[0:27] May I please rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, into the world, or which is the one nation, under God in the visible liberty and justice for all.

[0:47] What's the date?

[0:51] What's the date?

[0:51] One, two, three.

[0:52] One, two, three.

[0:53] Everybody could be states.

[0:55] Any other groups?

[0:56] That's what we hit here?

[0:57] We could take a moment of sign as run out for.

[1:00] Remember, everybody lost a lives of.

[1:03] in the Twin Coverson on the.

[1:05] on the.

[1:05] In the.

[1:25] In the agenda number two public testimony.

[1:29] Is there anybody?

[1:30] None of the agenda.

[1:31] May appear before the court of the time.

[1:36] Not be in any will proceed to line night on number three.

[1:41] Previous minutes.

[1:44] I'll show you a full white of what's presented.

[1:46] Second.

[1:49] There's a motion and a second to approve the minutes from previous meeting.

[1:55] Only favor in the cake by saying aye.

[1:57] Aye.

[1:57] All the posts saying sign.

[2:00] Motion passes.

[2:01] 9

[2:08] .9 or number 4.

[2:12] agenda.

[2:13] agenda.

[2:14] consent agenda item will be loaded upon in one vote and will not be discussed separately

[2:20] unless requested by county judge commissioners or citizen.

[2:28] Judge commissioners, I have reviewed the budget amendments in there allowable budget amendments with

[2:33] y'all separable.

[2:35] Motion to approve item for upon once.

[2:36] Resin it.

[2:37] Second.

[2:37] It's a motion on the second volume favor in the K-B-I-C-N-I, all opposed, same sign, motion passes,

[2:48] right item number five, presentation,

[2:52] right item five, point one, presentation by Haliflight,

[2:56] Travis Patterson, on the update of about Haliflight.

[3:05] Good morning, everyone.

[3:06] I'm Travis Patterson on the CEO of Haliflight.

[3:08] I have Wendy Greer, most of you probably know, here with me today, really I just wanted

[3:14] to come by and thank you for your time and support from Jim Wells County.

[3:18] We really do appreciate it.

[3:20] We year to date, here in Alice, we've flown more than 300 patients out of this facility

[3:24] here with our aircraft that's right here in Alice, so next year is our 40th anniversary.

[3:29] We have a new aircraft coming and we're opening a new base in South Texas, so again I just

[3:34] wanted to take a few minutes to say thank you for your time, thank you for your support

[3:37] to Hale Flight.

[3:38] You just like, you know, we founded in a file furious.

[3:41] We've been here for almost 40 years and we're really happy to support Jamal's County.

[3:46] Okay. There's anything I questions. I can answer a please.

[3:48] Just let me know, but we're happy to be here and thank you for your support.

[3:53] Thank you for the update.

[3:54] Appreciate your service.

[3:55] Thank you. I appreciate it.

[4:00] My name number six, my name number six point one.

[4:03] discuss, consider and take action on a presentation by

[4:07] Rielle, in recognition of recommendations of

[4:10] September as Connelection, Ma.

[4:20] Good morning.

[4:22] Good morning.

[4:23] Good evening.

[4:25] Yes, hi.

[4:26] Good morning.

[4:27] My name is Pam Hernandez.

[4:28] I'm with Rielle.

[4:30] I want to thank you all for having us have with me.

[5:00] As the Vanna Molina, she is our food pantry manager and our transportation director,

[5:05] Muthin, ordinalas Mata, we're all here. Thank you for taking the time and having us here.

[5:11] We want to thank you for putting this proclamation together as Jim Wells County recognizes

[5:17] hunger, action month. Santero, that went from hecho extends its sincere appreciation to Jim Wells County

[5:25] commissioners and court for its continued support, partnership and commitment to the residents

[5:31] we collectively serve. Together we are bringing nutritious food closer to the people who

[5:37] needed and strengthening food security throughout Jim Wells County and rural South

[5:42] Texas. We're happy to announce that we have been doing this for three years already. It seems

[5:48] like we just started right and so we have really been breaking barriers and the numbers proved

[5:56] that next I'm going to have Savannah Molina go ahead and share that amazing information

[6:01] with you.

[6:02] Thank you.

[6:03] Thank you.

[6:04] Good morning.

