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COLONY PUBLIC LIBRARY
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A Harte-Hanks Community Newspaper
THE COLONY PUBLIC LIBRARY
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THE COLONY, TX 75056-1219
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Colony Leader
Wednesday
November 21, 1990
Vol. 9 — No. 52, The Colony. Texas
Sections
Police chief
appointed
Lewisville officer to assume
post the first week in Dec.
By JEFFREY BALL
Managing Editor
tions were received from both male
and female applicants, from within
the department and from as far away
Ted Gibson, an officer with the as El Paso.
Lewisville Police Department, has Capt. Mike Carroll has served as
been named chief of The Colony acting chief of police while the posi-
Police Department following Mon- tion has been vacant.
day’s approval of the selection by the Hall conducted interviews with
City Council. seven of the 52 candidates, who had
Gibson, 40, presently holds the been previously screened by a panel
rank of sergeant with the Lewisville from the Texas Police Chief Asso-
Police Department. He serves as ciation. Two candidates were
assistant to Police Chief Steve selected for “a second and subse-
McFadden and as the training quent personal interviews.”
officer. From those two final candidates
“It was a very difficult selection Gibson was selected as the candi-
process,” said City Manager Bill date whois “by personality, training,
Hall. “Each of the candidates from desires and compatibility with the
Ian Halperin/Leader photo
Lewisville police officer Ted W. Gibson, center, receives a round cil selected Gibson as chief of police for The Colony,
of applause after City Manager Bill Hall announces the city coun-
the assessment center were highly philosophies of the city the most
qualified, well-trained and had a de- logical candidate for the position,”
sire to come to this city.” said Hall.
There were 52 applications re- Gibson is married and has one
ceived for the position which became daughter. He graduated from Paris
vacant July 13 when Hall relieved
Nick Ristagno of his duties. Applica-
Turn to CHIEF, page 4A
Goal setting process
started by city council
All-year school study approved
By JEFFREY BALL
Managing Editor
The Colony City Council began
the process of targeting goals for
the city during a special session
last weekend.
“You can charter a more stable
course if you have goals,” said
Mayor Bill Manning.
The five-hour session, held in
the meeting room at Plantation
Resort, was attended by the City
Council and city department
heads.
Councilman Steve Withers was
the only council member not pre-
sent.
Manning said his hope was to
begin the process of “long term
guidance.”
“I mean a living document that
is adjusted and changed annual-
ly,” said Manning.
He said he wants to involve city
employees “on every level,”
citizen groups, citizens and
volunteers.
“We need the broadest input
we can get,” Manning said.
The session opened with a 90-
minute seminar conducted by
Larry Mattis of Xerox on “in-
teractive skills.”
Turn to GOALS, page 4A
Action not full ondorcanant study was not in itself an endorse-
ACdon Dot LU11 endorsement ment of year round school.
C "At this point, there’s no reason
Lewisville Independent School of year-round school calendar not to study it” Irick said.
District trustees approved aIfeasibil-J -4 1 "This will give us the knowledge
ity study on a year-round school to make a decision,” said trustee
calendar, to be presented to the school board say it improves information reten- Tony Tolleson.
Board members last week, ack- in October 1991, he said, tion among students by dividing a In other business, the board
nowledging that the move does not At least two board members said long three-month summer break approved a program that is designed
yet fully endorse year-round school, the study was needed because a de- into several smaller breaks. They to provide teachers with incentives
voted unanimously to allow four cision in the future would need to be say it also helps save on capital ex- not to miss classes.
committees composed of district re- based on sound research, penses by using a multi-track sche- The pilot program, which will run
sidents, teachers and administrators The board devoted much of its duling system that allows buildings during the spring semester, awards
to examine the issue in depth. annual retreat last month to discus- to accommodate more students, teachers on the basis of excellent
Superintendent Clayton Downing sing a strategy for implementing “Four committees is the best way attendance records by providing a
said the four committees will consid- year-round school. During the last to start this,” said trustee Steve cash drawing for those who no more
er the financial aspects and any curri- six months, Downing has repeatedly Allen. “We need to look at all the than one school day each.
culum changes accompanying such a raised the issue of moving to a 12- different ways and the really best Downing said that if the program
system, among other facets. month calendar, conducting sympo- thing that should be done.” is a success, it’s likely to be ex-
The study would culminate with a slums and doing his own research. Board president Joe Irick reiter-
report from the steering committee Proponents of year-round school ated Downing’s statements that the
By MILES MOFFETT
Staff writer
Turn to STUDY, page 4A
Plant addition
state required
City already making plans,
need about three years away
By JEFFREY BALL
Managing Editor
A notice from the Texas Water Commission to
the City of The Colony regarding plant expansion is
no cause for immediate concern, said a city official.
