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Buda municipal building, library to open for business by end of July BY KATERINA BARTON
“Most of the furniture is actually going in right After several delays, now and would be ready Buda’s city hall and lifor us to move in sooner, brary will be making the but it’s just some critical big move to the new Mu- pieces, like the library nicipal Building starting circulation desk and anat the end of July. other greeting desk, are The move was origiwhat is pushing back the nally scheduled for the deadline,” Grau said. end of May, but delays According to Grau, in ordering and delivery the construction of cusof furniture pushed the tom-made pieces, such move back by a couple as the library circulation of months. desk, led to the most Micah Grau, assistant hold-ups. city manager of Buda, City staff is currently said the delays are not in the process of packing significant, but have and cleaning offices and taken longer than they should have. MUNICIPAL BUILDING, 11
PHOTO BY DAVID WHITE The city hall is expected to be open for business by July 23 and the library is expected to open a little later on Aug. 6.
STRs get OK from P&Z A final report by Kyle’s Planning and Zoning Commission regarding the city’s short-term rentals could call for registration of the facilities with the city. The report was discussed at the final STR workshop last week. The commission has spent the past few months researching and putting together a report which includes data, a summary of statewide regulations, definitions, and a final recommendation to which will be given to Kyle City Council. Options for enforcement and regulations, as well as the recent Texas Supreme Court ruling in which the court ruled in favor of an STR over the regulations of a homeowners’ association, were the prominent issues discussed. P&Z members were reluctant to outright deny STRs because it is possible that the Texas Legislature may bring back a bill that died in committee last session which deregulated STR ordinances for cities. Senate Bill 451 read, “A
What regulations do you think the city of Kyle should impose to allow short-term rentals? Covered by Current City Ordinances Number of Occupants Registration of STR/Guests/Third Party Management Guest Background Check & Property Inspections Hotel Occupancy Tax/Community Tax Honor HOA Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions
Above are some of the Kylre resident survey results provided by the City of Kyle.
or effectively prohibits the use of a property as a shortterm rental,” unless the regulations demonstrate a purpose of protecting public health and safety. Instead, P&Z decided to recommend adopting SB 451’s definition of STRs and
write STRs into Kyle’s code assuming that STRs be treated as a hotel in terms of collecting taxes. P&Z believes it is reasonable to have a permitting process, or a type of operating license, in order to get a point of emergency contact for the STRs. The permitting process would either be free or of low cost to en-
COMING UP
2018 Summer Dialogues for Activism, June 22
As part of the 2018 Summer Dialogues for Activism at the LBJ Museum of San Marcos, two sessions will be dedicated to the theme of gentrification and housing from 9 a.m. to noon. Topics will cover “Gentrification” and “Deliberative Dialogue on Equitable Housing.” Free coffee and snacks will be served.
Buda Main St. Program Concert Series, June 22
Buda will launch its new concert series called ”South Main Music Nights” at the south end of Buda Mill & Grain Co. every other Thursday from 7:30 – 9:30 pm. The first concert will be June 22 and feature Vintage 15, self described as A Swingin’ Jazz Big Band with a Modern Vibe out of Austin.
SONGWRITERS Kids take center stage at songwriters circle. – Page 6
Lehman High School students trying to beat the crowds to leave campus at the end of the school day may need to find new parking spots after Kyle approved new no-parking signs in the neighborhood just northeast of campus. Tuesday, residents of the South Lake Ranch subdivision turned out for the Kyle City Council meeting to appeal for a solution to the influx of teenagers parking there each school day, a problem they say creates safety issues in their neighborhood. Based on input from South Lake Ranch residents, council voted unanimously to erect signs that prohibit street parking
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STAFF REPORT
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RR12 accident claims three lives
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Parking prohibited during school hours
courage rental operators to register. This would help provide a list of STRs in order for the city to also collect Hotel Occupancy Taxes (HOT). Kyle’s HOT is seven percent in addition to the state’s HOT of six percent on the cost of a
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Summer Contest For Young Writers 2018
Buda library patrons aged 8 to 17 will get a chance to flex their writing muscles and show off their literary skill with the Friends of the Buda Library Summer Contest for Young Writers. The contest will feature an 8-to-12 age division and a 13-to-17 age division. Each entrant will submit a story of 500 words of less and only one entry per person. Entries will be judged based on the quality of writing, originality and subject matter. Finalists will be judged by writers, teachers and librarians. First place in each category will receive a $100 gift card. Prompt for the 8-12 division: “The sign said not to push the button, but I did.” Prompt for 13-17 division: “The envelope looked as though it had been in the mailbox for years. The writing was faded.” Deadline for submissions is July 12 and all must be handed to a Buda librarian. No email submissions accepted. More information can be found online at haysfreepress.com.
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Three Wimberley residents were pronounced dead Sunday evening after a driver veered off into oncoming traffic and struck another vehicle on Ranch Road 12 near San Marcos. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, 22-year-old Ramiro Ramirez was traveling northbound on Ranch Road 12 three miles south of San Marcos around 9 p.m. when he swerved into the southbound lane and struck an SUV being driven by Elizabeth Kay Richter, a 63-year-old New Braunfels resident. Richter’s vehicle then spun and skidded along the guardrail before coming to a final stop Ramirez’s vehicle, however, kept going in the southbound lane, and hit another car occupied by two Wimberley residents, 40-year-old Angela Mary Masullo and 44-year-old Daniel Stuart Masullo, head on. The Masullo’s vehicle was pushed up backwards on top of a guardrail, and the vehicle Ramirez was driving came to a stop and burst into flame. The Masullo’s and Ramirez were both pronounced dead at the scene, while Richter was treated and released. Two additional passengers in the Masullo’s SUV were transported South Austin Medical Center, where their conditions are unknown.
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Founded April 10, 1903, by Thomas Fletcher Harwell as The Kyle News, with offices on the corner of Burleson and Miller streets in the town’s oldest remaining building. It merged into The Hays County Citizen in 1956. The paper consolidated with The Free Press in October, 1978. During its more than 100-year history the newspaper has maintained offices at more than a dozen locations in Kyle and Buda.
