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Home My WebLink AboutPublicity Vol. 17 (Mar. 1978 - July 1978)Consolidated School Board approves site for `Safety City' By MICHELLE BURROWES Safety City, a mini -city designed to teach children traffic safety, moved a step Glower to reality Monday when the A&M Consolidated School Board approved a site for the construction. The board had previously been unable to agree with tefety City Committee on a site. On Fe r the board suggested a site on Jersey Street next to the Special Services Building. However, on March 6, the board said that a site on Timber Lane. would be more appropriate because it was more secluded and the district will be less likely to need it. Sue Neeley, chairman of the Safety City Committee, told the board last night the committee wopld agree to the Timber Lane site because the Jersey Street site has too much traffic noise. Safety City will be an enclosed mini - city, complete with streets, traffic lights, and aluminum buildings. Children will learn traffic safety by using "Big Wheels" for cars as well as traveling by bicycles and on foot. The College Station City Council do- nated $15,000 for the project on Feb.22, but most of the funding will come from citizens and local businesses. The build- ings will be provided by businesses, and will be decorated like the business that donates them. `,`We are still in need of concrete, fenc- ing, building, Big Wheels, and landscap- ing materials," Keeley said. Several citi- zen groups have pledged labor when con- struction begins. The next step is for the board to approve the exact plans for the project and Keeley said she hopes construction may being by August or September. The board announced that the school district had received HEW approval and funding to continue Head Start, an enrichment program for exceptional stu- dents. The funding will finance a year's extra- curriucla activities for 60 children on a part-time basis, and for 275 students on a full -time basis. The Battalion March 21, 1978 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 sorority house project to be located west of Munson Drive and between Dominic and University Oaks Drives. The application is in the name of Marcal, Inc. Box 4106, Bryan, Texas. , The 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 Thurs- day, April 6, 1978. For additional information, please ,.ontact the City Plan- ner's Office in the City Hall, 713 -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 the construction of a multi- family residential project to be located on the extension of Holleman Drive ap- proximately 1700 feet west of Wellborn Road (F.M. 2154). The request is in the name of Edsel G. Jonas, -4)1 Tammy Drive, San Antonio, texas. The 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 Thurs- day, April 6, 1978. For additional ' information, please contact the City Plan- ner's Office 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 on the question of rezoning the following tract: 1.599 acres located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Holleman Drive and Anderson Street f r o m S i n g l e F a m i I y Residential District R -1 to Townhouse — Rowhouse District R -3. The application is In the name of J.W. Wood, 1513 Wolf Run, 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, April 6, 1978. Foradditional information, 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: 1.599 acres located at the south- west corner of the intersQction of Holleman Drive and An- derson Street from Single Family Residential District R- 1 to Townhouse- Rowhouse District R -3. The application is In the name of J.W. Wood, 1513 Wolf Run, College Station, Texas. The said hearing will be held in the Council Room of the The Eagle Cortege Station City Han at the March 22, 1978 , 7:00 P.M. meeting of the City Council on Thursday, April 13, 1978. For additional information, please contact me. Albert O. Mayo, Jr. City Planner Coundl d scusses 0 library expansion By ANDREA VALLS The possibility of expanding services of the Bryan Library to College Station residents was discussed Wednesday at the College Station City Council meeting. Suggestions were providing additional bookmobile service or building a branch library in College Station. College Station provides no funding for the library although more than 14,000 College Station citizens bold library cards, gofd Lane Stephenson. Additional funds are needed to help purchase new books and to provide better literary services for College Station residents, said Linda Pringle, Bryan librarian. With support from College Station, she said, the library could improve its selection of reference books, county historical books, and children's selections, in addition to making more bookmobile stops in College Station. Stephenson said that more than 25 percent cf the book circulation is from College Station card holders. More than 200 books are checked out from the bookmobile at Redmond Terrace in a two -hdur period, said Pringle, and this accounts for a third of the library's daily book circulation. Stephenson suggested that $15,000 to $20,000 be considered by the council as an appropriation to the library's book budget. The federal government gives public libraries 30 cents for every dollar in the library's book budget, thus funding from College Station would increase federal funding, said Pringle. Pringle said a bookmobile would be an effective way of gauging College Station interest and need for a branch library. She suggested that College Station consider providing additional bookmobile services. City Manager North Bardell said the council will research suggestions for possi- ble action in the next fiscal year. In other action, the council accepted bids for five new pickup trucks for the Electrical, Water and Sewer Department. An $11,855.25 bid was approved for Twin City International Inc., which will purchase a new industrial tractor for the waste water plant. In other business, the council approved the preliminany plat of Emerald Forest Phase 1. Final plats were approved for Raintree Phase III, Sandstone Addition, White Creek Subdivision and Carter Creek Cloisters. The Battalion March 23, 1978 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed proposals addressed to the City of College Station, Texas, will be received at the Office of Mrs. Florence Neelley, City Secretary, City Hall, College Station, Texas, until 2:00 P.M. o'clock, 4 April, 1978, for furnishing all necessary material, equipment and labor required for the construction of: 16" Inch Water Line Connection to TAMU. .+ers must submit with their bids a Cashier's Check or a Certified Check in the amount Of five (5%) percent 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 Com- pany 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 latest Revision of Treasury Depart- ment Circular 570, as a guarantee that Bidder will enter into a contract and execute bond and guarantee forms p rovided within five (5) days aft notice of award of contract to him. Bids without checks or proposal bond will not be considered. In accordance with Article 5160, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amenped, the successful' Bidder will be required to furnish not'only a performance bond In the amount of the contract, but also a payment bond 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 latest list of companies holding certificates of authority from the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, or other Surety acceptable to the Owner. 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 or unbalanced unit prices will be considered sufficient Qtuse for rejection of any bid. Bidders are expected to inspect the site of the work and to in- form themselves regarding local conditions under which the work is to be done. At- tention is called to the ,provisions of the Texas Minimum Wage Act of 1970 and ArticIq. 5159a. Revised Civil Statutes of Texas concerning the prevailing wage rate ap- plicable in municipal con- struction. Contract Documents, Proposal Forms, Specifications, and Plans are on file and may be examined without charge in the office of Mr. Elrey Ash, City Engineer, and may be obtained from Riewal& Wisch Meyer, Inc., Consulting, 11325 Pegasus Street, Suite 5 -209, Dallas, Texas 75238, upon the deposit of Twenty -Five ($25.00) Dollars, which sum as deposited will be refunded provided the Contractor submits a bid and returns all documents to the Engineer within 72 hours after bid. Non bidders returning plans within 72 hours after bid opening will be refunded Ten ($10.00) Dollars. Suppliers returning plans within 72 hours after bid deposit. will be refunded their The Eagle Bids submitted will be ex- clusive of any state sales tax on March 23 1978 s any permanent material to be installed in the project. CITY OF COLLEGE S T A T 1 O N TEXAS Lorence Bravenec, Mayor ATTEST: Mrs. Florence Neelley, City Secretary CS agrees to purchase books Council to support Bryan Public Library By DAVID LINDSEY Staff Writer For years College Station residents have been able to use the Bryan Public Library and the city has contributed little to the library's support. College Station did contribute $5,000 toward the purchase of the bookmobile which makes various stops in College Station. But the College Station City Council agreed in principle Wed- nesday to help fund the purchase of new books in the Bryan Public Library. The council instructed City Manager North Bardell to make a recommendation about College Station's support of the library, which is really a county wide ser- vice. Librarian Linda Pringle ad- dressed the College Station council and said the library needs support to buy more books and provide ad- ditional services. Currently, there are 39,057 card- holders in Bryan, 13,950 card- holders in College Station, 4,156 in rural Brazos County and 1,295 out -of- county cardholders. The Redmond Terrace book- mobile stop, two hours each Tues- day, is the library's busiest book- mobile location, Pringle said. There the bookmobile personnel check out 200 -300 books which is roughly a third of the library's circulation for any given day, Pringle said. In addition to the Redmond Terrace stop, the bookmobile makes stops at nurseries, the Girls Club, South Knoll School in the summer and the Sweetbriar Nursing Home. '-- Cogncilman Lane Stephenson had asked that the matter be put on the agenda ' because the city will begin budget preparation soon. City Manager Bardell will study the possibility of money for the book fund, a special bookmobile for College Station, and the possibility of a small branch -type library with book delivery from the Bryan Library. For each local dollar of funding for book purchases, the library gets 30 cents from federal sources, Pringle said. The library is part of the Central Texas_1,ibrary System which • provides .that finanacial support based, in: part, on po- pulation. But Brazos County's population is inaccurate in that it was last reported in 1970 as 57,000 for the county. Now the population is estimated over 100,000. In order to stay in the Central Texas Library System — and get the money from such membership — the library needs to spend $2.60 per capita as compared wit6the present $2.15 per capita, Pringle said. Without increased money for book purchases, the library could be placed on probation or even removed from the library system, Pringle said. In other business, the council: — Approved final plats for Raintree Phase III, resubdividing lots 9 and 10 Sandstone Addition, White Creek Subdivision, the Carter Creek Cloisters and the K.F.O. Additional Phase I. - Awarded a bid to Beal Ford for trucks for Electrical Water and Sewer Department and awarded a bid to Twin City International Inc. for a new industrial tractor with a front end loader. That machine will be used at the city's waste water nlant The Eagle March 23, 1978 Booking a future for our community Books are treasVres and we in receiving state and federal Brazos County are lucky to have funding. such a treasure chest as the Bryan Public Library to serve us. More than 100,000 persons in the library's circulation area have this facility to draw upon. And, the library's figures show, that it is well used. In the last fiscal year (1976 -77), the library listed 57,088 borrowers. Adult readers borrowed 132,933 books and juvenile readers borrowed 282,009 books. The library serves all the county. Although it is called the Bryan Public Library, College Station residents make use of it too — with no extra charge. College Station city councilmen recommended this week that College Station help the library buy new books. College Station has helped the library previously and we' believe that this latest gesture is a good action at the proper time. The library is in need of local funding in order to keep As our area grows, the library must grow. Bryan - College Station is growing quickly and the development of oil and lignite in our area will see a quickening of that growth. ",Xew residents will place a greater demand on the library. The library's bookmobile is kept busy and there may be a need in the future for a branch, or' branches, of the library to serve our growing area. In order to grow and in order to provide good reading and reference services, the library will need funds. College Station is providing some of that funding. The governments can help but much more is needed. The library welcomes contributions from the general public and we can think of no finer way to invest money than in books for our library. Contributions build a treasure chest for the future. The entire community will benefit. The Eakle March 24, 1978 Power loss mystery faces council Residents complain of high electric bills By ROBERT C. BORDEN Staff Writer A mystery faced College Station city councilmen Thursday night, one in which maybe even Sherlock Holmes would have difficulty solving. Walter Kahanek, who said he re- presented residents of the Durango Apartments, 1600 Anderson St., said the residents received electric bills from the city for December and January that were higher than previous bills — despite the fact most of them were gone for nearly a month and had turned off their electric appliances. Kahanek noted the billing period was from Dec. 12 through Jan 19. Many of the residents were gone from the end of the fall semester Dec. 16 to the start of the spring term Jan. 16. Yet, he noted, the bills for that period averaged from one -third to two or three times higher than previous bills. City Manager North Bardell re- minded the council the billing period fell during the coldest winter in Brazos County history. And, he added, Bryan was forced to charge more for the electricity sold College Station because of natural gas cur- tailments. The curtailments forced Bryan to resort to a more expensive form of fuel to generate electricity, an increase that showed up on the fuel adjustment charges paid by utility customers. Bardell said the fuel adjustment paid by College Station residents for the December - January billing period was .2 percent higher than it had ever been. The heating in the apartments is strip electric heating and Bardell noted power usage during December was 32 percent greater than the pre- vious December, indicating possibly greater use of electric heaters throughout the city. Kahanek said the electric heaters in the apartments had been turned off and, in some cases, the renters had cut off the main circuit breaker in their apartments. Since no pipes burst at the apart- ment complex when the heaters were reported to be off, some councilmen suggested the apart- ment manager may have turned the heaters on in the students' absence as a precaution. Councilman Gary Halter said, "I would suggest the culprit is the apartment owner who went in and turned them (the heaters) back on." When Kahanek said the owner denied doing that, Halter said, "I can understand an apartment owner denying this." The problem apparently was not limited to the Durango complex, as Bardell said similar complaints were voiced by r sidents of South- west Village an Sevilla apart- ments, which also hhave electric strip heating. Councilmen suggested the possibility the meters might be defective, but Bardell said the meters ,at all three. domplexes are relatively nep. He also said electric meters tend 10 run slow rather than fast, which mbuld result in a reading lower than #ctual use rather than higher. Stan Kap an, a Durango dweller, said t or he left he disconnected his heate and unplugged all his electric pliances, including the electric qater heater, clocks and refrigerator, but his bill for Decemb& still was $19 higher than his average monthly bill before December. Kaplan said this indicates to him either the meters are running fast or they are not being read correctly. Mayor Lorence Bravenec said, "We can check out the meters but other than that I don't know what we can do." Bardell suggested as a test, the apartment livers could disconnect all their electric appliances and see if their meters continue to run. Bravenec brought a note of sur- prise to the meeting by saying he knew a resident of one of the com- plexes who did that and the meter did keep running. Kahanek said he came to the council because he didn't know where else to go. "Where do we go from - here ?" he asked. Halter replied, "To the courts, I suspect. There's nothing the city can do for you." Bardell said city crews would have some of the meters tested. Bravenec stated, "We have no in- tention in having a situation where you're gouged." He also recom- mended students "get out the word electric heating costs' more than gas heating. " The Eagle March 24, 1978 CS mayo r's� race.betwe The choice for mayor in College Station is between incumbent Lorence Bravenec and Texas A &M University sophomore Karl Crawley. Bravenec, 42, is a professor of accounting at the university. He is an attorney and a certified public accountant. Crawley, 19, is majoring in en- vironmental design. He hopes to be a regional planner when he graduates. Neither Bravenec nor Crawley has lived in College Station for very long. Crawley is from Dallas where he attended the Skyline High School. Incumbent Bravenec - said he vants to continue to work to make ,ollege Station an appealing place esthetically and recreationally and :o preserve people's investments through sensible zoning regulations. Good city government, Bravenec said, must manage the - city's assets on a reasonable basis,to ensure that the people's money is well spent. He promises to work for refinements and improvements in city government. In five to 10 years, College Station can either be a lovely place to live or a place that's not so nice, Bravenec aid, and that's why Lity g overn- Bravenec, whose father is from Snook, came to College Station looking for d place to live and ultimately retire. He grew up in Houston and has been here since 1971. Bravenec was elected to the council in 1974 and elected mayor in 1976. He'first ran for city govern- ment because he considered it to be a "legitimate way to go around town; meeting people." Cralwy said he's running for the office because the people of the community deserve a choice an that the city government needs ne blood. ment must work now to improve the' city's appearance and to ensure thiaC zoning works. "The problem we have is one of development and what form that'. development takes," Bravanec said. Crawley said the city must stress- long range planning and work to get light industry in the area to deversify the economy. '.L;" Both Crawley and Bravenec favor passage of the water and sewer bond, issues since College Station must- undertake those improvements due Eagle to an agreement to separate from c h 24, 1978 City of Bryan utilties by 1979. Il ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed proposals addressed to the City of College Station, Texas, will be received at the office of Mrs. Florence Neelley, City Secretary, City Hall, College Station, Texas, until 2:00 P.M. o'clock, 4 April 1978, for furnishing all necessary material, equipment and labor required for the construction of: 16" Inch Water Line Connection to TAMU. Bidders must submit with their bids a Cashier's Check or a Certified Check in the amount of five (5 percent 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 Com- pany 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 latest Revision of Treasury Depart- ment Circular 570, as a guarantee that Bidder will enter into a contract and execute bond and guarantee forms provided within five (5) days after notice of award of contract to him. Bids without checks or proposal bond will not be considered. In accordance with Article 5160, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, the successful Bidder will be required to furnish ngf,only a performance b amount of the contract, but also a payment bond for the protection of all clairfiants 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 latest list of companies holding certificates of authority from the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, or other Surety acceptable to the Owner. 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 or unbalanced unit prices will be considered sufficient cause for rejection of any bid. Bidders are expected to inspect the site of the work and to in. form themselves regarding local conditions under which the work is to be done. At. tention is called to the provisions of the Texas Minimum Wage Act of 1970 and Article 5159a. Revised Civil Statutes of Texas concerning the prevailing wage rate ap- plicable in municipal con- struction. Contract Documents, Proposal Forms, Specifications, and Plans are on file and may be examined without charge in the office of Mr. Elrey Ash, .City Engineer, and may be obtained from Riewe & Wisch- :meyer, Inc., Consulting, 11325 Pegasus Street, Suite S -209, Dallas, Texas 75238, upon the deposit of Twenty -Five ($25.00) Dollars, which sum as deposited will be refunded provided the Contractor submits a bid and returns all documents to the Engineer within 72 hours after bid. Non bidders returning plans within 72 hours after bid opening will be refunded Ten (810.00) Dollars. Suppliers returning plans within 72 hours after bid opening will be refunded their deposit. Bids submitted will be ex- tax The Eagle clusive of any state sales on any permanent material to be March 24, 1978 installed in the project. CITY OF COLLEGE S T A T 1 O N TEXAS Lorence Bravenec, Mayor ATTEST: Mrs. Florence Neelley, City Secretary ICS councilmen drop plan to collect newspapers College Station city councilmen scrapped a plan to collect and sell old newspapers when it was learned Thursday night the cost would be more than $3,000 greater than the amount of revenue. City Manager North Bardell reported on a plan in which the city would collect the papers and sell them to a firm that would grind the papers up for use in insulation. Bardell said the system would require the city to purchase two trucks to go around the same routes of the garbage trucks, picking up the bundled newspapers. Cost of the trucks, maintenance and crews would come to some $3,700 a month. But, the most the city could hope to make from the sale is $675 per month, meaning the city would loose approximately $3,025 each month on the plan. The city's garbage trucks could not be used to collect the papers because of the way they are con- structed, Bardb11 stated. Councilman Larry Ringer said, "Maybe we'd do 'better by en- couraging civic groups to have paper drives." Councilman Jim Dozier retorted, "It won't work. We've tried it (newspaper collection) before on a volunteer basis." In other business, the council went behind closed doors for about 10 minutes to discuss three claims against the city. Councilmen agreed to approve a $42.45 clain from Kathy A. Kinard and a $16 claim from Ricky Roden for damage done to their vehicles by a chuck hole on Finfeather Road. They declined, however, to honor a claim by Joy Allen for damage done to her windshield when it was struck by a rock she said was thrown by a city garbage truck. The two claims resulting from the chuck hole damage brought to light that part of Finfeather Road is in the College Station city limits, a fact most city officials were not aware of before. Councilmen voted unanimously to have City Attorney Neeley Lewis draw an ordinance deannexing the undeveloped portion of Finfeather Road to the Bryan city limits. If it is deannexed, presumably it would revert to the county for maintenance and operation. The Eagle March 24, 1978 Pet owners appeal to CS city council By ROBERT C. BORDEN Staff Writer The shooting deaths of two dogs at the hands of the College Station animal control officer caused concern to city councilmen Thur- sday night. The two dogs were killed despite repeated efforts by their owners to reclaim them under provisions of the city ordinance concerning stray animals. City Manager North Bardell termed the matter "an isolated incident" and said steps have been taken to prevent it from happening again. The problem was brought to the council by Dr. and Mrs. Duane C. Kramer and Mrs. Mickey Ray, the owners of the dogs who were destroyed. Their story brought up questions of a possible city pound in the future and methods to be used to destroy unclaimed dogs and cats. The Kramers and Ray reported similar stories. Their pet dogs were picked up by the police departmekit's animal control officer and were taken to the Anderson Ridge Veterinary Clinic, where all dogs and cats picked up are taken. Both Mrs. Kramer and Ray said they made repeated efforts to locate their dogs through the police department, but the person they spoke with claimed the dogs were not picked up by the animal control officer. Mrs. Kramer said the police refused to tell her where dogs picked up by the city are kept for the 72- hours required in the city ordinance. She found out and went to An- derson Ridge Veterinary Clinic but was not allowed to see the dogs being held for the city and was told her dog had been there, but was gone. Later, she leared her six -month old puppy had been taken to the city dump and shot to death. Ray told a similar story. Ray said her dog was,killed only 68 hours after it was picked up, despite the 72 hour requirement of the or- dinance. Police Chief Marvin Byrd said there had been a mistake, causing the dog to be killed four hours early. Byrd admitted the veterinarian handling the city cases didn't want a steady stream of.pegple coming to his clinic to see dogs and cats picked up by the city, although he since has changed his mind and will let owners come to the front desk at the clinic. There, Byrd said, they can describe their pet and if one fits the description, it will be brought to the front desk. Councilmen agreed this system isn't the best, particularly for persons wishing to adopt one of the stray animals picked up by the city. Now, Byrd said a person can call the police department and a dog or cat will be picked out for them from among the strays. Councilman Anne Hazen said Polaroid pictures of all animals picked up could be taken and posted in the police department. Several persons in the audience agreed and applauded the suggestion. Councilman Jim Dozier disagreed, however, saying, "No. No. We're going from one extreme to another. Why not take a movie of them ?" Discussion turned to the method used to kill the unclaimed dogs and cats. Bardell said 473 dogs and 42 cats were picked up by the city in 1977. Of these, all but 40 dogs and 14 cats were claimed by their owners. These 54 animals either were shot to death or were turned over to the veterinary medicine school at Texas A &M University to be used in experi- ments by vet students. Bardell noted only 376 animal tags required by the city ordinance were issued last year. "We have a terrible non - registering problem," Bardell stated. Some persons in the audience opposed killing the animals by shooting them. Kramer said since so few animals had to be destroyed, the city could afford the greater cost of death by injection done by a veterinarian. Dozier asked, "How can you kill a dog humanely ?" Councilman Gary Halter said perhaps a more humane system for euthanitizing,the animals could be installed near the new city warehouse. Dozier said, "I'll tell you one thing. They shouldn't ask how it was done. I don't want to know how mypet was killed." He went on to describFulcally how cows and pigs are slaughtered for meat. Halter hastily interjected, "Can we get on. "I'm sorry I brought up the point." Halter said, "I feel in a very few years the city is going to have to have its own pound facilities." The Humane Society of the Brazos Valley is trying to construct a facility on Wellborn Road, but Halter indicated the city probably would be better off developing its own pound in the future. Last summer, Bryan voters defeated a bond proposal for an animal shelter that might have been able to serve College Station, also. Turning to the Kramers and Ray, Dozier said, "Everybody up here is sympathetic, believe me. But what can we do ?" Apparently the knowledge other pet owners won't needlessly loose their dogs or cats satisfied the Kramers and Ray. TheEagle March 24, 1978 D for CS council College Station in- cumbent councilman Jim Dozier is unopposed for the Ward 6 position., Dozier,' 54, was first elected to the council in 1968 and also served as city attorney from 1972 until 1974. He was re- elected fo the city council in 1974. He is an associate professor of finance at the Colege of Business at Texas A &M University. Dozier opp6ses the ward system which is part of the election April 1: Dozier said the ward system is confusing and does not serve to enhance minority representation — which it was designed to do — since the city's small minnority population is scattered throughout the com- munity. Dozier's wife, Phyllis, is executive director of the Arts Council of Brazos Valley. The Eagle March 24, 1978 CS voters to decide boo By DAVID LINDSEY Staff Writer College Station residents live in a growing city with a growing in- dependence. After ,January 1979, the city will have no tie to sister city Bryan for utilities. That break has been one of the major matters of concern for both cities for several months and stems from College Station's decision to stop purchasing elec- tricity from Bryan Utilities, and to switch to Gulf States Utilities. But breaking away from the Bryan Utilities for electricity means that the City of College Station has to provide its own sewer and water service. Water and sewage system im- provements constitute the bulk of the bond issue the voters will decide April 1 when the council holds city elections. The total bond issue is for $9.165 million worth of bonds. That figure includes money for utility im- provements, street maintenance, park acquisition and to cover overages from projects started with 1976 bond issue funds. But $6,145,000 in the issue are for water and sewer improvements. The bonds would be revenue bonds which are paid out of utility fees. Taxes would not be raised to pay off these bonds. That means that the people who With all the ancillary facilities, the water system will take ap- proximately $5.3 million in revenue bonds. That's in addition to $2.4 million approved by the voters for the project in 1976. The water system should cost $7.7 million total. Approximately $6,309,000 could be eligible for federal matching funds. That could reduce the local bonds needed to $3,154,000. "Bryan has told us that effective 1979 we have to find alternate source of water supply," Ash said. "This is the alternate source of water." _ The city could either produce its own water or buy it from Texas A &M University. "But the university does not have the capacity to supply College Station in the years to come," he continued. "Therefore it becomes a'r;iecessity for us to get in the production and transmission of water for our citizens," Ash said. How long will the bond investment serve the city? Basically, there are three time frames that are part of the answer, Ash said. The city expects that the three wells — along with water from the university on peak days — will supply the city with the water it needs until 1985, Ash said. But the 30 -inch transmission line has some future built into it. It has excess transmission capacity. After 1985, the city probably will need additional wells — which are the smaller part of the investment in a water system, Ash said. With the addition of wells, the city should then be supplied with sufficient water until 1990 with the proposed transmission line. Then the city will need a booster station to push the water into town, Ash said. With that addition, the system — still using part of the in- vestment made this year if voters approve the bonds— should supply the city through the year 2000, Ash said. In the year 2000, "we are going to have to say,`folks, we're going to have to get more water, "' Ash said. Not all of the water and sewer bonds would be sold at one time because cities must maintain debt capacity capable of paying for the debt 1 and a half times. The bond proposal for April 1 includes $845,000 for sewer exen- tions. This money also is needed because the city is splitting away from Bryan. The money will extend the sewer line known as the Carter Creek Interceptor past Bryan's sewer plant to the Northgate. The line will pick up sewer service for the Northgate area which is now treated at the Bryan plant. This is the first of a three part series about bond issues. use the service will pay for the improvements on the monthly bill. But city officials say that the utility fees will actually decrease slightly when the city has its own water supply and separate sewerage system. City Manager North Bardell says the overall utility rates should decrease by four to 10 percent per month. The reason is that the city now pays Bryan a premium price for the service, officials say, and even with the $6 million worth of im- provements the city can pay for the bonds at a lower rate than now paid The bond proposal calls for drilling three wells at a cost of $1,286,000. The wells will be in a wellfield in the general vicinity west of the City of Bryan cooling lake for the Roland C. Dansby Power Plant. The three wells will have a capacity of nine million gallons of water per day. The proposal for water im- provements also includes 12 miles of transmission lines. The line will be a 30 -inch line and will cost a projected $2,370,000, Ash said. The system also includes two ground storage tanks, each of which will store 1.5 million gallons of water. "That has to be done if there is going to be no agreement between College Station and Bryan," Ash said. "We have to extend the line into the Northgate area to pick up our part of that flow." Bryan will also have to parallel j College Station sewer lines since some of Bryan's sewage flows through College Station pipes. College Station voters approved $350,000 worth of sewer im- provedments in the 1976 bond election. NEXT: Parks and other propo- sals. The Eagle March 24, 1978 N N C D N City Council discussion lively, emotional Tenants question utility bills By FLAVJA KRONE Electricity and pets were the subjects dominating a lively and sometimes emo- tional discussion during the College Sta- tion City Council meeting Thursday night. Residents of the Durango apartment complex in the 1600 block of Anderson questioned council members about high electric bills they say they received for the period from Dec. 12 to Jan. 19. Walter Kahanek, 1607 Anderson, Apt. B, said all but two of the complex's 84 units were vacated during the Dec. 16 to Jan. 16 semester break. All tenants who vacated their apartments turned off their electricity at the thermostat and half of the tenants cut their power at the circuit breaker, Kahanek said. However, Kahanek says most of the tenants received higher than average elec- tric bills, although they were absent from their apartments during most of the billing period and the electric power was shut off. Kahanek said the apartment meter readings correspond to city meter records, but in some cases city records indicate a meter change .even though circuit break- ers were turned off. The councilmen were at a loss to explain the high bills. City Manager North Bardell said, "The only explanation we can offer is that was the coldest period ever recorded in Brazos County history. Our power pur- chases were up 32 percent.." Councilman Gary Halter suggested that the apartment owner may have turned the power on to avoid pipe breakage during the cold weather. But another tenant, Stan Caplan, 1613 Anderson Apt. B, said, "I've worked in air - conditioning for four years and I know that the strip- heater system used in -the apartments can short out. Before I left I unplugged everything, including the hot- Council hears gripes on power and pets (Continued from page 1) Kraemer said the receptionist recognized her dog's description. She said she then discovered that her dog had been taken to the city dump and shot. Dr. Kraemer said the animal was destroyed three hours before the 72 hour limit had expired. Police Chief Marvin Byrd said the officer who destroyed the dog probably counted the number of days instead of hours the animal had been in confine- ment. Mrs. Ray said that her black and white female puppy was listed by the police as a brown and white male.. Because of the mistaken description, she too could not identify her dog and it was destroyed. Because of the incident, pet owners can now go to the animal hospital but are not allowed to view the animals. The councilmen said they would look into a way to better identify strays. TL - D water heater, refrigerator, clocks and appliances. Our bill for the period was $19 more than our average monthly bill." Bardell said the city had received simi- lar complaints from residents of Sevilla Apartments, 401 Anderson, and the Southwest Village Apartments, 1101 Southwest Parkway. All of the apartment complexes in question have individually metered units. The council said the city would continue to look into the matter. In other action, Dr. and Mrs. Duane C. Kraemer, 1208 Austin Ave. and Mrs. Mic- key Ray, 1206 Austin Ave., addressed the council concerning their pet dogs which they said were mistakenly destroyed by the city. Normally, College Station strays are picked up by the police and kenneled at the Anderson Ridge Veterinary Hospital, 1101 Anderson. A description of the animal is logged at the police station. If the animal is not claimed within 72 hours it is taken to the city dump and shot. Owners of lost pets must inquire about their animals at the College Station Police Department. On the basis of descriptions in the stray animal log, police will say whether or not an animal has been picked up. In the past, the city refused to identify where an animal was being confined, pro- hibiting any visual identification by the owner. Kraemer said he called the police re- peatedly but was told that no animal had been picked up in his area, even thou the police had logged a description mate - ing that of his dog. Mrs. Kraemer said, " I kept telling them that I knew they had picked up my dog and to- please tell me where it was so I could identify it. They kept saying they weren't allowed to do that." Mrs. Kraemer said she heard from the Humane Society that stray animals were nnn •,oa -. L1. A-A, __ n.J_. — .. . Student turnover p utility bill problem BY DERRICK GRUBBS The question consumers most often ask when receiving their utility bills is usually "Why's it so high ?" Although the billing department cannot solve the problem of high prices, they can remedy many.'othet problems that may arise concerning utility billing. College Station City Manager North Bardell points to the city's highly- transient population as one reason for the problems that come up in billing. "Because of the large number of A&M students that move in and out, there is a tremendous amount of turnover in ac- counts. We try to keep tip with all of them but our system isn't infallible," Bardell says. With the increasing number of students comes an increased membership to the College Station utility consumer list. The population of the city has grown 230 per- cent in the past eight years and Bardell says this creates problems which are com- pounded by the recent energy crisis. Beginning this year, electric utility meters were installed in all apartment complexes in College Station. This makes the city responsible for 10,000 meters every billing time,, ,, To help deal with this increase in bill- ing, last spring College Station brought in computers, a move intended to decrease the time involved in billing. But it does not necessarily decrease the chance of er- ror. Some people think the computer is perfect, but it's still humans that are re- sponsible for it getting the correct infor- mation to process," says Roland Davie, head of data processing for College Sta- tion. ' Right now,.we're using a pr %ess called, - fp.r - rimes a month," he says. "Billing for the first cycle is the second Monday of each month, cycle two the third Monday, cycle three the fourth Monday, and the fourth cycle billing goes out the first Monday of the following month." Although utility bills are sent out ac- cording to this schedule, there is still the initial step of reading the meters and de- termining who owes what. The meter readers in College Station are assigned to cover certain areas on cer- tain days. The readers log each meter on their beat in books which are turned over to the utility clerks. The clerks work up the books to deter- mine, for example, which accounts are being terminated. That is, if a customer is moving from College Station he should be ro uces s or ct taken taken off the list of utility client � These people are usually given six wee to pay their final bill after turning in ! change of address. One particularly sensitive problem — as might be expected — are bills that are de- linquent. A customer generally is allowed 10 days, or until.the following cycle on the billing schedule, to pay a utility bill. If they have not paid after this period, the individual is put on a delinquent list and notified. From there, it becomes a per- sonal matter between the client and the utility company. Davie says problem's also can arise in processing the bills, and mistakes, are not always the fault of the computer. However, he says the optimum goal of the city's billing department is minimizing the number of errors. "We usually catch any big mistakes," he says. "Before we send out the bills, we cross -check them carefully so that if there are any obvious errors, we can get them straightened out before we mail the bill." What if a customer receives a bill that reads $1,000 instead of $100, the correct amount? ii�c carrtake care ' of tltat mryh problem and the customer usua#y laughs it off," says Davie. But it's those not -so- obvious errors that arouse the most suprise in a client distres- sed by the unexpected amount of his util- ity bill. "If a customer has a question about his bill, we can go back and check the records that were turned in by the meter readers," says Davie. "We'll even send a man out to check the individual meter if we have to." The final step for the disenchanted util- ity client in College Station is talking to Bardell. The city manager talks to indi- viduals who are upset over the amount of their bill, have probably already been sent through four or five channels, and realize that Bardell is their last hope and that they have to be convincing. The Battalion March 24, 1978 2 campaign in Ward 4 Patricia Boughton and Tony Jones are the con- tenders for a council Position in College Station in ward 4. Jones, 31, is a 1970 graduate of Texas A &M University and is the owner of Tony Jones Construction. He attends the A &M Methodist Church, is a member of the College Station Morning Lions Club and has been active in PTO at South Knoll Elementary School as well as various youth and men's organizations in College Station. He is chairman of the College Station codes appeals board. Jones is a Kingsville native. Patricia Tony Boughton Jones Jones lives at 1905 Comal. Boughton lives on Leona, Ward 4 is representated by Jim Gardner who is not seeking re- election. Boughton, 46, is a native of College Station and moved back here seven years ago with her husband, Richard Boughton, who had retired from military service. Boughton is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Bonnen. Her father served , .en both the A &M Con- solidated School District and the College Station City Council. She has been involved in a rezoning effort in the ward which took several months of work before the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council. Boughton said her main reason for running is in- terest in the future of the community. She pledged to work to improve and protect the livability of the city's neighborhoods and to work for the develop- ment of the park system. Jones offered his can- didacy as what he con- siders a logical step in community service. He also said he wants to work to continued orderly growth in the community. Jones said he is not really opposed to the ward system — which will be voted on Saturday as part of the election — but feels the system would be im- proved if there were some at -large representatives. Boughton, on the other hand, opposes the ward system and said an at- large system would tend to attract people with a city- wide viewpoint. The Eagle Piarch 26, 1978 Two men vie for Ward 2 seat on College Station City Council An urban planner - academician and newcomer to city politics in College Station faces a former councilman who is in business. David L. Pugh, 35, lives at 1200 Timm Dr. in College Station. He is a native of Wayne, Mich., and is an assistant professor of urban plan- ning at Texas A &M University. For the past year Pugh has served as an advisor and consultant on developmental or- dinances and has worked closely with the Planning and Zoning Board. Pugh has a BFA in Graphic design and a master of regional and city planning from the University of Oklahoma and a law degree from the University of Missouri School of Law in Kansas City. Homer Adams, 55, lives at 205 Timber. Since none of the present councilmen lives in ward 2, there is no incumbent. Adams has lived in College Station since 1941 when he entered Texas A &M. He has a BS degree in accounting and is president of Adams Transfer of College Station in Conroe. He served three terms on the College Station City Council and he bases his candidacy on that ex- perience in city govern- ment. Pugh bases his can- didacy on his experience 'as a professional urban planner and a concern for "future ..social, physical and economic develop- ment of the city." Pugh said the city needs to attract university related service oriented industry to broaden the city's economic base. David Pugh Homer Adams The Eagle March 26, 1978 Ballot will decide charter items From page 2E, coL 4 someone else on the staff to countersign checks. Ballot item member four will allow .that change. Again, the - proper vote, if you favor the change, is "yes." A "No" vote is to keep the present charter as it is. Propositions five and six bring . the charter into conformity with state law, .which takes precedence over the city charter. Propositions five and six would allow the city to :annex land in accordance -with "Municipal An- - nexation Act" Article 970a, - Vernon's Annotated Texas 'Statues, which is the law of .the state. Under that law - the city can annex land on -_its own initiative or by petition of the people in the .area. Number seven would take out the metes and bounds description of the city. Under the proposed change, the charter description of the city would be by reference to the city's articles of in- corporation, the an- pexation ordinances and • the official zoning map of the city. That would allow the charter to be accurate, but would not mandate charter changes every time a new area is annexed ,into the city. City officials say the change will save .the city the cost of printing :five pages of the charter 'each time it is reprinted. The eighth ballot item would take from the .present charter the :provision detailing voting _ precinct boundaries. The original boundaries of the voting precincts are in the ;original charter, take up three pages and are no :-longer valid. Voting precincts change as population shifts or grows and city officials say there is no reason the voting precincts should be written into the charter. The Eagle March 26, 1978 CS proposed charter changes explained Charter changes on the College Station ballot Saturday range from getting rid of the recently created ward system to updating the charter so that it complies with state laws. The first change is to change from the ward or geographic district system of election to an at -large system. If you want the at -large system, where all the councilmen are elected citywide, then you vote "Yes" on the first ballot item. If you want to retain the ward system, the vote is "No. " The second change proposed would require that a candidate receive at least 34 percent of the vote before being elected to the council or mayor's office. This change will mandate runoff elections in most multi- candidate elections. Voters who approve the change to runoffs vote "Yes" on this issue and "No" if they believe a simple plurality is sufficient. The third ballot item would allow the city council to determine the fiscal year rather than requiring a charter change each time the fiscal Year needs to be altered. City of- ficials say this change allows more administrative flexibility and does not change the time for the payment of taxes. A "Yes" vote is for the change. The current city charter does not allow the city manager to authorize Turn to page 2E, col. 1 School, city absentee voting to conclude Tuesday in, B -CS Persons wishing to vote absentee in Saturday's city and school elec- tions have only one more day to cast early ballots. Absentee voting ends at 5 p.m. Tuesday. In Bryan, absentee voting is at the office of City Secretary Joe Evans in the Public Utilities Building. He is handling the early voting for the Bryan City Council, mayor and Bryan school board races as well as the vote on the separation of the city and schools. College Station absentee voting is with City Secretary Florence Neeley Ill, . City Hall. Voters there are e aging three councilmen and a mayor as well as deciding on several charter change proposals and $9.65 million bond issue. A &M Consolidated school trustee voting is in school administration offices, 100 Anderson St., College Station. Polls Saturday will be open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Eagle March 27, 1978 Arboretum group iplans 1 for local project By JEFF THIEBEAULT conifer trees were planted through - Staff Writer out the arboretum. Additional improvements for the This summer the youth corps will Brazos County Bicentennial Ar- resurface trails in the arboretum, boretum are now being planned by according to Eric "Red" Toleger, the local aboretum associationf' : urban forester for the city. Toleger Mason Cloud, association president will supervise the project. said recently. The trails need to be resurfaced so The aboretum is located on an 18- they can hold up better in all kinds of acre tract of land just south of Bee weather, Toleger said. Creek Park in College Station. "Right now the trails are in pretty Association members will meet good shape. But when it rains for March 31, from noon to 1 p.m. at the any length of time the soil base Ramada Inn in College Station to underneath these trails becomes elect new officers and appoint soggy and causes the cement top - committee chairmen. ping to crack," he explains. The committee will do the actual The association also hopes to planning, with assistance from the construct a picnic overlook near the Parks and Recreation Department lake that adjoins the arboretum, of the City of College Station, Cloud Toleger said. The overlook would said. consist of several picnic tables. The Last summer the Youth Con- labor would be funded by the city, servation Corps — a group of 30 materials by the association. students hired by the City of College The association is also planning to Station — cleared the woods, poured publish a brochure that will be a mile of cement trails and built available for the open house it will several wooden bridges, Cloud said. hold just prior to the beginning of The project was federally funded summer, Cloud said. through the Brazos Valley Devel- This brochure would pinpoint the opment Council (BVDC) he said. location of all the many different And this past winter more than 50 species of trees and other native different species of hardwcod and plant life in the arboretum, he said. The Eagle March 27, 1978 Regents approve water independence plan College Station will build a water well and transmission line near the Texas A &M University well field as the first step in establishing its own water supply system indendepent of Bryan. Regents of the A &M System ap- proved a proposal from College Station calling for the city construct, the well and transmission line and purchase ,water from the university for three years.. The project is expected to cost College Station some $720,000, money that is expected to be paid back out of the water system revenues. It would be available before the peak demand in 1979, when College Station withdraws from tLe Bryan utility system completely. During the first year of operatio s, College Station will pay A &M 43 cents per 1,000 gallons of water, a hough 20 cents of the fee will be in the form of a credit to pay off the cot of the project. The sec nd rise to cover increased to pity off the cost of the project. The second two years of the program, the cost per 1,000 gallons could rise to cover increased costs of production, although the 20 cent - credit would remain.. The need for a College Station water system arose when College Station decided to purchase its electricity from Gulf States Utilities instead of Bryan. As of next January, College Station will be completely off the B, yan electric system. Bryan officials then told College Station officials they would no longer be interested in selling water to College Station or handling sewage without the electric pur- chases. Thus, College Station Officials. were forced to come. up with their, own -water and se system by next year. Voters Saturday will decide the fate of a bond - issue that includes some $6 million for water . and sewer improvements. The Eagle March 23, 1978 <-, CS bonds to go for improvements By DAVID LINDSEY Staff Writer College Station residents face: $9,165,000 in bonds on Saturday's ballot. The bulk of the bonds — $6,145,000 — to go for needed water and sewer system improvements, city officials say, because College Station will no longer be tied to the City of Bryan for utilities after January, 1979. The rest of the bonds total $3,020,000 and will go for parks, street improvements and overruns on 1976 bond issues. If these bonds are approved, what will it cost the taxpayers? First, the water and sewer,bonds are revenue bonds. That means that Last in a thre =p ar t series revenues derived from utilities will pay for these bonds. No taxes are involved in the water and sewer bond issues proposed by the city and its 20-member citizens committee. City officials say that the utility users in the city should see no ap- preciable increase if these bonds are approved. In fact, the city estimates that overall utility charges should decrease by four to 10 percent per month for average utility customers. That' because, city of- ficials say, College Station currently pays the City of Bryan a premium price for the services. College Station officials, and their financial anyalysts, predict that revenue from water and sewer services will be sufficient to pay for the im- provements for less money than the city pays Bryan for the services. The remaining $3,020,000 for parks, street improvements, and the overruns from 1976 (for the police station, the warehouse and fire station improvements) are general obligation bonds. General obligation bonds are paid for by tax dollars. Accordingly, most city residents will eventually see a tax increase if these bonds are approved. To offset the increase for senior - citizens on fixed incomes, the council approved raising the homestead exemption for people over 65 from $10,000 to $15,000 if the bond proposal - proposition number 4— passes. For each $1, million worth of general obligation bonds approved, the taxes will increase by about 6 cents .per $100 worth of assessed property. According to city figures, this means that the three general obligation bond propositions will increase property taxes by about 18 cents per $100 of assessed value. It a homeowner has a house on the tax roll at $10,000, city estimates SHOW that the increase is taxes will be $18 per year, The city technically assesses property at 80 percent of market value, but city officials say valuations are closer to 50 percent of actual market value. City officials say there will be no tax increase to repay these general - obligation bonds for the first few years. The estimated increase probably would begin to take effect about January 1980. The city has mailed copies of a bond brochure detailing the proposed projects and their estimated cost to city residents. Copies pre available at city hall for people Who did not receive the in- formation through the mail. Additionally, there will be a citizens meeting about the bond proposal at 7 p.m, Wednesday. The Eagle March 29, 1978 Let's settle issue on CS ward system Charter changes in city government seldom receive romantic voter attention. But charter changes are often necessary to update city government. In College Station, voters face cha _u, rtes .xangine from doing away with the city's two- year -old ward system to -u minor changes in the charter _ -that simply make the document comply with existing state laws. Most of the changes are not controversial. But the change back to the at- large system of electing the council has been mildly con- : troversial since its inception including a court battle aimed at throwing out the original elec- tion. - We have said before that the ward system does not seem to be necessary in College Station. The election of representatives by geographic boundary does little to enhance minority voting. It has negligible impact on student voting. In larger cities, or in cities, with sizeable minority popblations, ward systems can enhance representation. But we question. -its need in a city such as College Station. Realistically, whether the council is elected by wards or citywide makes little difference. What makes the difference is whether the citizens elect competent, honest councilmen. Perhaps the ward system hasn't been given an adequate chance in College Station. Af- terall, it only has been used in one election. But the issue is part of Saturday's ballot and we urge people to study it, debate its merits and demerits and vote. We hope that the margin — one way or the other is decisive and the issue can be laid to rest. The Eagle March 29, 1978 Statements filed bj All six candidates in contested races in Saturday's College Station city council race have filed required statements of campaign finances with City , Secretary Florence Neeley, although one of themshows no expenses to date. The statement must be filed seven days prior to the election and is the second of three mandated by law. A statement was required 30 days prior to the election and a third is due 30 days after the balloting. Mayor Lorence Bravenec shows no contributions or expenditures on either his 30 -day or 7 -day report. His opponenet, Karl Crawley, lists $11.95 in contributions and $7.67 in expenses for the second filing period. On his first report, he in- dicated no contributions or ex- penditures. The contributions on the 7 -day report come from a committee called Students Interested in Representative Government, 217 Aston in College Station. Thomas A. Ralph of 277 Aston is treasurer both of the committee and Crawley's campaign. Since the amounts contributed and spent are less than $50, individual donors and address and expenses do not have to be listed. Homer B. Adams, a candidate for Ward 2 on the council, shnwed no contributions or donations on his 30- day report. On his 7 -day statement, he lists $700 in contributions and $174• in expenses. Contributors include Mae B. Holleman, 701 Timber, $50; Pat 'Cooper, 707 Texas Avenue, $25; Jerry, Windham, Arrington Road. $25; an& cash donations under $50 each, $600. David L.'Pugh, a second candidate in the Ward 2 race, lists no con- tributions on either the 30 -day or 7- day statement. The only expenses listed 'are on the later statement, showing $50.95 spent. Ward 4 candidate Patricia Boughton showed no expenses or contributions on the 30 -day statement. On the current form, she lists $21.30 in contributions under $50 and $77.70 in expenditures less than, $50 each. Her opponenet, Anthony L. "Tony" Jones, also showed no contributors or expenses on the first report. On the current report, Jones lists $290 in contributions and $192 in expenses. Contributors include Lana McFarland, care of Tony Jones Construction Co... Highway 2818, $ Bob D. Bell, care of Tony Jones, 1905 Comal, $156, and $40 in donations less than $50. Jim Dozier, incumbent coun- cilman, is unopposed and is not required to file. The Eagle March 29, 1978 6 candidates Emotional a ppeal 1o s n�a p v r much is $180 per'month. When Council- man Lane Stephenson brought this up in a council meeting the council realized they had no grounds for action. Later the apart- ment owner declared that an error had been made and the increase was limited to $100 per month. This is what politics is all about. Getting support by supporting the voters, While a politician may not be able to use a law• or his power as a delegate of the people to right a wrong, he can and should use his clout as an elected official to solve problems over which he may not have direct control. Bravenec is not the kind of politician that mixes emotions with politics `By definition he could be placed in anothet category out- side that of politician. He likes everything to be orderly and business -like. Bravenec likes to do his homework and work through the council. This may restrict him from handling the problems brought before the council that may not directly involve the city. Who said that one has to spend money to win an election? Certainly not Larry Bravcncc, the incumbant mayor of College Station. When he filed his second campaign fi- nance report on Monday, Bravenec dis- closed that he has received no outside con- tributions and expended no fiends for cam- paign purposes. In other words, he really hasn't campaigned in the traditional sense of the word. But then again, the mayor of College Station doesn't have to campaign. College Station has prospered during the two years of his reign as mayor. His opponent, Karl Crawlev, is a dark horse candidate with little chance of winning the election. Craw- ley, a Texas A &M sophomore, doesn't have the support of the local political powers. Bravenec• does have their tacit support and lendorsement. What has Bravcncc done during the past month? His campaigning has been restricted to pushing for the passage of the Capital Im- provements bond issue election on Satur- day. The bond issue will total $9,165,000 to be used on improvements to the water and sewerage systems, streets, city parks and police and stations. Politics While Bravenec hasn't been running on money, his campaign just has to rest on his record as a 6ty councilman and mayor. During his four years in College Station government the incumbant has made all his actions without flair and with deliberate direction. His style of work is that of an accountant, which he is. A Texas A &M accounting pro- fessor, and an attorney, Bravenec will study an issue and make a decision r that usually can't be attacked except on emo- tional grounds. This could be his weak point. Emotions are sometimes important in an election campaign. They denote to the voter that a candidate is human, with human emotions. A candidate must express his emotions in a political manner. He has to show the voters that he publicly cares about their prob- lems. Even if he can't solve -the problems. Often the voters are more interested in what happens to a neighbor's dog than a local bond election. And the votes demand a response to these emotional pr Bravenec has found it difficult to react to citizens' complaints about higher utility costs; housing construction problems and other problems because they are not dis- tinctly part of the city government's do- main. While the city may not be able to solve these problems, the council and mayor can exert pressure on the parties involved. An example is the case of the Barcelona Apartments in 1976. The apartment com- plex decided to their rates by as The Battalion '-*rch 29, 1978 Karl Crawley Karl Crawley, 19, 217 Aston Hall, a Texas A &M student majoring in environmental design. Are you in favor of the continued requirement of a conditional use permit for fraternities and sororities to build their own houses? No. I don't feel any group at A &M or College Station should be discriminated against. If we dis- criminate against sororities and fraternities building their own house then we should discriminate against single's housing. We can't bend the rules for one certain group. What role should the students of Texas A &M play in city govern- ment? Students need to be a lot more active. Most students are apathetic towards taking an active part in city government. City Council could encourage students to be more ac- tive by meeting on campus some- time. Are you in favor of allowing the city to expand in an eastward direc- tion even though that area lies in a flood plain? No, simply because it (expansion) would be in the flood plain. I don't think College Station builders are looking at a long range aspect of what will happen if they develop in a flood area. City Council needs to think about placing industry in the flood plain, not housing. Are you in favor of the ward sys- tem? If so, what merits does it have? If not, what merits does the at -large system have? I think we need to consider a combination of the ward and the at- large system. In the ward system, you know exactly who you are vot- ing for and the candidate has to campaign on a grass -Ioot� level. He can't blitz the people. I- really like the idea of a neighborhood concept. .. Crawl. (Continued from page 5) Will you encourage further', building of apartment complexes for students and how do you think this will affect the city in the next . 5 -10 years? I think we are overgrowing. Not all, but some builders are out for a quick profit and they're not looking at building on a long range scale. I think we are over- apartmentising this area. There are so many apari.- ments in College Station, that if a new industry came to town, the employees and their families would have to build houses outside of town. Do you; think College Station - needs a property tax increase? " To meet services, we need a tax increase, and let's face it, it's going to be inevitable. Do you see any problems with the current zoning code? Would you consider new areas for con- struction? No, not really. It's sure - a lot bet- ter than Bryan that doesn't have any zoning code. _ .. . We need more industry in the city. College Station shouldn't rely on its students for growth. We also need more land management. Let's not grow until we know what we're growing into. Would you consider construction . of more recreational facilities? Yes. College Station needs a iec= reational center for women's groups and.soc g atheri ngs. = The at -large system allows for large turnovers to the people, so the electorate isn't stuck with the same representative year after year. (see CRAWLEY, page 8) The Battalion March 29, 1978 Crawley Lorence Bravenec Lorence Bravenec, 42, 1208 Orr, accounting professor at Texas A &M. Are you in favor of the continued requirement of a conditional use permit for fraternities and sororities to build their own houses? At this point, yes. City Council discussed it earlier, and I was in favor of it then. The major reason for the conditional use permit was be- cause of fire safety. It's not a matter of trying to keep them out. What role should the students of Texas A &M play in city govern- ment? They can play whatever role they want to. City Council has sought additional student participation, but they don't seem to have any interest in city government. Most of the things that council decides have an impact on the permanent resident, not on the student. Are you in favor of allowing the city to expand in an eastward direc- tion even though that area lies in a flood plain? There is no building in the flood plain at this time. We expanded in the past to control the development by annexing it through the flood plain. Are you in favor of the ward sys- tem? If so, what merits does it have? If no, what merits does the at -large system have? No, I'm not in favor of the ward system. I haven't seen any advan- tages materialize. There's a signifi- cant disadvantage because not everyone votes on every council- man. for students and how do you think this will affect the city in the next 5 -10 years? Well, we're not discouraging it. It is the market system that controls the building of more apartment complexes. Do you think College Station needs a property tax increase? If this bond issue passes on April .1, then we will need a property tax increase. Do you see any problems with the current zoning code? Would You consider new areas for con- struction? With the at -large system, the I don't see any significant prob- people get the chance to vote for lems with the curtent zoning code. every councilman. Zoning ordinances permit too dense Will you encourage further apartment complexes. building of apartment complexes Would you consider construction Of more recreational facilities? Of course. I'm ill favor of con- struction of several types of recre- ational facilities. The Battalion 1Iarch 29, 1978 Bravenec avid Pugh city council p David Pugh, 35, 1200 Timm fraternity row, what you get is the Texas A &M play in city govern- be running for a position on City Drive, assistant professor of urban sporadic intermixture of fraternity ment? Council. If you open it up with the planning at Texas A &M. and sorority houses in pre- They should play the role that is at -large system, anybody who wants dominantly single - family residential commensurate with their level of to run can run regardless of where Are you in favor of the continued areas. I think it's only reasonable to interest. That is, if they are really they live within the city. That is the requirement of a conditional use expect that families living in single- that interested in local issues, then ...onlyargumentin favor of the at-large permit for fraternities and family housing have some degree of they should play a very vital role. I . system, sororities to build their own houses? protection from what would be don't see anything wrong with that. I favor a neighborhood develop - Yes. For the simple reason I % vote categorized as a multi - family kind of I'm not of the opinion that we should' ment system in College Station. We the conditional use permit system. housing, namely af aternityorsoror- be scared to death of students at ought to place added emphasis on Unitl I filed for office Iwas aconsult- ity house. A &M taking over College Station. In .maintaining and improving the qual- ant to the city of College Station. I The conditional use permit is sort fact, I think there is a certain degree ity, and organizing our neighbor- s wrote it because we don't have a of a guarantee that the people in that of a healthy situation because we hoods. If the ward system is equated situation here that supports a frater- area will have some voice as to what have a lack of interest in local issues with a neighborhood system, then I ni ty or sorority as such. I wish we had is or is not placed in their neighbor- on the part of many of the students. If favor the ward system. The present the kind of university support and hood. I never drafted the conditional we could channel some of the youth- system could not be called a economic environment that would use nlan with the idea of slapping the ful vitality of students in the direc- neighborhood system. There has permit us to have a sorority and fraternities or sororities. Believe me, tion of city hall, things would go well never been any attempt by the City fraternity row. But when you don't I support them whole - heartedly. for all of as. Council to determine what the have an environment that supports a What role should the students of Are you in favor of allowing the neighborhoods in College. Station: city to expand in an eastward direc - are. tion even though that area lies in a Will you encourage further build - flood plain? ing of apartment complexes for stu- No. I think we should do every- dents and how do.you think this will thing we can to discourage develop- affect the city in the next 5 -10 years? ment in flood -prone areas, I think we " I would discourage the addition of need to concentrate on what we ,more apartments until it could be have. We have large areas within sluown that we are definitely going to College Station proper which have continue on the upper growth level. yet to be developed. This year A &M's growth level drop- It's an easy habit to get into think- ped. I don't want the city to end up ing growth is always good. _I think with a great surplus of apartment council members voted to annex the . houses that become partially empty. eastern section because they wanted As a result of the high vacancy rate, control over it. I don't see anything maintenance begins to go down. We wrong with that, but if we continue need to be very careful as to what we an annexation policy just for the sake can support in the future. The crisis of control, we could get ourselves in . in housing we were facing a year or so a situation where we have extended ago is over. : 1, ' our physical limits to such a degree Do you think College Station that servicing the areas could place a needs a property tax increase? real financial burden on everybody. Probably not. Before we do any Are you in favor of the ward sys- increasing of taxes; I think we need tem? If so, what merits does it have? to look at what we are spending our If not, what merits does the at-large money for and the types of policies system have? we have in reference to our expendi- I don't think it matters on way or ' tures. If we do that, we can find, to Battalion the other. College Station is not at sonic degree, we are wasting money ?March 29, 1978 the growth level yet where it really that can be spent in more productive makes any difference whether we places. use an at -large system or a ward sys- Do you sec any problems with the tem. You limit candidacy with a ward current zoning code? Would you system. The number of bright, consider new areas for construc- energetic, creative people that could tion? Pugh I think our big problem with zon- ing has been commercial zoning:' Specifically, I think we need to do everything we can to discourage strip zoning on Texas Avenue. Texas Avenue is going to be completely commercialized if we don't do some- thing to stop it. People are always complaining because it takes them so long to get to downtown Bryan. This is because of the marginal interference coming down from all the shops on Texas Avenue. If shops are put into a well - planned shopping center, the effi- ciency of the street system is in- creased, a much better looking commercial scenario is created, and everybody is a lot happier. We need to concentrate more on shopping center development in College Sta- tion and less on commercial strip zoning. Would you consider construction of more recreational facilities? I certainly favor park development and recreational facility develop- ment. We are in dire need of expan- sion of our park program. With the exception of Bee Creek Park, we really have no active facilities in Col- lege Station. And I think we do have the money to spend on it. ... Dozier (Continued from page 5) system is that the people do not system, primarily because College know what ward they reside in or "where their place is. Station is not large enough to have wards. Wards were created by the Fill you encourage further build- courts in certain cities in order to ing of apartment complexes for stu- dents and how do you think this will insure minority representation on the council. This is certainly not the.'