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Pace 2. The Hondo Anvil Herald, Thursday, June 17,1999
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Aggie Howdy set June 21
The Medina County Aggie
Moms' Club is having its annual
Howdy Patty for all incoming
freshmen and transfer students to
Texas A&M University. The ice
cream social will be held Monday,
June 21, 7:30 p.m., in the Hondo
High School Amphitheater. Dr.
Ben Welch, a professor at A&M,
will be guest speaker. He can
answer all your questions about
life at A&M. Parents and Aggies,
please come help us give a warm
welcome to our new Aggies.
City of Hondo to host
Blood Drive July 2
South Texas Blood and Tissue
Center and the City of Hondo will
hold a Blood Drive Friday, July 2,
I to 5 p.m.. at the Community
Center.
D'Hanis Blood Drive
cancelled, sponsor sought
South Texas Blood and Tissue
Center has cancelled the D'Hanis
Blood Drive scheduled for June
26, due to lack of a sponsor. If you
received a notice in the mail,
please disregard. If your organiza-
tion would like to sponsor a blood
drive, please contact Donna Tatsch
at 1-800-292-5534, ext. 1552. The
blood supply tends to drop in the
summer months, so donors are
greatly needed.
Bible School planned
First Baptist Church will host
vacation Bible school June 21-25,9
a.m. to noon. Registration is
currently underway each morning,
from 9 to 12, at the church for
participants age 4 thru 6th grade
completed. Watch for details.
Fly High Grief Support
The meeting of Fly High, a grief
support group for parents who
have lost a child, will be held
Tuesday, June 22, at St. John's
Catholic Church in the CCE
Building at 7 p.m. Please join us.
Together we can make it!. For
more information, call Carole
Edminson Jr., 830-741-8920.
Methodist church
prepares for Bible school
Vacation Bible school classes will
be held at First United Methodist
Church, Hondo, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m,.
June 28-July 2. All kids welcome to
join in the fun, learning, recreation,
and snacks.
VBS set at Quihi church
Evening vacation Bible school
will be held June 28-July 2,6:30 to
8:30 p.m., at Bethlehem Lutheran
Church, Quihi. Everyone is invited
to come to a place where God's
values matter, a place where kids
from preschool to high school learn
to solve everyday problems God’s
way. The study will center around
Veggie Town Values and building
citizens for God's community.
Medina Co. Fair Assn,
seeks new members
The Medina County Fair
Association invites all Medina
County residents to become
members. Membership supports
the annual fair, and promotes the
community's agricultural economy.
Call 426-5406 for information
about benefits available to associa-
tion members. Membership
categories and dues are: single $15,
family $25 and business $50.
Curb and Gutter
program underway
Property owners within the city
limits of Hondo are encouraged to
participate in the annual curb and
gutter assistance program. Property
owners will be responsible for the
cost to construct their curb and
gutter, and the city will pay for
surveying, cutting grades, and
finishing out the asphalt pavement
to the gutter.
The entire project will be
coordinated by the City of Hondo.
Property owners will be notified of
their portion of the estimated cost
of construction and will be
required to deposit that amount
with the City of Hondo prior to
construction of their curb and
gutter. For more information,
contact Bill Hall at 426-3378.
Regular Meetings
Eastern Star
Hondo Chapter #404, Older of
the Eastern Star, will install new
officers at the regular staled,
meeting, Monday, June 21. at 7:30
p.m., in the Masonic ’Lodge Hall on
Ave. Q. Eunice Zuckero and John
Wentz will be installed as Worthy
Matron and Worthy Patron, along
with their corps of officers. All
members are urged to attend.
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Williaat Hoover
Anvil Heuai d Cowiestonolmt
Landowners in the audience at
Bexar-Medina- Atascosa meeting last
Thursday addressed the guest
speaker. State Representative Tracy
King, about their concerns with
BMA management, water resource
development, the Texas Open Meet-
ing Act, and suburban sprawl.
“What we are faced with-it’s like
a wildfire-is unprecedented develop-
ment,” said BMA landowner Will
Carter. “With pumping limits on the
Edwards Aquifer, BMA is in the
unique position of having to sell wa-
ter to survive. But that same water is
under federal control. The type of
developments going in are mining our
county. They have no real tax base.”
Carter told King uncontrolled
growth and lack of consensus at
BMA may spell the end of farming
in the BMA district. “The TNRCC
(Texas Natural Resources Conserva-
tion Commission) says every drop of
water coming out of Medina Lake is
already allocated. So BMA landown-
ers are footing the bill for schools,
roads, and everything else you need
for a development. But, for us farm-
ers, the development is even more
devastating. It makes it impossible
to farm with herbicides and it's tough
to get the crops out. The developers
are creating mini-cities,” said Carter.
Carter then told King his rural wa-
ter supplier. East Medina Water, was
50% short on historical use. “And this
all ties into BMA,” continued Carter,
“because, ultimately, Medina Lake is
where the water can come from.”
Carter said that East Medina was in
the process of borrowing millions of
dollars for, “improvements to the dis-
trict.” Carter said the improvements
were a disguise for what is really oc-
curring-expansion. ‘There are devel-
opers right now who could double the
size of East Medina overnight. Yet we
are the only ones footing the bill for
this expansion, which they are calling
improvements and upgrades. It’s all
window dressing. What can we do to
protect our livelihoods?"
“I don’t know what can be done to
balance the politics," continued
Carter. “But when new developments
go in, mark my words, there is not
going to be any water left for anyone
else. How do we in Medina, Atascosa,
and Bexar and those areas that can
still farm, protect ourselves?”
