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2, Section I THE BASTROP ADVERTISER AND COUNTY NEWS Thursday, November 15, 1984
•r Lowerre retained by Vi,
Funding approved for Elgin tax office Cedar Creek landowners
Bastrop County Commissioners
approved funding Monday for the
new tax office in Elgin.
'•- The $68,855 building will be
paid for using $36,328 from the
permanent improvement fund and
$32,527 in “unallocated surplus”
funds from the county’s general
fund budget.
Use of the unallocated surplus
funds was approved in the form of
an amendment to the county budg-
et. County Auditor Ben Sneed said
some of the money will have to be
borrowed.
County Judge Jack Griesenbeck
said the county can not issue bonds
for the project because it has al-
ready been approved. Bonds can
only be issued before a project be-
gins, he said.
“If you had issued bonds first we
wouldn't have this problem of us-
ing up all our cash,” Griesenbeck
said.
The branch tax office will serve
taxpayers in the Elgin area and will
New water
source seen
Bastrop City Manager Marvin
Patterson said the city’s latest test
well should produce about 300 to
350 gallons of water per minute.
The well is drilled and workers
were busy Tuesday setting the well
casing. Test pumping of the well
was planned for Wednesday
Patterson said water bearing
sands are scattered at different
depths of the hole, but he is hope-
ful the well will be a success.
A 350-gallon-per-minute well
would provide Bastrop with about
half of its needs during the winter
months when consumption is low,
provide office space for Precinct 4
Commissioner Marvin Markert, an
employee of the Tax Office,.
Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace*
Robert Womack and Department
of Public Safety officers.
In other news. Commissioners
also:
— Approved purchase of a new
postal meter and mail sorter by
County Tax Assessor-Collector
Barbara Brinkmeyer.
Brinkmeyer .said the $3,227
machinery will save the County
three cents per letter, or $1,200 per
mailout to all 40,000 county resi-
dents, and the cost of paying extra
clerks to paste stamps on the let-
ters. The equipment will all but pay
for itself in savings the first vear
All faiths uniting
to mark Thanksgiving
By Paula Gibson
A chance for all Bastrop area
pastors and their congregations to
come together in harmony is com-
ing up Monday, Nov. 19, when the
annual Thanksgiving program will
be held at Ascension Catholic
Church in Bastrop.
A Bastrop tradition, the program
will feature a choir whose members
come from various area churches,
combined with Scripture readings
and refreshments. According to
Father Dokupil of Ascension
Catholic Church," This is a chance
for alj, different denominations and
races to unite and enjoy this pro-
gram,” he explained. “All local
ministers and their followers are in-
vited, and the public is welcome,
too. ” He added that the site of the
program is rotated between area
churches each year.
Reverend Charles Justis from
Wyldwood Baptist Church will
deliver the sermon, and Reverend
David Stewart of the First
Methodist Church is in charge of
the program. The program will be-
gin at 7 p.m. in the Ascension
Catholic Church sanctuary, fol-
MANAGER WANTED
Pink Lady Bed & Breakfast Inn
in historic White-Turner House
Bastrop, Texas,. ,
Couple wanted to operate and care for the Pink Lady Bed & Breakfast Inn.
Must reside on the premises in the historic and fully restored carriage
house. If seriously interested please phone 321-7598 or 321-6788.
alone, she said.
— Agreed to help the Bastrop
Child Welfare Board get shortterm
loans to pa]? its bills. Sharon Rey-
nolds, of the Board, said that due
to the increase in the number of
children in their care, payments
could not be made on time to foster
parents. . ,
The Texas Department of Hu-
man Resources reimburses the
Board for the cflSt of caring for
children, but the Board must wait
six weeks for the payback. In the
meantime, the Board has to cover
the bills. Reynolds said the month-
ly cost of caring for abused or
neglected children is sometimes
more than the Board’s budget for
the whole year. “It’s been a
tremendous juggling act,” she
said.
The Welfare unit now has 72
children in its care, Reynolds said.
Commissioner agreed to let the
Welfare Board borrow money at
low interest through the county.
— Instructed Sneed to seek bids
for the county’s health insurance
and workman’s compensation in-
surance.
— Gave final approval to Alum
Creek Estates subdivision. The
87-acre, 128-lot development is lo-
cated about two miles southwest of
Cedar Creek on Highway 812.
Plans call for two streets about
three-quarters of a mile in length
each. The streets will be paved and
will have curbs and gutters.
