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Charlie Shear, City Hall communications
and information services manager, said the ad
ditional money is being raised to supplement
the approved bond.
“College Station citizens approved the bond
for $2,635 million,” she said, “and a committee is
raising an added $300,000.”
The additional money will fund construction of
the facility. Three fund raisers have been planned
for the Bryan-College Station community.
Major Donors is a program for those donat
ing between $5,000 and $10,000. Major Donors
participants will have a room in the library
named in their honor. Philanthropists donating
between $500 and $600 can have study desks
and tables named in their honor.
Brick Pavers donations range from $50 to
$500, with the size of the brick used and
amount of text placed on it varying with the
size of the donation. The donor can put their
name, their company’s name or a dedication
on the brick.
The final fund raiser, Handprint Tree, will be
a wall mural in the children’s area of the library.
The mural is made of six inch tiles with a tree and
story book characters on it. The leaves are the
children’s handprints, outlined and colored. The
handprints cost $250 for the first child from a
family and $200 for each additional child.
Groups are encouraged to attend the March
2 ground breaking at the library site on FM 2818
across from College Station High School, be
tween Welsh and Rio Grande.
Larry Ringer, chair of the Library Services Task
Force and a statistics professor, said the library
is currently taking donations.
“Anyone can donate and everyone is welcome
to the Ground Breaking,” he said. “Anyone inter
ested can call Charlie Shear at City Hall or come
by my office in Blocker 447.”
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The College Station Police
Department enacted the Occu
pant Protection Selective Traffic
Enforcement Program (OP-
Step), a program which pro
motes enforcement of safety
belt and child restraint viola
tions, on Jan. 18.
Sergeant Gregory R. Lewis of the
College Station Police Department
said die program encourages
stricter enforcement of safety belt
and child restraint violations by
helping police departments to pay
officers overtime. •
“This is a program in which
federal highway traffic safety
funds administered through
the Texas Department of Trans
portation and [those] equally
matched by the city, are used to
pay officers on an overtime ba
sis for additional enforcement
time,” Lewis said.
In 1987, the state of Texas
passed a safety belt Mandatory
Use Law. Since then, safety belt
usage in Texas has approached
nationwide highs.
“In 1995, accordingto the Texas
Transportation Institute (TTT), the
percent of restrained drivers in 18
Texas cities was approximately
78.7percent,” Lewis said.
Child restraint usage has not
been so high. In 1984, the state
passed a child passenger restraint
law, which requires restraints for
all children under four.
“According to TTI, the
statewide usage rate in 1995 for
this age group was 58.5 per
cent,” Lewis said.
The College Station Police
Department’s goal is to in
crease the amount of occupant
protection citations issued
during the last fiscal year by
259 percent by Sep. 30.
Lt. Scott McCollum of the
College Station Police Depart
ment said this is only a project
ed percentage.
“In the long run, we strive to at
tain a certain level of usage rather
than citations issued,” McCollum
said. “We have to enforce it so [it
will be] constantly on people’s
minds...Our overall goal is to keep
people safe.”
McCollum said because in
dividual police departments
have limited resources, they do
not have enough manpower to
deal with specialized crimes.
Therefore, local law enforce
ment departments compete
vigorously for state grants,
which allow them to enforce
the law more thoroughly in
some areas.
ouse rejects flag proposal
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The
epublican-dominated Flouse
urned on GOP Gov. David Beasley
Tats said he fe 'h ursc } a y ( spurning his call to re-
lome in Colie! Confederate flag from
lion, andcredi hegtatehouse dome.
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lot an Aggie, Ik ) em ocrats, voted to kill the gover-
eel they have; )or ’ s p r0 p Osa l 72-45. The House
le of their owi unvoted 85-32 to let citizens de-
:ide the flag’s fate in a special elec-
ion in November.
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uo,” said Republican Rep. Jeff
bung, who once supported
easley’s proposal but switched to
e voter referendum.
Republicans fought Beasley from
ie beginning of his campaign to
ove the flag from the top of the
atehouse to a Confederate monu-
ent on Statehouse grounds. Beasley
id he thought the House, normally
is ally, would come around.
But after a key committee voted
own his plan Wednesday and en-
orsed the referendum, Beasley
gnaled for the first time that he
ight accept a public vote. Still, he
worried that a referendum could
worsen race relations.
“This ends the first inning of a
nine-inning ballgame,” Beasley
said. “The end of this year’s legisla
tive session is a long way away.”
The Legislature raised the flag in
1962 to honor the Civil War’s cen
tennial, and then never took it
down. Critics say it is racially divi
sive and a symbol of slavery; sup
porters say it honors Civil War dead
and is part of the state’s heritage.
Beasley has said the flag has
been misused and called for mov
ing it to heal racial tensions in South
Carolina, the last state where it still
flies over the capitol.
The referendum, as approved by
the House, would let voters decide
whether the flag should stay up or
come down and not where it should
go if it does come down.
