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We always add an important fact in there, in spite of ourselves.

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Yes.

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You never forget that. You do that. That's good.

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All right. Well, good morning. It's a regular session of the Tom Green County Commissioner's

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Court. It is Tuesday, January the 21st, 8.30 a.m., Fresno Commissioner Hulsher, Farmer,

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Bacon, and Nanny. We do have a forum.

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This time, if you would, join me in invocation

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Father, we come to you today and we humble ourselves to you, Father, you're a merciful

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and great God.

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Father, we thank you for this nation and the fact that we can have its musicianship, leadership

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in a peaceful manner every four years or every eight years.

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Father, we pray for a leadership that is taking place now, the new leadership that

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has just been sworn in.

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Father, those in the cabinet that

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are going to be participating in this,

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Father, we just pray that you continue

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to watch over all of them with President Trump

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and House President Vance.

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Father, we just pray for all of our leaders throughout.

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Father, we want to thank you for this country.

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We thank you for the fact that we

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have the freedoms that we have like no other else

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and no other place in the world. Father, you've given that to us and you've given us responsibility,

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and mainly it's because of trusting you. Father, we pray that this country will turn

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and return back to honoring you as a supreme ruler and leader of what we do, of our individual

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lives as well as those lives that take care of the rest of the business of this nation.

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We pray, Father, for this court and the decisions that will be made today.

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We ask for discernment and guidance.

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We ask, Father, that you forgive us where we have failed you.

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We thank you for the fact that you love us in spite of ourselves.

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Father, we do humbly approach you and we do ask for your mercy, guidance and leadership

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this morning.

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And I ask all these things in Christ's name, amen.

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Amen.

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pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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On honor of the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God, one.

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Thank you.

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remind

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everyone please if you haven't please silence your cell phones and also

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that if you wish to approach on anything that was on the agenda you can

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certainly feel out of form and let us know that you want to speak to something

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our

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consent agenda item A is consider approval of the minister of the

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previous meeting B is consider traitors claim register and bills to be paid

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report claims

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register is four million four hundred seventy-one thousand six

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hundred seven dollars and twenty-one cents bills

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to be paid zero

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is that right

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okay item

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C is purchase orders in the amount of four million one hundred eight

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thousand four hundred dollars and forty-six cents item

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D is consider

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acceptance of tundra and counter personnel actions as presented.

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E is considered a county

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court month report for December 2024, connects from that 126,132.49. Item F, approve the bonds

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for the new elected officials as a matter of record. G is considered trapper's report from

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October 1, 2024 through November 30, 2024 as a matter of record.

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Any additions? Corrections?

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have

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a motion in a second. All in favor say aye. Motion carries.

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Item 5 is considered line item transfers and budget amendments.

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We have information technology,

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building repair, decrease of $1,000, $75 to annex capital building improvements needed

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for the additional electrical outlets.

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Contingent C, $8,500 to building repair for GHC, cost cover,

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and prospects invoice from fiscal year 24,

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little for the ad for the rest of the year.

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And juvenile detention, $8,420, capital building improvements

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into building repair for classifying the carpet replacement

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in the building.

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Have you heard of the line I'm transferred to Bush minutes?

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I moved to approve line item transfers

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and budget amendments presented.

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Second.

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I have a motion and a second.

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Any other questions or concerns?

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Well, in favor say aye.

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Aye.

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Motion carries.

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Countywide burn ban.

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We're getting there, but maybe

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let's give it another week.

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Good.

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No action on countywide burn ban.

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Item 7 is considered the Treasurer's Month Report in Singleton.

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I just wanted to bring your attention to the last page as we have increased our control

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to cover the influx coming in the beginning of the year.

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Once that slows, we will reduce it again.

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Other than that, I don't have anything.

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All in favor of the Treasurer's Month Report for December 2024?

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I have a motion and a second.

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Any other questions?

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All in favor say aye.

