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morning, everyone. Welcome to Love Accounting. We call the order of Love Accounting Commissioner's Court. We are sitting in regular session today. It is Monday. It is September 22nd, in the year of our Lord 2025. It is 10 o'clock and a quorum is present. This time I would ask you all to please rise. Join Commissioner Kerry Shaw in our invocation followed by our pledges.

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Thank you for giving us the ability to do what we do.

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Father gives us the wisdom to make our choices and to encourage to make those choices even when they're hard.

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Father, we ask you to use the Charlie Kirk Memorial as a way to bring people together to heal this nation.

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Father, be with our men and women in uniform, no matter what, you know,

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formally where, bring them home safely,

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guard them and protect them and take care of their families while they're known.

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Father, be with the farmers, as well as a pro-charvest season,

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help them to have a good harvest this year.

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We thank you, Sanjay Spresson, and I would pray, amen.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

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And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, it is available with liberty and justice for all.

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On Earth, the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state of their God, one in a good asable.

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This time we will open up for public comments.

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Those wishing to speak were required to register your name prior to this meeting.

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Speakers may only address items that listed on the current agenda.

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Speakers limited to two minutes maximum.

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There are more than three speakers who wish to address the same item.

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The court reserves the right to limit speakers.

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The court cannot deliberate or act on any matters not listed on the agenda.

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We do have one who wishes to address the court Cassie Graham.

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It's Graham.

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Good morning Judge Fisher.

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Before you ask who's doing my job right now,

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I assure you that I have been up early working, and will work more once I put my kids to bed tonight.

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Because that's what I have to do every day to serve the citizens of this county.

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You say to me, working at Love Academy isn't just a job, it's a calling and it's an honor.

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And I like my colleagues and the wonderful people who work in this building and the other county buildings

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work here for a purpose. Not because we lack skills or education to get jobs elsewhere,

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But because every day, we wake up and we come to work and we fight to make this community a better place.

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Love it has a growing crime rate, has the highest rate of child abuse in the state.

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And you all know this, you've seen the statistics.

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The police department has grown, the sheriff's department needs to grow, and the DA's office can partly keep up with the demand of the growing crime.

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This isn't about coal raises, although every county employee deserves that, this is about cutting budgets in every single department when they are already operating at their lowest possible amount they can.

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In order to do my job to seek justice for the kids of this county, I work every day with other departments.

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with court admin with the district clerk with the county clerk with

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probation with juvenile with the Sheriff's Department with the

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maintenance department. The list goes on and on and I could stand

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up here every day and talk all day about the wonderful people who work

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in this county who I get to serve next to.

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The people that frankly after your comments during this

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budget cycle wonder why they even work here. You have created a

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toxic and hostile work environment. By your comments and your

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lucky that love it county employees are not walking out.

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Thank goodness that we have elections coming up because these comments that you have made

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will not be forgotten and they're not going to be swept under the rug either.

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What I want you to think about in this budget hearing today while you're deciding this

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is if not us, then who?

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When you underfund our departments, beat our morale and run us off, who's going to replace

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us. Who is going to stand in the gap for the kids in this community when they have to testify

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in front of their abusers on the third floor? Who's going to sit and look at the autopsy

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photos of broken babies? Who's going to be yelled at time and time again by family members

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of the deceased because the criminal justice system isn't fair?

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This is Graham. Your time is expired. Thank you.

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close public comment section moved item one on the agenda, which is to discuss, consider,

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and or take action to approve the minutes, and the regular Commissioner's Court meeting

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dated September 8th of 2025.

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The motion by Commissioner Wrackler, second by Commissioner Shaw, to approve the minutes as

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circulated, is there any changes to be made to the minutes?

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very none call for the question on favor. I, any opposed. I

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am too on the agendas to discuss

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consider and or take action regarding the auditor and financial matters under budget transfers

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and budget amendments. Ms Williams. I'm not lying on. I'm transfers in the amount of $12,200,

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$255 in budget amendments in the amount of $5 million, $221,000, $98, and as per approval.

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Second, I have a motion by Commissioner Shaw, second by Commissioner Rackler, to approve the budget transfers and budget amendments as presented by the auditors and any further discussion.

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This way, if I do have one question on

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a transfer to other employee health, there was

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a $750,000 transfer, and the note on that was additional funds for rising cost of medical

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claim.

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Do you have a short exposition other than we've got rising cost of medical claims and

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We've got new health insurance last year, and we did have the numbers at the time that the budget was adopted last year, so this is just a true.

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Recorders of a million.

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Okay.

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Thank you. Any other questions?

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Not. I do have a motion. I do have a second. Call for the question. All in favor? Aye. All there was a post? What can carries?

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I am free as to discuss, consider, and or take action to authorize payments of claims under general accounts.

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I present payment of claims in the amount of $5,500,800,000 and $19,000 and ask for your vote.

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I'll know that.

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Thank you.

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Motion by Commissioner Shaw, second by Commissioner Corley, to authorize payments of claims under General

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Accounts, is there any further discussion?

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You're a non-calf of the question, all in favor?

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All right.

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Are there any opposed?

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Motion carries.

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Item four five and six are connected. We'll take item four first is to discuss consider and or take action to rescind the fund balance commitment dated September 23rd 2024 and I'll make that motion after a second.

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By Judge Barrish a second by Commissioner Shaw and the fund balance commitment dated last year September 23rd 2024 and further discussion.

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Hearing none call for the question all in favour?

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Aye aye.

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Any opposed?

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Motion carries.

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Item five is to discuss, consider,

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and undertake action to approve

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Love Accounting's Fund Balance Policy.

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And I'll make that motion as for a second.

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Motion by Judge Parish is second by Commissioner Dolby

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to approve Love Accounting's Fund Balance Policy

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is ready for the discussion.

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Hearing none call for the question all in favour?

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Item 6 is to discuss consider and or take action.

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Unbalanced commitment.

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Effective today, September 22, 2025, and I will make that motion and ask for a second.

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Second.

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Motion by Judge Parrish, second by Commissioner Shaw,

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to approve the Fund Balance commitment.

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As circulated, effective today, September 22, 2025,

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is there any further discussion?

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Hearing none, call for the question all in favour?

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Aye. Are there any opposed motion carries?

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Item 7 through 11, or under the consent agenda, is there any item that a commissioner

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wishes to pull for individual consideration?

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I'd like to make a motion that we approve item 7 through 11 on consent agenda, and I'm

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a second.

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The motion by Commissioner Rackler, second by Commissioner Dalby, to approve consent agenda items 7 through 11.

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It's a brief discussion.

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Very none call for the question, all in favor?

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Are there any opposed motion carries?

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Item 12, 13 to 14, our billable work time sensitive.

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We'll have public hearing on that on the budget starting at 10.45.

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The meantime, let's move to item 15 on our agenda, which is a presentation.

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Texas A&M AgroLife Extension Service Quarterly Update.

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I just Robert Scott, who's the C.E.A. of agriculture, we're at law.

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There he is.

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Who's also with agriculture and Amber Bosnian, who's the urban youth development C.E.A.

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Glad you're going to have a beer.

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Appreciate y'all taking time for us.

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We do this every quarter.

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We have agents coming in and just kind of tell y'all what's going on

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in the extension office across the street.

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So this time frame we're talking about really June to September that time for me and in my positions for real busy with the youth

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If you act also that time with kids being out of school, it's real busy just kind of update. So Texas in Texas, you know what we validate all our lifestyle

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Love it is the number one county for validation in numbers of steers

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We're also the biggest county in swine validation, so there's a lot of people in where the 4-HF

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FAU related that exhibit, so a lot of times in there, just the 4-HF just not counting

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all the 10 different act chapters, just the 4-HF alone, they brought in over, I think

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it was $1.5 million in winnings from last year from the major stock show.

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So it's a big project for a lot of it.

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In keeping guidance, we also validate

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we'll do those in October.

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We're probably in the top eight counties in the state

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because we have so many kids that validate

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and if you all have been there,

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count of show, you see how big it is.

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It's like a mini fair, basically.

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Hey, grandma, we have more hogs

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in the forward stop, so it just gives you an idea

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how big it is.

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But also beyond that, we did a lot of amps

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for kids, we did stay round up, took a lot of kids, I think we had, was it 40 kids or 36 kids,

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so I'm like that, the qualifying out of district to what state and competed, with the

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sheet I passed out, it's just a brief summary of some of the highlights of that time period,

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you're doing the state fair, you're validating the state fair.

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Well, so we validate state fair in June, there's sheet votes and peaks, but for all the major shows

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without it steers, and because of the age of them,

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that last through next April, March,

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when we go to the last option.

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So we have to revalidate the layouts and goats

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and pigs for the other majors,

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because they'll age out by time they get to Dallas.

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So it's two different sets of validation.

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Just because to ping on the,

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which show they're going to go to.

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But a lot of the kids did real well in scholarships, they went to a college station.

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That's more in Rhonda's realm, but I remember how many thousands of dollars they won, but we had to remember.

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I want to say 50 cent a lot, probably.

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30, 40, 50, 50, 60 thousand dollars worth of just loving county kids at one scholarships.

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And a lot of that goes back to what they've done.

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you know, in the forest program, as they grew up, and now they participated in developing

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the ship and all that.

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Also, we had some district events that we try to get those, we kind of lobbied a little

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bit and try to get our district events held in love.

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It sees you for us, obviously, but we also use the most participation of anybody in that

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23 county areas.

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So, the kids have been real busy, real successful right now, they're out at the FUNs Fair, which

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goes on all week.

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They cattle are checking in the day. Oh, but we saw we checked in dairy and open cattle

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Yesterday, and then they're showing right now and then the juniors will be

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Saturday. They'll check in and maybe and so

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We got a lot of kids there. We have Ronda and some of the others are out at the petting zoo. It's out there.

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Showing number, I think it was last year, like, 18,000 people got through there.

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So we have a lot of displays there, just to expose the kids that don't ever get to see any agriculture, get to see different things like that.

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Also, we had, you know, in the outside of it,

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had some different programs for me and brand also.

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There were things like water wells, and we had vindoine,

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which was exposing people to growing vineyards and how to maintain them.

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And then if they wanted to jump off in that,

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would it actually cost to do that?

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And then all the way into the wine part of it.

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So I've done a lot of ag programs too.

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So it's been pretty busy from June to September.

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You have the ag conference room to the summer, too.

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Yes, we have the extension agents.

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State T.C. Group Play, which is our associate.

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That went really well.

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And what we're all doing ahead, what if like 180 agents

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that were registered for, and you came out and gave it

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well, come appreciate you doing that.

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But yeah, we like to give a lot of the, you know,

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conversation, direction to come this way. There was, there was

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guidance and said, well, that's seven hours up. I said, you know, it's the same distance

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from here to there. We'd like to hear them from the part of the state come up here

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and a lot of them, you know, it's also recruiting deal for our district to get

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agents to come see what we have up here. A lot of good people up here in good

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living environments. So, anyway, no, it's you have any questions, though?

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over to Amber? Well I was I was going to say our

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Lumpet County stock show and our sales planes first stock show when my grandkids were

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shown it was always considered a many major. Oh yeah, but I get to it's unreal and

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now the good thing about I mean unless you're in the stock show where you probably

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really understand this but when we get judges I mean we've got to hire judges a lot

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of times especially the county show at a state because it's such a big deal

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that's kind of a stepping stone if they do well.

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Here, they can easily go on and judge a major.

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And if they don't do well here,

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then you probably may have seen them again.

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You're so, it's a very prestigious deal

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when they get a phone call from our area to judge,

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because the quality of last talk is so good

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that it's part of the world.

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It just always has been that way.

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And the financial incentive there,

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for kids, I know one young lady

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that went all the way through law school,

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on scholarships from the HXR.

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And, you know, we just use, we always talk about stock,

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but in reality is the livestock,

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they're just like the vehicle we're using

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to teach the kids, life lessons.

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You know, yeah, we all don't do good in that,

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but when they get out, they're probably not gonna be showing,

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but everything they've learned,

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mainly maintaining those animals,

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public speaking, responsibility that all goes into,

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hopefully making them better, you know, systems.

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But we just use the livestock to do that, but just like any other sport, you know, you can use it for it to benefit them.

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So that's where our goal is.

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It's got to give you a moment to do a little commercial on your on the South Plains fair.

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What you have going up there.

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So the fair started Friday.

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And then we've already shown the market go show.

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The dairy show is today.

