Regular Commissioners Court - 10-26-2026

The Aransas County Commissioners’ Court met in regular session on October 26, 2026. The court approved participation in the FY2027 Routine Airport Maintenance Program, authorizing $100,000 in eligible airport work with up to $90,000 in reimbursement. The airport manager reported planned third-party seal-coat work and prior rock work; no contractor name was provided. The court also approved a contract with Charlie Marshall Funeral Homes and Crematorium for transportation related to deceased persons, renewed the county’s external audit engagement with Crow (the proposed FY2027 fee increase was 5%, with no total stated), and authorized applying for a WEX fleet fuel card to enable tax-exempt purchases outside the bulk-fuel system. It approved a no-cost mutual-aid coordination MOU with National Emergency Management Response; any future paid services would require separate procurement documents and approval.

Other spending and funding actions included approval of a $500 allocation from the crime victims fund for meals for out-of-town witnesses, with the county attorney’s office and auditor’s office to monitor disbursements, and approval of a resolution naming the county judge as the authorized official for an indigent-defense grant application, which typically provides about $30,000. The court accepted $21,150 in juvenile detention-cost reimbursement. Accounts payable included $18,955 to G&W Engineers for generators under an HMGP grant and $19,400 to Garver for an environmental-health generator; a road-and-bridge tractor purchase was also reported, but its amount was garbled in the transcript. The court further approved declaring a modular block-wall system surplus for donation to Child Protective Services. No vendor award or bid approval was reported for the proposed website design, which staff said could be funded with ARPA interest.