Randall County Commissioners Court on Jan. 14 approved a series of routine actions including minutes, vouchers and personnel bonds, and authorized specifications for a large road-material bid and an $8,228.88 tax refund.

The actions were part of a short meeting in which County Judge opened the session, praised the county’s Road and Bridge Department for snowstorm work and then the court moved through consent items and departmental requests. The court approved each item by voice vote.

The court approved the minutes of its Jan. 7 meeting without correction. It also approved a single erroneous tax payment refund in the amount of $8,228.88 made out to Ronald Fields Roth; the refund was presented as an overpayment and approved by motion and voice vote.

Road and Bridge Director Ricky (last name not specified) presented specifications for bid 2025, 47116, described as a solicitation for roughly 25,000 tons of road material to replace an expiring contract at the end of February. Ricky said the county will release the solicitation on Thursday, Jan. 16, with responses due Feb. 6; bid documents will be available at beaconbid.com and the county will directly notify six vendors and send notices to about 10 other registered vendors. Pam (last name not specified) described the material grading: the county uses “top 3” material under the referenced standard, which has more fines and is easier to place on local roads than rockier grades. The court approved releasing the specifications.

The court accepted bonds for remaining reserve deputies whose bonds had not yet been filed. Staff noted several bonds had differing end dates (one listed Dec. 31, 2024, others Jan. 1, 2025); staff said an endorsement correcting the dates can be requested and that as long as the dates fall within the covered term, the bonds are acceptable. The court directed that approved original bonds be filed with the county clerk.

The court approved county employee travel requests as presented: two fire-department employees to Frisco, two sheriff’s-department employees to Houston, two sheriff’s-department employees to Dallas and one sheriff’s-department employee to Mission. Travel requests were approved by motion and voice vote.

Finance staff presented vouchers for multiple funds totaling $1,422,575.34. The court approved the vouchers. The voucher totals the meeting recorded were: General Fund $530,209.57; Jury Fund $2,596; County Assistance District 1 Fund $9,841.42; COVID/ARPA/CRGMA funds $735,967.79; Unclaimed Property Fund $72.10; Law Library Fund $3,056.45; Health Care Fund $1,892.52; Records Management Fund $13.40; County Clerk’s Records Management Fund $165.36; Capital Project Fund (Radio Communication System) $138,760.82.

The court also accepted multiple official reports presented by staff, including the Randall County Auditor’s monthly report for December 2024; various precinct justice and constable monthly reports; the Randall County Road and Bridge monthly report (November 2024); the Randall County Tax Assessor-Collector monthly report (December 2024); the Cannon Area Library quarterly report (October 2024–January 2025); and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service activity and travel report (December 2024). The court accepted the reports by motion.

There were no public comments during the public-comment period. The County Judge offered congratulations to participants in the Randall County Junior Livestock Show and noted Cade Lawrence won a national public-speaking competition. The court adjourned and set its next meeting for Jan. 28 at 9 a.m.

Votes at a glance: all recorded motions in the meeting were approved by voice vote and recorded as carrying 5-0.