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I'm just going to carry this.

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Item 8 is consider adopting a resolution in support of utilizing electronic poll books

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and ballot marking devices.

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There is proposed legislation to eliminate use of poll books, electronic poll books, and

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electronic ballot marking devices, which would affect us in several ways.

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we would have to go back to paper and mark, paper ballots and hand-down and paper ballots

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and the old rolls where we would have to look them up and check them in and so forth.

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We would have them effective delaying us being able to produce lists of who voted because

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we would have to be doing manual entry and so forth on the poll books that we received

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And it would also lead into us no longer being able to use county-wide polling places because

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you wouldn't be able to ascertain how many ballots to send out to each of the locations,

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nor would you be able to verify if someone was checked in at vote center one when they

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went to vote center five and so forth.

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So there's a great concern that we don't want to have these eliminated, so we're

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asking you to approve this resolution.

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I appreciate the fact that you stay current and stay out in front of these potential future

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problems.

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I move to adopt the resolution in support of utilizing electronic full books about it

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marking the license.

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Second.

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Okay.

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Have a motion and a second.

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Any other comments?

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I will say that I think it's extremely important that we continue to maintain that.

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You know, I think that the last few elections that we've had are very indicative of the fact

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that it is a safe and very accurate way to do that, and we have an election where you

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have two hand counts that verify that the electronic voting took place was accurate,

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and there was actually no discrepancy to that, it speaks highly of that.

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And so certainly very much in support of us continuing to be able to do that.

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Well, we have state mandated laws that we do test and do a partial manual count after

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your election to verify that what we've done has been accurate and so forth.

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People really don't know what you guys go through at an election and after.

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Before the election, as well as after the election to verify everything.

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Yes, sir.

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That's true.

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It's very involved.

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And we appreciate what you and your staff do on that.

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Every election comes.

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Thank you.

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Thanks pretty much.

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Well, we have a motion and a second.

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Any other questions or comments?

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All in favor, say aye.

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Aye.

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Motion carries.

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Item nine is a continuation of the previous one.

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Consider adopting a resolution in support of countywide holy places and such.

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Again, this is a bill that's been filed and it was filed in the last legislative session

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and I appreciate your comment.

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but I am serving on the Legislative Committee for the Texas Association of Election and County

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Officials and we are watching this very closely and this is part of an effort for us to try

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to get in front of that legislation because it would be detrimental to a lot of counties

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in the state.

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I think we process the biggest amount of voters in the state with county-wide polling

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places.

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I reached out to entities that do have three letters of support, one is from

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City of San Angelo, San Angelo and the School District and Water Valley ISD and they are

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all very much on board. Even though Water Valley, you know, they're kind of out there

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in their own and they could have a polling place in their precinct that would serve the

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voters there. But we overwhelmingly have a percentage of voters that have voted outside

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of their precinct. In fact, I went back and looked at November and it's not unusual.

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We have a voting place in Christoval,

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right to the wall, and very best.

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And it's not unusual for those voters

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to vote mostly in precinct,

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because it's more convenient for that community.

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But in November, we had 67% of the voters

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that voted outside of their home precinct.

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And in great week, we actually had 63%

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that were from outside of their precinct,

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of 647 voters.

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In Christoval, they had a total of 439 voters,

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and 21% of those were from outside of the precinct.

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In very best, there were 252 voters

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and 40% of those were outside of the precinct.

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And then lastly, in law, they had 350

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and 20% of those were outside of the precinct.

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So that just goes to show

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that voters are being able to take advantage of that.

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And I've had many voters tell me that

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if we did not have the countywide program,

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they would not be able to vote

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because they don't have time from when they get off work

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to be able to get to their polling places and so forth, and though it's significantly

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reduced the amount of people that we had to vote provisionally because maybe they moved

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and I thought that where they live now was where they needed to go vote, they're still

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registered in the LPC because they didn't take care of the paperwork, all we can offer

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them is a provisional and it won't count because they're voting outside their precinct

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and guess what, if you're at 15-7, you have no chance of getting to your precinct.

