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July 23, 2020 | Issue Inside the Moon Island Life in Pictures A2 Business Briefs A3 Big Fish A9 Sandcastle Story A9 On the Rocks A11 Issue 849 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Mary Craft Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 July 23, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Majority of Island The Sign Goes Up! Seats on Flour By Dale Rankin We are playing chicken with our first Bluff School real storm of Hurricane Season 2020 as a tropical wave moves out over Board on the central Gulf of Mexico. Quien sabe? Maybe we’ll get some rain. November The forecast calls for hot and humid through September and if it rains for Ballot more than an hour head OTB because it’s a hurricane! Four of seven Our beaches remain closed to traffic through the end of the month and the current members up goal of keeping people from traveling here seems to be working as crowds for re-election are down. Keeping the parking lot open on the Michael J. Ellis Seawall Island taxpayers has been a great help and we thank city leaders for doing that. make up $2.5 billion 2020 bonds of $3.2 billion A bond package of $115 million is making its way toward the November taxable property in ballot with more than the usual The sign went up on the IGA grocery store on Padre Island this week. Opening is set for no later than the end of number of Island projects on it. August. The store’s General Manager Mike Inglehart expects to begin hiring in the next two weeks. For applications the district See Greg Smith’s column in this go to islandmarketiga.com. A majority of seats on the seven- issue for details. The Bond 2020 member Flour Bluff Independent will not require a City property tax School District Board of Directors rate increase due to retiring of old PINS Turtle Rescue Program Starbucks are up for election in November. bonds and the city staff is proposing Current members Jennifer Welp, $72 million of it to be allocated Is Open for Vice-President Michael Morgan, to Streets projects, $23 million to Under Review by Park Service Jerry Hooper (appointed), and Jeff Parks projects, and $20 million to be By Dale Rankin Business! Rank each face re-election on the allocated to Public Safety projects. November ballot. The seats are all At- One of the projects is a re-do of the In June the Regional Office of the Large for four-year terms. access road on SPID from Jackfish to National Park Service issued a study Commodores. of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery The district lists total revenues Program at Padre Island National of $50,138,774 in the 2019-2020 FBISD Seashore. adopted budget and levies a property Flour Bluff ISD has four seats up for tax of $1.07 per $100 of property The program headed by Dr. Donna value and makes up slightly more grabs on the November ballot, there Shaver began in 1970 and over the is still time to register to run. There than half of the property tax burden years its release of hatchling Kemp’s for Island property tax payers. has been a slight change in the school ridley turtles has drawn large crowds schedule for next month. School will and enlisted the help of thousands of Dr. Donna Shaver looks over the The Texas Comptroller’s office still start on Thursday, August 13 volunteers. last Kemp's ridley into the water. lists the Market Value of property in but Nueces County issued a Public the district at $3,835,908,969 with Health Order on July 16th that But not long after the release of a Taxable Value of $3,201,589,196. states in-person instruction cannot the report, which in many ways was mortality on only one percent Numbers presented to the Corpus take place until after September 7 complimentary of the turtle rescue of the worldwide population.” Christi City Council in September, for all school districts in the county. program The Los Angeles Times 2019 list the Taxable Value of So remote school will still begin on reported that $300,000 in grants As we first reported in June, 2019, property on Padre Island at just over August 13 for all FBISD students but raised by the program and making up friction between the turtle program $2.5 billion. from home only. about 30% of its budget were being at PINS and federal authorities diverted to other uses. The report who control its funds goes back The district has a total of seven Beach wagons contained language that doesn’t bode several years. Shaver said then that campuses, including three elementary well for the future of the program. over the past three years funding schools, one middle school and one high school as well as two combined For instance: from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the funding arm campuses. The district website list The park’s sea turtle nest protection/ which awards grants to programs enrollment at 5,600 students in relocation/egg incubation program across the country based on prekindergarten through 12th grades. can be credited for improving policy recommendations from the The election the science and techniques for National Oceanic and Atmospheric The long-anticipated Starbucks hatchling production. However, Administration, has been cutting Coffeehouse opened its doors on Filing for the four seats runs the program does implement very back on the program’s grant money. Wednesday. For more information through 5 p.m. Monday, August 17. intensive and invasive techniques to see the Business Briefs in this issue. reduce potential egg and hatchling Turtles cont. on A4 Election cont. on A4 A little Island history The seawall has become a great people watching place with the Why Are Vehicles Allowed to Drive On Michael J. Ellis Beach vehicle ban. It is mostly families who use the parking lot and then drag one of those beach wagons with their Twenty Five Years After An Agreement To Remove Them? little bitty wheels across the deep sand which is a four-person job as By Dale Rankin agreement to fund its rebuilding after it was destroyed by the storm. you can see from this photo. Those The parking lot along the Michael things are very popular but when is J. Ellis Seawall was full last By 1995, prior to the dredging of someone going to make one with weekend as the ban on traffic on Packery Channel and the subsequent skis? the beach was put in place due to widening of the beach with the use of dredge sand, seawall property owners Real estate the COVID virus. The heavy use of the lot by beachgoers prompted began asking the city to remove One of the unforeseen consequences questions about why, under normal cars from the beach which at times of the COVID virus has been an influx circumstances cars are allowed was barely wide enough for single of people coming to Padre Island that on the beach there when there is a vehicles to pass, especially at the have never been here before, 70,000 parking lot in place. south end of the seawall where it juts per day for a few weekends before toward the water. The long and winding trail that the beach restrictions, and many of In late 1995 agreement was reached them are buying property. Longtime lead to beach driving on the beach there as well as the construction to remove traffic there in exchange Islander Cheri Sperling reports for the owners purchasing land for that appraisers, realtors, inspectors, of a parking lot and restrooms is one which began in 1995 when an a parking lot and donating it to the contractors, mortgage lenders, city. That agreement was approved appraisers, and title companies agreement was reached between the City of Corpus Christi and property in 1997 by the Texas General Land are all busy as more people want a Office which leases the beach to the Restrooms at seawall parking lot under construction in 2009. little piece of our Island. There are owners along the seawall. The seawall itself is privately owned city under a management agreement. currently almost forty waterfront Under the Texas Open Beaches the seawall property owners agreed but just as work on the parking homes on the market. While many of by those who own the adjacent property. Under an agreement Act for each fifteen feet of beach to a special assessment to raise lot was about to begin something the sales are cash, as Cindy Molner that is closed to traffic one parking $440,000 to purchase the land for the unexpected happened. The then- points out, 3 percent interest rates reached between the state and property owners after Hurricane space must be created within one- parking lot. owner of the majority of the land don’t hurt either. quarter mile in either direction. The from Packery Channel to the south Allen in 1980 the private owners Stalled Keep an eye on the storm everybody, agreed to allow public access to the 300-space parking lot now in place end of the seawall pushed the city and say hello if you see us Around seawall as part of a one-time-only meets and that criteria and in 1998 The project languished until 2005 council to close to the beach to The Island. when the city approved $540,000 for traffic to make way for what was the parking lot on the donated land History cont.
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