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Court selects Waxman as grant administrator and approves engineering firm recommendation for CDBG-DR application
Summary
A court-appointed scoring committee recommended Waxman as the grant administrator for Polk County’s 2024 CDBG-DR local communities application and recommended an engineering firm; the court approved both recommendations and asked staff to circulate score packets and background documents to commissioners.
Polk County’s scoring committee for the 2024 Community Development Block Grant — Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) local communities program presented recommendations to the Commissioners Court and the court moved to approve them.
The committee (Commissioner Robertson, Courtney Comstock, Dave Sotosanti and Jessica Hutchins) recommended Waxman to serve as the county’s grant administrator for potential contracts awarded by the Texas General Land Office; the court approved that recommendation. The committee also recommended selecting an engineering firm (committee referenced names appearing in the packet); commissioners asked whether the firms had prior work in the county and requested the committee provide the scoring documents and firm backgrounds to all commissioners to avoid inadvertent quorum email chains. Committee members said they based recommendations on scored proposals and qualifications and that the firms have substantial experience on federally funded projects.
Commissioners asked for additional documentation before final implementation and staff agreed to email the selection materials and scoring books; the court approved the committee’s motions with the request that follow-up materials be distributed for review.
