Sep 21, 2021 Commissioners Court

IF NOT, WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM TWO, WHICH IS THE CONSENT AGENDA.

WELL, GOOD MORNING.

IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO SEE A LIVELY CROWD WITH US, PARTICULARLY WHEN THERE DON'T SEEM TO BE MAD ABOUT ANYTHING.

THAT'S ALWAYS A GOOD THING, RIGHT? UH, NEXT ITEM IS A

[1. ROUTINE CORRESPONDENCE.]

ROUTINE CORRESPONDENCE.

UH, I DON'T HAVE ANY ROUTINE CORRESPONDENCE TO PRESENT TODAY.

DOES ANY, ANY OF THE COMMISSIONERS HAVE ANYTHING TO SHARE?

[2. CONSENT AGENDA]

UH, ANYONE WANT TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING OR CARRY OUT ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR ON ONE OF THOSE ITEMS, A OR B, OR IF NOT, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED? I MIGHT GET MOTION.

DO WE HAVE THAT MOTION COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS? IS THERE A SECOND OFF SECOND, SECOND COMMISSIONER HAUNT DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.

THOSE OPPOSED? NO, THAT MOTION CARRIES NEXT UP

[3. Carrie Sharp, CEA-4-H; Present Proclamation for National 4-H Week October 3-9, 2021.]

ON THING HERE.

UH, CARRIE SHARP, UH, WITH FOUR H IS GOING TO EXTEND A PROCLAMATION FOR NATIONAL FOUR H WEEK, OCTOBER 3RD THROUGH NINE, WHEN SHE'S BRINGING THE WHOLE TROOP WITH HER COMMISSIONERS, JUDGE, I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT TO YOU MY YOUTH COUNCIL.

UM, THEY WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES, AND THEN THEY WOULD LIKE TO READ TO YOU THE PROCLAMATION FOR NATIONAL FOUR-INCH WEEK.

HELLO, MY NAME IS KATE YANIS.

I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE KAUFMAN COUNTY FOUR H YOUTH COUNCIL AND COMMISSIONERS.

AND JUDGE I'D LIKE TO PRESENT THE PROCLAMATION FOR NATIONAL FOR EACH WEEK.

WHEREAS THE KAUFMAN COUNTY COMMISSIONER'S COURT IS PROUD TO HONOR THE FOUR H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM OF TEXAS A AND M AGRILIFE EXTENSION SERVICE FOR 114 YEARS OF PROVIDING EXPERIENCE-BASED EDUCATION TO YOUNGSTERS THROUGHOUT THE LONE STAR STATE.

AND WHEREAS THIS HAD MARBLE PROGRAM, WHICH SEEKS TO PROVIDE A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR THE WHOLE CHILD, INCLUDING HAT, HEART, HANDS, AND HEALTH HELPS YOUNG TEXANS TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE, DEVELOP LIFE SKILLS AND FORM ATTITUDES, TO ENABLE THEM TO BECOME SELF-DIRECTED PRODUCTIVE AND CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS OF OUR SOCIETY.

AND WHEREAS IS MORE THAN 550,000 URBAN SUBURBAN ROYAL YOUTH PARTICIPANTS RANGING FROM THE AGES OF EIGHT TO 19 HELL FROM DIVERSE ETHNIC AND SOCIAL ECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS, NATURE REPRESENTATION OF THE CROSS SECTION OF THE STATE.

AND WHEREAS THE PROGRAM UNDOUBTEDLY COULD NOT HAVE ACHIEVED THE SUCCESS THAT IT HAS TODAY.

WERE IT NOT FOR THE SERVICE OF ITS MORE THAN 22,000 VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE GIVEN GENEROUSLY OF THEIR THOM TALENTS, ENERGIES, AND RESOURCES TO THE YOUTH OF TEXAS.

AND WHEREAS THROUGHOUT ITS PROUD HISTORY, THE FOUR H PROGRAM HAS DEVELOPED POSITIVE ROLE MODELS FOR COUNTLESS TEXANS AND THROUGH ITS INNOVATIVE AND INSPIRING PROGRAM CONTINUES TO BUILD CHARACTER AND TO INSTILL THE VALUES THAT HAVE MADE OUR STATE STRONG AND GREAT.

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THE KAUFMAN COUNTY COMMISSIONER'S COURT HEREBY DESIGNATE OCTOBER 3RD THROUGH NINTH, 2021 AS NATIONAL FOUR H WEEK IN TEXAS AND COMMEND THE FORAGE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, A TEXAS A AND M AGRILIFE SERVICE AND THE MANY MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE MADE THE PROGRAM A SUCCESS.

THANK YOU FOR THAT READING THAT PROCLAMATION.

UM,

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SO WHAT'S BEFORE US IS TO ACCEPT THAT PROCLAMATION AND, UH, ON THE BEHALF OF THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT AND I'M LOOKING FOR A MOTION TO DO SO I'LL MAKE THAT MOTION.

WE HAD A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS.

IS THERE A SECOND? NO SECOND SACRIFICE COMMISSIONER BARBER DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.

THOSE OPPOSED? NO, THAT MOTION CARRIES.

UM, DONNA, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET THEM TO LINE UP AND THEN WE'LL GATHER UP HERE THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT AND PICTURE AND WE'LL NEED ONE OF YOU TO HOLD THIS ON THE INTERNET AND GET ONE OF THEM TO HOLD IT FOR THE PICTURE YOU WANT IN THE CENTER TO HOLD IT.

I THINK HOLD IT UP AND PUSH US BACK TO KEEP FROM HAVING THE POTENT BLOCK.

YOU ALL WHO DOWN THIS WAY? JUST A LITTLE BIT.

THAT'S TRUE.

UNLESS YOU WANT TO PICK IT UP, MOVE.

IT MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO THAT.

OH, THAT'S GREAT.

ALL RIGHT.

3, 2, 1, 4 8 1 MORE TIME.

AGENDA WAS MAY COMING UP TO PRESENT OUR, OUR, A MONTHLY REPORT FOR THE COMBINED UNIT FOR THE KAUFMAN COUNTY EXTENSION OFFICE.

YOU'RE ABLE TO FINISH SHINE AND HE'S WHILE YOU'RE DOING THAT AND THEN I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU.

SO WHILE WE'RE FINISHING UP WITH THAT, UM, UH, NEXT ON THE

[4. Carrie Sharp; Present Extension Office combined Monthly Report.]

UM, WE EMAILED IT TO YOU ALSO JUST TO GIVE YOU A SLOT, SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS, UM, RALPH HAS NOW OFFICIALLY RETIRED.

UH, HE IS HORSEBACK SORT OF BUILDING FENCE AND VACATIONING SOMEWHERE.

I, WE HAVEN'T REALLY SEEN HIM HALFWAY.

THAT'S RIGHT.

UM, SO WE HOPE HE HAS A GREAT TIME IN CANCUN AND, AND WORRIED ABOUT AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT.

THAT'S PROBABLY TRUE.

UM, SOME OF THE LAST THINGS HE DID IN AUGUST WAS, UM, HE HAS A GREAT COMMITTEES OF, UM, MASTER GARDENERS AND OF THE LAST.COM FORGE GROUP.

SO WE ARE CONTINUING THE PLANNING THAT HE, UH, STARTED WITH THE HAY SHOW.

UH, THIS SATURDAY WILL BE THE COLLECTION OF THE HAY SAMPLES FOR THE HAY SHOW.

AND THEN NEXT WEEK WE SEND THEM UP.

THE HAY SHOW WILL BE IN OCTOBER.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, THEY HAVE ALSO THE LAST DOC AND FOREST GROUP PLANNED AN OUT OF COUNTY TRUER DOWN TO THE NACADOCIOUS FOR SEVERAL OF THE EDUCATIONAL LEARNING.

IF YOU ALL WOULD LIKE TO COME, I HEAR IT'S A GREAT TIME.

UH, YOU WILL NEED TO BE A VERY, VERY, UM, GOOD AT DOMINO'S BECAUSE THEY ARE KIND OF RUTHLESS.

I FOUND OUT THE HARD WAY.

UM, KATIE FOR HER A MONTHLY REPORT, IF YOU NOTICED, UH, SHE HAS SOME GREAT PROGRAMS GOING ON, THERE ACTUALLY IS A PODCAST THAT THEY'VE STARTED, UM, STRETCHING YOUR FOOD DOLLAR.

UM, WE ACTUALLY HAVE THAT POSTED ON OUR WEBSITE.

PLUS ALSO IN HERE HAS THE WEBSITE, IF YOU WANT TO SHARE THAT WITH ANY OF YOUR PEOPLE.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, THEY HAVE A NAT NATE NATURAL AWAKENINGS MAGAZINE ARTICLE, IT WAS PUBLISHED.

UH, WE HAVE PUT THAT IN THERE ALSO, AND HAVE SHARED THAT ON OUR WEBSITE.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, SHE ATTENDED THE, UH, STATE, UH, FAMILY COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAM COMMITTEE AREA MEETING.

AND THAT WAS IN ONLINE AND IN-PERSON.

SO WE ARE CONTINUING THAT, UH, TEXTBOOK EXTENSION IS MEETING TODAY ALSO AGAIN, BUT WE'LL BE MEETING BY TEAMS. BOTH OF US GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRAVEL, TO NACADOCIOUS TO LEARN HOW TO GRILL.

IT WAS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE.

UM, WE ARE NOW PREVALENT AND WE HAVE A CERTIFICATE SAYING THAT WE'RE MASTER GRILLERS.

UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, UH, FOR US THIS MONTH, THE STOCK SHOWS OR ENROLL, UM, I JUST HAVE TO PROUD TO SAY THAT THE FOUR H AND FFA KIDDOS IN KAUFMAN COUNTY ARE, UM, DOING EXTREMELY WELL.

UH, WE HAVE VERY, A LOT OF NATIONAL, UH, DISTRICT CHAMPIONS, REGION CHAMPIONS, AND, UM, STATE FAIR.

THESE TEXAS STARTS THIS WEEKEND STATE FIRST STARTS NEXT WEEK.

AND SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THAT ALSO THE FFA ADVISORS AND I HAVE STARTED THE PLANNING FOR NEXT MONTH.

WE START THE NEXT ROUND OF VALIDATIONS.

SO WE SEE WHAT KIDS GET TO GO TO THE SPRING MAJORS.

UM, OTHER THAN THAT, AS YOU CAN TELL FOR EIGHT TO STRONG AND GOING FORWARD IN THE, UH, COUNTY, UM, KATIE AND I ARE HAVING A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO COVER SOME REALLY INTERESTING AG QUESTIONS.

UM, AND WE'RE GETTING VERY GOOD AT THAT.

SO, UM, IT'S BEEN QUITE, QUITE THE TIME RESEARCHING ANSWERS, WOOLY CATERPILLARS AND TURNING OVER PAWNS.

THAT'S BEEN OUR PREVALENT ONE SO FAR A NEW ADVENTURE.

IT IS IT'S NEW, THEN WILLY CATERPILLARS HAS BEEN WELL, THE APHIDS, SORRY, HAS BEEN THE FUN ONE SO FAR.

UH, ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FOR CARRIE AND ABOUT THE REPORT? NO.

OKAY, GOOD.

GOOD.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WE APPRECIATE BREAKFAST.

IT WAS GREAT, AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU ALL DO, AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE THE YOUNG FOLKS COMING TODAY.

THANK YOU ALL.

