Good afternoon everyone. So good to see you all, thank you for coming. Today is thursday june 11th
2026, it is now 1:00 p.m. And I call to order the regular
meeting of the fort bend county commissioners court. Please be advised we have the presence of a quorum.
vincent morales, lead us in prayer and allegiance to our
flag of. >> welcome everybody to commissioners court. If you would all pause for a
moment for reflection period grace as spirit of unity and hope, as we gather at the threshold summit to give thanks
for the season ahead, for the warmth that draws us our lord,
for the longer days that invite connection and for the
opportunities to work together for the good of our community.
bless this commissioners court meeting with clarity of thought,
respect and dialog and wisdom in decision making. May our efforts today plant seeds that will grow into
lasting benefits for all. Let this summer be a season of
safety, kindness and shared purpose. With gratitude, for each person here, and those joining us
online, we will begin our work together for the betterment of
fort bend county, amen. If you will join me in honoring our nation's flag and that of the great state of texas.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I honor the texas flag, one state under god.
>> thank you. Please be seated. Good afternoon everyone, before we begin work on today's agenda,
I want to take a moment to recognize several important
observance and other community events taking place here in fort bend county and of course our nation, we are serving
national flag week, culminating on june 14th, the american flag
remains one of our nation's most enduring symbols of freedom,
unity, sacrifice and opportunity. As we approach the flag day we are reminded of the generation
of americans who have served, sacrificed and work to preserve
ideals represented by our estate. Occurring next week I would also like to invite residents to
participate in two very important community events. First, fort bend county will host thursday june 18th at
12:15 p.m. Outside of the historic courthouse. Second I also encourage everyone to attend the city, I will be
there. Join the parade on june 20th this event provides an opportunity to reflect on our
shared history and celebrate freedom, perseverance and unity.
today, fort bend county residents will see what can
happen when community judge and commissioners court work together on behalf of the people we serve.
before us today, residents across every stage of life,
these values are reflected in today's agenda as the court will
consider items to support youth education, assist victims of
violence, expand mental health services, provide resources for
seniors and strengthen our emergency preparedness efforts, as hurricane season begins. Although this initiative
addresses different needs they share a common purpose.
first, improving quality of life and second, protecting our residents and ensuring fort bend county remain a safe,
strong and resilient community. With that, if there is no other
announcements we will move to today's agenda. >> I have a couple of announcements.
first and foremost I want to make a special recognition, we
have a couple. First is to mr. Carlos guzman,
sorry I lost my notes, who has been recognized as one of the
top economic development directors in the country.
this is a great -- [applause] point of distinguishment. Congratulations to you.
sara, bear with me for a moment. I also would like to recognize
-- I also want to congratulate our county attorney, miss
bridget smith lawson, now the recipient of the gerald
summerford civil practitioner of the year award awarded to her by the texas district and county attorneys association.
representing attorneys from all 254 counties in texas, and
collects only one civil practitioner for this award each year. This means that we are
represented well by one of the best legal minds in the state,
according not to dexter mccoy but to all of the other lawyers and electives across the state of texas.
so to our county attorney congratulations on this great
point of distinction. [applause]
I also want to acknowledge the presence of summer interns in
the county, we are really excited to have interns that started working through the youth employment program this
week. I believe we have about 250 interns working in departments all across the county these are
young people in high school, college, those who have
graduated and are entering the workforce. We are really appreciative of their time and would like to
welcome them if there is any program interns in the room can you stand and be recognized? [applause]
and I believe we also -- there may be an overflow right now,
have interns from state representatives doctor solomon
office who spent the day learning about fort bend county and county operations. We also welcome them in the
room? I think they are in overflow, ie welcome them as well. We are celebrating juneteenth,
we would like to invite members of the community to join
constable patrick quincy as he presents the party in the park at the fort bend county fairgrounds on friday june 19th,
from 1:00 p.m. Until 8:00 p.m., featuring some local artists,
there also is the city of stafford will be celebrating their annual juneteenth freedom celebration on friday june 18th
from 6:30 until 11:00 and we invite you all to join them in
celebration. Thank you that is all I have. >> thank you commissioner, anybody else?
we will now proceed to item number 3, council approval of
minutes as presented. Any second?
>> second. >> any discussion? All in favor please raise your hand?
motion passes unanimously. We now proceed to item number 4
public comments regarding the agenda and announcements period any members of the court have announcements or comments?
hearing none at this time we will take public comments regarding agenda items, and announcements.
do we have any public speaker? >> we don't. >> hearing none, it is now 1:08 p.m., we will move on to
the agenda item number 5 public hearing, conduct public hearings
and take all appropriate action on the following matters.
now I open the public hearing segment for agenda item five a,
subsection a through g. 5b and 5c as posted and
published on the agenda. >> I don't believe we have any
speakers today but if you would like to call for any more this is the time. >> okay.
I would like to ask again is anybody here today would like to speak on this public hearing? Again?
hearing none I would like to close this public hearing, I have been informed agenda item 5a, section a through g, 5b and
5c are ready for action. Do I have a motion to approve
those items? Any second? >> second. >> I have a motion and a second
any discussion all in favor please raise your hand.
motion passes unanimously. Consent agenda items six through
21. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda items six through 21?
>> move to approve. >> second. >> motion has been made and second any discussion all in
favor please raise your hand? Motion passes unanimously.
now we go to section three, discussion item. Beginning with agenda item 22 a through d presented under
the county judge office, we will take this item beginning with
agenda item 22 a. >> move to approval of 22 a.
>> any second? >> second. >> I have a motion and a second any discussion?
hearing none all in favor please raise your hand. Motion passes unanimously. Now I will present agenda item
22b, I already provide cord members a summary of 22b and c
and d, so there will be a reference. I would like to ask the court to consider agenda item 22b.
>> move to approval of 22b. >> any second?
>> second. >> any discussion? >> yes. Interim judge wong, what is the
problem we are seeking to address?
