ROBERTS: TWO PROJECTS SHOULD BE ON SCHEDULE
Brenham city officials say a pair of high-profile projects are on-schedule and expected to be ready in coming months.
City Manager Terry Roberts tells the weekend edition of the Brenham Banner Press that construction of the new animal shelter and the expansion of the Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial Library are, for the most part,on-schedule, but remain at the mercy of the weather.
Roberts says the animal shelter should be completed within several weeks of its target date of April 16th.
The $2.7-million new animal shelter is going up next to the Brenham Police Station on Longwood Drive, and is expected to be twice the size of the old facility.
Roberts says the $3.6-million library project should be finished sometime in early fall, after an initial delay due to roofing materials.
Is time for Terry Roberts to retire and take the majority of the city council with him.
It is so very unfortunate that the new library construction has had the lackluster of the planning department to coordinate the new construction and to create a better more functional intersection at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Austin Parkway. Whenever I drive through the intersection and see the new construction that was approved by the city manager I see a lost opportunity to improve the intersection with future left hand turn and right turn lane improvements. City Manager should realize that when you spend $3.6 million dollars on a public building improvement like this all public aspects need to be considered. Nevertheless, I hope a crosswalk is put in at the corner of the library. That is not there even now.