Council clarifies names of three city streets 
By SHANNON CRABTREE scrabtree@leader-news.com

Olivia Street, Lilly Street and Frank Stubbs Drive have become the undisputed names of three El Campo roads following El Campo City Council's last session.

Council was asked to eliminate confusion over the road names during the regular session March 25.

Olivia Street had been recorded on some city maps as Oliva Street, a fact which generated outrage when it began to affect residents of the Isaacson Municipal Utility District recently.

The IMUD encompasses a group of about 180 homes on the city's northeast side purchasing water and sewer service from the city.

City Council has the authority to control street names in the city limits of El Campo as well as the ETJ or Extra Territorial Jurisdiction, the one-mile loop around the municipal boundary.

T

he formal ordinance

accepting the spelling clarification was accepted in a 6-0 vote April 8.

Council proclaims April 21-27

small business week With the reading of its eighth resolution of the year, El Campo City Council unanimously accepted the week of April 21-27 as National Small Business Appreciation Week.

The resolution was accepted by former Mayor Pro- Tem Kyle Smith who left his Council post late last year to accept a job as the director of the Small Business Development Center in the area.

Small businesses create 80 percent of the new jobs nationwide, Mayor Phillip Spenrath proclaimed in the official document.

"Small businesses in the city of El Campo and Wharton County are typical of those existing across our great and magnificent nation, providing the bulk of local jobs, capital investment, property and sales tax support to the various applicable entities while donating countless tens of thousands of volunteer community support hours and unselfish, generous support of fundraising efforts," the proclamation reads.