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[8:45] » Good morning everyone. Today is January 14, 2026. We are in a regular meeting of

[8:52] the Prescidio County Commissioner's Court. We are at the courthouse in

[8:58] Marfa, Texas. If I could please ask um Miss Katano to verify a form.

[9:07] present.

[9:18] » No, he's not on.

[9:24] » Thank you so much. If you would stand for the pledge of

[9:26] » allegiance to the flag of the United States of

[9:31] America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible

[9:39] with liberty and justice for all.

[9:47] So we'll open it up now for public comments. if you would please introduce

[9:52] yourselves and tell us where you're from and you have five minutes.

[9:58] » Robert Davis Martha Sales I'm here again Dr. Rose in South Judge. This is my

[10:06] fourth visit to the commissioner board. I've spoken with many including yourself

[10:11] and private in public on the phone to get prepared in the street. Not exactly

[10:18] sure what's going on, but I think this is exceedingly ridiculous.

[10:24] Commissioner called me himself, didn't you? And you asked me which street. I

[10:30] said all the streets. You also said, commissioner, that the crew said they

[10:35] were coming out in two or three days. They never showed up. They did come with

[10:40] a maintainer. They dumped some sand on Columbia Street with a maintainer. So,

[10:46] the sand blew away. You know, I'm not here about the the sand. I'm not here

[10:52] about the maintainer. I'm not here about street. I'm here about the potholes. I'm

[10:58] hoping that maybe this is the time that somebody will send Mr. Caras out and

[11:04] fill the pothole, please. Thank you. Thank you. Any other public comments?

[11:12] Any public comments? Anybody in the virtual world?

[11:18] All right, we'll move on to uh our routine agenda items. Agenda item

[11:24] number one, discuss and take action to approve budget amendments andor line

[11:28] item trans. >> Yes, you have both.

[11:31] » Okay.

[11:34] » The veterans affairs office uh to furniture and equipment $8104

[11:40] for the commissioner's medical insurance. This is Commissioner

[11:43] Heisler's uh insurance contribution amount and this is to cover a purchase

[11:48] of a laptop. Uh the next was to the non-depaler

[11:54] burials $400 from autopsies and this is to cover the

[11:59] indigenation invoice. Uh the last one was to the tax office $1,296

[12:07] from other services and this is to cover the overdrawing overtime account.

[12:13] Those are the line. Okay. >> Any any questions?

[12:18] I move we accept the five item transfers as presented.

[12:23] » A second. >> I have a motion and a second. All in

[12:25] favor? >> Thank you.

[12:28] » Okay. I do have one budget amendment. The budget amendments for the Presidio

[12:32] airport uh enter into an airport project

[12:37] agreement with Texas on December 13, 2023 for the development of the city of

[12:42] Levi International Airport. The construction project will replace visual

[12:47] approach slope indicator. The original agreement was $45,000 from state funds

[12:53] and 45,000 to come from the county. The project has had an increase of 260,62

[13:00] uh dollars and an amendment to the original agreement has been approved.

[13:05] The new amount for construction is 310,100.

[13:10] Changing the county's contribution to 71,10.

[13:14] The county had paid Texas $45,000. An additional $26,10 will need to be paid

[13:20] to cover the new match amount. This is an unbudgeted item and budget amendment

[13:26] from the airport's fund balance in the amount of $26,10

[13:30] is required. You guys have approved this amendment

[13:35] the previous commission. >> The last special meeting.

[13:38] » Madam Auditor, um you're saying the project had an increase of $260,62,

[13:48] » but we're only adding an additional two 26,10,

[13:54] » right? uh we had already paid back 45 original amount and then with the

[13:59] revision it increased to the 7610. >> Okay.

[14:04] » So that's why we already pay the $26,000.

[14:08] » It's 10% of $200,000.

[14:15] » I move that we approve the budget amendments as presented.

[14:22] » I have a motion. >> A second.

[14:23] » And I have a second. All in favor? I >> I.

[14:28] » Agenda item number two, discuss and take action to approve the auditor's monthly

[14:33] report. >> Yes, sir. Uh I just wanted to mention

[14:37] that the Prescid the Presidio County Airport

[14:42] had a limited tax notes. Uh they were issued in 2018 and the final payment was

[14:49] done on December of 2025. The amount issued for the tax notes had

[14:56] been originally $418,000. So that's been a paid off.

[15:02] » Great. >> Congratulations. Great news for them.

[15:07] Alicia, um I'm starting to get concerned about the jail

[15:12] and clearly each monthly auditor's report

[15:19] shows that we're in trouble with the jail.

[15:23] » Uh I don't think their revenues are catching up to their expenses.

[15:27] So it's just important to keep track of what's coming in.

[15:35] So do we feel that are they going to go over the budget too?

[15:40] » They may not go over their budgeted amounts but it's just uh if they keep as

[15:45] they are they should be right at where they budgeted in case uh I just want to

[15:51] remind that you have to say budget for the jail. So if they spend more than

[15:56] what they they presented for revenues then they

[16:00] will have to come back to the commissioners for and request that

[16:03] difference. >> Okay.

[16:09] So right now there's not a concern with the current budget.

[16:12] » Now with the current budget it's just that eventually if they don't catch up

[16:17] to what they're expending uh the court will have to look at some solutions for

[16:22] the jail. >> And have you been

[16:24] approach that there is a plan to catch up with or anything? No, ma'am.

[16:29] » Yeah, it's it's basically based on volume and we're at the

[16:32] » we're at the at the uh >> I mean we're tethered to whatever the

[16:37] federal government decides. If they want to send if they want to send 10, they

[16:41] send 10. If they want to send 140, they send 140. But

[16:46] » um >> I think we're at 30.

[16:48] » Yeah. >> Yeah. My understanding is they're just

[16:51] not >> Yeah. the the prisoners out there to at

[16:57] this time to to get enough. It's kind, you know, I'll

[17:01] » Is that a good thing >> in a sense? I'll speak to this a little

[17:06] bit that okay >> it's kind of a double-edged sword

[17:09] because I was here when we didn't have the jail and we spent quite a bit of

[17:13] money a huge amount of money sending prisoners to other

[17:18] » I don't know I and I honestly don't know the answer but I do know that it was a

[17:24] big deal to constantly have some a deputy on the road with two or three

[17:28] prisoners to go to to Sarah Blanca I believe is where we were putting them at

[17:32] the time and the loss of his time in the county plus

[17:38] the time to go take it plus the cost of prisoners there.

[17:42] » Yeah. >> It's again it's sort of a double-edged

[17:46] sword. Do we keep a jail or do we >> I don't know.

[17:50] » Oh yeah. >> If I knew that I would be the something

[17:54] else besides just in here. >> Well, it's already 120 mile round trip

[17:59] if you're if you're a South County, >> right?

[18:01] » And now tack on Van Horn. Now you're looking at 240 mile round trip.

[18:07] » Uh so >> at one time I had to make a double trip

[18:10] to San >> and he took my whole day shift. You know

[18:14] I went and took one when I came in came back they had another one back came

[18:18] back. >> Yeah.

[18:20] » Yeah. I'm not proposing we get rid of the jail. I'm just wondering

[18:25] » I'm starting to see those numbers and I'm like concerned that hopefully they

[18:30] can stay within the budget. I I don't know and I'm going to

[18:34] speculate here. There's uh the uh federal government uh HSI every

[18:42] all of them. They're they're diverted to other states right now. So it may not it

[18:46] may be that there's not that much enforcement

[18:49] » in Texas and and and for the federal courouses in Texas.

[18:53] » Okay. >> So I think that could be one reason.

[18:56] Could it change? Yeah. I think there's just a lot of things going on.

[19:01] » Hopefully. >> How do you hope for more criminals?

[19:05] » Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Right. >> So, so we're on agenda item number two,

[19:11] the auditor's monthly report. >> I'm going to move that we approve the

[19:14] auditor's monthly report as presented. >> Second.

[19:18] » I have a motion and second. All in favor?

[19:20] » I. >> Agenda item. Thank you so much, Miss

[19:23] Sanchez. Uh discuss agenda item number three discuss and take action to approve

[19:28] the treasur's list of claims and bills. >> Good morning, Commissioner Judge. Um

[19:35] » good morning. >> So the the general fund right now is we

[19:41] started off at the beginning of beginning of December at 925,4268.

[19:49] The debits and withdrawals out of that account was 897,482

[19:56] and5. The receipts, the money coming into that account was 1,229,34.31.

[20:05] So the ending balance in December was 1,257,248.34.

[20:14] The bank account as of today this morning um the general bank account is

[20:21] 2,152,684

[20:25] with85. Our

[20:29] um savings account at Marfa National Bank beginning balance of December was

[20:35] 863,46.19

[20:39] with an ending balance of 863,48426

[20:45] which the interest was $78.7. Um, payroll for December was 325,381.58

[20:55] and payroll for January 2nd um is

[21:03] or was $16782.97

[21:09] and we're working on payroll for Friday and the amount for bills is $159,74053.

[21:18] 3 cents and I believe there was an adjustment at the very end. I don't know

[21:21] if Alicia wants to talk about that adjustment.

[21:28] Okay. So, we did I did an adjustment for a delinquent account demand letter from

[21:34] Texog on a cash project. I believe the project started in 2017 and was done in

[21:42] 2019. Uh, I think Texa got an audit and they

[21:46] found that the county from their their original

[21:51] uh amount that we had to pay still owed the $4,000

[22:00] $4,245.

[22:04] So, we have received a credit from another project. So, I took this money.

[22:08] I'm taking the that pay this unbudgeted invoice out of that fun receipt. I spoke

[22:15] to the judge and he's had a conversation with some people on text. So, if the

[22:20] court wants us to hold on paying this invoice, we're okay doing that as long

[22:25] as it's not over maybe a couple weeks so that we're not as good. Nothing can be

[22:29] fixed on that. >> Yeah. I guess my and this is uh on that

[22:35] uh safe streets uh grant that was awarded. I want to say the total was $9

[22:40] million in sidewalk projects for the city at the time. And it was something

[22:45] it was a it was a no-brainer. It was like 4 cents

[22:50] 4 cents uh uh a 4 cent investment. But when this first started and I want

[22:57] to say they call it but anyway uh so uh I had forgotten that the county

[23:05] had this is back when judge she participated the county participated

[23:10] and they took a portion of projects and I think it was bled so to O'Reilly.

[23:16] » Yes. >> Yes.

[23:17] » Yeah. So then there was like five total projects where they put sidewalks in and

[23:23] uh but as we were moving along uh the way Tex lot was doing it they were

[23:29] saying well you guys pay for engineering services and pay for this and pay for

[23:34] that and and it got really convoluted and along those lines this is back in

[23:38] 2017 so I'm still a little mucky uh but I recall them saying you know what we're

[23:44] having too many poems we're bogging down progress rest. Let Tech do go ahead and

[23:49] take care of everything for so forget about this stuff. We're going to use

[23:52] people we already have contracts with engineers. Let's just use our staff

[23:55] engineers that we have contracts with and we'll do away with. So I guess my

[24:00] biggest question with text and I'm not throwing rocks on because this is a

[24:04] great project. Uh but now you come after the fact, what's it been eight years,

[24:08] nine years and you're like oh audit audit uncovered that you guys are

[24:13] delinquent. So, I kind of I kind of I I guess I'm just more frustrated that than

[24:18] than anything that that it was that it's so late in the game and so many years

[24:23] have passed and documents get shredded at two years, four years, five years. We

[24:28] started the RCI program. This is going to be one I suspect it's going to be one

[24:32] of the projects where we've already shredded whatever documents we have. I

[24:37] suspect the city of Palio, they do the same thing. I suspect their documents

[24:40] are going to be gone. So there's really no way for us to go and contest them. I

[24:45] did speak with the city administrator in Presidio. We do have a meeting tomorrow

[24:49] with textile. Uh our portion is not that much. It's $4,000. Now we don't want to

[24:53] be throwing money out the window, but I believe the city of Picidio, they're

[24:57] they're trying to back claim I think it's $84,000.

