We're the Wellborigines

Welcome to the Wellborigines blog. I am a Wellborigine, meaning I live in Wellborn, Texas. We are an old community and have been working for nearly two years to become an incorporated community. On the mybcs forums, someone called us the Wellborigines and it has a nice ring to it, sort of like the original peoples from Wellborn.

We're located adjacent to College Station, Texas, hometown of Texas A&M University. Unfortunately, the city council in CS refuses to let us officially incorporate and their reasons are extremely lame. You can read it all here, but I'll be going through the items that they say will 'harm' College Station. Now, I'm not paranoid, but I'll also cut and paste the words separately.

The crux of the matter is that we are asking to be allowed to vote (yup, that good ole American right) on whether the residents of Wellborn would like to incorporate our town. Our land lies outside the city limits of College Station. We have been good neighbors and have maintained our composure.

Until last night.

Over a dozen of us spoke at the meeting, our visitor's 'three minutes' worth. Then we sat through the rest of the meeting, waiting for council to agree to put our request on their agenda. Wow. What a vociferous reaction. One would think we had cooties or were of the wrong caste.

So, now it's game on. I guess they felt alright last night and slept well. Heck, maybe they think it's ok to disenfranchise other Americans who are only asking to manage the land that they already own! We don't want anything from them, and they have said publicly that they have no intentions of annexing Wellborn anytime soon. So. Well.

This council has a history of not listening to the actual citizens. A few months ago, the citizens got together a petition to get rid of the 'red light cameras' which issue tickets through the mail to those who are caught running a red light. A lot of folks saw this as just way too Big Brother. Despite the public outcry, they poo-pooed the petitioners, trying to find any minute flaw. Well, it had to go all the way to the general election before they were forced to undo the cameras. Jeesh.