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Friday, October 27, 2000
South Texas Notes
'City Bond Election Special' is topic of show tonight
"City Bond Election Special" will airat 8:30 p.m. today on KEDT-TV.
Guests in favor of the bond issues will include David Engel, chairman of Forward Corpus Christi, and Gail Hoffman, Forward Corpus Christi supporter.
Those opposing the bond issue will be Hal Suter and Alicia Gallegos-Gomez of the Corpus Christi Taxpayer's Association.
On Nov. 7, residents will vote on:
A one-eighth-cent sales tax increase for an arena.
A one-eighth-cent sales tax increase for repairs to the seawall.
A one-eighth-cent sales tax increase for economic development. A $5.33 million bond issue for public health and safety, which would include a new fire station and police training facility.
A $4.42 million bond issue for park and recreation improvements and $270,000 for museum improvements.
An estimated $20.7 million bond issue for street repairs.
The city's $30.8 million bond package would be financed by a 4-cent increase in the property tax rate.
The impact on the owner of a $67,278 home would be $26.91 annually, or about $2.24 a month.
Jury indicts man turned away by jail officials
A grand jury on Thursday indicted a man on a sexual assault charge - one week after he was arrested but turned away by Nueces County Jail officials because of a medical condition, prosecutors said.
William Holly, 58, of Corpus Christi, was indicted on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child in connection with the same incident in which he was arrested last week.
He was not in custody at the county jail Thursday evening.
Holly was arrested Oct. 19 on a warrant and taken to the jail. Corpus Christi Police Officer Richard Maxwell, who arrested Holly, said jail medical personnel told him he would have to take Holly to a hospital for clearance before the jail would accept him.
Maxwell said that, in releasing Holly, he followed instructions he had been given before the arrest by superiors who believed there was nothing an emergency room could do to make Holly fit for jail.
Police investigators knew before Holly was arrested that he had undergone several heart surgeries and had high blood pressure and diabetes.
Sheriff Larry Olivarez said Holly complained of chest pains, had a high heart rate, was sweating profusely and had elevated blood sugar levels. Olivarez said the jail cannot accept such a medically unstable prisoner and must have a medical clearance.
Small grass fire spreads quickly near Citgo unit
A grass fire off of Interstate 37 and Corn Products Road took firefighters an hour to control Thursday afternoon, Channel 6 News reported.
Fire officials said that about 4 p.m. crews responded to the small grass fire and found it spreading toward Citgo's tanker storage farm.
Three units from Annaville along with six from the Corpus Christi Fire Department fought the fire for about an hour before getting it under control, Channel 6 reported.
No one was hurt and property damage was minor.
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