City Sets Three Budget Workshop Sessions
Baytown Council schedules early morning sessions at 6 a.m. on August 26 27 and 28 to review the proposed 1986 87 budget of 32.1 million maintaining the current 59 cent tax rate. Three speakers addressed the public hearing Barbara Smith Paula Pratt and Graham Painter with the senior citizens center requesting 24 900 for next year and noting the van service for elderly and handicapped.
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Baytown
Council
Barbara Smith
Graham Painter
Sterling Municipal Library
Lee College proposes 1 cent tax hike and budget cuts
At a budget workshop Lee College interim president Robert Larsson urged regents to raise the district tax rate to 13.5 cents per $100 and cut costs by canceling most faculty travel, trimming student assistant funding, reducing summer pay by 20 percent, rescinding step pay raises, and delaying equipment purchases. The 1986-87 budget would total $14.62 million, an 8.5 percent decrease from 1985-86, with projected savings of about $733,000 from cuts and $417,000 from the tax increase if approved.
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David Mohlman
Lee College
Robert Larsson
Lee Larsson
Larsson
Regents
Public Information Office
Questions rise over LC budget plan and student impact
Interim president Robert Larsson, Bettie Bennett, and college leaders faced questions from regents faculty and a student about the 1986-87 LC budget. Concerns centered on reserves state funding enrollment forecasts and a $2 per credit hour increase offset by a $440 000 tuition decline. Fall enrollment rose 17 percent amid a shift to longer early registration. Regret over a 50 percent cut in student aides could affect access and hands on courses like geology and environmental science.
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Bettie Bennett
Larsson
Bennett
Ed Monk
Gwen Altwein
Lar
Baytown Sees Texas House Move on School Discipline
Baytown educators cheer a House vote approving a discipline bill allowing expulsion for first offense drug dealing or weapons possession. Governor White expanded the special session to include the measure. local leaders say it strengthens school control while opponents pledge possible policy tweaks.
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Linnea Schlobohm
Baytown
Texas
House
Mark White
Richard Heyen
Heyen
Texas Association of School Boards
TASB
Gene Green
Aldine School
Senate
Tom Gentry
Gentry
Jerry Roy
Roy
Wholesale Prices Fall 0.4 Percent in July
In July the Labor Department reports a 0.4 percent drop in wholesale prices. Gasoline led the decline, plunging 19.3 percent after June’s 2.9 percent rise, offsetting a 1.9 percent rise in food costs driven by poultry, beef, and pork. Prices for nonfood, nonenergy goods rose 0.3 percent. The seven month trend shows a 6.2 percent annualized fall.
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Washington
Labor Department
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Surefire strategy note to beleaguered husbands
A fragment from Pearce Street Journal urges husbands to approve their wives purchases by praising appearance and suggesting the dress flatters middle age. The cheeky note frames shopping as a confidence boost and a simple compatibility tactic.
Local Justice Court Staff Visit in Baytown
Abbey Whelan personnel coordinator in the Texas Justice Court System meets employees in Justice of the Peace Lindon Williams' office at the Harris County Courthouse Annex in Baytown. Bob Wesselhoff Glen Walker Randy Bransom and Ted Smith tune up for a special. Kim Martin Billie Hooper and Kathleen Richardson help place history in perspective.
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Abbey Whelan
Texas Justice Court System
Justice of the Peace
Lindon Williams
Harris County
Baytown
Bob Wesselhoff
Glen Walker
Randy Bransom
Ted Smith
Kim Martin
Billie Hooper
Kathleen Richardson
Weather forecast and past 24 hour temps and rain
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a 20 percent chance of thundershowers Friday night and Saturday. Friday low near mid-70s with 4 degrees, while Saturday high mid-90s. The 24 hour period to 8 am Friday recorded 78 degrees and 0.13 inch rain with a high of 92.
Baytown seeks $83 million sewer upgrade through 1988 plan
Baytown City Council approved seeking bids for a Central District Wastewater System upgrade costing about $83 million. Project aims to raise plant capacity from 4.7 to 6 million gallons per day and fund sewer rehab and lift station modifications with a completion target of March 31, 1988. City grants and bond funds back the plan.
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Baytown
Emmett Hutto
Central District
Lanham
Kiwanis hear plea for federal aid to family farms
David Currie, aide to Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, urged Baytown Kiwanis to press for federal help to save family run farms. He argued tax and commodity policies favor large producers, leaving 1.3 million commercial and 1 million hobby farmers at risk, with 1 million projected to exit by 2000.
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Dee Mickelson
David Currie
Texas
Jim Hightower
Baytown
Currie
United
Kiplinger
Kiwanis
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