Conroe, October 27 – As Montgomery County government Budget Office Director Amanda “Rubber Stamp” Carter presented the “Salary Schedule” for Fiscal Year 2019, which began on October 1, 2018, to the Montgomery County Commissioners Court meeting on September 25, 2018, the regular citizens sitting in the audience sat in shock, four of the five members […]
Conroe, October 8 – Montgomery County Auditor Phyllis Martin, the entire Montgomery County Commissioners Court, and Budget Office Director Amanda Carter intend to break Texas law flagrantly at the Commissioners Court meeting on October 9, 2018, by making at least thirty-nine (39) “budget amendments” as “emergency expenditures” “in case of grave public necessity” when, in […]
Image: Precinct 1 Montgomery County Commissioner Mike Meador has held a fundraiser each year in which County vendors pay him money in the form of campaign funds in order to get lucrative contracts with the Montgomery County government. Meador is openly and proudly corrupt. Conroe, October 1 – Precinct 1 Montgomery County Commissioner Mike Meador, […]
Conroe, September 27 – Precinct 1 County Commissioner Mike Meador is the King of the “Slush Fund,” as the Fiscal Year 2019 Salary Schedule reveals. Meador has an enormous number of employees in Commissioners Precinct 1, even though it is the least active Precinct in growth, mobility needs, and population growth. There’s a trick to […]
Image: Political “establishment” and family mix. Robert Walker, Precinct 1 County Commissioner Mike Meador’s cousin, at far right (blue shirt), along with Cousin Mike (far left), and a mix of family and politicians in between them. Conroe, September 24 – Precinct 1 County Commissioner Mike Meador has nominated his cousin Robert Walker as Commissioner of […]
Conroe, September 19 – The disrespect of Precinct 1 Montgomery County Commissioner Mike Meador and Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley towards law enforcement overwhelmed the August 28, 2018, meeting of the Montgomery County Commissioners Court. Montgomery County Sheriff Rand Henderson asked to put ten new patrol officers on the streets of Montgomery County which […]
Conroe, September 16 – On September 5, 2018, the Montgomery County Commissioners Court met and slammed the citizens of Montgomery County with two votes to set the budget at a stratospheric $344,381,573 for Fiscal Year 2019 which begins October 1, 2018, and ends September 30, 2019. After some very insightful comments by 9th District Judge […]
Conroe, September 8 – Montgomery County Sheriff Rand Henderson just barely squeaked by with approval from the Montgomery County Commissioners Court at its regular August 28, 2018, meeting to hire ten (10) new patrol deputies with funds he saved by not spending his full budget during Fiscal Year 2018. During the so-called “budget process,” the […]
Image: Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack urged the Montgomery County Commissioners Court to reduce the County Auditor’s Budget by the amount of money set aside for the Budget Office, which took away some of the County Auditor’s functions. The Auditor, Phyllis Martin, fought against reducing the bureaucracy of her department. Noack’s motion passed […]
Conroe, September 4 – Like a teenager who refuses to clean his filthy bedroom, the Montgomery County Commissioners Court refuses to address its budget mess. The Commissioners Court will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, September 5, 2018, at 9:00 a.m. (NOT 9:30 a.m.) on the proposed Fiscal Year 2019 Budget. Despite their failure to […]