[00:00:04]
FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR GIVING US, THOSE OF US THAT WERE OUT OF TOWN, SAFE TRIPS BACK HOME.
FATHER, WE ASK THAT YOU BE WITH US AND GUIDE US IN OUR DELIBERATIONS AND HELP FOR US TO MAKE DECISIONS IN ACCORD WITH YOUR JESUS NAME.
YOU PREVIOUSLY BEEN PROVIDE A COPY OF THE MINUTES.
THERE ARE NO ADDITIONS OF CORRECTIONS.
MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER ROW.
SECOND BACK TO COMMISSIONER LEONARD.
THE NEXT WE HAVE THE MINUTES FROM THE APRIL 24TH MEETING, WE ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ACCEPT THOSE.
THERE ARE NO ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS.
ALL IN FAVOR SAY, BY THE WAY, THIS ONE? UH, NO, I HAVEN'T.
WELL, ACTUALLY, UH, JIM AND JIM TALKED TOO MUCH.
THEY SO MUCH DID THEY NOT TELL YOU THAT? THEY HAVEN'T MENTIONED IT.
WELL, WE, I AM SURE Y'ALL, UH, IF YOU HAVEN'T GOTTEN THIS ONE, YOU TAKE TWO THREE OF 'EM AND PASS IT AROUND AND SOME INFORMATION SHE CAN SHARE.
THE FIRST THING WE HAVE ON THE AGENDA THIS MORNING IS AN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
UH, WHY DON'T WE GO AHEAD AND DO THE REST OF THE, THAT CONFINED HERE.
DO NO, HE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING IN THE EXECUTIVE SESSION.
SO, MR. CLARK, YOU SEE JOHNNY COUNTRY OUT THERE ANYMORE? NO.
HIS OFFICE, I THINK HE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING IN EXECUTIVE SESSION FIRST.
WELL, AND THAT BRINGS US DOWN TO ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, STATE, PHASE THREE, COUNTY PRECINCT.
THAT'S, UH, MY PRECINCT JUDGE.
UH, THEY JUST, UH, ADDED TWO MORE NEW LOT TO THAT.
THEY SELL OFF ANY LAND OR SO WE JUST ACCEPT THAT AND, AND YOU COULDN'T GIVE THEM TO PAY FOR SOME OF THAT ROAD IMPROVEMENT THEY DID ON AVENUE ROAD, I GUESS.
YEAH, THEY'RE ON A GOOD PART DOWN THERE WHERE IT'S, IT'S ALREADY GOOD.
SO YEAH, WE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO, MAYBE THEY PAID FOR THAT BEFORE I CAME, BECAUSE THAT, THAT WAS BEFORE, BEFORE CAME.
BUT NO, THEY DIDN'T PAY ANYTHING.
NOW WE'RE DOING THE REST OF IT.
WE'RE STILL PAYING FOR ALL THIS PHASE THREE, JUST THREE OR FOUR.
WHAT THEY HAD DONE ON THE ORIGINAL WA THAT JUST DIDN'T DO THAT.
I GUESS IT'S JUST AN ACCIDENT ADDITION TO THE ORIGINAL.
SO MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER ROUND, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER DOLLER.
ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN VERY HIGH.
ARE THEY HERE, DO THEY HAVE THOSE QUESTIONING ASSIGNED JURY OR, OH, I, NO, I, I'LL BRING THEM BY.
HAVE THOSE, UH, THE HOUSE DID NOT TACK ON THE APPRAISAL CAPS ON REVENUE CAPS IN THE SPECIAL SESSION ON THE BILL THAT THEY PASSED AND OVER IN THE SENATE.
HOWEVER, IT'S NOT BEEN DECIDED AND THEY STILL HAVE TIME TO DO IT.
UH, VISITED WITH, UH, EVERYBODY LAST WEEK AND OFTEN ADVISING WE WERE STILL AGAINST THE CAPS
[00:05:01]
AND A SOLUTION OPPOSING BEING PASSED BY THE STATE MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER ADAM, BY COMMISSIONER DISCUSSION.UH, I I HAVE SOME, I MEAN, SAID WE, OF COURSE WE HAVE THE COURT PROPOSED IN THE PAST, BUT, YOU KNOW, ON THE, ON THE BALLOT IN THE PRIMARY IT WAS, IT WAS, IT WAS PUT ON AS A, A NON-BINDING REFERENDUM.
AND I THINK OVER 90% OF THE VOTERS SAID THAT THEY WERE, THEY WERE IN FAVOR OF IT.
