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UH, WE HAVE A DISTRICT WITH US THIS MORNING AND I'M GOING TO ASK TO LEAD US IN PRAYER.
GOT A DAY OFF, I GUESS, FROM THE ARMY.
AND, UH, WE, WE WILL LET YOU LEAD US IN PRAYER THIS MORNING.
WE HUMBLY COME TO YOU THIS MORNING ASKING THAT YOU GRANT THE WISDOM AND THE KNOWLEDGE FOR THIS GENTLEMAN.
MAKE THE DECISIONS AND SO DESPERATELY NEED FOR THIS COUNTY.
WE ASK THAT YOU BE WITH ALL SERVICE MEMBERS SERVING WHEREVER THEY'RE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
WE ASK THAT YOU BE WITH PEOPLE IN NEED.
WE ASK THAT YOU GRANT US YOUR WISDOM AS WE GO THROUGH OUR TRAVELS IN LIFE.
IN JESUS NAME, AMEN CAN INTRODUCE YOU, BUT, UH, THAT'S KEN'S BROTHER IN CASE YOU DUNNO.
AND, UH, WE'RE HAPPY Y'ALL REMEMBER WHEN HE WENT OVERSEAS WHERE WE SAID PRAYERS FOR HIM SO WELL HE HAD, WELL HE WAS IN HONDURAS, BUT THIS SUMMER HE'LL BE IN IRAQ.
HELP US GET 'EM ALL ONE SOONER.
Y'ALL PREVIOUSLY DIDN'T PROVIDE A COPY OF THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING.
ARE ANY ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS? IF THERE ARE NONE, WE'D ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THOSE AS PRESENTED.
MOTION MEANS BY COMMISSIONER LER, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SHANE.
ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
UH, FIRST THING ON THE AGENDA THIS MORNING IS JOHNNY COUNTRYMAN.
HE'S GONNA PRESENT US THE, UH, MONTHLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER AND THE QUARTERLY REPORT FOR QUARTER ENDING IN DECEMBER AND THE QUARTERLY CONGRESSIONAL REPORT FOR DECEMBER.
I TAKE TWO MINUTES OR HALF AN HOUR TURN.
Y'ALL PREFER
CAFE SIX WORTH 2.9 B IN DECEMBER WAS DOWN.
CAUSED INCREASE BY $1.1 MILLION IN CASH.
AND WE STILL HAVE ABOUT 130,000 LEFT IN JAIL CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNTS.
AND WE STILL HAVE, UH, THREE 30,000, THREE 30,000 CONSTRUCTION.
AND WE STILL HAVE, UH, SEE GEORGE, WE STILL HAVE SEVERAL DEALS COMING ON ON THAT ELECTRONIC WORK CAP THERE.
I THINK THAT'S GONNA EAT IT UP.
WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT ABOUT 15 3000 A MONTH, LAST THREE MONTHS.
WELL THE LAST, LAST TWO BILLS YOU GOT ELECTRONIC COMPANY, YOU GOT COUPLE WE'LL COME.
UH, ANY THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? UH, WE THEN PLAN A MOTION TO I STILL ALL THREE.
YOU CAN'T PREPARED DECEMBER 31ST.
AND I LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR SIX INCREASE BY $8.3 MILLION, 8.5 MILLION.
WELL ALSO IN DIS AND UH, THE LAND THING, THAT GENERAL FUND MONEY ARE UP FOR ABOUT 1.1 MILLION, OVER 5 MILLION.
THAT, THAT QUARTER TIME S UH, A YEAR END.
DECEMBER 31ST WE HAD 1,000,002 WITH TECH POOL.
WE MOVED 3 MILLION THE FIRST PART OF THE YEAR.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT REPORT? DID, DID YOU SAY WE'RE GOING TO 4.27.
WE'RE GONNA PUT MORE MONEY IN THERE.
PUT THREE OF YOU IN THERE FIRST.
