This podcast contains comments from the July 26, 2022 Brazos County commission meeting.

Brazos County commissioners learn the estimated cost to build a medical examiner's office to perform autopsies will be more than $22 million dollars.

Click the following link to read and download the consultant's report to county commissioners: https://wtaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/BrCoComm072622MedExPres.pdf

County judge Duane Peters is looking at more than 40 million dollars in federal pandemic grant money as a funding source.

The commission's consultant proposed a 16,000 square foot building that could open as soon as 2026.

By the year 2030, the office is projected to perform 204 autopsies a year for Brazos County and another 104 autopsies a year for surrounding counties.

The office would start with six employees, earning a combined $472,000 dollars a year that does not include county benefits.

Commissioner Steve Aldrich raised the idea of adding a laboratory, which was not included in the consultant's report.