The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 12

A12 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1997 GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS Conventions Weather Continued from Page Ai director of the Park Board and the director of the Convention and Visitors Bureau," said Irwin M. "Buddy" Herz. "Hopefully, this will once and for all put to bed, at least for now, any problems with the Park Board." The Moody Gardens board approved the proposal last Wednesday, Herz said, while the staff members did not reach a final draft of the plan until late Tuesday. Park Board trustees contacted Tuesday had not seen the plan but said the Moody board's action was encouraging. Chairman John Knust also said that Herz's announcement took him by surprise.

"I thought we had agreed that the staff members would negotiate the proposal to a final form before it was presented to either board," he said. Copies of the proposal were delivered Tuesday afternoon to trustees and the Hotel-Motel Association, said acting Park Board Director Lou Muller. The plan will be officially presented to the board at special meeting slated for 9 a.m. Monday, Muller said. It still must pass muster with the Hotel-Motel Association and be voted on by the Park.Board, Knust said.

"We have not reviewed it, studied it, or seen it yet," Knust said. Herz made his announcement in speech at the Moody Gardens conference center to a group of about 200 Ro- Some provisions of a draft agreement announced Tuesday by Park Board staff members: Names the facility The Galveston Island Convention Center at Moody Gardens. Creates a Convention Center Oversight Committee composed of the crty manager, executive park board director, Moody Gardens executive director, Hotel-Mote! Association president Park Board Chairman, chairman of the Moody Gardens Board. The committee will monitor compliance with convention center booking poiicies. Creates a convention center bookings manager position.

The manager will work for the Park Board at a tary Club members. Thejast 12 months have been hard ones for Moody Gardens because of a campaign of "rhetoric, innuendo, half- truths and Herz said. He chastised The Galveston County- Daily News for coverage of the controversy and the residents of Galveston for their lack of support for the- Moody Foundation. Hotelier Tilnaan Fertitta began the yearlong tussle with Robert "Bobby" Moody last November with a scathing speech in the same room where Herz spoke on Tuesday. salary of $26,000 to a year.

He'H report to the Convention and visitors Bureau director and will be responsible for all convention bookings. 9 Specifies that the Convention and Visitors Bureau will have "view only" i access to an electronic booking data- base at Moody Gardens. if the proposed booking rules are ap- proved, the convention center will continue to be operated by Moody Gardens. Defers questions about the size of the center and who should pay for its expansion until after the final stage of an ongoing study is complete. Agrees that the current citywide transportation system is sufficient.

Fertitta was out of town Tuesday and could not be reached for comment. He claimed Moody has an unfair advantage over other hotel operators because Moody's 304-room hotel now being built is exempt from ad valorem taxes. Fertitta has since filed and then dropped a state lawsuit and filed a federal suit which still is alive against several plaintiffs including Moody and Moody Gardens. He's said hell drop the federal suit if the Park Board could negotiate an equitable solution to issues addressed in the proposed agreement. Continued from Al inches of rain, while measurements taken at Scholes Field in Galveston showed the island received 1.71 inches.

Weather service officials issued a tornado warning for the eastern portion of the county after a water spout Was reported near Crystal Beach, Roesler said. The Galveston County Sher- 2Fs Department received a report of the water spout about 8:45 a.m., Sheriff's Department officials said. According to the report, the spout stayed There also were unconfirmed reports of water spouts in the area of Smith Point and Galve- ston Bay, Roesler said. Weather-related accidents also were reported across the county. In Galveston, major accidents on the northbound side of the Causeway and at 33rd Street and Avenue about 3:30 p.m.

kept police busy. League City reported several minor accidents, most of which were on Interstate 45. While only minor reports of flooding were received Tuesday, Roesler advised county residents to watch for flash-flooding and not to attempt to cross water- covered roadways, especially at night. "Most flash-flood deaths occur at night in automobiles," he said. Murals Continued from Page Al Sanchez is the facilitator for the Success For All reading program, which has been implemented at all of the district's elementary schools.

"The students get the idea that teachers are supposed to just teach, so when they walk by and see teachers painting the murals, they get just as excited (as the teachers)." Teachers such as Meghan League City goals Stanich said sacrificing a day off has not been difficult. "It was easy to give a Sunday because everyone here is dedicated to making the school look said Stanich, who teaches kindergarten. "And it was easy. And Fm not an artistic person at all." Stanich said the outline of the two-to-three-foot-tall murals were projected onto the wall, traced, then filled in with paint. gins The Associated Press DALLAS Prosecutors used a bank surveillance tape to show the sequence of events leading up to the volley of gunshots that killed a police officer last February during an attempted robbery.

About half of the state's 30 witnesses testified in Tuesday's second day of the capital murder trial of Kenneth Mosley, 38. Mosley has pleaded innocent to the Feb. 15 fatal shooting of David Moore, 32, a 10-year veteran of the suburban Garland Police Department. Mosley "kept pulling that, trigger into the officer" knowing full well that his victim was a policeman, a prosecutor told jurors. Moore was shown on videotape walking up behind Mosley and asking him to go outside with him for some questions.

The officer went to the bank after an employee got suspicious of Mosley. thinking he might be the same man who had robbed the bank previously. One segment of tape showed Moore lying on the ground just outside the bank after the officer and Mosley smashed through a window while skirmishing. As they wrestled, officials said, Mosley pulled a gun and shot Moore in the chest at pointblank range, a witness said. The defense complained that the stories of some of Tuesday's witnesses differed from the stories they initially gave police.

The prosecutor indicated it would put on its star witness today someone who saw everything that occurred during the skirmish. After Mosley and Moore crashed together through a window, Mosley stood up in front of the wounded officer and "literally finishes him off," Assistant District Attorney Jason January told the jury in his opening statement. "He knew it was an officer, and be pulled that trigger five times," January said. attorneys chose not to deliver an opening statement. Police officers were cleared from the courtroom Monday after a large number of them showed up in court in support of Moore.

Defense attorney Jim Oatman argued that the officers' presence was prejudicial to his client. State District Judge Molly Francis agreed and limited to sis the number of uniformed officers that could watch the proceedings. Other officers left, removed their uniform shirts and returned to the courtroom wearing black T- shirts. Moore and two other patrol officers arrived at Bank One after an employee called police about a suspicious person. Investigators learned later that Mosley had been sought for five days in connection with the armed robbery of a fast-food restaurant in Mesquite, another Dallas suburb.

Mosley was separated from his wife at the time and had been fired from bis last known job, at Coca- Cola Bottling in May 1995 after testing positive for cocaine during a random drug test, court records show. Continued from Page Al Two more discussion workshops are planned for January to allow the council to begin developing a comprehensive plan for the city. "The financial goals would fit with any type of vision for a ciiy, but we want to use the goals toward a total picture of the city," Frankovich said. The plan would address such topics as where businesses are to be located, the mayor said. In preparation for a comprehensive plan, the city has established these goals: By fiscal year 1999, com- plete a capital improvement plan.

By calendar year 2Q03, develop a comprehensive plan outlining a vision for the city. By fiscal year 1998, formalize a debt-management plan. By Nov. 1, identify and implement selected elements of the strategic economic development plan. By Dec.

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