[6:05] Thank you for this opportunity.

[6:08] We have done so much together and it's been amazing.

[6:12] we have served for the past 18 months. We've served about 51, 51,000 individuals in our area.

[6:20] And the impact of food insecurity is so people need it so much nowadays.

[6:27] You help this grow

[6:28] from one place, now we have four places, and it's amazing. Yesterday we were in Orange Grove,

[6:34] we served 87 households. We had a lady come up walking with her baby in one arm asking for food

[6:41] and giving her that bag of food just frightened her life, you know, she was so happy grateful.

[6:46] She even asked for an extra, we gave extra because she didn't know where she doesn't

[6:50] be next week as well. So with the all's help getting back to the community has been amazing,

[6:56] the blessings you all give is great. You know, those families really need it and they are very

[7:01] grateful for all this. We're partying up with farmers to get farms to table now.

[7:06] with most Jerry Farm we start getting milk so now families could get fresh milk so

[7:13] getting with farmers are also helping our community stay local so thank you all

[7:18] so much for everything you all do for us thank you seven you want to read the

[7:23] press the information or do you have it I don't have a connection

[7:46] Thank you.

[7:47] Thank you.

[7:49] So this is a Proclamation National Hunger Action Month for September 2026, whereas September

[7:57] is recognized as Hunger Action Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness of hunger and

[8:03] food insecurity and encouraging communities to take action to ensure that individuals and

[8:08] families have access to nutritious food and essential resources, and whereas food and security

[8:15] can affect individuals of all ages and circumstances, including children, older adults,

[8:21] working families, individuals with disabilities, and others experiencing financial hardship

[8:26] or unexpected challenges, and whereas access to nutritious food is essential to the health,

[8:34] well-being, dignity, and stability of individuals and families and contributes to stronger healthcare

[8:42] communities throughout Jim Wells County, and whereas the dressing hunger requires the

[8:48] continued cooperation of local governments, non-profit organizations, businesses, volunteers,

[8:56] community partners, and residents working together to identify needs and connect individuals and

[9:02] families with available resources and whereas real real food pantries through its food

[9:09] pantry locations serving Jim most county works to help individuals and families

[9:14] experiencing food insecurity by providing access to food hygiene items and other

[9:21] essential resources while connecting residents with additional community support

[9:25] and whereas hunger action month provides an opportunity to recognize the dedicated

[9:30] staff volunteers, donors, organizations and community partners who contribute their time, resources,

[9:39] and compassion towards reducing hunger and strengthening the well-being of Jim Wells County

[9:45] residents. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed that the Jim Wells County Commissioners court

[9:52] hereby recognizes September 2026 as hunger action month in Jim Wells County, Texas and encourages

[10:00] Or local hunger relief efforts volunteer when possible and work together towards a community where

[10:08] everyone has access to the food and resources it needs to thrive. Thank you.

[10:15] Thank you so much for your presentation.

[10:22] I'm thinking I ask your questions.

[10:24] Can you give us an update on your new facility?

[10:29] Can you give me an update on your new facility?

[10:33] Absolutely.

[10:34] Before I move on to the facility,

[10:36] let me just make one comment on the student security.

[10:40] The numbers yesterday from Orange Grove 87 households were served.

[10:44] 75 of those households were new households.

[10:48] They had never been registered in our system.

[10:51] That tells us that, no matter how often we have food

[10:55] pantry deliveries, food pantries here in Alice,

[10:59] not everyone who needs it is being able to travel

[11:01] to these locations.

[11:03] So our new approach, sir, is also going into community.

[11:06] So this is an indication of how much the need is

[11:09] and how it continues.

[11:10] That's about 83% of all of those served yesterday.

[11:14] We're completely new families being served in need.

[11:18] That is just a figure that is astounding.

[11:23] The food insecurity is great.

[11:24] But let me move to your question, sir.

[11:26] Our facility, as you know, on the 22nd,

[11:28] we're having our walkthrough on our maintenance facility.

[11:32] The northern part of our campus is advancing much faster.

[11:35] That's the maintenance facility,

[11:37] the washman, the fuel station.

[11:38] we're extending it to local communities,

[11:42] local elected officials to come and see

[11:44] this regional facility and how better serve them.