-. affect the city in the next 5 -10 years? case in College Station since the only We cannot discourage the build - minorities we have are blacks and ing of apartments. Apartments are built by developers, builders and in- they are spread throughout four spe- cific areas of the city and constitute vestors because they think they can less than 2 percent of the population make money out of it. The city of College Station has no control on of College Station. A black can't say he or she deserves representation on whether people., will build apart - the council because there are not meets or not. I personally don't think enough blacks to justify that. I Another problem with the ward the will see as many apartments cony plexes built in the future as we have � seen in the past. I have asked stu- dents in my classes if they feel there is a shortage of apartments and they say, "No there is not," yet people are continually building apartments. . Do you think College, Station needs a property tax increase? Ili ' Yes. The areas that the city gets it's income from is too heavily oriented towards utilities and not enough to- wards property taxation. When the city sets its property tax rate, the city should consider the amount of taxes that property owners are having to pay to the school. Property is getting to the point where it is being taxed too heavily. Taxes should not get to the point where you Cannot own property and enjoy the ownership of it forMng you to sell the property, Taxes are becoming an owners bur- den, there is no question about it. If the bond issue passes there will. have to be a property tax increase In College Station. I do not favor just 1 raising the property tax simply as a means of generating additional revel nue. I hope we can keep taxes down as much as possible, but at times of course „ will have to increase the taxes. College Station has if not the lowest, at least one of the lowest ef- fective tax rates of any city its size in the state of Texas. Do you see any problems with the current zoning code? Would you consider new areas for construcN tion? Yes. We have some problems with the _ zoning ordinance. One of the problems is that the zoning ordil nance has been amended many, tunes since the adoption in 1872, and we have very few copies of these pare ticular amendments in one .docul' ment. I think we need to go back and review the ,entire ordinatiee as A whole and make changes where needed and then print a new ordi= nance, including all the amendments in the past and any of the new ones that are needed. Any ordinance that is part of the zoning ordinance should be periodically reviewed in its entirety ands we have not done that. Would you consider construction of more recreational facilities? Absolutely, in fact one of the majoi, parts to the bond issue is to get the money to buy two large parks which will be predominately used for field events such as baseball fields and basketball courts. I hope someday the city of College Station will have s large park that will be approximately several hundred acres. The idea place for it is in the floodplain' be. cause the recreational facilitie! would not increase the run -off and it could be covered up with water without being damaged. CITY COUNCIL Place 6 Dozier Jim Dozier, 54, 1005 Walton Drive, associate professor of finance at Texas A &M. Are you in favor of the continued requirement of a conditional use permit for fraternities and sororities to build their own house? Yes. The sorority and fraternity house is a type of property use that creates problems not created by other types of building, such as in- creased traffic and parking prob- lems. The city is obligated to provide a conditional use permit so increased traffic and parking problems can be controlled for the protection of the surrounding properties. What role should the students of Texas A &M play in city govern- ment? The students can play any particu- lar role in city government if they are in fact considered permanent resi- dents of College Station. By that, they can run for the council, mayor or serve on many of the commissions that the city has. It was my sugges- tion two years ago that there be a student liaison to the city council. The students do not have a vote but they do sit in on all of the meetings, including those that are closed to the public. The reason for creating this liaison is to allow the students to know exactly what their city is doing. Are you in favor of allowing the city to expand in an eastward direc- tion even though that area lies in a floodplain? Of course. Even though the ex- pansion to the east may include the floodplain, we have an ordinance which prohibits heavy construction there to protect it and prevent build- ing which could cause additional water problems down stream. The entire eastern direction is not flood - plain, so the city just wants to make sure that construction does not occur there. People like to build in the floodplain because it is pretty and when it floods they come to the city and say, "help ". But the city can't help because they should not have been there in the first place. When structures are built it increases the flow of water to the downstream property owners. Are you in favor of the ward sys- tem? If so, what merits does it have? If not, what merits does the at -large system have? No, I'm not in favor of the ward (see DOZIER, page 6) Dozier Adams Homer Adams, 55, 205 Timber, owner of Adams Storage Co. Are you in favor of the continued requirement of a conditional use permit for fraternities and sororities to build their own houses? I don't like the conditional use permit concept. I would rather see zoning control for the fraternity and sorority house building than the conditional use permit. I don't see why we couldn't set up a zone that fraternities and sororities could build on without a permit. Certainly there is an area in College Station that would be satisfactory for fraternity and sorority house building. What role should the students of Texas A &M play in city govern- ment? Students should have input be- cause they do make up a big part of the city. They are welcome to com- ment and observe. They should and ought to have input and the Council should pay attention to it. Are you in favor of allowing the city council, place 2 city to expand in an eastward direc- tion even though that area lies in a flood plain? I don't think expansion in that di- rection can be stopped. There are people with money to spend on de- velopment and they are going to do what they want. They have to have some say in how they spend what is theirs. I was on City Council when we set up the flood plain ordinance. It allowed property owners to obtain flood insurance. One of the stipula- tions when you do that, where the government pays half the flood in- surance premium, is that there will be no further huilding in the plain of property that will flood. So, it is pos- sible to build out there, but what- ever is built has to be engineered so that it will not flood. Are you in favor of the ward sys- tem? If so, what merits does it have? If not, what merits does the at large system have? I favor the ward system. People in a ward relate better to a candidate than people do city -wide. They seem to have more interest in the election. As far as the way the present wards are designated, ask the mayor (Lor- ene Bravenec) about that. Will you encourage further build- ing of apartment complexes for stu- dents and how do you think this will affect the city in the next 5 -10 years? i would not encourage or discour- age the building of more apartments. I think supply and demand will take care of the situation. The companies that put up $1 million or $2 million dollars to build apartments are look- in at the economic situation, too. They are not going to put up the money if they think the market is overbuilt with apartments. They may be overbuilt now, but who can say what will happen? I thought the market was overbuilt five years ago, and look at what happened. Do you think College Station needs apropeity tax incrgpse? I don't think we need, a tax in- crease. The city makes mbbey from the utilities they prokide, so they don't have to overburden the tax- payer. We have the money we need to run the city right now. Do you see any problems with the current zoning code? Would you consider new areas for construc- tion? There is no problem with the cur- rent zoning code. I would like to see property along Texas Avenue filled in. The city already has sewer and water lines out there. All that has to be done is to hook them up. You don't have to spend a whole lot of money. The new sewer line border- ing University Drive will open up the northeast section of College Sta- tion, but there are no facilities there now. If we - could develop the area within the city first, it would be more economical. Would you consider construction of more recreational facilities? I see a need for more ball parks — baseball, softball, little league. We have them, but they're in use. We probably need some more tennis - courts, too. I'd like to see another golf course. Maybe it's not too early for the city to look into a municipal golf course. A &M provides a lot in the way of recreational facilities. We just need to be cooperative in provid- ing facilities. The Battalion March 29, 1978 Tony Jones —city council, place 4! Tony Jones, 31, 1905 Comal, owner of Tony Jones Construction. Are you in favor of the continued requirement of a conditional use permit for fraternities and sororities to build their own house? The only types of construction that do not require the conditional use permit at this time are the single - family residences and duplexes. I would be open to discussion of con- sideration of alternate methods in these areas. What roles should students of Texas A &M University play in city government? All registered voters of the age of 18 and over have equal rights and responsibilities in city government. Are you in favor of allowing the city to expand in an eastward direc- tion even though that area lies in a flood plain? I assume that you are referring to the recently annexed property lo- cated on the east side of the by -pass. The flood plain property that was in- cluded within that annexation was intended to control and limit any and all construction within those flood plain areas to eliminate any type of blockage or restrictions that would cause a water back -up within the city itself. All other properties are capa- ble of being developed. Are you in favor of the ward sys- tem? If so, what merits does it have? If not, what merits does the at large system have? I think the ward system could be improved with a possibility of having a couple of at large positions instead of six wards. Will you encourage further build- ing of apartment complexes for stu- dents and how do you think this will affect the city in the next five to ten years? _ ; Apartments are not built just to house the students, but to facilitate ft growth of the city. At the present time, the City and University have possibly reached a leveling point as far as growth, and the apartments should only complement the needs of the people. Do you think College Station needs a property tax increase? Would you consider construction of more recreational facilities? These questions can possibly be answered together. Parks and recre- ational facilities are included within the proposed bond election of 1978 and were in the bond election of 1976. These facilities are to benefit all citizens of our community, and to have this benefit, some expenses are going to be incurred. Do you see any problems with the current zoning code? Would you consider new areas for construc- tion? A strict control of zoning must be maintained to secure and preserve personal privacy and safety along with the regulation of a good traffic flow, and to create a livable commu- nity for the future. The Battalion March 29, 1973 T. Jones Boughton—ciety council, place 4 Patricia Boughton, 46, 1814 Leona Drive, housewife. Are you in favor of the continued requirement of a conditional use permit for fraternities and sororities to build their own house? Yes, they might think it is haras- sing, but in the long run they will have a more livable house and be more compatible with the neighbor- hood. After all, anyone building higher density than a duplex has to get a conditional use permit from the city. What roles should the students of Texas A &M play in city govern- ment.? I don't think it would be practical for a student to be on the council because of the short time they live in the city. But I would like to see them express more interest in the city. They could serve on appointed boards and volunteer their services for needed surveys and studies. Are you in favor of allowing the city to expand in an eastward direc- tion even though that area lies in a flood plain? There could be a limited amount of eastward development by avoid- ing the majority of the floodplain. This can be done by parkland dona- tions. The city is capable of building in a floodplain. Of cotirse it has to be ' a limited amount of building. There are a certain amount of streets and parks that could be built in the flood - plain. When they build housing there is so much run -off that it could create a flooding problem. I don't think it is going to be necessary for too much eastward development. There is a lot of good flat land west of the city but it cannot be. developed right now because of the limited sewer services. The most logical di- rection for the city to expand is to the west, though it will probably not de- velop until the railroad is moved, and this is coming soon. Are you in favor of the ward sys• tem? If so, what merits does it haver If not, what merits does the at large system have? l 6..BOU ton g r _ _ (Continued from page 7)`;: Very. definitely. I'ie' against then ward system. I don't believe. that College Station is large enough or diversified enough to warrant the ward system. It would be easier to put people- on the Council who are well qualified and interested in the city "a whole, with the at large sys- tem. We are hoping to vote that out this election in April. They voted the ward 'system in two years ago and ever since it has been one big prob- lem, It has been,expensive for the city, just to arrange for the ward Sys- tem. . ? . Will you encourage further build- ing of apartment complexes for stu- dents and how do you think this will affect the city in the next 540 years? The university is the life -blood of the city, so if more apartments Ve needed they shouldbe built. Thelast survey showed that there were 2{1p0 vacancies in the apartments in ,Bryan- College Station area. I think , that"tnefans:'.bedlr;nnt 2O0 total apartments:. I aon'f..belieke that there are more apartments needed at this time. I'm afraid if they build them and we don't, need them, we are going to have instant slums in the next five to ten years. Do you think College Station. needs a property tax increase? Yes, very definitely. We have thiy .. ew bond proposal for the April first election. We need funds for street building improvements and park ac? .quisition improvements, and the only way we can get it is through a tar increase. Do you see any problems with the current zoning code? Would yod consider new areas for construe; tion? Yes, we need better procedures for rezoning large vacant areas in the city where present zoning could have undesirable- Impact on sur; rounding residential areas' We need better protection of residential areas from commercial and apartment in- trusion. They need to study the areas more closely, and designate which are apartment areas, so that it does not intrude on the existing neighborhoods and single- family res- idential areas. This is something that has to have a lot of good planning,: and studying to see whether the new areas are needed: We also need 'to continue to review and update the city's comprehensive plan since zon- ing should be base& on that. The comprehensive plan is 'an overall .plan to the whole city and it indicates what density• the city wants built in the different areas Would you consider construction of more recreational facilities? Yes. w need ,a. favorable yote on the bond issue that: is:coming up in April. The bond proposal is'for four parks and recreational facilities. The bond is for $1,800,000. This will in- clude both acquisition4'a6d im- provements to -existing p lands. We need more neighborhood parks 'where we can have basketball, tennis and other facilities for ;the smaller neighborhoods. Thisway the young- sters won't have to go as far. to get to a park. I know the city i4considering a new swimming - po o l for College Hills- Presently College Station has only one pool which is the Rice Creek swimming pool. The city. has grown so rapidly;- aq we are defi- nitely underdeveloped ?in the park area. The Battalion March 29, 1978 (see BOUGHTON, page 8) A&M -CS agree o ; it water supply and transmission Texas A &M University officials were authorized Tuesday to enter into an agreement with College Sta- tion on water supply and transmis- sion. The proposal . was approved by the Texas A &M University System Board of Regents. Texas A &M will supply water to College Station for approximately three years in ex- change for the city drilling a deep well at a site near the University's well field and providing a transfer line and appropriate ties to the uni- versity system the proposal 'said. The well, expected to cost $720,000, would be in service before the peak demand months of 1979, said Howard Vestal, Texas A &M vice president for business affairs. "For several years we have projected a requirement for a new well by about 1980," Vestal said: "The city's proposal is doubly ad- vantageous to the university in that we c$q'realize the new well without any capital expenditure and, when the city completes its new indepen- dent system, it will be intercon- nected with the University's and will provide a significant emergency back -ttp to our water system," he said. During the first year of the.agreQ- ment the city will pay Texas A &M 43 cents per 1,000.. gallons, with a 20- cent- per -1,000 -gallon credit being allowed for amortization on the cost of the well, Vestal said. In following years the charge per 1,000 gallons could be raised to cover increased costs of production, with the 20 -cent credit factor remaining the same, he added. The Battalion March 29, 1978 J;m 17oa1 er /1nn Jones CRAWLEY att H Ara n Larry b rae evCC homer Aolams ' = I y �• / . ti. Y1�.ti:. zj" Rjl- biI Wasson 32�cE "R03ECK DU P (�t"I(ta L VI H er n�� 3 0Uq�Ton Hace-Y 13- The Battalion March 29, 1978 The Battalion March 29, 1978 College Station residents in Districts 2, 4 and Building, District 2; South Knoll Elementary 6 will elect councilmen from their wards April School, District 4; and the College Station 1. Polling places for City Council elections are Fire Department, District 6. The mayor is the A &M Consolidated Special Services elected at large. Battalion Election Section Black dots on the above map denote polling places in Bryan - College Station for county elections PRECINCT NO. POLLING PLACE PRECINCT NO. POLLING PLACE 4 Carver School 17 Travis Elementary School 8 South Knoll Elementary 18 Bryan Central Fire Station School 9 A &M Consolidated Special 19 Bonham Elementary School Services Bldg. 1300 Jersey St., Board Rm. 10 College Station Fire 20 Texas A &M University Center Station 11 Crockett Elementary School 21 College Station Municipal Building, 101 N. Church Ave. 12 Sul Ross Elementary School 22 Army Reserve Center, Carson Street 13 Henderson Elementary School 23 LBJ Elementary School 14 Ben Milan Elementary School 24 College Hills Elementary School 15 Fannin Elementary School 25 American Legion Hall 16 Bowie Elementary School 26 Bryan High School 31 A &M Consolidated High A special election guide to College Station City Council and School Board elections starts inside on page 5. Candidate profiles appear in the Battalion in order chosen by random selection. School Board Position 6 Hecox — p. 5, 9 Robeck — p. 11 A. Jones — p. 11 Position 7 Brown — p. 5 Wasson — p. 5 Hardin — p. 5 Mayor Crawley — p. 5, 8 Bravenee — p. 5 City Council Place 2 Pugh — p. 10 Adams — p. 7 Place 4 T. Jones —.p. 9 Boughton -- p. 7. 8 Place 6 Dozier — p..5 ZS residents to vote on self - s ufficiency If College Station is to continue peak hours knows that im- its course toward being a self- provements must be made to sufficient city, its voters must help smooth the flow of traffic will approve the bulk of. the bond The fourth bond proposal proposals on Saturday's ballots. allow an investment of $1.8 Five proposals are on the million in the city's park system. ballot including two for water It would allow both r hase and sewage system i m- borhood parks and the p u provements and three far of land f 50-aer does not streets, parks and public complexes. The city buildings. plan to build both complexes at the same time but would be able The water and sewer bonds, to buy the land it needs for the which are revenue bonds, total future at today's prices. Land $6,145,000. These bonds are prices can only 9,4 UP• needed because the city's utility The last proposal is for connection with the city of Bryan $680,000 for money tp complete will end in January 1979. the new police station, a fire The city must have its own water substation in Southwood Valley, supply adequate to meet the Work on the expanded main fire needs of its growing population. station and land associated with Similarly, adequate sewage the projects. Unfortunately the treatment, a growing problem 1976 bond proposals were in- for many American cities, is sufficient to finish the work. But mandated. the city has a sizeable in- The bonds will be paid for out vestment in those projects. To of water and sewer revenues. halt them now would e Park and Because the city has been paying The street program, a premium price for services to other projects will be paid for its sister city, utility costs should with tax bonds. The tax rate actually drop four to 10 percent should increase 8 cents per $100 per month, according to city valuation or these projects. officials. That increase should not prove to be a burden on the taxpayers These bonds are essential. on fixed incomes because the They should be approved. city council has voted to raise We believe the remaining d the homestead exemption for bonds should also be app taxpayers aged 65 and over. The The proposals call for $300,000 raise in the exemption is con - - for a revolving street im- tingent on the park .proposal provement program and $230,000 passing. to rebuild the connection of Kyle The city has studied these - St. to Dominik and Puryear. I bond proposals carefully and Streets are any city's bigmust openly. The council was aided in capital investment. They its decision by a 20- member be maintained and protected. Or citizen committee. the city will face even greater The bond proposals are not problems — and costs — later. excessive. They are necessary if The Kyle- Dominik change is College Station is to be able to designed to relieve traffic handle expected growth. congestion at the Dallas busiest and voters believe hould C c tersection between rove Houston. hat ° intersection at proposals seriously and app traversed that Eagle March 30, 1978 Place race keys on zo By JIM CRAWLEY When the College Station City Council divided the city into wards in 1976 the big question was in which ward or wards they would place the on- campus students. Nearly half of the dormitory residents, all in the Commons and Corps dorms, were placed in the Place 2 ward, up for election this Saturday. Students form the majority of the ward residents but all of the political activity in the election is just across Jersey street. That is where the non - student voters live in the ward. Both candidates for the posi- tion are non - students. One is a local busi- nessman, the other a Texas A &M profes- sor. Each is a contrast to the other in many ways. Homer Adams, the 55- year -old owner of Adams Storage Co., is a former council- man of three terms. He lost two years ago to Councilman Lane Stephenson. David Pugh, 35, is an urban planning professor at Texas A &M and a former planning consultant for College Station. Both candidates live within earshot of each other and the campus. It seems ironic that Homer Adams is running for a council position in which the majority of his constituents would be stu- dents. Adams is well -known in political circles as being opposed to any actual role for students in city government. While on the council Adams has expressed his dis- dain for students trying to become directly involved in city government. He believes that students are only temporary resi- dents. Politics During the original ward system elec- tion, he was the only councilman running to favor the system. The reasoning behind his endorsement was that it would limit the students to only one representative on the council. Adams was afraid that the stu- dents would suddenly arise and electorally sieze the city council. Of course the ward system narrowly passed and so the council was saved from the students of Texas A &M. This race differs from the other con- tested council race as both candidates are qualified through past experience with city government. Pugh has written many of the zoning ordinances currently in force. Their biggest difference is concerning the zoning of land in College Station. Adams views zoning as a businessman. Pugh uses zoning as a major tool in shap- ing a city's environment. Adams takes a "free enterprise" ap- proach to zoning. If people want to build on the land, let them. Pugh's approach is in opposition. Regulate the use of the land for maximum benefit. This difference has been the main issue in the past few council races. The candidates usually take one side or the other. The zoning of apartment complexes and the strip zoning along Texas Avenue have long been enigmas to the citizens of Col- lege Station. Many of the residents, espe- cially those born in the North, have encouraged zoning as a method of control- ling the growth and environment of Col- lege Station. Other residents, looking to- ward Houston and Bryan (both surviving without zoning), want zoning to be discon- tinued or kept to a minimum. The urban planners, such as Pugh, want the city to plan out its growth and concen- nin g trate the business section to a more dis- tinct area than the sprawl of stores known as Texas Avenue. Expansionists, such as Adams, want the city to grow unimpeded by restrictions on commercial property. The east side of College Station is cur- rently undeveloped because of zoning re- strictions on building in the flood plain that occupies most of the area. Pugh, along with many residents and councilmen, wants this area to stay undeveloped be- cause of the threat of flooding. Adams, with a following of businessmen and de- velopers, is in favor of opening the area. This disagreement over zoning is con- tinued concerning the issue of the strip zoning of Texas Avenue for commercial es- tablishments. Pugh wants to stop the "neon -light syndrome" currently develop- ing on Texas Avenue. He believes that strategically placed shopping centers would further the growth of College Sta- tion better than the current strip. Adams says that people want the neon lights and businesses lining the curb of Texas. So the people of the second ward are again faced with the ongoing issue of zon- ine. The Battalion March 30, 1978 Oust the wards College Station voters will again have the chance to deal with the ward issue this Saturday when they go to the polls. Voted in two years ago under much controversy, the ward system is back on the ballot to see what the people think of it. Indications are that it will be done away with Saturday, and we could not be happier. The biggest argument against the,ward system is that the city is just not big enough to reap its benefits. In larger cities it ensures adequate representation on the council for various political, ethnic, and racial groups who otherwise might have problems getting their views presented. College Station as yet is not so divided, and a ward system in this. town serves only to prohibit very qualified (and certainly representative) candidates from seeking public sup- port. An unnecessary ward system compounds its own shortcomings by inviting few people to the polls. When only half the city each year is beckoned to fill council seats, the enthusiasm over the races is less than stirring. The ward system designed to zero in on specific area interests instead nurtures voter apathy in the wards involved in elections and rests totally forgotten in the minds of residents of off-year wards. Apparently, splitting voter activity has only weakened voter involvement. The Battalion March 30, 1978 Place 4 candidates seek mixed vote By JIM CRAWLEY favoring the development of a residentially The Fourth Ward of College Station zoned area for an apartment complex. Jim takes in the residential areas of south Col- Jett, a local realtor, was defeated by Gary lege Station — the newer neighborhoods Halter in the same election. where professors and middle -class salary earners make up the majority of the area. The apartment complexes hold hundreds Politics of students. The ward is probably the county's closest relative to a metropolitan suburb. Most of the city's new homes are being Where the previous candidates were constructed in the Southwood Valley area against the restrictions of local zoning of the ward. The past two years have seen Jones told The Battalion that zoning must the construction of new apartment com- be maintained to secure and preserve per- plexes in the area — the leading edge in sonal privacy and safety. This may seem College Station's residential growth. . the antithesis of most builders. But in re- Two candidates are trying to become cent years some builders have realized the council representatives for this area of that zoning can be used to their advantage. College Station. ThKI ,, «P i; tlnd it s a_pPlitical iiecessity.i,"ollege sta- Boughton, `46 -yeaT � bvw*!!'�t rtl!t`ion'to take astand in favor dfVping con - Tony Jones, a 31-/&f -6ld h6me buAir. - ttol. Both are political novices. In the past few elections home builders Boughton takes the stand that zoning and developers have fared poorly in Col- needs to be updated by devising better procedures for the rezoning of apartment lege Station council races. Incumbant Don and commercial areas. Dale was defeated in 1975 by Bob Bell. One of the main issues of the campaign Both candidates appear to be cautious was Dale's occupation as a builder and his about the involvement of students in the city government. Boughton is totally opposed to the idea of a student being a councilman. She be- lieves that it would be impractical for stu- dent to be on the council because they usually live in the city for only four years. The housewife does believe that students could be on advisory boards and serve as volunteers to distribute surveys and ques- tionnaires. Jones, on the other hand, took the easy way out in answering a Battalion question concerning student participation in city government. He said that all registered voters have equal rights and respon- sibilities in city government. This was bas- ically a politically neutral statement. Neither anti - student of,pro- student. It keeps everyone happy. It probably doesn;t matter if Boughton and Jones are pro - student or anti - student. The election is on a 9purday and if the sun is out, the students will be out at Some- rville or at the pool. With the present state law placing all local elections on the same day and that day being a Saturday, the students are less likely to take time out from their only full day of relaxation. The student vote in the Fourth Ward this weekend will probably be negligible at best. The polling place at South Knoll Elementary School is a car drive away for most students in the ward. A car drive most students won't take. The only candidate that is assured of a win on Saturday is incumbant Councilman Jim Dozier. His Place 6 ward failed to draw a two -man race this spring. Dozier, a 54- year -old finance professor, has been a councilman for eight years, dur- ing which time he has presented a pragma- tic, hard -line attitude to the council's con- trol of the city government- Polling places in tomorrow's city council election are as follows: Ward 2 (includes the Commons and Corps dorms) is the A& Cafisplidated Special Services Bui�cli . Jersey street. War&_4 is at" South Knoll Elementary School:"Ward 6, including a few Northgate dorms, is the - College Station Fire Department. For the wards voting in just the mayorial race the polling places are: Ward 1 at College Hills Elementary School, Ward 3 at Lincoln enter and Ward 5 at the Bee Creek unicipal Swimming Pool. The Battalion March 31, 1978 Do it at the polls; get out and vote "Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." The words. Pre those of a wise man — H.L. Mencken. Mankind may not have been made wise by voting but it is unwise not to vote. One vote may not change the world, the city or even a ward but it could mean the election of a candidate. In our democratic process the people are in control of the government. We ,elect the of- ' ficials of our cities and our school districts. We can vote them out as well as in. Our democratic society has made us chronic gripers. We will complain loudly to our neighbors and friends — and sometimes to government — about taxes, our streets, our schools and the trash pickup. But when it comes time for us to do something about government, we ignore the opportunity. slate of candidates for city councils and school boards. We have our chance to make our opinions of government known Saturday. Our votes will express our approval or disapproval. But, if we do not take that r chance tomoreow to express our feelings, we have no right to gripe next year about the actions of our governments. To make our government work, we have to work. Par- ticipation is needed. Apathy is not. Some recent municipal elections in Bryan - College Station have produced pathetic voter turnouts. Let's not repeat. Don't abdicate your rights and don't let George do it. Do it yourself. If you wait for the other person to do it, he or she might not do it the way you want it done. Tomorrow is our City Remember. On Saturday, do it and school elections will be held at the polls. in Bryan and College Station'. Vote. You'll feel better about Several important issues will be your government if you have had on the ballot, in addition to the a say in forming it. The Eagle March 31, 1978 CS polling places Polling places for College Station and A &M Con- solidated Independent School District voters are: College Station Ward Polling place 1 College Hills Elementary School, 101 Williams 2 Special Services Building, 1300 Jersey 3 Lincoln Center, Holleman Eleanor 4 South Knoll Elementary Schooi,1220 Boswell S Bee Creek Swimming Pool, Bee Creek Park 8 College Station Fire Departmeni,1207 South Texas A&M Consolidated Independent School District Precinct 8 South Knoll School cafeteria, 1220 Boswell 9 Special Services Building, 1300 Jersey 10 College Station Fire Department, 1207 South Texas 2, portion 29 Wellborn Water Supply board room, Wellborn 20 Room 137, Memorial Student Center, Texas A &M 21 College Station Municipal Building, 1101 South Texas 24 College Hills Elementary School library, 101 Williams 28 Peach Creek Community Center, Peach Creek Road 31 Consolidated High School cafeteria, 701 West Loop S The Eagle March 31, 1978 Charter,- bond,,, iss By ROBERT C. BORDEN week, she filed a statement showing Staff Writer support from the Fund for Com- Voting on a mayor and three munity and Education Support, an councilmen' in College Station outgrowth of the Property Owners Saturday almost takes a back seat to Association (POA). Hecox, 44, is eight proposed charter amendments project manager and vice president and five bond proposals totaling for R. B. Butler Co. $9.65 million. Robeck, 38, is an associate In the trustee race for two professor of political science at positions on the A &M Consolidated Texas A &M University. He has been Independent School District board, on the board one term and has the choices are clear -cut and reflect received the support of Parents in the basic philosophical differences Partnership With Education within the school district. Although the school board can- In Position 7, Dr. Roger Feldman, didates must run by position, they who was appointed to the board in are elected at large. Council can- January, decided not to seek elec- didates, however, are elected by tion to the board. Vying for his seat wards, with only registered voters in are Bill Wasson, Dr. Herman Brown each ward casting ballots for the and Walt "Big Brazos" Hardin. candidates from that ward. Wasson, 30, is a certified public The mayor is elected at large by accountant. He is supported by all voters in the city. PIPE. Brown, 46, is a professor of Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 agricultural education at A &M. He, p.m. Saturday, too, received the backing of the In the Position 6 race on the Fund for Community and Education Consolidated board, two newcomers Support and the formal support of are trying to unseat the current the POA. Hardin, 32, is owner of the board president. Mrs. Ann Jones and Big Brazos, aa a Texas -based Louis Hecox are challeo board h c ropei n of income president Bruce Robeck for . longs al_ is a housewife. This If no candidate in either race ;ues dominate CS election receives a majoirty of the votes, the homemaker. Amendment 3 allows the city school board will call a runoff Ward Councilman Jim Dozier, council to set the dates of the fiscal election when it meets Monday 54, is unopposed in his bid for re- year. Under the present system, the night. election. He is an associate fiscal year is set fourth specifically The mayor's race pits incumbent professor of finance at A &M. in the charter and requires an Lorence Bravenec against political Largest of the bond issues is the amendment to be changed. novice Karl Crawley. Bravenec, 42, first on the ballot. The issue is for Amendment 4 would allow the city is a professor of accounting at A &M, $5,300,000 for waterworks im- manager to designate a person to co- and an attorney and certified public provements. By next January, sign checks issued by the city. accountant. Bravenec was elected to College Station will no longer be able Currently, all checks must be the council in 1974 and was elected to use water from the Bryan utilities. countersigned by the city manager. mayor in 1976. Crawley, 19, is a The second bond proposal is for The fifth proposed amendment sophomore environmental design $845,000 in sewer system im- and the sixth amendment proposal major at A &M. provements related to item one. are designed to bring the charter Ward 2 candidates are David Pugh The third issue is $530,000 in street into compliance with the state and Homer Adams, a former three improvements. Item 4 includes Municipal Annexation Act. Item five term councilman. There is no in- $1,810,000 for park improvements. says the city can annex land upon cumbent in the ward, because none The last item is for $680,000 for a petition of the people while number of the council members lived in the police station, fire station and city six says the council can annex land ward when the ward system took warehouse. on its own initiative provided the law effect two years ago. Eight charter change proposals in the annexation act is followed. Pugh, 35, is an assistant professor also go before the voters Saturday. In amendment 7, the boundaries of of urban planning at A &M. Adams The first would eliminate the the city would no longer be spelled 55, is president of Adams Transfer of current ward system, approved by out in the charter. Land could then College Station and Conroe. less than one percent of the vote two be annexed without a charter Ward 4 also has two candidates, years ago. The change again would change, although that procedure has Anthony "Tony" Jones and Patricia have the council members elected at not been followed for some time. Boughton. Ward 4 councilman Jim large, as is the mayor. The eighth and final amendment Gardner decided not to seek re- Change two would require any proposal would eliminate the election. candidate for mayor or the council charter provision spelling out voting Jones, 31, owns Tony Jones to receive at least 34 percent of the precinct without requiring a charter Construction Co. Boughton, 46, is a votes to win. change. Polls open from 7a.m. to 7 p.m. By JEFF THIEBEAULT Staff Writer Voters in Bryan and College Station go to the polls today under partly cloudy skies to elect .two mayors, nine councilmen and four school trustees. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Lists of polling places on page 3A. -- Bryan voters also will decide whether to separate the Bryan Independent School District from city control while those in College Station will consider approval of eight proposed charter amendments and five bond proposals totaling $9.65 million. Six council seats in Bryan are up for election - three more than normal - because several in- cumbents are seeking other positions. The Bryan school board race is somewhat more calm, with two incumbents seeking to be returned to the board and only one of them drawing an op- ponent. Candidates in the Bryan council election run by place, but are elected at large. Thus all registered voters in the city may vote for a candidate in each of the six places. School board candidates run by positions, but again are elected at large. In College Station, the mayor's race pits an incumbent against a political novice. There are two candidates each in Wards 2 and 4, with the in- cumbent in Ward 6 running unopposed for re- election. Two positions on the A &M Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees are up for grabs. In position 6 the incumbent faces two challengers and in position 7 three newcomers are vying for the seat. Council candidates in College Station are elected by wards, while the school board can- didates are elected at large. The mayor is elected at large by all the voters of the city. The separation question in Bryan will have a place to vote yes and a place to vote no. Presently the school district is municipally-controlled. Opponents say separation will force the schools to establish their own tax office, which of course would assess and collect taxes. -Supporters of the separation say "a divorce of the two governmental bodies would end the annual squabble over transfers to the district from the city's utility fund. The five bond issues voters will decide on include $5,300,000 for waterworks improvement; $845,000 for sewer system im- provements; $530,000 for street improvements; $1,810,000 for park improvements, and $680,000 for a police station, fire station and city warehouse. Charter change proposals would eliminate the current ward system, would require council and mayoral candidates to receive 34 percent of the vote in order to win, would allow the council to set the dates of the fiscal year, and would allow the city manager to designate a person to co -sign checks issued by the city. Two other proposed amend- ments would bring the charter into compliance with the State Municipal Annexation Act. The remaining two would not require the boundaries of the city to be spelled out in the charter and would eliminate the charter provision spelling out voting precincts without requiri g a change. The Eagle April 1, 1978 CS candidates meet the press Questions on the bond issues, plus future growth and zoning matters in College Station dominated A- "Meet the Candidates" program on KAMU -TV Friday night. Several candidates for ,mayor, city council and school board faced a panel of reporters including Robert Borden of The 'Eagle, Dave Mayes from the Texas A &M Jour- " - nalism Department, Marla 'Gammon from KAMU -TV and Karen Rogers from the Battalion. The show was moderated by KAMU- TV news director James Smith and was sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi. College Station Mayor Lorence Bravenec, a candidate for re- election, told the panel the decisions the city council makes now will affect the community 20 to 30 years from now. "We should try to maintain high standards," he said. "Right now we have to clean up our sign ordinance. Our landscape ordinance also needs to be looked into." Bravenec defended his time in office, noting the city has "gone out and gotten a cheaper contract for its electricity." Bravenec's opponent, 19- year -old Karl Crawley, said he favors abolishment of the city's ward system. He said the system discriminates against students at Texas A &M and that more would participate if another system were in effect. I'd like to see more students and residents get involved in city govern- ment," he said. "Town hall meetings at schools around the city might be a good way to do this." Crawley is a sophomore environmental design major at Texas A &M. Ward 2 candidate David Pugh told the panel the city should continue its present zoning policies. "If you look at the sale of homes in College Station you'll notice most real estate firms use zoning as a sales item," he said. "This would seem to in- - dicate the industry favors a strict zoning policy." Patricia Boughton, a candidate for Ward 4, said the zoning policies now in effect should constantly be updated to insure proper development of neigh- borhoods throughout the city. All three candidates for Position 6 on the A &M Consolidated School Board said they do not support a tax on automobiles. Incumbent board president Bruce Robeck said it's hard to determine ownership of vehicles. "Many people have their cars registered outside the county," he said. "That's why we have a collection rate of only 38 percent on this. Candidates Louis Hecox and Mrs. Ann Jones both said they favor cutting down the length of board meetings. "A lot of things brought up at these meetings could be settled by committees," Mrs. Jones said. Ward 7 candidate Walt "Big Brazos" Hardin said that teacher's salaries in the district should be higher. He said he would support a starting slary of $13,000 for teachers and $16,000 after two or three years. The other two candidates for ward 7, Dr. Herman Brown snd Rill Wasson were reluctant to commit themselves to this amount. "It depends on the teacher's level of training and her experience," Brown said. The Eagle April 1, 1978 IosLEGAL NOTICES ORDINANCE,NO. 1100 CITYOF COLLEGE STATION AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 965 BY ADOPTING the 1976 EDITIN OF THE SOUTHERN ;STANDARD BUILDING .CODE AND THE 1977 REVISION TO THE 1976, EDITION, PROVIDING AMENDMENTS TO THE TEXT OF THE SAID CODES AND- REVISIONS, AND PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS AND COLLECTION OF FEES T H E R E F O R A N D ,REPEALING ALL OR ` DINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH, PROVIDING AS CONTAINED IN THE BUILDINGCODE. PASSED AND APPROVED the 9th day of February, 1976. APPROVED Lorence L. Bravenec, Mayor. City of College Station ATTEST Florence Neelley City Secretary The Eagle April 2, 1978 ORDINANCE NO. 1100 CITY OF COLLEGE STATION AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 965 BY ADOPTING the 1976 EDITIN OF THE SOUTHERN STANDARD BUILDING CODE AND THE 1977 REVISION TO TH��,,EE 1976, EDITION, PROQ'"I;PryNG AMENDMENTS' TO THE TEXT OF THE SAID CODES AND REVISIONS, AND PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS AND COLLECTION OF FEES T H E R E F O R, A N D REPEALING ALL OR DINANCES AND PARIS OF 1 ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH, PROVIDING AS CONTAINED IN THE BUILDING CODE. PASSED AND APPROVED the 9th day of February, 1978. APPROVED Lorence L. Bravenec, Mayor. City of College Station ATTEST Florence Neelley City Secretary The Eagle April 1, 1978 College Station election by precinct Wards 1 2 3 4 5 6 Absentee Total Candidate Mayor Lorence Bravenec 194 340 128 571 274 98 61 1666 Karl Crawley 31 59 18 120 47 23 1 13 311 Ward 2 David Pugh 155 4 159 Homer Adams 246 14 260 -Ward 4 Tony Jones 301 5 306 Patricia Boughton 395 11 406 Bond issues Water For 203 343 129 639 289 111 58 14 24 1772 Against 25 61 24 80 42' 270 Sewer For 204 343 126 640 285 106 58 1762 Against 26 59 29 79 46 19 23 281 Streets For 172 304 110 546 246 88 54 1520 Against 56 99 44 173 80 36 28 516 Parks For 122 231 82 490 205 67 36 1233 811 Against 105 177 70 227 130 58 44 Buildings For 172 274 101 526 223 1 75 50 1421 Against 55 132 53 187 108 48 31 614 Charter amendments Ward system For 176 293 115 492 246 89 47 1458 Against 53 109 41 225 87 37 32 584 Plurality election For 182 310 116 582 267 94 62 1613 Against 41 88 36 126 59 28 15 393 Fiscal year For 168 270 89 458 239 86 51 1361 Against 58 125 1 59 244 83 37 24 630 Check signing For 154 277 93 456 226 83 52 1341 Against 74 123 59 252 99 39 26 672 Annexation, petition For 158 298 98 532 238 92 59 1475 Against 55 82 42 135 74 25 14 427 Annexation, no petition For 138 251 86 464 216 78 48 1281 Against 73 127 58 207 96 38 24 623 Boundaries For 169 304 110 561 259 93 59 1555 Against 39 52 33 86 47 268 42 336 18 13 98 62 17 10 129 82 288 1558 333 2096 Voting precincts For 182 286 114 548 Against 35 84 31 114 Ward totals 238 417 163 731 CS bond issues pass College Station voters over- whelmingly passed a $5.3 million bond issue for waterworks im- provements along with four other bond proposals Saturday. Total bonds approved are worth $9.65 million. The water system package received 1,772 votes for and 270 against. The second proposal, for $845,000 in sewer system im- provements, was passed by 'a margin of 1,762 votes yes and 281, no. Voting chart on page 8B A $530,000 street improvements proposal received 1,520 for and 516 against, with a $1,810,000 park im- provement package passing with 1,233 in favor of the proposal and 811 against. The final issue on the ballot; for $680,000 to complete construction of t�a fire station, police station, a city warehouse and a sub - station for the Turn to page 7A, col.1 , CS voters okay bonds From page lA, col. 4 fire department in South- wood Valley; received 1,421 votes for and 614 against. The $5.3 million bond issue on the water system and the $845,000 for sewer improvements were mandated when the city of College Station decided to discontinue the purchase of electrical power from the city of Bryan. Bryan officials then decided that since College Station did not want its power, other utility arrangements also would be discontinued. City officials say even with more than $6 million in bonds to pay off, residents should actually see a decrease in their water and sewer bills because the city of Bryan charges a premium rate for the utility service it provides to College Station homes and businesses. The improvements in the water and sewer facilities will have to be completed by next January when the current utility agreement with the city of Bryan expires. The park bonds would provide funding for two 50- acre parks, one in South- wood Valley and another in the Golden Triangle sec- tion, purchase of Lincoln Center for $60,000 and $883,000 in improvements to smaller neighborhood parks. The Eagle April 2 1978 College Station opts for experience in filling mayoral, city council seats By ROBERT C. BORDEN Staff writer College Station voters apparently feel more comfortable with ex- perienced politicians at the helm of city government, returning a mayor, a former city councilman and a present councilman and electing only one politcal newcomer to office Saturday. Mayor Lorence Bravenec easily outdistanced Texas A &M University sophomore Kark Crawley to retain From page 1A, col. 4 bid to return to the council, while Pugh took 159 votes. Boughton won 406 votes compared to 301 for Jones. Bravenec, 42, first was elected to the council in 1974 and was elected mayor in 1976. He is a professor of accounting at Texas A &M, an attorney and a certified public accountant. Voting chart on page 8B Bravenec captured 1,666 votes to Crawley's 311 votes, winning 84.27 percent of the votes cast to Crawley's 15.73 percent. The incumbent mayor easily defeated Crawley in all six wards, winning his highest vote total in Ward 4, where he received 571 votes to 120 for Crawley. It was also Crawley's highest ward vote count. Adams received 260 votes in his his job. Former councilman Homer Adams was returned to office, handily defeating David Pugh for the Ward 2 position. Mrs. Patricia Boughton, a political novice, defeated another newcomer, Tony Jones to capture the Ward 4 seat. Incumbant Ward 6 councilman James Dozier was unopposed in his bid for re- election. Crawley, 19, is an en- vironmental design major at A &M who was making his first bid for public office. Adams, 55, formerly served three terms on the College Station City Council. He is the owner of Adams Transfer of College Station and Conroe. Saturday night, he said, "We're real happy. I'm looking forward to working with the other members of the council and really see if we can't work out some of the problems we ap- parently have with the Bryan Council." "It's kind of ridiculous we're sitting here and making our living here and not working together," Adams stated. He said he is looking Turn to page 7A, col.1 Bravenec Boughton forward to returning to the council, noting, "I've missed it." Pugh, 35, is an assistant professor of urbah plan- ning at A &M. Mrs. Boughton, 46, is a homemaker. She said after the votes were tabulated, "I'm very pleased, of course, with the outcome. An awful lot of good people worked for me and they worked very, very hard." She said, "I am very concerned about the zoning in the neighborhoods," adding she has a great interest in the College Sation parts system. "I am pleased with all the outcomes," Boughton said. Jones, 31, i sowner of Tony Jones Construction. Dozier, 54, is an associate professor of finance at A &M . He received 102 votes in his re- election bid. The Eagle April 2, 1978 ^V Bravenec re- elected CS mayor Plan to abolish CS ward system to be filed soon Plans are underway in College Station to submit the abolition of the city ward system to the U.S. Department of Justice for approval. City voters decided Saturday by an almost 3 -1 margin to do away with the ward system, which was created by a vote of the people two years ago. Saturday 1,458 persons voted to do away with the system, while 584 voted in favor of keeping the ward plan. City Attorney Neeley Lewis will begin preparing a notice to the Justice Department in -Washington, D.C. saying the ward system has been abolised by the voters. He said he hopes to have the notice on file within three months. The Justice Department will have the opportunity to approve or disapprove the plan, although the federal decision will not actually affect the implementation of an at- large system. If Justice disap- proves, Lewis said, it would have to file suit in U.S. District Court to block the plan. After the notice is submitted to Justice, Lewis said he expects an answer within two months. Questions have been raised prior to Saturday's election over the change from a ward plan to an at- large voting system. In recent years, the Justice Department has been active in federal court, trying to implement a ward voting system in many cities and school districts throughout Texas and the country. But, Lewis said he doesn't think the Justice Department will have any objection to the abolition of the ward system in College Station. The demographic makeup of the city includes few minorities, which normally are helped by a ward system. The Eagle April 3, 1978 C S election results By MICHELLE BURROWES College Station voters turning out to vote Saturday decided to abolish the ward system of voting and re- elected Mayor Lorene Bravenec. A run -of will be held between Bruce Robeck and Ann Jones, can- didates for the A &M Consolidated School board. The ward system of electing city councilmen was eliminated Satur- day, so council members will be elected at large in the future. The Texas A &M campus was divided into two wards after voters narrowly approved the system last year. Bravenec was re- elected when his opponent Karl Crawley, a Texas A &M sophomore, received 311 votes; Bravenec received 1,666. In the school board elections, 4111 Wasson was elected to fill the posi- tion vacated by Roger Feldman, who did not seek re- election. The otherpposition will be filled after a run -oI eUction between Robeck and Jones. Robeck, who is currently serving as 4chool board president, received 1,018 votes, Jones, a home maker received 959 votes. Voters also approved a $9.2 mil- lion bond issue to improve water and sewer systems and streets, buy park land, and pay for additional city buildings. Homer Adams defeated Ward 2 opponent David Pugh 260 -159, and Patricia Boughton won the Ward 4 vote 406 -306 over Tony Jones. The Battalion April 3, 1978 Plat denial irks CS council College Station City Council members expressed displeasure with the city's Planning and Zoning Commission Monday afternoon after they learned the P and Z had denied a plat request already promised by the council. Two incumbents and two new council members also were sworn at the meeting of the city council. New council members Homer Adams and Patricia Boughton joined Mayor Lorence Bravenec and Councilman Jim Dozier in being sworn in after the results of Saturday's city election were can- vassed. Two departing councilmen made farewell statements. Lane Stephenson said, "It's been an ex- perience. I'll say that." Jim Gardner said, "It's been all I'd thought it would be, time con- suming, sometimes interesting, sometimes not, sometimes frus- trating." He said his four years on the council were "rewarding" and wish- ed the new council "smooth sailing." sailing." Larry Hood, executive vice president of Tinsley's Inc., a fried chicken restaurant chain based in Huntsville, told council members the P and Z had denied a plat for a Tinsley's restaurant just north of Pooh's Park. According to city staff members,, the denial was based on the proposed location of a curb cut for an entrance and exit to the restaurant parking lot. Tinsley's had been told originally by the plannning board it could not have the two curb cuts it first wanted. But, Hood said, councilmen told him if several changes were made, including making just one curb cut, the plat would be granted. P and Z members tabled the new Plat several times before denying it at their last meeting, Hood said. City Engineer Elrey Ash told the council Monday the proposed curb cut is directly across from the Park Place intersection with Texas Avenue, which Ash said is the best loction for the curb cut. He said some P and Z members objected to the curb cut being located so close to the entrance to Pooh's Park and directly across from Park Place. Adams said, "I think they (the planning commissioners) boo - booed," and Councilman Gary Halter said, "I don't think anyone here condones that." Councilman Anne Hazen told Hood, "I lovb Tinsley's Fried Chicken, but 1, wish you were half a mile further down the road," She said the area between Jersey and Holleman streets had "tremendous traffic problems" already and another restaurant is the area would compound the problems. Adams then asked Hazen, "Will You make a motion for the city to buy it (the Tinsley land) as a park ?" to which Hazen said no. Hood said his restaurant would not be a fast -food type of eating place, but would be a cross between that and a "table cloth, sit down restaurant." The menu would in- clude fried chicken and chicken fried steak. He said the restaurant will provide some 40 jobs to the city. Ash told the council that, by law, Plats must be approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission and therefore the council could not overrule the P and Z. Councilmen then decided to send it back to the commission with a strong recommendation the plat be granted at the commission's Thursday night meeting. The Eagle April 4, 1978 New offici • • join Counci By GARY WELCH approving it. Battalion staff Results of the city bond elections were Newly re- elected mayor Lorence canvassed and accepted unanimously. Bravenec stalked into the silent College Suggestions for future council operation Station City Council chambers shortly after were voiced at the end of the meeting. 4 p.m. Monday, bringing the business and They included increased effort to condemn activities of a new term with him. unsafe buildings, holding council "work- Only councilwoman Anne Hazen and shop" meetings in more informal places members of the press were waiting for and establishing better relations with Texas Bravenec. The rest of the councilmen, old, A &M students. new and current, along with various city officials and other interested persons, fol- lowed on the mayor's heels. After a bit of informal discussion the council, including the two departing mem- bers, Lane Stephenson and Jim Gardner, seated itself and addressed the first item on the special session agenda, the canvassing of city election results. Bravenec read a resolution stating the winners in Saturday's city elections and the council unanimously adopted the results as valid. Bravenec then stood with a smile and announced it was time to swear in the newly elected officials. He stepped down to the podium, and with his right hand raised was sworn in by councilman Jim Dozier. Dozier started back to his chair. "Hey, wait a minute," Bravenec said. "While you're up here, why don't I swear you in ?" Dozier then took his oath of office and signed it. "Congratulations," Bravenec said. "Same to, you," Dozier replied. Bravenec then swore in Homer Adams, a former member of the council who has been absent for two years. Stephenson stepped down and Adams took his chair to murmurs of "Welcome back, Homer." Patricia Boughton, now the second woman on the council, was sworn in, re- placing Jim Gardner. Gardner read a parting statement thank- ing the city council for its cooperation and joke that he would leave the "mundane" problems of the airport, moving the rail- road tracks from west of the Texas A &M University campus and metropolitan tran- sit to the remaining council members. Councilman Gary Halter introduced a resolution thanking Gardner and Stephen- son for their faithful service. " I'If e s mvenee said after the resolution passed unanim- ously. The council then considered an appeal from a restaurant executive whose com- pany bought land and wants to erect a building on the east side of Texas Avenue at The Battalion Park Place. April 4, 1978 The College Station Planning and Zon- ing Commission had rejected the com- pany's application on the grounds that the restaurant would cause more traffic conges- tion on Texas Avenue. The council voted to return the plat to the Planning and Zoning Commission with instructions that they "seriously consider" NOTICE OF P U B L I( HEARING: The College Station Planninc and Zoning Commission wil hold a public hearing to con Sider a request for a Con ditional Use Permit for the construction �,Of , a church building to be. locafed wet of and adjacent to the East By- Pass and approximately 3500 feet north of the intersection of Texas Avenue and the East Bypass. The application is in the name of the Bretheren Church of Bryan - College Statin, 1221 Merry Oaks, College Station, 7 The heaing 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, April 20, 1978. For additional information, Please contact the City Plan- ner's Office in the City Hall, 7 13846 -8886. The Eagle` April 5, 1978 Mayor on dogs Editor: This letter has reference to Flavia Krone's excellent news article of March 24, relating to the (kArpction of two pet dogs by the City of College Station. The City regrets that the two'pet Clogs destroyed while the owners were search- ing for them. We certainly will take steps to guard against such a recurrence. To those who value their pet dogs and wish to guarantee that they are not inad- vertetitly destroyed by the City (through occasional human error), I would like to point out that you can take two steps: 1. Keep your pet dog fenced or re- strained. Not only will you thereby com- ply with City ordinances, but you will minimize the likelihood of the pet's theft (unaccountable disappearances) or of the :pet's injury or death caused by an au- tomobile. Further, you will show to your neighbors who don't have dogs that you have consideration for their feelings. If you don't understand how your dogless neighbors can object to dogs running loose, please ask a dogless neighbor, par- ticularly one with children. 2. Have your pet dog registered and tagged. You will thereby comply with the City ordinances and make it relatively easy to identify your animal if it breaks loose and wanders. In addition, because the City requires the pet's vaccination against rabies, you will protect the pet against this dreaded disease. Needless to say, you will also protect your fellow citizens against rabies. The cost of vaccination and of regis- tration is nominal. Do it now. — Lorence Bravenec Mayor, City of College Station The Battalion April 5, 1978 Plat request to be considered The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission is expected to reconsider a plat for a Tinsley's restaurant when it meets at 7 p.m. Thursday at City Hall. The plat was denied recently by the commission after members felt a curb cut into the proposed restaurant parking lot was too close to a curb cut for Pooh's Park, im In other action, commissioners mediately south of the Tinsley site. will hold a public hearing on a City Council members Monday, request for a conditional -use permit however, expressed displeasure for construction of a series of with the commission's action and asked that the plat be reconsidered for approval. Councilmen said they had indi- cated in December Tinsley's could have the plat if only one curb cut was requested. Tinsley's complied but the Planning and Zoning Com- mission denied the plat anyway. sorority houses located between Munson Avenue, Dominik Drive and University Oaks Drive. The request is from Marcal Inc. builders. Another public hearing will be held on a request for a conditional use permit for an apartment project on the extension of Holleman Drive, some 1700 feet west of Wellborn Road. Edsel Jones is making the request. A third public hearing will deal with a request to rezone 1.599 acres at the southwest corner of the in- tersection of Holleman and An- derson, from single family to town- house- rowhouse. J.W. Wood is making the request. Four preliminary plats will be considered: Holleman Ridge Sub- division at the southwest corner of Holleman and Anderson; resub- division of Lot 8, Lakeview Acres at the southeast corner of Texas Avenue and Miller's Lane; Village Place at the southwest corner of Harvey Road and the East Bypass; and Foxfire Phase 3. The Eagle April 5, 1978 C About 30% voted in. local 'elections Voter turnout in Saturday's city and school elections hovered around school races were on the same ballot elected new city councilmen and a In the College Station council, the 30 percent mark, meaning for and it is difficult to separate the two. mayor. bond and charter amendment races, ever y person who cast a ballot, two did In the Consolidated trustee race, 2,096 of the 7,393 registererd voters In Bryan, 4,506 persons out of an 2,371 of the 8,106 registered voters not. Highest percentage turnout was in estimated 15,400 eligible voters cast ballots. cast ballots for a 28.35 percent turnout. the Bryan school board race, in — which some 30.6 percent of the voters went to the polls to decide the fate of school separation and to elect two trustees. In that election, 5,096 voters out of an estimated 16,600 eligible voters cast ballots. Bryan and A &M Consolidated elections tied with a 29.25 percent turnout. The Bryan and Bryan The Eagle April 6, 1978 Official blasts area animal control By CHUCK HOUSE Staff Writer College Station and Bryan nave a "horrendous animal pfoblem" which city officials have not faced up to, Douglas Scott of the Humane Society said Thursday. Scott, director of the Humane Society's Gulf States regional of- fice, was referring to the ways the cities handle stray and unwanted pets. "They're all over the place," he said, "There doesn't seem to be any standard way there're being han- dled." Scott also took the cities to task for what he called sub - standard places to house stray or unwanted animals. "The facility is an indication of antiquity," he said. "They have to come into the 20th century." Scott made his remarks at a news conference held in the board room at the Bank of A &M. The cities should be thankful, he said, that they haven't been sued for the way pets are housed or treated. "Someone somewhere will get good and mad," he said, and sue. "It's their (the cities') legal responsibility." College Station could have been sued for shooting two dogs recently after the owners tried to locate and claim the pets, Scott claimed. The owners had appeared at a city council meeting to complain about the handling of their pets. They said police refused to tell them where the dogs were being kept. Police Chief Marvin Byrd said that the Anderson Ridge Veterinary Clinic, which handles stray animals picked up by the city, did not want a stream of people coming to the clinic to see stray pets. Dr. Sam Scarmardo, who operates the clinic, said that it is not his policy to turn away owners looking for stray pets. He said the city of College Station had adopted this screening policy without his knowledge. The attitude of both cities — each putting the responsibility on the other for a decent shelter or manner of treating the animals — should be corrected, he said. "Do animals know boundaries ?" People in the area, he said, especially councilmen and leaders in the community, have really "goofed" in not providing adequate shelters. The problem is their' respon- sibility, he said Scott also claimed residents of both cities have been afraid to complain about 'the situation. "I never saw a place where people are so afraid. Do we live in com- munist China ?" Responsible legislation should be initiated to alleviate the problems, Scott said. That meant at animal restraint law which should be en- forced, and a decent shelter, he said. After hearing how many dogs had been impounded — about 75 in the last three years — Scott said he laughed. "I couldn't believe it." Only about 25 have been impounded this year, he said. A program of spaying and neutering also should be undertaken by the cities so that adopted animals from the shelter do not breed "promiscously" when they get loose. The Eagle April 7, 1978 By FLAVIA KRONE A College Station Planning and Zoning Commission hearing on the construction of a sorority house project and the rezon- ing of a one- and -a -half acre tract of land drew an overflowing crowd to city hall Thursday night. The commission heard animated debate on the question of granting a conditional use permit to Marcal, Inc. for the con- struction of a sorority house project to be located between Munson Avenue, Dominik Drive and University Oaks Drive. There are currently nine sororities at Texas A&M, all of which occupy the Sausalito Apartments at 1001 Harvey Rd. Three of those sororities, including Zeta Tau Alpha, Chi Omega and Kappa Alpha Theta, plan to build sorority houses. However, Don Martell, representing Marcal, Inc., said he had received applica- tions for three additional sorority houses to be built. He said that Marcal, Inc. was planning to eventually accomodate all nine sororities on the 17.5 -acre tract of land in question. The area is zoned for high- density apartments which allow for as many as 40 units per acre. Martell said the ten - bedroom sorority houses, which would oc- cupy about one and a half acres apiece, would each house about 18 people Lane Stephenson, 1202 Do iinik, pointed out to the commission tl at the sorority house density per acre land would be lower than the densit for a single family dwelling. Stephens said the sororities would make `good neighbors" and that he would p efer a sorority house over an apartment c mplex in the neighborhood. However, some are residents h e cir- culated a petition opposing the project. Rezneat Darnell, 900 Gilchrist, said that he favored sororities but was concerned that they might become the cent of "high jinks" in the neighborhood. The au- dience broke into laughter when Darnell told commissioners of his experiende with sororities during his younger days. "When I was a student we would visit these sorority ladies and seranade them and all sorts of things," Darnell said. "Since I was one of the ringleaders, that's one of the reasons I'm concerned." Mary Evelyn White, Chi Omega chap- ter adviser, assured commissioners that national Panhellenic regulations prohibit alcohol or drugs in the houses. Commissioner Wayne Etter also ex- pressed concern that there might not be sufficient parking f sorority members and - _their guests during parties or other peak traffic periods. The commission finally approved a con- ditional use permit for the project after stipulating that the developer reserve a four -acre tract on University Oaks Drive to handle overflow tra v should the need arise. The commission also tabled a motion to rezone a one and a half acre tract located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Holleman Drive and Anderson Street. Developer J. W. Wood wanted the land rezoned from single- family residential to a townhouse district to accomodate a ten - unit townhouse project that he plans to build there. Antone Court residents, .whose homes would border the proposed project, said that the two-story townhomes would de- crease their privacy and create traffic and noise problems. Commission members tabled the rezon- ing question, advising Woods and area res- idents to work out a compromise agree- ment. The Battalion April 7, 1978 C;�s P&Z hears sorority house debate College Station officials i i 1 m 1 S sty �e hi y conditioned in her two- bedroom apart- However, Hamberger says that December ment has not worked properly since she was not abnormally cold. The temperature moved in last August, her apartment was dropped below freezing only four times vacant and the heat shut off at the thermo- during the entire month. stat during the billing period. (See HIGH, page 5) Ron Wilkins, a Sevilla apartment resi- dent, says that he was gone all but one week of the billing period but received a bill two- thirds higher than average with a kilowatt -hour consumption double that of normal. "I just can't understand how I could consume that much," Wilkins said. All of the residents say that their meters agree with the city utility records. City Manager North Bardell offers sev- eral explanations for the high bills. "First, the billing period in question was about one week longer than our normal billing period," Bardell says. "Second, January was one of the coldest months in Brazos County history." January was a cold month. According to Wayne Hamberger of the office of the Texas State Climatologist at Texas A &M University the temperature dropped By FLAVIA KRONE High utility bills continue to mystify College Station city officials and anger res- idents who are unhappy with the city's ex- planation for those high bills. Complaints about the high cost of elec- tricity are coming from the residents of the Durango, Sevilla, Southwest Village and Willowick apartments, all of which are lo- cated within a mile of each other near the intersection of Anderson Street and Hol- leman Drive. City Manager North Bardell says that no complaints have been re- ceived from residents of single family dwellings or from other apartments in Col- lege Station. The residents, most of whom are Texas A &M University students, are questioning the higher than average bills they received for the billing period from Dec. 12 to Jan. 19. Residents say they were absent from their apartments during the billing period which coincided with the Texas A &M fall semester break. They insist that they shut off their electric power during that time. At a March 23 city council meeting, Walter Kahanek, representing residents of the Durango Apartments in the 1600 block; of Anderson Street, said all but two of the complex's 84 units were vacant during the billing period yet, utility bills there ranged from one -third to two thirds higher than average., Stan Caplan, another Durango resident who says he has four years experience in the air- conditioning business, says that the type of electric strip- heaters used in the complex can short out, drawing electricity even when the thermostat is turned off. A strip - heater consists of an electric coil mounted inside an air duct that heats air flowing through the duct. "Because I knew that these heaters can short out, I disconnected the wires before I left for vacation," Caplan says. "Then I unplugged everything, including the hot - water heater, refrigerator, clocks and appliances. Yet, my bill says we consumed 1036 kwh in the five days that we were here, costing us $19 more than average." Another Durango resident, Kay Pea - body, says she received a bill that is $60 higher than her average utility bill. "We had 8900 kwh on our meter when we re- turned from vacation and that is for the seven months that we have lived here, Peabody says. "Our bill says we consumed 2824 kwh while we were gone, or about one -third of the total amount of energy we've used since we've lived here." Complaints are not confined to the Dur- ango Apartment residents. Lynette Warthen, a Willowick Apart- ment tenant, says her bill for the period was $104.46, about $69 higher than aver- age. Lynette says that while the air- below freezing 12 times between Jan. 1 and Jan. 19, during the billing period. High utility costs puzzle city (Continued from page 1) doesn't read the meters regularly but some times they estimate the bills. Councilman Gary Halter says it all comes out the same in the end but we are all on fixed income," Caplan says. "We cannot afford to pay these bills. Bardell says utility employees are told to read every meter every month. "I am not going to make a blanket statement that all meters are read every month," Bardell says. `But we instruct them to do this." Bardell says the city also has con- tracted with an independent agent from Austin Meters, Inc. to check the apartment meters. All of the meters checked so far seem to be working properly, Bardell says. Utility officials in both College Station and Bryan also say that no power blackouts, brownouts or surges occured during the billing period that might account for irregu- lar meter readings. Dissatisfied residents from the Durango and Servilla apartments have sent letters to Houston televi- sion newscaster Marvin Zindler. They have also discussed their high bills with Texas A &M legal counsel, however no suits have been filed. Residents can expect the high bills to continue. Bardell says that the cold January and February weather combined with increased fuel costs will probably result in utility bills that are twice as high as the bills residents are currently complaining about. Bardell suggests that some of the apartment residents left their ther- rirostats on over the semester break or that the apartment managers went into the apartments and turned the heat on. "If they hadn't had heaters on every pipe would have frozen," Bardell says. Residents deny having left their heat on. Peabody says, `bur plants were all dead when we returned from vacation, so I know it was cold in here." Caplan says the wires to his electric strip heater were still dis- connected and everything was still unplugged when he returned from vacation. The managers of the Sevilla and Southwest Village apartments deny turning on the heat in their tenants' apartments. Sevilla Apartment manager Peggy Cowgill is angry at city officials for suggesting that apartment managers entered their tenants' dwellings. "I'm upset with the College Station officials for saying that," Cowgill says. "I have never gone into any- one's apartment without their per- mission." Zowgill also says that apartment heat alone would not prevent pipes from breaking during freezing weather. "We had no broken pipes, but we had some people in eve unit," Cowgill says. "As long as you have some water running in the pipes they are not going to break." The managers of the Durango and Willowick apartments during the bil- ling period have since left their pos- itions and could not be reached for comment. . Bardell says the city is mystified about complaints from residents who claim they vacated their apartments and shut off their electric power dur- ing the billing period. "Those meters won't run unless there is current flowing into them from someplace," Bardell says. The managers of the Sevilla and Southwest Village apartments say they recently checked their units for shorts in the electric heaters and for cross- wiring that may have occurred when the apartments were rewired far, individual metering. The Southwest Village manager, who asked that her name not be used, says no shorts or cross - wiring have been discovered in her build- ing. Sevilla's superintendent of maintenance, Zane Gauthier says some cross - wiring has been found in the complex but no electrical shorts have been discovered. Bardell says the only other possi- ble explanation for the high bills is the increased cost of power. At 'the March 23 city council meeting Bar- dell said the fuel adjustment for the billing period increased about .2 percent over previous months. He also noted that power consumption was up 32 percent over the same time last year. College Station utility manager George Ford says that the . 