HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublicity Vol. 15 (Jan. 1977 - Aug. 1977)I. NOTICE TO BIDDERS
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Sealed proposals addressed NOTICE TO BIDDERS
to the City of Coll ge Station,
Texas will b
e rec ived at the
Office of the City Secretary,
City
Sealed Proposals addressec
to the City of College Station
of College Station, Texas
until 1 :30 PM on the 24th day of
Texas for the construction
January, 1977 for the con-
including the sup I oi
of electrical
necessary labor, materials
dIstr
distribution substation
facilities including the fur-
and equipment, of 138 KV
electric transmission and 12.`
nishinq of all necessary labor
KV electric distribution lines
and a portion of the required
will be received at the Office o1
materials. The
ponents of the project
major com-
are
the City Secretor y, City of
Coll
College Station, T
at ion, exas until
1. Construct 120
MVA, 138
P. M. the 24th day of
KV 12.5 substation idi
January, 1977. The major
tified as Highway
ighway 30 Substation
components of the project are:
using, primarily, Owner fur
l.) Construct approx
Wished materials.
1.08 miles of n 38K
2. Furnish additional
materials required for High-
way Substation
overhead transmission line.
2.) Construct approximately
1,25 miles of new three
not
pr y purchased by the
phase,
12 5, KV, overhead double -
w evioussll
O n er.
circuit distribution line.
all as more fully described in
the Specifications. Bid s
received by 1:30 PM, January
24, 197 will be publiclyAopened
and read in the City Council
Chambers of the City Hall in
College Station, Texas at 1:30
PM on the same date. Bids
received after 1:30 PM, Jan. 24,
1977 will be returned to the
sender unopened. Each
Proposal must be in a sealed
envelope bearing on the outside
the name of the bidder and
City of College Station Contract
No. CS 76 SB -5.
Each Proposal must be
accompanied by a bid bond or a
certified check on a bank that
is a member of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation
payable to-the order of the City
of College Station, Texas in an
amount equal to ten percent (10
Percent) of the maximum bid
price. Each Bidder agrees, that
y filing its Proposal, together
with such bid bond or check in
consideration of the City of
Colllege Station receiving and
considering such Proposal,
said Proposal shall be firm and
binding upon each such Bidder.
Bid bonds or checks of the
three low bidders shall be held
by the City of College Station
until a Proposal is acceppted
and a satisfactory Per-
formance Bond is furnished by
the Successful Bidder, or for a
period not to exceed sixty (60)
days from the date herein -
before set for the opening of the
Proposals, whichever period
shall be shorter. If such
Proposal is not one of the three
low Proposals, the bid bond or
check will be returned in each
instance within a period of ten
(10) days to the Bidder fur-
nishing same.
Plans and Specifications are
obtainable at the Office of the
City Secretary, College Station,
Texas, or from Electric Power
Engineers, Inc., 203 Holleman
Drive East, P.0 Box 9970,
College Station, Texas 77840
upon payment of $20.00, which
payment will not be subject to
refund.
Bids will be evaluated by the
City based on the qualifications
and experience of the Bidder,
the Bidder's ability to meet the
construction schedule, the
quality of materials to be
furnished, as well as The price
offered. The City reserves the
right to accept the proposal
that best suits its needs
whether or not the price is
lowest and also reserves the
rigght to reject all bids or waive
informalit es.
Award of the Contract to the
Successful Bidder will be made
at a subsequent meeting of the
City Council of College Station.
STATION, CITY OF COLLEGE
TEXAS
By Lorence L. Bravenec
Mayo
all as more fully described in
the Specifications. Bids
received by 1:30 P.M., January
24, 1977 will be publicly opened
and read in the City Council
chambers of the City Hall in
College Station, Texas, at 1:30
P.M. on the same date. Bids
received after 1:30 P.M.,
January 24, 1977 will be
returned unopened to the
sender.
Each Proposal must be
accompanied by a bid bond in
the(orm attached or a certified
check on a bank that is a
member of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Cor poration,
payable to the order of the
Owner, in an amount equal to
ten percent (10 per cent) of the
maximum bid price. Each
Bidder agrees, provided its
Proposal is one of the three low
Proposals, that, by filing its
Proposal together with such
bid bond or check in con-
sideration of the Owner's
receiving and considering such
Proposals, said Proposal shall
be firm and binding upon each
such Bidder and such bid bond
or check shall be held by the
Owner until a Proposal is
accepted and a satisfactory
Contractor's Bond is furnished
by the successful Bidder or for
a period riot to exceed sixty
(60) days from the date
hereinbefore set for the
OP
ening of Proposals,
whichever period shall be the
shorter. If such Proposal is not
one of the three low Proposals,
the bid bond or check will be
returned in each instance
within a period of twenty (20)
days to the Bidder furnishing
same.
Plans and Specifications for
this project may be obtained
from the Engineer, Electric
Power Engineers, Inc., P.O-
Box 9970, 203 Holleman Drive
East, College Station, Texas
77840 upon payment of 815.00
per set, which payment will not
be Subject to refund.
Bids will be evaluated by the
City based on the quality of
materials to be furnished, the
qualifications and experience
of the Bidder, the Bidder's
ability to meet the specified
construction schedule, as well
as the price offered. The city
reserves the right to accept the
Proposal that best suits its
needs whether or not the price
is lowest and also reserves the
right to reject all bids or waive
informalities.
Award of the Contract to the
successful bidder will be made
at a subsequent meeting of the
City Council of College Station.
Cityof College Station,
Texas
By Lorence L Bravenec
Mayor
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Lone Star, CS close
to tax, gas settlement
BY JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
Lone Star Gas Co. has
agreed to pay its 1975
delinquent taxes in College
Station, although the
proposal on its 1976 tax
situation remains to be
settled.
Negotiations between
City Atty. Neeley Lewis
and attorneys for Lone
Star Gas Co. have
produced a proposal which
awaits the consideration of
the College Station City
Council.
The 1975 Lone Star taxes
are delinquent and
drawing penalties and
interest. The 1976 taxes
owed by Lone Star have
not been paid and will be
delinquent after Jan. 30.
T.ie proposal is an at-
tempt by Lone Star to
receive approval from the
council on a gas cost ad-
justment to be tacked onto
its customers' bills in
College Station.
Currently Lone Star Gas
can not pass along its in-
creased fuel costs to its
customers. The council has
indicated that it will accept
such a proposal if Lone
Star clears up its back
taxes with the city. The
taxes have gone unpaid for
two years.
And the tax settlement
has broader implications
because the Bryan City
Council has also made its
approval of a gas cost
adjustment contingent
upon the tax settlement in
College Station.
Bryan customers of Lone
Star Gas cannot be
charged a gas cost ad-
justment until or unless
College Station customers
are charged a fuel ad-
justment.
The stipulation from the
Bryan City Council adds
leverage to College
Station's request to settle
its tax situation, although
Bryan residents too will
benefit by the delay in the
approval of the fuel ad-
justment. Bryan
customers benefit by
deferring payments until a
later time.
Lone Star Gas Co. owes
approximately $5,000 for
each year of unpaid taxes.
Although the entire
proposal has not been
outlined pending con-
sideration by the College
Station City Council, part
of the agreement is Lone
Star's acceptance of its
1975 tax statement, which
is legally delinquent.
Al Bartley, Lone Star Co.
manager, said acceptance
of the 1975 taxes is part of
the agreement. But this is
all he or City Atty. Neeley
Lewis would comment on
the proposed settlement.
"It is sufficient to say
that they have made a
proposal and we are going
to consider it," Lewis said.
Al Bartley said, "Our
attorney met with their
attorney, Neeley Lewis,
and they worked out
various figures and came
up with some proposal
which appeared agreeable
to him (Lewis), but he
must have the approval of
the council."
"We made a proposal I
think they will accept,"
Bartley added.
The crux of the debate The matter could come
now centers on the up at a special session of
payment of the 1976 taxes the council this week, but
about which a lawsuit has r Lorence Bravenec
been previously filed, is reluctant to call a
Lewis said discussion of meeting until all coun-
this part of the proposal cilmen are back in town.
will likely come during a The proposal will be one
closed session of the of the first items con -
council since it involves sidered by the council this
pending litigation
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TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN:
The College Station Cit)
Council will hold a public
hearing on the question o
rezoning the following tract
3.8 acres on the east side o
Welch Avenue approximately
800 feet south of the in
tersection of Welch Avenue anc
Holleman Drive, College
Station, Texas. The request i
to rezone from Single Family
Residential District R -1 tc
Medium Density A artmenl
Building District R -6. The
requests in the name of James
Jett, 1403 University Drive,
College Station, Texas 77840.
BEGINNING at the point of
intersection of the southeast
rightpf -wayy line of Holleman
Drive with he southwest right.
of way line of Welch Street,
said point also being the north
corner of the McCulloch Ad.
dition to the City of College
Station, Texas;
THENCE S34degrees 31' 14"
E for a distance of 1,345.51 feet
to a point for corner;
THENCE N 45 degrees 41'
23" E for a distance of 208.92
feet to the POINT OF
BEGINNING, said point also
lying in the northeast right -of.
way of Welch Street;
THENCE continuing N 45
degrees 41' 23" E for a distance
of 283.92 feet to a point for
corner;
THENCE N 31 degrees 56'
26" W for a distance of 552.57
feet to a point for corner;
THENCE S55degrees 25' 34"
W for a distanceof 305.22 feet7o
a point for corner, said corner
also Iying in the northeast
right -of -way of Welch Street;
THENCE Y S 34 degrees 34' 26"
E along the aforesaid northeast
right -of -way line of Welch
Street for a distance of 600.00
feet to the POINT OF
BEGINNING and containing
3.861 acres of land, more or
less.
The said hearing shall be held
in the Council Room of the City
of College Station City Hall at
the 7:00 P.M. meeting of the
City Council on Thursdays
January 21, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact me.
Albert 0. Mayo Jr.
City Planner
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in program ..to cut accidents
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BY JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
Three full -time College
Station policemen have
patrolled the city effective
Jan. 1 in a Selective Traffic
Enforcement Program
(STEP) financed by the
Governor's Office of
Traffic Safety.
The program, which will
be financed by the state for
eight months, is designed
"to reduce motor vehicle
traffic accidents,'
to College Station
Lt. Jim Beamer.
Increased surveillance is
what makes the program
work, Beamer said. The
patrols will be made 20
hours a day, seven days a
week.
"Our major aim is to let
people know we will be
there," Beamer said.
Although the number of
traffic tickets will in-
crease, Beamer said,
"Issuing tickets is not the
goal, but rather reducing
accidents, fatalities and
injuries."
The program is already
in effect in Bryan, and it
has significantly reduced
the number of accidents
from previous years,
according to Capt. Howard
Hill of the Bryan Police
Department.
Bryan's STEP makes
use of off -duty Bryan
police patrolmen who
receive overtime pay from
the state for conducting the
surveillance program.
College Station's program
will differ from that in that
it makes use of full -time
patrolmen and officers
during regular work days.
The state funding of the
program will allow the
hiring of three additional
policemen, according to
Beamer.
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Enforcement Program
will also be available to
answer other emergency
calls, Beamer said.
Nine major areas have
been selected in College
Station for the increased
surveillance. These areas
are: Texas Avenue;
University Drive from
Tarrow Street to the East
Bypass; Jersey Street
from Texas Avenue to the
Wellborn Highway; the
Wellborn Highway from
Maple Street to the West
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program is not limited to
these areas, but these will
receive priority.
Police Chief Marvin
Byrd said monthly reports
will be issued to compare
monthly traffic statistics
with previous years'
traffic records.
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Super street `sweeper'
travels 1,200 miles to CS
BY JERRY GRAY Temperatures in
Staff Writer Wisconsin were minus 13
Not everyone gets a degrees, but even in
chance to ride more than Dallas, the mercury got up
.1200 miles in a street to only 15 degrees.
sweeper, but then, not Although there was ice
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up whatever will go
through a 12 -inch hole,"
Miller said.
The new machine picks
up leaves, litter, broken
asphalt, and concrete.
After debris is collected
in the reportedly dust -free
operation, it's taken to the
city's sanitary landfill for
disposal.
There are two hoses. One
on the front of the truck for
picking up street garbage
and another at the rear of
the truck to pick up trash
in basins.
And this machine is even
said to be able to handle oil
spills. By placing the
vacuum hose above the
water, the machine is said
to lift the oil which is
lighter than water off the
surface of the water.
"It's amazing what they
can do with those things,"
Miller says.
Of course, different
machines are designed to
do different jobs, ac-
cording to Miller.
Both Miller and Jones
have gone through a
schooling at the Wisconsin
plant to learn how to
operate and maintain the
equipment. If weather
permits, it should get an
actual run - through today.
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ALFRED MILLER PRAISES "REVOLUTIONARY" STREET SWEEPER
City Employes Make 1255 Mile Trip In New Equipment (Photo by Peter Leabo)
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Polling sites set
for city elections
By RUSTY CAWLEY
Battalion Staff Writer
Polling sites for the new College Station
ward system were designated during a
meeting of city council last Wednesday.
The ward system adopted in November
divides the city into six wards. A council-
man will be elected from each ward with
the mayor elected at- large.
Presently, councilman are elected on a
place system with six places. Under the
new plan, Ward 1 will elect a councilman to
Place 1, Ward 2 to place 2, etc. Each place
is to be filled by residents of the corre-
sponding ward.
Places 1, 3 and 5 on the city council will
be up for election this April. Under the
ward system, odd- numbered wards choose
their councilmen during odd years, even -
numbered wards during even years.
The mayor is also elected in the even
years.
College Hills Elementary School was
chosen as the voting site for Ward 1. Lin-
coln Center on the corner of Holleman and
Elenor was designated as Ward 3 polling
spot. Bee Creek Park will be the polling
center for Ward 5.
Councilman Gary Halter presently holds
the place 1 seat, Larry Ringer now holds
Place 3 and Anne Hazen is the Place 5
councilman. All three are eligible for re-
election since they live in the wards they
now represent.
As for the even - numbered wards which
elect their councilmen in 1978, A &M Con-
solidated Middle School was chosen for
Ward 2, South Knoll Elementary for Ward
4 and the College Station Fire .Station for
Ward 6.
No polling centers were placed on the
Texas A &M University campus. The cam-
pus is divided into three districts by the
ward plan, two of which will elect council-
men in April.
The city council has often expressed the
opinion that it is easier for students to make
their way to an off - campus voting center
than for other residents to get to an on-
campus polling site.
Absentee voting will be held in the office
of the City Secretary in City Hall.
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lege Station ward system. They are College Hills Creek Park (Ward 5) and the College Station Fire
Elementary School (Ward 1), A &M Consolidated Station (Ward 6). (See related story.)
Middle School (Ward 2), Lincoln Center (Ward 3),
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Sealed proposals addressed
to the City of College Station,
Texas will be received at the
Office of the City Secretary,
City of College Station, Texas
until 1:30 PM on the 24th day of
January, 1977 for the con-
struction of electrical
distribution ; ubstation
facilities including the fur -
nishinq of all necessary labor
and a portion of the required
materials. The major com
ponenis of the project are:
1. Construct 120 MVA, 138
KV 12.5 KV substation iden-
tified as Highway 30 Substation
using, primarily, Owner fur-
nished materials.
2. Furnish additional
materials required for High-
way 30 Substation not
previously purchased by the
Owner.
all as more fully described in
the Specifications. Bids
received by 1:30 PM, January
24, 1977 will be publiclysopened
and read in the City Council
Chambers of the City Hall in
College Station, Texas at 1:30
PM on the same date. Bids
received after 1:30 PM, Jan. 24,
1977 will be returned to the
sender unopened. Each
Proposal must be in a sealed
envelope bearing on the outside
the name of the bidder and the
City of Colleegge Station Contract
No. CS 76 SB -5.
Each Proposal must be
accompanied by a bid bond or a
certified check on a bank that
is a member of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation
payable to the order of the City
of College Station, Texas in an
amount -lual to ten percent (10
percent) of the maximum bid
price. Each Bidder agrees, that
y filing its Proposal, together
with such bid bond or check in
consideration of the City of
Colllege Station receiving and
considering such Proposal,
said Proposal shall befirm and
binding upon each such Bidder.
Bid bonds or checks of the
three low bidders shall be held
by The City of College Station
until a Proposal is accepted
and a satisfactory Per-
formance Bond is furnished by
the Successful Bidder, or for a
period not to exceed sixty (60)
days from the date herein -
before set for the opening of the
Pro sals, whichever period
shall po be shorter. If such
Proposal is not one of the three
low Proposals, the bid bond or
check will be returned in each
instance within a period of ten
(10) days to the Bidder fur-
nishing same.
Plans and Specifications are
obtainable at the Office of the
City Secretary, College Station,
Texas, or from Electric Power
Engineers, Inc., 203 Holleman
Drive East, P.0 Box 9970
College Station, Texas 77846
upon pa meet of $20.00, which
pa ment will not be subject to
refund.
Bids will be evaluated by the
Cityy based on the qualifications
and experience of the Bidder,
the Bidder's ability to meet the
construction schedule, the
quality of materials to be
furnished, as well as the price
offered. The City reserves The
right to accept the proposal
that best suits its needs
whether or not the price is
lowest and also reserves the
right to reject all bids or waive
informalities.
Award of the Contract to the
Successful Bidder will be made
at a subsequent meeting of the
City Council of College Station.
CITY OF COLLEGE
STATION,
TEXAS
By Lorence L. Bravenec
Mayor
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed Proposals addressed
to the City of College Station,
Texas for the construction,
including the supply of
necessary labor, materials,
and equipment, of 138 KV
electric transmission and 12.5
KV electric distribution lines
will be received at the Office of
the City Secretary, City of
College Station, Texas until
1:30 P.M. on the 24th day of
January, 1977. The major
components of the project are:
1.) Construct approximately
'1.08 miles of new 138 KV
overhead transmission line.
2.) Construct approximately
1.25 miles of new three-phase,
12.5 KV, overhead double -
circuit distribution line.
all as more fully described in
the Specifications. Bids
received by 1:30 P.M., January
24, 1977 will be publicly opened
and read in the City Council
chambers of the City Hall in
College Station, Texas, at 1:30
P.M. on the same date. Bids
received after 1:30 P.M.,
January 24, 1977 will be
returned unopened to the
sender.
Each Proposal must be
accompanied by a bid bond in
theform attached or a certified
check on a bank that is a
member of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation,
payable to the order of the
Owner, in an amount equal to
ten percent (10 per cent) of the
maximum bid price. Each
Bidder agrees, provided its
Proposal is one of the three low
Proposals, that, by filing its.
Proposal together with such
bid bond or check in con-
sideration of the Owner's
receiving and considering such
Proposals, said Proposal shall
be firm and binding upon each
such Bidder and such bid bond
or check shall be held by the
Owner until a Proposal is
accepted and a sat
Contractor's Bond is furnished
by the successful Bidder or for
a period not to exceed sixty
(60) days from the date
hereinbefore set for the
opening of Proposals,
whichever period shall be the
shorter. If such Proposal is not
one of ti a three low Proposals,
the bid bond or check will be
returned in each instance
within a period of twenty (20)
days to the Bidder furnishing
same.
Plans and Specifications for
this project may be obtained
from the Engineer, Electric
Power Engineers, Inc., P.O.
Box 9970, 203 Holleman Drive
East, College Station, Texas
77840 upon payment of $15.00
per set, which payment will not
be subject to refund.
Bids wifl be evaluated by the
City based on the quality of
materials to be furnished, the
qualifications and experience
of the Bidder, the Bidder's
ability to meet the specified
construction schedule, as well
as the price offered. The city
reserves the right to accept the
Proposal that best suits its
needs whether or not the price
is lowest and also reserves the
right to reject all bids or waive
informalities.
Award of the Contract to the
successful bidder will be made
at a subsequent meeting of the
City Council of College Station.
City of College Station,
Texas
By Lorence L Bravenec
Mayor.
Advertisement For Bids
Sealed proposals addressed to
the City of College Station,
Texas, will be received at the
City Hall, office of the City
Secretary, Mrs. Florence
Neelley, until 2:00 p.m. o'colck
and publicly opened and read
aloud on February 1, 1977, for
sewer system improvements
as follows:
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Improvements
Bidders must submit with their
bids a Cashier's Check or a
Certified Check in the amount
of five per cent of the
maximum amount of bid
payable without recourse to the
City of College Station, Texas,
or a proposal bond in the same
amount from a surety company
holding permit from the State
of Texas to act as Surety, and
acceptable according to the
latest list of companies holding
certificates of authority from
the Secretary of the Treasury
of the United States, as listed in
the latest revision of Treasury
Department Circular 570, as a
guarantee that the bidder will
enter into a contract and
execute bond and guarantee
forms provided within five
days after notice of award of
contract to him. Bids without
check or proposal bond will not
be considered.
In accordance with Cahpter 93,
Acts of the 56th Legislature,
which became effective April
27, 1959h bidder
will be requVed to furnish not
only a performance bond in the
amount of the contract, but
also a paymerit bond in the
amount of the contract, for the
protection of all claimants
supplying labor and materials
as defined in said law. The
bonds must be executed by an
approved surety company
holding a permit from the State
of Texas to act as surety and
acceptable according to the
lastest list of companies
holding certificates of
authority from the Secretary of
the Treasury of the United
States or other surety or
sureties acceptable to the
Owner.
All unit prices must be stated in
both script and figures. The
Owner reserves the right to
reject any or all bids and to
waive informalities. In case of
ambiguity or lack of clearness
in stating the price in the bids,
the Owner reserves the right to
consider the most ad
vantageous construction
thereof or to reject the bid.
Unreasonable of unbalanced
unit prices will be considered
sufficient cause for rejection of
any bid or bids.
Bidders are expected to inspect
the site of the work and to in-
form themselves regarding
local conditions and conditions
under which the work is to be
done. Attention is called to the
provisions of the Acts of the
43rd Legislature of the State of
Texas and subsequent
amendments concerning the
wage , scale and payment of
prevailing wages established
by the Owner, said scale of
preva ling wages is set forth in
the specifications.
Instruction to bidders, proposal
forms, specifications and plans
mayY be examined at the office
of
W. Elrey B. Ash, 11, City
Engineer, City of College
Station, Texas and mayy be
obtained from Riewe & Wisch-
meyer, Inc., Consulting
Engineer, 8533 Ferndale Road,
Dallas Texas 75238, upon the
deposit of seventy -five ($75.00)
dollars, which sum as
deposited will be refunded
provided:
1. All documents are
returned by the contractor in
good condition and are
received in the office of Riewe
& Wischmeyer, Inc., no later
than 72 hours prior to the time
of receiving bids.
O
2. If the contractor submits a
bid on the general contract and
returns all documents in good
condition to Riewe & Wish.
meyer, Inc., not later than five
days after the time that bids
are received.
Material suppliers may pans ur-
chase specifications and pl
at the office of the consulting
engineer, Riewe & Wisch
meyer, Inc., at the address
stared above for fifty ($50.00)
dollars, which usm is non.
refundable.
CITY OF COLLEGE
S T A T 1 0 N, T E X A S
Lorence Bravenec, Mayor
ATTEST:
Mrs. Florence Neelley, City
S ecretary
CS approved
for doubling
of discharge
BY HARTS -HANKS
Austin Bureau
Austin — The Texas
Water Quality Board
Friday unanimously ap-
proved a doubling of
treated sewage discharge
at College Station to
provide for expected
population growth.
College Station
previously was authorized
to discharge up to 2 million
gallons a day from its
existing secondary sewage
treatment plant.
The city now is
authorized to discharge up
to 4 million gallons of
treated effluent to meet an
expected population in-
crease from 24,000 to 40,000
persons by 1990.
Sewage treatment
facilities are to be ex-
panded by the city to
handle the increased
sewage load.
Discharge of the effluent
is into Carters Creek,
which flows into the
Navasota River.
9 � #qAl�A )Z 19 '7 7 r r7 U�
NOTICE TO ALL OWNERS,
MANAGERS, AND REAL
ESTATE BROKERS:
The City of College Station
invites owners of rental
property to make dwelling
units available for leasing by
eligible families pursuan to
Section 8 of the U.S. Housing
Act of 1937. This part of the Act
provides for rent subsidies to
be paid to property owners on
incomeoffamilies .n a nd l
sub-
sd will be the difference
between Fair Market Rents
determined by the U.S.
Urb Development and
reasonable portion of that rent
to be paid by the family.
The participation of owners
of units in areas other than low -
income or minority con-
centrated areas is encouraged.
Owners interested in obtaining
information about or par-
ticipation in this program
should contact James M.
Callaway, Planning Depart -
1101 Te xas oAe C 846 -888
We are pledged to the letter
and spirit of U.S. policiy for the
�a of equal housing
Nation thr encourage and
support an affirmative ad
vpprrert sing, and marketing
ram in barriers to obtalin ng housing
because of race, color, religion
o r national origin
is
C J
The City of College Station is
currently accepting ap
plications for housing
assistance on behalf of eligible
families leasing or desiring to
lease existing housing pursuant
to the provisions of Section 8 of
the U.S. Housing Act of 1937.
The assistance under this
part is in the form of assistance
P ayments made on behalf of
ower and very low income
renter - families to property
owners. Assistance payments
will be the difference between
U.S. Department tlf Mousingg
and Urban Development
determined Fair Market Rent
and a reasonable portion of
that rent to be paid by the
family.
Families may determine
eligibility and apply for a
Certificate of Participation at
the Planning Department, City
Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas.
Any occupants of housing
assisted under the U.S.
Housing Act of 1937, including
Section 23, desiring assistance
under this part must apply
specifically if they want to be
cons dered for a Certificate of
Participation under this part.
Such applicants for Cer-
tificates will not lose their
place on other public housing
waiting lists.
We are pledged to the letter
'and spirit of U.S. policy for the
achievement of equal housing
opportunity throughout the
Nation. We encourage and
support and affirmative ad-
vertising and marketing
E n which there are no
barriers to obtaining housing
because of race, color, religion
or national origin.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON.
CERN:
The College Station City
Council will hold a public
, )earing on the question of
rezoning the following tract:
approximately 32 acres located
between Dominik Drive,
Munson Avenue, Harvey Road,
and Plantation Oaks Drive in
College Station. The request,
which is initiated by the
College Station Planning and
Zoning Commission is to rezone
from Apartment Building
District R -3, Duplex
Residential District R -2 and
Single Family Residential
District R -1 to Single Family
Residential District . R -1,
Duplex Residential District R.2
and General Commercial
District C -1.
The said hearing shall be held
in the Council Room of the City
of College Station City Hall at
the 7:00 P.M. meeting of the
City Council on Thursday,
January 27, 1977.
For additional information,
Tease contact me.
fil pla a) nne Mayo Jr.
Cty r
TO WHOM IT MAY CO
CERN:
The Zoning Board of A
usiment of the City of Collet
�tation will consider a reque
for a variance from Mr. Dav
Basco at their called meetir,
in the Council Room in ti
College Station City Hall at 7::
P.M. on Tuesday January 1
1977, the facts of the case beir
as follows:
The applicant requests
variance to the rear setbac
requirements of the Zonin
Ordinance in order to construe
an addition to his residenct i
1203 Pershing.
Further information i
available at the office of th
Building Official of the City (
College Station, telephone 84,
8886.
William F. Koehler
Building Official
TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad
Lusiment of the City of Col leg
Station will consider an apppea
from Mr. Fred Wallis at thei
called meeting in the Counci
Room in the College Statioi
City Hall at 7:30 P.M. or
Tuesday January 18, 1977, thr
facts of the case being a'.
follows:
The applicant appeals from i
determination fhat a roo
overhan on a structure at 104'
Texas Avenue constitutes e
vertical wall from whict
building clearances should be
measured.
Further information i!
available at the office of the
Building Official of the City of
College Station, telephone 846
8886.
William F. Koehler
Building Official
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad-
lustment of the City of College
Station will consider an apppeal
from Mr. Tom Chaney at their
called meeting in the Council
Room in the College Station
City Hall at 7:30 P.M. on
Tuesday January 18, 1977, the
facts of the case being as
follows:
The applicant appeals from a
decision of the Building Official
that the construction of ad-
ditional separate cooking
facilities in a dwelling con
stitutes a separate dwelling
unit.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Building Official of the City of
College Station, telephone 846-
8886.
William F. Koehler
Building O fficial
0
I t
6 public hearings
planned b y CS
Six public hearings will
be held tonight by the
College Station City
Council.
The first public hearing
will be conducted on the
third year application"
proposal for Community
Development funds. This
year's expenditure of
federal funds totals
$275,000.
City planner Al Mayo
said projects in this federal
grant will consist
primarily of street and
drainage improvements.
The Planning & Zoning
Commission last week held
its public hearing on ,the
expenditure of the funds.
The remaining five
public hearings concern
rezoning requests.
A public hearing on the
question of rezoning 31.8
acres approximately 1,000
feet south of the in-
tersection of Texas Avenue
and Sterling Street on the
east side of Texas Avenue.
The request is to change
the location from a single
family residential district
to a medium density
apartment building
district, 30 units per acre.
A public hearing will be
held on the question of
rezoning 17.26 acres ad-
jacent and east of Hardy
Gardens on Texas Avenue.
The request is to change
the zone from an apart-
ment building district, 43
units per acre, to low
density apartment
building district, 16 units
per acre.
A public hearin spill be
held on the
question of
rezoning a 7.065 acre tract
east of Anderson Street,
100 feet south of the in-
tersection of Anderson
Street and Holik Drive.
The request is to rezone the
area from apartment
building district to duplex
district.
A public hearing will be
held on the question of
rezoning a 1.43 acre tract
in Section 4 -B, Southwood
Valley. The request is to
change the tract from a
single family district to
commercial district.
And a public hearing will
be held on the question of
rezoning a 1.4 acre tract in
Section 8 -A, Southwood
Valley. The request is to
change the tract from a
general commercial
district to a single family
residential district.
NOTICE TO ALL OWNERS,
MANAGERS, AND REAL
ESTATE BROKERS:
The City of College Station
invites owners of rental
property to make dwelling
units available for leasing by
eligible families pursuant to
Section 8 of the U.S. Housing
Act of 1937. This part of the Act
provides for rent subsidies to
be paid to property owners on
behalf of lower and very low
income families. Such sub-
sidies will be the difference
between Fair Market Rents
determined by the U.S.
Department of Housing and
Urban Development and a
reasonable portion of that rent
to be paid by the family.
The participation of owners
of units in areas other than low -
income or minority con-
centrated areas is encouraged.
Owners interested in obtaining
information about or par-
ticipation in this program
should contact James M.
Callaway, Planning Depart-
ment, City of College Station,
1101 Texas Avenue. 8468886.
We are pledged to the letter
and spirit of U.S. policiyforthe
achievement of equal housing
W throughout the
Nation. We .encourage and
support an affirmative ad-
vertising and marketing
program in which there are no
barriers to obtaining housing
becauseof race, color, religion,
o r national origin.
The City of College Station is
currently accepting ap-
plications for housing
assistance on behalf of eligible
families leasing or desiring to
leaseexisiing housing pursuant
to the provisions of Section 8 of
the U.S. Housing Act of 1937.
The assistance under this
part is in the form of assistance
P ayments made on behalf of
ower and very low income
renter- families to property
owners. Assistance payments
will be the difference between
U.S. Department of Housingg
and Urban Development
determined Fair Market Rent
and a reasonable portion of
that rent to be paid by the
family.
Families may determine
eligibility and apply for a
Certificate of Participation at
the Planning Department, City
Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas.
Any occupants of housing
assisted under the U.S.
Housing Act of 1937, including
Section 23, desiring assistance
under this part must apply
specifically if they want to be
considered for a Certificate of
Participation under this part.
Such applicants for Cer-
tificates will not lose their
place on other public housing
waiting lists.
We are pledged to the letter
and spirit of U.S. policy for the
achievement of equal housing
W throughout the
Nation. We encourage and
support. and affirmative ad-
vertising and marketing
program in which there are no
rriers to obtaining housing
because of race, color, religion
or national origin.
13SAI��WsR� fq - )f) E L
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College Station seeks new landf!
BY JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
When your trash and
rbage leaves the house,
las to go somewhere. Its
stination is called a
idfill.
,ollege Station will need
iew landfill within three
ars.
`The (city's) landfill site
rapidly becoming full,"
ty manager North
irdell said. "I would
timate that we have
three years left at the
present site."
The search is not very
far along, but the city will
need 'a minimum of 40
acres, according to Bar -
dell. The current landfill is
15 acres in area and is
leased from Dr. Luther
Jones of College Station at
a cost of $200 per month.
College Station's landfill
is located 14.miles south of
the city, northeast of State
Highway 6. It's not visible
from the highway, which is
one of the requirements of
a landfill.
The state requires that
refuse must be covered
daily to avoid problems
with rats, mosquitoes and
Ries. .
The landfill must be "no
threat to water aquifers or,
surface water."
"Therefore the area has
to have soil with real low
permeability, Bafdell
said.
The Texas Department
of Health Resoui` es issues
permits for landfills and
checks the sites about
twice a year. College
Station director of public
works, George Ford said
the department is satisfied
with the current facility.
But a city must watch
the cost of hauling from the
city to the landfill.
"You want it close
enough for economy,"
Bardell said. This is not
always possible.
. Available land for
purchase or leasing is not
(Photo by Peter Leabo)
always suited for the
facility. And suitable land
may be blocked by land
owners who don't want the
facility near their land.
Brazos County Com-
missioner Bill Cooley said
the commissioners had
selected a site several
years ago for a county
landfill, but local op-
position stopped the
project.
There were no homes in
the area, he said, and the
land was available and
suitable, but neighboring
land owners said no to the
idea. This search for a
landfill site was in
Precinct 3, which was then
Randy Sims' precinct.
Currently only two
landfills are operated by
the county. Both are in
Commissioner Cooley's
precinct. One site is a five
acre tract near Wellborn.
It is leased at no cost.
Another site is a county -
owned 10 acre tract near
Millican.
The Wellborn site "will
probably last at our
present rate for two more
years," according to
Cooley. He said sheer
speculation on the duration
of the Millican site is 10
more years.
A search for the landfill
site by College Station will
require a public hearing
before a site can be ac-
tivated as a landfill. As
Cooley suggested, it will be
a political decision as well
as a purely technical one.
But Bardell said, "You
don't destroy the value of
the land. Land is improved
by raising it."
The land must be
covered daily, and the land
can be used for parkland
and pasture land. But
building foundation piers
on land once used as a
landfill is questionable,
F '4dell said.
e biggest expense of a
site
landfill is the purchase or
lease of the land. There is
also the operation of heavy
equipment for trenching,
compacting and covering
the land. The selection of
the site also involves a
geological survey.
Operational costs also
include personnel to
maintain the site including,
attendants on hand at the
landfills.
Bryan's landfill, located
(See LAND, Page 13)
'RASH AND GARBAGE FROM COLLEGE STATION ENDS UP HERE AT LANDFILL
City Searches For New Site As Present Facility Fills Up
•
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•
Advertisement For Bids
Sealed proposals addressed to
the City of �Colfeye Station,
Texas, will be received at the
City Hall, office of the City
Secretary, Mrs. Florence
Neelley, until 2:00 p.m, o'colck
and publicly opened and read
31oud on February 1, 1977, for
Sewer system improvements
3s follows:
Wastewater Treatment Plant
I mprovements
Bidders must submit with their
bids a Cashier's Check or a
Certified Check in the amount
of five per cent of the
maximum amount • of bid
payablewithout recourse to the
City of College Station, Texas,
or a proposal bond in the same
amount from a surety company
holding permit from the State
of Texas to act as Surety, and
acceptable according t' the
latest list of companies holding
certificates *of authority from
the Secretary of the Treasury
of the United States, as listed in
the latest revision of Treasury
Department Circular 570, as a
guarantee that the bidder will
enter into a contract and
execute bond and guarantee
forms provided within five
days after notice of award of
contract to him. Bids without
check or proposal bond will not
be considered.
In accordance with Cahpter 93,
Acts of the 56th Legislature,
which became effective April
27, 1959, the successful bidder
will be required to furnish not
only a performance bond in the
amount of the contract, but
also a payment bond in the
amount of the contract, for the
protection of all claimants
supplying labor and materials
as defined in said law. The
bonds must be executed by an
approved surety company
holding a permit from the State
of Texas to act as surety and
acceptable according to the
fastest list of companies
holding certificates of
authority from the Secretary of
the Treasury of the United
States or other surety or
sureties acceptable to the
Owner.
All unit prices must be stated in
both script and figures. The
Owner reserves the right to
reject any or all bids and to
waive informalities. In case of
ambiguity or lack of clearness
in stating the price in the bids,
the Owner reserves the right to
consider the most ad-
vantageous construction
thereof or to reject the bid.
Unreasonable of unbalanced
unit prices will be considered
sufficient cause for rejection of
any bid or bids.
Bidders are expected to inspect
the site of the work and to in-
form themselves regarding
local conditions and conditions
under which the work is to be
done. Attention is called to the
provisions of the Acts of the
43rd Legislature of the State of
Texas and subsequent
amendments concerning the
wage scale and payment of
prevailing wages established
y the Owner, said scale of
prevailing wages is set forth in
the specifications.
Instruction to bidders, proposal
forms, specifications and plans
may be examined at the office
of Mr. Elrey B. Ash, 11, City
Engineer, City of College
Station, Texas and may be
obtained from Riewe & Wisch-
meyer, Inc., Consulting
Engineer, 8533 Ferndale Road,
Dallas Texas 75238, upon the
deposit of seventy -five ($75.00)
dollars, which sum as
deposited will be refunded
provided:
1. All documents are
returned by the contractor in
good condition and are
received in the office of Riewe
& Wischmeyer, Inc., no later
than 72 hours prior to the time
of receiving bids.
O
2. If the contractor submits a
bid on the general contract and
returns all documents in ggood
condition to Riewe & Wish -
meyer, Inc., not later than five
days after the time that bids
are received. p
Material suppliers maypians
chase specifications andd
at the office of the consulting
engineer, Riewe & Wisch-
meyer, Inc., at the address
stated above for fifty ($50.00) I
dollars, which usm is non-
refundable.
CITY OF COLLEGE
S T A T 1 0 N, T E X A S
Lorence Bravenec, Mayor
ATTEST:
Mrs. Florence
SprrptRry
1. NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals addressed
to the City of College Station,
Texas will be received at the
Office of the City Secretary,
City of College Station, Texas
until 1:30 PM on the 24th day of
January, 1977 for the con.
struction of, electrical
distribution substation
facilities including the fur -
nishinq of all necessary labor
and a portion of the required
materials. The major com-
ponents of the project are:
1. Construct 120 MVA, 138
KV 12.5 KV substation iden-
tified as Highway 30 Substation
using, primarily, Owner fur-
nished materials.
2. Furnish additional
materials required for High-
way 30 Substation not
previously purchased by the
Owner.
all as more fully described in
the Specifications. Bids
received by 1:30 PM, January
24, 1977 will be publiclybpened
and read in the City Council
Chambers of the City Hall in
College Station, Texas at 1:30
PM on the same date. Bids
received after 1:30 PM, Jan. 24,
1977 will be returned to the
sender unopened. Each
Proposal must be in a sealed
envelope bearing on the outside
the name of the bidder and the
City of Col le Station Contract
No. CS 76 58 -5.
Each Proposal must be
accompanied by a bid bond or a
certified check on a bank that
is a member of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation
payable to the order of the City
of College Station, Texas in an
amount equal to ten percent (10
percent) of the maximum bid
pace. Each Bidder agrees, that
by filing its Proposal, together
with such bid bond or check ins
consideration of the City of
Colllege Station receiving and
considering such Proposal,
said Proposal shall be firm and
binding upon each such Bidder.
Bid bonds or checks of the
three low bidders shall be held
by the City of College Station
until a Proposal is accepted
and a satisfactory Per-
formance Bond is furnished by
the Successful Bidder, or for a
period not to exceed sixty (60)
days from the date herein -
before set for the opening of the
Proposals, whichever period
shall be shorter. If such
Proposal is not one of the three
low Proposals, the bid bond or
check will be returned in each
instance within a period of
(10) days to the Bidder fur-
mans anci apecincanons are
obtainable at The Office of the
City Secretary, College Station,
Texas, or from EleCfric Power
Engineers, Inc., 203 Holleman
Drive East, P.O Box 9970,
College Station, Texas 77840
upon pa meet of $20.00, which
payment will not be subject to
refund.
Bids will be evaluated bYY'the
City based on the qqualifications
and experience of the Bidder,
the Bidder's ability to meet the
construction schedule, the
quality of materials to be
furnished, as well as the price
offered. The City reserves the
right to accept the proposal
that best suits its needs
whether or not the price is
lowest and also reserves the
right to reject all bids or waive
informalities.
Award of the Contract to the
Successful Bidder will be made
at a subsequent meeting of the
City Council of College Station.
STATION,
CITY OF COLLEGE
i
TEXAS I
By Lorence L. Bravenec
Mayor
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed Proposals addressed
to the City of College Station,
Texas for the construction,
including the supply of
necessary labor, materials,
and equipment, of 138 KV'
electric transmission and 12.5
KV electric distribution lines
will be received at the Office of
the City Secretary, City of
College Station, Texas until
1:30 P.M. on the 24th day of
January, 1977. The major
components of the project are:
1.) Construct approximately
1.08 miles of new 138 KV
overhead transmission line.
2.) Construct approximately
1.25 miles of new three- phase,
12.5 KV, overhead double.
circuit distribution line.
all as more fully described in
the Specifications. Bids
received by 1:30 P.M., January
24, 1977 will be publicly opened
and read in the City Council
chambers of the City Hall in
College Station, Texas, at 1:30
P.M. on the same date. Bids
received after 1:30 P.M.,
January 24, 1977 will be
returned unopened to the
sender.
Each Proposal must be
accompanied by a bid bond in
the form attached or a certified
check on a bank that is a
member of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation,
payable to the order of the
Owner, in an amount equal to
ten percent (10 per cent) of the
maximum bid price. Each
Bidder agrees, provided its
Proposal is one of the three low
Proposals, that, by filing its
Proposal together with such
bid bond or check in con-
sideration of the Owner's
receiving and considering such
Proposals, said Proposal shall
be firm and binding upon each
such Bidder and such bid bond
or check shall be held by the
Owner until a Proposal is
accepted and a satisfactory
Contractor's Bond is furnished .
by the successful Bidder or for
a pper od not to exceed sixty
(6 0) days from the date
hereinbefore set for the
opening of Proposals,
whichever period shall be the
shorter. If such Proposal is not
one of the three low Proposals,
the bid bond or check will be
returned in each instance
within a period of twenty (20)
days to the Bidder furnishing
same.
Plans and Specifications for
this project may be obtained
from the Engineer, Electric
Power Engineers, Inc., P.O.
Box 9970, 203 Holleman Drive
East, College Station, Texas
77840 upon payment of $15.00
per set, which payment will not
be subject to refund.
Bids will be evaluated by'the
City based on the quality of
materials to be furnished, 'the
qualifications and experience
of the Bidder, the Bidder's
ability to meet the specified
construction schedule, as well
as the price offered. The city
reserves the right to accept the
Proposal that best suits its
needs whether or not the price
is lowest and also reserves the
right to reject all bids or waive
informalities.
Award of the Contract to the
successful bidder will be made
at a subsequent meeting of the
City Council of College Station.
City of College Station,
Texas
By Lorence L Bravenec
Mayor
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad-
Iustment of the City er of College
Station will consid a request
for a variance from Mr. David
Basco at their called meeting
in the Council Room in the
College Station City Hall at 7:30
P.M. on Tuesday January 18,
1977, the facts of The case being fol
as lows:
The applicant requests a
variance to the rear setback
requirements of the Zoning
Ordinance in order to construct
an addition to his residenCt at
1203 Pershing.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Building Official of the City of
Col Iege,Station, telephone 846-
8886.
William F. Koehler
Building Official
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad-
[ stment of the City of College
Station will consider an appeal
from Mr. Fred Wallis at 'their
called meeting in the Council
Room in She College Station
City Hall at 7:30 P.M. on
Tuesday January 18, 1977, the
facts of the case being as
follows:
The applicant,appeals from a
determination that a roof
overhang on a structure at 1045
Texas Avenue constitutes a
vertical wall from which
building clearances should be
measured.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Building Official of the City of
College Station, telephone 846-
8886.
William F. Koehler
Building Official
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad.
IustTent of the City of College
Station will consider an appeal
from Mr. Tom Chaney at their
called meeting in the Council
Room in the College Station
City Hall at 7:30 P.M. on
Tuesday January 18, 1977, the
facts of the case being as
follow,:
The applicant appeals from a
decision of the Building Official
that the construction of ad.
ditional separate cooking
facilities in a dwelling con.
stitutes a separate dwelling
unit.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Building Official of the City of
College Station, telephone 846-
8886.
William F. Koehler
Building Officia
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Advertisement For Bids
Sealed proposals addressed to
the City of .,College Station,
Texas, will be received at the
City Hall, office of the City
Secretary, Mrs. Florence
Neell.ey, until 2:00 p.m. o'colck
and publicly opened and read
aloud on February 1, 1977, for
sewer system improvements
as follows: �
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Improvements
Bidders must submit witfi their
bids a Cashier's Check or a
Certified Check in the amount
of five per cent of the
maximum amount of bid
payable without recourse to the
City of College Station, Texas,
or a proposal bond in the same
amount from a surety company
holding permit from the State
of Texas to act as Surety, and
latest lis of companies holding
certificates of authority from
the Secretary of the Treasury
the rev revision a s
Department Circular 570, as,a
guarantee that the bidder will
enter into a contract and
execute bond and guarantee
forms provided within five
days after notice of award of
contract to him. lids without
check or proposal bond will not
be considered.
In accordance with Cahpter 93,
Acts of the 56th Legislature,
which became effective April
27, 1959, the successful bidder
will be required to furnish not i
only a performance bSond in the
amount of the con r �?�, but
als a payment
amount of the contract, for the
protection of all claimants
• supplying labor and materiels
as defined in said law. The
bonds mu su rety u corn corn any
app.
holding a permit from the Efate
of Texas to act as surety and
acceptable according to the
lastest list of companies
holding certificates of
authority from the Secretary of
Statesreoruroother t Uni
sur,ety or
sureties acceptable to the
Owner.
All unit prices must be stated in
both script and figures. The
Owner reserves the right to
waive informalities � in case of
n stating the c lea r ness
e price nthebids,
the Owner reserves the right to
consider the most ad-
vantageous construction
thereof or to reject the bid.
Unreasonable of unbalanced
unit prices will be considered
sufficient cause for rejection of
any bid or bids.
Bidders are expected to inspect
the site of the work and to,in-
form themselves regarding
local conditions and conditions
under which the work is to be
done. Attention is called to the
provisions of the Acts of the
43rd Legislature of the StatAOf
Texas and subsequent
amendments concerning the
wage scale and payment of
.1 'n prevaig wages established
by the Owner, said scale of
Preva ling wages s set forth in
the specifications. proposal
Instruction tobidders, p ro p
forms, specifications and plans
mayy be examined at the office
of Mr. EIre y B. Ash, II, City
Engineer, City of College
Station, Texas and be
mayY
obtained from Riewe & Wisch-
meyer, Inc., Consulting
Eng9ineer, 8533 Ferndale Road,
Dallas Texas 75238 upon the
deposi{ of seventy -five (575.00)
dollars, which sum as
deposited will be refunded ,
provided:
1. All documents are
returned by the contractor in
good condition and are
received in the office of Riewe
& wischmeyer, Inc., no later
than 72 hours prior to the time
of receiving bids.
OR
2. If the g contractor submits a
rreturnshall documentsrin go d eneral
condition to Riewe & Wish -
meyer, Inc., not later than five
days after the time that bids
are received.
Material suppliers may pur-
chase specifications and plans
3t the office of the consulting
engineer, Riewe & Wisch-
never, Inc., at the address
tafed above for fifty ($50.00)
dollars, which usm is non-
refundable.
CITY OF COLLEGE
S T L orence Brave ec,, Mayor
ATTEST:
Mrs. Florence Neelley, city
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'eceive state
The State Highway and
?ublic Transportation
commission approved the
expenditure Thursday of
6116.9 million in state and
federal funds to improve
248.2 miles of city streets.
This expenditure in -`
eludes $248,000 to College
Station fop.the extension of
Holleman' Drive from
Winding :Road to the
Wellborn Highway, and it
includes $280,000 for the
extension of, Villa Maria
Road from Finfeather
Road to the West Bypass.
The College Station
project is approximately
seven - tenths of a mile ip,
length. The city will have
to pay an additional $30,000
to curb and gutter, provide
sidewalks and acquire
additional right -of -way.
For the extension of Villa
Maria Road, the Brazos
County Commissioners
Court will also have to
authorize $30,000 for the
curb and gutter. This
project too is ap-
proximately seven - tenths
of a mile long.
projects
funding
John Blasienz, district
construction engineer with
the State Highway and
Public Transportation
Department in Bryan, said
the Villa Maria project
should proceed faster than
the Holleman projegt since
right -of -way in this area
has been acquired.
Surveys on the Villa
Maria project should begin
at the first of February,
according to Blasienz. He
said the project should be
under contract by spring
or. early summer. '
The Holleman Drive
extension in College
Station will take . longer
according to Blasienz
because additional right-
of-way must be acquired.
by the city.
Directional street signs
for Texas Avenue from
State Highway 21 south to
Southwest Parkway are
also included in the high-
way commission's ex-
penditures. The exact
locations of the directional
signs have not been
detPrminorl
q p,o+up& tct r) rl f A v-L r
TO WHO
CERN M IT MAY CON
:
The College Station City
Council will hold a public
hearing on the question of
adopting an ordinance
amendingg the Zoning Or-
dinance No. 850 establishing
landscaping and safety
requirements for parking
areas in certain commercial
and industrial zones.
The public hearing will be need
in the Council Raom of the
College Station City Hall at 1101
South Texas Avenue at toe 7:00
P.M. meeting of the City
Council on Thursday, February
10, 1977.
For additional information
please contact the Cityy Plan-
ner, Al Mayo, at the Clty Hall
or at 713- 8468886
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College Station City
Engineer Elrey Ash says
he doesn't know when a
mechanical malfunction in
a traffic control box at the
intersection of Jersey St.
and Wellborn Rd. will be
fixed.
The traffic lights at the
intersection have been
malfunctioning since
Wednesday of last week,
Ash said.
"We've taken it down to
Houston, tested it out and it
worked fine," Ash said.
But then we got it back
here, re- installed it, and
found out it wouldn't work
again. So now the traffic
control chief from Houston
is up here to examine it
and find out what's wrong.
I don't know when it'll be
fixed, but we hope as soon
as possible, of course."
In the meantime, traffic
backs up at the in-
tersection during peak
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TRAFFIC LIGHT AT THE CORNER OF JERSEY ST., WELLBORN ROAD
Malfunctioning Light Is Causing Traffic To Back Up At Peak Periods
(Photo by Ch
traffic periods such as o W M- )
early morning, around
noon and at 5 p.m. A CS
Police officer is usually
assigned to handle the
traffic problems but he
can't be on duty at all
times, according to Ash.
ya a W
"We don't have traffic
control officers as such
and thus have no way of
putting one officer there
without taking him off of
his other duties," Ash
explained. "If a call comes
in for him to ha an
accident or other problem
while working the corner,
he has to leave. We've had
one there as often as we
could."
Ash said he was con-
sidering asking the
University Po lice to help
out and direct traffic there
until the control box is
repaired. A spokesman for
the University Police
Department said they
would be glad to help out
whenever College Station
asked them to.