[11:46] We are about halfway through the entire project

[11:49] and we're hoping completion towards October of 2027.

[11:54] But if you, once you go by there,

[11:56] you will not recognize what's going on.

[11:57] The facility is amazing.

[11:59] Good, you see how it is growing by leave some bounds

[12:04] and everything we're doing to bring it to its completion.

[12:08] It's getting closer and closer every day. We were just awarded an additional $3 million from the Texas Transportation Commission. We're waiting to confirm which if any of the commissioners will be able to join us

[12:19] But I hope you'll be able to join us. I know we've received some confirmations. Have we received your confirmation yet, sir?

[12:26] About we hope we you'll be able to be there on the 22nd with us

[12:29] Any third I've been so busy. There you go. It's a 23rd

[12:34] Great anything else

[12:36] That's it. No again appreciate you guys very much. I just want to say a few things about reality

[12:42] I have attended a numerous events in San Diego, Alice, and I'm very impressed and astounded that

[12:50] Look on people's faces when they attend a sentence for food resources which a health medical or

[12:57] Mental health and you know, you have all these people come together to offer the services to people and some are very

[13:04] free, you qualify, you get free medical, and I think the community really needs all that at

[13:11] this time. You know, things are not what they used to be, and we understand that, but there

[13:18] is a lot of need for help out there. Thank you very much. Absolutely. Thank you for those words.

[13:25] I know that transportation is excellent.

[13:29] Sir, you're right. I head of my agenda, because I was

[13:31] Just about to roll in that aspect of how we integrate

[13:36] mental health services, food pantry and transportation

[13:40] for residents in our communities

[13:42] that are not able to come to food pantry.

[13:45] They can contact us and we would be able to provide

[13:47] free transportation, my apologies.

[13:51] No cost transportation to get to the food pantries

[13:54] and we're looking at next year doing a food pantry

[13:59] delivery based on eligibility and criteria to be met.

[14:03] But we thank you also for how transportation

[14:06] plays a key role.

[14:07] OK, sure appreciate your presentation.

[14:10] Thank you.

[14:10] The photo with you all.

[14:12] Yes.

[14:25] I think I was just here when you see it.

[14:28] Yeah.

[14:29] I

[14:50] was just here when you see it.

[14:50] Thank you.

[14:51] Thank you so much.

[14:52] Thank you.

[14:54] Thank you.

[15:00] Thank you.

[15:03] Thank you, I know.

[15:04] Thank you.

[15:05] Thank you.

[15:08] Thank you.

[15:09] Thank you.

[15:18] Motion to approve item number 6.1.

[15:21] Second, motion.

[15:23] There's a motion in a second, only a favor to keep us in, aye.

[15:26] I'm the first, same sign.

[15:27] Motion passes.

[15:33] Item number seven, rest resolution.

[15:37] 7.1.

[15:39] Discuss consider take action on a proposal.

[15:44] Resolution presented by a representative of the

[15:48] From Community Action Corporation of South Texas,

[15:51] Australia I think.

[15:53] Accounting.

[15:54] program 227, Texas Department of Agricultural, Texas feeding Texas food delivery food program,

[16:06] a grant program.

[16:12] Morning.

[16:12] How are you?

[16:14] Good.

[16:17] Good.

[16:19] Good.

[16:19] We have a quick little update about our organization and our services that we've provided.

[16:26] Community action is a nonprofit organization.

[16:29] We have live service divisions within Jim Wells County.

[16:32] We provide our Head Start Services, our early childhood intervention services.

[16:36] We have a health center here.

[16:39] We provide energy assistance and we have community services.

[16:43] And in our community services, before I talk about our meals and wheels program, we did

[16:48] receive funding for our veterans. So we are now providing rental mortgage and utility assistance

[16:55] for our veterans here in Jim Wells County. So if you all know of anybody who would be interested,

[17:01] I'm going to leave these here for you. Spread the word. The spots are limited. I think we only have

[17:08] 30 spots. But in Jim Wells County, we already have six bets taking care of.

[17:16] So okay. So in our

[17:19] meals and wheels program in our congregate services and our home delivered meal services. We've provided

[17:27] over 500 clients with services. We've provided over 95,000 meals to these clients. 13,000 of them

[17:40] were for our congregate meal services and over 81,000 were for our home delivered meal programs. And

[17:48] that's for Jim Wells County alone.