[25:01] » 44,000. >> Yeah. So uh and and obviously you guys

[25:06] are already you guys are on fumes. Uh, so for you guys to come up with that

[25:10] money would really stink. So

[25:14] » So we're just going to ask them to give us a little more support documentation.

[25:19] » I think that's I think that's exactly the plan is is okay, your auditor found

[25:23] this and now you're and and we want you to show us, right? Show us and tell us,

[25:28] you know, um, you know, hold my hand and walk me through this.

[25:31] » Uh, because right now I think what they should do is just forgive the debt.

[25:35] » Absolutely. Um, so, so here's and and I think uh

[25:41] Miss Sanchez's concern is that there's a demand letter and she doesn't want it to

[25:45] affect and I agree. I don't want it to affect future grants. We have a great

[25:49] working relationship with textile. Uh, so I mean I don't want to uh but but I

[25:55] do think it's justified for at least at least for us to to go and have a

[25:59] conversation with them.

[26:06] I'm going to move that we approve the treasures list of claims and buildings

[26:11] with the exception of the text. Grant reimbursement amount.

[26:19] » Second. I have a motion and a second. Uh and I guess you could hold on to that,

[26:24] Miss Sanchez. Yeah. And yeah.

[26:30] » Okay. And all in favor? >> I.

[26:32] » Thank you so much. >> Thank you.

[26:34] » Agenda. You're welcome. Agenda item number four.

[26:38] Discuss and take action to approve the treasures monthly report.

[26:48] Oh, okay. Sorry. I gave my hush bill um at the beginning of bills, but I'll go

[26:56] over the general fund the checking >> um the ending balance.

[27:03] » I don't think that's necessary for >> I'm going to move that we approve the

[27:08] treasurer's monthly report as presented. >> Okay. Do I have a motion?

[27:14] » Second. All in favor? >> I.

[27:17] » Thank you. Agenda item number five, discuss and

[27:21] take action to approve the previous commissioner's court minutes. Uh, and

[27:25] it's for number A, December 10th, 2025. And I think that's the one that that um

[27:32] needed some slight modifications. >> No, this is

[27:35] » No, this is a new one. Okay. Um, I'm going to move that we approve uh the

[27:41] previous commissioner's court minutes for December 10th, 2025.

[27:47] » Okay. I'll say >> I have a motion and second. All in

[27:50] favor? >> I.

[27:52] » And agenda item number six, updates from the Lonear Strategy.

[27:57] » Good morning, judge. Good morning, Commissioner. So, on your report, you'll

[28:00] find uh HP 3000. Uh for those that aren't in the task force that is being

[28:06] led by Commissioner Heiser, and I know she will get into it later in the

[28:10] agenda. Uh HB3000 is a county grant and basically it's House Bill 3000, Texas

[28:17] House Bill 3000 that was presented by Representative Pen King, District 88 in

[28:23] the panhandle. Uh then uh approved and signed by Governor Greg Abbott. It's

[28:29] basically these funds that are being allocated for rural counties and uh it's

[28:34] allowing these rural counties to be able to purchase an ambulance. And I say

[28:39] ambulance, we'll probably get into that later, but uh Presto County qualifies

[28:45] for $500,000. Um and that's pretty much uh kind of the

[28:50] synopsis of it. It is due on January 31st and it is only a one-time grant

[28:56] award. >> I don't know if there's any question

[29:01] » questions, any updates on the meetings. I think we

[29:06] discussed it last round, but please >> Yeah, absolutely. So, we have our next

[29:10] meeting on the 19th, and everyone is always welcome to come to these

[29:14] meetings. I feel like we're we're we're doing some good work. Um, uh, I want to

[29:20] thank Ramon and Karina for getting the initial grant application in. And in

[29:26] that grant application, we did uh propose for both the Martha EMS and the

[29:32] Prescidio EMS to to receive an ambulance. Um you know, I believe the

[29:38] judge has pointed out numerous times that we just have the first set of

[29:42] rules. I and Ramon have been writing uh emails to the rules committee asking

[29:50] specific questions um because in talking with other EMS providers that were

[29:57] involved in the very language that the legislature approved at that point in

[30:04] time, they were pointing out that some counties do have two providers and that

[30:10] this was going to create a real issue in some counties. if we could only award it

[30:15] to one of the providers. Um so that's kind of the questions we're trying to

[30:21] get to the bottom of judge is is um can that that 500,000 just be awarded to

[30:29] Prescidio County. We split it in half. We give 250,000 to Presidio, 250,000 to

[30:36] Marfa. We have received bids from both Prescidio and Marfa and they are under

[30:42] their 250,000 to do um a refurbishing of their big

[30:48] ambulance big box. I don't know that Marfa got creative with theirs, but I

[30:53] don't think it's going to be acceptable. So, we asked them to please do a big box

[30:57] refer. Um I am reaching now Ramon. I started this morning into um uh

[31:07] Representative Morales and Senator Blanco to see if they can help us move

[31:12] the rules committee forward in answering that question before our meeting on the

[31:18] 19th. Um, so either it will be a smooth uh here you go, everyone's happy or

[31:27] we're going to have to make a difficult decision, you know, on which of the

[31:30] entities get that. Um, we can talk about the interlocal agreement because it's an

[31:37] agenda item later, but um, I do feel it's going real well. Um,

[31:44] I'm going to call you city council woman uh Bion is also on the task force

[31:49] committee and she's here today. Thank you for coming.

[31:55] » So, and that was just an update. I guess we're just we'll just move on to agenda

[31:59] item number seven. >> You bet. So, agenda item number seven

[32:04] and and I'm going to ask because I'm looking I'm seeing Miss Moratori sitting

[32:09] over there patiently >> and I'd hate to take up I already know

[32:13] she's got a full plate. I don't know if uh if we want to go ahead and and u move

[32:23] on to hers. >> I'm good with come back.

[32:28] » I'm totally good with that. puts us out a little bit, but

[32:31] » sounds good. So, we'll move on to agenda item number 13, discussion with action

[32:37] to add a road add roadway grasslands way, which is located off Blackberg Road

[32:42] to the Master Street, addressing the uh MSAG database, and there's actually four

[32:50] of them that have action items.

[32:57] So there's Okay, I guess you're gonna do you want to go one by one or is it one

[33:02] project? >> I'd like to leave that up to you guys

[33:05] how you want to proceed with that. >> I'll I'll seek the uh the opinion of our

[33:11] of our clerk. >> Okay. So we've got four agenda items at

[33:15] number 13, 14, 15, and 16. Number 13 is as Grassland's Way located off Blackberg

[33:22] Road. Number 14 is King Street, West Washington. And number 15 is White

[33:29] Street, uh, off of created off King Street. And number 16, uh, is that a

[33:37] typo? North or is it like north? >> It is a little typo.

[33:41] » Okay. Yes, sir. >> That's fine. I do it all the time. North

[33:45] Missouri Street to uh uh West Second Street.

[33:50] » Okay. >> Okay. And to kick it off, so Grassland's

[33:52] Way, this is out on the Hippo and I came probably last year at some point for

[33:58] Blackwood, right? >> Um it was the first of the roadways

[34:01] added onto the ranch so that we could then address the headquarters and so on

[34:06] and so forth. I think they even have a couple of BRB type places out there.

[34:11] This will be a different roadway. And if you see, I don't know if you were

[34:16] provided the maps that I created for this. Um, I can even pass it around if I

[34:20] need to. Um, so grasslands is what we're adding. This will issue this will give

[34:27] me the ability to issue an address for the Foreman's residence. Okay. Another

[34:33] aspect to adding this roadway. This gives us really good road loop for fire

[34:38] or any kind of emergency mitigation we may have to to do out there. So, um,

[34:45] these guys have been amazing. Actually, this is one of the only ranches that is

[34:50] calling me because they're worried about my reward. They want to be found. They

[34:54] want if there is a fire, they want to make sure everybody knows where the

[34:57] roads are, things like that. So, I like to commend those. Take that situation

[35:02] seriously. So, that's the first one. >> I was actually out on that road a couple

[35:08] weeks ago and >> a good road. it it's a great road, but

[35:13] they they really do need the signage for 911. So, I was happy to see this on the

[35:19] agenda. >> Absolutely. And this, you know, this

[35:21] will be part of your dispatch maps also. And I'll touch on this in a moment, the

[35:25] Eagle View platform that I've given everybody in government access to that

[35:30] has all these road names on it, too. And so, if we have law enforcement, fire,

[35:34] EMS that's using the app on their phone, they can navigate to these places using

[35:39] this. So, Very full sub. Do we want to approve one by one or approve as

[35:46] » pro? Probably one by one. >> One by one.

[35:49] » Uh and um >> let me think.

[35:54] » This is a private road. >> Yes sir.

[35:57] » That will have public access. >> Um this has nothing to do with access.

[36:02] This is simply to add this to my data. Correct. This is still a private private

[36:07] uh ownership. Absolutely. If there's ever a conversation about ownership,

[36:13] maintenance, anything like that, it ain't going to be with me. That's going

[36:16] to be a separate issue. >> And I don't think they're asking for

[36:21] that now. >> Not at all. Not at all. And if anybody

[36:24] ever does ask me, I say that isn't a question for me. Please go ask your

[36:28] commissioners. So, >> so that was that's agenda item number

[36:31] 13. Discussion with action to add a roadway, Grasslands Way. It's located

[36:36] off Blackbird Road uh to the Master Street according to the MSAG database.

[36:42] Discussion or motion? >> I move that we approve item 13, the

[36:48] addition of Grassland Way as presented. >> Second.

[36:51] » I have a motion and second. All in favor?

[36:53] » I. >> Agenda item number 14, discussion with

[36:57] action to add roadway King Street, which is located off West Washington Street,

[37:02] to the MSAG database. >> All right. And I'll pass this one around

[37:06] too. This is a subdivision just west of town. It's not a true subdivision,

[37:11] right, by lot size. >> However, there are certain lots that

[37:15] will be accessed by these new roadways, but they are already cut.

[37:19] » Um, this is just the process to add those roadways, make sure those road

[37:23] names are unique and that we can provide addressing based off of those roadways.

[37:28] » Did you say south of or is it east? West of town over here.

[37:36] » West Washington. Okay. >> Yep. The very end of it.

[37:41] Okay. >> It's out there. It's north of the

[37:43] tracks. So where Washington follows the tracks and then comes south across the

[37:49] tracks. >> Right.

[37:50] » North of that is where we're >> This is the whole Quattro, right?

[37:54] » Yes, it is. Okay. Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am.

[37:56] » And he has been working with uh Mrs. part

[38:00] » on on all of the details and everything. So,

[38:03] » but this is one step that they were missing and and needed to come to me for

[38:09] » and I'll state the obvious. You're you're double-checking that the street

[38:13] street names aren't conflicting with anything.

[38:15] » That is correct. I'm very strict about >> I find it interesting the name.

[38:20] » If you get one that goes to the wrong street name,

[38:24] » that's an issue. And I I believe your sister has experienced that down in

[38:27] Prescidio, right? Texas versus Texas. Which which one do we go to? Right.

[38:32] Yeah. >> So that is extremely important to us.

[38:35] » Not using matching names. >> Real Brand Street. Real Grand Road.

[38:38] That's what >> First Street with an F. First Street

[38:41] with a one. >> There's an intersection of First and

[38:43] First.

[38:47] » Yeah. >> So yeah, UPS doesn't like this. No,

[38:51] we're running. >> So, that's agenda item number 14. It's

[38:55] the discussion with action to roadway King Street, which is located off West

[39:00] Washington Street. >> I move we add King Street to the MAG

[39:07] database and item 14 is presented. >> I have a motion. Second. All in favor? I

[39:14] » was that name requested by the owner or did you

[39:17] » That was a request. If it unmatched, it doesn't match.