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College Station
considers new
police station
The College Station City Council met in
special session last night to accept bids on
construction projects approved in last
summer's bond election.
Council members emphasized the need
for architects and consultants to work to-
gether during the planning of long -range
projects.
The council accepted proposals from six
architecture firms for the renovation of the
present central fire station and construc-
tion of a new police station.
Also included in municipal im-
provements are a general warehouse,
maintenance building and storage yard.
Emmett Trant & Associates; Architex,
Inc.; Tim Keneipp & Associates, Inc.;
M. 0. Lawrence; and Wood, Wallis & Kel-
lett of the Bryan- College Station area
submitted their proposals for the construc-
tion.
Henningson, Durham and Richardson
of Dallas also presented bids.
Funds for these proposals total
$1,330,000. The City Hall addition is ex-
pected to cost $360,000.
Council members will study community
problems, engineering, future expansion
and suitability before hiring a firm.
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BY JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
The College Station City
Council entered the fray
between the railroads and
pipeline companies
Thursday by approving the
transportation of coal
slurry through pipeline.
The council passed a
resolution authorizing the
power of eminent domain
for coal slurry. pipeline
purposes.
The question concerns
the transportation of coal
from the western United
States for use in Texas as
an alternate energy source
to natural gas. The
railroads currently have
the power of eminent
domain for their tran-
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moving coal slurry pipelines
throu g h
sportation purposes in
Texas.
The 65th Texas
Legislature will consider
the right of eminent
domain for the con-
struction of coal slurry
pipelines.
This city council
resolution urges the
legislature to enact
legislation extending
eminent domain to com-
panies for coal slurry
pipelines.
"What you're doing is
getting involved in a fight
between the railroads and
the pipelines," cautioned
Mayor Lorence Bravenec.
With six councilmen
present, four voted in favor
of the resolution. They are
Councilmen Gary Halter,
Lane Stephenson, Anne
Hazen and Bravenec.
Councilman Larry
Ringer voted no, and
Councilman Jim Gardner
abstained. Councilman
Jim Dozier was absent due
to poor health.
Gardner said, "My
feeling is that there are
already too many non-
public groups with this
power."
The resolution did not
originate with the city
council, but is encouraged
by the Texas Municipal
League, an Austin -based
organization of Texas
cities.
The resolution says coal
is a logical alternative fuel
for use in boilers in light of
a Texas Railroad Com- -
mission order to phase -out
the use of natural gas as
boiler fuel. The phase -out
order came last year.
The resolution cited
other examples of eminent
domain to be oil and gas
pipelines, electric power
lines, highways, and
railroads.
Bryan Mayor Lloyd
Joyce said the Bryan
council hasn't discussed
the matter yet, but will
consider a resolution at a
later time.
The council also learned
Thursday that the Brazos
Valley Development
Council will use the Lin-
coln Center, or another
suitable public facility, for
its senior citizen nutrition
program.
Pat Baker, of BVDC,
said, "We are looking for
people who will need the
program the most."
In addition to providing
noon meals and in-
formation on nutrition, the
program will "prevent
isplation by getting senior
citizens out of their homes
and into an aggregate
group of their peers," she
said.
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And concerning a story
earlier this week in The
Eagle on open meetings,
Mayor Lorence Bravenec
said "the responsible thing
for the Eagle to do is not to
intimate wrongdoing, but
rather to bring suit" if
there actually was
wrongdoing.
A three- member com-
mittee from the school
board and a three - member
committee from the city
council met in closed
session Monday.
"It wasn't required to $e
open to the public,
therefore, it wasn't, "'
Bravenec said.
He said The Eagle owes
Bill Lancaster, A &M
Consolidated school board
president, an apology for
its coverage of the in-
cident.
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By LAURA BROCKMAN
The College Station City Council
passed an ordinance last night which will
encourage residential development to .
satisfy the housing demands of Texas
A &M University.
The proposal will amend the Zoning
Ordinance No. 850 which requires a con-
ditional use permit for projects.
This permit is contingent upon certain
points, including parking provisions,
maximum lot coverage and design of inter-
ior streets.
The project plan must contain one and
three - tenths off - street parking spaces for
each bedroom included in'the proposal or
two spaces per dwelling unit, whichever is
less. "This will encourage 'one bedroom
apartments," Councilman James Gardner
said.
Main and accessory buildings must not
cover more than 40 per cent of the lot
area.
The amendment also gives the city
engineer power to alter the proposal
whenever the public health, safety or gen-
eral welfare of project residents would be
endangered.
The Council also passed a joint resolu-
tion and mutual aid agreement concerning
civil disasters. "This primarily is preparing
disaster contingency plans, North Bar -
dell, City Manager, said.
Councilman Gary Halter questioned
the resolution's wording which "assumes
that we can recover from a nuclear attack."
"Wording in this resolution is genera
because of national requirements," Bar
dell said. "it is necessary that it be worded
this way for us to receive the funds." Th
resolution was passed by the Council with
Halter opposing.
Pat Baker of the "Years for Profit" pro-
gram presented plans for a nutrition pro-
gram for elderly people. "The plan is de-
signed to prevent isolation," Baker said.
"We don't want to take the place of
nursing homes," she said, "we just want to
keep the elderly out longer." The program
«'wiltbe 90 per cent federally funded and 10
per cent locally supported by cash dona-
tions,
People 60 years or older will be eligible
to eat the noon meal and enjoy recreation
at Lincoln Ceiiter. The program will start
in March. Meals should begin in April.
The Council also passed an ordinance
which will require fire hydrants in single
family and duplex districts to be no more
than 500 feet from any part of the build-
ing. Fire hydrants in other districts will be
no more than 300 feet from any part of the
structure.
"This will raise the density of fire hyd
rants in the city," Bardell. said.
A resolution favoring legislation au-
thorizing the use of eminent domain for
coal slurry pipeline purposes was also
passed by the Council last night. A copy of
this will be sent to all members of the
Texas House of Representatives and Texas
Senate.
A study of College Station visitor opin-
ions was presented to the Council which
proposed a brochure to inform visitors
about activities in the ai ea. Mayor Larry
Bravenec said he would try to get work
started on the brochure.
1 Better coordination between Texas
- A &M University and the city was also
suggested. Streets and directional signs
Th
were said to need improvement.
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$275 H
By LAURA BROCKMAN
Streets will be paved in four areas of
College Station with the aid of a $275,000
grant from the Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD).
The HUD funds were allocated to vari-
ous city improvements at the Jan. 13
meeting o
«I. f the College Station City. Coun-
The sites for improvements are predom-
inantly low- income minority areas of the
city, said James Callaway, Community
Development planner.
"This program proposal is based on the
community development needs identified
lat the beginning of the City's Community
Development program," Callaway said.
"The proposed street construction pr
ects for program year 1977 will solve sev-
eral drainage problems as well as improve
circulation and access."
Roads to be improved are Avenue B,
Pearce, Columbus, Preston, Georgia, De-
troit, Eleanor, Thompson, and Edward
streets. Also Nevada Street from Detroit
to Georgia will be paved.
'These programs were selected on the
citizen participation program, Callaway
said. "Other problems of the community
that were brought up were drainage, light-
ing and parks and recreation areas."
The HUD funds will also be used in
clearing the streets to prepare for the re-
paving and to insure paving specifications
are met.
"The code enforcement and clearance
proposals are part of an ongoing program
in all four of the Community Develop-
ment Neighborhoods," Callaway said.
HUD has certain specifications as to
how the money is to be distributed, but
the final decision is made by the City
Council.
Under Title I of the Housing and Com-
munity Development Act of 1974, rules
are listed for the eligibility of activities to
be carried out und0 program.
Subpart C states that streets, street
lights, traffic signals, signs, street furni-
ture, trees and other normal accessories to
streets but excluding expressways and
other limited access ways, may be funded
by.'the HUD grant.
`The 1976 program has just finished the
engineering work and construction will
begin this spring," Callaway said. The 1977
engineering work will probably not begin
until November or December.'
College Station is
reviewing and updating its
land use and tran-
sportation plans.
Al Mayo, city planner,
says the city needs public
input. The next public
hearing is Thursday at 7
p.m. at city hall conducted
by the Planning & Zoning
Commission.
The city council will also
conduct its own public
hearings, but Mayo said,
"We prefer people not wait
until it comes to the council
before making
suggestions."
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and Associates, Inc. of
Dallas. Often called the
Pinnell Plpn or the 701
Plan, after the federal
funds which financed the
work, the plan was
Published March 15, 1975.
This plan is a bound
volume which includes
chapters on land use,
transportation, parks and
recreation, utilities,
municipal 'facilities,
Population projections,
Texas A &M University,
goals and Objectives,
developmental controls
and capital improvement
programs.
ow time
LO take two of those
chapters —. the chapter on
land use and the chapter on
transportation — and
make them more detailed.
The Planning & Zoning
Commission and the city
staff have already started
reviewing the plan, Mayo
said.
And more recently a
graduate planning class at
Texas A &M in the
department of urban and
regional planning has
reviewed the Pinnell Plan.
The recently published
work by the eight A &M
students, like the Pinnell
Plan, is a bound volume.
The concept of the
student review was ap-
proved by • the College
Station City Council Sept.
15, 1976.
All these efforts on
planning have now taken
the form of two very large
maps — colored, coded and
complete with planning
details for the'city's future
growth.
One map gives a more
detailed location of roads
than the Pinnell Plan. The
Pinnell Plan speaks of
corridors, and corridors
are not exactly the same as
roads, Mayo explains.
Corridors in the Pinnell
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Plan may even be shown
going through existing
.creek beds, Mayo said.
It's necessary to update
and detail the play for
"better public un-
derstanding," according to
Mayo.
And the second map is
, devoted to land use
planning. Color codes are
used on this map to
designate low density,
medium density and high
density residential
development as well as
university land, com-
mercial land, industrial
land, public land and park
land.
In this process, low,
medium and high density
must be defined in terms of
units per acre.
inc
This map also ludes
projected annexations to
the city.
For example, the land
use map shows where
schools and municipal
buildings might be located.
Some items on the map
are very obvious, such as
Bryan's location to the
north of College Station.
Bryan's proximity to the
city is a natural barrier to
development in that
direction.
But how many know
that another natural
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barrier exists ap.
proximatelp2,000 feet west
of the Wellborn Highway?
Along this site lies a ridge
which changes the slope of
the land.
This means development
in -this area would require
another sewer plant in the
.area due to the slope of the
land, Mayo says.
The current sewage
treatment plant• is east of
the East Bypass.
Land use and tran-
sportation will be key
areas of concern as the city
grows, especially-if 10 to 15
per cent growth per year
continues, Mayo says.
CS asks for input
By JERRY GRAY The city's plan is by Mayo says it's n
Staff'Writer Pinnell- Anders W'1 h'
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By ROSETTA KEATON
It has been apparent for almost
year now that being elected to serve
as a City Council person also gives
that person the power to dictate to
the electorate. ,
This is truly a revelation to those
of us who had taken pride in a sys-
tem of government that will not tol-
erate any shape, form or fashion of
dictatorship. Representative de-
mocracy is a farce in College Sta-
tion.
Perhaps that statement deserves
reexamination. Texas A &M Univer-
sity is well represented, the profes-
s sional community is represented,
business is certainly represented,
Anglo women are represented and
the senior members of our commu-
nity are finally making their pres-
ence felt. The community which
remains unrepresented is the Black
Community.
This is reflected by the im-
provements in the peripheral areas
of the Black Community that never
penetrate to the core. If im-
• provements are initiated, the
Community invariably has to make
substantial concessions. This situa-
tion has many undesirable manifes-
tations for which a great concern has
mounted in the Black Community.
.It is our constitutional right to be
represented, and, most impor=
' tantly, it is our constitutional right
to have a voice in decisions that di-
rectly affect the vitality, safety and
integrity of the communities in
which we live. These rights preced e
a any local charter or any local tradi
Hon.
Non - representation of the Blac k
Community has lent itself to th
systematic neglect of the duties an
responsibilities of the local govern
ment to the Black people in eve -
aspect of living within the boun
Readers' f orum�
arie of the College Station Charter.
Non - representation of Blacks has
lent itself to the imposition of values
that have no cognitive relevance for
the community. Also, non -
representation of Blacks has aided
in perpetrating misinformation and
misconceptions about the Black
people. This brings us closer to the
case at hand.
Some months ago, meetings were
held in locations throughout the
City to discuss the spending of
Community Development funds.
The farce was convincing enough to
mislead citizens into thinking that
their input wa pertinent and im-
portant to the decisions concerning
the spending of Community De-
velopment funds for improving
existing streets in College Station.
Neighbors living in the Sterling
Street area soon came to the realiza-
tion they had unknowingly sac-
rificed the peace and quiet they had
known.
The automobiles are no longer
Just, bringing weary laborers home,
nor are filled with children return-
_ ing home from school, but rather,
the automobiles are transporting
people through this family residen-
d tial neighborhood to pay telephone
bills, as well as those who support
the operation of a telephone com-
pany, including the people who
drive the many maintenance trucks.
Presently, neighbors in the
Southland Street area are facing the
same impositions. It is not too late
for them, because the nightmare of
the bulldozer has not yet sunk its
destructive edge into the soil. It has
not yet been allowed to destroy the
quality of life which should be of
vital concern to those residents of
College Station w* wish to see the
town not only gr*', but see it grow
in a constructive rather than de-
structive manner.
We, the neighbors of Southland
Street, joined in stating that the sac-
rifice is more than what we are will-
ing to make or even tolerate. We
joined in making the initial request
that a cul -de -sac could be con-
structed at the end of Southland
Street. We joined in requesting that
Southland Street not become a
thru-way, and we expressed our
reservations about this possibility.
At the time we seemed to have
been in agreement with those in
power, but since that time, each
and every request which we have
put forth has been ignored. If this is
indicative of representative democ-
racy and our "for the people" gov-
ernment at work, then many of us
have certainly been misinformed.
Now that we all know that the
entire plan for Southland Street is
not just to improve the existing
street but also to construct a new
street that will connect to existing
Southland Street, we all should be
informed by our City Council as to
what funds will be used to finance
this new construction. We all know
that the Community Development
funds will finance improvements to
the existing streets.
Now, we all should be informed
by Council members and City em-
ployees as to when allocations were
encumbered to finance the new
construction, where these funds
came from originally, and how
much was allocated. We all should
know that a bridge will be needed to
complete the new construction. If
Community Development funds are
not being spent to build the bridge,
our tax dollars are being spent to
build a bridge in our community
that we do not find in the least de-
sirable. Also the point should be
made that the costs to taxpayers for
the building of this bridge and its
maintenance will greatly exceed the
costs of a cul -de -sac.
In the past months, Council
members have heard from our
community. Once again we are
presenting you with our message.
Your response will not be ignored.
Southland Street will stand as a tes-
timony to either the Council's rep-
resentativeness of the people or the
Council's dictatorial practices.
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TO WHOM IT MAY CV ON
CERN:
The College Station City
Council will hold a public
hearing on the question of
rezoning the following tract:
Approximately 30 acres out of
the Morgan Rector League,
College Station, Texas, being a
portion of the Brentwood
Subdivision and a portion of the
tract reffered to Ordinance No
1011 of the City of College
Station, Texas. The tract is
located on the east side of
proxim ately 1000 feet and
of intersection of Texas
Avenue and Southwest Park
Reside Rezone al District ct Ru2 to
Single Family Residential
District R 1. The action is
initiated by the Planning And
Zoning Commission.
The said hearing shall be held
in the Council Room of the City
of College Station City Hall at
the 7:00 P.M. meeting of the
City Council on Thursday,
February 24, 1977.
For additional information,
I please contact me.
Albert O. Mayo Jr.
City Pla nner
TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing on the
question of rezoning the
following tract: Approximately
30 acres in the Morgan Rector
Texas etieing? ale ortion the
Brentwood Subdivision and a
n No. 101ifeoredne
City of College Station, Texas.
The tract is located on the east
side of Texas Avenue and
approximately 1000 feet nor
theast of the intersection of
Texas Avenue and Southwest
Parkway. Rezone from Duplex
Residential District R 2 to
Single Family Residential
District R -1, The action is
initiated by the Planning and
Zoning Commission.
The said hearing shall be held
in of college nStattiion the ai
the 7:00 P.M. meeting of the
Planning And Zoning Com-
mission on Thursday,
February 17, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact me.
Albert O. Mayo Jr.
City Pl anner
The City of College Station is
currently accepting ap_
ass stance on behalf h alf ofeli
families leasing or desiring to
lease existing housing pursuant
to the provisions of Section 8 of
the U.S. Housing Act of 1937.
The assistance under this
part is in the form of assistance
P ayments made on behalf of
ower and very low income
renter families to property
owners. Assistance payments
will be the difference between
U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development
determined Fair Market Rent'
and a reasonable portion of
that rent to be paid by the
family,.
Families may determine
eligibility and apply for a
Certificate of Participation at
the Planning Department, City
Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas.
Any occupants of housing
assisted under the U.S.
Housing Act of 1937, including
Section 23, desiring assistance t
under this part must apply
specifically if they want to be
cons dered for a Certificate of
Participation under this part.
Such applicants for Cer-
tificates will not lose their'
place on other public housing
waiting lists.
We are pledged to the letter
and spirit of U.S. policy for the
achievement of equal housing
opportunity - throughout the
N ation. We encourage and
support an affirmative ad-
vertising and marketing
pprogram in which there are no
barriers to obtaining housing
because of race, color, religion
or nat ional origin
The City of College Station is
:urrently accepting ap
olications for housing
assistance on behalf of eligible
families leasing or desiring to
lease existing housing pursuant
to the provisions of Section 8 Of
the U.S. Housing Act of 1937.
The assistance under this
part is in the form of assistance
P ayments made on behalf of
ower and very low income
renter families to property
owners. Assistance payments
will be the difference between
U.S. Department of Housing
e
and Urban Developmnt
determined Fair Market Rent
and a reasonable portion of
that rent to be paid by the
family.
Families may determine
eligibility and apply for a
Certificate of Participation at
the Planning Department, City
Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas.
Any occupants of housing
assisted under the U.S.
Housing Act of 1937, including
Section 23, desiring assistance
under this part must apply
specifically if they want to be
considered for a Certificate of
Participation under this part.
Such applicants for Cer-
tificates will not lose their
place on other public housing
waitmg lists.
We are pledged to the letter
and spirit of U.S. pol . cy for the
achievement of equal housing
opportunity throughout the
anon. We encourage and
support an affirmative ad
vertising and marketing
pprogram in which there are no
Barr ers to obtaining housing
because of race, color, religion
or nat ional origin
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NOTICE TO ALL RENTAL
PROPC,tTY OWNERS,
MAN AND REAL
ESTATE BROKERS:
inv City wners Ileogfe rental
F property to offer dwelling units
leas ngg by eligible families
purant to Section 8 of the U.S.
Housi Act of 1937. This part
of the Act provides for rent
subsidies to be paid to property
owners on behalf of lower and
very low income families. Such
subsidies will be the difference
determined r by the R U. S.
De of Housing and
Ur reasonable porti n ihatrent
to be paid by the family.
The participation of ners
of units in areas other than low
income or minority con-
centrated areas is encouraged.
Owners interested in obtaining
information about or par-
ticipation in this program
should contact James M.
Callaway, Planning Depart
ment, City of College Station,
1101 Texas Avenue. 846 -8886.
and spirt P S apolicy l tthe
achievement of equal housing
Won.unWe throu and
p v p
ertising. an and r ma i
marketing
oa to obtaining housing
housing
because of race, color, religion,
or national origin
The City of College Station is
currently accepting ap.
assist on behalf of
families leasing or desiring to
lease existing housing pursuant
to the provisions of Section 8 of
the U.S. Housing Act of 1937.
The assistance under this
A part is in the form of assistance
l ower v
e and metly o low e inc l ome
renter - families to property
owners. Assistance payments
will be the difference between
U D of Urban Develop
determined Fair Market Rent
and a reasonable portion of
that rent to be paid by the
family.
eligbilityeSa daapplyefor as
Certificate of Participation at
the Planning Department, City
Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas.
assisted cc under o the hou U i IS
Housing Act of 1937, including
Section 23, desiring assistance
under this part must apply
specifically if they want to be
considered for a Certificate of
Participation under this part.
Such applicants for Cer.
tificates will not lose their
Place on other public housing
waiting lists.
We and spirit P d
U.S. policy th e l et t er t r the
achievement of equal housing
Nation. We t nco rage and
s er sgan affi and aret
rogram in which there are no
rriers to obtaining housing
because of race, color, religion
Or national origin.
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Council in CS advised
to restudy annexation
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
College Station city attorney Neeley Lewis says the
city council would be well advised to reconsider the
annexation of 112 acres east of the East Bypass.
The land was annexed by the city council Jan. 13.
Councilman Jim Gardner requested the opinion from
Lewis because Gardner felt a public hearing should have
been held prior to consideration of the annexation or-
dinance.
City planner Al Mayo said no public hearing was
required because the request for annexation came from.
the developer rather than the city.
According to Section 6 of the city charter, residents or
landowners outside the city limits can petition to have
their land annexed without a public hearing.
If the city initiates the action, according to Section 7, a
public hearing must be scheduled.
But Lewis said in his opinion to Gardner that a conflict
exists between Section 6 of the city charter and a state
statute which requires public hearings on annexation
proceedings.
The Municipal Annexation Act, a state law, states:
"Before any city may institute annexation proceedings,
the governing body of such city shall provide an op-
portunity for all interested persons to be heard nt a
public hearing to be held not more than 20 days nor less
than 10 days prior to institution of such proceedings..."
Lewis said, It is my opinion that there exists an
irreconcilable conflict between Section 6 of our city
charter and the state statutes. Consequently our charter
provision, as it relates to the procedural steps for an-
nexing territory, must yield to the. state law and the city "
of College Station must comply with the procedures set
forth in the Municipal Annexation Act.
The 112-acre annexation on Jan. 13 is part of a larger
plan to be initiated by the city to annex 2300 acres in that
area. Only Gardner voted against the original an-
nexation.
Gardner believes development should be more cen-
tralized, making use of developable land already within
the city limits and within the bypass.
His formal challenge of the annexation comes on
procedural grounds. Gardner said he would be agreeable
to a reconsideration of the annexation in light of the city
attorney's opinion.
Mayor Lorence Bravenec said he doesn't question the
validity of the 112 -acre annexation. He said to question
the procedure would cast doubts on much of the land the.
city has annexed through petition.
Mayor Bravenec said he would not move to reconsider•
the annexation matter. He said he did not know whether
someone else on the council would move to do so.
cS council, committee to meet
The College Station City The agenda includes
Council will hold a special discussion of policy, South
joint meeting at- 7 p.m. park Addition park, street
today with the city's Park standards and the park
and Recreation Committee
at city hall. system.
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Council to meet
to set election
The College Station City
Council meets at 7 p.m.
Thursday at city hall to
call the April municipal
election, to appoint a board
of equalization, to
reconsider the Park South
Subdivision plat, to con-
sider bids on the sewage
treatment plant and to
conduct a public hearing.
The public 6ahng will
be on amending the zoning
ordinance to establish
landscaping and safety
requirements for parking
areas in commercial and
industrial zones.
CS council holds
parks discussion
The College Station City
Council met with the Parks
and Recreation Committee
Tuesday night to discuss
parks in general and
specifically the Anderson -
Ridge Park on Anderson
Street near Sweetbriar
Nursing Home.
The park contains ap-
proximately five acres in
area, but there are plans to
buy more land in the area
to make the park bigger
before the addition
develops further.
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THIS REPORT ADVISING YOU HOW THESE �-UNUS HAVE RFEN USED OR OBLIGATED DURING THE
YEAH FROM JULY 1, 1976, THRU DECEMBER 3f,
1976. THIS IS TO INFORM YOU OF YOUH GOVeHNMI -NT• S PRIORI TIES AND TO ENCOURAGE YbUR PARTICIPATION
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inqquire ent (Section 103( the matchmq funds prohibition (Section
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5. Sum of lines 1., 2, 3, 4
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7. Total Funds Available
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Electricity may be resold
Renters may pay utilities
By DARRELL LANFORD
The City of College Station is looking
into a plan that would allow apartment
dwellers to pay their own utility bills
rather than have the complex administra-
tion pay them.
In response to a number of apartment
owners' queries, College Station's City
Manager, North Bardell, is studying a
plan that would circumvent a franchise or-
dinance forbidding the reselling of elec-
tricity.
Most apartment projects have master
meters that measure electricity bought
from transformers, Bardell said. Electric-
ity used by each apartment cannot be
computed, he said, so the utility bill is
preset, possibly higher than it need be to
offset possible electricity price raises.
The plan would allow apartment owners
to buy electricity at the transformer and
then sell it at the same price to residents
with apartments equipped with individual
meters.
Apartment owners would have to covei
meter installation costs and rewiring ex-
pense, Bardell said.
"The cost is prohibitive," Linda Russell,
manager of Taos, Scandia I and Royal
Gardens apartments, said. Russell said it
would cost $150 to wire and install a meter
in each apartment.
"The majority of the people are here
because they don't want to pay for
utilities," said Lance Shotwell, manager of
Monaco and Posada Del Rey aprtments.
"As far as I am concerned, it is the city's
expense to install individual meters," he
said.
Bardell said the meters would cause
some confusion for the city.
"The student body is transient," he
said. "We will have to turn the meters on
and off and go through problems."
Bardell said 60 per cent of the city's
utilities bills sent out each year are af-
fected by population turnover. He esti-
mated the number would jump to 80 per
cent if apartment meters were indi-
vidualized.
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'College Station election set for April
i Council approves plan to improve parking
"The Highway Department will bring
final plans to the council for approval,"
City Manager North Bardell said.
The council discussed the Park South
subdivision plat between Southwest
Parkway and Holik Drive. Mayor Lorence
Bravenee voiced concern about the width
of the right -of -way for trucks or ambu-
lances in the proposed subdivision. Don
Martell, developer of the subdivision,
said ample room would be included in the
plans. The council approved the plat.
At the next city council meeting Feb.
24, a resolution by the Texas A &M Uni-
versity Student Senate will be discussed.
It concerns lighting improvements on
University Street at Northgate.
Councilman Gary Halter said the area is
dangerous and that improvements would
be a proper use of revenue sharing money.
By LAURA BROCKMAN
The College Station City Council
passed an amendment last night to im-
prove traffic flow in commercial and indus-
trial zones such as Skaggs - Albertsons and
Culpepper Plaza.
The new landscape and safety require-
ments will include raised curbs and islands
in parking areas. Trees and other greenery
will add to the beauty of the community as
well as prevent haphazard driving through
the areas, said Kathy Loving, chairman of
the community appearance committee.
Councilman Lane Stephenson ab-
stained from voting, saying he first wanted
to see some indication of the financial bur-
den it will put on developers.
The council then passed an ordinance
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calling for a general election to be held on
the first Saturday in April. The purpose of
the election will be to elect councilmen for
Wards 1, 3, and 5.
The polls will be open from 7 a.m. until
7 p.m. Polling places include College Hills
Elementary School in Ward 1, Lincoln
Center in Ward 3 and Bee Creek Munici-
pal Swimming Pool in Ward 5. Qualified
voters may vote in the ward in which they
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reside.
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IN OTHER ACTION the council reap-
pointed the Board of Equalization. The
first meeting will be March 1.
The council also passed a resolution ac-
cepting the State Highway and Public
Transportation Commission's plan for re-
construction on Holleman Drive from FM
2154 east to Winding Road.
"The Highway Department will bring
final plans to the council for approval,"
City Manager North Bardell said.
The council discussed the Park South
subdivision plat between Southwest
Parkway and Holik Drive. Mayor Lorence
Bravenee voiced concern about the width
of the right -of -way for trucks or ambu-
lances in the proposed subdivision. Don
Martell, developer of the subdivision,
said ample room would be included in the
plans. The council approved the plat.
At the next city council meeting Feb.
24, a resolution by the Texas A &M Uni-
versity Student Senate will be discussed.
It concerns lighting improvements on
University Street at Northgate.
Councilman Gary Halter said the area is
dangerous and that improvements would
be a proper use of revenue sharing money.
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BY JERRY GRAY
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Hotel -motel tax and city improvements
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Texas is getting a healthy share of
the nation's tourism business. That
includes College Station.
In 1974 the U.S. Travel Data
Center reported that only three
states surpassed Texas in the
tourism market. California, Florida
and New York received a larger
share of the $67.7 billion tourist
business in that year.
In that year, $4.8 billion was spent
here in Texas by 19.6 million
visitors, which includes Texans
traveling within Texas.
These statistics, along with many
others, were gathered together by
Texas A &M master's degree can-
didate Eva Zweifel.
Mrs. Zweifel's major subject is
recreation- and resources
development.
In 1975 she was commissioned by
the College Station City Council to do
a study on visitor opinions regarding
expenditure of the city's hotel oc-
cupancy tax.
The tax, enacted by College
Station Oct. 1, 1973, is equal to 3 per
cent of the cost of the room. This tax
is added onto the customer's bill and
passed along to the city government
for use in visitor - related ex-
penditures.
The 59th Texas Legislature
A column of opinion and-or humor
authorized the hotel -motel room tax.
in 1965.
It was Mrs. Zweifel's job to
determine who, the visitors are to
College Station and what they
believe should be done with their
room taxes to improve the com-
munity for the visitor.
She found that almost a third of
these responding to questionnaires
were in the 45 -54 year age group, and
three - quarters were between 25 and
54 years of age.
Approximately 9 out of 11 visitors
were male and they were married.
Almost three - quarters of those
visiting the city were reportedly
either "professional, technical and
managerial" people.
The visitors are in the upper in-
come and education brackets and
they come here primarily to visit the
university either in seminars,
conferences or short courses.
They travel by car, stay five
nights or less and spend an average
$21 -30 per day, most of which is room
costs.
In College Station alone this
means approximately $2.5 million
was paid to the city's hotels and
motels in 1976.
The tax added onto this sum in
1976 was more than $70,000. This
amount goes to the city coffers for
visitor - related expenditures. In
Bryan — which was not included in
this study — the revenue from this
tax to the citywas more than $33,000
in 1976.
To improve the community,
visitors suggested brochures, more
university information and better
directional signs.
They also suggested use of the
money by a College Station tourist
and convention bureau, the
Chamber of Commerce, promotion
of the Texas World Speedway, city
beautification, transportation im-
provements, preservation of historic
buildings in Bryan, contribution to
the proposed arts center, a civic -
center fund, visitor information
services and a tourist attraction,
such as an historic boat, railroad
engine or botanical zoo.
Those were most of the
suggestions, which, of course, will
be tempered by local political
considerations.
For example, some monies have
already been allocated by College
Station to the east Texas Chamber of
Commerce to include the area in its
brochure, and $500,00o in revenue
bonds have been authorized by
voters for a civic center.
The bonds will be retired through
revenue collected by the hotel -motel
tax.
Among the aspects of the com-
munity that visitors liked, according
to the survey, were friendly and
helpful people, touring the Memorial
Student Center and campus, visiting
a good variety of restaurants, good <
lodging facilities « football
games.
But some things are not perfect in
the community as seen through the
visitors eyes. These include lack of
parking, transportation, activities
and information on restaurants.
Concerning restaurants too they
said restaurants closed too early and
service was poor at some.
But with the motel -hotel oc-
cupancy tax some of these problems
might be improved in time.
The good thing about the tax is
that the visitor will pay for the
improvements himself. And 'Me
Senate Economic Development
Committee just voted recently to
increase the tax from 3 per cent to 4
per cent at local option. Adoption of
this measure awaits the full
legislature.
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Parking area landscape, safety law passed
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By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
Landscape and safety
requirements are now
required for parking areas
in commercial and in-
dustrial zones in College
Station.
The new law was passed
in a 5 -0 vote Thursday.
Councilmen Lane
Stephenson and Jim Dozier
abstained.
The matter had
previously been con-
sidered at two Planning &
Zoning Commission
meetings before the public
hearing was held by the
city council Thursday.
The new ordinance
requires that parking lots
not be closer than eight
feet to public streets. The
area separating parking
lot and street should also
be raised six inches.
Kathleen Loving,
chairman of the College
Station Community Ap-
pearance Committee, said
the purpose of the or-
dinance is, "To improve
the safety of traffic flow
and to improve community
appearance."
Parking in the lots can
be either perpendicular or,
angle parking and islands"
should hn
regular intervals wAilii►
the parking lot.
Landscaping is also
required. For example,
one tree is required per
each 30 linear feet of raised
island.
Proponents of the new
ordinance said the
regulations of the law does
not preclude a developer
coming up with better
ideas for beautification of
his property. Those
decisions will be left to a
College Station Project
Review Committee, which
considers the project
before the Planning &
John Culpepper, at-
torney and developer, said
he didn't care much for the
new law.
Concerning the new
regulations, he said, "I
would hate to see us con-
centrate the major portion
of the development outside
the city." He said such a
law might unbalance the
development in Bryan and
College Station.
Councilman Jim Gard-
ner said the implication of
unbalanced development
was not a fair assessment
of the ordinance.
M , ost of the objection to
the ordinance came the
eight -foot setback rule for
parking lots, which
developers felt consumed
valuable parking territory.
Developers also favored
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CS to hold municipal election April 2
April 2 is the date of the
Election of councilman
respectively, Gary Halter,
municipal elections in
District 3 will be held at the
Larry Ringer and Anne
College Station.
Lincoln Center, and
Hazen.
The city council formally
election of councilman
called the election for that
District 5 will be held at the
Bryan has already of-
time at its regularly
Bee Creek Municipal
ficially called its election
scheduled meeting
Swimming Pool
for April 2 too. Three
Thursday.
Election judges for each
councilmen and a mayor
Three councilmen will be
polling place were also
will be chosen in Bryan.
chosen then. Election of
selected in the ordinance
The incumbents here are
councilman District 1 will
calling the election.
Richard Smith, Travis
be held at the College Hills
The incumbents in
Bryan III, Jim Wright and
Elementary School.
Districts 1, 3 and 5 are,
Mayor Lloyd Joyce.
grouping the landscaping
to ensure proper care.
They feared that spreading
the vegetation around in
small areas might lead to
neglect and ultimate death
of the trees.
The maintenance of the
trees will be the biggest
problem for property
owners, developer- builder
Don Martell told the
council.
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CS awards $1.6 million contract
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
R.B. Butler, Inc. of
Bryan will build College
Station's new waste water
treatment plant — a
facility authorized by
voters last June in a city
bond election.
The $1,595,340 contract
for that project, east of the
East Bypass, was awarded
to the local construction
company Thursday. It was
the lowest among nine bids
for the project.
W.J. Wischmeyer,
consulting engineer of the
Dallas firm Riewe &
Wischmeyer, Inc., said all
nine represented a good set
of bids for the plant which
includes one centrifuge.
R.B. Butler, Inc.
presented an estimated
completion time of 600
days for the project.
Wischmeyer said this
was a fair estimate on
completion time, but
Councilwoman Anne
Hazen was concerned
about the capacity of the
current facility before the
new plant could be added.
"Will the (current) plant
last two years ?" she
asked.
The reply: "It has to."
In an item on the agenda
entitled "other business,"
Councilman Jim Gardner
made the motion for the
city staff to investigate the
procedure for recon-
sideration of a 112 -acre
annexation, east of the
East Bypass.
The annexation was
voted by the council Jan.
13.
Gardner felt a public
hearing should have
preceded the proposed
annexation. He asked the
city attorney's opinion on
the matter.
City Atty. Neeley Lewis
said state law required a
public hearing, but the city
charter did not require a
public hearing if land
owners petitioned to be
,annexed.
The city charter requires
public hearings only if the
development on the east
side of the East Bypass
until land already within
the bypass and within the
city limits are developed,
but he challenged the
action on these procedural
grounds.
The council also decided
to buy 7.7 acres of land at a
cost of $7,000 an acre at the
intersection of Holik and
Anderson streets to add to
approximately five acres
of land to expand the
Anderson -Ridge Park.
The council voted 6 -1 for
the purchase. Councilman
Gardner voted against the
purchase, saying the park
purchase is in a flood plain.
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city initiates the an-
nexation.
But Lewis wrote Gar&
ner that state law super-
sedes city :law, and the
council would be "well
advised" to reconsider the
annexation.
Despite the city at-
torney's recommendation,
Gardner's motion died for
lack of a second.
Gardner said he madg
the motion to "remove tfib
cloud" from the action.
Councilman Jim Dozier
became incensed that the
subject was brought up
under the agenda item of
"other business." He said
the matter should have
been listed on the agenda.
"I detest these matter:
under other business," he
said. Dozier also com-
mented that he thought the
matter was brought up
"for show."
He said he was unaware
of a problem saying, "All I
know is what I read in the
newspapers." He felt the
city should back off on the
topic "for a while" to
determine what to do next.
Councilman Gary Halter
suggested that a public
hearing be scheduled on
the matter at the Feb. 24
meeting of the council, but
no action was taken on that
suggestion.
Gardner is essentially
against the concept of
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TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The City Council of the City of
College Station, Texas hereby
?Ives notice to all concerned
that the following Ordinances
No. 1065 and No. 1066 have been
approved and adopted by the
City of College Station, Texas
and shall become effective ten
(10) days after the date of the
second publication of this
notice.
Ordinance No, 1065: An Or-
dinance amending the Zoning
Ordinance No. 850 and Or
dinance No. 996, requiring a
Conditional Use Permit for
Multi Family Residential
i
Developments n R -3, R-4, R -6,
R -7, C-N and C 1 Zones and
establishing a process for
consideration of these
proposals. The penalty for
violation of this Ordinance
shall be outlined in Section
14 of the Zoning Ordinance No.
850.
Ordinance No, 1066: An Or-
dinance amending the The
Subdivision Ordinance No. 690
by requiring fire hydrant
spacing to be measured by
laying length along streets or
Fire Lanes. The penalty for
violation of this Ordinance
shall be as outlined in Section
17 of the Subdivision
Regulations, Ordinance No.
690.
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'-- NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals addressed to
the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of College Station,
Texas will be received at the
office of North Bardell, City
Manager, until 10:00 A.M.
February 28, 1977 for fur-
nishing the following equip-
ment:
One New
Pickup Truck
Specifications can be obtained
at the Public Works Office at
City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas.
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College Station city officials hope to
have an electrical power substation with
one 25 megawatt transformer in service by
June 1, City Manager North Bardell said
Monday.
"The substation will be capable of han-
dling three 25 megawatt transformers, so
therefore the substation should be able to
handle College Station's projected load for
six to seven years" Bardell said.
He said the city probably would need 42
megawatts this summer, and between 50
to 52 megawatts in the summer of 1979.
The substation marks a change in the
city's power supplier. The city has pre-
viously contracted with Bryan, but when
Bryan's electric rates and fuel charges in-
creased, College Station officials looked
elsewhere for power, Bardell said.
In 1976 the city signed a contract with
Gulf States Utilities to supply electricity.
The city will supplement electricity from
Gulf States with electricity from Bryan
until a complete switchover to Gulf States
can be made. .
"Gulf States will be able to deliver
power for less than Bryan can," Bardell
said.
"Under current rates, if we were on
Gulf States today, we would be saving in
wholesale power costs between $3,000
and $6,000 a day."
Bardell said the substation will be lo-
cated near the intersection of Highway 30
and the east bypass.
He added that the city has negotiated a
contract to construct a permanent switch-
ing station by 1979 that will tie into the
Gulf States transmission line 700 feet east
of the east bypass. A temporary switching
station should be built by June 1, Bardell
said. — Darrell Lanford
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Halter
to seek
Place 1
Gary Halter, political
science instructor at TexA..
A &M, filed for re- election
to the College Station city
council Wednesday.
Halter is completing his
first, two -year term on the
council. He is the first to
make his decision about
seeking one of the three
positions up for election
this year.
Halter, currently in
Place 1 on the council, will
seek election to District 1.
Last year College Station
voters decided to change
from an at -large system of
electing councilmen to a
ward, or district, system.
Halter is seeking to
represent the College Hills
area in the ward system.
Halter said he is seeking
re- election because it
"takes a long time to do
anything in government,
and two years really isn't
that much time" to get
things done.
Halter was chairman of
the 1976 capital im-
provements committee.
He said he would like to see
that program through to
completion.
All nine items on the
ballot under the capital
improvements program
passed last June 29.
He said he would also
like to work further on the
development control or-
dinances currently under
consideration.
Halter said he enjoyed
his two years as coun-
cilman and learned a great
deal.
"It takes a while to learn
what it is possible to do as
a councilman both from a
political standpoint and
from the standpoint of
ability and powers of a
councilman," he said.
GARY HALTER
Seeks Re- Election
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College 'Station, A &M
plan Northgate lighting
Streetlights may soon help people find
their way around the Northgate area at
Northgate. The letter was one of a list of
items that
night.
prompted a meeting between
city and University planning committees.
College Station City Manager North
Bardell said the city is planning to in-
Bardell said he received a letter two '
stall more streetlights. The cost will be
months ago from the office of Texas A &M
,
covered by one of two alternatives, he
University president, Jack K. Williams,
concerning thf lack of streetlights at
said.
We'll either use revenue - sharing
money.. . .(or) we'll delay it until .
summer and put it on our new regular
budget." The lighting would extend from
College Avenue to Wellborn Road,
Candidates file
City Councilman Gary Halter said yes -
terday he was one of the people who ,
suggested using federal revenue money to
for school board,
install lights. "I
had it in
mind to use the mane as a
y
city council election
broader street lighting program," he said.
"Th ere are many areas in the city that
could use street lighting, including my
Four candidates for the A &M Consoli-
street. There are sections where it is so
dated School Board and pne for the Col-
dark at night, I have to feel my way out to
lege Station City Council filed for election
the street.
yesterday.
"The immediate Northgate area is the
The filing opened yesterday and will
most critical area," Halter said. "It's a
end March 2. City elections will be held
danger to pedestrians."
April 2. Candidates for School Board Pos-
Bardell said city engineers are working
itions 2,3,4 and 5 and City Council Places
on the cost estimate of the lights. The
1,3, and 5 will be on the ballot.
lights will be similar in design to those at
Incumbent William Lancaster and a
the corner of Nagle Street and University,
challenger, former elementary school
Drive.
teacher Elizabeth Naugle, have filed for
Place 5 on the school board.
Elliott Bray, manager of data base sys-
tems at Texas A &M University, filed for
Place 3, and Rodney Culver Hill, associate
professor of environmental design, will run
for Place 2.
Only one City Council candidate has
filed as of yesterday.
City councilman Gary Halter will run
for his Place 1 seat. Halter is a member of
A &M's political science department.
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Ag engineers
complete 9
park benches
The student branch of
the American Society of
Agricultural Engineers
has completed the con-
struction of nine park
benches to be installed in
the city parks of College
Station. The benches were
constructed as a com-
munity service project,
according to Bill Norman,
student branch president.
Howard Holland and
Chesley Brown, student
branch members, worked
with Paul Wojciechowski,
director of parks and
recreation, in developing
the plans and securing the
materials for the project.
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ENGINEERS INSTALL BENCHES
(L-R) Wojciechowski, Holland, Brown
(Photoby Choya Walling)
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals addressed to
the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of College Station,
Texas will be received at the
office of North Bardell, City
Manager, until 10:00 A.M.
February 28, 1977 for fur-
nishing the following equip.
ment:
One New
Pickup Truck
Specifications can be obtained
a' the Public Works Office at
City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College Statio Te xas.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
THAT THE COLLEGE
STATION CITY COUNCIL
WILL HOLD A PUBLIC
HEARING IN THE COUNCIL
ROOM OF THE COLLEGE
STATION CITY HALL AT 7:00
P.M., MARCH 10, 1977 ON THE
USE OF ENTITLEMENT 7 O
FEDRAL REVENUE
SHARING FUNDS.
TO WHOM IT" MIN—Y CON-
CERN:
The City Council of the,City of
College Station, Texas hereby
gives notice to all concerned
that the following ordinance
has been approved and adopted
by the City of College Station,
Texas and shall become ef-
fective ten (10) days after the
date of the second publication
of this notice.
Ordinance No. 1067: AN OR-
DINANCE AMENDING THE
ZONING ORDINANCE NO.
850, ESTABLISHING LAND-
SCAPING AND SAFETY
REQUIREMENTS FOR
PARKING AREAS IN CER
TAIN COMMERCIAL AND
INDUSTRIAL ZONES, A
PROPOSAL AND REVIEW
PROCESS, AND PROVIDING
A PENALTY FOR
VIOLATION.
Copies of this ordinance are
available at the City Hall, 1101
Texas Aven
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Fire marshal say safet
y
is key behind limiti crowds
College Station Fire
Marshal Harry Davis said
customer safety has
moved the city to enforce
its building code limiting
the size of crowds in local
businesses.
"We're not trying to be
ridiculous with this,"
emphasized Davis. "I've
gone out and personally
talked with the owners of
the businesses involved
and we understand each
other's viewpoint. We've
beefed up our inspection
teams to help with this and
we'll be making a second
check of local establish-
ments to see that they're
complying with the city
code and see how it's being
handled by the owners."
Davis said several
people had complained to
CS city councilmen and to
his office about over -
corwded conditions at
some local bars. He ex-
plained that the city's
building code drawn up
several years ago prohibits
businesses from taking in
t�
more customers than they
have exit capacity for.
"The exit of a business
must be wide enough to
allow a specific number of
people to leave the
premises in a certain
amount of time," Davis
said in explaining exit
capacity. "The difficult
part is defining fixed
seating in the code, which
can be interpreted at our
discretion. It's not an easy
thing to do, but fixed
seating generally refers to
any seating arrangement
that is standard for a
business on a regular
basis."
Davis said many people
have been killed in fires in
the U.S. because bars and
other businesses didn't
have adequate exits and
were crowded beyond their
official capacity.
"We don't want that to
happen here, of course,"
Davis said. "It's hard
enough to keep traffic
lanes clear around some of
these places, especially in
front of the Sports Club."
Davis said the issuance
of traffic citations in the
University Square Center
where the Sports Club is
located helped clear up
some of the problem, but
that on some nights the
cars often block fire lanes.
Owners of some of the
businesses being checked
for crowds have said they
aren't too upset with the
code enforcement unless it
begins to affect their
business.
"I think the newspapers
have blown this thing out of
proportion," said Don
Ganter, co -owner of the
Dixie Chicken, one of the
businesses being checked.
"We're not really affected
except on Friday nights
around 10 p.m. Otherwise,
there's no problem here.
We have to do what the law
says, but let's face it, I'm a
businessman and if things
get to where I'm losing
money as a result of the
code, then I'll have to
check with the city council
and see what we can do.
I'm happy with the city
and with the council, but I
have to keep my business
going, too."
Pbrchas_ng A ...
I TO WHOM IT MAY CON -
CERNr
fhe City Council of the City of
gg College Station, Texas hereby
that the
st following ordinance
has been approved and adoppted
by the City of College Stafion,
ect
Texas ten (10) shall become a er ef.
date of the second publication
of this notice.
Ordinance No. 1067: A[l OR-
ZONAINGEORDEINNADNCE NO
850, ESTABLISHING LAND.
SCAPING AND SAFETY
PARKING AREAS IN IN CER
TAIN COMMERCIAL AND
PROPOSAL AND Z REV�IEW
PROCESS, AND PROVIDING
A PENALTY FOR
VIOLATION.
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TAVa Avenue.
Larry J. Ringer will seek
re- election to the College
Station City Council.
Ringer is completing a
one -year term on the
council in Place 3, and
seeks election to District 3.
He is a professor of
statistics a`_ Texas A &M
LARRY RINGER
University and a research
we said, `If only the city
,statistician at the Texas
fathers had ohtained park
Transportation Institute.
land 20 yeArs ago'? Now is
Ringer's major concerns
the time to plan so that 20
are overseeing all phases
,of the
years from now the
voter - approved
residents of College Station
,capital improvement
aren't saying the same."
program, providing parks
and
"During the past year
maintaining traffic
safety.
progress was made
Ringer said he has a
towards making College
Station a more attractive
desire to see all phases of
city. We need to continue
the capital improvements
with all citizens doing their
program underway as soon
part."
as possible. Voters ap-
Ringer says he is for
proved these programs
last June in
implementing bike paths
a municipal
bond election.
and improving of street
lighting in many areas of
Concerning parks and
the city.
recreation facilities, he
said, "We are rapidly
"It takes time on the
outgrowing our recreation
council to learn what can
areas, and we need to plan
be done and how. With the
new parks and facilities
problems facing the city it
now. We are losing areas
is important that we have
that have been used as
persons on the council who
practice fields and need to
are experienced and
find new fields.
Filling to devote their time
"How many times have
and energies to the job,"
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Candidates for City Council
must file with city
Persons wishing to file for a posi-
tion on the College Station City
Council have until Wednesday,
March 2.
To be eligible, a person must have
lived in College Station at least one
year according to article 3, section 19
of the city, charter. Candidates must
also live in the district of their candi-
dacy.
A candidate cannot be behind in
paying city taxes or other liabilities
due the city for a period of 90 days.
A candidate's quest for a seat on
the City Council begins with a visit
to Florence Neeley, College Station
city secretary.
Neeley said Monday that a list of
instructions has been provided for
persons filling out the necessary fil-
ing forms.
The first form a candidate fills out
is a loyalty affidavit to be signed in
the presence of a notary public.
The loyalty affidavit states that
one believes in and approves of the
present representative form of (city)
government. It states further that
the signer will Support and defend
the government and resist any effort
or movement front any source that
would destroy it.
A petition to be signed by -at least
25 qualified voters of College Sta-
tion is the next form to be com-
pleted.
This petition can be circulated by
either the candidate himself or
someone else. More than one peti-
tion can be circulated for the same
person at the same time.
Every qualified voter signing this
petition must sign in the presence of
the circulator.
At the top of the petition is a
statement the candidate must sign
certifying that he is a qualified voter
in Texas and is eligible for the office
of city councilman.
On the last form the circulator
must sign a statement certifying that
all signatures were made in his (the
secretary
circulator's) presence.
Each circulator must sign a form
for each petition submitted, if more
than one person is circulating a peti-
tion for the same candidate.
Neeley has 10 days after the filing
of the petition to approve it.
If for some reason Neeley does
not approve the petition(s) she lets
the petitioner know what is wrong
and what has to be done to correct
it.
"If we have one or more candi-
dates for one position there will be a
drawing for positions to determine
how the names will be listed on the
ballot," Neeley said.
Representatives for districts 1, 3
and 5 will be elected in the April 2
election.
Larry J. Ringer, 702 Thomas St.,
and Gary M. Halter, 1204 Ashburn
Ave. E., are the only candidates
who have filed so far.
Halter filed for place 1 and Ringer
for place 3.
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College Station council to hold meeting
Rezoning questions,
consideration of final
plats, a deannexation
discussion and a closed
session to discuss land
acquisition predominate
the College Station City
Council meeting at 7 p.m.
today in the city hall.
A public hearing on the
question of rezoning a tract
of approximately 18 acres
in the Brentwood Addition
from duplex residential
district_ to sin le family
residential district will be
Avenue will also be
sidered include Raintree,
held. And the question of
discussed.
Section I; Brentwood,
rezoning 31.8 acres on the
The thirteenth item on
Section III; and Woodway
A
east side of Texas Avenue,
the agenda is discussion of
Village, Section I.
preliminary plat for
1,000 feet south of the in-
de : annexation of a 112 -acre
Dexter Place is also on the
tersection of Texas Avenue
tract east of the East
agenda.
and Sterling Street, from
Bypass. This land was
single family residential
annexed Jan. 13, but
Also on the agenda is- a
district to medium density
Councilman Jim Gardner
discussion of police a c -
a p a r t m e n t b u i l d i n g
believes that annexation
tivity_reports.
district will be recon-
procedure should have
sidered.
been preceeded by a public
The issuance of a
hearing.
building permit for a nine -.
acre tract on Linco1w
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
THAT THE COLLEGE
STATION CITY COUNCIL
WILL HOLD A PUBLIC
HEARING IN THE COUNCIL
ROOM OF THE COLLEGE
STATION CITY HALL AT 7:00
P.M., MARCH 10, 1977 ON THE
USE OF ENTITLEMENT 7 O
FEDRAL REVENUE
SH ARING FUNDS.
