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KERR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COORT
Regular Session
Monday, February 12, 2001
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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2.1 ~esentat~on - V. Medical Center statusp~SG.>'~src~g
2.2 Annual report - Historical Conuuission ~-~~~~ 31
2.3 Road & Bridge advertisement for annual bids"zArP,(~O 37
2.4 Road & Bridge acceptance of ArcView GIS software 392~S~o
2.5 Approve road names for privately maintained roads 402to81o
2.6 Abandon right-of-way on Joe Dzymala property Zcsg~~2
2.7 POBLIC HEARING - Revision of Tract 64 & 66,
Ingram Hi11s Subdivision 2bFalo~1 47
2.8 Final Revision of Plat, Tract 64 & 66 aboveZ~`b~''u 51
2.9 Open annual bids - electrical, plumbing, & HVAC:2(o~3(~S
2.10 Accept or reject above bids Z.a~(oS 54
2.11 Open annual bids - repair parts, labor, service
& related items for county vehicles 55
2.12 Accept or reject above bids --
2.13 Open bids - body shop repairs, County vehicles 57
2.19 Accept or reject above bids ~~P~~'~ 58
2.15 Sending out RFP's for communications system Zb~(o'~159
2.16 Preliminary revision of plat, Tract 44 & 45,
Kerrville South II, Precinct 1 'Z.lo~(e~~ 69
2.17 Preliminary revision of plat - Tracts SA & 6A,
Whiskey Ridge Ranches, Precinct 3 Zv%F }~ 73
2.18 Establish speed limit oL 30 mph on C.P. Rivcr
Road, set public hearing on same 2.U+8~ ~ 78
2.19 Approve annual accounts/status of investments'Z"U,~4
2.20 Reimbursement of interest per Dt. Court order -~Z~~.85
2.21 Request from Kerr County Fair Association to ~IcQj"}ti
place portable building on HCYEC property Z~b 45 52
2.22 Resignation of Chuck Brecher, Solid Waste Dept. 95
2.24 Request for variance to OSSF requirements to
Eddie & Joyce Sowell, Center Point, Texas ~`~~~ ~ 105
2.25 Donation of Texas Ranger photographs'Z~v`~"~~v 116
2.31 Accept gift of Western prints from Cowboy'~(o~~-~-
Artists of America Museum 123
2.23 Revision to County Personnel Policy to re uire
annual Employee Performance Reviews 2~D~'~U 131
2.26 Resolution supporting Plateau Water Plan Group's
request for funds for Trinity Aquifer monitoring 147
2.27 USDA/NRCS agreement, construction of temporary
bridge for Hermann Sons crossing'j~ 150
2.28 Right-of-ways for Hermann Sons Crossing,
authorize County Judge to sign z-~O~gZ 152
2.29 Approve job description for Information Systems
Support Specialist p;SuBSiu~ 155
2.30 Set date & format for OSSF workshop" ~EsQ~ 161
2.32 Authorize Commissioners & Judge to appoint one 2~~5
high school student to Redistricting Committee 171
2.33 Ooen House & unveiling of cannon on Feb. 22 183
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On Monday, February 12, 2001, aL 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
SUDGE HENNEKE: Good morning, everyone. It's
9 o'clock on Monday, February 12th, Year 2001, and we will
convene this regular meeting of the Kerr County
Commissioners Court. Commissioner Letz?
COMMISSIUNER LETZ: Everyone please stand for
prayer.
(Prayer and pledge of allegiance.)
JODGE HENNEKE: We have an extensive agenda
today. I think we've set a record for my tenure with 33
items, so we're going to drive the train pretty hard today.
At this time, if there's any citizen who'd like to address
the Court on an item which is not on the regular agenda,
they may come forward and do so. Is there any citizen who
would like to address the Court on an item which is not on
the regular agenda? Seeing none, we will turn to the
Commissioners' comments. Let's start with Commissioner
Letz.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Judge, is this the point
where we're going to announce our ccmmittee meiubers?
