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~~ COMMISSIONERS' COURT CONVENED IN BUDGET WORKSHOP SE6SION ON
Tuesday, August 4, 1992 with all Officers Present:
Court was opened with a discussion of the J. P. stating that
salaries would be a bid decision. Constables budget and
salaries were also discussed. The salary of a constable
should be 512,450.00 per precinct which would entitle the
constables to be paid 59.00 per hour which is close to what a
deputy makes. This-, would not have any travel, car or
gasoline expense included.
Judge Ablea, Judge Prohl, Linda Uecker, Becky, Paula Rector,
Barbara Nemec and Leonard Odom were p7~°;lsent in the Budget
Workshop.
Judge Ables addressed the Court asking for a TV, VCR, and
Stand which would approximately coat 51,000.00. A metal
Detector was discussed this may cost 52,900 to 53,100, but he
did not know rhether this would be a walk through detector or
a hand held detector. The hand held detector are more
inexpensive but they are not sure rhether this 1s what they
need. Judge Prohl addressed the Court asking for some
shelves to be put in his office and in Judge Ables Office.
The shelves they are currently using are not able to hold the
volumes they have. Judge Ables also requested a Computer or
word processor for his office, the Computer hardware that ie
being used now is not Kerr County equipment. We did request
5500.00 last year for a Color Monitor, but we have not asked
for Computer Hardware before. Court reporter and Coordinator
are hoping for a pay increase of about 5~ as this is what
most of the surrounding Counties are shooting for. We are
collecting Court Appointed Attorney fees regularly. We do
need S250.00 for part-time salary to be lncluded in our
budget due to vacation schedules. This would be 8250.00 for
each Court. We should discuss and reassess the hours our
Auditor ie spending at work. We feel Tommy Tomlinson is a
tremendous asset to our County and he does do an enormous
amount to work, therefore xe feel his salary should also be
looked at. The 51.500.00 should be put in Frankie Speakmon's
Budget for the shelves that are needed.
Linda Uecker addressed the Court about the Law Library. We
have received Law books from people that no longer need them
but the updates for these books ere killing us on cost. I
figured we could buy a complete set of Law Books every two
years for the coat re are spending on the updates. If I can
get rid of some of the books we no longer use and sell them
as 'surplus, I would make money and room for the new ones. In
my budget I have requested some book shelves but we may not
need them if I can sell the books that are no longer needed.
I have some attorneys now that have expressed some interest
in buying some of these books.
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Leonard Odom addressed the Court asking for a Secretary end
Commissioner Holekamp'e opinion was no, but he is in favor of
some cost of living raise for employees. Mr. Ddom was asked
if he thought he could do repair work for the Sheriff's
Office on their vehicles? Mr. Odom stated that he would
probably need more man power to do this and that the road and
bridge department was not equipped with a computer to do
extensive repair work an the Sheriff's vehicles. The Court
said that it would not be anything difficult, it would be oil
changes etc. Mr. Odom said he would discuss it with the
Sheriff.
They are needing Bome furniture for the Office Maintenance
Building and the response was that in the rarehouse we have
some furniture that may be able to be utilized for this
purpose. If it could not be used then maybe it could be sold
and the money made be used for buying office furniture.
The County Treasurer's Budget was addressed also. The Court
diacusaed the resignation of Dorothy Hilburn. The budget
that was handed in was cut 3% due to the Computer Maintenance
being reduced, the Court discussed this and changed the line
item to read 64,428.00 instead of 9920.00. The discussion of
doing away with the deputies position andlor part-time
position vas diacusaed. Barbara told the Commissioners' 1f
they did away with the deputies position this would mean she
would no longer have a job. But either way she may not have
a job, if they did not accept the recommendation Dorothy has
given them. Commlasloner Holekamp recommended they leave
this budget alone until they could talk to Dorothy.
The Court adjourned at 2:25 P. M.
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