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Commissioners debate buying CBTX bank building for elections and storage; motion to buy fails for lack of second
Summary
A lengthy workshop on county facilities centered on a potential purchase of the former Commercial Bank of Texas building for election operations and storage. Residents and election volunteers urged purchase; a motion to accept the seller's $350,000 offer with a $125,000 partial donation died for lack of a second.
Anderson County commissioners spent more than two hours in a facilities workshop reviewing county space needs and a potential purchase offer for the former Commercial Bank of Texas building at 412 E. Lacey St.
The bank property, offered to the county with a partial donation, was presented to the court as a possible home for expanded election operations, training and equipment storage. County staff and the elections administrator described how moving election machines out of the jail-cell storage currently used would free up multipurpose rooms for community use and reduce the need…
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