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WE'D LIKE TO, UH, WELCOME YOU TO, UH, MEETING OF THE KAMAN COUNTY COMMISSION REPORT ON MONDAY, JULY THE 11TH.
THANK EVERYBODY FOR BEING HERE THIS MORNING, AND WE'D LIKE TO BEGIN OUR, UH, MEETING THIS MORNING WITH AN INVITATION, AND I'LL ASK COMMISSIONER ROUTING THAT, UH, HE WOULD BE SO KIND AS TO DO THAT.
AND THEN WE WILL HAVE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE AMERICAN FLAG AND THEN THE TEXAS FLAG.
SO IF YOU'LL JOIN ME WITH STANDING, WE'LL HAVE TO HEAR.
MR. GRACIOUS, HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE AND OPPORTUNITY OF GATHER TOGETHER LIKE THIS, TO DO THE BUSINESS OF THE COUNTY.
PLEASE LOOK DOWN UPON US WITH FAVOR AND HELP US TO GIVE US THE KNOWLEDGE TO MAKE THE CORRECT AND UNDERSTANDING DECISIONS.
UH, WE THANK THI FOR ALL THE MANY BLESSINGS THAT, THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED THROUGHOUT THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
UH, WE STILL NEED A LITTLE RAIN AS, UH, WE SAID LAST WEEK, BUT WE THANK THI FOR EVERYTHING WE GET, AND WE ALL APPRECIATE THAT.
PLEASE LOOK DOWN UPON OUR SOLDIERS WITH FAVOR AS THEY PUT THEMSELVES IN HARM'S WAY AND BRING THEM AS HOME, BRING THEM HOME AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
ALL THIS WE ASK IN JESUS NAME, AMEN.
ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA STANDS ONE NATION, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY.
I ALLEGIANCE TO BE TEXAS, ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE AN INDIVISIBLE.
WE HAVE THE SIGN IN SHEETS THERE AS THE SHERIFF SAYING IF ANYBODY, UH, WISHES TO ADDRESS THE WHAT HAVE ONE.
UH, JUDGE JOHN, NEED TO SIGN IN? NO, SIR.
WE'VE GOT YOU ON THE AGENDA, UNLESS YOU JUST LIKE TO, I MEAN, UH, BEFORE WE BEGIN THE, UH, FORMAL MEETING, I DO HAVE SOME ROUTINE CORRESPONDENCE THAT IF WE WANTED TO PRESENT TO YOU, AND AGAIN, THIS IS A, UH, A BIT OF GOOD NEWS.
I SAY BIT, IT'S MAYBE A LITTLE LARGER THAN A BIT.
AND I'VE MADE SEVERAL COPIES OF THIS.
I THINK THE PRESS HAS COPIES, AND THEN WE SCATTERED A FEW AROUND THE ROOM.
BUT I WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON WHERE WE WERE WITH OUR BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR AS COMPARED TO THE SAME TIME PERIOD LAST YEAR.
THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE COPIES OF THIS, IF YOU'LL FOLLOW ALONG, IF YOU LOOK AT THE TOP, UH, COLUMN WHERE IT SAYS REVENUE, YOU'LL NOTICE THE 2009, 2010 REVENUE OF 29,000,900, 12,000 AS COMPARED TO THE SAME TIME PERIOD LAST YEAR, WHICH IS ACTUALLY NINE MONTHS OF THE YEAR.
UH, THIS YEAR OUR REVENUE IS UP 31 MILLION OH SEVEN FOUR.
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE OF 1,000,100 $62,266.
UH, PART OF THAT IS BECAUSE OF THE SHIFT IN THE ROAD AND BRIDGE TAX EFFORT TOWARDS THE M AND O.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'LL HAVE TO ADDRESS IN THIS NEXT BUDGET YEAR.
UH, THE BEST WE CAN, UH, BUT PART OF IT IS WE HAVE INCREASED FINES.
OUR TAX COLLECTIONS ARE WORKING VERY WELL.
UH, BUT ANYWAY, YOU LOOK AT IT, IT'S 1,000,100 $62,000 DIFFERENCE, UH, COMPARED TO THE SAME TIME PERIOD, WHICH IS EXACTLY, UH, NINE MONTHS THROUGH JUNE THE 30TH.
UH, THE OTHER PART OF OF OUR BUDGET COURSES EXPENSES, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT IN 2009, 2010, OUR EXPENSES FOR THIS FIRST SIX MONTH PERIOD WAS $26,214,000.
AS COMPARED TO THIS YEAR, OUR EXPENSES ARE DOWN TO 23,351,000.
IF YOU ADD THOSE TWO FIGURES TOGETHER, THE INCREASED, UH, REVENUE AS COMPARED TO THE, UH, DECREASE IN EXPENSES, YOU'LL SEE, UH, THAT WE ARE, UH, WE SPENT LESS AND WE'VE COLLECTED MORE OF OVER $4 MILLION, ACTUALLY $4,025,000 TO $556.
AND I ASKED HAL JUST A FEW MOMENTS AGO, AND HE TOOK A OATH, BUT THAT'S CORRECT.
THESE CAME DIRECTLY FROM THE OFFICERS PICTURES.
SO THAT IS EXTREMELY GOOD NEWS, AND WE, I'M ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED THAT WE, UH, HAVE, UH, MADE THIS KIND OF PROGRESS IN THE FIRST NINE MONTHS.
NOW, WHETHER THAT CONTINUES OR NOT, WE DON'T KNOW OF ONE THING.
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ONE THING WILL HAPPEN TO JOHNNY COUNTRYMAN.OUR, UH, TREASURER REMINDS WE, WE DO HAVE ONE ADDITIONAL PAY PERIOD.
YOU KNOW, NORMALLY WE HAVE 26 PAY PERIODS, AND THIS WAS A YEAR THAT WE HAVE 27 PAY PERIODS THAT WILL ACTUALLY HIT.
AND SO THAT ADDITIONAL PAY PERIOD WILL HIT BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.
AND I DON'T REMEMBER, JOHNNY, HOW MUCH THAT IS.
WELL, JUDGE, SECOND, THANK THIS, HITS A DIFFERENT TIME.
WE WILL HAVE ONE ADDITIONAL PAY PERIOD, RIGHT? SO THAT WILL HIT THIS BUDGET YEAR.
BUT ANYWAY, YOU LOOK AT IT, THIS IS GOOD NEWS FOR US.
AND SO, UH, UH, IF YOU LOOK WHERE WE WERE AT THE END OF SEVEN MONTHS, UH, WE WERE 2,000,060 6,000, UH, EIGHT MONTHS.
WE WERE 2 MILLION 8 65, AND NOW WE'RE OVER $4 MILLION.
SO, UH, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE CONTRIBUTED THAT, UH, OUR EMPLOYEES CERTAINLY WITH A, UH, WITH A REDUCTION IN, UH, PAY.
WE'VE HAD A NUMBER OF POSITIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN FILLED THIS YEAR WHEN PEOPLE HAVE LEFT.
AND JUST OVERALL, PEOPLE HAVE REALLY CUT BACK ON EXPENSES.
SO IT'S BEEN A, A GREAT RESPONSE TO, UH, A NEED WE HAD IN THIS COUNTY, OUR SPENDING UNDER CONTROL AS WELL AS OUR REVENUE, UH, INCREASE AS WELL.
SO, JUST WANTED TO PASS THAT ALONG TO YOU.
AND WE'LL DO THIS AGAIN AT THE END OF JULY AND AT THE END OF AUGUST, AND THEN AT THE END OF, UH, SEPTEMBER BEFORE ANY BUDGET, BEFORE WE STARTS IN AUGUST, I MEAN IN OCTOBER.
ANYBODY HAVE ANY, ANY COMMENTS ABOUT THAT JUDGE? ONE THING I WOULD SAY IS THAT, UH, EVEN WITH THE FURLOUGH DAYS TAKEN OUT OF THIS, WE'RE STILL WAY IN IN, WE REALLY ARE.
AND WE HOPE NOT TO DO THE DAYS AGAIN, RIGHT? AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT AS WE PROGRESS WITH OUR BUDGET PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR AS WELL.
SO ANYWAY, GREAT FIGURES, GOOD NEWS FOR US TO HAVE.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT, BUT IT'S MUCH, WE DIFFERENCE IS MUCH BETTER THAN, UH, I HAD ANTICIPATED THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO GET TO.
CAN I GIVE EVERYBODY A RAISE NOW? NOT YET.
4.4% ARE NOT QUITE READY TO SIGN OFF ON DOING THAT.
NEXT ITEM IS THE CONSENT AGENDA, AND YOU HAVE THE, UH, ITEMS THAT ARE ON IT, THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING, UH, THE DISCUSSED AND ACT ON APPROVING AN OFFICIAL BOND FOR, UH, JOHNNY PERRY, THE TEMPORARY JUSTICE OF THE PEACE PRECINCT ONE, AND ALSO IC TO DISCUSS AND ACT ON APPROVING AN OFFICIAL BOND FOR AN OATH OF OFFICE FOR BRENT BRIAN JOHNSON AS A DEPUTY CONSTABLE OF PRECINCT TWO.
AND THEN, UH, APPROVING A REQUEST FOR CENTRALLY TO INSTALL A BURIED COMMUNICATIONS COPPER CABLE ALONG AND UNDER THE RIGHT OF WAY IN THE COUNTY ROAD, TRAVIS LANE IN CAMAN COUNTY PRECINCT NUMBER ONE.
ANY DISCUSSION OR COMMENTS ABOUT ANY OF THOSE? NOT I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE.
UH, JC JACKSON, UH, MAKES A MOTION, UH, COMMISSIONER ROUND SECOND MOTION.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
NEXT ITEM IS TO, UH, DISCUSS AND, UH, ACT, UH, PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 3 23 OR 0.02, ONE OF THE TEXAS LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE REGARDING THE MAINTENANCE ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE COMAN COUNTY LAW LIBRARY.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT JUDGE CHIDI IS ASSISTING US WITH.
AND JUDGE, WELCOME TO THE COURT.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING YOUR COMMENTS.
UH, LEMME JUST SAY THAT PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 3 23, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE, UH, THE LAW LIBRARY FOR THE COUNTY IS SUBJECT TO THE CONTROL OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER'S COURT.
AND, UH, THAT CHAPTER PROVIDES THAT THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT MAY DELEGATE THAT RESPONSIBILITY TO THE LOCAL BAR ASSOCIATION THAT IN FACT, I THINK WAS DONE HERE IN COLTON COUNTY IN THE PAST.
AND, UH, THE COLTON COUNTY BAR HAD DELEGATED THAT MANAGEMENT TO ERIC WILLIAMS. UH, I'M HERE THIS MORNING TO PROPOSE TO THE COURT THAT YOU TERMINATE ANY PRIOR AUTHORITY GIVEN TO ANY INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP AND RESUME MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF THAT LAW LIBRARY UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT.
UH, SECONDARILY, I HAVE ALSO ASKED JUDGE DAVID LEWIS TO ASSUME THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF MANAGING THE, THE LAW LIBRARY.
HE'S HERE AND HE'S AGREED TO DO THAT.
I ALSO HAVE, UH, BECKY CALABRIA HERE WHO IS THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION.
AND, UH, I'VE CONSULTED WITH BOTH ROBERT GAS, WHO'S THE PRESIDENT OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION.
AND BECKY, UH, THEY NOT ONLY, UH, DON'T OPPOSE THIS, THIS PROPOSAL, BUT THEY SUPPORT
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THE PROPOSAL.IS THAT CORRECT, BECKY? THAT IS CORRECT, YES.
AND, UH, JUDGE LEWIS, YOU HAVE AGREED TO ASSUME THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAINTAINING AND MANAGING AND ADMINISTERING THE LIBRARY.
HE UNDERSTANDS THIS IS WITHOUT PAY.
I SUPPOSE HE UNDERSTANDS THAT IT'S WITHOUT PAY.
IS HE GOING TO INSTILL A, A DECIMAL SYSTEM IN THERE? HE HAS SOME PLANS, BUT I'M NOT HAD LIBERTY TO DISCUSS THOSE, BUT I DO THINK THERE'LL BE SOME UPGRADING OF THE LIBRARY.
UH, AT ANY RATE, UH, I THINK THERE'S ABOUT $300,000 IN THAT LAW LIBRARY FUND.
IT'S A SUBSTANTIAL SUM OF MONEY.
UM, THE SHERIFF MAINTAINS A LAW LIBRARY AT THE JAIL AS REQUIRED BY LAW.
UH, THE BAR ASSOCIATION HAD, UH, AGREED TO UNDERTAKE, UH, THE MAINTENANCE OF THAT FACILITY AS WELL USING THE LAW LIBRARY FUNDS.
I'M NOT SURE THAT THAT JAIL LIBRARY HAS EVER BEEN DESIGNATED A BRANCH YOUR, UH, AUTHORIZED UNDER THE WALL TO DESIGNATE BRANCH LIBRARIES.
AND I WOULD SUGGEST YOU GO AHEAD AND DO THAT JUST OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION.
TERMINATE A PAST AUTHORITY APPOINT JUDGE LEWIS AS THE LAW LIBRARY IN FOR THE COUNTY, ASSUME THE RESPONSIBILITY BACK UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT, DELEGATE THAT AUTHORITY TO JUDGE LEWIS, AND THEN AUTHORIZED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BRANCH LIBRARY AT THE CALIN COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER.
ALRIGHT, SHERIFF, YOU AND I VISITED JUST A MOMENT AGO ABOUT THAT, AND YOU'RE IN CONCURRENCE WITH, UH, YES.
THE, WE ARE REQUIRED BY LAW AND TO HAVE A LAW LIBRARY.
AND, UH, SO WHEN WE DO OUR BUDGET PLANNING, WE'LL NEED TO REMEMBER TO DESIGNATE THAT AS A BRANCH.
IF BONITA'S GOT THOSE THREE ITEMS DOWN, BRING BACK TO US AND I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE AGREE ABOUT IT, OKAY? OKAY.
NUMBER TWO IS FOR JUDGE LEWIS TO HAVE RESPONSIBILITY TO, TO A POINT OF THE LAW LIBRARY.
AND NUMBER THREE IS THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SHERIFF'S, THE BRANCH OF THE LIBRARY.
THERE IS THAT RIGHT? JUDGE TERMINATE ANY PRIOR AUTHORITY, WHICH ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY HAD DESIGNATE JUDGE LEWIS AS THE LAW LIBRARIAN WITH AUTHORITY TO MANAGE AND ADMINISTER THE LIBRARY AND THEN AUTHORIZE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BRANCH AT THE JAIL.
AND WE'LL HAVE A DOUBLE RECORD OF IT.
