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We do have a quorum present. Currently, Mr. Memms is missing from the courtroom. Next item on

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the agenda is to do the invocation, followed by the pledge to the U.S. flag. If Mr. Chapin

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would lead us in the invocation.

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If I may just come to you and, first of all, I want to thank you for that day yesterday

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and we could celebrate, Lord, just the sacrifices that you made for us. And we'll just forever

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would be grateful for that and Lord just pray that you'll be with the men and women fighting

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for this country and Lord just the ones that are leading this country Lord just have a hand

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in their hearts Lord that they'll make the right decisions and be safe be with the families

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here that support that and Lord just pray that you'll give us the ability today to

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make sound and good choices for the county that is in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen.

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Thank you.

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I'm glad I did.

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And to the Republic for which it stands,

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indivisible with liberty and justice.

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Anybody sign up for public comment?

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No, sir.

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Okay.

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All right.

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The next item on agenda then is the consent agenda.

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The consent agenda is considered to be self-explanatory.

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We'll be inactive with one motion.

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There will not be a separate discussion of these items.

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However, any consent agenda item may be removed for individual consideration,

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persuasion pursuant to request a commissioner's court member.

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First, we've got budget amendments number 32.

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I'll show commissioner ma'am to the president's courtroom

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for the record.

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Budget amendment number 32.

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We've got bills approved.

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Do we have any utilities crossing county roads?

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No, sir.

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No, sir.

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But just the doors are locked.

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All sides.

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Okay, I thought they got them on.

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Hold on.

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Okay, so nobody had utilities crossing kill any roads. No, sir. All right. We got the treasure port

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We'll come back to that. I said Lisa's fix nine market mark. So it is

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the Treasury report.

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It's always good to read the Treasury report leads with this through voting this correct.

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Yes, sir. Okay.

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The share of report, county clerk's report, tax assessor's report, district attorney's reports, auditor's report, district clerk's report, IT reports,

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reports, J.P. reports, constant reports, veterans reports, collections reports, emergency

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management reports, historical commission reports, and need to approve the Frankston

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Museum and the Frankston Library's annual contracts. We've got minutes and I guess I

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was out. Greg, did you see any? Has he had them?

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No, sir.

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Okay. Everybody else is in the that's kind of this their annual contracts for

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services and in the minutes for the regular meeting on January the 27th 2025

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and the regular meeting for February the 24th 2025. I'll

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entertain a motion to

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approve the consent agenda. So moved. Motion by Commissioner Memms. Do I have a

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Second? Second. Second by Commissioner Hill. All in favor say aye. All opposed?

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So ordered. Number

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five is considering taking action on the real appointment of Linda Bowser

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and Joe Tinsley to a two-year term. You want to enter some Cherokee County Engagement Services

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Board of Trustees and both of these are served and these are really important. I'll entertain

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a motion to approve Linda Bowser and Joe Tinsley to two-year terms on Anderson

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County Anderson Cherokee County Enrichment Services Board of Trustees to

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have a motion. So motion back to you. May I have a second? Second. Second back to Mr.

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Wellbanks on favor say aye. Aye. All opposed. So what? Number six. Do you need two copies of this?

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I just want to work with you.

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Yeah, just one should work on that, because it just goes to Mark.

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All these are signed?

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Yes.

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Thank you, sir.

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Sure.

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Number six is considering take action to approve Anderson County's participation in the Texas

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Association of County Cyber Security Training for Employees and Authorized Anderson County

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Justice Signed Enrollment Form.

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I just need to sign the enrollment form so we can send it back to Texas Association

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of Counties.

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Of course, everybody in the county that has access to our system, all of our employees

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in all will have to take the cybersecurity training.

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It has to be 100% by the deadline so that if not, you're not eligible for grants.

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So this, but this is our annual cybersecurity training for all the employees.

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I'll entertain a motion to approve participation and cybersecurity training and authorize me

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to sign the enrollment form.

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Do I have a motion?

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Do I have a motion by Commissioner Hill?

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Do I have a second?

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Second.

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Second by Commissioner Memms.

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All in favor say aye.

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All opposed?

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So ordered.

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Item number seven is here, an update on Response Master for voluntary fire performance.

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And I put this on here.

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This was something that the court approved back in 2022, and we paid an initial signup

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fee for emergency solutions, and of course it gives them opportunities for the volunteer

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fire departments to keep up with their – if they actually contract with emergency

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and they can keep up with their inventory for their departments and do some other things.

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But what happens is the dispatch is able to send out a text message or an email and it

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goes straight to the emergency responders phones to give them the location that they're

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responding to and it gives them specific information on what the call is about.

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In other words, is it somebody having a heart attack?

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And so that way they're preparing when they get there

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to respond to whatever emergency it is.

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So that is up and running.

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We've been working on that for several months

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and Jay and Mike and Mike.

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I think we were looking at other issues,

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but we're on teams meeting with them

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and I emphasize that we've paid for this for a long time.

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It needs to be running.

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And so, Mike and I got with the toddler check.

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I asked him, it was not an IT, this was not an IT project,

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but it was more than sure if it'd been trying to get up

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and running for a long time.

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So now it's probably going to have to be tweaked a little bit,

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but it is working.

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I was at Fire Meetin' the other night

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and Elkhart actually got paged out

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and we were looking at it on his phone.

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We still maybe need some more data that's added,

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but dispatch will have to do that.

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but that's going to be what I was talking about having to tweak it a little bit.

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But it's working and I think all the departments now are in a loop.

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So do you think it could be some sort of technology strong with the IT side of it?

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That's what it was. That's what I'm saying.

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Because I reached out to them and the way that dispatches sit up where they cannot,

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they start entering those boxes in and it won't even let them go to the next box

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until they've completed that one to the next box

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till they've completed that one.

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And that's internet and then it's not going through

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or I think even over in KU

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they even have more problems

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with trying to intercept that information in there.

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So we'll talk to them and get in the share of the share.

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We're not really sure where, who's, you know,

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what why it's not because I've seen it

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where it really worked good.

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I was with Chief McCoy

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and it showed the time of call,

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the reason it all happened,

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whether it was a heart attack, whether it was all the way to the map to getting to the

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place to the fastest, fastest, then he would pull up the next one and it would do the same.

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It would start the process of starting skipping boxes and what in the Internet.

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So I asked him all this morning and nobody, I don't know where to start.

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Well, the main thing I wanted the court to know that it is working because the

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Sheriff's Department and, you know, I've been working with the S.O. and Tyler

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Tech and trying to make sure that it's working.

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Somebody need to emphasize with Tyler Tech that we've been paying for it, it needs to

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be working.

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Yeah, they've been told.

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The bottom line judge is, like you say, they need some tweaking here and there.

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We've got tickets in with them, Mindy's been trying to speak with them to get this resolved.

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It's a coding issue, it's an IT thing with Tyler Technology.

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Not with us.

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It's going to have to start here to go there like Mike did before, seeing if we get better

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results when two IT people are talking to each other, instead of a dispatcher talking

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to their IT department.

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So it seems to work out a whole lot better when both the IT departments are speaking

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to each other.

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Let me correct something.

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This was not an IT project.

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This was the sheriff's department and the court approved this, and I has Mike to step

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in and help.

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And that's what he did.

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And I know what transpired between him and Tyler Tech.

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He helped Tyler Tech get it worked out because they couldn't figure it out.

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And that's what I'm saying.

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I think if Mike were to be on the phone with him, maybe it'd be a better understanding

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of what has to take place with Tyler technology.

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And we were all on that conference.

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Yes, that was the conference that we had on the Zoom meeting.

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So ultimately it's an IT with Tyler Tech trying to get the coding right

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because that's the issue.

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The volunteer fire department at the KU, they actually went in and recreated a code under

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KU to be FD.

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We already had three different codes in place, and those are the codes we need, and they're

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going to have to go in and recode that or redo that, so all three of them is you're

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working together.

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Because if we have a call that comes in, and then they get a second call, and you

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got the one tied up. There has to be a couple of backups and they're not working.

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So it's all in the coding. There's a ticket for it. They're working on it. So KUGVFD

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is actually working off the one they created. Okay. Not the ones we already

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have in place. Well, that's okay. You could tell me it was working for them.

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Well, the one is. But if we have multiple calls up there and we're

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to push them out. The other three backups are not working yet, but it's a code issue.

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Well, I would say we'll ran him a quiet fire meeting, and that's when y'all paged them out.

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I think it was on 163, was where the call was, and he was showing me that some of the data

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wasn't showing up. And he was just telling me so we could work it out.

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It's just a matter of getting the things worked out.

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Yeah, I wasn't complaining about anything. I just tried to get the court to help

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like you're aware that it's work.

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It is some work working, yes.

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The guys who want it to work, I mean,

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I think they're paying $150 a month

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for them to be a part of it.

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It just needs to be tweaked, and it's going to have to come from

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the Tyler Tech people to do it.

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Simon Sturks working on it with Mindy now.

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But I just really believe that

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if Mike understands the IT stuff

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better than we do,

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if he would assist us in making that call

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to Simon Sturks and, hey, what is this

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code issue, and is it

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something that we can help you resolve. I believe that would cure the problem.

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I know what he did with Tyler Tech and he helped make sure it was a matter of

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communicating with somebody who knows what they're talking about. I'm not

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saying my dispatcher does it but she doesn't know how to input coding at all.

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So it's going to take somebody with better knowledge about you to do that.

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I just wanted the court to have an update that it was working, so we could fire a fighter

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if maybe talking to them, so I wanted them to know.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Item number eight is considered to take action on professional services for the AgriLife

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extension building.

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Commissioner Chapin?

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Yes, sir.

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I went to the city and I presented them with a set of plans on the AgriLife building

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for the meeting room that we were considering and they took all my plans

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off the engineered sides of it but they did reach out and said they'd like to set

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the drawings on it so I'm going to reach out to somebody here local and find

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somebody that can give us the drawing. I just wanted to let the court know so

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it'll all be come back through here it's nothing that they're just gonna

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finalize whether they'll accept a set of plans or drawings before we can

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sit down as a court and make the decision.

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So I just wanted to bring it to the case of tension.

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There's no action taken on that.

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So we'll need to, I mean, if you're

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going to start putting plans together,

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then we'll need to retain an architect.

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Yes, sir.

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And for that, we don't have to go out for bids

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or anything, be in professional services.

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I can reach out to the local.

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They said just a simple set of drawings. So I've already got the engineering side of it,

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you know, the engineering building itself that I presented to them. I'm going to present it

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to them the same way and let them go ahead and do the drawings. And do a next-tier drawing.

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I think there's concern more with what it's going to look like. I took pictures of our

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storage building over there and they said that it's perfect. They wanted some more

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lighting for its glass windows in it, so which can be highlights, you know, above.

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don't have to be at idle and they wanted the doors to be on the front of the

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building facing the road instead of coming out of the parking lot the way I laid it

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out so it was gonna be a ground level instead of an elevated side but we can

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still do that that's not a problem. So other members of the court can they see

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those drawings? Before we got ready to make a decision I have to be over the

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other drawings that I presented to the city. Yeah we can do it. I'll bring it

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I'm writing the whole package together, you know, and could all of them.

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Doesn't the court have to do an exemption if you don't offer bid for professional services?

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I don't know.

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I think you do.

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There's a process to do.

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At the court level to sort of date.

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Can I do something then that we can at least contact somebody?

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Because this has been put off for two weeks now.

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Or do I have to put it back on and redo it?

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I think we're going to have to take some kind of action, but I think there's like a resolution.

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I mean, the main thing if I get them to do the drawing, we've got to pay them.

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It'd be like when we do a contract

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with Allison Bass for professional services, you're going to have to have a contract with fees.

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And also, you know, it's got to be somebody that maybe we worked with before or had a contract

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with.

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If you're not going to go out for an RFP, if not, then you're going to probably have

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to do an RFP.

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Okay.

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So I'll just get that gathered up and come back and then pass that through with the

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resolution.

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You know what I said?

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To look at the local government code and make sure that, like we have in the past,

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make sure that we follow that.

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Okay.

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Okay,

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so you're suggesting we pass on that?

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You'll have to, yeah.

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Okay.

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I have to come back with a resolution to make sure that we can approve to get them paid,

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you know, for the experience to be pretty simple.

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No, I think the resolution is to not have to go out for bid.

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Just engage with them.

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Well, no, no, that was to – so you don't have to go out for a bid for professional

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services.

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The resolution wouldn't have – technically have that as a whole.

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We had to do that every time when we did professional services.

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I believe so.

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It's going to be over 50,000.

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I mean, do you think it'll be over 50,000?

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I don't know how much no no under 50 it's under 50 no it wouldn't be anything like that

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I wouldn't think it'd be much over a couple of thousand if it was there you just need to engineer you on plans crazy

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Thank you. You're gonna have to you're doing a building project

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You're gonna have to have whoever that is overseeing that project and they're going because if you've got a contractor either

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Then you're gonna have to hire a contractor. We're gonna have to go out for bids for that

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Yeah, we're not gonna do that or I don't suggest we do that. It's whatever you all decide. We got to go out for bits to build it

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If it's over 50,000 yes, I understand that but I mean if that be the case that we could ourselves

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We could order the building package and we could also hire a contractor that would

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Direct it and put it up, but as a total it would be over 50 would it not well if it's broke down from the big pack

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I mean the building package to the to the installer

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You know what I'm saying?

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That would be piecemealing it together and as the whole project would be over 50,000

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and that would be a case.

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Well, we could do that too.

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I just hate to see us pay a general contractor for a record and pay them another $15,000

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or $20,000 that I don't see that no one sitting in this bench could oversee and be willing

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to oversee.

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No, no.

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I'm not saying hire that person.

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I'm just saying as a total, the whole project cannot be over 50,000 if you're not

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going to go out for a bit.

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Okay.

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No matter if you pay four vendors or you pay one.

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I don't want to be honest with you.

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So the architect is going to have to do the drawings.

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They're going to have to make sure they're ADA compliant with the building.

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They're going to have to have bathrooms. They're going to have to have sprinkler systems.

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And Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation will have to,

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they'll have to make sure they notify them because they'll have to come and inspect the building.

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I got into that when they did the Johnson and Johnson building before.

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for Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation came.

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It was done under Jack Rogers.

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They remodeled the building, almost all of it,

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and then

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what happened is after two years from the date

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that they finished the building in 97,

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Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation showed up

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and went over and inspected.

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I didn't even know they were over there.

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And then I get a letter saying the toilet handles are on the wrong side.

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There's no handicap accessible signs.

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There's some problems with the door down the alleyway.

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So we had to go back, and fortunately the contractor that I contacted and told them

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was willing to come back and do it.

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But after two years, I couldn't even hold the contractor.

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I sent a letter to Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation of why they didn't come

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and do that in that two-year period before we could hold them accountable.

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So there's things that need to be done to make sure that we're going to be in clients that's going to have to be respected.

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And so if you don't have an architect to make sure those things are happening.

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Yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing now. Just trying to get the architect to get my drawing.

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That can present to them that it be acceptable with all of the attachments of what they need.

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Then at that point, if we decide to go out for our fees on the building, we can.

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I mean, that's going to be another whole step of whoever installs a building.

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We'll have to build the construction.

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Yeah, we can build the construction.

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And that's at the, you know, whatever the court wants to do on that, but right now just

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the city would like to have a set of drawings.

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But construction manager would bid the project out and like the plumbing would be, he would

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bid it out to plumbers.

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He would take over that role so that the court doesn't have to be involved in that.

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He would, Barry and Clay I think was the one that was working on the Civic Center

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at one time.

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So, and they did the pre-bid, all that stuff for free, so I looked at all those different

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bidders that were bid for the construction manager and they were the cheapest.

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So if you do an RFP for the construction manager, you might get something like that where somebody

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is doing it very minimum on the bid process and then they oversee all the construction

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so you make sure everything's in order.

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so I mean we did several school projects like that so I'm just trying to

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share that information I understand it I understand it for me but if you don't get

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end up with I know some projects on some gymnasiums where they didn't do it

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quite right and then they had built a brand new gym and then they couldn't

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pull the bleachers out on the floor they ended up out on the game service so

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they never could use it for games and those kind of things happen and sometimes

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I know some of the counties where I've talked to judges were they had problems

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with either some of the construction where they never could occupy the

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building they go back and do a whole lot to it so I just want to make sure we

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do it right that's all right so what pass on my right I don't know how to

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considering take action on buildings, facilities, and staff placement, Commissioner

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Shackelton, Commissioner Memms? Yes sir. We've been looking, Commissioner Memms,

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on how to rearrange some of the rooms in here and trying to accommodate what to

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meet some of CASE's demands and looking at the emergency management end of it

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down there. There's a lot of room. There's a little over 3,000 foot. She's

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already attached to that part. I'd like to make a recommendation to the court

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If we consider moving IT to another office, allowing her to have that, she'd miss, like-foot

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treats out to us and would like to move back to the courthouse with your old office that

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was there.

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I understand that since that.

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Okay.

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You said IT.

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You said IT.

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What did I say IT?

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Yeah.

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You said move IT?

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I thought yeah.

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What did I say?

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Miss Light's Good.

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Move IT.

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Move IT.

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Constable Precinct 2, she's willing to remove her office and use the old commissioners courtroom

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in the jail.

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At the courthouse?

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Yes, sir.

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At the original courthouse.

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She wants to go back to the original building.

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Hold on.

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I'm confused.

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Okay.

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So are we not, you're not talking about IT then?

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Not at all.

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So what do you explain to me? Let's take them one at a time because all of these are my offices that I oversee and I'm not

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Being a part of any of this. So go ahead

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Because like you stated before you have to get one or more

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Participants there's one no more nobody else and if you would got anybody else on the court

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We do that an open form. We have broken the form rule

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So, when Commissioner Chapman came to me, because we were both concerned about trying to accommodate

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Casey and fit all of our election needs in this courthouse, that had to be strictly stuck

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between us two.

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So, we could go with Trump.

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So, y'all were pointing yourself as a committee to evaluate all of my offices, to see how

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we could better...

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Go ahead.

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I was...

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You got one office.

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I'm willing to listen.

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not all of yours. I want you to go ahead and explain here what y'all are talking about.

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Well, we had concerns from constituents who was in the audience last court and previous

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court before that. Actually, there's a couple sitting over there. We also had some more people

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that are not here today who wanted to tour the building to go through. So, I mean, under my

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recommendation, I would like to ask the court if we could recess for a second and walk down

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to these offices and see what these offices hold, what we have space available.

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So the people can actually see, and even if we can call IT in, if IT can come in or somebody

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and actually follow us with a camera or something, so this could be all transparent and be on

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the live stream YouTube like we show.

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So for the audience, the people who are not here who are watching the YouTube, they

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don't get a chance to go back there and see the emergency command center or the other

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offices we're going in or the actual courtroom that's over there, that's vacant.

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And we realize that-

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Now you're talking about the commissioner's court courtroom?

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Yes.

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That's Judge Todd's courtroom.

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That's where he holds criminal court.

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That's court.

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All the time.

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Yes, sir.

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And Judge Drans used it.

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And the district courts have used it.

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And when we use, when the JPs use this court over here like they're doing this morning,

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they share it.

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It's a consolidated courtroom for all.

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For all four?

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Yes, sir.

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And that would be the same purpose for that courtroom over there.

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It'd be just like they were scheduled out using just like they do over here. Let's see the point. Yes, sir

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Let's see what y'all come up with. Hey

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Well, I don't know why I said I

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Tell me what's talking about moving to the old courthouse if that was possible to the old judge's office of what she said

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Yeah, I'm in life. Okay out of here

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She would like she requested to move over there, but since we've learned that they put the district clerk over there

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which I'm sure can move back to her office as far as that goes.

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I don't know.

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I know it had to accommodate her before.

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But Ms. Lightfield would like to be over there with Judge Todd Hughes

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at that facility out of here that left us an open office.

