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Polk County court approves routine funding, property and personnel items; authorizes grant applications
Summary
The commissioner's court approved a series of routine items including a tax-sale property offer, consent agenda addendums, personnel actions, budget revisions, fireworks sale authorization, a cybersecurity pilot, disaster pay, property conveyances to volunteer fire departments, and resolutions on hotel-tax and road funding.
At its meeting, Polk County commissioners approved a series of routine and policy items by voice vote, including motions to accept offers on tax-foreclosed property, adopt budget revisions, authorize sale of fireworks for the Texas Independence Day period, and to participate in pilot and grant programs.
Key items approved by the court:
- Tax-foreclosed property sale: Approved offer for RW Russell survey, abstract 68, tract 39 (approx. 4.34 acres) in Precinct 3.
- Consent agenda: Approved two addendums totaling $412,390.72 ($112,561.70 and $299,829.02).
- Personnel actions: Approved personnel action forms and acknowledged authorized emergency hiring.
- FY2026 budget revisions and amendments: Approved revisions as presented by county and auditor (document referenced in packet).
- Fireworks sale order: Authorized fireworks sales from 02/25/2026 through midnight 03/02/2026 after fire marshal cleared safety conditions.
- TechGuard pilot: Approved Polk County27s participation in a no-cost cybersecurity pilot offered by the Texas Association of Counties to provide training and phishing simulations.
- Property conveyances: Approved conveyance of portion of Block 1 (underlying Fire Station No. 1) to the city of Livingston, and conveyance of approximately 17.896 acres of the fire training field to Clifton Volunteer Fire Department; deed language discussed to allow reversion and continued sheriff-training access.
- Disaster compensation: Approved a resolution establishing double disaster pay for essential employees who worked during the county-declared winter-storm emergency (EOC activated Jan. 24 at 1 p.m. through Jan. 27 at 6 a.m.); HR estimated about 40 employees eligible.
- Resolutions for state legislation: Court approved resolutions supporting exemptions for counties from the 6% state hotel occupancy tax for official travel and supporting state changes to reallocate a share of motor fuels tax and EV registration revenues to county road funds.
All items were approved by voice votes during the meeting; individual roll-call tallies were not recorded in the meeting transcript.
