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AND I, UH, BUT AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND WE'LL BEGIN WITH THEN WE'LL HAVE, UH, BOTH P TO THE TEXAS FLAG.
AND YOU JOIN MOST GRACIOUS HEAVEN.
FATHER, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US TODAY.
THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN THAT YOU PROVIDED OUR COUNTY.
WE THANK YOU FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR CITIZENS AND WE THANK YOU FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR, UH, COMMUNITIES, UH, AS WELL AS THE ORDERS OF FOR THE BLESSINGS THAT YOU PROVIDE US WITH THE RAIN THAT YOU PROVIDED.
UH, UH, THE FACT THAT WE LIVE IN THE, UH, THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE, IN THE WORLD, AND THE FACT THAT WE TAKE MANY OF THE BLESSINGS THAT YOU PROVIDE US FOR, UH, FOR GRANTED SOMETIMES.
LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR GRACE AND UH, WE PRAY NOW AS WE GO THROUGH THIS MEETING, THAT UH, YOU'LL PROVIDE US WITH THE WISDOM, UH, TO ENTER INTO GOOD DISCUSSION AND MAKE GOOD DECISIONS FOR, UH, KAUFMAN COUNTY, TEXAS.
I NEW THE A OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, THE INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
I LED TENNESSEE OF TEXAS ONE DAY UNDER GOD, ONE AN INDIVISIBLE.
DOES ANYONE ELSE SIGN UP? I DIDN'T.
I SIGNED THIS, BUT PEOPLE THAT ARE HERE TODAY TO ADDRESS THE COURT, WE'LL BEGIN WITH CHRISTIE SILER, UH, FROM UH, HOFF COUNTY ROAD 3 4 1 41.
I'M SORRY, WHO WISHES TO ADDRESS THE COURT ON SITUATION? YOU COME UP WITH NAME AGAIN.
I LIVE ON THE COUNTY ROAD ONE FOUR.
OVER THE LAST 12 YEARS WE'VE HAD LITTLE MAJOR REPAIRS.
THIS COUNTY WAITS UNTIL PAS ARE SO LARGE IN SIZE THAT ONLY THE ONLY WAY TO DRIVE ON A ROAD IS PART GRASS.
WHEN THE COUNTY FINALLY FITS THE, IS THE FIRST WORD RANGE, THE HOSE COME RIGHT BACK.
OVER 50% OF OUR GO IS MADE OF PATCHES.
THIS IS REALLY BAD WEAR AND TEAR ON OUR CARS.
MY LAST TRADE IN WAS COVERED WITH THE STUFF THEY PUT, WHICH IS COMPLETELY COVERED.
I'M ASKING FOR THIS ROAD TO BE DRIVABLE WITHOUT DAMAGING MY CAR.
PLEASE ADD IT TO THE BUDGET FOR ROAD REPAIRS.
THIS ROAD IS LESS THAN TWO MILES.
I HAVE WATCHED ALL THE ROADS AROUND US GET REPAIRED, BUT FOR SOME REASON THIS ROAD IS LEFT OUT.
I HAVE CALLED FOR OVER 10 YEARS TO GET HELP, BUT I FEEL I'M BEING IGNORED.
IT IS ALWAYS THE SAME REASON, MONEY NOT IN THE BUDGET.
THERE IS A BLIND S-CURVE ON THE ONE END OF OUR ROAD WITH WITHOUT ANY SIGN OF SAYING THAT YOU CANNOT SEE.
THIS IS THE SAME AT THE END OF 1 41 IN EDMOND ROAD COLLEGE.
WATER HAS DONE SEVERAL REPAIRS, BUT THEY DIG UP THE ROAD AND LEAVE THE MESS FOR THE RESIDENTS TO DRIVE OVER.
I KNOW THERE ARE OTHER ROADS THAT ARE IN BAD SHAPE.
THAT IS WHY ASKING YOU TO INCREASE THE FUNDS FOR ROAD REPAIRS THAT WOULD MAKE THE ROAD SAFE TO DRIVE ON.
PLEASE GIVE, GIVE CONSIDERATION ON THIS MATTER.
I HAVE, MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF THIS COUNTY OUR WHOLE LIVES.
WE ARE HOMEOWNERS BUT ASHAMED TO HAVE OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS COME TO OUR HOME BECAUSE OF THE ROAD CONDITIONS.
I DON'T WANNA DAMAGE THEIR FOREST.
FOR ALL THE MONEY THAT HAS BEEN SPENT HATCHING FOR OVER THE LAST 12 YEARS, THIS ROAD CAN BEEN REPAIRED CORRECTLY AND MADE IT SAFER.
HOW BAD DOES A ROAD NEED TO BE BEFORE YOU FINALLY HEAR IT CORRECTLY? THAT'S ALL I HAVE.
WE'RE, SINCE IT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA, WE'RE NOT, UH,
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SUPPOSED TO RESPOND.I KNOW, BUT I JUST WANTED YOU TO HEAR MY QUESTION AND ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY, VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE THIS MORNING.
NEXT ONE IS JIM MCCM, ALSO COUNTY.
MY WIFE DID ONE OF THOSE TIME SPOTS IN THE ROAD AND I'VE GOT A BAD IN CAR RIGHT NOW, MY CAR AND WE CAN'T KEEP BUYING YOUR CARS OR WHATEVER IT WOULD TAKE, YOU KNOW, SO I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO GET THE MONEY APPROPRIATED SO THAT WE COULD GET THE ROADS FIXED.
UH, COMMISSIONER WAS TELLING ME THAT THERE'S NO MONEY TO FIX THE EQUIPMENT, TO FIX THE ROADS, AND SO WE NEED TO MAINTAIN THE EQUIPMENT AND OTHER THAN THAT, I DON'T HAVE MUCH MORE TO SAY.
APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE THIS MORNING.
NEXT IS JERRY ROSS WHO LIVES ON COUNTY ROAD.
UH, OR I'M SORRY, FARM MARKET ROAD 1 48.
I LIVE AT 1 5 7 6 5 SOUTH FM 1 48, CURRY, TEXAS.
I'M ALSO THE PRESIDENT OF WIND AND LIFE MINISTRY, WHICH IS A MINISTRY ESTABLISHED AS A NONPROFIT IN INSTEAD OF TEXAS.
SOLE PURPOSE IS, UH, PROVIDE HOUSING FOR VETERANS AND HOUSING FOR FAMILIES TO QUALIFY TO BCPS PARENTS.
UH, WE HAVE SUBMITTED A MASTER PLAN TO TOM MANNING FOR, FOR THIS PROJECT.
AND IT CAME BACK, UH, TWO WEEKS AGO THAT WE HAD TO COMPLY WITH THE SUBDIVISION RULES, WHICH WOULD MAKE IT EXTREMELY COST PROHIBITIVE FOR US.
AND I WOULD REQUEST A MEETING WITH YOUR HONOR AND THE FULL BOARD TO MAKE A PRESENTATION FOR THIS PROJECT AND REQUEST A VARIANCE SO WE COULD BUILD THIS FACILITY.
UH, YOU'RE NOT AWARE THAT WE WERE IN WACO WITH THE VA.
UH, LAST WEEK, UH, JUST IN THE NEXT THREE TO SIX MONTHS, THERE'S GONNA BE OVER 53,000 SERVICEMEN DISCHARGE FROM FORT HOOD.
THAT'S JUST IN ONE, ONE SESSION.
UH, AND I'VE SEEN THE CONDITIONS IN THE CPS SYSTEM.
WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR STATE SENATOR AND STATE CONGRESSMAN TO COME UP WITH GUIDELINES TO QUALIFY THESE PARENTS FOR THIS WEEK.
HOUSING THE FACILITY IS APPROXIMATELY 20 ACRES, WHICH I OWN, WHICH I'LL BE DONATING TO THE MINISTRY.
UH, FOUR AND A HALF ACRES PLUS IS GOING BE DEDICATED TO A COMMON RECREATIONAL FACILITY, WHICH WE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC BAY APPOINTMENT, WHICH WILL INCLUDE A PAVILION, A COMMUNITY BUILDING, A PLAYGROUND FOR CHILDREN, THE PICNIC AREA AND A CAMP UP THERE.
UH, LIKE I SAID, REQUEST A MEETING TO GET A VARIANCE TO GO OVER THIS, THIS, THIS FACILITY WITH THE BOARD AND SEE IF THERE'S SOME WAY WE CAN COME TO AGREEMENT.
UH, THE NEXT PERSON WOULD BE, I BELIEVE WILMA LEY FROM COUNTY ROAD OH NINE.
UM, YOU'RE GONNA GO TO BASICALLY THE SAME TIME EVERYBODY ELSE IS IN OUR RULES ARE CONDITION.
I MEAN PINE ROAD GOING ON, IT'S SO BAD.
AND I CALLED COME OUT RIGHT ABOUT A MILE THAT IS PACKED AND THEY PATCHED IT SO MUCH.
WHEN YOU HIT THE GRAVEL, WHICH IS ABOUT A HUNDRED FEET FROM MY DRIVEWAY, IT'S LIKE A WASH PARK.
IT JUST SHOWED ME AS YOUR CAR.
MY HUSBAND'S HAD TWO WHEEL ALIGNMENTS.
I'VE HAD ONE, I'VE HAD A CUT TIRE BECAUSE I HAVE TO DRIVE IN THE DITCH TO GET THROUGH.
'CAUSE MY CAR IS SMALL AND IT JUST FAST RIGHT OFF THE ROAD.
IT IS DANGEROUS TO DRIVE ON THESE ROADS.
SOMEBODY HAS GOT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEM.
BUT TO BE VERY TRUTHFUL, MY HUSBAND AND I BOTH ARE THINGS ABOUT MOVING ON A KAUFMAN BECAUSE, AND I KNOW WE'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT'S GOT BAD ROAD,
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BUT WE'RE JUST, WE'RE TIRED OF.I HAVE TO SAY THEY DO RESPOND WHEN I CALL ME, COME OUT AND BREAD IT, BUT THEY HAVE NO MONEY TO ACTUALLY FIX IT.
SO WE HAVE GOT TO DO SOME OF THIS.
UH, NEXT ITEM, OUR NEXT PERSON IS MAYOR DERICK'S.
GOT, UH, FROM POST OPEN BEN, LIKE TO COME AND TALK WITH US.
UH, YEAH, I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY THE SAME THING.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE A CITY OUT THERE AND WE HAVE FIVE SUBDIVISIONS OUT THERE THAT GOT BIG NICE HOME ZONE AND I KNOW THEY PAYING A LOT OF TAXES ON.
I'VE BEEN OUT THERE SINCE 61 AND WE HAVE ABOUT FOUR AND A HALF MILES THAT'S IN THE CITY, BUT THE COUNTY ALWAYS HELPED US OUT ON TAKE CARE OF 'EM.
WE HAVE PEOPLE DRIVING THE SAME THING.
AND I'D LIKE TO SEE, UM, GO BACK AND LIKE IT WAS FOUR YEARS AGO AND GIVE THE COMMISSION MORE MONEY SPENT ON THESE DRUGS.
NEXT IS RONALDS, UH, FROM COUNTY ROAD 1 0 7.
DID YOU STATED, UH, MY CONCERNS HAVE BEEN ABOUT THE ROADS.
UH, DIFFERENT COMMISSIONERS HAVE HAD DIFFERENT STORIES ABOUT IT ALL BOILED DOWN THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY OR THE EQUIPMENT CAN'T STAY REPAIRED OR I HAVE TO BORROW EQUIPMENT FROM ANOTHER PRECINCT.
UH, YOU KNOW, YOU ALWAYS HEAR RUMORS AND I DUNNO WHAT THE RUMORS ARE TRUE OR FALSE, BUT I'VE ALSO HEARD THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF POLICE OFFICERS AND YOU KNOW, DON'T GET ME WRONG, I I APPRECIATE OUR DEPUTIES MORE THAN YOU KNOW, BUT IF THERE'S MORE SQUAD CARS THAN THERE ARE POLICE OFFICERS, WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH THAT? UH, MAYBE WE NEED MORE POLICE OFFICERS.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IF THE ROADS WERE IN BETTER SHAPE, THE DESTRUCTION TO THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT BE NEAR AS GREAT.
AND WE, WE TALKED ABOUT ROADS.
THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT OPINION ON HOW TO PROPERTY DO A ROAD.
WE WERE TOLD WHEN WE BUILT THIS PLACE SEVEN YEARS AGO, THEY HANDED ME A FORM LETTER.
IT'S THE SAME ONE THAT TDOT GIVES OUT.
AND IT IS, I BUILT ANOTHER PLACE, DID THE SAME FORM LITTER.
AND AS I EXPLAINED TO COMMISSIONERS AT THAT TIME, YOU HAVE DRY WATER CROSSING.
THAT'S WHERE ALL YOUR NEIGHBORS ON BOTH SIDES DON'T HAVE A COVER.
AND IT'S GOT A VERY SLOW SIX TO SEVEN INCH DITCH AND YOU DON'T HAVE A CODE.
THE COMMISSIONERS AT THAT TIME SAID, IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT YOU SAY OR YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT AS WE TELL YOU TO DO IT.
AND IF YOU DON'T DO IT, WE'RE NOT GONNA LET YOU MOVE IN.
SO WE HIRED A MAN TO PUT IN THE 16 INCH CULVERT AND I SAID, OKAY, NOW WE GOT OUR CULVERTS IN, LIKE YOU SAY, THE FOUR INCH CLEARANCE FROM THE CULVERT TO THE, THE FINISH EDGE OF YOUR ROAD.
NOW WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO ABOUT MOSQUITO POND? UH, IT TOOK THREE YEARS BECAUSE THEY SAID THE GRAY.
YEAH, THE GRAY OFF WAS ON LOAN TO THIS ONE IN LL AND IT JUST, IT BROKE DOWN.
IT'S BEEN BROKE DOWN A YEAR AND A HALF.
AT SOME POINT YOU GOTTA HAVE A, I MEAN I KNOW OUR POCKETS ARE NOT REAL DEEP ON MINE ARE, BUT AT SOME POINT YOU GOTTA SAY, WELL THIS NEEDS TO BE REPAIRED PROPERLY AND MAYBE IT'LL LAST MORE THAN SIX MONTHS.
UH, DON'T BRING A SMALL FOLKS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR. SPRINGS.
UH, NEXT IS DIANA COLE FROM COUNTY ROAD 2 45.
I BELIEVE IT'S DIANA, IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT.
HUSBAND COUNTY ROAD 2 45, 32 YEARS, 32 YEARS BEEN COMPLETELY RESURFACED.
AND THIS IS NOT MY FIRST RODEO WITH THIS CIRCUMSTANCE, BUT ANYWAY, UM, I'M TRYING HOW LONG THIS AGAIN, I'M NOT REAL SURE YOU PROBABLY KNOW WHERE I, BUT RIGHT
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DOWN THE ROAD FROM ME, A MAN PASSED AWAY IN THE WEEK HE PASSED AWAY.HIS SON STRUGGL BIG IN THAT PROPERTY.
AND WHEN I SAW IT, I ALREADY BEEN THROUGH THE CIRCUMSTANCE.
SO I GOT ON THE PHONE AND I CALLED Y'ALL'S OFFICE AND I SAID, LOOK, THEY'RE DIGGING DOWN THERE, THEY'RE GETTING USED, START HOLDING SAND OUT THERE, THEY'RE GONNA DESTROY OUR ROAD.
AND WAS THEN, AND THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY COULDN'T KEEP THE PERSON FROM MAKING A LIVING.
AND I SAID, I DON'T WANNA KEEP HIM FROM MAKING A LIVING.
I WANT NEED TO REPAIR THE ROADS.
HE'S BIG, HUGE 18 WHEELER ROCK IN SAND.
WELL, IT'S DONE AND UH, I'VE GOT, I'VE GOT A PETITION HERE, UM, WHO I NEED TO GIVE IT TO.
BUT WE PAY BIG TAXES AND I FIGURE OUT, I GIVE THIS TO, WE CERTAINLY NEED HELP.
AND THE SAND THAT THEY'RE FALLING OUT OF THERE IS GOING TO AAA SAND AND THEY'RE MAKING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AT OUR EXPENSE AND I DON'T CARE WHO FIXES THE ROAD.
