Taylor Daily Press (Taylor, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 2014 Page: 2 of 8
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Thursday, January 16,2014 • PRESS
Photo by Jason Hennington
Members of the community attended a meeting of the Seventh Street Campus committee to express their opinions before a final presentation is given to the city council
Jan. 23.
SCHOOL • page 1
report.”
She said from the
community meetings
and after months of
sifting through a num-
ber of options, SSC
committee members
researched and studied
to find answers for their
mission.
“Lots of people came
together and said, “I
will research this and
answer some of those
questions,”” McCoy
explained. “Is it viable,
how is it funded, where
other examples of this
opportunity exist and
have they been success-
ful.”
The SSC deter-
mined the most viable
options are converting
the building into city
hall, having a techni-
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cal/vocational school or
creating a senior living
facility.
The senior living
facility would have
apartments on the sec-
ond floor for residents
over 55, while leaving
the social and cultural
activities on the first
floor.
“The idea of senior
living was not about a
nursing home,” McCoy
said. “It was about
healthy seniors living
independently in a resi-
dential neighborhood
in a one block radius of
religious facilities and
walking distance from
downtown.”
She said the criteria
for each of the options
were that it needed to
be self-sustainable. The
options were evaluated
on an equal basis of
how would Taylor ben-
efit from it, what the
vision of each would be
and what would be the
challenges.
“Then we wanted to
look at similar projects
and what the funding
options were for those,”
McCoy said.
The presentation
also addressed the
issue of whether the
organizations that cur-
rently use the build-
ing such as Meals on
Wheels, Switzer Senior
Center and Shepherd’s
Heart Food Pantry,
will remain, and how to
refrain from charging
them the cost of main-
taining the building.
“Whatever else we
do, could we identify
an anchor that could
support us with outside
funds or revenue gen-
erating activities, what
would those things be,”
McCoy said. “Our rec-
ommendation is to keep
these important social
and cultural entities in
there.”
She stressed the
importance of each of
the organizations that
are using the building,
and the idea of adding
others.
“Our recommenda-
tion at this point can
be, the city needs to
acquire this building,”
McCoy said. “The city
is the only entity that
we identified as capa-
ble of making the kind
of changes we think
ought to happen.”
At the end of the
presentation com-
munity members
asked questions and
expressed concerns for
the options. The use of
the gymnasium was a
topic because none of
the options clarified use
of it.
There was a sugges-
tion of having a youth
center in the gym, with
senior volunteers.
SSC will deliver their
final presentation to
the city council Jan 29.
CATTLE • page 1
To protect the grass,
Redmon said you must
control the weeds and
allow sunlight to be
captured by the green
photosynthetic leaf tis-
sue. For weed control,
producers have options
such as mechanical con-
trol or using herbicides.
Mechanical shredding
can cost as much as
$15.24 per acre, while
spraying herbicide is
$11.57 per acre using a
30-foot boom sprayer.
Redmon also advised
monitoring winter pas-
tures, urging produc-
ers not to let winter
grasses create a cano-
py above warm season
grasses. As nighttime
temperatures approach
60 degrees, plan on hav-
ing all winter pasture
removed by either graz-
ing or harvesting as hay.
Meanwhile, Dr.
Davey Griffin, AgriLife
Extension meat special-
ist and professor in the
department of animal
science at Texas A&M
University, gave a virtu-
al video tour of a pack-
ing facility. He said as
a result of declines in
beef cattle numbers,
Texas packing plants
have “tightened up”
on the amount of meat
processed, cutting back
production schedules.
Producers viewed a
load of finished cattle
arriving at the facility
and the many steps to
process the carcass into
the numerous cuts that
make their way to con-
sumers.
All carcasses are
inspected through-
out the process by the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Food
Safety Inspection
Service, Griffin said.
Though the processing
aspect still requires
many laborers on the
floor, it has become a
more mechanized sys-
tem since there is such
high volume to main-
tain profitability. After
laborers on the floor
finishing processing the
carcass, the various sub-
primal cuts are vacuum
packed and boxed - a
process virtually auto-
mated in the larger
plants.
In the video, the
boxes of meat cuts went
through an automated
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ELECTION • page 1
last day for returned
ballots by mail to be
received
The TISD Board of
Trustees includes seven
staggered positions,
with each member serv-
ing three-year, non-
paid terms. Executive
Assistant to the Board
of Trustees Deleann
Hartmann said state
law requires that board
members complete cer-
tain basic training class-
es annually, and the dis-
trict reimburses trustees
for out-of-pocket expens-
es for attending classes.
Robbins said per-
sons wishing to apply
as candidates may
acquire the necessary
application form either
in person at the TISD
Administrative Offices,
602 West 12th Street, or
by emailing a request
to him at lrobbins@tay-
lorisd.org
machine that stacked
them onto a pallet,
where they were shrink-
wrapped and staged for
truck delivery to retail
outlets.
“Literally, no carcass-
es leave plants today,”
Griffin said. “They go
in a box. Demand is so
high for most of the
product, they’ve found
a home for most of that
product either in our
domestic market or in
the numerous export
markets that favor the
uniformity and flavor of
U.S. beef.”
Griffin said pack-
ers are looking to get
as much value out of
cuts as possible; putting
meat through a grind-
er is the least desired
option.
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