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KERR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT
Regular Session
Monday, November 13, 2000
9:00 a.m.
Commissioners' Courtroom
Kerr County Courthouse
Kerrville, Texas
PRESENT: FREDERICK L. HENNEKE, Kerr County Judge
H.A. "BUSTER" BALDWIN, Commissioner Pct. 1
WILLIAM "BILL" WILLIAMS, Commissioner Pct. 2
JONATHAN LETZ, Commissioner Pct. 3
LARRY GRIFFIN, Commissioner Pct. 4
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2	---	Visitor's Input	3
	---	Commissioners' Comments	8
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	1.1	Pay Bills a~~/y	13
9	1.2	Budget Amendments ~~	--
	1.3	Late Bills o2G?/3
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Read and Approve Minutes ~/7	14
	1.5	Approve and Accept Monthly Reports	15
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	2.1	Introduce new Chief Appraiser	16
7	2.2	Road name changes, privately-maintained roads,261~g 16
	2.3	Minor revision of plat, Lots 93 & 44,	
8		The Horizon, Section One, Precinct 1 'lJIYt,L~	17
	2.4	Minor revision of plat, Lots 120 & 121,~~~	
9		The Horizon, Section One, Precinct 1	19
	2.5	Final revision of plat, Lot 1, Bluff Creek,2(o7/9	
10		Ranch, Precinct 2	19
	2.6	Preliminary plat, Waugh Acres, Precinct 2 ~~°~	20
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11	2.7	Preliminary plat, Paso Creek Ranch, Precinct 2	22
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	2.11	Possible funding to repair recent flood damage	38.'~a/
12	2.12	Declare local flooding disaster	45.7~~1'
	2.8	Open bids for 25-ton trailer, Road & Bridge	46,Xs7~~
13	2.9	PUBLIC HEARING-Order establishing No-Wake Zones	
		
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19	2.10	Adopting court order establishing no-wake zones	
	2.24	PUBLIC HEARING - LLEBG grant, Sheriff's Dept.	94~~
15	2.13	Amended Child Care Local Initiative Agreement	--
	2.19	Approve Data Exchange Contract for Kerr County	.67.1,5
16		Collections Department	96
	2.15	Approve RFP, authorize advertisement for project	~G726
17		management services, Chapman Building Systems	98
	2.16	Amend resolution, Universal Cable Holdings, Inc.	101~~
18	2.17	Memorandum of Understanding with HCDJLSA	102.t~Jw
	2.18	Resolution requesting introduction of local	
19		legislation in 2001 Texas Legislature authorizing	~67dg
		Kerr County to levy hotel/motel bed tax	104
20	2.19	Name U.G.R.A. Lake in memory of Darrell Lochte	120.z67~
	2.20	Apply for 1-year waiver provision regarding eZG730
21		Bloodborne Pathogen Control Program	122
	2.21	Approve County-sponsored contracts a6~j/	126
22	2.22	Approve volunteer fire departments contractsd6Z3~	127
	2.23	Approve proposed 2001 budget for Kerr Emergency	~CZ'-~3
23		911 Network as required by Health & Safety Code	125
	2.25	Approve revised On-Site Sewage Disposal order	129 X13
24	2.26	Approve final draft, Subdivision Rules & Regs,	~T~
		set public hearing	133 0~~~
25	2.27	Discuss Change Order Number 6	140 `~~
	2.8	Award bid for 25-ton trailer, Road & Bridge	191
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On Monday, November 13, 2000, at 9:00 a.m., a regular
meeting of the Kerr County Commissioners Court was held in
the Commissioners' Courtroom, Kerr County Courthouse,
Kerrville, Texas, and the following proceedings were had in
open court:
P R O C E E D I N G S
JUDGE HENNEKE: It's 9 o'clock in the morning
on Monday, November 13th, Year 2000, and we'll call to order
this regular session of the Kerr County Commissioners Court.
Commissioner Baldwin, I think you have the honors this
morning.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I do. If y'all will
stand and pray with me, please.
(Prayer and pledge of allegiance.)
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: TYrank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you. At.this time, any
citizen who wishes to address the Court on an item not
listed on the regular agenda may come forward and do so.
Mr. Siemers?
MR. DAMS: I'm Donald Davis --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Go to the podium, sir.
MR. DAMS: A11 right. I'm Don Davis with the
Greenwood Forest Homeowners Association, and we would
respectfully submit a petition where you'd honor our concern
on the ingress and egress through Greenwood Forest to the
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new proposed Western Hills Subdivision.
AUDIENCE: You're too close to the mike.
MR. DAMS: And also our concern for the water
supply out there. Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Thank you, Mr. Davis.
Why don't you give it to your Commissioner?
(Petition handed to Commissioner Griffin.)
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Is there anyone else who'd
like to address the Court? Mr. Siemers?
