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SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2018 VOLUME 38 NUMBER 11
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If one of the electricity providers to residents in The Colony wants to increase its rates, it will have to prove its need to do so.
The Colony City Council on Tues-day denied Oncor Electric Delivery’s request to increase its distribution rates. According to the meeting agenda item report, Oncor wants to raise its rates by approximately $19 million.
The electricity pro-vider, the largest
in the state and sixth largest in the U.S., on April 5 fi led an application with the city for a distribution of cost recovery factor, which would impact all Oncor customers who live in The Colony and elsewhere.
The Colony is part of a steering committee composed of more than 140 cities that reviews requests for rate changes by power companies like Oncor and Atmos, The Colony’s other electricity provider. According to Assistant City Manager Tim Mill-er, if the cities deny an initial rate request, the steering committee, in a process that he said can take from six to 18 months, will determine if the requested rate increase is valid.
“We’ll sit down and take them to the mat and make them prove exact-ly how much they need to raise the rate, why they need to raise the rate and what projects they’re going to get done with it and just kind of look out
The Lewisville ISD Board of Trust-ees on Monday approved the renam-ing of the Bolin Administrative Cen-ter.
The new name will be the Lewis-ville ISD Administrative Center.
Superintendent Kevin Rogers said the change is due to the consolida-tion of several administrative offi ces into one facility once expansion at the Bolin center is complete.
“As we try to move all of the ad-
ministrative offi ces into this area … we believe it provides more clarity to call this facility the Lewisville ISD Administrative Center,” Rogers said.
The facility, which houses several of the district’s offi ces and is the site for the Board of Trustees meetings, was named after Bolin, a former principal at Central Elementary.
“I have talked to the Bolin family, and they are very appreciative that, one, I would reach out to them, and two, we’d use William T. Bolin’s name as our professional learning center, which will be at Thrift City once that’s vacated.”
The board has the authority to name and rename facilities. The dis-
trict is considering possible changes to its policy as it relates to naming facilities after individuals as two new elementary schools and a new career center will be built in the future.
GARRETT COOK
The city is getting closer and closer to starting construction on a new fi re station on its s o u t h e a s t side.
The Colo-ny City Coun-cil on Tues-day approved a contract with Steele & Freeman Inc. as construction man-ager at risk (CMR) for Fire Station 4 to be built at the corner of Plano Parkway and Destination Drive.
The CMR sets the guaranteed max-imum price of the project by working with the architect and engineers to formulate overall construction costs. Steele & Freeman will take all the construction documents and look at contractor costs, secure contractors, take out bids and consolidate costs
for materials and work required for construction when possible.
“If you need so many pieces of steel that a contractor has used and another bids out on a similar but a little different project, they quarter-back both subcontract,” Assistant Fire Chief Shannon Stephens said. “A project like this, it would be real easy for costs to spin up and run away from the city.”
Stephens said he expects Steele & Freeman to come back to City Coun-
cil with a guaranteed maximum price for construction of the station within four to six weeks. He added that the city is still looking at breaking ground on the project in August and expects a 14-month construction period.
Fire Station 4 is intended to serve the rapidly growing southeast section of The Colony near the Grandscape District and Austin Ranch. In an ar-ticle in The Colony Courier-Leader in March 2017, Fire Chief Scott Thomp-
GARRETT COOK
Just because it’s the summer doesn’t mean kids have to lounge around the house all day.
A youth basketball league is just one of the athletic programs that The Colony Parks and Recreation department is putting together this summer.
Registration is open until the beginning of June just after school lets out, Athletics Coordinator Bri-an Vonderlin said. Games will be played at the recreation center at The Colony Municipal Complex and local schools on Saturdays begin-ning June 30 and running through Aug. 4. Boys and girls ages 5-12 are welcome to register. Teams will practice once per week.
“If you’re looking for an athletic activity to keep your child fi t or ac-tive during the summer, our youth
basketball program is the main one here,” Vonderlin said.
For the little ones, mini-ball classes will be on Saturday morn-ings and headed up by Garnet Pow-ell, who has coached youth sports of all varieties in the community for more than 15 years, will head up the program.
Three- and 4-year-olds will be taught basic kinetic exercises like stretching and movement and how to control their bodies. They’ll also learn basic ball skills like shooting, passing and dribbling, as well as the basic concepts of basketball. Class-es will be at the recreation center.
Grown-ups will have the chance
to relive elementary school memo-ries with an adult kickball league with co-ed games Monday nights and an open division Wednesday nights. The open division doesn’t require a certain number of boys and girls and is a new addition to the kickball league this summer.
Vonderlin said the league has gained popularity since a city intern started the league a couple of years ago.
‘It’s gotten very big. The fi rst season we started in the fall. We had maybe four or fi ve teams. This spring we had 10 teams,” he said. “A lot of community teams. We’ve had a couple teams from the Frisco area or the Austin Ranch area. A lot of the little neighborhoods like The Tribute will put together a team.”
Kickball games will be played on the softball fi elds at the Five Star Complex, 4100 Blair Oaks Drive in The Colony.
Parks & Rec gears up for summer athletic programsKickball popularity growing in short time
City denies Oncor’s request for distribution rate increase
Item to go before steering
committee, PUC
FILE PHOTO
The Colony has denied Oncor’s distribution rate increase.
LISD to rename administrative center
Fire Station 4 takes another step toward groundbreakingConstruction manager at risk selected by council
Offi ces to combine at facility
“…try to whittle down the costs to make sure that it’s something that everyone involved is not getting charged profi t; they’re just getting
charged cost and infrastructure cost.”– ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER TIM MILLER
“We believe it provides more clarity to call this facility the Lewisville ISD
Administrative Center.”
– LISD SUPERIN-TENDENT
KEVIN ROGERS
more clarity to call this facility the Lewisville ISD
Administrative Center.”
– LISD SUPERIN-TENDENT
KEVIN ROGERS
CHRIS ROARK
vider, the largest
“…try to whittle down the costs to make sure that it’s something that everyone involved is not getting charged profi t; they’re just getting
GARRETT COOK
Assistant Fire Chief Shannon Stephens
See ONCOR, Page 7A
See STATION 4, Page 7A
PHOTOS COURTESY OF BRIAN VONDERLIN
Youth basketball returns this summer as The Colony Parks and Recreation prepares to entertain ballers ages 5-12. Games are played Saturdays, and practices are once a week.
MORE INFOFor more information and to register online, visit PlayTC.com. Residents may also register at the recreation center at 5151 North Colony Blvd.
