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AND I THINK WE GOT, WE WERE AT EMPLOYEE INSURANCE AND, UH, WORKERS' COMPENSATION.HAVE THEY SENT US, HAVE YOU FIGURES, UH, YET ON THAT? THEY COME IN AND YEAH.
THAT'S A LITTLE LATER IN THE YEAR.
BUT WE'LL GET MEDICAL AND DENTAL COMING UP IN THE NEXT YEAH.
ON WORKER'S COMP, WHICH IS THE NEXT ONE.
UH, WHAT DID, IS THAT WHAT WE ACTUALLY PAID AND WHEN DID WE PAY IT? I THINK WE, I THINK WE GET THAT NUMBER IN LIKE DECEMBER OR JANUARY.
WE, THE WORKERS' COMP, UHHUH
SO IS THIS THROUGH, WE PAID THROUGH JUNE.
WE HAVE ONE MORE QUARTER TO PAY.
I THINK JUST, JUST TO CLARIFY, I THINK WHAT Y'ALL ARE LOOKING AT IS THE PAGE FROM THIS CURRENT YEAR'S BUDGET.
THIS ISN'T THE SAME WORKSHEET AS WE'RE EMAILING EVERYONE ELSE.
SO I, I KIND OF, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT.
SO WE DON'T HAVE THE BUDGET THROUGH MARCH 31.
BECAUSE BASICALLY THESE NUMBERS WOULD'VE BEEN FOR ROUGHLY EIGHT TO NINE MONTHS OF LAST YEAR'S BUDGET.
SO WHERE ARE WE ON THAT, ON THAT NUMBER NOW? I SHOW, WELL, JUST WHAT IS THE 20 WE JUST PAID? WE JUST PAID IN JUNE.
SO WE HAVE, UH, PAID $305, 305,496.
WE'RE PAYING ABOUT ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS OF IT'S 91.
BUT THEN THEY SENT US AN EXTRA EXTRA BILL OF ABOUT 30 SOMETHING THOUSAND I THINK.
WE USED IT BUDGET OUT PRETTY, PRETTY TIGHT.
WHEN DID THAT COME IN? TODAY? I WAS, FOR SOME REASON I THOUGHT IT HAD DECLINED SOME BECAUSE WE DONE A BETTER JOB ON PLANES AND STUFF.
BUT, UH, DID LAST YEAR, YEAR WE WIND UP PAYING THEM 340 2003 42.
AND IS THAT THEY GET, THERE MIGHT BE A REFUND AT SOME POINT, I GUESS WHEN THEY AUDIT IT, THERE COULD BE A REFUND AS WELL.
EMPLOYMENT, THEY, WE GET UNEMPLOYED.
WE, THEY DON'T AUDIT WORKERS' COMP AND, AND UH, THEY SHOULD AUDIT WORKERS' COMP AND REFUND IT.
I KNOW WE USUALLY SEE IT REFUNDED FROM UNEMPLOYMENT.
LEMME FIND OUT IF THAT'S AUDITABLE.
YOU BRING THE DON'T COME BACK.
LET'S LOOK AT THAT AND SEE IF THERE'S POSSIBILITY THAT WE CAN, UH, NOTHING.
I DUNNO WE HAVE ANY HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WITH THAT WORKER? WAY BEFORE THAT.
WE'VE BEEN WITH THEM FOR YEARS.
WHAT DID GRAN PRESENTATION HERE? YES.
YOU GETTING MARRIED BY NO, IN, THAT'S IN THE, NOT AGAIN, JUDGE WOOD.
PRIOR YEAR WE PAID 351 6 9 9 WHEN THEY CAME IN AND DID THEIR AUDIT ON 2016.
SO WE HAD TO PAY 'EM AN EXTRA 33.
PROBABLY WHAT WE HAVE IN THERE NOW IS, IS THAT WHAT WE ADOPTED? 3 85.
USUALLY WHAT I DO ON THE BIG SALARY SPREADSHEET, WE HAVE THOSE CALCULATED AT THE CURRENT RATES.
BUT I'LL ALWAYS JUST PUT IN LIKE AN EXTRA 5% JUST IN CASE THERE'S AN INCREASE JUST TO GIVE HER A LITTLE BIT OF A BUFFER.
USUALLY GET THOSE, THE RATES AND THEN WE PUT INPUT THOSE NUMBERS AND WE GET A BETTER COST, YOU KNOW.
UNEMPLOYMENT, UH, WHAT WE, WE, WE BUDGETED, UH, 90,000.
AND THAT'S THE ONE WE USUALLY GET THE REFUND BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK ON 2015, WE ACTUALLY, WE DID GOOD.
AND LET ME GIVE YOU THE HISTORY.
REMEMBER THAT BEFORE WE HAD A HR DEPARTMENT, WE, OUR HR STUFF AND OUR, UH, WORKERS' COMP, WE, IT WAS, UH, I THINK I TOLD YOU ONE OF THE FIRST VISITS I HAD WAS KIND GOOD TAX.
SAID, Y'ALL HAVE GOTTA DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR HR.
Y'ALL ARE PAYING HIGHER, HIGH THIRD HIGHEST RATE OF STATE.
SO WE NONE OTHER GOOD THINGS THAT, SO THAT'S HELPED BRING IT DOWN.
BUT WE PAY THAT QUARTERLY AND IT'S FIRST TWO QUARTERS WERE LIKE 22,000.
THIS LAST QUARTER WAS LIKE 16,000.
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SO IT'S GONE DOWN A LITTLE BIT.FOLLOWING YEAR, UM, WE PAID 22,000, 21,000.
AND THEN BACK IN, UM, JUNE OF LAST YEAR, WE PAID 'EM 19,000.
BUT THEN THEY SENT US A CHECK AS A REFUND OF FROM THE AUDIT OF 30, UH, 35,000 A LITTLE BIT OVER.
SO THAT'S WHY WE ONLY WIND UP PAYING 19,000 PER YEAR.
WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO CUT THAT FIGURE BACK QUITE A BIT, I WOULD THINK THEN.
WELL, IT DEPENDS ON YOUR, UM, I, I, I MEAN PERSONALLY, I THINK IT DEPENDS ON YOUR, UH, TURNOVER RATE TOO.
IF OUR TURNOVER RATE'S A LITTLE HIGHER, WE MIGHT WANT TO KIND OF, WELL, WE STARTED DON'T NEED TO BUDGET 90,000.
NO, WE DON'T, I DON'T THINK WE NEED NINE.
AND I'VE WON THE LAST FOUR OUT OF FOUR.
SO, SO WE'RE DOING PRETTY GOOD WITH THAT.
I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE, WHAT DID WE GET? WE GOT THE, WE GOT A REBATE FOR 150,000.
UH, IN 2015 WE GOT $67,551 REFUND.
AND SO, AND WE WERE TOLD LORI FLOYD HAD FOUND OUT FROM THAT THE SECOND YEAR WE WOULD GET ANOTHER REFUND, BUT IT MIGHT NOT BE AS MUCH, YOU KNOW.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL GET A REFUND THIS YEAR, TWO YEARS.
I WAS JUST LOOKING AT THAT REFUND.
THAT'S WHY THE ACTUAL 20 IS SO LOW.
I WOULD EASILY THINK WE COULD CUT THAT JACKSON HALF TO, UH, 40, MAYBE 40, 45.
AND THEN THEY GAVE 68,000 BACK.
YOU KNOW, DEPENDS ON HOW WELL WE DOCUMENT PEOPLE WE FIND.
AND IF THEY'RE, IF THEY'RE LEGITIMATE TERMINATIONS, DID YOU COME TO THAT WORKSHOP?
WHAT? THEY HAD A WORKSHOP ON THAT.
ALL THE DEPARTMENT HEADS AND STUFF WERE THEY I WAS WORKING.
SO WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO PUT IT AT? UH, LET'S CUT IT IN HALF TO FOUR, FIVE AND WE'LL KEEP OUR FINGERS CROSSED AS WE DO.
WE, WE WERE NOT EVEN APPEALING, UH, CASES THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN APPEALING.
SO, SO THAT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE.
UH, BANK CHARGES AND CHECKS, UH, WE NEED TO LEAVE THAT ALONE.
THAT HAS TO DO WITH US ORDERING, UH, THE STUFF THAT WE NEED, LIKE FOR THE DA'S.
IF WE HAVE ANY FEES THAT ARE CHARGED AND STUFF LIKE THAT, THAT'S HARD TO ESTIMATE.
LISA, I THINK YOU'RE WORKING ON OUR BANK.
KAREN, WHEN WE GET THROUGH WITH THIS, I THINK WE'RE GONNA PUT OUR HEADS TOGETHER AND SEE IF WE MAY NEED TO TWEAK ANYTHING OR CHANGE ANYTHING ACCORDING TO THE LAST, THE LAST, UH, RFP THAT WENT OUT FOR THAT.
THE REPOSITORY BANK DID, I THINK WE EXTENDED IT, BUT I THINK IT DOES HAVE TO GO OUT AGAIN THIS TIME.
WE'RE ON OUR LAST, LAST CYCLE.
AND THEY ON OFFICE SUPPLIES, UH, THAT IS, UH, PAPER.
AND I DON'T KNOW, I, THAT ONE IS KINDA, IT'S A FREE FOR ALL.
I MEAN, ANYONE WHO GETS PAPER, INK, ANYTHING THAT CAN BE CONSIDERED, UH, GENERAL OFFICE SUPPLIES THAT THE ENTIRE COUNTY MAY USE.
SO LIKE ENVELOPES, JUST BLANK ENVELOPES.
HE ONLY GETS TO CHARGE ANYTHING TO THIS BUDGET.
AND SO WE'VE, WE HAD BEEN GONE SHORT FOR THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS.
WE INCREASED IT LAST YEAR UP TO 150,000.
WE MAY NOT USE THAT THIS YEAR, BUT IT'S, THERE'S JUST NO WAY TO TELL HOW MUCH PEOPLE ARE GONNA ACTUALLY USE.
IS THAT SOMETHING WE COULD BUY IN BULK AND HAVE ONE PLACE LIKE OUR OTHER SUPPLIES IN THE REQUISITIONS SEND ME TWO CASES OF PAPERS INSTEAD OF EVERYBODY BUYING IT HERE, BUYING IT THERE.
YOU'D HAVE TO SET UP A WHOLE SEPARATE DEPARTMENT TO HANDLE THAT.
MY DEPARTMENT CAN'T HANDLE IT.
IT'S EITHER THAT OR YOU CUT THIS BUDGET OUT AND INCREASE EVERYONE ELSE'S OFFICE.
THAT'S, THAT'S EXACTLY MAKE THEM BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT THEY'D, RATHER THAN WHENEVER THEY GO ORDER.
SOME OF THE LARGER DEPARTMENTS HAVE, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DO, SO I SHOULDN'T SAY THIS, BUT IN MY OPINION, SOME OF THE ORDERS THAT COME THROUGH, YOU'RE LIKE GOING, HOLY COW.
I MEAN IT LIKE, YOU KNOW, CASES AND CASES AND CASES.
IT'S LIKE A FIVE, $6,000 ORDER JUST FOR PAPER AND INC.
WHAT, WHAT ELSE IS, I MEAN, PAPER OBVIOUSLY IS OFTEN SUPPLIES ALL THE TONER AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE Y'ALL ALLOW ON THAT BECAUSE LIKE 98% OF IT IS GONNA BE PAPER TONER,
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INK.I KNOW THE SCHOOL WENT TOGETHER ONE TIME ON A CO-OP, BUT ON PAPER FOR ALL THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE COUNTY AND WE CUT THE PER CASE PRICE DOWN.
LIKE IT WAS ALMOST TWO THIRDS OF WHAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAD BEEN PAYING, YOU KNOW, WE, WE PUT THIS OUT FOR BID.
IT WENT OUT FOR BID, UH, ABOUT FIVE MONTHS.
IT'S BEEN OUT TO BID SEVERAL TIMES, BUT SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, IT WAS PUT OUT TO BID IN, YOU KNOW, CHERYL OFFICE.
WELL THEN, UH, TRAIL OFFICE WAS BOUGHT OUT BY FURMAN'S AND FERMAN'S IS ACTUALLY ON, UH, ONE OF THE STATE CONTRACTS.
THESE PRIMES HAVE BEEN CONTRACTED OUT.
JUST, YOU KNOW, PRIME EXAMPLE, THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE 40 CASES COST US ABOUT $1,200 40 CASES OF PAPER.
ONE JUST GIVING YOU FOR INSTANCE OF A ORDER WE NEED TO DO AWAY WITH PAPER, WE NEED TO, I MEAN, I KEEP SAYING THAT, BUT THAT PAPERLESS SOCIETY.
WELL THEY PASS THAT PAY STACK EVER SINCE THEN.
I SWEAR EVERYBODY USED 10 TIMES THIS MONTH TRYING TO GET RID OF PAY.
LET'S NOT TO OPEN UP PANDORA'S BOX, BUT IF EACH DEPARTMENT ACTUALLY HAD TO BUDGET FOR THAT, I PERSONALLY THINK YOU MIGHT SEE THAT COST COME DOWN SOMEWHAT.
WELL LIKELY BECAUSE AT THE MOMENT PEOPLE THEY KNOW IT'S NOT IN THEIR BUDGET.
EACH DEPARTMENT BUDGET AROUND THEM AND THEN THEY, AND THEY LOOK FOR ANY WAY THEY CAN TO PUT IT UNDER THIS GENERAL STOVE.
AND FOR EXAMPLE, I HAD A COLOR PRINTER IN MY OFFICE.
AND IT HAS FOUR CARTRIDGES IN IT.
AND I HAD, I'VE BEEN HERE SINCE FEBRUARY AND I'VE NEVER HAD TO ORDER CARTRIDGES.
I USE IT FREQUENTLY, BUT OTHER PEOPLE NEED PRINTER PRINT STUFF PRINTED IN COLOR.
AND THEY'LL ASK ME BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A COLORED PRINTER AND I DO IT, BUT THEN I HAD TO ORDER 'EM THE OTHER DAY AND EACH ONE OF THOSE WAS 90 SOMETHING DOLLARS.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, ALRIGHT, LET GET YOU I USE IT SPARINGLY.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS IS, WE USED TO HAVE, UH, FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT IN EVERYBODY'S BUDGET.
AND WHAT WE'D HAVE DOING, UH, TOWARDS THE END OF AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, IF THEY HAD USED THAT, THEY'D GO BUY SOMETHING WHETHER THEY NEEDED IT OR NOT.
SO WE MOVED THAT BACK TO PURCHASING 200.
AND I'M SURE, I KNOW JACK NEVER DID LIKE IT AND I'M PRETTY SURE YOU DON'T LIKE IT BECAUSE EVERYBODY WANTS SOMETHING.
I I DON'T, I'M NOT WORRIED AS MUCH ABOUT OFFICE SUPPLIES AS I'M ABOUT OFFICE EQUIPMENT.
WE DON'T WANT TO PUT, WE DON'T WANT TO PUT, I DON'T SAY AND I'M FINE WITH THAT, BUT I DON'T, I THINK WE JUST NEED TO BE AWARE.
I DON'T THINK WE HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THE SUPPLIES BECAUSE THEY, SO CAN Y'ALL FIGURE OUT AN AMOUNT THAT WOULD NEED TO BE COMPARABLE TO, BASED ON WHAT DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE USED IN THE PAST AND THEN CUT 'EM 10%? Y'ALL WON'T ME TO DO WHAT?
WELL, CAN YOU FIGURE 40%? BUT CAN YOU FIGURE WE STILL HAVE EVERYTHING? WELL, LIKE WE, Y'ALL USE THE SAME PRINTER UP HERE.
THERE'S SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS THAT USE THAT PRINTER AND THAT PAPER.
Y'ALL WANTING TO TAKE THIS LINE ITEM OUT AND GIVE IT OUT TO EVERYBODY.
MAYBE NOT THE FULL 150,000, BUT BECAUSE I MEAN, I I, I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF GOING IN THERE AND SAYING, OH, YOU ORDER 40, I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA LET YOU HAVE 25.
WELL, I MEAN WE NEED TO BASE IT ON WHAT THEY'VE BEEN USING.
SOMEBODY WOULD HAVE A RECORD OF THAT.
WHY DON'T WE, NO, THAT'S A NIGHTMARE.
THE WAY IT'S SITTING THERE MORE LIKELY TO NOT JUST WASTE IT LIKE THEY'RE DOING HERE 'CAUSE IT DOESN'T AFFECT THEM THEIR BUDGET, BUT IT'S JUST A, IT IS FREE.
SO NO MATTER WHAT IT COST, I WANT IT.
LIKE WE DO OFFICE SUPPLY, WE WATCH WHAT WE SPEND, WHERE WE'RE ABOUT OUT, WE GOT, IT'S GONNA BE PRETTY ARBITRARY.
WHATEVER NUMBER YOU COME UP WITH, IT'S GONNA BE SOMEWHAT ARBITRARY BECAUSE I MEAN, IN ORDER TO TRY AND DELEGATE WHICH OFFICE SUPPLIES WENT WHERE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT LOOKING THROUGH HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF INVOICES.