>> I have provided the summary, our current rules were adopted
in 2014. So we just attend some of the minor things as you see in the summary, it is updating our
current policy. Besides, I want to make sure that everybody understands policies not set in stone, it is
a moving document. I would like to invite the court to continue to look at the policy as time goes, if you see
anything that needs to be revised, in addition to that or
modifications, please bring it to the court and we will consider that. Right now we're just updating a
2014 policy. >> in particular it looks like there are two sections that are being updated in a particular,
which is regarding proclamations and the other one regarding
public comment. Was there a particular issue that precipitated that change? >> we would like to make these
changes, to make it more effective and improve effi
efficiency. >> is it that it is taking too long? >> no, I'm not saying taking too
long. I'm saying with this policy, I think it will make the court meeting more smooth.
>> there is a couple of concerns here because in particular we are making changes to the process of recognizing members
of the public. We saw a very unfortunate
situation last commissioners court in recognizing a very
distinguished and accomplished young woman, and now the
immediate court following that we have a complete change in the rules and how this governing body is to recognize citizens of
great honor. One I think we did get some feedback from our county attorney on this that there are
several items of concern that are -- that may operate outside
of the law. Where in the local government code does it give us the authority to limit any member of
this court in recognizing members of the public?
>> this policy has been set by the county judge attorney, and
we feel like it is standing on legal grounds. >> this that the county judge office?
do you have a separate attorney from the county attorney's
office? >> you know, yes, we do have a county judge office attorney to help us out.
>> who is the county attorney? >> just my consultant, nothing
to worry -- >> does he talk to you personally? Is he faithful to the county?
>> he is a consultant. >> and so that is news, I don't
recall us authorizing engagement of outside legal services beyond
that of our county attorney's office, that's number 1. Number 1 that is a duplication of services that is already
rendered by our county attorney's office. But again, I am curious as to where in the local government
code it gives one member of this body or this body as a whole the
authority to overstep what is the local government code in our
ability to recognize members of the public. Here's the area of concern that I believe was flagged for your
office by our county attorney's office, what are your calling
for is unanimous consent for any proclamation to be presented on
commissioners court. We were told that is not appropriate because it would violate the open meetings act.
how have you addressed that particular concern?
>> we were told, the policy is on solid ground so thank you for
your comment. >> I believe the elected county attorney's office told you that you indeed cannot.
that is essentially for those of you who may not be familiar, we have the open meetings act which governs how we are to operate as
a body, to ensure transparency, the work of the government
happens in the open, and we are not supposed to have what is
called a walking quorum, where we meet with three or more of us outside of this meeting discussing county business or
pull the members of the court on any particular item.
so again I don't know -- >> I am aware of that
commissioner. >> so the question is what is -- it's really simple, please show us what is the grounds for
allowing us to pull members of the court in order to allow or
disallow a member of court putting a recognition on commissioners court. It's a simple question.
>> I understand. We have a legal opinion, that's
okay. >> again county attorney can you advise us here. I believe that what you provided
to the court services manager and was provided to all members
of commissioners court is that the local government code actually does not allow for polling members of commissioners
court for any agenda item prior to that item going forward is
that correct? >> that would suggest there is a discussion as to what should be discussed prior to court, and
just for clarification, section 551.0415 of the government code
allows each member of the court to bring items of public
interest once approved congratulations, announcements,
et cetera, to the court. And that is the right that each one of you will have. So this policy would entertain
the opportunity to conclude that by allowing for any
prescreening. And I would just ask, if you
have questions about the analysis that we did on this
proposed policy, that you all just refer to the notes and we are happy to take this into closed to expand upon it
further. >> okay. I am happy to have that discussion because I feel like we have to have a robust discussion about that.
but in the section that was quoted, section 551.0515, it
actually lays out the authority of members of this governing
body and other local governing bodies to recognize members of
the public. In fact it says that we have the
ability in section three to recognize any sort of honorary
or salute, salutory recognition of public official employee or
citizen, except that a discussion regarding a change in the status of a person public office or public employment,
that can be recognized by any one, it does not require posting
on the agenda, it doesn't require a vote. I am just failing to see why we are now after again the office
put forward a recognition, the immediate response of the next
court to say we don't do that. We over the past eight years
have had over 170 proclamations that were presented by this
court. 140 of them were done so unanimously, and just over 20 of them were not unanimous,
presentations of proclamations. It is what happens in any government body. You go to school board meeting,
you go to where they recognize folks in the same fashion, a city council meeting, for any of our local governments, there is
not something that is a member of the body cannot recognize a
member of the public unless all members agree to be recognized. So on its face this does not conform with the law.
again the elected county attorney has provided advice, and I'm failing to see how we are okay sidestepping that, are
you saying today that you are comfortable violating the open meetings act by following what you have presented here?
that was a question. >> thank you. The court member has the ability to do proclamations, so do you.
I have proclamations. So we recognize achievements
through our county every single day, all the time.
as a proclamation, like I said, I engage our court, our judge
office lawyer, and I would like to call randall, would you please come up and give us expert witness on that?
please. >> okay so on your website you
have procedures for ceremonial documents policies and
procedures. Nobody is talking about that. You already have a procedure board.
it's on the website, it has been there I don't know, it's not even dated how long it is. Anybody, any commissioner has
the right to put anything on the agenda subject to the majority vote of the commissioners court tabling it or postponing it to a
certain date. You have a right, under the
government code and under the local public -- not the public
information act but the. >> open meetings act. >> sorry I froze there a second. The open meetings act, on the
one hand, one opinion is this is not official court business.
if it's not official court business why is it even under the open meetings act? So you have a right to control
your agenda as a group, and you have a right to table something
when the commissioner does. If you want to have a rule that
says all non-substantive work it takes unanimous consent to put
it on there, you are certainly within your rights under the
government code. >> the point was it would
precede polling of members prior to it going on the agenda. The process that we have is one that is pretty administrative.
a member of the public wants a proclamation, they submitted a. Something the commissioner court member can put it on or not,
okay? Now we are talking you cannot put it on there unless there is a majority that is unanimous,"
the policy says? Unanimous consent under the commissioners court, which means how do you know if you have
unanimous consent of commissioners court without getting an indication that they are in favor or not?
