Agenda item on Tuesday’s commissioners’ court meeting would remove Hidalgo’s emergency powers, though she and Democrats have showed no sign of supporting the move.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo announces the decision to move Harris County to Level Red, which its highest COVID-19 threat level on Jan. 10, 2022, in Spring. Precinct Four Commissioner Jack Cagle has sought to restrict Hidalgo’s emergency powers, in a proposal scheduled for discussion on Tuesday.With Harris County well inside its own code yellow phase of the COVID pandemic, Precinct 4 Commissioner Jack Cagle wants to the take a red pen to the county judge’s emergency powers.
For more than two years, Hidalgo and other leaders around the state have had extraordinary ability because of the public health risks of the pandemic to close and open public places, approve contracts and establish emergency shelters, testing sites and vaccine distribution locations. The contract with Elevate Strategies, which Hidalgo could have approved under her emergency authority, was approved 4-1 by commissioner’s court, with Cagle the lone dissenter.
Rescinding her emergency powers, however, may not be something county officials can do. Numerous elected officials continue to have authority under the disaster declaration, including Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and all county judges across Texas. Under the state’s disaster declaration procedures, county judges in an affected area — in this case all of Texas — have emergency authority.
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