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right, welcome everyone to our commissioner's court today. Thank you for being here. At this

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time we're going to open with our invocation, Commissioner Gray, if you would introduce the

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individual who's going to do our invocation, if you'd follow up then with the pledges.

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Yes, sir. I'd like to introduce Pastor Andy Hunt of New Cane Family Worship, a lifelong

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friend and a great mentor in the community.

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All right. Let's all stand together.

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Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for the blessing of this new day and this new moment

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that we have to conduct business for our county and its citizens.

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As we gather here this morning, we ask that you guide our leadership in all their decision-making

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and lead them through the process of the oversight of our great county.

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Lord, help us to make wise and prudent decisions that best serve those we serve.

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And may we walk and lead according to your will.

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As we lead, God teach us to always consider others before we do ourselves.

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Let us live by your golden rule in Scripture, do unto others as you would have them do unto

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you.

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I would like to also pray a special blessing upon all the members of this commissioners

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court.

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Bless each of them with godly wisdom to make the right decisions, even when it

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might be hard to do so.

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God, allow them to disagree agreeably, giving us unity among our members that might prove

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to serve for the greater good in our community.

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Teach us always to be slow to speak and quick to listen.

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Bless each of them and their families.

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Bless them abundantly.

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As your word says, bless them coming in and bless them going out.

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And Lord, may your wonderful blessing chase them down and overtake them.

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them. Continue to give them beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for mourning. Lord, according

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to your word, I know you have plans to prosper each of them and give them a hope and a future.

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Lord, we pray you're protecting hand also upon every one of our first responders in

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our community and bless them. God, we are so grateful for your mercies. They are from

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everlasting to everlasting. Guide us, teach us, lead us, speak to us, and help us here

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today. Oh, and God, I have a PS to this prayer. Please lead these great leaders to fix my potholes,

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dig my ditches, and lower my taxes all in the same day. We ask this prayer in Jesus'

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this most precious name, Amen. And can I hear a big Amen? Amen.

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Thank you, Pastor. We appreciate

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that so much, so much.

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Let the record reflect that all are present today. Do I have a motion

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to approve the commissioner's court agenda. Move. Move a motion. Is there a second? Second. All in

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favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. All right. At this time, we give our citizens an opportunity

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to come and make a comment on an item that would be on our agenda. If there's a general comment

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you'd like to make, at the end we will have the opportunity for you to do that. But this is a

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time for items on our agenda. Please understand that we will give you three minutes at the

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three minutes you will hear the timer and we're going to ask you to stop also if

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you would name the item on the agenda state your name for the record all right

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is there anyone who would like to come forward and who would like to share all

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right if there are no citizen comments then let's move forward proclamations

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resolution oh okay come forward state your name for the record the item

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please be bid 23-15 okay good morning I'm Edward country junior with stripes and

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stops company we're a small company based in Houston that provides services

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for municipalities and counties alike in our region including Montgomery County

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we have striped helipads parking lots the toll road and countless roadways in

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the Montgomery County area our services include not only the striping but

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but also traffic control and signage.

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We have serviced Montgomery County for the past five years successfully and have become

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very well acquainted with the directors and staff in each precinct as they have learned

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our means and methods as well.

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We are presenting today due to a slight and unfortunate technicality with the communication

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between our administrative teams.

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Apparently stripes and stops did not receive the bid opportunity and time to make it

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submission to Montgomery County.

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How this mishap came about, is there relevant at this time?

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However, the absent submission of the bid for project 23-15 is why I stand before you today.

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We're requesting from the court an extension so that we may submit our bid to the county for review

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and continue our professional relationship as well as the streamlined operations with Montgomery County

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and each individual precinct.

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We appreciate your time and consideration for this extension for bid 23-15, and look forward

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to serving the county for many years to come.

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Thank you for sharing with us.

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We appreciate it so much.

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Under 22G.

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22G.

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Bye.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Are there any other citizen comments?

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If there aren't none, then let's move forward in our agenda, proclamations, resolutions,

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and presentations.

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a presentation of Employee of the Month.

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Good morning, Judge and Commissioner.

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I am Ken Washington,

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Recognition Coordinator for the Montgomery County Employee Committee.

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We come before you today to present a plaque for Employee of the Month

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for April and a gift certificate

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from Dragon Bowl C. Noodle and Bloor in downtown Conroe.

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There were six Employee of the Month nominations submitted for consideration.

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All the nominations are well-deserved for an award,

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but there is one employee we would like to recognize this month.

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Can we have Judge Wayne Mack with JP1 to come forward to present this award?

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Thank you, and we appreciate the opportunity to do this.

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We're thankful to the employee committee and all that they do for our county employees.

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And like every elected official here, we're blessed to work with the very best.

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We have our names on the doors and buildings and so forth,

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but it's our people that do the work.

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And I'm blessed today to have just about every one of our staff here today in recognition of this individual.

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Only two people in my office actually know who's getting it, so the rest of them are like, why are we here?

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And so we appreciate what every one of my staff does on a daily basis.

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Justice courts, as you know, are the highest volume courts in Texas.

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We see thousands of people and generally nobody coming to our office is happy to be there.

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Occasionally somebody's getting married. They might be happy to be there, but that's the exception to rule.

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This person has distinguished career working for the county for almost 10 years and she is very well respected in our office.

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Not only is she a master of her craft, she's one of the few justice court clerks in the

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county that has both certificates for civil and for criminal.

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She always goes above and beyond.

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She's an inspiration to everybody, and she really enjoys what she does.

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But in addition to doing her job, when we started our chaplaincy program, she was one

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of our staff that stepped up in a large way to help us recruit chaplains to be a part

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of our chaplaincy program which has been very successful over the years and

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being there for families when they get the worst news of their life. On on call

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we have three to four chaplains on call 24-7 and then four years ago this

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month we launched a behavioral health suicide task force and I asked this

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person to step up and help me be able to navigate that and now we have 12

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working group work groups over 250 volunteers uh want uh been told often that in our county it's

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one of the few that is so diverse and has so many people involved and could not do all that work

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without this individual and um and then also in addition to that she's very involved in the

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Montgomery County Historical Society and um and and preserving our history of our county

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and is very involved with Larry Foster, who couldn't be here today.

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Dr. Brenda LeVar, who with WellPath is very involved with NAMI,

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and our task force also wrote a letter on behalf of this person.

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And I'm going to be in so much trouble right now.

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I can see her face in the reflection of the screen right here,

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but we're honored to have her husband and her sons here,

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and she doesn't know this.

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Her mom's stuck in the back door.

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Her mom is also here as well.

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And so I'd like Missy Ringo to come forward,

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And we honor you Missy.

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Congratulations Missy. We appreciate you so very much and all that you do.

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the family to come forward please. They tricked me.

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I'm in here. Come on in. That's my baby.

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I'd like all my staff to come up here because we're such a great team and everyone here is

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in support of Missy getting this acknowledgment and we're just so blessed to do this.

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And again, thank you to the Employee Committee.

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Commissioner, thank you for supporting Justice Courts and all that we do.

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We couldn't do it obviously without you.

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only one that couldn't be here is our bailiff because he's letting people in

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our courtroom right now.

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Thank you commissioners.

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Great job.

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Appreciate you all so very much.

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Congratulations.

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Thank you all.

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Appreciate it so much.

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The next item on our agenda is consider and approve resolution order regarding the acceptance

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of donated books as you recall in our last commissioners' court.

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Michelle Nichols came forward and was thanking our librarian, Rea, for putting

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certain books into the library, mentioned that there was a cost to it.

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He also recognized as we put these good, nourishing, positive books into the library, our district

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attorney, Brett Ligon, came forward.

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He jumped up out of his chair, came up to the front, and he said, I would like to donate

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to that.

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Since that time, what we have done is, and we wanted to memorialize this, is we're

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required to, since we are accepting some resources from Brett Ligon, also from BD.

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Judge, I didn't want to, it's hard for you to brag, it's hard for you to brag when you're

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in the position that you're in, but there were several people in the community that came

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forward and said, hey, I want to help in that effort.

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We met Brave Books, the books are illustrated wonderfully, they're great stories, they're

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good readers.

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BD actually came up first, I know that Commissioner Gray had offered help, Judge,

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and you actually joined in the effort as well in buying the books and so all the

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county libraries in the community now have it. And one of the things that BDNI

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recognized is, you know, it's a cliche, but readers are leaders. And we decided to

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take a position of inclusivity and putting good materials into the county

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library versus going through the fight of, okay, what's appropriate, what

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should be sequestered, or whatever, and try to go to the light instead of

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fighting in the dark all the time. So BDNI, I want to thank you for standing

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up immediately, Commissioner Gray for the offer, and Judge, thank you for

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for joining that effort as well.

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So gentlemen, thank you.

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Thank you so much, Brad.

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Appreciate that.

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Can we have a motion to approve the resolution?

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Move.

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All in favor?

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Judge, I can't help but think that you must think

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that I don't say enough in court with the Unmuzzle Me

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Please book in front of me.

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See you at hand, I need to say more.

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When Kimberly was putting these out,

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I said make sure you put this in the appropriate place.

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But again, thank you, thank you, yes, sir, and thank you, our district attorney, Brett

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Lugan, for taking the lead on that.

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All right, let's move forward.

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National crime victim rights.

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We need to vote on that.

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Oh, all in favor?

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Motion carries.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Brad, if you'd come up as we talk about National Crime Victims' Rights Week.

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I can do two good things.

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First off, it is the National Crime Victims' Rights Week, but unexpectedly, I would like

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the community to recognize the VAX, the Victim Assistance Coordinators.

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We have them from the District Attorney's Office here today.

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Ladies, if you would, please stand up.

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I've got two new friends at the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department.

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It's Zach and Bethany.

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Y'all stand up.

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They're the VACs for the SO and

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to my favorite former employees from the

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county attorney's office Danielle and Mark Danielle is the VAC for the county

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attorney as well so if they would stand up so

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These people are making sure that victims are served within our community. It's only a

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week of formal recognition for us. This is our lifestyle. This is what we do. The Children's

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Safe Harbor. I know Dr. Constance is here, and probably some of her staff as well. Where

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is Victoria? Thank you. Okay. Ladies, if you would, Children's Safe Harbor.

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This morning,

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Dr. Constance and her crew, several people from precinct three from the DA's office

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put 2,303 pinwheels down at Precinct 3, and that represents every child at

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Children's Safe Harbor provided services to this year. It's a tremendous number in

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the sense that it's the amount of resources that Montgomery County has.

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On the other hand, it's a scary number, right? I'd like to have zero pinwheels

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around for the rest of Montgomery County. Unfortunately, it's just not a

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number that's going to happen. So gentlemen, if you don't mind, I will

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read the proclamation. There is a call upon communities to amplify the voice of survivors

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and create environments where survivors have the confidence they will be heard, believed,

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and supported. Whereas crime victims' rights acts past here in Texas and at the federal

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level guarantee victims the right to meaningfully participate in the criminal justice process,

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including the elevating the voices of survivors, make certain they are heard and seen,

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and creates a path to forging and sustaining community trust. Whereas survivors' lived

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experience can serve as a catalyst for implementing innovative programs, shifting existing programs

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in new directions, and changing policies or practices that prevent survivors from accessing

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services or pursuing justice, and whereas national crime victims' rights weeks provides an

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opportunity to recommit to listening to crime survivors in every space where decisions

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are made that could impact them, and I would ask the court for its indulgence

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to inter-lineate here. It says it's the district attorney's office that's hereby

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dedicated. I'd like the court to recognize that Montgomery County, the county as a

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whole, is dedicated helping crime survivors find their justice by

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enforcing victims' rights, expanding access to services, and ensuring equity

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and inclusion for all. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that so much for all of you who are here with us today. We have

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Motion to approve this national crime victim rights.

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Second.

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We have a motion to second.

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All in favor?

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Opposed?

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Motion carries.

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All right.

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Proclamation, D.

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Do it real quick.

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I would get in trouble by some of my staff

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if I didn't point out that that was passed by Congressman

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Ted Poe in 2010.

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And one of my staff came.

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She worked for the congressman.

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So I have been hearing about this.

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And she is so excited about this coming forward.

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So thank you, Brett, on that.

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Yes, sir.

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Thank you Commissioner. Appreciate it. All right. It's also we have a

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proclamation for 2023 soil and water stewardship week and April 30th 23 to

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May 7th 2023. Do we have a motion to approve? Is there a second? Second. All in

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favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. All right. The court will consider discuss

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and in its discretion take action on the following items concerning under

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Item number 10 is County Judge and the first is Consider and Improve Resolution Order regarding

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signature authority for approved agenda items. Currently in our consent agenda we have a resolution

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in order that has me being the one unless there's a signature or be the one who signs

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all the information. When we go to an open agenda what we do is we always will name

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a person who's going to sign. This is cleanup allowing me to go ahead and be the

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one whose signed continue to sign unless there is a signature word that is

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mentioned. Move. Sir, a motion. We have a second. Thank you. All in favor? Aye.

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Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. All right. Second, consider and improve

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adoption of an order with respect to waste management, an ink project

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and authorize the county judge to execute certificates of proving the

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order in a public hearing. This is the landfill project over

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we're increasing for refinancing through the sale of taxable bonds.

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We have a motion to approve.

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We have motions or a second?

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I'll second.

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All in favor?

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Opposed?

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Motion carries.

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Thank you.

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All right, let's move on in our discussion here.

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Consider an approved user agreement between Montgomery County and

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the big guy LLC authorizing County Judge Mark Keough to execute the agreement.

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What this is, is there is a local film company that's making a documentary, and they wanted

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to use our county jail.

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They asked the sheriff of which he said, yeah, I would love to, but I can't.

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That would violate our statutes.

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We can't do that.

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And so we said, hey, what if we could do it over at the jail that is above, over

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in the...

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Courthouse?

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Over in the courthouse.

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And this is a film production company.

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It's a documentary.

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I'm not even sure it's about jails in Texas y'all know who this is with Dinesh de Sousa

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We've agreed to do something if we will you guys will approve it sure the big guy. That's him

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big guy

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Biden is it no no no no

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Sheriff why don't you come can you tell us a little bit about this? I know you don't want to be involved in this

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But I need your help here

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Because he approached you

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Well, I think he's the big guy on some of this stuff we're talking about.

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Well, our big guy is not that guy.

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It's a local film producer in the Woodlands who's done a lot of documentaries,

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and he's reached out.

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It's mostly a quiet project.

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The county attorney is familiar with the project,

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so I don't really want to talk too much about it.

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But it's, like the judge said, he wanted to use the real jail,

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and that just wasn't going to work.

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So the district attorney and I and the county attorney we cut it up and came up with an idea where we could use the old jail

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And it's actually an ideal location

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For filming it's not used at all. There's really no purpose for it other than historical commission giving tours there

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So we're able to to use it without any disruption of a facility

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It's a used contract so they will be paying a daily rate the county attorney has come up with a daily rate for usage

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Shouldn't interfere with operations at all so

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That's great when I was

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When I read this, I had no idea who the big guy was,

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as Commissioner Riley mentioned, and then exactly what

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they were looking to do with the county and county's office.

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We didn't come up with a rate, by the way.

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We worked with purchasing to figure out a rate

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just so that if you guys are so inclined,

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you can approve this use agreement for them

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to do this filming.

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And what is the rate?

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They're going to pay $500.

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$500.

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$500 to rent the facility.

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Per day, it's the old jail.

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Do they have, do we have some sort of a hold harmless agreement or something signed by them?

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Yes.

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So it is a full use agreement just like you would have any other county property use?

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Good.

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Yeah.

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The insurance, W-9, everything's on file, county attorney's office has made sure we're

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all in the good.

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Good to go.

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Sounds good.

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All right.

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We have a motion to approve.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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Motion carries.

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Thank you, gentlemen.

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Listen, I'd like to go back, if I may, in the agenda back to the county clerk.

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I skipped over 9a by accident consider approved commissioners court minutes from regular session April 11 2023 to have a motion to approve

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Sir a second all in favor?

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Opposed motion carries. Thank you

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All right budget

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Good morning judge commissioners. I have several items for discussion this morning

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First one. I'll go through my regular agenda items 11 a memorialized previous action

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on Commissioner Court actions taken on changes to the fiscal year 2023 budget for the following

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departments, Constable Precinct 4, Sheriff's Office, Animal Services, Justice Court Technology,

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Capital Projects, Commissioners, and DA4 featured.

