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By CARRIE MIURA
The Battalion
The Bryan Community Development Com
mittee passed a proposal on Tuesday that will
bring Bryan-College Station residents one step
closer to having a special needs center that
would provide "transitional housing" to peo
ple with special needs.
The Resolution Trust Corporation made a
property donation in September 1991 to the
city of Bryan, and the Brazos Valley Commu
nity Action Agency (BVCAA) made a propos
al for the property to be used to help establish
a special needs center.
After reviewing the proposal, the Bryan
Community Development Committee decided
by a consensus vote to give the property to the
BVCAA.
The BVCAA is in the process of beginning
a special needs center that will be open to
"long term chronically ill or terminally ill" per
sons who are "displaced from their current liv
ing situation," said Eric Todd, associate ad
ministrator for the BVCAA.
People with special needs may also include,
the homeless, battered spouses, abused chil
dren, the handicapped and the elderly.
Joe Brown, public information officer for
the city of Bryan, said AIDS patients will also
be included and not discriminated against.
"The goal is to try and provide people with
a home setting that is peaceful and that re
stores the dignity that's taken away from
them," he said.
Todd said only two or three people at a
time will be residing on the property.
A special committee will be formed of nurs
es, doctors and social workers who will deter
mine the eligibility of each person who quali
fies for the special needs program under a
first-come first-serve and an economic eligibili
ty basis, he said.
The center will be staffed with people
trained to tailor care for individual needs.
Todd said the house will provide these
people with a family oriented setting in the
combination of hospice care and primary
home care.
"It's a small step to providing for the com
munity," he said.
The donated property for the center is locat
ed in the north central Bryan neighborhood,
but the specific address of this property will
not be disclosed to the public because of the
confidentiality of the BVCAA clients.
Community participation at the public
hearing to announce the committee's decision
on the special needs program was low.
"We had felt that if it was a concern to the
public that they would have shown up to the
public hearing," said JoAnn Powell, commit
tee development project coordinator for the
city of Bryan.
The proposal for the special needs center
will be reviewed by the Bryan City Council
and is scheduled to be on the next council
agenda on Tuesday, July 27. If passed, the
property will be transferred to the BVCAA by
mid-August.
The BVCAA has been serving the Bryan
community for over 21 years and operates spe
cial agencies including the Family Planning
Program and the W1C program.
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By GENEEN PIPHER
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The Texas Department of
Transportation (TxDOT) will be in
the Bryan-College Station area on
July 13 to recruit businesses
owned by women and minorities
for its Disadvantaged Business
Enterprise Program.
Division Head of the Disadvan
taged Business Enterprise Program
at the Texas Engineering Extension
Service (TEEX), Philip Parker, said
the program is designed to recruit
and train small businesses to be
more competitive.
"We train these disadvantaged
businesses in a way that will
make them better qualified to
compete for TxDOT work," Park
er said. "We teach them anything
ranging from bookkeeping to esti
mating to project scheduling and
accounting."
He said the need for such a
program was defined in the U.S.
Congress with the passage of the
Service Transportation Assistant
Transportation department supplies
minority business enterprise system
Act of 1982.
"They noted the need, in that
law, to recruit and train minority
(owned) businesses and women
(owned) businesses," he said. "The
need was reiterated in the Trans
portation Efficiency Act of 1991."
Parker said a disadvantaged
business has many different char
acteristics, but the 1982 legislation
defined them as any business
owned 51 percent or more by a
minority or woman.
"By virtue of the fact that they
are a minority or a woman, that
puts them at a disadvantage," he
said. "Women and minorities
have been historically discriminat
ed against and under utilized."
The Owner of Los Nortenos
Cafe, Patsy C. Espinoza said she
believes it is harder foTva ^minority
or a woman to staff up a new
btteinbss and hard work is the
only way to achieve success.
"There may be some people
that say you're too dumb to start a
business," Espinoza said. "Some
people may think they know bet
ter than you do. If 1 listened to
them I wouldn't have been in
business for 12 years. 1 just say to
them, 'you don't have a Lousiness,
so hush'."
Dawn Jefferson, an academic
btisiness administrator in the Texas
A&M University department of
business said women and minori
ties in businesses often have to
work harder to achieve the same
success as other businesses.
"People have to work a little
harder," Jefferson said. "Perse
vere and show that it can be done.
1 think women haveishown they
can make it and are showing it
right now, with achievements like
Ann Richards, the first woman
governor in the state of Texas."
Racial and gender prejudice are
the biggest obstacles facing mi
norities and women Parker said.
"Before people thought theYe
was man's work and then there
was woman's work," he said.
"But there is no such thing as
men's and women's work. There
is no difference."
Parker said he sees a day when
there will be no need for a pro
gram such as the Disadvantaged
Business Enterprise Program.
"1 absolutely believe the situa
tion is improving," he said. "I see
a time when women and minori
ties won't be discriminated
against. 1 see this happening in
the very near future."
"As more and more minorities
and women start becoming suc
cessful, those people will see that
it (race and gender) is no reason to
exclude them from business en
deavors," Parker said. • •<.o« - **i.
"Hopefully everybody will see
that there was no reason to ex
clude them in the first place."
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