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[4:11] Good morning. It is 9.05. Welcome to our August 25th of commissioner's court meeting.
[4:22] Let the record reflect that all members of the court are present if you would please stand as we go into prayer and our pledges.
[4:32] Emily Father, we thank you for this wonderful day of the many blessings that you have bestowed upon us.
[4:38] We ask you protect our troops and their families as they continue to fight those who threaten our freedoms.
[4:44] And please protect our first responders as they look over us each and every day.
[4:49] We thank you for the employees of this great county.
[4:53] Be with them and their families and their daily lives as they serve the citizens of Missouri County.
[4:58] And we ask for your guidance as we serve.
[5:00] For our citizens, and that you watch over those whom we represent, in your name we pray. Amen.
[5:08] Our pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
[5:17] Indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
[5:21] Honor the Texas flag, pledge allegiance to the Texas,
[5:26] one state, under God, one, and under his one.
[5:37] All right, our first order of business is under DD1,
[5:42] D2, and D3 will take them in aggregate.
[5:45] And those are approval of our minutes from our budget workshop
[5:49] on August the 3rd, our budget workshop on August the 10th,
[5:54] and our regular meeting on August the 11th.
[5:58] Motion to approve, Joe.
[5:59] Second,
[6:02] motion from Commissioner Linda,
[6:04] second from Commissioner Adams to approve the minutes.
[6:08] Any discussion?
[6:09] Hearing none all in favor, say aye.
[6:12] Opposed?
[6:13] Motion carries.
[6:15] Public appearances to accommodate all members of the public,
[6:18] and ensure full public input.
[6:20] Members of the public may address the court concerning any item
[6:23] before the court prior to the courts
[6:25] consideration of the item and or any other matter of concern.
[6:30] Percent to Commissioner's Court order 7C1 data January 28, 2020.
[6:34] Remember the public may address the court for a total period of time not to exceed five minutes.
[6:40] Remember the public who addresses the court through a translator may address the court
[6:44] for a total period of time not to exceed 10 minutes.
[6:47] If a member of the public inquires about a subject which there's not an item on the meeting agenda
[6:52] or for which notice is not being given pursuant to Texas government coach after 5-5-1,
[6:58] the court may furnish specific factual information or recite existing policy and response
[7:04] to the inquiry.
[7:05] However, any deliberation or decision about the subject of the inquiry must be limited to
[7:09] a proposal to place that subject on the agenda for a subsequent meeting.
[7:14] We have four individuals that have asked to speak this morning.
[7:20] And I, I'm going to butcher this name because I really can't read it, Baja Durbastas and Foxy Smith.
[7:31] Good morning.
[7:33] Good morning.
[7:33] Good morning.
[7:33] Come on up to the, you've got five minutes.
[7:37] Good morning.
[7:38] Good morning.
[7:40] My name's Baja Durbastas.
[7:42] And I'm on the night's face two thousand times.
[7:45] Did you speak up a little bit so we could hear?
[7:46] So I came to United States, 2013, I got my citizenship 2021, and I am all known at Waterstone Ranch, Turkish Farm, and Blasori County, and Sand Point area.
[8:06] And I'm operating this my business in 2019, I'm very hard working guy.
[8:12] And we have in many problems is the R property and the engineer department, like fire marshal,
[8:22] septic system, whenever the requirement we try to R best way to fix it and they give
[8:30] me always the violation of the violation and I finished one violation, they stopped giving
[8:38] another violation, I always ask in for, hey, give me the right and down, and I need to fix
[8:45] it for it, and however they request for it, I will do it right away because I'm the business
[8:53] owner, I have to take care of the business, and also I'm taxpayer, and I'm so excited,
[9:00] I'm sorry, you know, the first time I'm speaking to, and, please go ahead.
[9:08] Good morning, your honours. My name is Foxy. I'm here for Waterstone. The packet we are
[9:12] submitting today is our shared history of what we've gone and what we need to do. It's the record
[9:20] of unclear and consistent direct as we have tried to follow and requirements we have attempted to
[9:25] The facts are clear and they do not change. This process has been very difficult. Each time we fulfill one requirement, another appears.
[9:33] Without written standards, without consistent direction, and without clear expectations, it becomes impossible to move forward.
[9:41] I want to tell you a little bit about Baja.
[9:43] What I can.
[9:44] Baja is someone who helps people even when he's hurting himself.
[9:48] He's carrying debt, stress, and worry, and he is not in the position to help anyone.
[9:53] Yet his heart feels he is supposed to.
[9:55] He feels responsible for his employees and he cares the way of their families and their needs every
[10:00] A single day. He works every day and night to the point of exhaustion trying to build something meaningful, a place he can share with his family, with my family and with your family.
[10:09] It's not just the business for him, it's a dream. A place where families can gather away from the city lights underneath the stars and actually see the stars. A place built for community, for connection and for peace.
[10:23] It seems that we are met with hostility, raise voices and dismissive comments continuously.
[10:29] You do not have to like somebody to be professional.
[10:33] I don't like a lot of people I work with, but yet I'm professional.
[10:39] I feel like, anyway, I'm sorry, we are here today because we need clear written standards.
[10:44] We cannot comply with verbal instructions that change from meeting to meeting.
[10:48] We cannot design a wastewater system based on opinions instead of requirements.
[10:53] We cannot move forward without direction that is consistent, documented, and accessible.
[10:57] We're not asking for special treatment, we're asking for clarity and consistency.
[11:03] The same thing any business owner in Missouri Accounting would expect.
[11:06] But before you make your decision, Baja would like to invite you out to the ranch.
[11:11] Let's see with your own eyes, not to the limits of someone else's frustration, not through
[11:15] secondhand descriptions, not through assumptions.
[11:18] Come see what is actually happening out there.
[11:20] The vision, the community, the impact.
[11:23] We respectfully ask you to review the packet for vibrant standards and direct the staff accordingly.
[11:30] Thank you for your time.
[11:33] Thank you.
[11:34] Thank you.
[11:41] All right, Melanie Oldham.
[11:57] Good morning Judge and commissioners.
[11:59] I'm a little out of breath.
[12:00] I jogged over here where I had to park my car two miles away.
[12:04] But anyway.
[12:05] Miles.
[12:06] Seems like it.
[12:07] I jogged.
[12:09] I was going to fire three miles.
[12:11] I live 2.8 miles and I live right out of town.
[12:14] It's like 2 miles.
[12:19] Anyway, I'm here to speak regarding the new AGBASF tax abatement request and the request for a reinvestment
[12:29] zone, which it looks like it's on 75 acres, I think of BASF property and to tax abatements
[12:37] in general.