ALRIGHT, NICK B FOREST MILLER FROM COUNTY ROAD 1 36 77, 33 COUNTY ROAD, 1 36 COUNTY ROAD 1 36 RUNS BETWEEN, UH, FIRE BLOCK 27 28 AND UH, WILSON ROAD, UH, INTERCHANGE WITH 20 PART OF THAT ROAD IS DIRT.
I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT AN ALL WEATHER ROAD.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT HAS TO BE PAVED.
BUT THE REASON FOR THAT IS, I MEAN, IF YOU GO FROM 27, 28 TO LENGTH IS TWO, TWO AND A HALF MILES.
IF YOU GO AROUND, YOU HAVE TO GO AROUND BY AVENUE OR YOU HAVE TO GO AROUND BY 20, THAT'S FIVE MILES.
SO THAT'S TWICE AS MUCH FOR ME.
OF COURSE IT'S BETTER BECAUSE IT'S 1.9 MILES FROM WHERE I LIVE.
SO IT'S LIKE A THREE TIMES IMPROVEMENT SHORT PATH OF TOWN.
THE, THE RESPONSE TIME FOR AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE WOULD BE BETTER THAT, UH, GET HOME WHEN MY WIFE WHO HAS DIABETES HAD LOW BLOOD SUGAR AND I DIDN'T RECOGNIZE THIS LITTLE BLOOD SUGAR, I USUALLY DO AND I HAD TO CALL THE EMERGENCY VEHICLES.
IF THEY CAN'T USE THAT DIRT ROAD, IT TAKES THEM LONGER TO GET THERE.
AND I'M SURE THERE'S OTHER GEEZERS LIVING IN THAT AREA TOO, MY AGE THAT MIGHT NEED THAT RESPONSE BY TODAY.
THE SCHOOL BUS TAKES THAT DIRT ROAD NOW AND THERE'S, AND THERE'S PEOPLE LIVING HERE.
WE JUST, UH, BUILT A NEW RANCH THERE.
SO IF YOU CAN DO SOMETHING TO IMPROVE THAT DIRT ROAD, I MEAN THE PAVE ROAD NEEDS IMPROVE AS WELL, JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE SAY.
BUT IF YOU CAN DO SOMETHING TO IMPROVE THAT DIRT ROAD TOWARD MAKING IT AN ALL WEATHER ROAD, THAT'D BE HELPFUL.
OKAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR. MILLER.
NEXT IS, UH, STEVEN FROM COUNTY ROAD 1 36.
I'M GEEZER AND HE'S EXACTLY RIGHT.
WHEN IT RAINS THE LEAST LITTLE BIT, THAT DIRT ROAD BECOMES A POND AND WE LIVE JUST, UH, AHEAD OF THE POND.
AND IT'S NOT JUST THE EMERGENCY VEHICLES, IT'S PEOPLE TRYING TO GO TO WORK IS PEOPLE TRYING TO COME HOME FROM WORK MANY TIMES RIGHT AFTER A RAIN.
YOU CAN'T USE THAT ROAD, THAT DIRT PARK FOR TWO TO THREE DAYS IF YOU'RE LUCKY OR YOU'RE GOOFY AND GO AHEAD AND TRY TO GET THROUGH TO GET STUCK ON THAT ROAD.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES PEOPLE HAVE HAD TO BE PULLED OUT BY CANDY VEHICLES OR BY TOW TRUCKS OFF OF THAT ROAD BECAUSE IT IN, IT IS GUMBO CLAY.
IT'S NOT CCHI LIKE THE REST OF, UH, WILSON ROAD, NORTH OF INTERSTATE.
PLENTY WHERE YOU CAN ON THAT REGARDLESS OF THE WEATHER.
SO IT GETS, UH, VERY, VERY, IT ABSORBS THE WATER AND IT TURNS INTO A, A, A MUD POND SO FORTH.
SO, AND THEN AFTER THAT IT'S GOT DIRT, UH, RUTS IN THE ROAD AND THEN YOU SCRAPE THE BOTTOM OF YOUR CAR.
SO IT IS DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE'S CARS TO SURVIVE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE STATISTICS ARE ON OTHER PEOPLE'S, UH, REPAIRS TO THEIR CAR AND THEIR FRONT ENDS AND HAVING TO REPLACE
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PARTS OF THEIR CAR IS ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS.IT HAS A HIGH SAND CONTENT AND THAT THAT FITS THE METAL PARTS, THE CONNECTOR ON THE FRONT SUSPENSION AND, AND BALL JOINT SUSPENSIONS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND IT ALSO LIKES TO HEAT UP THE, UH, RUBBER JACKETS THAT COVER PARTS OF THE CAR LIKE THAT.
SO IT IT A LOT OF EXTRA EXPENSE OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME TO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THIS AREA WHEN THEY HAVE A, A GUMBO CLAY PART OF THE ROAD THAT THEY NEED TO USE, THAT THEY WANT TO TRY AND SAVE ON FUEL, SAVE ON TIME, SAVE ON OTHER KINDS OF EXPENSES AND TRY TO BE RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE FOR THE ATMOSPHERE.
UH, FOREST AND I RECYCLE THINGS.
WE'RE OLD, WE'RE RETIRED, WE HAVE TIME TO DO THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND I ALWAYS WORRY WHEN I DO HAVE A LOW BLOOD SUGAR ATTACK THAT HE IS VERY GOOD ABOUT TRYING TO WAKE ME UP AND SAVE MY LIFE AND UH, SO FORTH.
BUT I ALWAYS WORRY ABOUT AM I GOING TO HAVE TO TELL THE EMERGENCY PEOPLE YOU CAN'T USE COUNTY ROAD 1 36 'CAUSE YOU COME TO GET STUFF.
I KNOW AMBULANCES ARE DESIGNED TO BE MORE, UH, ALL WEATHER KIND OF VEHICLES, BUT IF THEY CAN'T GET THROUGH THAT GUMBO CLAY, THEY CAN'T GET THROUGH THE GUMBO CLAY AND THEN WHOSE LIFE THAT THEY SAY NOBODY.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S BASICALLY IT.
THAT ROAD HAS BEEN THAT WAY EVER SINCE WE'VE LIVED HERE.
AND THAT'S ONLY ABOUT NINE YEARS.
BUT I'M SURE IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOR ALL OF THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT HAVE LIVED IN THIS AREA.
OUR VIEW THE STATES A LOT LONGER THAN WE HAVE.
SO IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DONE TO UH, MAKE THAT, AS MY HUSBAND SAID, AN ALL WEATHER ROAD DOESN'T HAVE TO BE PAID BECAUSE GUMBO CLAY DOESN'T LIKE BEING PAID.
I THINK ABNER ROAD IS PAVED ON TOP OF GUMBO CLAY AND YOU ALREADY KNOW THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT YOU'VE GOT POTS THERE.
THEN YOU HAVE TO CONSTANTLY BE FILLED SO FORTH.
SO SOME, AS LONG AS IT'S JUST AN ALL SURFACE, ALL WEATHER KIND OF THE SURFACE ROAD, THAT WOULD BE FINE.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU PUT CCHI ON TOP OF A GUMBO CLAY OR NOT, BUT SOMETHING TO MAKE THAT AN I'LL ROAD GREATLY APPRECIATED.
CLEARLY THE ROADS IN COTTON COUNTY ARE A HUGE ISSUE THIS YEAR AND I URGE YOU ALL TO CONSIDER THIS FACT WHEN YOU'RE GOING OVER THIS NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET.
I SERVE FOUR COUNTIES IN MY PRACTICE AND KATHE COUNTY HAS THE WORST ROADS OF ALL OF THE FOUR COUNTIES THAT I TRAVEL.
OUR ROADS ARE DEPLORABLE AS YOU WITNESSED BY THE PREVIOUS SPEAKERS THIS MORNING, BUT ESPECIALLY IN PRECINCT ONE, OUR ROADS HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED FOR SEVERAL YEARS IN PRECINCT ONE AND THE ENTIRE COFFMAN COUNTY.
I WOULD LIKE THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT TO SUFFICIENTLY FUND A ROAD AND BRIDGE ACCOUNT TO, AND EXCUSE ME, TO BRING OUR COUNTY ROADS BACK INTO AN ACCEPTABLE STANDARD.
I HOPE THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT WOULD ELIMINATE WASTE IN THE COUNTY BUDGET SUCH AS THE URBAN FORESTER, OR EXCUSE ME, THE PROJECT PLANNER AND ALLOCATE PROPER FUNDING FOR OUR ROADS, ESPECIALLY PRECINCT ONE.
ALRIGHT, ANYBODY ELSE? THAT'S ALL THE NAMES I HAD ON THE LIST, BUT IF ANYBODY I WISH TO ADDRESS THE COURT, I'VE GIVEN THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO NOW.
ALRIGHT, WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
WE APPRECIATE YOU, UH, BEING HERE.
THAT'S, UH, THIS IS PART OF DEMOCRACY TO HEAR FROM OUR CONSTITUENTS AND, UH, COMMENTS ON THE COUNTY ROAD OR, UH, WELL HEARD, NO DOUBT.
AND IF WE BEGIN TO WORK ON OUR, UH, NEW BUDGET FOR THE TWO THOUSAND TWO THOUSAND FOUR THOUSAND 1314 BUDGET, UH, CERTAINLY WE'LL, UH, REMEMBER THESE REMARKS.
AND AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
UH, THE NEXT ITEM IS ROUTINE CORRESPONDENCE.
UH, ONLY THING I HAD IN THAT WAS THE, UH, TAX COLLECTIONS, THE JP TAX, JP TAX COLLECTIONS IS YOU HAVE A, UH, COPY OF.
I ALSO HAVE ONE OTHER DOCUMENT THAT I PROVIDED, UH, TO, UH, YOU AND TO THE MEMBERS OF THE PRESS.
IT IS A, UH, LETTER FROM, UH, THE TEXAS, UH, COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT WHERE THEY HAVE SUSPENDED, UH, FORMER JP UH, ERIC WILLIAMS A SECOND TIME, UH, FROM HIS POSITION AS A CALLED FROM COUNTY JUSTICE BECAUSE OF HIM BEING INDICTED FOR CAPITAL MURDER AND HE'S ALREADY UNDER
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SUSPENSION, UH, WHICH IN THAT CASE HAS BEEN APPEALED TO FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN DALLAS AND IS PENDING A RULING FROM THEM.SO THIS IS HIS SECOND, UH, SUSPENSION AND UH, I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY AN UPSET ON THAT TRIAL WILL BE MOVING FORWARD COURSE AS YOU KNOW.
BUT THIS IS PART OF THE PROCESS THAT THE STATE COMMISSION OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT, UH, MOVES WITH AND I EXPECT WE'LL HAVE A RULING FAIRLY SOON, HOPEFULLY FROM THE FIFTH COURT APPEALS IN DALLAS ON, UH, REMOVAL, UH, FROM UH, JC.
SO THAT'S JUST PART OF, UH, HOW THE JUDICIAL A SYSTEM, UH, WORKS.
THE NEXT ITEM END OF THE CONSENT AGENDA.
WE HAVE, UH, SEVERAL ITEMS THERE.
UH, WE'VE GONE BACK AND MADE SURE WE HAVE ALL THE MINUTES, UH, THAT NEEDED TO BE ACCEPTED.
SO YOU HAVE FOUR SETS OF MINUTES, MINUTES JUNE THE FIFTH, JUNE 24TH, JULY 3RD JULY 12TH THOUSAND 13.
WE HAVE COPIES OF NOTE, UH, THAT WE HAVE AN ITEM NUMBER E TO DISCUSS.
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF A TAX RESALE OF CAUSE NUMBER 7 4 7 3 5 8 6.
UH, THIS IS PIECE PROPERTY, UH, FIVE FIVE ACRES IN THE JOHN, UH, HUB SURVEY IN COUNTY PRECINCT NUMBER FOUR.
UH, ALSO ITEM NUMBER F IS TO DISCUSS TAX RESALE CAUSE NUMBER SEVEN THREE DASH 86 6 0 9 EAST 13TH STREET, DESCRIBED AS EAST ONE HALF BLOCK OF, UH, OF, UH, STILL EDITION IN COUNTY PRECINCT FOUR.
THAT'S APPROXIMATELY 3 4 4 ACRES.
THEN THE LAST PROPERTY IS THE, UH, TAX RESALE CAUSE NUMBER 8 1 7 5 8, I MEAN, SORRY, FIVE SIX DASH 86 SOUTH PALM STREET, DESCRIBED AS 0.91 ACRES, MORE OR LESS
WHAT'S YOUR PLEASURE ON THOSE ITEMS? GENTLEMEN? DO I HAVE ANY DISCUSSION OR QUESTIONS? MOST OF THOSE PROPERTIES ARE IN YOUR, YOUR, TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, ALL THESE PROPERTIES ARE, HAVE BEEN OFF, OFF THE BOOKS FOR A LONG TIME AND UH, WE NEED TO GET 'EM BACK, BACK TO THE PEOPLE PAYING TAXES ON AND MAINTAIN BECAUSE THERE HAS NOT BEEN MAINTAINED.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY ITEM ON THE AGENDA? I MOVE TO APPROVE CONSENT AGENDA.
UH, MR DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SECOND, MR. SHANE SECONDS.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAIR TO SAY? I I THOSE OPPOSED? ITEM NUMBER THREE IS TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER, UH, PRESENTING THE KAMAN COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION WAS 2012 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD.
DO WE HAVE MEMBERS HERE THIS MORNING FROM, I KNOW WE HAVE SOME MEMBERS FROM THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION.
YOU START SOON AS I CAN FIND YOUR CERTIFICATE.
I'M, I'M GONNA GIVE IT TO YOU.
YOU CAN PRESENT IT TO THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PERMISSION.
TAKE THE, YOU REPRESENT THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION.
AND, UH, THIS IS QUITE AN HONOR FOR OUR HISTORICAL COMMISSION.
THIS IS, UH, READS, UH, TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION.
THE STATE HISTORICAL COMMISSION PRESENTS THIS 2012 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD FOR KAUFMAN COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION AND RECOGNITION OF ITS ACTIVE AND WELLBEING WELL-BALANCED PRESERVATION PROGRAM.
SO JOHNNY, IF YOU'LL PRESENT THAT TO MEMBERS OF THE, HERE WE GO.
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OKAY.THE NEXT ITEM WILL BE TO, UH, HEAR A REPORT, UH, FROM LORETTA WILLIAMS ON THE, UH, COFFMAN COUNTY, UH, CHILDREN'S SHELTER FOR MAY, JUNE, 2013.
UH, NOT A LOT HAPPENING, UH, AS THE SHELTER, WE ARE STAYING BUSY.
UH, OUR NUMBERS HAVE BEEN UP JUST ABOUT ALL YEAR AND WE'VE BEEN AS HIGH AS 19 AND I THINK THE LOWEST WE'VE BEEN IS 11 AND STEADY AT 12 FOR THE YEAR AVERAGE.
UM, THERE BEEN SEVERAL FACILITIES CLOSED OVER THE LAST YEAR JUST DUE TO, AND COULDN'T MAINTAIN THEIR BUDGETS.
UH, SO AGAIN, CPS IS FACING A, A SHORTAGE OF PLACES.
UH, WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF THE SMALLER OUTLYING COUNTIES, UH, NORTH AND EAST OF US.
WOOD RANGES ALMOST ALL THE WAY UP HOME.
WE TAKE KIDS FROM WICHITA COUNTY, AS FAR SOUTH AS SAN ANTONIO, AS FAR EAST AS TYLER RUS.
UH, SO WE ARE, WE ARE HOPING THAT, UH, WITH, WITH THE SHORTAGE OF PLACEMENTS, OUR NUMBERS WILL, WILL STAY HOME AND KEEP US FUNDED THIS YEAR.
UH, WE'VE VERY LUCKY HAD NO MEDICAL EMERGENCIES OR INTERACTIONS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.
AND THERE WAS A COUPLE MONTHS EARLIER THE YEAR THAT WE HAD QUITE A FEW FRIENDS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.
UH, BUT THE GROUP WE HAVE NOW IS VERY GRATEFUL.
UH, GOT A COUPLE OF SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS, THREE INTERNS AND WHOLE BUNCH OF TEENAGERS.
UH, BUT SO FAR THEY'VE ALL BEEN GREAT.
UH, 4TH OF JULY IS ALWAYS A BIG THING FOR THE KIDS AND MOST OF THEM HAVE NEVER BEEN TO SEE FIREWORKS, SO IT'S A SUPER TREAT FOR THEM.