[39:20] » Yep. >> Thank you.

[39:22] » Yes, ma'am. >> Exactly.

[39:25] » Agenda item number 15, discussion with action to add roadway White Street

[39:31] located off the newly created King Street.

[39:34] » Okay. And I'll pass around the little map on this one, too.

[39:38] » Pretty self-explanatory. That's correct. You'll see a little snippet of it on

[39:41] that other one. Um, again, this is >> additional access for the other lots

[39:46] that that are being Are there quite a few lots? Do you have

[39:51] any? >> I want to say in the neighborhood of

[39:54] eight. Yeah, something like that. It's not a whole lot, but it is necessary.

[39:58] Right. Right. And especially for certificate of compliance and everything

[40:01] that comes after this. Can't get any of that without an address. So,

[40:05] » but we can't have an address till we have a road.

[40:09] » The road is like the foundation of a house, right?

[40:12] » Can't build without it. I'd like to make a motion that we

[40:18] approve the addition of roadway White Street

[40:22] um located off the newly created King Street to the MSA database.

[40:29] » I'll second. >> I have a motion and a second. All in

[40:33] favor? >> I. Agenda item number 16, discussion

[40:37] with action to extend North Missouri Street,

[40:42] uh, which will extend south past the intersection of North Missouri Street,

[40:46] West Second Street. >> Okay, here's the image of that.

[40:51] This is not a city road. I know that North Missouri is in the city of Mara,

[40:56] right? That is not what we're doing here. But to give it a different name is

[41:00] illogical, right? Totally illogical. So, we're going to continue with a name that

[41:04] already exists, but this is their private road. This is not This has

[41:10] nothing to do with the city. We're just continuing that street name down south.

[41:16] Not very far either.

[41:25] I'm going to move we extend North Missouri Street which will

[41:32] extend south past the intersection North Missouri Street West 2nd Street in the

[41:37] MSAG database. >> Second

[41:40] » motion second. All in favor? >> I

[41:43] » and then um number seven >> hard work on all that things right.

[41:48] » Yeah. Uh, as always, you have your ducks in a row. We appreciate it. So, uh,

[41:54] agenda item number 17, discussion only, and just program updates.

[41:58] » Yes, sir. So, I have a few. I'll try to keep it brief. Um, first and foremost,

[42:03] my title has changed. I am now considered the 911 GIS manager. Still

[42:07] the coordinator for the three counties that I already serve, but I'm now the

[42:11] data management for all five. So, my responsibilities have expanded somewhat.

[42:16] Um, bear with me when you call for a request.

[42:20] Um, right now, and I think I touched on this with you a little bit earlier,

[42:24] Judge, we are in the midst of migrating our data over to the latest and greatest

[42:29] mapping software. With this move over, I am having to divert all of my requests

[42:36] to our coordinator in Hudsmith County. Her name is Annie Brightenstein. So,

[42:41] anybody submitting requests to me right now, they're going to get a response

[42:43] from her. Um, we've had to do this. It's probably going on a month now and it's

[42:49] going to continue for a minute. I'm having to write code and create systems

[42:53] that will automate my workflows. It'll enable me

[42:57] to display our maps online so the public can actually see them for themselves,

[43:03] which will be tremendously helpful. Then furthermore, we're working towards an

[43:08] online request form so that you can even sit on your couch in your bathrobe and

[43:13] request your address. Right? So all of those changes are desperately needed.

[43:17] We've needed that for years and years and years. But it takes one person to

[43:22] sit down and navigate it and make it all work and that person is me. So we are

[43:26] right now about a month behind with our request. I full disclosure on that,

[43:30] right? Not much I can do about it. We have one person issuing for five

[43:34] counties right now. So just if you're getting calls commissioners and judge

[43:39] about that lady takes forever, you know why it is a legitimate um workflow right

[43:45] now that's just taking us a while. So um another thing and I I mentioned this a

[43:51] moment ago, Eagle View. I'm going to continue to talk about Eagle View

[43:54] anytime I walk into commissioner court, city council, anything like that. Eagle

[43:58] View. For those that don't know, I I do believe Commissioner Heisler uses it.

[44:02] Um, this platform is access to my maps. So, what your dispatch is seeing, I also

[44:09] have on there CAD parcels, voting precines, you know, anything that we

[44:15] hold the data for, it's going to be on there. So, I encourage anybody within

[44:20] government, it's government only. If if you have someone approaching you, wanted

[44:24] to talk about locations, things like that, get on the get on the site, check

[44:27] it out. And if you need access to that, just holler at me and let me know. I'd

[44:32] be happy to get everybody on there. Another thing I'm working on right now,

[44:36] um, and I don't know how it's going. It's kind of in limbo, 5050. We are

[44:40] trying to purchase the GLLO grid data, the block in section that is real,

[44:48] right? the actual corners for for where these these blocks and sections meet.

[44:54] It's a massive data set. I can't just cherry pick the counties I want. It's

[44:58] going to be from West Texas to Oklahoma and even parts of New Mexico. It's the

[45:02] entire thing. It's the whole basin really. So, it's it's a bit of a a

[45:08] situation to navigate for me to actually get a hold of that. We're working on

[45:12] that. I fully intend on sharing that with your CAD so that we can maybe make

[45:16] some alignments, right? so that we understand where the proper block

[45:20] insection actually is and we're not poking around in the dark. Okay.

[45:25] » Um >> Casey, can I hold you up on the eagle

[45:28] view? >> Yes.

[45:29] » Um yeah, I'm familiar with it, but um you're overwhelmed. Annie's overwhelmed.

[45:35] If >> one of us would want to have more

[45:38] training, would it be good to work with the appraisal district's new GIS mapper

[45:45] or who would you suggest? >> The GIS mapper. Yeah,

[45:48] » that is news to me. I can't wait to dive into that. Um, so we can actually set up

[45:54] a training with Eagle. >> Okay, good.

[45:56] » We can do that if and what I would do is just email out all of my end users

[46:02] » and let them know, hey, I have a training coming up on this date

[46:05] » and anybody wanting to join it would be virtual, you know, and so, okay,

[46:10] » we can certainly do that. Let me write myself a note.

[46:12] » Thank you. And that'll happen in two months from there, right?

[46:15] » Yeah, something like that. Okay,

[46:19] » y'all don't need me for that though. So, okay, got it on my notes. Um, okay.

[46:25] Y'all may or may not have heard I think you did because I believe she came to

[46:28] commissioners for it. The Census Bureau is testing our region, right? She and I

[46:33] are definitely in cahoots now. And anybody that will be taking census uh

[46:38] surveys >> can have access to Eagle View. So for

[46:42] those needing to navigate, especially to the rural locations that are way out

[46:46] there, they know now where they are. And so that's going to be a really big help,

[46:51] I think, for the upcoming census is to actually know where we're going.

[46:55] » Um, a lot of people don't know this. We are the data that is submitted to the

[47:00] Census Bureau. The addressing and road centerline data that comes from us and

[47:04] then everything trickles down from there. So when we're looking at

[47:08] registering and things like that here in a few years, it's going to be our data

[47:11] that we're looking after for that. So which brings on that importance of how

[47:16] important is addressing very very important. I know that we all know we

[47:21] were underounted in 2020. We feel it. Um I did actually hear through the Texas

[47:27] demographic office that they collected 26% of the surveys in 2020. So, being

[47:34] part of the testing region, that's why that's why because we didn't do so hot

[47:38] in 2020. Um, we're going to be testing with them. I also am in the process of

[47:45] of contacting the Texas demographic office. They've reached out through

[47:50] another cog and obtained our contact information to be part of their testing

[47:55] as well. So, if we have a double whammy testing, that's awesome. I love that.

[48:00] that puts us in the best possible position for a 2030 count that actually

[48:04] means something that actually bears some sort of result that resembles our

[48:09] region. So really looking forward to that and I encourage anyone if you're

[48:12] having addressing issues call me. Fixing this stuff does impact census, right? So

[48:18] um and then finally subdivisions. Uh, as you can see, when we have abuse

[48:24] subdivision, even if it's not a quote unquote subdivision, right, we need to

[48:30] make sure that we are getting proper names before they filed with the county.

[48:35] Once they have filed with the county, now I have to honor that or force them

[48:39] to redraw with their surveyor and refile. And I think we all know that

[48:44] ain't going to happen in most cases. Um, and as we've said, we don't want road

[48:52] names that match. So, I caught one yesterday in Bruce County Commissioner's

[48:55] Court that they were trying to pass a road name that wasn't it matched and it

[49:00] matched another one. So, as people approach you for subdivision and things

[49:04] like that, please remind them, come to me first. Let's make sure that road name

[49:08] is accurate, that it doesn't match, that easements intact. That's another thing

[49:12] I'm looking for, right? uh before we make our way to commissioner court and

[49:16] waste your time honestly and waste the surveyor's time who now is gonna have to

[49:21] redraw. So >> Casey has elimin I told them

[49:26] » we have spoken. Okay. >> Now it's been a minute since we've

[49:29] spoken and I honestly couldn't tell you where we last left our last conversation

[49:34] but um I know they have reached out to me. They are aware of our Okay. So good.

[49:40] Yep. >> Any questions?

[49:44] you you are your father's daughter. >> Oh, no.

[49:49] » No, that's a good thing. >> And and we're very lucky to have you.

[49:52] » Oh, are you are you >> really her dad and I are double first

[49:58] cousins. >> My grandmother was Marjorie Knight. She

[50:02] she and my grandfather both very interested or

[50:06] » wonderful. >> I didn't know that.

[50:07] » Thanks for all you do. >> That was my auntie.

[50:10] » Of course. Yep. Well, thank you very much. Appreciate

[50:13] you guys. Thank you for your time. >> Congratulations.

[50:16] » I hope it I hope it came with a pay raise.

[50:19] » It did. >> I wish it came with an additional person

[50:24] though. Another set of hands in the brain.

[50:29] » Uh agenda item we'll we'll get back in the queue. Agenda item number seven,

[50:34] discussion with action to approve interlocal agreements for EMS ambulance

[50:39] services between Cidio County and the cities of Cidio and Marsha.

[50:43] » All right, that's one of mine. And some of y'all may not know that uh Blair had

[50:49] her baby on the 11th and her having her baby kind of uh

[50:56] pushed things back a bit. So at this point in time she has the bones of the

[51:04] interlocal agreement. She has the first two pages done. Um, but what I I want to

[51:13] do is because of time constraints, I am prepared to make a motion on this

[51:20] interlocal agreement so that we can keep moving forward because once

[51:28] once Blair gets the interlocal agreement and the judge signs off that, Carrie and

[51:34] I are working crazily to Carrie's already gotten it on the agenda which

[51:38] I'll be presenting to the Martha City Council and the Prescidio City Council

[51:43] because we have to have this interlocal agreement in place in order to do the

[51:49] next step of the application. Um, so what I am going to propose is I'd

[51:56] like to move to approve the Prescidio County judge to enter into an interlocal

[52:03] agreement for EMS ambulance services between Prescidio County and the cities

[52:10] of Prescidio and Mark.

[52:14] » I'll second >> discussion. Oh, you've made a motion.

[52:17] » Yes, sir. >> And I have a second discussion. Uh but

[52:21] if my understanding correctly when we get the inter localal agreement the

[52:26] judge will be the person that moves it forward.

[52:29] » He has to sign it. Yes. Yeah. Definitely. And the judge will um then

[52:34] once we get it signed by the city of Martha and Prescidio,

[52:38] » we'll have to scan that into the actual application. You know, buddy, it was a

[52:43] little surprising that the the task force discovered this that there w

[52:49] there's just no interlocal agreement other than an inter local agreement

[52:53] between the city of Marfa, the um Prescidio County, and Jeff Davis County.