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So the county-wide has allowed us to be able to also vote tremendously.

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And so I think that's very important.

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Additionally, it's been a cost that's more because we will have to pack additional equipment,

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which in turn increases our license support every year.

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We only have 40 scanners and we only have 40 controllers.

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And if we go precinct based on 35 precincts and then in elections where we do early voting,

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that supply. And you can't reuse equipment from early voting to election day. So right

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there we would have to have more equipment. So poll workers is another concern. We have

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been blessed to have steady poll workers, but each election you do struggle because

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somebody gets sick or somebody can't work.

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And so it would be a challenge, and I also think our voters have been doing this since 2015.

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So our voters have gotten very much used to being able to go anywhere they want to go.

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And if we have to come back and say, oh no, you're in the wrong place now, you have to go over here,

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that would be a lot of a challenge. And also you can't consolidate precincts.

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There's another bill out there not to be able to allow us to combine precincts for voting.

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And we can't do that now when we're having the primary runoff in the November collection

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for the primary year.

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So look at maybe consolidating, but we would be going up to 453 seconds at this point.

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I very much hope you'll support this resolution.

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Well, I remember when we, back in 2014 when we went to this, and one of the things even

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back then of even going to this was the fact that we wanted it to make it more

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convenient for people to vote so that they didn't have to worry about having to

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go to a specific spot in order to vote, but they could vote at any location. And I

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think it's worked out tremendously. And I would shudder to think what it would

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be like just as you explained if we went back to that whole system of how

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we do things. And so very much the support of the fact that we do need

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to keep the county white polling on that. Some of the smaller counties that

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can understand they don't necessarily have to do that.

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When you start getting up in larger in size,

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it makes a difference.

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And to me, it's more for the voter itself.

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If we want to encourage voting, then

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let's make it as easy as possible to vote.

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And by doing that, or you can go walk into any one of those,

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regardless of where you live and do that,

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we're supporting that.

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So thank you again.

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I know it's an additional work on you guys because of all the stuff you have to do on

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that, but still I think it's worked out great and hopefully the legislature will see that.

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I know some of the testimony that they're hearing is that it's not as transparent and

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it doesn't allow us to caught it as easily, but we're able to caught it.

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We always have been.

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We always will be.

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Yeah, it's exactly.

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You're exactly right.

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Well, it's an electronic world we live in, and it's hard to get back.

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I mean, I pulled up HV to get a prescription in today, and they said,

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our computers won't give you your medicine.

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I said, can I pay cash for them?

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No.

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No.

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You could come back another time.

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Oh, my God, please.

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You know, I don't want to.

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We do still know how to do things the old way.

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We have to do that.

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Any dilution?

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I moved to Adopter Resolution in support of county-wide pool and places.

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second. I have a motion to take any other comments or questions. All in favor say aye. All right.

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Motion carries. Thank you very much. Thank you. I appreciate so.

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Item 10, consider approving the

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issue of a FY25 purchase order decision ticket invoice number 2023-2024 for FY24

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insurance consultant fee and the amount of $28,000 and approves the associate's

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line transfer. Good morning. This was an invoice that was not received or paid for

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fiscal year 24. Unfortunately it was not paid by the deadline. So we are

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asking for an additional $28,000 also in professional fees to be able to pay

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both fiscal year 24 within fiscal year 25 and fiscal year 25 and fiscal year 25. Any questions?

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My understanding was kind of an oversight on both sides. I just didn't realize I hadn't sent us

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the invoice and we didn't realize that we hadn't paid it. And I have a calendar reminder. So we

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can avoid this again. Let's put something in place so we avoid these. Yes, yes.

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I

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believe the line of transfer is just covered at 24 or motion

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second

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second. All in favor say aye. Motion carries. Thank you.

