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SLM-2016-09

IN LOCAL NEWS
Volume 3, Issue 13 | Sept. 1–Oct. 5, 2016
SUGAR LAND | MISSOURI CITY EDITION
SPECIAL EDITION
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Education FOCUS 2
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New schools shine light on growth, demographic challenges
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School bond projects in Sugar Land
and Missouri City are coming online
two years after Fort Bend ISD voters
approved $484 million in funding. Anne
McCormick Sullivan Elementary School
opened in Sugar Land in August and
will be followed by elementary school 48
and middle school 15 in Missouri City
starting next school year.
All three projects are indicative of the
district’s new school design standards,
however, not all students will see the
changes. The bonds are having a smaller
impact on some older campuses in areas
of slow growth. But FBISD leaders are
also battling projected annual population
growth for the next decade. FBISD had
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Local law enforcement agencies consider license plate recognition cameras, ordinances for phone use while driving
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Sugar Land and Missouri City police department officials say they want to make their cities safer, both taking
steps to examine ordinances restricting phone use while
driving and pushing license plate recognition cameras.
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Sugar Land and Missouri City are already deemed two
of the safest cities in Texas and the nation with crime
rates for both cities about 40 percent below the state
average and about 48 percent below the national average, according to statistics from the Texas Department
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Quail Valley Jewelers
of Public Safety and the city of Sugar Land.
The Sugar Land Police Department wants to continue
its safety efforts by instituting an ordinance restricting
mobile device use while driving. The Missouri City
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reminded me of my first
day of school. Buying new
supplies and clothes and
waking up early that first
day back brings a sense
of excitement. In our
coverage of new school
construction stemming
from the 2007 and 2014
bond programs, we examined what some Fort Bend ISD students can expect
this school year. Get an inside look at these updates
and developments on pages 24 and 25.
Our annual Education Focus would not be complete
without our comprehensive look at the local school
districts’ standardized testing scores, zoning boundaries and feeder charts starting on Page 20. However,
we also discuss how some test scores were delayed this
year in our report on Page 19.
The increased school-related traffic brings road
safety to mind. In Sugar Land and Missouri City, we
found that officials are undertaking new measures,
including license plate recognition cameras and ordinances banning mobile devices while driving. Read
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5 North American University
opened its new campus Aug. 22 at
11929 West Airport Blvd., Stafford,
after relocating from north Houston.
The four-year college occupies several
floors in the Oasis Medical building.
The school is situated on a 12-acre
campus. The private, not-for-profit
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degrees. 832-230-5555. www.na.edu
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1 Best in Class Education Center
opened Aug. 20 at 5808 New Territory
Blvd., Sugar Land. The center provides
enrichment and tutoring classes for
pre-K through 12th-graders in math
and English. Seven centers are located
throughout the Houston area with
another site opening soon in Conroe.
832-685-8616.
www.bestinclasseducation.com
2 Dimassi’s Mediterranean Buffet
opened Aug. 18 at 16535 Hwy. 59, Ste.
2610, Sugar Land. The restaurant serves
baked fish, chicken and beef kebabs and
a variety of Mediterranean-style greens
including Greek and Lebanese salads.
The restaurant also has an outdoor
dining area. Dimassi’s has eight
locations in the Houston area.
281-494-0296. www.dimassi.com
3 Goodwill opened a store and
donation center in Telfair in July.
Located at 6526 Hwy. 90, Sugar Land,
the 9,200-square-foot thrift store has
25 employees. Goodwill stores sell
used clothing, home goods, furniture,
books and other items. Goodwill is
a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization
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that provides job assistance and has
two other stores in Sugar Land and
Missouri City. 281-586-7057.
www.goodwill.org
4 Kelsey-Seybold—Sienna
Plantation Clinic opened Aug. 22
at 7010 Hwy. 6 in Missouri City. The
clinic offers family medicine, internal
medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics
and gynecological services. The
23,800-square-foot building is located
at the intersection of Oilfield Road and
Lake Olympia Parkway. 713-442-0000.
www.kelsey-seybold.com
6 Sherwin-Williams opened Aug. 1
at 9402 Hwy. 6, Ste. 800, in Missouri
City. The store offers interior and
exterior paint selections as well as
supplies. Additionally, SherwinWilliams specializes in woodworking
paint for trim or cabinetry. The
store also offers in-home color
consultations and professional
painters on hand. 281-778-8944.
www.sherwin-williams.com
7 Starbucks opened a location
Aug. 2 at 3613 Hwy. 90, Stafford.
The business has a drive-thru. The
international coffee chain sells coffee
drinks, teas and noncaffeinated items,
as well as bakery and snack items. The
chain also sells coffee accessories, such
as mugs and thermoses. Starbucks
also has nearby locations in Sugar
Land and Missouri City.
281-840-1163. www.starbucks.com
8 Sugar Land Pediatric Dentistry
opened July 25 at 13440 University
Blvd., Ste. 120, in Sugar Land. Boardcertified pediatric dentist Dr. Leena
Moonnumakal leads the practice
where the business provides check ups,
fillings, emergency care and infant oral
care among its services. 281-207-9545.
www.sugarlandpediatricdentistry.com
9 Unique Minds Montessori School,
a private school, opened Aug. 22 at
8600 Sienna Springs Blvd., Missouri
City. The school serves infants to
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10 Universal Bakery and Snacks
in Telfair opened July 29 at 11929
University Blvd., Ste. 1G, Sugar Land.
The bakery sells cakes, pastries, pops
and other Indian snack items.
832-939-9705.
www.theuniversalbakery.com
11 Koko FitClub opened Aug. 8
at 18318 University Blvd., Sugar
Land. The gym provides custom
workouts and personal coaching
while digitizing its members’ data for
personalized exercise plans using a
USB key. 281-240-5656.
http://kokosugarland.com
Coming Soon
12 Knights Court Dental will open
Oct. 21 at 7746 Hwy. 6, Ste. T, in
Missouri City. The business provides
services including extraction, braces,
Invisalign, root canals and cosmetic
dentistry for all ages. Dr. Graciela
Seijo is the practicing dentist. The
family practice is a first location for
the business. 281-410-8316.
13 The Pizza Shack at 18721
University Blvd., Ste. 160, Sugar Land,
will open by October in the Riverstone
Shopping Center. Construction on the
building started in mid-August. The
business is a first location for owners
Edward and Helen Brown, who are
planning to sell artisan-style pizza
and six to seven varieties of chicken
wings as well as sandwiches, burgers
and salads. The restaurant will also
serve wine and local beer on tap.
281-382-7071.
14 18|8 Sugar Land, a men’s salon,
will open mid-September at 1865 Hwy.
6, Ste. 120, Sugar Land. The salon will
offer haircuts, facials, scalp treatments,
hand and nail treatments, straight-edge
blade shaves, waxing, hair coloring and
gray blending. The Sugar Land location
will encompass 1,536 square feet in the
Lake Pointe Town Center and is owned
by Adriana Alba-Suarez. 281-751-9188.
www.eighteeneight.com/sugar-land-tx
Anniversaries
15 Dolls N Guys Hair Salon marked
its first anniversary Aug. 1. The
business is located at 16126 Hwy.
59, Ste. 140, in Sugar Land. The
hair salon offers haircuts for men,
women and children of all ages. The
business also offers coloring, deep
conditioning, hot oil treatment,
dyeing and highlights. The salon also
provides services, such as waxing,
threading, trimming, oil treatments
and henna tattoos. 281-313-2634.
16 The Houston Badminton Center
celebrates its first anniversary Sept.
3. The center is located at 10550 W.
Airport Blvd., Stafford, and is the
41st badminton center in the U.S. and
the fourth one constructed from the
ground up. Along with 12 badminton
courts, the center offers pickleball
games and table tennis. It also features
locker rooms with showers, a media
room and a pro shop. 346-229-4921.
www.houstonbadminton.com
17 Thayer O-Neal Company LLC
celebrated its first anniversary July
1. The Sugar Land-based company,
located at 101 Parklane Blvd., Ste.
201, provides services including
accounting, audits, tax compliance
and consultation as well as valuation
and litigation support. 281-552-8430.
www.thayeroneal.com
Compiled by Amelia Brust and
Bethany Knipp
News or questions about Sugar Land or Missouri City?
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In the News
18 Fort Bend ISD is holding off on
the construction of elementary school
No. 49, located in Harvest Green
in Richmond. The district failed to
properly advertise the “competitive
sealed proposal,” or request for bid
packages in the newspaper, which is
legally required in Texas for school
construction contracts valued at
more than $50,000, said Oscar
Perez, executive director of design
and construction, at an Aug. 15
FBISD school board meeting. FBISD
advertised the new bid package Aug.
18 and will again Aug. 25. Bids will
open Sept. 6 and staff will submit a
proposal for board approval Sept. 19.
19 Victory Sports Center, a
21,000-square-foot facility, caught
fire Aug. 19, the cause of which is
unknown. The center offered classes
in competitive cheerleading, floor
gymnastics, tumbling, hip hop dance,
and other sports as well as a fitness
center with 43 pieces of equipment.
Crews responded to 750 Sartartia
Road, Sugar Land, at about 1:50 p.m.
Eight fire departments including
those from Sugar Land, Richmond,
Missouri City, Houston and Needville
responded to the scene. The city of
Sugar Land reported the building was
a total loss but that no one was injured.
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Starbucks opened a store with a drive-thru on
Hwy. 90 in Stafford on Aug. 2.