[53:00] And I think we're going to have to up that because these interlocal agreements

[53:05] are usually renewed annually. Um, and then we thought, well, maybe we can find

[53:10] a mutual aid agreement and we couldn't find that. So, um, I worked with, um,

[53:16] uh, Judge Hennington at Brewster County provided us with an example with that we

[53:21] got to Blair. We used the current Jeff Davis, Marfa, and then also uh, Raul

[53:27] Getta, am I saying that right, Joe? Um, he provided me with a template, too,

[53:34] because I I went through that document you sent and it was just a manual.

[53:37] didn't have anything in it. So Blair's got all the information. It's just that

[53:42] Olive took president and rightfully so. >> So that's what I'm asking for is us to

[53:48] give permission for Joe to work with Blair to sign off that so we can get it

[53:54] in front of city council and make sure that we get this grant in on time.

[54:00] » Okay, I have a motion. I have a second. Any

[54:04] other discussion? >> All in favor? Bye.

[54:08] » Thank you so much for doing that. >> Thank y'all.

[54:13] » I don't know. Is there anything else you guys want to get to or you want to get

[54:16] into the Colonia project? >> It's a discussion only.

[54:22] » Well, so agenda item number eight, discussion only prospective Colonia

[54:26] projects. So, uh we've already submitted the grant

[54:31] » uh the first portion of it through TDO. >> Yes, sir.

[54:34] » Yes. Uh it's a million dollars. Uh and um it looks like we're we'll have enough

[54:43] time to iron out all the things that we really think we should where we should

[54:47] focus and spend the monies on if we're lucky enough to get it. Uh um uh so this

[54:53] is not we're not going to hold anybody anything. This is just to stimulate some

[54:57] conversation uh about some of the things you're

[55:01] looking at. Probably the most pressing is that uh the grant does does require

[55:07] 51% of the projects to be water wastewater and then after that now you

[55:13] can delve off into things you would really um uh want. Uh so need has to be

[55:20] water wastewater and uh wants can be uh topics of discussion but let's start at

[55:26] the very beginning. Let's just talk about uh when and I I appreciate Miss

[55:30] Sanchez and Miss Nunes uh getting that uh application in. We were pretty broad

[55:36] in the way we we kind of just just a big sweep. These are the projects,

[55:42] but eventually we're going to have to get more detailed. So, uh, my

[55:48] understanding is I did speak to Kleinman, uh, because Kleinman has a a

[55:53] he has a a history of when when we had, uh, back when I think when we were

[55:58] commissioner night, uh, when we had what was the name of that guy that was the he

[56:04] was a city I think city administrator for out and then he became a consultant

[56:08] and started doing graphics. I think it's with a C. Cala or Tisuela

[56:16] or >> I'm close. I'm close, right? I know it's

[56:19] not that guy, but I'm pretty close. >> You're close.

[56:21] » And uh anyway, uh so he worked closely with Kleman and with Ramon Rodriguez and

[56:29] they had a they had a pretty good it was a robust list.

[56:33] » This Ramon or his father? >> No, it was another one. Okay.

[56:36] » Ramon Kasco. >> I was like, whoa, dude.

[56:38] » It was it was a Ramon Kasco. Okay. and they have a very they had a very robust

[56:43] list of projects and we never would get to them because back then the grants

[56:47] were 200,000 250,000 uh but they were doing a lot of septic

[56:54] systems >> uh in the colonials

[56:58] um my understanding is in speaking with with Ramon was there he still has a

[57:04] pretty active list of about 30 right >> ballpark

[57:08] » uh that that still could use services and that's without us even going and and

[57:13] knocking on doors and seeing who else would qualify and who else would

[57:16] appreciate that service. So, um I do know myself from just wandering around

[57:22] in and like Candelaria, Ruda, Redford, um it's very common to find septic

[57:30] systems that have caved in on themselves,

[57:32] » right? >> Uh they've collapsed on themselves. Uh

[57:36] and again, why? Well, because way back when they were made with just stones,

[57:41] » they dug holes and they put rocks around them. Uh, and then that was Yeah, they

[57:47] were what they were. >> Uh, so, so,

[57:51] » so Joe, my understanding is that Terry did um, you listed 10 or one, two,

[57:59] three, four, five, six, seven.

[58:05] » Each project descriptions that would best fit their,

[58:10] » right? And so the next step, so we we got our list in, right? And so um once

[58:18] then we're we'll just wait for TDA to come back and say these look like

[58:24] something you need to flush out a little.

[58:26] » Yeah. They'll come back and they'll give you like directions.

[58:30] » Right. Right. >> Yeah.

[58:32] information. They'll >> tomorrow they'll say either the county

[58:36] will qualify for the grant or they won't or we won't

[58:39] » and then they'll flush whatever they consider will be high priority.

[58:44] » But tomorrow is just qualify. They won't tell us about which

[58:49] » and then once we have projects your engineers and your administrators will

[58:55] work with >> Right on.

[59:01] I actually got to sit with um Alicia and um Carrie when they were doing that and

[59:07] I want to thank them in a big bad way because it was very convoluted. Um but

[59:16] um we got through it right and so thank y'all. Thank y'all very much.

[59:21] » Yeah.

[59:26] So ideas >> are these are these

[59:31] » if we were to do >> if it was to come to pass we put in

[59:35] septic systems is it for anybody in accounting or is it for people that

[59:39] can't afford it? Do you have to >> colonial

[59:42] » colon and I mean in the colonial >> and even even in the colonials there are

[59:47] some people don't qualify in the colonia.

[59:51] » I don't say who but I can see one right there.

[59:53] » Right. Right. Yeah. I know exactly who you're talking about. Yeah.

[59:58] » Um and and and I've talked with >> but it should be somebody that's in need

[1:00:03] of >> this without the wherewithal to do it.

[1:00:06] » And that's just what that is. That's the running list

[1:00:10] » that Ruben has kept. And you can see I wrote some notes on there because they

[1:00:16] had incorrect areas. And I think the person you're talking about I actually

[1:00:22] said I don't see it. >> Yeah. because I don't think that that

[1:00:27] they recognize that just because you live in a colonia doesn't mean that you

[1:00:32] qualify for these monies. >> Yeah. Yeah.

[1:00:37] » So, um it's been it's been so I like again um so you're looking at what would

[1:00:44] it what would be 51% 500,000 plus plus 10?

[1:00:49] » Yes, sir. >> Yeah. So $510,000

[1:00:53] would have to go to water and to septic systems. So uh I'm going to and I

[1:01:01] don't know the number. I don't know what does it cost to put in a septic system.

[1:01:05] I would say on the low end 4,000 and probably 8,000 to 10,000

[1:01:09] » 8 to 10. I'd say if it's if it's >> and it depends on I've had this issue on

[1:01:16] property

[1:01:21] com and in some is instances they don't want

[1:01:25] you to put even a a regular septic system. You have to put in a system with

[1:01:30] your area >> and that

[1:01:32] » kicks it up >> big time. Now maybe down there not so

[1:01:36] much but >> well there were there were actually

[1:01:39] three projects that we listed for water and wastewater. One was rehab of the

[1:01:44] single unit residential sewer systems. >> The other one um and this was just I

[1:01:51] tried to come up with ideas for the whole county. The other one was flood

[1:01:57] drainage improvements, rehab of flood drainage facilities. And Margarito, I

[1:02:04] was speaking specifically about the Redford. Yeah.

[1:02:07] » You know, those those um levies and stuff like that.

[1:02:11] » And then the the other water and sewer improvements category was replacement of

[1:02:18] water meters and water system improvements to include electrical

[1:02:23] system repairs for all Colonia within Prescidio County that have existing

[1:02:30] water systems. So I think those three, you know, could

[1:02:35] easily get us to the 51% Joe. Um, and then we have to recognize the remaining

[1:02:43] 49% is where is that where the engineers and the grant administrators get paid

[1:02:49] out of. So yeah, there's not going to be a lot. Yeah, because

[1:02:55] » engineers are going to be um much more pricey than the grant administrator.

[1:03:01] Yeah. >> Um, so yeah, and I'll tell you because I

[1:03:07] see the same problem with video procedto. They have 2,200 water meters.

[1:03:12] » Well, about 60% of them are manually read. So, literally what you have, you

[1:03:18] have the water guys, the the maintenance guys stop everything they're doing for

[1:03:24] almost a week and they have to go and manually read these meters and it's a

[1:03:29] horrible waste of time, >> right?

[1:03:30] » Uh, and the truth is is they just haven't had the money to upgrade uh, you

[1:03:35] know, 1,600 water meters to be RF red. And the ones that they do have that are

[1:03:42] RF red. What they do is it has a receiver uh and it sends out a signal

[1:03:47] and they drive around with a laptop and it promulgates the uh the data the usage

[1:03:53] of water uh which would take them half a day or a day to just drive up and down

[1:03:57] the streets. Unfortunately they have to read them by hand.

[1:04:00] » So and the same thing is happening the colonials. They they we they have as a

[1:04:04] matter of fact I think Candelaria has uh used water meters from the city of

[1:04:10] Presidio is what they have. >> Really?

[1:04:13] » No they never they never got those Joe but theirs are antiquated. They're down

[1:04:17] to 25 meters. And actually, you know, we had hired Jimmy Abila from the city of

[1:04:24] Prescidio to help with that water system. And he made some

[1:04:28] recommendations, but when we went um to Pablo, there weren't any water meters

[1:04:34] available. So, these are decrepit. And we were looking to Jimmy to make

[1:04:40] suggestions of what kind of water meters, but that's probably what the

[1:04:44] engineers will do on this if if we get No. No. And and I'll tell you and and I

[1:04:49] I say this with the in the kindest terms with love in my heart. Uh if the city of

[1:04:55] Prescidio was auctioning off a vehicle, I wouldn't buy it. Uh it's I mean it's

[1:04:59] worn out. If they're if done with it, it's done, right?

[1:05:03] » Uh and the same thing with water meters. If they're replacing those water meters,

[1:05:07] they probably are way past their shelf life.

[1:05:10] » So, uh, this but this again, this would be a good opportunity for us to go back

[1:05:14] and make their life a little simpler and other improvements to the water system

[1:05:18] that we can think >> redundancy

[1:05:21] uh an extra like the one that that was put in that was one of the that was

[1:05:26] actually a CDBG one. Uh, my wife's she she likes to say the twin towers, right?

[1:05:33] Whenever we go by there, it's twin towers. One of them needs painting, by

[1:05:36] the way. But it goes back to the same thing. What is it for? It's redundancy.

[1:05:40] Just like the water project and do a lot of people say, "Well, if you needed

[1:05:45] redundancy, you only have one. You can't work on it. It needs work. It's it's way

[1:05:49] past the shelf, like 30 years. Gaskets need to replace. There's I don't know

[1:05:54] thousands of pounds of sediment underneath that water tower that have to

[1:05:58] be sucked out." It's the same thing. You can't work, you can't shut one down to

[1:06:02] work on it if you don't have a secondary water source. Well, and Redford is even

[1:06:08] um talking about doing a third tower, Joe, because all of the arsenic that is

[1:06:15] in the problem with the lower two, they think if they move it further north and

[1:06:21] so they are are looking at taking that on, but they just had to replace a major

[1:06:27] pump that really hit them hard. um as far as so that's why I wanted to word it

[1:06:33] in such a way that um you know is just water system improvements because that

[1:06:41] seems pretty broad and then the engineers can tell us

[1:06:45] » I I'm I'm with you I'm in 110% this is a this is a huge opportunity a gift where

[1:06:53] we can go and help these little colonials uh and I don't disagree with

[1:06:57] your theory that that moving it back from the river.

[1:07:00] » Uh getting out of that water table wouldn't improve it,

[1:07:03] » right? >> Uh so but it's going to cost money.

