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$12.86 million bond OK’d for Anahuac
AP and staff reports
Baytown Sun Published November 5, 2009 Voters in Chambers County approved a $12.86 million dollar bond issue for improvements to Anahuac Independent School District buildings and classrooms.
Included in the projects would be a larger middle school library, new vocational-ag building, news classrooms the high school, update to science classroom in elementary and middle schools and a new elementary school computer lab. Money also would be spent on repairs and upgrades to campus buildings.
Across the state, voters approved all 11 constitutional amendments Tuesday, which ranged from limiting the eminent domain laws to placing into the constitution the state’s Open Beaches Act.
With 98 percent of the votes counted, some 81 percent of voters supported Proposition 11 to limit eminent domain powers. Prop 11, backed by the Texas Farm Bureau, Gov. Rick Perry and Perry's Republican rival, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, was rejected by 19 percent.
The proposition will state in the constitution that governments in Texas are prevented from seizing private property and giving it to private developers to boost the tax base.
“By approving Propo-sition 11, the voters of Texas have sent a clear message: Don’t mess with private property rights,” said Perry, who went to the Alamo earlier this year to emphasize his support for the constitutional amendment.
Hutchison called the results a “first step” toward changing eminent domain laws.
An amendment to guarantee public access to beaches also sailed through in Tuesday’s poll, taking 77 percent of the vote.
Voters also backed an amendment that aims to create a national research university fund out of $500 million in existing state money. Currently, Texas has three top-level research universities: the University of Texas at Austin; Texas A&M University and Rice University. It lags behind other big states like California and New York, proponents said. Seven other Texas universities — including the University of Houston — are vying to achieve so-called Tier One status.
Baytown Sun Published November 5, 2009 Voters in Chambers County approved a $12.86 million dollar bond issue for improvements to Anahuac Independent School District buildings and classrooms.
Included in the projects would be a larger middle school library, new vocational-ag building, news classrooms the high school, update to science classroom in elementary and middle schools and a new elementary school computer lab. Money also would be spent on repairs and upgrades to campus buildings.
Across the state, voters approved all 11 constitutional amendments Tuesday, which ranged from limiting the eminent domain laws to placing into the constitution the state’s Open Beaches Act.
With 98 percent of the votes counted, some 81 percent of voters supported Proposition 11 to limit eminent domain powers. Prop 11, backed by the Texas Farm Bureau, Gov. Rick Perry and Perry's Republican rival, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, was rejected by 19 percent.
The proposition will state in the constitution that governments in Texas are prevented from seizing private property and giving it to private developers to boost the tax base.
“By approving Propo-sition 11, the voters of Texas have sent a clear message: Don’t mess with private property rights,” said Perry, who went to the Alamo earlier this year to emphasize his support for the constitutional amendment.
Hutchison called the results a “first step” toward changing eminent domain laws.
An amendment to guarantee public access to beaches also sailed through in Tuesday’s poll, taking 77 percent of the vote.
Voters also backed an amendment that aims to create a national research university fund out of $500 million in existing state money. Currently, Texas has three top-level research universities: the University of Texas at Austin; Texas A&M University and Rice University. It lags behind other big states like California and New York, proponents said. Seven other Texas universities — including the University of Houston — are vying to achieve so-called Tier One status.