AND I THINK WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED IS THE LOCAL OPTION WHERE YOU CAN, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN DECIDE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, UH, IF, IF, IF YOU WANT IT OR NOT.
BUT, UH, I, YOU KNOW, I, I DUNNO THAT I, YOU KNOW, I VOTE YES, 93% OF PEOPLE WERE VOTED.
THE PROBLEM IS 93% OF THE PEOPLE WERE NOT TOLD THE EFFECTIVE WE HAVE ON THE PERSON IN KAUFMAN COUNTY.
IT'S JUST LIKE WHEN, UH, THE SINGLE APPRAISAL DISTRICTS CAME INTO EXISTENCE AND PUT IT ON THE BALLOT.
ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF THE TAX RELIEF AMENDMENT TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION? WELL, THAT WAS ALMOST A HUNDRED PERCENT THOUGH.
BUT THEN IT ENDED UP COSTING TAXPAYERS MORE MONEY BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT.
THEY WERE CREATING AN ANIMAL THAT WAS GONNA COST TAXPAYER MONEY AFTER TAXPAYERS MONEY AND STILL COST THE TAXPAYER'S MONEY.
SO THAT, THAT'S WHY YOU'RE TELLING ME ABOUT THAT BEING OWNED BY IN THE REP AS A REFERENDUM LIKE THIS, BECAUSE THEY DON'T GO AHEAD AND EXPLAIN THE REPERCUSSIONS AND MIGHT HAVE ACTUALLY AFFECT THEM.
WELL, BUT, AND, AND, AND I UNDERSTAND, BUT THIS IS BEING, I MEAN, WHAT'S BEING TALKED ABOUT NOW IS, IS A LOCAL OPTION AND THERE'S A FORUM TO HAVE THAT DEBATE, YOU KNOW, TO TALK ABOUT BOTH SIDES OF THAT.
AND, AND, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE, UH, PEOPLE WILL HAVE THE CHANCE BEFORE THEY VOTE.
YOU KNOW, THEY BOTH HAVE LOCAL OPTIONS.
YEAH, WELL, I'M JUST, YEAH, AND THAT'S RIGHT.
AND, AND, UH, THE LOCAL OPTION IS KIND OF A HIDDEN AGENDA THERE TOO, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T TELL ME IF THAT LAW, IF THAT WERE TO PASS AND IT WAS LOCAL OPTION.
AND I GUARANTEE YOU WHEN THAT COMES UP FOR A VOTE OR WHEN IT COMES UP TO COMMISSIONER'S COURT, IT'S NOT LOCAL.
IT'S A LOCAL OPTION BY THE COURT.
THE COURT VOTE, NOT THE PEOPLE, BUT THE COURT.
AND I GUARANTEE YOU, IF THE PEOPLE THINK THAT THIS, THAT THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT CAN VOTE TO CAP IT AND THE COURT DOESN'T, THEN YOU WON'T SEE THAT COURT HERE AGAIN.
THEY, THEY, THEY HIDE IT, KEN, AND YOU DON'T HAVE THE LEGISLATIVE JUDGE.
THEY HIDE IT AND SAY, OH, WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT LOOK LAWSUIT.
IF Y'ALL WANT IT LOCALLY, Y'ALL DO IT LOCALLY.
IF YOU DON'T WANT, DON'T DO IT LOCALLY.
BUT THERE ARE KNOWING, KNOWING WHOLE TIME THEY, THEY SAY THAT AND THAT THEY DO THAT.
THEY'RE TELLING THE COMMISSIONER COURT, YOU VOTE FOR, YOU'RE OUT NEXT TIME.
SO I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT, THAT, I MEAN, THAT MAY BE THE WAY TO DO IT, BUT JUST ALWAYS LOOK FOR THE HIDDEN AGENDA IN BELIEVE I'M GONNA TAKE A VOTE ON AGAINST, BUT I'M STILL IN FAVOR OF OPPOSING, UH, THE APPRAISALS CAP BECAUSE IT'S NOT WHAT'S FOR THE COUNTY AND, UH, FAST GROWING COUNTY LIKE WE ARE.
IT'S JUST GOING THAT IN, IN APPRAISAL.
YOU KNOW THAT, I MEAN, THE APPRAISAL CAPS AND REVENUE CAPS ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
AND THE, THE, THE REFERENDUM THAT WAS ON REVENUE CAPS TIED IT TO, TO GROWTH.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, THE WAY IT WAS WRITTEN, I DIDN'T SEE WHERE IT, YOU KNOW, WHERE IT HURTS THAT BAD IF, YOU KNOW, IF IT, IF IT'S TIME TO GROWTH.