WELL, LET'S JUST SEND EMAIL TO EACH DEPARTMENT, LAURA, NEXT WEEK YOU GOTTA HAVE OFFICE SUPPLY BUDGET BASED ON WHAT YOU SPENT LAST YEAR.
SO ALSO THE CASE OF PAPER IS X.
YOU HAVE TO TELL WHAT EXACTLY COMES OUT OF THAT LINE ITEM TODAY.
PAPER, KNEE, PAPER, KNEE, PENCIL, PEN, PAPER, SLIPS, STAPLES.
BEFORE WE GET, BEFORE WE GET CUT, BEFORE WE GET CARRIED AWAY.
THEY HAVE OFFICE SUPPLIES IN THEIR BUDGET WHERE THEY GET THEIR PAPER CLIPS, THEIR RUBBER BANDS, THEIR YEAH, WE GET ALL THAT ON OUR $900 OR
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A THOUSAND DOLLARS BUDGET.WHY NOT? AND THEK GO DOWN LIKE WE'RE NOT USING PAPER AND WILL NIL, BUT IT'S JUST THE FACT THAT NO ONE'S ACCOUNT THROUGHOUT THE RESTROOM HERE.
LIKE I'M GONNA BUY 15 BOXES UP AND HAS SOME KIND OF BREAKDOWN BECAUSE IT IS BROKEN DOWN.
HE COULD NOT GIVE US A REPORT.
HE MAY CAN OR AT LEAST GET US CLOSER.
YOU KNOW, IT MAY NOT, IT MAY NOT BE SOMETHING TO DO THIS YEAR.
IT MIGHT JUST BE SOMETHING THAT I'M SAYING WE NEED TO DO SOME KIND SOMETHING LATER ON.
MAKE INTELLIGENT BE READY FOR N RIGHT DECISION TO SAY YOU HAVE, THIS IS ALL YOU NEED.
YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER JUST LIKE I PULLED UP THAT THE O OKAY, THEY HAVE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS THAT THEY HAVE TO HAVE THESE PEOPLE'S PHOTOS, ALL THEIR ID STUFF AND IT'S IN PAPER IN A A FILE FOLDER.
IT'S CLASSIFIED AND ALL THIS KIND OF STUFF.
SO I'M NOT THE AUTHORITY TO TELL THEM, NO, YOU CAN'T HAVE IT.
I'M SAYING LET THEM SET THEIR BUDGET, NOT YOU TELL 'EM.
I'M JUST THINKING THAT IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE HARD TO DO IN SOME SITUATIONS.
YOU KNOW, LIKE OUR'S OFFICE, THEY COPIED THE MONEY.
I SAID, WHAT DO YOU COPY THE MONEY FOR? I SAID, I THINK THAT'S ILLEGAL.
WELL WE DO BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY GIVES US A CASE, WE COPY IT, HIT IT WITH THE TICKET AND ALL THAT STUFF SO THAT WE CAN PROVE THAT WE TOOK THE MONEY IN THERE.
ANY, I SAID, I MEAN SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE SHOULD BE KIND OF SAYING WHAT KIND OF GUIDELINES ON WHAT WE SHOULD BE WRITTEN.
SOME KIND OF, SOME KIND OF, I MEAN IT'S NOT JUST TO WRITE IT DOWN, HOW MUCH HAVE WE SPENT DID YOU SAY? APPROVED.
YOU WANT JUST LEAVE IT LIKE IT IS FOR THIS YEAR AND THEN TRY TO DO A WORK ON EXPAND.
HOPEFULLY, UH, WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET A, AN INTELLIGENT LOOK AT IT MAYBE.
SO FOR CHANGE PROMISE, RUN US THE REPORT.
UM, WE HAD, I DON'T, IT'S ALREADY BEEN ABOUT THREE, FOUR YEARS.
WE HAD SOME OTHERS LIKE WELL THAT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS NOW YOU DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BID OUT 'CAUSE THERE'S SEVERAL OF THEM THAT ARE ON STATE CONTRACT.
YOU HAVE UH, LIKE OFFICE DEPOT AND THE, THERE'S SEVERAL OF THEM.
I JUST FIGURED WHEN Y'ALL GO TO YOUR CONFERENCES AND STUFF, THEY'RE PROBABLY THERE.
NO, I GUESS IT WOULD BE THE PURCHASING CONFERENCES.
YEAH, THE PAPER PEOPLE LEAVE US ALONG.
BUT, BUT PEOPLE LIKE PARIS PAPER OR OTHER OTHER, OTHER YOU TALKING ABOUT GOING LIKE DIRECT? YOU COULD, YOU COULD GO TO 'EM AND THEY COULD, YOU KNOW, I EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT THAT ONE.
I SAID MAYBE WE DON'T HAVE A WATERMARK PAPER ORDER.
OUR OWN PAPER WATERMARK EVEN BOUGHT AN 18 WHEELER FULL OF PAPER.
WHERE ARE WE GONNA STORE IT? NO, BUT, BUT RIGHT IN THE LIBRARY PLACE TO SIT, NO SITTING SOMEWHERE HAVE THAT IN IT.
MARK PAPER, WHO'S GONNA, ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT MANAGE WHO'S GONNA DISTRIBUTE CARRY ON HOME, DO ON THE PAPER, DO YOU CHECK AROUND PRICES? BRING MY PAPER.
BECAUSE WHAT THEY DO THAT THEY ACTUALLY DO THAT WHENEVER, UH, BECAUSE YOU DON'T EVER GET THE SAME.
I DUNNO IF YOU NOTICED, WELL LORD HELP YOU.
IF ANOTHER OFFICE COMES IN AND SAYS, SAYS, CAN I JUST MAKE A COPY IT? MINE, THEY'RE GETTING THE CHEAPER PRICE FOR THE SOUTH NOW THEY MIGHT, I MEAN GO UP DOWN.
THEY DON'T PAY ANY MORE THAN NO THEY CAN FIND SOMEBODY SELLING THAT CHEAPER SELL US.
THEY JUST INCREASE THEIR MARKET PROPERTY.
Y'ALL, Y'ALL ARE HAGGLING OVER LESS THAN 1%.
BUT I THINK, I KNOW YOU'RE AWARE Y'ALL WERE THE ONES THAT BROUGHT IT UP.
IF I REMEMBER
THAT IS UH, THAT'S A, THAT'S AN HR.
YEAH, WE, WE GET THAT MONEY BACK AND IT'S FOR HR TO DO THIS WELLNESS AND ALL THAT STUFF.
SO WE KIND OF CARRY THAT AMOUNT FOR SOMETIMES WE DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THEY MIGHT HAVE SPENT SOME OF IT.
WE DON'T GET THE INVOICES IN SEPTEMBER TO PAY, YOU KNOW.
CAN I ASK A QUESTION BECAUSE I'VE NEVER SEEN THIS LINE ITEM.
WHERE DO WE, WHERE DO WE SPEND IT? EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION.
HOW ABOUT THAT ONE? I JUST DON'T
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DUNNO.I'M NOT AWARE OF WELL I DUNNO WHERE, WHERE ALL THESE THINGS THAT, THAT, UH, CASSIE'S THE COORDINATOR, CASSIE AND TIFFANY ARE THE COORDINATORS FOR THAT.
I JUST DIDN'T, I NEVER HEARD OF THERE BEING ANY MONEY SPENT.
SO I FIND OUT, I THINK THEY DID THAT FOR LIKE THE, WAS IT ALL THESE LITTLE PROGRAMS THAT ARE GOING ON RIGHT NOW WITH ALL YOUR STEPPING AND LOGGING YOUR WATER AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF.
THEY COORDINATE ALL THAT AND YOU PAY LIKE PER PERSON, YOU KNOW, THEY HAD THE LUNCHEON TO GIVE, GIVE THE PEOPLE THEIR AWARDS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
IT IS, UH, HE COMES FROM TECH.
I MEAN THEY SPENT AT WALMART ON THE OH, I DIDN'T KNOW THEY HAD AN EVENT.
GET PARTICIPATE IN THESE PROGRAMS THE MORE MONEY THE COUNTY GETS BACK.
PORTNER AND HE CONTINUES TO SERVE, I BELIEVE IN THAT.
HE'S NOW AN EMPLOYEE I BELIEVE.
UH, WHAT DO WE SPEND? PROBABLY, UH, AS OF WE SPENT $1,600.
IS THAT LEGAL THAT FOR EVERY DEPARTMENT OR? YES.
I MEAN LAST YEAR WE SPENT 3,600.
I MEAN, IT, IT KIND OF GOES UP AND DOWN.
YOU'LL PROBABLY, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO PAY FOR THE A THE TAX RATES, THE PUBLIC HEARINGS, IF THERE'S ANY, AND THE, UH, ELECTED OFFICIALS, UH, NOTIFICATION OF PAYROLL AND STUFF.
SO IT MIGHT BE ABLE BE CUT DOWN.
I'D HAVE TO ASK THAT LAURA AND RHONDA HAVE TO PUBLISH ON OUT OF THEIR OFFICES.
IS IT PAID OUT OF HERE AT LEASE? NO, WE'VE BEEN BEEN PAYING FOR IT OUT OF OPERATING EXPENSES OUTTA YOUR SUCH A, THAT'S A SMALL AMOUNT.
YOU SPENT 4,615 AND THAT SHOW 16 AT THE END IT WAS ABOUT 3,600.
YOU MIGHT SPEND THAT MUCH THIS YEAR.
IF WE DO EXTRA IN, UH, ALL THE NOTIFICATIONS ON THE HEARINGS, WE DON'T KNOW WHERE TAX RATE IS.
WELL WE HAD TO DO THAT LAST YEAR.
I KNOW BECAUSE WE WENT ABOVE THE, WE DIDN'T GO ABOVE THE ROLLBACK RATE, BUT WE WENT ABOVE THE EFFECTIVENESS RATE.
AND SO, AND HOW MUCH HAVE WE SPENT SO FAR? IT'S UH, 1647.
I'D SAY EVEN LIKE IT IS, IF YOU DON'T SPEND 47, YOU SPENT 47, YOU DON'T SPEND IT IN A ROLLBACK ANYWAY.
SO I JUST LEAVE IT LIKE THE NEXT ONE IS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES.
AND THAT CERTAINLY IS JUST HARD THIS YEAR.
TELL US WHAT ALL WE PAID FOR OUT OF THAT.
I KNOW, UH, VARIOUS SUN THINGS.
MAJORITY OF IT'S BEEN THAT SEAWAY CRUDE.
IS THAT WHERE IT COMES OUT? YES.
AT ONE POINT THERE WAS THE ONE OH K PIPELINE COMING OUT OF THERE.
I KNOW WE ALSO BUDGET THE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION BILL OUT OF THERE.
THAT SOME OF THAT SEAWAY PIPELINE WAS PAID LAST YEAR, I THINK.
SO THAT'S, THIS IS NOT CUMULATIVE DEAL.
AND WE HAD TALKED ABOUT ONCE Y'ALL GET THAT SETTLED RIGHT, SOME OF THAT MONEY WILL BE PUT IN THE DIFFERENT VARIOUS ROAD AND BRIDGES THAT'S INVOLVED IN THAT.
BUT THEY'RE GONNA PAY A PORTION OF THIS BACK TO DO FUND.
YEAH, THAT'S GONNA BE PART OF YEAH.
I THINK ALL THE COP HEAD LANE THING IS THAT YOU GUYS SIGN OFF ON THOSE GET PAID OUTTA HERE.
AND THEN THE ATTORNEY THAT Y'ALL HAD DOING THE THE RIDE PLAY.
WHAT'S HIS NAME? I CAN'T THINK OF IT OFF.
JOHN
HOW MUCH HAVE WE SPEND SO FAR OUT THERE? HUNDRED 70 MORE SOMETHING.
WE DID A BUDGET AMENDMENT OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND IN MAY.
AND THEY PAID 26,000 JUST THE OTHER DAY.
AND THAT'S AND THAT'S IN HERE.
THAT'LL PRETTY MUCH WIPE IT OUT.
WELL, NORMALLY THE DA WE'RE NOT GONNA PAY THAT BILL ANYTIME SOON, SO WE'LL JUST WAIT SOON.
UH, IRS UH, FINES AND PENALTIES.
UH, IS THAT WHEN WE PAID THE, UH, BACK IN 15, 1 65? IS THAT YES, SIR.
AND THEN WE PAID ANOTHER AMOUNT IN, UH, 2016 OF 22.
AND THEN, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE NOT PAYING ANYTHING THIS YEAR.
WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO GET IT BACK, BUT WE'RE NOT SURE WHEN THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN.
AND THEN THE OUTSIDE AUDIT, UH, IS UH, BY CONTRACT.
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STAYS THE SAME.I THOUGHT WE TALKED ABOUT POSTAGE.
THERE'S SOME THE THREADS BECAUSE OF THE, THE METERS, THE MACHINES.
WHERE IS THE, WHERE, WHO, WHAT, WHAT ELSE IT, THIS PITNEY BOWES, IT'S A MONTHLY CONTRACT AMOUNT.
AND WE KEEP, WE KEEP FILLING UP THE MACHINE.
AND THAT INCLUDES POSTS, NOT JUST THE RENTAL OF THE MACHINE.
WELL, THE 98 50 GOES INTO A RESERVE ACCOUNT.
THAT THE MACHINE IS LOADED WITH POSTAGE AS WE NEED IT.
SO IT'S NOT MONTH, IT'S NOT EVERY MONTH.
AND IF WE DON'T USE THAT, WHAT HAPPENS TO IT? IT STAYS I GUESS HERE.
DO WE EVER USE MORE THAN THAT? BE A GOOD QUESTION.
HOW MUCH HAVE WE SPENT? WE DID WHEN WE HAD TO MAIL OUT THE TAX STATEMENTS.
YEAH, WE'RE ALREADY ON IT THIS YEAR.
I WAS PULLING UP ONE OF THE INVOICES JUST TO SIMPLY SAID, BUT HOLD ON.
UH, THUS FOR WE HAVE PAID SPENT 88,960.
HOW MUCH IS THAT NOW? I REMEMBER, I BELIEVE JACK WAS INVOLVED IN THIS.
HE WAS, I REMEMBER THAT WHEN WE WENT OUT FOR BIDS FOR THE DIFFERENT MACHINES.
AND THIS IS THE ONE THAT WAS RECOMMENDED.
AND UM, IT WAS THE 98 50 OR 95, 89.
EIGHT 50 WOULD BE THE AMOUNT THAT WAS APPROVED TO BE PUT AS THE RESERVE.
AT ZERO UNLESS YOU HAVE THAT RESERVE AMOUNT SITTING THERE AND THEY PROCEEDED IT LIKE YOUR TOW TAG, YOU GOT TO PAY THEM.
AND THEN, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOAD THE MACHINE WITH THAT AMOUNT IF IT'S OUT LIKE MOST COMPANIES 34 AND 14.
AND IT DID GO DOWN SEE IN 2015, WITHIN 120 SO FAR THIS YEAR, YOU KNOW, LITTLE LESS 1,632.
AND IF WE HAVE TO, IF THE DA OR MY OFFICE, LIKE I'D HAVE TO FEDEX STUFF TO THE IS WHEN WE WERE DOING ALL THIS OR THE DA HAD TO FEDEX SOMETHING OR LAURA HAS TO SEND SOMETHING TO AUSTIN, WHATEVER, SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS USE THAT TO CHARGE FOR FEDEX ALSO.
DOES THE, UH, WHAT IS THE, NOT COUNTING POSTAGE, HOW MUCH IS THE ACTUAL RENTAL OR LEASE OF THAT MACHINE? DO WE KNOW? I THINK IT DEPENDS ON, ON THE POSTAGE.
THE MORE YOU USE IT, THE CHEAPER.
SO WE GET, I MEAN WE JUST PAID THE 98 50 FOR THE RESERVE ACCOUNT.
AND THAT'S I GUESS EVERYTHING FOR THE, THE MACHINE.
WELL, I MEAN WE, ARE WE BUILDING UP CREDIT THEN? I WONDER OR DO WE KNOW? I HAVE NO IDEA, SIR.
I WASN'T INVOLVED IN IT, SO I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THE POSTIT POSTIT, THEY READ THE METER AND CHARGE YOU FOR THE POST-IT.
BUT IF, LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION.
DOES ANYBODY KNOW IF YOU HAVE REGISTERED MAIL, IF YOU CAN DO IT ON THAT MACHINE OR YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING SEPARATE? BECAUSE MOST OF THE TIME YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING.
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW THE PRICE.
YOU CAN, WE DO CHECK, JUST SEE WHAT THE LEASE IS.
I MEAN THIS, I KNOW IT RENEWED LAST.
AND IT'D BE JUST CURIOSITY WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE PAYING FOR IT.
SO LIKE WE JUST BUDGET WAS, WE JUST ORDERED THE RED INK, THE CARTRIDGES FOR THE STAMP, YOU KNOW, AND THEY, IT IS LIKE $145 A CARTRIDGE PAY TWO $90 CARTRIDGE.
