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Tuesday
August 26, 2008
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Former student arrested in
shooting plot at high school
Inside
Fair
Time
to
By Mark J. Armstrong
News Editor
An 18-year-old former Boerne
High School student was
arrested Friday in what police
have described as a Columbine-
like plot to commit multiple
murders at Boerne -Samuel V.
Champion High School.
Allen Wayne Doelitsch
Jr., who graduated last year,
has been charged with crimi-
nal solicitation of a minor to
commit capital murder. The
14-year-old whom
authorities said Doe-
litsch had attempted to
induce to commit mul-
tiple murders at the
school has been held
at the Kerr County
Juvenile Detention
Center since last week
on probation violation
charges. Doelitsch
vine m-iws
Doelitsch
was being held at the
Kendall County Jail
on a $500,000 bond.
Boerne Police Chief Gary
Miller said Doe- the police department to turn
litsch gave himself himself in.
up to authorities Miller said Doelitsch had
without incident been in trouble before and had
late Friday about recently been warned by the
a block from the police school resource officer
Boerne Police to stay away from Champion
Department. Doe- High School.
litsch, who had “He never did anything (before
been charged with now) to cross that line to where
making terroristic it was a felony offense, but
threats in 2006, certainly we were aware of him
had reportedly and kept our eyes on him,”
found out about the warrant for
his arrest and was walking to
See ARREST, page 2A
Start of the Champion era
County
says
'Burn it'
By Dave Pasley_________
• Staff Writer
County Judge Gaylan Schroeder
exercised his authority to temporar-
ily lift the bum ban last week and
area skies have been aglow from
burning brush piles that accumu-
lated during the yearlong drought
that seems to have broken, at least
temporarily.
Kendall County Commission-
ers voted unanimously Monday
to lift the ban on outdoor burning
along with a disaster declaration
approved earlier this summer. The
disaster declaration was part of an
effort to prevent the discharge of
fireworks over the Fourth of July
holiday.
Fire Marshal Jeffrey Fincke said
Get ready for this
weekend's Kendall County
Fair look inside today’s
Boerne Star.
See BURN, page 2A
Happy.
...Birthday
Aug. 26
Barbie Sotello Winston
Wilma Luce
Aug. 27
Nancy Hermann
Helen Hollis
Aug. 28
Lydia Ontiverez
Ida Nuernberger
Kim Pegram
Charlie "Kritter"
Bentley
Charles Uhl
...Anniversaries
Aug. 22
Anita and Rudy
Montez, Jr.
Aug. 23
Minnie and Rudy
Montez, Sr.
Star photo by Mark J. Armstrong
Boerne - Samuel V. Champion High School principal David Stelmazewski stands among of sea of students Monday
at the start of lunch on the first day of school. About 1,600 students started at the new high school.
Opinions split on proposed demolition moratorium
To send birthday wishes to
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call 830-249-2441.
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Anthony Rhodes
Margaret L. Moses
Full obituaries, Page 2A.
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Index
At the Trail
BISD Report
Bookworm
Breath of Fresh Air
Capital Highlights
Classifieds
Comfort Zone
Crossword
Focus on the Family
Off the Main
Service Directory
Sports
Sticks & Stones
Viewpoints
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Volume 102 • Number 69
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BY Dave Pasley_________we decide,” said Ted Maxymof, “90 days
• Staff Writer will go by quick.”
The other half of the roughly 20 people
A proposed 90-day moratorium on demo- who turned out for the 5 p.m. special meet-
litions in a neighborhood near downtown ing saw something more sinister afoot.
Boerne drew divided reactions from citi- “I don’t understand the rush,” said Darren
zens and City Council members at a public Smith. “There is no imminent threat. This
hearing Thursday. is an infringement on property rights.”
