Fort Bend County Commissioners approved the early voting schedule and polling locations for the Nov. 6 general election at Tuesday's meeting. Early voting starts Oct. 22 and runs through Nov. 2. Find a complete list of the schedule and polling locations that include locations in Katy, Fulshear, Sugar Land and Missouri City here.

In other business, commissioners also accepted a $175,000 grant from the Texas Indigent Defense Commission to continue its public defender program through September 2019. Fort Bend County Judge Robert Hebert said the county was identified as a leader in indigent defense programs because it was one of the first to apply for a grant to establish a mental health public defenders office nearly six years ago.

Hebert said over the last year, the county has converted its mental health indigent defense office to a full public attorneys office.

"It's a formal public defenders office that handles mental health and all kinds [of] indigent defense, which is pretty typical of the larger counties," Hebert said. "It's just a sign of our growth."

Commissioners also went on to increase the contract time for the Cane Island Parkway project another 60 days. The new completion date is set for Sept. 10, according to county documents. This is the second time the completion date has been pushed back.

Hebert said there are several reasons as to why the project has been delayed, namely conflicts with utility relocations and getting advanced finance agreements approved.

"[The] combination of both of those things added a little bit of time to that project," Hebert said. "And we need a little bit more time [now] because the traffic increases right there where we are tying into [FM] 1463 is really going to require [that] we do some of that work at night so we keep that existing road open during the day, and that adds time, too."

Commissioners will meet again 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7 at the courthouse in downtown Richmond, 601 Jackson St., Richmond.