Final plats to be con-
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City staff to
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
Residents of Southland
Street in College Station
will be polled by the city
staff to determine whether
they want a cul -de -sac or a
through- street built with
Community Development
funds.
A discussion of the
porposed extension of
Southland Street was held
by the city council Thurs-
day. Rosetta Keaton of 109
Southland presented a
petition with nine names.
Those who signed the
petition preferred a cul -de-
sac. she said.
Since there are ap-
proximately 25 residents
involved, Councilman
Gary Halter suggested
that the majority should
rule. He said he would vote
for the project preferred
by a majority.
Halter said the concept
of the Community
Development federal funds
is that the residents af-
fected should determine
the development of their
neighborhood.
He said, "If I lived on
Southland Street, I would
want it paved on through,
but I don't live there. They
should decide."
The council decided that
a survey would be ap-
propriate. But Halter said
the results of the survey
would bind only his vote on
which project to un-
dertake. He said other
councilmen would vote as
they see fit.
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poll residents
Councilman Jim Gard-
ner suggested that
graphics, showing what
would occur, should be
presented to the residents
who are polled.
If a cul -de -sac is not
built, a small bridge will be
necessary for a through -
street.
Jim Calloway, Com-
munity Development
planner for the city, said
there were problems with
both projects. He said a
cul -de -sac would give only
limited access to the area
which would be critical in
an emergency. And the
cul -de -sac would be 50 per
cent longer than allowed
by city law.
The low -water bridge on
the other hand would be
more costly by about
$5,000.
He said, "Either
alternative will exceed the.
budget for that street."
He said the Housing and
Urban Development office
in Dallas was aware of the
situation and told him that
it is essentially a local
problem and would not
affect current or future
Community Development
funds to the city.
Keaton had written the
HUD office complaining
about unfair represen-
tation on the council
regarding this situation.
She favors a cul- de -sac to
avoid problems with
speeders and through -
traffic.
The city staff will con-
Late CS councilman
honored by resolution
The College Station City
Council passed a resolution
Thursday night recording
its appreciation for the
contributions of the late
Antone L. Rosprim, a
former councilman and
civic leader who died Jan.
27 this year.
Rosprim died at the age
of 76 and had been a
councilman from 1961 tc
1967.
A copy of the resolution
will be sent to Mrs. - A.L.
Rosprim.
The resolution cited
Rosprim as a leader in the
community. The resolution
said Rosprim "served the
city during a period of
great growth and change."
duct the survey.
In other action, the
council voted to rezone 18
acres in the Brentwood
Addition from duplex
district to single family
residential district.
"The duplex market has
leveled off," said city
planner Al btayo, ex-
plaining the rezoning
reauest.
Another attempt to
rezone 31.8 acres east of
Texas Avenue 1,000 feet
south of Sterling Street
was denied and referred to
the Planning & Zoning ,
Commission. The owner,;
L.J. Kirkpatrick,
requested a change from
single family residential
district to medium density
apartment building
district.
Welsh Ave.
gets `new'
name, serta
Welch Street, Welch
Avenue, Welch Boulevard,
Welsh Street and Welsh
Avenue in College Station
are all actually the same
street, but different parts
have different names.
At least that was the
situation until Thursday,.
Welsh Avenue, it seems,
was the original name.
Councilman Jim Dozier,
providing the bit of history
on the subjects, said the
street was named after the
"Welsh" breed of cattle.
He made the motion to
rename the entire street
Welsh Avenue.
Mayor Lorence
Bravenec voted against
the name change with the
whimsical explanation
that the current situation is
"rather quaint."
* Council discusses Holik tract
The future of part of the 25- acre Holik
tract south of Holleman Drive and east of
Welsh Street dominated last'night's Col-
lege Station City Council discussions.
Residents from in and around the West
Knoll area asked the council to consider
developing a city park within the Holik
tract.
The possibility of connecting both por-
tions of Dexter Drive (one is on the north
side of the Holik tract and the other on the
south side) or ending the street, in a cul marked as Welch Street, Welch
de -sac was also considered. Boulevard, Welch Avenue, and Welsh
Other actions taken by the council in- Avenue.
cluded: V Rezoning a portion of the Brentwood
V Signing a resolution honoring former Addition from a duplex district to a single
Councilman Antone L. Rosprim who died family district.
Jan. 27. Rosprim was a Councilman from V Issuing a building permit for an
1961 to 1967. apartment complex on Lincoln Avenue.
V Giving Welsh Avenue a consistent V Appointing a council committee to
name. Different sections of the street had review street construction standards.
Building code : .protects crowds
Editor:
based on the experience of many
This letter is in response to the
cities and agencies over the years.
Battalion article on Feb. 22, 1977,
Unless the City of College Station
styled "Local Businesses Must
has some direct experience to the
Limit Crowds."
contrary, we must assume that
In the past months the Fire
these requirements represent a rea-
Marshal and Police Officers have
sonable safety standard.
observed places of business in the
The City's action in enforcing the
City which by any reasonable
Code is in no sense "anti- business'
• standard were overcrowded. They
or "anti- development." The City
observed occasions when it was not
has every reason to be concerned
possible to enter an establishment
about the safety of its citizens and to
for the press of people at the door-
insist on compliance with the Code
way and for as far inside as could be
and other ordinances.
seen. The potential consequences of
— Lorence L. Bravenec, Mayor,
any sort of panic or emergency
City of College Station
under such conditions are obvious
and prompted the initiation of a
program by the Fire Department
and Building Official's office to
remedy the situation.
The method employed was to
measure and evaluate all places in
which it was known or suspected
that large numbers of people would
gather, to determine what
capacities were allowed by the Ci-
tY's ordinances, and to notify the
owners and managers thereof.
College Station adopted the
Southern Standard Building Code
in June of 1967. The Code provides,
among other things, for the regula-
tion of building capacities and re-
quired exits. The relevant
provisions have not been substan-
tially changed since the Code's
adoption.
One of the expressed purposes of
the Code is to secure the public
safety, health and general welfare
from fire and other hazards in the
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use and occupancy of buildings. The
relevant provisions of the Code
apply to every building in the City,
whenever constructed.
The requirements of the Code are
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By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
What does it take to run a
city?
"It takes money and
people and time," said
Bryan city manager Lou
Odle. He said all these
ingredients are "regulated
by what we call a budget."
"The optimized
distribution of all these
factors is what
management is all about,"
he said.
In a 15 -month period
Bryan has a budget o;
approximately $31 million.
The city employs ap-
3roximately 550 people.
As far as time is con -
-erned, Odle said, "We
lave the same amount of
time as everyone else." Ir
trying to balance all these
factors, Odle said Bryan
"does a pretty good job."
In addition to these
elements of a city's
operation, College Station
city manager North
Bardell said versatility in
problem solving is a great
asset.
Bardell said a large
percentage of his time is
spent in problem - solving.
Both education and ex-
perience play a big part in
the problem- solving ap-
pro he said.
A service
profile
Solving problems run the
range from human
relations to purchasing to
administration of physical
facilities.
Having to address so
many different types of
problems in a day can also
be the biggest difficulty in
managing a city, ac-
cording to Bardell.
College Station has a 12-
month budget of $7.57
million, and the city em-
ploys 170 full -time em-
ployes.
The major sources of
income in a city's general
operating fund come from
ad valorem taxes and the
one -cent city sales tax.
The utility fund is made
up of revenues from the
sale of utility service. This
is by far the largest part of
the budget.
City manager Odle said
"the sizeable rate struc-
ture for utilities" allows a
low tax rate balanced by a
profit in utility revenue.
Bryan regularly transfers
rtvenue from its utility
fund to its general fund.
He said Bryan is No. 36
in size among the largest
60 cities in the state.
Of those 60 only three
have a lower effective tax
rate than Bryan, according
to Odle.
"We have one of the best .
municipal tax rates," Odle
said, "which comes about
because we are in the
electric generation
business."
Odle also credited the
sales tax as being " part of
a great salvation for
cities" since the early 70s.
Sales tax revenue ac-
counts for at least one -
fourth of both ,city's
generalfund.
"Servicing people" is
both the greatest joy and
greatest problem of run-
ning a city, according to
Odle.
Some people are "flat
cantankerous" he said, but
he added that most are not.
The assertive people are
generally more visible.
Most of a city':_ si
huness
is routine — even mundane
— such as the problems
with stray dogs, chug holes
in streets and the collec-
tion of garbage, but "these
are very vital when you
come down to it," Odle
said.
The biggest physical
problems are drainage,
street paving and housing.
The latter requires private
rather than public
solutions.
Awareness is the key to
operating a city, Odle said.
And to do this, the city
manager must make on-
sight visits to various parts
of the city to inspect the
city's development. Ten to
15 per cent of his time is
spent on these exercises,
according to Odle.
To anyone entering
public administration,
Odle advises that he be
capable of seeing the "big
picture as well as the little
pictures."
Id other words, he must
be a generalist and
specialist at the same
time. This takes learning
and experience.
To be effective and
successful, one must be
able to see "the big and
little picture" and do
something about it, Odle
says.
North Bardell, who
taught engineering design
graphics at Texas A &M for
20 years prior to becoming
city manager, says that a
technical background is
helpful as city manager.
And in addition to the
daily chores of operating a
city, capital improvement
programs are becoming as
big a job as any other city
function. In fact, Bardell
said administration of
capital improvement
programs often involves
more money than in the
city operating budget it-
self.
But essentially, a
municipal government is
set up to provide "services
that private enterprise
can't," Bardell said. "As
long as we keep this in
mind we're okay."
The bulk of citizens want
more and more services.
At some point, cities have
to cut back for lack of
budgetary support, he
said.
It is often a delicate
balance to provide public
access as well as to do .
administrative work,
according to Bardell.
He said maintaining
office hours to be available
to the citizenry as well as
doing administrative work
is a problem.
To any student of public
administration, Bardell
advised that he be versatile
in his thinking. He also
advised a background in
budget preparation and
accounting principles.
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remain
for filing
Only three days remain
for candidates to file for
office.
The deadline for filing
for office to either the
Bryan City Council or the
College Station City
Council is 5 p.m. March 2.
The same deadline
applies to candidates to the
A &M Consolidated School
Board or the Bryan School
Board.
This year there is a
change in the manner of
electing College Station
city councilmen. Coun-
cilmen are now elected by
wards, or districts, rather
than at- large. And only
three of the seven council
positions are up for elec-
tion this year.
Wards 1, 3 and 5 will hold
elections this year. Only
residents of those wards
will cast votes in the
municipal election this
year, but school board
elections are city -wide for
College Station residents.
Bryan's city council and
school board elections are
city -wide too.
Election day is April 2.
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals addressed to'
the Honorable Mayor and City'i
Council of College Station,
Texas will be received at the
office nagerN r until 6 I 10:00 A M
February 28, 1977 for fur-
nishing the following equip-
ment:
One New
Pickup Truck
Specifications can be obtained
at the Public Works Office at
College IS tatiion,TTexa sAvenue,
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College Station to decide park location
By DAVE TEWES
The College Station City Council must
decide within 60 days whether or not to
develop another park in an area of the city
that already has a majority of the city's
parks.
The 60 day limit, set by the Council
Thursday, will allow time to study the
necessity of a park on an area of land called
the Holik tract. It is near the intersection
of Welsh Avenue and Holleman Drive in
south College Station.
"There are already quite a few parks in
this area of the city," Gary Halter, College
Station city councilman, said Friday. "I'm
not sure another one is needed in this par-
ticular area."
Already in the area are Dexter Park,
Anderson Street Park and Bee Creek
Park. The South Knoll Elementary School
and A &M Consolidated High School also
have green areas for recreation Halter
added.
Location is the main factor being con-
sidered by the council, Paul Woj-
cieebowski, College Station director of
parks and recreation, said Saturday.
"The Holik tract is located on the out-
skirts of the service area of several parks,"
he said. "It will probably complement the
other parks in the area."
The National Parks and Recreation As-
sociation determined the average park to
have a service area of a half -mile, Woj-
ciechowski said. This is only a guide refer-
ring to the accessibility of a park.
"To me, service area isn't the question,"
Jerry Duncan, a resident in the Holik tract
area, said Saturday. "The formula doesn't
take into consideration the unique factors
of the land."
Duncan, who initiated a petition re-
questing the City Council study, said the
bullfrogs, turtles, fish and hawks living on
Holik tract were magnificent.
The signers of the petition are trying to
get the park developed by convincing the
City Council the Holik tract is ecologically
important, Halter said.
"I got the impression that it was some
kind of ecological wonder," Halter said.
"Perhaps if you scrape away the beer bot-
tles it is."
College Station already has one nature
park in that part of College Station, he
said.
"There is a real nice nature area right
down Dexter (Street)," he said. "It is left
in pretty much of a natural state."
The land first became available to the
city when Dale Fitch, local land de-
veloper, decided to build houses on the
tract, Halter said.
The College Station park dedication
regulation states that a land developer
must donate a specified amount of land or
money to the city vvhen land is developed.
The amount of land or money is deter-
mined by the number of dwelling units to
be built.
Fitch must donate seven - tenths of an
acre of land or the money equivalent to
seven - tenths of an acre of land. The coun-
cil chose to take the. land.
The council is considering buying ap-
proximately 10 acres of land from Fitch to
add to the donated land.
The College Station comprehensive de-
velopment plan, which provides long -
range park plannin.g a need for a
park in the area, Flalter said. The need is
based on the population of the area and its
future needs. -
Duncan said he began work on a peti-
tion for development of the park Feb. 19.
This was two days after the City Council
first discussed the idea of a park in the
area.
"The petition specifically asked for a
study to determine what resources were
on the Holik tract," Duncan said. "I don't
think people were aware of the unique
natural resources cm the land."
He said 221 signatures were collected in
four days. All six of the College Station
wards were represented, but most of the
signatures came from the wards closest to
Holik tract, Duncan added.
"There is an obvious community desire
to preserve the area," he said. "About 30
per cent of the pepple that signed the peti-
tion said they would donate time or money
for the park."
There is a need for parks in other areas
of College Station, said City Councilman
Jim Gardner, Saturday.
"There are four or five areas in the city
that are short of parks," he said. "It
wouldn't be fair to pour all the city's
money into one area."
Areas of the city that need parks are the
east and far south parts of College Station,
Gardner said.
Some of the persons signing the petition
said the park was necessary because of the
high- density growth rate in the area.
High- density growth rate refers to the
number of dwelling units per acre.
"I was absolutely flabbergasted when
they (local residents) came to my office to
talk about high- density growth in their
area," Halter said. "I have never heard of
anybody accusing single- family dwelling of
being high- density."
Halter said some of these people were
using high- density growth as an excuse to
exclude persons of certain income brack-
ets from building in the area.
Duncan said some of the persons may
have signed the petition with that reason
in mind. Most wanted to preserve a
unique area of land, he added.
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TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing on the
question of granting a Con
ditional Use Permit to the First
Baptist Church, 200 College
Main, College Station, Texas,
for the construction of a church
on a 6.215 acre tract located on
the north side of Southwest
Parkway, approximately 300
feet west of the intersection of
Southwest Parkway and An-
derson Street.
Said hearing will beheld in
the Council Room of the
College Station City Hall, 1101
South Texas Avenue, at the
7:00 P.M. meeting of the
Planning and Zoning Com-
mission on Thursday, March
17, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact Albert 0. Mayo,
Jr., ity Planner, at the City
Hall 713 846 -8886.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing on the
question of rezoning the
following tract: 107.76 acres
out of the Morgan Rector
League, Abstract 46, Brazos
County, Texas. The tract is
more specifically located on
the east side of Stale Highway
No. 6 Bypass (East Bypass)
approximately 5,000 feet south
of The intersection of Harvey
Road (F.M. 30) and the East
Bypass. The request is to
rezone from Agricultural Open
District A -0 to Single Family
Residential District R.1. The
application is in the name of
Rainiree Developments, 707
Texas Avenue, Suite 128 C,
College Station, Texas.
The said hearing shall be held
in the Council Room of the City
of College Station City Hall at
the 7:00 P.M. meeting of the
Planning and Zoning Com-
mission on Thursday, March
17, 1977.
For additional ; nformation,
please contact me.
Albert 0. Mayo, Jr.
_ _ City Planner.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing on the
qquestion of adopting an or
dinance amending Ordinance
No. 985 and requiring
sidewalks of four (4) feet
minimum width on both sides
of all streets unless otherwise
spcif
eied by the Planning and
Zoning Commission and -or the
City Council.
Said hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the Collie
ge
Station City Hall, 1101 South
Texas Avenue at the 7:00 P.M.
meeting of the Planning and
Zoning Commission on
Thursday, March 17, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact the City Plan-
ner, Al Mayo, at the City Hall,
713 846 8886.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zonin Commission will
hold a pubic hearing to con-
sider a request for a Con-
ditional Use Permit for the
construction of a parking lot for
the A &M Presbyterian Church
at 301 Church Avenue, College
Station, Texas.
Said hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall, 1101 South
Texas Avenue at the 7:00 P.M.
meeting. of the Planning and
Zoning Commission on
Thursday, March 17, 1977.•
For additional information,
please peen
Al AI Mayo, at the City Hall,
7 13 846 8886.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing to con-
sider a request for a Con
ditional Use Permit for a multi
family residential project to be
known as Woodway Village
located on Holleman Drive
approximately 1700 feet west of
Wellborn Road. The request is
in.the name of Edsel Jones.
Said hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall, 1101 South
Texas Avenue at the 7:00 P.M.
meeting of the Planning and
Zoning Commission on
Thursday, March 17, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact the City Plan-
ner, Al Mayo, at the City Hall,
7 13- 846 -8886.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station City
Council will hold a public
hearing on the question of
rezoning th following tra ct:
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107.76 acres out of the Morgan
Rector League, Abstract 46,
Brazos County, Texas The
tract is more specifically
located on the east side of State
Highway No. 6, Bypass (East
Bypass) approximately 5000
feet south of the intersection of
Harvey Road (F -M 30) and the
East Bypass. The request is to
rezone from Agricultural Open
District A 0 to Single Family
Residential District R -1. The
application is in the name of
Rainiree DevelopTents, 707
Texas Avenue, Suite 128 C,
College Station, Texas.
The said hearing shall be held
in the Council Room of The City
of College Station City Hall at
the 7:00 P.M. meeting of the
City Council on Thursday,
March 24, 1977.
For addtional information,
please contact me.
Albert 0. Mayo, Jr.
City Plan
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Election filing ends;
three unopposed
Filing ended yesterday for College Sta-
tion City Council and the A &M Consoli-
dated School Board*P1ecEions, April 2.
Incumbents Anne Hazen, Larry Ringer
and Gary Halter are running unopposed
for the three council seats.
Rodney Hill and Johnnie Junek have
filed for place 2 of the school board elec-
tion; incumbent Elltot Bray and James
Bassett for place 3; incumbent W. D.
Fitch for place 4; and William B. Lancas-
ter, John Reagor and incumbent Elizabeth
Naugle for place 5.
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Hazen to seek,
unopposed seat
Anne Hazen of 1205
Munson, College Station is
a candidate for re- election
to the College Station City
Council. She seeks to
represent District 5 and
she currently holds Place 5
on the council.
Mrs. Hazen has been on
the council one year and is
unopposed in her bid for re-
election.
She is a half -time em-
ploye of the A &M Con-
solidated School District
Child Development Center,
where she works as a
school nurse.
"Even though the
council Members are
unopposed,." Ahe said, "I
hope and encourage people
to go out and `vote to in-
dicate their support."
Councilmen Gary
Halter, Larry Ringer and
Anne Hazen are all
unopposed for re- election.
Mrs. Hazen said she
hopes the lack of an op-
ponent means people are
satisfied with her work on
the council.
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Mid -Tex and CS 'm--
to share
area ambulance service
Mid -Tex Ambulance
Service of Bryan hopes to
have the necessary in-
surance to operate am-
bulance services within the
limits of the twin cities by
this afternoon, owner Bill
Thornal said today. As
soon as the insurance is
finalized, the ambulance
service will be able to
begin operations.
Mid -Tex, which operates
three ambulances, will
then be able to fill the gap
left in county ambulance
services when Sherrill
Ambulance services
d i s c o u n t i n u e d its
operations Sunday mor-
ning.
Ed Sherrill, owner of the
discontinued service,
announced on Tuesday,
March 1, his decision to
end the company's
operations in Brazos
County. The City of College
Station assumed
responsibility for am-
bulance services in the
county since the ter-
mination went into effect
Sunday morning. The city
will determine whether or
not to continue the service
at a meeting Thursday.
The fire department,
which was operating the
ambulances, made three
emergency runs and two
patient transfers by early
Monday morning. All went
without major difficulties,
according to Fire Chief
Douglas W. Landua.
At the time of Sherrill
Ambulance Serv'ice's
termination of service, the
Mid -Tex service was only
insured to cover Bryan and
not the county.
Representatives from
both Bryan and College
Station met with Gounty
Judge Bill Vance Thursday
and agreed that College
Station would operate the
emergency vehicles until a
more permanent solution
could be worked out.
"It's a rush deal," Chief
Landua said, "but we're
doing the best we can. So
far, so good." Landua said
that many problems still
remain to be ironed out,
particularly in the areas of
training and scheduling
adequate staff.,
The fire departmett has
three Emergency Medical
Technicians on its staff,
and has been hiring other
local EMT's on a tem-
porary basis to serve in the
ambulances. At least one
EMI - Will be in the vehicles
on every run.
College Station City
Manager North Bardell
hopes that the service will
soon be able to carry two
EMT's on each run. The
Sherrill- operated am-
bulances had been
carrying one EMT per run,
Bardell said.
Funding for the city -
operated ambulance
service has not been
resolved and will be
discussed at the regular
city council meeting
Thursday. Also to be
discussed will be the
question of whether Fire
Department staff will
receive a premium for
service on the ambulance.
Several council mem-
bers have expressed
concern 'that the county
should help to subsidize the
service if it is to continue
serving the entire county.
Residents , of Bryan in
need of an ambulance
should call the fire or
Police departments or call
846 -4567.
Residents of College
Station should dial 911 if
their telephone number
begins with 693 or 846.
They can also dial 846 -4567.
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The College Station City
Council meets at 7 p.m.
Thursday to discuss am-
bulance service. The city
took over ambulance
service Sunday after being
notified by Sherrill Am-
bulance Service that the
firm was quitting business
here.
Mid -Tex Ambulance
Service operates in Bryan
and the northern part of
Brazos County. Bill
Thornal, owner of that
ambulance service, will be
at . the College Station
meeting to discuss county-
wide ambulance service,
he said.
Other items on the
agenda include a report
from the College Station
Community Center
Committee and a
presentation on tourism
from the Bryan - College
Station Chamber of
Commerce.
The council will also
consider a resolutiA.•
relating to the prevention
of development in the flood
plain.
Meeting' times of the
council will be discussed as
well as the number of
living units allowed under
multi - family zoning.
Consideration of final
and preliminary plats will
also be on the council
ag
The city has less than a
week's notification, but
now two modulances are
operated by the College
Station Fire Department to
supply emergency medical
services to College Station
and A &M University
and the southern part of
Brazos County.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN:
The City Council of the City of
College Station will hold a
public hearing to consider the
Plan. The c hear ng will
be held at the 7:00 PM meeting
of the City Council on Thur-
sday, March 24, 1977. The
meeting will be held in the
Stat�onl City Hal l, t, 1101 South
Texas Avenue.
For additional informations
contact the City
Office, 846 8886.
N5 legal Notices
TO WHOM IT MAY CON .I
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad
justment of the City of College
Station will consider a request
for a variance from Mc
Donald's Restaurant, Mr. Phil
Springer at their called
meeting in the Council Room in
the College Station City Hall at
7:30 P.M. on Tuesday, March
15, 1977 the facts of the case
being as follows:
The applicant requests a
permit to remodel a non-
conforming sign at 801
University Drive.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Building Official of the City of
College Station, telephone 846-
8886.
William F. Koehler
Building Official
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad-
justment of the City of College
Station will consider a request
for a variance from Dr. James
R. Bradley, Jr. at their called
meeting in the Council Room in
the College Station City Hall at
7:30 P.M. on Tuesday, March
15, 1977, the facts of the case
being as follows:
The applicant requests a
variance to the parking area
requirements of the Zoning
Ordinance in order to construct
a dental clinic building at 209
Dominik Drive.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Builing Official of the City of
College Station, telephone 846-
8886.
William Koehler
Building Official
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Professors accused of slowing
business development of city
By DAVE TEWES
Battalion Staff
College professors on the College Sta-
tion City Council have retarded business
development and discouraged area land
owners with their land zoning policy, a re-
tired businessman said Friday.
"They don't have any idea of what is
going on," L.J. Kirkpatrick, a retired real
estate company owner, said. "They are
running people out of College Station that
could make it a city."
After four months, the City Council has
not given Kirpatrick a decision on the zon-
ing he requested for his land in southeast
College Station.
Kirkpatrick requested a change from
single - family residential (allows six units
per acre) to medium - density apartments
(allows 30 units per acre).
His request has been delayed because
the City Council is not sure it would be
compatible with the neighborhood, City
Planner Al Mayo said Saturday. A less
dense apartment zoning would probably
fit in better with the area, he added.
Richard Smith, owner and developer of
the Brentwood Housing addition being
built near Kirkpatrick's land agrees that
the request would not be feasible, Mayo
said.
"Richard Smith would rather the city
not allow a lot of apartments next to his
single - family housing," Mayo said. "It
would make them less saleable."
L.J. Kirkpatrick's son, Lewis Kirkpat-
rick, said last weekend that he is dis-
pleased with the City Council's reasons for
the zoning delay.
"Most of the people on the City Council
are college professors that dream a lot,"
Lewis Kirkpatrick, owner of Kirkpatrick
Real Estate Co., said. "They have a Utopia
visualized. A Utopia does not exist except
in one's mind."
The city government is always a conve-
nient group to blame, City Councilman
Gary Halter said Saturday.
"Why didn't Mr. (L.J.) Kirkpatrick pick
up a petition and run against me ?" Halter
asked. "Then we would have had some-
body that wasn't Utopian and a college
professor, if he could have beat me.'
The fact that most of the City Council-
men are college professors is a reflection of
the city's make -up, College Station
Lorence L. Bravenec said yesterday. Pro-
fessor' and their families are an over-
whelming part of the population of the
city, he added.
Bravenec said the City Council wel-
comes business development in College
Station. The city's zoning policy is used to
protect the peoples interest, not to limit
business, he said.
"I think the way we have acted with re-
spect to his (L. J.'kirkpatrick's) land is to
protect the property values of the sur-
rounding property. There is nothing Uto-
pian abo that," Bravenec said.
Oth er City Councilmen interviewed
agree with Bravenec, saying their inten-
tions were not to impede business inter-
ests.
Frank Kahan, a member of the Bryan
planning and zonin;; committee, owns
land near Kirkpatrick's as do three other
people. They want to build apartments.
Kahan said he was granted the proper
zoning to build apartments about three
months ago. He said the College Station
planning and zoning committee told him
last week that the land will probably be
rezoned again to a lower density rating.
"It is impossible to do anything in Col-
lege Station," Kahan said. "If they (City
Council) keep it up, I'll just get out of Col-
lege Station.
Bravenec said Kahan is getting nothing
less than he requested from the City
Council.
"Kahan represented to the City Council
that his density would not be greater than
13 units per acre," Bravenec said. 'The
proposal is to classify his land as medium -
density apartments.'
Medium- density apartment zoning
would permit the development Kahan
originally proposed, Bravenec said.
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I ORDINANCE NO. 1068
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A N ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY OF COLLEGE -
STATION, TEXAS, OR-
DERING A GENERAL
.IN ICIPAL F'_ECTION IN
THE CITY C r COLLEGE
STATION ON SATURDAY,
APRIL 2, 1977, FOR THE
I ELECTION OF COUN-
CILMEN FOR DISTRICT 1,
DISTRICT 3, DISTRICT 5;
FIXING THE FIMES, PLACE
AND MANNER OF HOLDING
THE ELECTION AND AP-
POINTING JUDGES AND
CLERKSTHEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE -.
CITY COUNIL OF THE CITY '
OF COLLEGE STATION,
TEXAS:
A general election shall be
and the same is hereby ordered
to be held on the first Saturday
in April, 1977, the same being -
April 2, for the purpose of
electing councilmen for
District 1, District 3, and
District 5.
The election will be held
under the provisions of the
laws of the State of Texas
governing general elections,
and only duly qualified voters
who are residents of the City of
College Station and who are
residents of said District 1,
District 3, and DiStri M•5 shall 11 be allowed to vote, and they
must vote in the Council
District in which they reside.
The polls shall be opened
promptly at 7:00 A.M. and shall
be closed promptly at 7:00
P.M.
I The Office of the City
Secretary shall pteform all
duties normally performed by
the County Clerk in general
,elections with respect to ab-
sentee voting, giving notice of
• the election, and preparing the
official ballots.
The election will be held at
the following places and the
election officials shall be, for
the purpose of this election as
follows:
Council District 1 Polling
Place, at College Hills
Elementary School, in said
City, Mrs. Marina Weiss as
Presiding Judge, and Mrs.
Betty Trost as Alternate
Judge, and said Presiding
Judge shall apoint no more
than 8 clerks to assist her.
Council District 3 Polling
Place, at Lincoln Center, in
siad City, with Mrs. Letitia
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Alston as Presiding Judge, and
Mrs. Helen Hawkins as
Alternate Judge, and said.,
Presiding Judge shall appoint,
no more than 8 clerks to assist-
her. b
Council District 5 Polling–
Place, at Bee Creek Municipal-• -
Swimming Pool, in said City-
with Mrs. Leatrice Bouse as'-
Presiding Judge, and Mrs.'?'
Karen Rachal as Alternate
y
Judge, and said Presiding..
Judge shall appoint no more'
than 8 clerks to assist her.
Absentee voting shall be
conducted by the Office of the
City Secretary at her office in
the City Hall at 1101 Texas
Avenue, in said City.
Punch cards voting
machines shall be used for
voting at the foregoing election
districts and electronic
counting devices and equip-
ment shall be used for counting
the ballots in said election.
The Council Room of the
College Station City Hall is
hereby established as the
Central Counting Station to
receive ballots for said elec-
tion, the ballots to be tran-
sported to Texas Date Center,
Inc., located at 1705 E. 29th'
Street, Bryan, Texas, to be'
tabulated and returned to the'
Central Co unting Station.
I ne ronuwn, p-.11. —
hereby authorized and ap -
porved as persons employed_
and designated to handle the
ballots, operate the tabulating,
equipment, and count the
ballots:
a. Presiding Judge: Doyle M.
Ranson.
b. Clerks: to be named by,
Presiding Judge.
The following state officials,
and other designated persons;
are hereby authorized to be
present at the Central Counting.
Station to observe the election
counting process:
a. The Mayor and members,
of the City Council of College
Station.
b. The County Judge and
members of the Com-
missioners Court of Brazos
County.
c. The Attorney General of
the State of Texas or his
authorized representative.
d. Frank Boriskie, County
Clerk of Brazos County.
e. City Secretary.
f. Candidates for the Office of
City Councilman. -
A committee is hereby
established of the following
persons to hold a Computer'
Accuracy Test prior to the
start and subsequent to the
count of the voted ballots to
ascertain that the computer
will accurately count the votes
cast for the offices to be voted
upon in said election:
a. Mayor Lorence Bravenec
b. City Manager North
Bardell.
c. City Secretary Florence
Neelley
d. Presiding Judge Doyle M.
Ranson.
A copy of this ordinance,
shall, when published in a
newspaper of general cir-
culation in the City of College
Station, serve as proper notice
of said election.
PASSED AND APPROVED
this 10th day of February, 1977.
APPROVED
Lorence Bravenec
Mayor
ATTEST
Florence Neelley
City Secretary
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Resident supports park site
Editor:
I am responding to your article
published March 1, 1977 regarding
the park site in the Holik tract. I felt
Councilman Halter's remarks were
sarcastic and misleading.
The fact is, there are no useable
parks in this district, within an ac-
cessible service area, and none in
town that offer the unique factors
this land possesses. Additionally,
Dexter and Bee Creek Parks are ac-
cessible only by crossing major
thoroughfares without traffic lights.
Anderson Street "park" is a vacant,
overgrown lot, on a creekbed, left as
unsuitable for development. It is
unusable to the public in its pres-
ent state. As to school grounds, the
high school is over two miles round -
trip and, again, can only be reached
by crossing Southwest Parkway.
South Knoll School is the only area
nearby and offers nothing more than
open space, dirt and stickers; re-
cently, children playing there after
school hours have been told to
leave.
The area in question may not be
an "ecological wonder" to Mr. Hal-
ter, but it is a wonder there are such
areas left to enjoy, with public offi-
cials who would share his apparent
"love of nature." The area contains
an abundance of various forms of
wildlife and many beautiful
wildflowers, including our native
Bluebonnet.
It should be pointed out that five
years ago, the residents in this area
first petitioned the city to follow
through with its original plans to lo-
cate a park here. t is regrettable
that' action was not taken at
that time; with subsequent in-
creases in development and popula-
tion in this area there is a definite
need for a park..,
.Councilman Jim Gardner's views
also seemed to be misrepresented
in the article; he has, in fact, sup-
ported the development of a park on
this site consistently and with de-
termination.
Lynn Le Vine
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CS ambulance service
Fire dept., needs 9 employes
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
College Station will need
nine additional employes
in the fire department to
handle the newly- acquired
ambulance business and
this will mean an additional
expenditure of $97,000 per
year, according to city
manager North Bardell.
College Station abruptly
entered the emergency
medical care business
Sunday after Sherrill
Ambulance Service
notified the city it would
quit business.
Of the yearly ex-
penditure, approximately
$23,360 is expected to be
defrayed through a charge
of $40 per call.
The rest, nearly $74,000,
will come from the city's
general fund or possibly
from revenue sharing
funds. No decision was
made on funding, but the
council authorized the
addition of nine more
employes.
The College Station Fire
Department will handle
emergency medical calls
in College Station and in
the southern part of Brazos
County. Transfers will also
be allowed to and from
Bryan. Emergency calls in
Bryan will be answered by
Mid -Tex Ambulance
Service, owned and
operated by Bill Thornal.
He will also answer calls in
the northern part of the
county.
The city will negotiate
with the county com-
missioners about sup-
plying service in the
county. One of the two
CS planners to study density change
The College Station
Planning and Zoning
Commission will study
changing the allowed
living unit density of
apartment zones in the
city.
The city council assigned
that task Thursday night
and asked the commission
to report back with
suggestions.
The one zone currently
allows 43 living units per
acre. Councilman Jim
Dozier asked that this be
changed to a lower num-
ber, suggesting 30 units per
acre as an example. He
said other zones could also
be changed to lower
numbers.
Dozier said the -city-has
not had any apartment
buildings built with 43 units
per acre, but some have
exceeded 30 units per acre.
He also suggested a height
requirement for apart-
modulances in use by the
fire department belongs to
the county. College Station
owns the other.
Councilman Jim Dozier
said he felt it was the city's
obligation to answer calls
in the southern part of the
county and he said he
believes the county will
pay 'its "fair share" of
those costs.
"The county will want to
work out an equitable
solution," he said. He said
this negotiation won't be a
problem.
County Judge Bill Vance
was at the meeting and had
"n_ o'comment.
Bardell said, "Being
ready to make a call is
what costs money; $40 is
adequate compensation."
Councilwoman Anne
Hazen said three new
ment complexes —
limiting the projects to two
stories.
These changes, if ap-
proved, would be amend-
ments to the zoning or-
employes will be firemen
and six new employes will
be cross - trained to handle
fire or emergency medical
calls.
This will enable the city
to answer calls with two
Emergency Medical
Technicians (EMT's) per
ambulance, according to
Bardell.
"The city of College
Station is in the ambulance
service to stay," said
Dozier. He said it's a
service the people of
College Station demand.
And the city will need more
ambulances soon, he said.
Councilwoman Hazen
suggested a citizens
committee to review the
matter.
Bardell expects the
average number of calls to
be two in a 24 hour period.
dinance.
The density might also
be related to the number,of
bedrooms rather than. the
number of apartment
living units.
Council discusses
street lighting
The lighting of
University Drive from
South College Avenue to
the Wellborn Highway is a
possibility with College
Station's seventh revenue
sharing allotment of
$65,800.
The possibility was
discussed Thursday night
at the College Station City
Council meeting, but no
decision was made on the
expenditure on the funds, a
federal allocation for July -
December, 1976.
Another possibility for
expenditure of the funds is
the city's newly- acquired
ambulance service. The
city will need $18,000 to
$22,000 to opearte that
service the remainder of
this budget year, ac-
cording to city manager
North Bardell. The budget
year ends June 30.
Revenue sharing funds
could be used for the
ambulance service
operation, Bardell told the
councilmen, but com-
munity development funds
could not.
The proposed lighting on
University Drive could be
done with wooden poles
and overhead wiring at an
estimated cost of $25,000.
Using steel poles and
underground wiring for the
project would cost $ 65,000.
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City offers ambulance service
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Fire Department to help .
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By DARRELL LANFORD
Emergency ambulance service will be
provided by the College Station Fire De-
partment until at least June 30, the Col-
lege Station City Council resolved last
night.
City Manager North Bardell said -the
projected cost of running the operation
until June 30, the end of the fiscal year, is
$18,000 to $22,000. City officials will then
decide if it is financially feasible to retain
the ambulance service as part of the fire
department.
The council also discussed ways of
spending $78,000 in revenue sharing
funds. ,
Bardell said it would cost $65,000 to ink
stall steel streetlights from College Av-
enue to Wellborn Road. He said it would
cost $25,000 to install lights with creosol
poles, explaining that it is more costly to
use steel streetlights because of the neces-
sity of having to tear up concrete to install
underground wiring.
Other actions included:
Passing a resolution extending the ex-
traterritorial jurisdiction of College Sta-
tion to two miles.
Approving a final plat subdividing
again Lots 1 and 2, Block 1 of the Breezy
Heights Addition.
Passing a final plat vacating and sub-
dividing again Lot 15, Block 2 of Wolfpen
Village development.
Tabling consideration of a prelimi-
nary plat of the Sandstone Addition, lo-
cated in the extraterritorial jurisdiction ad-
jacent to the Foxfire Addition.
Absentee
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad-
just ment of the City of College
Station will consider a request)
for a variance from Mc-
Donald's Restaurant, Mr. Phil
Springer at their called
meeting in the Council Room in
the College Station City Hall at
7:30 P.M. on Tuesday, March
15, 1977 the facts of the case
being as follows:
The applicant requests a
permit to remodel a non-
conforming sign at 801
University Drive.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Building Official of the City of
College Station, telephone 846-
8886.
William F. Koehler
Building Official
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad-
justment of the City of College
Station will consider a request
for a variance from Dr. James
R. Bradley, Jr. at their called
meeting in the Council Room in
the College Station City Hall at
7:30 P.M. on Tuesday, March
15, 1977, the facts of the case
being as follows:
The applicant requests a
variance to the parking area
requirements of the Zoning
Ordinance in order to construct
a denial clinic building at 209
Dominik Drive.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Builing Official of the City of
College Station, telephone 846-
8886.
William Koehler
Build Official
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ballotin
to begin
Absentee balloting
begins Monday in Bryan
and College Station in the
school board and city
council elections.
There are three balloting
places in the two cities for
this voting. Balloting
continues each weekday
through March 29...
In Bryan all the voting
activity takes place in the
city secretary's office in
the Bryan Utilities
Building. Candidates for
the Bryan School Board
and the Bryan City Council
will have their names on
one ballot.
Also on this ballot will be
the names of two unop-
posed candidates to 'the
Brazos County School
Board of Trustees. These
candidates are for
Precinct 2 and Precinct 4
which are only in Bryan.
These two names do not
appear on any College
Station ballot.
The College Station
absentee balloting takes
place at two locations. The
A &M Consolidated School
Board elections take place
at the administration
building at 100 Anderson
St.
The city council elec-
tions take place at city hall
in the city secretary's
office in College Station.
This is not a city -wide or
school district -wide
election as the other
elections are. In the
College Station council
races, only voters in
districts 1, 3 and 5 go to the
polls.
Meanwhile, the U.S.
Justice Department has
notified the city that its
ward boundaries as sub-
mitted are approved.
Absentee balloting is
made available for those
.
voters who will not be able
to vote on the appointed
day.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad-
just ment of the City of College
Station will consider a request)
for a variance from Mc-
Donald's Restaurant, Mr. Phil
Springer at their called
meeting in the Council Room in
the College Station City Hall at
7:30 P.M. on Tuesday, March
15, 1977 the facts of the case
being as follows:
The applicant requests a
permit to remodel a non-
conforming sign at 801
University Drive.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Building Official of the City of
College Station, telephone 846-
8886.
William F. Koehler
Building Official
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad-
justment of the City of College
Station will consider a request
for a variance from Dr. James
R. Bradley, Jr. at their called
meeting in the Council Room in
the College Station City Hall at
7:30 P.M. on Tuesday, March
15, 1977, the facts of the case
being as follows:
The applicant requests a
variance to the parking area
requirements of the Zoning
Ordinance in order to construct
a denial clinic building at 209
Dominik Drive.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Builing Official of the City of
College Station, telephone 846-
8886.
William Koehler
Build Official
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By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
Brazos County. Com-
missioners voted 4 -1
Monday to allow College
Station to continue to use
the county's modulance at
least through June 30; the
end of the city's current
fiscal year.
This means the College
Station Fire Department
will have two ambulances
to handle emergencies in
College Station and the
south part of Brazos
County. Bill Thornal,
owner of Mid -Tex Am-
bulance Service, has three
ambulances to handle calls
in Bryan and the northern
part of Brazos County.
Commissioner Walter
Wilcox was against con-
tinued use of the
modulance by College
Station. Wilcox represents
Precinct No. 2, which does
not lie in the southern part
of the county.
College Station Mayor
Lorence Bravenec said the
city "inherited the
problem of providing
ambulance service.
Sherrill Ambulance Ser-
vice, which had operated
in the city, went out ot
business March 6. Since
that time the city has
operated with two am-
bulances. One belongs to
the city and the other
belongs to the county.
"There is no way to
cover all that area with
only one ambulance, '.'
Bravenec said. Coun-
cilwoman Anne Hazen said
the city needs both am-
bulances until it can
arrange to get another.
Wilcox said locating the
county's modulance in
College Station would not
help his constituents.
Councilman Gary Halter
told Wilcox that this is a
"selfish attitude." Wilcox
wanted to locate the
county's modulance in
Bryan with Bill Thornal.
If the county ambulance
were located in Bryan, this
would place four am-
bulances in Bryan and only
one in College Station,
which College Station
councilmen felt, would
create distance and
response -time problems
for residents of .College
Station and the southern
part of the county.
County Judge Bill Vance
noted , that Thornal's
company could answer
calls in any part of the
county without the com-
missioners' approval since
the county does not issue
ambulance permits.
June 30 will be the
earliest date when the
county would notify
College Station that it is
planning to withdraw its
modulance. This would
theoretically provide time
for the city to take bids on
another ambulance.
The commissioners
court also voted to con-
sider further financial
assistance at a later time.
And the commissioners
agreed to enter into
negotiations with Bryan
and College Station on
establishing a single
ambulance service sup-
ported by _ alI three
governmental bodies. The
negotiations will center on
long -term :golutions to the
ambulance service.
Judge. Vance said; "We
.haven't. solved...it (the
:problem) yet. Every time
we meet, we patch it a.
little more:
Commissioner Bill
Cooley responded; "We're
not going to patch : it until.
the county takes respon-
sibility for its share.
"It's a county problem,
and we're letting the cities
solve it," he said.
Councilman Halter said,
"I think Bryan will
eventually inherit an
ambulance service; it's
only a matter of time." He
said the ideal situation
would be that each city
operate ambulance ser-
vices with contributions
from the county.
The expense of running
the ambulance service in
College Station through
June 30 is estimated to be
between $18,000 and _
$22,000.
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Bryan threatens
suit against CS
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
The city of Bryan may
sue College Station if that
city changes its' supplier
of electricity, College
Station officials were in-
formed today.
Bryan city manager Lou
Odle this morning hand
delivered a letter to
College Station city
manager North Bardell
concerning College
Station's switching to Gulf
States Utilities Co. for its
electricity needs.
College Station planned
to begin the change over
this summer at which time
it would buy some 20
megawatts electricity
from Gulf States. The
letter drafted by Odle at
the request of the Bryan
City Council says legal
action against College
Station and Gulf States
may follow if the change
occurs.
Bardell says the city will
need more than 40
megawatts of electricity
this summer and part of
that will be purchased
from Gulf States under
present plans. A portion
will - .still be purchased
from Bryan under an
existing contract betvve A
the two cities.
But Odle's letter says,
"The Bryan City Council
has requested that I fur-
nish you with notice of the
city of Bryan's position
that we are compelled to
pursue whatever recourse
is available to the city of
Bryan to continue to
maintain and provide the
present load requirements
of , the city of College
(See SUIT, Page 3A)
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Station through the Bryan
utility system."
The letter from Bryan
states: "Bryan Utilities-
has been planning and
constructing the Roland
Dansby Power Plant for
many years relying on the
continued sale of elec-
tricity to the city of College
Station."
City manager North
Bardell said the contract
between Bryan and
College Station says, "The
City of Bryan agrees to
deliver and sell to the city
Of College Station all of the
electric power and energy
which the city of College
Station shall request." The
contract terminates in
January, 1979.
The city of College
Station will wait to see
what legal action is pur-
sued by Bryan, according
to Bardell, and then seek to
refute the claim, showing
that past rate increases
were unjustified based in
part on the transfer from
the city of Bryan's utility
fund to the Bryan In-
dependent School District
— a transfer that occurs
each year.
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I. NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed Proposals addressed to
City of College Station, Texas
will be received at the Office of
The City Secretary, City of
College Station, Texas until
1:00 P.M. on the 7th of April,
1977 for furnishing electric
distribution materials of the
following general categories:
Two (2) oil circuit breakers,
138 KV, 1600 amperes con-
tinuous rating, 40000 amperes
interrupting rating, ac
cesssories and services.
all as more fully described in
the Specifications. Bid
received by 1:00 P.M., April 7,
1977 will be publicly- opened
and read in the City Council
Chambers of the City Hall in
College Station, Texas at 1:00
P.M. on the same date. Bids
received after 1:00 P.M., April
7, 1977 will be returned to the
sender unopened. Each
proposal must be in a sealed
envelope bearing on the outside
the name of the bidder and the
City of College Station Contract
No. CS-77-SB-7.
Materials shipped by track
shall be f. o. b. the City
Warehouse on Church Street in
College Station, Texas. Those
materials shipped by rail shall
be f.o.b. cars, the SotWhern
Pacific or Missouri Pacific
siding in College Station,
Texas. Invoices and shipping
notices shall specify that the
materials are a part of Con-
tract No. CS- 77 -SB -7, and shall
identify materials by the item
numbers assigned in the
specifications.
Each Proposal must be ac
companied by a bid bond or a
certified check on a bank that
is a member of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation
payable to the order of the City
of College Station, Texas in an
amount equal to five per cent
(5 per cent) of the maximufll,
bid price. Each Bidder agrees,,
Thai by filing its Proposal,
together with such bid bond or
check in consideration of the
City 0f Collecie Station
receiving_ and considering
such Proposal, said Proposal
shall be firm and binding upon
each such Bidder. Bid bonds or
checks of the three low bidders
shall be held by the City of
College Station until a Proposal
is accepted and a satisfactory
Performance Bond is furnished
by the Successful Bidder, or for
a period not to exceed sixty
(60) days from the date
hereinbefore set for the
opening of the Proposals,
whichever period shall be
shorter, if such Proposal is not
one of the three low Proposals,
the bid bond or check will) be
returned in each instance
within a period of ten (10) days
to the Bidder furnishing same.
One copy of the bidding forms
and specifications area ob
tainable free of charge at the
Office of the City Secretary,
College Station, Texas or from
Electric Power Engineers,
Inc., 203 Holleman Drive East,
P.O. Box 9970, College Station,
Texas 77840. Additional copies
may be purchased from the
Engineer for a fee of $100.
Bids will be evaluated by the
Purchaser, based on quality,
economy of operation, delivery
dates, experience of the
manufacturer, availability of
service for repair and main
tenance, and the adaptability
of the particular equipment to
the specfic use intended. The
Purchaser reserves the right to
select the equipment which
best suits its needs whether the
price is the lowest or not, and
also reserves the right to reject
all bids and waive in-
formalities.
Biddars are urged to offer the
earliest practical delivery
date, which dates shall be
considered by the Purchaser
when choosing the Successful
Bidder.
`Award of the Contract to the
6,ucessful Bidder will be made
of a subsequent meeting of the
Cily Council of College Station.
C I l Y OF COLLEGE
STA1 TEXAS
By Lorence L. Bravenec
-- - -- - - Mayor
H5 LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE TO ALL RENTAL
PROPERTY OWNERS,
MANAGERS, AND REAL
ESTATE BROKERS:
The City of College Station
invites owners of rental
property to offer dwelling units
for leasing by eligible families
Pursuant to Section 8 of the
U.S. Housing Act of 1937. This
Part of the Act provides for
rent subsidies to be paid to
property owners on behalf of
lower and very low in
come families. Such subsidies
will be the difference between.
Fair Market Rents determined
by the U.S. Department of
H o u s i n g a n d U r b a n
Development and a reasonable
portion of that rent to be paid
by the family.
The of units n o
reas01herthan lows
income or minority con
centrated areas is encouraged.
Owners interested in obtaining
information about or par
ticipation ift this program
should contact James M.
Callaway, Planning Depart
ment, City of College Station,
1101 Texas Avenue, 8468886.
We are pledged to the letter
and spirit of U.S. policy for the
achievement of equal housing
opportunity throughout the
Nation. We encourage and
support an affirmative ad
vertising and marketing
program in which there are no
barriers to obtaining housing
because of race, color, religion,
or nat onaf origin
The City of College Station is
currently accepting ap
Plications' for housing
assistance on behalf of efigible
families leasing or desiring to
lease existing horsing, pur
suant to the provisions of
Section 8 of the U.S. Housing
Act. of 1937.
The assistance under this
part is in the form of assistance
Payments made on behalf of
lower and very low income
renter-families to property
owners. Assistance payments
will be the difference between
U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development
determined Fair Market Rent
and a reasonable portion of
that rent to be paid by the
family.
Families may determine
eligibiity and apply for a'
Certificate of Participation at
the Planning Department, City
Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas.
Any occupants_ of housing
assisted under the U.S.
Housing Act of 1937, including
Section 23, desiring assistance
under this part must apply
specifically if they want to be
considered for a Certificate of
Participation under this part.
Such applicants for Cer-
tificates will not lose their
Place on other public housing
waiting Iitts.
We are pledged to the letter
and spoirit of U.S. policy for
the achievement of equal
throughout the p Nation. i We
encourage and support an
affirmative advertising and
marketing program in which
there are no barriers to ob-
taining housing because of
race, color, religion or national
corigin.
