The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents holds its last regular meeting of 2026 on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 11 and 12, in College Station, with repairs to three aging residence halls, a new water well at the RELLIS Campus in Bryan and new coaching contracts among the items up for a vote.
When and where
The board convenes at 11 a.m. Wednesday and goes straight into a closed executive session in the Board of Regents Annex, 100 Gene Stallings Blvd., according to the posted agenda. It returns to executive session at 8 a.m.
Thursday and opens the public session at 9:30 a.m. in the Bernard C. Richardson Zone on the fourth floor of Kyle Field. Committee meetings follow through the afternoon before the full board reconvenes to act. The open portions will be streamed on the system's website, and the agenda includes a period for public testimony.
Campus construction
Two housing projects at Texas A&M University are up for construction approval, both paid for with system debt to be repaid from housing revenue, according to the board's briefing materials.
- Fowler, Hughes and Schuhmacher halls: a $10.7 million replacement of plumbing risers in the three north-side balcony halls, built in 1964 and housing 590 residents combined. The briefing says leaks from the original systems have displaced students during the semester and that the chases do not meet current fire and life safety codes. Work would start in December and wrap up by July 2027.
- Underwood Hall: a $5.6 million project to replace 149 original fiberglass showers and upgrade the fire alarm system in the 1981 modular-style hall, to be done in a single summer while the building is offline.
The board will also consider $14.22 million more for the Texas A&M Semiconductor Institute project at RELLIS, this time for the campus's water supply. The $18.6 million sub-project calls for a well roughly 3,200 feet deep pumping up to 2,800 gallons per minute, a cooling tower, a 500,000-gallon ground storage tank and about 8,428 feet of transmission pipe.
The briefing says the original water system from the site's days as an Army Air Force base can no longer keep up with demand, and that higher bids reflect a larger well casing and more pump horsepower needed as aquifer levels decline. Construction would run from December to March 2028. The overall semiconductor institute project budget stands at $205.5 million.
