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confirmation security contract 31 people were
period That's the salary for as
31 okay so
I welcome to the Tuesday June 4th 2024 tant County Commissioner's Court meeting
I now call the meeting to order Tim O'Hare County Judge present L Charles
Brooks commissioner Precinct one pres Alisa Simmons commissioner Precinct two
here Gary FAS commissioner Precinct Three here man Ramirez commissioner
precinct for constitutes of quum all right thank you today's invocation will
be led by Pastor Joshua Scaro of Countryside Bible um last night one of
uh the folks in the sheriff office Lieutenant Jose Cortez was having dinner
with his wife and children um had a medical episode that's very serious he's
in the hospital this morning with uh no brain activity so please keep him he's
only 41 please keep Lieutenant Cortez and his uh family in your prayers and I
have asked Pastor Scaro to also pray for him this morning please rise for the
invocation and
pledges let's pray Father in Heaven We Praise You for Your
greatness that you are Majestic and holy and Sovereign over the universe we
praise you for your goodness that you're kind and generous that you provide
salvation to us through Jesus Christ pray for anyone here who has not
acknowledged their sinfulness and submitted to Christ that they would even
be saved today I pray that you would bless the men and women in our local
government especially those in this meeting today that they would work hard
to administer their duties in a way that reflects you your Justice your kindness
your compassion and integrity pray that we the people would respect and honor
the rightful government that you've put over us for our good and For Your Glory
we know that you God are are so Sovereign alone over all things we can
trust in you nothing surprises you we can submit to your rule and Authority
pray that we would conduct ourselves appropriately God this morning we pray
especially for lieutenant Cortez and we pray uh that you would be kind to him
that you would bring miraculous healing in his body that that you would restore
him completely but God we don't know the
future only you know the future and we pray that whatever your plan and good
plan is for him and his family that you would bring them peace and
comfort even today in this this difficult situation we pray for the
doctors and nurses caring for him that they would care with skill and
excellence and do everything they can in their power and we pray again that you
would just be kind to him and his family we thank you for all these things this
morning we ask in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ amen amen amen thank you
Pastor please join me in the pledge of allegiance to our flag I pledge Al to
the flag of the United States of America and to the repic for which it stands one
nation indivisible Li andice for all and now to the Texas
flag the Texas flag I ALG to Texas one under God one
avable thank you you may be
seated agenda announcements yes sir good morning judge and Commissioners just a
few announcements this morning uh number one uh F1 for the criminal district
attorney we're going to hold that item until after closed we'll be seeing
receiving a briefing and closed on that one uh item
G2 Facilities Management has asked that we hold that item until later
meeting uh under reports and business item A4 is G2 on consent uh G2 was on
consent correct we're holding that item for a
later a later
meeting uh under reports and business under the administrator sections items
A4 and A5 are being pulled from consent due to audience
participation uh as well as E1 one is also being pulled for audience
participation uh and just one final note under purchasing l14 there is an updated
Court Communication in your red folders A4 and A5 are consent pull due to
speakers and then what was the next one E1 it's Criminal Courts
Administration E1 yes sir which is not consent or is it it is consent we're
pulling it from consent due to audience participation
it was consent that's all I have sir okay thank
you thank [Music]
you all right do we have any announcements from the court
members all right seeing none we will move to the proclamations resolutions
and presentation section it is that time again for employee
recognition and I know we have many people here celebrating their
anniversaries and I'm going to talk about them as soon
as I find this so uh today's reception after we recognize all of you will be on
the fourth floor room 403 instead of behind here as we do frequently so room
403 uh I'm going to ask all of our five-year employees to stand as I call
your name uh the first is Mina aluri Nara simha
Bakula Ashley Chavez David
Collins Maris Garcia chantler Jones that's a cool name
Cynthia King razn
Kumar Nestor Lal Santiago Christine
Lawler Maria Markham Eric
martinz Joseph matys Janette Mondragon
Joe Munoz Jr zna narv
abreo Julie Nichols Sabrina
quania Elizabeth Ramirez Allison
rener Kristen Sanders and Annie Vu thank you all very much for your five
years we appreciate
you all right next we have our 10-year employees please stand as I call your
name Shan Brewer Kenneth
divers William duban Cindy
Franco Jennifer
Gabbert Trisha Gardner Courtney
hul William Johnson Arya
McCall charia Morrison Barbara
Munoz Tamisha Parks Michelle
rundles bisha Shaw Lauren
Smith shatia Smith Hector
viesca Carlos Wilson senior and christe
young thank you all very much for your 10e
we appreciate you all right now for our 15-year
employees uh please stand as I call your name Crystal
Albert Aaron kofer Ryan
down Dustin Gerald Ronda
little Polly Maxwell Alexander puit
pan prinsley I can hear my own name saying something
from 5 seconds ago Jessica
toar Kimberly Wesley and Lee
worth thank you all very much for 15 years we appreciate
you now for our 20-year employees please stand as I call your name Feliz Johnson
Julie Martinez Aaron
Perez Troy Shores Monica
Tipton and Rachel Wright thank you all for 20
years all right now we have our 25-year employees I'm going to ask you all to
stand individually uh first up is Penny bunch
where are you Penny hello Penny how are you 25 years with the Sheriff's Office
Deputy Bunch born in Fort Worth went to high school at Arlington Heights uh one
daughter something that no one knows about her she collects old hand Stitch
Quilts what she likes to do for fun she likes nerdy stuff like digging for
crystals or jy's her words not mine um other job titles she's had with
the county directions officer Jailer um most memorable moment here at the county
was when um got her police her peace officer
license What She Likes most is her family spending time with them and she
has nine grandchildren so thank you very much Deputy
BX we appreciate you for 25 years next we have Robert rundles is
Robert here with us hi Robert how are you sir Deputy rundles 25 years um works
at Constable Precinct 2 born in Dallas I went to Carter High
School trying to guess your age were you were you there in
88 now was a good year um went to a college at UTA and tarant County College
a fact that no one knows about him he likes to paint and to read
books uh what he likes to do for fun he likes to travel and take road trips with
his family um he's been with the county he was a Jailer for 5 years a bayth for
one year a criminal warrant Deputy for six years spent six years as a patrol
sergeant and one year as a Judicial Sergeant uh what he likes most about his
employment with tarant county is that it has allowed him to be a provider to his
family and to live a quiet peaceful life and we thank you very much sir for your
25 years
all right next we
have uh is Valerie Allen here which I don't think Valerie's
coming but she's with the 297th district court been with us 25 years if you're
listening or watching Valerie thank you very much for your 25 years of dedicated
service to tarant County
all right next we have Jennifer hooks is Jennifer here hi Jennifer um been with
us also 25 years her job titled is Criminal floor manager she was born in
Harford City Indiana hooer and uh went to high school at
Richland uh she has four children and what she likes to do for
fun swimming and watching her boys play baseball her boys was 17 14 and 8
um she has also been um in reception and booking in the jail she did that for 3
years uh she was promoted to the bond desk which she did for 12 years and then
transferred to the courts where she's been for 10 her most memorable moment
was getting stuck in the elevator for 45 minutes her first day of work
wow well you had no place to go but up no no pun intended
um What She Likes is that even though she's been here a good long while
there's always something else to learn and improve on Jennifer thank you so
much for your 25 years we appreciate
you all right is Cynthia Hicks here all right hi Cynthia how are you
good so I don't have a form for you but you are with the county clerk's office
you've been with us 25 years and we are very grateful for your 25 years of
service to Taran County thank you
Ed heac Mr Ed where are you 25 years with us Precinct 3 equipment maintenance
supervisor you might know him and a great
cook and an even better mechanic 25 years with us Precinct 3
equipment maintenant supervisor born in haltam City went to haltam high school
uh spent four years at County junior college got his associates degree in
automotive technology and small engines three children three grandchildren he
been a member of the Knights of Columbus for 48 years and he is a fourth degree
Knight um what he likes to do for fun Smoke Barbecue cook help friends and
family um he's active in his church and he's uh known commissioner
Fus and judge Whitley a very long time and participated in United Way events
and then home for Precinct 3 events um the best I noticed a theme Here the best
times cooking was with the Knights of Columbus for over 20 years cooking for
Special Olympics at UTA in Arlington on Memorial Day weekend they would cook
lunch for 1,500 people on Friday and Saturday um until the Special Olympics
move their annual event to San Antonio but he continues to help with special uh
Olympics and local events he's also been a mechanic of heavy road equipment his
most meor mble moment the birth of his children and
grandchildren what he likes the most after 23 years maintaining and running a
cemetery he found himself looking for a job took the job at the camp you've
worked for 48 years you don't look old enough to work that long after 23 years
maintaining and running a cemetery he was looking for a job took the job at
the county for temp work until he could find a job he was actually looking for
and uh it's 25 years of temp work I guess if you maybe you'll find something
new um he has enjoyed his entire time here
it is like family to him he served under three judges and two Commissioners and
he told Gary commissioner Fus that he would wait and retire in December with
him he couldn't have asked for a better career and uh when he retires he will
continue to take care of his wife who has a disability after a surgery gone
bad 10 years ago will'll continue to work with the Knights of Columbus and
church with their Good Deeds he also volunteers and manages the church
Cemetery for the last 25 years and will'll continue to do so you seem like
a fantastic guy thank you Mr Ed for your 25 years of service to Taran
County all right darinda Cummings darinda where are you Hi darinda how are
you so they told me that you are the glue that holds the precinct for
maintenance team together um 25 years you're now the business manager you're
born in McKenna as she graduated from AEL High School um she has two daughters
uh one is a graduate Alisa is a graduate of Baylor and an attorney and then
Britney is The Graduate is a graduate from ouu she's a nurse practitioner she
has three grandchildren ranging from ages 3 to 16 fact no one knows about her
she has a real estate license uh she likes to travel for fun um other job
titles in the county she has actually been in this same position for all 25
years she's been here she took the position temporarily while an employee
was out on medical leave and still here today um her most memorable moment 911
uh Precinct four is in the flight path of the joint reserve base in me mechum
airport um they hear planes all day long on 911 you only heard fighter jets which
was pretty unsettling and what she likes the most she has great co-workers who
are always eager to help and it's like having an extended family darenda thank
you for your 25 years of service precinct for
all right Evette where are you Evette Collins there you are how are you today
I'm good good uh IET has been with us 30 years and she started in accounts
payable which at that time was in purchasing she her she now works in the
auditor's office Administrative Assistant 3 born in Fort Worth graduated
from Western Hills High School um grad graduated from UTA with a
BBA um she has one son um who graduated um from Texas Tech his undergrad and he
has a masters from Tech in molecular pathology um this is really cool um is
there anybody in here who has ever heard of Bob trick Woods anybody so this is
many years ago but her dad Bob trick Woods played for the Harlem glob trods
