She told the court that the county now has more Department of Public Safety troopers in the county “than we have ever had before.
“My office is being kept very busy with the increased number of tickets that the troopers are turning in to us. We are very fortunate to have this kind of problem,” said Judge Boyd.
She said the highest average number of tickets per month in a given year was 491 and this year her office is averaging 519 per month and there are 442 tickets waiting to be processed.
“And we still have two weeks to go in this month,” she said.
She also said her office has been given the responsibility for truancies and that number has also been increasing.
Precinct Four Commissioner Chloanne Lindsey gave some amounts collected in previous years and said at that time the JP office just had one full-time and one part-time clerk. Precinct One commissioner Ralph Trevey came back and asked what Boyd had collected so far this year and quickly added it up saying, “$200,000 a year more is not too shabby. This should have been an action item, but its not, and that’s a shame.”
Lindsey said, “I’m not saying I’m adamantly against it, but I think we should give it more time.”
The court agreed to put the item on the May 17 agenda.
Commissioners also agreed, without an executive session to allow the judge to enter into a lawsuit against some oil companies. The Snyder ISD has also entered into the lawsuit.
Judge Rod Waller presided at the morning session and all commissioners were present.