What Happened After Out Of Town College Station Residents Notify Police About A Stranger In Their Home

What Went Into The Options For Proposed College Station ISD Calendar Options For The 2025-26 School Year

Everyone associated with College Station ISD is invited to participate in the district’s annual survey of calendar options for the next school year. Friday, January 3rd is deadline to participate in the online survey that has two options and an opportunity to submit comments. Click HERE to be directed to the College Station ISD calendar survey for the 2025-2026 school year. CSISD’s director of instruction Jeff Mann reported during the school board’s December 17th meeting that the recommendations were the result of collecting information from employees earlier than usual. That was followed by feedback from the district’s education improvement council (DEIC), which includes 21 teachers, four administrators, three parents, two community members, two businesspeople, and 21 administrators who are non-voting members. After the survey closes, responses will be reviewed by administrators and the DEIC before returning to the board for final action. Mann and superintendent Tim Harkrider explained composing a calendar that meets the minimum number of instructional minutes required by the state while meeting desired start and end dates. Harkrider pointed out the calendar identifies staff days and work days and that the state is no longer granting waivers to not make up days lost to severe weather and incidents similar to the recent flooding at Pebble Creek elementary that resulted in cancelling classes for two days. Click below to hear comments from the December 17, 2024 College Station ISD school board meeting. Listen to “What went into the options for proposed College Station ISD calendar options for the 2025-26 school year” on Spreaker.

Brazos County Commissioners Debate Over Board Reappointments

One of two departing members of the Brazos County commission was not able to reappoint members to a board in his precinct. During the commission’s December 10th meeting, county judge Duane Peters told precinct one commissioner Steve Aldrich that he wanted to wait on two reappointments to the board of emergency services district (ESD) one until after Bentley Nettles takes office. Aldrich, who said Nettles was not opposed to the reappointments during a private meeting, was not able to get a second to his motion to approve the reappointments. Aldrich then brought up the approval of reappointments to the ESD in precinct three, where commissioner Nancy Berry is also going out of office. Aldrich was told most of ESD three is in commission precinct two. Click below to hear comments from the December 10th Brazos County commission meeting.  

Bryan City Council Adopts Rules For The City Cemetery’s New Columbarium Areas

More than a year after the Bryan city cemetery began offering a place for cremains, the city council adopts an operating policy. There was no discussion prior to the council’s unanimous vote at the December 10th meeting to rules applying at two new columbarium in the cemetery’s veteran’s section and two that are available to the general public. Among the rules, faceplates in the veterans section are available through the Veterans Administration. Faceplates in the public section are available at the cemetery, though they must be engraved by a third party. And there are rules to what can be engraved on a faceplate of a columbaria in the public section of the Bryan city cemetery. Click HERE to read and download background information from the city of Bryan. Click HERE to read and download the ordinance that was approved at the December 10, 2024 Bryan city council meeting.