CITY DEEDS TRACT TO BRENHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT

  

The Fireman’s Training Center has a little more property for future expansion if they need it.  Brenham City Council approved deeding the Brenham Fire Department a ¾ acre tract of land at the corner of Industrial Blvd. and Highway 290.  The property was donated to the city in 1983 by John Garnett at the same time that he donated 4 acres to the Brenham Fire Department for the Training Center.  The property is often used as an unpaved parking lot for overflow parking behind the Training Center.

Brenham Fire Chief Ricky Boeker said that it was probably donated to become a future fire station, but is really too small of a lot.  The deed will contain a clause that if the property ceases to be used for a public purpose, the ownership of it reverts back to the city.  Boeker said the department is currently looking at expanding the Training Center slightly.  They would like to make the bathrooms ADA compliant and expand front of the building to the south.  The initial estimates for that expansion came back much higher than the department expected, so the plans are on hold for now.