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 8                 KERR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT

 9                    Special Emergency Session

10                   Wednesday, February 23, 2000

11                            4:00 p.m.

12                     Commissioners Courtroom

13                      Kerr County Courthouse

14                         Kerrville, Texas

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17                             BURN BAN

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22   PRESENT:     WILLIAM "BILL" WILLIAMS, Commissioner Pct. 2
                  JONATHAN LETZ, Commissioner Pct. 3
23                LARRY GRIFFIN, Commissioner Pct. 4

24   ABSENT:      FREDERICK L. HENNEKE, Kerr County Judge
                  H.A. "BUSTER" BALDWIN, Commissioner Pct. 1
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 1        On Wednesday, February 23, 2000, at 4 o'clock p.m., a

 2   Special Emergency Session of the Kerr County Commissioners

 3   Court was held in the Commissioners Courtroom, Kerr County

 4   Courthouse, and the following proceedings were had in open

 5   court:

 6                      P R O C E E D I N G S

 7                  COMMISSIONER LETZ:  We'll call this Special

 8   Emergency Commissioners Court meeting to order.  It's

 9   4 o'clock on February 23rd.  There's one item on the

10   consideration agenda, consider and discuss burn ban for Kerr

11   County.

12                  COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN:  A lot of rain out in

13   my neck of the woods, about an inch average, around.  I

14   think we may have gotten a little more than some, but I

15   understand that out in your precinct there were some pretty

16   good rains.

17                  COMMISSIONER LETZ:  We had in my area, I

18   think, probably as little as anyone, four-tenths of an inch.

19   Most of the areas I've talked to got anywhere from

20   six-tenths to three-quarters of an inch.

21                  COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN:  I would make a motion

22   that we lift the burn ban, effective immediately.

23                  COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS:  I would second that.

24   Most of the people I talked to in the eastern part of

25   Precinct 2 had anywhere from a half inch up.  And, as I
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 1   drove through there this afternoon, I see fire and smoke all

 2   over the place.

 3                  COMMISSIONER LETZ:  Burning in your precinct

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 5                  COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS:  Looked like an Indian

 6   reservation there; smoke going up through the trees there.

 7                  COMMISSIONER LETZ:  Motion from Commissioner

 8   Griffin, second from Commissioner Williams, to lift the burn

 9   ban.  It's lifted until our next meeting?

10                  COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN:  Until -- until Monday.

11   It's on the agenda already.

12                  COMMISSIONER LETZ:  All right.  All in favor,

13   say "aye."

14                  (The motion was carried by unanimous vote.)

15                  COMMISSIONER LETZ:  All opposed?

16                  (No response.)

17                  COMMISSIONER LETZ:  None.  We're adjourned.

18                  (Discussion off the record.)

19                  COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS:  It's lifted until

20   7 p.m. on the 28th.

21                  (Meeting was adjourned at 4:02 p.m.)

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 1   STATE OF TEXAS     |

 2   COUNTY OF KERR     |

 3        The above and foregoing is a true and complete

 4   transcription of my stenotype notes taken in my capacity as

 5   County Clerk of the Commissioners Court of Kerr County,

 6   Texas, at the time and place heretofore set forth.

 7        DATED at Kerrville, Texas, this 24th day of February,

 8   2000.

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11                       JANNETT PIEPER, Kerr County Clerk

12                   BY: _________________________________
                         Kathy Banik, Deputy County Clerk
13                       Certified Shorthand Reporter

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