ANY MORE DISCUSSION ALL FAVORS.
THE, I ALL OPPOSED? NO, I DIDN'T HEAR YOU.
I'M NOT GONNA VOTE ON, I JUST, WE WAS VISITING MR LAST WEEK AND THEY SAID THAT THEY WASN'T GONNA VOTE ON BRING THIS ISSUE BACK UP.
THEY SAID THEY VOTED ON IT ONE TIME.
LEGISLATION SHOULD KNOW HOW THEY, SO I JUST, I JUST STAY QUIET.
NEXT WE HAVE IS, UH, JOHNNY HERE.
UH, JOHNNY, WHAT YOU GONNA DISCUSS? CONSIDER AN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY TREASURER TO FILL THE QUARTERLY REQUEST FOR A COUNTY REIMBURSEMENT OF JU PAYMENTS WITH THE STATE COMPTROLLER.
[00:10:01]
TALKING ABOUT NOW, IT'S THAT SECOND DAY THAT $40 THE FIRST ATTACK, UH, EVERY TREASURER IN THE STATE IS, IS DOING THIS LEGISLATURE MUST HAVE Y'ALL'S APPROVAL FOR ME.THAT'S ALL THAT FOR MONEY BACK.
UNLESS YOU LIKE SIGNED EVERY YOURSELF.
GOOD ME ENTERTAIN MOTION DO THAT.
SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LEONARD.
NEXT I DISCUSSION LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF KAUFMAN.
INSTALL DATA SYSTEMS, EQUIPMENT ON CITY WATER TOWER, LOCATED AT THREE OAK DRIVE AND 1108 EAST KAUFMAN.
YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE THIS ALL OVER THE COUNTY.
THE SHERIFF, OH, THERE'S CAPTAIN.
MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER DO, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER ROWING.
NEXT, THE SET CENTER ACTION ON ENTERING INTO THE CROSS COUNTRY MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT WITH HENDERSON COUNTY IN REFERENCE TO WILDFIRE DISASTER D 1624 WITH THE COUNTY JUDGE BEING ER, COULD WE NARROW TO A CROSS COUNTY AGREEMENT FRAUD? I THINK WE'RE, WE HAVE SOMEBODY FROM HENDERSON COUNTY HERE WITH US.
MORNING YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF.
I'M JENNIFER NICHOLSON FROM THE AUDITOR'S OFFICE IN HENDERSON COUNTY.
ALSO ADMINISTERED AND COORDINATE THE GRANTS FOR HENDERSON COUNTY, UH, AND WAS, UH, DESIGNATED AS THE ADMINISTER OF, UH, THIS AGREEMENT.
WHAT IT IS, IS THERE WAS A WILDFIRE DISASTER THAT WAS, UH, CLARIFIED IN JANUARY THAT COVERED FROM DECEMBER 27TH THROUGH APRIL 1ST.
UH, MAYBANK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT HAD, I BELIEVE IT WAS TWO FIRES THAT FELL IN THE JURISDICTION OF HENDERSON COUNTY.
FEMA REQUIRES THAT WE HAVE CROSS COUNTY MUTUAL AID AGREEMENTS FOR THE PAST THIRD FUNDS FROM THEM.
SO ALL THIS IS, IS JUST SAYING THAT YES, HENDERSON COUNTY WILL PASS THIRD THOSE FUNDS DOWN TO THE
DOES E JUST NEED PROCESS? SORRY, I WAS GONNA ASK KATHY IF, UH, I THOUGHT WE ALREADY HAD MUTUAL AID AGREEMENTS WITH, WITH THEM.
SO DOES THAT NOT, IS THAT NOT SUFFICIENT? UH, I WAS NOT AWARE OF THAT.
DON'T HAVE ANY COPIES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
YEAH, IT'S A, IT'S AN ALL MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT FOR ANY TYPE OF DISASTER, NATIONAL, MANMADE, ANY, ANYTHING THAT WE HAVE TO GO ASSIST YOU ALL.
UM, JOHN CHANDLER IS THE PERSON I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THROUGH FEMA.
HE HAS SENT THIS TO ME AND, AND I AND I DEAL WITH THE DIFFERENT PERSONS.
SO, UM, I CAN FIND OUT IF IT, THE EXISTING ONE WILL COVER, HE'S ALSO REQUIRING THAT WE HAVE THIS WITH ANDERSON COUNTY.
