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Vol. 139, No. 25
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Bastrop, Texas
Thursday, May 28,1992
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Hospital
architects
reveal plan
By Janice Butler
Staff Writer
A new hospital facility in
Smithville will cost upward of $4
million, Smithville Hospital
Authority board members learn-
ed Tuesday night.
Three separate options were
presented by Austin architects
Rick Burnight and Noel Robert-
son ranging in price from $2.7
million to $4.3 million.
The figures were based on the
need to add 17,000 square feet in
new construction over the present
facility. Various renovation plans
are part of each option.
The architects proposed that it
will cost approximately $105 per
square foot for new construction,
$70 s.f. for renovation of patient
rooms, $60 s.f. for non-patient
areas and $34 s.f. for clinic use
non-patient areas.
Option one is by far the least ex-
pensive, but it also meets fewer
the present needs and allows no
room for expansion, said
Burnight.
“Even building a second floor
may add more space and adds
substantial cost, but leaves no
room for expansion,” he said.
“The second option is much
' more feasible but again limits ex-
pansion,” the architect said.
In option two, new construction
would about 30,000 square feet of
hospital space, existing non-
patient bed areas are remodeled
for clinic space and existing pa-
tient bed areas are remodeled for
the nursing home.
On the downside, the
maintenance would be relocated
and Dr. Beach’s office would be
demolished, Burnight said.
Again a second floor could be
built, but additional construction
would have to includean elevator,
estimted at approximately
$80,000, he added.
Option three is the ideal as far
as cost and future expansion,
See HOSPITAL, p. 2
HI-TECH PLANS
County gains
$L4 million
cash surprise
By Davis McAuley
Editor
Advertiser Photo/Charles Bell
CDROM’s will be added to each campus under Bastrop’s Technology Plan. The compact disc,
read only memory programs are especially useful for research projects and students seem to en-
joy using them, according to Bastrop High School librarian Kay Lentz.
To use computers
Technology plan calls for teaching teachers
Bastrop school trustees agreed
to hire computer teacher--to
teach other teachers-as
technology coordinator next year
as part of a long range district
tplan.
Bastrop expects to get $108,000
or $27 per student in state funds
to finance the new plan.
Approximately $35,000 is the
budgeted salary for the new staff
position.
“The coordinator’s primary
responsibility is to train teachers
to use computer software the
district has already purchased,”
said BISD Assistant Superinten-
dent of Instruction Dr. Sheila
Mills.
“We have lots of software that
teachers have ordered but are not
sure how to use because there is
no training provided,” she said.
In addition the district will add
two computers to each campus
and a multi-media teaching unit
to one school.,
The teaching unit will consist of
See COMPUTER PLAN, p. 2
Pearce Lane, most of it at least,
may well turn into a state Farm
to Market Road after all, Bastrop
County Commissioner Lee Dildy
said Tuesday.
'“This is wonderful news,” said
Dildy.
Earlier this month area
residents presented petitions
signed by more than 300 people
asking the county to rebuild the
heavily traveled route west of
Cedar Creek.
At the time commissioners
warned there was little chance
the Texas Department of
Transportation would commit the
$2 million required to convert the
six-mile-long county road to part
of the FM system.
But last week, at a local
transportation planning session
with highway department of-
ficials, they heard a different
story, Dildy said.
A $1.4 million FM project
planned for Blanco County has
been cancelled, freeing the
money for use elsewhere, accor-
ding to Dildy.
Bastrop highway department
District Engineer Danny Smith
“had die foresight to get the
money for us,” s^id Dildy.
The plan awaits formal ap-
proval by the department’s gover-
ning board.
“We were stunned (by the
development),” said County
Judge Randy Fritz. “It’s a
seriously good piece of news.”
Another condition of the deal is
that Bastrop County acquire a
100-foot right of way along the
route. '
Fritz voiced optimism that ad-
joining landowners will donate
right of way in expectation that
an improved roadway will boost
the value of their land.