THANKS TO TAKE THEM BACK TO CLASS, IT WOULD BE MORE INTERESTING THAN THIS.

I PROMISE.

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UP ROGER WOLF AND HEIDI BAILEY TO DISCUSS CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE IN DETAIL, THE EFFORTS, TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE ARE UNDERTAKING TO MITIGATE THE RISK OF SPREAD.

[5. Roger Wolfe/Heidi Bailey; To discuss chronic wasting disease (CWD) and detail the efforts Texas Parks and Wildlife are undertaking to mitigate the risk of spread.]

GOOD MORNING WARNING.

I DIDN'T BRING ANY FOOD.

WELL, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS FOOD DAY.

I DID NOT, I DIDN'T GET THAT MEMO.

YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T GET A MEMO TO HELP CONSUME OR TO PROVIDE.

SO ANYWAY, UM, GOOD MORNING, JUDGE AND COMMISSIONERS.

I, I THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THIS MORNING.

UM, UM, FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO WANT TO NOTE THAT I HAVE A COUPLE OTHER DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES HERE WITH US WITH ME TODAY.

UH, HEIDI BAILEY IS OUR, OUR WILDLIFE BIOLOGY BIOLOGISTS FOR THE COUNTY AND TRAN HIRSCHMAN, WHO IS OUR GAME WARDEN OR THE ONES THAT DO THE REAL WORK.

SO JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I GIVE THEM CREDIT WHERE CREDIT'S DUE.

UM, UNFORTUNATELY THE REASON WHY WE'RE, WHY I'M HERE TODAY IS TO TALK ABOUT CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE.

UH, CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE IS A NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE AND, AND, UH, SERVANTS, WHICH CONTAINS MULE DEER, WHITE TAIL DEER, ELK, RED DEER, UM, AND A COUPLE OTHERS THAT WE DON'T HAVE AROUND HERE.

BUT, UH, THIS, THIS DISEASE WAS DETECTED IN MARCH OF THIS YEAR IN A FACILITY IN SOUTHERN HUNT COUNTY.

UM, IT WAS A, IT'S A, THE DETECTION ONE WAS IN THE HIGH FENCE PROPERTY.

SO IT'S NOT IN THE, IN THE HURT IN, IN THE FREE RANGING HERD YET.

UM, BUT THE DEPARTMENT ALONG WITH ANIMAL WITH THE TEXAS ANIMAL HEALTH COMMISSION HAS HAD STANDARD PROCEDURE ON WHEN THIS IS DETECTED IS TO SET UP A SURVEILLANCE ZONE AROUND THAT, UM, AROUND THAT PROPERTY TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT THE, THAT THE DISEASE IS NOT SPREADING.

UM, IS THIS GOING TO IMPACT OUR CONTRACTORS IN, IN THE AREA? UM, THE, THE SURVEY, I SHOULD SAY THE SURVEILLANCE ZONE IS ABOUT A 10 MILE RADIUS AROUND WHERE IT WAS DETECTED AND THAT'S GOING TO IMPACT PARTS OF FOUR COUNTIES, KAUFMAN HUNT, ROCKWALL, AND VANZANT.

UM, THERE IS A MAP THAT, THAT, UH, THAT HEIDI HANDED OUT THAT KIND OF DEPICTS OR THE, THE, THE ZONE IS AT, UM, ALL ANIMAL, ALL, ALL DEER OR CERVIDS THAT ARE HARVESTED.

IF THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THERE COULD BE A, YOU KNOW, AN ELK OR IF THERE'S A, YOU KNOW, THOSE KINDS OF OPPORTUNITIES IN THE, IN THE, UH, IN THE ZONE, BUT ALL THOSE, UM, MUST BE CHECKED AT ARE AT A MANDATORY CHECK STATION.

UH, WE HAVE TWO LOCATION.

ONE IS A MAN CHECK STATION IN QUINLAND, AND WE HAVE A, UH, UNMANNED SELF-SERVE, UH, IN, IN TERRELL, BUT THOSE ANIMALS ALL HAVE TO BE CHECKED IN WITHIN 48 HOURS OF HARVEST.

UM, WE KNOW THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE IMPACT.

SOME HUNTERS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BRING THOSE IN HAVING CHECKED.

UM, THE, AND, AND ANY OF THE ANIMALS CAN'T BE TRANSPORTED OUT OUT OF THE ZONE, UH, WITH THE, WITH THE HEAD OR THE SPINAL COLUMN INTACT, THEY HAVE TO BE QUARTERED.

UH, WE'RE TRYING TO MINIMIZE THE, THE, UM, UM, POTENTIAL SPREAD OF THIS DISEASE.

YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE ENCOURAGING, UM, HUNTERS TO, TO LEAD THE SPINAL COLUMN AT THE, AT, AT HARVEST SIDE ON THE RANCH WHERE THEY HARVESTED THE HEAD WITH THEM AND QUARTERED, UM, MEAT WOULD BE TRANSPORTED TO THE CHECK STATION, AND WE WOULD RETAIN THE HEAD AT THAT LOCATION.

NOW, THERE MAY BE SOME EXCEPTIONS, LIKE IN CASE OF A TROPHY ANIMAL, WHERE WE WOULD PULL THE SAMPLE, THEN WE WOULD, WE WOULD, UH, GET RE WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION TO BE FOR THAT HEAD TO BE TRANSPORTED TO A TAXIDERMIST.

THEN, THEN THAT TEXT OR MISS WILL, WILL LEAD TO DISPOSE OF THAT THE HEAD IN A, IN A CERTIFIED LANDFILL.

SO THAT'S KIND OF THE, UM, I, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE FIRST QUESTIONS THAT ALWAYS COMES UP IS WHAT IS THE POTENTIAL FOR, FOR HUMANS, UM, FOR THIS DISEASE AT THIS TIME, THERE IS NO, UM, THERE, THERE NOT BE ANY DOCUMENTATION THAT IT CROSSES OVER FROM, FROM, UH, FROM DEER TO HUMANS.

UH, THIS IS, UH, THIS IS A DISEASE THAT'S VERY SIMILAR TO MAD COW.

WE'VE MET SOME, PROBABLY THOSE OF US THAT MY AGE, I REMEMBER THAT THAT MAD COW, UM, ISSUE 20 15, 20 YEARS AGO, 20 YEARS AGO, WHERE, YOU KNOW, IN EUROPE, PRIMARILY, BUT THERE WAS SOME HERE, BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WERE EXPOSED TO THAT, AND IT DID ACTUALLY CROSS OVER TO SOME HUMANS, RIGHT? UH, SO THIS IS VERY DISEASE.

YOU KNOW, THE IMPACT OF THE CONTACT POTENTIAL IS MUCH LESS WITH DEER THERE, BUT WE, WE DO NOT.

WE, WE DID ENCOURAGE PEOPLE NOT

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TO EAT A DEER THAT, THAT, THAT ARE DETECTED TO BE POSITIVE.

UM, WE, ONCE WE PULL A SAMPLE, IT'S USUALLY ABOUT A TWO TO FOUR WEEK TURNAROUND BEFORE WE GET THE RESULTS BACK FROM THE, AT ONCE IT'S SENT OFF TO THE LAB, UM, WE GIVE, WE GIVE THE, THE HUNTER A CARD WHERE THEY, THEY CAN LOOK UP ON ONLINE, UM, THE RESULTS OF THEIR TESTS.

SO ONCE THAT'S, ONCE THAT'S CLEARED, THEN WE TELL THEM, YOU KNOW, YOU SHOULD ONE, IF IT'S POSITIVE, WE WILL COME FIND YOU.

WE WILL COME CONTACT YOU.

I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY, UH, SO YOU WILL YOU'LL KNOW, BUT WE, WE REALLY ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO WAIT UNTIL THEY GET THE RESULTS BEFORE THEY CONSUME THAT.

YOU'RE NOT, YEAH, LOOK IT UP ON THE LAND.

YOU'RE GOING TO COME KNOCK ON THE DOOR, RIGHT.

IF IT'S POSITIVE, WE'LL CALL THEM.

WE WANT TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE RECORD WHEN WE TALK, WHEN WE, WHEN WE PULL THE SAMPLE RE WE RECORD, YOU KNOW, THEY TELL US WHERE IT WAS HARVESTED AT.

SO WE HAVE SOME GENERAL AND RANCH NAME AND THEIR, THEIR NAME AND PHONE NUMBER.

SO WE HAVE SOME CONTACT INFORMATION.

SO IF IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO BE POSITIVE, WE'VE NOT HAD ANY POSITIVES IN, UH, IN THIS PART OF THE STATE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN, UH, THE, THE DISEASE WAS FIRST DETECTED IN TEXAS AND IN FAR WEST, TEXAS ALONG THE NEW MEXICO BORDER IN 2012.

SO IT, AND CURRENTLY IT'S IN, UH, I THINK NINE COUNTIES AND 16 FACILITIES, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

UM, BUT WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE BEEN SAMPLING DEER, UH, SINCE 2002.

AND WE REALLY RAMPED UP THE EFFORTS IN 2016, UH, SINCE 20, FROM 2016 TO 20 TO 2020 20, UH, WE'VE HARVESTED ABOUT SIX.

I MEAN, WE'VE, WE'VE SAMPLED ABOUT 67,000 FREE RANGE DEER.

SO, UH, WE, WE REALLY ARE, ARE DOING A LOT TO TRY TO, UM, MAKE SURE WE'RE KEEPING ON TOP OF THIS.

SO I, THAT WAS MY, THAT WAS MY QUICK SPIEL.

I QUESTIONS.

I, YOU KNOW, YEAH, I'VE GOT A QUESTION.

UM, I USE GORMAN'S, UH, TO PROCESS OUR DEER AND, UH, IS THERE ANY CHANCE OF LIKE, OF OUR DEER IS FINE, BUT ANOTHER ONE GETS IN THERE.

THAT'S NOT GONNA CONTAMINATE THE MEAT OF THE OTHER DEER THAT ARE BEING PROCESSED THERE.

SO WE HAD, WE WENT HEIDI AND I ACTUALLY WENT IN AND MET WITH THE, WITH THE OWNER OF GORMAN'S AND HE, HE W HE HAD THOSE SAME QUESTIONS.

AND SO I THINK THE, I THINK THE WAY HE'S GOING TO MITIGATE THAT IS BY HE'S GOING TO SINGLE GRIND, EVERYTHING YOU HAVE, TYPICALLY WHAT I THINK HAPPENS, NOT, NOT IF YOU'RE JUST HAVING, HAVING GROUND MEAT, BUT IF YOU'RE GETTING SAUSAGE MADE, THEN HE, THEN HE WOULD THROW IT ALL TO GET MAD.

HE WOULD PARTY GRIND, YOU KNOW, NUMBER OF DEER TOGETHER JUST TO MAKE IT EFFICIENT ON HIS OPERATION.

AND I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW HE'S HANDLED IT, BUT I KNOW THAT THAT DISCUSSION TOOK PLACE.

AND HE TALKED ABOUT INDIVIDUALLY GRINDING, ISSUING YOUR, YOUR MEAT BACK.

ONCE YOU HAVE THE NEGATIVE RESULT, THEN YOU BRING IT BACK IN FOR SAUSAGE TO BE MA MADE.

IT MAY BE A LITTLE MORE OF AN INCONVENIENCE, BUT IT'S IT REALLY, IF HE DOES IT THAT WAY, I THINK IT WOULD PROTECT YOU AND YOUR MEAT AT A MUCH GREATER LEVEL.