Hays Free Press • June 20, 2018
Hays CAD Chief Appraiser hands over reins BY KATERINA BARTON
After 42 years of public service, Chief Appraiser David Valle of the Hays Central Appraisal District (CAD) will be retiring effective at the end of July. Valle sent in his letter of retirement to the board of directors on May 17. The board appointed Deputy Chief Appraiser Laura Raven as the interim chief appraiser at its June 11 meetings. Raven will take over on Aug. 1. Chairwoman of the Board of Directors and Hays County Tax Assessor-Collector Luanne Caraway said that Raven
Outgoing Chief Appraiser David Valle, who has worked for the CAD for 33 years, is handing over the reins to Deputy Chief Appraiser Laura Raven, a 24-year employee of the CAD.
seemed like a good fit for the temporary position in order to keep the day to day operations of the Hays CAD running. “She’s been there for many years and has been David’s (Valle) right hand for many years,” Caraway said. Raven has been working at the Hays CAD for almost 24 years and has been the deputy chief for the last five years. Caraway said the board of directors will start ad-
vertising to permanently fill the chief appraiser position soon via notices posted within appraiser trade associations such as the Texas Association of Appraisal Districts. The board will start interviewing for the position around the beginning of September. Compensation for the position will be set by the board of directors when the budget is adopted in budget workshops in September. Caraway
says so far the board has only discussed a possible range. Some requirements to be a chief appraiser, according to Raven, include obtaining a professional designation as a Registered Professional Appraiser (RPA) from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), have five years experience with property tax, and complete the chief appraiser training program set by the Texas
Occupations Code. Raven said she has all of the qualifications and requirements for the chief appraiser position and she very well might apply once the job is posted. Valle worked for the Hays CAD for 33 years and previously worked for Hays County and the San Marcos School District doing appraisal work. “It was a pleasure and a privilege to work with Hays CAD all of these years,” Valle said. After retiring, Valle will spend time with family, travel, and pursue other interests.
Buda City Park design approved over budget BY KATERINA BARTON
Buda’s final City Park design documents were approved by city council Tuesday, despite construction estimates still being over budget. With design documents complete, the project will be put out to bid for construction later this month. The city administrators and council members hope that bids will come in more in line with budget estimates.
Claire Hempel, a principal at Design Workshop, the planning and design company working on the park design, gave a presentation on the completed design and cost estimates. Hempel explained that an original cost estimate of $7,635,595 for the project was revised down to $5,330,350, still more than $1 million over budget. The park is part of the 2014 Bond Proposition 5 Park and Trail Improve-
ments. A portion of the city’s original bond money for the proposition was allocated toward acquiring the land for the John D. and Byrd Mims Garison Memorial Park. A good opportunity came up to buy the land, leaving a little more than $4 million for the city park project budget. Almost $780,000 of optional pieces for the park, including additions to the planned amphitheater,
lighting and a sidewalk around the amphitheater, could be added later. City administrators said the city is looking at additional funding options, but are also waiting to get more accurate cost estimates from bids. Assistant City Manager Chance Sparks said the city is looking at sponsorships to try to cover the gap. Mayor George Haehn asked City Attorney George Hyde if the city could poten-
tially use the Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) for overruns on the budget. Hyde said there is a possibility. Hempel said the Design Workshop team has already stripped some non-essentials in the park such as downsizing the planting, using a smaller caliber of trees, and stripping down the amount of paving. After bids are in, construction will take 10 to 12 months to complete.
School Parking Woes: Kyle prohibits student parking near Lehman Continued from pg. 1
during school hours on five streets in the subdivision: Lake Washington Drive, Granite Shoals Drive, Sapphire Lake Drive, Town Lake Bend and Onyx Lake Drive. Because there were no ‘nay’ votes, the item passed on the first reading and will not have to come back for a second reading. “I think it’s a long time coming,” South Lake Ranch resident Brandy Heindel said. “It’s been on the agenda and off the agenda I don’t know how many times. (Residents) may come back to get the ordinance changed, but now at least we have the council involved.” South Lake Ranch, located across Bunton Creek Road from Lehman High, is a popular off-campus parking spot for students. The inability to afford the on-campus school parking pass and lack of vehicle registration and valid drivers licenses are often cited
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reasons. It is also thought that traffic congestion at the end of school day is so bad, it actually saves time for a student to walk all the way to the subdivision and drive their car home from there, Heindel said. However, teenagers speeding down the neighborhood streets and the crowding from parking creates safety hazards for residents and their children, she said. There are multiple children in the neighborhood with special needs who have trouble catching their bus to school because of the student vehicles, Heindel said. “The school district has to get involved. We’ve taken it out of the city’s hands, and we’re trying to get it back into the school district’s hands,” she said. “We’re a nice community. This isn’t against our students, this is for the safety of our neighborhood.” Mayor Travis Mitchell
expressed concerns about residents in the subdivision who have multiple cars and will miss the street parking, saying the ordinance is “treating the symptom and not the real problem.” South Lake Ranch falls under District 6, Council
Member Daphne Tenorio’s district. Tenorio helped come up with the ordinance with the help of residents, and said the neighbors will continue to be active, once the signs are up, to make sure the parking situation is improved. The ordinance can
always be amended in the future, she said. “This is something to sort of give us a stepping stone to get it ready. We’re doing it early enough that they will be up when school starts,” Tenorio said. “It’s a good starting step.”
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK “There are so many opportunities to have students connected to the group. We’re going to hit 20,000 students by next school year. We don’t want them to feel lost.” –Tim Savoy, Hays CISD public information officer. Story on pg. 5
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You can’t blame the children – or the parents
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he photo on the front of the Austin American-Statesman Tuesday morning shows a photo of U.S. Border Patrol agents speaking to Central Amercan asylum seakers. The mother has her right hand behind her head, as police and agents ask detainees to do. In her left arm, she holds a little girl, maybe two years old. The little girl has her own hands behind her head. What a start to life. What questions must be going through that child’s mind. At her young age, she just knows that something wrong is happening. And shortly after the photo was taken, as U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has declared, the little girl and the young boys in the photo will be separated from the mother. The policy of separating children from parents in deplorable. The Trump administration’s pundits talk about the law and the supporting court case from the 1990s – when Bill Clinton was President – that says unaccompanied minors can be held up to 20 days before being deported back to their country of origin. My problem with all that is going on now, with the hundreds of children being separated from their parents, is that these are not unaccompanied minors. The children are with their parents. And the parents are trying to escape violence and abuse in their home countries. Would I do the same thing for my children? I have thought about that for years, and the answer is yes. Were the roles reversed and Mexico or Venezuela were the dominant economies, and the United States was in turmoil, with roving bands of drug lords traumitizing families just trying to eek out a living, would I grab my children and try to get out? In a heartbeat. Without even thinking. And if you ask most parents to think hard about what they would do, they would probably say the same thing. Let’s face it. You don’t drag your children across dangerous deserts, crossing the Rio Grande River, because you just want to see America. You do it because you are desperate, because you fear for your and your children’s lives. If President Donald Trump will not use his powers to stop the nonsense of separating parents and children, then Congress needs to act quickly to stop these actions, and to get enough judges and immigration courts set up so that asylum seekers can have their cases reviewed. Call your congressman and senator today and let them know that children should remain with parents through the process.
Bible quotes, child abuse and ‘zero tolerance’ folly
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rossing the street on foot the other day, a terrible thought crossed my mind. It was a vision, actually: of my offspring broiling in a remote tent city under the blazing Southwest sun at the behest of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. You see, I was committing a crime at the time – jaywalking. Sure, it’s just a Class A traffic infraction, but I’d better stop it anyway. Based on the “zero tolerance” policy modeled by the Trump administration, one day my family could be ripped away from me for insubordination in the presence of pedestrian signals. As of this writing, since April about 2,000 children have been separated from their families when they arrived illegally in this country.
