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We'll have 30 more seconds. We'll keep talking.

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Okay,

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it is 9 o'clock. On Monday, August of 24th, 2020, six o'clock, all the part of the County Commissioner's court to order.

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Today, we have Allen Copeland, from the sinful Baptist, we'll do our invocation.

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People please stand for that. We're very, very standing for the pledges.

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Father, we love you today, and thank you all for your love and goodness to us.

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Thank you for Jesus.

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He shed blood that paid for our salvation, and I pray today, Lord, that you would take control

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of this courtroom, and your blessed Holy Spirit guide and direct each person, it's thought,

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each action, and Lord may you be honored, glorified, and all that we do, and say, in Christ

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name I pray.

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play those reasons to do the five and United States of America.

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And you see everybody who are willing to stay in this one mission.

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I'm not indivisible with the opportunity to just as far off.

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I'm indivisible with the United States of America.

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I'm indivisible with the United States of America.

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I'm indivisible with the United States of America.

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I'm indivisible with the United States

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of America.

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Thank you everybody.

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Next up on the agenda is the recognition of minutes from the August of 10th

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and all of us the 12 auto county commissioners court.

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So, any changes to that, if not, so recognize.

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Number four, budget.

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I mean, must have considered our next opponent, budget,

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and then request for fiscal year 25 of these six.

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Yes, Judge.

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This just has to do with the properties walk.

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There were some closing costs that needed to be considered.

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This just allocates the funds to allow the closing costs.

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Any questions for Brandon?

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I need a motion,

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please.

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Have a motion in a second.

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All in favor, raise your hand.

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I'll go and send some of that.

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Number five vouchers to consider an act upon the approval

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of the vouchers is presented by the County Office.

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There's office check numbers 2, 2, 3, 4, 4,

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through 223,680 in our transfers to 534,32540 in a amount of 4,387,824 and 33 cents.

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I don't need a motion in a second to just go.

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Have a motion in a second. Any questions or comments?

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Okay, all in the paper, there's writing, and that passes, five, zero.

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Number six, insurance, and then you source duty, you have anything to do with it?

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Do you need to do it?

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I have that answer more than that is to you.

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Okay, I need a question.

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Anybody have any questions for duty?

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All right.

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We're working now.

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Thank you, ma'am.

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Number seven treasures, not smoothly before, good

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morning.

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Our general fund, as of July 31st,

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Emerald National Bank, had 3,900, 1,962 dollars and 63 cents,

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earning 3.89 percent.

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Logic had 2,320,049 dollars and 44 cents, earning 3.79 percent.

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Texas Class at 13 million, 799,386 dollars in 29 cents, earning 3.78 percent.

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Textful Prime had 14 million, 733,793,793,793,818 percent, and multivate securities had 20 million,

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225,000 for a general fundamental of 54,890,192 dollars in the living sense.

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You may have any questions for Brooke.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Brooke.

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So, we're going to have some more.

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Number eight, a discussion and possible action-related relative to eight, a tax income that

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can bring investments on number two.

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To receive a report and discuss the current east gateway, tier number two goals, boundary and

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acreage and discuss recent tiers two more directions to explore opportunities to increase the

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don't continue to go on city council approval as a layout budget.

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After 311 of the Texas tax point.

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Good morning, George. Good afternoon.

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That's okay.

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Drew Brassfield, Assistant Director of Planning for the City of Emerald,

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I appreciate the opportunity to be here and discuss

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with you the current research we are doing on the possibility of

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expanding the tears to the East Gateway tax increment

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that reinvestment is on the boundary.

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While we get the presentation up, I'll go ahead and continue on.

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This zone was created in 2016 by Ordinance 762, and then there was a small boundary expansion

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done back in 2020.

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This zone's goals are to relocate, redeveloped the big text and original goals were and

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add new retail and entertainment venues and RV park and several other things.

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Currently, the zone is bounded on the north side by east-third avenue on the east side by

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lakeside avenue on the south end and at a southernmost point in the south east-34th.

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And on the western side, ironically,

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is the eastern street.

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So the current zone is a mix of vacant undeveloped land retail.

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There's some hospitality and limited residential development.

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It's currently comprised by almost 1,400 acres and about 3,4 of that is undeveloped vacant land at this point.

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In 2025, the most recent tax year, the value of this zone was a little over 117 million, which was a 77.6 million increase over its 2016 value.

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On the positive side, we do have the big tax and state grants out there, several other

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anchor businesses, FedEx, Excel energy, the premier truck group, and several other

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things.

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But on the downside, we have numerous vacant tracks, closed businesses, blighted conditions,

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poor drainage, and undersized and lacking infrastructure.

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Those being the two biggest of the negatives.

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There's currently four outstanding or active commitments, the longest of these still remaining

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as nine years.

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And why are we looking at an expansion or the possibility of an expansion towards the end

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of 2025?

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We had several prospective developers approach the city interested in developing in this

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as part of AMROLO, primarily in the area of Airport Boulevard in I-40.

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Most of us have probably stopped at least once at the new Bucky's there, but as it should

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be development, it gets more development.

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So with Bucky's coming in, there's a lot of interest in developing around that area.

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And so because of those, we went to the terrorist board to discuss the possibility that

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of doing an expansion, and the direction from the board was to examine several different boundaries.

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So we went with this to kind of went back to the drawing board to look at what all is in this area.

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I know this map is a little hard to see because it contains a whole lot of information,

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but the red hashmarked areas, what the current zone is, the blue and the tan areas are the parcels

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that we are examining as potential to add to this zone. The east boundary on this would go all the way

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out to the east city limits. The north side would still remain southeast, third and the county line would

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the the bottom the southern boundary of this expansion research. So all in all we're looking

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at 211 parcels. So the potential if all of them were added would be almost 2100 more acres

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to the existing zone. For the parcels that we are examining the 2018 value of these parcels was

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almost 69 million and their 25 value was a little over 16 million.

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So there's been about a 47.8 million increase in that time frame between 2018 to 2025.

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There are three large projects that have occurred in this area.

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The utility trailer of Texas location, the road-ranger travel center and of course

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research studio. Um, of these parcels, uh, broken them down into...

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What their values, how we group those, we've got 38 of them that had negative or completely flat line growth during that time period, and I didn't want to point out to that part of county's current revenue off of the 211 parcels being researched is currently at 689,000 a year as of 2020.

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five. So if these parcels were to be added to the Tears Boundary,

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Potter County would still continue to collect that revenue based off of those parcels.

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Anything above and beyond that, that's part of that incremental growth,

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that portion would go only that portion would go into the tip,

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the tax increment front.

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And so, in conclusion, each parcel is being examined for its potential growth.

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Like I said, we have a lot of issues with utilities, water and sewer and drainage.

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The infrastructure extensions could be reimbursed by the tiers to the city, if the city

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you know, opted to go in and extend those utilities to that area.

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It would also aid in projects where interest has been expressed, it's already been expressed,

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It's not pure speculation at this point.

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We think that this area has a lot of potential for growth.

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It's become very stagnant on that end of I-40 and we have been going and talking to

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all the different taxing entities and I still have a presentation that I'll be giving tomorrow

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to the Emerald College Board of Regents.

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And so with that, I would welcome any feedback discussion on it.

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Well, I think it's a wonderful idea.

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So the city is going to vote on this council.

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Eventually, that's the plan.

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We will take it to the city council for a new ordinance to expand the boundary and then we would

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come back to each of the taxing entities to request a participation agreement similar to what

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was done in the past.

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So how long we tied to this, this Tiff?

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So in this expansion, we are not looking

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to extend any of the time the zone ends in 20, 46, I believe.

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When do you just say, what year was that?

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In your latest 20, 46, I could be.

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They got that, my nose.

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With the rail on this kind of hard to keep tracks sometimes.

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That's you?

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This little bit of a weird change.

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Well, how long does the tears of one that was over the last four?

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Really, that one goes till 2056.

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Can you give us an example or two of what has already been done with the tears too, like

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maybe the Whittaker piping where they added the pipeline underneath the Whittaker, there are

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operatives and things like that?

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Yes, sir.

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So the Tears 2 has reimbursed the city for, like you mentioned, Mr. Shafer, the water line

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extension that I believe went under I-40.

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And again, going back to the four commitments, there's a hotel, the home-to-sweets, premier

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truck group, and then there's a couple of two and totems that have been incentivized

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this area.

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I don't know prior to my arrival what smaller projects have been done. We did

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just recently incentivize, partially, the slug bug, roadside attraction for Route 66 out

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in that area as well. The work will look in the park line and landscaping, that kind of thing.

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What do you anticipate the cost of the council and the idea of the figure?

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The cost to the county?

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There would be no cost to the county, no sir.

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Now, the county, all the taxing entities would continue to collect the revenue that you're currently collecting.

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Anything above and beyond that would then be allocated to the tax increment fund to be reinvested back into that zone.

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We're right now that tears won't, we're losing about a million dollars in tears too, we're losing about 500,000, is that correct?

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Losing money in what way?

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Well, we're not getting those tax dollars.

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We're not getting the retain those tax dollars.

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We're not trying to use this cost in us a million five a year for both these bull tears won and tears too.

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I understand, it's a good thing for our area.

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I don't know how to guess that. I'm just saying that.

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As we move forward today, we've got a large tax increase coming, and so I just think we need to be mindful of that, and I hope that y'all will be too, and so it's a great part of our county. This is the only way we can fund our county through tax dollars.

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to see as other modes to do that, we do not.

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And so it's a difficult balance for the county

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and taxpayers on these adventures.

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I would say that it's a deferment on the collection

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of any of the incremental increase to any of those parcels

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in that zone, rather than losing it,

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you're deferring taking that revenue

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in to a later date.

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Well, that probably wasn't a good word, but I'll just

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talking about, as in today's dollars,

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and what we're looking at needing to do,

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I just, I just think we need to be mindful of that,

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and so with that, I'd ask that you do the same,

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and I know you're necessarily just basically

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making a statement that we're losing about a million,

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five and tax dollars each year.

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Thank you, Tweet.

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Is there anything we don't need to take action on this?

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This was strictly for discussion and feedback.

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Thanks, Tweet.

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Thank you, Tweet.

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Okay, thank you, sir.

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Okay, number eight, B elections to consider.

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Yes.

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I'd ask if you could skip to eight K.

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We did.

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Thank you for the reminder.

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Eight K fiscal year 2025 all that.

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I'm going to recognize that fiscal year 25 audit reports issued by Hankens in East

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App.

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I've got on the other way back up right here.

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Good morning.

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Good morning.

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Honorable County Judge Commissioners.

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Thank you for the opportunity for serving poor county.

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My name is Hanzan Tana, I'm an audit director of the firm Hankin Sista.

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So basically we're going to go over the annual Comprehensive Financial Report and a

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single audit report.

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both of those you should have a copy this morning, if we go to page one of the financial

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report,

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you would see the independent auditors report, which is the only piece of this report

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that belongs solely to the auditor, you would see an modified or clean opinion, that means

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that the figures included in this financial report are materially correct, and there were

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no significant deviations at all. The only new item in the report would be in that very

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page one, the fourth paragraph, it starts with the emphasis of the matter, changing accounting

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principle, pertaining to compensated absences that was a new gas v or governmental accounting

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standard board statement number 101, which require a prior period adjusting entry,

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but

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our opinion was not modified as to this respect. That gasping 101, what is faming and that

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and all across the nation, to all governmental entities, it aims to lower the accrued compensation

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amounts or liabilities included in the statement of net position to a more precise and accurate

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number.

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That's basically what happened.

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If the rest of the report contains the very same sections as in prior year, it is comprised of the management discussion on analysis or the MDNA, which is basically a comparison of prior year with the...

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Currently, in this case, 2024 and 2025, after the MDNA, the basic financial statements, which are comprised of the government

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why and the governmental funds statements.

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After the governmental funds, the reporting includes the

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territory phones and the fetishary phones. The next section would be the notes to the financial

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statements. And after the notes, the reporting includes, as in prior year, the required

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supplementary information as required.

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If we go to page 7 of the MDNA,

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you would see the

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components of the net position which includes the revenues and the expenses of the county,

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you would see that there was an increase in total revenues of approximately $2 million,

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which responds to a sliding increase in the property and the other taxes.

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The expenses show an increase of approximately 3.7 million dollars from 91,581,000

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in 24 to 95 million to 86 in 25 and that increased response to the net effect of ups and downs

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between those different categories.

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But we have to point out that it looks quite similar to the

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increase in the judicial expenses line item, which increased by 3.7 million dollars.

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Those increases in the judicial and the other categories were risk or respond to increases

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in salaries expenses incurred during the year.

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So at the bottom, you would see that the net position from 2024 increase approximately by 3.8 million to 160 million to 28,000 by the end of fiscal year 25.

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If you could please turn back to page 6.

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The most significant changes when we look at the assets and liabilities would be the line

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labeled net pension and open liabilities.

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You would see a significant decrease of 7.1 or 7.2 million dollars and that response to a better

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performance of the amounts invested in such in such line and also as per the amounts

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determined by the actual report of the TEC, the IRS. So that decrease, it's a positive

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various for the county, which basically you would see that the total net position is

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maintain and it is pretty solid for the year ended of September 30th of 2025. At $616 million.

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You could please turn to page 14 to the statement of activities that's part of the

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Over month wide statements you would see at the very bottom the beginning net position

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At October 1st, that would be the closing net position of fiscal year 24, and you will see a line that states

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restatement, that restatement of 1.2 million, which is also positive. It is comprised of both the prior

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period adjustment for the compensated absences and change in the estimate of the depreciation

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expense for the year with resulted in that positive increase of the net position at Iran.

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The explanation for that and that would be the only addition to the notes to the financial

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statements if you could please turn to page 47 in

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page 47 you would see the note on the

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restamen and the explanation for the amounts that I have just mentioned. That will be the

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only part of the notes to the financial statements that would be new this year.

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The rest of the

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financial report is pretty much the same as in fiscal year 24,

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the required schedules for the pension on OPEP,

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the comparisons between budget and actual,

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the combining statements for the non-major governmental funds,

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And another

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change from prior year would be the fiduciary funds if we could please turn

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to

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page

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23, page 23, you would see that the county received $5 million on behalf of the CDM

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fiduciary funds for the year.

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Any questions so far, regards to the information presented

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in the report,

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if we could please then go to the single audit report.

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The single audit report

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includes two reports, one report deals with what we call ICFR, internal controls over financial

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reporting and the second report deals with the compliance with major programs.

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Both reports, as you can see, are on modify those opinions, are also clean.

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The findings that were coming in from prior year were addressed and eliminated from the report.

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As they were adequately taken care of during the year, and it's at the mid-2025.

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And just to remind you, that just happened to be back in the 2022-23 audit,

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in the purchasing

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departments documentation for the zero to 50,000 range, the prior purchasing agents requirements

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for how to handle multiple bids and to document that was an adequate for what we needed

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to do to make sure that we could.

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Show that we were meeting our requirements underneath the purchasing policy of getting multiple bids from that $10,000 to $50,000 rain.

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Allison, wholesale change the way that happened and we haven't had a single finding since that was implemented.

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And so it's certainly not a, I would say, a kudos on Madison's part of making the changes

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in her, in the department, you know, these were policies that were in place long before

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she got there.

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Thank you.

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In addition,

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the singular report includes two separate schedules, one for the federal

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works and the second one for the state awards, the federal awards show one increase from

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prior year of approximately $1.8 million and that's basically the expenditures for the

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upon funds. And on page 7, the expenditures for state awards also increased by approximately

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$1.3 million,

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and it's basically a combination of increases in the motor vehicle, crime

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of authority and the public defender, which in both of those show a combined increase of

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1.1 million dollars from fiscal year 24.

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You could see in page

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11 of the report that in the schedule of previous findings and

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question cost, you would see that both of those previous findings appear as corrected and

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now out of the report.

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So any questions with regards to the singularary report

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that would be

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the end of my presentation this morning for the financial results of poor county?

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Again, thank you for the opportunity of starting the county,

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and how about a great

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result?

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Okay.

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Thank you, sir.

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Appreciate you being here.

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Number eight, be elections to consider and approve the following for the November 3rd,

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2026 general election, order reporting election officials and rate of pay in order

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reporting officers for simple accounting situation.

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The morning, Christy.

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Good morning.

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So we have, first, we have our order of pointing

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election officials.

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We have got these, we've got these lists from our

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party chairs.

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And they both approved all of these workers.

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And then if you'll see on your third page,

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we also have backup judges listed here.

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case we did emergency replacements. We have central accounting

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station judges and we have early voting ballot board judges here and this

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is something that we do every couple years and it will include this

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election coming up.

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You have any questions?

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Questions for Christie? Okay and then the next one we have will be the order

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appointing officers for the central accounting station and you do notice that I

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may be this morning your order of election.

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This order of election was already signed by the judge.

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It's something that's centrally required.

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And so the judge has already signed that for this election.

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But we do have to go ahead and appoint the order

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of point the officers for central accounting session.

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And so these officers, it is myself and then other members

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of my staff.

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We always are appointed as the central accounting

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We have to go to the station officers.

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In question.

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We don't

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have to be on it.

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I know.

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I need a motion.

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I'm moved to a program that's presented.

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Thank you.

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We have a motion in a second, all in favor of raise your hand.

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Opposites on that has to stop us here.

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In number of H.C. elections to recognize early voting and election day polling locations for November 3,

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2026 to an election.

