At Monday’s County Commissioners Court meeting the redistricting of Milam County was discussed in public workshop. Redistricting is the process of redrawing district boundaries to guarantee equal voter representation.
Lawyer John Reddington’s law firm presented a demographic model of the county to provide the court with the deviation between populations in the county. When the deviation is over 10 percent redistricting is required. Milam County is at 7.3 percent.
Changes and different scenarios were discussed, but those changes involve so few people the commissioners decided not to redistrict at this time which is legal since Milam County is still under the 10 percent threshold.
At the last commissioners court there were complaints from citizens about speeding gravel trucks on CR 204B. Since then some 35-mileper-hour speed signs have been ordered.
Tax abatements were discussed for a group who are renovating the old school house in Cameron which was formerly a coffee house which has since closed.
Another company has bought the old J.C. Penney building which will have upstairs lofts and a new business in the downstairs portion. The downstairs portion of the building will be built according to the new tenant’s needs. The Cameron city council recommended the abatements.
These renovations are the first buildings that will be remodeled in the revitalization of the courthouse square in Cameron once the county offices move to the renovated hospital.
Ginger Watkins talked about the buildings and how important they are for the City of Cameron. The motion passed to grant the abatements.
Nov. 18 was recognized as Rural Health Day.
Jodi Morgan gave a canvas report on the recent constitutional amendment elections held on Nov.2. The court approved the results.
A Tiger Tough proclamation was agreed to by the court for an event happening on Nov. 17.
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