[1:07:07] » Um and so so even drilling a well, let's say drilling a well north at all the

[1:07:14] locations >> and then and then uh uh creating a new

[1:07:19] master line that goes to the existing tank. Let's say it's a a a a deep well

[1:07:27] 600 ft um two or three miles north. The line to run it, what is that? 150

[1:07:34] $200,000 probably. >> Well, they they each each water system,

[1:07:39] and I also talked to Trey saying a new well is pretty much out of the picture.

[1:07:44] Um what Redford was identifying was a real need for electrical system repairs.

[1:07:50] Sure. Um and um there of course you know um Riodosa is in pretty good shape.

[1:07:58] Conaladia um is always in need as you well know.

[1:08:02] Um so so um and I just don't think 49% of a million once you take out the

[1:08:11] engineering fees well this this one is actually the 51%.

[1:08:16] So, um I just don't I don't know that we'll have enough to do new wells, but

[1:08:21] we just wanted to put something broad in there. So, no no and I go back and

[1:08:27] that's that's you know the tr the truth is going to come out when we have an

[1:08:31] engineer in front of us, >> right?

[1:08:32] » And he tells us this is what this project if that's where you're headed,

[1:08:36] this is what it's going to cost, right? They'll have a lot better,

[1:08:39] » right, >> understanding of of what things cost

[1:08:42] today. Uh so >> and what's what's beautiful that now

[1:08:46] that we have a list is our auditors about to go out with an RFP and an RFQ

[1:08:54] for um grant administrators and also for engineers. A lot of these engineers have

[1:09:02] their own in-house um uh as I spoke at the last meeting but

[1:09:07] um in-house grant administrators but we feel that I know the calls I got from

[1:09:13] engineers were like what are the projects and I couldn't say when we

[1:09:18] originally put that out so now having a list I think we'll have a much more

[1:09:22] robust field that will actually apply. >> Okay.

[1:09:28] And then uh again uh rehabilitation that hasn't happened in probably

[1:09:34] 30 years. >> Yeah.

[1:09:35] » Was the last rehabilitation projects that we did. Uh but that's another

[1:09:40] » right. >> So that that I would at least ask that

[1:09:42] you consider

[1:09:46] » any other discussion. So we'll see we'll see how it goes. So

[1:09:52] we'll move on to agenda item number nine. discussion with action to approve

[1:09:56] the 2026 interlocal services agreement on the 83rd district district attorney

[1:10:02] budget and in the 83rd district attorney's office.

[1:10:08] So see here this is the annual renewal right and this is what we've always

[1:10:15] budgeted for and Presidio is just paying their percentage of the what five

[1:10:21] counties. >> Yes. Um I don't remember the exact

[1:10:24] amount of budget but yeah you guys >> 50,000 here for the year.

[1:10:29] » Yeah the same >> is that is that same as last year? same

[1:10:32] payback for it. >> I saw a payback if we if Beaver Party

[1:10:39] wants to terminate there's a payback. >> I think they have a calendar year fiscal

[1:10:45] year and we have a >> Yeah,

[1:10:48] » there starts January. >> January start.

[1:10:54] » Yeah, >> but it's the same amount,

[1:10:55] » right? Yeah, it's $50,000 in quarterly

[1:11:02] payments. >> Yeah.

[1:11:12] » I'm good. >> I'm going to move that we approve the

[1:11:15] 2026 interlocal service agreement on the 83rd district attorney budget in the

[1:11:20] 83rd district attorney's office. I'll >> second. I

[1:11:24] » have a motion second. All in favor?

[1:11:29] Agenda item number 10, discussion with action to approve a joint contract

[1:11:33] between the Democratic Party, Republican Party, and the Elections Department in

[1:11:38] Prescidio County. It's just

[1:11:45] » um they do have a resolution that um everyone needs to sign and the um

[1:11:53] contract is just between myself and the both party.

[1:11:58] » Thank you. And this is what y'all know about yesterday and hashed it all out

[1:12:02] and this is common place for every election.

[1:12:05] » Yes. So, I am going to move that we approve a joint contract between the

[1:12:10] Democratic Party, Republican Party, and the Elections Department in Prescidio

[1:12:16] County. >> I'll second.

[1:12:18] » Motion and second. All in favor? >> I thank you.

[1:12:24] Agenda item number 11, discussion with action to approve a contract with

[1:12:28] Spentra Holding Company to rent bid a building to hold the 2026 primary and

[1:12:34] runoff elections for early voting and election day and procedial.

[1:12:41] » So, we need a pretty goodiz place for the primaries and that is the only place

[1:12:49] that I know of. um

[1:12:53] to hold the election. I think that we can get away with the

[1:12:59] runoff at the um annex. >> So maybe just if you will approve the

[1:13:07] primary

[1:13:10] that >> 2002

[1:13:16] » and that's for early voting >> for early voting and election day.

[1:13:20] » Okay. in March 3rd >> for the primary

[1:13:23] » and the runoff of people just hold that at speed

[1:13:28] » in your office. >> Yeah. And and I and uh and I was

[1:13:32] thinking about this and and here's just you know what I hear the word on the

[1:13:37] street is well one time one time we do it at the pack and then we do it at the

[1:13:41] annex and then we jump to I forget what the name of that place is across from

[1:13:46] » I think we held it there once. That's it. El Fabion once we had it at

[1:13:52] Spencer. And I think that locally what I'm hearing is would you guys make up

[1:13:56] your mind because we don't know where to go go and then we're going over here and

[1:14:00] we're going over there and then we show up over here and they send us over

[1:14:03] there. I know there's been some changes uh which give flexibility to rural uh uh

[1:14:09] uh rural counties like us a little better options, right? So we don't have

[1:14:14] to do this shotgun blast. had to um

[1:14:18] precede like we did before >> which is it was huge. It's huge.

[1:14:24] » It's huge. So, uh, and it's a little bit about the money, but to me, I mean, and

[1:14:30] I know the annex, uh, and I, just full disclosure, I spoke to Judge Bishop

[1:14:36] because that's historically where it's usually been, right?

[1:14:38] » And Judge Bishop has put her heels in the horse and she's like, "No, you will

[1:14:44] not." And I'm super busy and I got stuff and it's, you know, this is NORAD and we

[1:14:50] got super top secret stuff here and anyway, whatever.

[1:14:54] » Right. Uh, so but again, I'm I think the annex was okay. Here's what I will say

[1:15:00] about the annex. Um, the way it was set up last go around, the last elections

[1:15:06] for the CEO, probably should have moved that big old table out

[1:15:11] » and then probably put the workers behind the desk where I usually sit, the

[1:15:15] workers sit up there and that would make a little more space. Everything else was

[1:15:19] cleared out. I know it wasn't perfect because I was out there on election day

[1:15:24] and of course a lot of people waited till the last minute and there was a

[1:15:27] long line. I don't even know what time the last vote was cast on election day.

[1:15:32] » So that was a timing thing. I mean but uh was it what are the complaints about

[1:15:38] the or you tell me what were the complaints about the annex building B

[1:15:42] specifically? >> We didn't have any complaints. I just

[1:15:45] feel that for the primary uh especially with the races that are

[1:15:50] being contested um it's just >> it's too small.

[1:15:54] » Yeah. >> What about I'm thinking about the pack.

[1:15:57] » Nope. >> I'm put a new floor in there and it's

[1:16:03] not usable for what we need. Uh, we would need the uh

[1:16:10] the area where they playing basketball, whatever, the retail area and

[1:16:16] » they put in a new flooring and you have to have athletic shoes

[1:16:21] » to go and they they were and I think they're trying to stall it now. There

[1:16:25] was supposed to be a a false floor that they could put on you that would make it

[1:16:31] walkable or dancable. It just it had that hasn't been accomplished.

[1:16:36] » That even affected y'all's ability to rent it out.

[1:16:39] » Yes. Yeah. Yes. >> Yeah. Just to uh the

[1:16:44] county does have a budget for the one rental fee, not for two uh elections.

[1:16:49] » So, she'll be fine with the primary you guys wanted to.

[1:16:53] » Okay. The only the only problem that I see with the Spencer place is that it's

[1:16:57] really close to the street and if people is bringing an elderly to go or

[1:17:01] whatever, you know, >> it's going to be kind of dangerous

[1:17:04] there, you know. >> What's the other option? What where

[1:17:07] could we have it? We can't do pack. We can't do judge bishops because we

[1:17:12] actually moved her in there because we used to do it and I can see her. I I I

[1:17:17] appreciate her. And then if somebody's going to be requesting the vote, you

[1:17:21] know, some people vote for them, right? >> You know, there's no space. And then if

[1:17:24] you go to the other side, I think the the last time I heard somebody came out

[1:17:28] and said, you know what, you all need to move. So everybody had to move on the

[1:17:32] » right >> on the small street between the

[1:17:34] financial services and Spanish. >> I can give my input. But at the back

[1:17:40] there also have like little rooms in the back

[1:17:44] » where you have your city council. says school board school board one and then

[1:17:48] the the city council election general in two different rooms in that in

[1:17:55] » we've made those before and I think for the primary still

[1:18:02] » yeah that's that's half the size of the >> rac issue of being able to walk

[1:18:12] it's every race is contested Yeah.

[1:18:18] » So, so the item though is to approve a contract with Spencer Holding Company,

[1:18:24] right? >> And this is for the

[1:18:27] » And it says primary and runoff, but I think it's just for the

[1:18:30] » for the primary. So, that would have to be Okay. Well, I'll make a motion that

[1:18:36] we approve a contract with Spencer Holding Company to rent a building to

[1:18:41] hold the 2026 primary for early voting in election

[1:18:47] day, Texas.

[1:18:50] » I have a motion and a second and then I'll continue the discussion.

[1:18:53] » Oh, I'm sorry. >> No, that's okay. Don't worry about it.

[1:18:56] Uh I I just want to just uh the annex I I think it's still viable.

[1:19:05] But here's the here's the thing I do recognize. It's January 14th.

[1:19:11] So, uh I mean we're running out of time. I mean you're you're looking at

[1:19:17] » just a couple of weeks and it's time to get hot and heavy, right?

[1:19:21] » Yes. So, I don't want to be even though even though I still want to I want to

[1:19:26] continue having the discussion, I don't want it to be where well, there's four

[1:19:29] of us here and then we split two or something like that and then and then

[1:19:32] we're and then we're coming back in here. I don't think it's

[1:19:38] I I again uh I just just hearing from the people they're like we just want

[1:19:43] some consistency and a lot of it is just what we have available to us in the CU I

[1:19:47] understand >> and I guess my feeling is is that these

[1:19:51] election officials have been doing this for quite some time and you know um none

[1:19:58] of us have to run the elections and I have heard I've heard that about moving

[1:20:03] it around even when we've had to move from the USO over here to the firehouse.

[1:20:10] Um, but I think that the people that want to vote will will turn out and

[1:20:15] vote. >> So, what about uh where's Marfa having

[1:20:19] their >> Mara? I went to city council yesterday

[1:20:23] last night and we are having a visitor center.

[1:20:26] » Okay. USO building. >> Yes.

[1:20:28] » Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. Any other anybody else have

[1:20:34] to get anything else off their chest? All right. So, let's go ahead and I have

[1:20:40] a motion and I have a second. All in favor?

[1:20:43] » And I'm going to go ahead and >> and say yeah, let's let's get this.

[1:20:48] » Let's get this selection behind us. >> Well, I mean, I go back to the same

[1:20:52] thing. I know you don't need any added stress. It's going to be a lot of work,

[1:20:57] » right? >> Yeah. So, let's move on to agenda item

[1:21:04] number 12. Uh, and it's from the sheriff. Discussion with action to

[1:21:09] approve the second amendment to the contract and agreement with correct

[1:21:13] solutions group LLC through the provisions tablets for inmates.

[1:21:21] » Good morning, commissioners. >> Good morning.

[1:21:26] » Uh, bear with me. My voice is going away. Uh this item is just to consider

[1:21:31] approval for a second amendment uh to our existing contract with correct

[1:21:36] solutions group uh for um providing tablets for the

[1:21:41] inmates. The amendment only updates the current

[1:21:44] agreement and doesn't replace the original contract.

