College Station city council budget discussions during workshops last week (July 16) included having enough people to enforce local housing occupancy laws.
City manager Bryan Woods told council members that since enforcement resumed June 1st, “generally speaking we haven’t seen a ton of activity, which is understandable” considering there are fewer Texas A&M students in town during the summer.
Woods also said “my guess would be when school comes back, even if things go very smoothly, that’ll be an opportunity even if we’re coming back before the end of the year to report that we have not had much to report.”
When councilmembers Elizabeth Cunha and Mark Smith brought up the proposed fiscal year 2025 budget added deputy municipal court clerks associated with enforcing the ordinance limiting occupancy to no more than four unrelated residents, mayor John Nichols said the city manager told him that staff believes they can cover that responsibility with existing employees.
Click below to hear comments from the July 16, 2024 College Station budget workshop meeting.