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Okay, so for early voting for the election, we have two weeks of early voting, which includes

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week in voting. The Santa Fe building, our main location, will be open the last week of early voting

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from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and the branches will be open 8 to 5 every day, the Monday through

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Fridays, except for the last two days we're going to have those open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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that gives voters time to get off work and get their ballot cast before election day.

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And then we will have the weekend voting, the Santa Fe building will be open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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on that Saturday and then the branches will be open 9 to 3 and the same hour is 9 to 3

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for everyone on Sunday.

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And then on election day, we do have a change to one of our vote

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centers.

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Shaper Olheels Baptist Church decided that they did not

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want to be a part of a vote center program any longer.

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And so we looked, and if you've ever been in that area,

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you know that there's not much there.

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And so we finally were able to get a church called Behind the

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It is 2.3 miles away from Chapel Hill's Church.

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It's not ideal, but there's nothing else in that area.

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The school, we can't get in the school.

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The fire station is too small.

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So behind the shoes cabway church is what we have chose to go with.

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It's not completely ADA compliant.

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But we don't have any other options in that area.

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And they were very glad to have us.

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And so that's what we're going to go in.

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Tell me in the name again.

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Behind the Shoots Cowboy Church.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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And we will post notices on Chevrolet Hills doors so that someone shows up there, which we know they

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will.

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They'll show up there on a lecture night of vote, but there will be a notice there that they

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could go to behind the Shoots Cowboy Church.

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And then there's Willow Creek Church, which is a little over four miles away, if they chose

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to go to that also.

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Okay. All right. Any questions for Christy? Thank you, ma'am. Thank you.

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All right.

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Number eight, D. Panhandle, Otto, Burberry, Thief, Unit, Pad 2, Senior Bill 2, 2, 4,

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P. Burberry Grant. Mr. McBoy, how nice to see you again, sir.

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What do you think, buddy? So, we're in the same underground award for the S. S. B. 2,

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4,

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The question is for Patrick.

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Who to award?

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I can offer us just an accept that a grant award from state.

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That's presented.

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The motion and the second on the favor of engineering.

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I would like to send some of that past is not zero.

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So the second one will be the puddle 50.

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Actually, the puddle theft ramp that we've had for the last 11 years.

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We were awarded $490,000,000, $115 from the NVCBA.

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for 2527.

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Any questions for Patrick?

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Have a motion and a second on that one. All in favor.

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Thank you sir.

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Number eight F website hosting services to consider an active bond.

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Approving the updated pricing plan and quote for the Potter County website hosting services

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for fiscal year 20, 728 as provided by Tech,

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C-I-R-A, Julie Smith.

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This is just the Tech Sera website

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that we currently have new new fees to go into effect.

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So those need to be included into the budget for that

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coming year.

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Was it included in the budget, Brandon?

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No, do you just need to make a vote on it today?

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Okay.

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Yeah, it's rolled into the, or normally historically it's been rolled into the IT budget.

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Okay.

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Historically, is this still?

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It might be history.

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I don't know.

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Any questions for Julie on this?

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If not, I need a motion.

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It's either that or y'all can go and look for a new website.

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Well, it's not that.

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Well, it's that you hang onto it.

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We'll show you.

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Number 8G, rule, sheriff's grant to consider, and act upon a request from the sheriff's office to a plopper, the rules, sheriff's office grants, it's in a bill 22, fiscal year 27, and minister by the Texas Comptroller's office pursuant to a recent legislation, sheriff.

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It's the same one we've had last couple of years, we've taken all that money and been able to put it into

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hours with third employees.

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Okay, it's kind of handy, isn't it?

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That's good.

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Any questions for this year?

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No, no, no.

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Second.

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Second.

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I'm motion and a second, all in favor of this year.

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I'm going to pose in that passage side to zero.

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County Clerk to consider an act of honor for giving the County Clerk's records our count.

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This is just something I have to do every year.

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We collect our records our Kathy and we've put in that letter what we do with it.

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What we do with it, what we might plan to do with it.

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We have to get some beds from different vendors.

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So we try to utilize that as the best way that we can.

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Any questions for Julie?

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The motion please.

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Move to approve this.

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Second.

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Motion in a second.

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All in favor is behind.

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A little pose that passes five to zero.

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Number eight.

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Our tier is one and tier is two.

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Adjustment to consider an act upon approving an increase in cost for tier.

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Number one in the amount of $16,945.

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The tier is number two.

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In the amount of $6,822.

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the total increase in $23,677.

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Yes, Judge.

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This came from the City of Emorollas

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other ones that collect all of the

475
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,680
tiered money.

476
00:42:16,420 --> 00:42:19,040
They, when they sent the invoice earlier in the year,

477
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,420
they made the calculation,

478
00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:25,820
not using the prior year.

479
00:42:25,820 --> 00:42:34,040
Tax rates as opposed to the correct adopted tax rates and so this is just a reflecting that we needed to pay a little bit more

480
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,580
Based on the corrected the correct tax rates

481
00:42:43,570 --> 00:42:46,350
Any questions for Brandon on that?

482
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,320
Make motion that we're prove as presented

483
00:42:57,100 --> 00:42:59,960
The motion in a second on the evaluation

484
00:43:05,260 --> 00:43:09,340
Do you think you need the information for me before we do our budget?

485
00:43:10,260 --> 00:43:11,680
Just, how do we, how do we know?

486
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:20,640
I mean, the adjustment happens based on what the tax rate is adopted.

487
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:29,220
So, I have a pretty good idea how close it would be prior to the adoption.

488
00:43:33,860 --> 00:43:39,340
I don't know if that answers your question, I mean, it does fluctuate based on how much

489
00:43:40,420 --> 00:43:48,340
you, how what the tax rate is, and so like our payments that I put into the budget for

490
00:43:48,340 --> 00:43:54,400
tiers one and tiers two, I calculate based on a, you know, if we're going to end up to 6.1

491
00:43:54,400 --> 00:44:02,760
effective increase. I take the prior year and then multiply at times 1.0615. That's how I got

492
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:07,460
when it's in the budget today. If you all were to raise or lower that, I would raise or lower

493
00:44:07,460 --> 00:44:14,340
that to reflect that. It's a sliding scale and they just don't want to get adopted.

494
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:22,120
But just be nice to somebody made an error in our favor for a change. To like we're always the ones

495
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,700
that are making up the error.

496
00:44:26,020 --> 00:44:26,600
I'm agree.

497
00:44:28,380 --> 00:44:29,980
No fall for years, by the way.

498
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:38,900
Right, and ultimately, this is money that we plan on spending,

499
00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:42,000
they just build us lower than what we plan on spending.

500
00:44:42,940 --> 00:44:45,720
So I mean, this just brings us up to where we should have been

501
00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:46,800
in the first place.

502
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:51,920
I mean, I know some things.

503
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:53,560
We'll try to prove this presented.

504
00:44:54,940 --> 00:44:57,540
I thought we'd love to hear that, and we'd just hear about it.

505
00:44:57,540 --> 00:44:59,340
Yeah, we'd probably hear about it.

506
00:45:00,370 --> 00:45:01,970
We already voted.

507
00:45:07,610 --> 00:45:14,770
Okay. Okay. I got you. I got that. I got it all right here. Put your hand in the air.

508
00:45:17,650 --> 00:45:22,050
Okay. So are we still okay. We're looking at the wire transfer now.

509
00:45:23,150 --> 00:45:32,470
AHA or a department F8WA to consider an iPhone allowing the treasure to issue wires to the FHA going forward.

510
00:45:34,780 --> 00:45:45,460
And so what this is is for the payments to go to the federal highway administration for the project is going on and we receive the funding from the Friends of Crossbar.

511
00:45:46,220 --> 00:45:52,500
Basically, they stopped allowing payments per their bike check, which is how we've always

512
00:45:52,500 --> 00:45:54,080
sent it in the past.

513
00:45:54,980 --> 00:45:56,420
Her, their payment instructions.

514
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:03,640
They did advise this last week that they would take a check, but they're not going to

515
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,940
amend their payment instructions.

516
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:12,080
I would just feel more comfortable that we actually follow their payment instructions and not just

517
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,660
to take something verbally over the phone, or by email, and that way we don't have.

518
00:46:15,700 --> 00:46:21,480
Potentially have a check floating around that somebody doesn't cash.

519
00:46:22,380 --> 00:46:24,900
That would be my preference on how we handle this.

520
00:46:25,720 --> 00:46:28,620
They publish how they want to be paid.

521
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:34,560
The only two methods available are either log into a website or to send a wire.

522
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:39,260
I would suggest that we follow their payment instructions and allow for wires.

523
00:46:39,260 --> 00:46:39,260
One more questions

524
00:46:41,310 --> 00:46:42,610
.忽ta,

525
00:46:42,910 --> 00:46:43,190
please. Please, Mr.

526
00:46:43,310 --> 00:46:46,250
President. Check it. The

527
00:46:46,250 --> 00:46:47,130
question is second

528
00:46:47,130 --> 00:46:50,490
on the pay provision, ok? You may

529
00:46:50,490 --> 00:46:51,630
remember

530
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:55,640
the

531
00:46:56,740 --> 00:46:59,380
ARP system change order, you

532
00:46:59,380 --> 00:47:00,380
consider an out____

533
00:47:00,380 --> 00:47:01,920
in the amount of 025

534
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:03,980
,000 for the ARP project data

535
00:47:03,980 --> 00:47:04,520
connection.

536
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:08,800
Mar пару? Okay, so

537
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:09,400
this has to

538
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:13,960
do with the ERP system in the grant minutes of software

539
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,360
we have, in order for

540
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:17,600
those two softwares, best if we do these in

541
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:25,420
to talk. Some development has to be done on the ERP system that I did not anticipate.

542
00:47:26,220 --> 00:47:31,280
So this is a legitimate change order. I feel, because this was not part of the original

543
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:36,480
scope of work. So I will take the blame on that. I didn't foresee that we would have

544
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:43,080
need some development but I guess call this less and more and when you're trying to get

545
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,380
to two systems to talk together.

546
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:51,100
But ultimately this is what it would cost. There's

547
00:47:51,100 --> 00:47:57,480
just not a way to what we've had both companies get together to see if there was a way that

548
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:02,120
we could do this without some kind of development work and they can't get the two systems

549
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,700
to talk without this intermediate step.

550
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:16,740
Is this a one time increase or it's a one time payment yes I would prefer you

551
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:26,160
didn't make a motion to prove the

552
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,780
to pop 1,000 for the ERP Project Data Connection.

553
00:48:31,460 --> 00:48:33,920
I've been motion and a second-on favorite instrument.

554
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,080
I'm closing that pass this time to zero.

555
00:48:39,020 --> 00:48:41,860
Brendan, do you want to skip down to Haskell County before we go to the budget?

556
00:48:42,260 --> 00:48:43,660
Yes, I would prefer that.

557
00:48:44,240 --> 00:48:45,840
So number eight in Haskell County,

558
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,320
to consider an out-to-barned contract to Haskell County for housing enemies.

559
00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:53,960
Sure if you want to talk about that, are you the same as usual?

560
00:49:00,790 --> 00:49:06,250
We've heard a lot of times that all the same except for the amount of people that they're

561
00:49:06,250 --> 00:49:11,570
required to have, they've changed that the boy only have to pay for how many, however many

562
00:49:11,570 --> 00:49:13,870
people we put there.

563
00:49:14,610 --> 00:49:16,770
How many do you want to put there right now?

564
00:49:17,390 --> 00:49:18,910
It means I can get over there.

565
00:49:19,530 --> 00:49:20,050
Fifty.

566
00:49:20,130 --> 00:49:20,650
Fifty?

567
00:49:20,810 --> 00:49:21,070
Fifty?

568
00:49:21,810 --> 00:49:22,130
Fifty.

569
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:26,640
Fifty.

570
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:26,760
Fifty.

571
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:27,040
Fifty.

572
00:49:27,460 --> 00:49:27,720
Fifty.

573
00:49:29,740 --> 00:49:30,260
Fifty.

574
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:31,480
Fifty.

575
00:49:32,260 --> 00:49:33,500
What did they change there?

576
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:36,900
It was part of the first original deal.

577
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:39,000
Got to cut their costs.

578
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,780
They'll still take them to TDC from there.

579
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,640
But we have to take them to the house.

580
00:49:46,700 --> 00:49:48,460
A forest has to go down here.

581
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:49,740
I haven't looked at it.

582
00:49:50,780 --> 00:49:51,380
Four hours.

583
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:52,740
Something like that.

584
00:49:58,560 --> 00:49:59,680
Great. We haven't motioned on this.

585
00:50:10,420 --> 00:50:24,250
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, there are no employment items on accounting projects.

586
00:50:29,130 --> 00:50:35,590
Just a very, very quick update on where we stand with phase two across straight there.

587
00:50:35,630 --> 00:50:39,550
Last week I was able to work with the trice state.

588
00:50:39,970 --> 00:50:45,250
They have gotten me all the clothes out documents which included basically the oliatic stock for the tunnel.

589
00:50:45,530 --> 00:50:49,150
There's not much left over for edict stock as far as the stair tower itself.

590
00:50:49,670 --> 00:50:51,850
It's all basically tunnel ceiling tile, paint, whatnot.

591
00:50:52,550 --> 00:50:54,150
They got me oliatic stock stuff.

592
00:50:54,850 --> 00:51:04,450
They were also able to supply a hard copy, a digital copy as well as a hard copy, I requested that at no additional cost, a hard copy of the as-built drawings.

593
00:51:06,130 --> 00:51:12,550
They supplied the binder containing all the operation owner and operating manuals, binder with all the letters of warranty.

594
00:51:13,190 --> 00:51:17,310
So as far as the close-up documents, we've received them all, and that's a big step.

595
00:51:18,230 --> 00:51:31,330
Currently, like I reported a couple of courts ago, we're in the process of finalizing some missing handicap signage that was found during the task inspection for the parking lot project.

596
00:51:31,910 --> 00:51:45,130
We're just this morning checked in with Tri-State, got an update that basically the subcontractor that's going to be installing all the signage received that stuff on Friday, so by the end of the week today, I'm pushing for early if not today.

597
00:51:45,130 --> 00:51:49,330
This week, that stuff is going to get done, that's the additional hand-to-cap signage.

598
00:51:50,250 --> 00:51:54,010
One missing word and some stenciling there to complete that.

599
00:51:54,250 --> 00:51:59,070
Once they get that done, I will send the application to the same inspector that we've got those corrections.

600
00:51:59,530 --> 00:52:03,110
Made, he will follow up with the approval of the corrections and whatnot.

601
00:52:03,430 --> 00:52:11,170
We're going to be extremely close to being able to finalize the final pay request, which is releasing all the retainage.

602
00:52:11,170 --> 00:52:14,810
And we're basically going to walk away from the projects shortly after that.

603
00:52:16,150 --> 00:52:23,490
So, slow progress with this next step, because we're waiting on a company to manufacture the signs to bring up to us and whatnot, but we're getting real close.

604
00:52:23,770 --> 00:52:27,910
So, that's all I got down a bit on the project across the street.

605
00:52:28,150 --> 00:52:29,590
Okay, any questions for Chris?

606
00:52:31,430 --> 00:52:32,050
Thanks, Chris.

607
00:52:32,270 --> 00:52:32,810
Thank you, guys.

608
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:38,720
Do you want to go ahead and go to the budget and then come back, do you all report?

609
00:52:38,860 --> 00:52:40,240
I'm going to go ahead and go through all that.

610
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,100
I'll just go ahead and do everything and then that way we can finish with the budget.

611
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:44,700
All right.

612
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:50,400
The jail today we have 612 people in custody.

613
00:52:51,020 --> 00:52:54,620
Any of those are female, 31 are housed and outside facilities.

614
00:52:55,460 --> 00:52:59,040
So we have a total actually in our jail if I've had an 81.

615
00:52:59,340 --> 00:53:00,680
Lubbock has one male.

616
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:02,980
Lynn County has four males.

617
00:53:02,980 --> 00:53:09,940
Deft Smith County has 26, 10 B male and 16 males and we have 523

618
00:53:09,940 --> 00:53:13,320
felons and 16 misdemeanor cases.

619
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:18,600
All right, insurance.

620
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:19,920
Nothing.

621
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:20,960
No wrecks.

622
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:25,140
There is no executive session.

623
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:34,240
We'll come back to the public hearing on the proposed budget and make any changes necessary.

624
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:42,480
vote to adopt the budget, propose of property tax rate, set the date time and place for the public hearing on the tax increase,

625
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:47,960
set the date time and place for the meeting to vote on the tax rate and take any other action necessary.

626
00:54:37,010 --> 00:54:37,810
All right, good morning, Judge.

627
00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:49,720
You know, as of as I spoke last week or two weeks ago, whatever whatever that special session was,

628
00:54:51,020 --> 00:54:59,880
You know, we have three meetings that we need to get through to both adopt the budget and to set the tax rate.

629
00:55:02,060 --> 00:55:17,000
Today's goal is to adopt the budget formally and those attacks rate and come back at the first meeting in September to fully adopt that.

630
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:27,840
So we're on our second step in our roadmap to get where we need to be for adopting the budget fiscal year 2627.

631
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:39,320
So that does mean today, if y'all vote to adopt the budget, y'all will be setting at least the expenditures in stone.

632
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:49,400
And so I do want y'all to take into consideration that if there's any changes that y'all want to make today,

633
00:55:50,460 --> 00:55:59,780
It's going to take a motion and it will take three of five of you voting to agree on that just like any other motion would.