>> your policy has on your website says that the county
judge controls the proclamations that go on the agenda because that is what it says. >> that is not the law.
that is not the law. >> what you are suggesting right now, to council, as we forget about the
law, do it the way we want to do it. Do you agree or disagree that polling members about agenda
items violates open meetings act? >> if it is an action item, if it is part of the open meetings
act yes. >> I'm okay if you talk about the football game, if you have three people on the
commissioners court that conspire to make any decision that involves county business, isn't that a violation?
>> as you stated yes, but this is not county business. It's a proclamation. >> it would not be in the
government code it would not be under that section regarding open meetings. Let me just remind the court in
the agenda to assume randall does not represent you and I
would refer you back to the aging opinion that allowed for the hiring of outside counsel, specific for legislative action
for the court. Not one member of the court, the
court. I'm really concerned as to how we have an outside lawyer advising this body and I am the
seated elected official, elected, duly elected, twice, by
the people to do this job. Mr. Randall if you have any questions you can reach out to me and we can have a discussion,
but I really feel like this conversation is over.
>> madam council can I there is --
>> sir, I have already stated -- respectfully. >> you are interrupting me, I project.
>> I after the break -- I object to this violation of my
authority to hold this seat. >> thank you. >> and again, the county attorney's point is well taken.
commissioner myers, you are the one that sort it. This specifically is regarding legislative matters.
this is not a legislative matter and yet outside counsel has been
acquired to advise a member of court over the county attorney's
authority. That is what --
>> the statute is very clear and the attorney general's opinion is absolutely clear, the county attorney's authority revolves
around civil litigation period. There is no other authority
assigned to the county attorney's office. >> that is not what it says. >> that's exactly what it says.
>> so again I think that that is one item is that this action
would suggest some level of polling of members of commissioners court prior to commissioners court meeting
happening on whether or not members of this body have the ability to submit or recognize a proclamation.
again I pointed out that we have done this for as long as this court has existed, and only now is this a problem where
restrictions are being placed on members of this court,
recognizing members in our community. It was not a problem where we recognized several months ago it
wasn't a problem where we recognized a young woman who was
afforded the opportunity to be part of the national u.s.
cricket team it wasn't a problem when we recognized the little
league baseball team, when they won great distinction and going
on to the little league world series. However, all of a sudden now, this is a problem that we see
deserves greater urgency, and overstepping of the legal review
of our county attorney's office and to rush through?
I don't think this is appropriate, I don't think this is in the best interest of our community.
again I don't see what we are aiming to solve for, if this is
efficiency then I would urge the court to consider that moving
forward, we have a further review of ways we can indeed make commissioners court more efficient for the communities
that engage with us, not restricting from engaging with us which this policy seeks to do.
>> thank you so much for your opinion. Any further questions and comments?
I have a motion and second -- >> just to be clear you're
saying you're disregarding the advice of our county attorney in
proceeding with this action? >> that's the opinion --
>> it is a question. The county attorney just gave
this entire body an opinion, it's not my opinion, she just
gave us a recitation of what the law is and are you seeking to proceed rather than tabling this item for further consideration
by her office or pulling it to closed session above and beyond
her opinion? Yes or no? >> can we proceed? >> I'm asking you.
>> can we proceed? >> it's a simple question. >> any further question? I will call for a vote.
all in favor please raise your hand.
motion passes 3-2. Let's go to agenda item 22 b. --
22c. The ai policy. One thing I want to make sure the ai policy has been around
for almost two years, and I think a lot of pundits want to
have our ai policy. I said again and again it is not set in stone, it's not viable. I welcome everybody to continue
to review the policy for artificial intelligence.
technology has been evolving. It will have revision in the
future but we do need a policy to provide some guardrails so
our department can continue this ai tool for efficiency and
effectiveness. That is why we are talking about this ai policy. As a summary right here, I
present to you agenda item number 22c.
any second? Any discussion? >> I am a bit unclear. I think we were sent multiple
versions of a policy and I did not see any items posted as
backup for the official agenda, what are we considering here? >> we are considering the original version that we sent to
the court. You and the county attorney's office. You have the version the
original version. >> we are not taking up the version that was sent to us at 5:00 yesterday morning?
>> we will take up all your comments and revisions that were sent to my office in the future that we will look into that to
see if we can make any revisions and changes. Like I said it is a moving document I appreciate everyone
to chip in to provide ideas in terms of revisions --
>> mr. Wong in your opening statement, you said a statement
about the quorum and respect. I think patients should have
been in there. You can't just rush through folks that have questions. That is poor leadership.
if there's questions on items you put on there, that is part of the job. You have to stand here and take
the questions. You can't rush and disrespect court members because they have a question.
it's a legitimate question right now. There is competing version sent to us.
the question is which one is it? >> the original version
circulating among you guys. First of all I respect you guys so much. As you address me, I address you
commissioner. And I am dressed wong. And what kind of respect -- we're talking about decorum?
thank you. >> you are my neighbor, and I always call you daniel wong. Judge wong, same question can I
do you respect the fact that his competing versions?
and you said it's the first one. >> I sent it to you, to your
office. >> referee: if there are
modifications, I have a couple that I may be suggesting, we
certainly have an opportunity in the future to make modifications
to policies. >> commissioner meyers, would
you consider where we can get a clean version without edits in
time for the first review to prepare for the vote period for that all the time. Every time a day before or the
day before the agenda comes on you ask for it every time you ask for it we give it to you. I am saying would you -- would
you be willing to wait -- >> there is no so-called clean
version period it's been circling among you guys for two
years. >> I would like to call robin to come up here. >> may I answer the question? Again I think we need something
in place we can always modify, it may be necessary --
>> robin can you come up? >> if we have to modify we can do so. >> commissioner can you hear
what robin says about this policy?
please. >> high good afternoon. I believe the policy that is being referred to is the one
from december 2025. Presented it a couple of times I
know there are some changes that have been requested in
modifications, at this time I'm unaware of those changes have been incorporated into it. I know there were two other
versions that have been presented as well, but my understanding is this is the version from december 2025.
