March 31, 2016 News-Dispatch

DSISD looks at new exemptions

Tiger softball remains unbeaten

Heating up biz with Java Jargon

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News-Dispatch Volume XXXVI No. 25

Serving Western Hays County, Texas since 1982

Thursday, March 31, 2016

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More buses, same tax rate

Wine Walk 1K

The inaugural Wimberley 1K Wine Walk will be held today, Thursday, March 31, from 5-8 p.m. Gather to stroll the streets surrounding the square and sample wines from Texas wineries and beyond. Visit www.wimberleywinewalk.com for more information.

Heart screenings for students

BY PAIGE LAMBERT

News-Dispatch Reporter

Championship Hearts Foundation will offer free heart screenings for students ages 14-18, from 8 a.m. - noon on Saturday, April 2 at Seton Medical Center Hays, 6001 Kyle Parkway, Kyle. High school athletes and active students are encouraged to get their hearts screened. Online pre-registration is required.

For more information or to volunteer, visit www.champhearts.org or phone (512) 900-3243 or (888) 884-6945.

Wimberley ISD is looking to expand its Career and Technical Education program, technology and bus fleet with their 2016 bond proposal.

Residents will vote on the bond during the May 7 election. The $6.5 million bond contains two propositions, one focusing on academic improvements and another to replace the athletic turf at Texan Stadium.

Spring arrives in Hays County Work

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Relay for Life

The 2016 Dripping Springs Relay for Life event will be held Saturday from 4 p.m. to midnight at Dripping Springs Ranch Park.

Sign your team up online at relay.acsevents.org.

Wimberley Community Chorus

The Wimberley Community Chorus presents “Wimberley Strong: A Spring Concert of Faith, Hope, and Love”at the Wimberley Presbyterian Church (956 FM 2325) on Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m. and again on Sunday at 3 p.m.

Wimberley Market Days

Wimberley Market Days happens on Saturday rain or shine. Shopping hours are from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Live music begins at 11 a.m. and runs to 2 p.m. on all three stages. Admission is free. The pavilion stage features singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Jesse Stratton. On the hilltop stage, Elton Wetz plays acoustic covers of all kinds.

And Chris Winkler covers folk and country on the shady grove Stage.

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Kids of all ages search for brightly colored eggs at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church March 26. Churches all over Hays County celebrated the holiday with Easter egg hunts and festivals this weekend. (photo by Paige Lambert)

Giving a voice to the voiceless with CASA

he said.

Larry said he talked with the caretakers, school staff and teachers to get the child the extra help he needed.

“I get 20 minutes with him while tutoring and I can tell a big difference,” Larry said. “Even his teacher is surprised by how well he is doing.”

Even though the nonprofit has over 200 volunteers, it can only reach 50 percent of the children who enter CPS, according to Hudson.

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Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) are volunteers appointed to children who are confirmed victims of abuse or neglect to independently investigate the case and provide recommendations to the family court judge.

They advocate for their clients, children under the age of 17, and provide input into what they believe is in the best interest of the child.

many cases where the outcome was not the best situation for the child even though each kid is assigned a child protective services (CPS) caseworker.

“CPS is very overburdened and seems to have a high caseworker turnover,” Junkin said. “I’ve heard of times when the mom used the kids as a pawn in the case, or where the father has.”

A consistent advocate is incredibly important for a child, Larry said. After the siblings moved in with a family, he noticed one of the siblings would benefit from special education,

BY PAIGE LAMBERT

News-Dispatch Reporter

Buck Baccus, owner of The Lumberyard Retail Center in Wimberley, reviewed his plans for the April 2 Fun Day At the Yard event. The festival is one of many events encouraging improvements along Old Kyle Road.

The city has considered improving Old Kyle Road since the development of the Central Wimberley Master Plan, city administrator Don Ferguson said.

The city recently approved the construction of a sidewalk in front of the Wimberley Playhouse, which will be completed in a few weeks, he said.

“It’s a critical roadway that also plays an important role in a transportation standpoint,” Ferguson said. “Our hope is that it will lead to extending improvements to the whole road.”