Contact James Callaway,
Community Development
Planner, 8468886 for further
i nformatidn,
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals addresssed to
the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of College Station,
Texas will be received at the
office of North Bardell, City
Manger, until 10:00 A.M. April
4, 1977 for furnishing the
following equipment:
One new tracked front
loader -2 yd. capacity
minimum
Alternate: One used tracked
front loader 2 yd. capacity
minimum.
"OTICE TO BIDDERS
The Clty Of College Station will
receive sealed bids until 2:00
P.M. March 23, - 0977 and will be
publically Opened and read
aloud at 2:15 P,M. the same
date for the following:
Chain link fencing materials
and Installation for the Bee
Creek softball field No. 2.
50' Of 10' - 9 gauge.
210' of 8' - 9 gauge.
880' of 4' - 9 gauge.
Bid forms and specifications
are available at the College
StatIOn Parks & Recreation. or
Engineering Department
Specifications can be obtained
at the Public Works office at
City Hall, Texas Avenue, /11
College Sta tion , Texas /�IF-!`/..i4
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Bryan threatens
suit against CS
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
The city of Bryan may
sue College Station if that
city changes its' supplier
of electricity, College
Station officials were in-
formed today.
Bryan city manager Lou
Odle this morning hand
delivered a letter to
College Station city
manager North Bardell
concerning College
Station's switching to Gulf
States Utilities Co. for its
electricity needs.
College Station planned
to begin the change over
this summer at which time
it would buy some 20
megawatts electricity
from Gulf States. The
letter drafted by Odle at
the request of the Bryan
City Council says legal
action against College
Station and Gulf States
may follow if the change
occurs.
Bardell says the city will
need more than 40
megawatts of electricity
this summer and part of
that will be purchased
from Gulf States under
present plans. A portion
will-.still be purchased
from'E Bryan under an
existing contract betvker
the two cities.
But Odle's . letter says,
"The Bryan City Council
has requested that I fur-
nish you with notice of the
city of Bryan's position
that we are compelled to
pursue *hatever recourse
is available to the city of
Bryan to continue to
maintain and provide the
present load requirements
of , the city of College
(See SUIT, Page 3A)
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Station through the Bryan
utility system."
The letter from Bryan
states: "Bryan Utilities
has been planning and
constructing the Roland
Dansby Power Plant for
many years relying on the
continued sale of elec-
tricity to the city of College
Station."
City manager North
Bardell said the contract
between Bryan and
College Station says, "The
city of Bryan agrees to
deliver and sell to the city
of College Station all of the
electric power and energy
which the city of College
Station shall request." The
contract terminates in
January, 1979.
The city of College
Station will wait to see
what legal action is pur-
sued by Bryan, according
to Bardell, and then seek to
refute the claim, showing
that past rate increases
were unjustified based in
part on the transfer from
the city of Bryan's utility
fund to the Bryan In-
dependent School District
— a transfer that occurs
each year.
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are $30 per call. He
charges $35 within a 10
mile -limit of the city and
$40 passed that limit.
Thornal also operates
the Brazos Valley An-
swering Service and Mid -
Tex Fire & Safety Co.
He said he expected
these two operations to
support his ambulance
business at first, but he
says the ambulance
company is supporting
itself now. Since he went
into operation at 5:40 p.m.
March 7, he had answered
29 calls through 3 p.m.,
March 16.
He said he has 11 full -
and parttime employes in
the ambulance company
and five dispatchers. And
he is taking an average of
three applications per day,
he said.
"I'm hoping to expand
(the number of employes)
because I have to get back
to my fire extinguisher
business and answering
service business," he said.
He is proud that hi:
charges for ambulanc,
service are lower that
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College Station's. He said
his price per run would go
up only if the price of gas
"goes sky high," which
would be in the upper 50
cent level, according.t,to,
Thornal.
Can he make it finan-
cially? Thornal says yes
"because I get along with
People." He said he ex-
pects to .make 95 per cent
collection through
Medicare, Medicaid,
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Social Security, private
insurance companies of
the customers. He said five
per cent are just not able to
pay because they are too
poor, he said.
He has had no problem
collecting fees so far,
except for one case in-
volving' a delay in
government forms.
Thornal said he can
operate cheaper than the
city in supplying am-
bulance service because
the city pays its employes
more.
"With the qualifications
of an EMT, I wouldn't go to
work for them (College
Station) for less than $5 per
hour." He- says private
ambulance services pay in
the range of $3 to $3.50 per
hour.
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`Cities that provide ambulance service are losing money'
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
Bill Thornal, owner of
Mid -Tex Ambulance
Service, says, "All cities
that are providing am-
bulance service are losing
money."
His remark was directed
at College Station which
undertook an ambulance
service for its citizens
March 6. His operation is a
private business, and he
expects to make a finan-
cial success of serving
Bryan residents and the
county without govern-
ment backing.
"What gets me," he said,
"is have they stopped to
figure the cost to the
taxpayer? The taxpayer
paid for the modulance (a
specially equipped am-
bulance) and the salaries
and the cost of a run, and,
if a citizen doesn't pay, is
the city going into the
collection business ?"
"I'm looking at it from
this view: when does the
taxpayer cease to pay for
an ambulance ride ?"
College Station city
manager North Bardell
said city funds for the
modulance amounted to
$4,098.75. This was 25 per
cent of the purchase price.
The remainder of the funds
came from an emergency
medical services grant
through the Brazos Valley
Development Council. The
total price tag for the city's
modulance was $16,395.
He said the additional
$97,000 needed in the an-
nual budget for the. am-
bulance service-is for all
operational costs and the
salaries of the nine ad-
ditional employes for the
service. This number of
employes will allow three
on -duty Emergency
Medical Technicians
(EMT's), he said.
Approximately $25,000 of
this additional budget
request will be recovered
through ambulance use
fees, Bardell said. The
ambulance fee is $40 in city
and $60 in the county,
outside the city limits.
Bardell countered
Thornal's charge that
cities lose money in the
ambulance business,
saying, "All private am-
bulance services in
trouble and need sub-
sidizing."
Sherrill Ambulance
Service, which ceased
business March 6, was
subsidized not with cash
but with the use of Bryan's
radio equipment and
Co °liege Station's
modulance. The county's
modulance was also used
by Sherrill.
Thornal may seek use of
the county's modulance at
a later time, but College
Station has use of it at least
through June 30 following
an agreement with the
Brazos County Com-
missioners Court. Com-
missioners voted this week
4 -1 to keep the modulance
in College Station, pending
negotiations with Bryan
and College Station for
ambulance service and
pending College Station's
acquiring an additional
ambulance.
Bardell said, "Thornal is
getting transfers, which
could put him in a better
financial situation."
Emergency medical
transfers from here to
Houston or elsewhere are
handled by Mid -Tex
Ambulance Service.
Thornal charges a $25
loading fee for this trans-
fer business plus 75 cents
per mile. That's $105 to
Houston, he says.
His fees within Bryan
(See THORNAL, Page 7A)
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS
The City of College Station will
be accepting sealed proposals
until 2:00 p.m. March 31, 1977
to be opened and read aloud at
2:15 p.m. the same date for
materials for a pre- fabricated
30'x60' laminated wood park
shelter.
Bid forms and specifications
are available from'the College
Station Parks & Recreation
Department.
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
• The Citv of Colleae Station will
be accepting sealed proposals
until 2:00 p.m. March 31, 1977
to be opened and read aloud at
2:15 p.m. the same date for
furnishing the materials and
labor to apply on acrylic color
surface to six tennis courts.
Bid forms and specifications
are available from the College
i Station Parks & Recreation
Department.
NOTICE TO ALL RENTAL
PROPERTY OWNERS,
MANAGERS, AND REAL
ESTATE BROKERS:
The City of College Station
invites owners of rental
property to offer dwelling units
for leasing by eligible families
pursuant to Section 8 of the
U.S. Housing Act of 1937. This
part of the Act provides for
rent subsidies to be paid to
property owners on behalf of
lower and very low in
come families. Such subsidies
will be the difference between
Fair Market Rents determined
by the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban
Development and a reasonable
portion of that rent to be paid
by the family.
The participation of owners
of units in areas other than low -
income or minority con
centrated areas is encouraged.
Owners interested in obtaining
information about or par-
ticipation in this program
should contact James M.
Callaway, Planning Depart-
ment, City of College Station,
1101 Texas Avenue. 846-8886.
We are pledged to the letter
and spirit of U.S. policy for the
achievement of equal housing
opportunity throughout the
Nation. We encourage and
support an affirmative ad-
vertising and marketing
program in which there are no
barriers to obtaining housing
because of race, color, religion,
or national origin.
The City of College Station is
currently accepting ap-
plications for housing
assistance on behalf of eligible
families leasing or desiring to
lease existing housing pur
suant to the provisions of
Section 8 of the U.S. Housing
Act. of 1937.
The assistance under this
part is in the form of assistance
Payments made on behalf of
lower and very low income
renter families to property
owners. Assistance payments
will be the difference between
U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development
determined Fair Market Rent
and a reasonable portion of
that rent to be paid by the
family.
Families may determine
eligiblity and apply for a
Certificate of Participation at
the Planning Department, City
Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas.
Any occupants of housing
assisted under the U.S.
Housing Act of 1937, including
Section 23, desiring assistance
under this part must apply
specifically if they want to be
considered for a Certificate of
Participation under this part.
Such applicants for Cer
tificates will not lose their
place on other public housing
waiting lists.
We are pledged to the letter
and spoirit of U.S. policy for
the achievement of equal
h o u s i n g o p p o r t u n i t y
throughout the Nation. We
encourage and support an
affirmative advertising and
marketing program in which
there are no barriers to ob-
taining housing because of
race, color, religion or national
corigin.
Contact James Callaway,
Community Development
Planner, 846.8886 for further
i nformation.
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The City of College Station is
currently accepting ap-
plications for housing
assistance on behalf of eligible
families leasing or desiring to
lease existing housing pur-
suant to the provisions of
Section 8 of the U.$. Housing
Act. of 1937.
The assistance under this
part is in the form of assistance
payments made on behalf of
lower and very low income
renter families tw' property
owners. Assistance payments
will be the difference between
U.S. Department of Hou ;ing
and Urban Development
determined Fair Market Rent
and a reasonable portion of
that rent to be paid by the
family.
Families may determine
8ligiblity and apply for a
Certificate of Participation at
the Planning Department, City
Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas.
Any occupants of housing
assisted under the U.S.
Housing Act of 1937, including
Section 23, desiring assistance
under this part must apply
specifically if they want to be
considered for a Certificate of
Participation under this part.
Such applicants for Cer-
tificates will not lose their
place on other public housing
waiting lists.
We are pledged to the letter
and spoirit of U.S. policy for
the achievement of equal
housing opportunity
throughout the Nation. We
encourage and support an
affirmative advertising and
marketing program in which
there are no barriers to ob-
taining housing because of
race, color, religion or national
corigin.
Contact James Callaway,
Community Development
Planner, 8468886 for further
information.
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TO WHOM IT MAY CON.
CERN
The 1977 Community
Development Block
APP�ication for the Grant
c � f
college Station b of
has
submitted to the s been
ment of U.S. Depart -
DevelOpm,ent (H ' -and Urban
Of the a (h6 U.D.). Copies
the app are on file in
College Station Planning
Department, City Hall, 1101
Texas Avenue. The application
will. be made available to all
interested parties on request.
a
that Person desiring to assert
ny portion of the ap.
PI !cation is plainly inconsistent
With generally available facts
and data, other than federal
census data, is required to
submit to H.U.D. a precise
description Of the identity and
location Of documents con-
taining the data upon which
such person relies, Such
submission may be made to
H. U, D. no later than 30
calendar days after the
Publication of this notice. The
submission by such person
S
hall specifically state with
respect to each identified
document which Pages contain
data upon which the person
relies, and shall state with
respect to each item of data the
sPAcific item in the application
asserted to be Plainly in-
consistent With Such item Or
data.
For additional information
contact James Callaway,
Community DevelOPMent
Planner, 846.8886.
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS
The City of Colleae Station will
be accepting sealed proposals
until 2:00 P.M. March 31, 1977
to be opened and read aloud at
2 p.m. the same date for
furnishing the materials and
labor to apply on acrylic color
surface to six tennis courts.
Bid forms and specifications
are available from the College
Station Parks & Recreation
.De partment
NOTICE TO BIDDCR�
The City of College Station will
be accepting?sealbd proposals
until 2:00 p.m. March 31, 1977
to be opened and read aloud at
2:15 p.m. the same, date for
materials for a pre - fabricated
30'x60' laminated wood park
shelter.
Bid forms and specifications
are available from the College
Station Parks. & Recreation
Department.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing on the
question of granting a Con
ditional Use Permit to the
College Station Baptist Chapel,
2555 South Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas, for the
construction of a permanent
church building at the locaton
of their existing building at
2555 South Texas Avenue. The
property is located near the
intersection of Texas Avenue
and Krenek Lane.
Said hearings will be held in
the Council Room of the
College City Hall, 1101 South
Texas Avenue, at the 7:00 PM
meeting of the Planning and
Zoning Commission on
Thursday, April 7, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact Albert O. Mayo,
Jr., City Planner, at the City
Hall, 713-846 -8886.
TO WHOM IT MAY COW
j CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing to con
.sider a request for a Con -.
ditional Use Permit for a multi-
family residential project to be
known as Peppertree Apart-
ments. The proposed
development is located on and
east of Longmire Drive and
approximately 300 feet north of
the intersection of Longmire
Drive and Deacon Drive.
Said hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall, 1101 South
Texas Avenue, at the 7:00 PM
meeting of the Planning and
Zoning Commission on
Thursday, April 7, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact the City Plan-
ner, Al Mayo, at the City Hall,
713 -846 -8886.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station City
Council will hold a public
hearing on the question of
rezoning the following tract:
Lots 1 &2, Block 1; Lots 1, 2, 16
& 17, Block 2; and Lots 1 & 2,
Block 3 of the Oakwood Ad-
dition . The property is more
specifically located south of
and adjacent to Jersey Street
between the intersections of
Jersey Street and Timber, Lee,
and Pershing Streets. The
request is to rezone from
Apartment Building District R
3 to Single Family. Residential
District R 1. The action is
being initated by the College
Station Palnning and Zoning
Commission.
The said hearing shall be held
in the Council Room of the City
of College Station City Hall at
the 7:00 P.M. meeting of the
City Council on Thursday,
April 14, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact me.
Albert O. Mayo Jr.
City Planner
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing on the
question of rezoning the
following tract: Lots 1 & 2,
Block 1; Lots 1, 2, 16 & 17, Bock
2; and Lots 1 & 2, Block 3 of the
Oakwood Addition. The
property is more specifically
located south of and adjacent
to Jersey Street between the
intersections of Jersey Street
and Timber, Lee and Pershing
Streets. The request is to
rezone from Apartment
Building District R -3 to Single
Family Residential District R-
1. The action is being initiated
by the Planning and Zoning
Commission of the City of
C011lege Station.
The said hearing shall be held
in the Council Room of the City
of College Station City Hall at
the 7:00 P.M. meeting of the
Planning and Zoning Com
mission on Thursday,. April 7,
1977.
For additional informtiotion,
please contact me.
Albert O. Mayo Jr.
City Planner.
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Contract terms bring tough stand
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By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
Bryan has a "take -or-
pay" contract with Lone
Star Gas Co., which is one
reason the city doesn't
want to lose College
Station as an electric
power customer, ac-
cording to city manager
Lou Odle.
Bryan Utilities Co.
arranges its natural gas
purchases 27 months in
advance with Lone Star
Gas Co. If the city doesn't
take at least 75 per cent of
this estimate, it must still
purchase at least 75 per
cent of the estimate.
This is called a "take -or-
pay" contract.
The city buys 5 billion
cubic feet of gas each year
for its utility system from
Lone Star Gas Co., ac-
cording to Odle. Bryan
Utilities director, Jack
Ard, said 30 per cent of that
purchase is to produce
electricity for College
Station.
Last week, Odle
delivered a letter to
College Station city
manager North Bardell
which said the Bryan City
Council would take legal
steps to prevent College
Station from leaving
Bryan's electric power
system. College Station
plans to switch from Bryan
Utilities to Gulf States
Utilities Co.
The electric power
contract with Bryan,
which runs through 1979,
does not tie College
Station's electric purchase
to Bryan's gas purchase.
Bardell says the contract
simply states that Bryan
will sell to College Station
all the electricity it
requires and needs.
College Station will need
less electric power from
Bryan possibly as early as
this summer, when the
transition to Gulf States is
expected to begin.
College Station voters
approved a change last
June when $2.7 million in
revenue bonds were
CS council to meet
Even the cost of dying is
going up. Thursday the
College Station City
Council considers an in-
crease in the cost of a
cemetery lot.
The council meets at 7
P.m. at city hall.
Other items on the
agenda include a hearing
on the question of rezoning
a 107 acre tract located
east of the East Bypass,
approximately 5,000 feet
south of the intersection of
Harvey Road and the East
Bypass. T his prop was
b
annexed this year into the
city limits. When property
is annexed, it is recorded
as agricultural open
district. The developer
requests this zone
designation be changed to
single family residential
district.
Zoning on the K.F.O. and
L.J. Kirkpatrick
Properties will also be
considered. A public
hearing on proposed
revisions to the city's
comprehensive plan will
also be initiated.
authorized to improve the
city's electric system.
Another $2.4 million in
bonds was approved for
the waterworks system
and an additional $2
million was approved for
the sanitary sewer system.
The take -or -pay contract
is definitely a problem for
utility systems, Mayor
Lloyd Joyce said though
Bryan has never paid for
gas it hasn't used. Lone
Star Gras Co. currently has
charged the city of Denton
$1 million for gas it never
used.
"I can see where they
(Lone Star Gas Co.) needs
to know, as we do, how
much ,to expand,"� said
Mayor Joyce. But he said
he felt it was unfair that
the gas company could
enact a curtailment of
supply and at the same
time charge a city for not
using enough gas.
But the dispute with
College Station, according
to Joyce, is that it should
remain with Bryan
Utilities for its sole source
of energy through 1979,
when the contract expires.
No legal action, has yet
been taken, as threatened
last week. But it's College
Station's intention to go
ahead with the switch to
Gulf States.
Meanwhile, Bryan is
under a Texas Railroad
The College Station City
Council voted Tuesday to
cancel $3,800 in personal
property accounts from
the tax rolls due to
bankruptcies and other
factors dating back to 1969.
Tax- assessor - collector
Dietrich Bengs made the
request of the council. A
total 522,000 still remains
delinquent on the 1976 tax
rolls, according to Bengs.
The deletion from the tax
rolls does not include any
real estate property, ac-
cording to Bengs. It only
includes tax on personal
property such as business
inventories of businesses
Commission directive to
phase out use of natural
gas as a boiler fuel. By
1981, the city must cut back
its level of natural gas
consumption by 10 per cent
the amount used in 1975.
And by 1985, the city should
cut back its gas con-
sumption by 25 per cent the
amount used in 1975.
The trend to phase out
natural gas as a boiler fuel
in power systems has
already reached the
national level. The Federal
Energy Administration
has given Aotice to 70
power systems to prepare
to stop using natural gas.
Bryan is not one of those
notifiPH
operating. Uncollectible
accounts also include
assessments on mobile
homes belonging. to
students who have moved
away:
Three councilmen voted
to delete the personal
property. Councilman
Gary Halter voted no and
Councilwoman Anne
Hazen abstained.
Councilman Jim Dozier
said removing these
delinquencies from the tax
rolls helps the city when
considering bond issues.
Uncollectible accounts are
not viewed favorably by
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CS city, council votes
to void delinquent taxes
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Council forgives some bad debts
The College Station City Council yes-
terday afternoon voted to cancel collection
of past personal property accounts that are
considered too hard to collect, such as
bankruptcy cases.
City Manager North Bardell said all but
one of the tax bills were for no more than a
few dollars.
Councilman Gary Halter voted against
the cancellation, saying he considered tax
evaders as bad as bank robbers.
Two weeks ago council members de-
cided to begin meeting every other Tues-
day at 4:30 p.m. to go over the work load
of the regular Thursday night meetings,,
Council members also decided to form a
committee of city staff members who will
consider charging fees for inspecting con-
struction in Brazos County. The city has
not been charging for inspections.
The council tabled consideration of a
final plat resubdividing lots 42 -52 and 55
feet of lot 55 and 56 -58 of the Richards
Addition. They also passed a final plat of
Southwood Valley, Section 7 -D, and ap-
proved a final plat resubdividing lot 14,
block 2 of the Wolf Pen Planned Urban
Development.
I. NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed Proposals addressed to
• city received College Station, Texas
will be e received at the Otfice of
The City Secretary, City of
C _u4Jege Station, Texas until
1:00 P.M.'on the 7th of April,
1977 for furnishing electric
distribution materials of the
following general categories:
Two, (2) oil circuit breakers,
138 KV, 1600 amperes con
tinuous rating, 40000 amperes
interrupting rating, ac
cesssories and services.
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all as more fully described in
the Specifications. Bid
received by 1:00 P.M., April 7,
1977 will be publicly opened
and read in -the City Council
Chambers of the City Hall in
College Station, Texas at 1:00
P.M. on the same date. Bids
received after 1:00 P.M., April
7, 1977 will be returned to the
sender• unopened. Each
proposal must be in a sealed
envelope bearing on the outside
the name of the bidder and thl?
City of College Station Contract
No. CS 77 SB -7.
Materials shipped by track
shall be f.o.b. the City
Warehouse on Church Street in
College Station, Texas. Those
materials shipped by rail shall
be f.o.b. cars, the Southern
Pacific or Missouri Pacific
siding in College Station,
Texas. Invoices and shipping
notices shall specify that the
materials are a part of Con
tract No. CS 77 -SB 7, and shall
identify materials by the item
numbers assigned in the
specifications.
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EaFh Proposal must be ac
companied by a bid bond or a
certified check on a bank that
is a member of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation
payable to the order of the City
of College Station, Texas in an
amount equal to five per cent
(5 per rnui) of the maximum
is per ce Bidder agrees,
that by filing its Proposal,
together with such bid bond or
check in consideration of the
City of Colleap station
receiving and considering
Such Proposal, said Proposal
shall be firm and binding upon
each such Bidder. Bid bonds or
checks of the three low bidders
shall be held by the City of
College Station until a Proposal
is afcel5ted and a satisfactory
Performance Bond is furnished
by the Successful Bidder, or for
a period not to exceed sixty
(60) days from the date
hereinbefore set for the
opening of the Proposals,
whichever period shall be
shorter. if such Proposal is not
one of the three low Proposals,
the bid bond or check will[ be
returned in each instance
within a period of ten (10) days
to the Bidder furnishing same.
One copy of the bidding forms
and specifications area ob-
tainable free of charge at the
Office of the City Secretary,
College Station, Texas or from
Electric Power Engineers,
Inc., 203 Holleman Drive East,
P.O. Box 9970, College Station,
Texas 77840. Additional copies
may be purchased from the
Engineer for a fee of $100.
Bids will be evaluated by the
Purchaser, based on quality,
economy of operation, delivery
dates, experience of the
manufacturer, availability of
service for repair and main-
tenance, and the adaptability
of the particular equipment to
the specfic use intended. The
Purchaser reserves the right to
select the equipment which
best suits its needs whether the
price is the lowest or not, and
also reserves the right to reject
all bids and waive in-
formalities.
Bidders are urged to offer the
earliest practical delivery
date, which dates shall be
considered by the Purchaser
when choosing the Successful
Bidder.
Award of the Contract to the
Sucessful Bidder will be made
at a subsequent meeting of the
City Council of College Station.
College Station absentee voting
set for March 29 at City Hall
Deadline for in person absentee
balloting at the College Station City
Hall is Tuesday, March 29.
Persons who will be out of town
during the general municipal elec-
tion on April 2 should vote absentee.
Three city council places will be on
the April ballot.
Voting in person will be at City
Hall between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
where a balloting machine is avail-
able.
Cit'y'Couneil to hold rezoning hearing
The College Station City Council
will hold a public hearing tonight in
City Hall on the possible rezoning
of a 107 -acre tract.
The tract is about 5,000 feet south
of the intersection of Harvey Road
and the east bypass.
EAV. Schultz, managing partner
of Raintree Developments, re-
quested the hearing to discuss pos-
sible increases in maximum density
per acre in that area. The increase
would allow more houses to be
built.
The hearing will be part of the 7
p.m. council meeting.
CITY OF COLLEGE�-
STATION, TEXAS
By Lorence L. Bravenec
Mayor
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals addresssed to
the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of College Station,
Texas will be received at the
office of North Bardell, City
Manger, until 10:00 A.M. April
4, 1977 for furnishing the
following equipment:
One new tracked front
loader -2 yd. capacity
minimum
Alternate: One used tracked
front loader -2 yd, capacity
minimum.
Specifications can be obtained I
at the Public Works office at
City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
Colle Station, Texas.
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C S Council raises rates
for city cemetery lots
The College Station City
Council Thursday raised
the base rate for a single
cemetery lot from $70 to
$100.
The council also raised
the fee for opening and
closing a gravesite at
burial from $25 to $90. This
burial fee will be $105 on
weekends and after hours
to cover over -time pay to
city employes.
Councilman Jim Dozier
said the fee increases were
recommended by the
cemetery committee 'in
order to meet the costs of
operation of the cemetery.
Regulations for the
upkeep of the cemetery
will also be updated by
future council action.
In other action of the
council, a student
govern%en,t, represen-
tative from A &M
University told councilmen
that another request to
extend late -hours drinking
would be made at the next
council meeting.
Bars close in the city at
12:15 a.m. each night
except Saturday and
Sunday mornings, when
they close at 1:15 a.m.
following previous council
action.
The student government
will ask that drinking on
these nights be extended to
2:15 a.m.
Plan hearing held by CS Council
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The College Station City
Council opened a public
hearing on proposed
revisions to the city's
comprehensive plan
Thursday.
The proposals include
changes in the land use
plan and the tran-
sportation plan.
There was little public
comment on either plan,
and the council decided not
to close the public hearing,
which will continue at the
April 14 meeting of the
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NOTICE
An Election School for all
Judges and Workers for the
City of College Station General
Election will be held on
Tuesday, March 29, 1977 at 5:00
P.M. in the Council Room in
the City of College Station City
Hall.
AVISO
Una Escuela de Election Para
todos los Jueces y Ayudantes
Para la Election General de la
Ciudad de College Station se
Ilevara a Cabo el Martes, 29 de
Mario de 1977 a las cinco (5).
horas PM en 'el Cuarto de
Consejo en City Hall en la
Ciudad de College Station.
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Council board election
scheduled for April 2
There are 25 candidates
seeking election to public
offices in Bryan and
College Station on April 2.
Elections will be held to
positions on the Bryan City
Council, College Station
City Council, A &M Con-
solidated School Board and
Bryan School Board.
The voting takes place
from 7 a.m. to 7 P.M.
Saturday, but for those
who cannot vote on that
day, absentee balloting
continues through 5 p.m.
Tuesday. Absentee voting
takes place at 100 Ad-
derson St., College Station,
for voters in the A &M
Consolidated School
District. Those wishing to
vote absentee for can-
didates to the College
Station City Council can do
so at city hall.
Absentee balloting for
Bryan school board and
city council races takes
place at the Bryan Utilities
Building. _
On Saturday, voters cast
ballots in their assigned
county precincts. The
county precinct number is
recorded on the voter
registration card. Those
voting in the College
Station City Council
election, however, will not
vote in assigned precincts.
The College Station
council elections this year
will take place in districts
rather than assigned
county precincts. Voters in
district 1, 3 and 5 should be
notified by post cards to
identify themselves as
voters in those respective
wards. Voters in districts
2, 4 and 6 will not vote this
year in the municipal
elections.
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The College Station
Parks and Recreation
Department will hold a
first annual Easter Egg
Hunt for residents of
College Station and Bryan
on April 10.
The hunt will be from 1-
3:30 p.m. at Bee Creek
Park and will include
easter egg hunt areas for
.children 1 to 10 years old, a
best decorated egg contest
as well as exhibits.
Prizes will be awarded
for the best egg and the
only requirement is that
the egg be hard boiled.
More information is
available by calling the
department.
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I. NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed Proposals addressed to
Clty of college Station, Texas
will be received at the Office of
The City • Secretary, City of
College Station, Texas until
1:00 P.M. *bn the 7th of April,
1977 for furnishing electric
distribution, materials of the
following general categories:
Two,'(2) oil circuit breakers,
138 KV, 1600 amperes con-
tinuous rating, 40000 amperes
interrupting rating, ac-
cesssories and services.
all as more fully described in
the Specifications. Bid
received by 1:00 P.M., April 7,
1977 will be publicly opened
and read in -the City Council
Chambers of the City Hall in
College Station, Texas at 1:00
P.M. on the same date. Bids
received after 1:00 P.M., April
7, 1977 will be returned to the
sender unopened. Each
proposal must be in a sealed
envelope bearing on the outside
the name of the bidder and the
COY of College Station Contract
No. CS- 77 -SB -7.
Materials shipped by track
shall be f.0.b. the City
Warehouse on Church Street in
College Station, Texas. Those
materials shipped by rail shag
be f.o.b. cars, the Southern
Pacific or Missouri Pacific
siding in College Station,
Texas. Invoices and shipping
notices shall specify that the
materials are a part of Con-
tract No. CS- 77 -SB -7, and shall
identify materials by the item
numbers assigned in the
specifications.
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Each Proposal must be ac
companied by a bid bond or a
certified check on a bank that
is a member of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation
Payable to the order of the City
of College Station, Texas in an
amount equal to five per cent
(S per cent) of the maximum
bid price. Each Bidder agrees,
that by filing its Proposal,
together with such bid bond or
check in consideration of the
City of College Station
receiving_ and considering
such Proposal, said Proposal
shall be firm and binding upon
each such Bidder. Bid bonds or
checks of the three low bidders
shall be held by the City of
Colle0d Station until a Proposal
is acr05ted and a satisfactory
Performance Bond is furnished
by the Successful Bidder, or for
a period not to exceed sixty
(60) days from the date
hereinbefore set for the
opening of the Proposals,
whichever period shall be
shorter. If such Proposal is not
one of the three low Proposals,
the bid bond or check willl be
returned in each instance
within a period of ten (10) days
to the Bidder furnishing same.
One copy of the bidding forms
and specifications area ob-
tainable free of charge at the
Office of the City Secretary,
College Station, Texas or from
Electric Power Engineers,
Inc., 203 Holleman Drive East,
P.O. Box 9970, College Station,
Texas 77840. Additional copies
may be purchased from the
Engineer for a fee of $100.
Bids will be evaluated by the
Purchaser, based on quality,
economy of operation, delivery
dates, experience of the
manufacturer, availability of
service for repair and main-
tenance, and the adaptability
of the particular equipment to
the specfic use intended. The
Purchaser reserves the right to
select the equipment which
best suits its needs whether the
price is the lowest or not, and
also reserves the right to reject
all bids and waive in-
formalities.
Bidders are urged to offer the
earliest practical delivery
date, which dates shall be
considered by the Purchaser
when choosing the Successful
Bidder.
Award of the Contract to the
Sucessful Bidder will be made
at a subsequent meeting of the
City Council of College Station.
CITY OF COLLEGE
STATION, TEXAS
By Lorence L. Bravenec
__. Mayo
City council drops some taxes,
collection would not be feasible
Last week, $3800 in delinquent per-
sonal property taxes were deleted from
the College Station tax rolls.
The City Council voted three to one,
with one abstention, to remove the delin-
quent accounts from the tax rolls.
Dietrich Bengs, tax assessor - collector,
said the accounts include personal prop-
erty taxes on, business inventories of
businesses that are no longer in operation.
Also included in the delinquent ac-
counts are personal property taxes as-
sessed on mobile homes belonging to
people who no longer live in the area,
Bengs said.
He said it would be very difficult
track down the owners of the mobi.
homes. "Most of the people involved a1
former students. Once they finishe
school, they just seemed to disappear
Bengs said.
Most of the accounts involve such smz
amounts of money that it would be ec,
nomically unfeasible to try and collet
them, Bengs said.
He said some of the accoumts date ba(
as far as 1969.
Delinquent accounts totaling $22,0(
still remain on the 1976 tax rolls, Beni
said.
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Change,to ward system Ij/
increases election costs
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
College Station's city
council election will cost
the city more than $11,000.
Usually the cost of a
municipal election is
$1,000, according to a
contract with Texas Voting
Systems, Inc.
But this year's election is
more expensive due to a
change to the ward system
from the at -large system of
electing councilmen.
"The expensive part is
putting people into the
right wards," said Bill
McLeod of Texas Voting
Systems. The $1,000 fee
from a previous contract
takes care of voting cards,
supplies, computer time
and personnel expenses.
But a second contract
with Texas Voting Systems
calls for the conversion of
the county precincts in
College Station to the ward
system. This will cost the
city $10,665.
Voters approved a
charter change last year
which called for a switch to
the ward system of elec-
ting city councilmen. The
mayor continues to be
elected at- large.
The three incumbents in
Saturday's election are
unopposed, but the ad-
ditional cost will still be
incurred.
The ward system con-
tract with Texas Voting
System's called -for
notification of each voter
in his or her ward. This has
been done, according to
McLeod. These forms were
mailed out to voters in
Districts 1, 3 and 5 on
Monday and Tuesday this
week. Those forms should
be arriving soon, McLeod
said.
In District 1 there are
1940 voters. In District 3
there are 1593 and in
District 5 there are 2075.
The city paid for the
Postage of these
notifications in addition to
the other two contracts.
The cost of mailing the
forms came to $186.75
according to McLeod.
Only those living in
Districts 1, 3 and 5 have
been notified since only
these positions will be
determined in the April 2
election. Voters in
Districts 2, 4 and 6 will be
notified later, McLeod
said.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
pre election test of automatic
tabulation equipment for use in
the City of College Station
I General Election will be held at
the Texas Data Center, 1705
East 29th St., Bryan, Texas at
8:00 o'clock P.M. on Saturday,
4pril 2, 1977.
Doyle M. Ranson
Presiding Judge
Central Counting
Station
City of
College Station,
Texas
AVISO
Un aviso esta dado por esto que
un examen antes de la election
del equipo de tabulation
automatica para use en el
Election General de la Ciudad
de College Station se Ilevara a
cabo en el Texas Data Center,
1705 East 29th St., Bryan,
Texas a las ocho (8) horas PM
el Sabado, 2 de Abril de 1977.
Doyle M. Ranson
Juez Presidente
Centro de
Tabulation
Ciudad de
College Station,
Texas
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals addresssed to
the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of College Station,
Texas will be received at the
office of North Bardell, City
Manger, until 10:00 A.M. April
4, 1977 for furnishing the
following equipment:
One new tracked front
loader 2 1 .2 yd. capacity
minimum
Alternate: One used tracked
front loader 2 1 /2 yd. capacity
minimum.
Specifications can be obtained
at the Public Works office at
City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texac
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City's development plan
up for Council revision
The College Station comprehensive plan used for planning
and zoning land within city limits is currently under study for
revision due to the city's rapid growth.
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By DAVE TEWES
Battalion Staff
The College Station City Council
is considering revision of the city's
existing comprehensive develop-
ment plan to keep pace with the ci-
ty's rapid growth rate.
"The plan constantly changes,
and it has to be updated as the city's
needs change," Christopher
Mathewson, College Station Plan-
l ch#ir�n l said ning Zoning Commission
o ne •of- the fastest 1 grow growing c es
the state."
Most 'of the rapid population
growth is a result of increased
enrollment at Texas A &M Universi-
ty, be said.
The existing comprehensive de-
velopment plan was adopted by the
city early in 1976. A commission
study indicates a need for revision
in two specific areas of the com-
prehensive plan, Mathewson said.
"As chairman of the planning and
zoning commission, I established
two study groups," he said. "One of
the study subcommittees was for
land use planning and the other for
transportation."
The two subcommittees met with
the city staf and recommended re-
vision of the land use and transpor-
tation provisions of the comprehen-
sive plan, Mathewson said.
Only minor changes were
suggested for the land use plan, but
several proposals were made for the
area of transportation, City Planner
Al Mayo said Monday.
Street planning in the original
comprehensive plan is based on
planning logic. This means pro-
posed streets are shown only as a
guide for streets that may be built in
the future, he said.
"The (original) plan just shows a
street pattern that would service the
area," Mayo said. "We tried to take
a more realistic look at the topog-
raphy of the area."
As an example, Mayo said the
original plan proposed a road in the
center of a creek. He said this was
only an indication that a road should
exist in the area, not necessarily in
the creek.
"Our proposed plan isn't a hard
and fast rule either, but it is a little
more realistic," Mayo said. He
added that the commission tried to
simplify the original plan, in order
to make it easier for the average
citizen to use, read and interpret. It
also provides a clearer guide for the
City Council and the Planning and
Zoning commission to use when
they receive land development pro-
posals, he said.
Another dissimilarity betwee
the proposed revision and the exis
ing comprehensive plan concerns
section of land outside the cif
limits.
"The big difference of the prl
posed plan is the idea that there al
about 2,300 acres east of the ea
by -pass which we are considering ;
future growth," Mathewson said.
This means if the city annex)
that land in the future, the ari
could be served by the city utilitie
he said.
"We are not advocating that tl
city annex the area tomorrow
Mathewson said. "If someor
comes in with an annexation r,
quest, we will look more favorab
on it than if it were some place m
could not supply city utilities to."
The option of accepting or declii
ing the proposed revision rests wit
the City Council.
A public hearing concerning tt
proposal was held at the last Ci
Council meeting in March. The
will be another hearing at the ne
City Council meeting on April 14
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The College Station comprehensive plan used for planning
and zoning land within city limits is currently under study for
revision due to the city's rapid growth.
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By DAVE TEWES
Battalion Staff
The College Station City Council
is considering revision of the city's
existing comprehensive develop-
ment plan to keep pace with the ci-
ty's rapid growth rate.
"The plan constantly changes,
and it has to be updated as the city's
needs change," Christopher
Mathewson, College Station Plan-
l ch#ir�n l said ning Zoning Commission
o ne •of- the fastest 1 grow growing c es
the state."
Most 'of the rapid population
growth is a result of increased
enrollment at Texas A &M Universi-
ty, be said.
The existing comprehensive de-
velopment plan was adopted by the
city early in 1976. A commission
study indicates a need for revision
in two specific areas of the com-
prehensive plan, Mathewson said.
"As chairman of the planning and
zoning commission, I established
two study groups," he said. "One of
the study subcommittees was for
land use planning and the other for
transportation."
The two subcommittees met with
the city staf and recommended re-
vision of the land use and transpor-
tation provisions of the comprehen-
sive plan, Mathewson said.
Only minor changes were
suggested for the land use plan, but
several proposals were made for the
area of transportation, City Planner
Al Mayo said Monday.
Street planning in the original
comprehensive plan is based on
planning logic. This means pro-
posed streets are shown only as a
guide for streets that may be built in
the future, he said.
"The (original) plan just shows a
street pattern that would service the
area," Mayo said. "We tried to take
a more realistic look at the topog-
raphy of the area."
As an example, Mayo said the
original plan proposed a road in the
center of a creek. He said this was
only an indication that a road should
exist in the area, not necessarily in
the creek.
"Our proposed plan isn't a hard
and fast rule either, but it is a little
more realistic," Mayo said. He
added that the commission tried to
simplify the original plan, in order
to make it easier for the average
citizen to use, read and interpret. It
also provides a clearer guide for the
City Council and the Planning and
Zoning commission to use when
they receive land development pro-
posals, he said.
Another dissimilarity betwee
the proposed revision and the exis
ing comprehensive plan concerns
section of land outside the cif
limits.
"The big difference of the prl
posed plan is the idea that there al
about 2,300 acres east of the ea
by -pass which we are considering ;
future growth," Mathewson said.
This means if the city annex)
that land in the future, the ari
could be served by the city utilitie
he said.
"We are not advocating that tl
city annex the area tomorrow
Mathewson said. "If someor
comes in with an annexation r,
quest, we will look more favorab
on it than if it were some place m
could not supply city utilities to."
The option of accepting or declii
ing the proposed revision rests wit
the City Council.
A public hearing concerning tt
proposal was held at the last Ci
Council meeting in March. The
will be another hearing at the ne
City Council meeting on April 14
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Extension of drinking hours
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By DARRELL LANFORD
Battalion Staff
Texas A &M University students last
night filled the College Station City Coun-
cil meeting room. The students from Polit-
ical Science 207, a state and local govern-
ment course, sat on the floor, lined the
walls and crowded around the doorway.
The students left. en masse' after the
council rejected a request from the A &M
Student Government to extend drinking
hours to 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
Phil Sutton, vice president of external
affairs, presented the request. He said a
poll taken two years ago revealed 87 per
cent of students were in favor of extending
liquor hours.
Last year the student government asked
the council to extend liquor hours to 2
a.m., but the council decided to extend
hours to 1 a.m,
Sutton said he had talked to the police
chief, who said there bad not been a signif-
it ca
icant increase in alcohol - related arrests or
accidents because of the later hours.
He also said he had talked to o several bar
owners, who said they of
extending hours.
Toni Nolan, owner of a local nightclub
said he didn't care if hours were extended
or kept the same. He said staying open
another hour put a hardship on employes
in the bar.
He suggested that the council extend
hours on weekdays also so bars could stay
open on certain nights, such as Thursdays,
when night entertainment lasted until 11
or 11:30. He said that he did not think
most bat's would always stay open late on
weekday nights, even if given the chance..
Councilman Jim Gardner moved to rec-
ommend an ordinance for extension of
liquor hours for two weekdays, instead of
all weekdays.
No one seconded the motion.
Councilman Gary Halter moved for an
uncil meeting
ordinance for extension of hours' on
weekends. , Gardner seconded.
The motion was rejected, 4 to 2 with
Mayor Lorene Bravenee abstaining.
In other action, Mary Bassett, an A &M
Consolidated teacher, complained about
pornographic material openly displayed in
convenience stores.
She carried a browns paper bag which
she said contained pornographic
magazines.
She handed the bag to Mayor Bravenec,
who put the bag under the table. She said
she bought the magazines so the council
members could see what was being sold
on magazine racks in College Station.
She said she has recently seen more
open display of pornographic material at
drive -in stores and other places
"It's the children I'm worried about,"
Bassett said,
B aid he would ask the county
attorney what he could do to "lean. tttt"
stores with open displays. .
Bassett said, "I'm not saying to control
what people buy, but put it out of dis-
play."
In a public hearing on a prbtlused revi-
sion to the Coutprehensivc Phil, a city
chart of zoning and projects, Michael
I'lturph of 305 Pershing, objected to the
zoning y o f the area south of College Stil"On
as residential. The area is about eiival in
size as acreage in College Station.
Murphy claimed the low density.
classification would be too costly to the
city, because sewage systeuls and power
lines would have to be extended ovrr too
large an area. .
Halter said if the area is not zoned resi-
dential, I the area could not be planned and
developed as it should be.
In other action;, the council revised res-
idential density classifications in the lon-
ing Ordinance,
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Students have powerful political weapon
• Editor:
Last night the College Station
City Council voted down a proposal
by the Texas A &M Student Senate
to extend the legal drinking hours in
College Station on weekends. This
proposal, if adopted, would have al-
lowed the local bars to serve liquor
until 2:00 a.m. on Saturday and
Sunday mornings. This proposal by
the Senate was the result of a poll
taken some time ago which showed
87 per cent of the student body was
in favor of this extension. This poll,
if applied to the student body popu-
lation of 28,000 would show that
over 24,000 students support this
type of bill. I
You may ask, how may the seven
voting members of the College Sta-
tion City Council deny the request
of 24,000 students in a town the size
of College Station? Do these people
have it out for the students? Of
course not. Every single member of
the council is in some way em-
ployed by the TAMU System. They
derive their livelihood from the stu-
dents and the. community that sup-,
ports the students. I am sure that
these people voted in the manner in
which they thought they repre-
sented their constituents best. The.
reason that these men won't support
the students is not because they
have it out for us but rather because
their interests are not our interests.
The only way the students can in-
sure that they will not continue to
get a raw deal from the city council
is to insure that the people who
make the decisions, support their
positions. Iam not advocating a stu-
dent on the city council. I am ad-
vocating some person or persons
who will look after our interests and
if that person is a student, so much
the better.
The students of A &M possess the
most powerful political weapon
imaginable and thus far they have
refused to use it. That weapon is the
vote, and until the students get fed
up enough with the way they get
treated around here to get out and
vote, I think they deserve the shaft
they are getting. We are not just
talking about being able to drink
beer at Sparky's or the Sports Club.
There are much more far - reaching
ways the city government affects us.
Why are rental rates higher in Col-
lege Station than in Houston? Be-
cause the City Council has not seen
• fit to adopt a policy to stimulate the
building. of new apartments to a suf-
ficient degree to meet the demand.
Have you heard the Aggie joke
about the teasip who rented an out-
house and sublet the basement to an
Aggie? Well, in College Station the
Aggie paid $180 a month for the
privelege, and had to bring his own
furniture.
To borrow a phrase, I'm mad as
hell, and I'm not going to take it any
more! If any one else feels the same
way, the External Affairs Commit-
tee of Student Government is gear-
ing up to help meet these problems.
The time of the first meeting has not
yet been decided upon, but we will
try to let you know through The
Battalion and other campus media.
If we are going to accomplish any-
thing, we will need your help; we
will need your input, we will need
your interest and concern, and
when the time comes, we will need
your vote.
—Phil Sutton
V:P.,External Affairs
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Searcy defers to city. attorney
County Atty. Roland
Searcy said today he has
not been contacted by
College Station on the
matter of displaying
certain magazines on
newsstands in the city.
Last Thursday the
College Station City
Council voted to ask for the
county attorney's advice
on regulating the display of
possibly pornographic
magazines in grocery and
convenience stores.
Mrs. Mary Bassett had
collected $10 worth of the
magazines that she
thought were in poor taste
for open' display where
children might see them.
She presented the bundle
of magazines to the council
in a brown paper sack.
She said she did not want
the council to control what
people can buy, but rather
to control the display of
those magazines which
show too much skin.
The council voted to
request a formal briefing
from the county attorney.
Searcy seemed reluctant
to enter the fray, saying,
"Obscenity is a hard thing
to prove."
He said the matter
should be taken care of
through the city's or-
dinance- making powers of
the city, and he said
College Station has a city
attorney who should advise
them on such matters.
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O WHOM IT MAY CON
ERN:
he College Station Planning
nd Zoning Commission will
old a public hearing on the
uestion of rezoning the
A lowing Tract: 9.06 acres
)cated on the west side of the
East Bypass and ap-
roximately 3000 feet north Qf
he intersection of the Eats
lypass and Texas Avenue. The
equest is to rezone from Single
:amity Residential District R-
to Mobile Home District RS
ind Neighborhood Business
)istrict C -N. The request is in
he name of George W. and
rene Scasta, 2009 Southwood
)rive, College Station, Texas.
- he said hearing shall be held
n the Council Room of the City
if College Station City Hall at
he 7:00 P.M. meeting of the
Manning and Zoning Com-
nission on Thursday, May 5,
977.
=or additional information,
)lease contact me.
5 .Ibert O. Mayo, Jr.
-ity Planner
r0 WHOM IT MAY CON -
:ERN:
The College 'Station City
-ouncil will hold a public
searing on the question of
, ezoning the following tract:
7.06 acres located on the west
side of the East Bypass and
approximately 3000 feet north
:)f the intersection of The East
Bypass and Texas Avenue: The
request is to rezone from Single
Family Residential District -R-
1 to Mobile Home Park District
R -5 and Neighborho'bd
Business District C -N. -The
request is in the name - of
Feorge and Irene Scasta, -2009
Southwood Drive, Coflege
Station, Texas.
The said hearing shall be
in the Council Room of thd City
of College Station City Hill
the 7:00 P.M. meeting of the
City Council on Thursday -May
12. 1977.
For additional informatiyn,
please contact me.
Albert O. Mayo Jr. ..
City Planner.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station City
Council will hold a public
hearing on the question of
rezoning the following tract:
9.62 acres out of the J.E. Scott
Survey located on the south-
west side of FM 2818 and ap-
proximately 3000 feet north of
the intersection of FM 2818 and
FM 60. The request is to rezone
f r o m S i n g l e F a m i l y
Residential District R -1 to
Planned Unit Development
District P.U.D. The requestis
in the name of W. Toler, Rt. 5,
Box 880, College Stati6n,
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Bryan files complaint
CS seeks cheap power
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By GARY LOVAN
College Station can save approxi-
mately $3,000 a day by purchasing
20 megawatts of electricity from Gulf
States Power, said Jim Dozier, Col-
lege Station city councilman.
The city has a contract with Gulf
States which provides for the sale of
20 megawatts of electricity to Col-
lege Station beginning this summer,
he said.
The city of Bryan is trying to stop
the sale of the electricity by filing a
complaint against College Station
and Gulf States with the Public
Utilities Commission.
Dozier said that College Station
plans to gradually phase out Bryan
Utilities so that when the Bryan con-
tract expires in 1979, the city can
make transition to Gulf States
smoothly.
Bryan contends in the complaint
that Gulf States doesn't have the au-
thority to sell electricity to College
Station because Gulf States hasn't
filed a certificate of convenience and
necessity with the Public Utilities
Commission.
Dozier said there was some doubt
as to whether or not Gulf States has
to file such a certificate. He said that
was something the commission must
decide.
Gulf States offers some other ad-
vantages over Bryan Utilities,
Dozier said.
"Gulf States has the capacity to
furnish us with whatever volume of
electricity we request. They have
the most adequate supply at the
cheapest price. They also gave us a
20 -year contract."
Dozier said the first thing the
commission will probably do is de-
cide whether they have the authority
to make a ruling on the case. He said
there is some doubt as to whether
the sale of electricity by one city to
another falls under the jurisdiction of
the commission.
If the commission �gecides it
doesn't have the authority, Dozier
Liquor arguments were weak
Editor:
This letter will supplement the
letter of Councilman Gardner relat-
ing to the College Station City
Council vote on extension of the
hours for serving alcoholic beverag-
es.
As one of the persons who voted
against the extension, I would like
to comment on the matter.
From my own perspective, I feel
that the extension failed to pass be-
cause its proponents did not do
their "homework." For example,
the City Council was presented
with no current substantial evi-
dence of student opinion, with no
comprehensive survey of those who
operate drinking establishments,
and with no real evidence of prac-
tices of cities other than Austin.
(There was evidence that the one
hour extension a year ago did not
result in any noticeable_,increase in
traffic accidents.)
Again, from my own perspective,
I feel that it would be highly desir-
able if the matter were fully dis-
cussed and even debated in The
Battalion, followed by an impartial
student survey.
— Lorence Bravenec
Mayor, City of College Station
said the case will probably be taken
to court.
If the commission does make a rul-
ing, two courses of action would be
available to the city decided against,
he said.
"That city can appeal the decision
or they can go to court over the in-
terpretation of the contract," he
said.
Dozier said the commission
doesn't have the authority to rule on
the interpretation of the contract.
He said only the courts could do
that.
He said he didn't know how a de-
cision against College Station would
affect the city's contract with Gulf
States.
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Fire
destroys
trailer
A mobile home at
Bobbitt's Trailer parJc, FM
60 and FFM 2818 was
destroyed by fire Wed-
nesday afternoon.
Chief Douglas W. Lan-
dau of the College Station
Fire Department said the
home was owned by Paul
Edward Chunn, who was
out of town at the time of
the fire.
According to records in
the fire department 19
firemen were dispatched
to the trailer park along
with six volunteers. The
fire took 12 minutes to
control.