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These are just routine items that we do after you guys have voted on an item.

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We bring back a BMF, a budget modification form for Commissioner's Court approval.

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Move.

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Second.

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Any discussion?

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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motion carries. Next item. 11b consider approve and authorize transfers and

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adjustments for the fiscal year 2023 budget according to budget policy. These

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are just everyday changes that we we bring to you guys. These normally are

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going to be departments that have that are moving money within outside of

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their own departments or it's commissioner or sheriff's office budgets

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where they're moving between like parks and community centers or parks and

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commissioner's offices. Most of these are related to commissioner Charlie

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So, this is according to the 23 budget, but the action that we're going to take later

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on the budget policy will be for the fiscal year 24.

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That's correct.

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Okay.

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Yep.

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All right.

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We have a motion to approve.

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Second.

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All in favor?

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Opposed?

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Motion carries.

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Item number three.

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11c, consider approve and authorize transfers, adjustments and amendments for special revenue

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departments and general fund departments for fiscal year 2023.

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Most of these are going to be revenue recognition meaning that we're recognizing the revenue

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that the departments have accrued and then authorizing an expenditure budget related

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to those.

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We have a motion.

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Second.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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Motion carries.

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Item D.

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And this one's considered approve and authorized transfers, adjustments and amendments for

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grant departments for fiscal year 2023.

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These ones are mostly going to be related to ARPA.

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Move.

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second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Let's move forward. Okay next one I

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have I'm gonna go ahead and kick off the FY 2024 budget. I'm gonna have something

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to pass out real quick.

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All right we're here at my favorite time of the year the

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budget time where we get to go through and take you know departments request and

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put them all together and present you guys an overall great budget that

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benefits, not only our taxpayers, but pretty much everyone that does business in

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the county and anyone that pays taxes as well. So for the FY 2024 kickoff, this is

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the first beat, this is the beginning. We do expect to go full force. We'll have

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a budget adoption scheduled for August 31st, August 30th, sorry August 30th.

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I'm going to start with the budget office staff. This is us, the budget

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team. There's four of us that make up this team. Me as the budget officer,

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Sarah is my senior analyst, Wendy as my personnel analyst, and Christopher as my operations analyst.

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We could be reached by our individual email addresses, but if anybody in the county wants

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to reach out to us, they can also use the budget employees at MCTX.org, and that gets all four

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of us at the same time.

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So any budget questions that departments have, they can always reach out to us.

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So the key responsibilities of the budget office, our mission is to manage resources

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efficiently, effectively, and equitably.

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We like to communicate the court's vision to other departments and elected officials.

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research and compile data from other entities including citizen participation and any requirements by statute.

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We also assist departments in their financial reporting for their departments.

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Okay, for the state of the county, this is kind of where I like to give an overall briefing of, you know, where we are at right now in the county.

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Currently for FY23, we've collected 97.7% of our FY 2023 general fund tax revenues with six months being left of the fiscal year.

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So we still have a little ways to go, but we're very close to having a full 100% collected.

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Where are we normally at at this time?

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Yes, last year we were at 96.8, so we're pretty close to where we were, actually a little bit above where we were last year.

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Tammy didn't take off last week.

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For population in Montgomery County, of course, we're seeing huge growth numbers here.

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The U.S. census estimates from July 1st, 2021 to July 2022 that our population increased

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4.3 percent.

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That's very significant.

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And since I've been here, that's kind of been the trend.

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We've continued to see some considerable growth.

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Of 13.6 percent of our population is over 65 years of age versus the national average

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of 16.5.

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I think that's pretty important why we did some of the over 65 things that we've

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done within the county hitting that population. I think this is a great

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number personally. This is the labor force. Just from February 2022 to February

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2023, we also saw our labor force grow from 300,000 to 309,000. That's workers

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that are hitting our local economies, which I think, you know, ultimately makes

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a growing community even better when you have those people that are, you

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know, giving back to the community as well. Inflation, this is a pretty big

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number. So we, if you remember last year when I presented these numbers,

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the inflation numbers were off the charts. They were just so incredibly high. We're still

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seeing high inflation numbers, but just to kind of give you guys an idea. When I got here in 2018,

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we had a budget of $246.1 million in the general fund. That budget, the same budget today,

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without any changes in services, without any changes in population growth,

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none of that would now be $294 million. That's the buying power of our dollar today versus

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versus what it was in 2018.

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So again, the buying power for $100 back then

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is now worth $119.57 today.

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So everything is costing more and we really know that.

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The biggest increase that we see on the inflation side

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of course doesn't affect the county as much

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but it does affect our employees is that food.

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The food CPI increased 11.1%.

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And most of that being contributed

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by fruits and vegetables, kind of ironic.

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Energy decreased 6.7.

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If you guys remember at this point last year, we had seen fuel prices that were extremely high.

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Since February 2022, we have seen a decrease in fuel from 4.3%.

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Overall, all of the energy, especially our electric, has decreased a little bit.

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So we may see some savings in some of our non-departmental.

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All other items besides food and energy, we should have increased 5.4%.

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Again, that's according to...

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The housing market. I thought this was a good idea, a good indicator where we are. And

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the median listing price for a house in Montgomery County in March of 2021 was $338,000. If you

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remember the peak last year in March of 2022, that median house price was $401,000. And then

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now we're back down to about $359,000, meaning that I believe the economy is starting to

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level off a little bit on that housing, on the housing side.

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You might want to send that to MCAT because they're still stuck in 2022.

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Yes.

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Yeah, good point.

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There's something else about that this time last year.

475
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:44,140
I just did this for the state of the county address that the house would sell within 22 days.

476
00:30:44,820 --> 00:30:45,060
Yes.

477
00:30:45,380 --> 00:30:47,660
Now it is selling in 60 days.

478
00:30:48,260 --> 00:30:52,680
And actually, George, when we looked at the, when we looked at the, Fred is one of the indicators we use.

479
00:30:52,680 --> 00:31:00,300
We saw that last in fact last year some of it the point to sell actually was even sometimes in the negative because they were

480
00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:02,220
Being sold even before they went on the market

481
00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:07,880
And so now we're not we're not seeing that as much anymore either houses staying on the market a little bit longer

482
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:13,180
So I just think that this is also something to consider in the future. I think with you know anything

483
00:31:14,180 --> 00:31:20,360
Specifically with Rebecca's department a lot of these people that maybe got their mortgages in 2022 when the housing market was pretty high

484
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,480
It might be something that we need to have to consider down the road five or six years

485
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:28,000
if there is a marketing crisis, a market crisis where, especially in the housing market.

486
00:31:30,970 --> 00:31:32,810
The next type is the budgeting types that we do.

487
00:31:33,650 --> 00:31:39,910
Most of our departments, of course, are going to do the department entry based off of

488
00:31:39,910 --> 00:31:42,990
their FY 2022 and 2023 budgets.

489
00:31:43,430 --> 00:31:47,030
But the Sheriff's Office, the airport, non-departmental, all of our Sally and

490
00:31:47,030 --> 00:31:51,450
all of our benefits, those are all zero-budgeted, zero-based budgeted, including our capital

491
00:31:51,450 --> 00:31:58,350
If you guys recall, every year, since I've been here, I ask the departments to take two

492
00:31:58,350 --> 00:32:01,730
or three or four accounts and zero-base those accounts, meaning start from scratch, build

493
00:32:01,730 --> 00:32:02,470
those budgets up.

494
00:32:03,310 --> 00:32:07,450
This year we've picked IT software, IT hardware, mobile phone and data, and by mobile phone

495
00:32:07,450 --> 00:32:13,070
and data, because that line includes both phones and hotspots, just asking departments

496
00:32:13,070 --> 00:32:17,110
to break that up so we know those differences, and then janitorial supplies.

497
00:32:17,110 --> 00:32:22,050
So those will be the FY2024 zero-based accounts that we're asking departments to do and we'll

498
00:32:22,050 --> 00:32:25,070
show them again how to use that and how to do that in the software.

499
00:32:25,930 --> 00:32:31,230
The other accounts, their department, Entryd, and like I said, they're trend analyzed.

500
00:32:33,710 --> 00:32:35,730
All right, you guys pretty much know the budget process.

501
00:32:36,130 --> 00:32:38,990
You guys are going to vote on the calendar today.

502
00:32:39,590 --> 00:32:45,270
We'll do our training the next couple of weeks and we'll have some departmental

503
00:32:45,270 --> 00:32:45,530
deadlines.

504
00:32:45,530 --> 00:32:50,550
So this just gives a graph and we send this budget PowerPoint also to all of our departments

505
00:32:50,550 --> 00:32:51,230
that they know.

506
00:32:51,490 --> 00:32:57,270
You have a copy of the slide but it basically tells you in a timeline basis what our process

507
00:32:57,270 --> 00:32:57,630
is.

508
00:32:58,810 --> 00:32:59,370
All right.

509
00:32:59,450 --> 00:33:03,110
The key dates for our budget calendar, again I passed out the budget calendar, it's going

510
00:33:03,110 --> 00:33:03,950
to look like this.

511
00:33:04,650 --> 00:33:07,810
And I have some extras here if any departments are here that would like a hard copy.

512
00:33:08,610 --> 00:33:13,150
Basically the budget packets will be available in the Oracle budgeting software for operational

513
00:33:13,150 --> 00:33:19,370
request, capital request, personnel changes and new position requests. We are asking that the PDQs,

514
00:33:19,370 --> 00:33:24,630
every position request have a PDQ associated with it. Those PDQs sent directly to Dodie's office,

515
00:33:24,990 --> 00:33:29,330
Dodie and Kathy. Not in Oracle. Not in Oracle. Nope. We're going to have those straight sent to

516
00:33:29,330 --> 00:33:34,630
HR that way. It's a better efficiency in their office as well. The training classes, we're

517
00:33:34,630 --> 00:33:38,690
going to have the first week of May 2023. And then we'll have the live packets available

518
00:33:38,690 --> 00:33:43,650
by May 1st 2023 we're working on those just getting with our consultants to

519
00:33:43,650 --> 00:33:47,230
finish up some some stuff so we'll have all of this information out there to

520
00:33:47,230 --> 00:33:50,710
everybody. Departmental meetings as you guys know I do one-on-one meetings with

521
00:33:50,710 --> 00:33:54,210
any department that wants to meet with me to go over their 2023-2024

522
00:33:54,210 --> 00:33:58,950
budgets for this year we're doing those meetings May 2nd to May 31st so

523
00:33:58,950 --> 00:34:02,130
basically the whole month of May if departments aren't available in that

524
00:34:02,130 --> 00:34:04,370
they can let me know we can coordinate something outside of those

525
00:34:04,370 --> 00:34:08,470
times as well. The Oracle budget sheets and Excel sheets are due to the

526
00:34:08,470 --> 00:34:10,410
budget office June 22nd, 2023.

527
00:34:10,910 --> 00:34:13,390
Again, for departments, budgets due to our office

528
00:34:13,390 --> 00:34:16,530
June 22nd, 2023, which is a little bit later

529
00:34:16,530 --> 00:34:17,450
than we've all ever had.

530
00:34:17,990 --> 00:34:20,470
We're seeing some efficiencies in the Oracle software,

531
00:34:20,590 --> 00:34:22,970
so we think it's gonna work out pretty good.

532
00:34:23,070 --> 00:34:24,850
Amanda, the court after June 22nd,

533
00:34:24,870 --> 00:34:26,910
will you bring us a list of every department

534
00:34:26,910 --> 00:34:29,270
and elected official that did not turn their packet

535
00:34:29,270 --> 00:34:30,170
to you on time?

536
00:34:30,450 --> 00:34:30,730
Yes.

537
00:34:31,190 --> 00:34:32,510
Make sure that we note that.

538
00:34:34,370 --> 00:34:36,070
Departmental preliminary budgets are sent out

539
00:34:36,070 --> 00:34:40,830
July 14th, 2023, and July 17th, 2023, we always like to try to get those bigger budgets

540
00:34:40,830 --> 00:34:46,150
out first and then the smaller ones out later. The preliminary budgets will be distributed

541
00:34:46,150 --> 00:34:50,350
to Commissioners Court July 21st, 2023. That's the Friday of a court packet. So you

542
00:34:50,350 --> 00:34:53,730
guys will get that as part of your court packet. And then I will do your first presentation

543
00:34:53,730 --> 00:34:59,790
of the preliminary budget on that Commissioners Court meeting on July 25th. Our budget workshop

544
00:34:59,790 --> 00:35:03,010
now is not going to be that same week. We've pushed it back a couple of weeks.

545
00:35:03,010 --> 00:35:08,550
So August 8th through August 11th we will have our budget workshop starting with of course the IP workshop

546
00:35:08,550 --> 00:35:15,090
It is a regular scheduled commissioners court on August 8th. So we'll start probably directly after commissioners court

547
00:35:16,230 --> 00:35:21,030
We'll have the proposed budget filed with the county with the commissioners court the county auditor in the county clerk

548
00:35:21,030 --> 00:35:26,490
August 21st 2023, and then we will have our public hearing on the budget and tax rate August 30th

549
00:35:27,910 --> 00:35:32,130
And then after the public hearings, that's what we normally vote on the adoption of the budget

550
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:39,200
We are asking if there's any citizens that have any inputs. There's a couple of

551
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:43,120
opportunities for those inputs. They can always email me and give me some of their

552
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,660
feedback if they have any. In-person meetings on July 25th, August 30th, and

553
00:35:47,660 --> 00:35:52,160
of any departments are having Citizens Academy. Again, I'll invite me to those

554
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,860
and I'll come and represent the budget office and answer any questions. And of

555
00:35:55,860 --> 00:35:58,440
course they can call our budget line and answer, we can answer any questions

556
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,680
that way. This is really important to me. I take this really seriously if

557
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:05,440
any citizen wants to meet with me, whether it's for 10 minutes, 15 minutes, whatever,

558
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,280
I will meet with any citizen, okay, and that's make sure that you tell your constituents that

559
00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:14,120
anybody that wants to meet with me regarding the budget, I'm interested in doing that.

560
00:36:16,060 --> 00:36:18,400
Do you guys have any questions specifically on my presentation?

561
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,220
You know, in getting that information out to the public, one of the questions that

562
00:36:23,220 --> 00:36:27,380
was asked in the last election cycle was, how come nobody knows about the budget?

563
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,980
to which I responded well you know we announced it we have it on our website

564
00:36:32,980 --> 00:36:37,120
we've got our the hearings where people can come and talk about it but they

565
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,980
still don't get it how do what is the process for putting that out there it's

566
00:36:40,980 --> 00:36:45,380
in the newspaper it's in a number yeah we put it on the web page we put it on

567
00:36:45,380 --> 00:36:49,720
the newspapers we I mean it's filed with the county clerk so I need the

568
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:55,580
budget is open for public inspection of physical copy not just an

569
00:36:55,580 --> 00:37:02,500
an electronic copy. Sorry about the mic. But also, we have thought about doing a little

570
00:37:02,500 --> 00:37:07,800
snapshot videos. Tammy is part of her, when she sends out tax statements, also sends a

571
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:14,460
budget highlights page out. Again, if you guys want, we can provide any information to help

572
00:37:14,460 --> 00:37:17,840
with videos or whatever that you guys might want to put out, press release, anything

573
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:18,260
like that.

574
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,580
All right. Thank you.

575
00:37:21,580 --> 00:37:26,820
Okay, so the next thing I have is the budget policy, which I did make some

576
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,520
Minor significant changes. I don't know. They're they're they're significant in my piece

577
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:36,800
But for the regular departments not not necessarily so did everyone get a copy of the budget policy

578
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,960
I put as part of the backup if you don't have one I have a copy here for you guys

579
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,460
But just some things that we're gonna just some some basics

580
00:37:43,460 --> 00:37:46,740
Does anybody first have any questions regarding the any changes that I made on the policy?

581
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,160
What are what are the most significant ones that you've made changes on? Okay?

582
00:37:51,580 --> 00:37:58,200
So most significant changes we made were the first one saying that we did designate that

583
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:04,120
fund balance requirement into the policy, stating that the fund balance requirement is 19%.

584
00:38:04,620 --> 00:38:07,560
So that is inside the policy itself.

585
00:38:07,980 --> 00:38:11,340
Policy is a living document, meaning that it doesn't have an expiration date anymore.

586
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:16,720
Having it continue to go until you guys want to make any changes or want to add anything

587
00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:18,640
to it or deletions, whatever it is.