WAS FRED WAS ALLOWED ITEM TWO, RIGHT.
POSTAGE IN THE FACILITIES BUDGET? NO, I DON'T THINK HIS WAS 150.
I GOT SOME OF THE NUMBERS IN HERE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL THAT'S, BUT WE DO IT FOR SUB COURT HOUSES.
EVEN IF WE HAVE STUFF BID, BID PACKETS THAT GO OUT THAT ARE GOOD SIZE, YOU KNOW, I I HE TAKES CARE OF ALL THE POSTAGE, ALL THAT.
UH, THIS UH, NEXT ONE, UH, COMMISSIONER'S COURT.
DIDN'T WE ZERO THAT OUT? YEAH, WE ZEROED OUT ALL THAT.
TELL US, TELL US ABOUT THAT LISA.
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HOW MUCH WE SPENT.KAREN, I'LL GET THAT WHILE SHE'S TALKING.
DON'T BE BACKTRACKING EITHER, SIS.
WE GOT A LOT OF DIFFERENT TYPES.
AND THEY ALL, EVERYBODY COMES UP AT DIFFERENT, WHICH I'M KIND OF GLAD, I'M GLAD THAT, THAT EVERYBODY'S STUFF EXPIRES AT DIFFERENT TIMES.
BUT IT SEEMS LIKE YOU'RE CONSTANTLY DEALING WITH SOMEBODY WHO'S COMING OVER AND OF COURSE EVERYBODY COMES IN AND OFFERS YOU THE LATEST AND GRANTS AND BADDEST AND BIGGEST.
AND THEN YOU GET A DEPARTMENT THAT WANTS ALL COLOR AND THEY CAN'T JUSTIFY WHY THEY REALLY NEED COLOR.
SO YOU PUT COLOR IN THERE AND THEN THEY DECIDE TO START MAKING EVERYTHING IN COLOR AND IT'S COSTING US 5 CENTS A COFFEE.
AND UH, YOU KNOW, BUT LONG AND SHORT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON TRYING TO GET THIS NUMBER DOWN.
UH, WE HAVE CHANGED OUT A FEW ALREADY.
UM, NOT WORKING OUT QUITE THE WAY WE THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO.
MOST OF THESE ARE ON STATE CONTRACT.
THEY'RE ALL ON STATE CONTRACT.
UH, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU GO WITH, YOU CAN, I MEAN, WHOEVER THE VENDOR IS, THEY'RE ALMOST ALL, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S XEROX OR KONICA MINOLTA OR, THERE'S CERTAINLY ONES.
AND WE FOUND THE INSTANCE WHERE THEY DIDN'T COME THROUGH PURCHASING AND THE PERSON, THE SALESMAN WOULD JUST GO OUT TO THE DIFFERENT OFFICES AND SELL 'EM WHATEVER THEY THOUGHT WAS THE NEWEST GREATEST.
AT LEAST THEY HAD TO STOP SOMETHING.
IT NEEDS TO COME THROUGH OUR OFFICE.
UM, SO THAT WAS HANDLED APPROPRIATELY.
WELL THE AND AND THAT WAS PART OF THE REASON THAT XEROX GOT BOOTED FROM SOME OF 'EM BECAUSE SHE JUST GOT TO WHERE SHE WAS GOING OUT AND RENEWING THE, SHE WASN'T RENEWING THE RENEWAL.
STILL HAD TO CUT THROUGH THE OFFICE.
BUT SHE WAS GOING OUT AND MEETING.
AND DON'T GET ME WRONG, YOU, YOU HAVE TO MEET WITH THE END USER TO FIND OUT WHAT THEIR NEEDS ACTUALLY ARE.
BUT WHEN YOU HAVE A SALES PERSON MEETING WITH WHAT AN END, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GONNA WANT ALL THE APPLE, THIS AND THAT.
THEY'RE GONNA WANT EVERYTHING YOU CAN GET ON IT.
AND WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOUR MEETING, YOUR BASIC NEEDS, NOT ALL YOUR WANTS.
SO THAT WE, WE RAN INTO SOME ISSUES THERE.
BUT LIKE I SAID, WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING ON, UH, GETTING EVERYBODY'S CONTRACTS RENEWED.
THAT'S, THAT'S ONE THING WHEN WE MET WITH Y'ALL MET WITH THE EXTENSION OFFICE THAT WE DID NOT BRING UP BECAUSE WE ALWAYS GET CHARGED EXTRA BECAUSE OF ALL THE EXTRA COPY, COLOR COPIES WHEN, IF IT'S BROCHURES AND FLYERS FOR THE SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS, THEY CAN TAKE THAT AND HAVE THAT PRINTED A LOT, LOT CHEAPER THAN THE COPIER MAKING THEM AND THE COMPANY CHARGING US.
I HAD THE BILL, I HAD THE XEROX BILL FOR HIS, HIS DEPARTMENT, BUT I DIDN'T WANT, I I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT WOULD BE RIGHT JUST TO PUT HIM ON BLAST ON ALL THAT.
BUT I, I DO FEEL LIKE THAT THERE COULD BE SOME COST SAVINGS THERE IF THEY WENT TO ONE OF THE LOCAL PRINTERS OR SOMETHING TO SEE BECAUSE UH, YOU KNOW, THEIR BASIC RENT IS 400 SOMETHING DOLLARS A MONTH BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT THE ONE THAT HAS ALL BELLS, WHISTLES AND FOLDS.
IT LEAKS, IT STAMPS AND STAPLES.
IT DOES ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF.
STUFF, YOU KNOW THAT THE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION.
AND, AND I MEAN THAT'S ALL FINE AND GOOD, BUT THEY BOUGHT THAT TO DO ALL THAT WHENEVER IT'S COSTING YOU A LOT OF MONEY TO PRODUCE THOSE COPIES.
AND IT WOULD BE MORE COST EFFECTIVE TO GET SOMETHING TOGETHER, A FLYER OR A PAMPHLET OR WHATEVER AND TAKE IT TO YOUR LITTLE PRINTER.
YOU GOT A QUICK COPY AND REALLY CHEAP.
IT'D BE NICE IF WE HAD LIKE A KINKOS OR A MM-HMM
OR ONE OF THOSE IN THE COUNTY.
BUT MY OFFICE, WE DON'T HAVE ONE ANYWHERE I'M SURE.
NO, BUT WE HAD, THERE'S SEVERAL PRINTERS.
THERE'S SEVERAL PRINT SHOP, DIFFERENT PRINT SHOPS THAT WE USE.
WE USE ONE PRIMARILY, BUT I STILL SHOP THEM.
BUT THERE'S, YOU KNOW, AS MUCH AS THEY'RE OUT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY AND OUT OF COUNTY, THEY CAN STOP BY AND HAVE PRINT.
NOBODY HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH GROUNDOUT.
AND THAT'S, I I, I WANTED TO DO THAT.
NOT, LIKE I SAID, THAT'S WHY I HAD THAT.
I'M DO THAT I WOULD, I WOULD WANT SOMEBODY TO DO IT TO ME.
SO I I WAS TRYING, LEMME HAVE IT HOW MUCH WE SPENT.
OUT OF THE, UM, 83 5 WE'VE SPENT 47 6.
THIS, YEAH, WE ADDED, WE ADDED SEVERAL PRINTERS TO THIS, UH, OUT OF THE JAIL.
GEORGE UH, HAD GOT ONE OF THE SALESPEOPLE THAT HAD COME IN WITH CONTA TO TRY TO CUT DOWN ON SOME OF THIS INK EXPENSE THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WITH THE, ON THE OFFICE WISE.
'CAUSE LIKE KAREN SAID, THE UH, SO HAS TO MAKE NUMEROUS COLOR COPIES OF, YOU KNOW, THEIR, THEIR ALL THEIR STUFF AND PUT IT IN A FOLDER.
SO THEY GO THROUGH A LOT OF INK AND THIS HAS A LOT OF PAPER.
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DO THAT NOW.IT WOULDN'T DO ANYTHING FOR THE PAPER, BUT IT WOULD FOR THE IN IT WOULD, AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO TRY TO MAKE A COST COMPARISON AND, AND SEE IF THAT'S HELPING OR NOT.
IT DOES SEEM LIKE THEIR, UH, ORDERS HAVE COME DOWN SOME NOT AS FREQUENT.
'CAUSE THEY WERE ORDERING ABOUT A THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH.
WELL, WE MONITOR, I THINK THIS YEAR LET'S JUST LEAVE IT LIKE IT IS.
WE DON'T SPEND, WE DON'T SPEND IT COME BACK, UH, INSURANCE DEDUCTIBLE.
WE'VE ACTUALLY ZEROED THAT OUT BECAUSE WE NEVER USED IT.
I THINK ANYTIME THEY DO THE INSURANCE DEDUCTIBLE, THEY JUST TAKE IT OUT OF THE CHECK TO GIVE US.
AND THEN THE NEXT ONE IS INSURANCE.
AND DO WE ZEROED THAT OUT? 'CAUSE YOU ASKED US TO SPLIT IT OUT INTO TWO SEPARATE BUDGET LAST YEAR.
AND SO THAT COMES DOWN TO INSURANCE AUTO LIABILITY.
UM, BUDGETED A HUNDRED THOUSAND EVERY RENEW IN JANUARY.
AND DON'T WE GET, DO WE GET ANY KIND OF HEADS UP OR QUOTE OR ANYTHING AHEAD OF TIME? YEAH, YEAH.
I'LL GET ALL THAT PROBABLY IN THE FALL, MID FALL.
I'LL GET ALL THE RENEWAL STUFF FOR ALL OF THAT.
SO WE MIGHT GET A LAST MINUTE TO SO WHAT DID IT EXPAND, SIR? SO FAR WE'VE SPENT 99,000, 80 100,000.
AND THAT'S AND THAT'S A ONE PAYMENT? YEAH, IT'S ONE, IT'S ONE POUND PAYMENT.
AND SO THE, AS WE GET RID OF VEHICLES NOW THOUGH, WE'RE, WHEN BUY VEHICLES, WE'RE GETTING RID OF THE VEHICLE.
AND THAT'S WHY I THINK IF YOU REMEMBER OR RECALL WHEN WE HAD COMMISSIONER'S COURT A MONTH, TWO WEEKS AGO, THREE WEEKS AGO, I HAD TOLD YOU THAT'S WHY THE BILLS WERE SO HIGH BECAUSE WE PAID SOME OF THOSE INSURANCE, THE PREMIUMS, BECAUSE WE PAY 'EM ONE TIME A YEAR.
AND THE VEHICLES ARE ADDED AND DELETED ONCE A YEAR.
SO THEY INSURE 'EM, I SEND THEM, BUT THEY DON'T, THE BILL, THEY DON'T ADD A BILL TO IT.
IT'S ONLY ONE ADJUSTMENT VEHICLE.
AND THEN LIFE INSURANCE, THIS IS THE, UH, COUNTY'S RIGHT.
COST OF THE LIFE INSURANCE OF WHAT WE PAY FOR OUR EMPLOYEES.
SO EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT WE DO WITH THAT.
THE, IS THIS THE T-C-D-R-S LINE? I THINK I WOULD THINK SO, YEAH.
THE, THE, YOUR RETIREMENT POLICY, YOU HAVE YOUR RETIREMENT AND IT ALSO COMES WITH THE $5,000.
LIFE INSURANCE POLICY FOR YOU, UM, YOUR SPOUSE.
AND I THINK AFTER RETIREMENT, IT GOES FOR TWO YEARS.
SO AS LONG AS THERE WAS A DEPOSIT MADE INTO YOUR T-C-D-R-S ACCOUNT FOR UP TO TWO YEARS BEFORE YOU RETIRED, YOU ALSO GET THAT, THAT LIFE INSURANCE, WHICH IS THAT SMALL PERCENTAGE OF THE 9.71% GOES INTO THAT FUND.
THAT FUND THE PAYROLL SYSTEM GOES OUT EACH MONTH.
A REPORT, AND LIKE FOR ME, IT WAS NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS.
GROSS EARNINGS OF THOSE WAS 1.7 MILLION BELOW WITH SOME CHANGE.
AND THE, OUR PORTION OF THAT, IT'S YOU GO INTO PAYROLL MAINTENANCE TO CHANGE THOSE.
WHEN ONCE WE GET ALL THE INFORMATION FROM TAC AND TCRS, OUR PART OF IT WAS $5,639 AND 8 CENTS FOR MAY.
EACH ONE IS NOT, IS NOT GONNA BE THE SAME AMOUNT BECAUSE IT DEPENDS ON THE EMPLOYEES YOU HAVE AND WHAT THE GROSS WAGES WERE.
SO IF OUR, OUR NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES INCREASES, NATURALLY THAT NUMBER IS GONNA INCREASE.
IT LOOKS LIKE WE MAY ACTUALLY GO OVER BUDGET THIS YEAR.
WE MAY NEED TO UP IT JUST A SNITCH.
WE'RE GONNA CUT IT PRETTY CLOSE.
WE MIGHT BE THREE OR 4,000 SHARP.
SO THAT, SO YOU GO TO SEVEN, SIX.
WELL, AND SEE WE HADN'T GOT THE RATE YET.
WELL YEAH, WE DID FROM TCRS, BUT IF Y'ALL ADD MORE EMPLOYEES, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO COME BACK AND ADJUST IT.
THEN THE GROWTH WAGES ARE GONNA BE MORE.
SO THEN THERE OUR PORTION WILL BE MORE, WELL, LET'S GO TO 76.
PRETTY CLOSE TO WASTE TRANSFERRED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
AND THEN ON PUBLIC OFFICIALS INSURANCE.
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AND WE PAID 72 2 0 7.THEY WENT UP, UH, TEXAS ASSOCIATION COUNTIES.
WE TAKE THEM BACK IN DECEMBER, ONCE A YEAR LAST YEAR.
AND, UM, IT'S JUST, I MEAN THEY, THEY SENT US ALL THIS AT ONE TIME.
THE AUTO, THE PHYSICAL DAMAGE, THE LAW ENFORCEMENT GENERAL LIABILITY AND THE PUBLIC OFFICIALS LIABILITY WAS THE 69 2 0 7.
AND WE PAY IT ONE TIME A YEAR.
WE ALSO PAY THE TEXAS LAWYER INSURANCE FOR JUDGE WOOD AND JUDGE CHITTY OUT OF THIS LIKE $1,500.
SO HOW MUCH YOU SAY WE PAY TILL FOUR SEVEN STICKS.
THAT HAD TO DO WITH, UM, NOT ALL OF IT WAS T ON THE, ON IT WAS ONLY 69.
2 0 7 THAT WE PAID T ON THE PUBLIC OFFICIALS.
UH, I GUESS MOST OF THIS IS INSURANCE CASE.
IF THERE'S FRAUD OR WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, LATER DOWN THE ROAD IT, IT KIND OF PROTECT IT'S KIND OF MALPRACTICE.
DOES COVER THE UH, UH, SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.
FOR SUITS THAT MIGHT, I THINK THEY HAD A SEPARATE YES.
I THINK THEY HAVE A SEPARATE POLICY TOO, I BELIEVE.
I MEAN WE, WE PAID ALL AT ONE TIME AND WE HAD TO SPLIT OUT BETWEEN DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS.
WELL, IS THAT, SHOULD WE LEAVE IT TO NINE FIVE OR CAN WE WELL, IT DEPENDS HOW MANY CLAIMS YOU'VE HAD THIS YEAR.
AND I KNOW WE'VE HAD A COUPLE OF, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'VE ACTUALLY TURNED INTO CLAIMS, BUT WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY TURN INTO CLAIMS THAT WOULD INCREASE THAT IF THEY HAD TO PAY OUT OR HAD TO DEFEND THEM.
SO THERE'S ALWAYS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR IT TO GO UP IF THAT'S THE CASE.
YEAH, I ASSUME WE'VE HAD THAT IN THE PAST TOO.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S MORE OR LESS THAN IN THE PAST.
THAT'S KIND OF SOMETHING THAT YOU, I WOULDN'T KNOW.
WELL IT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN LOOK BACK AT PREVIOUS YEARS WHEN WE PAID THE 84.
THE 83, AND THEN WE, UH, PUT IT BACK UP TO THE, TO THE 95 JUST TO COVER IT, TO MAKE SURE WE HAD ENOUGH EQUIP MINUTE.
I'M LOOKING LINE, SORRY, 84, 83.
AND THEN IT'S WENT DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT.
I PROBABLY JUST LEAVE IT LIKE IT'S, WE DON'T SPEND IT.
AND THE NEXT ONE, AND I KNOW EVERYBODY'S GETTING TIRED, SO, UH, INSURANCE ON PROPERTY THAT'S ALREADY BEEN RENEWED FOR THE YEAR.
UM, TILL, WELL TILL JUNE, JULY 1ST OF NEXT YEAR.
UM, SO THAT LAST PAYMENT THAT WE MADE WOULD BE THE PREMIUM FOR THE YEAR.
AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT WE DO GET THE BACK.
THE REBATE IS ON EVERY INSURANCE WE HAVE AND THE TAG.
DID YOU EVER GET A REBATE ON PROPERTY? I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU WENT.
I DON'T REMEMBER GETTING A REBATE ON PROPERTY.
WELL, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WAS THE BIG, BIG FOR? THAT'S HOW WE BOUGHT THIS PARKING LOT OVER HERE.
I'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND RESEARCH THAT, BUT I REMEMBER, YEAH, I KNOW LAURA.
THAT WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, THE LAURIE WOULD THAT WE DIDN'T HEALTH SIDE.
OH IT'S PROBABLY THE HEALTH POOL.
I WOULDN'T ANTICIPATE ONE OF THOSE THIS YEAR.
WOULD YOU SPLIT OUT OR CALL TODD CRE ON OR WHAT'S THE SUPPORT FARM COST TO THIS? I INSURED TWICE.
IT'S JUST WE PAY FOR IT ALL GENERALLY AS A PROPERTY.
WELL I KNOW WE DO, BUT HE CAN CAN SPLIT IT.
UM, BUT I DON'T THINK WE'VE EVER DEFINED, HAVE WE EVER DEFINED EVERYTHING THAT'S ACTUALLY OUR PROPERTY THERE BECAUSE THERE'S A LIST OF ALL THE BUILDINGS I KNOW, BUT WE DON'T.
SO IT'S JUST THE BUILDINGS YOU JUST WANT ABOUT THE BUILDINGS, NOT THE LAND.
OH, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT JUST PROPERTY COVERAGE? BUILDINGS ONLY.
WE'RE PAYING ALL THOSE AND BUILDINGS WOULD INCLUDE EQUIPMENT.
WELL, WE DON'T HAVE ANY EQUIPMENT.
WELL MAYBE THAT TRACTOR OUT THERE DO.
SHOULD YOU YES, I'LL CALL AND ASK YOU.
WHAT LIABILITY WOULD COST FOR THEIRS? ACTUALLY NEED SHOW BARNS ALSO SHOW GROUND SEPARATE.
HE WOULD PREFER THAT WE CALL IT MARIA ANYWAY.
SHOW WHAT? THE SHOW WHAT IN A LIABILITY SOURCE BUDGET UNDER 35.
THE INSURANCE, IT'S GONNA DOWN ON THE GENERAL BUILDING.
AND THAT'S ANOTHER, THAT'S ANOTHER ANNUAL COST.
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ACTUALLY GO OVER BUDGET THIS YEAR.WE MIGHT NEED TO INCREASE THAT.
WE BUDGETED 17,005 IN THE BILL WAS 17.
IT'S BETTER TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT THEN MOVE IT LATER.
UH, SINGLE APPRAISAL DISTRICT.
I THINK THAT'S THE LATEST VALUE.
NOT THE THEY BUT THE LATEST SHARE OF OUR COST I BELIEVE IS AT 4 82.
IS THAT, IS THAT UPDATED? WELL, NO, BECAUSE THAT, THAT'S THE CURRENT YEAR'S BUDGET.
I'VE SENT THE, I THINK THE YES WE HAVE THAT.
I, I HAVE PUT IN THE BUDGET A LITTLE WHOLE LOT.
I THINK IT WAS LIKE A WHOLE 7,000.
IT WAS, SO WHATEVER THAT NUMBER COMES TO BE.
120,000 BY 19 AND SOME CHANGE.
COMMISSIONER COURT DUE, THAT'S FOR THE VARIOUS ASSOCIATIONS THAT WE BELONG TO.
I WOULD SAY LET'S ROUND THAT OFF TO 10,000.
THOSE OF VIEWS ARE PARTICULARLY, I DUNNO WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THAT, UH, ONE AT A BUT CUTTING THAT OR SOMETHING.
SO I WOULD, LET'S INCREASE THAT.
AND IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN CUT, BUT IT'S, IT'S, I WOULD INCREASE THAT TO EVEN 10,000 AND NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS.
THAT STAYS PRETTY WELL THE SAME.
WELL THIS YEAR YOUR DUE WAS 1,135 AND WE ONLY HAD 1100 IN THERE.
YOU WANNA PUT 1200 THEN? SURE.
AND THEN THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES, IS THAT, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT'S FOR.
WHAT THAT IS, THAT'S Y'ALLS COUNTY'S MEMBERSHIP IS 224 40 AND WE PAID 24 40.
DOES THAT STAY ABOUT THE SAME? IT'S GOING UP A LITTLE BIT.
I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY RECORD'S POPULATION, MAYBE.
I'M NOT REAL SURE HOW THEY DO THAT.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION COUNTY, THAT'S THEIR MEMBERSHIP.
LEMME UH, LIVE WRAP FUNDS, UH, THAT'S PASSED THROUGH AND I, I THINK THE GOVERNOR HE THAT, SO WE NEED TO CHECK THAT OUT.
YOU KNOW, I KNOW WE, I WE USUALLY GET A DOCUMENT FROM Y'ALL'S OFFICE SAYING THAT THIS IS GONNA BE THE PASS THROUGH FOR THE NEXT YEAR.
BUT I, I BELIEVE I READ IN PAPER OR IN SOMETHING THAT WE GOT THAT SOME OF THOSE FUNDS WERE VETOED.
AND, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THE IT IS EFFECTIVE FOR NEXT YEAR OR IT'S EFFECTIVE FOR 19.
AND THAT, UH, THAT'S REALLY PASSED FOR MONEY.
THE ENTIRE AMOUNT COMES IN THE TIME AMOUNT GOES.
WE DON'T BUDGET FOR IT BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW THE AMOUNT.
YOU SEND US THE LETTER AND THEN WE GO IN AND WE ADJUST FOR THE REVENUE THAT CAME IN AND THE SAME AMOUNT GOES OUT.
YEAH, WE'LL, WE'LL CHECK ON THAT.
BUT I, AND SEE IF IT WAS VETOED.
UH, AND WHEN THAT VETOED MAY NOT BE AFFECTED UNTIL THE SECOND YEAR OF THE
SO WHAT, WHAT EXACTLY IS THE SLIDE AT? IT'S THE, UH, AIR QUALITY MONEY WHERE PEOPLE CAN, IF YOU'VE GOT AN OLDER BID AND YOU'RE GETTING READY TO TRADE IT IN OR SOMETHING, UH, THEY'LL GIVE YOU $3,500 OR WHATEVER THE AMOUNT IS, UH, TO TRADE IT IN.
BUT YOU HAVE TO, THE ENGINE HAS TO BE DESTROYED, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE TRACTOR PROGRAM TYPE THING.
BUT I THINK, I THINK MAY BE WRONG.
ATTORNEY FEES COURT AND THE COURT COSTS.
THAT IS WHERE MOSTLY, MOSTLY WHAT WE'VE BEEN PAYING OUTTA THAT RECENTLY IS THINGS THAT LIKE A MENTAL HEALTH CASE OR SOMETHING THAT GETS TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER COUNTY FROM ANOTHER COUNTY.
LIKE THE LAST TWO ONE WAS TO WILBARGER COUNTY AND ONE WAS TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
THEY HAVE THE HEARINGS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL RATHER THAN US HAVING THE HEARINGS AND THEY BILL US THE SAME THING FOR OTHER COUNTY.
I MEAN IT'S REALLY HARD TO ESTIMATE.
SO WE BUDGETED 58 71 AND WE'VE ONLY SPENT 2384.
WE'VE ACTUALLY WRITTEN JUST FOUR CHECKS THE WHOLE YEAR.
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GOTTEN AN UPDATE ON WHAT THE CAPITAL MURDER INSURANCE PART PORTION IS THIS YEAR.I DON'T THINK I HAVE EITHER LAST YEAR.
BUT THEY SENT IT PRETTY EARLY BECAUSE WE WERE GOING YAY.
AND LAST YEAR I THINK WE DID PAY.
THAT'S THE INSURANCE PORTION INCREASE.
THEY DIDN'T INCREASE THIS LAST YEAR.
EVERYBODY GOOD? EVERYBODY READY TO KEEP ROLLING? KE YOU AWAKE DOWN THERE? YEAH, I'M AWAKE.
THAT'S I GUESS THAT IT IS WHAT IT IS.
JUST WHEN YOU CAN'T FIND SOME PLACE ELSE, STICK IT IN.
THE MISCELLANEOUS THERE, THERE'S VERY FEW THINGS THAT GO.
IT'S PROB IT WAS PROBABLY IN MEYER AT SOME POINT AS A LINE OF ADDRESS FOR ONE YEAR.
IT JUST GOT TRANSFERRED OVER AS WHAT IT IS.
YOU WANNA MAKE IT TO EVEN MONEY LIKE FIVE, EVEN MONEY.
ALL RIGHT, HERE'S LISA'S FAVORITE ITEM.
HOW MUCH ON OFFICE FURNITURE HAVE WE SPENT? AND THAT'S, UH, IT'S NOT JUST FURNITURE.
AND I MEAN IT, WHAT ALL IT WAS, IT GENERALLY IS MOSTLY JUST THE OFFICE FURNITURE STUFF.
BUT IT, IT CAN, IF SOMEBODY HAD, WELL JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER UH, ROBERT WAS HERE DAY PULLED YESTERDAY ON THAT PRINTER, YOU KNOW, YOU SAID LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE IT THAT WHATEVER.
SO THINGS DO COME OUT OF THAT.
THAT'S JUST THAT WHERE, LIKE YOU SAID, PEOPLE DIDN'T BLOW THEIR BUDGET AT THE END OF THE YEAR AND WANNA GO BUY, YOU KNOW, 10 NEW CHAIRS JUST TO REPLACE BECAUSE THEY HAD MONEY TO BLOW UP.
IF I'M MISTAKEN, BOBBY WAS OF THAT BACK DOWNSTAIRS AND YEAH, THAT'S WHAT DOWNSTAIRS WE HAD DISCUSSED EARMARKING DISCUSSED EARMARKING AS MUCH OF THAT MONEY AS POSSIBLE FOR THE RENOVATION DOWNSTAIRS BECAUSE ALL OF HIS RENOVATIONS DID NOT INCLUDE REFLECT, BECAUSE I'M PRETTY SURE YOU DON'T WANT TO GO BACK WITH THOSE CHAIRS.
WE'RE ALL GETTING JUDGES' CHAIRS WHILE WE NIGHT.
I, AS LONG AS I GOT THE KNOW SOMEBODY'S GONNA, YOU KNOW, THE STORY BEHIND THIS
WELL THE CHAIRS OUR AUDIENCE SITS IN DOWN THERE.
I THINK HE WANTS HIS, YOU KNOW, THAT WILL BE YOU CHAIRS.
SO, BUT ANYWAY, THAT JUST LEAVE IT BACK.
I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL WANNA ADD TO.
I HAD SPENT THE LAST COUPLE OF THREE YEARS.
PEOPLE ACTUAL WAS, UM, WELL WE ONLY HAD THE ONE YEAR WHERE ACTUALLY WHEN WE COMBINED IT, DIDN'T WE THAT 40 1015, HOLD ON A MINUTE.
I CAN GET YOU A FIVE YEAR HISTORY.
24TH, 20,888 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I, I'D SAY LET'S JUST LEAVE IT LIKE THIS TO GET THROUGH AND UH, MAYBE WE WON'T HAVE A LOT OF REQUESTS OTHER THAN WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO DOWN STAIRS.
SO NEW EQUIPMENT, UH, THAT WAS FOR THOSE CONSTABLES AND IT'S KIND OF ONE OF THOSE GENTLEMANS AGREEMENTS THAT IT'S GONNA BE SPLIT FOUR WAYS AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THEM ONLY SPENDS A QUARTER OF THAT.
SO WE KIND OF KEEP TRACK OF THAT THROUGH THE YEAR AND MAKE SURE HOW MUCH DID THEY SPEND? UM, 6,500.
SO THERE'S STILL ABOUT 12,000 LEFT IN THERE, BUT THEY ARE SOME CONSTABLES THAT HAVE NOT BOUGHT THE STUFF THAT THEY PRESENTED AT LAST BUDGET THAT THEY NEEDED.
SO, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, KW AFTER THE MEETING YESTERDAY, FUSSED AT ME BECAUSE I AGREED TO HELP RECEIVE THREE CONSTABLE GET THE BODY CAMERAS.
HE SAID, WELL THAT OTHER MONEY'S EARMARKED.
HE'S ALREADY SPENT HIS, I SAID HE ADMITTED IT.
I'M GOING TO HELP HIM FIND THE MONEY TO GET THE CAMERAS.
'CAUSE JUDGE WOOD SAID HE'D LIKE TO BUY IT OUT OF HIS YEAR'S BUDGET AND NOT HAVE TO PUT IT IN EXTRAS.
WE'LL DO IT, BUT WE REALLY, IF THE CONS, WHAT'S THAT?
IT'S, IT'S WORKED OUT GREAT BECAUSE HIM GOING TO SCHOOL LATER THAN ME BECAUSE I'M SO OLD AND GROUCHY, YOU KNOW, HE'S LEARNING NEW STUFF.
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ME OF STUFF THAT I REALLY FORGOT AND IT, WE KIND OF JUMBLE IT BACK AND FORTH THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT AND WHAT'LL HELP, YOU KNOW.BUT ANYWAY, BASKET PACKAGING, UH, OFFICE FURNITURE IN, UH, 2011 WE SPENT ALMOST 14, 2012.
WE SPENT 37,000, UH, 2013, ABOUT ALMOST 40,000, 2014, UH, WE ONLY SPENT ABOUT 6,700.
AND THIS YEAR SO FAR IT'S THE 20,888.
AND I CAN TELL YOU THOUGH, THOSE WERE WHEN, WHEN WE MOVED UP HERE.
THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF THAT HAD TO DO.
WELL, YOU ASKED FOR HISTORY, YOU WANTED TO KNOW, SO THAT'S YEAH, NO, I'M, I'M GLAD YOU SHARED THAT WITH US AND, UH, WITH THE NORTH TEXAS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AUTHORITY.
UH, HAVE WE GOT THE AMOUNT FOR THAT THIS COMING YEAR? I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING.
I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING JUDGE.
I'LL BACK TO A QUESTION MARK BESIDE IT.
UH, THE SENIOR CITIZENS, I THINK WE'VE DONE THAT.
UH, IS THAT WHAT IT'S TALKED ABOUT? YEAH.
I MEAN IT'S IN THE, ITS 4 0 9, CORRECT? YEAH.
UH, FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION.
I DO HAVE A LETTER ON MY DESK THAT I GOT YESTERDAY.
I MEANT TO MAKE A COPY AND I JUST DIDN'T BRING IT UP.
THEY'RE REQUESTING THE SAME AMOUNT FOR NEXT YEAR AND IT'S WHERE THEY PROVIDE THE TRAINING TWO TIMES A YEAR HERE IN THE COUNTY WHERE THE FIREFIGHTERS DON'T HAVE TO GO OFF SOMEPLACE AND GET THE SAME TRAINING.
I YOU TALKING ABOUT FIRE SCHOOL? YEAH, THE FIRE SCHOOL.
SO THIS IS HOW THE FIRE SCHOOL IS FUNDED.
IT IS WHERE THEY DO THE CAIN COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION.
UH, I THINK THEY HAVE A TRAINING IN SPRING AND THEN ONE IN THE FALL.
THEY JUST HAD ONE LIKE LAST WEEK.
WE, WE, WE HAD HIM IN R SIGN OFF AND WE SENT THE 10,000.
AND WHERE THEY, I GUESS IT'S BECAUSE IT'S HARD FOR THE VOLUNTEERS TO GET OFF A WEEK.
AND THE TES COMES IN AND, AND PROVIDES ALL THE CERTIFICATIONS, THE TRAINING.
IS IT STRICTLY FOR VOLUNTEER FOR ANYWAY? ANYBODY CAN GO CERTIFIED PROPERLY, BUT MOST VOLUNTEERS DON'T WANT, I MEAN, MOST PROFESSIONAL GUYS, IT SOUNDS TERRIBLE.
EVERYBODY EFFICIENTLY TRAINED IN VOLUNTEERS.
SO IT'S KIND OF BASIC STUFF AT THAT POINT.
SO TEACH STUFF LIKE DON'T CUT THE FABRIC CABLE.
NORTH KAY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, WE, WE BUDGETED THAT 149 MM-HMM
WE PAID THEM THREE QUARTERS ALREADY.
SO WE'VE ALREADY PAID 'EM 111,000.
SO, SO WE HAVE ONE MORE QUARTER TO PAY FOR SEPTEMBER.
I'LL JUDGE CHITTY LEY, WHY DON'T YOU CALL HIM? AND HE CAN PROBABLY GET THE NUMBER QUICKER THAN I CAN.
AND, UH, THIS WAS SOMETHING WE'D NEVER HAD TO PAY FOR IN THE PAST, BUT BECAUSE OF BUDGET CUTS AT THE STATE LEVEL, WE WOUND UP HAVING TO START PICKING UP OUR SHARE OF THAT OPERATION.