SO WE HAD ONE OF THEIR DEPARTMENTS, UM, JESSICA, COULD WE GO AHEAD AND VOTE ON THIS ONE AND HAVE IT READY AND THEN SHE CAN CHECK ON IT IF IT'S NOT NECESSARY? UH, IS THAT POSSIBLE? OR DO WE HAVE TO TABLE THIS? I'D RATHER, WELL, KATHY, WHAT WOULD BE REPERCUSSIONS OF MY CONCERN IS THAT THE MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT THAT WE'VE GOT SIGNED IN 2003 COVERS EVERYTHING IN MORE DETAIL.
THIS IS SPECIFIC TO THIS DISASTER IN OUR TO JUST WILDFIRE.
MY CONCERN WOULD BE THAT WOULD WANT OVERRIDE THE OTHER ONE AND THEN WE'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND REDO ANOTHER ONE WITH HENDERSON COUNTY.
SO IF WE HAVE ONE THAT COVERS EVERYTHING, WE SHOULDN'T NEED A SPECIFIC FOR THIS DISASTER.
WE BE, AND THAT, AND I'LL TELL YOU THAT THE, THE ONES THAT WE SIGNED IN 2003 CAME STRAIGHT FROM FEMA.
AND THEN IT'S THE WARNING STRAIGHT FROM FEMA TOO.
SO IT MAY BE THAT THIS IS NOT NECESSARY.
I'M SORRY THAT COME ALL THE WAY.
I'D SUGGEST TABLING IT AT THIS TIME AND THEN YOU, YOU CHECK IT OUT AND KATHY AND MAKE SURE THAT I, I DON'T THINK WE NEED, BUT IF WE NEED TO, AS LONG AS LONG EFFECT.
AND IF Y'ALL REMEMBER DURING THE FIRES, YOU KNOW, THE PROBLEM IN DARREN COUNTY WHERE THERE WERE FIRE DEPARTMENTS KNOW THE CITY AND OTHER CITIES, FIRE DEPARTMENTS DIDN'T HAVE AGREEMENTS.
YOU KNOW, THERE WAS, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS NOTHING THAT THEY COULD DO.
[00:15:01]
I, SO WE DON'T HAVE THAT PROBLEM.I THINK THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE THE BEST THING.
WELL, HERE, I DUNNO IF WE HAVE AS MANY FIGHTS ON OUR COURT AS Y'ALL DO IN COUNTY.
IT DOES GET QUITE INTERESTING AT TIMES.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
DID I ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO TABLE THAT? NO, I DIDN'T THINK SO.
MOTION TO TAKE BY COMMISSIONER SHANE.
CARRIE, UH, GARY, THOSE, UH, LITTLE ACTIVITY WE ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF THIS.
I BELIEVE LET'S, UH, BRING THIS AROUND TO THE EXECUTIVE SESSION THAT WORK FOR ME.
WE PROPOSED LINE ITEM TRANSFERS FROM THE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE FOR STATE BIRTH RECORDS.
$4,000 OF REDUCTION IN INDEXING AND RECORDING GENERAL GOVERNMENT INCREASED ATTORNEY FEE AND COURT COSTS 20,000 IN DEDUCTION TO OFFICE FURNITURE EQUIPMENT JURY FUND INCREASED SPECIAL COURT REPORT, 5,000 WITH REDUCTION OF JURY COSTS, JAIL FUND, INCREASED OFFICE PERMIT AND EQUIPMENT, $100 REDUCTION OF MISCELLANEOUS AND CHARITY'S PORT OF RELIEF.
UH, SHIFTING $3,000 TO CPS ATTORNEYS FROM THE 422ND DISTRICT.
AND, UH, A HUNDRED DOLLARS IN VA ASSET.
UH, DA CHECK FUND INCREASED MISCELLANEOUS A HUNDRED DOLLARS IN REDUCTION IN DUES.
ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE A BUDGET OF AMENDMENTS.
RECOGNIZE REVENUES AND TASK FORCE ON OF DEFENSE.
39,000 OF THE INCREASE IN, IN, IN INTO DEFENSE COSTS AND DAS AT FORFEITURE FUND.
ADDITIONAL REVENUE OF 5,000 WAS AN INCREASE IN OFFICE FURNITURE EQUIPMENT IN THERE.
SO SECOND BACK MR. SHANE TO APPROVE THOSE LINE ON TRANSFER REQUEST.
UH, KENNETH WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION THEN TO MOVE OPEN SESSION TO THE EXECUTIVE SESSION.
SO WE'LL MOVE FROM OPEN SESSION INTO THE EXECUTIVE SESSION.
JUDGE DOES, WE'RE BACK IN OPEN SESSION NOW.
