Kelly said during the meeting that the commission approved a 20% budget increase two years ago to recruit and retain deputies using money from the general county fund. A year later when the county sheriff's office was granted $500,000 from SB22, the county judge said that money was supposed to be used to offset the cost of the budget increase.

The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has collected the funding and started handing it to nonprofits through its Kerr County Relief Fund after the July 4 flood disaster.

Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management and representatives from the Upper Guadalupe River Authority are expected to testify.

Testimony will be heard from those in charge of managing rivers as well as emergency managers and first responders about the flash flooding that killed at least 135 people.

Texas lawmakers made it clear Wednesday that they won't “armchair quarterback” or seek accountability as they review the July 4 floods that killed at least 136 people, even as local officials face growing scrutiny over why more warnings weren’t sent to residents in harm’s way along the Guadalupe River.