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SECONDS COUNT IN AN EMERGENCY! That's why the City of Howe has instituted the CodeRED Emergency Notification System - an ultra high-speed telephone communication service for emergency notifications. This system allows us to telephone all or targeted areas in case of an emergency situation that requires immediate action (such as a boil-water notice, missing child or evacuation notices). The system is capable of dialing 60,000 phone numbers per hour. It then delivers a pre-recorded message describing the situations to a live person or an answering machine in the affected area possibly including instructions requiring action on the part of the recipient. Once the situation is remedied, another call will be placed to the area signaling that the issue has been addressed and that normal activities can be resumed. The following information is required to add a telephone number into the "CodeRED" database: first and last name; address (physical address, no P.O. boxes); city; state; Zip Code; and primary phone number. The system works with cellular phones but requires a valid street address. When entering information, please fill out all of the screens because the newest data entered will replace the old data. Sign up by visiting http://www.co.grayson.tx.us/page/ oem.cred
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2021-22 Local taxation
State Sales Tax General Revenue Sales Tax Ad valorem reduction Sales Tax Economic Development (Type B) Sales Tax Total
City of Howe Tax Rate Howe I.S.D Tax Rate Grayson County Tax Rate Grayson College Tax Rate Total (per $100 valuation) 6.25 % 1.00 % 0.50 % 0.50 % 8.25 %
$0.55 $1.33 $0.34 $0.17 $2.39
City Hall 116 E. Haning St., 903-532-5571 Mayor: Bill French City Administrator: Jeff Stanley City Secretary: Regina Harris Utility Billing and Municipal Court 116 E. Haning St. 903-532-5571 Utility Clerk: Beccy Roberts Court Clerk: Gina Jones (After hours night drop available) Public Works 317 S. Hughes St. Public Works Director: Mickey Phillips Code Enforcement 317 S. Hughes St. Code Enforcement Officer: Benjamin Fuhr Howe Fire Department 118 E. Haning 903-532-6888 (nonemergency) Fire Chief: Robert Maniet
Howe Police Department 700 W. Haning St. 903-532-9971 (non-emergency) Dispatch 903813-4411 Police Chief: Carl Hudman Police Sergeant: Keith Milks Economic Development 100 E. O’Connell St. 903-532-6080 EDC Director: Monte Walker
City Council meets third Tuesday at 700 W. Haning St. at 6 pm. Planning & Zoning Commission Meets third Monday as needed Howe Community Facilities Development Corporation Meets as needed
2021-22 City of Howe Water, Sewer, Refuse collection rates - one bill
WATER RATES
Base (Minimum) Rate: $28.51 (uniform rate) Volume (Gallons): 1,000 Volume Charge: $7.82 p/ 1,000 gal. for 1,001-4,000 gallons $8.77 p/ 1,000 gal. for 4,001-20,000 gallons $9.76 p/ 1,000 gal. for 20,001-45,000 gallons $10.40 p/ 1,000 gal. for all consumption over 45,000 gallons
CONNECTION, WATER TAP & METER INSTALLATION FEES Deposit: $150.00 Service Charge: $10.00 Connection: $20.00 Reconnect: $50.00
Tap Fees:(3/4” – 1”) = $900.00 (2” – 6”) = $1,500.00 Impact Fee: N/A
New Meter Installations:
3/4” = $2,060.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 1” = $2,110.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 2” = $4,475.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 4” = $4,550.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 6” = $6,110.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) Hydrant Meter Deposit: $2,000.00
SEWER RATES & TAP FEES
Base (Minimum) Rate: $35.28 (uniform rate) Volume (Gallons): 1,000 Volume Charge: $5.51 p/ 1,000 gallons Tap Fee: $900.00 Impact Fee: N/A
OUTSIDE OF CITY LIMITS
WATER RATES
Base (Minimum) Rate: $42.76 (uniform rate) Volume (Gallons): 1,000 Volume Charge: $11.74 p/ 1,000 gal. for next 4,000 gallons $13.16 p/ 1,000 gal. for next 20,000 gallons $14.65 p/ 1,000 gal. for next 20,000 gallons $15.59 p/ 1,000 gal. for all over 45,000 gallons
CONNECTION, WATER TAP & METER INSTALLATION FEES
**SAME AS INSIDE CITY LIMITS**
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John H. Reagan had risen through the ranks of Texas frontier politics, serving as a local judge and legislator and ultimately a Ken Bridges member of Congress. He had fought for Texas secession and later became a member of the Confederate cabinet. But with the end of the Civil War at hand, everything he had worked for was now at stake.
By late April 1865, with the Confederacy disintegrating, Jefferson Davis named Reagan, already postmaster general of the Confederacy, as acting secretary of the treasury. By this point, the Confederate government was on the run and most Confederate military units had surrendered. He would be in charge of a treasury of now-worthless Confederate money. Within weeks, Reagan and Davis were both captured by Union troops in Georgia, along with former Texas Gov. Francis R. Lubbock, now a military aide to Davis, and sent to Ft. Warren in Boston. There Reagan was kept in solitary confinement for five months, uncertain of his fate.
