Develop the final version of the county re-division map

Received a county grant of $302,600 to equip 27 new Chevrolet Tahoe patrol vehicles. Sheriff Mike Griffith reported after the commissioner’s meeting on Tuesday morning that he had recently been able to purchase eight vehicles for his investigators and civil servants. The new V-6 Dodge charger.

"The charger comes from donated money," Griffith said. "In the past five or six years, we may have received more donations than ever before."

The sheriff said his next goal is to raise $350,000 to replace his armored truck because he has been out of service for a while and is not worth repairing.

Tahoes purchased from Parkway Chevrolet in Tomball, northwest of Houston, and is 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 H2S gas monitor from Odessa Loaded Dice Safety.

Griffith has said that it received $2.5 million from the 1.25 cent rural sales tax approved by voters in November 2018, and the Tahoe family will provide him with enough vehicles for representatives to take them home. , To strengthen law enforcement in their communities and help officials respond much faster to emergencies.

In other matters, the committee members voted 4 to 1 to formally pass a new map for themselves and the four justices of the peace in the county.

District 4 Commissioner Armando S. Rodriguez (Armando S. Rodriguez) cast a “veto” and explained that he prefers the rejected plan A to the approved plan B, both of which are managed by Austin The law firms of Bickerstaff, Heath, Delgado, and Acosta are provided to comply with the US Department of Justice guidelines.

Before Hayes called for a vote, Rodriguez told Judge Deby Hayes and other committee members that Plan A would transfer more minority citizens from his jurisdiction to Districts 1 and 3, 86% of whom were minority The descent population will adopt Plan B.

From January 1st, District 4 and Commissioner Don Stringer’s District 3 will expand westward to Commissioner Mike Gardner’s District 1, because since the 2010 U.S. Census, District 1 has been Proportional overpopulation, Bickerstaff, Heath lawyer Claudia Russell told the court on October 26.

There are currently 32,457 people in Stringer, 36,596 in Rodriguez, and 53,831 in Gardner. Russell said that District 2 Commissioner Greg Simmons represents 41,505, which is okay because the figure is within one percent of the 41,098 required by the DOJ.

She said that since 2010, the number of residents in the county has increased from 137,083 to 164,399, an increase of 19.9%.

District 1 includes western Odessa and the western side of the county, District 2 northeast of Odessa and Gardendale, District 3 most of the cities, and District 4 southeast of Odessa and the southern side of the county.