1 n 1 1 ,. . 1 .1 The Battalion April 7, 1978 Conditional permit granted for row of sorority houses By ROBERT C. BORDEN Staff Writer College Station Planning and Zoning Commissioners approved a conditional use permit for a row of sorority houses Thursday. night, although the city council must give its stamp of approval also. The three houses are proposed for a plot of land bounded by Munson Avenue, Dominik Drive and University Oaks Drive. Because more than 20 percent of the residents within 200 feet of the project oppose the sororities, the council must approve the con- ditional use permit before con- struction can begin. The three houses are the first of nine that may be located on a 17 -acre site. Developer Don Martel said he has firm commitments for three houses, while some of the other six sororities associated with Texas A &M University may decide not to build houses. The three sororities commited to houses are Zeta Tau Alpha, Chi Omega and Kappa Alpha Theta. Three others have expressed an interest, Martel said, including Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Phi and Alpha Gamma Delta. The three houses will face away from Munson Avenue, with parking areas between the houses and Munson. A screen will be erected to hide the parking lot from the street. The nine sororities are located in Sauselito Apartments, which are owned by Martel. He said the plan is to group all nine sororities together since they have interests in common. Some of the houses could be ready as soon as September 1979, he said. A petition was presented in op- position to the plan. Four of the signers are within 200 feet of the project, the distance allowed by ,state law as to being directly af- fected by the project. Dr. Russ Darnell spoke in op- position of locating the sorority houses there, saying he would like to see them located on campus. The sororities are not recognized by A &M officially and cannot be located on campus now. He said the sororities would have alcoholic beverages on premises, which create problems. "Whether they would also be affiliated with drugs I'm not sure," Darnell stated. Turning to the young men who would be visiting the sorority houses, Darnell said, "If they've been drinking or taking drugs or have sex on the brain, they'll be even more dangerous" drivers. Mary Evelyn White, an advisor to one of the sororities, said national bylaws prohibit alcoholic beverages in the sorority houses. Several others spoke against the project, but when asked how many in the audience supported the plan, more than30 raised their hands. Less than 10 raised their hands in op-. position. After Commissioner Wayne Etter expressed concern about parking, Martel agreed to set aside a tract of land across University Oaks as an overflow parking lot. Etter said, "Three might .*.rake very good neighbors but I'm not sure about nine." Commissioners agreed to the conditional use permit for the first three with the knowledge six others may be requested for that area. The Eagle April 7, 1978 Ambulance • companlev-3. serve 4 V1� BE,Y &O%�kKI ► Residents of Bryan - College Sta- tion may one day have to decide in which sister city they want to live in order to receive adequate ambe5- lance service. College Station and South Brazos County areas are served publicly by the city's fire department on a 94- hour basis. Salaries and equipment are financed by the city: Mid -Tex Ambulance Service, privately owned and financed by Bill Thurnal; serves the Bryan as well as Brazos County areas on a 24 -hour basis; " also. The fire department requires employees to be trained as Emergency Medical Technicians: Each EMT is required to have 80 hours first -aid classroom, 40 hospital hours and 5 ambulance hours before a certificate is awarded. The fire department's personnel are trained as firefighters and then as an EMT, said firefighter B141 Shcaer. Applicants for the depart- ment are required to meet these qualifications. Mid -Tex is slightly more flexible; said Thurnal: An employee can be at Red Cross cardholder, EMT or Emergency Care Attendent. How ever, Thurnal said he prefers to hire only EMTs because ECAs have only 30 -40 hours of first -aid classroom experience. Each company answers mainly emergency calls. However, Mid - Tex will take contracts for non - emergency calls such as auto raoes rodeos' and ttan$& ` tients to and'from the hospital) - The largest percentage of calls Mid -Tex receives' are sick calls with coronary- respiratory calls and auto accident calls following close b hind. Ninety percent of the fire deg'• partment's calls are emergencies with 51 percent being auto-related. Mid -Tex and the fire department, charge their local users $30 for bul nc ,,,service. The fire . dep ment is a public-service but t'e, charge is made to offset ezpen es= such as Bandages, said Schaer., Without this charge it would cost the city more, and could cause an increase in taxes, he added. The rate does increase with dis tance from city to county lines. When oxygen or extra equipment is used, the client is charged extra.` Each company carries basic first: aid materjaJs iwluding-coronacy a*fiE res equipment. However, Mid -Tex his lour ambulances in their service while the fire depadr ment uses only two, with one more ambulance on order. Since the start of the programs in March of 1977; both Schaer and Thurnal said they- have been suc- cessful. The only problem that seems to arise is in collection of fees. Schaer said the department's collec- tions are taken care of by the city and tl efli iJ`'a p WOt return. Thurnal said collection has been his major problem. Hesaid where College Station absorbs t1ie cost, he has to absorb it from his own pocket. It seems the clients simpy "forget," Thurnal said. t The Battalion April 12, 1978 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF OAKSPARK CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS BOR PROJECT NO. 4800567 R ECE I PT OF BIOS Sealed proposals for this work will be received by North Bardell, city Manger, City of College Station, Texas until 2 :00 P.M. C.D.S.T May 1, 1978 and will be publicly opened and read aloud. SCOPE OF WORK The general construction of a park with site work, land- scaping concrete and asphalt' paving, wood decks and bridges, a frisbee golf course, picnic and party areas, a Pole type pavillion with a concrete block restroom facility. Un- derground utilitites provided by City of College Station, but utility extensions and fixtures to be furnished under contract. INFORMATION & BIDDING DOCUMENTS Two sets of plans and specifications and other bid- ding documents may be ob- tained by general contractors from KWH: A Joint Venture, Timothy W. Keneipp, Ar- chitect, 13ol FM 2818, College Station, Texas upon receipt of one check in the amount of 5100.00 made payable to the City of College Station. The check will be returned if a bid is submitted and the plans'and specificiations are returned to the Architect in good condition' within three (3) weeks of,the„ bid date. ts Additional single se ntractors• obtained by deposit of and suppliers upon one check for 550.00 payable.to. the City of College Station. Such check will be returned if' plans and specifications are returned to the Architect in' good condition within three -(3)_ weeks of date of bid. If pans. returned specifications norefund are will not made. Inns end'. Two sets of P specifications are alsa� available for study and review at the office of The CitY Engineer, College Station, Texas. Each bid must be accompanied; by a cashier's check or aC ceptable bidder's bona., payable without recourse to the - in an of amo Of le s than five percent (5%) of the largest' -' total for the bid submitted. Federal matching funds for this project are being Provided— by the Land and Water Con— servation Fund through the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation - I U.S. Department of the in- terior and administered by-the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The City reserves the right to' reject any an dlor and/ b ids, to ' waive any the, formalities, and to accept, bid which, in the City's opinion, seems most advantageous to the City and in the best interest of the public. Lorence L. Br /�/ c City of College Station College Station, Texas ios LEGAL NOTICES TO WHOM IT MAY CON CERN: The zoning Board of Ad-� iustment will consider a request for variance from Acme Glass Company at their called meeting in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall at 7:30 P Tuesda April 18, 1978, the nature of the case being as follows; The applicant requests a variance to construct an ad. dition to their building a t nea to the rear property rine than 75 fee.. information is available at the office of the Building Official Of tne Cot lege Station, 846-8 86 City of William . Koehler Building TO WHOM IT MAY CON CERN: The Zoning Board of Ad- justment will consider a request for expansion of a non- conforming use from Mr. James Watson at their called meeting in the Council Room Of Hall at the College on Tuesday,, City it 18, 7:30 p 1978, the nature Of the Case being as follows: The applicant intends to ex pand a non.coA'forpting use at his property at 1125 Wellborn Road. Further information is available at the office Of the College Station, o 46,8886- City of William F. Koehler Buidling Official NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing to con- sider a request for a Con- ditional Use Permit for he construction of a Project location sign for the Pep - pertree Apartments located at 2701 Lon gm ire Drive. The proposed sign will be located on Longmire Drive at the main entrance to the apartment project. The application is in the name of Landmark Properties, Inc., P.O. Box 5806, Dallas, Texas. The hearing will be held in the '1 Council Room of the College Station City Hall, 1101 South Texas Avenue, at the 7:00 P.M. meetin of the ZoningComm ss Comm i ss ion on day, May 4, 1978. For additional information, please contact the City ll H all. ner's Office in the City 713846 4 -19 TO WHOM IT MAY CON- CERN: The zoning Board of Ad- justment will consider a request for variance from Acme Glass Company at their called meeting in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18, 1978, the nature of the case being as follows: The applicant requests a variance to construct an ad- dition to their building at 116 Walton Drive which will be nearer to the rear property line than 15 feet. Further information is available at the office of the Building Official of the City of College Station, 846-8886. William F. Koehler Building Official TO WHOM IT MAY CON CERN: The Zoning Board of Ad- just ment will consider a request for expansion of a non- conforming use from Mr. James Watson at their called meeting in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18, 1978, the nature of the case being as follows: The applicant intends to ex- pand a non - conforming use at his property at 1125 Wellborn Road. Further information is available at the office of the Building Official of the City of College Station, 846 -8886. The Eagle April 12, 1978 Citizens debate but'lding of park By TIM RAVEN Two opposing citizen's groups and the College Station Parks and Recreation Committee locked horns for two hours Tuesday evening at City Hall in a heated debate over the development of Anderson Park. Other items on the agenda for the regularly scheduled meeting were post- poned by the committee because of the large number of citizens who turned out to discuss the Anderson Park situation. Plans for the park, as they now stand, call for a lighted softball field, a 38 -car parking lot, a small play ground, and a na- ture trail. The lights and the parking lot, however, will be only temporary, and plans are to remove them at the end of next summer. The debate brokeout over the proposed lighting and possible traffic problem around the park. Residents of the area surrounding the park who attended the meeting spoke out against the lighting of the park because of the distraction it might cause. The resi- dents spoke of the possibility of games last- ing past midnight and of the lights distract- ing their children. Also, one of the residents compared the "1enf1lorary " part of the plans to "tempo- rary" buildings at some schools which, he said, sdmetimes remain at one location for 20 to 30 years. Proponents of, the temporary lighting and parking set -up represented local ath- letic associations. They spoke of the "des- perate need' of local soccer teams and girls' softball teams for a lighted game field. The proponents said that there are so many teams that games must be played into the night. They added that the lights would probably only be used for about an hour each night. Most people in attendance agreed that extra parking was needed at the park. Andy Czimsky, interim director of the College Station Parks and Recreation De- partment, was asked by the committee to draw up several revised parking plans for the park to be presented at the next regu- lar committee meeting. The Battalion April 12, 1978 Park addition plans to stand By FLAVIA KRONE Lemontree Subdivision residents un- successfully petitioned the College Station City Council Thursday night to reconsider plans for the development of Anderson Ridge Park. Plans call for the addition of a tempo- rary, lighted softball field and 38 -car park- ing lot to the ten -acre park at the intersec- tion of Anderson Street and Lemontree. The field will be used by girls' softball leagues in College Station that currentlx have no playing facilities. The Parks and Recreation Department plan for the park also provides for removal of the light and parking lot when a perma- nent field site is developed. John Howard, representing the Lemon- tree Subdivision resident$ who oppose the project, called the plan "haphazard." Howard expressed concern that parking would not be adequate to handle increased traffic and the lights would disrupt neighboring residents. He also said that the neighborhood park was too small to develop as intensely as the city has planned. "With less intensive development we will have a true neighborhood park," Howard said. "Some very serious close planning needs to be done." Howard also said he feared the lights and parking lot might not be removed in the future. "If the city puts in light poles and facilities, I don't think they will be re- moved in the future," Howard said. "In two or three years from now we will get pressure from the leagues to leave it as it is.' Councilman Larry Ringer assured How- ard that "as soon as a permanent complex become available we will move it." A 50 -acre tract of land near the intersec- tion of Krenek Road and the east by -pass may be the future site or a permanent field. The land is being purchased by the city with funds approved in the April 1 bond election. Girls' softball representative Lonnie Jones said the city has promised the girls' softball leagues a lighted field at Anderson Ridge Park for the past two years. Jones said the girls' leagues must have the field by May 15 in order to play at all. "Little girls have no place to play and we cannot delay any longer," Jones said. The council voted to accept the Parks and Recreation Department plan without ,change. Councilman Homer Adams voted - against the plan saying "if we're going to build one (a field) then make it perma- nent." The Battalion April 14, 1878 �N CS zoning board to meet today The College Station Zoning Board of Ad- justment will meet today at 7:30 p.m. in the College Station City Hall. The posted agenda in- cludes consideration of a request for a variance from Acme Glass Co. and consideration of a request for expansion of a non- conforming land use from James Watson. Acme wants to add on to the rear of the building and the proposed addition would put the building over rear set -back lines. Watson is seeking permission to add to and remodel the Sugar Shack lounge on Wellborn Rd. The lounge predates zoning but the area is now zoned single family residential. The Planning and Zoning Commission meets Thursday at 7 p.m. in city council chambers. The commission will hold a public hearing on a con- ditional use permit for the Bryan - College Station Bretheren Church _which would be located west of and adjacent to the East Bypass 3,500 feet north of the intersection of the East Bypass and Texas Avenue. The P &Z commissional also will consider the landscape parking plan for La Quinta Motor Inn which will be located at the in- tersection of Live Oak Street and Texas Avenue. The commission is scheduled to hear a request to rezone 1.599 acres on the southwest corner of Holleman Drive and Anderson Street from single family residential district (R -1) to townhouse - rowhouse District (R -3). Preliminary plats for the Windcrest Addition, east of Texas Avenue and south of Sterling Street, a preliminary plat for the Parkway Plaza Phase 6, and a preliminary plat for Southwood Valley Section it are also on the agenda. The Eagle April 13, 1978 TO WHOM IT MAY CON, bid date. Additional single sets may be CERN: The 1978 Community obtained by subscontractors and suppliers upon deposit of Development Block Grant one check for $50.00 payable to Application for the City of College Station has been the City of College Station. Such check will be returned if' submitted to the U.S. Depart- plans and specifications are ment of Housing and Urban returned to the Architect in'. Development (H.U.D.): Copies of the application are on file in good condition within three (3) the College Station Planning weeks of date of bid. If plans Department, City Hall, 1101 and specifications are not returned, no refund will be Texas Avenue. The application made. will be made available to all interested parties on request. Two sets of plans and Persons wishing to object to specifications are aso approval of this application by available for study and review HUD may make such objection at the office of The City� ' known to the Department of Engineer, College Station, Housing and Urban Development, 2001 Bryan Texas. Each bid must be accompanied Tower — Fourth Floor, Dallas, by a cashier's check or ac Texas75201. H U D wi I I consider objections ceptable bidder's bond, payable without recourse to the made only on the following City of College Station, Texas, grounds: The applicant's in an amount of not less than description of needs and ob five percent (5 %) of the largest jectives is plainly inconsistent total for the bid submitted. with available facts and data; Federal matching funds for or the activities to be un- inap- this project are being provided by the Land and Water C06 dertaken are plainly propriate to meeting the needs servation Fund through the and objectives identified by the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, applicant; or the application comply with the U.S. Department of the In- terior and administered by the does not requirements of any applicable Texas Parks and Wildlife law; or the application proposes activities which are Department. The City reserves the right to otherwise ineligible under the reject any and /or all bids, to law. Such objectives should include waive any and /or all in- formalities, and to accept the both an identification of the bid which, in the City's opinion, requirements not met and, in seems most advantageous to the case of objectins made on the City and in the best interest the grounds that the descrip of the public. Lorence L. Bravenec lion of needs and objectives is Mayor plainly inconsistent with significant, generally available City of College Station facts and data, the data upon College Station, Texas which the persons rely. - B L I Although HUD will considerNOTICE O F P U objections submitted at any HEARING time, such objections should be within three (3) weeks of submitted within 30 days of the The College Station Planning j publication of this notice. and Zoning Commission will The City of College Station hold a public hearing to con Community Development sicter a request for a Cone, Block Grant Program Per- ditional Use Permit for the formance Report is also construction of a project available City Hall at the location sign for the Pep - s a above. This most ertree Apartments located at Performance recent Performance Report recent P 2701 Longmire Drive. The may be reviewed and copied at proposed sign will be located no charge by an interested on Longmire Drive at the main individual or organization. entrance to se t For additional information a che ap art project. in contact James M. Callaway, the name of Landmark Community Development Properties Inc., P.O. Box 5806, Planner, 846 -8886. Dallas, Texas. Advertisement for bidders The hearing will be held in the Council Room of the College NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS1 Station City Hall, 1101 South Avenue, at the 7:00 P.M. OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF Texas meeting of the Planning and OAKS PARK Zoning Commission on Thurs- C I T Y OF COLLEGE day, May 4, 1978. STATION, TEXAS BOR PROJECT NO. 48 -00567 For additional information, RECEIPT OF BIDS please contact the City Plan - Sealed proposals for this work ner's Office in the City Hall, will be received by North 713 - 8468886. Bardell, city Manger, City of College Station, Texas until 4 -19 2:00 p.m. C.D.S.T., May 1, 1978 and will be publicly opened and read aloud. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SCOPE OF WORK HEARING The general construction of a park with site work, land- The College Station Planning scaping, concrete and asphalt and Zoning Commission will paving, wood decks and hold a public hearing to con - bridges, a frisbee golf course, sider a request for a Con - picnic and party areas, a pole- ditional Use Permit for the type pavillion with a concrete construction of a 16 unit, block restroom facility. Un- apartment complex located on derground utilitites provided Lots 2 and 3, Block 3 of the by City of College Station, but Cooner Addition. The property utility extensions and fixtures is more specifically located on to be furnished under contract. the south side of Cooner Street INFORMATION & BIDDING between Nimitz and DOCUMENTS Eisenhower Streets. The ap- Two sets of .plans and plication is in the name of specifications and other bid- Weldon B. Bomar, Jr., 504 ding documents may be ob- Duncan, Bryan, Texas. tained by general contractors from KWH: A Joint Venture, The hearing will be held in the Timothy W. Keneipp, Ar Council Room of the College chitect, 1301 FM 2818, College Station City Hall, 1101 South Station, Texas upon receipt of Texas Avenue at the 7:00 P.M. one check in the amount of meeting of the and $100.00 made payable to the ,Planning Zoning Commission on City of College Station. The Thursday, May 4, 1978. check will be returned if a bid is submitted and the plans and For additional information, specificiations are returned to, please contact the City Plan the Architect in good condition er's Office in the City Hall, ihe,713WSM within three (3) weeks of The Eagle April 19, 1978 College Station's street ' improvement project Recently acquired street im- provement funds will be used to connect Jersey and Kyle streets with Dominik. The project, which is de- signed to relieve traffic congestion at the intersections of Texas, Kyle, Jersey and Dominik streets is being funded by money raised in College Station's April 1 bond issue. Of the $530,000 raised in the bond issue, $300,000 will be allo- cated to street rebuilding in the Col- lege Station area. Elrey Ash, Col- lege Station city engineer, said the city engineering department will evaluate existing curbed and gut- tered streets to decide where to use the funds. Bidding for construction contracts will also begin in late April or early May, said Ash. These contracts will also be for street improvement and will be financed by the Department of Housing and Urban Develop- ment. The $275,000 grant, which was awarded to College Station last January, will be used for clearing streets to prepare them for repav- ing. The Battalion April 19, 1978 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals addressed to the Honorable Mayor and City Council of College �Statjgn Texas, will be received at the Office of North Bardell, City Manager, until 10:00 A.M. May 8, 1978, for furnishing the fol lowing equipment: Two New Truck Chassis. Specifications can be obtaned at `the Public Works Office at City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, College Station, Texas. The right reserved as the interest Of the owner may require to reject any and all bids and to waive any informality in bids received. The Eagle April 2-0, 1978 TO WHOM IT MAY CON- TO WHOM IT MAY CON CERN: CERN: The 1978 Community The 1978 Community Development Block Grant Development Block Grant Application for the City of Application for the City of College Station has been College Station has been submitted to the U.S. Depart- submitted to the U.S. Depart - merit of Housing and Urban ment of Housing and Urban Development Conies Development Development (H.U.D.1: Conies ion are . of the application are on file in of the application are on file in the College Station Planning the College Station Planning Department, City Hall, 1101 Department, City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue. The application Texas Avenue. The application will be made available to all will be made available to all interested parties on request. interested parties on request. Persons wishing to object to Persons wishing to object to approval of this application by approval of this application by HUD may make such objection HUD may make such objection known to the Department of known to the Department of Housing and Urban Housing and Urban Development, 2001 Bryan Development, 2001 Bryan Tower — Fourth Floor, Dallas, Tower — Fourth Floor, Dallas, Texas 75201. Texas 75201. HUD will consider objections HUD will consider objections made only on the following made only on the following grounds: The applicant's grounds: The applicant's description of needs. and ob- description of needs and ob jectives is plainly inconsistent jectives is plainly inconsistent with available facts and data; with available facts and data; or the activities to be un- or the activities to be un- dertaken are plainly inap- gertaken are plainly inap- propriate to meeting the needs - propriate to meeting the needs and objectives identified by the and objectives identified by the applicant; or the application applicant; or the application does not comply with the dims not comply with the requirements of any applicable requirements of any applicable law; or the application law; or the application proposes activities which are proposes activities which are otherwise ineligible under the otherwise inej'igible under the law. law. Such objectives should include Such objectives should include both an identification of the both an identification of the requirements not met and, in requirements not met and, in the case of objectins made on the case of objectins made on the grounds that the descrip- the grounds that the descrip- tion of needs and objectives is Lion of needs and objectives is plainly inconsistent with plainly inconsistent with significant, generally available significant, generally available facts and data, the data upon facts and data, the data upon which the persons rely. which the persons rely. Although HUD will consider Although HUD will consider objections submitted at any objections submitted at any time, such objections should be time, such objections should be submitted within 30 days of the submitted within 30 days of the publication ofthisnotice. publication of this notice. The City of College Station The City of College Station Community Development Community Development Block Grant Program Per Block Grant Program Per- formance Report is also formance Report is also available at City Hall at the available at City Hall at the address given above. This most address given above. This most recent Performance Report recent Performance Report may to reviewed and copied at may be reviewed and copied at no charge by an interested no charge by an interested individual or organization. individual ororganization. For additional information For additional information contact James M. Callaway, contact - James M. Callaway, Community Development Community Development Planner, 846 -8886. Planner, 846 -8886. The Eagle The Eagle April 20, 1978 April_ 21, 1978 TO WHOM IT MAY CON- NOTICE TO BIDDERS CERN: Sealed proposals addressed To The 11978 Community the City Council, City of Development Block Grant College Station, Texas for Application for the City of Anderson Park Ballfield College Station has been Fencing will be received in the submitted to the U.S. Depart- Parks and Recreation ment of Housing and Urban Department Office until 2:00 Development (H.U.D.): Conies p. Monday, May 9, 1978. of the application are on file in Proposals will be publicly the College Station Planning Opened and read aloud in the Department, City Hall, 1101 Parks and Recreation Office of Texas Avenue. The application the City of College Station at will be made available to all 2:00 p.m. the same date. interested parties on request. re Any bid received after the Persons wishing to object to above closing time will be approval of this application by returned unopened. HUD may make such objection Plans, Specification, and In- known to the Department of formation for Bidders, are on H o u s i n g a n d U r b a n file and may be examined at Development, 2001 Bryan Tower — Fourth Floor, Dallas, the Parks and Recreation Texas 75201. Department Office, Eleanor HUD will consider objections Stceet, College Station, Texas. made only on the following A- certificate or cashier's check grounds: The applicant's on a State or National Bank of description of needs and ob- the $fate of Texas, or a Bid - jectives is plainly inconsistent der , s bond from an acceptable with available facts and data; Surety Company, authorized to or the activities to be un- transact business in the State dertaken are plainly inap- Of Texas, in the amount of not propriate to meeting the needs less than five (5 per cent) per and objectives identified by the ,cent of the total bid must ac- applicant; or the application company each Proposal as a does not comply with the guarantee that if awarded the requirements of any applicable contract, the Bidder will within law; or the application ten (10) calendar days after proposes activities which are award of contract enter into otherwise ineligible under the contract and execute a Bond on law. Such objectives should include the forms provided in the Contract Documents. both an identification of the A Performance Bond and a requirements not met and, in Payment Bond in an amount of the case of obiectins made on not less than one hundred the grounds that the descrip- percent (100 percent) of the tion of needs and objectives is plainly inconsistent with contract price, conditioned significant, generally available U pon faithful performance of the contract and payment of all facts and data, the data upon persons supplying labor or which the persons rely. Although HUD will consider furnishing materials, shall be objections submitted at any executed by the successful bidder and time, such objections should be accompany his signed contract. submitted within 30 days of the PnrOPOSaIS s publication of this notice. The City of College Station bound Community Development SpecificaTions and the ri ht to Block Grant Program Per accept any bid, or TO re e y ct any formance Report is also or all bids and to waive all available at City Hall at the formalities is hereby reserved address given above. This most by the City Council of the City recent Performance Report of College Station, Texas. may be reviewed and copied at Andre Czimskey charge by an interested Interim Director Parks S in individual or organization. Recreation Dept For additional information contact James M. Callaway, Community Development Planner, 846 -8886. The Eagle April 22, 1978 TO WHOM IT MAY CON- NOTICETOBIDDERS ( Sealed CERN: proposals addressed to The 1978 Community the City Council, City of Development Block Grant Application for the City of College Station, Texas for College Station has been Anderson Park Ballfield Fencing will be received in the submitted to the U.S. DepaCt- ment of Housing and Urban Parks and Recreation Development (H.U.D.): Copies Department Office until 2:00 of the application are on file in P.m., Monday, May 8, 1978. the College Station Planning Proposals will be publicly Department, City Hall, 1101 opened and read aloud in the Parks Texas Avenue. The application and Recreation Office of the City of College Station at will be made available to all interested parties request. Y:00 p.m. on the same date. to Persons wishing to object to Any bid received after the above closing time will be approval of this application by returned unopened. HUD may make such objection Plans, Specification, and In- known to the Department Housing and Urban In formation for Bidders, are on Development, Bryan file and may be examined at Floor, Tower — Fourth Floor, Dallas, the Parks and Recreation Department Office, Eleanor Texas 75201. H UD will consider objections Street, College Station, Texas, made only on the following A certificate or cashier's check grounds: The applicant's On a State or National Bank of description of needs and ob- the State of Texas, or a Bid - jectives is plainly inconsistent der's bond from an acceptable with available facts and data; t' Surety Company, authorized to or the activities to be un- _ transact business in the State dertaken are plainly inap- Of Texas, in the amount of not propriate to meeting the needs less than five (5 per cent) per and objectives identified by the cent of the total bid must ac- applicant; or the application company each Proposal as a does not comply with the guarantee that if awarded the requirements of any applicable contract, the Bidder will within law; or the application ten (10) calendar days after proposes activities which are award of contract enter into contract and execute a Bond otherwise ineligible under the on the forms provided in the law, Such objectives should include Contract Documents. A Performance Bond and a both an identification of the Payment Bond in an amount of requirements not met and, in the case of objectins made on not less than one hundred the grounds that the descrip- percent (100 percent) of the tion of needs and objectives is contract price, conditioned upon faithful performance of plainly inconsistent with the contract and payment of all significant, generally available facts and data, the data upon persons supplying labor or which the persons rely. furnishing materials, shall be Although HUD will consider executed by the successful bidder objections submitted at any and accompany his signed contract. time, such objections should be Proposals must be submitted submitted within 30 days of the publication of this notice. on the forms bound within the The City of College Station Specifications and the right to Community Development acceptan, bid, orto reject any Block Grant Program Per- or all bids and to waive all formalities is hereby reserved formance Report is also available at City Hall at the by the City Council of the City address given above. This most of College Station, Texas. recent Performance Report Andre Czimskey may be reviewed and copied at Interim Director Parks& Recreation Dept no charge by an interested individual or organization. For additional information contact James M. Callaway, Community Development Planner, 846 -8886. The Eagle April 23, 1978 T O WHOM IT MAY COW ERN: The 1978 Community Development Block Grant Application for the City of College Station has been submitted to the U.S. Depart- NOTICE TO BIDDERS ment of Housing and Urban Sealed proposals addressed to Development (H.U.D.): Conies the City Council, City of of the application are on file in the College Station Planning „College Station, Texas for Anderson Park Department, City Hall, 1101 Ballfield Fencing will be received in the Texas Avenue. The application Parks and Recreation will be made available to all Department Office until 2:00 interested parties on request. Persons wishing to object to P. Monday, May 8, 1978. Proposals will be approval of this application by HUD may make such objection publicly opened and read aloud in the Parks and Recreation Office of known to the Department of the City of College Station at Housing and Urban Development, 2001 Bryan 2:00 p.m. on the same date. Any bid received after the Tower — Fourth Floor, Dallas, Texas 7520). above closing time will be HUD will consider objections returned unopened. Plans, Specification, - and In- made only on the following ,�, formation for Bidders, are on grounds: The applicant's ' file and may be examined at description of needs and ob- jectives is plainly inconsistent the Parks and Recreation Department Office, Eleanor with available facts and data; Street, College Station, Texas. or the activities to be un- dertaken are plainly inap- A certificate or cashier's check on a State or National Bank of propriate to meeting the needs and objectives identified by the the State of Texas, or a Bid -, der's bond from an acceptable applicant; or the application Surety Company, authorized to does not comply with the transact business in the State requirements of any applicable law; of Texas, in the amount of not or the application lotherwise less than five (5 per cent) per proposes activities which are ineligible under the cent of the total bid must ac- company each Proposal as a law. Such objectives should include guarantee that if awarded the contract, the Bidder will within both an identification of the ten - ()0) calendar days after requirements not met and, in the case of objectins made on award of contract enter into conttract and execute a Bond on the grounds that the descrip- Lion of needs and objectives is the forms provided in the Contract Documents. Plainly inconsistent with significant, generally available A Performance Bond and a Payment Bond in an amount of facts and data, the data upon which the not less than one hundred persons rely. Although HUD will consider percent (100 percent) of the contract price, conditioned objections submitted at any upon faithful performance of time, such objections should be the contract and payment of all submitted within 30 days of the Publication of this notice. persons supplying labor or furnishing materials, shall be The City of College Station Community Development executed by the successful bidder and Block Grant Program Per. accompany his signed contract. formance Report is also Proposals must be submitted available at City Hall at the on the forms bound within the address given above. This most Specifications and the righi to recent Performance Report accept any bid, or to reject any may be reviewed and copied at or all bids and to waive all no charge by an interested formalities is hereby reserved individual or organization. by the City Council of the City For additional information . Of College Station, Texas. contact James M. Callaway, Community Development Andre Czimskey Interim Director Planner, 846 -8886. Parks & Recreation Dept. The Eagle April 24, 1978 CS sets registration for swim program Registration for the College Station Swim Program, spring session, will be held Friday from noon through 3 p.m. at Adamson Pool, Bee Creek Park, College Station. Two -week courses for water babies, pre - school children, water exercise and water beauty ballet begin May 1. Times are 9- 11 a.m. and 1 -3 p.m., Monday through Friday. Water babies and tots classes start on the hour and half -hour; exercise classes start on the hour. .Fees are $5 per person per course and must be paid at registration. The courses will be held again beginning May 15. Registration will be held Friday, May 12 from noon until 3 p.m. ' : These courses will also be held at 7 p.m. for both sessibns. No pre - school classes will be held at night, but adult swimming at all levels will be added. The Eagle April 24, 1978 Council considers street construction College Station City Council members Wednesday discussed new street con- struction standards which if approved, will increase area property taxes. The discussions took place at a work- shop meeting where council members may discuss problems but may take no ac- tion on them. The plans, as explained by city engi- neers, include adding limestone to stabilize street foundations. The limestone would decrease street maintenance costs, but would increase property taxes, engi- neers said. Mayor Lorene Bravenec said he will call a special council meeting to discuss streets to be considered for the rebuilding program, which will be financed by the 4'p"' bond issue. Proposals for a Dominik -Kyle rebuilding project will be considered at the next regular meeting, Bravenec said. It was also suggested that bike lanes in College Station be changed to bike routes. North Bardell, city manager, said bike routes are specific streets designated for both vehicles and bicycles. Signs would be posted along bicycle routes to warn motorists that bicyclists may be near. Bravenec said he would like to have a -city ordinance to prohibit bicyclists from using Texas Avenue. He said Texas Avenue is unsafe for bicyclists and alternate streets are availa- ble to handle bicycle traffic. The Battalion April 28, 1978 IVv Y' i NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING — AMENDMENT TO ZONING ORDINANCE No. 850 The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on the question of amending tNe Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance No. 850, to require that all uses in District C -N, Neighborhood Business, be made conditional uses and subject to site review and approval. The 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, May 18, 1978. For additional information, please contact the City Plan- ner's Office in the Citv Hall. 713-846-8886. 5/3,5/10,5, NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The College Station City Council will held a public hearing to consider an or dinance rezoning a 1.599 acre tract of land located on the southwest corner of the in tersection of Holleman Drive and Anderson Street from Single Family Residential District R -1 to Townhouse - Rowhouse District R -3. The 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, May 25, 1978. The application for rezoning is in the name of Mr. J.W. Wood. For additional information, please contact the City Plan- ner's Office in the City 5/10 Ha 7 13-846 - 8886. The Eagle May 10, 1978 CS council to hear street assessment plan A public hearing on levying assessments for part of the costs of improving a portion of Richards Street tops the College Station City Council agenda Thursday. The meeting is at 7 p.m. in City Hall. The council also will consider an ordinance regulating construction and removal of political signs. The fees for the city cemetery are also on the agenda for council discussion. A closed session for personnel, land acquisition and pending litigation is called for on the coun- cil's posted agenda. The Eagle May 10, 1978 Stu den s run B=CS for day Bryan - College Station Thursday as part of Youth high school students "took in Government Da of Bryan High School, sai over" local y• the students were screened governments Don Wiggins, principal by n nnmm;++. ,.* 4L._- d adults and several d students. Applicants had t o show interest in the office they applied for and were selected for the poise, sincerity and reasons for applying. College Station "of- ficials'' were Mike Thomas, major; Ronald Conklin, Lanette Buf- fington, Tom McGraw, Bob Garner, Mike Harville and Jane Read, coun- cilmen; Tom Wilkes, city manager; Donnie Calvert, city attorney; William Bouse, municipal court; Kim Hart, city health official; Debbie Sullivan, city secretary; Travis Hughey, director of public works; Kim Loveless, city engineer; Kam Priesmeyer, city planner; Jimmy Huisch, building inspector; Scott Stewart, tax collector; Billy Junek, chief of police; Ranny Pharris, fire chief; Donald Blavier, utilities office manager; and Jenny Bankston, Terri Harris, and Rhonda Rhea, alternates. Students participating in Bryan city government included William Green, mayor; Mike Sis, Joe Ir- vin, Danny Cardiel, Dean Marucci, Charles Harter and Betty Bennett, councilmen; Robert Scamardo, city manager; Bill Krueger, personnel director; Gina Bowen and Beth Castenson, city secretary /finance director; Sydney Sharp, city attorney; Adrien Pilger, public works director; Susan Pritchard, planning director; John Young, electric utilities director; Phill Haas, city engineer; Frank Varisco, police chief; Carla Fair, fire chief; Jennifer Rush, parks and recreation director; Missy Wood, city librarian; and Lee Felder, Patrick McConal and Tommy Bosquez, alter- nates. Coordinators. for the College Station group were Mrs. Oneida Hensley, government teacher; Bud Denton, counselor; and Rodney LeBoeuf, prin- cipal. Bryan coordinators were Cecil Nabors, director of instruction; Don Wiggins, principal; and Curtis Laudermilk, JoAnn Locke and Ailene McDonald. The Eagle May 10, 1978 mire uzuef Randy Phariss with Lt. Cook (left) and Chief Douglas Landau. (Staff photo by Bill Meeks) CS to begin athletic complex work The City of College Station will begin work immediately on the new athletic complex to be located off Krenek Tap Road and the East Bypass. The city council, in a rambling work session on parks Wednesday, instructed the staff to begin work on the park and an application for federal Bureau of Outdoor Recreation funds. The city recently purchased the park and plans a multiple -use athletic facility. Councilman Gary Halter, who first suggested the city move ahead on the park, said the city needs the playing fields completed as quickly as possible in order to avoid problems with various sports organizations next year. In related discussion, Interim Parks Director Andy Czimskey said the field at Anderson Park will be completed by March 20. The field is the fiel at Anderson Park will be completed by May 20. The field is being readied for the girls softball association which has a May 22 season start up. Residents in the area had complained that the lights would detract from the neigh- borhood. Council approved the park saying the field will be lighted only until the new athletic complex is completed. Mayor Lorence Bravenec requested that the city staff com- plete a tentative schedule for selling bonds approved by the voters April 1 for park improvements. The council met in executive session to discuss a possible fire substation site in the Southwood Valley are. The council took no action on acquiring the site but is expected to following an executive session today at the 7 p.m. regular meeting. Valley area. The council took no action on acquiring the site but is The Eagle May 11, 1978 Sign ordinance action delayed by CS council The City of College Station ap- parently will have an ordinance regulating political signs, but action on the ordinance was delayed t Thursday to complete wording changes. Passage of the ordinance, which limits political signs and the length of time they can be used, will require a public hearing since the ordinance is a penalty ordinance. Basically the ordinance will limit temporary political sings up to eight square feet to residential neigh- borhoods. The signs will be Prohibited on public property except city rights of way in front of residences whose owners have agreed to the placement of the sign. The auditing firm of Durst, Wood and Ingram for the city's annual outside audit was reappointed. The single bid on the Oaks Park development was rejected and the council agreed to seek additional bids for the park. In other action, the council ap- pointed and reappointed several persons to various city boards and commissions. The appointments include: — to the Parks and Recreation Committee: Richard Kerbell and Rosetta Keaton. — to the Safety Committee, Mary Hutchinson and Joe Cono; r to the Easterwood Airport Zoning Board: and the airport joint board of adjustments Joe Sawyer; — to the Zoning Board of Ad- justment: Ann Jones Wes Harper, Dorothy DuBois, and John Hughey; — to the Community Appearance Committee, Ilene Kramer; — to the Ambulance Advisory Committee: Laura Kitzmaller and Glen Lane. The council also abolished several committees including the Ad Hoc Committee on Financial In- formation and Practices, the Housing Code Enforcemnt Com- mittee, the Civic Center Committee, the Sign Ordinance subcommittee and the utility rate structure com- mittee. The Eagle May 12, 1978 Program reduces accidents, chief says Even with increased traffic,fewer automobile accidents have occurred in College Station since a new traffic enforcement program began, ac- cording to figures released by the College Station Police Department. There were 110 fewer motor vehicle accidents from September 1977 through April 1978 than there were during a comparable period the previous year, Marvin Byrd, chief of police, said. In previous years, the number of accidents has increased yearly due to increased Texas A &M University enrollment and increases in the population and physical size of College Station, resulting in more vehicular traffic on more roads. The time period covered by the report is one which "consistently proves to be the most congested and hazardous time of the year," Byrd said. "The curtailing factor most evident to us is the introduction of the S.T.E.P. (Selective Traffic Enforcement Program) to the City of College Station," Byrd said. "Under previous enforcement at- tempts, officers were enforcing traffic laws during the times when not answering a call of `more impor- tant' nature." A division within the police department was created to allow a number of officers to specialize in the field of preventing traffic ac- cidents, investigating accidents and determining which violations cause B=CS building permits show April increase By DAVID LINDSEY Staff Writer Building permits are both up and down in the twin cities for April. In Bryan, year to date figures through April 30 show an increase of 57 percent over the same period last year. College Station figures are down for the same period with year - to -date figures showing a net decline of roughly 1.5 percent in that city. Building permit figures released by both cities show growth if only April figures are considered. Total buildings permitted in April this year in Bryan were estimated at $4,818,612 as compared with $4,111,381 in April 1977. That's an increase of roughly 17 percent. In College Station, new buildings permitted this April have an estimated value of $2,787,254 as compared with the April 1977 estimated value of $2,366,759. If only April figures are considered, College Station's new buildings permitted this year are up by roughly 18 per- cent. Single family residences permitted in both cities are down when April figures are considered. In April 1977, 51 new residents were permitted in Bryan as compared with 34 this year. But the 51 homes permitted in Bryan in April 1977 had an estimated value of $1,536,763 as compared with $1,439,280 this year for fewer homes. In College Station, new homes permitted in April went down dramatically from April 1977 with 90 homes permitted in the month in 1977 and only 16 permitted this year. The estimated value of the single family dwellings permitted in College Station dropped from $1,825,499 in 1977 to $433,942 in estimated value this year. But duplexes, apartments and commercial buildings are up in College Station. There were only four duplexes permitted in April 1977 in College Station and there were 28 permitted this year in April. Apartments permitted went from 20 living units permitted in the month last year which jumped to 108 units permitted this year. Reports show that six commercial developments were permitted in College Station both in April 1977 and April this year. But the value of the buildings went from an estimated $175,200 last year to $524,057 this year. New non - residential buildings are up in Bryan with 18 of the structures permitted this year in April, valued at $724,218. That compares with two commercial buildings permitted in Bryan in April 1977 with an estimated value of $93,937. Apartments have dropped in Bryan when just the monthly figures are considered. Reports show that 206 living units were permitted in April 1977 in Bryan and had an estimated value of $2,405,260. In April this year, eight multi- family units were permitted with an estimated value of $112,000. most of the accidents reported. En- forcement has concentrated on "high- accident" situations. "More persons are killed, injured or lose property in (motor vehicle) accidents then in any other type of criminal act such as theft or burglary," Byrd noted. "The traffic division of the College Station Police Department... has noticeably done a great deal towards reductions in loss to the public," he said. in LEGAL NOTICES TO WHOM IT MAY CON- CERN: The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on the question of re- zoning the following tract: TRACT A: 2.61 acres of land located east of and adjacent to Texas Avenue approximately 500 feet north of the in- tersection of Texas Avenue and the East Bypass, West Feeder Road, and approximately 200 feet couch of Mile Drive from Single Family Residential District R -1 to Townhouse - Rowhouse District R -3. TRACT B: 6.00 acres of land located south of and adjacent to TRACT A, at the intersection - of the East Bypass, West ( Feeder Road and Texas Avenue from Single Family Residential District R 1 to General Commercial District C -1. The application for rezoning both of the above tracts is in the name of the Cruse Cor- poration, P.O. Box 9905, 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 Plannign and Zoning Com- mission on Thursday, June 1, 1978. For additional information, Please contact me. Albert O. Mayo, Jr. City Planner NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING — AMENDMENT TO ZONING ORDINANCE No. 850 The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on the question of amending the Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance No. 850, to require that all uses in District C N, Neighborhood Business, be made conditional uses and subject to site review and approval. The 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, May 18, 1978. For additional information, please contact the City Plan- ner's Office in the Citv Hall. 713 -846 -8886. 5/3,5/10,5/12 TO WHOM IT MAY CON- CERN: The College Station City Council will hold a public hearing on the question of' rezoning the following tract: TRACT A: 2.61 acres of land) located east of and adjacent to! Texas Avenue approximately 500 feet north of the in- tersection of Texas Avenue and the East Bypass, West Feeder Road, and approximately 200 feet south of Mile Drive from Single FamilyY Residential District R -1 to Townhouse - Rowhouse District R -3. TRACT B: 6.00 acres of land I located south of and adjacent to TRACT A, at the intersection of the East Bypass, West Feeder Road and Texas Avenue from Single Family Residentig$i District R -1 to General Comfrrercial District C-1. The application , for rezoning both of the above tracts is in the name of the Cruse Cov- poration, P.O. Box 9905, 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, June 8, 1978. For additional information, please contact me. Albert O. Mayo, Jr. City Planner NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on the question of granting a Con- ditional Use Permit for the conversion of an existing residence into a church - kindergarten facility for the St. Thomas Episcopal Church located at 90¢ Jersey Street. The house in question is located on the rear part of the church property. , The application is in the name of the St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 906 Jersey Street. The 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 Plarning and Zoning Commission on Thursday, June 1, 1978. For additional information, please contact the City Plan- ner's Office in the City Hall, 713-846 -8886. The Eagle May 17, 1978 Commission approves field house The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission has approved a conditional use permit for a small field house for the A &M Con- solidated High School. The field house, will be located on Nueces near Welsh Street on high school property. According to College Station City Planner Al Mayo, the field house will have offices for coaches as well as dressing rooms. The building doesn't add any new activity to the site but relocates existing activities, Mayo said. The conditional use permit was granted in a special meeting of the P &Z commission Friday. The Eagle May 18, 1978 CS planners approve 0 - ark purchase A plan to buy some 30 acres of land across from A &M Consolidated High School and use it as a park in con- junction with facilities at the school was approved in concept Thursday night by the College Station Plan- ning and Zoning Commission. The commission recommended the city council consider purchasing the land and possibly constructing a lighted baseball field on the site. At the same time, commissioners said the size of the proposed Holik tract park purchase be reduced in size from a proposed 10 acres to a smaller neighborhood park size. The land recommended for pur- chase is in three tracts of ap- proximately 10 acres each at the northwest corner of the intersection of Welsh Avenue and FM 2818. One tract of land is owned by Peace Lutheran Church and would cost some $125,000 according to Andy'Czimskey, acting city parks and recreation director. A second tract is owned by Kemaco Corp. of Dallas and also would cost some $125,000, Czimesky stated. A third tract, west of the first two, would be optional, Czimesky told commissioners. It is owned by Edsel Jones and O.D. Butler and would cost some $100.000. Under the plan, a lighted ball field could be built on the 30 acres and could be used jointly by the city and the school district, as could the athletic facilities at the high school. The plan calls for joint sharing of the cost of upkeep of the facilities. In April, College Station voters approved $1.8 million in park bonds for the city. The council already has agreed to purchase 50 acres of land on Krenek Tap Road to construct a major athletic facility. Plans also call for purchase of a second large tract for another athletic facility in the future. The 30 acres of land near the high school plus the high school facilities could fulfill the need for a second large site, commissioners said Thursday. "It's a good use of the land," Commissioner Wayne Etter said. The Eagle May 19, 1978 Proposed zone changes restrict liquor stores By ROBERT C. BORDEN Staff Writer Convenience food stores and other small retail businesses will be allowed in residential neighborhoods in College Station under a proposed amendment to the zoning ordinance, but larger food stores and liquor stores specifically would be prohibited. The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing Thursday night on the proposed amendment to the city's (C -N) neighborhood business zoning district definition. Under the present C -N zoning, a list of permissible businesses is included in the ordinance. Among these is a retail food store, but no size limitations are included. Thus, a large regional food store is permissible under the present guidelines. The proposed amendment would limit the size of a retail food store to no more than 2,500 square feet, Which is only big enough to handle convenience -type food stores. In addition, other retail stores, services or offices would be limited to no larger than 2,000 square feet Per business. A building up to 10,000 square feet would be permitted, although no store in the building could exceed the maximum size permitted for an individual business. Several residents of the Sandy Circle area appeared to support the proposed amendment with some exceptions. The original'amendment Proposal would have allowed a store selling alcoholic beverages for off - premise consumption to be up to 2,500 square feet in size. Some residents objected to allowing package stores in the neighborhoods, although they said they don't object to a convenience store selling beer and wine. Gale Wagner of 2712 Sandy Circle said, "I am vehemently opposed to alcoholic beverage sales in a residential neighborhood." He also said he would oppose a car wash in a neighborhood, which apparently would not be permitted under the ordinance amendment. Wagner said liquor stores create too great a threat of robbery and should not be allowed in the residential zone. City Planner Al Mayo noted convenience stores "are notorious for being held up." Wagner said he would not object to beer and wine sales at a convenience store but does object to sale of hard liquor. Planning and Zoning members agreed with Wagner and agreed to limit alcoholic beverage sales in residential neighborhoods to beer and wine sold at convenience stores. Chairman Vergil Stover suggested just limiting sales to beer and wine only, which he said would preclude a liquor store because of the nature of such a store. Commissioners asked Mayor to check with City Attorney Neeley Lewis on drafting such a provision. Commercial businesses in a, residential neighborhood, under the porposed amendment, will have to create no noise, light or odor that might not be associated with a residential area. Also, the stores may not have any outside storage or display of mer- chandise and must not create undue traffic problems. The stores will have to be screened from surrounding homes by natural screening or fences. The public hearing on the - or; dinance amendment was held open until the next Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, at which time a final proposed draft will be con- sidered for submission to the city council. The Eagle May 19, 1978 toe LEGAL NOTICES i NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The College Station City Council will hold a public hearing to consider an or- dinance regulating the erec- tion, construction, and removal of political signs within the City of College Station. The hearing will be held in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, at the 7:00 p.m. meeting of the College Station City Council on Thursday, May 25, 1978. The proposed ordinance is as follows: A N O R D I N A N C E REGULATING ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, REMOVAL OF POLITICAL SIGNS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS: POLITICAL SIGNS: Signs used to advertise political candidates or issues in cam -� ;paigns are allowed in I residential zoning districts , provided they meet the following requirements: Size Limit and Permits Required: No sign shall be larger than eight (8) square feet in total area. Any sign larger than eight (8) square feet in total area and /or located in areas zoned other' than residential must receive a temporary sign permit as provided for under the Zoning Ordinance No. 850 for tem- porary development ground signs. Time Limitations: Signs are allowed to be displayed no more than fifteen (15) days prior to the date of the election. , In case of a runoff election they may remain in place between elections provided the time is not more than fifteen (15) days. Removal of Signs: All signs must be removed within two days after the date of the election, or if there is a runoff election, within two days after the runoff election. Signs not removed within this time limit by the candidate or political group responsible for the sign will constitute a violation. Placement of Signs: No political sign shall be placed on public property except as provided elsewhere in this - ordinance or in such a way as to be a hazard to traffic or an obstruction to visibility of public streets. Conforming signs other than those mounted on trucks or trailers, may be placed within the right -of -way of areas zoned residential provided the owner of the adjoining property has granted permission to the candidate or political group, and provided they are at least five (5) feet from the curb or pavement edge. Portable signs may not be placed in the right- of-way. All signs must be attached to their own support. No sign may be attached to any utility pole or to any public property. Reference to State Law: State law prohibits the placement of unlicensed signs within the right-of -way of any state high- way. The city is required to remove any unlicensed signs on state highways within the city limits of the City of College Station. DEFINITIONS Candidate: Any person seeking any public or political party office as defined by the Texas I Election Code. The Eagle Political Group: Any organization, including a May 19, 1978 political party, supporting a candidate or issue in a cam- paign and required to register as such by the provisions of the Texas Election Code. PENALTIES: Any violation of any of the terms of this or- dinance, whether herein designated as unlawful or not, shall be deemed a misdemeanor; and any person convicted of any such violation shall be fined in a sum not exceeding two hundred ($200.00) dollars. Each day of the continuance of such violation shall be considered a separate offense and be punished separately; and any person, agent or employee engaged in any such violation shall on conviction be so punished therefor. 19/2) Notice is hereby given in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Texas Liquor Control Act that Randolph Wilson Woodard has filed application for a package store per- mit. Said business to be conducted under the trade name of Randy's #2. Location of said business to be 113 Boyett, College Station, Brazos County, Texas. _ The Eagle May 20, 1978 The Eagle May 21, 1978 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The College Station City Council will hold a public hearing to consider an or- dinance regulating the erec- tion, construction, and removal of political signs within the City. of College Station. The hearing will be held in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, at the 7:00 p.m. meeting of the College Station City Council on Thursday, May 25, 1978. The proposed ordinance is as follows: A N O R D I N A N C E REGULATING ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, REMOVAL OF POLITICAL SIGNS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS: POLITICAL SIGNS: Signs . used to advertise political candidates or issues in cam- paigns are all in ' ' residential zoning districts provided they meet the following requirements: Size Limit and Permits' Required: No sign shall be larger than-eight (8) square'I feet in total area. Any sign', larger than eight (8) square', feet in total area and /or located in areas zoned other'' than residential must receive a temporary sign permit as provided for under the Zoning Ordinance No. 850 for tem- porary development ground signs. Time Limitations: Signs are allowed to be displayed no more than fifteen (15) days prior to the date of the election. In case of a runoff election they may remain in place between elections provided the time is not more than fifteen (15) days. Removal of Signs: All signs must be removed within two days after the date of the election, or if there is a runoff election, within two days after the runoff election. Signs not removed within this time limit by the candidate or political group responsible for the sign will constitute a violation. Placement of Signs: No political sign shall be placed on public property except as provided elsewhere in this ordinance or in such a way as to be a hazard to traffic or an obstruction to visibility of public streets. Conforming signs other than those mounted on trucks or trailers, may be placed within the right -of -way of areas zoned residential provided the owner of the adjoining property has granted permission to the candidate or political group, and provided they are at least five (5) feet from the curb or pavement edge. Portable signs may not be placed in The right -of -way. All signs must be attached to their own support. No sign may be attached to any utility pole or to any public property. Reference to State Law: State law prohibits the placement of unlicensed signs within the right -of -way of any state high- way. The city is required to remove any unlicensed signs on state highways within the city limits of the City of College Station. DEFINITIONS Candidate: Any person seeking any public or political party offige as defined by the Texas E lettion Code. P.oIIticaI Group: Any organization, including a political party, supporting a candidate or issue in a cam- paign and required to register as such by the provisions of the Texas Election Code. PENALTIES: Any violation of any of the terms of this or- dinance, whether herein designated as unlawful or not, shall be deemed a misdemeanor; and any person convicted of any such violation shall be fined. in a sum not exceeding two hundred ($200.00) dollars. Each day of the continuance of such violation shall be considered a separate offense and be punished separateky; and any person, agent or employee engaged in any such violation shall on conviction be so punished therefor. 