[12:38] Again, Melanie Oldam, I retired healthcare professional after 40 years.
[12:44] The last three years have been director of a non-profit hub, bed of bursoria, clean, air,
[12:48] water, and government.
[12:50] And as you know, we encourage people to go to all their governmental entity meetings,
[12:55] including City Council.
[12:57] I have come often on for eight to say, three decades to the bursary county commissioner
[13:03] meetings, often on or I watch them online or here.
[13:06] And I have seen a pattern of Missouri County tax abatements, which has been in the past
[13:13] 10 near 100 percent tax abatements, whether or not they meet all for the criteria or whatever.
[13:21] I don't know if it's on the Missouri County tax abatement committee right now, but I know in the past
[13:26] probably seeing Hania was who I respect greatly, and he would say, well, sometimes they
[13:32] made a few exceptions, even though the company might not meet all four of your criteria.
[13:39] I just hope whoever's on that committee sticks to it before they recommend a tax abatement
[13:43] to you as commissioners.
[13:45] But as I mentioned, back in 2023, better Vesoria paid, got a grant, and did a 30K Vesoria
[13:52] county tax abatement study, which I had, it's in the car, and it's very eye-opening about
[13:59] the amount of money that from 23 back 10 to 15 years, the county has, quote, given away tax abatements,
[14:07] and it also does a comparison of what all those, that amount of money that was given away,
[14:13] what kind of Missouri County community services we could have had, or infrastructure, how much
[14:18] work at all these Missouri County directors have gotten in their budgets to provide better and
[14:23] more public services. So the bottom line is each student tax abatement is unique and I hope
[14:30] that you'll take the time to read all the information and I only had time to kind of go through
[14:36] what they're asking for. If I understand they're asking for seven year tax abatement. Now you'll
[14:44] option of saying, no, not this time, like you did with the AIDA Center, which was a very good
[14:50] decision to protect our water in our electricity and Missouri County. If you do the seven,
[14:56] you also have the option you could do a five to seven year tax abatement.
[15:00] You don't have to do a 10 year 100% tax abatement, which every most industries in this county have been given for decades.
[15:08] Also, I know some really smart people in different cities that are, when they're doing their tax abatements or IDAs are saying,
[15:16] Hey, maybe we'll give you a 100% tax abatement the first year, but then the next two years it's going to be only 80 and the next two years are going to be 50 and on down through that five year or seven year period.
[15:29] So that's something I think a lot of you I know a Commissioner Adams is very aware of that and so you'll have options is what I'm saying
[15:37] You know, it's you've got to look at each and every request for a tax abatement and with this particular company
[15:45] I had a friend do an AI data search on them. I got like a 25 page report and
[15:52] There's pros and cons over all the companies. Only being here since 2020. They're only talking about a
[15:58] I think a $40 million investment, even a lot of cities don't even start looking at a text
[16:04] statement until it's between 50 and 100K or 100K and all that.
[16:09] But again, this is a unique situation, and they are direct partners with BASF, which is
[16:15] two-third of the things, because the products they need to make the fertilizer is right next
[16:21] door with BASF, and I assume they're going to be leasing the 75 acres, at least for now,
[16:27] from VASF but I looked at the environmental record and overall they haven't had any recent
[16:36] EPA or TCQ violations but with the materials a handle extremely dangerous if God forbid
[16:43] we got a hurricane or topical storm and any of their byproducts got into our water, the
[16:50] us as river, but for now they don't have any immediate environmental violations.
[16:58] Thank you.
[17:00] Thank you.
[17:01] Thank you.
[17:01] Thank you.
[17:04] All right.
[17:05] The next individual that says to speak is Laney Cade.
[17:15] Good morning, Council Member.
[17:16] How are you?
[17:17] Thank you, Judge.
[17:18] Thank you, Councillors.
[17:19] I'm with her.
[17:20] I had to park far away to and run and I don't run until I just call my breath.
[17:24] But thank you for allowing me to speak.
[17:30] I'm appearing before you today.
[17:34] Due to some residents in Paralyen who have asked us
[17:39] at Council to do something.
[17:41] So I'm here asking you.
[17:45] Asking you to please make the information
[17:47] about pesticides being used in our county
[17:49] available to the public on the Skater Control web page.
[17:54] I want to be really clear. I'm not asking you to
[17:57] in any way to discontinue the Skater Control.
[18:00] I know that that's an important public health service you all provide.
[18:09] As someone who lives in the neighborhood in Wood Creek,
[18:11] where we had the West Nile, like many weeks in a row,
[18:15] I don't want you to discontinue the Skater Control by any means.
[18:19] But consistent with information that's provided by the other counties that serve Paralymp,
[18:25] which is Fort Bend and Harris County, they have the pesticides used, the label information,
[18:31] everything on the mosquito control webpage.
[18:34] And I just ask that you consider providing that information on the Missouri County webpage as well.
[18:39] So when citizens request spraying, they know what they're getting.
[18:43] And the form to opt out of spring is much more lengthy and difficult than calling or clicking the link to get sprayed.
[18:55] So you would just, I'm just asking that you consider it or look at it, please.
[19:00] That's all I've got.
[19:01] Thank you so much.
[19:04] All right.
[19:04] The last person that is requested to speak is Gary Witt.
[19:11] Morning, Mr. Witt.
[19:16] Judge commissioners. I appreciate the opportunity. My name is Dr. Gary Witt. I'm the chairman of a bit of
[19:22] Resoria Cleaner and Water and Government. And I'm speaking today having to do with
[19:29] New Ags Tax Abatement requests to you. Let me so I'll be very brief on this. I believe that there is roughly a
[19:37] 40 million dollar pot of money that is going to somebody's pocket. It's either going into the taxpayers pocket
[19:44] where it will be owed, because I know this is forward-looking, or it's going back into
[19:49] new eggs pocket, one of the two, and it's going to be your decision as to where that goes.
[19:55] Now, can I ask, what $40 million?
[19:59] Minus.
[20:00] My understanding is that they are asking for a $40 million taxidimate. Is that incorrect?
[20:07] They are going to make a $40 million investment and then they're asking for on the county portion for a abitment for seven years.
[20:20] So a $40 million is the amount of money they're looking to spend.
[20:25] Okay, so, yes, you didn't look into the information very deeply.
[20:31] Clearly, there's a different perspective of this, and I appreciate that clarification
[20:37] judge.
[20:38] They will be asking for X amount of dollars of tax abatement.
