The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 87, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 31, 1990 Page: 1 of 58
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A visit with community leader Dr. E.T. Boon. See Page 4A.
The Allen American
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City, school officials discuss common issues
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October 31,1990
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Vol. 21, No. 87
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Good Morning
City to review waste
disposal, station plans
Allen,” he said. “We need to create more jobs. Howev-
er, it is hard for existing businesses to expand because of
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Community
Police Report
Schools
County
Lifestyles
Comics
Sports
Classifieds
CRIME: Crime in Collin County
has dropped 15.8 percent so far
this year according to statistics
released through the Collin Coun-
ty Sheriff’s Office. See story,
page 6A.
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"The issuance of bonds in the amount of $13,000,000 and the
levying of the tax in payment thereof
By Mark Hutchison
The Allen American Staff Writer
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Saturday, November 3,1990
Voting Location:
Rountree Elementary School
800 E. Main St.
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the school board invests the bond
money and uses the interest income,
taxes could rise as much as 17 cents
per $100 valuation.
“That’s the good news,” AISD su-
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This Saturday, Nov. 3, registered
voters in Allen will decide the fate of
a $13 million bond package re-
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“If the state financing system gets fixed like it should, climbing steadily every three months all over the area,
it will cause major changes in school financing and we not just in Allen.”
should reap great advantages,” Dr. Davenport said. Finally, City Manager Jon McCarty reviewed the ci-
“The challenge will be to fix it in the next session. We ty’s capital improvement projects. He began with Allen’s
will be under the leadership of a new governor, and the civic complex, which will be landscaped in phases. The
governor will appoint a new commissioner to replace Bill first phase — the installation of an underground drainage
Kirby. So it’s vital that we influence our elected officials, and irrigation system —- will cost approximately
If they don’t resolve the system, we’ll be paying higher $100,000. He said it would be at least a year before the
taxes the next three to four years.” city gets to another phase of the project. He estimated
Also during the meeting. Bill Petty, Allen’s director of the entire project will cost $177,000.
Another project involves the city of Allen taking over
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School District. It is an opportunity
for Allen citizens to directly influ-
ence the direction the Allen ISD will
take in the near future.
The majority of the bond money
($10.5 million) will be used to build a
second middle school. The remain-
der will fund capital improvements to
already existing schools.
Approval of the bond package will
set a chain of events into motion
designed to satisfy the needs of the
school district for three to five voluntary basis at the elementary
years. level to further reduce overcrowd-
The new school will be built, ing. The new school and YRE should
Sixth-graders will be shifted into postpone the need for another bond
both middle schools to decrease election to build another elementary
overcrowding in the elementary school about five years.
schools. Year-round education Approval of the package will also
(YRE) will be implemented on a increase taxes. Depending on how
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The Allen American Staff Writer Community leaders
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Another top agenda item is con- By Monday afternoon, 34 local
sideration of a switch to the North business and community leaders had
Texas Municipal Water District for signed a letter to the Allen City
solid waste disposal. Council urging it to increase its
The city council meeting is sche- efforts to open a recycling center in
duled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Allen.
municipal annex. Allen Environmental Action
the council approved a specific League composed the letter and will
use permit for the city s first Fina present it to the council, with even
station on State Highway 5 at its last more signatures, at its regular meet-
regular meeting Oct. 18. The ing Thursday night.
second station will be situated on the The letter points out that other
south east comer ofFarm-to-Market Texas cities have begun im-
Road 2170 and U.S. Highway 75. plementing an environmentally
Ihe existing Shell station will be friendly plan of disposing of solid
demolished before the new facility is waste. It states that “... the time is
constructed, according to plans, now for Allen to move forward in a
hma Oil and Chemical Co. is pur- progressive manner to save the
chasing additional property east and Earth. Recycling is the way of the
south of the existing site to future, and we look to our hometown
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The relocation of one large business to Allen could a lack of lease space. All our light manufacturing space is
make all the difference in the city’s tax base, members of full.
the city council and school board learned in a joint meet- “There are two options the city has to help the situa-
ing Monday night. tion. First, we can create incentives for businesses to
One of the issues civic leaders discussed was econo- build their own buildings. Or second, we could actively
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mic development. While David Pitstick, Allen’s new search for speculators to build space to rent.”
economic development coordinator, said the city is fac- Later in the meeting, AISD superintendent Gene
ing some bad economic times, one major business deal Davenport reported on school financing. Dr. Davenport
could turn it all around. said the tax rate in Allen could easily go over $2 per $100 community development, delivered a report on the city’s . .
