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Also, the president is calling for an end to sequestration, a series of forced spending cuts approved in 2011. The $1.2 trillion in cuts, which began in 2013 and are scheduled to run through 2021, will continue to have an impact on outlays for national defense.

Republicans are critical of the budget plan, especially its call to raise taxes on the wealthy, while adding entitlement programs and measures they claim will drastically increase the national debt.

While members of both parties agree on a need to bolster defense spending, there’s a good chance the $585 billion defense-budget proposal won’t survive intact. According to DefenseNews.com, the Air Force’s proposed budget of $152.9 billion is $16 billion more than its 2015 allotment, with similar spending hikes for the Navy and Army.

It’s too early to tell what will happen. Regardless, the final verdict will definitely affect the local economy, and especially active and retired military and civilian personnel.

JBSA-Randolph alone creates an annual economic impact of $1.4 billion. Continued sequestration will affect area military and civilian payrolls, deplete job creation and likely decrease funding for local veterans’ programs.

Instead of wasting time trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Congress should work with the president and end the squabbling about paying for national defense.

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Warning! This could happen to youby SUSAN YERKES

Every year, one in six drivers

in the United States gets a ticket. About the same number

get a warning.

It happened to me recently, late one evening — a time I have always suspected traffic police stop folks for little things like changing lanes without a turn signal, on the off chance it produces a DWI arrest. Over time I’ve been stopped and given warnings, and in each case, the officer began by asking, “Where are you coming from?” or “Have you been partying?”

Since I don’t drink, I have nothing to hide. In this instance, I politely answered

the officer’s questions, waited patiently

and felt sweet relief when the officer said the word “warning.” I took my little computer-generated warning slip and wished him a hearty good night.

My relief lasted about a week. That’s when letters from various lawyers arrived, advising me they’d be happy to help resolve the traffic violation they found recorded in the Bexar County Integrated Justice System. Traffic violation? Wait – it was a warning!

I reached a nice clerk in the Bexar County Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace office, who told me I had gotten a speeding ticket, and I was scheduled to pay the fine or appear before a judge.

“But I got a turn-signal warning, not any kind of ticket!” I said.

“In our records, it’s a speeding ticket,” she said. “It happens. Come in and talk to the prosecutor.”

First, I was appalled. Next, I was grateful for the lawyer letters. Without them, I wouldn’t have known I had a court appearance scheduled. If I had failed to show, a warrant could have been issued for my arrest.

Fortunately, I found the discarded warning in the recycling bin. I emailed the helpful clerk a copy, and a few days after Christmas the case was “dismissed.”

What happened? Precinct 3, Place 2 Justice of the Peace Jeff Wentworth, who would have heard the case, looked into my records. He explained that somehow my name, address and accompanying data was recorded on the warning, but had also somehow migrated to a speeding ticket received that same night by a woman we’ll call Ms. X. So the computer recorded it as my ticket.

“It’s weird, but it does happen,” said Capt. James Roberts, operations supervisor for Precinct 3 Constable Mark Vojvodich. “It’s a glitch. The officer enters information on the computer in his car and his handheld. The information auto-populates directly to the system and is synced to the court. Somehow it attached your data to the next ticket. The input field on it does not auto-erase. So say the officer writes 30 tickets one night; if he doesn’t erase the input field, or move the mouse far enough on the screen, it can flip like that. It’s even harder for motorcycle cops, since they’re working off an inch-and-a-half screen.”

“I think sometimes it worked better handwritten,” Roberts added. “But the good thing about this system is, you can go look it up and see exactly what happened.”

I wasn’t completely reassured. I wondered if the Department of Public Safety might have received the erroneous ticket and put it on my driving history. But after calling Austin I learned traffic tickets don’t go on your driving record unless you're convicted.

I know a lot more about the business of traffic tickets now, including that the average traffic cop generates about $300,000 in revenue, when you add in court costs and various fees. I started the new year with renewed determination not to do anything that would give an officer any excuse to pull me over, and to save every single piece of paper I receive from any officer or court.

Now, readers, I’d like to hear about your encounters with traffic officers.

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OUR TURNViews and opinions about your community

Why won’t politicians stay on the job?

