Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1989 Page: 7 of 16
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Thursday, August 24, 1989 PagC 7
lo fund $3 million school budget
Two-cent tax increase proposed
By Mary Judson
Port Aransas taxpayers will have
an opportunity to voice their opinions
about funding a $3,191,045 school
budget primarily with a 63-cent tax
rate during back-to-back public hear-
ings Thursday. Aug. 31.
The proposed budget is $80,170
over last year’s budget, most of which
is accounted for by increases in the
cost of insurance and utilities.
The 63-cent tax rate is two-cents
over last year’s rate, but it is the amount
necessary to generate the same amount
of revenue as last year based on lower
property values.
Total assessed value less ex-
emptions is $425,253,189. Last year
Chat figure was $432,430,554.
While no “across-the-board”
salary increases were approved by
trustees, salary increases were ap-
proved on an individual basis. Overall
teacher salaries are proposed to be
increased to $1,101,856 from last
year’s total of $1,065,939.
Career Ladder stipends will
reflect only the amount provided by
the state, dropping the total from last
year’s $40,000 to $29,000.
The Career Ladder has been a
controversial subject since its incep-
tion. While the state created the Ca-
reer Ladder, its financial contribution
does not fulfill the needs generated by
local school districts which are
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The teacher salary increases
account for the majority of the in-
crease in the “instruction” category of
the budget that will go from $ 1,458,238
to a total of $1,506,932.
Step increases for certified per-
sonnel in “instructional administra-
tion” account for the increase in that
budget category.
Instructional administration
includes the special education direc-
tor and special education counselor.
The combined salary for those posi-
tions will go from $72,008 to $77,896.
With increases in workers’
compensation insurance and general
supplies that budget category will go
from $82,488 to $90,212.
“Instruction resource and me-
dia” — the library — has been cut
from $76,8000 to $74,065. Librarian
Joan Davis is being given the liberty to
distribute those cuts as she sees fit. In
the proposed budget Mrs. Davis has
reduced capital outlay in favor of more
continuing education through an in-
crease in travel expenses.
Administration salaries are
down from $108,919 to $92,560. That
was brought about by Superintendent
Dr. Dale Pitts’ administrative reas-
signments which put former director
of student services Skipper Lister in as
elementary principal and splitting
Lister’s job between high school Prin-
cipal Jim Edmonson and high school
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Lister’s salary went from about
$24,000 to $31,410, Edmonson’s sal-
ary with a slight increase will be
$43,202 and Kelley will get an addi-
tional $2,000 for helping out in the
director of student services office.
Former elementary Principal
Jim Littlefield’s salarv of $43,843 is
removed from this category and is
thus responsible for the reduction in
the administrative category of the
budget. His salary has been moved to
the “general administration” category
where it is largely responsible for
taking that line item from last year’s
$57,150 to $102,700.
Under that same category, Pitts’
salary will remain at $55,000.
Between the addition of Little-
field as director of administrative serv-
ices and attendant increases in hospi-
talization, worker’seompensation and
teacher retirement, administrative
salaries are up from a total of $ 124,425
last year to $173,671 this year.
Cost of guidance and counsel-
ing was also affected by the reassign-
ments. Salaries for that category
dropped from $51,110 to $41,948 with
the reassignment of Lister and filling
the position with two part time people,
only one of whom is compensated.
Overall guidance and counsel-
ing will go from a total of $66,275 to
$60,902.
Slight salary increases for
coaches puts the co-curricular activi-
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$36,200 last year.
The district will begin the year
with only one veteran coach on staff.
High school tennis coach Bill Smith
will be joined by a Heel of coaches
new to the district replacing the retir-
ing head coach and athletic director
Wallv Mayer and the rest of the staff
which resigned at different times for
different reasons.
That budget will total $133,196
this year compared to SI 10,889 last
year.
Under plant maintenance and
operation, proposed construction of a
field house and replacement of the
telephone system were taken out of
the budget, reducing total plant main-
tenance operation to $539,797 from
$555,313.
On the revenue side of the
budget, trustees expect to collect
$256,965 based on a 96 percent rate of
collection.
Among other areas of revenue,
school lunches are expected to bring
in $23,000 which is $1,000 over last
year. Fees to athletic competitions
should bring in about $3,600, well
over last year’s estimate of $2,400
which was exceeded.
The budget is available to the
public at the administration office
upstairs at the high school.
The budget hearing will be at
6:30 p.m. followed by a special meet-
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Island Life
Port Aransas South Jetty
Festival of food set for
Port Aransas Days
Food, food, food, you won’tgoaway
hungry if you patronize the food booths
sponsored by non-profit organizations
at the Port Aransas Days Festival Sept.
16 and 17 at Roberts Point Park.
A variety of tempting treats to whet
every appetite will be offered by 13
organizations participating in this two-
day, fun-filled eveni. Following is a
list of organizations and what they are
serving:
Rotary Club: turkey legs, popcorn,
sausage on a stick and u-peel-um
shrimp;
Lions Club: Barbecue chicken and
corn on the cob;
V.F.W.: desserts, pics and cakes;
EMS Auxiliary: lemonade, nachos
and Sloppy Joes;
Fire Auxiliary: Barbecue plates and
hamburgers;
Garden Club: tea and coffee;
Baptist Church: ice cream, snow
cones, pretzels and egg rolls;
Episcopal Church: hot dogs and
Frito pies;
P.T.O.: fish and fries;
Dewey Dryer Day Care: baked
potatoes;
Port Aransas Clean Team: funnel
cakes;
P.A.H.S. Seniors: cold drinks;
Port Aransas Action Force: beer.
