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You’ll love Daisy’s
big, brown eyes and
quiet personality. She
would fi t in well with
a family with children.
She is a spayed,
extra-large, female
dachshund-mix,
about 5 years old. If
you are interested
in Daisy or another
dog or cat, call the
Plainview Humane
Society at 806-296-
2311 or visit 500 S.W.
Third from 4-5:30
p.m. Monday-Friday.
Adoption fee is $75
for dogs and $50 for
cats, which includes
spay/neuter, a rabies
shot and a microchip.
AROUND US
LUBBOCK — City customers
have spent so much
already on water this year,
they’ve taken some bite out
of rate increases planned
for next.
Huge demand for water
to spare lawns from some
of the worst drought conditions
in history has brought
in much more revenue than
expected, city fi nancial
analyst Chad Sales said.
Forecasts show revenue
from water bills coming
in more than $7 million
above expenses, thanks to
early and constant use by
residents.
Savings on some of the
major drivers of higher
bills, including a pipeline
to Lake Alan Henry, helped
soften the need for higher
increases on monthly, base
fees residents pay before
drawing a drop of water.
But huge demand for that
water this spring has put
off increases in how much
Lubbock pays for each gallon
used for several years,
Sales said.
“People are still watering
their yards like crazy,” he
said.
Flat monthly rates recommended
by the Lubbock
Water Advisory Committee
still will increase in January
to cover debt. Base rates
will increase by the planned
$4 a month for water to $28
for most Lubbock homes.
Similar wastewater fees are
set to increase $2 a month
for such homes to $14.
Offi cials had worried a
new, unplanned purchase of
access to billions of gallons
of water beneath northern
Panhandle ranchland from
T. Boone Pickens’ Mesa
Water company would push
those monthly rates up further.
Aggressive, low bids
by contractors on the Lake
Alan Henry pipeline project
brought it under budget by
millions and interest rates
were lower than expected,
offsetting the cost of the
water rights.
The city no longer plans
to increase the price of
actual volume of water until
2016, under the proposal
made Friday. — Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal
July 4, 2011
5:00 pm–8:00 pm
• • •
AMARILLO — A group
of vengeful parents and
apartment tenants severely
beat a man Thursday after
they claim he threatened
some of their children with
a knife.
Police said the man went
to an apartment complex in
the 500 block of Southwest
Second Avenue about 8:45
p.m., claiming someone
stole some of his property.
After he arrived, offi cers
said he encountered a group
of about six children who
lived at the complex and
threatened them with a
knife.
The children ran into
nearby apartments to tell
their parents about the
man, police said. Police
said about seven or eight
tenants came out of their
apartments and started beating
the man in the street.
A brick may have been
one of the objects used in
the assault. The man, who
did not live in the complex,
suffered severe head
injuries but was expected to
survive, police said.
No arrests were made,
but police continued to
question those involved and
investigate the incident. —
Amarillo Globe-News
• • •
LUBBOCK — The
Wine & Clay Festival rolls
around this weekend for the
14th year.
Anywhere from 30 to 50
artists from Texas and New
Mexico are expected. The
festival also will feature
glass art and include complimentary
wine and food
pairing and demonstrations
from the artists. Food vendors
will provide water and
sodas for those who don’t
drink wine.
The Wine & Clay Festival
started Saturday and
concludes from noon to
5 p.m. today at the Llano
Estacado Winery, 3426
Cynthia Davidson/Courtesy Photo
East FM 1585. — Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal
• • •
LUBBOCK — The 2011
Lubbock Parade of Homes
started Saturday and will
run from 6-9 p.m. weekdays
and 2-9 p.m. weekends
through June 26.
Tickets — $10 for
adults and $5 for children
ages 3-12 (children
2 and under are admitted
free) — are available at
entries to the three Parade
neighborhoods: North
Pointe, Lehigh Street near
Slide Road; The Trails at
Regal Park, 92nd Street and
Juneau Avenue; Vintage
Township, 114th Street and
Quaker Avenue. — Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal
• • •
AMARILLO — Last
Sunday, River Road Fellowship
offi cially became
Trinity Fellowship North
Campus.
The union of these two
churches (96 percent of
River Road Fellowship
voted for the move) is the
newest combination in
Amarillo, joining many
other churches throughout
the country that have recently
added new campuses
to their congregation.
The congregations will
use technology to unite
them through the weekend
sermon.
“Typically we will record
the sermon that Pastor
Jimmy or one of our other
pastors makes on Saturday
evening and broadcast it
here on Sunday morning,”
Kelli Bullard, media director
for Trinity Fellowship
said.
Later this summer the
north campus will have
a pastor dedicated to that
campus, in addition to the
27 full pastors that Trinity
already employs.
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Landtroop bucks GOP trend,
votes against school funding cuts
AUSTIN — Rep. Jim Landtroop was
among 14 state House Republicans voting
against a bill Friday that would cut $4 billion
from school funding in the next two fi scal
years.
Authored by Sen. Robert Duncan (R-
Lubbock), Senate Bill 1 passed with an
83-62 vote, with all the “ayes” coming from
Republicans. The measure now goes to a
Senate-House conference committee to work
out the fi nal details.
Landtroop said his vote against SB 1
— along with 48 Democrats — was not a
party issue. Instead, he told the Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal, it was about the inequities
that exist in the funding of the more than
1,000 school districts in the state and specifi -
cally about how such inequities hurt rural
districts like those in his House District 85.
“The vast majority of the schools I
represent are those low-target revenue rural
schools and my vote was a vote representing
their best interests and that’s what I am here
to do,” said Landtroop, whose 16-county,
largely rural district represents about 50
school districts.
“I have schools that they’ve been cutting
and cutting and a lot of my schools are at the
maximum tax rate and there is no where for
them to get more money,” he said.
Landtroop was the only House member
from the Panhandle/South Plains delegation
to vote against the bill, but for others such
as Amarillo Republicans John Smithee and
Four Price it was a close call.
What made Smithee ultimately decide to
vote for the bill were some concessions that
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12 school districts he
represents, including Amarillo
ISD, he said.
“Overall what we did was
the fairest approach to all
schools,” he told the Amarillo LANDTROOP
Globe-News. “We had hoped
for a better plan but I think that considering
what we had, this was the best we could do.
It could have been better but also it could
have been worse.”
Also key to his decision to vote for the
bill is that the Legislature needs to fund the
schools as soon as possible. After all, this
was the same bill killed in the last 24 hours
of the regular session, forcing Gov. Rick
Perry to call a special session that cannot last
beyond June 29.
“The uncertainty is hurting them,” Smithee
said of all the school districts in the state.
“They need to know as quickly as possible
what they are going to be working with.”
Price said that this was a diffi cult vote
because he would have liked to see more
money for West Texas schools. But considering
that every school district in the state
is sharing the pain of the $4 billion cut, it is
better to have a school funding bill than not
have one, he said.
Reps. Warren Chisum of Pampa and
Charles Perry of Lubbock said they also
didn’t like the amounts the school districts
will get, but considering the revenue shortfall
of $27 billion the Legislature is tackling this
session, they made up their minds early on
that they would vote for the bill.
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