AND, UH, LAST WEEKEND, JULY THE 13TH WAS THEIR, THEIR BIG EVENT WITH THE, UH, MOTORCYCLE RIDERS, UH, TEXAS MOTORCYCLE RIDERS ASSOCIATION.
THIS IS THEIR, I THINK THEY SAID THIS WAS THEIR 10TH YEAR.
UH, HAVE ABOUT OUT THOUSAND, ALL THE ITEMS SIMPLY, AND THAT'S ALWAYS TREAT FOR THE KIDS.
THE, UH, MY SHELTER ADVISORY BOARDS BOARD HAS ADDED A MEMBER THIS YEAR AND CONTACT INFORMATION IN AREA.
UM, HE'S A LONGTIME RESIDENT, ANYBODY FROM IN A LONG TIME.
UH, AND HE WORKS IN THE WALMART CIRCUIT AND BY TWO OF OUR BOARD, UH, VERY ACTIVE COMMUNITY WISE.
UH, ALREADY BROUGHT A LOT OF FRESH IDEAS HERE.
SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO HAVE, AND AS WE HERE, WELL, IT'S NOT A, IT'S NOT A NEW FULL-TIME POSITION.
WE'RE REPLACING A FULLTIME DIRECTOR OF LAW STARTED THIS YEAR.
UH, THEY'RE JUST CHANGING EXEMPT ON, ON THAT, UH, PETITION INTO A, UH, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT.
UH, OUR PAPERWORK CODE IS JUST EVER INCREASING.
UH, AND WE HOPE THAT WITH THE ADDITION OF THIS POSITION AND WE'LL SUPPORT STAFFING FRONT OFFICER, OUR INSPECTIONS WILL LOOK A LITTLE BETTER, UH, IS OUR MAIN GOAL THERE.
UH, THE BOARD DID APPROVE JUST THIS MORNING.
UH, ALL OF OUR FULL-TIME PEOPLE ARE TAKING THE STATE SPONSORED TRAINING IN SAN ANTONIO, UH, THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST.
UH, IT'S SOMETHING OUR BUDGET WOULDN'T, WOULDN'T CARRY FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS.
SO I'M REALLY EXCITED TO GET ALL OUR PEOPLE DOWN AND GET THEM SOME FORMAL TRAINING.
UH, WE DID HAVE OUR LICENSE LICENSING INSPECTION, UH, IN LATE JUNE.
UH, THERE AGAIN, PAPERWORK ISSUES ARE ALWAYS THE
NOTHING THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD CONDUCT KIDS AT RISK, UH, SIGNATURE OF, UH, BUT THEY AGREE TO THEIR STANDARDS, SO, UH, WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO ATE THAT WITH THE
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UH, THE ONE THING THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT, UM, FROM THIS LAST INSPECTION AND A COUPLE OF THE PREVIOUS ONES OVER THE YEARS ARE FALLS ON AREAS IN THE PLAYGROUND, UH, ARE GONNA HAVE TO BE, UH, REDONE COMPLETELY.UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT MAYBE PURCHASING THE, THE VINYL LOCK TOGETHER BRAKES LIKE THEY'RE USING IN THE PARK AND RECREATION.
UH, AND WE'RE, WE'RE BUSY GETTING BIDS PUT TOGETHER ON THAT.
IT'S GONNA BE A BIG EXPENSE, BUT THE FOUNDATION IS ALREADY, OTHER THAN THAT.
SOUND LIKE Y'ALL ARE RUNNING FULL, FULL HOUSE.
PRETTY MUCH AS FULL AS I WANNA BE RIGHT NOW.
UH, WHAT DOES THAT INCLUDE? YOU MISSED THAT PARAGRAPH.
UH, THE BUILDING'S GETTING OLD.
REPLACE DOORS, REPLACE, UH, IS IT STRUCTURAL OR IS IT PAINT? NO, SIR.
THERE'S A COUPLE OF, UH, DOOR FRAMES THAT I NEED TO REPLACE ON THE OUTSIDE BUILDINGS.
WE'VE GOT SOME, UM, I DUNNO WHAT THE TERM IS, THE BOARDS ON THE END OF THE HOUSE.
I'M, I'M NOT, BUT I'VE GOT A FEW OF THOSE THAT ARE, THE PAIN IS COMPLETELY GONE, BUT THERE'S NOTHING SOMEWHERE.
AND I, I DO KNOW YOU HAVE, I THINK SEVERAL OF THE CHURCHES COME IN AND DO REPAIRS FROM TIME TO TIME OR INDIVIDUAL.
UH, WE DO, UM, IF, IF I FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT THEY SAY THEY COULD DO.
AND I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE AN ISSUE WITH BEING AROUND CHILDREN AND ALL THAT.
UH, FOR THE IMPORTANT STUFF, I, I LIKE A, I LIKE THE CONTRACT.
UH, BUT FOR PAINTING, LANDSCAPING, STUFF LIKE THAT, UH, UP VERY WELL.
I HAVE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE, UH, CHILDREN'S ATE COMMISSIONER MANNING MAKES THAT MOTION.
THANK, THANK TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTOR REPORT FOR JUNE.
I DID ADD, UH, A LINE ON THIS NEW REPORT.
UH, WE HAVE COLLECTED YEAR TO DATE 28,000,700 $20,277 16 CENTS, UH, 96.9% OF THE TAXES DUE.
THE LINE I ADDED WAS THE AMOUNT WE COLLECTED THIS MONTH, WHICH WAS 247, THE MONTH OF JUNE, I MEAN $247,716.
WE'RE GETTING DOWN TO THE HARD PART.
NOW WE'RE OVER 96% AND IN JULY THE ATTORNEY'S FEES KICK IN.
NOW WE'RE DOWN TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE, CAN'T AFFORD TO PAY FOR SOME REASON.
SO IT'S GONNA START GETTING A LITTLE HARDER TO COLLECT FROM HERE.
UM, WE HAVEN'T PAID BY THIS TIME.
AND YOU WROTE AND BRIDGE COLLECTED 27,000 $189 THIS MONTH, AND FOR A TOTAL THIS YEAR OF $3,103,957.
UH, I EXPECTED THAT THE NOTES, SO THE NUMBERS TO GET SMALLER ON COLLECTIONS EACH MONTH FOR THE, REMEMBER THE FISCAL YEAR.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME? BUDGET, DID IT NOT CARRY A 97% COLLECTION RATE? YES, SIR.
SO WE, WE WALKED THROUGH VERY, VERY, VERY CLOSE TO MEETING THAT, YOU KNOW, IF THAT IN OUR BUDGET, WHAT THE DELINQUENT NUMBERS PUT IN THAT 97% OR IS IT 97% OF THE, THE DELINQUENT NUMBERS ONLY COUNT YEAR 2011.
AND, AND BEFORE THAT, SO THE DELINQUENTS FOR, FOR 2012 ARE NOT PUT IN THE DELINQUENT SIDE OVER HERE NOW, BUT IN OUR BUDGETING WE JUST USE THE, UH, CURRENT YEARS TAXES DO NOT AS 97% OF THE NO, I I THINK WE'VE INCLUDED, UH, BOTH AND CURRENT IN THAT COLLECTION PERCENTAGE, WHICH IS SOMETHING
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WOULD BE DISCUSSED.I GUESS WHAT IS THE AVERAGE YEAR, YEAR, SAY LAST FOUR OR FIVE YEARS? WELL, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, WE GENERALLY GET AROUND HUNDRED PERCENT, BUT THAT INCLUDES THE, AND SO IT'S, THE TAX PROCESS IS ACTUALLY WELL, BUT AS PART OF BASE TAX TO THAT AS WELL.
AND AFTER JULY, THE FIRST PANEL INTEREST STEPS UP BUNCH AS WELL AS COLLECTION HAS 20%, UH, TRAINING FEES ATTACHED.
AND NOW WE DON'T GET ALL THAT BECAUSE YOU SEE HERE EVEN, UH, THE PENALTIES AND INTEREST COLLECTED, UH, YEAR TO DATE, IF YOU LOOK ON THAT FIRST COLUMN ON THE LEFT, HUNDRED 57,000 ON S IN INTEREST AND 13,000 ON ATTORNEY'S FEES, UM, ALMOST 9,000.
EVERYTHING IS JUST, IT ROLLS ALONG AND IT COLLECTS FROM, WE'VE GOT BILLS BACK TO 99 THAT PEOPLE HAVEN'T PAID ALL THE WAY UP THROUGH TODAY.
AND DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH IT'S, IF IT'S BUSINESS OR HOMESTEAD, WHAT TYPE OF ACTION WE TAKE.
BUT WE'RE WORKING IT AND I'M WORKING WITH, UH, JEFF BROWN, THE WEINBERG ATTORNEY.
SO SEE WHAT CAN DO AS MUCH WE CAN.
I ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ACCEPT COURT.
MR. SHANE MAKES A MOTION TO SET.
UH, WE HAVE THREE REPORTS FROM OUR TREASURER.
THE FIRST ONE IS THE TREASURER MONTHLY REPORT FOR MAY, 2013, JUNE, 2013, AS WELL AS THE REPORT.
LOOK UNDER THIS NUMBER OF 18, YOU CAN SEE TANYA SAID WE'RE IN THE HARD TURN.
THE SECOND PAGE THERE YOU SEE THE TOTAL 84.
AND WE NEVER HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO DO, UH, AS OF A SIX MONTH FIVE NEW CD PAYING 0.3%, THE MONEY PAYING 5% AND I CHECK THE, BUT THERE'S, THERE'S SOMEWHERE FIVE BE ANYBODY ASK QUESTION OF JOHNNY INTEREST RATES STILL PRETTY LOW.
IT MAY STAY LOW FOR A WHILE LONGER TOO.
ANY QUESTIONS OF THE TRUTH OR NOT? I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ACCEPT THIS REPORT.
I HAVE A MOTION FROM, UH, COMMISSIONER CLARK.
AND THEN ITEM NUMBER EIGHT IS TO DISCUSS, UH, ATE AMAN COUNTY INVESTMENT OFFICER AND INVESTMENT POLICY POLICY CHANGE EITHER CDS OR SIX MONTHS JANUARY.
OKAY, QUESTIONS FOR WE WE HAVE A MOTION? SECOND.
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NEXT ITEM IS ITEM NUMBER EIGHT TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER APPROVING A PROJECT WITH THE CITY OF OAK BRIDGE FOR ROAD REPAIRS COUNTY PRECINCT.THEY JUST NEED A LITTLE D ROAD WORK DONE.
UH, THE ROAD DRIVE AND AS I PROVIDED Y'ALL AMOUNT HUNDRED, YEAH, ONE YARD, ONE TRUCK TIME, ONE ONE HOUR ENVELOPE ALREADY IN PLACE.
WE HAVE MOTION APPROVE WORK FOR THE CITY OF OAK RIDGE.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSIONS? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
ITEM NUMBER NINE IS TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER APPROVING THE CONTRACT AMENDMENT TO THE INTERGOVERNMENT COOPERATIVE REIMBURSING AGREEMENT.
TEXAS COMMISSION ON QUALITY, ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IN COUNTY FOR LOW INCOME VEHICLE REPAIR SECTION RETROFIT AND ACCELERATING VEHICLE RETIREMENT PROGRAM.
THIS IS AN AGREEMENT THAT WE HAVE HAD FOR YEARS WITH NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL GOVERNMENTS, UH, IS A, UH, KATON COUNTY IS A NON-ATTAINMENT COUNTY.
AND THIS HAS TO DO WITH THE, UH, QUALITY OF OUR AIR AND VEHICLES THAT DO NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS THAT NOW WE GET THE INSPECTION STICKER.
SO IF THERE ARE FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR, UH, UH, PEOPLE THAT HAVE TO HAVE HELP IN DOING THAT, THEY HAVE TO APPLY THAT IN CERTAIN GUIDELINES.
BUT THIS IS RENEWABLE, THE AGREEMENT WE'VE HAD THEM FOR FOR SOME TIME.
WHAT I UNDERSTAND, IT'S THE REPAIR OF PEOPLE QUALIFY VEHICLES THAT MAY NOT MAKE REQUIRED YOU GET AN INSPECTION STICKER TO FIX YOUR VEHICLE INSPECTION.
IF YOU'VE GOT RESOURCES TO FIX YOURSELF, YOU HAVE TO FIX YOURSELF.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE RESOURCES, THE MONEY, YOU CAN'T GET FIXED THROUGH THIS PROGRAM.
BUT IT'S, WE DON'T, WE HAVE COUNCIL GOVERNMENT.
THE REASON WE, SINCE WE ARE A NON-ATTAINMENT COUNTY BECAUSE VERY COOPERATIVE, IT'S, IT'S A WAY TO CLEAN UP OUR AREA THAT THE LIVERAMP PROGRAM IS, UH, IF YOU HAVE A VEHICLE, IT WON'T PASS INSPECTION, BUT YOU, YOU CAN MEET THE NEED FINANCIAL QUALIFICATIONS THAT IF YOU CAN GET A CREDIT, I BELIEVE UP TO $3,000 ON A NEWER, NEWER VEHICLE, IT IS, UH, ENVIRONMENTALLY INCORRECT.
HOW DO PEOPLE I THROUGH GET, THERE'S A, THERE'S A WEBSITE THAT YOU GO TO STATE AND DO AIR CHECK AND INMAN COUNTY AS PART OF THE PROGRAM, CLICK ON THAT AND PRINT OUT, FILL IT OUT.
YOU HAVE THE COUNTY FOR SO YEARS, I THINK ONE TO TWO YEARS.
AND YOU HAVE TO FILL OUT YOUR INCOME AND TELL 'EM THE PROBLEM.
AND YOU HAVE TO PROVE THAT IT WON'T PASS AND IT'S GONNA COST THAT SOME SO MUCH.
IF IT'S LIKE OVER 10 YEARS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT'S WHEN THEY'LL GIVE YOU OR HELP YOU GET THE VOUCHER.
3000 TO BUY IT'S MONEY THAT THE STATE SET ASIDE FOR THAT FIRST WE PAID, WE PAY THE MONEY, THIS MONEY COMING BACK TO US, RIGHT? WE, I MEAN WE'RE REIMBURSED BY THE STATE UNLESS THEY, THIS LAST SESSION THEY, THEY, THEY TOOK THAT MONEY HAD SUSTAINED IT BECAUSE OF THE BUDGET ISSUE.
SO JUST BECAUSE THEY SAY THERE'S MONEY AVAILABLE THERE, SOMETIMES THERE'S NOT.
SO THEORETICALLY PEOPLE COULD APPLY DOLLAR WEBSITE.
YOU SO WE CAN GET THIS OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS CONTRACT.
COMMISSIONER CLARK MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE AND COMMISSIONER SHANE SECOND AND THE OTHER DISCUSSIONS,
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ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.OPPOSED? ITEM NUMBER 10 IS TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER PROVING THE COUNTY JUDGE TO SIGN THE NOTICE OF AN AWARD FOR THE UNLOAD WATER SUPPLY, UH, CORPORATION CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR CREEK CROSS REPLACEMENTS ON COUNTY ROAD THREE 14.
AND I KNOW WE HAVE SOME FOLKS HERE FROM
WE ARE THE AGENT FOR THIS PROJECT AND, UH, UH, BUT IT'S IN, UH, KEN'S PRECINCT.
ALRIGHT, UH, WIND GENTLE OPERATOR WATER LINE.
AND UH, WE ARE WITH THIS, UH, THIS, THE REMAINING FUNDS OF, UH, TP SEVEN 11 GRANT.
WE WENT OUT BID ON THE UPGRADE WE GOT WITH, UH, DEPARTMENT AG REGULATIONS, THIS AND, UH, WE GOT THREE PRE PURPOSE HERE.
I JUST WANTED TO REMIND THE, UH, OUR DEADLINE ON.
ANYBODY GOT ANY QUESTIONS? NO.
WE'LL BE WORKING WITH YOU ON, ON COUNTER DINNER.
SO WE HAVE A MOTION FOR COMMISSIONER SHANE TO APPROVE THIS CONTRACT, UH, AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY JUDGE TO SIGN.
WE'LL RUN IT, UH, THROUGH THE, UH, JOHN'S, UH, OFFICE.
UH, DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SECOND, SHANE, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS HAS THIS TWO BILL, I'M SORRY, THIS WOULD TWO PART SIGNING ONE, ONE SIGNING NOTICEABLE ORDER, SIGNING OF CONTRACT.