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We'd spend no money on anything

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and could move the emergency management girls in there.

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I'd like the case to have more room to be functioning

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and do her stuff, put all of her storage.

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Everything that we measured where she's occupied now

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would meet that size would meet the demand of that.

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So she could set up, probably hold her municipality election, you know, any kind of school stuff

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or whatever she had, before she had to move to the bigger side if she had to for the general

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election side.

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But that would leave her in-house, you know, next to her office without her having to

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commute back and forth, which is out of the alien way, but it would just have to

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be better for her.

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You go right into the meeting room behind her, she could leave those computers,

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those

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she can lock that center section.

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If she needs to do any training in the section behind,

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she has a whole meeting here to do that back there.

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I'll be more offices for staff and everything.

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And as you said, yourself, Judge,

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that is the safest part of this building,

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the safest building in Anderson County that we own.

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And I believe the value of those election machines

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and what we all value elections for in Anderson County,

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that is the safest place that we need to use.

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If that's a bunker,

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we need to use that bunker for the elections,

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for those election machines.

476
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:35,300
They don't need to be stored in all these different closets and everywhere where, you know, anybody probably get a door or key and go in there and unlock the floors or find a way to tweak them.

477
00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:38,500
Again, that's a bunker. That's the safest place for them to be.

478
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,620
There will be no cyber attacks in there and anything else.

479
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,420
That's a plan that we're putting on the table.

480
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,200
Okay, so let me address the county court.

481
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:53,500
You're talking about the old county judge's office over in the courthouse, correct?

482
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,180
That's what she requested. Yes.

483
00:28:55,180 --> 00:28:59,960
Okay, I showed y'all how crowded the district clerk's office was over there

484
00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:06,240
I still need to report the neck one of the next projects once I get the courtroom that the ceiling fell in I

485
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,960
Have to get the juror chairs from TDC J

486
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:15,900
They're putting those together right now, and they're probably gonna have them in the next few weeks. I just talked to them last week

487
00:29:16,660 --> 00:29:23,460
Theresa moved across the hall with two of her employees and her office because they are bumper

488
00:29:25,140 --> 00:29:26,600
It's all lumped together.

489
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,080
They have no room in that district clerk's office.

490
00:29:29,460 --> 00:29:31,060
So that gave her an opportunity.

491
00:29:31,660 --> 00:29:33,220
And I'm not talking to just y'all too.

492
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,240
No, I understand.

493
00:29:34,620 --> 00:29:34,700
OK.

494
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,740
So we moved Theresa over into that because it was empty.

495
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:42,280
I talked to the game wardens.

496
00:29:42,380 --> 00:29:43,160
They weren't using it.

497
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,960
And I asked them if they would be willing to give it up.

498
00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:48,840
And they got another office.

499
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:57,260
So, we made Theresa and two of her employees into both of those two offices, okay?

500
00:29:58,060 --> 00:29:59,720
So she's using that now.

501
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,860
And that gave her some room in her office. And

502
00:30:06,070 --> 00:30:10,910
there's two JPs over here that use this

503
00:30:10,910 --> 00:30:17,170
courtroom. And they've got a secure hallway to get out of their office and onto the bench

504
00:30:17,170 --> 00:30:22,150
without having to walk through all the people that are in the audience, okay? Which makes

505
00:30:22,150 --> 00:30:23,490
it more secure for the judges.

506
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,560
There's three JPs use this courtroom, correct?

507
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:33,700
Yeah. Just Thomas is in there now because emergency management is in there testifying

508
00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:37,920
on three septic system license.

509
00:30:38,220 --> 00:30:41,160
We got septic systems running on top of the ground.

510
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,320
So my emergency management staff is over there

511
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:44,300
testifying on that.

512
00:30:44,780 --> 00:30:45,080
Yes, sir.

513
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,600
And in cases over here setting up for the license,

514
00:30:47,740 --> 00:30:49,380
it's going to take place tomorrow, okay?

515
00:30:49,460 --> 00:30:49,780
Yes, sir.

516
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,060
So Judge Thomas have a safe way to walk in

517
00:30:54,060 --> 00:30:56,060
when he come in or do he go through those front doors?

518
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,980
I don't know which way he comes in,

519
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,080
but he probably comes in, I would.

520
00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:04,100
I think he comes through the front door and just go in the court.

521
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,180
Yeah, but he doesn't have an office that's on that hallway.

522
00:31:06,540 --> 00:31:06,960
Yes, sir.

523
00:31:07,060 --> 00:31:11,980
Okay, so let me go through this process after listening to what y'all had to say.

524
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:24,400
Number one, I supervise IT emergency management elections because Casey works for the election board.

525
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:32,460
Okay? She's hired and appointed by the election board, which is chaired by the county judge.

526
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:40,340
It's the Republican chair, the Democratic chair, the county clerk, and the county tax assessor

527
00:31:40,340 --> 00:31:45,740
collector's election board. So she works under my direction. Okay? Building maintenance.

528
00:31:45,980 --> 00:31:50,780
I have building maintenance. I got the veterans office. I do criminal court. You see all

529
00:31:50,780 --> 00:31:56,200
these chairs. Last Wednesday I had 71 cases on the dock. I sat in this chair

530
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:03,660
from 9 o'clock to 2 30. I got up and stood up two times. We've disposed of 45

531
00:32:03,660 --> 00:32:08,780
cases. There's a lot of work going on in this whole building. Okay. My emergency

532
00:32:08,780 --> 00:32:13,760
management coordinator. So let's let me explain some of the stuff that goes on.

533
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:18,300
My emergency management coordinator is in there testifying today. We got some

534
00:32:18,300 --> 00:32:21,380
meetings this afternoon. She's got to be at a school board meeting and slow

535
00:32:21,380 --> 00:32:28,820
them tonight on their safety committee. They do the on-site sewage facility. If

536
00:32:28,820 --> 00:32:32,960
you look at your report today, it shows all the different drills and things that

537
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:38,220
they've done for the nursing homes around here. Now, something that I need to

538
00:32:38,220 --> 00:32:42,140
make sure the court's aware of. All that equipment, all those radios that I

539
00:32:42,140 --> 00:32:47,180
showed you in those pictures, those ergonomic data, all the radios in the EOC,

540
00:32:47,180 --> 00:32:53,060
Those were all bought along with the generator and everything, and yeah, it's a bunker.

541
00:32:53,620 --> 00:32:55,600
That came from Bell County.

542
00:32:56,140 --> 00:32:57,760
Because Bell County is the same way.

543
00:32:58,340 --> 00:33:03,740
And what happens when you have a disaster and you've got people that are up here working during a disaster,

544
00:33:04,380 --> 00:33:07,900
you've got threats of tornadoes and all those kind of things,

545
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,940
you need to be working in a facility where you can stay working that's going to stay up and running.

546
00:33:14,020 --> 00:33:18,620
So, election's just not going to be up here when we're having tornadoes and high winds.

547
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,680
You are going to be out in the county dealing with all the trees that are down, just like

548
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:23,420
you always do.

549
00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:28,840
So, me and emergency management staff are going to be up here dealing with a human element.

550
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:34,900
The people that have lost their homes, the people that we're trying to assess so

551
00:33:34,900 --> 00:33:40,040
we can get FEMA reimbursement just like they did after that may storm last year where

552
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:44,520
You had FEMA came over here and set up for two months over here across the mall.

553
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:55,260
And we helped people $1.3 million for people through FEMA reimbursement and or SBA loans.

554
00:33:55,860 --> 00:34:02,200
So that emergency management was set up for a purpose.

555
00:34:02,940 --> 00:34:03,900
And that's their office.

556
00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:05,520
That's where they office every day.

557
00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:12,200
And the thing is, you can't have elections in the same room where all the machines and

558
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:13,260
the ballots are stored.

559
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,760
She's going to have to store ballots and all that stuff.

560
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:21,360
So right now, and this is the thing, I've got the Veterans Office over there.

561
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:26,060
Y'all pointed me to take over the veterans and oversee all that, so I'm doing it.

562
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:31,260
We have two Veterans Service Officers, not one.

563
00:34:31,260 --> 00:34:35,660
and I got pads. She's worked on her certification, so we'd have a lady that

564
00:34:35,660 --> 00:34:36,300
works over there.

565
00:34:38,700 --> 00:34:41,560
The roof wasn't good. We put a new roof on that building, so

566
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:46,360
they bought new chairs and desk and everything for them because some of the

567
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:52,200
stuff was inferior that was in that office. So what you're talking about

568
00:34:54,200 --> 00:35:00,400
is you're talking about disrupting county services that I oversee on a

569
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:06,640
regular basis. And 103B, what you're talking about doing is taking everything in 103B and

570
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:10,480
shifting it down there. That's all you're talking about. You're talking about shuffling,

571
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:17,740
lexing machines. Leave them in 103B. The only thing about the bank building was if you're

572
00:35:17,740 --> 00:35:22,400
the county judge and you're the commissioners, you're looking for improving services and

573
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:27,900
delivering real services. The bank called me. They asked me if we'd be interested

574
00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:33,500
in the building. I did my due diligence which I should do before I bring it to the court

575
00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:39,940
just what kind of states are building it. That's reasonable. Try to work to get a price down

576
00:35:39,940 --> 00:35:45,900
because it was too high a flush to buy and we did that. All y'all had to tell me on

577
00:35:45,900 --> 00:35:50,780
the first meeting is we don't buy the building. That's all you had to tell me and it's

578
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:58,220
But we just drugged it out three times, three different meetings, and all y'all had to do

579
00:35:58,220 --> 00:35:58,940
is tell me, what do you want to do?

580
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,160
Well, I wish it'd be that easy, but you have your projections up and you're pushing it

581
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:02,460
on us.

582
00:36:02,580 --> 00:36:04,120
So, a bit, we're trying to get you benefitted a bit.

583
00:36:04,140 --> 00:36:04,900
Now, hold on just a second.

584
00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:05,280
I can't expect that.

585
00:36:05,540 --> 00:36:05,880
So, you know that?

586
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:07,100
And they looked at it every way we could.

587
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,780
And they looked at it three times and decided that there's a court that it wasn't

588
00:36:11,300 --> 00:36:11,940
a thing for them.

589
00:36:11,980 --> 00:36:12,000
Okay.

590
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,640
You said that I'm pushing it on you.

591
00:36:13,780 --> 00:36:14,080
Well, you can.

592
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:14,520
Okay.

593
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:14,820
Let me.

594
00:36:15,140 --> 00:36:16,340
Rashard, can you use me?

595
00:36:16,420 --> 00:36:17,440
I'm making you look bad.

596
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:22,020
If you come to Sound Court and say that we don't respect and appreciate what Casey does,

597
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:23,020
you said that.

598
00:36:23,460 --> 00:36:23,820
Look.

599
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:24,740
That's correct.

600
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:31,620
Okay, she comes to me and she asked me to be able to do certain things to make her job

601
00:36:31,620 --> 00:36:31,920
better.

602
00:36:32,820 --> 00:36:34,320
Okay, that's all this was about.

603
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,980
103B, the machines can stay there.

604
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:45,860
She can stay in her office area and Tammy can stay in hers and emergency management

605
00:36:45,860 --> 00:36:50,000
And right now, I mean, they're on their game.

606
00:36:51,100 --> 00:36:53,260
You can't, elections can't be on their game

607
00:36:53,260 --> 00:36:57,480
and deal with 19,000 voters more than double

608
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,300
any election that we've ever had

609
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:02,640
and they got people out through their 30 minutes.

610
00:37:03,180 --> 00:37:04,200
They're on their game.

611
00:37:04,540 --> 00:37:06,160
Why go in and disrupt services?

612
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:07,640
Because that's what this is going to do.

613
00:37:08,220 --> 00:37:10,140
It's going to disrupt operations

614
00:37:10,140 --> 00:37:12,500
that I oversee on a day-to-day basis.

615
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,340
It's not going to affect y'all

616
00:37:14,340 --> 00:37:19,040
Because you're going to be at your road and bridge, and this is the same as it was years

617
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:19,440
ago.

618
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:24,720
And, you know, I was going to try not to say too much today, but I watch county government

619
00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:30,820
as a share step in JP, and it's when elected officials get upset at one another, then the

620
00:37:30,820 --> 00:37:33,520
employees and the taxpayers are the ones that suffer.

621
00:37:33,940 --> 00:37:39,520
And I'm just, I just asked y'all before, just let everything stay just exactly like

622
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:46,020
it is, we're 100% operational, we're taking care of business, they've got to manage the

623
00:37:46,020 --> 00:37:50,680
flood plain down there, they've got records and file cabinets down there that they have

624
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:57,140
to keep records on and state records and report to state emergency management. If anything

625
00:37:57,140 --> 00:38:02,540
happens in this county, we've got communication. The single most important thing that everybody's

626
00:38:02,540 --> 00:38:06,500
found out is when there's a disaster. If you don't have communication, you're going

627
00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:12,500
to be up the creek without a paddle. And they, they manage all the towers for the

628
00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:17,760
Sheriff's Department and Rodenbridge. They manage all the towers. We talked all

629
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:23,660
the time. Christina called me during emergency. She said, look, during one of

630
00:38:23,660 --> 00:38:27,660
those last emergencies where we were down for a few days, I, we were on the

631
00:38:27,660 --> 00:38:31,660
phone Mr. Wynch here. He's here. We talked back and forth trying to make

632
00:38:31,660 --> 00:38:35,800
sure that we got power on because we got some of our equipment's overheated

633
00:38:36,220 --> 00:38:42,500
at the towers. They manage a whole lot of stuff from that office down there. We

634
00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:46,180
just put an ice machine in there so they could take their water instead of having

635
00:38:46,180 --> 00:38:52,440
to go to a store somewhere and ice down water. We just put the ice machine in

636
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,240
there so they could respond to fire. We're fixing to be in fire season right

637
00:38:55,240 --> 00:38:59,900
now. Casey's in there in elections and soon as she gets through that she's

638
00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:05,320
got to start working on the constitutional election, okay? To get

639
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:09,760
ready for November, this is going to be from one thing to the next. We start

640
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:13,980
doing all this. It's going to totally disrupt our whole operation and the

641
00:39:13,980 --> 00:39:17,660
taxpayers are the ones that's going to pay for it. I don't agree. I think that

642
00:39:17,660 --> 00:39:20,780
you can still perform the emergency management from a room the size of

643
00:39:20,780 --> 00:39:25,140
your office. You can do that. We're talking about the the big side of the

644
00:39:25,140 --> 00:39:30,600
room that's never been put into play, but everybody from Casey, the main one,

645
00:39:30,940 --> 00:39:34,200
suffering on having a room to store stuff. You've got rooms that are

646
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:38,040
temporarily stored. When do I get a job? Did y'all go talk to her? No, sir. I spoke

647
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:42,460
with Casey just a while ago and she has more concerns and everything, but

648
00:39:42,460 --> 00:39:45,360
wait, wait, wait, both of y'all just give me one second. I'm gonna say one

649
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:51,160
thing here. Judge, I understand you feel that there's elected officials

650
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,580
born against elected officials. I'm gonna go ahead and ensure you're on my

651
00:39:54,580 --> 00:40:00,060
have that is not the case. It has nothing to do with it. I will never play chess with

652
00:40:00,060 --> 00:40:04,340
the employees of Anderson County. There are not chess pieces for me to move or play with

653
00:40:04,340 --> 00:40:08,960
on a board. What I am trying to do is effectively use this Anderson County courthouse and this

654
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:13,440
NX. I understand that this was a birth of one of your babies you designed this building,

655
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:18,840
but judge that is not the case today. I think over time we have progressed and there's

656
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:23,360
better ways that we can use these facilities. I understand approaching this was going

657
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:28,340
be a big issue, but I assume that I need to fill these shoes along with other

658
00:40:28,340 --> 00:40:31,600
members from the court because these are concerns, these are things that need to be

659
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,600
addressed in Anderson County Judge. You did bring up a great thing about we did

660
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,460
need to have another place for elections and we need to help our cases.

661
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,900
That is true and that's what we're trying to do, but in the midst of helping

662
00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:47,140
our case, yes it could add a little disruption, disruption of your plans

663
00:40:47,140 --> 00:40:52,160
but not of the services. I think all the services will run small

664
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:56,500
effectively. I think everybody with the transition along as the other elected

665
00:40:56,500 --> 00:41:00,260
officials and the appointed officials that includes in purchasing management

666
00:41:00,260 --> 00:41:04,780
and the election coordinator will run smoothly if everybody follow the process

667
00:41:04,780 --> 00:41:07,460
and give it a try. We have to give it a try.

668
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:12,240
You're not listening to the elected

669
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:16,580
official that oversees this stuff. We've got everything operational, everything

670
00:41:16,580 --> 00:41:23,240
is working fine. This was just an opportunity to enhance our ability to

671
00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:30,320
deliver services that's all okay everything I'm telling you that we can

672
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:34,500
take care of anything that happens right now and we have the thing about it is

673
00:41:34,500 --> 00:41:38,140
everything's running smooth IT is running smooth emergency management is

674
00:41:38,140 --> 00:41:43,320
running smooth and elections are running smooth we don't need to do that you're

675
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:47,600
gonna disrupt services that I have to oversee and that's gonna make me look

676
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:51,000
bad and you're not listening to the elected official that has to deal

677
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:55,980
with this on a day-to-day basis. You're going to leave and go back to your barns, and I'm

678
00:41:55,980 --> 00:42:00,940
going to deal with it. If I am upset, you're going to have some of the responsibility.

679
00:42:01,180 --> 00:42:04,520
Yeah, and that's what I'm saying. We're not just road and bridge commissioners anymore.

680
00:42:04,820 --> 00:42:08,080
Anderson County has grown past the size of having a road and bridge commissioner.

681
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:12,860
There's a lot of extra stuff that we have to do that's on a business level. So you

682
00:42:12,860 --> 00:42:17,400
can get us off of dirt, rocks, using a piece of machinery. I can go operate

683
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,300
Every machinery that my guys have out there to operate, but that's not what I want to do

684
00:42:21,300 --> 00:42:27,460
And there's no disrespect to any one of the drivers who have a class a CDL or have the proper training to operate those machineries

685
00:42:27,460 --> 00:42:33,220
I really sit up on this court and help the people make effective decisions that are better lead their future

686
00:42:33,220 --> 00:42:35,600
And I believe that's what we're trying to do here today

687
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:41,060
So it's okay. Could we recess walk with the constituents down to those courtrooms?

688
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:49,900
We don't have to video it, but still walk down and show people the emergency command center and let them see how much space is sitting there open.

689
00:42:50,620 --> 00:42:54,000
But when you say those rooms need to be closed off, she can't sit by her machine.

690
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:58,240
Judge, there's four different rooms back there in that one big bunker as you state.

691
00:42:58,580 --> 00:42:59,500
There's four different rooms.

692
00:42:59,700 --> 00:43:01,280
So you keep going in the bunker.

693
00:43:01,700 --> 00:43:02,680
Well, that's your words.

694
00:43:02,820 --> 00:43:03,200
That's your term.

695
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,360
I know, and you know what, as it was trying to show y'all

696
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,300
that if something bad's happening here,

697
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,600
we'll stay operational, even if the power's out.

698
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,340
But the snack room thing, it's all buck or tube or something.

699
00:43:13,580 --> 00:43:14,280
I mean, it's got that sound.

700
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:15,360
That was a safe room.

701
00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:16,260
And it was...

702
00:43:16,260 --> 00:43:17,280
In the employees case, we have a tornado.

703
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,960
That was a safe room for employees to go in,

704
00:43:20,260 --> 00:43:22,320
because we had to put the air conditioner somewhere.

705
00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:25,500
So we put a concrete ceiling and walls around the break.

706
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,060
So you could set the air conditioners on top.

707
00:43:28,300 --> 00:43:30,400
But it works as two-thumbless cases.