UH, WE A MOTION AS A RESULTS OF THE EXECUTIVE SECTION.
I MAKE A MOTION TO PURCHASE THE TWO PIECES OF PROPERTY.
ONE ON HIGH STREET AND THE OTHER ON NASH STREET, ONTARIO CASES.
MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER SHANE, SECOND BY COMMISSIONER.
UM, UH, LET'S TAKE, I TAKE A LITTLE BREAK BEFORE WE COME BACK AND MAKE APPEAL
AFTER THEY, AFTER THE COURT PASSED THAT THEN I UNDERSTAND THAT A LOT OF THOSE THREE PEOPLE THAT VOTED AGAINST IT RECEIVED A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF PHONE CALLS.
AND SO I GOT WORD THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE THAT THEY JUST WERE GOING DIE.
AND THEN AFTER ABOUT SIX TO EIGHT MONTHS, AND I GOT WORD THAT THE DISTRICT JUDGE WAS GOING TO INDICT ME BECAUSE I HADN'T PURSUED THE UH, UH, BOND ELECTION.
SO, UH, I TOLD HIM ALL GOD, WE'RE GOING TO, WE'RE GOING TO SEE, WE'RE GOING TO PUT, HOLD EVERYBODY'S FEET TO THE FIRE.
SO I PUT IT BACK ON THE AGENDA TO REAFFIRM ISSUING 11 MILLION IN, IN BONDS TO
[00:20:01]
BUILD THIS.WELL BELIEVE AT THAT TIME IT FAILED.
I MEAN IT PASSED TO RESCIND THAT ORDER.
FOUR TO ZERO
SO, UH, SO ANYHOW, THESE PEOPLE WOULD SAY, OH MAN, THEY'RE TRYING TO CRA THIS DOWN THE THROAT.
YOU KNOW, WHY DON'T THEY DISCUSS THIS? COMMISSIONER'S COURT PRIOR TO 1999 HAD ALREADY REALIZED THE NEED OF MORE SPACE.
THEY HAD ALREADY PUT IN OPERATION TO DO SOMETHING, BUT WHAT THEY WANTED TO DO, I THINK WAS A WASTE OF TAXPAYER'S MONEY.
AND TO DO THIS, WHAT THIS LITTLE NOTE HERE IS, I MEAN HERE IT IS YEARS LATER AND WHAT WOULD COST 11 MILLION THEN IN 98 OR NINE NINE RATHER TO JUST TO RENOVATE THIS WOULD BE AS MUCH AS IT MAKE COST BUILD TO BUILD A NEW COMPLETE BUILDING FOR EIGHT OR TWO COURTROOMS. DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT MY CAKE ENTRY WAS THAT YEAR? YES.
THE COURTHOUSE WITH TRAILER HOUSES AROUND THE SQUARE.
ANYWAY, I THOUGHT CHUCK DID A GOOD JOB AND UH, AND Y'ALL TALKED TO JOHNNY ABOUT, I THINK WE CONVINCED THREE OF THE, THEY HAVE TWO GUYS FROM MATERIAL COME OVER.
AND THEY WERE HERE AND UH, JIM MADE, INTRODUCED THEM AND FACETIOUSLY MADE THE COMMENT THAT THEY'RE HERE TO SUPPORT THE COURT'S BUILDING.
AND UM, SO ANYWAY, AFTERWARDS I ASKED JOHNNY, I SAID, WELL, JOHNNY, HE SAID, YEAH, I THINK WE CAN JIM, THAT'S THE ONLY SHERIFF IS THAT SHERIFF TALKED ABOUT JUST THE SECURITY COST, HOW MUCH IT'S GOING TO COST IF THE BOND ELECTION FAILS, JUST HOW MUCH MONEY IT'S GOING TO COST IN SECURITY.
AND THEN HE'S GONNA HAVE TO TAKE OFFICERS OFF THE STREETS AND PUT 'EM INTO THE COURTS BUILDING FOR SECURITY.
SO THAT, THAT I WAS JUST AFRAID THEY WERE GONNA BE A, UH, I REALLY WANTED TO BE THERE.
I WAS AFRAID THERE WAS GONNA BE A LOT OF NEGATIVE TAR, BUT THERE WASN'T.
JIM ASKED ONE QUESTION AND CHUCK ANSWERED.
SO IT'D BE INTERESTING TO HAVE THOSE YEARS TOMORROW NIGHT.
IS THAT GONNA BE HERE IN THE COURTHOUSE? IN THE DISTRICT.