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we wanted no crime whatsoever we would make the most minor of offenses – like littering – punishable by death. That would send all reasoning individuals a message about the law. Murder and rape? As my egghead friend pointed out correctly, deranged people aren’t deterred by reason, or the gallows. Jaywalkers, though . . . The attorney general is no big thinker, but maybe he is onto something. If the misdemeanor of being in this country illegally merits the dismemberment of one’s family, why not do the same for other misdemeanors – like exceeding the speed limit by 25 mph or throwing a burning butt out one’s car window? Take those offenders – they broke the law, you know, criminal law – and separate them from their
children. Put the children in isolation camps where they can’t even be held by caring adults. Crate them away like artifacts. Trump supporters: Is this your definition of “pro-life”? Do you check the origination of the child in question, and if it’s from, say, El Salvador, treat that life like a used tire? As for that Bible thing: Romans 13 has some pretty stern things to say about adulterers – ahem, Mr. President – and various other offenders, even those who missed the memo on circumcision. Suggest for us, Mr. Sessions, how we shall command such individuals’ attention. Longtime Texas newspaperman John Young lives in Colorado. jyoungcolumn@gmail.com
The Crow takes on movements
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oday, I’d like to talk about movements. No, Bubba, not those kind of movements, although there are some similarities in the kinds I have in mind. I’m talking about certain movements against some social injustice. Most of them are essential in revealing morally wrong and possibly criminal activities of some corrupt individuals or crowds, but like other kinds of movements, there should be a beginning and a definite end. For example, the antiConfederacy movement aimed to improve racial equality. At first, it removed the Confederate flag from public settings. I didn’t have a big problem with that. Later on, school mascots and fight songs were banned. Then, like a faulty septic tank upon a hill, the movement spilled into the streets and city parks. Public schools and city streets were renamed, and
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of bayonets and the Gestapo. YoungOur president says he hates it. Then he says it’s at-Large the fault of laws passed by John Young by the Democrats. That’s a lie, or least a claim that can’t be affirmed by any Their parents have fact-checker not on Fox committed a crime, News’ payroll. proclaimed Sessions, Anyway, Trump has grinning as he invoked never needed facts to exRomans 13 about obeyplain anything he does. ing the government. Zero tolerance: It Well. Immigration sounds velvety tripping experts point out that 90 off the tongue but invaripercent of these offendably results in abrasions ers are charged with mis- and abominations, like a demeanors. Yikes. Where second-grader treated as is that crosswalk? a criminal for possessing Previously, back when a butter knife at school. people with a conscience Sessions’ justification governed our land, of his policy is that it families like these were sends a message to poassigned civil hearings tential violators. I can’t that led to deportation or argue with that. other remedies. Sounds Sessions, therefore, civil. would agree with a Zero tolerance? What big-thinker friend of the Trump administramine who, though he tion is doing is child opposes the death penabuse. It’s the language alty, explained that if
announced it will no longer have the contestants parade around in swimsuits. To some, this was considered demeaning to women, so by Clint Younts they tossed the bathing suits out the window. statues of Confederate Next year, the contestants heroes disappeared. This will have to dress ladylike movement needs a dose and display their talents of Imodium. to the mostly female Another movement viewers who couldn’t find that might need a dose anything better to watch of Pepto is the #MeToo on Netflix. movement. Now, don’t get Look, the Miss America me wrong. I stand firmly Pageant has always been beside all these women a beauty pageant and who were harassed and not a talent show. Back abused, and I will gladly when I watched the show, offer my skill in castration before the invention of in fixing those evil men satellite dishes and cable out in Hollywood, in boxes, I recall very few of college heath clinics, those beauties would’ve Olympic training facilities ever made it on stage and elsewhere who prey as a singer. Some vocal on innocent women. performances sounded The #MeToo movement like an intact tomcat is vital to root out these misjudged the height of nasty villains, but the picket fence in the someone needs to apply backyard. And plucking the brakes and slow down on a ukulele or shaking this locomotive. some maracas just didn’t Just recently, the give me goose bumps. Miss America Pageant Hey, if women find the
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pageant demeaning, by all means let’s stop doing it. But don’t stop with just one show. There are the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants to consider, too. Pass out some robes to all those beautiful women who object to being ogled by millions of viewers. Now, if the driver of the #MeToo movement doesn’t start tapping the brakes, I foresee other changes to our struggling society. I seem to recollect that Playboy magazine stopped publishing nude pictures back in 2017, but returned to having nekkid girls this year after a drop in sales. Go figure. But with the #MeToo movement on a nationwide tour, I expect in the near future, some young fella being very disappointed when he unfolds the centerfold and sees the Playmate of the Month wearing bib overalls and a flannel shirt. I foresee 2019
calendars in the office of auto mechanics will have some gal in greasy coveralls showing off her big lug wrench. I expect to see lots of drunk patrons leaving strip joints with their pockets still stuffed with $1 bills. Who wants to watch a gal dance around a pole wearing a complete fireman’s suit? I understand the #MeToo movement is no laughing matter, and what it has achieved so far is very important to not just the women in this country but to the few decent men among us. It seems like there are way too many men in the public eye who are nothing but snakes in the grass. I might joke about the movement, but I have no tolerance of nasty snakes. All I ask is when you are in my neighborhood, please tap those brakes and slow down a little. crowsnest78640@gmail.com
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Hays Free Press • June 20, 2018
Local track team prepares young athletes for success BY REED GRAFF
The future of track and field is bright in Hays County, and a part of that success will come thanks to the efforts of the Buda Bolts. To trace the history of the Buda Bolts, one must go back to 1987. The team was founded by Phil Ardrey, a physical education teacher at Hays High School and Buda Elementary. Ardrey used his knowledge of track to start the team despite the Hays area being a football area. A young Randal Grizzle served as the team’s assistant coach during his high school years. However, when Grizzle left for college and Ardrey found a job elsewhere, the team disbanded. Grizzle credits some of his track interest to Ardrey.
The Buda Bolts is a youth track team based in Buda that includes athletes in age from 10 to 17. Head Coach Randal Grizzle is a Hays High School graduate and a former track athlete at the University of Texas.
“He helped promote track to me and got me interested,” Grizzle said. “If he had stuck around and built the program, it wouldn’t have surprised me if Hays had won several state championships in track.” Thirty years later, Grizzle’s children now have an interest in track and field, influencing their father to find them an outlet for their skills. Grizzle decided
to re-launch the Bolts, and the team fired back up in 2015. In the first year back, the Bolts consisted of the head coach’s two children and two other athletes. One year later, the team ballooned up to 40 athletes. The Bolts have had great success over the past few years, with eight athletes qualifying for the AAU Junior Olympics. High jump athlete Lexi
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Buda Bolts head coach Randal Grizzle gives instruction to his team members after warmup at the Dahlstrom track at this week’s practice.