708
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,380
I mean the whole start of that you know case you're not having room to do it

709
00:43:34,380 --> 00:43:38,440
that was a solution to put her there instead of spending the 350,000 which we

710
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,980
did not spend and not spending money putting her in there when the merchant

711
00:43:41,980 --> 00:43:45,200
management hasn't ever had to you know I went through all this to us whether

712
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:49,160
whenever the space shuttle fell out to any of the high since no storms floods

713
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:53,380
we've never put that room to work and it's been there for over 20 years.

714
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:58,540
I got the question Commissioner Mouth what did what did Miss Brown say when

715
00:43:58,540 --> 00:43:59,160
when you talk to her.

716
00:43:59,340 --> 00:44:00,480
See, this is what I would like to do.

717
00:44:00,660 --> 00:44:02,480
She's over there working at 103 this morning.

718
00:44:02,820 --> 00:44:04,600
I'd like to ask her to come in the court this morning

719
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:05,980
and give her her input on it.

720
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:07,340
I would.

721
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,060
I would like to talk to Judge Lightfoot.

722
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,960
I asked her about doing that a few times.

723
00:44:12,460 --> 00:44:14,360
And she said, Judge, I came to court once.

724
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,940
I'm not going to be involved in this.

725
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:18,660
She don't want to speak to politics.

726
00:44:19,020 --> 00:44:19,780
She don't want to speak to politics.

727
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:21,740
She don't want to know what's happening right now.

728
00:44:22,140 --> 00:44:24,620
And I asked her, she came that first time.

729
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,060
She gave you two pages of what she was asking,

730
00:44:28,060 --> 00:44:32,060
because the first person I asked to go look at that building over there was

731
00:44:32,060 --> 00:44:37,580
her because that's called inclusion and I learned that at the state level I worked

732
00:44:37,580 --> 00:44:42,420
for one of the best agencies at the state and they included the employees in

733
00:44:42,420 --> 00:44:48,920
the process I am I include my employees in the process of doing their jobs I

734
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,680
don't go in there and say you got to do this you got to do how is this going

735
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:56,120
to affect us what will this day that's the way I do it okay and I've got

736
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,800
so many people right now, I wouldn't take anything for naught.

737
00:45:00,820 --> 00:45:05,280
Every one of them are going and going and getting their job done on a day-to-day basis.

738
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:10,280
I call Kristine and them. They had a rollover down there at 294 and 287.

739
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:15,640
We had the head on out here on 79. Late at night, they call me and say,

740
00:45:15,740 --> 00:45:19,980
Judge, it's all cleaned up. The spills taken care of. They contact Texas.

741
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:24,480
It's diminished about what y'all think they have to do. And they got to have the facilities

742
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:29,140
to work out of to do that. We'll see. Okay. But this is a time, Commissioner.

743
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:35,740
That's that's not important right now. You use you you said it in court

744
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:38,640
40% of this building is

745
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:46,320
Empty and that was not a true statement and the thing is now you got to justify it because I showed you with a PowerPoint

746
00:45:46,860 --> 00:45:49,600
Every place in this building is occupied

747
00:45:50,220 --> 00:45:54,620
And yes, what you want it don't want to do is crowd everybody up wherever

748
00:45:54,620 --> 00:45:58,860
You know, let's move everybody in over here from the courthouse and crowd it all up

749
00:45:58,860 --> 00:46:02,860
you don't want to do that. You've got to have space to expand later on. That's why this

750
00:46:02,860 --> 00:46:08,540
building was built like that. It's been expanded on since I left and all this space is occupied.

751
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:15,480
And so it's occupied but it's not utilized to as full as it is. That's the problem because

752
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:21,640
that room down there is not used to. I mean it's not. It's not have to been used. It is not

753
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,560
and I can guarantee you I can do it any way you want it. We can put them in the office

754
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:31,540
And they'll be just as operable as they are today in the big 3,100 square foot room that they're in but the whole time

755
00:46:31,540 --> 00:46:35,380
The complaint was is a case he has to shove herself here and there

756
00:46:35,380 --> 00:46:41,320
We could take the area where the gemstones are build more storage is down there for more for emergency management

757
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,140
We put all the files all the stuff whatever they wanted me to ask you a question

758
00:46:44,940 --> 00:46:47,840
And all the stuff is in 103 B. That's right

759
00:46:48,340 --> 00:46:53,120
So why shuffle it down there and take them and displace them no when we got one on three

760
00:46:53,120 --> 00:47:02,080
But leave it in one of the three of us, though, the proposal that she gave us was if that was open, then we could host more events for different things.

761
00:47:02,140 --> 00:47:08,140
Like he was talking about when Truman then was having to come here to be able to utilize more of that open space stuff.

762
00:47:08,260 --> 00:47:10,820
So you've taken already a dish of courtroom and cut it off.

763
00:47:11,660 --> 00:47:16,280
And you're conserving that for the fact to have that big room down there.

764
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:20,280
And I'm not sure because I did reach out to everybody to see who was going to come participate.

765
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,920
And I'm not getting any positive response from that.

766
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:24,340
This is all political.

767
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:30,680
It is an opinion that you're contradicting yourself and you forced us on an issue to

768
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:32,980
come with a solution.

769
00:47:33,420 --> 00:47:34,500
We came with a solution.

770
00:47:34,700 --> 00:47:36,000
You don't want to accept our solution.

771
00:47:36,220 --> 00:47:36,740
That's political.

772
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,100
So this is nothing to do with politics.

773
00:47:39,820 --> 00:47:40,660
This is nothing political.

774
00:47:40,980 --> 00:47:44,660
You're making decisions that don't affect you on a day-to-day basis.

775
00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:46,740
They affect me on a day-to-day basis.

776
00:47:47,100 --> 00:47:48,700
This is called the Commissionist Court, Your Honor.

777
00:47:48,980 --> 00:47:49,780
I agree.

778
00:47:49,780 --> 00:47:51,640
I'm gonna call, I'm gonna say your honor one more time.

779
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:53,020
This is called commissioners court, your honor.

780
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:53,600
Yes sir.

781
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:54,260
Yes sir.

782
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:56,680
And this is a board that make recommendations

783
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:57,940
for Anderson County.

784
00:47:58,540 --> 00:48:00,680
That is what we're effectively trying to do this morning, sir.

785
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,040
Well, you can't even show up on time.

786
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:04,620
Well, you can say that all you want.

787
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,000
I'm here in the building, that's Childers on your behalf.

788
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,140
But how much do I help you?

789
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:10,640
How much do I help you?

790
00:48:10,820 --> 00:48:12,980
You show up for your clients and then you trade credit

791
00:48:12,980 --> 00:48:13,600
for stuff.

792
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,600
After times, you forget a lot of stuff.

793
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:16,960
And when I try to help you, sir,

794
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:18,580
how much do I help you, sir?

795
00:48:18,580 --> 00:48:23,780
gentlemen out here. So can we just pass this for the moment being and let's get

796
00:48:23,780 --> 00:48:28,940
there and get them out of here and then we'll come back. That's where the kids come in at.

797
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:34,980
The shout-outs. So I'm going to go through the wheelbanks just stepped out but if we can skip to...

798
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:43,740
Let's go do the number 12. Yes. Yeah the subdivisions. There before us the

799
00:48:43,740 --> 00:48:47,480
commissioner wheelbanks just stepped out that maybe he'll come back in. If we

800
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:53,440
go to number 12 we can get her took care of and then that'll get miss a lot of time. We'll go

801
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:58,580
down to island number 12 consider take action on a final plate for Wolf trail subdivision on Anderson

802
00:48:58,580 --> 00:49:07,760
County Road 425 for Brenda Eliza. Good morning. Okay. This is going to be our final plate.

803
00:49:08,340 --> 00:49:14,480
That's it right there. And she's got me three copies. Yes. Yeah. Everything's good. We went out

804
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:20,720
looked at it. She did a wonderful job putting everything together and I have no problem with

805
00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:21,260
it whatsoever.

806
00:49:22,220 --> 00:49:26,140
All right. I'll entertain a motion to approve the final plan for Wolf Trail subdivision

807
00:49:26,140 --> 00:49:29,780
on Anderson County Road 425 for Brenda Lies.

808
00:49:30,380 --> 00:49:30,920
So moved.

809
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,200
Motion by Commissioner M. Do I have a second?

810
00:49:33,300 --> 00:49:33,540
Second.

811
00:49:33,860 --> 00:49:36,220
Second by Commissioner Chapin. All in favor say aye.

812
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:36,780
Aye.

813
00:49:37,180 --> 00:49:42,060
All in favor? So ordered. We're going to do your subdivision, Mr. Wolf.

814
00:49:42,060 --> 00:49:42,360
That's it.

815
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:42,860
Thank you.

816
00:49:42,860 --> 00:49:53,480
appreciate you. Thank you very much. And I'll get you signed off with the clerk. And does she need to do any business with y'all after this? Yes. Okay. All right.

817
00:49:57,230 --> 00:50:02,830
Item number four is considering take action to allow, let's see. Wrong one.

818
00:50:04,390 --> 00:50:11,610
10, okay, all right, considered take action on a preliminary plat for Oak Rivers Estates

819
00:50:11,610 --> 00:50:15,030
on Anderson, came out with 309 for Nate Spillman.

820
00:50:17,610 --> 00:50:24,090
Judge commissioners on this, these guys, as far as in my eyes, they've done a great

821
00:50:24,090 --> 00:50:25,230
job on their plat.

822
00:50:25,510 --> 00:50:30,310
Obviously this is going to do wonders for Anderson County.

823
00:50:30,310 --> 00:50:34,810
we getting these guys pushed through letting them letting them continue on

824
00:50:34,810 --> 00:50:36,950
with their business, but

825
00:50:40,980 --> 00:50:46,720
this is a point right correct correct correct

826
00:50:51,260 --> 00:50:54,540
we're

827
00:50:54,540 --> 00:51:03,180
looking at it roughly 86 is that right I look briefly at the I was with

828
00:51:03,180 --> 00:51:05,360
the emergency management when I were reviewing it.

829
00:51:06,220 --> 00:51:09,960
And so I saw the size of the project.

830
00:51:10,220 --> 00:51:11,320
It looks pretty big.

831
00:51:11,580 --> 00:51:12,080
How many of you lost?

832
00:51:13,240 --> 00:51:14,000
Oh, let's see.

833
00:51:14,180 --> 00:51:14,860
We've got roughly.

834
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:16,580
I'm going to address myself.

835
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:18,700
So I'm Stephen Freeman.

836
00:51:18,980 --> 00:51:21,760
I'm the server record on the project.

837
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,240
We've got Nathan Spillman here, who's the developer.

838
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,000
William Spencer, who's the engineer of the record.

839
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:30,260
I'll go ahead and give you some small ones as real.

840
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:31,080
OK.

841
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:31,840
Thank you.

842
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:32,500
Yes, sir.

843
00:51:32,780 --> 00:51:33,380
Thank you.

844
00:51:36,170 --> 00:51:36,730
Thank you, sir.

845
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,440
Right now, we're looking at 102 lots.

846
00:51:49,620 --> 00:51:49,860
Okay.

847
00:51:50,700 --> 00:51:53,840
But this is just phase one of this development.

848
00:51:55,380 --> 00:51:59,880
We're basically taking down phase one first, and then we'll take down phase two.

849
00:52:00,140 --> 00:52:03,640
So that's the reason why we're only showing phase one on the preliminary play,

850
00:52:03,700 --> 00:52:05,960
because that's all they have ownership of right now.

851
00:52:08,060 --> 00:52:09,420
But you know what?

852
00:52:09,420 --> 00:52:16,900
And real quick, just for complete transparency for the viewers and everybody, is there was

853
00:52:16,900 --> 00:52:23,880
an email that was sent out this morning about Berryville City Limits ETJ, just to have complete

854
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:24,980
transparency on that.

855
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:29,800
The way I'm looking at it, the way I've researched it is obviously City of Berryville's

856
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:30,640
in Henderson County.

857
00:52:31,180 --> 00:52:31,460
Correct.

858
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:33,540
Y'all's build is in Anderson County.

859
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:34,220
That's correct.

860
00:52:34,220 --> 00:52:41,300
Now, an E.T.J. cannot jump county lines from Henderson County to Anderson County, so I feel

861
00:52:41,300 --> 00:52:45,040
like at this point it's not going to hinder anything that we're doing as far as the preliminary

862
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,780
plan, and that's kind of what I want to let y'all know.

863
00:52:48,340 --> 00:52:54,180
As far as I'm concerned, y'all have done all your due diligence that Anderson County

864
00:52:54,180 --> 00:52:54,920
has required.

865
00:52:55,580 --> 00:52:59,480
We can work through the Berryville, the city of Berryville, E.T.J.

866
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:04,240
I don't even think that's going to cause any type of issue or anything for Anderson County

867
00:53:04,240 --> 00:53:10,980
Because obviously very city of Berryville is in Henderson Henderson County and ETJ is not to jump

868
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,980
Counties per se is now city of Palestine

869
00:53:14,980 --> 00:53:21,460
Obviously it falls into Anderson County because they're in Anderson County, but city of Berryville is in Henderson County

870
00:53:21,460 --> 00:53:26,740
So their ETJ as far as I'm concerned at this point for our endeavor that we're doing today

871
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:31,280
shouldn't have any type of realm on what we're looking at. Yes sir that's our

872
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,640
understanding. If the ETAJ gives you any kind of problem you can submit a letter to

873
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:38,920
them for two weeks and ask to be dropped out and they have to. There's a Senate bill

874
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:43,180
passed. That's a loss. You can get out of there. If they even come to you at that

875
00:53:43,180 --> 00:53:46,220
decision. And we have reached out to them and so we're waiting on a call

876
00:53:46,220 --> 00:53:50,080
back from them but we'll try to address it. Let me know what it says that they have to

877
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:55,140
release you from the ETAJ. Yeah and I'm sure y'all have guys on staff that

878
00:53:55,900 --> 00:54:00,080
kind of know the letter or can research the letter that we're speaking of but

879
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:03,680
yeah as long as y'all get that on file but as far as I'm concerned with Anderson

880
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:07,520
County and Henderson County y'all are doing everything by the book that we're

881
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:11,180
requesting and I appreciate all y'all's due diligence that y'all've done on our

882
00:54:11,180 --> 00:54:13,280
end. Yes sir we'll get on that letter.

883
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:25,120
Is the septic system going to be like a

884
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:28,640
Yes, sir. Okay. Okay. And water system?

885
00:54:29,500 --> 00:54:32,400
Frankston. Okay, all right. Yeah, because

886
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:37,020
I talked to them back in 23 and they were trying to expand that water

887
00:54:37,020 --> 00:54:40,920
system out. Yeah, and there's a WillServe letter for Frankston rule

888
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:44,720
in there. We already have an agreement or whatever went down.

889
00:54:46,420 --> 00:54:48,760
Okay. All right. I'll entertain a motion to

890
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:52,740
approve the preliminary plat for the Old Rivers Estates

891
00:54:52,740 --> 00:54:57,060
on Anderson County Route 309 for Nate Spillman.

892
00:54:57,340 --> 00:54:58,140
Do I have a motion?

893
00:54:58,420 --> 00:54:59,780
Motion by Commissioner Wilbanks.

894
00:54:59,900 --> 00:55:00,500
Do I have a second?

895
00:55:00,660 --> 00:55:00,980
Second.

896
00:55:01,340 --> 00:55:02,600
Second by Commissioner Memms.

897
00:55:02,660 --> 00:55:03,660
All in favor say aye.

898
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:05,400
Thank you, gentlemen.

899
00:55:05,900 --> 00:55:06,300
Thank you very much.

900
00:55:06,580 --> 00:55:08,080
If you have a problem with that letter,

901
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:10,460
for the easy guess of this, contact our office.

902
00:55:10,620 --> 00:55:12,020
And my secretary gives you the contact.

903
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:13,680
Well, they're going to continue to appreciate it.

904
00:55:13,900 --> 00:55:14,300
Yeah.

905
00:55:14,700 --> 00:55:15,880
First, I want to keep these.

906
00:55:16,180 --> 00:55:19,700
I know it's just a matter of how we file it.

907
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:21,140
Thank you, buddy.

908
00:55:21,140 --> 00:55:26,540
Okay. Good luck with it. You'll be careful. Thank y'all for it. Thank you sir. Thank you for signing off on that preliminary.

909
00:55:27,420 --> 00:55:36,920
I think I'm asking more. No, we'll get it on the final. Okay. Alright. The final. Alright. Just one more each year before they left. Thank y'all. Thank y'all.

910
00:55:38,060 --> 00:55:50,300
Okay. Number 13, what is that one? Consider taking action on interlocal agreement with Freesome County to hold inmates at a rate of $50 per day

911
00:55:50,300 --> 00:55:55,080
with the Freestone County Sheriff's Office and they'll be responsible for

912
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:58,920
transporting medical costs. Sheriff Flores. Thank you Judge.

913
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:04,580
Freestone County find theirself in trouble over there. They've got a small

914
00:56:04,580 --> 00:56:09,740
jail and he is just busting at the at the brim and he contacted me and asked

915
00:56:09,740 --> 00:56:15,260
if we had room. We're at 172 down today down from in the 220s and 230s that we

916
00:56:15,260 --> 00:56:19,060
We ran for quite a while, and I talked to my captain.

917
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:22,820
We could accommodate eight, and for him, eight makes a big difference.

918
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:27,920
It would still leave us plenty of room here in case we had a sudden influx, but it would

919
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:32,020
allow him some relief where he's not in constant violation.

920
00:56:32,620 --> 00:56:36,020
We're just trying to offset any expenses at $50 a day.

921
00:56:36,100 --> 00:56:37,740
We're not trying to make any money on a friend.

922
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:42,260
They've done solid for us in the past, and I'd like to be able to help him

923
00:56:42,260 --> 00:56:43,320
out right now if we could.

924
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:49,940
I know you had 171 Saturday when I was doing registration, so we're at 172 this

925
00:56:49,940 --> 00:56:55,600
back I think was 158 it was 179 so it's 171 we're flexing back and forth but

926
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:59,280
we're staying in that general neighborhood right now just 172 this

927
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:02,780
morning so my question is is have you kind of got a magic number that you're

928
00:57:02,780 --> 00:57:06,620
looking at if our count gets up to a certain amount you're gonna have to

929
00:57:06,620 --> 00:57:09,840
tell him come get some or something there's it's written in there that with

930
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:13,540
four hours notice that if we need to remove them they'll come and get them

931
00:57:13,540 --> 00:57:17,020
okay and they'll just be over they'll have to self-report to the commission

932
00:57:17,020 --> 00:57:21,880
that they are over again okay what is the max number let's say let's say using

933
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:29,680
the 171 number if could you take more than eight I might be able to but we

934
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:33,460
have to worry about our classification program we have he's got nothing but

935
00:57:33,460 --> 00:57:38,820
max felons okay right now and I can take eight max felons because we have

936
00:57:38,820 --> 00:57:43,760
an empty cell that's a misdemeanor cell but I can designate it max for the

937
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:48,940
temporary storage of these eight. Well I saw the eight so that's why I was yeah

938
00:57:48,940 --> 00:57:54,320
we're just juggling rooms over there and if we get in a bind he understands we'll

939
00:57:54,320 --> 00:58:01,000
have to you know renegotiate the issue. Okay I think it's a good idea. Thank

940
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:05,440
you. So we did that back in when we built the gel that we started housing some

941
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:10,240
for others to kind of recoup some of our policies that's a good benefit I did

942
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:15,880
send the contract to Allison but it was late Thursday so we don't have a

943
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:19,840
contract can we just say let's move forward with it you know a motion that

944
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:24,460
the court approves or doesn't approve moving forward with the project and then

945
00:58:24,460 --> 00:58:28,620
we're gonna have to still approve a contract yes yes I sent a sample over

946
00:58:28,620 --> 00:58:33,080
there to Megan she shared it with the district attorney I'm sure we'll

947
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:36,780
have an answer. It's very simple contract. It doesn't say much more than you mentioned

948
00:58:36,780 --> 00:58:42,820
earlier. They take all medical and all transportation expenses. We're managing and holding their

949
00:58:42,820 --> 00:58:47,220
inmates and if we need to remove them, it's for our notice and they'll come and get them.