WE HAVE ANY BILLS? DID YOU GET YES, HE CAN.
I DON'T HAVE THAT MANY TO PAY, BUT THIS IS A SMALL AMOUNT.
THIS IS, UH, THIS WEEK ON TWO 95,000.
UH, NUMBER 2, 2 4 2 DASH JP ONE OH I, OH, I WAS A HOT CHECK THAT ELECTRI BY JP ONE THAT YOU PAID BACK.
I WAS HOPING Y'ALL WOULDN'T NOTICE THAT THAT WASN'T GOOD.
[00:25:43]
READ MY MIND.I JUST WANTED FOR SAVING ME TWO BUCKS.
HAVE YOU EVER USED ANY OF THAT? UH, LIGHTWEIGHT TX I MATERIAL.
JACK JACK'S GOT A PIGGYBACK FOR TECH GUY AND FOR ME IT'S $2 CHEAPER.
WHAT WAS IT, 2022 FOR 14? IS THAT RIGHT? YEAH, THERE'S A, THERE'S A GRADE THAT HAD, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S A SMALLER MIX GRADE.
GRADE GRADE FIVE WORKS THE BEST.
THAT'S WHAT, YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S IT.
BUT BUT DO YOU REMEMBER, HAVE YOU SEEN THE DEAL? YOU'VE GOTTA PUT THAT STUFF OUT AT EXACTLY THE RIGHT, RIGHT.
BUT TOO MUCH IS JUST AS BAD AS TOO LITTLE.
I ALL HIS MONEY LAST, UH, THURSDAY I MET WITH UH, THE HEAD HONCHO, UH, OVER THE INDIGENT DEFENSE FUND.
AND UH, HE WAS EXCITED ABOUT OUR APPLICATION FOR THE GRANT AND UH, I THINK PR WORKED ON, UH, JIM ALLISON, I TALKED TO HIM AND HE SAYS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK AT ABOUT IN THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE, ABOUT HALF THE PERSONNEL THAT YOU HAVE IN THE DA'S OFFICE.
SO IF THE DA HAS 10 ASSISTANT DAS THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT HIRING FIVE PUBLIC DEFENDERS TO DO THE JOB.
SO, UH, I MEAN FIVE PUBLIC DEFENDERS, LIKE HUNDRED THOUSAND EACH.
SO, UH, GRANTS GRAVY ON TOP OF THAT.
I'VE I BEEN BEGGING FOR THIS THREE OR WHEN ARE WE GONNA VOTE? JUNE
LET SEE IF WE CAN JUST GRANT, GRANT WILL HELP.
AND I INTO THAT WAS THE FIREMEN THAT I WAS SITTING BY OVER THERE ON MY ROAD.
SO ANYWAY, ALL THE FIREMEN IN THOSE COUNTIES UP IN VIRGINIA ARE PAID BY THE COUNTY AND WE DON'T GET INTO THAT.
WELL, YEAH, WE START GETTING INTO OTHER, OTHER STATES.
TENNESSEE, THE COMMISSIONER, RUN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
REALIZE THE FIRST EIGHT YEARS I WAS REALLY YEAH, 20.
THEY HAVE FIVE THAT DATES BACK TO THE SEGREGATION DAYS.
I BET YOU WERE HAPPY YOU GIVE THAT UP.
THEY ONLY MADE ONCE OR TWICE A MONTH.
[00:30:01]
AND THEY DON'T HAVE ANY ROAD AND BRIDGE TO WORK.DON'T HAVE ANY, THEY DON'T MAINTAIN THE SHERIFF OR THE JAIL.
THEY HAVE A STATE INCOME TAX OF ABOUT FIVE OR 6% THOUGH TOO.
THERE WAS ONE THING DISCUSSION LAST WEEK WAS THE STATE, TEXAS, TEXAS TO TAKE LITTLE MORE OF THE FINANCING OF THE JAIL OPERATION AND THE SHERIFF.
I I DIDN'T, IT DIDN'T BOTHER ME BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY COUNTY SCHOOLS.
IT ALREADY, IT DIDN'T PHASED OUT.
BUT WHAT I, ONE THING I DID DO, I STILL APPROVED ALL OF THE BUS ROUTES FOR ALL OF THE INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
HUH UH AND APPROVED HAD TO APPROVE ALL OF THE PURCHASES.
I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY DID.
SO WHAT, WHEN WAS DISD COW? 79.
I'M JUST DOING THE FAST AND FAST AND DIRTY MATH.
AND THIS ISN'T FOR THE WHOLE YEAR.