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The open beef and junior beef cattle, which is the breeding show is today also

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Tomorrow, let's see the swine was yesterday

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The the breeding sheep and goat show will be choose to wincy and come out for that

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And I think it when you come in the morning they don't charge you to come in so people want to go early

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They can they can just go through watch it. Yeah, I need lunch. It's a very lots of good lots of good places there

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And then later on in the week, we have the lamb show, the Camino Friday, and the steers Camino Thursday, and they'll most show on Saturday.

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And then Saturday's last day for the last part of the fair. Lots of good animals out there to look at, even if you just want to wander through the barn and just look at them.

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Or if you want to come to the shows and watch them come that morning and get them free and watch them.

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So, from what I've heard, the attendance has been up out there as compared to past year's,

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part of that studio of the weather, if you have good weather, they show up normally raised

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during the fair, at least one day, which I always welcome the rain, but kind of puts a damp

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on the attendance.

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So, it's kind of a, you know, testimony too, but that's been good out there if anybody

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wants to come out and watch it.

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Thank you.

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Morning.

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And so just kind of going on the family community health side of things this summer, we had a multi

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agent program called Cultivate Cook and Create at the South Plane Scrub Farm. We had about 50 participants there.

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It was a program. We brought in students from the YWCA and also from Parkway Guelibay Center.

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And then also the students that are in the leadership program there at the Grave form and so it's a nutrition program healthy living and gardening program that we've done I think this is this is our fourth summer to do it

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So we did that this summer. We had

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Also a lot of kids going around up and I helped with that on the urban youth side. I kind of focused on three

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Texas Community Futures Forum. So one of them was leadership. So I do a leadership program at the

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Grand Farm. I have 23 kids. We meet once a month. They meet weekly, but I meet with them once a month.

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And we kind of focus on growth mindset and kind of do things to kind of encourage leadership every day

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leadership in your life along kids think to be a leader you need to do something huge. And we kind of focus on how you can be a

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theater, in your everyday life. Anyone can be a leader. So we've worked on that this summer

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and we're continuing that this fall and I'm also doing it at Ackens Mill School with

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the group of girls starting in October. Another area focused on that was identified is youth

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literacy and so do a monthly story time at all of the city libraries and then also we have

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a program called Fred which stands for families reading together every day and so it's

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challenge to forward challenge and the challenges are you 20 minutes a night with your

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child. So we've done that with Aalu Astee in August and we kind of want to encourage if you

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notice a lot of younger children spend a lot of time on technology and app heads,

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et cetera, which are great. But it's just to kind of encourage like taking 20 minutes a day

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and sitting down and reading books together just to promote literacy and also just to promote

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emotional connection within your family and taking that time out. So we had, I have

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for a thousand books donated, so every student I'll look at a couple of the

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for free and then also I think they had a thousand and a thousand.

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I've heard something minutes reading on that program and then they also read over a thousand books. So we kind of keep track of it, make a challenge out of it. And then my third thing that I've kind of been working on this year is just ag awareness. And so last year we brought back ag in the bag and we did it in partnership with Texas Tech College of Agriculture. And we had 14 percenters come and we had about 400 kids come and they rotated through stations and just because Lubbock

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is an urban county or becoming more urban, especially compared to like

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Floyd County or Hell County or a lot of our other counties in the state,

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it's just a way to kind of get kids to see how the agriculture business,

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how it affects their daily life. So they learn all about the college of agriculture

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careers they could go into, but also just where their milk comes from, where their beef

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comes from, where their clothes come from, and we're doing that again October 29th.

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come with a look to have y'all at the writing here to some of this year so we're going to have

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two sessions this year so hopefully grow it but that will our size and I also go to different schools

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and do an ad in the bag there where I kind of do a path to play program for them um it's kind of

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good participation in that I go to three different school districts within the county and I kind of

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you know that there's corn in your medicine and in your clothes and you know kind of just a path to place.

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So this is kind of in the three areas that would be in the connoisseur.

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Thank you, thank you.

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You know, well, I think in the last four September, I do this ever September as you do.

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It's always been kind of sad, but this one, hey, our crops are looking very good, cotton crop.

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And that's our main force.

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I think the area is going to get cost of $4 million.

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That's what they're projecting.

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That might put a little,

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sort of,

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strain on our current infrastructure, right now.

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So many gans of consolidate.

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Maybe a late gin and season.

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That's right.

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We could get the price up.

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Classifications slow down, too.

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Mm-hmm. They just guess.

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He's better cotton than they claimed it was, I promise.

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Oh, you got to say the current research on all that, you're correct.

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Anyway, the Sorghum Crop.

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The late Sorghum Crop, I'm a little worried about, but if it frees this in December,

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like it did last year, we're going to be just fine.

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But if we get a freeze, hot of wind, not so good.

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but to already plant a corn, are you planting grains over them?

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I'm talking wreck your geals.

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We just need the process.

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I saw Grandland corn this year early.

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Yes.

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It looks like you're getting corn.

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I thought of my applied research projects.

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I saw that raining mid-May in three,

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the first week of June.

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I have nothing left.

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I mean, it all got held now.

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We had the cotton variety trial.

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over there on 1729 close to 50th Street. They got held out. We had the

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rose facing plant population trial. They got held out. We had the

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long staple versus up and cotton trial. It didn't make it either so. But we

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did do last month. We conducted a

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And the nematote surveyed, and our new plant pathologist, Dr. Rond, and she's started that

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I was going to do vegetables and she needed eight fields.

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And I went, oh, okay.

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And I actually found eight fields.

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We did five fields of tomatoes.

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And then you're Jordan over there in the area.

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I got pumpkins.

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Kind of a watermelon.

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So, the results of that, see what the ocean, all your cantaloupe split with all the rain.

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I've had the cantaloupe split in my crazy. Did you drill so?

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Arcelator. Oh, this was under drip, but it did that area where the water's running out.

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And so, maybe the rain actually helped me.

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There are three new past, we need to be looking at, I'll have a heart of the screen one,

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fly, it's getting real close to the border, we should have our plants up and run in by April,

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but when you talk to the people in the know they're saying more like June, so we have that coming our way,

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We have, there's a new cotton pass that hit Texas this year via India through Florida,

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but it's another leaf hopper species, it's cotton jacid, and it just defolixed cotton crop

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immediately.

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In the every year, 43% loss in India, so we have that, the father's north, it's been found

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is Brad's Riverbottom, but it came in on Hardie Habiscus that you buy at all of these

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box stores, that's where it came from, and we got the word four weeks ago, and we're

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not seven, a whole lot of Hardie Habiscus, and they're not bringing them in and love it

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right now. I'm pretty sure that we got it. Then we have the, we have a brand new name

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to tell the species, which is why she had me look at all of the vegetables, and that's the

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guava nematodes. It's found in my backyard and growing guava, growing guava, always

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on tomatoes that I got at Home Depot.

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So we'll marry those, prevent that in your tomatoes,

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like they have other nematodes. This is a, this is a lot bigger one. So you know, like a,

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Rook, not name of television, your tomatoes, you can see that they're 80, maybe.

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These are the size of grapes.

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You just don't ask when I went, what the heck?

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I got her involved, and that's why we looked at all the tomatoes, and they get omelettes.

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Other than that, you'll have any questions?

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The screwworm, does that affect people as well?

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Sure does.

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If you're warm-blooded, you're going to get it.

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What does that look like?

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Um, so the fly, you know that green, well, you'll drop the dumpster and you got the green, blue,

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arugess it flies, that's it, except there's like one species that feeds on living flesh, and that's the one.

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You know, we eradicated the darn thing out of Texas and what, 7778.

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And then I guess, out of sight out of mind, we, I always thought that plant in my head was up and run to this day.

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Now, we built one in Mexico, and then we built one in Panama, and that's where we tried it.

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We started to notice when they all hit floor to it. So the plan that you're talking about produces sterile, square warm flies.

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That's one of, I know that I just want to people understand that's what the plan is.

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But yeah, it's gamma radiation.

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You write, you rare them up to the people stage.

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You have egg orbit, people, and then you adult.

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So radiating them into the people stage.

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They drop.

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This, our naep plant that we're building in the U.S. again.

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It's going to be 4 million flies a day.

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That will take care of it. Plus, you know, looking back in the 70s, 60s are our five pesticides

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for animals, at least, is the right bedroom what we used to have. So it's more of the human aspect

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this while we're jumping off,

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so we'll apply a parasite work against them like it does, your

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common play. You know, if the trick of a flies in a barn like situation, dairy

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like situation, they weren't great, but out, out on the range, not not so much.

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That means to my house around when I had livestock, that way down on my life, and it works

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at our borne, and then we'll talk about it.

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What did you get out in the past, your top environment, not so much?

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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We just want to say thank you, I'm for supporting us, and any time we do so on our news.

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I appreciate it.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I'm 16 as to discuss, consider, enter, take action to ward ITB-250703, as fault materials

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for the bridge department.

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Morning, Climberman with Purchasing.

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Yeah, this is the FY26 annual bid for as-foam materials for red

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One bridge, we had two responsive bidders, and we asked multi-word to both Ergonne as Faults

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and P2 emotions.

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I'm going to say.

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A motion by Commissioner Shaw, second by Commissioner Rackler, to award ITB 250703 as Fault

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Materials to Ergonne as Fault Emulsions and to P2 Emulsions is ready for the discussion.

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Is Ergonne a new company?

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Do they live it in every year, as long as I've been?

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Yes.

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Do you think further?

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If not, I'll call for the question on all in favor.

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Any opposed?

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Motion carries.

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Thank you, Ms. Warman.

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I have 17 is to discuss, consider, undertake action,

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to authorize county judge, assignment and agreement,

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with five star correctional services,

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for food services for Love Accounting Detention Center,

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as awarded in RFP250601,

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back on August 11th of 2025.

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Chief. Good morning. And Corbin for the Sheriff's Office.

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This is a renewal with our current food service

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vended. They won the bid. Ask for your approval.

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Motion by Commissioner Rackler, second by Commissioner Dolby,

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to authorize the county judge to sign the agreement with five sort of

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problems from five star of the doing great. Great service. The contract is tied to the CPI as we have in the past.

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So the increase is a be easy to forecast. Thank you.

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All right. If there's nothing further, I'll call for the question all in favor.

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Aye. On the U.D. Opposed.

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Muffin Carey.

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I'd am 18 to discuss consider and or take action to help the rest of county judge.

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Decide a contract for residential services with right-of-passage ink for long-term placement of juveniles at the Canyon State Academy and Desert Lily Academy.

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Good morning.

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Right-of-passage is operating a very good facility out there.

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The Canyon State is a male facility that we're going to continue a contract with.

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If you all approved this, we have a kid out there that's doing excellent.

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We're also going to decide to put in the desert lily academy portion of it, which is a female

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program that we desperately need.

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So, ask for your approval from the group.

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That goes back to Commissioner Dolby, a second back to Commissioner Rackler.

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To authorize the county judge to sign the contract with right-of-passage ink for long-term

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placement of juveniles.

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Is there any further discussion?

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You're not called for the question all in favor?

445
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Aye.

446
00:35:07,180 --> 00:35:08,060
Are there any opposed?

447
00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:09,220
It's looking curious.

448
00:35:10,340 --> 00:35:10,540
Thank you.

449
00:35:10,860 --> 00:35:11,300
Thank you.

450
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,740
I am 19 to discuss, consider, undertake action to authorize County Judge, a sign

451
00:35:16,740 --> 00:35:22,460
of business association, pardon you, a business associate agreement, and a sales agreement

452
00:35:22,460 --> 00:35:26,160
within a dendom with Canica Minota.

453
00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:29,420
Um, um,

454
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:29,540
commissioned.

455
00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:30,800
This is a, uh,

456
00:35:31,980 --> 00:35:34,360
This is for our ability, then to, um,

457
00:35:34,820 --> 00:35:37,760
Continue our services in, uh,

458
00:35:38,540 --> 00:35:39,380
Ourимсяin's and

459
00:35:39,380 --> 00:35:41,540
Estáer account for, uh,

460
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:43,220
The.

461
00:35:43,260 --> 00:35:44,120
Manil to machine,

462
00:35:44,380 --> 00:35:44,720
No, it part me.

463
00:35:44,900 --> 00:35:46,320
This is the X-ray machine part me.

464
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:47,700
This is the X-ray machine

465
00:35:47,700 --> 00:35:50,540
From the low dot systems at the, you.

466
00:35:50,720 --> 00:35:51,540
The New Is Office,

467
00:35:51,820 --> 00:35:52,660
The New Is Office.