JUDGE, THERE WON'T A BUDGET LAW LIBRARY WILL BE PAID OUT OF THIS.
THERE WON'T BE A BUDGET IMPACT.
COMMISSIONER CLARK MAKES THAT MOTION.
COMMISSIONER ROBIN, SECOND MOTION.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
THOSE OPPOSED? THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
WE APPRECIATE ALL THE EFFORT OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION.
YOU AND, UH, JUDGE LEWIS AND EVERYONE HELPING US, UH, GET TO THE LAW LIBRARY SITUATION, UH, ROUNDED UP, I GUESS.
ALRIGHT, THE NEXT ITEM IS TO DISCUSS AND ACT ON EXITING THE REGULAR MEETING AND ENTERING INTO A PUBLIC HEARING.
SO I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO DO THAT MAY COMMISSIONER ROW MAKES THE MOTION.
SECOND, UH, COMMISSIONER, UH, MANNING.
NEXT ITEM IS TO, UH, CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING TO RECEIVE COMMENTS REGARDING THE REJOINING OF THE COMMISSIONER, COURT PRECINCTS AND BOUNDARIES.
AND I HAVE SOME INFORMATION I NEED TO READ INTO THE RECORDS.
AND AGAIN, IF YOU ARE HERE TODAY TO SPEAK ABOUT THE COMMISSIONER BOUNDARY PRECINCTS, UH, PLEASE, UH, UH, COMPLETE A FORM.
SO WE WOULD HAVE A RECORD OF THAT, AND THEN WE'LL ASK YOU TO COME FORWARD IN JUST A MOMENT TO PRESENT THAT.
UH, FIRST WE'D LIKE TO CALL THE PUBLIC HEARING TO ORDER AND WELCOME EVERYONE TO TODAY'S PUBLIC HEARING ON THE COUNTY'S SUGGESTED ILLUSTRATED PLAN FOR
I AM BRUCE WOOD, AND I SERVE AS COUNTY JUDGE.
THE PURPOSE OF TODAY'S PUBLIC HEARING IS TO RECEIVE COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE PROPOSED PLANS FOR REALIGNMENT OF THE COMMISSIONER PRECINCTS IN
THE PLAN BEING PRESENTED TODAY OR NOT IS NOT FINAL AND IT HAS NOT BEEN ADOPTED.
THEY ARE MERELY A, IT IS MERELY A PLAN THAT THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT HAS DEVELOPED AND HAS DESIGNATED AS A PROPOSED PLAN FOR WHICH TO SEE THE PUBLIC COMMENT.
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HEARING WILL BE AS FOLLOW.YOU WILL FIRST HEAR A SHORT PRESENTATION FROM ME, AND THEN WE WILL EXPLAIN THE RE REDISTRICTING PROCESS TO YOU, INCLUDING APPLICABLE LEGAL, LEGAL STANDARDS THAT ARE APPLIED, AND ALSO SOME, UH, OF THE WRITTEN MATERIALS THAT WERE PROVIDED FOR YOU TODAY.
UH, THERE ARE FOUR DOCUMENTS THAT WE WILL MAKE AVAILABLE TO YOU, AND I BELIEVE THEY'RE ON THE, UH, DESK BEHIND THE SHERIFF THERE.
IF YOU'VE NOT RECEIVED ONE OF THOSE, CERTAINLY FEEL FREE TO PICK ONE OF THOSE UP.
UH, WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO NOW IS, UH, IS THERE ANYONE HERE THAT WOULD LIKE TO, UH, PRESENT, UH, TO THE COURT OR SPEAK AT THE PUBLIC HEARING? UH, IF SO, WE WOULD ASK YOU TO COME FORWARD, GIVE YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS AND WHERE YOU'RE FROM.
KEEP YOUR, YOUR MARCH TO THREE MINUTES AND, UH, AND THEN TALK TO US ABOUT THE, UH, REDISTRICTING, UH, PROCESS.
AND I BELIEVE WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT EVERYONE GETS A COPY OF THOSE, UH, THOSE VOTING, I'M SORRY, NOT VOTING, BUT COMMISSIONER PRECINCT AGAIN, DO WE HAVE ANYONE THAT WISHES TO ADDRESS THE COURT AT THE PUBLIC HEARING CONCERNING THE, UH, REDISTRICTING PROCESS AS FAR AS IT IS CONCERNED TO THE, UH, COMMISSIONER PRECINCTS? DO WE HAVE ANYBODY THAT WISHES TO ADDRESS THE COURT? MR. LONG DO WE NEED TO DO, UH, ANYTHING ELSE? I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE ANYONE THAT WISHES TO ADDRESS THE COURT.
THE, UH, IF THERE'S NO PUBLIC COMMENT, THEN UM, WELL, WE CAN CONCLUDE THE PUBLIC HEARING BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S NOT REALLY A DISCUSSION AMONG THE COURT.
IT'S A, THE PURPOSES OF RECEIVING ANY COMMENT THAT PUBLIC MAY HAVE.
IS ANYONE WISH TO ADDRESS THE COURT? IF NOT, WE WILL.
UH, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO, UH, CLOSE THE PUBLIC, UH, HEARING MOTION, PUBLIC HEARING A MOTION FOR COMMISSIONER JACKSON TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
UH, AND A SECOND FOR COMMISSIONER MANNY.
THE NEXT ITEM IS, UH, HERE FROM JEFF BROWN WHO'S GOING TO GIVE US AN UPDATE ON THE, UH, COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT FINES AND, AND FEES.
JOHN, IS THAT ALL WE NEED BEFORE JEFF STARTS TALKING? IS THAT ALL WE NEED TO DO AT THIS POINT? THAT'S CORRECT.
WE NEED TO HAVE A RECORD OF THE PUBLIC HEARING.
AND, AND I THINK YOU ANNOUNCED SEVERAL TIMES OF, OF ANY PUBLIC COMMENT.
I THINK THE SHERIFF HAD, UH, UH, MADE A STATEMENT THAT THERE WAS NO ONE THAT SIGNED UP TO STATE, BUT YOU STILL ASKED FOR ANY PUBLIC COMMENT.
I THINK WHAT WE'LL DO IS, UH, OUR COURT REPORTER IS HERE AND WE NEEDED TO HAVE A RECORD OF WHAT WE DID IN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
SO I THINK WE'LL TAKE A QUICK FIVE MINUTE RECESS AND THEN WE'LL START THE COURT OVER AS SOON AS, GIVE HER TIME TO, TO, UH, UH, CLEAR OUT HER EQUIPMENT AND, UH, SO WE CAN MOVE ON WITH REST OF THE MEETING.
SO WE'LL TAKE ABOUT FIVE MINUTE RECESS.
GENTLEMEN, I HAVE, UH, THERE'S TWO THINGS THAT I, THAT I PUT BEFORE YOU TODAY.
ONE OF 'EM, I PRODUCED ONE OF 'EM, BARBARA PRODUCED FOR ME.
UH, LET'S GO TO THE, THIS PAGE.
FIRST ONE THAT LOOKS SIMILAR TO THE THING BRUCE HANDED OUT A LITTLE EARLIER ABOUT THE COUNTY BUDGET.
UH, IF WE'RE GOING ACROSS THERE, YOU CAN SEE THE COMPARISON, UH, FOR JANUARY TO JUNE, 2010 AND 2011.
THIRD LINE, THE 2011 INCREASE ACROSS THE BOARD INCREASE, UH, UH, ALMOST 15,000 PER JP ONE, ALMOST 60,000 PER JP 2, 280 1000 IN PRECINCT THREE, AND ALMOST 57,000 HERE.
YOU SEE BELOW THE, BELOW THAT LINE, THE, THE INCREASES EVERYBODY IS UP AT LEAST 9% THINK WHEN I WAS HERE LAST MONTH, I THINK THE, UH, JP ONE INCREASE WAS PRETTY THREE AND A HALF OR OR SO PERCENT THAT, THAT'S EVEN UP RISING TO WHAT THE OTHERS ARE.
AS YOU CAN SEE, JPS TWO AND FOUR AT 28%.
AND, AND, UH, MIKE'S MISSED PRECINCT REALLY KNOCKING THE BALL OUT OF THE PARK AT 81.5% INCREASE.
REALLY A REALLY GOOD EFFORT ON THEIR BEHALF.
UH, GO DOWN TO THE ONLY THING THAT REALLY MATTERS ARE, ARE NUMBER 2011 IN TOTAL COLLECTIONS BY THAT $1,322,000, UH, AS OPPOSED TO 2000 KIDS, 909,000, AS YOU SAID,
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IT'S FOUR $12,000 INCREASE.UH, AND I, I WANNA REMIND THE COURT THAT, UH, THAT'S DUE TO THE EFFORTS OF NOT JUST, UH, I, I'D LOVE SENATOR TO TAKE CREDIT.
MY LAW FIRM'S RESPONSIBLE THAT DOWN BELOW IS THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT THAT MATTER.
BUT, UH, THE JPS, THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, THE CONSTABLES HAS REALLY, UH, WORKED HARD.
UH, THEY COMMITTED TO DOING SOME THINGS BACK IN JANUARY WITH JUDGE WOOD IN HIS OFFICE IN THE MEETING WE HAD.
AND I KNOW THEY FOLLOWED THROUGH AND OBVIOUSLY THEY HAD DONE WHAT THEY SAID THEY WOULD DO.
UH, AND I APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S EFFORTS, UH, DOWN BELOW.
BUT THE LAST LITTLE THING IS, UH, UH, WE, WE WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR ABOUT $185,000 OF THAT.
UH, WE'RE, WE'RE PROUD OF THAT.
AND, UH, THAT'S CONTINUING TO GROW.
WHAT I'M HAPPY WITH THAT, UH, THE, THE GRAPHS, UH, THE THE GRAPH PAGE, THE, THE NICE COLORED GRAPH THAT BARBARA DID, UH, ACTUALLY, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE, THE TREND LINE FOR 2010 KIND OF, KIND OF FLATTENS OUT IN APRIL, MAY AND JUNE.
UH, BUT FOR 2011, THE APRIL, MAY AND JUNE NUMBERS ARE CONTINUED TO RISE.
AND THAT'S, UH, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT THE COUNTY NEEDS.
EVEN IF IT HAD PLATEAUED IT SAY THAT THEY MAY MAY FIGURE IT WOULD'VE BEEN GOOD FOR THE COUNTY, BUT IN FACT IT STILL UP.
THE BUDGET P FREE CONTINUES JUST TO LEAD THE PACK.
AND I, AND WE'VE DISCUSSED THAT IN THE PAST, UH, BECAUSE OF THE FACT THEY HAVE INTERSTATE GOING THROUGH THERE AS WELL AS HIGHWAY 80, I GUESS THAT THEY, THEY, THEY DO, THEY HAVE A LOT OF ACTIVITY, UH, UH, IS JUDGE SMITH TOLD ME, UH, HE ALSO IS, IS THE ONE THAT HAS A DEDICATED CLERK.
IT IS, HER JOB IS TO WORK WITH THESE OUTSTANDING THINGS AND OBVIOUSLY SHE'S DOING A GOOD JOB.
WELL, ALL FOUR OF OUR JPS HAVE REALLY HAVE EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY'S PERFORMING WELL.
LIKE IT LOOKED LIKE ALL OF THEM UP FROM THE PAST.
IT'S JUST JP THREE HAS, UH, MORE, UH, THEY DO HAVE FILED IN IN HIS COURT.
AND I THINK, UM, THEY, UH, THEY WERE REALLY READY TO START THIS PROB I I HAD TALKED TO THE JPS LAST FALL JUST RIGHT AT TO, WE WERE ALL READY TO GO.
WELL, IN THE PAST, I THINK JP, WE ALWAYS HAVE HAD THE REST.
WHAT REALLY IMPRESSIVE IS THAT THAT JUNE NUMBER THAT WENT FROM, UH, LAST YEAR, HUNDRED 26,000 TO THIS YEAR, 260,000 LONG ENOUGH.
UH, COMMISSIONER CLARK, YOU'D ASKED A QUESTION LAST WEEK.
I TOLD YOU I'D GET THE ANSWER.
YOU HAD WANTED TO KNOW OF ALL THIS MONEY, HOW MUCH GOES TO THE STATE.
AND YEAH, BY MY RECKONING, APPROXIMATELY $95,000 ON THIS 1.3 MILLION GOES TO THE STATE.
THAT, THAT THAT'S THEIR, THEIR, THEIR ADMINIS JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATOR FEES AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS.
SO THE REST OF THAT COMES BACK TO US.
REST OF THAT, WHAT PERCENTAGE? I DON'T KNOW THE PERCENTAGE.
SO IT'S ABOUT, I GUESS IT'S SEVEN AND HALF, 88%.
THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION THAT, YOU KNOW, THE NIGHT AND HALF OF IT OR MORE THAN HALF WENT FROM STATE.
IS THERE, UH, TALKED WITH JUDGE SMITH, UH, OVER THE WEEKEND, DO YOU SEE ANYTHING MODEL WISE THAT, UH, JP THREE IS DOING THAT OTHER PRECINCTS SHOULD BE DOING THAT MIGHT INCREASE THEIR PERCENTAGES? IF HE'S GOT ONE PERSON DEDICATED TO THAT THING AND THEY'RE BRINGING IN THAT MUCH MONEY, MAYBE EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY ELSE MIGHT BE SOMEBODY DEDICATED TO THAT.
AND COMMISSIONER CLARK, THAT, THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE MY OBSERVATION.
IS THAT BECAUSE SOME, THAT THAT'S, THAT IS THAT PARTICULAR CLERK PRIMARY JOB, THAT THAT IS A BENEFIT TO EVERYONE 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT SHE DOES COMING AT EIGHT O'CLOCK.
WHEREAS OTHER PEOPLE MAY HAVE TO TAKE TIME WAITING ON THE COUNTER, YOU KNOW, ANSWERING THE PHONE, BEING IN COURT, THOSE KIND OF THINGS WHERE, WHERE THAT CLERK IS ABLE TO REALLY DEVOTE HER ENERGY COMMUNITIES OUT, THESE OLD FEES AND OUTSTANDING FEES COLLECTED.
SO IT, THAT MAY BE SOMETHING THE COURT WANTS TO LOOK AT AS IT COMES UPON BUDGET TIME.
MAYBE SOMETHING THAT YOU NEED, MAYBE EVEN NOW IT SHOULD BE DONE.
LET THE JPS KNOW WHAT, IF THAT'S YOUR THOUGHT, ASK THEM IF THEY BENEFIT.
THEY THINK I YOU CREATED PRETTY BAD WHEN I SAID BACK, THEY HIRE SOMEBODY, BUT, BUT I'M THINKING MAYBE THEY COULD DEDICATE SOMEBODY FOR THE FIRST FOUR HOUR.