>> we are making some changes already in the last two years. I wasn't here. Thank you robin I appreciate
that. >> look, the fact remains, the law changed, we need an updated ai policy that conforms with the
state law. There's no argument here, it's a simple question about which version we are considering, if
there are competing versions why aren't we reconciling that before taking action? I think the version that is here
before us now, is this the version that has been edited
since december? We had tabled it so the committee could work through items.
>> I'm not sure. >> commissioner if I may, so the
version that was circulated to our court is the version
presented to the county attorney's office.
miss landers is not here, should have spoke on it that is the same version that he was referring to.
the reason why it's not attached to anything except given to you all is because we were informed by the county attorney's office
that that was privilege and we could not attach it.
however, after our meeting on wednesday, we understand --
again I wish miss landers was here, is that the version that
she provided court -- and I will ask if you will allow robin to
come up with me she is the expert in this, is that the
version that was prepared and sent to you late this week was a
piece of the whole policy. That is my understanding.
as a normal user. Robin is the expert and she can go into detail but that's why that is not attached, and that
is the version that you all received. >> and let me just add before you, there was an executive
order regarding artificial intelligence as well as a legislative update last september regarding the use of
ai by texas government entities. So the policy two years ago would not be reflective of those changes, and we made sure in the
general counsel has been working with robin to update the policy. We have sent to you regarding the same.
>> so I did receive a copy of, I have not had a chance to fully review it, my team reviewed and provided comments.
the biggest concern that I had was the title of the document
being generative ai because as we know it's a subset of ai, and a very broad topic. My recommendation is that we
change that version to reflect ai policy versus generative ai.
>> can we do it in two weeks? >> robin do you think there will
be any delay in any operational situation in terms of delaying
this policy for two weeks? >> I don't think so.
we do have a few offices that are waiting this policy to be
reviewed and approved, so we can have some kick off meetings and to begin some projects we have on hold.
I will leave it up to the court on the decision that you guys want to make I just know that I do have individuals that are
waiting. >> I do want the court to really
take two weeks, not two years, to approve anything that is really necessary for our county operation.
>> I think we have taken two I don't think.
>> has been waiting for your approval! >> you said we had a policy two years ago and now we are
updating -- >> that's not the one I'm talking about. That's the one you have not
approved. For two years.
>> has it been in for two years? >> I presented in december 2025, we have been working on it prior to that.
>> it has not taken us two years, let's not make statements like that. It has not taken this court two
years to pass this policy. Thank you so much. >> close to two years. >> judge this is not adversary.
>> it's not it's not! I really want to -- >> let's move on with the po policy.
>> as you see fit. >> if I could make one request of court services and team members can we make sure this
gets put up as backup? I get the red line version cannot be shared because it's confidential, but it's the
actual policy itself, as we have with every other item should be
put for public view as per our typical procedures.
>> again, I will defer to the county attorney but I was specifically asked not to. She said no.
I am not allowed to. >> we will allow for the policy
to be shared in a draft form, in a way that is not red line.
because obviously the red line would have the notes that we feel are appropriate to advise the court on from a legal
perspective. >> just a clean copy. Thank you. >> we will act on this item
today and ask the court member county attorney office --
>> I want to go on the record asking we delayed until the
25th. >> I understand. It is not going to help from my perspective.
it's my personal opinion, two years, two days, two weeks.
hopefully we can bring in a revision, like I said in two weeks, we modified, revised, whatever you like.
we will do it. Motion has been made and second
any further discussion? >> I say it be tabled for two
weeks. >> I have a motion on the table.
if you fail I will consider the motion. Now the motion is approved -- >> I have a motion to table it.
>> I already have a motion in front of you. >> we have to vote on his motion.
>> that's fine. Any second? >> second. >> we have a motion to table it.
all in favor please raise your hand? Any opposed? Three?
we will go back to the original motion to pass this policy.
second? All in favor please raise your hand? Any opposed?
any abstaining? That will be three years, one
opposed, one abstain. Motion passes. Now let's go to item -- agenda item 22d.
another policy which I provide a summary to all the court members. >> approval of item 22d as
presented. >> second? Any discussion? >> yes, same concerned.
we had several versions that were sent to us. Which one are we considering here today?
>> there's a quick summary -- >> sorry, this was put here on
our table when we walked up. I'm just asking is it the one that was sent around originally? I think a couple of days ago, or
the one that was there was another version I think shared late tuesday evening that I have not had a chance yet.
>> I'm so sorry I'm only aware of this version, which is the
one that you have. I don't know the second version.
>> okay, I believe we have received some other version kayaker was like a some sort of edit from commissioner meyers
office. >> I think that was his
concerns. >> got it. Okay. And I think the county
attorney's office has shared with all the members of the court some concerns about the legal exposure with this policy
as it exists today? Have we taken that into account?
have we taken it into account the county attorney's feedback that they gave regarding the risk of legal exposure with this
policy as it exists? >> we will have revisions coming
back if we pass this today -- like I said it is not set in
stone, we appreciate it continuing sending us your
ideas, opinions and revisions, and I will bring it up to the court. >> all due respect, if you're
going to pass a policy that is in stone.
>> it is not in stone. >> it is in stone in that the day we pass it, and you fix your signature, it becomes a policy
of this court. If it is something we are going to perform actions on that our county attorney has advised us
opens us up to the risk of legal exposure, and there was some
very clear areas where that was the case, it is something that
probably should be taken back and suggested revisions made.
this particular policy has not been -- it is not conformed with
what the county attorney which has to represent us in any litigation has suggested would be sound.
I don't want to get into particulars, not to openly deliberate that particular device, but there are several
areas of concern, one in particular that was very serious regarding our employees and how this could be a huge risk.
>> like I said thank you for your opinion.
