BRENHAM CITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS PLACEMENT OF NEW STOP SIGNS
The Brenham City Council will discuss placing stop signs at the intersections of Key and West Chauncy Streets as well as Key and West Mansfield Streets at their meeting today (Thursday).
The council will also discuss authorizing the placement of a retired F-111 Military Aircraft in a City of Brenham park and re-adopting the guidelines and criteria for granting tax phase-in in a reinvestment zone created in the City of Brenham.
Finally, the council will discuss a recommendation for an appointment to the Main Street Board.
The Brenham City Council meets this afternoon (Thursday) at 4pm on the second floor of City Hall located on west Vulcan Street.
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I am very excited to hear that they are finally talking about putting a stop sign on the corner of Key and Chauncy I have seen multiple wrecks there over the years. That one has been needed for a while.
Wow!! Have you all missed the point on the freezing of taxes for the elderly. Many of these elderly people are holding on to land that has been in their families for over a hundred years and they would like to leave it to their kids and grand kids one day. But this is getting harder and harder to do because the people that work in Houston and make three or four times the amount of the people here are buying property and putting million dollar homes on them and the taxes keep going up and up. My mother worked hard her whole life as a state employee. After losing my father and having two children at home and two in college, there was little to put aside for retirement. She now lives comfortably but still on a fixed budget and if her taxes were not frozen, she would be unable to keep the land that she loves and has been in her family.
As for the stop signs, I think putting them at every intersection because people do not obey the speed limit signs is ridiculous. I have been driving for over 30 years and often drive down Day Street past Charles Lewis, and within all these years, I have only seen one vehicle on Charles Lewis waiting to get onto Day street and yet here we have stop signs. Same goes for the ones on Day Street and College Avenue-what a waste!
Perhaps a new city manager is needed, but the assistant city manager is being groomed by the now city manager and will have is same thoughts and reactions to problems.
I have not missed the point on freezing taxes for the elderly as it pertains to school taxes, which is mentioned below. We are talking about city taxes in this case and there is no reason at all why seniors should get special treatment that is different than the rest of us. My taxes are effected in the same manner as my elderly neighbor when values rise, why should I pay more in CITY taxes for a home of similar value. Sorry, it is not right or fair. It is great they want to hold on to their land for future generations, but they should have planned for those expenses during their working years, or ask their heirs who will one day own these valuable assets to help with the cost. What is not right is to ask me to subsidize another families ability to retain land by making me pay more than that family for an asset of similar value. There is no possible way you can make a logical case for that.
County Resident I agree with you. The added stop signs just proves that there are not traffic educated people at the city making these decisions. Additionally, these uneducated decisions have been made on Old Mill Creek Road too. I drive this road everyday to and from Pecan Glenn. The uneducated have allowed city property be sold abutting Old Mill Creek Road and this road will remain the two lane cow trail that it is today. Then the unqualified city employees allowed a variance for a four story dorm on Old Mill Creek Road for 400+ students. All of the above decisions show that even with four city managers that no one up there is qualified when it comes to traffic control.
I expect to pay my fair share for the rest of my life…and anyone that thinks they deserve a reduced rate or free ride is dooming our country because we already have more takers than payers….Big government to blame. As for stop signs, I hope this in not another scheme that the county pulled in Bluebonnet Hills in which they put out a notice over the holiday, had a meeting the first week of the year, and the sign went up in less than a week at the absolute stupidest places in the subdivision. So rather than installing more speed limit signage in the subdivision to remind passing through traffic of the limit (which has been asked for years), we have created awkward intersection to supposedly slow the speeds around certain homeowners. All this has done is create more frustration with our county officials and directors…while wasting more tax dollars that should have be put towards repairing the road particularly in the back of the subdivision. Definitely the misplaced priorities of a few that have failed the many.
Yes, working taxpayers. Key word being working, able bodied to do so, not fixed income , and occasional wage increases. One day the shoe will be on your foot, your expenses will go up year after year just as it is now, but no possibility of increased income! You will change your tune. If you want fair taxation, how about the 12 acre weekend ‘farms”, with a $300, 000 home, with 4 cows and a 50 % tax break! And stop voting for the politicians that take care of their wealthy donors.