[20:44] And my understanding is that this goes to the HP 2027 having to do with whether they are
[20:54] are going to be actually doing this work no matter what the county commissioners decide for
[21:03] our tax debate, but are there not?
[21:05] And the spirit of 2027 is that the any tax debate mentioned only be given if it is going
[21:12] to push them over the line.
[21:15] But it's pretty clear from their own decisions about expanding internationally as well as the
[21:24] the work that they're beginning to do with warehousing and so on, that they were already committed
[21:29] to this.
[21:30] And so my question to the question is, if they have already committed to this in spirit, and
[21:37] they have to, if they're going to go international, they have to be over there by the port,
[21:43] then why should the county take money that will be owed to the taxpayers irrespective of
[21:50] how many millions that is or whether that should go back to the company and you're giving
[21:57] away improvements in, of course, in roads and health and safety and fire and so on.
[22:02] So I would just ask you to consider this as you're moving forward.
[22:07] Thank you.
[22:07] Appreciate it.
[22:08] Thank you, Mr. Witt.
[22:11] All right, that's all that we've had on the request to speak this morning.
[22:16] We have no proclamations or resolutions.
[22:18] We have no formal report to appearances that brings us into the consent agenda.
[22:26] H26 has been modified very minorly.
[22:31] It is just adjusted the date that the new pharmacist will start work.
[22:37] So that's the only change to that order.
[22:41] Is there any other order that any member of the court would like to pull to discuss?
[22:47] The motion to approve the Senate agenda.
[22:51] Second, at a motion by Commissioner Cade, second by Commissioner Adams to approve the
[22:57] consent to agenda.
[22:58] You need discussion.
[23:01] Here and then all in favor say aye.
[23:03] Opposed?
[23:04] Motion carries.
[23:06] Moves this into our discussion agenda.
[23:12] And we have order.
[23:13] I, one, is opening a public meeting on the creating of Bersouric County Reinvestment Zone and the public meeting on the creation of Bersouric County Reinvestment Zone number 26-02 and the new AG LLC Taxabitment Application is hereby open for presentation of comment for against the proposed own creation and tax abitment.
[23:36] Do I have a motion open the public hearing?
[23:38] One more
[23:41] second.
[23:43] Motion from Commissioner Linders-Sec and from Commissioner berge,
[23:48] hallEveryfiber say aye.
[23:50] Oppos, motion carries someone
[23:51] asks the folks from New Ag to come up first.
[24:09] Good morning.
[24:10] Good morning.
[24:11] Good morning, judges Commissioners.
[24:12] Thank you so much for your time
[24:13] to allow us to speak today.
[24:16] And we can start oraway treatment request,
[24:19] and we'll like to go over a quick slide show.
[24:22] bell cover new eggs performance to date and then our request for the
[24:27] abatement. With me here today is Jerry do come CEO of new
[24:32] egg as well as Michael Bowie. He's the CFO.
[24:39] So a quick history about
[24:41] new egg and new egg was founded in 2018 and as has been mentioned,
[24:48] they directly support BSF's operations here in Missouri
[24:51] the county, they initially started with a $70 million investment and back in 2021, committed to
[25:00] Increasing headcount by 20 jobs and had requested a seven-year abatement. Since then, they've grown to 130 full-time employees.
[25:07] We're in additional 50 supporting jobs that fall under a different entity, but the total headcount that supports operations is closer to 180.
[25:16] And then they've created $40 million taxable value and they are continuing to expand and would like to invest another set of dollars to support their growth to going forward.
[25:34] So this is the new project they're looking to spend approximately $40 million, $30 million of that is a new equipment and
[25:41] additional $10 million that will support the the the additional
[25:48] Equipment and any kind of improvements that are needed at a resulting in 15 new full-time jobs
[25:55] And then as far as like the details are concerned of this of this project I'll let
[26:00] uh... jerry and michael answer any detail questions
[26:06] uh...
[26:07] the next slide covers the economic impact in the long-term opportunity goals
[26:10] they're continuing to expand here they are an active member of the community
[26:16] they support a lot of the civic
[26:19] uh... as civic
[26:21] purposes and uh...
[26:24] what i'll do is i'll let them
[26:26] explain the the project specifics and if you have any questions we can address them at that
[26:32] point just in the interest of time. Good morning. Thank you. Jerry Nukum, owner and CEO of
[26:39] New Ag. Thank you for the time this morning Judge Commissioner was greatly appreciated on behalf
[26:46] of New Ag. We started this project with BASF like you said in back in 2020. We started the company
[26:54] 2017, I've been affiliated with BASF since 1991 with them, with their with their
[27:03] capital plant, taken out the ammonium sulfate.
[27:07] So this plant originally, what we've been doing is we have excess of the ammonium sulfate
[27:14] in the sugar-grade form real fine, and we have to export this product to South America mainly
[27:21] to Mexico, and the netback on this product is not good at all. We are directly tied to
[27:30] BASF except for where our own company, but within the contract, don't need to go into details there,
[27:37] but they are a big part of this. It's really, really important for BASF for this project,
[27:43] but with us exporting with us, our netback not being good, we're looking at putting in the
[27:51] to upgrade the sugar grade ammonium sulfate into more like twice the size of B-base.
[27:58] This product will be taken into loaning garden, T&O, turf and ornamental, golf courses
[28:05] throughout the United States, also will be taken in using agriculture.
[28:10] Currently today, this plant is being built in Alabama.
[28:15] They are selling it there, it's in modules, it will arrive at my truck loads, probably roughly
[28:23] about 20 truckloads that it'll come in on, but they are assembling the plant, we're going
[28:31] to ship approximately 5,000 tons of ammonium sulfate over there by trucking rail to run
[28:37] through the facility. So this plant will be assembled in operation in Alabama. And what
[28:46] we're asking today is we do ship a lot of product of the Alabama, the product that we ship
[28:51] over there will be granulated and tested and then it will be sold into that ag market
[28:57] in the Alabama in the southern states. So what we're asking today is on the tax abatement
[29:04] that we build, have the ability to build the plant here on site next to BASF. Any questions?
[29:14] If the site was somewhere else, you would be using rail cars to ship all of this material for BASF to
[29:23] Yes, or truck rail and by barge. Yes, sir. So we just feel that...
[29:30] to move in at what if thousand yards excuse me as opposed to being on site right there with
[29:35] BASF yes or versus trucking into court of a mile for yes we would but then we would not
[29:43] have our employees would be in Alabama because it will be at F and L four shots in long
[29:50] there building this facility and they are putting it together we've already tested it but they
[29:57] We'll build the facility.
[29:59] We're having...