468
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:53,200
Moo approved,

469
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:54,980
Right,

470
00:35:59,340 --> 00:36:07,180
Mr. Dolby, second-by commissioner, Shaw, to authorize the county judge to sign the business

471
00:36:07,180 --> 00:36:12,920
associated agreement and the sales agreement, Connecticut, is there any further discussion?

472
00:36:13,780 --> 00:36:15,880
Hearing none, call for the question, all in favor?

473
00:36:16,620 --> 00:36:17,700
All those opposed?

474
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:19,100
Motion carries.

475
00:36:21,340 --> 00:36:26,680
Item 20 is to discuss, consider, and or take action to approve the fees and plans for the district

476
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:32,600
Courts, Courts, Courts, Records, and Preservation on Account, O'Nuns, O'Nuns, O'Nuns, and Records

477
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:37,020
Management and Archive Plan on Account, for the fiscal year 26.

478
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:45,180
This is the same fee schedule as approved in fiscal year 2025.

479
00:36:45,460 --> 00:36:46,420
I'm on the second.

480
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:53,920
Motion by Commissioner Shaw, second by Commissioner Rackler, to approve the fees and plans for the

481
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,840
heard clerk's court records preservation.

482
00:36:57,620 --> 00:36:58,820
Is there any further discussion?

483
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,440
You're none call for the question, all in favor?

484
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:02,060
Aye.

485
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:03,320
Are there any opposed?

486
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:04,440
What are the hearings?

487
00:37:06,460 --> 00:37:10,960
Item 21 to discuss, consider, and or take action

488
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:14,620
to approve the 2026 Love Accounting Holiday Calendar,

489
00:37:15,140 --> 00:37:19,100
pursuant to the Love Accounting Employee Handbook Section 8.04.

490
00:37:19,660 --> 00:37:22,500
Ms. Yves, you have been circulated the,

491
00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:29,780
So the 2026 holiday schedule is there.

492
00:37:30,460 --> 00:37:39,120
These are the same holidays, as we've had in the past, just now transferred to the 2026 counters in your discussion.

493
00:37:40,140 --> 00:37:49,520
I do want to say that I am looking at for an amendment for this year's holiday as a little show appreciation to our employees,

494
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:55,080
of doing the 26th of December as a holiday to give our employees a five day Christmas holiday.

495
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,120
I'll have it on the agenda for the next court.

496
00:38:02,990 --> 00:38:04,330
I'm looking for a motion.

497
00:38:08,830 --> 00:38:10,790
Motion by Commissioner Shaw.

498
00:38:11,070 --> 00:38:15,150
Second by Commissioner Corley to approve the calendar year 2026,

499
00:38:15,370 --> 00:38:17,010
Love Accounting, Holiday Calendar.

500
00:38:17,610 --> 00:38:18,630
Any further discussions?

501
00:38:20,230 --> 00:38:22,090
You're now in call for the question all in favour?

502
00:38:22,650 --> 00:38:22,890
Aye.

503
00:38:23,150 --> 00:38:25,610
I'll do our idea posed motion carries.

504
00:38:25,610 --> 00:38:31,110
On of 22 is a report on the status of county road projects, department staffing, training

505
00:38:31,110 --> 00:38:35,310
at safety, unpaid the pay road maintenance, science parks, and fleet.

506
00:38:37,330 --> 00:38:42,070
We try to move on with roads, starting with department staffing and training, we have an

507
00:38:42,070 --> 00:38:45,450
open equipment operator too, and development take position.

508
00:38:45,910 --> 00:38:52,970
For unpaid roads, we have 35 local workers for pay road, the 37 parks has 38 open

509
00:38:52,970 --> 00:38:59,810
Mark orders. No way. Science has 38 open work code of excuse me. And then Park says 12.

510
00:39:01,570 --> 00:39:07,650
There's routine cost of fleet maintenance and approximately 120 to open work orders.

511
00:39:09,070 --> 00:39:15,250
It was just for Mr. Melvin. I would like to say the apron on 5700 off of 400.

512
00:39:15,870 --> 00:39:20,950
The state couldn't get to it. As when I fixed it and I appreciate that.

513
00:39:20,950 --> 00:39:23,950
It was a bit of a little bit more happened to it with me.

514
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:28,180
Thank you.

515
00:39:29,940 --> 00:39:34,260
I was so that five minutes away from opening up for our public hearing.

516
00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:39,460
So, the Public County Commissioner's Court will stand and recess for five minutes until 1045.

517
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,360
Let's reconvene the Public County Commissioner's Court.

518
00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:47,200
Thank you all for your patience.

519
00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:55,380
Item 12, on our agenda, is the public hearing regarding the fiscal year 2026.

520
00:39:55,380 --> 00:40:02,980
six, love a county budget. Is there anyone here that wishes to speak on for, or against, if this

521
00:40:02,980 --> 00:40:05,400
will year 2026, love a county budget?

522
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:09,000
Please come forward.

523
00:40:12,050 --> 00:40:13,490
You'll reintroduce yourself, please.

524
00:40:13,910 --> 00:40:14,530
Cassie Graham,

525
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:23,840
where I left off is who are you going to find to do our jobs, to stand on the

526
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:28,380
scene for hours when a police officer and a firefighter killed in the line of duty, who's

527
00:40:28,380 --> 00:40:32,940
to answer the phone calls in the middle of the night when someone's life has been taken due to

528
00:40:32,940 --> 00:40:38,600
senseless violence in this community. What moms are going to find they're going to rock their

529
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:45,060
kids to bed every night, tell them that they're not monsters and come into a courtroom and face them

530
00:40:45,060 --> 00:40:50,820
every single day. Who's going to continue to stand up for what is right when officers have to sit

531
00:40:50,820 --> 00:40:55,920
outside our houses, walk us into the courtroom, because our lives and the lives of our families

532
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:56,420
friend.

533
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:03,320
I invite each of you to come with me for a day. Come to my office, sit with me

534
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:08,980
while I talk to these families. Sit with me while I talk to these kids. Go to court with me.

535
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:16,340
Look the evil in the eye. See what we are actually fighting in this community. See what good

536
00:41:16,340 --> 00:41:21,400
the Sheriff's Department and the DA's office is doing. And then after that, if you can look me in

537
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:27,680
the eye and tell me that cutting a budget by 10% is the right thing for our community then do it.

538
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:31,780
But I asked it until that point you come with me.

539
00:41:31,780 --> 00:41:32,600
Thank you.

540
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:47,060
Is there anyone else that would wish to speak on for or against the fiscal year 2026

541
00:41:47,060 --> 00:41:48,120
Love Accounting Budget?

542
00:41:51,930 --> 00:41:52,510
We come forward.

543
00:41:52,610 --> 00:41:59,170
I will close our public hearing and move to item 13 on the agenda, which is a presentation

544
00:41:59,170 --> 00:42:05,610
of the 2026 proposed budget by Kathy Williams, our Love Accounting Auditor.

545
00:42:05,730 --> 00:42:06,470
Ms. Williams.

546
00:42:09,060 --> 00:42:12,260
Is your microphone on?

547
00:42:13,830 --> 00:42:14,510
Is it?

548
00:42:15,350 --> 00:42:18,370
Just want to make sure, because you're going to have to speak up.

549
00:42:18,550 --> 00:42:19,390
Just a little bit.

550
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:25,460
Okay.

551
00:42:25,460 --> 00:42:27,600
Here's our strategic plan structure.

552
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:35,200
It emphasizes efficient government, public safety, employee excellence, and service excellence.

553
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:46,480
Our total budget for FY26 is $322,558,982.

554
00:42:48,260 --> 00:42:52,840
Last year's total budget was $345 million.

555
00:42:53,700 --> 00:42:58,960
The general fund proposed a budget is $162 million.

556
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,280
Last year it was $165 million.

557
00:43:05,270 --> 00:43:08,110
These are our revenues,

558
00:43:10,890 --> 00:43:21,110
the biggest changes in the revenues would be, of course, the tax collection and down at the bottom, the draw from reserves in the transfers.

559
00:43:24,910 --> 00:43:28,230
Sorry, I'm talking about general flood budget. I got that on my brain.

560
00:43:29,110 --> 00:43:33,650
Anyway, this just shows the difference in our revenues for the total budget.

561
00:43:35,410 --> 00:43:40,630
The highlights of the total budget, there's 85 funds in the lower county budget, the

562
00:43:40,630 --> 00:43:46,870
biggest being the general fund, and then 84 special funds that we also balance.

563
00:43:47,990 --> 00:43:57,050
There, we realized a $15 million budget reduction in the total budget, and the changes

564
00:43:57,050 --> 00:44:01,590
over last year's budget, by at least a million dollars for the following funds.

565
00:44:01,830 --> 00:44:10,670
The general fund is, it's to three million dollars less than last year, when up close to

566
00:44:10,670 --> 00:44:15,690
two million permanent improvements was cut, 1.8 million.

567
00:44:16,590 --> 00:44:25,310
The ARPA funds is down 6.4 million that fund will use its fund balance to finish out the ARPA

568
00:44:25,310 --> 00:44:36,330
projects, tack grand is down to a million in the capital project is up close to 1.4 million

569
00:44:36,330 --> 00:44:43,990
in the health insurance fund change, 4.5 million of our last year.

570
00:44:44,330 --> 00:44:46,890
The general fund, of course, is our biggest fund.

571
00:44:48,370 --> 00:44:55,070
You have the biggest changes in the taxes, and then the drop reserves and the transfer

572
00:44:55,070 --> 00:44:59,930
down at the bottom, you can say that last year we did a draw for...

573
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,900
Results, 7.2 million this year were doing 6.8 to finish out the balance of the budget.

574
00:45:08,140 --> 00:45:14,360
And we also transferred from another fund balance, 5.5 million to do our capital last year.

575
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:27,540
We don't have those transfers this year. The initial property tax revenue with the no new revenue rate was estimated to generate $1.8 million less than last year's property taxes.

576
00:45:27,540 --> 00:45:35,160
That's because the no-new revenue rate also includes our INS payments and those increased

577
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:37,840
this year.

578
00:45:39,620 --> 00:45:44,800
With adopting the no-new revenue rate and funding the INS payments with the debt service

579
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:52,640
balance, which is what we decided to do, that gave us a loss and estimated property taxes

580
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,860
of $105,000.

581
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:03,960
Those taxes is expected to be stagnant and only increased close to $200,000.

582
00:46:04,700 --> 00:46:09,480
Motor vehicle registrations are estimated to increase by $4 million.

583
00:46:09,720 --> 00:46:15,940
This is one time revenue and it's due to an increase in the title-core title-girl and

584
00:46:15,940 --> 00:46:17,440
Tesla registrations.

585
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:25,220
Our phone commissions are expected to decrease by $800,000 due to a new law that went

586
00:46:25,220 --> 00:46:32,660
in effect in 2022, and we're just now realizing that law is tax rate.

587
00:46:33,220 --> 00:46:38,600
As I said before, the no new revenue rate tries to bring in the same amount of taxes

588
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:48,940
As last year, the VAR lets you have the maintenance and operations then it adds on your

589
00:46:48,940 --> 00:46:58,610
service debt payments and it also allows you to have any revenue that you left on the

590
00:46:58,610 --> 00:47:00,970
table from last year.

591
00:47:01,230 --> 00:47:03,170
I showed this slide before.

592
00:47:03,170 --> 00:47:07,590
This does shows how we start out with the no new revenue rate.

593
00:47:07,750 --> 00:47:22,210
It gives you the M&O and the I&S has included in that, but the VAR, again, allows for certain expenses that the county has to be added onto the no new revenue rate.

594
00:47:22,210 --> 00:47:24,510
in a long way.

595
00:47:26,690 --> 00:47:37,350
You can get your expenses somewhat paid back by the general justice state-funded mannedates

596
00:47:37,350 --> 00:47:39,310
in my intelligent defense.

597
00:47:39,830 --> 00:47:44,850
The sales tax is added in there, and 3.5.

598
00:47:44,950 --> 00:47:49,950
Increase your debt gets added in here, and then the unused revenues that you see.

599
00:47:51,460 --> 00:47:55,400
Again, that is increasing for the tax payer.

600
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:01,640
Again, this is just our tax rates that were adopted and those that were valuable.

601
00:48:04,980 --> 00:48:11,540
Here is the tax rate in the appraisal effects on the average home.

602
00:48:11,540 --> 00:48:20,900
Last year, the citizens paid $7,734 annually in property taxes.

603
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:23,480
There's no new revenue,

604
00:48:29,730 --> 00:48:35,750
it was a decrease of $2 and 63 cents annually, a loss to

605
00:48:35,750 --> 00:48:40,910
love at county revenue of 1.7, 1.8 million dollars.

