The Colony Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 37, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 2, 1989 Page: 1 of 35
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Wednesday
August 2, 1989
A Harte-Hanks Community Newspaper
8 - No. 37. The Colo
2 Sections
Sign-up for Dallas phone service begins
Deadline for proper directory directory listing Aug. 15
By JEFFREY BALL
Managing Editor
Fingers in The Colony are poised and ready to call
points across the Dallas area — toll free. This week
those fingers are involved in one of the last steps in the
process that the city has sought for several years, they
are signing up for the program on the yellow return
cards mailed by Southwestern Bell Telephone last
week.
The service, sought by the city for a number of
years, will allow local residents to be part of the Dallas
metropolitian calling area for a flat rate. The optional
service will make toll calls to Carrollton, Dallas and
Lewisville a thing of the past.
The “pre-subscription cards” must be returned by
an Aug. 15 deadline to insure proper listing in the area
telephone books for most of the time the books will be
current, said J.B. King, area manager for Southwest-
ern Bell.
Hook-up into the Dallas metropolitan calling area will
begin on Jan. 1 of next year and continue at the rate of
about 250 lines a day, with completion set for the end of
the month, said King.
The rate for a residential line in The Colony, which
will allow direct calling to and from any phone in the
Dallas area is set at $30.10 for residents and $72.35 for
businesses. There will be a $60 “one-time charge” to
change an existing line to “Extended Area Calling Ser-
vice.” Residential customers can select to spread the
billing of the hook-up fee over a four month period.
The service is optional and residents that choose to
retain their current local services may do so. It is not
necessary to take any special action to retain current
service. 1
“(You will) keep your same calling scope and add Dallas
by signing up,” said King.
It will be possible to go to the service or discontinue
it at any time, he added.
The sign-on is an effort by Southwestern Bell to
address problems with deadlines for three different
area directories. Residents that sign up for the service
before the mid-August deadline will be correctly listed
in the local 1989-90 directory that serves The Colony,
in the July, 1990 Dallas White Pages and in the Decem-
ber, 1990-91 Dallas Yellow Pages for most of the time
that the books are current.
The first two months the dir ectory is out the num-
bers will be wrong, explained King, but the alternative
Turn to PHONES, page 4A
City down
$1 million
Denton County Certified Tax Rolls
Total
Market Value
Denton County $13 billion
Flower Mound $834 million
Highland Village $324 million
Total Net Taxable
Exempt Property 1989-90
Tax roll deals
financial blow
By TIM POLZER®
Leader staff writer
The City of The Colony was dealt
a financial blow by the Denton Cen-
tral Appraisal District with the re-
lease of the city’s certified tax roll.
The district’s tabulated figures
show the city’s net taxable property
for 1989-90 to be $523.6 million — a
decline of $500,000 from the current
County plan calls for tax hike
Net Taxable
1988-89
$9.97 billion
$10.03 billion
$3 billion
$142 million
$16 million
$187 million
$909 million
$114 million
By GLEN FEST the commissioners and department er district between Denton and Tar-
Daily Leader staff writer officials, Burgess said, referring to rant counties and the fifth state dis-
the budget’s impending scrutiny be- trict court scheduled to become real-
DENTON — The preliminary fore the court and in public hearings, ity Sept. 1.
1989-90 budget proposed by County Burgess is recommending a prop- Budget Administrator Donna Ste-
Leader graphic judge Vic Burgess calls for a 2.96 erty tax rate of 23.56 cents per $100 wart said a 5.6 percent merit raise
percent tax increase, a goal the chief valuation, a 2.96 percent increase has been included in the budget. Em-
, ia , budget officer had been seeking. over the effective tax rate of 22.891 ployees would receive varying
was imaheed at8822.1 ° a property reached $114 Auone ™p The $34 million budget wilbepre cents The effective rate is the raises and step increases depending
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deficit. . . anisaid. Commissioners must approve a A departmental breakdown of the Road and bridge funding would go
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n political ideas and positions,” from recommended joint medical examin- Turn to COUNTY, page 4A
Turn to TAX, page 4A P" P
Lewisville $ 12 billion
LISD $5.4 billion
The Colony $637 million
Source: Denton County Appraisal District
and a large number of citizen dis-
putes of appraised values.
School board to review
$79.1 million budget
By BEVERLY MARTINDALE
Daily Leader staff writer
The Lewisville school board meets Monday to re-examine the LISD’s
proposed $79.1 million budget for 1989-90.
LISD Superintendent Clayton Downing said he hopes Monday’s budget
workshop will be the last. School officials have already cut about $2 million
from the proposed budget.
“I just can’t see where there are any more cuts without hurting prog-
rams,” Downing said. “We re cutting it, I think, down to the bare minimum.’
If the school board accepts the budget Monday night, budget hearings will
take place in two weeks and a tax rate hearing will take place toward the end
of August, Downing said.
To cut one cent off of the tax rate would require the district to make about
$450,000 more in cuts.
“We are working to keep (the tax rate) as low as we can and still maintain a
district people would want to move into,” Downing said.