19/21 " I , The Eagle May 21, 1978 :xplosion rips through apartment complex By MARILYN RICHARDSON Staff Writer L natural gas explosion ripped ough building 14 of the Barcelona artment complex Tuesday night, ittering windows, forcing walls ward, lifting the roof and setting to wooden trim, curtains and ttresses. lo one was injured, but the eight - t, two -story building was a total apartment manager Susan inatterly said. No damage mate was available for the icture, located at 700 Dominik he College Station Fire Depart - it received a report of the ex- don and fire at 8: 59 p.m. he apartments were unoccupied, ept for one on the ground floor, the occupant of that apartment not at home when the explosion erred, Schnatterly said. Damage heaviest in the second -floor rtments. atural gas leaking from a dis- 4ected stove line led to the ex- ion, College Station Fire Mar- Harry Davis said, adding that iad not determined what might e touched off the blast. ie apartments were being cleaned and remodeled, Davis said. "They were pulling all the stoves and things out, and they discon- nected all the lines to the stoves. We have one unit here where the main valve to the stove is on," he added, indicating that someone apparently didn't shut off the valve before dis- connecting a stove. Fire damage was slight, Davis said, explaining that the force of the explosion tended to extinguish flames. Wooden trim, curtains and mattresses at the rear of the build- ing were burning when firefighters arrived. Firefighters . were delayed in responding to the scene because of a misidentification of the apartment complex. When the explosion and fire were reported at 8:59 p.m., the caller said it was at the Briarwood Apartments, which are located at 1201 Highway 30. It took firefighters about five minutes to determine that the problem was actually at the Barcelona Apartments. Firefighters returned to the Wenq at 1:26 a.m. Wednesday when fire broke out in wooden trim near the roof of the building. They ex- tinguished the fire and then stood by until morning. (Staff photo by Bob Daemmrich) Th Ma Firemen inspect damage at apartment house explosion. P&Z commission suggests new park near Consol Battalion Campus Editor The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission has recommended that the city buy 30. acres of land next to A &M Consolidated High School west of Welsh Avenue for recreational development. College Station Parks and Recreation Director Andy Czimskey said at the com- mission's meeting last Thursday that the 30 -acre purchase combined with the 30 acres already owned by the high school would provide the city with a 60 -acre rec- reational complex. The 30 -acre tract will cost about $350,000, Czimskey said. The land is cur- rently divided into three 10 -acre parcels, each privately owned. Czimskey said two of the parcels will cost about $125,000 each and the third parcel about $100,000. "As yet it is undecided where the funds w,91 come from," Czimskey said. "Possibly they could come through a general fund or perhaps through the bond issue that was passed in April, but I'm not really sure," Czimskey said. The College Station City Council must approve the Planning and Zoning Com- mission recommendation before the city can buy the land. If College Station does buy the land, it may become the location of a community center, Czimskey said. City Manager North Bardell said the city currently has plans for a 16,000 square foot community center designed to serve as a convention hall. He said the center will contain meeting rooms, office space and food service facilities, Czimskey said the proposed 30 -acre purchase would reduce the need for a rec- reational facility that had been planned for the Southwood Valley area. "That doesn't mean those plans will be abandoned," he said. Czimskey said the proposed site is more accessible to College Station than that in the Southwood Valley area. "We can also share parking with the high school, "Czimskey said. The Battalion May 24, 1978 CS police launch manhunt College Station police officers (above) stood guard Tuesday night around the area where an armed rob- bery suspect was last spotted. An off -duty officer (right) directed units from the Grimes County Sheriff's Office who brought search dogs to the scene. Story on 1B. (Photos by Bob Daemmrich) r �vr F 7 MAYOR RICHARD SMITH-.of Bryan and Gary Halter, Pro -tem Mayor of College Station met May 22 to jointly sign a proclamation designating a day or which to sell Poppies. May 27 has been set aside for the Veterans of Foreign Wars to sell poppies throughout the twin cities. Proceeds from the sales go toward aiding veterans of foreign wars. Pictured L to R (back row) are Virgil Litchford, Past Commander of VFW Post (14692; Jim Saunders, In- coming Commander of VFW Post 114692; Donna Decker, In- coming President of the Ladies Auxiliary and Roger Martin, "Buddy poppy chairman. Pictured L to R (front row) are Richard Smith. Samantha Pinkerton, poppy girl; and Gary Halter. The Pictorial Press May 24, 1978 Some, businesses in a' under the proposed amendment residential neighborhood cer- and, no one building could have tainly are desireable, as long as more than 10,000 square feet they provide a needed service divided among various tenants. and do not drastically alter the Also, the businesses located in character of the area. residential areas would have to Realizing this, the College conform to the "character" and Station Planning and Zoning "scale". of the neighborhood. Commission has taken the first Under the proposal, a four -story ;step to amending a zoning or- business could not be put into a dinance to keep residential neighborhood of one -story neighborhoods basically just homes. that — residential. Under the present C -N neigh- borhood business ordinance, a 10,19 list of stores and businesses Js included in the permissible column. For instance, a retail ;fbod store presently is per- witted, . although there is no limitation on the size of such a business. Thus, a large supermarket more in keeping with Texas Avenue or 29th Street would be permittedi under the present zoning. The proposed amendment to the zoning ordinance would limit the size of a retail food store to no more than 2,500 square feet, which is more than large enough for a convenience -type grocery store. Other businesses could be no larger than 2,000 square feet We think the proposed amendment is a good one. Businesses certainly are great and have a very definite place in any city. But certain businesses do not belong in a residential area because of the size or the amount of traffic generated or the amount of noise or even the type of business. The proposed amendment will Protect the integrity of the neigh- borhoods while allowing reasonable business use for the convenience of the persons living in the neighborhood. Planning and Zoning com- missioners and city councilmen will be well served to approve the amendment for the sake of both the business community and the private citizens of College Station, The Eagle May 25, 1978 CS refuses to hear boycott for. ERA The College Station City Council a vote by the council not to support refused Thursday to consider a could be construed that the council resolution supporting an economic rejected ERA or equal rights for boycott of states which have not ratified the Equal Rights Amend- women. He also objected on other grounds. ment. "Who do you think the next group Instead the council voted to "af- will be to come up here and ask for a firm" its support of equal rights for boycott ?" Dozier asked. He also women. said, if the request were supported The request, made by several College Station women, asked that by the council, that the decision could be presumed to be the "voice the council support the boycott to of the people."' encourage 15 states which did not "It's an unfair resolution to present ratify the constitutional amendment to a municipal government," Dozier to reverse their decisions. said. The boycott has been sponsored by Jane Brooks, of 1208 Airline Drive, the National Organization for said passing the resolution was a Women. Kathleen Kenefick, 1815 Medina, matter of voicing an opinion, of backing the ERA and joining with said the council could support the other cities which have already done request to demonstrate support for so. *' the ERA. For ERA to pass, 39 ct2tc3 "we're not going to withdraw it," mus pa prove it. So 15 states, - s'ie said"- -. many of them in the South, have either voted no or taken no action. The motion to "affirm" council support for equal rights for women (T ratified the amendment in was made by Councilwoman Anne 1972). Hazen. No 'action was taken on the 1 Councilman Jim Dozier said it was request calling for support of the an "embarrassing" request because boycott. Council to re- stud y si n Political g rules By CHUCK HOUSE premises for several weeks. Staff Writer City Manager North Bardell said A proposed ordinance to regulate part of the problem this time of year construction and placement of involved the amount of material left Political signs was sent back to behind by students who move away committee Thursday night by the when school is out. Bardell also said College Station City Council. the city has purchased two new The ordinance would have con- trucks to handle the trash. trolled the size of the signs, where The possibility of problems they could be located and how long developing if oil and gas wells were they could remain standing within drilled in the city was also city limits. discussed. But Councilman Gary Halter, who Mayor Bravenec asked the council said he investigated the issue, said to consider the possibility of a the proposed ordinance was municipal ordinance to regulate probably unconstitutional because it such activity. Bravenec said two discriminated between political basic problems could arise: one of signs and other types of signs. "We safety and one of confining the wells can't treat political signs dif- to certain locations. City Attorney ferently," he said. Neeley Lewis said that a city could Mayor Lorence Bravenec said he regulate location of the wells but by would work with Halter in an effort so doing could also deny property to work out the problem so a new owners their mineral rights if they The Eagle ordinance could be developed. were excluded from the areas where 26, 1978 At a public hearing on the or- drilling was permitted. Lewis was May dinance, Stella Wilkes recom- asked to investigate further. mended to councilmen that the signs The council also rezoned a 1.599 I t b e severely limited. Wilkes said it acre tract of land from Single would be inconsistent to allow the Family Residential to Townhouse- city to be "littered" with political Rowhouse. The land is located on the, signs, especially on city property. southwest corner of Holleman Drive In other discussion Rupert Green and Anderson Street. A one -story of 1027 Walton St. told the council he patio home project is scheduled for was aggravated with the trash the site. niekun saruina in hic pro, „o #u- _:�- _ of Ordinance to reduce GS electricity rates 'By CHUCK HOUSE Staff Writer In an era of sometimes shocking increases in the cost of energy, the City of College Station approved an ordinance Thursday which is ex- pected to reduce the rates paid for electricity by more than five percent over the next year. The ordinance is actually an ad- justment in the retail rate schedule by which customers will be charged for electrical use. Base rates will remain the same, but the schedule is modified under a complicated formula that incorporates power lo d transfers to .'ulf States Utilties Company (GSU) Presently College Station still purchases 55 percent of its electricity from the City of Bryan. In June, however, GSU will begin the 8 -month process of assum- ing the city's entire power load. After a somewhat complex review of the schedule modification by Jimmy McCord of Electric Power Engineers, Inc., Councilman Jim Dozier asked if it would really mean a rate reduction. Yes, McCord assured the council. During the first month, McCord predicted, users would experience a four to five percent reduction, and, as switchover continues, , more reductions. McCord said he was sure the reductions would continue, but was reluctant to predict by how much. The first switchover is scheduled for Wednesday, the second in the latter part of June, and the final switchover to GSU in January 1979. McCord said the savings will come because it will cost the city less to purchase power from GSU than from Bryan. It's that simple; he said. Asked how many* cities in the country have been able to reduce electricity rates, McCord said, "You're one of the few." In other action the council authorized revisioh of a housing plan, partly to satisfy grant requirements of the U.S. Depart- ment oV - Rausing anu , :ban Development (HUD). But coun- cilmen resisted a suggestion' from HUD to create a public housing authority. In a letter received by Mayor Lorence Bravenec on May 22, the director of HUD's Community Planning and Development Division "strongly recommended" that College Station form a local housing authority. "If College Station is to continue as a recipient of Community Development block grants they must make substantial progress in meeting the housing needs of low and moderate income persons," the letter states, and recommends formation of a housing commission that is "sympathetic to this cause." But councilmen — particularly Jim Dozier and Homer Adams — objected to what might have been an implication in the letter to d>'velop new low income housing. Adams said he didn't think College Station was obliged to recruit new low income residents to the city by creating new low income housing units. Dozier suggested writing to HUD and stating that if the letter implies "we have to import poor families, they can take their com- munity development plans and do with them whatever they want." Dozier said he was very willing to assist those low income families in the city now, but didn't think it would help anyone to import them. 4i The letter states - ihat the city's housing assistance plan - is unac- ceptable because it does not permit using existing units "or new con- struction as resources for assisting low income persons in meeting their housing needs." According to community develop- ment planner Jim Callaway, the city must submit, before June 6, an acceptable plan and specific housing program. The city's 1978 grant application is for $300,000. Callaway said if the city's plan is not ap- proved, there is a strong possibility the grant would not be awarded. Most of the grant money, he said, would have to be used to upgrade the city's four designated low income neighborhoods. The council authorized Bravenec and Dozier to amend the' rejected plan and resubmit it to the council. may R 'T978 tom. .. Easterwood Airport has a new manager Harry E. Raisor has been appointed manager of Easterwood Airport. Raisor, a former em- ployee relations representative in the Texas A &M Personnel Department, will manage the community airport owned and operated by the university. He will also direct university aircraft scheduling. A former U.S. Air Force officer, Raisor has more than 5,000 hours ex- perience flying all types of aircraft, including helicopters. He served as chief of airfield management at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin during his last five years in the Air Force. The Eagle May 27, 1978 C S council meets tonight The College Station City Council will meet at 6 p.m, today at Jose's Restaurant for a closed session on personnel. The council is to go over the complete personnel budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1978. The Eagle May 30, 1978 0`6 CS plans zoning hearings The College Station Tanning and Zoning 'ommision will hold three public hearings Thursday It its 7 p.m. meeting at city call. One hearing will concern an application by the Cruse Corporation to rezone 8.61 acres located 200 feet south of Mile Drive and bounded by Texas Avenue and the East Bypass from single family residential to townhouse and com- mercial zoning. The second hearing will be on granting a con - tlitional use permit for conversion of an existing residence into a church - kindergarten facility for St. Thomas Episcopal Church. The third hearing is on an ordinance amending the zoning ordinance as it pertains to neighborhood business districts. Revisions are proposed to the list of uses, to lot size requirements ' and to site review procedures. Other agenda items include: — Reconsideration of a preliminary plat for Sunrise Place located north of FM 2818 near Southwood Drive. — Consideration of a final plat for Windcrest Addition located east of Texas Avenue near Sterling Street. M — Consideration of a final plat for Parkway Plaza Phase 6 located, at Texas Avenue and South- west Parkway. ; — Consideration of a final plat of Block 15, Southwood Valley, Section 3. — Consideration of a revised preliminary plat for Quail Run Estates located off Dowling Road. The Eagle May 31, 1978 Public hearing on p olitical si ns r 1 rules � � p ' n CS A public hearing on an ordinance regulating political signs is budget amendments in the 'Com- munity Development Program Holleman Drive and Anderson supporting the Equal Rights — Discussion of possible drilling Street from scheduled Thursday at 7 p.m. in College Station. as well as bids on a community single family residential Amendment. to townhouse - rowhouse. The ap- within the city limits; — Discussion of tourist The College Station City Council is development street project. The council is scheduled to discuss the plication for rezoning is from J. W. — Consideration Wood. promotion of a housing and possible attraction of research - meeting three times this week with a Jones - Butler Road in Woodway assistance plan; Other items on the Thursday oriented industry to the city. tour of capital improvements Village subdivision. Also Wed- agenda include: projects at 3 p.m. Wednesday, a nesday, the council will discuss — An agreement with the Texas workshop session of the council septic tank regulations in the city's Department of Highways and Public Wednesday at 4 p.m. and the regular extraterritorial jurisdiction. Transportation for the installation of session of the council Thursday at 7 Thursday the council will conduct four -way stop signs with flashing P. M. a Dublic hearing on rezoning a 1.599 beacons at the interection of F. M. 60 in the afternoon session Wed- acre tract located on the southwest and F. M 2818; nesday, the council will consider corner of the intersection of — Discussion of a resolution NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on the question rdOrd amending N e o. 36 to remove the allowance of a maximum change of one (1) foot to the existing upstream 100 year flood elevation by a development. The 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 Thurs- day, June 15, 1978. For additional information, please contact the City Plan- ner's Office in the City Hall, j ,713 - 846 - 8886. 5/31 N O T I C E OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station Planning and Zoning Catnrnission will hold a public hearing on the question an ce No. 1065 amending requires a Conditio6al Use Permit for multifamily residential projects to change the term "Conditional Use Permit" to a more appropriate term. The 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 Thurs- day, June 15, 1978. For additional information, please contact the City Plan- ner's Office in the City Hall, 713-846 -8886. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on the question of granting a Con- ditional Use Permit for the operation of a soroity house in the existing single family residence located at the south- west corner of the intersection of Munson Avenue and Dominik Street (1302 Munson). The application is in the name of the Alpha Phi International Fraternity, Inc., Sorority Chapter, 502 College View, Bryan, Texas. The 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 i Zoning Commission on Thurs- day, June 15, 1978. For additional information, please contact the City Plan- ner's Office in the City Hall, 713-846 8086. 5/31 The Eagle May 31, 1978 CS police detective hired as new ' chef deput By MARILYN RICHARDSON Staff Writer A detective with the College Station Police Department has been hired as the new chief deputy of the Brazos County Sheriff's office. Bobby Yeager, who has been in law enforcement for 11 years,' was sworn in Thursday by Brazos County G � � m m rn Nw � m V 00 Judge W.R. Vance, Sheriff J.W. Hamilton announced today. : "I have known him for a long time," Hamilton said, "and he has worked for me before. He is acquainted with the office and I think he will do a good job." Yeager, 37, was'born and repred in Brazos County, -and is a graduate from Stephen F. Austin High School. He began his law enforcement career in 1967 with the College Station Police Department, then worked for the sheriff's office for three years before going back to College Station. "I'm just glad to be back up here," Yeager said today. "The sheriff called me last week and asked me if I would be interested in coming back to work for him and I thought about it a day or two and decided to take it. ,$ Yeager's hiring follows the resignation last Friday of the former chief deputy, Gary Shaw, who had been in charge of the office since Hamilton, 70, received treatment for cancer for about three weeks in January and February. Shaw was asked by Hamilton to resign, courthouse sources said. Hamilton declined to explain the matter when contacted at his home. Shaw could not be reached for comment earlier this week or today. Hamilton said he has been working from his home, coming in to the office as necessary. "I go down pretty often — not every day, but most every day. If anything im- portant comes up, I go down." "He (Yeager) will, from time to time, touch base with me as necessary as long as I am around," Hamilton said. Hamilton has been Brazos County Sheriff since 1946. Ir J C-4 H G � p (D (D M OQ F" F� (D V 00 Ruby Freeman of College Station casts her ballot at the College Station fire house during Saturday's election. (Staff photo by Bob Daemmrich); NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals addressed 1( 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., June 9, 1978, for furnishing the folloyving equipment. One Car (4 Door Sedan) Specifications can be obtained at the Public Works Office at City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, College Station, Texas. The I right is reserved as the interest of the owner may require - To' reject any and all bids and to waive any informality in bids received. 5/26,6/2 CS plans budget session College Station City Council will meet three times this week, including the regular council meeting Thursday at 7 P.M. at city hall. The council will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. at city hall in a closed session to continue discussion, on the personnel segment of the upcoming budget. Thursday at noon at the Ramada Inn, the council will again meet in closed session with a committee of the A &M Consolidated School Board to consider land aquisition. On the council's regular agenda for Thursday, night is discussion of a proposed agreement with Texas A &M .University to supply water to the city. A &M regents have ap- pr ove d oCollege p Station lll to construct a water well and transmission line and Purchase water from the university for three years. The project is expected to cost College Station about $720,000. Under the Plan, College Station will pay 43 cents per 1,000 gallons of water but receive a 20 cents per 1,000 gallon redit to pay off the cost of t e project. The new water Supply will help the city com- pensate for its withdrawal from the Bryan utility system. College Station is ending the purchase of water, electricity and sewer services from I The Eagle Bryan. June 6, 1978 A College Station fireman looks over the foreign car that's engine burst into flames at a University Drive service station Tuesday morning. The car's driver, Texas A &M student Jason Lo, told fire of- high - octane gas...' ficials he had just put some gasoline in the car, which belongs to a friend, and started the engine when it burst into flames. Lo escaped uninjured. Battalion photo by Lee Boy Leschper Jr. The Battalion June 7, 1978 `14 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station City Council will hold a public hearing on the question of adopting an ordinance amending the Zoning Or- dinance No. 850 as it pertains to the Neighborhood Business District, District C -N. The proposed amendment revises the list of permitted uses, establishes maximum building and lot sizes and establishes a requirement for site plan review and approval. The 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, June 22, 1978. For additional information, Please contact the City Plan- ner's Office in the City Hall, 713 - 8468886. 6/7 1 The Eagle June 7, 1978 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS NOTICE TO THE COW TRACTORS OF THE CON= STRUCTION OF OAKS PARK C I T Y OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS BOR PROJECT NO. 48 -00567 RECEIPTOF BIDS Sealed proposals - this work will be receivec by North Bardell, City Manager, City Of College Station, Texas until 2:00 p.m. C.D.S.T., June 23, 1978 and will be publicly openend and read aloud. - SCOPE OF WORK The constructin of a park with the following bids packages identifying the work to be done: Package '1: Pavillion & restrooms; Deck bridge structure; Electrical & pluming, Footbridges. Package 2: Tennis court & fencing; Lighting & Tennis standards; Addt'I tennis court (Alt. A). P a c k a g e 3: C o n- versation/picnic tables. Package 4: Jogging path asphalt; Addt'I path connectins (Alt. B). - Package 5: Party area at pavillion; Addt'l party are (Alt. C). Package 6: Landscaping.& berm grading. INFORMATION & BIDDING DOCUMENTS 7 f Two sets of plan packages and other bidding documents may, be obtained by contractors from KWH: A Joint Venture, Timothy W. Keneipp, Ar- chitect, 1301 FM 2818, College Station, Texas upon receipt of one check in the amount of $10.00 per package payable to the City of College Station. The check will be returned if a bid is submitted and the plans and specifications are returned to the Architect in good condition within three (3) weeks of the bid date. Additional single sets may be obtaned by subcontractors and suppliers upon deposit of one check for 85.00 per package payable to the City of College Station. Such check will be returned if the plans and specifications are returned to the Architect in good condition within three (3) weeks of date 0o bid. If plans and specifications are not returned, no refund will be made. Two sets of plan packages are also available for study and review at the office of the City Engineer, College Station, Texas. Federal matching funds for this project are being provided by the Land and Water Con - servatin Fund through the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, U.S. Department of the In- terior and administered yy the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The City reserves the right to reject any and /or all bids, to waive any and /or in- formalities, and to accept the bid which, in the City's opinion, seems most advantageous to the City and in the best interest of the public. /s /LOrence L.Bravenec Mayor City of College Station College Station, Texas 6/8,6/15 The Eagle June 8, 1978 Leak not an g er ut s ti problem By GARY WELCH possibly check into the leak when they Battalion City Editor dig down to the cable. A persistent gasoline leak at the inter- If GTE decides to check into the leak, section agle Street and University Davis said, the fire department will stay in Drive is of N "past the danger point" College close contact in case a gas pocket is found. Station Fire Marshall Harry Davis said But Harold Hogard, service facilities Wednesday, but it is still giving the tele- su ervisor for GTE, said there are no im- phone company a few problems. 4 `' mediate. plans to work on a cable. He said The leak was discovered May 2 when workmen are watching the underground workers at the GTE building on Nagle conduits cl henry for any more leaks, and reported smelling gasoline fumes. College notify y serious situation Station firemen and policemen evacuated arises. some businesses on University Drive at the ° There have been no complaints re- time, while firemen pumped water into Gently," Hogard said. "If there was an underground telephone conduits to try to emergency situation I would have been Mute the leaking gas. told about it." He said he feels the fumes are coming The source of the leak has not been from an underground pocket which will found, but speculations on the cause have dissipate soon. ranged from faulty gas station storage tanks Davis said both gas stations at the inter - to long -term underground buildups from section have been checked thoroughly for small spills at the two gas stations located leaks and the results have been negative. at the intersection. "We are at the point right now where It's not an explosive situation," Davis we are still trying to figure out where it's said. Some gas is still present, he said coming from," he said. If the telephone but the level has dropped off considerably company does not find the cause, he since the leak was first reported. added, the fire department may take a Davis said he has been using an ex- ssample determine exactly what kind of plosives meter which measures the gas Davis said there have been no recent level in parts per million (ppm). When the reports from anyone smelling gas in the leak was first noticed and the evacuation area. took place, he said the readings were be- tween 90 and 100 m, I A phone company crew was pumping pp However, the water from the manholes in front of the readings have fallen now to between 10 GTE building on Nagle, a GTE worker and 20 ppm, he said. "But it's still giving the phone company said. employed in the building said. fits," Davis said. He said he thought GTE "I can smell a little odor in the air," he was having a problem with a telephone said, "but I don't know if it's coming from cable near the intersection and would the gas stations or what." The Battalion June 8, 1978 HLJ V C K 1 1 JCIV\ BIDS NOTICE TO THE CON TRACTORS OF THE CON STRUCTION OF OAKS PARK CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS BOR PROJECT NO. 48 -00567 RECEIPT OF BIDS Sealed proposals for this work will be received by North Bardell, City Manager, City of College Station, Texas until 2:00 p.m. C.D.S.T., June 23, 1978 and will be publicly openend and read aloud. SCOPE OF WORK The constructin of a park with the following bids packages identifying the work to be done: Package 1: Pavillion & restrooms; Deck bridge structure; Electrical & pluming, Footbridges. Package 2: Tennis court & fencing; Lighting & Tennis standards; Addt'I tennis court (A It. A). P a c k a g e 3: C o n- versation /picnic tables, Package 4: Jogging path - asphalt; Addt'I path connectins (Alt. B). Package 5: Party area at pavillion; Addt'I party are (Alt. C). Package 6: Landscaping & berm grading. INFORMATION & BIDDING DOCUMENTS Two sets of plan packages and other bidding documents may be obtained by contractors from KWH: A Joint Venture, Timothy W. Keneipp, Ar- chitect, 1301 FM 2818, College Station, Texas upon receipt of one check in the amount of $10.00 per package payable to the City of College Station. The check will be returned if a bid is submitted and the plans and specifications are returned to the Architect in good condition within three (3) weeks of the bid date. Additional single sets may be obtaned by subcontractors and suppliers upon deposit of one check for $5.00 per package payable to the City of College Station. Such check will be returned if the plans and specifications are returned to the Architect in good condition within three (3) weeks of date oo bid. If plans and specifications are not returned, no refund will be made. Two sets of plan packages are also available for study and review at the office of the City Engineer, College Station, Texas. Federal matching funds for this project are being provided by the Land and Water Con - servatin Fund through the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, U.S. Department of the In- terior and administered by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The City reserves the right to reject any and /or all bids, to waive any and /or in- formalities, and to accept the bid which, in the City's opinion, seems most advantageous to the City and in the best interest of the public. /s /Lorence L. Bravenec Mayor City of College Station College Station, Texas 6/8,6/15 The Eagle June 10, 1978 5 1 LEGAL NOTICES. 1 108 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The College Station City Council , will hold a public hearing on the budget for Fiscal Year 1978 -79. The hearing will be held in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, at the 7:00 P.M. meeting of the College Station City Council on Thursday, June 22, 1978. 6/11 The Eagle June 11, 1978 CS council to examine flood hazard ordinance The effects that a proposed housing project in the College Station flood plain might have on existing homes downstream will be reexamined Tuesday night by the College Station City Council. Last week the council approved a preliminary plat for Sunrise Place located north of FM 2818 and about 1,000 feet west of Southwood Drive. At that time the council was told the project along Bee Creek would raise the flood level downstream seven tenths of a foot and move the 100 - year flood line up 25 feet. The project comes within the city's flood hazard zone which allows up to a 12 -inch change in the flood level. The ordinance requires that homes be built at least a foot above the hundred year flood level. However, the council and the city's planning and zoning com- mission will soon be considering a change in that ordinance to forbid any increase in the flood level. The P &Z will hear the proposed ordinance change Thursday night at its regular meeting. Tuesday at 7 p.m. the council will consider rescinding its preliminary approval of the plat. Mayor Lorence Bravenec, who voted against the plat last week, said if approved, the project might create problems for residences already existing along the creek. "Who really knows what is going to happen when it rains ?" the mayor said. He said he thought the existing ordinance needed revision and he'd like to see the council table ap- proving the plat until a decision on _the ordinance is made. Theplat wassubmittedby McCrory Enterprises, a College Station firm. The mayor said the preliminary plat was approved by the council by a 4 -3 vote but that at least one council member was considering a vote change. Also at its Tuesday meeting the council will go into closed session to consider land acquisition. The Eagle June 12, 1978 CS group asks action on park Haines Street residents don't want smaller site By JANE M. SMITH Staff Writer Some 23 citizens of the Haines - Welch Streets area of College Station met Monday night to for- mulate a statement to take to the city council supporting a 14 -acre park in that area. The area these citizens want for the park is in the Holik tract and is owned by developer W.D. Fitch. It is located south of the Haines Street extension and includes a partially drained lake. Money for a park in the area was approved in the last bond issue. According to Mrs. Walter Henry, 1202 Caudill, in whose home the meeting was held, the citizens are concerned that the council will change the size and site of the park. "The bond issue says 14 acres in the Holik tract near Welch and Haines extension in the amount of $200,000. This amount is sufficient to purchase the property — why can't the council proceed with the pur- chase?" states the group's written message to the council. The group is calling itself "In- terested Citizens of College Station, ' group, according to Mrs. Henry, is concerned that the council is considering a smaller park site on the north side of the Haines ex- tension. "The reason given for the con- sideration of site change was that it would be cheaper to develop the land on the north side of Haines," the group states. "The wilderness park and the park with a lake need the habitat that is found in the tract of land south of Haines. The land north of Haines does not have trees and other unique features of the area that was first selected." The group will ask the council At its June 22 meeting to expedite purchase of the park land. "The developer has been pursuing the grading of the Haines extension and supposedly the area where sewer lines will be required. However, the citizens living nearby are aghast at the ,activity of the bulldozers in the areN that they were lead to believe was set aside for the purchase of the park. Some small trees already have been removed," according to the group's statement. The group also offers to help the city with time and money to develop the park south of Haines. College Station City Manager North Bardell said the council has not taken a position on the park location and is waiting for a recommendation from the city parks and recreation committee. The parks committee meets tonight at city hall and may consider that park location, he said. Bardell said Fitch had come . before the city council with a pre- liminary plat for the area south of Haines but the council had put a hold on a decision until the park question is settled. Bardell said the park will be a "neighborhood" type park when developed and will not have any lighted athletic facilities. This park, wherever it is located, is one of several neighborhood parks ap- proved in the last bond issue. The Eagle 2 June 13, 1978 ✓i Local taxes, city gripes called ` bush - lea g u e' ` To the editor: ( With regard to the current flap about local taxes and city services, a couple of points need to be made. First, most people in Bryan and College StaVon don't realize how well off we are. While there are a few rough edges, most of our service people, such as trash collectors; utilities, etc., do a fine job, and deserve a vote of thanks. We really have it good; until you've lived in places like Maryland, New York, and California, you can't imagine what "sorry" is. When I was in Maryland, one had to bribe the trash collectors with periodic gifts, or they'd dump most of the garbage on your lawn! Having patted our people here on the back, let:me turn to the Right Honorable Lorence Bravenec, Mayor of College Station. The Eagle quoted him as saying that "if people want to cutback on street repair and garbage collections, it is up to them." This is the classic bureaucratic response — the big, scary over - statement which was tried desperately by his California counterparts during the last few months, and which the California voters didn't buy. It won't sell here, either. In every government there are lots of frills; non - essential services; and just plain payroll padding. Taxpayers know this; Bravenec certainly knows it, if he knows anything at all about government. I know it personally in depressing detail, having spent most of my career with the Federal government, which is the most shamefully wasteful of all. It would be more to the point if Bravenec (and the Bryan authorities, too, for that matter) would get the signal that citizens everywhere have had a skinful, and start looking for ways to cut out non- essentials which their employers, the taxpayers, haven't asked for and don't want. Collaterally, this would not only be more. constructive, but also much more professional than bush - league •oratory about firing teachers and stopping trash collections. T.S. Treadwell The Eagle June 13, 1978 ADVER I IM_mcry BIDS NOTICE E CON- TRACTORS OF T T E CON- STRUCTION OF OAKS PARK CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS BOR PROJECT NO. 48 -00567 RECEIPTOF BIDS Sealed proposals for this work will be received by North ' Bardell, City Manager, City Of College Station, Texas until 2:00 p.m. C.D. S.T., June 23, 1978 and will be publicly openend and read aloud. SCOPE OF WORK The constructin of a park with the following bids packages identifying the work to be done: Package 1: Pavillion &1 4 restrooms; Deck bridge) stru Electrical 8 pluming, Footbridges. Package 2: Tennis court & fencing; Lighting & Tennis standards; Addt'l tennis court (Alt. A). i1 - " Package' $c Con - versation /picnictables. Package 4: Jogging,path - asphalt; Addt'I path connectins (Alt. B). Package 5: Party. area at pavillion; Addt'I party are (Alt. C). Package 6: Lapdscaping & berm grading. INFORMATION & BIDDING DOCUMENTS Two sets of plan packages and other bidding documents may be obtained by contractors from KWH: A Joint Venture, Timothy W. Keneipp, Ar- chitect, 1301 FM 2818, College Station, Texas upon receipt of one check in the amount of 810.00 per package payable to i the City of College Station. The check will be returned if a bid is submitted and the plans and specifications are returned to the Architect in good condition within three (3) weeks of the bid date. Additional single sets may be obtaned by subcontractors and suppliers upon deposit of one check for $5.00 per package payable to the City of College Station. Such check will be returned if the plans and specifications are returned to the Architect in good condition within three (3) weeks of date oo bid. If - plans and specifications are not returned, no refund will be made. Two sets of plan packages are 9 also available for study and review at the office of the City Engineer, College Station, Texas. Federal matching funds for this project are being provided by the Land and Water Con - servatin Fund through the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, U.S. Department of the In- terior and administered by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The City reserves the right to reject any and /or all bids, to waive any and /or in formalities, and to accept the bid which, in the City's opinion, seems most advantageous to the City and in the best interest of the public. /s /Lorence L.Bravenec Mayor City of College Station College Station, Texas 6/8, 6/1! The Eagle June 13, 1978 Planning commis sion approves request for kindergarten By JANE M. SMITH Staff Writer Members of St. Thomas Episcopa Church received permission Thurs day night from the College Statio n Planning and Zoning Commission t o use a house near the church for a kindergarten facility. But in the process, the church' animal pen has been put in jeopardy. The church had applied for a conditional use permit for the kin- dergarten facility near the church at 906 Jersey. Neighbors near the church responded that they didn't have objection to the permit for the church school, but they were con - cerned,about a barn of animals kept by the church. Rev. Bill Oxley of St. Thomas Church said the barn deveroped "sort of accidentally." He said it was connected with a children's program at the church. "The animals (chickens, peacocks, sometimes a goal oI a sheep) have been a good thing,'' he said. "Some children cannot com- municate well with other children but can open up to animals." Church members said the facility was well -kept and inspected every two weeks by a veterinarian. Mrs. J.W. Barger of 118 Pershing read a letter signed by herself and two other church neighbors' asking that the conditional use permit approval be postponed until the animal pen was either licensed or removed. Wayne Etter, a commission member, said the animal issue was separate from that of the conditional use permit. Commission members asked that the matter be referred to the city council. City Planner Al Mayo said the menagerie needs a livestock permit which is granted by the council. Before a permit is issued, the facility will be inspected by the county health unit to make sure it meets city ordinance requirements. The animal pen consideration may be on the city council's agenda for its I June 8 meeting, according to City - Manager North Bardell. He said the health unit recommendation may be available by that time and said he didn't think the council would act without it. s Bardell and Mayo said they hadn't had any complaints about the animals until the other church issue came up. "If the neighbors think the pen smells or is a health hazard, the council will have to take that into consideration," Bardell said. He said this was the only such animal pen he knew of in the city. In other action, the planning and zoning commission turned down a zoning change request from the Cruse Corporation for 8.61 acres located about 200 feet south of Mile Drive bounded by Texas Avenue and the East Bypass. Ronnie Cruse, president of the company, had proposed to build a row of townhouses and an office park on the land. He wanted the zoning changed from single family to townhouse and general com- mercial zoning. Residents of Mile Drive objected to the zoning change, saying the proposed changes would devaluate their property and detract from the atmosphere of the area. The commission's decision will go before the city council for final consideration. The Eagle June 2, 1978 CS council to examine flood hazard ordinance The effects that a proposed housing project in the College Station flood plain might have on existing homes downstream will be reexamined Tuesday night by the College Station City Council. Last week the council approved a preliminary plat for Sunrise Place located north of FM 2818 and about 1,000 feet west of Southwood Drive. At that time the council was told the project along Bee Creek would raise the flood level downstream seven tenths of a foot and move the 100 - year flood line up 25 feet. The project comes within the city's flood hazard zone which allows up to a 12 -inch change in the flood level. The ordinance requires that homes be built at least a foot above the hundred year flood level. However, the council and the city's planning and zoning com- mission will soon be considering a change in that ordinance to forbid any increase in the flood level. The P &Z will hear the proposed ordinance change Thursday night at its replar meeting. Tuesday'at 7 p.m. the council will consider rescinding its preliminary approval of the plat. Mayor Lorence Bravenec, who voted against the plat last week, said if approved, the project might create problems for residences already existing along the creek. "Who really knows what is going to happen when it rains ?" the mayor said. He said he thought the existing ordinance needed revision and he'd like to see the council table ap- proving the plat until a decision on _the ordinance is made. The plat wassubmittedby McCrory Enterprises, a College Station firm. The mayor said the preliminary Plat was approved by the council by a 4 -3 vote but that at least one council member was considering a vote change. Also at its Tuesday meeting the council will go into closed session to consider land acquisition. The Eagle June 12, 1978 1tiq Industrial plat to be considararl A preliminary plat for a 146 acre industrial park will be considered by the Bryan Planning Com- mission Thursday at iti regular 7 p.m. session in City Hall. The commission will consider the preliminary plat for the East Brazos Industrial Park, a proposed development on Highway' 21 near Coulter Field, the municipal air- port. The industrial development is aimed at oil field companies, Hubert Nelson, director of plan- ning,said Wednesday. Additionally, the com- mission will consider a final plat for Sandia Plaza, an 11 acre office park being developed by the Richard Smith Co. at 29th and Rosemary Street. in Bryan. Richard Smith is mayor of Bryan. Both the Bryan Planning Commission and Y' i the College Station Planning and Zoning Commission are scheduled to meet Wednesday at 7 P.m. at the State Depart- ment of Highways and Transportation to hear a` county -wide traffic study prepared by engineer,Iohn Hudson, Nelson said. The Eagle June 14, 1978 Tourist center to open in area By MARILYN RICHARDSON Staff Writer A tourist information center on Texas Avenue will open in August in an attempt to boost tourism in the Bryan - College Station area. The center will be operated by the newly- formed Information and Hospitality Center of Brazos County Inc. Funding for the agency will come from motel room taxes collected in the cities. "The information center is going to need your help," speaker Phil Davis told about 80 community, civic and business leaders at the luncheon Tuesday. Davis, chief of community relations with the Texas Tourist Development Agency, advised area residents to work with the in- formation center organization in suggesting tourist attractions that might help keep visitors in the area for an extra day. "If you can stop 10 cars and keep them here for 24 hours," Davis said, "it is like developing an industrial plant with a $178,000 payroll in a year's time." Each party of visitors spends an average of $49 per day, he noted. From room taxes collected on motel rooms in this area, Davis calculated that about $3.7 million was spent in 1977 on motel ac- commodations in the B -CS area. "Some people say, `Well, they spend all this money on motels and restaurants and gasoline, but I'm not in the motel or restaurant or gas station business, so it doesn't benefit me, "" Davis said. "One of the figures bandied about concerning t1w visitor dollar is that it turns over seven times in a community before the money is lost." He suggested that people take a look at the currency in their billfolds, explaining that money circulated by the federal reserve bank in Texas is marked with a "L" in a circle. Bills with other letters came from other parts of the nation, he said, asking facetiously that anyone who doesn't think tourism affects their business turn all their non - "L" bills in to him. But what is there in this area to attract tourists? Davis told the story of-Greensburg, a small Kansas town that was shriveling up and dying until an enterprising chamber of commerce manager hit upon a plan to bring tourists to town. The chamber manager looked through history books and found that about 100 years earlier, when railroad tracks were being laid through the area, railroad workers had dug a well. He scraped together funds for a fence and some advertising, and proceeded to tell the - .world that Greensburg was the "Site of the World's Largest Hand -Dag Well." "The first year, 100,000 people visited Greensburg to see the world's largest hand -dug well — and paid a dollar each to see it. Another town had two hand -dug wells and they covered them up with cement. And they are still covered up and the town is still dying," Davis com- mented. B -CS tourist attractions? "Give it some thought and you will come up with a list that will go clear across the room," Davis advised. Davis said studies show primary considerations affecting people's decision of vacation locations in- clude sports, good accommodations, friendly people, a relaxing at- mosphere, variety of scenery, a romantic atmosphere, historic sites, good roads, lakes, water sports, forests, and "something different for me and my family." While the state of Texas has failed . to actively pursue the tourist dollar, misconceptions about the state have grown. Such misconceptions led the state legislature to create the Texas Tourist - Development Agency in 1963, Davis said. The agency con - ducts research in the tourism field and advertises . extensively to promote tourism in Texas. Officers of the Brazo's County organization are Phyllis Dozier, president; Ron Smestuen, vice president; Judy Rychlik, secretary; and John Birkner, treasurer. The organization was formed to provide information to visitors and residents of the Brazos Valley and to promite tourist attractions. The Eagle > June 14, 1978 Tourist center to open in area By MARILYN RICHARDSON Staff Writer A tourist information center on Texas Avenue will open in August in an attempt to boost tourism in the Bryan - College Station area. The center will be operated by the newly- formed Information and Hospitality Center of Brazos County Inc. Funding for the agency will come from motel room taxes collected in the cities. "The information center is going to need your help," speaker Phil Davis told about 80 community, civic and business leaders at the luncheon Tuesday. Davis, chief of community relations with the Texas Tourist Development Agency, advised area residents to work with the in- formation center organization in suggesting tourist attractions that might help keep visitors in the area for an extra day. "If you can stop 10 cars and keep them here for 24 hours," Davis said, "it is like developing an industrial plant with a $178,000 payroll in a year's time." Each party of visitors spends an average of $49 per day, he noted. From room taxes collected on motel rooms in this area, Davis calculated that about $3.7 million was spent in 1977 on motel ac- commodations in the B -CS area. "Some people say, `Well, they spend all this money on motels and restaurants and gasoline, but I'm not in the motel or restaurant or gas station business, so it doesn't benefit me, "" Davis said. "One of the figures bandied about concerning the visitor dollar is that it turns over seven times in a community before the money is lost." He suggested that people take a look at the currency in their billfolds, explaining that money circulated by the federal reserve bank in Texas is marked with a "L" in a circle. Bills with other letters came from other parts of the nation, he said, asking facetiously that anyone who doesn't think tourism affects their business turn all their non - "L" bills in to him. But what is there in this area to attract tourists? Davis told the story of- Greensburg, a small Kansas town that was shriveling up and dying until an enterprising chamber of commerce manager hit upon a plan to bring tourists to town. The chamber manager looked through history books and found that about 100 years earlier, when railroad tracks were being laid through the area, railroad workers had dug a well. He scraped together funds for a fence and some advertising, and proceeded to tell the world that Greensburg was the - "Site of the World's Largest Hand -Dug Well." "The first year, 100,000 people visited Greensburg to see the world's largest hand -dug well — and paid a dollar each to see it. Another town had two hand -dug wells and they covered them up with cement. And they are still covered up and the town is still dying," Davis com- mented. B -CS tourist attractions? "Give it some thought and you will come up with a list that will go clear across the room," Davis advised. Davis said studies show primary considerations affecting people's decision of vacation locations in- clude sports, good accommodations, friendly people, a relaxing at- mosphere, variety of scenery, a romantic atmosphere, historic sites, good roads, lakes, water sports, forests, and "something different for me and my family." While the state of Texas has failed to actively pursue the tourist dollar, misconceptions about the state have grown. Such misconceptions led the state legislature to create the Texas Tourist Development Agency in 1963, Davis said. The agency con - ducts research in the tourism field and advertises . extensively to promote tourism in Texas. Officers of the Brazo's County organization are Phyllis Dozier, president; Ron Smestuen, vice president; Judy Rychlik, secretary; and John Birkner, treasurer. The organization was formed to provide information to visitors and residents of the Brazos Valley and to promite tourist attractions. The Eagle June 14, 1978 Flood study misinterpreted, planner says It seems that city staffers, city council members and some developers in College Station have been operating under a miscon- ception concerning the flood plain. City Planner Al Mayo Thursday night said he had learned that a flood plain study done by the U.S. Corps of Engineers had been mis- interpreted. The city officials have used this study delineating possible flood areas as a basis for their decisions on development in the flood plain. Mayo said they had assumed that the corps took into account the an- ticipated "full" development of the land along creeks in the flood plain when it made the study of possible flood elevations. However, he said, he had learned from state highway official Dede Mathews that this was not so. The corps study took into account only existing development and definite plans for development in 1973 when the study was completed. There has been considerable development along creeks in College Station since that study. "Basically, those flood plain elevations are obsolete," Mayo told members of the city's planning and zoning commission. The corps report was a farce," said commission member Chris Mathewson. "That's why it is being changed by the Federal Flood In- surance Administration. (FIA)." An updated study of College Station by the FIA is in its final stages and is expected at city hall soon, Mayo said. Mayo said Friday he didn't think the use of the outdated flood study would mean that any structures built with it as their basis would be in danger during a flood. "It could have been serious if it were to go on for a number of years," he said. P &Z Chairman Vergil Stover said Friday the professional engineers working on projects would be ultimately liable for any mistakes in the flood calculations because they are required to sign the plats and testify that the flood elevation calculations are correct. CS changes Earlier this week, the city council turned down a preliminary plat for a housing development along Bee Creek because it would have raised f lood hazard the backwater curve by of a foot during a 100 -year type flood. At that time, Mayor Lo c ordinance Bravenec said allowing such h such changes in the flood elevations could By JANE M. SMITH result in the need for a $1 million Staff Writer bond issue in the next 5 to 10 years A change in the city's flood hazard for Bee Creek concreting. ordinance adopted Thursday night ' There was c o n s i d e r a b l e by the College Station Planning and disagreement among the council Zoning Commission is expected to I members over the plat because it make construction along several r met the city's flood hazard or- creeks in the city much more dif- dinance as it now exists. The change ficult. proposed by the P &Z would not have The ordinance change must be allowed the plat. approved by the city council before In other action, the commission it becomes effective. granted a conditional use permit for The commission voted operation of a sorority house in an unanimously to remove the-`: existing residence at 1302 Munson. allowance of a maximum change of ;.The house will be operated by Alpha one foot to the existing upstream 100- Phi International. year flood elevation by a develop- The sorority house is at the corner ment. This change in the elevation of Munson and Dominik and is at the also is known as the "backwater edd area already permitted to curve." An exemption is proposed have sorority houses. Developer Don for bridges and road crossings. Martell' is building three sorority The change is designed to prohibit houses in that area, downstream development from Mary Newton, president of the raising flood waters upstream and Alpha Phi International board, said flooding existing homes during a the sorority has 39 members but only period of extreme rainfall. When a seven or eight women will live in the developer adds fill to one side of a house. creek it can result in backing up Stover was the only commission water upstream and pushing the member who voted against the flood waters up higher on the other permit. He said he was against side of the creek. making sorority houses out of "This change will not end con- existing residences. struction in -the flood plain," said Commission member Violetta commission chairman Vergil Burke, however, pointed out that the Stover," but it will make it more P &Z had set a precedent by allowing difficult to build there. We aren't fraternities to use exisitng houses. talking about zero runoff, only zero backwater. "It will be much more difficult but not impossible," said city planner Al Mayo. "It may restrict developers to put parks there instead of struc- tures." The Southwood Valley area of College Station could be greatly affected by the change because it contains two creeks and un- developed flood plain land. Mayo said there were several problems with the existing flood hazard ordinance because the one - foot elevation change was not cumulative. He said three developers could come along and each raise the backwater curve one foot, thus backing three feet of flood water on existing residences. Commission member Chris Mathewson said the ordinance change will force developers to compensate for any change they The Eagle made in a creek channel. "I wont June 16, 1978 give you a hydraulics short course, he said, "but it can be done." College Station hires parks, recreation head Texas A &M University graduate Stephen C. Beachy is the new parks and recreation director for the City of College Station. Beachy, 31, fills the position for- merly held by Paul Wojciechowski, who left the city to become parks and recreation director for York County, Penn. Beachy's employment with the city begins July 1. He is currently director of parks and recreation for the City of Mission. A former Army officer, Beachy was graduated from Texas A &M University in 1970 with a B.S. degree in parks and recreation. He is also a graduate of Cooper High School in Abilene. In addition to his parks work in t' Mission, Beachy served as a park attendent at the Lockhard State Park and the Martin Dies Jr. State Park. A native of Dallas, Beachy is married to a junior high school teacher and they have one son, aged 17 months. The Eagle June 16, 1978 CS to hear budget, flood plan A discussion of flood plain hydrology and the city's 1978 -79 budget will be the topics of the College Station City Council's meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. at city hall. The city staff is recommending a budget with expenditures of $12,717,261.86 and revenues of $12,722,513.98. The discussion of flood plain hydrology was promoted by a recommended change in the city's flood hazard ordinance proposed by the Planning and Zoning Com- mission. It also was brought on by a heated council meeting last week during which the council voted against a plat it had approved earlier. That plat was for land in the flood plain along Bee Creek. The planning commission voted unanimously to recommend that the council remove the ordinance permitting a maximum change of one foot to the existing upstream 100 - year flood elevation level by a development. The change is designed to prohibit downstream development from raising flood waters upstream and backing up water on existing structures. Commission met9ibers said the ordinance change would make development in the'flood plain much more difficult. City Engineer Elrey Ash, City Manager North Bardell and City Planner Al Mayo are expected to meet with the council on the flood plain question. The Tuesday night session is scheduled only as a "workshop" and no votes will be taken, according to Mayor Lorence Bravenec. The council's regular meeting is Thursday night. The Eagle June 18, 1978 CS council to hear liveStOCK question An application from St. Thomas Episcopal Church to keep livestock and a discussion of a park site on the Holick tract will be on the College Station City Council's agenda Thurs- day at 7 p.m. St. Thomas Church is seeking a permit to coninue operation of a small animal barn on its property at 906 Jersey. The barn houses geese, sheep, guinea pigs, ducks and chickens. It is used by the church's kindergarten and church school. The church has operated the menagerie for several years and city officials said they,had received no complaints. However, several weeks ago, church members came before the council to get a permit to operate a kindergarten in an existing residence near the church. At the council meeting, several residents living ne the chu rch asked that the facility get a livestock permit. Neighbors were concerned about sanitation problems and noise from the animal barn. City Manager North Bardell said county health officials had inspected the animal facility and ap- proved it. "It is now up to the council," he said. Rev. Bill Oxley of St. Thomas said he hopes the city will allow the animals to stay. "It has been a very useful, thing. The children learn a lot from the animals — in emotional growth as well as seeing life and death," he said. Oxley said a noisy peacock had been sent to a ranch outside of town. The council also will hear from citizens of the Haines -Welch Street area who want the city to develop a park on 14 acres of the Holik tract located near their homes. A group of 23 citizens is requesting the park, to be financed by money ap- proved in the last bond election, be located south of Haines Street extension on an area that has a partially drained lake. The citizens would like to see the lake restored. The land is owned by developer W. D. Fitch. Other items on the council agenda include: — A public hearing on the proposed budget for fiscal year 1978 -79. — A public hearing and consideration of an or- dinance amending the Zoning Ordinance No. 850 as it pertains to a list of permitted uses for Neigh- borhood Business Districts. — Consideration of a proposed wrecker control ordinance. — Consideration of final plats for Emerald Forest and Southwood Valley, Section II. The Eagle June 20, 1978 1kO B-CS tourism center seems a good idea While the Pacific Northwlest' states of Washington and Oregon cater to the tourist, the Bryan - College Station area lacks a coordinated effort to encourage tourism. Soon, that will change. The Information and Hospitality Center of Brazos County Inc. will open a tourist information center on Texas Avenue near the East Bypass in College Station. The Northwest states who encourage people to come for a visit, but don't stay have learned that tourism is a good, clean and solid industry. Many communities along the Pacific Coast in Oregon and Washington are completely dependent on tourism and actively promote their facilities. The center here will serve as the first stop for many travelers coming into the community. With information in hand, travelers can easily be per- suaded to stay in Bryan - College Station. With the help of the Texas Tourist Development Agency the center will have a hand in in- creasing tourism here. While hotels, motels, restaurants and recreation - oriented businesses will benefit the most from the center, the entire community will also benefit. The average tourist will leave $49 behind per day and within the community that money's effect will be multiplied several times. We are glad to see the center opening and we hope its service will be widely used. Related story on page 8A. The Eagle June 20, 1978 TO WHOM IT MAY CC CERN: The College Station Council -will hold 3 public hearing on the question of rezoning the following tract: 7.34 acres located north of and adjacent to F.M. 2818 (West Loop) and approximately 1000 feet west of the intersection of F.M. 2818 and Southwood Drive from Neighborhood Business District C N to Townhouse - Rowhouse District R 3. The application is in the name of Dorsey E. McCrory, 2109 Langford, College Station, Texas. The said hearing will beheld in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall at the 7:00 P.M. meeting of the City Council on Thursday, July 13, 1978. 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: 7.34 .acres located north of and adjacent to F.M. 2818 (West Loop) and approximately 1000 feet west of the intersection of, F.M. 2818 and Southwood Drive from Neighborhood Business District C N to Townhouse - Rowhouse District R 3. The application is in The name of Dorsey E. McCrory, 2109 Langford, 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, July 6, 1978. 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: The remainder of the 37.32 acre Agency Records Control, Inc. Tract located east of the East Bypass and approximately 4,000 feet north of the intersection of Texas Avenue and the East Bypass from Agricultural Open District A -0 to Planned Industrial District M -1. The application is in the name of Agency Records Control, Inc. 3001 East Bypass, College Station, Texas. The said hearing wil 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 6, 1978. For additional information, please contact me. Albert 0. 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: The remainder of the 37.32 acre Agency Records Control, Inc. Tract located east of the East Bypass and approximately 4,000 feet north of the in- tersection of Texas Avenue and the East Bypass from Agricultural Open District A -0 to Planned Industrial District M -1. The application is in the name of Agency Records Control, Inc., 3001 East Bypass College Station, Texas. The said hearing wil 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 13, 1978. For additional information, please contact me. Albert O. Mayo, Jr. City Planner NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on the question of granting a Con- ditional use Permit for the construction and operation of a sorority house to be located at the intersection of University Oaks Blvd. and Wildwood Drive. The application is in the name of Esilon Rho House Corporation of Kappa Kappa Gamma. The 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 or Thursday, July 6, 1978. For additional information, please contact the City Plan ner's Office in the City Hall, 713-846 -8886. The Eagle June 21, 1978 Council evaluates plan, identifying flOod plain By MARK WILLIS Battalion City Editor The College Station City Council at- tempted to get a better understanding of the city's flood plain situaton in a special meeting Tuesday night. City Manager North B. Bardell and City Engineer Elroy Ash explained flood plain hydrology to the council. The general idea was to inform the members as to how a flood plain is determined, its effects, and how the present zoning practices of Col - loge Station relate. It was hoped that Affil 'his knowledge the members might better understand any new zoning proposals brought before the council. The effectiveness of the presenta- tion was questionable, as Mayor Larry Bravenec asked after the presentation, "What does all this have to do with city council action?" Councilman James (Jim) Dozier went one step further in questioning the validity of the report as a whole, which is based on the United States Corps of Engineers hy- drology studies of the area. Dozier, quot- ing Planning Commissioner Chris Mathis from ce a newspaper he did not identify,, read, "The Corps report was a far." k Dozier then began questioning Plan: ning and Zoning Commissioner Vergil Stover about several of his commission' recommendations concerning construe in the Bee Creek area. This line of questioning prompted eral other council members to point o that the issue had been discussed earlier; After some argument, Dozier concluded that, "I want to make sure we know who's wearing the black hat." Shortly thereafter Dozier left the meeting and did not re- turn. After comments by two members of the audience, who are professional engineers, the posed budget for 1978 -79. No action was taken on the flood plain issue. The council then discussed the pro- posed budget with City Manager Bardell, clarifying some confusion in the listing of expenditures and revenues. A more de- tailed discussion and breakdown of the budget is slated for a later date. The Battalion June 21, 1978 \4*� Area towns. receive more sales tax The city sales tax allocation to the City of College Station increased a whopping 55 percent over last year, while the allocation to the City of Bryan increased a substantial 18 percent. College Station's increase was eclipsed, though, by the Brazos - Calvert's collections of $3,254 Valley town of Madisonville, which for last month was an increase over collected an allocation up 61 percent. 1977's monthly check of $2,819. Total Franklin's allocation was up 35 per- collections for the first five months cent, while Snook collected a 28 increased from $8,463 to $9,474 for percent smaller allocation this year. ,. 1978. According to figures released by - Franklin's collections for the the state comptroller's office, one month period increased from College Station received $85,941 as $2,133 to $2,804 with year to date its June payment of the local option collections climbing 35 percent from one percent tax, compared to $59,929 $6,586 in 1977 to $8,928 this year. for the same period last year. - Madisonville's collections for Payments to date for 1978 for the month went from $9,788 to $27,066 College Station have ' totaled with year to date totals increasing 61 $448,337, compared to $288,450 for percent from $48,840. to $78,777 this the same period in 1977. The year. payments are for taxes collected in - Navasota's collections went April. from $15,007 in May, 1977 to $19,503 Bryan received $217,280 for the last month and year to date totals month, compared to $130,711 for the increased four percent from $66,699 same period last year. Payments to to $69,818 this year. date for 1978 to Bryan have totalled - Snook's monthly total climbed $698,319, compared to $591,365 for from $1,094 to $1,509, but the year to the same period in 1977. date totals went down 28 percent Amounts sent to other Brazos from $4,914 in 1977 to $3,489 this year. Valley cities are: - Somerville's monthly total - Bremond received $2,616 climbed from $3,448 to $4,754 while compared to $3,049 in 1977, but total year to date totals increased seven sales tax collections so far this year percent from $12,487 to $13,448. have increased 14 percent from State Comptroller Bob Bullock $6,225 last year to $7,155 this year. announced that his office has sent - Brenham's sales tax collection checks totalinging $60.9 million to increased from $37,385 for May, 1977 900 Texas cities as their June pay - to $55,209 last month while collec- ment of the local option one percent tions for the year increased 19 per- tax. cent over the same period last year. The latest checks raise the cities' Five month totals for 1977 were $180,234 compared with $214,627 this share to date this year on million, compared to $167.2 year. - Caldwell's collections also in- for the first half of last year, a 17.5 creased from May 1977's total ,of percent increase. $7,562 to May 1978's total of $11,152 and year to date totals registered a - - 20 percent gain over 1977 collections of $36,663. This year's total to date is $44,346. The Eagle June 21, 1978 `,.