pretty cool um something no one knows about her she
would like to write an inspirational book and am I right that Marcus Haynes
um you know him very well I think a lot of people would know Marcus Haynes he
was kind of the the star of the globe charg at that time and he recruited your
dad to join another team when he left the Harlem Globe triers right yeah
pretty cool um what she likes to do for fun um just share happy moments with
family and friends um she's also been an accounts payable Clerk
uh most memorable moment there are many but one that stands out is the reaction
of fellow co-workers when bats were flying around the auditor's
office um what she likes the most uh she has gained a wealth of
knowledge and met some very interesting people she's also very thankful for the
wonderful friendship she has gained while working here um she is an active
member of Eastland Church of Christ and she is just a spectacular
asset to tarant County and thank you so much for your 30 years of service to
us okay Frankie McGill is with the Sheriff's Office Frankie is not able to
be here today but has been with us for 30 years so let's please give a warm
thank you and appreciation to
Frankie is Carmen Garza here Carmen are you with
us okay so Carmen is has been with us 30 years Carmen's a legal assistant born in
Fort Worth graduated from Trimble Tech she has one
child um in fact no one knows about her if you know you know if not you're not
supposed to know so um what she likes to do for fun spend time with her husband
Moses and her son Maddox shop and read um in 1994 she was the receptionist
for the intake division in the DA's office for less than 30 days she was
then promoted to legal secretary in the intake division her most memorable
moments working offsite at the Fort Worth PD facility and transitioning from
paper case filings to electronic case filings she enjoys coming to work and
working with a great group of talented people let's give a big round of
applause to Carmen Garza for 30 years
all right also not attending uh lesie Stewart from
Transportation Lesley's been with us 30 years let's give lesie a big thank you
for 30 years of
service and last but not least also can't be here today David paa who is in
the deputy warrant division David is our only um 35y year anniversary today uh he
was born in Fort Worth graduated from from Arlington Heights High School did
some college at tarant County College has two
kids um he likes to hunt fish cook barbecue and spend time with his family
he's also been a peer support team member with the
county um his most memorable moments are just
those times when he helps others that just need someone to talk to um he is
also retiring on July 31st after 35 years he will miss his job and lots of
the people that he works with he's worked in the warrant division for the
past 28 years um he has been involved in a lot of arrests there have been several
people that have helped him lots of good people covering him too many to think
it's been fun and very challenging at times and David enjoy your retirement
next month and thank you very much for your 35 years of
service all right that we have a motion to receive and file employee recognition
I'll make that second we have a second please cast your
votes all right that passes unanimously thank you all very much one more big
round of applause for all our
employees and if you would like to go to the reception feel free to get up and do
so now room 403 on the fourth floor [Music]
Wilder leading the way as
usual did you watch that I have a DVR I haven't watched it
yet do you know what happened yes I do do you know how it happened no for free
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yeah all right we have the next one National blood Don
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day
okay all right to continue the meeting our next agenda item is a proclamation
for National Blood Donor day commissioner Fus well we're very happy
to U participate in National Blood Donor day is something
that I know that tan county has always taken very
seriously and we uh always have a number of people that uh are are donating and
we greatly appreciate uh all they do
whereas June 14th
2024 is now National Blood Donor day recognizing Americans who volunteer with
dedication selfishness and
compassion and those who donate blood to help patients and urgent need of
life-saving transfusions and
whereas Carter blood care originated in tan County in 1951
one serving citizens throughout the fort wor metro area as well as over 50
counties across Texas as one of our state's largest and leading nonprofit
Community Blood Centers though though the collection
testing stores and distribution of more than 400,000
uh four 440,000 units of blood products each year and whereas the mission of
Carter blood care is to save lives by making
transfusions possible is itself made made possible
through the support of tan County blood donors and whereas tan County Imports
Carter blood care life saving Mission and longtime role in our community now
therefore be resolved that we the Commissioners Court of Teran County do
hereby Proclaim June
14th 2424 as National Blood Donor day in tant
county and encourage our citizens to donate blood or volunteer their time
with Carter blood care further we publicly salute the service of blood
donors in our community and in communities
Nationwide in witness here of we have here and to set our hand and cause the
Seal of tering County to be a fixed this fourth day of June
2024 and I move approval second we have a motion a second to approve this item
any discussion all right please cast your
votes all right passes your
name he's going to come down for pictures and then any if you'd like to
say a few words you're welcome to do so okay I was the elevator you were
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thank you commissioner for this recognition if for your service to the
citizens of tarant County for supporting Carter blood Care's mission to save
lives by making transfusion possible June 14th World Blood Donor day raises
awareness of the importance of blood donors in our community and in fact
their help is needed every day because the need for blood is
non-stop blood donors help children across tarant County who are fighting
cancer and sickle cell anemia older adults with health issues mothers going
through difficult deliveries and open heart surgery and organ transplant
patients it takes just 1 hour to donate blood and give back to your
community I encourage everyone to join Taran County's blood drive on Friday
June 7th from 700 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. you can learn more about blood donation by
visiting carterbloodcare.org thank you again for this wonderful honor and we
are so grateful for your support thank
you judge might be recognized for a point of personal privilege
certainly I would like to recognize a very special guest that we have with us
this morning that would be Susan Redford the executive director of the Texas
Association of counties which represents all
254 counties in the state of Texas she is officed
in Austin and
uh presents a rather aggressive agenda representing counties before the state
legislature and they do a bunch of other services for counties Susan would you
come up and have a remark or two [Music]
good morning judge good morning Commissioners commissioner thank you for
recognizing me um on behalf of Texas Association of counties um I do want to
extend a a sincere thank you to Taran County for your longtime membership uh
many members of this court have been very active in our association uh over
our history and instrumental leaders to of you are graduates of our leadership
program which we're always grateful to to have you at participate in that um I
look forward to to spending time with um with you judge and commissioner Simmons
over the next few months getting to know you better seeing how we can better
serve you and help you I do want to thank commissioner fius and commissioner
Brooks for your longtime Service uh you will be dearly missed once U you retire
at the end of the year and have been longtime friends so thank you for the
recognition thank you for your membership and partnership and I look
forward to working with you more thank you thank you s
thank you all right next up we come to our
consent agenda um do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda as amended so
move second all right we have a motion and a second any discussion all right
please cast your votes all right the consent agenda is
approved unanimously uh one of those items on the consent agenda was a an
agreement to provide Road funding for city of Keller and uh here in the
audience with us today is the mayor of Keller Arman mazani Arma will you stand
thank you thank you mayor [Music]
yes all right that brings us to the regular agenda and the first item
up on the regular agenda is a public hearing it's a public hearing to
consider placement of no parking signs on winds Scott Clover Road in Precinct
one so the public hearing is now open is there anyone who wishes to speak to this
item to consider placement of these no parking signs on winds Scott
Clover all right seeing none I'll entertain a motion to close the public
hearing move to close the public hearing all right I'll second so we have a
second Motion in a second any discussion there all right please cast your
vote passes unanimously the public hearing is now closed your honor I'm are
we agendized to approve the the stop sign the uh no parking sign yes sir it's
later in the transportation section it's in the transport yes sir okay okay next
up uh we have the administrator section the first item on that is appointment of
the public health director morning Court members it is requested that the
Commissioner's Court appoint a director of the Taran County Public Health
Department and health authority your honor I
move to appoint Dr William Bryan bird as the Director of Taran County
Public Health Department and as the health authority for tarant County to be
effective July 1st 2024 in making this motion I would note
that Dr bird is a competent physician with a reputable professional standing
is legally qualified to practice medicine in Texas and is a resident of
Fort Worth Texas he is therefore qualified to serve as Teran County's
Health Authority I would add
as just a personal observation that I've known Dr bird for a good number of
years uh have worked with him in his capacity and as a member of the fort bur
city council that goes back several years and I am uh
pleased I am thrilled actually that uh
he sees leadership of our public health [Music]
authority to be his next adventure in life and a mission to which he will
dedicate his time talents and service and I welcome you to the Taran County
family Dr bir all right thank you commissioner Brooks we have a motion
I'll second it any discussion from the court all right seeing none cast your
vote all right it passes unanimously welcome aboard Dr Brian bird
please feel free to say a few words thank you judge and thank you
Commissioners thank you commissioner Brooks for that
moving introduction and motion and I've thoroughly enjoyed my relationship with
you sir and working with you in the public capacity and I want to thank this
court for trusting me to lead this very important department it's an honor to
get to do it it feels good to get back into public service after a few years
Hiatus and U I've thoroughly enjoyed meeting with each of you in the past
four or five days and hearing your vision for public health um for the
department and your expectations of me and I take that very very seriously and
I appreciate your time uh we as a department as soon as I dive in after
July 1 and get to know everybody and get to know what we're doing we continue to
be a listening organization we will listen to all the
stakeholders listen to all the leaders in the health departments around the
counties and and and the leaders in Taran County of all the different health
organizations and we will be an organization that works hard that's
conscientious uh we will work according to our strategic plan and we will work
uh very diligently to carry out the mission of the organization so um I want
to thank uh Mr Chandler Meritt for uh trusting me on this I won't let you down
sir um and I would just be in error if I didn't point out that I'm here with my
amazing wife Stephanie um who uh commissioner Brooks referred to
yesterday as one of his shirros and uh I agree with you sir she's an amazing
human being amazing leader in the anti-human trafficking world so so with
that I'll close thank you very much judge thank you Dr
bird just further I would like to thank Tom
Stallings our Deputy County Administrator for serving as the interim
Public Health director and for keeping the ship on
course uh thank you Tom for all you
did you you beat me to it you took the words right out of my mouth so all right
next up on the agenda is approval of out of state travel requests I'll move to
approve these out of state travel requests do I have a second second I
have a motion and a second any discussion all right please cast your