A recent series of decisions — or in some cases, defections — among

elected officials to seek another office while still holding their current position should concern voters.

This political game of musical chairs undermines public trust, often adds to the taxpayers’ burden of paying for unnecessary special elections to fill sudden vacancies, and interrupts the continuity of government operations.

Simply put, once a candidate is in office, he or she should stay for the full term — barring illness or tragedy, of course. In other words, finish the job.

Instead, voters in the greater San Antonio area since 2013 have been treated

to a merry-go-round of midterm and new-term officeholders turning into office seekers. Didn’t win an election for a higher office? Don’t like your current elected position? Then just throw your hat into the ring again, even if you haven’t finished your current term.

That seems to be the message broadcast by some candidates.

State Rep. Mike Villarreal stepped down to run for mayor of San Antonio, even though he won a Nov. 4 re-election bid. State Sen. Leticia van de Putte, smarting from her loss for lieutenant governor, is also seeking the San Antonio mayor’s spot against fellow Democrat Villarreal.

Meanwhile, Villarreal’s mayoral bid prompted City Council District 1 representative Diego Bernal to also leave City Hall to run for Villarreal’s House District 123 seat.

Costs of the Jan. 6 special election to fill the local house seat – as well as Van de Putte’s senate seat, which included a late entry from Converse Mayor Al Suarez – were paid by voters.

Bernal, who voters returned to the council in May 2013, made the

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Feb. 17 runoff. After his fifth-place finish, Suarez remains in office.

District 10 Councilman Carlton Soules left office after his successful re-election in May 2013 in a fruitless bid to unseat Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff during the November balloting. Not to be outdone, District 9 Councilwoman Elisa Chan also departed to run against State Sen. Donna Campbell, who beat Chan in the March 2014 Republican primary.

San Antonio City Hall has seen plenty of other arrivals and departures, too, prompted by re-elected Mayor Julian Castro’s decision to pick up stakes and take over as head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A domino effect followed, led by District 2 Councilwoman Ivy Taylor’s ascension to the mayor’s spot, which prompted not only a special election, but also a runoff election for her old seat.

It’s likely most of these folks have the best intentions, but their comings and goings from the halls of power can only make voters’ heads spin.

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OUR POLICE ARE DOING A GREAT JOBEDITOR: We live in a neighborhood where

our local police force is appreciated, and we like the feeling of being protected by those who serve. Every Christmas our neighbors provide a meal for our police officers and firefighters to show our appreciation.

Sure, there are those who abuse their position, but they are in the minority.

Margery Beitzel

DON’T GENERALIZE ABOUT POLICE CONDUCTEDITOR: I agree with the general

point of the recent From the Editor column that “every group has a few bad apples” — including police. But when you write that critics shouldn’t “tar and feather all police” and that protesters “want anarchy,” I submit that you are way off base.

I don’t think you could cite one spokesperson at any of the protests who says that “all police” are killers of black men. On the contrary, these are specific cases that are being protested. The protesters want accountability for those officers involved in the killings of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and others.

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A ribbon-cutting ceremony will start 10 a.m. Feb. 20 at The Cinnamon Rolls Bakery/Café, 1420 Schertz Parkway, Suite 270. The monthly Biz Ed (business-education) class and breakfast, featuring financial-management tips by area representatives from the Small Business Administration and Service Corps of Retired Executives, is 7:30-9 a.m. Feb. 25 at the Chamber/Visitor Center offices located at 1730 Schertz Parkway. Admission is $10; free to Chamber members.The Chamber’s March mixer begins at 5:30 p.m. March 5 at Pawderosa Ranch Doggie Play and Stay, 7 Commercial Place in Schertz. Event admission, which includes networking, refreshments and Chamber Cash Drawing, is $10; free for Chamber

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SCHERTZ LIBRARY WINTER BOOK SALEThe two-day event, 10 a.m. to 5

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The 34 Foundation is hosting the third annual event, which recognizes 2014-15 high school scholarship recipients, 6-9:30 p.m. at Harmon’s BBQ, 100 S. Main St. in Cibolo. Proceeds from a live and silent auction will benefit scholarship funding. For more, call 362-0543 or visit www.the34foundation.org.

