CITY COUNCIL SETS DECEMBER 2ND FOR INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT MEETING WITH COMMISSIONERS

  

December 2nd should  be the day the Brenham City Council and the Washington County Commissioners finally come to an interlocal agreement with a comprehensive exchange of services.   The Brenham City Council and the Washington County Commissioners will have a joint meeting that day to concur and vote on the proposal.

This is almost one year after Washington County Judge John Brieden proposed that the County take total control and costs of the operations of the emergency medical service, the county jail and most of all the emergency communications system.

The Brenham City Council, in a workshop prior to today’s (Thursday’s) meeting, held an extensive discussions  on the proposal and to take up a key change in the proposed agreement.

City Manager Terry Roberts says the Council came to a consensus that the City and the County would keep joint control of communications for 18 months beginning January first, as the transition from joint control to county control took place.

Roberts says the County Commissioners will hold a workshop on the interlocal agreements next week before the joint December 2nd meeting.

Under the new agreements, the City would take over complete cost and control of the animal shelter, animal control, fire and rescue and the Nancy Carol Roberts Library.

The County would take total control, after 18 months of emergency communications, the county jail and the EMS.

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  1. County power trip, spend more to save a little…just means our taxes are going up…we need a new county government from judge down…. none of the Fire Dept’s are happy about this… and as usual the public really doesn’t know the whole story or have a say in the things that go on in our local governments…everyone needs to attend a city or county meeting to get a feel of the people that are running things on our behalf… they don’t vote or act on our behalf they do what they have to do to keep face and keep their pocket books fat. I could go on and on… on how I feel about these things. but won’t just needed to vent and this probably won’t get posted any how.

  2. Just agree, please don’t let Washington County and Brenham get to be like Washington DC. I know both the city and county have the money just agree and move on!
    Must someone remind the country judge that he is up for re election and I for one as a country resident will be watching.

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