The city plans to begin improvements once the central wastewater system is installed and funding from the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization becomes available, he said.

David Bisett, Wimberley Players president, said the wastewater system alone would give businesses more flexibility since they won’t have to set aside space for a septic system.

“This will have a high price tag, the connection fees will not be a couple of bucks,” Bisett said. “But I think it will be a great benefit as we look to control our growth.”

The master plan calls for adding sidewalk down the majority of Old Kyle Road, as well as other improvements that will focus on pedestrian travel and safety.

A sidewalk could be the first step to showing tourists that they can enjoy Old Kyle Road as much as the square, said Baccus.

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arry Patterson finished his weekly tutoring session with his Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) child and checked in with the child’s teacher.

For more than a year, Patterson has given a voice to the youngest of the voiceless.

CASA of Central Texas, which serves in Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe and Hays counties, recruits and trains volunteer advocates to speak for abused and neglected children in foster care.

Eloise Hudson, CASA community relations coordinator, said a judge calls for a CASA volunteer after a parent’s rights have been suspended. A judge decides to call for a volunteer if a case is high risk enough, or if other factors are present. While not every case warrants a volunteer, it opens an option for a judge.

“Anytime after the parents’ rights have been suspended CASA steps in,” Hudson said.

“We feel every child deserves someone with the only goal of supporting them.”

Larry and Kathie Patterson, of San Marcos, have volunteered with CASA of Central Texas for over a year.

They were paired with a sibling group based on a number of factors, Larry said. During the past year, they have helped with paperwork, seeing that the kids’ needs are met and helping them with school.

“They are precious children we have fell in love with,” Larry said.

“We just make sure the judge is aware of the child’s best interest, it can be an extensive process.”

Kathie said children are more apt to be lost in the foster care system without a CASA volunteer.

David Junkin, CASA board member, said he has heard of

begins on Old Kyle Rd.

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’all know me. I’m not From the one to fuss about little things. I might Crow’s put in my 3 cents worth (inflation, you know) in Nest discussions about big controversies like gun

by Clint Younts control, the Californian migration and an unpolitical I think they’re women. This presidential campaign that Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner thing resembles a Monty Python still has me a bit confused. film. Trivial stuff bothers And all these displayed me none, until recently, as ladies are wearing skimpy I was settling bikini bottoms down at the that are stretched While we’re dinner table, to the limit. Do salivating pulling y’all have a good from the wonimage in your nauseous drous aroma heads or should ads from emanating I embellish my from the miNBC during description? crowave oven.

Okay then, if dinnertime, Boy, that MaI must, imagine how about rie Callender the contestants, sure knows tossing those male and female, how to cook, of “The Biggest commercials huh?

Loser” standing for diarrhea So, I’m in front of your sitting at the medicine dinner table. table, working or drugs to Let’s throw in a on a crosscouple of Oklagive relief for word puzzle. women There’s a few opioid-induced homa who frequently more minutes constipation? dine at endless until my dinbuffets along ner is cooked, with Fat Elvis.

Now, dress and then the instructions ‘em in nothing but a thong on the box suggests that I and arrange them in such “let stand for 2 minutes”. a way that no matter how Me being a rebel and all, I you turn your head, you never follow this directive can still see blubber out of and just dig in while it’s the corner of your eye. Is still bubbling hot. Folks, when I’m hungry and good this any way to spend your mealtime? vittles are in front of me, Now, I’m no prude when there’s no waitin’ around it comes to skimpy bikinis, for the blessing, the food to but there should be a seleccool or on other folks to be tion committee to decide seated. This hungry man’s who should wear one in gonna eat! public. Putting a bikini on Now, the microwave is these gals is like putting a beeping, and my stomach grill-guard and a headache is growling. I am ready to rack on a Lamborghini. It devour this fine cuisine just ain’t right. while I watch “Wheel of I’m not asking to have Fortune”, but first, some this optically offensive commercial for “body commercial pulled from sculpting” by Sonobello the networks, but I do wish comes on. Y’all know the they’ll wait until I finish one. They show before my meatloaf and mashed and after photos of the taters. Why not show the mid-sections of some ad late night when potenrather hefty gals, or at least

CASA: Volunteers for kids Continued from pg. 1

Currently the organization only has one facility in New Braunfels and a temporary office in the Hays County Courthouse.