>> it's not an opinion! It's not an opinion. It is not my personal opinion. It is again what our county
attorney has shared, there was a question, not an opinion.
why are we implementing a policy that again opens us up to risks
of legal exposure? >> can I repeat myself that all policy has been reviewed by the county judge attorney on
solid ground. >> I'm sorry I'm trying to keep my cool here, if we are trying to do the best work in the best
interest of the public, why in the world are we trying to present a half baked cake and suggest to everybody else, hey,
suggest revisions later but we will pass this. I can see the reminder things like, hey, can we add this
section or can we change this, to here for clarification purpose that's not what we're talking about.
what we are talking about is what it opens us up to the risk
of when it comes to reporting of sexual assault in this county.
what we are talking about is the risk of exposure that this policy as it exists today opens us up to as it pertains to
retaliation of a manager who happens to see someone driving a nicer car and then decides to say to the auditor, hey, I think
you should investigate how that person procured that, not taking into account they may have multiple jobs or multiple
sources of income in their home, but because I perceive something here, this policy now has holes in it that allow for something
like that to happen. How does that help the culture of our organization? There are legitimate cases of
fraud that we even learned about of late that have impacted the operations of this court. We need to have a policy, we
need to have a stronger ability to take care of anything that is
wasteful because I can tell you right now, with what I read in this policy I would report the use of outside legal counsel
which is a duplication of already paid for interest of the
county, and now you're duplicating? That is waste. There are edits and revisions --
so table it. The suggestion from the general counsel's office of the county attorney's office was to put
together a working group and a committee on this to be able to thoroughly vet this policy, and make sure it conforms with all
the letter of the law and does not open us up to I don't
understand and nobody is giving me an answer except for thank you for the opinion and move on.
is there something I'm missing here? Help educate me. I don't think it's a hard
request. >> let me say that to the public also, we have our current policy, adopted 2013, this
policy is making some changes yes, but the summary is provided
to all court members, and describes it nicely as a half
baked cake it's a personal opinion. Just like my personal opinion is it's a full size cake.
that's my opinion. Anyway. Any other comment? Motion has been made and second
any further discussion? All in favor please raise your hand? Any opposed?
3-2 passes, thank you very much. Agenda item 23a and b presented
by the county attorney will require a recorded vote thus we will take this individually. To have a motion on agenda item
23 a? >> yes.
>> yes, I move that fort bend county record a vote authorize the use of power of eminent domain required all
needed right of way for the traffic signals and safety
improvements of project number 23102, precinct one, to
be situated on lands constituting the entirety of the
intersections of exhibit a to this motion and incorporated
herein by reference all existing and various locations in
precinct one, fort bend county texas, by adoption of the
resolution in order the acquisition of property, be a
public necessity and authorizing the acquisition of compensation
for the public purpose of location, improvement,
alignment, construction, operation and maintenance for the traffic signals and safety improvement, project num
number 23102. Including, drainage and attention required to set project.
this motion applies to any and all parcels of land and
associated improvements, it must be condemned or examined for
potential other [unclear] adjacent to the designated intersections. >> thank you for commissioner,
any second? Please proceed. >> commissioner how do you vote? >> yes.
>> commissioner meyers? >> yes. >> commissioner mccoy? >> yes.
>> judge wong? >> yes. >> motion passes. >> wonderful, 23b do I have a
motion? >> I move that fort bend county by record vote authorize the use of the power of eminent domain
to acquire all needed right of way for the clodine road segment
project number 23407, precinct four, generally on land beginning from west bellfort boulevard to fort bend county
texas by adoption of the resolution in order to create the acquisition of property to be a public necessity and
authorizing the acquisition and payment compensation for the public purpose of location improvement, alignment
construction operation and maintenance for the road section
23407 including apartment drainage and attention required for said project this applies to any and all presence of land and
associated improvements and must be condemned or examined for potential condemnation along clodine road segment one project
number 23407. >> thank you second?
please proceed. >> commissioner morales. >> yes. >> commissioner prestage.
>> yes. >> commissioner meyers? >> yes. >> commissioner mccoy. >> yes. >> judge wong.
>> yes. >> motion passes. >> thank you. Agenda item 24 presented by the
court administrator. Any motion?
>> I move for approval. >> second. >> motion has been made and second any discussion?
all in favor please raise your hand? Motion passes unanimously agenda item 25, presented by economic
development. >> move 25 as presented. >> second? Any discussion.
>> and desperate clarification this is not a new abatement but
just an owner change. Just changing the paperwork.
>> wonderful, correct. All in favor please raise your hand? Motion passes unanimously.
agenda item 26 a through j presented by engineering.
>> moved to approve. >> second.
>> motion has been made and second, any discussions? All in favor please raise your hand?
motion passes unanimously. Agenda item 27a through e
presented by grants administration. >> move to approval of 27 a through e as presented.
>> second. >> motion has been made and second any discussion? All in favor please raise your
hand? Motion passes unanimously. Agenda item 28 presented by health and human services.
>> move approval. >> second. >> motion has been made and second any discussion all in favor please raise your hand. Motion passes unanimously.
agenda item 29 -- >> sorry I have a note, I wanted to make sure that the public was aware we have been getting a lot
of calls, we had an abnormally active mosquito season in this
particular item is to help us to be able to get out and do aerial
sprays to tackle some of these issues more holistically so thanks to our environmental health department for this
action, I am sure a lot of our community members and especially my little girls who see me have a lot of mosquito bites
appreciated. >> agenda items 29a through d, we will consider this item individually.
beginning with agenda item 29 a. >>
any motion? >> move for approval of agenda item 29 a as presented new any second motion has been made and
seconded any discussion? All in favor please raise your hand? Motion passes unanimously.
now next we present agenda item 29b.
>> move for approval of agenda item 29b as presented.
>> motion has been made and seconded any discussion all in favor please raise your hand. Motion passes unanimously.
agenda item 29c and d will be tabled until after the
conclusion of the closed session. Now we go to agenda item 30, presented by information
technology. >> move approval of agenda item 30 as presented. >> second motion has been made
and second any discussion all in favor please raise your hand?
motion passes unanimously agenda item 31, presented by the
library. >> move for approval of agenda item number 31 as presented. >> second.
>> motion has been made and second any discussion all in favor please raise your hand. Motion passes unanimously.
agenda item 32a and b presented by parks and recreation.
