College Station City Council Continues Studying Possible Fee Changes For Parks & Recreation Programs

Increased Demand Continues At The City Of Bryan’s Legends Events Center

The city of Bryan’s Legends Events Center is nearing the end of its second year of operation. An update during the Bryan city council’s July 9th meeting included statistics showing growth in all performance areas. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the July 9, 2024 Bryan city council meeting. The director the Destination Bryan tourism office, John Friebele, says the economic impact of Legends through the first nine months of the fiscal year is over $23 million dollars. That’s compared with $15 million from the prior fiscal year. The number of events has increased from 19 to 25, resulting in an increase of participants from 48,000 to 73,000. The council was told that Legends supports more than 10,000 jobs and generates more than $482,000 dollars in tax revenue. Friebele said Legends generated nearly 20,000 nights stayed in hotels through the first nine months of the fiscal year. That’s an increase of more than 3,000 from the year before. Bryan hotels get 39 percent of the room nights associated with events at the Legends Center, while College Station gets 61 percent of the room nights. Friebele said there is a need for more rooms that can hold four guests to accommodate sports tourism. One issue brought up during the council’s discussion is security. Legends general manager Jamie Cox says the new Brazos Valley Youth Sports Association will be hiring private security following curfew issues earlier this year that resulted in calls from councilmembers to police. Cox says Legends is also on the radar of private security hired by the city. Click below to hear comments from the July 9, 2024 Bryan city council meeting.  

City of College Station Update on WTAW

Caroline Ask, Solid Waste Division Manager, visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia about move in/move out season, placement of bulk items and brush piles, how to be a good neighbor, collection days, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs on Friday, August 2, 2024. Listen to “City of College Station Update on The Infomaniacs” on Spreaker.

Purchase Of Two New Bryan Fire Department Engines Gets City Council Approval

Bryan city council members without discussion during July’s regular meeting, approve purchasing two new fire engines. Click HERE to read and download background information about the purchase. Click HERE to read and download the proposal that was approved at the July 9, 2024 Bryan city council meeting. Background information given to the council says it will take between two and five years to build the engines. BFD regularly uses five engines that have been 42,000 and 115,000 miles. The council was told that the heavily used engines has resulted in mechanical issues that keeps them out of service for longer periods of time. BFD has three reserve fire engines that have logged between 103,000 and 127,000 miles. The price for each of the new engines are $1.5 million dollars. After they are delivered, older units will be sold, auctioned, or donated to another department.