Myers finished 8th in the event in 2017. While the success is welcomed, Grizzle makes it clear that winning is not the main goal for the Buda Bolts organization. “The idea is for the athletes to get to where they understand the process,” Grizzle said. “If you work at something, you tend to get better at it.” Grizzle is quick to give credit to others in helping
him run the Buda Bolts. Alongside him in coaching the athletes is Charles Austin and John Seers. On the coordination side of things, Grizzle gives high praise to Michael Watson, the principal at Dalstrom Middle School in Buda. “He(Watson) has been phenomenal throughout everything,” Grizzle said. “He has made everything very easy for me.” The Bolts have compet-
ed in three events so far this season. They participated in their first AAU Junior Olympics qualifying event June 15 through June 16. The Buda Bolts are currently in the thick of their season, so joining the team right now may be difficult. According to Grizzle, the best way to contact the team is to find their Facebook page, and message them that way.
Dual-threat QB Martinez leads Rebel football team into 2018 BY SHANE SCHOLWINSKI In a transition year for the Hays football program, senior dual-threat quarterback Xavier Martinez has emerged as a team leader and believes the Rebels are poised to make another run at the playoffs. After making the playoffs last season for the first time in four years, Hays was handed a devastating 26-25 loss to San Antonio Reagan in the first round. Then head coach Neal La Hue retired in the offseason, resulting in Hays coaching search and the hire of new head football coach and athletic director Les Goad. “Coach Goad, he is bringing the slot-t (offense) with him,” said Martinez. “So we’ve been transitioning from the spread offense to the slot-t. It’s a big change for us, but I think we can handle it. Coach is always talking about unity, and how this offense can only work if we gel as one unit.” Martinez has been playing the game of football since a young age when his father introduced him to the sport. Martinez also played
soccer, baseball and basketball at an early age, but his love for football increased as he began to play flag football in the 5th and 6th grade. “I’ve always liked football,” Martinez said. “My dad and I would always throw the ball and I was always involved in sports. So it was just natural for me to just play in the 5th and 6th grade.” A move from Austin to Buda in the 7th grade resulted in Martinez joining his first public school football team and playing quarterback, a position that Martinez said he has played his whole life. “I enjoy the leadership role,” Martinez said about playing quarterback. “I think these past couple of years I’ve really grown and I’ve gained a lot more confidence in my abilities. I just like being in charge and I like the camaraderie with our team, we just bond. And being quarterback and being in charge is a lot of fun.” Martinez said his father has been a big influence on his football career. Aside from his father, Martinez mentioned New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady as a player he enjoys watching
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Lehman girls basketball camp brings out the best Lehman girls basketball camp was in full swing last week, as younger students learned the basics – and fun – of playing basketball.
“Aside from football, I really love playing chess. A lot of people make fun of me for that. I actually want to start a chess club at school. I didn’t get around to that this year, so I kind of hope to do that next year.” –Xavier Martinez, Rebel varsity quarterback
and studying. “I look up to Tom Brady,” Martinez said. “I really like his throwing motion. I really like his form, it’s perfect.” Outside of playing football, Martinez mentioned his love for chess, which he learned in the 4th grade – thanks to his teacher and three months of lessons. Martinez cited chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer as another influence in his passion for chess. “Aside from football, I really love playing chess,” said Martinez. “A lot of people make fun of me for that. I actually want to start a chess club at school. I didn’t get around to that this year, so I kind of hope to do that next year.” Heading into the 2018 season, Martinez and his
teammates are focusing on finishing games, due to the tough one point loss to San Antonio Reagan in the playoffs. “In the weight room my teammate Aiden Fitzgerald is always telling me one point,” said Martinez. “We look at each other and look at the guys around us and we just say one point. That just keeps us going, because we don’t want to experience that loss again.” Martinez said he has been working on his speed and strength in the weight room, and also is studying defenses in order to improve his game for his senior season. “We want to go further,” Martinez said about the upcoming 2018 season. “We want to go to state. That’s the main goal.”
PHOTO BY CAROLYN RAMIREZ
A Vandegrift Viper defender can’t stop Hays Rebel quarterback Xavier Martinez from reaching the end zone in the team’s district tilt in late 2017. Martinez is expected to return as signal caller for the 2018 season.
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Phoenix program raises students from the ashes BY EXSAR ARGUELLO
Like the mythical phoenix bird, who dies and is reborn from its ashes, the Hays Consolidated School District is offering students a program to help them graduate despite the many challenges that may have hindered them in completing school in the first place. The life of a public education student in the United States is comparable to a full-time job: students are usually at school by 8 a.m. and work late in the evening on homework and projects way after the final bell rings. But for the students involved with the Phoenix program, somewhere along the way, something happened. For many, these young adults are forced to work to help support the family, or illnesses and injury prevent them from attending class.
For many, these young adults are forced to work to help support the family or illnesses and injury prevent them from attending class.
“With Phoenix, students can work at their own pace around their schedule so they can graduate,” said Doug Agnew, principal for Live Oak Academy. “Life happens, and we understand that. But we help these students graduate so they can move on with their professional life.” The Phoenix program is flexible. If students work in the morning, they can come in for night class, finishing assignments and receiving credits as they go. Without the program, there is a high probability these students would never receive their diploma at all.
