Atascosa County Commissioners Court on Dec. 22, 2025, approved a package of routine administrative items including insurance, software contracts, personnel appointments and county payroll.

The court approved the county's workers' compensation renewal with Deep East Texas Self Insurance Fund, with a renewal premium of $381,512 and a roughly 5% rate increase attributed to claims, County staff reported.

Tax assessor Loretta Holly told the court the county will convert its appraisal and collection system to Appraisal & Collection Technologies (ACT). Holly said the conversion involves a one-time $50,000 conversion fee and roughly $65,000 in services, both subject to county and county-attorney approvals; commissioners approved the change.

The court also approved a lease renewal for five registration-and-title (RTS) workstations with the State of Texas at an annual cost of $1,795 to support upgraded service windows.

Commissioners approved multiple personnel actions: salary supplements for assistant district attorneys and investigators, appointment of Antonio Serna as assistant public defender at an $88,000 annual rate, and a part-time hire (Donna Jo Hohenstein) in juvenile probation with a start date of Jan. 5, 2026, pending required screenings.

Rural development staff recommended and the court approved right-of-way and road-crossing permits for Frontier Communications in the Royal Oak subdivision (Precinct 2), covering multiple streets and specified crossing points. The county clerk also presented a master database-access agreement for title companies (the FPT site), which the court authorized the judge to sign.

Human-resources updates adopted included a TimeClock Plus mobile-app access policy, a floating-holiday policy for 2026, adoption of a "62/30" rule to continue county-paid health insurance until age 65 for employees age 62 with 30 years of uninterrupted service, and the 2026 payroll-period calendar.

County auditor Tracy Barrera briefed the court on departmental budget details and noted a previously omitted uniform allowance for the sheriff that had been requested; commissioners approved salaries and the adjustments, and the auditor said the correction will not change the adopted tax rate.

The court accepted payroll Claim No. 58 ($827,354.17) and Claim No. 8 ($35,590.20) and voted to pay claims and payroll.

Most items were routine, carried by voice vote with no recorded roll-call tallies.