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Christmas holidays no doubt were a
contributing factor to the small turnout that attended the regular
meeting of the Comanche County Commissioners’ Court on Monday Dec.
28.
Only public officials such as County
Attorney Craig Willingham, Joey Boswell, Ray Helberg, Sue Brown,
Sheriff Jeff Lambert, Ruby Lesley, and Constable Mark McDonald were
present to complement Commissioners Sherman Sides, Jimmy Dale
Johnson, Kenneth Feist, and Gary Underwood, and County Judge James
R. Arthur.
Outside of public information, most of
the discussion centered on the recent snowstorm and various
tribulations inherent in hosting family Christmas celebrations.
In more official news, McDonald
appeared before the court to request a budget amendment that would
allow him to move $600 from a travel and schools account to clothing
and “other” expense accounts to cover the costs of outfitting a
recently hired deputy constable. Some initial items required by the
deputy constable included a badge and a bulletproof vest. All
approved.
Commissioners also appointed Bill Lane
as a director of Cen-Tex Rural Rail Transportation District for 2010
and 2011. All approved.
Arthur reported Lane had always does a
good job, “and has been the go to guy ever since I’ve been here.”
An agenda item regarding Emergency
Management Office copier repairs was tabled until the next meeting.
It was reported that the costs of repairing the copier exceeded
previous expectations, but details were light as assistant Tricia
Grimshaw was not present at the court.
“We’ll put that on the next agenda for
the new year,” said Arthur, “[along with] the stop sign,” a
reference to the delayed DeLeon stop sign at the intersection of
CR454 and CR456.
Lambert reported that he had received
an email before Christmas from the West Central Council of
Governments reporting that grant money to be used for a new vehicle
would be coming into the county by Dec. 31, but, he said “they had
originally said that it would come in late October, so we don’t
believe it until we get a check.”
Lambert also reported that the current
jail count was 66, 11 more than the “magic break even number” of 55.
He also said that historically the jail count goes down around the
holidays as more people are bonded out.
“That’d be a bad place to spend
Christmas,” said Underwood.
Johnson asked Lambert if he had
received any descriptions of “mudders” who had destroyed some county
roads with their four wheel drives.
“If those kids knew anything they would
never get on a dirt or muddy road, but they weren’t brought up like
I was,” contributed Arthur. “That DeLeon sand is mostly glass.”
Arthur said the sand would destroy the front end of a four wheel
drive, and eat brake discs and rotors.
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