City of Angus News

12/05/2023

11/29/2023

The following information needs to be of public information. On Dec 1,2023, the Angus VFD WILL continue to respond to calls within our incorporated area. A call for service beyond our city limits may not be answered. We regret this and hope the county responds to resolve this. The commissioners and judge have known this for many months and have not acted to resolve it timely. The county has chosen to not compensate us. As stated in the following letter, we have asked to have a month to month continuation of the current contract until the new contract has been completed but that hasn’t happened. No department in the county has been under contract since Sept 30th and no money has been paid for services rendered. Below is a letter which was presented to our Navarro County Judge and Commissioners. Please, please reach out to your county commissioner and judge and let them know your thoughts.

To Navarro County Commissioners Court

The Navarro County Volunteer Firefighters Association called for a Chief’s Meeting on Thursday timely, November 16, 2023 where we discussed the contract that has lapsed since October 1, 2023. We understand changes are being made to a new contract due to liability. We would like to request the contract that expired, be extended to January 1, 2024, until the new contract can be completed and agreed-upon. We do not want to put the citizens that we are here to protect in danger of not having fire protection. We ask that the monthly subsidiary be reinstated to continue with the contract as well. Every department in the county depends on this money to assist with paying bills and fueling trucks every month. This is taxpayer money that has already been allocated to the fire departments. We all understand the liability, and we feel that there’s too much of a liability for us to respond to calls without a contract. We are trying to protect ourselves from a potential lawsuit as well. If we do not have a contract by November 30, 2023 at midnight there may be an interruption to service provided to Navarro County citizens. I am sure this is a liability in itself that Navarro County Commissioners Court does not want to assume the responsibility for.

Navarro County Volunteer Firefighters Association

11/29/2023

TODAY IS THE DAY!!

It's Giving Tuesday and that means it's the perfect day to donate to your local volunteer fire department. (Although any day is a good day to support volunteer firefighters.) Giving Tuesday is a nationwide effort to encourage donating to local nonprofits, charities and organizations that do good things. What could be better than showing some love to all the volunteers serving their communities as first responders?? If you are able to make a monetary contribution, your local VFD would be grateful. They are also looking for volunteers to join them. Or perhaps you can offer goods or services they can use or raffle off to raise money? So many ways to give!! And if by chance you can't make it happen today, don't worry - they will appreciate any donations made on any day of the year.

11/07/2023

TxDot informed Mayor Humphries this morning that they will not make service roads one-way at this time. This item has been removed from the November 14th agenda.

10/24/2023

Angus Residents: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.
Please attend the Nov. 14th Council Meeting at Angus City Hall at 7 p.m. A representative from TxDot will be here to discuss making the service roads one-way. Please voice your opinion.

10/14/2023

The county wide burn ban has been lifted.

07/07/2023

Note from the Mayor's office:

On Wednesday, July 5th, I recieved a call from. Commissioner of Agriculture Sid Miller awarding and personally congratulating the City of Angus Volunteer Fire Department on recieveing a grant in the amount of $750,000.

I would like to thank Commissioner Miller, and congatulate Chief Jerry Newsom and all of the Department for their dedication and hard work to make this happen.

You're the Best!

Mayor Humphries