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THE PORT - L AVAC A WAVE
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Volume 124, No. 104
PLWAVE.COM
Saturday, October 10, 2015
WEEKEND EDITION
Port Lavaca
CCISD releases audit information
man arrested
District press release, audit findings detail policy violations
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No one injured in grass fire near POC Tuesday
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Calhoun County Fair Ladies Day Luncheon
-When: 11 a.m. Oct. 16
-Where: Bauer Community Center in Port Lavaca
-Cost: $15 per ticket. $20 for booth space.
-Contact: Applications can be picked up at the County
Treasurer’s Office, located at 202 S. Ann St. in Port Lavaca.
with the Weaver report, out-
lined several allegations of
misconduct such as the athlet-
ic department having a petty
cash fund, keeping inadequate
financial records and provid-
ing cash incentives to students
for selling discount cards.
The incentive contest, the
press release stated, was dis-
continued this school year and
the student cards were “re-
vamped” for the current sea-
son with more modifications
expected before next year.
Cowley stated that he had
contacted the 24-5A district
executive chair per U1L guide-
lines, but had not received any
response at the time the re-
lease was issued.
The Weaver report The
Wave received Thursday sum-
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marizes alleged violations of
district and U1L policy, but
there were no legal implica-
tions detailed in the findings.
The Weaver report con-
cluded with recommendations
for the district regarding how
the district should handle
the discount card program,
T-shirt sales and any other
money brought in through the
athletic department.
The accounting firm also
recommended that all staff
training within the district in-
clude an item about prohibit-
ing petty cash funds.
Cowley acknowledged in
the release that the athletic
director “made some mistakes
in the past” and said action is
being taken to correct proce-
dures and move forward.
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Calhoun County Indepen-
dent School District has issued
follow up documents to infor-
mation released last week re-
garding an audit of athletic
student activity funds.
Earlier this week, The
Wave received a copy of a let-
ter addressed to the Texas At-
torney General’s Office from
district counsel Anne Marie
Odefey in response to an open
records request made last
month asking for the results
and/or findings of the audit.
Odefey’s letter submit-
ted to the AG outlined the
background of the matter
and included statements from
two people only identified as
Thursday afternoon. That doc-
ument, with witness names
redacted, was requested Sept.
17, and was the subject of the
AG ruling request. The report
is dated Sept. 4.
In Wednesday’s press re-
lease, it stated that the audit
“found no evidence that the
athletic director or other em-
ployees received any personal
gain from athletic department
activity funds.”
“The audit identified fis-
cal areas that need improve-
ment and a necessity for great-
er individual accountability,”
said CCISD Superintendent
James Cowley. “CCISD is com-
mitted to make those improve-
ments to our fiscal procedures
moving forward.”
The press release, along
Witness #1 and Witness #2 in
which both witnesses alleged
“violations of law or regula-
tory policy.”
While a CCISD press re-
lease addresses possible dis-
trict policy and U1L violations,
there is no mention of any
legal wrongdoing, as was sug-
gested in the AG letter dated
Oct. 1.
In the release, which was
posted on the school district’s
website Wednesday, CCISD
officials said the district “re-
cently released the results of
an audit conducted on the ath-
letic department’s student ac-
tivity fund.”
The Wave, however, did
not receive the report com-
piled by the firm Weaver &
Tidwell LLP, of Dallas, until
Booth space is $20.
Applications are available at
the county treasurer’s office
located at 202 S. Ann St., Suite
A.
I try to get the word out there
that anyone is welcome, ft
doesn’t have to be a retail
store, it can be any crafts,” she
said.
So far, Southern Sass,
GSM Insurers, Sister’s Gift
Shop, Linda Simmons, Beth
Woodall with 31, Carter’s
Soy-Sensational Candles,
Younique Makeup Mistress
and Vicky Bernadino with
Herbalife are vendors.
A grass fire that burned
for over two hours north of
Port O’Connor left no one
injured and no structures
damaged.
Officials responded to a
call around 2:10 p.m. Tuesday
afternoon to a fire near The
Sanctuary subdivision, said
Nathan O’Neil, fire chief of
the Port O’Connor Volunteer
Fire Department.