An estimate of damage
was not available. Fire
Marshal Harry Davis said
the cause of the fire was
still under investigation
this morning.
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CS to consider
porno rule
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By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
College Station will consider an
ordinance Thursday night
regulating the display and sale of
ndecent publications to anyone
order 18 years old.
The ordinance defines what is
ndecent and imposes a $10 to $200
'ine for failure to comply with the
aw.
The proposed ordinance is in
- eponse to a complaint by Mrs.
Mary Bassett of 303 W. Dexter, who
asked that the council April 14 do
something about the displays in'
convenience stores.
At that meeting she brought a sack
of magazines she thought shouldn't
be displayed in public places where
children might see them.
Councilman Jim Dozier said the
proposed ordinance is not an at-
tempt to ban the sale of any
publication but rather to control the
display and sale to minors.
He said the ordinance to be con-
sidered is based on an ordinance
already tested and upheld in federal
court. Some of the language is taken
from that court opinion, he said.
He said he doesn't foresee any
problem with enforcement "if
merchants agree, in fact, to
cooperate," but there is always the
possibility of difficulty of en-
forcement in such cases, he said.
The law, if adopted, will make it
illegal to willfully or knowingly sell,
lend, give away or advertise for sale
to minors indecent publications,
such as magazines, photographs,
books or motion pictures, which are
principally made up of "description
or depictions of illicit sex or sexual
immorality."
According to the ordiannce,
"description or depiction of illicit
sex or sexual immorality" means
"sexual intercourse or erotic
touching of human genitals, pubic
region, buttocks or female breasts."
The ordinance also covers ob-
scene, lude, lascivious or nude
displays.
Nudity, according to the or-
dinance, means uncovered "human
genitals, pubic regions, buttocks or
female breasts below a point im-
mediately above the papilla."
The ordinance is designed to
prevent the display or sale of such
material.
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CS city council to consider
April 14 rezoning case again
The College Station City Council
will reconsider an April 14 rezoning
case at its May 12 meeting.
The case involves rezoning three
blocks facing Jersey Street. On April
14 the city Council conducted a
public hearing on the question of
rezoning the area between Timber
Street and the St. Thomas Episcopal
Church property from apartment
building district to single family
residences. The property in question
is vacant.
After the hearing April 14 the
council voted unanimously to rezone
the property. There were several
residents to speak for the rezoning to
single family residences. Rodney C.
Hill of 119 Lee Avenue spoke for the
rezoning as did Michael Murphy of
305 Pershing Avenue.
Tuesday, attorney Brooks Cofer
spoke for himself and two other
residents who said they weren't
properly notified of the hearing. He
asked that the council reconsider the
matter for that reason.
Cofer told the council he would
seek legal redress in court if they
didn't reconsider, although he said
he didn't favor that alternative.
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By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
A ban on the sale and display of
indecent publications to minors is
still under consideration by the
College Station City Council.
Thursday night the council
decided to postpone action on the
matter for two weeks. City Atty.
Neeley Lewis wants to research
pornography laws further, ac-
cording to Mayor Lorence
Bravenec.
Bravenec said, "The city attorney
would prefer we not pass an or-
dinance tonight. He wants to
research to make sure it (the or-
dinance) is current in all respects."
Lewis did not draft the proposed
ordinance. The language and
definitions in the proposed or-
dinance comes from the case of
Ginsberg v. New York, according to
Lewis. This case deals primarily
with the display of obscene material,
Lewis said.
Lewis said, "You're dealing with a
volatile issue when you tell a
publisher that he can't sell or
display. The burden is on the
regulator."
The council was clearly concerned
with possible legal problems that
might arise from a regulatory ac-
tion.
"We'd be opening a Pandora's Box
if we ban the sale," Councilman Jim
Dozier said.
Dozier referred to a past attempt
saw
by the council to regulate the sale of
possibly pornographic material in
the now defunct Adult Library Club
in the Northgate area. In that case
the city was sued, and the courts
enjoined the city from interfering
with that business, which has since
passed to other owners.
Councilman Gary Haltgr said,
"There is apparently a, growing
market of pornography involving
children irk sexual acts. We'd be on
sound legal grounds prohibiting the
sale of this type pornography."
Councilmen agreed the problem
was controlling the sale of
publications to adults. But the focus
of the proposed ordinance was
prohibition of the sale and display of
possibly pornographic publications
to those under 18 years old.
At the April 14 city council
meeting, Mrs. Mary Bassett of 303
W. Dexter told councilmen that
something should be done about the
display of indecent literature in
convenience stores where children
had easy access. There was also the
problem of someone unintentionally
being confronted with the
magazines.,
"The main .interest of Mrs.
Bassett's, and most of us," said
Councilman Larry Ringer, "is to
remove this from public view so
when you go in to buy a loaf of bread
you don't have these things hitting
you in the face."
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TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The 1977 Community
Development Block Grant
Application for the City of
College Station's Community
Development Program was
officially accepted by the
Department of Housing and
Urban Development on March
22, 1977. The application is
available for review in the
College Station Planning
Department, City Hall, 1101
Texas Avenue. For further
information contact James
Callaway. 846-8886.
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TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN:
The College Station City
Council will hold a public
hearing on the question of
rezoning the following tract:
9.62 acres out of the J.E. Scott
Survey located on the south
West side of F.M. 2818 and
approximately 3000 feet north
of the intersection of F.M. 2818
and F.M. 60. The request is to
rezone from Single Family
Residential District - R -1 to
Planned Unit Development
District P.U.D. The request is
in the name of R.W. Toler, Rt.
5, Box 880,' College Station,
Texas.
The said hearing shall be held
in the Council Room of the City
of College Station City Hall at
the 7:00 P.M. meeting of the
City Council on Thursday, May
26, 1977
For additional information,
tlease contact me.
Ibert O. Mayo Jr.
ity Planner
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CS to rebuild Consol school bridge
College Station city employes and
A &M Consolidated School officials
are working on plans to improve the
condition of a wooden bridge used by
school children along Jersey Street.
The bridge, which runs between
the Middle School and elementary
school, has a broken railing on one
side and is in disrepair from old age
and recent heavy rains.
The ground on one side of the
structure has been washed away by
flooding.
College Station City Manager
North Bardell said the bridge
belongs to the city but is on school
property. The bridge, he said, was in
its present location before Jersey
Street improvements.
Instead of building a new bridge
over to the Jersey right -of -way,
Bardell said, the city and school
decided to slant the sidewalk onto
school property and use the existing
bridge.
Bardell said the school district has
been asked to decide whether they
want a new bridge at its present
location or to have it moved over
beside the street.
Bardell said the city street
superintendent has been instructed
to rebuild the bridge.
The Eagle
• May 5, 1977
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As I See It
By JERRY GRAY
Defining obscenity can be a bottomless pit
%
What do you do when cockroaches
get in the woodwork?
That rhetorical question comes to
us from John Wayne in one of his
recent movies.
The obvious answer: "Smoke `em
out."
That is just what the College
Station City Council is trying to do
with its proposed ordinance
regulating indecent publications.
The city wants to smoke `em out,
but where there is smoke; there is
fire. (You may quote me.) For this
reason, the council is moving
cautiously in its consideration of a
proposed law that would ban the sale
and display of indecent publications
to minors..
The primary problem, as with all
pornography cases, is one of
definitions. What is obscenity? The
proposed ordinance attempts to
define indecent publications. But
ultimately, the courts decide what is
A column of opinion and-or humor
pornography, and what isn't.
Court battles are what the council
wants to avoid.
It might avoid this fate by one of
several ways. Number one, it should
be a good law. One that addresses
itself to protecting minors, but one
that doesn't overstep its bounds,
treading on the First Amendment.
Understandably there will be some
absolutists who will be un-
comfortable with any form of
regulation of free speech or free
press.
Voluntary cooperation of mer-
chants also would be helpful.
Merchants who sell magazines could
shield from public view those
magazines generally considered
obscene under the proposed law.
The magazines holders could be
clearly labeled to avoid hampering
free trade to other than minors. At
the time of purchase, merchants
could also request identification of
those who look suspiciously young.
Making these attempts to control
the sale and display of so- called
indecent publications to minors
would put all store keepers in
compliance with the law, as
proposed. - `
A law attempting to do more than
this would be inviting legal trouble.
Trouble, as far as legal problems
are concerned, means loss of money
to the city in legal defense of its law.
The city is well acquainted with this
problem, having spent thousands of
dollars to defend itself after it
confiscated materials sold by the
now defunct Adult Library Club in
Northgate.
The courts told the city to stop
interfering in that business.
What can a city or community do
about these matters?
The U.S. Supreme Court said in all
its vagueness in 1973 that local areas
are largely free to determine what
they will tolerate in the way of ob-
scenity.
This means local courts determine
what is obscene. Houston juries, for
example, have tried to define ob-
scenity and have declared that
publications dealing with sex with
children and with animals are ob-
scene.
But in Houston, nudes are okay.
The proposed College Station law
says nudes are okay unless you're
under 18 years old.
But the singular question still is:
What is obscenity?
Is nudity obscene? How about an
ad for swimwear? And, have you
seen a copy of today's lusty comic
books?
It's a difficult question, but any
city council that can fearlessly
require the leashing of cats in public
can easily handle this one.
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CS discourages
bypass camp
zoning change
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
A Houston couple, hoping to build
a KOA (Kampgrounds of America,
Inc.) camp along the west side of the
East Bypass in College Station,
received a. negative recom-
mendation of their project Thursday
night by the College Station Plan-
ning and Zoning Commission.
Commission members voted two
in favor and two against the project.
City Planner Al Mayor said the tie
vote would be reported to 'the city
council as a negative recom-
mendation.
Final action rests with the council.
The major disagreement over the
project was not that a campground
be built north of Mile Drive, but that
the single family residential zoning
would have to be changed to mobile
home zoning.
"Our concern is that this property
could someday be made into a
mobile home park instead of the
camp," said E. Murl Bailey, com-
mission member.
Walter Schumacher, attorney for
KOA based in Canute, Okla.,
assured the commission that the
camp would be built and that once
constructed the conversion to a
mobile home park would be ex-
tremely expensive.
The property presently is owned
by George W. and Irene Scasta. The
Houston couple planning to buy the
property are Mr. and Mrs. Ron
Bergquist.
Bergquist said he is an A &M
graduate and his family wants to
return to this area. He said he and
his wife,would build a home at the
tamp and be permanent residents.
"We're a little let down,"
Bergquist said after the meeting. He
said he would approach the city
council about the park.
College Station's Comprehensive
Plan recommends accomodations
be encouraged for mobile travel
vehicles.
Commission chairman Virgil
Stover said the group is considering
coming up with conditional use
permits at some time in the future
that might apply to the camp. Under
a permit, the project would be
allowed only after the commission
approves site plans and when the
accepted project no longer exists,
the land would revert to its old
zoning.
Schumacher said the camp would
cover about 9.06 acres and contain
about 91 spaces for temporary
trailer parking. The facility would
be much like KOA camps in Austin,
and Houston, with a clubhouse,
swimming pool and bath facilities.
He said the requested location is
probably the only acceptable one in
the Bryan - College Station area and
that if it isn't approved, a KOA
facility would not be built here.
The Eagle
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CS discourages
bypass camp
zoning change
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
A Houston couple, hoping to build
a KOA (Kampgrounds of America,
Inc.) camp along the west side of the
East Bypass in College Station,
received a negative recom-
mendation of their project Thursday
night by the College Station Plan-
ning and Zoning Commission.
Commission members voted two
in favor and two against the project.
City Planner Al Mayor said the tie
vote would be reported to the city
council as a negative recom-
mendation.
Final action rests with the council.
The major disagreement over the
project was not that a campground -
be built north of Mile Drive, but that
the single family residential zoning
would have to be changed to mobile
home zoning.
"Our concern is that this property
could someday be made into a
mobile home park instead of the
camp," said E. Murl Bailey, com-
mission member.
Walter Schumacher, attorney for
KOA based in Canute, Okla.,
assured the commission that the
camp would be built and that once
constructed the conversion to a
mobile home park would be ex-
tremely expensive.
The property presently is owned
by George W. and Irene Scasta. The
a
Houston couple planning to buy the
property are Mr. and Mrs. Ron
Bergquist.
Bergquist said he is an A &M
graduate and his family wants to
return to this area. He said he and
his wife would build a home at the
camp and be permanent residents.
"We're a little let down,"
Bergquist said after the meeting. He
said he would approach the city
council about the park.
College Statibn's Comprehensive
Plan recommends accomodations
be encouraged for mobile travel
vehicles.
Commission chairman Virgil
Stover said the group is considering
coming up with conditional use
permits at some time in the future
that might apply to the camp. Under
a permit, the project would be
allowed only after the commission
approves site plans and when the
accepted project no longer exists,
the land would revert to its old
zoning.
Schumacher said the camp would
cover about 9.06 acres and contain
about 91 spaces for temporary
trailer parking. The facility would
be much like KOA camps in Austin
and Houston, with a clubhouse,
swimming pool and bath facilities.
He said the requested location is
probably the only acceptable one in
the Bryan - College Station area and
that if it isn't approved, a KOA
facility would not be built here.
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GERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing to con
Sider a request for a con
ditional use permit for the
construction of an apartment
complex located on the
southeast corner of the in-
tersection of Southwest Park-
way and Welsh Boulevard.
The hearing will be held in the
College Station City Hall, 1101
South Texas Avenue, at the
7 :00 PM meeting of the
Planning and Zoning Com-
mission on Thursday, May 19,
1977.
For additional information,
Please contact the City Plan-
ner, Al Mayo, at the City Hall,
713- 8468886.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station Planning '
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing to con
Sider a request for a con-
ditional use permit for the
construction of a mult f
residential project to be
located at the corner of the
intersection of Anderson Street
and Brentwood Drive. (Park
way request sPlaza, in the Ph l The
name of the
SYPcon Construction Cor
Poration.
Said hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall, 1101 South
Texas Avenue at the 7:00 PM
meeting of the Planning and
Zoning Commission on
Thursday, May 19, 1977.
For additional information,
Please contact the City Plan-
ner, Al Mayo, at the City Hall,
713 846.8886.
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ORDINANCE NO 1074
"AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
ORDINANCE NO. 1 6 7
AUTHORIZING REMOVAL
O F U N A T T E N D E D
VEHICLES IN CICYCLE AND
PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC
WAYS.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF COLLEGE STAltION.,
TEXAS:
That Ordinance No. 167, the
Traffic Code of 1951, be
amended by the addition of a
new paragraph to Section 81 to
read as follows:
(d) Whenever any police
officer finds a vehicle una1-
tendAd upon any marked
bicycle or pedestrian traffic
way Where such vehicle con-
stitutes an obstruction to
traffic thereon, such officer is
hereby authorized to provide
for the removal of such vehicle
to a garage or place of seafety
designated or maintained by
the governmental agency of
which the officer is a member.
All ordinances, orders or
policies in conflict with this
ordinance, or inconsistent with
the provisions of this ordinance
are hereby repealed to the
extent necessary to give this
ordinance full force and effect.
This ordinance shall become
effective ten (10) days after the
publication thereof.
PASSED AND APPROVED
this 28th day of April, 1977.
APPROVED
Lorence L. Bravenec
Mayor
ATTEST
Florence Neelley
City Secretary
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B=CS residents see merger as unlikely
A random telephone survey of
Bryan and College Station residents
indicates that a merger of the two
cities is unlikely.
The poll was conducted by
political science students at Texas
A &M University.
Two- thirds of the Bryan residents
surveyed were in favor of a merger,
but less than a third of the College
Station respondents answered in the
affirmative. This is presumably
because Bryanites generally feel
they have more to gain from the
move and College Station residents
expect fewer benefits from such an
action.
Dr. Arnold Vedlitz, assistant
professor of political science and the
students' instructor, said the sur-
veyors interpreted the differences
as resulting from such issues as
zoning, local and school tax rates
and various social distinctions.
The students found that two - thirds
of the 280 persons interviewed had
lived here less than five years and
that 20 per cent had lived in the
communities less than a year.
Vedlitz said about 60 per cent of
the people surveyed live in Bryan
and about 40 per cent in College
Station, with a small percentage
residing outside the city limits of
both towns.
The poll revealed that twice as
many people in College Station (20
per cent) were undecided or wanted
more information on the merger
issue.
Vedlitz said the random phone
interviews drew an accurate
demographic picture of the two
communities, although he admitted
it was not a particularly clear
sample of the kinds of people who
consistently vote in local elections.
Nearly two - thirds of those sam-
pled were aged 18 -34. The students
found that a third of Bryan's total
population fits this figure and 83 per
cent of College Station is in that age
bracket. Of those polled, 17 per cent
were aged 35 -49, 11 per cent were
aged 50 -65 and six per cent were 65
or older.
Seventy per cent replied that they
had some college experience and a
fourth of the total were college
graduates. Thirteen per cent did not
finish high school and 18 per cent
reported that they finished high
school but had no collegd ex-
perience.
Bryan, CS schedule
Metric Week May 9
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To encourage a
familiarity with the metric
system of measures, the
mayors of both Bryan and
College Station have
proclaimed Texas Metric
Week, May 9 -13.
An officer of the Texas
Metric Council `will be a
guest on KBTX -TV's
"Town Talk'' show
Wednesday morning at 9
a.m. Metrics for the
consumer, educator and
others will be discussed.
On Thursday, May 12, a
metric open house will be
held in the Texas Room of
Bryan Building and Loan.
Members of the Texas
Metric Council will be on
hand from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
to provide materials and
information on the metric
system.
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COLLEGE STATION MAYOR
Lorence Bravenec visits with Bertha
Moss and Edna Johnson at the
Sweetbriar Nursing Home in College
Station as part of Texas Nursing
Home Week, Older Texans Month anc
Older Americans Month. The special
observances have been proclaimer
by mayors, Gov. Dolph Briscoe an
President Jimmy Carter.
(Photo by Choya Walling
CS Council, P &Z
to meet today
The College Station City
Council and the city's
Planning and Zoning
Commission will meet
together today at 7 p.m-
tor a discussion of
proposed changes to the
Comprehensive Devel-
opment Plan. —
A nother item on the
agenda is a staff proposal
on possible annexation of
about 2,700 acres on the
east side of the Bypass.
The council also will
meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday to
review architect's
preliminary plans on
proposed Capital Im-
provements projects.
The Eagle
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Council votes to'' annex acreage
The College Station City Council last
night voted to begin action to annex 2,359
acres located east of the east bypass.
That acreage is equal to 21.3 per cent of
the land now inside the current city limits.
The annexation would extend city limits
to Rock Prairie Road, Bird Pond Road,
and Carter Creek.
According to a city staff report read by
City Planner Al Mayo the area should be
annexed to provide for more residential
housing land, which, if developed, might
"provide a choice for housing and not
price everyone out of the single family
m'arket."
"A home buyer in the city now has basi-
cally only one area of new growth —
Southwood Valley," the report stated.
Foxfire, Glenwood, Raintree and
Swoboda (Willowbend) are developments
already in the area.
According to the report, 8,589 persons
could live in the fully developed area.
If the area is annexed and fully de-
veloped, three more patrol cars and ten
additional police officers will be needed,
the report said. The city now needs one
more patrol car and two more patrolmen
to police the area, at a cost of $22,000.
If the area is fully developed, a fire de-
partment substation costing $300,000 and
21 additional persons will also be needed.
Present development in the area calls for
$210,000 in additional sewage equipment,
and $525,000 if fully developed.
Additional electrical lines and equipment
will cost $325,000, if it is fully developed.
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on proposed camp locale
College Station City
Council today will hold a
public hearing and con-
sider rezoning of 9.06 acres
on the west side of the East
Bypass to allow a Kamp -
grounds of America
facility.
Also at the 7 p.m.
meeting, the council will
reconsider an ordinance
rezoning portions of the
Oakwood Addition from
apartment to single family
residential.
Other items on the
agenda include:
— Discussion of sidewalk
construction program.
— Consideration of a
petition for paving of
Richards Street from
Lassie Lane to the east.
— Consideration of
allocation of funds from
hotel -motel tax for
promotion of tourism.
Consideration of a
preliminary plat for
Willow Bend Mobile Home
Park.
— Consideration for a
final plat for Glenwood.
— Consideration of a
final plat for University
Park East.
— And, discussion of
revisions to the Com-
prehensvie Development
Plan.
The Eagle
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PUC examiner to rule within a week
Decision coming on electricity. for CS
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
A hearings examiner with the
Public Utilities Commission of
Texas (PUC) will decide within a
week whether Gulf States Utilities
Co. can begin to provide power to
College Station as early as June 1.
Bryan is trying to block the move
and filed a complaint with the PUC
in early April against both Gulf
States and College Station.
The hearing was held in Austin on
Monday before hearings examiner,
Philip Ricketts.
Ricketts said he did not yet know
what his decision will be.
Whatever his decision, it will be
only an interim ruling because a full
hearing with the Public Utilities
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Commission is scheduled for July 13
in Austin. At that time it will be
determined whether College Station
can begin to change electric sup-
pliers before its contract with Bryan
exp *es in January, 1979.
Testimony from Gulf States,
Bryan and College Station lasted all
day Monday.
Bryan's utility manager Jack Ard
testified that Bryan wants an "or-
derly transition to protect Bryan's
investments and commitments to
serve College Station."
He said construction on the city's
$25 million Roland Dansby Power
Plant and Bryan's take -or -pay
contract with Lone Star Gas Co.
constitutes investments and com-
mitments by Bryan, part of which
were to serve College Station.
Bryan's complaint said that the
city would suffer adverse economic
impact on its power system in-
vestments if College Station bought
power elsewhere. Without stating
.College Station's share, Ard said
Bryan's average annual fixed cost
on the Dansby power plant is $2.75
million.
College Station too said that it
would suffer adverse economic
impact without a change to Gulf
States as its electric supplier. More
than $5 million in bonds have been
authorized by voters for utility
improvements and more than $1.2
million have been committed for a
substation and transmission lines in
College Station.
City Manager North Bardell
testified that the College Station rate
payer would benefit by a switch to
Gulf States by some $90,000 per
month. This savings is primarily due
to the difference in fuel adjustment
costs, Bardell said.
Bryan had only one witness, Ard,
during the day' College Station and
Gulf States Utilities Co. had five.
Three electrical engineers told the
hearings examiner that Bryan does
not have adequate transmission
capabilities to serve College Station
during the summer. Currently two
substations deliver power to College
Station.
., A switch to Gulf States this
'summer would divide that load
between Bryan and Gulf States
Utilities.
John Denison, an electrical
engineer from College Station who
has worked for both cities, said that
Bryan did not follow a 1970 report by
his company which recommended
improvements in a south substation
to serve College Station's future
needs.
A.M. Smith, an electrical engineer
with Gulf States Utilities Co., said
that Bryan appeared to have an
excess in generation facilities, but
not transmission capabilities.
Bryan's contention Monday was
that Gulf States didn't have
authority to serve College Statioc
because it didn't have a certificat(
of convenience and necessity iron
the utility commission.
Bryan's attorney, Ernes
Casstevens of McGinnis Lochridge 8
Kilgore in Austin, told the hearing;
examiner, "Gulf States is picking ul
a load growth beyond the scope of it;
certification."
Larry Veselka, College Station';
attorney of Vinson, Elkins, Searls
Connally & Smith in Houston, sai(
that Gulf States only had to upgrade
an already existing line fron
Navasota to Hearne. He said thi
transmission corridor is alread;
permitted to Gulf States.
Veselka also said that the Federa
Power Commission overrules thi
Public Utilities Commission any
that all FPC regulations had bees
followed in the extension of servic
by Gulf States to College Station
and because of 'alleged inadequat
transmission capabilities fron
Bryan to College Station, Veselk.
said, "Any temporary or permanen
relief to Bryan threatens blackout
this summer in College Station."
"We have to have this service," h
said. "If there is a temporary o
permanent relief granted Bryan, w
may have to go to the Federal Powe
Commission for emergency relief."
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Planning and Zoning Commission
holds hearings on apartment permits
Three public hearings on granting
conditional use permits for new
apartment ,complexes will be held
during the regular meeting of the
College Station Planning and Zon-
ing Commission Thursday at 7 p.m.
Applications for the permits are
under the names of:
q D.R. Cain for an apartment
complex to be built on the southeast
corner of Welsh Avenue and
Southwest Parkway
4 Sypcon Construction Co., for a
complex to be built on the northeast
corner of Anderson Street and
Brentwood Drive '
George Boyett, for a complex to
be built on the corner of Boyett and
Patricia Streets.
Also on the agenda are considera-
tion of a final plat resubdividing a
0.255 tract located on Sterling
Street and reconsideration of a pre-
liminary plat for Parkway Plaza
Phase 6.
D.D. Williamson of the Texas
Department of Highways and Pub-
lic Transportation will present a dis-
cussion of transportation system
problems.
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CS plans to double building space
The city of College Station plans to
3ouble the space available in its
municipal buildings.
Preliminary plans, approved by
the city council recently, call for
additions to the municipal building
and the fire station. The addition to
the city hall building will be directly
behind the old structure and will be
connected by a glassed -in walkway.
The building will be built of concrete
walls and will have a steel roof
structure.
A new feature of the city hall will
be a council chamber with a glass
back wall. The glass wall is being
installed so that citizens attending
council meetings which generate
overflow crowds will not be turned
away or be forced to stand in the
back of the room. The extra space
will be connected to the council
chamber by speakers which will
broadcast the meeting into the
gallery area.
The present council chambers will
be turned into executive offices for
the city manager and his secretary.
In addition to these changes, an
atrium will be built into the new
complex and will be open to the sky.
Plans include foliage for the new
atrium as well as outside the new
building.
The fire station will also get a face
lift. The addition to the fire station
will include four fire truck bays with
glass doors facing onto Texas
Avenue. The architect for the ad-
ditions, Walter Scarborough of
Architex in Houston, said he felt it
was important for the public to be
able to see the equipment.
The present facility will be halved.
One side will be used as an am-
bulance garage and the other side
will be used for a two -story sleeping
and training area.
The bond issue called for ex-
penditures of $133,000. Scarborough
said that he had proposed the least
expensive and most acceptable
building possible.
The Eagle
May 19, 1977
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Proposed College Station fire station.
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A billboard complaint
To The Editor:
I am sending you a copy of a letter
I have written to Mr: North Bardell,
City Manager of College Station for
publication in The Eagle.
Dear Mr. Bardell:
I am disturbed by the new eyesore
in a College Station city park. A dark
green wooden fence has recently
been erected at the baseball field on
the corner of Park Place and
Fairview. It is neat and blends well
with its surroundings.
Part of the fence is now covered
with advertisements from local
businesses. The white signs with
bold letters look like billboards
which have no place in a residential
neighborhood. The people living
nearby have to put up with the noise
of screaming children and adults as
well as blaring radios during the
baseball games. They should not
also have to tolerate the unat-
tractive fence advertising.,
In addition to the advertising
Letters
to the Editor
Letters to the editor are
welcomed by The Eagle.
However, they must meet
certain criteria. They must be
signed. They must be no longer
than 250 words and, preferably,
should deal with issues rather
than personalities. The Eagle
reserves the right to edit letters
and to delete material that is not
in good taste or is legally
questionable.
being unattractive, I believe it is
improper to have any kind of ad-
vertising on city property. I urge you
to see that the advertisements at
Park Place and Fairview are
painted over as soon as possible.
Ann Bury
The Eagle
May 20, 1977
These ads in College Station stir citizen's complaint.
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CERN:
A public hearing to discuss
program proposals for a
Community Development
Block Grant Program
Discretionary Grant Preap-
plication will be held at the City
of College Station's June 9, 1977
Regular City Council meeting.
The meeting will be held in the
Council Room, City Hall, 1101
Texas Avenue, at 7:00 P.M.
The maximum grant amount I
for which a preapplication may
be submitted is $38,000. i
Eligible activities under this
part include property aquistion
for preservation or restoration I
activities, provision of public'.
works facilities, streets, senior
citizens facilities, parks,
clearance, code enforcement,
loans for the rehabilitation of
residential property, and other
similar activities.
All interested citizens are
invited to express their needs
and preferences relative to
housing and community
development needs and to
assist in - the selection of
priorities.
For further information
contact James M. ,Callaway,
Planning Department, City.
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E RN:
The City Council of the City of
College Station will hold a
public hearing 10 consider the
annexation , of an area im-
mediately east of the City and
_ generally described as follo
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from the East Bypass
Ward to the centerline of th6
main channel of Carter Creek
and from Harvey Road (High-
way 3 so Rock r Pra9
defined by Prairie and
Bvrd Pond Roads, and con
taining approximately
acres. The public hearing will I
be held on Thursday June 23,
1977 at 7:00 P.M. in the Council
Room of the College Station
` City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue.
.The action is being initiated by
the College Station City
Council. Any citizen of the City
of College S tation or f rf ane
t P p t contest
nexatiori wishing
said annexation must file a out the
written petiion w th
the C maycontest Council, the annexation at
the public hearing. For further
information, please contact the
City Planner, Al Mayo, at the
City_ Hall, 846_8886.
The Eagle
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PUC hearing examiner gives
details for CS utilities ruling
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
The hearing examiner of the
Public Utilities Commission ruled
late last week that he saw no need to
go beyond the utility contract bet-
ween Bryan and College Station "to
do what the contract cannot do, that
is, hold College Station to a
requirement to purchase all of its
power needs from Bryan."
This decision by hearing
examiner, Philip Ricketts, is pen-
ding a final hearing on the matter in
Austin before the PUC on July 6. The
hearing was originally set for July
13.
Bryan sought an order from the
commission which would have
prevented College Station buying
half of its electric power
requirement from Gulf States
Utilities Co. this summer. Currently
College Station buys all of its power
from Bryan.
College Station planned to begin a
switch to Gulf States on June 1.
Bryan sought a cease and desist
order against Gulf States, saying
that this switch would be an in-
terference with the operation of
Bryan's utility system. Bryan also
contended that Gulf States needed a
certificate of convenience and
necessity from the PUC for certain
transmission lines to serve College
Station.
On the question of the certificate,
the hearing examiner said the
complaint is without merit.
Gulf States already has a trans-
mission line stretching from
Navasota to Caldwell. College
Station would be a new wholesale
customer on that line.
The interim order from Ricketts
states, "The commission has
specifically not granted certificated
areas for wholesale service, but has
instead Chosen to regulate this
aspect of utility service by cer-
tificating transmission facilities.
Once the facility is certificated there
is simply no requirement that new
wholesale loads be certificated."
The examiner said Gulf States is
not guilty of violatiori"of the Public
Utility Regulatory Actor rules in not
seeking a new certificate.
On the matter of interference with
the Bryan Utility System, Ricketts
says the law speaks to "physical
interference which is not at all
alleged by Bryan."
"The only harm claimed by Bryan
is purely financial," Ricketts states.
"The decision of College Station to
seek a new power supplier is one
which is entrusted solely to its local
government. The fact that this
decision may hamper the plans of
the Bryan system is certainly not the
fault of GSU, the only entity involved
over which this commission has full
jurisdiction."
The ruling means that Gulf States
Utilities Co. may proceed with its
work to serve College Station oA
June 1.
Bryan city attorney, Joel Roberts,
said that he would talk today with
attorneys of the Austin law firm,
McGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore,
retained to represent the city in this
matter. They will decide whether to
ask the full commission to review
the interim ruling before the July 6
hearing.
The examiner reports that Gulf
States Utilities Co. has properly
reported its upgrading and con-
struction, which has been un-
dertaken to provide wholesale power
to College Station in June.
Ricketts said he saw no immedigte
necessity to issue a cease and desist
order to prevent the sale of power to
College Station or the construct; on of
power lines to College Station.
The Eagle
May 24, 1977
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C. S. wins ruling
to buy electricity
from Gulf States
College Station won a temporary ruling
by the Texas Public Utilities Commission
Monday allowing the city to begin buying
electric power from GW States Utilities
Co.
The city will begin buying from Gulf
States by June 1.
Bryan had asked the commission to
block College Station, which has been
purchasing power from Bryan, from buy-
ing from Gulf States. A full hearing on the
matter will be held July 13.
Changes in the College Station zoning
laws may be approved by the City Council
in a meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. in City
Hall.
A public hearing on the proposed
changes will be held before the council
votes.
The council will also consider revisions
to the city's comprehensive Plan and a re-
quest from the Parks and Recreation board
to install electrical services near Anderson
Street Park.
A resolution requesting funding for
planning and management projects under
the "701" program will also be considered.
The Eagle
May 25, 1977
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streets in College Station.
The Eagle
May 26, 1977
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By ROBIN SHRIVER ment confirmed that. Shaeddepa a t
Staff Writer ment spokesman
technica avelling ,clinically the bikes and cars
sat on street corners on Jersey have the right
They o f College tr
throughout the city of way. And the students travelling
Station wat king and cou he end nting. to the A &M Consolidated Middle
t the League of
School know that. At least two times
And in
Women Voters recomm solve ended a Year the police department sends
bicycle lanes to help the
pedestrians officers to the city schools to give the
o ulation of p children a day of instruction on bike
growing P P
and bicycle traffic in the streets. But safety and rules
the city rew too fast an CS pol
g ice department
d what was a "The worst thing is
nagging twinge in the minds °f The spokesman said, attention to
College Station residents grew into a that the adults don't pay
full fledged pain.
the laws. They set a bad example for
, looked like a solution two the children. The laws t to bppycles to
years ago is getting to be a bigger motor vehicles app Y
headache," Anne Hazen, coun They 've got the right of way
cilwoman and atone time a member also.
just like a vehicle."
of the League said. But knowledge of the laws has not
Since February there have been at ended the ,rash ofoact acc solved
least six recorded accidents on are still sore sp
streets where the bike of the lanes were before the file on the problem can be
installed. None rtes, but closed. ma The city
resulted in serious injuries, too Progress is being
at
aware of the
Hazen points out th at
many." And that doesn't count the have spoken up government is
roblem. Citizens ha es
near misses that go unreported." the council meetings and their 'voices
And she feels that having are being heard.
pedestrians and bicyclers in on North
area reduces the problem `if rg said , College lo didn't think
siderably though. Hazen said, manager,
p
peopl side of e would only realize where we restoring the bike lane help other
were before." JerseYrobably
Three years ago, before the first situation. "It. would en
bike lanes were i were courage nstalled, there w more accidents if they had
cyclists riding all over the street she
to cross Jersey d
rsey," he said-
said. "I feel it is safer to have them problem negated So with that res Bardell to added
stop
in one place."
ut the riders are not ca that the city "is fixing to put up
Be�i the " The lane on
bike and the drivers forg bars in that bike lane. be marked with a
bke lanes are tWO ways in some Jersey will
bke thermoplastic tape which is melted
places. The worst in bike e lanes is on the pavement. In addition to
streets and two -way In the outlining the bike lane, the word
Anderson and Jer Streets. sey stop" will be painted at the in
past four months five of the six ection. ers
bicycle -car accidents have occurred t We will do that as soon as school
there. or thoroughfare
Jersey is a ma] Wellborn is out," gardell said.
between Texas Ave. and said,
residential Elrey Ash, the city engineer
„We are working on that whole in-
Road. Anderson is a
street that has been g traffic from tersection."
owing One of the proposed solutions has
the rapidly gr
Glade Streets to been a bike on the A &M
Holleman and e lane ro property which would be
Jersey Street. when University P p The city and
The accidents are occurring off the street entirely. ed in
drivers on Anderson attempt to the hniversity are engag
make right hand turns onto Jersey. negotiations to decide how much of
"you are conditioned to look to the the total cost each will finance. A
left, said a
spokesman for the date for the beginning of con -
College Station police department.
struction was not available.
In addition, the state highway
"Most of the drivers have failed to department is making a warrant
see the bicycles. you're not used to
seeing them coming." study of the intersection to deter -
John Black, who lives at the mine if a traffic light necessary.
ht is will
corner of Jersey and Anderson, of the
ma And the highway department
neces
neces
have final say because Jersey is
been around for fa W the rote the and falls under its
accidents that his Police y and fire a state highway
College Station merals jurisdiction, Ash said.
emergency number in big nu
"We are doing all we can do to get
on their phone.
"you take your life in your hands the light," he said.
to get across that street," he said. light will not so
h But a motorists
lve the
,, you, see a little space and dash g
So the cars coming up problem because in Texas tr
across Jersey. can make a right-hand n E w e ll
iht -hand turn
on Jersey from Anderson don't look stopping at a red light. A sig ri ht-
ht at the bike lane." have to be posted prohibiting g
to the right +hat in his opinion the t.- -A r„rns during the red light.
• • •
Bryan plans motion
to quash P .ruling
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
Bryan will file a motion today or
Friday to set aside the interim order
of the Texas Public Utilities Com-
mission issued May 20 which said
that Gulf States Utilities Co. can
begin to supply electric power to
College Station on June 1, Bryan city
attorney Joel Roberts said.
The motion seeks to delay the
switch to Gulf States at least until
July 6. College Station city attorney
Neeley Lewis believes that once the
switch has begun it is not likely to be
reversed some 30 days later. The
interim order extends to July 6 when
another and final hearing is
scheduled before the Public Utility
Commission (PUC).
The interim order was issued by
hearing examiner Philip Ricketts
following a May 16 hearing in Austin
on the case.
Bryan, however, will not wait until
July 6.
College Station city manager
North Bardell said that Gulf States
will begin serving the city on June 1,
or, at least, before June 16, ac-
cording to statements by Gulf
States.
Bryan is currently the only
electric power supplier for College
Station. This summer College
Station plans to begin a switch to
Gulf States Utilities Co.
College Station wants to buy about
half of its summer electric power
requirement from Gulf States,
continuing to buy the other half from
Bryan. The reason for the switch is
that College Station will get a break
on utility costs, city officials have
said.
On the evidence presented at a
preliminary hearing May 16,
hearing 'examiner Philip Ricketts
ruled that Gulf States could not be
stopped from serving College
Station on June 1. Ricketts said the
utilities commission can not go
beyond the utility contract between
Bryan and College Station "to do
what the contract cannot do, that is,
hold College Station to a
requirement to purchase all of its
power needs from Bryan."
The contract between Bryan and
College Station does not end until
January, 1979.
In seeking an order to stop Gulf
States from serving College Station
before the expiration of that con-
tract, Bryan said that Gulf States
needed a certificate to operate -in
this area and that extension of
service by Gulf States would be an
interference with the Bryan Utility
System.
Ricketts ruled that the law speaks
only to physical interference,
"which is not at all alleged by
Bryan." Bryan claimed only
financial hardships.
Ricketts ruled that Gulf States .
does not need a certificate to extend
wholesale service along existing
power lines belonging to the com-
pany.
"The only harm claimed by Bryan
is purely financial," Ricketts states.
The Eagle
May 26, 1977
� CS firemen
to undergo
training
By ROBIN SCHRIVER
Staff Writer
After 89 hours in class, 40 hours of
on- the -job- training and five am-
bulance runs, the job will have Only
begun.
The final date will be August 4. On
that day, if everyone passes the
course, the men employed by the
College Station fire department will
be certified emergency medical
technicians or EMT.
All men will be trained to "handle
every kind of situation," Bit? $chaer,
fire department employe and one of
the course instructors, said.
They will be up against heart
attacks, fractures, and medical
emergencies such as diabetic
comas, srokes and child' birth,
Schaer said.
• The College Station fire depart-
ment which supplies the man power
to operate the city's ambulance
service is required to have at least
one EMT on the ambulance at all
times. Schaer said that with the
completion of this course there will
be at least two EMTs on the am-
bulances at all times. There will also
be EMTs on the firetrucks to provide
extra help if it is needed.
"If a firetruck is called to an ac-
cident, everybody on the firetruck
will be certified and can help,"
Schaer said. "Anytime we have a
major wreck we will have a
firetruck and an ambulance
responding in the near future."
The department personnel will be
trained to splint broken bones,
bandage cuts, administer cardio-
plumonary resuscitation and
mechanical aids to breathing among
the many other emergency
techniques.
"As far as we can go we can
handle emergencies without calling
the hospital, but once we get him
into the ambulance, we call the
hospital to let them know what to
expect," he said.
Since the city of College Station
. assumed the ambulance service
March 6 Schaer said, "We've had
just about everything happen and all
of them were rememberable."
The Eagle
May 27, 1977
• •
mat rant s ma mean rakam
Y for C em I o
By JANE M. SMITH
V yes
Staff Writer
If a formal personnel
classification and pay plan for City
of College Station employes is ap-
proved the way it is now by the city
council, it will mean raises in pay for
almost all city workers.
The plan, presented to council
members Thursday afternoon by
Lee Weber of Public Administration
Services, in Long Beach, Calif. could
increase salaries for general
classified employes by $54,678.00
and utility employes by up to
$34,363.80 for the next budget year.
The plan, however, has just been
presented to the council and
probably will undergo revisions
before final adoption. At present, the
city has no formal employe
program.
Weber told the council he began
"from scratch" on the plan designed
to establish qualifications aad
standards for positions, uniform
titles for all positions, pay ranges
and a basis for developing work
performance standards.
"Our purpose was to formalize
what exists," Weber said. He said
each city employe filled out a
questionnaire on his or her job duties
and title. From these questionnaires
and interviews with about 30 -40 per
cent of the employes and all
department heads, Weber came up
with a classified description list of
jobs and duties.
Under the plan, he said, minimum
entrance requirements may be
higher than those possessed by the
person now holding the job. "These
don't apply to the people here now —
they've grown in their jobs and are
obviously doing it," Weber said.
"These qualifications are for new
employes and we suggest flexibility
So that educational requirements
can be met by a person with job
experience," he said.
The plan takes each city position
(except the city manager and other
positions set out in the city charter)
and gives a salary range in five
steps from minimum to maximum
pay.
Weber recotnmended two methods
of installing the plan initially — A.
Each employe would be moved to
the first step, or B. Each employe
would be moved to the step that
would give him or her a five per cent
increase in pay.
Plan B would be the more ex-
pensive, Weber said.
According to Weber's figures,
Plan A would mean a 9.6 per cent
increase in total general payroll and
a 7.4 per cent increase in utility
payroll. Plan B would mean an 11.9
per cent increase in general payroll
and a 9.4 per cent increase in utility
payroll.
Whichever plan is adopted, the
council will have to take the pay
increases into account when plan-
ning the new budget — now
estimated at $10 million.
Weber said some workers would
receive big pay boosts to bring them
in line wih acceptable salary ranges,
while other employes would get
modest increases.
City Manager North Bardell said
salary increases are needed,
Sick leave would be changed
under the plan to allow sick leave to
accrue up to a maximum of 120 days.
The Eagle
May 27, 1977
•
City jobs open to teenagers
College Station
teenagers between ages 16=
18 interested in working for
the city this summer may
apply Thursday from 9
a.m. to 11 a.m. at Lincoln
Center on Eleanor Street.
City Parks and
Recreation Director Paul
Wojciechowski is in charge
of the applications.
About 15 jobs are
currently available with
the city including jobs in
parks maintenance, the
street department, tax
office and police depart-
ment. Jobs are available
for girls and boys.
Employment will begin
June 6.
The program was
initiated last summer by
the city council.
The Eagle
• May 29, 1977
•
•
City Council
delays revisions
No final vote was taken on two revisions
to the College Station Comprehensive
Plan by the City Council Thursday night. .
The council, the Planning and Zoni#ig
Commission and the City Engineer's of-
fice have mulled over the changes for
months with no result.
One revision would widen Kyle Street
and attempt to relieve that street of its
overflow morning tra$`ie. '
City Engineer Elrey Ash presented two
plans for the change. Neither met council
approval. Members of the council ques-
tioned whether either plan is worth the
cost to the city.
Ash also presented two plans to extend
FM 2818 to the East Bypass through Mil-
ler's Lane. The extension would cause ex-
tensive property damage and would re-
quire destroying some houses in that area.
Miller's Lane residents presented a pet-
ition to the council at its May 12 meeting
protesting the extension. But the coun-
cilmen maintain that the construction of
the new thoroughfare is inevitable.
Councilman Jim Gardner said the
Comprehensive Plan is an outline for what
the city hopes to do in the future. Discuss-
ing the technicalities of the revisions
should be handled elsewhere, he said.
8'u't "other member oT _
the council, par-
ticularly Mayor Lorence Bravenec,
wanted to hash out the final details during
the meeting. Hash they did, but no deci-
sion was reached.
The council did vote to take the recom-
mendations of the Safety Committee on
placing sidewalks on Glade Street.
The committee suggested the sidewalks
be built two feet inside the curb. But some
of the street's residents opposed the rec-
ommendation.
Jim Smathers, 1402 Glade, said placing
the sidewalks away from the curb would
create a "nuisance strip" that would be a
headache to maintain.
But Bill Scott of the Safety Committee
said the committee wanted to move the
sidwalks in for the safety of pedestrians.
He added that the sidewalks would avoid
large trees., and bushes.
He defined large trees and bushes to be
those of more than one inch at the base.
The Battalion
May 30, 1977
• CS utility changeover
to occur in mid -June
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
C�
Bryan's utilities director, finance
director and city manager are all
reluctant to talk about the effect
in dollars that College Station's
switch to another utilities company
would have on the Bryan Utility
System.
College Sation's switch to Gulf
States Utilities Co. has been ap-
proved by the Public Utilities
Commission in an interim ruling.
The change can begin as early as
Wednesday, but College Station's
director of public works, George
Ford, said today that the actual
change will not occur until the
middle of June.
He said the delay in the switch to
Gulf States Utilities Co. is due to
delivery problems with a needed
transformer.
Bryan city manager Lou Odle said
he would rather not comment on the
effect while the matter is still
pending with the Public Utilities
Commission. A final hearing before
that body is scheduled for July 6.
If the outcome of this hearing
follows the result of the preliminary
hearing on May 16, College Station's
break with the Bryan system can
take place in increments well in
advance of the date when Bryan and
College Station's contract is sup-
posed to end, January, 1979.
This summer College Station
wants to buy at least half its supply
from Gulf States, while still
receiving half its electric supply
from Bryan.
Although there is some reluctance
on the part of Bryan people to talk
about the negative effects of College
Station's departure, city records
show that the revenue from electric
service to College Station was $3.67
million in 1976.
But $1.69 million of this amount
went for fuel adjustment costs,
which merely covers the increased
cost of boiler fuel. Utilities director
Jack Ard said if College Station is
not a customer, Bryan won't have to
buy this extra fuel.
That leaves $1.98 , million in
revenues for one year, which the city
will begin to lose this summer in
increments.
Will this loss require a rate in-
crease to Bryan customers?
"We will have to take a good look
at that. I can't say at this time,"
Odle said.
A rate increase is a political
decision by the city council. One
source, who preferred to remain
unnamed, said the council doesn't
always make its rate decisions when
it should. "That's part of the
problem of a municipally owned
utility company," he said.
But there appear to be some
positive effects of losing College
Station as a customer, according to
Odle.
He said that some $2 million to $3
million in electrical improvements
will not have to be made now that
College Station is leaving as a
customer. Those improvements
include substations, substation
improvements and transmission
lines.
And less fuel will have to be
purchased, according to Ard. This
will be a positive effect unless the
drop in fuel consumption falls below
that amount required by the city's
take -or -pay contract with Lone Star
Gas Co. A take -or -pay contract
requires a customer to reserve a
specific amount of a product or
service and pay for that amount —
even if the customer doesn't actually
need all of the service.
Also the Roland Dansby Power
Plant, scheduled for use late this
year or early next year, will be 10
per cent more efficient than present
electric - generating facilities.
This means that the same number
of kilowatt hours can be produced
with 10 per cent less fuel. Another
way of looking at that, according to
Ard, is that the same amount of
money will produce 10 per cent more
electricity.
Ard said that could have really
helped the utility revenue picture of
the city if College Station had
remained a customer. But efficiency
in the form of new and better and
larger equipment will mean more
revenue for the city.
This efficiency may make the
saving difference to the city which
must still make the political decision
about how much to transfer from
utility revenue to the general fund —
about $1 million annually — and
about how much to transfer to the
Bryan Independent School District.
Presently, about $300,000 is tran-
sferred to the school district.
Odle would only say that College
Station's share of capital im-
provements for electric generating
is approximately the same
proportion as its demand, or, one -
fourth of the city's current in-
vestments — nearly $30 million for
the Dansby Power Plant and cooling
lake and $52 million for the other
system.
The Eagle
•
May 31, 1977
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•
•
ORDINANCE NO. 1073
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
ORDINANCE NO. 167
AUTHORIZING REMOVAL
O F U N A T T E N D E D
VEHICLES IN BICYCLE AND
PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC
WAYS.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF COLLEGE STATION,
TEXAS:
That Ordinance No. 167, the
Traffic Code of 1951, be
amended by the addition of a
new paragraph to Section 81 to
read as follows:
(d) Whenever any police
officer finds a vehicle unat-
tended upon any marked
bicycle or pedestrian traffic j
way where such vehicle con -j
stitutes an obstruction to
traffic thereon, such officer is
hereby authorized to provide
for the removal of such vehicle
to a garage or place of safety
designated or maintained by
the governmental agency of
which the officer is a member.
Nothing contained herein
shall apply when the bicycle or
pedestrian traffic ways are
marked by properly authorized
signs which permit parking
during specified times and the
unattended vehicle is parked
during the time specified by
the sign.
All ordinances, orders or
policies in conflict with this
ordinance, or inconsistent with
the provisions of this or-
dinance, or inconsistent with
the provisions of this ordinance
'are hereby repealed to the
extent necessary to give this
ordinance full force and effect.
This ordinance shall become
effective ten (10) days after the
publication thereof.
PASSED AND APPROVED
. this 28th day of April, 1977.
APPROVED
Lorence Bravenec
Mayor
ATTEST
City S ecretary
Notice is hereby given that
the College Station City Council
will hold a public hearing in the
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall at 7:30 P.M.
on Thursday, June 9, 1977 on
the budget for the Fiscal Year
1977 -78.
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FM 2818 extension.
may destroy hom
es
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
It has been said that everyone
likes progress until it is in their own
front yard.
That's a little how the
homeowners on Millers Lane in"
south College Station feel. Revisions
to the city's Comprehensive
Development Plan call for a con-
nection of FM 2818 to the East
Bypass and their street is a prime
target for that connection.
Millers Lane is directly across
Texas Avenue from FM 2818 and
would seem the most obvious route if
one looks at it only on a map.
The problem is, however, there
are homes along Miller's Lane that
would be destroyed for the right -of-
way.
Clint Bertrand and his wife have
lived on the lane for 20 years. They
moved there when it was "out in the
country," Mrs. Bertrand said. Now
Millers Lane is in the city limits.
Their home is in jeopardy.
Bertrand, from Central Texas, has
hauled in stone from his former
homeland and put it into the walls of
his home. He began with a small
frame structure and over the years
has built the home into a large, in-
teresting structure.
"We're now at the point to put on
the finishing touches," Mrs. Ber-
trand said, "But we are hesitant."
"We aren't the kind of people with
money to burn."
Some city officials advise that the
plan is only that — a concept. But the
Bertrands and others on Millers
Lane are afraid of the consequences
of the plan.
"We keep asking ourselves,
`should we do this or should we do
that ?' Even if the road isn't coming
through now, in two years or more
we still don't want it," Mrs. Ber-
trand said.
At present, Millers Lane is a fairly
narrow paved street with mobile
homes at its beginning on Texas
Avenue and larger homes as it winds
back to a dead end.
It seems amazingly like a country
lane even though, it is off a major
thoroughfare and ve'6 near student
apartment areas across Texas
Avenue.
There are 16 residences listed on
the lane in the city directory.
"Either of the alternatives that
have been proposed for the ex-
tension will completely change the
environment of the area," Bertrand
said. "Most of us like the rural at-
mosphere."
