Whoever gets the 10 minute presentation, include a PowerPoint presentation that includes these facts and others. You need to leave the council members w a visual. I know for a fact that the City Manger and his staff only tell the Mayor and Council members what they want them to know to further advance their agenda.

Another community group fought COCS and hit back w speakers at every council meeting for a year and a half. The speakers were organized and given topics so the same thing wasn't stated over and over again. That group didn't start catching the Council's eyes until they presented the facts (that directly disputed what the staff was presenting to the Council members) through PowerPoint presentations.

Also, unless they change the speakers protocol within the past year, it used to be that 5 (not 10) people could assign their time for a 10 minute speaker.

tu ag said:

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Councilman William Wright offers his opinion...and (surprise) it is the same as the mayor's.
https://wtaw.com/college-station-councilman-william-wright-on-wtaw/

"If I was on council I would have gone the way the mayor did. I think its a strategic piece of the puzzle."
"With the city's investment there, whether that's a building or a greenspace, I think that you can steer development the way that you want it to, right. Whatever was going to go there, I think that we are a player now in making sure that area looks the way we want it to look in 20 to 50 years."

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A green space? What they are going to raze Macy's and the parking lot now?

"Councilman's Corner with David White"

I received a notice today that Councilman David White is going to host a Q&A session on March 19th at 7:00 PM at the Pebble Creek Country Club.

All are welcome to attend!

MeKnowNot said:

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"Councilman's Corner with David White"

I received a notice today that Councilman David White is going to host a Q&A session on March 19th at 7:00 PM at the Pebble Creek Country Club.

All are welcome to attend!

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A good man working hard to get it right for his city.

Respectfully

Yancy

tu ag said:

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Councilman William Wright offers his opinion...and (surprise) it is the same as the mayor's.
https://wtaw.com/college-station-councilman-william-wright-on-wtaw/

"If I was on council I would have gone the way the mayor did. I think its a strategic piece of the puzzle."
"With the city's investment there, whether that's a building or a greenspace, I think that you can steer development the way that you want it to, right. Whatever was going to go there, I think that we are a player now in making sure that area looks the way we want it to look in 20 to 50 years."

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I will not vote for this man due to this and his vote for the high rises in Northgate. It's either questionable judgement or complicit behavior.

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tu ag said:

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Councilman William Wright offers his opinion...and (surprise) it is the same as the mayor's.
https://wtaw.com/college-station-councilman-william-wright-on-wtaw/

"If I was on council I would have gone the way the mayor did. I think its a strategic piece of the puzzle."
"With the city's investment there, whether that's a building or a greenspace, I think that you can steer development the way that you want it to, right. Whatever was going to go there, I think that we are a player now in making sure that area looks the way we want it to look in 20 to 50 years."

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A green space? What they are going to raze Macy's and the parking lot now?

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Within a properties existing zoning, the city officials should have no input into "steering development the way they want" of private property.

The city is a "player" now only due to the city manager and the council at that time being inept.

A little over-reach on local government?

I think it's important to remember that Councilman Wright works a full week every week and also gives a tremendous amount of time to our city in the spirit of a true volunteer. We don't agree on everything and we don't have to, but we do agree that we live in a great city.

I'm violating my own policy of not commenting on threads where colleagues are criticized because I think you guys are being pretty rough on here.

My research may never be done on Macys completely but I've learned a lot and next week I'll know more and may make an update. For now I can say with certitude- bad information and a lack of information plagued council's decision to buy it.

I've learned a lot I might've never known but for Texags and some of the people on it. It's truly a new media world. I suppose it's too much to ask to focus on the facts and pare down the attacks, but I'm asking anyway.

Respectfully

Yancy '95

This thread has been mostly facts. The few opinions offered have been taken care of by staff.

Your fellow councilman gave his opinion, albeit one most on here disagree with. He wants to control an area of town. He thinks it was a good idea to buy the old Macy's. I think those are terrible opinions. That is a fact.

The people being paid to determine if that information was good/sufficient failed the city.

And, I think based on the timing of the emails, withheld some information that might've pushed council the other way.

I'd like to go just to see Mayor and Wrong reactions.

Craig Regan 14 said:

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For those that wished to address council directly about this.

The next full council meeting agenda has yet to be posted. There was a meeting at 10am this morning

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This. Get involved, folks!

Let them know people are unhappy about wasting our tax money!

FYI for those planning to speak about Macys at this weeks meeting...if you haven't taken a look at the agenda yet, they are getting the Feasibility Study reports back on the Rec Center and Conference Center on the workshop agenda.

Some of yall may want to stick around for that!

It's about time that people who couldn't survive in the private sector, stay the hell out of it. I for one am tired of watching politicos with zero real world experience swinging and missing with my tax dollars.

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"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

Plato

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"There are terrible people who, instead of solving a problem, bungle it and make it more difficult for all who come after. Whoever can't hit the nail on the head should never have the hammer."

Friedrich Nietzsche

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EVERYONE

Please REMEMBER

If we wish to be heard on this we need at least 5 people to show up to council on:

Thursday 2.27.24 at 6pm

Forums like this are great but showing up in person is BETTER!

DM me if you need to talk offline

[Stop derailing the thread. -Staff]

EliteElectric said:

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ok so I have not been to a council meeting since the CoCS built the new Taj-ma-City-Hall, are the meetings in that facility? And if they are is it easy for a fat old man to find?

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Yes, they're right smack dab in the middle of the first floor. You can't miss it.

It's ridiculous that people in the ETJ can't speak at a council meeting, but the city can control what happens in the ETJ to some extent.

Ask the residents of Wellborn how that worked out for them.

maroon barchetta said:

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It's ridiculous that people in the ETJ can't speak at a council meeting, but the city can control what happens in the ETJ to some extent.

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Are you sure this is the case? Nothing in the guidelines state this (that i can find) and I would swear I have heard folks in "Hear Visitors" from Bryan, etc

Pretty sure you can lump in with Craig's group. I don't think they are policing it very heavily.