Port Aransas Days Festival also will
have numerous games, arts and crafts,
live entertainment and a carnival dur-
ing the two days. The theme is country
and western, and Bobby Ray and the
Spring Creek Bunch will play for a
dance Saturday night.
The celebration will open with a
parade on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 11
a.m., followed by an opening cere-
mony at Robcrus Point Park.
This week in Port Aransas
Island
Agenda
The following is a list of meetings and events scheduled in Port Aransas
during the upcoming week.
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ing included on the lists should contact the South Jetty at 749-5131 during
the regular business hours Monday through Friday.
DAILY
* University of Texas Visitors’ Center, University of Texas Marine
Science Institute, on East Cotter Street just before you get to the beach.
Open Monday through Saturday 8 a.m, to 5 p.m. with films at 11 a.m.
and 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Saturday films arc shown at 10 a.m.
and 2 p.m. Sunday hours are noon to 4 p.m. with films at 1 p.m.
Admission is free.
* Recycling Dock sponsored by the Port Aransas Clean Team (PACT) In
parking lot of Family Center IGA. Temporarily closed.
TODAY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24
* Rotary Club, 12 noon, T.J.’s Quay.
* E.M.S. Auxiliary bingo, 7 p.m., Community Center.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 25
* Registration for Tortuga Flats “Get Flat” Bay Fishing Tournament.
Woody’s SporLs Center, 5 to 7 p.m. Sec story for details.
* Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., Trinity-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church,
403 Trojan.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 26
* Fishing begins for “Get Flat” Bay Fishing Tournament Weigh in from
3 to 4:30 p.m. See story for details.
* “Meet the Coaches” hamburger supper, 4 p.m., First Baptist Church. For I
student in seventh through 12th grades. See story for details.
* Alcoholics Anonymous, 10:15 p.m. Trinity-by*the-Sca Episcopal i
Church 403, Trojan.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27
* Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., Trinity-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church,:
403 Trojan. Big Book Study.
* 8 p.m. Trinity-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 403 Trojan.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 29
* St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Bingo, 7 p.m.
* Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 noon, Trinity-by-thc-Sca Episcopal Church,
403 Trojan.
* Narcotics Anonymous, 8 p.m., Trinity-by-thc-Sca Episcopal Church.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30
* CODA (Co-Dcnendcnts Anonymous1!. 7 p.m.. Trinitv-by-the-Sca.
They' 'doo' catch fish
These anglers reeled in this nice catch on the Debbie Doo.
They hooked kingfish, blacktip shark, ling and 16 school
dolphin (not pictured) when they went fishing Tuesday,
Aug. 22. They were fishing around the Exxon rig nortn.
Weighing in at Woody's Sports Center, the anglers are, from
left, Capt. Pat Caudle of Flour Mound, Don Huff of Houston
and Pat Magee of Port Aransas.
(Staff photo by Murray Judson)
Bank offers building to
lease for senior citizens
Plans to provide a building for a
Senior Citizens Center in Port Aran-
sas took a side step, then one step
forward during a city council meeting
Thursday, Aug. 17.
Councilman Ken Williams,
spearheading the move, told the coun-
cil that the building that formerly
housed Jacque’s Restaurant was not,
after all, available, but that Island
State Bank had offered a portion of its
building.
The portion of the bank building
being offered was home to the Shift-
ing Sands Restaurant and club about
10 years ago. Williams reported that
the bank offered a $ 1 a year lease on
the building for one lo 20 years.
The building is in need of repair
and equipment if preparation of meals
for senior citizens is to be done on site.
Williams told the the council
that with the $11,500 from Nueces
County for meals on wheels and dona-
tions from those served, the center
would need about $7,000 from the city
to get off the ground.
Williams’ plan is to create a
Senior Citizens Foundation and estab-
lish a trust, the interest from which
would ultimately support the center.
Council members were recep-
tive to the idea, but before making a
financial commitment they asked
Williams to provide specific costs of
repairs and a projected budget.
Ivan Aveneau. director of the
Coastal Bend Council on Aging, told
the council that the future of govern-
ment funding of senior citizen pro-
grams is uncertain. The concept of
making such programs self-sufficient
through specifically created founda-
tions is taking hold across the state,
Aveneau said.
The council informally endorsed
the project and asked the Williams to
bring back specific information.
Williams said the building will
be open tomorrow (Friday, Aug. 25)
for public inspection.
That's the limit
Chris Fox, 7, of Port Aransas and Capt. Bill Hart caught their
limits of redfish Friday, Aug. 11. They were Fishing the East
Flats. Chris is the son of Pete and Ceceiia Fox.
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Foreign fisherman
Ching Nan Yu, left, of Taipei, Taiwan, got a taste of Texas
fishing recently. He reeled in a limit of kingfish while fishing
with Capt. Tom Buckner, right, on the Ventura with mate
Billy Boo Mills. They weired in at Fisherman's Wharf.
Sail away
Dean Schroeder, in the foreground at left, caught his first
sailfish, tagged it and sent it back to.the deep blue Saturday,
Aug. 12. He was fishing with Capt. Tom Buckner, len,
deckhand Billy Bob Mills, and Charlie Porter of Corpus
Christi. They were fishing aboard Schroeder's dad's boat,
the Ventura around the east breaks.
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