Chambers County budget talk turns to salaries and taxes
Chambers County Commissioners meet in Anahuac for a 9 am budget workshop to discuss salaries health services capital needs and potential tax assessment changes. Auditor Jerry Sparks expects no tax rate change amid rising valuations, with possible raises for elected officials and staff, including Margie Henry Patti Henry and Tony Sims.
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Patti Henry
Tony Sims
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Barbers Hill grad lands Chinook near Grandmom's house
Jason Goodwin, Barbers Hill High School class of 1992, piloted a CH47 Chinook to land in a pasture beside Grandmom Jo Dickerson’s Mont Belvieu home after driving from Beaumont. The stunt highlighted his path to becoming a U S Army Maintenance Test Pilot and Examiner, with a career spanning Korea, Fort Bragg, and Brantly Helicopters.
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Jason Goodwin
Perry Dickerson
Mont Belvieu
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Beaumont
Disney World
Billy Poole
Wes Klaus
Jarod Boehme
Wes
Billy
Boeing
U.S. Army
Nacogdoches
Harlingen
Brantly Helicopters
Vernon
Baytown approves third spray park for summer 2012
Baytown Council approves construction of the citys third spray park to open in McElroy Park near Craigmont Street by summer 2012. City manager says project will be funded from remaining aquatics funds, not new borrowing, and comes from the 2007 bond program. The council also approves Year 3 of the 2007 Street Bond for concrete street reconstructions including Gresham Avenue from Rice Street onward.
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Baker Road
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Bergeron Park
Bob Leiper
Gresham Avenue
Rice Street
Mont Belvieu weighs budget with water meters upgrade
Mont Belvieu City Administrator Bryan Easum outlined budget steps including a $600,000 automated water meter system funded from project savings. Eagle Drive reconstruction will start within 30 days, three new subdivisions have begun, a new 80 year old water tower is planned, and a late 2012 bond may fund the Master Drainage Plan with a regional 200 acre detention lake on city land.
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Eagle Drive
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