Infomaniacs: July 16, 2015 (8:00am)

City of College Station Update

Emily Fisher, Public Works Director, visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia about the annual streets report, street maintenance, an upcoming public meeting, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs on Friday, April 26, 2024. Listen to “City of College Station Update on The Infomaniacs” on Spreaker.

Bryan City Council Special Meeting To Approve Another Change Order In The Reconstruction Of South College Next To Midtown Park

Motorists won’t have access to South College Avenue in Bryan between Villa Maria and Carson until the end of 2025. What was originally a construction period of 360 days, has grown to 509 days. The Bryan city council held a special meeting Thursday (April 25), in part to approve a fourth change order in what is now a $15.6 dollar project that replaces the street and utility lines. The contract price was reduced by almost $304,000 dollars with the elimination of a continuous median. City documents say the delay is due to Optimum and Frontier having to move fiberoptic lines to their correct locations. And the city’s background information also says the general contractor is pursuing $1 million dollars in damages against Optimum and Frontier for delays caused by their incorrect installation. Click HERE to read and download background information about the change order that was approved at the Bryan city council special meeting on April 25, 2024. Click HERE to read and download a summary of the change order approved at the Bryan city council special meeting on April 25, 2024. Click below to hear comments about the amended contract from Bobby Gutierrez, visiting with Scott DeLucia on WTAW’s The Infomaniacs April 24, 2024:  

Texas A&M’s President Announcements From His April Online Newsletter

April’s update on the Texas A&M president’s website includes the status of the searches for five leadership positions. President Mark Welsh reported 120 applications for chief operating officer has been reduced to 17 candidates. Welsh expects finalists will be selected for campus visits in May. According to A&M’s executive search website, next week there will be four finalists on campus seeking the dean’s position at the Bush School that became vacant when Welsh became president. One of the four finalists is from A&M. The others are from Southern Methodist, the department of defense, and The Baldwin School. The executive search website also showed finalists were on campus last week for two other dean vacancies that will be known as colleges on August. There are three finalists for dean of what is still the architecture school. None of those finalists are from A&M. There are three finalists to lead performance, visualization and fine arts. One is from A&M. And the president reported the application period has closed for A&M’s internal search for dean of the graduate and professional school. Welsh also announced that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved requests to change eight schools to colleges. The official rebranding becomes effective August 15th for architecture, dentistry, education, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and performance, visualization and fine arts. A WTAW listener pointed out the name changes reverses decisions made by former president Katherine Banks. Click HERE to read and download president Katherine Banks decisions that were announced December 14, 2021, including name changes of academic units that are found on pages 9 and 10. And Welsh provided updates on the work of two committees. Welsh reported members of A&M’s capacity study committee recently met with the cities of Bryan and College Station to discuss the off campus impact of the growing student body. And another committee is reviewing responses following on campus meetings and three thousand survey responses to what can be done to make the Aggie student experience number one in the nation. Below are screen shots from https://president.tamu.edu/messages/presidents-brief-2024-04.html