vote right passes unanimously okay next
up is going to be A4 removed from consent and
A4 is looking at approving a letter
and unclaimed property Capital credits for Cy's form requesting the Texas C
trol or Public Accounts remits tarant County unclaimed funds under chapter 74
of the Texas property code take the words out of my
mouth move approval okay we is there anything you're going to say no no okay
all right we have a motion to approve I'll second it we do have a
public speaker um any questions for Megan before we let her
go all right read
bills
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[Music] okay uh okay we have a motion and a
second any discussion on this item all right seeing none please cast
your vote all right this passes
unanimously next up also removed from consent is
A5 A5 is adopting an order relating to the issuance of solid waste disposals
revenue bonds by the mission Economic Development Corporation for the benefit
of Republic Services Inc for certain facilities located in Taran County and
throughout Texas uh the only additional information to add on this one is that
Taran County this does not impose any payment on Taran County we are asked to
approve these because the facility is located in tarant County so I just
wanted to make that a point of clarification do we get a do we get a
fee for we do not get a fee for this at all this is simply there are seven I
believe seven nine facility locations spread throughout uh for this spe
specific facility it's they're getting 13 million of the overall 133 million
Bond allocation but this does not impose any financial obligation on the county
we don't repay the bonds we're not responsible for the bonds we are a pass
through based off of the IRS code uh they have to legally require our
approval prior to the issuance of the bonds it gets packaged up and goes to
the Attorney General's office for consideration after all the approvals
have been sought okay uh all right any questions for
Megan move approval second okay we have a motion
and a second questions yes I don't I don't I
have a bunch of questions but um I called May
at about 6:15 this morning
um my concern is
process so I saw this agendized
and didn't have any details about it and so uh we've got to do better uh Chandler
um i' I've talked about this before um I've got to be briefed on this stuff um
I would I would guess that Commissioners Brooks and Fus are probably old hats at
something like this um but just to see anything with Millions attached to it
anything with what millions millions on the agenda um I'm I I need to be briefed
on it um so hopefully we will get to a a point where I'm not saying this over and
over again um so I still do have a lot of questions
and uh I I expect you guys to show up at my office to to take those questions yes
ma'am just Megan and I have already talked this morning about specifically
with debt issuance items that have millions of dollars attached to it we
will be sure that every time no matter what going forward we will make an
appointment with your office to to review these when they come in thank you
okay any other questions for Megan all right we do have some speakers
signed up for this first is Reed bills next is lon
Burnham my name is Reed bills and I'm asking you to pull this item from the
agenda there has been insufficient notice and information provided on this
high dollar proposal making a decision at this time
impossible all right following Mr Burnham we have Daniel
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Bennett good morning everyone um I'm going to remind you of a brief story I
told you before uh a long long many decades ago uh I helped set up the
common cause office here in Texas it was a public interest advocacy group and
they were involv what office common cause the state office in Austin and
it's was set up to help usher in good public policy initiatives by the
legislature open meetings requirements public notice requirements and while I'm
sure it was just a bureaucratic mistake this item is not properly posted
for the public hearing and in fact the video conference of April 12th no one
actually participated or attended and if for no other reason this should be
pulled from the agenda because it may be illegal because it did not comply with
the open meetings requirement and you need to review the application it is a
big dollar item that deserves to have the questions answered the commissioner
Simons is raising thank you thank you following Mr Bennett is dorine
gger Daniel Bennett White Settlement morning judge Commissioners I want to
read the adverstisement that was uh publicly put out there for uh
consideration and it's the language that bothers me it's not so much the process
I I spoke to Mr McCormack he's in Frisco I talked to him this morning about it
the the uh secondary issuer will be Bank of America I do have a problem with Bank
of America I got a problem with all these Money Center Banks I got a problem
with money in Texas in Taran County specifically going out of state on
reissuance and being sold by these Money Money Center Banks there's plenty of
issuers within tan County that could handle $133 million but the Hado count
Mission corporation which I I'm down there quite often I also called the EDC
board down there W you know why they're the front issuer on it on the on it well
they've done some environmental bonds so they have a process in place and under
the government code you have to have a government entity issue these bonds I
get I get the process let me read this it says Republic Services Inc
corporate and or one of the more subsidiaries or Affiliates thereof
doesn't mean Republic specifically it could be Affiliates or subsidiaries okay
it's very Broad and base uh financing or refinancing Capital
Improvements side improvements equipment Acquisitions related to The Borrowers
solid ways to exposal facilities and collections operations including
facilities let me get down to the important issue operations located any
one or more of the following locations within the language
judge they can actually refinance debt now if you're a private entity and you
take on some debt that you become upside down cuz you can't increase due due to
cost so you run out and get some taxfree money to pay off taxable money or
liabilities that you already assumed we don't know where the money's going and
so I look at the documentation for specifics to our $13 million it's not in
the packet what are they going to do with our $13 million that's what I want
to know are they going to do a subsidiary are they going to buy new
trucks are they going to pay off all debt just what are they going to do and
I don't want to be giving corporate welfare out because they're upside down
in a business model we don't know that I'm not I'm not saying they are I'm
saying potentially based on the way the notice is written it could be and I just
want to make sure that we understand where our $13 million if we sign off on
this today how it's going to be used thank you thank you following Miss guer
is Linda
Hanratty Republic Services request for $133 million in bonds from the mission
Economic Development Corporation is to be used to finance infrastructure and
Capital Improvements to solid waste collection and Disposal operations at
nine facilities including only one in tarant county that would be the
Republican facility located on moer Valley Road in Ulus the Tet County bonds
would be for 13 million what exactly will the improvements be in Taran County
I can't tell from the agenda documents why is tarant County joining Mission
which is at the Rio Grand border and other facilities for bonds for our local
solid waste collection why is Mission in hadalo
County the umbrella for all 133 million in bonds we need a lot more information
thank you following Miss hanr is Geral and
Jackie
Haw as a Taran County taxpayer I am concerned about the possible
environmental justice issue surrounding whatever Republic Services plans to do
at 800 Moser Valley Road it is my understanding that this area was an
early African-American settlement and holds meaning for this community the map
shows a sanitary Land Fill already exists in this area I understand that a
public hear you've been told the public hearing to the public hearing nobody
appeared what I want to know okay solid waste disposal is important and it is my
understanding that the county needs more landfill space however this consented
agenda item does not elaborate as we've been told before about how the $13
million all ated to Taran County will be used nor does it discuss any potential
adverse impacts on the surrounding population I think that we owe it to the
residents of that area and people concerned about that area which holds
meaning for them to know exactly what Republic plans to do thank you thank
[Music]
you thank you my name is JN Jackie Co I keep waiting for the day when this
will be a body who seem to be the fiscal conservatives that you claim to be when
I find an item on the agenda that involves uh granting tax relief is what
it really is revenue bonds to Republic Services Inc and I look up for public
services and I find that they are the second largest tax second largest trash
hauler and they're essentially they are a vertically integrated Monopoly they
own the local facilities for collection and they own the disposal facilities
they own it all when I see something produced in the
handout appears to have been created by the
lobbyist for a little economic Development Corporation I mean the
letter sir um there's a letter in support of this package addressed
to judge O'Hare and it was dated in April of
2024 and it appears that all the staff work for this is based on two little
numbers one is a total of $133 million for issuance of bonds for a bunch of
counties and one is a total of $13 million for
Taran County but I don't know what they're going to do with the $13
million what will Republic Services do that is worth 13 million dollar worth of
foregone revenues from the county in order to earn this Bond money how much
money will the bond issuer make and how much money will the lobby for the bond
issuer which is the firm brace will Patterson what how much will they make
what's the budget for this what's the purpose why are we doing it I'm asking
that you pull this from the agenda today and provide us with answers to those
questions so that the rest of you can evaluate realistically is this in our
best interest or not I realize that as a liberal I tend not to be in favor of
corporate welfare and it seems to me like a $13 million donation of revenue
bonds from the county is kind of corporate welfare which might have been
spent on something like child care or education or health care or filling the
potholes on Granbury Road commissioner Brooks that's becoming priority with me
there's one that threatens to swallow my car daily so let's find out where we
really need the money please thank you all right that's all that we have signed
up to speak uh I I would ask the court are you um well I would like to get some
legal advice regarding this project and bonds uh before we take a vote
so are we is there any reason we can't get that
today um in our executive session we can talk about it councel on
okay uh anybody opposed to that no okay all right we'll move forward from A5 at
the moment and may bring it back after executive session so you do have a
motion in a second on the floor on this item right now so how do we I'll
withdraw the motion okay there we go all right uh
[Music] all right
E1 is pulled off entirely or E1 was just pulled off
consent E1 was pulled off consent okay all right that takes us to E1 sir I
believe we have C1 first I believe we have C1 first unless you want to take it
in a different order yeah where are we Bud appropriation yeah I got you yeah
you're right uh budget and risk management discussion of possible action
related to fiscal year 24 appropriation adjustments yes sir move to approve sir
we have a motion and a second any questions comments or
discussion not seeing none please cast your
vote all right that passes
unanimously which now then would bring us to
E1 and what is E1 Criminal Court Administration fiscal year 24 contract
between tant County and MHMR of tant County for the in custody batterers
Intervention Program and Youthful offenders diversion Alternative
Program anybody here to speak to that item from the
staff all right seeing none do we have any questions comments or discussion
from the
court do we have a motion from the court move
all right we have a motion to approve um I'll second that item any
discussion amongst the Court members before we bring up a
speaker all right our speaker on this item is n
[Music]
Terry good morning thank you first off I support this contract but this is not
the first contract between Taran County and MHMR that lapsed at the end of the
previous fiscal year last time the work continued I hope the work continued with
this contract since the contract lapsed on September 30th
2023 I hope the workers continued to get paid and continued to do the work I am
confused that the county requires staff to go to the County commissioners before