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Universal Bakery and Snacks opened July
29 in Telfair, selling Indian snacks and pastries.
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The Houston Badminton Center in Stafford
celebrates its first anniversary Sept. 3
Closings
20 Julie’s Cakes, 3424 FM 1092,
Missouri City, closed July 2 after 21
years in business, according to its
website. Pending orders were given to
Cakes by Gina in Houston.
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kindergartners focusing on advanced
academics emphasizing fine motor
skill development, socio-emotional
development and tactile learning. The
school has three other locations in
Missouri City. The school is affiliated
with New Millennium Montessori
School. 281-778-9595.
www.nmmschool.com
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BUSINESS FEATURE
Family-owned store specializes in casting, repairs
By Bethany Knipp
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or 40 years, Ismael S. Albarran
has been selling, repairing
and designing jewelry in the
Greater Houston area. His store,
Quail Valley Jewelers—located at
2250 FM 1092, Missouri City—has
been in town for 16 years where he
and his family offer jewelry casting,
cleaning and repair.
“My dad is a third-generation
jeweler,” said Ismael Albarran, store
operator and son of owners Ismael S.
and Lucila Albarran.
Established in Missouri City in
2000, Quail Valley Jewelers sells 14-,
10- and 18-carat gold as well as sterling
silver with stones including white
diamonds, sapphires, blue topaz, turquoise and black diamonds.
“I would say the sterling silver is
what sells the most,” the younger
Ismael said.
In addition to retail, the store has
the machinery necessary to do casting,
cleaning and repair. The elder Ismael
primarily did this work at other small
jewelry stores before opening his own
Waterford Village Blvd.
store, his son said.
“We kind of have the same tools as
dentists have where they make a mold
of your tooth,” the younger Ismael
said. “We make a mold of a ring, and
then we’ll cast it and make it into silver
or gold or platinum—whatever the
customer wants to make.”
Before owning Quail Valley
Jewelers, the elder Ismael owned
Sharpstown Jewelers with his brother
for about 10 years at Fondren Road
and Hwy. 59 in Houston.
Lucila said her husband learned the
jewelry trade from his father upon
moving to the United States from
Mexico City about 40 years ago. But
she also comes from a family of jewelers, she said. Their son joined the business a couple years after Quail Valley
Jewelers opened. He operates the store
and said many customers come in for
repairs and gem replacement when
something happens to their stones.
Due to the wear and tear from
everyday activities, the younger Ismael
recommends bringing jewelry in every
six months to be checked for loose
stones. Regular cleaning also keeps
jewelry in good condition, he said.
Lucila estimated that repairs make
up about 90 percent of the jewelry
store’s business, but her husband is
known for his casting services.
“Anything he does, he’s good at,” she
said. “A lot of people ask for him for
casting.”
The younger Ismael said the family
is also trying to offer online ordering
within the next couple of months.
His mother said keeping the jewelry
store open has been a difficult feat
because of the nature of the business.
Over time, fewer people buy gold or
buy jewelry at all, she said.
“If we tell people our story, nobody
can believe us,” she said. “Nobody can
believe how this business has been
[able to] survive … It’s not that people
need this every day.”
She said it is the repairs that keep
the business steady.
“It’s amazing,” she said. “I know
God’s hands are there.”
1 Ismael S. Albarran designs some of his own jewelry, including this sapphire ring with gold and diamonds at Quail Valley Jewelers in Missouri City.
2 Albarran’s son, also named Ismael, operates the store and has also
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Sat. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., closed Sun.
3 The younger Ismael Albarran demonstrates repairs that may include
soldering, fitting and stone replacement.
4 The elder Ismael Albarran used a coin to design a gold and diamond
necklace.
5 In addition to diamonds, Quail Valley Jewelers sells pearls and gems
including amethyst, blue topaz and turquoise.
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DINING FEATURE
Songkran Thai Grill
Sugar Land spot swaps sophisticated for street fare
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281-670-8525
www.songkranthaikitchen.com/foodgrill
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. lunch, Mon.-Thu. 5-10
p.m. dinner, Fri. 5-11 p.m. dinner, Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m.,
Sun. 4-8 p.m.
hen Songkran Thai Grill opened in Sugar
Land, Executive Chef Jurrajet “Jett” Hurapan thought it would be an exact copy of
his original Houston location. Instead, he changed the
restaurant’s name, menu and prices this year to attract
a more casual and family-friendly clientele.
“People in Sugar Land come to us because they
see us as a high-end restaurant,” Hurapan said. “So
we said to ourselves, ‘how can we cater to Sugar
Land families?’”
Formerly Songkran Thai Kitchen, the business specializes in traditional Thai and street food staples. The
restaurant offers cheaper, commercial Thai recipes,
Hurapan said.
“Street food is … you don’t have to really finesse too
much,” he said. “You bring out the bold flavor, and
that’s it.”
Some of the new dishes include grilled calamari,
barbeque chicken, sizzling hot plates, papaya salad
and a children’s menu. General Manager Niki Vu said
the children’s meals are served in a bento box arrangement because children may prefer items not to touch.
“I have [customers] thanking me for the fact that we
actually have a kids’ menu now, and that their kids are
exploring new food items through that,” Vu said.
Songkran Thai Grill is one of the smaller restaurants at which she has worked. One of her favorite
dishes is the Son-In-Law eggs.
“They’re hard-boiled eggs that are deep-fried,
and they’re covered in a tamarind and chili sauce,”
she said.
Thai cooking uses basic ingredients such as coconut
milk, lemongrass and palm sugar. Hurapan said
ingredients are easy to find because Thailand and
Houston have similar climates.
He moved to the U.S. from Thailand when he was
six years old and comes from a family of cooks. He
went to culinary school in New York and moved to
Houston in 2007 to consult for the now-closed Gigi’s
Asian Bistro.
He left Gigi’s in 2011, though not before meeting his
wife, Jira, a pastry chef who now works at Songkran.
He opened BLU Restaurant and Lounge with Amy
What does
and Jiten Karnani in Sugar Land, next door to where
Songkran is now.
Songkran Thai Grill is a call back to Hurapan’s
roots. For the Sugar Land restaurant’s first anniversary
this year, Hurapan said he brought a monk from a
Buddhist temple to bless the establishment—which is
also how he opened the restaurant.
“My job is to take the old world food and bring it
back so that people know Thai food is more than just
curry or spicy,” he said.
The next step is a third location—Songkran Thai
Express in the downtown tunnels for Houston’s business clientele. Hurapan said many of his Sugar Land
customers work in downtown Houston.
“We’re probably going to open up in the next four
months,” he said.
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TRANSPORTATION UPDATES
Major projects in the area
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Under construction
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The Texas Department of
Transportation is widening Hwy. 90
in Sugar Land from Hwy. 6 to the
Grand Parkway. The road will be
widened from four lanes to six
lanes across. Durwood Greene
Ongoing project
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Timeline: May 2015-August 2016
Cost: $2.2 million
Funding sources: city of Missouri City
Project update
Mission Valley Dr.
Hilton Head Dr.
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Timeline: July-October 2016
Cost: $300,000
Funding Sources: LID No. 19, Fort
Mission Valley drives. The city of Missouri
City conducted a final walk-through
inspection in early August. The city spent
approximately 15 months on construction.
Cartwright Rd.
Sugar Land
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not meet state requirements for an all-way
stop or traffic signal, which was originally
requested by residents. The project is
being contracted through LID 19 with
the county contributing funds. LID 19
is managing the project. Construction
started in July and is expected to last 90
days.
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News or questions about these or
other local transportation projects?
Email us at [email protected].
Construction is the contractor for the
project. As of Aug. 11, the project
was 35 percent complete.
Timeline: March-October 2016
Cost: $10.1 million
Funding sources: TxDOT
2 LJ Parkway lowering
Fort Bend County and Levee
Improvement District No. 19 are lowering
LJ Parkway in Sugar Land from University
Boulevard to Hagerson Road. The road
has a visibility issue for drivers turning
from LJ Parkway onto Hagerson Road.
The issue is due to a former levee that
was not removed. The intersection did
Pavement reconstruction is
progressing along the roadway from
Fondren Road to McLain Boulevard,
and the city of Missouri City is
contributing $3.3 million to the
project. The contractor is currently
finishing underground utilities
and working on reconstructing
the eastbound lanes. Roadway
construction is scheduled to end in
the spring of 2017.
Timeline: March 2016-May 2017
Cost: $4.4 million
Funding sources: city of Missouri
City, Harris County Water Control and
Improvement Utility District-Fondren
Road
4 Turtle Creek Drive
Work is complete for replacing water lines
and moving and replacing the road surface
on Turtle Creek Drive from Hilton Head to
Construction of the first portion of
Grand Parkway Segment C is
expected to be completed this fall.
Segment C-1 is a three-quarter-mile
feeder road of three southbound
lanes, which will serve as an
expansion of Crabb River Road.
Along with Segment C-1, Crabb
River Road’s existing lanes will be
northbound. The Grand Parkway is
a planned 180-mile scenic highway
surrounding the Greater Houston
area, and Segment C is a 26-mile
portion planned to span from Hwy. 59
in the north to Hwy. 288 in the south.
All of Segment C is expected to take
until 2025 to complete. Paving on
the new lanes of Crabb River Road
will begin in the next few weeks.
The work at the Sansbury Boulevard
intersection will be complete in
September, and new traffic signals
will be installed in October.
