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Volume 1, No.4
Dublin. Texas 76446
Thursday, September 20,1990
CITY TAX INCREASE LIKELY
Tax hike approved
by school board
By KAREN WRIGHT
Citizen Editor
Dublin’s elected officials, in
separate meetings Tuesday night,
made decisions which will hit the
pocket books of local taxpayers.
The school board approved the
proposed 5.6 percent tax increase
which was necessitated by $14
million loss in property evalua-
tion.
The new .96 cent rate is below
what the state says DISD should
be at in order to quality for
maximum state funding, accord-
ing to DISD Supt Roy Neff, but
board members voted against hit-
ting local taxpayers with the full
$1.16 which would be necessary
to get all available state funds.
Neff explained that the local
tax situation is a matching funds
arrangement and that the state is
forcing the poor school districts
to raise taxes in order to get state
funds. Under the new 5-year state
school finance bill, state funding
is tied to two things: the per
pupil wealth and the local effort.
"That just means that the higher
the tax rate, the more state funds
you qualify for,” Neff said.
School board members dis-
cussed the proposed track, voting
to accept bids to determine
exactly what the cost would be.
The Booster Gub has pledges for
an estimated $10,000 and the
remainder would have to be fun-
ded by the school.
Across town at city hall, mem-
bers of the city council’s budget
and finance committees discussed
the new city budget and a pro-
posed 3 percent tax increase in an
informal work session.
The final budget proposal will
be presented to the group by City
Manager David Johnson at a 7
p.m. meeting Thursday, Sept. 27.
That meeting had originally been
scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 25
but was rescheduled due to a
conflict.
The preliminary budget in-
cludes a five percent across-the-
board pay hike for all city
employees which represents
approximately $1,000 per month
in increased funds. Johnson poin-
ted out that city employees have
received three percent raises in
recent years but the rate of infla-
tion was closer to six percent
most of that time.
Committee members also
approved small bonuses for poli-
cemen who receive advanced
medical training.
Two areas of the budget involv-
ing garbage and fire calls will
require additional information.
Long range garbage collection
plans will depend on the landfill
situation at Stephenville. And
county commissioners will debate
payment to Dublin’s volunteer
fire department next week. That
issue has long been one of con-
tention because of the discrepan-
cies between what the county
pays the Stephenville department
compared to what the Dublin
department is paid.
Timeless art of quilting
alive and well in Dublin
By SHERRY MCCOY
Contributing Writer
If there is one thing that most
quilters in Dublin seem to have
in common, it is that they don’t
know how long they have been
quilting or how many quilts they
have made.
The timeless art of quilting is
alive and well in Dublin for
individuals as well as clubs. One
week’s time will find at least two
clubs meeting and turning out the
hand-stitched creations at the
rate of four or five per month.
The women behind the needles
and thimbles are enthusiastic and
energetic about their craft. Most
have been quilting since they
were young girls, having learned
by watching their mothers and
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Dublin police officer Kyle Lewis strap, elementary nt the Dublin Elementary School Wednesday,
school student Alyssa Thompson, 5, to a stretcher as Malone and company were providing awareness to
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Kids get acquainted with ambulances
e Glenn display, some favorite quilts.
Dublin Elementary students got
to spend their physical education
period a little differently Wednes-
day as local police depart Emer-
gency Medical Technicians pre-
sented classes and demonst-
rations to provide awareness
about National Emergency Medi-
cal Services Week.
Around 640 elementary stu-
dents were treated to a series of
demonstrations by Paramedic
Charles Malone and three other
Dublin EMTs Kyle Lewis,
Arlinda Williams and Cindy Stan-
ton.
“Does anyone know what this
is for?” Malone asked holding up
a neck brace in front of 30
kindergarten students.
There was a variety of answers
and then one student popped up
with the right answer.
“That’s right, this is a neck
brace and we put it on you if
you've hurt your neck,” Malone
said.
Malone and company displayed
a variety of equipment items and
then fielded numerous questions
the children had. They then
showed the practical uses of the
items by fitting them on students
and explaining when they are
used. * 1
Stephanie Leach, 5, got her
blood pressure checked and the
look on her face prior to having
Reese injured in
fall at Highland
dairy Wednesday
Dublin dairyman Jack Reese
was seriously injured in a fall at
his dairy near Highland Wednes-
day morning.
Preliminary reports indicated
that be sustained cuts and broken
bones. He was taken by ambu-
lance to Stephenville by Sgt GE
Malone, a paramedic, and
Arlinda Williams, EMT, both of
the device attached to her arm
was mistrustful. Once Malone
had pumped up the equipment
and checked Leach’s blood press-
ure she was beaming.
“It just squeezed my arm and it
didn’t hurt at all,” Leach whis-
pered to a class mate when she
sat back down among her fellow
students.
The demonstrations included
wearing of an oxygen mask, a ride
on a stretcher and the grand tour
of the police department’s ambu-
lance.
Malone approached school offi-
cials earlier this year about pre-
senting classes to students based
upon how effective classes about
fire prevention had been in the
past.
“It is amazing how much the
children remember from those
classes and what they should do if'
ever there was trouble,” Williams
said.
Malone wanted to bring the
ambulance to the school to pro-
vide awareness about EMS and to
show the children they don’t have
to be afraid and that EMTs aren’t
going to hurt them.
“People get scared after an
accident, especially children and
what we are doing is going to
help them and it won’t hurt
them,” Malone said.
Malone received his certifica-
tion as a paramedic in August of
this year and is a police officer
with the Dublin Police Depart-
ment he urges anyone that is
certified as an EMT to help out.
“Anyone who is certified and
wants to help out, is invited to
come to the police department.
It’s really hard to get people to
get involved and that’s part of the
reason we are doing this,”
Malone said.
Dairymen form political action group
to support Bullock campaign
A group of dairymen from a
three-county area around Dublin
are organizing a political action
committee to raise funds for Bob
Bullock’s campaign for lieutenant
governor.
More than two dozen dairymen
from Erath, Comanche and
Hamilton counties convened
Sept 15 to initiate the necessary
legal steps to form the PAG
A member of that group who
asked not to be identified said
that the group chose to support
Bullock in hopes that if he is
elected, dairymen will have
someone in Austin “who will
listen to us and work with us.”
The lieutenant governor is the
most powerful man in the state,
he said, and we need him to
understand the problems that we
are facing in our industry. The
lieutenant governor, more than
anyone else in Austin, has a grip
on every piece of legislation that
could affect us in anyway, be said.
Goal for the campaign is “at
least $25,000 and we hope to
raise twice that” for the Bullock
group would like to collect at
least $1 for every dairy cow in the
three-county area and many
dairymen are giving more than
that, he said, adding that at least
one bank and several dairy-rela-
ted businesses have also made
verbal pledges to support the
group’s efforts.
Jack Beyer of Beyer Dairy Cen-
ter is handling funds for the
group which is expected to meet
again at the end of September.
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Wright, Karen. The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 1990, newspaper, September 20, 1990; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth761996/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.