One industry, one advisory board, two county contracts
What this page is. Public records, each with its source, retrieval time and file hash. It does not suggest or imply that any person or entity has engaged in illegal or improper conduct. Many people and entities have the same or similar names; open the source before relying on a match. Figures marked derived are computed from the records by the rule on the Method page and are not findings. Corrections.
Montgomery County created a Towing Advisory Board in April 2021 and seated it with nine people. Every one of them owned or ran a towing company. The board was disbanded in June 2023. Two years later the county's towing contracts went to a company whose president had held one of those seats — and the contract she replaced was cancelled mid-term, four months after its holder had renewed it.
None of that is an accusation, and the page says so at the bottom in its own words. It is a sequence of government records, each one dated and cited, put in order for the first time.
April 2021. Commissioner Noack moved to create a Towing Advisory Board, seconded by Commissioner Metts. The minutes record that it should "consist of 2 members appointed from each Precinct." Two weeks later the court seated nine people. Every one of them owned or was an officer of a towing company, each named by the commissioner for their own precinct.
That much is ordinary. Industry advisory boards are routinely staffed by the industry — that is frequently the point of them. Against the wider record it is still the outlier: of 445 people appointed to county boards across twenty-four years of minutes, 24 — about 5% — ever gave money to a county official. A board that is 100% one industry is not the norm; it is the exception that was designed that way.
June 2023. The board was disbanded and towing operations moved to the Sheriff's Office. The same meeting approved the Fourth Amendment to the ordinance governing the towing rotation. What the board recommended in the twenty-six months in between is not in the minutes, and has not been produced.
November 2024. Allpoints Towing, LLC exercised the third of three renewal options on Project 21-37 Towing Services. A vendor at the end of its renewal ladder, still holding the county's towing work.
February 2025. Amy Milstead — president of Milstead Automotive, and one of the nine who had held a seat on the disbanded board — gave $500 to County Judge Keough on the 13th and $2,500 to Commissioner Gray on the 28th.
25 March 2025. The court moved to "acknowledge the immediate cancellation of Project 21-37 Towing Services contract with Allpoints Towing, LLC" and awarded 21-37 "with the only remaining bidder" to Milstead Automotive, LTD. The motion was made by Commissioner Riley and seconded by Commissioner Wheeler.
A sitting vendor's contract cancelled mid-term, four months after it renewed, and the work moved to the only bidder left from a solicitation four years old. Allpoints Towing appears nowhere in the county campaign-finance file. Only the incoming vendor gave.
June 2025. Project #25-24, Additional Towing Services, also went to Milstead Automotive. Between the two awards, Amy Milstead gave Constable Hayden $750 and Timothy Knox gave him $2,000.
October 2025. Five Knox-family gifts reached Commissioner Gray across twelve days, totalling $4,870.
7 May 2026. Project 25-24 was renewed — the first of three renewal options. This is not history. If the remaining options are exercised the arrangement runs toward the end of the decade.
Towing Advisory Board created on Commissioner Noack's motion, seconded by Commissioner Metts. The minutes record it should “consist of 2 members appointed from each Precinct.”
Commissioners Court minutes, 2021-04-13Board seated. Nine members, every one an owner or officer of a towing company.
Commissioners Court minutes, 2021-04-27Board disbanded; towing operations move to the Sheriff's Office. Fourth Amendment to the Ordinance Regulating Incident Management Towing Rotation approved the same day.
Commissioners Court minutes, 2023-06-13Allpoints Towing, LLC exercises the third of three renewal options on Project 21-37 Towing Services.
Commissioners Court minutes, 2024-11-19Amy Milstead, CEO, gives $500 to County Judge Keough.
County campaign-finance report, KeoughAmy Milstead, President of Milstead Automotive, gives $2,500 to Commissioner Gray.
County campaign-finance report, GrayCourt acknowledges the IMMEDIATE CANCELLATION of the 21-37 towing contract with Allpoints Towing, and awards 21-37 “with the only remaining bidder” to Milstead Automotive, LTD. Moved by Commissioner Riley, seconded by Commissioner Wheeler.
Commissioners Court minutes, 2025-03-25Amy Milstead gives $750 to Constable Hayden.
County campaign-finance report, HaydenTimothy Knox gives $2,000 to Constable Hayden.
County campaign-finance report, HaydenProject #25-24 Additional Towing Services awarded to Milstead Automotive, LTD. Moved by Commissioner Walker, seconded by Commissioner Wheeler.
Commissioners Court minutes, 2025-06-10Five Knox-family gifts to Commissioner Gray begin, totalling $4,870 over twelve days.
County campaign-finance report, GrayProject 25-24 renewed — the first of three renewal options. The arrangement runs on.