Timeline: March-November 2016
Cost: $5.6 million
Funding sources: Fort Bend
County Grand Parkway Toll Authority
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CITY & COUNTY
News from Sugar Land, Missouri City and Fort Bend County
Tax rate falling, salaries rising in Fort Bend County
Commissioners Court will
approve budget, rates,
raises in September
FORT BEND COUNTY Fort Bend
County is proposing a rise in tax revenue but a drop in the overall tax rate.
The county budget office has proposed
a county tax rate of $0.458 per $100
valuation for fiscal year 2016-17, a 1.5
percent decrease from FY 2015-16.
The county also proposed a 3.37
percent increase in salaries for elected
county officials, which Precinct 4
Commissioner James Patterson said
was the result of a compensation
study. The Commissioners Court
approved the tax rate and salary raises
on their first reading Aug. 9, but both
are set for public hearings and final
approval in September.
With a proposed FY 2016-17 drainage district maintenance fund tax rate
of $0.016 per $100 valuation, or 23.8
percent less than FY 2015-16, the total
tax rate stands to be $0.474 per $100
valuation, if approved.
“This is the third consecutive year
we managed to reduce the tax rate,”
County Judge Robert Hebert said.
“And that’s a good trend.”
The county is expecting a 3.94
percent property tax revenue increase,
according to the state’s funding formula. But Precinct 3 Commissioner
Andy Meyers said the formula did not
paint the full picture.
“However, not included in that formula is the property damage related
to the recent flood, which is going to
be reducing the property values and
therefore would reflect a reduction in
the amount of increase in property
values,” Meyers said.
Although the proposed county
tax rate is lower than the FY 2015-16
rate, Pamela Gubbels, the county’s
director of finance and investments,
said the expected tax revenue for FY
2016-17 is $276.4 million, compared
to the $264.1 million budgeted in FY
2015-16.
Patterson said this was because
FORT BEND COUNTY
the county’s property values had
increased in FY 2015-16.
The FY 2016-17 budget proposal
will be presented Sept. 6, with public
hearings scheduled Sept. 12 and 13.
The budget, tax rates and elected officials’ salaries are due to be approved
Sept. 13, according to the county’s
budget calendar.
A proposed 3.37 percent increase
in salaries for elected officials was
also presented Aug. 9. If approved,
County Judge Robert Hebert and
the county sheriff each would earn
$131,519 for FY 2016-17. Salaries for
the district attorney, county judges or
district court judges remained because
compensation for such positions is set
by the state legislature rather than the
county, Patterson said.
He said the raises were proposed
after a compensation study of about 12
other counties revealed Fort Bend to
be behind the market in some jobs.
“The salaries for elected officials
have to be voted on in a separate action
[from the regular budget],” he said.
tax rates
Fort Bend County plans to lower its FY
2016-17 county tax rate by 1.5 percent.
TAX RATE
FY 2015-16
FY 2016-17
GENERAL FUND
$0.373
$0.360
ROAD & BRIDGE FUND
$0.320
$0.022
INTEREST & SINKING FUND $0.060
$0.076
$0.465
$0.458
TOTAL
FORT BEND COUNTY
salaries
The county proposed a 3.37 percent
salary raise for certain elected officials.
FY 2015-16
PROPOSED
SALARY
FY 2016-17
COUNTY JUDGE
$127,231
$131,519
COMMISSIONER
$121,172
$125,256
COUNTY ATTORNEY
$121,172
$125,256
SHERIFF
$127,231
$131,519
TAX ASSESSOR/COLLECTOR $118,143
$122,125
COUNTY CLERK
$118,143
$122,125
DISTRICT CLERK
$118,143
$122,125
TREASURER
$115,114
$118,993
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
$106,026
$109,599
$98,453
$101,770
SALARY
OFFICE
CONSTABLE
Source: Fort Bend County/Community
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Brazos Turnaround in Sugar Land remains closed, TxDOT says opening date unknown
with Fort Bend County and the Galveston District U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers to solve the problem.
“There’s a portion of the barrier
that’s kind of hanging,” Perez said.
TxDOT Houston District public
information officer Deidrea George said
the agency is preparing an emergency
maintenance contract to replace the
eroded slope.
The turnaround is normally accessible from Hwy. 59 between the University Boulevard and Grand Parkway
exits. However, the Hwy. 59 frontage
roads are open. Perez said until the
turnaround is reopened, travelers
could use another exit.
“We need to make sure we get
everything in order, and that’s what
we’re doing now,” he said.
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SUGAR LAND The Brazos River
Turnaround off of Hwy. 59 in Sugar
Land will remain closed while the
Texas Department of Transportation
works to fix safety issues caused by
bouts of heavy rain and flooding.
The Texas Department of Transportation closed the southbound portion
of the turnaround July 26 after heavy
rains eroded the area. The road portion was already damaged from May
floods, according to the agency.
Danny Perez, a public information
officer for TxDOT’s Houston District,
said concrete barriers lacked support
due to soil erosion from the July 26
rains. The barriers are designed to
protect cars on the turnaround.
“Right now, as a precaution we just
have it closed,” Perez said. “There’s no
significant impact to the surrounding
structure.”
He said TxDOT is working to fix
the issue, but transportation officials
have not determined when the turnaround would reopen.
He said TxDOT is coordinating
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Heavy rains eroded the soil around the Brazos River Turaround’s concrete barriers, officials said.
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Abridged stories from our market website, communityimpact.com/slm
Meritage plans new residential
development in Sugar Land
$400,000 and higher, and that homes
would be energy-efficient.
“We’re targeting that buyer who is
either a very advanced first-time buyer
or a move-up buyer,” Moore said.
The development spans 57.6 acres in
an area that was annexed into the city
in March. Single-family residential
units would comprise 40 acres with
4.7 acres of open space. Moore said
Meritage wanted to build in the area
partly because of its zoning to Clements High School.“The buyers out here
seemed to be very education-focused,”
Moore said.
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Residential real estate developer
Meritage Homes submitted preliminary
plans to the city of Sugar Land for a
single-family residential community
with 157 lots.
The Sugar Land Planning and
Zoning Commission unanimously
approved a General Land Plan for the
development Aug. 9. The community
would be at Scenic Rivers Drive north
of Cabrera Drive, according to meeting
documents.
Sugar Land City Planner Lauren Fehr
said the Meritage land plan must be
approved by Sugar Land City Council.
Robert Moore, the director of land
development for Meritage Homes
Houston division, said the company
plans to open the community at the end
of 2017.
“We’re in the early stages of figuring
out what we’re going to offer,” he said.
“It’ll probably be a lot like what we’re
doing in Riverstone North.”
He expected homes to cost about
FBISD truancy increased in 2015-16
Cabrera Dr.
In a presentation to Fort Bend ISD’s
board of trustees Aug. 8, district staff
reported truancy cases increased
during the 2015-16 academic year,
compared with the previous year.
In 2015-16, FBISD counted 3,451
truant students, versus 2,876 truant
students in the 2014-15 school year.
Staff cited the effects of changed
truancy legislation and a disconnect
among students as partial reasons for
the increase.
“Between the focus groups, talking
to students and talking to administrators, we really found that one of
the big misconceptions was that the
students really felt like truancy didn’t
exist,” said Dawn Carlson, FBISD
director of student affairs.
The focus groups were part of
efforts undertaken by the district
over the past school year to address
truancy district-wide. Since 2015,
truancy is not a criminal offense and
school districts have more discretion as to whether they refer truant
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As a result, FBISD made 86 truancy
referrals in the 2015-16 academic
year, versus 3,708 referrals in the
previous school year.
“It’s civil now, and so it’s a little bit
different than what they dealt with
before if they had been to the courts
before,” Carlson said.
FBISD added social worker support
and a dropout prevention specialist at
some high schools. Carlson and FBISD
Deputy Superintendent Christie
Whitbeck recommended keeping students engaged in programs to reduce
truancy.
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• September
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Education
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FOCUS
FORT BEND ISD
Fort Bend ISD experiences STAAR
test glitches, some results unused
By Bethany Knipp
Like many school districts across
the state, Fort Bend ISD suffered
obstacles during the 2015-16 school
year with state standardized exams,
which affected students’ testing experiences and the reporting of scores.
Problems with the State of Texas
Assessments of Academic Readiness
tests, including online connectivity
issues and inaccurate results, began
in March and delayed the reporting of
scores this summer.
“There were some issues in March
with about 14,000 online tests,” Texas
Education Agency spokesperson
DeEtta Culbertson said.
Afterward, some campuses received
other schools’ scores for March tests
and May retake tests.
“[In March], we had three campuses
that had results sent to other campuses,” FBISD Director of Assessment
Thomas Negri said. “We had two students who did not have results at all.”
Culberston said the TEA attributes
the slew of problems to Educational
Testing Service, which started as a
testing vendor in the 2015-16 school
year after the contract of the previous
vendor, Pearson Education, expired.
The TEA on Aug. 23 directed ETS
to invest $15 million in its services
as a result of the online testing issues
and fined the company $5.7 million in
liquidated damages.
“ETS could not find these students,”
Negri said. “The end result with these
students, unfortunately, is that they
were required to take the May retest.”
Eventually, he said, the original
results arrived and revealed those
students had passed in the first round
of testing.
Some children also received duplicate, although not identical, results
attributed to the incorrect schools.
Negri said overall, however, fewer
than 50 FBISD students were affected
by testing and reporting problems.
The STAAR test measures Texas
students’ academic progress in math,
reading, social studies and science.
High school students take end-ofcourse exams in English, U.S. history,
algebra and biology.
