Court approves agreement with SISD
San Jacinto News- Times - August 2008

COLDSPRING – An inter-local agreement between the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Department and Shepherd Independent School District was approved by commissioners’ court last week during a regular meeting. The inter-local agreement will allow the school district to work with the sheriff’s department on cases and in housing criminals in which the school district’s new police department will be involved. Shepherd ISD board members recently voted to establish their own police department instead of using the services of the Pct. 2 Constable’s Department as they have in the past. Pct. 2 Commissioner Royce Wells, who was conducting the commissioners’ court meeting in the absence of San Jacinto County Judge Fritz Faulkner who was on vacation, informed the court that the City of Shepherd will also be asking the court for an inter-local agreement with the sheriff’s department in the near future. “Shepherd is getting a police department established also,” Wells said. San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy David Clark informed the court that the sheriff’s department recently received a Certificate of Excellence from U.S. Extradition Services for the department’s professionalism exhibited while U.S. Extradition Services was bringing inmates to the county jail.

U.S. Extradition Services is one of the largest prisoner transportation companies in the nation. Commissioners congratulated the sheriff’s department, saying they are doing a great job. In other business, the court voted to declare as salvage a 2000 Chevrolet Lumina and accept the $1,800 insurance payment from Texas Association of Counties. The court also accepted a bid on 7.74 acres of land which is landlocked in the M Terry Survey, Abstract #410, located in Shepherd along the railroad track. The bid accepted was for $202.25 per acre or $1,562. “We’ve already spent $400 on advertising it. We’ve advertised it twice and Mr. Hall has been the only bidder twice,” said San Jacinto County Assistant Auditor Jenny Vaughn. Deciding that the land is of no benefi t to the county and that it needs to get back on the county’s tax roll, the court voted to accept the bid. Following executive session, commissioners’ court accepted a settlement offer in the amount of $1,000 cost to the county regarding litigation with Marion Green, Jr. The next regular session of court is scheduled to be held Tuesday, Aug. 12, at 9 a.m.