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Issue 830 the 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Gary Glidden Island Free Inside the Moon Spring Break A7 Skip the Plastic A7 Ribbon Cutting A7 Fishing A11 Sea Beans A15 Issue 830 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Gary Glidden Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 March 12, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around By the numbers The Island Passenger By Dale Rankin Air Traffic at The low rumble emanating from the Island side of the JFK Causeway Corpus Christi during the first week of Spring Break 2020 wasn’t the noise of revved up International college students blasting their way to the beach. It is fair to say that Spring Airport Break 2020 came in less with a roar than with the look of a fairly normal Outbound seats available by summer season weekend. airline No the rumble from the bridge 12,695 American Eagle 2018 wasn’t from Spring Breakers but 12,208 American Eagle 2019 rather from officers from the Corpus Christi Police Department sent to 15,618 Southwest Airline 2018 reign in rowdy revelers who they 15,869 Southwest Airlines 2019 found in short supply vis-a-vis the number of officers per reveler. From 8339 United Airlines 2018 the looks of things this week they 10,316 United Airlines 2019 are protecting locals from dangerous Spring Breakers by writing us Outbound passengers by speeding tickets on the JFK and in our March 14th neighborhoods. So far it’s working, airline 2019 9174 Outbound passengers as of mid-afternoon Wednesday no Almost Half of Local American Eagle locals have been killed by spring Annual PIPOA breakers that we know of, although 8118 Outbound passengers many locals now have tickets to pay Passengers Drive To Members Southwest Airlines and are staying home. One mosquito Meeting 7175 Outbound passengers was pulled over and written up for United Airlines riding a Honda 90 without a license. Out Of Town Airports The annual Thursday afternoon Saturday Whitecap Speed Trap was in full Total passengers 2020 by bloom all week as Spring Break 2020 To Catch Flights Two seats and two airline reaches its penultimate weekend. 38% Market share for Slow down ore stay home everybody! 280,000 per year bylaw amendments American Eagle PIPOA annual meeting 33% Market share for By Dale Rankin of the Wright Amendment which on ballot Southwest Airlines since 1958 had required flights On the local front this Saturday Statistics from Corpus Christi The 2020 Annual Membership originating at Texas airports to land 29% Market share for United marks the annual meeting of the International Airport show that 45 Meeting for the Padre Isles Property at a second airport in Texas before Airlines members of the PIPOA and there is percent of the airline passengers Owners Association is set for leaving the state. The move was a new wrinkle this year. The board is traveling from the Corpus Christi Saturday, March 14, at the Seashore passed when the new DFW airport following the full letter of the law and area drive to airports in San Antonio Learning Center Gymnasium, 15801 • Source: Corpus Christi was built and legislators feared that sent out ballots to all of the members, or Houston to catch outbound flights South Padre Island Drive. The doors International Airport outbound flights would bypass other including owners of large tracts who which means about 280,000 local open at 9:00 a.m. and the meeting General Activity Report airports across the state resulting in are unlikely to send them back. More residents per year drive before they begins at 10:00 a.m. than 8000 ballots were mailed when less flights. fly. See the meeting agenda and sample in the past it was only about 5000; As a result, Bridger said many “In some cases it is due to price ballot on page A13 in this issue. but here’s the wrinkle. According to airlines, such as Southwest Airlines discounts, especially when an PIPOA bylaws it takes a ten percent with its hub at Love Field in Dallas Two seats on the seven-member entire family is traveling,” said Kim return on ballots to get the quorum routed planes headed out of state to board are up for grabs with the top Bridger-Hunt, Marketing Manager at By the numbers required for the election to be valid Amarillo before flying to their final two vote-getters taking office. The CC International. “In other cases it is and that means it’s going to take just destinations. With the final repeal candidates in ballot order are: Marvin to be able to catch direct flights.” over 800 returned ballots to avoid of the Wright Amendment in 2016 Jones, Sandy Graves, and Nita Smith. Padre lsland a second election when the normal The “Catchment