Burnet County commissioners praise collection event supporters

Burnet County commissioners praise collection event supporters Raymond V. Whelan Staff Writer Fri, 04/26/2024 - 02:46 Image Body

The Burnet County Commissioners Court commended all donors and volunteers who participated during the Burnet County BOPATE waste collection event Saturday, April 20.

“Their participation made the program work,” Pct. 4 Commissioner Joe Don Dockery said during the April 23 meeting.

BOPATE stands for batteries, oil, paint (latex only) antifreeze, tires and electronics. From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 20, several locals donated hundreds of unusable domestic items of the sort mentioned to the Burnet County Reuse and Recycle Center, 2411 FM 963, just outside the city of Burnet.

The Central Texas Groundwater Conservation District sponsored the event, along with volunteers from the county, the cities of Burnet, Bertram, Marble Falls, Meadowlakes, Cottonwood Shores, Granite Shoals, Highland Haven, Horseshoe Bay, Reliable Tire Disposal, Hill Country Recycling, Goodwill Central Texas, Green Planet, the Bur net County Community Services Restitution Pro gram and the 33rd/424th Judicial District Intermediate Sanction Facility.

“We very much appreciate them,” Dockery said.

Development Action Turning to other matters, the commissioners approved the release of site improvement bonds for roads through Big Creek Ranch subdivision and accepted the twoyear maintenance bond for the site.

“We have looked at the roads, and they look good," Pct. 1 Commis sioner Jim Luther Jr. said.

Also, the court approved the performance bond for River Hills Ranch, Phase 3.

“It is the last phase,” Pct. 2 Damon Beierle said. Too, the commissioners approved for Richard York a quit claim deed for one less-thanone acre tract out of the northern half of an unimproved portion of the Burnet to Fort Mason Crossing county road.

“It is an old abandoned road,” Development Services Director Herb Darling told the commissioners.

“He (York) wishes to put a greenhouse on the road.”

The road does not appear on the county road map of 2006, Dockery noted.

“I am not sure whether the county has ever owned the road,” County Judge James Oakley said.

Granting the deed to York does not imply the county must disown the road formally, County Attorney Eddie Arredondo said.

“We are saying (through the deed to York), if we had any potential right to the road – we are giving it up,” Arredondo added.

Eclipse Overtime

During time set aside for old business, Burnet County Chief Deputy Alan Trevino reminded the court to focus on overtime pay of about 23 hours for sheriff's office employees during the total solar eclipse event April 8.

It is unclear whether the pay could be expended from the general fund or another fund, County Auditor Karin Smith indicated.

“We will have to look at the numbers,” Oakley said.

4-H Appointee Also during the meeting, the court hired Colton Ripley as the Burnet County Extension Agent for 4-H and Youth Development, effective June 3.

Before the commissioners retreated for a budget workshop, they voted to change the June 25 meeting to June 28, to allow time for Oakley to attend a conference.