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Cub Scout Pack 261 isproud to announce the ap-pointment o Cheryl
Atkin-son as our new Cub ScoutMaster. She will be leadingPack 261
over the next cou-ple o years in adventureand activities or the
boysrom 1st 5th grade.
Mrs Atkinson has been aresident o Gonzales or the
past 19 years and currentlyhas 2 boys that are active inthe
local Boy Scouting pro-gram. She started as a i-ger Cub leader or
1st grad-ers and has ollowed her
sons up through the ranks.Her other youth experienceare working
as a FUMCSunday School teacher or3-4 year olds, a high
schoolteacher in Seguin, and asan advisor or FCCLA inSeguin.
I am a supporter o cubscouts because the val-ues and skills
taught andpracticed throughout theboys time in the scoutingprogram.
We are not al-
ways able to ocus on theseunderlying principles and
values in our academic daywhere our children spendmost o their
time. Bylearning what scouting has
to oer, helps these boysin their everyday lie, onthe sports eld
and in theclassroom.
Pack 261 has been a parto Gonzales or over 50years, and are
sponsored bythe United Methodist MenClub. Many o Gonzalescurrent
leaders were mem-bers o Pack 261 when theywere young boys.
Troughthe leadership and the par-ents guidance values were
instilled in these boys thatdate back more than 100years when
Lord BadenPowell started scouting.
In closing Cheryl com-mented, I was honored
when approached about
the Cub Scout Master posi-tion and will Do My Bestto make cub
scouts un, ex-citing and inormative orthe boys and parents. I
amhoping together with yourhelp as parents, guardiansand community
memberswe can make scouting apositive and memorableexperience or
our youngcitizens and uture leaders.
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Community
Friends of the NRADinner & Auction
Tues., Aug. 23
Hermann Sons Hall
- Gonzales
Doors open 6 p.m.
$20.00 per person
For More
Information
Contact:
George Fink830-857-6119
or
Gerald Black
830-437-5772
2011 Property Tax Rates in COUNTY OF GONZALESThis notice
concerns the 2011 property tax rates for COUNTY OF GONZALES. It
presents information
about three tax rates. Last years tax rate is the actual tax
rate the taxing unit used to determine property
taxes last year. This years effective tax rate would impose the
same total taxes as last year if you compare
properties taxed in both years. This years rollbacktax rate is
the highest tax rate the taxing unit can set
before taxpayers start rollback procedures. In each case these
rates are found by dividing the total amount
of taxes by the tax base (the total value of taxable property)
with adjustments as required by state law. The
rates are given per $100 of property value.
Last years tax rate:
Last years operating taxes $5,227,514
Last years debt taxes $351,153
Last years total taxes $5,578,667
Last years tax base $864,909,612
Last years total tax rate $0.6450/$100
This years effective tax rate:
Last years adjusted taxes $5,570,510(after subtracting taxes on
lost
property)
+ This years adjusted tax base $941,242,609
(after subtracting value of new
property)
= This years effective tax rate $0.5918/$100
(Maximum rate unless unit publishes
notices and hold hearings.)
This years rollback tax rate:
Last years adjusted operating taxes
(after subtracting taxes on lost property
and adjusting for any transferred
function, tax increment nancing, state $6,353,963
criminal justice mandate, and/or
enhanced indigent healthcare
expenditures)
+ This years adjusted tax base $941,242,609
= This years effective operating rate $0.6751/$100
x 1.08=this years maximum $0.7291/$100
operating rate
+ This years debt rate $0.0367/$100
= This years total rollback rate $0.7658/$100
-Sales tax adjustment rate $0.1182/$100
=Rollback tax rate $0.6476/$100
Statement of Increase/Decrease
If COUNTY OF GONZALES adopts a 2011 tax rate equal to the
effective tax rate of $0.5918 per $100 of
value, taxes would increase compared to 2010 taxes by
$85,913.
Schedule A: Unencumbered Fund Balance
The following estimated balances will be left in the units
property tax accounts at the end of the scal year.
These balances are not encumbered by a corresponding debt
obligation
Type of Property Tax Fund Balance
GENERAL 2,841,353
ROAD & BRIDGE 1,396,151
DEBT SERVICE 129,434
Schedule B: General Fund - 2011 Debt Service
The unit plans to pay the following amounts for long-term debts
that are secured by property taxes. These
amounts will be paid from property tax revenues (or additional
sales tax revenues, if applicable).
