SCHD directors move to TCDRS A lengthy discussion and then a decision regarding the employees’retirementprogram was the main topic at Monday’s meeting of the Shackelford County Hospital District’s board of directors. Arepresentative of the Texas CountyandDistrictRetirement System had presented a couple of plan options at the February meeting, but the directors stopped short of approving the proposal until they had more feedback from district employees.

Shackelford County judge John Viertel announced to commissioners at their March 25 meeting that $250,000 in funding from the state’s Rural Sheriff’s Department Salary Assistance Grant Programhadbeenreceived and was being placed in a separate account for proper distribution and documentation.