Friday, November 1,1991 The Battalion Page 3 3 t Jni- ful, r of all ing ery ally ach re- ids, d in ims aort een ent. :t in CS council accepts $1.5 M bid by Mark Evans The Battalion The College Station City Coun cil voted 4-3 to accept the bid from the Construction Resource Group (CRG) for the construction of Wolf Pen Creek Phase I. The $1.5 million bid came in at $250 thousand over the amount the Council had originally bud geted for the park project. It was the lowest of the bids received last September when the bidding opened. Before accepting the bid, the City Council added an amend ment to it. This directs the staff to negotiate with CRG to reduce the project cost to at least $1.4 million and report back at the next City i Council meeting on Nov. 20. The project, located at the in tersection of Dartmouth and Holleman drives, provides for the building of a 14-acre park along the Wolf Pen Creek. The plans in clude trails, an outdoor amphithe ater, and a playground. The issue of whether to accept the bid or reject it and ask for new ones in the hope of attaining a lower one split the council into two camps. 'The committees have studied it, the consultants have studied it, and the staff has studied it," City Councilman Jim Gardner said. "We know what we want. Let's just find a way to finance it." If the City Council decided to accept new bids, there is no guar- antee that they would come in any lower, said Stephen Beachy, Col lege Station Parks and Recreation Director. The process could delay work on the project because the bids would not be ready until De cember at the earliest. The extra time may allow the City to get a bid that will better fit into their budget. Council member Lynn McDhaney said. This could save the City as well as the tax payers money. She serves on the Finance Committee which re viewed the bids submitted. "We felt like we might get some good, competitive bids if we go back out and give the contrac tors some additional time," McH- haney said. T feel like we can do better. I think we have to cut the expense of it(the project) without cutting its quality." Other members of the City Council suggested trimming the project plans. The project could withstand cuts of trivial items, such as minor changes in the types of building materials used. "I think we're overlooking some areas where we can save money and nobody would be able to notice a difference from the original plans," City Councilman Dick Bird well said. In other business, the City Council approved an ordinance which would allow them to con sider granting a three-year tax abatement to C.C. Creations on Holleman Drive. Currently, the business plans to expand its oper ations with an addition to its of fices. The addition would create more jobs in the low-income neighborhood where it's located. "It's a win-win situation," Mcllhaney said. ntly I Comptroller predicts strong economy for Texas future AUSTIN (AP) — Texas' econo my will expand faster than the na- , tion's as a whole over the next 20 years, and income will rise, the state comptroller's office predicted in a report released Thursday. "For Texans who weathered the economic storms of the 1980s, the future beckons like a welcome star on the horizon," Comptroller John Sharp said in the October is sue of Fiscal Notes. Texas' economy will grow an average of nearly 3 percent a year over the next two decades, com pared to the expected national rate of about 2.5 percent, according to the report. And average Texans will be better off financially, the report said. Per-capita Texas income, in 1991 dollars, is projected to rise from about $17,300 to about $22,500 in 20 years. Former female employees charge law firm with sexual harassment HOUSTON (AP) — Five former female em ployees have filed a $5 million lawsuit against a prominent Houston law firm, alleging that a part ner harassed, assaulted or slandered them and the firm was negligent in supervising him. The women filed the lawsuit Wednesday against Dunn, Kacal, Adams, Pappas & Law. The only plaintiff named is Hellon Lureen Hopkins, 29, a paralegal fatally shot Oct. 14 after intervening in an attempted purse-snatching. The suit will be amended to name her estate as the plaintiff. The suit states the firm fired Ms. Hopkins in 1988, three weeks after she complained about the conduct of her immediate supervisor, attorney Pete Andarsio. Ms. Hopkins and another woman identified as Jane Doe Two complained that Andarsio forcibly touched their breasts. Jane Does Three and Four claim Andarsio forced them to have in tercourse and oral sodomy, and Jane Doe Five says Andarsio slandered her. William Wade, attorney for the five, said the women, all in their mid-20s, were fired or left as a result of Andarsio's actions. But Wade says some of the women found it easier to look the other way than come forward because they were living "paycheck to pay- check." According to the suit, Ms. Hopkins and two others complained with little result. Gerald Holtzman, attorney for the firm, said a month-long, internal investigation showed the women's allegations are "just not true." 'The firm took these charges very seriously," he said. Randy Schaffer, attorney for Andarsio, said his client had consensual sexual relations with an undisclosed number of the plaintiffs, mostly re sulting from "pairing off" after social occasions. "Some of tnese allegations are things that oc curred years ago, and they never complained," Schaffer said. 'There wasn’t even a hint of sexual assault." Wade has called for senior partner Charles R. "Bob" Dunn to step down as president of the State Bar of Texas until the case is resolved. Holtzman and Schaffer described Wade's set tlement offers prior to filing the lawsuit as similar to an extortion attempt. "It was postured to the firm in such a way that said, 'Bob Dunn is president of the State Bar and you don't want his name all over the papers and on television, so give us a bunch of money,'" Holtzman said. No criminal charges have been filed with the Houston Police Department. I I Radar system gives false alarms Difficulties cause airplanes to swerve from flight path DALLAS (AP) — Some air- traffic controllers at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport say false alarms from a new radar sys tem being used nationwide have caused dozens of airplanes to un necessarily swerve from their flight paths. The problems with the Traffic Alert and Collision System have not led to any reports of near-colli- sions at DFW. 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