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Item number 11 is

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consider city of St. Angelo short term public facility agreement,

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McNeese rental for May 1st, 2025 for the union employee appreciation luncheon.

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So moved.

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I have motion to second.

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All in favor say aye.

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Somewhere there's a signature on there.

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Item number 12.

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So, yeah, excuse me.

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Consider adopting interlocal room between Tom Green County

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and Stage Low for the provision of commercial driver's license

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training.

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This is something we've been working with on them.

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They do in-house CDL training, especially

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in our road and bridge area.

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We have difficulty because it's really difficult to obtain

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CDL driver's license.

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And so, we do happen to have a couple of individuals on our road and breeze that do not have CDLs.

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This gives them an opportunity that they can go to the class with the City of San Angelo.

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And I believe it's a lot cheaper too for what it's going to cost to get that licensed

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by going through the imps.

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So, I'll make the motion that we adopt the local agreement between Tymur and County

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this installation for CDL training. Second. I have two seconds. All in favor say aye. Motion carries.

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I'm 13. It's considered opting to interlocute between Tom Green County,

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City of Stanislaw, for provision of water during Ivy shutdown. This is another

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issue that we've come up with. Ivy lines shut down. When our road and bridge crews are

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working on roads they need to haul water. The IV line is over in precinct one

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and so when they're working on stuff over there if they need water they're

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going to have to drive all the way back over either into precinct two somewhere

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or back over to precinct three to try to find water. What this one's going to do

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is allow us to connect them to a fire hydrant helped by the Gateway Drive

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and 380 so it'll keep them from having to drive all the way back into

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town. The other part of that is this is just an emergency type contingency item. It'll be in place.

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Right now we're able to get the water from other sources, but in the event that our pump goes down

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on one of the trucks or something and they can't pump the water to pull it out where they're

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pulling it out of. We got to have something that has some pressure behind it so they can fill

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the trucks up. So I'll make the motion that we approve the interlocument between Tom Green

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County citizen float from water during the Ivy Lounge shutdown?

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Second.

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Motion in second.

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Any other questions?

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All in favor say aye.

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Aye.

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Motion carries.

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Item 14, consider applying for the U.S. Department of Transportation raise program for 1.2 million

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in support of countywide planning efforts.

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Commissioner Nanny in Miss...

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I'm here for support.

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Okay.

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Yes sir, we're growing and with two interstates on the horizon coming through our county,

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I think it's wise if you have a master plan to get the county, the city and the state

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all on the same page as far as planning.

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This is a no match grant and I think it's the right thing to do to provide

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well-thought-out routes for our residents and get them to their jobs, to health

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gear, schools, shopping, etc. And do you have anything else to add, Ms. Ferguson?

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I have the highlights of the grantor. It's $1.2 million request for planning.

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This is just the application phase of it. There's no match, so there would not

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be a cost associated to the county for the application, the payment tax and reimbursement.

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So we would have any payments we would pay up front and then ask for that money.

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I move to apply for the U.S. Department of Transportation Rays Program for $1.2 million

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to support county-wide planning efforts.

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Have a motion and a second.

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Yeah, if anybody has ever looked at the City of St. Angelo's thoroughfare plan,

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And I think that thing was done 20 or 30 years ago.

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These have changed a lot.

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And so now that we've got the possibility

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in the future with these two interstates,

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we've also got the relief route

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that's gonna be coming up on the north side

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of San Angelo that's in the works.

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And so definitely some planning

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between the county and the city.

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The base and tech spot is definitely warranted.

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So it's a good idea if we can get some money

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to help us with that planning and get everybody on board. That's great. I appreciate Sean for

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Mr. and Annie for looking into this and working this out. So, all in favor say aye.

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Motion carries. Thank y'all. Items for future agenda, go

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in twice.

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All right, any announcements?

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I hope everybody had a good nice long weekend previously.

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If not, then it is 8.55 and we will be adjourned.