The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 142, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1995 Page: 1 of 32
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Back to school
special section
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Texas* Oldest Weekly Newspaper
Since March i, 1853
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Thursday, August 24,1995
Surprise
7 just assumed
Bastrop City Manager
Michael Talbot is still learning
about some of the special
wrinkles in council policy, most
recently about waiving utility
impact fees for some projects.
The council typically has ------ ------ a r -------
taken the stance that impact fees two acres from the city for its
are not negotiable, that such show barn.
city manager Talbot says
But in truth there was nothing the lease terms) before I put it
for the council to discuss about on fhe agenda, said a o ,
the issue. City records revealed
that all impact fees had been
waived as part of the 1990
agreement under which the
stock show group leased some
shaking his
assumed.
So strong
head. “I just
Council wants to dicker
with sheriff over charge
has been the
The Bastrop City Council
wants to negotiate with County
give the city credit
housing city inmates
charges can’t be waived.
That's why last week Talbot
put an item on Tuesday’s
council agenda after learning
that the Bastrop Area Livestock
Show and Fair Association isn’t
expecting to pay impact fees
when the group adds rest rooms
to its show bam on Loop 150
East.
School districts
in county get
tax rate data
Bastrop and Smithville
school districts received effec-
tive tax rate information and
certified values this week from
the Bastrop County Appraisal
District, while Elgin is expect-
ing theirs later in the week.
Smithville school trustees
will hold a public hearing at 7
p.m. Sept. 11 to hear public in-
put about the district's intentions
to raise the tax rate ap-
proximately 28 cents, said SISD
business manager Sharon Eaves.
The effective tax rate for
1995 is $1.4193, die said. The
district can not set a higher tax
rate more than two percent-
$1.4493-above the effective
rate without holding a public
hearing.
Last week, the school board
approved a budget of
$8,590,000, to be funded by a
The show and fair
association promotes the
Bastrop live stock show and
auction each March for area
FFA and 4-H Club members.
The city signed a 50-year lease
on the site in return for $1 a
year.
“I should have checked (on
$4,000, said City
impact fees over the. pas, two ^ ^ 5“’' M5 3 * EThtt, than the
sewer system. But Council Member Willie
Fees to hook up the facility, a De La Rosa first called for city
former school building which staff to review the status of prior
was moved beside the county agreements with the shentt
jail, will come to about $9,000, before okaying a new one.
J ’ • - Previously the city agreed to
pay its consulting engineer to
years, Talbot recalled, that he
discouraged Wal-Mart officials
from even asking the council for
such a waiver as they planned a
new SuperCenter store in
Bastrop.
Impact fees are designed to ‘he city calculates. Hoskins said
allow cities to cover the cost of his construction budget doesnt
expanding water and sewer include anything for the
treatment facilities required to wastewater impact fee.
serve new development. He has proposed instead to
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complete a drainage plan for the
site in return for prisoner
housing. That bill is about
current county charge.
“We’ve got the hammer,”
said De La Rosa. “We can ask
for a better rate.”
The council also called for
more talks with BFI, the city's
trash hauler, before accepting a
rate increase of 39 cents a
See COUNCIL, Page 2
Purse thief’s victim
wields gun, gives chase
A Bastrop woman chased an
alleged purse thief across a
pasture while shooting a gun in
the air Sunday afternoon and
yelling for him to stop. But she
failed to catch the man, said po-
lice.
The victim, Sally Jack
Griesenbeck, 43, and other wit-
nesses later identified a man
from a photo lineup as the al-
leged thief and a warrant has
been issued for his arrest, said
Police Investigator David
Board.
The suspect is 17-year-old
tions and
said.
i fund school opera-
pay the debt,” she
Debris from Sharp E.O. Butane Co. Inc.’s roof landed in the street during Monday's storm.
Stormy weather
City of Smithville took a beating on Monday
as it started, it quit,” he said
A short storm with high blown off in the storm,
winds took the roof off a couple Kovar said he expected re-
, . . . „ of businesses, downed tree pairs to take three days.
WeVe,iUc JLr” limbs and caused power outages Kelly explained that the
atsm. is-sssr“
hike. “That's really about it,” stud was ruined by the rain. She said — -—- - - . , . .
Elgin School Superintendent Chief Lee Nusbaum. He Sharp put forth a company-wide was coming down in sneeis, ne
Dr. Ron Bradford said Tuesday said Sharp e.O. Butane Co. Inc. effort to get things back in order said.
the Bastrop County Appraisal at 108 Main st. probably had for them.
District released the certified
values to the school district, but
not the effective tax rate.
Bradford said he doesn't fore-
see a tax increase above the ef-
fective rate to fund a proposed
1995-96 budget of ap-
proximately $10.8 million.
EISD Business Manager
Tony Juarez said the district will
not know for sure until later in
the week when Dana Ripley,
Chief Appraiser for the county's
appraisal district, releases the
effective tax rate information to
him.
