Thursday, January 21, 1988/The Battalion/Page 3
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State and Local
Closed streets on campus
^ause traffic flow problems
By Richard Williams
Senior Stuff Writer
The closings of some roadways through Texas
ScM because of construction work have added
intht r minor inconvenience to the problem of
affil flow on campus.
Construction projects have closed parts of
osstind Spence streets to through motor vehicle
affi< Ross is closed from Ireland Street to Biz
'll, and Spence Street is closed from University
rive to Ross Street.
^Instruction already has closed Spence Street
om Ross to Lamar to through motor vehicle
affi..
Bab Wiatt, Texas A&M’s director of security
nd 1 niversity Police, said that section of Spence
treei is to remain permanently closed to
trough traffic.
G>s Biering, a construction inspector for the
exas A&M University System, said the section
nffioss Street will he closed to through motor ve-
icla traffic for roughly five or six more weeks.
^Bte section of Spence Street temporarily
loscd might reopen for a short period of time in
mfcnth and a half, Biering said. However, that
eetjon of Spence is scheduled to again be closed
D tlrough motor vehicle traffic in roughly two
itoiiihs, he said.
Individuals who must use Spence Street to get
to their parking spaces still will be able to do so,
he said.
Construction also temporarily has closed the
inside lane of Ross Street from Bizzell to Main
Drive. Traffic that normally would use the inside
lane temporarily has been diverted to the outside
lane. The outside lane now serves traffic travel
ing in both directions. The closures and diver
sions of traffic are necessary to allow the con
struction to take place and for safety reasons, he
said.
Doug Williams, Bus Operations manager, said
the closing of Ross Street has caused some delays
in bus service, but he added it was only a minor
inconvenience for the bus service.
“It’s kind of disrupted the regularity of it,”
Williams said. “We just go down different streets
now.”
Bus Operations was not informed of the clo
sure of Ross and Spence before it actually oc
curred, but that only caused minor problems for
the buses, Williams said. Usually Bus Operations
is informed of such closures and is able to plan
around them, he said.
The closure of Ross Street has affected the in
tracampus bus routes more than the buses that
run the off-campus routes, Williams said.
“.It’s primarily affected the intracampus bu
ses,” he said. “The off-campus schedule is af
fected to some degree because of the reducing of
the street (Ross) to two way, but were’re still get
ting by the best we can.”
Mattox: Records
closed sessions
must be detailed
AUSTIN (AP) — The certified
agenda that governmental bodies
must keep of closed meetings
does not have to be a verbatim
transcript of the session, but it
must include more than a one- or
two-word list of subjects dis
cussed, Te;xas Attorney General
Jim Mattox says.
Mattox added in an opinion re
leased Tuesday that groups can
avoid problems with the Texas
Open Meetings Act by exercising
their option to keep a tape of ex
ecutive sessions, rather than a
certified agenda.
“Ultimately, the question of
whether a particular ‘certified
agenda’ complies with the statute
will be a fact question for the
courts,” Mattox said.
“Enough detail should be in
cluded (if a certified agenda is
used) to enable a district judge to
determine whether the act has
been violated,” he said.
State law was changed by the
1987 Legislature to require gov
ernmental bodies to keep tape re
cordings or certified agendas of
meetings that are legally closed to
the public.
The act allows governmental
bodies to deliberate secretly in
some circumstances.
The added requirement was
meant to ensure that the groups
met the requirements when hav
ing secret meetings, Mattox said.
The new requirement does not
apply to certain consultations be
tween a governmental body and
its attorney, Mattox said.
The opinion was requested by
Robert Viterna, executive direc
tor of the Commission on Jail
Standards.
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Pa\i
iMde says Clements’ intervention
in agency choice was not political
Flight-attendant contract
ends two-tier wage scale
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“All I know is that we pitched
against everybody, and it seemed
like from what everybody told me
that we were the unanimous selec
tion,” Roy Spence, president of the
Austin firm, said.
“Since then, things have changed
radically, and I don’t know why,” he
said.
Bill Lauderback, Commerce De
partment executive director, said the
four members of the selection com
mittee agreed that one company
stood out after they heard the five
firms’ presentations on Dec. 8.
“I think it is fair to say that the
general opinion was that this firm
made the best oral presentation,”
Lauderback said.
He declined to identify the com
mittee’s choice.
Sources told the Dallas Morning
News that GSD&M was the firm that
handled political advertising for
Democrat Mark White’s successful
1982 campaign, which unseated
Clements as governor.
The agency also did advertising
for Walter Mondale’s presidential
campaign in 1984 and has worked
for State Treasurer Ann Richards
and Land Commissioner Garry
Mauro, both Democrats.
McCann-Erickson of New York
^^JAUSTIN (AP) — An aide says
Cau^iBv. Bill Clements’ intervention in
breaiiichi using an advertising agency for
iua - tht state’s multimillion-dollar tou-
account had nothing to do with
^^^■itics.
■The Republican governor’s action
reportedly jeopardizies the chances
■a previously favored firm that has
Bmocratic ties.
■GSD&M, the advertising agency,
■s the consensus choice of a Texas
Department of Commerce selection
.committee that heard presentations
l(,n11 last month from five agencies vying
id iL; foi an estimated $8 million-a-year
id exsj advertising contract.
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likely will be chosen when the Com
merce Department board makes its
decision public on Jan. 28, the un
identified sources told the newspa
per in a story that was published
Wednesday.
GSD&M, McCann-Erickson and
Neal Spelce Communications, the
company that now has the state’s
tourism account, repeated their pre
sentations before the governor at his
Capitol office.
Spelce said he had been told he
wouldn’t get the contract, while
Spence of GSD&M said he believed
he’s out of the running.
FORT WORTH (AP) — Ameri
can Airlines flight attendants have
ratified a new contract eliminating a
two-tier wage scale, union officials
said Tuesday.
Kay Preston, a member of the
American Association of Flight At
tendants council, said 68 percent of
about 6,000 union members voted to
accept the contract.
The contract is set to run through
1992.
The Fort Worth-based carrier
scuttled its controversial wage scale
only hours before the union mem
bership was to go on strike for two
days during the Christmas holidays.
American said Tuesday it was “de
lighted” that union members ratified
the six-year labor agreement, calling
the contract “one in which both sides
can win.”
“The new contract makes APE A
members the best-paid flight atten
dants in our industry,” the company
said. “At the same time, it retains the
market-rate wage concept.”
The two-tier wage scale, which be
gan in 1983, paid new employees
less than veterans.
The new contract merges the two
tiers over six years into a single mar
ket-rate scale in accordance with
contracts previously negotiated with
American pilot and groundworkers
unions, company officials said.
Under the two-tier system, A-scale
workers made an average of $25,000
to $27,000 a year, while B-scale em
ployees averaged $12,000.
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