March 21, 2024 - Deep East Texas Council of Governments (DETCOG) Board of Directors will hold their regular monthly meeting Thursday, March 28, 2024, at San Jacinto County Shelter at 255 Live Oak Street in Coldspring, Texas. A Luncheon will be served at noon, and the Board meeting will be held immediately following.
Welcoming members and guests to San Jacinto County will be San Jacinto County Judge Fritz Faulkner, Mayor John Benestante, and San Jacinto County Commissioners Laddie McAnally, Donny Marrs, David Brandon, and Mark Nettuno.
January 8, 2024 - Deep East Texas Council of Governments (DETCOG) Board of Directors will hold their regular monthly meeting Thursday, January 25, 2024, at San Augustine Rodeo Arena at 1109 Oaklawn Street in San Augustine, Texas. A Luncheon will be served at 12 noon, with the Board meeting held immediately following.
Welcoming members and guests to San Augustine County will be San Augustine County Judge Jeff Boyd, Mayor Leroy Hughes, and San Augustine County Commissioners Tommy Pickard, Daniel Holman, Joey Holloway, and Steve Bryan.
July 13, 2023 - Deep East Texas Council of Governments (DETCOG) Board of Directors will hold their regular monthly meeting Thursday, July 27, 2023, at First Baptist Church Life Center at 301 Mann Street in Hemphill, Texas. A Luncheon will be served at noon, and the Board meeting will be held immediately following.
Welcoming members and guests to Sabine County will be Sabine County Judge Daryl Melton and Sabine County Commissioners Brent Cox, Keith Nabours, Stanley Jacks, and James Lowe.
January 23, 2023 - Notice of public meeting of the Board of Directors of Deep East Texas Council of Governments and the Economic Development District on Thursday, January 26, 2023, at 12:00 noon at the San Augustine County Expo Center, 1109 Oaklawn Street, San Augustine, TX 75972.
May 31, 2022 - A leading educator of dementia caregivers, Tam Cummings, PhD, will be the featured speaker at the 2022 Caregivers Conference. Cummings is the author of four books for dementia caregivers, and developed the Dementia Behavioral Assessment Tool (DBAT) for classifying dementia stages by behaviors. Cummings is also a pioneer in developing measurement and classification tools for Frontotemporal Dementias – a condition called “Cruelest Disease You’ve Never Heard Of” by the television new show 60 Minutes.
May 6, 2022 - The Deep East Texas Council of Governments’ Board of Directors will hold their regular monthly meeting Thursday, May 26, 2022, in the Nacogdoches County Exposition and Civic Center at 3805 NW Stallings Drive in Nacogdoches, Texas. A Luncheon will be served at noon, and the Board meeting will be held immediately thereafter.
April 20, 2022 - The Deep East Texas Council of Governments’ Board of Directors will hold their regular monthly meeting Thursday, April 28, 2022, in the Windham Civic Center at 146 Express Blvd in Center, Texas. A Luncheon will be served at noon, and the Board meeting will be held immediately thereafter.
Welcoming members and guests will be Shelby County Judge Allison Harbison, Center Mayor David Chadwick and Shelby County Commissioners Roscoe McSwain, Jimmy Lout, Stevie Smith and Tom Bellmyer also Shelby County Minority Representative, Debra Johnson.
April 14, 2020 - Deep East Texas Council of Governments & Economic Development District is taking proactive measures to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Therefore, the regular monthly board of directors meeting will be held online as a webinar at Noon on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Please note – there will be no in-person meeting.
To attend the meeting, please use the information provided below:
March 19, 2020 - Texas Health and Human Services encourages all Texans in need of COVID-19 information and referrals to community resources to call the 2-1-1 Texas hotline 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
March 19, 2020 - The Deep East Texas Council of Governments (DETCOG) has cancelled its March Board of Directors Meeting. The meeting was scheduled to be held March 26 in Coldspring.
“In light of the current concerns about the COVID-19 Coronavirus, we will not have a regular board meeting this month,” announced DETCOG President Bill Holder. The Executive Committee will meet March 31 at the DETCOG Building in Lufkin. DETCOG Bylaws authorize the Executive Committee to act on matters that require action in between Board meetings.