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Burnet County Bulletin (Newspaper) - January 27, 1977, Burnet, Texas Microfilm Conter inc . I it of d31133. Tex 3 if Fiji recommends 5% raise for City employee Burnet Council extends City limits by Marty Primeau Burnet a taking the first step toward extending the City limits to include the Burnet Industrial Park the Burnet City Council approved an ordinance to Annex a one half mile strip of land along the East Side of Hwy. 281 South at their special meeting tuesday night. The Council also decided to hold the first of two open hearings on the use of Revenue sharing funds at the feb. To meeting and postponed action on the Lone Star rate increase request until april. The annexation petition which was presented to the City sept 30, includes 31.75 acres which will be included in the City limits effective Midnight april 10 although most annexation ordinances Are effective upon passage giving the residents All of the Legal rights of City Resi dents City zoning commissioner Bill Goble explained that the annexation is being delayed to avoid problems with the april 2 City and school elections. Quot after the City approves the ordinance we have to file with the Federal Justice department and they have 60 Days to give clearance Quot Goble said Quot of they have any questions it could mean another 60 Days he explained that any elections in which the new residents vote prior to the Justice department s approval could be declared illegal. Quot of someone challenges the election it could mean turmoil a said City manager Jack Tippit. In his financial report to the Council Tippit said the cite has Over $100,000 in Genera and operating funds and he recommended that the City employees receive a Quot moderate Quot raise he also said that to comply with the Federal government s new Revenue sharing require ments two hearings must be held for residents to express their opinions on How they want to spend the funds and later to speak for or against the planned allocations. The Council will hold the first hearing at the feb. 15 meeting in conjunction with a modification of the budget. Tippit said that most of the budget will remain the same but it needs updating and some revisions to make it accurate the budget did not include any general pay increases and feel there Are a number of gone employees who did not it raises who should although he said a budget revision will have to be made before any definite amounts can be proposed he suggested a five percent across the Board raise he also recommended that the Council s $15 monthly allowance $25 for mayor o i Kassaw be pud instead for each meeting the aldermen attend each month Tippit also asked that bids be taken it the fib 15 meeting for an additional dump truck which continued on Page 2 the Burnet county Granite Plant gets $1 million contract Granite Shoals a Capitol Marble and Granite company of Austin with a Plant in Granite Shoals has received a $1,080,000 contract to Supply the Stone needed to expand the Everett dirkson Senate office building in Washington d.c., congressman w r. Poage announced tues Day. Although the local office had not received official word of the contract Jack Seiders confirmed that the company had bid on the Job last week and Quot As far As we know we were the Low our Diamond Pearl Granite was one of the stones chosen by the architects As being suitable for the Job Quot Seiders said. The Granite will be quarried in Mason and sent in Block form to the Granite Shoals Plant where individual pieces will be fabricated and shipped to Washington. Seiders said the Job is one of the largest the company has Ever received and will Quot keep the Quarry in full opera Tion All summer which is not the Case right he added that after the company studies the contract they will be Able to determine the amount of work involved to see if the present manpower will be Able to handle the Load. Buker Fin a thursday edition a vol 104 no. 7 Jan. 27.1977 3 sections 20 pages ambulance committee discusses ideas plans meeting for next week Burnet a committee of sixteen men and women from Burnet county appointed by judge b. Pogue to discuss the county s ambulance service deficiency met tuesday night at the Burnet county courthouse. Although they did not reach a workable solution to the problem Many alternatives were discussed and an analysis of the county and its needs prepared by Capitol area planning Council explained some possibilities. Quot the first objective i can see is to work up a system for the entire county Quot Marble Falls City manager Zimmerman told the group Quot i would like to see an alternative that we can Quot i know that you can t put a Price on life but finances Are still a problem and i have to convince the City residents in the South end of Burnet county including Marble Falls Spicewood and Granite Shoals does not have an ambulance service closer that Burnet and it takes at least 20 minutes for an ambulance from Burnet to get the to that area one observer said. Quot Burnet county is far better covered with ambulance service than Many areas Quot or. Dan Keller of Burnet said Quot we have a Large retirement population having More circulatory emergencies and the funeral Homes in Burnet have a Good response time but it could be much Quot the Shepperd Hospital Board does not want to operate an ambulance service and the Only ones who can relate Are in the Hospital he added. Or. Kelly recommended that the group Quot pressure the Hospital Board to take this thing inside sports see Page shop in the Hill country see Page cd pardons for draft evaders ? see Page a5 Jerome Davis of Marble Falls said Quot it takes 25 minutes to get to people in the South end of the county and 20 to 30 minutes makes a critical difference of we can get a Volunteer group to cover the South end of the county to get to the scene and of subsidy. The four emergency vehicles in use in Burnet county Are All licensed and equipped As required by the Texas department of health resources but Only one of them is in compliance with the department of transportation skilled technicians who Are qualified to manage All medical emergencies and internal procedures under the treatment of a physician. Capco s analysis of Burnet continued on Page 2 done to forget. Tickets on Sale now for Burnet chamber of Commerce