By Tony Farkas
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COLDSPRING — A variety of issues were handled by the San Jacinto County Commissioners Court on Wednesday, from an undisclosed settlement to roof repairs.
The county approved a contract with Beauregard Parish in Louisiana to house prisoners, since the jail has had to find facilities to take its prisoners while the roof of the jail is repaired. The roof sustained damage in the spring storms and Hurricane Beryl.
The Sheriff’s Office is using area jails until the jail can be secured again; one jail is the Polk County facility, to which the county also supplies jail officers.
Toward that end, the county left alone a policy that paid overtime for jail workers, since the facility is still understaffed by five people.
To fix the roof, the county had contracted with Dillon Construction for the repairs at a cost of just under $400,000. On Wednesday, though, the county had to approve a change order, as the damage to the roof was more extensive than originally thought.
The additional funds amount to $56,000.
After starting the regular meeting, the county entered into a closed session to discuss legal matters, and after 1 ½ hours of discussions with attorneys, approved a settlement regarding a cybersecurity issue with the County Jail.
In other business, the court:
• approved changes to a road use agreement to include $350 per day for monitoring and a $1.89 million bond for any road use damages in connection with the Bahia pipeline project;
• approved accepting a culvert from the Bahia project for temporary placement during the project;
• approved adding B Hales Road to the permit regarding the pipeline project;
• approved the holiday and court schedules for county offices;
• approved signatories for the regarding a disaster recovery block grant;
• proclaimed Sept. 5 as Dorothy J. Harrison Day in honor of her 80th birthday;
• approved two lot splits for Craig Jackson and Gloria Hicks;
• approved an $8,500 transfer between two Road and Bridge precincts for the purchase of a used truck;
• approved changing county vehicle registration renewal to a weekly payable packet; and
• approved seeking bids for road materials and hauling for the coming fiscal year.
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