WE NOW, BECAUSE THE CASH STILL COME IN WITH
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ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, UH, OTHER REGARDING THE, UH, FLORIDA INVESTMENT REPORT.IF THERE ARE NONE, WE'D ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ACCEPT ALL
MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER LEONARD.
NEXT WE HAVE DISCRE MOVING THE FLOOD PLAIN MANAGEMENT COURT ORDER.
KATHY, THE COUNTY CURRENTLY HAS A BLOOD CLAIM MANAGEMENT COURT ORDER THAT WAS APPROVED IN JUNE OF 1995.
AND DURING THAT TIME, THERE WAS NEVER ANYTHING PUT IN THERE FOR THE ENFORCEMENT PART OF THE COURT ORDER.
AND IN THE LAST YEAR, WITH ALL THE DEVELOPMENT WE'VE HAD, WE'RE SEEING A FEW MORE PEOPLE STARTING TO APPROACH ON FLOOD PLANKS.
AND WE NEED SOMETHING THAT WOULD, WE COULD DO FOR ENFORCEMENT.
SO IN ARTICLE FOUR OF THE FLOOD PLANK COURT ORDER, I PUT IN, UH, AN ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES PROCEDURE CLAUSE.
AND ALSO WE CHANGED FROM THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR BEING THE FOR PLAN ADMINISTRATOR TO THE 9 1 1 COORDINATOR BECAUSE THE 9 1 1 COORDINATOR GOES OUT AND DOES ADDRESSES, ALSO CHECKS THE AREAS WHEN WE HAVE A SUBDIVISION COME IN FOR FLOOD PLAN ADMINISTRATION.
IT JUST MADE MORE SENSE FOR HIM TO BE THE, THE FLOOD PLAIN COORDINATOR THAN ME AND HAVING HAD TWO OR THREE PEOPLE GO OUT TO LOOK AT ONE PIECE OF PROPERTY AND THAT'S OKAY WITH HIM.
OH YEAH, HE'S BEEN DOING IT FOR THE LAST FOUR, FIVE YEARS.
JUST KIND OF CLEAR, UH, WE UNDERSTAND THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE NEW COURT ORDER.
MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER SHANE, SECOND BY COMMISSIONER.
UH, WE'VE HAD SOME FILING OF THE DALLAS CROWN COURT FOR THE
WE SHOULD SAY ACKNOWLEDGE THE FILING REPORT.
ACKNOWLEDGE THE FILING OF THE REPORT.
CHUCK'S NOT HERE YET, IS HE? YEAH.
DO WE HAVE A LINE TRANSFER? YES SIR, WE DO.
WE PROPOSED BUDGET LINE ITEM TRANSFER IN TRADITIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, INCREASE THE BUDGET FOR TRANSPORTING PRISONERS $3,000.
PSYCHIATRIC EXAM, $1,000 WITH REDUCTION IN PROSECUTION EXPENSE OF 4,000.
AND THEN CAPITAL A DID PRECEDING AIR CONDITIONING EXPENSE 12,000 WITH PRODUCTION OF REPAIRS.
COUNTY GOVERNOR THE, UH, TRANSFER ENTER MOTION TO APPROVE THOSE.
MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER SHANE.
ALL IN FAVOR SAY A MOTION CARRIES.
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OKAY.BESIDES PAYING THE BILLS, THE LAST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS FOR IT TO HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS, UM, UH, MATTER IS CAUSE NUMBER 6 5 1 2 3 UNDER SECTION 5 5 7 A OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE.
AND WE'RE WAITING FOR CHUCK KIMBRO TO COME IN FROM AUSTIN.
HE SAID SHOULD GET HERE, HE SAID BY 10 O'CLOCK.
SO I TOLD HIM WE WOULD, UH, DO WHAT WE COULD TO STALL UNTIL 10 O'CLOCK.
SO WHY DON'T WE GO AHEAD AND ED IF YOU WANT TO, IF YOU NEED TO GET BACK UPSTAIRS AND COME BACK AT 10, UH, WE'LL TAKE IT BACK UP AT 10.
OR YOU JUST DRINK COFFEE AND HANG AROUND.
