1979 i27,000 landscaping difference stalls action Middle School THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1979 Page 3 at By ROY BRAGG Battalion Staff ie A&M Consolidated School rdtook no action during its regu- neeting on a landscaping project lie Middle School campus. An dipt to table the subject failed. §| attempt occured afters the p -learned there was a $27,000 •rence between original esti- ;s and the only bid received, he landscaping is part of a ect by the Soil Conservation pe to beautify the school dis- campuses, said Peggy Critten- public information director for iptrict. !■district pays for 20 percent the federal government, ugh grants to the district, pays remaining 80 percent of the v bejboard had allotted $72,000 B landscaping for the middle K)1 campus based on the cost es- by Klatt/Murphy, landscape ts. only bid received for the project totalled $99,600, said Michael Murphy of Klatt/Murphy. He did not reveal the name of the firm. Murphy said the firm would begin work 10 days after the con tract was awarded and finish it within 90 days. In addition, the contract contains a $100-a-day penalty clause for late work. Trustee Herman D. Brown ques tioned accepting the bid because the board hadn’t planned to spend as much on the project. Before a vote could be taken on the bid. Brown moved to table the item. Trustee Ann Jones seconded the motion. A vote on the motion to table the item was tied, 3-3 with Brown, Jones and Board President John Re- agor voting for and Trustees Elliott Bray, Bruce Robeck and Bill Was son voting against the motion. Trustee William D. Fitch was ab sent. Trustees in favor of accepting the bid spoke of the necessity of com pleting the project. “I will reluctantly have to reluc tantly favor this motion,†Robeck said. “We’ve got a campus that some idiot of an architect built in a val ley,†Wasson said, explaining the necessity of the project. Robeck said the extra money existed, but was set aside for other projects. When Brown asked Robeck where the money would come from, Reagor said there was $366,000 in unappropriated bond money. Then Brown asked Robeck where the original figure of $72,000 had come from. Robeck replied it was from the architects. Brown asked Murphy why the bid was so much higher than the con tract had originally called for. Escalating costs of building mate rials and a bad original estimate by his firm were probable causes for the $27,000 discrepency, Murphy said. The vote to accept the bid was taken and it too was tied 3-3, with Wasson, Robeck and Bray voting for and Jones, Brown and Reagor voting against. No more action was taken on the landscaping project, but the board has scheduled a special meeting Friday night at 7 p.m. to discuss it further. In other action, the board voted to accept a plan for a new adminis trative organization for the Middle School. The new plan, one of five submit ted by consultant Bruce R. Ander son, is necessary for the re organized junior high, said acting superintendant H.R. Burnett. Starting this fall, the middle school will consist of grades 5-8. Previously, the middle school consisted of grades 6-8 with one principal and one assistant princi pal. Under the plan adopted Monday night, there will be one principal what’s up outs BV Deaf group to meet fcie Brazos Valley Association of Deaf and Hearing Impaired will liet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at First National Bank in Bryan. The |aker will be Avril Thompson, the acting president of the Profes- pal section of Texas Association of Deaf and Hearing Impaired. Bryan tennis tourney set for two or thraBL ^ u « , ernor’s appoinl&I? he lenth Annual City of Bryan Tennis Tournament will be held at i depending on*! Tennis Courts on June 8-10. The deadline for registering is 28 at 5 pm. The fee is $3 per person per event. Thirty-eight are he story nftb Jfr ed ' Furth er information may be obtained by calling 822-1054 or by senators lt Par ^ s an ^ Recreation office at 203 E. 29th. git the personsfi :v heard it ——— Rodeo tickets available The 8th Annual Bryan Breakfast Lions Club Rodeo will be held May 25 and 26 at 8 p.m. in the Brazos County Rodeo Arena. Tickets are available in advance at Piggly Wiggly stores. Advance ticket prices are $2 for adults and $1 for children and $2.50 for adults and $1.50 for children at the gate. Swim classes offered The Bryan Parks and Recreation Department will offer Red Cross approved swim classes for four 2-week sessions this summer, begin ning June 4, 1979. The fee is $5 per student. Pre-registration will take place next week at Haswell and Thomas Pools on Monday and Wed nesday from 5-7 p.m. and at Municipal and Henderson Pools on Tuesday and Thursday from 5-7 p.m. Students should register at the pool where they wish to swim. and two assistants for the middle school. Both of the assistants will have pre-determined responsibilites on their respective campus, Burnett said, but will be encouraged to work wherever needed. The three principals for the ex pected enrollment of 1,000 students would be in line with the national standard of 2.5 administrators per 1,000 students, according to Ander son’s report. In other business, the board: —awarded the school depository contract to University National Bank on the basis of the recom mendations of the citizens commit tee and Assisstant Supertendant of Finance Ollie Grauke. —voted to approve the selection of Durst, Wood and Ingram, cer tified public accountants, as auditors for the financial records for the 1978-79 school year. —heard a progress report on the preparation of the five-year plan for the special education program in the district. The plan is required by the Texas Education Agency. The plan was originally due June 1. 