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LC Commissioners approve road closings
By Bill Hankins
The Paris News
Published October 13, 2009
Lamar County Commissioners gave their approval to close some county roads near Roxton for a Saturday, Nov. 28 automobile performance rally.
On that day, Rally America, Inc., will officiate at the Armadillo Rally Logistics, with cars racing against time at speeds up to 140 miles per hour on the county roads.
“This will be beneficial to our town and especially to our school,” Roxton Mayor James Cooper told the commissioners. “A dinner will be held at the school, and proceeds will go to the school district. It has been wonderful working with the organizers of this event.”
Those organizers, Juanita and Richard Miller, chairman of Rallye de Paris, told the commissioners: “We will have marshals out there to direct traffic, and we will be responsible for road repair.”
“We are very excited to have this in Roxton,” Juanita Miller said. “This has the potential to get the whole area involved.”
She said residents who live along the county roads will have a window of time to enter or leave, and that the races will stop for any emergency to be handled.
A car show in downtown Paris Friday night will precede the rally.
Assistant County and District Attorney Bill Harris urged the court to include CASA for Kids and Child Advocacy Center to the list of entities to whom jurors may donate their jury payment.
“Every Day we deal with terrible cases, and CASA and Child Advocacy Center are invaluable parts of our DA cases,” Harris said. “They work with us and they work with children.”
Commissioners voted to add the two to the list.
They also approved establishing a Local Data Advisory Board to ensure completeness of data entered into the Criminal Justice Information System.
The court also named Bill Harris as a candidate to the Lamar County Appraisal District board of directors, and reappointed Dr. David L. Steward to the board of directors of Lakes Regional Mental Health Mental Retardation.
Commissioners voted to pursue an energy efficiency and conservation block grant.
“This is a grant we are promised $100,000,” Lamar County Judge Chuck Superville said. “The funds can be used to weatherize the courthouse and the Old Post Office Building.
Commissioners also received information on payment of $150,000 to County Precincts 1 and 3 for damage done to the roads during natural gas pipeline construction. The payment came from Midcontinent Express Co.
The court authorized County Clerk Kathy Marlowe to change the agreement involving film storage, daily indexing and re-key verification services with Tyler-Eagle, and move those services to Safeguard Imaging Solutions.
Commissioners approved the Lamar County salary guidelines and the Lamar County pay schedule.
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