $38,867,
Moorhead said.
In a comparable period,
Baytown Police Department
Sports
PAGE IB
Baseball
Sterling beats Lee
8-5
Astros slide past Rangers
_ > 2-1
^““^Softball
Barbers Hill team advances
. in Pixie tournament
Golf
U.S. Open up for grabs with
Woods far behind
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