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Workshop City Council Meeting
November 12, 1980
4:00 P.M.
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Mayor Halter, Councilmen Ringer, Boughton, Kelly, City Manager
Bardell, City Planner Mayo, Assistant City Manager, Finance
Van Dever, Tax Assessor-Collector Schroeder
MEMBERS ABSENT: Councilmen Dozier, Jones, Runnels
VISITORS PRESENT: See guest Register
Agenda Item No. 1--Council Concerns.
Councilman Boughton presented a picture of the first City Council to the City for
the archives.
Mayor Halter, recently returned from Korea, suggested that as a symbol of friendship
the CitiDs of College Station and Gumi exchange native trees.
Agenda Item No. 2--Discussion of airport and transit concerns.
City Manager Bardell listed problems associated with Easterwood Airport including the
runway length and strength, the commercial terminal inadequacies and the problems of
basing the general aviation in the commercial terminal.
City Manager Bardell and the City Council members discussed funding problems because
A&M can't use state funds to support Easte~ood and the city sees the airport as it
presently is as insufficient for its present needs.
D.D. Williamson, of the State Highway Department, presented alternatives to the present
system. These were to create a non taxing authority with a board of five members who
will accept a lease on the airport from the two cities and the county.
~r. Williamson asked for legal help in drawing up the papers for the suggested alternative
and was told that City Attorney Denton would be available to help him.
He also stated that private funds are waiting to improve the terminal once it is under
this new authority.
City Manager Bardell asked if the authority should have taxing ability or not. The
Council decided that the taxpayers would support it either way, and not to give it
taxing authority. He also discussed the possibility of setting it up under a management
firm.
Mr. Williamson then discussed mass transit and said that the state had funds which were
readily available because of a backlog of no use. TTI estimated the cost, based on 1982
fundin~will be about $3,215,000 for diesel vehicles. The city's share will be about
$232,000.
~he Council decided the the second meeting of November would be No~. 24 at 7:00 p.m.
The open house will be held on December 18 at 3:00 P.M. with the Council meeting being
held at 5:00 P.M.
WORKSHOP CITY COUNCIL MEETING
November 12, 1980
4:00 P.M.
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