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County Judge John Roane (front center) stands with fellow Cooke County commissioners and members of the county branch of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. Officials tributed the 100-year anniversary of the extension service’s Family and Consumer Science program during Monday’s regular meeting. Staff photo by Greg Russell

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June 26, 2012

County lauds AgriLife Extension

By GREG RUSSELL, Register Staff Writer Gainesville Daily Register The Daily Register Tue Jun 26, 2012, 09:55 AM CDT

Gainesville — Cooke County commissioners tributed the local branch of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the 100-year anniversary of its Family and Consumer Science program during Monday’s regular meeting.

The regular meeting — which preceded a trio of departmental budget hearings expected to span through late Wednesday — included a proclamation by County Judge John Roane and buffet reception in the county extension office.

Through the proclamation reading, Roane credited the extension service’s Family and Consumer Science program, which began locally in 1912, and thrived through program representative Edna Westbrook Trigg.

The program, he said, was crucial in the initial outreach from the state government to educate rural families with the latest information about farming, gardening and health.

“Home demonstration agents started clubs across Texas to involve more women in bringing household-related skills and information to more rural families,” he said. “Through the first half of the 20th Century, these home demonstration agents went to homes throughout rural Texas.”

Other meeting highlights:

— Commissioners approved interlocal agreements between Cooke County and the cities of Valley View and Muenster, allowing county resources to be used for road maintenance in those two cities. The approval is required when separate taxing entities become coordinated in public works projects.

— Commissioners filed the Cooke County Appraisal District’s preliminary 2012-13 budget of $987,429.

— Commissioners approved the Cooke County Investment Policy.

— Commissioners approved these consent agenda items: fiscal year 2012 budget amendments; monthly bills; payroll and all related expenses; the request of unclaimed capital credits from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts per Texas Property Code Section 74.602; filing of quarterly internal audits of the environmental health and Precincts 1 and 4 constable offices; a donation in the amount of $10 to the Cooke County Library, for research, from Donald Tayloe; a donation in the amount of $20 to the Cooke County Library, for research, from Tom Hoskins; acceptance of the Texas Commission on the Arts quarterly grant for the Cooke County Library in the amount of $162; filing of the Juvenile Probation Department’s fiscal year 2011 annual financial audit; approval of an interlocal participation agreement and resolution with the Harris Department of Education purchasing cooperative; approval of an interlocal participation agreement and resolution with the National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance and Region 14 Education Service Center; approval of the Attorney General of Texas State Case Registry/Local Customer Service contract; approval of setting a 35 mile-per-hour speed limit on County Road 398; and a contract with West Law Subscription Plan Agreement for patron access.