King said the development of rural
land was a classic problem which has
been going on for a long time. “When
you have limited water resources
which have been legislatively limited
further, this causes problems. Every-
body knows I voted against the bill
which established the EAA. I’ve never
agreed with the basis to put a cap on
water usage. But it is limited now and
that causes big problems when you
mix it with competition between ur-
ban sprawl and mral interests."
King explained some 1,300 laws
were passed this legislative session and
some of the laws were aimed at giving
counties more teeth to regulate growth
“Counties don’t have the authority to
pass ordinances in our traditional city/
county form of government. So legis-
lation was introduced to give counties,
especially fast-growing counties like
Medina, the power to have a vote in
development decisions.”
San Antonio water activist and
former mayoral candidate Kay Turner
spoke next, inspiring the crowd with
her enthusiasm and spicy language.
“Inadvertently, you are all victims of
a mistake by San Antonio passing a
law (water conservation stages) not
even based on science,” said Turner
She claimed the bill creating the
EAA was about power and money.
“I’m upset the Governor signed off
on this bill which violates Texas'
property rights. Under the Texas Con-
stitution, you own what's under your
land-water, oil, gold, copper-but not
any more. San Antonio and big shots
from all over the nation, especially
Texas, have rested water markets.
And, we let them. I don't know what
you were doing, Mr. Haak, but where
was our watch dog? This has gotten
totally out of control. Tracy, is there
any way to take this back to being an
irrigation district, where people had
rights which were protected from a
water development company?”
Turner laid the majority of the
blame for BMA problems on law-
yers. “I believe in what I am doing
and I’m here tonight because you
have been screwed and tattooed. The
people in San Antonio are getting
screwed and tattooed too. They are
going to get sewer water to drink for
their ignorance. We are on top of an
ocean which we traded fora thimble
full of water. The lawyers who did
this should be set out and tied up, or
whatever it is you do to bad people.”
“The lawyers say you’ll know if
you are drinking sewer water because
the pipes will be painted purple.
Guess what? The pipes are buried.
They insult everyone's intelligence,”
said Turner. “I’m the kind of person
who says the emperor is not wearing
any clothes. You guys have been
screwed, and your board members
and your attorneys did it to you. They
got reamed out in the newspapers, but
they are still as free as birds.”
Turner pointed out the lack of sci-
ence behind the water laws and criti-
cized the size of the turnout for
King's presentation to the landown-
ers. “This isn't a big enough crowd.
It’s really disgusting. And I say what
most people just think.”
“Don’t talk propaganda to me or
about what some hotshot bought ads
to brainwash you. Let’s talk science.
Where are the scientific studies?
Where are the scientists? The Texas
Water DevetopmenfBoard is doing
what they were set up to do-develop
water resources at your expense. They
have never cared about scientific stud-
ies of the Edwards Aquifer, which, by
the way, is an ocean of fresh water.”
Turner continued her attack of the
logic behind the EAA pumping lim-
its, which has put BMA and Medina
Lake at risk. “Because some springs
go dry, they try to fool the people into
thinking we are out of water. But
without rain, the springs will go dry.
The Sierra Club expert said in the 5th
Circuit Court said no pumping lim-
its can prevent the springs from go-
ing dry in a drought.”
“You all have a last chance to do
something. But you can’t control your
board, you can’t control your lawyers,
and you can’t get them fired or sued
for malpractice,” exclaimed Turner.
“You need to sue the board and
your lawyers for malpractice. They
are breaking the law and ruining your
community. If you people who are
the salt of the earth don’t rise up, the
people in the city who are asleep
because they are watching too much
TV won’t either. We’re being led to
slaughter,” said Turner.
“Why should your district and my
city spend money if it’s a spring
problem? You don’t open the hood
to fix a flat tire.” Turner told the
group their first step must be to in-
crease interest in water rights and
enlarge their numbers, and then de-
velop a strategy. “Personally, I want
a lawsuit against the EAA - and I’ve
got one in mind. But, I can’t do it
myself. How do you stop the EAA
and make science the criteria in the
legislature?” she finally asked King.
“Of course, I had the same argu-
ment," said King. “We tried to bring
science to the table but the law which
created the EAA was a political so-
lution to a scientific and geological
question and unfortunately, we didn’t
have enough votes to stop it.”
Another landowner in the audi-
ence asked King if he had any com-
ment about the BMA Board spend-
ing extended periods of time in ex-
ecutive session.
“I’m of the opinion, as is Sen. Jeff
Wentworth, that the Texas Open
Meetings Act and staff briefings have
been abused for a long time.
Wentworth and I are working to cre-
ate more open government, which is
what you're talking about with execu-
tive sessions,” said King. “I know why
they do it. They don’t want to make
tough votes in front of their neighbqn.
so they discuss things in closed ses-
sion and then come out and vote with
no discussion. The public loses. They
count the votes in executive session
and if they know they are not going
to win they change their votes so they
come out and make a unanimous vote
to avoid controversy."
“The new law specifically ad-
dresses staff briefings,” said King.
‘They bring a member of the staff in
to brief the board and it’s not an of-
ficial meeting. Since it’s a meeting
people cannot attend, they deprive
the public of hearing the discussion.
“Usually, for all practical pur-
poses, the decision on how to vote is
made in the briefing. It wasn’t voted
on then, but is later. And that deprives
the public of their right to hear the
merits of the decision.”
Before leaving. King said, “I ap-
preciate the opportunity to speak,
even when people disagree. I even
appreciate the letters to the editor. If
we can't disagree, then we have lost
our country.”
BMA president Bill Hope thanked
King for his time and told the crowd
that the key to saving BMA was to hire
a new general manager and to change
the thinking of people who believe
BMA cannot survive unless they form
a partnership with Bexar-Met or the
San Antonio Water Systems.
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