[1:21:48] Right now we don't currently have tablet services provided for the inmates and

[1:21:53] we're probably one of the many jails that

[1:21:57] don't have it. Everyone has upgraded to video visitation and basically

[1:22:03] everything the inmates can do is now electronic. Um we're kind of behind. I

[1:22:09] do know that this uh will help provide more revenue as they'll have to pay for

[1:22:14] all the services that the tablets provide. I believe the only thing that

[1:22:19] is free are a selection of music and movies and maybe um some emails like

[1:22:26] they'll get like a free email here and there for their family or friends. And

[1:22:31] the other service that is free is the law library

[1:22:35] which I'm excited about because our law library is pretty sad in the library

[1:22:39] here at the jail. Um that'll help reduce a lot of the complaints that come in as

[1:22:47] well as it's going to have the jailer is less uh less likely to lose requests

[1:22:54] from the cell to my desk for medical requests, mental health request,

[1:23:00] any kind of requests that they may make throughout the day. Now they can do it

[1:23:03] electronically directly to me through the computer.

[1:23:09] Um the tablets are going to be at no cost to the county. Uh correct solutions

[1:23:15] group will uh inst the installation of all the tablets at zero operating and

[1:23:20] there is zero operating cost. If tablets are damaged or broken uh I

[1:23:26] want to incorporate into the policy that the inmate will be responsible for

[1:23:30] replacing that tablet. Meaning we could just deduct the amount

[1:23:35] for the tablet directly from their account.

[1:23:41] and it general wear and tear on the tablets. Correct solutions group will

[1:23:45] also replace that at no cost to the county.

[1:23:50] And yeah, that's pretty much all I have right now.

[1:23:55] » Andrea, um, if we approve this second amendment to the contract, I might have

[1:24:03] missed this. Is there an increase in cost?

[1:24:06] » No. Okay, there's no increase. >> So, this will basically just provide

[1:24:12] more revenue, right? >> It will generate more revenue.

[1:24:18] » Right now, >> right now, the inmates don't pay for

[1:24:22] visitation. Visitation is free. I know for a fact that this will have a lot

[1:24:28] more inmate inmates receiving visitation because majority of the inmates family

[1:24:32] is from a different country. So they don't come to visit them anyways. So now

[1:24:37] they'll be able to see their family and they'll have to pay for it. So that's

[1:24:42] going to be a new cost coming in for us, a new revenue coming in.

[1:24:48] » You haven't run any numbers of a a potential of increase, have you, Andrea?

[1:24:54] of uh the population increase. >> No, the potential of revenue increase.

[1:25:00] You probably haven't run any numbers on that yet, have you?

[1:25:03] » No. >> Okay. Okay.

[1:25:08] » Madam Auditor, do you have any >> Well, she's saying,

[1:25:13] but I would like to see some numbers actually,

[1:25:18] » right? >> What was that?

[1:25:23] I I guess what uh let's say hypothetically we approve it and you

[1:25:29] have one one inmate that that has a visitation. You're saying that there's a

[1:25:38] u there's a monetary value to it that that the sheriff's office would see.

[1:25:43] What what would that be? Say we just had one visit. you.

[1:25:47] » Okay. Let's say let's say the visit is 20 minutes long, which right now our

[1:25:52] in-person visits are 20 minutes long. Uh it'd probably be about

[1:25:58] let's say 14 cents a minute maybe. >> Probably I'm assuming it's going to be

[1:26:05] like a phone call the cost.

[1:26:10] So there's no use there's no charge for use of the actual tablet other than the

[1:26:17] minutes that they're on the call. >> You're not renting out the tablet.

[1:26:22] » Yeah. So uh a 20 minute call $2.80. Yeah.

[1:26:28] » Yeah. So, they'll be charged for using it to rent

[1:26:34] rent movie, rent a movie, rent a a song, rent uh make a phone call, write an

[1:26:41] email to their family, get a visit on video. Those will all be charged. Now,

[1:26:48] » I I would hope they wouldn't have access to adult websites.

[1:26:52] » No, sir. They're definitely very well locked

[1:26:56] down. And the movie selection will be um pre-screened like there it's just a

[1:27:03] general list of movies that all gels use that are

[1:27:08] » no >> rated PGM

[1:27:11] » because I' I've read through the agreement and it's very standard, very

[1:27:15] basic. My thing is is do you guys still need if you have an inmate that doesn't

[1:27:21] deserve it? Uh do you guys have a mechanism internally to say you've been

[1:27:26] a naughty boy, you're not going to get it?

[1:27:28] » Yes. So if they are um if they are in a disciplinary um action, they won't have

[1:27:35] any access to a tablet. >> Um otherwise if they are misusing the

[1:27:40] tablet and they are still in general population,

[1:27:43] » we have a mechanism to where it'll be locked down. They cannot access the

[1:27:47] tablet. >> Okay.

[1:27:50] And from what I'm seeing is the tablets will be mounted on the wall and it will

[1:27:55] be uh checked out by their inmate ID. So no inmate can use someone else's tablet

[1:28:02] without the ID. I know there's face recognition as well. So if an inmate

[1:28:07] does have access to another inmate's ID and gets on a tablet, the tablet's going

[1:28:12] to kick that inmate out because it's not the correct face to the number.

[1:28:20] Then there's also restrictions on the tablet. Um, if someone is having a video

[1:28:25] visitation and the visitor is exposing themselves

[1:28:30] or showing something inappropriate, the tablet will automatically kick them out.

[1:28:35] It's being monitored 247.

[1:28:40] » Well, I don't I don't see this as it's not creating any additional costs to the

[1:28:45] county. It has the potential to bring in some kind of revenue and I trust the

[1:28:54] sheriff and Andrea to make sure they have all their protocols in place to

[1:29:01] make sure that inmates are playing by the appropriate rules. So, I would like

[1:29:07] to make a motion if that's okay with y'all. Um, I'm going to move that we

[1:29:13] approve the second amendment to the contract and agreement with Correct

[1:29:18] Solutions Group LLC for the provision of tablets for inmates.

[1:29:23] » I'll second. >> Thank you.

[1:29:27] » Favor. >> I

[1:29:29] » You're welcome. >> Thank you, Andrea.

[1:29:37] I >> think we're at 18 now. Judge.

[1:29:58] All right. So, we're going to move on to agenda item number 18. discussion with

[1:30:04] action to relocate the road and bridge department office to the old procedial

[1:30:09] county appraisal district office. >> Yes, and that's that's something that I

[1:30:14] was approached by our employee with road and bridges, you know, that it's a

[1:30:19] bigger space and it and sometimes she has a difficulty with her maps

[1:30:24] » on the front office because it's so small and the the the back part and then

[1:30:28] the employees when they come in if they're dirty or whatever, you know,

[1:30:30] they can come back to the back door. I don't know maybe Bianca could explain to

[1:30:35] you all but why why it would be a lot easier for them to to

[1:30:43] » the guys call me sometimes they're like we have on our boots can you bring the

[1:30:47] paperwork outside >> right

[1:30:48] » and that's it I have to go outside give them paperwork and they would they would

[1:30:52] go into the back office but um they need that office and they do not want to bug

[1:30:58] her whenever if she's there >> so they also don't want to come through

[1:31:02] the main doors and see people have them all soy, but it's time for you. Um, so

[1:31:07] that's my main concern. Um, I talked to Commissioner as well that I had

[1:31:14] two older gentlemen come in and look at maps in Redford and I had them on their

[1:31:19] knees looking at maps, right? >> So, that's not what I want again. That's

[1:31:22] the only reason. And this was created because the Presidio appraisal district

[1:31:28] has moved out of that office. And I I think this is a great new for y'all.

[1:31:35] » Yeah, >> you bet.

[1:31:39] And no one else is Everyone down there is all on board and

[1:31:45] supporting y'all from what I what I understand. So, I'd like to make a a

[1:31:51] motion that we approve the relocation of the road and bridge department office to

[1:31:56] the old Presidio County Appraisal District.

[1:32:00] » I have a motion and a second. I do know I think there's a chapter two

[1:32:05] to this. I believe that I know that uh the crime victims coordinator has been

[1:32:10] complaining about the smell in her office. Uh, I don't know if you guys

[1:32:14] have walked in that back office of the annex where Bonita's office used to be,

[1:32:18] but we've already cut the sheetrock at the bottom and it just it's just mold

[1:32:23] and it just when it rains and we just had rain, it just smells,

[1:32:27] » right? >> Um, so

[1:32:30] eventually we're going to have to tackle that. But I know that one of her things

[1:32:34] and I'll tell you, I have actually felt it. I've been in that office

[1:32:37] » and you do get headaches >> from the smell in there. So, I know

[1:32:41] she's gonna want to move herself. I don't know if it's gone through Blair or

[1:32:46] if you guys want to do one. >> I think Blair's gonna bring that

[1:32:50] forward, but they wanted this to take place.

[1:32:54] » So, we'll take it one step at a time. >> All right.

[1:32:59] » Congratulations. >> So, we have a motion

[1:33:03] and a second. All in favor? >> I

[1:33:06] » Okay. >> Yes.

[1:33:08] » Okay. And agenda item number 19, discussion only regarding adding

[1:33:14] parental leave to the Prescidio County employee policy. So we don't have a

[1:33:18] parental leave. >> So we we don't have parental leave

[1:33:22] policy, sir. What we do have is FMLA. Uh it only applies to employees that have

[1:33:27] been working with the county for up to one year. Uh and it also, you know, kind

[1:33:32] of just saves your job. If you don't have any time saved, then you don't get

[1:33:37] a paycheck. uh with friends leave since we've been

[1:33:41] having you know my assistant is pregnant just had a baby just had a baby and

[1:33:47] we've had other cases where like my assistant hasn't been in uh in my office

[1:33:52] for one year yet so she doesn't even qualify for FM only

[1:33:57] » so we're trying to find a workar around that she's still continue to approve a

[1:34:01] paycheck but she has to work right have a baby so we're not uh completely

[1:34:08] We haven't checked out the details. So, it's happening more often because we

[1:34:12] have a younger crew of women >> working with like the county and it's

[1:34:17] kind of our policies are kind of outdated.

[1:34:21] So, Blair thought that it would be a great idea to start bringing this to the

[1:34:24] discussion. If there's any interest from the commissioners in doing this, uh we

[1:34:29] would write a policy to create the turnover, you know, just not for mom but

[1:34:33] also for the >> Thank you.

[1:34:36] » Yes. >> Yep. Yeah,

[1:34:38] » we probably ought to move into the 21st century,

[1:34:40] » right? >> I think it's a great idea.

[1:34:45] » And we were thinking about an 8week kind of going based on what the state does

[1:34:49] for their employees. U private practices are more lenient. They have 12 to 16

[1:34:55] weeks. We would kind of go in the middle with a week.

[1:34:59] » Uh it wouldn't add anything to the budget because you already have those

[1:35:02] hours budgeted for the employees already working. It would just kind of be

[1:35:06] I would be for those employees that feel the pressure to go right back to work

[1:35:12] that don't have any other time like FMLA or vacation or sick time.

[1:35:17] So just up to the commissioners kind of discuss on that and if you were

[1:35:20] interested we will bring it policy. >> That was going to be my question. Do you

[1:35:26] have a plan? So y'all will start if we >> if you guys

[1:35:30] » Well, we're just discussing so we won't be I think it's a great idea.

[1:35:33] » I think it's a great idea. Yeah.

[1:35:37] » Bless. >> I'll ask now.

[1:35:40] » So go forward and all the young mamas uh and daddies be fruitful and multiply.