“We are growing steadily but the problem is the number of cases is growing too and we have more children coming into CPS,” Hudson said. “It’s an uphill battle.”

Hudson said she hopes the future facility will help lead to CASA serving 100 percent of the children.

The nonprofit has created a three-year capital campaign to fund the project.

After CASA lost the San Marcos location lease a few months ago, the board decided the nonprofit

needed a place of its own, Junkin said.

“There’s a lot of legal confidentially issues that can arise, especially with children,” Junkin said. “As we all know if kids aren’t familiar with a place they may not want to talk.”

The new facility, located in San Marcos, will have multiple training and meeting rooms, he said. It will also hold the confidential files and serve as a place to report abuse, Hudson said.

“CASA volunteers are an important piece of the puzzle,” Hudson said. “The kids are going to be happy, productive adults and be able to take on the world.”

tial clients are raiding the fridge? Or run the ad over on Bravo, HGTV or the Oprah Winfrey Network. I never see this commercial run during Sports Center or over on the NFL Network. I suppose there aren’t many guys interested in getting their body sculpted.

It’s hard enough to get us to trim our toenails.

While we’re pulling nauseous ads from NBC during dinnertime, how about tossing those commercials for diarrhea medicine or drugs to give relief for opioid-induced constipation? Oh, don’t get me started on OIC. I could tell you stories about this following my surgery last year, but not while you are waiting for your supper.

I’m not right sure why Sonobello runs this ad in the first place. I don’t pay much attention to these photos on the screen, but I don’t see much difference in the before and after pictures. There’s stuff hanging over the waistband in both pictures. If Michelangelo or Rodin had sculpted like this, they would’ve had to bus tables in Italian restaurants to make a living.

Speaking of Italian food, there’s frozen lasagna with my name on it. Let’s hope we will see more Vanna White during supper and less from Sonobello today.

Clint Younts. Always looking. And looking. Good thing his wife has decided to keep him in line.

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Sheriff ’s Report DRIPPING SPRINGS Assault/By Contact 8:43 a.m. - Sleep Inn of Dripping Springs - March 23 Burglary/Habitation 6:12 a.m. - 12XX Bell Springs Rd - March 24 Forgery 2:49 a.m. - Broadway Bank of Dripping Springs - March 24 Driving While Intoxicated 1:05 a.m. - First Baptist Church of Dripping Springs March 26 Theft 8:36 a.m. - 1XX Pollys Pt Dripping Springs - March 26 Assault/Family Violence 9:24 a.m. - Nutty Brown Rd at Signal Hill Rd - March 27 Burglary/Habitation 8:20 a.m. - 1XX Steamboat Xing - March 27 Theft 3:46 a.m. - 136XX Fitzhugh Rd - March 28

DRIFTWOOD Assault 8:23 a.m. - 2XX Darden Hill Rd - March 23 Environmental Crime 11:09 a.m. - RR 12 at Avenida High View - March 24 Burglary/Building 5:59 a.m. - Creekside Pavilion - March 27

WIMBERLEY Terroristic Threat 9:10 a.m. - 5XX High Mesa Dr - March 22 Theft/Identity 5:00 a.m. - Wimberley Substation - March 22 Theft 12:24 a.m. - Wimberley Substation - March 23 Theft 4:10 a.m. - Wintersmill Pkwy at Fm 3237 - March 23 Theft 6:58 a.m. - 7 Deerfield Dr A - March 23 Fraud 1:18 a.m. - X Deer Ridge Rd - March 24 Driving While Intoxicated 8:29 a.m. - Mountain Crest Dr at RR 12 - March 25 Theft/Identity 1:41 a.m. - 1XX Valley Ridge Rd - March 28

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Obituaries SHERRELL Arnold Lee Sherrell of Dripping Springs, TX went home to be with the Lord on March 16, 2016.