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scholarships for San Antonio-area African-American high school students is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Fort Sam Houston Golf Club, 1050 Harry Wurzbach Road in San Antonio. Proceeds from donations, $30 per individual, will go towards the organization’s 2016 scholarship fund. For more, call Ada Jackson at 637-5577 or visit www.deltakappachapter.com.

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WILENCHIK WALK FOR LIFE Schertz hosts the annual event, named in memory of former

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GARDEN RIDGE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ON FEB. 4 selected a new mayor, mayor pro tem and a new council member following the passing of the city’s late mayor, Andrew Dalton, who succumbed to cancer Jan. 8. Place 2 Alderman and Mayor Pro Tem Nadine Knaus, who acted as interim mayor during Dalton’s absence, was elected to succeed him as mayor. The body also chose

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SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE ORIGINAL FREEDOM RIDERS returned to visit Judson Independent School District students during a variety of events leading up to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Jan. 19. Comprised of college students of various ethnicities, the Freedom Riders played a pivotal role in the struggle for civil rights during the 1960s, when they rode buses testing existing segregation laws in transportation and bus terminals. Events included a youth summit; a screening of a documentary, hosted by San Antonio’s Public Broadcasting Service affiliate KLRN, and a Jan. 17 unity parade, which began at Kirby Middle School and concluded with festivities at Kirby’s Friendship Park.

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For 5-year-old Milo Campbell, the dream came true in January, when the Garden Ridge Elementary School kindergartner was hailed as a hero for thinking fast and acting bravely to prevent what could’ve been a damaging fire at his southwest Comal County home.

The drama occurred abut 3 a.m. Dec. 30. Milo smelled something burning and his feet were hot. A small bedside lamp had overturned and ignited his comforter, sheets and mattress.

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“We didn’t even know anything had happened until the next morning,” said Milo’s mom, Fallon Franklin-Campbell. “We rushed upstairs and there was a huge hole that had gone through the sheets, his mattress topper and another mattress, and the Spiderman lamp by his bedside table was completely melted.

“It had toppled over onto his bed in the night and started the fire.” HERO continues on pg. 17

Milo extinguished the flames, employing techniques he learned during the Bracken Volunteer Fire Department’s visit to his school during Fire Prevention Month in October.

“I smelled it first,” Milo said, “and when I put my foot down in the bed, I said, ‘Ow, ow!’ and I kept saying it. I was kind

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of scared. I saw the lamp, unplugged it, and then I looked down in the hole in the bed and saw orange and I put it out.”

Franklin-Campbell said the following morning New Braunfels Fire Department officials investigated the incident and determined the lamp had probably short-circuited.

“They said in another five or 10 minutes his whole bed could have lit up,” she said. “His little sister (1-year-old Jovie) was sleeping in the room next to his. He saved us from something that could have been really bad.”

New Braunfels Fire Marshal Capt. Patrick O’Connell said the lamp might have fallen over, and the short caused the lampshade to overheat and melt. The exposed light bulb pressed into Milo’s mattress and sheets, sparking the combustion.

“When Milo unplugged the lamp he put out the heat source and helped avert what could have been a disaster,” O’Connell said. “It gives validity to the in-school fire-safety lessons we’ve been teaching for years. A lot of kids his age would have gone and hid or run away when they saw something like this in their bed. It might not have taken

long at all for this to become a tragic story instead of one with a happy ending.”

Garden Ridge Principal Julie Cronkhite agreed.

“I think the common reaction to danger for children is to run and hide. Milo didn’t do that. He did exactly what we tell them to do – stay calm, think and act, and then go to their safe place,” she said.

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Jason Gordon, a Comal Independent School District spokesman, said CISD has long welcomed school visits from emergency responders.

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Bracken VFD officials have visited area schools for about 20 years, Anz said.

“The students are always enthusiastic and willing to listen,” he said, “but this is the first time I could say a child did something he (recently) learned. It really made us feel what we do is worthwhile.”

Anz came up with an idea to highlight Milo’s act, and Cronkhite gave him the green light. On Jan. 8, fire trucks from the Bracken and New Braunfels fire departments pulled up in front of Milo’s house to give the kindergartner and his mom a ride to school.