[17:51] So that's a little update for from our meals and wheels program.

[17:55] And that was from October to July.

[17:58] So we still have August and September before the years up.

[18:03] So the reason why I'm here is actually

[18:05] to continue our collaboration with the Texas Feeding

[18:10] Texas program.

[18:11] It's a grant program with the Department of Agriculture,

[18:15] community action collaborates with Jamil's County and with that we provide additional meals home delivered meal services for our constituents.

[18:27] So,

[18:31] so much.

[18:33] Yeah.

[18:34] Make a motion to approve item sample when presented.

[18:36] Second.

[18:39] Yeah.

[18:39] There's a motion and a second only favor in the case.

[18:43] You're saying aye.

[18:44] All the posts saying,

[18:45] you have the resolution.

[18:47] Sir, can you read it?

[18:52] Usually it's legit.

[18:54] Quick question.

[18:58] Okay, a resolution of the county of Jim Wells County Texas certifies

[19:03] that the county has awarded a monetary grant to a community action corporation

[19:08] of South Texas and organization that provides home-delivered meals to homebound persons

[19:13] in the county who are elderly or have a disability and certify that the county has approved the

[19:20] organization's accounting system or fiscal agent. Whereas the organization intends to

[19:26] apply for grant funds from the department of agriculture to supplement and extend existing

[19:35] services for homebound persons in the county who are elderly and are disabled pursuant

[19:41] the Home Delivered meal program. Whereas the programs rules require an applicant organization

[19:51] to receive a cash grant from the county in which the Home Delivered meals services are provided

[19:57] as a condition of eligible.

[20:00] To receive the program grant funds. Be it resolved by the county section 1, the county, county, hereby

[20:10] certifies that it has awarded a cash grant to the organization in the amount of $28,000 or the

[20:17] purpose of supporting home-delivered meal services and satisfying the local grant requirement

[20:24] necessary for the organization's eligibility to apply or funding under the 2027 home delivered

[20:32] meal grant program. The grant shall be paid and utilized during the period beginning in

[20:38] 1 January 2027 to 31 of December 2027. The county hereby certifies that the organization provides

[20:46] home delivered meals to homebound persons in the county who are elderly and or have a disability.

[20:55] The county hereby certifies that it has approved the organization's accounting system

[21:00] or fiscal agent which meets applicable financial management systems required to set forth

[21:08] in the Texas Grant Management Standards

[21:13] by the Texas Comtroller of Public Accounts.

[21:19] And then, that's where it is.

[21:22] Okay, there was a motion in the past.

[21:26] You will get you 28,000.

[21:28] Oh, wonderful.

[21:29] Anyway, you want to take your photo.

[21:32] Oh, we don't need a photo.

[21:34] Yeah, we need to take one.

[21:36] Oh, we do? Okay.

[21:39] Well, there were about 20,000.

[21:44] Come on. Come on, thank you.

[21:46] Merry.

[21:48] Merry.

[21:49] Yeah, thank you very much.

[21:50] Uh, but then you know what to do?

[21:51] You don't have to join me, do you want to join me?

[21:54] I'm ready.

[21:56] Come on. Come on.

[21:58] Come on. Come on. Come on.

[21:58] Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.

[22:02] Ready, one, two,

[22:07] one.

[22:08] Thank you.

[22:10] Now you're on record that weren't yours here.

[22:21] I night am eight.

[22:23] I think the department.

[22:25] Okay.

[22:26] I night am eight point one.

[22:27] Discuss the center take action to upgrade the new.

[22:32] VTXI fiber internet service.

[22:35] Or eight county facilities in Orange Grove.

[22:38] And pretty much.

[23:04] Good morning, commissioners.

[23:06] My name is Robert Silva from GMO County ID department.

[23:10] I'm presenting you the proposal to upgrade the fiber internet

[23:17] for Israeli city, because what's going on right now?

[23:24] My now a car contract.

[23:26] We have the bundles, which is the phone and internet.

[23:29] Now that we have switched to vetted network,

[23:32] So we have to renew the contract just for the internet only.

[23:38] They have offers, the speed, you look at the next page.