accepting donations or before staff can apply for a grant application but we
allow contracts like this where in essence we're
donating time uh without going before the court how many more contracts are
continuing past the date of the signed contract and why I wouldn't do business
with an agency that doesn't pay its bills would you I said this the last
time I am appalled that the judge and the Commissioners are allowing this to
happen on your watch under no circumstances can this practice be
considered good governance how many more contracts are out there like this let's
wrap this up before next fiscal year begins thank
you all right we have a motion and a second on this item any discussion
before voting all right seeing none please cast
your vote all right passes
unanimously uh F1 is held until after closed which takes us to
purchasing I will make a motion to approve items L1 through
5 Second all right we have a motion and a second to approve items L1 through 5
any questions comments or [Music]
discussion all right please cast your vote all right passes
unanimously on number six so I have a question for a couple of
questions on for Helen on 6B
um so the the way you should go there prob oh no you got a mic you're good um
whatever you want the uh just to make sure this is totally clear to everyone
this RFP that you're wanting to do shows an
estimated value it's an annual contract says estimated value of
3816 um you don't actually believe the number is going to be that high no sir
okay what do you anticipate it will come in at anywhere between 120 and 1 15 and
that's for the initial purchase and setup that's not an annual 120 or 150
hit to the budget no sir okay the number 3816 so with your number of it should be
between 120 and 150 and the number that we see
381 that's I mean on your low end that's more than triple
why does that number get put on this agenda I believe the IT department goes
and gets quotes and they put the high-end for just in case on the uh
request to submit uh bids by quotes you mean they go solicit what the price will
be for this from other companies before we've given permission to do an RFP they
just look at the the average C they don't go solicit but they do have to get
some information so they have an idea of what the cost is so they ask various
vendors what the cost is for the product they're not soliciting them to do
anything
okay all right that's all I have any other questions from the court members
or a motion move approval we have a motion to approve the permission to take
bids and rfps from commissioner Brooks do we have a
second second a second from commissioner Simmons any
discussion all right please cast your vote all right passes unanimously thank
you next we
[Music] have transportation
services looking at the approval of the placement of no parking signs on wind
Scott Clover Road in Precinct one we had our public hearing
earlier um I'll move to to approve second have a motion and a second any
discussion there all right please cast your
vote all right passes unanimously next up we have appointments
to boards and commissions do we have any appointments to any boards or
commissions that need to be made all right seeing none we'll move to
this briefing item update on work of the election Integrity task force do we have
anybody speaking to that [Music]
morning judge good morning uh so I was given a set of just specific questions
would you like to ask them ma' or would you just like me to give you the answers
I've seen so far okay so uh I was asked a couple of questions uh from
commissioner Simmons's office with regards to this briefing item uh and uh
I'll just read through the questions and then the information I have right now so
uh the first question was is was there a dedicated budget set up for the EIT or
elections inte Integrity task force I confirm with Helen that we do not have a
dedicated budget that has been set up for the elections Integrity task force
uh the second question was is how many full-time positions make up the
elections Integrity task for uh task force uh provide Department's title and
salary so uh to my knowledge there are no full-time positions which are solely
dedicated to the elections Integrity task force but to give you an idea of
how it's embedded in two departments that I know of which would be the cda's
office and the Sheriff's Office uh in the cda's office I believe there are
approximately three attorneys uh that work on this uh and those those average
the the grade is anywhere from a 72 to a 75 and the average salary kind of of
those three is $106,500
uh in the Sheriff's Office there's at least one investigator that works on the
elections Integrity task force uh typically that is a 53-2 stepf the
midpoint for that type of investigator is $
73,9 the next question I received is how is labor tracked against tasks
associated with the E uh I'm not aware of any separate tracking for cost of the
E that would be within the department since there's no specific budget set up
for it so uh I've asked that question but I've not received any uh information
back with regards to that specific question uh how many complaints have had
charges filed uh according to the cda's office there have been 12 complaints
which have been investigated and as of today no charges have been filed uh in
the Sheriff's Office uh they have they report that they've had they've had
approximately 70 complaints that have been
received uh and then the last item I was asked was the salary of one individual
in the cda's office uh that's glennice mcin and her current salary is
$163,500 and I believe that constitutes the
questions I received ma'am so is um Miss mcen uh she's one of those three
attorneys in the cda's that's my understanding yes ma'am okay she's kind
of the head of the unit and then there's two attorneys that get the cases
referred to them for investigation okay so she's head
of the task force or unit is she part-time no she's a
full-time employee I believe this this encompasses a portion of her duties but
it's not all of her duties
okay and 12 complaints to the cda's
office zero charges correct that's my understanding yes ma'am and 7
70 complaints received by the Sheriff's Office yes ma'am that's correct what's
the disposition on those I don't have any information on the disposition the
only other comment I got was that some of these I don't know how many are still
being actively investigated okay but I didn't get a
specific number on where they were with the disposition of the 70 complaints all
right and when when was the task force um stood up when was it instituted what
was the date uh some last year I don't I'm sorry I didn't have that I don't
have that specific information uh but I can certainly try
to try to find that if you'd like me to I just don't have it available right now
yeah well that that's okay uh you know
I'm it's it's remarkable that neither the da or
Sheriff are here to brief us since this this was their idea this
task force was their idea um they were such enthusiastic
enthusiastic supporters of having this task force um so I expected to be
briefed by them and not you and I appreciate
you trying to get the information it seems as the County
Administrator you should have been able to get answers to four or five questions
that we sent over but listening to you go I I don't know um I can't get that
information is is concerning but um not unremarkable um so we are approaching a
big election cycle we um have dedicated funds and and staff to this task force
and I just wanted to see if after here um it's been performing or if it's
necessary um with 82 complaints in a uh County of 2.2 million it it
seems like a waste of taxpayer dollars to me so um hopefully at some point we
can get a full update from either the district attorney or the sheriff on the
um necessity of this election Integrity
task force um um I do know of a complaint that has
been received because it's uh from my precinct um would you happen to know
anything about any complaints uh particularly one involving the Mansfield
Independent School District I I do not have any information on any complaints
with regards to this since that's basically law enforcement functions I
I'm not privy to active invest investigation details if if it is indeed
an active investigation okay all right thank you
for your effort yes ma'am all right any other questions or comments from the
court members uh we do have several people
signed up to speak I meant to make this announcement at the beginning uh I will
make it now uh just a word of warning there will
be no profanity from that microphone today or any other day as long as I'm
here if there is you will be removed from the building
immediately uh so know that you're warned the speakers that we have first
is Billy Wilson following Mr Wilson is Dorian
[Music]
gger Billy Wilson Arlington Texas Precinct 2 glad to see a assembly glad
to have you on board thank you wrongheaded you've heard it before the
election was not stolen Haida Garcia did a good job and Crystal Mason should not
have been prosecuted on May 15 2023 Congressman
Mark VY wrote a letter to the Department of Justice asking them to investigate
the actions of Tim Mr Tim O'Hare his concerns was that Mr oare with the
guidance of the citizens of election integrity and true and true Texas
Project was engaging in election intimidation intimidation under the
guise of election
Integrity uh couple of meetings ago our district attorney Mr SS confirmed that
his goal was in appealing the recent Crystal Mason case was to send a
message we don't believe it's the business of The Da to send the message
of intimidations to its citizens instead it should protect its citizens by focus
on proc uting those who break the law groups like to True Texas Project
recognized by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an extremist group what
message are we sending to them what message is sent when you do
not act on voter in irregularity like those exposed in Mansville that Miss Sim
was just talking about we've heard nothing about that the message that we
get are is that you are only concerned about certain people non political
servants like hyra Garcia black women like Crystal
Mason We believe that the 2020 elections were the most secure in the history
there is no need to waste taxpayers dollars on an election Integrity
unit we need to see you SEC ensuring that voting is encouraged by its
citizens without intimidation we need you to speak for
our terent County Citizens not just your political groups we believe that you are
participating in voter intimidation prove us
wrong thank you next up is Miss guer followed Miss guer is Michael
Bell according to the Texas Secretary of State's website anyone with knowledge
voter fraud should report it to the Secretary of State's office and and
complete the Secretary of State's office form found online and
submitted Secretary of State's office can refer the complaint to the Texas
Rangers for investigation when I voted in the
Primary runoff I took a picture of my receipt that I got from voting that
stated voter fraud should be reported to the tant county election task force by
contacting the tant county Sheriff office at and the number Shouldn't Judge
oare Sheriff wer and the da s be required to abide by the state rules I
don't think Sheriff's job descriptions in Texas include investigating voter
fraud thank you following Mr Bill we have alen
Turner Jr [Music]
if it please the court the Taran County election interrogative task force was
started over a year ago purportedly to investigate local election complaints
there's even in online form labeled elections Integrity complain think about
it the ination is that in Taran County politics all the many many years prior
to the formation of this woefully dubious and highly superflous task force
all of those years the County elections lacked integrity that's the intimation
how many years has the majority of the Commissioners Court been Republican as a
matter of fact back in November 22 when you were elected Deacon oad the headline
of the Ford worth business press read and I'm quoting Republicans still reign
in Taran County my point is that the formation of the task force was not
birthed by Dirty partisan politics so besides the obvious public persecution
and attempted judicial lynching of Crystal Mason where is this rampant
elections fraud the very fact that there has been so little push back on the very
existence of a task force that was conceptualized to intimidate intimidate
voters and suppress voters is scary this bogus claim that this task force is
needed to ensure Fair election is based on a b baced lie the task force
wrongfully projects the PO vist of widespread voter fraud fraud that will
subvert confidence in elections and dissuade voters from participating in
democracy including through melon ballots there's simply no credible
evidence of extensive V of fraud in Taran County let's just tell the truth
and shame the devil uh the real aim of this task force is to inhibit voter
participation this is the case of the emperor has no close the social e
ethical problem inherent in the makeup of this task force is that it is helmed
largely by elected officials an elected County Judge an elected sheriff and an