The fire, O’Neil said,
started near Highway 185, and
north winds moved the blaze
toward The Sanctuary’s office
building.
O’Neil added that crews
took precautions to ensure The
Sanctuary’s office building
was not damaged in the fire.
“We had engines set up at
The Sanctuary’s office to keep
it stopped. We concentrated
on trying to turn the fire
away from the office,” O’Neil
said. “That was the only main
exposure we had to deal with.”
O’Neil said crews kept
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“We open at 11 a.m. to
allow those people who can
come a little early to shop.
Midway through the show 1
give the models a break so
people can go shop,” she said.
“1 work very hard to make
sure that the style show ends
at 1 p.m. or earlier so people
can get back to work.”
Kokena has eight to 17
vendors each time.
“1 send out 30 invitations.
The Calhoun County
Fair Ladies Day Luncheon
and Style Show is slated for
11 a.m. Friday at the Bauer
Community Center.
Rhonda Kokena, Calhoun
County treasurer and Calhoun
County Fair Association
secretary, has organized the
luncheon and style show since
it was revived in 2006.
“The fair is always geared
more toward the children
with the animals, but ladies
need a little TLC and to have
a nice sit down dinner and
be entertained with the latest
fashions,” Kokena said.
The doors open at 11 a.m.
Lunch and the style show
begin at noon.
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A Port Lavaca man was
arrested following a drug bust
Monday.
Derek Michael Salinas,
32, was arrested on charges
of possession of a dangerous
drug, manufacture/delivery of
a controlled substance penalty
group 2 or 2-A more than
or equal to 1 gram and less
than 4 grams, possession of
marijuana less than or equal
to 4 ounces but more than 2
ounces and abandon/endanger
child criminal negligence, said
Det. Josh Smith of the Port
Lavaca Police Department.
The drug bust took place
in the 100 block of Haviland
Street in Port Lavaca between
8-9 p.m. PLPD officers worked
“1 like the vendors to
be there because it gives
people something to buy for
themselves or start on their
Christmas list,” Kokena said.
“Memorial Medical
Center has their booth
of knowledge for cancer
awareness and they provide
appetizers while everyone is
shopping and visiting. There
is a little camaraderie going
on and all of the ladies love
that.”
The deadline for vendor
applications is Monday.
Main Course Catering of
Victoria is providing the meal.
The menu consists of pecan
The Seadrift City Council
adopted year-end budgets at
its regular meeting Tuesday
evening.
Council members
unanimously approved the
amended budgets that reflected
actual costs during the 2014-
2015 fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
Councilman Buddy Cross did
not attend the meeting.
The council approved the
utility fund’s deficit budget
at $16,928.27. Revenue for the
year totaled $809,095.90 with
expenses at $826,024.17.
“The reasons are,
primarily, one, the purchase
of two used trucks totaling
$9,990, which council
authorized individually two
different times and the city
did not move money from the
utility contingency fund to
supplement that amount for
those purchases nor did the
city move from the contingency
fund money of $6,938.27 to
fund, partially, our match for
the wind turbine that was
just finished during this fiscal
year,” DeForest said, adding
that the project was covered
with existing utility funds.
The remaining funds saw
greater revenue than expenses
in 2014-2015.
For the general fund,
expenditures totaled
$562,323.77 with revenue at
$627,015.29 for a difference
of $64,691.52. DeForest said
this was the third consecutive
time the general fund ended
with a surplus, and higher
tax revenue, higher franchise
tax brought in and a greater
amount of delinquent
property taxes collected than
crusted chicken with honey
butter sauce, loaded mashed
potatoes, seasoned green
beans, yeast rolls and butter,
garden salad with ranch
dressing and vinaigrette
and for dessert is death by
chocolate cake and bread
pudding with caramel sauce.
Sister’s Gift Shop,
Southern Sass, Bealls, the
Designer Closet and Factory
Connection are providing the
clothing for the style show.
“1 have 21 models signed
up for the style show. We will
show around 35 to 40 outfits,”
Kokena said. “Anyone who
wants to can model. 1 try to
get anyone 1 can possibly find,
but 1 have my regulars whom 1
count on every year. 1 drag all
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French, Tania. The Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 104, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 10, 2015, newspaper, October 10, 2015; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1301484/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.