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THE INGLESIDE INDEX
Thursday, Docombor 5, 1991
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to be unveiled at meeting
Mid December
could bring
info on ships
will create regular fundraisers in
order to augment this start.
The latest addition to the
candidates for the five aiderman
seats are Ken Jones, Keith Reg-
nier and Norman Fleeman. Those
three join the other announced
candidates, Paul Smith, Lillie
Dawson, Guy Hargrove, Greg
The letter, signed by Leona
Robbins, treasurer of the Bay
Association, said the talent of
many volunteers and willing
donors is being used to stay out of
debt. She said Charlie Holmes has
donated the use of two buildings
Allen, Dick Ehman, Edgar Jones,
Claudie Langford and Malcom
Vance.
Other candidates may yet file
before today’s afternoon deadline
to file at the Sinton County
Clerk’s Office.
While the number of candi-
dates for aiderman has increased,
Joe Miller remains the sole candi-
date for marshall and Al Robbins
and Charles Langford the two
candidates for mayor of the newly
incorporated City of Ingleside-on-
the-Bay.
strengths and weaknesses of eco-
nomic development in the
county.
Earnest Gelach will present an
overview. This will provide in-
formation on what options are
available to thecounty in creating
an entity to encourage economic
development.
The entity is expected to be a
department within the county
with an econonic development
director named after the first of
the year.
Judge Miller has indicated that
this will be one of her priorities in
the coming year and she expects
to devote time to making sure the
studies made produce maximum
results for the county.
At the same meeting, two re-
quests from the City of Ingleside
will be considered. One is for
assistance with a study of the Ing-
leside street system and what
would be needed to bring streets
up to standard. The other is for
assistance to have an archeolo-
gical survey made on property on
the Cove where the city plans a
shoreline park.
The bridge would cross
McGampbell Slough and Kneuper
said he feared it would become a
dam to water flow during periods
of intense rainfall.
“If it backs up the water then an
entire foot of water would flood
back into the city,” Kneuper said.
Kneuper added the state had
designed the bridge using flood
zone and rainfall maps which are
not accurate to specific areas, but
Medical Service Center and Be-
navides for a health care facility.
With few exceptions, grants for
major capital improvement pro-
jects with a big price tag, such as
broad based maps.
“Those maps show us to have
experienced less rainfall than we
have during the last few years, ” he
said.
water or sewer treatment and dis-
tribution systems, are no longer
available except from two
sources. These two sources have
specific guidelines about use of
the grant money.
The city hopes to get the state
highway department to use more
accurate maps to design the
bridge. Maps which were com-
piled during the planning for the
naval station.
“seed money” to provide funding
for terminally ill patients who do
not have a caregiver in their own
home. It is planned that with this
money as a foundation, the AIM
Hospice Volunteers Association
will attract industry and create
jobs. This is not money that can
be used to upgrade or extend ser-
vices in residential areas without
any job creating potential.
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The options which San Patricio
County has for a new economic
development structure will be
presented at a meeting of the
Homeport SteeringCommitteeat
Ingleside City Hall Thursday,
Dec. 12.
The Steering Committee, of
which Mayor Bob Watson is
chairman, helped finance and
has coordinated the study which
is nearing completion. Three
members of the Commissioners
Court serve on the Steering Com-
mittee, Judge Josephine Miller
and Commissioners Gordon Por-
ter and Carl Duncan. The final
report will be presesnted to the
full Commissioners Court.
The study was made under
contract to a consortium at the
University of Texas at San Anto-
nio. Three faculty members who
have taken a lead in the project
will report at the Thursday
meeting
Dr Lynda De la Vina will
summarize the economic data
which has been compiled in a
computer foremat, giving a pic-
ture of the county’s economy.
Bob Ashcraft will report on the
By Juliet K. Wenger
Coastal Bend Council
of Governments
With the timing of this year’s
schedule, local governments will
feel they are telling the state what
they want for Christmas. Cities
and counties will make their pre-
sentations in seeking Commun-
ity Development Block grants
Dec. 17.