AND I UNDERSTAND THE BUDGETARY CONCERNS, THE COUNTY, AND I'M NOT TRYING TO FOLLOW RAY, LIKE TO BLAME ALL THAT ON ME, WHATEVER.
ALRIGHT, WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
ANY QUESTIONS? I I'LL BE BACK AGAIN NEXT MONTH AND, AND UH,
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HOPE I HAVE A GOOD INTEREST.THIS IS GOOD INFORMATION FOR US.
YEAH, THAT'S GREAT INFORMATION.
AND AS WE SAID WHILE AGO, THIS HELPS ON THE OTHER REPORTS THAT WE SHOW MEETING ALL THESE THINGS TOGETHER.
PRECINCT ONE HAS BEEN GOING THROUGH SO MUCH TURMOIL OUT THERE.
I WONDER IF THAT AFFECTS THEIR WELL, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION, JEFF.
UH, UH, YOU'RE AWARE OF THE ISSUE IN PRECINCT ONE THAT COUNTY'S BEEN DEALING WITH.
UH, ANY COMMENTS YOU HAVE? DO YOU THINK THAT NEGATIVE NEGATIVELY AFFECTS THEIR OF THEIR COLLECTIONS OUT THERE? THEY, UH, THEY'RE THE LOWEST ONE ON THE LIST AND, AND IF YOU HAD ASKED ME THAT LAST MONTH, I PROBABLY WOULD'VE ANSWERED ANY AFFIRMATIVE.
UH, THEY, THEY'VE MANAGED TO, TO SHOW AN INCREASE IN SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE THIS MONTH.
SO, UH, I I DON'T KNOW IF I I, THAT HAS SOME EFFECT, SOME DEGREE.
I I KNOW, I KNOW REGINA AND I HAVEN'T TALKED TO HER.
UH, IS GEORGE HERE? GEORGE, HAVE YOU TALKED TO THEM ABOUT THAT? HE MAY BE BETTER QUALIFIED TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
I THINK WE'LL SEE BIG CHANGES.
BUT THE NUMBERS ALL LOOK SO GOOD.
THEIRS IS EVEN BETTER THAN THEY WERE LAST YEAR.
IT'S, I I'M HOPEFUL THAT I KNOW THAT THEY KNOW WHAT TO DO AND I'M HOPEFUL.
NEXT ITEM NUMBER EIGHT, UH, HERE WITH MARILYN MAY OUR ENVIRONMENTAL CO-OP, UH, DIRECTOR ON A REPORTING INCLUDING, UH, NORTH CENTRAL COUNCIL GOVERNMENT.
YOU GOT A HANDOUT FIRST THING THIS MORNING? YEAH, I GOT ALL KINDS OF LITTLE GIS TO GIVE EVERYBODY OUR GRANTS ARE OVER.
AND UM, SO WE, I JUST WANTED TO REPORT ALL OF THE THINGS THAT, THE GOOD THINGS THAT WE HAD DONE DURING THEM AND, UM, LET YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHAT, I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN GIVE YOU THE VALUE OF EVERY ITEM, BUT, UM, YOU'LL HAVE SOME IDEA IF YOU WANT THAT.
I CAN GIVE THAT TO YOU ALSO, UM, LATER ON.
BUT WE GOT THREE GRANTS IN THIS LAST TWO YEAR PERIOD.
UM, ONE OF THEM STARTED BACK IN 2009 IN DECEMBER, AND IT RAN THROUGH THE END OF JUNE.
IT WAS A SUB ILLEGAL DUMPING CAMPAIGN.
AND WHAT WE DID WITH THAT $89,000 IS WE BOUGHT, UM, A NEW FORD F TWO 50 THAT WAS LOADED WITH ALL THE, IN AMENITIES THAT THE ABATEMENT OFFICERS NEEDED THERE.
THEY HAD A TRUCK THAT WAS, THEY WERE REALLY THINKING WAS ON ITS LAST LANE.
SO WE WERE ABLE TO, UM, GIVE THEM A BRAND NEW TRUCK.
AND YOU'LL SEE THAT I'M, I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU A VIDEO IN JUST A FEW MINUTES.
UM, ALSO WE WERE ABLE TO GET THEM TWO LAPTOPS AND PRINTERS THAT GO INTO THOSE VEHICLES.
THEY'RE TWO BID VEHICLES AND WE BOUGHT BRAND NEW LAPTOP AND PRINTER FOR THE EXISTING VEHICLE.
AND THEN THE NEW NEW VEHICLE, UH, WE GOT DIGITAL CAMERAS, INFRARED DIGITAL CAMERA, AND A VIDEO SURVEILLANCE CAMCORDER AND A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THEY COULD SET THAT UP IN DIFFERENT AREAS AND BE ABLE TO MONITOR, UM, ILLEGAL DUMPING SITES.
AND THEN WE ALSO WERE ABLE TO GET THEM SAFETY GEAR, UM, WHICH DO ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT THINGS SO THAT, UM, IF THEY WERE IN SNEAKY GRASSES OR WHATEVER, THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.
THE EDUCATIONAL AND ADVERTISING, UH, PORTION OF THE CAMPAIGN.
WE GOT A HUNDRED OF THESE BANNERS PRINTED.
AND WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS, AND ALL THE COMMISSIONERS ALSO ANYBODY THAT HAS A COUNTY ROAD, UM, CAN GET ONE OF THESE FOR FREE IF THEY'LL PUT IT ON THEIR FENCE.
AND THIS IS FOR ANYBODY TO BE ABLE TO USE.
IT HAS DETERRED ILLEGAL DUMPING.
UM, IT HAS DETERRED THE ILLEGAL DUMPING THAT WE'VE HAD IN THE PAST.
AND SO WE FELT LIKE, IN FACT, THIS PARTICULAR, UM, ITEM WAS SOMETHING THAT WE PUT TOGETHER ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO AND IT WAS SO SUCCESSFUL HERE IN KAUFFMAN COUNTY THAT THE COG ORDERED THEM FOR ALL OF THE 16 COUNTIES AND THEN WE RAN OUT OF 'EM.
SO I WANTED TO HAVE MORE FOR US.
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SO WE, UM, WE NOW HAVE QUITE A FEW.CAN WE JUST ORDER THOSE FROM YOU, MARILYN, OR YEAH, JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT.
WE EVEN HAVE KEPT KIND OF RECORD OF WHICH COUNTY ROADS THAT THEY'RE ON SO THAT WE CAN, WE CAN CAPTURE THAT INFORMATION.
UM, WE'VE DONE, UH, A LOT OF INFORMATION AS FAR AS, UM, GETTING OUT.
WE, WE HELPED THE, THE ABATEMENT OFFICERS REDO THEIR BROCHURES.
SO THEY, WE DID A REPRINT AND A TOTAL REDO OF THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES DIVISION BROCHURES THAT THEY GIVE OUT TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY'RE OUT ON THE ROAD.
AND WE ALSO, UM, INTERPRETED OR TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH, THE KAUFFMAN COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH NOTICE AND ABATE, UH, NUISANCE FORM BECAUSE THEY WERE HAVING A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH, UM, HISPANICS NOT BEING ABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY WERE TELLING THEM.
BUT NOW WE HAVE THAT SO THAT IT'S IN SPANISH AND THEY'RE HOPING THAT WE'LL END UP, UM, HELPING THEM OUT A LOT.
UM, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF ARTICLES AND ADS AND PAPER AND WE'VE PUT TOGETHER A LOT OF BROCHURES AND DIFFERENT THINGS THAT, UH, PIECES OF INFORMATION TO GET OUT ACROSS THE COUNTY.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE DONE SEVERAL CLEANUPS.
WE DID OUR TRINITY RIVER TRASH BASH, WHICH IS IN PRECINCT FOUR, AND WE ALWAYS GET THE COMMISSIONER, UM, TO BRING OUT THE TRASH TRUCK SO THAT WE CAN PICK UP ALL THAT TRASH.
AND WE DO THAT OUT BY CVILLE HIGH SCHOOL AND DOWN TO THE RIVER.
AND WE GET THE CVILLE KIDS AND THE, UM, THE GROUPS OVER IN C CR INVOLVED IN THAT.
THE CEDAR CREEK CLEANUP IS OVER IN, UM, THE KEMP AREA.
AND SO THE MAYOR USUALLY HAS BEEN HELPING US FIND A LOCATION OVER THERE.
AND THEN HERE WE GET THE BOY SCOUTS AND, AND A LOT OF GROUPS OUT TO THAT AREA.
UM, MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY IS OVER IN MAYBANK AND WE HAVE BEEN PUTTING TOGETHER AT THE PAVILION, WE PUT TOGETHER, UM, A TRASH CLEANUP, WHICH WE GET FUNDING FROM TARRANT REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT EVERY YEAR TO DO THAT.
AND IT'S FREE OF CHARGE FOR THE CITIZENS.
SO THAT'S AN ADDED TO, TO THE COUNTYWIDE CLEANUP THAT DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE COUNTY CLEANUP.
AND WE ALSO HAVE, UM, AN ELECTRONICS RECYCLING AND A PAPER SHREDDING RIGHT THEN.
AND, UM, WE'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF ELECTRONICS RECYCLING EVENTS.
WE HAVE ONE COMING UP ON, ON THE, THE 13TH OF AUGUST.
SO PLEASE POST THAT IN ALL OF YOUR LOCATIONS.
WHERE IS IT? IT'S GOING TO BE IN TERRELL AT OUR RECYCLING PLANT.
UM, DAD, YOU HAD A PRETTY GOOD RESPONSE FOR THOSE.
THE, THE LAST ONE WE HAD, WE HAD SO MUCH, UH, YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE.
I MEAN, UM, WHAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO IS, IS FORMULATE A, WHAT WE'RE WORKING, WE'RE WORKING WITH APPLE COMPUTERS, WE GET GRANT MONEY TO BE ABLE TO GET ECS TO COME OUT AND DO THE PROCESSING PICK UP, AND THEN WE HAVE OUR VOLUNTEERS OUT THERE.
SO IT'S A THREE PE THREE DIFFERENT UNIT KIND OF GROUP THAT'S PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.
WE NEED TO, DID EVERYBODY GET COPIES? YEAH, EVERYBODY GOT SEVERAL.
THAT KIND OF, IT'S BETTER, I THINK.
AND THEN I'M GONNA BE PUTTING 'EM AT THE ANNEX BUILDING.
I'LL PUT A BUNCH OVER THERE AND AT THE CITY BUILDINGS.
BUT I THINK THE, UH, LAST, UH, ELECTRONIC COLLECTION WAS PUT AROUND.
AND WE WERE ABLE TO, THAT'S ANOTHER THING IF WE, THAT IS OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM.
WE ARE TRYING TO DO A WHOLE COUNTY AND THERE IS NOT ONE AVENUE TO REALLY GET THE INFORMATION OUT.
UM, BECAUSE THERE'S SIX PAPERS IN THIS COUNTY.
THERE'S, UH, ONE RADIO STATION IN TERRELL, ONE OUTSIDE OF IN HENDERSON COUNTY.
UM, THE TV STATIONS DON'T PICK US UP REALLY WELL, UM, THAT ARE IN DALLAS AND THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, I HAVE A REALLY HARD TIME GETTING INTO THE PAPERS, SO WE HAVE VERY LITTLE OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF GET ON HOOKED ONTO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROGRAM SO THAT WE CAN GET A LOT OF INFORMATION OUT.
AND THAT WAS OUR, THAT WAS A GREAT EFFORT 'CAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO PUT THAT ON THE COUNTYWIDE CLEANUP POSTER AND WE GOT A LOT OF INFORMATION AND WE'LL, WE'LL MAKE SURE THIS GETS ON THE COUNTY WEBSITE AS WELL.
UM, AND THEN THE CITIES, I'LL TRY TO GET THAT ON WITH THEM TOO, BUT WE'RE WORKING WITH SIX BIG CITIES, LOTS OF LITTLE ONES AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE COUNTY AND THEN JUST LIKE I SAID, IT'S BEEN AN ONGOING BATTLE.
UM, WE DID HAVE TWO TIRE CLEANUPS WITH THAT STOP ILLEGAL DUMPING, UH, CAMPAIGN THAT WE DIDN'T
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HAVE IN THAT GRANT TO BEGIN WITH, BUT WE FOUND THAT WE NEEDED, UM, THE ABATEMENT OFFICERS WERE COMING UP WITH SOME REALLY BIG PLACES THAT NEED TO BE CLEANED UP, SO WE REARRANGED MONEY AND FUNNELED IT IN SO WE COULD DO TWO, UH, TRUCKLOADS OF, OF TIRES, WHICH WAS A BIG EFFORT.UM, THE OTHER, UM, GRANT, IT'S THE RECYCLING PROGRAM AND WE NOW HAVE 7,000 SQUARE FOOT RECYCLING FACILITY THAT THE COUNTY, IT'S THE COUNTY'S FACILITY ACTUALLY.
AND ALL OF THE, UH, EQUIPMENT IN THAT BUILDING AND OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING IS OWNED BY THE COUNTY.
UM, WE NOW HAVE THREE CUSTOM GREEN, UM, RECYCLING COLLECTION LIFT TRAILERS, WHICH ARE HELPING US A LOT BECAUSE WE CAN LIFT THEM UP AND THE STUFF MOVES DOWN.
IT'S NOT, WE'RE TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM AS MUCH, UH, PHYSICAL HANDLING OF EVERYTHING.
AND WE JUST GOT FIVE LITTLE 11 QDQR, THEY NOT LITTLE, UM, ROLL OFF CONTAINERS.
AND WE HAVE A LI A ROLL OFF TRAILER.
YOU HAVE A ROLL OFF TRAILER NOW.
SO, UM, WHAT WE CAN DO IS FIND MORE OF THOSE CONTAINERS AND WE CAN PUT 'EM OUT TO DIFFERENT PLACES.
WE HAVE A NEW BALER, BRAND NEW BALER, SO THAT MAKES THREE IN THERE.
AND THEY ARE RUNNING CONSTANTLY SEVEN HOURS A DAY NOW.
WE HAVE THAT MUCH MATERIAL COMING IN.
UM, IN FACT WE HAVE, WE'RE PROCESSING APPROXIMATELY 86,000 POUNDS A MONTH AND UM, THAT'S 258 TONS, YOU KNOW, A MONTH OR 258 TONS FOR A HALF OF A YEAR.
SO IT'S QUITE A BIT OF MATERIAL AND WE HAVE, UM, A VERY LIMITED STAFF TRYING TO DO THAT.
UM, WE HAVE A BRAND NEW ELECTRIC HAND FORK TO HELP THE GUYS AND WE PUT, UM, A NEW ATTACHMENT ONTO OUR FORK TRUCK THAT ACTUALLY CLAMPS SO THAT IT'S NOT JUST PICKING UP FROM THE BOTTOM AND CLAMP THE BAS.