606
00:48:43,150 --> 00:48:49,270
And what love at county did was pay our debt service payment out of the debt service fund

607
00:48:49,270 --> 00:49:00,570
that allow us with the same no new revenue right to only realize $105,000 loss in our property tax of this year.

608
00:49:01,290 --> 00:49:13,830
The current rate would have given us $460,000 at an increase of $13.13 in 63 cents to the tax payer.

609
00:49:13,830 --> 00:49:22,290
voter approval rate would have increased what the citizens pay by $108 dollars would have

610
00:49:22,290 --> 00:49:29,330
generated $12 million for the county. This is just a little example of what it looks

611
00:49:29,330 --> 00:49:37,090
like for our current budget expenses. Of course we balanced with the service no new revenue

612
00:49:37,090 --> 00:49:43,410
rate, the no new revenue rate without that us making that fun balance. We would have been

613
00:49:43,410 --> 00:49:55,290
1.7 in the whole current rate, again, would have given us 565, 1,000 in 12,000 if we

614
00:49:55,290 --> 00:49:58,230
would have went with the VAR.

615
00:49:59,790 --> 00:50:08,510
Highlights of this budget, we did begin with the deficit of $14 million, 7 of that was the

616
00:50:08,510 --> 00:50:16,710
from reserves, five was the fund balance from workers' complex year, and then the two,

617
00:50:16,810 --> 00:50:21,810
if we would have just used the no-new revenue rate without paying our debt service

618
00:50:21,810 --> 00:50:23,290
this year with fund balance.

619
00:50:26,030 --> 00:50:35,210
Original request this year were 29 million in just operating expense over last year's budget,

620
00:50:37,210 --> 00:50:46,360
departments before we even started when they just turned in their budgets to make in May.

621
00:50:47,890 --> 00:50:53,250
General fund departments had already reduced their budget by 3.4 million dollars.

622
00:50:54,710 --> 00:51:03,470
When you add in the general fund for the special revenues, there are requests for 14.3 million dollars

623
00:51:03,470 --> 00:51:11,630
to the general revenue fund, it was a decrease from $4 million last year.

624
00:51:12,550 --> 00:51:18,950
From bridge, got $6.2 million, juvenile justice got $7.6 million.

625
00:51:19,370 --> 00:51:23,450
And grants and other funds got a little over $500,000.

626
00:51:26,780 --> 00:51:32,740
The general fund budget includes elected officials mandated salary increases for state

627
00:51:32,740 --> 00:51:42,320
and court-it-law judges and justices, I think, elected officials 2% COLA, 7 elected officials

628
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:48,020
decline their increases in their budgets are reflective of that.

629
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:56,920
12 new positions, 10 for the tax office, the approved and August, but realized in this year's

630
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:02,000
budget or 26 budget, 2 for the detention center.

631
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:11,160
health insurance cost had increases with the new company as I said last year it started in January

632
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:20,320
2025 and that insurance increase was not passed on to the employees and their contribution has not

633
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:21,980
increased since 2017.

634
00:52:25,020 --> 00:52:29,640
We did salary item adjustments, I went through every

635
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:42,180
Valerie, line item, and made them as close to actual as possible without having to make us do too many budget amendments next year.

636
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:56,560
Retention pay for full-time employees for longevity is still in the budget, and the HSA contribution of $1,700 per employee that's on the health insurance is still in the budget.

637
00:52:56,560 --> 00:53:01,880
in those that particular expenses paid with work compounds.

638
00:53:04,630 --> 00:53:08,030
The general fund budget also includes reductions.

639
00:53:11,510 --> 00:53:17,370
Additional 10% of the operating budget was required for all departments in the general

640
00:53:17,370 --> 00:53:20,950
fund for a total of $2.4 million.

641
00:53:22,030 --> 00:53:28,070
Public safety reductions was 1.4 for the sheriff's office for all his

642
00:53:28,070 --> 00:53:40,050
funds in the general fund, another $280,000 in public safety department of which 150,000

643
00:53:40,050 --> 00:53:45,510
in critical needs funding for the volunteer fire department was unfunded.

644
00:53:45,510 --> 00:53:52,430
a medical examiner's budget was reduced by $199.

645
00:53:53,070 --> 00:53:57,710
That's where the biggest dollaring reductions.

646
00:54:00,030 --> 00:54:01,890
Capital expenses were reduced.

647
00:54:02,490 --> 00:54:06,330
From $4.2 million, it's requested down to $2 million.

648
00:54:06,770 --> 00:54:10,910
And you can see information technology in the Sheriff's Office

649
00:54:10,910 --> 00:54:21,110
have the highest reduction that over $700,000 with maintenance being reduced $363,000 in their capital.

650
00:54:23,710 --> 00:54:32,310
The exclusions in the general fund were new positions requested, 38 positions requested, only 12 funded,

651
00:54:32,310 --> 00:54:37,170
team, read-class, requested, zero offended,

652
00:54:39,190 --> 00:54:41,550
and then call us for the county employees.

653
00:54:41,810 --> 00:54:46,650
It's not included in this budget nor merit funds for performance proposals.

654
00:54:48,130 --> 00:54:49,050
Special funds.

655
00:54:53,840 --> 00:55:04,340
Red and Bridge, their budget $11, I mean, sorry last year, it was $11 million this year.

656
00:55:04,340 --> 00:55:11,500
it's $13 million. They received $6.2 million in funds from the general fund. This is the

657
00:55:11,500 --> 00:55:19,620
same amount they've been receiving since 2019 since we reduced it from ARPA fund.

658
00:55:22,070 --> 00:55:22,210
It's

659
00:55:22,210 --> 00:55:29,350
debating a slide increase in revenues and utilizing their fund balance rounded out their budget.

660
00:55:30,590 --> 00:55:36,690
They did receive funds from the park precincts to add rap roads to their budget this year.

661
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:50,980
Capital equipment up 2 million, we rode projects in 1.4 million, rode maintenance in 2.1 million,

662
00:55:51,220 --> 00:55:55,360
and their 25 rode maintenance program was 243.

663
00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:07,840
We think parks, their tax revenues back, total little over $600,000, and permanent improvement.

664
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,240
Their request was $15 million.

665
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,600
Their proposed budget is $3.3 million.

666
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:18,560
Last year, it was $5.2.

667
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:28,480
They unfunded $1.9 million from the contribution from the general fund and projects not funded

668
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:30,140
for $12.5 million.

669
00:56:34,130 --> 00:56:39,590
Facilities maintenance director has requested every year for the last six years, between $8

670
00:56:39,590 --> 00:56:50,810
and $15 million to fund her program, and she even did an assessment on county facilities

671
00:56:50,810 --> 00:56:53,030
that is still needing to be addressed.

672
00:56:55,140 --> 00:56:59,320
The no new revenue tax rate that the county has chosen

673
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:09,460
to go with, as I said last year, at some peak global ratings, it's saying that you need to

674
00:57:09,460 --> 00:57:17,040
have the revenue growth, supporting revenue growth and financial stability to maintain

675
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:26,280
our bond rating. I won't throw through all this as I read it last year, but we

676
00:57:28,290 --> 00:57:29,210
are in danger

677
00:57:29,210 --> 00:57:33,910
of losing our bond rating if we continue to go down this road.

678
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:40,600
You can see that report on

679
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:46,480
our Love It County website. And as I said last year, Love It County's major revenue source has

680
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:53,940
reduced due to the local political environment. Our physical health must be maintained by further

681
00:57:53,940 --> 00:58:00,880
limiting, spending until such time that a sustainable revenue source can be achieved. This includes

682
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:08,920
expenses due to compensation, debt service, and major capital projects and equipment, as well as revisiting

683
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:14,760
those expenses built on the VAR tax rate for growing county.

684
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:20,940
Again, we've taken six point to six point eight million dollars from

685
00:58:20,940 --> 00:58:25,800
draw from reserves that still has to be our highest priority to address.

686
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:34,320
This is the same slide from last year that states that and where I said that

687
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:40,540
but county needed to address that $7.2 million first before any expenses are added.

688
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:45,440
And next year for 27 it'll be 6.8.

689
00:58:48,590 --> 00:58:51,330
Then you can see all this on our live accounting website.

690
00:58:52,130 --> 00:58:53,190
After court.

691
00:58:58,180 --> 00:58:58,940
Thank you Ms. Williams.

692
00:58:59,620 --> 00:59:00,600
Can I say something?

693
00:59:01,020 --> 00:59:04,880
Is there any three questions to show?

694
00:59:07,180 --> 00:59:11,920
Okay, so what I've heard this year that I've been in here is the budget that's

695
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:26,840
budget cuts. In 2021, the county's overall budget was 244,972,768. As you saw today, five years later,

696
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:37,300
we're $80 million more than 2021. I'm always told that growing county has got to increase. During

697
00:59:37,300 --> 00:59:48,680
those times, we had a 1.2 population growth in 2021, we had a 1.3 and 1.2 or 1.3 and

698
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:54,080
1.24, 1.5 and 1.24.

699
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:59,400
Our budgets have increased in 2021, 8.

700
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:10,160
2.10.43% and 2023.34% and it's 2024.8%.

701
01:00:10,780 --> 01:00:18,520
This can't continue. The people of Lubbock County cannot afford to continue at that rate. That's

702
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:27,040
why I chose the non-ereveny rate this year because it has to stop someplace. And when you get

703
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:32,920
to the real numbers and know there hasn't been a cut this year. Yes, we've had it back

704
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:41,680
to 322. But in the past four years before this there was not a cut. It's grown tremendously

705
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:45,200
every year. I just want everybody to understand that.

706
01:00:51,210 --> 01:00:52,490
Any other questions or comments?

707
01:00:55,390 --> 01:00:58,810
Yes, go ahead. I've just been for a proof. Well, we're not

708
01:00:58,810 --> 01:01:00,610
there. This was just a presentation.

709
01:01:04,660 --> 01:01:06,640
Any other questions or comments on the presentation?

710
01:01:09,460 --> 01:01:12,740
This is William Sanky. Thank you for your hard work.

711
01:01:13,660 --> 01:01:15,120
Yes, thank you so much.

712
01:01:18,010 --> 01:01:26,450
I don't 14 is to discuss, consider, or take action to adopt the fiscal year 2026 budget for

713
01:01:26,450 --> 01:01:28,250
love accounting as presented by the auditor.

714
01:01:28,710 --> 01:01:30,270
Would you move for approval?

715
01:01:30,470 --> 01:01:31,170
Let's present it.

716
01:01:33,650 --> 01:01:40,190
Motion by Commissioner Corley, I have a second by Commissioner Shaw to adopt the fiscal year 26 budget for

717
01:01:40,190 --> 01:01:41,330
love accounting as presented.

718
01:01:41,330 --> 01:01:43,410
is there any further discussions?

719
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:51,580
I do have an amendment to offer.

720
01:02:14,690 --> 01:02:17,890
Offer amendment, we'll call this amendment number one.

721
01:02:20,750 --> 01:02:29,490
This is to move $169,104 from $0.902, which is the transfer from the General Fund to

722
01:02:29,490 --> 01:02:34,510
11.04, 730, which is for LSO personnel.

723
01:02:36,030 --> 01:02:50,410
This amendment will transfer $169,169,169,104 dollars to create two additional positions

724
01:02:50,830 --> 01:02:53,830
to the sheriff's office in the detention center.

725
01:02:53,830 --> 01:03:00,650
If you noticed in the patient there were two that were approved, which is wonderful.

726
01:03:01,110 --> 01:03:05,530
However, two does not get us to a place where we need to be in the detention center.

727
01:03:06,270 --> 01:03:13,250
In order for this to have a meaningful impact to the overtime budget of the detention center,

728
01:03:13,770 --> 01:03:17,290
we need four deputies, one in each of the shifts.

729
01:03:17,290 --> 01:03:26,750
So having two kind of splits and we're still into a very difficult position in doing that.

730
01:03:27,250 --> 01:03:46,930
So my motion is to amend Love Accounting Fiscal Year 26 budget to move 169,104 from 902,000 to 104,730 in all

731
01:03:46,930 --> 01:03:50,630
Commissioner Dalby. It's a really further discussion on the amendment.

732
01:03:50,950 --> 01:03:56,850
Yeah, I'd like to bring up that we had discussed bringing forward

733
01:03:56,850 --> 01:04:03,130
deputies in for this. And we had came to the conclusion that we had some

734
01:04:03,130 --> 01:04:08,370
mental health deputies that were not filled. And I thought we were going to

735
01:04:08,370 --> 01:04:13,890
try to use two of the mental health deputies to fill on what these other two

736
01:04:13,890 --> 01:04:15,870
that would produce forward.

