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Grayson County delays ESD 1 creation vote after boundary errors found
Summary
Grayson County Commissioners voted to cancel a May election to create Emergency Services District 1 after officials discovered mapping and boundary-description errors; residents asked for clearer, firm boundaries and exact fiscal impacts before rescheduling for November.
County officials on Tuesday voted to cancel a May election on creating Grayson County Emergency Services District 1 after discovering material errors in the petitions’ boundary descriptions.
The court’s action followed public comment from a resident who said firm boundary lines and an exact calculation of the tax impact had not been completed. County officials told commissioners that mapping discrepancies—between the county’s map and the Grayson Central Appraisal District (GCAD) parcel mapping—meant some voters could have been wrongly included or excluded from the election roll.
Robert Paul Hawkins, a resident and business owner inside the proposed district, told the commissioners he had reviewed…
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