[1:35:49] » Um we'll move on to agenda item number 20. Discussion with action to approve

[1:35:54] the Prescidio County Department reports. >> Um all reports were turned on are in

[1:35:59] there. um Mara volunteer fire fire department and emergency management um

[1:36:07] he is out of town so he will get that to me and I'll put it on the next regular

[1:36:11] meeting and then I didn't receive the presidial EMS for voluntary

[1:36:33] You know, Presidio EMS and Fire Department has been doing a real good

[1:36:36] job, right, Kadina? >> They have been getting them in. It's

[1:36:40] just that this month, it's just this month.

[1:36:43] » That's what I thought.

[1:36:47] » Well, I move that we approve the Prescidio County Department reports.

[1:36:53] And I would also like to state that um the judge asked me to um have our

[1:37:00] veterans county service officer start doing a report. Do we have any examples

[1:37:07] when those were done before or were they ever done?

[1:37:10] » Not sure. >> Okay.

[1:37:15] » And that's typically always at the regular meeting, right? Okay.

[1:37:20] » Yeah. Make sure that >> and just I guess just standard stuff.

[1:37:23] Hours of operation. >> Yeah.

[1:37:30] » Been attended uh veterans veterans uh services rendered.

[1:37:38] » Got it. >> I know she's doing a lot of online

[1:37:43] training with the um Katrina Karina. I I get them all mixed up. And in order to

[1:37:52] get her certification and as soon as she finishes the online training, um that's

[1:37:58] why we have the laptop, we will be getting her the software. And I don't

[1:38:03] know if you had this to your access when you were the veterans officer, Joe, but

[1:38:09] um with the training she's getting from the Texas Veterans Commission, she'll be

[1:38:14] able to go right into the VA files, not just make a call and try to get the

[1:38:20] information because that's something Alie shared with me that he got real

[1:38:24] frustrated that he wasn't getting the the quick access that he wanted. So,

[1:38:31] there's that. No, there's just a lot of there can be a lot of improvements to

[1:38:35] the VA. >> Right. Right.

[1:38:38] » So, >> Right.

[1:38:41] » Okay. And we'll move on to agenda item number 21.

[1:38:47] » I'm sorry. >> We didn't vote.

[1:38:48] » Oh, I'm so sorry. I'll second. So, I have a motion and I have a second. All

[1:38:52] in favor to approve the Prescidio County Department reports and I

[1:38:56] » Okay. And agenda item number 21,

[1:39:00] administrative updates and announcements from the county judge and commissioner.

[1:39:05] » Judge, commissioner. >> Ah, yeah. I got a

[1:39:10] regarding the elevator. I there's some paperwork needs to be done by TK

[1:39:16] elevator service. And I talked to the guy yesterday and he said, "We've never

[1:39:20] had to do that before." And he actually got a little

[1:39:23] » offended offended with me. and and and I asked him, I said, "Well, look it over

[1:39:27] and call me back." And he never has. Um and thanks to the auditor, we've she's

[1:39:34] been the really the front person on this dealing with them a little bit, but they

[1:39:39] have everything they need. I don't I don't know the next step. If

[1:39:43] there's anybody got any ideas, uh I know that the

[1:39:50] our attorney's been looking at >> other options.

[1:39:55] » Yeah. Breaking the contract, but it's not a big deal. That paper's

[1:40:01] uh >> one page.

[1:40:02] » Yeah, one page. And >> I mean, I don't know who else to talk

[1:40:08] to. It's kind of a I talk to one guy one time, the next guy won't answer his

[1:40:13] phone, somebody else the next time. And it's

[1:40:18] kind of like >> we want your money, but we don't want

[1:40:21] you working. They keep telling me they're charging us storage on

[1:40:24] materials, which I thought >> he's baloney. I have a hard time.

[1:40:30] » You haven't paid anything. >> Yeah. Are they billing you for that? How

[1:40:33] much is the bill? They keep sending us a bill for materials that have not been

[1:40:37] delivered. They cannot deliver unless this is uh fixed. So they keep sending

[1:40:42] us a bill for about $100,000. Um so they had come about two months ago

[1:40:48] to start the work, but they found out that you know they they needed to go to

[1:40:52] the THC and the guy that came said that he had worked with them.

[1:40:56] » We had submitted the form. It's a onepage form. Yeah. Um, and we haven't

[1:41:02] been able to get anybody from CK to fill it out. I think Blair was looking into

[1:41:06] seeing the contract.

[1:41:09] » That was going to be that was going to be my suggestion is to have Blair write

[1:41:13] a formal >> uh a legal demand.

[1:41:17] You are in violation. We believe you're in violation of contract. We simply need

[1:41:22] this done >> and move forward.

[1:41:24] » And move forward. >> We have a variance now on the door.

[1:41:28] Plus, the guy told me, he said the plan showed it for it to be in code anyway.

[1:41:36] So, okay, >> maybe doing an RT would be the best next

[1:41:40] the next thing. Probably getting another proposal,

[1:41:43] » but do they have materials they're holding on to?

[1:41:46] » Well, now that we know the contract, >> he says they got Well, the guy tells me

[1:41:51] they have materials in storage for this project. But is it their inventory that

[1:41:57] they keep in order to do You know, it's kind of like

[1:42:01] » I I can't I can't answer to that. >> It was supposed to be deliverable.

[1:42:10] » Anyway, and this doesn't make a lot of sense. It's just a simple form

[1:42:15] » and all the information from what I could tell, they should already have all

[1:42:20] the information. >> I'm with the judge on this. I think a

[1:42:23] formal letter from our county attorney might spark a little movement.

[1:42:28] » Yeah, I agree.

[1:42:33] » Anything else? >> That's all I have.

[1:42:34] » Commissioner >> Commissioner,

[1:42:37] » I got a few things, y'all. Um, I've been attending the Brewster County EMS task

[1:42:42] force meetings and part of the reason is because we're working on EMS task force

[1:42:48] here and it has been so informative. I know we've talked about ESDs and all the

[1:42:56] potentials that are out there. So, I just wanted to inform the court that

[1:43:00] Brewster County is going out to public meetings. Um January 21st at the Alpine

[1:43:08] Civic Center, January 26th at Soul Ross University Center, and January 31st at

[1:43:14] the Marathon Rec Center. They're all at 6 pm. So if we have any interest in

[1:43:20] starting to do our homework on how do we possibly go towards ESDs or what are

[1:43:29] alternatives to how we're operating, you know, our city um uh EMS services, I'm

[1:43:36] just going to strongly recommend y'all y'all just attend that. Then, um,

[1:43:43] on January the 19th, we have a task force meeting. As I mentioned earlier,

[1:43:49] it's going to be at 3:00 here in the jury room at the courthouse, and

[1:43:54] everyone is always welcome to attend those. We had a nice um at the last

[1:43:59] meeting actually we had the city administrator

[1:44:04] Pablo Rodriguez and then uh Christian Mononttoya who is also a city councilman

[1:44:11] that that joined in. So it's a it's a really a a good group and everyone's

[1:44:16] working hard. um February 11th through 13 if if y'all

[1:44:21] are interested in water in the desert um stuff that's being held at Soul Ross

[1:44:28] University. And you know when you think of geology, groundwater system,

[1:44:35] legislative updates, water policy and panel discussions because you know we

[1:44:42] are starting we've got geothermal going in down in Presidio. we have the

[1:44:47] potential of open origin here in Marfa and the common denominator is always

[1:44:53] water. So, I'm going to be attending that, but I just wanted to make the

[1:44:57] court aware that um if you have any interest, I strongly re uh suggest you

[1:45:03] go to that. This will be my third year. And then I just want to make sure

[1:45:08] everyone's aware we have upcoming elections. Early voting starts February

[1:45:13] 17th through the 27th with March which March 3rd is election day.

[1:45:20] So I strongly recommend that you know we're all educating ourselves. There's

[1:45:25] some candidates here in the room. Um and I want to wish y'all all the best of

[1:45:30] luck. Um but um I'm really excited about the upcoming election and I just hope

[1:45:36] the rest of the folks are that's all I got. At least somebody's excited about

[1:45:40] the upcoming election. >> That's cuz I'm not campaigning.

[1:45:46] Like, yeah, me and K are looking. We're like,

[1:45:50] » we ain't excited. >> I remember.

[1:45:53] » All right. So, so uh I did send you uh an email uh and I sent I also forwarded

[1:46:00] it to Ramonito Rodri. I just got this invitation. It's a uh

[1:46:07] virtual webinar via via Microsoft Teams and it's regarding the rural ambulance

[1:46:12] services grant. It's from the program supervisor. Okay.

[1:46:16] » At the controllers's office. >> Wonderful.

[1:46:18] » And you can RSVP. The meeting is January 21st.

[1:46:23] » Okay. I think I in the morning. >> So I'm I'm hope I'm hoping and she's the

[1:46:29] program supervisor, so she's directing traffic on this. So, she may be the one

[1:46:34] that gets to answer it obviously. >> Thank you so much. So, so uh I don't

[1:46:39] know if I'll get in on that. I'm going to try.

[1:46:42] And then the other thing is you were discussing uh EMS. I'll I had a meeting

[1:46:48] on Sunday and let me tell you who's on board with this thing. Well, I guess let

[1:46:52] me start and I kind of I kind of teased you all with it at the last meeting.

[1:46:56] uh when the federal government passed the CR uh there were billions of dollars

[1:47:02] uh uh put into the CR for rural healthcare and then they define it and

[1:47:09] surprise surprise we meet every definition and not only us the entire

[1:47:14] far west Texas. So, we met with Judge Jojo McKenzie uh from Hudsmith County.

[1:47:22] Uh Judge Udas is on board, although he wasn't present, but Judge Udas from um

[1:47:28] Culver County. Judge Curtis Evans from Jeff Davis County. Judge Hennington in

[1:47:33] Brewster. Myself, Judge Dale Kurthers from Carol County, Sanderson.

[1:47:41] And we are um we have a a uh we're going to we're going to try to tackle this

[1:47:50] from a far west Texas effort and we're going to try to go after about $30

[1:47:56] million of this. Now the Texas the monies have already gone from the

[1:48:00] federal government to the state. The money is now in the states it's in the

[1:48:05] state's hands and they will be awarding money. the amount that's going to be

[1:48:09] distributed to Texas is about 300 million. We we suspect that with our

[1:48:15] demographics, our geography, uh, and the and the definitions that

[1:48:20] we're going to have a hell of an opportunity to go and seek about $30

[1:48:23] million in funding for five years. And we're going to do this, like I said, uh,

[1:48:28] we're all going to show up to Austin and and and push this. Um, I have yesterday

[1:48:35] I spoke with uh uh Representative Morales. He's all in. Uh, I spoke with

[1:48:41] uh Senator Blanco. He's all in. They're ready to support us. We're probably

[1:48:46] going to be going out very soon and asking for resolutions

[1:48:50] um in in accordance with this from the city of Marpa, city of Pidio, the

[1:48:56] hospital district, and then of course I'm going to ask the uh a resolution

[1:49:00] from the commissioner's court. Um, can school districts get involved in that,

[1:49:05] too? >> You know, you you bring something up

[1:49:08] because I know that um that is something they've been asking for is is access to

[1:49:16] uh to rural health care, but they have nurses, they have but I mean they don't

[1:49:23] have vaccinations, they don't have they can't do these things. So, how can we

[1:49:26] better serve the schools? Uh it doesn't hurt. I think the more resolutions we

[1:49:31] have, it's gonna it's going to bring a big spot

[1:49:36] » uh on us. But um the beauty of it is in this model and and before I come and ask

[1:49:43] you for a resolution, I'm going to I'm going to bring you a model of what this

[1:49:47] looks like. But there's obviously a central unit in the middle and it's

[1:49:52] comprised of all the county judges and then the providers. Uh and then the

[1:49:57] monies will be distributed to clinics in Sierra Blanca Van Horn uh Fort Davis

[1:50:05] Balmer Mara uh Alpine Tingua Anderson. Uh and

[1:50:13] this model is going to have it's going to be in lock step with our EMS's

[1:50:17] because one thing that all these little communities have they have an EMS and

[1:50:22] they've all experience that EMS is getting to be a bigger and bigger and

[1:50:26] bigger portion of their budgets and it's very tough on them. And so this is going

[1:50:31] to be something where um the clinics would have access to an extra set of

[1:50:36] eyes and ears through a paramedic or EMT um and then there will be funding

[1:50:41] available uh and a better mechanism to move these resources around wherever

[1:50:48] they're needed. >> So um

[1:50:50] » that's exciting. >> It's very exciting. I'm excited for it.

