Members of the inaugural Texas County Emergency Services board stand with county commissioners in June 2014 following the board's first meeting last Wednesday at the county administrative building in downtown Houston. Front row, from left: Licking Rural Fire Department Board President Kent Sturgeon, Licking City Administrator Scott Lindsey, Associate Commissioner Linda Garrett, Board Director Carol Ann Freeman, Houston Police Chief Jim McNiell (appointed to the board as a county citizen). Back row, Texas County Sheriff James Sigman, Presiding Commissioner Fred Stenger, Wes Ellison (appointed as a citizen), TCMH Emergency Medical Services Director Bill Bridges, Associate Commissioner John Casey. 

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