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NEWS
Friday, September 15,20
THE BATTALION
CS City Council approves
parking meter purchase
Friday. Septenih
Te
By Cyra Gatling
The Battalion
The purchasing of elec
tronic parking meters was
approved at the College
Station City Council meet
ing Thursday. MacKay
Parking Meters will be re
sponsible for the installa
tion, which will cost
$71,135. Funding for the
meters will come from the
Northgate Parking Fund.
In other news, the city
council approved an ad
valorem, in proportion to
the value, tax rate. The rate
will change to $0.4293 per
$100 valuation.
The tax rate must be
adopted by Sept. 30; the
council is scheduled to
meet on Sept. 28 to consid
er adopting the tax rate.
The council increased
the city of College Station
1999-2000 budget by
$5,944,219. The Business
Park II land acquisition of
$4,000,000; freeman prop
erty acquisition of
$1,600,000; the internal
service fund of $107,260;
the utility funds of
$216,959; and the court
technology and court secu
rity fund of $20,000, were
added to the budget.
The city council also
approved an ordinance that
will rezone land located at
200 Greens Prairie Road.
The 46.46 acres of land.
which were originally gen
eral commercial, are now
single-family residential.
The rezoning created
some controversy because
a resident in the Pebble
Creek neighborhood was
concerned that adding an
other neighborhood would
decrease the value of the
Pebble Creek area.
The resident said Peb
ble Creek residents have
invested effort in the area
and that he does not think
another neighborhood that
is not of equal quality
should be added.
Councilman Dennis
Maloney reminded the
council that it was not there
to discuss the planning of
the area, but to decide on
the zoning.
He also said that if the
land was going to be de
veloped, he would prefei
to see a residential devel
opment than a commercia
development.
The council require
that a fence, which wil:
surround the area, be
added to the rezoningont
nance before it approved
unanimously.
Additionally, the coun
cil approved changing die
intersection at Rock Prairie
Road and Longmire Drive
from a two-way stopioa
temporary four-way
until a traffic signal can be
installed.
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door to more understanding for men
tally impaired actors, adding that
many television directors were re
luctant to cast mentally impaired ac
tors because they feared that the ac
tors would forget their lines or that
they would not be able to come to
work for medical reasons.
“Chris never had to slow down
production for medical reasons or be
cause he had forgotten his lines,'’
John DeMasi said.
Students from the Bryan-College
Station area and beyond the Brazos
County attended the concert. Sever
al members of the audience were
brought onto the stage by the trio to
sing along with the songs.
Burke said that it is important that
the audience believe in themselves.
“Work hard and take care of each
other, and have self-determination,”
Burke said, adding that peopl;
should be “known for their abilitse
not their disabilities.”
When the group left the stage
Janie Velasquez, director of vote
teer services and public informal
for MHMR. presented the trio wit
A&M caps.
Gov. George W. Bush (led
September 2(H)() Destination Digit::
Month to increase a wan: ness aba
the contributions people with disaf
ities have made in their communitie
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time, and the time frame necessary to
get electricity and wiring to the clocks.
“Texas A&M is a true family,”
Hanselka said. “Our class year signi
fies a united spirit we all feel. Each
person is proud to wear their class
ring, and as a former student now, it
gives me great pride to say that 1 am
a part of this family.”
The clocks will be installed by
June 2001, Hanselka said.
“Giving something larger than
yourself is a consistent theme here at
Texas A&M,” Hanselka said. “Class
gifts are one avenue that each individ
ual has the opportunity to contribute,
giving back to this University.”
Class of ’00 historian Summer
Harbert visited a university in
Washington, D.C., and noticed
clocks around the campus. She
brought the idea back to the class
council, and class gift chairwoman
Stacy Hargrave lead the committee
in choosing the gifts that would be
placed on the spring ballot.
Students are able to say tfc:
have left their mark by purchaw.
class merchandise and attending^
events each class hosts, sa::
Hanselka.
Profit earned from each fund-rt
ing project — from sellingT-shim
admission to special events—wes
into a fund labeled specificallyri
the class gift.
“Tm looking forward totheof
portunity I'll have to bring my
ly back and show them proudly^
our class gave to the University
Hanselka said.
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AUSTIN (AP) — Texas leads the
nation in alcohol-related traffic
deaths and will lose $96 million in
federal highway construction funds
over the next two years because state
law is not tough enough on drunken
drivers, a state official says.
Mark Cross, a spokesman for the
Texas Department of Transportation,
said federal law requires the state to
divert the money from construction
to traffic-safety efforts because Texas
does not ban open containers of al
cohol in vehicles or automatically jail
repeat drunken drivers.
“It’s money that we would have
used for construction and traffic con
gestion and mobility” projects, Cross
told The Dallas Morning News in
Thursday’s editions.
State Rep. Fred Hill, R-Riehard-
son, who has tried five times to pass
legislation banning open containers
in vehicles, said he would try again
when the Legislature convenes in
January. But it will not be easy to
overcome what he called traditional
opposition from the liquor industry
and from lawyers who defend people
charged in drunken driving.
“We have an element in the Leg
islature that thinks it is an inalienable
right of a Texan to drink a beer on the
way home from work and throw the
empty can in the back of a pickup
truck,” Hill said. “Every time the
Texas Legislature fails to pass this,
people die.”
Fifteen other states also will lose
some of their federal highway con
struction funds by Oct. 1 under a
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Every time the
Texas Legislature
fails to pass this,
people die”
1998 federal law that holds backti
money unless states strongly
people who are convicted of drunk
driving more than once.
Texas will lose the most,
er, at $48 million a year and thefc
eral penalty soon will escalatetoS 1
million a year. Hill said.
Instead of road construction,t
money can still be used for rot
safety projects such as widenii
intersections.
' “It doesn’t mean the money w.
go to the state of Texas,” Hill said
means that we will be capableoD
veloping the best billboard ca
against drunk driving in the worldi said. “Their
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of getting drunk drivers off the
Texas leads the nation in alcokfj
related traffic deaths.
In 1999, Texas had 1,734 alcol
related traffic fatalities, about haft
all driving deaths in the state
year, according to figures fromf
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