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JUDGE HENNEKE: I think that wou]d be
entirely appropriate, yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Okay. The individuals
I've chosen to serve on the Redistricting Committee are
Clarence Burrow from Comfort, Alice Gutierrez from Comfort
area, Reverend Phea from Kerrville, and Janda Castillo from
Kerrville, and Walter Schellhase. They all are looking
forward to it; I think they'll give a good representation of
my precinct and will do a real good job.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Excellent.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: And the only comment I
have is that we're about to enter my favorite time of the
year, baseball season. Let's -- let's hope all the best for
all the baseball players in the community. And A & M, for
that matter.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Right.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Commissioner Griffin?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Two things. One, in
the computer area, I think it's important that we note that
the firewall is in. We're getting ready to go with e-mail
accounts for the County, and then later on, of course, we'll
look at how we put it in, but we'll have a web page -- or
web site. Several pages, I hope, eventually. And -- but
there is one thing that we want to make sure that everybody,
all the County employees understand and that the public
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understands, too, and that is until we have good virus
protection in place -- and that's the last link and we're
working on that now -- until we have good virus protection
in place, we will not go active with this system, because we
just can't afford to have a virus threat out there. So, if
you hear that things are moving along, great, but we've
still got that one very important step before we go live
with it. So, still be a little bit patient. And, my
members to the committee -- and, again, I, like Commissioner
Letz, tried to make sure that we got good representation
from all over Precinct 4. I have chosen Jack Burch oL
Mountain Home, Elaine Casteel of Ingram, Linda Coffee in
Kerrville, Wayne Este in Hunt, and Jack Parks of Kerrville.
They've all agreed to serve. I think they'll be good
representatives, and they all understand the redistricting
process in general. So, I look forward to working with
them.
DODGE HENNEKE: Commissioner Baldwin?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yes, sir. I'd like to
announce my list. They are Sandy -- that's a female, Sandy
Wolfmueller from Voting Precinct Number 113. Sam Gross,
he's a retired attorney, Precinct 107. Bill Tennant,
Precinct 113. Dave Gipson, 101, and Marie Davis of Voting
Precinct 113. I wanted to say that we're also moving into
my favorite time of the year, which is track season. You'll
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have more pecple at the track meets than you do at the
baseball games, thank God.
(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And, there's a
gentleman in the audience that's on our program this
morning, Dr. Dan Bacon, that was my personal doctor for
many, many years, and of all the many friends and people
that I know, this guy knows me better than anybody, inside
and out. Good to see you, sir.
DR. BACON: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Thank you,
JUDGE HENNEKE: Commissioner Williams?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: My picks for the
redistricting committee are Mr. Jack Furman of Kerrville,
Mr. James Murphy, Mrs. Linda Demasco, Mr. Tom Butters of
Center Point, and Mr. Chris Childs of Shadow Ranch on Turtle
Creek -- Lower Turtle Creek Road. And, I'd like to bring
the Court up to dare on the status of -- of our grants that
we're applying for with respect to Kerrville South program.
I had an e-mail from Eric Hartzell of Grantworks last week.
"Dear Commissioner Williams, the latest word from the State
is that they are, quote, almost finished with scoring. The
staff member I spoke with felt that the scores and rankings
would be announced for the C.D. fund" -- the smaller of the
two grants we applied for -- "within about two weeks. The
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Colonias fund" -- that half a million dollar fund -- "will
funding. We may have to fiddle with the locations and
timing of specific activities, since the Colonias grants are
grants that would likely make funds available iii the summer
of 2001, while the C.D. funding will likely not be available
until the summer of 2002. This will not be a big issue, as
we will know that the funding is coming" -- if granted --
"so that we'll be able to phase the construction according
to engineer's design."
JUDGE HENNEKE: CJkay, thank you. My
selections for the Advisory Committee are David Jackson, an
attorney here in Kerrville, Stan Kubenka from the Ingram
area, Pat Dye from the Turtle Creek area, Hiram Henderson,
and Louis Romero, Jr. It's an outstanding group tkiat we've
selected representing the county as a whole, and I think it
will be -- give us great advice as we move through the
uncertainties of redistricting on a short timetable,
starting in April. We will be sending some printed
materials out to these people so they can have a chance to
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time comes. I want. to thank each of the Conunissioners for
their efforts in insuring that we have a wide representation
of all of the county. It's an outstanding group.