BUT ON THE ORIGINAL THAT I TALKED ABOUT, THE WHOLE, THE WHOLE PROJECT OF COUNTY THREE 14 WAS QUITE AT THAT, THAT TIME HE HAD ALREADY HAD BOND AND THINGS IN PLACE TO DROP HIM BACK AND JUST ADDRESSING THE PRE-PRO CONTRACTOR SIGN.
THE WAY I UNDERSTAND IT HERE, SECOND PAGE.
YEAH, THE SECOND PAGE EXPLAINS ORDER.
UH, ONCE HE GET SIGNED, HE'LL HAVE, UH, I BELIEVE IT IS BELIEVE IT'S 12 DAYS.
UH, CONTRACTORS PERFORM BOND, I BELIEVE TO SIGN SINCE THE, JUST FOR THE AWARD.
CAN WE ADD TO SIGN THE CONTRACT? I THINK SO.
IT'S NOT GONNA BE EVERYONE'S PUT ON NOTICE FROM THE, UH, FROM THE ENCLOSURE OF WHAT'S BEEN DONE TODAY.
WE HAVE YOU HAVE YOU I, KEN SHANE THE FIRST, THEN YOU
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HAD KEN SHANE THE SECOND.WELL HE, HE ABOUT GETTING HIS PROJECT I COMMISSIONER, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
ITEM NUMBER 11 IS TO DISCUSS, CONSIDER APPROVING A MEMORANDUM UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN TON COUNTY AND THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS SUPREME.
THERE'S COURT OF CONTINUITY OF COURT OPERATIONS IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY.
AND I'M NOT SURE WHY WE HAVE NOT PARTICIPATED ON THIS IN THE PAST, BUT, UH, WE, UH, TALKED WITH, UH, JUDGE AND JUDGE CHI ABOUT DOING THIS AND, UH, CONSIDERING WHAT'S, YOU KNOW, BEEN HAPPENING AND WHAT HAPPENED HERE SHOULD, UH, IN THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS AND, UH, SOME OF THE CATASTROPHES THAT WE'VE BEEN, UH, UH, HAPPENING AROUND OUR COUNTRY, UH, THEY VERY MUCH, UH, ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND, AND APPRO THIS.
AND IT LOOKS LIKE PREVIOUSLY THIS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.
AND WHAT IT DOES IS IF WE HAVE A CATASTROPHE WHERE ALL OUR PORTS WERE SHUT DOWN AND YOU KNOW, EITHER BY A NATURAL, UH, PROBLEM OR A MANMADE PROBLEM, UH, THIS WOULD ALLOW OTHER PORTS TO KEEP OUR COURT SYSTEM UP AND GOING FROM OTHER COUNTIES.
AND, AND LIKEWISE WITH US, WE WOULD ASSIST OTHER ACCOUNTS AND IN AND IN FACT, UH, I THINK, UH, AND I I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THIS, I NEED TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT SAYING IT.
I BELIEVE THAT THE, UH, UH, MURDER TRIAL, UH, COMING FORWARD THAT WE ARE ALL HERE WITH, I BELIEVE THERE WILL BE, UH, MAYBE, UH, ANOTHER COUNTY THAT WILL BE ASSISTING THE PROSECUTORS AS WELL.
UH, THE TWO SPECIAL PROSECUTORS AS WELL.
SO, UH, ANYWAY, THIS IS, UH, JUST AN AGREEMENT TO UH, UH, ASK FOR HELP IF WE NEED OR PROVIDE HELP IF SOMEBODY ELSE NEEDS TO.
AND AGAIN, BOTH OF OUR DISTRICT JUDGES HAVE INDICATED THEY THINK IT'S, WILL THIS BE ADMINISTERED THROUGH THE DISTRICT JUDGE'S OFFICE OR THROUGH YOUR OFFICE? I THINK IT WILL BE ADMINISTERED THROUGH THE OFFICE COURT ADMINISTRATION.
AND UH, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
I DON'T, JOHN, WHETHER YOU HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK OVER THIS OR, UH, I HAVE NOT.
TYPICALLY THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE.
IT'S THAT THEY, UM, THEY DO BETTER TAKE THE MANAGEMENT, BOTH THE COUNTY COURTS AND THE DISTRICT COURTS TOGETHER.
YOU, IT IS, IT'S, IT'S THE WORST CASE SCENARIO WHEN SOMETHING HAPPEN.
UH, BUT IF WE'RE NOT PART OF THE AGREEMENT, UH, YOU KNOW, I GUESS WE DO IT ON AN EMERGENCY BASIS, BUT IT JUST KIND, PRETTY COMPREHENSIVE, RIGHT? YEAH.
NOW THIS IS, THIS IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN'T, LIKE WHAT HAPPENED IN HOUSTON
WE REQUIRED BY LAW THE SAME RIGHTS WHETHER YOU GOT ELECTRICITY, DON'T HAVE ELECTRICITY, AND SO THIS RELATED TO MOVE THOSE FUNCTIONS TO SOMETHING HALF YEARS.
ANOTHER WE STILL PAY FOR IT LOOKS LIKE.
OR IF THEY MOVE IT HERE, THEY'D HAVE TO PAY FOR IT.
BUT IT'S KIND OF A CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS.
THINGS WOULD'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET DOWN HERE.
ATMAN I'S GONNA BE TAKING TO GET THAT, THAT GOING SO THAT WE KNOW WHAT, WHERE IT GOES TO WHAT'S HAPPEN WHEN WE HAVE A DISASTER.
RIGHT? HOPEFULLY WE NEVER HAVE ONE.
THIS WOULD BE THE COURT PIECE, WHICH WE DO A LOT.
I WOULD LIKE MOTION APPROVE THAT.
HAVE A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
UH, ITEM NUMBER 12 IS TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER APPROVING ADOPTING THE TON COUNTY DEBRIS MANAGEMENT PLAN.
UH, STEVE, IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION ON THAT.
UH, I STARTED WORKING ON THIS PLAN ABOUT ALMOST A YEAR AGO, AND AS I FINISHED IT AND GOT READY TO PUT IT ON THE AGENDA, WE GOT, UH, INFORMATION FROM, UH, FEMA ON INTERIM RULES REGARDING FREE MANAGEMENT WHEREBY THEY'RE GOING TO START DOING A SLIDING
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SCALE.UH, PREVIOUSLY IF THEY CAME IN TO HELP US WITH DEBRIS MANAGEMENT, THEY PAY 75%, WE PAY 25% THIS NEW SLIDING SCALE, IF WE HAVE OUR DEBRIS MANAGEMENT PLAN IN PLACE, IT CAN BE AS LOW AS 10%.
NOW, AS AN EXAMPLE, WHEN JOPLIN, MISSOURI GOT HIT, IT COST THEM OVER $300 MILLION IN DEBRIS MANAGEMENT COSTS.
UH, THEY WERE ABLE TO NEGOTIATE THAT 10%, WHICH IS STILL $30 MILLION, BUT THAT'S BETTER THAN THE 75 MILLION THAT IT WOULD'VE COST.
SO HAVING THIS IN PLACE IS GONNA BENEFIT US IN THAT RESPECT, AND IT'S ALSO SOMETHING THAT WE CAN WORK ON HOPEFULLY BEFORE ANYTHING HAPPENS AND BE, BE BETTER PREPARED TO HANDLE LARGE AMOUNTS OF DEBRIS THAT POTENTIALLY COULD HIT US IN THE COUNTY.
UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE ONE OF COURSE THAT COMES TO MIND MOST RECENTLY IS THE SITUATION IN WEST AND I GUESS THAT WOULD BE, UH, WEST AND MORE OKLAHOMA BOAT.
YEAH, MORE ON THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE, UH, TWO OTHER AL ONES THAT WE'VE HAD RECENTLY.
AND, AND THEY, UH, MORE OKLAHOMA WAS DECLARED FEDERAL DISASTER AREA AND THEIR PORTION IS 10%.
SO WHAT ABOUT WHEN WE HAD THE CAR OVER IN THAT DID NOT RISE TO THE NO, SIR.
THE, THE WAY THAT WORKS IS THERE'S A THRESHOLD AT THE COUNTY LEVEL AND THEN THERE'S ONE AT THE STATE LEVEL.
KAUFMAN COUNTY IS APPROXIMATELY $364,000 OF UNINSURED LOSS THAT WE HAVE TO MEET.
UH, THEN THE STATE HAS TO MEET SOMETHING ON THE ORDER OF 34.6 MILLION IN ORDER FOR THE FEMA TO COME IN AND, AND HELP.
AND THE WEST HIT BOTH THE BENCHMARKS FOR THE COUNTY AND THE STATE, BUT THEY STILL GOT REJECTED.
SO I'M NOT SURE WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THAT IS, UH, WE HAVE TO MEET THOSE THRESHOLDS TO GET THE FEDERAL DECLARATION.
SO IF WE'RE REJECTED LIKE WEST, THEN WE GET NO FUNDS.
IT JUST, SOMEBODY'S DISCRETION THAT'S UN UNLESS GOVERNOR PERRY IS APPEALING THAT TO THE PRESIDENT AND HOPEFULLY THAT WILL, THAT WILL GET CHANGED.
UH, THE, THE DIFFERENCE BEING IS WHAT HAPPENED IN WEST WAS A MANMADE DISASTER VERSUS A NATURAL DISASTER.
IF IT HAD BEEN A TORNADO THAT RAN THROUGH THERE, I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT IT WOULD'VE BEEN APPROVED.
BUT SOMETHING ABOUT THE, THE PLANT BEING A CAUSE OF IT AND BEING A MANMADE TYPE DISASTER, THAT'S PROBABLY WHY THEY REJECTED IT.
WE CAN ONLY HOPE THAT THEY REVERSE THAT DECISION FOR THOSE FOLKS.
DO, UH, IN THIS PLAN, WHAT DOES IT DESIGNATE AREAS AROUND THE COUNTY FOR DEBRIS COLLECTION DESIGNATES TEMPORARY DEBRIS MANAGEMENT SITES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.
UH, IT ALSO DETAILS HOW WE'RE GONNA COLLECT IT.
UH, WE, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT TWO PHASES.
YOU'VE GOT THE, THE IMMEDIATE PHASE TO CLEAR THE ROADS, SO EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT YOU GET THROUGH AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE ACTUAL PICKING IT UP AND MOVING IT TO THE TEMPORARY SITE AND THE PLAN TELLS HOW WE'RE GONNA DO THAT.
WE HAVE TO KEEP CLOSE RECORDS ON IT AS TRIP TICKETS AND EVERYTHING WE'RE GONNA NEED IN THAT PLAN.
AND, AND WE WORK TOGETHER, UH, THROUGH COG AND THE STATE AND FEMA, UH, TO, TO PUT THIS TOGETHER SO WE HAVE THE BEST PLAN POSSIBLE.
THAT'S BE BOOK YOU SENT OUT 84 PAGES.
I DIDN'T GONNA KILL ANY TREES IF I DIDN'T HAVE WHEN DID YOU SEND THAT OUT? TWO, TWO MONTHS AGO.
ANDY SENT IT OUT FOR ME, SO I DON'T REMEMBER, BUT IT, IT'S 84 PAGES AND LIKE I SAID, I DON'T KILL ANY TREES.
IT'S QUITE COMPREHENSIVE, BUT, BUT THAT'S GOTTA CHANGE.
I MEAN THERE'S CHANGES TO THAT.
NO, THAT THAT'S PLAN, THAT'S THE PLAN WE WANT TO APPROVE TODAY THAT THAT IS WHAT WE LOOKING YES SIR.
IS THERE, WHAT IS THERE A DOWNSIDE? THERE IS REALLY NO DOWNSIDE.
IF UH, IF WE DON'T DO IT, WE'RE GONNA PAY 25% AS OPPOSED TO POSSIBLY 10% THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'LL BE TRYING TO PUT ALL THIS STUFF TOGETHER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DISASTER, WHICH IS NEVER REALLY RIGHT.
IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE ONE WE JUST APPROVED JUST BEFORE THAT ON THE COURT.
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THAT.THIS IS JUST A LITTLE FLOW INSURANCE POLICY FOR OUR CITIZENS HERE IN THE COUNTY.
I'VE ONLY TRIED TO KEEP A PLAN IN PLACE.
I KNOW THAT WE ADOPT THE COUNTY DEGREE MANAGEMENT CRIME PLAN AS, OKAY.
HAVE A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER MAN.
DO HAVE A SECOND? COMMISSIONER OL.
ANY SECOND? UH, ANY OTHER DISCUSSIONS? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
THOSE STEVE, THANK YOU FOR KEEPING US UP ON THOSE KIND OF ISSUES SO THAT WE'RE IN COMPLIANCE AND IF SOMETHING HOPEFULLY NEVER HAPPENS THAT WE WON'T EVER HAVE TO USE IT, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU NEVER KNOW.
WELL, THANK YOU AND I HOPE YOU NEVER HAVE TO USE IT.
ALRIGHT, UH, NUMBER 13 IS TO DISCUSS, CONSIDER APPROVING AN INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT FOR ROAD REPAIRS FOR THE CITY OF COTTONWOOD CAUGHT PRECINCT.
NUMBER FOUR, CITY OF COTTONWOOD NEEDS SOME HELP WITH A COUPLE OF THEIR ROADS AND UH, WE HAVE AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT MADE OUT AND, UH, SIGNED BY THE MAYOR AND, UH, PATCHING FOR OVER THERE.
WE ACCEPT THE LOCAL AGREEMENT.
OKAY, WE HAVE A MOTION, UH, FROM COMMISSIONER MANNING.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY I, I.
THOSE OPPOSED THEN I MIGHT NUMBER 14, IT IS TO DISCUSS AND APPROVE, UH, A PROJECT DEGREE FOR THE CITY OF COTTONWOOD FOR REPAIRS ON COUNTY ROAD 48 AND THREE AND 48 AND FOUR.
THESE ARE ROADS THAT NEED TO BE PATCHED AND UH, WHAT WE'RE GOING DO IS WE'RE GOING, THERE'S PRETTY BAD SHAPE AND WE'RE GONNA FILL THESE BIG HOLES WITH WHITE ROCK ROLL DOWN AND THEN, UH, COVER THE PATCH MATERIAL AND, UH, SHOULD BE A PRETTY DURABLE SOLUTION UNTIL WE DO SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
THIS COTTON COTTONWOOD IS, UH, IT'S GONNA COST ABOUT IT.
IT'S ABOUT THREE MILES ALTOGETHER NOW.
I HAVE A MOTION COMMISSIONER TO BE SET.
SECOND COMMISSIONER CLARK SECOND MOTION.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? I JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT SINCE JIMMY'S GONNA BE IN CHARGE OF GETTING A UNIFIED, I LIKE THIS PROJECT AGREEMENT, BUT I, I THINK WE NEED APPROVED, TRY TO GET ALL, ALL THE TIME.
I KNOW YOU'RE IN CHARGE OF GETTING THAT DONE, SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET IT DONE.
WE'RE BOTH ON THE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT YOU WANT? WE CAN DO THAT.
ITEM NUMBER 15 IS TO DISCUSS CONSIDERING, UH, ENTERING, UH, INTO A CONTRACT WITH COFI FOR CRIMINAL CASE FILE.
IV PROJECT DIGITIZED AND INDEXED 10 YEARS CA COUNTY MISDEMEANOR CASES BY NOT UTILIZING 13 DASH 36 0 1 OH CONTRACT IN THE AMOUNT OF 165,393, UH, FUNDING PER LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE 1 18 0 1 1.
THE EXP FUNDS WOULD COME FROM THE COUNTY CLERK'S RECORDS ARCHIVE FEE FILE.
AND JACK, THAT'S A LOT OF REASONS.
UH, JUDGE, I HAVE A REVIEWED THE, UH, TEX MATCH CONTRACT AND THAT IS A VIABLE AVENUE TO, UH, USE AND IT, IT MEETS ALL THE BID REQUIREMENTS.
UH, I'VE GOT ALL CHECK THEIR POSTED PRICE AND THE VENDOR HAS OFFERED DISCOUNTS ON NEARLY ALL ITEMS AND I, I'LL DEFER TO THE COUNTY CLERK IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON EXACTLY WHAT YOU'VE DONE, BUT AS WELL MY HEAD JUST OUTTA CURIOSITY, UH, MISS USED, WHY IS THERE 10 YEARS OF ARCHIVE THAT HAS TO BE DONE ALL AT ONCE? JUST JUST BUILD UP, BASICALLY WHAT I WAS TRYING TO DO IS THERE'S SOME ROTARY FILES ACROSS THE STREET IN THE OLD LIBRARY AND I REALLY NEED THAT SPACE TO, TO BRING IN SOME STUFF FROM THE COURTHOUSE TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE NEW CASE FILES.
