COVID-19 testing for the general public administered by the Texas Department of Emergency Management (TDEM) and the National Guard has been a huge success in Hays County but will soon be phased out.

The line outside the Hays CISD’s Performing Arts Center (PAC) on Saturday as people lined up for free COVID-19 testing was two hours long.

That had commissioners and County Judge Ruben Becerra floating a lot of ideas during their meeting June 30 about how to fill the expected gap in the capacity...