DeWitt Commissioners approve mobile satellite antenna replacement

The DeWitt County Commissioners approved a purchase to replace mobile satellite antennas at the law enforcement center for emergency management purposes at the Jan. 8 meeting.

The amount for this purchase was $4,760 and the installation fee is $365. One of these antennas will be in the dispatcher’s office and the EOC offices. It will come out of the emergency management budget.

Commissioners also received a county road bonus form from the Texas General Land office and a lease bonus check in the amount of $659.76 for the lease of 2.63 acres of County Road 3014.

Judge Daryl Fowler was also appointed for another two-year term as a trustee for the Local Mental Health Authority at the Gulf Bend Center.

“We have made significant progress in the way the affairs of that organization are conducted,” Fowler said. “There’s been an expansion across our region for mental health care. Over the next two years, we’ll be putting together a 60-bed mental health hospital for our region.”

Other items on the agenda included:

• Commissioners received a letter of compliance from Inspector Mike Garrett for Texas Commission on Jail Standards.

• Katy Nagel and Cynthia Orozco were appointed to the DeWitt County Historical Commission for a two-year term.

• A temporary right of way for the installation of a temporary water line on Metting School Road, Garfield and Klein Road, and Dworaczyk Road by AJ’s Logistics Services was approved.

• A temporary right of way for the installation of a temporary water line on Coskey Ranch Road by the Burlington Resources Oil and Gas Company was also approved.