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Home My WebLink About2006-08-04 Euless Articles FISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE LOFL MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT rUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN L/IBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED I /0C DATE OF ARTICLE �/Z z / �` NEWSPAPER DMN 1 BEST 1 -DETS 1 FOR MUSIC LAVERS Acoustic singer songwriter 1 Terri Hendrix performs at 7:30 tonight at Bear Creek Amphitheater,1951 Bear Creek Parkway,Euless. 1 Free.Call 817-685-1666 or visit www.terrihendrix.com. 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF / MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COL INS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMI�N/ LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED DATE OF ARTICLE 7 /y G NEWSPAPER FWST NE M NORTHEAST CLICK II: YN 14'Y. 5� l '4k ow `4 Winnie Wayne and David Medina Jodi Sanders,Kerri Bear and Mike Collins Planning committee checks site r The planning committee for the Taste of k Northeast,ARTSNET's annual fundraiser, met at the office of North East Mall, where the event will be held Aug.3. S, SPECIAL TO THE STAR-TELEGRAM/MIKE LEWIS a i ,f"t i Connie Nichols and Brenda Whitley ` ;,N - +'., r,,,. -"!-•> DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF / MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT tOUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED DATE OFARTICLE YZ S /0 NEWSPAPER FWST ' Salary differences Grapevine this spring compared salaries paid to its employees with those paid in 18 other communities in the area.Below is a comparison ' of salaries for three Grapevine city employees with salaries paid in other Tarrant County cities. Minimum salary Maximum salary Secretary ' Southlake $31,U84 -; ;$44,325 Fort Worth $28,412 $40,102 Colleyville $28,142:: $39,728 ' Keller 527768 $39,062 N.Richland Hills $27341 $40,472 Flower Mound $27;1011;......___::537,780 Bedford VWT':_ _ $37,003 ' Euless $25,296 $32,256 ; Grapevine $24,460,;i ;$36,691 Police officer ' Euless $43,921 $55,444 Fort Worth $43,201 $63,814 Grapevine $42174 551,262 Flower Mound $41,148 $52,516 ' Southlake $41,081 7 $53,602 N.Richland Hills ,$40.9541 $53,897 Keller $40,664 $53,435 ' Bedford 539666 ,$57,331 Colleyville 537,8}4 $53,435 Civil engineer ' Euless $58189 574,486': Southlake $54,'37 $76,1159 Fort Worth $52,353'ax. 3J61', Colleyville 548,52b $68,557] ' Grapevine S4S,874 566811! SOURCE(S):Ray Associates,Inc.salary survey STAR-TELEGRAM DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBR-A�R/Y ADMIN LIBBRAR Y REF ANIMAL CNTR 3 DATE DISTRIBUTED 7 /(�/0 � DATE OF ARTICLE / �4 °l� NEWSPAPER FWST PROPERTY APPRAISALS Protests cut some taxable values ■Overall, however,Tarrant's certified rolls support the preliminary report's finding in May that the band of small cities outside Fort Worth, including Haslet,are booming. By JOHN KIRSCH The dollar value of property The increase in taxable val- STARTELEGRAM STAFF Vn=R under protest has risen from ue is fueled by new construc- ' Successful property tax pro- $62 million in 2005 to$77 mil- tion. About 2,800 homes are tests contributed to a drop in lion this year,Thetford said. added annually in the Keller taxable values from May esti- In North Richland Hills,vat- district, which primarily mates in at least two Northeast ues dropped from an estimated serves Keller and fast-growing. ' Tarrant County communities, 6.3 percent increase to a 3.7 far north Fort Worth: city officials said. percent increase. Hurst and North Richland But overall,the Tarrant Ap- City spokeswoman Mary Hills were not the only suburbs ' praisal District's certified tax- Edwards said a reduction be- wltWat uga'slow r taxable property able values, which were re- tween preliminary and certi- values rose 1.1 percent over last leased Tuesday, confirmed a fied tax rolls is not unusual. Tarrant County trend found in The city's taxable value has year;the May report estimated ' the appraisal district's prelimi- typically drop ed about 3 per- a 2 percent increase. n May report:The band of typ y py July p In Bedford,values were 2.2 �' y p cent from May to because