“If the city of Allen experiences one major event, it valuation in the next couple of years. annual growth. He said single family housing starts since the 50-acre Texan Rod and Gun Club on the northeast
could offset all the negatives,” he said. “The demand is “Right now, we’re paying $1.54 per $100 valuation,” spring were below the level officials had expected. He comer of Bethany Drive and Allen Heights. He said the
there. The market is there. It’s just a matter of time he said. “We’re experiencing a lot of growth — about added that 58 percent of the growth had occurred in the city is very close to closing on a contract to buy the
before the event happens.” 300 new students per year the last nine years in a row. city’s southeast quadrant. A property. The sale should be closed, as soon as soil
Mr. Pitstick said his office has experienced quite a bit State mandates have forced drastic increases in the “Multifamily housing has not increased; in Allen in testing is completed. Because the property previously
of activity recently. He said his main focus has been on budget and new school buildings must be built. We’re several years,” Mr. Petty said. "There is adraratic ywas a shooting range, much of the lead-contaminated
developing business retention programs, asking voters to approve a $13 million bond package this peed for it in the cityofAllen. We Have ^l®t of property soil has been removed. Mr. McCarty said Texas Instru-
“We have visited with the majority of businesses here Saturday to build a new school and pay for some im- zoned, for it and therelare developers out there that ments was spending more to clean up the site than the
and found a need to increase the daytime population of provements. That, too, will raise taxes. would build. The problem is financing. Rentsihave been city would be paying to buy the property.
Sheriff to begin hiring
for new justice center
By.-arri-og tarkey hiring and training of employees needed for the new jail.
Harte-Hanks stall "e The timeline calls for 10 detention officers to be hired
Collin County Sheriff Terry Box will be hiring 35 in November and for 22 to be hired in February. The
employees in the next four months for the county’s new timeline calls for three corporal-level officers to be hired
justice center that is scheduled to open in two years. in February.
During a workshop Monday on the new jail, Collin The officers hired in November would complete their
County commissioners agreed to let the sheriff start training inMay. The officers hired in February would
hiring three corporals and 32 detention officers. complete their training in August.
1 he new $35 million justice center is scheduled to
The session, which was held at 1:30 p.m. Monday in open in late fall of 1992.
the Commissioners’ Courtroom at the Collin County Commissioner Howard Thornton, Precinct 1, ex-
Courthouse, focused on the need for new employees pressed concern about hiring employees and paying
ahead of time. their salaries before they would be needed at the new
Commissioner John Witherspoon, Precinct 3, said he center.
was concerned that the new justice center not become a Sheriff Box said he couldn’t guarantee he could hire as
“white elephant,” standing open without inmates. ; many people as would be necessary if the county waits
“John (Witherspoon) and I have been working on until they are needed before starting the hiring and
recommendations for hiring personnel,” said Commis- training process.
sioner Jerry Hoagland, Precinct 2. “We felt like we The new justice center will need a total of 133 new
needed from time to time to let the rest of the court employees, he said.
know what’s going on. After discussion of whether or not the jail would re-
“This is an attempt to bring you all up to speed,” he quire all 133 new employees, the commissioners voted
said. to let the sheriff start hiring employees using $500,000
The commissioners examined a proposed timeline for from contingency funds held in reserve.
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Hutchison, Mark. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 87, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 31, 1990, newspaper, October 31, 1990; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1571547/m1/1/?q=Homecoming+queen+1966+North+Texas+State+University: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Allen Public Library.