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APISD board approves
response protocol plan
Fishin> lines
ting to school.
He said this protocol is
something to look at, and
plan and train for, much like
schools must have fire drills
in the first week of school. He
said the last time there was a
death in a school because of
a fire was in 1958 and that is
because schools planned and
trained.
Pearce said, “We have to
do the same thing with other
{issues},” as he added, “We as
a nation have failed to train
for other events which could
harm our children.”
The captain explained in
anticipation of the program,
Aransas Pass Police officers
and dispatchers are already
undergoing training for these
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By Norma L. Martinez
editor@aransaspassprogress.com
A Standard Response Pro-
tocol for addressing incidents
at school was adopted by the
Aransas Independent School
District board of trustees at
a regular term board meeting
last week. Aransas Pass Police
Capt. Lynn Pearce addressed
the board about the issue,
presenting a program adopted
by the I Love You Guys Foun-
dation and Texas State Texas
School Safety Center.
Pearce said there has been
a lot of fear across the nation
and everyone’s first and fore-
most concern is the safety
of children. He pointed out
youngsters are actually in
more danger in a vehicle get-
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City June e-newsletter
highlights presented
cessing the site: Https://
www.surveymonkey.eom/r/
AransasPassGeneralSurvey
and take the survey prior
to July 1. This information
will help form the City’s fu-
ture.
By Norma L. Martinez
editor@aransaspassprogress.com
Photo by Norma L. Martinez
The anticipated rain for this area arrived early Monday morning, but that didn't stop local resident Bill Averbach from dropping
a couple of lines off a pier in Conn Brown Harbor. He said he fishes just about every day, and sometimes takes home a catch
or two.
Items featured in the
City of Aransas Pass June
newsletter and which had
not previously been fea-
tured in editions of the
Aransas Pass Progress are
as follows:
June sales tax revenues for AP increase over 2017
Packed harbor
Officials noted during a
recent weekend, the Conn
Brown parking lot was
overflowing with vehicles
extending northward past
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for the month, as well as more
than 39 percent, year to date.
Ingleside on the Bay will re-
ceive an increase of more than
30 percent for the month, but
only a little more than seven
percent year to date.
These allocations are based
on sales made in April by busi-
nesses that report tax monthly.
The June allocations to-
taled $457 million to Cities, an
increase of 10.1 percent from
June 2017, and year-to-date
increase of 7.4 percent. The al-
locations total $44.7 million to
Counties, an increase of 15.7
percent from June 2017, and
year-to-date increase of 13.9
percent.
Aransas Pass will receive
$202,762.78 from April rev-
enues, 30.66 percent more
than the $155,175,67 collected
in June 2017, an increase of
$47,587.11. Year-to-date, the
City of Aransas Pass has re-
ceived $1,339,365.59, a 38.36
percent increase over the
$968,007.46 in 2017 for a total
increase of $371,358.13
Ingleside will receive
$205,673.16 from April rev-
enues, 7.35 percent more
than the $191,588.76 received
the previous year, a total of
$14,084.40 more. Year-to-date,
the City of Ingleside has re-
ceived $1,452,818.71, a 39.22
percent increase over the
$1,043,491.13 in 2017 for a to-
tal increase of $409,327.58.
By Norma L. Martinez
editor@aransaspassprogress.com
Survey
Residents are encour-
aged to take a compre-
hensive plan survey by ac-
Texas Comptroller Glenn
Hegar announced he will send
cities, counties, transit sys-
tems and special purpose tax-
ing districts $710.4 million in
local sales tax allocations for
June, 11 percent more than in
June 2017. The City of Aransas
Pass will receive an increase of
more than 30 percent for the
month, as well as more than 38
percent, year to date.
The neighboring City of In-
gleside will receive an increase
of more than seven percent
Bucket work completed
Ingleside on the Bay, will
receive $1,412.49 in April rev-
enues, a 30 percent increase
over the $1,086.52 received the
previous year, a total of $325.97
more. Year-to-date, Ingle-
side on the Bay has received
$9,282.82, a 7.83 percent in-
crease over the $8,608.45 in
2017 for a total year-to-date
increase of $674.37.
APISD board reorganizes, takes action, hears updates
going forward with requests
for purchase of a district wide
phone system and a new inter-
com system for the high school
and Charlie Marshall Elemen-
tary, as those will be needed in
the new school year.
The board took no action
on procedures for creating a
school district police depart-
ment, as the list was provid-
ed by Superintendent Mark
Kemp for information purpos-
es as part of the updated secu-
rity information trustees have
been reviewing. If the board
considers establishing its own
school district departments,
requirements are:
1. The board of trustees
must approve a policy regard-
ing the police department
function and jurisdiction.
2. There must be an official
act by the board of trustees
creating a police department
and appointing a chief of po-
lice.
high school assistant principal
beginning July 30, 2018.
Trustees accepted resig-
nations from: Brandi Dickey,
high school science teach-
er; Jace Schmidt, Charlie
Marshall/A.C. Blunt music
teacher; Vivian Davila, Faulk
Early Childhood prekinder-
garten teacher; and Victoria
Luke, Kieberger Elementary
third grade teacher. All were
effective June 2,2018.
Other new hires approved
are for: Barry Morgan, special
education diagnostician; Nora
Trevino, fourth grade teach-
er; Rebecca Johnson, A.C.
Blunt Middle School technol-
ogy; Kerri Mitchell and Rachel
Zarosky, high school science
teachers; and Jennifer Holmes,
fifth grade teacher.
For information purposes
only, the board is notified of
the reassignment of teachers.
continued on page 3
By Norma L. Martinez
editor@aransaspassprogress.com
3. There must be an official
act by the board of trustees
approving the school district’s
procedures manual (standing
orders, etc.).
4. The board must file the
correct/appropriate
work with TCLEOSE.
5. A memorandum of un-
derstanding must be signed
with the local police depart-
ment and/or departments.
6. Other requirements to
be fulfilled include district at-
torney’s office procedures and
sheriff’s department proce-
dures.
Reorganization of board
officers, school report updates,
construction updates, seeking
requests for proposals, and ap-
proving new hires and resig-
nations were all part of action
and reports before the Aransas
Pass Independent School Dis-
trict board of trustees at a reg-
ular term meeting last week.
The board took action to
reorganize its officers now that
trustees elected in May have
been sworn into office. Newly-
elected trustee Victor Galvan
was elected board president,
taking over from Veronica
Johnson who has served in that
capacity for the last two years.
Trustee Edel Deases was elect-
ed vice president, and trustee
John Mullenax was elected to
continue as secretary.
Trustees then approved
paper-
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Contributed photo
Scott Electric and some grandparents who bring their
grandson from Calallen for swimming lessons, helped the staff
at the swimming pool put up cables for the pools buckets.
Initially pool staff had planned to use a log-armed machine for
the job, however the lift did not work because of the steepness
of the ground where the machine had to reach over the fence.
The grandparents overheard Aquatics director Lindy Madill
talking needing to rent some scaffolding.They had scaffolding
they used with things they do for the boy scouts, and brought
it over to the pool to get the job done.
7. Municipal court and jus
tice of the peace court proce
dures.
After meeting in closed
session, the board approved
the following personnel ac-
tion.
Trustees accepted the hir-
ing of Michael Zarosky as new
voestalpine
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Martinez, Norma L. The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 25, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 20, 2018, newspaper, June 20, 2018; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1143596/m1/1/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.