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Liberty County approves pension rate, grants, contractor payments and multiple contract renewals
Summary
At its July 2025 meeting, the Liberty County Commissioners Court approved a higher elected TCDRS contribution rate, multiple contractor payments and draw requests for GLO CDBG projects, several standard bank and insurance agreements, and a series of other budget and contract items.
At its July 2025 meeting, the Liberty County Commissioners Court approved a package of consent, budget and contract items including a continued elected official TCDRS contribution rate, multiple payments and draw requests for GLO Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) projects, a treasury management agreement with Prosperity Bank and the one-year extension of an asphalt overlay contract.
Why it matters: the package affects the county's pension funding strategy, ongoing disaster-recovery and home-rehab contracts funded through the Texas General Land Office (GLO) CDBG programs, and routine county operations (banking and road resurfacing) that carry multi-year budget and operational implications.
The court voted to keep the higher elected TCDRS (Texas County & District Retirement System) contribution rate at 17.52% with a group term life flat rate of 0.27%, a policy the court has used in recent years to support the plan's funded ratio. The court also approved a set of standard online treasury-management service agreements to continue using Prosperity Bank as the county depository and to enable services such as remote deposit and ACH origination.
On GLO-funded projects, the court approved a payment request of $21,374.20 to…
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