950
00:58:48,820 --> 00:58:53,760
This is just a question for the court. So when the contract comes in, will we need

951
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:58,160
to wait until next court or will we have a special court to approve that contract

952
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:00,620
contractors or something in wording that we can move on.

953
00:59:00,780 --> 00:59:05,900
Okay, well let me see what the court thinks and the sheriff and Megan thinks, but if y'all

954
00:59:05,900 --> 00:59:13,820
wanted to authorize that once the DEA signs off that the contract is fine with Herter

955
00:59:14,370 --> 00:59:18,080
to authorize me to sign the contract, do you think we can do that?

956
00:59:18,620 --> 00:59:20,460
I would not pay him and be able to save him money, right?

957
00:59:20,580 --> 00:59:21,640
Right, but it's still a contract.

958
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:25,780
I mean, I'm fine with that, but I think it would still just, I mean, it's still

959
00:59:25,780 --> 00:59:28,220
The only thing is it won't be before the court for y'all to look at it.

960
00:59:28,220 --> 00:59:32,260
I mean, I think it's best to come back for the court because it's a contract, but...

961
00:59:32,260 --> 00:59:35,200
But this is going to be a special court then because they came to this.

962
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,240
Right. Yeah, I don't want to... Yeah, I don't want to let them share...

963
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:38,860
He's ringing my phone off the wall this morning.

964
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:39,200
Yes.

965
00:59:39,540 --> 00:59:40,180
He's in a bad place.

966
00:59:40,420 --> 00:59:41,240
Well, let's... Let's...

967
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,020
Whatever we need to get to move over.

968
00:59:43,140 --> 00:59:45,060
We're staying in the morning. I really need to go ahead and do everything.

969
00:59:45,300 --> 00:59:47,180
I mean, when's it going to go through their commissioner's court?

970
00:59:47,740 --> 00:59:48,520
You guys, that's a second question.

971
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:51,240
Yeah, has it been approved by the Freestone County Commissioner's Court?

972
00:59:52,180 --> 00:59:53,340
No, sir. It hasn't.

973
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:55,000
Okay, so we got to do that today.

974
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:55,880
We got to do that, too.

975
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:56,460
We got time.

976
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:57,300
Yeah, we got time.

977
00:59:57,600 --> 00:59:57,800
Yeah.

978
00:59:58,180 --> 00:59:59,700
We're going to have both of them sign off.

979
00:59:59,720 --> 00:59:59,880
Thank you all the best.

980
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:07,060
Well, if we don't have them sign it, it's not an executed contract. So I don't want the

981
01:00:07,060 --> 01:00:12,100
liability of their inmates and you don't either. Not without paperwork.

982
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:18,360
All right. How about if we consider and take action for the sheriff to move forward with

983
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:28,960
trying to get the necessary documents in place to house inmates for Freestone County.

984
01:00:32,300 --> 01:00:36,640
I'm sure we'll hope here's something from the district attorney and then we'll move forward

985
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:41,880
just let me know and I can get with I think some of the grants the county judge over so

986
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:46,040
I believe that's right we'll have to see if she approves the contract that's when you're

987
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:51,300
going to submit to them yes after everybody signs in everybody's if she gets that done

988
01:00:51,300 --> 01:00:54,720
for you and you've said that they're probably going to do it if you don't know ahead

989
01:00:55,220 --> 01:00:57,320
They've got them in multiple counties right now.

990
01:00:57,580 --> 01:00:58,960
There's no doubt she'll sign.

991
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:01,460
As he can set up, you know, we can set the court.

992
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:03,220
It's just like 72 hours or so.

993
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,740
As soon as I contact them 72 hours later, right?

994
01:01:07,420 --> 01:01:09,220
Yeah, but if you think you're gonna contact

995
01:01:09,220 --> 01:01:10,120
and we'll get the ball rolling

996
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:11,880
or if you wait to sign and bring it back,

997
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:12,920
then it's still 72 hours.

998
01:01:13,860 --> 01:01:16,560
It's gonna be 72 hours for any special that we call.

999
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,760
So once the county, the district attorney

1000
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:22,000
signs it or approves it for signing,

1001
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:23,740
then we'll make that call.

1002
01:01:23,740 --> 01:01:27,330
Thank you for your time.

1003
01:01:27,330 --> 01:01:29,290
I'll entertain a motion to

1004
01:01:29,290 --> 01:01:32,030
approve, to authorize Sheriff

1005
01:01:32,030 --> 01:01:33,550
Flores to move forward with

1006
01:01:33,550 --> 01:01:35,310
negotiating a contract between

1007
01:01:35,310 --> 01:01:37,110
Freestone County Sheriff's

1008
01:01:37,110 --> 01:01:39,410
Office and getting a contract

1009
01:01:39,410 --> 01:01:40,790
signed by Freestone County

1010
01:01:40,790 --> 01:01:42,170
Commissioner's Court to be

1011
01:01:42,170 --> 01:01:43,470
presented to Anderson County

1012
01:01:43,470 --> 01:01:44,930
Commissioner's Court to

1013
01:01:45,770 --> 01:01:50,870
consider housing inmates in our county jail. They have a motion. Make a motion.

1014
01:01:51,130 --> 01:01:54,370
Motion by Commissioner Wilbains to have a second. Second. Second by Commissioner

1015
01:01:54,370 --> 01:02:02,290
Memms on favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed? So ordered. Out of number 11 is considered to take action to allow

1016
01:02:02,290 --> 01:02:08,570
precinct four road and bridge to bid up to $70,000 for equipment at Renee Bates

1017
01:02:11,510 --> 01:02:18,670
Yes, sir, I found a couple dump trucks, dual tandem dump trucks on Ray Bates that I would

1018
01:02:18,670 --> 01:02:19,470
like to bid on.

1019
01:02:20,490 --> 01:02:26,170
So I just wanted to bring it for the court, let the court know what I was thinking, what

1020
01:02:26,170 --> 01:02:26,930
I was wanting to do.

1021
01:02:28,230 --> 01:02:29,110
I'm entertaining motion.

1022
01:02:29,430 --> 01:02:31,550
Wait, do you have enough money in your capital outlay?

1023
01:02:31,970 --> 01:02:32,610
I'm looking right now.

1024
01:02:33,470 --> 01:02:35,590
I will have to do a budget amendment, I'm sure.

1025
01:02:35,750 --> 01:02:36,430
You gonna do it now?

1026
01:02:36,990 --> 01:02:37,350
I can.

1027
01:02:37,350 --> 01:02:44,440
Let me see how much you have what just approved 32 I guess right

1028
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:48,960
now my cap right

1029
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:51,240
last should have twenty five thousand four hundred

1030
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:55,400
any move already there 50 there

1031
01:02:58,220 --> 01:02:59,360
yes

1032
01:03:01,950 --> 01:03:06,890
45 yeah that'll be good that'll be a

1033
01:03:06,890 --> 01:03:09,310
budget number 33 okay

1034
01:03:11,490 --> 01:03:15,810
I'm sorry Joe what was the total that need to be moved

1035
01:03:21,010 --> 01:03:21,610
I'm

1036
01:03:24,100 --> 01:03:24,980
going to take a motion to

1037
01:03:24,980 --> 01:03:27,780
approve allowing Precinct 4

1038
01:03:27,780 --> 01:03:28,380
Road and Bridge.

1039
01:03:29,620 --> 01:03:32,460
Mr. Hill to bid up $70,000 for

1040
01:03:32,460 --> 01:03:34,780
equipment for Renée Bates

1041
01:03:34,780 --> 01:03:36,620
auction to approve budget

1042
01:03:36,620 --> 01:03:38,340
amendment number 33 moving

1043
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:40,880
$45,000 from his road

1044
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:42,140
construction to his capital

1045
01:03:42,140 --> 01:03:42,600
outlay.

1046
01:03:43,660 --> 01:03:45,180
That will take care of it,

1047
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:45,380
Megan.

1048
01:03:45,380 --> 01:03:49,720
one. Okay motion back to Mr. Wilbanks. Do I have a second? Second. Second back to Mr.

1049
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:55,100
Mann's. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed. Sword. Okay. Thank you for that. I forgot

1050
01:03:55,100 --> 01:03:59,320
about that. Yeah, I'll do that. All right.

1051
01:04:02,100 --> 01:04:04,020
Thank you. That's everything. Back to item

1052
01:04:04,020 --> 01:04:04,520
number nine.

1053
01:04:10,330 --> 01:04:15,830
Okay. That was my suggestion though was just to give her more room to

1054
01:04:15,830 --> 01:04:18,790
be able to beat some of the man's which is and I understand what you're saying

1055
01:04:18,790 --> 01:04:22,610
that it's working the idiot but it's working the way it is because she's

1056
01:04:22,610 --> 01:04:26,550
utilizing spaces that were really designed for other things so that's why

1057
01:04:26,550 --> 01:04:32,650
we looked at it you know that way and it's not against your deal anything else

1058
01:04:32,650 --> 01:04:37,730
it always turns out that's where you say it is but it's not it was elected official

1059
01:04:37,730 --> 01:04:42,010
and interacting with them on a day-to-day basis and I've talked to Casey I've

1060
01:04:42,010 --> 01:04:47,410
talked to emergency management which we work together all the time in case

1061
01:04:47,410 --> 01:04:54,090
he's over there and they've been working and I communicate with them most every

1062
01:04:54,090 --> 01:04:57,330
day or every two or three days because sometimes I don't want to interfere with

1063
01:04:57,330 --> 01:05:01,470
them because they got it's a distraction and they got to stay time on task getting

1064
01:05:01,470 --> 01:05:07,830
those elections ready so I'm just telling you this is County government is

1065
01:05:07,830 --> 01:05:14,730
operating right now in all these different departments at 100% it does

1066
01:05:14,730 --> 01:05:18,570
all I wanted to do was if we had an opportunity for a building like this

1067
01:05:18,570 --> 01:05:24,070
is this close is to take you know if we can enhance stuff I think we're all

1068
01:05:24,070 --> 01:05:27,490
looking for that it's just like commercial wheelbanks in the material

1069
01:05:27,490 --> 01:05:32,770
that he got for free I support him I mean in the court supporting him because

1070
01:05:32,770 --> 01:05:39,350
it's something that benefits the county okay I mean I took here the thing is

1071
01:05:39,350 --> 01:05:44,030
I'm looking out for everybody because even it even one oath of office is

1072
01:05:44,030 --> 01:05:47,070
where everything wasn't right the bonds weren't right I reviewed the

1073
01:05:47,070 --> 01:05:51,330
bonds on a lot of elected officials, the bonds were not executed by the vendors.

1074
01:05:52,250 --> 01:05:54,010
The bonding companies didn't do that.

1075
01:05:54,170 --> 01:05:56,730
I took care of the elected officials at the first of the year.

1076
01:05:57,390 --> 01:05:58,630
Some of the oaths were not done.

1077
01:05:58,850 --> 01:06:01,550
I got you all copies of the oaths because you didn't know.

1078
01:06:03,250 --> 01:06:09,590
There's things that I do on a day-to-day basis and the thing is I'm looking out for

1079
01:06:09,970 --> 01:06:10,830
the commissioners.

1080
01:06:11,190 --> 01:06:12,810
I try to make sure that we stay legal.

1081
01:06:12,810 --> 01:06:16,930
But that's a team effort, okay?

1082
01:06:17,270 --> 01:06:19,270
So I'm just asking you, please.

1083
01:06:19,830 --> 01:06:22,130
Well, just think about it, as you talked about enhancements,

1084
01:06:22,230 --> 01:06:24,750
I think this building was designed, you know,

1085
01:06:24,830 --> 01:06:26,570
and I think it had good intentions.

1086
01:06:26,730 --> 01:06:29,070
I think that there's spaces that are still available,

1087
01:06:29,210 --> 01:06:30,550
and that's why we're looking at it.

1088
01:06:30,550 --> 01:06:32,750
I can't imagine any building from day one

1089
01:06:32,750 --> 01:06:35,290
that's just perfectly designed that you can't find

1090
01:06:35,290 --> 01:06:38,430
that there's absences and rooms for improvement.

1091
01:06:38,930 --> 01:06:40,910
And, you know, the statement was made

1092
01:06:40,910 --> 01:06:42,230
that she needed the improvements.

1093
01:06:42,230 --> 01:06:44,610
This is why we looked at considering moving her.

1094
01:06:45,270 --> 01:06:47,570
And I think that that space down to the end

1095
01:06:47,570 --> 01:06:51,130
is a perfect spot to exercise that.

1096
01:06:51,290 --> 01:06:53,630
We never had it before, it's so loud.

1097
01:06:54,590 --> 01:06:57,370
And we used to do the elections in the collections office.

1098
01:06:57,750 --> 01:06:58,950
But then whenever it come out,

1099
01:06:59,030 --> 01:07:00,270
we had to have an elections office.

1100
01:07:00,530 --> 01:07:01,810
It changed the dynamics of that.

1101
01:07:02,410 --> 01:07:03,910
But as far as your workload,

1102
01:07:04,250 --> 01:07:04,910
I appreciate it.

1103
01:07:04,990 --> 01:07:06,050
Some of the things that you do,

1104
01:07:06,470 --> 01:07:07,950
I'm willing to take over for you

1105
01:07:07,950 --> 01:07:10,510
if it's more than what you want to take home.

1106
01:07:10,510 --> 01:07:16,350
I took care of the veterans for the whole time until you come along and I appreciate you stepping up and doing that

1107
01:07:16,350 --> 01:07:20,890
And I thought you did that at will. I don't remember the courts actually appointing you to it

1108
01:07:20,890 --> 01:07:24,530
But I'm glad you did it and you did a good job. I stayed in contact with them

1109
01:07:24,530 --> 01:07:27,650
You went overboard taking care of my thought it was great

1110
01:07:28,230 --> 01:07:31,890
But I did it all before to get them out of the law to put them where they're at and do what they've done

1111
01:07:32,590 --> 01:07:35,930
Exercising the edges of that building and put it together put me to work

1112
01:07:36,630 --> 01:07:37,770
the courts at the whole.

1113
01:07:37,970 --> 01:07:39,970
We worked together on getting another officer in there.

1114
01:07:40,430 --> 01:07:41,950
The lady just said, you're doing a fine job

1115
01:07:41,950 --> 01:07:43,930
and you're doing a great job and I appreciate it.

1116
01:07:44,030 --> 01:07:45,330
But if the workload gets too much,

1117
01:07:45,670 --> 01:07:47,090
I think there's any member of this court

1118
01:07:47,090 --> 01:07:49,350
would step up and take some of those responsibilities

1119
01:07:49,350 --> 01:07:50,650
from you to help you.

1120
01:07:51,010 --> 01:07:55,570
That's the whole point is I'm dealing with the workload.

1121
01:07:56,890 --> 01:07:57,010
I agree.

1122
01:07:57,310 --> 01:07:58,850
And I took on the magistration.

1123
01:07:59,270 --> 01:08:00,350
I didn't actually do that.

1124
01:08:00,350 --> 01:08:01,530
I took on the magistration.

1125
01:08:01,950 --> 01:08:03,670
I'm doing EWs 24-7.

1126
01:08:03,810 --> 01:08:04,070
I agree.

1127
01:08:04,510 --> 01:08:05,190
And I appreciate it.

1128
01:08:05,190 --> 01:08:06,950
I call them one, two, three o'clock in the morning,

1129
01:08:07,110 --> 01:08:13,090
even on the weekends, and I take care of business.

1130
01:08:13,730 --> 01:08:14,710
That's the way I'm built.

1131
01:08:14,970 --> 01:08:15,790
I take care of business.

1132
01:08:15,970 --> 01:08:17,590
I don't go around complaining about it,

1133
01:08:17,850 --> 01:08:20,270
but what I'm asking you all to do is help me,

1134
01:08:20,450 --> 01:08:21,970
not have to do all this changing,

1135
01:08:22,110 --> 01:08:24,070
because it's gonna be a major distraction for me.

1136
01:08:24,490 --> 01:08:26,710
It's gonna take time on task for me to deal with.

1137
01:08:27,170 --> 01:08:29,790
It's gonna displace them out of their offices

1138
01:08:29,790 --> 01:08:31,110
and move and crap around.

1139
01:08:31,950 --> 01:08:32,450
I'm just asking.

1140
01:08:32,470 --> 01:08:34,530
Well, if you move Casey out of these storage rooms,

1141
01:08:34,530 --> 01:08:37,290
to that to store. Why would that disrupt your operation?

1142
01:08:37,930 --> 01:08:38,190
Okay.

1143
01:08:38,890 --> 01:08:41,710
And then if the two girls move to another place, how does that –

1144
01:08:41,710 --> 01:08:46,570
Can we just – RIT, Mike, is there a way we can get Mike in here

1145
01:08:46,570 --> 01:08:50,350
and then see if he can go live stream with us?

1146
01:08:50,730 --> 01:08:54,730
I think we need to walk collectively as a court

1147
01:08:54,730 --> 01:08:58,310
and everybody, the viewers there and the people here in the courtroom,

1148
01:08:58,710 --> 01:09:01,030
we just need to walk collectively and let's go make a decision.

1149
01:09:01,030 --> 01:09:05,950
And is there a way we can get Mike in here to see if we can do that the camera the only camera

1150
01:09:05,950 --> 01:09:11,050
We got right there. Yeah, I didn't know if he's got it where he can actually hook up to it with his phone somehow

1151
01:09:11,990 --> 01:09:13,910
And then go live stream

1152
01:09:14,630 --> 01:09:16,150
It's it. He can't do it it

1153
01:09:16,150 --> 01:09:21,970
We'd have to do it on YouTube and right now we don't do YouTube anymore because that's subject open records

1154
01:09:22,490 --> 01:09:29,390
So this that we're doing right here is subject open records and good thing about is everybody can go to it now and see it

1155
01:09:29,390 --> 01:09:35,430
So, the YouTube, we always had a problem, we always had a concern that YouTube could

1156
01:09:35,430 --> 01:09:36,030
take us down.

1157
01:09:36,230 --> 01:09:40,450
You know, if they said, well, that one phrase that we don't agree with, so we're going to,

1158
01:09:40,530 --> 01:09:44,370
you know, how they did during some of the elections, they were taking people's posts

1159
01:09:44,370 --> 01:09:45,130
down and things.

1160
01:09:45,470 --> 01:09:46,970
So, that doesn't happen.

1161
01:09:47,270 --> 01:09:51,410
I have one question about the emergency management officer back there.

1162
01:09:51,490 --> 01:09:56,970
If we did have, say, a bad emergency, are those radio computers and everything,

1163
01:09:56,970 --> 01:10:01,150
or are they compatible where we can talk to the city or where we can talk to

1164
01:10:01,150 --> 01:10:06,250
everyone. When we put those radios down there, okay, we made those interoperable

1165
01:10:06,250 --> 01:10:11,570
because Curtis Snow was a city manager, okay. He was a city manager. Pat Henderson

1166
01:10:11,570 --> 01:10:17,190
was a police chief, okay. John Hobson was a sheriff and Mike Link was a chief

1167
01:10:17,190 --> 01:10:21,290
deputy. We were all on board with making that a central dispatch, okay.