About half the speakers and two council “Why? I can’t see the reason for this,”
members described the proposed morato- said Lanne Brehmer.
rium as a benign imposition that might save Neither could Councilman Ron Warden,
an historic structure or two and will “be who cast the only vote in opposition to the
over before we know it.” first reading of an ordinance that would
“Give history a chance before it’s only impose a 90-day moratorium on moving
a memory,” said Theissen Street resident or demolishing any buildings in an area
Rebecca Jones, bounded by the existing downtown historic
“Give 90 days to these buildings before district on the west, Turner Street on the
east, River Road on the south and East San
Antonio Street on the north.
Councilmen Bob Manning and Rob
Ziegler supported the moratorium. Council-
men Jacques DuBose and Jeff Haberstroh
were absent.
Warden made a motion to deny the ordi-
nance establishing the moratorium, but
there was no second and the motion died.
Ziegler’s subsequent motion to approve the
ordinance on first reading was seconded by
Manning and was approved by a 2-1 vote
with Warden dissenting.
“I feel like a guy who showed up at the
prom with no date,” Warden said.
by Dave Pasley_________
• Staff Writer
FAIR OAKS RANCH — The
expansion of Fair Oaks Ranch
continues.
City Council members approved
a 63-lot residential subdivision
on Fair Oaks Parkway Thursday
that will eventually extend to
Dietz-Elkhorn Road and could
have as many as seven times the
number of lots.
Paul Schroeder, an engineer
representing developer Todd
Booth of Prestige Homes, said
three phases totaling 186 lots are
currently planned for a tract of
land extending from the Parkway
to Dietz-Elkhorn. A report from
Mayor Dan Kasprowicz indi-
cated the development, known
as Front Gate, could potentially
be expanded to include as many
as 450 lots.
Kasprowicz’s report identi-
fied more than 1,000 residential
lots that are planned in a half-
dozen developments in areas that
have recently been annexed or
will soon be annexed. Besides
Front Gate, which is in the Bexar
County portion of the city, the
largest of those developments is
Stone Creek Ranch in Kendall
County, where the first houses
are now under construction.
Schroeder said most of the 63
lots in the first phase of Stone
Gate will be 85 feet wide and
See MORATORIUM, page 2A
See FAIR OAKS, page 2A
City staff wants more building than bonds can buy
BY Dave Pasley of the fire station, public safety building and $90,000 will need additional funds,” Turk $2.5 million and paid the principal
on the fire station expansion.
Planning and Community
Development Director Chris Turk
is recommending the city build
as E WAS A report from Construction Proj-
ect Manager John Wall is expected
To complete the projects prom- to show the public safety build-
ised in the $21.47 million 2007 ing more than $1 million over its
bond issue, Boerne may need more $7.7 million budget. One of the
funds than voters have authorized, issues the council is expected to
The Boerne City Council will consider is whether to pay for
meet in a workshop session prior LEED, Leadership in Energy and
to the regular council meeting Environmental Design, certifica-
tonight to discuss construction tion or to simply build to LEED
plans for the bond projects includ- standards. Wall said foregoing
ing the new library, the new public LEED certification could save
safety building and the expansion approximately $25,000 on the
a library one-third larger than
the building voters authorized in
2007 and he suggests paying for
a big chunk of the added cost for
the larger building by selling the
Dienger building, which houses
the current library.
"To build the library building
we need for the next 15 years we
wrote. “I am suggesting, again, and interest with rent revenue,
that the city sell the Dienger build- The Quality of Life Bond
ing and use the funds generated Committee recommended a
from the sale to provide sufficient 20,500-square-foot library, which
funds to build an appropriate-sized Turk said will be “undersized” by
library for the community.” 2015. Turk said a 20,500-square-
Turk estimates the Dienger build- foot library can be built for the
ing could be sold for $2.5 million, roughly $7.1 million that he esti-
In his memorandum he said it is mates will be available from bond
unlikely that enough income in proceeds and private donations,
rent could be generated to pay the He suggested a 30,000-square-
debt service if the city kept the
building, borrowed the additional
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Cartwright, Brian. The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 69, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 26, 2008, newspaper, August 26, 2008; Boerne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1667331/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Patrick Heath Public Library.