[30:00] People over there and basically what we're going to do is we're going to chip product over there, test the product, run it through there, make sure everything's running right.
[30:09] And then our plan is to disassemble it and truck it back over here and put it together.
[30:14] But we do have the option, totally with over there, don't want to do that. We want to have it here. We want our employers to be here. We want to grow this area for the community.
[30:23] And then also, we're, you know, we've got the expansion of doing a second one, and that would
[30:31] be us importing product through Galveston and trucking it in and bringing more product
[30:39] in for the TNO, the golf courses, and the agriculture.
[30:45] Thank you.
[30:46] Dr. Clarify sucked in to Mr. Adams. On the freight, we would either freight it to Alabama
[30:56] and granulated there. We can granulate it in freeport. But our freight is going to be basically
[31:02] the same because then we're going to either barge or we're going to truck or we're going to
[31:07] rail into the southern state. So our deal is, as we'd rather than the employees be here in Texas
[31:14] for their closer to us, rather than Alabama,
[31:19] Mr. Linder, you get some questions.
[31:22] Yeah, the current operation you have out there, I know there's a current operation
[31:26] gone out there today, whether you build this here or there, this current operation is just
[31:34] going to continue here or yes, yes, the current operation, yes, or it will continue here.
[31:41] Basically, you have the option either you can expand in Alabama or you can expand in
[31:45] the year that is correct sir and and I will say they're you're contractually from the tax abatement
[31:52] we gave you for the initial yes or build you have to be there for 20 years or you have to repay every
[31:59] bit of taxes that were baited on the initial investment so contractually they have to
[32:15] county. This is home.
[32:21] We wouldn't hear the current operation. No. There's no intends.
[32:25] That's ever doing that. That would. That's never. That would never happen.
[32:28] Not be economic. Would you talk a little bit about the operation you've got here on the
[32:31] south side of Angleton? At the plant or the retail? The retail. Yeah, so we've we've
[32:41] when we started we had COVID. Unfortunately, it affected everybody. We had to cut back
[32:47] on building our NPK building we took off about a third of it, which is about 20,000 tons
[32:57] for Ag and Lonning Garden, and then in the back the warehouse and we took off about 50,000
[33:04] square foot of storage for finished product, being for Lonning Garden, turf and ornamental.
[33:11] We do a tremendous amount of bagging for Scott, site one, where people are coming to us.
[33:21] Our bagging facility is top ranked in North America.
[33:25] That thing is like walking into a Loser Home Depot, it's climate controlled, it's heated
[33:30] in air condition.
[33:31] We run out of room, with that's a good thing.
[33:33] We're growing, but here on airport right on 220, we went and we took over a brand-new warehouse
[33:41] there, it's 50,000 square foot, so we're bringing product down, staging it there, and then
[33:48] trucking it out, but also with that, and BASF, that we given back to the community, I'm not
[33:58] on Facebook, but everybody else apparently is, but there are a lot of the retirees and people
[34:04] we've given back, so we started a retail store, and if y'all have not been there, you need to go
[34:10] But my daughter runs it, it's more, I think for the lady, she's making it more for the
[34:15] lady than anything.
[34:16] But we all for bag fertilizer, weed and feed, insecticide, you name it, we have it.
[34:23] It's a lot better than a lot cheaper than your box stores.
[34:29] You get a 50 pound bag for 20 bucks versus 40 pound bag for $65.
[34:33] So she's getting in women's garden stuff and all that bird feeders, but you need to go see
[34:40] We just give back to the community and that's a that's a way that we really give back and we
[34:45] Actually it's doing really really well. I was really surprised so, but thank you
[34:55] in the other questions
[35:00] All right, guys. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I'm going to open the public hearing up for anybody wishing to speak on for or against the creation of this reinvestment zone.
[35:18] I will say, I received over the weekend, a couple of dozen emails in regards to this, but I'll be honest, they were also factually incorrect that, um,
[35:34] with me they carry no weight. I don't know if y'all got them or not, but they talked about
[35:39] school funding, they talked about setting precedents, and evidently somebody wrote that and
[35:48] everybody else copied it. And I will say it's kind of like the kid on the short bus, like
[35:55] feet, tuggers, talks everybody else in eat and boogers, and so they all copy the
[36:02] bugger eat and champion on the short bus and send all these emails, but they were all
[36:08] just completely way out of left field, so they actually carry no weight with me anyway.
[36:18] Anybody else wishing to speak on four against?
[36:22] We'll make a comment because Ms. Oldam had brought it up. This is the first
[36:27] abatement to come to us outside of a city limits that's a graduated scale.
[36:34] They're
[36:34] not seven years at a hundred or ten at a hundred. It's the first one to actually
[36:38] apply for a graduated abatement that's not in a city limits. So, so it is not a
[36:47] hundred percent abatement.
[36:50] Well, it's not a seven year
[36:52] We'll cover that in the past two years.
[36:56] That's the first two years.
[36:59] Motion to close.
[37:00] Commissioner Kaye.
[37:01] Do I have a second?
[37:03] Second.
[37:04] From Commissioner Burridge.
[37:05] I too to close the public hearing.
[37:08] All in favor say aye.
[37:10] Opposed.
[37:11] Motion carries.
[37:12] I have three.
[37:13] Alex.
[37:14] Please come forward.
[37:19] While she's she's coming forward.
[37:21] The tax abatement review committee did meet a couple of weeks ago.
[37:24] And we went through and I believe they meet all the criteria for a tax abatement.
[37:32] That's correct.
[37:33] So they meet all the criteria?
[37:35] Yes.
[37:35] Okay.
[37:37] So anything else you want to add on this as far as kind of go over the graduate scale that's
[37:42] being requested.
[37:43] So a few years ago we switched to a suggested graduated scale for tax abatements and based
[37:50] on the value that they're investing.
[37:53] they have requested what we have put forward in our chart. So they have requested for the first
[38:01] two years a hundred percent for years three and four eighty percent and for years five through seven
[38:06] seventy percent. So while that's not required that is what we suggested based on the value that they
[38:14] and that is what they requested.
[38:19] And I know the list that they sent of all the local businesses that they do business with was impressive.
[38:27] It was, it's the longest list I've ever seen of all the abatements that we have dealt with and I get a vendor list every year for all the annual reports.
[38:34] They have quite an extensive vendor list.
[38:36] And more than just vendors, a lot of charitable organizations, a lot of civic organizations, they are heavily involved in the community.
[38:44] Thank you, Alex.
[38:46] All right.