Presentations will be made in
an all-day meeting before the Re-
gional Review Committee of
which Commissioner Jimmy
Martinez of Bee County is chair-
man. The meeting will be held at
COG’s Corpus Christi office.
The applications are for HUD
money which comes to the State
of Texas in the form of block
grants to the Texas Department
of Commerce. They are particu-
larly important to local govern-
ments because there are few
grant programs left in which they
can compete.
Most of the applications are for.
improvements in water, sever,
gas, street or drainage. Some are
for housing. Beeville would use
the money for an Emergency
One of the programs which still
exists is that of the Economic De-
velopment Administration. EDA
money for water or sewer systems
can be obtained only when put-
ting this infrastructure in place
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Community Development
Block grants are the other m^jor
program. The limitatioiTin this
instance is that the money must
be used to improve services in
neighborhoods of primarily low
income families. There is heavy
competition for these funds, and
local governments move higher
up on the priority list when they
can prove their projects meet sig-
nificant existing needs in areas
where local effort cannot accom-
plish desired results.
denoes would be 136.67.
Funding for the project will be
provided through a state revolv-
ing loan program administered by
the Texas Water Development
Board.
Approval of the project has
already been given by the Texas
Water Development Board as the
city, due to the uncertainty of
annexation of Ingleside-on-the
Bay, made stand-alone requests
to the state agency.
Timetable for the project calls
for construction to begin in May
of 1992 and completion by the
end of 1992.
While city officials say large
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With the resolution of the ques-
tion of whether or not Ingleside-
on-the Bay would be annexed
into Ingleside, the city has pro-
ceeded with a revised request to
the state for funding of a X856.889
sewer extension project.
The project would serve five
areas within the city limits and
would bring sewer service to an
estimated 245 households
Areas to be included in the pro-
tect include Frank Phelps Garden
Tracts, La Quinta subdivision,
Garden Oaks subdivision, Lovers
Lane and Capeharf Addition.
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With today the last day for filing
as a candidate in th£ Jan. 18 elec-
tion which will set up a govern-
ment for Ingleside-on-the-Bay,
there are 12 candidates for aider-
man, two for mayor and one f<5r
marshall
Residents of the area incorpo-
rated recently as Ingleside-on-
the-Bay were notified by mail last
week that work has already begun
on water purchase, garbage pick-
up, county police protection, a
volunteer fire department, coun-
ty road maintenance and grants.
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The middle of December could
be a pivotal time for the Bay Area.
There are expectations that dur-
ing that time period, an
announcement will come from
the Atlantic fleet, establishing the
dates when specific ships will ar-
rive at Naval Station Ingleside.
This information will include
the number of men and women
that each ship will bring. Brad
Arvin, director of the Homeport
Steering Committee, said this in-
formation could end the “wait
and see period,” and signal the
start of activity in the communi-
ties to accommodate personnel.
Arvin pointed out that all the
ships and personnel will not ar-
rive at one time, but over a period
of several years. He said several
minesweepers could arrive next
summer and others come one at a
time as they are completed and
put into service. Three reserve
frigates are also to be homeported
hei;e.
Arvin said it is important for
local governments to have speci-
fic information to have services in
place and equally important for
private business to have assur-
ances on which they can base
requests for financing for con-
struction of apartments and ex-
pansion or establishment of
firms.
So far, Arvin said, projections
that have been made by the
Homeport Steering Committee
have proved to be accurate. Pro-
jections were that about 25 per-
cent of the Navy personnel would
choose to live in Corpus Christi
and commute, and 75 percent
would choose to live on the north
, shore, in Ingleside, Aransas Pass,
Portland, Rockport and com-
munities in between. This has
proved to be the case with person-
nel already here.
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leaide-on-the Bay the underlying
cause of the sewer project got lost
in the sometimes emotional de-
bate between council members
and anti-annexation forces.
“We should have done a better
job in presenting it, but we
didn't,” said Crawford.
