Today Cedar Hill (Duncanville, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 29, 2003 Page: 3 of 22
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CEDAR HILL TODAY
Thursday, May 29, 2003-C'edar Hill Today*Page 3
Food Pantry offers programs, helps with need
The Cedar Hill Food Pantry has
been a busy place for the past two
months. Besides being open for food
distribution four days a week and
assisting with TXU Energy Aid on the
first and second Thursdays, it has also
been oflfering classes.
The Food Pantry will host free
nutrition classes from 9-11 a.m. on
Wednesdays from June 18-July 30. The
classes will focus on Spanish speakers
and is presented in conjunction with the
Texas Cooperative Extension Service.
Those interested in signing up should
call Ruth Valenzuela at 214-904-3050
or the pantry at 972-293-2822.
The nutrition classes have been a big
hit, according to Food Pantry Director
Gene Sims. New services are in the
planning stages, she said
“Our goal is to provide as many ser-
vices as possible to the ciitizens of
Cedar Hill,” she said.
The pantry served 165 families with
559 units of food (or 5,590 regular
items, plus extras like snacks, condi-
ments, drinks and paper products). That
is an increase in families and food dis-
tribution for the 12th month in a row.
The pantry has had to cut back on
the number of food items it normally
gives. Currently the pantry is low on
canned fruits, soups and paper prod-
ucts.
There have been many requests for
TXU Energy Aid. And with summer
coming, that need will increase.
The only income source allotted to
this program comes from the “rounding
off” of electric bills. Residents can add
a dollar or round up their bill with the
surplus going toward energy aid. That
option is available on the electric bill.
The amount collected is given to per-
sons in the same zip code.
“If every family in the 75104 or
75106 zip codes gave just one dollar
per month, the results would be
astounding,” Sims said. •
The pantry usually receives about
$350 per month, but even limiting the
aid to $50 per family, that only allows
the pantry to help seven families. In
order to spread out the funds, the
pantry will change the assisance date to
the first and third Thursdays of the
month.
To become more involved with the
pantry in serving fellow citizens, call
972-293-2822.
The first in a series of free nutri-
tion classes held at the Cedar
Hill Food Pantry had its gradua-
tion May 28. Pictured are stu-
dents learning to make positive
changes in lifestyle while saving
money at the grocery store.
Submitted photo
Bond
From Page 1
In order to make the pro-
posed expansion work, the city
will have to acquire land to the
north and west of the current
library. That land is needed for
the new building as well as
parking, which would be a
major consideration.
Bonds hopes the Wylie fam-
ily, which owns the land will
donate it to the library. She
said that the family is known
for its philanthropy in the area
of libraries and already has ties
to Cedar Hills Zula B. Wylie
library.
“They as a family believe in
libraries," Bonds said. “I have
been told that many times by
the family members. We feel
very confident that we will be
able to come to some agree-
ment."
After a discussion of the
amenities the building would
offer and what would be need-
ed to bring the building up to
code, the talk turned to the cost
of the building.
“I am in favor of libraries,
but I would like to remind
everyone that the economy is
not really good for everyone,"
committee member and'•local
builder Wes Pdb1 Said.
Pool said he was concerned
that the city was building
something it did not need by
expanding the library. He said
that building the library might
be needed eventually, but was
not sure such a large expansion
was needed right now.
Phil Callison of Cra Arch-
itects explained that according
to a facilities study done by his
firm, the city would need a
60,000-plus square foot library
at the city’s projected buildout
date of 2025.
“Based on our best guess,
this is what you need for the
future,” he said.
Pool said the proposed ex-
pansion would put the city "in
debt now for space we won’t
use for 20 years " Although no
specific design elements had
been discussed at that point.
Pool said he would like “the
frills" to be cut from the pro-
ject when it comes to that
point.
Committee member Al
Armistead said the discussion
was irrelevant because the
committee’s focus is to make
recommendations to the coun-
cil on w hat to present to voters.
sion of the city's intentions for
the police building was debat-
ed.
As the discussion shifted to
the, old downtown area,
Callison offered that revitaliz-
ing the area would need to be
planned in conjunction with
building the new facility. He
said it is critical that the city
reuse the existing city hall or
the city hall area.
The committee brought up
“While with downtown, we would hope
that it would generate traffic on its
own, there should be something that
draws people down here.”
Valerie Gibson, Main Street Manager
not to design a building.
"It's not Wes' place or my
place to decide if we arc going
to do this,” Armistead said. "It
is going to be up to the voters
to decide if they are going to
do it.”
City Manager Alan Sims,
who was sitting in on the meet-
ing, said that many decisions
will have to be made after
there is funding in place.
“If this is approved, there is
a detfFgii phase,’* he 'said: “tii
that design phase there will be
opportunities for city-w ide and
community-wide input.”
The discussion moved on to
talk of downtown Cedar Hill
once City Hall was moved to a
new facility. That part of the
bond proposal was discussed
in a previous meeting, but
included a few' options for the
move.
One, which had been previ-
ously discussed was creating a
joint city/school district build-
ing which the school district
would help pay for. Another
was the option of putting a
police station in the new
municipal building.
. Further discussion of that
turned rancorous as a discus-
the idea of using the existing
building or its site for a farm-
ers' market. Callison said that
idea would help tie the various
parts of downtown together
He said that any idea that
would do bring the downtown
area to a whole would be a
good one.
Foi her part. Main Street
Manager Valerie Gibson said
that the key issue with the re-
development is to make some-
thing ftiafHtfiII generate traffic.
"While with downtown, we
would hope that it would gen-
erate traffic on their own, there
should be something that
draws people down here," she
said.
Committee member Chris
Rose brought up the idea of
tearing down city hall and
starting fresh and some in the
room agreed that was a possi-
bility
However, Amanda Hall, a
committee member and part of
the Cedar Hill Historical
Society, said she would have
trouble selling the demolition
of the old city hall because of
its historic value. The hall was
also a library, police station
and fire station at one time.
. “There is a hit of history
here and it would be nice if it
could be preserved" Callison
said but did not want to dis-
count any possibility.
The Mam Street Committee
will make a recommendation
to the bond committee after a
June 2 meeting in which Gib-
son hopes Main Street will
have more firm suggestions.
Also at the meeting, the
Cedar Hill Historical Society
presented a proposal for a
museum in what is now the
Parks and Recreation Building.
The museum is not currently
slated to be part of the bond
package, but Rose suggested it
might be considered to be
included. He said that it might
draw people downtown and so
it could be useful.
“It makes sense to me that if
you are going to be doing it. it
might be cheaper to do it all at
one time rather than just a
hodgepodge." he said.
The 1,825 square foot Parks
building used to be a lire sta-
tion and therefore has histori-
cal significance. The building
would have to be renovated
and money for that could come
from the bond issue, according
to the presentation.
The meeting concluded
with a discussion of topics
planned for the next bond
committee meeting. The meet-
ing is set for June 29 at 6:30
pin. in the Cedar Hill
Chamber of Commerce meet-
ing room.
Topics to be discussed in-
clude the recommendations for
the new government center,
library expansion and down-
town renovations. Specifically,
the committee will try to
decide how the projects should
be carried out - as a whole or
m phases and whether the
items m the bond election
should be presented separately
or as one bond package
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