Hundreds of people already have donated tens of thousands of dollars to be used toward rebuilding the historic Mason County Courthouse, which was destroyed by an alleged arsonist earlier this year, but the monumental fundraising effort is just beginning.
“I’ll always remember how proud I felt of our courthouse, of how beautiful it was,” said Bobbie McMillan, president of Friends of the Mason County Courthouse board of directors.
It will cost an estimated $19.6 million to rebuild the ...
MISD board members approved redistricting criteria and voted in an increased incentive pay for teachers this year at their Monday night meeting.
Attorney Sara Leon of Austin presented the board with her redrawn district criteria, which meets the required 10% population deviation numbers. The board approved the criteria, and will post the map on its website.
Mason County Commissioners’ focus was on the county’s Road and Bridge department Monday, as they approved a salary adjustment for members of the department, hired a new full time employee, and held a workshop discussion of the department’s needs.
Workers in the department will see a $2.70 per hour increase in their pay beginning on Jan.1, with the Assistant Road and Bridge Administrator getting a raise of $3.70 per hour.
The City’s Planning and Zoning Committee began their Nov. 16 meeting with a discussion of two important ordinances they are crafting.
Animal control in the city is the first area the committee is working to better regulate. Animal Control officer, Johnny Castillo, presented an updated packet to the committee, which they will begin to review at their next meeting.
Twenty four members of the Mason FFA recently competed at the Bluebonnet District Leadership Development events in Marble Falls. These students have been working hard since the beginning of school to develop their teamwork and presentation skills. All teams placing first or second advance to the Area VII FFA LDE contest on November 17.
Results are as follows:
Senior Quiz - 3rd
Kimberly Suarez-Ramirez, Karen Galaviz, Isela Rodriguez, Esme Lugo, Jessie Phillips, and Mariah Avalos.
Green ...
Last week’s decision by the City Commissioners to return $284,000 in federal funding drew a large crowd to the Monday night meeting, mostly in support of the action. Twenty or more citizens who attended were in favor of giving back the funding, but at least five there opposed it. Individuals from each group were given an opportunity to express their views.
The returned funds were available to the City of Mason through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) as part of the Coronavirus Local Fi ...
Some voters in Mason County will have a new polling location next year after the county commissioners court realigned half of its precinct boundaries during a redistricting process.
“We had to align two of our four commissioners court precincts to within 10% of the population on the voter rolls, so that the numbers are evened out,” said Mason County Judge Jerry Bearden, on Monday.
Mason County’s voting district lines have been redrawn per a state-mandated redistricting and were approved by County Commissioners Monday. Population numbers determined by the last census called for changes in voting districts two and four. The new districts are “effective immediately,” said Judge Jerry Bearden, and new polling places will be assigned before the next election.
Mason’s population is “shifting to the East,” said County Judge Jerry Bearden at Monday’s Commissioners Court meeting. This population shift, especially in precinct two, requires that the County redistrict. The Court will hold a public hearing on Monday, November 15, at 8:30 a.m. in the Stribling Room of the Mason County Library to discuss the required redistricting.
The City of Mason will be returning tens of thousands of dollars in federal funds that had been approved under the American Rescue Plan Act because of conditions attached to the money, according to a city official on Tuesday. “We decided to send it back because it had some stipulations in the contract that we really did not want to follow,” said City Administrator John Palacio.
