Opinion No.

Dr. Barry B. Thompson Chancellor Texas AM University System 301 Tarrow, 7th Floor College Station, Texas 77843-1122

Re: Whether the City of College Station may expend funds on behalf of the George Bush Library at Texas AM University (RQ-849)

Dear Dr. Thompson:

On behalf of the City of College Station (the "city"), you ask whether the city may spend public money, including hotel-motel occupancy taxes, on the George Bush Library (the "library"), now under construction on the Texas AM University campus in College Station. See House Comm. on Land and Resource Management, Bill Analysis, S.B. 1018,…