SO WHILE WE'RE WAITING FOR THE RESULTS BACK TO THE TWO TO FOUR WEEKS OR WHATEVER, I GUESS THE DEER WOULD BE JUST HANGING IN HIS LOCKER, YOU KNOW, IN THE COOLER WAITING.

NOW HE WOULD GO AHEAD AND PROCESS YES.

AND GAVE YOU THE GROUND BEEF BACK.

HAS IT PASSED, IT PASSED THROUGH THE STOOL.

JUST NOT ADDING ANYTHING TO IT CAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO MIX THEM THIS.

THIS, UH, HOW LONG WILL THIS SURVEILLANCE GO ON? UH, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO KNOW THAT IT'S NOT IN THE AREA? UM, NO.

YEAH, IT COULD BE.

WOW.

I MEAN, UM, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENS ON THAT FACILITY.

IT, IT, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING, EVERY SITUATION IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.

UM, SO YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR GOAL IS THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU GET TO A CERTAIN SAMPLE LEVEL AND YOU HAVE HAVE SOME, SOME, UM, CONFIDENCE THAT, THAT THERE'S NOT ANYTHING GOING ON OUTSIDE.

UH, WE ALSO WOULD PROBABLY NEED TO BE SAMPLING INSIDE THAT FACILITY, UH, TO MAKE SURE, UH, THAT THERE'S NOT ANYTHING GOING ON THERE AS WELL.

IN ADDITION TO THE, UH, TO THE CURRENT, THE CURRENT CASES, THERE WAS ACTUALLY THERE, THERE ARE ACTUALLY FOUR MORE POSITIVE SHOWED UP ON THAT FACILITY AFTER THE FACT.

AND I KNOW THERE'S SOME SECONDARY TESTING ON THOSE ANIMALS OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.

SO I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE EVERYTHING FINAL CONFIRMED ON THAT.

BUT YEAH, ONE QUESTION I'VE NEVER ASKED,

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I MEAN, LIKE EVERYBODY DOES IT, IT'S KIND OF, IT'S A KIND OF A COMPLICATED DISEASE.

IT, IT CAN, IT PASSES THROUGH URINE AND FECES AND TO THE GROUND, UH, AND THEN COMES BACK UP INTO THE PLANTS.

SO THE, IF THE DEER, IF DEER CONSUME THAT PLANT, THEN THEY, THEN IT CAN PASS ON.

SO THE ONLY WAY ELIMINATED IS IF YOU ACTUALLY ELIMINATED ANIMALS THAT HAD IT.

AND THEN MAYBE THAT AREA WENT THROUGH GROWTH SEVERAL TIMES AND IT DIDN'T HAVE THAT.

THIS IS A, THIS IS A LONG TERM WAY.

THIS IS A VERY COMPLICATED DISEASE, VERY, VERY DIFFICULT CONTAIN.

I MEAN, AND THIS, YOU KNOW, LIKE IT STARTED IN, IN, AND COLORADO AND WYOMING AND, YOU KNOW, AND IF YOU, AS, IF YOU LOOK AT MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES, IT'S, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S MOVE PROBABLY BY TRANSPORT OF ANIMALS, BUT YOU KNOW, WHETHER THAT WAS HARVESTED, YOU KNOW, THEN THERE ARE OUR REGULATIONS, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T BRING DEER DEER OR ELK OR ANIMALS BACK IN FROM, FROM THOSE, UH, AREAS BACK INTO THE STATE OF TEXAS.

BUT YEAH, I KNOW YEARS AGO WHEN IT STARTED, YOU KNOW, CAUSE I GO TO COLORADO EVERY YEAR AND THE, UH, UH, ELKINS, WHEN YOU HARVEST ONE, YOU'D HAVE TO TAKE IT AWAY.

THEY HAVE TO TAKE ITS HEAD AND RIGHT.

YOU KNOW, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, IT JUST, IT'S VERY LIKE WILDFLOWER WILDFIRE.

IT JUST DOESN'T WANT TO QUIT.

YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S SLOWLY SPREAD FROM THERE, BUT IT'S ALSO JUMPED BECAUSE PROBABLY BECAUSE OF HUMAN MOVEMENT OF THE DEER AND OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS OR SEMI DOMESTIC, I GUESS THEY, AREN'T TRUE.

AND I'M WONDERING HOW TO, WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU, UH, WHEN YOU HARVEST AN ANIMAL LIKE THAT AND THEY BRING ONE BACK FROM COLORADO OR SOMETHING THAT WOULD IT, HOW DID IT SPREAD FROM THAT? I MEAN, I'M JUST KIND OF CURIOUS, WELL, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT HAPPENS IS IT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU, IF YOU BRING THE HEAD AND THE SPINAL COLUMN BACK AND YOU PROCESS IT AND YOU GO THROW THAT OUT IN THE BACK, THE BACK 40, YOU KNOW, THEN, THEN THAT POTENTIALLY SPREADS THAT IN THAT, THAT AREA, IS IT A VIRUS OR A SPORE OR WHAT, LIKE, LIKE PRION AND I, NOT SURE.

I, IT IT'S NEITHER, NEITHER A VIRUS OR SPORE.

AND I DON'T KNOW WHETHER, HOW DO YOU, HOW EXACTLY TO DESCRIBE IT'S A PROTEIN, PROTEIN, PROTEIN, PROTEIN, SO ESSENTIALLY CAN OTHER ANIMALS GET IT AS WELL? OR THEY'RE LIKE CATTLE CAN CATALOG, WELL, THE MAD COW, IT DOESN'T CROSS.

OH, I MEAN SCRAPEY, AND SHE MAD COW DISEASE.

UM, YOU KNOW, UM, BUT IT DOESN'T CROSS FROM DEERFIELD.

LIKE MY CATTLE.

NO, NO, THAT'S NOT.

I HAVE NOT BEEN FOUND TO HAPPEN.

UM, IS THERE ANYTHING TO LOOK FOR ME? IS THERE ANY OUTWARD SIGN OF IT? IF THE HABIT OF IT, YOU KNOW, WELL, WHEN THAT, WHEN THEY BECOME CLINICAL, IT'S VERY OBVIOUS.

THEY BECOME, THEY BECOME QUITE ILL.

IT'S, IT'S A 100% FATAL.

AND WHEN THAT, WHEN THEY CONTRACT, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT PROGRESSES, IT'S 100% FATAL.

I KNOW.

I SAW THE ELMS ON COWS, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY HAD MAD COW, THE BOY THEY REALLY CHANGED.

AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S KIND OF THE SAME CHANGE FOR THEY, THEY BECOME VERY, UH, MACY AIDED DISORIENTED.

UM, SO I GUESS, WELL, WE, WHAT WE TELL PEOPLE IS IF YOU SEE A REALLY SICK DEER NOTIFY ONE OF US AND WE'LL, WE'LL COME, UM, PUT THE ANIMAL DOWN AND, AND, AND HEART, I MEAN, THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT MAKE ANIMALS SICK, YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE YOU SEE A SICK DEER DOESN'T MEAN IT'S GOT, GOT A CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE, THERE'S HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE.

THERE'S ALL KINDS THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY GET, THEY GET, YOU KNOW, ALL KINDS OF THINGS, JUST LIKE HUMANS DO NOT COVID THOUGH.

NO DEER DO GET COVID.

I DON'T THINK IT'S A, I DON'T THINK IT'S FADE, ALTHOUGH WHICH THERE'S, YOU KNOW, COPING IN PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING WE GET.

WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING NORTHLAKE.

CORRECT.

IT DOESN'T COME DOWN THIS FAR, BUT IT'S NOT FAR AWAY.

AND THE ONE THAT WAS DETECTIVES IN QUINLAN, IT WAS IN, IT WAS IN HUNT COUNTY IS SO FOR CLOSE TO MY PLACE.

I'M GAME RANCH, I GUESS I FENCE JUST ONE SINGLE ANIMAL THAT WAS DETECTED INITIALLY.

AND THEN THERE'S FOUR MORE POSITIVES THAT HAVE, UH, SHOWN UP ON THE FACILITY SINCE THEN THE SAME.

RIGHT? CORRECT.

AND THERE'S GOOD HAVE BEEN, CAUSE THEY BOUGHT ANOTHER MARINE FROM ANOTHER BREEDER OR SOMETHING AND BROUGHT IT THERE.

I GUESS THEY, THEY, THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW IT GOT THERE.

YOU KNOW, CAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY, THEY DRANK.

BUT I MEAN, I'M JUST ASSUMING THAT'S PROBABLY,

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WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THAT, THAT HAS POTENTIAL, BUT YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE WAS NOT MUCH MOVEMENT INTO THIS PROPERTY.

SO, YOU KNOW, THEY W NOT SURE EXACTLY, BUT THERE'S OTHER, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT CAME IN AT ALL, WHETHER IT CAME IN ON BOOTS, WHETHER IT CAME ON VETERINARY EQUIPMENT, WHETHER IT CAME IN, UM, SEMEN STRAWS OR, OR EMBRYOS, WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHERE THAT THERE'S LOTS OF OTHER AVENUES, POTENTIAL AVENUES THAT, WELL, SAME AS CHARLES WAS, WOULD BE A BIG ONE TOO, I GUESS.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR ROGER? NO.

VERY INTERESTING.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPORT.

APPRECIATE THE EMAIL IS ON, UM, THIS LAND OWNER.

SO IF ANYBODY IN MY PHONE NUMBER, SO IF ANYBODY NEEDS TO CONTACT ME WITH SOME UP QUESTIONS, PLEASE, PLEASE FEEL FREE.

YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH PUTTING THIS ON MY WEB? OH, ABSOLUTELY NOT.

YOU'RE ALL A HUNDRED NOTE AND I WAS, I SHOULD, I WILL REMISS, I, I, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER WE, WE, WE SENT THIS LANDOWNER LETTER TO EVERY LANDOWNER WITH 15 ACRES OR MORE IN THOSE FOUR COUNTIES.

WE'VE ALSO, UM, YOU KNOW, WORKED WITH, UH, WITH THE AGRILIFE EXTENSION TO SEND IT OUT TO THEIR CONTACTS.

WE'RE HAVING A PUBLIC MEETING IN QUINLAN ON THE 28TH AT THE, AT THE HIGH SCHOOL THEY ARE IN QUINLAND.

SO WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO GET THE INFORMATION OUT, BUT ANY, ANYTHING YOU CAN HELP WHAT WE APPRECIATE.

UH, OUR TREASURE TRUCK MONCUR, AND TO PRESENT THE TREASURES MONTHLY REPORT FOR AUGUST 21, SHE DIDN'T GET HER PROCLAMATION.

SHOULD WE APPRECIATE IT? UH, NEXT STEP,

[6. Chuck Mohnkern; Present Treasurer's Monthly Report for August 2021.]

GOOD MORNING, MORNING.

WE STARTED OFF THE MONTH WITH $21 MILLION IN A FUND 10.

WE HAVE RECEIPTS OF 4 MILLION, 309,000 DISBURSEMENTS OF 7 MILLION, 14,000.

SO WE ENDED THE MONTH WITH 18,000 OR 18,000,300, $5,509 IN FUND OF 10 INTEREST ON THE ACCOUNTS AT AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK, TOTAL $5,466 DURING THE MONTH EARNINGS ON OUR INVESTED FUNDS, $5,542 FOR TOTAL LEARNINGS OF $11,008.

