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After executive session, Cameron County authorizes overtime pay for disaster response and cooperation with IRS
Summary
Following an executive session, the commissioners authorized 1.5x overtime pay for staff responding to a disaster declaration and authorized county officials to cooperate with the IRS, including consent to a one-year extension of certain 2023 statute-of-limitations matters.
After an executive session held under cited Texas Government Code sections, the Cameron County Commissioners Court returned to open session and took several actions. The court approved compensation for employees in specified departments (public works, emergency management, fire marshal, county judge's office, sheriff, and parks) at 1.5 times their hourly wage for overtime tied to the county judge's disaster declaration dated June 16, 2026.
The court also authorized the county judge and auditor to execute documents to provide requested documentation and cooperate with the IRS and to execute a consent to a one-year extension of certain 2023 statute-of-limitations matters and related documents. Both motions were made, seconded and approved by voice vote as recorded in the meeting transcript.