>> move approval of 32a and b. >> second?
>> second motion has been made and second any discussion? All in favor please raise your hand.
motion passes unanimously. Agenda item 33, a through y,
presented by purchasing. I have been informed that agenda item 33 has been closed -- >> 33h.
>> 33h, I'm sorry. >> move approval of 33a through
y excluding h. >> second. >> motion has been made and second any discussion all in
favor please raise your hand? Motion passes unanimously.
>> sorry I just wanted to know that we have gotten quite a
number of complaints and concerns about safety of our --
of the roadway and the justice center complex, so we will be seeing what this action item m does, we will start that and the
road improvements, so you should be seeing in the next couple of
months more action to make it safer for pedestrians to cross, we have a lot of folks coming in and out of the justice center
complex. We will make sure to update everybody on what those closures look like, want to give
everybody a heads-up. >> fantastic thank you. Agenda item 34 presented by road and bridge.
>> move approval of 34 as presented. >> second? >> second.
>> motion has been made and seconded any discussion all in favor please raise your hand? Motion passes unanimously agenda
items 35, a through c presented by the sheriff's department. >> move approval of item 35a through c as presented new
mexican. >> motion has been made and second any discussion? All in favor please raise your
hand? Motion passes unanimously. Agenda item 36 a and b, presented by the tax assessor
collector. >> a move approval of 36 a and b
as presented. >> second. >> motion has been tabled and second all in favor please raise
your hand? Motion passes unanimously.
thank you. Let's go to agenda items -- is there a motion to approve agenda item 36 -- no, sorry, now I
present agenda item 37, 38 and 39.
approval of bills and other time disbursements.
>> along with the time sensitive disbursements made, court
approval $31,014,010.92, increasing disbursements of
5,456,388 and $0.39. >> moved to approve 37, 38 and
39. >> motion has been made and second any discussion all in favor please raise your hand?
motion passes unanimously. Agenda item 40a, please proceed
olga. >> conduct a workshop to receive an update from information technology on the completion of
the fy 2026 cybersecurity awareness training.
and robin will come up and brief you on that.
>> okay. >> hello again. We had a successfully completed cybersecurity awareness
training, we are 100% compliant. I know you guys are probably --
the whole county is probably tired of us of all the calls the
emails, but it is worth it, we are required. And we reported this -- reporting date deadline is
june 14th we reported on on june ninth, we received the
certification badge that we are in compliance with cybersecurity in ai training, and with sections government 2063 .103
and 2063 .104. If allowable I would send an email to have this inserted into the record as well, if not I
will bring it back next court to have the certification recorded.
>> any questions? >> I promise we will not contact
you guys about security training, maybe january we will reach out back out to you guys. [laughter]
thank you! >> wonderful, wonderful. Agenda item 40b, please proceed. >> conduct workshops to receive
a presentation from the fort bend regional partnership regarding the fort bend 2050 report from its author, dr.
jeronimo cortina from the university of houston.
>> all right. >> thank you very much
commissioner george it is a pleasure to be here. Let me get on it because I know my time is limited.
so this started as a project from the fort bend regional
partnership that started to commission this study for the
population collaborating from the university of houston. It is a document that outlines a success, a strategic blueprint
of what we think the county is going to face in the next couple
of years. First of all, the main idea of this report is for areas, these areas tackle issues that our
community face every single day. Mobility, economy, utility and
governance. The first of these issues in terms of mobility, we face in the weekdays in fort
bend county, extra tasks for mobility are not up to par for the growth that we have had in the past years.
it is a tax round up of $150 million per year, per week
of traffic. The economy obviously has been very strong in the county, very strong business community, very
strong governance in terms of county, and also city
municipalities and so forth. Utilities, really important cog
those are going to be the dates that we confront in the county,
if there is no power, if there is no water, if there is no
ready infrastructure to welcome industry, the industry will go somewhere else. And finally, issues regarding
governance that refers to how the county conducts business. Let me just go very quickly through these small slides.
first of all the county is going to have a 1 million influx of
residents in the next couple of years by 2050 we are projecting the county will grow by 2 million people.
all of these projections come from a methodology that uses a
wide number of data sources. Data from the united states
postal service, from experience, from the housing -- american
housing service, so on and so forth. This map shows where the pressures will be experimented
in the next couple of years. We have as you know very diverse
community. We have a very significant
higher education attainment. We highlighted the huge potential that human capital has in the county.
we also have a projected median age, we are a young county, by
any means, and that just opens the door for more opportunities.
affordability in terms of housing, there is a tipping point because of affordability is slipping out of control from
housing. This map just shows the census
blocks in the county where affordability has some
pressures. Around of 24% in the county have
affordability lower than [unclear] meaning 100% of affordability means the average or the median household income
would be able to purchase an average home in the county.
anything that is below 100% means that the money that
families in the county are making is not going to be enough
to purchase the home, the average home and obviously you
have the whole cash. The county also conforms and
confronts excuse me, vulnerability period this map
shows the interaction between. [inaudible]
and physical health. That is also an extremely
important situation that the county has to pay account, having a healthy population is good for business, having a
healthy population means that families are not going to spend
any money on health care. These vulnerabilities are
divided in the report that you will have access and we focus on
households with disability, residents, 65 plus, so on and so
forth. It is also extremely important because that could also potentially be translated into
an extra task. The systems of growth, when we talk about infrastructure and power, we know the issues that
we face with power, solar is upon us there is a peak demand
in terms of how we use power, it will increase. We know everything about our grid in texas, but we have to be
prepared. We have to be prepared with new technologies, thinking about public-private partnerships and
thinking about how we can be more efficient. In terms of water we know what has happened in other counties
in the state of texas, we don't want that to happen here. We need to start thinking outside of the box, there was
adjustments that were made in this report the one water
strategy, thinking about reuse, to think about conservation and
supply diversification. Finally, as I said, traffic
congestion projection, that is a headache everybody has when
driving around 5:30 p.m. That is something we have to think about, but it's not just that, it's thinking corridor
performance, increasing bus and park rides and thinking about
[unclear]. We are thinking ahead, not the next five years but the next 50. Finally common safety in terms
of public safety, we are doing quite well compared to other
counties, just improving the terms of how we can implement public safety in terms of the public policies that this body
approves. Finally in terms of project expenditure, the purchasing power in terms of the residents
that has been included over and over.
