Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 8, 1984 Page: 2 of 14
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Page 2-Paladoe Beacon Wed. Ang. 8,1984
City council raises tax rate to 53-cents
Palacios residents will soon be
getting some improved streets,
but also finding their tax rate
increasing slightly, following act-
ion taken by the Palacios City
Council Monday night.
Bids for the city’s 1984 street
improvement project came in
under budget, giving the council
the opportunity to include at least
one alternate section to the
project. The council then bad to
wrestle with the decision to raise
the city’s tax rate, increasing it
from 51-cents per $100 valuation,
to 53-cents.
The question as to whether the
city actually needed to raise the
tax rate, even slightly, was
debated a length among the
council. The final vote on the
matter was split with Johnnie
Heard voting in favor of the
To “
motion made bv Tom Templeman
and seconded by Maragret Me-
lt a th. Cliff Elliott voted against
the motion while Johnny Sards!-
ich abstained.
The increase will generate only
$11,419 in additional revenue per
year to the city which has a
current valuation of over $57-mil-
lion. For a city resident with
property valued at $24,520, the
tax will be $129.%, up from
$125.00 at the 51-cent rate.
Property valued at $1-million will
see its taxes go up to $5,300
compared to $5,100 under the old
rate.
Elliott was the only outspoken
councilman against an increase,
saying he felt the city could get
by f' one-year without raising
the rate.
“We need the money we are
charging now to accomplish our
current goals, but I feel in the
coming year we can accomplish
them with the current 51-cent
rate. We’ll have a lot more tax
base next year than we have had
in the past. We could raise it then
if we need to.
"We want the tax rate to stay
« low as possible to encourage
people to come in build in this
communitv,” Elliott said. “1 feel
like with growth we have now, we
can get by with what we got for
another 12 months."
Sardelich pointed out that
the future tax base Elliott was
referring to was the tax on
shrimp boats. However he said it
was likely that none of those
taxes would ever be collected,
and even if they were, the tax*
would be levied for probably just
one year.
“It will not be collected
because those (tax) statements
(to shrimp boat owners) are
being wadded up and tossed in
File 13," Sardelich observed.
“They (boat owners) feel like it is
a one shot deal and they expect
and want the same exemption
given to farmers."
Councilwoman Maragret Mc-
Elrath, remarking that she had
been raised on the idea “you
have to have taxes to have
progress" said she“hated to g<j
along with no tax increase and
of a sudden, bang, you have a big
one."
John F. Rendon
Palacios native serving on
Navy’s amphibious ship
The term amphibious assault
usually brings visions of landings
in old World War II movies. But
with modern engineering de-
signs, amphibious ships like the
USS San Bernardino make beach
landings an intregal part of'
today's Navy.
For John Rendon, the Sap
Bernardino is a ship with a
purpose.
Chief Radioman John F. Ren-
don was bom in Palacios. He -is
the son of Katherine Willoughby
and Albert Rendon. He started
school in Palacios and later
moved to Galveston where he
graduated from Ball High School
in 1%1.
He joined the Navy in June
1%1. He is the grandson of Mrs.
Lupe Ochoa of Palacios. He has
two uncles, Joe Frangullie and
Ggprge Frangullie, also of Pala-
cios. His mother is the former
Katherine Frangullie of Palacios.
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‘tWe're here to keep our
amphibious landing forces train-
ed,” says Rendon. “We trans-
port troops and cargo, launch
floating tanks called LVT's, and
deploy other major vehicles by
actually beaching the ship and
lowering our bow ramp. Even
though amphibious landings are
leipe, “
an old tactic, they’re still essen-
tial to establish land control.”
As a chief radioman, Rendon is
in charge at the hub of the ship’s
communication center. With six
signalmen add 10 radio tech-
nicians, he has the resources to
pass messages short distances
with flags or flashing lights, or
around the world with sophis-
ticated satellites and high-fre-
quency transmitters.
“My only job is communi-
cations,” says Rendon. “We
maintain equipment from tele-
type machines to high-tech trans-
mitters to keep the communica-
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Sardelich said he agreed with
Elliott that the city needs to keep
taxes down to stimulate new
growth, but at the same time the
city needs taxes on which to
operate.
........ think we can tighten up and make
'We're talking about revenue it operate for that much less,”
ofonly$ll,419(generatedby the Elliott asked. “1 don’t think we v
53-cent rate). With the size of need that $11,000.”
budget the city has, don't you
City’s sales tax rebates
remain at strong level
Although dropping off the
lead, Palacios continued to re-
cord a healthy growth in the
rebate of its one-percent sales tax
based on figures released for the
latest reporting period.
The city is currently running
15.04-percent ahead of last
year’s rebate figures with
580,679.52 rebated thus far as
compared to $70,129.92 for the
$18,019 check it received for the
same month in 1983.
The city’s one-cent sales tax is
collected by merchants along
with the state sales tax. It is then
rebated monthly by the State
year with $795,000 rebated as
compared to $679,746 last year. ■*'
Wharton has been rebated
$369,794 for an increase of
15.16-percent while Port Lavaca
is 11.59-percent ahead at
Comptroller’s Office. The recent $416,824. Also showing gains ,
August checks were for taxes over the previous year is El ’
same period a year ago. Having
led the
area in percentage
increase* of ihe past several
months, Palacios dropped slight-
ly as the latest rebate check
totaled $15,685, down from the
collected on sales made in June
and the second quarter and
reported to the Comptroller by
July 20.
Bay City jumped to the fore-
front to lead the nearby area in
percentage increases. That city is
now 16.96-percent ahead of last
Campo, up 9.20-percent at
$485,471, Ganado up 4.13-per-
cent at $45,061 and Edna up '«
1.68-percent at $166,192. ••
Continuing their decline are
Sesdrift, down ?7.nercent at
$30,207 and Point Comfort, off
45-percent at $10,081. * :
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tion lines open. With a mission
like ours, if we can’t receive
orders and be able to inform
others, we’re useless.
For Rendon, keeping up with
all the new message transfer
innovations is challenging.
"I like being a radioman
because things are always chang-
ing,” he says. “For a long time
we used Morse code, and there
was only one type of high fre-
quency communication. Now we
type a message on a screen,
press a button and it’s gone. But
even with all the advances of
computers and satellites, the old
methods are still needed as
backup.”
Rendon enlisted in the Navy in
1961, “just to try it out”, he
says. After specialized radio
training school, numerous ships
and a recent tour as a radioman
instructor, he reported to the ban
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