Bertrand owns about 45 acres
behind his home which he said he
may someday develop into a
residential area. With either
alternative being proposed by the
city planning department, his land
would be greatly affected.
Although the extension is only in
the plan stage, the city planners
were asked by the city council to
come up with a map of where the
extension might fall and what would
be destroyed by it.
In one plan, at least three homes
on the lane, including Bertrand's,
would be taken and in the alter-
native, the road would fall behind
the homes but would come within 75
feet of the first home on the. south
side of the lane.
"Of course the alternate is better
than the first plan since it would not
take out houses. But it would still
affect us quite a bit," he said.
"I hope we can come up with a
suitable compromise," Bertrand
said.
A fact that scares many residents
along the lane is that at its greatest,
the extension could be a four -lane
thoroughfare.
"I'd like to see things stay the way
they are," said Anton Slafka of 131
Millers Lane. "Right now the kids
can ride their bikes anywhere. We'd
have to put a fence around the
place."
If the thoroughfare becomes a
reality, Slafka said he's probably
moving. "I just don't like the idea of
it. We have a small lot. And as far as
I'm concerned, we don't need it."
Mrs. Mable Klug, 124 Millers
Lane, moved to the lane more than
20 years ago with her husband who
has since died.
"I don't know how long I will live,
but I want to stay here as long as I
can. It is "home to me," she said.
Mrs. Klug relies primarily on
news from her neighbors about the
street plans. "This is the logical way
for the street, but I don't see why it
has to be four lanes."
"Progress is progress, so I'll
accept it. I know they'll do what they
want to anyway."
Thus far, the council has taken no
action about the 2818 extension
except to say that it is needed to
serve a developing area to the south
and to get access to the bypass.
And no action may be forth-
coming. At recent council meetings,
exact routes have been discussed,
but no council member made a
motion for approval.
The Eagle
. June 1, 1977
•
•
PUC hands Bryan
second utility setback
By JIM DAVIS
Harte -Hanks
Austin Bureau
The Public Utilities Commission
today opened the way for initial sale
of electricity to College Station by
Gulf States Utilities Company.
After a brief hearing, the three
commissioners handed Bryan its
second setback in the city's attempt
to halt the sale.
Bryan currently supplies elec-
tricity to College Station and claims
it will be hurt by the new sales.
Last month the PUC hearing
examiner issued an internal order
denying Bryan's application to block
the power sale until a full hearing on
the case could be held.
Bryan then asked the com-
missioners to overrule that internal
order. The commissioner today
declined to do that.
The commission did agree to
modify the order to stress that it
does have the right to review any
expansion program by a utility
costing more than $100,000.
Bryan attorneys cont6nded in the
hearing today that Gulf States
should have sought commission
certificiation for its plans to expand
a transmission line to serve College
Station. They said nq sale should be
permitted until such certification is
approved.
Attorneys for College Station and
Gulf States argued that certification
was not necessary since the im-
mediate $1.5 million expansion in-
volves facilities already certified by
the commission.
A hearing on the full merits of the
case is set for July 13. Larry
Veselka, attorney for College
Station, said the ruling today opens
the way for the sale of electricity to
begin as soon as possible.
Gulf States had planned to com-
mence the sale of electricity to
College Station as of today but that
has been delayed by construction
difficulties until sometime in mid -
June.
College Station will begin pur-
chasing a maximum of 20
megawatts from Gulf States this
summer. This will be increased in
steps until all power for College
Station will be purchased by Gulf
States by 1979.
Veselka told the commissioners
the supply of electricity from Bryan
under its present five -year contract
has proved to be unreliable.
He said College Station suffered a
partial black -out last month and that
Bryan will not be able to meet peak
load demands this summer unless
supplemental purchases from Gulf
States are made.
"We will have $3,000 a day for our
customers, " Veselka said of the
proposed contract with Gulf States.
Earnest C. Casstevens of Austin,
attorney for Bryan, told the com-
mission his client would lose money
as a result of College Station pur-
chasing power from another source.
__Mr
The Eagle
40 June 1, 1977
•
•
•
Hearings on rezoning
set for College Station
College Station's
Planning and Zoning
Commission Thursday
night will hold four public
hearings on proposed
zoning changes in the city.
Hearings will be held on:
—The question of
rezoning 15 acre tract
located on the south side of
Harvey Road about 5000
feet east of the Texas
Avenue intersection from
single family residential to
general commercial
district.
—The question of
rezoning a 1.08 acre tract
located on the south side of
FM 2818 adjoining
Oceanography In-
ternational at 512 West
Loop from planned in-
dustrial district to general
commercial district.
granting a conditional use
permit to Mrs. Marjorie
Eimann for the operation
of a day care - nursery
facility at 1017 Winding
Road.
—And, for the con-
sideration of program
proposals for Community
Development Block Grant
Discretionary funds pre -
applications.
The meeting is at 7 p.m.
at the city hall.
—The cfUes -tion of
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The Planning and Zoning
Commission of the City of
College Station will hold a
public hearing to consider the
annexation of an 8.12 acre tract
approximately 2000 feet east of
the East Bypass and
surrounded on three sides by
the Raintree Subdivision. The
request is in the name of E.W.
Schultz. Managing Partner,
Raintree Developments Joint
Venture. The hearing will be
held on Thursday, June 16, 1977
at the 7:00 PM meeting of the
Planning and Zoning Com-
mission in the Council Room of
the College Station City Hall,
1101 South Texas Avenue. For
further information, please
contact the City Planner, Al
Mayo, at the City hall, 713-846
8886
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The City Council of the City of
College Station will hold a
public hearing to consider the
annexation of an 8.12 acre tract
apprximately 2000 feet east of
the East Bypass and
surrounded on three sides by
the Raintree Subdivision. The
request is in the name of
Raintree Developments, Joint
Venture, E. W. Schultz Managi
Partner. The hearing will be
held on Thursdayk June 23,
1977 at the 7:00 PM meeting of
the City Council in the Council
Room of the College Station
City Hall, 1101 south Texas The Eagle
Avenue. For further in-
formation, please contact the
Cioty Planner, Al Mayo, at the
City Hall, 713 -846 -8886.
June 1, 1977
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City Council Activities.... .
Council to consider
city plans, goals
The College Station City Council
will hold a special meeting tomor-
row at 3 p.m. in City Hall. The
council will discuss plans and goals
for the city's future.
City opens jobs
to teen applicants
College Station residents from 16-
to 18 -years old can apply tomorrow
morning to work for the city in the
summer work program.
Applications will be taken from 9
to 11 a.m. at the Parks and Recrea-
tion Department at the Lincoln
Center on Eleanor Street.
Workers will be employed with
the city's Tax, Parks and Recreation,
Engineering, Police and Street De-
partments beginning June 6.
kana has fewer businesses report-
ing.
Gross sales reaAed $43.3 billion
statewide for the last quarter, rais-
ing the year's total to $142.4 billion.
This is $27.5 billion more than 1975,
an increase of 23.9 per cent.
Houston reported $11.$ billion in
gross sales while Dallas -Fort Worth
reported $10.2 billion. These were
the only cities to break the $10.bil-
lion mark.
Harris County led the state with
$11.2 billion in gross sales. Dallas
County reported $7 billion, Tarrant
County $2.5 billion and Bexar $1.9
billion.
Commission hears
zoning, permit,
cases tomorrow
The College Station Planning and
Zoning Commission will meet to-
morrow night at 7 p.m. in City Hall.
Six items will be discussed.
Rezoning for a 15 -acre tract on
Harvey Road from residential to
commericial property, application
fronr.Munzel Holdings, Inc., will be
considered.
Also rezoning for a 1.08 acre tract
on FM 2818 next to Oceanography
International at 512 West Loop
from Planned Industrial district to a
general commercial district will be
discussed. The application is from
Oceanography International, Inc.
The commission will also consider
granting a conditional -use permit
for the operation of a day care cen-
ter at 1017 Winding Road.
Proposed' uses for Community
Development Block Grant Dis-
cretionary funds will be considered
by the commission.
The commission will also consider
a a preliminary plat on Holleman
Drive and Winding Road.
It will also reconsider a request
for a conditional -use permit for con-
struction of an 80 -unit apartment
complex on the corner of Welsh and
Southwest Parkway. The request
was tabled at the last meeting.
The Battalion
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June 1, 1977
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Joyce not optimistic. after
Wednesday ruling by PUC
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
Bryan Mayor Lloyd Joyce is not
optimistic following Wednesday's
ruling by the Public Utilities
Commission to allow Gulf States
Utilities Co. to begin to supply power
to College Station.
"We would naturally have to say
we couldn't be overly optimistic_
based on the past two rulings. We
still think they (the commissioners)
will want to hear all the merits of the
case," he said.
The Public Utilities Commission
Wednesday upheld an interim ruling
issued May 20 which allowed Gulf
States to extend service to College
Station.
Bryan sought to reverse the
earlier order by the commission.
That ruling two weeks ago said that
College Station could buy as much as
half, or 20 megawatts, of its electric
power from Gulf States this sum-
TO WHOM IT MAY COW
CERN:
The City Council of the City
of College Station held a public
hearing on Thursday, May 26,
1977 to consider Ordinance No.
1076, amending the Zoning
Ordinance No. 850 and Or-
dinance No. 996, revising the
residential district
classifications and allowable
densities, and deleting apart-
merits as a permitted use in
commercial zones. The penalty
for violation, of course, will be
as provided for in Ordinance
No- 850. Ordinance No. 1076 will
become effective on Monday,
June 13, 1977. For further in
formation, contact the City
Planner's office at the City
Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, 846-
8886.
mer. Bryan will supply the other
half.
The utility contract between
Bryan and College Station called for
Bryan to supply all the electric
power that College Station "shall
request." Philip Ricketts, the PUC
examiner at the May hearing, said
the utilities commission could not
act contrary to that contract.
Wednesday the 3- member com-
mission upheld his ruling in that
interim order, but another, final
hearing is scheduled July 13 on the
full merits of the issue.
There was no further testimony
Wednesday. Attorpeys for both sides
argued the case before the com-
missioners who were nQt present at
the May meeting.
Bryan Mayor Lloyd Joyce said
today, "Naturally we had hoped
they would have gone the other
way." He said he felt Bryan is at the
same place it was since the final
hearing is yet to come July 13.
The mayor stressed that the
CS presented
block grant
challenge from Bryan is strictly a
legal matter in which a lot of money
is involved. He said it should not be
viewed as a personal matter bet-
ween the two cities.
Although the commissioners did
not overrule the interim order issued
by Rickets on May 20, they did
modify that ruling to say that the
commission has the right to review
all utility company expansions
costing more than $100,000.
Ricketts said today that this
modification has "no practical ef-
fect right now" on the Gulf States
expansion to serve College Station.
Meanwhile, Bryan plans to sell
approximately $4.3 million in utility
revenue bonds this summer,
sometime in July. The sale of these
bonds were authorized by Bryan
voters in the spring of 1976. Mayor
Joyce said this bond sale will
proceed as scheduled because this
money will go in part toward
completing the Roland Dansby
Power Plant, six miles north of
town.
"The amount of this sale has not
been affected by the utilities com-
mission decision," he said.
Bryan hopes to have the power
plant ready for commercial
operation by December of this year,
according to Joyce.
WASHINGTON — Congressman
Olin Teague was advised Wed-
nesday that the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development
has granted College Station a
$275,000 community development
block grant.
The funds will be used for paving,
curbs, gutters, clearance of vacant
buildings and for housing code en-
forcement.
The Eagle
June 2, 1977
Planning commission
refuses zoning change
for 18 -story towers
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
The College Station Planning and
Zoning Commission Thursday
recommended denial of a zoning
change for 15 acres located on the
south side of Harvey Road that a
developer said he wanted to use to
build two 18 -story towers for hotel -
apartments.
Alec Munzel, representing Munzel
Holdings, Inc., had requested that
the tract, located 5,000 feet from the
intersection of Texas Avenue, be
rezoned from single family
residential to general commercial.
Munzel said his long -range plans
call for purchase of about 101 acres
adjacent to the 15 -acre tract for the
development of a $30 million project
involving five 18 -story towers and
containing 1,250 rooms for tem-
porary residents. The project would
take several years for completion.
Munzel's conceptual sketches
showed a large park area bordered
by the towers and massive parking
lots. I A, .1 ,,
Commission members voted to
recommend that the cduncil give
Munzel a zoning designation of PUD
(Planned Unit Development) which
would allow commercial and
residential development.
The commission did not vote
specifically on the PUD zoning
possibility however, because
commissioners were told a change
from the requested zoning was not
publicly announced and would
violate the Open Meetings Law.
Munzel indicated the zoning delay
1 - 0 WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The City COlnCll of the City
of College Station held a public
hearing on Thursday, May 26,
1977 to consider Ordinance No.
1076 ' amending the Zoning
Ordinance No. 850 and Or-
dinance No. 996, revising the
residential district
classifications and allowable
densities, and deleting apart
ments as a permitted use in
commercial zones. The penalty
for violation, of course, will be
as provided for in Ordinance
No 850. Ordinance No. 1076 will
become effective on Monday,
June 13, 1977. For further in
formation, contact the City
Planner's office at the City
Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, 846-
8886.
might mean the death of the total
scheme.
Munzel, who owns Plantation
Oaks Apratments, said he sees a
need for short -term housing and felt
the hotel- apartment concept would
be "bold and something good for the
community."
City Engineer Elrey Ash said the
city staff recommended a project
with less density for that area.
In other action, the commission
voted to recommend denial of a
zoning change from planned in-
dustrial to general commercial for a
1.08 acre tract on the south side of
FM 2818 adjoining Oceanography
International.
City staff said the tract was too
small for a commercial develop-
ment.
The Eagle
June 3, 1977
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Worker to look after city's environment
College Station hires employe
for new job with"strange title,
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
College Station has a new city
employe and his title is "urban
forester."
At first glance, the job may seem
rather strange, but upon
examination, Eric Ploeger's duties
will be to look after the en-
vironmental and beautification
aspects of the city.
A recent graduate of Stephen F.
Austin University in Nacogdoches,
Ploeger has a forestry degree. He
said his job is new to this area, but
such positions exist in most major
cities including Houston.
"City foresters are common in the
northeastern United States. I guess
because there are more people and
they must be more concerned with
aspects of the 'environment,"
Ploeger said.
He's only been on the job in
College Station for two days, so
Ploeger isn't really sure just what
his new job will entail.
One duty, however, will be to help
develop the city's arboretum in Bee
Creek Park. The arboretum, he said,
will be an area of woody plants —
trees and shrubs.
The arboretum, to be sponsored by
the Brazos County Arboretum
Association, will not really be a park
as such. It will have trails, Ploeger
said, and people will be able to walk
around and look at the multiple
varieties of trees and plants.
"We hope to concentrate on native
Texas species," he said.
This week, Ploeger has been
studying how to get water to the
arboretum.
Other duties of the city forester
will be to work with utility crews on
cutting right of ways, be accessible
to developers for advice on planting
and cutting trees and to work on a
city program to plant more trees
along streets.
Since he's under the parks and
recreation department, Ploeger also
will work on projects from that
department.
"This city is really growing. I
think it is very progressive. I hope I
can contribute something," Ploeger
said.
The Eagle
• June 4, 1977
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Officer of the Month
does many things well
By KATHY FAHY
Staff Writer
Officer Tommy Preston
of the College Station
Police Department likes to
do things well.
He plays golf so well he
doesn't need a handicap.
He has served so well as
a police officer that he was
named Officer of the
Month for May in Brazos
County.
Preston has been on the
Police force almost three
years. "I wanted to be a
Policeman all through high
school," he said. "I'm
right where I want to be,"
Preston said.
Before joining the force
Preston worked as an
electrician. "This sure
beats climbing 75 -foot
poles in 95- degree heat,"
he said.
Preston's watchword in
dealing with the public is
courtesy. "You have to be
courteous and very helpful
because sometimes he (the
offender) doesn't know
what he's doing," he ex-
plained.
The three letters sup-
porting Preston's
nomination all praise his
courtesy. One writer who
admitted he was in the
wrong when stopped by
Preston still was im-
pressed with Preston's
manner — "I know I had
done wrong. It could have
caused an accident. He
(Preston) was kind, polite
and courteous."
"Tommy leaves a good
taste in their mouth toward
him and the department,"
Marvin Byrd, College
Station police chief, said.
Preston does not spend
all his time fighting crime
in College Station.
"I love to shoot pool and
I play a lot of golf," he
said. He averages an 85
with no handicap.
Preston also plays
shortstop for the College
Station Police Association
softball team. He was
named All- Tournament
Player for the past three
years.
With his family Preston
likes picnics. He is
married and has three
daughters and one son. "I
wouldn't mind if any of
them would like to join the
police, whatever they'd
like to do," he said.
The Eagle
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Tommy Preston
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CS reports $1.1 million in apt., building
The City of College Station had
more than $1.1 million in apartment
construction approved during May,
according to a report from the city
building inspection department.
Bill Koehler, building inspector,
said the construction primarily was
on a series of four - plexes at Park-
way Plaza.
"Almost all phases of construction
are holding higher than normal," he
said.
The $1,110,270 in apartment
permits compared to only $230,000 in
April. Total apartment permits for
the first five months of 1977 was
$6,533,094 compared to $2,326,000 in
the same period of 1976.
Total permits approved in College
Station for May totaled $2,823,059
and ,included .$'904,980 for 38
residences, $638,469 for 19 duplexes,
$125,740 for commercial, $43,600 for
repairs and additions and the $1.1
million for single family homes.
During May, the additional con-
struction brought the city's five -
month total on new residences up to
207 as compared to 108 during the
same period in 1976. Permits totaled
$4,779,642.
Total duplex construction during
January through May for 1977
totaled $1,218,407. That figure is the
only one down from 1976 when the
total was $2,880,000.
Total construction permits in the
city during the five -month period
came to $13,275,810 for 1977 as
compared to $10,800,000 in 1976.
The Eagle
June 6, 1977
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More services will require more taxes
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
As the demand for city services in
College Station continues to grow,
tax increases will be needed, ac-
cording to North Bardell, city
manager.
Bardell spoke Monday at the
monthly meeting of the Bryan -
College Station Board of Realtors.
He told the group that already the
city has problems keeping up with
the number of utility hookups and
meter readings in the rapidly
growing city.
Fire and police protection also
must be increased to provide
adequate service for the city,
Bardell said.
The additional city services as
well as increased salary
requirements have meant increases
in the city budget, he said. To meet
the additional financial
requirements, Bardell said, the ad
valorem tax rate as well as revenue
from other areas will need to be
increased — but how much remains
undertermined.
Bardell pointed out that an in-
crease in ad valorem tax actually
generates a fairly small amount of
money. For example, he said, a one
cent increase in the ad valorem rate
for the city would generate $14,000
additional dollars. Of a proposed
1977 -78 budget of $10 million, that
amount looks rather small, he
pointed out.
The city manager said one source
of additional revenue will be to try to
place the cost of services on the
service. He said costs of building
permits and for such services as
water taps, will be increased to try
to make the charge cover cost of the
services.
Bardell said that by three dif-
ferent planning curves, College
Station is slated to grow between two
and nine per cent each year for the
next three years. The variation in
the percentage, he said, would allow
for continued growth at A &M, a drop
in the growth rate or a standstill in
growth of the university.
College Station is somewhat
unique, he said, because the main
stimulus of the economy is out of the
hands of the city officials — that
being Texas A &M.
By this fall, Bardell said, College
Station's population is estimated to
be at 40,000.
CS Council remains mum on utility announcement
The scheduled announcement by
the College Station City Council on
the subject of utilities has not been
made by the council's spokesman,
Councilman Jim Dozier.
According to a statement last
week, that announcement was
scheduled for Monday. College
Station is planning to begin swit-
ching from Bryan Utilities to Gulf
States Utilities as the city's supplier
of electricity.
No comment was made on the
subject Monday and none is planned
at this time, according to officials at
city hall.
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CS budget
could pass
$10 million
By JOHN TYNES
Staff Writer
The 1977 -78 proposed budget for
the City of College Station calls for
an increase of more than $2.3 million
in expenditures over the 1976 -77
budget.
The increase would be covered
mainly by a projected raise in the
amount of revenue generated by
operation and supply of utilities to
College Station residents.
The proposed budget, which is the
subject of a hearing at Thursday
night's city council meeting, calls
for a 28 per cent increase over the
estimated 1976 -77 Oudpt, raising
total projected • expenditures to
$10,722,186.41. This year's budget
totaled $8,392,159.98.
The proposed ad valorem tax rate
for the city in the budget is 52 cents
per $100 evaluation based on 80 per
cent market value, according to
Glen Schroeder, city tax assessor -
collector.
The current rate is 43 cents per
$100 evaluation on 80 per cent
assessed valued.
This means that a person with a
$30,000 home, valued at $24,000 for
tax purposes, now pays $103.20 in
College Station ad valorem taxes.
Under the proposed budget, that
taxpayer would pay $124.80 — a
difference of $21.60 per year.
City Manager North Bardell said
today that the increas4 in utility
revenue represents an expected
increase in the amount of utility
service to be delivered and an ex-
pected increase in the base rate
charged the city for utilities.
"We expect an increase in load of
between 12 and 15 per cent," he said.
He added that the rising costs of
utilities to the city itself would be
reflected in the amount of revenue
that must be returned through
operation charges.
Bardell said the budget must be
approved by June 27..
The proposed budget also projects The Eagle
significantly increased revenue in
several other areas including tax June 8 1977
revenue, city sales tax, franchise
tax and court fines.
However, expenses will be higher
in many areas. Fire department
expenditures would go up $140,000
under the proposed budget. That
increase is due to the city's ab-
sorption of the ambulance service,
Bardell said.
CS firetruck undergoing
rigorous inspections
College Station city officials and
firemen Thursday morning, v►pre-
proudly inspecting a new fietruck
for the city.
The Pierce 1000 GPM Commercial
truck cost more than $58,000 and will
run on diesel fuel. The unit will
become the fire department's fourth
truck, including a,grass fire truck.
Presently, the city is borrowing a
fourth unit from the Texas A &M
Firemen's Training School and that
truck will be returned if the new unit
meets a rigid checklist, according to
Fire Chief Douglas Landua.
Another new truck is scheduled for
delivery in the next few months,
Landua said. He said the truck,
delivered Wednesday, is equipped
, for light water foam production will
be used on gas spills and at the
airport. .
"We also plan to use this unit to go
out into the county," Landua said.
The truck is a 1977 model. The
department's other trucks were
built in 1969.
A manufacturer's representative
and local firemen will test the truck
today. If it passes the tests, Landua
said, the truck will be equipped and
could be in service within a week.
CS holds closed session
The College Station City Council
met for about two hours Wednesday
afternoon in the second closed
session in eight days.
Council Spokesman Jim Dozier
said the council met with city at-
torneys to discuss the next step in
the legal proceedings over the
utilities conflict with Bryan.
Dozier would not comment on
rumors that a settlement between
the two cities had been discussed. He
did indicate, however, that Bryan
still intended to try to win the
disagreement in court.
Bryan City Manager Lou Odle
refused any comment on the matter
at all.
The Eagle
• June 9, 1977
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Extension of FM 2818 questioned
To the Editor:
Eagle writer Jane M. Smith's fine
story last week ( "FM 2818 extension
may destroy homes ") clearly
presents some of the human aspects
of city planning and city develop -,
ment. Her sensitive story correctly
implied, and most of the quoted
reactions supported, the hard fact
that sometimes, for the "public
good," the broader "public in-
terest," "progress," etc., we must
disrupt neighborhoods or otherwise
disturb a few for the betterment of
the many.
As a practicing city planner for
more years than I'm beginning to
care to remember, and as a city
councilman, representing the
broader public for the past few
years, it has been clear in a number
of decisions that the "public in-
terest" was paramount and, as
painlessly as possible, the alter-
native had to be carried out, con-
trary to the best interests of the few.
But in the case in question — the
eastward extension of FM 2818
(West By -pass) this is not the
situation, in my opinion. In fact, it
would appear to be the opposite: a
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However, they must meet
certain criteria. They must be
signed. They must be no longer
than 250 words and, preferably,
should deal with issues rather
than personalities. The Eagle
reserves the right to edit letters
and to delete material that is not
in good taste or is legally
questionable.
proposal for the benefit of a few at
the expense of the many.
Why the pressure to have College
Station commit itself to the potential
expenditure of thousands of dollars
of local taxpayers' money for right
of way acquisition, if not the con-
struction itself? Apparently, and
this has been strongly implied by its
Proponents, the successful
development of the .2;300 acre area
being proposed for annexation
depends, to a .large degree, on
having access to the annexation
area via some type of major
thoroughfare along and extending
eastward from the present align-
ment of Millers Lane.
This raises a number of related
local issues we are about to face
when the annexation comes up later
this month (June 23rd) for official
public hearing. What is the real
significance of development east of
the by -pass to College Station — the
costs, the benefits? What would this
expansion of the City's municipal
obligations mean to those of us who
can see plenty of places within our
present jurisdiction to invest our
limited financial resources? Why
by -pass the vast vacant acreages
within the present city limits, some
of which have just recently started
to develop?
What the proposed extension
seems to boil down to is how much
will we have to ask the folks along
Millers Lane to suffer in terms of
loss of homes and environmental
quality, and how much are the rest
of us going to pay in terms of energy
and tax dollar waste so that a
relatively few scattered develop-
ments may benefit? Too much, I
feel.
James R. Gardner
The Eagle
June 10, 1977
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Rezoning approved
Towers may ,be in CS future
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The rezoning of a 15 -acre tract
granted by the College Station City
Council Thursday night will allow
planning to begin for an apartment -
hotel complex unique to this area. .
The rezoning was made in
response to a request submitted
recently in the name of Munzel
Holdings, Inc. Alex Munzel ap-
peared before the city council
Thursday night to explain why he
wanted the land rezoned.
Munzel enlisted the aid of Peter
Bachelor from North Carolina to
help describe the project he
proposes for a large tract of land in
College Station.
Munzel plans to build five 18 -20
story towers on more than 100 acres
of land located on the south side of
Harvey Road approximately 5,000
feet from the intersection of Harvy
Road and Texas Avenue
Munzel said thb buildings would
house an apartment -hotel complex
that would offer mainly short term
living arrangements. The project
would also include a large park area
between the towers and wide
parking areas.
The 15 -acre tract which was
rezoned was changed from a
residential zoning to a commercial
zoning. The change was made to
make the zoning on the 15 acres the
same as the rest of the land that
Munzel wishes to buy.
Munzel urged the council to make
a decision because he said he had to
make a decision to buy the land by
Friday morning and he wasn't
willing to buy the land if it wasn't
zoned to his needs.
The council approved the rezoning
despite a recent recommendation by
the College Station Planning and
Zoning Commission that the request
be denied.
The council heard testimony from
city staff concerned with the issue as
well as Munzel and Bachelor.
The request ' passed with only
Councilmen Dozier and Ringer
voting against it.
Dozier said he voted against it
because he did not apprecitate
Munzel's attempt to pressure the
council into a decision on the
grounds that he needed a decision at
once.
The plan must be approved by
several more , city commissions
before any construction can begin,
according to a spokesman for the
City Planning Department.
The Eagle
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June 10, 1977
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CS to tie in with Gulf State on June 20,
June 20 is the tentative date for
College Station to begin receiving a
portion of the city's electrical power
from Gulf State Utilities Co.
George Ford, College Station
director of public works, said today
that late deliveries on materials
needed for the hook -up with Gulf
States has postponed the switch
from an original forecast date of
mid -June.
On June 20, he said, the city will
make a "flying tap" to tie -in with
Gulf State's unit near the east
bypass and the system will be
energized.
Ford said designs called for the
city to receive 20 megawatts from
Gulf States but he didn't know if that
amount of power would be generated
at that time.
The 20 megawatts of power is
approximately half of the city's
electricity needs. College Station
will continue to purchase the other
half from Bryan.
College Station's switch to Gulf
States has been temporarily ratified
in an interim ruling of the Public
Utilities Commission issued May 20.
Currently College Station buys all
its electricity from Bryan but the
city council in College. Station has
said it can get a break in utilities
rates for CS custom_ ers it switches
to Gulf States.
Bryan opposes the move saying
that city had made investments and
contracts for.power based on College
Station usage.
The PUC ruled June 1 that the
interim order issued in May would
stand until the final hearing on the
merits of the case July 13 in Austin.
Attorneys for both Bryan and
College Station have said that the
PUC's action upholding its earlier
interim ruling indicated that Bryan
would not stand much chance of
reversing the decision July 13.
That's because once the switch to
Gulf States is made, the PUC is
unlikely to reverse itself and rule in
favor of Bryan.
College Station originally planned
to make the partial switch to Gulf
States June 1 but was delayed by
construction - related matters.
The Eagle
June 13, 1977
`Adult' ma mines could
g
disappear from stores
By RUSTY CAWLEY
warned the council the law should be
Battalion Staff
taken to court only on flagrant violations.
Playboy, Hustler, Oui and other adult
The penalty is a $200 or less fine.
magazines may disappear from magazine
Lewis admitted the wording of the law
racks of College Station businesses in the
is loose, but said it conforms to the ac-
next week.
cepted legal standards for such a law.
Or they may not, if they can be de-
Work on the law began in April after
fended as having serious literary, artistic,
Mary Bassett, a teacher for the A &M Con -
School District, brought several
political or scientific value for minors.
solidated
The College Station City Council made
adult magazines to a council meeting April
it illegal last Thursday to sell pornographic,,
. 14 which she said were purchased at local
materials to minors and to display the ma -' .°
stores. The council decided to do some -
terials where minors can see them.
thing about it.
The council orginally intended for the
At a meeting April 28, the council in-
law to force grocery store owners to hide
structed Lewis to consult with County At-
the covers of adult magazines with a paper
torney Roland. Searcy and District Attor-
wrapping that would show only the _ flag..,
But no such provision was written into the
ney W.T. McDonald, Jr. in writing a law
limiting the sale of pornographic materials
ordinance passed last week.
to minors.
The ordinance, as drawn up by City At-
Council members wanted to have adult
torney Neeley Lewis, defines a minor as
magazine covers wrapped such that only
anyone younger than 17. It also defines
the publication's name would be dis-
"harmful material" in detail.
played. It also wanted to set standards for
"Harmful material ", according to the
the heights of magazine racks. The idea
new law, depicts, describes or represents
was to put the magazines where children_
sexual conduct, sexual organs and private
could not reach them.
parts or torture. It must be found to be
Neither of these are in the new law.'
offensive to the adult standards of the
What the new law does is try to stop the
community as to what minors should see
display of adult magazines without serious
and what they shouldn't.
intent in grocery stores, supermarkets,
Finally, the material must lack serious
motels and other businesses minors are al-
intent, whether it be literary, artistic,
lowed to enter.
political or scientific, for minors. This last
The magazines may be sold to adults,
phrase is important, Lewis told the coun-
but they will have to be kept under the
cil, because it allows for material such as
counter and out of the view of children.
textbooks on human sexuality.
This practice is already in use in some
Phil Sutton, Texas A &M University's
local businesses.
student body vice president for external
Stores that specialize in pornographic
affairs and a non -voting member of the
materials and do not allow minors may
council, asked Lewis 'if a magazine such as
display the magazines as they wish.
Playboy could be taken as having serious
No one can sell the materials to a minor
intent.
or employ a minor to sell them. The pen -
Lewis replied that such a decision
alty for violating the new law. is a fine of
would have to be made in court. He
$900 or less.
The Battalion
• June 13, 1977
•
•
Rezoning of land granted
by College Station Council
A step towards the construction of an
18 -20 story apartment complex was *-
by the College Station City Council last
Thursday night.
Alex Munzel, a Canadian architect and
builder, was granted a rezoning of the land
from residential to commercial property.
The move allowed Munzel Holdings, Inc.
to purchase the land along with adjoining
property to build the complex by zoning
the tract the same as the land.
The more than 100 acres of land to be
used for the construction is located on the
south side of Harvey Road near the inter-
section of Harvey and Texas Avenue.
Munzel told the council he plans to
build five 18 -20 story towers. The apart-
ments would offer short -term leases to its
tenants, appealing to Texas A &M Univer-
sity students.
Munzel told the council he needed an
immediate ruling because he needed to
close the deal the next day. Councilman
Jim Dozier said Munzel was pressuring
the council. He voted against the rezoning
because he said he is tired of "having a gun
put to my head."
Other councilmen said they doubted
the project would ever come about, but
that an island of residential zoned land
should not be left in a commercial sur-
rounding.
In other action, the council decided to
allow the city's comprehensive plan to
show a connection between Kyle Street
and Dominik Street other than Puryear.
The plan will also show FM 2818 extend-
ing across Texas Avenue to the east by-
pass. There are no defenite plans for doing
either.
No one showed up for the public hear-
ing on the city's proposed budget for
1977 -78. A second hearing will be held
June 23.
The council also accepted a bid of
$66,234 for sidewalk construction by
Kavanaugh Contruction Co.
The Battalion
• June 13, 1977
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Viewpoint
The Battalion
June 13, 1977
Texas A &M University Monday
•
Council p ractices
The College Station City Council has approved an ordinance which
makes it illegal for any person or firm to sell, distribute or display porno-
graphic materials to minors. But what the council wants and what it gets
may be two far different things.
From the outset, let there be no doubt that parents have a right to
expect protection for their children from the gutter smut that some mer-
chants do not hesitate to display openly. And children, young children,
have a right to be spared the psychological confusion such porno material
can cause.
But the council seems to have gotten more than bargained for or
needed.
Under the ordinance a person could be fined up to $200 per day for
selling, distributing, or displaying pornographic materials to a minor, or
for having such materials for those purposes. That would include display
Of porno materials on display racks in stores open to the general public.
Pornographic materials defined in the ordinance include those showing
sexual conduct or organs or a woman's breasts. These materials also in-
:: elude those offensive to the adult community in respect to minors or
without literary, scientific or other value to minors.
The council seems to have lost track of its original intent.
The pornography issue, when first brought up before the council, con-
e: cerned only the display of such materials. The city fathers were then
speaking in terms of greater restrictions on the display of porno material,
possibly requiring brown paper wrappers over the covers of such
porno over Kill .
magazines. Such a requirement would be fairly simple to enforce, easy to
understand and quite effective.
But the present ordinance goes to great length to cover all possible
situations where pbrno magazines and minors may meet. That length may
well be its undoing.
The ordinance says someone may not display the "harmful materials" to
minors. But it does not specify how someone such as a convenience store
manager, may keep such materials. Behind the counter? Under the
counter? If "adult magazines" are on the counter but something hides
their racy covers, are the magazines "on display ?"
It will also be difficult for such store owners to determine what is
"patently offensive" to adults thinking of their children. And who among
them will define what is "serious literary, artistic, political or scientific
value for minors ?"
Such definitions will come only in court, as City Attorney Neeley Lewis
has already conceded. A court of law is the place for final judgement on
violations of law, not for rewording confusing laws that should have been
made clear and precise before becoming law.
And how is the ordinance going to be enforced? With city police in-
specting the magazine racks in local stores and making their own deci-
sions on what is and isn't legal material, and on what is and isn't legally
displayed? Or will the police issue a monthly bulletin on which magazines
and books are legal for display? That prospect is mind - boggling and more
than a little quite frightening.
All for want of a brown paper wrapper.
CJ
•
College Station
asked to return
county vehicle
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
Brazos County Commissioners
Monday gave College Station notice
that the county wanted its am-
bulance back so it could be loaned to
Bill Thornal of Mid -Tex Ambulance
in Bryan.
College Station was given 60 days
notice effective June 30 that the
ambulance would be needed
elsewhere in the county. College
Station had been using the am-
bulance since the city took over
ambulance operations in March.
The city owns a second ambulance.
When the ambulance was loaned,
the city was told its use would be
reviewed on June 30.
North Bardell, College Station city
manager, said the city is working on
specifications for purchase of an
ambulance. He said the only
problem would be to now go the
council for a decision on how the new
ambulance purchase would be
funded.
Fire Chief Douglas Landua said
the schedule set forth by the com-
missioners would make for a tight
deadline since advertising for bids
takes about a month and there would
be some waiting period before
delivery.
Landua said the city would be at a
hardship operating with only one
ambulance.
The commissioners said Thornal
serves the entire rural area of the
county. College Statio;i...serves the
southern portion of the county.
A new ambulance, Bardell said,
costs between $20,000 - $28,000. He
said city funds could come from
revenue sharing or the general fund.
In other action, the commissioners
heard a request from residents in
the Harvey Community for a polling
place there.
Dr. Cornelius van Bavel,
representing the residents, said
there are about 400 registered voters
in the area. About 200 of those
voters, he said, must travel to
Wellborn to vote. Since many of the
voters are elderly, van Bavel said,
they do not vote because of the
distance to the polls.
Harvey is trying to develop a
community identity and the
establishment of a polling place
there would further this aim, van
Bavel said.
Commissioner Bill Cooley said he
felt the entire county needed to be
studied for t'reapportion ment since
the commissioner's court had had
several requests for poll changes.
The court also postponed action on
a request from the Bicentennial
Committee and the Brazos County
Arboretum Committee for $3,000 for
the arboretum.
Andy Anderson of the Bicentennial
committee said the funds had been
promised by the county and were
needed to purchase irrigation pipe
and other materials for the ar-
boretum located in College Station.
County Judge W.R. Vance said he
was reluctant to give money to the
arboretum committee since it
wasn't a legal entity because it was
appointed by the now non - existent
bicentennial committee. He asked
that the arboretum group complete
incorporation procedures and
secure an agreement with College
Station on operation of the tree
sanctuary.
The court took no action on a
request from County Court at Law
Judge Bradley Smith who wanted
the commissioners to decide
whether his job was full or part -
time.
Smith said the newly revised
Judicial Code of Ethics allows
judges to practice law if they are
part -time but not if they were full -
time.
Smith also talked with com-
missioners about a salary raise if
the job were fulltime. Smith and
Vance said the judge's salary did not
compare favorably with other
similar positions. Smith currently
makes $18,000 and sought a raise to
$22,500.
The commissioners voted two in
favor, three against to give Smith a
salary hike.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad-
just mant of the City of College
Station will consider a request
for a variance from John
Garner, at their called meeting
in the Council Room in the
College Station City Hall at
7:30 P.M. on Tuesday, June 21,
1977, the facts of the case being
as follows:
The applicant requests a
variance to the rear setback
requirements of the Zoning
Ordinance in order to construct
a residence on his property at
701 Thomas.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Building Official of the City of
College Station, telephone 846
8886.
William F. Koehler
B uilding Official
The Eagle
June 14, 1977
0
Reaction varies on City
Council p'ornography law
By GLENNA WHITLEY
Laura Jamac, who works at the 'U -Tote public," he said. He said as far as he knows,
Battalion Campus Editor
`M at 301 Patricia, said her supervisors this has always been their policy.
were still discussing what could be done . Joan Littlejohn, manager of B &B drive -
The response to the new ordinance
about the new ordinance. Those super- in convenience store on Nagle St., was un-
passed by the College Station City Council
visors were 'unavailable for comment. aware of the new ordinance until she spoke
last week prohibiting the sale of "adult
=-. Skaggs- Allaertsons on South College Av- to a reporter yesterday. She added that
magazines" to minors has been varied.
enue has not displayed adult magazines for both she and the stores owner had been
Some stores immediately removed the
, at least two years, said Oliver Bishop, store out of town for four weeks. Littlejohn said
magazines like Playboy, Penthouse and r, 'director.
they would probably just put a piece of
Hustler from their shelves. Other stores'
"It is our policy not to have any wood across the shelves so that only the
personnel were not even aware the ordi-
magazines of this nature out before the titles showed.
nance existed as of yesterday.
The magazines at the Texas A &M
Bookstore in the Memorial Student Center
were moved yesterday after a reporter
questioned the manager, Howard DeHart,
about the ordinance on Monday.
"They'll be at the register and people
will have to ask for them," DeHart said
yesterday. He said he expected sales of the
magazines to go down because customers
will have to request them at the register.
"If it wasn't for the many requests we
have, we wouldn't carry them anyway,"
DeHart said.
The bookstore sells Playboy, Penthouse,
Play Girl and Oui. DeHart said they once
received Hustler by mistake, but it was
pulled off the shelf almost immediately.
"Hustler is definitely pornography," he
The Battali6n
said. He mentioned a magazine study done
about two years ago before he became
manager. The study approved the four
magazines now sold as "soft core ". DeHart
June 15, 1977
did not remember who performed the
study and made that decision.
Dehart said that he wished the bookstore
didn't have to carry any magazines, adult or
otherwise. He said more people read the
material in the store than bought it and the
lack of magazine sales kept the bookstore
inventory too high.
The U -Tote `M convenience stores in
College Station still display the magazines.
0 0
New fines await CS drivers
who violate city regulations
By ROBIN SCHRIVER
Staff Writer
The cost of traffic vilations,
speeding and a day in the municipal
court is going up in College Station.
If a driver violates the code
restrictions on his or her driver's
license or fails to obtain a license the
fine now will be a flat rate of $20.
Before the fine for violating code
restrictions was $10 and the fine for
failure to obtain a license was $25.
Any speeders in College Station
will now pay a fine of $15 for 15 miles
per hour over the speed limit, $25 for
15 to 25 miles per hour over the limit
and $30 for any speeding violation
over 25 miles per hour.
Before a speeder faced fines of $1
per mile until he or she went 29 miles
over the limit, $2 per mile from 30 to
40 miles per hour over the limit and
$3 per mile over 40 miles per hour.
In addition to the new fines,
anyone who wishes to contest the
policeman's judgment may spend
his day in court but it will cost him a
little more to do that.
Now anyone contesting acharge
will be requested to pay a cash bond
of approximately double the fine.
"If you don't show," said Kenneth
M. Robison, municipal judge, "you
will forfeit the bond."
And, if necessary, there may be an
additional fine for failure to appear
in court, Robison said. The
maximum fine for failure to appear
is $200, but it also carries another
penalty — a warrant for your arrest.
Robison said that failure to appear
doesn't always result in arrest. The
city usually will send a warning
notice.
But he added that citizens
shouldn't think they will be able to
let a ticket slide or that if they sign
up for a hearing before the judge and
don't show up that they will be
forgotten. Habitual offenders will
find that Robison doesn't look kindly
on flaunting the system.
Falunting the system costs the
city money and ultimately the
taxpayer money because the tax-
payer is the one who pays the
salaries of the judge and the court
clerks that work for him, Robison
said. The more unnecessary paper
work they do the more it costs the
city and the taxpayer.
"I have changed some of the
administrative procedures to
facilitate court hearings and
procedures and eliminate some of
the problem areas," Robison said.
These administrative changes are
designed to hold down the cost of the
administration of the court, he
said.
Once the defendant has requested
a hearing, he may request a trial
before a judge or a jury trial. If a
defendant requests a jury trial the
city must find the jurors and pay
them for the day they spend in court.
That also costs the taxpayer money.
So Robison is trying to keep people
from requesting trials and not
showing up.
If the defendant doesn't show up
for the trial, he forfeits the cash
bond. If he does appear for trial and
is found guilty, all or part of the bond
may be applied toward payment of
the fine. If he is found not guilty the'
bond is returned.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad
just ment of the City of College
Station will consider a request
for a variance from John
Garner, at their called meeting
in the Council Room in the
College Station City Hall at
7:30 P.M. on Tuesday, June 21,
1977, the facts of the case being
as follows:
The applicant requests a
variance to the rear setback
requirements of the Zoning
Ordinance in order to construct
a residence on his property at
701 Thomas.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Building Official of the City Of
College Station, telephone 846-
8886.
William F. Koehler
Buil din %Of ficial
The Eagle
June 15, 1977
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Public hearing set o plan
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
The proposed annexation of about
2,400 acres on the east side O the
East Bypass into the College Sta on
city limits will go to the city cou it
for a public hepring Thursday n xt
week.
Al Mayo, city planner, said tod y
the annexation has gone through t e
public notice stage and after t
public hearing Thursdav will
ready for council action. He said the
council couia vote on the issue the
same night or postpone action until a
later meeting.
If the annexation is approved, it
will increase the size of the city by
about 21.3 per cent.
Mayo said once the annexation is
approved, the city tax assessor will
begin adding the area to the tax
rolls.
The proposed annexation area
includes the Raintree Addition and
Fox Fire Addition. Mayo estimated
that there are about 25 residents now
living in the area.
The area, however,t is one of the
fastest developing ; itreas in the
College Station area. '
City Manager North Bardell has
said if fully developed, the area
could add about $275,000 more a year
in city ad valorem tax income.
Expenses to the city will be in-
curred to provide police protection
and sewer and electrical services to
the new area.
Tonight, the city planning and
zoning commission will hear a
request from developers of the
Raintree addition for annexation.of
8.12 acres. The tract is about 2,000
feet east of the East Bypass and is
included in the large area being
considered for annexation by the
city.
The Eagle
June 16, 1977
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Reader
says thanks
To the Editor:
Many thanks to the Parks and
Recreation Dept. of College Station
for the "nature sidewalk" that
parallels Bee Creek from S.W. Park-
way to Adamson swimming pool.
It is a lovely walk past colorful
wildflowers, under tall trees that
filter the hot summer sun and
provide homes for wild birds.
However, one tree near the walk
has been sprayed with paint and cut
through the bark. Why?
There is a lunch sack of trash near
the walk. Why?
Parks and Recreation planned the
walk and built it, but it's up to us
citizens to care for it by not hurting
trees or littering.
K. Wood
The Eagle
Tune 18, 1977
•
a
ORDINANCE NO. 1078
A N O R D I N A N C E
PROHIBITING THE SALE,
DISTRIBUTION, OR
DISPLAY OF HARMFUL
MATERIAL TO MINORS;
DEFINING CERTAIN
TERMS; PROVIDING A
PENALTY FOR THE
VIOLATION OF THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS OR-
DINANCE BY FINE; AND
C O N T A I N I N G A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF COLLEGE STATION,
TEXAS:
It shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation, to
sell, distribute, or display
harmful material to minors.
A. A person commits an of-
fense, if, knowing the then'ie of
the material:
1. He sells, distributes,
!exhibits possesses for sale,
distribution, or exhibition to a
minor harmful material.
2. He displays harmful
material at newstands or other
business establishments
frequented by minors or where
minors are or may be invited
as part of the general public.
3. He hires, employs, or uses
a minor to do or accomplish or
assist in doing or ac-
complishing any of the acts
prohibited in Subsection A(1)
or A(2) of 1hg Section.
B. For purpotes of this or
clinan Ce the following
definitions of terms shall be
used:
1. "Minor" means an in-
dividual younger than 17 years
of age.
2.. "Harmful material"
means majerial whose
dominant theme taken as a
whole:
a. Depicts, describes, or
represents:
i. sexual conduct;
ii. with less than complete
opaque covering, an in-
dividual's genitals, pubic area,
or buttocks or a female in-
dividual's breast or portion of
breast below the top of the
nipple;
iii. an individual's genitals in
a state of sexual stimulation or
arousal;
iv. flagellation or other
torture by or of an individual or
in a revealing costume or who
is fettered, bound, or otherwise
Physically restrained;
v. masturbation or excretory
functions, or
vi. fondling of an individual's
Clothed or unclothed genitals,
Pubic area, or buttocks or of a
female individual's clothed or
unclothed, breasts, and
b. Is patently offensive to
prevailing standards in the
adult Community as a whole
with respect to what is suitable
for minors, applying con
temporary community scan
dards,and
C. Lacks serious literary,
artistic, political, or scientific
value for minors.
3. "Individual" shall mean
any person, firm, business
association or corporation.
C. Any individual who violates
a provision of this ordinance is
guilty of a separate offense for
each day or portion of a day
during which the violation is
committed, continued, or
permitted, and each offense,
under this ordinance is
punishable by a fine not to
l
exceed two hundred dollars
(8200).
D. Should any section or
provision of this ordinance be
declared by the courts to be
unconstitutional or invalid,
such decision shall not affect
the validity of the ordinance as
a whole or any part thereof
other than the part so declared
to be unconstitutional or in-
valid.
PASSED AND APPROVED
this 9th day of June, 1977.
APPROVED
s /Mayor L. Bravenec
Mayor
ATTEST
s /Florence Neeley
City Secretary
The Eagle
June 19, 1977
0
C.S. council
will discuss
ambtilances
College Station City Council
Tuesday will discuss the need for an
additional ambulance and
authorization of bids for a
modulance -type ambulance.
Brazos County Commissioners
have asked for the modulance they
now loan College . Statidrf to be
returned by Sept. 1, so that it can be
loaned to Mid -Tex Ambulancd.
The council will meet at 4 p. m.
Other agenda items include.,Staff
response to council goals and con-
sideration of authorization of signal
design for Anderson and Jersey and
Southwest Parkway and Texas
Avenue.
Councilmembers also will meet
with their architect on the police
building.
City, county
to hear program
on transportation
Members of both the Bryan and
College Station city councils, the
Brazos County Commissioners and
the State Department of Highways
and Public Transportation meet at 7
p.m. today in the Bryan Utilities
Building Medallion Room to discuss
transportation programs.
A final report will be presented by
a consultant on public transit, and
the group will review a tran-
sportation improvement program.
The Eagle
•
June 20,1977
0 Councilman stands
against annexation
By JANE M. SMITH
remainder of the area. he said,
Staff Writer
probably will eventually develop
One College Station city coun-
into single family residences since
cilman, Jim Gardner, opposes the
apartments would not be easily
proposed annexation of 2,359 acres
accessible there.
into the city limits.
The annexation of the area on the
Gardner said his biggest concern
east side of the East Bypass is to be
is that the annexation is too costly.
discussed in a public hearing
"We would be diverting tax
Thursday night at the council's
dollars from our existing problems
regular meeting at city hall. The
and opportunities," he said.
matter has been discussed by the
"Because of the freeway barrier
council previously, but thus far,
and added travel distances, it will no
Gardner is the only member' to='
doubt be more expensive to provide
publicly oppose it.
such services as garbage pickup,
"We don't need this annexation,"
police and fire protection.
Gardner said. "There are too many
places to spend taxpayers' money in
our present corporate area before
increasing our municipal obligation
unnecessarily."
He questioned growth predictions
• for the proposed annexed area made
by the city's planning staff.
—
"This expansion of the city limits
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
is not needed to take care of for-
Notice is hereby given that the
College Station City council
seable growth of the city. There is
will hold a public hearing in the
nearly twice as much suitable
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall at 7:00 P.M.
vacant land now within the city
on Thursday, June 23, 1977 on
the budget for the Fiscal Year
limits," he explained, pointing to
1977 -79.
land on the west side of the East
Bypass known as the "golden
triangle" and in other parts of the
city.
One of the main arguments made
by city planners in favor of the
project, has been that the'area is
developing and in order for the city
to gain control of that development
the area should be annexed now.
Gardner, an urban planner
himself at Texas A &M University,
however, maintains that the most
important standard, streets can be
obtained through the city's Extra
Territorial Jurisdiction rights.
"Admittedly we would have no
control over building permits, but I
feel loan institutions impose pretty
good controls in this area," he said.
Also, Gardner said, the area in
which the city would have the most
The Eagle
land use problems because of
• commercial development — along
the east edge of the bypass —
Tune 21, 1977
already is in the city limits. The
•
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TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station City
Council will hold a public
hearing on the question of
rezoning the following tract:
13.78 acres located south of
Ponderosa Road and west of
Longleaf Circle and being a
portion of Southwood Terrace
Section I from Single Family
Residential District R -1 to
Duplex Residential District R-
2. The application is in the
name of Southwood Valley,
Inc.
