The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 24, 1979, Image 3

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    THE BATTALION Page 3
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1979
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ors, Gov. {( This new College Station city council room is part of the
dexico Cit) it newly opened Municipal Annex. The room has a glass wall
i illegal alietii and a sound system allowing overtlow crowds to both see and
curtain. Repear meetings. Construction of the annex and four other
ments for m buildings may eventually cost the city $2 million,
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city officials
By DOUG GRAHAM
Battalion Staff
ollege Station city officials have moved into the Municipal Build-
gation of tit jug Annex, the fourth of five new municipal buildings,
he report wj■Annexes to the present fire and municipal buildings across from the
to determin Tgxas A&M University campus on Texas Avenue have been com-
ts final report pitted, as have a new warehouse and police station,
y by failingbRrhe fifth building, still in the planning stages, is a new fire substa-
10 were did tkjn, City Engineer Elrey B. Ash said.
investigativfWThe new municipal annex is attached to the old city hall and contains
■my offices and a new city council meeting room. The council room is
glassed-in and has a sound system to enable overflow crowds to see and
hear council meetings. In the event of closed sessions, Ash said the
council would probably go into one of two available private conference
robins.
■The old council room has been divided up into offices.
BThe new building has some energy-saving features, Ash said. It has a
■mitered heating and air conditioning system, he said, in addition to a
|m roof added to the old municipal building.
Aiost of the occupants of the new Municipal Building Annex are
?n up a ma]0’B ociated the planning or engineering offices. Ash said this was
the arrestsapl u< ' to the importance of expanded public works in a growing city,
s, police said ■Contractors will soon finish work inside the new municipal annex,
several las Ash estimated that the exterior will he completed by March,
vehicles isRlhe fire station annex is built on to what was the combined fire and
auto thelti police department building. Several truck hays were built and the
wilding's interior was completely refinished. Ash said.
■The police now have their own building near the “new center of
College Station, the engineer said. He explained that with new hous-
in the city, the center of population has been shifting away from
as A&M University.
he police building is important to College Station police for several
agents died J sons ’ sai< T He pointed out that the building had its own
Antonio area. mun ’ c 'P a * courtroom and detention facilities.
Tuesday 01 iM 1 Saic * Previously the police had to take prisoners all the way
j Bryan to the Brazos County jail. “This will definitely save them
e,” he said.
n addition, he explained that holding court in the police station will
e officers time on duty. “They won’t have to travel from the station
0[the court. They’ll he there if they’re needed,” he said.
The municipal .annex and other new structures have cost the city
>1j3 million to date. They may eventually cost the city $2 million.
Their construction was funded hy a bond referendum passed in 1976
I $1,330,000. Inflation and changes in plans led to a cost overrun,
other referendum in 1977 authorized an additional $680,000. Ash
government expansion made the new construction necessary.
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Regents name
McCandless
associate VP
The Texas A&M University Sys
tem Board of Regents Tuesday ap
pointed Dr. Charles E. McCandless
associate vice president for academic
affairs at Texas A&M.
The appointment, recommended
By President Jarvis E. Miller and
Vice President for Academic Affairs
J.M. Prescott, is effective im
mediately.
McCandless, who joined the Uni
versity in 1961, has served as direc
tor of the Office of Academic Plan
ning and Services since April 1974.
A 1956 graduate of Texas A&M,
McCandless previously held as
signments as associate dean of liberal
arts, head of the University’s self-
study for reaccreditation, associate
dean of education, director of the
Texas A&M Adjunct in Junction and
director of intramural athletics.
“Dr. McCandless has been of
great assistance in performing ad
ministrative assignments, in addi
tion to those he was conducting as
director of planning,” said Prescott.
“This appointment is in recognition
of his broader administrative con
tributions. ”
Prescott said McCandless will
continue to be in charge of academic
planning and space assignment.
Dr. Haskell Monroe also is an as
sociate vice president for academic
affairs and the dean of faculties.
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