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.