Robstown water district reports violation tied to drinking water quality<\/a><\/p>\nThe $1.2 million facility, built and donated by Wyatt Ranches, is set to open at 3 p.m. Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
City officials say the building brings together law enforcement, city offices and a municipal court under one roof for the first time in the town of about 800 residents.<\/p>\n
Agua Dulce City Marshal Joe Martinez said the rural town has historically lacked a consistent law enforcement presence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe city of Agua Dulce, they never had law enforcement,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cYou\u2019d have to go back 60 to 70 years to the last marshals here. There are records of one being elected, but nobody really knows what happened to him. Back in the Wild West, you can pretty much figure out what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martinez, who has served as marshal since 2018, said the new facility will house his three-person department along with a Nueces County deputy, allowing officers to operate within city limits instead of from miles away.<\/p>\n
Agua Dulce Mayor John Howard said the project also gives the town its first dedicated government building that it doesn’t have to share with Nueces County, including a City Hall that doubles as a municipal courtroom.<\/p>\n
The facility features seating for the public, a fireplace and several vintage design elements.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis window came out of an antique building,\u201d Howard said. \u201cOur secretary will sit at her desk, slide this drawer out and people can put their money in that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Howard said he initially reached out to Wyatt Ranches with a simple request.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wrote them a letter and asked if they could help,\u201d he said. \u201cAt a meeting, they called me and said, \u2018You got your building.\u2019 I never expected this.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ranch funded the project and sent construction crews \u2014 along with ranch workers \u2014 to complete the build over the course of a year.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though we were in the midst of a historic drought, we took time off to get all this coordinated so we could give something back to the city of Agua Dulce,\u201d said Walter Mencias, a division livestock foreman with Wyatt Ranches. \u201cSomething they can enjoy and cherish.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officials say while parts of the building reflect the past, the project represents a step into the future for the community.<\/p>\n
The opening ceremony is scheduled for Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agua Dulce’s $1.2 million municipal plaza opens Saturday, uniting police, municipal court, and city hall under one roof…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-254933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}