Community events calendar for Saline area in early September
This Saline Scenes roundup lists several local notices: Cub Scout Pack 374 holds School Night for Scouting at 7:00 p.m. in Saline Elementary Cafeteria with contact numbers Barbra Pickens and Patsy Veltz. Grand Saline Masonic Lodge 1269 grants a Graded Master Mason's Degree at 7:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:30 p.m. Labor Day library closure by Van Zandt County Library. Band Boosters meet Sept 5 at 7:00 p.m. Riverside Mission Church marks one year with noon lunch and 2:00 p.m. Waller Family concert at Waldrip Street Glory Dome. Friendship Reunion at Grand Saline Elementary Cafeteria on Sept 30 with 2:00 p.m. doors and 4:00 p.m. covered dish supper.
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Cub Scout Pack 374
Barbra Pickens
Patsy Veltz
Grand Saline Masonic Lodge #1269
Riverside Mission Church
Waller
Waldrip Street
Glory Dome
Grand Saline
Grand Saline ISD approves 2000-2001 budget and tax rate
The Grand Saline ISD Board approved the 2000-2001 budget totaling 6,430,102 dollars, up 404,328 from last year, with a tax rate of 1.20 for maintenance and operation and 0.0350 for interest and sinking fund, overall 1.2350 per 100 valuation. Superintendent Gerald Gilbert cited large raises for teachers and staff as the main driver of the increase, plus debt service and planned bus purchases. residents raised questions about detailed allocations and TEA requirements. The board vote was four to one with John Chambliss dissenting.
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Grand Saline Isd Board of Trustees
Grand Saline Isd
Gilbert
Vocational Agriculture
John Teague
Johnny Lavallo
John Chambliss
County commissioners discuss road damage and sheriff staff
At Monday’s Commissioners Court, residents voiced concerns over damage to VI CR 4929 from a trench dug for a water line, blamed on a former commissioner. The court asked the district attorney to review potential criminal or civil charges. Talks on adding jailers and dispatchers for the sheriff’s department stalled, with a tied vote and the county judge casting the deciding vote against hiring.
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Sheriff's Department
Commissioners’ Court
Rita Noble
Precinct Four
Noble
van Zandt County
Jim Wise
Kathy Jackson
Jackson
O.D. Hazel
Jimmy D. Wilson
Wise
John E. Durgin
Richard Lawrence
Grand Saline police chief lodges grievance vs council member
Grand Saline Chief Dan Zajac filed a formal employee grievance against Council member Glo Miller alleging civil rights violations. A sworn statement claims Miller said she would remove him and disliked him, made at a Van Zandt County Sheriff's Posse meeting in Edgewood in September 1999.
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Grand Saline
Dan Zajac
Ray Rucker
Zajac
Glo Miller
Miller
van Zandt County Sheriff's Posse
Edgewood
Monty Cain
Rucker
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John Rainey
Grand Saline Indians
Quitman Bulldogs
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