Due to the problems with STAAR
tests across the state, Texas Education
Commissioner Mike Morath amended
the consequences of affected scores.
Morath announced in April that negatively affected results in March for the
reading and math sections for grades 5
and 8, as well as the May retakes, would
not be included in the overall index
scores of districts and campuses.
The same concession was made for
grades 4 and 7 writing sections, and
high school English tests.
He also canceled a June retake of
those tests.
Grades 5 and 8 math and reading
tests are determining factors for grade
promotion.
In a June 10 letter, Morath
instructed districts to use their
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The Fault in our STAARs
Various problems emerged with administration of the State of Texas
Assessments of Academic Readiness tests in the 2015-16 school year.
The Texas Education Agency attributes the issues to a change in the
testing vendor and its delivery service.
September 2015: TEA hires new STAAR testing vendor called
Educational Testing Service.
March-April 2016:
A total of 14,220 students across the state experience technical
problems taking online STAAR tests.
May 2016:
Students retake STAAR tests.
June 2016:
June retesting is canceled due to glitches.
June 2016:
May test results are delayed until July.
June 2016:
Districts receive May results with errors.
August 2016:
STAAR results are released publicly on the TEA’s website.
August 2016:
The TEA fines ETS $5.7 million and directs the company to spend
$15 million to improve its processes.
Source: Texas Education Agency/Community Impact Newspaper
discretion on whether to promote the
students to the next grade. Because
of the issues, the TEA delayed results
to districts this summer to perform
quality checks, Culbertson said.
“I think it was just a matter of firsttime testing,” Culbertson said. “We’re
testing 1 million to 3 million kids at a
time, and if you’re a new vendor sometimes there can be glitches with your
delivery service, with getting everybody on track of how this is done.”
Culbertson attributed some of the
result mix-ups to the vendor’s carrier
delivering the wrong results. Despite
the statewide issues, Negri said
FBISD was far less affected than other
districts in Texas, admitting that the
first year of testing for a new vendor is
challenging.
“We don’t want to see any student
suffer through a bad testing experience,” he said. “We’ve voiced our
concerns with the Texas Education
Agency and ETS, and we hope that
next year will be smoother.”
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2014-15 economically
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2015-16 STAAR passing results by grade
2015-16 enrollment
2015-16 accountability
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1 Armstrong
MS
651
83.6%
50% 44%
61% 77% 51%
51% 65% 64%
57
2 Austin Parkway
MS
996
7.1%
84% 93%
90% 89% 81%
92% 95% 88%
51
3 Barrington Place
MS
753
33.6%
91% 89%
78% 88% 74%
82% 86% 73%
50, 60
4 Blue Ridge
MS
640
85.1%
49% 50%
79% 67% 50%
66% 70% 66%
56
Feeder
schools
Science
Math
Reading
5th
Writing
Math
Reading
4th
Math
Reading
Elementary
schools
3rd
Results from the 2015-16 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or
STAAR, tests were released this summer. Community Impact Newspaper publishes
STAAR results by campus and by district. The following charts show how students
performed on the annual exams as well as district information such as enrollment
numbers and feeder school patterns. In August districts and campuses received
ratings of Met Standard, Met Alternative Standard or Improvement Required based
on STAAR and end-of-course exam results from the 2015-16 school year and other
indicators.
2015-16 statistics
State
District
Economically disadvantaged
58.93%
33.61%
English Language Learners (ELL)
16.87%
16.22%
Average annual salary of teachers
$51,892
$56,513
5 Brazos Bend
MS
700
12.6%
96% 98%
95% 96% 90%
97% 99% 98%
59
6 Briargate
IR
466
85.6%
48% 56%
43% 52% 41%
40% 44% 21%
56
7 Burton
MS
453
71.6%
64% 74%
66% 59% 55%
70% 53% 35%
55
8 Colony Bend
MS
814
17%
88% 90%
88% 82% 77%
90% 92% 88%
51
9 Colony Meadows
MS
807
6.1%
93% 98%
91% 91% 84%
94% 99% 97%
52
10 Commonwealth
MS
895
1.4%
99% 99%
96% 95% 93%
98% 99% 98%
52
11 Cornerstone
MS
1,074
2.3%
97% 97%
96% 96% 92%
95% 99% 96%
59
District scores by grade
12 Drabek
MS
824
27.4%
80% 92%
87% 91% 81%
94% 96% 91%
60
13 Dulles
MS
792
42.5%
70% 77%
77% 79% 66%
75% 76% 63%
50
2015-16 State of Texas Assessments of Academic
Readiness (STAAR) passing results
Grade 3
Reading 80%
Math 82%
14 Fleming
MS
707
62.9%
75% 72%
81% 78% 73%
83% 78% 67%
54
Grade 4
Reading 82%
Math 80%
15 Glover
MS
518
75%
62% 55%
70% 61% 67%
89% 76% 73%
57
Grade 5
Reading 82%
Math 85%
16 Goodman
MS
696
68%
61% 61%
76% 64% 60%
66% 68% 58%
55
Grade 6
Reading 78%
Math 81%
17 Heritage Rose
MS
982
73.3%
61% 71%
69% 74% 59%
61% 81% 67%
47, 51
61% 56%
73% 55% 45%
58% 70% 63%
57
43.8%
82% 82%
80% 69% 76%
85% 82% 77%
48, 49
23 Lakeview
MS
455
34.9%
73% 75%
76% 73% 73%
88% 91% 85%
53, 60
24 Lantern Lane
MS
468
65.1%
58% 62%
67% 68% 44%
71% 76% 67%
58
25 Lexington Creek
MS
586
22.3%
81% 73%
83% 83% 77%
88% 88% 81%
50
26 Madden
MS
862
NSE
91% 93%
91% 92% 92%
95% 94% 89%
53
27 Meadows
MS
475
40.9%
90% 87%
87% 84% 82%
89% 88% 84%
50
28 Mission Bend
MS
770
78.8%
74% 78%
74% 76% 55%
78% 85% 72%
54
29 Mission Glen
MS
482
64.3%
67% 78%
71% 54% 60%
81% 83% 69%
54
30 Mission West
MS
690
71.9%
76% 71%
71% 68% 53%
69% 66% 59%
49
31 Oakland
MS
1,088 14.4%
93% 90%
92% 89% 87%
84% 91% 88%
48
32 Oyster Creek
MS
813
31.9%
86% 89%
85% 89% 72%
84% 86% 82%
53
33 Palmer
MS
591
29.2%
77% 81%
70% 62% 59%
72% 78% 72%
55
34 Parks
MS
595
66%
66% 58%
77% 67% 56%
81% 81% 96%
55
35 Pecan Grove
MS
646
16.8%
90% 91%
85% 89% 68%
94% 88% 84%
48
36 Quail Valley
MS
539
35.5%
71% 63%
76% 70% 66%
77% 69% 52%
58
37 Ridgegate
MS
605
91%
70% 75%
79% 78% 58%
65% 67% 56%
56
38 Ridgemont
IR
815
88.9%
49% 67%
49% 57% 30%
42% 55% 35%
56
39 Scanlan Oaks
MS
985
2%
94% 93%
94% 96% 89%
97% 97% 93%
47
40 Schiff
MS
1,183
9.7%
92% 90%
93% 90% 84%
89% 91% 87%
47, 51
41 Seguin
MS
822
41%
79% 85%
85% 84% 72%
85% 86% 73%
49
42 Settlers Way
MS
831
13.8%
91% 94%
95% 94% 93%
93% 94% 88%
51
43 Sienna Crossing
MS
937
5.7%
97% 99%
94% 93% 88%
94% 95% 87%
47
44 Sugar Mill
MS
680
26.7%
81% 86%
87% 79% 79%
84% 85% 85%
60
45 Townewest
MS
803
76%
68% 60%
77% 61% 56%
84% 84% 78%
60
46 Walker Station
MS
652
7.6%
96% 92%
96% 97% 98%
96% 99% 87%
59
Middle
schools
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
Baines
Bowie
Crockett
Dulles
First Colony
Fort Settlement
Garcia
Hodges Bend
Lake Olympia
McAuliffe
Missouri City
Quail Valley
Sartartia
Sugar Land
High
schools
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
Austin
Bush
Clements
Dulles
Elkins
Hightower
Kempner
Marshall
Ridge Point
Travis
Willowridge
Feeder
schools
75.8%
924
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
1,646
1,179
1,006
1,565
1,257
1,335
1,008
1,156
1,127
1,011
953
1,243
1,324
1,280
25.9%
19.2%
52.6%
30%
14.1%
3.8%
34.8%
70%
54.8%
82%
77%
28%
7.4%
46.6%
83%
82%
72%
80%
88%
97%
80%
68%
66%
53%
49%
83%
92%
75%
87%
85%
74%
87%
91%
98%
91%
76%
70%
52%
55%
80%
98%
80%
86%
87%
80%
85%
89%
96%
86%
78%
62%
56%
62%
86%
94%
82%
89%
88%
79%
85%
92%
98%
83%
77%
67%
64%
54%
81%
97%
82%
82%
84%
72%
83%
88%
97%
86%
68%
49%
41%
54%
82%
94%
78%
90%
92%
88%
91%
94%
99%
93%
84%
78%
68%
75%
88%
98%
84%
77%
93%
72%
85%
91%
97%
87%
76%
62%
53%
64%
58%
98%
81%
87%
87%
91%
88%
89%
98%
90%
81%
77%
56%
71%
83%
98%
81%
83%
87%
80%
83%
91%
94%
89%
74%
57%
43%
57%
71%
98%
71%
69
70
62
64
63, 65, 69
63, 65
61, 70
62, 67
65, 66
71
68
65
61, 63, 70
67
6th
7th
8th
2015-16 STAAR passing results by subject
U.S. history
624
MS
MS
Social
studies
MS
2015-16 FBISD accountability rating
English II
21 Jones
22 Jordan
End of course,
all grades
Science
57
Math
54
72% 82% 77%
English I
78% 90% 75%
61% 64% 58%
Reading
73% 64% 73%
56% 69%
Writing
85% 93%
78.3%
Biology
63.7%
426
Math
711
MS
Reading
MS
Improvement Required (IR): did not meet
one or more performance targets
Algebra I
19 Holley
20 Hunters Glen
English I: 72%, English II: 75%,
algebra I: 85%, biology: 94%,
U.S. history: 96%
Math
50
Math 82%
Math 79%
Reading
92% 96% 92%
Reading 82%
Reading 88%
disadvantaged
93% 93% 89%
Grade 7
Grade 8
disadvantaged
89% 94%
Met Alternative Standard (MAS): met
performance targets for charter operators and
alternative education campuses
2015-16 enrollment
19.3%
Met Standard (MS): met performance
targets
2015-16 enrollment
624
In the performance index accountability
system, first implemented in 2012-13, ratings
are as follows:
rating
MS
Accountability ratings
rating
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Data is from 2015-16 school year. Data for 2016-17 will be available this fall.
