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News from League City and Clear Creek ISD

League City approves Riverbend development

ClearCreek ISD addressespass-fail gradingconcerns

BY JAKE MAGEE

if the city would improve the road before development began to make sure trac is not adversely aected, noting while most vehicles will come from I-45, Main Street is already heavily aected by trac. Hoover said there will be improve- ments to Wesley and Main, and the Texas Department of Transportation is doing improvements up and down Main, including widening the road and adding continuous turn lanes.

will feature 37 acres of parks, two marinas with 77 boat slips, a kayak launch, a boat ramp, 8,000 feet of walking trails and an amphitheater. An Aloft Hotel will also be constructed, Director of Planning and Development David Hoover said. “It will be very cool as far as the overall development is concerned,” he said. Additionally, a 12-by-12-foot sign no higher than 40 feet tall will be con- structed along the front road to I-45. Some council members expressed concerns about the sign. Others brought up trac along Main Street, which intersects withWesley Drive south of the development. Council Member Andy Mann asked conducted in October through Janu- ary. The amount put the city slightly ahead of the pace required to meet the budgeted goal of $20.47 million by the end of FY 2019-20, according to an April 6 memo fromAngie Steelman, the city’s director of budget and project management. However, beginning next month, the city expects to see a downward trend in sales tax revenue collected, according to the memo. The sales tax revenue the city collects in May will be from sales made in March, which is when the outbreak began in Texas. “Given that the rst cases of COVID- 19 were reporting in Texas in March 2020, disruption will start in the city’s May collections. The June collections, which are for April sales, will be the rst full month reecting the eect of businesses’ reduction and change in

LeagueCityprojects sales tax lossesamid coronavirusoutbreak According to plans, about 600 to 700 families will live in apartments and townhouses in the development, dubbed Riverbend at Clear Creek PUD, but it will include public amenities to attract others. The over $100 million development LEAGUE CITY With League City City Council’s approval, Atticus Real Estate will soon begin transforming a curved road near I-45 into a residential devel- opment with a hotel, restaurants, a marina and other amenities. The council voted unanimously April 14 to replace the existing River- bend planned unit development with a new one along NorthWesley Drive just east of I-45.

BY COLLEEN FERGUSON

League City City Council Watch online at facebook.com/ leaguecitytexas Next meetings: May 12 and 26 at 6 p.m. Clear Creek ISD board of trustees Watch online at facebook.com/ clearcreekisd Next meeting: May 25 at 6 p.m. MEETINGSWECOVER CLEAR CREEK ISD Clear Creek ISD administrators addressed points of contention related to the district’s recently adopted spring 2020 pass-fail grading policy at a special meeting April 20. While several parents wrote in to express support for the pass-fail system, twice as many public comments came from dissatised parents of students who felt disen- franchised by the policy change. “Why can’t the board consider a system that benets every child?” read a submitted comment from ElizabethWebb. A pass-fail system remains the most equitable choice, Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education Karen Engle said. Administrators and board members said grades should not be the only factor dening student success. Dava West, director of guidance and counseling, said colleges are not basing admissions solely on academic performance.

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operations,” Steelman wrote. To predict how the full year’s sales tax revenue might be aected, sta put together two scenarios. One features a 10%maximummonthly loss relative to budgeted sales tax revenue, and the other features a 15%maximummonthly loss. Both scenarios assume an economic bounce back beginning in July with sales tax revenue returning to near budgeted levels by the end of the scal year. The city will not know until July how the outbreak might aect prop- erty tax rates for 2021. NUMBERS TOKNOW is how much in sales tax revenue League City ocials expect to lose compared to what was budgeted. $254,059-$661,831

BY JAKE MAGEE

LEAGUE CITY While it is too early to tell how the coronavirus has aected League City’s sales tax revenue, the city’s second-largest revenue source, sta has put together loss projection scenarios that show the city could come up to $660,000 short of what was budgeted in September. League City’s sales tax revenue budget for scal year 2019-20, which began Oct. 1 and runs until the end of September, is $20.47 million. As of March, the city had secured $7.18 million in sales tax revenue from sales

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