small .cities outside Fort of protests,she said. percent higher than last year; Worth, including Haslet, are The news was better for the preliminary report esti- mated a 3.4 percent increase. booming. growing suburbs. - Cities use the certified d- The May report stated that But Grapevine had the low- u -in formulating their bud- Haslet's taxable value had ris- est increase over last year: 0.5 gets. en 10.4 percent over last:year.. percent. The May report esti- Taxable values countywide That figure went up to 18.6 per ; mated a 1.9 percent increase. grewby 9 percent over last cent Tuesday. Marshall said growth is dif- year. Westworth Village leads Haslet Mayor Gary Hulsey ficult in developed cities be- the way with a50 percent jump, said the big jump in the city's cause little vacant land is avail- followed by Haslet and Crow- tax base is driven by construc- ' able for construction. ley with 18 percent increases. tion of homes priced at Staff writer Mike Lee contributed to ,..Hurst and North Richland $250,000 to$500,000. this report. Hills saw the biggest drops in Chief Appraiser John Mar- taxable values from the prelim- shall said the value of natural John Kirsch,817-685-3805 inary May estimates to the fi- gas and other minerals can also /kirsch@star-telegram com nal July figures, according to add significantly to the tax Wd the appraisal district. base of cities such as Haslet, e In May, the appraisal dis- population 1,400. trict estimated that Hurst's "Their total roll is$588 mil- property values would in- lion. When you add $25 mil- crease 5.4 percent over last lion, it means something .to year.On Tuesday,the final fig- them,"Marshall said. ures showed a 2.7 percent in- The Keller school district crease. led the five Northeast Tarrant A drop in new commercial districts overseen by the ap- and residential construction praisal district with a 12.6 per- and more successful appraisal cent increase over last year. protests caused,the drop, said The Denton Central Appraisal Anita Thetford, Hurst's direc- District oversees the North- tor of finance.Last year,Hurst west school district. had $93 million in new con- Keller's figure marks a drop struction. This year, the city from the May estimate of a 13.2 has$32 million,she said. percent gain. 3 DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE Z OF ,C MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCIiAMIE RIDGIVAY(2) BOYETT rUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARBER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED__ �l �/t),(- DATE OF ARTICLE _ I/Z il� / NEWSPAPER FWST ' Tarrant Count property value YP P Y s ' Previous Current Taxing net taxable net taxable Percent authority value value gain Arlington $16.3 billion $16.9 billion 3.7 ' Arlington ISD $18.7 billion $19.4 billion 4.1 Azle $500 million $566 million 13.3 Azle ISD $1.5 billion $1.7 billion 16.5 Bedford $2.8 billion $2.9 billion 2.2 ' Benbrook $1.1 billion $1.2 billion 6.8 Birdville ISD $6.5 billion $6.8 billion' 3.9 Blue Mound $67 million $73 million 9 Carroll ISD $4 billion $4.4 billion 8.6 Castleberry ISD $426 million $460 million 8.1 Colleyviile $2.9 billion $3.1 billion 7.4 Crowley $468 million $551 million 17.7 Crowley ISD $3.6 billion $4;billion 11.8 Dalworthington Gardens $259 million $274 million 5.7 Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD $4 billion $5 billion 24.1 Edgecliff Village $149 million $157 million 5.3 Euless $2.3 billion $2.5 billion 6.9 Everman $131 million $143 million 9.1 Everman ISD $762 million $839 million 10.1 ' Forest Hill $349 million $367 million 5.1 Fort Worth $30.2 billion $34.5 billion 14.3 Fort Worth ISD $20.4 billion $22.5 billion 10.4 Grapevine $5.4 billion $5.5 billion .5 Grapevine-Colleyville ISD $9 billion $9.3 billion 3.7 Haltom City $1.46 billion $1.51 billion 3.8 Haslet $372 million $441 million 18.6 Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD $7.7 billion $8 billion 4.1 Hurst $2.15 billion $2.21 billion 2.7 Keller $2.9 billion $3.2 billion 10.4 Keller ISD $7.6 billion $8.5 billion 12.6 Kennedale $364 million $392 million 7.7 ' Kennedale ISD $809 million $850 million 5 Lakeside $68 million $86 million 26.6 Lake Worth $287 