1168
01:10:21,290 --> 01:10:28,270
Curtis Snow and I talked. He said we can save on employee salaries by combining

1169
01:10:28,270 --> 01:10:33,490
our dispatch. Bell County did that. They had four or five dispatchers that were

1170
01:10:33,490 --> 01:10:38,830
taken care of Bell County, Belton, Fort Hood, all those calls. They had call

1171
01:10:38,830 --> 01:10:42,350
takers that weren't dispatchers and didn't have to be licensed. They could

1172
01:10:42,350 --> 01:10:48,710
take the calls. They shift the calls over to the to the dispatcher and

1173
01:10:48,710 --> 01:10:53,430
they do the cause. So me and Travis Nimmins went down there and looked at that one and

1174
01:10:53,430 --> 01:10:59,070
that was one of Travis Nimmins, his plaques outside. That was Travis Nimmins idea. I bought

1175
01:10:59,070 --> 01:11:05,890
into it. Curtis, Pat Henderson said, Judge, we were interacting about how's it going

1176
01:11:05,890 --> 01:11:11,830
to work, okay? Pat says, okay, Judge, I got officers that are going to pick somebody

1177
01:11:11,830 --> 01:11:17,190
up by their self. In other words, one officer, and we're going to have warrants. How

1178
01:11:17,190 --> 01:11:24,830
How are we going to get the warrant out of dispatch physically to the officer as he takes

1179
01:11:24,830 --> 01:11:25,310
them to jail?

1180
01:11:25,850 --> 01:11:28,750
So that's what that bank teller to be is out there.

1181
01:11:29,350 --> 01:11:30,670
That was the solution.

1182
01:11:30,970 --> 01:11:33,970
They could pull up right there at that bank teller.

1183
01:11:33,970 --> 01:11:36,950
They could take the warrant, put it in the tube and send it out to the officer.

1184
01:11:37,110 --> 01:11:38,630
They never have to exit the vehicle.

1185
01:11:39,410 --> 01:11:39,470
Okay?

1186
01:11:39,930 --> 01:11:42,370
So that was one problem that Pat identified.

1187
01:11:42,370 --> 01:11:46,870
Mike Link and John Hobson were on board with it, okay?

1188
01:11:47,750 --> 01:11:51,630
Then the lesson happened, Greg won the chief change,

1189
01:11:52,490 --> 01:11:53,930
the city manager change.

1190
01:11:54,310 --> 01:11:56,090
So that's what happened, okay?

1191
01:11:56,530 --> 01:12:00,190
But I understand that, but my question is, they're interoperable?

1192
01:12:00,350 --> 01:12:03,330
Today, if something bad happened, we could open that up

1193
01:12:03,330 --> 01:12:06,690
and it would go right to where radios would talk.

1194
01:12:06,890 --> 01:12:08,150
We could talk to the sheriff's department.

1195
01:12:08,510 --> 01:12:10,690
If they had a minor strike on their building

1196
01:12:10,690 --> 01:12:14,430
and took their dispatch out, the dispatchers can come in here and sit down.

1197
01:12:14,830 --> 01:12:15,930
They won't have the PSAP.

1198
01:12:16,050 --> 01:12:21,110
The PSAP is public service answering point and some of that may not – that wouldn't

1199
01:12:21,110 --> 01:12:21,570
be there.

1200
01:12:21,950 --> 01:12:23,890
That's provided by the cop, okay?

1201
01:12:24,470 --> 01:12:26,830
But they can sit down and they can dispatch their cops.

1202
01:12:28,030 --> 01:12:33,830
If we had something major, you're going to have people calling, checking on their

1203
01:12:33,830 --> 01:12:34,230
families.

1204
01:12:34,790 --> 01:12:38,650
If you had an airplane crash, if you had a tornado and you got a bunch of – a

1205
01:12:38,650 --> 01:12:42,730
whole major area torn up then you're going to have people having to call in

1206
01:12:42,730 --> 01:12:46,490
and the dispatch is going to get it it's going to the dispatch that's what

1207
01:12:46,490 --> 01:12:51,970
happened during show everybody's calling in they couldn't make calls okay so we

1208
01:12:53,250 --> 01:12:58,310
could put people right there have call takers taken taking the calls and that

1209
01:12:58,310 --> 01:13:02,510
we can dispatch extra we could have extra dispatch stations if the PD goes

1210
01:13:02,510 --> 01:13:06,690
down they can go in there we can we had interoperability the whole point

1211
01:13:06,690 --> 01:13:12,630
was just so we could all talk to each other. Okay, just my question. Everybody's going to flip over

1212
01:13:12,630 --> 01:13:16,830
the analog because I'll be obsolete at that point, but my point is they can sit up in a smaller area.

1213
01:13:17,150 --> 01:13:24,430
In fact, we had it work when they set it up that if the DPS helicopters in here or anybody

1214
01:13:24,430 --> 01:13:32,310
else, we could still talk to those people. So, so yes, as of today, if something happens,

1215
01:13:32,310 --> 01:13:36,370
we can go in there and everything is compatible right now we can talk to the

1216
01:13:36,370 --> 01:13:41,630
city, the Sheriff's Department. We don't have to go to the city. In other words, we don't have to go try to find a

1217
01:13:41,630 --> 01:13:46,530
facility that is set up in here, okay? We could actually operate. Is that correct, Mr. Mike?

1218
01:13:46,810 --> 01:13:53,510
We've been doing radios, but with the equipment that's in there,

1219
01:13:53,550 --> 01:13:57,770
besides the radios, computers, telephones, which I know they're all on the

1220
01:13:58,630 --> 01:14:04,110
broadband setup, but I mean, tell them about what you've done with your storage

1221
01:14:04,110 --> 01:14:09,110
facility with all the laptops that you've got charging on a day-to-day basis so

1222
01:14:09,110 --> 01:14:13,570
anybody needs a computer we have to set up and all you got to do is carry them a

1223
01:14:13,570 --> 01:14:17,070
computer and we're up and running with a computer for whoever. Yes, the network

1224
01:14:17,070 --> 01:14:22,410
is running in their rooms. We do have over a dozen laptops that we could set

1225
01:14:22,410 --> 01:14:26,650
up for whatever entity needs it. Most time we have entities bringing their

1226
01:14:26,650 --> 01:14:33,570
own stuff. But, yes, they can talk on radios, they can bring up their computers. When we

1227
01:14:33,570 --> 01:14:40,630
had the flood, we actually stood up in that center area, also a call sign, and we actually

1228
01:14:40,630 --> 01:14:46,870
had four people answering phone calls to the public. We set those phones up through

1229
01:14:47,460 --> 01:14:53,770
our new, our phone system, the Vonage system, and we actually had them capability of having

1230
01:14:53,770 --> 01:14:59,590
a little rolling phone line that would actually call, allow them to call out.

1231
01:15:01,020 --> 01:15:02,560
What part of that room were y'all?

1232
01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:10,100
We were actually in the area where all the tables are, so that way that they used a dispatch.

1233
01:15:11,320 --> 01:15:18,580
And then we were also in the warring for doing with the, when we had all the different entities

1234
01:15:18,580 --> 01:15:24,620
sitting there trying to make sure that all their, the city was there, the county was

1235
01:15:24,620 --> 01:15:27,560
there, the fire department had somebody there.

1236
01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:32,320
We also had radio guys that were also there making because there's a radio direct

1237
01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:35,420
Connection and right there to where the radios could be

1238
01:15:35,420 --> 01:15:40,560
He was actually monitoring and making sure the vfts had all the information that they needed

1239
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:46,200
We have redundancy down there also because we got a ham operator in Y2k

1240
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:51,080
Everybody wasn't sure what was going to happen and we went through why take 2k

1241
01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:54,360
We had ham operators at the fire departments around the whole county

1242
01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:59,680
so we could at least be able to get emergency services anywhere around the county in case

1243
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:01,040
radio systems went down.

1244
01:16:01,220 --> 01:16:04,620
So we've got a ham radio operator that's set up in there right now.

1245
01:16:05,660 --> 01:16:12,220
So with that said, deploying out the radio, the laptops, even setup phone system, you're

1246
01:16:12,220 --> 01:16:15,160
capable of doing that same thing here in this room right here, correct?

1247
01:16:15,860 --> 01:16:17,100
I could do it pretty much anywhere.

1248
01:16:17,500 --> 01:16:17,640
Yes.

1249
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:20,380
Okay, let me ask you, where's the phones at right now?

1250
01:16:20,500 --> 01:16:23,580
If we had a disaster right now today, where's the phones at?

1251
01:16:23,580 --> 01:16:25,880
There's no phones in here, there's no radios in here.

1252
01:16:26,260 --> 01:16:29,360
Those are not just mobile radios down there, those are consoles.

1253
01:16:30,420 --> 01:16:35,020
Some of them are dispatch consoles because they were actually intended for that dispatch

1254
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:37,520
so that they're still there and they're usable.

1255
01:16:38,480 --> 01:16:40,580
So it's not like you can set this thing up.

1256
01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:46,200
The thing is, if you have a disaster and that was the one thing that I was looking

1257
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:51,420
at when all that started is we can't take over all of our facilities

1258
01:16:51,420 --> 01:16:58,020
and make them not operational because you still got to do the day-to-day operations down there.

1259
01:16:58,440 --> 01:17:04,480
The whole idea was because we went from the courthouse to the sheriff's office and the sheriff's

1260
01:17:04,480 --> 01:17:08,920
office was EOC and then we'd go to the civic center to deal with the media. So all that was

1261
01:17:08,920 --> 01:17:13,400
taken into consideration when we built this. Everybody in the operation center would be

1262
01:17:13,400 --> 01:17:19,380
working down there. We're separated from the media so that way we can have time on task

1263
01:17:19,380 --> 01:17:24,380
focusing on what we needed to do. The media was going to be handled in 103 and

1264
01:17:24,380 --> 01:17:28,580
actually we did a tabletop exercise and that's exactly what we did because you're

1265
01:17:28,580 --> 01:17:32,880
going to have about six or eight ten trucks out here with a bunch of antennas

1266
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:37,040
that can sit out here in this corner parking lot so they're up and we'll put

1267
01:17:37,040 --> 01:17:41,020
the media in 103. This is the same thing if Sheriff had some kind of manhunt

1268
01:17:41,020 --> 01:17:46,740
going on and we've got to help them in here with dispatching or whatever

1269
01:17:46,740 --> 01:17:51,200
we can do that. At the same time, he's going to have to have a place to deal with the media

1270
01:17:52,240 --> 01:17:59,100
like some of these other places that you see. So it's not just any one emergency, and you're

1271
01:17:59,100 --> 01:18:04,540
throwing something together. It's together. You can immediately respond to anything that

1272
01:18:04,540 --> 01:18:10,240
happens. But that's their office down there. I mean, that's their office. The legend,

1273
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:16,040
she's over there working right now. Anything we start doing is going to disrupt both

1274
01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:19,540
emergency management and election. The doors go in from the elections in that

1275
01:18:19,540 --> 01:18:22,840
room so she just walk in to go to work. What about the first section that room?

1276
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:27,560
That's the emergency operation center and you have to separate it from the

1277
01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:30,700
general workers. If you've got call takers and dispatchers out there in one

1278
01:18:30,700 --> 01:18:34,780
room and you've got the sheriff and the county judge and the mayor and the

1279
01:18:34,780 --> 01:18:39,600
city manager you got EMS or people with a hospital whatever are in that

1280
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:45,220
room because you can't even hear yourself faint if you don't separate

1281
01:18:45,220 --> 01:18:49,780
some of those things that are going on you I mean there's there's so many moving

1282
01:18:49,780 --> 01:18:54,060
parts that you have to have dealt with it I mean I've been doing this stuff for 40

1283
01:18:54,060 --> 01:19:00,600
years so the man is every day so she has to do something every day she works

1284
01:19:00,600 --> 01:19:05,780
hard at that commissioner 103 be this wherever things going on that's

1285
01:19:05,780 --> 01:19:09,360
exactly right so what's wrong is it what's wrong send emergency Mike got

1286
01:19:09,360 --> 01:19:14,380
a question and let me make powerpoint presentations you have to take photos

1287
01:19:14,380 --> 01:19:15,520
and incorporate those photos.

1288
01:19:15,780 --> 01:19:20,120
If you were to do a video of a walk around,

1289
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:23,140
we could take that and upload it at a better time.

1290
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:25,900
We could take that and put it, you know,

1291
01:19:26,020 --> 01:19:27,520
upload we would have to actually,

1292
01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:30,020
because we're not actually doing YouTube anymore.

1293
01:19:30,260 --> 01:19:30,620
Honestly.

1294
01:19:31,020 --> 01:19:33,080
So Granicus is pushing our stuff.

1295
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:36,140
So if we were to set up another meeting

1296
01:19:36,580 --> 01:19:38,880
and we were to play that during that meeting,

1297
01:19:39,060 --> 01:19:41,180
all that video footage would go up

1298
01:19:41,180 --> 01:19:43,540
onto just like with the PowerPoint presentations.

1299
01:19:43,540 --> 01:19:51,320
Yes, sir, but I don't have a way to like take a mobile mobile camera because I mean they are a built-in and we're wired

1300
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:55,980
Yeah, I just wanted to make sure if you could take a photo

1301
01:19:55,980 --> 01:20:02,200
You think you take a platform presentation corporate data into the granicus. Yes stuff for our meeting

1302
01:20:02,200 --> 01:20:05,800
Yes, it will be there for someone to see it in a later moment. Yes, okay

1303
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:09,740
So therefore we can't get up and we do have some of those still on the older

1304
01:20:10,440 --> 01:20:12,860
Stuff that the county judge put up

1305
01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:20,360
And we do have some of those, but I mean, if you want to identify more information, then

1306
01:20:20,360 --> 01:20:22,860
yes, we can put videos up and.

1307
01:20:22,980 --> 01:20:26,900
Mr. Whitebanks, he answered your question and we could go down.

1308
01:20:27,320 --> 01:20:28,400
I'm ready to do it.

1309
01:20:28,820 --> 01:20:30,140
I think we have to.

1310
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:38,780
I think we owe that to the people to do that before we do anything so that they can see

1311
01:20:41,010 --> 01:20:42,790
what's being projected.

1312
01:20:44,730 --> 01:20:45,950
I think we have to.

1313
01:20:45,950 --> 01:20:47,850
there's no there's no way around it.

1314
01:20:49,920 --> 01:20:52,280
I'd like to do it right now. That's why I put the

1315
01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:55,140
bathroom up there. So, that's my hope for doing this.

1316
01:20:56,960 --> 01:21:16,280
Well, that room, like I said, the room is this size with two girls in it. And that's why I just was considering the fact that we can move them around to a smaller area, set up, and then let Casey do her job, and she could have everything she needed right there out the back of her office space, and she wouldn't have to be running back

1317
01:21:16,280 --> 01:21:19,540
for what these hallways and do the things she does until she has her big

1318
01:21:19,540 --> 01:21:23,460
elections and we already have all even judges fire point job that will still

1319
01:21:23,460 --> 01:21:27,180
have to sit up in the bigger rooms as well as transport and equipment from

1320
01:21:27,180 --> 01:21:30,680
there to here would be a lot less than putting it in a trailer and hauling

1321
01:21:30,680 --> 01:21:33,320
other than the fact that one's a portal once you've got to go out on the

1322
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:37,220
election station which you'll always be no matter what you do well in the

1323
01:21:37,220 --> 01:21:41,500
rain goes you probably would not be as judge was saying the radios would be

1324
01:21:41,500 --> 01:21:44,820
kind of difficult because you've got the tower going right outside the

1325
01:21:44,820 --> 01:21:50,000
back side which has a limited gain so you kind of have to worry about that and

1326
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:53,860
that's where we have to be moved out of there if you put case down there we have

1327
01:21:53,860 --> 01:22:00,120
no we know that we have no immediate response for any emergency and there's

1328
01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:04,160
no it's gonna happen okay this is the thing there's more threats now than

1329
01:22:04,160 --> 01:22:07,780
ever with all those people that came across the border you got tears to

1330
01:22:07,780 --> 01:22:12,460
enter this country every county in this in the state of Texas has got to

1331
01:22:12,460 --> 01:22:19,000
be concerned about a terrorist attack, and nobody's thinking about that stuff. I participated

1332
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:25,400
in a tabletop in San Angelo, Texas, and that was one of the number one things in the tabletop

1333
01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:31,360
because I was a teach instructor at the time with Texas A&M Extension Service with doing

1334
01:22:31,360 --> 01:22:36,620
the tabletop for all that community. And the first thing that they got was all the

1335
01:22:36,620 --> 01:22:42,550
communications got knocked but the control room in the front would could

1336
01:22:42,550 --> 01:22:47,130
visit the towers there it could be moved to the other big part that the room

1337
01:22:47,130 --> 01:22:51,310
easily couldn't I mean as far as it goes wouldn't be moving the distances and

1338
01:22:51,310 --> 01:22:55,890
they cut the office ties down if we all got together look this is trying to give

1339
01:22:55,890 --> 01:23:00,690
her a little more space you know what I'm talking about if they if you were to

1340
01:23:00,690 --> 01:23:06,790
move things around the radio room wouldn't be able to be moved you

1341
01:23:06,790 --> 01:23:11,970
would actually have to physically turn up new pretty much turn up I'm guessing I

1342
01:23:11,970 --> 01:23:15,410
don't know exactly you would have to probably talk to Christina about that

1343
01:23:16,110 --> 01:23:21,210
and and get some of the guys in there to know radios better but I know that all

1344
01:23:21,210 --> 01:23:26,150
that wiring is going right into that radio room which is right off to the

1345
01:23:26,150 --> 01:23:32,730
right next to another location if we have to and that's a minute is

1346
01:23:32,730 --> 01:23:37,850
Versus buying a $350,000 build and I think that's what commission is trying to explain. Can't that be done?

1347
01:23:37,910 --> 01:23:41,310
I mean the expense of that would be more or minimal to anything far as I know

1348
01:23:42,830 --> 01:23:46,910
That would be okay. I just don't know you have to talk to the radio guys

1349
01:23:46,910 --> 01:23:51,210
I didn't know. Yeah, that's fine. Now phones the phones and the computer equipment. That's

1350
01:23:52,250 --> 01:23:53,990
That's that's right now is

1351
01:23:54,510 --> 01:23:57,830
So we would need a tower and a 75 foot max turn on

1352
01:23:58,710 --> 01:24:01,670
and that's a max to run on the coax so

1353
01:24:02,130 --> 01:24:07,010
I think that wouldn't be that much movement if we needed to.

1354
01:24:09,530 --> 01:24:11,610
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say.

1355
01:24:11,910 --> 01:24:13,190
It's going to disrupt service.

1356
01:24:13,410 --> 01:24:14,670
It's going to displace my people.

1357
01:24:15,350 --> 01:24:16,870
And they're not going to be able to function.

1358
01:24:17,810 --> 01:24:18,730
And who are we talking about?

1359
01:24:19,130 --> 01:24:20,390
Emergency management analyst.

1360
01:24:21,490 --> 01:24:22,970
They just grab over it.

1361
01:24:23,010 --> 01:24:23,890
What are we trying to fix?

1362
01:24:24,290 --> 01:24:25,850
What are we trying to fix nothing?

1363
01:24:26,210 --> 01:24:28,010
Because right now they're operational 100%.

1364
01:24:28,630 --> 01:24:30,050
They're taking care of their business.

1365
01:24:30,670 --> 01:24:32,310
All we're doing is playing shuffleboard

1366
01:24:32,310 --> 01:24:39,790
with a bunch of, a bunch of offices, 103B, we can, we'll leave room 103B, everything stays the same,

1367
01:24:40,010 --> 01:24:45,050
nothing changes. But if we would purchase the building and move it, are that not a cause of

1368
01:24:45,050 --> 01:24:51,170
disruption? But you're supposed to do that. Okay, hold on a second. No, what I wanted to do was

1369
01:24:51,170 --> 01:24:59,210
enhance elections, not disrupt emergency management, is enhance elections. And we're going to put

1370
01:24:59,930 --> 01:25:04,530
All of her stuff, like she said, her signs, all her stuff, so we're here in this other

1371
01:25:04,530 --> 01:25:04,890
building.

