Secretary sets tone for ECISD
Bea Crawford, 50, guides the Ector County Independent School District's main office as its receptionist and public relations face. Her leadership, now as president of the Texas Educational Secretaries Association, aims to professionalize office work, push for sick pay, and represent secretaries at workshops and the Urbana conference while balancing duties with the district’s needs.
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Bea Crawford
Ector County Independent School District
Crawford
Texas Educational Secretaries Association
Odessa
Texas Education Agency
Association
Urbana
Ill
Texas Association of
Milam
Medical Center seeks financial independence
Medical Center Hospital Administrator Sam Glenney says the board must make the hospital financially autonomous amid rising supply costs and a projected $1 million shortfall from Ector County for indigent care next fiscal year. The county workshop trimmed the indigent care request to 1.6 million from 2.24 million, with hospital officials exploring rate increases and internal efficiencies to cover the gap.
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Medical Center Hospital
Sam Glenney
Ector County
Glenney
Hospital Board of Managers
Russ Kyler
Kyler
Hospital pay competitive in Odessa cash crunch
Odessa's Medical Center Hospital faces tight salary decisions as its volume rises during the recession. Assistant administrator for finance Russ Kyler notes some departments may lag paywise behind peers elsewhere, but a hospital cannot shut departments for staff shortages. Salary scales may shift, page 3B.
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Odessa
Medical Center
Russ Kyler
Kyler
Alpine Hearing Fought by Group Opposing Low Income Project
Alpine Housing Authority plans a 7 p.m. Monday public hearing on a 33 unit low income housing project in North Addition. Opponents seek an injunction, arguing sites not approved and bidding should be rebid to spread units citywide. HUD is reviewing site substitutions.
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Alpine
Alpine Housing Authority
William Lockhart
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Ron McCluskey
el Paso
North Addition
McCluskey
Lockhart
Housing Authority
AHA
North Addition Committee
HUD
Washington
Butter Tubs Cause Household Strife and Impossible Destruction
A humorous complaint about never discarding butter tubs fuels family quarrels over storage and mold. The note pivots to Midland High School 1973 reunion details and artist Robert Poindexter's work in Houston, then shifts to a crime tale of Buffalo vigilante violence involving a repeated offender named Charlie.
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Midland High School
Dennis the Menace Park
Midland Civic Center
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Odessa College
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