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Inside the Moon Bucket Babies A2 Protest A7 Music from the Moon A7 Fishing A11 Issue 797 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Hope Love Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 July 25, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The By the Numbers Island Islanders Meet with City Island Six By Dale Rankin We got a bit of relief from the heat Pack Projects this week and it didn’t involve a to Push Grocery Store Editor’s note: The Island Tax hurricane. We had actual north wind... Increment Reinvestment Zone in the summertime and it didn’t #2 was voted into existence in involve a hurricane! As we write this on Wednesday the National Hurricane 2000 to fund the building of Center announced it is watching a Project Packery Channel. The TRZ disturbance in the northwestern Gulf captures property tax on new of Mexico which has a 20 percent construction inside the zone chance of developing into a tropical after 2002, which includes system in the next week. It’s the time of year we start playing chicken with the Island business district, these things. and dedicates it to projects There is a lot going on Around The inside the zone. When the Island this week so let’s roll. zone was established in 2002 the city council approved six Island thefts projects to be funded by the Corpus Christi police have now “The elephant is through the hole, now it’s just the tail” zone. Although still referred dedicated three full-time officers to By Dale Rankin organized a meeting between the The Island and the practice of pulling to as the Six Pack, they were Rasheeds and city officials including officers OTB for calls there has Four years ago when developer eventually combined into five City Councilwoman Paulette now ceased. This is reflected in the Moshin Rasheed decided to bring projects when the restrooms Guajardo and Councilman Greg increased number of traffic stops in a grocery store to Padre Island he Smith and about twenty Islanders. on each side of Packery the Police Blotter of late. The Island is didn’t know what wetlands were. Channel were combined into City officials say they are awaiting filling up and PD is moving to keep up “I know what they are now brother,” a document from the bank on the one budget line item. and for that we thank them. There is Rasheed said Wednesday during a project to guarantee funding for talk of bringing the bike cops back to meeting with city officials to try to The following are the about $900,000 to fund 1500 feet The Island which was very effective in get the grocery store project over the projects in order of their of a 24-inch sewer line. Once that running of sneak thieves on The Island last hurdle to begin construction. two year ago. That being said a check is in place, expected this week, completion as listed in of the Police Blotter in this issue Frustrated with the slow progress platting for the site will go to the information presented to the will show that car thieves have been on the project Islander Debbie Wall City Council on August 13 and the Grocery cont. on A4 council this week. active of late; not car burglars who steal things off the seat of unlocked $2,869,224 Parking lot and cars, these peckerwoods are taking shade structures on the north the whole car. Officers also recently Pavilion for North Packery side of Packery Channel arrested three crews of thieves stealing Completed in March 2012. mail from Island mailboxes who now City Council approves last of Island Six Pack Projects get their own mail at 901 Leopard St, $460,743 Parking lot and 78401. after seventeen years restroom on Michael J. Ellis Island thieves are not cat burglars. By Dale Rankin Roy. along the beachfront. It was originally Seawall. Completed in July Their method is simply to walk the conceived as a structure on a cement 2010.. Seventeen years after the Corpus “This project was long in the making block trying car doors to see if they slab located on the beach near the Christi City Council approved six we need to build it,” Rudy Garza. $1,053,176 Packery can find one unlocked and they take mouth of Packery Channel but city projects on Padre Island to be funded what they can. Lock your car doors “The cost will just continue to go designers soon learned that rules Channel Boat Ramps and by the Island’s Tax Increment and keep your garage door down. up,” Paulette Guajardo “If we wait we from the Texas General Land Office Parking Lot. Completed in Reinvestment Zone #2 the last of the The PD can’t be everywhere and continue on this path. It’s not going to which manages the beach prohibit projects was approved by the council July, 2009. we are low hanging fruit if we don’t get any better.” impermeable structures in front of the watch out for ourselves. It’s up to us. Tuesday by a 6-3 margin. $412,000 Four solar “The $24,000 cost for design of this dune line. The next option was to raise The Corpus City Council on Tuesday The project is the last of the so- project should have come in lower,” the building on pilings but the cost powered bathrooms on both declared July Watch Your Car Month - called Six Pack projects promised as Smith said. “But that check has been proved prohibitive, as was the case sides of Packery Channel. or maybe it was Wash Your Car Month part of the Packery Channel project. cashed, if we don’t approve this with permanent restrooms there. The we were sitting in the back of the room Original estimate The three votes against the plan project with this design we don’t get and couldn’t hear very well...we’ll go Pavilion cont. on A4 came from Mayor Joe McComb, any of that money $1.2 million. Portable with either one. District 3 Councilman Roland back.” restrooms were used when Golf Cart rules Barrera, and District 5 Councilman The project had permanent, ground-level Gil Hernandez citing the gone through facilities could not be built Islander Bob Algeo made a request $218,387.70 price tag. to the city council this week for what several revisions under state rules. (Originally is an overdue update to the city’s “There is no way to justify that at the suggestion listed as two project – one golf cart ordinance. When then City amount for that facility,” McComb of the Island on each side of the channel) Councilwoman Chris Adler pushed said. Strategic Action Committee since Completed in 2018. the ordinance through almost a decade Voting in favor were District 4 2010 in an attempt ago not much thought was given Councilman Greg Smith, At-Large $218,387.70 Packery to reduce the cost to defining what a golf cart is. The council members Rudy Garza, Channel Pavilion approved of building the reason was that state law at that time Paulette Guajardo, Michael Hunter, structure in the this week. Complete in prohibited anything but actual golf District 2 Councilman Ben Molina, harsh conditions October 2019. carts from operating on city streets. and District 1 Councilman Everett The city ordinance required lights and basic accoutrements and allowed carts on any street with a speed limit of 35 mph or less and golf carts generally A little Island history have a top end speed of 19 mph. Over the years various types of “carts” were used - some that can go well in excess of 19 mph. Historically the police When Padre Island Was Three Houses and Jito did not want to get into the business of reading the model names on carts Abandoned building was the site of landmark Island business making their way Around The Island By Dale Rankin get a few necessities. It all started in so more and more “carts” of different Kansas. types hit Island streets. But of late with For twenty years it was called more of a police presence here there the Country Store, then it sat Longtime Islander James (Jim) have been reports of officers ticketing abandoned for half a dozen years Sambol was a recruiter for football people for driving carts they have been and in 2018 was set to be torn coach Vince Gibson who coached at driving for years without problems. down, and now, according to Kansas State University from (1967– plans, it will become a restaurant 1974). At a recruiting party in the late But there is a solution. As Mr. Algeo bar operation. sixties Sambol ran into a friend who pointed out to the council Tuesday was in real estate. House Bill 1548 allows for cities to But before that, after it was built pass an ordinance that makes Utility in 1970 the recently refurbished “If you ever find a good deal on a Task Vehicles legal on city streets. building that sits on five lots on business of some sort,” Sambol told Any Islander who owns a UTV and the west side of South Padre him. “Let me know. And a while would like to see it made legal Around Island Drive between Whitecap later he called and said ‘Well, I found The Island should take this up with the Boulevard and Encantada Avenue something but it’s a little bit further Island Strategic Action Committee.

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