Bastrop, Tx–When Bastrop County commissioners meet Monday they will once again consider scheduling at least some evening meetings, perhaps once each quarter. The topic will come up when commissioners meet at 9 a.m. Monday on the second floor of the Bastrop County Courthouse Annex, 804 Pecan St.
The lack of evening meetings has been a complaint of some county residents for years. They work during the day, when commissioners typically meet, and they say the dislike the inability to attend meetings of interest because of the meeting time. The complaint surfaced again in 2008 during the campaigns for county offices. And commissioners will take up the issue again.
In the past, commissioners have on occasion scheduled evening sessions, but so far the experiments have occasioned little boost in voter attendance or, perhaps, of public understanding of issues county officials have to make decisions on, according to some officials.