WELL, I'LL JUST HANG AROUND JUDGE, I NEED MYSELF COMING BACK.
WHY DON'T WE GO AHEAD AND THE BILLS THEN WHILE WE'RE WAITING FOR,
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HEY, HEY, I THINK I GOT A COPY.IS THAT UH, FRESH COFFEE? YES.
KIND OF GUESS THAT THOUGH, JUDGE, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ACTUALLY HERE ONE.
I IF JERRY MARILYN'S CAUGHT YET, BUT HE NOTICED SOME.
YOU KNOW, THERE, I'M NOT SURE WHO WE CONTRACT ON.
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I DID.YOU HEARD THAT OLD STORY ABOUT THE TOWN THAT, YOU KNOW, GOT EVERYBODY TOGETHER
ONLY ONE GUY BROUGHT ANOTHER
THAT'S, WELL, I WENT AND VOTED FIRST THING SATURDAY MORNING AND YOU KNOW, IT'S THE FIRST TIME I EVER VOTED IN THE CITY ELECTION.
HAD TV CAMERAS THERE WAITING ON HOW IT TOOK US TO COUNT THE EARLY VOTES.
GUESS HOW WE DIDN'T GET RESULTS? STILL GUESS HOW LONG IT TOOK US TO COUNT THE EQUIPMENT CAME IN AND WHEN THEY DROVE EVERYTHING.
HEY GEORGE, WHY DIDN'T WE SEE RESULTS TILL EIGHT 30? WELL, WE WANT, WE DOTTED ALL OUR I'S ALL OUR TS.
THIS IS THE B AND CORN SHELL HAS PROBLEM.
REMEMBER, NOT THIS ONE, BUT I MAY HAVE TOLD Y'ALL THIS STORY BEFORE, BUT YOU REMEMBER WHEN NOLAN RYAN WAS, THEY ANNOUNCED NO, RYAN WAS IN THE HALL OF FAME.
OF COURSE, ALL OF THE TV CAMERAS.
ALL THE TV STATIONS GOING HOUSE.
AND HE WAS HAVING A BARBECUE IN THE BACKYARD.
AND SO THEY INTERVIEWED HIM HAVING A BARBECUE.
AND ONE OF THE REPORTERS SAID, WELL, WHAT ARE YOU EATING? HE SAID, WE'RE HAVING VENISON BACKSTRAP FAS
I BET THAT REPORTER DID NOT GUESS THAT WAS GONNA BE THE ANSWER.
MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER D COMMISSIONER, UH, OPPOSED THE AYE, AYE.
UH, LET'S TAKE, UH, ABOUT A SOMEBODY.
OH YEAH, FLOYD, UH, WE'VE GOT AN IN ONE INDIVIDUAL, UH, SIGNED UP STATE WITH FLOYD CHOICE'S ON THE CITY.
FLOYD, COME ON UP NOW YOU REMEMBER THE TOP OF THAT SHEET?
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IT SAYS THREE MINUTES,HOPEFULLY YOU CAN GET IT WOUND UP IN I JUST WANTED TO SAY I'M, UH, COUNCILMAN FLOYD CHARGE IN THE CITY OF KAUFMAN.
AND, UH, NOT ONLY I A A UH, CITIZEN OF KAMAN, UH, WORKING FOR KAUFFMAN ELECTRIC TRINITY VALLEY, UM, ELECTRIC FOR 34 YEARS.
UH, I'VE HAD A CHANCE TO RIDE THE ROADS FOR 34 YEARS AND THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST IMPROVEMENTS THAT I'VE SEEN IS THE ROADS AND, AND THE WAY THE COUNTY DOES BUSINESS.
BUT I DIDN'T COME HERE FOR THAT.
I JUST COME TO, TO SAY, UH, I HAD READ A POST ONLINE WHERE Y'ALL WERE TAKING JUST A LITTLE BIT OF HEAT ABOUT HAVING YOUR MEETINGS ONLINE.