We're actually hitting my favorite time of
year, which is mock trial time, and even though I no longer
have any children involved, the Tivy High School team once
again won the regional championship Saturday and will be
moving on to the state competition in Dallas in March. And
also, it's interesting to note that the Tivy girls
basketball team beat Fredericksburg Saturday afternoon in a
play-off with a 3-point shot at the buzzer, so Ltiey end up
as the number two seat coming out of our district and will
move on into the play-offs. So, it's an interesting time of
year for those of us who would like to follow high school
extracurricular activities.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Fred, I want to make a
comment about your mock trial group. I was up here working
yesterday and I heard a tap on the door, looked out there,
and there's a -- there's that group trying to get i~itu the
courthouse on a Sunday to practice or whatever they do.
And, shortly thereafter, Judge Ables showed up and let them
in, but -- I mean, I let them in until he got here. I held
them out here.
(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: But -- but that's
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beyond the call of duty. I think those guys -- those young
people working like that on a Sunday afternoon is
incredible.
JUDGE HENNEKE: They do work hard, and the
results show. 1 mean, they've been -- I think this is ttie
15th year they've competed in mock trial. They've won the
regional every year but one. They've won State three Mmes,
the only -- the only team in the history of the state
competition that wasn't a 5-A school to win it back-lo-back
years, and they finished third in the nation two years ago.
So, it's an incredible program, and the thanks go to Bobbie
Murray, the sponsor at the high school, and even more than
that to the local attorneys and members of the judiciary,
Judge Ables and Judge Prohl in particular, who volunteer
their efforts in training those kids. Our hats are ofL to
everybody who participates in that and al] the successful
programs, not just at Tivy, but throughout the county. We
have a very, very excellent school system network here in
Kerr County, all the way from east to west, and we're very
lucky to be able to enjoy the benefits for all of us here in
Kerr County.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Judge, I have one
question on the redistricting. Are we going to discuss a
little bit where we're going with that on the last agenda
item? I --
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DODGE HENNEKE: Sure, we can.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: A11 right.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. All right. Anything
else? Let's pay some bills. Mr. Auditor? Does anyone have
any questions or comments about the bills?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I do. I do. I do.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay, Commissioner.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Page 11, about halfway
down in Group 630, Health Department, to the City of
Kerrville, First Responders expense, $625. That's the one
that I harp about monthly. We've -- since the last
meeting -- and I brought it up last meeting letting you know
that it will be coming up in this cycle of bills. Acid, it's
my understanding that that money goes toward the salary of
an EMS Coordinator. That is a City employee, and Lkiis money
goes over for him to help us coordinate the First Responder
program in the county. There is not a pezson in that
position, so I have a hard time and problem -- I really
think that it's probably illegal for us to be sending
taxpayers' money over there and not receiving something in
return. So, in the meantime, I have spoken with the City
Manager, and he is researching it. So, that's all I know.
I'm not willing to pay the bill.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Commissioner, it's my
recollection that that program has been vacant for -- or
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that position has been vacant there for some time, or it was
vacant and they finally got someone appointed. That person
was there a month.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: He's been gone about a
month. It's been vacant about a month.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: It was vacant before that
time as well for a while --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: That is correct.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: -- when Ron Derrick left.
And, do we have any other options, ar are we tied to the --
to the City- under -- for any reason, or we just choose to
work through the City on this?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Well, we choose to
work through the City because that position is there, and he
is a -- his job with the City is, like, a training officer
for those folks that do the ambulance work and the medical
work for the City of Kerrville Fire Department. And, it's
just a -- it's just a good place for our person to be at the
same time.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: But, I mean, it's our --
it's our choice, essentially, to have that individual at the
City of Kerrville be our representative?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yes, absolutely.
Yeah, the First Responder program is our program.