588
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:25,840
We do have that all departments the maximum for them to transfer out of their budgets

589
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:30,760
to another department is $3,000 with the exception of IT and building maintenance of their specific

590
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:31,840
projects related to that.

591
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:32,840
What is their limit?

592
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:35,240
There is no limit for those.

593
00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:36,260
I don't think they have that come to court.

594
00:38:36,540 --> 00:38:40,060
I don't think any of the departments should be transferring money between themselves without

595
00:38:40,060 --> 00:38:41,260
court approval.

596
00:38:41,660 --> 00:38:41,840
Period.

597
00:38:42,140 --> 00:38:45,660
Well okay, so you have Adobe licenses, that's the number one thing that we do

598
00:38:45,660 --> 00:38:46,300
all the time.

599
00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:52,360
It's a $93 license that and we're transferring those. I think we're doing on weekly. I mean, maybe you can have some but in general

600
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,320
I don't want animal shelter. No picking on them

601
00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:00,240
They came to mind because they start with an A you know moving $3,000 to the airport for example

602
00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:01,120
We don't have that

603
00:39:01,660 --> 00:39:07,200
Then why have a policy that allows? I mean because this policy still limits that right and you also have the limitations of

604
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,320
The fact that they can't do that. Where's it currently now?

605
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:15,400
3,000. There's no change on that. The change was in the Road and Bridge Fund where we moved

606
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:16,340
it up to 10,000.

607
00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:22,660
Yes. All right. Okay. Approach sheet.

608
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,700
But I mean, Commissioner, like, it's, you're voting on the policy today. We can, we can

609
00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:27,240
make any changes.

610
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:31,220
I'm just saying I don't know that the departments should be moving money between themselves.

611
00:39:31,380 --> 00:39:34,680
Lucky officials kind of different, but, you know, the departments themselves, that's

612
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:38,500
what the purpose of the court is for. We set their budget. We determine how their

613
00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:39,000
money's spent.

614
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:47,320
So we had a situation over right before the new court, a new judge took office that 25%

615
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:52,260
role limited that department and they needed to pay a bill that they had and so they reached

616
00:39:52,260 --> 00:39:55,660
out to one of their other, you know, judges and they were able to transfer that money

617
00:39:55,660 --> 00:39:56,860
out of their budget to cover that.

618
00:39:57,140 --> 00:39:58,060
That's the most recent.

619
00:39:58,220 --> 00:39:59,800
It wasn't even close to $3,000.

620
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,820
I think it was even maybe $250.

621
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,300
But elected officials a little bit different than a department head.

622
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:11,760
I just think the department heads we should limit to court action and elected officials not.

623
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,680
We're going to be voting on all changes in Adobe policies and all that.

624
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,580
I mean, we've been doing commissioners with all due respect.

625
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:18,400
We've been doing it.

626
00:40:19,260 --> 00:40:20,080
The business has been working.

627
00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:20,840
It's not abused.

628
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:22,000
We bring them back.

629
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,960
Every single change that we do that is moving money from out of the department's budget

630
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,240
into another department, we memorialize that effect.

631
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,320
And on the other side of that, you can always reverse it, commissioner.

632
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,780
So if we posted it and you don't like it, you could always say, hey, actually, I don't

633
00:40:34,780 --> 00:40:35,200
like this.

634
00:40:36,380 --> 00:40:40,520
You know, we bring them to Commissioner's Court anyways for memorialization, and you

635
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,340
can say, you know what, I want to reverse this, and we can do that.

636
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:44,860
How much we raise in the commissioners?

637
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:46,580
To $10,000.

638
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:46,960
From?

639
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:47,760
$3,000.

640
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,820
And that's to cover because most of you guys have operations deputies, and that

641
00:40:51,820 --> 00:40:55,080
just helps us keep those costs where we don't have, we're not having to come

642
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,460
to Commissioner's Court every single time, if we have a change on those.

643
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,800
Okay. Proceed. Okay.

644
00:41:04,020 --> 00:41:10,860
The next one that I have is that TECO reports are required for any re-hire or

645
00:41:10,860 --> 00:41:15,500
new hire law enforcement officer. We do have to have a copy of that TECO report come with a PCR

646
00:41:15,500 --> 00:41:19,520
that just helps us effectuate the step plan. Again, we don't really care who you're hiring,

647
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,060
where they come from or whatever, but for us it helps us effectuate the step plan. We had

648
00:41:23,060 --> 00:41:26,720
some issues with this arise where they didn't where the departments didn't originally send

649
00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:30,200
as a TECO report, then we had to make an adjustment later.

650
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:31,640
So we really would like to avoid that,

651
00:41:31,700 --> 00:41:32,880
so we're trying to get all the departments.

652
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:34,620
When we've talked to the Sheriff's Office about this,

653
00:41:34,700 --> 00:41:36,580
they're okay with providing those as well.

654
00:41:36,820 --> 00:41:40,220
So without the TECO, they can't participate

655
00:41:40,220 --> 00:41:40,920
in a step plan?

656
00:41:41,260 --> 00:41:41,680
That's right.

657
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:42,500
Okay, I got you.

658
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:43,460
Cool.

659
00:41:45,890 --> 00:41:46,270
All right.

660
00:41:46,630 --> 00:41:49,310
The next change is specifically regarding vacancy savings.

661
00:41:50,530 --> 00:41:52,790
As you guys know, most of the law enforcement departments

662
00:41:52,790 --> 00:41:55,270
have the ability to use their vacancy savings in 2023.

663
00:41:55,990 --> 00:41:57,890
The Sheriff's budget's getting super tight with that,

664
00:41:57,890 --> 00:42:01,110
So we're not there's not really as much vacancy savings as we've seen in the past

665
00:42:01,110 --> 00:42:06,730
So we're asking the court, you know from from here on out that if a department has something that they're wanting to pave vacancy

666
00:42:06,730 --> 00:42:12,030
Say we use vacancy savings out of they come to commissioners court for approval on that that it's just not automatically granted

667
00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:16,850
I mean that's just going to you know really help us like trend that a little bit better

668
00:42:16,850 --> 00:42:20,510
We have a lot of step increases and with the bilingual pay and all of these other pays that come in

669
00:42:21,290 --> 00:42:25,410
Forecasting just takes a little bit more than just saying yeah, we you have this vacancy not money

670
00:42:25,410 --> 00:42:29,370
you can use it so it's kind of stopping departments from using that vacancy

671
00:42:29,370 --> 00:42:34,950
savings in the future and that's new correct that's new yeah it's updating it

672
00:42:34,950 --> 00:42:39,390
yeah the next one is going to be the capital improvement vehicle and

673
00:42:39,390 --> 00:42:43,370
equipment replacement fund that's setting those requirements on what

674
00:42:43,370 --> 00:42:50,870
projects exist that are in that the kind of the factors that it takes for

675
00:42:50,870 --> 00:42:53,850
us to for the vehicle and equipment replacement fund we have so we started

676
00:42:53,850 --> 00:42:56,290
of that in last year's budget, maybe the year before.

677
00:42:57,110 --> 00:42:58,550
And so this is just kind of setting out,

678
00:42:59,110 --> 00:43:01,750
don't, for example, vehicles that are donated,

679
00:43:02,130 --> 00:43:03,790
those aren't eligible for replacement.

680
00:43:04,410 --> 00:43:05,790
Vehicles that are bought on grants,

681
00:43:05,990 --> 00:43:08,090
those aren't just deemed eligible for replacement.

682
00:43:08,330 --> 00:43:09,970
So any of those outside of our normal vehicle

683
00:43:09,970 --> 00:43:12,410
equipment replacement policy will come to you guys

684
00:43:12,870 --> 00:43:15,750
for a needed funding source for you guys to okay,

685
00:43:15,810 --> 00:43:17,650
or just for you guys to okay the funding source.

686
00:43:17,750 --> 00:43:19,830
What about the idea you and Gilbert were gonna come back

687
00:43:19,830 --> 00:43:22,490
with a vehicle policy replacement plan

688
00:43:22,490 --> 00:43:26,470
and when you get a new vehicle, you have to turn in an old vehicle.

689
00:43:26,950 --> 00:43:27,530
That's in here.

690
00:43:27,610 --> 00:43:29,410
Is it all codified now?

691
00:43:29,570 --> 00:43:30,990
Yeah, that's all in this policy here.

692
00:43:31,570 --> 00:43:37,010
If you get a replacement vehicle, by the time it's what we call, I think it's,

693
00:43:37,490 --> 00:43:41,350
for each vehicle that is replaced, the old vehicle equipment should be sent to the purchasing agent

694
00:43:41,350 --> 00:43:45,230
for disposition within 45 days of putting the replacement asset into service.

695
00:43:45,910 --> 00:43:49,370
And that's really keeping the where, yeah, we're replacing vehicles,

696
00:43:49,370 --> 00:43:54,630
but we're getting the originals back so that we can put those into the auction, get a little

697
00:43:54,630 --> 00:43:58,850
bit of money to offset those expenditures. So yeah, we are asking for the department,

698
00:43:58,970 --> 00:44:02,670
we're requiring departments, once they get a replacement vehicle within 45 days of putting

699
00:44:02,670 --> 00:44:08,990
that vehicle into service, they have to bring the other one back to, you know, for asset

700
00:44:08,990 --> 00:44:13,410
disposal, normally done through an A-Bates auction. And again, this is just general

701
00:44:13,410 --> 00:44:17,510
fund departments. What you guys do in the Road and Bridge funds, I know you sometimes

702
00:44:17,510 --> 00:44:21,490
that that equipment isn't a little bit different so but but this is specific for

703
00:44:21,490 --> 00:44:25,550
general fund departments you know we're getting we're getting a lot more money

704
00:44:25,550 --> 00:44:28,850
trading in vehicles than we are putting them in the auction yeah and we talked

705
00:44:28,850 --> 00:44:33,370
we talked about that gobert and I did he's not here today but what we did talk

706
00:44:33,370 --> 00:44:38,230
about that is right right now we we're able to do that a little bit easier

707
00:44:38,230 --> 00:44:41,730
because of the threshold that Abbott gave us with not having to have things

708
00:44:41,730 --> 00:44:45,630
procured with that going out of place we are gonna have to go back into that

709
00:44:45,630 --> 00:44:48,450
anything over 25,000, anything's going to have to come back to you guys.

710
00:44:48,910 --> 00:44:50,750
And so if there's a trade-in that involves that,

711
00:44:50,890 --> 00:44:54,610
you guys would have the opportunity to say, hey, look, we're planning on doing this trade-in.

712
00:44:54,950 --> 00:44:56,350
So that is something I talked to Gilbert about.

713
00:44:56,470 --> 00:44:59,110
He didn't want me to put that in the policy specifically about trade-in.

714
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,880
He was afraid that it might go against the purchasing requirements that he has set.

715
00:45:06,510 --> 00:45:15,870
So if we bring, and if we order a new truck or a vehicle and we need an extra vehicle for

716
00:45:15,870 --> 00:45:20,870
our, you know, as far as us commissioners, do we still have to, if they were driving a

717
00:45:20,870 --> 00:45:25,190
truck, we can't just pass it down or do we turn that one in also?

718
00:45:25,610 --> 00:45:26,890
Are you talking about for year to for year?

719
00:45:27,070 --> 00:45:27,790
For my, yes.

720
00:45:27,790 --> 00:45:30,890
for you're not in the general fund you're the road and bridge fund so you

721
00:45:30,890 --> 00:45:35,670
can really do I mean because for me the equipment that you have I'm not an

722
00:45:35,670 --> 00:45:39,150
expert in that I'm really trying to and I'm not an expert in cars by any means

723
00:45:39,150 --> 00:45:42,250
but cars are a little bit easier to replace because we they're kind of suspect

724
00:45:42,250 --> 00:45:46,330
kind of all the same for the constables in the Sheriff's office but for years

725
00:45:46,330 --> 00:45:50,950
I wouldn't even try to sometimes we give them to the airport or somebody

726
00:45:50,950 --> 00:45:55,830
else you know back and forth yeah I do want to I just want to bring that

727
00:45:55,830 --> 00:46:00,290
Because I did talk to Commissioner Gray about this and his staff about this, like that can

728
00:46:00,290 --> 00:46:01,010
be a problem though.

729
00:46:01,110 --> 00:46:03,150
I just want to make sure that commissioners know.

730
00:46:03,570 --> 00:46:07,890
Giving, you know, transferring assets to another department, I agree that most of the departments,

731
00:46:08,070 --> 00:46:10,790
they have some vehicle that, you know, probably needs to be replaced.

732
00:46:11,150 --> 00:46:14,910
But when you transfer an asset into that and you fill out a form with purchasing,

733
00:46:15,150 --> 00:46:17,990
they don't actually let, there's nothing that involves us to let them know that

734
00:46:17,990 --> 00:46:21,550
we need to include vehicle maintenance and fuel the next year for that, for that

735
00:46:21,550 --> 00:46:21,970
vehicle.

736
00:46:22,250 --> 00:46:22,410
Okay.

737
00:46:22,530 --> 00:46:23,190
So keep that in mind.

738
00:46:23,190 --> 00:46:27,450
these departments could have overages related to their budgets because of fuel

739
00:46:27,450 --> 00:46:31,590
and vehicle maintenance related to any vehicles that got transferred without us

740
00:46:31,590 --> 00:46:34,990
kind of knowing about it. So if you are going to do that just make sure that we

741
00:46:34,990 --> 00:46:39,530
get a copy of those asset forms, those asset transfer forms. And also the

742
00:46:39,530 --> 00:46:43,610
funding source for that a lot of times is Road and Bridge and you have to be

743
00:46:43,610 --> 00:46:46,690
careful about which departments you're transferring it to to make sure

744
00:46:46,690 --> 00:46:53,170
that it's an appropriate use of those funds because you took money out of

745
00:46:53,170 --> 00:46:56,650
needs to be somewhat related to the road and bridge function.

746
00:46:58,130 --> 00:47:01,710
Well, in my case, we had a tractor that

747
00:47:01,710 --> 00:47:07,490
had a arm on it that mows, and we replaced it.

748
00:47:08,130 --> 00:47:10,390
But the airport could use it occasionally,

749
00:47:10,690 --> 00:47:11,630
and it was still a good tractor.

750
00:47:12,290 --> 00:47:19,210
And so we transferred it to them instead of turning it back

751
00:47:19,210 --> 00:47:19,730
in, I guess.

752
00:47:20,270 --> 00:47:22,210
And the equipment's a little bit different as well.

753
00:47:22,210 --> 00:47:28,830
But this this policy is specific to the departments not to the red and red fund correct

754
00:47:28,830 --> 00:47:33,530
I've got a question has it always been like that or this is new so with the VIRF

755
00:47:34,850 --> 00:47:41,030
Just worries or anything I'm missing if it's a donated or granted vehicle to law enforcement

756
00:47:41,030 --> 00:47:45,630
That doesn't fall under replacement right see where that can be a slippery slope

757
00:47:46,790 --> 00:47:48,590
So I just don't want to

758
00:47:49,930 --> 00:47:53,070
Leave someone shorthanded or overextend the county.

759
00:47:53,630 --> 00:47:54,070
Right.

760
00:47:54,690 --> 00:47:59,610
So on grant vehicles specifically and seizure vehicles as well, you can chime in on this

761
00:47:59,610 --> 00:48:04,010
if you have any information, but on the seizure vehicles, if you later get rid of that seizure

762
00:48:04,010 --> 00:48:07,590
vehicle, that money has to go back into the Chapter 59 account, it has to go back

763
00:48:07,590 --> 00:48:08,470
into the seizure account.

