In a seemingly routine vote at their February 12 meeting, members of Fort Bend County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to appoint Precinct 3 Commissioner Andy Meyers as the county’s primary delegate to the Houston-Galveston Area Council, a highly influential body that distributes millions of dollars in federal funding for multiple infrastructure and other projects across a 13-county region.
The measure was passed with little discussion other than from Precinct 4 Commissioner Dexter McCoy, who noted that the vote reversed one the court made in December 2022 when the court’s Democratic majority – which then included County Judge KP George – voted to replace Meyers, a Republican, with George. McCoy had been elected to the Precinct 4 seat a month before and did not take office until the following January, replacing Ken DeMerchant, whom he had defeated in the Democratic primary earlier that year.
“It seems like it was a waste of time,” McCoy said of that December 2022 vote…