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Constable asks for deputy FTE and county case-management connection as civil process workload rises
Summary
Constable Easley asked the Commissioners Court for either a full-time deputy position or an annual line item to pay part-time reserve deputies, and urged county staff to speed delivery of a shared case-management/records system so constable offices can retain searchable records.
Constable Easley told commissioners that his office’s civil process and enforcement workload has increased and asked the court to consider funding a deputy position or an annual line item to pay reserve deputies for coverage.
Easley said his office has served 144 eviction citations and 37 repossessions so far this year and presented a call log showing 415 dispatch calls year-to-date, which he characterized as ‘‘2.7 calls a day’’ (on a five-day work-week basis). He told commissioners his fees account shows about $226,700 in revenue to date from civil-process fees. “It’s not something you get away from,” Easley said of the workload; “it might not be every day, all day, but it’s every day.”
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