LISI) officials are proposing a $1,058 tax rate per $100 property valuation
for the 1989-90 fiscal year. The tax rate for this past year was 91.5 cents per
$100 valuation. The proposed increase represents a 25 percent jump in the
effective tax rate, well over a potential rollback position.
According to state law, any tax increase above 8 percent is subject to a
voter-initiated rollback.
Downing said that while the district has gone over the 8 percent tax
increase before and been in a rollback situation, the issue has not been as
sensitive as it is this year.
Turn to LISD, page 4A
LISD Budget 1989-90
3%
2%
1%
10%
20%
64%
Personnel
Debt Service
Maintenance
Other
Administration
Athletics
$691.4 million $635.1 million
$307.7 million $276.1 million
$2.05 billion $2.11 billion
$4.39 billion $4.36 billion
$523.6 million $524.1billion
Eastvale loan
in hands of
Washington
By JEFFREY BALL
Managing Editor
(OUR
Wet cleanup
Doug Layton/ Leader photo
Troy Lowe, a seasonal worker at Lewisville Lake Texas Department of Wildlife authorized the
State Park, moves a warning sign to higher opening of the park and boat ramps, which had
ground during clean-up efforts at the park. The been closed due to high water, recently.
A loan in excess of $1 million for
the creation of the Eastvale Addition
Sanitation System is in the hands of
the Federal government following a
public hearing in Austin last
Tuesday.
“(There is) no control over the
next step,” said City Manager Bill
Hall, who added that he expects an
answer by Oct. 1.
The public hearing was the last
state level phase in the process of
securing a loan for the completion of
a water and sewer system in the
Eastvale area. Application for the
loan in the program, which was cre-
ated by the Texas Senate, followed
being denied a grant of $250,000
along with 40 out of 50 applicants in
the North Texas area.
The Colony was given a “priority
Turn to EASTVALE, page 4A
Shelter provides aid for women in crisis
together to make the move. The agency answered 1,722 crisis
But for the first time, she’s realiz- calls in 1988.
ing she’s not alone. And she’s re- Within the past several years, the
When 19-year-old Anna Brown ceiving the counseling necessary to need for the agency’s services has
met the man who would become her understand that it’s not her fault her more than doubled, as more and
husband, he was the nicest person husband hits her, that he is the one more women find that being abused,
she’d ever known. with a problem.
“He sent me flowers, called me all Brown is just one of hundreds of /
By ANITA KELLEY
Daily Leader staff writer
either physically, sexually or emo-
tionally, is something they don’t
have to live with.
National statistics indicate the
Turn to SHELTER, page 4A
Debt Service
All Other
Child Nutrition
Administration
Maintenance
Instruction
47%
the time and was the perfect gentle- women each year who show up at ( 1117 par1 At CA1 11-1 CAI
man,” she said, the front door of the women’s shel- ClLY Pal L OL CUULY
Eight months later, Brown (not ter provided through Denton County
her real name), pregnant with the Friends of the Family.
couple’s first child, married the man. Most of the women come clutch- By TIM POLZER saidJames Loveday, executive com-
That’s when the beatings began, ing the small hands of their children Leader staff writer mittee member.
At first it was a slap in the face. Then and often owning nothing but the clo- This year s event will be devoted
a push. Next a shove. thing on their backs. In many inst- The enhancement of countywide more to the economic activities in
It was during her second pregnan- ances they have escaped their economic development will be the the county, he said.
cy, two years later, that Brown homes while husbands weren’t look- focus of Denton County Day, sche- “It s a great opportunity for the
found herself in a hospital bed, alone, ing and are afraid they will be killed if duledforOct. 6, at the University of leaders of the county, to all get
scared and ashamed. their whereabouts are discovered. North Texas coliseum in Denton. together under one roof, said Love-
Her husband, in a drunken fit of “The women who come here basi- Representatives from 37 Denton Turn to DENTON page 4A
anger, had stabbed her with a fork, cally have a month to get a whole lot County communities, including the
bloodied her nose and blackened her of details in order, and the worst part Colony, will attend the third annual
eyes. She stayed alone in the hopital is it can take them several weeks day-long event which will be held at a
bed for three weeks, too embarras- just to get over the shell shock of site in the county this year for the
sed to tell anyone, even her family, running away from the life they first time.
that she desperately loved a man knew,” said Becky West, one offour The event will work from a pre-
who abused her. counselors who supervises the liminary budget of $7,500 provided
Now, four years later, unable to women’s shelter, which served 395 by the Denton County Industrial De-
take yet another beating, she has women in 1988 alone. velopment Board.
escaped to a shelter for battered and Friends of the Family operates During the last two years, Denton
abused women in Denton County, the shelter, which is free to the County Day consisted of community
She has a month to find a job, an women, and two outreach centers, representatives meeting with state
__apartment for herself and her two in Denton and Lewisville, which pro- legislators in Austin to discuss
Angie Summers/Leader graphic boys, and to get enough money vides counseling services. issues and concerns of the county,
20%
10%
8%
10%
5 %
Index
Infomation..........Page 2-3A
Opinion.................Page 6A
Sports................Page 8-9A
Entertainment Page 15-16A
Real Estate .... Page 18-19A
Comics.,
Page 20A
Classifieds......Page 21-26A
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