SO THE JUDGE CAN PROBABLY, UH, CAN PROBABLY FIND THAT OUT A LOT QUICKER THAN I CAN.
I'M ASKING, UH, COUNTY MATCH FOR AGING SERVICES.
UH, WE GOT THAT NUMBER THAT NO SIR, WE'VE ALREADY SENT 'EM IN THE 13.
UH, I THOUGHT I SENT THAT TOO.
IT'S POSSIBLE YOU HAVE, AGAIN, A LOT OF THESE I'VE JUST BEEN ACCUMULATING ON THE, WE PAID, HERE IT IS RIGHT HERE.
I'VE GOT IT IN THE FRONT OF MY BOOK, I BELIEVE.
IT'S, UH, 14,101 AND FOR, AND UH, IT'S FAR COX, SO IT'S 14 1 0 1 AND I THINK WE GOT, GOT A LOT OF BANG FOR THAT.
AND WE'VE GOT THE, WE WENT THROUGH THE STAR TRANSIT SUBSIDY AND IT WENT DOWN FROM THE, UH, 72 TO 71.
SO GONNA PUT AN EVEN 72 CUT IN THERE.
UH, THE VINE MAINTENANCE FEE, IT'S ANOTHER MASTER.
ANGIE'S TRIED TO EXPLAIN THAT TO ME AND I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IT'S, IT'S ANOTHER MASTER.
AND HONESTLY THE, THE FUNDS DON'T EVEN COME THROUGH US, BUT BECAUSE WE KIND OF SPONSOR IT, WE HAVE TO BOOK THE REVENUE AND EXPENSE.
BUT NO CASH EVER EVEN COMES THROUGH THE, AGAIN, THAT GOES BACK OUT.
WE JUST HAVE, I DUNNO WHETHER WE GOT A FIGURE ON THAT OR NOT.
I, SHE MIGHT KNOW IF IF SHE, IF SHE GOT IT, JUDGE, I HADN'T HEARD FROM HER ON IT.
I, I'LL PUT A QUESTION MORE ON SIDE.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY, UH, THERE YEARS AGO, UH, THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE BEEN AROUND THE COUNTY WAS A BIG BATTLE ABOUT WHETHER THE COUNTY SHOULD BE PAYING FOR A PUBLIC COUNTY BY PUBLIC LIBRARY.BASICALLY AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN CAROL AND CO MM-HMM
AND SO ANYWAY, I DON'T WANNA REOPEN THAT ARGUMENT BY THE WAY BECAUSE THERE'S, THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO TO, UH, MAKE EVERYBODY HAPPY, I PROMISE YOU.
BUT I WOULD SUGGEST WE JUST GO AHEAD.
THEY'VE NOT ASKED FOR ANY OF THESE FOLKS, HAVE NOT ASKED FOR ANY
WE'LL, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, I REALLY DON'T WANT KNOW, BUT I I KNOW, AND LAURA, YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN HERE, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT IT OR NOT, BUT IT WAS THAT TERRELL LIBRARY SERVED A LOT OF COUNTY RESIDENTS AND IT WAS THE NEXT BIGGEST LIBRARY IN, UH, OR THE BIGGEST LIBRARY IN THE COUNTY AT THAT TIME.
I DON'T REMEMBER ALL THE DETAILS, BUT IT WAS A FUSS.
YEAH, IT A BIG FUSS WHEN SOME OF THE COMMISSIONERS TRIED TO CUT, CUT IT DOWN, BECAUSE THEY FELT LIKE NY AND SOME OF THE OTHER CITIES WERE NOT GETTING NEAR THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT TERRELL WAS AND THE COUNTY HAVING A COUNTY LIBRARY.
BUT THERE'S AN AGREEMENT OR SOMETHING THAT TERRELL GETS A PERCENTAGE OF WHAT THE COUNTY LIBRARY GETS.
AND MY SUGGESTION WAS CORN'S GOT A, ELLEN BROOKS LIBRARY WAS IN THE DONATION.
HE'S GOT THE ELLEN BROOKS LIBRARY.
IT'S A, AND IT'S IN THE SCHOOL, I THINK IT'S IN THE, IN THE, THE SCHOOL.
THEY'VE BUILT, SO IT'S GETTING BIGGER WITHOUT ANY, AT ONE TIME WE WERE SENDING IT TO, UH, CAMP AND SENT IT FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS AND FOUND OUT THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A LIBRARY
AND SO THEY WERE READING THE NUMBERS ON THE CHECK.
AND SO WHAT WE DID, WE STARTED, IT, STARTED SENDING IT TO THE KIM ISD LIBRARY, WHICH IS THEIR CITY LIBRARY KIND.
SO ANYWAY, THIS LIBRARY STUFF TELL YOU IT'S NO WIND DEAL.
SO, UH, THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER IS, UH, IS THAT WHAT THEY'VE REQUESTED? OKAY.
HAVE WE RECEIVED A REQUEST? HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING.
WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING FROM THEM IN YEARS.
I THINK Y'ALL ARE GONNA TRY TO GET A HOLD OF THEM TO GET SOME KIND OF REPORTS.
WAIT, ONE OF Y'ALL ON THAT BOARD.
WE'LL SEE WHAT WE, UH, WE SEND THEM, UH, 78 75 A QUARTER AND WE'VE ALREADY PAID THEM FOR THREE QUARTERS.
I KNOW THEY'LL ASK MORE, BUT THEY, I SHOULDN'T SAY THAT.
THEY DO A WONDERFUL SERVICE AND SO, YOU KNOW, THEY SWEAR THEY INTERVIEW THE, THE KIDS THAT HAVE BEEN ABUSED AND SEXUALLY AND ALL THAT.
BUT I, I DO KNOW THEY, THEY GIVE ALL ALSO SOME STATE MONEY IN, AND THEN I THINK, AND WE GIVE THEM MONEY.
THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER, WE GAVE THEM SOME MONEY.
WE GOT BACK FROM TRINITY VALLEY CAPITAL CREDITS.
A LOT OF MONEY OFF TOP OF MY HEAD OFF.
THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE CHILDREN'S SHELL.
NO, THERE WAS SOME THAT WAS SENT TO THEM FOR ONE POSITION TO BASICALLY EMPLOY THEM FOR A YEAR AND THEN ONE FOR A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THAT THEY PURCHASED.
ALRIGHT, WELL THAT'S, AND WE DON'T, WE DON'T KNOW.
WE HAVEN'T GOT THE CAPITAL CREDITS MONEY IN, YOU KNOW, WE APPROVED THAT.
WE MAY NOT GET THAT BILL JULY OR SOMETHING.
MAYBE FIRST YEAR WE GOT $350 AND THE NEXT YEAR WE GOT LIKE 160 OR SOMETHING.
LAST YEAR I THINK WE GOT ABOUT 90 SOMETHING THOUSAND.
SO YOU NEVER KNOW IN THE COURTROOM DOWNSTAIRS BEFORE.
LAKE, IS THAT WHAT WE JUST GOT THE TALKING ABOUT? NO, NO.
UH, THAT'S THE FUNDS WE GIVE TO THE LAKE BREACH ALL GROUP.
AND, UH, I DON'T KNOW THAT IT EVEN CHANGES FROM YEAR, YEAR, YEAR.
NO, IT'S IN THE SAME FOR I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG QUARTERLY THOUGH.
WE DON'T SEND IT UNTIL THIS TIME.
IT'S JUST A SHEET THAT WE SEND.
IF YOU STOP SENDING IT, WHAT DO THEY DO FOR US? JUST STOP SENDING IT.
THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE.
LET'S JUST STOP SENDING IT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
HEY, WHEN YOU TALK TO JUDGE CHI ABOUT THIS OTHER ONE, ASK HIM, UH, BECAUSE HE'S KIND OF BEEN OUR, OUR MENTAL HEALTH EXPERT, YOU KNOW, I KNOW HE PAYS 'EM ALSO WHEN HE SENDS YEAH.
THE DEFENDANT DOWN THERE THAT HE HAS TO DEAL WITH.
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I'M GONNA DO SOME FREE SERVICES.I, I THINK THEY DO, BUT THAT'S, IT'D BE GOOD TO KIND OF REFRESH YOUR MEMORY.
THAT'S ALL THE SUPPLIES, ALL THE CHEAPER MENTAL HEALTH.
IT'S MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL ARD.
THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY CAME, THEY CAME TO US TWO YEARS AGO.
THE COST CHEAPER THAN EVERYBODY ELSE.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT THEY ACTUALLY LOWERED THE COST BY A LOT.
THE GROUP WE DROPPED OUT OF A GROUP, WE CAN CHECK INTO IT AND SEE YOU.
YOU DON'T MIND ASKING? NO, I DON'T MIND.
THE TRANSFER OF FUND 81 IN 82 LOOKS LIKE I SPENT A WHOLE STEADY WHAT IS THAT? THAT'S HISTORIC COMMISSION IN THE FOURTH.
AND THAT'S JUST, UH, THE AMOUNT THAT WAS AGREED TO TRANSFER, TRANSFER, TRANSFER MONEY TO GET FROM THE STATE WE KEEP UP WITH.
NO, THAT'S MONEY THAT THE COUNTY GIVES TO THEM.
THAT'S JUST BASICALLY OUR FUNDING PORTION OF WHAT THEY SPENT IN THE COUNTY.
SO THEY TYPE THE SECRETARY, THE SECRETARY IN AND WELL, BUT NOT REALLY.
IT, IT'S KIND OF WEIRD THING WE TRANSFER OUT.
WE TRANSFER OUT TO THEM QUARTERLY.
BUT WE ALSO PAY FOR THE SECRETARY OUT THE GENERAL FUND.
BUT THEN WHICHEVER ONE THEY I THINK IS FUND 81 ACTUALLY DOESN'T TRANSFER BACK TO GENERAL FUND PAY FOR THAT SECRETARY.
BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHAT THE GENERAL FUND IS SAYING IS JUST THAT WE PAY 13, 60 YEARS BOTTOM LINE.
THAT'S FUND FOR FORM AND THE HISTORICAL OR A GROUP THAT'S TRYING TO TELL US WHAT WE CAN DO IN OTHER THEIR OWN PROPERTY OF THE COTTON CHECKS.
I THAT PART IS THAT, IS THAT PART OF THAT $28,000? YEAH, THE BALANCE.
I THINK THAT'S MONEY THEY'VE RAISED OVER THE YEARS.
UH, THAT'S THEIR TOTAL BALANCE.
BUT I THINK THEY HAVE FUNDRAISERS.
THEY DO HAVE SOME MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE.
AND I GUESS THAT'S WHERE THAT MONEY GO.
UM, JUST OUTTA CURIOSITY, ASSUMING Y'ALL WANT TO STILL FUND THIS, UM, WOULD Y'ALL BE OKAY WITH ME MOVING THIS TO THAT APARTMENT 700, WHICH IS WHERE ALL THE OTHER TRANSFERS ARE? OKAY.
BUT THAT'S THE WHERE IT'S BEEN STATIN FOR YEARS THOUGH.
NO REASON FOR IT TO STAY IN FOR THAT.
NOT REALLY, BUT IT IS COUNTY TAX WE SEND TO THE KAUFMAN COUNTY HISTORIC.
I'M NOT SURE THEY REALIZE THAT.
WELL, YOU KNOW, THEY GOT 28,688 IN THEIR CASH ACCOUNT RIGHT NOW.
THEY SPENT 180 FOR THAT GAL TO SING AT THAT THING THE DAY.
I WOULD, I WOULD'VE SUNG FOR 'EM.
I USED TO SING ON THE RADIO EVERY DAY UNTIL I CLIMB UP THERE ONE DAY AND IT BROKE HUNDRED 80 BUCKS.
LISA COULDN'T DANCED ON THE TABLE AND YEAH.
IN THE FOREIGN MUSEUM CASH, THEY HAVE 19,579.
SO THEY'VE GOT RIGHT AT 50 47, ALMOST 50,000.
WHERE DID THAT MONEY COME FROM? HAVE THEY DEPOSITED ANYTHING IN THAT FARM MUSEUM? UH, I, I, HOLD ON.
THAT'S MONEY THEY RAISE, BUT I WRONG.
THE MAJORITY OF IT, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, IS WHAT'S TRANSFERRED FROM THE COUNTY AND WHAT HAS JUST CARRIED OVER FROM YEAR TO YEAR.
I KNOW THEY DO GET SOME MISCELLANEOUS DONATIONS OF REVENUE YEAH.
BUT I KNOW I I, I BOUGHT ONE OF THOSE FENCE PANEL, YOU KNOW MM-HMM
GOES OUT THERE AND I THINK IT WAS $600 AND I THINK THAT'S WORTH IT, I THINK.
BUT THAT WAS THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO I ADDED TO HERE.
I POINTED OUT TO THEM LAST NIGHT, USED TO DOG TRANSFER.
SORRY, DAVID HAD A BIG PEN OUT THERE.
A GREAT BIG PEN THAT JUST TOOK THEM ALL IN THAT PEN.
I CAME OVER THERE TO FIND OUT, I MEAN THE DEPOSITS OF DEPOSIT.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THOSE DAY RECEIPTS THAT THEY'RE GETTING, THOSE ARE THE DONATIONS, TRANSFERS FOR THOSE ON THE PARKING BASIS.
BUT PRIMARILY THEY RAISED AND WE JUST DON'T HOPE THAT WE JUST KEEP, I DON'T THINK IT WAS TAX MONEY OR ANYTHING.
I IT WAS MONEY THEY RAISED FOR THE FARM.
I THINK I SENT YOU THAT DOCUMENT WITH THE BREAKDOWN ALL THAT.
THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID IN THE FARM MUSEUM.
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IN THE FARM MUSEUM THERE WAS THE 19 AND IN THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY THERE'S 28 ALMOST 50,000 TOGETHER.NO, I DON'T THINK I'M WANNA HEAR THAT.
JUST CAN WE THIS WANT BRUSH MONEY BACK? CAN HE HAVE THAT BRUSH BURN? NO, SERIOUSLY.
CAN, CAN WE, LIKE THEY GET A BID FOR HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO GET ALL THE BRUSH UNDERBRUSH DONE INSTEAD OF THIS LING DIAMOND THEY'VE BEEN DOING FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS.
AND TAKE SOMEBODY TO PAY SOMEBODY TO GO IN AND CLEAR ALL THE UNDERBRUSH GOT THE BID SO THEY CAN, I MEAN, SO THEY CAN GET OFF HIGH CENTER AND GO AHEAD AND GET YOUTH GROUPS OUT THERE.
WELL, I GOT A BID FOR THE ACRE.
OH NO, I'M TALKING ABOUT CLEAR IT OUT.
INSTEAD OF DOING THIS LITTLE BID SPENDING SOMETHING ELSE, GROCERY TAX DEPART.
I MEAN, I JUST DIDN'T KNOW IF WE HELPING OUR CITIZENS, AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES ME MAD.
IT WE, YOU KNOW, JUST GO TO PAPER FOR THE BRUSH CLEARING AND THEN GIVE THEM THE BALANCE.
IF THAT'S WHAT WE DECIDE TO DO, JUST GET IT MOVING.
I MEAN GET, DOES THAT HELP? WE GET KIDS OUT THERE AND SCOUT TROOPS AND STUFF, BUT JUST, JUST GOING NOWHERE FOREVER.
I NEVER, OF COURSE I DIDN'T GO TO THE MEETING LAST NIGHT.
BUT I DON'T THINK IT WENT WELL.
AND SO WE'VE GOT AN ISSUE THERE.
WHO THE PROPERTY IS, WHO IT BELONGS TO.
THE QUESTION ABOUT THE LEASE, THERE'S ALL KINDS OF MISINFORMATION THAT'S FLOATING AROUND OUT THERE THAT, YOU KNOW, COMES UP.
AND SO, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ONE OF THE LEASES SAID, I UNDERSTAND IS THAT IT WAS GIVEN, THE LEASE WAS GIVEN WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WOULD BE USED BY THE COLMAN COUNTY HISTORICALS COMMISSION YEARS AGO.
AND, UH, AS LONG AS IT WAS MAINTAINED.
AND SO THE QUESTION IS, HAS IT BEEN MAINTAINED? AND YOU GO OUT THERE AND LOOK AT IT, THE LOGICAL ANSWER IS IT HAS NOT BEEN MAINTAINED, UH, PROPERLY.
AND THERE'S EVEN, UH, I'VE HAD A CALL THIS MORNING, UH, EVEN CONCERNED ABOUT SAFETY CONCERNS OUT THERE ABOUT A, UH, A A A WIRE, WHAT YOU CALL IT, AN EXTENSION CAR THAT PLUGS INTO THE, THE, HAVE YOU SEEN THAT OUT THERE? YEAH.
I MEAN THAT, I'M SURPRISED THE CITY HADN'T SHUT IT DOWN.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? I MEAN, THAT'S, THERE'S STILL ELECTRICITY.
MIGHT YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT.
