The Cameron County Commissioners Court voted on a number of consent and action items during its April 8, 2025 meeting. The court recorded motions and outcomes on a range of items including personnel reclassification, procurement contracts, permit approvals, board appointments and legal authorizations. The following summarizes each item as recorded in the meeting transcript.

Votes at a glance (motion text, mover/second, outcome, key details):

- Reclassify position PCN 409499001 from Special Projects Director to Planning and Development Director; approve job description and pay grade 131. Motion by Commissioner Lopez, seconded by Commissioner Gottes; result: approved (voice vote). Correction to PCN noted at meeting.

- Authorize job-order contract (BuyBoard #728-24; Cameron County contract #2025C-04136) with Noble Texas Builders for 130 Williams Road renovations; price subject to value engineering, amount not to exceed $5,588,982.88 (figure stated at meeting). Motion by Commissioner Garza, seconded by Commissioner Rees; result: approved (subject to value engineering).

- Authorize execution of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department waiver of retroactivity for the Bejerano McFarland Memorial Park land-acquisition local park grant program (to permit use of purchase funds and expand land acquisition). Motion by Commissioner Garza, seconded by Commissioner Lopez; result: approved (voice vote). County officials cited rapid state and federal sign-offs that enabled faster acquisition.

- Table contract HHS001562700002 with Texas DSHS under the Texas Public Health Fellowship Grant Program and Cameron County Public Health (item tabled by County Public Health staff due to federal funding cuts). Motion to table by Commissioner Lopez, seconded by Commissioner Garza; result: motion carries (voice vote).

- Approve beachfront construction certificate and dune-protection permit for Space Exploration Technologies Corp. to install a fence around the launch pad (consistency review completed; GLO authorization noted). Motion by Commissioner Garza, seconded by Commissioner Lopez; result: approved (voice vote).

- Approve technical assistance agreement TAA20-002 with North American Development Bank to develop a Lower Rio Grande Valley water-resources plan; court approved $700,000 total, county share $350,000 with 10% local match noted for each participating county. Motion by Commissioner Rees, seconded by Commissioner Garza; result: approved (voice vote).

- Approve remaining consent agenda items, travel items, and budget amendments as presented (including salary schedule updates and removal of inadvertent COVID-related salary lines). Motion to approve consent by Commissioner Rees, seconded by Commissioner Lopez; result: approved (voice vote).

- Approve claims and payroll as presented; Commissioner Benavides recorded an abstention for one warrant. Motion by Commissioner Gattis, seconded by Commissioner Lopez; result: approved (voice vote); noted abstention recorded in the minutes.

- Appointment and oath: Appoint Gonzalo Salazar to Cameron County Drainage District No. 1; motion by Commissioner Garza, seconded by Commissioner Lopez; result: approved (voice vote). Court arranged to administer oath.

- Appoint Oscar Thamez to Cameron County Drainage District No. 6; motion by Commissioner Rees, seconded by Commissioner Garza; result: approved (voice vote). Oath of office administered at the meeting.

- Approve naming correction to honor former Sheriff Alex Bettison: name the Cameron County Sheriffs Old County Jail building at 954 East Harrison Street in honor of Alex Bettison and authorize signage purchase/installation. Motion by Commissioner Lopez, seconded by Commissioner Benavides; result: approved (voice vote). Address and building title were corrected in motion.

- Approve removal of caps on penalties, fines and fees for repeated, purposeful or egregious violations of Cameron County policy, the International Residential Code, the International Fire Code, and Texas Local Government Code; motion by Commissioner Garza, seconded by Commissioner Benavides, subject to legal review; result: approved (voice vote).

- After executive session, the court approved three administrative agreements: a comedy show at the county amphitheater (authorize county judge to sign and auditor to pay invoices), a license agreement with the Salvation Army to store canteens at the old Curves building, and a license agreement with the Cameron County Bar Association to use the Dancy Courthouse for continuing legal-education seminars. Motions by Commissioner Lopez, seconded by Commissioner Benavides; results: approved (voice votes).

- Authorize civil legal to represent Cameron County in eminent-domain proceeding, cause no. 2025 CCL-292 (State of Texas v. Margo Development LLC). Motion by Commissioner Lopez, seconded by Commissioner Garza; result: approved (voice vote).

Ending: The transcript records the votes above as voice votes with the motions, movers and seconds stated. Where the transcript cited specific contract numbers, PCN numbers, or match percentages, those details are included; where details were not provided in the record, the summary marks them as not specified or subject to later legal review.