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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2007-08-24 Euless ArticlesDISTRIBUTED TO: MA YOR CITY CNCL CITY A TTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAkIIE RIDG WA Y(2) BOYETT BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C.BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMALCNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED gl"/07 DATEOFARTICLE '1'/3/'~ NEWSPAPER FWST STAR-TELEGRAM Euless 4. Land sale Royal Parkway south of Texas 10 Daniel and Laura Hewitt have bought 4.33 acres for construc- tion of an office and ware- house. Broker: J. Searcy of Coldwell Banker Commercial Kelly, Ge- ren & Searcy represented the seller, Green Fields Real Prop- erties. DISTRIBUTED TO: / a PAGE OF MAYOR CITYCNCL CITYATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAkIIE RIDGIV.-1Y(2) BOYETT BROFVN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DA TE DISTRIB LrTED 8 1 DATE OF ARTICLE CITIES council members indicated their sumort last week for districts help fund police Some Rrlington council members support funding the district, as ofiicials do in other cities. By CYNTHIA NEFF cneff@star-telegrarn.corn Crime tax districts are helping to provide officers and equipment that police d'e- partments could not otherwise afford, of- ficials in several cities said. As police try to keep a handle on crime and meet the needs of increasing populations, many cities have sought voter approval to in- crease their sales taxes up to a half-cent to raise money for the districts. ! Some 22 cities in Tarrant County, in- cluding Colleyvllle, Hurst, Keller and North Richland Hills, already benefit from the districts. Some have been around since 1995. All requlred voter approval. "Since the crime control district began, we've been able to reduce priority 1 re- sponse times by four minutes with added personnel on streets and improved tech- nology," said Mary Edwards, a spokes- woman for North Richland Hills. Riority 1 calls require an immediate police re- sponse. Response times to those calls fell from nine minutes in 1996 to about five minutes in 2006, she said. Arlington may be next. Some Arlington raising se sales tax rate to 8.125 cents from 8 cents per dollar. The money - about $5.8 million annually - could be used to pay for as many as 50 police officers, equipment and crime prevention pro- grams. The council plans to discuss the measure again at Tuesday's meeting. Some residents, including in Arlington, want the money used for equipment and pro- grams rather than people. But cities with a crime tax say they set aside money in case voters don't renew the tax. The tax comes up for renewal after five years once it's first put into place. Then cities can try to re- new it for five, 10, 15 or 20 years. "We've put money into a re- serve to make sure that all per- sonnel hired through the tax could be continued for two years ifthe tax failed to give the city time to phase in those po- sitions as part of the general fund or reduce those staff," said Becky Britton, president of the Fort Worth Crime Con- trol and Prevention District's board of directors. "That means that no one would be outof a job the next day." 'A real good program' In several cities, most of the funds go toward salaries for police officers and other staff including clerks, jailers, and school resource officers. The crime tax pays for 238 positions.in Fort Worth. But it doesn't fund the "front-line" officers, said Lt. Dean Sullivan, Fort Worth police spokesman. "It's school security officers, neighborhood officers," he said. "Additional layers that help us maintain and create a safe environment." The department has 1,391 sworn officers and 376 full- time civilian employees. 8 /I3 7~ NEIU,, FFVST Hurst's tax funds 30 em- much as we can to put as mar ployees, including 12 police officers as we can on tk officers, said Assistant Police streets," Cluck said, addir Chief Steve Moore. The tax, that he would like to hire ; started in 1996, brought in many as 60 officers, plus fun about $5 million in fiscal 2007. community programs. TI If the fundingwere cut, the city money would help decrea! could rely on its transitional the city's staffing shortag fund - but not for long. which began about 12 to I If the sales taxis not passed months ago with the loss in late 2009, the council codd .I13 people through attritic try to raise property taxes or since the 2005 fiscal year, I look into cutting programs or said. officers, said city spokeswom- Cluck said he would su] an Ashleigh Whiteman. 