BUT THERE'S A, LIKE A EXTENSION CORD STRETCH THAT ACROSS FIVE FOOT OFF THE GROUND WHERE ANYBODY CAN GET TO IT.
THAT'S A HUGE LIABILITY FOR US.
WELL, THE QUESTION IS, IS THERE NEGATIVE IN ON SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE GET? YES.
AND, AND SO, YOU KNOW, I, I HAVE GREAT CONCERNS AND I POINTED THAT OUT.
I SAID, Y'ALL LET US HELP YOU.
WE CAN, YOU KNOW, YOU NEED HELP.
I CALL BOBBY, WE DON'T NEED THEM.
IT'S OUR A LIVE ELECTRICAL LINE FROM 34 WRAPPED OFF IN THE WOODS.
I MEAN, THE KIND OF POWER KIND OF GOES TO YOUR HOUSE.
I DON'T HOW MANY FOLKS ARE TO IT.
KIND OF CLOSE TO THAT, THIS CONFEDERATE GRAVESTONE OUT THERE AND IT WAS HIT.
YOU COULDN'T I LOOK THAT AND I WAS TRYING TO MOVE STUFF FRONT END LOADER.
I SAYING, I WONDER THAT THING'S LIVE.
'CAUSE I KIND OF PULLED A TREE OFF OF IT.
YOU KNOW, BUT I GLAD I DIDN'T BECAUSE IT WAS, IT WAS LIVE, STILL LIVE GOING TO THAT VAN.
AND WE CALLED THE UH, UM, THE UTILITY COMPANY.
I CALLED BOBBY AND THEN BOBBY CALLED, I GUESS WHOEVER HANDLES THE ELECTRICITY THERE, TRINITY, THEY CAME OUT THERE AND THEY TOOK IT DOWN.
WELL, I THINK IT'S A WORK IN PROGRESS.
I'M SEEING AN INVOICE THAT'S MADE OUT TO THE FRIENDS OF THE KAUFFMAN COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION.
THAT'S HOW WE FOUND OUT THAT THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY HAD MONEY TOO, THAT THEY WERE HELPING THE LIBRARY WITH.
I'M WONDERING IF THERE'S MORE MONEY OUT THERE.
WELL, THE FRIENDS IS A DIFFERENT ORGANIZATION.
FRIENDS IS JUST LIKE THE FRIENDS OF THE COFFEE LIBRARY.
AND THE FRIENDS I KNOW, I THINK THIS CAME UP IN THE MEETING.
FRIENDS AND THE OF THE LIBRARY, UH, ARE NOT COMMUNICATING AT ALL WITH THE TON COUNTY HISTORICAL GROUP.
I MEAN THEY'RE, THEY'RE HAVING COMMUNICATION ISSUES IS A NICE WAY TO PUT
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IT.AND SO THEY, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE LUNCHEON WE WENT TO, SOME OF US WENT TO, YOU KNOW, IT WAS NICE DEAL.
UH, THE FRIENDS ACTUALLY PAID FOR THAT, UH, LUNCHEON AND THEY GOT A BILL FOR $700 AND YOU KNOW, THEY HADN'T APPROVED IT OR ANYTHING.
THEY JUST, IT'S MONEY THEY RAISED.
AND SO THERE'S PRETTY HARD TO, ON THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION, I'LL BE QUITE FRANKLY.
WELL THIS ONE WAS FOR COTTON CANDY AND THE BAGS AND THE CONES AND ALL THE DIFFERENT FLAVORS.
I DIDN'T GET ANY COTTON CANDY THERE.
WELL, THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, THEY HAD AN BIN OUT THERE.
UM, I'M JUST ASKING BECAUSE I KNOW THAT'S HOW WE FOUND OUT THAT THERE WAS OTHER ENTITIES HELPING.
SO THEY WERE KIND OF LIKE ASKING FOR MORE FROM US WHEN THEY HAD SOME HELP.
AND THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING JUST TO MAKE SURE.
DON'T THEY ALSO LEASE IT OUT FOR EVENTS? OH'S? UH, THAT'S SHOW I NEED KNEW THAT.
I GOT AN INTRO QUESTION ABOUT THAT.
AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THE COST OF WORKING ON THIS NEW THING, THEY'RE GONNA DO THIS THING, WHATEVER.
IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S GONNA BE ON VERY LONG.
PROBABLY HAVE PRETTY GOOD, BUT WHO KNOWS? YOU KNOW? AND IT'S HARD.
UH, I WOULD SAY THAT THIS IS A DOING SO MUCH.
I RAN OUT YESTERDAY ABOUT OUT.
BUT I CONCUR WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING WHEN YOU GET OUT THERE AND GET IT CLEAN.
BUT I THINK WE NEED TO GET THIS OTHER SIDE.
NO, YOU'RE ALL THESE, THE, ALL THESE PEOPLE INVOLVED NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS CITIZENS, TAXPAYERS MONEY.
IT'S NOT THEIR OWN SEPARATE LITTLE POT.
AND THEY NEED TO WORK TOGETHER FOR THE BETTERMENT OF FUEL.
AND FOR THE CITIZENS AND QUIT THIS BEING JEALOUS OR BEING ENVIOUS 15 PLAYER AND WORKED TOGETHER ON IT.
WE OFFERED THEM AN ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY, A PARKING LOT, EVERYTHING LAST NIGHT.
THAT'S PROBABLY WHY I LIKE MY GRANDKIDS BETTER.
WELL, BRUCE HAS BEEN PAYING ME TO BE NICE TO SKI.
JUST, I WON'T BE PAYING YOU
UH, IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH DOG I THINK OR SOMETHING.
I'VE NEVER BEEN CLEAR ON WHAT IT IS.
I KNOW THE MOST RECENT INVOICE WAS ACTUALLY, UH, SIGNED OFF BY PUBLIC WORKS.
THAT HAS TO DO WITH PUBLIC WORKS.
SO IT MIGHT BE A GOOD, MAYBE SOME WITH FLOOD PLAN OR SOMETHING.
I IT'D BE A GOOD, WE PAID THEM 22 WASTEWATER WOULD BE, MIGHT BE STIC BE THE TIC TEXAS COMMISSION ON, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL.
A SNAP AND TURTLE YOU GOT THERE.
OH, WHAT DID WE PAY SO FAR? WE GOT MOST OF 'EM IN THE BILLS IN, WE KIND OF GET 'EM IN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, BUT YEAH, FOR THE, FOR THE EVENT.
I THINK WE'VE GOT EVERYTHING IN MISTY.
UM, THE FARM MARSHAL'S ASSISTANT SIGNS OFF ON THESE, BUT IT WAS ON SITE COUNCIL FEES.
AND I MEAN, WE STILL GOT 62,000.
60,060, BUT WE ALWAYS, A LOT OF THOSE EXPENSES ARE ALWAYS ON THE BACK END, THE LAST THREE OR FOUR MONTHS OF THE YEAR.
WELL, YOU KNOW, ACCOUNT OUR COMP TIME AND EVERYTHING ELSE WE CASH.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT YOUR NEW SOFTWARE IS SUPPOSED TO HELP YOU DO.
THAT'S PRETTY, THAT'S MORE REASONABLE THAN AS, AS A COMPARISON, LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME WE HAD SPENT 62,000.
SO, I MEAN IT'S JUST ON TRACK.
YOU WANT JUST LEAVE IT LIKE THIS OR PUT IT 80,000 OR WHAT YOU WANT.
UH, I KNOW THAT'S A PAIN, BUT I DO KNOW IT'S A MUCH ANTICIPATED SERVICE.
I THINK NEED GET DEALER AND PICK IT UP.
WE NEED TO GET THE RECYCLING PEOPLE INVOLVED IN CAPITAL MURDER THING.
WE'RE STILL WAITING ON MONEY BACK TO THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE.
WE'VE GOT EVERYTHING WE CAN TO GET THAT, BUT, UH, KEEP OUR FINGERS CROSSED.
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ENVIRONMENTAL CO-OP, I GUESS ANYBODY HAVE ANY THE PRESENTATION? ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANT? SO LEAVE IT AT SEVEN MM-HMMUH, THE MAINTENANCE OF THE VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK.
UH, THE LONE STAR CASA, WE NOW PAY THEM 20,000.
WE SHARE A GROUP, UH, WITH UH, ROCKWALL COUNTY.
I THINK ABOUT 70% OF THE KIDS THAT, UH, THE CASA GROUP SERVES COMES FROM COFFMAN COUNTY.
AND SO WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO GO UP EVERY YEAR ON THAT SINCE SO MANY OF OUR KIDS ARE SERVED.
I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO INCREASE THAT.
BUT THEY DO PROVIDE A VALUABLE SERVICE.
AND THESE ARE FOR, UH, KIDS THAT ARE BEING REMOVED FROM MY CPS TO OTHER HOMES.
I MEAN, IT'S A, IN ALL, ALL THE VOLUNTEERS, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GO TO THE THING, IT'S REALLY NEAT TO SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE REALLY VOLUNTEER.
AND MY NEIGHBOR, HE'S THE ONE THAT, YOU KNOW, GO WAY BACK.
WE'RE MAKING NOTES ON THESE BECAUSE YOU GOTTA REALIZE WE DON'T GET AN INVOICE FOR THOSE THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND IF WE DON'T LET GALA KNOW, SHE THINKS IT'S THE SAME AMOUNT.
AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE, THE CO-OP.
SHE DIDN'T REALIZE IT UNTIL WE CAUGHT IT UP AND SAID, OH, WE FORGOT TO TELL YOU THE AMOUNT CHANGED.
UH, THE, THAT ACTUALLY SHOULD NO LONGER BE.
UH, SO WHAT DID WE PAID? WE BUDGETED 65, UH, THIS YEAR WE HAVE PAID 5,448.
AND THAT'S A UH, HOW MUCH? IT'S A ONE TIME PAYMENT.
FOUR EIGHT MAYBE CUT IT TO 6,000.
IT'S ONLY $12 AN EMPLOYEE PER YEAR.
SO EVEN IF WE ADD SOME EMPLOYEES, WE'RE STILL NOT GONNA GO OVER THAT.
IT'S A PRETTY GOOD DEAL FOR EMPLOYEES.
SAID I THINK I ONE WATER SUPPLY CHANGED THAT CAR CITY LL ALL TIME.
THEY'RE GONNA WHAT DOLL GIVE YOU A REBATE.
WE DIDN'T BUDGET ANYTHING THIS YEAR.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS.
THAT WAS A ONE TIME THING THAT, UH, COMMISSIONER FROM PRECINCT TWO PRIOR HAD ASKED US TO DO IT AND WE WROTE THE CHECK HAD THE LADY COME TO COURT AND PRESENTED IT WITH HER.
SO, UH, WE STARTED OUT WITH A CONTINGENCY OF LAST YEAR OF 2 85.
THAT'S CERTAINLY DIDN'T COME IN IN HANDY ON THE, UH, THE EXTRA ATTORNEY FEES.
WE'VE HAD THE ENGINEERING FEES AND SO I'M DOWN, WE'RE DOWN TO ABOUT WHAT NOW? A SECOND 25,000.
WHAT? WE HAVE A HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE SIX FIFTY THREE.
AND WE KIND OF USE THAT IN THE PAST FEW YEARS SINCE WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO HAVE A CONTINGENCY FEE.
WE KIND OF USE THAT AS A BUDGET BALANCER BECAUSE THINGS ALWAYS COME UP THAT WE DON'T EXPECT.
SO THAT NUMBER IS TO DETERMINED.
WE FINALLY GET ALL THE REVENUE.
WE KNOW UNTIL WE SEE WHAT TO MAKE THE BUDGET BALANCE.
YOU SAY ATTORNEY'S FEES, IS THAT FOR, IS THAT STUFF THAT TACT DOESN'T COVER IN ATTORNEY'S FEES? LIKE WHEN WE'RE SUING? UH, OH, WE'RE SUING FIVE.
AND OTHER AND THE, UH, FEES WE PAY AND OKAY.
OH, I DON'T THINK WE DO KS INMATE ADDITIONAL 50.
THEY WOULDN'T LET US GIVE IT BUDGET.
THE EIGHT 50 UNTIL AFTER BEEN INTO THE INATE PROGRAM FOR SIX TO EIGHT MONTHS.
I THINK COMMISSIONER ALLEN, I SAID IT TO LOSE IT.
SO I SET IT ASIDE IN A SPECIAL LINE.
I HAVE SPENT ANYTHING OUT IT, I DUNNO, I THINK WE'VE SPENT JUST A LITTLE BIT DESIGN FEES, UH, HAS BEEN CHARGED SOMEWHERE ELSE.
IT HASN'T BEEN CHARGED TO THAT.
BUT NORMALLY WE DON'T CHARGE ANYTHING DIRECTLY TO CONTINGENCY.
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BUT I'M TALKING ABOUT THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.WE THIS, WE'VE SET THIS UP AS A CONTINGENCY FOR THE ANIMAL.
WE HAVEN'T SPENT ANYTHING YET.
UNLESS WE JUST CHARGE BUDGET, BUDGET TWO 50 FOR NEXT YEAR AND GIVE US 500.
IT SHOULD CLEAR, CLEAR OUT MONEY.
WELL I GUESS WE COULD SET IT IN A SEPARATE FUND AND I MEAN WE'RE GONNA SPEND SOME MONEY, I ASSUME THIS YEAR.
YOU KNOW, IF WE GO OUT AND DO THE LAND CLEARING, LIKE, UH, UH, MAX SAYING THAT'S GOING BE A LEGITIMATE EXPENSE.
I DON'T THINK I, WE PAY PAY THE ARCHITECT AND THE ARCHITECT FEES.
WE NEED CHECKS MONEY OUTTA IT WOULD BE THE DAVIS FIRM E THEY 5,000.
HOW MUCH SOMETHING ENC PROBABLY THAT'S WHERE IT WENT FROM PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL SERVICES EVENTS WHERE WE HAD IT COVERED.
BUT WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY PAID IT.
NO ONE TOLD US IT WAS FOR THE, WELL, I MEAN, I DUNNO IF THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH WELL WE CAN TAKE IT.
IT'S JUST, WE JUST WANT PIECE AN ACTIVE ACCOUNT ABOUT WHAT SHELTER CALLS AND THAT'S THE ONLY WAY OF DOING IT IS THAT LINE ITEM.
WELL WE CAN ALSO SET UP NEW ONE TO TRANSFER INTO SUB ALL THE COSTS.
BUT WHAT DO Y'ALL WANNA DO WITH THE BUDGET THOUGH ON THAT? YEAH.
WELL I, I THINK, UH, I DON'T KNOW WHERE'S GOOD POINT.
YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WE'RE GONNA NEED UNTIL GET SOME MORE BIDS OUT, FIND OUT SOME THINGS.
SO I THINK THAT'D BE SOMETHING WE CAN KIND OF, THIS IS LAST MOMENT.
THIS IS THE LAST MOMENT PIECE RIGHT HERE.
WE'LL SEE WHAT EVERYTHING ELSE DOES TOO.
SO AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS, YES.
AND THE QUESTION WOULD BE, I THINK, UH, THE COMMISSIONER WAS TALKING ABOUT IF WE DON'T SPEND ALL OF THIS 250,000 THIS YEAR, CAN WE MOVE IT TO A SEPARATE FUND? UH, WE CAN DO IT JUST LIKE WE DO THE WELLNESS.
WE CAN GIVE IT AN ESTIMATE AND ROLL IT INTO THE SAME LINE ITEM.
I IT'S GONNA GET THE GENERAL FUND, BUT THEN NEXT YEAR WE DO HAVE TO BUDGET ADDITIONAL MONEY AND WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER WE'LL OR NOT I'M OF DEFEND, WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE TO BUDGET A LOT, BUT I MAY BE WRONG.
WE, WE CAN CARRY FORWARD WHATEVER BUDGET IS LEFT OVER IF Y'ALL DO WANT.
ALRIGHT, LET'S, WE'LL THINK ABOUT THAT.
THE UNCLAIMED CAPITAL CREDITS, WE GOT 170,000.
UH, IS THAT HOW MUCH WE GOT LAST YEAR OR THAT WAS THE CARRYOVER? THAT WAS FROM 16.
BUT REMEMBER WE ZERO THAT OUT FOR SEVEN.
UM, BECAUSE THAT'S ESSENTIALLY, WE USED THAT CARRY FORWARD TO PAY FOR THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, THE TIPS, THE, UH, WE WERE THAT MONEY SIMPLY FOR THE REASON WE CALCULATED IT, WE DIDN'T, THAT HAD, HAD BE, HAD TO REDO SOME OF THEIR STUFF AND THERE WAS PROPERTIES DROPPED OFF AND WE WIND UP ALL MONEY.
AND SO JUDGE WOOD CHECK TO THE DA'S OFFICE IF THAT WAS THE LEGAL EXPENDITURE AND IT WAS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
SO THAT'S WHAT WE USED THE FOR.
AND WE ALSO SENT SOME TO EACH CHILDREN SHELTER.