Inclusion of Ingleside-on-the
Bay would have further reduced
costs to individual residences in-
volved |n the sewer improve-
ments and could have allowed re-
ductions in water and sewer rates
across the board, said Crawford.
Preliminary data on the project
effecting the five areas within the
city was presented to the city
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“This is where the city is
going," said Mayor Mark Craw-
ford. “This is what every member
of the council has been working
for.”
Crawford said projects such as
the one considered will allow the
city to lower water and sewer
rates as more and more resi-
dences are hooked on to the city’s
infrastructure
“Lower water and sewer rates is
something we all campaigned
on,” he said. “It has just taken a
little longer to come to fruition
than we had expected.”
He added that during the
annexation hearings on Ing-
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Work underway to develop
infrastructure for new city
for a town hall and fire house at
XI.00 a year.
Robbins said attorney’s fees
continue. She said the attorney’s
bill through Sept. 30 was
X6.930.68, and X 1,978.26 was
paid. She said the total paid out is
X9.053.80, and incorporation fil-
ing fees have not been paid She
said money is needed and the goal
is XI00 from each household.
Robbins said meetings of the
Bay Association are to be held the
first Monday of each month,
rather than each Monday as in the
past, at Bahia Marina.
period at
month.
In addition, the household
would be charged a fee for the
service line to the residence of
X875 which could also be paid
over a 10 year period at a cost of
X10.38 per month.
Total monthly rates for the
sewer improvements to resi-
minus bay area
addition* to the project or addi-
tion* involving expensive lift sta-
tion* could not bo considered a* a
part of the current plan*, there
remain* the possibility of some
additional residence* receiving
sewer service.
“We have area* that wecan add
on, ” said City Manager Steve Fitz-
gibbon . “We are still looking at all
of the areas.”
' Fitzgibbon said if residences
are found close to the areas which
the sewer improvement project
will serve and if those residences
can economically be included,
the city will try to add them
“The more we can serve the
better,” said Fitzgibbon noting
the impact on individual sewer
and water bills serving a larger
number would have.
Many people, remembering the
time when urban areas could look
to the state and federal govern-
ment for various types of assist-
ance in community development
that would put a strain on local
taxes, are not aware of today’s
limitations.
AIM Hospice based in Rockport
has been named to receive a
Coastal Bend Community
Foundation grant of XI500. The
grant recognizes AIM’s ongoing
efforts to provide total care for the
terminally ill throughout the
area.
The grant is earmarked as
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oounoil on Nov. 26 by Randy
Thompson of Archie Walker En-
gineering Inc.
Assessment rates based on 245
connections showed a cost for the
sewer improvement to individual
households to be $625 That rate
could be paid over a 10 year
a cost of X7 42 per
Tom Anderson
Staff Writer
The heaVy downpour of rain in
late October, when 10 inches of
rain fell on Ingleside, has pointed
out drainage problems in the city
which will be targeted for future
work.
Public Works Director George
Kneuper appeared before the city
council recently to apprise them
of the flooding problems certain
areas of the city endured during
the October deluge.
According to Kneuper, the
Humble Addition section of the
city was experiencing more flood-
ing than it has seen in the past.
Kneuper said a part of the prob-
lem could be traced to the realign-
ment of the Humble ditch when
the ditch was being used for spoil
during the dredging for the Navy.
“It has not been able to carry
the water it has in the past,” said
Kneuper. “It has silted up.”
That section of the city which
drains into the West Branch of
Kinny Bayou should be the target
for drainage improvement pro-
jects after the city finishes im-
provements on Avenue G next
summer.
“That was the worst area I saw
when I first came here,” said
Kneuper of Avenue G. “We have
improved the area at least 90 per-
cent.”
While workingand planning to-
ward improving storm water
runoff inside the city, the city is
also hoping to persuade the state
road department to make
changes in a bridge designed for
the road to the airport.
The Regional Review Commit-
tee must prioritise project ap-
plication* by the end of the year.
Then the state will grade the pro-
jects on their criteria, and the
regional and state score* will car-
ry equal weight in the decision.
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