DURING THE MONTH, OUR TOTAL AMOUNT INVESTED IN TEXT POOL, 30 MILLION, $148,308.

TOTAL INVESTED IN TEXAS CLASSES, 89,143,000 OR $89,143,997.

SO OUR TOTAL FUNDS INVESTED 119 MILLION, 292,305.

OUR AVERAGE YIELD ON TEXT POOL INVESTMENTS 0.06, ONE 8% AVERAGE YIELD, TEXAS CLASS 0.0506, THE TOTAL COUNTY FUNDS IN AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK ACCOUNTS, 36,655,939.

THE VALUE OF PLEDGED SECURITIES 108 MILLION, 50,719.

SO WE'RE WELL CLA UH, COLLATERALIZED AT 295%.

WE HAVE 76 AND A HALF PERCENT OF OUR AVAILABLE CASH INVESTED, UH, AT THIS TIME.

AND 23 AND A HALF PERCENT IS IN AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK.

WE PROCESSED 417 RECEIPTS DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST FOR A TOTAL INCOME OF $2,451,086.

AND THAT'S MY REPORT.

THE QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, NO GOOD REPORT.

COMMENT.

UH, I HAVE A COMMENT THAT I DON'T KNOW THAT I'D SEEN THIS OR PAID ATTENTION AND SEEN THIS BEFORE, BUT COMPARING LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR, LAST YEAR WE HAD ISSUED 40, UH, PAYROLL CHECKS, PAPER, PAYROLL CHECKS.

AND AS SO FAR, THIS YEAR WE'VE ISSUED ZERO.

AND THAT IS A REMARKABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT TO TRANSITION EVERYBODY OUT OF THE OLD WAY OF MAKING PAYROLL.

SO THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT.

AND WELCOME.

SO, UH, NOT NECESSARILY, BUT IS THERE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE TREASURY REPORT IS PRESENTED? I'M LIKE, WAIT, A MOTION COMMISSIONER BARBERS, OR SECOND, SECOND, SECOND COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.

SAMPLE IS PRESENT THE TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTORS MONTHLY REPORT FOR AUGUST, 2021.

OPPOSED.

NO, THAT MOTION CARRIES.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

NEXT UP, BRENDA

[7. Brenda Samples; Present the Tax Assessor-Collector's Monthly Report for August 2021.]

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JUDGE.

COMMISSIONER'S GOOD MORNING ON OUR MONTHLY REPORT THIS TIME, UH, FOR AUGUST OF 2021, WE STILL HAVE DELINQUENT $68,831 AND 79 CENTS.

WE'VE, UH, BROUGHT IN 1 49, 5 13 86, AND THEN WE HAVE A DEFERRAL OF 66,000 TO 99 59.

YEAH, THIS IS FOR KAUFMAN COUNTY FOR ROAD AND BRIDGE.

WE BROUGHT IN 30,000 TO 47 81.

DELINQUENT IS 13,000 1 21 57.

AND FOR DEFERRAL IS 11,000 595 12.

THERE WERE NO ROBOT TAXES THIS MONTH OR IN AUGUST.

THAT'S PRETTY UNUSUAL.

IT'S VERY UNUSUAL NOT TO HAVE ANY ROLL BACK RIGHT NOW, UH, ON, UH, FOR AUGUST, WE HAVE, UH, COLLECTED 1 24 FOR 79 68 AND THAT'S FOR M AND O I N S IS $25,034 AND 18 CENTS.

AND ON OUR DELINQUENT ROW, WE HAVE A 68,000 8 31 79 ON THE PENALTY AND INTEREST COLLECTED FOR M AND O.

IT IS 224,000 7, 87 78.

INS IS 45,000 2 0 4 63 AND DELINQUENT IS 231,000 9, 9, 9 AND 90 CENTS.

FULL ROLL BACK TAXES COURSES, ZERO.

THIS, UH, FOR AUGUST AND THE ROLL BACK TAXES COLLECTED FOR YEAR TO DATE IS 279,000 180 9 50 FOR THE ATTORNEY FEES FOR MMO.

AND THIS IS COLLECTED ON THE, UH, DELINQUENT TAXES IS 80,000 7, 14 84.

AND ON THE DELINQUENT ROLL 1 46, 3 91, 4 RODEN BRIDGE.

UH, MATT COLLECTED WAS 30,000 TO 47 81.

AND ON THE DELINQUENT ROW, WE HAVE 2 39 TO 67 94 ON THE PENALTY AND INTEREST FOR THE CURRENT ROLE IS $56,622 AND 4 CENTS.

AND ON THE DELINQUENT ROLL, IT'LL BE 40 3003 71 13 IN THE TOTAL OF THE, UH, ROBACK TAXES ARE 60,000 TO 42 42.

AND THEN ON THE ATTORNEY FEES COLLECTED YEAR TO DATE IS 17,000 3, 29 72 ON THE DELINQUENT A ROW.

AND THAT IS 2019.

AND BACK IS 30,000 1, 18 89.

SO ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY.

QUESTIONS.

NO, THANK YOU FOR THAT UPDATE.

UH, IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS, IS THERE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTOR'S MONTHLY REPORT FOR AUGUST, 2021 AS PRESENTED? I MAKE THE MOTION THAT MOTION COMMISSIONER HUNT.

IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND, SECOND COMMISSIONER.

KATE'S DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.

[8. Raylan Smith; Discuss and consider Consultant Engineering Services Agreement - RFQ 21-17 annual contract renewal (October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2022); between Kaufman County and Teague Nail and Perkins, Inc.]

EIGHT.

RAYLAND SMITH DISCUSSED, CONSIDER CONSULTANT ENGINEERING SERVICES AGREEMENT RFQ 2117 ANNUAL CONTRACT RENEWAL BETWEEN COFFIN COUNTY AND TECHNOL AND PERKINS UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AMOUNTS, UM, THAT ARE CHARGED OUT TO THE DEVELOPERS.

SO IT'S A SUBDIVISION FEE SCHEDULE ON THE VERY BACK.

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UH, WHAT WE HAVE IS THE CONSULTING ENGINEERING SERVICE AGREEMENT.

THIS WOULD BE THE LAST RENEWAL ON THIS RFQ.

SO WE WOULD BE RELEASING A NEW RFQ, UM, THIS NEXT FISCAL YEAR, PROBABLY RIGHT AFTER THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, THE THOUGHT PROCESS AND I MET WITH, UM, MONIQUE WOULD BE THAT SHE WILL ALSO BE PREPARED TO ROLL OUT KIND OF A NEW PLAN WITH THE COUNTY ENGINEER ABOUT THAT TIME.

SO THEN WE'LL GO IN AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE ALIGNED THE EXPECTATIONS MOVING FORWARD.

SO THIS WOULD BE TO EXTEND THE, FOR THE ONE ADDITIONAL YEAR, WHICH WOULD TAKE US THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2022.

AND THIS IS A TECHNOLOGY PERKINS QUESTIONS.

THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS.

UH, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE CONSULTANT ENGINEERING SERVICES AGREEMENT RFQ IN 2117? I'LL MAKE THE MOTION RATHER EMOTIONAL COMMISSIONER KATES.

IS THERE A SECOND? AWESOME.

A SECOND ONE, COMMISSIONER BARBARA DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING, AYE.

THOSE OPPOSED, NO MOTION CARRIES

[9. Raylan Smith; Discuss and consider receipt, transfer, and disposal of County owned assets.]

NEXT UP.

RAYLAND DISCUSS CONSIDERED RECEIPT TRANSFER AND DISPOSAL OF COUNTY OWNED ASSETS.

WE HAVE A LIST OF LAW ENFORCEMENT EQUIPMENT FROM THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

AND SO WHAT I'M ASKING FOR IS DESTRUCTION AND DISPOSAL.

UM, A LOT OF THIS HAS SPOTLIGHTS, LOT BARS, ET CETERA.

GENERALLY, WE GET REQUESTS.

IF THERE ARE OTHER ENTITIES THAT NEED THESE DONATED BASED ON THE, UM, YEAR OF PURCHASE IN THE CARS THAT THEY HAVE.

BUT, UM, THESE ARE JUST SOME ITEMS THAT WE HAVE LEFT OVER.

SO OBVIOUSLY WE'LL WANT TO DESTROY THOSE INSTEAD OF JUST REGULAR DISPOSAL QUESTIONS.

IF NOT, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE A RECEIPT TRANSFER AND DISPOSAL OF COUNTY OWN ASSETS? I'M GOING TO GET MOTION.

WE HAVE MOTION COMMISSIONER BARBERS OR SECOND, NO SECOND SEGMENT COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.

AGAIN, DISCUSS, CONSIDER THE PURCHASE OF A 2019 FORD F FIVE 50 IN THE AMOUNT OF 119,005 16.

THOSE OPPOSED NO MOTION CARRIES BACK TO RAYLAND

[10. Raylan Smith; Discuss and consider the purchase of a 2019 Ford F-550, in the amount of $119,516.92; utilizing Buyboard Contract #601-19 for Precinct #4.]

UTILIZE IN BOB MOORE, CONTRACT 6 0 1 19 FOR PRECINCT FOR AS THE PURCHASE OF A NEW BECKET TRUCK FOR PRECINCT FOR THERE WILL BE NO FINANCING.

THIS WILL COME DIRECTLY OUT OF THEIR NEW EQUIPMENT LINEUP, CORRECT QUESTIONS.

IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE PURCHASE OF THAT 2019 FORD F FIVE 50 HAS PRESENTED.

SO MOVED HAD THAT MOTION COMMISSIONER CATES, IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND, SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER BARBER DISCUSSION.

I JUST LIKE TO ADD THERE, AND I HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS TRUCK AND, UH, THIS IS A, UH, A, UH, A WELL-RESEARCHED BUCKET TRUCK THAT WILL AID US IN, UH, IN SOME SPECIALTY TREE TRIMMING AROUND THE PRECINCT.

UH WE'VE WE REALLY HAVE HAD, UH, A GROWTH IN THE NUMBER OF BIG TRAVEL TRAILERS AND LARGE HIGH TRUCKS AND, AND, UH, WE'VE REALLY BEEN STRAPPED TO BE ABLE TO GET UP HIGH ENOUGH TO CLEAR TREES, TO PRECLUDE DAMAGE TO CITIZENS' PROPERTY.

SO THIS WILL HELP US WITH THAT.

UH, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND, ANY MORE DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING, AYE.

BACK TO ISLAND DISCUSSING CONSIDER APPROVAL OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN COFFIN COUNTY AND FREESE AND NICHOLS TO PERFORM KAUFMAN COUNTY WIDE DRAINAGE STUDY AS OUTLINED IN THE APPROVED FLOOD INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT AWARDED BY TW DB.

THOSE OPPOSED NO MOTION CARRIES.

AND

[11. Raylan Smith; Discuss and consider approval of Professional Services Agreement between Kaufman County and Freese and Nichols Inc. to perform Kaufman Countywide Drainage Study, as outlined in the approved Flood Infrastructure Fund (FIF) grant as awarded by TWDB.]

SO WHAT WE HAVE IS THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR THE ACTUAL COUNTY-WIDE DRAINAGE STUDY.

UM, THIS HAS BEEN REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY LEGAL.

