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Volume 31, Issue 26
Winnie Sto well EMS Holds Monthly Meeting By Wade Thibodeaux The Winnie Stowell Emergency Medical Service Board of Directors held their regular monthly meeting on Monday, June 15, 2020 at 7:00 pm. at the EMS station located at 249 Broadway in Winnie, Texas. The monthly meeting was mostly a bill paying session with some $21,573.67 in monthly bills approved for payment. The EMS Coordinators report showed 92 calls for assistance with 54 transports, 29 refusals, 3 patient assists, 1 helicopter call, and 5 were cancelled. Directors approved getting
bids for the expansion of the station due to larger sizes of ambulances becoming more prevalent and they also approved some of the employees to enroll in some continuing education classes at the State EMS Conference. The board retired into executive session at 7:39 pm. to discuss personnel matters. The next regular meeting of the Winnie Stowell EMS Board of Directors will be Monday, July 20, 2020 at 7:00 pm. at the station located at 249 Broadway in Winnie, Texas.
Cement Truck Rolls Over
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
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Peaceful Protest March Comes Through Winnie
Many participants carried signs as they marched in a peaceful protest. By Wade Thibodeaux 2020. The march started on State Highway 124   A peaceful protest in the Stowell Park and before returning to the march that included traveled Northward Stowell Park. Protesters several dozens of people on Campbell, then could be seen carrying came through Winnie Westward on LeBlanc signs supporting last Friday, June 19, and then traveled South Black Lives Matter
and addressing racial inequalities. Several water stations were located along the route to provide refreshing drinks to the participants.
Concrete anyone??? This load was free for the taking.....you just had to clean up the mess. *This story is rerunning from last week due to complications By Wade Thibodeaux Crews responding to an accident on Interstate 10 by Jenkins Road found a cement truck that was overturned and had concrete covering the roadway. The accident occurred on June 11, 2020 about 6:00 in the morning and involved another vehicle. The
concrete truck veered off of I-10, went through the ditch, and overturned on Dozens of people participated in the peaceful protest march last Friday. the feeder road, spilling it's entire load onto the roadway. Crews had the mess cleaned up by early afternoon with minimal disruption to traffic as most of the problems were on the service road and not the main lanes. The driver of the concrete truck was taken by ambulance to a Beaumont hospital.
Possible Illegal Quorum for TBCD Board Members
Trinity Bay Fires General Manager
By Wade Thibodeaux The Trinity Bay Conservation District Board of Directors held a special meeting last Friday, June 19, 2020 at 9:00 am. in which they voted 3-2 to buy out the contract of General Manager Jerry Shadden. Those voting in favor of the buyout were Board President Jeffery Jenkins, Director Dorothy Hamilton, and Director Cody Bauer. Voting against the motion to terminate and buy out the contract were Director Tommy Gilbert and Director Greg Turner. According to Attorney
Hubert Oxford IV, who was in attendance at the meeting, the board has 30 days to determine the amount per the contract and to complete settlement. The agenda item to discuss a contract for computers was what led to the motion to terminate the employment contract with Shadden and it had been moved up in the order of the meeting to one of the first items of discussion. After the vote was taken and Shadden was essentially terminated, Directors Gilbert and Turner left the (contd on page 8)
Trinity Bay Conservation District Board Members Dorothy Hamilton(Blue Denim), Cody Bauer(White Shirt), and Jeffery Jenkins(Blue Shirt) are seen collaborating together at an event last Friday. By Wade Thibodeaux  Three Trinity Bay Conservation District Board Members were spotted handing out water to participants in the recent peaceful protest march last Friday. The photo is somewhat blurry, but video posted
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to Facebook confirmed the presence of Jeffery Jenkins, Dorothy Hamilton, and Cody Bauer at the event. The Texas Open Meetings Act handbook defines a quorum as three out of a five member board being in the same location at
the same time. The march was several miles long and it would seem proper that these three could have spread out in different locations if they wanted to adhere to the regulations of the open meetings laws. The three voted together to
terminate and buy out the contract of TBCD general manager Jerry Shadden at a meeting earlier in the day, so what could have been so pressing that they had to gather together again in the afternoon. Even if no Trinity Bay Conservation District business was discussed at this gathering, from an appearance sake, it would seem that these directors would not want the public scrutiny that comes with the three of them in the same location. The above sentence has an ironic twist of fate as Chambers County Sheriff's Office records show that Director Hamilton filed a complaint with (contd on page 8)
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