Waxahachie City Council | News, Notes & Theories

Just read The Ellis County Press article on the Waxahachie City Council meeting the other night...seems there is some additional funds left over from the 1999 taxpayer-approved, taxpayer-funded Civic Center bond package. The Civic Center is needing some repairs of some sort, so the council voted 3-2 to spend some extra funds and make those repairs. Councilmen John Wray and Kevin Strength were the dissenting votes. Councilman/Mayor Buck Jordan, Chuck "DWI" Beatty and Mark Singleton voted for it.

Some on the council were kinda upset that no one knows how to get to the Civic Center. It's located in a prime location: the huge fat X in our county of I-35 and Hwy 287. How the Waxahachie taxpayers can continue to subsidize the Chamber of Commerce and yet still people can't find this place is beyond unbelievable belief. I partially blame the highway engineers though, because the Civic Center is in fact tricky to navigate. It's like a maze...

Speaking of Beatty, he's still on the city council after a DWI arrest, and with that arrest from Hutchins PD, one thing was also found: "drug or narcotic equipment." It was a pipe. One thing that the Mothers Against Drunk Driving has not done: called for Beatty's resignation. Haven't even ISSUED A PRESS RELEASE about this incident.

Here's my theory about new Councilman Mark Singleton, who is the CNB Texas head-honcho...when state Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, decides to retire, I think, personally, that Singleton will have attained the status of the appointed mayor title, and what better way to run for office as 1) the guy who literally runs the entire Ellis County economy from his downtown Waxahachie business, and 2) the banker who has the title of mayor, and who showers everyone with lovely financial contributions. State Rep. Mark Singleton, R-Waxahachie, has a nice ring to it doesn't it?

And, last but not least, Brian Garlitz, who recently ran the Ellis County GOP's Web site before being smashed in the March 2 GOP primary for county chair (third of three candidates), stepped aside as a nominee for Mid-Way Regional Airport Board chair in deferrence to Midlothian's Paula Baucum, a former councilwoman. I like Brian, I like Paula, but I suspect there was something a bit more robotic here: Garlitz was a chess piece to ensure that Paula would get the nomination. It just had to look like someone from Waxahachie needed the role, so in deference to her, Brian took one for the team. Midlothian and Waxahachie each appoint three board members to manage the taxpayer-funded airport; the seventh is a chair that is on a rotating basis among both towns. Waxahachie loved Paula, so they wanted her to remain there.

That's just my theory. And I totally disagree with Mark Singleton's assessment that Paula is doing a glowingly wonderful job managing the airport board. Where's the Paula Baucum that taught me the value of not being a consensus-minded person, about fighting the good fight?

How in the world can someone say that airport board has even remotely been a success when the dilapidated resume-padding, incompetent moron known as airport manager Andy Biery has helped steer clients away from the airport, steered TxDOT away from mixing Andy with their asphalt, and helped make a gigantic mess out there? He has no airport management experience! Perhaps he's just a chess piece too...but no one can doubt that Andy Biery is not qualified to even build a model airplane, let alone manage them.