Board of Adjustment, Christmas parade, and the Taco Bell Drive-Thru are part of this week’s County Notebook

Board of County Commissioners: A routine weekly meeting was held Monday morning, during which the Board approved using ACCO deductible funds to pay for $21,230 of damages to a Sheriff’s vehicle due to a deputy rear-ending a pickup truck at an intersection on October 31st of this year. If the costs exceed that amount, the Sheriff must use his own funds to cover the gap. District #2 Commissioner Leon Warner asked the Sheriff if would be able to salvage any emergency equipment from the unit, and Sheriff Bowling said that yes, he thought he would. 

Warner spoke on the ongoing discussion over ARPA funds and how to best disburse them, due to Assistant District Attorney Andrew Goforth’s absence. He said that the Board has received $24M in requests and that the Board will be able to allocate $1.5M to those. He said that Barbara Albritton, of INCOG, has recommended that the Board focus on one project per requesting entity, for now. The Board agreed to review the data it has for a week and to discuss it at next week’s meeting on the 13th.