— Briefly discussed the cost of
feeding prisoners in the Bastrop
County Jail. Only $8,000 is budg-
eted to feed the prisoners while the
actual cost is about $36,000 per
year, or about $100 each day.
Sheriff Tommy Moseley said the
jail never has less than about 20
prisoners at any one time.
Slide show coming for AARP
give a slide program on the Stey-
mann’s trip to the Northwest. They.
visited Meteor Crater, Painted
Desert and Petrified Forest, Grand
Canyon, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe,
Virginia City, Lassen National
Volcanic Park, Crater Lake in Ore-
gon, Mt. St. Helens, Vancouver Is-
land in British Colurtibia, and the
Columbia River Highway.
All persons 50 and over are wel-
come to attend and Jo become
members.
lowed by punch and cookies at the
Parish Center. The church is locat-
ed at 804 Pine Street in Bastrop.
Deer hunting
contest slated
Directors of the Bastrop Coun-
ty Soil and Water Conservation
District are again sponsoring their
popular deer hunting contest for the
1984 season.
Jim V. Mogonye, chairman of
the district, says that the deer must
be killed in Bastrop County and
that prizes will be awarded for the
deer with the widest inside spread
of the antlers.
The number of antler points will
be the second criteria for determin-
ing the winners. First prize will be
$25, second prize $15, and third,
$10.
The check points for having the
measurements taken are Mogonye
Lumber Company in Elgin,
Smithville Food and Locker Plant
in Smithville and River Country
Sports in Bastrop.
The growing Bastrop Chapter
3704 qf the American Association
of Retired Persons meets Tuesday,
Nov. 20 at Good Shepherd Luthe-
ran Church at 10 a.m.
Walter “Jelly” Steymann will
Richard Lowerre, the environ-
mental issues oriented attorney
who has fought the Powell Bend
mine project for years, has been re-
tained by the Cedar Creek Lan-
downers Association to help in
their battle against a proposed sew-
age treatment plant on Maha
Creek.
Gary Rassner, president of the
Landowners Association, said
Lowerre has been retained to look
into the transcripts of the hearing
held on the project to see what op-
tions might be open.
> Saratoga Investments of Austin
plans to build a 350,000 gallon per
day sewage treatment plant for a
proposed 1,000-home develop-
ment, Elm Ridge Estates.
The development will be off of
Pearce Lane in fin Western Bastrop
County. Effluent from the treat-
ment plant would empty into an un-
named tributary of the Maha
Creek, which flows into the Maha,
then into Cedar Creek and then into
the Colorado River.
A hearing on the plant was held
before a hearings examiner for the
Texas Water Commission two
weeks ago. The Cedar Creek resi-
dents were upset when they learned
they would be excluded from the
hearing because the hearings ex-
aminer said they would not be ef-
fected by the plant.
A decision on the plant is still
pending before the Water Commis-
sion and is not expected for sever-
al weeks.
The Cedar Creek residents either
want the proposed plant to be built
to have a cleaner effluent or they
want the subdivision to use some
other method of disposing of
wastes without dumping into the
creek system.
Rassner said the association,
which was formed in response to
the sewage plant, is planning to
start a newsletter. He said a fun-
draising event is also in the works.
Make someone’s dream come true
this Christmas
with dance lessons from
•Ballet
•Pointe
•Jazz
Dance Craft
•Cheerleading
•Gymnastics
•Tap
Ages 2 thru adult
Call 321-2405 or 237-3977
for more information.
Teri Watson, Owner
Dogs-
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COMBINED NOTICE
NOTICE TO PUBLIC OF NO
SIGNIFICANT IMPACT
ON THE ENVIRONMENT
AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO
REQUEST RELEASE
OF FUNDS
November 15, 1984
City of Bastrop, Texas
P.O. Box 427
Bastrop, Texas 78602
512/321-3941
TO ALL INTERESTED AGEN-
CIES. GROUPS, AND PER-
SONS:
On or about December 15, 1984
the above named municipality will
request the Community Develop-
ment Block Grant Program to
release Federal funds under Title
I of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974, as
amended, for the following project:
Low and moderate income
neighborhood revitalization in-
cluding sewer line replacement
and street paving in the City of
Bastrop. Bastrop County. Texas
in parts of Enumeration District
384.
FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT
IMPACT
It has been determined that such
request for release of funds will not
constitute an action significantly af-
fecting the quality of the human en-
vironment and accordingly the
above named municipality has
decided not to prepare an En-
vironmental Impact Statement
under the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969.
The reason for such decision not
to prepare such Statement are as
follows:
The entire project, which is in
an area already disturbed by ur-
ban development, will be con-
structed either in existing street
or railroad rights-of-way.
