Washington County commissioners approve courthouse emergency repairs, EMS parking lot and purchasing agreement; hear sheriff and clerk reports

Washington County Commissioners Court met Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, and approved an emergency contract for courthouse life‑safety repairs, awarded an EMS parking lot contract and voted to join a statewide purchasing cooperative while receiving monthly reports from the sheriff and county clerk.

The court approved a contract with Phoenix 1 Restoration and Construction LLC for life‑safety repairs at the county courthouse after county staff and the project architect identified additional work needed when crews began removing exterior stone. Commissioners were told change orders related to stacked granite lintels and a mock repair of a basement window add roughly $27,000 to the project, and the Texas Historical Commission declined to fund that additional work. Project manager Mister Hanna said the county will fund the extra cost. Hanna told the court, “There’s no more funding from the Texas Historical Commission. The funding that we got was an…