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cafeteria, where Cronkhite led a short pep rally in Milo’s honor. He received more recognition later in the morning, when he was featured in a brief video assembled by fifth-grade students.

During the next few days, Milo’s story cropped up repeatedly on area television and radio stations.

“Last summer Milo talked about wanting to be a fireman when he grew up,” Franklin-Campbell said. “So, last summer we took him to the New Braunfels Fire Department. They showed him around and gave him a little badge and a little fire outfit. He was hanging on their every word. Then, when Bracken’s fire department came out to the school (in October), he talked about it for days.”

Now, after all the accolades, does Milo think about someday becoming a firefighter?

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For many observers, the coaches’ conduct with 8- and 9-year-olds was a low point last season, and despite suspensions, little seems to have changed inside the Texas Youth Football Association, judging by early episodes so far in 2015.

Whose fault is it when adult instructors don’t provide the best role models? In the wake of the new season, notables in area youth sports offered their opinions on coaching protocol, parental responsibility

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and possible long-term psychological affects caused by players’ negative experiences.

San Antonio Sports President and CEO Russ Bookbinder remembered this advice from legendary area football coach D.W. Rutledge, executive director of the Texas High School Coaches Association.

“Treating 8- to 10-year-olds as if they were high school or college athletes skips the necessary steps that allow for the full and healthy development of the athlete,” Bookbinder said, paraphrasing a 2014 statement from Rutledge, who led Judson High School to four state championships.

“Often coaches don’t recognize and comprehend the value that they have in the lives of young people,” added Bookbinder in a SAS white paper calling for uniformed certification of youth-sports instructors. “While teachers and parents are considered the central influences on a child’s upbringing and future success, it is the coach that can play an even more precious role.”

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through 12th grade, said there are two coaching breeds: encouragers and yellers.

“There are times you have to get into faces,” said Samplaski, who prefers praise to condemnation. “My goal is never, ever to beat a kid down. My goal is always, always, always to build a kid up.”

Longtime football clinician and former youth-sports coach Doug Conrey added, “You want a teacher, not a screamer. You don’t want someone who loses his temper.”

Monte Vista Historic District child psychologist Michael Berler said a coach’s threatening style could be overwhelming.

“Any time (there’s) yelling … fear swamps (the youngster’s) thinking mechanism,” he said. “All they do is soak up the fear and not hear what the coach is yelling about.”

A 2013 Michigan State University study of 10,000 children ages 5 to 14 revealed 70 percent quit sports by the time they turned 13, chiefly because of ill-tempered coaches who lacked positive reinforcement methods and applied too much pressure.

“What we always want to be careful is to not take away the fun and enjoyment that a child gets from being part of sports,” Bookbinder said.

Berler advises parents to monitor behavior of their children’s coaches with surprise visits during practices.

“I think there’s a very important aspect to see somebody unannounced; in kind of not in their Sunday-best,” the therapist said. “Seeing the informal environment in which they’re being coached is absolutely necessary, recommended and very appropriate.

“I’d want a coach to teach a young man … how to navigate both winning and, maybe particularly more so, losing.”

Alamo Heights Little League coach Scott Kohler said teaching such life lessons are critical in molding character.

“The end goal of these kids is not professional sports,” he said. “It’s to make them better citizens, and if you just keep them playing longer, they’re going to learn life skills that are going to help them down the road.

“So, you don’t want to turn kids off on sports by your coaching. That’s kind of counterproductive to what we’re trying to accomplish.”

Saul F. Levenshus, president, CEO and youth-sports administrator at Barshop Jewish Community Center, said the adults are the problem.

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A new substation will not only meet the electric-service demands of the area’s burgeoning population and commerce, but will also increase the quality and dependability of the power service, according to CPS officials.

“The Bulverde area is fast growing and is currently served by a substation in the Stone Oak area,” said CPS Energy Project Manager Cathleen Ballard. “The new substation will improve the reliability of the service and create capacity for new population growth.”

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Included in SAS’s Coach Ed manual, an instructional youth-sports coaching guide, is a passage from Rutledge: “Volunteer coaches are a great necessity in providing that first encounter with organized sports. However, without proper education in the areas of a child’s physical and emotional development, volunteer coaches can cause kids to give up on sports and suffer emotional trauma.”