elected da a County Judge who receives a campaign donation from a contractor with
a questionable track record and turns around and awards awards that same
contractor with the multi-million dollar contract a sheriff who has had to ccel a
contract with the private prison that violated state standards and fired two
jail EMP employees who participated in actions related to the in custody death
of Anthony Ray Johnson without following protocol and then having to rehire those
that he fired a DA who is so fixated on making crystal Mason an example that he
hasn't yet brought charges against those responsible for Anthony Johnson's in
custody death these are three members of an election Integrity task force this is
a blame case of the fox than your time is up the Cure is worse than the
disease following Mr Turner we have Lon [Music]
Burnham no Mr Turner all right L Burnham
[Music]
good morning again and thank you to the
commissioner for asking this item be on the ballot for on the ballot for
discussion on the agenda for discussion um you know I have helped hold uh the
last four elections in this County and I have helped post that notice about
calling the Integrity unit and I have helped lay down on the table that people
see as they come in to vote the suggestion that you call the county but
I just want to recall for you guys it's fundamentally
flawed that you would set up an election Integrity unit that is headed by elected
officials now if we were truly interested in pursuing the concerns that
we report to be interested in we'd have a
nonpartisan public interest entity heading this up but it's very clear to
me and even more clear after a public forum I attended last week that that is
not the intent of this Integrity unit last week I was able to participate in a
public forum on voter suppression there were representatives there from the
NAACP the League of Women Voters and lulac and by the end of this meeting
after we reviewed any number of things that have
occurred the general conclusion was Tarrant County
Texas is the epicenter of voter suppression now when would people jump
to that conclusion well one is Crystal I mean obviously this is a case of
persecution against this woman one is the whole concept behind the Integrity
unit and the rumors that fly all over the place that the DA's hire to do this
job was promised an uncontested Republican
primary which didn't occur and she lost the primary but nevertheless it's not
the first time somebody's been lied to uh to get them to do something that they
probably wouldn't do otherwise so the point of my message is this you need to
disband the Integrity unit and recreate one that is led by public interest
nonprofit organizations that believe in the right to vote not elected officials
that try to suppress the vote thank you for your time thank
you thank you you all at the next item on the agenda tant County Sheriff's
Office and JPS staff update regarding incident in the tant county
jail still good morning uh so Sheriff's Department was was unable to brief on
this item as well uh as I've done previously I have the media release in
front of me which I intend to read into the record uh we do have a
representative from uh JPS here Miss daffan Walker who is their general
counsel and I believe she'll be making comments uh following my my reading this
into the record uh so this is dated May 28th 2024 reference of death in custody
on May 27th 2024 tarant County Detention officers found an inmate unresponsive in
her cell at approximately 9:15 a.m. on this same date the inmate was examined
in the medical area refused any further medical treatment and requested to go
back to her cell just before 11:00 a.m. staff responded to a medical emergency
when the inmate became unresponsive John Peter Smith Hospital medical staff began
life-saving measures and administer Naran to the inmate twice MedStar
arrived and transported the inmate to JPS where she was pronounced deceased
the inmate had been in custody since May 16th 2024 she was being held on a
warrant out of the North Richland Hills Police Department for a charge of theft
of property between $2,500 and $30,000 and a parole violation the Taran County
Medical Examiner will release the inmates name and cause of death all in
custody deaths are reviewed and investigated by Taran County Sheriff's
Office jail staff the tcso criminal investigations Division and outside law
enforcement agency JPS medical staff the Texas commission on jail standards and
the Taran County Medical Examiner office and the Texas Attorney General's office
with that if it's okay with the court I'll ask Miss Walker to come up and make
comments from JPS
[Music] good morning judge
Commissioners um I'm here as a representative of JPS in connection with
the item on the agenda that um Chandler was just speaking about um at the time
the inmate um was in the tan County jail and ultimately transported to JPS via
ambulance and first let me say that our hearts go out to her family and friends
um the inmate was pronounced deceased at JPS following successful attempts to
resuscitate her um and as is true with any patient requiring Emergency Medical
Services at JPS and out of respect for the family and her loved ones there is
no public statement that we are able to share about her care however should the
family have any questions about the care um that she received once she was uh
arrived at the hospital we're happy to sit with them and answer those to the
best of our ability thank you thank you all right questions
or comments I I do uh Miss Walker but before you take off um thank you for
coming to provide us this briefing um I I think it's important to hear from JPS
because obviously y'all play the critical role y'all play a critical role
in our jail when emergency situations occur and just
daily uh providing healthc care services so I know you can't say much but in
general terms I'd like to understand what occurs when an inmate refuses
Medical Care well it would be the same as anyone
who has the right to refuse Medical Care um and obviously if there's an emergency
situation we arrive to to try to administer care um if if an a person is
still responsive and does not want to receive that care they do have the right
to refuse it so is there some type of form they
have to complete or how do you just or you just say I don't want Medical Care
how how are you JPS covered um in the event in an event like
this somebody who refuses Medical Care according to you guys and then they die
yeah generally speaking any you know interaction with patients are going to
be documented in the medical record um so I can't speak specifically to this
case but that is generally what happens is we're going to document what's going
on with the patient so notes or do they have to complete a
form um not necessarily they don't have to we can't force anybody to sign
anything
okay all right do you have anything okay that's
it thank you okay thank you um our
Sheriff again refus to come and brief on this this
[Music] item which should concern all of you
every citizen um
he'll pick and choose when he talks to the media and who he gives an exclusive
to but um the citizens of Taran County I've heard your questions I've
heard from the family um I can't answer your questions the Sheriff's Office can
answer your questions JPS can answer your
questions um and of course it's still early in the
investigation and again I do appreciate um JPS for coming down but um
our sheriff is again absent and I do have questions for him
just natural questions for me and lots of questions
from the community um one thing I would like to
know and that see we do have public speaker so hopefully some questions will
get answered or asked they won't get answered obviously because your sheriff
is not here [Music]
um I I'm very interested to know and maybe JPS knows I I don't know
how long Chassidy boner was in her cell
before uh she was checked because the mother said to me
that she was um her cmate attempted to contact the staff for
a couple of hours so I don't I don't know that and so it would be good to
hear from the sheriff's office um on that
um and what condition was chassity in and she arrived D at the jail what time
did she arrive what was the staff at JPS told
about her or her condition when she arrived
um when will the family hear from the sheriff's
office um they contacted the mother she was driving and while she was
driving she told them she was driving um she pulled over and they told her chass
was deceased uh since then she has not heard anything from the sheriff's office
is that protocol um does the Sheriff's Office
reach out to families when there's a death other than the death notification
so lots of questions um and it's it's unfortunate that our Sheriff doesn't
value our citizens uh even our um
inmates enough to come down here to Commissioner's
Court and and be courageous enough to take those questions from the
public anything else from Court members that we have speakers for this
first is lon Burnham following Lon Burnham we have Lon Bratton and I
believe Pamela Taylor are on the same form but if there's if you're both here
you're welcome to come up first once again thank you
commissioner Simmons for providing this opportunity for some public discussion
about this concern almost two years ago now I told the previous Court I would
not come and speak at every Commissioner's Court meeting unless
there was a death in the jail there have been so many unnecessary deaths this
year I want to talk first just a little bit about Miss boner and the situation
of previous deaths in the jail that involved supposedly we can't trust
anything coming out of the jail at this point but
supposedly uh illegal drug trafficking within our jail now some countywide
elected officials like to go around and talk about the porous Border in South
Texas hundreds of miles away from us we have a porous gel with people dying
because we do not have adequate management of this jail I want to lift
up to you what everybody in this town that talks about anything going on with
County government knows that partial video of Anthony Johnson definitely
looks like some sort of homicide we have a right to see the
entire video we have a right to know the truth and so far this Sheriff has denied
us that right I'll make references back to comments about sunshine and openness
in government this County government is a failed entity when it comes to
openness and accessibility for what's going on here and
finally there's a moment of opportunity here we have a failed Jael and a recent
retirement we need to pursue a nationwide search for the next head of
the jail this next head of the jail should not be an internal hire it should
not be a crony with the same ideological predisposition of our Sheriff it should
be a professional Nationwide search for replacement to
correct all of the ills that afflict this jail I'm just going to end with the
same lament that we've said many many times talking about the
inappropriately incarcerated people with Mental Health
crisis Campbell is still there it is totally inappropriate that
this person is being detained I know of too many people that are being detained
at length in this jail for their mental health issues and not receiving the help
they need is Campbell going to be the next death in this jail because no one
your time is up Miss Bratton are you present how about Miss
Taylor okay next we go to Bishop Kirkland
[Music] oh hello I'm Pamela Taylor um
chassity Bonner's Aunt L Monica's sister so I wanted
to ask a few questions um we haven't received any information
on exactly what chid's condition was and
why she passed away um we haven't received any calls from JPS or from the
sheriff's office um and we would like to know if we'll be able to see records of
her condition what she was treated for if she actually
did um you know reject care and who did she reject it from was it the medical
staff at Taran County Jail was it at JPS um the young lady that was up speaking a
minute ago I couldn't quite tell if she meant that chassid you know refus Care
at JPS I don't think she could have done that if she was unresponsive
and they said on the news that she was unresponsive for 2 hours that wasn't
just said by her cmate they actually reported that on the news on Channel 8
that she was um unresponsive for two hours so we we want to
know when our questions will be answered um and some of the questions that the
commissioner asked as far as what was her condition when she was brought to
the hospital
um you know that that that's what we need that's what we
want um and then it was reported that she was given norcan we would like to
know why so we haven't gotten a full story from anyone U we've gotten bits
and pieces of what sounds like um things are just kind of being regurgitated
from report news reports or you know maybe what's coming from the the jail or
what JPS has said but we would like concrete evidence of everything that's
that's being said
those are the questions and those are our requests thank you thank you so
sorry for your loss following Bishop Kirkland we have
Billy [Music]
Wilson I spoken to Chassy brother's mother Monica she wants this court to