[23:45] You see the capares, while we have a curly,

[23:48] with a new proposed quilt, contract three years.

[23:55] And mine now, some of the office had a low internet speed,

[23:59] If you look at each location, some have 50 Macs in the SP, the lowest one is in RSGRAW,

[24:12] which was a 25 Mac.

[24:14] We need to definitely upgrade it because our FOX IP phone require a high speed internet for clarity

[24:21] and a stable ability.

[24:23] Though I'm requesting the Commissary Court permission to renew the three-year contract.

[24:30] So everybody, they have the same urnage speed.

[24:35] I have added one more location, which is a pretty far

[24:39] Jesuit of the piece of office in Pima.

[24:43] I could not add pretty six-bit ball and pretty three is

[24:48] idea because they don't offer fiber in any of the area.

[24:52] So I'm looking through the way to get the fiber and the time.

[24:56] But right now, it's just for the in location.

[25:00] Mr. President, please.

[25:01] Robert DeDé, elderly senators, the law for building?

[25:04] You sure?

[25:05] The elderly senator is the law for building, right?

[25:10] The elderly senator, and pre-mont, it's the law for building, right?

[25:13] Yeah, I had to include the senior senator, and I have to provide the senior senator.

[25:19] And for the library, what's in the position of the senate?

[25:23] I also recluse yours, PG4, PG3, and the other office.

[25:29] I mentioned, listen on there.

[25:32] This is really important.

[25:33] We've got to have it upgraded

[25:35] because we've got our car contract.

[25:37] We're still paid for the vote and internet.

[25:40] And we're going to do way with phone,

[25:41] it's the U.T. that gets internet on the side.

[25:45] So, another request is,

[25:47] is it's okay,

[25:49] we could pay out of the non-departmental telephone.

[25:55] I had thought to me on the body

[25:59] We could do that, however, each office will have to pay out of their budget and put it

[26:05] into the not departmental.

[26:07] That's a question you could do that.

[26:08] That way, they will receive one bill for all of it and then they could give you the bill

[26:17] each office and they have to be versed and they go to the not department.

[26:23] Yeah, I mean we can figure out those logistics.

[26:27] It's a fairgrounds cover to know this, it's a fairgrounds cover, no, because it'll have

[26:33] fiber in the area,

[26:37] it's only in the area that has fiber, it's readable.

[26:40] I know, peace in one, I try to get them one, so we're working on that, we're working on that.

[26:47] The mission is, I have a question for Mr. Luzano.

[26:49] Matt, when you go to Orange Grove, where do you, what building do you use?

[26:53] No, part of the

[26:58] site, it's the customers, the one right in front of the commissioners, the building is where the ambulance services.

[27:08] So it's two separate buildings?

[27:10] It's two separate buildings.

[27:12] So, okay, there's no way we could merge those.

[27:15] It's on depot one and four.

[27:18] Well, I see I see two five and seven are all.

[27:24] and you sure will not duplicating stuff.

[27:27] How many buildings do we have in Orange Grove?

[27:30] Just a separate, separate location.

[27:34] You can use the facility other oh, internet.

[27:38] OK, so.

[27:39] Like, for it's I know, if you look at an orange Grove,

[27:42] one building right in the next to each other,

[27:45] or the other between not ours,

[27:48] so we have to be separate.

[27:49] They're all just said that.

[27:50] That's two.

[27:50] Who are the third one?

[27:52] Where is the third one in Orange Grove?

[27:55] Third one is far other. It's a road of bridge.

[27:58] Oh, okay, okay. I have no clue.

[28:01] I need to check with Commissioner René.

[28:03] Yeah, that's okay. That's on 624, but I'll farther west.

[28:13] And there's no way we could do those two buildings.

[28:16] You have to...

[28:17] Well, that's a thing because they all, they all, they all power sort.

[28:21] It's that big power.

[28:22] And I don't know how to get that.

[28:28] What is this ticket fake moment?

[28:30] Because we're going to end up paying for two different networks in it. They're right next to each other.

[28:35] I think it's one building, but they just haven't come out.

[28:38] So we're going this way to go to this.

[28:41] There's a way to go to the JPE's office.

[28:44] Yeah.

[28:44] But I think it's one building.

[28:45] It just blocked off the section.

[28:48] It's two different departments.