737
01:04:16,150 --> 01:04:17,290
That's up to the share.

738
01:04:17,830 --> 01:04:18,190
Okay.

739
01:04:18,590 --> 01:04:19,490
Then that option.

740
01:04:20,010 --> 01:04:21,110
Share if has that option.

741
01:04:24,170 --> 01:04:26,510
Well, Lisa and thank you, Commissioner.

742
01:04:27,490 --> 01:04:29,890
First of all, we do need the mental health

743
01:04:29,890 --> 01:04:30,410
deputies.

744
01:04:30,810 --> 01:04:34,030
So I don't want to take Rob from Peter to pay

745
01:04:34,030 --> 01:04:35,990
Paul as far as deputies goes.

746
01:04:36,430 --> 01:04:38,990
What this will do is this will

747
01:04:38,990 --> 01:04:41,250
fulfill the mandate of this

748
01:04:41,250 --> 01:04:48,990
And that's to lower the over time that we're seeing in the detention center, not on the deputies, not on the

749
01:04:48,990 --> 01:04:53,010
Ellie side, law enforcement side, but on the detention center side.

750
01:04:53,370 --> 01:05:01,030
So by adding two additional deputies with this 169,000, what we're getting is one deputy

751
01:05:01,030 --> 01:05:10,610
per shift, one deputy per shift, in order so that over time that we will see those over time numbers go down.

752
01:05:10,970 --> 01:05:21,650
In fact, we told Sheriff, we told Chief, those are the numbers we want to see go down is paying time and a half when we could just be paying straight time.

753
01:05:21,650 --> 01:05:29,130
So I'm hopeful that what this will do was to lower that over time to get effectively what this

754
01:05:29,130 --> 01:05:34,370
commissioner's court has asked the sheriff to do, and that is to look directly at these

755
01:05:34,370 --> 01:05:36,370
over time costs for detention now.

756
01:05:36,770 --> 01:05:42,410
He did come to us over the summer in our personnel committee and asked for 16 deputies.

757
01:05:43,250 --> 01:05:43,390
All right.

758
01:05:44,050 --> 01:05:50,530
So this is really a much smaller, what we're doing is, is giving them much less than what

759
01:05:50,530 --> 01:05:56,610
they've asked for what they need, but in doing this, this puts us on the path of, at least

760
01:05:57,410 --> 01:06:03,470
getting into that overtime problem that we're seeing, and still needing those detention

761
01:06:03,470 --> 01:06:05,470
officers for hospital transport.

762
01:06:06,410 --> 01:06:11,350
If he has positions that have never been failed since they were created, though, he can

763
01:06:11,350 --> 01:06:20,510
move those positions to make them, but you know, you remember, I don't know if you remember

764
01:06:20,510 --> 01:06:26,810
last year, but when we were talking about these positions last year, the argument was, we don't

765
01:06:26,810 --> 01:06:32,650
need to fill them because we already have too many open positions already in the detention center.

766
01:06:32,950 --> 01:06:36,750
That was the reason for not filling them back then, or at least the excuse for not filling

767
01:06:36,750 --> 01:06:37,070
them.

768
01:06:37,950 --> 01:06:39,690
Well, that excuse is gone.

769
01:06:40,230 --> 01:06:45,650
I mean, we do have our detention center, and there's openings here and there, but we're

770
01:06:45,650 --> 01:06:47,350
in pretty good shape at the detention center.

771
01:06:47,350 --> 01:06:49,770
This is for detention center officers.

772
01:06:49,770 --> 01:06:51,430
It's not for LE officers.

773
01:06:52,110 --> 01:06:53,850
It won't be really clear about that.

774
01:06:54,530 --> 01:06:59,830
We're not taking deputies out of the street to go to do this.

775
01:07:00,130 --> 01:07:02,690
This is for detention only.

776
01:07:03,890 --> 01:07:08,010
That's why I put this at 04730,

777
01:07:08,310 --> 01:07:10,710
which is for the detention center, not for LE.

778
01:07:12,290 --> 01:07:16,970
Well, my problem with this is during our last meeting

779
01:07:16,970 --> 01:07:23,930
with the sheriff and with with chiefs. I ask if we just gave you the 16 positions

780
01:07:23,930 --> 01:07:26,990
tonight would it cut your overtime would it would it would it would it

781
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:39,880
Your overtime, no, it wouldn't. I said so, how much would it cut it? We give you a million dollars worth of employees. And I was told it would cut it $700,000.

782
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:54,180
And the $2 million budget. So, you know, we give them a million dollars worth of employees to actually cost us $300,000. And I just didn't make sense to me.

783
01:07:54,180 --> 01:08:01,920
I understand the burnout problem, I understand the inventory over time, but there are

784
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:06,840
me and out there at the prison that volunteer for overtime because I can't make it off

785
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:08,280
the salary they're making.

786
01:08:10,140 --> 01:08:16,100
So if you and enough itself, we can certainly, you'd like to address that, I'd be glad to hear

787
01:08:16,100 --> 01:08:16,360
that.

788
01:08:17,060 --> 01:08:19,360
Well, the people up in County, can't afford more.

789
01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:28,560
So, for me, that's, you know, the problem I see is it would cost us more than it would

790
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:28,900
save.

791
01:08:29,740 --> 01:08:33,440
Well, I would say to the argument of the people who love accounting, kind of forward that,

792
01:08:33,580 --> 01:08:37,480
we went to the people who love accounting three years ago and asked them to do that and they

793
01:08:37,480 --> 01:08:38,880
overwhelmingly agreed to.

794
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:44,920
Okay, but we've got a commissioner on this court that went against the man that said,

795
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:53,560
had to have a 3.5% tax increase every year. That man lost 80 to 20 because of saying he had

796
01:08:53,560 --> 01:09:04,240
to have a 3.5% tax. You keep bringing up this past tax vote on a bond as proof that they want it.

797
01:09:05,460 --> 01:09:09,680
But we've got a 20.24 incident that said they don't want it.

798
01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:10,520
Mr. Shaw.

799
01:09:11,340 --> 01:09:12,700
I want you to not tell anybody.

800
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,860
Look, Mr. Schord approved a 3% color race problem.

801
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:21,200
On the 2020, the commissioner's court approved a 3% color for all employees.

802
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:25,380
21, 22, 23,

803
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:31,040
24, 5%, was a 5% of, thank you.

804
01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:31,300
Okay.

805
01:09:31,300 --> 01:09:31,900
For correct anything.

806
01:09:32,580 --> 01:09:37,420
So we have made efforts to try to increase the, uh, the penny it love again.

807
01:09:39,700 --> 01:09:43,140
That level of paying increase each year is not a calling for the Secretary.

808
01:09:48,080 --> 01:09:54,820
If we can make a dent in what we pay in over time, I'm willing to give it a shot.

809
01:09:57,140 --> 01:10:05,460
And if this doesn't work, we can revisit this next year and by that point, I'm sure there

810
01:10:05,460 --> 01:10:16,240
will be two to four members at the correctional facility that will have left for some reason.

811
01:10:16,440 --> 01:10:23,080
I don't know what the reason will be. It can be rolling. If it doesn't work, it's enough

812
01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:31,220
here in E-Crow. If it doesn't, but if we can make a decision, we'll cut into the overtime

813
01:10:31,220 --> 01:10:35,220
and we're paying and we'll save X amount of dollars a willing to try it.

814
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:42,280
Well, here's what I'm having been, I have not been given any data that says it won't work.

815
01:10:42,980 --> 01:10:46,140
I've been shown how it will work. I haven't been shown how it won't work.

816
01:10:46,540 --> 01:10:48,800
I don't link any of this to know. I don't link the shareholders.

817
01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:50,700
It's been a little working up.

818
01:10:50,740 --> 01:10:52,220
It's very difficult to just pre the negative.

819
01:10:53,460 --> 01:10:56,440
That's tax payer funded croak if you're wrong.

820
01:10:57,240 --> 01:11:04,180
The public view on it is they'll say you're defunding the police just like we cut

821
01:11:04,180 --> 01:11:09,320
$1.4 million out of how the county housing and all I've heard about since we did

822
01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:13,580
that is y'all are defunding the sheriff's office, you're defunding the police, we're not

823
01:11:13,580 --> 01:11:21,080
we cut $1.4 million out of something that was budgeted at 3.5 million that used $700,000.

824
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:28,300
the 1.4 was there. And it won't open. And if we, if we higher employees to us in the next year,

825
01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:33,420
we come in and say, I'm sorry, you are needed at Love Accounting, but your job is not needed.

826
01:11:36,500 --> 01:11:41,900
Then we'd be funded of them. And it's just like when every all we're saying, we're going to lay

827
01:11:41,900 --> 01:11:47,060
all these people off and we're not, we're not laying anybody off.

828
01:11:49,620 --> 01:11:51,800
And so the public, the public

829
01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:55,800
look of if next year we cut back the two positions.

830
01:11:56,300 --> 01:11:58,320
That was on the table.

831
01:11:58,400 --> 01:11:59,120
Five percent.

832
01:11:59,380 --> 01:11:59,980
But lay off.

833
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:00,900
It wasn't going to happen.

834
01:12:00,900 --> 01:12:02,660
That's why we went to 10 percent.

835
01:12:02,840 --> 01:12:03,540
What didn't happen?

836
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:07,800
So there was nobody saying that anybody was getting laid off.

837
01:12:08,460 --> 01:12:09,700
That's all I heard about.

838
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:11,280
So

839
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:17,780
I mean, that's how we got to go down a rabbit hole.

840
01:12:17,900 --> 01:12:24,540
All I'm saying is if there's an avenue to reduce the amount of overtime that we are

841
01:12:24,540 --> 01:12:29,980
the county is paying I'm willing to go down that road and look at it and if it doesn't work

842
01:12:29,980 --> 01:12:33,420
we can come back in 12 months and we can look at it again.

843
01:12:33,820 --> 01:12:39,260
Yeah did you want to pull 169,000 dollars and I'm not asking for a general fund which is going to

844
01:12:39,260 --> 01:12:43,500
actually being part of our deficit. We're going to have to pull it out of the

845
01:12:43,500 --> 01:12:49,200
not the balance. No, no we're pulling this out of transfer. Transfer from where?

846
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:50,620
That's that.

847
01:12:51,220 --> 01:12:54,000
This is transfer, this is transfer again.

848
01:12:54,640 --> 01:13:00,160
Transfer from the general fund to 902 OO.

849
01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:01,880
What is the money guy come from?

850
01:13:02,060 --> 01:13:05,160
It's not general fund if we're fund in this off of fund balance.

851
01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:10,940
Well, instead of, instead of transferring 6.23 million,

852
01:13:11,100 --> 01:13:13,940
we're going to only transfer 6.1 million.

853
01:13:13,940 --> 01:13:19,300
And we're going to give that 169 million, 109,000, excuse me.

854
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:24,000
So I'm not talking about a $3 million, 4 million dollar fully funded.

855
01:13:24,260 --> 01:13:28,100
I'm going to talk about 100 overtime, or is it going to come out a general fund,

856
01:13:28,380 --> 01:13:30,520
which is a part of our deficit?

857
01:13:31,020 --> 01:13:31,460
That's true.

858
01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:35,880
I'm not, I'm not messing with the tax rate here.

859
01:13:36,620 --> 01:13:37,820
That ship sailed.

860
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:42,880
Now we can only move money within within this budget.

861
01:13:43,940 --> 01:13:49,360
Within this tax rate, it doesn't increase the tax rate, it doesn't decrease the tax rate.

862
01:13:49,440 --> 01:13:53,840
It keeps the tax rate the same, it keeps the dollar amounts of safe, we're just moving

863
01:13:53,840 --> 01:14:01,540
from one line item to another, but it does increase the deficit by about $169,000 and a half

864
01:14:01,540 --> 01:14:02,600
to come.

865
01:14:02,940 --> 01:14:09,680
Well, out of reserves, and I will say pulling $6.8 million does the same thing.

866
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:15,060
last year when y'all wouldn't make the cuts when we forced to know new revenue is what started

867
01:14:15,060 --> 01:14:20,360
that if y'all would have made the cuts and let us be involved in the cuts I was told you

868
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:26,320
didn't show up you're not making any cuts okay y'all figured out y'all funded 13 million dollars

869
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:32,720
okay you're always allowed in my office I did not tell you that and I'm the one doing the budget

870
01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:38,720
you know he's still that last year last year not this year too I never told you you could not come

871
01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:40,600
participate in the budget.