Commissioners Court minutes, 2026-05-07| Todd Stowe | County Judge's representative | Stowe's Wrecker Service | — |
| Shae Adamick | Precinct 1 | Johnny Adamick Wrecker Service, LLC | — |
| Charlie Miller | Precinct 1 | Miller Towing & Recovery | — |
| Richard Wible | Precinct 2 | S & B Towing | — |
| Clint Bass | Precinct 2 | Bass Towing & Recovery | — |
| Amy Milstead | Precinct 3 | Milstead Towing; officer of Milstead Collision and Milstead Management | President of Milstead Automotive, the company later awarded both county towing contracts |
| Joe Kearns | Precinct 3 | Quick Tow Wrecker Service | — |
| David Knox | Precinct 4 | Saddle Creek Towing (registered agent) | Seated under Commissioner Metts; Commissioner Gray took office 2023-01-10 |
| Dalton Knox | Precinct 4 | EMC Wrecker / EMC Car Care & Towing LLC | Seated under Commissioner Metts |
Read from the minutes of 2021-04-27. The two Precinct 4 seats were filled under Commissioner Metts; Commissioner Gray took office 2023-01-10.
| 2026-05-18 | Amy Milstead | Gable | $200 | Owner | Milstead Automotive |
| 2026-01-30 | Milstead Technologies LLC | Doolittle | $1,750 | — |
| 2026-01-30 | Milstead Technologies LLC | Doolittle | lost to OCR | Morris, Jim |
| 2026-01-23 | Adamick, Stanley Jason | Doolittle | $1,000 | — |
| 2025-10-28 | Knox, David | Gray | $2,800 | — |
| 2025-10-28 | Knox, David | Gray | lost to OCR | Forms provided by Texas Ethics Commission | --- PAGE 25 --- |
| 2025-10-27 | Knox, Timathy | Gray | $1,000 | — |
| 2025-10-27 | Knox, Timothy | Gray | $30 | — |
| 2025-10-23 | Knox, Katie | Gray | $30 | eee eee } |
| 2025-10-23 | Knox, Woodroe | Gray | $10 | — |
| 2025-10-23 | Knox, Katie | Gray | lost to OCR | — |
| 2025-10-23 | Knox, Woadroe | Gray | lost to OCR | — |
| 2025-10-16 | Knox, Dalton | Gray | $1,000 | — |
| 2025-09-19 | Amy Milstead | Gable | $1,000 | — |
| 2025-08-22 | Milstead PC Investment LLC | Riley | lost to OCR | — |
| 2025-08-13 | Milstead, Ken | Riley | lost to OCR | — |
| 2025-06-04 | Knox, Timothy ‘ | Hayden | $2,000 | Forms provided by Texas Ethics Commission www. ethics.state.tx.us Vers |
| 2025-05-15 | Milstead, Amy (Ms.) | Hayden | $750 | — |
| 2025-02-28 | Milstead, Amy | Gray | $2,500 | President Milstead Automotive |
| 2025-02-28 | Milstead, Amy | Gray | lost to OCR | President Milstead Automotive | $150.00 |
| 2025-02-18 | Amy J. Milstead | Gable | $500 | — |
| 2025-02-13 | Milstead, Amy | Keough | $500 | CEO |
| 2025-01-24 | MILSTEAD HOLDINGS LLC | Doolittle | $10,000 | — |
| 2024-08-27 | Amy Milstead | Gable | $1,700 | — |
| 2024-07-23 | Milstead PC Investment LLC | Riley | $250 | — |
| 2024-05-24 | Amy Milstead | Gable | $475 | — |
| 2024-04-24 | Miller Towing & Recovery LLC | Doolittle | lost to OCR | — |
| 2024-04-18 | Kearns, Joseph | Doolittle | lost to OCR | — |
| 2024-04-04 | Amy Milstead | Gable | $500 | — |
| 2024-03-08 | Kearns, Joe | Doolittle | lost to OCR | Forms provided by Texas Ethics Commission | Version V4.1.0. |
| total $44,023 |
Contributions on file from these families to county officials. Texas sets no cap on giving to a county commissioner and a contribution is not a payment for anything. Some rows lost their dollar figure to OCR of the scanned filings, so the total is a floor. Full table on Contributions.
A contract can be cancelled for cause, for non-performance, or at the vendor's own request, and four years into a solicitation the other bidders may simply have lapsed. None of those records have been requested yet, so none of them can be ruled in or out here.
Of 228 county awards with a usable date, 7 have any matched gift within 120 days and 2 fall within 30. A permutation test on contribution timing in this county returned null (p = 0.597). Twenty-five days is at the close end of a very small sample, and it is a question to open the file with, not a conclusion.
The commissioner who received the $2,500 neither moved nor seconded the cancellation. Riley moved it; Wheeler seconded. That belongs on the page as much as the gift does.
The cancellation file for 21-37 — the notice, the stated cause, and whether the county or Allpoints initiated it. Then the original 2021 solicitation and what became of the other bidders, and whether the 2025 re-award went out for fresh bids at all. See Requests.
Every row below was read out of the Commissioners Court minutes for the date shown. Nothing here alleges wrongdoing: industry advisory boards are routinely staffed by the industry, Texas caps no contribution to a county commissioner, and a contract can be cancelled for cause, for non-performance or at the vendor's own request. Commissioners Court minutes — each timeline row cites the meeting that states it. county-cfr-*.txt — county campaign-finance reports as filed; some rows lost their amount to OCR. search the minutes · contractors · corrections