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
MS
2,278
2,194
2,441
2,236
2,083
2,177
2,290
1,223
2,300
2,479
1,232
22%
57.5%
6.6%
20.4%
24.1%
47.7%
35.3%
63.2%
16.9%
27.5%
72.3%
85%
70%
96%
86%
84%
70%
79%
72%
86%
85%
71%
96%
92%
99%
96%
97%
87%
94%
86%
96%
97%
84%
84%
61%
94%
80%
80%
59%
69%
48%
82%
83%
46%
85%
63%
95%
84%
84%
62%
76%
45%
88%
82%
42%
99%
94%
99%
98%
99%
91%
96%
94%
98%
98%
90%
End-of-course—all students
Because of computer problems with some STAAR tests, of the approximately 3 million students tested throughout the state in 2015-16, 14,220 scores for students who had computer problems were not used when calculating the campus and district accountability results.
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2015-16 Fort Bend ISD total students
2016-17 Fort Bend ISD feeder pattern
HIGH SCHOOLS
67
MIDDLE SCHOOLS
Kempner
54
19%
100%
62
Bush
60
81%
70
49
100%
Travis
15%
48
100%
63
Clements
51
47%
33%
59
69
Ridge Point
51
25%
65
47
28%
34%
64
Dulles
68
66
61
Marshall
Willowridge
Mission Bend
Mission Glen
26
Madden
5
Brazos Bend
42
First Colony
Austin Parkway
8
Colony Bend
9
Colony Meadows
10
Commonwealth
Lakeview
44
Sugar Mill
45
Townewest
3
Barrington Place
12
30
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOUNDARIES
41
22
31
99
Drabek
22
Jordan
41
Seguin
30
Mission West
Baines
First Colony
Fort Settlement
50
Dulles
55
Lake Olympia
53
59
56
McAuliffe
Sources: Texas Education Agency, Educational Testing
Service, Fort Bend ISD/Community Impact Newspaper
19
45
26
44
27
12
3
31
90
23
59
5
18
46 11
42
2
10
31
Pecan Grove
22
Jordan
6
24
36
4
6
33
34
16
40
Oakland
35
37
20
1
25
8
9
15
21
13
72
7
43
521
39
17
MIDDLE SCHOOL BOUNDARIES
Cornerstone
11
17
Heritage Rose
40
Schiff
36
Quail Valley
24
Lantern Lane
33
Palmer
43
Sienna Crossing
39
Scanlan Oaks
17
Heritage Rose
40
Schiff
2
Austin Parkway
72
Sullivan
42
Settlers Way
10
Commonwealth
27
Meadows
1
Armstrong
13
Dulles
15
Glover
18
Highlands
21
Jones
25
Lexington Creek
20
Hunters Glen
49
48
3
Barrington Place
32
Oyster Creek
23
Lakeview
26
Madden
46
6
Briargate
37
Ridgegate
4
Blue Ridge
38
Ridgemont
34
Parks
16
Goodman
7
Burton
33
Palmer
53
59
60
90
50
57
59
51
56
58
52
6
55
47
521
HIGH SCHOOL BOUNDARIES
62
67
70
99
Garcia
Sartartia
14
54
First Colony
51
29
28
35
32
Settlers Way
2
Sartartia
Missouri City
100%
28
23
Bowie
57
85%
Austin
Holley
Sartartia
15%
Hightower
19
Garcia
Lake Olympia
52
33%
71
Crockett
55
100%
100%
Sugar Land
Quail Valley
58
15%
Elkins
Fleming
99
100%
100%
14
Fort Settlement
52
66%
Hodges Bend
29
53
59
34%
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Hodges Bend
54
2016-17 Fort Bend ISD school boundaries
59
61
90
64
68
63
71
65
6
66
Walker Station
69
521
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The featured schools from Houston ISD and Lamar Consolidated ISD are attended by Sugar Land and Missouri City students zoned to those districts.
Met Alternative Standard (MAS): met performance
targets for charter operators and alternative education
campuses
Lamar Consolidated ISD
1
2
Middle school
3
Welch
MS
853
82%
High school
4
Westbury
IR
2,131
73%
49% 46%
74% 81%
6th
45% 56%
56% 45% 53%
75% 80% 55%
7th
46% 47% 48%
47% 54% 57%
69% 85% 74%
Social
Studies
Science
Math
Reading
86%
87%
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2.7%
4.1%
32.9%
100% 98%
93% 96%
83% 94%
MS
MS
684
438
23.2%
61.2%
7th
6th
Reading -90% 90% 90%
Reading -70% 70% 72%
Biology
English 1
English II
History
57%
80%
40%
38%
87%
Middle schools
4 Ryon
5 Wessendorff
6 Lamar
7 Reading
886 60.8%
1,269 21.2%
MS
MS
2,570 21%
1,624 51.6%
-
-
5th
99% 99% 95%
99% 97% 93%
86% 81% 79%
99% 100% 99%
98% 100% 98%
79% 83% 78%
-
8th
-
- Math
- 90%- Math
- 72%-
-
7th
8th
68% 76% 64%
93% 90% 90%
80% 82% 85% 71%
94% 90% 94% 87%
6th
MS
MS
High schools
8 George Ranch
9 Lamar
4th
Social
Studies
605
544
695
3rd
Junior high Schools
8th
63% 52% 58% 51%
Algebra I
MS
MS
MS
1 Campbell
2 Dickinson
3 Hutchison
5th
Writing
649
777
Math
MS
MS
Gross
Bell
Reading
Elementary
schools
4th
$51,892
Elementary
schools
3rd
13.25%
Science
$55,431
disadvantaged
30.29%
$51,892
2015-16 enrollment
16.87%
rating
43.23%
16.87%
Math
76.36%
58.93%
Reading
58.93%
disadvantaged
District
Math
State
Reading
2015-16 statistics
District
2015-16 enrollment
MS
State
rating
2015-16 total students: 215,627
2015-16 HISD accountability rating
2015-16 statistics
2015-16 State of Texas Assessments of
Academic Readiness (STAAR) passing results
Grade 3
Reading 66%
Math 69%
Grade 4
Reading 69%
Math 69%
Grade 5
Reading 64%
Math 72%
Grade 6
Reading 62%
Math 72%
Grade 7
Reading 64%
Math 66%
Grade 8
Reading 73%
Math 64%
End of course,
all grades
U.S. history: 90%
Math
MS
Writing
2015-16 LCISD accountability rating
Houston ISD
2015-16 State of Texas Assessments of
Academic Readiness (STAAR) passing results
Grade 3
Reading 83%
Math 88%
Grade 4
Reading 85%
Math 85%
Grade 5
Reading 81%
Math 87%
Grade 6
Reading 82%
Math 85%
Grade 7
Reading 81%
Math 78%
Grade 8
Reading 84%
Math 84%
End of course,
all grades
U.S. history: 97%
2016-17 total students: 30,833
Reading
Improvement Required (IR): did not meet one or
more performance targets
Met Standard (MS): met performance targets
Math
In the performance index accountability system, first
implemented in 2012-13, ratings are as follows:
Reading
Accountability ratings
Algebra I
Biology
English 1
English II
History
91%
70%
98%
90%
84%
58%
88%
67%
99%
96%
Because of computer problems with some STAAR tests, of the approximately 3 million students tested throughout the state in 2015-16, 14,220 scores for students who had computer problems were not used when calculating the campus and district accountability results.
Data is from 2015-16 school year. Data for 2016-17 will be available this fall. Sources: TEA, Educational Testing Service, HISD, LCISD/Community Impact Newspaper
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Compiled by Amelia Brust
policy changes
Fort Bend ISD regularly updates its board policy manual and student code of conduct.
Both documents outline the rules and procedures for district employees and students.
This is a selection of policies changed in both documents between April and July.
KINDERGARTEN DISCIPLINE
REPORTING CRIMES
Kindergartners will no longer be sent to the district’s Disciplinary
Alternative Education Program.
