This week’s United Way of the Brazos Valley update features partner agency Twin City Mission. Click below to hear UWBV President Peggi Ondrasek and Twin City Mission’s Director of Community Relations, Ron Crozier.
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More construction on the RELLIS campus is scheduled to start in September. That’s after the Texas A&M system board of regents during its quarterly business meeting on August 1st approved spending more than $13 million dollars to extend streets and utilities south and east of the runways. Click HERE to read and download project information that was approved during the August 1, 2024 board of regents meeting. Before the regents unanimous vote, came a unanimous recommendation from the board’s building committee. But before the committee’s vote, system administrators were asked about getting financial assistance from the city of Bryan and other third party utility providers. Regent Michael Plank of Houston said “We’ve got an awful lot going on at RELLIS. We’re gonna have an awful lot of utilities involved out there. A lot of money being invested. So the question is, what’s the benefit to the city and do we have any kind of reimbursement programs of any kind?” The system’s chief financial officer, Billy Hamilton, says the new streets and utilities are to benefit two system agencies. One involves keeping heavy truck traffic associated with a new Texas Department of Emergency Management building off RELLIS Parkway. And the extension will also serve a new AgriLife Research reproductive sciences building and eventually “the business end of (the) Rosenthal” meat center. Construction is scheduled one year to complete. The project location is Avenue D from Bryan Street to Goodson Bend Road, 7th Street from Flightline Road to Bryan Road, and Flightline Road from the Innovative Proving Grounds to the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service Training Props site. The project scope includes new concrete roadways, site drainage, domestic water, natural gas, sanitary sewer, street lighting, electrical, and communications utilities. In addition, a new campus entry will be constructed where Avenue D empties onto Goodson Bend Road, and a new Remote Switching Unit building will be installed near the intersection of Avenue D and 7th Street. Click below to hear comments from the July 31, 2024 Texas A&M system board of regents building committee meeting. Listen to “Texas A&M system board of regents approves RELLIS campus street & utility extensions after asking about getting financial assistance” on Spreaker.
The College Station fire department has asked the city’s code enforcement office for assistance in clearing the debris from the fire that destroyed the Krispy Kreme building May 13th. Fire chief Richard Mann told WTAW News that they released custody to the property owner a couple of days after the fire. Click below to hear comments from Richard Mann, visiting with WTAW’s Bill Oliver. The day after Mann’s comments to WTAW News, the code enforcement office received a request from CSFD to look into a possible violation of a city ordinance requiring the property owner to keep the site of the former doughnut business clear of accumulated trash and rubbish. Quoting the ordinance, provided to WTAW News by a city of College Station spokesman: Sec. 30-22. – Accumulation of trash, carrion, and filth prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person who owns or occupies any house, building, establishment, lot, or yard in the City to permit or allow any trash, rubbish, carrion, filth, or other impure or unwholesome matter to accumulate or remain thereon or therein.
Texas A&M athletics director Trev Alberts presented an update to the A&M system board of regents during a workshop meeting on Thursday (August 1). Alberts, who was named AD on March 13, brought up the department’s culture, student-athlete experience, business operations, and the department’s challenges and opportunities. Alberts said this is the first time since 2018 that A&M athletics is not on NCAA probation or in an active investigation. June’s Kyle Field soccer match and George Strait concert generated a profit of roughly $6.5 million dollars. A reduction of about 18 employees in the athletic department’s administration has saved $2 million dollars. Alberts then said there is probably additional room for more staff reductions. Alberts also brought up how coaches budgets are impacted by the expected court decision where A&M athletes would receive 22 percent of the athletic department’s revenue. Academically, Alberts said the student-athlete cumulative grade point average is the highest ever at just under 3.1. And the graduation success rate is among the highest ever at 87 percent, something that Alberts wants to see raised to at least 90 percent. Click below to hear Trev Alberts report at the August 1, 2024 Texas A&M system board of regents workshop meeting. Listen to “Texas A&M's athletics director presents an update to the A&M system board of regents” on Spreaker.
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