[38:46] Order I3 designation of reinvestment zone, whereas a public hearing was held on the designation
[38:52] of the Missouri County reinvestment zone number 26, dash 0 2, and the public was given
[38:57] an opportunity to speak and present evidence for against such designation, and whereas
[39:02] notice of the hearing was given in the manner is provided by law.
[39:06] Therefore, based upon the information presented to the court and the public hearing, the court
[39:09] that the designation of this zone would contribute to the retention or expansion of primary
[39:15] employment or would attract major investment in the zone that would be a benefit to the property
[39:20] included in the zone and would contribute to the economic development of the county. Further
[39:25] that approached me 75 acres that will be specifically described in the approved agreement would be
[39:29] designated. The Missouri County reinvestment zone number 26902 for tax abitment purposes
[39:35] in accordance with Guidelines and Criteria Resort Accounting in a applicable law,
[39:40] granting of the tax abatement.
[39:41] It is ordered that the application for tax abatement of New Ag LLC attached to your two,
[39:46] be granted in accordance with the Guidelines and Criteria for granting tax abatement and
[39:50] Resort Accounting Reinvestment Zone, 26-0-2 created in Bersort Accounting for the term of seven years.
[39:56] Abatement of the eligible real and personal property shall be based on the file.
[40:00] Having termed, 1 in 2, 100 percent. Years 3 to 4, 80 percent, years 5 to 7, 70 percent. Said company will be investing
[40:09] $40 million of their dollars and creating 15 new jobs in Bersourier County. Said project will bring in 10 construction jobs at the start of construction, 25 construction jobs at the peak of construction will finish with 25 construction jobs.
[40:24] The Taxibate Review Committee met on July 29, 2026 review the application and found it to be
[40:30] in compliance with the guidelines in Criteria, further at the County Judges, authorised
[40:35] execute a taxib payment agreement with new AGLLC, in accordance with the same guidelines
[40:40] and Criteria. Do I have a motion?
[40:45] I'll make that motion. Second, second from Commissioner
[40:51] And I referenced some emails that we're talking about school funding.
[40:59] This has zero to do with school funding.
[41:04] For evidently the person who wrote that email and spread it on social media,
[41:10] like chickenpox out there for people to copy and send in,
[41:16] do not understand civics.
[41:18] this is Brzoria County. We have no say over the school districts or school funding. If you
[41:26] want to talk about school funding, go talk to your state rep, your state senator. They're
[41:29] the ones that control that. The independence school districts, they give very little control
[41:35] over, but if you've got a problem of school funding, go talk to your state rep. They're the ones
[41:40] that hold the money bag on that, this has zero to do with school funding.
[41:50] And if you want to talk about a precedent, Commissioner Adams talked about the precedent,
[41:54] this that's a good precedent.
[41:57] It sets a graduated scale.
[42:01] First company outside of a city that is request to graduate scale.
[42:05] So the precedence in those emails, like I said,
[42:10] we're just completely out of left field.
[42:13] And I'll say it, social media is going to be the COVID
[42:21] of the community, the crap that gets put out
[42:25] there on social media.
[42:27] And that people that don't have the intellectual capacity
[42:32] to understand what's the bad stuff they're being fed, it's just amazing these days.
[42:43] So I'll get off my soapbox and open up to any other comments from any of you gentlemen.
[42:50] You know, this particular project is tough for me because they are operating here currently
[43:01] today.
[43:04] But again, I don't want to see investment or re-investment or expansion to take place
[43:11] in Alabama. I'd like it to take place here in Bazaar County, so my kids, my kids,
[43:17] couldn't convince it from these jobs in the future.
[43:23] I do feel like the graduated
[43:25] scale is, which Mr. Adams has been pushing for years, I'm glad to see that.
[43:33] You know, I asked some questions yesterday, I've asked a lot of questions over the last few
[43:40] days on this, and I
[43:48] think it's over seven years since when I'm understanding this, it's
[43:51] we're abating about $180,000 worth of tax revenue and seven years on the real property
[43:56] of this.
[43:57] So it's not a huge amount of money,
[44:03] I know that as my 10 year old commissioner's court
[44:06] for the past 12 years, I know I've enjoyed one of these tax statements that have rolled
[44:09] off and I'm very thankful those companies, whether it was Phillips or BASF or Dow or whoever
[44:16] built the project.
[44:17] I'm very glad they built them here because those projects did roll off and we have reap the benefits
[44:21] of their investment.
[44:22] And I think on their initial investment, they guaranteed 20 jobs and you've got 140.
[44:30] So, a lot of times the jobs that they commit to are global.
[44:38] They actually hire many, many more than what they guarantee that they're going to have
[44:46] on their abatement.
[44:47] You know, another comment I'd like to make is that, you know, when we make these decisions,
[44:52] they're tough decisions.
[44:53] to take them seriously, but, again, we don't know whether...
[45:02] Some people will say, well, they're going to build anyway. Well, hell, maybe. Maybe they got a crystal ball. I don't know. I don't know that, but I know I don't want to take, I personally don't want to take a chance of industry expanding in another area. I'd like to, I'd like to keep, I'd like to keep it here, personally. That's just mine. And again, I know it's not the popular thing to do with the public. I understand that.
[45:32] But I do believe that we're going to make tough decisions.
[45:39] That's my thoughts.
[45:40] I don't want you to feel it Alabama.
[45:43] I don't want that.
[45:44] Mr. Nugle, thank you for your extensive use of local contractors and suppliers.
[45:50] That's one of the beauties of this tool that we had and we're grateful.
[45:55] And that's the point.
[45:55] We want other people to benefit from y'all's investment.
[45:58] So thank you.
[45:58] James got one of two temperatures this morning and robbing text me he had to go back home
[46:06] because brother passed away.
[46:10] So something to that that I just wanted to mention is sometimes we have to look at the bigger picture all together.
[46:19] You're asking for an indictment that will help you plant the seed to grow.
[46:25] But we also have to look at the synergy that it creates with BASF and the other plants around.
[46:31] So I think sometimes in a baby not just will help you, but it's also going to help BASF to maintain an older plant that needs help.
[46:42] And so I think this decision helps a lot of people not just new ag.
[46:48] It does and then all the money that's invested back in the community is jobs.
[46:52] There's the sales tax that we to collect off of any money spent out in the community.
[46:59] The warehouse that they built on county road 220, that's on the tax roll 100% they didn't
[47:06] get a tax abatement for that.
[47:09] And the huge misconceptions, people see big numbers, 40 million, even the gentleman that
[47:14] got up, you know, it's actually 180,000, it's what we're debating.
[47:19] It's 180,000 dollars, it's not 40 million.