While imprisoned, he read many northern newspapers and their blistering attacks on the South in the wake of the Civil War. Reagan wrote an open letter to the people of Texas urging cooperation with Reconstruction, warning that the enraged North would tolerate no resistance and would inflict even harsher penalties on the South if challenged. His letter provoked anger in a Texas humiliated by defeat. But the violence of Reconstruction, the military response, and martial law across the state later proved he was right. Reagan was later granted amnesty and returned to Texas in disgrace.
In 1874, after the chaos of Reconstruction had ended, he was elected to his old seat in Congress. While serving in Congress, Regan also served as a delegate for the new state constitutional convention. This convention produced the Texas Constitution of 1876, which is still used by the state today. Whatever actions he had committed for the Confederacy were quickly forgiven by his colleagues once he returned to Congress. He was quickly named chairman of the new post office committee and then became chair of the influential House Committee on Commerce after his 1876 re-election.
While in Congress, Reagan turned his interests to the railroad industry. Increasingly, farmers across the nation were upset with railroad monopolies and unfair hauling rates. He began pushing for legislation to regulate railroads but received strong pushback from the industry. In 1887, the state legislature elected him to the U. S. Senate, and Reagan was able to push through the Interstate Commerce Act. This legislation regulated railroad prices and practices and created the first federal regulatory body in the nation’s history.
Gov. Jim Hogg successfully pushed through a similar law in Texas in 1891, the Texas Railroad Commission. Hogg invited Reagan to serve as the first chair of the commission. Now 73, Reagan stepped down from the Senate to return to Texas to serve in this position. Reagan would continue to serve as chairman for the next 12 years.
He maintained an active interest in history and the story of his own role in the climactic events of the midnineteenth century. In 1897, he cofounded the Texas State Historical Association. In 1903, he published his memoirs. The state legislature also honored him by naming Reagan County after him in West Texas, near San Angelo. Later that same year, now aged 84, he retired from the railroad commission.
In March 1905, he contracted pneumonia and died at his home in Palestine at age 86. Several schools were named after him in the years after his death and a statue was erected to him at the University of Texas. The state even named an office building on the Capitol grounds after him. However, his defense of slavery and the Confederacy has led many to re-evaluate many of these honors in recent years.
"With a united effort we can make the place in which we live clean, wholesome, attractive. We can make the crowded city dweller homesick to come back to us and real living. We can bring new life, new business, new beauty, to the little towns." - Mame Roberts
JB Bryant with Jeremy Moore of Community Bible Fellowship behind him. Staff photo.
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Bryant says it was an amazing time as there right as Poetry was just getting incorporated. Through a relationship with the mayor, he began work on the city council to help the new town grow.
Coming up on three months at First United Methodist Church of Howe, he says he loves the way he’s been welcomed by the church.
“I have a group of six people who keep my informed. Someone will take my by the arms and walk me around and introduce me,” said Bryant.
He also says Jeremy Moore at Community Bible Fellowship has helped him a great deal and helped get him connected.
His father, the former Baptist deacon, had a smile on his face when he learned his son was headed to seminary school. It was full circle from the young man he sent to military school.
Bryant has gone through a divorce but is currently dating a girl named Charlotte who is located in Stockton, England. They met on a Christian dating app. They’ve both traveled overseas to see each other and she will be traveling to Sherman in the near future where she’ll stay for three months and see if this will work for them.
The First United Methodist Church will be experiencing heavy decisions in the next couple of months. Bryant says he will be there to guide the ship on whether a new direction is called by the members to stay with the United Methodist Church affiliation or to go in another direction due to some touchy subjects in the political spectrum across the world. This article was not about dabbling into those waters as there will be a time for that later down the road. The focus today was for the introduction of the newest minister of the First United Methodist Church in Howe. It should be a time of celebration for a new beginning.
“I felt like I was one of the few and maybe the only person in seminary who was trying to figure out his faith. With every single class, I would gain new insight,” said Bryant.
He comes from traditional theology and considers himself as middle of the road as one can get as far as progressive to traditional theology. At Perkins, it is more of a progressive and leftleaning school of teaching which Bryant said challenged him and thought that it was phenomenal as far as pushing him.
“Whenever you hear what you don’t believe, it always informs to what you do believe and I learned how to not only articulate my faith, but challenge it every single day,” said Bryant.
He likened seminary school to resistance training where you push yourself just where it is uncomfortable enough to still do it.
He graduated from OU in 2014 and from Perkins in 2017. He was sent to Lovers Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas where he began and became a member of a church for the first time. He was involved with welcoming visitors. From there, he went First United Methodist Church of Richardson where he considers his mentorship under Senior Pastor Clayton Oliphint to be highly beneficial.
“He really saw something in me and gave me so many opportunities that young pastors in large churches never get. I can’t think him enough,” said Bryant.
Bryant went on death and dying visits for a year which was tough on him, but gave him that experience needed.
Prior to coming to Howe, he was appointed to Poetry, Texas near Terrell where he says he really cut his teeth as his first solo appointment and the only person on the payroll. Worship service had approximately 25 people each Sunday with an average age of 78 to
