Lake Travis View (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 27, 1986 Page: 1 of 16
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Lake Travis View
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Volume 1 Number 26
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Gators in the lake?
$10.17 million approved
New fire station
approved at Lakeway
wide range of prizes from the mer-
chants in the center. The face painter is
Dottie LaFerney, advertising director of
the Lake Travis View. (View Photo by
Diane Lee)
By MIKE BURTON ----
View Staff
Is there a large, wild, ferocious alligator in Lake Travis? Is there more than one
of them feeding on lake catfish and bass? Resident Bill Steiner is certain there are
alligators around the lake...he’s seen them.
Bill Steiner, who lives on Selma Hughes Park Road in Marshall Ford, was in
his kayak near his property on the lake one August morning and caught sight of
what appeared to be a piece of wood floating just above the water. When he went
closer to investigate, the thing moved, and the scaly tail of an alligator could be
(See GATORS Page 9)
cents on each $100 evaluation to the
HBVFD.
Although details of the agreement
have yet to be worked out by the Village
of Lakeway, the Lakeway Company
and the fire district, all parties have
agreed to the move, and the Lakeway
Company has donated the land for the
fire station.
The area of land, located next to the
Lakeway Nursery and the Pedernales
Electric Company’s substation, has
never been platted or surveyed, accor-
ding to Sam Huser, Village of Lakeway
aiderman. Huser said that a 20-foot
(See STATION Page 9)
area
City Council on Aug. 7 for the con-
struction of 3,118 single family units on
an 1,800-acre section of the tract. Other
minor partners in the project include
John Simmons, John Watson and
Tommy Steiner.
When fully completed, the Steiner
Ranch will be the largest residential and
commercial development in the Lake
Travis area. According to Don Bosse,
director of land development for
(See STEINER Page 16)
First in U.S.
Homestead man importing boat—See Page 14
By MIKE BURTON
View Staff
The Lakeway Company has donated
a half-acre tract of land in the Village of
Lakeway to be used as a fire station for
Travis County Ruraf Hte PrtNention
District 5. The present fire station site
in the Village Hall on Cross Creek Road
will be abandoned under the plan.
The site of the old Lakeway Cablevi-
sion office on Lohman’s Crossing Road
will become a fire station operated by
the Hudson Bend Volunteer Fire
Department (HBVFD), which is owned
by the fire district, a taxing entity. Since
last year, taxpayers in the region pay 3
Birthday bash
Youngsters of all ages enjoyed balloons
and face painting at the 620 Center's
one-year anniversary party. There was
also free music from the Hill Country
Review, a big birthday cake, and a
Steiner Ranch to add
3,000+ homes to
By ANNETTE WYSOCKI
Special to the View
Plans for the development of the
4,500-acre Steiner Ranch along Quinlan
Park Road of RR 620 are being sent
through the various channels at the City
of Austin. A pre-application has re-
cently been made for retail projects and
for a Municipal Utility District.
The Steiner Ranch, which is being de-
veloped by Alfred Hughes of Hughes
Interests, received approval from the
$28,000-30,000, Marks said.
Other reductions in the budget occur-
red in the career ladder, the state-
mandated “reward system” that pays
$1,500-2,000 to teachers who meet cer-
tain criteria. Some $10,000 was saved
because several of the teachers who
recently left the system had been on the
ladder and the new teachers who replac-
ed them were not.
Saying, “We will do with what we
have for another year,” Marks said fur-
niture for the schools and more high
school computers were eliminated from
the budget, as were several small line
items having to do with consultants,
travel and data processing.
Along with the cuts in the budget,
there were several increases. Major ad-
ditions included almost $50,000 for new
teachers needed to handle increased
enrollment and $22,000 for a full-time
nurse at Lake Travis Middle School.
Marks said this year’s budget reflects
“minimal to no new programs," the
major exceptions being half a com-
munity education/computer coor-
dinator (a state grant is funding the
other half), the new nurse, participation
in the Hill Country Writing Program
Back-to-school
Bus routes listed on Page 16
Wednesday, August 27,1986
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ISD budget gets one ‘no’ vote
By DIANE LEE
View Staff
Despite one vote cast against it, the
1986-87 $10.17 million budget of the
Lake Travis Independent School
District (LT1SD) was passed handily
Aug. 19. The approved budget reflects
about an 8 percent increase over la3t
year.
Almost $70,000 had been cut from
the draft submitted several weeks ago,
including an English as a Second
Language (ESL) teacher and all budget
line items pertaining to the new
duplicating center.
Dr. Walter Marks, superintendent of
the LTISD, said the district had been
able to hire a foreign language teacher
certificated for ESL at all levels, for a
savings of $20,000.
Since the new administration
building won’t be ready until mid-
school year, all first-year “start-up”
costs for a centralized duplicating
center were eliminated from the year’s
budget. However, printing costs for
each of the schools of the administra-
tion office, which had been removed,
had to be put back into the budget.
Still, the change left a net reduction of
that instructs teachers on teaching
writing, and mileage for a University of
Texas intern.
The budget “maintains where we
are,” Marks said, noting that he "feels
more comfortable with this budget than
the one last year.”
Two major problems put this year’s
budget at a disadvantage. Last year,
trustees used $200,000 of its fund
balance (the amount budgeted but not
used) to keep a tax increase down.
Another $168,000 was added later in
the year. The fund balance is at
$331,000, an amount Marks called “a
dangerous low place.” He strongly
recommended that no fund balance be
used for this year’s budget, even if it
would reduce the tax rate slightly. He
hopes to build the fund balance back up
to about $750,000 for emergencies.
Added to the $368,000 fund balance
pumped into last year's budget is the
$100,000 loss in state aid. That puts the
budget at $468,000 less than was
available last year. That amount is
more than half of the $805,409 dif-
ference between this year's budget and
last year’s.
(Nee BUDGET Page 3)
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Lee, Diane. Lake Travis View (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 27, 1986, newspaper, August 27, 1986; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1297790/m1/1/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Travis+County+-+Austin%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting City of Lakeway.