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The current agreement is set to expire in 2024.
During the meeting, Belton City Manager Sim Listi was authorized to enter a professional services agreement with KPA Engineers â a Temple-based firm that was previously hired to provide recommendations for the future of TIRZ.
Under this agreement, KPA Engineers will prepare a legal description of the new TIRZ boundary, develop a project plan and financing plan for the next 20-year time period, and will participate in meetings with the Bell County Commissioners, according to a city of Belton staff report.
âWeâve been working on an update of (TIRZ) ⦠which is basically a geographic area where property taxes are reassigned and utilized on improvements that would benefit private developments within that geographic area,â Jon Simcik of KPA Engineers said during the meeting.
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Longtime Belton journalist and historian Berneta Peeples died Sunday at a Belton nursing home at age 103.
A July 29, 2001, Telegram story described how Peeples, then 83, was named the Central Texas Workforce Areaâs 2001 Outstanding Older Worker for a seven-county area and honored by the Bell County Commissioners Court.
âOur 27-member board gave her a standing ovation,â said Susan Kamas, executive director for the Central Texas Workforce Development Board.
Peeples began working at the Belton Journal as a âcub reporterâ when she was just 13 and on and off continued her reporting duties there into her mid-90s.
Her longevity drew recognition from The Dallas Morning News, which featured her in an article the Telegram picked up on Nov. 7, 2013.