however a very small number of groups, around 20% of all
spending in the county. So we need to be cognizant of that. The more people we have that can
spend money the better for the economy of the county. And finally, the point that I really want to highlight here,
while doing these reports can I call myself and my team, we were
thinking that the county is in a very good position to take
advantage in business and create opportunities. There is a great opportunity to take the reins in terms of how
we think and making the right policy suggestions, and be the
leaders in the state of texas. So we do have to do a couple of
things that include the report. First, we have to have a shared
operating system period the right hand needs to know what the left hand is doing, as well as health and human services
needs to know. That means revamping the way and how we think the county conducts government.
we need to be ready for growth. We need to have drainage, water,
emergency service, et cetera et cetera, going before growth.
when growth comes this all has to be here for the next ten
years. Again we have to organize operations. We have to get permitting,
realtime tracking so anybody that wants to do business with the county, know exactly where the issue is.
know exactly how long the permit will take.
the means that every. [inaudible]
have to be on the same boat. We're not suggesting the cities are going to adopt how the county conducts business but at
least everybody needs to be on the same page, everybody needs to be sharing data, all the data can function in such a way that
the highway is clean and empty of debris so everybody can make
the same description. Institutional capacity is extremely important to retain and recruit skilled staff in the
county, high capacity government requires high capacity individuals and high recru recruitment, very competitive
strategy not only in terms of overhead or retaining people with the county. And finally, we cannot forget
agriculture agriculture is extremely important, it helps the ecological footprint it helps a lot.
but also it may change the diversification of our economy
and also planned storages. I will stop right there.
I will be more than happy to answer any questions that this court has. >> first of all thank you for
coming, I wanted to recognize you for doing this study, I
recognize the chairman who is right here, thank you for
coming. Our county will embark on a five year strategic plan. I thank you for a lot of good
data. Our plan will be very comprehensive by the time we consider this all the way to
organization. Your data will provide something for us to build on thank you so much for this study.
>> question. I'm sure that you are aware in excess of 75% of fort bend county property tax
revenue, a great majority of our revenue that we operate the county on, comes from residential properties.
that is my opinion and the opinion of a lot of people, this
structure is not a viable long term. One of the things fort bend county has tried to do is
try to create legislation that allows the county to create
districts which we will be able to prepare and build sites ahead
of time, so to speak, legislation we are seeking would
be essentially a local build that would only apply to fort
bend county. Do you see this as an advantage
of fort bend county to exploit to hopefully attract some industry here that we definitely need for good paying jobs and
the broader tax base to help us with providing services to our
residents? >> absolutely, I think that it is a priority of the county. When we think about [unclear]
it's also having the site ready, meeting with, transportation, so
on and so forth. But is having the human capital,
residents ready to participate in the economic activity.
that means that health and human services, that means health services have to be ready for that population, that means that
schools have to be ready for that population, that means that
my institution and building institutions of higher education in the county need to be ready. So when you look at everything
t,it has to be holistic. Those industries that this
county wants to attract know exactly what they are expecting. Know exactly what is going to be the permitting process, know
exactly where they can get human capital. Industry comes for three reasons in my humble opinion, the first
one is do we have the right things? Do we have power, yes, will it be reliable?
yes. Do we have water? Yes. Is it reliable or not? Do we have transportation? Can we move our product or the
services that we provide from point a to point b in an efficient way? And more importantly do we have
the human capital. And for that human capital is
holistic, do I have enough child so I can send my kids there or
not so I can go and work or whatnot. Do I have health services that are affordable, do I have
everything so when you have that mix, I'm very sure that our
industry will come because industry likes to have healthy employees so they don't call in sick and stuff like that.
I truly think that thinking outside of the box in terms of
these policies will be very beneficial for the county in attracting industry as you suggest.
>> thank you. >> questions? >> I want to say thanks again to the fort bend business
partnership for putting this together, and the fort bend regional partnership for your efforts in helping to convene
all of these stakeholders. I know this has been a very long
painstaking process for you all, and I think you put together a very thorough report for us to be able to use as a basis for
all of the work that has to happen here. I am in particularly thrilled about the recognition on the
need to innovate the space of transportation. I will always say we won't be able to pave our way out of
congestion, that if we are going to truly be able to be -- we
have to think of other modes of transportation. One it is an equity issue, not everybody can afford to have a
car to get around. If you don't have a car in fort bend county good luck at driving.
but also, if you look at all the other major regional
powerhouses, transportation is a critical part of infrastructure. We do have to think seriously about what that looks like and
what we have been working on, transit.
interested to see real, the prevailing thought of that would be unfeasible for us cost wise. I would love to see what that
could possibly look like in the future. But the biggest point, where do we go from here in getting
alignment with all of our regional stakeholders so we do
have a solid plan to move forward?
>> commissioner mccoy, we have to think about transportation. When you look at regional development in this region,
everything is moving west. It is as, then as austin county.
so when we start thinking about for example transportation, when we start thinking about rail, it's not only in the county, it
will move that way. So the issue is, is it going to
be us or is it going to be another county? Is it going to be a county that takes the initiative and becomes
the next node of growth? What do we have to become in this county is a node that connects to the coast.
that also connects to the other parts of the city. We have some of that infrastructure ready, we have
that part. So for all of those things to have -- we have to be working together in terms of these ideas
but also bringing our regional partners and also bringing the
fort bend regional partnerships in terms of what the community
wants, incorporating the community voices.
two heads is better than one head.
having that I think is a great opportunity for the county, and I get extremely excited when I think about these things because
the opportunity -- these reports at the beginning -- is to have a
quality of life. It's not just about bringing
industry, but how do we bring in industry that will increase quality of life and generate profit for the capital but also
increase quality of life for our fort bend residents including myself because I'm a resident of the county.
