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County zips through agenda
Avalanche staff
Aside from two executive sessions - one to discuss personnel matters and the other on real estate - Brewster County Commissioners Court zipped through an almost routine agenda, renewing health insurance for county employees, approving tax collection contracts and a resolution declaring Official Home Care and Hospice Month.
In other action, commissioners:
€ Decided to seek additional information from the city of Alpine regarding property on West Sul Ross Avenue for future law enforcement needs.
€ Delayed action on a proposal by ZKG, L.P. to build and operate a 60-bed, long-term-care nursing/assisted living center.
€ Denied a tax exemption for property in transit. This action relates to HB621 enacted by the Texas Legislature, forcing governmental agencies to take defensive action to retain the current property tax base. HB621 would set up an automatic exemption unless an entity took specific action to continue to tax tangible property held temporarily at a location for assembling, storing, manufacturing, processing or fabricating purposes (goods-in-transit).
€ Heard updates on Marathon street paving, Study Butte Water Corp. improvements and colonia septic tank replacement in Study Butte and Terlingua.
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