OH, DIDN'T THEY ALSO OWN THEIR OWN ELECTRIC POWER PLAN? I NEVER DID UNDERSTAND THAT.
BUT WE ON YEAH, NORTH CAROLINA SOME I THOUGHT THAT WAS OWNED INDIVIDUALLY ABOUT THAT.
SOME NORTH CAROLINA, SOME OWN THEIR OWN.
THEY'RE ALLOWED TO DO MONEY MAKING PROJECTS.
WHEREAS IN TEXAS WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO THAT.
BUT, UH, SOME THOSE COUNTIES, WELL THEIR MANFIELD WAS BRINGING IN BRINGING THEM IN 70 MILLION A YEAR AND HE SAID THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY IUM ON IT, DID HE? KIM, THEY DIDN'T OWE ANY MONEY ON IT.
SO THAT MEAN WE HAD TO GIVE BACK MONEY.
WE MADE OFF THE EQUIPMENT AUCTION THAT MAKE WELL YEAH, BUT SEE THAT WASN'T A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE.
THAT WAS UH, I WISH Y MADE SOME MONEY CONVERSION.
SOME OF THAT EQUIPMENT WE BOUGHT FROM THE STATE AND USED IT A YEARS.
IT STATE REQUIRES YOU KEEP IT FOR TWO YEARS.
SHE WAS THE IN SPRINGS WAS SAYING, ARE Y'ALL WORKING ON YOUR ROAD TODAY?
THE PROCESS, THE NOW YOU REMEMBER THAT WHEN YOU FIRST CAME INTO OFFICE AND I SAID GIVE, YOU KNOW, HERE'S THE MOUNT MARK, THE COUNTY ROADS ON IT.
OKAY, SO WE'VE ALREADY DONE, I TURNED MINE.
YEAH, I KNOW YOU TURNED YOUR IN.
EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY TURN THEM IN.
SO WHAT WE'LL DO IS AFTER THEY GET THE FINISHED, WHICH THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS OF DOING RIGHT NOW, UH, THEN WE'LL HAVE, HAVE TO HAVE TWO I TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS ON, PUBLISH THE MAPS IN THE NEWSPAPER AND SAY THESE ARE THE COUNTY ROADS.
AND THEN WE'LL BOTH TO, TO DO THOSE, TO APPROVE THOSE MAPS.
UNLESS THAT'S DONE ROADS THAT ARE ON BOTH MAPS OR THE COUNTY ROAD.
SO WHEN YOU CAN HAVE SOMEBODY COME IN AND SAY, HEY, I BOUGHT THIS FIVE ACRES BACK HERE AND THAT THAT'S A NORMAL ABANDONED COUNTY ROAD.
SAY SORRY, THAT'S NOT A COUNTY ROAD.
OKAY, WELL I'M TALKING TO DON AND MAKE SURE THAT WE, I GUESS IS THERE RECORD AS TO FIXED OUT FEE IS WHAT? AND THEN THEY'RE WORKING WITH
WE APPROVED BY THE END OF THIS YEAR.
SO IF Y'ALL MARKED ON THERE ROADS THAT ARE NOT COUNTY ROADS, THEN Y'ALL ALSO KENNETH OUT THERE.
JED THOMPSON, ALL HIS NEIGHBORS, THEY'VE ALL REACHED
[00:35:01]
AN AGREEMENT TO HIRE THE SURVEY UNTIL THAT THE TWO GUYS THAT CAME IN HERE.SO THEY FINALLY AGREED ON SOMETHING.
THANK Y'ALL AGAIN FOR MY MPROMISE.
YOU COULD STAND THERE IN THE WINDOW AND YOU COULD LOOK OUT, YOU COULD SEE WHERE THAT PLANE THAT HIT THE BUILDING, IT ACTUALLY CRASHED INTO THE GROUND ABOUT YEAH, ABOUT BOUNCED TWO THIRD YARDS AWAY AND, AND BOUNCED INTO THINK WHAT IF THEY DID AND THEY LEFT ONE LITTLE OLD ROOM AREA THERE WHERE THEY HAD HAD CROSSES AND MEMORIAL WITH EVERYBODY'S NAMES ON IT.
OF THAT EMPLOYEES OF THE PENTAGON KILLED IN THAT THING IN 69 ON THE PLANE.
THEY SAID THERE ACTUALLY 74 ON THE PLANE, BUT FIVE OF 'EM WERE TERRORISTS.
UM, DID Y'ALL GET TO SEE THE NEW WORLD WARI IN THE MORNING? NO, WE WENT, LET SEE, IT'S AT THE END OF THE REFLECTION POOL.