AND THEN WE HAVE THE TRUCK AND WE MAIL, WE MOVE THOSE BAS ALL THE TIME.
WE DO TWO OR THREE DELIVERIES A WEEK.
UM, WE PUT A LOT OF MONTHLY ARTICLES AND ADS AND WE'VE DONE A LOT OF EDUCATION, LOTS OF GIVEAWAYS.
UM, WE HAVE THIS LITTLE DECAL THAT I WISH EVERYBODY WOULD PUT IN YOUR WINDOW.
IT IS SAYING THAT YOU'RE A PROUD MEMBER OF ENVIRONMENTAL CO-OP AND THAT WE DO HAVE A RECYCLING PROGRAM THAT WILL HELP US GET THE WORD OUT THAT OF WHAT WE'RE DOING.
AND, UM, WE'VE HELPED THE CHAMBER HERE PUT TOGETHER A CONSERVATION CORE PROGRAM.
UM, WE'VE JUST DONE A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
WE'VE UPDATED THE, UM, RESOURCE GUIDE THAT WE HAD SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE BEFORE WE GO PRINT THAT I GET, UM, MR. MANNING'S INFORMATION ABOUT HIS CONVENIENCE STATION, WHAT YOU'RE GONNA BE DOING.
SO I DON'T WANT TO PRINT IT AND HAVE A THOUSAND OF SOMETHING THAT'S WRONG.
AND THEN, UM, WE'LL BE GOING TO PRINT WITH THAT PRETTY SOON SO WE'LL HAVE SOME NEW COPIES.
AND THOSE ARE USED BY A LOT OF THE CITIES AT THEIR FRONT DESKS SO THAT THEY CAN GIVE THEIR CITIZENS INFORMATION.
UM, WE ALSO, SOMETHING I DIDN'T PUT ON THERE, BUT I DO WANT TO JUST MENTION WE'VE INCREASED, WE'VE TALKED TO ALL OF THE CONVENIENCE STATION OWNERS, UM, THE CITIES THAT HAVE THOSE CONVENIENCE STATIONS ABOUT INCREASING THE PRICING AND, WHICH IS KIND OF A LONG DETAILED PROCESS, BUT KAUFMAN CITY OF KAUFMAN DID APPROVE AN INCREASE ON THEIR CONVENIENCE STATION FOR $7 AND 50 CENTS FROM THE $5.
AND THEY HAVE ALSO STATED THEY WANT A $2 PER TIRE, UH, INCREASE.
SO WE'RE GONNA BE HAVING ANOTHER MEETING AND I'LL PROBABLY HAVE TO GET THE COURT TO APPROVE THAT BECAUSE YOU ARE A PART, PART, UM, YOU KNOW, PARTNERSHIP WITH AT THE SAME TIME WE'LL PROBABLY INCREASE OURS TO MATCH THEIR STATEMENT.
BUT WE'LL HAVE TO, YEAH, WE'LL JUST HAVE TO GO AHEAD AND HAVE THAT ON THE AGENDA LATER.
UM, I THINK THAT IS REALLY FAST SYNOPSIS OR SYNOPSIS OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, BUT I WANTED TO SHOW YOU THE, UM, FILM WE WERE ASKED BY NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COG TO PRESENT THEM WITH A LOT OF THE PICTURES OF THINGS THAT WE ARE DOING.
AND WHAT ENDED UP HAPPENING, THEY HAVE SAID THIS TO ALL THE LEGISLATIVE, UH, PEOPLE FROM THE, FOR THE STATE TO KIND OF TELL 'EM ABOUT, UH, HOW IMPORTANT THE GRANT FUNDING IS.
ALTHOUGH THE STATE HAS CUT NOW, THE FUNDING IN HALF, SO IT WENT FROM 2.5 MILLION TO ABOUT 1.250.
AND SO THE FUNDING IS REALLY GONNA BE CUT A LOT AND
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THAT'S GONNA BE A PROBLEM FOR EVERYONE.UM, BUT I DID WANNA SHOW YOU, SO AS I SEE THE PICTURE, I'M GONNA SAY BECAUSE WE'RE ABOUT 80 TO 90% OF THE PICTURES IN THIS, THAT'S AWFULLY LITTLE.
SEE THAT LITTLE SQUARE DITCH TO THE RIGHT OF THE BAR THERE MAKES IT FULL SQUARE THIS? NO.
NOW IF I COULD JUST GET THE SOUND.
WE TOOK THE KIDS TO A RECYCLING FACILITY.
I WAS ASKED TO BE ON THE COUNCIL.
SO THAT'S KIND OF THE PRESTIGIOUS THING.
THAT'S ONE OF OUR ABATEMENT OFFICERS.
THAT'S US, US US ALL CLEANED UP THOUGH.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BIG SITES THAT WE CLEANED UP AND THAT'S WHAT WE DID.
SOME OF THE STUFF WE WERE AT ONE,
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THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT ALAN DID AND THAT WAS A REALLY, UM, THEY'VE USED THAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.THAT'S US AT OUR ENVIRONMENTAL
THAT'S AT THE GARDEN AS IT SCREW.
THAT'S OUR COMPOSTING CLASS, OUR ENVIRONMENTAL OSSEY.
IN THE MIDDLE, THERE'S THE NEW TRACK UP ON THE LEFT IN OUR RECYCLING SIDE.
ANYWAY, JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW, BECAUSE WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF WHAT WE'VE DONE, JUST WANT YOU KIND OF SEE THOSE THINGS TOO.
SOMETIMES YOU DON'T GET TO SEE ALL.
I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU, MARILYN.
I APPRECIATE ALL YOUR EFFORTS AND, UH, IT LOOKS LIKE Y'ALL DOING A GREAT JOB.
YOU SAID YOU'RE, UH, RECYCLING 86,000 POUNDS OF, UH, MONTH OF MATERIAL AND I DIDN'T CATCH WHAT MATERIAL IS THAT, THAT IS, IS THAT JUST MIXED? WE RECYCLE, IT'S MOSTLY PAPERS, NEWSPAPER.
UM, THERE'S A COMBINATION OF EVERYTHING.
WE RECYCLE CANS FROM THE CITIZENS.
IT'S EVERYTHING, RIGHT? MM-HMM
WE SEND DIFFERENT THINGS, DIFFERENT PLACES.
I JUST, I WAS JUST TRYING TO SEE WHAT ALL THAT WAS.
PROBABLY THE MAJORITY WOULD BE, UM, HARD WORK, BUT THE, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, ALL THAT CITIZENS STUFF.
WELL, THAT COMMENT, IT SEEMS THAT OUR TRASH PICKUP HAS GOTTEN LESS PRECINCT TOO.
WE STILL GOT IT, BUT IT SEEMED TO HAVE, UH, EASED UP A LITTLE BIT.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE SHERIFF, UH, WITH, UH, WALTER AND DONNIE'S.
UH, WE GET A LOT OF COMPLIMENTS ON THOSE BOYS OVER THERE.
UH, EVEN THOUGH SOME OF THOSE PROCESS LEGAL PROCESSES ARE SLOW, UH, WE GET, WE GET A LOT OF CALLS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CALLS AND THE SHERIFF'S ENVIRONMENTAL PART IS, I THINK THEY'RE GREAT IN TAKING CARE OF A LOT OF THOSE ISSUES.
I'VE I'VE BEEN DOING THIS, WHAT, EIGHT, NINE YEARS NOW.
AND WHEN WE STARTED IT WAS A MESS OUT THERE.
AND I THINK THAT JUST EVERYBODY'S, UH, WORKING TOGETHER AND ALSO THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE BETTER TOOLS, YOU KNOW, TO USE.
UM, THEY'RE, THEY HAVE THOSE COMPUTERS IN THE CARS, RIGHT? WITH 'EM, THEY'VE GOT THESE SIGNS THAT THEY CAN GIVE OUT.
THEY'VE ALSO GOT BROCHURES THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, GIVE INFORMATION OUT NOW THAT, THAT EVERYONE CAN UNDERSTAND.
SO IT'S JUST GONNA GET BETTER AND BETTER.
NEXT ITEM IS HAL JONES PRESENT THE, UH, AUDIT COURT FOR THE MONTH OF FAITH.
I'M SORRY, THE MONTH OF JUNE, SIR.
AND WE KEEP THIS ON FILE AND THE COUNTY JUDGE'S OFFICE WOULD LIKE TO COME BY AND LOOK AT IT.
SO NEXT ITEM IS, UH, JOHNNY COUNTRYMAN.
HE WAS THERE JUST A SECOND AGO.
WE'LL SKIP OVER JOHNNY AND, UH, UNLESS HE'S AROUND HERE SOMEPLACE NOT.
WE'LL COME BACK THIS PERIOD, HUH? I CAN'T FIND, OKAY, WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM 11 TO DISCUSS AND ACT ON PROVING A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZED TAX ABATEMENT WITH JIT MANUFACTURING, INCORPORATED BY TEXAS AND AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY JUDGE TO SIGN A TAX ABATEMENT.
AND I THINK, UH, COMMISSIONER MANNING HAS BEEN WORKING WITH THE CITY OF MAYBANK ON THIS.
YOU KNOW, THIS IS GOOD NEWS BECAUSE WE'VE GOT TWO ABATEMENTS WE'RE BE TALKING ABOUT TODAY, AND IT'S BEEN SEVERAL YEARS SINCE I THINK WE'VE HAD, SO THAT IT DOES SHOW THAT ACTIVITY IS, UH, IS PICKING UP.
AND JUDGE, I MET WITH THE CITY OF MAYBANK, UH, CITY COUNCIL LAST THURSDAY NIGHT AND THEY APPROVED, UH, TAX EVA FOR JIT.
UH, THIS IS QUITE AN ENCOURAGING SIGN.
UH, JIT MANUFACTURING STARTED OUT AS A SMALL COMPANY DOWN THERE IN MAYBANK.
STARTED OUT EMPLOYING ABOUT 20 PEOPLE AND THEY BUMPED IT UP, BUMPED IT UP, AND BEEN QUITE SUCCESSFUL.
AND, UH, UH, NOW THEY'RE GOING TO CONSTRUCT THIS NEW FACILITY.
THEY'RE GONNA ADD EMPLOYEES AND, UH, WE, WE LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, GREAT THINGS FROM 'EM.
AND, UH, OF COURSE THE CITY MAYBANK DID APPROVE THEIR TAX ABATEMENT.
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AND, UH, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE APPROVE A TAX ABATEMENT FROM FORM FROM THE COUNTY.WHAT DO THEY DO? WHAT, WHAT IS THEIR UH, THEY MAKE, UH, WELL IT'S BASICALLY ADVERTISING, BUT THEY ALSO MAKE ALL SORTS OF, OF, UH, DRINK INSULATORS.
THEY MAKE, UH, UH, FRISBEES FOR ADVERTISING.
UH, JUST ALL SORTS OF, ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF FOR ADVERTISING.
AND THEIR NEW FACILITY'S GOING TO BE OUT ON OFF 1 98.
IT'LL BE OFF 1 98, UH, OUT THERE, UH, ALL ABOUT A MILE OUT OF MAY LINE.
AND THEY'LL CONTINUE OPERATING THEIR OTHER FACILIT AS WELL.
THIS IS JUST A YES, THEY'LL, DURING CONSTRUCTION, THEY'LL, THEY'LL KEEP OPERATING WHERE THEY ARE NOW.
AND THEN WHEN THEY GET THE NEW BUILDING DONE, THEY'LL MOVE.
AND THE BUILDING IS UH, I FORGET HOW MANY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET IF IT SITS IN HERE.
AND THE TOTAL PROJECT, 20 TOTAL PROJECT IS, UH, TOTAL INVESTMENT.
I, I LOOKED OVER HERE SOMEPLACE.
AND I BELIEVE, UH, IF I'M CORRECT, AND I, I BELIEVE THIS COURT ADOPTED A, UH, TAX ABATEMENT, UH, PROGRAM OR A GUIDELINES THAT WE USE.
AND I BELIEVE LAST YEAR, I THINK WE UPDATED EVERY TWO YEARS OR SOMETHING.
AND I BELIEVE THIS, UH, FITS IN WITH WHAT OUR CURRENT TAX ABATE POLICY IS.
SIR, DO WE HAVE QUESTIONS OF, OF COMMISSIONER MANNING OR IS ANYONE HERE FROM MAYBANK? A QUICK QUESTION.
IS THIS A, UH, 10 YEARS, 50% OR I KNOW YOU'RE ALLOWED A MAXIMUM 500% OVER 10 YEAR.
NO, IT'S UH, IT'S A STAIR STEP RATE.
IT'S UH, FIRST YEAR, A HUNDRED PERCENT.
SECOND YEAR, 80% THIRD YEAR, 6%, FOURTH YEAR, 40%.
I THINK ANOTHER GOOD, ANOTHER GOOD EXPECT IS THAT 60 PEOPLE, THAT'S ONE THING WE NEED TO DO IS GET BACK.
IT'S QUITE ENCOURAGING FOR THE, FOR THE ECONOMY, UH, DOWN IN THAT END COUNTY, WE, WE NEED JOBS, WE NEED MORE ES MOVING.
WE'RE JUST DOING JUST THE OPPOSITE COST COUNTY.
MAYBE SOME OF OUR PEOPLE, NOT IT OPPOSITE, I GUESS.
COULD I THE QUESTION, DO THEY PAY A HUNDRED PERCENT REBATE OR ARE THEY GONNA PAY NOW? UH, NO, I THINK IT'S JUST WE, WE WILL PRESENT, THE WAY I UNDERSTAND IT, WE WILL PRESENT THIS INFORMATION TO THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT AND THEN THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT WILL, THEY WILL TAKE CARE OF IT.
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT, UH, THIS IN PARTICULAR WAS, YOU KNOW, ONE OF OUR CRITERIA, THEY USED LOCAL CONTRACTORS AND THEY LISTED OUT, UH, ALL THE LOCAL PEOPLE, THEY'RE GONNA BE USING THEM.
I KNOW THEY'RE NOT UNDER ANY OBLIGATION TO CONTACT THEM HERE, BUT UH, I KNOW THREE OR FOUR OF THESE GUYS ON HERE THAT ARE PART OF THAT $1.2 MILLION IN CONSTRUCTION COSTS.
THEY LIVE RIGHT THERE IN MAYBANK.
I TALKING ABOUT THE CONTRACTORS USE THING TOGETHER.
AND THAT'S WHAT THEIR, THAT'S WHAT THEIR MAIN GOAL IS, IS TO KEEP THAT MONEY RIGHT HERE IN THE COUNTY BY USING LOCAL PEOPLE AND LOCAL CONTRACTORS.