An Environmental Assessment
respecting th% within project has
been made by the above named
municipality which documents the
environmental review of the pro-
ject and more fully sets forth the
reasons why such Statement is not
required. This Environmental
Assessment is on file at the above
examination and copying upon re-
quest at City Hall between the
hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON
FINDING
All interested agencies, groups,
and person disagreeing with this
decision are invited to submit writ-
ten comments for consideration by
the city of Bastrop to City Hall.
Such written comments should be
received at the City Hall, P.O. Box
427, Bastrop, Texas 78602, on or
before November 22, 1984. All
such comments so received will be
considered and the City of Bastrop
will not request the release of
Federal funds or take any ad-
ministrative action on the within
project prior to the date specified
in the preceding sentence.
RELEASE OF FUNDS
The City of Bastrop will under-
take the project described above
with Community Development
Program funds for the Depart-
ment of Community Affairs under
Title 1 of the Housing and Com-
munity Development Act of 1974,
as amended. The Honorable David
Lock, certifying officer of the Ci-
ty of Bastrop approved by the
Texas Department of Community
Affairs in his official capacity as
Mayor, certifies that the City of
Bastrop consents to accept the
jurisdiction of the Federal courts
if an action is brought to enforce
responsibilities in relation to en-
vironmental assessments decision-
making and action: and that these
responsibilities have been satisfied.
The legal effect of the certification
is that upon its approval,the City
of Bastrop may use the Texas
Community Development Program
funds and Texas Department of
Community Affairs will have
satisfied its responsibilities under
the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969 and 24 CFR Part 58.
OBJECTIONS TO
STATE RELEASE OF FUNDS
The Texas Department of Com-
munity Affairs' will accept an ob-
jection to its approval only if it is
on one of the following bases: (a)
that the certification was not in fact
executed by the certifying officer
or other officer of Contractor ap-
proved by Texas Department of
Community Affairs: or (b) that
address and is available lor public Contractor's environmental review
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Continued from Page 1, Section I
by the city is another of Christina’s
everyday duties. “The animals are
fed, wittered and exercised at the
kennel every day by myself,” she
pointed out. “I check the kennel
first thing each morning. ” She ad-
ded a new kennel is sorely need-
ed, because animals can escape
easily in or out. There is also not
a proper quarantine area for
animals suspected of disease, and
no designated area for cats. The
animal cages have plywood floor-
ing with dirt underneath and are
difficult to keep clean.
Christina says she picks up about
three animals during an average
day, but “if I picked up every
stray, I wouldn’t have room for
them all,” she sighed. “Smithville
residents and other people should
be aware of their animal’s needs,
such as vaccinations and proper
diet.” She cited a recent example
of neglect when she viewed a dog
so malnourished it could barely
stand up, and plans to report the
person if the situation does not
improve.
The lady dog catcher is autho-
rized to issue warning tickets for
animals roaming without tags and
a city license. She is gradually
learning certain animals and their
owners, and one lady even in-
troduced Christina to her dog, who
was prone to escape under the
fence whenever it heard thunder.
Christina has only been on the
job for a few weeks, but already
she brought compassion and sen-
sitivity to her work. “It just breaks
my heart to put an animal to sleep
because nobody cared for it," she
said sadly. “But I enjoy the free-
dom of my job and working with
the animals is very rewarding.”
NOTICKS
record tor the project indicates
omission of a required decision fin-
ding or step applicable to the pro-
ject in the environmental assess-
ment. Objections must be prepared
and submitted in accordance with
the required procedure (24 CFR
Part 58.75) and may be addressed
to Texas Department of Communi-
ty Affairs. 2015 South IH-35. P.O.
Box 13166. Austin. Texas 78711.
Objections to the release of funds
on base other than those stated
above will not be considered by the
Texas Department of Community
Affairs. No objection received after
December 15. 1984. will be con-
sidered by Texas Department of
Community Affairs.
Honorable David Lock
Mayor. City of Bastrop
P.O. Box 427
Bastrop. Texas 78602
74-1
Host and hostess will be Ray and
Dorothy Pardue.
Card of Thanks
The family of Riley C. Jackson greatly acknowledges
all the acts of kindness and sympathy shown to us in the
homegoing of our beloved husband, brother and father.
B.R. Jackson
Bernice Harris
Belinda Tolbert
74-1 pd May God Bless Each of You
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Goldsmith, Richard. The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 138, No. 74, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1984, newspaper, November 15, 1984; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth746738/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.