634
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:07,720
So that's the general guardrails that I'd like to provide for this meeting.

635
00:56:09,240 --> 00:56:18,580
I think we had a lot of discussion around salary and very little discussion around equipment

636
00:56:18,580 --> 00:56:35,960
And because, as I said last time, the general theme of this budget was, if it was an operational item, you got it, and if it was not an operational item, if it was a salary originally except for a few exceptions, that nobody got it.

637
00:56:37,760 --> 00:57:01,180
As of the last court, all the changes outside of the 2% polo were taken out, and so that really just left the 2% polo across the board for all the employees of the county.

638
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:13,240
And so my suggestion would be, and we could run this meeting however you want, but my suggestion would be,

639
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:25,160
unless there are some operational items that you all would like to discuss, and maybe education and travel for a couple of departments might be the only thing that I can recall.

640
00:57:26,420 --> 00:57:38,400
Maybe giving the departments an opportunity to speak about what they would like for the salaries and that seemed to be the source spot.

641
00:57:39,460 --> 00:57:41,700
But again, it's up to the court how they'd like to.

642
00:57:42,060 --> 00:57:45,800
But that would be my suggestion on how to handle today.

643
00:57:49,740 --> 00:57:55,320
So you want to let people get up and talk about the race that they want, even though we're

644
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:56,740
going to a percent across the board.

645
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:10,080
I think that in terms of what I've heard there are some people that would still like to advocate

646
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:15,780
and I think giving them an opportunity to advocate would be valid, even if the court is

647
00:58:15,780 --> 00:58:23,280
is not going to make that change, but again, this is ultimately your budget and I'm just

648
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:29,260
devising you and what I think would be the most transparent way of handling this, so

649
00:58:29,260 --> 00:58:33,860
nobody seems. So nobody doesn't feel slided that they were treated unfairly.

650
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:41,100
The issue is that we've already heard from most everybody before, so is there anybody out in

651
00:58:41,100 --> 00:58:45,260
that didn't get to come speak on your stage.

652
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:47,420
Come on out, Stacey.

653
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:55,340
I'd like to reintroduce myself.

654
00:58:56,100 --> 00:58:57,140
I'm Stacey's Ebola.

655
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:00,760
I am going into my 27th year practicing law.

656
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:04,800
And currently, I am doing that as the Potter County Guardian Adlightam,

657
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:11,120
which means I am the attorney for all of the children who have a CPS case

658
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:14,500
that originates out of Potter County.

659
00:59:14,500 --> 00:59:31,800
Potter County is a little bit different because we, as you know, have both hospitals, so that also means that any time, a child is born, possibly drug addicted, has to have some sort of CPS intervention, that comes through Potter County, not we're able to count me.

660
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:36,060
We are a relatively new department.

661
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:38,960
It's myself and my certified paralegal,

662
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:42,820
Kelly Deaton, Kelly keeps us from having to hire

663
00:59:42,820 --> 00:59:43,880
a second attorney.

664
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:48,960
Attorneys are expensive and I believe I could be wrong,

665
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:52,740
but I believe I'm the lowest paid attorney in the county.

666
00:59:52,940 --> 00:59:55,080
I may be wrong with that.

667
00:59:56,380 --> 00:59:58,560
So let me tell you a little bit about what I do.

668
00:59:58,560 --> 00:59:59,200
Um...

669
00:59:59,200 --> 00:59:59,820
I mean...

670
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,840
We have about 300 clients. We have new cases that start all the time, cases that close, but pretty much I've got 300 clients on the daily basis. The law requires that I meet with those clients, my clients range from infant to actually I've got some young adults up to 21. That I meet with them, or speak with their caretakers if they're very young, every time before I hear you, every time. So, every few months.

671
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:38,100
When our cases start we've got the adversary hearing 30 days later. We have another hearing a few months later

672
01:00:38,100 --> 01:00:44,440
We have another and then a few months later we have another so a lot of my time is spent in court

673
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:47,600
I've got court Tuesdays and Thursdays

674
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:59,980
But a lot of my time is spent meeting with the children and their caretakers and meeting with their teams at CPS who are advocating for them

675
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:08,680
If there's any kind of termination decision in terms of parents, I have to make a recommendation on that.

676
01:01:10,180 --> 01:01:13,980
I am extremely proud of the work that we do in Potter County.

677
01:01:14,820 --> 01:01:19,960
We've got a very high case load higher than the surrounding counties.

678
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:28,120
The last that I saw when I look in 2023, the Randall County position,

679
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:34,160
that does the same thing that I do, was listed as 123,000.

680
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:43,060
It also is important to note that we've got to have your workload than they do.

681
01:01:43,340 --> 01:01:49,560
And there's no getting around that luckily, the county attorney's office was not hit with

682
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:54,480
some of these changes, but since this department was created, there have been some legislative

683
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:58,400
of changes that required a whole new type of case.

684
01:01:59,100 --> 01:02:00,720
Those are family-based cases.

685
01:02:01,300 --> 01:02:03,700
Those used to not have council.

686
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:09,960
Now we've got these new family-based cases where I have to represent the children in those

687
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:11,580
cases as well.

688
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:14,860
Parents are also given attorneys in that point.

689
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:22,820
Luckily, the county attorney's office didn't have to take that hit because internal DFPS

690
01:02:22,820 --> 01:02:28,960
Council cover those cases. I am still covering those cases on behalf of Potter County for the children.

691
01:02:30,180 --> 01:02:37,680
I do think that for the work that we do, our office is still underpaid.

692
01:02:38,140 --> 01:02:45,560
I am asking simply for a salary of 115,000, which I believe is a 7% increase.

693
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:54,680
I would also like an increase for Kelly Dayton because she keeps us from having to hire another attorney, which is the bigger expense.

694
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:56,220
Thank you very much.

695
01:02:56,340 --> 01:02:57,880
What is sort of Kelly's salary?

696
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:01,760
I apologize, I do not have Kelly's salary.

697
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:02,200
I'm sorry?

698
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:03,200
54,000.

699
01:03:03,340 --> 01:03:04,280
54,000.

700
01:03:08,990 --> 01:03:15,610
So, say, what do you, what, what, what are, maybe you can tell me, what are other attorneys making?

701
01:03:16,310 --> 01:03:18,730
Why are she making so far under?

702
01:03:19,410 --> 01:03:30,450
I mean, the why just has to be, it's a function of where the position started in, you know, the colours that were given, and then there was a one time bomb.

703
01:03:30,850 --> 01:03:33,510
I mean, it's just a matter of the mouth.

704
01:03:35,950 --> 01:03:41,910
Ultimately, that is something that is within the quarks for augmenting, just like eating analysis salary.

705
01:03:42,370 --> 01:03:45,730
And so, you know, this is...

706
01:03:46,830 --> 01:03:58,830
This is one of the reason you ask the reason why I wanted to bring this up is just because I wanted to make sure that everybody came out of this meeting knowing that it's going to be locked in place with the opportunity to speak if they said choose.

707
01:03:59,250 --> 01:04:01,330
And again, it's up to the court the only year.

708
01:04:02,030 --> 01:04:03,250
So I think we gave you a bump.

709
01:04:03,490 --> 01:04:04,530
Was it last year or year before?

710
01:04:04,870 --> 01:04:06,390
I think it's the year before before.

711
01:04:07,210 --> 01:04:08,900
I believe I met one of five.

712
01:04:09,990 --> 01:04:11,510
I could be wrong on that number.

713
01:04:12,290 --> 01:04:12,810
Probably not.

714
01:04:12,810 --> 01:04:14,370
I believe that's correct.

715
01:04:14,930 --> 01:04:15,610
I'm a drug expert.

716
01:04:16,370 --> 01:04:16,750
I'm a drug expert.

717
01:04:16,910 --> 01:04:17,890
I'm a drug expert.

718
01:04:17,890 --> 01:04:19,210
I'm a drug expert.

719
01:04:22,150 --> 01:04:24,610
Then you go with the color of the color of the color of the color.

720
01:04:26,150 --> 01:04:29,690
So what is the, so many tell me what is the starting salary for a drug expert?

721
01:04:30,070 --> 01:04:30,950
Like a person you are a attorney.

722
01:04:31,270 --> 01:04:33,590
You're not a first year, but I mean what is the starting salary?

723
01:04:33,810 --> 01:04:35,310
It varies by department.

724
01:04:36,690 --> 01:04:37,490
Pick one.

725
01:04:38,030 --> 01:04:38,670
Accounting attorney.

726
01:04:39,550 --> 01:04:42,790
What is all, what is all, what is all, what is all,

727
01:04:42,790 --> 01:04:49,310
I don't

728
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:59,400
believe there are two positions posted right now, I don't know what they're posted

729
01:04:59,400 --> 01:04:59,700
time.

730
01:05:09,490 --> 01:05:15,750
I can personally test about it. You guys are busy. I've never seen anything like that. I mean, you're very rarely

731
01:05:15,750 --> 01:05:24,530
that you're gone all the time. One of the things that's different about our kind of law is that it does require us to be out of the office very often.

732
01:05:25,270 --> 01:05:32,270
And because most of our kids are school age, in order to meet with them, that requires lots of nights and lots of weekends,

733
01:05:32,890 --> 01:05:39,350
unless I'm going to go and pull them out of school, and I try very hard not to do that. There are times when I do have to meet with children

734
01:05:39,350 --> 01:05:45,570
school. Summer is an easier time for us because we are a little bit we've got more flexibility

735
01:05:45,570 --> 01:05:52,430
in in meeting with the kids but with vacation schedule things like that there's no way to avoid

736
01:05:52,430 --> 01:06:00,870
nights and weekends two weekends ago I spent I did six visits in Amorillo on Saturday and 12 visits

737
01:06:00,870 --> 01:06:07,550
in Lubbock on Sunday. That's a pretty regular thing for me that I am in Lubbock at least once every

738
01:06:07,550 --> 01:06:13,570
two months, if not every month, and I pretty much work every weekend, maybe not all weekend,

739
01:06:14,050 --> 01:06:16,150
but every weekend when I'm in town.

740
01:06:17,250 --> 01:06:22,230
And to judge to answer your question, it's really hard because there's budgets on positions,

741
01:06:23,530 --> 01:06:29,430
but there's so many positions that are not at the full salary.

742
01:06:29,790 --> 01:06:36,990
And so I mean, it's a loaded question for me to speak on behalf of the three department

743
01:06:36,990 --> 01:06:45,010
I mean, what they start to people out, I can just tell you that a lot of, you know, none of them start their people

744
01:06:45,010 --> 01:06:50,470
seemingly at the, at the full budget for the position.

745
01:06:52,590 --> 01:06:53,770
So, I don't know.

746
01:06:54,750 --> 01:06:56,150
I mean, they've been practicing well again?

747
01:06:56,610 --> 01:06:57,290
27 years.

748
01:06:59,030 --> 01:06:59,810
27 years.

749
01:06:59,890 --> 01:07:02,410
Magna cum lock from Texas Tech.

750
01:07:02,410 --> 01:07:04,990
I'll offer you this for that.

751
01:07:05,070 --> 01:07:05,550
I don't care.

752
01:07:05,810 --> 01:07:06,410
I don't care.

753
01:07:09,050 --> 01:07:11,750
How long have you been doing this?

754
01:07:11,750 --> 01:07:12,450
This position.

755
01:07:12,750 --> 01:07:17,370
So this position was created in 21, and so I've been doing it since then.

756
01:07:18,530 --> 01:07:22,610
But I've been doing this type of work for probably about 14, 15 years.

757
01:07:26,580 --> 01:07:28,460
Stacey's in a unique position too.

758
01:07:28,500 --> 01:07:32,340
Her department is overseen by the commissioners court.

759
01:07:32,340 --> 01:07:37,960
like other legal departments that are headed by elected officials, so her positions a little

760
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:44,380
unique in that respect and so my recommendation would be to look at you know to get apples

761
01:07:44,380 --> 01:07:48,800
apples it would be it would be a rental counting or another county's counterpart doing

762
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:56,200
a similar position. And in a search from 23 before this change in law that increased the

763
01:07:56,200 --> 01:08:02,240
does show Randall County had it at 123, and that was in 2020, 2030.

764
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:08,260
It was on my commotion, I believe she's correct, and I've also done some checking as well.

765
01:08:08,460 --> 01:08:14,580
And I think she is underpaid. I hate to open this, this can of her, but I think it's fair and equitable.

766
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:21,680
We are paying other attorneys with less experience that are working in office.

767
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:27,100
She's running off as we're doing all by herself and with her health, with her assistant.

768
01:08:30,260 --> 01:08:34,960
I may just, I see not asking for enough, so I appreciate you taking that into consideration.

769
01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:39,120
I make that motion that we increase her salary and 150 has asked.

770
01:08:40,140 --> 01:08:43,540
The garden at Lidham is very valuable.

771
01:08:44,780 --> 01:08:51,540
I work district court and from town to town, they just had to call out and find a

772
01:08:51,540 --> 01:08:56,000
gardener that lied to me if they could find one. Sometimes some of the VA guys would

773
01:08:56,000 --> 01:09:01,500
have to be the gardener that lied to me. And so I think it's such a valuable position.

774
01:09:04,040 --> 01:09:07,860
And I know she runs all over town, I've heard about you, I've seen some of your work,

775
01:09:07,860 --> 01:09:14,180
I'll come and tackle some of your children, so I know what you do, and I believe on a couple

776
01:09:14,180 --> 01:09:20,020
of Sundays I just missed you leaving for where you were leaving, so I think it's a very

777
01:09:20,020 --> 01:09:26,320
valuable position, and I think I think it's very undefeated, so I think we should.

778
01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:29,940
So, well, what was the amount against facing you as you want?

779
01:09:30,300 --> 01:09:30,920
One-fifteen.

780
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:31,780
One-fifteen.

781
01:09:32,620 --> 01:09:33,500
George, I've laid a motion.

782
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:34,960
I know, but I don't think it's-

783
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:36,780
And I should suck in that.

784
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:38,700
I'm going to have a very difficult time.

785
01:09:39,180 --> 01:09:45,160
I'm going to have some people come up here.

786
01:09:45,340 --> 01:09:48,940
I'm going to have some similar stories in deservedly places.

787
01:09:49,620 --> 01:09:54,080
However, I'm going to have to, I'm going to be on the other side.

788
01:09:54,480 --> 01:09:57,720
Because I think the two percent of everybody is already to go.

789
01:09:57,880 --> 01:09:59,900
And if we start, the peace and everything.

790
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:09,840
I understand that this is a very unique situation. Just work in an opposite situation.

791
01:10:11,220 --> 01:10:14,720
I'm not saying that she doesn't, but I'm just going to be a problem.

792
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:20,000
My opinion is I think that's something that we do have to look at.

793
01:10:20,700 --> 01:10:23,780
Is everybody individually? It's going to be hard.

794
01:10:24,780 --> 01:10:30,960
We're not going to make the right decisions on some of these people, but I think they all need to be heard on where they need to be paid.

795
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:36,020
more we think they need to be paid. We need to make those decisions and hear each one individually

796
01:10:36,020 --> 01:10:44,260
if needed. Because 2% that's basically a pay cut by almost one and a half percent if you

797
01:10:44,260 --> 01:10:49,820
count inflation. So, and a lot of these people like said they've had job duties added onto them,

798
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:57,660
trading more jobs have changed since the last time they have had pay raises or pay adjustments.

799
01:10:58,100 --> 01:11:01,100
And I think we do need to hear them and consider each one individually.

800
01:11:03,370 --> 01:11:06,530
And unless you'll have any more questions for me, I'll go ahead and sit down while you all discuss.

801
01:11:17,260 --> 01:11:19,440
Okay. I just think this is a unique situation.

802
01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:21,920
Do you release the one we have in motion in a second?

803
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:27,140
I'm still talking.

804
01:11:27,500 --> 01:11:28,180
I'm still talking.

805
01:11:28,740 --> 01:11:33,600
And not to be greedy, but I would ask that Kelly be included in any kind of race.

806
01:11:33,900 --> 01:11:37,380
If we need to move my noun to move hers up, I wouldn't ask her.

807
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:46,140
Joe Zell was, well first kind of cool, I was very interested in starting this position actually.

808
01:11:46,380 --> 01:11:54,500
We're looking to the bottom, I'll talk to you about it, and I thought it was necessary that we saved money by hiring calcium inside.

809
01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:59,880
And we did save a believer saved a look at like $100,000 by doing that.

810
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:04,320
I agree with Mr. Kelly.

811
01:12:07,350 --> 01:12:14,970
We're in a quality where we're looking at a tax increase that I've never voted for before like that.

812
01:12:15,150 --> 01:12:17,330
And I think I don't think any of us have.

813
01:12:20,570 --> 01:12:26,430
But we've got a problem when we've got a problem when we've got a attorney not making.

814
01:12:27,190 --> 01:12:32,250
If she could work for Scott's office in the same job, she'd make probably 140.

815
01:12:32,250 --> 01:12:37,650
If it was open, if she went for the district attorney's office, I suspect she'd make her

816
01:12:37,650 --> 01:12:44,210
on the same thing, was her, was her, was her, was her, was her skills and abilities

817
01:12:44,210 --> 01:12:47,070
and having great, probably Randall County,

818
01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:53,300
like I just, that's why I'm supporting her.

