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Special City Council Meeting
August 17, 1976
3:00 P.M.
Mayor Bravenec; Councilmen Dozier, Halter, Hazen, Ringer
Stephenson; Assistant Snider
Councilman Gardner
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Agenda Item No. 1-- Power transformers.
By consent, the consideration of bid tabulations on power transformers,
which was tabled at the August 12 Regular City Council Meeting was brought
from the table.
City Electrical Consultant John Denison stated that if bids on the day
received were put on a comparable basis, Westinghouse Electric Supply Company's
bid in the amount of $671,097.00 would be his recommendation. He further
stated that there was a 3% penalty for F.O.B. College Station but that it
was the proper way to buy a transformer. Mr. Denison stated that other bids
were satisfactory but that he recommended the bid of Westinghouse Electric
Supply.
Councilman Hazen moved acceptance of the original recommendation of Mr.
Denison to accept the bid from Westinghouse Electric Supply Company.
The motion was seconded by Councilman Ringer and passed unanimously.
Agenda Item No. 2 -- Ward system.
Councilman Stephenson presented Dr. Bill Plapp as his appointment to the
Citizens Committee. There were no other appointments.
Mr. Mark Snider presented population and voter registration figures for the
City of College Station along with five proposed ward plans. He stated that
the population figures were those obtained from the Highway Department which
he had updated from the City building permit book. The figures were then
multiplied by a people per unit factor for each major area in town. These
factors were also supplied by the Highway Department. The voter registration
figures were the latest printout from Texas Voting Systems as of June 5, 1976.
Of the five proposals presented, four were eliminated in their present form.
Mayor Bravenec directed Mr. Snider to continue working on alternatives based
on the following criteria: equality of population and voter registration,
an attempt to avoid the removal of any present councilmen, geographical
compactness and the retention of well defined neighborhoods.
_Agenda Item No. 3 -- Closed session to discuss contract negotiations.
The Council went into Closed Session.
Mmyor Bravenec called the meeting into open session.
Agenda Item No. 4-- Adjourn.
The meeting was adjourned.
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