Danny Preuss, Hays High School teacher and assistant athletic coordinator, has worked with Phoenix students for half a decade, using his summers to help students get the credits they need to receive a diploma. Some of the students with Phoenix slipped through the cracks, Preuss said. The formula in a high school classroom typically does not work for these students. They need the one-on-one educational support, he said. Last year, the program graduated 40 students who have since transi-
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Area school districts seek security upgrades BY MOSES LEOS III
at Stoneman Douglas High in Florida, Hays CISD and Dripis pushing both local ping Springs ISD adschool districts to enact ministrators breathed a more stringent safety large sigh of relief when measures starting next they officially graduated school year. the 2018 senior class last Wright said the disweek. trict is “working out Part of that stemmed quotes” to place new from the normal rigors security measures in of working in public schools that don’t aleducation. Tim Savoy, ready have them. That Hays CISD public inincludes installation of formation officer, said a buzzer system within the relief of avoiding a the front office of some mass-casualty incident campuses, along with is part of a new reality. changing of locks. Hays Following a pair of CISD is also contemtragic school shootings plating the installation in the last six months, of video systems, which administrators in both will relay a live-feed to districts seek to beef the front office of camup security to keep stupuses. dents safe. It’s part of Other physical new statewide initiative, measures include the anchored by a 40-point possible installation of plan from Texas Gov. non-breakable window Greg Abbott, aiming to –Tim Savoy, Hays CISD film on some campuses, prevent the occurrence public information officer as well as the possible of incidents such as hiring of 16 school rethe Santa Fe High mass source officers (SROs) shooting. 2013. Savoy said prior for all district elemen“I applaud the Govto implementation of tary schools. The latter ernor to come up with the plan, each district in proposal could require an action plan that’s not Hays County used difHays CISD to hold an targeting one thing, be- ferent terminology and election to raise its cause there are so many did not have a uniform maintenance and operavariables involved here,” system. tions tax rate beyond the said Eric Wright, Hays With the plan, emerstate maximum of $1.04 CISD superintendent. gency officials from per $100 valuation. “They’re proactive and across the county can Improving mental reactive and we are all in provide assistance in the health of students and it together.” event of an emergency, staff is also a point of Abbott’s plan, unSavoy said. focus for Hays CISD. veiled at the end of May, “A need was identiWright said one aspect involves several possible fied to have uniform is beefing up social and measures, including and common language emotional learning and closing loopholes in ex- among school districts outreach for students isting gun laws, accord- and law enforcement,” and staff, along with ing to a Texas Tribune Savoy said. “You want revamping the Hays report. Abbott seeks to them to be on the same Hopeline to include report felony convicpage and speaking the anonymous reporting tions, mental health same language.” of threats. The district adjudications and proBruce Gearing, is currently employing tective orders against Dripping Springs ISD tactics to screen and people within 48 hours superintendent, said monitor social media instead of 30 days. that, like other districts traffic for any possible Additionally, Abbott’s in the county, Dripping threats. plan involves school Springs regularly conWright said the disdistricts and law enducts drills associated trict will also focus on forcement officials with the county’s remaking sure all students working more closely sponse plan. Gearing in the district take together. One aspect is said DSISD has a strong part in extracurricular increasing the number relationship with emer- activities. Savoy said of officers and armed gency services in the most school shooting marshals on campuses. area. suspects may not be just Abbott’s plan also seeks “We’ve been involved bullied, but may feel into improve mental and in (the plan) from the visible or undervalued. behavioral health probeginning,” Gearing “There are so many grams at schools, as well said. “We are hopefully opportunities to have as increase social media a leader in the state in students connected screening for possible helping other school to the group,” Savoy threats. districts in understand- said. “We’re going to hit Wright said Abbott ing how to implement 20,000 students by next referenced Hays Counthese protocols.” school year. We don’t ty’s Emergency ReThe Santa Fe High want them to feel lost.” sponse Protocol, which shooting, along with has been in place since the Feb. 14 shooting SECURITY UPGRADES, 12
“There are so many opportunities to have students connected to the group. We’re going to hit 20,000 students by next school year. We don’t want them to feel lost.”
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Lehman High School nutritionist Maria Arvizu, cleans up after feeding the breakfast crowd.
District serves thousands through free meal program BY CARLIE PORTERFIELD Thanks to a federally-subsidized lunch program run out of select Hays CISD campuses, any child under the age of 18 is eligible for free breakfast and lunch all summer long. Last week marked the first day of the district’s free summer breakfast and lunch program. At six schools, anyone under the age of 18 can receive a free breakfast and lunch throughout the summer, regardless if they are enrolled in the district as a student or are attending summer school. According to district spokesman Tim Savoy, more than 6,000 meals were served during the first four days. Typically, participation will pick up as the summer moves along, he said. By the end of the program, he
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expects the district will be serving 2,000 meals a day. “The reason something like this is important is because our families depend on the nutrition program at school for meals,” Savoy said. “Just because school is out, that need does not end.” The lunch service is funded through a United States Department of Agriculture program that expects to pay for more than 200 million meals to children nationwide this summer, according to the USDA. This summer, meals will be provided at six Hays CISD schools: Camino Real Elementary, Fuentes Elementary, Science Hall Elementary, Wallace Middle School, Simon Middle School and Lehman High School.
Lehman High School June 11 - July 11 (Closed July 4) Breakfast: 7:30-8:30 a.m. Lunch: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Simon Middle School June 11 - June 29 Breakfast: 7:15-8 a.m. Lunch: 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Science Hall Elementary June 11 - July 3 Breakfast: 7-8 a.m. Lunch: 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Fuentes Elementary June 11 - June 29 Breakfast: 7:15-8:15 a.m. Lunch: 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Camino Real Elementary June 11 - June 29 Breakfast: 8-8:45 a.m. Lunch: 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
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Wallace Middle School June 11 - July 11 (Closed July 2-6) Breakfast: 7:15 - 8 a.m. Lunch: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
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Kids will take center stage during camp for young songwriters BY CARLIE PORTERFIELD
Young aspiring musicians and songwriters in Hays County will have the chance to work on their songs and find a mentor at a camp being held later this month in Buda. Campers ages 10-18 taking part in the Young Songwriters’ Workshop June 25-29 will spend about three hours a day working on their original material and hearing from established Texas songwriters about their writing process and methods, Director Jason Wooley said. In its fifth year, the Young Songwriters’ Workshop will relocate from its previous home at Cheatham Street Warehouse to Buck’s Backyard in Buda. A performance by campers at the end of the week will be a part of Bigfest, a three-day charity event raising money for nonprofit School Fuel. The group distributes bagged lunches at local San Marcos schools to try to end food insecurity
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Young musicians (left) work with guest artists Sean Makra and Dustin Welch at last year’s songwriters camp. Above, Sami Serrano performs at the Cheatham Street Warehouse. This year’s camp is being held at Buck’s Backyard outside of Buda.
among students. According to Wooley, each day of the camp kids will have access to between two and four working Texas songwriters who can serve as mentors to them. “Our guests will work with the kids and workshop their songs,” Wooley said. “Anything from help-
ing out with a lyric there, or helping them with chord progression. The main idea is to interact with working musicians and workshopping original material for students of all levels,” he said. Sami Serrano is a young Texas musician who performs live in San Marcos and Austin. She took part
in one of the first Young Songwriters’ Workshops as a camper, and will be back this month to mentor students in the same position she was. “The program gave me structure,” Serrano said. “I wasn’t sure of what I was doing, really. I knew how songs sounded, but once I went to the camp
they guided me on what a chorus and a verse were and rhyming patterns and methods to use if you’re telling a story.” Learning to write a song is important to continue the Texas music tradition, she said, but can also help a songwriter cope with hard times. “Songwriting is a really good way to express yourself,” Serrano said. “You can turn whatever you’re going through into something beautiful.” If nothing else, Wooley hopes students leave
understanding there is no right way, necessarily, to approach songwriting, which means there’s no wrong way to do it, either, he said. “I hope my students come away thinking instead of ‘I could be a songwriter,’ that ‘I am a songwriter. I just have to workshop and work on my craft,’” Wooley said. For more information about the Young Songwriters’ Workshop, visit bigfestmusic.org/ young-songwriters-workshop.