1372
01:25:05,290 --> 01:25:08,150
Everything could have went in one building, in one location.

1373
01:25:08,670 --> 01:25:14,610
She could have done it on a day-to-day basis, and if we didn't buy the building, don't

1374
01:25:14,610 --> 01:25:15,170
buy the building.

1375
01:25:15,350 --> 01:25:16,590
Leave everything like it is.

1376
01:25:17,330 --> 01:25:18,530
Don't disrupt services.

1377
01:25:18,870 --> 01:25:24,690
That's what's fixing to happen, and I know that, and nobody's listening to me.

1378
01:25:25,150 --> 01:25:25,930
That's the problem.

1379
01:25:25,930 --> 01:25:31,050
I'm the elected official that deals with it and I'm the one that is trying, I've talked

1380
01:25:31,050 --> 01:25:33,790
and communicated with all my people.

1381
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:41,660
So I would totally, I totally respect when y'all come in here and tell me something about

1382
01:25:41,660 --> 01:25:42,140
Rodin Bridge.

1383
01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:43,060
You keep saying that.

1384
01:25:43,060 --> 01:25:47,820
I listen to it a hundred percent and I usually take the recommendation of everything that

1385
01:25:47,820 --> 01:25:50,920
y'all ask for or need and I support you a hundred percent.

1386
01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:55,100
The sheriff has come in here and asked for lots of different things for the last two,

1387
01:25:55,100 --> 01:25:57,540
two, two and a half years, and a lot of them

1388
01:25:57,540 --> 01:25:58,720
might have supported him on them.

1389
01:25:58,740 --> 01:26:00,600
There's some of it that I didn't support him on,

1390
01:26:00,860 --> 01:26:02,180
but most of it I have.

1391
01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:04,820
Anything that was reason, all of his radios

1392
01:26:04,820 --> 01:26:06,460
and laptops and everything else,

1393
01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:09,680
that's important to him to be able to take care

1394
01:26:09,680 --> 01:26:11,560
of his business on a day-to-day basis.

1395
01:26:12,220 --> 01:26:12,580
Okay?

1396
01:26:12,880 --> 01:26:15,760
It's just like the contract for the inmates.

1397
01:26:16,280 --> 01:26:17,600
He's coming here making a recommendation.

1398
01:26:17,780 --> 01:26:19,180
He's gonna be able to do something

1399
01:26:19,180 --> 01:26:20,860
to get some funds to help with that.

1400
01:26:20,860 --> 01:26:21,180
We understood that.

1401
01:26:21,320 --> 01:26:21,860
We were setting him up.

1402
01:26:21,860 --> 01:26:22,580
Okay, so I-

1403
01:26:22,580 --> 01:26:24,080
But I think you got a room down there

1404
01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:26,480
that you've got a passion for and you like the way it is.

1405
01:26:26,700 --> 01:26:27,600
It's not what it is.

1406
01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:28,300
It's our place.

1407
01:26:28,300 --> 01:26:32,040
And we don't want to bend it up to try to help make some more room.

1408
01:26:32,340 --> 01:26:36,660
And we're trying to figure out some way to help Casey and have more room.

1409
01:26:37,020 --> 01:26:40,480
And we have talked to Casey, but we don't want to put it on the spot to have her in

1410
01:26:40,480 --> 01:26:43,280
here to testify on what she does and what she needs.

1411
01:26:43,580 --> 01:26:44,500
She don't want that role.

1412
01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:49,900
But to sit there and give it and you to give up a little bit of space to reset

1413
01:26:49,900 --> 01:26:50,120
it.

1414
01:26:50,180 --> 01:26:50,840
You can do it anywhere.

1415
01:26:51,120 --> 01:26:52,160
You're not willing to do it.

1416
01:26:52,160 --> 01:26:56,140
And that's what you don't want to do is the reason you're pushing back on this order the reason

1417
01:26:56,140 --> 01:27:02,200
I'm not being used enough to justify setting there 20 years you made the statement you want to withdraw it which is

1418
01:27:02,200 --> 01:27:06,860
What's very accurate since it's nothing to done since 2006 or whatever it was

1419
01:27:06,860 --> 01:27:12,280
And I was when you left and I put that in I know you did but you know wait a minute wait a minute that report

1420
01:27:12,280 --> 01:27:17,460
I had a report and I was going to correct my own statement a lot of people won't

1421
01:27:17,460 --> 01:27:21,860
meant they made a mistake if they're elected officials. I made a mistake and I

1422
01:27:21,860 --> 01:27:26,580
said something and that was what I believed but I went back and got with

1423
01:27:26,580 --> 01:27:29,920
emergency management. There's a report in your reports today from emergency

1424
01:27:29,920 --> 01:27:36,580
management of all the tabletop exercises and it wasn't necessarily all of them

1425
01:27:36,580 --> 01:27:40,140
weren't in here but some of them were in here. They did a regional emergency

1426
01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:51,100
full-scale deal back in around 16. So there's been stuff that goes on, but they could do

1427
01:27:51,100 --> 01:27:52,780
that in any other place they could.

1428
01:27:53,260 --> 01:27:58,540
If they're not set up to do it, they'll change and set up. Yes, sir. They'll change and set

1429
01:27:58,540 --> 01:28:04,520
up. I mean, again, I won't back down. I think that's the best solution. And that's a,

1430
01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:10,120
that from my standpoint I'm just one vote on the court we can get the most

1431
01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:15,260
effective use out of this annex. I know there's been a lot said you know

1432
01:28:15,260 --> 01:28:20,500
especially about stuff like I mean I'm gonna bring it back up I probably should

1433
01:28:20,500 --> 01:28:26,120
but taking credit for things and showing up for a small amount of time

1434
01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:31,660
I mean when you go somewhere and you show up and you're present and you

1435
01:28:31,660 --> 01:28:36,420
help offer the best solution or you answer a couple questions that are needed

1436
01:28:36,420 --> 01:28:40,120
from a public standpoint and you're not a nuisance to the people you don't have

1437
01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:43,380
to hang around a long time and you don't have to be there for the opening and

1438
01:28:43,380 --> 01:28:49,080
closing, you don't have to just make it seem like people just love to see you.

1439
01:28:49,400 --> 01:28:52,540
Nobody loves to see nobody but their family, their wife, their husband,

1440
01:28:52,720 --> 01:28:55,860
where ever they go home to be with their children. A lot of that other

1441
01:28:55,860 --> 01:28:58,580
than that is just work and you're gonna take care of your business, you're

1442
01:28:58,580 --> 01:29:02,400
than you put people and that's what you do and I think that's best approach I

1443
01:29:02,400 --> 01:29:07,860
brought and I think that judges you do a lot, magistrate, they appreciate all that.

1444
01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:11,180
You take on a lot of extra steps. I've been here and I've worked with three

1445
01:29:11,180 --> 01:29:15,480
different county judges since I've been here, my tenure and some of the things

1446
01:29:15,480 --> 01:29:20,100
they that you do, they wouldn't help pass the book on to somebody else and

1447
01:29:20,780 --> 01:29:24,920
nobody's seeing what you just like last court. I gave you gratitude on your

1448
01:29:24,920 --> 01:29:28,700
efforts forward and your plans you push on a lot of things here and they're good

1449
01:29:28,700 --> 01:29:33,740
things and I still stand by in that same statement but I mean there's times when

1450
01:29:33,740 --> 01:29:39,240
if we don't agree the same way you want us to or agree with you or anything or if

1451
01:29:39,240 --> 01:29:42,880
you feel one of us is against you I mean I remember when you first came in this

1452
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:46,840
time I still had the same respect when you were coaching a little league

1453
01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:51,300
football and me and the rest of the guys all of us we we looked up to

1454
01:29:51,300 --> 01:29:59,080
I still live up to you, but I do know one thing, if you don't figure I'm 100% with you or on your side.

1455
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:03,820
I won't be in the loophole or I won't be the one you call. And that's okay. That's just

1456
01:30:03,820 --> 01:30:09,060
a style. That's how you work. But again, I have a job to do for the people. And that's

1457
01:30:09,060 --> 01:30:12,960
what I have to understand is when we come in this courtroom, all differences are aside.

1458
01:30:13,200 --> 01:30:17,040
We are working for the people who have led us to work for. And that's what I want to do.

1459
01:30:18,080 --> 01:30:23,620
And we don't have to purchase other buildings to arrange these employees and give them the

1460
01:30:23,620 --> 01:30:28,560
space they need. We have it right here. We can effectively use it. We can talk to all the

1461
01:30:28,960 --> 01:30:33,120
office holders, we can show them right now what you're doing. I'm going back to

1462
01:30:33,120 --> 01:30:36,280
Fulawari. Everybody's giving their side to why they're

1463
01:30:36,280 --> 01:30:39,080
letting you do this. You know we're going to get up, walk down there and look at

1464
01:30:39,080 --> 01:30:41,960
these rooms together because that's something we hadn't done just like we

1465
01:30:41,960 --> 01:30:44,200
were going to take a recess and go over here and look at the bank building.

1466
01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:47,780
Why can't we get a recess and go down here and look at the emergency

1467
01:30:47,780 --> 01:30:52,900
command center. Also Mike has already clarified that he can incorporate

1468
01:30:52,900 --> 01:30:59,860
anything up later on needs to be added to the court meeting so if we want to do

1469
01:30:59,860 --> 01:31:04,710
that let's do it if not I feel we should adjourn this meeting we just wasting

1470
01:31:04,710 --> 01:31:06,070
quite a time. Before

1471
01:31:09,490 --> 01:31:12,330
another adjourn I do have the contract back that for the

1472
01:31:12,330 --> 01:31:15,570
sheriff that Allison approved a form if y'all want to take a look at it real

1473
01:31:15,570 --> 01:31:20,230
quick and maybe amend your motion if y'all were done with that agenda item.

1474
01:31:22,270 --> 01:31:26,790
We're going to have freestyle county, but we do I mean, could we do this one prior to the end of the end?

1475
01:31:27,410 --> 01:31:30,290
We can do that so the sheriff doesn't have to wait seven years.

1476
01:31:32,390 --> 01:31:35,070
She's forwarded it to me and I've sent it to the sheriff over there.

1477
01:31:35,210 --> 01:31:38,990
They're speaking to the county judge right now about potentially getting it signed.

1478
01:31:39,350 --> 01:31:43,490
So I'll let you know if I get information.

1479
01:31:43,930 --> 01:31:43,930
All

1480
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:52,780
right, so we're going back to number 13.

1481
01:31:54,420 --> 01:32:01,420
the Inter-Local Agreement for the Stone County Sheriff's Officer housing their

1482
01:32:01,420 --> 01:32:02,960
handmaids for $50 a day.

1483
01:32:21,680 --> 01:32:24,880
To this look a lot like Henderson County's when we did

1484
01:32:24,880 --> 01:32:30,180
Henderson County. I think that was based on a Henderson County. I figured that's probably what you used.

1485
01:32:31,460 --> 01:32:32,500
Sheriff have

1486
01:34:50,490 --> 01:34:52,210
you had an opportunity to look over this?

1487
01:34:54,350 --> 01:34:55,470
So the one question I've

1488
01:34:55,470 --> 01:35:07,440
I know in previous kind of talking to you and touring the jail, we talked about some of the

1489
01:35:07,440 --> 01:35:16,560
issues with health care, being a big expense for the taxpayers for us, you know, having

1490
01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:20,380
to take them to the hospital or whatever, this and that.

1491
01:35:20,880 --> 01:35:26,940
Are we going to be, so these inmates, they're going to be under our policy if anything

1492
01:35:26,940 --> 01:35:33,740
happens ailment-wise? Because I'm reading in section 7, Anderson County that such prisoners

1493
01:35:33,740 --> 01:35:39,440
should cause physical bodily or property damage to one or more persons or various property

1494
01:35:39,440 --> 01:35:43,120
including detention facility as a part of the agreement and based on consideration

1495
01:35:43,120 --> 01:35:48,980
extended by Anderson County to Freestone County as a part here of Freestone County

1496
01:35:48,980 --> 01:35:55,180
agrees to fully and completely identify and hold harmless Anderson County its sheriff

1497
01:35:55,180 --> 01:36:00,820
deputy's elected officials, employees, agents, contractors, sort of. But does it take care of,

1498
01:36:00,980 --> 01:36:05,420
I mean, if so, one of them gets sick, that we take in, are they going to be

1499
01:36:05,420 --> 01:36:09,440
fronting the dime for that, or is that going to be on us? They're going to pay for that.

1500
01:36:09,600 --> 01:36:13,360
Yes, it is in here. And it says, even if they transfer them to any medical facilities

1501
01:36:13,360 --> 01:36:16,660
or Memphis, they take responsibility for transforming them.

1502
01:36:18,300 --> 01:36:23,420
Is that the sheriff's discretion, whether the person needs to go to the hospital or?

1503
01:36:23,420 --> 01:36:27,640
It also says if they tear up anything, they can tear the seat off the toilet if they don't.

1504
01:36:28,340 --> 01:36:28,480
Okay.

1505
01:36:31,300 --> 01:36:38,440
It looks like they're taking all the financial liabilities, responsibilities or anything they

1506
01:36:38,440 --> 01:36:38,620
do.

1507
01:36:39,100 --> 01:36:43,520
We won't withhold anything from them, but any benefits incurred will be passed on to

1508
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:43,720
them.

1509
01:36:43,940 --> 01:36:44,240
Beautiful.

1510
01:36:45,240 --> 01:36:48,520
If even today goes to the point of seeing them, they require a special diet.

1511
01:36:49,600 --> 01:36:53,560
So it says that they pay for the special diets, whatever it is, if it's beyond what

1512
01:36:53,560 --> 01:37:01,140
our feet step in. Okay, the only thing I'm concerned is the medical

1513
01:37:01,140 --> 01:37:08,160
contract that we have those same people will be they'll be seeing our those

1514
01:37:08,160 --> 01:37:12,560
inmates as well as our inmates correct yes sir yes sir okay so is there gonna

1515
01:37:12,560 --> 01:37:19,880
be and is that maybe do we need to have some type of fee for that medical to

1516
01:37:19,880 --> 01:37:24,940
recoup some of our costs there. Our medical pays it's the cost it will flat rate

1517
01:37:24,940 --> 01:37:29,500
up to a certain ADP and if there are people beyond that we pay extra we're

1518
01:37:29,500 --> 01:37:33,500
not going to be beyond that number with these additional but you put that in on

1519
01:37:33,500 --> 01:37:37,500
that $50 deal. Well I figured in that the over-the-counter stuff that we'll give

1520
01:37:37,500 --> 01:37:41,620
them an aspirin we'll give them some for headache but we when we have to call

1521
01:37:41,620 --> 01:37:46,180
diagnostic which we call diagnostic sometime or extra your other people to

1522
01:37:46,180 --> 01:37:50,680
the jail for services, that direct bill will go to them. If we take them out of

1523
01:37:50,680 --> 01:37:55,920
this facility, whether it's for a toothache, an eye checkup, or to the ER for

1524
01:37:55,920 --> 01:38:01,520
serious treatment, that bill will go directly to them. Other than being able

1525
01:38:01,520 --> 01:38:06,640
to verbally speak to a nurse, we're not going to provide them anything unless

1526
01:38:06,640 --> 01:38:11,540
it's on the level like an aspirin or an acid. If you see they're going to be

1527
01:38:11,540 --> 01:38:15,380
and major impact are medically you can always tell them come get we have that

1528
01:38:15,380 --> 01:38:19,340
for our window I would take them to the hospital and have the sheriff meet me

1529
01:38:19,340 --> 01:38:22,480
over there or send somebody over there we're not going to withhold medical

1530
01:38:22,480 --> 01:38:26,260
treatment but we will make sure the county's not unduly burdened with any

1531
01:38:26,260 --> 01:38:29,240
financial commitment are you gonna be holding them in the old side are you

1532
01:38:29,240 --> 01:38:38,040
gonna be home they'll be in the new side okay any questions about the

1533
01:38:38,040 --> 01:38:40,200
contract or is everybody acceptable with the contract?

1534
01:38:40,700 --> 01:38:41,500
No, I can't accept it.

1535
01:38:41,700 --> 01:38:42,520
I like it.

1536
01:38:42,660 --> 01:38:42,860
OK.

1537
01:38:44,140 --> 01:38:47,740
Going back to item number 13,

1538
01:38:52,500 --> 01:38:52,680
I'll

1539
01:38:52,680 --> 01:38:55,780
entertain a motion to approve the contract submitted

1540
01:38:55,780 --> 01:38:59,500
by Sheriff Flores as an interlocual agreement

1541
01:39:00,200 --> 01:39:06,120
with Anderson and Freestone County for us to house Freestone

1542
01:39:06,120 --> 01:39:09,580
County inmates at a fee of $50 per day.

1543
01:39:09,580 --> 01:39:15,840
and this this has been looked over and approved by our district attorney I'll

1544
01:39:15,840 --> 01:39:20,920
entertain a motion to approve the contract. The county judge has to sign it to be

1545
01:39:20,920 --> 01:39:26,780
submitted to Freestone County for approval. So moved. Motion by Commissioner

1546
01:39:26,780 --> 01:39:30,560
Heald. Second. Second. Second. Second by Commissioner Chapin. All in favor say aye.

1547
01:39:30,720 --> 01:39:38,660
Aye. All opposed. So ordered. Okay. So all you got to do is get them to sign it. Turn it in and put it in good shape.

1548
01:39:38,660 --> 01:39:39,200
I'll

1549
01:39:58,660 --> 01:40:02,800
put a date out beside my name because it may be a date or so before they get it done.

1550
01:40:03,080 --> 01:40:03,720
So I'll

1551
01:40:08,770 --> 01:40:14,300
let you know it's a grant, but the date, it was fully executed, didn't it?

1552
01:40:16,380 --> 01:40:22,420
I'm going to give that to Megan so she can work with you and get that emailed over there to them.

1553
01:40:22,900 --> 01:40:23,300
Is it okay?

1554
01:40:23,760 --> 01:40:23,880
Yes.

1555
01:40:24,140 --> 01:40:24,560
All right.

1556
01:40:24,680 --> 01:40:25,980
Because we can't file stamp it.

1557
01:40:26,120 --> 01:40:29,380
We can't file stamp it yet until it's executed, okay?

1558
01:40:30,280 --> 01:40:30,700
Let

1559
01:40:32,940 --> 01:40:34,520
me go ahead and...

1560
01:40:34,520 --> 01:40:37,960
Well, it's going to be probably an email, so let's, uh...

1561
01:40:37,960 --> 01:40:40,540
Let me look. I may have something from them right now, Judge.

1562
01:40:40,840 --> 01:40:41,120
Okay.

1563
01:40:43,310 --> 01:40:45,110
You are to submit it in that, Dr. Reagan.

1564
01:40:45,770 --> 01:40:47,970
Yeah, I don't know if they have it like what any of them did.

1565
01:40:49,700 --> 01:40:52,480
Yeah, unless they had it on the agenda, they're going to have a meeting.

1566
01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:01,540
I think you made the motion, didn't you, Joy?

1567
01:41:01,860 --> 01:41:02,360
Mm-hmm.

1568
01:41:03,200 --> 01:41:03,500
Great.

1569
01:41:03,560 --> 01:41:03,760
Great.

1570
01:41:03,900 --> 01:41:06,380
Okay, so got a motion in a second.

1571
01:41:07,460 --> 01:41:08,600
All in favor, say aye.

1572
01:41:08,940 --> 01:41:09,180
Aye.

1573
01:41:09,220 --> 01:41:09,400
Aye.

1574
01:41:09,660 --> 01:41:10,100
All opposed?

1575
01:41:10,100 --> 01:41:13,300
so I don't think we voted. Okay.