AND I WANT TO TELL Y'ALL THAT THAT'S ONE OF THE BEST THINGS Y'ALL HAVE EVER DONE FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME.
IF THEY, IF THEY WANT TO LOOK IN AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE COUNTY, ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS JUST HIT THAT BUTTON AND YOU CAN GET THE FLAVOR OF THE MEETINGS.
UH, I KNOW IN SOME CASES IT MIGHT SHORTEN THE MEETINGS,
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I, IT TOUCHED ME IS SEE, UH, I KNOW THAT EACH ONE OF THESE COMMISSIONS, Y'ALL HAVE YOUR OWN CONSTITUENTS AND YOU KINDA HAVE SOMEONE RIGHT UP IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THAT TO KIND OF MEDIATE ALL THAT.
AND JUST TO BE ABLE JUST TO SEE THAT, UH, ONLINE, I JUST, I JUST WANTED TO COME IN SO I DIDN'T COME TO BEAT NOBODY UP.
AND FLOYD, WE, WE CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THAT.
I UNEMPLOYED HIS WHOLE LIFE AND, AND WE WERE REALLY SADDENED LAST YEAR WHEN YOU HAD YOUR ACCIDENT AND, UH, YOU WERE RIGHT AFTER ME AND YOU WENT TO BAYLOR RIGHT AFTER ME AND WENT THROUGH REHAB RIGHT AFTER I DID.
AND, UH, WE'RE HAPPY THAT YOU'RE UP WALKING STRAIGHT LIKE THE REST OF US AND, AND, UH, OUR PRAYERS WERE WITH YOU.
WE'RE HAPPY THAT YOU'RE BACK OUT AND UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING THOSE EMAILS FROM YOU WITH THE PHOTOS THAT YOU HAVE.
WELL, I'M GETTING READY TO GO BACK TO WORK, SO I WANNA MAKE SURE I CAME DOWN HERE.
AND SOMETHING ELSE THAT Y'ALL WERE DISCUSSING LAST WEEK.
UH, THE LAST MEETING WAS GIS AND UH, I GOT A CHANCE TO DEAL WITH THAT AT TRINITY VALLEY.
AND, UH, WE FOUND OUT IN OUR COMPANY SOME OF OUR BEST CUSTOMERS IS INSIDE THE COMPANY.
YOU KNOW, WE WORK AND THEN WE HAVE EVERYBODY ACCESS THE SAME DATABASE.
AND, UH, IT'S KIND OF WEIRD THAT Y'ALL WOULD TALK ABOUT GIS AND I RECOGNIZE THAT COMPANY ARC INFO OR WHATEVER THAT, THAT ARC VIEWER OR WHATEVER, THERE'S, I, I DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT WHAT, UM, CAN AND CANNOT, YOU KNOW, WHAT MIGHT BE, UH, PERSONAL, UH, INFORMATION OR WHATEVER, BUT I KNOW THAT, UH, WE LOOK AT THOSE MAPS, WE HAVE, UH, THOSE MAPS ON LAPTOPS.
I KNOW THAT, UH, UH, THE PATROLMEN OUT IN THE FIELD, THEY HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS THAT THAT, THAT A LINEMAN OR SOMEONE TRYING TO FIND SOMEONE THE SAME INFORMATION.
AND IT'S JUST, TO ME IT JUST SEEMED LIKE IT'S JUST A REDUNDANT INFORMATION THAT'S SOMEONE ELSE HAS THAT SAME INFORMATION.
WE GO TO THE COUNTY, WE USE THE SAME MAPS, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, UH, YOU HEAR THE 9 1 1 PEOPLE SAYING, WELL, WE DON'T HAVE THIS.
AND, AND I KNOW THAT THE DEPARTMENT THAT I WORK IN, WE DO ALL THE SUBDIVISIONS, WE LAY THOSE SAME THINGS IN THE MAPS, WE DO THE SAME THINGS.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A CAD DEPARTMENT AND UH, UH, THEY DO THE SAME THINGS THAT Y'ALL ARE FINN TO GET OFF, FINN TO GO THROUGH SOME OF THE SAME WALK THROUGH THE SAME STUFF.