872
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:42,600
No one saying you did.

873
01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:45,700
It wasn't you that said it.

874
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:47,480
We're not.

875
01:14:47,820 --> 01:14:48,500
We're still discussing.

876
01:14:48,660 --> 01:14:49,640
Thank you very much.

877
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:53,960
So, 169,104 dollars.

878
01:14:54,500 --> 01:14:58,620
Two, as Commissioner Dolby goes, two possibly, hopefully.

879
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:09,000
I will tell you the transfers that we're looking at, that the need for the deputies for transfers is increasing. We do know that.

880
01:15:09,920 --> 01:15:26,440
So can we just go $169,000? I'm not asking for $2 million. I'm not asking for $4 million. I'm only asking for $169,000 to hopefully get at this overtime problem that we have.

881
01:15:26,440 --> 01:15:31,300
And as Commissioner Shaw pointed up to, it is a burnout problem as well.

882
01:15:31,740 --> 01:15:37,180
We have deputies that are needing to work, and we're taking time away from their family.

883
01:15:37,260 --> 01:15:40,080
Yes, we're compensating them time and a half to do that.

884
01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:44,720
And some of them want to. And I'm okay with the sum who want to.

885
01:15:45,080 --> 01:15:47,900
But there are some that are almost halfing to do that.

886
01:15:48,220 --> 01:15:51,840
And we're causing a lot more turnover at the detention center than we should.

887
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:53,760
Let's give them a little help.

888
01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:56,520
$169,000 worth of help.

889
01:15:56,820 --> 01:15:59,320
If all we're asking for.

890
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:02,220
How many open positions are there at the detention center today?

891
01:16:03,420 --> 01:16:04,120
I don't know.

892
01:16:04,120 --> 01:16:05,680
I didn't get that number this morning.

893
01:16:06,300 --> 01:16:07,100
How many of they are?

894
01:16:07,740 --> 01:16:09,900
But it's a pretty fluid number.

895
01:16:10,520 --> 01:16:14,240
It increases and decreases almost on a regular basis

896
01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:16,840
because of what we were talking about the burnout problem.

897
01:16:17,440 --> 01:16:18,600
Being an elected official,

898
01:16:18,900 --> 01:16:21,540
he does have the ability to take an open position

899
01:16:21,540 --> 01:16:29,080
and maneuver it as the detection center to do whatever duties not necessarily or someone

900
01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:35,920
it says or any other dumb provided except you're talking about a detention center and so those

901
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:40,820
positions are based on all the number of bits that we have and those are mandated by stay

902
01:16:40,820 --> 01:16:46,500
long so we can't do what you were talking about and move people around like he can't say

903
01:16:46,500 --> 01:16:49,600
Okay, I'll take these open positions that I haven't

904
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:52,180
detention to move them over to law enforcement.

905
01:16:52,420 --> 01:16:53,420
He can't do that.

906
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:58,240
Because he has to maintain the number of positions

907
01:16:58,240 --> 01:17:04,000
at the detention center based on state law, based on the mandate

908
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:04,900
from Austin.

909
01:17:05,060 --> 01:17:06,840
You have to maintain a certain number of positions.

910
01:17:07,100 --> 01:17:09,120
That's why I would like that you can do as you will.

911
01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:09,820
That's correct.

912
01:17:16,010 --> 01:17:17,810
Okay, so that's what I'm saying.

913
01:17:17,810 --> 01:17:25,970
amendment is, if the consensus of the court is to pass for some amendment, we need to discuss

914
01:17:25,970 --> 01:17:31,850
the funding further. We cannot do a transfer from the general fund. We can do a transfer

915
01:17:31,850 --> 01:17:37,570
within the general fund, but you have to tell me what line item is specifically going

916
01:17:37,570 --> 01:17:39,890
to be cut to add these positions.

917
01:17:40,590 --> 01:17:43,930
I'll say we vote on it first and then we'll worry about it.

918
01:17:44,890 --> 01:17:51,550
I think the funds from somewhere else in the sheriff's office accounts, or-

919
01:17:51,550 --> 01:17:56,430
Well, I put that 902, oh, which is the road and bridge fund.

920
01:17:56,870 --> 01:17:57,930
That's, yeah.

921
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:01,400
Okay.

922
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:05,160
Just answering your questions.

923
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:13,840
I thought I was, those numbers were where we were, where we were moving it

924
01:18:15,240 --> 01:18:17,640
from to where we were moving it to.

925
01:18:21,690 --> 01:18:22,530
Any other discussion?

926
01:18:25,260 --> 01:18:26,940
Hearing none, I will call for the question.

927
01:18:27,540 --> 01:18:29,740
All in favor, raise your hand by saying aye.

928
01:18:31,340 --> 01:18:32,320
You guys are all opposed

929
01:18:34,490 --> 01:18:37,270
to a min fails two to three,

930
01:18:41,140 --> 01:18:42,320
so much for law enforcement.

931
01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:43,680
And

932
01:18:49,210 --> 01:18:50,470
I've got another amendment.

933
01:19:05,970 --> 01:19:08,390
I'll offer what is called a min-met number two.

934
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:14,540
The explanation for this amendment is as follows.

935
01:19:14,540 --> 01:19:25,470
The pre-saint parks and the pre-saint clubhouses are the only entity in this county that

936
01:19:25,470 --> 01:19:27,210
saw a tax increase.

937
01:19:29,010 --> 01:19:35,290
Last year, the tax rate for these parks were zero and they were part of the general fund.

938
01:19:35,570 --> 01:19:43,290
This year, the decision by the couple members of the court was to add a tax rate.

939
01:19:43,290 --> 01:19:54,490
to add a tax rate to the parks and to the clubhouse. While at the same time, asking

940
01:19:54,490 --> 01:20:02,470
the department directors to cut 10%. The only thing that was increased this year was parks

941
01:20:02,470 --> 01:20:11,030
and clubhouses. This amendment would put those that tax rate back to zero. Back where it

942
01:20:11,030 --> 01:20:18,730
in this current fiscal year and then we'll add the tax rate of 0.002 to back to the general

943
01:20:18,730 --> 01:20:24,930
fund and so that these the parks and clubhouses were not taking away the money to the

944
01:20:24,930 --> 01:20:30,770
parks and clubhouses. We're just leveling out the tax rate for them so they don't have

945
01:20:30,770 --> 01:20:38,850
their own tax rate that continues to bring more and more money to these parks while asking

946
01:20:38,850 --> 01:20:44,190
other departments, including our sheriff's department, our road and bridge department, our

947
01:20:44,190 --> 01:20:52,770
firefighters to decrease while at the same time asking the people of Love Academy to increase

948
01:20:52,770 --> 01:21:01,310
their tax rate for the parks and the clubhouses. I mentioned during budget time that, and I've had

949
01:21:01,310 --> 01:21:05,350
commissioners telling me all we need to do is cut the fluff out of this budget, just cut the

950
01:21:05,350 --> 01:21:11,630
Well, there's no more fluff in this budget except for parks and clubhouses.

951
01:21:12,650 --> 01:21:17,830
So if the intent of this court is to cut fluff, then they will accept my amendment.

952
01:21:17,850 --> 01:21:23,890
I offer amendment number two, which is move to amend the Love Accounting Fiscal Year 2026 budget

953
01:21:23,890 --> 01:21:24,770
as follows.

954
01:21:25,310 --> 01:21:29,270
We'll set the tax rate for precinct one park at 0.0.

955
01:21:29,270 --> 01:21:49,310
The Slayton Roosevelt Park is 0.0. The I-Loon New Deal Park is 0.0 and shallow water parks at 0.0 and then add a tax rate to the general fund of 0.0 to 0.0 to 0.0 and ask for a second.

956
01:21:49,730 --> 01:21:56,570
Second. Motion by Judge Parrish, second by Commissioner Dalby. Is there any other further discussion?

957
01:21:58,680 --> 01:22:09,400
So, commissioners, I thought it was grossly unfair for you to add to your budgets for

958
01:22:09,400 --> 01:22:15,540
parks and for clubhouses, while requesting the DA's office, our courts, our sheriffs

959
01:22:15,540 --> 01:22:22,660
department, our facilities to cut their budgets while you asked and brought forth an increase

960
01:22:22,660 --> 01:22:23,200
in your budget.

961
01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:25,700
knowing that you increase the tax rate.

962
01:22:26,320 --> 01:22:27,120
So if you increase...

963
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:35,680
We're here to decrease the tax rate, and yet here you are increasing the tax rate for your own

964
01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:42,060
parks for your own clubhouse. That's what this does. This fulfills your mandate to cut taxes.

965
01:22:43,020 --> 01:22:47,780
If you're all for cut in taxes, you should not have one problem with this amendment whatsoever.

966
01:22:51,640 --> 01:23:00,280
So out of my park funds, I share a rodent bridge employee, and I have a part-time employee, and I keep

967
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:06,340
the upkeep of the baseball field clubhouse at shallow water.

968
01:23:06,800 --> 01:23:09,860
I also, in the last few years, have been funding some

969
01:23:09,860 --> 01:23:13,820
of road and bridge special projects, because they had either

970
01:23:13,820 --> 01:23:16,940
been over looked or just didn't have the funding to do it.

971
01:23:17,820 --> 01:23:20,840
The previous commissioner before Commissioner Dawley had bought a

972
01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:22,640
snowplow for road and bridge.

973
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:26,660
We've used that, that's the only money that we actually have

974
01:23:26,660 --> 01:23:38,480
control of and it was that's true. I think we're a control of a lot of money in this county as our department as the commissioner.

975
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:52,490
And so I'm providing a location for the tractor museum, the voting center. I place for love County residents to have a

976
01:23:52,490 --> 01:23:53,110
a

977
01:23:56,210 --> 01:23:56,690
efficient

978
01:23:57,670 --> 01:24:03,650
place to host a party or a cost effective place to host a I mean you can go right in my club house for 150 bucks

979
01:24:04,870 --> 01:24:13,650
And we just hosted a funeral that people didn't have a place to have it at last week and until last year when y'all pulled the funding

980
01:24:14,270 --> 01:24:15,850
I pull funding

981
01:24:15,850 --> 01:24:19,610
We'll move it through. I'll remove the tax rate. That is pulling the funding

982
01:24:22,410 --> 01:24:26,610
There's no funding when you take the revenue off of it.

983
01:24:28,070 --> 01:24:34,370
Well, again, let me explain. This does not remove your funding. It only removes the tax rate.

984
01:24:35,630 --> 01:24:43,050
The funding is still there. If you notice this amendment does not touch the funding, the things that you want to fund.

985
01:24:43,050 --> 01:24:51,210
That you talked about. The funding is the revenue in the source of revenue for that and the source of revenue will be the general fund

986
01:24:51,210 --> 01:24:57,310
Just as our district attorney is funded out of the general fund. Just as our sheriff's department is funded out of the general fund

987
01:24:57,310 --> 01:25:00,150
If you just run me go over on our budget

988
01:25:00,150 --> 01:25:02,250
Don't go over on your budget

989
01:25:02,250 --> 01:25:05,250
Where are who's going to make up for that?

990
01:25:05,490 --> 01:25:06,490
I'll put that wheel across the board

991
01:25:07,010 --> 01:25:07,250
Yeah

992
01:25:09,010 --> 01:25:09,970
You have

993
01:25:11,170 --> 01:25:13,210
All the budget ever here.

994
01:25:13,990 --> 01:25:14,490
Let's vote.

995
01:25:15,050 --> 01:25:16,030
Hold on.

996
01:25:16,450 --> 01:25:17,590
So, do other questions are coming?

997
01:25:19,050 --> 01:25:22,990
You all know how I feel about club houses and parks.

998
01:25:24,870 --> 01:25:28,970
And again, we talked about this.

999
01:25:29,550 --> 01:25:32,870
This doesn't take the revenue out.

1000
01:25:33,790 --> 01:25:36,370
If we can do our part.

1001
01:25:36,370 --> 01:25:44,030
And add 0.002 back to the general fund to help support this county.

1002
01:25:46,090 --> 01:25:49,330
Anyway, I'm for that.

1003
01:25:51,700 --> 01:25:54,300
We have to practice what we preach.

1004
01:25:54,860 --> 01:25:58,240
We ask everybody else to cut.

1005
01:25:59,100 --> 01:26:02,520
I think it's our duty to do the same.

1006
01:26:02,700 --> 01:26:06,340
So that's why I'll support the amendment.