764
00:48:08,870 --> 00:48:12,590
We can't just pull that money into the general fund, so we are watching anything

765
00:48:12,590 --> 00:48:18,570
that's seizure donations, grants, because normally those funds have to go back to

766
00:48:18,570 --> 00:48:23,530
original funding sources required by normally the language in either in the

767
00:48:23,530 --> 00:48:28,350
grant or for this case chapter 59 statute says that. Same thing with donations. A

768
00:48:28,350 --> 00:48:31,610
lot of times the donations for a specific purpose and we accept it with

769
00:48:31,610 --> 00:48:36,250
those conditions that it be used for the animal shelter for example and one of

770
00:48:36,250 --> 00:48:39,810
the ones you picked on earlier. So if we take a donation for something for

771
00:48:39,810 --> 00:48:43,530
the animal shelter if it ceases to be used for the animal shelter then we

772
00:48:43,530 --> 00:48:50,210
to return that. Yeah. So in my opinion it's just not good policy to fund those

773
00:48:50,210 --> 00:48:53,710
vehicles and those equipments out of your vehicle equipment replacement fund

774
00:48:53,710 --> 00:48:56,610
because A, you want to check the funding source, C, where it originally came from

775
00:48:56,610 --> 00:48:59,970
and then it's really up to the court's direct discretion it adds to do they

776
00:48:59,970 --> 00:49:02,790
want to replace that donation vehicle because it's different when someone's

777
00:49:02,790 --> 00:49:06,330
donating something to you but then turns around for example Constable

778
00:49:06,330 --> 00:49:09,970
3 or Constable 4 if we replace the three donated vehicles he has right

779
00:49:09,970 --> 00:49:16,070
right now that's almost $130,000 on the county budget that we weren't anticipating, right,

780
00:49:16,150 --> 00:49:21,750
because we got the vehicles through donation. So it's just a way to look at it. I think we

781
00:49:21,750 --> 00:49:25,030
should bring my personally opinion, personal opinion is we bring those back to Commissioner

782
00:49:25,030 --> 00:49:27,590
Square. You guys vote on whether or not you want to replace those vehicles.

783
00:49:28,030 --> 00:49:32,050
I was a separate item. Just the donated vehicles is what you're talking about.

784
00:49:32,130 --> 00:49:32,250
Yeah.

785
00:49:32,250 --> 00:49:33,450
There been a problem so far?

786
00:49:34,030 --> 00:49:35,370
I think it's going to be a problem.

787
00:49:35,370 --> 00:49:40,270
I'd like to hear from and maybe today's not the day but from we've got two

788
00:49:40,270 --> 00:49:45,030
consoles in the house and the sheriff maybe hear from them if we bring it back

789
00:49:45,030 --> 00:49:54,340
or if we're gonna keep it on today to get some other input yeah yeah I agree

790
00:49:54,340 --> 00:49:58,520
with you so the other thing about this policy is the policy is like Amanda said

791
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:02,480
a living document subject to change amendments and you can always have an

792
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:08,800
exception on a situational basis. Generally what we've been doing for years and years and years has

793
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:13,820
worked and we've addressed one-off situations with individual agenda items for your approval.

794
00:50:14,380 --> 00:50:19,180
I think that's how you leave it. I mean just bring it back and then let's hear from the people that

795
00:50:19,180 --> 00:50:23,960
are directly affected by it. Do you have anything to say? Yeah. Well I think especially on the

796
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:28,440
law enforcement if they get a new Tahoe sometimes you can't get all the equipment in 45 days.

797
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:33,380
Oh, yeah, so I mean we're talking so I think this one reads after placed in

798
00:50:33,380 --> 00:50:37,260
service so it would have to be actually with the proper equipment before it's

799
00:50:37,260 --> 00:50:41,560
required to be returned it says after it's ready so we know we're not leaving

800
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:45,280
them without a vehicle and just for your information Commissioner Riley like

801
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:49,700
this year we with the vehicles that were allocated out we also

802
00:50:49,700 --> 00:50:52,600
authorized them you can go ahead and order equipment so even though the

803
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:55,540
vehicles aren't in yet you know what how many towels you're getting or

804
00:50:55,920 --> 00:51:01,940
cars you're getting. Now you can order whatever equipment is associated with that. We do give

805
00:51:01,940 --> 00:51:07,380
them a, you know, there is a specific number we use for those replacement for the equipment,

806
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,600
but really it's up to the individual constable or the sheriff on how they spec that out.

807
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,700
I'm not going to tell them you need, you know, what kind of partitions you need and

808
00:51:14,700 --> 00:51:19,020
all that. But we give them a set amount of money and they, for example, they can

809
00:51:19,020 --> 00:51:24,800
order. We expect the vehicles right now to be ready in June. And I know at least

810
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:26,860
one department is already ordered equipment for their vehicles.

811
00:51:28,540 --> 00:51:36,100
On the issue regarding vacancy savings, one of the things that I know that the sheriff

812
00:51:36,100 --> 00:51:41,580
utilizes those dollars for is to pay down count time so we're not accumulating it, I think

813
00:51:41,580 --> 00:51:45,460
he still needs to be able to have access and ability to do that.

814
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:46,180
He could still do that.

815
00:51:47,220 --> 00:51:49,400
So explain and talk through how that works.

816
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:49,960
Yeah, sure.

817
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:55,880
So right now, the formula that we use is budgeted salary minus contract pay.

818
00:51:56,140 --> 00:52:03,900
So if they have, you know, for example, some departments use contract labor minus any payout

819
00:52:03,900 --> 00:52:10,920
that they might have related to comp paydowns, vacation payouts, not personal time, vacation

820
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:16,200
or comp time payouts, difference in compensation between a new hire incumbent that they know

821
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:20,240
that they're not going to give that person a raise and any over time associated with

822
00:52:20,240 --> 00:52:20,660
the vacancy.

823
00:52:20,900 --> 00:52:24,640
So we take the budget salary minus all of those things and that's what we consider vacancy

824
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:24,960
savings.

825
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:28,720
So it will not stop the sheriff or any of the constables or any law.

826
00:52:28,900 --> 00:52:31,500
We encourage departments to pay down that comp time.

827
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:35,680
Everybody that knows me and that's met with me know that that's a huge, that's

828
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:38,940
the number one budget item I have, how much comp time do you have on the books?

829
00:52:39,500 --> 00:52:41,120
Because I try to bring those numbers down.

830
00:52:41,380 --> 00:52:43,800
I don't like liabilities that are going to cost us more in the future.

831
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:49,680
So, yes, any department head or elected official that has a budget available, they could definitely

832
00:52:50,580 --> 00:52:55,080
pay down those comp time numbers within the policy that is drafted in front of you guys

833
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:55,360
today.

834
00:52:56,060 --> 00:52:56,500
Yep.

835
00:52:57,380 --> 00:52:57,620
Perfect.

836
00:52:58,320 --> 00:52:58,500
That's good.

837
00:52:58,740 --> 00:52:58,820
Thanks.

838
00:52:59,040 --> 00:52:59,320
All right.

839
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:01,260
Anything else, Amanda?

840
00:53:01,620 --> 00:53:02,660
I think that's the highlights.

841
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:04,380
Move.

842
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:05,500
I have a motion.

843
00:53:05,660 --> 00:53:06,200
Is there a second?

844
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:06,580
Second.

845
00:53:06,940 --> 00:53:07,380
Any more discussion?

846
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:08,960
Well, proceed.

847
00:53:09,580 --> 00:53:14,920
do we need to make a motion to take this ver off line as a separate item is that

848
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:19,560
what we said I thought that's what we said talk about the vehicle yes to

849
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:25,560
vehicles that are donated yes it's not part of this I thought that's what we

850
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,380
said and we're talking but we were talking we didn't I didn't know we

851
00:53:28,380 --> 00:53:31,160
came to conclusion it was going to be a part of the motion doing that wait

852
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,980
before law enforcement come in and give us their opinion on it if we can strike

853
00:53:34,980 --> 00:53:40,080
this and move on the rest of the policy I don't know what the do we have to prove

854
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:44,560
this today I see do we have to approve this today I just setting a budget

855
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:51,420
policy helps departments budget better in my opinion the calendar is a question

856
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:57,440
Amy you'd mentioned that we've done it this way and as these items come up we

857
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:01,300
bring it in as a separate item in the court and decide at that time so that's

858
00:54:01,300 --> 00:54:05,400
you have a couple of options today you can approve it as it is and you can

859
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:09,520
approve it with removing the vehicle and equipment replacement fund or what

860
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:14,940
you can do is also say approve it with a modification that we bring this vehicle

861
00:54:14,940 --> 00:54:20,080
and equipment replacement fund back on the next agenda item and have people

862
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:24,280
here who would like to comment on it let's just share from a console we've

863
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:28,200
got two consoles on the sheriff let's hear does anybody having you'll have

864
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:29,540
opinion on it. Somebody come forward.

865
00:54:32,620 --> 00:54:34,380
We can close it out. Let's close it out.

866
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:35,000
There you go.

867
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:42,800
So, um, the main thing that I that I look forward to is, is to be able to, um,

868
00:54:44,100 --> 00:54:48,120
you know, one of my cars might have 135,000 miles on it. One of them might

869
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:51,140
have 100,000 miles on it, but that don't mean the one with the most miles

870
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:54,980
is the one that needs to be replaced. There's some that just run better

871
00:54:54,980 --> 00:54:58,720
than others and stuff like that. Also with us, we just taken over in the

872
00:54:58,720 --> 00:55:05,240
a couple of years with county vehicles. We need replacement vehicles, so I understand

873
00:55:05,240 --> 00:55:09,600
all that coming in, but we also need vehicles that are on standby too. In case one goes

874
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:13,400
down, one gets in a wreck or something like that. Currently I only have two vehicles,

875
00:55:13,940 --> 00:55:18,680
so if two of my vehicles go out for maintenance or a crash or anything like that, I'm down

876
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:22,320
to no loaner vehicles for these people. So I'd like to be able to, and there are

877
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:27,420
some specified specific vehicles like canine vehicles and stuff like that, that I'd

878
00:55:27,420 --> 00:55:28,780
I'd like to be able to keep one for a,

879
00:55:28,900 --> 00:55:31,360
one of the ones that come up for replacement this year

880
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:33,020
is gonna be a canine vehicle.

881
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,140
Well, we have three canines.

882
00:55:35,900 --> 00:55:37,560
They can only use one of those canine vehicles.

883
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:39,360
So if one of their canine vehicles go out,

884
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:40,940
we're down a canine too.

885
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:42,880
So I'd like to try to roll one of those

886
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:44,080
over to a loaner vehicle.

887
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:45,500
Maybe we can set up some,

888
00:55:46,060 --> 00:55:47,000
if you have this many deputies,

889
00:55:47,140 --> 00:55:48,340
you need this many loaner vehicles.

890
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:49,940
I don't know how that works or anything,

891
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,260
but I know that every once in a while,

892
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:53,740
we get to where we have no loaner vehicles.

893
00:55:53,940 --> 00:55:54,920
We have two people in a car

894
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:56,800
or instead of more cars out on the streets.

895
00:55:58,980 --> 00:56:01,140
Does that need to be a part of our budget policy

896
00:56:01,140 --> 00:56:02,700
or can we decide that as we go?

897
00:56:03,660 --> 00:56:06,660
I think you guys, we need to discuss that budget workshop

898
00:56:06,660 --> 00:56:09,480
because those are, in some of these instances,

899
00:56:10,900 --> 00:56:13,580
the vehicles, yeah, it might be good to use it

900
00:56:13,580 --> 00:56:14,840
for another six or nine months,

901
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,640
but in the end, the auction value of that vehicle,

902
00:56:17,820 --> 00:56:19,940
where it stands, when it needs to be replaced,

903
00:56:20,060 --> 00:56:22,460
is much better than trying to

904
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:27,380
wait until it completely dies so that's another thought you know that's another

905
00:56:27,380 --> 00:56:30,580
part of the process we're getting on Tahoe's anywhere from 10 to 18 thousand

906
00:56:30,580 --> 00:56:36,620
dollars on these on these older ones so consider that a new Tahoe's 34 37,000

907
00:56:36,620 --> 00:56:41,500
and for an older one that has 10 plus years on it we're getting some money for

908
00:56:41,500 --> 00:56:45,480
them so if you keep if you keep you know at some time extending them

909
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:47,620
where they're worth nothing then that's something to consider in the

910
00:56:47,620 --> 00:56:50,920
future if we can keep the car that's worth $10,000 it already has

911
00:56:50,920 --> 00:57:05,260
lights and sirens and everything inside of it. I agree with that. I think if you

912
00:57:05,260 --> 00:57:07,960
bring it back and talk to us about it and we know ahead of time.

913
00:57:10,780 --> 00:57:14,100
I respectfully

914
00:57:14,100 --> 00:57:17,240
disagree just because they have they have a lot of pulled vehicles already

915
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:20,760
We're growing our pulled vehicle, our pulled vehicle requirements.

916
00:57:20,820 --> 00:57:22,560
And as the man he only has two, I'm going to believe him.

917
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:23,460
I mean, I have two.

918
00:57:24,380 --> 00:57:25,700
Where are all the pulled vehicles?

919
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:33,480
We can, I can bring you a list of showing, because I looked at it for every constable,

920
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:36,900
how many deputies they have versus how many vehicles there are.

921
00:57:37,220 --> 00:57:42,580
It's definitely, the amount of vehicles they have is more than just two, plus two deputies.

922
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:43,440
I can tell you that.

923
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:50,800
Make that part of the bunch of packets and every department give us a list of every vehicle that they have find out what's going on

924
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:01,720
Well doesn't do us any good to give you deputies and not be able to put them on the street

925
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,240
And I don't think that's ever happened like let's be clear

926
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:10,460
We we always work very very closely that if there we would never allow a deputy to not have a vehicle commissioner

927
00:58:10,460 --> 00:58:13,040
That's like, I don't think that's what they're saying.

928
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:15,540
I promise you, I'm on the same page as you.

929
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:19,540
The fact is that we just started with our county vehicles in 2019.

930
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:21,940
We don't have as many as some of the other.

931
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:22,640
I understand that.

932
00:58:23,140 --> 00:58:25,440
And that's all I'm trying to say is that I come back.

933
00:58:25,740 --> 00:58:28,220
I wouldn't have a new just to be able to come back and ask, hey,

934
00:58:28,660 --> 00:58:30,640
I need to keep this vehicle and it's a canine vehicle.

935
00:58:32,940 --> 00:58:33,580
Constable Cash.

936
00:58:33,780 --> 00:58:34,060
I agree.

937
00:58:34,220 --> 00:58:37,440
And so this is going to be like the other commissioner court policies,

938
00:58:37,540 --> 00:58:39,320
whereas this is kind of the general.

939
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:44,560
When you have these one off, you always have the ability to come back to you to make the

940
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:44,960
exception.

941
00:58:45,140 --> 00:58:46,600
And I think that's what Amanda's asking for.

942
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:51,620
We need to know the Commissioner's Court's desire on just kind of a general level.

943
00:58:51,820 --> 00:58:56,320
And then when you have one who only has two vehicles and feels strongly that they need

944
00:58:56,320 --> 00:59:00,340
to keep one, they always have the ability to come back and ask for you.

945
00:59:00,900 --> 00:59:01,340
Yeah.

946
00:59:01,780 --> 00:59:05,260
And that you have that with this policy, just like you have it with any other policy,

947
00:59:05,260 --> 00:59:10,680
just like that we have it with a handbook or anything else the Commissioner Court adopts.

948
00:59:11,140 --> 00:59:12,560
Honorable Cash, would you want to say something?

949
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:14,020
I'm in agreement with Chris.

950
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:16,060
You know, we do our own maintenance too.

951
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:20,260
We don't have a maintenance facility and we're at the mercy of maintenance facilities

952
00:59:20,260 --> 00:59:22,220
that we have to contract with.

953
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:25,020
Sometimes they keep our vehicles for several days, weeks,

954
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:27,760
the same way with the auto ones in a fleet.

955
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:30,460
I'm 100% in agreement with them.

956
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:31,920
We have to have vehicles, spares.

957
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:34,820
They're not drove every day, but they're there when we need them.

958
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:40,780
It's critical to do our law enforcement, what we're doing for the community to have vehicles

959
00:59:40,780 --> 00:59:41,380
on the road.

960
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,860
So can we get a subset of a working group?

961
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,300
So for example, they're talking mark units.

962
00:59:52,100 --> 00:59:56,260
I don't even want to get into how many cool cars we have because we have municipal

963
00:59:56,260 --> 00:59:58,960
agencies that ask for surveillance vehicles.

964
00:59:58,960 --> 00:59:59,340
Cool, right.