The language is clarified to say when the campus behavior coordinators, school
administrators or FBISD employees report crimes and suspected criminal
behavior to law enforcement or the district
attorney. The language is clarified to say
under what circumstances criminal activity
We had a lot of conis reported, and parents are notified of
versation when the
criminal or suspected criminal activity.
counterfeiting came
out … The board has exThe board determined
pressed many times that
W H Y ? that the existing policy
we want to make sure
that our parents are kept
allowed for too much interpretation. The
involved.
district came under fire this spring for
The board
W H Y ? of trustees
did not want to keep
kindergarteners in
need of extra attention
away from their
peers.
“
I think this board has
been pretty vocal that
we don’t want any child
in DAEP unless we have
exhausted all remedies,
but particularly kids that
are very young.
—Kristin Tassin, president of Fort
Bend ISD’s board of trustees
STUDENT SEARCHES
“
Students’ personal property or vehicle, or school property used by
the student, including desks and lockers, can be searched by district
staff if the district has reasonable suspicion of a rule violation or criminal activity.
Searches can be unannounced, blanket,
random and performed by nonaggressive
sniffer dogs.
The policy was rewritten
W H Y ? to require reasonable
suspicion before performing a search
in light of students’ privacy rights.
S T A F F I N V E S T I G AT I O N S
Employees who resign or retire while
under investigation, or who resign or
retire in order to avoid termination,
are ineligible for re-employment with
FBISD.
The board
W H Y ? of trustees
agreed with FBISD staff’s
recommendation.
“
its handling of a student who produced a
counterfeit bill at Elkins High School.
—Tassin
E T H I C S V I O L AT I O N R E P O RT I N G
The District Ethics hotline may be used for reThe policy
W H Y ? needed to be
porting of suspected violations, especially if the
reporting party wishes to remain anonymous. The updated to align with current
telephone/web hotline is operated by an indedistrict practices.
pendent third party who will report incidents to
FBISD’s legal and human resources departments.
Employees are prohibited from engaging in or
soliciting romantic relationships or sexual contact
from students or minors.
DEFINING HARASSMENT
Harassment of a student, district employee, official or volunteer based on
sexual orientation/identity is prohibited. Dating violence is a prohibited form
of harassment.
The chapter needed to be
W H Y ? updated and aligned with
the board’s policy.
Source: Fort Bend ISD/Community Impact Newspaper
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FOCUS
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Sullivan Elementary
Superintendent Charles Dupre said
he was looking forward to starting the
school year with a new building
and more room for students.
“I’m happy that the 2014
bond program is moving as expected,” he
said. “I think
that’s evidenced
73,717 students in the 2015-16 academic
year, and that number will likely grow
by 10.5 percent to 15.6 percent by 2025,
according to Population and Survey
Analysts’ latest report.
“You have to decide on a capacity for
the school and as growth comes, you
go ahead and adjust,” said Oscar Perez,
FBISD executive director of design and
by Sullivan Elementary opening, and
it’s going to be used almost to capacity
this year, so that’s exciting.”
Tucked away among the luxury homes
and water features of Riverstone Development, the 150,576-square-foot Sullivan Elementary is the first of four
elementary schools to open from
the 2014 bond program.
Construction on the
two-story
building
began in April
2015, and staff
moved in
THE 21 ST CENTURY LEARNING
environment
21st century learning environments are a goal of FBISD’s Elementary
School Education Specifications passed Sept. 21, 2015. The Texas
Education Agency requires school districts to have a written
program guiding the design of newly proposed facilities or
major renovations, according to the specifications.
21 ST CENTURY
Learning
spaces for
community
use
6
spaces
Shared cafetorium
spaces with
performance and
gym capabilities
Community uses
The general public may use the
school for events, community
college programs, etc.
6 classrooms
and an open
activity area per
grade level
850
Overall
classroom
capacity of
850 students
21 ST CENTURY
Vocab lesson: core spaces
spaces used by all students,
excluding regular classrooms,
such as libraries and cafeterias.
LEED CERTIFICATION
technology
Libraries equipped
with digital learning
classrooms
1,000
Core spaces
with capacity
for 1,000
students
Spaces for
collaborative
learning
Leadership in energy and environmental design certification is given by
the U.S. Green Building Council to structures deemed “green” buildings.
ARCHITECTS
MUST MEET
Teachers have a
laptop bundle per
classroom
40-49
POINTS FOR
BASIC LEED
Maximum
Green cleaning Indoor water CERTIFICATION
indoor daylight
processes
use reduction OF A BUILDING.
Vocab lesson: laptop bundle
laptop, monitor and docking station.
mid-August. For a total construction
budget of $32.2 million, Sullivan Elementary has a maximum capacity of
1,200 students.
“I think [the vision] was really
to make it still feel like a … regular
FBISD school but accommodating 400
more [students],” said Ashley Dixon,
FBISD construction manager, design
and construction.
The school’s central library has a
“maker space” for students to participate in different educational and
hands-on activities. Maker spaces are
part of FBISD’s initiative to create “21st
century learning environments.”
According to the district’s Elementary School Education Specifications,
or Ed Specs, which were last updated
in 2015, 21st century learning environments involve spaces for collaborative
learning and spaces for the wider community.
Sullivan Elementary is also the district’s first school to be LEED certified
by the U.S. Green Building Council as an
environmentally sustainable building.
Preserving what exists
While the 2007 and 2014 bond programs were intended to fund new construction, they also supported changes
to existing FBISD facilities in areas of
slower growth.
On Aug. 15, the board of trustees
approved $19.5 million total in construction contracts for new classrooms
at Oyster Creek, Sienna Crossing, Schiff,
Scanlan Oaks, Holley and Cornerstone
elementary schools. FBISD will also
perform renovations at various schools
around the district, such as boiler
replacement and roof repairs at Burton
Elementary School.
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“Our goal is to really balance enrollment in school so that we can have
an outstanding learning environment
for all children,” Dupre said. “Overcrowded schools are not the best learning environment.”
These schools are expected to ease overcrowding and support population growth in
the Sienna Plantation master-planned community starting in the 2017-18 school year.
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A growing challenge
Another future hurdle is continued
enrollment growth. Schiff Elementary in
particular was over capacity on the first
day of school in August, leading students
not already enrolled there to be bussed to
Sienna Crossing Elementary.
“Moving forward, the district will recommend a class-size waiver from the
[TEA], allowing a slight increase in class
sizes,” said a letter to parents from FBISD
Chief of Schools Mark Foust.
To manage that growth, Perez said it
is necessary to not build too large but
also plan for portable buildings.
“It’s an unavoidable evil,” he said. “We
design the schools with growth in mind.”
Dupre said he hopes the new
schools will allow the district to maintain the same quality of education for
future students.
SI ENNA
Demographic differences
The neighborhoods of FBISD’s newest schools are in areas of high growth,
high household incomes and low numbers of economically disadvantaged
students. The feeder schools for Sullivan Elementary—Austin Parkway,
Colony Bend, Settlers Way and Commonwealth elementary schools—all
reported to the TEA 17 percent or
fewer economically disadvantaged students in the 2014-15 school year.
ES 48 will affect students at Schiff,
Sienna Crossing, Scanlan Oaks, and
Heritage Rose elementary schools. MS
15 could affect students at Baines and
First Colony middle school, according
to FBISD. While Heritage Rose had
73.3 percent economically disadvantaged students, the other feeder schools
reported to the TEA 25.9 percent or
fewer in the 2014-15 year.
By comparison, Ridgemont Elementary School reported 88.9 percent economically disadvantaged students in
the 2014-15 school year. Built in 1973,
the school is at 94 percent capacity this
year despite being in an area of lower
residential growth.
The 2014 bond program included
upgrades such as security features,
doors, and windows but no structural
changes or new space for Ridgemont.
Ridgemont will pilot the district’s
new Educators Dedicated to Growing
Excellence, or EDGE program, this
year along with Briargate Elementary
School—a campus built in 1977, with
85.6 percent economically disadvantaged students in 2014-15 and also in
an area of slower growth.
EDGE replaces the traditional classroom environment with more flexible
student grouping and teaching techniques, according to FBISD. Megan
Evans, FBISD director of innovation
and continuous improvement, said the
district considered Ridgemont’s and
Briargate’s environments when designing EDGE.
“That was something that we were
very strategic about was [ensuring] both
of those campuses have the most inviting
environment as possible,” she said.
Evans said data is being collected on
EDGE’s implementation, but she could
not speak to the effect of the schools’
facilities on long-term student achievement.
Renderings courtesy FBISD
“The plan on those is that actually
moving forward, [if] we’re going to make
any major changes, then we would incorporate the 21st Century [Learning Environment] ideals into them,” Perez said.
First built in 1976, Dulles Elementary
School’s enhancements inlcude a flex
space, cafeteria wall partition and other
building upgrades.
But Perez said that if the original
structure is too old, some renovations cannot be made without gutting
a school entirely. That would likely
require another bond program, he said.
“You’d literally have to be able to
reconfigure [the school],” he said.
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September
02
Giving Spirits concert
Sugar Land Town Square serves
as the venue for live music on the plaza.
Concertgoers can enjoy songs from the
Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Journey, Etta
James and Aretha Franklin covered by
the band 33rpm. The concert benefits
Keep Sugar Land Beautiful. 7:30-9:30
p.m. Free. Sugar Land Town Square, 2711
Plaza Drive, Sugar Land. 281-276-6000.
www.sugarlandtownsquare.com
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Jurassic Extreme
Dinosaurs come alive at Sugar
Land Town Square for an evening of
prehistoric experiences. The plaza features
7-foot-tall dinosaurs operated by people
that move, dance and roar. 5-7 p.m. Free.
