Here is a recap of what was featured in the Wednesday, Nov. 30, e-edition of the Taylor Press. The e-edition is emailed to subscribers and available at www. taylorpress.net.
LAUNDRY LOVE LENDS FAMILIES A HELPING HAND
For Ginger Krueger, who founded the Taylor chapter of Laundry Love, a nation-wide volunteer initiative to provide free laundry services to economically disadvantaged people, it is a way to serve.
For the past three years, from noon to 2 p.m. on the second Tuesday of every month, Krueger, along with friend Suzanne Brosch, offers free washing and drying services at Skyline Laundry, 3100 N Main St, Unit 105, along with Skyline staff volunteers, Carmen Lewis-Brink and Audrey Young.
Nowadays, Laundry Love provides free laundry for up to three loads per client for between 25-30 people each month. In addition, Krueger said the owners of Skyline contribute about $50 per month towards the effort.
Nichol Manas, a coowner of Skyline with her husband Shane Manas, said it made sense to participate in this initiative.
On Nov. 17, Krueger received a check for $150 and was a featured speaker at the Rotary Club of Taylor at their weekly meeting at Sirloin Stockade. At the meeting, Krueger said she usually does about 3 loads of laundry per family at a cost of about $4 each.
Krueger is seeking additional donations as well as volunteers, preferably ones who speak Spanish, to help with the project, and hopes to begin offering the service in the evening as well. For more information, call 512-818-- 0994.
PHASE 1 OF SCHOOL BOND PROJECT MOVES FORWARD
Construction on the first phase of the Taylor Independent School District bond is expected to begin this summer and finish in time for the start of the 2023-24 school year, officials said.
At the Nov. 14 regular Taylor ISD board meeting, trustees heard an update about the first phase of construction on an $82.5 million bond package
that was recently approved by voters for security updates, campus growth and other upgrades.
Phase 1 will include new fencing and secure entrances at Naomi Pasemann Elementary School and Taylor High School, a new playground and interior upgrades at Main Street Intermediate School and other interior renovations at T.H. Johnson Elementary School, according to a presentation by the bond’s Project Manager Aaron Mullins, with Project Control.
According to a timeline Mullins presented to the board, the spring of 2023 will be devoted to materials procurement, and the summer of 2023 to construction.
Mullins told trustees he anticipates no problems with the first phase of the project getting done on time.
HUTTO CO-OP DISTRICT HITS ANOTHER WALL
HUTTO – On Nov. 17, amid concerns of invalid contracts and lack of progress, city council voted to send notice of material default to developer MA Partners LLC. The parties now have 180 days to work out their differences if the project is to proceed.
At the heart of the discussion are a set of development agreements that city council says did not go through the correct channels for approval, and the amount of time it has taken for the project to move forward. The initial agreements were handled by a previous city manager who left Hutto in 2019.
Hutto Mayor Mike Snyder said that if the agreements are valid, the developer is in default of the timetable, so whether they are valid or not the project needs to be renegotiated.
Hutto Co-op District is currently home to Hutto City Hall, the city library, Hutto Silos Farmers Market and Southside Market & Barbecue. Harris reported that Jack Allen’s Kitchen has signed an agreement for a restaurant and parking garage with an 18-month time frame, Top Notch Burgers is scheduled to open by late December and Cocina Jalisco is scheduled to open a few weeks later.
