Cameron County Commissioners approve consent items, contracts, precinct map changes and property sale

The Cameron County Commissioners Court on Tuesday approved a series of consent items, contract renewals, awards and boundary adjustments, including trash-bash events, a regional tire-collection program, multiple renewals of county insurance and benefits contracts, selection of banking and engineering vendors, denial of a tax abatement compliance request, and the sale of county-owned property to the Diocese of Brownsville.

The court opened with public comments and then moved through a lengthy consent agenda. Commissioners voted to host the county'wide Trash Bash in May and to participate in a one-day regional tire-collection event with the LRGVDC; they approved service agreements with Republic Services for waste disposal. The court accepted a $60,400 grant from the Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation to purchase four mosquito-control foggers and approved a clinical training affiliation agreement with the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) School of Medicine to allow medical-student participation in the Cameron County Forensic Pathology Department.

On insurance and benefits, the court renewed the county's property/casualty coverage, approving moving the county's loss-limit back to $30,000,000 (from $25,000,000) for an…