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State, county take steps after Uvalde shooting City Council denies pausing permits BY JISHNU NAIR & HANNAH NORTON
"I WAS SHOCKED WHEN I LEARNED THAT THERE’S A MORATORIUM PROPOSING TO BE PASSED THAT WILL BE PLACED ON NEW PERMITS."
for the formation of two special legislative committees to investigate school safety and mass violence. Locally, the Montgomery County Constable Precinct 4 o ce began a program May 25 called Project SafeSchool to support school district police at Conroe ISD, New Caney ISD and Spendora ISD. Lt. James Slack of the Precinct 4 Constable’s O ce told Community Impact Newspaper in an email that deputies would be stationed in parking lots and car rider lanes and would be in contact with school front o ce sta . “We will be working with the ISD police departments. If they’d like us to go further, making contact and saying ‘hello’ inside classrooms, we’d also be happy to do so,” Slack said.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for a review of safety measures in Texas public schools in a letter June 1 to Kathy Martinez-Prather, director of the Texas School Safety Center, ask- ing that she ensure school districts meet over the summer to discuss safety measures and train sta . Before the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, the governor’s o ce requires that all public school districts meet and address safety needs; train sta and substitute teachers on safety procedures; schedule schoolwide safety drills; and assess all building access proce- dures, such as single access points and locked classroom doors. All districts are required to com- plete these safety tasks by Sept. 1 and report their ndings by Sept. 9. The organization will then provide the governor and the Texas Legisla- ture with a statewide safety report by Oct. 1, according to the release. On June 1, Abbott also called
BY MAEGAN KIRBY
At a special City Council meeting May 31, Montgomery City Council voted against enacting a morato- rium on permits for food trucks as de ned under Chapter 64 of the city’s code of ordinances. Jacob Irving, whose food truck Pop Pop’s Dandy Dog opened in June, said during the public com- ment portion of the meeting that the moratorium would have prevented him from opening even though he already paid the permit fee. “I was shocked when I learned that there’s a moratorium proposing to be passed that will be placed on new permits and that my own city would break down the spirit of a young entrepreneur; that the city elected o cials might appear to be anti-business and anti-youth,” Irving said at the meeting. Mayor Byron Sanford said a new ordinance in regard to food trucks is
JACOB IRVING, OWNER OF POP POP’S DANDY DOG FOOD TRUCK
necessary because the current one has been in e ect since 1996; how- ever, Council Members T.J. Wilker- son and Casey Olson voted against the moratorium, stating Irving had met the permit quali cations, and the two new council members— Olson and Cheryl Fox—are not yet versed on the ordinance. Council previously voted against changing its food truck ordinance Nov. 9, which would have required mobile food trucks to move every 48 hours and be within 300 feet of a restroom.
The Texas School Safety Center must provide Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas
Legislature with a statewide school safety report by OCTOBER 1.
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