819
01:12:53,900 --> 01:13:01,850
Okay, so we have a motion on a second, all in favor, raise your hand, pose, pass this

820
01:13:01,850 --> 01:13:07,790
one. Congratulations, Stacey. You deserve it. I know you did. I'll watch you. You're never there.

821
01:13:08,290 --> 01:13:09,670
You cross the hall from me, you're never there.

822
01:13:12,170 --> 01:13:13,210
Watch your left ear.

823
01:13:18,030 --> 01:13:24,990
But it appears this court has a month for the public defender's office. It's got money for the

824
01:13:24,990 --> 01:13:28,190
the guard in that line and which is great. I appreciate the fact that they have took

825
01:13:28,190 --> 01:13:32,630
jobs. So do my folks. I came here and asked you.

826
01:13:32,630 --> 01:13:38,290
So you don't have money for cops and you don't have money for prosecutors, but you have money for all the other lawyers in the county.

827
01:13:39,250 --> 01:13:40,690
Holy unfair and ridiculous.

828
01:13:43,130 --> 01:13:44,010
Thank you.

829
01:13:45,540 --> 01:13:46,800
Anybody else want to get out and speak?

830
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:51,260
So I still want my three percent and a hundred thousand I asked for a place.

831
01:13:54,620 --> 01:13:55,060
How's your?

832
01:13:56,120 --> 01:14:02,560
I know where you stand, but I'd be remiss if I didn't come up here in five from people at that park for me.

833
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:06,760
I've got four people in the process of looking for other jobs.

834
01:14:07,820 --> 01:14:12,240
They can go other agencies and make way more than what they're making with us.

835
01:14:12,740 --> 01:14:14,600
That's not counting, can't I?

836
01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:15,260
I can't.

837
01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:16,980
There's no way you can compete with that.

838
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:18,580
That's a lot of money out there.

839
01:14:18,900 --> 01:14:22,440
But these are looking at other agencies that are right here in the city.

840
01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:25,220
And it's a huge pay you don't premium.

841
01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:27,240
So I've got four looking right now.

842
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:30,160
Four short in the field.

843
01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:35,440
That's not even counting what's over in the jail. We've got about seven that are short in the jail. So

844
01:14:35,440 --> 01:14:41,680
Like I said, I would be remissed. I know where you guys have been. I said through this the other day. I all won't all day long. I understand

845
01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:48,000
And you got a tough decision. I'd be but I would be remissed if I didn't at least get up here in a in-five

846
01:15:04,710 --> 01:15:33,130
Well, I support what you're doing, looking out for employees at the same time. I'm making $20,000 less than any fire chief in the area. My guys are at the bottom of the pay scale on everything. And just retaining them is going to be very difficult in the future. I think I would be remiss if I didn't get up here and remind all of the same thing. I make a lot less than the range of the fire chief. We have higher call volume. We have more equipment. We have less people.

847
01:15:33,930 --> 01:15:36,990
That is one of the other things that we look at too.

848
01:15:37,290 --> 01:15:41,890
He is pretty much every fire chief in the Panhandle area that we're comparing us ourselves to

849
01:15:42,670 --> 01:15:45,270
has more staffs and less responsibility.

850
01:15:46,350 --> 01:15:48,590
So it's something to look at with every department.

851
01:15:48,970 --> 01:15:50,170
Appreciate it.

852
01:15:50,170 --> 01:15:50,630
Thank you.

853
01:15:50,630 --> 01:15:51,230
Thanks, Richard.

854
01:15:55,440 --> 01:15:56,720
Mr. Kelly was right.

855
01:15:56,940 --> 01:15:58,520
He's got up and up a can of worms.

856
01:15:59,040 --> 01:16:03,960
And I will agree with RDA in our share.

857
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:10,080
If we're going to consider being the only one in office and never in office or whichever else

858
01:16:10,080 --> 01:16:13,400
and always out in the field, you're comfortable around the field.

859
01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:17,540
We're the lowest paid elected officials in this county.

860
01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:24,200
We only have for small rates to even get up to a probably, I think, a corporal deputy

861
01:16:24,940 --> 01:16:26,260
with the sheriff's office.

862
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:31,620
We're not asking for 30,000 of the salary debt between us and the J.P.

863
01:16:31,620 --> 01:16:34,820
And the commissioners and every other elected official.

864
01:16:36,220 --> 01:16:40,780
So if we're going to look at that, please consider that as well as, you know, as a number

865
01:16:40,780 --> 01:16:42,240
of the official and law enforcement.

866
01:16:45,580 --> 01:16:46,300
Who else?

867
01:16:48,270 --> 01:16:56,970
Okay, I have someone in the audience, Alexa, Alexa, Ken, that would like to speak on the budget.

868
01:17:02,670 --> 01:17:03,050
Good morning.

869
01:17:04,210 --> 01:17:07,770
Yes, my name is Alexa, kid, I'm the executive director of the Department of Association

870
01:17:07,770 --> 01:17:08,690
of the Panhandle.

871
01:17:09,530 --> 01:17:14,710
I just don't think there's been a lot of appreciation that we could have been showing for

872
01:17:14,710 --> 01:17:17,650
the Constables, and I wanted to give that appreciation today.

873
01:17:19,450 --> 01:17:26,570
So we represent almost 400 members and over 21,000 rental units in the Panhandle, most of

874
01:17:26,570 --> 01:17:28,350
which are between Randall and Potter County.

875
01:17:29,530 --> 01:17:34,150
So I'm very recognized and expressed our appreciation for the Podger County Constables and

876
01:17:34,150 --> 01:17:38,670
essential role that they play in our community. For those who own and manage rental housing,

877
01:17:39,070 --> 01:17:43,350
consoles are not simply another government service, they are an important partner in helping

878
01:17:43,350 --> 01:17:48,670
us maintain safe and professional managed communities. Private rental housing providers interact

879
01:17:48,670 --> 01:17:53,410
with the public every single day, but that responsibility comes the educational situation that

880
01:17:53,410 --> 01:17:57,990
requires assistance. I want to emphasize that we understand these responsibilities are not always

881
01:17:57,990 --> 01:18:03,830
easy, and an eviction, for example, is just a legal process on cheaper. There are landlords

882
01:18:03,830 --> 01:18:09,290
to property managers residents and families involved, so motions can run high, and having

883
01:18:09,290 --> 01:18:13,690
trained professionals who know the law understand the process and know how to maintain

884
01:18:13,690 --> 01:18:16,910
order during those situations is incredibly important.

885
01:18:17,810 --> 01:18:21,850
For property owners and managers knowing that we have the Constables as a resource provides

886
01:18:21,850 --> 01:18:25,450
the level of security and confidence that's difficult to put a dollar value on.

887
01:18:27,370 --> 01:18:31,630
But perhaps just as important as a serviceism sells as the relationship to be able to develop

888
01:18:31,630 --> 01:18:36,930
with the Constables. They help us provide education to our members, become and speak to our

889
01:18:36,930 --> 01:18:43,590
members, and they really show how valuable their office is to us. I have so many members

890
01:18:43,590 --> 01:18:48,730
come to me which just praises about our Constables and how they help handle situations with

891
01:18:48,730 --> 01:18:54,170
tenants. Someone asked the Commission to recognize the importance of the Potter County

892
01:18:54,170 --> 01:18:58,390
Constables in the work that they do for our community and encourage them to continue to support

893
01:18:58,390 --> 01:19:01,310
and their services by providing their necessary funding.

894
01:19:02,110 --> 01:19:02,450
Thank you.

895
01:19:02,550 --> 01:19:03,310
Thank you, man.

896
01:19:04,530 --> 01:19:07,070
Also, Kristen McClure wants to speak on the budget.

897
01:19:17,270 --> 01:19:17,490
Good morning.

898
01:19:17,750 --> 01:19:17,890
Good morning.

899
01:19:17,890 --> 01:19:18,250
Good morning.

900
01:19:18,470 --> 01:19:19,250
I'm Kristen McClure.

901
01:19:19,330 --> 01:19:21,630
I'm a property manager at Rock Island Apartments.

902
01:19:21,650 --> 01:19:26,150
So I oversee 360 units roughly about 700 residents.

903
01:19:26,970 --> 01:19:29,850
And here's to speak on the behalf of our rental housing community.

904
01:19:30,370 --> 01:19:34,870
And again, why the constables are so important to our industry and to the communities that we serve.

905
01:19:34,870 --> 01:19:39,550
As property managers, my job is not simply to manage buildings or collect rent.

906
01:19:39,990 --> 01:19:45,290
We are responsible for maintaining safe, stable communities for getting my roughly 700 people.

907
01:19:45,870 --> 01:19:50,750
Every day we deal with situations involving recent forcements, civil processes, evictions

908
01:19:50,750 --> 01:19:53,810
and residents who may be experiencing difficult situations.

909
01:19:54,490 --> 01:19:59,210
Having dependable constables available to assist with these matters is incredibly important.

910
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:13,200
All schools provide a service that directly impacts the rental housing industry. They help execute civil processes and enforce lawful court orders in situations that myself as a property manager can always safely do.

911
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:23,680
So, their presence provides a level of professionalism, authority, and safety that is necessary when dealing with difficult or potentially confrontational situations.

912
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:28,340
For property managers, an eviction is never just a business transaction.

913
01:20:28,740 --> 01:20:31,700
There are people involved, and emotions can run high.

914
01:20:32,340 --> 01:20:34,620
Having a considerable air to carry out a poor order,

915
01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:38,240
ensures that the process is handled, accordingly, to the law,

916
01:20:38,420 --> 01:20:42,880
and helps protect everyone involved, including the resident and my staff.

917
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:47,500
Constables also serve as an important bridge between the courts,

918
01:20:47,920 --> 01:20:49,320
property owners, and our communities.

919
01:20:49,320 --> 01:20:55,020
They're working as the court decision, actually carried out in a timely and appropriate manner.

920
01:20:55,460 --> 01:20:58,920
When the process works efficiently, we all benefit from that.

921
01:20:59,580 --> 01:21:04,140
I understand that the county commissioners don't have a difficult decision to make when it comes to public

922
01:21:04,140 --> 01:21:05,920
to budgets and public resources.

923
01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:10,860
But I would ask you to consider the broader impact of the Constables roles.

924
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:16,180
Their work supports not only property owners and management companies, but also represents

925
01:21:16,180 --> 01:21:19,900
neighborhoods and the overall stability of our rental housing district.

926
01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:29,060
Here in Amarillo, we need constables who are available, properly supported, and equipped to continue to provide these essential services for us.

927
01:21:29,260 --> 01:21:30,840
I mean, half of the rental housing industry.

928
01:21:31,160 --> 01:21:38,740
I want to say thank you to our constables for what they do and we truly value them and all the health they give us in our industry.

929
01:21:39,340 --> 01:21:41,040
And you all thank you for letting us speak.

930
01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:41,900
Thank you.

931
01:21:41,900 --> 01:21:46,760
Alright, the next one is the Christine Euphor.

932
01:21:47,260 --> 01:21:48,440
I've heard of her.

933
01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:52,460
I don't want to.

934
01:21:57,600 --> 01:21:58,740
I don't want to.

935
01:21:58,780 --> 01:21:59,620
I don't want to.

936
01:21:59,620 --> 01:22:03,100
I just wanted to also visit about the.

937
01:22:03,140 --> 01:22:05,600
Constables and speak from experience.

938
01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:08,500
On evictions that I.

939
01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:11,160
I can't.

940
01:22:11,440 --> 01:22:12,540
Tell you.

941
01:22:13,260 --> 01:22:14,880
What a crap shoot it is.

942
01:22:15,060 --> 01:22:17,780
You never know what you're going to get with an eviction.

943
01:22:17,780 --> 01:22:25,700
And when we have to enforce one, we may have a totally compliant person that is willing to move out,

944
01:22:26,200 --> 01:22:33,480
but we also have squatters that are on meth and who knows what else and there's no telling what they do.

945
01:22:33,740 --> 01:22:35,060
And I haven't countered this.

946
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:45,660
And having that constables as a command presence diffuses a lot more than just, you know, showing up.

947
01:22:49,730 --> 01:22:58,950
They've helped me personally, not be injured, when I'm trying to protect the owners I represent and their property.

948
01:23:00,490 --> 01:23:06,770
They've kept me from getting bit by animals that are allowed on the property, but are there anyway.

949
01:23:07,710 --> 01:23:14,850
And so, you know, it's very personal to me as a property manager.

950
01:23:14,850 --> 01:23:21,890
And as a resident of Potter County, that we keep these people, we keep these good people

951
01:23:21,890 --> 01:23:28,110
who protect us, who protect our property owners, rights, and protect the neighbors,

952
01:23:28,630 --> 01:23:34,710
and helping us evict, you know, those who would do us harm.

953
01:23:35,290 --> 01:23:41,590
So, I would advocate that they need a raise, we need to keep what we got, we actually need

954
01:23:41,590 --> 01:23:50,250
more than what we have, the homeless population has just exploded around here, and our eviction

955
01:23:50,250 --> 01:23:57,770
rate, they can tell you has exploded by the same amount. It's gotten crazy, and I do appreciate

956
01:23:57,770 --> 01:24:02,690
you guys letting us come and speak for them. Thank you, thank you. Judge, we have another one

957
01:24:02,690 --> 01:24:06,210
that just came in Melanie Scott. Okay, Melanie, right here?

958
01:24:09,140 --> 01:24:10,700
Good morning. Good morning.

959
01:24:10,700 --> 01:24:17,480
My name is Melanie Scott, I am a real turpinning, the business since 94, I'm a property manager, I'm also a landlord.

960
01:24:18,660 --> 01:24:25,240
And what I want to speak to you all about is not in disregard to our sheriff's office, our police department.

961
01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:27,280
They do have phenomenal job.

962
01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:31,900
However, they're limited with their resources, just like everybody else.

963
01:24:32,620 --> 01:24:36,460
When we need them as constables, and this is in the city limits.

964
01:24:37,220 --> 01:24:42,480
For evictions, for rits, for well checks, sometimes our police department, our sheriff's

965
01:24:42,480 --> 01:24:43,620
department can't get to it.

966
01:24:43,860 --> 01:24:45,220
They have too many other duties.

967
01:24:46,440 --> 01:24:50,380
If you're familiar with Senate Bill 38, we have a limited number of days to serve these

968
01:24:50,380 --> 01:24:50,980
rents now.

969
01:24:52,020 --> 01:24:53,680
Our constables is who we call.

970
01:24:54,140 --> 01:24:59,500
We rely on them for safety, for holding things in a timely manner and getting it done.

971
01:24:59,500 --> 01:24:59,980
And it's...

972
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:28,900
We want any disregard to any of our other departments. But in Potter County, that is who they go to and they get the job done. I am very concerned that if we were to not have our constables or have less of our constables, fewer number, this wouldn't be happening. And investors and Emma Rowland, people from all over, I can't tell you how important you talk, Montana. I have investors and investing in Amirilin.

973
01:25:28,900 --> 01:25:33,760
because they respect the law enforcement that we have.

974
01:25:34,180 --> 01:25:37,100
They respect, they keep these people out in a timely manner.

975
01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:40,940
They respect that things are done safely and we're on top of it.

976
01:25:42,260 --> 01:25:45,880
I'm afraid, if you reduce the number of Constables, that is not going to be the case.

977
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:50,660
And we're going to be in a position where Senate Bill 38, we're going to be refiling and refiling.

978
01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:54,060
And that's just because the main power shall be there.

979
01:25:54,060 --> 01:26:01,860
We have more population outside of the city limits now that our sheriff's are responsible for.

980
01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:02,900
We see them patrolling.

981
01:26:03,140 --> 01:26:04,020
They're doing a great job.

982
01:26:04,220 --> 01:26:04,940
They're at the schools.

983
01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:06,440
It's a fire department.

984
01:26:06,620 --> 01:26:07,560
That's another one.

985
01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:09,720
They're out and they're busy.

986
01:26:10,180 --> 01:26:14,520
And it's because our populations have grown by leaps and bounds.

987
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:15,920
And it's not stopping.

988
01:26:17,420 --> 01:26:23,460
So my plea to you is really consider our customer's positions and understand what their duties are.

989
01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:25,240
Thank you.

990
01:26:25,620 --> 01:26:27,100
Thank you.

991
01:26:27,100 --> 01:26:27,240
Thank you.

992
01:26:27,440 --> 01:26:27,720
Anybody else?

993
01:26:33,140 --> 01:26:33,280
Thank you.

994
01:26:33,300 --> 01:26:33,600
Good morning.

995
01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:34,420
Good morning.

996
01:26:35,140 --> 01:26:41,560
I told y'all at the last budget meeting that I would have an update for you.

997
01:26:42,340 --> 01:26:50,420
So we had our TIDC quarterly meeting and we received word on Friday so it was not an

998
01:26:50,420 --> 01:26:50,700
agenda.

999
01:26:50,900 --> 01:26:51,380
I don't know.

1000
01:26:51,380 --> 01:26:54,100
I will bring this and put it as an agenda item coming forward.

1001
01:26:54,100 --> 01:27:03,560
But we were granted $341,800 for dollars as a county offset for this coming fiscal year.

1002
01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:12,900
Now, that will be divided up amongst our six counties by the same percentage of the budget that each county puts in.

1003
01:27:13,340 --> 01:27:19,780
And just so that anyway, I'm aware, Brandon, the April 13 vote on our budget is still intact as well as correct.

1004
01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:20,580
Yes.