Juarez said Ripley released
the certified values of the dis-
trict The net taxable value of
the most damage. The alu-
minum built-up roof on the
building was blown off onto
Main Street, he said.
The National Weather Ser-
vice, which was called after the
storm hit, reported no more
storms showing for the area,
said Nusbaum.
Becky Kelly, officer at Sharp
E.O. Butane Co. Inc., said city
crews were out immediately to
clean the debris out of the street,
using a front-end loader.
“It just took everything off
and landed all in the street,” said
Kelly.
lot across the street, everything JacK BrydnL
“She shot several
times, but he was
moving on."_
ted him and started honking her
horn and yelling for him to stop,
but he started running.
Griesenbeck told police she
took out the pistol she keeps in
her truck and continued the
chase, shooting it in the air and
telling him to stop.
“She shot several times, but
ltlv, ouohw. .. ,----he was moving on,” said a
Julian Wilson, who was arrested woman who lives in the neigh-
last month for two thefts within borhood. The woman said peo-
15 minutes of one another. Wil- pie who live in the area didn’t
son was arrested for allegedly realize who was shooting at
stealing a purse from an em- what. She said one man was up-
ployee at the Holly Hock Row set because his children were
on Main Street and money from playing in the yard,
a cash register at the Wash Shed The sheriff’s department re-
at 505 Jefferson. sponded to a call just before 2
Griesenbeck told police her p.m. to look for a man shooting
purse contained a large amount at people at Fayette and Button-
of cash and a Seiko watch, and wood Streets, said Capt. Whit-
was stolen from her truck. She ley of the Bastrop County Sher-
ni.it ” ne sain told police she had left the truck iffs Office.
Ke^v riointed to a tali' tree running and the door open while The man wasnT apprehended,
aern« the^street and said the she ran inside to get a friend at even though Griesenbeck told
STwaTbloSglhid enough 1306 Farm St, when she came police she was telling people to
•» — * “? °f ^ W po- *£1* said she found
lice, she had noticed a man the purse with the contents
walking down Fayette Street scattered in bushes behind the
and went looking for him in her old historical casino at the cor-
truck. She told police she spot- ner of Farm and Fayette Streets.
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double over and touch the roof
of the house next door. Rain
Officials meet to determine
appeared normal Tuesday.
Kelly estimated the storm
struck about 3:45 p.m.
She said she heard somebody
said they saw a twister actually
touch down in the city. She said
a man who was in the alley be-
hind the building when the
storm struck said his car win-
dows had been blown out and
his mother-in-law had had her
jaw broken.
Marc Kelley, parts salesman
at Smithville Auto Parts on
Loop 230, said the wind blew
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new staffing needs of jail
repair the roof, said the storm Bastrop County minimize jail staffing and cut
brought strong winds and a lot commissioners will meet Friday reliance on renting available jail
of rain. “I thought it was a tor- County Judge Peggy beds to outside agencies, got
Walicek hopes they will decide some ammunition Tuesday from
how to staff the jail for the state officials who said the jail
irirt ttk* iwt taxaTtic value or The man heading the repair .—«
crew for the building agreed “It p«t of ihe reof off the ware
«T*£B7447996 ftom just slicked die whole tiling off." house. He said n also Mew the
' ’ said Fred Kovar, owner of Fred door open and was blowing
Kovar Builder. parts to the back of the shop.
Kovar said the built-up roof “It was pretty scarey for
had 40 wooden members sup- about three or four minutes,"
porting it and all but two were said Kelley. “But about as soon
$203,083,477, which is a good
increase, said Juarez.
Elgin school trustees will
t TAX, Pag* 2
nado,” he said.
Troy Kimmel, chief meteo-
rologist for KTBC Channel 7,
said although he hadn't viewed
Doeppler radar yesterday, he
believes Smithville had down-
bursts or straight-line winds
caused when cold air falls out
from the bottom of a thunder-
storm.
“I think that’s what probably
happened in Smithville, said
Kimmel.
Kimmel said straight-line
winds reached speeds of 100
mph Monday evening east of
Galveston
coming year.
That could be the first step in
trimming $500,000 or more
from county spending plans for
the fiscal year which begins
October 1.
After meeting for about two
hours Tuesday, Judge Walicek
called for commissioners to
huddle again Wednesday to
review a series of staff and
spending options she was
preparing with the help of
County Auditor Jim Wither.
Commissioner Johnny
.Sanders, who has pressed to
might be operated with as few
as 33 employees if the
population is held under 96
inmates, depending on specific
types of prisoners and programs.
The jail currently employs 60.
But Sheriff Red Hoskins said
even without inmates from
outside agencies, the minimum
staff necessary for safe
operation is 43.
With a full staff, Hoskins
estimates jail operations will
cost just over $2 million next
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 142, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1995, newspaper, August 24, 1995; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth736796/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.