College Station City Council Majority Does Not Want Paid Parking On City Streets South Of Kyle Field

Brazos Valley Groundwater District Board Dealing With Opposition To Multiple Requests

The board of the Brazos Valley groundwater conservation district (BVGCD) is dealing with opposition to multiple requests to pump more water. Thursday’s (September 12th) meeting included action on four contested applications. The Texas A&M system is involved in all four applications, one as an applicant and three as an opponent. BVGCD board president Jayson Barfknecht told WTAW News that the board decided one of two disputed water transport applications will go to the state office of administrative hearings (SOAH). Testimony will be taken from the applicants and six opponents. A group of seven applicants want to transport water out of Robertson County to customers in Milam, Williamson, Travis, and/or Bell counties. Opponents include the A&M system, the cities of Bryan and College Station, Brazos County, and two private landowners. As for the second application by the same group to transport water out of Robertson County, Barfknecht said the board acknowledged the A&M system’s request for a contested hearing. Barfknecht said the earliest the board will discuss the process of the hearing is at its October meeting. After the board meeting, the A&M system filed a writ of mandamus in Brazos County district court. The system wants the groundwater district board to immediately hold a contested case hearing on the transport permits. Click HERE to read and download a copy of the writ of mandamus which was provided to WTAW News by the Texas A&M system. Barfknecht says a third contested hearing involving the system deals with the water exporters permit to operate wells in Robertson County. And there will be a contested case hearing to the A&M system’s application to drill a well on the RELLIS campus. Barfknecht says the proposed RELLIS well has 12 opponents.

Bryan City Council Deals With TxDOT Items

September’s regular meeting of the Bryan city council meeting included approving a rezoning request from the owner of an office building that fell victim to the Texas Avenue median. Mayor Bobby Gutierrez said the rezoning was for land to provide a new parking area behind the building at Texas and Edgemoor. Gutierrez said the new parking was needed because the property owner lost his former parking area by the median project. Gutierrez said it was a “truly tragic story” for the businessowner who could not stop the Texas department of transportation (TxDOT). Click HERE to read and download background information about the parking lot rezoning that was approved at the September 10, 2024 Bryan city council meeting. Click HERE to read and download staff information about the parking lot rezoning that was approved at the September 10, 2024 Bryan city council meeting. Click below to hear comments from Bobby Gutierrez at the September 10, 2024 Bryan city council meeting.   The Bryan council also approved at its September regular meeting, updating a maintenance agreement with TxDOT that had been in effect since 2002. City engineer Paul Kaspar said the only difference was the city becoming responsible for some additional cleanup, sweeping, and mowing along Highway 6. Kaspar says this is in addition to landscaping and maintenance agreements between the city and TxDOT for specific projects. Click HERE to read and download background information about the updated TxDOT agreement that was approved at the September 10, 2024 Bryan city council meeting. Click HERE to read and download the agreement that was approved at the September 10, 2024 Bryan city council meeting. Click below to hear comments from Paul Kaspar, responding to a question during the September 10, 2024 Bryan city council meeting.  

Arrests After A Stabbing, After Assaulting Two Brazos County Detention Officers, And After Violating Bond Twice

College Station police posts on its Facebook page, a stabbing that took place on Longmire Drive Thursday (September 12). The CSPD arrest report says in an apartment, the occupant received a small puncture on his neck from a guest that apartment management said was not supposed to be there. The guest told officers that the stabbing was in self defense. Arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon was 51 year old Adrian Verrette of College Station. He remains in jail as of September 13th. No bond has been set according to online jail records. A Houston man held in the Brazos County jail since his 31st birthday on August 9th is now charged with assaulting two detention officers and trying to take a taser away from one of the officers. The sheriff’s office arrest report says another detention officer fired his taser. The jail’s medical staff provided basic first aid to the officers. The original charges against Nicholas Petty include a robbery and the third consecutive day that he was accused of disorderly conduct-language. Petty remains jailed as of September 13th in lieu of bonds totaling $41,000 dollars. Officers with the Bryan police department’s directed deployment team find a man who was arrested for violating bond for the second time in three months by being with the victim of two domestic violence crimes. 20 year old Braelyn Jones of College Station is awaiting trials on misdemeanor charges of family violence assault causing bodily injury in May and unlawful restraint in July. Jones, who is in jail for the fifth time since February 19th, remains jailed as of September 12th in lieu of a $25,000 dollar bond.