1 port banking some of tl Keller is in the minority-it money in case the taxwere nl doesn't use the money from renewed. the three-eighths-cent tax to Councilman Steve McCa pay for personnel, instead fa- 1~ has long supported voring capital improvement sales-tax increase for a crin projects and new technology. district. When then-counc] "That's a choice the crime man Wayne Ogle asked tl control board could make," council to consider the me, said Police Chief Mark Hafner. sure in 2003, McCollum w; In Arlington the tax could supportive. But the rest of tl go to the voters Nov. 6. council didn't want to use L "I think people would glad- what was left under the sale ly vote for that," Mayor Robert tax cap. Cluck Said during Tuesday's "These things take time 1 budget presentation to the gel," he said. "Maybe we we COU~C~~. "We clearly cannot procrastinating, but now i add enough police protection been kind of slapping me through the general fund the face." without dropping everything Councilwoman Lana wo else." said she supports letting vo A police staffing formula ers decide. "I want a real goc shows that the department program that makes a diffe should have 294 patrol offi- ence" she said. cers. There are now 240, s$d Christy Gilfour, police spokes-' woman. The department is budgeted for 583 officers but has 553, police said. Talk of an Arlington crime tax is not new. A former Arling- ton group, Back the Badge, pushed for the tax for several years, and the council last dis- cussed it in 2003. Most council members, in- cluding the mayor, support creating a crime control dis- trict. "I'm anxious to use as DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE JOF 2 MA YOR CITY CNCL CITY A TTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGCVA Y(2) BOYETT BROCW I'OL~IVG h1cDONA LD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DA TE DISTRIBUTED F J,VS T The crime tax When initiated, a crime tax is put in place for five years; Voters can then renew the tax and crime control district for five, 10,15 or 20 years, according to a spokesman for the state comptrol- ' , ler's office. Funds can't be used for capital improvement pro- Crime-districts jects with'a five-year renewal. In total, the crime tax raised $63.5 million for the cities in 2006. That doesn't include Grape- vine, which created a crime control district this year. Other cities with a crime tax FOR Worth: The more than $40 million raised annually by the half-cent tax will pay for 238 positions, replacements for high- mileage vehicles, a gang unit, a school security initiative and an after school program, among other things, according to the crime control district, which began in 1995. Colleyville: A half-cent tax approved by voters 1999 will bring in $1.029 million in fiscal 2008, said Colleyville spokeswoman Mona Gandy. The money has gone to service debt on the Col- leyville Justice Center and pay for equipment; vehicles and one investigator. Next year the money wiH fund two more,entry- level patrol officers, she said. A few years ago the tax was re- newed for 20 years. Hurse: A half-cent t,ax funds 30 employees, including 12 police ' officers, four dispatchers and four jailers. The money also pays for equipment, utilities and training, said Steve ~oore, assistant policechief. The tax, which brought in $5 million this fiscal year, is up for renewal in late 2009. ' Keller: 70 percent of voters'favored renewing the crime ti in : May 2006 for 15 years. It was first approved in 2002. The mon- ey, about $1.3 million, will be used for equipment, new police cars, new technology and the renovation and expansion of the jail, said Police Chief Mark Hafner. In previous years the tax was used to fund a $5 million expansion of the police facility, he said. - Source: Sratecomp~ollehoffice North Richland Hills: A half-cent tax has raised $3.9 million . ~ this fiscal year, 76 percent of which has gone toward personnel. It's allowed the city to add 29 police officers and 15 support personnel since 1996 and purchase computer equipment, vehi- cles and a computer-aided dispatch system, said May, Edwards, city spokeswoman; Voters renewed their crime tax in May 2001 for 10 years. Staff writer Sally Claunch contributed to this report. CYNTHIA NEFF, 817-548-5421 DISTRIBUTED TO: PA GE /of / MA YOR CITY CNCL CITY A TTIVY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGCVA Y(2) BOYETT BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DA TE DISTRIBUTED FIWT EULESS Man taken to