He was 77 years old.

Arny was killed in an accident while riding his motorcycle in Kansas. He had been out with Honor Bound Motorcycle Ministries and was also visiting family. He was doing the things he loved most; serving his Lord, being with his family and riding his bike.

He was born on Christmas Eve, 1938 in Los Angeles, CA to Archie and Beaulah Sherrell. After graduating high school in Anchorage, Alaska, he joined the U.S. Navy and served for four years on the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans. Arny has worked as a bowling pin setter, owned his own bowling alley, and, until his death, selling vehicles to the U.S. Government for Grande Ford. He has lived in California, Alaska,

Nebraska and Texas.

Arny has faithfully served in several churches and most recently at First Assembly of God in Blanco, TX. He has also been very active in Honor Bound Motorcycle Ministries.

He was predeceased by his sister, Jane Chaney, brother, Tony Sherrell, sister, Denise Morrison and lovely wife, Elaine, who passed away just two months ago.

Arny is survived by his sons Troy and Todd Sherrell, daughter Tara Wilson, stepson, Mike Fizzell, and stepdaughters Lori Ferguson and Sue Huckle, sister Deanna Golden, stepsister, Jenny Spurlock, 13 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and 3 very spoiled dogs. All of us will miss him terribly, but rejoice that he is dancing in Heaven with Jesus and Elaine.

A memorial service was held Monday, March 28, at First Baptist Church in Blanco. In lieu of flowers please make donations to Honor Bound Motorcycle Ministries in Arny’s name. http://www.honorboundmm.ag.org

Old Kyle Road: Work begins Continued from pg. 1

downtowns are reviving, provement plans include and it’s because people beatification improvewant to work, play and eat ments and preserving in the same area,” Baccus much of the current landsaid. “People show up scape, Ferguson said. because they want the The large tree that splits camaraderie.” the road near the PlayBaccus is already trying house will also be protectto encourage pedestrians ed during the construction, to explore he said.

Old Kyle Road The plan “If there is a with the Fun also shows Day At the way to connect the option of Yard. The closing Old the gems of event will Kyle Road to Wimberley, that vehicles during have food, live music is a big win for festivals and and will be big events. everybody.” used to see “This will beif people like come a much – Buck Baccus, the idea of quieter area owner of The an extended for pedestrians Lumberyard Retail downtown, and much Center in Wimberley he said. more of an He said attraction,” Bia big key to sett said. “One improving Old Kyle Road thing will lead to another would be connecting and to another as it grows.”

Blue Hole Regional Park Baccus said he plans to downtown. According to hold more venue-like to the master plan report, events and create a similar 37,000 people visited the feel to Hays City Store in park in 2013.

Driftwood, he said.

“Blue Hole is so special “When you walk off and we need to let people the square and pass the carefully experience it,” city park you really aren’t Baccus said. “And the best certain of what’s up there,” way to protect something Baccus said. “If there is a like Blue Hole is to make it way to connect the gems accessible.” of Wimberley, that is a big A large chunk of the imwin for everybody.”

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Local businesswomen warm up at Java Jargon

BY PAIGE LAMBERT

News-Dispatch Reporter

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aunching or expanding a business can be a challenge without connections. Cheryl Flores is connecting the web of businesswomen in Hays County with her venture, Java Jargon.

Java Jargon is held the second Tuesday of every month at the Wimberley Visitors Center and welcomes businesswomen across the Hill Country.

The group serves as a networking, business strategy and conversational hub, Flores said.

Flores, a Wimberley resident who began her business a year ago, informally met with her friend to brainstorm ways to expand their businesses in the Hill Country.

After meeting with others, she realized a lot of businesswomen who work in bigger cities want to work in Wimberley and closer to home, she said.

“To build your business, it’s important to build those relationships,” Flores said. “And just seeing everybody was so exciting.”

