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Hood County reviews $150M‑plus road program and $24M jail expansion; advisors outline tax‑rate tradeoffs
Summary
County consultants presented a Master Thoroughfare project list and Hilltop Securities ran bond scenarios that pair a road program with a proposed $24 million jail expansion; advisors said phasing can limit tax impacts but a large package would require either increases to the I&S tax or voter approval of a higher rate.
Hood County commissioners on July 25 heard detailed briefings on a proposed Master Thoroughfare bond program and a $24 million jail expansion as consultants urged public input and outlined options to limit tax‑rate effects.
John Polster of TNP told the Commissioners Court the county’s road network — much of which dates to the 1960s and 1970s — is being strained by growth. “We want to try to get as much input from the public as possible,” Polster said, and stressed that the March 2025 master thoroughfare map is a conceptual universe of projects, not a ranked list. He described example projects and rough preliminary estimates: intersection work on State Highway 377 (Polster cited a $22,000,000 corridor estimate and roughly $3,000,000 for the EA/PS&E),…
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