hospital after fire at residence Star-Telegram EULESS - Fire destroyed a Euless mobile home and sent one man to a hospital early Monday morning, an official said. The man got home about 2:50 a.m., found the home on fire and awoke his parents, possibly saving their lives, Bat- talion Chief Gary Thompson said. By the time firefighters ar- rived at the home at 82 Kevin .Drive, it was completely in- volved, but the residents were outside, Thompson said. The man, who was not identified, was burned and cut when he went back inside to save some pets, Thompson said. The man was taken to Park- land Memorial Hospital in Dallas but his injuries were not considered life-threaten- ing. The cause is under inves- tigation. ' - Mark Agee DISTRIBUTED TO: MAYOR CITYCNCL CITYATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCh3MIE RIDGCVAY(2) BOYETT BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED 8123.107 DATEOFARTICLE f//51d7 NEWSPAPER FIVST AREA BRIEFS Country singer to perform at library EULESS - Country singer-songwriter Verkn 'Fhompson will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at the Euless Public Library, 201 N. Ector Drive. He's written the songs You Say Y&u Will, sung by Trisha Yearwood, and Boats to Build, sung by jimmy Buffett and Alan Jackson. the event is free. For reservations, call 81 7-685-1679. - Stafiveports Online: ww.ve~lonthomp~on.corn DISTRIBUTED TO: 1 I PAGE OF MA YOR CITY C;VCL CITY A TTNY CRIM HENNIG MCK/IMIE RIDGWA Y(2) BOYETT BRO IVN YOUNG McDON,~LD COLLliVS C-BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADiVII1Y LIBRARYREF AiVlK-ILCNTR DA TE DISTRIBUTED f/2L4/07 DATEOFARTICLE f//6/07 NEFVSPAPER FCPST BASEBALL . In the lawsuit, filed in Tarrant County civil court Tuesday, Haddock is ask- League : ing the court to block any - effort by the teams to form -. a new league using the sues 7 : same concepts as, c, Haddock places the value ''* of the TCL at more than $3 Haddock and his law- teams - yer, JeErey Wolfe, declined t6 comment on the law- . ' suit, but court documents Most of the teams in ttie state that the league "will Texas Collegiate Leaguq have no choice but to decide to take their bat; cease operations" unless and balls and go home:'. other teams are found to . , t+e,the place of the seven By MAX B. BAKER ' teams. maxbakermstar-telegram.com 'I' The teams iamed in FORT WORTH - The Tex: the lawsuit are: Denton as Collegiate League may Outlaws, Duncanville have played its last gal: Deputies, Coppell cop- Seven of the nine teams perheads, Colleyville in the baseball summeS LoneStars, Wichita Fds league have told 1eae;lie ~~z~&~k~, Mineral Chairman and Chief Exec: Wells Steam and Weather- utive Gerald Haddock t@ ford Wranglers. ~ot in- they do not intend to re- cluded were the Brazos turn next year. Haddo+ valley Bombers and Mc- has responded by suing Kinney ~arshals. the teams. The lawsuit states that "We are all under agree- the TCL was poised to add merit that we are not going teams and possibly enter a. to play under this business televised playoff series model," said Jeff Najork, with other college leagues. general manager of the But several teams appar- lhncanfle Deputies. ently were striking out fi- "There is no way any of us . nancially. will come back. It sounds Stacey Hollinger, thb like to me that we can't lose Lonestars owner and pres- any more money." ident, would not say how Haddock, a Fort Worth much money his team has investor and former mi- lost. He said the league's nority owner and general fees and other charges counsel for the Texas made it tough to survive. Rangers, said in his lawsuit that the teams' action is a - 8. BAK~~,817-390.7714 "textbook example of an il- Iegal group boycott" and a violation of Texas antitrust laws. IDISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF / MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT BROWN ' YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS �fo C.BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED 13 /c2 - 1 DATE OF ARTICLE ?