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RYDER THE BAIT DOES IT DAILY Monday through Friday ft d anvthing onil 1. egislative reconi ans in the early pi one house ofibfj ave a quorum pJ ay, and would ail • • • ob satisfaction ncreased numbers of graduates dissatisfied ds did not ind:'}ii s year’s crop of college “re sent searck bates could easily join the grow- rs, he said. ranks of dissatisfied American kers, a Texas A&M University iologist predicts. mi your scffl^Jpeent Labor Department sur- in a magnetic : $ljowed that between 1973 and ce to another' 7 Americans experienced a 2 s hen computer cent J ecrease j n job satisfaction. >se proximity, tt® c ij ne was particularly notable h in much t! )n g college graduates and work- under 30 years of age. have pointer wor J cerS) semiskilled work- Mail MarketingW ers, blue-collar workers and man ufacturing industry employees were also more likely to be unhappy with their jobs, the Labor Department- financed survey showed. Why the dissatisfaction? “I think we re seeing a return of the generation gap that everyone was talking about during the ’60s,†said Dr. Jon P. Alston. “The under 30-year-old workers just want more of their jobs today and aren’t realiz ing their goals. ervice through"R 1 1 ■l* a™ removeiidyanced real estate studies do an™ egin at A&M; 150 expected aging world, i lie sixth annual Studies of Ad- ., ., ] ced Real Estate Subjects confer- i the mail is des . f J . . j .. e,is the featured event today nigh Sunday at Texas A&M Uni lore than 150 participants are lected for the Studies of Ad- o think that It ced Real Estate Subjects, which vill go on reci'tnown by the acronym SOARS, eleases. jinning Thursday. The SOARS >, junk mail gram established by the Texas mortality. d Estate Research Center in 3, is designed to offer real estate fessionals the opportunity to ob- i advanced knowledge of the business. Topics to be discussed during the two-day conference will include “Averting the Catastrophe,†“Sources of Assistance†and “Un derground Leaking.†Engineers, chemists and techni cians will “be here until Friday for a Continuous Stack Monitoring Short Course. The course is designed to train the participants to properly select and operate continuous monitoring systems which will com ply with Environmental Protection Agency Regulations. “Older workers aren’t as dissatis fied as the younger workers because they don’t expect as much out of their jobs to begin with,†he added. When an older worker is inter viewed about his job, the first thing he’ll say is that things are OK, Alston said. When we dig a little deeper, however, we find out he really doesn’t expect much satisfac tion out of his job, as long as the work is secure and it pays well. Alston attributes worker dissatis faction to the generation gap for a number of reasons. One is the in creasing age of the American popu lation. 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This age difference widens the gap between attitudes and ideas even more. “Younger workers have experi enced the disillusionment of Vietnam, the Civil Rights era and the trend toward male-female equality,’’ Alston added. “With more women holding jobs now, the younger segment of the labor force is socially and psychologically dif ferent from the older segment. “Younger workers are willing to work, but they want more challeng ing and meaningful tasks,†Alston stressed. “Older workers, especially those who worked or were children during the depression, learned that jobs were scarce, and that the im portant thing was to have a job, any job. “The young workers today were raised in a period of prosperity and economic expansion,†he added. “Their expectation of work rewards are different from those of the older workers.†Permanent Wave Special From casual to curly $10.00 off Regular Price May 7th thru 26th Call early for your appointment. 696-6933 iths uted to schools! m, president of] qie, said it "sb ion as a whole 1 casing opportui or else runtli(| vasted.†utive directoroii Cities, said the] throughout theil of the problem , olunteeringfor| ould make our urgent url PST ;e Station, Texas 77$ si! is entitled exclusivdjf news dispatches c I other matter herein at College Station, IX] MBER ■ss Association irnalism Congress Karen ft Debbie F Seail Roy] Keith 1| .... 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