[28:49] Yeah.

[28:50] It just seems like a technicality to me.

[28:52] because they're probably close enough that you could even set up

[28:55] up some kind of Wi-Fi system.

[28:57] I don't know if I can split it.

[28:59] Should we do it like Conquid?

[29:01] I don't know.

[29:02] Can we do that?

[29:02] You can try that.

[29:06] Well, but you need it.

[29:08] Yeah, my point is, yeah, we could do one.

[29:13] Pay for one service instead of two, but whatever.

[29:21] Yeah, right, right, that's the plan.

[29:24] I'm a winner to take a fit.

[29:27] Where will it start?

[29:30] Once this one now is, we're going to prove that we knew the contract.

[29:35] We did say how to start right now.

[29:37] Like you mentioned about the two building.

[29:40] We decided to go with one.

[29:41] We could renew the, quote, and I'll come back next to Mr.

[29:45] For a minute.

[29:47] But it's up to you guys.

[29:48] I would recommend that each building has their own internet

[29:51] because one part goes out was still ready.

[29:55] So like the Laughlin building, what you need one at the...

[30:00] The hall and the one over here at the elderly. Well, I had one cover. We could do that, but I would recommend, they each have their own internet, you know, because it's a public, because it's a between it's a private property, and we can't fill our across.

[30:16] Yeah, because last year when you're going to head on a presentation and we have service

[30:19] away in the hall area, that's where you can put on the ground, can't do it, you can do that.

[30:27] My question about that is, can we do it cross the private property or around like the

[30:33] paved road? Is it real? The next is a paved? No, no, talking about Prima.

[30:44] Oh,

[30:44] the old church building. Yeah, because they're senior and senior, we will fly or

[30:50] another office. You decided to expand more service office. We can include that in the

[30:57] elections in some of that.

[31:25] We have a cheap peak included, but it's fine building.

[31:33] We said for me

[31:39] and it, we have the funding for it.

[31:43] You have the

[31:49] money for it.

[31:49] You want to surprise your situation?

[31:53] Yeah, I mean we are already paying for any service, so it's just...

[31:58] We're actually coming in at a less amount.

[32:02] OK.

[32:02] It's already quite good.

[32:05] Yeah.

[32:06] We're going to get more speed.

[32:09] OK.

[32:10] I make a motion to prove I don't have 8.1% presented.

[32:13] Second.

[32:14] There's a motion in the second.

[32:15] I'll leave favor in the game by saying aye.

[32:16] Aye.

[32:17] Motion passes.

[32:18] OK.

[32:19] Thank you, Robert.

[32:21] Thank you, Robert.

[32:23] Line 9, number 9.

[32:26] A-rolls and bills, I'm point one, discuss considerate actions on payrolls and bills

[32:33] submitted by the county auditor with the exception of 15, exception of 15, 15, 2, 3, and

[32:39] important.

[33:27] I'll make a motion to approve the bills, present it.

[33:33] Second.

[33:34] There's a motion in a second, only favoring the kick by saying aye.

[33:38] the posting sign, post-impasses.

[33:49] Uh, I get signed by George.

[33:59] Okay, uh, line nine to the last nine of this, uh,

[34:03] line nine number nine.

[34:06] Number 10, I don't know.

[34:10] That's a, what do you think?

[34:12] What do you think?

[34:13] George.

[34:14] I just like to remind the public that we're under a burn ban,

[34:18] do not burn, or you will face consequences, be determined by far-depirment.

[34:29] And we need to burn.

[34:33] That's around Jermos County Emergency Management.

[34:36] We do have prescribed burns.

[34:40] For agricultural, there are certain circumstances that have to be made.

[34:46] If you think that you qualify, they can call me directly 3, 6, 1, 2, 2, 2, 7, 4, 1, 2, we'll discuss it,

[34:54] and we'll get the proper paperwork filled out to protect their property and our county property. Thank you.

[35:00] Thank you, Lance. Thank you, Lance. Thank you, sir. One more reminder to the public, please do not illegally dump out in the county roads.

[35:09] We appreciate your cooperation.

[35:21] Motion to adjourn. Second.

[35:23] It's a motion to adjourn, only favoring the K-Person, aye. All right. We are adjourned. Thank you very much.

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