Hoping to add Pearce Lane to
the FM system, the county has
already paid for preliminary
engineering and surveying work
to describe the required right of
See PEARCE LANE, p. 2
Tahitian Village fire
plan wins city okay
Commissioners nix road bond issue
Bastrop County commissioners
effectively killed a proposal Tues-
day to ask voters this year to ap-
prove $3.3 million in road con-
struction bonds.
Earlier this month County
Judge Randy Fritz offered the
bond plan, saying it could be
funded without a tax increase by
cutting road maintenance taxes
13.3 percent.
Meeting Tuesday, commis-
sioners suggested they may opt
instead to boost road taxes this
year to fund major road im-
provements on a pay-as-you-go
basis.
Previously Fritz said he wants
commissiofters to adopt a 1992-93
budget without a tax hike this
summer.
He offered.:the bond plan as a
way to boost funds available for
paving more roads without
higher taxes this year.
But Commissioner Johnny
Sanders said a better plan is to
raise taxes up to eight percent
this year and earmark the total
for road improvements.
Commissioner Elaine SetQel
See ROAD BONDS, p. 2
Tuesday the Bastrop city coun-
cil voted to lift a ban on new
building permits in the Tahitian
Village subdivision.
The action follows a vote two
weeks ago by Tahitian Village
water district directors to begin
installing more than 90 fire
hydrants.
Before issuing new permits the
city will require assurance that
fire protection will be in place
before a new home can be oc-
cupied, said City Manager JoAnn
Wilcoxen.
Also Tuesday, without taking a
New principal
Elgin selects Simmons again
YOUTH ART
After waiting a year, Elgin
school trustees have hired the
new high school principal they
wanted this time last year.
Duncanville assistant principal
Janie Simmons was unanimous-
ly approved for the position by
school trustees at the May 12
school board meeting and receiv- ‘
ed a two-year contract.
She will join the EHS staff of-
ficially on July l but may show up
a few, weeks early to familiarize
herslf with the campus and other
staff members, said EIJ
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'Superintendent Dr. Paul Willis.
Former EHS assistant prin-
cipal Jim Savage was the acting
principal this year but declined
the position on a permanent
basis, Willis said.
“He has performed an ex-
cellent job for us, but he indicated
he was not interested in the per-
manent job at this time,” the
superintendent added.
Originally frpm Dallas, Ms.
Simmons has beeft assistant prin-
cipal/curriculum and instruction
at Duncanville High School since
1985. 4 v
While there Ms. Simmons was
responsible for coordinating staff
development, curriculum and at-
risk programs, conducting new
teacher orientation and teacher
update for the Texas Teacher Ap-
praisal System, and principal for
a behavior adjustment class. 1
She originally applied for the
position at EHS last year when
See PRINCIP&, p. 2
Advertiser Photo/Deb Ohnesorge
e her art work at the Art After School Exhibition held
One of Bastrop’s young artist poses besid<
Sunday at the Old Bastrop Opera House, the show featured work from 120 students from Emile
and Mina elementary schools.
vote, “the council agreed to con-
sider special requests connected
with a riverfront commercial
development, a new school and a
recycling, composting and trash
transfer center.
•For the downtown proposal,
local developer Tommy Hoover
wants riverfront property west of
City Hall taken out of a special
fire district which imposes strict
construction requirements.
Hoover said he wants to
relocate and renovate up to nine
See BASTROP, p. 2
City burglars
hit 4 houses
Four Bastrop residences were
hit last week by burglars, .
Police are asking for citizens to
help in solving the crimes.
“If anyone noticed something
out of the ordinary around the
time of these burglaries, please
call crimestoppers at 321-5599,”
said investigator Ed Salmela.
“•Rick Schultz’ home at 608
Pecan St. was burglarized bet-
ween May 17 and May 20.
Apparently entrance was gain-
ed through a front window. The
perpetrators stole two televisions,
a VCR, two watches and a pellet
rifle, Salmela said.
•The Sowell residence at 1803
Wilson was burglarized on May
19. Two televisions, VCR and
Nintendo games were taken.
• Craig Bloomsmith’s home at
1408 Wilson was hit on May 22 bet-
ween 5:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
A computer monitor and
keyboard were taken along with
a television, according to police
reports.
See BURGLARIES, p. 2
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