The city is about three years from needing to
consider expansion of the waste water plant, City
Manager Bill Hall said last week after receiving the
notice.
Hall said the commission’s letter stated that in
March, April and May of this year The Colony
“reached a point of inflow which could trigger re-
quired design and planning” for plant expansion.
When use of waste water treatment facilities con-
sistently exceeds 75 percent of capacity, a munici-
pality is obligated by the state to begin working on
plant expansion.
“The preliminary findings have been that the in- |
creased inflow was attributed to extremely heavy t
rains,” Hall said.
Openings in the system, such as open man holes,
can result in an apparent increase of system use
during heavy rains. Thorough checks have been
made of the system and the inflow closely monitored
the past 30 days, Hall said.
However, 18 months earlier The Colony had sub-
mitted an application for expansion of the capacity of
the waste water treatment plant from 2.5 million
gallons a day to 5 million gallons a day.
“Kind of crazy. (They) wrote us and asked us
what we’re doing — for over a year we’ve been
trying to get an expansion approval (from the same
agency),” said Tommy Turner, director of public
works.
Turner said the city is not “feeling any pressure,”
because Stonebriar will be “taken off line in another
year” and Fox & Jacobs construction in Northpointe
is nearing completion.
Hall said Turner, City Planner Bob van Til and
himself have been working on projections of de-
velopment of the city including the Northpointe
Turn to PLANT, page 4A
Major commercial growth
‘five to seven years away
By JEFFREY BALL
Managing Editor
Growth in the area designated as a business
park south of State Highway 121 is “five to
seven years away,” according to the developer.
Henry Billingsley, of the Tramell Crow Com-
pany, said development of the area would begin
as the Legacy Business Park is “built-out,” in
remarks last week during The Colony Chamber
of Commerce business luncheon.
“(With the) J.C. Penney area being built out,
The Colony is a natural for companies with the
same interests,” Billingsley said.
Three factors make this area “one of the
most attractive sites for national companies.”
Those factors are the cost of living, being in the
Central Time Zone and the D/FW International
Airport, Billingsley said.
Location in the Central Time Zone allows a
national company a “longer work day” with a
window of operation to deal with both east and
west coast branches during a normal time
frame, he added, pointing out that the airport is
_______________________now one of the busiest in the world with direct
Jeffrey Ball/Leader photo flights necessary for corporations.
Henry Billingsley, of the Tramell Crow Company, spoke about The J.C. Penney Company said $60 million
future city development to The Colony Chamber of Commerce dollars a year are being saved by their reloca-
last week. ‘ tion, he said.
"(With the) J.C. Penney
area being built out,
The Colony is a natural
for companies with the
same interests.”
Henry Billingsley
Billingsley said there are two areas com-
panies consider for relocation — “Las Colinas
— and here.”
“(There are) a lot of companies coming — we
should get some of them,” said Billingsley.
Ingredients including a desire to locate near
neighboring companies, the extension of the
North Dallas Tollway and the widening of SH
121, “leads us to believe we’ll see a lot of action
in five to seven years,” Billingsley said.
The “using up of’ the Legacy Business Park
“should coincide” with the extension of the
North Dallas Toll Road. As the Legacy area is
filled, companies with similar needs will look to
Turn to DEVELOP, page 4A
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■GOP redistricting hopes dashed
with Williams’ campaign defeat —
Page 4A
■Lawyer contributes $10,000 as first
donation to newly formed Lewisville
Education Foundation — Page 10A
County’s overtime suit judgment delayed
By GLEN FEST
Staff writer
DENTON — District Judge David White will await the submis-
sion of briefs from attorneys before ruling on a summary judg-
ment request from a former Denton County chief deputy in his
lawsuit against the county.
White requested attorneys for the county and David Klundt
submit briefs interpreting how each believes the Fair Labor
Standards Act applied to the county during the first two years of
Klundt’s employment.
Klundt is suing the county for 691 hours of overtime pay he
claims is due him for work done on a departmental manual during
former Sheriff Randy Kaisner’s administration.
Klundt alleges in his suit he was unfairly denied the overtime
work, which he substantiated through an affidavit from Kaisner,
by County Auditor James Wells.
Wells testified Friday in a hearing he denied the request be-
cause no records of Klundt’s work was ever submitted for payroll
records.
Klundt’s attorney, Bill Trantham, argued since the county did
not classify supervisory positions in the sheriffs department prior
to November 1986, the county could not claim Klundt was an
exempt employee.
Kaisner, who was forced out of office after an indictment and
subsequent conviction for bribery in 1988, testified Klundt work-
ed the hours while in his employ.
County Attorney Rob Morris stated to White the plaintiff had
Turn to KLUNDT, page 4A
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