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Henderson County court dissolves Cedar Creek Hospital District, directs funds to nursing scholarship
Summary
After voters approved dissolution under House Bill 467, the Commissioners Court found the Cedar Creek Hospital District defunct, authorized transfer of district funds to create the Andrew Gibbs Memorial Nursing Scholarship and named Trinity Valley Community College Foundation as oversight; judge authorized to sign required documents.
HENDERSON COUNTY, Texas — The Henderson County Commissioners Court voted unanimously Nov. 26 to dissolve the Cedar Creek Hospital District and transfer district funds to create the Andrew Gibbs Memorial Nursing Scholarship.
Unidentified Speaker 5 told the court the action implements House Bill 467 from the 80th Legislature after voters in the district approved dissolution last November. Speaker 5 said the hospital district “is no longer providing medical care” and described the district as defunct, with no board of directors or debts. "The voters did vote and they did approve dissolving the hospital district and then have that money set up for this scholarship," the speaker said.
The court’s formal action accepts the outcome of that election, directs distribution of proceeds to the three affected counties — Kaufman, Van Zandt and Henderson — and names the Trinity Valley Community College Foundation to administer a scholarship endowment. Speaker 5 said the scholarship will be called the Andrew Gibbs Memorial Nursing Scholarship and that the foundation, working with Trinity Valley leadership (identified in the discussion as Dr. Morrison and Candy Jones), will form an oversight committee and finalize a memorandum of understanding to ensure the funds are used as the voters intended.
County officials did not specify the dollar amount of the funds to be transferred. The court authorized the county judge’s signature on the order necessary to carry out step two of the statutory process; Speaker 5 said the court will return for a step three action to establish the oversight committee formally.
Why it matters: The change redirects local hospital-district assets into a scholarship program targeted to residents of the former district area — portions of the Maybank, Kemp and Eustace school districts — and creates a new locally administered higher-education funding source aimed at nursing students.
The court took the action without recorded opposition. The next procedural step, as described by court staff, is to finalize a written MOU with Trinity Valley Community College Foundation and to convene the oversight committee in a future session.
