June 24, 2005

Governor Removes Texas A&M's Oversight of Homeland Security Grants

By KARIN FISCHER

The Texas A&M University System has been stripped of its oversight of millions of dollars in homeland-security grants.

Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, decided that his office of emergency management could run the program more efficiently. The state's director of homeland security, Steven C. McCraw, had argued that economies of scale could be achieved by placing the state's homeland-security program, which has 23 regional auditors, under the control of an agency that was already