know that her daughter was a person she was a mother and a grandmother mother uh
Monica as well as our V Village have some tangible questions how does an
otherwise healthy 36y old negro woman be incarcerated two months in cman County
then is transferred to Terry County complains of a backache and less than
two weeks of her arrival in sheriff wilborn's jail she is murdered shame on
Taran County for thinking for one moment we believe the narratives of this
obnoxious Antiquated vicious facade of a system Stevie one and Ray Charles could
see Crystal clearly through this Force I have a few questions that surface and
they may sound rhetorical um why was a person given
noram that had been in custody for 2 months you mean to tell me there there
are drugs and you're supposedly model jail why won't the sheriff come
and be held accountable frankly I don't blame him he's in a system of
non-accountability your magistrate why are you the target of the legitimate
anger of so many people perhaps it's your own blatant hypocrisy when you tell
us if we're not in the courtroom to speak that we'll be passed by but when
your homeboy come in your well Wisher come in you turn around and pick the
paper up out of the trash let's call the people that look like me angry Negroes
but what about the good Caucasian people that come in here week after week and
complain I appreciate them because we don't just have a negro problem we have
an Institutional problem people come here quoting scripture and talk about
guys like the Prophet Jeremiah Isaiah Ezekiel and Daniel those were not
passive precautious go along to get along type God they spoke truth to
power I cannot stop coming until the Judgment Bells tones for each of our
Count's officials the blood that runs down Bap into the cemetery requires
atonement including chassies I will not cease to come and cry out the blood of
Malcolm Martin and mear exam mates from their tomes and say Bishop Mark Kirkland
your silence is your PR y King said the ultimate measure of a man is not where
he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stand in
challenges and controversy Miss bar Miss uh Miss uh
uh I will not stop ringing the bell for justice for your daughter I
promise following Mr Wilson we have Michael Bell
hello again I just also like to say happy Freedom month to
everybody jail deaths wrongheaded we call for
decarceration not incarceration the most effective thing
we can do to decrease the jail Des is to reduce the number of people that are
being imprisoned we would like for you to show
some leaders Ship by assigning somebody to be responsible for managing the
interaction between the police mental health JPS and the jails not sure what
position that would be but we need somebody somebody who could actually
answer the questions that people have about what happened to their loved ones
somebody should be able to give a coherent answer someone who understands
the intricacies of the different departments and how they Co they
interact someone who can advise and act to correct obvious errors like ID
persons being placed in jail pending competency hearings we we know that they
will not become competent we believe we need a County
public defender with a unit focused on citizens with ID Anthony Johnson should
not have had commit violence to get the help that he needed we need counties to
require the state to take custody of their inmates and the the state to fully
fund mental health facilities our County Jail should not be the number one Houser
of people with mental disabilities we repeat our call one
proper placement of citizens with mental health concerns two reduction of
pre-trial uh population by speedy magistration three fully educate
officers and citizens on the diversion program getting a lot of people saying
they don't understand what they are need somebody to help explain it stop the
imprisonment of lowlevel nonviolent offenders work with our
community for real solutions and I just try to come up with the answer yourself
what does it say that those who those in power claim to be powerless to do
something about our ID problem what does that say either you're
incompetent or I believe you just don't care Bri Kyrie Campbell
[Music] following Mr Bell is Harriet
[Music] Harold if it please the
court L Bram has already said what I needed to say and I thank him for that
uh while I'm here just Robert Miller someone who died from Cel anemia even
though he didn't have Cel anemia javante Myers Anthony Ray
Johnson uh a marine veteran 31 years old chassid bner 35 years old Taran County
Jail of course is a killing field and something needs to be
done Miss Harold
I'm Harriet Herold first I would like to begin by expressing appreciation to you
judge O'Hare for your state of the county speech outlining your commitment
to a smaller jail population and more Mental Health Services instead of a new
jail and your goal toward a new local state psychiatric hospital we support
that second agenda item 12b look at it do you recognize how
offensive it is that the death of chidy boner a human being in the County's
custody is referred to here as an incident yes and how offensive it is
that the sheriff has no respect to be here no
Humanity more specifically recently the family of Anthony Johnson and they're
here expressed their outrage when they watch the full video of his death and
realized the amount of time that elapsed before Mr Johnson was first cared for by
JPS workers when the Justice committee
started this work with you two years ago we were glad to find a thorough contract
between MHMR and the county that the sheriff also signed but there is no
comparable contract between the county and
JPS there does not seem to be any contracted coordinated standard of care
or set of written expectations as to how these three
entities the jail JPS and MHMR interact coordinate Andor prioritize their
services in Mr Johnson's situation for instance
what document identifies accountability what protocols can you
ask the sheriff to share with the public to demonstrate what all three entities
did or didn't do to follow contracted standards we've already seen two jail
officers fired and then reinstated because proper procedures
were not followed do the staff from the jail JPS and MHMR
know how they are to interact with each other in an
emergency what is the expected time frame within which a Jailer or JPS is
supposed to care for an unresponsive inmate do we
know I would like to ask the county to carefully examine this lack of coordin
ated contracted standards for service thank you your time is up thank you pton
Jackson no that's we're not there yet announcements and comments from uh
Commissioners [Music]
anything it's probably not going to take you to about another minute to get to
the next public comments item so uh anybody have anything up here all right
seeing none we now go to public comments
um the first person I have to speak is pton Jackson following pton Jackson
Bishop
Kirkland good morning Commissioners
morning Congress rep Jackson of District 33 to introduce Bill 1163 the T Robinson
bill for work workers comform because and I quote an unjust law is no law at
all according to St Augustine I'm currently 27 years old by the time I am
sworn in I will be 28 and one of the youngest Congress reps in the state of
Texas on my campaign Trail I asked my neighbors my voters Faithfully
one what change would you like to see in your neighborhood and two if you can
make or change one law what would it be I mentioned my age previously because I
want all of you to know that I have a lot planned for my 30s I mean I sat down
and I visualized it but one thing that I could not fathom is being mutilated and
disregarded after being given a lifelong disability by a company welcomed into
the City by our leaders I couldn't fathom that at the early age of
31 after being decapitated at the FedEx warehouse Miss Robinson was informed
that came back with the conclusion that the belt that she was working on was
built improperly I couldn't fathom waiting for an emergency contact instead
of the ambulance with pieces of my fingers missing I couldn't fathom being
discharg after they realized that the pain and the trauma that I had endured
caused an active miscarriage that I would now be forced to carry out by
myself I couldn't fathom despising something as simple as rainy days or
cold weather simply because the nervous system that I had been left with is
beyond damage so damaged to now because of weather I feel like I'm being
electrocuted when you're cold you get chills not me I feel like ice is being
chipped in my muscles and my veins I
couldn't fathom I know that you can't understand
so that's how come I couldn't fathom how our leaders even allowed this to happen
but allowed it to be ignored and yes it was pre-union but let's not pretend like
there's aren't there aren't companies operating in this County in this country
without unions one being MHMR and y'all celebrate them pretty often here Sim and
G were just at one of their facilities and Manny had had them in his office
have either one of y'all worked for them actually because I urge you to go in as
an Undercover Boss just to see how they operate before you hand out certificates
or recognitions I want you to experience firsthand the retaliation the harassment
the hostile work environment the sexual harassment that they condone on the 98
suicide and crisis hotline y'all have failed protecting workers in Taran
County thank you your time is up I know I can see that you can call your next
speaker Mr Kirkland and after him is Doran
guer last Monday we celebrated Memorial Day from the death of Christmas addicts
at negr man the first death of the Revolutionary War to chassid Barner when
will my people's Precious Blood stop making Rivers down the quarters of
American History we worked your field and we built your infastructure America
has shown more compassion for her criminality to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
than they have to my people part of the first worth way propaganda is to wait us
out to figure that we need to moan and complain but there will be neither rest
nor Tranquility in Teran County until Justice rolled down like running Waters
and righteousness like a mighty scam Monday pass I made a promise to Mr
Anthony Johnson Senor that we will fight to the the end when Mr crowns became our
medical examiner for Teran County he met with some of the Gatekeepers of our
village he gave us his word that all of his rulings will be based on the science
and not political pressure Mr Emy we need you to release the findings of the
death of my brother Marine fellow Marine Anthony Johnson Jr now if it is ruled
homicide which means death by the hands of another we are demanding that these
criminals do exact get exactly what Ray Ray gets when he kills T-Bone Ray Ray
and everyone involved goes to jail for murder the dasis members you cannot have
a murder and not have murderers Mr crowns please rule on Mr
hail Robert's death as well odly enough no one is talking about Mr Roberts who
died on Valentine's Day this year while we were out honeymooning but to the
Roberts family it was more like the St Valentine's Day Massacre of
1929 I received this letter retirement on February 1st 2002 by direction of the
30th comedon of the United States Marine Corps General Carl Mundy for all my
years of service to our country never allow my verbage to deceive you I have
given my blood my sweat and my tears I've endured months away from my family
I've earned the right to speak truth to power I will speak up for my little
brother fellow Marine Anthony Johnson Jr I bowed to my brother to see this fight
to the end we took an oath as Marines and the oath that we took was no man
Left Behind once a marine always a marine sey Anthony
o following Miss Geer is Reed
bills I have copies of the vote beat and Texas Tribune May 29th
article Texas officials compromised ballot secrecy as they increased
election transparencies and the May 30th article
Top Texas election official acknowledges threat to ballot secrecy for each of you
Mr Meritt has those for you Channel 5 television news reported this last night
according to a top state election official our ballots are not secret
Texas efforts to increase election transparency have made it easier to
breach the secrecy of the ballot and discover how some people vote recently
an independent news site published what is said was the ballot of former
Republican party of Texas chair Mike raldi cast in the March 5th GOP Primary
raldi has neither confirmed nor denied it was his ballot one candidate who lost
her elections has demanded the use of sequentially numbered pre-printed
ballots which experts say could further threaten ballot privacy this is one
reason why it was a big mistake when this court voted to require sequentially
number ballots I want my vote to be secret and I want your votes to be
secret thank you thank you following Miss bills we have Janelle
[Music]
Johnson I am speaking about the position of tarant County
Sheriff it has become apparent that filling the role of sheriff is too
important to leave to the voting public if we have to elect someone for the