/ / {Q /(� / NEWSPAPER FWST Esther Ruth Russell r I 1 '$ a ` " • I FORT WORTH -,Esther Ruth Russell, 76, passed away Wednes- day,Aug.15,2007,in Fort Worth. I . GRAVESIDE SERVICE: 10 a.m. Monday in -Laurel Land Memorial Park of Fort.Worth.Visitation:6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Laurel Land Funeral I Home. MEMORIALS: In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a charity of choice. Ruth was the youngest child born Ito Frank Wesley and Lillie May Bro- die.She was born in Jermyn on Oct. 27,1930.By the time she was 8,she was an orphan and was sent to the I Masonic Home in Fort Worth. Ruth was a member of Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church,where she was an elder and a longtime Sunday school teather. She was a retired Mother of Parks Secretary I teacher with the Fort Worth ISD and a graduate of TCU.Ruth was a mem- ber Lux. of the Order of Eastern Star Wedgwood#756 for over 34 years. I Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; her.husband, E.H. Rus- sell; a sister, Mildred Hogan; and a granddaughter,Maegen Ruth Elving- ton. I SURVIVORS: Son, Terry Russell and wife,Gina;daughters,:Linda.Lux, Sharon.Peak and husband, George, and Trina Elvington Lisenbey and I Roger Lisenbey; sister, Opal Rolls; brother,Archie Brodie,both of Bowie; 11 grandchildren; and five great- grandchildren. Laurel Land Funeral Home-Fort Worth I 7100 Crowley Road,817-293-1350 View and sign guestbook at www.star-telegram.com/obituaries DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE/OF -11 x MAYOR CITY CNCL CITYATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRA�RYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR I DATE DISTRIBUTED I r l C DATE OF ARTICLE t3 ii 7 NEWSPAPER FWST WHAT'S NEW • I Euless office complex I 4 tY d �`5 $.1 �y b q" 1,4 "SP '7 !.. ..St.d1 X fi t,Y : �t - r�t t10' tk }a t `'ti t}� '` 7r -- ' °"-`,,-,4,-,':,,,,,,20,..z1,' k 3-i y i tea -� , , I �r jk. q�b- ATA"' w, ti Construction is almost complete on the 8,000 square-foot office build- ing at Silver Creek Drive on Westpark Way.Professional Home Health and Hospice Co.has leased half the building,said William Brewer of NAI. Huff Partners,who is handling leasing for the remaining space. I STAR-TELEGRAM/R.JEENA JACOB I I I I I I I I DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE 1 OF / ICIA YOR CITY CNCL CITY A TTNY CRIM HENNIG MCh2 MIE RIDGCK4 Y(2) BO YETT BROCVN YOUNG 1McDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIkfAL CNTR DATEDISTRIBUTED / ~/dq 107 DATEOFARTICLE p/\~j 107 NEWSPAPER FCVST SCHOOL SECURITY Enemy is fake, but lessons are real The training teaches first-responding officers the tactics to stop a shooter on campus. By DEANNA BOYD dboydpstar-telegram.com FORT WORTH - A moaning man sits in the hallway to their left. A classroom is to their right. As two officers search the classroom for a gunman and another keeps watch on the back hallway, Euless patrol of- ficer Rocky Firnbres keeps his gun trained on the moaning man, unsure whether he is a victim or the shooter. "Keep your hands up, brother. Relax," Fimbres or- ders thman. There aren't any students in the school; it's a teacher work day. Suddenly, a different man's. voice bellows from a different classroom at the far end of the hallway. "Mary, you b----! Where are YOU?" shouts a man - gun in hand - as he emerges from the classroom, making his way across the hallway toward an- other classroom. \ The four officers run down the hall in a diamond forma- tion, yelling at the man to stop and drop his weapon, but he never even turns around. Before the officers can reach the classroom and shoot we gunman, he shoots thee more victims. Fortunately, the victims and gunman are really fellow officers, and the "bullets" are capsules filled with blue or pink liquid soap. . - Buf the lessons learned from this and other scenarios last week at Central High School in far north Fort Worth aim to prepare first respond- ers for the real thing and their ultimate mission - get inside and stop the shooter. i It is far cry from less than a decade ago, when the respon- sibility of the first officers on the scene was to t~y to es- tablish contact with the shoot- er until SWAT teams arrived. "The driving event was Col- umbine," explained Fort Worth officer Chris Moody, re- ferring to the 1999 shooting in which 45 minutes passed be- fore SWAT officers entered the high school. "Then it was still get to the scene, set a perimeter, start hying to establish cornrnuni- cations and negotiate," Moody said. "Now, when we arrive on he scene, if there's still a sus- pect actively shooting, we en- ter the school, office or what- ever it may be, and stop the shooting." Advanced Law Enforce- ment Rapid Response Train- ing, a partnership project of Texas State University, San Marcos and Hays County, is funded through state and fed- eral grants and is open to state and federal officers and active military personnel. This past weeks training in- cluded Fort Worth marshals, Denton County sheriff's deputies and police