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Community Buda resident finishes 14th in Water Safari STAFF REPORT
Roughly 30 years ago, Buda resident Veronica Sosa watched as her father pushed his body and soul to the limit in what she felt was a “crazy race.” Her dad was one of a handful of people who competed in the Texas Water Safari canoe race. An event deemed as one of the world’s toughest boat competitions. “I can remember being five or six years old and following my dad down the river because he was racing in this really crazy race that starts in San Marcos and ends in the Gulf of Mexico,” Sosa said. Years later, Sosa, along with her partner John Bugge, made it to the end point in Seadrift, Texas, in 55 hours and 29 minutes in their tandem USCA C-2 class canoe. It was good enough for first in their class and 14th overall, a feat that was one of the best among the 250 competitors who tackled the 100-hour trek. “It’s really tough. The faster you can get out of the river the better you’re going to be. If you’re out there for 90-plus hours you’re going to get worn
out,” Sosa said. Sosa’s interest in racing canoes was piqued when she met some female racers her own age in 2012. It was at that point she started training seriously for the Texas Water Safari. The race means a lot to Sosa, not only because she enjoys challenging herself, but also because it’s something she shares with her father, who had to stop racing when he was diagnosed with diabetes at age 40. She participated in her first Texas Water Safari race in 2013, but a dramatic turn of events kept her from finishing that year. At midnight, two miles short of the finish line in the bay before Seadrift, Sosa and her partner flipped out of their canoe and swam for two hours before being rescued. “It was dramatic and really heartbreaking too,” Sosa said. In her next race in 2015, Sosa and her partner did not make the cutoff time for one of the checkpoints. It was not until 2016 that Sosa finally finished a race, coming in the top 15 of the standings. In 2017, Sosa
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Veronica Sosa, along with her partner John Bugge, made it to the end point in Seadrift, Texas in 55 hours and 29 minutes in their tandem USCA C-2 class canoe.
“I can remember being five or six years old and following my dad down the river because he was racing in this really crazy race that starts in San Marcos and ends in the Gulf of Mexico.” –Veronica Sosa, Buda resident and Water Safari competitor
finished the race at 29th. This year, Sosa armed herself with Bugge, who is a legendary canoe maker in San Marcos; Bugge, 67, competed in his 40th Texas Water Safari race. When asked what drives her to do the race each year, Sosa said it is an emotional question. Part of the drive is pushing herself to challenge her limits, as humans are more
capabale than they believe. “And it’s fun to be able to see just how far you can push yourself, how far can you go to be able to accomplish something that you didn’t think you would be able to accomplish,” Sosa said. “It’s not just a physical challenge but a mental challenge too.” Sosa says that if she can get through this race, then
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she knows she can handle whatever life throws at her. But the event is much more than overcoming mental obstacles. Competitors must also watch out for snakes and alligators, and when they get closer to the ocean, sting ray and sharks. “My friends like to tease me because I’m afraid of snakes. I hate snakes, but there’s alligators, too,”
Sosa said. “My friends always say you need to differentiate between your screams so that we know if it’s a snake, or an alligator, or an alligator gar that jumped up out of the water.” Despite the danger, Sosa likes the physical and mental challenge of pushing her body to the extreme. A massage therapist by day, when she is not competing in canoe races, Sosa also likes to trail run. In August, Sosa plans to do a 50k (about 31 miles) trail run in Canada called Squamish. “I love doing things outdoors and I love pushing my body to its physical limits, mental limits, just to see how far you can go. I just think it’s amazing that we can do so much more than we think we can,” Sosa said.
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United States Senate, the second was sworn in by Vice-President Henry Wallace on June 2, 1941. Andrew Jackson Houston achieved his own unique place in the history of the exclusive institution by becoming its oldest member. For three thrilling weeks, the junior Senator from the Lone Star State, a generation older than his senior colleague, had the time of his lackluster life. He answered roll calls, sat in on committee hearings and took sightseeing tours of the city. While the elderly senator looked tired and haggard, there was no indication that the end was so near. Complaining of fatigue and abdominal pain, he checked into Johns Hopkins hospital for an examination. Doctors soon determined Houston had a tumor on his pancreas, which was causing severe internal bleeding. Despite his age and weakened condition, emergency surgery was the sole option. The patient never regained consciousness. Sen. Houston died on Jun. 26, 1941 two days before the special election to pick his replacement. A tragic waste? “Absolutely not!” would have been Andrew Jackson Houston’s indignant
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lthough we have enjoyed some rains this spring, I can’t help but notice that we have entered the oven-hot months of the summer, and I also notice that my life has a certain repetitive rhythm to it: water all day long at the nursery, drive home … and more watering. With all these hours spent holding the hose, I am having ample time to reflect on which plants perform the best during the summer months.
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There are seven trees which stand out: Monterrey oak, Texas persimmon, Texas mountain laurel, Chinese pistache, Chinquapin oak, mesquite, and Chitalpa. They all seem to thrive on little or no water at all. They were established trees when I moved
to the property in 2001, and all are native except the Chinese Pistache and the Chitalpa – which I find loaded every day with a profusion of flowers that the hummingbirds love. Some perennials and grasses that hold their own: Mexican feather grass, miscanthus (maiden grass), muhly grass, blackfoot daisy, lantana, thyrallis (golden showers), Salvia gregii (cherry sage), Mexican bush sage, Copper Canyon daisy, fournerve daisy, and esperanza
Texas ranks low for working dads BY KATERINA BARTON In keeping with Father’s Day this past weekend, many of us probably showed thanks to the many hard-working dads out there. In fact, a WalletHub report said that nearly 93 percent of dads with young kids are working today. The diligent father figures try their best to balance both their careers and family life, but in Texas, dads may not have as good economic opportunities and quality of life as other states. According to the personal-finance website’s report, “2018’s Best & Worst States for Working Dads,” Texas ranks in the bottom 15 out of 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. WalletHub looked at 20 key indicators of friendliness toward working dads. Some of the areas where Texas ranked low were in the male health category. Texas ranked last in highest male uninsured rate at 51st, 32nd for physically active men, and 33rd for male life expectancy. Additionally, the average work day in hours seems to be longer in Texas as it tied for last place at 46th with Alaska, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota and Louisiana. Texas also ranked 46th for kids living in poverty (with a dad present). As a co-owner of a small family business, Mel Woods of Thatcher, a natural home goods store in Buda, said she and her husband, Jordan, are constantly trying to balance home and work life. Mel said when her husband started a new job he made sure to be honest up front and set boundaries for his work life. He told his new employer that he has three kids and flexibility was one of the most important things to him so that he can be available for his family. “A lot of times it’s about working to change the culture, saying, ‘I’m going to
(yellow bells). Perhaps the showiest plant of all is pride of Barbados. Flowering daily throughout the summer, they are providing the butterflies with much needed nectar. On the herbal side, rosemary, Mexican mint marigold, garden sage, and Mexican oregano seem to be doing just fine with infrequent, deep waterings. We can’t forget the yuccas and agaves. No water – no problem. I planted an Agave americana (century
plant) out by my front gate seven years ago and without any extra water it has turned into 15 plants. For annual color, tops are vinca-periwinkle, with purslanes and moss-roses in second place. For another opinion I consulted with Jerry Hinton, who works with me at the nursery. Here’s Jerry’s list: Mexican mint marigold, Mexican oregano, Mexican feathergrass, santolina, dwarf Barbados cherry, thyrallis, silver bush germander, yaupon
holly, silver ponyfoot, and Gregg’s dalea. With a little planning and a great number of drought tolerant and heat hardy plants to choose from, one could most certainly create a beautiful and water conserving landscape. Happy gardening everyone! If you have a question, send it to me via email: iathyme@yahoo.com. (Please put ‘Ask Chris Winslow’ in the subject line.)