965
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,660
Now, where do you think those surveillance vehicles come from? They usually come from the

966
01:00:03,660 --> 01:00:08,860
district attorney's office. And so, because we have cool cars, because our cars are oftentimes

967
01:00:08,860 --> 01:00:14,100
seized vehicles. And those vehicles have cool plates. And I don't want to speak a whole

968
01:00:14,100 --> 01:00:18,800
lot more than that. But when a municipality reaches out to me, and they say, hey, can

969
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:23,380
we borrow a car for X amount of days, X amount of months, I have those cars. And we say,

970
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:26,420
all right, tell me what your operation is going on. Let me see if we can do something

971
01:00:26,420 --> 01:00:32,320
and with it. Because they have patrol vehicles. So when you're talking about pooled vehicles,

972
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:39,040
as far as I'm concerned, your pool looks different than my pool because my pool is cool. And

973
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:45,580
there's our marked. So we have some operational things that go on. And of course I have county

974
01:00:45,580 --> 01:00:49,860
vehicles and I have forfeited vehicles as well, which impact what they can be used

975
01:00:49,860 --> 01:00:53,960
for. So maybe a subset of a working group for law enforcement vehicles.

976
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:59,720
which is where the bulk of it is is what we're talking about here so yeah

977
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:04,720
how can we can we do that I mean how do we implement that in this right now or

978
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:08,180
do we do it later I think you and Brett should get together and figure it out

979
01:01:08,180 --> 01:01:14,960
and bring it back to us okay another issue oh and I think I think Commissioner

980
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:19,300
Nowak has to be on that committee if I'm gonna be on a committee he's gonna

981
01:01:19,300 --> 01:01:23,980
to be on a committee too. We're going to let you guys handle that. I'd rather be on a

982
01:01:23,980 --> 01:01:30,140
committee with these four. Is that possible? Yeah. And Amanda. All right. Okay, here, but

983
01:01:30,140 --> 01:01:37,300
again concerning what what Commissioner Gray was talking about, Rowdy's situation, Constable

984
01:01:38,580 --> 01:01:45,460
in precinct four, he has three donated vehicles that they they're absolutely dependent

985
01:01:45,460 --> 01:01:49,200
on that are not part of this process that's the thing where it's going to

986
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,540
come up and be an issue and he's going to need to replace those but they're

987
01:01:52,540 --> 01:01:56,720
donated and they're not we've never expended money from the county for them

988
01:01:56,720 --> 01:02:01,340
and I think I think Commissioner that's that's what you were referring to in

989
01:02:01,340 --> 01:02:05,180
terms of keeping those out of the out of this well it was it was part of it

990
01:02:05,180 --> 01:02:08,280
you know and that's where I was talking about not over-standing and

991
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:13,500
getting on a slippery slope and you know someone takes 10 donated vehicles

992
01:02:13,500 --> 01:02:17,120
all of a sudden they all go back at one time and then the county is on the hook for a place in

993
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:22,240
them. There's got to be a meeting. So there's a couple things. One is the

994
01:02:23,260 --> 01:02:28,280
donated vehicles by outside entities are not eligible. And the second is you guys have to

995
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:35,380
accept all donations. And I think that every time we have accept donations we say you

996
01:02:35,380 --> 01:02:39,560
understand that we'll be responsible for the upkeep or maintenance. And sometimes the

997
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:44,840
donating party agrees to do that and sometimes they don't and so whenever you

998
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:48,560
accept a donation to the county it comes with the obligation for maintenance

999
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:53,500
and upkeep of that vehicle. I think bigger than that is you you make that

1000
01:02:53,500 --> 01:02:56,760
agreement whenever you accept the donation so we need to know what we're

1001
01:02:56,760 --> 01:03:00,140
going to do with it when we accept it but I'll also liken it to the contract

1002
01:03:00,140 --> 01:03:03,960
vehicles so we have a whole bunch of those through multiple law enforcement

1003
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:07,940
contracts they buy the vehicles on a reimbursement program and those

1004
01:03:07,940 --> 01:03:10,540
Those contracts usually dictate where that money goes.

1005
01:03:10,660 --> 01:03:15,900
If we were to trade it in, or if we were to auction it off, that money is usually earmarked

1006
01:03:15,900 --> 01:03:20,760
to go back into the purchase of a vehicle that may be by the contracting entity that

1007
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:22,680
buys the rest of it, or it could be the county.

1008
01:03:22,820 --> 01:03:27,020
I don't think there's anything that has stopped us from doing that in the past, but-

1009
01:03:27,020 --> 01:03:31,500
Can we work the issue then of donations and how we process that and do that into

1010
01:03:31,500 --> 01:03:35,180
the policy that you all come up with in relationship to these poor vehicles?

1011
01:03:35,180 --> 01:03:37,840
I think Brett would probably nail that given the opportunity.

1012
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:40,580
Well, I was thinking the same thing.

1013
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:42,380
He was shaking his head, yes, I'll do that.

1014
01:03:42,660 --> 01:03:46,020
Once something's donated to the county, it becomes the county property.

1015
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:47,620
Is that right?

1016
01:03:47,860 --> 01:03:48,620
We've been down that road.

1017
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:54,300
So yes, when something is donated, provided that it's not donated with restrictions.

1018
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:58,240
So sometimes, and it isn't generally law enforcement with restrictions.

1019
01:03:58,660 --> 01:04:04,160
Typically when they give things to law enforcement, it is for any and all purposes that law enforcement wants to do it.

1020
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:05,960
on some of your other county vehicles,

1021
01:04:06,260 --> 01:04:07,380
for example, Animal Shelter,

1022
01:04:07,940 --> 01:04:11,340
they will have donated this for the purpose

1023
01:04:11,340 --> 01:04:14,440
of the Animal Shelter or something like that.

1024
01:04:14,660 --> 01:04:17,780
So it's, Amanda's policy has to be general enough

1025
01:04:17,780 --> 01:04:19,640
to cover all of the departments

1026
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:21,100
and everybody with vehicles,

1027
01:04:21,140 --> 01:04:23,860
including purchasing and tax office

1028
01:04:23,860 --> 01:04:25,640
and anybody building maintenance.

1029
01:04:26,100 --> 01:04:27,440
It just seems like though,

1030
01:04:28,620 --> 01:04:30,040
I mean, Carly, we've been up here a long time.

1031
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:32,160
I don't ever remember not providing a vehicle

1032
01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:34,120
for a law enforcement agency that needs one.

1033
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:37,140
So I don't care if it's donated, we bought it.

1034
01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:39,680
If it fell from the sky, if they say they need a car,

1035
01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:41,220
we're going to take it up under advisement

1036
01:04:41,220 --> 01:04:42,720
and either agree to give them one or not.

1037
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:43,200
It's ours.

1038
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:43,580
Yeah.

1039
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:46,780
I think we're making it way more difficult than it needs to be.

1040
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:48,540
I think y'all bring back to us what you need.

1041
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:49,900
We make a decision to move on.

1042
01:04:50,740 --> 01:04:53,100
OK, with that in mind, because I would agree,

1043
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:53,720
let's move on.

1044
01:04:53,900 --> 01:04:56,660
Ken, are we in a position where we can vote on this policy

1045
01:04:56,660 --> 01:04:58,800
right now and come back since it's a living document?

1046
01:04:59,260 --> 01:05:00,680
You guys come back with the data

1047
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:02,480
And then we can include it as we do it.

1048
01:05:02,540 --> 01:05:03,060
Can we do that?

1049
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:03,580
Yep.

1050
01:05:07,550 --> 01:05:08,550
It'll be the open button there.

1051
01:05:09,050 --> 01:05:11,810
Matter of fact, I'd like to entertain a motion.

1052
01:05:11,810 --> 01:05:12,910
Well, we think we'll do it by the way.

1053
01:05:13,430 --> 01:05:15,310
I still don't know whether he's got his answer.

1054
01:05:15,770 --> 01:05:17,930
Yeah, I mean, we can move on it.

1055
01:05:18,270 --> 01:05:19,110
It's a living document.

1056
01:05:19,310 --> 01:05:20,950
I think she did a great job on the policy.

1057
01:05:21,150 --> 01:05:24,570
I just, sorry, I muddled down in the black and white of it.

1058
01:05:24,850 --> 01:05:26,550
And it could be an issue.

1059
01:05:28,510 --> 01:05:30,330
So I second his motion still.

1060
01:05:30,410 --> 01:05:31,610
All right, we have a motion and a second

1061
01:05:31,610 --> 01:05:33,590
to accept the budget policy as it is.

1062
01:05:33,590 --> 01:05:37,470
And they'll bring back whatever they bring back since it's a living document any type

1063
01:05:37,470 --> 01:05:39,450
of amendment that we need to put to it.

1064
01:05:39,450 --> 01:05:40,390
And Brett's in charge of that?

1065
01:05:40,390 --> 01:05:41,390
Brett's in charge of that.

1066
01:05:41,410 --> 01:05:42,190
September 33rd.

1067
01:05:42,210 --> 01:05:42,970
Yeah, Brett's in charge of that.

1068
01:05:43,410 --> 01:05:44,710
All right, we have a motion to second.

1069
01:05:44,810 --> 01:05:45,230
All in favor?

1070
01:05:45,510 --> 01:05:45,830
Aye.

1071
01:05:46,070 --> 01:05:46,390
Opposed?

1072
01:05:46,950 --> 01:05:47,590
Motion carries.

1073
01:05:47,890 --> 01:05:48,470
Thank you.

1074
01:05:48,590 --> 01:05:53,430
Thank you, Commissioner Gray, for us getting to the bottom of this.

1075
01:05:53,510 --> 01:05:54,670
And Amanda, for all your hard work.

1076
01:05:54,890 --> 01:05:56,430
Was there a vote on the budget calendar?

1077
01:05:56,930 --> 01:05:57,550
It's all the same.

1078
01:05:57,690 --> 01:05:58,190
It's all the same?

1079
01:05:58,390 --> 01:05:58,710
Okay, cool.

1080
01:05:58,950 --> 01:05:59,190
Thanks.

1081
01:05:59,490 --> 01:06:01,430
Thank you for your hard work on that policy, Amanda.

1082
01:06:01,430 --> 01:06:09,060
all right let's move forward information technology I move on this for

1083
01:06:09,060 --> 01:06:12,980
commissioner gray I think it's great yeah we're very we have a motion or a

1084
01:06:12,980 --> 01:06:18,820
second second all in favor posed motion carries thank you Bobby lovely thank you

1085
01:06:18,820 --> 01:06:24,480
Bobby treasure let's move forward move on that too all right we have emotion on

1086
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:31,260
the treasure I have a question if we may but do we have a second I'll second

1087
01:06:31,260 --> 01:06:34,120
Okay. Discussion. Here's a question that I have.

1088
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:34,740
Yes, sir.

1089
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:37,580
You know, with the failing of banks...

1090
01:06:37,580 --> 01:06:38,040
Yes, sir.

1091
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:39,740
...we have investments.

1092
01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:42,120
Yay, many dollars.

1093
01:06:42,780 --> 01:06:43,080
Yes.

1094
01:06:43,180 --> 01:06:48,000
Investments that do not fall under the federal guideline of $250,000.

1095
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:53,820
So if we have the money in a bank and it fails, what happens?

1096
01:06:54,140 --> 01:06:58,920
How are we guaranteed our money isn't lost short of putting it in banks all over the place?

1097
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:05,840
Well, to explain that, so we do have some investments that are insured at the $250,000 FDIC level

1098
01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:10,620
and those accounts are spread out over many, many banks are insured.

1099
01:07:10,940 --> 01:07:15,980
But anything with our depository bank with Wood Forest is covered by a letter of credit

1100
01:07:15,980 --> 01:07:18,000
with the Federal Home Loan Bank.

1101
01:07:18,300 --> 01:07:23,240
And that's actually a whole lot easier than what we used to do and this court approved

1102
01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:29,720
in March of 19 for us to switch to that version of collateral from what we previously did,

1103
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:37,100
which was pledge collateral, where the bank would buy securities, specific bills of specific

1104
01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:45,800
muni bonds, and all sorts of different collateralization up to the amount that we needed 110 percent

1105
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:47,220
over our balance.

1106
01:07:47,220 --> 01:07:55,280
We switch to the letter of credit so that we are able to quickly, if would force bank were to ever have any issues,

1107
01:07:55,640 --> 01:08:00,020
go to the federal home loan bank and cash that in to recover our losses.

1108
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:06,140
And so it's actually a lot faster because you don't have to actually sell the pledge collateral that you would have.

1109
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:09,120
Do we trust the federal home loan bank?

1110
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:10,160
Oh boy.

1111
01:08:12,500 --> 01:08:17,900
I mean, and then you have the Securities Investment Protection Corporation sitting on top of that

1112
01:08:17,900 --> 01:08:18,600
they've provided.

1113
01:08:19,060 --> 01:08:19,120
Yeah.

1114
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:21,000
I mean, what you're saying is we're a vigilante.

1115
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:21,400
Yes, sir.

1116
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:24,580
I have no hesitations, reservations.

1117
01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:29,400
We've talked with our investment committee about this and our investment advisors that

1118
01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:29,880
we have.

1119
01:08:30,140 --> 01:08:34,540
We have met with the Treasurer of Wood Forest with regards to this as well as

1120
01:08:34,540 --> 01:08:37,180
all of their CFO and leadership team.

1121
01:08:37,180 --> 01:08:39,580
I have no hesitations with what we're doing.

1122
01:08:39,780 --> 01:08:40,760
All right, thank you.

1123
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:43,600
Other than putting it in a mattress, Judge, there you go.

1124
01:08:44,780 --> 01:08:45,760
Not my mattress.

1125
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:46,900
We know how well that works.

1126
01:08:47,880 --> 01:08:49,140
All right, we have a motion and a second.

1127
01:08:49,260 --> 01:08:50,020
Is there any more discussion?

1128
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:50,420
Nope.

1129
01:08:50,620 --> 01:08:51,100
All in favor?

1130
01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:51,440
Aye.

1131
01:08:51,900 --> 01:08:52,200
Opposed?

1132
01:08:52,460 --> 01:08:52,980
Motion carries.

1133
01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:53,500
Thank you.

1134
01:08:53,700 --> 01:08:54,740
And the donation item?

1135
01:08:55,220 --> 01:08:55,460
Second.

1136
01:08:55,620 --> 01:08:56,560
Item on the agenda?

1137
01:08:57,080 --> 01:08:57,300
Move.

1138
01:08:57,960 --> 01:08:58,480
I'll second.

1139
01:08:58,780 --> 01:08:59,240
All in favor?

1140
01:08:59,920 --> 01:09:00,180
Aye.

1141
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:01,200
Opposed?

1142
01:09:01,420 --> 01:09:02,000
Motion carries.

1143
01:09:02,140 --> 01:09:02,520
Thank you.

1144
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:06,960
All right. We have a motion just as the peace precinct three.

1145
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:11,280
Considering except monthly collections, we have a motion to second all in favor.

1146
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:13,320
Opposed, motion carries.

1147
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:14,600
Michael Howard,

1148
01:09:16,790 --> 01:09:18,130
risk management.

1149
01:09:23,830 --> 01:09:24,730
Good morning, Judge.

1150
01:09:24,870 --> 01:09:26,450
Commissioners, consider and approve.

1151
01:09:27,310 --> 01:09:29,630
Changes, additions and releases on the surety bonds.

1152
01:09:30,030 --> 01:09:30,190
Move.

1153
01:09:31,030 --> 01:09:31,410
Second.

1154
01:09:32,390 --> 01:09:33,250
It's ready to discussion.

1155
01:09:34,370 --> 01:09:35,010
All in favor?

1156
01:09:35,510 --> 01:09:35,690
Aye.

1157
01:09:36,150 --> 01:09:37,390
Opposed, motion carries.

1158
01:09:37,530 --> 01:09:37,970
Thank you.

1159
01:09:38,770 --> 01:09:46,080
Jason judge that's in precinct three move I'm sorry it's in precinct three I move

1160
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:54,750
second all in favor opposed motion carries thank you sure move second we

1161
01:09:54,750 --> 01:09:58,970
have a motion to second on this as well share thank you what we appreciate your

1162
01:09:58,970 --> 01:10:03,470
participation willingness to participate up at the mic all right we

1163
01:10:03,470 --> 01:10:09,950
motion second all in favor opposed motion carries console precinct five second

1164
01:10:09,950 --> 01:10:13,670
Yeah, all in favor pose motion carries

1165
01:10:15,190 --> 01:10:17,850
Conrad North Houston regional Airport

1166
01:10:18,430 --> 01:10:18,970
James

1167
01:10:25,620 --> 01:10:26,260
All right

1168
01:10:26,260 --> 01:10:32,080
This one is considered to prove the first amendment to land lease agreement between Montgomery County and Conserve air ink at the Conrad North

1169
01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:34,420
Eastern Regional Airport. I move on it

1170
01:10:34,420 --> 01:10:40,460
In discussion all in favor. Hi posed motion carries. Thank you

1171
01:10:41,860 --> 01:10:43,580
Tax assessor collector

1172
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:58,020
Ida May is my monthly collection report for March and we are right on target.