WE DID, I THINK THE ADVOCACY CENTER, GEORGIA SHELTER AND SOMETHING ELSE.
AND WE HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET ANOTHER LARGE SOMETHING THIS YEAR.
DO THAT'S CARRY OVER THAT THE SCHOOL ON CAMERA FEES.
AND THERE WAS NO EXPENSE AND THERE WAS NO REVENUE FOR THIS.
4 0 9 DASH ONE IS THE 2 20 15 GDJ BX.
UH, CONSTABLE SAFETY EQUIPMENT, WE DON'T SHOW ANYTHING FOR.
THAT WAS ANOTHER GRANT WE WERE TRACKING.
WE HAD NO, ALRIGHT, QUICKLY MOVING ALONG.
JACKIE, WHAT DO YOU WANNA DO WITH THIS ONE ON? WELL, THE WORK OUT LAST YEAR, WE GONNA CUT IT OUT AND CUT IT DOWN IN THREE DAYS.
MY BE, AND IT'S JUST WHOEVER'S DECK IS GONNA BE THERE.
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HE LEFT.WE HAVE TO PAY HIM ALL THE JUNK ALL OFF WHEN THEY DO COME UP AND PICK THE CARDBOARD UP RIVER, THE TRUCK DRYER IS TO GETS THE CARDBOARD, THE PAPER PLANT GIVES THE CHECK TO THE TRUCK DRIVER.
WE DON'T KNOW WHO'S GETTING THE MONEY.
WELL I WAS THINK, BUT THEY'RE MAKING THE CHECK OUT TO THE TRUCK DRIVER.
WHO IS THE PAPER PLANT? WHERE ARE THEY HAULING? TOPER CAPPER? NO, THAT'S WHO GETS THE CHECK ON US, HAUL OVER WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
SO WE GET NOTHING FOR WE, WE HAVE ALL THE EXPENSES ON REALLY INCOME.
WELL, JUDY CROW AT SSUR KAPPA AND ASK HER.
WELL IT IS NOT, IT IS NOT THEM.
OH, I THOUGHT HE SAID ANOTHER CHECK.
THEY'RE JUST HIRING THEM TO TAKE THE CARDBOARD OVER THERE BASICALLY AND DUMP ALL WHITE PAPER OR CARDBOARD.
BUT I WAS JUST SAYING, BUT WHAT HE DOING IS JUST PAYING, WE'RE JUST PAYING THE TRUCK DRIVERS.
HE DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING GO TO SMART.
SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? MISUNDERSTOOD.
THEY'RE SENDING THE CHECK TO, SO HE KEEPS, KEEPS THE CHECK, I GUESS FOR DELIVERY.
PICKING UP THE DELIVERY PAPER, WHATEVER.
CO-OP PAYING HIM, WE HAVE TO PAY, YOU KNOW.
HE'S JUST, AND I'M NOT SURE WHAT'S THE REVENUE EACH HE GETS PAID.
ARE Y'ALL TALKING ABOUT THE PRECINCT ONE OR YOURS? FOUR.
THAT'S THE ONE THAT'S IN THE GENERAL PLACE.
THAT'S IN THIS BUDGET THAT YOU GOT HERE.
WHAT I JUST SAID FATHER WEST THAT YOU, YOU TALKING ABOUT THE YEAH.
THAT YOU, WHAT YOU GONNA DO? LISTEN YOU ABOUT YOUR PEOPLE OVER THERE AND NOT MAKING ANY MONEY.
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT I HAVE 6 93.
THAT'S, THAT'S HIS, WHAT DOES HE GO? 48 0 48.
JUST THE PART-TIME GUY TRYING.
SO WHAT I'M SURE THAT STAYED OPEN ALL THE TIME.
WELL, YEAH, WE'VE GOT, WE'VE GOT A GUY THAT'S HERE, THE GATE AND THEN I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY DO THE MONEY.
MONEY IF THEY SELL TICKETS FOR LOADS OF TRASH AND YOU TO BUY SO MANY TICKETS.
DO WE GET MONEY FROM THE CITY ON THAT? UH, I, WELL THE, I CAN'T LOOK.
I CAN JUST TELL YOU THAT WE'VE GOTTEN LIKE DAILY RECEIPTS OF $2,224 1,080 7, 50 17 0 5.
AND THEN WE PAY PAYROLL AND WE PAY FOR PROGRESSIVE.
I KNOW YOU, THE MAYOR MEETING TALKED TO THE CITY MANAGER ABOUT, WE NEEDED MORE RECYCLING FOR SOME REASON.
ANYTHING WE ASK FOR THE CITY DOESN'T REALLY MATERIALIZE OR, BUT THEY'RE, THEY'RE TRYING TO SAVE MONEY.
IT SEEMS TO BE WORKING REAL WELL.
PEOPLE, A LOT OF PEOPLE COME TO RECYCLING AND THE PENS FILL UP REAL FAST.
YOU HAVE PERMIT FEES FOR FROM TERRELL AND YOU HAVE T FEES FROM COFFEE.
THAT'S THEIR MAIN GENERATOR OF THE MONEY.
HOW MUCH DOES IT GENERATE? OKAY.
UM, WE DON'T, NO, I KNOW BECAUSE IT DOES REQUIRE TRANSFER FROM THE GENERAL FUND.
YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S ONE THING THAT I WAS GONNA TALK ABOUT.
WE TRANSFER, WE HAVE 55,000 IN THE TRANSFER DEPARTMENT.
BUT WE ONLY TRANSFER AS WE NEED IT.
BUT WE BUDGET 52,000 TO NO WHAT WHAT DO WE SPEND? OKAY.
DOESN'T THE 16 SPENT 25 8 18 THE CITY, WHAT DOES THE CITY PAY FOR THE DUMPSTERS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL RECYCLING BINS? WE FOR, FOR THE HAULING COST FOR TARRELL, WE BUDGETED 39 1 9 3.
NOW FOR WHAT IS PULLING COST FOR MATERIAL? I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DON'T.
THAT'S THE HAUL, THE DUMPSTERS OFF.
IS THAT WHAT IT IS? WELL UNDERSTOOD.
WAS COFFIN PASTE FOR THE DUMPSTERS AND STUFF.
LOOKS LIKE WE'RE PLAYING PROGRESSIVE WASTE.
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MM-HMMBUT IT'S COST TRANSFERRED INTO THIS FUND.
THEY DO GENERATE SOME OF THEIR OWN REVENUE BILL.
THE HAULING COST FOR T, WE BUDGETED THE 52 5 0 4.
UH, RIGHT NOW WE'VE SPENT 31 985.
WHAT IS THAT THOUGH? I MEAN WHO DO WE, WHO ARE WE PROGRESSIVE PROVIDING THE CHECK CITY OF COFF.
FOR CITY OF TAR OR FOR THE ING COST TAR.
WE'RE PAYING, WE'RE PAYING PROGRESSIVE WASTE AND IT SSE STATION COUNTY ROAD THREE 19 WATCH GOT WATCH.
THIS IS, THEY'RE COMING AND HAULING IT.
WHERE ARE THEY? I MEAN THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
THEY HAVE A CONTRACT WITH PROGRESSIVE WASTE.
DOES TER HAVE A CONTRACT WITH PROGRESSIVE WASTE TO DO THEIR TRASH? IS THAT RIGHT? I THINK TERRELL DOES.
THAT'S WHAT'S IN THE, IN THE, YEAH.
SO TERRELL IS SENDING THEIR TRASH TRUCK TO PICK IT UP.
WHERE DOES THE TRASH COME FROM? CITIZENS I GUESS.
CITY COUNTY THAT ANYWHERE ELSE.
SO WHAT WHAT'LL HAPPEN IF YOU DO THIS IS WILL PEOPLE START DUMPING AND Y'ALL HAVE IT ILLEGAL DUMPING GOING ON? WELL NO IT'S, IT IS THE RECYCLE THE CITY AND THE KAUFMAN COUNTY IS RECYCLING TOGETHER IN THEIR OH IT'S THE AND ACTUAL CITY.
OH THEY ALL BUY TICKETS, WHATEVER IN GO I SEE RECYCLE AND THEY SEND IT.
THEY HOW PROGRESSIVE AND TERRELL AND THEY COME OVER HERE AND PICK IT UP AND HAUL IT OVER AND DUMP IT OUT AT THE CO-OP.
AND THE CO-OP DOES WHAT THEY NEED TO DO WITH THEIR RECYCLED AND THE REST OF IT GOES WITH TRASH.
WHY CAN'T THEY? THEY DON'T HAVE, THEY DON'T A 30 THERE.
THE INVOICE THAT WE GET FROM THE CITY OF KAUFMAN IS SENT TO TO MY OFFICE AND IT SAYS THE TAX REPORTS ARE DOCUMENTATION OF THE USE OF THE COFFEE, TRASH AND RECYCLING CENTER BY CITIZENS OF THE CITY AND THE COUNTY.
THE REPORTS ARE FROM JANUARY, FEBRUARY, AND MARCH.
THAT'S A QUARTERLY FEE OF 32,000.
NO, THAT'S YEAR TO DATE YOU SAID.
AND FOR THE THREE MONTHS, JANUARY, FEBRUARY AND MARCH, OUR PORTION WAS 12,000 163 11.
WE PROBABLY NEED GET THE AGREEMENT, WHATEVER AGREEMENT WHENEVER IT WAS DONE.
WE'LL PROBABLY JUST NEED TO RESEARCH.
WHAT? WELL I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR PHILOSOPHY IS WHENEVER THEY SET THIS UP.
DO WE, IS IT A BREAK EVEN DEAL? IS IT MAKE MONEY OR IS IT JUST HAVE SOME PLACE FOR SOMEONE TO GO WITH SO THEY DON'T KNOW GET CLOSE TO BREAK IT EVEN SO I DON'T KNOW.
ARRESTED IS TAKING IT BACK SINCE IT'S A CO-OP DEAL.
HE'S CALLING HIS TRASH COMPANY.
WELL THEY MIGHT JUST BE PICKING IT UP AND TAKING IT FROM THERE TO A LANDFILL DUMP.
I MEAN THAT THERE, THERE IS TRASH.
THERE'S TRASH AND THERE'S RECYCLING.
BUT I MEAN SO YOU KNOW THEY'RE SEPARATING IT SOMEHOW.
I'VE BEEN OUT THERE EXCEPT STUDY, BUT, WELL WE DON'T DO THAT FOR ANY OTHER CITY THAT I'M AWARE OF.
YEAH, WE DON'T DO IT FOR, I DON'T TAKE ANY TRASH.
FOR MAYBANK OR I MEAN I DO BECAUSE SOME THEM THEY SET IT OUT THERE.
CORN HAS ITS OWN RECYCLING PROGRAM THOUGH, RIGHT? YOU HAVE A RECYCLE BIN? I HAVE RECYCLING.
SO THEY HAVE THEIR OWN PROGRAM.
AND THE CITY AND THE KAMAN THAT JUST WENT TOGETHER WITH AND THAT'S WHAT THAT IS IS A CO-OP THING AND, AND UH, WHITAKER SET IT UP.
CHARLES, HE CAME AND SET IT UP YEARS AGO I GUESS AND THEY SET IT UP.
THEY USED HAVE 30 YARDS OUT THERE AND SUPPOSED TO PUT RECYCLE STUFF AND ONE AND TRASH IN ONE.
AND HE NOTIFIES, HE NOTIFIES THE TRASH COMPANY.
THEY COME OVER HERE AND PICK IT UP AND THEY HAUL IT OFF.
WHICH THEY'VE GOT A DIFFERENT, THEY DON'T USE PROGRESSIVE HERE DO THEY? IN
SO THE PROGRESSIVE MIGHT JUST BE COMING FROM HERE.
SOMEBODY FROM THE CITY MIGHT BE CALLING HERE.
WE PROBABLY DON'T HAVE ANY KIND OF CONTRACT OR ANYTHING.
WELL IT'S A CITY CONTRACT WITH A TRACE COMPANY, BUT THEY'RE THE ONLY ONES IN CAN HAUL IN IT.
YOU CAN, YOU CAN GET SEPARATE DUMPSTERS AND STUFF AND SET AT LOCATIONS, ADDITIONAL ROLL OFFS AND STUFF LIKE WHEN YOU HAVE CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS, PROJECTS AND STUFF OF THAT NATURE.
BUT THE OVERALL TRASH PICKUP, LIKE YOU SAID IS IS CONTRACTED TO THE CITY COMMERCIAL TOO.
SO IF YOU HAUL ANY CONSTRUCTION OR A HOUSE OR ANYTHING, IF THEY GAVE PROGRESSIVE CONTRACT, THEY'RE THE ONLY ONES CAN COME IN.
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JUST WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE.WE'LL SEE WHERE WE CAN FIND IN THE MINUTES.
AND BRING IT OVER TO YOUR OFFICE.
AND THEN LET'S SEE, UH, HOW MUCH DID WE PAY FOR IT? I MEAN WHAT'S THE TOTAL BUDGET AND THEN WHAT WAS THE REVENUE LAST YEAR? MAYBE JUST LOOK AT LAST YEAR.
YEAH, I MEAN LIKE WE GOT AN INVOICE FROM THE CITY OF KAUFMAN WHERE WE HAD, THEY HAD TIRES PICKED UP AND THEY HAVE TO BILL WITH US.
THEY PAID $558 AND WE PAID 558.
SO THERE'S GOTTA BE AN AGREEMENT SOMEWHERE OF HOW THIS IS BEING CALCULATED.
I YEAH, WE PAID FOR ALL THE TIRES
SO, BUT WHAT WAS THE TOTAL AMOUNT? 48 AND WE TRANSFERRED FROM THE GENERAL FUND.
SO, OH I, IT SAID THAT WE BUDGETED, I THINK IT WAS 58,000 OR SOMETHING TO TRANSFER JOHN SENT.
AND WHERE IS IT SHOWN IN THE GENERAL FUND IN THE TRANSFER DEPARTMENT? I THINK 40, WHAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE BUDGET IN THE GENERAL PLAN TRANSFER OUT THERE IS 30,000.
AND THEN AS FAR AS WHAT'S BUDGETED AND THE PERMIT FEES TO TERRELL IS 5,200 AND THE PERMIT FEES FOR KAUFMAN IS 29 9.
SO I MEAN IT HAS A TOTAL BUDGET OF 90,000 PLUS WHATEVER THEIR CARRY OVER BALANCE IS.
THIS WAS THE SAME LAST YEAR WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT STATION.
WE TALKING ABOUT THE PRECINCT STATION AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON WITH IT.
I MEAN I KNOW THAT THE UM, PREVIOUS COMMISSIONER PRECINCT ONE COME IN AND ADJUST WITH THE BUDGET 'CAUSE HE WANTED TO PAY THE PART-TIME WORKER, GIVE HIM A RAISE AND HE DID AND THAT'S ALL.
BUT WHAT IT TURNED INTO IS PROBABLY A TRANS TRANSFER STATION, BASICALLY.
SO ALL THE COUNTY RESIDENTS AND PEOPLE BUYING TICKETS AND IT'S ALL TRANS LANDFILL AND THE LANDFILL COST GOING UP SO MUCH THE PRICE OF PICKING GONE UP.
AND I THINK THEY HAVE TO COME TO THE TAX ASSESSOR TO GET THEIR PERMIT.
BUT Y REMEMBER THAT'S WHERE MORE AVENUE SIDE COMES FROM EXCEPT FOR OUR TRANSFER.
THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO SUBSIDIZE IT.
WELL I KNOW THOSE TICKETS HAVEN'T GONE UP.
THEY USED TO GO TO THE POLICE STATION TO PICK UP THE TICKETS.
THEY TOLD ME THAT THEN WHEN THE CITY HALL MOVED, THEY'RE GONNA CITY HALL NOW.
THEY, THEY COLLECT MORE DOWNSTAIRS.
WE DOWN HERE TOO RAISE TICKETS.
WELL THAT'S, I WE'LL WORK WITH CITY.
I WAS ACTUALLY GONNA TALK ABOUT THIS AT THE MEETING A COUPLE TIMES.
SEE I, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES PEOPLE, THEY'RE NOT HAVING TO PAY FOR IT.
UH, COURTHOUSE SECURITY, THAT'S A SEPARATE FUND THAT UH, WE USE.
IT COMES FROM FEES THAT ARE MADE IN A DIFFERENT COURT AND UH, I DUNNO HOW MUCH, WHAT WAS OUR FUND BALANCE AND OR WHAT, HOW MUCH MONEY DO WE HAVE IN IT NOW? UH, AT THIS TIME WE HAVE 132,500 HUNDRED.
UH, AND IT GENERATES ABOUT HOW MUCH A YEAR'S GOT WELL IT'S, WE STARTED OUT WITH 151 AND WE SPENT SOME MONEY AND THEN WE GOT SOME MONEY, BUT I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE SPENT.
BUT RIGHT NOW WE'VE GOT 132,000.
AND IT IS NOT GENERAL FUND OR TAX MONEY.