UH, WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE ACTUAL GRANT AGREEMENT, UH, POSSIBLY WE'LL BE HERE TOMORROW WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

AND SO YOU'LL START SEEING QUITE A FEW ATOMS AS WE WORK ON CLOSING OUT THESE GRANT DOCUMENTS.

UM, BUT THIS IS JUST STATING THAT THEY ARE OUR OFFICIAL VENDOR.

ALL, UM, ALL EXPENSES ARE CHARGED BACK DIRECTLY TO THE GRANT QUESTIONS.

IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH FREESE AND NICHOLS AS PRESENTED IN ITEM 11? I'LL MAKE THE MOTION, THE MOTION COMMISSIONER HUNT.

IS THERE A SECOND, A SECOND CYCLE COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING, I KNOW THAT MOTION CARRIES LAST

[12. Raylan Smith; Receive information from Purchasing Department regarding Evaluation Committee selection and previous RFQ / Statement of Qualification Reviews.]

ONE FOR YOU.

RAELYNN RECEIVE

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INFORMATION FROM PURCHASING DEPARTMENT REGARDING EVALUATION COMMITTEE SELECTION IN PREVIOUS RFQ STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATION REVIEWS.

SO LAST WEEK, UM, YOU HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RFQ EVALUATION COMMITTEE PROCESS.

UM, I DID REACH OUT TO THE LISTSERV AND PROVIDED YOU A FEW RESPONSES FROM AREA COUNTIES.

UM, I ALSO PROVIDED YOU SOME INFORMATION FROM, UM, THE STATE CONTROLLER'S OFFICE.

SO JUST WANTED TO BRIEFLY EXPLAIN THE THOUGHT PROCESS THAT GOES THROUGH WITH THE PURCHASING DEPARTMENT.

UH, WE GENERALLY TRY TO PICK SOMEONE WHO, UM, POSSIBLY HAS SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE IN WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.

UM, IF IT'S A PARTICULAR DEPARTMENT THAT'S ASKING FOR SOMETHING, THEN THEY ARE ALSO PART OF THE PROCESS AS FAR AS WRITING THE SPECIFICATIONS.

UM, MAKING SURE THAT I HAVE ALL THE PERTINENT INFORMATION, LIKE I'M NOT THE EXPERT ON ALL THINGS.

SO KSL WILL GIVE ME INFORMATION ABOUT RADIOS OR TOWERS OR THEY, THEY HELP DEVISE THE SPECIFICATIONS.

UM, WHAT YOU'LL NOTICE IS THAT WE DON'T GENERALLY GO TO COMMITTEE VERY OFTEN BECAUSE IT IS FOR JUST STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS.

UM, OUR RFP PROCESS SOMETIMES HAS SCORING.

UM, BUT FOR THE MOST PART, THOSE ARE JUST GONNA BE BASED ON PRESSING IN BEST VALUE FOR THE COUNTY.

SO WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT AN ACTUAL EVALUATION COMMITTEE, UM, HISTORICALLY I CONTINUED TO USE OVER AND OVER THE COUNTY AUDITOR.

WE GENERALLY ALWAYS HAVE SOMEONE THERE FROM LEGAL.

UM, I HAVE NOT GONE AND AS COMMISSIONERS TO PARTICIPATE, UH, IT'S KIND OF THE SAME MINDSET AS THE PURCHASING DEPARTMENT, ALWAYS BEING A NON SCORING MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE.

UM, IT JUST LATE THERE'S CERTAIN PEOPLE THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO LEAVE AT ARMS LENGTH.

SO THAT VENDORS, BECAUSE YOU ARE CONTACTED BY VENDORS, YOU HAVE MEETINGS WITH ENGINEERS WHO ARE WANTING, YOU KNOW, PROJECTS WITHIN THE COUNTY.

YOU HAVE VENDORS WHO WANT TO BE GET CONTRACTS WITH THE COUNTY.

AND SO AS LONG AS I'M NON SCORING AND Y'ALL ARE ABLE TO BE NON SCORING, THEN THOSE MEETINGS DON'T TYPICALLY START TO LOOK LIKE YOU CAN BE SWAYED, I'M SORRY THAT YOU CAN BE SWAYED ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.

SO, UM, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT IN THE INFORMATION I PROVIDED, UM, IT, THE COMMITTEE SELECTION FOR OTHER COUNTIES GENERALLY HAS TO DO WITH THE DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE COUNTY.

UM, ULTIMATELY BECAUSE YOU ARE THE VOTING BOARD, UM, Y'ALL GENERALLY JUST HEAR RECOMMENDATIONS.

THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS THAT YOU CAN DO THIS.

OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN DECIDE YOUR LEVEL OF INVOLVEMENT.

UM, WE DON'T NECESSARILY EVEN HAVE TO HAVE AN EVALUATION COMMITTEE IF Y'ALL WANTED TO BE THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE.

UM, IT'S JUST A WAY TO, TO KEEP YOU OUT OF, UM, DIRECT CONTACT WITH VENDORS, JUST LIKE WITH THE PURCHASING DEPARTMENT.

AND SO WE TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, ALL OF OUR VENDORS KNOW THAT IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER HOW NICE YOU ARE TO PURCHASING, BECAUSE WE REALLY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE VENDORS THAT ARE CHOSEN EITHER.

UM, SO IF THERE ARE CHANGES, IF THERE'S QUESTIONS, UM, RECOMMENDATIONS MOVING FORWARD, I'D BE GLAD TO TALK THROUGH THOSE.

THE LAST COUPLE OF ONES I'VE HAD, I'VE LOOKED AT, ESPECIALLY THE ONE WHERE THE ONE, THE ONE FOR SERVICES FOR HAMSTER PIMPS TRAIL STUFF.

THE ROAD IS SPLIT BY MY PRECINCT AND PRECINCT TWO.

AND, YOU KNOW, I'VE KIND OF JUST HANDED IT OFF TO THE SENIOR COMMISSIONER TO TAKE CARE OF, YOU KNOW, DATING WITH POSTER AND ALL THE STUFF FOR OUR WON'TS.

SO HE'S PROBABLY BEEN THE SPOKESMAN FOR BOTH OF US.

RIGHT.

BUT YET WHENEVER WE WENT OUT FOR THE, THE, THE ENGINEERING SERVICES, YOU KNOW, EITHER ONE OF US WERE EVEN CONTACTED ABOUT IT, OR I TOLD HER, I ASKED IF WE WANT TO TAKE PART OF IT.

SO IT JUST KINDA STUCK OUT.

AND THE PAST WE HAD ALWAYS HAD COMMISSIONERS ONLY SAYS THE HISTORY SHOWS, SO IT KIND OF DID.

AND THEN WE HAD THE OTHER ONE AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS.

AND THEN WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, NO DISRESPECT FOR DONNA.

SHE MIGHT BE THE BEST CONSTRUCTION MANAGER EXPERT IN THE COUNTY, BUT YOU KNOW, YOUR PUBLIC RELATIONS PERSON IS ON THE DEAL.

AND THEN YOU MADE THE COMMENT ABOUT, I GUESS, POSTER, IT SAYS SOMETHING KIND OF WHAT YOU REITERATED ABOUT THE COMMISSIONER STANDING BACK.

SO IT WAS JUST THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE WHOLE COURT SHOULD STAND BACK

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IN THIS PROCESS.

SO, I MEAN, CAUSE YEAH, YOU'RE RIGHT.

SO IF YOU'RE QUESTIONING LIKE THE COUNTY JUDGE GENERALLY, UM, I HAVE REACHED OUT TO HIM BECAUSE HE DOES REPRESENT THE ENTIRE COUNTY.

SO IT WOULD NOT BE PRECINCT SPECIFIC.

UM, WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO AWAY WITH THAT BEING A POSSIBILITY ON THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU WOULD HOPE THAT IF YOU NEEDED A VOICE, IT WOULD BE SOMEONE THAT REPRESENTED ALL PRECINCTS AND NOT JUST ONE PARTICULAR PRECINCT.

AND THAT, THAT WAS HONESTLY MY THOUGHT PROCESS.

WELL, YOU KNOW, AND I HOPE THAT I DON'T, I DON'T TAKE ANYBODY WE'RE ACCUSED OF IT DAILY.

I DON'T THINK THAT ANYBODY IS GOING TO TAKE THAT LEAP, BUT IT DOES HAPPEN.

AND SO BECAUSE EVERYONE IS ACCUSED OF IT DAILY, IT'S JUST BETTER TO KEEP IT ON PAPER, THAT SEPARATION.

BUT I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN THE BID TABS GO OUT, WHEN YOU KNOW, WHO WAS IN THE ROOM AND WHO ACTUALLY MADE THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS, I MEAN, BECAUSE LIKE IT ADD ONE THING AND THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THOSE SCORE SHEETS, ALL OF THAT INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO THE PUBLIC INFORMATION ACT.

SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS DOCUMENTED WHO'S ON THOSE COMMITTEES.

EVERYTHING'S OPEN TO THE PIA.

AND SECOND OF ALL, TO REMEMBER THAT WHEN RAELYNN PRESENTS THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE COURT, THE COURT DOES NOT HAVE TO ACCEPT THEM.

I MEAN, THAT IS, THAT'S YOUR DECISION.

SO, YEAH.

UM, SOMETIMES IT'S JUST TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TOGETHER WHO HAVE THE TIME AND WHO CAN PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO DETAIL TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS IT'S, DID YOU MEET ALL OF THESE REQUIREMENTS? NOT WHAT DO WE REALLY THINK OF YOU AS A PERSON? SO, YOU KNOW, JUST HAVING THAT GOOD EYE FOR MAKING SURE THEY DID EVERYTHING THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO, BUT ANY HELP WOULD BE.

SO I JUST WANT TO SAY ONE THING ABOUT THE, THE ROLE OF SOMEONE IN MY POSITION.

UH, FIRST THE COUNTY JUDGE, RARELY UNLIKE THE COMMISSIONERS, I DON'T BUY ANYTHING.

I DON'T CONTRACT WITH ANYBODY FOR ANYTHING.

AND WHEN WE BUY, YOU KNOW, I SIGNED INVOICES FOR PAPER AND STUFF LIKE THAT, BUT IN ROUTINE THINGS, BUT I DON'T ENTER INTO, I DON'T HAVE CONTRACTORS WORKING FOR ME OR, UH, ENGINEERING FIRMS WORKING FOR ME.

UH, THE COUNTY JUDGE DOES THIS ALL DOES TOUCH HIS RESPONSIBILITY AS BEING THE BUDGET OFFICER BECAUSE ALMOST EVERY ONE OF THESE THINGS HAS SOME CONSEQUENCES IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET.

UM, SO IT MAKES THAT IN SOME CASES IT MAKES SENSE TO ME THAT THE COUNTY JUDGE WOULD BE ON THESE COMMITTEES AND I'M NOT ON ALL OF THEM ON SOME OF THEM IT'S NOT PARTICULARLY RELEVANT.

BUT, UM, SO THAT, IT'S, I THINK THE IDEA OF HAVING COMMISSIONERS AT ARMS LENGTH ON ALL THESE THINGS IS A, IT, IT DELIVERS A REALLY GOOD PERCEPTION.

AND, AND, AND I, I AGREE.

I AGREE EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS JUST THE DYNAMICS CHANGED.

AND WE WEREN'T REALLY SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF LEAVE THE COMMISSIONERS BACK OFF FROM TWO YEARS AGO, YOU SEE COMMUTERS ON IT.

