Bastrop, Tx–Bastrop County commissioners agreed Monday to pay Time Warner Cable just over $75,000 a year for internet access connections between the Courthouse in Bastrop and six other county offices across the county.
Information technology consultant Ken Cruise of Bastrop told commissioners Monday that current arrangements which rely on telephone T1 lines are not adequate to support the county’s data transfer and communications needs. He recommended the Time Warner offer.
The internet proposal includes the Courthouse in Bastrop, as well as Justice of the Peace courts in Bastrop, Elgin, Smithville and Cedar Creek, plus the sheriff’s department and jail at 200 Jackson St. in Bastrop and the animal control office and shelter on Cool Water Dr. in Lake Bastrop Acres. The monthly fee for service is $6,312 under the agreement.
Also Monday commissioners agreed to pay Bastrop attorney James Kershaw $4,000 a month for use of an office building in the 800 block of Water Street for the next two years beginning Oct. 1. The building presently houses offices for a variety of county functions, including development and permitting services, environmental enforcement, flood plain control as well as health and sanitation operations.
In addition commissioners agreed to extend a contract with Bastrop-based Upstart, Inc. to video tape and broadcast regular commissioner meetings on
Bastrop Community Access Television (Time Warner Cable channel 10 in Bastrop) for the year beginning Oct. 1. The cost of $5,200 for the year is unchanged from the current year.