City Budget Seeks 26 Million Levy for Garbage and Services
Lubbock city officials add a 26 million dollar budget request featuring a garbage levy and debt service for bonds issued earlier for airport parks library Canyon Lakes and Civic Center. Budget calls for merit raises policing and firefighter pay boosts while addressing wage freeze rules and rising expenses.
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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Ellite City
Parks
Library
Canyon Lakes
Civic Center
Washington
Blackwell
Yellowhouse Canyon
Canadian River Municipal Water Authority
City Manager and Council Confront Communication Gaps
In a closed session the council and city manager discussed communication breakdowns and a fighting program critique. They vowed periodic meetings and clearer instructions while denying resignations and rumors of firing. Budget hearings to resume at 5 p.m. today.
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General Operating Fund
Board of City Development
General Fund
Council
Granberry
Blackwell
Jack Baker
Denton Rigsby
Searpet
Thim
Gulf Coast
W. D
Dub) Rogers
Rogers
Fuel Fire Misses Jet At Love Field In Near Collision
An overturned refueling truck spilled burning fuel at Love Field near a parked American Airlines 747. Jerry McCollum, 25, of Mesquite was injured but listed as in satisfactory condition. Fire crews sprayed 300 to 400 square feet and the truck was destroyed.
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Dallas
American Airlines
Love Field
Jerry McCollum
Mesquite
McCollum
Army clears 25th Division of Parrot's Beak hospital shelling charges
The Army concluded no misconduct occurred in the alleged February bombardment of a Cambodian hospital near the Parrot's Beak. Former Captain Gregory J. Hayward testified at a congressional hearing that Major General Ellis W. Williamson approved an artillery strike, but the Army found his statements uncertain and Williamson denied targeting a hospital.
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Williamson
Atlantic Search For Boys Called Off In Ocean Drift
The U S Coast Guard says the search for four boys aged 4 to 8, who drifted into the Atlantic in a battered wooden skiff near Nassau Bahamas, has been called off pending new information on their condition.
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Bahamas
Atlantic Ocean
U.S. Coast Guard
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