position reduce the job description to the ceremonial political figure head it
has become then hire an experienced capable leader with integrity and
compassion who will protect all our County residents from the actual and
fiscal bleed caused by our current criminal justice system
following Janelle Johnson we have Sharon
Hines well it looks like I'm back it's been a
month since my brother's death a month and we still have no
answers a month and now the people who killed my
brother are sitting at the house getting paid right now a month since I seen you
guys torture Mr I need you to look at me you guys killed my brother no no no you
need to listen Mr wbor has refused to seek us has refus and locked
doors JPS say JPS here now to JBS is here now
how you want to tell us what happened you to the public take office take
office to release the video that you guys
K he said REM I'm walking around walk
around Miss h following Miss Hines is Merl
Glascock unhinged good morning judge O'Hara commissioner Brooks commissioner
Simmons commissioner Fus if you have not been moved by the
articulate and passionate speakers before me I know my what I have to say
is not going to matter but I just want to ask some questions anyway I come
before you again to speak for the dead I come to speak for those who cannot speak
for thems I'm here to ask if 60 deaths in 70 years which is the sheriff
rayburn's leadership is that acceptable to the
commission it has been cited as above national average so again I ask is it
acceptable to the Commission in 2024 there is already been
six deaths in the Taran County jail and we are only in the sixth month the
fourth day of the sixth month is that acceptable to the
commission I just celebrated my 70th birthday at the end of May but inmate
Chassidy C boner died at age 35 and just two weeks in the Taran
County Jail I am double her age and she died at 35 is this acceptable to the
commission I choose to come before you again to speak for those who cannot
speak for themselves and to ask the County Commissioners is this trending
number of deaths in Taran County Jail acceptable to you if not who's
monitoring it who's being held responsible for it who's being proactive
about stopping it and who will continue to just accept
it and expect the public to also continue to accept it thank you for your
time thank you following Miss glasscock we have Geral and Jackie
Co I do come as Miss Hines has to speak for
those who cannot speak for themselves and I thank you for knowing
how important it is to listen to the
public why is cyer Camp still in the tant county
jail surely nobody wants him to die there keeping him incarcerated will only
lead to his death cyi needs to be placed in a
suitable treatment facility what is happening now to ceri
is inhumane it is actually
criminal to prevent him from having a chance to
live and why hasn't the entire video of Anthony Johnson's death been
released what are you afraid people will
see and exactly how and why did Chastity cord boner
die she is numbered as the sixth death this year while in custody at the tarant
county jail and why was the sheriff not in this
room
today what is the real reason for chief Ecker to be
replaced many citizens of tarant County do not trust what is going on in the
tarant county
jail and I commend you judge O'Hare for wanting to get the Jud the
jail population down I believe getting the mentally ill
out of the jail into a facility with qualified people who who
could help them could help achieve our goal and my final
question what action is being done to get the tarant county inmates who are
now in the Garza County for-profit Prison back to tarant
County my concerns have come from being part of a family riddle
with mental challenges but my experience is with
those of white privileg thank you for listening thank you following Miss Cox
we have Liz [Music]
Badgley judge oare others have mentioned our gratitude that it is your intent to
try to reduce the population in the tan County Jail there's litigation now
before the court federal court here which alleges that the real problem the
systemic problem with the tan County Jail is that the
population outstrips the ability of the F
facilities and the staff to take care of it and we get example after
example of death perhaps the most distressing was
the video that appeared on TV you know and it was there it was
on my link to the Star Telegram of it was almost like a
horrible tragic comedy of these deputies racing up the stairs one of them pretty
overweight and he suddenly was there putting his foot on the neck of Mr
Johnson and then Mr Johnson was de it was very
upsetting because it was symptomatic of an inability of the
system to respond in a proper way why wasn't there somebody with authority to
make that quit upstairs before the two jailers came rushing up to not fix it
what do we have to do so I'm asking that you do a national search
for a chief Jailer and I'm asking that you go forward with your efforts to
reduce the population I I have suggested before that it seemed to me that we just
shouldn't be holding many Class B misdemeanor in the jail and that the
Overflow occurs because it takes four days to get a personal to get a bond and
you just keep packing it with people who don't need to be there until somehow the
extortion racket works and they come up with the money and the lawyers I know
that's a harsh way to put it but that is how it looks it looks like people are
hell there until they finally get out sometimes even after they've already
posted Bond they're held for another day or two because something doesn't work
right in the release process at the jail we just have to do better than that we
have to do better than that the level of grief hurt and anger is now almost
intolerable so please help us and do a national
search and somehow get some compassion over there and some urge to get people
out thank you following Miss Badgley we have Chanel Johnson
[Music]
I am committed to fostering a culture within Taran County that not only
celebrates faith family and freedom but Champions those core values my mission
is to make Taran County the safest largest county in Texas and to remain a
place where their American dream is Alive and Well written by Mr Tim
oare I don't believe you've done anything Mr O'Hare to prove your
statements here an American Dream for who the largest county 66 people have
died in this largest county are you trying to get to 100 before you defi
before you finally decide to do something it's
unacceptable I've done my research you know who you are you know
who sits behind you you know you should see the video if you don't want to Le to
the whatever that's fine but at least watch it so you can see how my brother
was treated like a rag doll cuz I had to I had to watch it the day before I
turned 29 my birthday with the images of my brother in my head of how he
died so all I ask Miss o haare is that you stay true to what you wrote in here
cuz you have a family make your family proud
thank you following Mr Johnson we have Shantel
[Music]
Taylor after Miss Taylor we have Daniel
Bennett thank you I'm the mother of Kyer Campbell and I'm here to ask to to look
into the situation of dropping the charges against my son so he may receive
the proper care that he needs I'm asking the da and all the Commissioners
here to look into look into the situation from a mother's point of view
and from all the others other mother's points of view with their children that
are locked up to do something about getting them the care that they need as
well so I'm just humbly asking the da to drop the charges against my son so he
may receive um care within the state supported Living
Center and to do what they need to do to construct better laws into place so that
we don't have to keep going through the same things over and over and over again
it's like a vicious cycle thank you thank you following Mr
Bennett we have Reverend
Price my subject matters completely different it's going to be about the
appraisal district uh I was at the mayor's council
meeting last night and many of the Mayors whom I do
know and I addressed the fact that we're getting a subcommittee at Tad together
the subcommittee will be choosing the next ARB members appraisal review board
members we just had the head of the appraisal review board the chair lady
quit yesterday Suddenly at noon she put her resignation in now there's a
sickness at the ARB that sickness has been there quite some time I'll give you
another instant back in 2021 a lady named Kathy
dun who was a 25 it expert took a job at Tad for health
insurance she her you know what her job was to do Mr Brooks commissioner was
just to type in birthday dates because their data was so corrupt
and so wrong she sat there for every month and typed in over 7,000 birth
dates well that went sideways too and she quit I can give you an example after
example after example there's a cultural problem at the
ARB not So Much from the those that are employed as a ARB member it's those
overseeing the ARB from the Tad side that's where the sickness emanates from
and if we don't fix it it's going to continue now with the sub committee
being put together I want people from the smaller entities dowton Gardens Pano
Lake Worth you name it I want them to have Ciy that will come forward fill out
an application go before that committee and become an advocate not for the
property owner but for the process we need representation from those that
will demonstrate the courage to have a free mind and a free
will and do what's right under the property tax code we don't have that
right now it's because there's a sickness there that's all I'm going to
say I said enough thank you thank you following Reverend Price we have man
Terry [Music]
good afternoon judge and Commissioners I'm Ryan Price the senior pastor of
Broadway Baptist Church here in Fort Worth and I wish to speak this afternoon
in regard to jail Chief Charles Eckert's recent
retirement and to whatever plans the county must decide upon for finding his
replacement Chief eert seems like a nice enough guy and I appreciate the way he
will sometimes admit to An Inconvenient Truth at the same time I don't think the
chief ever fully understood the depth and breadth of the problems within our
County Jail in the end that cost taxpayers
millions of dollars and more importantly people their lives including the life of
inmate Anthony Johnson Jr the chief's departure offers the
opportunity for the county to make a substantial
change recently commissioner Ramirez released a statement saying that there
are quote unquote deficiencies in how the Sheriff's Office
releases information about in custody deaths I commend the commissioner for
this statement and add that there that these are not the only deficiencies in
policy and practice within the department it is time to bring a greater
degree of administrative oversight best practice and professional
accountability to the tarant county jail a nationwide search for a competent jail
administrator with proven executive experience and a history of mitigating
critical incidents SL deaths is essential in the book of Acts chapter 16
at the jail in Philippi a wise and caring Jailer makes a wise and caring
decision that saves a lot of lives we need greater wisdom and greater
care within the tarant county jail and we need to look far and wide for a chief
Jailer who will provide them the sheriff refused to show up
today please commissioners demand of his office a professional
search for a wise caring and professional Chief Jailer lives depend
on it they depend on the wisdom and care of this next person and the Integrity of
this search thank you Miss Terry
good afternoon I have a variety of comments during this time I Echo others
who have come before you or before me regarding the judge's state of the
county address which included your desire to reduce the jail population
thank you I know several citizens who would be happy to discuss this matter
with you or your staff thank you for filling the public
health director Department position Manny Ramirez and I spoke about how
important this position was for the county thank you I along with others
would like to continue to remind this court of Kyrie Campbell and other
detainees who have intellectual or developmental disabilities or ID that
are being housed in the Taran County Jail I urge this court to set a
policy that these individuals diagnosed with ID be transferred as soon as
possible to a state residential Living Center which would be consistent with
the draft hhsc long-term State Hospital plan the two forensic State Living
Residential centers are located in Maha or St Angelo the jail dashboard on the
County's website does not have the number of detainees deemed incompetent
to stand trial or those enrolled in a jail-based competency program or those
waiting for a state hospital bed or those or the number of the ID detainees
in the past the public received this in information via open records
requests I commented on the draft state Hospital long range plan and I would
have included the number of detainees waiting for competency but I didn't have
the data I hope the county commented on this