Once again I am not sure why you believe age should be a factor in the amount of taxes you pay. Your failure to properly plan and budget for your retirement is not an expense the rest of us should be expected to pay. It is reasonable to assume your costs would go up with time and you should have anticipated that in your retirement planning.
And here is a newsflash for you, working people for the most part are also on a fixed income with occasional increases that are largely taken away by our increasing health care costs. As I mentioned below, the retirement benefits that many seniors enjoy today have been taken away and will not be available to those of us who are not retired. Pensions are almost completely gone (unless you are a government employee), annuities are available only if they are funded by the employee, and 401k matches have not increased for most companies in many years. On average we will have to work several years longer than those currently retired had to, have to save for our retirement with a higher percentage of our earned income, and will most likely be forced to work part time jobs until we become physically unable to do so. Those currently in retirement today have a much better situation than those of us who have not yet reached that milestone can expect in the future.
You are not ENTITLED to tax breaks because you are old. In fact, it is probably safe to say that you many of your generation consume more government funded services than those of us who are working. I could even make an argument you should pay more. Enough with this warped view of fairness, fairness is when everyone pays an equal amount based upon their earnings, values, and assets. Deciding someone’s tax rate should be less because they earn less, they are old, or they fall into some other special interest group is unfair and wrong. The person posting speaks of wealthy donors to politicians, but ignore the huge impact special groups like AARP and other also have on the process. People you perceive to be wealthy are not the only ones able to influence the process. Sorry if that hurts, but it is time we starting speaking some truth.
Stop signs, stop signs, equals….Dollar signs dollar signs. Just face it citizens of Brenham. The management of our city has and obviously is still convincing the elected puppets that the stop signs are necessary to generate money in the form of traffic violations. All of these intersections have existed since the invention of the automobile without a stop sign. The money is needed to support the multi-management positions in our city and multi-directors. Ever since the city moved into their home in the old bank building the city appears to have doubled in high paying positions. The office space was there and our city manager has filled it all up. I challenge any college student to do the research. Population growth 20% and management growth 300%.
Has the council considered installing stop lights or additional stop signs at the busy, often dangerous, crossing between CVS and Walgreen’s on Day Street? Speaking for many motorists, I suggest safeguards be implemented at site.
If council can come up with the funds for an aircraft display of $50,000 plus, and liability insurance premiums for same, then the city has too many tax dollars to spend. Improve some city streets, like North Dixie Street, put in curbs and gutters on many city streets, find a way to give us better quality water, and the list goes on. Infrastructure please, cut the frills, roll back taxes on seniors.
I agree. As well, an aircraft that size has a very large footprint on the ground — which park will it crowd?
Why in the world should a senior pay less in city taxes than the rest of us. I can understand some reductions in school taxes but CITY taxes! Sorry, but I don’t get it. Seniors use the same amount of city services as the rest of us. Since when should age be a factor in the amount of taxes one pays for city services. I am getting sick of people who feel they deserve special treatment because of their age, race, income status, or whatever else they come with. I work hard for my money and I should not pay more because an am not quite classified as a senior. The sad fact is that seniors today have it much better than I will when I reach that age. Pensions are being done away with and retirement plans are getting less funding which means more of my retirement needs have to be dealt with out of my current income and now senior taxpayer wants me to take even more of my income and give to the city because he/she thinks age should be a factor. So again, explain to me why seniors deserve special treatment for city taxes.
amen…unhappy taxpayer……..
I am just tired of everyone thinking they deserve something or should be entitled to something, It is not other taxpayers fault one does not plan for retirement.
Furthermore, what is wrong with having the Jet, maybe it will allow some people to understand a little history. They will just waste the money on something else, at least we have something to show for it.
The city is installing all of the stop signs to raise revenue so none of us have to pay more taxes.
stop stupid – not cars
common sense has left the city municipal building
city council and mayor and city manager, and three assistant city managers have approved more stop signs on and in the old neighborhoods in the past two years than ever before. I don’t get it. these neighborhoods have been there for over fifty years and have done just fine. obviously, the old common sense that did not require the stop signs has left city hall. unfortunately, I don’t see it coming back soon.
Three assistant city managers?? Are you kidding me?? This is Brenham, not Houston!! How many tax dollars are being wasted on these high paying, unneeded positions??