ANY OTHER, UH, QUESTIONS OF THE AGREEMENT? WE DON'T HAVE THE AGREEMENT AS YET.
JOHN, JOHN HAS LOOKED OVER AGREEABLE.
JOHN, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT THE GRIEVANCE? I DID NOT.
IT'S, IT'S A SHORTER TIMEFRAME THAN WHAT'S ALLOWED AND IT'S A MUCH GREATER DOLLAR AMOUNT.
SO BOTH THOSE THINGS SEEM LIKE THEY'RE VERY GOOD ON THEIR FACE.
YOU, YOU MAKE A MOTION TO I MOVE THAT WE ACCEPT THIS.
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MAKES A MOTION AND, UH, THAT WE ACCEPT THIS, UH, ABATEMENT FROM CITY OF MAYBANK AND, AND JIT MANUFACTURING.ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
LET'S GO BACK UP TO ITEM NUMBER 10 AND UH, ALL SIT, I WALKED AWAY FROM YOU.
WE GOT A PROBLEM WITH SOME RECONCILIATIONS WE'RE BEHIND AND HOW OUR DUTY TO GOOD USE WHAT KIND OF PROBLEM? THEY'RE THE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE NOW RECEIVED A LOT OF ELECTRONIC INCOME PAYMENTS AND WE NOT SET UP AND WE WERE NOT SET UP TO HANDLE PROPERTY ALL COUNTY FROM MAKE THE CHANGE, WHICH THEY DID MADE.
NOW YOUR ANYTHING ABOUT OTHER KIND OF PROBLEM? IT'S BEEN, YOU KNOW, A GOOD YEAR SO FAR, NOT IN SHAPE.
WE, THIS, THIS IS THE PRESENTATION.
WE DON'T HAVE TO ACT ON ONE OF THIS.
NO, YOU, WE HAVE A MOTION TO ACCEPT SECOND MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER JACKSON AND A SECOND COMMISSIONER SAY AYE.
NEXT ITEM IS ITEM NUMBER 12 AND THAT IS TO DISCUSS AND ACT ON APPROVING RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX ABATEMENT WITH MAINS PAPER AND FOOD SERVICES INCORPORATED.
UH, DOING BUSINESS IS M-T-A-C-L-L-C AND DARDEN RESTAURANTS INCORPORATED IN TARRELL, TEXAS AND AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY JUDGE TO SIGN TAX ABATE.
WE HAVE DANNY BOOTH HERE THIS MORNING WITH TAR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND WELL AS CITY COMMENDING THEM.
SO DANNY, YOU WANNA TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS PROJECT? UH, THANK YOU JUDGE AND COMMISSIONERS.
UM, UH, YOU HAD MENTIONED EARLIER THAT IT HAS BEEN A WHILE SINCE TAX S HAVE COME FORWARD.
WE'VE CERTAINLY THINK IS KIND OF CERTAINLY IN THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS.
THE BLACK ABATEMENT WE GRANTED WAS FOR CARLISLE BACK IN OH THREE.
SO IT'S BEEN A WHILE EVEN WHEN THE ECONOMY WAS, WAS, UH, DOING A LITTLE BETTER.
UH, WE TRY TO, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, SHY AWAY FROM ABATEMENTS AND PUT MORE CASH UP FRONT TO ALL TAX ENTITIES CAN BENEFIT ON THESE LARGER PROJECTS LIKE THIS.
THEY DON'T COME IN AND SAY, DO YOU GRANT AN ABATEMENT? THEY COME IN AND ASK, YOU KNOW, UH, GENERALLY HOW LARGE IS YOUR ABATEMENT? UH, THE POLICY OF Y'ALL THAT Y'ALL ADOPTED IS ONE THAT WE SENT FORWARD SEVERAL YEARS AGO, AND IN PROJECTS ABOVE 5 MILLION YOU HAVE LEEWAY, UH, TO GRANT, UH, ADDITIONAL ABATEMENTS.
WHAT THEY'RE REQUESTING IS A IS A 10 YEAR ABATEMENT, UH, YEARS ONE AND TWO IS A HUNDRED PERCENT THREE AND FOUR IS 85 AND SIX IS 67 AND EIGHT IS 49 AND 10 IS 20.
UM, DARDEN YOU PROBABLY HAVE HEARD OF, THEY'RE ONE OF THE LARGEST RESTAURANT, UH, OWNERS IN THE COUNTRY.
THEY OWN RED LOBSTER, OLIVE GARDEN CAPITAL GRILL, LONGHORN STEAK HOUSES, A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT RESTAURANTS, SOME OF WHICH AREN'T IN TEXAS.
SO I MEAN THEY'RE A NATIONAL COMPANY.
UM, MAIN PAPER EAST OF MISSISSIPPI IS THEIR DISTRIBUTOR.
THEY DO EVERY GARDEN IN THE RESTAURANT EAST OF MISSISSIPPI.
AND WHAT'S KIND OF NEAT ABOUT THIS, THIS WILL BE THEIR FIRST DISTRIBUTION CENTER WEST OF MISSISSIPPI.
SO, WHICH IS QUITE A COOL DEAL FOR LL UH, THEY'VE ALSO PROMISED TO FACILITATE A COUPLE OF THEIR RESTAURANTS IN LL WHICH WE'RE PRETTY HAPPY ABOUT.
IN FACT, THIS WHOLE DEAL IS STILL NOT FORMALLY BEEN ANNOUNCED.
REQUEST THAT THE NEWS MEDIA DO WHATEVER THEY CAN ABOUT THAT.
UH, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE STILL NEGOTIATING EVERYTHING BETWEEN MAINES AND DARDEN.
WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A PRESS RELEASE BY THURSDAY OF THIS WEEK AND HOPEFULLY GROUNDBREAKING, UH, IN THE NEXT TWO OR THREE WEEKS.
UM, THEY'RE GOING ADJACENT TO AUTOZONE.
YOU'RE FAMILIAR ON AIRPORT ROAD BEFORE THE AUTOZONE DISTRIBUTION CENTER IS INITIALLY THEY'LL CREATED 125 JOBS, UH, IN BUILD OUT AND THEY'VE SHOWED US A MODEL.
THEY'VE DONE THIS IN EVERY ONE OF THEIR FACILITIES, THESE MISSISSIPPI, AND THEY START OUT WITH THAT A HUNDRED EMPLOYEES AND THEY ADD MODULES TO THIS FACILITY.
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IT'D BE ABOUT 400 TO FOUR 50 JOBS TO BUILD OUT AT ABOUT 400,000 SQUARE FEET OF THE BUILDING.UH, THEY BOUGHT 40 ACRES, WHICH GIVES THEM PLENTY OF RENT TO EXPAND.
UM, THERE BE NO LOCAL JOBS AFFECTED.
UH, WE'RE PROVIDING A LITTLE OVER $600,000 IN INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS FOR A PROJECT.
AND, UH, LET'S SEE, DARDEN IS A FORTUNE 300 COMPANY IN MAINES IS ONE OF THE TOP PRIVATELY OWNED COMPANIES IN THE UNITED STATES.
THERE ON FOR LIST OF, UH, I THINK LIKE 1 26, I THINK ABOUT THE NUMBER RIGHT.
THE CITY COUNCIL HAS ALREADY GRANTED THE ABATEMENT AS HAS TRINITY VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
YEAH, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION.
THIS WOULD BE, UH, THIS WOULD BE OFF THE AIRPORT ROAD.
WOULD IT BE VISIBLE FROM INTERSTATE 20 OR WILL IT YEAH, AS PART OF THIS DEAL, THEY, THEY WANT VISIBILITY AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF TREES AND BRUSH AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE TO DO, THE EBC, WE HAVE TO CLEAR OUT EVERYTHING BEHIND AUTOZONE AND THIS FACILITY.
AND WHAT WE MAY DO IS CLEAR THINGS FROM ALL ZONE, ALL THE WAY TO WILSON ROAD AND LEAVE THE BIGGER TREES.
'CAUSE THERE'S ACTUALLY SOME NATIVE, WHAT I CALL VIRGIN TIMBER DOWN AROUND THAT CREEK THAT WE PROBABLY WILL JUST TRIM UP.
IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO EVEN GET DOWN THERE AND THROUGH WHAT YOU'RE GONNA DO, BUT THEY'RE GONNA PUT THEIR NAME ON THE BACK OF THE FACILITY BECAUSE THEY DO WANT VISIBILITY.
INITIALLY THEY WERE GOING NEXT TO GOODYEAR AND WHEN THE, WHEN THE FACILITY, WHICH WILL OFFER THEM A LOT OF VISIBILITY, BUT THAT SIDE IS LIMITED.
ONCE YOU BUILD ON AND EXPAND, THERE'S NO, THERE'S 30 SOMETHING ACRES AND THEY WERE AFRAID THAT THEY CANNOT, UH, FIT THE ENTIRE FACILITY LIKE YEAR FIVE OR 6:00 PM KNOW COMMISSIONER JACKSON AND COMMISSIONER CLARK ARE ON THE, UH, TAX ABATEMENT COMMITTEE FROM, UH, LL AND HAVE MET WITH, UH, THE CITY OF TERRELL AS WELL AS, UH, THE CAROL, EDC.
YOU, YOU GUYS HAVE ANY COMMENTS? UH, ABOUT I A COMMENT, I JUST BELIEVE THAT, UH, WITH A COMPANY LIKE, LIKE THAT COMING IN HERE, WE HAVE SOME GOOD DEALS THAT YOU LOOK AT.
NUMBER ONE IS, UH, IT'S GOING BE THE, UH, FIRST DEVELOPMENT.
IT'S GONNA BE WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, SO THAT'S GOING TO TAKE A LOT OF TERRITORY.
BAY EAST OF MISSISSIPPI ALREADY, BUT IT'S GOING AND THEY'RE GONNA BUILD OTHER FACILITIES WEST OF MISSISSIPPI.
JUST, WE JUST HAVE HONOR BEING FIRST ONE.
SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S A, TO HAVE THAT HERE.
SO I THINK IT'S A WIN-WIN SITUATION THAT THEY, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN ARGUE MAINTENANCE.
I DON'T LIKE TO, I DON'T LIKE GIVEAWAYS.
THAT MAY SOUND UNUSUAL FROM AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PERSON.
I WISH ABATEMENTS DIDN'T EXIST, PERIOD.
BUT IN ORDER TO COMPETE MEAN YOU CAN GRANT ABATEMENTS OR YOU CAN NOT NOT COMPETE.
OUR NEIGHBORS GIVE ABATEMENTS.
SOME OF THE OTHER CITIES THEY WERE LOOKING IN ACTUALLY OFFERED A HIGHER INCENTIVE THAN THIS.
THEY LIKE THE FACT THAT 80 AND 20 COME TOGETHER.
THAT'S A BIG DEAL, YOU KNOW, TO THINK ABOUT.
YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S, I MEAN THAT'S WHAT GOT ALL US ON HERE AND GOOD HERE AND A LOT OF THEM BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THAT'S A, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE GOING NORTH OR SOUTH AND YOU SAY FIVE MILES ON EVERY TRUCK AND YOU RUN THREE OR 400 TRUCKS A DAY, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY.
RAY, DO YOU HAVE ANY YEAH, I DID.
UH, THIS IS GONNA BE 400,000 PEOPLE WHEN IT'S DONE, BUT THAT CASE IS ONLY FOR 82,000 FEET.
ARE WE ONLY GONNA ABATE 82,000 SQUARE FOOT FACILITY? WELL IF THEY DO EXTENSIONS, THEY
EACH TIME THAT YOU DO ONE, THEY MAY COME BACK AND ASK FOR ADDITIONAL INCENTIVES TO EXPAND.
I MEAN, THERE'S NO GUARANTEE THEY WILL, I MEAN THEY HAVE THAT RIGHT TO DO THAT.
BUT THIS ABATEMENT IS JUST FOR THIS INITIAL PHASE.
YES, AND IT'S, UH, INITIALLY IT IS ABOUT A $10 MILLION PROJECT, NOT ACCOUNT HIGH.
UH, WE HAVE IN CONTRACTOR USE LOCAL CONTRACTORS IF POSSIBLE.
I KNOW THEY'VE ALREADY USING NEW RENT FOR THINGS AND THE CONTRACTOR ON THE PROJECT, HE BILLS ALL OF THEIR FACILITIES NATIONWIDE CONTRACTOR, CC AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE OUT CAROLINA I THINK.
SO IT'S NOT LIKE WE CAN REQUEST THEY HIRE LOCAL CONTRACTOR, THEY'LL HIRE LOCAL SUBS, WHICH WE PROVIDE AND HOPEFULLY SOME OF OUR FOLKS COUNTY.
SO IT ONLY BE THE 82,000 SQUARE FEET'S GONNA BE SAY THAT AGAIN.
THE ABATE WILL WILL BE THE 82,000 SQUARE FOOT FACILITY.
THEY'LL COME BACK FOR IF THEY WANT, IF THEY NEED TOLL COME
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BACK, THEY'RE CHARGING ABOUT ENLARGING WITHIN TWO YEARS.AND I GUESS OF THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING TAX IS TO BRING THEM HERE ONCE THEY'RE HERE.
NEXT TAX EXPECT WOULD BE REAL HARD TO GET.
WOULD THAT BE A FAIR STATEMENT? WELL, I MEAN, WE GIVE THEM A LOT OF TAX STATEMENTS TO EXISTING COMPANIES.
I MEAN, WE TELL THEM THAT IF THEY'RE HERE AND THEY WANT EXPAND, ADD ANOTHER HUNDRED JOBS, THEN IN FACT WE'RE MORE AGGRESSIVE ON EXPANSION THAN WE ARE ON NEW COMPANIES BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALREADY LOST TWO COMPANIES IN CARROLL.
AND, AND YOU KNOW, LIKE THIS VIE GURU ALWAYS SAYS IT'S, IT'S CHEAPER TO KEEP HER KIND OF LITTLE CLOSING MARKS AND YOU KNOW, IF YOU GOT IN HERE YOU NEED HER.
SO I WOULD NOT AGREE WITH THAT STATEMENT.
I THINK WE NEED TO ENCOURAGE ANYBODY WHO CAN TO EXPAND IT LIKE THE ONE IN MAY BANK, IT'S TIED BACK TO THE JOBS EXPANSION.
AND SO, SO IS THE EDC INCENTIVE, YOU DO A GRANT PER EMPLOYEE TRADITIONALLY, AND THEY SHOWED US THESE OTHER MODELS, THEY ADD 75 TO A HUNDRED PEOPLE WHEN THEY EXPAND BECAUSE THAT MEANS THEY'RE PICKING UP ADDITIONAL RESTAURANT CHAINS.
I MEAN, DARDEN'S NOT GONNA BE THEIR ONLY CUSTOMER.