IF YOU JUST KIND OF SHARE THE INFORMATION WITH US, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING.

WE'RE KIND OF TRANSITIONING TO THIS AND THIS IS THE REASON WHY, AND EVERYBODY WOULD BE OKAY WITH THAT.

IT'S JUST THAT I GOT TO LOOK INTO IT THE LAST FEW TIMES.

IT'S LIKE, MAN, YOU KNOW, WE WERE NOT IN THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS THE WAY WE WERE IN THE PAST.

SO THE REASON THAT I WENT BACK TO THE 1819, UM, FISCAL YEAR WAS AN AND I HAVE TO SAY, I DID NOT GO BACK AND LOOK AT WHO USED TO SIT ON Y'ALL'S EVALUATION COMMITTEES.

SO THE REASON THAT I WENT BACK TO 18, 19 STARTING WITH 1903, BECAUSE THAT WAS THE FIRST RFQ THAT I HAD BROUGHT FORWARD TO Y'ALL.

UM, AND SO WE COMMISSIONER KATES HAD JUST COME ON BOARD.

SO HE WANTED TO SIT THROUGH THE PROCESS TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE DID THINGS AND THE TWO CONSULTING ENGINEERING SERVICES.

AND I WOULD ACTUALLY RECOMMEND DOING THAT AGAIN, WHENEVER WE LOOK AT THE ENGINEERING SERVICES, THE REASON THAT BOTH OF Y'ALL WERE BROUGHT ON TO THOSE WAS, UM, BECAUSE OF THE ROAD ISSUES, THE CONCERNS THAT WE HAD HAD, THE REASON THAT WE WERE GOING OUT FOR THE RFQ.

AND SO I THINK ONE OF THOSE, ONE OF THOSE COUNTIES SPECIFICALLY SAID, IF IT ADDRESSES SOMETHING WITH ROAD AND BRIDGE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE COMMISSIONERS BE PART OF THE RFQ.

SO MOVING FORWARD, I WOULD ABSOLUTELY REQUEST THAT AT LEAST THAT TO BEYOND THE ENGINEERING SERVICES, BECAUSE THAT, THAT ULTIMATELY DOES AFFECT YOU AS A WHOLE, SO THAT Y'ALL WOULD HAVE SOME REPRESENTATION.

UM, BUT YOU KNOW, OVERALL, WE REALLY, WE HAVEN'T DONE THAT MANY IN THE PAST FEW YEARS.

AND SO I ALSO KIND OF WANTED TO LET Y'ALL KNOW THAT IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT VERY COMMON THAT WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER AND OF COURSE, ANY HELP OR RECOMMENDATIONS AND Y'ALL CAN MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE COMMITTEE.

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AND THE, THE, UH, I THINK, UH, AN IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER, UH, IS THAT COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN OUR COUNTY HAVE THIS UNIQUE SITUATION WHERE WE'RE KIND OF BIFURCATED IN THAT WE'RE PART OF THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT, BUT WE ALSO FUNCTION DAY TO DAY AS A DEPARTMENT HEAD.

AND THAT'S KIND OF UNIQUE, YOU KNOW, IN COUNTY GOVERNMENT.

UH, BUT REGARDLESS IN THE END, THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE REPORTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR US TO REVIEW IN ADVANCE AND, AND ULTIMATELY THE COURT HAS THE, YOU KNOW, THE DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY.

SO, SO I MEAN, I THINK THAT REALLY JUST ADDS ANOTHER LAYER OF SORT OF AN INTERNAL CONTROL TO ENSURE OBJECTIVITY AND FAIRNESS.

UM, AND I DO A YOU'RE EXACTLY.

RIGHT, RIGHT.

AND I APPRECIATED THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO JUST UNDERSTAND THAT PROCESS.

WHEN I FIRST GOT ELECTED, I THINK I WAS ON THE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE JAIL'S FOOD SERVICE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

SO, UM, YOU KNOW, AND THAT WAS AN EYE OPENER IN AND OF ITSELF.

SO, UM, BUT, BUT IT IS, YOU KNOW, UH, UNDERSTAND COMMISSIONER HUNT'S CONCERN.

IT IS UNIQUE THAT WE, UH, IN ONE ROLE OUR DEPARTMENT HEADS AND, YOU KNOW, HAVE A DAY-TO-DAY CONNECTIVITY TO ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL AND EQUIPMENT AND THAT SORT OF THING.

BUT, UH, ULTIMATELY THE RESPONSIBILITY RESTS WITH THE COURT.

AND, AND, UH, SO IN MY MIND, THE MORE WE ARE, WE FUNCTION AS, UH, HAS THE LAST AND FINAL LAYER OF INTERNAL CONTROLS THE BETTER.

SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXPLANATION.

I JUST WANT TO, I JUST, IT'S A BIG DEAL.

IT'S JUST COMMUNICATION IS THE KEY TO EVERYTHING.

AND IF SOMETHING MORPHS OR SOMETHING I'M IN ON THE SAME LINE OF COMMUNICATIONS, AND THIS IS JUST LIKE THE AR FUNDING, WHEN WE FIRST STARTED TALKING ABOUT IT, IT WAS ONE WAY WE PERCEIVED IT TO BE ONE WAY IN THE USAGE AND IN THE INTERIM THINGS CHANGED, THEN WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH THE MONEY AND IT WAS JUST PUT ON THE COURT AGENDA AS, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR US TO GO AWAY.

AND WE HADN'T REALLY TALKED ABOUT IT.

SO IT'S JUST COMMUNICATION IS THE BIG DEAL.

IT SOLVES ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS. AND IF ANYTHING, MORE OR CHANGES WHAT WE'RE DOING, OUR DECISIONS, AND WE NEED TO COME BACK AND GET IT DONE.

SO THAT'S ALL I'M ASKING.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THAT? UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.

DISCUSSED, CONSIDER APPROVING INTER-LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF OAK GROVE.

NEXT ITEM, COMMISSIONER HAUNT

[13. Commissioner Hunt; Discuss/Consider approving Interlocal Agreement with the City of Oak Grove.]

UH, THEY'RE JUST THERE INTER-LOCAL AGREEMENT EXPIRED AND THEY'RE JUST RENEWING IT.

SO THERE AND P AND THEM WAITING FOR US, ACTUALLY WAITING FOR US TO COME DO SOME ROADS FOR THEM.

SO IT'S JUST PART OF THE PROCESS.

SO I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ACCEPT.

UH, OKAY.

WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER ONTO APPROVE THE INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH CITY OF OAK RIDGE, OR SECOND, SECOND, SECOND COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING, AYE.

THOSE OPPOSED NO MOTION CARRIES, UH, COMMISSIONER

[14. Commissioner Cates; Discuss/Consider approving interlocal agreement and project agreement for the City of Grays Prairie to patch city section of CR 4061 for the amount of $100.00.]

CASE DISCUSS, CONSIDER APPROVING INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT IN PROJECT GRANT FOR THE CITY OF GRACE PRAIRIE TO PATCH CITY, SECTION OF COUNTY ROAD 461 FOR THE AMOUNT OF A HUNDRED DOLLARS.

UH, DISCUSS, CONSIDER APPOINTING THE COUNTY TREASURER IS DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES.

YEAH, ESSENTIALLY THE SAME THING.

UH, FINALLY ESTABLISHING AN INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OR COMMUNITY OF, OF, UH, GRACE PERRY, ONE PARTICULAR, VERY SMALL SECTION OF COUNTY ROAD, 40 61 FALLS WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS.

AND IT HAS A TERRIBLE SECTION.

UH, IT REALLY, UH, ABOUT EVERY SIX MONTHS OR FOUR TO SIX MONTHS BECOMES ALMOST DANGEROUS.

SO HOPEFULLY WE HAVE A RECURRING AGREEMENT WITH THESE, UH, WITH THE CITY NOW THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO HELP THEM.

AND, UH, SO IN THIS INSTANCE WHERE WE NEED TO EXPEDIENTLY PATCH THIS ROAD, UH, JUST TO ENSURE THAT IT CONTINUES TO BE OPEN AND PASSABLE.

AND, UH, SO I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THIS INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT IN PROJECT, THE AGREEMENT, WE HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF INTER-LOCAL AGREEMENT ON ITEM 14 FROM COMMISSIONER CATES.

IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND, SECOND COMMISSIONER BARBARA DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING, AYE, THOSE OPPOSED NO MOTION CARRIES.

UM, NEXT UP,

[15. Judge Richards; Discuss/Consider appointing the County Treasurer as Director of Human Resources.]

CHUCK,

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WILL YOU COME UP IN CASE AND MAYBE JOIN THIS CONVERSATION IF NEED BE? UM, AFTER WE, UH, WE, WE HAD DISCUSSION AND DECIDED TO POST THE, THE HR DIRECTOR JOB.

UM, CHUCK VISITED WITH ME ABOUT THAT.

AND, UM, UH, I DID VERIFY WITH LEGAL, WE HAVE TO HAVE AN HR DIRECTOR.

WE HAVE TO HAVE SOMEBODY THAT, THAT IS ESTABLISHED AS THAT POSITION FOR CERTAIN LEGAL REQUIREMENTS.

THAT'S KAREN TOLD ME.

AND, UM, AND SO CHUCK'S SUGGESTION WAS THAT WE HAVE A GREAT FUNCTIONING HR DEPARTMENT.

I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S, I MEAN, IT'S WORKING, I THINK MOST OF THOSE THINGS IS WORKING LIKE A WELL-OILED MACHINE OVER THERE OR UP THERE.

AND, UM, BUT CHUCK VOLUNTEERED TO TAKE THIS TITLE ON, UH, THIS LEGAL TITLE ON JUST AS A PART OF HIS JOB COURSE, HE DOES THE PAYROLL THINGS RIGHT NOW.

AND, UM, IT'S SO IT JUST, HE OFFERED TO DO THAT, JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, WITHOUT ANY FINANCIAL IMPACT, JUST TO ABSORB THAT INTO HIS DUTIES.

AND IT SEEMED LIKE A REALLY GOOD IDEA TO ME.

AND, UM, IT'S COMMON IN, IN COUNTIES, RIGHT? IT'S MORE COMMON THAN I REALIZED, BUT, UH, THERE'S UH, FROM THE, UH, COUNTY TREASURERS ASSOCIATION IN TEXAS, THEIR LATEST SURVEY SHOWS THAT THERE'S 114 COUNTIES WITH THAT IN, IN THE TREASURER'S OFFICE AND STAFF 59 OF THEM UNDER COMMISSIONER'S COURT, 10 OF THEM UNDER THE AUDITOR'S OFFICE AND THE REST OF THEM.

UH, ONE OF THEM HAS IT UNDER THEIR SAFETY OFFICE.

AND THEN THE REST OF THEM ARE JUST A, A SHARED DUTIES BETWEEN TREASURER AND AUDITOR OR TREASURER AND, UH, JUDGES.

SO 114 OF THEM ARE, ARE TREASURER.

RIGHT.

UM, SO, UM, WE WERE TALKING 70 TO $85,000 SALARY RANGE, I THINK.

AND SO WHICH, OH, KAREN ALWAYS READY.

YOU HAD ASKED FOR A SALARY RANGE OF 70 TO 85,000.

WE ALREADY HAVE A CLERK POSITION IN THAT DEPARTMENT.

SO THE TOTAL COST IS CALCULATED FOR YOU FOR THOSE FOUR DIFFERENT RANGES.

