Council approves $687 City Budget
Brownfield City Council unanimously approves the 1986 87 budget from City Manager Dick Fletcher. The plan keeps utilities flat, grants a 3 percent across the board pay raise, and totals 8 116 277 with major revenues from utilities and service fees. Additional agenda items include 100 monthly to Texas State Guard unit and a Super Saturday promotion with relaxed noise and sidewalk rules.
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Brownfield
Dick Fletcher
Fletcher
Don McWhorter
Texas State Guard
McWhorter
Rob McGuire
Brownfield Business Association
Nine Years in Brownfield News A Leader Reflects On Growth
The Brownfield News editor marks nine years in Brownfield Texas noting steady growth and community cohesion. He recalls moving here on St Patrick’s Day 1968 and starting April 1, shares pride in local progress and gratitude to residents while urging continued dedication to quality reporting.
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Brownfield
Baloney
Fletcher issues report on 1986 87 city budget
Brownfield City Manager Dick Fletcher sent a memo to the City Council before the vote on the 1986 87 budget for April 1. The note outlines a lean plan totaling 8 116 227 with a 1 75 percent rise from the prior year and no new tax or user fee increases except the electric rate adjustment. It notes potential loss of Revenue Sharing Funds after July and details capital items including street seal coating two replaced police cars a landfill bulldozer and a fire truck likely to be de certified.
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Brownfield
Dick Fletcher
Southwestern Public Service Company
State Board of Insurance
Fletcher
Absentee voting closes as seven elections set for Saturday
Absentee ballots must be cast by Tuesday for April 5 contests in Brownfield Meadow Wellman and Terry areas. Elections include three contested races for Brownfield City Council places 1 2 3 with candidates Grimaldo Dobson Garcia Jr David DuBose Sears and Alejandro.
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Terry
Brownfield
Meadow
Wellman City
Wellman
Union
Meadow and Wellman
Terry Memorial Hospital Board
Brownfield Regional Medical Center
Brownfield School Board
U.S. Justice Department
BISD
Francisco Grimaldo
Billy Dobson
Hector Garcia Jr
Rodis David
Wayne DuBose
GenTel to roll out Equal Access Service in Brownfield area
GenTel announces Equal Access allowing customers in Brownfield and Ropesville to pick a preferred long distance company for 1 800 dialing with prefixes 637 and 562. Customers can dial a five digit access code plus 1 800 to route calls via any carrier, replacing lengthy 23 digit sequences.
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Equal Access
General Telephone
Brownfield
Ropesville
At&t
AT &T-C
O.D. Hearn
Sears announces bid for Brownfield Place Three Council seat
Joe Sears, 31, launches his candidacy for a two year term representing Place Three on the Brownfield City Council. A Brownfield High School 1973 graduate and Texas Tech University BA in advertising, he is midway through a current two year council term and previously served on the Brownfield Chamber of Commerce.
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Joe Sears
Brownfield
Sears
Brownfield High School
Texas Tech University
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Shane Melcher
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Cole Young
NTS
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Long Distance Telephone Com
St. Patrick’s
Terry County
Fletcher Issues Report
Texas
Benny Halam
Ates
Jessie R. Alejandro
GenTel
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