1173
01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:04,500
We've collected 96.21% of our total tax dollars to date.

1174
01:11:06,100 --> 01:11:07,260
I'll move on that.

1175
01:11:07,460 --> 01:11:07,880
Thank you.

1176
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:09,320
I have a question.

1177
01:11:09,480 --> 01:11:11,280
We just heard 97.7.

1178
01:11:11,300 --> 01:11:12,320
That's budgeted.

1179
01:11:12,700 --> 01:11:13,820
That's what we've budgeted.

1180
01:11:13,860 --> 01:11:14,880
This is total collections.

1181
01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:17,280
We don't budget for 100% of our collections.

1182
01:11:17,860 --> 01:11:18,620
Great answer.

1183
01:11:18,940 --> 01:11:19,120
Yeah.

1184
01:11:19,540 --> 01:11:19,540
We

1185
01:11:21,650 --> 01:11:22,690
have a motion.

1186
01:11:23,210 --> 01:11:23,570
Second.

1187
01:11:23,850 --> 01:11:24,290
All in favor?

1188
01:11:24,750 --> 01:11:25,070
Aye.

1189
01:11:25,370 --> 01:11:25,790
Opposed?

1190
01:11:26,450 --> 01:11:26,750
Motion carries.

1191
01:11:27,390 --> 01:11:27,690
Okay.

1192
01:11:28,170 --> 01:11:34,070
Item B is just memorializing the action that y'all took on March 28 to increase the

1193
01:11:34,070 --> 01:11:39,810
over 65 exemption to 50,000 from 35,000.

1194
01:11:39,990 --> 01:11:40,210
Move.

1195
01:11:40,310 --> 01:11:40,450
Second.

1196
01:11:41,310 --> 01:11:42,690
We have a motion to second.

1197
01:11:42,770 --> 01:11:43,190
All in favor?

1198
01:11:43,610 --> 01:11:43,930
Aye.

1199
01:11:44,130 --> 01:11:44,450
Opposed?

1200
01:11:44,450 --> 01:11:50,550
Motion carries. Thank you, Tammy. Sure thing. I got a telephone call from Paul Bentoncourt.

1201
01:11:50,730 --> 01:11:55,950
They're attempting to raise it to 100,000. All right. Good morning, Judge.

1202
01:11:56,170 --> 01:12:02,950
Justice Commissioners, Item 21, A, B, and C are all testimony required reports. Item A is...

1203
01:12:06,970 --> 01:12:09,430
We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion?

1204
01:12:11,130 --> 01:12:15,430
Rakesh, in each of these reports, the first report is basically an over-and-under report,

1205
01:12:15,550 --> 01:12:17,310
revenue in-and-out expenses.

1206
01:12:17,330 --> 01:12:18,370
The receipts and expenditures.

1207
01:12:18,670 --> 01:12:22,970
And it is according to what we have decided it's plugged in.

1208
01:12:23,050 --> 01:12:26,970
If somebody wants to go over it, they can't go over it even if they wanted to, correct?

1209
01:12:27,250 --> 01:12:30,270
We don't spend any money until we have any budgets for it, so let's talk about it.

1210
01:12:30,270 --> 01:12:36,510
The second report, it's really a balance sheet, and how are we tracking it?

1211
01:12:36,830 --> 01:12:37,610
How do we look for it?

1212
01:12:37,610 --> 01:12:41,610
We look all right. We look good. Any any concerns at all?

1213
01:12:42,250 --> 01:12:43,750
Nothing to report at this one time

1214
01:12:44,510 --> 01:12:45,910
We're under and we're good

1215
01:12:47,050 --> 01:12:50,510
All right, the third report judge and commissioners is the

1216
01:12:51,990 --> 01:12:54,850
This is the 800 page report, right? That's the report

1217
01:12:54,850 --> 01:12:58,510
You know it would require to furnish that monthly and annually as well

1218
01:12:58,510 --> 01:13:03,930
And obviously it includes the the audited act for that we did last month as part of the

1219
01:13:03,930 --> 01:13:05,230
Submission of the report

1220
01:13:05,230 --> 01:13:10,970
It includes all the other two, but basically, and also anything that's important that's

1221
01:13:10,970 --> 01:13:13,570
the more, the unnecessary that we need to present to the Commission's Court, including

1222
01:13:13,570 --> 01:13:17,330
all the previous reports we've done, status updates on the ERP, and all that stuff.

1223
01:13:17,890 --> 01:13:18,050
Okay.

1224
01:13:19,290 --> 01:13:19,710
All right.

1225
01:13:20,010 --> 01:13:22,630
We had a motion on ABCD&E.

1226
01:13:23,370 --> 01:13:23,970
Is there a second?

1227
01:13:24,330 --> 01:13:25,110
ABCD&E.

1228
01:13:25,150 --> 01:13:25,430
ABCD&E.

1229
01:13:26,230 --> 01:13:26,770
ABCD&E.

1230
01:13:26,930 --> 01:13:27,650
Okay, ABCD&E.

1231
01:13:27,870 --> 01:13:28,590
Is there, we have a motion.

1232
01:13:28,710 --> 01:13:29,690
Is there any more discussion?

1233
01:13:29,930 --> 01:13:30,290
All in favor?

1234
01:13:30,650 --> 01:13:31,050
Aye.

1235
01:13:31,230 --> 01:13:31,610
Opposed?

1236
01:13:32,050 --> 01:13:32,830
Motion carries.

1237
01:13:33,330 --> 01:13:33,730
Proceed.

1238
01:13:33,730 --> 01:13:33,830
Okay.

1239
01:13:34,250 --> 01:13:37,070
Item D, consider and approve court interpretive claims for payments.

1240
01:13:37,370 --> 01:13:43,510
All together we had about 12 invoice claims that we processed for about $4,627.83.

1241
01:13:44,730 --> 01:13:47,750
How does that relate to the big picture of where we were and where we are now?

1242
01:13:48,010 --> 01:13:52,170
Two courts ago it was about $16,000 which included about three weeks worth of court run.

1243
01:13:52,690 --> 01:13:57,170
The previous court we had about $8,000, about $4,600, so the numbers look.

1244
01:13:57,750 --> 01:14:01,770
So have the judges turned in all their stuff or I mean there's a reason for it

1245
01:14:01,770 --> 01:14:02,330
going down?

1246
01:14:02,330 --> 01:14:03,590
Wendy again

1247
01:14:07,910 --> 01:14:13,710
so yes well that's all of our vouchers they're coming in to me

1248
01:14:13,710 --> 01:14:17,730
daily we process them through the same day that we receive them that's nothing

1249
01:14:17,730 --> 01:14:22,610
outstanding other than some vouchers that are several years old that we're

1250
01:14:22,610 --> 01:14:27,590
still working to resolve okay so we're catching your judgment the program is

1251
01:14:27,590 --> 01:14:35,930
working interpreters your order come on come on I think he just pays a bill we

1252
01:14:36,450 --> 01:14:41,170
pay the bill as they come through make sure that whatever it's worth which is

1253
01:14:41,170 --> 01:14:44,150
worth something it appears that it is and it's good management thank you we're

1254
01:14:44,150 --> 01:14:50,170
paying the appropriate right to have a motion to accept item 21 at D

1255
01:14:52,270 --> 01:14:55,350
Second. All in favor. Opposed?

1256
01:14:55,490 --> 01:14:56,910
Opposed. Motion carries.

1257
01:14:57,810 --> 01:14:59,970
I think he is the regular payment of a...

1258
01:15:07,220 --> 01:15:16,980
All right, we have a motion. Zero second. Any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion

1259
01:15:16,980 --> 01:15:19,840
carries. Thank you, gentlemen. All right, let's move forward.

1260
01:15:21,980 --> 01:15:24,180
Purchasing. Gilbert. Oh, Gilbert

1261
01:15:24,180 --> 01:15:26,200
So Gilbert Gilbert you've changed

1262
01:15:32,340 --> 01:15:35,880
Good morning commissioners and can judge and commissioners

1263
01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:45,120
All right first item 22 a consider and approve the renewal a project 1908 workers compensation third-party administrators with ASNG

1264
01:15:45,740 --> 01:15:47,140
administration for risk management

1265
01:15:47,860 --> 01:15:49,120
All right. We have a motion

1266
01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:55,760
Can we explain that just a little bit? I mean

1267
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:57,600
Sure. Absolutely.

1268
01:15:58,120 --> 01:16:00,880
Probably Michael Howard can come back and explain it a lot better than I can.

1269
01:16:01,260 --> 01:16:02,660
Just briefly, just quickly.

1270
01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:06,160
It's our TPA account for our property and casualty and our workers' compensation.

1271
01:16:06,800 --> 01:16:11,560
This is the folks AS&G who do all of our claims actual processing.

1272
01:16:11,740 --> 01:16:13,920
It's the Boone Chapman for our risk.

1273
01:16:13,980 --> 01:16:16,500
They are the Boone Chapman on the PC and the workers' compensation.

1274
01:16:16,940 --> 01:16:17,960
So we're renewing.

1275
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:18,920
We're just renewing.

1276
01:16:19,020 --> 01:16:19,680
This is the fourth.

1277
01:16:19,880 --> 01:16:21,480
Yeah, the fourth of the four renewals.

1278
01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:23,280
We'll go out and post it again.

1279
01:16:23,440 --> 01:16:24,440
Can we have motions or a second?

1280
01:16:24,440 --> 01:16:25,680
Thank you.

1281
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:26,240
All in favor?

1282
01:16:26,900 --> 01:16:27,460
Opposed?

1283
01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:28,360
Motion carries.

1284
01:16:28,620 --> 01:16:28,820
Thank you.

1285
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:29,680
Continue on.

1286
01:16:29,860 --> 01:16:34,480
All right, the next two items are item B. We're asking to approve a discretionary exemption

1287
01:16:34,480 --> 01:16:43,680
for Amigos Library Service and for the Houston Area Database Consortium, and then online

1288
01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:48,280
computer legal research is an item that can only be obtained from one source, West

1289
01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:50,820
Publishing, DBA, Thompson Rooters for various departments.

1290
01:16:52,220 --> 01:16:53,640
We have emotional proof.

1291
01:16:58,690 --> 01:16:59,510
Can you explain that too?

1292
01:16:59,710 --> 01:17:00,270
There you go.

1293
01:17:02,190 --> 01:17:14,550
Amigo's library services, that is something that the library uses as a consortium from what I believe they act as a pay-through service for the library, for digital.

1294
01:17:15,310 --> 01:17:18,050
I believe if the library is here, she can help me, but I don't think so.

1295
01:17:18,630 --> 01:17:24,350
And then the computer legal research is what all the courts use for their legal research.

1296
01:17:24,350 --> 01:17:30,450
courts, attorney's offices, district attorney, judges, everything that's west, our online

1297
01:17:30,450 --> 01:17:30,890
research.

1298
01:17:31,790 --> 01:17:32,370
I move.

1299
01:17:32,790 --> 01:17:33,190
Thank you.

1300
01:17:33,610 --> 01:17:34,190
Do we have a motion?

1301
01:17:34,430 --> 01:17:34,990
Is there a second?

1302
01:17:35,450 --> 01:17:36,250
I'll second.

1303
01:17:36,450 --> 01:17:37,130
Motion is second.

1304
01:17:37,250 --> 01:17:37,630
All in favor?

1305
01:17:38,250 --> 01:17:38,430
Aye.

1306
01:17:38,710 --> 01:17:39,190
Opposed?

1307
01:17:39,450 --> 01:17:40,130
Motion carries.

1308
01:17:41,190 --> 01:17:46,890
Okay, next item, C, number one, change order number one to Larry Young Paving for

1309
01:17:46,890 --> 01:17:51,870
Project 19-49, additional rehabilitation of roads to add right-of-way prep and

1310
01:17:51,870 --> 01:17:54,210
backfill for various precincts.

1311
01:17:54,290 --> 01:17:54,510
Move.

1312
01:17:55,010 --> 01:17:55,270
Second.

1313
01:17:56,130 --> 01:17:56,690
All in favor?

1314
01:17:57,150 --> 01:17:57,330
Aye.

1315
01:17:57,770 --> 01:17:58,130
Opposed?

1316
01:17:58,650 --> 01:17:59,430
Motion carries.

1317
01:17:59,890 --> 01:18:00,090
Okay.

1318
01:18:00,310 --> 01:18:07,830
Next item, number two, change order number three, PO number 41430 to LJA Engineering for

1319
01:18:07,830 --> 01:18:09,950
Engineering Service on Call Supplemental Services.

1320
01:18:09,970 --> 01:18:10,210
Move.

1321
01:18:10,730 --> 01:18:11,330
Thank you.

1322
01:18:11,390 --> 01:18:11,630
Second.

1323
01:18:12,110 --> 01:18:12,670
All in favor?

1324
01:18:13,070 --> 01:18:13,290
Aye.

1325
01:18:13,570 --> 01:18:13,990
Opposed?

1326
01:18:14,550 --> 01:18:15,470
Motion carries.

1327
01:18:15,610 --> 01:18:16,090
Proceed.

1328
01:18:16,090 --> 01:18:30,330
Next item D, consider and approve the contracts for Project 2301, application for Clearinghouse Bank and Participating Bank with Wood Forest National Bank for the Treasurer, and Amigee Bank, a division of Zion's Bank Corporation for the Tax Office.

1329
01:18:30,890 --> 01:18:33,910
The award was previously approved to Commissioner's Court on 411.

1330
01:18:34,670 --> 01:18:34,890
Move.

1331
01:18:35,370 --> 01:18:35,930
You have a motion.

1332
01:18:36,350 --> 01:18:36,770
Thank you.

1333
01:18:36,990 --> 01:18:37,390
All in favor?

1334
01:18:38,230 --> 01:18:38,790
Opposed?

1335
01:18:39,210 --> 01:18:39,950
Motion carries.

1336
01:18:40,330 --> 01:18:40,570
E.

1337
01:18:40,870 --> 01:18:41,250
Move.

1338
01:18:42,130 --> 01:18:43,130
We have a motion.

1339
01:18:43,230 --> 01:18:43,670
I'll second.

1340
01:18:44,070 --> 01:18:44,650
All in favor?

1341
01:18:44,650 --> 01:18:47,750
I'm opposed motion carries F

1342
01:18:49,070 --> 01:18:51,470
F can go ahead. I

1343
01:18:51,470 --> 01:18:58,420
Judge I have a question on this. So sure the f the one we're talking about F F

1344
01:18:59,260 --> 01:19:04,120
Which one right at the end of shelter the animal shelter. Yeah, go ahead. So this I

1345
01:19:05,740 --> 01:19:11,680
As you know pretty much everybody up here taking turns running that darn place and y'all are doing a fantastic job

1346
01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:17,180
Thanks for so but that place has had when we were up when my office was over

1347
01:19:17,180 --> 01:19:21,400
there we had a thousand animals in there and you know you find a way to make it

1348
01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:26,980
work I think we all know it's a dilapidated useless facility for an

1349
01:19:26,980 --> 01:19:31,220
animal shelter I just hate to spend $65,000 to get a report that's gonna

1350
01:19:31,220 --> 01:19:35,760
say it's a piece of junk I think we can all agree to that and stipulate

1351
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:41,400
that we need a shelter some point in the future we need a better plan but I

1352
01:19:41,400 --> 01:19:43,760
I don't know if spending $65,000 to get a report

1353
01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:46,220
that's gonna tell us what we already know is great.

1354
01:19:46,900 --> 01:19:48,040
Well, there's a couple of things

1355
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:51,160
because that's a great question.

1356
01:19:52,900 --> 01:19:55,140
But first of all, let's go get the numbers right back

1357
01:19:55,140 --> 01:19:56,540
when you were in charge of that deal.

1358
01:19:57,220 --> 01:19:58,920
It was 658 animals.

1359
01:19:59,200 --> 01:20:01,080
No, there were days we had 1,000 animals over there.

1360
01:20:01,180 --> 01:20:03,480
We had 600 dogs and 300 cats.

1361
01:20:03,600 --> 01:20:05,020
In my research as I look back,

1362
01:20:05,140 --> 01:20:06,440
because you brought this up once before,

1363
01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:08,560
otherwise I would have not made an issue out of it.