officers from Aubrey, Euless and Fort Worth. Moody, a program instruc- tor, said officers study the pen- dulum of changing tactics - from the pre-SWAT days of the University of Texas tower shootings to the more recent tragedy at Virginia Tech. ' They are tau@ forma- tions, how to enter, clear and exit a room safely, and how to address a shooter. They are then expected to use that knowledge in drills that mimic red-life shootings, Moody said. One of the drills pvolves an extremist group that is armed with guns and pipe bombs and has taken over a school, armed with guns and pipe bombs. As the team of four officers make their way down the hall, none notice the trip-wire at- tached to an overturned chair until they trigger the flash- bang device. It's a scary reminder to the officers that forgetting to scan the room from ceiling to floor could cost them their lives. After each drill, the teams of four talk with the instructor about 'their successes and their mistakes. Euless patrol officer Ray Hi- nojosa kicked himself for his team's ill-fated decision not to shoot the gunrnan in the back as he ignored their shouts and continued walking toward his next classroom of victims. "Ifyou shoot the wrong guy, you're done. You're it. You're the bad guy now," Hinojosa said. "It's not like the movies. You don't get 15 retakes. You get it one time. That's it. Milli- seconds to make that deci- sion." Instructor Matt Wasko, with the Hays County Sheriff's Department, sympathized with the officers but reminded them that they had every justi- fication in their particular drill to shoot. "It's all about coat- ment," Wasko said. "Your child is in this room. Your wife is in this room. Whoever you cher- ish the most in this world is in this room, and you are going to make it stop." DEANNA BOYD, 817-390-7655 , DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF / MA YOR CITY CNCL CITY A TTNY GRIM HENNIC MCh3kllE RIDCWA Y(2) BOYE TT BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMI'V LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DATEDISTRIBUTED 8/a4 10-7 DATEOFARTICLE S /d 1 0 -7 mwmplzR FwsT Euless 6.0fFice lease ' 345 Westpark Way Professional Home Health and , Hospice Co. has leased half of the 8,000-square-foot office building at Silver Creek Drive. Broker: William Brewer at NAI Huff Partners is handling leas- ing for the remaining space. DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF / MAYOR CITYCNCL CITYATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAIVIIE RIDGFVAY(2) BOYETT BROWN YOUNG IVICDON~LD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRA R Y REF ANIiVIA L CiVTR / EULESS I I an fatally wounded after domestic fight By MARK AGEE rrnagee@star-telegram.com EULESS - A 30-year-old Eu- less man who was armed with a knife was shot to death early Monday morning by a neigh- bor who intervened in a do- mestic dispute, police said. Police found Brandon Couey wounded twice in the chest after they received a 9 11 call at 4:20 a.m. from the Oak Park Apartments in the 100 block of Ash Lane, authorities said. Couey was taken to Harris Methodist HEB hospital, where he was pronounced dead, acco$ding to the Tarrant County medical examiner's of- fice. Euless police spokesman Lt. Wayne Pavlik said the incib dent began with a disturbance between Couey and a woman outside the apartment. Another man who lived in the apartment complex came outside and asked the woman if she was OK, Pavlik said. "It appears they all knew tion is pointing right now.) :; each other," Pavlik said. The man fled after 'the The neighbor, whose name shooting but later went todie was not released, told police Euless police station, Pavlik that he then went backinto his said. - d apartment. No one has been arressd, The argument continued Pavlik said :i- and when the man went out- ~oue~waschar~edwitfrcds- side to check on the worn? sault in connection wi$ 'a again, Couey came after him, 1999 domestic dispute in%- the man told police. lington, according to Tarrant Couey "had a knife and County court records. "' ; went into the other guy's , I apartment," Pavlik said. .I ' "That's where our investiga- MARK AGEE. si7-m~-3s2r ',' ' DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF / MAYOR CITYCNCL CITYATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DA TE DISTRIBUTED s 107 DATEOFARTICLE 8 /dl 107 NEwsPAPER F bvs T CITY GOVERNMENT Euless proposes a-cent drop in .property tax rate For most homeowners, the decrease would offset rising property values. By JESSICA D~LE~N 1 