About 12 women

attended the first meeting March 1 and at least four others have expressed a desire to join, Flores said.

Patricia Kelly said she joined the group to learn the ins and outs of business before she opens her boutique in May. “Everyone is on a different path but we can help each other,” Kelly said. “Everyone had something wonderful to add and you can take away advice from everyone.”

The meetings last for an hour and focus on spotlighting businesses.

Flores said speakers may come to future meetings and the last 15 minutes will be used to network.

“We have unique needs and I think women are unique in the marketplace,” Flores said. “We wear so many different hats and we need to connect.”

Nancy Quayle, a 30year architect in Wimberley, said there were very few business women 30 years ago. She said businesswomen-centered groups helped her business in Texas, and while she was in Colorado.

“I’m hoping this will also get my name out to

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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Sports

Tigers earn season sweep of Marble Falls

BY MOSES LEOS III

News-Dispatch Editor

Two wins in two days gave the Dripping Springs Tiger baseball team a season sweep of the Marble Falls Mustangs last week.

With the win, Dripping Springs evens its district record at 2-2.

The Tigers began their

two-game sweep by notching a come-from-behind 3-2 walk-off win on March 22.

The Tigers scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh frame to defeat Marble Falls.

Trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the seventh, Dripping Springs gained a lead off double by Noah Orr, who moved to third base

on a Marble Falls miscue.

It was followed by a RBI single from Jett Jackson to tie the game.

Following a Marco Pressley sacrifice bunt, Brittan Howeth followed by hitting a hard ground ball to the outfield. An errant throw allowed Jackson to score the game winning run.

But the Tigers didn’t

need late game heroics on March 24 as they rolled past the Mustangs 12-2 in a run-rule five inning game.

Dripping Springs hit the ground running by scoring five runs in the top of the first inning, which was followed by a four run second inning.

The Tigers scored two more runs in the top of the

third frame to take a 11-0 lead before Marble Falls responded.

The Mustangs tallied a run in the bottom of the third, but were unable to catch up.

Dripping Springs scattered ten hits in the March 24 game, led by Justin Dunlap, who had two hits in the game.

Tiger Reed Beverly had

Dripping Springs Tiger Jacob Graner follows through on hurling the discus during the 2015 Area Track and Field meet held at Marble Falls High School. On Friday, Graner and many other Tiger track and field athletes will participate in the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium.

PHOTO BY WAYLAND D. CLARK, WFOTOS.COM

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Tigers prep for Texas Relays STAFF REPORT A torrent of Dripping Springs Tiger Track and Field athletes will make the trek to Austin this week as they participate in the 89th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium.

Several individual Tiger athletes return to Myers Stadium, including Ethan Fernea, Hailey Hodsden, Nathan Schmitzer and Trevor Heinz, who all competed

at Texas Relays last year.

Fernea competed in the boys 100 meter dash, while Hodsden ran in the girls 100 meter dash.

Schmitzer took part in the boys 110 meter hurdles, while Heinz ran in the boys 1600 meter run. All reprise their roles in the same events in 2016.

Also returning are the Tiger girls 4 x 100 meter relay team, which also hit the track at Texas Relays in 2015.

Tigers athletes at Texas Relays FRIDAY

Girls 100 meter hurdles – Hannah Biggs – 1:00 p.m.

Boys 110 meter hurdle prelims Nathan Schmitzer – 1:30 p.m.

Girls and Boys 100 meter dash – Hailey Hodsden, Ethan Fernea – 1:30 p.m.

Boys Discus (prelims and finals) Jacob Graner – 4:15 p.m.

Boys 1600 meter run Trevor Heinz – 6:20 p.m.

Girls 4x400 meter relay – Sydney Burtch, Kyndall Womack, Frankie Lord, Hannah Moore, Lightsey Puryear – 7:45 p.m.

SATURDAY

Girls 4x100 meter relay– Bryce Potter, Sarah Dodd, Jordan Rich, Hailey Hodsden, Kiva Mullins – 9 a.m.