1364
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:09,120
So it's okay.

1365
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:15,460
But we've got a lot of animals that you put there, and the problem was, at that time,

1366
01:20:15,700 --> 01:20:20,380
and the problem is now, is that you still have lousy sanitation.

1367
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:28,320
The initial report that they paid for, I gave you guys each a copy of this, that PEGAL

1368
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:36,700
did for us, went through these items with major considerations in animal capacity, program

1369
01:20:36,700 --> 01:20:41,480
capacity, sizing, configuration of housing units, the enrichment of the animals, no useful

1370
01:20:41,480 --> 01:20:47,160
traffic flow, inadequate areas for disease isolation, their significant infrastructure

1371
01:20:47,160 --> 01:20:52,420
deficiency including the dog housing units, too many animals, housing each room, building

1372
01:20:52,420 --> 01:20:57,640
ventilation, it's incorrect, it's not up to code, the continuous trench drains are

1373
01:20:57,640 --> 01:21:01,420
notoriously difficult to operate, they're difficult to clean, they cross contaminate,

1374
01:21:01,580 --> 01:21:05,720
they smell bad, they spread disease, they trap debris, and the list goes on.

1375
01:21:05,720 --> 01:21:11,200
Now, we know that it's been managed with this, and we're managing it now.

1376
01:21:12,220 --> 01:21:20,340
But we came up with, back in April 4th of 2019, if you recall, with PIGAL, who has done

1377
01:21:20,340 --> 01:21:26,540
an analysis for us for project understanding of the tax office, the county courthouse,

1378
01:21:26,700 --> 01:21:30,800
atrium building, quichin building, all-worth building, Sadler building, Montgomery County

1379
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:34,340
Jail, and we neglected to put in here in the animal shelter.

1380
01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:40,980
Now, here's the deal. If we need to, if we're able to do certain things to be able to make

1381
01:21:40,980 --> 01:21:46,160
it more adequate so that it's safer for our employees, it spreads less disease and germs

1382
01:21:46,160 --> 01:21:51,580
and bacteria and are able to do something in the immediate, I have to have this additional

1383
01:21:51,580 --> 01:21:58,120
study from PEGAL to know what to present during budget. And without that, I really

1384
01:21:58,120 --> 01:22:02,580
don't have it. And so what we're asking for is, and it's a cost of $65,000. Remember,

1385
01:22:02,580 --> 01:22:04,340
The animal shelter paid the first 25 grand.

1386
01:22:04,660 --> 01:22:07,740
What more could PGAO give us right here?

1387
01:22:08,060 --> 01:22:08,980
What more can they do?

1388
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:12,140
Well, what are you looking to get out of PGAO?

1389
01:22:12,340 --> 01:22:13,300
Here, Paul.

1390
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:14,440
Paul's here right now.

1391
01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:20,200
Thank you, Judge Commissioners.

1392
01:22:21,120 --> 01:22:25,460
So our initial proposal was in two parts.

1393
01:22:25,920 --> 01:22:28,880
So the report that you have right there

1394
01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:30,820
is the Building Condition Assessment.

1395
01:22:31,420 --> 01:22:34,940
So we brought our engineers and architects and specialists

1396
01:22:34,940 --> 01:22:41,280
in to look at the current operation of the facility and the current situation.

1397
01:22:42,100 --> 01:22:46,220
And this next phase is the needs assessment.

1398
01:22:46,780 --> 01:22:54,180
So this will be more detailed and studying exactly what the shelter needs moving forward

1399
01:22:54,180 --> 01:23:01,540
and we will come up with some floor plans and square footage and a budget for you

1400
01:23:01,540 --> 01:23:07,580
to consider for a new facility but that's right how to fix the problems

1401
01:23:07,580 --> 01:23:11,300
that are already there I mean you're talking about the floor plan for a new

1402
01:23:11,300 --> 01:23:16,320
facility correct that's we are that's what we're doing we're talking about what

1403
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:22,380
if we in a needs assessment what would it take for us because guys as

1404
01:23:22,380 --> 01:23:26,200
everything I can see is that you have mentioned in your report the county is

1405
01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:28,980
growing exponentially the amount of people that are here the problem is

1406
01:23:28,980 --> 01:23:33,380
not going away and it's getting worse and worse and worse judge was fighting

1407
01:23:33,380 --> 01:23:40,040
very hard to to to keep the steel going with this study set you up judge for me

1408
01:23:40,040 --> 01:23:47,260
with this study set you up to springboard into some kind of CDBG or

1409
01:23:47,260 --> 01:23:52,440
grant funding for a future location if that was the case I mean well if this

1410
01:23:52,440 --> 01:23:57,220
almost like a match or a public-private partnership or something like that to

1411
01:23:57,220 --> 01:23:59,260
to be able to move forward on something.

1412
01:23:59,920 --> 01:24:01,660
But right now, we're just shooting in the dark.

1413
01:24:01,740 --> 01:24:03,660
We don't know whether it would cost us 10 million,

1414
01:24:03,820 --> 01:24:05,800
30 million, you know.

1415
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:09,160
Right, and I'll just throw this in.

1416
01:24:09,300 --> 01:24:10,980
I mean, we can study multiple options

1417
01:24:10,980 --> 01:24:12,700
with this second piece.

1418
01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:17,320
We can look at, can we update the current facility

1419
01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:20,900
in some way or add on to the current facility?

1420
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:25,780
We can look at new or multiple situations.

1421
01:24:25,780 --> 01:24:27,860
as we had discussed is very difficult.

1422
01:24:28,360 --> 01:24:29,840
I mean, the office space, the hallway space.

1423
01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:33,020
Can we ever get the new incinerator to take care of?

1424
01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:34,840
I've been down there several times,

1425
01:24:35,060 --> 01:24:37,100
and I had spoke with them about the property

1426
01:24:37,100 --> 01:24:39,340
that's adjacent right beside it.

1427
01:24:39,380 --> 01:24:40,200
It's almost the same.

1428
01:24:40,740 --> 01:24:43,040
That it could maybe possibly be bought

1429
01:24:43,040 --> 01:24:46,660
and something built there and then revitalized.

1430
01:24:46,760 --> 01:24:47,620
And I don't know if that's possible.

1431
01:24:47,820 --> 01:24:49,660
That's the end that she talked about and tried.

1432
01:24:49,920 --> 01:24:51,460
I mean, it's a great idea.

1433
01:24:51,760 --> 01:24:53,760
My thing is, I know we need a shelter.

1434
01:24:54,100 --> 01:24:55,160
And you've built shelters.

1435
01:24:55,160 --> 01:24:58,800
you've designed shelters, it would be just as efficient for you to come in here and say,

1436
01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:05,940
this is a shelter we built that handles 2,000 animals or whatever, and it would be a lot

1437
01:25:05,940 --> 01:25:10,280
cheaper than 65,000, because it doesn't sound like you're going to bring back solutions

1438
01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:13,880
to the problems with the drainage and the poor ventilation.

1439
01:25:13,960 --> 01:25:19,700
The poor ventilation, building maintenance, we put brand new state-of-the-art equipment

1440
01:25:19,700 --> 01:25:20,320
in there.

1441
01:25:20,340 --> 01:25:23,020
When I went in there a few years ago, I know some of the ones are working.

1442
01:25:23,020 --> 01:25:27,600
we're hearing but it was it was we did some simple things like we put fan belts

1443
01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:32,480
on the fans but the biggest thing was is the odor and we put 16 oxidation we

1444
01:25:32,480 --> 01:25:36,660
spent $20,000 on oxidation machines that are going to be coming up to be

1445
01:25:36,660 --> 01:25:40,560
replaced in the near future and it still doesn't produce according to code

1446
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:45,620
enough amount of turn of what it's going to take to get that that stuff in

1447
01:25:45,620 --> 01:25:51,220
and out of there plus the the kennels the lack of lighting the I've got

1448
01:25:51,220 --> 01:25:56,960
four people down there right now in an office space that is as big as from that corner to

1449
01:25:56,960 --> 01:26:03,500
this from that that's right there for people all working in desks it's it's it's chaos but

1450
01:26:03,500 --> 01:26:09,320
that being said I can't even go to somebody I can't even seek a grant I can't even go

1451
01:26:09,320 --> 01:26:14,620
to some type of public-private partnership or some of these organizations I don't have

1452
01:26:14,620 --> 01:26:19,600
a clue what it would cost or really what what it would look like so is there a way

1453
01:26:20,180 --> 01:26:26,360
So this 65,000 we're talking about spending is going to be a solution for him to come back

1454
01:26:26,360 --> 01:26:30,940
and say this is what facility we need, not what's going on there.

1455
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:33,180
We already know what's going on there at that location.

1456
01:26:34,340 --> 01:26:38,380
So this will be a design, you'll tell us a square footage.

1457
01:26:38,700 --> 01:26:38,960
Correct.

1458
01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:39,700
Yep.

1459
01:26:39,820 --> 01:26:44,880
And we do have a consultant, a specialist, animal arts who we do a lot of work with

1460
01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:52,560
on the larger facilities across the country, they're a nationwide expert, so they will

1461
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:59,040
provide all their expertise along with it and we'll come back with various options

1462
01:26:59,040 --> 01:27:06,280
for you and various sizes looking into the future of what you could need for a facility

1463
01:27:06,280 --> 01:27:06,880
and consider.

1464
01:27:07,480 --> 01:27:08,660
I agree with the judge.

1465
01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:13,220
You've got to have something to show somebody if you're going to go ask for a partnership

1466
01:27:13,220 --> 01:27:16,100
or go out for a grant or apply for grants.

1467
01:27:16,220 --> 01:27:16,980
Yeah, I'll say.

1468
01:27:17,060 --> 01:27:18,280
Beautiful funding source, Amanda.

1469
01:27:20,460 --> 01:27:24,780
Counties and cities are not required to provide animal control services.

1470
01:27:25,920 --> 01:27:29,320
And the fact that we do provide it, we've taken on that debit.

1471
01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:32,560
So it's kind of like a crazy cousin.

1472
01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:33,920
They're still your cousin now.

1473
01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:35,820
Now we got it.

1474
01:27:36,180 --> 01:27:37,920
So the focus would be to build a new one,

1475
01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:40,280
not to look at fixing the old one.

1476
01:27:40,340 --> 01:27:41,680
Because that's my issue with it.

1477
01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:42,920
The old one can't be fixed.

1478
01:27:43,040 --> 01:27:44,240
That place needs to be blown up.

1479
01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:48,100
We need a new shelter at some point and get the animals out first.

1480
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:50,920
But we don't know which direction we're headed until we get that.

1481
01:27:51,160 --> 01:27:53,380
And we can't even have options until we get that.

1482
01:27:53,820 --> 01:27:54,340
I'm going to move on it.

1483
01:27:54,540 --> 01:27:56,620
If that's the case, then I would move.

1484
01:27:57,020 --> 01:27:58,000
Or second, I'll second.

1485
01:27:58,400 --> 01:27:59,980
All right, do we have a funding source?

1486
01:28:00,500 --> 01:28:00,820
Is there a funding?

1487
01:28:01,300 --> 01:28:02,980
Do we have it in contingency or where?

1488
01:28:03,200 --> 01:28:05,900
The animal shelter we did, the judge and I discussed,

1489
01:28:06,100 --> 01:28:08,260
is they have about $25,000 that they could contribute

1490
01:28:08,260 --> 01:28:09,020
to the project.

1491
01:28:09,440 --> 01:28:11,480
The rest would either need to come from contingency

1492
01:28:11,480 --> 01:28:15,920
you're another funding source. I'm trying to do it without contributing a total of

1493
01:28:15,920 --> 01:28:22,720
50,000 because we've already contributed 25,000 to the first study as it's and I

1494
01:28:22,720 --> 01:28:26,580
mean is there a way that we is the 65 do we have it in there or is there some way

1495
01:28:26,580 --> 01:28:30,180
we can divide it up to figure out a way to do this. Your contingency budget right

1496
01:28:30,180 --> 01:28:36,000
now is 231,000. Okay we have a motion animal shelter doesn't have any money

1497
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:39,600
at all that could I think we have $25,000 they can contribute so we

1498
01:28:39,600 --> 01:28:44,920
need about forty five. We need it. Forty.

1499
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:48,740
Forty thousand. The only reason I'm

1500
01:28:48,740 --> 01:28:52,320
asking for the full amount is because anytime we do a study we don't ever

1501
01:28:52,320 --> 01:28:54,960
ask that department to pay for that study. The only time I remember ever doing

1502
01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:59,480
that was the court. On their court study on this particular one we've already

1503
01:28:59,480 --> 01:29:07,200
put up twenty five thousand. I'm not just green. I'll do the rest. How about

1504
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:09,560
off four of us throwing 10,000.

1505
01:29:11,900 --> 01:29:15,400
What they want to do, but they don't, I'll do it. Move

1506
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:16,220
on Commissioner Riley.

1507
01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:23,840
Can we, let's, let's, yeah, we need to be clear about the

1508
01:29:23,840 --> 01:29:28,560
motion. Let's start over. Can we do that? Yes. Again. Do we have a motion? We're

1509
01:29:28,560 --> 01:29:32,320
gonna make a motion. I'll second that motion. The motion needs to have the

1510
01:29:32,320 --> 01:29:33,880
I'm sorry?

1511
01:29:35,260 --> 01:29:41,920
And the motion is going to be $25,000 from Animal Shelter and $40,000 from NOAAX.

1512
01:29:44,240 --> 01:29:45,140
Precinct two.

1513
01:29:48,380 --> 01:29:50,520
Well, I'll split it with you.

1514
01:29:50,900 --> 01:29:52,540
I'll donate $20,000.

1515
01:29:53,260 --> 01:29:55,960
So we have a motion in a second.

1516
01:29:56,080 --> 01:29:58,380
Well, real quick, I agree with y'all.

1517
01:29:58,380 --> 01:29:59,980
and I'll jump in if that's the case.

1518
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:18,260
The road we're going to go down, but I go back to, this isn't a requirement by the county or the city, so I think it should come out of that fund that Amanda's putting forth if the funds are there in a contingency and set out your own personal road bridge.

1519
01:30:18,540 --> 01:30:23,500
Like you said, we've been doing this for years. It's our baby. We can't get out of it now. It's ours.

1520
01:30:23,500 --> 01:30:28,020
Yeah, can we do a funding source make it contingency up to $65,000?

1521
01:30:29,860 --> 01:30:32,820
Boom. All right, we have a motion. Is there a second?

1522
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:35,540
All in favor. Okay

1523
01:30:36,580 --> 01:30:39,560
Motion carries. Hey, at least it wasn't my buddy. Thank you

1524
01:30:40,100 --> 01:30:44,760
Gentlemen appreciate it. All right. Let's move on. All right. Next. I don't need you. He does real quick

1525
01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:49,800
I'm up to 757 animals on 1013 of 16. I'm gonna get you the thousand though now

1526
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:50,280
Okay.

1527
01:30:51,060 --> 01:30:51,740
Keep it rocking.

1528
01:30:51,880 --> 01:30:53,260
You're only there for six weeks, though, man.

1529
01:30:53,900 --> 01:30:54,400
Six months.

1530
01:30:54,420 --> 01:30:54,880
That's all right.

1531
01:30:54,960 --> 01:30:55,180
Go ahead.

1532
01:30:55,340 --> 01:30:55,580
All right.

1533
01:30:55,860 --> 01:31:01,540
Item G, consider and approve the award for project 23-15 for pavement striping for various

1534
01:31:01,540 --> 01:31:03,340
departments to Texas Lone Star pavement.

1535
01:31:04,160 --> 01:31:04,480
Move.

1536
01:31:04,660 --> 01:31:05,960
And y'all did a great job on that.

1537
01:31:06,080 --> 01:31:10,100
It's not your fault if a vendor fails to reply to an e-mail that you sent them,

1538
01:31:10,180 --> 01:31:12,380
regardless of how long that they've been working for us.

1539
01:31:12,780 --> 01:31:15,820
I don't think that should have been addressed like it was.

1540
01:31:16,180 --> 01:31:18,980
And so it doesn't eliminate him from the future.

1541
01:31:18,980 --> 01:31:30,200
show. Thank you. We appreciate that. We appreciate that. All right, we have a motion? I'll second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Last item, approve

1542
01:31:30,200 --> 01:31:38,500
advertising for the Lone Star Parkway at Buffalo Springs Intersection. Thank you. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you everyone.

