Chet Edwards For Congress

Working Hard for Grimes County

Chet Edwards believes it is important for Grimes County residents to see some of their hard-earned tax money come back home for important transportation, health care and law enforcement programs.

These investments mean better roads, safer communities and better health care for Grimes County families:

Making Our Communities Safer and Supporting Law Enforcement

• Chet secured $400,000 for the Grimes County Sheriff’s Office to purchase Mobile Data Terminals (MDTs), Mobile Radios and new patrol car gun locks. The new terminal units will greatly enhance the communication between the dispatchers at the sheriff’s office and the street officers in the field. The new gunlocks will be a safer measure for securing shotguns and rifles in the front seat of the patrol car, in turn making the firearms more accessible to officers in emergency situations.

Economic Development through Better and Safer Roads& Bridges

• Chet secured $392,000 for the paving of CR 172 in Grimes County.




• Chet secured $400,000 for the Grimes County Bridge Improvement Project in 2005. These funds will not only address the needs of three bridges in need of replacement, but will allow Grimes County to free up precious dollars for other pressing transportation issues in the county.

Working for Better Health Care for Grimes County Families

• Chet secured $200,000 for St. Joseph’s Hospital for renovation and construction of emergency room facilities. The funding is being used to complete a renovation project of the Center’s emergency room, focusing on upgrading the emergency treatment room.

Protecting Local Water Quality

• Chet secured $75,000 for the Brazos River Authority (BRA) under the Brazos Navasota Watershed Management Project to protect agricultural operations and local economies while also protecting water quality in the Brazos Valley. This funding continues an ongoing study that monitors nutrient levels in the basin in order to prevent high levels of phosphorus from affecting water quality in the Brazos Valley.