The Commissioner of Hector County will consider the commissioner and justice of the peace who will eventually pass the readjustment at 10 am on Tuesday, based on the guidelines of the U.S. Department of Justice and recommendations from the Austin law firms Bickerstaff, Heath, Delgado, and Acosta.
Starting January 1, Commissioner Don Stringer's District 3 and Commissioner Armando S. Rodriguez's District 4 will move west to Commissioner Mike Gardner's District 1 because of the overpopulation of District 1 since the 2010 U.S. Census .
Stringer currently represents 32,457 people, Rodriguez 36,596 people and Mike Gardner 53,831 people, and District 2 Commissioner Greg Simmons’s constituency has 41,505 people, which is within one percent of the new 41,098 people required. And there is no need to change, Bickerstaff told Heath Court Attorney Claudia Russell on October 26.
Russell said the census showed that the county’s population increased by 19.9%, from 137,083 to 164,399.
The first constituency includes western Odessa and the western side of the county, the second constituency northeast of Odessa and the Gardendale area, most of the cities in the third constituency, and the fourth constituency southeast of Odessa and the southern side of the county.
Among other businesses, the court will consider granting $302,600 to equip the 27 Chevrolet Tahoe patrol vehicles recently delivered to the Sheriff’s Office.
After receiving the vehicles from Parkway Chevrolet in Tomball, northwest of Houston, they are equipped with a laptop docking station and input car adapter from Austin GTS Technology Solutions, a car camera, and an AED First Response defibrillator from Axon Enterprise in Scottsdale , Arizona, and Odessa Loaded Dice Safety's H2S gas monitor.
Sheriff Mike Griffis stated that Tahoes will give him enough vehicles to allow delegates to take them home at the end of their shift, thereby increasing law enforcement personnel in their community and enabling delegates to be faster Respond to emergencies. The vans were purchased with $2.5 million generated from a rural sales tax of 1.25 cents approved by voters in November 2018.
Unlike the usual way of holding meetings on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month, the court will also accept a donation of US$23,000 from Barnhart Bolt & Special Fasteners to the Sheriff’s Office and review the ground lease contract between the Permian Basin. Supply of 194 Terminal Dr. from Desa Airport-Schlemeier Airport and Blackwood Investment Properties.