1005
01:27:21,480 --> 01:27:27,660
But how does this offset affect your budget?

1006
01:27:28,760 --> 01:27:33,640
Does it just increases the amount that TIGC will reimburse part of the county?

1007
01:27:34,240 --> 01:27:35,980
About 341,000.

1008
01:27:36,080 --> 01:27:37,300
You're not talking about additional spending.

1009
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:39,020
No, I'm not talking about additional spending.

1010
01:27:39,380 --> 01:27:42,560
I just told that the court that I would update them.

1011
01:27:43,780 --> 01:27:45,240
And I will set this for another agenda.

1012
01:27:45,440 --> 01:27:47,500
I don't forget all the approval if you all want that money.

1013
01:27:53,070 --> 01:27:54,970
Anybody else?

1014
01:27:59,070 --> 01:27:59,170
Right.

1015
01:28:00,030 --> 01:28:05,480
So, right then, let's continue on with the welcome back to all of that.

1016
01:28:07,220 --> 01:28:08,260
I'm not asking for anything.

1017
01:28:08,480 --> 01:28:08,840
We're going to go.

1018
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:11,440
David, can you...

1019
01:28:11,440 --> 01:28:13,860
So, we're going to go all this by office.

1020
01:28:19,320 --> 01:28:22,060
I asked for 2% coal in this old, I asked.

1021
01:28:23,460 --> 01:28:23,900
Correct.

1022
01:28:26,670 --> 01:28:32,010
So, like we said last time, there's really no changes here.

1023
01:28:32,010 --> 01:28:34,690
And there's just the 2% COLA,

1024
01:28:36,830 --> 01:28:42,470
the same thing for the commissioners, there's just 2% COLA, nobody wanted anything additional,

1025
01:28:44,710 --> 01:28:49,010
human resources, it's the same as last time.

1026
01:29:01,480 --> 01:29:03,100
I, the IT budget,

1027
01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:11,400
I did check, or at least I've pulled it up, I haven't had a chance to double check, Julie.

1028
01:29:28,230 --> 01:29:30,210
Yes, the tech website's already included.

1029
01:29:34,960 --> 01:29:37,400
No, it's, it was in here for 6,000.

1030
01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:47,540
So we, we would need, we would need an additional 7,000 added to the IT budget.

1031
01:29:47,540 --> 01:29:53,740
And I'm sorry Brandon, did we get added those Azure licenses from the last school last time?

1032
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:54,940
Yes. Okay. Thank you.

1033
01:30:04,210 --> 01:30:13,590
Do you want me to keep a running telly of things that you want to add and do one motion at the end, or how do you want to handle that?

1034
01:30:13,850 --> 01:30:17,490
I think maybe the running telly, and then we can decide,

1035
01:30:19,540 --> 01:30:22,220
I don't know if we're going to misgo over every step of it today.

1036
01:30:22,520 --> 01:30:27,580
Well, I thought you had just said, we're going to go over every line I don't want to do that.

1037
01:30:27,740 --> 01:30:28,640
We've done that.

1038
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:30,740
Okay. I thought that's what you had said.

1039
01:30:30,740 --> 01:30:39,360
I mean, I don't know what you wanted to do because you put this together, so do you want to do that again or no?

1040
01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:44,440
No, no, that's typically not what I would recommend in this situation.

1041
01:30:44,500 --> 01:30:47,640
And it's not normally what we do with this.

1042
01:30:47,800 --> 01:31:00,720
Normally what at the second meeting is we resolve any discrepancies from the first meeting where there were people who wanted to ask

1043
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:09,180
advocate, again, give them another chance that things of that nature is usually what happens

1044
01:31:09,180 --> 01:31:16,000
at our second meeting because we've spent the entire day discussing this last time.

1045
01:31:16,900 --> 01:31:25,580
And so the going back to my point, my point really was in terms of operational items,

1046
01:31:28,400 --> 01:31:29,100
that

1047
01:31:29,100 --> 01:31:38,120
That was, you know, if they asked for it, they pretty much got it, and so I didn't think

1048
01:31:38,120 --> 01:31:43,860
we needed a really long discussion today about going through the operational line items again,

1049
01:31:43,860 --> 01:31:47,460
unless there's something somebody from the court wanted to bring up.

1050
01:31:47,460 --> 01:31:58,880
I do know last time there was some discussion about the travel and education for a couple

1051
01:31:58,880 --> 01:32:04,320
of departments, I think the tax office was one that was not here and talked about it.

1052
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:10,500
Maybe they could talk about that would be one line item that I do recall that was kind

1053
01:32:10,500 --> 01:32:18,740
it was a $6,000 increase from $11,000 to $17,000 that was from the coffee you that wanted

1054
01:32:18,740 --> 01:32:20,620
to bring back.

1055
01:32:23,120 --> 01:32:25,100
So, did you all want to go ahead and talk about that?

1056
01:32:25,220 --> 01:32:26,240
I'm happy to do that.

1057
01:32:31,490 --> 01:32:38,970
Morning Judge, missioners, hope you all are having a wonderful Monday. It's been a lot of fun.

1058
01:32:38,970 --> 01:32:40,690
He would like for that.

1059
01:32:41,190 --> 01:32:41,830
Yes, ma'am.

1060
01:32:42,770 --> 01:32:47,570
So our proposal, I think you've seen, we tried to make several reductions in line items

1061
01:32:47,570 --> 01:32:53,050
this year, because in our meeting with the judge, she said something that kind of stuck

1062
01:32:53,050 --> 01:32:53,850
with me.

1063
01:32:54,010 --> 01:32:58,230
She said, you know, if you want something, you're going to have to give something back, and

1064
01:32:58,230 --> 01:33:01,870
we're really aware of that, and so we tried to give back.

1065
01:33:03,630 --> 01:33:09,430
We are kind of, unfortunately, at the mercy of the increases on our postage and our stationary

1066
01:33:09,430 --> 01:33:13,770
unit and that supplies, and so we weren't able to reduce quite as much as we wanted,

1067
01:33:14,570 --> 01:33:20,490
but the only thing that we're asking for is kind of a want more than a need is the increase

1068
01:33:20,490 --> 01:33:22,090
in our education travel.

1069
01:33:22,350 --> 01:33:27,630
But the primary reason we wanted to do that is we wanted to send a couple of our book

1070
01:33:28,450 --> 01:33:43,750
to the property tax conference that's going to be held later this year, but that was primarily the other thing as we'd like to have the flexibility to reimburse mileage for some of our staff when they go out and inspect properties for the share of sales.

1071
01:33:44,550 --> 01:33:55,070
But that's primarily the reason. If the court would feel more comfortable with a lower number, we could maybe massage our budget a little bit to make a lower number work.

1072
01:33:55,070 --> 01:34:04,770
We just want the flexibility to be able to provide more opportunities for education for our staff and to reimburse them when they go out to inspect properties.

1073
01:34:06,950 --> 01:34:08,330
So I'd be happy to answer any questions.

1074
01:34:09,230 --> 01:34:13,330
Well, I'd certainly be interested in what you'd be willing to lower to.

1075
01:34:13,510 --> 01:34:15,210
Well, we, I don't know.

1076
01:34:15,230 --> 01:34:17,330
When we had nine hours, six point, what?

1077
01:34:17,690 --> 01:34:18,310
That actually increased.

1078
01:34:18,410 --> 01:34:18,670
We're in it.

1079
01:34:18,770 --> 01:34:20,110
It's about six point one and a half.

1080
01:34:21,010 --> 01:34:25,650
And so, well, $6,000 isn't going to do really anything.

1081
01:34:27,870 --> 01:34:31,590
I'll also find that other people have asked for things that we said no.

1082
01:34:32,130 --> 01:34:35,650
And that's stated there, and I had some questions about it.

1083
01:34:36,450 --> 01:34:38,810
So would you be happy that with the $2,000 increase?

1084
01:34:39,310 --> 01:34:39,650
Would that work?

1085
01:34:39,690 --> 01:34:42,350
Will that get your trainings that we keep my two in take four?

1086
01:34:42,650 --> 01:34:45,450
I was actually going to suggest cutting it by half,

1087
01:34:46,250 --> 01:34:48,990
so whatever the court's interest would be.

1088
01:34:48,990 --> 01:34:51,730
Well, certainly you've sent two people of $1,000 each piece.

1089
01:34:51,750 --> 01:34:53,050
I think we probably could.

1090
01:34:53,750 --> 01:34:56,050
It would still provide some difficulties

1091
01:34:56,050 --> 01:34:59,950
on reimbursing the mileage, but I think that we could definitely make.

1092
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:02,100
The tax conference work were too.

1093
01:35:04,660 --> 01:35:09,020
If you will tell the motion, I would like to do stand-out by a few of that by a ten minutes question.

1094
01:35:09,660 --> 01:35:10,200
Oh, I'm sorry?

1095
01:35:11,100 --> 01:35:16,900
To tell the public what they're going to get, for us $2,000.

1096
01:35:17,360 --> 01:35:23,280
As far as what we specifically intend to do with that, what you don't have to conference, right?

1097
01:35:23,560 --> 01:35:25,600
Yes, sir. What are we going to get from that?

1098
01:35:25,600 --> 01:35:33,160
So, we want to get more training on the property tax law for our staff, particularly as it seems

1099
01:35:33,160 --> 01:35:38,060
like it's kind of a moving target every year, you know, things get changed in the legislative

1100
01:35:38,060 --> 01:35:43,100
sessions and then they don't go into effect maybe a year or two later on a lot of the

1101
01:35:43,100 --> 01:35:43,760
property tax stuff.

1102
01:35:43,820 --> 01:35:48,780
So we just want people in our office who are knowledgeable about those things because having

1103
01:35:48,780 --> 01:35:53,940
people in our office who are knowledgeable about the changing field of property taxes and

1104
01:35:53,940 --> 01:35:59,440
along the mechanisms that we have to work with means that that's less time that we have

1105
01:35:59,440 --> 01:36:06,300
to waste going out and acquiring it all at depth of the fact or having to bother the county

1106
01:36:06,300 --> 01:36:13,720
attorneys office for opinions or having to bother Purdue Branden for opinions. So having

1107
01:36:13,720 --> 01:36:18,380
that knowledge in our office, I think, is helpful. Does that answer your question? Yes,

1108
01:36:20,360 --> 01:36:23,320
You have any other questions I'd be happy to answer?

1109
01:36:26,520 --> 01:36:26,760
All right.

1110
01:36:27,020 --> 01:36:27,520
Thank you.

1111
01:36:28,300 --> 01:36:32,320
I think it's good to allow the Department of Health,

1112
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:35,020
Electric Fisher, Assistant, your employees to training,

1113
01:36:35,420 --> 01:36:37,220
and also kind of directs up the amount of the job.

1114
01:36:38,740 --> 01:36:39,860
I've benefited from that.

1115
01:36:40,120 --> 01:36:42,860
I think most people would.

1116
01:36:43,660 --> 01:36:45,140
And so my most important thing is to reduce

1117
01:36:45,140 --> 01:36:52,920
is asked for training and budget from 6,000 to 2,000, so reduce about 4,000.

1118
01:36:54,200 --> 01:37:03,020
It went from 11,000 to 17,000, so if you want to reduce it by 2,000 from his ask,

1119
01:37:03,400 --> 01:37:09,380
you would reduce it from 17,000 to 15,000, or if you want to only give him an additional

1120
01:37:09,380 --> 01:37:12,160
2,000, you would go from 11,000 to 13,000.

1121
01:37:13,880 --> 01:37:18,320
Then my motion is for him to have 13,000 for his 20 budget.

1122
01:37:22,780 --> 01:37:23,800
13,000 total.

1123
01:37:24,580 --> 01:37:25,280
So what did you say?

1124
01:37:25,680 --> 01:37:27,040
That's the moment of correct, right?

1125
01:37:27,540 --> 01:37:28,460
Yes, 13,000.

1126
01:37:28,760 --> 01:37:35,640
If you're wanting to give him 2,000 more the last year, then yes, the correct number is 13,000.

1127
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:37,900
It's still warm with that help you, already go.

1128
01:37:38,180 --> 01:37:38,840
Yeah, there you are.

1129
01:37:39,660 --> 01:37:40,240
I have a motion.

1130
01:37:40,420 --> 01:37:41,320
I have a second.

1131
01:37:43,190 --> 01:37:44,030
I don't have a second.

1132
01:37:47,150 --> 01:37:50,350
So, have a motion and a second, all in favor of each year?

1133
01:37:53,070 --> 01:37:55,430
Oh, yeah, past five is a rule.

1134
01:37:58,610 --> 01:38:00,310
Okay, anybody else?

1135
01:38:01,070 --> 01:38:07,150
Would you like to go ahead and vote on the tech website to, to, to, to,

1136
01:38:07,390 --> 01:38:11,910
what we had in the budget was for 6000 and what was on the agenda today was for

1137
01:38:11,910 --> 01:38:17,210
of $15,200, we would need that increase into the IT's budget as well.

1138
01:38:25,570 --> 01:38:29,070
Huge point, why that is, let's talk about one more time.

1139
01:38:29,330 --> 01:38:32,630
You might just want to let you get a lot of the increase.

1140
01:38:33,910 --> 01:38:41,590
I have to think there are a lot more work that we have to kind of think of as a new problem.

1141
01:38:42,830 --> 01:38:49,190
We're on the DOJ in 237, we have to be an ADA compliant on our website.

1142
01:38:49,190 --> 01:38:53,770
They extended that from this year and so text just offering some different services.

1143
01:38:54,690 --> 01:38:58,830
I can almost guarantee you if you went out to somebody like Civic Plus.

1144
01:38:59,270 --> 01:39:03,010
Those other ones you're going to be paying a lot more than 13-2.

1145
01:39:03,230 --> 01:39:05,390
So they're the ones from 6 to 13?

1146
01:39:05,990 --> 01:39:06,350
Yes.

1147
01:39:07,250 --> 01:39:10,010
And all counties that have the tech server website,

1148
01:39:11,870 --> 01:39:13,650
they're facing this challenge as well,

1149
01:39:14,150 --> 01:39:18,750
and they've actually gone out to other vendors and they're coming back to tech.

1150
01:39:21,650 --> 01:39:51,290
I would say the attack has been a good partner in terms of sport, pricing compared to the open market and who things that I've seen, so they are not for profitability and I think that gives them an advantage in terms of, they're not trying to, you know, they don't have investors that they're trying to increase the investment on, they're simply exiting the tries to help Texas counties.

1151
01:39:52,090 --> 01:39:59,010
So I'm not advocating for them, but in terms of pricing, I would say that that's a reasonable thing to assume.

1152
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:05,380
If you're getting your service from the non-profit entity, it's probably going to be cheaper than going out on the market.

1153
01:40:06,680 --> 01:40:08,880
Do you need a motion for that?

1154
01:40:09,540 --> 01:40:21,770
Yes, just because we need an additional $7,200 in the budget for the ITs,

1155
01:40:27,050 --> 01:40:28,890
let me give you the exact name.

1156
01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:46,620
While he's looking at up to you, same question, what are the constituents in part of county going to get for this?

1157
01:40:47,920 --> 01:40:49,620
Website that's easily accessible.

1158
01:40:50,420 --> 01:40:53,880
I think that we do a really good job of keeping everything up to date.

1159
01:40:56,420 --> 01:41:01,180
It's easier to use than it was whenever we first migrated over to this particular website.

1160
01:41:01,180 --> 01:41:07,940
We've paired it down from hundreds of pages down to what we currently have now, so just the

1161
01:41:07,940 --> 01:41:14,520
ease of access and everybody that the great thing about the tech website is that I'm

1162
01:41:14,520 --> 01:41:17,040
the, you know, Courtney and I are the administrator on our page.

1163
01:41:17,220 --> 01:41:22,220
I'm the administrator for the whole county county attorneys offices, the administrator, you

1164
01:41:22,220 --> 01:41:25,940
know, who ever else wants to be the administrator for their webpage, so they actually get

1165
01:41:25,940 --> 01:41:31,160
to maintain that and have it look how they want and so they have been just a, or putting

1166
01:41:31,160 --> 01:41:37,660
out there what they want instead of having to rely on somebody else and it's Texas

1167
01:41:37,660 --> 01:41:41,940
base too. I'll have to put that out there. We have a lot of we currently have a

1168
01:41:41,940 --> 01:41:46,980
system right now that we we try to talk to people and they're not within this

1169
01:41:46,980 --> 01:41:52,560
country. So it is interesting to have a Texas-based website owner.

1170
01:41:57,180 --> 01:42:01,140
What was

1171
01:42:01,140 --> 01:42:09,800
Department of Software or Maintenance Account from 785,585 to 712,785.

1172
01:42:10,700 --> 01:42:12,180
What's the, what's the actual number for this?

1173
01:42:12,340 --> 01:42:12,600
What was it?

1174
01:42:12,620 --> 01:42:13,240
6,000.

1175
01:42:13,300 --> 01:42:14,800
11,200.

1176
01:42:15,160 --> 01:42:16,100
I'll make that motion.

1177
01:42:18,900 --> 01:42:19,320
Okay.

1178
01:42:19,660 --> 01:42:19,800
I have a second.

1179
01:42:19,800 --> 01:42:21,220
I have a motion in a second.

1180
01:42:21,520 --> 01:42:22,920
The only favor is your hand.

1181
01:42:25,160 --> 01:42:27,300
I suppose that pass is found to zero.

1182
01:42:31,070 --> 01:42:33,270
The lock was slowly making that text straight.

