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B y JUNE BONARRIGO unanimously voted to hire J. formally welcome Odle and his Councilman Buddy Sledge everyone in the great city of
Eagle Staff Writer Louis Odle, 49, to assume the wife, Twila, at Bryan City Hall said that out of all of the Bryan," Odle said.
After more thap four months position of city manager of this morning. prospective city managers the "I PLEDGE I'll do my very
of searching the Bryan City Bryan effective May 6, 1974. council has seen Odle was the best and put forth my best
Council today passed a Odle is presently assistant city
"WE'RE REAL PROUD of most enthusiastic choice of all
resolution hiring a new city manager of Amarillo, a city of the choice we've made and of the councilmen. efforts to fulfill the needs of the
some 135,000 people. we're sure he'll do a good job," Odle indicated he and his city," he told the council.
manager at an that purpncy Skrivanek said. "It's taken a family are looking forward to Odle graduated from the
session called for that purpose. Mayor and Mrs. J.A. y g University of Texas with a
T h e councilmen Skrivanek were present to long time to find the right coming to Bryan:
man." The Mayor said the "We are glad to be here and degree in civil engineering and
council originally interviewed to have the honor of working taught at Texas Tech and
Odle last December but went for you and with you and we Lamar Tech and has held
through a number of applicants are looking forward to meeting numerous official positions. He
before making a final decision. all of the 450 city employes and was city planner in Beaumont,
was traffic engineer and city
planner for Amarillo before
being employed as assistant
city manager for that city. He
was a naval officer in World
War II and was in the con -
sulting engineer field for more
than seven years. Odle was
also a drainage engineer for
Jefferson County.
The Odles have two children,
Melissa, 15, and Mark, 13.
Odle's family will be joining
him in Bryan at the end of the
school year.
The new city manager will
have a starting salary of
$27,500 and will have the use of
a city car for official business.
Former city manager Fred
Sandlin received $24,000 annual
salary before he left the city.