jdeleonmstar-teIegrarn.com EULESS - Residents would see almost a 2-cent drop in their property tax rate while the city increases spending under the proposed 2007-08 fiscal year budget. Greater rev- enue from sales taxes and in- creased property values are expected to make up the dif- ference. "The city is in very good condition," Finance Director Vicki Rodriquez said. "This is one of our best years ever." ' The tax bill for the average homeowner in Euless would drop slightly despite a, 3 per- cent increase in home proper- ty values. The proposed $94.4 million budget, up- almost 18 percent from this year, is ex- pected take effect Oct. 1. The early budget optimism contrasts to last year's budget tensions, when three city councilmen sought to lever- age a lower tax rate by initially voting against employee ben- efits. Carl Tyson, the only one of the three up for re-election in May, was defeated after city workers voiced outrage over the move. ljighlights for the proposed , budget: Proposed tax rate: The tax ratewould drop from 48.95 to / 47 cents per $100 of assessed / property value. Good business: The city took into account sales tax revenue from new businesses in The Shops at Vineyard Village at Texas 121 and Glade Road, including Lowe's, LA Fitness and stores slated to open in January. Tha 7nnQ-no firr=l \ao*r h, ,A_ he budget is based on a proposed tax rate of 47 cents per$100 of assessed prope alue. That isa decrease from the current tax rate of 48.9 cents.The tax bill of the Euless budget Aug. 28 The seven-member City Council will conduct a public hearing and first reading on the budget beginning at 7 p.m., $, Euless City Hall, 201 N. Ector Drive. 7s Sept 11 Second reading of budget, if needed. .The city charter f requires that the budget be approved on two readings unless it ,J' passes by at least five votes on the first reading. Oa. 1 Budget takes effect i 1 get is expected to be.bolstered by even more sales tax revenue when the Glade Parks shopping center opens across Texas 121 from Vineyard Village, Rodri- quez said. Rebates: The city would give sales tax rebates to the Shops at Vineyard Village, Beall Concrete and Acme Brick. The city also shares revenue with DallaslFort Worth Airport. Total cost: $785,725. Employee pay raise: Ern- ployees are'expected to receive 5 percent pay increases, in rnn+rx+ tn +ha 2 narrsnt nr A P percent increases they received : in previous years. , "It gives an oppor?unity to stay level with some of the other cities," Rodriquez said, New hires: The city wouDd add three police officers and thiee firefighters. It also would .; turn two part-time library posi- tions into a full-time position and add a part-time utility billing 8 C clerk. rl "We were able to add some needed staff," Rodriquez said. 4 IDISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE I OF MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT BROWN IYOUNG McDONALD COLLINS/ C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED / CRilL 1 6 7 DATE OF ARTICLE OR 1 U 7 NEWSPAPER FWST Help in catching thief rewarded t EULESS—The 15-year-old Trinity High School football player who recently tackled a purse snatcher at an area grocery store scored a lot of brownie points—and some cash. ' Jonathan Valdez chased the purse-clutching thief out of a Sack'n Save on Aug. 10,wrestled with him until the thief lost his grip on the purse and ultimately stalled the thief until 4 police caught up with him.The purse owner had recently lost her job and would have been left penniless,she later told Valdez. Valdez Jaime Garcia,owner of Pete's Chicken- N-More in Euless,held a fundraiser to reward the valiant teen last weekend.Customers donated $85,and Garcia threw in$100 from the franchise to help out with school supplies and clothing. "We always tell our daughter that there's more good people in the world than bad people,"Garcia said."This is a ' perfect example of that." —Melissa Vargas p 11 DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OFJI MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIBOYETT BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C.BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR IDGWAY(2) DATE DISTRIBUTED fi? 1 `;'?4/ DATE OF ARTICLE SP I C?LI I 0 iNEWSPAPER FWST I lit d f i i! , I .,-,' ewe • '• k a '� • • • III " "'�.. 004-''''' .::::''''''''''''. ''. . ....:'''''';:.:. ' . 'k I � , Mary Lib Saleh,Leila Khoury,Sandra Crowley and Diane Porterfield { b :Yr1 . .�,..�' > xfr� b 4,,i �s e y 1 . '.... 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