1183
01:42:33,450 --> 01:42:33,830
Go up.

1184
01:42:38,310 --> 01:42:41,850
Okay, I have two more people. Do you want people that want to speak?

1185
01:42:42,410 --> 01:42:45,190
So there's some questions about my power like $5,000.

1186
01:42:45,190 --> 01:42:47,430
$5,000 is fine and costable for.

1187
01:42:48,690 --> 01:42:52,410
I rounded up, because I always look, well, you know, it's come in fully rigged,

1188
01:42:52,630 --> 01:42:54,430
but there's other things that have to be done.

1189
01:42:55,230 --> 01:42:57,770
I'm assuming the shares also be able to do those things.

1190
01:42:58,290 --> 01:43:03,430
So that's $5,000 you put mine equal to what Constable Jackson's vehicle is.

1191
01:43:03,450 --> 01:43:04,950
But there are $5,000 that.

1192
01:43:04,950 --> 01:43:05,250
Yes.

1193
01:43:05,250 --> 01:43:11,130
Yeah, just take that out and put it equal to what here's is and I think with a new car if I get it

1194
01:43:11,890 --> 01:43:17,010
It'll be covered out of the warranty and I'll have to spend anything big problem is my car is having problems again

1195
01:43:17,010 --> 01:43:19,290
So I'll make it last

1196
01:43:20,310 --> 01:43:21,930
So if that'll help out any

1197
01:43:21,930 --> 01:43:28,990
I don't know how a certain paper Saturday didn't do a check engine line died in the middle of an intercession

1198
01:43:28,990 --> 01:43:36,610
So, but at times, it started back up that there's, you know, $5,000 to help out.

1199
01:43:36,830 --> 01:43:37,830
It should take off in mind.

1200
01:43:39,090 --> 01:43:51,210
This will come out of the capital outlayed for the constable, for constable one.

1201
01:43:51,210 --> 01:44:05,370
And it will go from 96,000 to 91,000 and the reduction is $5,000 and that will put it in line with constable force purchases.

1202
01:44:07,060 --> 01:44:08,900
You did a motion on that?

1203
01:44:09,040 --> 01:44:11,120
Yes. I'll change his need of motion.

1204
01:44:11,560 --> 01:44:13,060
I moved to approve that. That's presented.

1205
01:44:14,100 --> 01:44:14,360
Second.

1206
01:44:14,980 --> 01:44:16,840
The motion in a second on a favor, right?

1207
01:44:17,540 --> 01:44:18,020
Yeah.

1208
01:44:18,800 --> 01:44:20,100
What was that past this time, Super?

1209
01:44:20,100 --> 01:44:25,700
All right, I have a couple more people, Tiffany Billflower, I want to speak.

1210
01:44:27,160 --> 01:44:28,440
Tiffany, come on up

1211
01:44:30,610 --> 01:44:32,330
or come on bail, whatever.

1212
01:44:33,390 --> 01:44:34,470
How are you today, ma'am?

1213
01:44:34,650 --> 01:44:36,250
Good, how are you guys this morning?

1214
01:44:36,830 --> 01:44:41,270
I came in a little bit late and trying to play a little bit of catch-up of what's going on

1215
01:44:41,270 --> 01:44:43,610
as far as the consumables go.

1216
01:44:43,950 --> 01:44:46,810
So, my I really just have a basic thing to say.

1217
01:44:46,810 --> 01:44:50,210
the work that they do for me as a property manager.

1218
01:44:51,430 --> 01:44:52,270
They help us a lot.

1219
01:44:52,530 --> 01:44:55,030
We deal with a lot of interesting characters

1220
01:44:55,610 --> 01:44:56,690
in property management.

1221
01:44:56,810 --> 01:44:59,910
Some tenants in the way that they respond to evictions.

1222
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:06,860
And things like that. And I can say these consumables have had our back and helped me with some pretty unique situations.

1223
01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:15,280
And I'm just really grateful for the work that they do. I don't know if our community really understands what they have to do with day in and day out.

1224
01:45:16,260 --> 01:45:22,740
And some of the videos that I've seen with houses that they've had to go in and clear out and things are worse than some of the ones that I've seen.

1225
01:45:22,740 --> 01:45:26,000
So I just really want to say how much I respect our

1226
01:45:26,000 --> 01:45:28,700
Constables and I think the work that they do is

1227
01:45:28,700 --> 01:45:30,920
Inmeasurable and I could not do the things that they do

1228
01:45:30,920 --> 01:45:33,680
So I just really appreciate them and just wanted to make sure that

1229
01:45:33,680 --> 01:45:36,960
That it's known that what they do for us is property managers

1230
01:45:36,960 --> 01:45:39,460
It matters and we're just grateful for that.

1231
01:45:39,820 --> 01:45:40,940
Thank you guys.

1232
01:45:42,000 --> 01:45:42,940
Ray, great house.

1233
01:45:49,180 --> 01:45:49,900
Good morning.

1234
01:45:50,140 --> 01:45:52,240
It's hard to follow up after that because she

1235
01:45:52,780 --> 01:45:54,540
Pretty much said everything I was going to say

1236
01:45:54,540 --> 01:45:57,840
Even better but literally two weeks ago I had a

1237
01:45:57,840 --> 01:46:02,880
of possession and these two wonderful Constables showed up and the guy was very aggressive

1238
01:46:02,880 --> 01:46:06,880
and so as a female property manager that has to manage her own properties and a few

1239
01:46:06,880 --> 01:46:11,860
others, it is very, very well received that they show up for us.

1240
01:46:12,200 --> 01:46:16,960
So I just wanted to be known as well that they are very needed in the real estate world

1241
01:46:16,960 --> 01:46:21,640
and property management and rentals for us because they support us getting the homes back

1242
01:46:21,640 --> 01:46:22,700
and keeping it safe.

1243
01:46:23,100 --> 01:46:24,620
So thank you guys for what you do.

1244
01:46:24,620 --> 01:46:24,920
And

1245
01:46:32,410 --> 01:46:33,790
where are we now bringing it?

1246
01:46:50,820 --> 01:46:56,820
The judge, there was one other small item that was brought to my attention.

1247
01:46:58,180 --> 01:47:07,420
There was a request for a B3s to the awards and recognition line of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

1248
01:47:23,340 --> 01:47:27,420
I think it's the employee appreciation committee is Berks still here.

1249
01:47:27,660 --> 01:47:29,940
Yeah, they had a meeting, I wouldn't have the meeting.

1250
01:47:30,540 --> 01:47:30,760
Okay.

1251
01:47:31,100 --> 01:47:32,640
Bro, do you mind explaining that to us?

1252
01:47:32,900 --> 01:47:35,220
I mean, I know you want to increase, but can you tell me?

1253
01:47:35,220 --> 01:47:40,820
So we're wanting to go from an evening event to that time event and it's my understanding that

1254
01:47:40,820 --> 01:47:46,100
the course Calboy Club won't cook for us during the day, so we're going to have to have a little

1255
01:47:46,100 --> 01:47:50,580
bit of extra money to feed the employees. We feel like we'll have a better turn out during the

1256
01:47:50,580 --> 01:48:05,200
day than we have in the evening. It's kind of dwindling. It would be a week later. Yeah, it'll be

1257
01:48:13,500 --> 01:48:15,360
Just an idea we're tossing around.

1258
01:48:15,520 --> 01:48:19,160
We used to have more money in that one item, I believe, than it got lowered.

1259
01:48:19,900 --> 01:48:26,580
No, it was at $5,000, and then it got lowered to $1,000, and now it got raised back to $5,000.

1260
01:48:27,340 --> 01:48:32,700
So I think we're just requesting $2,000 more.

1261
01:48:35,640 --> 01:48:39,720
That's true, but this is for the employees and so this is something that

1262
01:48:39,720 --> 01:48:45,860
We try to be every year to offer to the employees, you know, to the employee appreciation dinner.

1263
01:48:46,520 --> 01:48:51,940
So that was just something that, again, like I said, I wasn't at this meeting, but I've been on the committee for a long time.

1264
01:48:52,680 --> 01:48:56,640
And it's just a way to show the employees that they're appreciated.

1265
01:49:18,940 --> 01:49:23,040
We just discussed that a lot of people can't come because they can't bring their children.

1266
01:49:24,000 --> 01:49:27,980
We feel like we'd have a better turn out during the day because employees are already at work.

1267
01:49:28,280 --> 01:49:30,180
Our office is at close for just a little offer.

1268
01:49:33,880 --> 01:49:40,080
So maybe a better opportunity for them to attend rather than an evening event.

1269
01:49:40,880 --> 01:49:41,960
I get that.

1270
01:49:44,230 --> 01:49:44,470
Okay.

1271
01:49:45,470 --> 01:49:47,810
We need a vote on this too.

1272
01:49:48,650 --> 01:49:52,190
Is there a motion for changing the budget?

1273
01:49:53,670 --> 01:49:57,590
I mean, that's, that's, I don't think if you want to, someone has to make motion.

1274
01:49:57,830 --> 01:49:59,970
I mean, at this point, any chance.

1275
01:50:07,520 --> 01:50:11,890
All right, do I have a motion on this?

1276
01:50:16,070 --> 01:50:16,750
Do I have a motion?

1277
01:50:19,290 --> 01:50:20,010
Do I have a motion? Do I have a motion?

1278
01:50:20,270 --> 01:50:20,770
Do I have a motion? Do I have a motion?

1279
01:50:23,600 --> 01:50:24,340
Sorry, Brooke.

1280
01:50:30,360 --> 01:50:31,100
Okay, what else?

1281
01:50:34,840 --> 01:50:35,860
David, can you help me out?

1282
01:51:17,380 --> 01:51:23,700
I do know that there was at least a point to bring up a warning to discuss.

1283
01:51:24,200 --> 01:51:30,760
I was brought up to me this week to discuss the request of Constantine III in wanting to add a position

1284
01:51:31,500 --> 01:51:34,900
the force of security out of JP III.

1285
01:51:39,720 --> 01:51:40,680
Dennis here.

1286
01:51:42,250 --> 01:51:46,650
You're not discussing the other day and you said, I see that you said no and I said, yeah, because

1287
01:51:46,650 --> 01:51:47,310
okay.

1288
01:51:50,930 --> 01:51:54,550
So the piece here, we can talk to him again, but he's not here right now.

1289
01:51:54,690 --> 01:51:56,070
It's going to go past that one.

1290
01:51:58,650 --> 01:52:00,750
Does Jackson, do you want to talk about it?

1291
01:52:00,870 --> 01:52:03,690
I don't know if you're very interested in it.

1292
01:52:04,110 --> 01:52:05,630
I mean, I'm here.

1293
01:52:08,680 --> 01:52:10,600
I'm going to have to say a couple of things.

1294
01:52:10,780 --> 01:52:12,820
I don't know if you're going to have to hear it.

1295
01:52:17,840 --> 01:52:19,220
I mean, if you're sitting,

1296
01:52:25,650 --> 01:52:27,450
I can just try to do that.

1297
01:52:46,850 --> 01:52:55,730
The next department then is the sheriff's department, I mean, that's the, that would be the,

1298
01:52:55,730 --> 01:53:04,090
um, is there any interest in entertaining this from the console over the sheriff's department?

1299
01:53:08,800 --> 01:53:10,700
who's still talking about the courasqueer.

1300
01:53:11,960 --> 01:53:15,520
I would have a cave in the sheriff's office to do that.

1301
01:53:15,520 --> 01:53:17,180
The problem is this is money.

1302
01:53:18,060 --> 01:53:23,060
And if we allow a constable to hire a deputy,

1303
01:53:23,440 --> 01:53:28,040
the deputy for courasqueer is going to make more than the castle.

1304
01:53:29,460 --> 01:53:34,760
It gets some issues with that, but I don't think we can fix that today.

1305
01:53:34,760 --> 01:53:40,590
I certainly wouldn't advocate for us to do that, and I think it's the size of that, the

1306
01:53:40,590 --> 01:53:44,350
fear of solstice responsible for courthouse security, and that's a courthouse.

1307
01:53:44,870 --> 01:53:48,670
Sure, you've got up and said you would do that,

1308
01:53:51,490 --> 01:53:52,330
and we got to find a person.

1309
01:53:55,000 --> 01:54:00,080
So, okay, so Judge Jackson, do you have court every day?

1310
01:54:00,460 --> 01:54:04,980
We have a court on a ad in the three to four times a week.

1311
01:54:06,000 --> 01:54:06,480
All day?

1312
01:54:09,940 --> 01:54:14,420
And that's enough for the act of conflict, and that's enough for the act of conflict.

1313
01:54:14,420 --> 01:54:16,120
It's not for the court security.

1314
01:54:16,460 --> 01:54:17,820
It's for our security.

1315
01:54:17,880 --> 01:54:18,440
I don't know.

1316
01:54:18,980 --> 01:54:20,380
It's for his office.

1317
01:54:20,620 --> 01:54:24,740
Well, but it's, but the cost was required, but it's responsible.

1318
01:54:25,260 --> 01:54:25,940
It's here in the court.

1319
01:54:26,620 --> 01:54:28,640
And the court has to be responsible for the court.

1320
01:54:28,640 --> 01:54:29,140
I know.

1321
01:54:29,160 --> 01:54:31,340
That's why I was asking how many times it happened.

1322
01:54:32,400 --> 01:54:32,920
Well, I'm sorry.

1323
01:54:32,920 --> 01:54:34,000
I thought you were trying to do it.

1324
01:54:34,020 --> 01:54:34,780
No, no.

1325
01:54:34,780 --> 01:54:39,680
If we could do less math, I heard him.

1326
01:54:40,340 --> 01:54:43,860
Sheriff, she had somebody that could help out with that.

1327
01:54:44,220 --> 01:54:46,920
Or is that something they even know?

1328
01:54:47,480 --> 01:54:48,320
Yes or no?

1329
01:54:50,440 --> 01:54:51,880
So you would have to hire somebody.

1330
01:54:53,200 --> 01:54:54,580
And what's the starting pay?

1331
01:54:54,580 --> 01:54:55,860
What's the starting pay for him?

1332
01:55:15,680 --> 01:55:19,320
Okay, I want to let you all think on that. Sure, if we're going to take a 10 minute break.

1333
01:55:45,060 --> 01:55:46,100
All right,

1334
01:55:46,260 --> 01:55:50,900
bring it. I'll let you one, say which we're going to say.

1335
01:55:53,990 --> 01:55:57,050
Well, Judge, I just really wanted to actually

1336
01:55:57,050 --> 01:56:07,870
give it back to the court. We have talked about the whole budget. And I really just would like to know if the court has any

1337
01:56:07,870 --> 01:56:15,530
questions about the budget, anything that the court wants to bring up rather than try to,

1338
01:56:15,530 --> 01:56:20,630
you know, try to figure something out from my side.

1339
01:56:20,990 --> 01:56:26,950
Because ultimately this is the budget that you all need to load on and adopt.

1340
01:56:27,690 --> 01:56:37,850
So, between the meetings we've had and the conversations and the last commissioner court

1341
01:56:37,850 --> 01:56:43,550
where we have a special court, and we focus today on this, and the discussions today, is there

1342
01:56:43,550 --> 01:56:50,710
anything that the court wants to bring up any member of the court wants to bring up to be added

1343
01:56:50,710 --> 01:56:52,970
to the budget or to take away from the budget?

1344
01:56:57,080 --> 01:56:59,540
Yes, I'd like to bring up what we're doing with the

1345
01:56:59,540 --> 01:57:00,500
firemen.

1346
01:57:02,700 --> 01:57:09,180
And we're talked about trying to keep up or even move with the civilian market or other

1347
01:57:09,180 --> 01:57:13,160
agencies like how we're trying to pay the lawyers, at least keep them within the reasonable

1348
01:57:13,160 --> 01:57:13,960
pay range.

1349
01:57:15,060 --> 01:57:20,360
We need to desperately look at our prior department, pulled up some members since we

1350
01:57:20,360 --> 01:57:21,400
had our last meeting.

1351
01:57:22,380 --> 01:57:27,880
Right now, starting pay for Putter County, is $49,148.

1352
01:57:28,940 --> 01:57:35,280
Randall County, which is our closest person, is $49,552.

1353
01:57:35,280 --> 01:57:42,720
So about $400 difference, but then you start looking at Emorello if you're looking at $13,171 difference.

1354
01:57:43,180 --> 01:57:47,480
If you go to somebody like Lubbock, which is still within our range for where people are going to go

1355
01:57:47,480 --> 01:57:55,920
be working for, you're looking at $20,000 difference. The fireman's job doesn't change just because

1356
01:57:55,920 --> 01:58:01,120
you change the white letters on the truck. You whether it goes from Randall County to Potter County,

1357
01:58:01,120 --> 01:58:07,600
city of Marello. They're still doing the same jobs and the hiring base of what they're doing is

1358
01:58:07,600 --> 01:58:15,980
still the same. The fireman really hadn't gotten pay raises for say in a long time as it even

1359
01:58:15,980 --> 01:58:22,240
trying to keep up and I know we can't compete with the city but we need to keep moving that direction.

1360
01:58:22,580 --> 01:58:29,100
Right now the city is talking about doing a 3% pay raise so you're taking that $13,000. We're looking

1361
01:58:29,100 --> 01:58:35,400
And maybe a 2% they're looking at 3% so let's about there's up to $14,000 difference now.

