Brazos County commissioners have approved spending $340,000 dollars for a consultant’s list of guidelines when county buildings are updated.
Purchasing agent Charles Wendt explained the reason for buying what is described as “facility guidelines” saves time for employees of the county’s facility services office.
Click below to hear comments from Charles Wendt during the January 23, 2024 Brazos County commission meeting.
The College Station city council directs staff to act as quickly as possible to resolve health and safety issues at two apartment complexes. Key City Capital was identified as the owner of The Dominik and Holleman Oaks apartments. The College Station council was told Key City since June 2022 has been issued a combined 230 summons regarding apartment conditions. Key City has paid fines totaling $20,668 and owes the city another $28,385. The summons and fines are for leaking raw sewage at The Dominik and not making repairs to a fire damaged building at Holleman Oaks. The council and staff also identified Key City as the owner of the Canyon Village apartments in Bryan, where notice was given that water was going to be cut off until a past due bill of $18,000 dollars was paid last week. The Dominik and Holleman Oaks were singled out during a staff presentation about code compliance issues at older College Station multi-family structures. No representatives of the ownership of The Dominik and Holleman Oaks apartment complexes were at the College Station council meeting. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the February 13, 2025 College Station city council meeting. Click below to hear comments from the February 13, 2025 College Station city council meeting about code compliance issues at The Dominik and the Holleman Oaks apartment complexes. Listen to “College Station city council directs staff to resolve health and safety issues at two apartment complexes” on Spreaker.
March 17th (2025) marks seven years since a suburban Dallas man was arrested in Brazos County for DWI with a child in the vehicle. In January 2019, the man was placed on five years probation. In October 2023, the man was charged with violating probation. On Wednesday (February 12), after seven delays, the driver and the district attorney’s office enter a plea agreement to the probation violation. That resulted in the driver being sentenced to eight months in a state jail. The original punishment facing Dennis Darnell Jr. in January 2019 was two years. Most of the more than five pages in the motion to revoke probation was a list of skipping required tests to measure alcohol content or testing positive for alcohol between August 2019 and November 2021. The 25th time than a 58 year old Bryan man is in the Brazos County jail, follows a plea agreement with the district attorney’s office on six felony property crime charges. Court records show Rodney Steven Washington pleaded no contest and was convicted of making five illegal credit card charges where he was ordered to pay restitution of $4,431.41 dollars. Washington, who pleaded guilty to one felony theft, was ordered to pay restitution of $2,897.90. The thefts took place between September and November of 2022.
Administrators at the Brazos Transit District (BTD) respond to complaints from recent Brazos County commission meetings. After meeting in private with two commissioners, vice president Jo Marlow showed photos during the commission’s February 4th meeting of large buses where there were enough on board that some riders were standing. BTD’s deputy CEO, Wendy Weedon, says the average life span of a large diesel bus is 12 years, versus five years for a smaller bus that is gasoline powered. Weedon said the only difference in the cost of operating a large diesel bus versus a smaller bus that is powered by a gasoline engine, is paying more for the driver of the large bus because they are required to have a commercial license. Weedon said the larger buses were needed to accommodate riders using mobility devices. In response to a question about spending BTD money on ride sharing, Weedon says she has seen local ride sharing companies charge as much as $200 dollars during large events. County commissioners were also given presentation materials about BTD’s transition in Brazos County as a large urban transit provider as determined by the federal government. That resulted in county commissioners and the city councils in College Station and Bryan to split the cost to make up the reduction in federal funding. Commissioners were also told about the transition of the county taking ownership of the Roy Kelly parking garage located south of the courthouse. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials that were shown at the February 4, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Click below to hear comments from the February 4, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting: Listen to “Brazos Transit District administrators respond to criticism from recent Brazos County commission meetings” on Spreaker.
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