The county’s weed department has been trying to function without a functioning vehicle, proper conditions for chemical storage, unsecured storage areas for herbicides and other needs, and county commissioners agreed to fix these problems after hearing about it last week.

“I feel like we need to give this department the tools it needs to do the job it was designed to do,” said County Commission Chairwoman Lynn Padgett said, adding it’s a matter of safety to property fund some of th...