1362
01:58:35,780 --> 01:58:36,620
And that's just the beginning.

1363
01:58:36,740 --> 01:58:42,380
You move up to where compared to Randall County, which I don't like doing, but let's go

1364
01:58:42,380 --> 01:58:43,420
and do it just for the numbers.

1365
01:58:44,080 --> 01:58:51,580
An assistant chief with Randall County is making $22,094 more than we are here at Carter County.

1366
01:58:52,720 --> 01:58:57,920
And when you're trying to replace these chiefs out here, assistant chiefs, even captains,

1367
01:58:58,560 --> 01:59:02,760
Lieutenant's, Lieutenant's are making almost $10,000 more in rental county.

1368
01:59:03,760 --> 01:59:09,420
We're not going to be able to replace our staff when they're retired or leave to go to

1369
01:59:09,420 --> 01:59:10,140
these other places.

1370
01:59:10,640 --> 01:59:14,300
And we're not going to be able to hire the new people to move on up in the ranks.

1371
01:59:15,300 --> 01:59:19,680
You know, if you're a young person 22, 23 years old, or you're going to go to Potter County,

1372
01:59:20,140 --> 01:59:26,400
or you're going to go to Lubbock that's paying $20,000 more for the same job, same skills,

1373
01:59:26,400 --> 01:59:31,040
These guys and ladies are extremely highly skilled with the training they'll have to do.

1374
01:59:31,320 --> 01:59:36,620
This isn't back in the 80s and 90s where you'll just take somebody that wants to volunteer for the fire department

1375
01:59:37,240 --> 01:59:40,480
thrown through two-weeking classes and throw them on a truck.

1376
01:59:41,320 --> 01:59:45,580
The training that these people have to go to now, the hours they have to work,

1377
01:59:46,000 --> 01:59:53,480
on average, the fireman's work in an extra, they're working about 58-hour weeks compared to the normal person to 40-hour week.

1378
01:59:53,480 --> 01:59:57,320
and we're paying a lot less than most,

1379
01:59:58,020 --> 02:00:00,000
something even just a regular day.

1380
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:05,960
Great time job in an office. These guys in ladies are making considerable bit less, and they're risking

1381
02:00:05,960 --> 02:00:12,180
their lives. They're doing CPR on your grandma that's about to pass away. They're out there in the fires.

1382
02:00:13,260 --> 02:00:20,960
They're real tribune just did a great article on our Putter County Fire Department, how good they were doing on fire recently.

1383
02:00:20,960 --> 02:00:30,300
And it was the experience that they were talking about on how well it was handled and it could have been a lot different if we wouldn't have that experience chief out there or

1384
02:00:30,300 --> 02:00:31,900
Assistant chief out there

1385
02:00:31,900 --> 02:00:33,380
Handling that fire

1386
02:00:33,380 --> 02:00:33,900
I

1387
02:00:34,660 --> 02:00:42,360
Think we should do a 5% pay raise for the fire department and that's going to be no more close to even breaking even with the city

1388
02:00:42,360 --> 02:00:46,560
It would get us even with Randall County for the beginning fire fighter

1389
02:00:47,460 --> 02:00:49,440
we would still be

1390
02:00:49,440 --> 02:00:58,820
be $18,000 behind on a chief, would be $1,000 behind on a captain, and would be over $6,000

1391
02:00:58,820 --> 02:01:04,700
behind on a lieutenant. But at least they would get the beginning person the same pay. So

1392
02:01:04,700 --> 02:01:11,120
at least we could compete on the beginning bottom level. And move up there, there's something

1393
02:01:11,120 --> 02:01:17,800
that's going to take multiple years to adjust. Like I said, coming up $22,000, and that's

1394
02:01:17,800 --> 02:01:23,040
to rent a car stop comparing to the city or anything like that. The city would be looking at

1395
02:01:23,040 --> 02:01:28,400
$37,000 behind when you start looking at the captain's pet. I mean that's a whole

1396
02:01:28,400 --> 02:01:37,880
other paycheck for a lot of people. But I think we need to look at 5% that would take for the general

1397
02:01:37,880 --> 02:01:47,100
budget, it would add about $81,314 and to the CAD it would add about $78,395 approximately.

1398
02:01:47,980 --> 02:01:53,540
Um, Brandon can maybe crunch the numbers better here to many if we do discuss this, but

1399
02:01:53,540 --> 02:01:56,900
I think that's something we're greatly need to look at, or we're just not going to have

1400
02:01:56,900 --> 02:02:01,620
a fire department, surely because we're not going to be able to compete, we're just going to

1401
02:02:01,620 --> 02:02:03,140
keep following further and further behind.

1402
02:02:07,780 --> 02:02:07,940
Brandon, yes.

1403
02:02:08,560 --> 02:02:10,980
Brandon, what's the current tax rate that we're at right now?

1404
02:02:10,980 --> 02:02:12,200
What's the first half?

1405
02:02:12,540 --> 02:02:13,000
Six more.

1406
02:02:22,360 --> 02:02:27,760
Um, we are looking at about a 6.1% tax rate increase.

1407
02:02:27,760 --> 02:02:28,120
yes.

1408
02:02:30,620 --> 02:02:30,900
So,

1409
02:02:34,740 --> 02:02:39,660
I think that is, I don't know who said it, but we're not, we're definitely not

1410
02:02:39,660 --> 02:02:40,680
keeping up with inflation,

1411
02:02:44,480 --> 02:02:48,760
but you haven't. We've got a huge tax increase, we're looking

1412
02:02:48,760 --> 02:02:55,840
at, but if we were right now we're in a 2% across the board, what would a 3% mean? What

1413
02:02:55,840 --> 02:02:57,180
would that be?

1414
02:02:57,920 --> 02:03:06,360
I don't know if you could even do a 3% across the board at this point right now.

1415
02:03:06,880 --> 02:03:10,140
Well, okay, let me phrase everything properly.

1416
02:03:11,000 --> 02:03:17,460
When you're talking about the various, no

1417
02:03:19,660 --> 02:03:23,620
new revenue rate, the voter approval rate, the

1418
02:03:23,620 --> 02:03:32,580
to implement, you know, our voter approval rate with the unused increment, with all of

1419
02:03:32,580 --> 02:03:36,660
our unused increment, is about 6.8 percent effective.

1420
02:03:38,000 --> 02:03:48,120
And so that is only about another 479,000 dollars that you can go up to without from where

1421
02:03:48,120 --> 02:03:54,840
currently are without triggering an election.

1422
02:03:55,460 --> 02:03:58,980
And so you could go above that voter approval rate

1423
02:03:58,980 --> 02:04:03,720
that you would need to hold an election to do it.

1424
02:04:05,080 --> 02:04:10,880
And so that's historically, we haven't ever gotten to that point.

1425
02:04:10,880 --> 02:04:19,600
you know. But it is within the courts prerogative to do that. The mechanics of it, I'll be

1426
02:04:19,600 --> 02:04:25,780
honest, since we haven't done it before, I don't know what the next steps of actually holding

1427
02:04:25,780 --> 02:04:31,600
the election and all the, it's in statute, so it's obviously something that you can do,

1428
02:04:32,040 --> 02:04:37,700
but it is something we would need to consider to, that you'd have to take it to the taxpayer.

1429
02:04:37,700 --> 02:04:43,100
Well, the reason I asked that is because I understand that the Randall County, our counterparts,

1430
02:04:43,760 --> 02:04:47,500
is giving a 2% with a 1% discretionary.

1431
02:04:50,370 --> 02:04:51,270
And so,

1432
02:04:53,830 --> 02:04:56,790
I mean, they're also not doing a 6% tax increase either.

1433
02:04:58,710 --> 02:04:59,830
But so.

1434
02:05:00,080 --> 02:05:02,200
Thank you for answering my

1435
02:05:06,520 --> 02:05:06,520
question.

1436
02:05:06,700 --> 02:05:08,060
Anybody else have any remarks?

1437
02:05:09,300 --> 02:05:11,040
We're talking about

1438
02:05:13,440 --> 02:05:15,480
where I appreciate you talking about that.

1439
02:05:15,740 --> 02:05:18,060
But I'm not appreciate what you guys do.

1440
02:05:18,260 --> 02:05:18,800
The fire department.

1441
02:05:21,920 --> 02:05:25,820
I'm just afraid if we don't do something to at least move that direction.

1442
02:05:26,620 --> 02:05:28,960
They are going to be coming back and asking for that $30,000.

1443
02:05:30,900 --> 02:05:33,340
It may not be next year, but it's going to be very soon.

1444
02:05:34,080 --> 02:05:40,300
We're not even, we're not even staying close, even with our closest neighbor of Randall County.

1445
02:05:41,760 --> 02:05:48,900
Twenty-two thousand dollars difference in the same job, and the only thing we did was change an R and a P on the truck.

1446
02:05:51,680 --> 02:05:54,660
They both still say county, and there's a big difference.

1447
02:05:55,640 --> 02:06:03,760
The jobs say the same, the skills say the same, and what they have to do with the emergency medical training they have to require

1448
02:06:03,760 --> 02:06:11,880
The lot wild land certifications, the structural certifications is just getting more and more each year on their skills that they're requiring.

1449
02:06:12,620 --> 02:06:18,820
And if we don't compensate them for their skills, knowledge and experience, we're going to lose them to other departments and quickly.

1450
02:06:21,320 --> 02:06:25,080
And I'm not asking to even get remotely close to the same pay even as Randall County.

1451
02:06:25,560 --> 02:06:30,020
I'm just asking that we move and not fall further and further behind.

1452
02:06:30,020 --> 02:06:30,720
Anybody

1453
02:06:39,490 --> 02:06:41,930
have anything else to say about that?

1454
02:06:44,780 --> 02:06:45,780
I understand what you're saying.

1455
02:06:46,160 --> 02:06:46,480
Where are I?

1456
02:06:46,500 --> 02:06:47,380
I really do.

1457
02:06:47,480 --> 02:06:49,320
I wish we could do it.

1458
02:06:49,700 --> 02:06:51,000
I can't do it.

1459
02:06:51,140 --> 02:06:52,540
I cannot raise taxes 6.

1460
02:06:53,400 --> 02:06:54,800
Right now, 6.1.

1461
02:06:55,280 --> 02:06:55,700
I'm going to have.

1462
02:06:55,960 --> 02:06:59,180
We're just going to go out to 6.7 if we get everybody with the one.

1463
02:06:59,380 --> 02:07:00,340
I can't do that.

1464
02:07:00,520 --> 02:07:01,900
It's just not feasible.

1465
02:07:05,340 --> 02:07:12,280
So, Sheriff, can you come up and tell me one more time about the person that works in my courthouse?

1466
02:07:12,280 --> 02:07:19,740
that we could use on those deputies to be a security at the TIP-3.

1467
02:07:20,180 --> 02:07:22,460
We're still one short in our courthouse security.

1468
02:07:23,760 --> 02:07:26,820
We have in our budget to have two in the old courthouse.

1469
02:07:27,820 --> 02:07:35,240
We could take that position and move that out to JPE-3, but we still have to find that position.

1470
02:07:36,740 --> 02:07:40,160
As I said, there's a great job over there, and I don't think he has any problem to handle

1471
02:07:40,160 --> 02:07:42,780
and that kind of thing, plus he's right down here down town,

1472
02:07:43,140 --> 02:07:44,580
he could have back up pretty quick,

1473
02:07:44,880 --> 02:07:47,100
even if somebody had to run from here over there.

1474
02:07:47,400 --> 02:07:48,920
They've got a lot of enforcement upstairs

1475
02:07:48,920 --> 02:07:50,680
if they needed to come down.

1476
02:07:51,140 --> 02:07:52,380
They may be outrun, and I'm not saying

1477
02:07:52,380 --> 02:07:54,240
that they're always up there on the board,

1478
02:07:54,660 --> 02:07:56,360
but they could help if they needed to,

1479
02:07:56,420 --> 02:07:59,360
but I think we could be able to take care of that if we need it.

1480
02:07:59,480 --> 02:08:02,720
But that just saves you, but given another person,

1481
02:08:02,880 --> 02:08:04,180
we could move that one out there.

1482
02:08:04,660 --> 02:08:06,780
He's got a machine out there that has been there

1483
02:08:06,780 --> 02:08:09,520
for over a year that, good lord,

1484
02:08:09,520 --> 02:08:15,200
I don't even know if it'll work, but I have to send somebody out here to make it work, and that's their extraordinary machine.

1485
02:08:15,520 --> 02:08:20,520
It's just sitting there, and you gotta have somebody that's certified to be able to work on that, or even you.

1486
02:08:20,520 --> 02:08:22,760
Well, it's not working yet, you don't have to work.

1487
02:08:23,460 --> 02:08:23,520
No.

1488
02:08:23,520 --> 02:08:23,860
Okay.

1489
02:08:24,080 --> 02:08:25,020
Why don't you work through it?

1490
02:08:25,520 --> 02:08:25,920
Okay.

1491
02:08:26,920 --> 02:08:28,200
But they have to calibrate it in order.

1492
02:08:28,340 --> 02:08:30,660
Does it make, does it make trust that they have a gun?

1493
02:08:32,340 --> 02:08:32,540
Okay.

1494
02:08:33,120 --> 02:08:34,160
So, so we can do that.

1495
02:08:34,160 --> 02:08:38,400
That was saying, that would give him what he needs, and that would say.

1496
02:08:38,400 --> 02:08:41,820
I mean, we only need one at the courthouse, and we've got-

1497
02:08:41,820 --> 02:08:44,000
You've been running with one over there for a long time.

1498
02:08:44,660 --> 02:08:46,740
Yeah. So let's do that. That's one thing.

1499
02:08:46,820 --> 02:08:50,400
I mean, this is another way of saving and helping you.

1500
02:08:51,580 --> 02:08:54,040
Like I said, it's, I just think it's a good idea,

1501
02:08:55,040 --> 02:08:57,460
but again, it's one way to take care of that.

1502
02:08:58,020 --> 02:09:00,180
And like I said, these guys downstairs, if they need a two,

1503
02:09:00,320 --> 02:09:02,600
they could run over and be all our pre-quick two.

1504
02:09:04,620 --> 02:09:06,700
All right. Judge, are you okay with that?

1505
02:09:06,700 --> 02:09:12,120
I don't cost this anything, okay?

1506
02:09:12,640 --> 02:09:13,460
All right, what else?

1507
02:09:21,430 --> 02:09:25,150
I mean, ultimately, my question still stands.

1508
02:09:25,450 --> 02:09:31,030
I think it's really up to the court, at this point, say if there's anything else

1509
02:09:31,850 --> 02:09:37,030
to address about this year's budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

1510
02:09:39,660 --> 02:09:49,800
Is there a way to move that 6.1 down? Is there anything that you see that you'd make a

1511
02:09:49,800 --> 02:09:56,280
recommendation to the court that you could take something out, maybe there's too much

1512
02:09:56,280 --> 02:09:59,960
If you don't lie to Adam, there's something more...

1513
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:01,540
I'm not thinking about this.

1514
02:10:04,540 --> 02:10:04,560
Well,

1515
02:10:07,520 --> 02:10:15,100
the only thing that I can think of that will move the needle in some

1516
02:10:15,100 --> 02:10:19,940
appreciative way is we

1517
02:10:27,650 --> 02:10:37,730
added $1.8 million to the line item. We also took, because the original

1518
02:10:37,730 --> 02:10:44,630
presentation was going to be for there to be a Haskell contract because it was, it really

1519
02:10:44,630 --> 02:10:51,130
operated differently than all of our daily rate housing. And so to kind of fit that

1520
02:10:51,130 --> 02:10:57,590
into the budget, we added the 1.8 million, which is the annualized amount for the Haskell

1521
02:10:57,590 --> 02:11:05,150
contract and the judge and I discussed reducing that daily rate line from the 1.2 million

1522
02:11:05,150 --> 02:11:12,330
down to about 500,000, because the thought would be that they would probably still need some

1523
02:11:12,330 --> 02:11:23,030
housing outside of Haskell, but where my issue is, I don't know necessarily how much, because

1524
02:11:23,030 --> 02:11:31,390
it varies so much. Because the year before we were looking at almost a million dollars of housing

1525
02:11:31,390 --> 02:12:00,730
And, you know, this year or today without the Haskell contract were around 500,000, so you would think that with 50 additional people in Haskell, you wouldn't need the entire amount, which is why we reduced it from 1.2 million to about 500,000, there could be an opportunity to reduce this line item some, because we won't need all of those contracts.

1526
02:12:03,470 --> 02:12:18,990
But it's hard to give you a what will our future prisoner demands needs be, because it just fluctuates so much.

1527
02:12:19,470 --> 02:12:29,150
And so I could say that we could move maybe maybe another 100 or 200,000 out of this line.

1528
02:12:29,150 --> 02:12:37,330
I don't know, that would, that would, you know, for every 80, 85,000 dollars you take out

1529
02:12:37,330 --> 02:12:46,790
you're looking at about a, you know, a 0.1% roughly, that's a ballpark figure.

1530
02:12:48,090 --> 02:12:50,050
So if you, you know, you could take,

1531
02:12:52,120 --> 02:12:56,120
if you took 100,000 out of this, you could take 0.1%

1532
02:12:56,120 --> 02:12:57,140
out of that increase.

1533
02:12:57,140 --> 02:13:07,920
and if you took 200, he'd really take about like 0.2, 2, 2, 3 somewhere in that range.