HE GOT THAT ON THE END OF THE REFLECTION POOL.
WE HAD TO WALK THROUGH THEM MEETING HIM ON THE OTHER SIDE.
THAT, THAT'S THAT MEMORIALS OFFICE.
WE GOT KOREAS OFF TO THE OTHER SIDE.
AND YOU SEE ALL THOSE BUILDINGS AT NIGHT, WHICH IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE.
WHAT GOT ME ABOUT, WHAT IMPRESSED ME ABOUT THE, UH, KOREAN, THE EXPRESSIONS ON THOSE GUYS' FACES.
THEY JUST, AND THEY'RE, AND THEY'RE MORE THAN LIFE SIZE.
THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, AVERAGE PERSON MAYBE FIVE 10 OR FIVE EIGHT TO FIVE TO 10 OR OR SIX FEET.
THESE STATUES ARE AT LEAST SEVEN FEET TALL.
I KNOW IT REALLY AREA TO GO THROUGH THERE AND SEE THAT.
THE, LET'S SEE IF WE'VE GOT, WE STOPPED TO SEE A, A LOBBYIST FROM TEXAS.
I WASN'T EXCITED ABOUT GOING TO SEE A LOBBYIST, BUT THIS GUY REALLY COOL.
UH, HE COULD TALK TO YOU ABOUT ANYTHING AND THINK ABOUT, OKAY.
HE SAID WE DON'T CONSIDER OURSELVES LIKE MONEY GROWING LOBBYIST.
HE DOES ALL THE WORK FOR TEXAS A AND M AND TEXAS TECH, A COUPLE HOSPITAL BOARDS, STUFF LIKE THAT.
BUT HE SAID, TAKE THIS DOWN AS MY PREDICTION.
THERE'LL BE TWO LADIES ON THE TICKET FOR PRESIDENT NEXT YEAR.
HE DIDN'T SAY WHO? AND HE DIDN'T SAY HOW.
SO, UH, IT WAS QUITE INTERESTED.
DID Y'ALL GET ANY CONGRESSIONAL? YES, WE SAW JEFF HARRIS AND WE SAW UH, CHAD EDWARDS.
CHAD EDWARDS, UH, LENE LENE, UH, DIDN'T GO SEE A ROUTE.
BUT WE DID GET TO GO DOWN AND LOOK IN ON THE FLOOR AS THEY WAS DOING BUSINESS.
THEY, THEY TOOK A SEVEN MEDICINE WATCH THAT JERRY, I WAS TRYING TO REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE HOTEL.
THE TERM LOBBYIST WAS FROM THE GRANT ADMINISTRATION.
GRANT USED TO GO TO HOTEL ACROSS THE STREET.
AND I SAID, I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE HOTEL.
HE SAID IT WAS THE, THE WIVES, THE WOMEN ALL WENT DOWN THERE AND HUNG OUT IN THE LOBBY TRYING TO GET PROBABLY SOME AID FOR THE SOLDIERS THAT HAD FOUGHT IN THE WATER.
IT WAS THE WIVES ALL DOWN THERE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING.
THAT HOTEL WAS WRITTEN UP IN THE TRAVEL SECTION WAY ABOUT A MONTH AGO.
WHICH ONE WAS IT? I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THE NAME.
DID YOU REMEMBER YOU SAW IT? UHHUH
UHHUH A HAD TO GO THROUGH SECURITY, COULDN'T HARDLY TAKE THE PHONES OR WE COULDN'T TAKE THE CAMERA.
BUT YOU, YOU SHOOT THEM OUTSIDE SHOOTING INSIDE.
[00:40:01]
BUT EVERYTHING IN THE BASKET AND THE WEATHER LITERALLY COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY BETTER.IT WAS SO NICE THERE ABOUT 73 DURING THE DAY.
THERE WERE SOME THERE, BUT THEY WERE MOSTLY SEEN ONE.
DO I HAVE ONE? PUT IT IN YOUR BAG.
SEE THAT THIS JERRY? HE SAID I CAN HAVE THIS.
DID WAS TRYING TO GET ME IN TROUBLE.
I'VE ENTERTAINED A MOTION TO BILLS.
ANYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO BRING UP? HAVE WEEK AND, UH, WE'LL BE GONE.
UH, I HAVE TO ACCEPT FRIDAY AND I'LL BE BACK LATE FRIDAY.
WOULD ENTERTAIN MOTION OF THE JURY? MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER? A SECOND.
SECOND BY COMMISSIONER MOTION.