Rockwall GOP Grand Opening

       YOU ARE INVITED     The Rockwall County Republican Party’s office has moved to 112 Kenway in Rockwall.  A Grand Opening  celebration will be held on May 18, 2013  from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. at that location.  You are cordially invited to  join all interested area Republicans for cake, punch and cookies.  

Judge Hogan on Future plans for the County Library

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

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

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

  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

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

  “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 [...]

Jerry Hogan on Looking to the Future

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 [...]

Invitation to Rockwall County Republican Women’s Club Meeting

I hope you have all started out 2013 with a great start!  The Republicans of Rockwall County are continuing our momentum for this New Year and need your involvement. I would like to invite you to our next meeting on Monday, January 14, 2013, 6:30pm at Harry Myers Park. Dinner will be served for all [...]

Jerry Hogan addresses all the Roads in Rockwall County

            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 [...]