\Jt Council discusses flood plain 2 hours of explanation still confusing By JANE MILLS SMITH Staff Writer College Station City Council Tuesday night spent almost two hours discussing flood plain hydrology and found the subject enlightening but also confusing. As Bill Kling, a registered engineer in the audience said, "You've got a tiger by the tail here and I'm not sure how you let it go. When the federal government started trying to tell people to come in out of the rain, these problems began." City Manager North Bardell and Related story on page 1A. City Engineer Elrey Ash spent the two hours trying to explain hydrology to the council so that it would better understand flood plain elevations and decisions involving the flood plain. Ash took the council through the complicated process of determining flood elevations for an imaginary area he called "Hypothetical Hollow." One of the primary conclusions of the evening was that flood p lain elevations and projections are mad e with numerous "judgment factors" that need an experienced engineer t o determine. Ash said the council must deter- mine how much political heat it wants to take in flood , plain protection. If the council is too strict, he said, it would hear complaints from developers. If it was too lax. the council would hear from citizens worried about their houses flooding, he said. Councilman Gary Walter and Mayor Lorence Bravenec said they were concerned that if development The Eagle June 21, 1978 along creeks in College Station isn't controlled, the city would later have to pay for channelizing those creeks. At one point in the meeting, several council members resumed an earlier argument over a plat for development on a city creek. The council approved that plat and later voted to turn it down: Councilman Jim Dozier again criticized the planning and zoning commission for recommending approval of the plat while they also were considering changing the flood hazard ordinance. The ordinance change would have made the plat violate city standards. Councilwoman Anne Hazen said. she didn't feel appointed officials such as P &Z members should be discussed in that way and she left the council chambers, visibly upset, until the discussion was com- pleted. Commenting on recent statements that the U.S. Corps of Engineer's flood elevation study presently used by the city is out of date, Ash said he thought it was a good study. He said a flood elevation expert had told him that the corps study was done so carefully and con- servatively that 9 times out of 10, it would hold up against updated, more specific studies. In the city's case, Ash said, the engineer thought the flood plain would change very little if it were re- mapped using comprehensive data. Ash said the city would have to make a decision whether to use the corps study or a new study being completed by the federal Flood Insurance Administration. Council's new budget calls for increase in CS city tax rate By JANE MILLS SMITH Staff Writer College Station City Council Tuesday night took its first official look at the proposed 1978 -79 budge for the city which calls for a fou r cent increase in the tax rate. The proposed budget totals $12,717,261 and shows an 11 percent increase over last fiscal year. Pro- posed revenues in the budget total $12,722,513. That excess revenue is in the city's cemetery fund and cannot be transferred for other uses. If the budget is approved as now written, the tax rate will increase from 52 cents per $100 valuation based on 80 percent assessment to 56 cents. For a homeowner with a house valued at $30,000 who paid $124.80 in taxes for 1977 -78, the next year's ad valorem tax will be $134.40. New in the budget this year is an allocation of $15,000 for the Bryan Public Library for the acquisition of new materials. Studies have shown that the library has a large patronage from College Station. Revenues for the city are expected to go up in almost every area in- cluding ad valorem tax, court fines, alcoholic drink sales tax, sales tax and utility transfer. College Station's sales tax revenue is expected to increase by 21 percent over the last budget year and bring in about $942,554.92. Some $975,266.20 is proposed to be transferred from the utility fund for debt service requirements and general fund operation. The transfer to cover expenses other than debt service represents 4.4 percent of gross utility revenues. The proposed budget allows a 5 percent increase in all salaries of city employees and a two and one half percent increase to be awarded for merit. Last year the city gave about a 7 Related story on page 1B. percent overall raise to its workers. t Already the city is losing workers to private businesses offering higher salaries, City Manager North Bardell said. He said the 5 percent raise may not help that situation. "We offer better fringe benefits," he said. Expenditures are up in the ad- ministrative section of the general fund budget. Bardell said some of this increase is because the city tax office is being expanded to handle a tax re- evaluation program this next year. The police department budget calls for four additional officers and two additional clerks to do the reports of the three daily shifts. These clerical positions also may serve as jailers when the city moves into its new police and courts building. The fire department is authorized to get four new firemen. Much of the council discussion Tuesday night was about which outside agencies the city would help finance. As the budget now reads, the Brazos Valley Arts Council will get an increase from $6,860 to $8,000. Retired Senior Citizens Volunteer Program (RSVP) is slated to get $2,200 and Brazos Valley Mental Health - Mental Retardation Center is to get $9,000. Some council members were uncertain whether the city should continue to fund some groups. Groups interested in obtaining city funds will be allowed to present their proposals to the city fundcouncil this Thursday night during a public hearing on the budget. The final budget must be approved by June 27. The document now being studied by the council may be altered before its final adoption. The Eagle June 21, 1978 LA College Station budget to include tax increase By MARK WILLIS Battalion City Editor The College Station City Council will present its proposed 1978 -79 budget to the public tonight at 7. The budget, which the council viewed officially for the first time Tuesday, calls for a tax increase of four cents. This in- crease represents a rise from 52 to 56 cents on a $100 valuation, based on an 80 per- cent assessment and should produce an in- crease of $170,000 in revenue to the city. The budget anticipates increased reve- nue from almost every tax source due to rapid development in the area. This in- crease is estimated to total about 21 per- cent. City expenditures are expected to in- crease 11 percent, an increase of approxi- mately $1,422,000 over the present fiscal year. The proposed budget totals $12,717,261.86. The increase has been made necessary due to inflation, the need for more serv- ices, and salary raises. It calls for a 5 per- cent increase in all salaries and the addi- tion of several new city employees. Among these would be four officers and two clerks for the police force and four additional firemen. The final budget must be approved and any alterations made by June 27. The Battalion June 22, 1978 NOTICE TO BIDDERS THE College Station Parks and Recreation Department is now accepting bids for the sale Of concessions in Bee Creek the Parks and Ratreation Department until ' 2C00 P.M. Monday, June 26, 1978. Bid forms and further information may be obtained at the Parks and Recreation Department office, 1000 Eleanor St., College Station, or by calling 8464753. Andrew Czimskey, Acting Director parks $ R r e c r e a i o n 6 /22,6/23 The Eagle June 22, 1978 Agencies seek slice of next CS � get -- By JANE M. SMITH Staff Writer Only one citizen chose to comment Thursday night on the proposed $12.7 million budget for 1978 -79 for the City of College Station. However, the city council did hear numerous requests from outside agencies and organizations for funding. The only citizen to speak on the budget in general questioned the legality of transferring money from the utility fund to general fund use. He said he would like to see the amount transferred to the general fund shown on each month's utility bills. Councilman Gary Halter, acting as mayor in the absence of Lorence Bravenec, said the 4.4 percent being transferred from gross utility revenues was about the same amount of money the city would get if the utility were privately owned and the city charged property and franchise taxes. He said the utility transfer — $389,916 this year — is lower than in previous years. The proposed budget of $12,719.461.86 is to be approved by the council on June 27. It is up 12.5 percent over last year. Halter said a 4 cent tax increase that would be required with the new budget will go mostly to retire capital indebtedness approved by the voters. a "It might be of interest to point out that our taxes equal half of what Proposition 13 in California will allow those cities to assess," Halter said. Groups requesting funds from the city included the Retired Senior Citizens Volunteer Program (RSVP), the Arts Council of Brazos Valley, Brazos Valley MH -MR, the Museum of Natural History and the Brazos Valley Senior Citizens Association. RSVP is requesting $2,000, the arts council is asking for $8,200, MH -MR is requesting $9,000, the museum wants $3,500 and the `senior citizens want $10,000. Councilman Homer Adams told the agency representatives that he is "all for the programs" but is against their methods of funding. He said that when groups get money from the cities and then the county too, the city residents are giving twice. "I think the funding should be by the county. I know from a realistic view that the county will not take over this funding unless it is forced. Right now the funding is not equitable," Adams said. Speaking to a request from the senior citizens for money to build a new center at 29th and Villa Maria in Bryan, Halter said he hoped that Bryan would be as generous when it came time to finance a center in College Station. Council members Bravenec, James Dozier and Larry Ringer were absent from the Thursday meeting. Bravenec and Ringer are :n New York working on the city's bond rating and Dozier was representing the council at a dinner. The remaining council members tabled consideration of two or- dinances — one for wrecker control and the other to revise the existing ordinance listing permitted uses for neighborhood business districts. The city's planning and zoning commission has recommended that the council further restrict the neighborhood districts by establishing a list of uses and lot and building size restrictions. Residents in the Southwood Valley area had earlier petitioned for such a change because they had heard rumors that a car wash would be built in their neighborhood. Adams said he was not satisfied with the size requirements proposed in the ordinance change. He said he thought some businesses might need to be larger than the 10,000 square foot maximum. Citizens, however, said they want the restrictions to protect their neighborhood's integrity. City Planner Al Mayo said larger buildings would create more noise and traffic than neighborhood business districts are designed to have and should be in regular commercial zones. The Eagle June 23, 1978 \tko\ Counc"Ie iscus es flood 2 hours of explanati n still confusing By JANE MILLS SMITH Staff Writer Related story on page IA. College Station City Council Tuesday night spent almost two City Engineer Elrey Ash spent the hours discussing flood plain two hours trying to explain hydrology and found the subject hydrology to the council so that it enlightening but also confusing. would better understand flood plain As Bill Kling, a registered elevations and decisions involving engineer in the audience said, the flood plain. "You've got a tiger by the tail here Ash took the council through the and I'm not sure how you let it go. complicated process of determining When the federal government flood elevations for an imaginary started trying to tell people to come area he called "Hypothetical in out of the rain, these problems Hollow." el vations and projections are made with numerous "judgment factors" that need an experienced engineer to determine. Ash said the council must deter- mine how much political heat it wants to take in flood plain protection. If the council is too strict, he said, it would hear complaints from developers. If it was too lax. the council would hear from citizens worried about their houses flooding, he said. Councilman Gary Walter and began." One of the primary conclusions of Mayor Lorence Bravenec said they City Manager North Bardell and the evening was that flood plain were concerned that if development along creeks in College Station isn't controlled, the city would later have to pay for channelizing those creeks. At one point in the meeting, several council members resumed an earlier argument over a plat for development on a city creek. The council approved that plat and later voted to turn it down. Councilman Jim Dozier again criticized the planning and zoning commission for recommending approval of the plat while they also were considering changing the flood hazard ordinance. The ordinance change would have made the plat violate city standards. Councilwoman Anne Hazen said. she didn't feel appointed officials such as P &Z members should be discussed in that way and she left the council chambers, visibly upset, until the discussion was com- pleted. Commenting on recent statements that the U.S. Corps of Engineer's flood elevation study presently used by the city is out of date, Ash said he thought it was a good study. He said a flood elevation expert had told him that the corps study was done so carefully and con- servatively that 9 times out of 10, it would hold up against updated, more specific studies. In the city's case, Ash said, the engineer thought the flood plain would change very little if it were re- mapped using comprehensive data. Ash said the city would have to make a decision whether to use the corps study or a new study being completed by the federal Flood Insurance Administration. Council's new budget calls for increase in CS city tax rate By JANE MILLS SMITH Staff Writer College Station City Council Tuesday night took its first official look at the proposed 1978 -79 budget for the city which calls for a four cent increase in the tax rate. The proposed budget totals $12,717,261 and shows an 11 percent increase over last fiscal year. Pro- posed revenues in the budget total $12,722,513. That excess revenue is in the city's cemetery fund and cannot be transferred for other uses. If the budget is approved as now written, the tax rate will increase from 52 cents per $100 valuation based on 80 percent assessment to 56 cents. For a homeowner with a house valued at $30,000 who paid $124.80 in taxes for 1977 -78, the next year's ad valorem tax will be $134.40. New in the budget this year is an allocation of $15,000 for the Bryan Public Library for the acquisition of new materials. Studies have shown that the library has a large patronage from College Station. Revenues for the city are expected to go up in almost every area in- cluding ad valorem tax, court fines, alcoholic drink sales tax, sales tax and utility transfer. College Station's sales tax revenue is expected to increase by 21 percent over the last budget year and bring in about $942,554.92. Some $975,266.20 is proposed to be transferred from the utility fund for debt service requirements and general fund operation. The transfer to cover expenses other than debt service represents 4.4 percent of gross utility revenues. The proposed budget allows a 5 percent increase in all salaries of city employees and a two and one half percent increase to be awarded for merit. Last year the city gave about a 7 Related story on page 1p, percent overall raise to its workers. Already the city is losing workers to private businesses offering higher salaries, City Manager North Bardell said. He said the 5 percent raise may not help that situation. "We offer better fringe benefits," he said. ?' ; Expenditures are up in the ad- ministrative section of the general fund `budget. Bardell said some of this increase is because the city tax office is being expanded to handle a tax re- evaluation program this next year. The police department budget calls for four additional officers and two additional clerks to do the reports of the three daily shifts. These clerical positions also may serve as jailers when the city moves into its new police and courts building. The fire department is authorized to get four new firemen. Much of the council discussion Tuesday night was about which outside agencies the city would help finance. As the budget now reads, the Brazos Valley Arts Council will get an increase from $6,860 to $8,000. Retired Senior Citizens Volunteer Program (RSVP) is slated to get $2,200 and Brazos Valley Mental Health- Mental Retardation Center is to get $9,000. Some council members were uncertain whether the city should continue to fund some groups. Groups interested in obtaining city funds will be allowed to present their proposals to the city fundcouncil this Thursday night during a public hearing on the budget. The final budget must be approved by June 27. The document now being studied by the council may be altered before its final adoption. The Eagle June 23, 1978 July 4th party set A Fourth of July party at Bee Creek Park will be sponsored by the City of College Station and a local radio station. The all -day affair, from 8 a.m. to midnight, includes skydiving shows, contests, field games, swimming, fireworks and a dance. Free swimming for persons 18 and older is set for 8 -10 a.m. Afternoon activities include a skydiving per- formance by the A &M Skydiving Club with members landing beside the pool and a diving exhibition by lifeguards. Contests include a greased watermelon chase, (speed - drinking) grape juice under water, making the big splashes and the Dozier, colors on flood plain To the Editor: Councilmen Jim Dozier and Homer Adams showed their real colors (last) Tuesday during discussion of the proposal before the College Station City Council for a housing development in the Bee Creek Flood Plain. An extension of their theory "those who buy in the flood plain deserve what they get" would be "those who bought tickets on the Titanic's last voyage..." I fail to understand, having lived in Brazos County for four years, how elected officials could possibly hold or voice such opinions. Possibly Mr. Dozier and Mr. Adams have forgotten -that their funniest dive. Winners get coupons from area mer- chants. In addition, the Bryan - College Station Jaycees will host a barbecue from 4 -7 p.m. in Bee Creek Park. Field games at the park, 4:30 -7 p.m., include a frisbee tournament, soft- ball and a bicycle obstacle course. From 6:30 -9 p.m. the Bryan - College Station Lions Club is sponsoring field games at Tiger Field, in park located at the corner of Anderson and Jersey streets in College Station. These will feature games to get the whole family involved. Fireworks will be featured from 9:15 -9:45 P.M. at Tiger Field, sponsored by the Lions Club. Then it's back to Bee Creek Pool for a pool -side dance and music provided by KTAM Radio. The pool will also be open. Adams showed Positions as policy makers carry a weighty responsibility to protect the welfare of the community and its residents. Unfortunately their kind of thinking either results in suits by flooded citizens against the city or million dollar expenditures to concrete line, straighten and "floodproof " the creeks. The common sense approach seems to me to be just not to build in the flood plain. My hope is that all those who voted for Councilmen Dozier and Adams live in the flood plain and are able to reap the rewards of their representation. Kathy Casserly The Eagle June 24, 1978 City • council expected to approve new bu dg et The College Station City Council will complete and vote on adoption of the city's budget for the 1978 -79 fiscal year in a spe- cial meeting, tonight at 7 o'clock. The budget calls for a 4 cent tax increase and an 11 percent increase in expendi- tures. City officials expect it to be ap- proved with only minor changes, City Manager North Bardell said. One major consideration the council will deal with tonight is funding for special services. The council will decide which services will receive city funds in the com- ing year. Representative of the city service or- ganizations made their budget requests at Thursday's public hearing. These requests include: the Retired Se for Citizens Vol- unteer Program (RSVVV fir $2000 the Arts Council of Brazos Valley for $8200 the Brazos Valley Mental Health - Mental Retardation Center,, for $9000; the Museum of Natural History, for $3500, and the Brazos Valley Senior Citizens As- sociation, for $10,000. The budget, which was presented to the council June 20, has been revised slightly. "The changes were made, for the most part, to correct errors and were mainly cosmetic." Bardell said. Barring any unexpected occurrences, the city of College Station will have an ap- proved 1978 -79 budget tonight. The Battalion June 27, 1978 \61, CS council to approve city budget College Station City Council tonight will put the final touches on a proposed $12.7 million budget for fiscal year 1978 -79 which begins July 1. During a public hearing last week, only one citizen commented on the budget, although several persons came before the council to ask for funding for outside agencies and organizations. The proposed budget is about 12.5 percent higher than last year and includes a 5 percent across -the- board raise and a 2.5 percent merit raise for employees. City Manager North Bardell said the increase in the budget is due to inflation, increased services and retirement of debt. "In the 1976 bond election, we said it would result in a 13 -cent tax in- crease. We were able to hold that to nine cents and this year we've added the remaining four cents," he said. The proposed budget would mean a 4 -cent tax increase per $100 valuation based on 80 percent valuation. Revenues in the budget show a 21 percent increase in the city sales tax revenues and a $170,000 increase in ad valorem tax income. Some $975,266.20 is being trans- ferred from the use utility fund to general fund use. Bardell said $389,916 of the transfer will cover expenditures other than debt ser- vice. The council has not made a decision on which outside agencies to finance. Requests have been made from the Arts Council of Brazos Valley, Retired Senior Citizens Volunteer Program, Senior Citizens Association of Brazos Valley, Brazos Valley MH -MR, and the Museum of Natural Science. General fund revenues and ex- penditures in the proposed budget total $3,851,106.73. Expenditures under the general fund for 1977 -78 and 1978 -79 are as follows: Administrative, $402,563, 43 last year, $611,761 proposed; Police, $455,559 last year, $570,885 proposed; Fire, $476,118, $490,669; Health and Sanitation, from $214,838 to $278,828; Street Department, from $229,371 to $278,290.02; Parks & Recreation, from $230,745 to $295,582; Miscellaneous, from $90,559 to $108,950.00; Contingent Fund, from $247,974 to $130,672.34; Retirement of Debts, from $723,756 to $1,085,467. Utility Fund revenues and ex- penditures total $8,862,607 as compared to $8,226,741 last year. Expenditures under the utility fund for 1977 -78 and 1978 -79 are proposed as follows: Administrative, $244,614 last year, $252,423 proposed; Operation, $5,428,386 last year, $5,195,153 proposed; Maintenance and Repairs, from $405,976 to $588,775; Sewage Treatment from $125,153 to $116,713; Capital Outlay from $396,721 to $457,408; Transfer to General Fund from $591,108 to $975,266; Transfer to Reserve for Retirement of Debt, from $683,134 to $799,294.31; Debt Service from $351,647 to $497,572. Revenues from utility operation, are expected to increase. The Eagle June 27, 1978 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING. The College Station City Council will t a public hearing to eonsicler an or- dinance amending the Flood Hazard Ordinance, No. 936 to remove the allowaMce of a maximum change of one (1) foot to the existing upstream 100 year flood elevation by a development. The hearing will be held inthe 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, July 13, 1978. For additional information, please contact the City Plan. ner's Office in the City Hall, 713 -846 -8886. 6148 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station City Council will hold a public hearing to consider an or- dinance amending Ordinance No. 1065 requiring a Con- ditional Use Permit for multifamily - residential projects to change the term "Conditional Use Permit" to "Site Plan Approval." The 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, July 13, 1978. For additional information, please contact the City Plan- ner's Office in the City Hall,i 713-846 -8886. 6/28 The Eagle June 28, 1978 511 CS council notifies agencies that funding will be stopped By JANE M. SMITH Staff Writer College Station City Council members Tuesday night put several outside agencies on notice that next year the groups will have to depend on the county for their total funding. The message to the agencies came as the council approved a $12.7 million budget for 1978 -79 which will mean a four cent tax increase per $100 valuation. Council members said they felt the cities were being forced to pay twice for such organizations as the Arts Council and Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) since the county gave funding as well. Councilwoman Pat Boughton said she felt the organizations whould be supported completely by the county so we're not giving two and three Councilman Homer Adams said he times." had fought paying for county ser- "I think we should go ahead and vices back when it began, with a fund those agencies already in the request to fund indigent hospital budget for this year, but let them patients. know that in the future they're going "I thought it then when it was to have to go to the county," she $2,000 ad I still oppose it now that it's said. over $30,000," he said. "It also disturbs me how little The council voted to give RSVP money some of these groups are $2,000 and the Brazos Valley MH -MR getting from Bryan," said Coun- $9,000. It transferred $9,000 ear - cilman Gary Halter. marked for the Arts Council of "If the county did the funding it Brazos Valley to the city's con - might be more evenly distributed," tingent fund until representatives of Mrs. Boughton continued. that agency answered council "I agree," said Halter. questions on its budget. Halter estimated that about two- Halter said no one from the Arts thirds of county taxes come from Council had ever come before the city residents and yet, he said, much council to explain a large increase in less than that percentage is spent in budget. the cities. New means tax increase. The Eagle June 28, 1978 From page 1A, col. 4 Representatives of the other groups appeared before the council last week. The council voted not to fund the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History, which has requested $3,500, and the Brazos County Senior Citizens Association, Inc., which requested $10,000 for a building program. Councilwoman Anne Hazen suggested that a fund be set up for senior citizen activities and that the council decide later which group should get this money. City Manager North Bardell said the money for such a fund might come 'from a revenue sharing funds. Councilman Larry I tried un- successfully to get funding for the natural history museum. He said he got as much benefit from the museum as some of the other agencies funded. The council directed Mayor Lorence Bravenec to write RSVP, the arts council and the indigent hospital fund informing the groups that the council intends to phase out fun- ding and that the groups should go to the county for money. Letters also will be written to agencies not getting funding. Bravenec said a carbon would be sent to the county_ judge. The total budget ap- proved shows expenditures of $12,719,461.86 and revenues of $12,724,713.98. The budget is about 12.5 percent higher than last year. It includes a 5 percent across the board pay raise for city employees to be given July 1, and a 2.5 percent merit raise to be given Jan. 1. Turn to uage 6A, col. 7 council budget Council votes to stop funding By MARK S. WILLIS Battalion City Editor y . The College Station City Council ap= proved the 1978 -79 budget Tuesday night and served notice on both Brazos County and local service organizations that the city will be phasing out its support of these organizations. , The budget reflects a 4 -.cent tax increase and an 11 percent increase in expenditures over the present fiscal year. The council as a whole agreed that the service organizations' funding requests should be a county consideration rather than a city one. "These are functions that should be car- ried out by the county," Mayor Lorence Bravenec said. The council voted to send letters to the various organizations and the county judge, notifying them of the its in- tention to phase out support. Of the service organizations applying for ,funds, the Retired Senior Volunteer Pro- gram (RSVP) and the Brazos Valley Mental Health- Mental Retardation Center were allocated $2,000 and $9,000 respectively. The Arts Council of Brazos Valley, which had been included on the budget earlier for an allocation of $8,200, was removed from the budget, with those funds re- served for later consideration. That amendment was recommended by Coun- cilman Gary Halter. Not included in the budget were re- quests by the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History and the Brazos County Senior Citizens. Association Inc., for $3,500 and $10,000 respectfully. Coun- cilman Larry Ringer made a motion to amend the budget to include the museum, but his motion was not seconded. The council also approved the city tax roll. The Battalion June 28, 1978 `y0, GS Council mar apologizes for Arts Council statement A College Station city councilman at the hearing), Councilman Gary today said he was mistaken Tuesday Halter said. "I would like to when he criticized the Arts Council apologize to them — because they of Brazos Valley for not sending did appear." anyone to explain their budget Halter said he listened to tapes of request at a city budget hearing the hearing and determined that June 22. Rebecca Landmann, Arts Council "I honestly do not remember (that president, was at the hearing on an Arts Council representative was June 22. The council Tuesday agreed to cut city funding to the arts council and several other agencies after next year. "We don't want to make a big issue of this," Landmann said today, "but I feel that our people would think we let them down by not representing them. And I was there." The Eagle June 29, 1978 Chief sees dangerous shortage CS needs more firemen for large -scale blazes By FRANK MAY Staff Writer The College Station Fire Depart- ment faces uncertain problems controlling major fires because the number of firemen is not keeping pace with ever- increasing work loads, Chief Douglas Landua said today.. can handle an ordinary house fire without any trouble, but more than that depends on the off -duty response we get," Landua said, referring to the number of firemen who would answer a call while not working. The - fire department would "definitely" have difficulty con - troling a fire at a large business or in more than two apartment units if few off -duty firemen responded, Landua said. Budget figures approved by the College Station City Council Tuesday night indicate that four new firemen for the fire department will be added for the 1978 -79 year. Landua requested 13 more fire fighters. The number of calls has more than doubled over the last three fiscal years, Landua noted. The depart- ment answered 579 calls, all for fires, in fiscal 1975 -76 and responded to about 1,300 for the current year, ending today. A total of about 535 of those calls were for ambulance service. An estimated 760 were for fire assistance. Running the ambulance service requires at least two men. The emergency service sometimes strains the department's fire fighting capabilities because the men are also firemen and may be needed at a blaze, the chief said. The number of fire and ambulance calls is expected to continue upward because of the city's general growth and increased response to the am- bulance service. Personnel at the department meanwhile has increased by about 60 percent with the addition of nine new positions .last year and four more for the coming fiscal year. The total number of fire fighters for the 1978 -79 fiscal year will be 31. "As far as manpower goes, we could definitely use more," Landua said. Firemen at work 56 -hour weeks and are often asked to respond to calls while off -duty. "We have a large number of men who can often respond to off -duty calls because they are enthusiastic and don't mind," Landua said. "But there will be times when we run short, and we'll just do what we can," he contimred. "When we have a large fire that we can't knock down (control), then we'll have problems," he said. Landua said he will rely more on the Bryan Fire Department for helping in stopping large fires, Landua said. "There will be times when we have to call them in, but we help them, too," he said. The manpower shortage will also make it difficult to have more than one fire truck or ambulance respond immediately, Landua said. "Two trucks or ambulances at the utmost will get to the scene right off. But after 10 or 15 minutes, we can get other supervisory personnnelto get trucks there if needed," Landua added. More equipment including a new grass fire truck and pick -up truck were also requested, but not granted by the council. Landua said he was promised the needed equipment with re_ venue sharing funds, and' City Manager North Bardell said Thursday the department is ex- pected to get it. The request for the 13 more firemen was not granted because the - fire department will not be able to occupy its new sub - station during the 1978 -79 fiscal year, Bardell ex- plained. Landua expects the equipment to be delivered early next year. Despite not getting approval for the requested number of new firemen and equipment from the city this month, Landua said he is satisfied with what his department did get. "I am real happy with our budget. But if we don't get these new trucks, 1 won't be too happy," he said. The Eagle June 30, 1978 CS deserves what it gets To the Editor; Some days ago I w one to Eagle commenting Bravenec's public reaction to the passage of Proposition 13 in California. The message I sought to convey was simply that voters there were fed up with burgeoning overhead, administrative, ad d done essential costs, and something about it. I had no idea that the proposed College Station Right budget, as cobbled up by h Honorable North Bardell, an4, reported in your columns today, would provide such a startling local example of the sources of voter discontent. The "services" 'part of the city budget (not counting debt retirement, utilities, and con- tin gency funds) is proposed to in- crease by about 25 percent. Glancing at the components of the budget, most items, such as bpolica , streets, that and parks go up y do not: Fire amount. Two glaringly only 3 protection, which rises by percent, far less than even the cost of inflation; and a dministration, 52 e n which soars by a whopping cent. Why on earth should the cos of administering a city g o b P Y twice cos ts as much as the ponent parts? Dont tbe e silly c any 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 2W 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. bureaucrat can answer that question. In the case of California, the voters have answered it also. But surely the most appalling part of the whole performance was that only a single citizen was reported to have commented on this astounding state of affairs at the public hearing. I suppose that this only confirms that Mayor Daley, that grand old man of machine politices, was right when he get what observed hey edeserve." Chicago, move over! T g Treadwell The Eagle June 30, 1978 CS councilman elected to development council College Station City Councilman James H. Dozier was elected Secretary of the Brazos Valley Development Council at the annual meeting held recently at the Aggieland Inn. Grimes County Judge Ben Swank was elected chairman of the board; Rev. Dolphus Jones of Burleson County was elected vice chairman, and Washington County Judge Gus Mutscher was named second vice chairman. In his acceptance speech, Swank emphasized his continued support of the council. The council is a regional planning commission, whose membership is composed of the counties of Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Robertson and Washington counties; the 18 in- corporated cities; and the ,seven soil and water conservation districts within the seven county region. The Eagle July 3, 1978 The Eagle, July 5, 1978 m July 4th celebrants thrilled 'neath the rockets' red glare at Tiger Field, staged by the Lions Club and C S Recreation Council. n The Battalion July 5, 1978 brother, standing at the edge of the Bee Creek Park swimming pool (foreground). Erica and father Eric were just two of many College Sta- tion residents who celebrated the Fourth of July cooling off in the Bee Creek pool. Eric is a mechanical engineering major at Texas A &M. Battalion photo by Lee Boy Leschper Jr. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission willhold a public hearing on the question of granting a Conditional Use Permit for the construction of and educational building as an addition to the existing church facilities of the Second Baptist Church of College Station located at 708 Eisenhower, College Station, Texas. The hearing will be held in the Council A ROOm of the College Station Clt� Hall, 1101 i South Texas Avenue at the 700 P.M. meeting of the Planning and Zoning COm mission on Thursday July 20, I 1978. For additional information please contact the City Planner's Office in the City Hall, 713846-8886. TO WHOM IT MAY CON CERN: The College Station City Council will hold a public hearing on the question of rezoning the following tract: 2:18 acres located north of and adjacent to F.M. 60 and approximately 3500 feet west of the intersection of F.M. 60 and Wellborn Road (F.M. 2154) from Neighborhood Busines District CN to Apartment Building District R -6. The application is in the name of and Associates, P.O. Drawer CF, 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 July 27, 1978. For additional information please contact me. Albert O. Mayo, Jr. City Planner The Eagle July 5, 1978 The Battalion July 5, 1978 fireworks display and Tuesday was no exception. Tiger Stadium for the city's residents. College Station officials provided a full-blown aer- Battalion photo b Pat O'Malley Rape suspect sought CS police describe offend _ College Station Police Chief arvin Byrd made a plea for local ssistance today in the identification and apprehension of a man thought to be the attacker in five assaults on women, which included two rapes, in the city since May 9. A description compiled in the five incidents is that the attacker is a black male in his early twenties, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 165 pounds. The man had reportedly worn a baseball -type hat in at least one of the incidents. Byrd said no other definite patterns for the man's dress or appearance have been established. "We have received a number of conflicting reports and we are only sure of his basic description," Byrd said. The described man is a suspect in an assault May 9 on Boyett Street at 1:03 p.m., an assault June 1 on High- land Street at 7:42 p.m., an assault June 7 on Bee Creek Park's bike path at 5:05 p.m., a rape June 10 near Southside Shopping Center at 1:30 p.m. and a rape Monday on the wilderness trail im 13ee Creek Park at 10:14 a.m. - The man involved in the rape Monday was earlier described to be wearing a maroon shirt and light colored pants. "The incidents have occurred in the north, middle and south parts of town so there are no definite pat- terns there," Byrd said. In the incident Monday, several persons heard a woman scream about the time the rape occurred, but did not inform police until the investigation began later, Byrd said. "If anybody hears or sees any- thing suspicious, please contact us," he said. "We want people to be aware of this and help us," he said. The Eagle July 7, 1978 botii x vau CS council to sell bonds Monda, College Station City wood Drive. Council will hold a special — Preliminary plat for meeting Monday at 7 p.m. Greek . Village, located to sell more that $3 million between Munson Avenue, in bonds and to consider U n i v e r s i t y O a k s several development plats. Boulevard and Stallings Approval for sale of, the Drive. bonds came during a bond — Final plat for South - election in the city last wood Valley, Section 10 -A. April. This is the second — Final plat for series of bonds to be sold. Also on the agenda is consideration' of a reply from the U.S.Department of Housing and Urban Development concerning the Community Development Program for the city. The council will consider the following plats: — Revised preliminary plat for Sunrise Place, located north of and ad- jacent to F.M. 2818 and 1,000 feet west of South -' Holleman Ridge w. Holleman Drive and An- derson Street. —Final plat of resub- division of Lot 1, Block 5, Breezey Heights Addition. A closed session is scheduled at the end of the meeting to consider land acquisition. The Eagle July 8, 1978 CS council to sell bonds Monday College Station City Council will hold a special meeting Monday at 7 p.m. to sell more that $3 million in bonds and to consider several development plats. Approval for sale of the bonds came during a bond election in the city last April. This is the second series of bonds to be sold. Also on the agenda is consideration' of a reply from the U.S.Department of Housing and Urban Development concerning the Community Development Program for the city. The council will consider the following plats: — Revised preliminary plat for Sunrise .Place, located north of and ad- jacent to F.M. 2818 and 1,000 feet west. of South- wood Drive. — Preliminary plat for Greek Village, located between Munson Avenue, University Oaks Boulevard , and Stallings Drive. — Final plat for South- wood Valley, Section 10 -A. — Final plat for 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 Rar_dnll. liv Manager, until 2:00 P.M. on Wednesday, July 26, 1978, for furnishing the following equipment: One New Ili Ton Pickup Truck Specifications can be obtained 71t the Public Works Office at City Ha11, 1101 Texas Avenue, College Station, Texas. Holleman Ridge at Holleman Drive and An- derson Street. —Final plat of resub- division of Lot 1, Block 5, Breezey Heights Addition. A closed session is scheduled at the end of the meeting to consider land acquisition. Flashing red lights planned for FM 2818, Highway.60 Motorists will be traveling through a safer intersection at FM 2818 and Highway 60 within the next two months, ac- cording to Nick Turnham, public affairs officer for the state highway department. The department has ordered flashing signal lights that should be in- stalled within 30 -60 days, he said. The red lights will stop motorists traveling on both r oads. The lights are an interim solution to the increasing congestion at the in- tersection. Funds for an underpass have been allocated in hopes of remedying the traffic problems permanently, Turnham said. "We would like to say the underpass will be under contract prior to Sep- tember 1979," Turnham said. The traffic lights will be installed by the state and will be mounted on posts rather than strung overhead to avoid distracting pilots landing at the nearby Easterwood airport, Turnham ex- plained. In addition, there will be a sign with an amber light to warn motorists driving west on Highway 60 of the approaching signals. The estimated cost for the lights and sign is $6,900, Turnham said. The Eagle July 9, 1978 Highway 6 remedy good news for area Expansion of Highway 6 to a cident rate on that 15 mile sec - four -lane highway from Bryan- tion of the highway. In 1975 there College Station to Navasota is were 25 accidents with 11 in- good news especially in light of ,juries. Last year there were 56 the increasing traffic accident accidents with 22 injuries and record and the growing four fatalities. In the first six population of the region. months of this year there have The Highway Department will already been four fatalities. open bids next week on the 15 While the construction of the mile project and construction is four -lane highway is a tem- expected to start in August. porary step to curb the accident Currently the major link rate, it is a logical step for the between the communities is a Highway Department to make. heavily used two lane road. On the drawing boards in the When the additional lanes of the department's 20 -year planning highway are complete, it will program is a divided four -lane connect Highway 6 bypasses of facility. But, state and federal Bryan - College Station anct regulations would require a Navasota to provide a four -lane series of hearings on that type of facility between the com- project which would take five to munities. eight years. With the large population Of major concern to the High- growth of the region, the tem- way Department is the in- porary step on Highway 6 is a creasing traffic load and ac- must. The Eagle July 9, 1978 r----- - - - - - • loe LEGAL NOTICES. 06 - - - -� 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 2:00 P.M. on Wednesday, July 26, 1978, for furnishing the following equipment: One New 3 A Ton Pickup Truck Specifications can be obtained at the Public Works Office at City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, College Station, Texas. CS police say latest rape unrelated to earlier cases College Station police said today there is no connection between a rape which occurred early Sunday morning and five previous assaults on local women since May. The rape Sunday oc- curred at about 1 a.m. in an apartment at 1501 High- way 30, police reported. The rapist was described as a white male, 5 feet 4 inches tall with blond hair of medium length covering his ears. The man was wearing a baseball cap and was believed to be in his mid -20s, police records show. Police are looking for a black male in his early 20s, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 165 poun in connection with five assaults, including two rapes, which occurred in College Station between M ay 9 and July 3. The women involved in the Sunday incident told police she had seen the attacker earlier when she returned a tennis ball to the man at the apartment's swimming pool. The Eagle July 10, 1978 C S studies fee limit on towed -away cars By JANE MILLS SMITH Staff Writer College Station City Council Thursday night began consideration of an ordinance to stop alleged abuses by wrecker services serving the city. The council also began deliberation on an ordinance to stop a rash of false alarms by security devices at local businesses caused by poor equipment maintenance and improper training of personnel. Both ordinances will be con- sidered during public hearings later in the month. College Station Police Chief Marvin Byrd told the council that most of the problems with wreckers come from the towing of vehicles from private parking lots. He said car owners find their cars missing and notify the police that they are stolen. "We catch a lot of flack over these private hauls, when in fact, we don't have anything to do with them. The owner of the property calls the wrecker and we aren't even notified," the chief said. The proposed ordinance would require wreckers to notify the police within one hour of removal of a vehicle from a private lot. The proposed ordinance also sets maxi- mum fees which may be charged for private hauls — $30 for the towing and impoundment and nothing for storage. Under the proposed ordinance, wreckers may not tow a vehicle from a private parking lot unless the lot has signs prominently placed at all entrances to specify those per- sons who may park and prohibiting all others. If a lot is not posted, the owner of the lot will be liable to the owner of the impounded car for all towing charges. The ordinance also would establish a license and registration process as well as rotation lists for wrecker calls. Violation of provisions of the ordinance would carry a fine not to exceed $200 and would result in the wrecker service being suspended from the rotation call list. Byrd also told the council that his police officers are answering numerous false alarms to local businesses and banks. "We've been embarrassed several times when we charged up to a bank," he said. Because of the numerous false alarms, Byrd said, his officers are checking back with the business once an alarm is received to check its accuracy. The proposed ordinance, Byrd said, would help guarantee that the companies putting in alarm devices were reputable, would install good equipment, keep up the main- tenance and train the people how to use it. The proposed ordinance also would allow only banks. and other financial institutions to link their alarms directly to the police station. Other alarms can be hooked up to a security company that will call the police when an alarm goes off. Byrd said 12 alarms are now hooked to the police station. The proposed ordinance would provide for permits for persons sell- ing and installing alarm devices, set standards for equipment, provide penalties for false alarms and provide for an installation fee for alarms linked to the police station. In other action, the council ap- proved zoning changes for 28.07 acres of the Agency Records Con- trol, Inc., tract from agricultural open to planned industrial and 7.34 acres owned by Dorsey McCrory from neighborhood business to town- house- rowhouse. An ordinance amending the flood hazard ordinance was tabled. A public hearing on the matter will be held later. The Eagle July 11, 1978 (V CS to appeal HUD ruling By RUSTY CAWLEY Staff Writer After learning the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had turned down a city grant application, the College Station City Council voted unanimously to appeal the ruling during a meeting Monday night. The refusal means the loss of about $200,000 in improvement funds for the city. But it does not prevent the city from applying for Com- munity Development block grants in the future. In a letter to the council, HUD assistant secretary Robert Embroy accused College Station of failing to meet with the Housing Assistance Plan, a government- subsidized program for housing low and middle income families. City Planner Al Mayo said this morning that the plan will not work in College Station. "It's difficult in a city of 40,000, with a high average income, with such high rents and so few eligible applicants to meet with the assistance plan," Mayo said. The plan calls for the subsidized renters to pay 25 percent of the rent, Mayo said. "There aren't just a whole lot of eligible people who can pay 25 percent of a $350 -400 a month rent," Mayo said. "HUD has placed the assistance plan as the most important part of the Community Development block grant application," he said. "It also happens to be the most difficult to meet." In Monday night's meeting, Councilman Gary Halter suggested the council appeal the ruling. "We're out for 1978 unless we appeal," Halter said. "I suggest we do. I don't know if it will do any good." The council instructed Community Development Planner Jim Callaway to explore the appeal process. "It's about the only thing we can do," Mayo said this morning. In the past, the Community Development block grants have been used for repairing and im- proving water lines, sewer lines, streets, and drainage systems, Mayo said. "The grants are , general," Mayo said. "That's what makes them so valuable. In other action, the council ac- cepted the bid of a 5.409370 percent effective interest rate from Rauscher- Pierce Securities on the sale of $3.02 million of the city's general obligation bonds. The bonds were approved in the city's general election in April. They will mature over a 20 -year period, ending in 1999. The money will be used for street improvements, park improvements and the construction of new police, fire and warehouse buildings. The Rauscher- Pierce bid was selected as the best from a field of six. In other action, the council passed by common consent a preliminary plat for Greek Village, a sorority apartments complex to be built between Munson Avenue, University Oaks Boulevard and Stallings Drive. Also passed were final plats of Holleman Ridge and Breezey Heights Addition. The council approved unanimously a revised preliminary plat for Sunrise Place on FM 2818 and a final plat for Southwood Valley, Section 10 -A. The council also met in closed session to discuss land acquisition. No action was taken. The Eagle July 11, 1978 The Eagle July 11, 1978 Councilman clarifies tax re- evaluation Bryan Councilman Henry Seale asked. say the school board Monday took time out of the council "I woylil meeting to make a special point: the since they have to approve the tax Bryan City Council now has nothing roll," said, City Secretary Joe to do with the school rural property Evans. re- evaluation and it is up to school "Could this council make a officials to alter that re- evaluation, recommendation that the re- Seale said the city has been evaluation be stopped ?" asked "catching a lot of flack over the re- Councilman Peyton Waller. evaluation." "If you make it, I'll second it," "This council had nothing to do Seale replied. But the matter was with the re- evaluation. My feeling is dropped. that a majority of this council is not The council contradicted in favor of the re- evaluation. The statements by some school officials body responsible for it is the Bryan that the city had forced the re- Independent School District Board," evaluation to continue. Council Seale said. members said there was no clear Mayor Richard Smith said the city mandate from either the school is doing some "mechanical work" board or the city council on -hat for the school district on taxes, but should be done about the re- since the election separating the two evaluation. bodies, the decisions on tax and The rural re- evaluation, the first property re- evaluation is with the in five years, already was in schoolboard. progress before the separation "Who would have the power to election. Values were upped by as discontinue the current rural much as 900 percent on some rural property re- evaluation ?" Seale lands. The Eagle July 11, 1978 Council to appeal By MARK WILLIS Battalion City Editor The College Station City Council has voted to appeal a ruling by Housing and Urban Development officials that found the city ineligible for funds in 1978 for Community Development Programs. The Council considered the ruling during a special council meeting Monday night. Councilman Gary Halter, who went to Dallas recently to represent city interests to HUD, was asked to give background on the problem. "I'm not sure anyone could give you a background on this," he said. *Ke ex- plained that several of the programs which HUD said College Station must imple- ment were not needed in this area. This fact, he said, mad_ a no difference to HUD officials. The major objection voiced by HUD of- ficials was that the city had no plans for construction of low cost and /or rent - subsidized housing, he said. Halter said that though existing housing could be used, would be cheaper, and would pro- duce a more successful result, this did not affect the HUD ruling. Halter said he was told by one official, whom he did noVidgritify, "You have set on your ass and' done nothing for three years." Despite the failure in College Station programs similar to several of those de- manded by HUD, the department refused -to reconsider its decision, Halter said. Councilman Jim Dozier moved that the council appeal the ruling and write Texas legislators in Washington in protest. The motion carried unanimously. The council also accepted the low bid of Rauscher Pierce Securities Inc. for sale of city bonds totaling $3,020,000. The sale of the bonds, approved by the voters in April 1971, is to pay for street improvement, police and fire department construction, and park land acquisition and improvement. • • d ecisiond The Rauscher Pierce bid, which was the lowest of six, called for gross interest of $1,848,135.63 over a seven year period. From this sum a premium of $24.50 would be subtracted, leaving $1,848,111.13 or an effective interest rate of 5.4093 percent. Councilman Homer Adams questioned the need for the city to sell $352,000 of those bonds, since the land that amount was originally set aside to purchase has al- ready been acquired with other funds. "The people didn't vote $2,152,000 to parks," Adams said. "They voted $1,800,000," referring to the $352,000 spent out of general funds for the land in question already. It was then explained, not to Adams' satisfaction, that to hold the bonds and at- tempt to sell them later would be difficult due to the relatively small amount of money involved. Park improvement was included on the original bond issue and the additional funds will be used for that purpose. The sale was approved, with Adams casting the only negative vote. The council also approved several plat proposals by various developers. The Battalion July 11, 1978 � cutting HUD-fundiongpla CS council schedules 4 hearings Four public hearings are to be held Thursday night at the regular meeting of the College Station City Council. One of the more controversial hearings will be on adoption of an or- diance amending the Flood Hazard Ordinance to remove the allowance of a maximum change of one foot to the existing upstream 100 -year flood elevation by a development. City officials have said the change would make development in the flood plain very difficult and more expensive because developers would have to make allowances to keep flood elevations from increasing. The change would pertain to up- stream elevations and nbt to down- stream runoff. Two public hearings will be held on rezoning proposals. Agency Records Control, Inc. is requesting that the remainder of its 37.32 tract I be rezoned from agriculture open to planned industrial. The rezoning would cover 28.07 acres. Dorsey E. McCrory is requesting that the city rezone 7.34 acres located north of F.M. 2818 and 1,000 feet west of Southwood Drive from neighborhood business to townhouse - rowhouse. The final hearing is on adopting an ordinance amending Ordinance No. 1065 requiring a conditional use permit for multi - family residential projects to change the term "con- ditional use" to a more appropriate term. Other items on the 7 p.m. council agenda include: — First reading of a franchise ordinance for Lone Star Gas Com- pany. — Consideration of an ordinance regulating automobile wreckers within the city limits. — Consideration of an ordinance establishing procedures for regulation of police alarm systems in the city. — Considertion of an ordinance receiving and accepting the work of Richards Street and directing the issuance of special assessment certificates. — Consideration of an ordinance abandoning a portion of right -of -way in Southwood Valley. — Consideration of bids for electrical conductor necessary for feeder line construction. — And, consideration of bids on The Eagle Oaks Park. Jul 12 1978 A closed session also is scheduled Y to consider land acquisition. YCC project a commendable one It's been a long hot summer for 24 area youngsters working in the Youth Conservation Corps project at College Station. .Today is the last day of work for the corps project: the teenagers have been laboring since June 5 on a variety of projects in College Station parks including the establishment of a fitness trail at Bee Creek Park. For 30 hours a week the teenagers have been out in the sign shovelling dirt, wielding pickaxes and cleaning up recreational areas. - Another 10 hours a week are spent on environmental studies and conservation. :Three goals are accomplished of a relatively economical level: youngsters between 15 -18 years old get jobs they probably would not have otherwise obtained for the summer; a community benefits from improvements made; and the youngsters in- volved get some background into the needs of the environment. Besides College Station, other Brazos Valley communities participating in the YCC project include Hearne, Brenham and Jewett. The program is a com- mendable one and one which other government agencies in the Brazos Valley should con- sider for next summer. The Eagle July 14, 1978 �(O CS studies fee limit on towed -away cars By JANE MILLS SMITH Staff Writer College Station City Council Thursday night began consideration of an ordinance to stop alleged abuses by wrecker services serving the city. The council also began deliberation on an ordinance to stop a rash of false alarms by security devices at local businesses caused by poor equipment maintenance and improper training of personnel. Both ordinances will be con- sidered during public hearings later in the month. College Station Police Chief Marvin Byrd told the council that most of the problems with wreckers come from the towing of vehicles from private parking lots. He said car owners find their cars missing and notify the police that they are stolen. "We catch a lot of flack over these private hauls, when in fact, we don't have anything to do with them. The owner of the property calls the wrecker and we aren't even notified," the chief said. The proposed ordinance would require wreckers to notify the police within one hour of removal of a vehicle from a private lot. The proposed ordinance also sets maxi- mum fees which may be charged for private hauls — $30 for the towing and impoundment and nothing for storage. Under the proposed ordinance, wreckers may not tow a vehicle from a private parking lot unless the lot has signs prominently placed at all entrances to specify those per- sons who may park and prohibiting all others. If a lot is not posted, the owner of the lot will be liable to the owner of the impounded car for all towing charges. The ordinance also would establish a license and registration Process as well as rotation lists for wrecker calls. Violation of provisions of the ordinance would carry a fine not to exceed $200 and would result in the wrecker service being suspended from the rotation call list. Byrd also told the council that his police officers are answering numerous false alarms to local businesses and banks. "We've been embarrassed several times when we charged up to a bank," he said. Because of the numerous false alarms, Byrd said, his officers are checking back with the business once an alarm is received to check its accuracy. The proposed ordinance, Byrd said, would help guarantee that the companies putting in alarm devices were reputable, would install good equipment, keep up the main- tenance and train the pecple how to use it. The proposed ordinance also would allow only banks and other financial institutions to link their alarms directly to the police station. Other alarms can be hooked up to a security company that will call the police when an alarm goes off. Byrd said 12 alarms are now hooked to the police station. The proposed ordinance would provide for permits for persons sell- ing and installing alarm devices, set standards for equipment, provide penalties for false alarms and provide for an installation fee for alarms linked to the police station. In other action, the council ap- proved zoning changes for 28.07 acres of the Agency Records Con- trol, Inc., tract from agricultural open to planned industrial and 7.34 acres owned by Dorsey McCrory from neighborhood business to town- house- rowhouse. An ordinance amending the flood hazard ordinance was tabled. A public hearing on the matter will be held 'rater. The Eagle July 14, 1978 tzideri prop By JANE MILLS SMITH Staff Writer A 100 -unit federally funded housing project for elderly and handicapped persons is in Bryan - College Station's future. According to John Emerson, regional planner for the Brazos Valley Development Council (BVDC), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has offered $2.5 million in a direct loan for a project in the Bryan - College Station area. Four organizations have applied for the loan and have proposed various designs for the facility. Three of the proposed projects would be built in Bryan and one in College Station. The loan would be repaid by income from the facility. The organizations seeking the HUD financing are Moody House, which now operates Crestview in Bryan; Volunteers of America, a national non - profit group with their southern headquarters in Louisiana; the Bryan League of United Latin American Citizens ( LULAC); and Anchor Guidance Center of Houston. The Anchor project would be built in College Station. Emerson also said that HUD is offering housing assistance payments to low income persons who might live in the facility. Under this program, eligible persons would pay 25 percent of their net monthly income for rent and HUD would pay the remain- der. The project, however, would not be strickly for low income persons. The proposed rent at the facilities will be about $280 a month. It will be open to anyone who meets the age or handicapped requirements regardless of in- come. The project will be about 90 percent for elderly and 10 percent for handicapped'persons. Moody House, a part of the Methodist Church, r proposes tc build a three -story structure behind the present Crestview facility. The structure would be on about 4.7 acres of land and have 90 one - bedroom apartments for the elderly, five one - bedroom apart- ments for the handicapped and five two - bedroom apartments for the handicapped. Plans call for resident garden Plots, an outdoor games area with a patio, ramped sidewalks, a nature path and possibly an ar- boretum. Bryan LULAC plans to call its project, if funded, Oak Hill Village. The complex would consist of at- tached buildings, sort of like duplexes, to be built on 6.138 acres at the corner of Kent and Broad - moor. A unique feature of the LULAC proposal is that residents would be able to open up windows for cross - ventilation and not have to use air conditioners if they desired. LULAC proposes to build 36 efficiency units, 56 one - bedroom units and eight two - bedroom units. Volunteers of America proposes to build three structures — two three -story buildings and a com- munity building. Each unit would face a land- scaped courtyard or buffered area. Kitchens would be equipped with dishwashers, disposals and other conveniences. Open space is provided in the plan for gardening and for outdoor recreation. This proposed project would be called Town Lake Village and would be built on Plainsman Lane across from Town and Country Shopping Center, Anchor Guidance Center proposes to build one and two -story units in College Station on Holleman Street. There would be 86 one - bedroom units for the elderly, six one: bedroom units for the handicapped, four two- bedroom units for the elderly and four two - bedroom units for the hand- icapped. Emerson said that HUD will make the final decision on which group gets the loan. Local com- ment and review is being included in the consideration through meetings of the BVDC. This week the BVDC gave favorable review to all the Projects. Emerson said he did not know when HUD would make a decision. But he expects to see ground- breaking for one of the projects within a year. The Eagle July 15, 1978 Y, handicapped housing sed for B=CS area CS utility bills 2 again arriving late Due to a computer :breakdown, College Station utility bills are again arriving late. We were just about to f"' catch up," said City ,'Public Works Director George Ford, "when we had this computer problem." He said the computer had been down about a week, turning the billing 'procedure topsy - turvy. The city has begun to bill by computer and the adjustment to that process had taken several months to complete. Ford said consumers in cycle two of the billing plan — residents of the southern portion of the city — will be required to pay their June bill by Aug. 11 and their July bill by Aug. 31. Thursday night the city council discussed the billing problem and directed the staff to come up with recom- mendations on whether the late payment dates should be extended for those receiving the two bills in the same month. Ford said a recom- mendation would be made at the next council meeting. The Eagle July 15, 1978 Low income housing project needed 'here Low income elderly residents and handicapped residents got some good news Saturday and it is good news for the entire Bryan - College Station com- munity_ . The federal Department of Housing and Urban Develop- ment has allocated $2.5 million in loan money for a low income housing project for the elderly and the handicapped. Judging from the four ap- plications presented to HUD, a good facility for the elderly and handicapped will be built within the next two years here. The four organizations that submitted plans for a 100 unit facility are: Moody House, an organization affiliated with the Methodist Church; the Bryan - College Station League of United Latin American Citizens; Anchor Guidance Center of Houston; and Volunteers of America, a national non - profit agency. Under the HUD program, low income residents would pay 25 percent of their income for rent while a federal rent subsidy program would pay the balance of the projected $280 a month rent allotment for the units. While the housing situation in the Bryan - College. Station has eased somewhat, there remains a need for additional housing units and especially for low income elderly residents and handicapped persons. We would hope that HUD would move quickly on determining which of the four applications would best meet the needs of the low income elderly and handicapped of the community so construction can get underway on the project. The Eagle July 16, 1978 r d T t � %'I ioe LEGAL NOTICES City Council of College Station, Texas will be received at the office of North Bardell, City Manager, until 2:00 p.m. on Monday, July 31, 1978 for furnishing the following equipment. One New Multi- Purpose Turf Maintenance Tractor Specifications can be ob tained at the office of the City Manager at City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, College Station, Texas. 7/16, 7/17, 7/24 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals addressed to the Honorable Mayor and city Council of College Station, Texs will be received .. at the office of North Bardell, City Manager, until 2:00 P.M. on Monday, July 31, 1978 for furnishing the following equipment: One New 1 Ton, Stakebed Truck Specifications can be ob- tained at the office of the City Manager at City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, College Station, 7T16 ��17 7/24 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 2:00 P.M. on MP July 31, 1978 for furnishing the following equipment: One New 'h Ton Pickup Truck Specifications can be ob- tained at the office of the City Manager at Ciity Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, College Station, Texas. 7/16,7/17,7/2 The Eagle July 16, 1978 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 2:00 p.m. on Monday, July 31, 1978 for furnishing the following equipment. One New Multi- Purpose Turf Maintenance Tractor Specifications can be ob rained at the office of the City Manager at City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, College Station, Texas. 7/16, 7117, 7/24 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 2:00 p.m. on Monday, July 31, 1978 for furnishing the following equipment: One New 1 Ton, Stakebed Truck Specifications can be ob tained at the office of the City Manager at City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, College Station, Texas. 7116, 7/17, 7124 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 2:00 p.m. on MP July 31, 1978 for furnishing the following equipment One New 1 /2 Ton gpickup Truck Specifications can be ob- tained at the office of the City Manager at Ciity Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, College Station, Texas. 7/16,7/17,7/24 The Eagle July 17, 1978 Surveillance devices planned for new jail By JANE MILLS SMITH Staff Writer College Station's new jail facility now under construction will eventually be equipped with some kind of surveillance devices, but as yet, police officials have not decided exactly what equipment will be installed. Police Chief Marvin Byrd said wires are being installed in the ceil- ings of the men's and women's holding tanks which could hook up either television cameras or micro- phones and speakers. "We're not planning to put anything there right now," Byrd said. He said no money is available for purchase of the actual monitoring device. "The federal government em- phasizes that we watch and oversee the prisoners at all times for their protection," Byrd said. "We'd like to have two -way communication between the prisoners and the police supervisor so that if a fellow gets sick or some- thing, we could know about it." The chief said the wires are being installed now because it is less expensive to put them in during initial construction. Asked if microphones would be installed in the cells, Byrd said, "not at this time ". "If one ever does go in, it won't be a secret," he said. Mike Greer, architect with Emmett Trant and Associates, the city's architect for the project, said special light fixtures are being installed that have a mounting for surveillance devices. The fixture has a vandalproof housing, he said. Bob Viterna, assistant director of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, said such monitoring of jail cells is generally accepted practice. Although his commission does not regulate city jails, he said there is a need in such facilities for voice communication between the prisoner living area and the police control station. "Especially in a tank like this sounds like, there is a potential for a great deal of violence unless it is monitored. Drunks and felons alike can be thrown together," Viterna said. Viterna said prisoners do have a right to privacy as determined by the Supreme Court, but he said such determinations usually are made on the "intent" of the sur- veillance. "If the intent is to deprive a prisoner of privacy or to gather evidence, then monitoring devices could be judged to be wrong,but if it is to maintain order, then it is for the prisoner's protection," he said. College Station's jail facility will not be used to house prisoners for lengthy periods of time. "Presently, we sometimes take a prisoner downtown to county jail and then have to turn right around and go back and get him because someone has posted bond. This new holding tank will eliminate that," Byrd said. The present police station has no holding facility. The new building is under con- struction near the city's southern city limits on Texas Avenue. It is expected to be completed by September. Artist's concept of Safety City car. Safety City planners seek kid -sized open auto Safety City planners know what they want but they can't find it. They are looking for open cars that kindergarteners through fifth graders can ride as they learn about safety. "We were going to use Big Wheels but we couldn't see fifth graders trying to wrap their long legs around them," said Sue Keeley, vice president of the Neighborhood Advisory Council. "Besides, Big Wheels are plastic and we're going to have 1,200 kids going through the program. I don't think they would last very long." Safety City is part of a safety program designed for A &M Con- solidated School District elementary schools by the Neigh- borhood Advisory Council. It is located on Timber Street behind A &M Consolidated Middle School and consists of buildings, streets, street signs, and a policeman. NAC was given $15,000 by the College Station City Council to develop a safety program for children. The program is expected to begin Sept. 1 and consists of two harts. The children get a week -long safety course in the classroom by a safety officer from the College Station Police Department. Then they get to put into action what they have learned. They will go to Safety City, divide into groups of pedestrians and motorists, and practice "driving;' following signs and obeying safety guidelines. However, program planners have had problems locating a car that would be safe for children to use. "We're hoping that someone in the community either knows of where we can buy them or knows someone who could make them," Daine said. "We know people who have seen them but they don't know where we can get them." Local residents who have in- formation concerning open cars can call Diane Church at 693 -8398 or Sue Keeley at 846-3696. The Eagle July 18, 19 , Q B=CS fire chiefs not talking FRANK MAY Staff Writer Bryan and College Station fire chiefs refuse to comment on the county commissioners' recent decision to limit rural fire protection, but they indicate, in so many words, that the county may be making a mistake. The two chiefs said they have not received notification of the court's decision and will not comment until they do. They do say, however, that the system the county appears ready to abandon is extremely economical to the county. Commissioners at their regular meeting Monday are expected to pinpoint which county fire calls the two city fire departments will answer. County Judge William Vance said Wednesday. "We are primarily finalizing our plans and will only discuss the basis for which the Bryan and College Station Fire Department will respond to county calls and the effective date of the decision," Vance said. Commissioners wanted their new plan to take effect Aug. 1, but because of further discussion of its specific provisions, Sept. 1 is being considered the probable target date, Vance said. Commissioners voted 3 -1 to renegotiate the county's agreements with the two city fire departments. Commissioners want to cut their costs for extinguishing the increasing number of grass and trash fires in the county and have sought improvements to volunteer fire departments in the rural areas. The court's decision would allow city fire trucks to roll only upon an order from a county law officer, a county commissioner or officer of a volunteer fire department. The initial call on a fire in the county would go to the sheriff's office, which would then call a volunteer fire department or determine if the fire was severe enough to contact the city firemen. The county currently pays the College Station Fire Department for actual man -hours worked and $5 per engine mile. The Bryan Fire Department recieves $150 for each grass fire it responds to in the county and $300 for a fire calls involving any type of house or building. "The current method is the most economical way it can be done for the county," Bryan Chief Don Van Huss said. "It is a very economical method," agrees Chief Douglas Landua of College Station. The county is saving money by paying for fire protection "only when they need it" and do not have to pay the high costs for trucks, equipment and firemen when they are not working, the chiefs said. The two chiefs suggested that responding to fire calls outside the cities is costly to taxpayers in the municipalities. Landua said 15 to.20 percent of his fire department's calls are for fires in -the county. R The county pays, however, only. about five to six percent of the department's total budget. "The city residents pay for the rest of the county's fire protection," he said. The maintenance costs on equipment are also high. "We recently went out on a grass fire and had to drive our truck through the brush and woods and ruined the paint job, a muffler and a tire. There was about $1,000 damage, but we only got $150 for the call," The Eagle July 20, 1978 Van Huss said. " I would expect the two chiefs to say the current method is the most economical because it gives each city a maximum amount of money for each fire," Vance said. A few counties in the Panhandle currently operate under the system suggested by commissioners in which a member of the Sheriff's department receives the initial fire call, Charles Yeager, assistant College Station chief said. "Their plan is not working because it simply takes longer to get to the fire," he said. "If we couldn't go to the grass fire out in the Brushy community July 4, right away like we did, it would've destroyed two barns and probably a house instead of barely touching one barn," Yeager added. The best solution to providing top fire protection to the total Brazos County population would be the formation of a countywide fire department, Yeager and Landua said. "It would have everything under one roof with top equipment and service," Landua said. "But that will probably never happen. They wouldn't do it here," he added. C' 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 2:00 p.m. on Monday, July 31, 1978 for furnishing the following equipment. One New Multi Purpose Turf Maintenance Tractor Specifications can be ob tained at the office of the City Manager at City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, College Station, Texas. 711f, 7/17, 7/24 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals addressed to the Honorable Mayor and Cit; Council of College Station, Texas will be received at the office of North Bardell, City Manager, until 2:00 p.m. on Monday, July 31, 1978 for furnishing the following equipment: One New 1 Ton, Stakebed Truck Specifications can be ob- tained at the office of the City Manager at City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, College Station, Texas. 7/16,7/17,7/24 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 2:00 p.m. on MP , July 31, 1978 for furnishing the following equipment: One New 1 /2 Ton gpickup Truck Specifications can be ob- tained at the office of the City Manager at Ciity Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue, College Station, Texas. 7/16,7/17,7/24 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The City of College Station City Council will hold a public hearing to consier an or- dinance regulating Police Alarm Systems in the City of College Station. The 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 July 27, 1978. For additional information, please contact the office of the Chief of Police, 713 -846- 8864. - 7- 18.7 -25 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The City of College Station City Council will hold a public hearing to consider an or- dinance regulating Automobile Wrecker Com- panies in the City of College Station. The 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 July 27, 1978. For additional information, please contact the office of the Chief of Police, 713-846- 8864. 7 -18, 7 -25 The Eagle July 18, 1978 us fits Police s ect , ' description ist s rap By MARK WILLIS ing about 165 pounds. Battalion City Editor The attacker is believed responsible for College Station police'believe they may two rapes and three assaults in June and have apprehended the man responsible for early July. On July 6, police issued a press a series of rapes and assaults in this area release describing the attacker and re- during June and July. questing citizens to report suspicious per - Responding to a "suspicious person" call sons fitting the description. early Tuesday afternoon, police picked up Police are withholding the suspect's a suspect fitting the description provided name pending further investigation and by victims of the attacks. He was de- positive identification by victims. A com- scribed as a black male in his early twen- plete report should be issued sometime ties, approximately 5' 10" tall, and weigh- today, police officials said. The Battalion ` July 19, 1978 qli CS meeting to discuss .11 art program The College ,,Station City Council 'will hold a workshop meeting Wednesday afternoon to discuss art programs with the director of the Arts Council of the Brazos Valley. Also on the agenda for the meeting is discussion of staff recommendations for data processing and billing, and presentation of a report on capital improvement projects. A closed session to consider land acquisition will also be held. The meeting will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday at city hall. The Eagle July 23, 1978 in LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals addressed, to the Honorable M'aYOI` and "ity Council of College Station, Texas will be received at the office of North Bardelm. City Monday, July 31, 2:00 p. 1978 for furnishing the following equipment One New 1 Ton, Stakebed Truck Specifications can be ob- tained City the City 1101 Texas Avenue, College station, 7 7%17 7/24 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 BardellTCion MP , July 31, 2:00 p. until 1978 for furnishing the following equipment: One New 1 /2 Ton gpickup Truck Specifications can be ob Ci the Manager at Ciity Hall 110 Texas Avenue, College Station, Texas „., The Eagle July 24, 1978 `00 High -rise frames better To The Editor: Someone needs to blow the whistle pretty soon on this apart- ment building vs. residential conflict taking the form of zoning changes with the hope of improving the quality of life in College Station. The true problem has not been hinted at yet — the disre aril, for the apartment dweller. This attitude has cost the city, in general, and A &M students specifically, a great deal. I take issue with Patricia Boughton and her efforts -to "serve" her city by forcing the construction of 4- plexes instead of high -rise apartments. I do not contend that she made the wrong choice, not knowing the neigh- borhood, but I don't think she understands the ramifications of her decision. If Mrs. Boughton is concerned about the development of the city, she should take the exact oppostie position in order to make better use of undeveloped land for the following reasons: 1.) High -rise dwellings use land more efficiently, by requiring less land and concentrating utilities. 2.) By encouraging lower den- sities, one encourages urban sprawl to outlying undeveloped land. This causes flooding problems, raises utility and transportation costs, and takes agricultural land out of production. 3.) The assumed negative im- pact of high rise apartments, per se, on single family areas has Letters to the Editor never been proved in this area and is generally unfounded. 4. ) I doubt "high rise" (over 8 stories)` is the correct nomen- clature. 5.) A higher density apartment complex designed in a sensitive manner by professionals (instead of a builder) would give Bryan - College Station a boost in its structural building quality, especially multi - family. 6.) Denser developments leave a larger proportion of attractive and usable open space than do spread - out developments that waste land with setbacks and easements. 