AND SO WE JUST TOOK ALL THE FILES THAT WERE IN THAT CASE AND WE WENT FROM, UM, 19 7, 19 96 TO 2006.
WILL THIS BRING US UP TO DATE? ALL THIS, IN OTHER WORDS, ALL THIS ARCHIVE OR THIS BRING
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US UP TO DATE? NO.DID YOU SAY IT'S 10 YEARS WORTH? IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN YOU SAY 10 YEARS WORTH, I'M LOOKING FOR TODAY, BACK 10 YEARS AND I, WELL, FROM 2006 FORWARD WE'VE IMAGED EVERYTHING ONTO THE ODYSSEY SYSTEM.
THIS IS JUST COVERING THE TIME PERIOD WHERE THE BOOKS WERE COMING TO AN END AND IMAGING HAD NOT STARTED.
AND LIKE I SAID, IT BASICALLY ADDRESSES THE IMMEDIATE NEED OF STORAGE.
SO IN OTHER WORDS, UH, ONCE WE GET THIS 10 YEARS OF, OF IMAGING AND ARCHIVES DONE, THERE WON'T, WE WON'T BE, UH, COMING UP IN ANOTHER YEAR OR TWO SAYING, WELL, THERE'S ANOTHER 10 YEARS OF ARCHIVING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE AGAIN.
WELL, I I THINK THAT YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT IT FROM THE STANDPOINT OF, OF PRESERVATION DOESN'T END.
IN OTHER WORDS, NO, I I THINK THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A HUGE AMOUNT OF CASE FILES, ESPECIALLY THE OLDER ONES WHEN THE STATE LIBRARY SAID THAT ANYTHING PRIOR TO 1950 HAS TO BE SAVED INDEFINITELY OR BECOME A PERMANENT RECORD.
I THINK THAT IT, IT BEHOOVES US TO USE THE MONEY THAT WE GET WHEN WE, YOU KNOW, ESCORT CASES COMES IN AS, UM, AS THE DOCUMENTS ARE FILED, I THINK IT BEHOOVES US TO GO BACK AND, AND IMAGE THOSE SO THAT WE'RE PROTECTING THEM, WE'RE MAKING THEM ACCESSIBLE AND THEN WE CAN PUT THEM IN LONG TERM STORAGE OR IF SURE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
WE HAVE NOT DONE VERY MUCH AT ALL WITH THE COURT RECORDS AND EVEN MOST THAT I'VE DONE WITH THE RECORDS PRESERVATION ON THE COURTS IS GO BACK 10 YEARS IN PROBATE, PROBATE RECORDS THAT ARE UP RATING THAT REALLY NEED TO BE TAKEN CARE OF.
SO IN OTHER WORDS, THIS IS GONNA BE AN ONGOING DEAL EVERY YEAR THERE'S GONNA BE YES.
AND YOU, AND YOU AND YOU ARE THE ONE THAT APPROVED YOU'D LIKE THE RECORDS ARCHIVE PLAN YEAH.
AND THE RECORDS MANAGEMENT BUDGET.
I KNOW, BUT WHAT I'M WONDER IS, IS, IS, UH, I CAN BASICALLY, IS IT GOING BE, BE THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY EVERY YEAR FROM NOW IN DEFINITELY UNTIL COUNTY GET YOUR CLASS OF THESE, THIS YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? I I DO.
AND IT WOULD BE HARD TO SAY HOW MUCH YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GONNA ALLOCATE EACH YEAR BECAUSE LIKE ON THE SECOND PROJECT THAT WE'RE DOING, WHICH IS, WHICH IS THE VITALS, ONCE WE'RE DONE WITH THE VITAL RECORDS, THE MARRIAGE'S, DEBT AND BIRTH GOING BACK TO SOVEREIGNTY OR BACK TO 1848 ALL THE WAY FORWARD, THOSE RECORDS ARE GONE.
SO THAT MONEY THAT'S COLLECTED CAN BE ALLOCATED TO, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER SOURCE WE ALL THE COMMISSIONER RECORDS ABOUT.
AS A MAINTENANCE, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, EVOLVE AS TECHNOLOGY EVOLVES.
BUT THE, THE LEGISLATURES PUT MONEY THERE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RECORDS ARE PRESERVED AND PROTECTED.
AND ONCE THESE ARE DIGITIZED AND ARCHIVE, WHAT HAPPENS TO THE PHYSICAL RECORDS? WELL, PRESENTLY I'M NOT COMFORTABLE WITH DESTROYING THOSE, THOSE RECORDS, BUT OUR VENDOR HAS AGREED TO STORE THEM UNTIL WE ARE READY TO BRING THEM BACK.
SO WE'LL HAVE TO KEEP, WE'LL HAVE TO KEEP THE PAPER RECORDS.
WE WITHOUT KEEP THOSE ORIGINALS.
NO, NOT THE ONES THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW.
BUT UNTIL I GO THROUGH AND I'M I'M SURE THAT YES, THEY'RE IN THERE AND THEY, THEY NEED THE QUALITY THAT, THAT WE EXPECT AND THAT WE CAN RETRIEVE.
WE'LL NOT GET RID, YOU HAVE TO VERIFY THAT EVERYTHING IS IN DEEP THERE IN ARCHIVE AND NOTHING IS LEFT OUT.
BEFORE YOU CAN DESTROY THE YES.
I THINK THAT YOU HAD A QUESTION EARLIER IN YEAR ABOUT WHETHER THAT ONE COULD BE USED TO BUILD A FACILITY STORAGE FACILITY AND IT CAN'T BE.
SAID THAT THAT WAS NOT A POSSIBLY THAT PARTICULAR, I'M LOOKING AT SOME OTHER OF THAT PROGRAM, BUT IF I REMEMBER THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY IN THIS FUND TO PAY FOR THIS.
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UM, ON, ON BOTH, BOTH OF THESE REQUESTS, ONE BEING THE VITALS PROJECT, ONE BEING THE CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, THERE'S, UM, SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND EVEN AFTER SPENDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY, IT WILL STILL BE THAT BEGINNING BALANCE OF AROUND 150 TO 70,000.AND THAT'S WHAT THOSE FEES WERE DEDICATED FOR TO BE DONE.
SO REALLY IT IS JUST DEPENDS THE MONEY THAT WE'VE GOT ON FILE, IT CAN'T BE USED FOR ANYTHING.
THEY WERE COLLECTED THAT PART.
I DON'T MEAN TO GET AHEAD OF US, BUT THERE WAS A, A QUESTION THAT HAD BEEN RAISED BY, UH, MR. TAR, THE USE OF THE PHONE AND I HAD SENT AN EMAIL BACK YESTERDAY, I'M SORRY, RESPONDING LATE.
I WANT TO MODIFY IT SLIGHTLY BASED ON, UM, AN EMAIL THAT I RECEIVED FROM LAUREN HUGHES.
THE WAY I SEE IT, SHE HAS, UH, SPLIT THIS OUT AS TWO DIFFERENT PROJECTS.
AND ONE, SHE WANTS TO USE THE RECORDS AND RESERVATION FEE, GET THAT, AND SECOND, WITH THE FIRST ONE OF THE ARCHIVE FEE.
THAT'S, THAT DOESN'T HAVE RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF IT, THE RECORDS AND PRESERVATIONS BEING, WHY I READ THE STATUTE IS IT HAS RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE, NOT THAT YOU CAN'T USE IT, BUT THAT IT HAS TO BE PART OF THE BUDGET PROCESS AND, AND, UM, AND I THINK IT WAS PART OF THE BUDGET PROCESS, BUT I, I GUESS THE QUESTION THAT IF IT'S MORE MONEY THAN WHAT WE HAD BUDGETED FOR THIS YEAR, WE USE THE MONEY FOR THE NEXT YEAR BUDGET.
I THINK THAT PROBABLY WOULD BE THE RIGHT ANSWER FOR THAT, WHICH MAY ANSWER THE NEXT ITEM, BUT WE'RE NOT TO YET.
BUT AS FAR AS THE ARCHIVE FEE, IT DOESN'T HAVE THAT, IT DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME RESTRICTION AS THE RECORDS MANAGEMENT.
AND, UH, AND, AND BOTH, UH, EXCUSE ME, THE RECORDS MANAGEMENT OF COURSE HAD RECORDS AND PRESERVATION HAS TO BE DONE COLLECTIVELY.
UM, BUT, UM, BUT THESE BOTH APPEAR TO BE, UM, VALID USES OF, OF BOTH.
BUT I JUST WANNA NOTE THIS FEE DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE RESTRICTED.
FEE APPEARS TO BE RESTRICTED TO PROCESS FEE, WASN'T IT? THAT THE BUDGET, THAT'S THE ONLY BUDGET WE APPROVED IN THE ARCHIVE PERIOD.
WELL THE OTHER ONE IS IN THE BUDGET AND YOU HONOR, YOU APPROVED, YOU APPROVED ALL OF THEM.
THERE'S A PLAN SUBMITTED FOR THE ARCHIVE FEE.
THE PLAN APPROVED THE PLAN, RIGHT.
THE PLAN, THE PLAN, THE QUESTION I HAD AT THE TIME, WE APPROVED THE PLAN FOR A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND THIS IS 165,000.
I SAID, SO DO WE NEED TO WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT BUDGET, ANOTHER 65, SPEND A HUNDRED OUTTA THIS BUDGET, ACTUALLY, OH, AND, AND 65 OUT NEXT YEAR AND, AND MAKE PLAN FOR 65 FOR NEXT YEAR.
WELL, THE, UM, THE BUDGET HAS DOWN BOOK PRESERVATION, BOOK PRESERVATION FOR A HUNDRED THOUSAND, AND IT HAS IMAGING FOR, WELL, THERE'S AN UNENCUMBERED BALANCE OF 78,000, BUT ISN'T, NOT, THE PROPOSAL FOR CO PROFILE THAT DOESN'T, DOES MAKE TWO DIFFERENT, IT JUST MAKES ONE JOB TASK.
AND I JUST ASK THAT, THAT BE SPLIT.
I MEAN, IT'S BASICALLY, UM, WE CAN DO IT AS A LINE ITEM TRANSFER OR YOU CAN TAKE THE, UM, A LINE ITEM TRANSFER IS FINE ON THE BUDGET, BUT THAT YOU CAN'T AMEND THE PLAN.
BUT ACTUALLY THE ONLY THING THAT THE SUBJECT SAYS THAT THE COMMISSIONER THE PLAN, YOU DON'T HAVE TO APPROVE THE PLAN IS SUBMITTED OR YOU SEE, BUT I BELIEVE THE STATUTE READS IT THAT YOU APPROVE THE FUNDING, WHICH IS THE FIVE FEE YES.
BUT WE ALL OPTIONS ON GETTING THIS DONE.
I MEAN, WE'RE SPENDING $400,000.
HAVE WE EXPLORED ALL OPTIONS ON HOW TO GET THIS DONE? I'M SORRY.
AND WAIT FOR ALL OPTIONS ON HOW TO GET THIS PROCESS, THIS PROGRAM GOING.
EITHER I'M NOT HEARING YOU OR I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING.
IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE ABOUT TO APPROVE BOTH, BOTH THESE PLANS, MAYBE 400,000 EXPENDITURE, AND WE PURSUED ALL OPTIONS TO GET OUR RECORDS BUSY PASSED.
WE HAVE A STATE COMMISSIONER ALL, I'LL TRY TO ANSWER THAT.
UH, IF WE WERE GO, GO TO IT THROUGH THE RFP PROCESS, THAT'S THE COURT DECISION.
UH, IF WE WENT THROUGH THAT PROCESS, WE WOULD, UH, HAVE RPS DRIVING WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH.
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UH, I THINK WITH THE CURRENT VENDOR, UH, WE USED TO PASS THAT THEY HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH, UH, TYLER EAGLE, AND I THINK IT'S A CONVERSION FACTOR FROM IMAGES ONTO OUR SOFTWARE.UH, WE USED ON BOTH IN THE PAST.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE A PREFERRED VENDOR.
I TAKE IT, I HEARD OF TYLER EAGLE.
UH, IF WE WERE DOING RFP, WE WOULD DETERMINE WHO OFFERED THE BEST SOLUTION AS FAR AS HOW TO GET THERE.
AND THEN WE CHEAP, WE PICKED THAT BETTER TO NEGOTIATE THE PRICE.
UH, SO THE PRICE HAS BEEN NEGOTIATED THROUGH THE STATE CONTRACT, SO IT PROBABLY SKIPS A STEP, UH, SINCE AN RP IS NEGOTIATING AS WELL AS THET CONTRACT, I THINK IS THE SAME THING.
UH, BUT I STARTED EVOKING THE COURTS TO SEE YOU REQUIRED N RRP.
SO IF IT'S A STATE CONTRACT, UH, THE STATE ARE USING THIS COMPANY TO DIGITIZE THEIR RECORDS.
STATE TEXAS ON THAT TEX MASS CONTRACT IT, THAT IT'S TEXAS MULTIPLE AWARD SCHEDULE, WHAT THAT STANDS FOR.
AND IT'S A, THEY'LL HAVE A LIST OF SIX OR EIGHT 10 VENDORS ON THERE THAT HAVE SUBMITTED THEIR PRICING TO THE STATE AND THEY SEND THESE CONTRACTS AND YOU'RE FREE TO NEGOTIATE WITH THESE FOLKS.
AND SO WE HAVE A NEGOTIATED PRICE THAT YOU'RE SAYING TODAY.
UH, I CANNOT TELL YOU AS CHIEF PRICE.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT IF WE DO AN RP ONCE AGAIN, LIKE YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH, YOU DETERMINE YOU'RE GONNA REINVENT THE, WELL, YOU DETERMINE HOW THEY GONNA BUILD THE WELL WE'RE TURN THE PRICE AFTER THAT.
BUT ONCE AGAIN, IT'S A COURT OF PLEASURE PAPERWORK.
WELL, AND I GUESS THAT WOULD BE THE QUESTION IS HAS THAT BEEN DONE AT THIS POINT IN TIME THIS PARTICULAR VENDOR HAVE, HAVE, IS THIS THE FEE THAT WAS SUBMITTED INITIALLY? HAVE YOU TRIED TO WORK THROUGH CHARGES BETTER PRICE? WE HAVE NOT, UH, COMPETED, YOU KNOW, I GUESS
UH, I THINK THE RELATIONSHIP WE HAVE WITH SAY, RELATIONSHIP YOU COFO IN THE PAST, THEY, THEY GOT A ELECTION WITH EAGLE TYLER, I'LL LET WORKS SPEAK TO THAT.
WE HAD DONE SECOND PROJECT WITH, WITH COFI, AND COFI WAS ALSO ON OUR VENDOR THAT WE HAVE ON OUR CONTRACT WITH TYLER EAGLE TO DO ALL OUR INDEXING.
WE VERIFY THE INDEXING THAT COMES BACK FROM PROFILE AGAINST OUR LAND RECORDS, AND WE'RE CONFIDENT IN THEIR ABILITY TO DO THE JOB.
AND WITH THE STATE CONTRACT, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, I DON'T HAVE TO WRITE AN RFP THAT TELLS THESE VENDORS, THIS IS WHAT THE BOOK LOOKS LIKE.
THIS IS THE INFORMATION THAT THIS IS HOW I WANT IT TO BE IMAGED.
THIS IS HOW YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO BREAK IT OUT.
THIS IS HOW YOU'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND SEND THAT INFORMATION TO TYLER EAGLE TO PUT IT ON THE SYSTEM.
YOU CAN SPEND PROBABLY LESS MONEY, BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS ARE THEY DIGITIZED? RIGHT? AND ARE THEY RETRIEVABLE? AND I CAN SHOW YOU AN EXAMPLE THAT IT, IT SEEMS LIKE A VERY COSTLY ENDEAVOR, BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE RIGHT.
THEY'RE INDEXING THIS INFORMATION.
THEY'RE GONNA PUT DOWN, YOU KNOW, THE WIFE, THE HUSBAND'S NAME, THE BABY NAME, THE DATE OF MARRIAGE, AND START HERE ON THIS.