feb. La annual banquet 7 pm. Burnet elementary school featuring speaker Lewis Timberlake announcing burners outstanding citizen tickets available Tram chamber members at c of c office. Stabilize a victim we might Jug specifications for markings and Able to save some lives Timmerman suggested a Volunteer ambulance service in which local people Are trained in emergency care and can follow proper procedures until a time when an ambulance arrives. Quot Johnson City s system is Volunteer and it works. I can speak very highly of Volunteer services and they work very successfully Quot Zimmerman added Quot Volunteer May not be the very Best system but i think we could make a system Dewey Hollingsworth a committee representative from Granite Shoals said "99 and nine tenths percent of the people in Burnet county Are not aware of the unqualified ambulance Drivers and men serving them. The residents need to know what they Are getting compared to what they could be Clements funeral Home and Edgars funeral Home in Burnet both operate ambulance and make the Calls throughout the county. There Are presently four emergency ambulances in operation in Burnet county with two or More older vehicles available for backups and transfers. The service is being provided by two funeral Homes that operate As private business enterprises and provide ambulance service As a Public service to the county without any form lights. Between the two firms they report a total of seven ambulance attendants although none have had extensive medical training and none Are paid As ambulance attendants. Quot a private county wide ambulance service will Cost Between 60 and $100,000,&Quot Walter Lockett of Granite Shoals said Quot but we can have an adequate ambulance service now if we have adequately trained volunteers to begin with. Besides it costs a lot less to train the analysis prepared by Capco listed four types of emergency medical service the first of which depends solely on volunteers and recommends that those volunteers have Between 20 and 50 hours of first Aid and emergency care training. The second level of service also depends on volunteers but the volunteers Are More extensively trained and can provide Basic life support services to sick and injured patients with the supervision of a physician. Paid paraprofessional personnel provide the same care As in the second level except that they Are paid solely to respond to emergencies in Capco s third level recommendation. The fourth level the highest level of emergency care that can be provided involves hiring incumbent trustees file for of school Board Marble Falls Marble Falls school trustees John Mead and John Cammack jr., have filed for a election to the school Board my both men told the bulletin hey intend to run on their records incumbents Mead and Cam Mack Are completing their first three year terms and Are presently filling places 1 and 2 on the school Board. Quot i d like to see the Board focus on the curriculum study Partick lady the English courses because there Are too Many kids who cannot effectively communicate after they graduate Quot Mead said. He added that he would also like to update the athletic curriculum because Quot it is important for students to learn what winning he and his wife Monette have four children and have lived in Spicewood since 1971, where Mead is training to be a hearing aide specialist. For the past three years Mead has served As chairman of the school Board s personnel rein tons committee and has Atten ded All of the Texas As Socie Tion of school Board conferences. Mead said he would like to see the District Quot improve on tax collections Quot even to the Point of taking delinquent taxpayers to court. Reflecting Over his past three years on the Board Mead said Quot the Board has put a lot of tin bickering of the past behind us and we Are All working Well Quot this is a new Alay for this school District am i i m looking Forward to making Marble Falls number one in the state Quot he added. In listing their accomplishments both Mead and Cammack cited the recent reduction in and Valorme taxes in Marble Falls and in improved Pupil teacher ration Quot i believe we have Only one classroom in which the ration of students to teachers is Over 25 to one Quot Mead said. Carniac a who has been a member of the maintenance and insurance committees during his three year term said his main interest is Quot keeping the reduce Bona level is High of it is now Quot i d also like to see More equitable taxes this is being corrected gradually but it is still a problem Quot Cammack said and he continued on Page 2 it students seek information for town Hall design project University of Texas fret saw Lawrence speck id armed a group of 20 Archi Torturo students and members of the Burnet Community at a Coffee it the Highlander inn monday afternoon speck explained that the student win be designing a town Hall Tor Burnet is a semester prefect end be asked Tor information and background to Start the students in the right direction by Marty Primeau Burnet Don t be surprised if a stranger stops you on Tho Street to ask your opinion about what kind of town Center should be built in Burnet As a semester class project about 20 architecture students from the univer sity of Texas will be studying Burnet to design a new facility to House the Volunteer fire department and also serve As a Community Center for Iii Ages in a meeting at the Highlander inn monday afternoon. Professor Lawrence speck and students from his advanced architectural design class met Anc talked to several prominent members of the Community to gather some Genera information about the proposed town Hall attending fhe Lafleu urn Burnet were Jennie Hammond Jack Tippit Sill Goble. Willie Mae Price by of Bronaugh Harry Kandl Demit Cowan Bill Holder. Ron Chambers Roger Holland. Jerry co by Bill Wilcox Jean Puckett Linda Ross o l Kassaw Ramsey Clinton and Marcus Rose professor speck explained to the Burnet group that in the past senior architecture students have solved a hypothetical or real design problem in Austin As their class project Quot ties semester we wanted to do something different so we looked for a Small town Wanh a building to plan so the students can yet deep into the problem Quot speck said continued on Page 2

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