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Karnes County's newspaper News (last updated on March 26, 2008) Falls City school board considers request to post information on school web site By Kevin Matula The Falls City Board of Trustees met March 19 and discussed a web site posting request. Community member Steven Swierc requested from the board, that the district include certain public information on the district web site. Swierc asked that the district would post on the district web site taxpayer-friendly information on salary, stipend and allowance amounts for the top 10 compensated employees of FCISD from the initial date of employment of the present superintendent to the date of his request. He also requested for the school district to post reasonably understandable annual school budget information for FCISD from the initial date of employment of the present superintendent to the date of his request. He also requested the posting of school board regular and special meeting minutes and a list of school district employees that are not living in the school district. "Actually, I think if we posted what we pay our people, we’d never have anyone apply," Falls City ISD Board of Trustees President Raymond Dziuk said. (click here to read the whole story) Local city and school board elections set for May 10 Several local city and school board elections are scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 10. Incumbent Kenedy Mayor Randy Garza is being challenged by candidate Joseph Lang. Incumbent council members Felipe Leal and May Ann Sanchez are running unopposed. Early voting for Kenedy City elections will happen April 28-29 at City Hall. Regular Election Day voting will happen on May 10 at Kenedy City Hall from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Incumbent Kenedy ISD Place 2 Trustee Tony Mejia is being challenged by candidate Rosemary Vickery. Incumbent Kenedy ISD Place 3 Trustee Frank Nieto is being challenged by write-in candidate Alma Danmier. Early voting for Kenedy ISD elections will happen April 28-May 6 at the parent involvement room near the administrative office. Regular Election Day voting will happen on May 10 at Kenedy City Hall from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Karnes City officials all are running unopposed in the May 10 election. (click here to read the whole story) March has history of large fires COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The second week of March has a history of producing large and devastating fires in Texas and weather conditions expected for this week may fuel those large fires once again. The forecast for Wednesday through Friday calls for critical to extreme fire weather over much of west and central Texas where high winds and low relative humidity may combine to accelerate the spread and intensity of established fires. Fire authorities urge caution during this period of high fire danger. Mark Stanford, Chief of Fire Operations for Texas Forest Service noted, "It is eerie how similar the fire weather forecast for this week is to the weather during the 2006 East Amarillo Complex." (click here to read the whole story) News Archives (click here to see a list of previously published news stories) |