7.) Overall energy consumption, initial and lifetime, is lower for large buildings than for many small ones, because of common walls and utility configurations. So please, developers, coun- cilmen and councilwomen, un- derstand the real problems. Give us environments that solve human problems first. Then compute your maximum rate of return and how the facade might affect the skyline from your kitchen windows. Tim Hansen The Eagle July 25, 1978 ,A1 CS grants and Bryan denies budget for area arts program After hearing an ex- planation of the budget of the Arts Council of the Brazos Valley, the College Station City Council Wednesdayy voted to give that organization the $8,200 requested for next year. The Arts Council is made up of 13 arts - oriented organizations, such as the ArtA League, StageCenter and the Musuem of Natural Science. The council coordinates grant and fund acquisition for these organizations. Earlier iin the month, the city council voted to hold onto *the -money until representatives of the Arts Council made a presen- tation of their proposed spending for 1978 -79. Monday, the Bryan City Council voted against wing the Arts Council 5,100, but did decide to let the group continue use of space in the city building valued at $3,100. Mrs. Rebecca Land - mann of the Arts Council said representatives of her group plan to appear before the Bryan council to ask that they reinstate the funding. Bryan council members have said they felt it was the county's responsibility to fund the organization. Mrs. Landman said the Arts Council also is requesting $8,200 from tthe county. Commisioners have not met on that request. Traffic petitions set for CS council meeting The College Station City Council will be presented with two petitions from citizens tonight at its 7 p.m. meeting at City Hall. The first petition con- cerns placement of a warning light at FM 2818 and Southwood. The second requests im- provement of Thomas Street. Other items on the agenda include; — Consideration of an ordinance rezoning the same tract. — A request from the Chamber of Commerce concerning room tax money. — A second reading of a franchise ordinance from Lone Star Gas Company. — Opening of bids on a truck for the sign depart- ment. — Consideration of purchase of Lifepak system for ambulance. — Consideration of an agreement with the state highway department on installation of flashing beacons at Jersey and FM 2818. — Consideration of Jones - Butler Road. — Reconsideration of a final plat for Southwood Valley, Section 10-A. — And a closed session to discuss land acquisition and personnel. The Eagle July 27, 1978 College Station to buy cardiac monitors By JANE MILLS SMITH Staff Writer The purchase of two portable Lifepak cardiac monitors was authorized Thursday night by the College Station City Council for the city's ambulance service. According to Bill Schear, am- bulance supervisor, the Lifepaks will provide information so the emergency technicians can stabilize a patient at the scene of an accident or wherever the emergency care is begun. "We will be able to get the most information the soonest on the patient. We can use it on an over- dose, heart attack, trauma, chokings and heat strokes," Schear said. He told the council that members of the local medical community were in favor of the purchase of the cardiac monitor equipment. "The strips taken from the monitor at the scene also will be very valuable to the doctor when the patient gets to the hospital," Schear said. The two units will cost about $2,875 each and will be purchased with revenue sharing funds. Supplies for the portable units will be financed from the ambulance service's yearly budget. Schear said the emergency technicians in College Station already are bein trained to use the Lifepak units. When the new units are delivered sometime in October, he said, the ambulance service will be ready to begin immediate use. Each of the city's ambulance units will have one of the Lifepak devices. In other action, the council assigned a committee to work with representatives of the Chamber of Commerce on the chamber's request for $16,000 in funds. Last year the city gave $6,700 to the chamber. Mayor Lorence Bravenec assigned the matter to a committee after City Manager North Bardell said the city may already have encumbered the money set aside from hotel -motel tax to go for such projects as the chamber. The Chamber is requesting $7,900 for East Texas Chamber of Com- merce promotion, $3,100 for promotional materials, $1,000 for organized solicitation, $1,500 for special events and $2 for con- tinuing education. The chamber received $19,000 from Bryan. ; Two petitions from citizens were presented to the council Thursday night. One petition was from residents requesting a warning light at F.M. 2818 and Southwood. City Engineer Elrey Ash said the highway department had studied the in- tersection and found that such a signal would be ustified. ' However, As� said, the cost of such a signal would be the respon- sibility of the city. Councilman Gary Halter suggested the city staff come back to the council with a cost estimate. The Eagle July 28, 1978 The second petition was from residents of Thomas Street who wanted that street improved at Bee Creek. The city manager went through a lengthy explanation covering 10 years of history on how the street got in its present situation of not being curbed and guttered at that section. Residents said they felt it was the responsibility of Woodson Lumber Company, owner of the surrounding land, to pay for the improvements. But they said they felt in any case the city should begin the im- provements because the residents had been waiting 10 years. The street is paved, curbed and guttered except for a portion by the creek. The city staff was directed to investigate the options on improving the street and come back to the council The council ran into a roadblock on its consideration of an ordinance controlling police alarm systems in the city. Robert Oates representing Security Systems of Huntsville, which owns Ranger Protection in Bryan, said a similar ordinance was passed by Houston and later over- turned. He began a presentation of why he objected to the proposed ordinance but was cut off by the mayor who said a committee would study the ordinance. Bravenec named Oates to that committee. ��9 � J Staff photo by BM Meeks They're not singing in the rain College Station policemen weren't exactly thrilled at intersection of Texas Avenue and Hwy. 30. Local meterologists directing traffic in the rain. Here, two officers help out at the say a little more than an inch may have fallen here. The Eagle July 28, 1978 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed proposals addressed to the City of College Station, Texas, will be received at the office of Mrs. Florence Neelley, City Secretary, City Hall, College Station, Texas, until 2:00 p.m. o'clock, August 15 1978, for furnishing all necessary material,equipment and labor required for the construction of: Contract "A" — Sanitary Sewer OutfaII Contract "B" — Sanitary Sewer Lines Contract 'C" — Sanitary Sewer Force Main Lines Contract "D" — Sewage Lift Station and Water Pump Station Bidders must submit with their bids a Cashier's check Certified Check in the amount of five (5) percent of the maximum amount of bid C ity a of e College S recourse to tation, Texas or a proposal bond in the same amount from a Surety Com any 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 latest Revision of Treasury Depart- ment Circular 570, as a guarantee that Bidder will enter into a contract and execute bond and guarantee forms provided within five (5) dayys after notice of award of contract to him. Bids without checks or proposal bond will not be considered. In accordance with Article 5160, Revised Civil Statues of Texas, 1925, as amended, the successful bidder will be required to furnish not only a amount of in c the b contract, but also a payment bond 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 latest list of companies holding certificates of authority from the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, or other Surety acceptable to the Owner. 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 pace in the bids, the Owner reserves the right to consider the most ad- vantageous construction thereof or to reject the bid. Unreasonable or unbalanced unit prices will be considered sufficient cause for rejection of any bid. Bidders are expected to I nspect the site of the work and nform themselves regarding local conditions under which the work is to be done. At- tention is called to the provisions of the Texas Minimum Wage Act of 1970 and Article 5159a. Revised Civil Statutes of Texas concerning the prevailing wage rate ap plicable in mun opal con strU Lion. The Eagle July 29, 1978 Contract Documents, Proposal Forms, Specifications, and Plans are on file and may be examined without charge in the office of Mr. Elrey Ash, City Engineer, and may be obtained from Riewe 8. Wischmeyyer Inc., Consulting Engineers, 11325 Peg9asus Street, Suit S -209, Dales, Texas 75238. Upon the deposit of Twenty Five (625.00) Dollars, per contract set, which sum as provided 1 be Contractor submits a bid and returns all documents to the Engineer within 72 hours after bid. Non - bidders returning plans within 72 hours after bid opening will be refunded Ten (510.00) Dollars. Suppliers returning plans within 2 hours after bid opening will be refuned their de it. ids submitted will be ex any permanent tax nt mater al to be any pe I installed Ind TY OF COLLEGE S T A T I O N, T E X A S Lorence Bravenec, Mayor ATTEST: Mrs. Florence Neelley, City S e c r e 7 29,73085 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed proposals addressed to the City of College Station, Texas, will be received at the office of Mrs. Florence Neelley, City Secretary, City Hall, College Station, Texas, until 2:00 p.m. o'clock, August 15 1978, for furnishing all necessary material,equipment and labor required for the construction of: Contract "A" — Sanitary Sewer Outfall Contract "B" — Sanitary Sewer Lines Contract 'C" — Sanitary Sewer Force Main Lines Contract "D" — Sewage Lift Station and Water Pump Station B idders must submit with their bids a Cashier's check or Certified Check in the amount of five (5) percent 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 Com- pany 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 latest Revision of Treasury Depart ment Circular 570, as a guarantee that Bidder will enter into a contract and execute bond and guarantee forms provided within five (5) dayys after notice of award of contract to him. Bids without checks or proposal bond will not be considered. In accordance with Article 5160, Revised Civil Statues of Texas, 1925, as amended, the successful bidder will be required to furnish not only a performance bond in the amount of the . contract, but also a payment bond 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 latest list of companies holding certificates of authority from the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, or other Surety acceptable to the Owner. 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 or unbalanced unit prices will be considered sufficient cause for rejection of any bid. Bidders are expected to inspect the site of the work and inform themselves regarding local conditions under which the work is to be done. Attention is called to the provisions of the Texas Minimum Wage Act of 1970 and Article 5159a. Revised Civil Statutes of Texas con. cerning the prevailing wage rate applicable in municipal construction. The Eagle July 30, 1978 Contract Documents, Proposal Forms, Specifications, and Plans are on file and may be eramined without charge in the office of Mr. Elrey Ash, City Engineer, and may be obtained from Riewe & Wisch- meyyer, Inc., Consulting Engineers, 11325 Pegasus Street, Suit S 209, Dalas, Texas 75238. Upon the deposit of Twenty Five ($25.00) Dollars, per contract set, which sum as deposited will be refuned provided the Contractor submits a bid and returns all documents to the Engineer within 72 hours after bid. Non- bidders returning plans within 72 hours after bid opening will be refunded Ten (610.00) Dollars. Supppliers returning plans within 72 hours after bid opening will be refuned their deposit. Bids submitted will be ex- clusive to any state sales tax on any permanent material to be installed in the project. CITY OF COLLEGE S T A T I O N , TEXAS Lorence Bravenec, May ATTEST: Mrs. Florence Neelley, City S e c r e t a r y 7.29, 7 -30, 8.5 Y� Sealed proposals addressed to the City of College Station, Texas, will be received at the office of Mrs. Florence Neelley, City Secretary, City Hall, College Station, Texas, until 2:00 p.m. o'clock, August 15 1978, for furnishing all necessary material,equipment and labor required for the construction of: Contract "A" — Sanitary Sewer Outfall Contract "B" — Sanitary Sewer Lines Contract "C" — Sanitary Sewer Force Main Lines Contract "D" — Sewage Lift Station and Water Pump Station Bidders must submit with their bids a Cashier's check or Certified Check in the amount of five (5) percent 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 Com pany 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 latest Revision of Treasury Depart ment Circular 570, as a guarantee that Bidder will enter into a contract and execute bond and guarantee forms provided within five (5) dayys after notice of award of contract to him. Bids without checks or proposal bond will not be considered. In accordance with Article 5160, Revised Civil Statues of Texas, 1925, as amended, the successful bidder will be required to furnish not only a performance bond in the amount of the contract, but also a payment bond 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 latest list of companies holding certificates of authority from the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, or other Surety acceptable to the Owner. 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 or unbalanced unit prices will be considered sufficient cause for rejection of any bid. Bidders are expected to inspect the site of the work and inform themselves regarding local conditions under which the work is to be done. Attention is called to the provisions of the Texas Minimum Wage Act of 1970 and Article 5159a. Revised civil Statutes of Texas con cerning the prevailing wage rate applicable in municipal construction. Contract Documents, Proposal Forms, Specifications, and Plans are on file and may be examined without charge in the office of Mr. Elrey Ash, City Engineer, and may be obtained from Riewe & Wisch meyyer, Inc., Consulting Engineers, 11325 Pegasus Street, Suit S 209, Dalas, Texas 75238. Upon the deposit of Twenty Five (125.00) Dollars, per contract set, which sum as deposited will be provided retuned ded he Contractor submits a bid and returns all documents to the Engineer within 72 hours after bid. Non bidders returning plans within 72 hours after bid opening will be refunded Ten (510.00) Dollars. Sup leers rerurmng plans within 72 hours after bid opening will be retuned their deposit. Bids submitted will be ex- clusive to any state sales tax on any permanent material to be installed in the project. CITY OF COLLEGE S T A T ION, TEXAS Lorence Bravenec, Mayor ATTEST: Mrs. Florence Neelley, City 5 e c r e 7 29,7 -30, 8-5 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed proposals addressed to the City of College Station, Texas, will be received at the office of Mrs. Florence Neeley, City Secretary until 2:00 P.M. o'clock, August 15, 1978, for furnishing all necessary material and labor required for the construction of: Contract "A" Sani tary Sewer Outfall. The Eagle July 30, 1978 0%) 1 ' i ., ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed proposals addressed to the, _Ciy_of C ol l ege Station, Texas, will be received at the office of Mrs. Florence N eeley, City Secretary until 200 P.M. o'clock, August 15, 1978, for furnishing all necessary material and labor required for the construction of Contract "A" Sanitary Sewer Outfall. The Eagle July 31, 1978 Neighbors, locks can p eve r nt burglaries I - By FRANK MAY Staff Writer A burglary occurs every 10 seconds in these great United States. Burglaries do not occur in Bryan - College Station quite as often, but the number is rising and the amount of property stolen is rising even higher. Local police are not making any excuses for the increasing burglaries, but say that home and apartment owners can help keep the number down. In the city of Bryan, the amount of property lost in burglaries has almost doubled this year over the six months of 1977, although the number has risen only slightly. The situation is somewhat better in College Station with the latest crime figures showing a decrease in property lost, but police there admit it is still a problem. "Too many people say it's not going to happen to them," says College Station Sat. Bernard Kapella. "But when they walk into their house one day and feel like they don't know where they are, then they'll realize they can do something," he added. Kapella, head of the department's crime prevention unit, came to College Station 1 1 /2 years ago from Joliet, Ill., where he learned a lot about burglars. "We used to spend nights just watching burglars, their moves, their personalities, everything," he siad. "We broke a case up there after there had been 96 burglaries in one month," he noted. Kapella makes his experience and knowledge available to College Station residents through his on- going program to educate the public on how to stop burglaries. He speaks at civic club meetings and surveys homes for purglary proofing. What he tells home and apartment owners is that they must change their attitude first and then do something about it. "People have got to realize the problem. One of the best preventions is to have everybody on a clock or in an apartment complex watch out for the other guy," he began. "Get to know who's who and when they're home or what they're doing. Then, when there is anybody suspicious we can be contacted and hopefully catch him," he said. Many burglaries which Kapella investigates involve witnesses who had seen the burglars, but thought nothing of it. "A block watch is the most ef- fective way to stop burglaries," he said. Other and more widely used methods of stopping burglars in- clude dead bolt locks, latches and sliding door guards. "There are two things which can stop a burglar — time and noise," Kapella said. "And the chances are that these will always stop the burglars in College Station because there are not really any professionals here," he added. "Every homeowner should visit a reputable locksmith and get some kind of dead bolt for their doors. It's worth the $200 or so to put locks on all your doors if you consider a burglar can remove $1,500 worth of stuff quickly," he explained. Kapella had little approval for conventional chain locks, but noted modern models are becoming more effective. "Chain locks were in- vented in the 50's to keep the kids from running out of the house and for that they were good," he said. "They really do not provide security. Most chain locks can be broken through with a thumb tack and rubber band," he added. With the large number of apart- ments in the city of College Station, Kapella said renters should urge management to install locks on the units. It might cost a few more dollars, but I think it could be an added selling tool," he said. Lights in parking lots and security guards at the apartments would also help cut down the number of burglaries, he said. An identification tool available at both the Bryan and College Station police departments can be rented to mark valuable items in case they are stolen. Both Kapella and Bryan police. Lt-Gene Knowles will serve the security surveys in the two cities on request. Knowles admits there probably are professional burglars who can get into any home in Bryan "if they want to bad enough." But, he adds, they can be stopped from stealing valuables. He reccommends that citizens keep their valuables in a safe deposit box or hide them in unobvious places where a burglar would not look. "There are usually some types of secret hiding places or common cubbyholes in every home," he said. "It is worth it to at least make the burglar work to get anything done," he said. Knowles also noted that burglars often enter the door leading from a garage to a home. "It is a hollow core door and can very easily be broken into. Protection there like a better door would help," he said. Homeowners face greater chances of burglary because of the increased security in most businesses in the Bryan - College Station area, the two officers said. "Businesses have spot lights, alarms and suspicious persons are easily seen," Knowles said. With odds against homeowners increasing, Knowles and Kapella urge that residents at least be aware of the possibility of burglary. "People should try to help one another," Kapella said "Someday a burglary will happen to you and you're going to need the help of a neighbor," Kapella said. "It's an awful feeling to come home and learn that somebody you don't know was in your house," he added. Youth Corps hacks through undergrowth to build fitness trail By BRENDA STERN Staff Writer Bryan - College Station joggers won't have to dodge passing motorists and worry about shin splints after this week. Determined youths are transforming the dense undergrowth in Anderson Park into a fitness trail for joggers and exercise enthusiasts. The workers are members of the Youth Conservation Corps, spon- sored by the Brazos Valley Development Council, and snakes and poison ivy attacks haven't seemed to flag their enthusiasm. After two weeks of hacking a mile - long trail between dense park trees, workers still caper through chores with water fights and jokes to spice up what can be an arduous job. "The kids cut up whether they're supposed to be working or not," Ross McKenney, a crew leader, said. "But, heck, we don't want slave labor. We want the kids to have fun, too." "In this hot weather, any kind of excuse to stop is a good one," Mary Cichra, YCC environmentalist, said. Cichra and Rick Ploeger, urban forester for College Station, have been supervising the 24 youth's since they began work June. 5. The teen- agers work 30 hours a week and attend 10 hours of environmental lessons, including safety hints on what to do when meeting a snake and how to avoid poison ivy. "Our biggest enemies have been poison ivy and chiggers," Cichra said with a grin. The youths get paid $2.65 per hour for their efforts and don't seem to mind the hardships. is wide enough for three persons to someone telling them what to do. The purpose of uh� is to walk abreast comfortably and has Here, they can get fired just like a provide jobs for youths aged 15 to 18 exerxise stations every 100 yards. 'real' job." and give them experence in con- Each station has a signpost with "This is a job that you can feel like servation -type work, along with illustrations showing how to do an you've done something for your some environmental education, said exercise and how many times a community," Degelman said. John Rouse, YCC cwrdinator for, person should do it, depending on his "What we've done, everyone can get BVDC. physical condition. I out and use." It's not easy for teen-agers to find "They (exercisers and joggers) summer jobs and YCC gives them can pace it for what they can take," the chance to work a n4 st the same Cichra explained. "They can do time, benefit residents of par- whatever is safe and healthy for ticipating cities, Roussesaid. them." Four girls and 20 bo. s have built The youths are divided into three three bridges, e sti,blished 20 crews, which partly explains the exercise stations alog the trail, production rate of the YCC mem erected signposts and maintained bers. Crew members are highly the nearby arboretum at Bee Creek competitive. Park. Darryl Degelman, 911 Welsh The fitness trail at Alderson Park Avenue, and Chris, Velia, 2805 located on Lemon Tree between Cherry Creek, said the.; competition.. Hollemon and Southwest Parkway, keeps them busy and gives them a little fun, too. A crew leader had just finished explaining how bears mark trees with their claws and crew members decided they wanted to try it, too. "We divided up into crews to see who could get tape the highest on a tree by climbing on each others shoulders," Velia explained. "Ross's crew won but we came in second," Degelman said with pride. The boys seem to have learned from the competition. "There was a lot of rivalry at first between the people from con- solidated and Bryan High," Degelman said with Velia nodding agreement. "I thought that I'd hate the people from Bryan but they're okay after all." The YCC is a federal program administered through the Texas Department of Community Affairs and the BVDC. College Station, Hearne, Brenham and Jewett are participating in this area. Any city can apply for the program and only has to pay 20 percent of the cost, Rouse explained. The rewards seem to be two -fold. The workers earn money and develop muscles and deep suntan: and Bryan - College Station resident get a new fitness trail. "This shows them what holding a `real' job is like Dale Bode, a crew leader said. "They're not used to The fitness trail will be ready by next week and joggers are invited to try it, Rouse said. "It won't be really nice (with a special surface) for at least a couple of weeks but people can go ahead and start using it next week," Rouse said. Staff photo by Brenda Stern Conservation Corps crew cleans up trail. The Eagle July 13, 1978 oses grant for poor performance By RUSTY CAWLEY Staff Writer Poor performance in the past and insufficient housing assistance plans for the future caused College Station to lose its 1978 Community Development Block Grant, a Dallas Housing and Urban Development director said this morning. Leo Garrett, community development director for the Dallas HUD office, said College Station lost the $300,000 grant because the city hasn't helped a single low- income family since joining the program three years ago. "The law requires that to receive the grant, a city must provide an acceptable Housing Assistance Plan," Garrett said. "They've turned in plans in the past, but haven't done a single thing to fulfill them. "Not one single person has been The Eagle /Bryan - College Station, Texas Brazos News of Bryan - College Station and the Brazos Valley Wednesday, July 12, 1978 Page 1B aided by the city of College Station with a low- income housing plan," he said. "We cannot recommend HUD grant any more funds until we see some results." The Housing Assistance Plan is designed to aid low -and middle in- come families find housing. College Station city officials, however, contend that Hud's rental subsidizing program is un- workable and its housing authority plan is unacceptable. "We've offered them several options," Garrett said, "but they've either refused or not been able to carry out any of them." Ben Danford, HUD community development representative hand- ling Lhe College Station area, agreed with Garrett. "Their annual performance report on low- income housing has reported zero performance for three years," Danford said. "There is no way we can recommend them to the Washington office. "What do we say? 'Here's an applicant who hasn't done anything they said they would. Give them money.'?" Jim Callaway, College Station's community development planner, said this morning that College Station simply cannot follow the demands of HUD. "Some of their plans will not work here," Callaway said. "And others are unacceptable to the city coun- cil." One HUD plan, to provide rented housing by federally subsidizing most of the rent, will not work because of local apartment rates, Callaway said. "College Station is a landlord's market," he said. "The rates for housing of acceptable quality are too high." The plan calls for the housed family to use 25 percent of its annual income for rent. The federal government supplies the rest. "There aren't any eligible familes that we can find that can afford 25 percent of their annual income to go for rent at local rates," Callaway said. Another HUD plan, to set up a College Station housing authority was unacceptable to the city council Callaway said. "The council felt the housing authority plan was unacceptable for a city as small as College Station," he said. The loss of the 1978 grant doesn't affect projects already using grants from 1976 and 1977, Callaway said. Callaway confirmed the grant was worth $300,000, correcting an earlier statement by another city official that the grant was worth $200,000. "We just won't be able to carry out the activities we planned for the 1978 funds," he said. "Most of this was to be used for street construction and housing rehabilitation." The city will appeal the ruling, Callaway said, though there is no formal appeal process. The Eagle July 12, 1978 Sororities propose `Greek Village' By JANE MILLS SMITH Staff Writer If plans become reality, College Station will have a sorority "village." The village will contain at least eight sorority houses and be located between University Oaks Boulevard, Munson Drive, Dominik Drive andStallings Drive. The 12 -acre area, a development by Don Martell of Bryan, is to be called "Greek Village" but includes one lot and existing house at Munson and Dominik. Martell's plat is up for preliminary consideration tonight by the College Station City Council. A conditional use permit for the existing residence to be used as a sorority house for Alpha Phi has been approved by the city's planning and zoning commission. Despite the fact that the university has refused to recognize them as official student organizations, and forbidden them to meet on campus, sororities have prospered at Texas A &M. Some chapters boast mem- berships of more than 5o women. At present there are nine national sororities with Texas A &M coed members. They include Phi Mu, lAlpha Phi, Zeta Tau Alpha, Chi ALMA ZETA GNI IUPPA M TAU OV%6A ALPfIA ALPHA 'THETA ATHENS PR1Vr- flLpHA 1,_= {CAPpl 4AMMA t»LTA KAPPA Q ETA vti gAMAA GL LTA Y ri-m z oLYMPU WA `�7ALL iN4 5 Omega, Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Delta Pi, kappa kappa Gamma and Delta Zeta. The sororities have been in existence at Texas A &M for about three years. Presently each group rents a special apartment at the Sausalito Apartments for meetings and other activities. "The sororities were getting so big ;hat we didn't fit into the apart- ments, so s)mething had to be done," explainel Mrs. Brenda Zieren, a menberof Chi Omega and president of the local Panhellenic Housing Advisory Board. "We found the piece of land that Mr. Martell had and it already was zoned for apartnents. Under the city's regulatiions,sororities may be established in apartment zones if they receive a coiditional use per- mit," she said. "We wanted to 1p near the college and close enough b Sausalito that if some sororities ddn't move, we could still be close," Mrs. Zieren said. Since the sororiti-s got involved in the early stages of he development, they were able to Mork up their own deed restrictions bnd establish an architectural cont-Tol board. "We worked as a group to secure the land, but eachsorority will be on its own as far as wiat is built," Mrs. Zieren said. Some sororities will build com- plete houses with rooms for mem- bers and a house mother, while others will probaby build only meet- ing areas, she said. Some will build within a year and others may wait, she said. Each of the proposed lots contains more than an acre of land. All the houses, except the existing residence, will face inward toward each other. The existing structure, which will be remodeled, faces Munson but will have its primary entrance on the proposed Athens Drive. Two lots in Martell's development are not spoken for. The sororities propose two new streets to parallel Munson. The first is called Wildwood Drive on Mar - tell's original plat, but the women hope to have the city council rename it Athens Drive. The second street is to be Olympia Way. Sorority advisers cringed during a recent zoning commission meeting at the name of Wildwood because they said they didn't want it to become known as "Wildlife." Actually, Mrs. Zieren said, the sorority members should be quieter, calmer neighbors than apartment tenants. Each group has rules and most will have house mothers to supervise. "One of the major benefits of building together is security," she said. "It must be very tight." The impetus for the sorority The Eagle /Bryan - College Station, Texas Brazos Page News of Bryan - College Station and the Brazos Valley Monday, July 10, 1978 Page lg "We've got all kinds of organizations in the community which function independently of the university and don't have a relationship with the university," said Dr. John Koldus, vice president of student services. "That is how we see sororities." Before anything is built, however, Martell's plat must receive preliminary and final approval from the city council and each sorority must receive conditional use per- mits for their houses. Building permits also must be secured before construction begins. development is coming from in- terested alumni like Mrs. Zieren. These local women are the ones who initated or "colonized" the chapters at the university and are working to secure construction financing from private sources and the sororities national organizations. "The alumni are interested in the girls and feel that as actives, they should work to allow others to participate in an activity that did so much for themselves," she said. The university has not taken a position on the sorority develop- ment. The Eagle July 10, 1978 She won her z oning change and an election Protecting neighborhoods is Mrs. Boughton's major goal By JANE MILLS SMITH Staff Writer It can be said that College Station's newest female member of the city council grew up with that city. Mrs. Patricia Boughton was born in College Station, graduated from A &M Consolidated Schools and has spent 30 years of her life there. She was elected to the council in April and represents Ward 4. She has a deep love for the city and said that love is why she ran for the council post. She carries on a family tradition of community service — her father served for 15 years on the school board and at age 75 began a three -year term on the city council. Her father, C.A. Bonnen, now 82, still lives in College Station with Mrs. Boughton's mother. While she may be new to the city council post, Boughton isn't new to the workings of city government. Her work in getting a zoning change for some 100 acres in the Southwest Parkway, Welch Street and Wellborn Road area drew her into the council race. "It really got sprung on me because of those," Boughton said as she pointed out a picture window in the back of her home toward a row of four - plexes now under construction. "When we bought our home here we knew it was zoned R -6 (high density apartments) but we didn't think too much of it because we had been told of plans for one -story townhouses," she said. "Four or five years went by and the property changed hands and that developer had plans for a high -rise apartment complex. We got upset and started work on a petition." As a result, Boughton and other neighborhood residents got the developer to build four - plexes. But it wasn't an easy task primarily because the original petition they needed required notarized signatures of three - fourths of the landowners in the subdivision. That episode got neighborhood residents thinking: "We've got a lot of undeveloped land around here. What will happen to it? What about the elementary and high schools nearby ?" "We found out that most of the undeveloped land was zoned R -6 too. We went to the city and they told us now was the time to get the zoning changed," Boughton said. "This was when I really got involved." Boughton began "working the streets at night," going door to door to get names on a petition. Of 225 names on the final petition, she secured 174 by herself. "After the petition we had to go to every planning and zoning meeting for about six months until it was re- zoned," she said. All the land petitioned by the residents was down -zoned to lower density uses. "I was very happy. I thought the city did well by us," Boughton said. When election time came, citizens interested in protecting single family neighborhoods asked Boughton to run. She did. She campaigned hard, although she spent little on the campaign. Boughton said she personally covered 450 houses in her ward. "I just about wore my legs out. We covered every street in my ward." Boughton ran against developer Tony Jones. She said she feels the fact that Jones was a developer hurt him in Ward 4 because so many people were concerned about the intrusion of apartments and com- mercial developments into their neighborhoods. "I feel that the voters thought I would look after the single family cit y neighborhoods," she said. has Although she was elected under ho the ward system, Boughton said she wo is against it. "I don't feel that this rep city is diversified enough to warrant Sh the ward system. I`ve seen it pit neighborhood against neigh borhood." In her own election, Boughton feels the ward system hurt her. "I know a lot of people in College Station, but I was relatively new to this neighborhood. "When I announced I was running, my parents had numerous calls from people wanting to vote for me. Even after all these years, many people don't understand the ward system and they couldn't figure out why they couldn't vote for me," she said. Although she's only been on the ' council for a short period of time, Boughton said she enjoys the work. And it is work. She said it is sur- prising how much time council work takes. As one of two women on the council, Boughton said she senses that certain male council members tend to look down on her because she is a woman. "No one has done anything to me personally, but I have felt that they are condescending to women in general," she said. "Women's lib is not a big deal with me," Boughton said, adding that at first some male council member's attitudes made her angry. Now, she said, she ignores them and goes about her business. As the wife of a retired military man, Bouthron has learned to function well on her own while her husband was overseas. In fact, she said, she was always taught to be independent by her parents. When she's not involved in some mechanically inclined. good for the community and vice business or with her family (she "I don't do major car repair, but I versa. four children — all away from can change out a headlight and do "I was born and raised here. me) she often can be found minor work." We've lived all over the world and I rking on her automobile or An avid supporter of Texas A &M don't feel we've ever found a better airing a household appliance. University, Boughton feels what's place to live than College Station. I e said she's always been good for the university is usually have the city's interest at heart." Staff photo Boughton says she has the city's interest at heart. The Eagle July 3, 1978 Staff photo Boughton says she has the city's interest at heart. The Eagle July 3, 1978 CS bills may drop slightly College Station residents in the Northgate area should be seeing a slight reduction in their electric bills by August, Jimmy McCord of Electric Power Engineers, Inc. said. His firm is being used by the City of College Station as consul- tants in the power transfer from Bryan Utilities to Gulf States Utilities. They are presently super- vising power line construction in University Square by Northgate and on Highway 30 that will carry Gulf State electricity to the city. The power lines should be completed and operating by late next week, McCord said. "By the first of July we hope to have the whole Northgate area supplied b� Gulf States," McCord said. ` But you know how schedules go. If it rains all next week, we won't get it done. " Residents living around the City Hall area had their power transferred last month and should be seeing a reduction in their July electric bills, McCord said. "Anytime College Station passes a load from Bryan Utilities to Gulf States, the resi- dents should see a savings," he said. The power poles being set up in University Square are larger than most people are used to seeing because concrete foun- dations are being used instead of the usual guy wires — thick wires that run from top to bot- tom to keep it upright, McCord explained. The final transfer of power linking College Station to Gulf States Utilities is expected to occur in January, 1979, McCord said. Workers labor on both ends of the power pole. CS allows livestock, makes park pledge By JANE M. SMITH Staff Writer At least two citizens groups went away happy from the College Station City Council meeting Thursday night. The council reassured a group of Haines -Welsh Street area residents that it was working to acquire a park in that area and approved a livestock permit that will allow St. Thomas Episcopal Church to keep its animal barn. The church has maintained the small group of animals behind its church for several years. The ducks, geese, rabbits and such are used in the children's educational program. Recently, the council learned that the church did not have a permit for the animals. Several neighbors in the area complained about noise and flies from the menagerie. Church member Roger Koppa said two loud peacocks had been removed from the barn and that the facility had been approved by the health department. Regarding a new park, council member Gary Halter reassured the Haines Street area residents that the council had not faltered in its at- tempts to obtain parkland south of the Haines Street extension. But first, Halter questioned the residents on why they felt they needed reassurance. "What have we done to make you need reassurance? Has this council taken any action on that park? What is this based on ?," Halter asked the group's spokesman, Charles Giammona of 1300 Caudill. Giammona said they were aghast at the bulldozing going on in the area and were distressed at talk of The Eagle /Bryan - College Station, Texas Brazos Page News of Bryan - College Station and the Brazos Valley Friday, June 23, 1976 Page 1B changing the park site. "We want the 14 -acre park we voted for in the bond issue," he said. Halter said he had looked at the proposed park area and found the bulldozing perfectly consistent with the platted streets for the area. He said that just because an individual might suggest that the park location be changed doesn't mean that the council is considering it. "I don't know why you need reassurance. I suggest that before you come before this council the proper approach might have been to find out what is being done rather than conjure up some need for reassurance. I've spent two days in the last month working on that park subject and I thought we were doing a very good job of moving it along," he said. "Then can we be reassured? We'd like a committment," Giammona said. "Let me assure you that I am working to bring it into existence," Halter said. "even though I feel it is a bad buy because we can spend the same $200,000 and get better park land elsewhere in the city." He added that he doesn't guarantee the park would be 14 acres. "I think the money will buy about 10 acres," he said. Giammona read a statement from the citizen's group that said they wanted the park to the south of the Haines extension, not to the north. "This is the land which the voters thought they were voting for. This site was on city plans for a park prior to this group's interest. The area is a wilderness area and has many trees, grapevines, wild flowers and other habitat that would make a unique park," the statement stated. Giammona defended his group's concern saying that individual discussions with council members and private citizens had indicated the council was considering changing the park site. The Eagle June 23, 1978 Consultant lists traffic problems at workshop By BRENDA STERN Staff Writer Outdated traffic ordinances, a multitude of private driveways giving access to major city streets and inadequate parking controls are among the principle traffic- related problems in Bryan - College Station, according to John Hudson, a Houston engineering consultant. Speaking before the planning commissions of Bryan and College Station in a joint workshop Wed- nesday night, Hudson said College Station's traffic control ordinance needs to be revised. "It (the 1951 Traffic Ordinance) was probably pretty good at that time but it's outdated now," Hudson said. For instance, section 24 of the ordinance requires animal -drawn vehicles be given the right -of -way. Hudson suggested College Station should void its present traffic or- dinance and adopt one based on the Model Traffic Ordinance prepared by the National Committee on Uni- form Traffic Laws and Ordinances. Such revision would eliminate un- necessary duplication between local ordinances and state law and in- crease the flexibility of city per- sonnel in dealing with traffic prob- lems, Hudson said. Bryan's traffic code was reported as being a "very fine, simple code" and Hudson recommended no changes. School zone speed limit signs need to be changed in both cities, Hudson said. He recommended specific time limits for - reduced speeds when pedestrian traffic is heaviest such as 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Signs with more time limits and `When Pedestrians are Present' are ambiguous to the motorist, he explained. In addition, he suggested uniform speed limits of 20 mph in school zones to reduce motorist confusion. "It's an unwritten first choice that most cities prefer," Hudson noted. The planning commissioners and Hudson also discussed private driveways such as shopping center and gas station driveways which give access to city streets. Hudson is preparing recommendations for the cities regarding driveway access The Eagle June 15, 1978 policies. He also will make other specific safety suggestions. Vergil Stover, chairman of the College Station Planning and Zoning Commission, said he wants Hudson to suggest a minimum distance that driveway accesses should be allowed from intersections to cut down on traffic halts and inter- ference with deceleration lanes. Commissioners also expressed concern about the number of driveways allowed commercial and retail businesses. The city must give each lot a minimum of one driveway but many B -CS businesses have several, which creates a traffic problem, Hudson said. College Station does not have a driveway ordinance but it controls the width and location of driveways through zoning guidelines. Bryan controls driveway access through related traffic control ordinances but apparently enforces few restrictions in the number of drive- ways along a major frontage development, Hudson said. "(Right of) access doesn't mean where, when and whatever the hell they (merchants) want," Stover said. "You're not obliged to give them that." Hudson said there were too many driveways serving Culpepper Plaza, Redmond Terrace Shopping Center and Manor East Mall. "The (Culpepper Plaza designers) probably managed to do a better job of messing things up than Manor East," Stover commented. Hudson recommended that Bryan follow College Station's 4- year -old unofficial policy of allowing only three driveways per property for each street frontage, except in special circumstances. Angle parking was also discussed in Wednesday's workshop. Bryan and College Station are working in conjunction with Hudson to develop site plan approval guidelines and updated zoning measures for off - street parking requirements for businesses. A retail store in College Station presently is required to have specific parking spaces depending on the number of customers it ex- pects to serve. Bryan has no off - street parking requirements at all. The cities are studying the feasibility of developing parking requirements based on a structure's square footage instead of the number of projected customers. This method is expected to give a more realistic estimate of parking spaces needed and, eventually, to reduce angle parking. C council reversal spurs arguments By JANE M. SMITH Staff Writer In one of its more heated meetings, the College Station City Council Tuesday night voted to rescind its earlier approval of a pre- liminary plat for a development along Bee Creek. The plat was for Sunrise Place, located north of FM 2818 and about 100 feet west of Southwood Drive. It was submitted by Dorsey McCrory, a College Station developer. The council approved the plat last week but at least one council member had second thoughts about the action and the matter was put up for reconsidei•atioh. c6uncilmen Jim Dozier and Homer Adams voted for the plat, Councilman Larry Ringer abstained and council members Anne Hazen, Patricia Boughton and Mayor Lorence Bravenec voted against it. Coun- cilman Gary Halter was absent. He voted against the plat the first time. It seemed that almost any topic drew council members into an argument Tuesday night and at one point even the audience got involved in the bickering. Two residents of the area along Bee Creek, angered at statements by Councilman Jim Dozier, stormed out of the council chambers. One resident yelled, "You're disgusting," at Dozier, who followed the men into the parking lot to continue the discussion. The Surnise Place project, the council was told, would raise the 100 - year flood line up 25 feet into yards of existing residences upstream on Langford Street. The project also would have added seven- tenths of a foot to the flood level. The increases in the flood level potentially caused by Sunrise Place were allowable under the city's present flood hazard zone ordinance. However, the city's Planning and Zoning Commission is to consi changing that ordinance at Thursday meeting. The cha would remove the alowance o f maximum change of one foot to existing upstream 100 year fl elevation by a development. der I didn't know (about the project). I its was very disturbed when I found out nge a the ood Mayor Lorence Bravenec said he felt the city was setting itself up to "concrete Bee Creek" with a $1 million bond issue in the next 10 years if the project was approved. "We need to take another look at Bee Creek. I see nothing wrong with slowing things down, holding things up for a month until we see what will happen to the ordinance," the mayor said. "What might be, is something else," said Councilman Adams. He said the plat met the city's or- dinance requirements and should be approved. Dozier agreed. "If someone wants to build in a creek bottom, let them," Adams said. "It is the effects on others who are already built along the creek," said Councilwoman Boughton. "After the meeting last week I found out things some of the consequences it might create." "Why let them build on one side of the creek and not the other? Are you going to prohibit all development in Southwood Valley that will put more water in the creek ?" asked Dozier. Dozier said the planning and zoning commission was lax in ap- proving the plat if they were con- sidering changing the ordinance. Dozier said the circumstances surrounding the reconsideration of the plat showed the "secrecy that develops around here. We are never informed." "Why do you always deal with the mayor and not the rest of us ?" Dozier asked City Manager North Bardell. He questioned the way the item got back on the agenda and said the mayor called other council members and talked them into reconsidering. That statement prompted the mayor to ask the city manager and each council member to recount their last few days' activities in- The Eagle /Bryan - College Station, Texas Brazos Page News of Bryan - College Station and the Brazos Valley Wednesday, June 14, 1918 Page 1B eluding any discussion of the meeting. Boughton said she was the one who instrumented the recon- sideration. Dozier angered citizens by saying a person who buys a house on a creek should figure out whether they are going to be flooded and should suffer the consequences. Engineer for the Sunrise project Don Garrett said the development would not flood homes, only yards. "The water we're talking about won't be raging flood waters. It will be relatively still, dead water that will be up maybe an hour and won't wash things away," Garrett said. The council appointed a com- mittee to work with McCrory to find a suitable project for the 11 acres of land along the creek. The Eagle June 14, 1978 - to sell genera obi i bonds The City of College Station will go ahead and sell $3.02 million worth of general obligation bonds following action of the council Wednesday. The council authorized its bond counselor, David Fetzer, to proceed with a sale of the bonds in late June or July. The bonds, part of a $9,165,000 bond proposal, were ap- proved by the voters in College Station April 1. The general obligation bonds — bonds which must be paid for through taxes — will be used for street improvements, park im- provements and work on previously approved projects including the Police station and warehouse. The bulk of the money, though, is $1.810 million for park im- provements and that figure con- cerns the council the most. The bond proposal to purchase park land included roughly $300,000 for a 50- acre athletic playing field complex near the intersection of Krenek Road and the East Bypass. However, the city has arranged to Purchase that tract without using bond funds. The question the council considered was whether the city could use money approved in the bond issue for the. acquisition of otherland. The consensus was that the city could use the money to purchase or improve other parks and that the city could use that money on some park project within the three -year Period allowed by the federal government for bonds. Bond adviser Fetzer said the city could have difficulty later in at- tracting competitive bids if it tried to sell just a $300,000 bond issue. He said interest rates had been rising and "the sooner we do it (sell the bonds,) the better. I wish we could have done it a month ago." In other business, the council amended the Community Development budget for a paving project on several streets. The project was budgeted for $81,300 but with engineering fees and the low bid, awarded to R.T. Montgomery Inc., the total came to $102,582.43. The project is over budget, ac- cording to community development planner Jim Callaway, because the budget did not anticipate a drainage project needed on Churchill Street. The council voted to use the $23,750 in the Community Development Contingency fund for the budget overrun. If necessary, the city can use a portion of its revenue sharing money for contingency later, if the money is needed, Callaway said. City Manger North Bardell said the city may get $214,000 from revenue sharing, an increase of $90,000 over this year. The increase is based on the 1976 population estimate, Bardell said. The council sent back to the city engineer's office an issue dealing with a road to the Woodway Village subdivision. The road is known as the Jones - Butler Road and developer Edsel Jones maintained the city had approved the con- struction of a private road over a year ago but the project now is stalled in the engineer's office. Councilmen disagreed with Jones over what the city had agreed to and instructed the city engineer's office to review tapes of the meeting where the project was approved. The Eagle May 23, 1978 R esident group opposes building permit By JANE M. SMITH Staff Writer Much to the dismay of numerous residents of the College Park area of College Station, the city council Thursday night approved two building permits for residences at 802 and 808 Aberdeen. Normally, the council does not become involved in issuing building permits. But a question of the project's conformity with single family zoning in the area caused building inspector William F. Koehler to forward the matter to the council. The permits were requested by William B. Lancaster, 303 Dexter, who owns a house on property ad- jacent to his home and the Aberdeen property. These houses are rented to students in what some neighbors said is a "boarding house" type operation. Lancaster plans to build the two new residences for the same pur- pose. About 75 residents of the area generally bounded by Lee Street to W. Dexter and Jersey to Park Place signed a petition asking that the council deny the building permits. Dr. Duane Cote, 304 Dexter, said the rooming facilities, called Lan- caster Place, are changing the fundamental nature of the neigh- borhood. He said traffic and the fact that the Lancasters serve meals from their home add to the problems in the neighborhood. "He's ruining my property and these people's property," said Percy Mims of 501 Dexter. "You've got to look at this in its entirety, not as two lots." Council members, however, said that if someone other than Lan- caster had requested the permits, they probably would have been issued without any question. "We're sympathetic," said councilman Gary Halter, "But what can we do about it? On what grounds can we deny the permits if he isn't violating the zoning ordinance? Lancaster said he had brought the other rental houses into zoning compliance last year limiting to four the number of unrelated persons who occupy each house. "We do encourage a spirit of unity among all the student occupants of the houses, although we discourage any reference to a boarding house operation to preserve the individual identity of each house as a single family unit," he said. Occupants of the houses must sign an agreement, he said, that they won't use drugs or alcohol and will keep noise level to a minimum. Council member Anne Hazen moved that the permits be issued but added that the city attorney and building official will look at the Lancaster operation to see if the boarding house concept conflicts with the single family zoning of the area. In other action, the council authorized the mayor to sign an agreement with Texas A &M University to furnish water to the city when it ends its contract with the City of B1 yan in 1979. The council also authorized the mayor to sign an agreement with the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation for the ex- tension of FM 60 (University Drive) to FM 158. The city will furnish right -of -way to the city limits. The highway department will spend $1,181,000 on the road extension. Under the agreement with A &M, the city will drill a water well, and supply a pumping system cooling tower and transmission lines. For three to five years, the city will draw as much of its water as possible from the TAMU system. The city will pay 43 cents per 1,000 gallons of water, but will receive a 20 cents per 1,000 gallorls credit toward The Eagle June 9, 1978 The Eagle/Bryan-College Station, Texas Brazos Page News of Bryan - College Station and the Brazos Valley Friday, June 9, 1978 Page 1B the Bost of the well. At the end of the agreement, the well will become property of the university. Consideration of an ordinance rezoning an 8.61 acre tract of land at Texas Avenue and the East Bypass was tabled by the council until the developer, Cruse Corporation, could meet with neighbors objecting tolthe project. Cruse had requested a zonin change from a single f amil residential to townhouse and commercial zoning, By JANE M. SMITH Writer of plans and guidelines for S taff evaporates from them. Imagine driving down a planting trees in the city. Street trees, according Along major streets, leaves serve as collectors busy College Station street sometime in the future to the plan, can have an immense of dust and carbon and instead of seeing only effect on the quality of the environment monoxide particles. The tree acts as a large filter speeding automobiles and dusty roadways, of streets in the city by which also removes carbon you see a row of lush, green, shady providing shade, lowering noise pollution dioxide and produces trees. This is the idea behind and "humanizing" large ex- oxygen, thus helping to purify the air," the plan a street tree plan accepted panses of pavement. - The plan cites a study states. The names this week by the College Station City Council. The done in Charlottesville, Va., in plan eight streets for proposed im- report, prepared by land- which it was estimated that a mature provement: Anderson ;Greet, College Avenue, s c a p e a r c h i t e c t u r e students and interested tree can cool a volume of air equal to five 10,000 Iiominik Street, Jersey citizens headed up by Mike watt air conditioners. Street, Southwest Park - Murphy, an associate Professor at A &M, "Trees cool air blowing way, Tarrow, University Boulevard and Welch consists over the leaves as water Street. The Eagle /Bryan-College Station, Texas — Saturday, June 10, 1978 ( C ; I Counci acce ts tree plan planting and are many existing trees on rtilizer. this street, but they are hree -year cost located inconsistently. The estimated at median is not planted and r costs, add plantings to visually buffer 00 trees, will existing housing 650 and $4,850 Southwest Parkway — r. There are some locations reasons for where wide expanses of s on various open fields exist and are in rding to the need of visual buffers from Street — In residential developments here exists a there are sidewalks and down space there is adequate room for ally screen street trees. Planting here rojects and would make the walk a ots. visually pleasing ex- nue — There perience for pedestrians. Each street is mapped out in the plan and plan- ning opportunities and constraints are shown. To describe each street,. a before and after picture is furnished. Some streets, including Jersey and University Boulevard, are owned by the Texas Highway Department and approval for the planting must come from that agency. Council members pointed out, however, that the highway department does have funds available for landscaping that also might be used in the tree The Eagle June 1p, 1978 planting project. City Manager North Bardell said im- plementation of the plan will begin immediately, although much of the actual tree planting must wait until fall — the best season for planting most trees. The cost of the planting program for the first year is estimated at 2,450 and will include the cost of buying, planting and maintaining 100 trees. Watering costs for one tree for a year is estimated at $12 a year, the plan said. Tree cost would be about $7, plus $5 fo r 50 cents for fe The total t of a tree is $48. Second yea ing another 1 cost about $3, the fourth yea Some of th e planting tree streets, acco plan are: Anderson two locations t need to scale and to visu apartment p their parking 1 College Ave the west side needs apartment projects. Along Page SB University Boulevard — This street has more varied opportunities than any other street in College Station. This is due to the many existing activities. The plan offers suggestions on possible "themes" of tree planting and suggests that residents of neighborhoods might be asked to decide on the style and the theme of planting they might prefer. Themes include single rows of various colored fl owering trees as well as mixtures of larger trees with an un- derstory of small flowering trees as a backdrop. Parks attract any as weather warms By ROY KLEINSASSER Staff Writer Off to the right, some joggers lope by, while a man bending over a barbecue grill flips hamburgers and quaffs down a cold beer. Tennis buffs strain furiously on nearby courts, in attempts to emulate Jimmy Connors or Rosie Casals. Finally, a man who looks more than a litte out of shape, strikes out during a softball game, only to be greeted by a round of jeers from his team. With pocketbooks slim, waistlines wide and weather warm, these icenes are repeating themselves )ften, as many Bryan- College nation residents take to area parks. The twin cities have numerous )arks, with attractions to interest everyone from botanists to small !hildren. Neither Bryan nor College Station -estricts parks use to residents of its City. The largest municipal park in the rea is Bee Creek Park, located off outhwest Parkway at the end of nderson Street in College Station, ith about 45 acres. Softball field, Innis courts, a swimming pool, avillion and barbecue pits are mong the facilities, as well as a ature trail. The one mile nature ith will have signs identifying ants installed by the end of the gar, said Pat Siegert, superin- ndent of recreation for College ation's park's department. Other parks in College Station: Anderson Ridge Park, a 13 -acre ,e at the intersection of Anderson A Lemon Tree streets, currently s a baseball field under con - •uction. A hiking trail is planned - thefuture. Dexter Park, 9- acres, off Dexter Drive, is basically a walking park, with few facilities. Thomas Park, 16 acres at Francis Drive and James Parkway, has two tennis courts, two soccer fields, four baseball fields and a playground. A swimming pool is planned, to be completed by next year. Oaks Park, a 7.5 acre site at High- way 30 and Stallings Drive, is presently under construction, and will be a walking park when it opens. A gymnasium, recreation room and baseball fields are all located at Lincoln Center, which is where College Station's parks department resides. Several other baseball fields are spread throughout the city. Haswell Park in Bryan, consisting of 29 acres at Nall and East 24th streets, has tennis courts, baseball fields, a swimming pool, barbecue grills and playground equipment. Other Bryan parks include: Henderson, a 21 -acre site on Palasota Drive, which has playground equipment, a wading pool, swimming pool, baseball fields, picnic tables, barbecue grills, and basketball goal standards. Bonham, 12 acres on Russel Street, has playground equipment, picnic tables, a basketball goal and barbecue grills. Burton Creek, a seven -acre site on Sharon Drive, features picnic tables, grills and playground equipment. Tanglewood, located on Carter Creek, has a covered picnic shelter, Ii hted tennis courts rills The Eagle/Bryan- College Station, Texas imp III l '° J 2 9 3 87 6 54 Thursday, May 18, 1978 Page 9A (Staff photos by Roy Kleinsasser) Road, features a variety of playground equipment, basketball goals, a tennis court, a wading pool, swimming pool, picnic grills and picnic benches. The Eagle May 18, 1978 g 1 g ' Parkway Terrace; and Williamson, playground equipment and a flower on Williamson Drive, all have picnic garden. benches, grills and playground Oak Grove Park, on Wellington; equipment. San Jacinto, at Villa Maria and Thomas, 18 acres on Old Kurten Party pavilion at Bee Creek Park can be reserved for groups. A jogging trail winds through Bee Creek Park, The Eagle /Bryan - College Station, Texas — Wednesday, May 10, 1978 Page 7D CS will build frisbee golf course By JIM NORTHCUTT Picnics and games are Special Correspondent popular under the many There is a new type of shade trees, and with the golf game that is becoming coming of summer, the popular. It is not played parks are a popular place with golf balls and golf for study and sunning. But clubs — it is a game played aside from the present use with frisbees. of parks and adjoining In fact, to really play this facilities, this young parks game, one needs a course, department has several and that is exactly what plans for the future. the College Station Parks "Our program of making and Recreation Depart- Oaks Park into a student ment plans on building orientated park is in within the year — a progress," Czimskey said. genuine frisbee golf "The plans for Oaks Park, course, one of several which is off Highway 30 improvements planned for and Stallings Drive, in- College Station parks. cludes not only party Although not built yet, areas, but also a multi -use the frisbee golf course is concrete slab and a stage one of several future area for theatrical pur- facilities that the College poses. Also, because this Station Parks and park is in an area of Recreation Department student apartments, we will build. plan on putting in a frisbee On April 1, a $1.8 million golf course and a jogging bond issue was passed by trail with exercise College Station residents stations. for use by the department. "Frisbee golf is really T h e p l a n n e d i m- catching on among young provements and in- people. Basically, it is a novations will probably game that is played like spark up the city residents golf, but instead of hitting and also the Texas A &M golf balls into the holes, students. you try throwing frisbees "The $1.8 million will be in the holes. This course used for the development will be the third of its kind and acquisition of in Texas. The jogging trail parkland and facilities," will be one -third of a mile Andy Czimskey, director long and it will have of the College Station exercise stations along the Parks and Recreation way. Department, said. "Although this is not "This budget will not exactly new, the idea is to only increase our have those people who programming efforts, but don't exercise a lot run the it will also help make us a course, and when they get more prof e s s i o n al to these stations, there will department with more be different exercise professional services." machines with instructions The seven major parks that will tell the person in College Station are how to use them. A second Dexter Park, Hensel Park, similar jogging course is Lincoln Park, Thomas being planned for An- Park, Anderson Park, Bee derson Park in the near Creek Park, and Oaks future." Parks. All of them are But other plans have also being used extensively by been made for that $1.8 all kinds of people, such as million. Two 50 -acre tracts sports freaks, sunbathers, will be purchased mainly and parents with their for athletic use. The tracts, children. which will be ne the intersection of Krenek not in the near future. facilities," the former that we can truly give the Road and the East By -Pass "We finally got off the A &M student said. "We public what it needs and and also in the Southwood limb o f providing are in a period of such Valley area, will primarily inadequate recreational growth and development wants." have softball, soccer, flag football, and Little League baseball fields. Con- struction on the first tract will begin within the next year. "We also plan on con- necting Anderson Park to Bee Creek Park," Czim- skey said. "They are close enough together that we can connect them and then provide hiking trails, jogging trails, and other little trails that will wind through the trees." Besides making park improvements on all the parks, the College Station Parks and Recreation Department will purchase a 15 -acre park in Carter's Grove area, a 14 -acre park near Welsh and Haines extension, 10-15 acres in Southwood Valley, 3.3 acres for the Anderson Park extension, and the Lincoln Center. In addition, Czimskey said that a community center with a gym, meeting rooms, an auditorium, and athletic - recreational facilities is being planned, but this is The Eagle May 10, 1978 Renovation `evicts' CS city council By DAVID LINDSEY Staff Writer Governments don't often like being involved in eviction proceed- ings. But when the government has to evict itself, that's even worse. In College Station the city government is going to have to move out of its present city hall in about eight weeks as part of the growing pains of the city. The move is necessary as renovation on present city council chambers — becoming offices — begins. The city is building a new city hall adjacent to the present structure but that building won't be complete by the time construction begins on the new office space. The city faces two problems, according to City Manager North Bardell, including the need for temporary office space and a place for city council meetings, meetings of the city's planning and zoning commission and municipal court sessions. The city will move out of the present space about Aug. 1 and the new city hall will be completed in late October, if everything moves on schedule. The city will consider a temporary building for office space as part of the move, Bardell said. The problem then becomes where to put the temporary structure, he Baia. The city considered asking Homestead Savings and Loan to allow the city to put the temporary building on savings and loan property across from the present City Hall. But that would mean, Bardell said, the city would have to make sewer and water connections to provide restroom facilities across the street. Councilwoman Ann Hazen asked why office workers couldn't "just run across the street ?" "They could, and I'm sure there would be a lot of that," Bardell said. "Bu it would be a violati of our building code. I don't see how we could violate our own code by allowing office space without sanitary facilities." Wednesday's meeting of the council was a work session largely devoted to a discussion of when the city will sell bonds approved April 1. Today, at 7 p.m., the council will consider Anderson Park, the subject of debate before the city's Parks and Recreation Committee earlier this week. The park will be in the LemonTree subdivision and include a tem- porarily lighted softball field. Residents have complained that the lighting would be a distraefion. And while the city says the lighting would be necessary for about one year, residents are not convinced saying that temperary buildings on public school cam- puses, for example, have been on the campuses two or more decades. Also on the agenda today is a consideration of a peitition ap- pealing a conditional use permit for a sorority house project between Munson Avenue, Dominik Dr. and University Oaks Dr. Neighborhood residents have objected to the development. The council also is scheduled to go into a closed session to consider personnel and land acquisition. The Eagle April 13, 1978 College Statoon voters abolish ward system College Station voters Saturday overwhelmingly voted to abolish the ward system which was in- stituted in 1976 by less than one percent of the vote. In a 1,458 to 584 decision, voters reinstated the at- large system of voting. The change, however, must be approved by the United States Department of Justice before it can go into effect. The amendment to change the voting system was one of seven charter amendments passed in Saturday's municipal elections. Under the ward system, voter representation was decided by geographic districts and only the mayor was elected at- large. This type of representation has been held by the courts as an enhancement of minority voters' chances of representation. But local opponents of the system say a city the size of College Station which has no sizeable minority population does not benefit from the ward system. In the ward system, voters choose a mayor and representatives only every two years. Under the at- large system, voters elect three or four council members every year, making it easier to change the face of the council. A charter amendment requiring that council candidates receive at least 34 percent of the votes cast to be elected was passed by a vote of 1,613 to 393. Ac- cording to the amendment, a runoff would be held if no candidate received the necessary 34 percent. A third amendment passed 1,361 to 63 in favor of allowing the city council to determine the fiscal year rather than requiring a charter change "ct, time the fiscal year needs to be altered. City officials contend this allows more administrative flexibility and does not change the time for payment of taxes. The fourth approved amendment allows the city manager to authorize someone else on the staff to countersign checks. The vote on this amendment was 1,341 for and 672 against. Amendments five and six, regarding annexation, passed 1,475 to 427 and 1,281 to 623, respectively. These changes allow the city to annex land in ac- cordance with "Municipal Annexation Act" Article 970a, Vernon's Annotated Texas Statues, which is the state law. Under the law the city can annex land on its own initiative or by petition of the people in the area. The amendments in effect bring the city charter into conformity with state law, which takes precedence over the charter. By a vote of 1,555 to 288, voters approved the seventh amendment to take out the metes and bounds description of the city. Under this change, the charter description of the city will be by reference to the city's articles of incorporation, the annexation ordinances and the official zoning map of the city. It will allow the charter to be accurate, but will not mandate charter changes every time a new area is annexed into the city. The eighth amendment concerned voting precincts. This item takes from the present charter the provision detailing voting precinct boun- daries. The original boundaries of the voting Precincts are in the original charter, take up three pages and are no longer valid. VotHng precincts change as the population shifts or grows. City officials say there is no reason the votijig precincts should be written into the charter. The vote on this amendment was 1,558 for and 333 against. The Eagle April 2, 1978 Humane Society surveys candidates on animal problems By ROY KLEINSASSER Staff Writer The Humane Society of Brazos County recently surveyed the twenty candidates for Bryan and College Station city offices to discover their opinions in regard to animal problems in the communities. Surveys were delivered to each candidate by the society and later picked up. Candidates were asked what problems existed, whether the present facilities in the cities are adequate and humane, their position on the two cities cooperating to establish an animal shelter and what they would do for animal control and welfare if elected. Bryan mayoral candidate Jim Barrett responded by saying that the Bryan dog pound is in bad shape and that a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) program would benefit the community. He would favor cooperation between the cities, and would work to bring in an SPCA program if elected. Richard Smith, who is also run- ning for mayor, believes the pound needs improvement and would favor a cooperative program. He also suggests improving city ordinances relating to animal control. Place 1 Bryan city council can- didate Joe G. Hanover stresses that too many loose animals are running around and that if present laws were enforced things could be improved. He has not inspected the pound and would not comment on its condition, adding that a cooperative effort might not be workable. His opponent, Gardner Osborn, said that the pound "is so un- speakably cruel that it cannot be discussed in terms of adequacy.", She would like to see an interim shelter established while a joint cities' shelter is built. Ples Turner, incumbent Bryan councilman in Place 2, said the major problem is that owners fail to spay or neuter pets and abide by leash laws. He would like to see a cooperative shelter and suggests putting the bond issue before the voters again. Marcus K. McCrary, Place 2 candidate, would not comment on the current shelter not having in- spected it, but would like to see cooperation between Bryan and College Station. He emphasizes, however, that he is presently against spending tax money for a new and costly shelter, preferring to see unwanted animals given to the veterinary school for research or mercifully destroyed. The other Place 2 candidate, Geraldine Hester, believes the resent pound may need expansion as the city grows. She said, however, that the voters had rejected a proposal in the last bond election. As an official, she would plan to monitor the animal situation to see that there are no outbreaks of disease. Bryan Council candidate in Place 3, Peyton Waller, did not respond to the survey. His opponent, August Fridel, said the present Bryan pound should be renovated and expanded. He favors a cooperative effort with the county included, and full enforcement of leash laws. Incumbent Place 4 Bryan coun- cilman Henry Seale did not respond. Bryan council candidate for Place 6, John Mobley, said that although the present pound is not adequate, the voters were against building a new one in the last election. He would support building a new one when money is available. He does not believe a joint shelter would be feasible unless the county was in- volved. Ralph D. Campbell, also running for Place 6, had no comment. Place 6 candidate Andy Herrera said the present pound is totally inadequate, and that he would favor a joint shelter, with county cooperation. Besides working for a new shelter, Herrera would stress citizen participation in obeying the laws which now exist. College Station's Mayor, Lorence L. Bravenec said the major problem in his city is animals running loose. The city has no real shelter problem, since it uses the private facilities of a veterinarian. He would support a Bryan effort for a shelter "by letting Bryan keep our animals (and receive any fees), instead of turning them over to the private shelter." He does not see any real problem, so he has no present plans. His opponent, Karl Crawley, favors an extensive pet neutering campaign and strong penalties against people who mistreat animals. A cooperative effort on the part of the two cities would be a good way to provide for an adequate and humane shelter, he said. College Station council candidate in Place 2, David L. Pugh, said if he was elected he would work for an effective animal control ordinance program, to increase the number of officers and vehicles for animal control and lend support to better enforcement of the barking dog laws. He would also favor a joint animal shelter. Homer B. Adams, who opposes him, is not aware of any problems, but would favor a cooperative effort between the two cities, although he adds that relations seem strained at the present time. College Station council candidate Place 4, Tony Jones, provided no response. Patricia Boughton, also running for Place 4, feels that animal control in College Station is adequate. She would favor more available in- formation about pet adoption. Incumbent Place 6 College Station councilman James Dozier, said that too many animals are running loose and that both cities should consider and discuss a joint shelter. The Eagle March 31, 1973 an election, as hereinafter W provided, said bonds to be A payable from the net revenues derived from the operation of T the Waterworks System, N Sanitary Sewer System and Electric Light and Power A System on a parity with said D outstanding bonds; and C WHEREAS, the City Council e has also determined, and hereby determines, that the propositions for the issuance of tax bonds of said City for the purpose of making certain permanent public im- provements, as hereinafter provided, should also be submitted at said election; and WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to proceed with the ordering of such election; Therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION: NOTICE OF BOND ELECTION TO THE DULY QUALIFIED RESIDENT ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS: 40TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special election v(ill b held in and throughout the City of College Station, Texas, on April 1, 1978, pur- suant to and in accordance with the annexed Election Ordinance adopted by the City Council, said Ordinance being hereby made a part of this Notice for all purposes. -Itj WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name officially and affixed hereto the seal of the City of College Station, Texas, this the 8th day of March, 1978. Florence Neelley City Secretary, • City of College Station, texas (SEAL) ORDINANCE NO. 1103 'AN ORDINANCE CALLING 'BOND ELECTION PROVIDING AND FIXING D E T A I LS R E L A T I N G T H E R E T O A N D ,DECLARING THAT SAID ;ORDINANCE SHALL BE .EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY .UPON ADOPTION .WHEREAS, the outstanding 'bonds of the following 'described revenue bond issues 'of the City of College Station, Texas, constitute the only Indebtedness chargeable against the net revenues of the City's Woterworks System, Sanitary Sewer System and Electric Light and Power System, to -wit: City of College Station Waterworks and Sewer System and Electric Light and Power System Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 1967, dated February 1, 1967, orginally issued in the principal amount of $333,000; City of College Station Waterworks and Sewer System and Electric Light and Power System Revenue Bonds, Series 1967, dated February 1, 1967, originally issued in the prin. cipaI amount of 5600,000; City of College Station. Texas, Utility System RevenuE Bonds, Series 1971, datec August 1, 1971, originally issued in the principal amouni of 5800,000; ty n City of College Station °` Texas, Utility System RevenuE 'Bonds, Series 1973, originally '' issued in the principal amounl "of $500,000; and City of College Station .Texas, Utility System Revenue „ Bonds, Series 1976, originalll issued in the principal amoun r of $3,000,000. r and WHEREAS, it is provided ii the ordinances authorizing th issuance of said ouTstandim bonds, and in said bonds, tha additional revenue bonds ma be issued on a parity with sai outstanding bonds; and WHEREAS, there is a nee for the construction of e) tensions and improvements t the Waterworks System an Sanitary Sewer System of sai City, and the City Council ha determined, and hereb determines, that propositior for the issuance of additioni revenue bonds for such put poses should be submitted i Section 1. That a special election shall be held in and throughout the City of College Station, Texas, on the 1st day of Aoril. 