Michelle Jimenez

Travis County will dish out about $4.5 million more to cover health insurance costs next year under the final plan the commissioners court approved Tuesday.   A preliminary projection for 2011 puts total health claims costs at about $47 million.   To help pay for the increase, employee and retiree premiums will go up 8 […]

Any plan to upgrade Travis County’s downtown campus should include more than the “nuts and bolts” required for day-to-day business — it should include features that would allow the county to weave itself more tightly into the community.   That, essentially, is the message a cross-section of community members delivered during “listening” sessions held in […]

Travis County commissioners on Tuesday approved spending $942,749 in federal money, primarily on road improvements, homebuyer assistance, and social work services.   The money will come from a federal pot know as the Community Development Block Grant, or CDBG, which the county was first awarded in 2006. The court also approved procedural changes it hopes […]

The Travis County Jail needs nearly $8 million in upgrades to extend its life for at least another five years, a county budget official told the Commissioners Court Thursday.   During a work session, Rodney Rhoades, executive manager for the Planning and Budget Office, recommended county commissioners approve $7.6 million for weatherization and air and […]

Travis County staff members presented the commissioners court on Tuesday with the next round of federal grant projects meant to improve the quality of life for residents in the county’s unincorporated areas.   Commissioners are scheduled to vote June 15 on nearly $1 million in proposed Community Development Block Grant spending for the 2010 program […]