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NEW ALDERMAN Thad Irons was sworn in as the new alderman for place 2 in the July Paducah City Council Meeting. COURTESY PHOTO

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VALLEY GIRLS Reese Cruse and Anna Ferrel competed in the MAYB National Basketball Tournament last weekend. They played eight games in three days ,walking away with 8th place out of 42 teams for all over, accord-ing to the Valley Patriots News Facebook page. COURTESY PHOTO

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Paducah City Council approves $40,000 for Cottle-King Rodeo AssociationCOMPILED FROM THE PADUCAH POST

At the monthly meeting of the Paducah City Council on July 27, new Alderman, Place 2 Thad Irons was sworn in. The council position was vacated by Roger Brannen upon his succession to mayor.

Upon Irons’ swearing in, a quorum was reached and the re-mainder of the meeting could be conducted.

In action items for the council, Funding for the Food Pantry was on the agenda, but director Rita Isbell was unable to be present so this item had to be skipped.

In other action, the council voted to accept bids on properties from the Texas Community Group. In council discussion, the point was made that the highest bidder is from out of town and most of the citations for clean-up of property have been for own-ers from out of town.

However, the discussion determined that legally the council cannot justify not accepting the property bid, and if not sold the property will have to be the city’s responsibility for upkeep any-way, so council approved the sale of property at $1000 for each bid.

In other business the EDC board asked the Council to approve a resolution for funding of a project. Aaron Sisson, president of ECD board presented the project funding proposal for entering into an agreement with the Cottle-King Rodeo Association for a $40,000 loan to upgrade the rodeo grounds.

In event that the CKRA fails to hold the Old Settler’s Reunion/Rodeo then they would be in repayment status. The application submitted showed the breakdown of how the funds will be spent. EDC asked for approval from the City Council.

The Council approved the EDC project funding.In other council action, Tax assessor/collector Nakia Hargrave

appeared before the council to discuss the city’s taxing unit classification and adoption of tax rate based on certified values through July 18.

Hargrave reported on the city’s unique position this year in that the city didn’t lose any value this past year and gained $700,000 in value. Therefore, the tax rate adoption is not as complex as some entities.

The state has capped tax rates at a 3.5% increase unless special situations are present. The city can increase tax rate by a maxi-mum of 3.5% which could still provoke a a rollback election. In the short-term, this could provide city with some taxes paid, but that would have to be refunded if a rollback election happened in the spring.

Because of the governor’s declaration of disaster, the city can call itself a special taxing unit and could go up by 8% without an election.

However, after discussion and based on the recommendation of the tax assessor-collector, the council decided to stay as a city entity (versus a special taxing unit) and stay at the same rate or possibly only go up by the 3% to bank some smallpart of the tax revenue (i.e. $8500 extra funds with a 3% increase).

No action was taken on the tax rate, as that will be approved at the next meeting and after further budget discussion.

The council also discussed possibly dates for the tax hear-ing and rate adoption(which will occur at next regular August meeting).

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Texas Sales Tax Holiday this weekend STAFF REPORTS

Texas shoppers can save money on clothes and school sup-plies during the state’s sales tax holiday this weekend—Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 7–9, 2020.

The law exempts sales tax on qualified items, such as clothing, footwear, school supplies and backpacks, priced below $100, saving shoppers about $8 on every $100 they spend.

Apparel and school supplies that may be purchased tax-free are listed on the Comptroller’s website at TexasTaxHoliday.org.

To promote social distancing, qualifying items can be pur-chased online or by telephone, mail, custom order or any other means (including in-store purchases) tax free, when either:

• the item is both delivered to, and paid for by, the customer during the exemption period; or

• the customer orders and pays for the item, and the seller ac-cepts the order during the exemption period for immediate ship-ment, even if delivery is made after the exemption period ends.

Altercation leaves one deadin Paducah, report saysCOMPILED FROM THE PADUCAH POST

An altercation in the 1000 block of 14th street in Paducah has left one individual dead from a gunshot wound, according to a story in this week’s Paducah Post.

The newspaper reported that the incident occurred late Friday night or early Saturday morning.

Although much information has been released from nofficial sources on social media streams, officially the case is open and ongoing.

At press time, no arrests had been made.

Paducah Booster Club elects new officersSTAFF REPORTS

The Paducah Booster Club has elected officers for 2020-2021:President: Jimmy HinojosaVice President: Waldo CanalesVice President #2: Sophie GaribaldiTreasurer: Leslie White HutchinsonSecretary: Stephanie FergusonCall Committee: Mary Martinez & Shantera Wright-JesseDates to Remember:Sunday, August 16 @ 6pm—Clean Football Concession, vol-

unteers neededFriday, August 21 @ 6pm—Home Scrimmage versus White Deer(PHS Cheerleaders will sell Hamburger/Cheeseburger Deals)Sunday, August 30 @ 3pm —Paint the Paws, volunteers needed

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VALLEY FUNDRAISER The Valley Cheerleaders will be selling these car window decals (there are two other designs too). They will be $10 apiece. If you would like one, please get with a Valley cheerleader. The stickers will be 6x4 inches. Payment will be due when order is placed. They accept PayPal, cash, or checks. COURTESY GRAPHIC