Waxahachie Daily Light (Newspaper) - May 22, 2007, Waxahachie, Texas 06 TUNDRA DOUBLE CAB METROPLEX TOYOTA 730 E 120 9727801166 v r j i j i I i lone tournaments Ellis ur mt Free Homo I Daily Sunday Editions I One Low price of Call TUESDAY May 14 Pages 1 Section Waxahachie 4049 3W RAPUS IA 111 Vote tabled on parks plan Speaker By ANTHONY TROJAN local developers spoke during particularly tions would have be approved challenge By ANTHONY TROJAN Daily Light staff writer After a lengthy public the Wax City Council decided to postpone consider ation of the 2007 Recreation and Open Space Mas ter Plan until its June 18 local developers spoke during the requesting that the city put off the plans approval until after they and a group of other bro build ers and de Beatty The move came after three v e 1 o p e r s could meet with city staff at a meeting to Gallo tke place June The speakers expressed con cerns with some of the plans particularly the proposed buffer zone around the flood which could be up to 500 feet in some Council m e m b e r s Chuck Beat ty and Joe Gallo assert ed the plan would serve as a guide line and any changes to Wilkenson the citys ordinances resulting from the plans tions would have be approved by the council at a later Beatty and Gallos statements came after councilman Ron Wil kinson raised questions about whether or not the plans recom would be binding on the with queries specifically focusing on the buffer It the buffer just smacks to me of being Wil kinson noting that another item on the meetings agenda would have violated the recom put forth by the See Page 9 By APRIL CASTRO Associated Press writer AUSTIN With talk of a House coup two more Republican lawmakers have joined the race to unseat House Speaker Tom Craddick and a former Craddick ally publicly asked the embattled leader to step down to avoid a venomous Jim of filed his candidacy Monday with the state Ethics Commission for a term to be gin if Craddick is according to his declaration See Page 8 Board hears By JOANN LIVINGSTON Daily Light Managing Editor Global High School was a main topic for Waxahachie ISO board members during their meeting Monday The work shop session held on with the schools team mem bers in atten dance to pro vide an Update about Jhe innova tive program thats due to open its doors in Were excited about this The kids are excited about being and whats really going to impact our cul ture of student success is that See Page 2 Butler Marvin Splash Day by Justin Daily Students at Marvin Elementary enjoyed fun in the water spray provided by the Waxahachie Fire Department as part of Splash Day activities Monday morning at the WISD Dress code By JOANN LIVINGSTON Daily Light Managing Editor The Waxahachie ISO board of trustees met Monday giv ing its approval to the dress code for the secondary which include Turner Middle the junior the Ninth Grade Academy and the high One of the revisions to the dress code will see the wearing of Tshirts restricted to either ones or those hav ing either WISD or collegiate The intent of the revision is to prevent an issue of shirts with inappropriate Deputy Superintendent David Truitt The changes have been under discussion for several weeks and have involved the different cam See Page 2 Ferris targets sidewalk upgrades Police department for WISD sought u Light correspondent 1 The Ferris City Council met in regular session Monday evening with Mayor Jim Parker First on the agenda was a hearing to consider a recommendation by Justin manager of Business construct pedestrian side that would serve middle children between I Interstate 45 and the junior Proposed con are The council approved the adoption of a safe route to school plan as part of a grant application to provide side walks for pedestrian traffic on the south side of 660 from I 45 to the future middle A petition for voluntary annexation of a located between FM 983 and FM 664 west of the was also approved by the According to the petition submitted to the mayor and By JUSTIN BAER Daily Light intern When school doors open up again next students might notice a slight Jason director of safety and security for hachie is doing his part to make local schools a safer and better place to attend in the near in his first year as is lobbying school board members to devel op a Waxahachie ISD Police With other districts such as Red Ferris and Ennis already having police depart ments in their Chap man believes there is no reason Waxahachie shouldnt continue A lot of school districts are going to police Its not just around its all over the state and the Its due to past problems with school shootings and similar Were trying to organize a police department to prevent anything like that from Jason Director of safety and security for WISP the A lot of school districts are going to police Chapman Its not just around its all over the state and the Its due to past problems with school shootings and similar Were trying to organize a police department to prevent anything like that from occur Even though WISD has a security Chapman said that doesnt do much to prevent anything similar to the recent tragedies such as those at Virginia Tech and Columbine High Security doesnt really have too much enforcement Police can actually get in and make arrests and work investi Chapman We dont want a school shooting here in this school dis he If its going to happen its going to hap pen here whether you have a police department or But having officers here will dis courage In school they try to pick schools that are the most vulnerable and where they can get in with the least resistance all we have here is security See Page 2 E RS No one offers MORE DISCOUNTS than FARMERS Great rates for Youthful Drivers FREE Amanda Bell Tun Consultant t 9470 JACK SCOTT TX 75165 Se Habla Esparto J t