1576
01:41:20,860 --> 01:41:22,120
So do we want to walk down?

1577
01:41:23,540 --> 01:41:25,600
Yeah. What are you talking about doing?

1578
01:41:28,180 --> 01:41:30,500
Just recording on your phone and then uploading it?

1579
01:41:32,480 --> 01:41:37,400
I mean, I can go grab my phone and we can do that.

1580
01:41:38,040 --> 01:41:41,020
I mean, I unfortunately didn't bring either one of my phones

1581
01:41:41,020 --> 01:41:43,080
or we'll sit down on my charger on my desk.

1582
01:41:43,900 --> 01:41:47,280
If I heard just a question.

1583
01:41:47,760 --> 01:41:51,600
I mean I think if it can be approached that way I think that's what we should

1584
01:41:51,600 --> 01:41:56,180
need we need to do. I understand in that room back there, Judge, there's a fire

1585
01:41:56,180 --> 01:42:00,180
alarm, a generator panels, other stuff like that that needs to be monitored and

1586
01:42:00,180 --> 01:42:08,200
I believe you, IT, even emergency pantry can go back and monitor those if they

1587
01:42:08,200 --> 01:42:12,780
need to just on that side. I mean when you take the full aspect of the JP to

1588
01:42:12,780 --> 01:42:17,340
court room that's I mean offices those are large offices the front office for

1589
01:42:17,340 --> 01:42:24,180
the clerk and then for the JP and only days over there that I see really there

1590
01:42:24,180 --> 01:42:30,340
be a vital disruption to change anything with Christina would be the the

1591
01:42:30,340 --> 01:42:33,320
file cabinets that needs to be secured with all her data and stuff she has to

1592
01:42:33,320 --> 01:42:35,980
have for all they have to be just moved over to those rooms and then we

1593
01:42:35,980 --> 01:42:40,400
also have that big room right beside the girls restroom judge I have a

1594
01:42:40,760 --> 01:42:44,300
What about the ice machine that they had installed there last year?

1595
01:42:44,660 --> 01:42:45,480
But just somewhere else.

1596
01:42:45,760 --> 01:42:46,260
We can win this.

1597
01:42:46,260 --> 01:42:47,120
See, those are just the ones.

1598
01:42:47,140 --> 01:42:47,640
This is the front.

1599
01:42:47,660 --> 01:42:47,780
I know.

1600
01:42:48,320 --> 01:42:49,980
That was just a, you know, softball 7.

1601
01:42:50,520 --> 01:42:53,760
Casey's not going to want emergency management going in there.

1602
01:42:54,300 --> 01:42:59,160
I mean, if I'm good, I don't go into this one without some of them.

1603
01:42:59,540 --> 01:43:00,100
But that's the case.

1604
01:43:00,260 --> 01:43:02,620
We can take them right there where that door goes in and build them.

1605
01:43:02,740 --> 01:43:03,960
There's going to be a one-wall across them.

1606
01:43:04,060 --> 01:43:04,660
You're all that in.

1607
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:06,560
I would just ask them.

1608
01:43:06,780 --> 01:43:07,580
We'll just take a second.

1609
01:43:07,740 --> 01:43:08,720
We can move it.

1610
01:43:08,780 --> 01:43:09,940
We'll small check this.

1611
01:43:10,580 --> 01:43:12,760
So if you can go with you, you're fine with us.

1612
01:43:13,060 --> 01:43:14,320
Did you want to do that?

1613
01:43:14,420 --> 01:43:17,500
One more thing to add into another court session.

1614
01:43:19,760 --> 01:43:21,540
The office is the courthouse.

1615
01:43:21,740 --> 01:43:24,420
It's occupied by the district clerk and two employees.

1616
01:43:25,600 --> 01:43:26,580
So we can't move.

1617
01:43:26,800 --> 01:43:27,440
Leave it.

1618
01:43:27,640 --> 01:43:28,460
That was just an option.

1619
01:43:28,620 --> 01:43:29,380
We can leave that one.

1620
01:43:29,480 --> 01:43:32,640
Forget that, as I said, and put them in any other one.

1621
01:43:32,840 --> 01:43:36,060
But I mean, you can take the jail cells out and build a big office right there.

1622
01:43:36,900 --> 01:43:40,200
Well, so you're going to put my merchants here in the office also in Jail.

1623
01:43:40,940 --> 01:43:42,320
But you built the Jail?

1624
01:43:43,060 --> 01:43:44,720
There's concrete walls and ceilings.

1625
01:43:44,880 --> 01:43:46,580
They're leaving the concrete walls and ceilings now.

1626
01:43:47,480 --> 01:43:53,200
I'm talking about running co-waxing, radio and phone, all that's displaced.

1627
01:43:54,220 --> 01:43:56,380
It seems like there's just an answer for everything.

1628
01:43:56,900 --> 01:43:58,400
Let's walk back here and look at the phone.

1629
01:43:58,880 --> 01:44:05,580
Did you, like, if you want to pause this session and start over and then here.

1630
01:44:06,020 --> 01:44:13,820
I guess what I'm just trying to think how they're going to do it on Granicus side because again we don't we don't usually

1631
01:44:13,820 --> 01:44:21,960
We can I don't have them on site. So this is that's why I was saying if we were to do this video recording and then put it on another session

1632
01:44:24,220 --> 01:44:29,980
And well we can't close this one because we have to stay we have to stay operating so if we close this we can't go down as a court

1633
01:44:29,980 --> 01:44:34,260
So we have to keep this going because we're not on the record.

1634
01:44:34,580 --> 01:44:38,320
We can pause this and he can record everything.

1635
01:44:39,140 --> 01:44:41,160
He can record everything with his phone.

1636
01:44:41,880 --> 01:44:45,380
We can have to go down there and be quiet until we get there, open up whichever office

1637
01:44:45,380 --> 01:44:46,020
we go in first.

1638
01:44:46,160 --> 01:44:50,180
Where we start at JP2, whether we go to the little storage room right there, we go

1639
01:44:50,180 --> 01:44:54,780
to the jail cells, we go to the emergency center right after that in-cases office

1640
01:44:54,780 --> 01:44:55,800
in 103B.

1641
01:44:57,100 --> 01:44:59,860
I don't want to tell you about the emergency management personnel, it's not a hand.

1642
01:45:02,990 --> 01:45:08,950
We know they do a good job. We're not saying they don't do nothing. They work here in Anderson

1643
01:45:08,950 --> 01:45:13,950
County. We know they do a good job. And they're needed. We know they're needed. That's why we're

1644
01:45:13,950 --> 01:45:14,390
trying to come.

1645
01:45:14,490 --> 01:45:21,690
Okay, let's take a recess. We'll pause the video. Can George pause it?

1646
01:45:22,310 --> 01:45:23,370
Should be able to. Yes, sir.

1647
01:45:23,690 --> 01:45:23,950
Okay.

1648
01:45:23,950 --> 01:45:24,670
Are

1649
01:45:29,400 --> 01:45:30,300
we rolling again, Mark?

1650
01:45:31,160 --> 01:45:36,460
I'm going to have to brief recess to go look at facilities and the commissioners' court

1651
01:45:36,460 --> 01:45:48,290
reconvene out of recess at 11.42 a.m. and show that a court is present all the members

1652
01:45:48,290 --> 01:45:49,450
of the court are back in the courtroom.

1653
01:45:50,430 --> 01:45:50,990
So,

1654
01:45:54,700 --> 01:45:56,000
what's the next thing?

1655
01:45:57,320 --> 01:46:01,420
We're back on item number nine.

1656
01:46:03,230 --> 01:46:03,950
Item number nine.

1657
01:46:03,950 --> 01:46:04,810
Anybody

1658
01:46:15,590 --> 01:46:16,170
got anything?

1659
01:46:16,550 --> 01:46:22,670
After seeing those, after seeing the emergency command center and seeing both rooms,

1660
01:46:24,530 --> 01:46:30,810
what perspective has it put your mind, said Ian, now of trying to find more space for Casey,

1661
01:46:31,750 --> 01:46:36,590
Elections Administrator and her machines, offices and everything else?

1662
01:46:37,730 --> 01:46:45,730
I mean, we don't 103B, we notice 103B is basing a bunch of tables with a bunch of extension

1663
01:46:45,730 --> 01:46:47,470
cards and power strips.

1664
01:46:48,370 --> 01:46:53,430
I know I did count in the EOC down there, it has 16 power outlets,

1665
01:46:55,680 --> 01:46:56,360
I think that would

1666
01:46:56,360 --> 01:47:00,580
be great for the voting machines and everything else you need updating to do the countdown.

1667
01:47:02,020 --> 01:47:04,520
That would be a great spot for counting down everything because-

1668
01:47:06,620 --> 01:47:11,940
The count comes in right at the back door and go they don't come in down there

1669
01:47:11,940 --> 01:47:15,740
They come in right here the likes of just they won't have to go up the ramp over there though

1670
01:47:15,740 --> 01:47:20,460
Because if you come in if we open up that what is that? It's like where the

1671
01:47:21,620 --> 01:47:25,820
Where the tower where the cell phone tower and where the other generator

1672
01:47:27,660 --> 01:47:30,060
There's a back entrance they can come in right there a hallway

1673
01:47:30,060 --> 01:47:31,740
They can come straight up there with those machines

1674
01:47:31,740 --> 01:47:35,760
they won't have that long-hard ramp that we have for deliveries that a lot of our

1675
01:47:35,760 --> 01:47:39,940
elections coordinators and everyone talked about how those that incline hurts the

1676
01:47:39,940 --> 01:47:44,040
knees hips and everything else it'll be a straight smooth shot it's not it's I

1677
01:47:44,040 --> 01:47:46,820
mean it's a little ramp but it's not as much as what you have back here at

1678
01:47:46,820 --> 01:47:52,300
this door right here it's short the unfortunate election administrator isn't

1679
01:47:52,300 --> 01:47:55,900
here so and I wouldn't I wouldn't want to bring you into I think it's

1680
01:47:55,900 --> 01:48:00,920
gonna cost too much you said earlier she didn't want to be here and as I

1681
01:48:00,920 --> 01:48:05,900
stated I would love for her to come in and talk with me I think. Okay this is

1682
01:48:05,900 --> 01:48:12,800
something that you need to see. She's got to be able to have people coming in and

1683
01:48:12,800 --> 01:48:19,240
out of her office all the time. So she can't have election machines with the

1684
01:48:19,240 --> 01:48:27,860
public in the same area as all those election machines. And so you got

1685
01:48:27,860 --> 01:48:35,440
secured hallways so the public's not going to be able to come and go. Tara and

1686
01:48:35,440 --> 01:48:40,120
Christina, when somebody hits that button after they go and they get them and

1687
01:48:40,120 --> 01:48:44,560
escort them down to their office they're not just allowed to just walk down the

1688
01:48:44,560 --> 01:48:52,080
hallways. So moving relations around then right now they've got a window

1689
01:48:52,080 --> 01:48:55,740
people can walk up there it's secured just like the JP's they do it from the

1690
01:48:55,740 --> 01:49:01,640
hallway, they register to vote, get to cards, do open records requests, file the necessary

1691
01:49:01,640 --> 01:49:08,220
papers, all those kind of things. Right now they're set up to be able to greet and meet

1692
01:49:08,220 --> 01:49:12,540
the public to take care of all their documentation and what they need to do.

1693
01:49:13,820 --> 01:49:17,740
They'll still have their front under the first initial plan. They will still have

1694
01:49:17,740 --> 01:49:22,680
their front to do that. I bet you can take this one-on-three

1695
01:49:22,680 --> 01:49:27,040
be here wherever it is and put it behind them. And that's not something that the public access

1696
01:49:27,040 --> 01:49:31,220
is. She can continue to set up her elections just like she's doing now, which was going

1697
01:49:31,220 --> 01:49:34,860
to be done if she restored in this other building. If we would have went that route,

1698
01:49:35,500 --> 01:49:38,840
there was still the elections. We're going to have to come here. So that doesn't change

1699
01:49:38,840 --> 01:49:43,500
anything. But the elections are temporarily done. Well, the election people don't access

1700
01:49:43,500 --> 01:49:47,360
the county rooms, but with it being in her back pocket, you would open up this

1701
01:49:48,060 --> 01:49:52,340
one room for whenever we do have other events in here. And as far as that goes,

1702
01:49:52,340 --> 01:49:56,760
we don't have to change the, uh, looks like where the jets are. I mean, they

1703
01:49:56,760 --> 01:50:00,140
continue to use that for locking up particular things and just leave it

1704
01:50:00,140 --> 01:50:04,000
alone. It's like we can't have everybody see man this all in that other end of it

1705
01:50:04,000 --> 01:50:09,200
and then move over whatever's in that one front room back to that back. But we

1706
01:50:09,200 --> 01:50:12,560
have a little issue and then we got a way to fix it. We go, sir. Another

1707
01:50:12,560 --> 01:50:16,980
issue. I think that's the thing. The first step issues that dealing with

1708
01:50:16,980 --> 01:50:25,140
all this stuff that without interacting with it on a day-to-day basis, there's no way to

1709
01:50:25,140 --> 01:50:26,780
understand all the things that happen.

1710
01:50:27,660 --> 01:50:28,340
Okay, Jett.

1711
01:50:28,820 --> 01:50:32,720
So playing one initially was going to try to move around those offices as we spoke.

1712
01:50:33,460 --> 01:50:37,060
There was a plan two, but when it was time to approach, we were going to come at y'all

1713
01:50:37,060 --> 01:50:37,700
with a plan two.

1714
01:50:38,200 --> 01:50:43,000
And the plan two was to come up after seeing the room with the walkthrough.

1715
01:50:43,660 --> 01:50:56,720
Plan two is, if you don't move JP, if you don't move Christine and Tara from where they're located at now, if you leave jail cells the way they are, those are cases, everything else, we would just open up 103B by all nine cases.

1716
01:50:57,000 --> 01:51:00,000
They have the emergency command center that's right behind her office.

1717
01:51:00,100 --> 01:51:00,620
Can you ask?

1718
01:51:00,680 --> 01:51:03,120
She would still have her front open for the people.

1719
01:51:03,880 --> 01:51:09,120
Those doors are shut and locked right now, just like they are between her and the emergency management office.

1720
01:51:09,120 --> 01:51:13,820
She can use that whole section back there with those 16 plugs for all of her

1721
01:51:13,820 --> 01:51:15,860
machines and everything she's doing in 103B.

1722
01:51:17,420 --> 01:51:24,840
All of that stuff that's in 103B is not going to fit in that EOC because all of her

1723
01:51:27,780 --> 01:51:32,660
supplies are in that closet. She sits at that table. That's where she does a lot of her

1724
01:51:32,660 --> 01:51:37,000
documentation. She has one of those tables right there where all of her supplies are at,

1725
01:51:37,000 --> 01:51:43,340
All of her machines are at she does all of her documentation. She's got to count right down here on the end of that same room

1726
01:51:43,340 --> 01:51:44,840
She's doing the count

1727
01:51:45,780 --> 01:51:49,540
On election night. I mean, so the token move all that around

1728
01:51:50,000 --> 01:51:55,160
It's not all gonna fit it. I mean that stores, you know, I said you look at it

1729
01:51:55,160 --> 01:51:58,460
I didn't look at it, but she's always in this storage and has always been kept now

1730
01:51:58,460 --> 01:52:00,560
Not if push needs to be showed of

1731
01:52:01,540 --> 01:52:02,840
Builds origin. No, sir

1732
01:52:02,840 --> 01:52:05,940
you can still have that for countdown and let her have that one storage but one

1733
01:52:05,940 --> 01:52:09,700
on three is always open B to go along with the rest of when the district courts

1734
01:52:09,700 --> 01:52:13,040
need it when we have our crystal parties and everything else and she'll still

1735
01:52:13,040 --> 01:52:17,060
have that excess for her machines so my main goal was find a place with cheese

1736
01:52:17,060 --> 01:52:20,500
and relieve some but did you not ask which one of those that that big move

1737
01:52:20,500 --> 01:52:24,900
that one incident behind her office all up to that but the room yes sir it

1738
01:52:24,900 --> 01:52:32,590
wasn't addressed this is the thing everything's working like it is so

1739
01:52:32,590 --> 01:52:34,870
So why come up with all these different little solutions?

1740
01:52:35,370 --> 01:52:37,390
Because there's going to be other things at crop up.

1741
01:52:37,990 --> 01:52:40,490
Everything's working right now, exactly what's at.

1742
01:52:41,970 --> 01:52:44,810
So why do we have to move anything?

1743
01:52:46,530 --> 01:52:47,910
Because she's operation.

1744
01:52:48,530 --> 01:52:50,770
She can do her job and take care of the elections.

1745
01:52:51,210 --> 01:52:52,710
Because she's already proved that.

1746
01:52:53,190 --> 01:52:54,870
Emergency management is operation.

1747
01:52:55,490 --> 01:52:56,870
And they take care of their jobs.

1748
01:52:57,230 --> 01:52:58,690
I mean, they've got multi-tests.

1749
01:52:58,810 --> 01:53:00,330
They're not just emergency management.

1750
01:53:00,330 --> 01:53:07,530
I mean, they're doing septic take inspections look at your report. I gave y'all a report. It's a tax on their report for today

1751
01:53:07,530 --> 01:53:11,910
All of the different things that they have had to deal with over the last several years

1752
01:53:12,530 --> 01:53:15,470
Some of them bigger than others. Okay, so

1753
01:53:16,530 --> 01:53:21,410
On a day basis on a day-to-day basis there and they're inspecting septic tank

1754
01:53:21,410 --> 01:53:26,930
They're doing stuff that help get these subdivisions in here. That's right. They're doing flood plain. They work with Kathy

1755
01:53:26,930 --> 01:53:31,990
they're right there with so they work with Kathy to look at the subdivision make sure they made

1756
01:53:31,990 --> 01:53:36,970
our subdivision rules and regulations they're doing making sure they're not building something

1757
01:53:36,970 --> 01:53:42,830
in a flood point they're taking and making sure all our annexes that are required for the state

1758
01:53:42,830 --> 01:53:49,510
that we have on all the time they're doing all that type of work and making sure it's

1759
01:53:49,510 --> 01:53:54,350
current on so that we can get grants and they help get the grants they've gotten

1760
01:53:54,350 --> 01:53:57,530
Homeland Security grants and help the fire departments.

1761
01:53:58,450 --> 01:54:00,150
We had fire meetings down there.

1762
01:54:00,670 --> 01:54:02,410
We've done training down there, never.

1763
01:54:03,170 --> 01:54:03,590
Yes, sir.

1764
01:54:03,650 --> 01:54:04,730
Well, it's not like it's not used.

1765
01:54:05,270 --> 01:54:05,530
Okay.

1766
01:54:05,770 --> 01:54:10,070
But this place, there's no reason to move anything.

1767
01:54:10,910 --> 01:54:11,670
Well, it was.

1768
01:54:11,950 --> 01:54:13,770
A month ago, when you started the other projects,

1769
01:54:13,930 --> 01:54:14,810
you widened the range.

1770
01:54:15,350 --> 01:54:16,510
That's what I'm just saying.

1771
01:54:16,710 --> 01:54:19,010
Well, actually, the superintendent was very,

1772
01:54:19,310 --> 01:54:20,530
I thought she was accurate on it,

1773
01:54:20,830 --> 01:54:23,770
and that was trying to work out a system of the planet

1774
01:54:26,230 --> 01:54:31,290
When you're out there working on roads and you find out some new technique and you go

1775
01:54:31,290 --> 01:54:34,370
and do it, that's improving the delivery of services.

1776
01:54:34,990 --> 01:54:37,970
The only thing, the bank building just kind of came up.

1777
01:54:38,610 --> 01:54:39,290
I didn't plan it.

1778
01:54:39,370 --> 01:54:40,810
I didn't go over trying to buy it.

