{"id":44977,"date":"2025-11-11T14:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44977\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:28:20","slug":"public-works-reports-vacancies-and-open-work-orders-commissioners-praise-staff-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44977\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Works reports vacancies and open work orders; commissioners praise staff response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Works presented a status report on county road projects, staffing, training and safety, and maintenance. The department said it is recruiting for an administrative assistant and listed open work orders: 15 open for unpaved roads, 37 for paved roads, 15 for signs and six for parks. Fleet and routine maintenance showed approximately 73 open work orders.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners publicly commended county crews for stepping in to resolve a berm\/bar-ditch issue inside city limits after the city lacked resources, citing constituent calls praising the countys response.<\/p>\n<p>No motions or funding requests resulted from the report; the item was presented as an informational status update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public Works presented a status report on county road projects, staffing, training and safety, and maintenance. The department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-44977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44977","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=44977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}