Bookbinder feels incidents portrayed in “Friday Night Tykes” should be taken with a grain of salt.

“I think for every coach they may’ve focused on having a lapse of judgment, there are 50 other coaches doing it right,” he said.

Others described the series as a cautionary tale to parents of young athletes.

Mike Shull, who guided his 2009 McAllister Park team to the Little League World Series, said the program resembles another on TV.

“It’s like the ‘Housewives’ shows and people fighting each other,” Shull joked. “My wife said, ‘I wondered what happened when the cameras aren’t on.’”

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With trustees grappling with details of a preliminary package to present to voters as a $150 million bond measure, the Jan. 22 monthly board meeting turned into a marathon lasting more than nine hours – beginning at 6 p.m. and wrapping just after 3 a.m.

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The board is scheduled to further discuss bond details in a Feb. 19 workshop, before staging a final ballot during its Feb. 26 meeting. For months, officials considered what to include in the bond, based on a five-year financial projection, which also focused on the district’s capital-improvement needs

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Also slated for bond inclusion is $22.3 million for capital projects at existing facilities; $5.4 million for student safety and security; $21.3 million for technology; and $6.1 million for land purchases in high-growth areas along U.S. 281 and Interstate 35.

All told, the $150 million price tag is far less than the $451 million request voters rejected in November 2013. Only months later, a district audit of 2008 bond projects uncovered CISD was overbilled $7.1 million for architectural and construction services.

Trustees later approved a $5.9 million settlement with the primary contractor, and took steps to ensure more oversight. Nonetheless, officials know they have an uphill climb in getting voters to approve another bond measure.

“We have been listening to parents across the district since November 2013, and while many did not agree with the size of the last bond package, they have been asking us to come back with another bond

to address specific needs,” Kim said. “That is why this bond is strictly needs-

based. Our staff has worked hard over the past year to identify only those items that are needed. … That is why this bond is (much) smaller than the previous bond.”

As trustees reviewed bond proposals contained in thick notebooks during the Jan. 22 meeting, most of the questions came from the board’s newest members, Laurie Schley and Denise Kern, who toppled incumbents in May 2014.

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“I’ve got great difficulty asking voters to pay for things they’ve already paid for,” Kern said. “Some of these things should have been taken out of maintenance

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Drastata also theorized the district could simply do nothing.

“I think that would be the worst thing of all to do,” he said. “It all boils down to what’s in the best interest of our students.”

Drastata said trustees’ Jan. 7 approval to refinance $81.3 million in existing bond debt will cost taxpayers about $13.6 million. In addition, selling $150 million in bonds would come without raising the debt service tax rate, which the board lowered by 4 cents in September.

In addition, reviews of CISD finances by Moody’s and Fitch rating services, maintained the district’s AA credit ranking – which officials said resulted from strong financial management and conservative budgeting.

Kim said financing bond proposals through the fund balance might

have repercussions. Actions taken by the Legislature and expected court rulings over subsequent months could uphold Comal ISD’s designation as a property-rich district – subjecting it to the state’s recapture of CISD tax proceeds through Texas’ current “Robin Hood” school-funding plan.

Helen Keaton, CISD’s executive director of facilities and maintenance, admitted previous district officials under another administration made mistakes. She assured actions taken by her department – and approved by trustees during the past 18 months – would enhance financial oversight over future projects.

Several trustees praised Kim for improving the district’s academic performance. With Schley and Kern dissenting, trustees awarded Kim a new contract. However, four current trustees will be up for re-election – along with the May 9 bond vote.

“We’re at a place where we need two new middle schools,” said trustee Cody Mueller, whose district includes Garden Ridge. “We’re going to have to make some tough decisions. The last bond didn’t pass, for whatever reason, but moving forward, we have to have these things.”

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Hours are 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

BIFF BUZBY’S BURGERS12702 Toepperwein Road in Live Oak

For more, call 590-2040,or visit www.biffbuzbys.com

or BiffBuzbysBurgers/Facebook

Biff Buzby’s “Q Burger” (above) comes with healthy doses of french fries and beans to satiate those with hearty appetites. Photo by Rudy Ornelas

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