Boys 3200 meter relay – Bryce Kalsu, Zack Kovar, Colton Hawkins, Trevor Heinz, Spencer Gnauck – 10 a.m.

Tiger lacrosse too much for TMI Last Thursday the Dripping Springs High School Tiger Lacrosse team took on TMI of San Antonio. Varsity Tigers defeated the Panthers 12-5. Reid McClintic, Richard Beggs and Tri Hays were defensive standouts. McClintic and Beggs each had a pair of stick checks. Additionally, McClintic had four positive turnovers, Beggs had two positive turnovers and Hays had 15 saves in the goal.

On offense, Parker Jamail and Gabe Reno each had hat tricks with three goals apiece. Also scoring for the TIgers were Geoffrey Tyler, Seiler Hess, Hank Cohen and Robert Blackmon. The JV defeated TMI with a score of 12-4. Goals were earned

by Danner Hutchison, Ryan Thomas, Logan Heinchon, Sean O’Connor and Corey Ryan. Shown is Tiger player Adam Sheppard, right.

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three RBIs while Dunlap finished with two.

Dripping Springs’ Reese Johnson had two RBIs. Tiger pitcher Grant Gaspard earned the win as he went four innings and had five strikeouts.

The Tigers host Georgetown East View Friday at the Dripping Springs Sportsplex. First pitch is scheduled for 7 p.m.

PHOTO BY MAUREEN JAMAIL

Shelbye Daniels is hit in the middle of the back with a pitch in a game against Marble Falls. The Lady Tigers have been hit by pitch 9 times this season. It’s sometimes a painful way to get on base but it is a way, and often times a way to put a run on the board too.

13-0

Tiger softball remains unbeaten in district play

BY MOSES LEOS III

5 with two RBIs and three runs scored. Coronoa News-Dispatch Editor logged three singles and a double in the game and Twelve runs scored stole a base as well. on 17 hits guided the Joining Corona was Dripping Springs Lady Paige Leschber, who Tigers softball team to a went 3 for 3 at the plate lopsided 12-2 win over with three singles and the Georgetown Eagles an RBI, and Haley Odell, Thursday. who went 3 for 5 and was With the win, Dripa home run shy of the ping Springs (19-4, 6-0 cycle. in 25-5A play) But it was continues to Georgetown maintain its that climbed COMING UP unblemished out to a 1-0 The Tigers host record in dislead in the first Cedar Park Fritrict play. The inning before day at the Dripwin was the Dripping ping Springs Lady Tigers’ Sportsplex.

Springs roared First pitch is 13th straight back. set for 7 p.m. victory in a Dripping row dating Springs scored back to a Feb. three runs in 27 loss to Magnolia West the second frame, then in the Brittany Tuck Mefollowed by plating two morial Tournament. more in the fourth to take The Tigers are cura commanding 5-1 lead. rently ranked No. 16 in The Tigers added two the Texas Girls Coaches more runs in the sixth inAssociation Class 5A ning, followed by scoring state poll. five runs in the seventh Lady Tiger pitcher frame.

Kiele Miller went the Through 20 games distance as she allowed played, Miller leads the only four hits and three team with a 14-2 record walks in a complete and a ERA of 1.05. Miller game effort. Miller struck now has 164 strikeouts out 13 Eagle batters and has allowed 37 walks. and gave up only two Dripping Springs has runs, with both of them a team batting average earned. of .362 and a on-base Dripping Springs’ Capercentage of .425. Tiger mille Corona caught fire bats have a team slugat the plate by going 4 for ging percentage of .527.

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Education

DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD

District to explore new designation, exemptions

BY PAIGE LAMBERT

News-Dispatch Reporter

Dripping Springs ISD moved one step closer to implementing its strategic plan with its exploration of the District of Innovation designation.

The Dripping Springs ISD school board unanimously approved exploring the designation during the March 28 school board meeting.

The designation became available after the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 1842 during the 84th legislative session.

It allows public schools to apply various exemptions that were only available to open enrollment charter schools, said DSISD superintendent Bruce Gearing. Some of the exemptions include changes to teacher benefits, class size ratios and the school calendar.