MR. SIEMERS: Paul Siemers, HC-l, 156N in
Hunt. This morning is the last meeting I'm here
representing the Sane Water Policy Coalition. And this
morning it's my privilege to present to you the results of
our 6-week long petition drive. I'll try to be short this
morning 'cause it looks like have you a long agenda ahead of
you today. We, the Sane Water Policy Coalition, because of
our concern for the future of water in this community, and
the fact that we recognize that the area is subject to
drought and dry spells, and that we see nothing as a result
of the studies recently reported by the Region J group that
indicate that we have a plentiful water supply, and because
of the concern we see relative to the Lower Trinity and the
questions relative to its recharge, and because of the fact
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that during this past summer, a large percentage of this
community was on severe water restrictions, we believe that
We also believe that a golf -- golf
courses -- we know that a golf course -- golf courses use a
disproportionate amount of water, and that allocating a half
million to a million gallons a day for a fourth golf course
in this community is not compatible with our water supply,
and it's certainly not good water management. Even if the
water that's used on the golf courses is treated effluent,
we would not consider this as good water management, because
most of the water put on the golf courses is lost to local
reuse. And water that's put back into the Guadalupe River,
effluent or whatever, is -- does have reuse capability as it
goes downstream for domestic, agriculture, and livestock
uses, all the way from -- from Comfort -- from Center Point
to the Gulf of Mexico. And we believe that Kerrville --
Kerr County should consider treated effluent as a -- as a
renewable resource and insure that it is recycled.
Our petition drive started 6 weeks ago, and I
very few limits on the people who signed our petition. The
only requirement that we had was that they were concerned
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about water and the effect of excessive use on the future of
our community. We -- we accepted signatures from adults who
lived in Kerrville, adult visitors to the community.
Primarily, visitors -- we accepted their signatures because
it had been stated publicly that we needed a fourth golf
course in our community for our visitors. We accepted
signatures from teenagers who expressed a knowledge and a
concern about the water issue, because we believe that
involving them in this process for their future is very
important.
We wish we could express to you all the
emotions, and I have -- I have enumerated some of those in
the letter I've provided -- letter of transmittal I've
provided to you, of the people who came and talked with us
during this 6-week period. But, the most -- one of the most
common expressions we got as people approached us or we
approached them, and these were from the teenagers all the
way up to our very senior citizens, and that was, "We don't
need another -- expletive deleted -- golf course." And they
signed the petition.
In summary, we believe that this grass roots
effort -- community-wide grass roots effort has demonstrated
a desire to protect our water resources, and we believe that
the government bodies of the County: the Commissioners
Court, City Council, Headwaters Underground Water
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Conservation District, and the U.G.R.A., collectively have
the authority to do just that. We therefore respectfully
request that you grant the request of the approximate 3,000
people, concerned individuals, including both elected and
appointed government officials who signed the petition to do
so; that you will do your part to impose a moratorium on
development of new golf courses until a water supply base
master plan has been implemented for the community.
There are 3,005 signatures contained in this
volume. That -- that breakdown -- I have provided you a
demographic breakdown in your handout this morning, and it's
in here. That, just briefly, to go through that, if I can
find it -- there it is -- 1,471 signatures are residents of
Kerrville, 194 residents of Ingram, and 1,023 were county
residents. The non-Texas -- the Texas visitors, including
the Hill Country surrounding communities, were 226. And we
had actually 9 foreign visitors who opted to sign the
petition. This is the results of our 6-week activity, and
I'd like to present this document to the Court now.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you.
MR. SIEMERS: 'Phank you. If you have any
questions, I'll be glad to try to answer them.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you. Does anyone else
wish to address the Court on an item not listed on the
agenda? Is there anyone else who needs to address the Court
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on an item not listed on the agenda? Seeing none, we'll
turn to the Commissioners' comments. Let's start with
Commissioner Baldwin.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yes, sir, I've got a
couple of comments. I want to give you a report. I was a
guest this weekend of Texas A & M University to -- and this
was set up several months ago, that I went over there as
President of the South Texas Judges and Commissioners
Association, to brief me on some issues that are coming down
the pike dealing with Extension Service and some other
things. While I was there, they -- they also took me to the
football game, which turned out to be, I guess, the most
incredible event I have ever been to in my entire life. We
saw the Aggies almost beat the number one team in the
country. Largest crowd in the history of that stadium, the
B-1 bombers flying over, and every time A & M would score a
touchdown, all those old geezers kissing their wives.
(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Well, I'm not sure
they were their wives, but I asked -- I asked Larry about it
this morning. He says, "Well, I always kiss my wife." It
was just the most incredible thing I've ever experienced in
my -- and, oT course, they handed you -- they give you
earplugs before you go in there, and you need them. It is
the wildest thing I've ever seen. And, on the -- on
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football -- I want to stay on football. We'll go to Tivy
football. There is a game this Friday night, the first
round of the play-offs. Tivy plays this Friday night
against Southside of San Antonio, and it's going to be in
Kerrville, Antler Stadium. There will be a pep rally
Thursday around 6:30 on the Star downtown. So, we're in the
state play-offs now, so it's time for all of us, even those
people that are scared of the river going dry, Paul Siemers,
to come to the -- the pep rally and let's support our kids.
It's what this community is -- is really all about, is our
young people, and here's an opportunity to participate.
That's all.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Very good. Thank you.
Commissioner Williams?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Only thing I would
offer, Judge, is that the events of this past week have
caused me, on more than one occasion, to give thanks to God
for the framers of our Constitution, whose insight and
foresight never cease to amaze.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Amen. Hear, hear.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Commissioner Letz?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Two comments. O