SO MAINS OWNS THE BUILDING, OPERATES DARDEN OWNS THE INVENTORY.
INITIALLY EXPANSIONS WILL BE FOR OTHER FACILIT BREAKER, YOU KNOW, USE PICK RESTAURANT CHAIN AND DARTON BE GOING AFTER WE DON'T HAVE AGREEMENT YET.
YEAH, WE HAVE SIGNED AGREEMENTS, BUT THEY HAVEN'T CLOSED UP THE LAND YET.
HOW MUCH IS, HOW MUCH IS FOR DARDEN? HOW MUCH IS FOR MAINTENANCE? WELL, DAR IS REQUESTING A ABATEMENT ON THE INVENTORY IN MAIN ON THE FACILITIES.
THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE TWO SEPARATE ABATEMENT APPLICATIONS AND YOU HAVE RIGHT BY LAW GRANT, HOW MUCH IS ABATEMENT FOR AND HOW MUCH IS ABATEMENT FOR MAINTENANCE? WELL, I MEAN IT BE SAY ABATEMENT, BUT IT WOULD BE WHATEVER THE VALUE IS.
I MEAN, IF THERE'S $3 MILLION WORTH INVENTORY, THEN YOU'RE GRANTING ABATEMENT ON THAT AND THE INVENTORY MAY VARY.
RIGHT? YOU'RE GREEN AN ABATEMENT ON WHATEVER AMOUNTS IN THAT FACILITY.
SO AS, UH, WHAT DATE? UH, WHEN THEY OPEN, WELL THE TAX DATE WOULD BE JANUARY THE FIRST OF COURSE.
RIGHT? SO I JUST, THEY'RE SCHEDULED TO OPEN IN MARCH OR APRIL OF NEXT YEAR.
SO, YOU KNOW, THEY WOULD BE ASSESSED ON JANUARY THE FIRST I GUESS AT WHATEVER PART.
I MEAN WHATEVER STAGE OR VALUE THEY HAVE.
SO YOU GET TAX FROM THIS SIMPLY DON'T MAKE LAND.
SO, UM, SO WHATEVER PERCENTAGE THEY HAVE DONE ON JANUARY 1ST, 2012, 12, WE'LL GET, WE'LL BA THAT PERCENTAGE OF THAT VALUE AND THEN WHATEVER, IF THAT TAX BILL WOULD BE THE ONE YOU GET IN OCTOBER WHENEVER THE TAX NOTICES GO OUT.
BUT THEN WHEN THEY'RE COMPLETED DURING 2012 TO 2013, WOULD WOULD THAT BE THE TOTAL DOLLAR? THAT'D PROBABLY BE THE SECOND YEAR.
THE FIRST YEAR COULD, BUT SHOULDN'T WOULDN'T AN AGREEMENT HAVE THAT KIND LANGUAGE IN THERE? IT DOESN'T SPECIFY.
IT JUST SAYS YEAR ONE AND TWO.
IT DOESN'T SPECIFY IF YEAR ONE IS THE FIRST YEAR AT START.
I MEAN, WE JUST, YOU KNOW, WE'VE LET IT FALL ON OUR PAST 11TH POWER WHERE IT FALLS MEAN.
I MEAN, ORIGINALLY THEY NEEDED TO BE OPERATIONAL PRIOR TO DECEMBER 31ST, SO THAT REALLY WAS NEVER, YOU KNOW, THEY KEPT PUSHING AND PUSHING AND PUSHING.
SO, SO WHEN DO YOU THINK THEY COULD START CONSTRUCTION? WELL, WE HAVE AN AGREEMENT WITH THEM THAT SIGN THAT THEY CAN DO DIRT WORK AS WE SPEAK AND THEY HAVE EARTH WORKING EQUIPMENT ON SITE AND WE HAVE TO CLOSE ON LAMO INTO YOUR THIRD, YOU GET PRESS RELEASE.
SO IT'S NOT ANYTHING ON OUR END.
THERE WAS SOME ISSUE THAT CAME UP THAT THEY'RE STILL WORKING ON.
THEY HAD THOSE EQUIPMENT ON SITE.
WELL, WE WERE, YOU, I ASKED YOU ABOUT, UH, AT A MEETING ABOUT OUR POLICY.
I DIDN'T HAVE IT WITH US AND I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH GOING FROM EIGHT YEARS OR 10 YEARS.
AND I ASKED A TAX ATTORNEY ABOUT IT AND HE SAID, MAYBE YOU NEED, MAYBE YOU NEED TO CHANGE THE POLICY FIRST, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT LITTLE CLAUSE IN THERE SAYS YOU DID.
I'M NOT TOO SURE ABOUT THE INVENTORY THOUGH, DANNY.
WHY WOULD WE, WHY WOULD YOU GRANT TAX PAYMENT ON INVENTORY WHEN HE COULD DISAPPEAR? WE EVER GET TAXED.
I, THE INVENTORY'S ASSESSED AS OF JANUARY 1ST AND THEY DID A RENDITION, HOW THEY DO IT NOW.
TALKED TO APPRAISAL OFFICE IN, UH, IT WAS A BIG DEAL, WHATEVER COMMUNITY BUILT ON THIS HAD CREATED TO DO INVENTORY AND FACILITY BECAUSE IT'S A BIG DEAL TO GARDEN.
BECAUSE IF YOU THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU BUY AT RED LOBSTER OR OLIVE GARDEN OR WHATEVER, THAT'S LOT OF FOOD.
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IT'S EVERYTHING FROM THE SILVERWARE AND, AND LINEN.AND IT'S NOT JUST COLD STORAGE.
IT'S EVERYTHING YOU SEE IN A RESTAURANT.
SO THAT WAS KEY TO THIS THING, TO GETTING IT.
WE HAD CUT, THAT'S WHAT THE CITY APPROVED.
SO, AND I THINK OUR, OUR OLD POLICY HAS BEEN, AND WE MAY NEED TO GO BACK AND REVISIT OUR OLD OR OUR CURRENT, NOT OLD, BUT OUR CURRENT TAX ABATEMENT POLICY.
UH, BUT I, WE PUT THAT CATCHALL IN THERE THAT SAYS THE PROJECT'S ABOVE 5 MILLION, THAT IT'S NEGOTIABLE AND, AND CERTAINLY CAN DO THAT.
HOWEVER, AND I'M NOT EVEN SURE THAT 5 MILLION IS EVEN IN THERE ANYMORE.
WE LOOKED AT THE ONE THAT THE COURT APPROVED LAST YEAR OR AN OH NINE, I THINK, AND IT JUST, IT'S VERY BROAD LANGUAGE.
SO YOU HAVE FLEXIBILITY BASICALLY IN IT.
SO MOST OF THESE BIGGER COMPANIES, THEY KNOW BY STATE LAW THEY GET TENURE REVENUE IN TEXAS, THAT'S WHAT THEY ASK FOR.
YEAH, AND IT'S, IT'S KIND OF A, YOU KNOW, IT'S TO BE COMPARATIVE, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ANYTHING THAT ANYBODY REALLY WANTS TO DO.
BUT I MEAN, I'D RATHER HAVE IT INMAN COUNTY THAN I HAD IN NAP COUNTY.
AND BECAUSE IT DOES, YOU KNOW, COMMERCE DOES BREED COMMERCE AND SO THE MORE ACTIVITY YOU HAVE IN THE COUNTY, THE MORE JOBS IT CREATES.
I MEAN THAT SPINOFF IS EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING IT.
AND IT'S, IT'S, UH, IT'S JUST THEY WERE LOOKING AT, UH, COMMUNITIES IN ELLIS COUNTY AND UH, UH, SOME TO THE NORTH AND SOME OF THE WEST.
IT'S THE SAME ONES WE COMPETE AGAINST ALL THE TIME.
SO I WAS, I WAS LOOKING OVER THE CURRENT RESOLUTION THAT COLLIN COUNTY HAS, UH, VERSUS, UH, WHAT IS, WHAT Y'ALL COME UP WITH HERE.
THESE WERE THESE FIGURES AND I NOTICED THE THE ABATEMENT FIGURES, UH, ARE SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT.
I REALIZE THAT ALL THIS IS, IS NEGOTIABLE.
UH, I WAS JUST WONDERING WHERE THESE, UH, THESE 10 YEAR FIGURES CAME FROM.
UH, DOES THIS COME FROM THE COMPANY OR FROM THE TAR EDC OR TEAM? INITIALLY THEY REQUESTED A 10 YEAR TAX EVASION, A HUNDRED PERCENT FOR 10 YEARS.
AND I'M NOT SAYING WE WOULD NEVER DO THAT BECAUSE DON'T EVER SAY NEVER, BUT RIGHT.
UH, WE COUNTERED WITH AN AGREEMENT THAT WAS LOWER.
THIS JUST PART OF THE NEGOTIATION ON THESE BIGGER PROJECTS.
WE REACHED AN AGREEMENT THAT THE COUNCIL APPROVED, YOU KNOW, WITH THE SCALE 80, 70 OR A HUNDRED EIGHTY, SIXTY FORTY TWENTY.
I SUPPOSE MY QUESTION TO YOU WOULD BE, UH, ARE THE FIGURES THAT, THAT ARE IN THE CURRENT COLTON COUNTY RESOLUTION, ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THIS DOCUMENT? YES, SIR.
ARE THESE FIGURES COMPETITIVE WITH THESE SURROUNDING COUNTIES? UH, AS FAR AS, UH, YOU TALK ABOUT THE COMPETING COUNTIES THAT ARE COMPETING FOR THE BUSINESSES THAT WE WANT TO COME HERE.
ARE, ARE OUR FIGURES COMPETITIVE ENOUGH TO, TO ATTRACT SOME OF THESE? ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO ADOPT SOMETHING MORE LIKE, UH, WHAT YOUR EXISTING ON THIS? SO I THINK THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION.
AND I THINK YOU DO 10 YEAR ABATEMENTS ARE VERY STANDARD.
I MEAN, COMPANIES THAT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT TEXAS LAW KNOW THAT YOU CAN GET A 10 YEAR ABATEMENT AND GENERALLY THEY COME IN ASKING FOR THAT.
SO YOU NEED TO HAVE FLEXIBILITY IN THAT, ESPECIALLY ON BIGGER PROJECTS.
AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE 5 MILLION IS TOO HIGH.
MAYBE IT'S SOMETHING 3 MILLION AND ABOVE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PROJECT COST IN MAYBANK WAS, BUT 2 MILLION, I MEAN, YOU CAN PICK SOME NUMBER.
UM, BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING, I DON'T KNOW IS BECAUSE OF SIGNS OF THE ITALIAN, 'CAUSE THEY THINK THE COMMUNITIES ARE HUNGRIER.
BUT, UM, WE WORKED ON A PROJECT THAT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S GONNA GO ANYWHERE NOW.
BUT HILLSBOROUGH WAS COMPETING FOR THIS PROJECT AND THIS WAS A REALLY, WHAT I WOULD THINK WAS A SMALL PROJECT, ESPECIALLY COMPARED TO THIS.
AND HILLSBOROUGH OFFERED A HUNDRED PERCENT A BASE FOR EIGHT YEARS.
AND WHEN THEY TOLD, WHEN, WHEN THE DEVELOPER TOLD ME THAT I WAS A LITTLE SKEPTICAL AND HE ACTUALLY GAVE ME THE ENTIRE INCENTIVE PACKAGE AND, UH, I, I WAS KIND OF BLOWN AWAY.
THERE WAS NO WAY I COULD EVER RECOMMEND THAT WE DO SOMETHING THAT LARGE FOR A COMPANY THAT SIZE BECAUSE OUR DEAL IS JOBS.
I MEAN, THIS IS GONNA CREATE ABOUT A HUNDRED JOBS INITIALLY, AND YOU GO UP FROM THERE AND THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE LOOKING FOR WORK RIGHT NOW.
SO I DO THINK IF YOU RE-LOOK AT THIS, THE, THE 10 YEAR NUMBER'S GOTTA BE IN HERE, HOWEVER YOU WANT TO WORD IT.
I'VE CERTAINLY SEEN YOU LANGUAGE THAT THE STATE, I THINK ORIGINALLY CARROLL HEALTH COMMISSIONER'S COURT DEVELOP THIS POLICY BACK WHEN BRUCE WAS ACTUALLY ON THE EBC BOARD
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BACK THEN IN ANOTHER LIFE.WELL, AT ONE TIME THE CARROLL EDC AND THE CITY OF LL AND EVEN WHEN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT PARTICIPATED, IT WAS 10% NOTHING THE FIRST YEAR, 10%, 20%, 30% FOR 10 YEARS.
THIS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT VARIATION FROM THAT.
BUT, UH, GENERALLY OURS HAVE BEEN GRADUATE.
I MEAN THE, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE LARGEST METER WE GIVEN IS A HUNDRED NINETY EIGHT, SEVENTY, SIXTY DROPS 10% A YEAR WITH WHAT YOU'RE ALLUDING TO.
I THINK WE CAN CALCULATE IT OUT.
UH, WOULD WE BE SETTING ANY KIND PRECEDENT BY DOING INVENTORY ON THIS PARTICULAR ONE VERSUS ONE THEM COMING IN THE FUTURE? WE DO AUTO IN VEN INITIATIVE.
WE DID LIKE IN 2002 24, BUT I THINK EACH ONE STANDS ON ITS OWN.
I SUSPECT THAT WE WOULD DO IT.
I MEAN, NOT EVERYONE WOULD, DEPENDING ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES, I THINK WE TO LOOK, WELL, I THINK YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF JOBS SOLD OUT INVESTMENT BECAUSE YOU KNOW, AND THIS, WHEN THIS DROPS FROM A HUNDRED TO 80, YOU'RE GONNA GET THE WHOLE PROJECT END UP SAY $15 MILLION, YOU'RE GONNA GET 20% START OR THREE.
SO, WHICH RIGHT NOW WE'RE NOT GETTING ANYTHING RIGHT, BECAUSE THAT LAND'S NOT EVEN ON THE TAX ROLL CURRENTLY.
SO I, IT, I MEAN, UH, YOU, IT'S NOT ANYTHING I THINK THAT ANYBODY WANTS TO DO.
IT'S JUST, IT'S JUST THERE THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S EITHER US DID IT OR GO OR HATCH HERE OR HILLSBOROUGH OR SOMETHING.
SOME, I STILL THINK IT'D BE KIND UNFORTUNATE FOR US TO PASS UP OPPORTUNITY TO GET, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
UH, COUNTY THIS, THEIR NAME IS, THIS IS GOING TO GET A LOT OF, UH, GOOD TER IT'S THE FIRST ONE.
WELL, WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT RED LOBSTER AND OLIVE GUARD AND ALL THAT, IT GETS MY ATTENTION.