1779
01:54:41,210 --> 01:54:42,090
They came to us.

1780
01:54:42,630 --> 01:54:45,850
But if we find a way to utilize the new building and hit that knock, it's still

1781
01:54:45,850 --> 01:54:46,850
improving services?

1782
01:54:48,030 --> 01:54:49,630
The bank building was nothing.

1783
01:54:49,910 --> 01:54:52,430
It fell in our laps and it's going to get sold now.

1784
01:54:52,430 --> 01:54:58,190
I mean, it's not even an opportunity. So as far as I'm concerned, that's that's dead in town

1785
01:54:59,030 --> 01:55:04,010
Okay, so there's no reason to go back and start moving stuff around

1786
01:55:04,830 --> 01:55:08,410
If we could enhance her services and put everything in one place

1787
01:55:08,410 --> 01:55:13,870
That was only go right there if y'all wanted to both that move the extension office over

1788
01:55:14,730 --> 01:55:19,150
Commissioner one banks went over there with me and he asked me to look and see what the

1789
01:55:19,150 --> 01:55:23,070
those bearing walls that are there. We hadn't even had a chance to have a conversation about that.

1790
01:55:23,250 --> 01:55:27,530
I climbed up in the ceiling with the ladder over there trying to answer his questions. He

1791
01:55:27,530 --> 01:55:31,690
wanted to know if I thought maybe he's looking at moving the extension that might have been his

1792
01:55:31,690 --> 01:55:36,210
office because I could have been a training room over there in that big room for the extension

1793
01:55:36,210 --> 01:55:40,770
office. Move them over there. There's nothing wrong with the building. Sold the building at

1794
01:55:40,770 --> 01:55:44,770
the beginning. I don't know what his idea was but he had some kind of idea because he

1795
01:55:44,770 --> 01:55:49,510
asked me, look, it wasn't a load bearing was. And I did exactly what he asked me

1796
01:55:49,510 --> 01:55:54,170
to do. I did it myself. I didn't get somebody else to do it. But if you could

1797
01:55:54,170 --> 01:55:58,530
enhance her opportunity to have more room and to move her out of ways to have

1798
01:55:58,530 --> 01:56:02,690
more room for other things, you're not even considered. Right now, not

1799
01:56:03,180 --> 01:56:07,090
this place in emergency management. But is it displaced? You can kind of put

1800
01:56:07,090 --> 01:56:10,770
them together in the one big room in the front. Look, everything's

1801
01:56:10,770 --> 01:56:15,870
operational. It is operational. Everything's 100% operational. If you're not willing to,

1802
01:56:15,950 --> 01:56:19,810
downsize the change to make things better. I'm not willing to cut my nose off spot on

1803
01:56:19,810 --> 01:56:23,970
the face. I don't think you are. You're not doing anything in that room as much as what

1804
01:56:23,970 --> 01:56:28,430
you are in elections. I don't know that you appreciate what she does in elections. That's

1805
01:56:28,430 --> 01:56:33,670
what you told me. I didn't tell you that I didn't appreciate what she did. I didn't

1806
01:56:33,670 --> 01:56:37,670
appreciate it. No, you said we didn't appreciate it as a court. I mean, I was just individualizing

1807
01:56:38,270 --> 01:56:41,430
Well, Commissioner Wilbanks, I have a question for you, sir.

1808
01:56:42,130 --> 01:56:48,290
After going down and viewing, and Commissioner Hill, y'all could chime in on this, knowing

1809
01:56:48,290 --> 01:56:54,510
that there's a plan too, and with part two of the plan, if we didn't do all of, as

1810
01:56:54,510 --> 01:56:59,070
judge stated, the disruption in the courthouse at the moment, would that plan, too, would

1811
01:56:59,070 --> 01:57:04,190
only be safe versus taking away that first room that's right behind Casey, and

1812
01:57:04,190 --> 01:57:08,750
how to utilize that space just like they locked those two doors and it'll be

1813
01:57:08,750 --> 01:57:14,870
locked in one big door. Everything Judge and Ms. Christine and them have to operate

1814
01:57:14,870 --> 01:57:19,330
in their emergency command center can be moved over, transferred to the room back

1815
01:57:19,330 --> 01:57:22,950
behind. We won't have to worry about monitoring the radios or the fire

1816
01:57:22,950 --> 01:57:26,890
system or changing the new ice machine or anything. I don't think what they

1817
01:57:26,890 --> 01:57:30,070
have to do is because all her records here, if they are back there, maybe move

1818
01:57:30,070 --> 01:57:33,050
down that petition if she would like it and have it all the way open in

1819
01:57:33,050 --> 01:57:36,030
there because that's just a little have wall built a petition that someone had

1820
01:57:36,030 --> 01:57:40,210
built right there it wasn't always in there just like this move that petition

1821
01:57:40,210 --> 01:57:44,590
out of the way never move our office never move anything they still buzz

1822
01:57:44,590 --> 01:57:47,890
people up go around the hallway to come to the back of the room said cases open

1823
01:57:47,890 --> 01:57:52,810
up now she still have her front offices where she can deal with the public

1824
01:57:52,810 --> 01:57:58,270
with her staff or whatever she chooses to fit put up there see fit and then

1825
01:57:58,270 --> 01:58:08,270
And also, she now has a third of a room to incorporate however she want to put her machines,

1826
01:58:08,830 --> 01:58:13,670
because we did buy one machine last year and the year before that to finish up what we needed

1827
01:58:13,670 --> 01:58:14,130
for the county.

1828
01:58:16,300 --> 01:58:20,060
So you're talking about just a little room behind the double doors that go in the cases

1829
01:58:20,060 --> 01:58:20,300
over there?

1830
01:58:20,300 --> 01:58:25,720
And she has 16 plugs there to do any updating, making some machines, keeping lock up in there.

1831
01:58:25,720 --> 01:58:30,260
She still can jump down here to her account or wherever she wants to because she's the

1832
01:58:31,200 --> 01:58:31,920
election's coordinator.

1833
01:58:32,540 --> 01:58:36,600
Let her decide where she needs to place what would offer her that room.

1834
01:58:36,740 --> 01:58:41,400
She needs access to that room better, so then going through her front office, she can put

1835
01:58:41,400 --> 01:58:44,760
one door into that room and that would send her that hallway.

1836
01:58:45,860 --> 01:58:46,200
That's right.

1837
01:58:46,420 --> 01:58:46,980
In that hallway.

1838
01:58:47,260 --> 01:58:50,760
And you would add one door would be the expense of change it like the rest of them.

1839
01:58:50,760 --> 01:58:54,280
And she could have more room to function to be able to put some stuff in her store.

1840
01:58:54,280 --> 01:59:00,140
I mean, I sure don't want to prolong this about any means, but I would like to speak

1841
01:59:00,140 --> 01:59:05,660
to Casey, you know, before I made a decision, you know,

1842
01:59:08,300 --> 01:59:10,480
and like I said, I don't want to

1843
01:59:10,480 --> 01:59:15,320
pull it in here and put it on the spot, but I would like myself to go speak to her and

1844
01:59:15,320 --> 01:59:20,340
see what she thought of that idea, if she thought that would be good, or if she

1845
01:59:20,340 --> 01:59:21,540
maybe has another idea.

1846
01:59:22,640 --> 01:59:24,680
That's my, you know, that's where I'm at on it.

1847
01:59:24,680 --> 01:59:31,980
I'm not against it at all but I would like to discuss with her first to see if

1848
01:59:31,980 --> 01:59:36,120
that's an idea she would like to go forward with and that's fine with me.

1849
01:59:36,600 --> 01:59:42,180
Commissioner Wilbanks. I think what I see in all the offices that I've kind of

1850
01:59:42,180 --> 01:59:47,680
been in in the annex and then as today is we're utilizing square footage the

1851
01:59:47,680 --> 01:59:55,480
best we can other than those two areas. And those are, I think they're under

1852
01:59:55,480 --> 01:59:59,880
utilized. There's a lot of square footage there that's not being

1853
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:00,400
Used.

1854
02:00:02,440 --> 02:00:08,120
I think a lot of the equipment is is antiquated and I don't I don't have

1855
02:00:08,120 --> 02:00:12,060
confidence that if something happened right now that that thing would be

1856
02:00:12,060 --> 02:00:18,480
operational within two weeks. I don't think it'd be operational today. I don't.

1857
02:00:21,740 --> 02:00:22,500
And I

1858
02:00:22,500 --> 02:00:30,200
feel like we need to utilize the square footage at hand that we have with

1859
02:00:30,200 --> 02:00:32,520
minimizing any

1860
02:00:34,540 --> 02:00:38,520
type of workflow you know destruction or any of that stuff of

1861
02:00:38,520 --> 02:00:43,880
workflow and I think that would be the easiest route is she's already got two

1862
02:00:43,880 --> 02:00:49,180
two doors that go into that office from her elections office right now and those

1863
02:00:49,180 --> 02:00:56,980
poor girls are crammed in there they're in a nine foot by 20 26 foot room

1864
02:00:58,100 --> 02:01:05,300
which is crazy when we have all of that space that I don't feel like is being

1865
02:01:05,300 --> 02:01:12,760
utilized to its capacity and so I would I would like to look at that to see if we

1866
02:01:12,760 --> 02:01:17,760
can if we can utilize the square footage that we've got I would have to

1867
02:01:17,760 --> 02:01:21,740
assume that's exactly what happened with our district clerk and why she wanted to

1868
02:01:21,740 --> 02:01:29,260
move into that other office is because she was out of space so it was let her

1869
02:01:29,260 --> 02:01:35,200
move into another office to gain some more space but the elections is

1870
02:01:35,920 --> 02:01:40,680
absolutely out of space and I don't

1871
02:01:42,760 --> 02:01:45,140
you know going back to that other building

1872
02:01:45,140 --> 02:01:48,740
on looking at clear span you know if that was a clear span building is to

1873
02:01:48,740 --> 02:01:52,860
see what all we could utilize it because in its current layout was no

1874
02:01:52,860 --> 02:01:59,720
good it was no good it just wasn't it was it's not a it's not designed

1875
02:01:59,720 --> 02:02:05,580
efficiently for the work that we do today maybe it was 40 years ago it was

1876
02:02:05,580 --> 02:02:11,960
designed for that but not today and I feel like the same thing on this

1877
02:02:11,960 --> 02:02:16,820
section of the annex is it's not being utilized to its full capacity of what

1878
02:02:16,820 --> 02:02:21,800
this beautiful building can be and what it can do and what it can hold but I

1879
02:02:21,800 --> 02:02:23,560
I think if you ask Casey what she wants to do,

1880
02:02:23,580 --> 02:02:24,340
she's got a hard to go.

1881
02:02:24,480 --> 02:02:26,520
She's going to say, I'm just leaving a lot of wood down here.

1882
02:02:27,080 --> 02:02:27,420
It don't matter.

1883
02:02:27,620 --> 02:02:28,260
So that just is the case.

1884
02:02:28,260 --> 02:02:29,620
She's going to say that because you don't

1885
02:02:29,620 --> 02:02:32,300
have to use any other pressure or trouble to come with it.

1886
02:02:32,360 --> 02:02:33,020
That's exactly right.

1887
02:02:33,040 --> 02:02:35,460
That's why I think it has to be an executive decision upon us.

1888
02:02:36,260 --> 02:02:38,560
Because her statement to me is whatever y'all say is good.

1889
02:02:38,940 --> 02:02:40,360
She doesn't want to come for it.

1890
02:02:40,680 --> 02:02:43,380
She just is the pressure that she don't want.

1891
02:02:43,600 --> 02:02:46,420
But I see that that room could be utilized by her

1892
02:02:46,420 --> 02:02:47,440
quite a bit more.

1893
02:02:48,100 --> 02:02:49,860
And then they're more just getting used now.

1894
02:02:52,220 --> 02:02:55,380
Well, that's not going to keep her from having to use 103B.

1895
02:02:55,740 --> 02:02:59,500
She could still have access to it and just would open us up if we needed to.

1896
02:03:00,920 --> 02:03:05,840
For the major openings as you state for that whole area, because you do your presentation,

1897
02:03:05,840 --> 02:03:10,420
you talked about that whole area needs to be opened up for district court or Truman for everybody.

1898
02:03:11,160 --> 02:03:16,460
So long as she had that closet, whatever she used, and if she brought herself in for countdown, how she won't.

1899
02:03:16,620 --> 02:03:18,540
She can bring her countdown to the back of that oven.

1900
02:03:19,380 --> 02:03:26,500
Because the countdown just comes in one night, and what it does is you can come out of that shorter ramp and go right through the other end of the leather.

1901
02:03:26,620 --> 02:03:29,820
It's not going to be set up to be used until the emergency pops up.

1902
02:03:29,920 --> 02:03:32,280
That'd be the only time in the first emergency if we didn't have no electricity.

1903
02:03:33,240 --> 02:03:36,220
Well, Judge, I don't know how to rest of the court feeling.

1904
02:03:36,920 --> 02:03:46,500
I do know that we'll keep rooming back and forth over this, and I do know we, Joe, his Commissioner Hill is expressed his concern and I want to speak with Mr. Brown.

1905
02:03:46,500 --> 02:03:54,420
But I understand that she, from my perspective, she's not going to want the drama, she wants

1906
02:03:54,420 --> 02:03:57,000
to be drama free, she just want to do a job and go on.

1907
02:03:57,960 --> 02:04:02,140
I think we as a court have realized that she do have some issues and we need to address

1908
02:04:02,140 --> 02:04:02,700
those issues.

1909
02:04:02,980 --> 02:04:04,740
I think that was the start of the conversation.

1910
02:04:05,720 --> 02:04:10,900
So Judge, if you allow me to make a motion, if it dies for lack of motion, at least

1911
02:04:10,900 --> 02:04:21,300
with some action taken and I would like to present if you call for sir okay but I

1912
02:04:21,300 --> 02:04:27,120
like it I'd like her to have an option to say yeah your name though well in that

1913
02:04:27,120 --> 02:04:31,160
motion I would make sure after you presented she could use it off to the

1914
02:04:31,160 --> 02:04:35,160
way she needed you're gonna have to make the motion because it doesn't say

1915
02:04:35,160 --> 02:04:40,520
what that motion I know that yes sir so if you want to state a motion then

1916
02:04:40,520 --> 02:04:41,120
with

1917
02:04:44,640 --> 02:04:50,120
what you your idea is or whatever and I just like whatever your motion is

1918
02:04:50,120 --> 02:04:54,600
is to give her an option to say this isn't gonna work and I want to stay in

1919
02:04:55,000 --> 02:04:58,640
103B. She's gonna be pushed to be sold on which I

1920
02:04:58,640 --> 02:05:02,760
so I mean you do whatever you want to do with that. So I'm gonna make this motion.

1921
02:05:02,760 --> 02:05:06,780
I don't want to make this motion. Just let me make this motion. I don't mind I'm not

1922
02:05:06,780 --> 02:05:10,180
seeing you but you always have the conclusions and nothing to do with you.

1923
02:05:10,300 --> 02:05:13,140
I'm just saying in her mind it's just gonna be important about making the

1924
02:05:15,460 --> 02:05:18,840
Here's a motion that I want to make and I want to put forth is I'll put forth a

1925
02:05:18,840 --> 02:05:26,180
motion that the Commissioners Court in this county allow the emergency command

1926
02:05:26,180 --> 02:05:33,560
center front portion I don't know what the call of that is what's what is the

1927
02:05:33,560 --> 02:05:42,220
rig terminology great terminology that we allow our election

1928
02:05:42,220 --> 02:05:52,740
administrator to occupy the emergency command center operation room and any

1929
02:05:52,740 --> 02:05:57,480
equipment or anything needed to do the commands or the duties of the emergency

1930
02:05:57,480 --> 02:06:05,960
management operations go to the room behind it called EOC. That's not the EOC in

1931
02:06:05,960 --> 02:06:11,560
the back. Every time at the big room. Every time at the big side with the tables

1932
02:06:11,560 --> 02:06:13,780
and the two monitors and all of it.

1933
02:06:14,120 --> 02:06:18,000
That's emergency management's offices in Workspace.

1934
02:06:18,400 --> 02:06:19,300
They're going to their Workspace.

1935
02:06:19,580 --> 02:06:23,300
So we'll say consolidated down to their dispatch to Workspace.

1936
02:06:23,680 --> 02:06:23,940
Here you go.

1937
02:06:24,600 --> 02:06:26,300
And I'll put that in the form of motion, Your Honor.

1938
02:06:26,800 --> 02:06:30,660
And in that motion, is it, that Casey agrees that?

1939
02:06:30,660 --> 02:06:32,420
No, in that motion, I'll put it

1940
02:06:32,420 --> 02:06:34,600
that she has the right to use that offices

1941
02:06:34,600 --> 02:06:35,980
to the best of her ability

1942
02:06:35,980 --> 02:06:38,780
to suit the election administration

1943
02:06:38,780 --> 02:06:40,240
side of Anderson County.

1944
02:06:40,240 --> 02:06:44,920
And if she still needs to use the storage room of 103B, she can use that storage room.

1945
02:06:45,500 --> 02:06:51,780
And when it comes down to countdowns or whatever she still wants to go into here and do countdowns, however she wants.

1946
02:06:52,180 --> 02:06:56,760
We're just allowing her to have more space because she has incorporated more machines at this time.

1947
02:06:58,040 --> 02:07:00,600
But she still needs to be able to use 103B.

1948
02:07:00,600 --> 02:07:01,660
She's going to be able to use both of them.

1949
02:07:01,680 --> 02:07:02,840
She needs it any time.

1950
02:07:03,040 --> 02:07:04,700
Yes, sir. She's going to be able to have both of them.

1951
02:07:04,980 --> 02:07:06,340
She's got access to both rooms now.

1952
02:07:06,360 --> 02:07:09,320
Are these other ones, like she said, that she was going to do that anyway?

1953
02:07:09,320 --> 02:07:16,540
Yes, she has access to both rooms, but she thought all year she could make that comment center now as primary use for her use at all

1954
02:07:16,540 --> 02:07:20,580
Times the way she wanted now we're going to designate that to her if this vote is passed

1955
02:07:21,600 --> 02:07:23,920
Okay, so just a yo, sir. Yes, sir

1956
02:07:25,220 --> 02:07:28,220
And that will be no adjustments to JP to to

1957
02:07:29,880 --> 02:07:34,320
Moving Christina name offices. We won't move any officers at this moment. That's right

1958
02:07:34,860 --> 02:07:40,560
Not to let your motion. Yes, sir. Is there a second second

1959
02:07:41,660 --> 02:07:42,940
All in favor say aye.

1960
02:07:43,440 --> 02:07:43,840
Aye.

1961
02:07:44,180 --> 02:07:44,360
Aye.

1962
02:07:45,200 --> 02:07:45,540
No.

1963
02:07:48,570 --> 02:07:49,450
So motion passes.

1964
02:07:50,570 --> 02:07:52,050
I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

1965
02:07:52,290 --> 02:07:52,830
So moved.

1966
02:07:53,110 --> 02:07:54,190
Motion by Commissioner Memms.

1967
02:07:54,270 --> 02:07:54,670
Do I have a second?

1968
02:07:55,030 --> 02:07:55,350
Second.

1969
02:07:55,850 --> 02:07:57,070
Second by who?

1970
02:07:57,310 --> 02:07:57,890
Who will make?

1971
02:07:58,110 --> 02:07:58,690
Commissioner Hill.

1972
02:08:00,450 --> 02:08:01,730
All in favor say aye.

1973
02:08:02,230 --> 02:08:02,490
Aye.

1974
02:08:02,890 --> 02:08:03,290
All opposed?

1975
02:08:03,690 --> 02:08:04,270
So ordered.

1976
02:08:04,270 --> 02:08:04,730
Thank you very much for watching this video and I'll see you in the next video.