Sugar Land Town Square, 2711 Plaza
Drive, Sugar Land. 281-276-6000.
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Brides and Baseball
Wedding Expo
Attendees can browse more than 55
vendors displaying their services. Brides
and grooms can compare prices, get
ideas and see what styles are trending in
the wedding industry. Noon-5 p.m. $15,
$10 (prepurchase discount). Constellation
Field, 1 Stadium Drive, Sugar Land.
713-747-9333.
www.dreamweddingsbridalshow.com
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Golf Fore Autism
The golf tournament raises money
for Hope for Three, which helps families
of those with autism spectrum disorder
obtain various services including speech
therapy and occupational therapy. Noon.
$250 (individual), $1,000 (team of four).
Sugar Creek Country Club, 420 Sugar
Creek Blvd., Sugar Land. 281-245-0640.
www.hopeforthree.org
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through 5
Labor Day Backyard
Barbecue
Breathe it in. Peace and quiet. Just the sound of
your breath as you walk nature’s paths, beside
wildflowers, a boathouse, casting dock, and
country estate lots. At Fulbrook, the surroundings
are as tranquil as the Brazos River and Oxbow
Lake. Here, life has a luxurious, yet downshifted
feel with no MUD tax and acreage lots.
Visitors to the George Ranch Historical
Park celebrate Labor Day weekend with
1930s-era games, such as hopscotch
and Snakes and Ladders, as well as
music and old-fashioned barbecue at the
event. The meal includes beef brisket and
cowboy beans. The event also features
hand-cranked ice cream. 9 a.m. (park
opens), 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (hand-cranked
ice cream), 12:30 p.m. (meal). $10
(adult), $9 (senior), $5 (child ages 5-15),
free (children age 4 and younger). Meal
prices: $15 (adults ages 13 and older),
$12 (children ages 5-12), $4 (children age
4 and younger). 281-343-0218. George
Ranch Historical Park, 10215 FM 762,
Richmond. 281-343-0218.
www.georgeranch.org
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Great Grown-Up
Spelling Bee
The Fort Bend Literacy Council hosts its
seventh annual competition, presented by
CenterPoint Energy. The event benefits the
Literacy Council’s programs. 6:30-9 p.m.
$50 (spectators). Constellation Field, 1
Stadium Drive, Sugar Land. 281-240-8181.
www.ftbendliteracy.org
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Lace Up for Life race
Be the Match hosts races at
Sugar Land Town Square with a 5K, 1K
and Tot Trot, supporting the Gulf Coast
Marrow Donor Program. The event
features refreshments and entertainment
in a post-race celebration. $15 (Tot Trot),
$15 (youth 1K), $25 (adult 1K), $30 (5K,
untimed), $35 (5K, timed). 7:30 a.m.
Sugar Land Town Square, 2711 Plaza
Drive, Sugar Land. 281-276-6000.
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Breakfast & Bingo
Area residents age 50 and
older can enjoy breakfast and
bingo as the Missouri City Parks
and Recreation Department hosts
the event while giving away prizes.
Tickets can be purchased at the door.
9 a.m. $5. Missouri City Recreation
& Tennis Center, 2701 Cypress Point
Drive, Missouri City. 281-403-8637.
www.missouricitytx.gov
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Livestock management
seminar
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Martina McBride
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A Town Square Affair
The seminar provides participants with
an overview of information about how
to care for livestock including chickens,
goats, cattle and pigs. Participants learn
at a basic level about nutrition, health
and housing for the animals. A meal is
provided at the event. 6 p.m. (check in),
6:30-8 p.m. (seminar). $15. Fort Bend
County Extension Office, 1402 Band
Road, Rosenberg. 281-342-3034.
http://fortbend.agrilife.org
Award-winning country music
singer Martina McBride performs at
the Stafford Centre. The Grammy
nominee originally from Kansas is known
for hits including “Concrete Angel,”
“Independence Day” and “Broken Wing.”
8 p.m. $68-$205. Stafford Centre, 10505
Cash Road, Stafford. 281-208-6900.
www.staffordcentre.com
Sugar Land Town Square hosts an
evening featuring food and fashion. The
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and 17
Pearland International Festival
The Pearland Foundation for the
Performing and Visual Arts hosts its fourth annual
two-day festival. The event opens with a concert
Friday night featuring The Molly Ringwalds, an
80s tribute band from England. On Saturday, an
all-day festival featuring live music, food and drink
ends with a headlining performance from Galaxy
Band. Friday 5-10 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
$25 (two-day adult pass), $15 (Saturday), $5
(Saturday children age 12 and younger). Pearland
Town Center, 11200 Broadway St., Pearland.
281-993-8817. www.ifestoftexas.org
Missouri City Branch Library, 1530 Texas
Parkway, Missouri City. 281-238-2100.
www.fortbend.lib.tx.us/branches/mc.html
event highlights restaurants and retailers in
Town Square, giving a fall fashion preview
with Catwalk on City Walk Fashion Show.
4-7 p.m. Prices to be determined. Sugar
Land Town Square, 2711 Plaza Drive,
Sugar Land. 281-276-6000.
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through Oct. 2
Shrimp Boil Tennis Festival
Doubles teams play in a three-day
tournament with two matches per
team with a modified scoring format.
Participants eat a shrimp lunch held Oct.
1. The registration is Sept. 22. Missouri
City Recreation & Tennis Center. The
registration deadline is Sept. 22. 8 a.m.
$35 (nonmembers). $25 (members).
Missouri City Recreation & Tennis Center,
2701 Cypress Point Drive, Missouri City.
281-403-8637. www.missouricitytx.gov
Hearts & Hammers
Golf Classic
Fort Bend CORPS, a nonprofit that
repairs homes for elderly, disabled and
low-income individuals, hosts the event
honoring Fort Bend County Judge Robert
Hebert and Fort Bend CORPS Founder
Bob Brown III. 10:30 a.m. (check in),
11 a.m. (lunch), noon (shotgun start),
4 p.m. (auction and awards). $125
(individual), $650 (corporate team of four).
MeadowBrook Farms Golf Club, 23230
Meadowbrook Farms Club Drive, Katy.
281-617-7416.
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Courtesy Fort Bend County Fair & Rodeo
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Flying Saucer BeerFeast
In its fifth annual event, Flying
Saucer brings a taste of over 80 craft
beers to Sugar Land Town Square from
more than 50 breweries. 2-6:30 p.m. $15
(designated driver), $35 (advance), $45
(day of event). Sugar Land Town Square,
2711 Plaza Drive, Sugar Land.
281-242-7468. www.saucerbeerfeast.
com/festival?location=sugar-land
through Oct. 2
Fort Bend County Fair
& Rodeo
The annual event features live music, a
carnival and competitive events. Music
headliners include Tanya Tucker, Max
Stalling, Jody Booth, Stony LaRue,
William Michael Morgan, Honeybrowne
and Johnny Lee. Times vary. $10
(adult, advance), $4 (children, advance),
$15 (adult, after start date), $5 (child,
after start date). Fort Bend County
Fairgrounds, 4310 Highway 36 S.,
Rosenberg. 281-342-6171.
www.fortbendcountyfair.com
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Library Zoofari
The Missouri City Branch Library
and the Cindy Ruggeri Memorial sponsor
the program featuring a presentation
about exotic animals with representatives
from Wild Things Zoofari. 2-3 p.m. Free.
Courtesy Pearland International Festival
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FORT BEND COUNTY
Texas
MORE THAN
60 cities
AMARILLO
PHONE RESTRICTIONS
In 2015, state
lawmakers proposed
a statewide ban
on texting and
driving, but the
bill never made it
past the House of
Representatives.
IN TEXAS BAN
MOBILE DEVICE
USE IN SOME
FASHION
ACROSS THE
STATE.
DALLAS
MIDLAND
AUSTIN
CONROE
SAN ANTONIO
SPRING
TOMBALL
MISSOURI CITY
CORPUS
CHRISTI
Local LAWS
GALVESTON
Missouri City has an ordinance restricting the use of phones while driving. Sugar Land
wants community feedback to bring to the Sugar Land City Council for its consideration.
Missouri City:
CURRENT ORDINANCE
Missouri City has restricted phone use
while driving since February 2010. Police
Chief Mike Berezin said the ordinance
is typically difficult to enforce and law
enforcement would prefer a hands-free
ordinance.
ALLOWED
Making a phone call
NOT ALLOWED
Any manual operation that is not for a
phone conversation or navigational use
including texting, email and accessing
social media
MISSOURI CITY
FINE CAP:
$500
SINCE THE
ORDINANCE
BEGAN,
MISSOURI CITY
HAS ISSUED
114
CITATIONS.
“If it saves one life,
would it be necessary? ”
–Scott Schultz, Sugar Land Police
Department assistant chief
Sugar Land:
PROPOSED ORDINANCES
OPTION 1
OPTION 2
ALLOWED
Dialing out to report
emergencies and
hazardous traffic
conditions
Engaging in a
phone conversation
Making a phone call
only in hands-free
or Bluetooth modes
Navigation only in
hands-free or
Bluetooth modes
Using a navigation
system
NOT ALLOWED
Making a hand-held
phone call
Texting
Using social media
Texting
Playing games
Using social media
Typing into a
phone-based GPS
Playing games
All other phonebased applications
Typing into a
phone-based GPS
All other phonebased applications
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OPTION 3
No ordinance regulating phone use
while driving
2016
ATTRIBUTED TO
DISTRACTED DRIVING
IN 2015
ATTRIBUTED PARTLY TO
PHONE USE
IN 2015
1 ACCIDENT
2015
1 FATALITY
2014
70 FATALITIES
TOTAL
ACCIDENTS
2013
1,206
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MISSOURI CITY
ACCIDENTS
ATTRIBUTED
6 ACCIDENTS TO PHONE USE
2012
TOTAL
ACCIDENTS
SUGAR LAND
Missouri City has restricted phone use while driving
since 2010.