Beasley said Wednesday that
he could only support a referen
dum that included his proposal as
an option.
The governor said he would look
for support in the Democrat-con
trolled Senate, which should get the
bill next week. Senate Majority
Leader John Land said his colleagues
will seek to resurrect Beasley’s pro
posal, assuring a reprise of Thurs
day’s daylong debate.
That debate had none of the
racial stereotypes that colored
Wednesday's House Judiciary
Committee hearing, where Re
publican Rep. John Altman said
blacks should stop shooting each
other and having illegitimate chil
dren before attacking symbols
like the flag.
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Dispute surrounds proposed
Northgate area construction
By Joey Schlueter
The Battalion
Northgate will have a different
face when renovations approved
by the College Station City Coun
cil are completed, amidst a bar
rage of complaints from local
businesses.
The renovation plan, with a
sticker price of about $500,000,
includes improving Northgate’s
appearance and encouraging
more pedestrian traffic through
the area. However, some busi
nesses on Northgate disagree
with the plan, saying it would hurt
business and even cause some to
close down.
College Station City Council
man Brad Martin said the focus of
the project is to close Patricia
Street and build a promenade for
pedestrians. All parking behind
the Northgate strip also would be
eliminated. Future plans might
call for development of a conven
tion center in the area.
Martin said he is concerned
about the plan.
“My main concern about the
Northgate plan is that it calls for
the city initializing development
which may negatively affect exist
ing businesses,” he said. “My goal
is to inform the student body as to
what the city’s plans are for
Northgate and to give them a
chance to voice their opinion.”
The completion of the George
Bush Library is expected to attract
200,000 visitors each year.
Todd McDaniels, coordinator
of the Northgate project, said
those visitors will want to see oth
er parts of College Station, and
the new Northgate will give them
a nice place to go.
The Northgate area includes
land from South College to Well
born Road and University Drive
to the College Station city limits.
Businesses offering cleaning,
computers, food and music make
their home on Northgate. Patrons
of the area also will find boot
makers and bookstores.
Business owners in Northgate
want more parking. To make
room for additional parking, the
city condemned the building
which houses Burger Boy, sched
uled to be demolished in May.
The Northgate plan originally
called for the an additional 250
parking spaces in the area. The
adjustment is now 116 spaces, 10
more than the current number.
Some of the Northgate busi
nesses have been there many
years. Don Canter, owner of the
Dixie Chicken, has been at North-
gate for 22 years. He said he op
poses the Northgate plan and be
lieves the proposed parking
solution is insufficient.
“It is 1997,” Canter said. “Al
most every student today is so
phisticated and has a set of
wheels. Students want to park
near the place they are going.
With this ludicrous plan, they
can’t do that.”
Ann Masters, a sophomore an
imal science major, said renova
tion is necessary, but she does not
want to, see businesses in the area
suffer from it.
“Students go to Northgate be
cause it is a neat place,” Masters said.
“The Chicken, Shadow Canyon, well,
it is a great social atmosphere.”
Allison Davis, a junior architec
ture major, said that except for the
lack of consideration for parking,
the Northgate plan is a good idea.
“As a driver,” Davis said, “I pre
fer there to be more parking in
Northgate.”
In addition to the promenade,
“My main concern
about the Northgate
plan is that it calls for
the city initializing
development which
may negatively affect
existing businesses ”
Brad Martin
College Station
City Councilman
a new restaurant and bar chain,
Texadelphia, will join Northgate.
It will be located in the building
formerly housing Kinko’s and
Chicken Basket.
Kinko’s relocated, but George
Sopasakis, owner of Chicken Bas
ket, decided to close down.
Sopasakis, who also owns
Burger Boy, said he has no prob
lem with a facelift for Northgate,
but the sacrifices his and other
businesses must make is wrong.
Sopasakis has lost two other busi
nesses in Northgate and fears he
is being pushed out.
“ [The City Council] tried to move
too quickly without looking at the
consequences,” Sopasakis said.
“They promised to help me relocate
and pay relocation expenses, but
they have not done so.”
Because his business accom
modates pedestrians and bicy
cles, Sopasakis said he expects to
relocate in the same area to fulfill
his accommodations.
Bernie Gessner, owner of Aggie
Cleaners, said he cannot get a
straight answer from the city about
the Northgate renovation plans.
“They say they want to hear
our opinion, but they ignore it,”
Gessner said.
Gessner questions research on
where customer and supply deliv
ery vehicles will park when Patri
cia Street becomes a promenade.
McDaniels said controversy is to
be expected with new developments.
“With any development there
will be ones for and against it,”
McDaniels said. “Our goal is to
have a place for special activities
and events and a nice place for
the students to go.”
At 3 p.m. Thursday in City Hall
council chambers, the College Sta
tion City Council held a workshop
to discuss the Northgate plan more
thoroughly. Many citizens came to
voice their opinion in hopes to re
vise the plan; however, Martin said
the mayor reminded them that the
plan would not change.
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