IT'S FEES THAT WE GET FROM THE PERIOD FOR RIGHT NOW, THE MOST MONEY WAS BUILT, MOST MONEY WAS SPENT.
WE SPENT 31,100 WITH CAROL ALARM SYSTEMS AND THEN WE SPENT UM, 11,000 25 33 WITH THAT SATELLITE WIRING FOR THE COURTHOUSE.
SO YOUR CELL PHONES AND STUFF WOULD WORK.
AND IT'S STILL NOT WORKING? NO.
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OKAY.I DON'T THINK IT WORKED THAT WELL.
BUT IT DID WORK IN THE BASEMENT.
I WORK IN THE BASEMENT DOESN'T WORK IN MY OFFICE.
BUT YOUR OFFICE DOESN'T, I'M RIGHT NEXT TO A WINDOW.
PEOPLE SEE AND WELL, BUT ANYWAY, THEY ARE WORKING ON THAT.
AND UH, UHS THE THING I'VE TALKED WITH GEORGE ABOUT, THEY, THEY HAVE ORDERED US SOME ADDITIONAL, UH, EQUIPMENT THAT THEY WON'T PAY FOR IT, WE WON'T PAY FOR.
SO, BUT THERE WAS, UH, THAT SATELLITE OUT KEPT, UH, WHAT WAS THE REST OF THAT MONEY SPENT ON? BECAUSE I KNOW THE COURTHOUSE THING WAS ONLY, I SAY ONLY IT WAS ABOUT $8,000, BUT, UH RIGHT.
BUT THERE WAS ADDITIONAL, UM, IT WAS 11 SOMETHING ALTOGETHER, BUT THERE WAS AN ADDITIONAL ALMOST 3000, UH, SPENT ON, UM, ADVANCED EDGE ROUTER, UH, MODEM AND WIFI, UH, CLOUD MANAGER, OMNI ROOF MOUNT ANTENNA, UH, TWO PER MODEM.
AND UH, THE SUPPORT FOR THE ANTENNAS AND THE CABLE AT THE ANNEX BILL.
WHO, WHO ALL UH, WHO HAS ACCESS TO THAT FINDING? UH, THESE ARE ALL SIGNED BY GEORGE GORDON.
UH, WE MAY WANT LOOK DOWN A LITTLE BIT AND SEE HOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THE PROCESS WE GO THROUGH ON, ON THAT.
WHAT'S THE, ON THE SECURITY SYSTEMS ON THE NEXT PAGE? UH, OH, 60.
I, I'D SAY THIS, THIS, IT'S, IT IS WHAT IT IS.
THAT'S JUST NOT BOTHER IF, BUT WE PROBABLY NEED TO GET A LITTLE BETTER UH, CONTROL.
IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, WE NORMALLY UH, CONTACT YOU BEFORE WE GIVE EVERYONE ANYONE THE OKAY TO SPEND MONEY OUT THAT.
BUT FOR THE COURTHOUSE FOR THE THING, I REMEMBER THAT, BUT I DON'T REMEMBER ANY OF THIS OTHER, SO, OKAY.
ONE A JUSTICE COURT BILLING SECURITY AND HOW MUCH THEY SPENT SOME OF THAT, HOW MUCH DO THEY HAVE? 29,006.
THEY, THEY AND THAT'S THE FEE DID THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER, THAT'S THE LAST THING.
AND WE DUNNO, I DUNNO IF WE'VE HEARD ANYTHING.
I KNOW THEY WERE RUNNING A FULL HOUSE I THINK OUT THERE.
AND WITH THAT FULL RETIREMENT THING THAT CAME OUT, THEY'RE GONNA GET WITH THAT.
THEY UM, YEAH THEY HAD TO TAKE IT IN FRONT OF THEIR BOARD AND IT WAS A, A NIGHTMARE BUT UM, I THINK THEY FINALLY GOT IT ALL WORKED OUT.
THEY HAVE A FOUNDATION GROUP THAT SUPPORTS THEM ON YEAH.
EVERYTHING'S IN BUDGET PRECINCT FOUR THE, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? CONVENIENCE STATION.
THAT, THAT'S IN THE GENERAL FUND.
WHAT HAPPENED? I DUNNO, WHERE IS IT? UH, IT'S DEPARTMENT 6 97.
I KNOW IT HAVE COPY OF IT THOUGH.
6 93 IS ABOUT SHEET WHAT? 6 9 3.
THE FOUNDATION'S BOUGHT THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER, A NEW DISHWASHER.
THE ONE WE HAVE ON INVENTORY IS MISSING AND NOBODY SEEMS TO KNOW WHAT IT'S, THEY SAY THEY EITHER TRASHED IT OR THE RECYCLE CENTER PROBABLY, BUT NOBODY KNOWS WHENEVER WE WENT TO GO DO INVENTORY AND CASSIE'S LIKE WHERE IS THIS DISHWASHER? AND THEY'RE LIKE, OH OR WHATEVER.
AND SHE GOES, OKAY, WHAT DID Y'ALL DO WITH THE OLD ONE? SO, WELL IT WAS BROKEN.
SO WE GOT RID OF WHAT DID THEY HAVE THAT OLD DOWN THAT WAS THIS REGULAR DISH? I'M NOT SURE.
'CAUSE IT SEEMS TO ME, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, IT WAS HOBART.
SO IF IT'S HOBART, THAT'S GONNA BE A COMMERCIAL THAT'S NOT JUST GONNA BE YOUR KITCHEN AID.
AND WE NOTIFIED THEM THAT WE NEEDED THAT.
OR CASSIE HAS, SHE'S SHE'S TOLD 'EM, YOU KNOW, I MEAN OBVIOUSLY SOMEBODY'S GONNA HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED TO ME.
AND IT MAY HAVE BEEN A TRADE IN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT I GUESS.
BUT I THINK WHAT I WOULD DO IS MAYBE, UH, FOLLOW UP WITH AN EMAIL TO UH, ORITA AND I COPY THE JUDGE JUST BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA NEED IT ON OUR REPORT.
WHEN WE GET READY TO TURN OUR REPORTING.
SO YOU KNEW COMMISSIONERS KNOW JUDGE WOOD ALWAYS USES THE WORD PASS THROUGH BECAUSE WE DON'T SPEND THAT MONEY.
THEY NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE KIDS.
BUT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT IS A STATE
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CONTRACT WITH THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT.SO YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR AND WE DO APPROVE THE, THE BUDGET YEAH.
AND ALL THAT COMES THROUGH, BUT, AND THEY HAVE A SEPARATE AUDIT AND WE WORK WITH THAT AUDITOR SO WE CAN BE REASSURED THAT THINGS ARE ON UP AND UP.
BUT WE ALWAYS, WE ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND ON OUR CASH BALANCE BECAUSE SOMETIMES THEY DON'T.
WELL THERE WE'VE HAD TO CARRY OUT THE TIME TO TOOK I THINK.
AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO THEIR BOARD THAT YOU'RE MAKING ME OUT COMPLIANCE.
'CAUSE WHEN I SIGNED THAT CHECK, I KNOW THERE'S MONEY IN THAT LINE ITEM TO COVER.
AND WHEN WE GO IN A DEFICIT THAT IT HAPPENS.
AND WE HAD A PROBLEM A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO THAT THE THURSDAY BEFORE THE WEEKEND, THEY BRING US BRING UP A, SOME RECEIPTS SIMILAR TO WRITE 'EM A CASH CHECK FOR THE WEEKEND SO THEY COULD TAKE THE KIDS, YOU KNOW, OUT WE HAVE PIZZA OR TO THE MOVIES OR, OR WHATEVER, WHICH IS FINE, BUT DON'T GIVE US ONE DAY NOTICE OR A HALF A DAY NOTICE.
I NEED THAT CHECK BY THE MORNING.
YOU, THEY'RE GONNA TALK TO 10 TO YOUR QUESTION CHECKING.
THE THE REVENUE'S COME IN IS ABOUT 5,400 THIS YEAR AS OF JUNE.
SO, AND THE BUDGET IS TOLL HAS GROWN 50 HOW MANY THOUSAND? UH, ON WHAT? NO, ON CONVENIENCE BUDGET IS 58,000.
WE LOSING ABOUT 52 4,000 YEARS.
SO HERE, HERE'S WHERE WE'RE, WE'RE GOING.
I THINK WE'RE ALL BRAIN DEAD, YOU KNOW, BRAIN DEAD.
UH, RIGHT NOW WE SCHEDULE AFTER EVERY REGULAR COMMISSIONER COURT MEETING THAT AFTERNOON AN UPDATE ON WHERE WE'RE ON THE BUDGET AND IT MAY WE'LL HAVE TO POST IT AND WE'LL MAKE SURE WE GET WHERE WE CAN COVER EVERYTHING.
IT MAY BE THAT WE, I'LL CHECK WITH REBECCA AND KAREN AND IT MAY BE, WE MAY NEED TO HAVE A FULL SESSION ON SOME OF THE PERSONNEL STUFF THAT WE TALKED ABOUT.
WE'LL MAKE SURE WE CAN DO THAT.
THEY'LL TELL US WHETHER WE CAN OR NOT INVOLVING, UH, PERSONNEL RESPONSIBILITIES AS WELL.
AND THEN, UH, IN THE MEANTIME I'M GONNA BE WORKING WITH, UH, THE TAX OFFICE AND TRY TO GIVE US SOME VERY, VERY PRELIMINARY NUMBERS, YOU KNOW, SHOWING WHERE THE REVENUE GONNA BE.
AND, UH, BUT I MEAN, IT, IT IS JUST, IT'S GOING TO BE A, UH, GUESSTIMATE, A SWAT IN THAT, CALL IT A SWAT, SWAT, SWAT.
AND SO THAT OLD GIVE US AN IDEA ABOUT WHERE, WHERE WE'RE, IT WON'T GIVE US EVERYTHING, BUT WE FEEL, YOU KNOW, UNFUNDED MANDATES.
WE DUNNO WHAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE, BUT WE'LL BE WORKING ON THAT.
SO WE PROBABLY KIND OF START THINKING ABOUT WE ARE, WE'VE GOT A NUMBER OF VEHICLES THAT HAVE BEEN REQUESTED.
AND, UH, THERE WAS, DID DID Y'ALL GO TO THAT? UH, WAS THERE SOMETHING THAT YOU DIDN'T MIGHT ASK YOU? THE PAM.
YEAH, SHE CALLED ME ABOUT IT AND SHE SAID SHE HAD ALREADY CHECKED INTO THAT AND IT WASN'T ANYTHING THAT WAS NECESSARILY BENEFICIAL FOR US HERE.
UM, BECAUSE OF THE STATIONS, IT COST SO MUCH TO GET THE ACTUAL FUELING STATIONS FOR THOSE ALTERNATIVE FUELS.
I THOUGHT MAYBE IT INCLUDED THE STATION.
IT WAS A GRANT THAT WAS GOING, YOU COULD APPLY FOR, UH, VEHICLES PRIMARILY, YOU KNOW, BUT THEY USED A NATURAL GAS, BUT THE FUELING STATIONS WERE PRETTY EXPENSIVE.
BUT I, I DIDN'T YEAH, WELL THAT, THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.
SHE HAD ALREADY BEEN TO SOME MEETING OR SOMETHING ON IT.
I DUNNO IF, UH, I HAVE A QUESTION THOUGH ABOUT THAT.
I DUNNO IF RIGHT DOWN THE STREET, THE MOST OF 'EM HAVE ONE NOW THAT CAN USE PROPANE AS WELL AS NATURAL.
PROPANE RUNS PRETTY CLEAN TOO ON THE ENGINE.
AND, AND SO THAT MIGHT BE ANOTHER OPTION TO LOOK AT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T JUST HAVE ONE BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE A LOT OF THE OLD PENIS STATIONS AND STUFF.
THEY'VE GOT MY ON BUCKNER AND THEY'VE GOT ONE IN HERE AND THEY'VE GOT GOT 'EM ALL OVER THE PLACE.
AND WE MIGHT HAVE TWO OR THREE.
WELL I TOLD IT NOT NECESSARY FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES, BUT FOR PEOPLE.
BUT FOR, YEAH, PEOPLE THAT USE AROUND HERE AND THEY JUST GO TWO BLOCKS DOWN THE TREE.
I BE, I'D BE SHOCKED IF THAT, IF THEY DON'T HAVE FUEL STATION, YOUR BUDGETS WILL LOOK A LOT BETTER ONCE WE PUT SOME PRELIMINARY NUMBERS AND WE HAVE SOME REVENUES.
AND WHEN YOU SEE US FUND 48, YOU'LL HAVE A PAGE
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THAT SHOWS YOU WHERE ALL THE REVENUES COMING FROM AND THEN THE EXPENDITURES.THEN YOU'LL SAY, OH, OKAY, THIS MONEY, THIS MUCH COMES FROM HAULING AND THIS COMES FROM A DON FROM A TRANSFER FROM GENERAL FUND AND THIS IS WHAT THEY'RE SPENDING IT ON.
IT'LL HELP MAKE A LITTLE YOU A COUPLE YEARS TO GET USED TO WHERE IT'S COMING FROM AND UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S NOT COMING FROM US NECESSARY.
IT'S COMING FROM SOMETHING ELSE.
THEN YOU GET TO MESS WITH PEOPLE.
I DIDN'T MENTION ONE THING, WE DIDN'T MENTION PRECINCT TOOTH CONSTABLE.
I DIDN'T SEE ANY CHANGES THAT HE HAD ON THERE, BUT HE WASN'T TALKING ABOUT A CAR.
AND HE DO EMAIL ME AND I HE SAID, WOULD YOU BRING IT UP? I SAID YES.
WE'LL, THEY TALKED ABOUT DODGE CAR.
SO BECAUSE HE'S GOT TWO OLD, HE'S GOT TWO OLD FOURS I THINK SAME WAY EVERY TIME IT GOES OUT, THING BREAKS DOWN.
I JUST WANTED MAKE SURE WELL ONE GO BACK, DON'T YOU? MY FIRST STATION THAT SHE WAS WANTING, YOU WANTED ME TO TAKE IT OUT OF THE SIX 200.
NOW I WOULD THINK SO BECAUSE I JUST GOT ESTIMATES IT COST ABOUT A THOUSAND.
I WOULD, I WOULD GO AHEAD AND DO SO SO THAT, THAT WOULD YEAH, I'VE ALREADY GOT IT MEASURED.
I'D LIKE TO, UH, I GUESS RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THE JANUARY BUDGET AFTER MEETING THAT WE KEPT TEACHING AT WHEN I THINK IT JANUARY 27TH.
I'M GENERALLY GOING THAT GOING FROM THAT TIME ANYWAY.
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT JANUARY, JULY.
I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING.
WHEN IS IT? JULY? WHAT'S DATE? I THOUGHT IT WAS THE 27TH.
TAKING, TAKING THAT TO FUTURE RESIDENT.
UH, WHEN IS I WANNA LIST YOU SAYS AFTER THE COURT DATE IN JULY? THE FIRST OR SECOND? WELL, THE 27TH ON THE FIRST.
AND YOU WOULD UH, I'LL BE GONE ALL OVER.
YOU'RE GONNA BE, WE COULD WE HAVE IT ON.
GETTING CLOSE TO BEING FINALIZED AUGUST.
WE'RE PLANNING ON MOSTLY THE BUDGET ON THE 24TH OR 27TH OR OF JULY.
AND SO WE, BUT UH, AND WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE, THE COURT DOESN'T HAVE TO APPROVE THAT.
IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT WE CAN'T AFFORD ADOPT A BUDGET UNTIL IT'S BEEN FILED IN THE COUNTY CLERKS OFFICE.
AND YOU KNOW, YOU FOR ANYBODY WANTS TO SEE IT, BUT IT HAS TO SIT THERE FOR 30 DAYS.
SO, UH, BUT YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE HERE ON THE 27TH, 24TH.
AND YOU'RE NOT, YOU'RE GONNA BE, YOU GONE THAT DAY TOO.
I'M GONNA BE GOING 25TH, 26TH, 27TH.
WHERE DO Y'ALL WANNA MOVE IT UP TO? LIKE THE FIRST OF THE 20TH? I BELIEVE THAT MORNING.
WHAT IF WE DON'T HAVE RATES? WE SHOULD, UH, IF YOU WANT TO INSURANCE COMMITTEE PROBABLY WON'T HAVE RATES.
UH, WHAT ABOUT THE 18TH? I'LL BE HERE.
WOULD THAT WORK? AND WE'LL TRY TO HAVE THE BOAT AS FAR ALONG 18TH.
AND WHAT WE'LL DO, WE'LL MAKE THE 18TH AS, BUT WE CAN ALSO CALL A SPECIAL MEETING.
EVERYBODY, WE JUST TRY TO DO IT SO EVERYBODY WOULD KNOW THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE A BUDGET WORKSHOP.
NOT AT THE END OF EVERY MEETING, BUT IT ALWAYS CONFLICT.
SO, UH, 18TH? IS THAT TUESDAY? TUESDAY.
ALRIGHT, THANKS EVERYBODY TO GO.