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Hunt Road project nearing completion
New segment slated to open in mid-September
members of the Baytown Redevelopment to public improvements in the immediate
width about mid-September, with the new Tuesday afternoon meeting.
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No change recommended for Mont Belvieu
State legislators
recall successes
and hopes during
chamber luncheon
Travis Elementary Future Giant pre-k students are ready for the first day of school. From left are Jason Srun, Zoe
Sams, Roselyn Ibarra, Emma Jaimes and Charles Porter. (Photo by Carrie Pryor-Newman)
The new segment of Hunt Road from
the H-E-B store to North Main Street is
expected to open with its full four-lane
Authority and board of Tax Increment Re-
investment Zone 1 board of directors at a
area for a set number of years. In this case,
the debt the city took on to build the new
roadway will be repaid from the higher tax
The joint board oversees the public im-
provements in the zone, most visibly the
construction of San Jacinto Boulevard.
In a TIRZ, the city commits taxes re-
ceived from newly constructed property
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Cathy Leija, art teacher at Crockett Elementary, greets
Giovani Huerta on the first day of school for Goose Creek
CISD on Tuesday. (Photo by Brittney Culpepper)
Aman was injured in a machete assault Tuesday in the 13400 block
of Cedar Bayou Lynchburg Road.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded about
7:30 a.m. to a call about a stolen trailer. After allegedly stealing the
trailer, the two men involved crashed a car, got into a fight, during
which one cut the other with a machete.
Life Flight was called, and the injured man was taken to the hospi-
tal. The other one led deputies on a chase around the Crosby area and
west of the San Jacinto River. The Sheriff’s Office did not identify
either man, and has not said if the suspect who fled was caught.
Victoria Walker Elementary kindergarteners, from left,
Bryson Blevins, Lillie Lochridge, Olivia Candela, and Jett
Smith will graduate with the Class of 2032. (Photo by
Carrie Pryor-Newman)
Keep them coming: Send us
your back-to-school photos
School is back for students in Baytown and High-
lands and beyond. Snap a photo of your student and
send it our way because we want to share your back-
traffic light at North Main going online at
the same time.
That was one of the updates given to
Caleb Del Angel, Anna Aguilar, Josiah Gregory and Katia
Rendon in Joy Powers’ kindergarten classroom at Lamar
Elementary have fun with a giant apple. (Photo by Carrie
Pryor-Newman)
revenue received when the area develops.
The other new segment of Hunt Road,
from San Jacinto Boulevard to John Mar-
tin Road, should open in late September
or October.
The final segment of San Jacinto Bou-
levard, which will connect the existing
the 2019-2020 budget.
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OBITUARIES
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Bradley, Jr.
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of school. (Photo by Susan Passmore)
son presented both the proposed
The Mont Belvieu City Council budget and the proposed tax rate
heard a staff report Monday night of $0.436659 per $100 valuation,
recommending the city’s proper- the same rate that has been in ef_
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place of the Most High shall
abide under the shadow of
the Almighty! I will say of the
Lord, He is my refuge and
fortress. — Psalm 91:1-2
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Chamber of Commerce
lunch. “We are on the
clock, once it runs out, we
have to come home and ex-
plain it to our constituents.”
Both Creighton and Mid-
dleton spoke about Senate
Bill 2 and House Bill 3,
which provided property
tax relief and school fi-
nance refonn.
“On the property tax
front, for the first time in
four years, we have re-
fonn,” Middleton said. “It’s
been a long time. Number
one was creating $5 million
of property tax relief and
placing a 2.5 percent hard
cap on school maintenance
and operation taxes. What
that means is your valua-
tion plus your tax, the full
M&O, which is the largest
portion of your tax bill,
cannot exceed a 2.5 per-
cent growth per year. It also
means the state has to con-
tribute more.”
The bill also reduces the
rollback rate to 3.5 percent
for cities and counties.
“It been going on for
many, many years that
the tax rate stays the same
and valuations skyrocket,”
Middleton said. “Now, val-
uation and the tax rate were
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 159, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 14, 2019, newspaper, August 14, 2019; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1467815/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.