[1:50:54] So, all I'm going to ask is just is keep your, you know, keep u keep your minds

[1:51:00] open to the idea that I think this is good for all of us.

[1:51:04] » I talked to all of them. I talked to Judge Evans once a little while back

[1:51:09] about similar things. >> Yeah.

[1:51:11] » Yeah. >> I agree.

[1:51:15] » We're the stepchild of the state and you know, we really are.

[1:51:19] » Yeah. uh have to make them look. >> Yeah. No, and and that's what we're

[1:51:25] seeing. I mean, there's rural Texas >> and there's rural Texas war. That's it.

[1:51:30] And if you got oil, you're not worried about anything. All right. So, so again,

[1:51:34] we're hoping that if we go in concerted effort with um all these counties, rural

[1:51:40] counties that meet the definition and and it's a pilot program and it's only

[1:51:44] five years. The goal should be at the end of five years to be self-

[1:51:47] sustaining. and we've already identified two or three things where we're really

[1:51:51] doing things. We're not uh there's there's u opportunities out there for on

[1:51:57] the matrix the way you charge Medicaid or Medicare. There's mechanisms that

[1:52:02] we've never even approached because nobody knows how to do it. So, we're

[1:52:05] missing out on a lot of monies. Um, so I think this will be um, if we're able to

[1:52:12] solve rural health care problems in far west Texas, I think we can probably do a

[1:52:18] great service to, uh, the greater continental United States.

[1:52:22] » Yep. >> So,

[1:52:24] um, that's it. >> Is that your campaign speech?

[1:52:29] » But, um, yeah, I mean I mean I think it's good.

[1:52:33] » Yeah, I think it's good. >> I think it is good. Um, so I don't have

[1:52:37] anything else. I'll entertain a motion. Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, Miss Pan, do you have

[1:52:41] anything? Uh, anyone else? Miss Sanchez? >> Yes.

[1:52:45] » Yeah. Uh, and Karina, do you have anything?

[1:52:49] » You know, it's all good. All right. So, I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn.

[1:52:52] » I move we adjourn. >> All in favor? I. It's 11:53 a.m.

[1:53:08] Thanks for coming. >> Come on.

[1:53:23] How are you?

[1:53:41] » Right. >> Works well.

[1:53:43] » I was gonna say tracker supplies. >> This is a Christmas gift and I hold on.

[1:53:50] uncover it. I wonder if you could do that uh that uh parental leave if you

[1:53:57] can do it retroactively. >> I'm not sure. We look into it.

[1:54:01] » I know we could do to be effective immediately, but I mean I would I would

[1:54:05] I would say we look into it. Yeah. Retroactive.

[1:54:09] » Yeah. As soon as possible. >> Yeah. Thank you. I think ours are very

[1:54:20] Take it. >> I greatly appreciate it.

[1:54:22] » No, take take it from me. I'm telling you, uh I am the proudest grandfather

[1:54:28] ever. And I'm going to tell you something. We're gonna do

[1:54:32] » and and the same thing. I mean, uh when my daughter had to go back to work, I

[1:54:38] thought it's not

[1:54:44] too

[1:54:48] late.

[1:54:59] Yeah, I may meet you over there. >> Thank you.

[1:55:10] You want your

[1:55:31] » Thank you.

[1:55:49] Buddy, you got another one coming at you.

[1:55:57] » Daddy, I promise to get to my

[1:56:05] But I can do it through virtual.

[1:56:25] of course >> so we need him

[1:56:29] » but um no he's he's married to actually

[1:56:35] mothers he's a guy never been in trouble for like drinking driving drugs

[1:56:40] just um well some speeding and his driver license invalid invalid

[1:56:46] » what did you put the plan >> um he's asking okay well he works in the

[1:56:50] on the counties too work he works in that he also put in county

[1:56:58] » and then he's asking for more than 12 hours he does drive

[1:57:05] he's asking he doesn't need to interlock because he's had um yeah weekends we

[1:57:10] work on the weekend too

[1:57:14] as long as he doesn't go to and here's my gonna be my as long as I don't find

[1:57:19] out that you went to go see George straight in.

[1:57:22] » Yeah, I know, right? So,

[1:57:25] » yeah. Yeah. So, and that's basically all the what you have to tell him. Just tell

[1:57:29] him like >> So, what time is he at?

[1:57:32] » We can do it for Thank you so much. >> Yeah. I'll set it up here for him. He's

[1:57:36] going to come in. >> Okay.

[1:57:37] » And I'll of course put the information in your

[1:57:42] » There was another girl that >> Yes. But her

[1:57:47] she has to get the interlock. Yeah. So, she's got to do all of that first. Yeah.

[1:57:53] So, she said she'd come back to us. Okay. And but we do have another one

[1:57:58] » sometime at the end of the month. I got to look.

[1:58:01] » But yeah, his might be his driving record is a little

[1:58:08] » Yeah. So, you might want I don't even think it's been it's just been like a

[1:58:12] failure to appear and like stuff like that.

[1:58:15] that kid that we the other day. Is she still did he get in trouble?

[1:58:23] » I think the same day

[1:58:31] » I saw that when I came in. >> Yes, you did. when I came in and the

[1:58:38] next day I was

[1:58:43] » okay. >> There's no

[1:58:48] understanding some of them.

[1:58:53] I taught some kids

[1:59:02] » extremely intelligent, extremely talented.

[1:59:07] » Did you have the treasur's report? >> I signed it.

[1:59:13] » Yeah.

[1:59:18] They're known >> just angry and

[1:59:24] I mean, there was a couple of them could have could have been

[1:59:28] » anything they wanted. >> It's just a waste.

[1:59:33] » I I don't know that you've ever been

[1:59:40] » I don't know that you've ever been uh to a a state prison. I've never been or or

[1:59:47] a federal prison. And I want to tell you and

[1:59:51] as you know you there are some of the most beautiful men I've ever met in

[1:59:57] prison handsome good looking >> you know just everything going the looks

[2:00:03] the smart stuff and they just they can't get out of their own way and they can't

[2:00:08] get out of their own way and we're spending 30 years

[2:00:12] » in a pen makes no sense to them just to waste the library. That's like

[2:00:18] I will say this. I thought I thought a band

[2:00:23] senior class was the most criminally minded bunch

[2:00:28] ever met. And by the time they were 21, four of the class of 20ome

[2:00:38] of them beat a kid up during college. High school beat a kid with a baseball

[2:00:42] bat. One of them they decided to have a

[2:00:46] senior party. >> So they just drove out and country cut a

[2:00:49] fence and drove in there and killed the cow.

[2:00:54] » All of them were dealing drugs.

[2:00:59] » The funnest one I had to Harvey

[2:01:06] Harvey. >> He probably shouldn't have been doing

[2:01:10] this anyway.

[2:01:13] He got busted in his

[2:01:20] lips.

[2:01:27] He should

[2:01:31] I asked one time. I said and he wrote he wrote I was in how he knew that.

[2:01:39] He said well he'll miss Mr. I ride better than you.

[2:01:46] » Got a better pickup. >> That's exactly what he told me.

[2:01:53] » Just one for our record.

[2:02:02] » And he didn't lie. He did have.

[2:02:08] So, is Brad gonna do the welding? >> Yeah, he's doing it.

[2:02:12] » All right. started. >> We told

[2:02:16] you to get that class.

[2:02:34] » Yeah, I saw

[2:02:38] » that's good. Yeah, when I was pregnant,

[2:02:52] » thank you.

[2:03:04] I'm gonna make sure

[2:03:08] » but Yeah. Um

[2:03:34] » he did.

[2:03:41] Yeah.

[2:03:52] » I know the rudder bridge crew. >> Oh, I bet they are. I bet they are.

[2:04:02] We'll see you guys.

[2:04:23] » Yes, I came to prek prison. Then I graduated from this computer.

[2:04:39] » Non occupational altitude. >> Yeah.

[2:04:42] » Yeah. I've been doing a lot of studies on

[2:04:45] Yeah. I already have things printed out and they're ready to go now since

[2:04:48] they're all coming in.

[2:04:55] here. Is he going to is he trying to talk about them or something about them

[2:05:00] or is he trying to >> Yeah, he's got he's got a bunch of

[2:05:03] little training rooms and and you know it's over there where Mac used to have

[2:05:08] his shooting range, >> right?

[2:05:10] » So the agreement >> I think that there was a point in time

[2:05:13] where Quo wanted to come in and try to get us to close Washington Street

[2:05:19] » and you know that never happened because that's a heavily used No, that's your

[2:05:23] precinct. Yeah, he he never talked to me.

[2:05:26] » This was before you um before you came. >> Um I think he you know I said what is

[2:05:34] what is this? He wants his own private street, you know.

[2:05:38] » But I I did not when I started looking at this I was like, "Oh, that's got to

[2:05:42] be Quattro." And then when you look at the names

[2:05:46] » Yeah. >> King Street, I'm like, "Of course it's

[2:05:51] a name." >> Right. I thought it was the king or

[2:05:54] something. >> No, that would be James King. Quattro is

[2:05:59] not a

[2:06:12] » This is the way to go. >> Oh yeah.

[2:06:16] » I was sitting there going, "Oh, yeah.

[2:06:35] Thank you so much.

[2:06:48] print it out to give them what to do after we sign the order

[2:06:53] because I don't have to explain it.

[2:07:01] » Yeah, it explain it explains that to them in all of this. I went and found a

[2:07:05] website that had it and I printed it and I have Yeah. So, his driving record,

[2:07:10] SR22 and his petition. Those are all copies.

[2:07:15] Okay, let's see what

[2:07:20] I promise you.

[2:07:23] » Okay. I had another

[2:07:29] one. I think if you attend there's a meeting.

[2:07:33] » Oh yeah, I saw that. Yeah, I saw that. I'll think I think it would be good.

[2:07:38] » Yeah. >> So if you get a chance is it where's it?

[2:07:45] » It's in my hands. >> It's in my

[2:07:49] » Oh, I thought you were talking about the gentleman who

[2:07:53] wanted to talk with you. So which which one are you talking about?

[2:07:56] » It's uh it's I'm trying to remember what it is.

[2:08:00] It's related to our office and the meeting is in my hands, but I have

[2:08:06] » and if you can't make it, don't worry about it.

[2:08:08] » Okay, I'll just think about just think about it.

[2:08:10] » Do you know what it's for?

[2:08:15] » I know. I know. I did it for a reason. >> And you flagged it.

[2:08:19] » I Okay, I'll go look. >> Okay.

[2:08:25] » So, thank you for forwarding that. story for good to me too. I'm ready.

[2:08:34] So hopefully they'll answer all the wives.

[2:08:39] And that's I'm telling you that they

[2:08:45] they get a mandate from the from the legislators

[2:08:49] and then they give it to a bureaucrat and then the bureaucrats. What are they

[2:08:53] going to do? What are the legislators going to do if a bureaucrat says okay in

[2:08:58] my opinion it is the spirit of it is there rap

[2:09:04] but some doesn't add stuff to it >> I

[2:09:10] you know it's just really sad because um you know I know Troy and Jesse they

[2:09:15] don't want that's clear but but you know the the task force is working really

[2:09:22] well together Um, and we've got bids that come in under the 250 for both of

[2:09:31] them. So, it would we'd be able to take care of both cities. So, who's an

[2:09:37] elected official to say no, only one, you know. So, you'll see I just heard

[2:09:44] from um No, this is Ross.

[2:09:50] So, okay.

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