[47:22] But people don't go out and do their homework, they don't.
[47:27] They don't ask questions, they see what some dumbass is posted out on social media,
[47:32] and they go out and feed off that and run with it.
[47:38] Instead of using the common sense that I hope the good Lord gave them,
[47:42] to maybe ask a few questions instead of just proven
[47:49] that they don't have the intellectual capacity to understand things.
[47:55] So, I just should be noted, too, that if it's a baited 180, 180, 180,000 dollars,
[48:03] they're paying a significant amount of tax.
[48:06] Yeah, they're just paying everything, but 180, 180,000 dollars, over seven years, over seven years,
[48:11] Yeah, so they're paying a significant amount of tax.
[48:14] And again, if we gamble and they build an Alabama,
[48:18] We won't get, you won't get any of that.
[48:23] And I think the numbers get lost, like the 40 million.
[48:26] That's if it hits the tax rules at 40.
[48:28] My custom 40 to build, but it depends on what it's a praise that.
[48:32] It could be higher, it could be lower.
[48:35] Commissioner Burgess thing, there's several.
[48:37] This one checks so many boxes.
[48:40] It's not just new act.
[48:41] It's supporting a current company who already pays millions of dollars in taxes.
[48:46] has a place now to continue to use their feedstock, or I guess that's what you call it,
[48:52] their waste is your feedstock, to convince your kids that the local vendors, I mean in Alex said
[48:59] that too, we've never had someone with such a comprehensive list of vendors and charities that
[49:04] you already do for what I would consider a very young company. To the one person who said,
[49:15] you know,
[49:16] So, you know, they could go to Arkansas, there's still ports there. I mean, oh, I'm sorry. I did
[49:22] Okay, I'm sorry. You're right. It is out there. That's okay. Yeah, that's okay. Um, you know, but I mean, it just checks so many boxes
[49:33] And as the person in the graduate at scale is huge for me because I sat here and I could say this
[49:39] I voted against more abatements than anybody in the history of our county probably in the last 18 years
[49:45] Because I believe 100% of statements are very special, not the norm, that should be, so I appreciate the graduate at scale, and at some point we probably need to massage it too, I mean, this is our first.
[49:59] And even the two years...
[50:00] I said a hundred percent, part of that's under construction and so forth, so it wouldn't be taxed anyway.
[50:05] So we're really not giving much up at the front end of it on the first year.
[50:11] So if the numbers probably less than what you're saying.
[50:15] So anyway.
[50:16] We take this seriously.
[50:19] I think we take every abatement seriously.
[50:22] And, you know, I was born and raised here in this county. My kids work here in this county.
[50:27] my whole family works in industry and we've had a good life and I want to continue that for
[50:33] the future so I don't take it lightly so well if you want to get purely political the amount
[50:44] of investment that has gone on in this county in the last 15 years that has occurred by industry
[50:53] And of course, industry is our top 10 or 15 taxpayers commissioner.
[50:59] When you came on the court, this county was the second highest tax rate of any county in
[51:09] the region and because of a lot of the reasons, because of the investment that was made in
[51:16] industrial sector, this county now has the lowest tax rate of any county in the region.
[51:26] So there's a lot of positive benefits that come from this.
[51:30] You know, as we go into budget each year, one of the first questions I ask is, and I've
[51:35] done this several years now, one of the first questions I always ask is, what a bait must
[51:39] do we have rolling off, and I'm always happy to know that we have something that you're
[51:45] Usually we have something that rolls off, but again, if they chose not to miss it to build here,
[51:50] then we wouldn't have them rolling off.
[51:55] So it's not easy, we don't take it lightly, but anyway.
[52:01] All right, any further discussion?
[52:06] All right, hearing that all in favor say aye.
[52:09] Opposed.
[52:10] Motion carries.
[52:11] Gentlemen, thank you for your investment into this county.
[52:14] We appreciate what y'all do for this county.
[52:18] We very much appreciate you, and if there's anything I can do to assist, let me know.
[52:24] Glad to help.
[52:25] Thank y'all.
[52:27] All right.
[52:27] That brings us to order I4 approved the expenditure of $29,300 to co-op family and associates.
[52:34] De-perform rates of way acquisition services for Missouri County Expressway Extension, where
[52:39] as the attach scope of art provides for right away acquisition services for the proposed
[52:43] Resort County Expressway Extension Detention Pond.
[52:48] And we're as funds for this expenditure,
[52:50] available via the 2026 Road and Bridge Budget.
[52:53] And we're as the expenditure funds
[52:55] will be reimbursed by the Resort County Tol Road Authority
[52:58] and further the county judge or his designate,
[53:02] be authorized to sign the attached professional services
[53:04] contract, and that a certified copy of this order
[53:07] be furnished to the county engineer
[53:09] for disfused all parties involved.
[53:11] Do I have a motion?
[53:15] Motion from Commissioner Burridge, second from Commissioner Adams, is that correct, gentlemen?
[53:22] Any discussion?
[53:25] Here in that all in favor, say aye.
[53:27] Opposed, motion carries order, aye.
[53:31] Upon request by Russell Webb, Director of Information Systems and Leonard Boast, Almond County Sheriff.
[53:37] The court approves the transfer of the network administrator position number 24
[53:41] from information systems to the Sheriff's Office, effective August 22nd, 2026.
[53:47] This is a budget neutral transfer within the general fund as the current incumbent will
[53:50] transfer at the same grade and step to have a motion.
[53:55] Two more seconds.
[53:57] Motion from Commissioner Adam, second from Commissioner Cade, any discussion?
[54:02] Here you are now, in favor say aye.
[54:05] Opposed.
[54:06] Motion carries Order I-6.
[54:07] Approval to award invitation to bid number 26-56 Hastings Phase 2 roadways and drainage improvements
[54:14] project GLO contract number 20-065-118-C388 to greater use and construction LSE of used in
[54:23] Texas is submitted the lowest bid meeting our specifications and scope of work in the amount of
[54:28] 1,121,823 dollars. In addition to expenditure for the project, we'll utilize funds from the general land office.
[54:39] Further at the county judge's office and any documents or amendments related to this agreement
[54:43] and that the final documents be authorized to be attached to the minutes.
[54:47] Do I have a motion?
[54:48] some of the second. Motion from Commissioner Adam, second from Commissioner
[54:54] Burridge, rather forceful motion from Commissioner Adams, ready to get this
[54:58] project. How long you've been working with?