plan would you like me to ask for these numbers via open records act request I
doubt your staff would why not include this information in the jail
dashboard I along with others request the entire video of Anthony Johnson's
last minutes be released to the public the entire video the family agrees with
this request please release it along with others I urge you to conduct a
national search for replacement of Chief eert and lastly I would like to use my
remaining time for a moment moment of silence for the latest individual of a
list too long who died without a trial or a judgment in our County Jail her
name is chassid cord boner
thank you do you have anything else to add like my moment of silence we're not
going to have silence for 30 seconds so thank you thank you all right we next
have that that's all I have signed up to speak uh if you haven't you can come up
first if you uh have not uh if you did not sign up to speak but you would like
to speak uh we'll bring you
up good afternoon now my name is Josh Lucas I was born and raised here in for
Worth Texas lifelong resident of Taran County um
today I'm going to read you an excerpt a summary of a story that I uh first read
in college of Harden Simmons and Dr Wesson Martin's English Lit class by
Ursula K lwin titled the ones who walk away from AIS published in
1973 in her allegorical text Ursula describes a town by the Sea complete
with festivals and dancing horse races and Pipers piping it was a merry town
except that maybe it wasn't so merry after all maybe there was more going on
than could immediately meet the eye she then introduces the reader that the
entire wealth of the town in resemblance of Joy they felt was all dependent on a
small child suffering in a closet in a dark room under one of the public
buildings maybe it was city hall or perhaps a train station and to live in
this town at some point you must go down and see this child many people forget
the child is even there some remember but push it out of their minds and yet
while some others walk away they walk through the streets until
night falls they walk ahead into the darkness and they do not come back the
place they go to is even less imaginable to most of us than the city of
happiness I cannot describe it at all it is possible that it does not exist but
they seem to know where they're going the ones who walk away from
ales there is a boy named year Campbell sitting in a small closet inside of a
dark room under one of the public buildings here in Fort Worth although he
is 21 developmentally he is 8 years old diagnosed with both autism and
schizophrenia I love my town too much to walk
away I refuse to walk away from for worth we've got to do better
profanity judge oare is protected by the first
amendment obscenity is
not I find the neglect that we've given to people like
ker in this town
obscene I find the the the suppression of our first amendment
rights by this court by da
obscene if you all spent one tenth of the amount of time and effort that you
put forward towards helping those in our
jails who need the care they that they deserve perhaps Anthony Johnson wouldn't
have died perhaps chassid Donner wouldn't
have died perhaps ker would no longer be sitting in jail thank you your time is
up [Music]
good afternoon my name is Alan Turner and I'm here to address why the need for
the election Integrity tax Force unit the election Integrity unit was designed
to investigate any allegations of voter fraud in Taran county yet it appears to
have not found any allegations of voter fraud thus far as an election judge
myself I can assure you that V of fraud is very rare in our local elections but
when there is credible case of fraud one would assume and hope that this task
force would swiftly investigate the allegations and prosecute those who
would have committed the wrongdoings on March 28th of this year I had I and
several community members submitted complaints to this election Integrity
task force unit regarding Mr Angel Hado Mr Hado was our former disgraced and
eligible Mansville ISD School Board candidate for place two Mr Hero would go
on to cast a provisional ballot in the March Republican primary even even
though he was not a registered tan County voter he also stated on his
provisional ballot that he did not have a valid driver's license social security
number or personal ID proof of these allegations along with other troubling
finders were all sent to the designated da handling voter fraud allegations yet
the community has not heard any resolve to this matter voter fraud allegations
should not be considered a partisan issue yet it appears to be perhaps Mr
Hodo is not being investigated because he voted in the Republican primary or
because he was handpicked by our local corrupt school board members to run for
a seat he was ineligible to run for so he needed to prove his loyalty to them
by fraudulently voting at the March Republican primary our community still
needs answers and even you Mr oan would admit that voter fraud is wrong in fact
you stated and I quote it's like bank robbery is it okay to have one bank
robbery or two is it okay to have one kidnapping or two or three so there
shouldn't be any fraud and that this task force will go a long way towards
deterring it well it doesn't appear that way to us we in our community are
wondering when fraudulent Republican voting individuals are exposed when will
this taskforce act if it will not act then it needs to
be disbanded and our taxpayer dollars that are being wasted on this
ineffective units need to be redistributed to other programs that
would be beneficial to all citizens of Taran County thank you thank
you my name is Charles bills I came to talk about K Kori Campbell we all know
his story but I should reiterate that he was never a threat to Public Safety he
was in a group home he had some sort of incident and they had to subdue him
which they did and one of the uh employees sustained some minor injuries
and uh but refus to press charges and this group home is willing to have him
back once he gets out of jail I know the only people that have the power to take
him out of the to get him out of jail is either the Magistrate Judge or the
district attorney but I do implore you Mr Tim oare the most powerful person in
the county to use whatever clout you have to try to convince either of them
to do the right thing thank you thank [Music]
you I'm here to speak about the death of
my son Anthony Johnson it's been almost two months since his death I know my
daughter said a month no it's been almost two the family we still have not
heard from the Texas Rangers can you believe that h two
months the jailers and medical staff are still
employed has the court seen the unredacted video
no if not why because there's an additional nine
minutes where you're going to see how my son was dragged around like a rag dog
and he received no medical treatment I heard JPS was here I hope
they're listening because they need to see that video as as well and I can
almost guar I can almost assure you the people that worked or supposedly were
saving or trying to save my son will not be
employed I did some research after I left here the last time and I realized
Mr Ramirez is um my commissioner I am his
constituent um I'm sorry that he's not here today to hear my words but I expect
Mr Ramirez to work with Miss Simmons to view the video as well as the
administrators at JPS so they can see the lack of Care by their
staff I also expect Mr marz to join Miss Simmons and asking for independent
investigation of this jail facility since there has been yet another death
just last week we the family will keep coming to this court until we see change
I am fully aware that we are in election cycle the family has no trust in this
system retirement of eort gives us no no comfort and I now have to fun his
retirement as a
taxpayer this jail is a
slaughterhouse the sheriff must go and I will be watching what Mr Ramirez does
going forward and for all of you that have
been asking for that video be careful about what you asked for
[Music] I'mma speak about negl
negligence um leading to the death this year 2024 we've had tragic tragic dies
with a custody of the Taran County correctional facilities these deaths has
seriously neglect and mismanagement under the supervision of Mr Sheriff wbor
failure to ensure safety and frequent and unexplained fatalities indicate a
systematic failure to maintain the safe environment and for individuals in
custody raising significant concerns about the procedures and oversights
within the correctional facilities lack of accountability there has been no
insufficient transparency and or accountability regarding these incidents
eroding public trust in the leadership of our Correctional institutions need
for reform the community to demands immediately immediate reforms to ensure
the safety the dignity and the well-being of all individuals in custody
new leadership is essential to implementing these necessary changes
changes that we're requesting and restoring public trust and confidence in
our city of Fort Worth we're asking that someone please take the time to go down
and and look in on harrie Campbell um the mother has asked for the charges to
be dropped against him the young lady who he accidentally assaulted because he
has an issue has also asked that the charges be dropped against him uh I'm
not sure if the young man has any other criminal cor records or anything um but
he actually needs a facility that will help him with his mental illness not a
cage that treats him like an animal judge oara you have a beautiful
and loving wife when my brother had a stroke I didn't know her and she showed
up every morning for a week and brought me food and a Bible now I don't know how
she relates to Your Capacity as it relates to emotional and sympathy but
she thought enough to just do that and she didn't know me you don't know Mr
Kyrie Campbell but it would be nice for you to release and or submit the release
papers to have this young man released and put into a facility that could
actually help his mental issues opposed to being treated like an inhuman animal
inside of a case that he does not deserve to be in it was an accident he
has mental issues and with that being said he couldn't control his actions and
the things that he had done at that moment but we as a community his mother
we have plad since December to please uh it was an accident an assault an
accident because of his mental capabil and capabilities please take the heart
the time and read into it and and do what is needed to bring this young back
to his facility that would actually help him opposed to incriminate him and harm
him even more thank
you I didn't sign up to speak during this period but there's something that
just does not rest Well with My Soul um some of you know that I'm uh
very active with religious Society of Friends and most of our time in worship
is in silent prayer Nan Terry was just denied her First
Amendment right to spend a time in private prayer or public prayer
here virtually every time I come to Commissioner's Court I'm subjected to
non-inclusive prayers by narrow-minded Christian
nationalist that does not set Well with My
Soul in other Faith Traditions they may not
sing but they chant and so this is my prayer for this
Commissioner's Court it's called koree Campbell koree
cell koree Campbell save this person's
life all right we are now going to go into executive session please remain
seated while I read the following the commissioner you're out of order the
Commissioner's Court will now recess the Open Session and proceed to close
session to discuss items exempt under 55171 072 074 076 087 and 0725 of the
Texas government code we are now in
recess e
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us wait for me it is live they flipped the from executive session back to the
regular and that's how we know we're live gotcha
okay all right we're back from executive session with two uh items to take to
possibly take action on um first item is A5 which was the uh potential adopting
of an order relating to the issuance of solid waste disposals revenue bonds um
we had a discussion over that um I'll second it so we have a
motion in a second to adopt this order any
discussion all right please cast your vote all right passes unanimously and
the next item is item um F1
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outside Council to file a notice of nons suit on behalf of tarant County um in
the multi-district litigation enry Chrysler Dodge Jeep EcoDiesel Marketing
sales practices and products liability litigation do we have a motion there no
move all right we have a motion to authorize uh Council to file that notice
of non suit without prejudice I'll second it any discussion just a question
why we have to hire outside Council to do
this well we hired the the baker wering Law Firm seven years ago to file the
lawsuit so they're the ones who are we' already got they're the ones
representing Us in the lawsuit okay we have a motion and a
second I do believe any other questions comments or
discussion all right seeing none cast your
vote all right passes unanimously and with that thank you for watching and
being here we are adjourned