AND I JUST, YOU KNOW, I JUST KNOW THAT, UH, Y'ALL DON'T KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMEONE GOING THROUGH THE SAME THINGS.
YOU ARE WALKING THE SAME WALK.
AND, UH, UH, WE DEAL WITH AT TRINITY NEVADA, WE DEAL WITH NOT ONLY CAMAN COUNTY, WE DEAL WITH VAN TAN COUNTY, HUNT COUNTY, AND WE PUT ALL THESE THINGS RIGHT THERE IN OUR MAPS.
SO WE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE CONSTANTLY UPDATING THEM AND I JUST HATE TO SEE THAT Y'ALL WOULD HAVE THIS RESOURCES SITTING UP RIGHT THERE AND HERE YOU GOT THE COUNTY AND HERE YOU GOT THE CITIES, THEY'RE ALL LOOKING FOR THE SAME THING.
BUT, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S TRYING TO FIGHT THEIR OWN BATTLES.
SO I, I JUST WANT TO JUST ADD THAT IN AND
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THANK Y'ALL FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO OVER THREE MINUTES.YOU KNOW, WE, THIS IS THE FIRST ACTUAL FEEDBACK THAT I'VE HAD SINCE WE'VE GONE ONLINE WITH OUR MEETINGS.
IT'S GOOD TO KNOW THAT PEOPLE APPRECIATE THAT.
WELL I KNOW THAT THE PEOPLE THAT HOLLER THE LOUDEST ALWAYS GET HEARD AND, AND, UH, I'VE BEEN TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT IT.
THEY WANT TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON AND I, I WANNA SEE THE COUNCIL DO THE SAME THING AND ACTUALLY THAT'S WHY WANT TO BE, BUT I WANT THEM TO DO THE SAME THING THAT WAY, YOU KNOW, INFORMATION IS POWER AND THEN THAT WAY EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON.
CAN I SAY SOMETHING FLOYD? WE WE'RE, WE'RE STARTING BABY STEPS.
WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST KIND OF PUTTING IT OUT THERE RAW WHERE YOU CAN WATCH IT ON THE FRONT END.
YEAH, AND I THINK WE'LL HONE IT AND REFINE IT, UH, LATER ON.
BUT I'M THRILLED TO DEATH THAT WE, UH, WE HAVE IT ON THERE AND I, I APPRECIATE YOU SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
UH, LET'S TAKE A SHORT 10 MINUTE BREAK AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK AND GO INTO OUR EXECUTIVE SESSION.
YEAH, THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE THERE AS WELL.
WHAT WAS HIS ACCIDENT AS FAR CAR? YOU OTHER THREE GUYS NEED TO FIND OUT WHAT JERRY PAID HIM.
SO YOU GET SOMEBODY FROM YOUR PRECINCT TO COME IN HERE.
UM, CHUCK'S HERE AND EVERYBODY'S HERE.
SO WHY DON'T WE, UH, I ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO MOVE FROM OPEN COURT TO AN EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE 5 5 1 0.711 A OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE APPELLATE MATTERS REFERENCED CAUSE.
MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER DELLA SECOND, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER ROWDEN.
MOTION CARRIE, SO WE CAN MOVE FROM THE OPEN COURT TO THE EXECUTIVE SESSION TOWN.
I THINK YOU NEED TO NOW WE HONOR, WE CAN PAINT THAT CAP UP SO WE KNOW IT'S ON THERE.
UH, WE'VE EXITED THE, UH, EXECUTIVE SESSION.
THERE IS NO ACTION TO BE TAKEN, UH, AS A RESULT OF THE EXECUTIVE SESSION.
UH, ANYTHING ANYBODY NEEDS TO BRING UP BEFORE WE ADJOURN? UH, HAVING SAID THAT, THEN WE WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN.
SO MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER.
BY COMMISSIONER? YEAH, COMMISSIONER.
MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER SECOND.