Principal or Contract Interest to be
Description of Debt Payment to be Paid Paid from Other
Amounts
from Property Taxes Property Taxes to be paid Total Payment
2000 SERIES BONDS 160,000 4,000 350 164,350
2002 SERIES BONDS 145,000 14,813 300 160,113
2006 SERIES BONDS 15,000 67,021 0 82,021
Total required for 2011 debt service $406,484
- Amount (if any) paid from Schedule A $54,434
- Amount (if any) paid from other resources $0
- Excess collections last year $0
= Total to be paid from taxes in 2011 $352,050
+ Amount added in anticipation that the unit will
collect only 100.00% of its taxes in 2011 $0
=Total debt levy $352,050
Schedule C - Expected Revenue from Additional Sales Tax
In calculating its effective and rollback tax rates, the unit
estimated that it will receive $1,130,943 in ad-
ditional sales and use tax revenues. The county has excluded any
amount that is or will be distributed for
economic development grants from this amount of expected sales
tax revenue.
Schedule D - Criminal Justice Mandate
The COUNTY OF GONZALES Auditor certies that COUNTY OF GONZALES
has spent $33,016 in the
previous 12 months beginning JUNE 1, 2010, for the maintenance
and operations cost of keeping inmates
sentenced to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. COUNTY OF
GONZALES Sheriff has provided
information on these costs, minus the state revenues received
for reimbursement of such costs.
This notice contains a summary of actual effective and rollback
tax rates calculations. You can inspect a
copy of the full calculations at 522 ST. MATTHEW, GONZALES, TX
78629.
Name of person preparing this notice: NORMA JEAN DUBOSETitle:
GONZALES COUNTY TAX ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR
Date Prepared: 08/12/2011
R EMS Svic f YGonzales county EMS & Rescue has been selected
as the Rural EMS Service of the Year at the Leaders of EMS
Banquet sponsored by San Antonio AirLife. The service is also
being nominated as the top EMS system in
the state of Texas. (Courtesy Photo)
Gonzales County EMSwas among the honoreesas San Antonio
AirLIFEhosted its annual Leadersin Emergency Care rec-ognition
dinner, Aug. 12,at the El ropicano River-walk Hotel. Te dinner
washeld in conjunction withAirLIFEs Emergency CareClinical
Conerence, Aug.13.
With KSA 12s Jenni-er Dodd as the emcee orthe celebration, there
weremore than 150 attendeesor the annual aair.
Te purpose o thisevent was to take the op-portunity or
AirLIFEemployees to recognizeothers in the region thatwork hard at
ensuring thebest care is given to theirpatients stated
AirLIFEpresident and CEO ShawnSalter.
All o those recognizedwere chosen by AirLIFEFlight Nurses,
FlightParamedics, and Flight
Communicators basedon interactions they hadexperienced with
hospi-tals, EMS agencies andindividuals in EmergencyMedicine. All
acilities andagencies in the exas De-partment o State
HealthServices (DSHS) raumaService Area P were in-cluded.
Tose to be recog-nized during the eventwere: Rural
HealthcareFacility: South exas Re-gional Medical Center;Urban
Healthcare Facil-ity: CHRISUS SantaRosa New Braunels;
Ur-ban/Suburban EMS: NewBraunels Fire/EMS; RuralEMS: Gonzales
CountyEMS; Hospital Represen-tative: Denise Fletcher,Uvalde
Memorial Hospi-tal; Fire/EMS Representa-tive: Keith Eldard,
HelotesFire/EMS; elecommuni-cator: Juanita Hernandez,University
Health Systemranser Center; Partneror Lie: David Wampler,Ph.D.,
UHSCSA.I be-lieve that it is importantto be recognized by
yourpeers, and these are thepeople that our fight crewsinteract
with daily, addedSalter.
Serving the communitysince 1991, AirLIFE is theonly exas owned
non-prot and CAMS (Com-mission on Accredita-tion o Medical
ransportServices) accredited airmedical service in South-west exas
and providesemergency air transportto more than 50 countieswithin a
150-mile radius othe San Antonio. AirLIFEis jointly owned by
BaptistHealth System and Univer-sity Health System.
www.txairlie.com
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