Salado Villageillage Voiceoice VOL. XLII, NUMBER 5 VTHURSDAY, MAY 16, 2019 254/947-5321 V SALADOviLLAGEVOICE.COM 50¢ After reception BoA gets to work on annexation BY TIM FLEISCHER EDitOR-in-CHIEF Prior to the regular meet- ing of the Board of Alder- men, a reception will honor outgoing aldermen Michael McDougal, who has served six years on the board, and Andy Jackson, who has served two. The reception will begin at 6 p.m. May Michael McDougal 16. During the meeting that starts at 6:30 p.m., incoming aldermen Rodney W. Bell, Valedictorian Grace Barker Salutatorian Sarah Umpleby John Cole and Dr. Amber Preston-Dankert will be giv- en their oaths of office. The Top grads named for Class of 2019 board will then appoint a With graduation near, Spanish 1-3 and Computer Salutatorian AP Statistics, AP Calculus Mayor Pro Tem for the year. Salado High School has Science and AP in English She has attended school Sarah Umpleby is the Village of Salado alder- named its top two graduates Language, English Litera- in Salado for nine years. 2019 Salado High School Sa- men will conduct the second for 2019: Grace Barker and ture, Calculus, Biology, US During that time she has lutatorian with a final grade set of public hearings May Sarah Umpleby. History, US Government, been a member of National Andy Jackson point average of 111.154. 16 for the annexations of Macroeconomics, World Honor Society; Mu Alpha She is the daughter of Salado ISD properties and of the boundaries of the pro- Valedictorian History, Spanish Language Theta (math honor society); Jennifer and John Umpleby rights of way. The board posed Emergency Services Grace Barker is the 2019 and Computer Science. UIL Academics team mem- and is the youngest of three will then have readings of District. The Subchapter B Salado High School vale- Grace will study Nursing ber; Salado High School with older sister Jessica and the ordinances to annex the further states that “(a-1) A dictorian with a final grade and Business at The Ohio Varsity Band Salado Percus- older brother Parker. properties at their June 6 and statement that the boundaries point average of 112. State University. She will be sion Ensemble and Salado She is the grand-daughter June 20 meetings. of the district are coexten- She is the daughter of a Certified Registered Nurs- Youth Leadership. of Steve and Kathy Lindsay Under the annexation sive with the boundaries of Thomas and Tamara Barker es Anesthetist and may start She has participated in of Salado, Kay Lindsay of agreement with Salado ISD, another political subdivision, of Salado. her own business. UMHB piano concerts and Calendron, TX and Barbara the Village of Salado will as those boundaries exist on Grace is the second oldest She is a fan of Buckeye tutored peers after school Umpleby of Dallas. provide police protection a particular date, is a suffi- of four. Her older brother is football. At university, she and on the weekends. She Umpleby will attend Tex- and patrol to the proper- cient legal description.” Noah. Younger siblings are may pursue debate as well also volunteered for Keep as A&M University where ties, which are now under According to Section Faith, Joshua and Eli. as the Innovation, Creativity Salado Beautiful and Salado she will major in statistics the jursidiction of the Bell 48.e. of the Legislative She is the granddaughter and Entrepreneurship Schol- Lions Club projects. She was with the goal of becoming County Sheriff’s Depart- Code, Emergency Services of Helen Taylor of Kene- ars Program. a camp counselor for Camp an actuary. ment. Salado Volunteer Fire Districts may levy a tax rate dy, Jim Taylor of Pawnee, She will take with her Invention and a counselor “My high school math Department will provide fire of no more than 10 cents per Dorothy Barker of Dallas memories of her senior year, for Vacation Bible School. teacher of four years, Mr. protection. Private compa- $100 of property value in and Donald Barker of Little including painting her own She will spend the sum- Cabaniss, has given me the nies will provide water, gar- their district. Rock, Arkansas. parking lot spot at SHS, mer “working and spending most inspiration in my aca- bage and electric services. The Salado VFD service Grace has attended Sala- wearing senior overalls on time with family before de- demic life,” Umpleby said. Library services will be pro- area is 115 square miles and do schools since third grade. Fridays, Prom and Corban parting for college.” “He has been a respected vided by the Salado Public is larger than the Salado ISD She was active in debate, Mescher’s singing. teacher for over forty years. Library District. boundaries. competing in both Lincoln- Salado has instilled in her Services My junior