AND THEN WHAT THE BUDGET INCREASE WOULD BE BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE THE 41 9 PLUS THE 10,000 FOR INSURANCE THAT IS ALREADY IN THE BUDGET.

WE DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE.

SO IF YOU HIRE SOMEONE IN BETWEEN THOSE, I COULD SUBTRACT WHAT WE PUT IN THERE AND PUT IT IN CONTINGENCY.

ONCE YOU MAKE UP YOUR MIND HOW YOU WANT TO DO IT, BUT YEAR TO YEAR, UH, I MEAN, I DON'T, I, I THINK IF I'M CORRECT, I DON'T THINK THAT WE HAVE ANY INTENTION OF FILLING THAT DEPUTY, THAT CLERK POSITION RIGHT NOW.

SO YEAR TO YEAR, IF WE DON'T FILL THAT POSITION, THAT COULD BE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IMPACT, NOT 104, BUT WE DID APPROVE THE CLERK IN OUR BUDGET TISSUE ROD FOR JANUARY.

SO WHEN WE DON'T WANT TO, I MEAN, IF WE, IF WE DECIDE TO WE ACTUALLY REMOVED IT LAST TIME WE PASSED A MOTION, WE ADDED, UH, I HAD IT FOR THIS PURPOSE RIGHT HERE, THOUGH.

WASN'T IT? WELL, WE, WE DELETED IF MEMORY SERVES, WE, I ADDED TO YOUR MOTION TO ELIMINATE THE, THE VACANT CLERK POSITION IN ANTICIPATION OF THIS, THIS, UH, HIRING A HR DIRECTOR.

SO WE MAY WANT TO CONSIDER RESTORING THAT POSITION AT SOME POINT, MAYBE ONCE IT BECOMES NECESSARY.

MY, MY IMPRESSION, I DON'T KNOW, JERRY, DO YOU HAVE ANY INPUT ON THIS? BUT MY IMPRESSION RIGHT NOW IS THAT WE DON'T, WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER PERSON IN THERE.

I DON'T THINK, I DON'T BELIEVE YOU DO IT AT THE MOMENT.

AS A DEPARTMENT CONTINUES TO GROW.

I THINK THE COMMISSIONER OF HUNT'S, IF YOU TAKE IT OUT, THEN YOU HAVE NO OPTION FOR IT.

IF YOU LEFT IT AND YOU DIDN'T HIRE YOU, AT LEAST WE STILL HAVE IT IN THE BUDGET BECAUSE THE DEPARTMENT IS CONTINUING TO GROW.

LIKE TO DO A FACIAL, YOU KNOW, THAT'S HIS CHOICE.

BECAUSE I MEAN, I LOOKED AT IT AS A NECESSITY TO FUND AN HR DIRECTOR POSITION.

SO IF THAT, THAT GOES OUT THE WINDOW AND WE BECOME ONE OF THE HUNDRED AND 15 COUNTIES IN THE STATE THAT HAVE THE TREASURER, THEN WE CAN PUT THIS BACK IN AND, YOU KNOW, HELP MORE EFFICIENT.

OBVIOUSLY THE DIRECTOR WENT ON A SHORE, SOME OF THE CLERK'S POSITION.

YEAH, NOT EXACTLY.

I MEAN, THEY WERE GOING TO DO THE WORK, SO YEAH, PROBABLY THEY USED THE CLERK BACK IF, IF HE, BUT THEN IT'S HIS CHOICE,

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WHETHER HE NEEDS HIM DOES NOT NEED THEM.

I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S YOUR, YOUR CALL HERE.

IT'S AS LONG AS IT'S IN THE BUDGET, RIGHT? YEAH.

AND WE CAN PUT THAT BUDGET BACK.

I MEAN, CAUSE I GUESS THAT'S OKAY.

THAT MAY BE CHUCK.

DID YOU WANT TO BRING UP YOU AND I WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER? WELL, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT MIKE HUNT BROUGHT UP YESTERDAY WHEN HE WAS VISITING WITH ME AS WELL.

AND THAT WAS TO, UH, ACHIEVE THE SAME GOAL, PUT THE, UH, UH, HR DEPARTMENT UNDER THE TREASURER AND THEN HIRE AN HR DIRECTOR.

AND THE, UH, OPTION THAT I HAD MENTIONED TO TERRY WAS, UH, TO, UH, MAKE BRITTANY HR DIRECTOR.

AND SINCE SHE'S DOING A GOOD JOB OF WHAT'S THE, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY THAT RIGHT AT THE MOMENT.

AND THEN, UH, THAT DEPARTMENT WOULD FALL UNDER ME AND REPORT TO ME.

AND THAT WOULD STILL ACHIEVE THE GOAL THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE, UH, HAVING IT NONPOLITICAL.

AND YET, UH, IT WOULD BE UNDER THE TREASURER'S OFFICE AND STILL, I WOULD BE ABLE TO COORDINATE THE, UH, DUTIES SO THAT WE WOULD NOT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH PAYROLL OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

CAN I INTERJECT SOMETHING? AND THE HISTORY OF THIS IS THAT WAS PART OF THE HALF.

THE FINDINGS ON THE, IN THE INDEPENDENT AUDIT WAS BECAUSE THE TREASURER WAS OVER HR AND THINGS WERE NOT BEING TAKEN CARE OF AS THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN.

CHUCK AND I HAVE TALKED, CHUCK WORKED FOR ME.

HE KNOWS WHAT I EXPECTED AND WE'VE COME TO AN AGREEMENT.

WE'RE GOING TO WORK TOGETHER IF Y'ALL APPROVE THIS, BECAUSE THAT DEPARTMENT NEEDS TO BE SEPARATE FROM THE PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY PERFORM AND PRINT THE CHECKS.

THERE HAS TO BE DIVERSITY.

ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE A PROBLEM? AND THAT WAS MY CONCERN OF WHY I CALLED THE JUDGE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND ASKED HIM WHAT HIS PROBLEM WAS WITH THIS, BECAUSE I NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND IT.

AND I WASN'T BEING DISRESPECTFUL.

HE KNOWS, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE A FINDING THAT SOMEBODY IS CHANGING TIME SHEETS, SOMEBODY, THE MAINTENANCE TO THE STUFF, THE PRIVACY AND PROTECTING THEIR STUFF.

DOESN'T NEED TO BE LOOKED AT AT A, AS A PAYROLL CLERK.

THAT'S ENTERING TIME IN CALCULATING PAYROLL THROUGH THE MACHINE.

THIS IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY.

IT'S GOTTA BE DIVERSIFIED OR WE'RE GOING TO HAVE FINDINGS BECAUSE THE AUDITORS ALREADY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT.

AND IF WE TALKED AND AGREED, IF WE COULD KEEP HIM AS THE SUPERVISOR, BUT HE HAS STAFF THAT KEEPS THAT STUFF DONE SEPARATE FROM ACTUAL PAYROLL.

I DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE WITH IT.

I DID HAVE AN ISSUE WITH IT WHEN I FIRST HEARD ABOUT IT.

DIRECTOR OF HR OR THE LEAD OR WHATEVER YOU WANT, BUT, UH, ULTIMATELY THE RESPONSIBILITY, THE ACCOUNTABILITY WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE COUNTY TREASURER AS THAT POSITION.

I MEAN, I WOULD GO EITHER WAY.

I MEAN, THE BIG DEAL FOR ME IS I JUST WANT HR.

I WANT IT TO BE A SAFE HAVEN FOR ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES WHERE THEY FEEL LIKE THEY CAN GO THAT AND THEIR JOB THERE.

SO PURPOSES TAKE CARE OF OUR EMPLOYEES WITH THE BENEFITS AND EVERYTHING ELSE, ALL THE QUESTIONS THEY HAVE.

SO I MEAN THAT'S, AND THEY JUST ARE SEPARATED FROM EVERYTHING ELSE.

AND, AND THAT'S THE PRIMARY GOAL IS THAT, AND I JUST DON'T WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T HURT THAT.

AND I DO LIKE THE CONCEPT OF WHAT EVERYBODY'S SAID HERE IS HE'S AN ELECTED OFFICIAL AND THANK YOU PRETTY MUCH.

DON'T POST WHEN THE ASKED WHEN WE COME IN THERE, YOU KNOW, SO I DON'T THINK WE'RE, I DON'T THINK WE'RE PROPOSING THAT THERE'D BE THIS WHOLESALE MERGER OF, OR ELIMINATION OF AN HR DEPARTMENT IN IT.

AND THAT IT JUST ROLLED INTO THE TREASURER'S FUNCTION.

I MEAN, WE'RE STILL, UH, WE'RE STILL HAVE A VERY, UH, VISIBLE AND INDEPENDENT STRUCTURE, SEPARATE STRUCTURE THAT IS PERFORMS HR FUNCTIONS.

CORRECT.

THAT'S YOUR INTENT IF I'M UNDERSTANDING IT.

RIGHT.

SO, UM, I KNOW WE, UH, I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, UH, I THINK WE IMPLEMENTED THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS FOR SOME HR CERTIFICATIONS.

I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR ALONG IN THAT PROCESS BRITTANY OR ANYBODY ELSE MIGHT BE, BUT, UH, IT, IT MIGHT BE, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, IF THAT QUALIFICATION LEVEL HAS BEEN ACHIEVED YET OR NOT, BUT I THINK REGARDLESS OF, UH, THE, THE INTENT HERE IS THAT HR ROLE WILL BE A STANDALONE DEPARTMENT, UH, AND NOT, NOT, NOT ESSENTIALLY BE ABOLISHED AND THE FUNCTION TRANSFERRED TO THE TREASURER'S OFFICE, IT'LL MAINTAIN ITS INDEPENDENCE AS, UH, AS THE PERSONNEL PROCESSING OFFICE.

CORRECT.

REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WE HAVE, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN TITLE SOMEONE, THE

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WELL, ONE THING WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT IS JOB DESCRIPTIONS.

IF I THINK WE POSTED A JOB DESCRIPTION THAN THE HR DIRECTOR, AND IF WE MOVE SOMEONE IN THE COUNTY TOO, THAT THEY NEED TO HAVE QUALIFICATIONS AND MEET THAT JOB DESCRIPTION, THAT'S WE JUST DON'T WANT TO LOSE SIGHT OF THAT.

IF WE TAKE THAT POSTING DOWN, WE DO HAVE THE OPTION OF PROMOTING SOMEBODY TO BECOME HR DIRECTOR.

DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A POSTED JOB TO PROMOTE SOMEBODY THAT'S IN THAT DEPARTMENT.

THE ISSUE IS NOT THE JOB BEING POSTED.

THE ISSUE IS THAT WE HAVE AN HR DIRECTOR JOB DESCRIPTION.

AND WHETHER THAT'S SOMEONE INTERNALLY THAT MOVES TO THAT POSITION, THAT UNLESS YOU WANT TO CHANGE THAT HR DESCRIPTION TO MEET THAT PERSON'S QUALIFICATIONS.

YOU JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WHOEVER IS IN THAT POSITION, WHETHER IT'S INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL MEETS THOSE JOB QUALIFICATIONS.

AND WOULDN'T IT BE PRUDENT IF WE TAKE THIS ACTION TO MOVE, UH, TO MOVE HR, THE FUNCTION, UH, AND THE DEPARTMENT UNDER THE TREASURER TO, TO GIVE CHUCK AN OPPORTUNITY TO EVALUATE THE SITUATION AND MAKE THAT DETERMINATION.