[55:00] And on this? 50 years, no. Well, phase 2 for a couple years, but trying to get them out of the
[55:07] mud for 15 years. So thank you, Ohio. I'll pull this one off. Well, hopefully before
[55:13] the end of the year. And thank you to the GLO for paying for it. Oh, yeah, even more so
[55:17] to them. Yeah. So any further discussion? Here you're not all in favor, say aye. Opposed, motion
[55:25] carries Order I-7.
[55:27] Further recommendation of the evaluation committee, award CSP number 26-12, Savannah Parkway
[55:33] Panel Replacement, Savannah Parkway hooded left-harm, County Road 101, County Road 101,
[55:39] F left-harm lane, and Manville parking lot to the highest ranked vendor, Castillo around
[55:43] the LLC of New Cani, Texas who submitted the best offer meeting our specifications and scope
[55:49] work in the amount of 257,583 dollars and 38 cents. In addition, the procurement of the project
[55:58] will utilize funds from the Engineering Department's approved fiscal year 2026 budget,
[56:04] further the county judge's authorized sign any documents or amendments related to this agreement
[56:08] and that the final documents be authorized to attach to the minutes. Do I have a motion?
[56:12] most approved second motion from commissioner k second from commissioner lender any discussion
[56:20] I'm almost happy as commissioner atoms on this because we've been eating this thank you
[56:24] why all the math and care and all involved and and we're not paying is this just our portion
[56:29] or we're going to bill the bank for their part this is the mabel thing on six right oh you did okay
[56:39] Okay, cool.
[56:45] Did you know a little in the bank?
[56:46] Any further.
[56:49] All of the favors say aye.
[56:51] Opposed.
[56:51] Motion carries.
[56:53] Eight.
[56:54] Upon final review by the District Attorney's Office Award
[56:57] invitation to be at number 26-57.
[57:00] Purchase of Airport Rescue Firefighting Truck for the Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport
[57:04] to Oshkosh Airport Products, a Division of Pierce Manufacturing Inc.
[57:09] of Nina Wisconsin who submitted the second lowest bid meeting our specifications and scope
[57:15] of work in the amount of 1,33,083 dollars. In addition, the expenditure will utilize
[57:22] AIG slash B-I-L slash I-I-J-A-F-A funds. Don't ask me what all that stands for. Other
[57:32] then it's other people's money.
[57:34] Further, the county judge is authorized to spend
[57:37] to sign any documents or amendments related
[57:40] to this agreement and that the file documents
[57:42] be authorized to be attached to the minutes.
[57:45] Do I have a motion?
[57:46] Some of it.
[57:50] Motion from Commissioner Linder,
[57:52] second from Commissioner Adams, any discussion?
[57:54] I believe these are federal dollars, is that right?
[57:58] It's, yeah, FAA is federal air port administration.
[58:02] I don't know what AIG-B-I-L-I-J-A stand for.
[58:07] We're required to have this fire truck out there,
[58:09] so I think it's a good deal, gladly.
[58:12] We're able to obtain the funds.
[58:15] Any further discussion?
[58:17] Hearing none, all in favor, say aye.
[58:18] Aye.
[58:19] Opposed.
[58:20] Motion carries.
[58:21] Parking heads.
[58:23] We have any department heads, wishing to enlighten us this morning.
[58:33] Hey, Martin.
[58:35] It's dry.
[58:36] It's dry.
[58:36] You're going to talk about a possible burn ban.
[58:38] I bet you.
[58:39] Yes, sir.
[58:40] Yes, sir.
[58:40] I had to beat all the other department heads up here.
[58:45] They were running.
[58:46] But, yes, Judge, commissioners and ladies and gentlemen, Martin Vellow County Farm
[58:51] Marshall.
[58:53] Over the past, late last week into, especially this weekend, our conditions are rapidly deteriorating
[59:02] in the county.
[59:03] as well as as our region. Currently we have a little bit over 175 counties in the state of Texas that are under our burn ban and closely a
[59:15] or very facially we have a lot of counties within our immediate region that is
[59:24] entering into burn ban. Our closest counties, Galveston and Medigory that flank us from side to side,
[59:29] But our northern counties definitely have been in contact with those fire marshals and those
[59:35] Officials they are definitely looking at it burn van within the next couple a couple of days
[59:41] we didn't enter into action levels until
[59:46] Like last week and
[59:48] But because of the lack of rain
[59:52] Definitely our conditions are rapidly deteriorating and what what's happening in the next couple of weeks
[59:58] we have a number of...
[1:00:00] Schools, school has started, bomb fires, people taking care of their land, land management, we are getting a lot of phone calls, inquiring, whether we're on to a burn band or not.
[1:00:13] Which tells definitely that.
[1:00:15] They're recognizing it and they do understand it. The good thing is a benefit for Missouri County right now is we have very little air movement.
[1:00:22] We are experiencing a couple of fires over the past five, five to ten days, but definitely
[1:00:31] we're looking at in the next week to two weeks, we're definitely going to see that that's
[1:00:36] going to definitely increase.
[1:00:37] You go look right outside of the trees, aren't even moving.
[1:00:40] That's a good thing.
[1:00:41] Normally, in this situation, what we're experiencing right now, definitely we would have a lot
[1:00:46] more fires and a lot more things.
[1:00:48] what's going to happen now in the next couple of weeks if we get little to no rain
[1:00:55] definitely things like motor vehicles, bearings on vehicles, trailers,
[1:01:03] dragging chains, those are things that are going to spark fire fires that we're going to
[1:01:08] start experiencing in the county. So definitely with that, the heat and everything, this is it's just
[1:01:17] dangerous as putting these first responders on the roadways and working in this heat. Yesterday,
[1:01:23] just in this area was anywhere from 105 to 108 degrees just in the angle 10 area. It was hot.
[1:01:30] I was outside for about five of those hours. It was pretty bad. Took a toll on my body. And when it
[1:01:35] definitely starts messing with your muscles and your bones, you know, it's pretty bad to be working out
[1:01:40] those conditions. So what that being said definitely the message that we're putting out
[1:01:47] we're starting to push out social media and information out there is being very cautious
[1:01:52] with fire but also due to these very bad conditions is pushing stuff out to our fire chiefs
[1:02:00] and other first responders and emergency responders that basically take care of your own
[1:02:05] and stuff because it's it's pretty bad out there and it's getting bad. So what you tell
[1:02:10] me is you're gonna have on the next meeting asking for a burn band. Yes. Okay. You're gonna
[1:02:16] get a cup of beer. You're gonna get a cup of beer. You're gonna get a cup of beer. You're
[1:02:18] cycling beating around the bush a lot. You know. Yes. Just to cut to the chase. Yes, sir.