THIS IS A DEATH BOOK RIGHT NOW.
AND ON OUR DECK BOOK, SOMEBODY WANTS FOR GENEALOGY REASONS, THIS MAYBE THIS THIRD ONE HERE.
WE HAVE TO BLOCK THAT OUT, MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S THE ONLY RECORD THAT WE GET.
YOU TAKE IT IN THERE, YOU MAKE COPIES OF IT, YOU REDUCE IT, YOU SPEND A WHOLE LOT OF TIME.
I DON'T WANT GO INTO EVERY BOOK THAT I HAVE AND SAY, THIS IS WHAT THIS BOOK LOOKS LIKE.
AND FOR EVERY ONE OF THESE, YOU'RE GONNA MAKE AN INDIVIDUAL RECORD AND THEN YOU'RE GONNA INDEX THIS INFORMATION.
IT'S, I THINK WHAT YOU'RE ASKING IS, IT IS A TREMENDOUS SCOPE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE STANDPOINT OF COMMISSIONERS HAS SPENT A TON OF MONEY ON THE SECURITY AND FOR ROUTINE MAINTENANCE OF THE COURTHOUSE.
THIS IS ROUTINE MAINTENANCE FOR A COUNTY CLERK.
EXCEPT IT'S NOT A BUILDING, IT'S A RECORD.
AND I'M, AND I'M MAKING SURE THAT THESE ARE
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ACCESSIBLE AND THAT THEY'RE SECURE AND TO GO OUT EVERY TIME I WANT TO DO RESERVATION PROJECT WITH AN RP, I JUST, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S TRULY WHAT IS REQUIRED.SO YOU HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THIS COMPANY THAT, I MEAN, THAT'S A, I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING QUITE LIKE THAT.
YOU HAVE COMPLETE CONFIDENCE BECAUSE YOU'VE ALREADY USED THIS COMPANY THAT THEY'LL, THEY'LL DIGITIZE THOSE RECORDS AND THEY'LL BE IN THAT FORM.
THEY ARE, THEY ARE THE, THE, THE LARGEST PRESERVATION COMPANY IN THE UNITED STATES.
AND, AND PROBABLY HAVE THE LARGEST, WE HAVE A HISTORY WITH THEM, AND THEY'RE ALSO RIGHT NEXT DOOR IN DALLAS.
HAVE ANY PROBLEMS? SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND WHEN YOU'RE INDEXING, YOU DON'T JUST PUT IN JANE CLARK THE YEAR TO THE MONTH, THE CITY, THE STATE.
AND IF YOU EVER GO TO ANY GENEALOGY WEBSITES, YOU CAN JUST PUT IN SOMEBODY'S LAST NAME AND MAYBE AN INITIAL, AND IT'LL BRING EVERY RECORD UP, MARRIAGE, DEATH, WHATEVER.
EVEN IN, UH, SOME OF THE COURT, GALVESTON COUNTY, YOU CAN GO UNDER EACH JUDICIAL DISTRICT AND SEE THEIR COURT DOCKET AND YOU DON'T KNOW THE DOCKET NUMBER.
YOU CAN CHANGE THE OPTION TO PUT IN SOMEBODY'S NAME TO SEE WHEN THEIR COURT DATE IS AND IT'LL PULL IT UP.
THOSE ALL HAVE TO BE LIKE, INDEXED IN CERTAIN AREAS.
SO THOSE PEOPLE CAN GRASP THAT INFORMATION QUICKLY.
OH, UH, THIS IS MICHAEL COBB CASE WITH JUST GIVE A LITTLE INFORMATION.
LAURA, I MENTIONED BEFORE, UM, WE'RE CURRENTLY IN A CONTRACT WITH THE LAND RECORD DAILY INDEX.
SO THEY STAND IN THEIR DOCUMENTS, WE PULL THE DOCUMENTS BACK, OUR INDEXING MANAGERS GOT 43 YEARS EXPERIENCE.
WHEN YOU GET BACK INTO THE HANDWRITTEN RECORDS THAT BECOME VERY IMPORTANT.
UM, WE'RE PROBABLY ONE OF THE ONLY VENDORS LEFT THAT ACTUALLY DO OUR WORK IN DALLAS ON SHORE.
SO OVER THE PHILIPPINES, CHINA, INDIA, IT'S A LOWER COST OF THE PRODUCT THAT YOU GET BACK IS, IS NOT A QUALITY PRODUCT.
NOW THESE ARE SOVEREIGNTY PROJECTS ON THE VITAL SIDE.
WE'VE ACTUALLY GONE BACK TO SOVEREIGNTY ON THE LAND SIDE.
UH, WE PERFORMED FOR YEARS, UH, WORK IN LARS OFFICE, BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ON THIS TYPE OF PROJECT IS THE CONVERSION ASPECT OF IT.
ANY FACT PROJECT, ESSENTIALLY A CONVERSION, UH, PROJECT.
SO WE HAVE TO TAKE THOSE RECORDS.
WE'RE INTEGRATED INTO SEVEN VENDORS IN TEXAS AND ON THE CASE FILE SIDE, WE'RE ANALYZING THAT PROJECT.
WE SPEND ABOUT $30,000 OF OUR MONEY TO BUILD AN IMPORT UTILITY TO BE ABLE TO PUT THE CASE FILES INTO ODYSSEY BECAUSE THEY'RE TWO SEPARATE SYSTEMS. WE HAVE TYLER EAGLE, WHICH IS THE LAND.
WE HAVE ODYSSEY, WHICH IS THE CASE ABOUT.
SO THAT'S NOT AN EXPENSE OR BURDEN.
THERE'S NO OTHER VENDOR THAT HAS GONE THROUGH THAT PROCESS WITH TYLER ODYSSEY.
WE'RE THE ONLY VENDOR THAT HAS BEEN LOADING.
WE'RE DOING MULTIPLE PROJECTS NOW.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE SPENDING THAT MONEY TO BUILD THAT UTILITY.
WE'RE ACTUALLY PAYING ODYSSEY SO WE CAN DO THESE BACK CALL TYPE PROJECTS.
UM, PROJECTS THAT WE'VE, WE'VE ACTUALLY LOADED VITALS PROJECTS BACK TO SOVEREIGNTY IN TEXAS TO TYLER EAGLE SUCCESSFULLY, AND YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO CALL HIM ARE HARRISON, MORRIS WOOD HECTOR OUT IN WEST TEXAS.
HOWARD OUT IN WEST TEXAS, WARD WINKLER.
AND WE'RE STARTING WITH EASTON.
SO WE DO HAVE A TRACK RECORD OF, UM, OF PERFORMING THESE PROJECTS SUCCESSFULLY.
I HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS.
IS THERE ANY OTHER COMPANIES THAT DO THE SAME THING THAT YOU DO? THERE AREN'T COMPANIES THAT ARE INTEGRATED IN WITH TYLER EAGLE THAT HAVE ON A, ON A DAILY INDEXING BASIS.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE CONVERTING DATA ON A DAILY BASIS.
THERE ARE OTHER VENDORS, BUT NOT THAT ARE DOING BACKLOG PROJECTS.
HALF MORE THAN HALF OF THE PROJECT IS ACTUALLY FORMATTING AND CONVERTING THE DATA TO SUCCESSFULLY IMPORT BACK INTO TYLER EAGLE.
AN EXAMPLE OF THIS IS, UH, A CS DID A PROJECT.
WE'RE WE'RE CURRENTLY UNDER CONTRACT WITH YOU TO BUILD A CUSTOM IMPORT.
THERE WAS A BIRTH PROJECT THAT WE DID SUCCESSFULLY THAT WAS IMPORTED INCORRECTLY FROM A PREVIOUS CONVERSION.
IT USED TO BE AN A CS CUSTOMER, NOT TO TYLER EAGLE.
WE ARE IN THE PROCESS NOW OF CORRECTING THAT AND DOING A REPLACEMENT FILE.
AND IN THEORY, WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IS REPLACE EVERYTHING AND LOAD THESE NEW PROJECTS ALL THE SAME TIME BECAUSE THERE IS AN EXPENSE, UM, ON THE TITLE.
YOU DECIDE TO DO IMPORTS EVERY TIME YOU IMPORT A PROJECT IN, THEY CHARGE YOU A FEE.
AND YOU SAID SOMETHING EARLIER, THERE ARE COMPANIES THOUGH THAT MIGHT FOREIGN COUNTRY TO MAKE THE CONVERSION.
UH, MOST ALL OF THEM DO NOW, UH, MOST ALL
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COME IN AND FROM A VIALS PERSPECTIVE, VERY GOOD.UH, CALIFORNIA'S RUNNING INTO A LOT OF ISSUES.
IT'S JUST COMMONPLACE THAT THEY OFFSHORE THEIR, THEIR INDEXING.
BUT, UH, FOR PRIVACY ISSUES, ESPECIALLY ON VIALS RECORDS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE UP THE STREET.
THEY DON'T LEAVE OUR FACILITY.
UM, THAT'S SOMETHING TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION.
DO WE CHARGE MORE FOR THAT? YES.
IT'S, IT'S GONNA COST MORE THE QUALITY TO GET BACK.
UM, IT'S BETTER BECAUSE IT WAS REALLY BETTER.
AND JUST FROM SECURITY ISSUE, I DON'T IF YOU WANT YOUR RECORDS PROCEEDS, UH, I DON'T YOU I THINK IT'S CHEAPER TO DO IT.
THE, I SAID, YOU KNOW, WE COULD HIRE SOMEBODY FOR 20 WEEKS TO DO THIS FIRST DRIVE PIT AT THAT 42 CENTS, THE LOWER PRICE.
NOW THE BIGGER PRICES NEED TO BE THAT MUCH MORE PER SAY.
BUT, AND THEY TELL ME THAT THERE IS A WAY TO, UH, INDEX THAT WHERE SOMEBODY COULD RETREAT IT.
I SAID, ALL I SAW WAS THE SALES PRESENTATION.
WELL, AS FAR AS, UH, SCANNING YOURSELF, YOU'RE, YOU'RE PROBABLY TALKING ABOUT A, A ROLLER, A F SCANNER.
WHEN YOU GET TO THESE OLDER RECORDS, THEY, THEY'LL TEAR 'EM APART.
SO THE NICE PART ABOUT OUR COMPANY IS, IS WE CAN HANDLE THE RECORDS OR PRE PRESERVE IF THERE'S TAPE ON THE DOCUMENTS, THEY CAN MOVE THE TAPE.
IF YOU GO IN THEIR OFFICE AND LOOK AT SOME OF THE OLDER RECORDS, A LOT OF THEM, ESPECIALLY IN THOSE HOOK OR THE CORNERS ARE TATTERED.
WE DON'T, WE DON'T PUT THEM, THERE'S MULTIPLE TYPES OF SCANNERS.
WE HAVE A A HUNDRED THOUSAND SCANNER THAT WE USE LIKE THE FLATBED, YOU FLAT THE RECORD, IT CAN DAMAGE PRESS.
THE SCANNER THAT WE UTILIZE DOESN'T TOUCH THE RECORD AT ALL.
THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS PROJECT, THE BYPRODUCT OF THIS IS THAT THE RECORDS ARE DETERIORATING OVER TIME.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE GOOGLE TYPE, THEY'RE FADE.
UM, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT, WE DO WHAT'S CALLED IMAGE PROCESSING ZONE CLEANUP.
SO NOT, WE DON'T JUST SCAN IT.
WE ACTUALLY RUN PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE THAT DOES AN INITIAL CLEANING OF THE DOCUMENT.
AND THEN WE HAVE USERS THAT GO IN AND ACTUALLY WE HAVE OTHER SOFTWARE.
WE WANNA DELIVER A PERMANENT ARCHIVAL DIGITAL COPY THAT'S LOADED ON YOUR SYSTEM THAT YOU'RE
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USING TO GET THE BOOKS OUT OF, IN THIS CASE, JUST THE DEPUTY HANDS, BECAUSE THE PUBLIC CAN'T GET IN THE VIALS RECORDS, BUT GET THE BOOKS INTO A SECURE STATE.AND THEN EVERYBODY'S USING THE DIGITAL IMAGES AND INDEXES FOR AND CERTIFIED COPY.
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE LITTLE DOC DEMONSTRATED THE, THE SCANNER THING? AND THEY DID EXACTLY WHAT TALKING ABOUT, I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY TURN PAGES IS THAT IS A BOOK.
IT LOOKS JUST LIKE, IT LOOKED LIKE THE ONE THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR, UH, BROCHURE 25 AND 50.
OURS IS DOES IT ACTUALLY TURN THE PAGES? THINK SO, BUT YOU KNOW, WHEN IT CAME ON SCREEN, IT ACTUALLY AMPLIFIED THE PAINT WRITING.
IT'S PRETTY DIFFERENT LOOKING DEAL.
WHAT I'M LOOKING AT, COULD WE DO THIS IF WE HAD OUR OWN EQUIPMENT? I DUNNO IF WE COULD OR WE COULD.
I THINK ON THE BACK END YOU COULD JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY'S GONNA HAVE TO CONVERT THE DATA FORMAT.
THAT CONVERT WOULD PROBABLY BE CONVERSION PART AND THEN THE ENHANCED IMAGING, YOU KNOW, THERE'S PROBABLY SOME OUT OF THE BOX SOFTWARE, LIKE WE SAID THAT DOES SOME OF THAT INITIAL, BUT EVEN ADDITIONAL POST-PROCESSING WHERE WE GO IN AND ZONING CLEAN UP THAT HAVE THAT CAPABILITY.
AND I DON'T THINK YOU WOULD WANT EVEN A MECHANICAL, A MECHANICAL, UH, ELEMENT TURNING PAGES.
THE PAGES ARE EXTREMELY FRAGILE.
BASICALLY PUT, I TELL YOU THESE, THIS PAPER SOUND LIKE THEY'RE SO, I DUNNO ANYTHING MUCH ABOUT IT, BUT THEY SOUND LIKE THEY'RE PRETTY MUCH EXPERTS, YOU KNOW, AND I DON'T THINK WE CAUGHT BED, YOU KNOW, SCANNING, WE BOUGHT MACHINE IN SIX WEEKS OR TWO YEARS OF DERM SOFTWARE TO BE GONE AND WOULDN'T BE ANY SUPPORT FOR WORK AND ALL THAT STUFF.
YOU KNOW, UH, MS. HUGHES HAS, SOUNDS LIKE SHE HAS CONFIDENCE IN THIS COMPANY.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A, THAT'S A PRETTY PRECIOUS DOCUMENT RIGHT THERE IN THAT OTHER BOOK IS, I DUNNO HOW MANY OF THESE THERE IS.
MUST BE HUNDREDS OF BOOKS LIKE THIS, HUH? ANYWAY, I TELL YOU, LIKE, IF THEY EVER GONNA GET IT DONE, YOU KNOW, UH, IT LOOKS LIKE WE NEED TO GO AHEAD AND, AND LET MS. HUGHE GET STARTED GETTING IN THERE.
LET THIS GENTLEMAN HERE GET STARTED GETTING IT DONE.
SO I KNOW THAT WE, UH, UH, APPROVE THE CONTRACT WITH COFI FOR CRIMINAL CASE FILE OUR WHATEVER.
ALRIGHT, WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER.
I GOT A COMMENT AND A SECOND FOR COMMISSIONER SHANE.
UH, THESE FEES ARE ALREADY PAID FOR.
THEY'RE, THIS IS MONEY THAT YOU'VE ALREADY COLLECTED FROM, UH, FROM FEES THAT ARE PAID TO THE COUNTY FOR LOOKING AT THE ARCHIVES AND THINGS, RIGHT? YES, SIR.
RAY, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? NOW, UH, MAYBE I JUST HAD A QUESTION NOT ON THAT PART, BUT WHAT DOES THE TERMINOLOGY, UH, GEOGRAPHICALLY INDEX PUBLIC RECORDS? WHAT DOES GEOGRAPHIC INDEX MEAN? WHAT THE SINGLE APPRAISAL DISTRICT DOES WHEN YOU, UM, YOU FILE A DEED IN MY OFFICE THAT SAYS YOU'RE BUYING THIS PIECE OF PROPERTY AND IT GOES IN BY MEETS AND BOUNDS, THE SINGLE APPRAISAL DISTRICT GOES IN AND MAKES IT A MAP AND THEY SAY, I CAN'T GO IN THERE AND TURN THE DE SO WE DON'T MAP.
THAT LITTLE STATUTE IN LAW HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH US THEN.