Area” for Corpus she said many of the Southwest For the first time management of number of ballots returned is around Christi International is the 60-mile Airlines direct out of state flights the election has been outsourced to Property 500. So vote early and vote often. radius around the airport where about began originating from San Antonio a private firm, Election Trust, and 550,000 people live, by comparison Padre Island Poker Run International which resulted in more members may vote by electronic Owners airports in the Rio Grande Valley Corpus Christi passengers driving mail as well as by paper ballot. Paper The Padre Island Poker Run season have more than 1.5 million people in there to catch flights and a 25 percent ballots can also be turned in at the Association sponsored by the Moon kicks off their radius. In some cases cities in decrease in Southwest Airlines’ February 14 meeting. If you have Thursday, March 26. It starts at Black the Rio Grande Valley offer airlines flights out of Corpus Christi. The any questions about the ballot or if 2020 Approved Sheep Bistro at 6 p.m. and ends at $16 per empty outbound seat under same is true for United Airlines you do not receive a ballot, contact the Angry Marlin. This month’s 80 percent of capacity. Corpus Christi flights which schedule direct flights the election administrator, Election Budget charity is Texas Sealife Center. The has not taken that step. from their hub at George Bush Trust, at 425-956-3312, ext. 2. Expenses series runs on the last Thursday of Bridger said the market bleed has Intercontinental Airport in Houston. You may also email them at help@ the Month through October. Due to been a chronic problem for the local “The problem we have is that we electiontrust.com. $2,041,862 Total Expenses popular demand jeeps, pedestrians, airport for decades but increased need more passengers to get more $80,000 Uncollectable Fees skateboarders, Onewheelers, and from 30 percent to the current 45 bike riders are encouraged to jump percent in 2016 with the final repeal (Estimate) in this year. As Millie and John say: Airport cont. on A4 POA cont. on A4 “Come by cart, come by Jeep, ride a $8000 Property Tax bike, or use your feet.” Everyone’s $355,515 Payroll welcome. A little Island history Fungus among us $12,000 POA Building/General Maintenance The Island Moon Science and Technology Department which meets Two Years that Changed the PIPOA $8000 Bulkhead Tieback By Dale Rankin hear updates on the organization’s Island canal system and in its rush at various Happy Hours Around The back to the Gulf of Mexico flowed Inspection The Padre Isles Property Owners operations and this year’s meeting is Island this week has determined eastward through the main canal Association was incorporated set for this Saturday, March 14. $15,000 Bulkhead Tieback Repair that the coronavirus is not caused and crashed into the bulkhead along in 1976 as a Texas Nonprofit The current Operating Budget of the by drinking Corona Beer. However, the east side of the Cruiser Canal $539,000 Bulkhead Repair organization as the umbrella organization is about $2 million and it leaves open the question of what destroying about 250 feet of it and organization for the thirty-five since its inception the organization should replace the handshake and/ leaving large amounts of sand in $5000 Canal Cleanup separate subdivisions that it has grown to one of the largest of or the Island Embrazo. The Elbow Island canals in some places and encompasses, each of which has its kind in the United States and $250,000 Canal dredging Bump seems somehow awkward and deep holes in others. The storm set its own set of Protective Covenants during its history has seen times of the Footshake is frankly just weird, in motion a chain of reactions which $197,940 Common Area and bylaws. turbulence and times of tranquility it seems like it should somehow culminated in 1982 with changes but a review of the minutes of the Maintenance be followed by a Double Dog Dare Development as we know it began that are still relevant to the PIPOA organization’s meetings which are or something. How about a good in 1965 and currently 5313 parcels today. $66,581 Boat Ramp Maintenance old fashioned Japanese Bow? It’s of land have been developed out on file at the PIPOA offices finds that Even as the organization dug out $60,000 Billish Park Maintenance worked for the Japanese for a couple of 8950 planned. The Padre Island two years stand out as turning points from the storm it opened its current of thousand years and can be done Investment Corporation, which was in the journey that brought it to where headquarters.
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