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The Final
Chapter
Ed Bailey
President NWSCA
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Our next meeting is Tuesday, January 20th - 1998. At
the beginning of our new year we will say good-bye to Ed as our President
and as our neighbor. Ed and his wife should be moving into their
new home, located outside of District One, by that time.
Ed has guided our organization, as President, with sound advice,
timely articles and tremendous insight as we all learn the ins and outs
of being a Security Coordinator. Please, join me in wishing
the very best to Ed and his family in their new home. Ed has
promised to stay in touch and lend a helping hand whenever needed.
Editor
I have been working
on a project that I am sure all of you have worked on from
time to time. That project is to review and evaluate the cost of
having contracts with Harris County for the provision of deputies.
Last August, the back page of this newsletter showed a chart giving the
cost per household per deputy per year. If you have 500 homes in
your subdivision, the cost per home per deputy is a approximately $60 per
year, or $5 per month. I think in 500 bunches because we have about
500 homes in our subdivision.
Every year or so, some people in our subdivision
begin to feel comfortable with the crime situation and forget what the
statistics were before we had deputies. They want to discuss cutting
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Check out our Web site
www.texasnetwork.com/NWSCA
on the deputy’s contract to save some money. If they
cut one deputy, a major part of their home protection, they will
save about the cost of one half of a newspaper subscription or what it
costs to eat one hamburger, fries, and a drink per month. I pay the
Harris County Hospital District, where I never go, at least twice what
it cost me for Harris County Sheriff’s Deputies for our subdivision.
It just does not make sense to drop this voluntary program when it
provides so much more for the dollar then do some of the “enforced” programs,
or some that simply add waste to my waist.
When you look at what you get, comparing benefits to cost, I think
the Sheriff’s Department Contract Deputy Program is a tremendous value. |
Can You Help US ?
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Randall’s Grocery
store has a program to donate 1% of your grocery receipts to predetermined
organizations, such as our 249 Storefront. Each customer must
identify the chairty by a number at the time of checkout for this money
to be received.
The 249 Storefront’s number is 5262.
Please remind your residents to help support us by donating 1% of their
grocery receipt.
Security Coordinators, please publish this
number so your residents can help support the 249 Storefront as we
go into the next year.
Remember: 5262.
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