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Fort Worth spends millions
on environmental changes
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT WORTH - A barrage of
federal and state environmental
mandates has Fort Worth leaders
staring at a host of deadlines and
bills that could total almost $1 bil
lion over the next decade.
That news comes as the city
dries to recover from one of its
toughest budget years.
One of the first big expendi
tures will be an estimated $100
million to replace or reinforce
hundreds of miles of old sewage
’pipe and make other improve
ments to the city's sanitary sewer
system.
The sewer system must be up
graded to meet Environmental
Protection Agency standards.
Add to that rules on drinking-
water quality, storm drainage im-
iprovements, sludge recycling and
avariety of smaller programs, and
the city could be spending as
much as $943 million to pay for
environmental programs from
1991 to 2001, according to a worst-
case estimate.
President Clinton has promised
to help cities rebuild their aging
infrastructure. But without
amendments to the Clean Water,
Safe Drinking Water and Clean
Air acts, cities — with or without
financial help — must begin to
comply with a slew of environ
mental mandates.
Councilman Bill Meadows said
the city cannot afford the im
provements on its own.
Without assistance, city offi
cials agree, the improvements will
mean substantial increases in
sewage rates or taxes. And non-
compliance could mean big fines.
City staff members have never
officially presented the council
with the $943 million figure —
$698 million in operating costs
and $245 million in bonds — ac
cording to the city's environmen
tal management director, Rick
Hay, who laid out the maximum
cost the city could face.
Most of the cost, $848 million,
is for water services. Much of that
covers drinking-water and waste-
water treatment programs already
in place, but it also includes esti
mated new- costs for keeping those
up to par with increasingly strict
federal standards.
In addition to the sewer system
overhaul, the EPA will soon en
force drainage improvements to
keep pollutants such as oil and
gasoline that wash off city streets
in heavy rains from ending up in
lakes and rivers.
The rest of the cost is for a vari
ety of programs such as recycling,
recapturing coolants like Freon,
switching city vehicles to natural
gas and meeting stricter rules for
landfill operations.
Some of the programs already
are in effect.
Most pressing for city officials
is the $100 million in sewer im
provements the EPA ordered as
part of a recent crackdown on
large cities with aging sewer sys
tems.
Those costs, which represent a
fourth of the city's fiscal 1993 bud
get, are in addition to water pro
jects already planned.
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Sex survey scandal
leads to dismissal
Officials suspend San Antonio teacher
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN ANTONIO - The San
Antonio School District has sus
pended a biology teacher who
school officials say surveyed ninth
•and tenth-grade students about
their sexual practices.
The district would not disclose
the identity of the Jefferson High
School teacher, who was suspend
ed with pay.
One school official Wednesday
called the survey “explicit," and
parents said in Thursday's San
Antonio Express-News the ques
tionnaire asked students about
oral, anal, homosexual and animal
sex practices.
The parent of a student who
took the sex survey said students
were asked about age ranges of
partners they would consider.
The school district said in a
statement Wednesday the teacher
"has been suspended with pay
pending an investigation of cir
cumstances regarding her distrib
uting a written survey-type in
strument to students at school."
"The appropriateness of the
contents of that survey are ques
tionable," the school statement
said.
The principal became aware of
the survey last Friday, and the
teacher was suspended afterward,
said Carlie Estefan, associate su
perintendent for personnel ser
vices.
"As far as I know, this princi
pal did not give permission for
this survey nor was he aware of it
prior to a parent bringing it to his
attention," Estefan said.
The parent, who asked not to
be identified, said his son and
three other students were inter
viewed by the principal Tuesday.
The parent said the following
questions required yes or no an
swers: “Oral sex? Anal sex? Sex
with a family member? Sex with
animals? Sex with older or
younger person?"
Questions regarding homosex
uality reportedly also were in the
survey. Additional questions re
quired short answers.
The parent said this was the
first time his son has been ex
posed to the mention of some of
the sexual practices in the survey.
Bush resumes life of privacy
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — George Bush wasted no time getting into private life
Thursday, showing up bright and early at his new Houston office less
than 24 hours after turning over the presidency to Bill Clinton.
Bush, dressed casually with a sport coat and no tie, carried a couple
of briefcases and a box into the nine-story Park Laureate Building short
ly after 9 a.m.
Unlike his last 12 years in public office, and particularly the last four
years as president. Bush's motorcade Thursday was minimal — just
three vehicles — and none of them a limousine. Bush, accompanied by
his dog. Ranger, and a staffer, rode in a silver gray Cadillac sedan.
There was no motorcycle escort.
Technicians said furniture was in place in the office but communica
tions gear was still being installed.
As Bush and several aides went inside. Ranger remained behind,
rolling in the wet grass, prompting the ex-president to emerge on the
ninth-floor balcony.
He leaned over the railing and called the dog by barking and shout
ing "Here, boy!"
Aleece DeMonchy, who works in a photo studio, said she likes hav
ing the former president in the building where she works.
"I have the feeling that we won't see very much of him," she said. "I
think it'll be pretty much a shadow whisked through the hallways —
unless he comes down and strikes up a conversation. Then I'll feel real
ly special."
Courthouse
crime cues
detector use
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN ANTONIO - Chief
Justice Tom Phillips of the
Texas Supreme Court said
Thursday he expects recent
courthouse violence to lead to
the use of metal detectors in
most courts.
“Witnesses, jurors, (law
suit) parties, not to mention
attorneys and judges, need to
feel that this is a place where
you can come and be safe," he
said.
"So I think we're going to
see metal detectors gradually
in most of the major courts."
Phillips' comments to the
San Antonio Bar Association
came two days after Hai Van
Huynh opened fire in a hall
way outside a Dallas County
state district court.
Huynh fatally shot his wife
and injured a teen-age by
stander before turning the gun
on himself.
Huynh died the next day.
Last July, a man upset after
losing custody of his son
opened fire in the Tarrant
County Courthouse.
He killed two lawyers and
injured two judges and anoth
er attorney.
Tuesday's shooting an
gered Dallas judges who have
been pleading with county of
ficials for tighter security.
On Wednesday and Thurs
day, judges stayed away from
the courthouse.
"1 think we all hate to see
the loss of freedom that comes
from having to pass through
metal detectors," Phillips said.
“On the other hand, if
courtrooms are going to be
come the latest popular craze,
like airlines did 15 years ago,
to act out antisocial acts, peo
ple have to feel secure at the
courthouse."
Phillips said a state court
citizens committee is studying
courthouse security.
He said many of the state's
smaller counties cannot afford
security devices.
Phillips added that vio
lence may be a bigger threat in
urban areas.
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