WASHINGTON CO. COULD UPDATE OFFICIAL SEAL
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Washington County may be changing its official seal.
A workshop held by county commissioners today (Tuesday) focused on the possibility of updating the design of the seal used by county officials for government documents, communication and general branding.
Commissioner Candice Bullock called the county’s existing seal “plain” and said a redesign would help to provide uniformity among various county offices and departments.
The county is being assisted in the seal recreation by Charlie Kelm. Bullock said the redesign would act as a first step in potentially revamping the county’s website, as well.
County Judge John Durrenberger was in favor of developing a new seal, saying it would be “a good restarting point.”
After discussion, commissioners agreed to look further into the project, getting input on prospective designs from individual court members and potentially the community.
The workshop also covered the topic of health insurance renewal rates for county employees. Human Resources Director Angela Mlcak said the county has had a 5.1 percent increase in health insurance rates, but has not adjusted the employee contribution rate since 2010. A decision is needed by June 28th for if the county will continue to contribute 98 percent of employee-only health coverage or change the contribution level. The overall cost to the county for health insurance is $2.6 million, and it would need to absorb approximately $145,900 should it decide to maintain the same level.
Also at today’s meeting, the court:
- Agreed to issue requests for qualifications for the Washington County Courthouse landscape project, possibly through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The county is working with GrantWorks for the project. Bullock said the county will wait to see a fixed cost estimate before choosing to fund the project via ARPA or another funding source.
- Approved a contract with GovOS, the county’s Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) collections platform.
- Approved renewal of interlocal agreements between the county and the Brazos Valley Council of Governments for E-911 public safety answering point services and database maintenance services.
- Authorized the county engineer’s office to advertise for bids for an alternate bulk – Jet A aviation fuel supplier. The county will go through the bidding process again after the bids that were previously submitted came in after the deadline.
This proves that Washington County government has drank the narcissist kool aid that the Brenham government planners drink. The narcissistic federal government has infiltrated local government in Tx.. These local narcissistic public servants no longer work for the tax payers; the tax payers are working for them. We are giving up our rights to pay their inflated salaries for unnecessary government decisions, just to pay for and compliment their over zealous inflated egos. It is time to boycott the government. The best way is for the tax payers to band together and refuse to pay taxes.
I am ready for that. Way too much waste and they it seam they laugh at us about it by doing things like this
If you will recall from your senior year, high school course in government, our government is made up of the people and the representatives that we have chosen to represent us in different entities. Good luck on not paying your taxes and expecting everyone else to do the same; you’ll soon find yourself in more hot water with the government(s). My response would be to ask has anyone contacted their County Commissioner in regards to this or other issues? There are several things that I contact my commissioner about on a fairly regular basis, and I assume that he does present those points in speaking with the other commissioners. While I cannot say what drives them to mimic other counties and city officials to mimic other towns in the state, it seems as though everyone is attempting to grab as much of the public money and recognition as they can. Tourism has become a huge business and the image that is presented seems to be important to that. Certainly, 50 years ago, I don’t think anyone on salary with either the city or the county had anything to do solely with tourism- – we just let people show up and visit what sites they wanted to and provided food and lodging and possibly some guidance. Now, that can be an entire, high-paying, career. Sadly, in the one-party government that we now have in the county and most of the state, no one would want to run against the incumbents at the time of an election, as you would either be looked at as attempting to split the party apart, or bring in ideas for change that would readily be shot down and lambasted as being ‘leftist’.
Our elected officials disappoint once again. The splash pad was built to wast water, a bad plan, no add this waste of taxpayer money. When will they learn to say no and move on to important things.
Oh yes let’s waste time, money, and effort on changing and re-designing the county seal because it’s ‘plain’?as if there weren’t more important, needed issues in the city and county. I’m all for going to one seal for all offices but to re design which I am positive sure will entail more wasteful spending. NO! I’ve had it with unnecessary spending and wasted time. And I believe there are more voters tgat feel the exact same way.
The WCC spend very little on the many Volunteer Firefighters programs,but throw our money at the EMS. Clearly we can do better in the distribution of our taxpayers money to even this up. When has EMS ever put out a fire or protected someone from an intruder? They sit in their vehicles till the officer shows up or the fireman.An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Common Sense is needed not politics. Stop the stupid spending! Good point RS.
Plain? It’s an official seal. Let me guess…the commission is wracking their brains trying to figure out how to turn the seal into a trendy wine bar?
We waste time and money on a county seal and proclamations but the tax payers have spent $110,000.00 on rental for a generator for the county jail. Over a 2 year and 4 months time frame. But we have money for our 7 EMS stations that have generators and fully staffed. Looks like we see how the commissioners feel about law enforcement!!!
Agree! The seal is part of our history. It is not broken!