Fort Bend County creates citizens redistricting advisory committee, accepts grants and advances infrastructure projects

County Judge K.P. George summarized actions taken by the Fort Bend County Commissioner's Court at its July 8 meeting, saying the court approved a citizens redistricting advisory committee and engaged outside counsel to guide the redistricting process. "To keep the redistricting process community driven, we held a public hearing on proposed changes," George said, and the court approved Item 20a to create the advisory committee and Item 20b to engage Rogers Morris and Grover LLP for legal guidance.

The court approved a structure under which each member of the commissioner's court will appoint two residents to the citizens redistricting advisory committee, George said. The law firm engagement, he said, is intended to provide "legal guidance to the commission's court as we move through this important redistricting process." The commissioner appointments and any timetable for the committee were not specified in the recap.

On public-safety and animal-welfare funding, George said the court accepted a $20,000 grant from Petco Love to support lifesaving animal-welfare programs (Item 13a) and accepted an $832,000 federal grant for the sheriff's office provided through the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area…