million $353 million 22.9 Lake Worth ISD $525 million $639 million 21.8 Mansfield $3.1 billion $3.5 billion 11.9 Mansfield ISD $6.2 billion $7 billion 13.3" North Richland Hills $3.3 billion $3.4 billion 3.7 Pantego $224 million $234 million 4.7 Pelican Bay $24 million $25 million 3.4 Richland Hills $409 million $418 million 2.1` River Oaks $204 million $218 million 6.7 N Saginaw $925 million $1 billion 11.7 Sansom Park $87 million $97 million 11.5 Southlake $4 billion $4.4 billion 10 Watauga $996 million $1 billion 1.1 Westover Hills $312 million $332 million 6.4 Westworth Village $59 million $88 million 49.5 White Settlement $484 million $536 million 10.6 White Settlement ISD $1 billion $1.2 billion 17.7 Tarrant County $97 billion $106 billion 9.2 SOURCE:Tarrant Appraisal District Percent gains are calculated based on unrounded figures. STAR-TELEGRAM/DAVESEYMOUR DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE I OF J MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT ' YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNT�R{ DATE DISTRIBUTED v�QE) DATE OF ARTICLE —1/31- Y/fie/4 NEWSPAPER T Gt/ Sl./t,G S i/1 C Ss �rr s s ' Odyssey OneSource odyssey rovides clients with I V 'one-stop' outsourcing shop �N BY NICI SANDBERG a "co-employer," meaning that a F§ , Fort Worth Business Press clients employees also are in con- q rt k tact and responsible to Odyssey.,; Odyssey OneSource, o pro- That causes some alarm among fessional employer organi- potential clients, but Kleimann says zation,or PEO,has made a there is no need to worry. lot of changes since it was founded "A lot of people think that they are by brother-and-sister duo David going to lose control of the employ- Williams and Patricia Fry in 1990. ees,but that couldn't be further from ? KkriA�-*'d' [ During its 16-year history,it has had the truth. We don't hire the employ {>x. t a name change, gone through re- ees.We help with hiring practices," branding and completely shifted its he said. zz client base. Through all of these Kleimann says that Odyssey is a s, things, Odyssey OneSource has really about taking non-productive �(, '""° come out on tonranking s in client, freeing an the Top 100 private companies in em loyee to do moreimportant thigsTarrant County ' Williams, co-founder and CEO, "We focus on performing all non- said that there were some difficulties productive tasks that don't add to the during the beginning stages of the companies' bottom line, allowing company. those employees [to] redirect their Carl Kleimann, resident of Odyssey ' "We went through ups and downs time to something more productive," p with legislators and made some he said. political friends. Some of the ups Odyssey's client base consisted of and downs were blue-col-mostly blueol- further. We had a single plan until 2004, getting regulators lar clients, such Odyssey also works with work- and in that pion, we had very few ' 40 fla- to understand Odyssey OneSource as construction place safety to limit worker's com- flavors.Today,we have over what this business 204 N.[dor Drive companies, pensation claims. The company has vors,"said Kleimann. does for its clients. ftdess until 2000. At four certified safety engineers who Odyssey now has four insurance s and more than 40 different Once we did that, Phone:817-267-6090 that time, it spend all of their time in the field, carrier it became just like began to make helping people operate safer work- plan designs for its clients and their ' any other business Web:wwww.Ddysseyonesouice.com a shift to more places,according to Kleimann. employees. that is new to pea- Product/service:Outsourdng firm professional Odyssey also handles other In November 1993, Odyssey ple," said No.of local employees:72 industries. administrative tasks, like processing acquired a competitor in Houston, "We found unemployment benefits claims, sexu- called the Loxus Group,and turned it Williams. Top executive:Eugene David Williams and Williams also (ail Klthat white-collar of harassment claims,employee ben- into a Houston service center. The eimann said that Odyssey Year Sounded:1990 c o m p a n i e s efits packages and decisions, tax company continued to operate as ' was "very instru- place a higher reporting, direct deposits and time- Laxus until January 1997 when it mental in getting 2005 sales:$360,000,000 value on out- off accruals. was integrated. The Houston office legislation passed sourcing. There Kleimann said that benefits admin- now operates as a sales and client that legitimized is a higher istration is important to the company. service center. our industry. It made Texas a very opportunity cost to a business owner "It's really dynamic for us. We Odyssey has 86 employees,70 of ' good state to operate a PEO in." where the average yearly wage for have the ability to pool together which are in its headquarters. Its After gaining consumer confi- an employee is $40,000 or thousands of employees from hun- Houston service center has 11 dente,Odyssey began to grow and $50,000. If you can re-focus a dreds of companies—there's power employees. The rest of the employ- change. The company changed its $50,000a-year guy on doing pro- in numbers,"he said. ees are salespeople. name from Odyssey Group to ductive tasks,you have more to gain Kleimann explained that the indus- Kleimann was the president of the ' Odyssey OneSource about two and than a guy who's redirecting a$12• try has gone through a change. loxus Group when it was acquired a half years ago to show that it is a on-hour guy," said Kleimann, who "Our industry has gone through a by Odyssey. He began commuting "one-stop shop for companies' also said that there aren't many transition from one plan to individual between Houston and Euless in needs," said Carl Kleimann, presi- PEOs that are equipped to focus on plans at the client revel. As the cost 2000 when he became president of dent of Odyssey.Kleimann said that white-collar industries. of benefits have goneup pretty dra- Odyssey. ' companies were going to several dif- Odyssey's claim. is that it works matically, companies have started Though it was difficult to get start- ferent places to outsource a variety with its clients to help them become demanding more choice,"he said. ed, Odyssey OneSource has made services, such as human resources, more efficient. company be best de plain d with cream strides inthe PEO business. payroll industry. payroll and benefit plans, all of "We help clients. We teach them p y plegitimized which Odyssey is capable of han- the proper things to do. We've got metaphor. Companies feel secure now about t dling. very qualified managers and people "Just a couple of flavors worked handing things over to us,"Williams Kleimann also mentioned some who work for us.We search out the fine 10 years ago—chocolate,vanil- said. common misconceptions that the best we con find to work with our la and strawberry. Now yopup really Contact Sandberg at company had to overcome. As a clients,"said Williams. need the Baskin Robbins a roach. nsandberg@bizpress.net. PEO,Odyssey became what it calls Kleimann explains the process In a single plan, you don't get that. ' tISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT rUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED � (+ I 09 DATE OF ARTICLE l / �° NEWSPAPER FWST -TIME WARNER What. expee, om to days eable. swap Comcast customers have; scribers won't have access to Chanko pointed to a deal The change that has gar- een switched t6 Time..;' "= the NFL Network. Comcast recently made with nered the most attention re- arner Cable and wilf-�see ■Time Warner has two TiVo to roll out TiVo digital garding the cable swap is-the some changes in service. more channels in its lineup: video recorder service for a fate of the NFL Network. ' Fuel, focused on extreme premium price over the com- Since the channel debuted. By AMAN BATHEJA sports, and Sportsman Chan- parry's standard DVRs. TiVo three years ago, the National STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER nel, devoted to hunting and is considered better than im-. Football League and Time Local. Comcast cable cus- fishing. Warner have been negotiating g itation service offered by ca- a distribution deal but have mers should take note:Your ■Time Warner plans to in- ble companies such as Com- yet distribution hammer one out. Both ills will now be coming from troduce more