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leave at five and turn my phone off, and after 5 it’s family time.’ And trying not to let those boundaries cross,” Woods said. Although she lamented that with, owning a family business, sometimes those lines do cross, but she says the intention of setting the boundaries is important. Jay Heinrich, Chairman of the Board of the Buda Area Chamber of Commerce and the Youth and Family Program Director at the Hays Communities YMCA, thinks it is important to find personal time. Therefor he wakes up early to make time for himself before the day starts. “I love being a dad and I love doing what I do, but it’s a lot of balancing,” Heinrich said.
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some furniture is already being delivered to the new building. Movers will begin to move items over to the municipal complex on July 18. City hall, the annex building and the library will all be closed to the public on July 19 and 20 for moving. The city hall is expected to be open for business by July 23 and the library is expected to open a little later on Aug. 6. Because of the library’s large inventory it will take about an extra
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Continued from pg. 1 week to be ready for the public. Library staff will be organizing and stacking about 16,000 books, audiobooks, and DVDs on the new shelves. A tentative grand opening ceremony in which citizens can view and tour the new building is scheduled for sometime in the second week of August. Any leftover furniture, that has not been claimed by other city departments, will either be auctioned off or will be sold online. “A lot of the current
furniture that’s in city hall right now has been there since city hall was built. We’re going to reuse a lot of it as well, like the filing cabinets are going with us, but some of the modular furniture that we had in 100 Houston Street we’re not planning on taking with us,” Grau said. Grau said the furniture is in good condition and can be auctioned off, but it does not match the other furniture going into the Municipal Building.
room, with reports made quarterly to the state. Regulating the permitting process may create an extra administrative burden on city staff, and how the city will go about doing it is yet to be decided. City staff maintains that STRs in the city are currently operating illegally despite it not being written into the code of ordinances. P&Z will have its voting meeting on July 24, unless a special meeting is called to vote on the report.
Once P&Z votes to approve the report, it will be presented to city council at the subse-
quent council meeting.
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Hays Free Press • June 20, 2018
Public Notices, continued from page 10 NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Cheryl Gaye Rhodes, Deceased, were issued on June 11, 2018, in Cause No. 18-0147-P, pending in the County Court at Law No. ONE, Hays County, Texas, to: Curtis Benson Rhodes. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them to the undersigned within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. c/o: John Hall Attorney at Law 130 Hall Professional Center Kyle, TX 78640 DATED the 11th day of June , 2018. /s/ John Hall John Hall Attorney for Curtis Benson Rhodes State Bar No.: 08759880 130 Hall Professional Center Kyle, TX 78640 Telephone: (512) 268-6425 Facsimile: (512) 268-5404 E-mail: johnhall@lawyer. com
Anytime Storage, LLC, located at 880 Windy Hill Rd. Kyle, TX 78640 will hold a public sale of property to satisfy a landlord’s lien. Sale to be held online at Storagetreasures.com by competitive bid. Sale ends on or after June 29, 2018 at 11 AM. Cleanup deposit is required. Seller reserves the right to withdraw the property at any time before the sale. Unit items sold for cash to the highest bidder. Property includes the contents of spaces of the following tenant(s). All inits have some furniture, boxes, clothing, miscellaneous household items. SKEYE SULLIVAN – fridge, metal shelves MICHAEL COBIAN – BBQ grill
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Morningstar Storage wishes to avail themselves of the Texas Provision of chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code by conducting a Public Sale to the highest bidder for cash on their premises.. This sale is listed below. Date: 07/09/2018 Time: 10:15 AM Location: Morningstar Storage, 1001 W. Goforth Rd., Buda, TX 78610 The company reserves the right to reject any bid and withdraw any from the sale at any time. Units: Unit 1023 – Bertha Ubando – Desk, Boxes, Luggage, Plastic Totes, Misc. Household Unit 3095 – Collene Garland – Boxes, Bedding, Toys, Kitchen Items, Misc. Household Unit 3122 – Nadine Cawvey – Boxes, Plastic Totes, Household Décor, Kitchen Items, Furniture, Misc. Unit B211 – Brent Haas – File Cabinets, Furniture, Washer, Dryer, Boxes, Misc.
NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Alliance Regional Water Authority (the “OWNER”) is requesting sealed written Bids for furnishing all labor, materials, equipment, supervision, and incidentals and for performing all Work required for the Phase 1A Pump Station Project (IFB No. 2017-002). The Project generally consists of construction of a new 1.0 MGD water pumping facility in Buda, TX. The facility and construction will include the following: 3-700 gpm booster pumps, 1-0.75 MG prestressed concrete ground storage tank, 1-Electrical and Controls building, 1-Disinfection Chemical building, yard piping, flow metering and control valves, instrumentation systems, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, disinfection chemical injection system and site improvements. ALL BIDS (INCLUDING HUB PARTICIPATION PLANS) ARE DUE BY 2:00 P.M., Central Time, on Tuesday, July 17, 2018. BIDS WILL BE PUBLICLY OPENED AND READ ALOUD IN THE OFFICE IDENTIFED FOR RECEIPT OF BIDS at 2:00 P.M., Central Time, on Tuesday, July 17, 2018. Bid documents may be obtained without charge from www.CivCastUSA.com. Bidders must register on this website in order to view and/
or download Bid Documents. At the time a Bidder registers on this website, the Bidder must provide a working e-mail address, so the Bidder will receive any addenda or clarification issued by the OWNER. ANY BIDS (INCLUDING HUB PARTICIPATION PLAN) NOT RECEIVED BY THE DATE AND TIME SET FORTH ABOVE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR CONSIDERATION. The time stamp clock in the office for receipt of Bids will be the time of record and will be verified with www.time.gov, the official U.S. time. The contract is contingent upon release of funds from the Texas Water Development Board. All procurements by the OWNER are subject to the OWNER’s Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Program. The Program provides HUBs full opportunity to participate in all of the OWNER’s contracts. Goals for HUB participation are stated for each solicitation. Information on achieving the goals or documenting good faith efforts to achieve the goals are contained in the Bid Documents and other Contract Documents. When a HUB participation goal applies, each Bidder is required to complete and return a HUB Participation Plan with its Bid. If a HUB Participation Plan is not submitted with a Bid, the Bid will not be accepted for consideration. Each Bid must be accompanied by a Bid Bond, in the form attached to the Bid Form, in an amount of not less than five percent of the total Bid, as specified in Form 00100, Instructions to Bidders. Performance and Payment bonds, when required, shall be executed on forms furnished by the OWNER. Each bond shall be issued in an amount of 100% of the Contract Amount by a solvent corporate surety company authorized to do business in the State of Texas and shall meet any other requirements established by law or by the OWNER. Minimum insurance requirements are specified in Form 00810, Supplemental General Conditions. Prevailing wage rates have been established and are specified in Form 00830, Wage Rates
and Payroll Reporting. The OWNER reserves the right to reject any or all Bids and to waive any minor informality (one that does not affect the competitiveness of the Bid) in any Bid or in the solicitation process. A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held on Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. (Central Time) at the Kyle Public Works Facility ,520 E. RR 150, Kyle, Texas 78640. Attendance is mandatory unless otherwise stated. To ensure understanding of the OWNER’s bidding and contracting requirements, each Bidder must attend any mandatory Pre-Bid Conference, and all Bidders are encouraged to attend any non-mandatory Pre-Bid Conference. If the Pre-Bid Conference is mandatory, each Bidder must arrive and sign-in before the scheduled start tine of the conference; otherwise the Bidder will not be allowed to submit a Bid for the Project. The persons listed below may be contacted for information regarding the Invitation for Bid. If a Bidder contacts any other officer or employee of the OWNER during the period beginning on the date this Invitation for Bids is issued and ending on the date of contract award or rejection of all bids by the OWNER’s Board of Directors, any Bid submitted by the Bidder is subject to rejection by the OWNER. Authorized Contact Persons: PROJECT ENGINEER: Ron Mick, PE;
512-879-0400; rmick@bgeinc. com. OWNER’s Executive Director: Graham Moore; 512-294-3214; gmoore@ alliancewater.org
INVITATION FOR BIDS CITY OF KYLE PUBLIC WORKS SIDEWALK MAINTENANCE SERVICES 2018 The City of Kyle Invites submittal of bids to perform sidewalk maintenance services for the city’s sidewalk repair program. Sealed bids addressed to Harper Wilder, Director of Public Works, will be received at the Department of Public Works, 520 E. RR 150 Kyle, TX 78640, until 2:00PM Thursday June 28, 2018 and then publicly opened and read in the Public Works conference room at the same time and date, for “PW–SMS– 2018”. Specifications are available on the City of Kyle’s website and copies are also available at the Department of Public Works 520 E. RM 150 Kyle, TX 78640. All Inquiries concerning this proposal may be addressed to Scott Egbert, Division Manager, at 512-262-3024 or by email at segbert@cityofkyle.com. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids and to accept only those proposals which are in the best interest of the City of Kyle. Harper Wilder Director of Public Works, City of Kyle
REQUEST FOR BIDS Separate sealed bids addressed to the City of Kyle, ATTENTION: CITY ENGINEER, will be received until 2:00 P.M . on July 2, 2018 at the City of Kyle Public Works Building located at 520 E. RR 150 in Kyle, Texas, 78640 at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud, for furnishing all labor, material , tools and equipment and performing all work required for the N. BURLESON STREET IMPROVEMENTS including reconstruction of N. Burleson Street as a 38-foot wide roadway, a new 38-foot wide roadway connecting N. Burleson Street to the IH 35 Southbound Frontage Road, storm drain, detention pond improvements, waterline replacement and extension, illumination, grading, pavement improvements, curb and gutter, pedestrian improvements and signing and markings for approximately 7,500 linear feet of roadway. A non-mandatory pre-bid conference will be held on June 11, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. at the City of Kyle Public Works Department Training Room, 520 E. RR 150, Kyle Texas. Complete sets of the bid documents can be obtained through Virtual Builders ' Exchange or via email by contacting Jessica Rodriguez at Freese and Nichols, Inc. (512) 617-3141 (Jessica. Rodriguez@freese.com). Hard copy or electronic copy on CD may be obtained at City of Kyle, 100 W. Center Street with front desk receptionist.
Free Meal Program Continued from pg. 5 Many of the meals at those schools are provided to students taking summer classes, Savoy said, but the program is also intended to ensure children from low-income families have access to healthy, affordable meals even after the last school bell rings for summer break. “For children who are what we consider food insecure, much of their nutrition comes from free or reduced lunch programs during the school year,” said Michael Thi-
bodeaux, the head of the district’s Child Nutrition department. “The goal is to offer them nutritious meals throughout the summer. Less nutritious food may be more available or cheaper, but we want kids to be able to have access to good meals, even if parents can’t afford it.” Just like during the school year, campus cafeterias have a set menu that is available for viewing online and on the district’s social media accounts. This summer,
schools will be serving up meals like chicken nuggets, grilled cheese, spaghetti and chicken sandwiches with sides of fruit and hot vegetables every day. All children under 18 eat free, but adults can purchase meals for themselves for $3.50 each. “It’s such an important program and we’re looking at ways to expand it so all kids who qualify can access it,” Thibodeaux said. “We want to get the word out that this is available for the children in the community.”
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Security Upgrades Continued from pg. 5 Gearing said Dripping Springs ISD has placed a strong focus on social and emotional learning over the past year. The district hired a third party consultant to recommend paths for the process. Gearing said the end goal is creating a personalized learning plan for students and ensure who they are on an individual basis. This goes along with the possible hire of more
SROs, as well as other security improvement measures to be made over the summer. “We want to make sure faculty and students are doing well,” Gearing said. Paying for it all, however, remains a big question mark for all districts. Wright said Hays CISD is waiting to see if state funding could be allocated for security improvements, or if there is the
possibility of competitive grants. But Gearing said the idiom of “it takes a village to raise a child” is true in today’s society. Communication, as well as safety at home, are critical aspects for the future. “It takes parents working in tandem with us with their children to make sure we’re not missing something,” Gearing said.
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Students from all three high school campuses make up the Phoenix program, where students work to receive credit for classes not yet completed. Some students work on government assignments, learning the basics of the American political system. In another corner, the clicking of calculators can be heard as algebra equations are being solved, all while teachers roam the room and help students individually as
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tioned to the workforce, trade school or college. “We work with these students on a personal level in a way that works for them and keeps them engaged,” Preuss said. “There is a sense of satisfaction for these students and they can see the progress as they continue.” Wednesday, June 13, was the first day of summer school for the district students needing credit recovery or wanting to get ahead with their classes.
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