Sunnyvale Town Council approves tax rate, yearly budget and water/sewer rates

by Charlie Holland

The Town of Sunnyvale held their regular meeting on Sept. 22 at Town Hall. An ordinance was approved adopting the 2008-2009 Budget for all funds.

Ordinance 491 was approved, adopting a tax rate of 0.377962. As part of the budget approval, council adopted a water/sewer rate structure to fund the water and sewer enterprise fund.

It includes no increase on residential water rates, a flat fee of $35 for residential sewer rates, and a flat fee of $100 for commercial sewer rates. Industrial accounts will remain in their current rate structure.

Lastly, an increase of commercial water rates to $4.70 per thousand gallons of usage was issued.

These changes to rate structures will come back to the council in ordinance form at the next meeting. Effective date of the new rate structure will be Dec. 1, 2008.

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Long time Director of Utilities, Norman Glaze, retires

by Charlie Holland

On Sept. 22, the Sunnyvale ISD Board of Trustees toured the construction site for the new high school. The finished site will be 110,000 square feet.

Jason Thorpe, Superintendent for Gallagher Construction, said, “Construction is going well. All of the slabs are poured; the sheetrock is up in most of the classroom wings; roofing is 40% complete; and all of the steel is hung out except for some miscellaneous areas.”

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Sunnyvale’s Littel Citizens Philanthropic Society ‘reaching out to others’

by Charlie Holland

Littel Citizens is a group of children aged 4-12 (including junior citizens aged 10 and up) in the Texas area who are dedicated to making the world a better place.

According to Bernadette Swad, Director and Founder of Littel Citizens, “The inspiration for Littel Citizens came from one of humanity’s most generous and kind-hearted people, Richard Fiaschetti. Richard found great peace and solace in helping others, and it carried him through many hard times. When Richard left us in 2003, it seemed only natural to start a children’s organization in his honor that teaches children at an early age to reach out to others.”

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Update-City of Dallas Re-Zoning Case @Barnes Bridge and Bobtown Road

As you may already be aware, the above referenced zoning case has recently been reactivated within the City of Dallas municipal process. The developer (D.R.Horton) originally requested a zoning change from Agricultural Use to a Mixed Use development on the 267-acre tract at the northeast corner of Barnes Bridge Road and Bobtown Road (in the City of Dallas). This request was for a mixed use of high density residential (town homes and apartments), and retail/commercial use. As you may recall, in October of 2007 the Dallas Plan Commission tabled this zoning change request indefinitely.

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Sunnyvale, Texas

Sunnyvale Texas is a bedroom community located about 16 miles east of the downtown Dallas. Bordered by Rockwall, Garland and Dallas, Sunnyvale offers a variety of new homes in masterplanned communities. You can also find homes on acreage as well as vacant land and lots in Sunnyvale. Homes in this city are priced from the $200s to the Millions.

Several home builders and custom homebuilders are building in the area such as, Ryland Homes and Standard Pacific Homes.

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