year, I took his The Village will provide The total taxable values Douglas style debate in a “strong sense of communi- Salado High School Bac- AP Statistics class. The first sewer service to the proper- for Salado ISD in 2018 were which she was a Regional ty and friendships that help caulaureate will be 6 p.m. test I took in that class, I ties. The Village will also $877,377,668. The prelimi- qualifier and congressional you through anything.” May 19 at the Salado First failed miserably. Mr. Caban- provide parks although no nary 2019 values received by debate in which she quali- She will also remember Baptist Church. iss helped me to persevere new parks are planned for Salado ISD last week were fied for State and will com- Senora Kessler. “I love her Senior awards night will in statistics. Due to his en- the annexed areas. No street just over $1 billion. pete later this month. She is sarcastic comments,” she be May 28 at Salado High couragement, I found an ap- lights provided by the Vil- Based on this preliminary a member of National Honor said adding that Kessler “in- School. A student art show preciation and interest in the lage are planned for the value, a 1¢ property tax levy Society, Mu Alpha Theta, spires me to be and do my will be 5-6 p.m. with the subject that had previously areas either. The newly an- would generate $100,000 per ASTRA, and Student Coun- best.” scholarship and awards pre- caused me angst. Thanks to nexed areas will fall under year for an ESD with bound- cil. Mr. Cook, her debate sentations beginning at 6 him, I have decided to major the building codes for the aries that are the same as She was a volunteer for coach, “taught me the value p.m. in statistics at Texas A&M in Village. the school district. A 5¢ tax Camp Invention as a leader- in evaluating more than one Commencement ceremo- hopes of becoming an actu- However, the school dis- levy would generate about ship intern and was the Sal- point of view.” ny will be 2 p.m. June 1 at ary.” trict may provide proof of $500,000 for the emergency ado high school representa- Mrs. Wentrcek “always the Mayborn Center on the Throughout her high third-party inspections to services district per year. A tive this year on the Village brightened my day. She was campus of the University of school career, Umpleby has the Village in lieu of the 10¢ property tax levy (the of Salado board of Alder- always smiling and happy to Mary Hardin Baylor. taken Advanced Placement inspections provided by the maximum) would generate men. help” Salado ISD will celebrate classes, including the fol- Village. If the school district about $1 million per year. At Salado High School, Over the summer, Barker its younger students with lowing: AP US History, AP hires the Village inspectors A 1¢ tax rate for a proper- she took Advanced Place- will attend Turning Point Kindergarten Graduation World History, AP Econom- it will do so at the cost to the ty valued at $250,000 would ment and Pre-AP courses USA’s Young Women’s 6:30 p.m. May 28 at the In- ics, AP Government, AP Village, not including the be $25 per year increase in in several studies, including Leadership Summit. She termediate cafeteria. Language and Composition, typically 10% service charge property taxes. A 5¢ tax levy these: Pre-AP in English will spend time with her Eighth graduation will be AP Literature and Composi- that the Village charges oth- would be $125 on the same 1 and 2, Algebra 1 and 2, family and friends before at 5:30 p.m. May 30 the In- tion, AP Biology, AP Span- ers for inspection services value and a 10¢ tax rate Geometry, pre-calculus, Bi- packing up and heading to termediate Cafeteria. ish Language and Culture, by Bureau Veritas. would be $250 per year. ology, Chemistry, Physics, Ohio for orientation. Finally the school district Currently, Salado Volun- will not pay any Impact Fees teer Fire Department funds for the sewer services, even its budget through donations, Rain on rooftops means it’s time though it will be the first fundraisers such as the an- properties annexed into the nual Smokin Spokes, pay- Village since the Village ments from the county and for Ferguson to go back to work began to provide sewer ser- a $40,000 payment from the vices. Village of Salado. BY TIM FLEISCHER iniscent of the weeks of wet son said as a forecast of 50% came down. In other business, alder- Salado VFD has an annu- EDitOR-in-CHIEF weather that led to the flood- or more chance of rain the “In the last two weeks we men will discuss in work- al budget of about $145,000 ing in the hill country town next four days loomed on the have had more than 10 inch- shop session the formation for equipment and mainte- The sound of rain on the of Wimberley where he was horizon.