~_ COMMISSIDNER'_•' CDUkT CONVENED IN SPEC:IA1. C•E'~'=ION on TY~.ursday,
~eFaembe~ :~`' 1990 at. 1:06", c'cloc4; F'. M. with ell officers
present, and the Court having duly opened the foliowinq
proe~eed~ngs wEr+• had:
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The first item on the agenda is approval of the Kerr County
1990-1991 budget. _l~dge Edwards stated the budget in
question is the one dated September 24, 1990 plus the
supylernents given to hire the day before. He ask if there
were any changes in the budget other tt,an the ones discussed
at the put~lic hearing on September 20, 1990. The County
Auditu:, Tarnmy 7ominso r., said his office had found some
rnat.hernatical errors in the budget while preparing the list of
~alaties of Elected Dfficials and employees of Kerr County
for the Court, which needed tc.~ be corrected.
County Judge Edwards told the Court there were also changes
which might need to be made in the County Attorney's Office
and Justice of the Peace, Precinct #2's Office, depending on
how the Court ruled. 'Phe Salary Grievance Committee had met
at 8:30 A. M. on September i'7, 1950 and by a vote of 6 to 0,
had voted to raise County Attorney David Motley's salary to
545,000.00 retroactive from his date of appointment, and he
is to receive the cost of living increase given to other
elected officials. The committee also voted 6 to 0 to raise
Betty Burney, Justice of the Peace, Precinct #2's salary to
519,760 including the 4% cost of living.
Commissioner Baldwin ask a.f the Court had the right to
overrule the curnmittee. Judge Edwards said you probably do
taut ask the County Attorney's Office. Tt,e Judge said a legal
technically came up just prior to the committee meeting and
he had to make a discretionary decision whether to proceed
and have the Court possibly overrule the committee's
decision, or postpar~,e the meeting until the proper posting
could be done. He took it upon himself to tell the committee
he felt like the Commissioners' Court would abide by the
committee's decision, but. one or more commissioner's might
say no.
Commissioner Morgan addressed the 4% increase for elected
officials. As a taxpayer he is not comfortable with the
increase of taxes on taxpayers to give the elected officials
the 4% cost of living increase.
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