Commissioners Court resumes today following holiday break
The Hays County Commissioners Court resumes this morning following a week break.
The commissioners are set to take action on a handful items during Tuesday’s meeting. The court will consider adopting a resolution regarding the county’s “Rainbow Room” in Precinct 1.
The court previously approved a license agreement authorizing the Hays County Child Protective Board to relocate to the Hays County Building on Broadway in San Marcos in June 2019. Additionally, the county granted $100,000 to the creation of a “Rainbow Room,” which is where the board stores and displays goods needed by children and families and takes care of children, in Oct. 2018.
According to the agenda item, the funds that were allocated to the agency in Fiscal Year 2019 to build the ‘"Rainbow Room" will be “returned to the county in order to complete renovations to the building to allow maximum functionality.” Additionally, the resolution that the commissioners will consider adopting states that “the county and HCCPB now believe that the monies granted in October 2018 would be better utilized by the Department of Countywide Operations to improve the County-owned property being utilized by HCCPB under the License Agreement … the earmarked monies shall be spent firstly on design/improvements to the Broadway Street location of the proposed Rainbow Room and secondly on equipment and supplies for the Rainbow Room.”
In other business, the court will discuss and take possible action to execute a contract with the Texas Department of State Health Services for the Tuberculosis State Program in the amount of $5,374. The commissioners will also consider creating a temporary part-time Census Program Coordinator effective Jan. 16- Sept. 30, utilizing fiscal year 2020 budgeted funds for the 2020 Census. The court will take possible action to establish one new full-time Mobile Crisis Outreach Liaison position effective Jan. 7 for the Sheriff's Office. The position would be funded through the Office of the Governor’s Mental Health Crisis Intervention grant.
The court will meet Tuesday at the Hays County Government Center — 712 S. Stagecoach Trail — inside courtroom No. 5 at 9 a.m.
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