{"id":151236,"date":"2011-12-22T10:06:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T16:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=151236"},"modified":"2011-12-23T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T15:58:28","slug":"east-texan-complains-about-cherokee-county-barn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=151236","title":{"rendered":"East Texan Complains about Cherokee County Barn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCHEROKEE COUNTY \u2014 Josie Schoolcraft is an outspoken Cherokee County resident. She used to be chair of the Cherokee County Republican Party, and now, according to KETK, she\u2019s complaining about an upgrade to Precinct 1 Commissioner Kelly Traylor\u2019s new office. \u201cMy main complaint is there wasn\u2019t anything wrong with the office that he had! So he had to walk in the rain a little bit to get over to the barn! What\u2019s the big deal?\u201d Schoolcraft said. So Schoolcraft did some digging of her own. \u201cHe told the media\u2026that he only spent $65,000. Well I have the ledger sheet from the auditor\u2019s office here today and it says he spent $95,272.63.\u201d And she says she has heard the precinct didn\u2019t get bids for the project.<\/p>\n

Traylor sees things a little bit differently. \u201cWe went out for bids and Commissioners Court approved those bids and like I say all this took place\u2026February, March area,\u201d Traylor said. He says the upgrade was needed. \u201cMy office, when I came here, was in a portable building that was over 30 years old out away from the guys,\u201d Traylor said. He hoped to move his office into the barn with his employees, so they budgeted $25,000 for that. \u201cWe got in there and started construction and once we started construction we found that we had major water damage,\u201d Traylor said.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s when they went back to the county to ask for more money to fix the problems, which Traylor says was all approved, and the total on-site projects did come out to around $95,000. Projects included items like the new office, security system and a shed to protect their millions of dollars of equipment that had previously been out in the elements. Traylor says the upgrade was needed to protect the taxpayer\u2019s assets.<\/p>\n

Schoolcraft says even if the precinct took all of the right measures, she still doesn\u2019t approve of the upgraded barn. \u201cI think the money should have been spent more wisely. I think he should have proved to us taxpayers that the building was needed,\u201d Schoolcraft said. Schoolcraft also tells KETK, she feels the county should have been invited to this week\u2019s unveiling of the new barn. Traylor says everyone was invited, and anyone who wants to see what his or her tax money is going to should just come by, and he\u2019ll show you around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHEROKEE COUNTY \u2014 Josie Schoolcraft is an outspoken Cherokee County resident. She used to be chair of the Cherokee County Republican Party, and now, according to KETK, she\u2019s complaining about an upgrade to Precinct 1 Commissioner Kelly Traylor\u2019s new office. \u201cMy main complaint is there wasn\u2019t anything wrong with the office that he had! So … Continue reading East Texan Complains about Cherokee County Barn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 05:25:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151236"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151558,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151236\/revisions\/151558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}