1978, which is not less than fifteen not more than ninety days from the date of this ordinance, a7 wnicn election there shall be sub milted to the duly qualified resident electors within said City, for their action thereupon, the following propositions, to-wit: PROPOSITION NO. 1 SMALL THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, BE AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE THE REVENUE BONDS OF SAID CITY, IN ONE OR MORE SERIES, IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $5,300,000, MATURING SERALLY WITHIN 25 YEARS FROM THEIR DATE OR DATES AND BEARING INTEREST AT A RATE OR RATES NOT TO EXCEED THE MAXIMUM NOW AUTHORIZED BY LAW, ALL AS SHALL BE DETERMINED BY SAID CITY COUNCIL, FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXTENDING AND IMPROVING THE C I T Y' S E X I S T I N G WATERWORKS SYSTEM; SAID BONDS TO BE ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND SECURED IN THE MANNER PROVIDED IN ARTICLES 1111 TO 1118, BOTH IN CLUSIVE VERNON'S TEXAS CIVIL STATUES, AS AMENDED; AND TO SECURE THE PAYMENT OF THE INTEREST ON SAID BONDS AS IT ACCRUES AND THE PRINCIPAL OF SAID BONDS AS THEY MATURE BY PLEDGIN THE NET REVENUES FROM THE OPERATION OF THE CITY'S WATERWORKS SYSTEM, SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER SYSTEM; EACH BOND TO BE CONDITIONED THAT THE HOLDER THEREOF SHALL NEVER HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEMAND PAYMENT OF SAID OBLIGATION OUT OF ANY FUNDS RAISED OR TO BE RAISED BY TAXATION; AND SAID BONDS TO BE ON A R A R I T Y I N A L L RESPECTS WITH THE OUTSTANDING BONDS OF SAID CITY PAYABLE FROM THE NET REVENUES OF SAID WATERWORKS SYSTEM, SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER SYSTEM? PROPOSITION NO.2 iHALL THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE iTATION, TEXAS, BE AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE THE REVENUE BONDS OF SAID CITY, IN ONE OR MORE SERIES, IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $845,000, MATURING SERIALLY NITHIN 25 YEARS FROM THEIR DATE OR DATES AND BEARING INTEREST AT A RATE OR RATES NOT TO EXCEED THE MAXIMUM NOW AUTHORIZED BY LAW, A L L A S S H A L L B E DETERMINED BY SAID CITY COUNCIL, FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXTENDING AND IMPROVING THE C I T Y' S E X I S T I N G S A N I T A R Y SEWER SYSTEM; SAID BONDS TC BE I S S U E D I N A C CORDANCE WITH ANC SECURED IN THE MANNER PROVIDED IN ARTICLE' 1111 TO 118, BOTH IN CLUSIVE, VERNON'S TEXA! CIVIL STATUES, A AMENDED; AND TC SECURE THE PAYMENT OF THE INTEREST ON SAIL BONDS AS IT ACCRUES ANC THE PRINCIPAL OF SAIL BONDS AS THEY MATURE BY PLEDGING THE NEI REVENUES FROM THE OPERATION OF THE CITY'; WATERWORKS SYSTEM SANITARY SEWER SYSTEh AND ELECTRIC LIGHT ANC POWER SYSTEM; EACF BOND TO BE CONDITIONEE THAT THE HOLDEF THEREOF SHALL NEVEF HAVE THE RIGHT TC DEMAND PAYMENT Of SAID OBLIGATION OUT Of ANY FUNDS RAISED OR T( BE RAISED BY TAXATION AND SAID BONDS TO BE Of A PARITY I N A L I RESPECTS WITH THE OUTSTANDING BONDS OI SAID CITY PAYABLE FROA THE NET REVENUES OI SAID WATERWORK SYSTEM, SANITARY SEWEI SYSTEM AND ELECTRI LIGHT AND P O W E I SYSTEM? PROPOSITION NO.3 SHALL THE CITY COUNCI OF THE CITY OF COLLEG STATION. TEXAS, B AUTHORIZED TO ISSU THE TAX BONDS OF SAI CITY, IN ONE OR MOR SERIES OR ISSUES, IN TH AGGREGATE PRINCIPA AMOUNT OF $530,00 MATURING SERIALL WITHIN 25 YEARS FRO, .THEIR DATE OR DATE AND BEARING INTERES AT A RATE OR RATES NC TO EXCEED THE MEXIMU NOW AUTHORIZED BY LA% ALL AS SHALL B DETERMINED BY SAI CITY COUNCIL, FOR TF PURPOSE OF MAKIN PERMANENT PUBLIC II PROVEMENT, TO-W1 CONSTRUCTING I i PROVEMENTS TO TF STREETS IN SAID CIT INCLUDING NECESSAF DRAINAGE IN CONNECTIC THEREWITH, AND TO Le an annual tax on all taxal property within said c sufficient to pay the in1ERE ON SAID BONDS AS IT P CRUES AND TO CREA' AND PROVIDE A SINKII FUND TO PAY THE PRI CIPAL OF SAID BONDS T H E Y M A T U R E PROPOSITION NO.4 SHALL THE CITY COUN( OF THE CITY OF COLLET STATION, TEXAS, 1 AUTHORIZED TO ISSI THE TAX BONDS OF SP CITY, IN ONE OR MO' SERIES OR ISSUES, IN TI AGGREGATE PRINCIP AMOUNT OF $1,810,0 MATURING SERIALI Bonos Fisales d e Rein- LOS INGRESOS NETOS DE AI IrV�l�lr�r7 otr Statio L Dicha Secretaria Municipal ntendra dicha oficina est Aguas de 1 Ciudad, del DE LA CIUDAD, DEL ALLAN College Station Fire 101 Gilcrist Street, Y as Coll [THIN 25 YEARS FROM DATE OR DATES, prescribed for the regular City Election on April 1, 1978. Sistema d Alcantarillas SISTEMA Ciudad y del TARILLAS DE SANITARIAS Y siguientes personas nom oficiales de la por Co 1EIR JD BARING INTEREST Ballots for the election shall to the requirements of Sanitarias el a b radas Sistema de z Elecirica y DEL Sistema z Ele trca ELECTRICA SISTEMA DE LUZ Y POTENCIA; seran election: Juez Presidente: Con r A RATE OR RATES NOT D EXCEED THE MAXIMUM conform the Texas Election Code, as : CADA B O N O A SER Sra. G.H. Draper; Juez Suplente: Sra. Nina Quitta; Dai OW AUTHORIZED BY LAW, B E amended, and shall have printed thereon the following El Sistema Alcantarillas y R Luz MANERA E S E R V A D O DE UNA Q U E E L votadas en persona y por sera persona el 170 Tex LL AS SHALL ETERMINED WITHIN THE (abbreviated to the extent Aguas Y el istema de rca y otencia de la POSEEDOR Elecii DE ELLO E N G A E L D ic hos Jueces Presidente- el n o m a a t a n i o s b r a dev I SCRETION OF THE CITY necessary, but a verbatim statement of each proposition Ciudad de :ollege Station, N DERECHO U N C A T DE EXIGIR EL bienies e consideren s escri qu Con L DUNCIL, FOR THE PUR- OSE OF PURCHASING shall be displayed at each Bonos Fisgles de Rein tegracion, Serie 1967, P A G O D E D I C H A D E necesarios para la debida conducta de la eleccion, con tal est ND /OR IMPROVING LAND Polling place): fechadosiel is 1 de febrero O CUALQUIERES B L I G A C I O N FONDOS que el numero de escribientes de aut per FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $530,000 5500.000; y D E SUS F E C H A S, Y PRODUCIENDO INTERESES 1967,emitidosinicialmente en de R E C O G I D O S O A SER sea a lo menos dos y no mas b OFFICIAL - BALLOT la suma teal principal RECOGIDOS POR EL MEDIO ocho. Section 3. La votacion pa p de Ccof Station, Bonos A C T U A L M E N T E 8333.000; DE DICHOS IMPUESTOS; Y QUE BONOS SERAN EN ausencia sera dirigida por la las Place a punch hole (mark) in the El Sistemale Alcantarillas y P A R I D A D DE T O D A S Secretaria Municipal, la Sra. O Space provided beside the statement Aguas y el Sistema de Luz MANE de la A LOS BONGS .Florence Neelley, en su oficina ordinaria en City Hall, no indicating the way you wish to vote. Electrica yPotencia Ciudad de College Station, PENDIENTES DE DICHA DAD PAGADERAS DE de College Station, Tieaas, Pr Bonos Fisales d e Rein- LOS INGRESOS NETOS DE ubicada en 1101 Texas Avenue. otr PROPOSITION NO. 1 tegracion, Sfie 1967, techados febrero 1967• STE E DICHOS DISTEMAS DE Dicha Secretaria Municipal ntendra dicha oficina est el dia 1 e AGUAS, emitidos in:ialmenie en la SANITARIAS ARILL Y L U X M abierta, por to menos ocho ( 8: 00 Ce / � FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $5,300,000 suma iota principal de ELECT RICAYPOTENCIA? ho es decir, de las ser _ WATERWORKS SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT 5600.000; por la presence determina que a. hasta has 5:00 horas horas m . cada dia para la votacion las _ AGAINST REVENUE BONDS E Sistema)e la Empresa de PROPOSICION NUM. 3 p.m., en ausencia que no sea un del Servicios Pulicosde la Ciudad RA AUTORIZADO EL ?SER sabado, do Mingo, o dia festivo Ci PROPOSITION NO. 2 de College Station, Bonos Fiscales, Seie 1971, emitidos O MUNICIPAL DE COLL 'GE Estataloficial. Eltramitepara contar cualquieras balotas sported to Texas Data Center, Inc. located at 1705 East 29th _ inicialmenteen la suma tot al LA CIUDAD DE STATION, TEXAS, PARA votadas en persona y por sera persona el mi Co FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $845 , 000 principal deB00.000; E M I T I R LOS B O N O S DICHA correo mismo que el iramite deter /� A FAVOR DE DE BONOS FISCALES PARA SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM REVENUE El Sistemlde l a Empresa de F I S C A L E S DE CIUDAD, EN UNA O MAS Para la election or 1978. del re / AGAINST BONDS Servicios 'Ublicos de la de College Station, SERIES O EMISIONES, EN PRINCIPAL dinaria del dial de abril, i En votacion en dicha elec Aguas, eel Sistema de Alcantarillas Sanitarias y del Ciudad Bonos Fisoles, Serie 1973' LA SUMA TOTAL DE $530.000, VEN cion, incluyenelo la votacion en Es Br PROPOSITION N0. 3 emitidos ircialmente en la CIENDO EN SERIE DENTRO ausencia, sera por el medio de suma totel principal de DE 25 ANOS DE SU FECHA O cast el mismo Sistema de FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $530,000 5500.000; y D E SUS F E C H A S, Y PRODUCIENDO INTERESES votacion elecironica y el tramite determinado Para la en STREET IMPROVEMENT TAX El Sistemlde la Empresa de m,cl la E A LA TASA OR A LAS TASAS election del dia 1 de ordinaria Ile AGAINST BONDS Servici•is c la Ciudad A NO EXCEDER EL MAXIMO abril, 1978. Las Batotas para la con- ex de Ccof Station, Bonos A C T U A L M E N T E votacion en ausencia a Fiscales, Srie 1976, emitidos AUTORIZADO POR LA LEY, formaran a los requisitos del de PROPOSITION N0. 4 inicialmene en la suma TODD COMO SEA DETER Codigo Electoral de Texas "), v principal toBlde$3.000. MINADO POR DICHO CON- ( "Texas Election Code c SEJO MUNICIPAL, CON EL como enmendado, y ademas FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $1,810,000 CONSIERANDO que en los PROPOSITO DE HACER Ilevaran impreso lo siguiente e PARK IMPROVEMENT TAX estatutos autorizando la M E J O R A S P U B L I C A S (abrev, ado de la manera v d e AGAINST BONDS envision a dichos Bonos P, A SABER: ERMANENTES CONSTRUIR MEJORAS A necesaria, Pero una declaration de cada ti pendientes,yendichosbonos esta proviso que bonos fiscales LAS CALLES EN DICHA proposition al pie de la letra B PROPOSITION NO. 5 adicionalo puedan estar CIUDAD, INCLUYENDO EL sera exhibido en cada lugar de emitidos ei paridad a dichos DRENAJE RELACIONADO A votacion): bonos endentes; y ELLA. Y PARA GRAVAR UN La Sala del Consejo en ege Station City Hall esta la presence designada mo la Estacion Central tadora, Y las papeletas an transportadas al Texas a Center, Inc. ubicado en 5 East 29th Street, Bryan, as, para ser enroladas Y ueltas a la Estacion Central tadora. as personas siguientes an por la presence orizadas y aprobadas como sonas empleadas y nom adas para sacar las la eletas, hater funcionar el ipo contador, y Para contar papeletas: Juez President: M. Holt Escribientes: A ser mbrados por el' Juez esidente Los Oficiales siguientes Y as personas nombradas son r la presente autorizados a ar presentes en la Estacion ntral Contadora para ob- var el iramite del contar de papeletas. a) El Alcalde Y miembros Consejo Municipal de la udad de College Station. b) El Juez del Condado Y embros del Commissioner's urt de Brazos County. c) El Procurador General Estado de Texas o su presentante autorizado. (d) Frank Broiskie, el cribiente del Condado de azos County. (e) El Secretario Municipal Una comision esta Por la esente designada y consiste las personas siguientes para var a cabo una prueba de la actitud de la computadora Hies del comienzo y despues la cuenta de las papeletas otadas para averiguar que la omputadora cuente con xactitud las papeletas otadas en relation a las claraciones de dicha elect on. (a) El Alcalde Lorence L ravenec. FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $680,000 CONSIDERANDO que es IMPUESTO ANUAL SOBRE POLICE, FIRE AND WAREHOUSE n e c e s a ri o c o n s t r u i r T O D A P R O P R I E D A D pApELETA OFICIAL rolongacicies Y mejoras pars S U J E T A A I M P U E S T O (b) E Gerente de la Ciudad North Bardell. (c) La Secretaria Municipal Florence Neelley. (d) El Juez Presidente O.M. Holt. Section 4: Que todos leas materiales de la election, seran impresos en ingles y en espanol, o traducciones de ellos enespanol y/o otra asistencia seran provistas como requirido por el Codigo Electoral de Texas, ( "Texas Election Code "), segun enmendado, Y el "Federal Voting Rights Act" de 1965, segun enemndado. Section 5: Que aviso de dicha election sera anunciado por el medio de una apostacion de una copia de ello conteniendo una copia substantial de este Estatuto, en City Hall y en un lugar publico deniro de cada distrito electoral dentro de dicha Ciudad no menos de catorce (14) dias antes de la fecha fijada para dicha elec- tion, y por la publication de dicho aviso el mismo dia en cada una de las dos semanas sucesivas en The Eagle que no sea menos de catorce (14) dias antes de la fecha fijada para dicha election. Por la presente, se determina y de declara que The Eagle es un periodico de circulation general en dicha Ciudad. Section 6: Que este Estatuto entrara en vigor y sera com- pletamente efectivo a partir de y despues de su adoption. VOTADO Y APROBADO el dia 8 de marzo de 1978. /fdo./ Lorence L. Bravenec Alcalde, Ciudad de College Station, Texas ATESTACION: /fdo./ Florence Neelley Secretario Municipal (SELLO) AGAINST BUILDING TAX BONDS p el Sistem le Aguas Y Alton- DENTRO DE DICHA CIUDAD are hereby authorized to be FOR PARK PURPOSES, AND The Council Room in the farillas S nitar,as de dicha Ciudad, y que le Conseio S U F I E N C I E N T E PAR A PAGAR LOS INTERESES DE Coloque una pezioracibn en el lugar declaracibn TO LEVY AN ANNUAL TAX College Station City Hall is Municipal ha determinado Y DICHOS BONGS COMO indicad0 al lado de la O N A L L TAXABLE hereby established as the por la presence determina que ESTOS ACUMULEN, Y PARA que indique condo usted desee votar. PROPERTY WITHIN SAID 'ITY SUFFICIENT TO PAY Central Counting Station to receive ballots for said elec las propossiciones deberial somdidas en uan elec- e( CREAR Y PROPORCIONAR UNA CAJA DE AMOR (a) The Mayor and members THE INTEREST ON SAID tion, the ballots to be tran- estar cion pars envision de Bonos TIZACION PARR PAGAR LA PROPOSICION NUM. 1 BONDS AS IT ACCRUES AND TO CREATE AND PROVIDE sported to Texas Data Center, Inc. located at 1705 East 29th fiscales adicionales como provisto mas abajo, dichos SUMA PRINCIPAL DE! DICHOS BONOS COMO LA EMISION DE $5.300. A SINKING FUND TO PAY Street, Bryan, Texas, to be Bonos a ser pagados de leas bonos agado[entesde o ELLOS VENZAN. /� A FAVOR DE DE BONOS FISCALES PARA THE PRINCIPAL OF SAID BONDS AS THEY MATURE? tabulated and returned to the Central Counting Station. ne la operation del Sistema de PROPOSICION NUM. 4 /_7 EI, SISTEMA DE AGUAS / EN CONTRA DE PROPOSITION NO.5 The followirg persons are Aguas, eel Sistema de Alcantarillas Sanitarias y del hereby authorized and ap- Sistema de Luz Electrica Y ?SERA AUTORIZADO EL PROPOSICION NUM. 2 SHALL THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, BE AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE THE TAX .BONDS OF SAID CITY, IN ONE OR MORE SERIES OR ISSUES, IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $680,000, MATURING SERIALLY WITHIN 25 YEARS FROM THEIR DATE OR DATES, AND BEARING INTEREST AT A RATE OR RATES NOT TO EXCEED THE MAXIMUM NOW AUTHORIZED BY LAW, ALL AS SHALL BE DETERMINED WITHIN THE DISCRETION OF THE CITY COUNCIL, FOR THE PUR- POSE OF CONSTRUCTING OR PURCHASING PUBLIC BUILDINGS, TO WIT: A POLICE STATION, A FIRE STATION AND A WAREHOUSE AND AD- DITIONS AND IM- PROVEMENTS THERETO, AND TO LEVY TAXES UPON ALL TAXABLE PROPERTY WITHIN SAID CITY AN NUALLY, SUFFICIENT TO PAY THE INTEREST ON SAID BONDS AS IT ACCRUES AND TO CREATE AND PROVIDE A SINKING FUND TO PAY THE PRINCIPAL OF SAID BONDS AS THEY MATURE? proved as persons employed Potencia, en pariedad a dichos CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE and designated to handle the bonos pend entes; Y LA CIUDAD DE COLLEGE ballots, operate the tabulating CO NSIDERAN DO que el STATION, TEXAS, PARA / % A FAVOR DE equipment, and count the Consejo Municipal tambien ha E M I T I R LOS BONOS ballots: Presiding Judge: O.M. determinado, Y por l a presente F I S C A L E S D E DICHA Holt; Clerks: To be named by determina que deberial CIUDAD, EN UNA O MAS /—] EN CONTRA DE Presiding Judge; metidas a MI SIONES EN LA EMISION DE $845.000 DE BONGS FISCALES PARA UN ,SISTEMA DE ALCANTARILLAS SANITARIAS tamb,en estar so SERIES O E T f II 'n State officials dicha election las Pd LA SUMA PRINCIVEN PROPOSICION NUM. 3 he o owl g and other designated persons posiciones para la em,sion Bonos Fiscales de dicha Ciudad e TOTAL DE 51,810.000, CIENDO EN SERIE DENTRO - are hereby authorized to be con el proposito de hater DE 25 ANOS DE SU FECHA O / A FAVOR DE present at the Central Counting ciertas meioras publicas D E S U S F E C H A S, Y Station to observe the election permanence-, c ome, provisto PRODUCIENDO INTERESES TASAS A EN CONTRA DE counting process. mas abajo; y A LA TASA O A LAS /� ascertain that the computer C Ciudad, para que tomen action C NO EXCEDER EL MAXIMO (a) The Mayor and members CONSIDERANDO que el A C T U A L M E N T E of the City Council of the City of Consejo Municipal desea AUTORIZADO POR LA LEY, College Station. roceder a ordenar dicha TODO COMO SEA DETER- LA EMISION DE $53'0.000 DE BONOS FISCALES PARA MEJORAR LAS CALLES (b) The County Judge and P election; Por consiguient members of the Com A SEJO MUN MINADO ICI DICHO CON- PROPOSICION NUM. 4 missioner's Court of Brazos PARTE N POR L L 1T0 E COMPRAR A ICIPAL, CON EL - County. PARTE DEL CONSEJO PROPO5 D (c) The Attorney General of MUNICIPAL DE COLLEGE Y/O HACER MEJORAS DE /—] A FAVOR DE the State of Texas or his STATION: T E R R E N O PARA LO S authorized representative. Section 1. Que una election p R O P O 5 I T O 5 DE UN /� EN CONTRA DE (d) Frank Boriskie, County se celebrara deniro Y Por Coda pARQUE, Y PARA GRAVAR Clerk of Brazos County. I la Ciudad de College Station, U N I M P U E S T O ANUAL Texas el dia 1 de Abril, 1978, SOBRE TODA PROPRIEDAD PROPOSICION NU (e) City Secretary. q que no sea menos de quince n i i S U J E T E A I M P U E S T O - - A committee is hereby m mas de noventa dias de la D DENTRO DE DICHA CIUDAD /� A FAVOR DE following persons to hold a c cual election seran sometidas L LOS INTERESES DE DICHOS computer accuracy test prior l las siguientes proposiciones a a B 0 N O S COMO E S T O / / EN CONTRA DE the count of the voted ba l lots to c los electores d Y PROPORCIONAR UNA ascertain that the computer C Ciudad, para que tomen action C CAJA DE AMORTIZACION will accurately count the votes s sobreeso, a saber: P PARA PAGAR LA SUMA - cast for the propositions to be P PRINCIPAL DE DICHOS,. - voteduponinsaidelection. p pRopOSICION NUM. I B BONOS COMO ELLOS (a) Mayor Lorence L. V VENZAN? Bravenec. M a Section 2. That said election (b) City an 9 CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE PRO Section Barell. LA CIUDAD DE COLLE GE shall be conducted and held in (c) City Secretary Florence the six City election precincts STATION, TEXAS, PARA SERA AUTORIZADO EL (d) Presiding Judge O.M. heretofore established by the Neelley. E M I T I R LOS B O N S ? Charter and /or by ordinance of Holt. FISCALES DE DICHA' CON MUNICIPAL DE r the City Council of the City of Section 4. That all election CIUDAD, EN UNA O MAS LA CIUDAD DE COLLEGE College Station, wherein said material shall be printed in SERIES O EMISIONES, EN STATION, TEXAS, PARA I J election precincts are both English and Spanish, n LA SUMA PRINCIPAL EMITIR LOS BONOS described by natural or ar- Spanish translations thereof TOTAL DE $5.300.000, V ENO F I S C A L E S DE D I C H A D C IE N D O 25 A EN SERIE FECHA 0 CIUDAD, EN UNA MAS tificial boundaries or survey and /or other assistance shall T lines, and that the respective be provided as required by the DE 25 ANDS DE SU FECHA O SERIES O EMISIONE NE C I EN polling places n said e DE SUS FECHA$, V TO SUMA PRINCIPAL p i id lection Texas Election Code and the PRODUCIENDO INTERESES TOTAL DE 5680.000, VEN - precincts and the following Federal Voting Rights Act of A LA TASA O A LAS TASAS A CIENDO EN SERIE DENTRO named persons are hereby 1965, each as amended. NO EXCEDER EL MAXI IMO DE 25 ANOS DE SU FECHA O appointed officers to conduct Section 5. That notice of said A C T U A L M E N T E D E S U S F E C H A S, said election in said election election shall be given by AUTORIZADO POR LA LEY, PRODUCIENDO INTERESES I precincts, respectively: posting a copy thereof con TODD Como SEA DETER A LA TASA O A LAS TASAS A taining a substantial copy of MINADO POR DICHO CON- NO EXCEDER EL MAXIMO (a) In Council District No. 1, this ordinance at the City Hall SEJO MUNICIPAL, CON EL A C T U A L M E N T E the polling place shall be and at a public place in each of p R O P O S I T O D E AUTORIXADO POR LA LEY, College Hills Elementary the election precincts within PROLONGAR MEJORAR EL TODO COMO SEA DETER - School, 101 Williams, and the said city not less than fourteen SISTEMA EXISTENTE DE MINADO POR DICHO CON - following named persons shall (14) days prior to the date upon AGUAS DE LA CIUDAD; SEJO MUNICIPAL, CON EL be the election officers: which said election is to be DICHOS BONGS A SER PROPOSITO DE CONSTRUIR Presiding Judge: Mrs. Jay held, and by publishing such EMITIDOS SEGUN Y O COMPRAR EIDFICIOS Zal; Alternate Presiding notice on the same day in each ASEGURAD05 DE LA PUBLICOS, A SABER: UN Judge: Mrs. Sally Forehand; of two (2) successive weeks in MANERA PROV ISTA EN CUARTEL DE POLICIA, UNA The Eagle, the first such ARTICULOS 1111 A 1118, ESTACION DE BOMBEROS, (b) In Council District No. 2, publication to be not less than A M B O S I N C L U S I V O S, Y U N A L M A C E N Y the polling place shall be the fourteen (14) days prior to the VERNON'S ANNOTATED ADICIONES O MEJORAS Al A &M Consolidated Special date set for said election. IT is TEXAS STATUTES, SEGUN ELLO, Y PARA GRAVAR UN1 Services Building, 1330 Jersey hereby found and declared that ENMENDADO: Y PARA IMPUESTO ANUAL SOBRE Street, Room 13, and the The Eagle is a newspaper of ASEGURAR EL INTERES DE T O D A P R O P R I E D A D following named persons shall general circulation within said DICHOS BONOS COMO ESTE S U J E TA A I M P U E S TO be the election officers: City. ACUMULE Y LA SUMA CENTRO DE DICHA CIUDAD Presiding Judge: Mrs. Fred Section 6. That this or- PRINCIPAL DE DICHOS SUFICIENTE PARA PAGAR Gardner; Alternate Presiding dinance shall take effect and be BONOS CO M O E L L O S LOS INTERESES DE DICHOS Judge: Mrs. Peggy Owens; in full force upon and after its V E N Z A N , DE DAR EN- BONOS C O M O E S T O S adoption. PRENDA LOS INGRESOS ACUMULEN Y PARA CREAR i (c) In Council District No. 3, PASSED AND APPROVED NETOS DE LA OPERACION Y PROPORCI DNA R UNA i the polling place shall be the this 8th day of March, 1978. DEL SISTEMA DE AGUASI CAJA DE AMORTIZACION Lincoln Center, 1010 Eleanor DE LA CIUDAD, DEL PARA PAGAR LA SUMA i Street, and the following DISTEMA DE ALCAN- PRINCIPAL DE DICHOS named persons shall be the /s/ Lorence L. Bravenec TARILLAS SANITARIAS Y BONOS C O M O E L L O S election officers: Presiding Mayor, DEL SISTEMA DE LUZ' VENZAN? Judge: Mrs. Hawkins; City of College Station, Texas ELECTRICA Y POTENCIA: Alternate Presiding Judge: ATTEST: CADA 0 O N O A SER Seccion 2. Que dicha election Mr. G . W . L i t t o n R E S E R V A D O DE UNA se celebrara y se I levara a cabo No. 4, M A N E R A Q U E E L deniro de Jos seis distritos (d) In Council District the polling place shall ct / Florence Neellay PO S E E DO R DE E L L O electorales de la Ciudad South /s N U N C A T E N G A E L establecidos antes par el Acto Knoll Elementary School, 1220 City Secretary DERECHO DE EXIGIR EL Constitutivo y/o por estatuto - Boswell Street, and the P A G O D E D I C H A del Consejo Municipal de la - following named persons shall I S O B L I G A C 1 O N Ciudad de College Station, en Io be the election officers: _ P R E V E N I E N T E D E cual dichos distritos elec- Presiding Judge: Mrs. Fumi CUALQUIERES FONDOS torales estan descritos por Sug(hara; Alternate Presiding AVISO DE ELECCION DE RECOGNIDOS O A SER lindesnaturalesoartificialeso i Judge: Mrs. Doris Watson; BONOS RECOGNIDOS POR EL por lineas de agrimensura, Y ? A L O S E L E C T O R E S MEDIO DE IMPUESTOS: Y que los lugares de votacion (e) In Council District No. 5, D E B I D A M E N T E QUE DICHOS BONOS SERAN respectivos en dichos distritos 2 the polling place shall be the electorales Y las siguientes Creek Municipal Swim- C A L I F I C A D O S Y EN PARIDAD DE TODAS personas son por la presence Bee ming Pool, 1900 Madison R E S I D E N T E S D E L A. MANERAS A LOS BONOS nombradas oficiales ficial ara CIUDAD DE COLLEGE PENDIENTES DE DICHA, P Avenue, and the following STATION, TEXAS: CIUDAD PAGADERAS DE dirigir dicha eteccion en dicho - named persons shall be the LOS INGRESOS NETOS DE distritos eleciprales, respec- election officers: Presiding DICHOS SISTEMAS DE tivamente: L - Judge: Mrs. Leatrice Bouse; SE AVISA POR LA AGUAS, ALCANTARILLAS (a) En Consejo Distrito G Alternate Presiding Judge: PR ESENTE que una election SANITARIAS Y LUZ ELEC- Num. 1, el lugar de votacion Mrs. Sharon Claassen; especial se convocara deniro Y TRICA Y POTENCIA? sera College Hill Elementary por todo la Ciudad de College School, 101 Williams, y las E (f) In Council District No. 6, Station, Texas, el 1 de Abril, pORPOSICION NUM.2 personas siguientes, seran E the polling place shall be the 1978, segun y de acuerdo con el nombradas Jos oficiales de la tion Fire Station, Estatuto Electoral anexado Y ?SERA AUTORIZADO EL election: Juez President: Sra. L College Sta 101 Gilcrist Street, and the adoptado por el Conseio CONSIJO MUNICIPAL DE LA Jay Zal; Juez Suplente: Sra.; Y following named persons shall Municipal, dicho Estatuto CIUDAD DE COLLEGE Sally Forehand; H be the election officers: siendo por la presente anexado STATION, TEXAS, PARA (b) En Consejo Distrito S Presiding Judge: Mrs. G.H. a este Aviso para todo fin. E M I T I R LOS B O N O S Num. 2, el lugar de votacion T Draper; Alternate Presiding EN TESTIMONIO DE LO F I S C A L E S DE DICHA sera el A &M Consolidated T Judge: Mrs. NinaQuifta; CUAL, a la presente he fir CIUDAD, EN UNA 0 MAS Special Services Building, 1330 _ mado oficialmente mi nombre SERIES O EMISIONES, EN Jersey Street, Room 13, y las N II Said Presiding Judges shall y a la presente he adheritlo el LA SUMA PRINCIPAL siguientes personas nom - E aoint as many Clerks as are sello de la Ciudad de College TOTAL DE $845.000, venciendo bradas seran los oficiales de la D dee necessary for the Station, Texas, este dia 8 de en serie deniro de 25 ANOS DE election: Juez Presidente: E proper conduct of the election, Marzo, 1978. SU FECHA O DE SUS Sra. Fred Gardner; Juez G provided such number of FECHAS, Y PRODUCIENTO Suplente: Sra. Peggy Owens; A- Clerks shall be at least two and INTERESES A LA TASA O A (C( En Consejo Distrito not more than eight. •Florence Neelley LAS TASAS A NO EXCEDER Num. 3, el lugar de votacion Secretario Municipal, E L M A X I M O A C- sera Lincoln Center, 1010 N Section 3. Absentee voting in Ciudad de College Station, TUALMENTE AUTORIZADO Eleanor Street, ylassiguientes E said election shall be con- Texas POR L A LEY, TODD personas nombradas seran Jos Y, ducted by the City Secretary, COMOSEA DETERMINADO oficiales de la election: Juez Y Mrs. Florence Neelley, at her (SELLO) POR DICHO CONSEJO Presidente: Sra. Helen IN regular office in the City Hall MUNICIPAL, CON E L Hawkins; Juez Suplente: Sr. vy of the City of College Station, P R O P O S I 7 0 D E G.W. Litton; Ile Texas, located at 1101 Texas ESTATUTO NO. 1103 PROLONGAR Y MEJORAR (d) E Consejo Distrito Num. ty Avenue. Said City Secretary EL SISTEMA EXISTEMTE 4, el lugar de votacion sera 5T shall keep said office open for ESTATUTO CONVOCANDO DE ALCANTARILLAS South Knoll Elementary • C at least ( 8 ) hours, that is UNA ELECCION DE BONOS; S A N I T A R I A S ; DICHOS School, 1220 Boswell Street, y E from stet a.m. to 5:00 o'clock PROPORCIONANDO Y BONDS A SER EMITIDOS las siguientes personas IC'I st eight p.m. on each day for absentee FIJANDO LOS DETALLES SEGUN Y ASEGURADOS DE nombradas seran oficiales de 45 voting which isnota5aturday, CON RESPECTO A LO LA MANERA PROVISTA EN la election: Juez Presidente: Sunday, or an official State MISMO; Y DECLARANDO ARTICULOS 1111 A 1118, Sra. Fum Sugihara; Juez holiday. The procedures for QUE DICHO ESTATUTO A M B O S I N C L U S I V O S, Suplente: Sra. Doris Watson; counting any absentee ballots ENTRARA EN VIGOR IN- VERNON'S ANNOTATED (e) En conseio Distrito Mum. voted by personal appearance MEDIATAMENTE DESPUES TEXAS STATUTES, SEGUN 5, el lugar de votacion sera Bee all respectively DE SU ADOPC ION ENMENDADO: Y PARA Creek Municipal Swimming IL and by mail, sh L be the same Sh prescribed for ASEGURAR EL INTERES DE Pool, 1900 Madison Avenue, y on CONSIDERANDOquelos DICHOS BONOS COMO ESTE las siguientes personas SE the regular City election April 1, 1978. bonos pendientes de las ACUMULE Y LA SUMA nombradas seran los oficiales 1E siguientes emisiones de bonos PRINCIPAL DE DICHOS de la election: Juez I D V o t i n g in said election, in- fiscales de l a Ciudad de College BONOS C O M O E L L O S Presidente: Sra. t eatrice 2E Station, Texas, descritas mas VENZAN, DE DAR EN Bouse; Juez Suplente: Sra. �E eluding absentee voting, shall abajo, constituyen la unica PRENDA LOS INGRESOS SharonClaassen; 4L be by the use c substantially deuda imputable contra leas NETOS DE LA OPERACION (f) En Consejo Distrito Num. the same electronic voting 30 ' system and procedures as ingresos netos del Sistema de ,DEL SISTEMA DE AGUAS 6, el lugar de votacion era Y LA EMISION DE $1.810.000 DE BONOS FISCALES PAPA MEJORAR EL PARQUE M. 5 LA EMISION DE $680.000 DE BONDS FISCALES PARA EDIFICIOS DE POLICIA, BOMBEROS, Y ALMACE14 LA EMISION DE $1.810.000 DE BONOS FISCALES PAPA MEJORAR EL PARQUE M. 5 LA EMISION DE $680.000 DE BONDS FISCALES PARA EDIFICIOS DE POLICIA, BOMBEROS, Y ALMACE14 CS residents to decide on park proposal By DAVID LINDSEY Staff Writer Parks, by and large, don't make money. There is no user's fee as there is in utilities. So if a city wants to have parks, its residents and taxpayers must pay for parks through the property tax. The College Station bond election April 1 will have a park proposal totaling $1,810,000. The projects range from acquiring 50 acres in the city's Golden Triangle section, and 50 acres in the Southwood Valley and the purchase of the Lincoln Center. Taxpayers will have to pay for the bonds, which will be general obligation bonds. But city officials stress that since parks are largely for young people and their families, the city will give a break to senior citizens to offset the increase in taxes. That break will come, city officials say, in terms of increases in the homestead exemption for tax- payers 65 years old and older. The council voted to increase the home- stead exemption from $10,000 to $15,000 assuming the park proposition passes. Thus, while parks have no direct users' fee, the expected users — Second in a series. families — will pay for the parks. The city estimates that the taxes in the city will be increased 19 cents per $100 evaluation for the general obligation bonds. That portion of the bond issue totals $3,020,000 for the parks as well as street rebuilding, a traffic change and overuns on 1976 projects. The two 50 -acre park tracts, and improvements to the Golden Triangle area park, add up to $925,000. Just because the city hopes to have the money to buy the land, it doesn't automatically follow that the city will rush out and build two 50- acre athletic complexes, city of- ficials say. One of the tracts will be held in reserve until the city needs it, according to Capital Improvements Committee Chairman Gary Halter. Another $883,000 in the bond issue is for smaller neighborhood parks including 15 acres in the Carter's Grover area ($225,000) 14 acres in the Holik tract ($200,000) 10-15 acres in Southwood Valley ($150,000) 3.3 acres for the Anderson Park ex- tension ($23,000), improvements in the Carter's Grove park ($225,000) and the purchase of Lincoln Center ($60,000.) The $925,000 for the athletic complexes could be reduced by $150,000 since part of the develop- ment could be eligible for matching funds from the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. Officials say the city needs approval for the $925,000 because getting the federal funds is uncertain. If the city were able to obtain federal money, it would not sell the remaining portion of the bonds allocated for the athletic compounds. Similarly, the $883,000 set aside for neighborhood parks could be reduced by about $113,000, though officials again say the city needs voter approval of the total amount. Other items in the 1978 bond issue include $300,000 for a street rebuilding fund, $230,000 to tie Kyle Street to an intersection of Dominik and Puryear St. and $680,000 to finish the fire station, police station and warehouse begun with J976 bonds. The street rebuilding program would establish a revolving fund designed to prevent the loss of the city's street system, which officials say is the city's biggest investment. Connecting Kyle to Dominik would help relieve the traffic congestion at the Kyle- Jersey - Dominik in- tersection, city staffers and coun- cilmen maintain. It would provide a more direct route for apartment dwellers on Highway 30 to Texas A &M University and would reduce the number of left turns off Texas onto Dominik at peak traffic periods, according to City Engineer Elrey Ash. City councils and citizens have discussed — and cussed — traffic at the intersection for years. The specifics of the plan are not "set in concrete," officials say, but the city does need to do the work to alleviate the traffic problem. Overruns for projects begun with 1976 bond issue money amount to $680,000. That money will go for construction on the fire station, the police station and the warehouse as well as right of way. The money includes $100,000 for a fire substation in Southwood Valley - The city hall addition, now un- derway, is within budget and the city does not need additional funds for that project. NEXT: What will it all cost? The Eagle March 27, 1978 Voters to decide charter changes in CS election By DAVID LINDSEY Staff Writer College Station's two - year -old ward or district system is again a question for College Station residents. The subject of controversy spanning its brief history, the ward system was narrowly instituted in 1976 by less than one percent of the vote. The election was challenged in 85th District Court. The issue was that voters misunderstood the ballot and meant to vote against ward or district elections. But the election was upheld and the ward system was approved by the United States Department of Justice. If the voters change the charter from the ward system to an at -large system, the change will have to go to the Department of Justice for ap- proval. It is not clear that Justice will approve the change, but David Hunter, an attorney in the voting section of the civil rights division, said the agency will have to deter- mine whether the change is aimed at diluting minority voting strength or is otherwise discriminatory. April 1, the issue, along with other charter changes, is on the ballot. Voters also choose a mayor, three council representatives and vote on $9.165 million worth of bonds for capital projects. While the ward system has been controversial in the past, this year there has been relatively little ap- parent interest in the issue. Council candidates have expressed positions on the issue ranging from "who cares ?" to "whatever the people want is okay." What is the ward system? Basically, it is a system in which representatives are elected from geographic districts. In College Station only the mayor's position is elected at- large. There are several plans for city government that include the totally at -large system used by Bryan to exclusively geographic represen- tation used in College Station presently. Some cities have opted for a mixed system with both at-large and geographic or district representation. The positions have philosophical bases that are as different as the systems themselves. Theoretically, the at -large system should produce government con- cerned about the whole city since each councilman is elected throughout the whole city. Wards or district, however, theoretically produce represen- tation that is closer to the specific people that live in that district. Thus, a person with a problem can go to one person and seek redress of grievances. The trend in the United States, primarily through court action, has been toward the district election of councilmen and school board members. Since the Baker versus the Board of Education case in Memphis, Tenn., in the mid- 1960's, courts have generally held that ward or district elections enhance minority voters' chances of representation. In College Station, minority population is very low and spread throughout the city. The minority voters have been divided up in the various wards and their represen- tation has not dramatically in- creased or decreased — at least no minority sits on the council. The campus of Texas A &M University was divided in the ward system, city officials say, because it was too large geographically to be included in one ward. Off- campus student population also is spread around the city and the ward system has not made much apparent dif- ference in that vote. However, students could be a potent political force in College Station — as they are, for example in Austin — with or without the ward system. Historically, A &M students have not played a big role in city Analysis wide or ward systems. The ward system, opponents in- cluding several incumbent city officials say, has distinct disad- vantages in a city such as College Station which has no sizeable minority population. If a person lives under a ward system, then he gets to vote for his representative only every two years. He also votes for a mayor every two years. Under the at -large system, that same person could vote for three or four council positions every year. It is easier to change the face of the council under an at -large system. In College Station zoning questions are big issues. Suppose a sensitive zoning issue was before the council. Under the ward system, only the ward representative would be directly answerable to the people. That being the case, the other council members have the tendency to say , "Okay Ward X Represen- tative. Since you've got to get elected out there again, how do you feel about this zoning matter? Af- terall, I don't have to get elected out there." There is also the possibility that ward representatives might tend toward pork barrel city spending. For example, suppose the city budgets X dollars for fire hydrants or sidewalk improvements. Under a ward system the council members might want to divide the goodies equally even if ward 1 needs more sidewalks than ward 2 or ward 3 needs more fire hydrants than ward 4. That idea of divying up the dollars is not foreign. In Brazos County, for instance, commissioners voted to divide fire money equally among the four commissioner precincts. That's in spite of the fact that more people live in one precinct — and more fires occur there — than in other precincts. On the other hand district repre- Isentation has its advantages. A person who is not well known citywide presumably has a better chance at getting elected to the council since-the geographic area is smaller. A door -to -door campaign backed up by neighborhood organizations can be effective in district elections. It is less expensive to campaign in a smaller area. Additionally, if geographic boundaries are predetermined, then all areas of the city are guaranteed at least some minimal represen- tation. Under the at -large system well known people, who could all live in one area of town, could get elected. They might not be as favorable to specific needs in areas in which they do not live. While wards or districts are a new phenomenon in city and school government — particularly in the south and Southwest — they are not new to this country. Afterall, judges, state legislators, Congressmen and Senators are all elected in districts which are really just big wards. The argument against city wards is that wards have lead to corrupt politics in cities such as Chicago or New York. But the politics of Chicago can't be translated to a city such as College Station with its different size, education level and history. Proponents of the ward system in College Station say with some justification that the system hasn't failed the city in its brief history. Councilmen were first elected at- large and then re- elected in the ward system. These proponents suggest that the system hasn't had time to prove — or disapprove—.its usefulness. Opponents of the ward system say there is no demonstrated need for the system and that the city can be inc4 nc wall carvarl by of -lnran ranra- Neighbors, locks can p eve r nt burglaries I - By FRANK MAY Staff Writer A burglary occurs every 10 seconds in these great United States. Burglaries do not occur in Bryan - College Station quite as often, but the number is rising and the amount of property stolen is rising even higher. Local police are not making any excuses for the increasing burglaries, but say that home and apartment owners can help keep the number down. In the city of Bryan, the amount of property lost in burglaries has almost doubled this year over the six months of 1977, although the number has risen only slightly. The situation is somewhat better in College Station with the latest crime figures showing a decrease in property lost, but police there admit it is still a problem. "Too many people say it's not going to happen to them," says College Station Sat. Bernard Kapella. "But when they walk into their house one day and feel like they don't know where they are, then they'll realize they can do something," he added. Kapella, head of the department's crime prevention unit, came to College Station 1 1 /2 years ago from Joliet, Ill., where he learned a lot about burglars. "We used to spend nights just watching burglars, their moves, their personalities, everything," he siad. "We broke a case up there after there had been 96 burglaries in one month," he noted. Kapella makes his experience and knowledge available to College Station residents through his on- going program to educate the public on how to stop burglaries. He speaks at civic club meetings and surveys homes for purglary proofing. What he tells home and apartment owners is that they must change their attitude first and then do something about it. "People have got to realize the problem. One of the best preventions is to have everybody on a clock or in an apartment complex watch out for the other guy," he began. "Get to know who's who and when they're home or what they're doing. Then, when there is anybody suspicious we can be contacted and hopefully catch him," he said. Many burglaries which Kapella investigates involve witnesses who had seen the burglars, but thought nothing of it. "A block watch is the most ef- fective way to stop burglaries," he said. Other and more widely used methods of stopping burglars in- clude dead bolt locks, latches and sliding door guards. "There are two things which can stop a burglar — time and noise," Kapella said. "And the chances are that these will always stop the burglars in College Station because there are not really any professionals here," he added. "Every homeowner should visit a reputable locksmith and get some kind of dead bolt for their doors. It's worth the $200 or so to put locks on all your doors if you consider a burglar can remove $1,500 worth of stuff quickly," he explained. Kapella had little approval for conventional chain locks, but noted modern models are becoming more effective. "Chain locks were in- vented in the 50's to keep the kids from running out of the house and for that they were good," he said. "They really do not provide security. Most chain locks can be broken through with a thumb tack and rubber band," he added. With the large number of apart- ments in the city of College Station, Kapella said renters should urge management to install locks on the units. It might cost a few more dollars, but I think it could be an added selling tool," he said. Lights in parking lots and security guards at the apartments would also help cut down the number of burglaries, he said. An identification tool available at both the Bryan and College Station police departments can be rented to mark valuable items in case they are stolen. Both Kapella and Bryan police. Lt-Gene Knowles will serve the security surveys in the two cities on request. Knowles admits there probably are professional burglars who can get into any home in Bryan "if they want to bad enough." But, he adds, they can be stopped from stealing valuables. He reccommends that citizens keep their valuables in a safe deposit box or hide them in unobvious places where a burglar would not look. "There are usually some types of secret hiding places or common cubbyholes in every home," he said. "It is worth it to at least make the burglar work to get anything done," he said. Knowles also noted that burglars often enter the door leading from a garage to a home. "It is a hollow core door and can very easily be broken into. Protection there like a better door would help," he said. Homeowners face greater chances of burglary because of the increased security in most businesses in the Bryan - College Station area, the two officers said. "Businesses have spot lights, alarms and suspicious persons are easily seen," Knowles said. With odds against homeowners increasing, Knowles and Kapella urge that residents at least be aware of the possibility of burglary. "People should try to help one another," Kapella said "Someday a burglary will happen to you and you're going to need the help of a neighbor," Kapella said. "It's an awful feeling to come home and learn that somebody you don't know was in your house," he added. Youth Corps hacks through undergrowth to build fitness trail By BRENDA STERN Staff Writer Bryan - College Station joggers won't have to dodge passing motorists and worry about shin splints after this week. Determined youths are transforming the dense undergrowth in Anderson Park into a fitness trail for joggers and exercise enthusiasts. The workers are members of the Youth Conservation Corps, spon- sored by the Brazos Valley Development Council, and snakes and poison ivy attacks haven't seemed to flag their enthusiasm. After two weeks of hacking a mile - long trail between dense park trees, workers still caper through chores with water fights and jokes to spice up what can be an arduous job. "The kids cut up whether they're supposed to be working or not," Ross McKenney, a crew leader, said. "But, heck, we don't want slave labor. We want the kids to have fun, too." "In this hot weather, any kind of excuse to stop is a good one," Mary Cichra, YCC environmentalist, said. Cichra and Rick Ploeger, urban forester for College Station, have been supervising the 24 youth's since they began work June. 5. The teen- agers work 30 hours a week and attend 10 hours of environmental lessons, including safety hints on what to do when meeting a snake and how to avoid poison ivy. "Our biggest enemies have been poison ivy and chiggers," Cichra said with a grin. The youths get paid $2.65 per hour for their efforts and don't seem to mind the hardships. is wide enough for three persons to someone telling them what to do. The purpose of uh� is to walk abreast comfortably and has Here, they can get fired just like a provide jobs for youths aged 15 to 18 exerxise stations every 100 yards. 'real' job." and give them experence in con- Each station has a signpost with "This is a job that you can feel like servation -type work, along with illustrations showing how to do an you've done something for your some environmental education, said exercise and how many times a community," Degelman said. John Rouse, YCC cwrdinator for, person should do it, depending on his "What we've done, everyone can get BVDC. physical condition. I out and use." It's not easy for teen-agers to find "They (exercisers and joggers) summer jobs and YCC gives them can pace it for what they can take," the chance to work a n4 st the same Cichra explained. "They can do time, benefit residents of par- whatever is safe and healthy for ticipating cities, Roussesaid. them." Four girls and 20 bo. s have built The youths are divided into three three bridges, e sti,blished 20 crews, which partly explains the exercise stations alog the trail, production rate of the YCC mem erected signposts and maintained bers. Crew members are highly the nearby arboretum at Bee Creek competitive. Park. Darryl Degelman, 911 Welsh The fitness trail at Alderson Park Avenue, and Chris, Velia, 2805 located on Lemon Tree between Cherry Creek, said the.; competition.. Hollemon and Southwest Parkway, keeps them busy and gives them a little fun, too. A crew leader had just finished explaining how bears mark trees with their claws and crew members decided they wanted to try it, too. "We divided up into crews to see who could get tape the highest on a tree by climbing on each others shoulders," Velia explained. "Ross's crew won but we came in second," Degelman said with pride. The boys seem to have learned from the competition. "There was a lot of rivalry at first between the people from con- solidated and Bryan High," Degelman said with Velia nodding agreement. "I thought that I'd hate the people from Bryan but they're okay after all." The YCC is a federal program administered through the Texas Department of Community Affairs and the BVDC. College Station, Hearne, Brenham and Jewett are participating in this area. Any city can apply for the program and only has to pay 20 percent of the cost, Rouse explained. The rewards seem to be two -fold. The workers earn money and develop muscles and deep suntan: and Bryan - College Station resident get a new fitness trail. "This shows them what holding a `real' job is like Dale Bode, a crew leader said. "They're not used to The fitness trail will be ready by next week and joggers are invited to try it, Rouse said. "It won't be really nice (with a special surface) for at least a couple of weeks but people can go ahead and start using it next week," Rouse said. Staff photo by Brenda Stern Conservation Corps crew cleans up trail. The Eagle July 13, 1978 oses grant for poor performance By RUSTY CAWLEY Staff Writer Poor performance in the past and insufficient housing assistance plans for the future caused College Station to lose its 1978 Community Development Block Grant, a Dallas Housing and Urban Development director said this morning. Leo Garrett, community development director for the Dallas HUD office, said College Station lost the $300,000 grant because the city hasn't helped a single low- income family since joining the program three years ago. "The law requires that to receive the grant, a city must provide an acceptable Housing Assistance Plan," Garrett said. "They've turned in plans in the past, but haven't done a single thing to fulfill them. "Not one single person has been The Eagle /Bryan - College Station, Texas Brazos News of Bryan - College Station and the Brazos Valley Wednesday, July 12, 1978 Page 1B aided by the city of College Station with a low- income housing plan," he said. "We cannot recommend HUD grant any more funds until we see some results." The Housing Assistance Plan is designed to aid low -and middle in- come families find housing. College Station city officials, however, contend that Hud's rental subsidizing program is un- workable and its housing authority plan is unacceptable. "We've offered them several options," Garrett said, "but they've either refused or not been able to carry out any of them." Ben Danford, HUD community development representative hand- ling Lhe College Station area, agreed with Garrett. "Their annual performance report on low- income housing has reported zero performance for three years," Danford said. "There is no way we can recommend them to the Washington office. "What do we say? 'Here's an applicant who hasn't done anything they said they would. Give them money.'?" Jim Callaway, College Station's community development planner, said this morning that College Station simply cannot follow the demands of HUD. "Some of their plans will not work here," Callaway said. "And others are unacceptable to the city coun- cil." One HUD plan, to provide rented housing by federally subsidizing most of the rent, will not work because of local apartment rates, Callaway said. "College Station is a landlord's market," he said. "The rates for housing of acceptable quality are too high." The plan calls for the housed family to use 25 percent of its annual income for rent. The federal government supplies the rest. "There aren't any eligible familes that we can find that can afford 25 percent of their annual income to go for rent at local rates," Callaway said. Another HUD plan, to set up a College Station housing authority was unacceptable to the city council Callaway said. "The council felt the housing authority plan was unacceptable for a city as small as College Station," he said. The loss of the 1978 grant doesn't affect projects already using grants from 1976 and 1977, Callaway said. Callaway confirmed the grant was worth $300,000, correcting an earlier statement by another city official that the grant was worth $200,000. "We just won't be able to carry out the activities we planned for the 1978 funds," he said. "Most of this was to be used for street construction and housing rehabilitation." The city will appeal the ruling, Callaway said, though there is no formal appeal process. The Eagle July 12, 1978 Sororities propose `Greek Village' By JANE MILLS SMITH Staff Writer If plans become reality, College Station will have a sorority "village." The village will contain at least eight sorority houses and be located between University Oaks Boulevard, Munson Drive, Dominik Drive andStallings Drive. The 12 -acre area, a development by Don Martell of Bryan, is to be called "Greek Village" but includes one lot and existing house at Munson and Dominik. Martell's plat is up for preliminary consideration tonight by the College Station City Council. A conditional use permit for the existing residence to be used as a sorority house for Alpha Phi has been approved by the city's planning and zoning commission. Despite the fact that the university has refused to recognize them as official student organizations, and forbidden them to meet on campus, sororities have prospered at Texas A &M. Some chapters boast mem- berships of more than 5o women. At present there are nine national sororities with Texas A &M coed members. They include Phi Mu, lAlpha Phi, Zeta Tau Alpha, Chi ALMA ZETA GNI IUPPA M TAU OV%6A ALPfIA ALPHA 'THETA ATHENS PR1Vr- flLpHA 1,_= {CAPpl 4AMMA t»LTA KAPPA Q ETA vti gAMAA GL LTA Y ri-m z oLYMPU WA `�7ALL iN4 5 Omega, Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Delta Pi, kappa kappa Gamma and Delta Zeta. The sororities have been in existence at Texas A &M for about three years. Presently each group rents a special apartment at the Sausalito Apartments for meetings and other activities. "The sororities were getting so big ;hat we didn't fit into the apart- ments, so s)mething had to be done," explainel Mrs. Brenda Zieren, a menberof Chi Omega and president of the local Panhellenic Housing Advisory Board. "We found the piece of land that Mr. Martell had and it already was zoned for apartnents. Under the city's regulatiions,sororities may be established in apartment zones if they receive a coiditional use per- mit," she said. "We wanted to 1p near the college and close enough b Sausalito that if some sororities ddn't move, we could still be close," Mrs. Zieren said. Since the sororiti-s got involved in the early stages of he development, they were able to Mork up their own deed restrictions bnd establish an architectural cont-Tol board. "We worked as a group to secure the land, but eachsorority will be on its own as far as wiat is built," Mrs. Zieren said. Some sororities will build com- plete houses with rooms for mem- bers and a house mother, while others will probaby build only meet- ing areas, she said. Some will build within a year and others may wait, she said. Each of the proposed lots contains more than an acre of land. All the houses, except the existing residence, will face inward toward each other. The existing structure, which will be remodeled, faces Munson but will have its primary entrance on the proposed Athens Drive. Two lots in Martell's development are not spoken for. The sororities propose two new streets to parallel Munson. The first is called Wildwood Drive on Mar - tell's original plat, but the women hope to have the city council rename it Athens Drive. The second street is to be Olympia Way. Sorority advisers cringed during a recent zoning commission meeting at the name of Wildwood because they said they didn't want it to become known as "Wildlife." Actually, Mrs. Zieren said, the sorority members should be quieter, calmer neighbors than apartment tenants. Each group has rules and most will have house mothers to supervise. "One of the major benefits of building together is security," she said. "It must be very tight." The impetus for the sorority The Eagle /Bryan - College Station, Texas Brazos Page News of Bryan - College Station and the Brazos Valley Monday, July 10, 1978 Page lg "We've got all kinds of organizations in the community which function independently of the university and don't have a relationship with the university," said Dr. John Koldus, vice president of student services. "That is how we see sororities." Before anything is built, however, Martell's plat must receive preliminary and final approval from the city council and each sorority must receive conditional use per- mits for their houses. Building permits also must be secured before construction begins. development is coming from in- terested alumni like Mrs. Zieren. These local women are the ones who initated or "colonized" the chapters at the university and are working to secure construction financing from private sources and the sororities national organizations. "The alumni are interested in the girls and feel that as actives, they should work to allow others to participate in an activity that did so much for themselves," she said. The university has not taken a position on the sorority develop- ment. The Eagle July 10, 1978 She won her z oning change and an election Protecting neighborhoods is Mrs. Boughton's major goal By JANE MILLS SMITH Staff Writer It can be said that College Station's newest female member of the city council grew up with that city. Mrs. Patricia Boughton was born in College Station, graduated from A &M Consolidated Schools and has spent 30 years of her life there. She was elected to the council in April and represents Ward 4. She has a deep love for the city and said that love is why she ran for the council post. She carries on a family tradition of community service — her father served for 15 years on the school board and at age 75 began a three -year term on the city council. Her father, C.A. Bonnen, now 82, still lives in College Station with Mrs. Boughton's mother. While she may be new to the city council post, Boughton isn't new to the workings of city government. Her work in getting a zoning change for some 100 acres in the Southwest Parkway, Welch Street and Wellborn Road area drew her into the council race. "It really got sprung on me because of those," Boughton said as she pointed out a picture window in the back of her home toward a row of four - plexes now under construction. "When we bought our home here we knew it was zoned R -6 (high density apartments) but we didn't think too much of it because we had been told of plans for one -story townhouses," she said. "Four or five years went by and the property changed hands and that developer had plans for a high -rise apartment complex. We got upset and started work on a petition." As a result, Boughton and other neighborhood residents got the developer to build four - plexes. But it wasn't an easy task primarily because the original petition they needed required notarized signatures of three - fourths of the landowners in the subdivision. That episode got neighborhood residents thinking: "We've got a lot of undeveloped land around here. What will happen to it? What about the elementary and high schools nearby ?" "We found out that most of the undeveloped land was zoned R -6 too. We went to the city and they told us now was the time to get the zoning changed," Boughton said. "This was when I really got involved." Boughton began "working the streets at night," going door to door to get names on a petition. Of 225 names on the final petition, she secured 174 by herself. "After the petition we had to go to every planning and zoning meeting for about six months until it was re- zoned," she said. All the land petitioned by the residents was down -zoned to lower density uses. "I was very happy. I thought the city did well by us," Boughton said. When election time came, citizens interested in protecting single family neighborhoods asked Boughton to run. She did. She campaigned hard, although she spent little on the campaign. Boughton said she personally covered 450 houses in her ward. "I just about wore my legs out. We covered every street in my ward." Boughton ran against developer Tony Jones. She said she feels the fact that Jones was a developer hurt him in Ward 4 because so many people were concerned about the intrusion of apartments and com- mercial developments into their neighborhoods. "I feel that the voters thought I would look after the single family cit y neighborhoods," she said. has Although she was elected under ho the ward system, Boughton said she wo is against it. "I don't feel that this rep city is diversified enough to warrant Sh the ward system. I`ve seen it pit neighborhood against neigh borhood." In her own election, Boughton feels the ward system hurt her. "I know a lot of people in College Station, but I was relatively new to this neighborhood. "When I announced I was running, my parents had numerous calls from people wanting to vote for me. Even after all these years, many people don't understand the ward system and they couldn't figure out why they couldn't vote for me," she said. Although she's only been on the ' council for a short period of time, Boughton said she enjoys the work. And it is work. She said it is sur- prising how much time council work takes. As one of two women on the council, Boughton said she senses that certain male council members tend to look down on her because she is a woman. "No one has done anything to me personally, but I have felt that they are condescending to women in general," she said. "Women's lib is not a big deal with me," Boughton said, adding that at first some male council member's attitudes made her angry. Now, she said, she ignores them and goes about her business. As the wife of a retired military man, Bouthron has learned to function well on her own while her husband was overseas. In fact, she said, she was always taught to be independent by her parents. When she's not involved in some mechanically inclined. good for the community and vice business or with her family (she "I don't do major car repair, but I versa. four children — all away from can change out a headlight and do "I was born and raised here. me) she often can be found minor work." We've lived all over the world and I rking on her automobile or An avid supporter of Texas A &M don't feel we've ever found a better airing a household appliance. University, Boughton feels what's place to live than College Station. I e said she's always been good for the university is usually have the city's interest at heart." Staff photo Boughton says she has the city's interest at heart. The Eagle July 3, 1978 Staff photo Boughton says she has the city's interest at heart. The Eagle July 3, 1978 CS bills may drop slightly College Station residents in the Northgate area should be seeing a slight reduction in their electric bills by August, Jimmy McCord of Electric Power Engineers, Inc. said. His firm is being used by the City of College Station as consul- tants in the power transfer from Bryan Utilities to Gulf States Utilities. They are presently super- vising power line construction in University Square by Northgate and on Highway 30 that will carry Gulf State electricity to the city. The power lines should be completed and operating by late next week, McCord said. "By the first of July we hope to have the whole Northgate area supplied b� Gulf States," McCord said. ` But you know how schedules go. If it rains all next week, we won't get it done. " Residents living around the City Hall area had their power transferred last month and should be seeing a reduction in their July electric bills, McCord said. "Anytime College Station passes a load from Bryan Utilities to Gulf States, the resi- dents should see a savings," he said. The power poles being set up in University Square are larger than most people are used to seeing because concrete foun- dations are being used instead of the usual guy wires — thick wires that run from top to bot- tom to keep it upright, McCord explained. The final transfer of power linking College Station to Gulf States Utilities is expected to occur in January, 1979, McCord said. Workers labor on both ends of the power pole. CS allows livestock, makes park pledge By JANE M. SMITH Staff Writer At least two citizens groups went away happy from the College Station City Council meeting Thursday night. The council reassured a group of Haines -Welsh Street area residents that it was working to acquire a park in that area and approved a livestock permit that will allow St. Thomas Episcopal Church to keep its animal barn. The church has maintained the small group of animals behind its church for several years. The ducks, geese, rabbits and such are used in the children's educational program. Recently, the council learned that the church did not have a permit for the animals. Several neighbors in the area complained about noise and flies from the menagerie. Church member Roger Koppa said two loud peacocks had been removed from the barn and that the facility had been approved by the health department. Regarding a new park, council member Gary Halter reassured the Haines Street area residents that the council had not faltered in its at- tempts to obtain parkland south of the Haines Street extension. But first, Halter questioned the residents on why they felt they needed reassurance. "What have we done to make you need reassurance? Has this council taken any action on that park? What is this based on ?," Halter asked the group's spokesman, Charles Giammona of 1300 Caudill. Giammona said they were aghast at the bulldozing going on in the area and were distressed at talk of The Eagle /Bryan - College Station, Texas Brazos Page News of Bryan - College Station and the Brazos Valley Friday, June 23, 1976 Page 1B changing the park site. "We want the 14 -acre park we voted for in the bond issue," he said. Halter said he had looked at the proposed park area and found the bulldozing perfectly consistent with the platted streets for the area. He said that just because an individual might suggest that the park location be changed doesn't mean that the council is considering it. "I don't know why you need reassurance. I suggest that before you come before this council the proper approach might have been to find out what is being done rather than conjure up some need for reassurance. I've spent two days in the last month working on that park subject and I thought we were doing a very good job of moving it along," he said. "Then can we be reassured? We'd like a committment," Giammona said. "Let me assure you that I am working to bring it into existence," Halter said. "even though I feel it is a bad buy because we can spend the same $200,000 and get better park land elsewhere in the city." He added that he doesn't guarantee the park would be 14 acres. "I think the money will buy about 10 acres," he said. Giammona read a statement from the citizen's group that said they wanted the park to the south of the Haines extension, not to the north. "This is the land which the voters thought they were voting for. This site was on city plans for a park prior to this group's interest. The area is a wilderness area and has many trees, grapevines, wild flowers and other habitat that would make a unique park," the statement stated. Giammona defended his group's concern saying that individual discussions with council members and private citizens had indicated the council was considering changing the park site. The Eagle June 23, 1978 Consultant lists traffic problems at workshop By BRENDA STERN Staff Writer Outdated traffic ordinances, a multitude of private driveways giving access to major city streets and inadequate parking controls are among the principle traffic- related problems in Bryan - College Station, according to John Hudson, a Houston engineering consultant. Speaking before the planning commissions of Bryan and College Station in a joint workshop Wed- nesday night, Hudson said College Station's traffic control ordinance needs to be revised. "It (the 1951 Traffic Ordinance) was probably pretty good at that time but it's outdated now," Hudson said. For instance, section 24 of the ordinance requires animal -drawn vehicles be given the right -of -way. Hudson suggested College Station should void its present traffic or- dinance and adopt one based on the Model Traffic Ordinance prepared by the National Committee on Uni- form Traffic Laws and Ordinances. Such revision would eliminate un- necessary duplication between local ordinances and state law and in- crease the flexibility of city per- sonnel in dealing with traffic prob- lems, Hudson said. Bryan's traffic code was reported as being a "very fine, simple code" and Hudson recommended no changes. School zone speed limit signs need to be changed in both cities, Hudson said. He recommended specific time limits for - reduced speeds when pedestrian traffic is heaviest such as 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Signs with more time limits and `When Pedestrians are Present' are ambiguous to the motorist, he explained. In addition, he suggested uniform speed limits of 20 mph in school zones to reduce motorist confusion. "It's an unwritten first choice that most cities prefer," Hudson noted. The planning commissioners and Hudson also discussed private driveways such as shopping center and gas station driveways which give access to city streets. Hudson is preparing recommendations for the cities regarding driveway access The Eagle June 15, 1978 policies. He also will make other specific safety suggestions. Vergil Stover, chairman of the College Station Planning and Zoning Commission, said he wants Hudson to suggest a minimum distance that driveway accesses should be allowed from intersections to cut down on traffic halts and inter- ference with deceleration lanes. Commissioners also expressed concern about the number of driveways allowed commercial and retail businesses. The city must give each lot a minimum of one driveway but many B -CS businesses have several, which creates a traffic problem, Hudson said. College Station does not have a driveway ordinance but it controls the width and location of driveways through zoning guidelines. Bryan controls driveway access through related traffic control ordinances but apparently enforces few restrictions in the number of drive- ways along a major frontage development, Hudson said. "(Right of) access doesn't mean where, when and whatever the hell they (merchants) want," Stover said. "You're not obliged to give them that." Hudson said there were too many driveways serving Culpepper Plaza, Redmond Terrace Shopping Center and Manor East Mall. "The (Culpepper Plaza designers) probably managed to do a better job of messing things up than Manor East," Stover commented. Hudson recommended that Bryan follow College Station's 4- year -old unofficial policy of allowing only three driveways per property for each street frontage, except in special circumstances. Angle parking was also discussed in Wednesday's workshop. Bryan and College Station are working in conjunction with Hudson to develop site plan approval guidelines and updated zoning measures for off - street parking requirements for businesses. A retail store in College Station presently is required to have specific parking spaces depending on the number of customers it ex- pects to serve. Bryan has no off - street parking requirements at all. The cities are studying the feasibility of developing parking requirements based on a structure's square footage instead of