Texas City Sun (Newspaper) - September 26, 1995, Texas City, Texas Parents will get to see report cards at next week's open house at PAGE 2 A city manager would improve the operation and management of PAGE 4 District volleyball action is in full swing across the PAGE 6 City Sun Good it's 26,1995 Serving La Fe 50 cents Sunday ON A MISSION - Approximately 100 La Marque and Texas City residents marched Monday evening along several streets hindered by The march was organized by Around La a new program aimed at ridding neighborhoods of drugs and The marchers wore T-shirts and hard hats and carried Stephanie Lee shouts back at marchers from a house along Petroleum Street in La Marque Monday by Jim Gingrich's plane veers off runway By THE ASSOCIATED WASHINGTON - A small jet carrying House Speaker Newt his wife Marianne and two bodyguards ran off a runway in northern Michigan on Monday after striking two but nobody aboard the plane was the Washington Post In Tuesday the Post quoted an unidentified spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration as saying the plane was rolling for takeoff from the Mackinac Island airport when one goose was sucked into the right engine and another struck the left The pilot aborted the takeoff but was unable to bring the plane to a halt until it has run about 30 feet beyond the end of the according to the No one answered the airport office telephone Monday Police on the resort where attended a Republican said they were unaware of the City budget up for review STAFF REPORT A large crowd participated in Monday's Turn Around La City march and rally against drugs and More than 100 people marched along several stopping at houses like this one believed to be used by drug dealers and Property tax boost sewer rates also hiked Floyd Randle bulldozes a house frequented by drug users off of Stewart Street in La Marque Monday as a crowd cheered him TEXAS CITY - The City Commission Wednesday will host a public hearing on the proposed million city government Following the 6 p.m. hearing at city the commission will consider adopting the fiscal 1996 spending In other matters the commission will Appointments and reappointments to the boards of directors for the Texas City Economic Development Corp. and the Texas City Foreign Trade Zone Corp. Awarding bids for the rehabilitation of 18 houses in the Authorizing the issuance of million in general obligation By DALE DIMITRI Texas City Sun Reporter LA MARQUE - City Council Monday increased the water and sewer rates by 9.7 percent while also extending final approval to a 7.6 percent property tax Two weeks after the council refused on Sept. 11 to take action on the its members voted 4-1 to increase the residential water and sewer City Manager Nick Finan said the new rates translate into an additional tacked on the typical La Marque residential customer's annual utility - an average 9.7 percent he Council slightly increased water usage fees from the base of for the first 1,000 gallons and for each additional 1,000 to the same base but for every additional 1,000 Sewer rates shot up from an for each additional 1,000 gallons to an for each additional 1,000 Councilman Danny Phillips provided the lone Prior to the he noted that though senior citizens are exempt from paying for any sewer or water after their first 15,000 not many seniors use that much Phillips has also led criticism against an ongoing water meter replacement program in the city that has resulted in higher water bills for many residents due to better accounting of water The new meters combined with the higher rates will be too much of a burden on he Though the meter replacement issue did not arise it was a main focal point two weeks ago when the only three councilmen present at the meeting - James Osteen and Jack Neuner - refused to make a motion approving the proposed despite having already reached a consensus on the increases earlier in the process. Pete Rygaard and Councilman Randy were absent from that Except for the lone opponent's brief the water and sewer rates received approval without any public statement from other council members or administrators In a Sept. 21 memo to city Finan reminded council budget and appropriate rate increases were unanimously agreed upon during the budget there is a change of I suggest we start meeting immediately in workshops to cut in utility Finan In another council voted unanimously to give final approval to a 7.6 percent property tax increase following a brief public hearing in which no one The tax rate went up by 3.5 from 46 cents per in property value to 49.5 For the owner of a the increase means an extra on a yearly city property tax of The increase was officials in light of waning sales tax revenues to fund the million fiscal 1996 Prior to this year's tax the city cut taxes for five consecutive The Texas City Ancestry Searchers will have an open house at Moore Memorial Library from 4-8 p.m. Refreshments will be WEATHER Partly high in the mid 80s, low in the low 70s. INDEX Volume 83, Issue 269 Ann Bulletin M Dear we praise your name for constant In every plan that works for our good we see your guiding Amen Plenty of evidence kept from the jury By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Remember the testimony of Rosa The O.J. Simpson jury surely The woman billed in Johnnie Cochran opening statement as the Maid With the Alibi came to court in testified under hopped on a plane to El Salvador and hasn't been heard from Her preserved on was never shown to the Lopez joins legions of things and events that became part of American pop culture but will never be considered by panelists who will soon deliberate Simpson's fate on murder The attorneys dropped much of the evidence by often after witnesses but usually just to keep the case Other evidence was barred by the judge at the request of the opposing Either there's enough Simpson evidence sitting out there to feed another trial - maybe Peter law professor at said it's not unusual to have so much leftover evidence in a or even evidence promised and never because attorneys always adjust the flow of the case as the trial the prosecution and the defense are making strategic choices about what best story to he they have hard evidence that doesn't fit their story they're not going to present even if that evidence might be Everyone knows why most of the Mark Fuhrman tapes didn't get in judge ruled them But what about The A nation was riveted by the surreal pursuit of Simpson in a Ford Bronco driven by friend Al SIMPSON deflate stock Page 3
