Commissioners discuss 1999 budget at Terry County hearing
Terry County Commissioners held a public hearing to discuss the proposed 1999 budget with input from residents on library funding and the county jail project. Auditor Alan Bayer outlined the 531.8 million valuation and a 67.20 cent tax rate, noting expected 3.57 million levy but about 3.36 million likely collected. Local residents urged reserve use and deeper service cuts while weighing library staffing and part time help, including a potential DECA student hire.
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Terry County Commissioners
Terry County Law Enforcement Center
Terry County
Alan Bayer
Bayer
Terry
Doug Ryburn
John Franks
Franks
Hale
Don Robertson
Robertson
Mildred Adams
Irene Reich
Harriet Flache
Kendrick Memorial Library
BCISD trustees approve 1998-99 budget with cuts
The Brownfield Consolidated Independent School District Board unanimously approves an 11.6 million dollar operating budget for 1998-99, down from 13 million. Capital outlay is eliminated, payroll dominates the budget, and campus level adjustments follow a budget review after revenue declines.
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Blake Decker
Brownfield Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees
BCISD
Business and Finance
Debbe Roesler
Roesler
Only in America a Nation of Ironies and Sports Rants
Paper n Ink by Lynn Brisendine laments civility decline amid sports talk. He rails at loud hosts and Monday morning quarterbacks while noting sports as escapism. He mocks America’s odd habits and ends with a pun about politics and bloodsucking tics.
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Leno
Letterman
America
Returning home shaped Kelly Moore’s legal path in Brownfield
Kelly Moore, born and raised in Brownfield, credits his return after law school to family roots and Brownfield’s opportunities. He earned an accounting outlook at Texas Tech before switching to law, married Kathy in 1979, and moved back in 1982. Appointed to the 121st Judicial District in 1995 and elected in 1996, he serves Terry and Yoakum counties and enjoys jury trials.
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Kelly Moore
Brownfield
L.G
Lois Moore
BHS
Texas Tech
Moore
Kathy
Bob
121St
Terry
Yoakum
Brownfield City Council to hold lengthy regular session
Brownfield City Council meets at 7 30 p m in city hall with a long agenda. Items include an update from the recreation council the 1997 audit by Keith Reeger & Company a 1998 ad valorem tax rate adoption and billing from McGowan & McGowan. Also on the agenda are a Rail America tax refund request access agreement with Benton Oil for monitoring wells an election services agreement with Terry County ballot casting for TML pools and a property conveyance at 510 S 5th St to Brownfield plus a Rubus Realty quit claim proposal for lots 7 12 block 61.
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Brownfield City Council
Recreation Council
Keith Reeger & Company Cpa
McGowan & McGowan PC
Rail America
Benton Oil Company
City of Brownfield
Terry County
Board of Trustees
Texas Municipal League
Region 3
Texas Municipal League Group Risk Pool
Sherry Lawrance
S. 5Th St
Brownfield
Rubus Realty Company
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Jim Pete Hale
Brownfield Intermediate
Jerry Thomas
Eddie Hooper
Debbe
Charles
Melody Pauling
Oak Provencipal
Fred Cawthon
Colonial
Lynn Brisendine
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