>> but other parts, where do we go from here? >> I mean, that's -- that's a discussion we are still having
with the regional partners. We already started I would say
documenting in terms of how we can do this, the implementation part is the hard part. The implementation part means
bringing together not only this body but bringing together
[unclear] so on and so forth. I don't know!
[laughter] thank you very much for your attention. It has been an honor.
>> thank you very much for letting us present today we really appreciate it. Our plan is to put together
working groups, public and private sector working groups to get going on each of these areas and we welcome your
collaboration. Thank you. >> all right wonderful. Thank you so much for coming.
now let's move to agenda item 41, olga please proceed.
>> 41, meeting in closed session to deliberate the following matters as authorized by the texas government code, a,
551.071 consultation with attorney. Commissioner tenmac agenda item 41 a and two both have been
pulled, regulations for oriented businesses in unincorporated
area of fort bend county. For, homeland security and
emergency management, number 5, dvl versus fort bend county
texas. Six, cause number 26-ccv-079254:
, seven, cause number 26-ccv-078930, number 8, cause
number 26-ccv-079159. >> thank you olga, fort
bend county meeting is in recess for closed session session we
will turn our attention to the district board of directors meeting. Now it is 2:19 and I call to
order this meeting of the fort bend county board of directors.
today is thursday june 11th, 2026.
agenda item number 2, consider approval of the minutes as
presented. >> move to approval of the minutes. >> second. >> motion has been made and second any discussion all in
favor please raise your hand? Motion passes unanimously agenda
item number 3. >> move to approve.
>> second. >> motion has been made and second any discussion all in favor please raise your hand?
motion passes unanimously. I will now go to item number 4.
>> move to approve. >> second. >> motion has been made and second any discussion?
all in favor please raise your hand if you make a motion passes unanimously. Do I have a motion to adjourn?
at this time the fort bend county board of directors
meeting seeks adjournment we now turn our attention to the joint
board of directors meeting, number 2, 4 and 5.
I call to order this joint board of directors meeting of fort bend county assistant district number 2, 4 and 5.
it is now 2:20 p.m. Today is thursday june 11th
2026. Item number 2, consider approval of the minutes of the meetings held as presented.
>> move to approve. >> second. >> motion has been made and second any discussion all in
favor please raise your hand? Motion passes unanimously now I
present the agenda item number 3. >> move to approve item number 3 as presented.
>> second. >> motion has been made and second any discussion? All in favor please raise your
hand? Motion passes unanimously. Agenda item number 4. >> move to approve item number 4
as presented. >> second. >> motion has been made and second any discussion?
all in favor please raise your hand? Motion passes unanimously. Agenda item number 5.
>> approve item number 5. >> second. >> motion has been made and second any discussion?
>> I do. >> yes please. >> how does this benefit five? >> while this individual is an
urban planner, and essentially providing services to the fresno
community, of about 20,000 people that will forever be
unincorporated. It will never be annexed into
houston. It has every problem imaginable.
national counties. He is one of my staff paid by the county assistance district. So please learn to understand
how counties function. There are great platforms --
>> is the compensation out of [unclear]
>> yes. >> any further discussion? All in favor please raise your hand?
motion passes unanimously. Do I have a motion to adjourn? >> move approval to adjourn. >> at this point the joint board
of director meeting of fort bend county assistant district 24 and five is adjourned. Commissioner general session
meeting remain in recess. Thank you we are going into
closed session. I have
we are back in session at 3:49 p.m. Let's go back to agenda item 29 c and 29 b there will be no
action for cn d. Now back to the second section
items one and two. Item number three number four,
homeland security and purchasin management. No action great. >> it's main.
>> I moved to approve and accep the full and final settlement
and mutual release agreement an the amount of $134,664.
consisting of the release of 35,664 and 86 over $100 in
retained niche and an additiona $99,000 to be paid for dbl
enterprises inconsistent for settlement relating to project
number two, 0232138 pavement rehab.
to close the project as discussed in closed session in
recommended by the county attorney in to approve such terms and provisions for the full and final settlement of al
claims asserted by dbl enterprises arising from or
relating to project number 203 to one pavement rehab and that
the county engineer be authorized to pay all amounts set forth in this motion from the funds allocated pavement
rehab. >> second. To get motion has been made and a second. All in favor, please raise your hand.
motion passes unanimously. Item number six for it. >> I move that in the cause action referenced in agenda ite
428626 test ccb-079 to four, norbert in deferred bowser road
project number 2306 parcel r 38 239 underscored 27.
precinct one, smith lassen county attorney, be authorized
to incur litigation expenses fo any in all costs of pretrial,
trial, appeal, and incidental costs including potential the
citation by publication fees an other expenses in an amount not
to exceed $15,000 and that mobility bonds as designated as
the funding source. >> second. >> emotion has been made in the second.
any discussion? All in favor, raise frazier him.
the motion passes unanimously. >> a move a cause of action referenced in the agenda item 4 to a dash seven 26 test test
008937 the state of texas versu john bv2025-00307, at all, 521
south project number 17111 parcel number 19, precinct two
and the county attorney be authorized to incur litigation
expenses for any in all cost of pretrial, trial appeal and
incidental costs associated including potential citation by
publication fees, and other expenses did in the amount not to exceed $25,000. In the mobility bonds be
designated as the funding sourc for it. >> second. >> emotion has been made and th
second. Any discussion? All in favor, please raise your hand.
item passes unanimously. Item number eight.
>> niche unum item 428826 dash ccb-79154 fort bend county,
texas versus carol bentley belzer road project, number 20,
306 parcel r 38, underscore precinct one, smith lawson,
county attorney, be authorized to accept on behalf of the
county, the conditional settlement agreement negotiated between counsel dated may 26 of 2026 to resolve and settle the
suit and fund and close the acquisition for the total sum o
$145,000 and on the basis of th other terms and conditions set
out in the conditional settlement agreement.
taking such other actions and connections with thereof deemed
to be prudent or necessary in accordance with that close
session. And that mobility bonds be designated as the funding source .
to keep the motion passes unanimously to a have a motion
to adjourn this meeting.