AND IF, UH, IF HE BELIEVES THAT'S THE RIGHT COURSE OF ACTION, TO BRING THAT BACK TO US.

I AGREE.

IS A ELECTRIC BASS SHOW.

I DON'T KNOW THE LAW.

HE GETS THE RIGHT PRESCRIPTION FOR HIS IN BOY.

THAT'S JUST, THAT'S, THAT'S JUST THE LAW.

YOU GET TO BE YOUR OWN HR PERSON.

IF YOU WON'T DO AN ELECTIVE FACIAL, THEY, UM, UH, AND I, I JUST DON'T, I THINK IT'S A GOOD PLAN.

I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE MOVE IT TO HIM AND HE CAN COME BACK WITH ZITS AND HIS, HIM AND KAREN DON'T WORK VERY WELL TOGETHER.

THEY WORKED TOGETHER FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS AND, UH, I REMEMBER THE SITUATION THAT WE HAD BEFORE AND CHANGED HIM, BUT WE HAVE A PRETTY GOOD INTERNAL CONTROL.

SO GOOD.

WE HAVE DONE THAT WITH INTERNAL CONTROL TOO.

AND IT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION.

I WANT ALL FIVE OF Y'ALL TO REALIZE THIS, SOMEONE THOUGHT THAT AP HAD BEEN IN THE TREASURER'S OFFICE AND HAD BEEN MOVED TO ME.

AND THAT'S NOT TRUE.

I TOOK PAYROLL PER THE COURT'S REQUESTS BECAUSE I NEEDED TO BE ON STW SOFTWARE AND TRAIN THAT PERSON.

AND THEN THAT PERSON WAS MOVED BACK TO THE TREASURER'S OFFICE.

BUT PAYABLES HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN THE COUNTY AUDITOR'S DEPARTMENT THAT I KNOW OF.

I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT BECAUSE SOMEONE ASKED ME ABOUT IT YESTERDAY.

SO I GUESS THEN WE'D BE LOOKING AT LOOKING AT, UNLESS THERE'S MORE ON THIS.

WE LOOKING FOR EMOTION TO MOVE THE COUNTY TREASURER'S OFFICE.

I MEAN, MOVE THE HR DEPARTMENT UNDER THE AUTHORITY, THE COUNTY TREASURER'S OFFICE I'LL MAKE THE MOTION.

CONGRATULATIONS CHECKING.

WE HAD THAT MOTION COMMISSIONER IN CASE.

IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND, SECOND ONE COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.

THOSE OPPOSED? NO MOTION CARRIES.

THANK YOU, SIR.

THANKS.

SO NOW

[16. Auditor; Discuss/Consider line-item transfers.]

NEXT WE'LL GO TO THE AUDIT OR DISCUSS CONSIDER LINE ITEM TRANSFERS.

YES.

SHORTER BOARDING.

IF YOU SAY JUDGE, I DIDN'T SAY, UM, ANY QUESTIONS ON MILAN OR TRANSFERS OR BUDGET AMENDMENTS.

I WANT TO KIND OF CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE BUDGET CORRECTIONS FOR 2021.

SO YOU'LL KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING.

SO I SENT THEM TO YOU SO YOU COULD REVIEW THEM.

YES, MA'AM.

NOW I HAVE ANOTHER CORRECTION.

SO THE, ALL THE CORRECTIONS TO THE GENERAL FUND, YOU ASKED FOR 300,000 IN CONTINGENCY AND MR. JERRY JUST, HE GAVE IT TO YOU WITH THE CORRECTIONS I'VE MADE.

I WAS GIVEN IT TO YOU TO 493,000, BUT NOW, UM, YOUR CONTINGENCY IN GENERAL WOULD BE 556,000 BECAUSE IT TOOK THAT PART FROM HR NOW.

UM, PART OF THIS WAS NOT MR. JERRY'S FAULT WITH THE BUDGET.

I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVERSION.

SO WHEN HE DID IT AND OPENGOV, NOT ALL THE LINE ITEMS THAT I WANTED WERE CREATED.

SO WHEN HE TRANSFERRED IT, IT WAS NOT BALANCED.

MY STW SYSTEM WILL NOT ACCEPT IT UNTIL I PUT THESE CORRECTIONS IN AND IT WILL BE BALANCED THEN, BUT, UM, IT'S JUST WRONG.

LINE ITEMS

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WERE USED IN THE TIFS.

HE GOT THE INFORMATION FOR ME SO LATE BECAUSE I WAS WAITING ON THE T THE CAD TO GIVE ME SOME INFORMATION.

UH, AND IT WAS SOME THINGS WERE LUMPED INTO ONE BIG LINE ITEM.

AND THEN WE HAD TO MAKE THE LINE ITEMS TO MAKE IT SPREAD.

AND THEN THERE WAS A 9 MILLION, UH, FUND BALANCE LEFT OFF IN, UH, ONE OF THE ROAD AND BRIDGE THINGS.

AND ALTOGETHER IT WAS A LITTLE ABOUT $10 MILLION WORTH OF CORRECTIONS DONE TO ALL THE FUNDS.

AND, UH, IT'LL BE BALANCED THEN.

AND THAT'S ALL THESE PAGES I HAD SENT TO YOU TO REVIEW BECAUSE WE DID IT FOR EVERY FUND SO WE CAN GET IT LOCKED IN FOR THE COMMISSIONERS.

I DID GET A CHECK FROM THE CITY OF KAUFFMAN FOR PASS THROUGH, AND WE HAVE PUT THAT IN Y'ALL'S MONEY FOR THIS YEAR TO CARRY FORWARD.

AND THEN WE'LL GET YOU A GOOD FIGURE.

ONCE WE GET YOUR BILLS PAID FOR SEPTEMBER, IS THERE STILL SOME, THE NODE, ANOTHER CITY THERE'S OVER $2 MILLION OWED BY THE CITY OF TERRELL.

THEY WENT THROUGH A SIGNIFICANT AUDIT WITH THE STATE OF TEXAS AND ANOTHER ENTITY THAT THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH WITH THEIR PASSED THROUGH THE STATE OF TEXAS.

THEY HAVE SATISFIED WE'RE WAITING ON THE OTHER AND I'VE ASKED MR. POLLSTER FOR ALL THE INFORMATION I HAVE NOT RECEIVED IT YET.

I WAS GOING TO EMAIL IT TO ALL ALI ONCE I'VE RECEIVED THAT PART OF IT, DO Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OF ALL THE CORRECTIONS WE DID.

SO NOW ALL THE TIPS, THE POWER CENTER, ALL THAT IS PROPERLY.

YES.

UH, YOU KNOW, IT WAS GOOD AT LIKE 1.2 MILLION, THE CITY OF TERRELL, BUT THAT WAS NOT CITY OF TERRELL IS, IS MUCH, MUCH SMALLER AMOUNT.

IT WAS THE POWER CENTER.

AND, UM, THE CITY OF FORNEY IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST IN THE POWER CENTER.

AND WE DID INCLUDE, UH, THE CITY OF CRANDALL SINCE WE STARTED DOING THEIR TIF TO, WAS THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS THAT Y'ALL WANTED TO, TO KNOW ABOUT WHY WE DID WHAT WE DID? I'LL TELL YOU PART OF THE SAVINGS OF WHY I'VE ADDED SO MUCH TO, TO CONTINGENCY WHEN JERRY DID THE DEBT PART FOR THE GENERAL FUND CLIMATEC WAS PAID OFF.

CAUSE I PAID THEM OFF.

AND SO WAS THE VOTING EQUIPMENT.

AND I MADE THAT REMARK, BUT WE DIDN'T FOLLOW THROUGH BECAUSE WE WERE IN A CRUNCH.

SO THERE WAS $264,000 IN SAVINGS THERE THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO BUDGET FOR.

SO THAT WAS PART OF MAKING UP THAT MOVE TO THE CONTINGENCY.

SO THAT GIVES YOU SOME EXTRA MONEY IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY ANYWAY, WHICH IS A GOOD PLAN.

17, UH, DISCUSS CLAIMS FOR PAYMENT.

UH, LOOKING FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE A LINE ITEM OR TRANSFER IS THIS PRESENTED, I'LL MAKE THAT BOOK WITH EMOTIONAL COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS.

IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND, SECOND COMMISSIONER CAGE DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.

UH, ADAMS, I'LL NEVER GIVE UP ON THAT ITEM.

[17. Auditor; Discuss/Consider claims for payment.]

TEAM DISCUSS, CONSIDER EXITING REGULAR MEETING AND ENTER INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.

YOUR CLAIMS FOR PAYMENT ARE 2 MILLION, $378,586 AND 88 CENTS A PAYROLL OF 1,000,400 THOUSAND $633 AND 53 CENTS.

AND THE TOTAL IS $3,779,220 AND 41 CENTS.

YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? MOST OF THAT WAS FACILITIES BOND 500 SOMETHING THOUSAND WAS THE ROAD BOND.

AND THEN THE INSURANCES IN NORMAL EXPENDITURES.

IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS OF THE AUDITOR'S USE OR A MOTION TO APPROVE CLAIMS FOR PAYMENT AS PRESENTED, I'LL MAKE THAT MOTION.

THE MOTION COMMISSIONER BARBERS ARE SECOND ON SECOND, SECOND, COMMISSIONER HUNT, DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE OPPOSED.

NO MOTION CARRIES AUTOMATE

[18. Judge Richards; Discuss/Consider exiting regular meeting and enter executive session.]

IS THERE A MOTION TO DO SO? OH MY GOD, WE HAVE EMOTIONAL COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS.

IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND, SECOND COMMISSIONER BARBARA DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE OPPOSED.

NO MOTION CARRIES.

[19. Executive Session; Pursuant to Section 551.072 of the Texas Government Code, the Commissioners Court will meet in closed session to discuss real estate negotiations.]

ARE IN EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO SECTION 5, 5, 1 0.072 OF THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE.

THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT WILL MEET IN CLOSED SESSION TO DISCUSS REAL ESTATE NEGOTIATIONS.

I GUESS WE'LL MEET IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM.

TO EXIT EXECUTIVE SESSION AND INTER BACK INTO REGULAR MEETING, I'LL MAKE THE MOTION.

UH, LOOKING FOR A MOTION

[20. Judge Richards; Discuss/Consider exiting executive session and enter back into regular meeting.]

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WE HAD A MOTION COMMISSIONER HAN.

IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING I SUPPOSE.

NO, THAT MOTION CARRIES.

UH, ARE THERE ANY MOTIONS

[21. Judge Richards; Discuss/Consider taking any action as a result of executive session.]

COMING OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION? YEAH.

I MAKE A MOTION ALLOWED A REAL ESTATE FIRM TO COMPLETE THE NEGOTIATIONS ON THE SELL OF THE PROPERTY ON 2 33, 2 33 OR 2 32, 2 33.

SO WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS, UH, REGARDING A PROPERTY ON THE COUNTY PROPERTY ON 2 33.

IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND, SECOND COMMISSIONER CAGE DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING I WAS SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT MOTION CARRIES BRINGS US TO ITEM 22, 20 TO 22 MIKE AND THE MOTION TO ADJOURN.

THE MEETING COMMISSIONER PHYLLIS MOVES A JOURNEY MEETINGS ARE SECOND SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER HUNT.

DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR, SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.