1007
01:26:06,340 --> 01:26:14,280
when we had spoke to Miss Williams about this in budget when we had talked about potentially pulling

1008
01:26:14,280 --> 01:26:21,680
the tax rate that funds these parks. She had asked well when you have a deficit because you don't

1009
01:26:21,680 --> 01:26:28,360
fund your expenses are greater than your income if you lose your tax rate how are you going to fund?

1010
01:26:28,720 --> 01:26:34,340
Yes we better exercise strategic planning and are you going to lay your full-time employee off?

1011
01:26:37,150 --> 01:26:47,050
Let me mention another thing about this and the difference between funding this out of a tax rate

1012
01:26:47,050 --> 01:26:48,990
and funding it out of the general fund.

1013
01:26:50,210 --> 01:26:56,370
When you fund things out of the general fund, you're able to do transfers within there.

1014
01:26:56,750 --> 01:27:06,190
We have been basically not following good sound fiscal conservative policy by funding other things out of a special fund.

1015
01:27:06,190 --> 01:27:17,490
This, having its own tax rate creates this as a special fund, so when you say we're transferring over here to roads, really that's not sound fiscal conservative budgeting.

1016
01:27:19,070 --> 01:27:23,790
There's that's a bit of a slide at our doctor's office, which has done a fine job and gets it a award every year.

1017
01:27:24,150 --> 01:27:28,870
I, that's what I'm saying is we are not doing sound fiscal conservative budgeting.

1018
01:27:28,870 --> 01:27:36,790
Whenever, whenever you want to pull money away from a special fund to fund something else in the general fund.

1019
01:27:36,990 --> 01:27:41,970
You just tried to pull round and break the funding to pay for the sheriff's office.

1020
01:27:42,450 --> 01:27:44,770
That was an out of special funds.

1021
01:27:44,910 --> 01:27:46,830
That was out of general funds.

1022
01:27:47,490 --> 01:27:48,890
General fund to general fund.

1023
01:27:49,470 --> 01:27:58,730
We're talking about here, you're talking about wanting to take special funds and use this almost as your own

1024
01:27:58,730 --> 01:28:04,730
Personal I can do with whatever this fund. I want to if I want to give rodent bridge some money

1025
01:28:04,730 --> 01:28:06,110
I'll give it to them if I want to give

1026
01:28:07,030 --> 01:28:13,170
Facilities some money I'll give it to them. That's what you're using this for and the taxpayers of love accounting

1027
01:28:13,170 --> 01:28:17,870
Are not asking you to do that. They're asking you to lower taxes and instead

1028
01:28:17,870 --> 01:28:20,930
You're voting to increase the taxes

1029
01:28:20,930 --> 01:28:22,350
Right here

1030
01:28:22,930 --> 01:28:24,090
Right, what do you lower?

1031
01:28:24,090 --> 01:28:27,230
As far as William is rod and bread, just special fun.

1032
01:28:27,730 --> 01:28:29,350
You're a special fun type of man.

1033
01:28:29,590 --> 01:28:30,730
It is a special fun.

1034
01:28:32,750 --> 01:28:39,590
But, you can't move from a special fun to any other fun.

1035
01:28:40,110 --> 01:28:41,590
That's what you tried to do.

1036
01:28:42,570 --> 01:28:42,850
No.

1037
01:28:43,830 --> 01:28:48,610
This first one was to move that money before transfer.

1038
01:28:48,810 --> 01:28:50,790
It comes out of the general fun.

1039
01:28:51,190 --> 01:28:52,830
Let me explain it.

1040
01:28:53,550 --> 01:28:56,250
Let's just talk about what other hold on.

1041
01:28:56,270 --> 01:29:00,270
They already enjoy watching this with the circus, just right until this day.

1042
01:29:00,350 --> 01:29:06,240
Well, it is because you are increasing taxes.

1043
01:29:07,240 --> 01:29:17,740
This amendment will actually decrease the taxes and put you in line with what you've asked every other department to do and that is cut cut cut.

1044
01:29:18,040 --> 01:29:20,860
You've asked every department to do that. Cut cut cut cut.

1045
01:29:20,860 --> 01:29:26,440
The only thing that you did not cut was your own budget. We did cut our commissioner's court budget.

1046
01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:28,540
I'm talking about 10 percent.

1047
01:29:28,760 --> 01:29:29,180
They were not.

1048
01:29:29,460 --> 01:29:32,460
I mean, they were. Our parks were cut 10 percent.

1049
01:29:32,540 --> 01:29:39,760
No, your parks were not cut. Your commissioners court department in the general fund was cut 10 percent.

1050
01:29:39,760 --> 01:29:40,580
But not these.

1051
01:29:41,160 --> 01:29:46,540
But then you no sir. These parks were not cut.

1052
01:29:47,360 --> 01:29:55,160
It's William's maybe I'm misunderstood to you, but I believe you told me Commissioner Shaw to reduce our part budget by $15,000.

1053
01:29:56,420 --> 01:29:56,560
Yes.

1054
01:29:56,600 --> 01:29:56,660
Yes.

1055
01:29:56,660 --> 01:29:59,680
That's because your revenue in your expenses didn't benefit.

1056
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:09,160
1% cut from everybody, let everybody else did. Those 2% cuts were just to the general fund, or those funds that

1057
01:30:09,160 --> 01:30:23,520
ask for transfers from the general fund. Your parks do not get a transfer from the general fund. They get revenue from property tags, and then your rentals.

1058
01:30:23,520 --> 01:30:30,060
public club house. And when those two don't agree with the expenses that you put down,

1059
01:30:30,460 --> 01:30:37,560
I tell you you have to cut. But what she's saying when we clarify this again, she was

1060
01:30:37,560 --> 01:30:45,580
asked every department was asked to cut 10% which they did. What did not happen was parks.

1061
01:30:46,220 --> 01:30:56,580
Okay, let's just let that work and ask something for the answer publicly then, if our tax rate of the 0.002

1062
01:30:57,520 --> 01:31:12,940
lighted four ways, and we have a budget where we attempt to not go over just like every other department and

1063
01:31:12,940 --> 01:31:18,680
this tax rate and we put it back in general fund and then we use general fund to fund the

1064
01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:25,340
parks tell me what the difference is to the taxpayer if the money is going to be the

1065
01:31:25,340 --> 01:31:30,520
same if it's in ours versus if it's in general fund what's the what's the difference okay

1066
01:31:30,520 --> 01:31:35,860
and that's a great question because just like the first amendment that I pointed out there

1067
01:31:35,860 --> 01:31:41,000
is there is no difference to the taxpayer we're just moving money within the current budget

1068
01:31:41,000 --> 01:31:44,620
Except you tried to pull it from road and bridge, which is already been cut

1069
01:31:45,300 --> 01:31:49,920
The last few years because they were used to use an arpophons and

1070
01:31:49,920 --> 01:31:53,360
So you say the test point zero zero two would be a tax cut

1071
01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:58,360
No, I said it would be a transfer it's apples to apples. It's cutting

1072
01:31:58,360 --> 01:32:04,360
Fun you said it we're cutting from part you said we have to the general to give to the general fun

1073
01:32:04,360 --> 01:32:09,080
But we have increased. Yeah, we haven't had a tax increase on the people

1074
01:32:09,080 --> 01:32:12,220
We have news where if we had an interview,

1075
01:32:12,540 --> 01:32:14,040
we'll still call it use the funds.

1076
01:32:14,680 --> 01:32:17,060
Let me go with your logic here.

1077
01:32:17,780 --> 01:32:18,720
You'll let me go with your logic.

1078
01:32:19,500 --> 01:32:22,980
So you took the general fund tax rate

1079
01:32:22,980 --> 01:32:25,460
and you lowered it even more

1080
01:32:25,460 --> 01:32:28,420
so that you could fund your part of the tax rate.

1081
01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:31,560
So if we gave this back,

1082
01:32:31,660 --> 01:32:34,480
you'd tell me the number of revenue rate would go down

1083
01:32:34,480 --> 01:32:35,960
to zero to zero to zero to zero.

1084
01:32:35,960 --> 01:32:36,220
No, exactly.

1085
01:32:36,620 --> 01:32:39,020
No, but what we're doing?

1086
01:32:39,020 --> 01:32:48,980
What we're doing is transferring them money and I'm not I'm not remember this does not affect your budget for your park

1087
01:32:49,660 --> 01:32:58,140
Idle you and New Deal will have the exact same money as as what's going to be in this budget the only thing we're doing is

1088
01:32:58,140 --> 01:33:03,000
Taking that tax rate and giving it back to the county the money will still be there

1089
01:33:04,040 --> 01:33:08,820
But you also don't run into that issue where you've got this as a special fund

1090
01:33:09,020 --> 01:33:13,620
funding other things within the county. And that's what's happened in the past.

1091
01:33:13,760 --> 01:33:19,900
So, and that's what we need to start from reserves from your fund balances of your parks.

1092
01:33:20,980 --> 01:33:28,160
You would have to balance your revenues and your expenses and you would not get to draw from

1093
01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:31,720
reserve. You would have to cut your expenses.

1094
01:33:34,190 --> 01:33:37,830
And really, that puts you in line with what you're

1095
01:33:37,830 --> 01:33:43,050
every other department in this county to do. That's what this amendment does. It puts you in

1096
01:33:43,050 --> 01:33:50,050
line with what you're asking every other department to do. You ready to vote? All right. Is there

1097
01:33:50,050 --> 01:33:55,870
any other, is there any other questions or comments? Hearing none, I'll call for the question. All in

1098
01:33:55,870 --> 01:34:00,110
favor, signify by raising your right hand. All those opposed?

1099
01:34:02,410 --> 01:34:04,710
Amendment fails. Two to three.

1100
01:34:13,350 --> 01:34:13,810
And

1101
01:34:13,810 --> 01:34:19,690
motion and I do have a second on the adoption of the fiscal year 2026 budget for

1102
01:34:19,690 --> 01:34:26,050
Lubbock County. Is there any further questions or comments? I do have a comment on

1103
01:34:26,050 --> 01:34:26,590
the vote.

1104
01:34:28,920 --> 01:34:34,200
I will be voting no on this budget and simply because this budget

1105
01:34:34,200 --> 01:34:40,440
hurts Lubbock County. It hurts employees. It hurts law enforcement. It

1106
01:34:40,440 --> 01:34:47,560
arts, firefighters, it hurts facilities, it hurts road and bridge, it hurts every aspect

1107
01:34:47,560 --> 01:34:48,260
of this county.

1108
01:34:48,360 --> 01:34:49,520
This budget does.

1109
01:34:50,060 --> 01:34:55,460
I think we have said all along, our job is to provide the needs for the people of Lubbock County.

1110
01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:59,840
This budget does not provide for the needs of Lubbock County.

1111
01:34:59,960 --> 01:35:03,560
In fact, this budget hurts the people of Lubbock County.

1112
01:35:03,560 --> 01:35:09,680
This budget cuts $250,000 from the fire departments.

1113
01:35:10,720 --> 01:35:12,000
That's what this budget does.

1114
01:35:12,820 --> 01:35:16,700
This budget cuts $1.4 million off of the sheriff's department.

1115
01:35:17,240 --> 01:35:18,100
This budget hurts.

1116
01:35:19,200 --> 01:35:21,040
This budget cuts road and bridge.

1117
01:35:21,440 --> 01:35:22,100
It hurts.

1118
01:35:23,580 --> 01:35:28,100
This budget does not need the needs of the public county.

1119
01:35:28,100 --> 01:35:34,500
This budget also has been balanced on the savings account.

1120
01:35:35,200 --> 01:35:42,460
That is not sustainable, 7.2 million last year, 6.8 million this year.

1121
01:35:42,980 --> 01:35:49,280
How long do you think it is sustainable to balance a budget off of a savings account?

1122
01:35:50,000 --> 01:35:50,560
It's not.

1123
01:35:51,220 --> 01:35:56,360
It is not sustainable and it's not sound fiscal-conservative budgeting.

1124
01:35:56,360 --> 01:36:03,400
this is the budgeting they do in Washington. This is how liberals budget. They go out

1125
01:36:03,400 --> 01:36:06,140
and it doesn't matter. We'll just pull it out of savings. We'll pull it out of

1126
01:36:06,140 --> 01:36:14,020
that. You cannot do that and expect to have a good sound, physically conservative budget

1127
01:36:14,020 --> 01:36:20,420
in this county. A budget that, and thank you, Mr. Corley, for pointing out, has been

1128
01:36:20,420 --> 01:36:27,420
In an award-winning budget, the controller has said you do have a sound fiscal conservative

1129
01:36:27,420 --> 01:36:27,840
budget.