“The big rocks are going to stay, but it does give you some flexibility outside

“We can teach and train people to teach physics, but we can’t train people to build great relationships with kids and ignite learning.”

–Bruce Gearing, DSISD superintendant

of that to do things a little differently,” Gearing said.

“And have some more local control.”

The process is completely controlled by the district and requires the state to allow exemptions requested by DSISD. If the designation is approved, the district could apply for an exemption to change from the state mandated Aug. 24 start date, Gearing said.

“That rule goes away for us and now we can decide if we are going to start on the fifth of August and if we are going to put more breaks in,” Gearing said.

“And still finish in May.” He said next year’s start and end date won’t change, but the district

may implement individual days to start later, allowing for more professional development.

If approved, the designation could allow some flexibility in teacher certifications by exempting the district from federal requirements.

The district could consider qualifications such as real world experience or alternative certifications in the hiring process for new teachers.

He said the switch from focusing on certifications would help push the strategic plan’s teacher-centered portion.

“We can teach and train people to teach physics, but we can’t train people to build great relationships

with kids and ignite learning,” Gearing said.

The designation would also allow the district to implement its own teacher appraisal system without having the state’s input, he said.

Gearing said the designation has been available since 1995 under the name of a home-rule designation.

To date there hasn’t been a district in Texas to apply for the homerule designation, partly because the process and rules were so strict, he said.

The board will appoint a committee to create the innovation plan April 18 and will vote to approve at its June meeting, Gearing said. The district would implement the approved plan during the 2016-2017 school year, he said.

“It aligns well with our strategic plan but it’s not what is driving what we are doing,” Gearing said.

“It is just helping us get to our strategic plan.”

WISD Bond: More buses, same tax rate Continued from pg. 1

The bond will not increase the district’s current 1.2977 tax rate because the district has refinanced its debt over the past 3 to 4 years, Wimberley ISD superintendent Dwain York said.

The bond would be applied to the interest and sinking fund, he said.

Doing so keeps the money from the state’s Robin Hood plan, which would require 60 cents of every dollar be returned to the state, he said.

“That’s ridiculous, almost unethical in my opinion,” York said. “We look for every refinancing possibility … with that increased revenue so we can put it into the fund balance so we can build up this capacity.”

A bond above $6.5 million would have called for a tax rate increase, he said.

Proposition 1 earmarks $2.5 million for the purchase of new buses and special education vehicles. York said the district is already down to one special education bus and needs to add another route.

“This will not only give us new buses, and now we will be under warranty which will save us on maintenance for a couple of years,” York said. “It will also increase our fleet.”

York said at least five buses can’t be fixed, with many operating at 35

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Proposition 1 also includes maintenance improvements at Scudder Elementary and Wimberley High School, which are estimated at $100,000 and $165,000, respectively. It also calls for a $120,000 maintenance building.

Proposition 2 calls for $500,000 to replace the athletic turf at Texan Stadium. Many spots of the turf currently show at 190 average of compaction, York said.

A compaction rating of 200 or above is considered unsafe. York said the district was going to wait another year to replace it until the president of the district’s insurer visited, York said.

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The district would save $300,000 on the replacement turf, he said, if the measure is approved by voters. The turf would also have a Cushdrain pad that improves drainage and shock absorption, York said.

He said if the bond doesn’t pass, the district will quickly create a committee to discover why and how the district can make it more favorable to residents.

“Everything we have on this bond are needs we knew we were going to have later on down the road,” York said. “If this doesn’t pass we’ll have to make do with what we can do.”

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B

irds will eat almost anything. While bugs, seeds, fruits and nectar are common in their diets, more exotic fare is not unusual.

For example, honeyguides, a family of birds primarily from Africa, dine largely on beeswax.

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Birds eat all sorts of things, large and small.

Art, Crafts, Gifts, Jewelry Gourmet Food Delights Plants and Herbs Repurposed Apparel Texas Hand Made Items

Continued from pg. 1

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