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Bexar County previews public-works reorganization to consolidate environmental services and animal care
Summary
Public works and public health staff described a proposed realignment that would move several environmental services functions — including septic permitting, solid-waste investigations, air-quality and stormwater work — back under Public Works and fold animal-care field officers and the shelter into a unified structure.
Bexar County Public Works and Public Health officials briefed commissioners on a proposed reorganization aimed at consolidating environmental services functions and improving operational coordination.
Art Reinhardt, director of Public Works, told the court the county plans to transfer sanitary and septic review, code compliance, air-quality oversight and solid-waste programs back under Public Works from the Public Health Department. Reinhardt said moving the stormwater program and several enforcement functions into a single ‘‘environmental services’’ division within Public Works should…
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