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Consultant warns county to act on RCP grant or risk losing $300,000 seed funding
Summary
A consultant urged the court to schedule an RCP (land‑use/resilience) meeting and get engineers working immediately, warning that the General Land Office grant 'has a clock on it' and could expire in nine months, which would jeopardize roughly $300,000 in seed funds and make future grants harder to obtain.
A consultant working on the county’s RCP grant told the Commissioners Court the county needs to set a date and get engineers engaged because the General Land Office seed grant will expire if the project is not advanced. The consultant said, "that money's got a clock on it. It goes away in 9 months," and urged the court not to delay scheduling the RCP meeting needed to move the work forward.
The consultant warned that if the county loses the roughly $300,000 seed fund, the county will still owe work done to date and may damage prospects for larger infrastructure grants. Commissioners were urged to set a meeting time and to bring the engineering firm in to complete required steps. The court directed staff to schedule the necessary meetings and coordinate with engineers so the county can meet grant milestones.