[1:02:23] And see if you can just do next Wednesday. Yes. Okay. You know, Judge, we usually when Martin
[1:02:29] comes up here and talks about a burn band coming up, we get rain. So I hope you work your magic this
[1:02:33] I'm hoping that's there's a little black stock right here is is sitting here waiting for me
[1:02:40] He knew we had that discussion at the beginning and usually when I'm talking it's actually gonna happen
[1:02:45] But these meteorologists like to lie to me every once a while we've got like I think Friday or Saturday is 39% chance of rain
[1:02:53] But I'm not gonna hold my breath. I read Jeff Lenders for four months morning Thursday and Friday
[1:02:58] there's a chance of scattered thunderstorms. So in scattered thunderstorms is not what we need.
[1:03:04] We need we need a good two to four inch drenched in lots. So yes sir. Yes sir. Definitely.
[1:03:10] All right. The heat. Definitely. We'll be back tomorrow and so we're thinking about them.
[1:03:16] Let him know to be careful. I know I've heard from one of the fire chiefs. He's emailed me a
[1:03:24] So I know they're thinking about it, but let's, y'all all be careful.
[1:03:31] And push any information, push it out to Sharon.
[1:03:33] Sharon will push it out.
[1:03:35] And she's been putting that stuff on the heated visories and all that other good stuff.
[1:03:40] And so we'll be sure that we can make people cognizant of the issues.
[1:03:47] Thank you, Martin.
[1:03:48] Thank you.
[1:03:49] Any other department heads?
[1:03:52] Been running.
[1:04:03] Good morning, gentleman Brian Frasher,
[1:04:04] what were the work County
[1:04:05] Bush brothers.
[1:04:06] Two announcements, but before,
[1:04:08] let me be the first to go on record
[1:04:10] that I know you've announced your retirement judge,
[1:04:14] sharing let me be the first request
[1:04:16] that we have a high light reel
[1:04:19] of the judges,
[1:04:20] quoteable quotes that no doubt
[1:04:29] today's
[1:04:29] I want to have that highlight reel at your retirement, which we'll hit the parks part by
[1:04:33] by the way.
[1:04:35] So, thanks for always keeping it colorful.
[1:04:38] Two of that, so I want to announce it is time for our annual fellow adopter beach that
[1:04:43] would be September 19th at Stahlman Park again.
[1:04:46] We usually get a pretty good turnout for this one, whether it's usually pretty cooperative.
[1:04:51] And again, September 19th, that's a Saturday.
[1:04:54] It will be back at Stahlman Park there in Surfside.
[1:04:56] And then really pleased to announce this with a little farther out.
[1:05:00] Adening November 7th, we will be hosting the Special Olympics Fishing event at our Park's headquarters. There will be at least 50 kids there for that.
[1:05:10] And so we need volunteers, not just for the adoptive beach, but also for events like this as well.
[1:05:15] But we're thrilled to have it there on our new dock there at our headquarters.
[1:05:18] I'm nominate Mr. Adams on the, how not to catch a fish.
[1:05:27] We would welcome a personal demonstration commissioner Adams to be there.
[1:05:31] You have to work hard to not catch one there.
[1:05:33] I have to tell you.
[1:05:35] He's good at it.
[1:05:35] All right.
[1:05:36] He's good at it.
[1:05:37] I'll always do it.
[1:05:40] Thank you.
[1:05:41] Thank you, Brad.
[1:05:42] Any other department has?
[1:05:44] I'm not, I'm not a department head, but I had a brand new brand.
[1:05:47] Maybe on Wednesday.
[1:05:49] Congratulations.
[1:05:50] I'll puff up times four.
[1:05:52] Congratulations.
[1:05:53] That's good. I know Hollis over there like.
[1:05:57] I saw the little critter after you.
[1:06:00] Bo Dave is what they named it, so the name he himself.
[1:06:03] Yeah, he's in the nick you for about probably a few weeks, but in good hands.
[1:06:08] Good deal.
[1:06:08] Very thankful and blessed.
[1:06:12] Congratulations to Connor Nelson.
[1:06:14] Yeah. Thank you.
[1:06:16] Any other department heads?
[1:06:19] All right.
[1:06:19] We're going to go into executive session under Texas Government Code Chapter 551 Sub-Chapter D,
[1:06:24] which will be 551.071, consultation with attorney, potential litigation, baker and
[1:06:29] tailor LLC bankruptcy, discuss potential litigation due to code violations at 14-614,
[1:06:36] Canerode 820, Roshear and Texas, and discuss potential litigation due to code violations
[1:06:41] at 119, Jolly Bought Lane Freeport, Texas, as well as Texas Government Code 551.072, discuss
[1:06:48] Police of property, discuss purchase of property, and it is 1008.
[1:06:54] Hopefully we won't be too long, but thank each and every one of y'all for being here this morning.
[1:07:49] She controls the buttons.
[1:07:51] All right, it is 1136. We're back from executive session.
[1:07:55] We have two orders to take care of order J3, the district attorney's authorized to file suit against
[1:08:03] Paja Deer Bostas, Waterstone Ranch, and any responsible party for violations of the Texas
[1:08:09] Health and Safety Code, Missouri County Building Codes, and Missouri County Flood
[1:08:12] Plane Regulations.
[1:08:14] The district attorneys authorized the necessary expenses and the prosecution of the suit
[1:08:19] and is not required to file a bond as exempt from any and all bond requirements.
[1:08:24] Percent civil practice remedies code section 6.001 to have a motion.
[1:08:32] Second. Motion from Commissioner Kate, second from Commissioner Adams, any discussion.
[1:08:40] Here in that, I'll in favor say aye. Opposed. Motion carries unanimously. Order J4, the
[1:08:48] District Attorney's authorized lawsuit against James O2, OTZ, O2, OO, and any responsible
[1:08:57] party for violations of the Texas Health and Safety Code, Resort County
[1:09:01] abatement ordinances, and Resort County public nuisance regulations,
[1:09:05] district attorneys, authorised the necessary expenses, and the
[1:09:08] prosecution of the suit is not required to file a bond as exempt from
[1:09:11] any and all bond requirements.
[1:09:13] Presuit to civil practice remedies code section 6.001, do I have a motion?
[1:09:19] I'll make a motion.
[1:09:19] Second. Motion from Commissioner Buried, second from Commissioner Adams any discussion.
[1:09:27] Hearing that all in favor say aye. Opposed. Motion carries unanimously. Do we have
[1:09:33] anything from the court?
[1:09:37] All right. It is 1137. We're adjourned.