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Residents urge Titus County to fix roads and review precinct boundaries
Summary
Public commenters told the court that repeated, short-lived road repairs and possible malapportioned commissioner precincts require action: one resident requested 10 years of maintenance records for County Road 1828; another urged a legal review of precinct boundaries under state law.
Two residents used the public-comment period at the start of the meeting to press the Commissioners Court on roads and precinct boundaries.
Mary Flowers (introduced by the chair) said the county is out of compliance on two fronts: required itemized road revenue-and-expenditure reports under Transportation Code §252.107(a)(1) and potentially outdated commissioner precinct boundaries. "I am respectfully requesting that as you are elected and sworn officials of this county to make an assessment of Titus County for purposes of redistricting evaluation," Flowers said, citing the one-person, one-vote principle and the county's roughly 2020 population.
Jana Weatherall (who identified herself and her address in Precinct 3) described years of what she called temporary repairs, two bridge washouts that stranded residents, and damage to vehicles. She formally requested records documenting maintenance, grading, base work, drainage improvements, and bridge monitoring for County Road 1828 over the last 10 years to show what work has actually been performed.
The court did not take immediate action to order a redistricting study or produce the requested records at the meeting; both items were raised publicly and flagged by commissioners for follow-up.
The comments place attention on transparency in road spending and the need to verify precinct apportionment against the 2020 census counts.