OTHER QUESTIONS? ANYBODY? ALRIGHT, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
THANK UH, WE DON'T LEAVE YOU YET.
SO WORK, UH, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ENTERING INTO A CONTRACT PROFILE FOR A VIABLE RECORDS IMAGING PROJECT AND INDEX 161 YEARS KAUFMAN COUNTY MARRIAGE DEATH AND BIRTH RECORDS UTILIZING, UH, TEXMEX THIRTEEN THIRTY SIX OH ONE OH CONTRACT IN AMOUNT OF 258, UH, 2 58 9 PER LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE ONE TWO COUNTY CLERK RECORDS PRESERVATION FEE.
JUDGE, THIS IS A, A VERY THING THAT IT'S, IT'S A DIFFERENT TYPE OF THING THEY'RE INDEXING, UH, BUT IT'S ALSO OWN TEXT CONTRACT AS WELL.
I, IT FALLS UNDER THE SAME CATEGORY, UH, WE JUST DISCUSSED.
BASED ON THAT, I MAKE A RECOMMENDATION, UH, TO AVOID THAT CONTRACT VIA, OKAY, DO WE HAVE, UH, I'LL MAKE MOTION.
ALRIGHT, WE HAVE A MOTION FOR COMMISSIONER SHANE.
SECOND, UH, COMMISSIONER MANNING ALL,
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ANY OTHER DISCUSSIONS ALL IN, SAY I OR OPPOSED? I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, WE CAN SIT HERE ABOUT AN HOUR AND 35, ABOUT 40 MINUTES.LET'S TAKE A QUICK BREAK AND WE'LL COME BACK AND FINISH UP MOVING WITH, UH, ITEM NUMBER 17 TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ENTERING INTO A CONTRACT WITH, UH, PLEX GR FOR UPGRADES TO ACCESS CONTROLS AT TON COUNTY DETENTION CENTER.
UTILIZING, UH, THIS CONTRACT AGAIN, TXM A S FIVE DASH 84 7 CONTRACT.
ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE, $10,000 OBJECT.
JUDGE HANDED MY ATTENTION, UH, LATE, UH, LAST WEEK.
WE HAVE, UH, ACCESS CONTROL ISSUES AT THE, UH, COUNTY JAIL.
UH, AS YOU'RE AWARE OF THOSE THINGS, CLOSED DOORS ALL DAY LONG AND, AND I THINK THEY'RE AT END.
USE THE TERM GEORGE USES THE END OF LIFE AND, UH, I THINK THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS, UH, HAS A PLAN.
I THINK THEY WANT TO REPAIR THE FIRST POD AT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
I THINK WE'RE GONNA DO STAGES, MAYBE DO ONE EACH YEAR.
UH, ONCE GET TMA CONTRACT, UH, FLEX INSTALLED THAT EQUIPMENT, THE JAIL WAS BUILT, UH, THIS PROBABLY WOULD QUALIFY FOR A SOLE SOURCE.
UH, I DON'T LIKE TO USE SOME SORT UNLESS I HAVE TO.
UH, BUT IT IS ON TEXT CONTRACT.
UH, AND I THINK WE'RE GETTING 47% OFF OF THE LIST PRICE.
THEY'RE WORKING UP THE, UH, LIFT PEAK AND I THINK IT ALL HAS TO TIE IN TOGETHER, UH, TO WORK WITH OTHER AREAS.
UH, BE GLAD, LET SHERIFF SPEAK TO THAT.
WHAT THIS IS BEFORE WE, THE DOOR BEFORE WE REMOTE CONTROL THEM FOR CENTRAL CONTROL.
ALSO THE INTERCOM SYSTEM WORKS THROUGH THAT SAME SYSTEM.
AND WHAT HAPPENS IS WE'VE GOT WHAT THEY CALL CONTROL BOARDS AND THOSE ARE AT END OF LIFE THAT ARE STARTING TO BURN OUT.
WE'VE EXPERIENCED SOME PROBLEMS IN, IN APOD.
WE'VE JUST MOVED PEOPLE AROUND IN THERE.
UH, WE ARE STARTING TO EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS IN THE FEMALE SIDE.
AND THE PROBLEM THERE IS THAT IF WE GET WHERE WE CAN'T BE IN COMPLIANCE, THEN WE WOULD'VE TO BOARD PRISONER.
SO THERE'S NO OTHER PLACE TO PUT THEM IN THE JAIL.
THEY HAVE TO BE SEPARATED BY SIDE OF THE SOUND.
THIS, UH, PLAN WOULD GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY.
WE'LL TAKE ALL OF THESE, UH, PARTS OF THE ELEMENTS OF COMPONENTS OUT THERE ARE STILL OPERABLE AND, AND USE THEM TO, UH, REPAIR OTHER FAILURE.
WE HAVE THAT JUST, UH, HUNDRED $10,000 THAT I THINK 109 CHANGE ACTUALLY FOR A, THAT'S A PRICE FOR 192 BED, UH, POD.
I WOULD ASSUME IT'S GOING BE A LITTLE CHEAPER THAT, UH, ONLY NINE, SIX BED, UH, 109 SOMETHING WAS EXACTLY WHAT THAT WAS FOR A 192 BED POD.
SO WE DO HAVE A LITTLE PROBLEM IN THE A POD.
WE'VE BEEN ABLE MOVING THEM AROUND, UH, THE DOORS.
WE CAN ACTUALLY UP TO OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE OUT.
WE CAN STILL MANUALLY OPERATE THAT, BUT THERE'S NO WAY TO GET AROUND THE, UH, INTERCOM.
WE HAVE TO HAVE COMMUNICATION WITH BEAR OBVIOUS REASONS AND, UH, THE, UH, LIABILITY OF SOMETHING HAPPENED PLUS THE, YOU KNOW, THE HUMAN FACTOR WAS SOMEBODY HURT NECESSARILY.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE, IT'S JUST IN THAT NINE YEARS OLD AND THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T SUPPORT AT ALL.
THERE'S NO PART THEY DON'T HAVE ANY SPARE PARTS SPARE.
SO I WOULD UH, ASK, YOU KNOW, WE BE ALLOWED TO GO DO THAT, THAT FEMALE POD AND REST.
SO THE HUNDRED 10,000 BID IS FOR 192 BED FACILITY.
AND THEN, BUT THERE'S HOW MANY, UH, HOW MANY BEDS IN THE POD YOU GOING READ THIS YEAR? 1, 9 2.
BUT YOU CAN YOU THINK IT'S GOING TO BE LESS THAN A 10? YEAH, BECAUSE THIS, THE FEMALES A 96 BED.
I DUNNO IF THE PRICE GONNA BE HALF, BUT IT'S, IT WILL BE, SHOULD BE, WOULD THERE BE MORE CONTROLS OR MORE INTERCOMS OR
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MORE DOORS FOR THE 1 92 VERSUS NINE SIX? YEAH, YOU GOT PRICE BIG.I THINK INITIALLY WHEN I GOT THE CALL THERE, THERE WERE GONNA WORK ON ONE AREA AND CHANGE SCOPE.
SO THE PRICE WOULD BE FOR A EIGHT OR OTHER THAN THE FEMALE PRODUCT.
THAT'S THE PRICE THEY, THEY GAVE US S**T, WE DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE PRICE, I GUESS THEY'RE GETTING THAT TOGETHER.
THAT'S PROBABLY GAVE ME, GAVE ME LATE, UH, I GUESS IT WAS, UH, MID THURSDAY AND THE SCOPE WAS CHANGING AND I PUT THAT IN KIND OF A MAX PRICE.
UH, 'CAUSE THE SCOPE CALLED THIS CHAIN SPEAK, BUT THERE WAS A DESIRE TO GET ON THE
YEAH, WE'LL PUT THEM ON THE SHELF, THE ONES THAT ARE STILL OPERABLE AND USE THEM TO REPLACE ANYTHING THAT FAILS IN THE OTHER PART OF THE JAIL THAT WE CAN MIGRATE THROUGH ON IT.
WE LIKE ABOUT A THREE YEAR, UH, WE'VE GOT TWO PODS AND THEN YOU GOT THE, WE CALL IT SEA SAIL.
A SEA AISLE THERE WHERE ALL OF THE UH, UH, SEGREGATION ADMINISTRATIVE CELLS ARE.
SO LIKE DOING ACTUALLY FOUR PHASES BEFORE WE DO THIS ONE.
A POD AND THAT THAT, UH, UH, C HALL, WE HAVE THE MONEY BUDGETED FOR THIS.
DO WE HAVE THE MONEY BUDGETED FOR THIS? NO, WE'VE GOT SOME EXCESS SALARY MONEY THAT, UH, I TALKED TO ABOUT, UH, PUT ON THAT.
I THINK WE ABOUT, IF WE GET THAT OUT, UH, THROUGH THE END OF FISCAL YEAR, I THINK WE END UP WITH ABOUT, UH, UH, TWO 60 BACK THERE.
AND ABOUT RIGHT NOW ABOUT 40 FRONT.
AND THE OTHER THING I'VE TALKED TO THE SHERIFF ABOUT INTO, UH, JACK AS WELL, I BELIEVE YOU HAVE 51 DIFFERENT VEHICLES AND UH, TRAILERS AND UH, TRACK OFF WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT UH, 51 DIFFERENT THINGS YOU'RE GOING TO BE TURNING INTO, UH, HAVE A AUCTION AND IT WOULD BE HELPFUL, UH, AS WE DISCUSSED, IF WE COULD GET THAT AND WE HAVE SOME OTHER THINGS, YOU KNOW, UH, TO GET THAT HANDLED BEFORE THE END OF THE BUDGET YEAR AS WELL, THAT MONEY CAN PERHAPS HELP OFFSET SOME OF THIS EXPENSE.
I MEAN, IT WOULD ALL GO INTO THE GENERAL FUND, BUT I MEAN IT WOULD STILL, YOU WOULD STILL HELP OFFSET SOME DOES WE DECIDE VEHICLES TODAY? I GUESS WE NEED TO PUT THAT ON THE AGENDA NEXT TIME.
I'LL PUT ON NEXT TIME FOR THAT.
WE'LL PROBABLY GATHER THOSE UP AT THE, I THINK THAT THAT'S PLAN WE NEED TO GET AROUND.
UH, MAYBE MOVE IT ON ONE CORNER OR SOMETHING AND UH, I THINK THERE, THERE'S SOME TRAILERS OVER STILL.
I THINK THERE'S VERY FEW OVER THERE, BUT THERE WE'VE GOT ONE CAR AND THE COMMISSIONERS HAVE STUFF TOO.
WE ARE, WE'RE DRIVING EIGHTIES MODELS TO PICK UP THERE.
WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S GOT NEEDS.
I'LL TELL YOU IT'S BEEN TOUGH THREE YEARS, THREE OR FOUR YEARS.
IF, IF THEY DO WANT OF, THEY JUST CONTACT YOU IF THEY WANT TO COME SURVEY, SURE.
JUST CONTACT YOU AND GO OUT AND SEE WHAT HE'S DOING.
I KNOW YOU GOT SEVERAL TRAILER, 18 FOOT TRAILER IN YOUR BUDGET BOOK BEHIND THE JAIL IS A LISTING OF ALL THOSE THAT HE WANTS TO SUBMIT.
OTHER QUESTIONS, JACK, FOR THE SHERIFF, THE PARTS THAT Y'ALL ARE GONNA RETRIEVE FROM IS GONNA BE REPLACED WHEN THEY'RE TO BE USED ON REPAIRING SOME OF THE OTHER YEAH.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT THE FOUR OR FIVE MAINTENANCE GUYS OUT THERE WILL DO OR WILL THE COME YEAH, I THINK THEY CAN DO THAT.
SO IT WON'T BE AN ADDITIONAL COST TO HIRE THIS.
IT'S JUST A MATTER OF PLUGGING THE BOARDS IN AND THAT COMMISSION NOT RIGHT.
REAL DEPTH ON ELECTRONIC, I THINK IN THAT BUDGET BOOK, IT HAD SOME DRAWINGS OF SCHEMATICS.
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BOOK IT HAD SOME DRAWINGS AND SCHEMATICS OF CONTROL PANELS AND STUFF.THAT WAS ON THE B POD THAT HE SUBMITTED? YEAH.
THEY'RE BASICALLY THE SAME IT'S THING, HUH? THE SAME CONFIGURATOR, RIGHT? RIGHT.
WELL IT DIDN'T LOOK TOO COMPLICATED.
IF YOU REMOVE THE CIRCUIT BOARD RIGHT MODULE POWER MODULE IN OUT AND THOSE CAN'T BE BOUGHT, THEY CAN'T BE MANUFACTURED OR NO, GR IS GONNA, UH, HAVE MANUFACTURE.
SO THERE'S THAT, THAT PART THAT WE'VE GOT NOW IS JUST, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO SUPPORT.
YOU, IT'S LIKE EVERYTHING THAT YOU GET, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY ELECTRONICS IS THE POINT WHERE THEY SUPPORTED.
WE'RE AT THAT POINT ON OUR CONSOLES THAT ARE NINE YEARS AGO.
YOU KNOW, IF WE CAN'T FIND A A PART IF ONE OF OUR RADIO CONSOLES GO DOWN THAT'S AT THE DISPATCH.
WHICH WE AS PART OF THE 9 1 1 PROJECT.
WE'LL BE SO, YOU KNOW, IS THAT COMMON FOR STUFF OVER THE LAST EIGHT OR NINE YEARS OR LESS? YEAH, I I MEAN I CAN'T IMAGINE HOW MANY TIMES, YOU KNOW, THOSE DOORS BEEN OPEN HONOR, BUT I MEAN THEY, THEY INTENTIONALLY, I GUESS WHAT I'M ASKING, THEY PROBABLY INTENTIONALLY OUTDATED EVERY EIGHT OR 10 YEARS TO I THINK SO NEW STUFF.
IT'S LIKE GETTING A, YOU KNOW, NEW CELL PHONE OR SOMETHING.
UH, AND ONCE YOU CAN'T GET YOU A PARTS FOR THEN YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN TROUBLE.
IT'S KIND LIKE TELL PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT NO TUB, YOU WANNA GO GET IT FIXED.
IT MAY BE CHEAPER JUST TO BUY NEW, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE TECHNOLOGY'S CHANGED SO MUCH.
WELL, TECHNOLOGY'S WONDERFUL, BUT IT, YOU KNOW, IT DOES WEAR OUT AND IT'S OLD KEY IN THE LOCK.
THEY, WE LOCKS THAT WERE MANUALLY WORN OUT.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IT'S, EVERYTHING IS WAS GOING, GOING WEAR OUT.
THEY BOUGHT LESS THAN 110,000.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT COMING IN THIS DEAL AT 110,000 OR LESS.
OTHER QUESTIONS? NO, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO, INTO A CONTRACT JUST AS CHIEF AS WE CAN TO GET BY.
UH, COMMISSIONER SHANE MAKES THAT MOTION.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR PLATE.
ITEM NUMBER 18 IS TO DISCUSS AND ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH FACILITY SOLUTIONS GROUP TO FURNISH AND INSTALL ENERGY SAVING LIGHTING AND EQUIVALENT IN VARIOUS COUNTIES BUILDINGS UTILIZING BILLBOARDS CONTRACT 360 8 DASH 10 AND 3 75 DASH 11.
YOU BETTER REMEMBER WE HAD A DISCUSSION HERE A FEW MONTHS BACK ABOUT, UH, ONCE SAME LIGHT EQUIPMENT AND IN, UH, ONE OR BUILDINGS INITIALLY GOING IN THE COURTHOUSE.
AND, UH, I, THERE WAS AN ESTIMATE AT THAT TIME THAT SOMEWHERE AROUND 25,000 I BELIEVE WAS THAT, UH, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT NOW, WE'VE GOT THIS VENDOR IS ON BUYBOARD.
IT'S A BUYBOARD CONTRACT VENDOR, UH, THAT SPECIALIZE IN, IN, UH, ENERGY SAVING LINING EQUIPMENT AND INSTALLATION.
AND WE HAVE, UH, THEY HAVE COME OUT AND, AND LOOKED AT SEVERAL BUILDINGS.
WE'RE LOOKING AT THE COURTHOUSE.
40 SUB COURTHOUSE, JUVENILE, UH, PROBATIONARY, UH, THE LIBRARY KEPT SUB COURTHOUSE AND THE ATEX, I THINK ORIGINALLY THE ANNEX WAS STOLEN.
