After postponing the inevitable for several years, Shackelford County commissioners bit the bullet to upgrade and replace high-dollar equipment on the Courthouse’s chiller and boiler system, which was installed when the historic building was renovated almost 25 years ago.

At the end of Monday night’s meeting, following the routine closed-session evaluation of AISD superintendent Jonathan Scott, a unanimous motion among all seven board memberspresentextended Scott’s contract by one moreyeartoJanuary2027.

After tabling the item a couple of times in recent meetings, Shackelford County commissioners approved a 48-month energy contractwithTXUthrough Tradition Energy starting in 2025, locking in a price of .0647 cents per kilowatt hour.

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