WELL, FREEPORT GRANTS, UH, AMENT ON INVENTORY THAT SHIPPED OUTSIDE THE STATE OF TEXAS.
WELL YOU HAVE PAPERWORK YOU HAVE TO FILL OUT TO SUBMIT, BUT UH, IT HAS TO DO WITH INVENTORY HOW LESS THAN 175 DAYS.
AND CERTAINLY IN FOOD SERVICE, THAT'S PROBABLY ALL OF IT.
MOST COMPANIES, THERE'S JUST SOME TIME INVENTORY.
75 DAYS IS THE TRIGGER ON THAT.
UH, SO IF IT'S IN THERE MORE, I'M GONNA GUESS YOU CAN'T KEEP FOOD FROM THAT LONG.
I MEAN, YOU COULD SOME DRIVE STORAGE AND THINGS.
PARDON? THEY PROBABLY DONE THOUGH, IN FREEPORT, THE, THE THING THAT MADE IT REAL ATTRACTIVE FOR GOODYEAR AND AUTO ZONING THOSE IS THAT THE SCHOOL IS ACTUALLY INCLUDED IN THE FREEPORT.
AND SINCE THAT'S HALF YOUR TAX RATE, THAT'S A TOOL THAT REALLY HELPS US.
WE, WE HAVE WHAT CALL COUNTY, WHAT'S CALLED TRIPLE FREEPORT, WHICH MEANS IF THE CITY, COUNTY AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, THE COLLEGE FOR WHATEVER WORK OF THE LAW COULD NOT GRANT FREEPORT, BUT THEIR TAX RATE IS SMALL COMPARED TO ESPECIALLY IT'S A BIG DEAL THAT ON SKILL TAX.
SO, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE TO APPLY FOR THAT.
IT WAS INITIALLY GRANTED FOR GOODYEAR.
UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK GOODYEAR IS ONE OF Y'ALL BARGAINED TAXPAYERS, 1.6 MILLION TIRES IN THE BUILDING.
OKAY, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? I, I SAY I, I WANNA VOTE FOR THIS, BUT I, ONE OF THE REASONS WHY, WHY GRANTED TAX STATE GET 'EM TO COME IF THEY'RE ALREADY DOING DIRT WORK, THEY'RE COMING
WELL PART OF IT IS WE TRUSTED THE COMMISSION GONNA FOLLOW SUIT TO CITY GRANT THIS LIGHT FOUR MONTHS AGO.
WELL, AND WE, WE NEED TO ALL GET UP TO SPEED ON THIS.
AGAIN, THIS IS LIKE A NICE, A NICE ISSUE TO HAVE FOR US TO TALK ABOUT.
BUT NONE OF US WERE ON THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT WHENEVER THIS WAS DISCUSSED.
AND INITIALLY, I KNOW, I KNOW THE COURT HAS APPROVED IT, UH, UPDATED I GUESS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
BUT WE PROBABLY ALL NEED TO BE, UH, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE CAN GET TOGETHER, UH, WITH OTHER ENTITIES OR SOMETHING AND JUST TALK ABOUT IT OR SOMETHING.
OH, POLICY IS ORIGINALLY CREATED, SAID THAT COMMISSIONER'S COURT WOULD GRANT ANY ABATEMENT BROUGHT FORWARD TO THEM BASED ON WHAT THE CITY RECOMMENDED.
AND SO WHEN YOU'RE NEGOTIATING WITH THESE PEOPLE, IT'S NOT LIKE YOU
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CAN RUN TO THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT EVERY OTHER WEEK AND, AND, AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME LATITUDE BECAUSE THIS NEGOTIATION TOOK PLACE OVER REALLY THE LAST 12 MONTHS.J KNOWS IT'S, IT STARTED AND WENT AWAY AND CAME BACK AND INTEREST GOING BACK AND FORTH.
BUT, UH, MOST COMMISSIONER'S COURT AND OUR SURROUNDING COMMUNITY, THEIR POLICY IS IF ANY CITY IN THEIR JURISDICTION BRINGS THEM A ABATEMENT, THEN MAY APPROVE THAT ABATEMENT.
AND WE PROBABLY NEED TO TALK WITH OUR SURROUNDING COUNTIES AND GET, GET COPIES OF THEIR ABATEMENTS AS WELL.
JUST SO WE'LL HAVE, I DON'T THINK THAT'D BE A FAIR POLICY.
FOLLOW THE POLICY THAT WE'VE APPROVED.
I WOULD LIKE TO IN THE FUTURE, ANOTHER YOU'VE EXPLAIN TO ME, AND I'M GONNA UNDERSTAND WHY ALL THESE NEGOTIATIONS HAVE TO BE SECRET, BUT COULD YOU NOT, UH, CLUE US IN ON WHAT'S GOING ON? CALL IT X, Y, Z COMPANY AND GO
AND THEN YOU'RE GONNA ASK FOR MORE THAN WHAT OUR POLICY IS.
'CAUSE I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHY WOULD WE HAVE A POLICY IF WE'RE NOT GOING FOLLOW IT? ALRIGHT.
THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT CONCERN ME ABOUT IT.
I'D LIKE TO HAVE A MORE AGGRESSIVE RESOLUTION, UH, WHERE POSSIBLY PEOPLE MIGHT KNOW THAT COLLIN COUNTY'S GOT THEIR DOORS OPEN, THESE BUSINESSES AND THESE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO COME IN HERE, WE, WE WANT 'EM IN HERE.
I YOU FIT DO JC IS ALSO ON THE EDC BOARD AND HE'S INVOLVED IN A LOT OF THESE NEGOTIATIONS AND ATTEND THESE MEETINGS.
A LOT OF OUR STUFF'S BEEN DONE IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, BUT CERTAINLY CAN GIVE YOU A BRIEF OR I CAN COME BACK AND GIVE YOU A BRIEF PROJECTS DEVELOP.
SO ANY GIVEN TIME, I MEAN COMMUNICATION ALWAYS GOOD.
SO SOMETIMES WE'LL HAVE FOUR DEALS WORKING AT THE SAME TIME AND WE DON'T WANT NOBODY UNTIL YOU GET CLOSER TO, TO YOUR NEGOTIATION PART.
WE NEED TO CHANGE YOUR POLICY OR ALL OUR POLICY.
AND IF YOU'RE GOING DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT, WELL I SURE CALLED IN THE POLICY, IT'S IN ANY PROJECT YOU GO $5 MILLION AND THAT'S THE COPY I HAVE OF, I THINK IT, IT DOESN'T SAY THAT ANY ABATEMENT, IT COULD BE ANY, ANY VALUE.
AND WHAT CONCERNED ME WAS THAT COULD, COULD THIS ABATEMENT AND MAY HAVE THE SAME TERMS THAT THE ONE IN INTERNAL POINT IS GONNA HAVE WHATEVER BE KIND OF UNIFORM AND THAT THAT'S WHAT THE CURRENT POLICY DOESN'T, DOESN'T HAVE A DOLLAR AMOUNT ON.
SO IF YOU GOING, IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO WITH ANY CHANGE OR TIMEFRAME AND OR PERCENTAGES OR POSSIBLY WHEN YOU'RE, WHEN YOU'RE NEGOTIATING, YOU WANT GO ABOVE THOSE TERMS, YOU COME BACK AND CLUE US IN ON WHAT'S GOING ON.
WELL I THINK YOU, WITHOUT GIVING AWAY, IT'S GOING TO BE DEN INDUSTRIES OR WHATEVER.
I THINK YOU DEFINITELY NEED TO CHANGE YOUR ABATEMENT POLICY TO ALLOW 10 YEARS BECAUSE THE BIGGER PROJECTS, THEY'RE ALL, THAT'S WHAT THE, HERE HERE'S WHAT OUR CURRENT ABATEMENT POLICY SAYS.
IT SAYS ABATES ON ALL PROJECTS, BOTH REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY ARE OPEN TO NEGOTIATION.
THE NUMBER OF YEARS AND OR THE PERCENTAGE OF ABATEMENTS CAN ALSO BE DECIDED THAT THE DISCRETION OF THE COURT ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, CONSTRUCTION IS LIMITED ONE YEAR AND MAXIMUM YEARS PER BASE WILL NOT EXCEED THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF YEARS CARBON STATE LAW, WHICH IS TWO YEARS.
SO I MEAN THAT'S PRETTY BROAD, YOU KNOW, SO, AND I THINK THAT, AND I, THIS WAS CHANGED.
THE ONE TIME THERE WAS A PROJECTS ABOVE A CERTAIN NUMBER AND THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO, BUT I JUST REMEMBER SOMETIME IT WAS THREE OR FOUR OR 5 MILLION.
WELL THE LAST ONE WE APPROVED AS COMMISSIONER FORTER AT LEAST WAS IN 2003.
I DON'T THERE'S BEEN ANY OTHERS SINCE THEN OR NOT.
REMEMBER THE COUNTY CHANGED THAT PORTION IN 2008.
YOU KNOW, I MEAN ANY, IT GIVES YOU THE ABILITY TO, IN MY OPINION, GRANT ANYBODY THAT YOU WANT ANY SIZE OF PROJECT AND THAT MIGHT BE WHAT YOU WANT.
'CAUSE WHAT IF YOU HAD A REALLY GOOD COMPANY? IT'S A FOUR AND A HALF MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT.
YOU KNOW, THEY SAY WE'RE GOING AND YOU DON'T GIVE US THIS.
ALRIGHT, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? I WOULD MOVE THAT WE ACCEPT THIS ABATEMENT PENDING JOHN'S APPROVAL OF THE AGREEMENT.
OKAY, LET ALLOW AUTHORITY TO SIGN PENDING HIS APPROVAL, LEGAL APPROVAL OF AGREEMENT.
IF WE DON'T HAVE THAT, HAVE A MOTION FROM UH, COMMISSIONER ROW, A SECOND FROM THE COMMISSIONER JACKSON.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
UH, DISCUSS AND ACT ON LINE ITEM TRANSFER.
WHY DON'T WE TAKE ABOUT ANOTHER FIVE MINUTE BREAK AND THEN WE'LL GET STARTED DOING THAT.
HEY JERRY, YOUR VOICE CHANGED, RIGHT?
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YOU DISCUSS AND ACT ON LINE ITEM TRANSFER? YES SIR.IN GENERAL GOVERNMENT WE'RE INCREASING UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, 50,000 PRODUCTION TO HEALTH INSURANCE SAFETY ONE INCREASE BONDS $100.
TRAINING SAFETY, TWO INCREASE OFFICE SUPPLIES, 180 DUCTION OF CONSTABLE PRECINCT.
TWO INCREASED BONDS, $39 PRODUCTION OF TRAINING SHERIFF'S FUND INCREASED RADIO REPAIRS, 7,000 AND DUE IS 200 WITH PRODUCTION OF PARTS AND REPAIRS.
WE JUST, UH, REALLOCATED $20,000 HALF AND HALF TO THE 86TH QUARTER.
INDIGENT HEALTHCARE, UH, INCREASED RETIREMENT, $950 REDUCTION OF SOCIAL SECURITY ROAD BRIDGE TWO, INCREASE ANNUAL CLEANUP, REDUCTION OF LUMBER COSTS, ROAD BRIDGE FOUR, INCREASE ANNUAL CLEANUP UP 5,000 WITH ION OF ROAD MATERIALS.
UH, AND WE HAVE A-I-C-B-P GRANT, WHICH I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT THAT STANDS FOR ANYMORE.
UH, MOVING 11 $50 EXTRA HELP SOCIAL SECURITY AND INSURANCE.
BUT HAVE ANY QUESTION THAT INCREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT? YES.
SO IS THAT ABOVE THAT FOUR 50 THAT WE WERE ALREADY SPOKEN ABOUT? THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, UH, WORKER'S COMP.
YOU JUST HEALTH INSURANCE? YES.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I A, I DID CHANGE, MADE A MOTION WHILE
ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE LINE.
A VOTE OPPOSED? ALRIGHT, ITEM NUMBER, UH, 14 IS TO DISCUSS AND ACT
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SPOKE TOO SOON.DID YOU SPOKE TOO SOON? PAYMENT NUMBER 46.
HOW LONG IS THIS? YOU NEED TO TELL ME IF I MISSED ANYTHING.
YOU GETTING READY ALL THESE CHECKS BACK TO THE SCHOOL.
MUST BE YOU COULD YOUR COME? ALRIGHT, WELL I, I JUST SAW HIM GONE AND I THOUGHT, MAN, I TOLD HIM I BUT YOU GAVE IT TO 26,000.
WE CAN MAYBE GET THE CABINET BACK UP, PUT THE OTHER DOORS BACK IN.
ALRIGHT, I'LL SEE IT A LITTLE BIT.
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7 65 69.WELL, WHENEVER I CIRCLED UP RIGHT THERE AT THAT TIME WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT.
WE DIDN'T HAVE THE BACKUP TO IT.
COMFORTABLE? YEAH, MY GUY'S NAME WAS BUT DIDN'T BUY.
THAT'S WHY WE MAKE SURE THEY'RE ALL YOURS.
I IS THIS COMMISSIONER RESIGNED IN JOHNSON COUNTY HOME DEPOT CREDIT CARD CHARGE CODE CHARGED ZERO ZERO.
I MEAN HARDLY ANY MONEY AT ALL.
AND AGAIN, JOHN MATTHEW PRESIDENT, THEY REALLY COULDN'T FIND THIS ONE POOL IN THE CAN
YEAH, NO I FRANK WAS OFF ON VACATION.
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GOING SOMEWHERE ELSE.GOT, HE'S SELF TREATING HIMSELF I GUESS.
BE A SEARCH FIRM WOULD THAT WOULDN'T BE A SENT YOU WOULDN'T PUT THAT ON RESUME WOULD NO, THEY DID.
THEY SENT US A PROPOSAL TO SUBMIT TWO OR THREE OTHER JOBS GOING, I'M NOT WORKING.
LIKE THEY HAD THE SAME SEARCH FIRM.
WHAT'S THAT THING WITH IT? YOUNG GIRL THAT WAS KIDNAPPED BY THEY GUY.
THE UH, THE STATE PEOPLE CAME BY THERE 60 TIMES ALL THAT TIME.
GRANTED SHE'S IN ANOTHER BUILDING OUT, SOMEBODY CALLED IN AND SAID SHE GOES YESTERDAY.
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TAKE THAT.HERE'S THE GUY BEEN LOOKING FOR RIGHT HERE.
WHAT YOU SAY THAT DOWN TO WHERE IT WAS LIKE THIS? DOWN AT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE? NO, AT SOME OF 'EM AT THE COURTHOUSE.
BUT I TALKED TO WHEN SHE SAID ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, IN THE SUMMERTIME IF YOU MOW YOUR GRASS THAT TALL IT MAKES FOR HEALTHIER GRASS.
