Kerr County commissioners spent much of Monday's meeting locked in an unresolved fight over oversight of the county's volunteer fire departments, while a separate debate over Confederate imagery at the county's Memorial Day ceremony ended with commissioners told they have no legal authority to intervene.

Two closely watched items - creation of a County Elections Administrator and an appeal of a FEMA denial on flood-related autopsy costs - were tabled and did not come up for discussion.

Fire department oversight What began as a routine item to clarify that Emergency Management Coordinator Shorey Harmon is not the county's formal liaison to the Kerr Area Rural Fire Association turned into an extended, unresolved debate over how, or whether, the county should oversee its volunteer fire departments.