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Ullli Wednesday • April 25,1 Austin’s new airport, right on schedi AUSTIN (AP) — Construction of Austin’s new, $690 million air port is on time a year before the first passenger flights are sched uled to arrive. “One year out is like in basketball — this is crunch time, and our goal is not to go into overtime,” city avia tion director Charles Gates said. The city is building the new airport at the site of the former Bergstrom Air Force Base be cause air traffic has outgrown Robert Mueller Airport, located near downtown. The first flights are scheduled to arrive on April 24, 1999. Flights will depart for the first time the following day. “It’s . really nice when you plan the work, and it works like you plan,” air port project di rector John Al mond said. Almond, however, is not ready to celebrate. “If is really nice when you plan the work and it works like you plan.” John Almond Airport project director There have been humps along the way. The ini tial budget in creased several times, mostly to reflect soaring passenger traffic. Airport plan ners had forecast traffic would in crease about 4.5 percent annually between 1991 and 2002. But traffic at Mueller air port grew at a higher rate in recent years — sometimes as® percent a year. And when theCity&j cided in 1996 to rebidi because the low bid was® and there were concerns bidding process,itdelass inal opening date by six The terminal is ex) substantially completek the year, but the parkinf road to the terminals] ready until near opening " Let’sj ust say there'sa that has to be done.'Ali liny House subcommittee gives answers on college co AUSTIN (AP) — A recent national study said parents rank paying for college as their second greatest fear in raising a child behind only losing a son or daughter to kidnapping or violent crime. A House subcommittee examining the soaring costs of higher education was reminded of that Tuesday as it listened to testimony from education experts and economists about how to keep costs down for students. An official with the Texas Higher Education Co ordinating Board told the committee that the cost of an education at a public university in Texas near ly tripled from 1986 to 1996. The cost has been steadily shifting from the state to the student, and the average cost of an education at a public uni versity in Texas is $ 10,481 wliile a private school av erages $15,908 per year. Outside of the unlikely possibility of creating a state personal income tax or raising the sales tax to bolster the state’s share of funding college educations, the committee got few recommen dations that will have any immediate impact on the situation. “Money is always going to be tight,” said Rep. Jim Solis, D-Harlingen, chairman of the subcom mittee. “ But I think we can do some things to make sure the money we are spending is spent wisely and that a college education is looked at more as an investment than a cost.” The subcommittee will make recommenda tions to the House Higher Education Committee in anticipation of the 1999 Legislature. Bennat Mullen, a professor at Stephen E Austin University, said studies he has conducted show the state is doing a poor job of accounting for how uni versities are spending students’ tuition and fees. He recommended the Legislature require col leges and universities to disclose in detail how much of student fees and tuition are actually be ing spent on a student’s education. Hesaid s(>mc m In><>ls t-xcludi!!; I ANM and Texas Tech, which haveathlej; ments that pay for themselves—maybfa dent fees for other purposes, su 1 ivc arc going to meet theneeds j there needs to be a greater emphasis i mics,” Mullen said. 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