WE TOLD HER TO MOW IT THREE INCHES.
YEAH, IT NEEDS, NEEDS TO BE RAISED UP.
ONE THING ABOUT THAT MONTHLY REPORT I'VE BEEN COMING, I THINK I PUT IT DOWN AT THE BOTTOM, BUT THAT'S JUST DEPOSITS.
THERE'S INCLUDE THOSE, BUT THEY KIND OUT, I'M TELLING YOU THAT IS DIFFERENT REPORTS BECAUSE NO, WE'RE WELL PROBABLY WOULDN'T GO INTO THAT ACCOUNT, TRANSFERRED THAT TO THEY,
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BUT I DON'T, AND I MAY BE OVERLOOKING BUT CONSIDERING EVERYTHING ELSE, YOU STILL, I MADE UP, I MADE UP FOR I THEY'RE GONNA INVESTIGATION.WELL THIS I TELL YOU WHAT ON THE CURRENT TAXES, A WHOLE LIST OF REDUCTION.
THE POINT JUST TO HELP THE, I'LL LET YOU ASK, IS THAT JUST LESS FILINGS? YES.
WE MAY NOT MAKE TOLD THE JP KNOW THEY I KNOW INTERSTATE.
WHO DID WE SEND TO DISNEYLAND? I DUNNO WHO WON? I COURT HAS SECURITY GOT TWO.
I WHERE PRECINCT TWO? THEY DID THEY UH, PRECINCT.
THE TWO COURTHOUSE SECURITY GUYS.
THAT WAS THE ONLY, UH, IT IT'S THE ONLY PLACE THEY COULD GO AND GET THE UPDATE ON COURTHOUSE SECURITY AND THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE DISTRICT RECOMMENDED.
WAS IT LANE WAS ORLANDO? IT WAS AT THE RESORT.
YEAH, BUT IT WAS NOT THEY MISSED IT THOUGH, DIDN'T THEY? THEY DIDN'T GO.
THEY HAVEN'T SEEN I HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET.
I HOLLERED WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE A DISCUSSION.
SO THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE THE SCHOOL WAS.
YEAH, IT IS A NATIONAL SCHOOL AND THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE IT WAS THIS YEAR.
THEY CALLED ME AND CAME IN AND EXPLAINED IT TO HIM AND I SAID, YEAH, I'M SURE WE'LL HAVE QUESTIONS.
CALL IT AT THE FOUR X MOTEL, FOUR Z.
BUT WAS IT A MANDATED TRAINING THEY HAD TO HAVE? I THINK SO.
I I BELIEVE THAT WAS THE EXPLANATION THAT, THAT THEY GAVE AND THE SHERIFF IS PICKING UP ALL OTHER EXPENSES.
COURTHOUSE SECURITY IS PAYING FOR YEAH, THE HOTEL AND TWO OR THREE OF THEM AND THEN TWO OF THEM.
I DUNNO IF WE PUT OR CHECK ON THAT OR NOT.
BUT COURSE SECURITY IS PICKING UP HOTEL AND REGISTRATION.
WHAT ATION REGISTRATION IN HOTEL.
SHERIFFS PICK UP, STOP THESE PEOPLE AND LET THESE COME THROUGH.
I DON'T THINK IT INCLUDES ANY RIDES.
NOT A WEEK LONG PASS IS WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO SAY.
IT WASN'T IN THE DOCUMENTATION.
ARE Y'ALL AWARE? I WANT TELL YOU
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TOGETHER.YEAH, I I'M GONNA GO THROUGH IT.
SO POSTED UNLESS I FIND OUT Y'ALL GOT ARRESTED DWI AGAIN.
YEAH, THAT'S HAD ONE WHILE HE WAS OUT BEING CHARGED FOR THE OTHER ONE DIDN'T HE? WHILE HE WAS UNDER INVESTIGATION FROM THE OTHER ONE.
HE'S ONE JUST TRYING TO HELP YOU OUT.
I APPRECIATE ALL THE I COULD GET AND I HEARD THEY WERE LOOKING FOR POLICY TO TO, THAT'S THE GOT EQUIPMENT STILL DOWN IN OLD, I WAS THINKING BRANCHING OUT DOING OFFICE SURGERY OR WHATEVER.
AIRPLANE WE HAD SWEAT IT OUT BEFORE AND THE AIR CONDITIONER WAS GONE.
WELL THIS AFTERNOON WE JUST KIND OF, EVERYBODY'S KIND OF THOUGHTS TOGETHER.
NINE, THEY PROBABLY EXPECT 39, 32 THAT I GONNA A CLAIM ON IF WE'RE SUPPOSED TO JUST AUTOMATICALLY APPROVE THE CITY'S TAX.
WHY WE TO WELL THAT'S HOW THEY SET.
I DO WE NEED TO THE WHOLE TAX THING.
THE ONLY CONCERN I HAVE, IF WE DON'T DO A TAX, I WOULD PAY FOR US TO LOSE A PRETTY GOOD SIZE INDUSTRY.
WELL THIS PARTICULAR BUT WOULD YOU WANT NOT WANT TO APPROVE IT JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE OUT THERE DOING THE DIRT? WELL ONE REASON IS TO MAKE SURE THEY CUT.
I SURE DON'T WANT TO DO SOMETHING THAT WOULD CAUSE US TO BE THE ONE THAT RUNS THEM OFF.
WELL I THINK STILL NEGOTIATION SO THEY PROBABLY COULD RUN THEM OFF.
I DO THINK COMMUNICATION PEOPLE THREE TIMES A TRAVEL THAT, BUT WE PROBABLY NEED TO TALK WITH OTHER COUNTIES, PARTICULARLY WITH ED COUNTY, WITH UH, HUNT COUNTY.
I THINK OUR, I THINK THE BIG COUNTY HUNT COUNTY.
PROBABLY HILL COUNTY BECAUSE OF THE JOHNSON COUNTY.
BUT THAT THING YOU WERE READING SAID REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND THEN DOWN THERE LATER IN THE BODY IT SAYS UH, UH, INVENTORY INELIGIBLE IN ELIGIBLE.
THAT DOES AND THAT WAS ON THE SAME PAGE REALLY ON OUR YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I, THAT'S WHAT I PROBLEM BECAUSE OUR PROBLEM SAYS INELIGIBLE PROPERTY LISTED AND IT SAYS INVENTORY INELIGIBLE.
YEAH, BUT IT SAYS PERSONAL PROPERTY BUSINESS, PERSONAL PROPERTY IS NEGOTIATED WHAT THEY'RE TALKING FOR.
WHY WOULD UH, PROPERTY INELIGIBLE WHAT THE INELIGIBLE THE POLICY BECAUSE BY LAW IS POSSESS.
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YEAH, JEFF AND HE LOOKED UP, SAID HE SAID, YEAH, THEY CAN DO THAT.HE SAID YOU CAN DO THAT LEGALLY FIRST IN, WELL NOBODY WANTS TO DO IT SO THERE'S GUARANTEED SOMEBODY OUT THERE IS GONNA DO IT BAD HAVING DO HEY, I'D LOVE TO HAVE ONE TO DO IN PRECINCT ONE TOO.
WELL WE MAY GET A WALMART 30 MILLION ALL 12.
YOU THINK THE WALMART THING'S LOOKING PRETTY GOOD? THEY THINK SO AROUND HERE.
THEY, THE WALMART STILL OUT HERE WHERE, UH, LEE AND CURTIS AND ALL THAT ANYWAY.
IT HURT SOME OF THEM, BUT THE REST OF THAT'S ALL CONCRETE.
BUT YOU CAN'T GIVE UP THAT MUCH.
JUST STORE THE SIZE BUILDING THE SAME SIZE.
OH IS IT RIGHT THERE? THE STORE IS A YEAR IN SALES.
THEY BE THE BIGGEST GROCER ROC DOOR NEXT DOOR THEY'LL BE YEAH.
YOU KNOW IF YOU WANNA BE COMPETITIVE, YOU BE NEXT.
WE DON'T HAVE TO BUILD ANY MORE BRIDGES OVER ANY OF THAT S**T.
THIS MAY TAKE A LITTLE TURNAROUND OR SOMETHING, BUT A DRIVEWAY FIND THEY GOT REAL STUFF GOING ON OVER THERE NOW.
IT CAN'T BE THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE ANYMORE.
YEAH, THEY'VE ALREADY, SO WATER WITH CENTERS REALLY? THEY THAT UP FOUR, FIVE FEET DOWN.
MITCHELL GET ALL OF HIS WHEAT, GOT A FEW ACRES, 600 ACRES, ALL THE STUFF TOP DOWN.
GO AND I MAY JUST, I'VE GOT A DOCTOR APPOINTMENT OVER AND EARLY BUT UH, I THOUGHT MAYBE I WANTED DO IT OR NOT.
I WAS GONNA MAKE A REQUEST TO DO THAT.
MATTER OF FACT, I TOLD MOORE I WANTED DO IT IN JULY.
AND HE SAID HE'LL GIVE THAT INFORMATION.
I GOT THE EMAIL BACK THIS MORNING.
I JUST THINK IT'D BE GOOD AS A MATTER RECORD.
OH YEAH, YOU DID, UH, DID COMING FROM WHAT FOR I SIR THAT IT WAS SOME MONEY, SOME FROM EITHER CARD OR STAR CARD? NO, IT TEXAS COUNCIL.
THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH US.
THE COUNTY COURT ON THERE, THEY GOT
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DOES REAL GOOD JOB THERE.SHE GOT LIKE $900 AND NOBODY, SHE JUST DID TRANSPORTATION AND SO TO KIND, KIND LIKE THAT.
THEY'RE STILL EIGHT UNUSED IT NOW.
I WOULD NOT IF IT, IF THEY DON'T GET TO THIS
BE POST A NOTICE ON THE DOOR THAT WE IT OVER.
CAN YOU DO THAT'S SOME KIND OF TIME.
YOU MEAN THEY HAVE BEFORE? YEAH, I DID TOO.
I AFTER YOU SAID THAT, BUT I, I THINK WE HAD TO DO THAT ONE TIME BEFORE AND THERE WAS SOMETHING EMERGENCY.
THE YOU'RE NOT GONNA JAIL THOUGH, RIGHT? US? I DID.
IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S, IF THEY OFFERED ME TRAINING AT DISNEYLAND, I BELIEVE I'D JUST HAVE TO TURN IT DOWN.
I WOULD PUT THAT ON YOUR UH, I CAN SEE.
THIS IS WHERE GET TRAINED PROFESSIONALLY.
CAN'T THERE ONE HELL ABOUT I THINK EVEN LAST YEAR MAYBE, WHERE THE SHERIFF SENT SIX PEOPLE FROM SEATTLE.
THAT SOUND GOOD? I THINK FIRST.
LEMME LOOK THIS OVER, RIGHT? Y'ALL GOING BUT EVERYBODY JUST LOOKING FOR, I'M TRYING TO MEMORIZE.
TRYING TO MEMORIZE YOU AND JC BOTH Y'ALL GET IT OVER THERE AND TALK ABOUT IT.
I'LL LET YOU, I'LL LET YOU GO AND ASK WHICH ONES GOOFY.
WHO WENT? I'LL GO ASK HIM RIGHT NOW.
WHO'S GOING? WELL MAYBE, MAYBE LATER.
THEY'RE IN CHARGE OF I'M NOT GONNA BET ON THAT.
I BE, THERE IS, THERE'S SOME KINDS THAT TAKE YOU PUT IN EVERY PLACE YOU GOING TO GO BEFORE THE BUDGET EVER APPROVED.
AND SO DIDN'T THEY BE IN THAT BUDGET BUDGET HERE NEXT MONTH? I DUNNO.
IT WOULDN'T RAISE YOUR EYEBROWS UP TO YOU WOULDN.
WHAT IS GW G WOOD GROUP? PEOPLE SEE I CAN'T BURN, BURN MY MYWE AND STUFF THAT I, SO I HAD TO GET MINE CHIPPED UP.
THAT'S 10,000 WORTH CHIPPING UP.
THAT WILL BE A SUBJECT OF YEAH.
OH, YOU MEAN ON THE CLEANUP, CLEANUP STUFF.
DO THEY GRIND BIG STUFF AND ALL THAT, THAT GRIND EVERYTHING? WELL, I PROBABLY COULD HAVE GOT IT A LITTLE BIT CHEAPER IF I DIDN'T HAVE TO HAUL IT OFF.
I DIDN'T HAUL IT OFF TOO BECAUSE I DIDN'T, I MEAN, I CAN'T GIVE AWAY.
MARILYN, MARILYN WON'T TAKE EXTRA COMPOST INPOST CITY THEN, RIGHT? SHE MIGHT BE BECAUSE THE CITY, THE CITY OF ONTARIO DIDN'T HAVE THEIRS AND THEY GOT OUT THERE.
YOU GUYS GETTING US GETTING US GOING?
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YES SIR.CAN WE GET Y'ALL SALES NUMBER BEFORE YOU LEAVE? WELL, ALRIGHT GUYS.
ANY, WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM? I THINK CHILI'S MAKING GOOD WATER.
THE, UH, FAN, THE BELTS ON THE FAN.
REALLY, REALLY, REALLY LITTLE SLIP.
THAT'S WHY I FELT LIKE COLD AIR.
WHICH YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY AIR FLOW.
I SURE YOU, I THE ARE THE BEDS JUST OLD AND STRETCH.
UH, JUST OVER TIME THEY STRETCH OUT AND THEY HAVE TO BE ADJUSTED.
I TIED TIGHTEN THE MOTOR UP AND YOU'RE GOOD.
I WOULD BE GOOD FOR LONGER THAN THAT.
THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE YOU WANT YOURSELF
GOING A MOTION TO, UH, PAY THE BILL.
COMMISSIONER ROW MAKES THAT MOTION.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
THOSE OPPOSED EVEN A MOTION TO ADJOURN.
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OH.HOW ARE YOU? I HAVE AN ISSUE ON A DEED.
IT GIVES ME PAGE NUMBER, BUT IT'S NOT GIVING ME HOLD ON.
UH, THE DEED RECORDS THAT THE OLD ONES, YOU HAVE TO PRINT 'EM EACH INDIVIDUAL.
IT'S TOLD ME THERE'S NO THERE, BUT I KNOW THE DOCTOR.
BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S, BUT I KNOW.
WHERE ARE YOU AT? I HADN'T SIGNED, I HADN'T, I PULLED IT IN TODAY.
LEMME GET, OKAY, LET'S SEE WHAT WE GOT HERE.
WHAT, WHAT PAGE IS IT? PAGE DRAWING.
AND THIS IS THE PART THAT I THE FIRST, YEAH.