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City manager presents `want list' totaling $147,229
By JANE VIII SMITH
Staff Wrlter
Consideration of how to spend
$227,451 in federal Revenue Sharing
funds anticipated for College Station
this year started at last night's city
council meeting.
City Manager North Bardell
presented the council with a list
totaling $147,229 of suggested ex-
penditures. He said the list was a
staff "want list" and was presented
to get the council thinking about
what it wants to use the money for.
Bardell's list included $29,895 for a
telephone system for the city hall,
$27,600 for the fire department for
two trucks and a water monitor,
$23,617 for the parks department for
a tree spade machine and 200 trees,
#23,784 for office furniture for the
new city hall complex, $50,000 for
street rehabilitation for the Com-
munity Development areas of the
city, and $3,000 for street lights for
three intersections on FM 2818.
Mayor Lorence Bravanec said he
would like to see some of the money
spent to build an off - street bike path
to cross Texas Avenue near Jersey.
The council directed Bardell to
contact all city committees to ask
for recommendations on use of the
annual federal funds. A public
hearing on the revenue sharing
monies will be Sept. 14.
In other action, the council voted
to proceed with improvement of
Thomas Street and to bill DroDerty
owners for the work. According to
the council, Woodson Lumber
Company is obligated dating back
several years to pay for a portion of
the street work but has not done so.
Neighbors on the street came to the
council saying they were tired of
waiting for the improvements.
"I think the city has the obligation
to provide the street regardless of
how it is paid for," said Councilman
Homer Adams.
The council tabled an ordinance on
police alarms in the city. Council
members objected to the fact that
the new ordinance would stop
businesses from having their alarms
hooked directly to the police station.
The ordinance would require
businesses, including banks, to be
hooked to a private security agency.
That agency would call the police if
an alarm went off.
Some council members also said
they thought definitions of alarms to
be allowed the city would make it
illegal for an individual homeowner
to hook up his own horn-type of
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