the number of projected customers. This method is expected to give a more realistic estimate of parking spaces needed and, eventually, to reduce angle parking. C council reversal spurs arguments By JANE M. SMITH Staff Writer In one of its more heated meetings, the College Station City Council Tuesday night voted to rescind its earlier approval of a pre- liminary plat for a development along Bee Creek. The plat was for Sunrise Place, located north of FM 2818 and about 100 feet west of Southwood Drive. It was submitted by Dorsey McCrory, a College Station developer. The council approved the plat last week but at least one council member had second thoughts about the action and the matter was put up for reconsidei•atioh. c6uncilmen Jim Dozier and Homer Adams voted for the plat, Councilman Larry Ringer abstained and council members Anne Hazen, Patricia Boughton and Mayor Lorence Bravenec voted against it. Coun- cilman Gary Halter was absent. He voted against the plat the first time. It seemed that almost any topic drew council members into an argument Tuesday night and at one point even the audience got involved in the bickering. Two residents of the area along Bee Creek, angered at statements by Councilman Jim Dozier, stormed out of the council chambers. One resident yelled, "You're disgusting," at Dozier, who followed the men into the parking lot to continue the discussion. The Surnise Place project, the council was told, would raise the 100 - year flood line up 25 feet into yards of existing residences upstream on Langford Street. The project also would have added seven- tenths of a foot to the flood level. The increases in the flood level potentially caused by Sunrise Place were allowable under the city's present flood hazard zone ordinance. However, the city's Planning and Zoning Commission is to consi changing that ordinance at Thursday meeting. The cha would remove the alowance o f maximum change of one foot to existing upstream 100 year fl elevation by a development. der I didn't know (about the project). I its was very disturbed when I found out nge a the ood Mayor Lorence Bravenec said he felt the city was setting itself up to "concrete Bee Creek" with a $1 million bond issue in the next 10 years if the project was approved. "We need to take another look at Bee Creek. I see nothing wrong with slowing things down, holding things up for a month until we see what will happen to the ordinance," the mayor said. "What might be, is something else," said Councilman Adams. He said the plat met the city's or- dinance requirements and should be approved. Dozier agreed. "If someone wants to build in a creek bottom, let them," Adams said. "It is the effects on others who are already built along the creek," said Councilwoman Boughton. "After the meeting last week I found out things some of the consequences it might create." "Why let them build on one side of the creek and not the other? Are you going to prohibit all development in Southwood Valley that will put more water in the creek ?" asked Dozier. Dozier said the planning and zoning commission was lax in ap- proving the plat if they were con- sidering changing the ordinance. Dozier said the circumstances surrounding the reconsideration of the plat showed the "secrecy that develops around here. We are never informed." "Why do you always deal with the mayor and not the rest of us ?" Dozier asked City Manager North Bardell. He questioned the way the item got back on the agenda and said the mayor called other council members and talked them into reconsidering. That statement prompted the mayor to ask the city manager and each council member to recount their last few days' activities in- The Eagle /Bryan - College Station, Texas Brazos Page News of Bryan - College Station and the Brazos Valley Wednesday, June 14, 1918 Page 1B eluding any discussion of the meeting. Boughton said she was the one who instrumented the recon- sideration. Dozier angered citizens by saying a person who buys a house on a creek should figure out whether they are going to be flooded and should suffer the consequences. Engineer for the Sunrise project Don Garrett said the development would not flood homes, only yards. "The water we're talking about won't be raging flood waters. It will be relatively still, dead water that will be up maybe an hour and won't wash things away," Garrett said. The council appointed a com- mittee to work with McCrory to find a suitable project for the 11 acres of land along the creek. The Eagle June 14, 1978 - to sell genera obi i bonds The City of College Station will go ahead and sell $3.02 million worth of general obligation bonds following action of the council Wednesday. The council authorized its bond counselor, David Fetzer, to proceed with a sale of the bonds in late June or July. The bonds, part of a $9,165,000 bond proposal, were ap- proved by the voters in College Station April 1. The general obligation bonds — bonds which must be paid for through taxes — will be used for street improvements, park im- provements and work on previously approved projects including the Police station and warehouse. The bulk of the money, though, is $1.810 million for park im- provements and that figure con- cerns the council the most. The bond proposal to purchase park land included roughly $300,000 for a 50- acre athletic playing field complex near the intersection of Krenek Road and the East Bypass. However, the city has arranged to Purchase that tract without using bond funds. The question the council considered was whether the city could use money approved in the bond issue for the. acquisition of otherland. The consensus was that the city could use the money to purchase or improve other parks and that the city could use that money on some park project within the three -year Period allowed by the federal government for bonds. Bond adviser Fetzer said the city could have difficulty later in at- tracting competitive bids if it tried to sell just a $300,000 bond issue. He said interest rates had been rising and "the sooner we do it (sell the bonds,) the better. I wish we could have done it a month ago." In other business, the council amended the Community Development budget for a paving project on several streets. The project was budgeted for $81,300 but with engineering fees and the low bid, awarded to R.T. Montgomery Inc., the total came to $102,582.43. The project is over budget, ac- cording to community development planner Jim Callaway, because the budget did not anticipate a drainage project needed on Churchill Street. The council voted to use the $23,750 in the Community Development Contingency fund for the budget overrun. If necessary, the city can use a portion of its revenue sharing money for contingency later, if the money is needed, Callaway said. City Manger North Bardell said the city may get $214,000 from revenue sharing, an increase of $90,000 over this year. The increase is based on the 1976 population estimate, Bardell said. The council sent back to the city engineer's office an issue dealing with a road to the Woodway Village subdivision. The road is known as the Jones - Butler Road and developer Edsel Jones maintained the city had approved the con- struction of a private road over a year ago but the project now is stalled in the engineer's office. Councilmen disagreed with Jones over what the city had agreed to and instructed the city engineer's office to review tapes of the meeting where the project was approved. The Eagle May 23, 1978 R esident group opposes building permit By JANE M. SMITH Staff Writer Much to the dismay of numerous residents of the College Park area of College Station, the city council Thursday night approved two building permits for residences at 802 and 808 Aberdeen. Normally, the council does not become involved in issuing building permits. But a question of the project's conformity with single family zoning in the area caused building inspector William F. Koehler to forward the matter to the council. The permits were requested by William B. Lancaster, 303 Dexter, who owns a house on property ad- jacent to his home and the Aberdeen property. These houses are rented to students in what some neighbors said is a "boarding house" type operation. Lancaster plans to build the two new residences for the same pur- pose. About 75 residents of the area generally bounded by Lee Street to W. Dexter and Jersey to Park Place signed a petition asking that the council deny the building permits. Dr. Duane Cote, 304 Dexter, said the rooming facilities, called Lan- caster Place, are changing the fundamental nature of the neigh- borhood. He said traffic and the fact that the Lancasters serve meals from their home add to the problems in the neighborhood. "He's ruining my property and these people's property," said Percy Mims of 501 Dexter. "You've got to look at this in its entirety, not as two lots." Council members, however, said that if someone other than Lan- caster had requested the permits, they probably would have been issued without any question. "We're sympathetic," said councilman Gary Halter, "But what can we do about it? On what grounds can we deny the permits if he isn't violating the zoning ordinance? Lancaster said he had brought the other rental houses into zoning compliance last year limiting to four the number of unrelated persons who occupy each house. "We do encourage a spirit of unity among all the student occupants of the houses, although we discourage any reference to a boarding house operation to preserve the individual identity of each house as a single family unit," he said. Occupants of the houses must sign an agreement, he said, that they won't use drugs or alcohol and will keep noise level to a minimum. Council member Anne Hazen moved that the permits be issued but added that the city attorney and building official will look at the Lancaster operation to see if the boarding house concept conflicts with the single family zoning of the area. In other action, the council authorized the mayor to sign an agreement with Texas A &M University to furnish water to the city when it ends its contract with the City of B1 yan in 1979. The council also authorized the mayor to sign an agreement with the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation for the ex- tension of FM 60 (University Drive) to FM 158. The city will furnish right -of -way to the city limits. The highway department will spend $1,181,000 on the road extension. Under the agreement with A &M, the city will drill a water well, and supply a pumping system cooling tower and transmission lines. For three to five years, the city will draw as much of its water as possible from the TAMU system. The city will pay 43 cents per 1,000 gallons of water, but will receive a 20 cents per 1,000 gallorls credit toward The Eagle June 9, 1978 The Eagle/Bryan-College Station, Texas Brazos Page News of Bryan - College Station and the Brazos Valley Friday, June 9, 1978 Page 1B the Bost of the well. At the end of the agreement, the well will become property of the university. Consideration of an ordinance rezoning an 8.61 acre tract of land at Texas Avenue and the East Bypass was tabled by the council until the developer, Cruse Corporation, could meet with neighbors objecting tolthe project. Cruse had requested a zonin change from a single f amil residential to townhouse and commercial zoning, By JANE M. SMITH Writer of plans and guidelines for S taff evaporates from them. Imagine driving down a planting trees in the city. Street trees, according Along major streets, leaves serve as collectors busy College Station street sometime in the future to the plan, can have an immense of dust and carbon and instead of seeing only effect on the quality of the environment monoxide particles. The tree acts as a large filter speeding automobiles and dusty roadways, of streets in the city by which also removes carbon you see a row of lush, green, shady providing shade, lowering noise pollution dioxide and produces trees. This is the idea behind and "humanizing" large ex- oxygen, thus helping to purify the air," the plan a street tree plan accepted panses of pavement. - The plan cites a study states. The names this week by the College Station City Council. The done in Charlottesville, Va., in plan eight streets for proposed im- report, prepared by land- which it was estimated that a mature provement: Anderson ;Greet, College Avenue, s c a p e a r c h i t e c t u r e students and interested tree can cool a volume of air equal to five 10,000 Iiominik Street, Jersey citizens headed up by Mike watt air conditioners. Street, Southwest Park - Murphy, an associate Professor at A &M, "Trees cool air blowing way, Tarrow, University Boulevard and Welch consists over the leaves as water Street. The Eagle /Bryan-College Station, Texas — Saturday, June 10, 1978 ( C ; I Counci acce ts tree plan planting and are many existing trees on rtilizer. this street, but they are hree -year cost located inconsistently. The estimated at median is not planted and r costs, add plantings to visually buffer 00 trees, will existing housing 650 and $4,850 Southwest Parkway — r. There are some locations reasons for where wide expanses of s on various open fields exist and are in rding to the need of visual buffers from Street — In residential developments here exists a there are sidewalks and down space there is adequate room for ally screen street trees. Planting here rojects and would make the walk a ots. visually pleasing ex- nue — There perience for pedestrians. Each street is mapped out in the plan and plan- ning opportunities and constraints are shown. To describe each street,. a before and after picture is furnished. Some streets, including Jersey and University Boulevard, are owned by the Texas Highway Department and approval for the planting must come from that agency. Council members pointed out, however, that the highway department does have funds available for landscaping that also might be used in the tree The Eagle June 1p, 1978 planting project. City Manager North Bardell said im- plementation of the plan will begin immediately, although much of the actual tree planting must wait until fall — the best season for planting most trees. The cost of the planting program for the first year is estimated at 2,450 and will include the cost of buying, planting and maintaining 100 trees. Watering costs for one tree for a year is estimated at $12 a year, the plan said. Tree cost would be about $7, plus $5 fo r 50 cents for fe The total t of a tree is $48. Second yea ing another 1 cost about $3, the fourth yea Some of th e planting tree streets, acco plan are: Anderson two locations t need to scale and to visu apartment p their parking 1 College Ave the west side needs apartment projects. Along Page SB University Boulevard — This street has more varied opportunities than any other street in College Station. This is due to the many existing activities. The plan offers suggestions on possible "themes" of tree planting and suggests that residents of neighborhoods might be asked to decide on the style and the theme of planting they might prefer. Themes include single rows of various colored fl owering trees as well as mixtures of larger trees with an un- derstory of small flowering trees as a backdrop. Parks attract any as weather warms By ROY KLEINSASSER Staff Writer Off to the right, some joggers lope by, while a man bending over a barbecue grill flips hamburgers and quaffs down a cold beer. Tennis buffs strain furiously on nearby courts, in attempts to emulate Jimmy Connors or Rosie Casals. Finally, a man who looks more than a litte out of shape, strikes out during a softball game, only to be greeted by a round of jeers from his team. With pocketbooks slim, waistlines wide and weather warm, these icenes are repeating themselves )ften, as many Bryan- College nation residents take to area parks. The twin cities have numerous )arks, with attractions to interest everyone from botanists to small !hildren. Neither Bryan nor College Station -estricts parks use to residents of its City. The largest municipal park in the rea is Bee Creek Park, located off outhwest Parkway at the end of nderson Street in College Station, ith about 45 acres. Softball field, Innis courts, a swimming pool, avillion and barbecue pits are mong the facilities, as well as a ature trail. The one mile nature ith will have signs identifying ants installed by the end of the gar, said Pat Siegert, superin- ndent of recreation for College ation's park's department. Other parks in College Station: Anderson Ridge Park, a 13 -acre ,e at the intersection of Anderson A Lemon Tree streets, currently s a baseball field under con - •uction. A hiking trail is planned - thefuture. Dexter Park, 9- acres, off Dexter Drive, is basically a walking park, with few facilities. Thomas Park, 16 acres at Francis Drive and James Parkway, has two tennis courts, two soccer fields, four baseball fields and a playground. A swimming pool is planned, to be completed by next year. Oaks Park, a 7.5 acre site at High- way 30 and Stallings Drive, is presently under construction, and will be a walking park when it opens. A gymnasium, recreation room and baseball fields are all located at Lincoln Center, which is where College Station's parks department resides. Several other baseball fields are spread throughout the city. Haswell Park in Bryan, consisting of 29 acres at Nall and East 24th streets, has tennis courts, baseball fields, a swimming pool, barbecue grills and playground equipment. Other Bryan parks include: Henderson, a 21 -acre site on Palasota Drive, which has playground equipment, a wading pool, swimming pool, baseball fields, picnic tables, barbecue grills, and basketball goal standards. Bonham, 12 acres on Russel Street, has playground equipment, picnic tables, a basketball goal and barbecue grills. Burton Creek, a seven -acre site on Sharon Drive, features picnic tables, grills and playground equipment. Tanglewood, located on Carter Creek, has a covered picnic shelter, Ii hted tennis courts rills The Eagle/Bryan- College Station, Texas imp III l '° J 2 9 3 87 6 54 Thursday, May 18, 1978 Page 9A (Staff photos by Roy Kleinsasser) Road, features a variety of playground equipment, basketball goals, a tennis court, a wading pool, swimming pool, picnic grills and picnic benches. The Eagle May 18, 1978 g 1 g ' Parkway Terrace; and Williamson, playground equipment and a flower on Williamson Drive, all have picnic garden. benches, grills and playground Oak Grove Park, on Wellington; equipment. San Jacinto, at Villa Maria and Thomas, 18 acres on Old Kurten Party pavilion at Bee Creek Park can be reserved for groups. A jogging trail winds through Bee Creek Park, The Eagle /Bryan - College Station, Texas — Wednesday, May 10, 1978 Page 7D CS will build frisbee golf course By JIM NORTHCUTT Picnics and games are Special Correspondent popular under the many There is a new type of shade trees, and with the golf game that is becoming coming of summer, the popular. It is not played parks are a popular place with golf balls and golf for study and sunning. But clubs — it is a game played aside from the present use with frisbees. of parks and adjoining In fact, to really play this facilities, this young parks game, one needs a course, department has several and that is exactly what plans for the future. the College Station Parks "Our program of making and Recreation Depart- Oaks Park into a student ment plans on building orientated park is in within the year — a progress," Czimskey said. genuine frisbee golf "The plans for Oaks Park, course, one of several which is off Highway 30 improvements planned for and Stallings Drive, in- College Station parks. cludes not only party Although not built yet, areas, but also a multi -use the frisbee golf course is concrete slab and a stage one of several future area for theatrical pur- facilities that the College poses. Also, because this Station Parks and park is in an area of Recreation Department student apartments, we will build. plan on putting in a frisbee On April 1, a $1.8 million golf course and a jogging bond issue was passed by trail with exercise College Station residents stations. for use by the department. "Frisbee golf is really T h e p l a n n e d i m- catching on among young provements and in- people. Basically, it is a novations will probably game that is played like spark up the city residents golf, but instead of hitting and also the Texas A &M golf balls into the holes, students. you try throwing frisbees "The $1.8 million will be in the holes. This course used for the development will be the third of its kind and acquisition of in Texas. The jogging trail parkland and facilities," will be one -third of a mile Andy Czimskey, director long and it will have of the College Station exercise stations along the Parks and Recreation way. Department, said. "Although this is not "This budget will not exactly new, the idea is to only increase our have those people who programming efforts, but don't exercise a lot run the it will also help make us a course, and when they get more prof e s s i o n al to these stations, there will department with more be different exercise professional services." machines with instructions The seven major parks that will tell the person in College Station are how to use them. A second Dexter Park, Hensel Park, similar jogging course is Lincoln Park, Thomas being planned for An- Park, Anderson Park, Bee derson Park in the near Creek Park, and Oaks future." Parks. All of them are But other plans have also being used extensively by been made for that $1.8 all kinds of people, such as million. Two 50 -acre tracts sports freaks, sunbathers, will be purchased mainly and parents with their for athletic use. The tracts, children. which will be ne the intersection of Krenek not in the near future. facilities," the former that we can truly give the Road and the East By -Pass "We finally got off the A &M student said. "We public what it needs and and also in the Southwood limb o f providing are in a period of such Valley area, will primarily inadequate recreational growth and development wants." have softball, soccer, flag football, and Little League baseball fields. Con- struction on the first tract will begin within the next year. "We also plan on con- necting Anderson Park to Bee Creek Park," Czim- skey said. "They are close enough together that we can connect them and then provide hiking trails, jogging trails, and other little trails that will wind through the trees." Besides making park improvements on all the parks, the College Station Parks and Recreation Department will purchase a 15 -acre park in Carter's Grove area, a 14 -acre park near Welsh and Haines extension, 10-15 acres in Southwood Valley, 3.3 acres for the Anderson Park extension, and the Lincoln Center. In addition, Czimskey said that a community center with a gym, meeting rooms, an auditorium, and athletic - recreational facilities is being planned, but this is The Eagle May 10, 1978 Renovation `evicts' CS city council By DAVID LINDSEY Staff Writer Governments don't often like being involved in eviction proceed- ings. But when the government has to evict itself, that's even worse. In College Station the city government is going to have to move out of its present city hall in about eight weeks as part of the growing pains of the city. The move is necessary as renovation on present city council chambers — becoming offices — begins. The city is building a new city hall adjacent to the present structure but that building won't be complete by the time construction begins on the new office space. The city faces two problems, according to City Manager North Bardell, including the need for temporary office space and a place for city council meetings, meetings of the city's planning and zoning commission and municipal court sessions. The city will move out of the present space about Aug. 1 and the new city hall will be completed in late October, if everything moves on schedule. The city will consider a temporary building for office space as part of the move, Bardell said. The problem then becomes where to put the temporary structure, he Baia. The city considered asking Homestead Savings and Loan to allow the city to put the temporary building on savings and loan property across from the present City Hall. But that would mean, Bardell said, the city would have to make sewer and water connections to provide restroom facilities across the street. Councilwoman Ann Hazen asked why office workers couldn't "just run across the street ?" "They could, and I'm sure there would be a lot of that," Bardell said. "Bu it would be a violati of our building code. I don't see how we could violate our own code by allowing office space without sanitary facilities." Wednesday's meeting of the council was a work session largely devoted to a discussion of when the city will sell bonds approved April 1. Today, at 7 p.m., the council will consider Anderson Park, the subject of debate before the city's Parks and Recreation Committee earlier this week. The park will be in the LemonTree subdivision and include a tem- porarily lighted softball field. Residents have complained that the lighting would be a distraefion. And while the city says the lighting would be necessary for about one year, residents are not convinced saying that temperary buildings on public school cam- puses, for example, have been on the campuses two or more decades. Also on the agenda today is a consideration of a peitition ap- pealing a conditional use permit for a sorority house project between Munson Avenue, Dominik Dr. and University Oaks Dr. Neighborhood residents have objected to the development. The council also is scheduled to go into a closed session to consider personnel and land acquisition. The Eagle April 13, 1978 College Statoon voters abolish ward system College Station voters Saturday overwhelmingly voted to abolish the ward system which was in- stituted in 1976 by less than one percent of the vote. In a 1,458 to 584 decision, voters reinstated the at- large system of voting. The change, however, must be approved by the United States Department of Justice before it can go into effect. The amendment to change the voting system was one of seven charter amendments passed in Saturday's municipal elections. Under the ward system, voter representation was decided by geographic districts and only the mayor was elected at- large. This type of representation has been held by the courts as an enhancement of minority voters' chances of representation. But local opponents of the system say a city the size of College Station which has no sizeable minority population does not benefit from the ward system. In the ward system, voters choose a mayor and representatives only every two years. Under the at- large system, voters elect three or four council members every year, making it easier to change the face of the council. A charter amendment requiring that council candidates receive at least 34 percent of the votes cast to be elected was passed by a vote of 1,613 to 393. Ac- cording to the amendment, a runoff would be held if no candidate received the necessary 34 percent. A third amendment passed 1,361 to 63 in favor of allowing the city council to determine the fiscal year rather than requiring a charter change "ct, time the fiscal year needs to be altered. City officials contend this allows more administrative flexibility and does not change the time for payment of taxes. The fourth approved amendment allows the city manager to authorize someone else on the staff to countersign checks. The vote on this amendment was 1,341 for and 672 against. Amendments five and six, regarding annexation, passed 1,475 to 427 and 1,281 to 623, respectively. These changes allow the city to annex land in ac- cordance with "Municipal Annexation Act" Article 970a, Vernon's Annotated Texas Statues, which is the state law. Under the law the city can annex land on its own initiative or by petition of the people in the area. The amendments in effect bring the city charter into conformity with state law, which takes precedence over the charter. By a vote of 1,555 to 288, voters approved the seventh amendment to take out the metes and bounds description of the city. Under this change, the charter description of the city will be by reference to the city's articles of incorporation, the annexation ordinances and the official zoning map of the city. It will allow the charter to be accurate, but will not mandate charter changes every time a new area is annexed into the city. The eighth amendment concerned voting precincts. This item takes from the present charter the provision detailing voting precinct boun- daries. The original boundaries of the voting Precincts are in the original charter, take up three pages and are no longer valid. VotHng precincts change as the population shifts or grows. City officials say there is no reason the votijig precincts should be written into the charter. The vote on this amendment was 1,558 for and 333 against. The Eagle April 2, 1978 Humane Society surveys candidates on animal problems By ROY KLEINSASSER Staff Writer The Humane Society of Brazos County recently surveyed the twenty candidates for Bryan and College Station city offices to discover their opinions in regard to animal problems in the communities. Surveys were delivered to each candidate by the society and later picked up. Candidates were asked what problems existed, whether the present facilities in the cities are adequate and humane, their position on the two cities cooperating to establish an animal shelter and what they would do for animal control and welfare if elected. Bryan mayoral candidate Jim Barrett responded by saying that the Bryan dog pound is in bad shape and that a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) program would benefit the community. He would favor cooperation between the cities, and would work to bring in an SPCA program if elected. Richard Smith, who is also run- ning for mayor, believes the pound needs improvement and would favor a cooperative program. He also suggests improving city ordinances relating to animal control. Place 1 Bryan city council can- didate Joe G. Hanover stresses that too many loose animals are running around and that if present laws were enforced things could be improved. He has not inspected the pound and would not comment on its condition, adding that a cooperative effort might not be workable. His opponent, Gardner Osborn, said that the pound "is so un- speakably cruel that it cannot be discussed in terms of adequacy.", She would like to see an interim shelter established while a joint cities' shelter is built. Ples Turner, incumbent Bryan councilman in Place 2, said the major problem is that owners fail to spay or neuter pets and abide by leash laws. He would like to see a cooperative shelter and suggests putting the bond issue before the voters again. Marcus K. McCrary, Place 2 candidate, would not comment on the current shelter not having in- spected it, but would like to see cooperation between Bryan and College Station. He emphasizes, however, that he is presently against spending tax money for a new and costly shelter, preferring to see unwanted animals given to the veterinary school for research or mercifully destroyed. The other Place 2 candidate, Geraldine Hester, believes the resent pound may need expansion as the city grows. She said, however, that the voters had rejected a proposal in the last bond election. As an official, she would plan to monitor the animal situation to see that there are no outbreaks of disease. Bryan Council candidate in Place 3, Peyton Waller, did not respond to the survey. His opponent, August Fridel, said the present Bryan pound should be renovated and expanded. He favors a cooperative effort with the county included, and full enforcement of leash laws. Incumbent Place 4 Bryan coun- cilman Henry Seale did not respond. Bryan council candidate for Place 6, John Mobley, said that although the present pound is not adequate, the voters were against building a new one in the last election. He would support building a new one when money is available. He does not believe a joint shelter would be feasible unless the county was in- volved. Ralph D. Campbell, also running for Place 6, had no comment. Place 6 candidate Andy Herrera said the present pound is totally inadequate, and that he would favor a joint shelter, with county cooperation. Besides working for a new shelter, Herrera would stress citizen participation in obeying the laws which now exist. College Station's Mayor, Lorence L. Bravenec said the major problem in his city is animals running loose. The city has no real shelter problem, since it uses the private facilities of a veterinarian. He would support a Bryan effort for a shelter "by letting Bryan keep our animals (and receive any fees), instead of turning them over to the private shelter." He does not see any real problem, so he has no present plans. His opponent, Karl Crawley, favors an extensive pet neutering campaign and strong penalties against people who mistreat animals. A cooperative effort on the part of the two cities would be a good way to provide for an adequate and humane shelter, he said. College Station council candidate in Place 2, David L. Pugh, said if he was elected he would work for an effective animal control ordinance program, to increase the number of officers and vehicles for animal control and lend support to better enforcement of the barking dog laws. He would also favor a joint animal shelter. Homer B. Adams, who opposes him, is not aware of any problems, but would favor a cooperative effort between the two cities, although he adds that relations seem strained at the present time. College Station council candidate Place 4, Tony Jones, provided no response. Patricia Boughton, also running for Place 4, feels that animal control in College Station is adequate. She would favor more available in- formation about pet adoption. Incumbent Place 6 College Station councilman James Dozier, said that too many animals are running loose and that both cities should consider and discuss a joint shelter. The Eagle March 31, 1973 an election, as hereinafter W provided, said bonds to be A payable from the net revenues derived from the operation of T the Waterworks System, N Sanitary Sewer System and Electric Light and Power A System on a parity with said D outstanding bonds; and C WHEREAS, the City Council e has also determined, and hereby determines, that the propositions for the issuance of tax bonds of said City for the purpose of making certain permanent public im- provements, as hereinafter provided, should also be submitted at said election; and WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to proceed with the ordering of such election; Therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION: NOTICE OF BOND ELECTION TO THE DULY QUALIFIED RESIDENT ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS: 40TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special election v(ill b held in and throughout the City of College Station, Texas, on April 1, 1978, pur- suant to and in accordance with the annexed Election Ordinance adopted by the City Council, said Ordinance being hereby made a part of this Notice for all purposes. -Itj WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name officially and affixed hereto the seal of the City of College Station, Texas, this the 8th day of March, 1978. Florence Neelley City Secretary, • City of College Station, texas (SEAL) ORDINANCE NO. 1103 'AN ORDINANCE CALLING 'BOND ELECTION PROVIDING AND FIXING D E T A I LS R E L A T I N G T H E R E T O A N D ,DECLARING THAT SAID ;ORDINANCE SHALL BE .EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY .UPON ADOPTION .WHEREAS, the outstanding 'bonds of the following 'described revenue bond issues 'of the City of College Station, Texas, constitute the only Indebtedness chargeable against the net revenues of the City's Woterworks System, Sanitary Sewer System and Electric Light and Power System, to -wit: City of College Station Waterworks and Sewer System and Electric Light and Power System Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 1967, dated February 1, 1967, orginally issued in the principal amount of $333,000; City of College Station Waterworks and Sewer System and Electric Light and Power System Revenue Bonds, Series 1967, dated February 1, 1967, originally issued in the prin. cipaI amount of 5600,000; City of College Station. Texas, Utility System RevenuE Bonds, Series 1971, datec August 1, 1971, originally issued in the principal amouni of 5800,000; ty n City of College Station °` Texas, Utility System RevenuE 'Bonds, Series 1973, originally '' issued in the principal amounl "of $500,000; and City of College Station .Texas, Utility System Revenue „ Bonds, Series 1976, originalll issued in the principal amoun r of $3,000,000. r and WHEREAS, it is provided ii the ordinances authorizing th issuance of said ouTstandim bonds, and in said bonds, tha additional revenue bonds ma be issued on a parity with sai outstanding bonds; and WHEREAS, there is a nee for the construction of e) tensions and improvements t the Waterworks System an Sanitary Sewer System of sai City, and the City Council ha determined, and hereb determines, that propositior for the issuance of additioni revenue bonds for such put poses should be submitted i Section 1. That a special election shall be held in and throughout the City of College Station, Texas, on the 1st day of Aoril. 1978, which is not less than fifteen not more than ninety days from the date of this ordinance, a7 wnicn election there shall be sub milted to the duly qualified resident electors within said City, for their action thereupon, the following propositions, to-wit: PROPOSITION NO. 1 SMALL THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, BE AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE THE REVENUE BONDS OF SAID CITY, IN ONE OR MORE SERIES, IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $5,300,000, MATURING SERALLY WITHIN 25 YEARS FROM THEIR DATE OR DATES AND BEARING INTEREST AT A RATE OR RATES NOT TO EXCEED THE MAXIMUM NOW AUTHORIZED BY LAW, ALL AS SHALL BE DETERMINED BY SAID CITY COUNCIL, FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXTENDING AND IMPROVING THE C I T Y' S E X I S T I N G WATERWORKS SYSTEM; SAID BONDS TO BE ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND SECURED IN THE MANNER PROVIDED IN ARTICLES 1111 TO 1118, BOTH IN CLUSIVE VERNON'S TEXAS CIVIL STATUES, AS AMENDED; AND TO SECURE THE PAYMENT OF THE INTEREST ON SAID BONDS AS IT ACCRUES AND THE PRINCIPAL OF SAID BONDS AS THEY MATURE BY PLEDGIN THE NET REVENUES FROM THE OPERATION OF THE CITY'S WATERWORKS SYSTEM, SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER SYSTEM; EACH BOND TO BE CONDITIONED THAT THE HOLDER THEREOF SHALL NEVER HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEMAND PAYMENT OF SAID OBLIGATION OUT OF ANY FUNDS RAISED OR TO BE RAISED BY TAXATION; AND SAID BONDS TO BE ON A R A R I T Y I N A L L RESPECTS WITH THE OUTSTANDING BONDS OF SAID CITY PAYABLE FROM THE NET REVENUES OF SAID WATERWORKS SYSTEM, SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER SYSTEM? PROPOSITION NO.2 iHALL THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE iTATION, TEXAS, BE AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE THE REVENUE BONDS OF SAID CITY, IN ONE OR MORE SERIES, IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $845,000, MATURING SERIALLY NITHIN 25 YEARS FROM THEIR DATE OR DATES AND BEARING INTEREST AT A RATE OR RATES NOT TO EXCEED THE MAXIMUM NOW AUTHORIZED BY LAW, A L L A S S H A L L B E DETERMINED BY SAID CITY COUNCIL, FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXTENDING AND IMPROVING THE C I T Y' S E X I S T I N G S A N I T A R Y SEWER SYSTEM; SAID BONDS TC BE I S S U E D I N A C CORDANCE WITH ANC SECURED IN THE MANNER PROVIDED IN ARTICLE' 1111 TO 118, BOTH IN CLUSIVE, VERNON'S TEXA! CIVIL STATUES, A AMENDED; AND TC SECURE THE PAYMENT OF THE INTEREST ON SAIL BONDS AS IT ACCRUES ANC THE PRINCIPAL OF SAIL BONDS AS THEY MATURE BY PLEDGING THE NEI REVENUES FROM THE OPERATION OF THE CITY'; WATERWORKS SYSTEM SANITARY SEWER SYSTEh AND ELECTRIC LIGHT ANC POWER SYSTEM; EACF BOND TO BE CONDITIONEE THAT THE HOLDEF THEREOF SHALL NEVEF HAVE THE RIGHT TC DEMAND PAYMENT Of SAID OBLIGATION OUT Of ANY FUNDS RAISED OR T( BE RAISED BY TAXATION AND SAID BONDS TO BE Of A PARITY I N A L I RESPECTS WITH THE OUTSTANDING BONDS OI SAID CITY PAYABLE FROA THE NET REVENUES OI SAID WATERWORK SYSTEM, SANITARY SEWEI SYSTEM AND ELECTRI LIGHT AND P O W E I SYSTEM? PROPOSITION NO.3 SHALL THE CITY COUNCI OF THE CITY OF COLLEG STATION. TEXAS, B AUTHORIZED TO ISSU THE TAX BONDS OF SAI CITY, IN ONE OR MOR SERIES OR ISSUES, IN TH AGGREGATE PRINCIPA AMOUNT OF $530,00 MATURING SERIALL WITHIN 25 YEARS FRO, .THEIR DATE OR DATE AND BEARING INTERES AT A RATE OR RATES NC TO EXCEED THE MEXIMU NOW AUTHORIZED BY LA% ALL AS SHALL B DETERMINED BY SAI CITY COUNCIL, FOR TF PURPOSE OF MAKIN PERMANENT PUBLIC II PROVEMENT, TO-W1 CONSTRUCTING I i PROVEMENTS TO TF STREETS IN SAID CIT INCLUDING NECESSAF DRAINAGE IN CONNECTIC THEREWITH, AND TO Le an annual tax on all taxal property within said c sufficient to pay the in1ERE ON SAID BONDS AS IT P CRUES AND TO CREA' AND PROVIDE A SINKII FUND TO PAY THE PRI CIPAL OF SAID BONDS T H E Y M A T U R E PROPOSITION NO.4 SHALL THE CITY COUN( OF THE CITY OF COLLET STATION, TEXAS, 1 AUTHORIZED TO ISSI THE TAX BONDS OF SP CITY, IN ONE OR MO' SERIES OR ISSUES, IN TI AGGREGATE PRINCIP AMOUNT OF $1,810,0 MATURING SERIALI Bonos Fisales d e Rein- LOS INGRESOS NETOS DE AI IrV�l�lr�r7 otr Statio L Dicha Secretaria Municipal ntendra dicha oficina est Aguas de 1 Ciudad, del DE LA CIUDAD, DEL ALLAN College Station Fire 101 Gilcrist Street, Y as Coll [THIN 25 YEARS FROM DATE OR DATES, prescribed for the regular City Election on April 1, 1978. Sistema d Alcantarillas SISTEMA Ciudad y del TARILLAS DE SANITARIAS Y siguientes personas nom oficiales de la por Co 1EIR JD BARING INTEREST Ballots for the election shall to the requirements of Sanitarias el a b radas Sistema de z Elecirica y DEL Sistema z Ele trca ELECTRICA SISTEMA DE LUZ Y POTENCIA; seran election: Juez Presidente: Con r A RATE OR RATES NOT D EXCEED THE MAXIMUM conform the Texas Election Code, as : CADA B O N O A SER Sra. G.H. Draper; Juez Suplente: Sra. Nina Quitta; Dai OW AUTHORIZED BY LAW, B E amended, and shall have printed thereon the following El Sistema Alcantarillas y R Luz MANERA E S E R V A D O DE UNA Q U E E L votadas en persona y por sera persona el 170 Tex LL AS SHALL ETERMINED WITHIN THE (abbreviated to the extent Aguas Y el istema de rca y otencia de la POSEEDOR Elecii DE ELLO E N G A E L D ic hos Jueces Presidente- el n o m a a t a n i o s b r a dev I SCRETION OF THE CITY necessary, but a verbatim statement of each proposition Ciudad de :ollege Station, N DERECHO U N C A T DE EXIGIR EL bienies e consideren s escri qu Con L DUNCIL, FOR THE PUR- OSE OF PURCHASING shall be displayed at each Bonos Fisgles de Rein tegracion, Serie 1967, P A G O D E D I C H A D E necesarios para la debida conducta de la eleccion, con tal est ND /OR IMPROVING LAND Polling place): fechadosiel is 1 de febrero O CUALQUIERES B L I G A C I O N FONDOS que el numero de escribientes de aut per FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $530,000 5500.000; y D E SUS F E C H A S, Y PRODUCIENDO INTERESES 1967,emitidosinicialmente en de R E C O G I D O S O A SER sea a lo menos dos y no mas b OFFICIAL - BALLOT la suma teal principal RECOGIDOS POR EL MEDIO ocho. Section 3. La votacion pa p de Ccof Station, Bonos A C T U A L M E N T E 8333.000; DE DICHOS IMPUESTOS; Y QUE BONOS SERAN EN ausencia sera dirigida por la las Place a punch hole (mark) in the El Sistemale Alcantarillas y P A R I D A D DE T O D A S Secretaria Municipal, la Sra. O Space provided beside the statement Aguas y el Sistema de Luz MANE de la A LOS BONGS .Florence Neelley, en su oficina ordinaria en City Hall, no indicating the way you wish to vote. Electrica yPotencia Ciudad de College Station, PENDIENTES DE DICHA DAD PAGADERAS DE de College Station, Tieaas, Pr Bonos Fisales d e Rein- LOS INGRESOS NETOS DE ubicada en 1101 Texas Avenue. otr PROPOSITION NO. 1 tegracion, Sfie 1967, techados febrero 1967• STE E DICHOS DISTEMAS DE Dicha Secretaria Municipal ntendra dicha oficina est el dia 1 e AGUAS, emitidos in:ialmenie en la SANITARIAS ARILL Y L U X M abierta, por to menos ocho ( 8: 00 Ce / � FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $5,300,000 suma iota principal de ELECT RICAYPOTENCIA? ho es decir, de las ser _ WATERWORKS SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT 5600.000; por la presence determina que a. hasta has 5:00 horas horas m . cada dia para la votacion las _ AGAINST REVENUE BONDS E Sistema)e la Empresa de PROPOSICION NUM. 3 p.m., en ausencia que no sea un del Servicios Pulicosde la Ciudad RA AUTORIZADO EL ?SER sabado, do Mingo, o dia festivo Ci PROPOSITION NO. 2 de College Station, Bonos Fiscales, Seie 1971, emitidos O MUNICIPAL DE COLL 'GE Estataloficial. Eltramitepara contar cualquieras balotas sported to Texas Data Center, Inc. located at 1705 East 29th _ inicialmenteen la suma tot al LA CIUDAD DE STATION, TEXAS, PARA votadas en persona y por sera persona el mi Co FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $845 , 000 principal deB00.000; E M I T I R LOS B O N O S DICHA correo mismo que el iramite deter /� A FAVOR DE DE BONOS FISCALES PARA SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM REVENUE El Sistemlde l a Empresa de F I S C A L E S DE CIUDAD, EN UNA O MAS Para la election or 1978. del re / AGAINST BONDS Servicios 'Ublicos de la de College Station, SERIES O EMISIONES, EN PRINCIPAL dinaria del dial de abril, i En votacion en dicha elec Aguas, eel Sistema de Alcantarillas Sanitarias y del Ciudad Bonos Fisoles, Serie 1973' LA SUMA TOTAL DE $530.000, VEN cion, incluyenelo la votacion en Es Br PROPOSITION N0. 3 emitidos ircialmente en la CIENDO EN SERIE DENTRO ausencia, sera por el medio de suma totel principal de DE 25 ANOS DE SU FECHA O cast el mismo Sistema de FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $530,000 5500.000; y D E SUS F E C H A S, Y PRODUCIENDO INTERESES votacion elecironica y el tramite determinado Para la en STREET IMPROVEMENT TAX El Sistemlde la Empresa de m,cl la E A LA TASA OR A LAS TASAS election del dia 1 de ordinaria Ile AGAINST BONDS Servici•is c la Ciudad A NO EXCEDER EL MAXIMO abril, 1978. Las Batotas para la con- ex de Ccof Station, Bonos A C T U A L M E N T E votacion en ausencia a Fiscales, Srie 1976, emitidos AUTORIZADO POR LA LEY, formaran a los requisitos del de PROPOSITION N0. 4 inicialmene en la suma TODD COMO SEA DETER Codigo Electoral de Texas "), v principal toBlde$3.000. MINADO POR DICHO CON- ( "Texas Election Code c SEJO MUNICIPAL, CON EL como enmendado, y ademas FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $1,810,000 CONSIERANDO que en los PROPOSITO DE HACER Ilevaran impreso lo siguiente e PARK IMPROVEMENT TAX estatutos autorizando la M E J O R A S P U B L I C A S (abrev, ado de la manera v d e AGAINST BONDS envision a dichos Bonos P, A SABER: ERMANENTES CONSTRUIR MEJORAS A necesaria, Pero una declaration de cada ti pendientes,yendichosbonos esta proviso que bonos fiscales LAS CALLES EN DICHA proposition al pie de la letra B PROPOSITION NO. 5 adicionalo puedan estar CIUDAD, INCLUYENDO EL sera exhibido en cada lugar de emitidos ei paridad a dichos DRENAJE RELACIONADO A votacion): bonos endentes; y ELLA. Y PARA GRAVAR UN La Sala del Consejo en ege Station City Hall esta la presence designada mo la Estacion Central tadora, Y las papeletas an transportadas al Texas a Center, Inc. ubicado en 5 East 29th Street, Bryan, as, para ser enroladas Y ueltas a la Estacion Central tadora. as personas siguientes an por la presence orizadas y aprobadas como sonas empleadas y nom adas para sacar las la eletas, hater funcionar el ipo contador, y Para contar papeletas: Juez President: M. Holt Escribientes: A ser mbrados por el' Juez esidente Los Oficiales siguientes Y as personas nombradas son r la presente autorizados a ar presentes en la Estacion ntral Contadora para ob- var el iramite del contar de papeletas. a) El Alcalde Y miembros Consejo Municipal de la udad de College Station. b) El Juez del Condado Y embros del Commissioner's urt de Brazos County. c) El Procurador General Estado de Texas o su presentante autorizado. (d) Frank Broiskie, el cribiente del Condado de azos County. (e) El Secretario Municipal Una comision esta Por la esente designada y consiste las personas siguientes para var a cabo una prueba de la actitud de la computadora Hies del comienzo y despues la cuenta de las papeletas otadas para averiguar que la omputadora cuente con xactitud las papeletas otadas en relation a las claraciones de dicha elect on. (a) El Alcalde Lorence L ravenec. FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $680,000 CONSIDERANDO que es IMPUESTO ANUAL SOBRE POLICE, FIRE AND WAREHOUSE n e c e s a ri o c o n s t r u i r T O D A P R O P R I E D A D pApELETA OFICIAL rolongacicies Y mejoras pars S U J E T A A I M P U E S T O (b) E Gerente de la Ciudad North Bardell. (c) La Secretaria Municipal Florence Neelley. (d) El Juez Presidente O.M. Holt. Section 4: Que todos leas materiales de la election, seran impresos en ingles y en espanol, o traducciones de ellos enespanol y/o otra asistencia seran provistas como requirido por el Codigo Electoral de Texas, ( "Texas Election Code "), segun enmendado, Y el "Federal Voting Rights Act" de 1965, segun enemndado. Section 5: Que aviso de dicha election sera anunciado por el medio de una apostacion de una copia de ello conteniendo una copia substantial de este Estatuto, en City Hall y en un lugar publico deniro de cada distrito electoral dentro de dicha Ciudad no menos de catorce (14) dias antes de la fecha fijada para dicha elec- tion, y por la publication de dicho aviso el mismo dia en cada una de las dos semanas sucesivas en The Eagle que no sea menos de catorce (14) dias antes de la fecha fijada para dicha election. Por la presente, se determina y de declara que The Eagle es un periodico de circulation general en dicha Ciudad. Section 6: Que este Estatuto entrara en vigor y sera com- pletamente efectivo a partir de y despues de su adoption. VOTADO Y APROBADO el dia 8 de marzo de 1978. /fdo./ Lorence L. Bravenec Alcalde, Ciudad de College Station, Texas ATESTACION: /fdo./ Florence Neelley Secretario Municipal (SELLO) AGAINST BUILDING TAX BONDS p el Sistem le Aguas Y Alton- DENTRO DE DICHA CIUDAD are hereby authorized to be FOR PARK PURPOSES, AND The Council Room in the farillas S nitar,as de dicha Ciudad, y que le Conseio S U F I E N C I E N T E PAR A PAGAR LOS INTERESES DE Coloque una pezioracibn en el lugar declaracibn TO LEVY AN ANNUAL TAX College Station City Hall is Municipal ha determinado Y DICHOS BONGS COMO indicad0 al lado de la O N A L L TAXABLE hereby established as the por la presence determina que ESTOS ACUMULEN, Y PARA que indique condo usted desee votar. PROPERTY WITHIN SAID 'ITY SUFFICIENT TO PAY Central Counting Station to receive ballots for said elec las propossiciones deberial somdidas en uan elec- e( CREAR Y PROPORCIONAR UNA CAJA DE AMOR (a) The Mayor and members THE INTEREST ON SAID tion, the ballots to be tran- estar cion pars envision de Bonos TIZACION PARR PAGAR LA PROPOSICION NUM. 1 BONDS AS IT ACCRUES AND TO CREATE AND PROVIDE sported to Texas Data Center, Inc. located at 1705 East 29th fiscales adicionales como provisto mas abajo, dichos SUMA PRINCIPAL DE! DICHOS BONOS COMO LA EMISION DE $5.300. A SINKING FUND TO PAY Street, Bryan, Texas, to be Bonos a ser pagados de leas bonos agado[entesde o ELLOS VENZAN. /� A FAVOR DE DE BONOS FISCALES PARA THE PRINCIPAL OF SAID BONDS AS THEY MATURE? tabulated and returned to the Central Counting Station. ne la operation del Sistema de PROPOSICION NUM. 4 /_7 EI, SISTEMA DE AGUAS / EN CONTRA DE PROPOSITION NO.5 The followirg persons are Aguas, eel Sistema de Alcantarillas Sanitarias y del hereby authorized and ap- Sistema de Luz Electrica Y ?SERA AUTORIZADO EL PROPOSICION NUM. 2 SHALL THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, BE AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE THE TAX .BONDS OF SAID CITY, IN ONE OR MORE SERIES OR ISSUES, IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $680,000, MATURING SERIALLY WITHIN 25 YEARS FROM THEIR DATE OR DATES, AND BEARING INTEREST AT A RATE OR RATES NOT TO EXCEED THE MAXIMUM NOW AUTHORIZED BY LAW, ALL AS SHALL BE DETERMINED WITHIN THE DISCRETION OF THE CITY COUNCIL, FOR THE PUR- POSE OF CONSTRUCTING OR PURCHASING PUBLIC BUILDINGS, TO WIT: A POLICE STATION, A FIRE STATION AND A WAREHOUSE AND AD- DITIONS AND IM- PROVEMENTS THERETO, AND TO LEVY TAXES UPON ALL TAXABLE PROPERTY WITHIN SAID CITY AN NUALLY, SUFFICIENT TO PAY THE INTEREST ON SAID BONDS AS IT ACCRUES AND TO CREATE AND PROVIDE A SINKING FUND TO PAY THE PRINCIPAL OF SAID BONDS AS THEY MATURE? proved as persons employed Potencia, en pariedad a dichos CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE and designated to handle the bonos pend entes; Y LA CIUDAD DE COLLEGE ballots, operate the tabulating CO NSIDERAN DO que el STATION, TEXAS, PARA / % A FAVOR DE equipment, and count the Consejo Municipal tambien ha E M I T I R LOS BONOS ballots: Presiding Judge: O.M. determinado, Y por l a presente F I S C A L E S D E DICHA Holt; Clerks: To be named by determina que deberial CIUDAD, EN UNA O MAS /—] EN CONTRA DE Presiding Judge; metidas a MI SIONES EN LA EMISION DE $845.000 DE BONGS FISCALES PARA UN ,SISTEMA DE ALCANTARILLAS SANITARIAS tamb,en estar so SERIES O E T f II 'n State officials dicha election las Pd LA SUMA PRINCIVEN PROPOSICION NUM. 3 he o owl g and other designated persons posiciones para la em,sion Bonos Fiscales de dicha Ciudad e TOTAL DE 51,810.000, CIENDO EN SERIE DENTRO - are hereby authorized to be con el proposito de hater DE 25 ANOS DE SU FECHA O / A FAVOR DE present at the Central Counting ciertas meioras publicas D E S U S F E C H A S, Y Station to observe the election permanence-, c ome, provisto PRODUCIENDO INTERESES TASAS A EN CONTRA DE counting process. mas abajo; y A LA TASA O A LAS /� ascertain that the computer C Ciudad, para que tomen action C NO EXCEDER EL MAXIMO (a) The Mayor and members CONSIDERANDO que el A C T U A L M E N T E of the City Council of the City of Consejo Municipal desea AUTORIZADO POR LA LEY, College Station. roceder a ordenar dicha TODO COMO SEA DETER- LA EMISION DE $53'0.000 DE BONOS FISCALES PARA MEJORAR LAS CALLES (b) The County Judge and P election; Por consiguient members of the Com A SEJO MUN MINADO ICI DICHO CON- PROPOSICION NUM. 4 missioner's Court of Brazos PARTE N POR L L 1T0 E COMPRAR A ICIPAL, CON EL - County. PARTE DEL CONSEJO PROPO5 D (c) The Attorney General of MUNICIPAL DE COLLEGE Y/O HACER MEJORAS DE /—] A FAVOR DE the State of Texas or his STATION: T E R R E N O PARA LO S authorized representative. Section 1. Que una election p R O P O 5 I T O 5 DE UN /� EN CONTRA DE (d) Frank Boriskie, County se celebrara deniro Y Por Coda pARQUE, Y PARA GRAVAR Clerk of Brazos County. I la Ciudad de College Station, U N I M P U E S T O ANUAL Texas el dia 1 de Abril, 1978, SOBRE TODA PROPRIEDAD PROPOSICION NU (e) City Secretary. q que no sea menos de quince n i i S U J E T E A I M P U E S T O - - A committee is hereby m mas de noventa dias de la D DENTRO DE DICHA CIUDAD /� A FAVOR DE following persons to hold a c cual election seran sometidas L LOS INTERESES DE DICHOS computer accuracy test prior l las siguientes proposiciones a a B 0 N O S COMO E S T O / / EN CONTRA DE the count of the voted ba l lots to c los electores d Y PROPORCIONAR UNA ascertain that the computer C Ciudad, para que tomen action C CAJA DE AMORTIZACION will accurately count the votes s sobreeso, a saber: P PARA PAGAR LA SUMA - cast for the propositions to be P PRINCIPAL DE DICHOS,. - voteduponinsaidelection. p pRopOSICION NUM. I B BONOS COMO ELLOS (a) Mayor Lorence L. V VENZAN? Bravenec. M a Section 2. That said election (b) City an 9 CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE PRO Section Barell. LA CIUDAD DE COLLE GE shall be conducted and held in (c) City Secretary Florence the six City election precincts STATION, TEXAS, PARA SERA AUTORIZADO EL (d) Presiding Judge O.M. heretofore established by the Neelley. E M I T I R LOS B O N S ? Charter and /or by ordinance of Holt. FISCALES DE DICHA' CON MUNICIPAL DE r the City Council of the City of Section 4. That all election CIUDAD, EN UNA O MAS LA CIUDAD DE COLLEGE College Station, wherein said material shall be printed in SERIES O EMISIONES, EN STATION, TEXAS, PARA I J election precincts are both English and Spanish, n LA SUMA PRINCIPAL EMITIR LOS BONOS described by natural or ar- Spanish translations thereof TOTAL DE $5.300.000, V ENO F I S C A L E S DE D I C H A D C IE N D O 25 A EN SERIE FECHA 0 CIUDAD, EN UNA MAS tificial boundaries or survey and /or other assistance shall T lines, and that the respective be provided as required by the DE 25 ANDS DE SU FECHA O SERIES O EMISIONE NE C I EN polling places n said e DE SUS FECHA$, V TO SUMA PRINCIPAL p i id lection Texas Election Code and the PRODUCIENDO INTERESES TOTAL DE 5680.000, VEN - precincts and the following Federal Voting Rights Act of A LA TASA O A LAS TASAS A CIENDO EN SERIE DENTRO named persons are hereby 1965, each as amended. NO EXCEDER EL MAXI IMO DE 25 ANOS DE SU FECHA O appointed officers to conduct Section 5. That notice of said A C T U A L M E N T E D E S U S F E C H A S, said election in said election election shall be given by AUTORIZADO POR LA LEY, PRODUCIENDO INTERESES I precincts, respectively: posting a copy thereof con TODD Como SEA DETER A LA TASA O A LAS TASAS A taining a substantial copy of MINADO POR DICHO CON- NO EXCEDER EL MAXIMO (a) In Council District No. 1, this ordinance at the City Hall SEJO MUNICIPAL, CON EL A C T U A L M E N T E the polling place shall be and at a public place in each of p R O P O S I T O D E AUTORIXADO POR LA LEY, College Hills Elementary the election precincts within PROLONGAR MEJORAR EL TODO COMO SEA DETER - School, 101 Williams, and the said city not less than fourteen SISTEMA EXISTENTE DE MINADO POR DICHO CON - following named persons shall (14) days prior to the date upon AGUAS DE LA CIUDAD; SEJO MUNICIPAL, CON EL be the election officers: which said election is to be DICHOS BONGS A SER PROPOSITO DE CONSTRUIR Presiding Judge: Mrs. Jay held, and by publishing such EMITIDOS SEGUN Y O COMPRAR EIDFICIOS Zal; Alternate Presiding notice on the same day in each ASEGURAD05 DE LA PUBLICOS, A SABER: UN Judge: Mrs. Sally Forehand; of two (2) successive weeks in MANERA PROV ISTA EN CUARTEL DE POLICIA, UNA The Eagle, the first such ARTICULOS 1111 A 1118, ESTACION DE BOMBEROS, (b) In Council District No. 2, publication to be not less than A M B O S I N C L U S I V O S, Y U N A L M A C E N Y the polling place shall be the fourteen (14) days prior to the VERNON'S ANNOTATED ADICIONES O MEJORAS Al A &M Consolidated Special date set for said election. IT is TEXAS STATUTES, SEGUN ELLO, Y PARA GRAVAR UN1 Services Building, 1330 Jersey hereby found and declared that ENMENDADO: Y PARA IMPUESTO ANUAL SOBRE Street, Room 13, and the The Eagle is a newspaper of ASEGURAR EL INTERES DE T O D A P R O P R I E D A D following named persons shall general circulation within said DICHOS BONOS COMO ESTE S U J E TA A I M P U E S TO be the election officers: City. ACUMULE Y LA SUMA CENTRO DE DICHA CIUDAD Presiding Judge: Mrs. Fred Section 6. That this or- PRINCIPAL DE DICHOS SUFICIENTE PARA PAGAR Gardner; Alternate Presiding dinance shall take effect and be BONOS CO M O E L L O S LOS INTERESES DE DICHOS Judge: Mrs. Peggy Owens; in full force upon and after its V E N Z A N , DE DAR EN- BONOS C O M O E S T O S adoption. PRENDA LOS INGRESOS ACUMULEN Y PARA CREAR i (c) In Council District No. 3, PASSED AND APPROVED NETOS DE LA OPERACION Y PROPORCI DNA R UNA i the polling place shall be the this 8th day of March, 1978. DEL SISTEMA DE AGUASI CAJA DE AMORTIZACION Lincoln Center, 1010 Eleanor DE LA CIUDAD, DEL PARA PAGAR LA SUMA i Street, and the following DISTEMA DE ALCAN- PRINCIPAL DE DICHOS named persons shall be the /s/ Lorence L. Bravenec TARILLAS SANITARIAS Y BONOS C O M O E L L O S election officers: Presiding Mayor, DEL SISTEMA DE LUZ' VENZAN? Judge: Mrs. Hawkins; City of College Station, Texas ELECTRICA Y POTENCIA: Alternate Presiding Judge: ATTEST: CADA 0 O N O A SER Seccion 2. Que dicha election Mr. G . W . L i t t o n R E S E R V A D O DE UNA se celebrara y se I levara a cabo No. 4, M A N E R A Q U E E L deniro de Jos seis distritos (d) In Council District the polling place shall ct / Florence Neellay PO S E E DO R DE E L L O electorales de la Ciudad South /s N U N C A T E N G A E L establecidos antes par el Acto Knoll Elementary School, 1220 City Secretary DERECHO DE EXIGIR EL Constitutivo y/o por estatuto - Boswell Street, and the P A G O D E D I C H A del Consejo Municipal de la - following named persons shall I S O B L I G A C 1 O N Ciudad de College Station, en Io be the election officers: _ P R E V E N I E N T E D E cual dichos distritos elec- Presiding Judge: Mrs. Fumi CUALQUIERES FONDOS torales estan descritos por Sug(hara; Alternate Presiding AVISO DE ELECCION DE RECOGNIDOS O A SER lindesnaturalesoartificialeso i Judge: Mrs. Doris Watson; BONOS RECOGNIDOS POR EL por lineas de agrimensura, Y ? A L O S E L E C T O R E S MEDIO DE IMPUESTOS: Y que los lugares de votacion (e) In Council District No. 5, D E B I D A M E N T E QUE DICHOS BONOS SERAN respectivos en dichos distritos 2 the polling place shall be the electorales Y las siguientes Creek Municipal Swim- C A L I F I C A D O S Y EN PARIDAD DE TODAS personas son por la presence Bee ming Pool, 1900 Madison R E S I D E N T E S D E L A. MANERAS A LOS BONOS nombradas oficiales ficial ara CIUDAD DE COLLEGE PENDIENTES DE DICHA, P Avenue, and the following STATION, TEXAS: CIUDAD PAGADERAS DE dirigir dicha eteccion en dicho - named persons shall be the LOS INGRESOS NETOS DE distritos eleciprales, respec- election officers: Presiding DICHOS SISTEMAS DE tivamente: L - Judge: Mrs. Leatrice Bouse; SE AVISA POR LA AGUAS, ALCANTARILLAS (a) En Consejo Distrito G Alternate Presiding Judge: PR ESENTE que una election SANITARIAS Y LUZ ELEC- Num. 1, el lugar de votacion Mrs. Sharon Claassen; especial se convocara deniro Y TRICA Y POTENCIA? sera College Hill Elementary por todo la Ciudad de College School, 101 Williams, y las E (f) In Council District No. 6, Station, Texas, el 1 de Abril, pORPOSICION NUM.2 personas siguientes, seran E the polling place shall be the 1978, segun y de acuerdo con el nombradas Jos oficiales de la tion Fire Station, Estatuto Electoral anexado Y ?SERA AUTORIZADO EL election: Juez President: Sra. L College Sta 101 Gilcrist Street, and the adoptado por el Conseio CONSIJO MUNICIPAL DE LA Jay Zal; Juez Suplente: Sra.; Y following named persons shall Municipal, dicho Estatuto CIUDAD DE COLLEGE Sally Forehand; H be the election officers: siendo por la presente anexado STATION, TEXAS, PARA (b) En Consejo Distrito S Presiding Judge: Mrs. G.H. a este Aviso para todo fin. E M I T I R LOS B O N O S Num. 2, el lugar de votacion T Draper; Alternate Presiding EN TESTIMONIO DE LO F I S C A L E S DE DICHA sera el A &M Consolidated T Judge: Mrs. NinaQuifta; CUAL, a la presente he fir CIUDAD, EN UNA 0 MAS Special Services Building, 1330 _ mado oficialmente mi nombre SERIES O EMISIONES, EN Jersey Street, Room 13, y las N II Said Presiding Judges shall y a la presente he adheritlo el LA SUMA PRINCIPAL siguientes personas nom - E aoint as many Clerks as are sello de la Ciudad de College TOTAL DE $845.000, venciendo bradas seran los oficiales de la D dee necessary for the Station, Texas, este dia 8 de en serie deniro de 25 ANOS DE election: Juez Presidente: E proper conduct of the election, Marzo, 1978. SU FECHA O DE SUS Sra. Fred Gardner; Juez G provided such number of FECHAS, Y PRODUCIENTO Suplente: Sra. Peggy Owens; A- Clerks shall be at least two and INTERESES A LA TASA O A (C( En Consejo Distrito not more than eight. •Florence Neelley LAS TASAS A NO EXCEDER Num. 3, el lugar de votacion Secretario Municipal, E L M A X I M O A C- sera Lincoln Center, 1010 N Section 3. Absentee voting in Ciudad de College Station, TUALMENTE AUTORIZADO Eleanor Street, ylassiguientes E said election shall be con- Texas POR L A LEY, TODD personas nombradas seran Jos Y, ducted by the City Secretary, COMOSEA DETERMINADO oficiales de la election: Juez Y Mrs. Florence Neelley, at her (SELLO) POR DICHO CONSEJO Presidente: Sra. Helen IN regular office in the City Hall MUNICIPAL, CON E L Hawkins; Juez Suplente: Sr. vy of the City of College Station, P R O P O S I 7 0 D E G.W. Litton; Ile Texas, located at 1101 Texas ESTATUTO NO. 1103 PROLONGAR Y MEJORAR (d) E Consejo Distrito Num. ty Avenue. Said City Secretary EL SISTEMA EXISTEMTE 4, el lugar de votacion sera 5T shall keep said office open for ESTATUTO CONVOCANDO DE ALCANTARILLAS South Knoll Elementary • C at least ( 8 ) hours, that is UNA ELECCION DE BONOS; S A N I T A R I A S ; DICHOS School, 1220 Boswell Street, y E from stet a.m. to 5:00 o'clock PROPORCIONANDO Y BONDS A SER EMITIDOS las siguientes personas IC'I st eight p.m. on each day for absentee FIJANDO LOS DETALLES SEGUN Y ASEGURADOS DE nombradas seran oficiales de 45 voting which isnota5aturday, CON RESPECTO A LO LA MANERA PROVISTA EN la election: Juez Presidente: Sunday, or an official State MISMO; Y DECLARANDO ARTICULOS 1111 A 1118, Sra. Fum Sugihara; Juez holiday. The procedures for QUE DICHO ESTATUTO A M B O S I N C L U S I V O S, Suplente: Sra. Doris Watson; counting any absentee ballots ENTRARA EN VIGOR IN- VERNON'S ANNOTATED (e) En conseio Distrito Mum. voted by personal appearance MEDIATAMENTE DESPUES TEXAS STATUTES, SEGUN 5, el lugar de votacion sera Bee all respectively DE SU ADOPC ION ENMENDADO: Y PARA Creek Municipal Swimming IL and by mail, sh L be the same Sh prescribed for ASEGURAR EL INTERES DE Pool, 1900 Madison Avenue, y on CONSIDERANDOquelos DICHOS BONOS COMO ESTE las siguientes personas SE the regular City election April 1, 1978. bonos pendientes de las ACUMULE Y LA SUMA nombradas seran los oficiales 1E siguientes emisiones de bonos PRINCIPAL DE DICHOS de la election: Juez I D V o t i n g in said election, in- fiscales de l a Ciudad de College BONOS C O M O E L L O S Presidente: Sra. t eatrice 2E Station, Texas, descritas mas VENZAN, DE DAR EN Bouse; Juez Suplente: Sra. �E eluding absentee voting, shall abajo, constituyen la unica PRENDA LOS INGRESOS SharonClaassen; 4L be by the use c substantially deuda imputable contra leas NETOS DE LA OPERACION (f) En Consejo Distrito Num. the same electronic voting 30 ' system and procedures as ingresos netos del Sistema de ,DEL SISTEMA DE AGUAS 6, el lugar de votacion era Y LA EMISION DE $1.810.000 DE BONOS FISCALES PAPA MEJORAR EL PARQUE M. 5 LA EMISION DE $680.000 DE BONDS FISCALES PARA EDIFICIOS DE POLICIA, BOMBEROS, Y ALMACE14 LA EMISION DE $1.810.000 DE BONOS FISCALES PAPA MEJORAR EL PARQUE M. 5 LA EMISION DE $680.000 DE BONDS FISCALES PARA EDIFICIOS DE POLICIA, BOMBEROS, Y ALMACE14 CS residents to decide on park proposal By DAVID LINDSEY Staff Writer Parks, by and large, don't make money. There is no user's fee as there is in utilities. So if a city wants to have parks, its residents and taxpayers must pay for parks through the property tax. The College Station bond election April 1 will have a park proposal totaling $1,810,000. The projects range from acquiring 50 acres in the city's Golden Triangle section, and 50 acres in the Southwood Valley and the purchase of the Lincoln Center. Taxpayers will have to pay for the bonds, which will be general obligation bonds. But city officials stress that since parks are largely for young people and their families, the city will give a break to senior citizens to offset the increase in taxes. That break will come, city officials say, in terms of increases in the homestead exemption for tax- payers 65 years old and older. The council voted to increase the home- stead exemption from $10,000 to $15,000 assuming the park proposition passes. Thus, while parks have no direct users' fee, the expected users — Second in a series. families — will pay for the parks. The city estimates that the taxes in the city will be increased 19 cents per $100 evaluation for the general obligation bonds. That portion of the bond issue totals $3,020,000 for the parks as well as street rebuilding, a traffic change and overuns on 1976 projects. The two 50 -acre park tracts, and improvements to the Golden Triangle area park, add up to $925,000. Just because the city hopes to have the money to buy the land, it doesn't automatically follow that the city will rush out and build two 50- acre athletic complexes, city of- ficials say. One of the tracts will be held in reserve until the city needs it, according to Capital Improvements Committee Chairman Gary Halter. Another $883,000 in the bond issue is for smaller neighborhood parks including 15 acres in the Carter's Grover area ($225,000) 14 acres in the Holik tract ($200,000) 10-15 acres in Southwood Valley ($150,000) 3.3 acres for the Anderson Park ex- tension ($23,000), improvements in the Carter's Grove park ($225,000) and the purchase of Lincoln Center ($60,000.) The $925,000 for the athletic complexes could be reduced by $150,000 since part of the develop- ment could be eligible for matching funds from the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. Officials say the city needs approval for the $925,000 because getting the federal funds is uncertain. If the city were able to obtain federal money, it would not sell the remaining portion of the bonds allocated for the athletic compounds. Similarly, the $883,000 set aside for neighborhood parks could be reduced by about $113,000, though officials again say the city needs voter approval of the total amount. Other items in the 1978 bond issue include $300,000 for a street rebuilding fund, $230,000 to tie Kyle Street to an intersection of Dominik and Puryear St. and $680,000 to finish the fire station, police station and warehouse begun with J976 bonds. The street rebuilding program would establish a revolving fund designed to prevent the loss of the city's street system, which officials say is the city's biggest investment. Connecting Kyle to Dominik would help relieve the traffic congestion at the Kyle- Jersey - Dominik in- tersection, city staffers and coun- cilmen maintain. It would provide a more direct route for apartment dwellers on Highway 30 to Texas A &M University and would reduce the number of left turns off Texas onto Dominik at peak traffic periods, according to City Engineer Elrey Ash. City councils and citizens have discussed — and cussed — traffic at the intersection for years. The specifics of the plan are not "set in concrete," officials say, but the city does need to do the work to alleviate the traffic problem. Overruns for projects begun with 1976 bond issue money amount to $680,000. That money will go for construction on the fire station, the police station and the warehouse as well as right of way. The money includes $100,000 for a fire substation in Southwood Valley - The city hall addition, now un- derway, is within budget and the city does not need additional funds for that project. NEXT: What will it all cost? The Eagle March 27, 1978 Voters to decide charter changes in CS election By DAVID LINDSEY Staff Writer College Station's two - year -old ward or district system is again a question for College Station residents. The subject of controversy spanning its brief history, the ward system was narrowly instituted in 1976 by less than one percent of the vote. The election was challenged in 85th District Court. The issue was that voters misunderstood the ballot and meant to vote against ward or district elections. But the election was upheld and the ward system was approved by the United States Department of Justice. If the voters change the charter from the ward system to an at -large system, the change will have to go to the Department of Justice for ap- proval. It is not clear that Justice will approve the change, but David Hunter, an attorney in the voting section of the civil rights division, said the agency will have to deter- mine whether the change is aimed at diluting minority voting strength or is otherwise discriminatory. April 1, the issue, along with other charter changes, is on the ballot. Voters also choose a mayor, three council representatives and vote on $9.165 million worth of bonds for capital projects. While the ward system has been controversial in the past, this year there has been relatively little ap- parent interest in the issue. Council candidates have expressed positions on the issue ranging from "who cares ?" to "whatever the people want is okay." What is the ward system? Basically, it is a system in which representatives are elected from geographic districts. In College Station only the mayor's position is elected at- large. There are several plans for city government that include the totally at -large system used by Bryan to exclusively geographic represen- tation used in College Station presently. Some cities have opted for a mixed system with both at-large and geographic or district representation. The positions have philosophical bases that are as different as the systems themselves. Theoretically, the at -large system should produce government con- cerned about the whole city since each councilman is elected throughout the whole city. Wards or district, however, theoretically produce represen- tation that is closer to the specific people that live in that district. Thus, a person with a problem can go to one person and seek redress of grievances. The trend in the United States, primarily through court action, has been toward the district election of councilmen and school board members. Since the Baker versus the Board of Education case in Memphis, Tenn., in the mid- 1960's, courts have generally held that ward or district elections enhance minority voters' chances of representation. In College Station, minority population is very low and spread throughout the city. The minority voters have been divided up in the various wards and their represen- tation has not dramatically in- creased or decreased — at least no minority sits on the council. The campus of Texas A &M University was divided in the ward system, city officials say, because it was too large geographically to be included in one ward. Off- campus student population also is spread around the city and the ward system has not made much apparent dif- ference in that vote. However, students could be a potent political force in College Station — as they are, for example in Austin — with or without the ward system. Historically, A &M students have not played a big role in city Analysis wide or ward systems. The ward system, opponents in- cluding several incumbent city officials say, has distinct disad- vantages in a city such as College Station which has no sizeable minority population. If a person lives under a ward system, then he gets to vote for his representative only every two years. He also votes for a mayor every two years. Under the at -large system, that same person could vote for three or four council positions every year. It is easier to change the face of the council under an at -large system. In College Station zoning questions are big issues. Suppose a sensitive zoning issue was before the council. Under the ward system, only the ward representative would be directly answerable to the people. That being the case, the other council members have the tendency to say , "Okay Ward X Represen- tative. Since you've got to get elected out there again, how do you feel about this zoning matter? Af- terall, I don't have to get elected out there." There is also the possibility that ward representatives might tend toward pork barrel city spending. For example, suppose the city budgets X dollars for fire hydrants or sidewalk improvements. Under a ward system the council members might want to divide the goodies equally even if ward 1 needs more sidewalks than ward 2 or ward 3 needs more fire hydrants than ward 4. That idea of divying up the dollars is not foreign. In Brazos County, for instance, commissioners voted to divide fire money equally among the four commissioner precincts. That's in spite of the fact that more people live in one precinct — and more fires occur there — than in other precincts. On the other hand district repre- Isentation has its advantages. A person who is not well known citywide presumably has a better chance at getting elected to the council since-the geographic area is smaller. A door -to -door campaign backed up by neighborhood organizations can be effective in district elections. It is less expensive to campaign in a smaller area. Additionally, if geographic boundaries are predetermined, then all areas of the city are guaranteed at least some minimal represen- tation. Under the at -large system well known people, who could all live in one area of town, could get elected. They might not be as favorable to specific needs in areas in which they do not live. While wards or districts are a new phenomenon in city and school government — particularly in the south and Southwest — they are not new to this country. Afterall, judges, state legislators, Congressmen and Senators are all elected in districts which are really just big wards. The argument against city wards is that wards have lead to corrupt politics in cities such as Chicago or New York. But the politics of Chicago can't be translated to a city such as College Station with its different size, education level and history. Proponents of the ward system in College Station say with some justification that the system hasn't failed the city in its brief history. Councilmen were first elected at- large and then re- elected in the ward system. These proponents suggest that the system hasn't had time to prove — or disapprove—.its usefulness. Opponents of the ward system say there is no demonstrated need for the system and that the city can be inc4 nc wall carvarl by of -lnran ranra-