WASHINGTON CO. COMMISSIONERS TO CONSIDER SEVERAL INTER-LOCAL AGREEMENTS
Washington County Commissioners will discuss multiple inter-local agreements when they meet Monday morning.
Several court members will be leaving early on Monday to visit the Woodlands Waterway Marriot, for the annual County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas Conference. The conference will be from the 8th to the 10th.
Commissioners will look at three inter-local agreements for the county: one with area volunteer fire departments, one with the City of Burton, and another with the Brazos Valley Council of Governments.
County Judge John Brieden says the agreement with the fire departments could grant additional funding to them, but would make it incentive-laden. The performance of a fire department would be rewarded, based on criteria like meeting certain training and operating requirements.
Brieden says this system has been negotiated for around six months, and should encourage better training for the departments. He also said this program is accounted for in the commissioners’ budget.
The second inter-local agreement concerns the county’s paramedic program. Brieden says the county has acquired property next to Burton City Hall, and looks to station its paramedic program there to provide quicker coverage in the area. The agreement details how Burton will support the county at the new substation.
The third agreement is for a renewal of the Brazos Valley Wide Area Communications System. The communications system lets officials in and around Washington County communicate digitally and, according to Brieden, more efficiently. He says Washington County has made the system a priority since adopting it, and that Grimes County was a recent addition to the system.
In other items on the agenda, commissioners will revisit an item that was tabled at last week’s meeting. The county will look at requesting proposals for the building of a new county facility.
Commissioners will also receive the 2017 audit report for the county. Brieden says the report was delayed because of FEMA funding concerning 2016’s flooding, which nearly doubled the time of the audit.
The court will also consider approval of this year’s Texas Association of Counties Workers’ Compensation Renewal, along with the County and District Retirement System Plan Assessment. In addition, the court will consider the Washington County Records Management Program.
Commissioners will also look at a series of subdivision variance and right-of-way permit requests, and consider renewal of a bond for a reserve deputy sheriff.
Commissioners will meet Monday at 9 a.m., at the Washington County Courthouse.