The said hearing will be held in
the Council Room of the
College Station City Hall at the
7:00 P.M. meeting of the City
Council on Thursday, July 14,
1977.
For additional information,i,
please contact me.
Albert O. Mayo, Jr.
City Planner
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station V Pfanning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing on, the
question of rezoning the
following tract: 13.78 acres
located south of Ponderosa
Road and west of Longleaf
Circle and being a portion of
Southwood Terrace , Section I
f r o m S i n g l e F a m i l y
Residential District R 1 to
Duplex Residential District R-
2. The application is in the
name of Southwood Valley,
Inc.
The said hearing will be held in
the Council Room of the
College Station City Hall at the
7:00 P.M. meeting of the
Planning and Zoning Com
mission on Thursday, July 7,
1977.
For additional information,
please contact me.
Albert O. Mayo, Jr.
City Planner
TO WHOM IT MAY CON -
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing to con-
sider a request for a con-
ditional use permit for the
construction of a Townhouse -
Patiohouse project located on
the west side of Munson Drive
between University Oaks Drive
and Dominik Drive.
The hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall, 1101 South
Texas Avenue, at the 7:00 PM
meeting of the Planning and
Zoning Commission of Thur-
sday, July 7, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact the City Plan-
ner, Al Mayo, at the City Hall,
713 - 846 -8886.
The Eagle
•
June 22, 1977
•
•
Ambulance plan
remains unsettled
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
College Station City Council
members Tuesday balked a t
authorizing bids for a new city
ambulance until more information
was available on alternatives.
Council members asked for
,justification as to why Brazos
County was recalling the
modulance -type ambulance it now
loans to the city. And, the members
wanted further study on whether the
county might change its mind about
taking the ambulance.
The council also wants a report
from the city manager on the
possibiliy of obtaining an ambulance
through the Brazos Valley
Development Council (BVDC) with
partial federal funding.
Thursday night at the council's
regular meeting, the council will
again consider the ambulance
purchase and hear the reports.
Mayor Lorence Bravenec said
County Judge W.R. "Bill" Vance
had said the city could make a bid
for the county's modulance and the
county might change its mind if
commissioners were convinced the
city would use it more than the
private firm of Mid -Tex Ambulance.
The commissioners voted June 13
to take the ambulance from College
Station as of Sept. 1 and give it to
Mid -Tex Ambulance because they
said Mid -Tex served more of the
county.
Commissioner Bill Cooley from
College Station today said he feel s
there is a "good gggssibility" that th
city could keep the /modulance. He
said he doesn't think the modulance
is a closed issue and he would like
College Station to present its views
to the commissioners.
Cooley voted against taking the
ambulance away from College
Station in the original com-
missioners' vote.
At the Tuesday council meeting,
Councilman Gary Halter asked for
written justification from the county
on why the modulance would be
given to a private, profit- oriented
firm over a public operated system.
"In any instance, I feel we should
ask the county what sort of financial
assistance it is willing to supply,"
Halter said, referring to the city's
service of the southern portion of the
county.
Mayor Bravenec told the council
that Bill Thornal of Mid -Tex
maintains he makes four calls a day
in comparison to one a day by
College Station. One reason for this,
Bravenec said, is that Mid -Tex's
phone number is the only telephone
number listed in the current phone
book.
The new phone book, he said, will
list College Station's emergency
number of 911 along with Mid -Tex's
number.
City Manager North Bardell said
Mid -Tex's count may include
m transfers that are non - emergencies.
College Station makes transfers only
e when directed by a 'physician.
Thornal was out of town today and
unavailable for comment.
Bardell said that the city's service
is interested in "the fastest possible
emergency service." Because of
that, he said, when the city service
receives a call from someone that is
closer to Mid -Tex's range, the city
answers the call, but also calls Mid -
Tex so that the fastest ambulance
can get to the scene first.
"Thornal hasn't reciprocated in
this," Bardell said.
If the city purchases its own
ambulance to replace the one now
owned by the county, it is estimated
to cost about $28,000.
Bardell said Judge Vance had told
him about an ambulance purchased
with federal funds by the BVDC for
the City of Jewett. That ambulance
was rejected by Jewett, Bardell
said, and there is a possibility that if
it meets city standards, College
Station could obtain it. That am-
bulance might save the city about
$11,000.
Bravenec asked that the council's
ambulance committee look into the
BVDC ambulance as well as at the
condition of the county's ambulance.
"If the county's vehicle isn't in good
condition, we might be better off
buying our own," he said.
The Eagle
June 22, 1977
• • •
CS council approves new traffic lights
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
Signal design work for traffic
lights at Anderson and Jersey
Streets and Southwest Parkway and
Texas Avenue was authorized
Tuesday by College Station City
Council members.
The council's safety committee
had reported the traffic and
pedestrian situation at those in-
tersections is so critical that the city
couldn't wait for the regular signal
study process.
Normally, the study takes about
two years.
Elrey Ash, city engineer, said two
control boxes now in storage by the
city might be re- worked to operate
the two traffic lights. These boxes
might be re -done, he said, before
new ones could be obtained.
Both intersections have brought
public response because of the
heavy traffic patterns in those
areas.
In other action, the council passed
a resolution guaranteeing city
participation in .the Youth Con -
servation Corps.t The YCC is a
federal program' That has received
tentative approval and would be
sponsored by the Brazos Valley
Development Council.
Under the program, College
Station would employ 30 young
people for eight weeks in con-
servation work.
The program is estimated to cost
about $29,808, but carries an 80 per
cent federal match. The city's
portion of the cost would be about
$6,000.
Paul Wojciechowski, city parks
director, said the youths would work
in the arboretum and city parks.
The program, if given final ap-
proval, would employ youths bet-
ween 15 and 18 years old.
Wojciechowski said the -program
could be implemented in the next
few weeks.
The Eagle
June22, 1977
•
•
County reclaims ambulance;
misunderstanding develops
An order from Brazos County
commissioners reclaiming a county
ambulance on loan to College Sta-
tion is all a misunderstanding, city
officials said yesterday.
College Station city council
members said during their meeting
yesterday that the commissioners
mistakenly believe the council will
soon be taking bids on a new city
ambulance. But bids on another
ambulance will not be taken unless
the county reclaims its ambulance,
Mayor Lorene Bravenec said.
The council delayed action on the
ambulance until tomorrow. An am-
bulance committee meeting. is
scheduled for 4 p.m. today to con-
sider the problem.
The council hopes to convince the
commissioners to leave the ambu-
lance in College Station instead of
moving it to another part of the
county. `
. In other business, Emmett Trant,
architect for the city's proposed new
police station and warehouse
facilities, told the council during
yesterday's meeting that expected
cost £or these buildings will be at
least $83,000 higher than the
$645,000 budgeted for them.
Trant presented initial floor -plans
for the police station building to the
council during the meeting. After
lengthy discussion and one aborted
woe the council agreed to delay any
decision on the buildings for at least
two weeks while they evaluate the
Plans Trant has prepared.
The Eagle
•
June 22, 1977
s u�i
•
•
•
NOTICE OF FINDING
NOSIGNIFICANT
EFFECT ON THE
ENVIRONMENT
June 23, 1977
City of College Station
1101 Texas Avenue
P.O. Box 9960
College Station, Texas, 77840
713-846 -8868
TO. ALL INTERESTED
AGENCIES, GROUPS AND
PERSONS:
The above named City
proposes to request the U.S.
Department of Housing and
Urban Development to release
Federal Funds under Title I of
the Housing and Community
Act of 1974 (PL 93-383) to be
used for the following projects:
I. Pave, Curb, and Gutter
Avenue B; Nature: Street
Construction; Location:
College Station, Brazos Co.,
Texas; Estimated Cost:
$18,500.
II. Pave, Curb, and Gutter
Columbus Street; Nature:
Street Construction; Location:
College Station, Brazos Co.,
Texas; Estimated Cost:
$15,000.
III. Pave, Curb, and Gutter
Pearce Street; Nature: Street
Construction; Location:
College Station, Brazos Co.,
Texas; E st.i m ated
Cost:$15,000. '
IV. Pave, Curb, and Gutter
Preston Street;, Nature: Street
Construction; Location:
College Station, Brazos Co.,
Texas; Estimated Cost:
$23,050.
V. Pave, Curb, and Gutter
Eleanor Street; Nature: Street
Construction; Location:
College Station, Brazos Co.,
Texas; Estimated Cost:
$41,950.
VI. Pave, Curb, and Gutter
Detroit Street; Nature: Street
Construction; Location:
College Station, Brazos Co.,
Texas; Esimated Cost: $46,500.
VII. Pave, Curb, and Gutter
Edward Street; Nature: Street
Construction; Location:
College Station, Brazos Co.,
Texas; . Estimated Cost:
$22,000.
VIII. Pave, Curb and Gutter
Georgia Street; Nature: Street
Construction; Location:
College Station, Brazos Co.,
Texas; Estimated Cost:
$15,000.
IX. Pave, Curb, and Gutter
Nevada Street; Nature: Street
Constructino; Location:
College Station, Brazos Co.,
Texas; Estimated Cost:
$9,750.
X. Pave, Curb, and Gutter
Thompson Street, Nature:
Street Construction; Location:
College Station, Brazos Co.,
. Texas; Estimated Cost:
$22,000.
XI. Clearance, Demolition,
Rehabilitation; Nature:
Removal of Vacant,
Dilapidated Buildings;
Rehablitation of Sub- standard
Dwelling Units; Location:
College Station, Brazos Co.,
Texas; Estimated Cost: $4,500.
XII. Code Enforcement;
Nature: Enforcement of State
and Local Ordinances to
Remove Blighting Influences;
Location: College Station,
Brazos Co., Texas; Estimated
Cost: $2,500.
It has been determined that
such request for .release of
funds will not constitute an
action significantly effecting
the quality of the human en
vironment and, accordingly,
the above named City has
decided not to prepare an
Environmental Impact
Statement under the Nation.
Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (PL 91 -190).
The reasons for such decision
trot J9 prepare such statement
aM as follows:
Projects I through X-
Projects comply with ap-
plicablb standards and plans.
Projects will not be impacted
by physical of service delivery
factors.. Projects will not im-
pact ,physical factdrs. Projects
will have benificial impacts on
service delivery factors,
community appearance,
community pride, and living
conditions.
Project XI- Project is in
compliance with applicable
standards and plans. Project
will not be impacted by
physical or service delivery
factors. Project will improve
community appearance,
community pride, and remove
health and safety hazards.
Environmental Review
Records respecting the within
projects have been made by
the above named City which
documents the environmental
review of these projects and
more fully sets forth the
reasons why such statement is
not required. This En
vironmental Review .Record is
on file at the above address and
is available for public
examination and copying, upon
request, at the Planning
Department, between the
hours of 8:00 A.M. and 5:00
P.M.
No further environmental
review of such projects is
proposed to be conducted, prior
to the request for release of
Federal Funds.
All interested agencies,
group`;. and oersons
disagreeing with this decision
are invited to submit written
comments for consideration by
the City to J.M. Callaway,
Community Development
Planner, at the above address
on or before July 8, 1977. All
such comments so received
will be considered and the City
will not request the release of
Federal Funds or take any
administrative action prior to
the date specified in the
preceeding sentence.
Chief Executive Officers;
Mayor Lorence L. Bravenec
City of College Station
P.O. Box 9960
College Station, Texa 77840.
The Eagle
June23, 1977
• • •
CS installs traffic
Two new traffic control signals
have been installed and are in
operation in College Station.
One of the signals is at Loop 507
and Holleman Drive and the other at
FM 60 and Tarrow Street.
control signals
The signal at Loup 507 and
Holleman is a fixed time signal,
interconnected with the progressive
system on Loop 507.
The signal at FM 60 and Tarrow
Street is designed to provide safer
access to FM 60 from Tarrow Street.
CS to se ' '
see c �t 1zen -
response
College Station City Council will The council meets at 7 p.m. at city by the present RainTree
again try to get some public hall. Other agenda items include division. Sub
response on - the proposed budget for discussion of the ambulance The council also will consider
1977 -78 during a public hearing situation, adoption of the tax roll, annexing 2,359 acres on the east side
Thursday night. appointment of an auditor, of the East Bypass city, discussion of the civic center and area is descr bed as: from the East
A public hearing on the record two public hearings on annexations. Bypass eastward to the main
$10.7 million budget was held at the
last meeting, with no response. A RainTree Develo ments is channel of Carter's Creek and from
vote on the budget will follow the requesting annexation of an 8.12 Harvey Road southward to a line
hearing. acre tract surrounded on three sides Pond Roads. Rock Prairie and Bird
The Eagle
June 23, 1977
• • •
CS to consider new ambulance
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
College Station City Council
members tonight will hear a
recommendation that they not at-
tempt to keep the county's am-
bulance and that they authorize bids
for a new Type I modulance -style
ambulance.
Mrs. Ann Hazen, council member
and a member of the council's
ambulance committee, said that
committee will recommend the
purchase of a new modulance with a
large enough gas tank to make the
drive to Houston without stopping
for a fill -up.
Neither the county's unit nor the
city's present modulance can make
the trip without stopping for gas.
Mrs. Hazen said the non -stop trip is
essential for transfer of a critical
patient.
The committee was charged to
look at all the alternatives to pur-
chasing a new ambulance for
College Station. The city now owns
one modulance and borrows another
from the county. The county has
requested that ambulance be
returned by Sept. 1 to be loaned to
Mid -Tex ambulance.
At Tuesday's city council meeting,
the members questioned the
county's decision to take the am-
bulance back from a public agency
and to give it to a private, profit
business.
Commissioners, however, have
maintained that Mid -Tex serves
mnre of the county than the College
Station service.
Council members were reluctant
to authorize the purchase of a new
ambulance — estimated to cost
between $25,000 - $28,000 — until other
possibilities could 4e explored.
The city has been using the county
ambulance sine-;it took over
operation.of the ambulance service
earlier this year.
Mrs. Hazen said the committee
will recommend that the city not try
to purchase a federally subsidized
ambulance through the Brazos
Valley Development Council
because that vehicle did not meet
the city's needs.
The committee will recommend,
she said, that the city ask the county
to allow them to keep the present
ambulance until a new one is fully
operational.
Since the city serves the southern
portion of the county and might not
be keeping the ambulance, the
committee will recommend that the
county give some financial
assistance in lieu of that vehicle.
In answer to a question by
Councilman Lane Stephenson, the
committee recommended that the
city stay in the ambulance business
and that the city operation begin
making transfers on request of
College Station citizens.
As Mrs. Hazen pointed out, the
recommendations will go the council
and may be passed in very different
forms.
The Eagle
June 23 7 1977
W •
C approves
record budget
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
College Station City Council
members Thursday night approved
a record $10,722,186.41 budget for
1977 -78 and an increase in the tax
rate from 43 cents to 52 cents per
$100 valuation.
The council also approved an-
nexation of 1598.44 acres into the city
limits.
The council received no public
comment on the budget despite two
public hearings on the matter. The
only change made Thursday night
was an amendment to raise money
raise. Some employes'will xeceive He will begin putting the property on
higher raises, according to a the rolls this year.
schedule. The council approved the an-
City Manager North Bardell said nexation by a vote of four in favor,
based upon a preliminary tax roll of three against. Councilmen Ringer,
$147,906,730.00 and a tax rate of 52 Lane Stephenson, Gary Halter and
cents, the city can expect to derive Lorence Bravenec voted yes and
$742,448.00 in ad valorem taxes. ,? council members Jim Dozier, Ann
Tax assessor - collector Glen: Hazen and Jim Gardner voted no.
Schroeder said the increase in ad Oringinally, city staff had
valorem tax would be evidenced in recommended that almost 2,406
the tax statements sent out toward acres be annexed, but Thursday
the end of July. night changed their recom-
The City of College Station is not mendation to the lesser figure.
taxing automobiles. The annexed area is on the east
budgeted for the Retired Senior
The change in the ad valorem tax
side of the East Bypass and runs
Volunteer Program from $1,800 to
rate would mean about a $21.60 per
eastward to the main channel of
$2,000., year increase in payment by a
Carter's Creek.
Councilman Gary Ringer asked
person with a $30,000 home. The rate
Al Mayo, city planner, said he was
for the change because the program
is based on 52 cents per $100
recommending dropping the Foxfire
had requested the $2,000 figure.
valuation on 80 per cent assessed
subdivision and two tracts to the
Revenues detailed in the budget
value.
south because it wouldn't be ad-
are: General — $2,971,880.81; Utility
A person with a $30,000 home,
ventageous for the city to annex the
Funds — $8,000,232.00.; Cemetery —
valued at $24,000 for tax purposes,
property at this time.
$8,750.00.
paid $103.20 for 1976 -77. The new rate
Mayo said roads in the Foxfire
Expenditures are: General —
would mean that taxpayer would
area were not built to city standards
$2,952,324.44; Utility Funds —
pay $124.80 for 1977 -78.
and would be costly in city main -
$8,019,788.37; Cemetery — $8,750.00.
Schroeder said property included
tenance. The other tracts, he said,
The budget implements a new pay
in the 1598.44 acres annexed Thur-
are accessible only through Foxfire
plan for city employes that will give
sday night by the council would not
and should be dropped if Foxfire was
all employes at least a five per cent
be taxed until the 1978 -79 fiscal year.
dropped.
•
The Eagle
June 24, 1977
•
• •
College Station
City Council authorizes bid taking
for new modulance -type ambulance
The City Council in College Station
authorized bids for a new
modulance -type ambulance at
Thursday's meeting of the council.
And, the council approved $28,570
in revenue sharing money to pay for
the vehicle.
City Manager North Bardell said
the city will advertise for a Type I
modulance which will have a gas
tank sufficient to travel to Houston
without a fill -up and be equipeed to
use heart monitoring equipment.
The modulance will be similar to
the one now owned by the city.
Council members said the
.authorization for bids does not mean
the city will approve any of the bids.
They maintained a wait - and -see
attitude about whether Brazos
County will go ahead with plans to
remove the county -owned am-
bulance from the College Station
service.
"I reserve judgment on buying it
until we see what the county is going
to do," said Councilman Gary
Halter. "The people in these two
cities pay 85 per cent of the county
taxes and get very little from the
county. What is it that a citizen in
College Station gets for the county
taxes he pays ?"
Halter said he was upset that the
county would take the _vehicle from a
public agency and give it to a
private, profit service'.`- The County
Commissioners voted loan the
vehicle to Mid -Tex Ambulance in
Bryan because Mid -Tex serves more
of the county.
Halter said the city's "whole
relationship" with the county needs
to be re- evaluated if the county
won't make some financial
assistance to the city.
"By that, I mean fire protection,"
he said.
The council's ambulance com-
mittee has recommended
negotiating with the county to pay
for all emergency service fees from
county (outside the CS city limits)
residents. The county would then bill
the residents.
No decision was made on that
recommendation or another
requesting that the city purchase a
"transfer type" vehicle. Such a
vehicle, Bardell said, would not need
the extensive equipment of an
ambulance and could be used 'to
transfer non - emergency patients.
The city will ask the county to
keep the loaned ambulance until CS
has another vehicle in full operation.
The Eagle
June 24, 1977
• •
Arboretum Association funds approved
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
Brazos County Judge
W.A. Vance said Friday he
sees no problem in the
county Arboretum
Association receiving
about $3,000 in funds left
over from the bicentennial
celebration.
When a representative of
the bicentennial com-
mittee approached county
commissioners for the
arboretum group several
weeks ago, the com-
missioners turned down
that request. At that time,
Vance questioned giving
money to a committee
appointed by the bicen-
tennial committee since
the bicentennial com-
mittee was no longer
empowered to act.
The judge directed the
arboretum committee to
complete incorporation
proceedings and to get an
agreement with the city of
College Station on
operation of the ar-
boretum.
Since that meeting,
Vance said he has learned
that the incorporation has
been completed. Once a
letter is secured from
College Station stating that
the arboretum committee
has the authority to collect
and spend funds for the
project, Vance said he sees
no problems.
When College Station
originally set up the ar-
boretum, there . was no
committee, so its legal
status was not established.
A balance of $3015
remains in the county's
share of the bicentennial
monies, according to a
spokesman for the
bicentennial projects.
Creation of the ar-
boretum was a bicen-
tennial project.
The arboretum, located
in College Station near Bee
Creek Park, is about 17
acres of trees and plants.
The land is owned by the
city, but is dedicated as a
county arboretum.
The city is supplying
labor and planning
assistance for the project
through its parks and
recreation department.
Paul Wojciechowski,
parks director, said the
county's funds will be used
for water line into the
arboretum as well as for
trails, bridge material,
signs and plants.
He said thus far, a sign is
up at the tree sanctuary
and trails have been cut.
The arboretum is
designed so that once
established, it will be a low
maintenance area.
TheEagle
June 26, 1.977
•
CS to go ahead with hiring
•
By KATHY FAHY
Staff Writer
Although the final contract has not
been signed the College Station
Parks and Recreation Department
will begin interviews this week to
hire supervisors for its Youth
Conservation Camp (YCC)
program.
Verbal agreement between the
Texas Department of Community
Affairs and the Brazos Valley
Development Council (BVDC) has
been reached and the contract is on
its way to BVDC, said Paul
Wojciechowski, director of parks
and recreation. After that a contract
must be signed between BVDC and
the city, he said.
"Hopefully, the program will be
under way sometime into next
week," Wojciechowski said.
The program is 80 per cent
federally funded with the city
matching the funds with 20 per cent
of its own money, he said. It will give
jobs to teenagers 15 to 18 years old to
work on projects tied in with en-
vironmental conservation,
Wojciechowski explained.
Some of the proposed projects
include building "nctt lre trails,
clearing creeks and working on
erosion control, he continued. "They
will work with the program for 40
hours but only get paid for 30
Wojciechowski said. "Ten hours will
be devoted to education with things
like ,lectures and programs," he
said.
The participants will be paid $2.30
an hour.
Anyone interested in working in
the program should go to the Parks
Sealad proposals addressed to
the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of College Station,
Texas will be received at the
Office of North Bardell, City
Manager, until 10:00 A.M. July
15, 1977 for furnishing the
following equipment:
Two New Sedan Automobiles
Specifications can be obtained
at the Public Works Office at
City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas.
office on Elinor Street between 9
a.m. and noon on July 5 to apply for
a job. "There is no income level
requirement," Wojciechowski ad-
ded.
"We are trying to get the super-
visors lined up before Friday,"
Wojciechowski said. We want to
have an orientation session for them
on Friday," he said.
Supervisor application will be
taken this week, he said. The
department will hire three super-
visors and one environmentalist for
the summer. "The supervisors will
work with the kids and should be
able to drive a bus," he said.
The environmentalist must have a
background to justify his or her
Position, Wojciechowski explained.
The environmentalist will be
responsible for education.
The Eagle
• June 29, 1977
0 0 0
By JANE MILLS SMITH As I See It
College Station's 15 9 8, acre annexation gamble
As far as its benefit to the city, the
recent annexation of 1598 acres by
the City of College Station is a
gamble.
If housing growth continues at its
present rate and if the development
comes in the newly annexed portion
of the city, the gamble will pay off.
The city will have gained needed
control of what is built and how.
If growth doesn't come in that
area, the city will be supplying
services to a number of unconnected
spots that are miles apart.
In either event, there are a few
people who are, at least presently,
going to be hurt by the annexation.
These are the folks who now use
their land for hunting and
The Eagle
A column of opinion and-or humor
recreation.
Now that that land on the east side
of the East Bypass is in the city
limits, hunting is out. City ordinance
prohibits discharge of a firearm
within the city limits.
I'm not sure how good the hunting
was out there, but it was in easy
access for city dwellers. Right now
there are no developments within
firing range of this property which
might be damaged by the shooting.
People are few and far between
out there, but hunting is out anyway.
Until development comes, these
people are paying the price of
progress with few benefits.
Some' other people in that area
wrote letters to the city council
complaining that they would get no
benefits from being annexed. They
would have to pay city taxes for 1978-
79, however.
These landowners said they
already have water and septic
tanks. It is too expensive to tie in
with the city's sewer, they said.
One woman wrote that much of
her land is in the flood plain and is
used only for cattle grazing. Some of
that land, she said, is reachable only
by horseback. The city can do little
for her.
As Councilman Jim Dozier
phrased it during the council
meeting: "If you're going to develop
that land, annexation will benefit
you. If you aren't, it won't."
Mayor Lorence Bravenec said the
landowners did get benefits by being
so close to the city. One of these
benefits, he said, was that the
property is worth a great deal more
because of its location near the city
and now in the city.
The taxes the landowners will pay
to the city probably aren't going to
send anyone into bankruptcy,
especially if the land stays `in
agriculture use.
In the long run, the annexed land
could be of great value to the city. If
it develops as Southwood Valley did
to the south of the city, the an-
nexation move will have been well
advised. But I question whether the
development will be as rapid. An-
nexation doesn't necessarily en-
courage development.
One of the existing subdivisions in
the area was dropped from an- -
nexation consideration because of
the poor quality of the streets. No
one from that subdivision spoke to
the council in favor or against the
move, so it must not have made too
much difference to the area's future.
When Foxfire is further developed,
it probably will be back before the
council for annexation.
As for the council's annexation .
move, only time will tell.
June 30, 1977
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College Station, Gulf States
Power switch delayed again
By JERRY GRAY
Staff Writer
College Station will not receive
electric power from Gulf States
Utilities Co. until the Fourth of July
weekend has passed, George Ford,
College Station's director of public
works said today.
The city had expected to begin
receiving power from Gulf States as
early as mid -June, but this date had
been delayed due to delivery
problems with an underground
cable.
The cable still has not arrived but
it is expected soon.
Regardless of its delivery, the
partial switch to Gulf States Utilities
Co. will not take place before the
three -day weekend. Fore said it's
not good policy to make a major
change in the system at a time when
personnel from both the city and
Gulf States will be off.
College Station plans to buy half of
its summer electric needs from Gulf
States. After the connection with
Gulf States is made, the city will
continue to purchase approximately
half of its power from the city of
Bryan.
Bryan has twice attempted to
block "the partial switch to Gulf
States by filing a complaint with the
Public Utilities Commission. Both
attempts have failed. A final hearing
is scheduled in Austin before the
PUC on July 13.
College Station's utility contract
with Bryan expires January, 1979.
Bryan wants College Station to
remain on its system at least
through that date. `
Bryan told the PUC that the
economic impact of College
Station's departure from the system
is a matter of public interest and
control by the commission. College
Station answered that the contract
calls for Bryan to sell to College
Station only the amount that College
Station "shall request."
In preliminary rulings, the PUC
said its authority does not go beyond
the powers of the contract itself.
The Eagle
June 30,1977
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Sealed proposals addressed to
the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of College Station,
Texas will be received at the
office of North Bardell, City'
Manager, until 10:00 A.M. July
15, 1977 for furnishing the
following equipment:
Two New Sedan Automobiles
Specifications can be obtained
at the Public Works Office at
City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College. Station, Texas.
NOTICE TO BIWERS
Sealed proposals addressed
to the Honorable Mayor and
City Council of College Station,
Texas, will be received at the
Office of Mr. North Bardell,
City Manager, until 10:00 A.M.,
Monday, July 18, 1977 for
furnishing the following:
One (1) Type 1 , Class I
Emergency Medical Vehicle,
and equipment.
Proposals and specifications
can be obtained at the City of
College Station Fire Station.
All proposals must include
delivery date and all prices to
be F.O.B. College Station,
Texas: Bidders are requested
to note Their deviations from
specifications in the blank
column on the right -hand side
of the spec ificati.ons,
corresponding to the
specifications data on the left,
and return one set of our
specifications with their bid.
The right is reserved as the
interest of the owner may
require, to reject any and all
bids and to waive any in-
formality in bids received.
Please mark bid envelope,
"Type I Class I Emergency
Medical Vehicle and Equip-
ment" bid opening.
The Eagle
July 2, 1977
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City government must work with business, Bravenec says
Mayor of College Station
Municipal government's role in the free en-
terprise system is to regulate development and
promote orderly growth to avoid economic
catastrophe.
This is particularly true in College Station,
where the city's rapid growth over the past few
years has forced local government and business to
work closely together to keep the expansion under
control.
The role of the government in this alliance,
Mayor Lorence Bravenec says, is to protect the
consumer.
"Our job is to see that everyone, both business and
the consumer, is treated fairly," Bravenec says.
"Sometimes it's very frustrating. You spend so
much time on major problems you never seem to
get to the little guy.
"Right now, we're preocuppied with the city's
growth and its expansion. It's so hard to treat in-
dividual problems. It's very frustrating."
But both Bravenec and City Manager 'North
Bardell insist that no other form of government in
the nation remains as responsive to the individual
citizen as municipal government.
"A citizen has direct access to city officials, both
appointed and elected," Bardell says. "He can call
us at any time and tell us exactly how he feels about
something we've done or haven't done.
"And we listen. We have to listen, because if we
don't we're not going to have a job for very long."
Both Bravenec and Bardell say they believe in
the free enterprise system.
There's no reasonable alternative to the free
enterprise system," Bardell says. "All other
economic systems are grossly inefficient.
"I think the great testimony to the ability of the
free enterprise system to respond to a need is the
growth of apartment complexes in the city.
"There's no way the government could have paid
to house all of the 30,000 students we're expecting
next fall," Bardell continued. "But free enterprise,
through individual businessmen, has made it
possible through old- fashion supply and demand.
"There was a need for housing, and the system
saw to it that need was fulfilled."
Bravenec says he admires the developers and
builders who have helped to make the city's ex-
pansion orderly.
"They have to figure so many things and deal
with so many people," Bravenec says. "They have
to meet consumer demands plus the demands of the
city government and still, somehow, make a profit.
"We make sure certain minimum standards are
met, concerning space, safety and the city's ap-
pearance," Bravenec says. "The developers and
builders have helped us maintain those standards
at a certain cost, I'm sure, themselves.:'
Businessmen are responsible for many of these
standards that they have developed themselves,
Bardell says.
"In,.other systems, the government develops new
ideas and techniques and hands them down to
business," Bardell says. "But in the American
system, it is free enterprise that forces the
development of improvements.
"The government usually picks up on the ideas
that private business has developed and in-
corporates it into its own projects."
Both Bravenec and Bardell say it is difficult to
say how long the rampant economic growth of
College Station will continue.
"If you asked me two years ago how we would be
looking now, I wouldn't have dreamed it would still
be going on like this," Bardell says.
"It will slow sometime, but I can't say when."
In the meantime, they say, the will continue to
work towards solving the problems of expanding
the city.
"We don't have all the answers yet," Bravenec
says, "but we're certainly working on them."
The Eagle
July 3, 1977
— Lorence Bravenec
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Area cities to receive checks
for revenue sharing funds
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
Each year for the past six years,
the cities of College Station and
Bryan have received large checks
from the federal government for
their share of revenue sharing
monies appropriated by Congress.
For the most recent revenue
sharing period, which ends Sept. 30,
1977, College Station will receive
$117,850 and Bryan will get $304,377.
College Station City Council has
just voted how to spend its money
and Bryan council members will be
voting on the matter in the next
months.
Traditionally, according to
College Station City Manager North
Bardell, that city has spent its
federal money on capital im-
provement items that supplement
the budget.
"Because of the nature of the
funds, since Congress can end the
program at its desire, we haven't
used the revenue sharing money for
operating expenses. If we budgeted
the funds for operating expenses and
the money was caut,,We would have
severe problems, " said.
Bryan City Manager J ou Odle said
up until 1975, that city had spent its
funds on street improvements which
are a capital improvement. In 1975,
he said, the city used some of the
funds for operating expenses.
"This past year we used the
money to purchase rolling stock
(vehicles) which is a capital im-
provements type item but not as
long lasting," Odle explained.
Next year, he said, the city
probably will go back to using the
dollars on street improvements.
That determination will be made
before the city council approves a
new budget in September.
Odle said Bryan had received
almost $2 million in revenue sharing
money for the first five years of the
program.
The money is "very important" to
the city, he said.
Bardell said the funds are given to
the state, county and cities are
based on a formula involving
population, minority base and the
municipality's taxing effort.
Because of College Station's in-
crease in population, that city has
received increased funds each year.
Bryan, however, still expects to
receive nearly three times from the
program than College Station.
Since the formula varies, th- cities
don't know how much they , ill be
getting in future periods.
At a recent city council meeting,
College Station City Council voted to
spend its money on the following:
— Lighting project on University
Drive, $29,000.
— Modulance, $28,570.
— Street lighting in low income
areas, $2,400.
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Delivery of power cable stalls utilities changeover.
George Ford, College Station
director of public works, said today
that the city may connect with Gulf
States Utilities Co. Thursday.
The awaited connection has been
delayed since mid -June due to
delivery problems with a power
cable. There are other technical
variables with the connection, which
will determine whether the con-
nection is made tomorrow, he said.
The city currently buys all its
electric power from Bryan, but
approximately half of its summer
requirement will be supplied by Gulf
States when the connection is made.
The other half will continue to be
supplied by Bryan Utilities Co.
College Station plans to make a
complete switch tp'Gulf States when
the contract with Bryan expires in
January, 1979:
Bryan challenged the partial
switch before that date, but an in-
terim ruling by a Public Utilities
Commission examiner said that
College Station could proceed with
its plans to begin accepting power
from Gulf States. The examiner's
interim ruling was upheld by the full
3- member commission.
A final hearing before the PUC is
scheduled for July 13 in Austin.
The Eagle
July 7, 1977
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July 8, 1977
materials shipped by rail shall
I. NOTICE TO BIDDERS
be f.o.b. cars, the Southern
Pacific or Missouri Pacific
Sealed Proposals addressed to
siding in College Station,
City of College Station, Texas
Texas. Invoices and shipping
will be received at the Office of
notices shall specify that the
the City Secretary, City of
materials are a part of Con
College Station, Texas until
tract No. CS 77 SB 9, and shall
1:00 P.M. on the 1st of August,
identify materials by the Item
1977 for furnishing electric
numbers assigned in the
distribution materials of the
Specifications.
following general categories:
-
Each Proposal must be ac
Relaying, Metering and
companied a bid bond or
I. NOTICE TO BIDDERS
certified check on a bank that t
Switch Station and ghway 30
is a member of the Federal
Substation Addition '
Sealed Proposals addressed to
Deposit Insurance Corporation
City of College Station, Texas
Payable to the order the City
all as more fully described in
wi l l be received at the Office of
a
of College Station, Tekas in an
the Specifications. Bids
the City Secretary, City of
amount equal to five percent
received by 1:00 P.M. August 1,
College Station, Texas until
(5) of the maximum bid price.
1977 will be publicly opened
1:00 P.M. on the 1st of August,
Each Bidder agrees, that by
and read in the City Council
1977 for furnishing electrical
filing its Proposal, together
Chambers of the City Hall in
distribution materials of the
with such bid bond or check in
College Station, Texas at 1:00
following general categories:
consideration of the City of
P.M. on the same date. Bids
1:00
Materials For Construction of
College Station receiving and
received after
August 1, 1977 will be returned
138 KV G.S.U. Switch Station
considering such Proposal,
to the sender unopened. Each
and Expansion of Highway 30
said Proposal shall be firm and
proposal must be in a sealed
Substation
binding upon each such Bidder.
envelope bearing on the outside
Group 1: Items C -101 and C -102,
Bid bonds or checks of the
the name of the bidder and the
station battery and battery
three low bidders shall be held
City of College Station Contract
charger
by 1he,City of College Station
No. CS 77 SB-8.
Group II: Item K -1, vacuum
until a PropVal is accepted
a faetbry Per
,
circuit breakers, 15.5 KV, 20000
and §ati
formance Bond is furnished by
Materials shopped by truck
shall be f.o.b. the City
amperes interruting rating
Group III: All remaining
the Successful Bidder, or for a
Warehouse on Church Street in
items, air -break switches, steel
period not to exceed sixty (60)
College Station, Texas. Those
work, bus work, instrument
days from the date herein
materials shipped by rail shall
transformers, coupling
before set for the opening of the
be f.o.b. cars, the Soutern
capacitor voltage trap
Proposals, whichever period
Pacific or Missouri Pacific
sformers, surge arrestors
shall be shorter. If such
siding in College Station,
Proposal is not one o the three
Texas.- Invoices and shipping
all as more fully described in
low Proposals, the bid bond or
notices shall specify that the
the Speficiations. Bids
check will be returned in each
materials are a part of Con-
received by 1:00 P.M., August
instance within a period of ten
tract No. CS -77 SB-8, and shall
.
1, 1977, will be publicly opened
(10) days to the Bidder fur-
identify materials by the Item
and read in the City Council
nishing same.
numbers assigned in the
Chambers of the City Hall in
specifications.
College Station, Texas at 1:00
•
One copy of the bidding forms
P.M. on the same date. Bids
and specifications are , ob
Each Proposal must be ac-
I received after 1:00 P.M.,
tainable free of charge at the
companied by a bid bond or a
August 1, 1977, will be returned
Office of the City Secretary,
certified check on a bank that
to the sender unopened. Each
College Station, Texas, or from
is a member of the Federal
proposal must be in a sealed
Electric Power Engineers,
Inc., 203 Holleman Drive East,
Deposit Insurance Corporation
payable to the order of the City
a
envelope bearing the outside
P.O. Box 9970, College Station,
of College Station, Texas, in an
the name
a the bidder and the
Texas 77840. Additional copies
amount equal to five percent
City
City of College Station Contract
may be purchased from the
(5) of the maximum bid price.
C
Engineer for a fee of $15.00.
Each Bidder agrees, that by
filing its Proposal, together
Material
Materia l shall be bid by i
Bids will be evaluated by the
with such bid bond or check in
group without a lump
Purchaser, based on quality,
consideration of the City of
Sum bid for all groups. The
economy of operation, delivery
College Station receiving and
Bidder is free to bid any single
dates, experience of the
considering such Proposal,
group or combintion of groups
manufacturer, availability of
said Proposal shall be firm and
i, listed in this Notice To Bidders.
service for repair and main
binding upon each such Bidder.
The Purchaser may accept any
tenance, and the adaptability
Bid bonds or checks of the
single group bid or com-
of the particular equipment to
three low bidders shall be held
bination of single group bids.
the specific use intended. The
by the City of College Station
Purchaser reserves the right to
until a Proposal is accepted
Materials shipped by truck
select the equipment which
and a satisfactory Per -
shall be f.o.b. the City
best suits its needs whether th
formance Bond is furnished by
Warehouse on Church Street in
price is the lowest or not, and
the Successful Bidder, or for a
College Station, Texas. Those
also reserves the right to reject
period not to exceed sixty (60)
all bids and waive 'in-
days from. the date herein -
formalities.
before set for the opening of the
Proposals, whichever period
Bidders are urged to offer the
shall be shorter. If such
earliest practical delivery
Proposal is not one of the three
date, which dates shall be
low Proposals, the bid bond or
considered by the Purchaser
check will be returned in each
when choosing the Successful
instance within a period of ten
Bidder.
(10) days to the Bidder fur-
nishing same.
Award of the Contract to the
Successful Bidder will be rnade
One copy of the bidding forms
at a subsequetn meeting of the
and specifications are ob
City Council of College Station,
tainable free of charge at the
Office of the City Secretary,
CITYOFCOLLEGE
College Station, Texas or form
STATION,
Electric Power Engineers,
TEXAS
Inc., 203 Holleman Drive East,
P.O. Box 9970, College Station,
By Lorence L. Bravenec
Texas 77840. Additional copies
_ Mayor
may be purchased from the
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July 8, 1977
$240,000 short
• CS ok's plan
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By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
College Station City Council
members Thursday voted to ap-
prove the architect's designs for the
new police and warehouse buildings
despite the fact the structures will
cost $80,000 more than the available
bond money.
On top of that $80,000 figure will be
an added cost of about $170,000 for
site preparation and construction.
Money for that work also is not
available from bond money.
In other words, the city will have
to come up with about $240,000 in
additional funds to finance the two
buildings scheduled to be built.
several miles south of the present
Police station location on Texas
Avenue.
Some $650,000 was included in the
most recent bond issue for the two
buildings. Architect's estimates put
the cost of the police building at
$371,000 and the warehouse complex
at $357,000. The money for the site
preparation was not included in the
bond issue.
"I say let's get what we need for
the next five years even though it is
over our estimates," said Mayor
Lorence Bravenec.
"Let's face it, we didn't put
enough money in the bond election.
We made a mistake a year ago,"
said Councilman Gary Halter.
"To cut back now and come up
with facilities that won't be
adequate is more a waste than
building a super- adequate building
at this time. We will grow into it, as
we've seen from our experiences in
other buildings," said Councilman
Jim Dozier.
Councilman Jim Gardner agreed,
saying, "If this is what we need, we
should get it."
Councilman Lane Stephenson
voiced the only opposition to the
buildings. "I think we ought to build
what we can afford," he said.
Council members had met on the
building cost problem several times f
and Thursday no one had any
definite suggestions for cutting the
cost.
Councilwoman Anne Hazen said
She would like to see the building
designed so that any temporarily
unused space might be rented out or
used by the public.
Police Chief Marvin Byrd
defended the 9,200 square foot police
facility saying very little of the
space would be used and that
within the near future, the depart-
ment would fill that area.
Presently, he said, four or five
persons are being interviewed in the
same room about different cases.
This is very inconvenient, he said.
The police building will house the
police and the municipal court. The
warehouse building will house of-
fices, storage and maintenance
areas for the electrical department,
water and sewer department and the
street department.
The police building is to be built at
the front of the present C.I. Miller
tract at 2611 S. Texas Avenue. A
pond now on the tract will be
maintained.
The warehouse building will be
built toward the back of the
property. Originally, council
members also had planned to put the
proposed community center on that
site, but the land will not ac-
comodate all three facilities.
Methods suggested to finance the
extra cost of the police and
warehouse buildings include:
—Using some $330,000 in interest
funds on bond money.
—Using revenue sharing monies.
— Selling existing city property
that isn't proposed for development.
—And, acquiring certificates of
obligation from a financial in-
stitution.
The council took no action on how
to finance the structures.
With Thursday's action, the city's
architect will now begin final plans
or the two buildings.
The Eagle
July 8, 1977
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Power switch
College Station began
receiving electric power
from Gulf States Utilities
Co. Friday at about 3 p.m.,
according to College
Station's director of public
works, George Ford, who
said there were no
problems with the new
connection.
begins for CS
The College Hills area
was the' major area af-
fected by the partial switch
from Bryan Utilities Co.
Cqllege Station plans to
buy half of its summer
power needs from Gulf
States and will continue to
buy the other half of its
electricity from Bryan.
The Eagle
July 10, 1977
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Bryan - College Station get indefinite delay in PUC hearing
A Public Utilities Commission
hearing, previously scheduled for
Wednesday in Austin, on a utility
dispute between Bryan and College
Station has been indefinitely post-
poned.
College Station City Councilman
Gary Halter said today that
meetings have been held between
the two cities but they have been
kept quiet. "We don't want to fight it
out in the press," he said.
Bryan City Manager Lou Odle
confirmed that the two cities are
trying to work together on an
agreement, which concerns water,
sewer and electric utilities.
Bryan City Atty. Joel Roberts said
Bryan would have no comment on
the details of the negotiations.
The delay in the hearing before the
Public Utilities Commission was
requested by mutual consent of the
two cities.
The matter came to the PUC in
early June because College Station
decided to obtain approximately
half of its summer electric power
requirements from Gulf States
Utilities Co. A partial switch to Gulf
States was made late last week.
College Station continues to buy
the other half of its power
requirement from Bryan.
Bryan challenged the partial
switch in electric supplier on the
grounds that it would present an
economic hardship on the city.
College Station argued that the
existing contract calls for Bryan to
supply all the dlectric power that
College Station "shall request."
An interim ruling by the PUC
agreed with College Station's
CS Safety Committee
sets driving course
The National Safety
Council's defensive driving
course will be offered by
the College Station Safety
Committee July 22 and 23
at 101 Church Street in
College Station.
Those students who
complete the course are
eligible for a 10 per cent
discount on their
automobile insurance for a
three year period.
The course consists of
two four -hour blocks of
classroom instruction.
Classes are conducted on
Friday from 6 -10 p.m. and
on Saturday 8 a.m. -12
noon.
Registration will be from
5 -6 p.m. Friday, July 22.
The registration fee is $10.
For more information, call
H.F. Goldsmith.
The Eagle
reasoning, saying that the com-
mission can't go against the
language of the contract itself.
The interim ruling was a setback
for Bryan, but a final hearing had
been scheduled for July 13. That
meeting has now been postponed
indefinitely, pending negotiations.
Bryan and College Station's utility
contract expires January, 1979.
July 12, 1977
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Switchover, audit delay utility bills for some in CS
Utility bills are two weeks late for
some residents of College Station,
but they'll soon be on their way.
A spokeswoman for the utility
department said the delay has been
caused by the city's switch over to
computer billing and are delayed so
auditors can go over the bills.
The auditing is a yearly activity at
the end of the city's fiscal year.
The bills should be mailed late this
week, . according to the utility
spokeswoman.
If your bill is late this month, it
probably will be late again next
month, she said, but don't count on
it. The delay depends on how fast the
city can get the new system rolling.
Somewhere along the line, the bills
will get caught up and a resident
may get two bills within a short
period of time.
The bills, however, will be for the
same periods as before and have the
same number of days to pay.
Muddle stalls CS annexation
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
Although most people thought the
annexation of 1,600 acres into the
College Station city limits had been
settled, it's not.
City council members learned
Tuesday that their vote on June 23
approving the annexation did not
comply with city and state charter
requirements.
In an effort to be entirely legal, the
council Tuesday voted to run two
newspaper advertisements about
the annexation ordinance and to vote
again in 30 days.
Councilman Gary Halter called
the incident a comedy of errors and
council members argued back and
forth at exactly what needed to be
done to get the annexation approved.
The outcome of the confusion is
that the annexation of the land on the
east side of the East Bypass is in
some jeopardy since a change in one
council member's vote would
change the results. When the an-
nexation was approved on June 23,
the vote was four in favor and three
against. Councilmen Larry Ringer,
Lane Stephenson, Gary Halter and
Lorence Bravenec voted yes on the
annexations. Jim Dozier, Ann Yazen
and Jim Gardner opposed an-
nexation in June.
Gardner said Tuesday the city
charter required 30 days wait from
the publication of tlie' annexation
notice in the newspaper and the
state charter required a notice 10 to
20 days before the meeting.
He said the original notice had
been published 29 days before the
meeting.
Halter said one advertisement
would not meet both requirements,
so he suggested two publishings of
the same advertisement.
To top off the whole episode, the
city's attorney had advised that the
council could have voted on the
annexation ordinance during the
Tuesday meeting since a law passed
by the last legislature validates all
annexation by College Station
through Aug. 29.
That law, sponsored by Sen. Bill
Moore and Rep. Bill Presnal,
covered all annexations in question
but was specifically aimed at an
annexation last year in the southern
portion of College Station. At that
time, Gardner had pointed out a
legal error in the procedure used by
the council.
"It seems like no matter how we
go about this, we can't do it right,"
Halter said Tuesday.
The 1,600 acres of land proposed
for annexation is bounded by the
East Bypass, Harvey Road, Carter's
Creek, Bird Pond and Rock Prairie
Roads.
The Eagle
July 13, 1977
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Bryan, CS chalk up
increases in building
as compared to 1976
By JERRY GRAY
and JANE M. SMITH
Both Bryan and College Station
recorded more than a $3 million
increase in total construction ac-
tivity during the first six months of
1977 as compared to the same period
last year.
Bryan had $13.1 million total
construction through June, 1977 and
College Station had $14.5 million in
building. In 1976, for the same
period, Bryan had $9.3 million and
College Station had $11.7 million.
Some 221 residences were per-
mitted for construction in College
Station during the first six months,
totaling $5.1 million, as compared to
121 in 1976 for $3.5 million. And 52
commercial and other non-
residential permits were issued
through June, 1977, in the city for a
total of $1.16 million. Last year, 49
such structures were permitted for a
cost of $2.2 million.
During the month of June, 1977, no
apartment complexes were given
building permits in College Station.
During May, 1977, 21 permits were
issued for construction totaling $1.1
million.
Building Inspector Bill Koehler
said the drop in permit applications
is normal for June since most big
complexes are already under con-
struction by the middle of the
summer.
Also in June, permits for 14
residences were issued, totaling
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and the Brazos Valley
Wednesday, July 13, 1977 page 1113
$381,412; permits for four duplexes,
totaling $128,656 and 11 commercial
establishments totaling $660,451.
Commercial buildings permitted
in the city for the month included
Weiners' new store and Culpepper
Plaza Phase II.
In the first six months of 1977 there
were 228 houses permitted by the
Bryan's building inspection
department, compared with 156
houses in the first six months of 1976.
That represents $7.2 million in
housing construction so far this
year, compared to $4.6 million in the
same period last year.
There were 30 new commercial
establishments permitted so far this
year and 27 in the same time period
last year. The commercial con-
struction totals $2.2 million this
year. It totaled $1.5 million in the
same time period last year.
And there are 46 apartment
projects so far this year with 250
living units. Last year in the first six
months there were 54 projects with a
total of 180 living units.
The biggest gain is in the number
of new houses, but inflation also
accounts in part for the higher mid-
year dollar figure.
During the month of June, 1977
there were 48 houses permitted in
Bryan and four commercial
establishments. The two largest
commercial additions for June are
the Bryan Professional Complex at
2700 Osler and Tri State Sporting
Goods at 3500 Old College Road.
Total construction activity in
Bryan for 1976 was $17 million.
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NOTICE OF PROPOSED
BANK MERGER
Notice is hereby given that
application has been made to
the Comptroller of the
Currency, Washington, D.C.
20219 for his consent to a
Merger of The City National
Bank of Bryan, Bryan, Texas,
and New City National Bank of
Bryan, Bryan, Texas.
This notice is published
pursuant to section 18 (c) of the
Federal Deposit Insurance
Act.
June 22, 1977 -
The City National Bankof
Bryan, Bryan, Texas
New City National Bank of
Bryan,0ryan,Texas
TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad-
just ment of the City of College
Station will consider a request
for a variance from Ken
Martin at their called meeting
in the Council Room in the
College Station City Hall at
7:30 P.M. on Tuesday, July 19,
1977, the facts of the case being
as follows:
The applicant requests a
variance to the requirement of
the Zoning Ordinance that a
spectacular sign be at least 15
'feet above ground in order to
place a spectacular sign 13 feet
above ground at his business at
107 Dominik Drive.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Building Official of the City of
College Station, telephone 846-
8886.
William F. Koehler
Buildi ng Official
TO WHOM IT MAY COW
CERN:
The Zoning Board of Ad-
just ment of the City of College
Station will consider a request
for a variance from Dennis
Jerke at their called meeting in
the Council Room in the
College Station City Hall at
7:30 P.M. on Tuesday, July 19,
1977, the facts of the case being
as to lows:
The applicant requests a
variance to the side setback
requirements of the Zoning
Ordinance in order to construct
a carport within 3 feet of the
property line at his residence
at 307 Glade Street.
Further information is
available at the office of the
Building Official of the City of
College Station, telephone 846-
8886.
William F. Koehler
Building Official
The Eagle
July 13, 1977
CS uses Bryan power
as Guff States line fails
New York wasn't the only place
with a power outage Wednesday.
Parts of the Gulf States Utility
System experience a period of no
power.
The problem apparently
originated in Beaumont and spread
northward. The outage left Caldwell
without power for a period of time.
That problem also affected the city
of College Station.
City Manager North Bardell said
that part of College Station which is
served by Gulf States lost power too.
This is primarily the College Hills
portion of the city.
The lack of power caused the city
to switch back to the Bryan Electric
System overnight, he said.
Today College Station switched
back to Gulf States, which has
corrected the problem in its system.
