I hope Commissioners Court works through the pain exhibited at Monday’s regular meeting.
County Judge Bobby Seiferman and Commissioners Bubba Frick, Troy Shemek and Bubba Cook went through some tough gymnastics over shifting the county meeting schedule from a weekly session to a two-meeting agenda each month.
Anyway, the meeting ended with those favoring putting off the matter for a while.
Shemek mentioned January as his choice for holding off a decision on the meeting frequency.
And that certainly wasn’t what the Judge had in mind.
He was set to go Monday about changing the meetings and going ahead with a consent agenda.
Consent agendas, to freshen your memory, are routine non-controversial matters though a single action.
Meanwhile, most of the people who attend commissioners court meetings here are unhappy about what they feel is the embrace ofdata centers, solar panels and battery storage units.
I’ll confess I don’t claim to now how these devices work, but I understand the angst both sides feel.
Pro-business officials take the position that data centers, solar panels are necessary for progress.
In the case of solar panels, I find it interesting that many of my friends favor Trump, and presumably his hatred of clean energy.
Go figure out a President who’ll spend millions in tax dollars to erase windmills.
Or, they pick and choose which of his preferences they can live with.
I do see the down side of data centers, but at some point I understand we need this technology.
I think we don’t give up – or give in - until we’ve figured out how to make these things safer, less energy greedy or thirsty.
In short, less of a threat.
Until then, I’m certainly not pushing for a rapid transition without finding better answers.
Governments will have to get those answers if they truly stand for their citizens’ health and safety.
Right now, we have choices, including who we vote for.
Pay attention to what happens in Austin this legislative session.
