CITY COUNCIL APPROVES PLACEMENT OF STOP SIGNS

  

 

The Brenham City Council  met Thursday afternoon to pass an ordinance for placement of a stop sign on Becker Drive at South Market St., and for a stop sign on South Chappell Hill Street at U.S Highway 290.

The new section of Chappell Hill Street on the south side of US Highway 290 E requires a stop sign to regulate the traffic traveling north on the new section. Traffic on the 290 frontage road will not have a stop sign.

The signal at Becker Drive and South Market Street will be removed and the stop sign will be placed. The traffic on South Market will not have a stop sign or signal at Becker, and this new stop sign will not be installed until the new signal is operational.

The Council  also approved on its First Reading a Rate Tariff Schedule for the City of Brenham Collection Station rates.

Dane Rau, of the City of Brenham cites the reasons for the increase is mostly in their commercial rates for brush. The rates currently being charged are not keeping up with expenses. Grinding cost have also risen.

The rate for commercial brush disposal will go from $15.00 to $22.00 a ton. This will include brush for some users as contractors.

There will be a charge of $17.50 a ton for any brush presented that is less than a ton.

Also cited as a reason for the increase in that the grinder trucks are twelve years old, and Rau says they will need to be replaced in the next two years, also citing the cost of labor is far surpassing the fees brought in to do the service.

Dane also cited a change in the fee charged for tire disposal. For regular passenger cars, the cost will go up from $2.00 to $3.00, for vehicles with 16” tires, they charge will go up from $5.00 to $7.50, and for large commercial vehicles of 49” or larger, the price will increase from $35.00 to $45.00.

Also discussed during the consent agenda was the amending of Chapter 12, Health and Sanitation Article III concerning Junked Vehicles in the City of Brenham.

The definition of a "Junk Vehicle” is a motor vehicle, aircraft or watercraft as defined in the Texas Transportation Code, and the City will consider it junked if it displays an expired license plate or does not display a license plate. If the registration sticker is more than 30 days overdue, or is inoperable for 72 hours on public property and 30 days on private property.

During the scheduled work session, the Council saw a presentation and discussed a topic concerning parklets in the downtown area.

Parklets are public seating platforms that convert curbside parking spaces so that the grade of the sidewalk gets carried out into the parking lane. If approved, the downtown area in front of the business would lose approximately three parking spaces, which many believe are at a premium. The designs are based on other cities who have made use of parklets such as San Francisco and the Riverwalk in San Antonio. (See separate story on this tomorrow).

Chief Financial Officer Carolyn D. Miller told the City Council that the City of Brenham has won the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for the sixth year in a row. The City was first awarded this honor in 1996, and then again in October 1, 2008, and then the subsequent five fiscal budgets. Kaci Konieczny, the city’s budget manager, prepared the budget document.

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Mayor Milton Tate presents Chief Financial Officer Carolyn D Miller the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award. The City has received this honor for six years in a row.

 

Also recognized during the meeting was Motorcycle Awareness Month, and City Manager Terry Roberts announced that the southside bridge in Jackson Street Park would be rebuilt by the LCRA around April 24th.

MOTORCYCLE AWARENESS
Mayor Milton Tate proclaims April as Motorcycle Awareness Month

 

 

 

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  1. If were going to waist parking. Instead of seating we need to set up about 4 areas, 2 lower & 2 upper side of courthouse on main & Alamo for deliveries This is a major pain & dangerous safety issue that needs to be addressed Cars are forced into one lane to get by, drivers turning on from side streets are blocked from seeing oncoming traffic
    Deliveries trucks to general, public vehicles & city vehicles have no problem parking directly under a no parking sign just so they don’t have to take a few extra steps Especially at height traffic times at lunch 11:00-1:00 & 4:00-6:00 when a lot of folks pass through town

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