1543
01:31:38,900 --> 01:31:41,180
Thank you. Environmental health.

1544
01:31:45,230 --> 01:31:49,850
Good morning gentlemen. I'd like to consider and approve the order to release our lien to acknowledge or

1545
01:31:49,850 --> 01:31:52,770
receive a check payment for the lien associated

1546
01:31:52,770 --> 01:31:53,910
to the demolition.

1547
01:31:54,390 --> 01:31:54,770
Move.

1548
01:31:55,470 --> 01:31:55,890
Second.

1549
01:31:56,510 --> 01:31:57,030
All in favor?

1550
01:31:57,450 --> 01:31:57,890
Aye.

1551
01:31:58,190 --> 01:31:58,630
Opposed?

1552
01:31:59,030 --> 01:31:59,870
Motion carries.

1553
01:32:00,190 --> 01:32:00,410
Thank you.

1554
01:32:02,730 --> 01:32:03,170
Good

1555
01:32:10,370 --> 01:32:11,530
morning, Judge Commissioner.

1556
01:32:12,330 --> 01:32:12,710
Morning.

1557
01:32:13,230 --> 01:32:13,510
Morning.

1558
01:32:15,480 --> 01:32:16,160
I move.

1559
01:32:16,600 --> 01:32:16,820
Second.

1560
01:32:17,180 --> 01:32:17,780
All in favor?

1561
01:32:18,240 --> 01:32:18,400
Aye.

1562
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:19,140
Opposed?

1563
01:32:19,500 --> 01:32:21,020
Is this A, B, C, D, and H?

1564
01:32:21,020 --> 01:32:22,560
Yes, it's A, B. I move on A and B.

1565
01:32:22,800 --> 01:32:23,160
Me too.

1566
01:32:23,280 --> 01:32:24,580
Rebecca, you have a motion to second.

1567
01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:25,040
Thank you.

1568
01:32:25,540 --> 01:32:26,120
There's no any discussion.

1569
01:32:30,060 --> 01:32:35,840
Can I ask a question to Rebecca about what Commissioner Gray said about, is there any money,

1570
01:32:36,380 --> 01:32:39,680
grant money available for this, for our animal shelter?

1571
01:32:45,040 --> 01:32:46,460
Speak into the microphone real loud.

1572
01:32:48,670 --> 01:32:49,470
Jason is it on?

1573
01:32:49,710 --> 01:32:50,330
Sorry, it's on.

1574
01:32:50,330 --> 01:32:50,690
There you go.

1575
01:32:50,830 --> 01:32:50,930
There you go.

1576
01:32:51,070 --> 01:32:51,570
The green light.

1577
01:32:52,150 --> 01:32:56,610
So for CDBG, it cannot be used for that because that goes to low income persons.

1578
01:32:56,930 --> 01:33:00,510
But there are grants for animal shelters out there, yes sir.

1579
01:33:00,510 --> 01:33:04,690
Could you say that a lot of low-income people maybe will turn their dogs in?

1580
01:33:04,990 --> 01:33:06,070
Yes, maybe.

1581
01:33:08,620 --> 01:33:08,860
Mr.

1582
01:33:09,100 --> 01:33:09,720
All right.

1583
01:33:10,380 --> 01:33:11,000
Is there any more discussion?

1584
01:33:11,160 --> 01:33:11,520
Thank you.

1585
01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:11,940
Appreciate it.

1586
01:33:11,940 --> 01:33:12,060
Yes, sir.

1587
01:33:12,300 --> 01:33:12,620
Thank you.

1588
01:33:12,660 --> 01:33:13,100
Thank you very much.

1589
01:33:14,440 --> 01:33:15,120
All right.

1590
01:33:15,380 --> 01:33:16,220
Let's move forward.

1591
01:33:16,820 --> 01:33:17,760
County attorney.

1592
01:33:18,480 --> 01:33:20,480
I approve an order authorizing.

1593
01:33:20,560 --> 01:33:26,540
Notice of the public hearing under local government code 232.009c1 for a partial

1594
01:33:26,540 --> 01:33:33,060
This is going to set the public hearing at 9.30 on June the 13th of 2023.

1595
01:33:33,700 --> 01:33:34,760
Do I need to read the rest?

1596
01:33:35,320 --> 01:33:36,180
I have a motion.

1597
01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:37,600
I'd like a motion.

1598
01:33:38,260 --> 01:33:38,380
Second.

1599
01:33:38,440 --> 01:33:38,840
All in favor?

1600
01:33:39,340 --> 01:33:39,580
Aye.

1601
01:33:40,060 --> 01:33:40,480
Opposed?

1602
01:33:40,620 --> 01:33:41,160
Motion carries.

1603
01:33:41,640 --> 01:33:42,740
Item precinct 2.

1604
01:33:42,940 --> 01:33:43,200
Move.

1605
01:33:43,640 --> 01:33:43,960
Second.

1606
01:33:44,460 --> 01:33:45,160
All in favor?

1607
01:33:45,780 --> 01:33:46,060
Aye.

1608
01:33:46,420 --> 01:33:46,700
Opposed?

1609
01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:47,960
Motion carries.

1610
01:33:48,260 --> 01:33:48,800
Precinct 3.

1611
01:33:49,180 --> 01:33:49,520
Move.

1612
01:33:50,020 --> 01:33:50,260
Second.

1613
01:33:50,920 --> 01:33:51,920
I have a motion a second.

1614
01:33:52,040 --> 01:33:52,480
All in favor?

1615
01:33:52,880 --> 01:33:53,120
Aye.

1616
01:33:53,580 --> 01:33:57,160
Those and these have been turned over to the county attorney's office so they

1617
01:33:57,160 --> 01:34:03,140
can manage this process right forward since right and we yeah yeah and we have

1618
01:34:03,140 --> 01:34:06,340
really what we wanted to do is make this public and searchable so we've given

1619
01:34:06,340 --> 01:34:10,220
them to the county clerk and that's why you're accepting them today okay

1620
01:34:11,420 --> 01:34:18,120
Precinct for precinct four second on D one through eight on the on one through

1621
01:34:18,120 --> 01:34:21,540
eight we've all gentlemen we've all looked at the backup on precinct for

1622
01:34:21,540 --> 01:34:25,700
one through eight. We know what it is. Can we accept a motion to accept all at once?

1623
01:34:26,280 --> 01:34:34,200
Yes. Yeah. Already is there a second? Move. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Thank

1624
01:34:34,200 --> 01:34:38,840
you. All precincts. E. Approve a resolution order accepting memorialization of registration

1625
01:34:38,840 --> 01:34:45,340
of one trademark for the airport. I move. All in favor? All right. Opposed? Motion carries.

1626
01:34:45,880 --> 01:34:48,060
All right. At this time we're going to recess among Gourmet County Commissioner's

1627
01:34:48,060 --> 01:34:50,280
Court to convene public hearings.

1628
01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:54,760
Consider and approve changing the street name of Dan Circle to Dan Drive located in

1629
01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:59,400
Glenmont Estate Section 2 to be consistent with 9-1-1 addressing MCAT and USPS.

1630
01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:01,280
Is anybody here to speak about that?

1631
01:35:05,160 --> 01:35:08,360
All right, if there's no one to speak, let's reconvene court, take immediate action.

1632
01:35:08,480 --> 01:35:10,420
Do I have a motion to approve 26A1?

1633
01:35:12,020 --> 01:35:12,200
Move.

1634
01:35:12,600 --> 01:35:12,860
Second.

1635
01:35:13,160 --> 01:35:13,600
All in favor?

1636
01:35:14,840 --> 01:35:15,280
Opposed?

1637
01:35:15,880 --> 01:35:16,760
Motion carries.

1638
01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:17,320
Thank you.

1639
01:35:17,320 --> 01:35:24,600
county engineer precinct one these are we have it yes can we do for all in one

1640
01:35:24,600 --> 01:35:33,600
motion can we do yes 27 a b c and d all in one a second all right these are all

1641
01:35:33,600 --> 01:35:41,260
plaid say discussion all in favor post motion carries please consider the

1642
01:35:41,260 --> 01:35:44,060
inappropriate request from park construction to move heavy equipment

1643
01:35:44,060 --> 01:35:47,280
across various county reds. Permit will expire on July 22nd.

1644
01:35:47,280 --> 01:35:48,100
We have a motion. Is there a second?

1645
01:35:48,400 --> 01:35:48,760
I'll second.

1646
01:35:49,140 --> 01:35:50,460
Motion is second. All in favor?

1647
01:35:51,040 --> 01:35:51,440
All right.

1648
01:35:51,680 --> 01:35:52,060
Post?

1649
01:35:52,420 --> 01:35:52,640
Oppose.

1650
01:35:53,680 --> 01:35:54,380
You're opposed?

1651
01:35:54,720 --> 01:35:54,860
Yeah.

1652
01:35:54,860 --> 01:35:56,940
Okay, we have one opposition for approval.

1653
01:35:57,440 --> 01:35:59,300
All right, 28A1.

1654
01:35:59,420 --> 01:36:00,800
Commissioner is precinct one.

1655
01:36:01,400 --> 01:36:02,000
Commissioner Walker.

1656
01:36:06,500 --> 01:36:08,600
Okay, consider discussed to take appropriate action

1657
01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:12,380
regarding opening positions for the anticipated tax office,

1658
01:36:13,720 --> 01:36:19,640
NX and Willis increased full-time equivalency spots in the following positions in their

1659
01:36:19,640 --> 01:36:21,900
correlated position budgets.

1660
01:36:22,820 --> 01:36:31,420
There's four positions were opening up there and this is going to be a huge thing for the

1661
01:36:31,420 --> 01:36:33,900
north part of the county to have a tax office up there.

1662
01:36:36,140 --> 01:36:40,800
The funding options, you know, on the build out and on the lease payments, you know,

1663
01:36:40,800 --> 01:36:46,600
Tammy's got money to do the build out and I'm gonna pay for the

1664
01:36:47,700 --> 01:36:54,420
Employees until budget comes around and then we'll talk to a motion. Is there a second second a discussion

1665
01:36:55,740 --> 01:36:56,680
All in favor

1666
01:36:57,740 --> 01:37:05,620
post motion carries and then the second part of that to is considered take appropriate action on the lease of the property

1667
01:37:06,280 --> 01:37:07,580
I move

1668
01:37:08,220 --> 01:37:09,220
How's that funded?

1669
01:37:10,940 --> 01:37:12,200
I'm paying for that.

1670
01:37:13,040 --> 01:37:13,480
Second.

1671
01:37:14,500 --> 01:37:15,560
I already had a motion.

1672
01:37:15,800 --> 01:37:16,380
Who wants to second?

1673
01:37:16,580 --> 01:37:16,960
You want to second?

1674
01:37:17,400 --> 01:37:18,180
Okay. All in favor?

1675
01:37:18,580 --> 01:37:18,820
All right.

1676
01:37:19,180 --> 01:37:19,560
Opposed?

1677
01:37:20,140 --> 01:37:20,620
Motion carries.

1678
01:37:20,840 --> 01:37:21,260
Thank you.

1679
01:37:22,440 --> 01:37:22,760
Cody.

1680
01:37:22,980 --> 01:37:24,200
Just to confirm, I'm sorry, real quick.

1681
01:37:24,620 --> 01:37:28,900
The build out is going to be paid out of the tax office CIP.

1682
01:37:29,200 --> 01:37:30,340
Just want to note that for the record.

1683
01:37:30,760 --> 01:37:30,960
Yes.

1684
01:37:31,100 --> 01:37:36,860
The money that we're transferring out of Commissioner Walker's budget for the salary and positions

1685
01:37:36,860 --> 01:37:42,080
is 114,482, 114,482, and 3 cents.

1686
01:37:44,470 --> 01:37:45,490
All right, thank you.

1687
01:37:46,790 --> 01:37:49,290
All right, concern except payroll change request forms?

1688
01:37:49,630 --> 01:37:52,070
Jody, can you read those one by one, all 90 of them?

1689
01:37:54,220 --> 01:37:54,940
Start with one.

1690
01:37:55,460 --> 01:37:55,680
No.

1691
01:37:57,060 --> 01:37:57,920
Well, I move.

1692
01:37:58,360 --> 01:37:59,180
We have a motion.

1693
01:37:59,440 --> 01:37:59,960
Is there a second?

1694
01:38:00,100 --> 01:38:00,580
I'll second.

1695
01:38:01,140 --> 01:38:01,740
All in favor?

1696
01:38:01,980 --> 01:38:02,180
Aye.

1697
01:38:02,560 --> 01:38:03,000
Opposed?

1698
01:38:03,540 --> 01:38:04,360
Motion carries.

1699
01:38:04,580 --> 01:38:04,900
Thank you.

1700
01:38:05,080 --> 01:38:06,200
All right, let's go ahead.

1701
01:38:06,380 --> 01:38:08,420
Right now, we're going to go to executive session.

1702
01:38:08,420 --> 01:38:13,000
court recess for executive session pursuant to one or more of the following provisions

1703
01:38:13,000 --> 01:38:20,600
of the Texas government code to wit chapter 551 sub chapter D articles 551.071. Thank you

1704
01:38:20,600 --> 01:38:27,980
and we shall return. We are back from executive session. Let the record reflect that Commissioner

1705
01:38:27,980 --> 01:38:34,900
Noak has had to leave and is not with us, but there is no action to be taken for executive

1706
01:38:34,900 --> 01:38:43,320
session, we have a motion to adjourn. Oh, I forgive me. Forgive me. Thanks for not making

1707
01:38:43,320 --> 01:38:50,800
that motion. Is time our citizens? Yes. Thank you. Oh, it works. Okay. Michelle Knuckles.

1708
01:38:50,940 --> 01:38:57,640
Michelle Knuckles, yes. Gargantz-Mell. I wanted to thank you all, Judge Keough, our commissioners,

1709
01:38:58,180 --> 01:39:03,600
and our generous donors, County Attorney Beatty Griffin, District Attorney Brett

1710
01:39:03,600 --> 01:39:09,260
and Judge Keough for helping achieve this dream of placing brave books in the libraries.

1711
01:39:10,620 --> 01:39:13,260
Thank you, Commissioner Gray, for your support.

1712
01:39:13,620 --> 01:39:14,040
Yes, ma'am.

1713
01:39:14,720 --> 01:39:23,140
And I also would like to thank our library director, Rhea Young, for her being very courteous

1714
01:39:23,140 --> 01:39:28,820
and kind as we work through this, and placing the books as well.

1715
01:39:29,740 --> 01:39:35,040
My friend and I would like to invite each of you to our next story hour on May 25 at 10 a.m.

1716
01:39:35,400 --> 01:39:39,960
at the South Branch Library as our honored guests with your family's children and grandchildren.

1717
01:39:41,960 --> 01:39:46,200
We know that you are all extremely busy and the work that you do is important.

1718
01:39:48,100 --> 01:39:52,240
But if you are able to break away, we would be delighted to have you.

1719
01:39:52,240 --> 01:40:01,520
A local author is going to read, and we will have coloring, a game, and possibly some music.

1720
01:40:01,840 --> 01:40:03,240
Kids love dance parties.

1721
01:40:04,260 --> 01:40:06,960
And we are going to celebrate what the Lord has done.

1722
01:40:07,800 --> 01:40:08,780
Thank you so much.

1723
01:40:09,640 --> 01:40:10,380
Thank you.

1724
01:40:10,640 --> 01:40:12,060
I appreciate that comment so much.

1725
01:40:12,380 --> 01:40:13,380
You said 10, right?

1726
01:40:13,760 --> 01:40:14,380
Yes, 10 a.m.

1727
01:40:17,450 --> 01:40:17,890
All right.

1728
01:40:19,070 --> 01:40:22,170
Are there any other citizens who would like to share with us today or make a comment?

1729
01:40:22,170 --> 01:40:24,350
If there are none, do we have a motion to adjourn?

1730
01:40:25,150 --> 01:40:25,470
I move.

1731
01:40:26,010 --> 01:40:26,170
Second.

1732
01:40:26,350 --> 01:40:26,750
All in favor?

1733
01:40:27,710 --> 01:40:28,070
Opposed?

1734
01:40:28,250 --> 01:40:28,930
Motion carries.

1735
01:40:29,090 --> 01:40:29,950
Thank you all very much.

1736
01:40:30,270 --> 01:40:31,370
Appreciate you all being here today.