12 ACCIDENTS
NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS
5,364
1 IN EVERY 7.3
FORT BEND COUNTY
ACCIDENTS
2011
1 IN EVERY 96.7
TEXAS
ACCIDENTS
MISSOURI CITY
MISSOURI CITY ACCIDENTS ATTRIBUTED TO PHONE USE
2010
TEXAS
Although causation cannot be isolated to phone use,
Sugar Land Assistant Chief of Police Scott Schultz said
it can be a factor in a number of area crashes.
in the last
6 years
Safety
Continued from | 1
Police Department, on the other hand,
wants to further restrict its current ordinance limiting phone use while driving.
“It’s just kind of out there more and
more, and you’re noticing the accidents that are caused by it, and a lot
of cities are passing those ordinances
where you can’t do it,” said Sugar Land
Police Department Assistant Chief Scott
Schultz.
Additionally, Sugar Land is testing the
use of license plate recognition cameras
at the city’s entrance points in northern
Sugar Land. Police department officials
are considering whether it would be
useful to install more cameras at other
entrance points to help with investigations, Schultz said. Missouri City wants
to try out license plate recognition cameras on several police vehicles.
“It’s just an incredible investigative
tool,” Missouri City Police Department
Chief Mike Berezin said.
Texting and driving
The Sugar Land Police Department
has proposed three options to City
Council for the use of mobile devices
while driving.
The first would be to make it illegal to
use a mobile device for texting and using
applications while driving. However,
making phone calls behind the wheel
would still be a legal use of the phone,
Schultz said.
A second option would ban hands-on
mobile device use, and a third option
would be to have no ordinance at all.
Schultz said an ordinance would follow
suit to what about 60 other Texas cities
are doing.
He said in 2015, 116 accidents in the
city were attributed to either driver inattention or distraction in a vehicle, which
is as specific as the department’s reports
are. He said no fatalities occurred in this
accident category to his knowledge.
116
SUGAR LAND
ACCIDENTS
ATTRIBUTED
TO DISTRACTED
DRIVING
in 2015
alone
“I can’t say that was strictly a telephone call or a text message,” he said.
“It may have been a bee flying in the
car. I don’t know because it doesn’t get
into that detail but we did have 116 that
it could be attributed to. With that 116
accidents, that’s well over $200,000 in
property damage right there alone.”
Neighboring Missouri City has had an
ordinance since 2010 restricting phone
use while driving in the city. The city
ordinance bans texting and other activities. He said the police department is
looking to Sugar Land to see if it adopts
a completely hands-free ordinance to
determine whether Missouri City wants
to further restrict its own drivers in the
same way.
“If they’re successful with that, then I
would suggest that we would bring that
before our [City] Council and amend
our ordinance to also include that,” he
said.
He said the reason for a potential
change is also practical.
“Oftentimes, citizens don’t know
when they’re crossing city boundaries,
so if you have one large city doing that, it
makes sense [for] adjacent cities having
the same problems [to do the same], so
it’s not so confusing when you can and
when you can’t [use the phone] for the
traveling motorist.”
In addition to making an ordinance
easier for residents, Berezin said not
having a hands-free ordinance makes
enforcement difficult for police officers.
“There’s a few loopholes in the ordinance,” Berezin said. “You can make an
emergency phone call, you can check a
navigation device, things of that nature.
It’s a bit of a challenge for when an officer
does cite someone. It’s hard for them to
stand up in court and say ‘Oh, no, they
definitely were accessing one of those
[banned] applications.’”
Although numerically a local ordinance might not be significant, Schultz
said it would still be worth it.
“If it saves one life, would it be necessary?” he asked. “We’re looking to make
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LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION CAMERAS
Law enforcement agencies in both Missouri City and Sugar Land have
cited stolen vehicles driven into the cities as an issue. Sugar Land is
testing the effectiveness of license plate recognition cameras in the
northern portion of the city before possibly expanding.
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60,243,101
TOTAL PLATES READ
OCTOBER 2015
TO JUNE 2016
LICENSE PLATE
RECOGNITION
CAMERAS
W. AIRPORT RD.
ELDRIDGE RD.
License plate cameras
Both Sugar Land and Missouri City’s
police departments are also looking to
use license plate recognition cameras in
their cities as a crime deterrent and to
assist with investigations.
Sugar Land has had LPR technology
since 2007, Chief Doug Brinkley said
during an Aug. 2 presentation to City
Council.
In September 2015, however, the
department started operating 73 cameras in northern Sugar Land, testing to
see if cameras should be used across the
city. Brinkley said the cameras are helpful to investigations.
“Most of the time [when] we have
home break-ins or car break-ins, our
citizens see something,” Brinkley said.
“They may see a brown vehicle or a black
pickup truck, and we endeavor to use
the license plate recognition camera to
actually identify the suspects involved in
those types of activities.”
Brinkley told the City Council he now
wants six more months of study to help
determine the cameras’ effect on arrests
and crime before the council would
make a decision. Using LPR technology
from January to June, the department
recovered 38 stolen vehicles with a total
value of about $314,000, Brinkley said.
With help from the LPR system, the
department arrested 38 people from
January to June, Brinkley said.
“Hopefully, it’s going to be a promising deterrent as we move forward,” Brinkley said.
Berezin said the Missouri City Police
Department applied for a grant of
$59,000 from the Houston-Galveston
Area Council requesting mobile cameras to use on police vehicles. Missouri
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the driving public a little bit safer.”
Schultz said he will continue to collect community feedback with an online
town hall on the city’s website as well as
at homeowner association meetings. He
does not have a date set to close the town
hall and return to City Council.
As of Aug. 17, 60 people responded to
the online town hall stating their preference for an ordinance or lack thereof.
Of those respondents, 35 people
wanted a completely hands-free ordinance while 9 preferred texting and
application prohibition but not phone
call restriction. Sixteen respondents did
not want an ordinance.
“Law enforcement is already asked to
do too much,” Sugar Land respondent
Edward Fox said. “Their focus must be
on objective observation of how vehicles
are operating, not struggling to figure
out what’s going on inside each vehicle.”
90
978
1 IN EVERY
PLATES READ
ALERTED AUTHORITIES
61,565
TOTAL ALERTS
OF SUSPICIOUS PLATES
38
VEHICLES
RECOVERED
IN SUGAR LAND
63
JANUARY-JUNE 2016
VEHICLES
RECOVERED
IN MISSOURI CITY
JANUARY-MAY 2016
Sources: city of Missouri City, Sugar Land Police Department, Texas Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Transportation/Community Impact Newspaper
City does not have any license plate recognition cameras, so this would be a first
step, Berezin said.
“As it is now, we have to hand enter
each one of them into the computer
while driving,” Berezin said.
Berezin said if Missouri City gets the
grant for the cameras, it would be enough
to outfit at least three police vehicles.
“That system is reading license plates
just as fast as they’re driving through the
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associated with a crime—kidnapping,
whatever the case may be—it automatically notifies the operator of that license
plate reader system,” he said.
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0.54
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0.02
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0.42
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Does your dentist have invisalign
(invisible braces)? Always wanted
straight teeth but could not bear
the idea of full blown braces? Get
straight teeth today using invisible
braces.
5
Does your dentist have digital
x-rays? Instant images the size of
a computer monitor. We can magnify
a suspicious area and basically see
inside the tooth. An added benefit for
you is 1/10 the radiation needed.
10
Does your dentist have a movie
theater? No kidding! What could be
more fun? This is not like the dentist
when you were a kid!
Does your dentist have an
intra-oral camera that not only
takes a picture of your tooth, but
also lights up decay? Now we can
show you your tooth on a 20” TV,
magnified 50 times, and shine a
specialized light to find decay!
Call us now!281-377-1170
$25 flat fee
X-RAY AND CONSULTATION
$74 VALUE Find out what’s wrong!
Does not include cleaning.
TERESA CODY, DDS • TIM CASHION, DDS
[email protected]
17003 SW Fwy., Suite 100, Sugar Land, TX 77479
www.candcdental.com • www.candcortho.com
FORMERLY CASHION & CODY FAMILY DENTISTRY & ORTHODONTICS
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EXPANDING
EXPECTATIONS.
IN HEALTH CARE. AND IN SUGAR LAND.
We’ve grown to meet our community’s need for exceptional care.
In 2016, there’s been a lot of exciting improvements to our campus. We opened our new second medical plaza and the
Memorial Hermann IRONMAN Sports Medicine Institute, and our east patient tower is now open, housing intermediate
care and intensive care units as well as an expanded surgery unit. In addition to increasing the size of the Children’s
Memorial Hermann Emergency Center, we have expanded diagnostic imaging services. And you can expect all of the
advanced offerings to maintain the highest quality and safety standards, because a community as special as ours
deserves the very best.
memorialhermann.org
Advance your career with us. Call 1.866.441.4567.
SUGAR LAND | MISSOURI CITY EDITION

SLM-2016-09

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