To make the switch back to Gulf
States, College Station had to shut
off power for a short period of time
this morning.
Bardell said resident have called
city hall for explanations of this
morning's lack of power. Power
from Bryan had to be cut off before
the Gulf States power source could
be reactivated, he said.
The city of College Station now
buys half of its power from Bryan
and half from Gulf States — a move
that has been contested by the city of
Bryan before the Public Utilities
Commission. A final decision
depends on negotiations between the
two cities.
The Eagle
July 14, 1977
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City Council, passes
rezoning ordinance
Attending the College Station City
Council meeting for the first few times can
be compared to following a new soap op-
era. You might not know what they are
talking about most of the time but you can
start to identify the lead characters.
Approval of the minutes of the meetings
of June 21, 23 and 29 was delayed at last
week's meeting while 'Council members
made changes they felt relevant. Students
observing the meeting for a political sci-
ence class started taking notes.
The floor was opened for comments
from the visitors. After a few moments of
silence, the council held a public hearing
on rezoning a 13.78 acre tract south of
Ponderosa Road and west of Longleaf Cir-
cle. The rezoning would mean that _ the
construction of duplexes would be allowed
in a single family residential district.
Anne Hazen, the only woman on the
council made the motion and it passed
unanimously.
An ordinance to pave a section of
Richards Street from Lassie Lane was
passed. Jim Gardener was the only "no"
vote and Lane Stephenson abstained.
Two right -of -ways were abandoned by
the council. The decision to abandon the
right -of -way for Pooh Lane in the Pooh's
Park Subdivision was unanimous.
The council was split on whether or not
to give up the right -of -way on Hawthorne
Street. Hazen felt the right -of -way should
be. relocated but the council voted 4 -2 to
give it up.
The council went into closed session to
approve the appointment of architect Tim
Keneipp to the staff of the Building Board
Code of Adjustments.
The Battalion
July 18, 1977
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City Council passes
rezoning ordinance
Attending the College Station City
Council meeting for the first few times can
be compared to following a new soap op-
era. You might not know what they are
talking about most of the time but you can
start to identify the lead characters.
Approval of the minutes of the meetings
of June 21, 23 and 29 was delayed at last
week's meeting while council members
made changes they felt relevant. Students
observing the meeting for a political sci-
ence class started taking notes.
The floor was opened for comments
from the visitors. After a few moments of
silence, the council held a public hearing
on rezoning a 13.78 acre tract south of
Ponderosa Road and west of Longleaf Cir-
cle. The rezoning would mean that the
construction of duplexes would be allowed
in a single family residential district.
Anne Hazen, the only woman on the
council made the motion and it passed
unanimously.
An ordinance to pave a section of
Richards Street from Lassie Lane was
passed. Jim Gardener was the only "no"
vote and Lane Stephenson abstained.
Two right -of -ways were abandoned by
the council. The decision to abandon the
right -of -way for Pooh Lane in the Pooh's
Park Subdivision was unanimous.
The council was split on whether or not
to give up the right -of -way on Hawthorne
Stree4. Hazen felt the right -of -way should
be relocated but the council voted 4 -2 to
give it up.
The council went into closed session to
approve the appointment of architect Tim
Keneipp to the staff of the Building Board
Code of Adjustments.
The Battalion
July 18, 1977
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college Station officials considering ambulance bids
College Station officials Tuesday
began sifting through specifications
on bids for a new city ambulance.
Fire Chief Douglas Landua said
the bids were coming in higher than
expected, about $30,000 - $33.000 as
compared to estimates at $28,000.
The higher bids, however, he said,
include all equipment for the
modulance -type ambulance.
He said it was too early to make an
announcement on how long UL11Vl l y
time would be for the new vehicle.
The city council has authorized
advertising for bids for the am-
bulance, but has not authorized its
purchase.
The city presently owns one
ambulance and borrows another
from the county. County com-
missioners have asked for that
vehicle to be returned so that it can
be used by Mid -Tex Ambulance.
The Eagle
July 19, 1977
CS opens bids on ambulance
Bids for an ambulance for College
Station were to be opened today at
City Hall.
Fire Chief Douglas Landua said it
would take about a week to go over
the bids before any decisions could
be made. He said the bids would be
submitted to the city council at its
next meeting.
College Station has advertised for
a new ambulance to replace one now
being borrowed from Brazos
County. The county has asked that
that ambulance be returned so that
Mid -Tex Ambulance can use the
ambulance.
The new vehicle has been
estimated to cost about $28,000.
The Eagle
July 18, 1977
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station Planning
` and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing to con-
sider a request for conditional
use permit for the construction
of an apartment project
located between Dominik
Drive, Puryear Street and
Univeristy Oaks Drive.
The hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall, 1101 South
Texas Avenue at the 7:00 PM
meeting of the Planning and
Zoning Commission on
Thursday, August 4, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact the City Plan-
ner, AI Mayo, at the City Hall,
846 -8886.
The Eagle
July 20, 1977
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Federally funded program
Youth corps helps Mother Nature
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
They tromp through the woods
carrying tools and wearing round
red hats.
They laugh a lot, but they don't
sing songs.
And, they are helping Mother
Nature.
They may sound like elves, but
actually they are members of the
Youth Conservation Corps for the
City of College Station.
The corps is made up of 30
teenagers, ages 15 through 18, who
are working under a federally -
funded program for about seven
weeks, according to Dr. Robert
Thomas, corps director.
The youths are paid $2.30 an hour
for 30 hours a week. Ten additionai
hours are spent in environmental
education.
Presently the corps is clearing
paths and around trees at the Brazos
County Arboretum behind Bee
Creek Park. The youths seem to
have fun, but they do work hard.
Girls and boys alike swing hoes
and weed cutters through dense
underbrush. Unafraid, they attack
poison ivy, prickly vines and
scratchy bushes.
"They've done in one and a half
weeks what we thought would take
five weeks. They work incredibly
fast," said Dean Clemons, a work
supervisor. Clemons and three other
college students work directly with
the teenagers.
The college students come from
such disciplines as forestry and
horticulture and can give the corps
members information on just about
anything in the woods.
Dr. Thomas presents brief lec-
tures at - t he work site on such things
as spiders, bull nettle and con-
servation.
The corps will take a field trip next
week to the mushroom factory at
Madisonville and possibly to another
Youth Conservation camp.
"These kids wouldn't have jobs
this summer if it wasn't for this
program," Thomas pointed out.
"We interviewed them in July and if
they didn't have a job by then, they
probably weren't going to get one.
Some are football players and their
coaches let them out of morning
practice."
"The great thing about this
program is that it is made up of a
broad base of kids from varied
backgrounds. We've got rich kids
and poor kids," he said.
A benefit to the city from the corps
is that the work it is doing at the
arboretum probably wouldn't get
done or would be greatly delayed if it
had to be done by regular city erfi-
ployes.
The corps program brings about
$30,000 to the city from federal
sources.
When the work at the arboretum is
completed, the corps will begin
clearing out the Kiwanis Nature
Trail behind College Hills
Elementary School and possibly on
the new Oaks park at Highway 30
and Stallings Rd.
This is the first year for the corps
in this area, Thomas said, but city
officials hope to get funding again
next year.
The Eagle
July 22, 1977
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Bryan -CS cooling off
closer to utilities -talks
Earnest C. Casstevens, the at-
torney employed by the city of
Bryan to handle the utilities dispute,
said the two cities have cooled off a
little and are in positions to view the
dispute rationally.
Although the dispute has not been
settled once and for all, Casstevens
said Friday night the cities were one
step nearer negotiations.
"We are much closer with what we
have done in the way of a com-
munications function. We are very
close to going to the councils and
saying what we see as the
problems —the give and take of the
situation. They need to decide where
we can compromise and where are
the boundaries," Casstevens said.
But no great progress has been
made. Casstevens said the talks
were still in the form of discussions
to identify the problem areas, not in could get a better price from Gulf
the form of negotiations. He said a States Utilities Co. The city has been
report on the problem areas may be receiving its electricity from the
presented to both cities next week. A City of Bryan.
specific date was not announced.
"The problems- have b- -n iden- College Station city manager
tified in very specific terms. We .-North Bardell previously stated that
have the costs, benefits and alter- :the Bryan - College Station contract
natives down. The councilmen can Calls for Bryan to furnish all the
now decide what is to be done, but electric power that College Station
that doesn't guarantee they will like shall request.
what they see," he said.
If Larry Veselka, attorney for
College Station, and Casstevens
present their finding to the councils
and the two government bodies find
them unacceptable, litigation will be
the possible alternative.
The existing contract does not
mention College Station's total
requirement or the take -or -pay
contract that Bryan has with its fuel
supplier, Lone Star Gas Co.
The take -or -pay contract is part of
the adverse effect Bryan says it
The dispute rose when College would suffer with College Station's
Station chose to switch suppliers last change of supplier prior to January,
year because the council said it 1979.
The Eagle
July 23, 1977
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals addressed to
the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of College Station,
Texas will be received at the
office of North Bardell, City
Manager, until 10:U0 A.M.
August 3, 1977 for furnishing
the following equipment:
Two New Sedan
Automobiles
Specifications can he obtained
at the Public Works Office at
City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas.
The Eagle
July 21, 1977
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals addressed to
the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of College Station,
Texas will be received at the
office of North Bardell, City
Manager, until 10:00 A.M.
August 3, 1977 for furnishing
the following equipment:
Two New Sedan
Automobiles
Specifications can he obtained
a1 the Public Works Office at
City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue,
1 �1,lege Station, Texas.
The Eagle
July 22, 1977
CS council
to consider
t several plats
The College .Station City Council
will consider today several sub-
division plats.
Items on the 4 p.m. agenda in-
elude:
— Consideration of a preliminary
plat resubdividing lot 12 of College
Hills Woodlands.
Consideration of a preliminary
plat resubdividing lots 12 -21 of
Southwood Section 5.
— Consideration of a master
preliminary plat of Wildwood
Estates.
— Consideration of a final plat
resubdividing Post Oak Forest PUD.
— Reconsideration of a
preliminary plat of Holleman Court.
— And, consideration of an
agreement for Brentwood park land
dedication.
The Eagle
July 26, 1977
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(.aa LEGAL NOTICES
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l o. LE GAL NOTICES
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
"The City Council of the City of
Cot#ege Station, Texas. will d
conuct a public hearing at
7:00 P.M. Thursday, Sep-
tember 8, 1977 for the purpose
of determining the application
of Federal Revenue Sharing
Funds under the ninth en-
titlement. Said public hearing
shall be held in the Council
Room at the City- Hall in
College Station, Texas.
S-Lorence Bravenec
Mayor
ATTEST:
S- Florence Neeiley
city Secretary
The Eagle
Julv 26, 1977
July 28, 1977
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Councilmen caught by surprise
CS to continue use of county ambulance
By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
College Station City Council
members were surprised Tuesday
by the action of the County Com-
missioners Court giving College
Station continued use of the county's
ambulance.
The county had requested that the
ambulance be returned as of Sept. 1
and College Station was progressing
with plans to purchase a
replacement vehicle.
The commissioner's decision to
remove the ambulance from College
Station had caused some hard
feelings between the city and the
county since the county planned to
give the ambulance to Mid -Tex
Ambulance, a private firm.
County Judge W.R. Vance said the
commissioners voted to leave the
ambulance with College Station
because of the ill feelings which had
developed and because the county
had learned of a federal grant
available for the purchase of
another ambulance.
The commissioners voted to
purchase a new ambulance to give to
the city of Bryan which will in turn
be loaned to Mid -Tex since that
company serves Bryan and= the
county.
Tlie new ambulance will cost
$19,310 and the county's share will be
$9,655.
The ambulance being purchased
by the county will be a less ex-
pensive model than the one
presently being .,used by College
Station.
Vance said Bill Thornal of Mid -
Tex had indicated that the am-
bulance would fit his needs.
"I think the county's action is
commendable," said College Station
Mayor Lorence Bravenec.
The College Station City Council
was to examine bids for its new
ambulance on Thursday night. That
ambulance was estimated to cost
about $28,000433,000.
Bravenec said he didn't know
what the council would do now. The
council could scrap plans to .buy a
new vehicle or could go ahead with
the purchase and increase the city's
fleet to three ambulances.
"We just want ambulance service
for the county," said County Com-
missioner H.L. Cargill. Vance said
College Station would be asked to
draw up a written contract for
county ambulance service.
The city had been using the county
ambulance since it took over College
Station ambulance operations
earlier this year without any written
agreement with the county.
The Eagle
,July 27, 1977
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Utility b land plats
topic for city meeting
College Station's city council met yes-
terday in regular session and egnsidered
six plats and their subdivision and heard a
report from the Community Action
Agency on payment of utility bills for the
disabled.
The plats considered included the re-
E subdividing of 19t 12. of College Hills
Woodlands which was voted to be referred
back to the Planning ,and Zoning Commis-
sion with particular interest in the cost.
The council tabled their considerations
of a preliminary plat at Holleman Court
and discussion of the goals program re
port from Parks and Recreation until the
,council meeting Thursday night.
The council passed Councilman Gary
Halter's motion that it approve the con-
siderations of a preliminary plat resub-
dividing lots 12 through 21, block 6;
Southwood section 5. Councilman Jim
Gardner moved in favor of the considera-
tion of a master preliminary plat of
Wildwood Estates located at the southeast
corner of the intersection of the East
Bypass and Harvey Road. The council
approved his motion.
Halter also moved that the shifting of
lots proposed in a final plat resubdiv-
iding Post Oak Forest P.U.D. be passed
and the council approved the motion.
Councilman James Dozier moved that
Mayor Larry Bravenec sign the contract in
the agreement for Brentwood parkland
dedication after the agreement is exam-
ined and approved by the city attorney.
The council approved.
The Community Action Agency re-
ported to the council that money has been
given to them by the federal government
through Gov. Dolph'Briscoe to pay future
or past delinquent utility bills for two.
categories of households — low income
people who can prove that they paid their
bills under dire hardship and overdue bills
from October 1976. The council moved to'
further consider this before taking action
on it.
—Sarah E. White
The Battalion
July 27, 1977
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CS to get annexation views
A public hearing will be held
tonight at 7 p.m. by College Station
City Council to consider annexation
of 1,600 acres on the east side of the
East Bypass.
The council previously has voted
to approve the annexation but later
decided to reconsider to make sure
legal requirements were met.
Other agenda items include
discussion on a tree replacement
policy in sidewalk construction,
consideration of bids for a
modulance -type ambulance and
consideration of a resolution
adopting revisions to the com-
prehensive plan.
The Eagle
July 28, 1977
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
aeaied proposals addressed to
the City Council, City of
College Station, Texas for
Residential Street Im-
provements -1977, Project No.
St 77 -1, will be received in the
Office of the City Secretary,
City .Hall, College Station,
Texas until 2:00 p.m., Monday,
August 15, 1977.
Proposals will be publicly
opened and read aloud in the
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall at 2:00 p.m..
on the same date. Any bid
received after the above)
closing time will be returned
unopened. I
Plans, Specifications and. In
formation for Bidders, are on
file and may be examined at
the Office of the Engineer, City
Hall, College Station, Texas.
A certificate of cashier's check
on a State or National Bank of
the State of Texas, or a Bid
der's bond from an acceptable
Surety Company, authorized to
transact business in the State
of Texas, in the amount of not
less than five (5 per cent) per
cent of the total bid must ac-
company each Proposal as a
guarantee that, if awarded the
contract, the Bidder will within
ten (18) calendar days after
award contraQ enter into
contract and exeo,ute a Bond'on
the forms provided in 'tne
Contna,Lt Documents.
A' Performance Bond and a
Payment Bond in an amount of
not less than one hundred per
cent (100 per cent) of the
contract price, conditioned
upon faithful performance of
the contract and payment of all
persons supplying labor or
furnishing materials, shall be
executed by the successful
bidder and accompany his
signed contract.
Proposals must be submitted
on the forms bound within -the
Specifications and the right to
accept any bid, or to reject any
or all bids and to waive all
formalities is hereby reserved
by the City Council of the City
of College Station, Texas.
NONDISCRIMATION IN
EMPLOYMENT
Bidders on this work will be
required to comply with the
President's Executive Order
No. 11246. The requirements
for bidders and contractors
under this order are explained
in the specifications.
EI'rey R. Ash I I
City Engineer
The Eagle
July 30, 1977
Io8 LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals addressed to',
the City Council, City of
College Station, Texas for
Residential Street Im-
provements -1977, Project No.
S1 77.1, will be received in the'
Office of the City Secretary,
City Hall, College Station„
Texas until 2:00 p.m" Monday J
August 15, 1977.
Proposals will be publicly
opened and read aloud in the
Council Room of The College)
Station City Hall at 2:00 p.m.
on the same date. Any bid
received after the above
closing time will be returned
unopened.
Plans, Specifications and. In
formation for Bidders, are on
file and may be examined at
the Office of the 'E ngineer, City
Hall, College Station, Texas.
A certificate of cashier's check
on a State or National Bank of
the State of Texas, or a Bid-
der's bond from an acceptable
Surety Company, authorized to
transact business in the State
of Texas, in the amount of not
less than five (5 per cent) per
cent of the total bid must ac
company each Proposal as a
guarantee that, if awarded the
contract, the Bidder will within
ten (1$) calendar days after
award of contract enter into
contract and execute a Bond on
the forms provided in the
Contract Documents.
A Performance Bond and a
Payment Bond in an amount of
not less than one hundred per
cent (100 per cent) of they
contract price, conditioned
upon faithful performance of
the contract and payment of all
persons supplying labor or
furnishing materials, shall be
executed by the successful,
bidder and accompany his,
signed contract.
Proposals must be submitted'
on the forms bound within the
Specifications and the right to
accept any bid, or to reject any
or all bids and to waive all
formalities is hereby reserved
by the City Council of the City
of College Station, Texas.
NONDISCRIMATION Md
EMPLOYMENT
Bidders on this work will be
required to comply with the;
President's Executive Order)
No. 11246. The requirements
for bidders and contractors
under this order are explained
in the specifications.
Elrey R. Ash I 1
City Eng
The Eagle
July 31, 1977
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals addressed to
the City Council, City, of
College Station, Texas - 4or
Residential Street I
provements -1977, Project -No.
St 77 -1, will be received in
Office of the City Secretarly;
City .Hall, College Station,
Texas until 2:00 p. m., Monday.
August 15, 1977.
Proposals will be publicly
opened and read aloud in "the
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall at 2:00 • p.m.
on the same date. Any .bid
received after the above
closing time will be returned,
unopened. 1
Plans, Specificationst'and
formation for Bidder's,- 'are
file and may be examined•at
the Office of the Engineer, Cily
Hall, College Station, Texas.
Y
A certificate of cashier's check
on a State or National Bank Of
the Stfite of Texas, or a BiA-
dQr's bond from an acceptable
Surety Company, authorized to
.transact business in the State
of �Tex#s,. in the amount of not
less than five (5 per cent) per
cent of the total bid must d6. - '
company each Proposal as a
guarantee that, if awarded the
contract, the Bidder will within
ten (1$) calendar days after
award of contract enter �iMo
contract and execute a Bond
the forms provided in •the
Contract Documents. " °
A Performance Bond and a
Payment Bond in an amount of
not less than one hundred per
cent .(100 per cent) of the
contract price, conditioh6d
upon faithful performance of
the contract and payment of all
persons supplying labor 'or
furnishing materials, shall . be
executed by the successful
bidder and accompany his
signed contract.
Proposals must be submitted
on the forms bound within the
Specifications and the right :to
accept any bid, or to reject any
or all bids and to waive ° all
formalities is hereby reserved
by the City Council of the City
of College Station, Texas.
NONDISCRIMATION IN
EMPLOYMENT
Bidders on this work will "be
required to comply with the
President's Executive Order
No. 11246. The requirem nits
for bidders and contrac7ors
under this order are explained
in the specifications.
Elrey R. Ash 1 I
City Engineer
. The Eagle
July 29, 1977
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CS approves purchase of ambulance
College Station City Council
Thursday night approved the pur-
chase of a new modulance -type
ambulance at a cost of $31,897.95.
The purchase will bring the
number of vehicles in the city's
ambulance fleet to three and will
make possible expanded services
such as-non-emergency transfers
and stand -bys at sporting events.
The new ambulance, which will
have a gas tank large enough to
make a trip to Houston without
stopping for gas, will be delivered
late this year or in early 1975.
In the meantime, the city will
continue to use two ambulances —
one owned by College Station and the
other owned by the county and
loaned to the city.
The council directed the city at-
torney to draw up a contract for use
of the county ambulance. Such a
contract was requested by Brazos
County Commissioners.
Fire Chief Douglas Landua said
three ambulance units were needed
if the city was to supply complete
services. Presently with two units,
he said there are problems with
maintenance.
"On Tuesday, both ambulances
were gone at two times during the
day," Landua said.
In other action, the council
directed the city staff to erect
makeshift safety signs "tomorrow"
at the intersection of Anderson and
Jersey Streets.
The council has heard numerous
complaints about bicycle -
automobile accidents at that in-
tersection. Thursday night, Carroll
Claycamp of 300 Lee, told the council
his daughter was hit Tuesday for the
second time by an automobile while
she rode her bicycle through that
intersection.
After an explanation by the city
engineer that a traffic light is being
ordered for that intersection and
would hopefully be installed by
September, Claycamp asked why
signs could not be erected in the
meantime, warning bicyclists and
drivers.
Claycamp was told the signs
meeting code requirements would
take three to four weeks to have
printed. He asked if he could paint
some for them.
Councilman Jim Dozier directed
the city staff to make their own signs
and have them up as soon as
possible.
"Action will begin tomorrow,"
Dozier said.
A public hearing was held Thur-
sday night on the proposed an-
nexation of 1,600 acres on the east
side of the East Bypass. Only one
person except council members
spoke at the hearing.
Freddie Wolters, who owns land in
the area, said much of the land in the
proposed area is strictly flood land.
He told the council it was senseless
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CS okays ambulance purchase
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to annex the land since it would
never be developed.
"I just think you are taking on a
bunch of headaches," Wolters said:
He said the council chambers
"would be full of people against the
annexation if they weren't afraid of
being embarrassed.
The council will vote on the an-
nexation at a later meeting. the
group previously approved the
annexation but voted to perform
procedure again since the first
action did not meet state
requirements.
The council also voted to reim-
burse homeowners for large trees
and bushes in city right -of -way
destroyed during the bond sidewalk
paving project.
City staff estimated it would cost
about $1,500 to $1,800 to replace the
trees. The council said each tree or
bush would be worth a maximum of
$20.
"The $20 will pay for a
replacement bush or tree of a size
that can be bought at a local nur-
sery. The money won't at all cover
replacement of some of the large,
old trees," said Elrey Ash, city
engineer.
Before the vote, Ash warned: the
council that the repayment policy
might set a precedent for other
projects such as sewer and street
construction.
Councilman Jim Gardner said it
was a "one time" decision because
the project was paid for with bond
money and homeowners had no
choice about getting the sidewalks.
Whereever possible, the city will
detour around trees and shrubs. The
ones to be destroyed cannot be
dodged without going out of the
city's right -of -way, Ash said.
The Eagle
July 29, 1977
City Council: 7 members
By DARRELL LANFORD
The College Station City
Council is composed of seven
members elected for staggered
two -year terms The unpaid
councilmen meet four times a
month. A brief description of
each member is as follows.
Larry Bravenec, an accounting
professor at A &M, has been the
Mayor of College Station for almost
two years, after running unopposed
in 1976. He served as a councilman
for three years before being elected
mayor.
In his announcement for mayor,
Bravenec said, "The mayor should
provide leadership to the city coun-
cil and to the city administration.
The position is an extremely impor-
tant and sensitive one at a time
when College Station is experienc-
ing unparalled growth, when new
land development is commonplace
and when rezoning requests are fre-
quent," he said.
Dr. Gary Halter, a political
science - professor at Texas A &M
University, has been a council
member for two years. One of the
more aggressive council members,
Halter is a fast -mover who wants to
quicken council actions. He was one
of two council members who voted
to extend liquor hours in College
Station.
Halter has said that he ran for the
council primarily because he was
interested in planning and zoning, in
trying to improve development con-
trols, and in encouraging property
developments and amenities. He
ran in the last election unopposed,
but said " I don't think it's a very
healthy situation to have people run
unopposed."
The only woman on the council is
Anne Hazen, a school nurse at A &M
Consolidated. She has been a coun-
cil member for one year.
She has said that she opposes Col-
lege Station's ward system, explain-
ing that the town is too small. Be-
fore the spring elections, she said
she'd like to see an increase in the
city staff.
"I think a lot of things move
slowly because there are just not
enough personnel. The town is
growing so fast we just don't have
enough personnel to perform serv-
ices quickly," she said.
Dr. Larry Ringer, professor of
statistics at Texas A &M, has been a
council member for one year. He
voted against the extension of liquor
hours and has said he'd like to see
continued development of parks and
recreation areas, along with con-
tinued improvement in public
safety. He said that a year ago he
had some ideas and wondered why
certain things weren't done, and de-
cided to run.
"We've made some efforts to
make College Station a pleasant
community," Ringer said in an
interview before the spring elec-
tion. "I'd like to see all the citizens
get involved in improving College
Station."
Lane Stephenson, University as-
sistant for Information to the Chan-
cellor, has been a council member
for one year. In 1976 he challenged
incumbent Homer Adams on the
grounds that Adams had frequently
voted against the interests of land-
owners.
At that time Stephenson said his
primary concern is for strict adher-
ence to zoning regulations.
"Any zoning changes for which I
vote will have to be clearly benefi-
cial overall and have the over-
whelming support of surrounding
property owners," he said.
He is now the head of the civic
center committee.
Jim Gardner, Texas A &M profes-
sor of urban and regional planning,
has been on the council for three
years. He has fought strip- zoning
and is' a strong supporter of open
spaces and off - street bike paths.
Before the 1976 elections, Gard-
ner said that the Comprehensive
Development Plan for the city is
one of his goals for the city. He also
said he was concerned with the
quality of housing in College Sta-
tion. In an interview, he said that he
would like for the population den-
sity to be lowered in some areas.
Jim Dozier, professor of finance at
A& M, has seven years experience as
a councilman and was city attorney
for two years. He is well acquainted
with the city's growth, code
enforcement and any utilities prob-
lems.
He is also one of the more out-
spoken council members, fre-
quently haggling with other coun-
cilmen. Lately, he has come out
strongly in favor of increasing the
hotel -motel tax by one per cent. He
argued at length with several motel
owners at the last council meeting.
The Battalion
July 29, 1977
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City council tables
concrete controversy
By DARRELL LANFORD
The matter will probably be taken up at
the council meeting next Wednesday or
Battalion staff
Wary of possible increases in the cost of
concrete and recognizing difficulties in
Thursday.
The council also decided to change their
regulating concrete trucks, the College
-Tuesday meetings to Wednesdays at 4
Station City Council yesterday tabled con-
sideration of an ordinance establishing
p.m.
The council approved purchase of
maximum loads for ready -mix concrete
40,000 telephone stickers for ambulance,
fire and service for distribution to
trucks.
The council was worried about the
police
College Station citizens. They will be
heavy loads of the trucks, which now carry
lime- green.
about eight to nine yards of concrete.
Eight yards of concrete weigh about
58,000 pounds. The trucks weigh A bt-
27,000 pounds.
Elrey Ash, city engineer, said the
streets were designed to hold a maximum
of 36,090 pounds.
The council had planned on restricting
gross loads to 48,000 pounds, but 'thtee
ready -mix contractors at the meeting
warned of possible price increases result-
ing from additional trips made necessary
by the smaller loads.
Presently, an average house slab re-
quires six loads of concrete. The ordinance
proposes that trucks can carry only six
yards of concrete, so therefore nine loads
would have to be used, not six.
Problems concerning regulation arose
because the city has no adequate place to
weigh the trucks. Trucks must be weighed
quickly because the barrel cannot stop
rotating for more than an hour.
Because of the regulation problems, the
concrete contractors have been violating
the existing ordinance for about 16 years,
they said.
"I think it's ridiculous for us to change
policy after this point, said council
member Gary Halter.
Council member Anne Hazen
suggested limiting routes to certain roads.
Councilman. Larry Ringer suggested de-
signating certain loads for specified
streets.
The ordinance would apply to city -
maintained streets only, not county roads
or state highways.
The ordinate would have made it illegal
to operate a tandem -axle load exceeding
36,000 pounds, a single -axle load exceed-
ing 12,000 pounds, and a gross load ex-
ceeding 48,000 pounds. Violations would
be considered a misdemeanor, with a fine
not over $200.
The Battalion
July 31, 1977
CS approves ambulance phone number stickers
By JANE M. SMITH T
Tex Ambulance of Bryan. On the S
Since the ambulance service in f
for operator and this causes a delay a
an ambulance call that would be
Staff Writer f
front of the covers with other ad- C
College Station was started during i
in ambulance response time. c
closer for Mid -Tex to respond to.
College Station City Council v
vertisers, Mid -Tex is listed under t
this year, its number also is not T
The council approved the pur- C
College Station ambulance responds
discussed ambulances again Tues- A
Ambulance. And on the back of the l
listed in the white or yellow pages of c
chase of lime green flourescent t
to the call, but if Mid -Tex can reach
day, but this time it was concerned c
cover under emergency numbers, t
the General Telephone Book. s
stickers to go on telephones. The i
it faster, it is allowed to perform, the
f 1 o
only Mid -Tex's number again is T
The telephone number is 911 for s
stickers will be mailed to College s
service.
p one nun, era or am u ance
service.
The council approved the pur-
chase of 40,000 stickers to go on city
residents' telephones giving College
Station emergency numbers.
It seems that the new yellow
plastic telephone book covers sent
out to area residents recently bear
only the telephone number of Mid -
CS council tables'ordinance for concrete truck load limit
College Station residents. Station residents. City Manager North Bardell said
College Station Fire Chief Douglas On the same `subject, the council Mid -Tex does not reciprocate in this
Landua said-there have been pro- directed the city manager to meet
blems informing citizens of the with Bill Thornal, owner of Mid -Tex action. He said College Station's
ambulance number. Several per- Ambulance, to try and work out a only concern is the fastest response
sons, he said, have called the Mid- mutual aid pact between the two to an emergency.
Tex number thinking it would reach companies. City councilmen said they felt
both services. Landua said College Station Thornal should reciprocate volun-
Other people, he said, still dial 0 telephones Mid -Tex when it receives tarily.
College Station . City Council
Tuesday tabled consideration of an
ordinance establishing load limits
for ready mix concrete trucks after
it was surprised to learn that the
present regulations have been
violated for the last 15 years or,
more.
The council had proposed to keep
ready mix concrete trucks weight at
the present limi of 48,000 pounds
given. Both Bryan and College
Station fire and police are listed.
George Scrivner, spokesman for
Universal Plastics in Cooksville,
Tenn., the company that produced
the covers, said the deletion was not
intentional and strictly an error.
"We were not advised but can
correct it next year," he said.
gross load. Monday, a new state law
went into effect raising the limits of
64,000 pounds unless individual cities
pass differing laws.
City council members said they
though the heavier weights would
damage city streets.
Representatives of the three
major concrete companies in the
area came to protest the lower
weights and stated that they all had
been carrying over 48,000 pounds for
years.
"Everybody knows this," said
B:D. Moore of Bryco Inc. He said the
legislature's action only made legal
what companies had been doing and
didn't increase weights.
If the concrete companies had to
cut back to 48,000 pounds, he said,
costs of concrete would increase 20
to 30 per cent. He was supported by,
D.R. Cain of Brazos Valley Concrete
and Jerry Windham of Bernath
Concrete Products.
Windham said the state's new
regulation would cause no more
damage to city streets than in the
past. Lighter loads he said, would
mean more trips on city streets.
City Manager North Bardell
pointed out that weight and
repetitiveness damage streets.
In College Station, the new or-
dinance if passed, would apply only
to streets not on university property
or such street as Jersey and
University which are owned by the
state.
Bardell said it would be difficult tc
enforce the weight limits becaus(
they have no efficient scale foi
weighing and because ready mi)
concrete is a perishable commodity
The Eagle
July 31, 1977
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; loa LEGAL NOTICES
L---- - - - - -- -
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing to con-
sider a request for conditional
use permit for the operation of
a Religious Education Center
in an existing residence located
at the corner of Jersey Street
and Dexter Street (100 East
Dexter Drive). The application
is in the name of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints, 50 East North Temple,
Salt Lake City, Utah -
The hearing will be held in the
Council Rpom of the College
Station C1ty, ?4til, 1101 South
Texas'Avenue'at the 7:00 PM
meeting of the Planning and
Zoning Commission on
Thursday, September 15, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact the City Plan-
ning Department, 713 - 8886.
•
Utility. panel hearing
to d ismiss dispute
College Station and Bryan were
scheduled for a hearing before the
Public Utilities Commission in
Austin Wednesday morning, but
attorneys for both sides said the
hearing was only to announce an
order for dismissal.
Bryan had taken College Station to
the commission because of a dispute
over College Station switching its
electric supplier from Bryan to Gulf
States Utilities.
The two cities settled that con-
troversy two weeks ago without PUC
action.
Larry Veselka, attorney for
College Station, said Bryan had filed
for dismissal.
"This is strictly to clean up the
paper work," Veselka said.
The Eagle
July 31, 1977
•
Bryan -CS state case
for highway access
Bryan and College Station
presented their case for better high-
way access to this area in a unified
plea Monday before the State
Department of Highways and Public
Transportation.
The delegation, 36 businessmen
and local and state officials, at-
tended a public hearing at which
several members of the group
presented evidence why the Bryan -
College Station area should receive
state highway funding.
The group, under the leadership of
the Bryan- College Station Chamber
of Commerce, went by chartered
bus to Austin.
Armand Frank, chamber
president, told members of the high-
way commission that the Bryan-
College Station area was 13 ,years
ahead of its predicted growth and
better highways were needed to
attract more industry and improve
the tax base.
He and others cited the need for a
four -lane highway linking Bryan -
College Station with Dallas and
Houston. The others — State Sen.
Bill Moore of Bryan;. State Rep. Bill
Presnal of Bryan, County Judge
William Vance, Bryan Mayor Lloyd
Joyce,, College Station Mayor
Lorence Bravenec and Charles J.
Keese of the Texas Transportation
Institute — also cited the rapid
growth of the area and the need for
better roads.
Emphasis was on development of
Highway 6 and the west bypass,
Highway 2818.
Moore, noting the possible
development of lignite mining in this
area among other factors, said High-
way 6 should be developed. an
alternate route between Dallas and
Houston.
He said priority shoul4 be given to
making Highway 6 four lanes be-
tween Bryan - College Station and
Navasota. And, he added, he would
like to see some of the new highway
money spent in this area. The
legislature, in the session recently
ended, approved spending $528
million for highways over the next
two years.
Presnal said the Bryan- Colltge
Station area was the only standard
metropolitan statistical area in
Texas that did not have a four -lane
highway leaving the area.
He stressed Texas A &M
University's growth and it's need for
good highway -access to other areas
of the state, particularly the Gulf
coast where A &M has interests.
Vance said Bryan - College Station
was in the center of the Houston -
Dallas -San Antonio triangle and
needed a four -lane connection with
interstate highways 35 and 45.
He told the commission that
Brazos County could provide the
right of way for such a highway
within two years:
Joyce urged the upgrading of
Highway 6 and he told the com-
missioners that access to the city
was important. "We think our needs
are special and we ask your help."
Bravenec said there was a ripple
effect on the two communities from
the growth of A &M and he said he
expected A &M to continue to grow.
`.`We're going to experience some
seriws problems if we don't do
sorriefhing about it (the highway
situR on) now," Bravenec Said:
Keese, in addition to supporting
Highway 6 as an alternate to High-
way 45 as a north -south route, cited
the need for development of roads
surrounding the A &M campus.
He mentioned these areas in
particular: Wellborn Road, High-
way 60, Jersey Street at the railroad
crossing and Texas Avenue.
Commissioner Charles Simmons
asked the group whether any con-
sideration had been given to mass
transit.
Frank cited a recent . chamber
survey which showed that 75 per
cent of the people surveyed in
Bryan - College Station wanted mass
transit but only 61 per cent of those
who wanted it said they would use it.
The Eagle
August 2, 1977
CS Council approves
� lowering electric rate
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By JANE M. SMITH
Staff Writer
The College Station City Council
Thursday night approved electric
rate changes that will lower total
charges by 4.3 per cent for city
customers.
The rate change will go into effect
in September.
For a residential user in the
summer, using 500 kilowatt hours as
an example, the average cost per
kilowatt hour will be 4.6 cents as
compared to the present rate of
slightly less than 5 cents per kilowatt
hour.
That means the customer using
500 kwhr will pay approximately $23
for the electricity as compared with
approximately $25 for the power
now.
Jimmy McCord of Electric Power
Engineers of College Station told the
council his firm had figured that the
city would have saved $756,271
during 1976 if College Station had
been getting about 45 per cent of its
power from Gulf States Utilities as it
will next year.
Taking that figure and subtracting
$85,963 from it to make up for a rate
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(the present supplier of the
remaining 55 per cent of College
Station's power), McCord projected
that the city will save about $670,000
during the next year.
He proposed that the city pass 30
per cent of that savings on to its
customers and retain 70 per cent for
debt incurred in transferring to Gulf
States.
1 The rates, for residential and
businesses, approved by the council
call for a 4.3 per cent total reduction.
Actually, the base rate for a kilowatt
hour (kwhr) of electricity will go up,
but the fuel adjustmeAt costs will be
greatly reduced.
McCord said a similar 4.3' per
cent decrease in utility bills would
be possible next year as the city took
even more of its power from Gulf
States instead of Bryan.
New rates for single . family
residential customers and old rates
are:
Old rates per kwhr for first 25
kwhrs was 5.60 cents and new rate is
6.15 cents.
Old rate per kwhr for next 75
kwhrs was 4.40 cents and new rate is
4.95 cents.
Old rate per kwhr for next 100
kwhrs was 3.82 cents and new rate is
4.37 cents.
Old rate per kwhr for all kwhrs
over 200 was 2.05 cents and new rate
is 2.60 cents.
Old rate per kwhr for all over 700
kwhrs used per month in the months
of November through April was 1.40
and the new rate is 1.95 cents.
The savings will come from the
fuel adjustment charge which
presently makes up about half a
customer's monthly bill. The fuel
adjustment will drop to an average
of 1.3 cents per kilowatt hour as
compared to the present rate of
about 1.96 cents per kwhr.
The lowering of electric rates in
College Station was made possible,
McCord said, by the city's switch to
Gulf States as a power supplier.
Until this year, College Station
had purchased all its power from the
city of Bryan. This summer College
Station began buying a portion of its
power from Gulf States.
This switch in utility suppliers
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By ROBIN SCHRIVER
Staff Writer
The City of College Station in an
attempt to collect $32,785.48 in
delinquent utility bills has filed suit
against Harry Seaback, 1401 FM
2818 in College Station.
Also named in the suit is the Doux
Chene Apartment corporation, the
Plantation Oaks Apartment cor-
poration and the St. Paul Fire and
Marine Insurance Co. of St. Paul,
Minn.
It says Plantation Oaks Apart-
ment corporation, formerly owned
by Harry Seaback, was furnished
utility service totalling $23,019.36
from Aug. 20, 1975 until Oct. 8, 1975.
In addition, the suit says the city
furnished the same service for the
Doux Chene Apartment corporation,
also formerly owned by Seaback,
totalling $9,766.12 from Sept. 20,
1975, until Oct. 14, 1975.
The suit also has been filed against
the insurance company because the
r delinquent
company placed a $14,120 surity
bond for the Doux Chene Apart-
ments and a $9,120 surity bond for
the Plantation Oaks Apartments.
The suit says the city has
frequently notified the insurance
company of Seaback's failurq.to pay
for the service and has asked that
the company pay the surity blonds
totaling $18,886.12. As. yet the
company has not paid the bonds.
"What we are doing now is
reducing the claim to a judgment
which sets straight the legal status
of the claim. The Judgment should
establish exactly who owes the
money and what will be the possible
basis for payment," city attorney
Neeley Le said today.,
In an interview early this mor-
ning, Seaback said he had just found
out that he would be served with the
claim.
He said that during the time in
question (August through October,
1975) he did not own the complexes.
utility bills
"I lost the apartments to Cousins
Mortgage and Equity Company in
Atlanta, Ga., but the utility bills
were actually in my name so they
didn't pay the bills. I had no control
whatsoever. They (Cousins) were
supposed to pay the utilities and did
not because the utilities were in my
name," Seaback said.
"1 want to go on record that I
visited city hall and asked the city
repeatedly to contact Cousins. It was
Cousins' obligation to pay the bills.
And if they didn't pay the bills to
threaten to cut off the utilities.
"Tfe city told me they couldn't
legally do this because the utilities
were in my name. It is unfair that I
should have to pay these utilities
because I didn't manage the apart-
ments or have any control over the
operation of the apartments at the
time of the bills or have any control
over the rent monies. All the monies
were going to Cousins," Seaback
said.
The Eagle
August 12,1977
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TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
LEGAL NOTICES
CERN-
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
The College Station Planning
CERN:
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing to con-
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
CERN:
The College Station Planning
Sider a request for a con-
hold a public hearing to con-
and Zoning Commission will
ditional use permit for the
Sider a request for a , con-
hold a public hearing to con
construction of an apartment
ditional use permit for 'the
Sider a request for a con-
project to be located on Cherry
construction of an apartment
ditional use permit for The
Street. The property is more
project to be located on Cherry
construction of an apartment
project to be located on Cherry
specifically, all of Blocks C and
Street. The prop rty is more
Street. The property is more
D of the Tauber Addition. The
specifically, all 0IBlocks C and
specifically, all of Blocks C and
application is in the name of
D of the Tauber Addition. The
Dbf the Tauber Addition. The
Mr. Emile Jamail, 4911 Har-
application is in The name of
application is in The name of
mon Avenue, Austin, Texas.
Mr. Emile Jamail, 4911 Har -
Mr. Emile Jamail, Har
The hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the College
mon Avenue, Austin, Texas.
The hearing will be held in the
mon Avenue, Austin, Texas.
Tex
Station City Hall, 1101 South
Council Room .of the College,
The hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the College
Exas Avenue, at the 7:00 PM
Station City Hall, 1101 South
Station City Hall, 1101 South
meeting of The Planning and
Exas Avenue, at the 7:00 PM
Exas Avenue, at the 7:00 PM
Zoning Commission on
meeting of the Plaanning and
meeting of the Planning and
Thursday, September 1, 1977.
For additional information,
Zoning CommftS'sior on
Thursday, SeptEmtier'l,-1977.
Zoning Commission on
please contact the City Plan-
For additional information,
Thursday, September 1977. .
For additional information,
ner, Al Mayo, at the City Hall,
please contact the City Plan
Please contact The City Plan -
71 3- 846-8886.
ner, Al Mayo, at the City Hall,
ner, Al Mayo, at the City Halt,
713 - . 8468886. _
713 846 -8886.
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LEGAL NOTICES
TO WHOM IT MAY CON
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station Planning
CERN: ,
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing to con-
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing to con-
Sider a request for a con-
hold a public hearing to con -
sider a request for a con
ditional use permit for the
Sider a request for a con-
ditional use permit for the
construction of an apartment
ditional use permit for the
construction of an apartment
project to be located on Cherry
construction of an apartment
project to be located on Cherry
Street. The property is more
project to be located on Cherry
Street. The property is more
specifically, all of Blocks C and
Street. The property is more
specifically, all of Blocks C and
D of the Tauber Addition. Th•
specifically, all of Blocks C and
D of'the Tauber Addition. The
application is in the name of
D of the Tauber Addition. Th-
application is in the name of
Mr. Emile Jamail, 4911 Har-
application is in the name of
Mr. Emile Jamail, 4911 Har-
mon Avenue, Austin, Texas.
Mr. Emile Jamail, 4911 Har
mon Avenue, Austin, Texas.
The hearing will be held in the
The hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the College
.mon Avenue, Austin, Texas.
The hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall, 1101 South
-
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall, 1101
Station City Hall, 1101 South
Avenue, the 7:00 PM
Exas Avenue, at the 7:00 PM
South
Exas Avenue, at the 7:00 PM
Exa* at
meeting of the Planning and
meeting of the Planning and
Zoning Commission on
meeting of the Planning -
Zoning Commission
Zoning Commission on
Thursday, Se tember 1, 1977.
n
n on
Thursday, September 1, 1977.
Thursday, September 1, 1977.
P
For additional information,
n al infor at
For additionmi
p lease contact The City Pian- on,
For additional information,
lease contact The City Plan-
P Y
ner, Al Mayo, at the City Hall,
please contact the City Plan -
ner, Al Mayo, at the City Halt,
ner, AI Mayo, at the City Halt,
7 73 -846 -8886. -
. 713 -846 -888
713 - 846-8886. -
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August 13, 1977
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TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station City
Council will hold a public
hearing on the question of
rezoning the following tract:
1.755 acres located at the
northeast corner of Texas
Avenue and Krenek Lane. The
request is to rezone from Single
Family Residential District R
7 to General Commercial
District C -1. The application is
in the name of Mr. Weldon E.
Jordan, 707 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas.
The said hearing will be held in
the Council Room of the
College Station City Hall at the
7:00 P.M. meeting of the City
Council on Thursday, Sep
tember 8, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact me.
Albert O. Mayo, Jr.
City Planner
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing to con-
sider a request for a con-
ditional use permit for the
construction of an apartment
project to be located at 308
Cooner Street. The application
is in the name of Dorsey E.
McCrory, 2109 Langford,
College Station, Texas.
The hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall, 1101 South
Texas Avenue at the 7:00 PM
meeting of the Planning and
Zoning Commission on
Thursday, September 1, 1977.
For "additional information,
please contact the City Plan,
ner, Al Mayo, at the City Hall,
713 846 -8886.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN:
The College Station City
Council will hold a public
hearing on the question of
rezoning the following tract:
8.12 acres located ap-
proximately 2000 feet east of
the East Bypass and
surrounded on three sides by
the RainTree Subdivision. The
request is in the name of
RainTree Developments, 707
Texas Avenue, College Station,
Texas.
The said hearing will be held in
the Council Room of the
College Station City Hall at the
7:00 P.M. meeting of the City
Council on Thursday, Sep-
tember 8, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact me.
Albert O. Mayo, Jr.
City Planner
TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing on the
question of rezoning the
following tract: 8.12 acres
located approximately 2000
feet east of the East Bypass
and surrounded on three sides
by the RainTree Subdivision.)
The request is in the name of
Raintree Developments, 707
Texas Avenue, College Station,
Texas.
The said hearing will be held in
the Council Room of the
College Station City Hall at the
7:00 P.M. meeting of the
Planning and Zoning Com-
mission on Thursday, Sep-
tember 1, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact me.
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-j
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing to con
Sider a request for a con -
..ditional use permit for the
construction of an apartment
project located at Stallings
Drive and University Oaks
Blvd.
The hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall, 1101 Texas
Avenue at the 7:00 PM meeting
of the Planning and Zoning
Commission on Thursday,
September 1, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact the City Plan
ner, Al Mayo, at the Ci ty H
TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN:
Thgg College Station Planning
and. 'Zoning Commission will
hold a public hearing on the
question of rezoning the
followfng tract: 1.755 acres
located at the northeast corner
of the intersection of Texas
Avenue and Krenek Lane. The
request is to rezone from Single
Family Residential District R
I' to General Commercial
District C 1. The application is
in the name of Weldon E.
Jordan, 707 Texas Avenue,
College Station, Texas.
The said hearing will be held in
the Council Room of the
College Station City Hall at the
7:00 P.M. meeting of the
Planning and Zoning Com-
mission on Thursday, Sep-
tember 1, 1977.
For additional information,
Please contact me.
Albert O. Mayo, Jr. .
City Planner
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The College Station Planning
and Zoninq Commission will
hold a public hearing to con
Sider a request for a con
ditional use permit for the
construction of an apartment
project to be located on Cherry
Street. The property is more
specifically, all of Blocks C and
D of the Tauber Addition. Th-
application is in the name of
Mr. Emile Jamail, 4911 Har-
mon Avenue, Austin, Texas.
The hearing will be held in the
Council Room of the College
Station City Hall, 1101 South
Exas Avenue, at the 7:00 PM
meeting Of the Planning and
Zoning Commission on
Thursday, September 1, 1977.
For additional information,
please contact the City Plan
ner, Al Mayo, at the City Half,
713.8468886.
Albert O. Mayo, Jr. The Eagle
City Planner
August 17, 1977
NOTICE TO BI DOERS
Sealed proposals addressed to
the City Council, City of
College Station, Texas for
MiscellaneousStreet Con
struction Project 0 S 77 -2, will
be received in the Office of the
City. Secretary, City Hall,
College Station, Texas witil
2:00- �p.m., Monday September
19, 1977.
Proposals win be publicly
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The City Council of the City of
College Station will hold a
Public hearing to consider the
rezoning of a tract of ap-
proximately 32 acres located
on Munson Avenue, Harvey
Road, and Plantation Oaks
Drive. Said hearing will be held
in the Council Room of the
College Station City Hall, 1101
South Texas Avenue, at the
7:00 P.M. meeting of the City
Council on Thursday, Sep-
tember 8, 1977, For further
information, please contact the
City Planner, At Mayo at the
City Hall, 713 -846 -8886.
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August 24, 1977
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Opened and read aloud in the
Personnel director
Council Room of the City of
Station City Hall at
.College
2:00 p.m. on the same date.
/� /1
appointed by CS
.Any bid received after the
alcove closing time will be
returned unopened.
Plans, Specification, and In
Jerry Gray, former staff writer
are .
f ile and may d examined
with the Eagle, has been named
be at
the Office of the Engineer, f:ity
personnel director for the City Of
Hall, College Station, Texas,
A certificate or cashier's check
College Station.
on a State or National Bank of
the State
Gray began his new job this week.
of Texas, or a Bid
der's bond from an acceptable
City Manager North Bardell said
Surety Company, authorized to
transact business in the State
Gray will be responsible for general
less than i n ehis m ount cent) Wr
administration of personnel i n-
cent of the total bid must ac
eluding implementation of the city's
.Company each Proposal as d
guarantee that if awarded the
new personnel plan.
contract, the Bidder will within
ten .(10) calendar days after
One of the first duties, Bardell
award of contract enter into
said, will be to develop a personnel
Contract and execute a Bond on
+he forms provided in the
manual for city employes on such
, Contra C1 Documents.
•A. Performance Bond and a
subjects as insurance, retirement,
nor Mess Bond amount
hundred
policies and procedures.
percent (100 per cent) of the
contract price, conditioned
,upofl faithful performance of
`.the contract and payment of all
persons supplying labor or
.furnishing materials, shall be
executed by the successful
bidder and accompany his
signed contract.
Proposals must be submitted
on the forms bound within the
Specifications and the right to
accept any bid, or to reject any
or all bids and to waive all
forrbalities is hereby reserved
by the City Council of the City
,of College Station, Texas.
EIrey B. Ash
C i�Engineer
TO WHOM IT MAY CON-
CERN:
The City Council of the City of
College Station will hold a
Public hearing to consider the
rezoning of a tract of ap-
proximately 32 acres located
on Munson Avenue, Harvey
Road, and Plantation Oaks
Drive. Said hearing will be held
in the Council Room of the
College Station City Hall, 1101
South Texas Avenue, at the
7:00 P.M. meeting of the City
Council on Thursday, Sep-
tember 8, 1977, For further
information, please contact the
City Planner, At Mayo at the
City Hall, 713 -846 -8886.
The Eagle
August 24, 1977
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