1130
01:36:28,200 --> 01:36:30,280
That goes away with this vote today,

1131
01:36:33,710 --> 01:36:38,770
G-A-S-B, which really governs how we account for our

1132
01:36:38,770 --> 01:36:44,090
government accounting, has said you have one of the best sound, fiscally conservative

1133
01:36:44,090 --> 01:36:45,910
budgets in North America.

1134
01:36:46,270 --> 01:36:47,590
That goes away today.

1135
01:36:48,390 --> 01:36:54,810
Standard and pours tells us you have a AA plus bond rating because of your good sound

1136
01:36:54,810 --> 01:36:58,010
physical conservative budgeting that goes away today.

1137
01:36:58,570 --> 01:37:01,190
This is a very sad day for Love Accounting.

1138
01:37:01,490 --> 01:37:05,650
This budget does not help the people of Love Accounting.

1139
01:37:05,770 --> 01:37:08,170
This budget hurts the people of Love Accounting.

1140
01:37:08,850 --> 01:37:16,650
This budget hurts the workers, the employees, the people who show up every day to do their job.

1141
01:37:16,650 --> 01:37:20,410
I mean people in jail, keeping our streets safe,

1142
01:37:20,850 --> 01:37:23,930
keeping our homes protected from fire.

1143
01:37:24,490 --> 01:37:26,990
This hurts, love a county today.

1144
01:37:32,350 --> 01:37:54,510
We've offered ways all throughout the summer to get us out of this whole, and constantly running up against an issue of, well, we've got a cut taxes, we've got a cut taxes, and yes, taxes were cut. The no new revenue rate was adopted, saving taxpayers, $2.63 a year.

1145
01:37:55,910 --> 01:37:56,390
So,

1146
01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:00,740
I don't know what to tell you.

1147
01:38:00,980 --> 01:38:02,780
I don't know what to tell all of you who are listening,

1148
01:38:03,360 --> 01:38:05,580
and I don't know what to tell you in employees other than,

1149
01:38:05,820 --> 01:38:06,980
would you please keep working?

1150
01:38:07,740 --> 01:38:12,260
Would you keep please fighting with me as we struggle through making sure

1151
01:38:12,260 --> 01:38:16,400
that this budget doesn't hurt any more than it is?

1152
01:38:16,620 --> 01:38:19,020
Would you stay with us?

1153
01:38:19,220 --> 01:38:21,700
I know many of you have already got your resumes now.

1154
01:38:22,240 --> 01:38:25,160
Say, how can I work in a county that doesn't support us?

1155
01:38:25,160 --> 01:38:35,140
Please, please, fight with me as we continue to move forward to try to get out of this whole

1156
01:38:35,140 --> 01:38:39,820
that this vote today is going to dig us even deeper and deeper into.

1157
01:38:40,400 --> 01:38:41,700
Please stay with us.

1158
01:38:42,320 --> 01:38:44,160
I do appreciate you.

1159
01:38:44,540 --> 01:38:49,500
I really do, and I appreciate the work that you do on behalf of the people of Love Accounting.

1160
01:38:49,780 --> 01:38:50,640
Please keep doing.

1161
01:38:53,370 --> 01:38:54,870
Is there any other questions or comments?

1162
01:38:57,210 --> 01:39:03,350
If not, I'll call for the question, all in favor of adopting the fiscal year 2015 expudged

1163
01:39:03,350 --> 01:39:07,730
as presented by the Auditor's Office, please signify by raising your hand.

1164
01:39:10,080 --> 01:39:11,160
All those opposed,

1165
01:39:13,340 --> 01:39:18,820
motion to adopt prevails three to two, to perish, and commissioner

1166
01:39:18,820 --> 01:39:19,920
doll be voting against.

1167
01:39:26,760 --> 01:39:29,240
And now is authorized by the Texas Government Code.

1168
01:39:29,540 --> 01:39:31,000
Thank you, Mr. President.

1169
01:39:31,340 --> 01:39:34,280
I'd like to, uh, oh yes.

1170
01:39:34,620 --> 01:39:34,820
Yes.

1171
01:39:34,820 --> 01:39:35,880
Yes, we do.

1172
01:39:35,880 --> 01:39:37,720
Natalie, can you come forward please?

1173
01:39:40,140 --> 01:39:43,980
This is Natalie Harville's last commissioner's court with us.

1174
01:39:53,400 --> 01:40:00,280
Harville has seen this for the last seven and a half years about eight years, eight years.

1175
01:40:01,080 --> 01:40:04,940
She has directed our facilities and done an incredible job.

1176
01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:09,780
If you all know where we have been in the last eight years, where we were eight years ago,

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01:40:09,940 --> 01:40:12,860
versus where we are today, the light years difference.

1178
01:40:12,860 --> 01:40:14,660
So, Ms. Harvel, thank you.

1179
01:40:14,840 --> 01:40:16,640
That's a testimony to you,

1180
01:40:17,140 --> 01:40:19,700
the testimony to the staff that you have built.

1181
01:40:21,180 --> 01:40:22,560
You're leaving us in the middle

1182
01:40:22,560 --> 01:40:24,620
of a couple of pretty big projects, too, by the way,

1183
01:40:24,720 --> 01:40:27,400
and I'll continue to point that out as well.

1184
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:31,300
You've left this county in much better shape

1185
01:40:31,300 --> 01:40:33,060
than it was when you found it,

1186
01:40:33,060 --> 01:40:35,720
and that is all that we could ever ask for anybody.

1187
01:40:36,440 --> 01:40:40,380
So, Natalie Harvel, I say thank you on behalf of the judge,

1188
01:40:40,660 --> 01:40:42,200
on behalf of the Commissioner's Court,

1189
01:40:42,200 --> 01:40:47,540
on behalf of the employees of this County. Thank you for your incredible service to this county

1190
01:40:47,540 --> 01:40:52,700
and make God bless you and Lewis and your retirement. May you travel the world,

1191
01:40:53,080 --> 01:40:57,580
see mountains in Colorado and enjoy your grand babies. Thank you.

1192
01:41:00,780 --> 01:41:01,300
Thank you. Thank you.

1193
01:41:01,440 --> 01:41:01,460
Thank you. Thank you.

1194
01:41:05,750 --> 01:41:11,090
When I came in eight years ago, I had no idea what to expect

1195
01:41:11,090 --> 01:41:21,350
because I've worked in a private practice consulting for more than 20 years.

1196
01:41:22,210 --> 01:41:25,710
The other day, somebody asked me, like, well, you're not old enough to retire.

1197
01:41:25,850 --> 01:41:29,530
I was a state home mom for 13 years.

1198
01:41:30,390 --> 01:41:34,770
Before I went back to school to get my degree and became a structural engineer.

1199
01:41:34,770 --> 01:41:40,050
No, I had about 20 years of consulting and then eight years with accounting.

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01:41:41,170 --> 01:41:44,210
I really had no idea what I was getting myself into.

1201
01:41:47,020 --> 01:41:49,500
I have worked hard.

1202
01:41:50,120 --> 01:41:51,760
I've been in the amazing job, too.

1203
01:41:52,240 --> 01:41:57,700
At getting the facilities maintenance department, where it is now.

1204
01:41:58,000 --> 01:42:04,240
When I started where basically on a paper-based workforce system,

1205
01:42:04,240 --> 01:42:08,840
I went in the computer and it came out of the computer, but you could really get no information

1206
01:42:08,840 --> 01:42:09,660
out of it.

1207
01:42:09,900 --> 01:42:18,340
Other than it was a glorified typing machine, we were able to track assets, we were able to

1208
01:42:18,340 --> 01:42:26,120
give the cost of what a repair is, or what the repairs are for the year in plumbing.

1209
01:42:26,700 --> 01:42:31,240
We could do that, or what the maintenance on fifth floor of the courthouse is.

1210
01:42:31,240 --> 01:42:36,880
We can do that now. We have worked so hard at doing those things. We have an excellent

1211
01:42:36,880 --> 01:42:44,640
staff and our staff is the one who shines. I have Nick has been a great addition for this

1212
01:42:44,640 --> 01:42:51,880
county and for me. He has made it possible for us to get to where we are. I've had ideas

1213
01:42:51,880 --> 01:42:58,340
and because facility maintenance is not my background. I didn't necessarily know how to implement

1214
01:42:58,340 --> 01:43:07,120
those ideas. He certainly did that for me, for the county. We have great supervisors and we keep

1215
01:43:07,120 --> 01:43:12,900
training our people, whether it's the new people who are coming in that don't, we've literally

1216
01:43:12,900 --> 01:43:17,940
hired people who don't know the difference between a philips and a blade screwdriver. They don't

1217
01:43:17,940 --> 01:43:24,360
have that experience because at some point it was so hard to find people who, to feel spaces,

1218
01:43:24,360 --> 01:43:29,460
But we go to them on and we use my staff to train them.

1219
01:43:30,020 --> 01:43:31,020
They're great employees.

1220
01:43:31,820 --> 01:43:33,200
They enjoy what they do.

1221
01:43:33,440 --> 01:43:34,860
They enjoy working for the county.

1222
01:43:36,480 --> 01:43:38,700
I hope it will continue that way.

1223
01:43:39,020 --> 01:43:41,200
But my staff is wonderful.

1224
01:43:42,420 --> 01:43:44,480
And they're the reason why I'm successful.

1225
01:43:45,980 --> 01:43:47,500
I really think.

1226
01:43:48,840 --> 01:43:53,040
Believe that God put me into this position too.

1227
01:43:53,600 --> 01:44:02,220
To help the county, but to be there for my staff, no, I've had, like most people, you have

1228
01:44:02,220 --> 01:44:09,140
experiences that you would love to have again, and there's experiences that you would never

1229
01:44:09,140 --> 01:44:13,640
want anybody else to have to go through, but you know what, I've got to give this all of

1230
01:44:13,640 --> 01:44:22,540
those, or allow us to have all of those, and therefore that we have that opportunity to

1231
01:44:22,540 --> 01:44:26,940
has to experience on and the benefit of those experiences to others.

1232
01:44:27,200 --> 01:44:29,920
And I think that's why I was put here in that position.

1233
01:44:30,440 --> 01:44:31,820
So I thank you for that opportunity.

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01:44:33,910 --> 01:44:37,350
I'd like to tell you that level county is a better place because of you.

1235
01:44:39,840 --> 01:44:40,580
Thank you, gentlemen.

1236
01:44:41,820 --> 01:44:42,800
I'd like to.

1237
01:44:49,240 --> 01:44:51,980
And now I was authorized by the Texas Government Code Commission's Court of

1238
01:44:51,980 --> 01:44:52,860
Love Accounting Texas.

1239
01:44:53,340 --> 01:44:59,360
We'll now adjourn into executive session to discuss any matters, including, but not

1240
01:44:59,360 --> 01:44:59,840
This is the end of this video.

1241
01:45:00,020 --> 01:45:22,880
To the Texas Government Code 5 to 1.071, one consultation with the attorney about pending or contemplated litigation or settlement offers, Texas Government Code 5 to 1.071, two consultation with the attorney, when the attorney's obligations under Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, of the state bar of Texas, conflicts with Chapter 5 to 1 of the Texas Government Code.

1242
01:45:22,880 --> 01:45:31,000
Texas Gamma Co-5 to 1.072 deliberations about real property, Texas Gamma Co-5 to 1.073 deliberations

1243
01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:39,240
about give some donations. Texas Gamma Co-5 to 1.074 personnel matters. Personal matters

1244
01:45:39,240 --> 01:45:44,080
will include interviews of candidates for the Director of Facilities Maintenance Position.

1245
01:45:46,270 --> 01:45:52,530
Texas Gamma Co-5 to 1.0745, Personnel Matters Effective Accounting Advisory Body, Texas Gamma

1246
01:45:52,530 --> 01:45:59,070
co-5 to 1.076 deliberations regarding security devices or security audits, and Texas government

1247
01:45:59,070 --> 01:46:03,810
co-5 to 1.087 deliberations regarding economic development negotiations.

1248
01:46:04,890 --> 01:46:09,190
It is 11.51, a lot of county commissioner's court is now an executive session.

1249
01:46:12,040 --> 01:46:14,580
All right, let's reconvene along with kind of commissioner's court and regular session

1250
01:46:14,580 --> 01:46:16,900
is the end of the business for the commissioner's court.

1251
01:46:17,540 --> 01:46:19,440
Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

1252
01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:19,880
So many.

1253
01:46:20,280 --> 01:46:22,640
It is three o'clock and we are now adjourned.

1254
01:46:22,820 --> 01:46:23,040
Thank you.

1255
01:46:23,040 --> 01:46:23,660
Thank you.