THIS ANNEX GONE ON HERE, BEEN REMOVED FOR THE UPCOMING PREMISES BUILDING.
UH, SCOPE OF WORK TO DO ALL THAT, UH, IS 64786.74.
UH, NOW THE, THE, UH, I THINK THE MATERIAL MATERIAL ONLY IN THE, UH, MAIN COURTHOUSE, LIKE OUR FOLKS WILL INSTALL LINING AND EQUIPMENT THERE.
THE REST OF THE AREA, THEY WILL, THAT INCLUDES ALL THE, UH, LABOR AND EQUIPMENT.
UH, IT ALSO HAS SOME, UH, OF THE, UH, EQUIPMENT, LOT EQUIPMENT WHEN YOU LEAVE THE AREA, LIGHTS GO OFF, THAT TYPE THING.
UH, THERE AGAIN, THE PRICE IS 6, 4, 7, 8, 6, JUST SHORT, SHORT OF SIX 5,000.
OFFICER, THERE'S AN INCENTIVE.
UH, WE GET BACK, GET THIS DONE BY OCTOBER ONE.
WE GET BACK, UH, 14,000 1 98 AND CHANGE ROUGHLY 14,000.
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THESE CHANGES, UH, KIND OF A, UH, INCENTIVE PROGRAM.UH, AND THEN WE HAVE THE ESTIMATED THESE FOLKS HAVE ESTIMATED THE SAVINGS BY DOING ALL THESE BUILDINGS.
UH, HAVE YOU SAVINGS OF 13,367 A YEAR SAVINGS GOING THE TA UH, IF MY MATH IS CORRECT, I THINK IT'LL PAY FOR SOMETHING ABOUT FOUR YEARS.
YEAH, WHICH TIME IT'LL BE OUT.
DON'T BE ABLE TO, LOT OF THIS APPARENTLY HAS MOTION SENSORS ON.
THERE IS SOME CUTS, THE LIGHTS OFF AND THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF AN ISSUE WE HAVE IN DIFFERENT PLACES WHERE PEOPLE LEAVE BUILDING OR LEAVE A, UH, YOU KNOW, HEARD STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE COMING IN ON THE WEEKENDS AND FIND A WHOLE OFFICE.
YOU KNOW, I HAD ONE OF THOSE BACK YEARS AGO AND THIS STUFF FIRST STARTED COMING OUT AS VERY, VERY, UH, PRELIMINARY, YOU KNOW, STUFF I HAD TO PUT IN MY OFFICE WITH SCOOTER AND I MEAN THEY'D GO OFF, BUT I MEAN THEY'D TURN THE LIGHTS OFF, BUT YOU MIGHT BE SITTING IN YOUR DIDN'T, HOW LONG DID THOSE LAST, YOU KNOW? WELL, THEY'RE STILL WORKING.
YOU KNOW, WE TRY TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE IT BE QUITE NOT SO, YOU KNOW, SO THEY'D BE A LITTLE MORE RIGHT.
BUT THIS WAS, I MEAN THIS WAS LIKE 15, 20 YEARS AGO.
SO I'M SURE THE ADD ADD TO THIS, UH, THIS, THIS SCOPE HAS CHANGED SOMEWHAT.
UH, THIS PROPOSAL DOES INCLUDE QUITE A FEW PICTURES, NOT JUST, UH, LAMPS AND BALLS.
WE'VE GOT SOME ISSUES IN SOME OF THE BUILDINGS WHERE THE END CAPS WHERE YOU PUT THE BALL IN.
BEEN UNDER THE SO LONG MORE EQUIPMENT INVOLVED IN THIS.
ONCE AGAIN, WE GET BACK 14,000 AND I THINK A MAKE, SO IT, THE, THE TOTAL OF CONTRACT IS 6 4 7 86.
WHAT IS THE FUND RESOURCE FOR THIS? IT'LL COME OUT THE, UH, COURTHOUSE, UH, UH, SECURE, NOT SECURITY, BUT THE COURTHOUSE, THE THE MAINTENANCE FUND.
DIDN'T WE GET A GRANT UPGRADE OR, WELL, THAT'S WHAT THIS IS.
THAT THAT IS, THAT IS THE GRANT.
NOW THE, THE DIFFERENCE IN THIS IS SOME OF THIS WORK WILL PROBABLY DONE THAT TIME AND WE'LL HAVE TO COORDINATE THIS COMPANY.
THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, OUR OVER HERE COORDINATE YOU AND WHEN THEY CAN GET INTO YOUR FACILITIES, DO THAT.
I SURPRISED, AS JACK SAID, IT DOESN'T INCLUDE ANYTHING IN THIS BUILDING BECAUSE WE DECIDED HERE THAT WE DIDN'T FEEL LIKE WOULD BE GOOD TIME TO DO THAT.
SO WE'LL COME BACK AND I WOULD QUESTION GREAT ON CLARIFICATIONS.
NUMBER FIVE, ANY ADDITIONAL NECESSARY WORK NEED TO BE DONE SINCE YOU'RE CLEARING OLD AND BRITTLE SOCKETS OR WIRING CAN BE DONE AT AN ADDITIONAL COST.
UM, LET'S JUST BE SURE THAT SOMEBODY'S STANDING AROUND IN THOSE OFFICES.
OH, THAT PLUG DOESN'T WORK RIGHT THERE.
LET'S MAKE SURE THAT, THAT THE GUYS DON'T JUST FIX A PLUG JUST BECAUSE ONE OF THEM EMPLOYEES THAT'S STANDING AROUND AT OFFICES THAT PLUG DON'T WORK.
LET'S MAKE SURE THAT THEY DON'T DO THAT WITHOUT, UH, HIGHER UP.
COULD WE MIGHT HAVE TO HAVE SOME MAINTENANCE OR YOUR ABILITY GET YOUR APPROVAL.
THAT GOES BACK TO WHAT I TALKING ABOUT EARLIER ABOUT PRO PARTS, RIGHT? SOME OF THE NEW FIXTURES ADDRESS THAT.
THERE WILL BE SOME THAT, AND IN THAT REGARD, JUST SO Y'ALL KNOW, WE HAD THE, UH, A LARRY, UH, UNIT, USE
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THE DEPARTMENT TO GO THROUGH AND DO A KIND OF A, A SURVEY ON ALL OF OUR FACILITIES SAFETY SURVEY AND UH, AND CHANGING OUT, WE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE OUT NO LONGER WORKING OR IT DOESN'T HAVE A COVER ON IT OR THINGS LIKE THAT.SO THEY'RE DOING THAT EVEN AS WE AS, AS WE SPEAK.
BUT WE'LL BE DOING THE WORK ON IN THE, AND WE PROBABLY IN THIS, THE FOLKS THAT SOME, THE FOLKS THAT AT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE HELP DO THAT.
AND I THINK THEY HAVE A LIFT WE CAN USE BECAUSE SOME OF THOSE, YOU KNOW, AND JUDGE I HAVE HERE, I'M A SUBSTITUTE FOR QUAR THIS MORNING BECAUSE SHE'S LIKE HUNDRED 56 NEW LENSES THAT WERE ARE INCLUDED AS PRICE.
WELL AND UH, I'M ASSUMING THAT MAYBE SOME OF THE LINE WE TAKE OUT, I COULD BE USED SOMEWHERE ELSE.
YOU KNOW, SOUTH CAMPUS OR, ALRIGHT, YOU HAVE DISCUSSION ON MS. ALLEN.
I THINK IT'LL START, START HOPEFULLY SEEING SOME IMMEDIATE SAVINGS AND UH, DO WHAT? SO I MOVE THAT WE ENTER INTO A CONTRACT FACILITY SOLUTION GROUP FURNACE INSTALL ENERGY SAVING LAG EQUIPMENT USING THE CONTRACT.
UH, ANY OTHER DISCUSSIONS? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
THANK SENDING I'LL THAT SIMPLE GET A YOU MAY HAVE YOU WANNA, THAT MUST BE ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT YES.
IS THAT SOMETHING THINK WAS ON? YES SIR.
WHICH IS UH, THAT THAT'S THAT'S THE SOUTHERN SOFTWARE STUFF THAT WE YES.
AND IT HAD BEEN, UH, WE'VE BEEN PAYING ON I THINK THIS YEAR, THIS COMING YEAR IS THE LAST YEAR THE LAST PAYMENT.
BUT THEN THE AUDITOR OUTSIDE AUDITOR WANT YOU TO MOVE IT TO A DIFFERENT, THEY ASKED ME TO SPLIT ALL THESE PAYMENTS TO SHOW PRINCIPAL INTEREST AND THAT SHOW UP.
OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TRANSFERS?
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ALRIGHT, WE HAVE A MOTION FROM MANNING.WE ACCEPT THE ITEM TRANSFER RECOMMENDED BY THE DISCUSSION.
DISCUSS AND CONSIDER CLAIM CLAIMS PER PAYMENT ARE 1,000,400 $72,902 AT 19 CENTS.
YOU GOT THREE WEEKS WORTH OF BIDS JOHNNY PRESENTED TO.
AND SO, OH, IT'S ONE OF THE SMALL DOWN THERE.
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YEAH, IT WAS ON THE EMERGENCY LINE SEVEN.ALL ONE PAGE COPIES OF THE ACTUAL, OKAY, DON'T PAY ANYMORE.
WHAT WAS IT? IT WAS FOR THREE DAYS BUT THEY DIDN'T SHOW US ANY BACKUP.
SO I'M GONNA IT UH, RIGHT HERE.
WE GOT COMMISSION NAMED REASON FOR THAT.
MAY MAKE SURE THAT YOU, BUT I'M TRYING TO GET ALL MINE CHANGED FROM SOME OF MY STUFF IS CHANGED AND SOME OF IT'S SO I'M TRYING TO GET THEY WOULD USE LESS AINT IT? DOES I I TWO PAGES.
ARE THEY KEEPING THAT WITH THE PICKUP? KEEPING THAT WITH THE PICKUP? I MEAN THE CONTAINERS CHARGE, WHAT'S THE 600 COMING FROM? THAT'S, THAT'S A WEEKLY 12.
WE DIDN'T IT'S GONNA BE IN THE PART.
WAS SHE PICKING THAT FOR 600? RECYCLING.
RECYCLING CONTAINER? WAS SHE NOT? WELL WE ONCE A WEEK.
WHAT WE, WHAT WE GONNA BUY TWO SMALLER CONTAINERS THAT THEY'LL COME GET WHENEVER THEY'RE FULL.
SO IT UP BEING LESS THAN, THAN $1,200.
WE HAVE WHEN FULL HALF EMPTY OR WHATEVER NOW WEEKLY, BUT I'M SURE FULL WEEKLY ONE THE JAIL AND
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I'M GIVING IT THIS WHOLE HOLD YOUR HEART.THIS GETTING READY, I'M, I KEPT ASKING WHEN DOES A DUMP TRUCK PRECINCT PI OUT THE SIDE OF THE BLOCK? DETERMINE WHAT END LIFE IS ON SOME OF YOUR EQUIPMENT.
SAYS PRECINCT 7,000, 50,000, 6,000.
WE DIDN'T OKAY, JUST DUMB OUT.
ALSO LET YOU KNOW SHE DIDN'T GO PURCHASE A PURCHASE ORDER.
OH SHE DIDN'T? THAT'S NOT GOOD.
SHE, HE'S ALREADY DONE SECOND LOOK WE WERE LOOKING AT WHOLE QUICKER.
I THOUGHT YOU, DID YOU GET UM, THE CHECKS FROM THE JUDICIARY YOU SENT RECEIVED CHECKS FROM THE JUDICIARY? 26TH 11 WHAT DATE? CHECK TO SEE IF, OKAY, THAT IS THE EMERGENCY RUN.
SHE NOT EMPLOYEE AND I'LL FIND IT.
SHE MAY PASSED I GUESS MAKE A COPY.
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YEAH, IT WAS THE OTHER ONE THAT USED TO BE AN AUDITOR.YEAH, BUT DIDN'T SHE WORK FOR HIM TOO? I CAN'T REMEMBER.
I REMEMBER ONE WE UTILITY ONLINE.
WELL LEMME TELL YOU, UH, PAM'S, I GOT ON PROJECT THAT'S GOING TO SHOW UH, WHAT WE, SO WE CAN VERIFY THESE SAVINGS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO DO AND SHE'S PUTTING ALL THE METERS ON.
NACO HAS CONTROL UH, FIRST YEAR AND SO YOU'LL BE ABLE TO LOOK THROUGH AND SEE WHAT EACH METER REGISTERS AND WHAT THE BILL ONE YEAR TO THE NEXT AND THAT'S IT THINK KEEPS UP WITH WEATHER COLD.
YOU KNOW, IT SHOULD, WE SHOULD START SEEING SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS.
THEY ALMOST HAVE TO GO BACK TWO OR THREE YEARS QUITE WHILE IT AND THEN THE RATES CHANGE SO WELL AND OUR RATES.
BUT OUR RATE POWER FROM I THINK JANUARY NEXT YEAR, 9 CENTS KILOWATT HOUR SAYS AND IT'S A BUNCH OF LIKE HUNDRED DIFFERENT COUNTIES WENT WITH IT AND NEGOTIATED CONTRACT NATURAL GAS WAS SIGNIFICANT BUT WE'LL SEE.
TEN TWO HUNDRED EMERGENCY ROOM.
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OKAY.OH THAT'S CELL PHONE AIRPORT, THAT'S THE AIR CAR.
DOES IT BE IT'S UNDER GEORGE'S.
WE NEED TO FIND OUT FROM, WELL THAT'S IT.
GEORGE OR SOMEBODY SHOULD BE SIGNING THOSE, HIM OR LAUREN BEFORE WE PAY THEM.
WHY IS PROCESS CHANGED? AREN'T SIGNING OFF ON STUFF AND THIS ONE IS A LINE ITEM, YOU KNOW, COMBINE IT.
BUT THAT'S, I NEVER HAD HUNDRED PERCENT I HAVE TAXES.
IT'S IS THAT CORRECT? I THINK SO.
NOT SURE FIVE CHAIRS? NO YOU CAN STAND IN THAT CHAIR AND CHANGE IT EASY IF YOU'RE TALL.
HAVE YOU? YEAH, BUT I ALWAYS MAKE SURE IT'S CORRECT.
I HAVE BEEN IN HERE A COUPLE TIMES, SOMEBODY BEFORE TO GET OUT WHAT TO DO.
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CLARK TRYING TO CATCH SOMEBODY BEING LATE THIS WEEK.THEY'VE GOT SIX KIDS SO HE HAD TO STAY UP THERE WHILE SHE CAME THIS WEEK WORKING.
WHERE'S THAT HOSPITAL AT MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.
HOW'S WIFE DO YOU KNOW? I JUST SENT AN EMAIL, TEXT, ABDOMINAL WEEKEND LINE ITEM TRANSFER BACK, SAID ANSWER QUESTIONS.
WE WOULDN'T UNDERSTOOD WHAT HE SAID ANYWAY ABOUT THE COMPUTER LINE ITEM TRANSFER.
UH, WELL YOU KIND OF LOOKED AT ME WHEN YOU SAID THAT
AND DID YOU HAVE ANY BUDGET AMENDMENT BEEN ON FOR SEVEN YEARS? MY WIFE.
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OH, AWESOME.ABOUT 20, 21 YEARS AGO THEY TOOK TWO TUMORS, A THIRD OF THE LIVER AND THEIR GALLBLADDER OUT AND THERE WAS TWO SMALL TUMORS, COMPLETELY THREE AND A HALF CENTIMETERS NOW.
BUT THEY WERE AFRAID, YOU KNOW, THEY WENT THE BOX AND IT'S NOT CANCER.
SO BAD NEWS IS IT STILL CAUSES A LOT OF PAIN.
DON'T GUESS THERE'S ANYTHING OTHER THAN TAKING IT OUT.
THE JUICE COULD BE WORSE THAN A SQUEEZE.
DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE FOUR INCHES, INCHES, FIELDS YOU CAN SAY YEAH.
I THAT'S ALL THE BILLS THAT IT? YES SIR.
I UNDERSTAND THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE PLAINTIFF.
MR. SHANE MAKES THAT MOTION TO HAVE SECOND.
MOTION TO ADJOURN MAKES THAT MOTION.
OKAY MR. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
SO OPPOSED, SEE YOU MORNING EIGHT 30 AND I'M MAKE ABOUT TWO OR THREE WEEKS.