Brazos County pauses Roy Kelly parking-garage camera project, asks staff for more vendor vetting and interim safety fixes

At a Brazos County Commissioners Court workshop, Risk Manager Leslie Contreras asked the court to place the proposed camera-installation project for the Roy Kelly Parking Garage on hold pending additional technical review and vendor vetting. The request came during the court’s camera-system discussion at about 10:02 a.m.

Contreras said the county had received widely divergent quotes and needs time to ensure any system chosen will be compatible with the county’s video management system and the Sheriff’s Office real-time crime center. “We are actually going to ask that we postpone this project until further notice,” she said. “If you look at the pricing that those quotes came back as, they’re very disparaging. You have one that’s over a million dollars. It’s like $1,100,000. And then you have another $100,000.”

The request to delay prompted questions from commissioners about funding options and operational…