channels soon. cast,Chanko said. sides have suggested that cu h ime Warner. This fall,the company will re- "If you were looking for- gg Starting today,Comcast has group its digital channels into ward to the prospect of a cable tomer anger over the loss of fficially swapped its North tiers,such as a family tier and a company-supplied TiVo DVR the NFL Network, which is exas markets.. with Time news and information tier. service,at the moment you're available on Comcast, could Warner Cable as part of a deal ■Subscribers to Comcast's out of luck,"Chanko said. spark a deal. e companies undertook last Internet service rvill-sw.itch to Digital subscribers might Underwood said Monday ar to acquire the bankrupt that a deal was still possible q P Time Warner's Road Runne_ notice a difference in their. p before today. delphia in service,requiring customers to video-on-demand library. Al- Comcast,based in Philadel- switch their Comcast address- though Time Warner has a The NFL Network will not 1whia,is the nation's largest ca es to ones ending in tx.rr.com. large library, "Comcast is be on today"unless-an agree- com any nand serves Ar- ment is made between both gton, Bedford, Colleyville, e-mailswill continue to work leader n video-oil-demand," parties," Underwood said. "I Grapevine,Grand Prairie,Dal- for a year, said Gary Under- Chanko said, noting that think this is one of those s,Mesquite,Plano and sever- wood, a Time Warner spokes- Comcast offers the MGM li- things where everyone is talk other North Texas commu- ng and things like this could man. brary of films.. mties. happen(at the]last minute.". ■Comcast's digital phone . Gary Arlen of Arlen Com- Time Warner Cable, the customers will become Time munications, a telecom re- Currentl y' the NFL Net- y, cable provider, Warner's digital phone cus- searcher, said customers work is available for subscrib- sed in Stamford, Conn., al- tomers. Their phone numbers might see further changes in ers to Comcast, Verizon's read operates cables stems FPS TV fiber-optic televi- y p Y will not change. programming over time. rving Austin,El Paso,Hous- Time Warner will keep pric- "If Time Warner was car- sion service,and the DirecTV n,San Antonio and Waco. es the same for now, Under- rying certain kids'channels or and DISH satellite compa- uestions? wood said. Both companies' certain women's-oriented meAnother service,NFL Sun- ormer Comcast customers can Prices are comparable overall, channels,and Comcast offers day Ticket, is exclusively intact Time Warner with service he said. another group,at some point, available to DirecTV sub- uestions by calling 972-742-5892 Area Comcast employees Time Warner might consider p a swap," scribers. or visiting wwwtwcusoon.com. have been made art of Time p, Arlen said. The loss of the NFL Net- Warner's staff at the same pay, Time Warner is not likely work could be a breaking ' The companies swapped ca- Underwood said.Time Warn- to switch the equipment or pont for some sports fans,as le systems in certain markets er plans to hire 100 more em- technology for local Comcast this season will be the first where the trades allowed them ployees for its Irving call cen- customers for a while,he said. increase their market con- ter. Time Warner "doesn't When the channel will air reg - increase Todd Chanko, an analyst want to incur the huge capital ular-season games live. tentrations. . Comcast's 600,000 local with Jupiter Research, said investment of doing that kind Starting Thanksgiving, customers will see a few imme- the ease of the transition will of technology switch until it seven NFL games will air ex- iate changes to their service depend on the type of cable has to,"Arlen said. clusively on the NFL Net- riderwork.An eighth game,Dallas Time Warner,including: subscriber. versus Atlanta on Dec.16,will ■Time Warner Cable sub- "For your average analog air on the NFL Network but cable customer,not much will will also be broadcast by a lo- change," Chanko said. "For cal affiliate, said Seth Polan- your digital cable customers, sky,an NFL Network spokes- there will be a difference." man. DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE OZ OF MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD CQOL(LIcNS1 BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED U I ( ( �T DATE OF ARTICLE NEWSPAPER FWST The NFL Network was AM available through Comcast as y 1 part of its basic digital pack- age, Polansky said. That deal was made two years ago.Now, the NFL wants the channel to be made part of basic cable ' packages and ,has insisted Time Warner follow suit. +; Time Warner has said it wants to add the channel to a premi- um sports tier package. "They've asked us to pay a premium price for eight games,one of which is a Cowl-, .s .: boys game which you can See 5 here anyway," Underwood said.He added that customers who aren't ,fervent football �s4 s fans shouldn't have to pay for An ad pro- .. a channel they're not going to 4 t sR Y 'Y motes the watch. NFL Net watch. said cable com- ra' work,which Polansky fl is available ,panes will make their money off advertising revenue and s Comcast subscribers. don't need to charge custom-, Time Warner ers extra. $, has not yet The NFL launched an ad{ reached a campaign this week in several ry 1 ' deal to offer markets across the U.S., in the network. cluding Dallas-Fort Worth,at- tempting to shame cable op( - NFL NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS erators such as Time Warne and Charter Communication into offering the NFL Net .d work.One ad reads,"Don't le Time Warner ruin your foot- ball season." Another reads "Don't let Charter shut you out." "We decided-we better start talking to the fans out there and let them know we've done everything We can," Polansky said. "Negoti- ating has been fruitless." Time Warner has launched wwwnflgetreal.com, a We ' site aimed at nersuading sub- scribers to demand that the NFL agree to terms for the channel. Charter spokeswoman ' Anita Lamont would not com- ment on the ad but said the company is committed to ' "keeping programming costs lower for customers that are not football fans." The com- pany is still in talks with the NFL,she said. Aman Batheja,817-390-7695 aba the is(costar-telerram.com FISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE ( OF 1 MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT rUNG McDONALD QCOLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMI/N LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED " T l DATE OFARTICLE F'//4! y � NEWSPAPER FWST AREA BRIEFS Officials say Euless woman has West Nile EULESS-A Euless woman in her 60s who lives in the 76039 ZIP code has been confirmed by the-county to have the,West Nile virus,Tarrant County health officials said Thursday.This is the first human case of the virus in Euless,city officials said.The case has not been confirmed by the Texas Department of State Health Services,said Vanassa Joseph,spokeswoman for Tar- rant County Public Health,but symptoms and lab results in- dicate that the woman has the virus.Two elderly Tarrant County men believed to have the virus have died,county health officials said.One was a Fort Worth resi- dent in his 80s who died of pneu- monia complicated by'the virus; the other was a Hurst man in his ' 70s who died of the virus.Six other cases have been reported in the county this year:two in Fort Worth,two in Arlington,one , in Watauga and one near Haslet. State health officials have not confirmed the cases. —Terry Lee Goodrich t DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS (BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED r r DATE OF ARTICLEy /3/ NEWSPAPER DMN REGIONAL ROUNDUP W.Nile spraying set after city's 1st infection A Euless resident in the 76039 ZIP'code has been preliminarily confirmed to be infected with the West Nile virus,making it the first human case of the disease in the city.Startingtoday,crews will be- gin spraying for mosquitoes in an area bounded by North; Main, Harwood Drive,FM157 and State:, Highway 183.Some spraying also will occur on South Main in the Fuller.Branch area. For informa- tion about the virus,visit Tarrant County Public Health's Web site, health.tarrantcounty.com, or the „Texas Department of State Health jServices site, wwwdshs.state.tx .,us. For information about the city's preventive measures, call Clyde Cullum at 817-685-1583. . MarissaAlanis