I recently received an email from a lady whose parents left Finland after World War II and settled here in the US. She was commenting on an article I had written in 2008 about a fellow Finn who I served with while in Special Forces. Since one of the big issues now going on in [...]
Judge Hogan on Future plans for the County Library
April 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Rockwall County Library Going Forward Recently the Commissioners Court approved the three year strategic plan for the Rockwall County Library. This plan sets the vision and the goals for the organization for the next three years and was developed by the Librarian and the Library Advisory Board. Most citizens are not aware of [...]
Consolidated Dispatch Center
April 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A Problem that needs to be Fixed In the spring of 2011, about 125 citizens gathered in our Library and started the development of a 5 Year Strategic Plan for Rockwall County. The Plan was divided into several major categories, one of which was Law Enforcement. In this area, a major recommendation was “The [...]
Items of Interest from County Judge Jerry Hogan
April 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Recently I had the privilege of presenting to the rest of the County the outstanding employees of 2012 who were selected to receive Certificates of Achievement by their Elected Officials or Department heads. These individuals included Diane Colwill from the JP 2 office, Betty Evans from the Tax Office, Peggy Jones from the County Clerk [...]
Rockwall County Judge Hogan on Veterans Assistance
March 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Rockwall County currently has about 5,850 Veterans who live among us. These men and women have fought in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places that many of us don’t even know about. They have been Infantrymen (Grunts), Medics (Docs), Helicopter pilots and door gunners, Tankers, Cooks, Artillerymen, Special [...]
County Judge Hogan on Taxing Options
February 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Some Taxation Options There are some very interesting discussions now being conducted by the members of the Commissioners Court that should really interest the citizens of our County. One of these is the financial policy on taxation we should be looking at implementing for the near future. In the late 1990′s and early 2000′s, the [...]
You Can Now Hear Rockwall County Commissioners Court
January 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“RUN-HIDE-FIGHT” To continue to provide more transparency into county government, the Commissioners Court voted recently to once again provide audio broadcasts of all Commissioner Court Workshops as well as Commissioner Court meetings. This will enable our citizens to hear all of the discussion about the subjects brought to the Court for resolution. To hear [...]
Commissioner’s Responsibilites Defined
January 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Court Members Areas of Responsibility In Rockwall County, as in every county in Texas, the Commissioners Court is the policy setting organization which is basically responsible for the smooth operation of all county functions. While each elected official in the county has well defined State Statutes on how their office will function and how [...]
Jerry Hogan on Looking to the Future
January 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Jerry Hogan, Rockwall County Judge Looking to the Future Rockwall County dedicated the new courthouse a little over a year ago and we have found it sufficiently large to accommodate the County needs for many years to come. There is room in the County and District Court offices as well as [...]
Jerry Hogan addresses all the Roads in Rockwall County
December 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Who maintains all of our Roads in the County? Within Rockwall County there are four different road systems that must be constructed and maintained: Interstate, Farm to Market (FM), County, and City roads. All City roads/streets are the responsibility of the cities. They decide where the roads [...]