1534
02:13:08,800 --> 02:13:10,680
But we could be at 6% or 5%.

1535
02:13:10,680 --> 02:13:15,460
Yeah, you could be about 6% to 5.9 depending if you took it.

1536
02:13:16,060 --> 02:13:17,480
But it's a risk.

1537
02:13:20,100 --> 02:13:25,880
I can't tell you for certain that even if we move 50 people, I don't know sure.

1538
02:13:25,880 --> 02:13:31,340
if you could even at this point talk, not from dollar figure, but just from numbers, how

1539
02:13:31,340 --> 02:13:38,120
many people you need above 50 people on a monthly basis, because I know it fluctuates

1540
02:13:38,120 --> 02:13:40,440
with, you know, with the winner and with the summer.

1541
02:13:42,800 --> 02:13:49,880
But that's in terms of something that is going to have an appreciable impact on the budget.

1542
02:13:49,880 --> 02:14:02,940
And this number was a sliding scale move by the judge and meeting to facilitate the

1543
02:14:02,940 --> 02:14:06,500
Haskell contract and offset a line item to get us to this number.

1544
02:14:07,000 --> 02:14:09,580
I can't guarantee you that we'll spend all of it.

1545
02:14:09,740 --> 02:14:14,260
We'll spend at least 1.8 million if we keep the Haskell contract and all 50 people.

1546
02:14:14,260 --> 02:14:26,320
But there's somewhere about $500,000 in there that is for additional housing that we may not need.

1547
02:14:27,380 --> 02:14:34,520
And that could be $200,000 we need, it could be $300,000 we need.

1548
02:14:35,540 --> 02:14:42,600
And that would be a question that, again, I'm kind of saying the same thing over and over.

1549
02:14:42,600 --> 02:14:47,180
But it's a variable I can't give you at this point in time and August.

1550
02:14:49,060 --> 02:14:51,020
500,000 is a cushion.

1551
02:14:52,280 --> 02:14:59,980
You could push it down to 300,000 and see what we need to do next year with.

1552
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:17,460
With a budget amendment or something like that, if we, if we have to. But that if, if you're asking me, what line item, this is, this is the one because it's, it's, it's, it's got a bunch of, it's got some estimates that we, that we put together.

1553
02:15:18,260 --> 02:15:28,000
Okay, so for the 6.1 tax increase, and what, what's your, what's the medium value home property that you, you got the sheet you put out?

1554
02:15:28,000 --> 02:15:33,460
What you mean idea what that number is is a 200,000 in what the tax increases for a

1555
02:15:33,460 --> 02:15:34,320
200,000 dollar.

1556
02:15:34,380 --> 02:15:45,460
So for the median home value, the median home value is 154,889 dollars and that comes from

1557
02:15:50,710 --> 02:16:08,190
The annualized increase for the median home value this year would be at a 6.1 percent effective increase would be $55 and 73 cents annually.

1558
02:16:08,190 --> 02:16:09,050
And

1559
02:16:14,040 --> 02:16:26,160
so, if you're looking at somebody's escrow, like just to put it into, if someone's making a monthly mortgage and they have to pay their property tax in the escrow,

1560
02:16:27,940 --> 02:16:40,150
at that value, the monthly increase, attributable to Potter County's portion of the property taxes would be $4.64 per year.

1561
02:16:40,150 --> 02:16:51,290
for months because it's 5573 anyway okay that's on 154,000 I'll have 154,889 because

1562
02:16:51,290 --> 02:16:57,970
that is the that is the the median home value in Potter County.

1563
02:17:03,710 --> 02:17:03,870
Sierra

1564
02:17:03,870 --> 02:17:08,250
can I see one more question are you planning on since we're doing the high school

1565
02:17:08,250 --> 02:17:11,690
contract are you planning on keeping the contracts with the estimate and

1566
02:17:11,690 --> 02:17:13,810
in everybody too.

1567
02:17:17,390 --> 02:17:20,950
We're not going to do a way with them, but we don't have to pay for anything.

1568
02:17:22,550 --> 02:17:27,470
We would try to feel as many as those beds in the hospital as possible.

1569
02:17:30,150 --> 02:17:38,710
We would like to use that for our TDC ones, because once we get them there, they take them on to TDC.

1570
02:17:38,710 --> 02:17:40,950
I don't know how to worry about that.

1571
02:17:41,270 --> 02:17:42,930
Now, I didn't look to see what the number was,

1572
02:17:43,070 --> 02:17:45,190
but it was like 36 last week

1573
02:17:45,190 --> 02:17:46,770
that we had that were paper ready,

1574
02:17:46,830 --> 02:17:48,810
but we have another 67 million.

1575
02:17:49,490 --> 02:17:49,770
So.

1576
02:17:49,770 --> 02:17:52,270
Well, what is the useful weight champion to take them?

1577
02:17:52,370 --> 02:17:52,750
Come get them.

1578
02:17:53,710 --> 02:17:55,370
Well, I have 45 days to come pick them up.

1579
02:17:55,370 --> 02:17:55,890
Or five days.

1580
02:17:56,650 --> 02:17:57,670
They're pretty good about that.

1581
02:17:57,670 --> 02:17:57,990
Okay.

1582
02:17:57,990 --> 02:17:58,670
Move them out.

1583
02:17:59,170 --> 02:18:00,870
But we're the hub for their paint handle.

1584
02:18:01,090 --> 02:18:01,290
Let's see now.

1585
02:18:03,010 --> 02:18:03,370
Okay.

1586
02:18:05,470 --> 02:18:06,270
Thank you.

1587
02:18:15,470 --> 02:18:16,790
Anybody else have anything else?

1588
02:18:20,390 --> 02:18:22,190
So, Brandon, what do you want to do?

1589
02:18:25,250 --> 02:18:27,830
We're putting everything together in heaven at the meeting.

1590
02:18:28,490 --> 02:18:29,570
Say that one more time?

1591
02:18:29,630 --> 02:18:29,890
One more time?

1592
02:18:29,890 --> 02:18:29,910
One more time?

1593
02:18:29,910 --> 02:18:30,050
One more time?

1594
02:18:31,150 --> 02:18:31,430
One more time?

1595
02:18:35,370 --> 02:18:36,650
Anyone do it today?

1596
02:18:37,430 --> 02:18:38,210
Do it all today?

1597
02:18:39,490 --> 02:18:45,710
Well, I mean, the traditional route that we do is, again, the road map that

1598
02:18:45,710 --> 02:18:50,230
be historically, we've voted to adopt the budget at this meeting.

1599
02:18:50,230 --> 02:18:58,650
If the court is ready to, unless the court is ready to make any other changes or wants to

1600
02:18:58,650 --> 02:19:06,550
consider anything, I mean, the only other thing that I would say in Commissioner Coffee, you brought this up,

1601
02:19:06,610 --> 02:19:14,470
but the last meeting, you know, there's some cleanup costs that are not included in this budget,

1602
02:19:14,690 --> 02:19:16,670
and they're not included in last year's budget.

1603
02:19:16,670 --> 02:19:25,150
I don't know if we even have specifications yet of any idea of what that cost.

1604
02:19:26,490 --> 02:19:34,230
If we're looking at a large number, that would need to come out of the county contingency.

1605
02:19:34,570 --> 02:19:43,830
My suggestion or not contingency, but we have a cleanup line item already prepared to take care

1606
02:19:43,830 --> 02:19:49,690
Anything that would come up and that would just need to come out of fun balance because it's a one-time emergency expenditure

1607
02:19:50,810 --> 02:19:53,490
You wouldn't want to affect the tax rate on that

1608
02:19:56,350 --> 02:19:56,830
Okay

1609
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:06,840
But the problem with that is, I still don't have any idea what that is going to cost.

1610
02:20:08,560 --> 02:20:15,560
We, I can't make any movement into that 911 deadline because that's where we're going to have all the piles that are going to be removed.

1611
02:20:15,940 --> 02:20:21,480
That's when our deadline is. So I can't even have anybody give us an estimate until that deadline comes and goes.

1612
02:20:21,480 --> 02:20:31,100
So we know, and OEMs can go mark the pile from there we can move forward, but I can't have any movement on that to after that deadline comes and goes.

1613
02:20:33,430 --> 02:20:40,270
So if we were to go off the 6.1 budget today, we still have money in front balance.

1614
02:20:40,970 --> 02:20:44,150
Yeah, but you have to have it on a line item to spend, it does my point.

1615
02:20:44,690 --> 02:20:53,010
And so just because you have, you know, you have $45 million left at the end of the year, you can't spend any of it if you don't have a appropriated line item.

1616
02:20:53,010 --> 02:21:00,350
And so my suggestion is before we adopt the budget that we have some kind of number there

1617
02:21:00,350 --> 02:21:07,270
because once you look that in, I mean, I'm just saying if clean up cost $1,000,000 and you ask me

1618
02:21:07,270 --> 02:21:12,110
where it's going to come from, I'm not going to be able to tell, I'm not going to be able to pull

1619
02:21:12,110 --> 02:21:16,630
that number out of thin air because our county contingency, you need a motion to prove the

1620
02:21:16,630 --> 02:21:45,130
It would need to be an additional line item to, I would say, you know, that you need a motion for a certain amount of money to cover some clean up out in the county related to the stinking fire, and it would be a new line item that would be created, and you need to do it now, not after the budget is adopted.

1621
02:21:45,130 --> 02:21:49,810
So, what would you propose $500,000 or a million?

1622
02:21:50,450 --> 02:21:56,850
I would propose, because it's going to come out of fun balance anyways, that you just put a million dollars there.

1623
02:21:58,510 --> 02:22:01,410
And if you don't spend it, you don't spend it.

1624
02:22:01,850 --> 02:22:03,710
It doesn't affect your tax rate calculation.

1625
02:22:04,310 --> 02:22:11,450
It literally just allows you to pull into your savings for what you need.

1626
02:22:13,130 --> 02:22:19,230
I guess my only concern is that if it ends up even being more than that, I mean, I know

1627
02:22:19,910 --> 02:22:26,290
we've, there's, there are concerns about some, some hazmat material, and there's what could

1628
02:22:26,290 --> 02:22:31,310
drive the price up on that, and that's why I was, I was hopeful by this meeting, we would

1629
02:22:31,310 --> 02:22:38,610
have some kind of, one of my trying to say, all part figure, estimate.

1630
02:22:42,400 --> 02:22:51,640
And so that's the only other, I guess, big item is that, well, you know, if we're going to

1631
02:22:51,640 --> 02:22:58,140
have to be responsible for this, we really do need some kind of a line item to take care

1632
02:22:58,140 --> 02:23:05,000
the cleanup out of flood balance and we need that in the budget before you adopt it.

1633
02:23:07,480 --> 02:23:08,460
Does your work that motion?

1634
02:23:08,760 --> 02:23:08,880
Okay.

1635
02:23:09,620 --> 02:23:12,920
I mean, we take a million dollars out of the fund balance and add it to a line out of

1636
02:23:12,920 --> 02:23:16,420
the budget for this year for cleanup for the station fire.

1637
02:23:17,140 --> 02:23:17,460
Second.

1638
02:23:18,040 --> 02:23:23,960
Have a motion and a second on favoration and on post that passes five to zero.

1639
02:23:23,960 --> 02:23:30,080
The action, do you think there's any way that, because of the ongoing investigation

1640
02:23:30,080 --> 02:23:35,940
on this, that the city may be not the best I'm talking about, this was not I'm happy

1641
02:23:35,940 --> 02:23:41,700
with you saying we'll talk about later, but for us to recover any of these funds, obviously

1642
02:23:42,840 --> 02:23:43,320
the...

1643
02:23:44,220 --> 02:23:49,680
It's a possibility, but it'll just be speculating at this point, and it is probably something

1644
02:23:49,680 --> 02:23:54,480
better if there's a claim that we take that up in executive session.

1645
02:24:01,720 --> 02:24:07,020
So right now, we have the proposed budget to keep the ball moving forward.

1646
02:24:07,080 --> 02:24:10,000
We need to adopt it today, I think that's Brandon's goal.

1647
02:24:11,440 --> 02:24:16,020
So if we can either vote on it or if there are other changes that the court wants to discuss,

1648
02:24:16,200 --> 02:24:18,620
we can take those out.

1649
02:24:23,990 --> 02:24:31,230
Do you have a motion for it to accept the proposed budget 6.1?

1650
02:24:32,350 --> 02:24:32,690
Correct.

1651
02:24:33,110 --> 02:24:38,610
The number the budget at amount would be 94 million 901-273.

1652
02:24:40,820 --> 02:24:41,600
To that again.

1653
02:24:42,180 --> 02:24:45,100
94 million 901-273.

1654
02:24:58,250 --> 02:24:59,110
That's your motion duration.

1655
02:25:06,260 --> 02:25:12,100
I'm moved there. We accept the budget. 94 million, not a one, two, 73.

1656
02:25:14,620 --> 02:25:20,940
So, have a motion and a second. All in favor. Raise your hand.

1657
02:25:22,300 --> 02:25:23,200
SS5-0.

1658
02:25:25,160 --> 02:25:25,420
All right.

1659
02:25:27,990 --> 02:25:44,670
The second item would be to propose a property tax rate. Again, we're going to have

1660
02:25:55,540 --> 02:25:59,260
I would like you to propose a M&O rate.

1661
02:26:00,300 --> 02:26:03,460
I'm going to ask you to propose three numbers.

1662
02:26:06,760 --> 02:26:14,520
Maintenance and operations rate of 5.5, 8.5, 9.0.

1663
02:26:16,600 --> 02:26:19,280
So that again, 4.585.

1664
02:26:19,880 --> 02:26:20,200
90.

1665
02:26:22,550 --> 02:26:27,670
A debt service rate of 0.03.

1666
02:26:28,990 --> 02:26:30,440
6.7.8.

1667
02:26:46,680 --> 02:26:46,920
4.0.

1668
02:26:47,380 --> 02:26:50,600
0.585.90.

1669
02:26:56,510 --> 02:26:57,370
You should 9.0.

1670
02:26:58,050 --> 02:26:58,610
Yes, sir.

1671
02:26:59,470 --> 02:27:04,190
And then the total tax rate is just the sum of those two.

1672
02:27:04,190 --> 02:27:08,690
and it's 0.6226-8.

1673
02:27:20,760 --> 02:27:22,380
Good job, I need a motion of that.

1674
02:27:22,960 --> 02:27:28,720
I'm moved to approve of the proposed maintenance rate at 0.58593.

1675
02:27:29,380 --> 02:27:32,980
In an old rate at 0.58590,

1676
02:27:33,760 --> 02:27:36,900
desk service rate at 0.03678.

1677
02:27:37,600 --> 02:27:41,400
For effective tax rate at 0.62628.

1678
02:27:42,440 --> 02:27:44,760
Correction, that's 0.62268.

1679
02:27:45,000 --> 02:27:45,420
One more time.

1680
02:27:45,800 --> 02:27:47,600
Six, two, two, six, eight.

1681
02:27:47,900 --> 02:27:48,760
Oh, sorry.

1682
02:27:50,200 --> 02:27:52,660
Six, two, two, six, eight.

1683
02:27:52,660 --> 02:27:53,140
That's right.

1684
02:28:00,120 --> 02:28:02,900
And I just want to make sure that we got this for the record.

1685
02:28:03,600 --> 02:28:07,580
So your motionless to approve the MNO at 0.58590,

1686
02:28:08,500 --> 02:28:13,580
debt service 0.03670 for a total tax rate of 0.62268.

1687
02:28:14,640 --> 02:28:15,180
Is that correct?

1688
02:28:15,480 --> 02:28:15,740
Correct.

1689
02:28:15,740 --> 02:28:18,280
Okay. Did you want to know?

1690
02:28:20,000 --> 02:28:21,220
Is that the, oh yeah?

1691
02:28:21,240 --> 02:28:21,920
Yeah, I got the imminent.

1692
02:28:24,240 --> 02:28:26,940
Okay. Have a motion. Do I have a second?

1693
02:28:28,200 --> 02:28:28,480
Second?

1694
02:28:29,000 --> 02:28:31,460
Have a motion. Second? All in favor.

1695
02:28:31,900 --> 02:28:32,400
Raise your hand.

1696
02:28:34,640 --> 02:28:35,640
Move in that passes.

1697
02:28:37,180 --> 02:28:37,480
Okay.

1698
02:28:39,120 --> 02:28:44,760
The next thing that we have to do is just announce that we have to set the

1699
02:28:44,760 --> 02:28:55,840
date time in place for the public hearing on the tax rate, the tax increase, and then set the date time in place for the vote on the tax rate.

1700
02:28:58,300 --> 02:29:01,680
And we typically both do these at the same meeting.

1701
02:29:02,580 --> 02:29:09,160
The, that would be September 14th official report at 9 a.m.

1702
02:29:09,760 --> 02:29:19,340
If you do not vote on, at this, at the public hearing that we hope to have the tax rate,

1703
02:29:20,760 --> 02:29:23,580
we would have to re-post the meeting.

1704
02:29:25,500 --> 02:29:26,420
So just be aware.

1705
02:29:27,200 --> 02:29:27,500
Okay.

1706
02:29:36,130 --> 02:29:38,230
Is there anything else we need to do today, Brandon?

1707
02:29:40,190 --> 02:29:42,390
Nope, that's all I had.

1708
02:29:47,530 --> 02:29:48,950
So if we're done, we're done.

1709
02:29:50,750 --> 02:29:52,310
We are adjourned.