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could notify the Cit}~ or whatever that we -- these payments
would not be forthcoming until and unless the position is
filled? And if they'll notify us when the position is
filled, we'll pick up the payments.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Well. I did that. and
in my own gentle way.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Mm-hmm,
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Via letter to the City
Manager. And, he phoned me a couple of days later, after
he'd received my letter, and said that he's -- he's new
there and he's -- it was his first time out with this deal,
and he wants to research it completely. And that's been --
that's been a week ago or so.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I guess my question is, I
mean, I know, you know, the volunteer fire department that I
talk to the most is Comfort, and they utilize this program
extensively. And I'm just -- I mean, I want to make sure
that -- I think it's a great program, or it can be a great
program, but it's had problems in the past couple years, and
I'm wondering if -- you know, if it is -- the Kerrville Fire
Department, essentially, or EMS thinks that it is as
important as this Commissioners Court thinks it is, And if
it -- they don't, maybe we can look at different ways to
have someone head it up and pay that person. I'm just
looking -- I mean, I don't know. I'm just tossing that out
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because, I mean, it hasn't worked very well with the City ~f
Kerrville handling it for the last couple years.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Aren't they equipped
out of the EMS program? Doesn't their equipment come out of
the EMS program, their training?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yes,
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Okay.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yes, it's the same
person that trains the EMS people as it's -- trains oux --
we never have -- we haven't had it in years. We've been
sending -- and my -- my -- you know, I think that if we --
if I hang in there with them, we keep working on the deal,
that it will all work out eventually. But, my problem with
this is that -- and when I brought this up last time, I saw
Fred do this, shake his head like this, as trom a lawyer's
point of view. And, I just feel like that it's -- it is
possibly illegal for us to be sending taxpayers' money --
he's doing it again.
(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Taxpayers' money over
there, and not receiving something in goods or services. I
just don't think you're supposed to do that.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Enough discussion on my
part.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Is there a
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pcssibility that those payments that we've already sent
would be credited to our account for future use?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I've got my doubts
about that one, but we -- we can sure ask.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Well, if we don't pay
it, that will certainly bring the issue to a head. You
know, that --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I let him know that I
was not in favor. You know, it's just one vote here, but
I'm not in favor of sending any more over there until this
thing gets resolved.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I think you're right that
there's a contractual issue here, that if we're not
receiving the services, we probably do not have a strong
legal bass for sending it over there. I`ll throw in a word
of caution, though; that I think it would cost us a lot more
to try to set up a First Responder program independently of
EMS than it would to continue the relationship. I think we
just need to get the bookkeeping worked out.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah, I think that we
will.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Anyone else have any
questions or comments on the bills?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Move we pay the
bills, with the exception of the one that the Commissioner
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noted.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second,
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion made to authorize
payment of the bills as recommended by the auditor, with the
exception of Invoice Number 121i9~ to the City of Kerrville
for $625. Any further questions or comments? If not, all
in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Budget
amendments. Budget Amendment Number 1 is for Road and
Bridge Administration.
MR. TOMLINSON: In the budget, Road and
Bridge Administration budgeted for some improvements for
their facility. Part of it was for the purchase of a chair,
and I'm asking that we -- we move the -- the funds from the
Maintenance Facility line item to Capital Outlay for $75.99.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: So moved.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second, with a
question.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner
Griffin, seconded by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court
approve Budget Amendment Request Number 1 for the Road and
Bridge Department. Commissioner Baldwin, do you have a
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question?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Has the chair been
purchased already?
MR. TOMLINSON: Yes.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: So here we are
purchasing something that's not budgeted yet.
MR. TOMLINSON: It was in the budget. I
mean, part. of -- part of the plan -- their plan was -- was
the addition of $3,000 in the Maintenance Facility, so that
was part -- that was part of their overall plan to buy
furnishings. This is -- this is an effort to -- to change
the accounting for it into the right account,
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any further comments or
questions? If not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
DODGE HENNEKE: A11 opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
DODGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Budget
Amendment Request Number 2 is Nondepartmenta].
MR. TOMLINSON: Okay. This amendment is from
my request. This is for the renewal of the property
insurance for Nondepartmental. It's for the property
coverage for the courthouse. We're -- we budgeted $9,000.
The premium was $9,439, so I'm requesting $439 be
transferred from the Liability Insurance account to the
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Property Insurance.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: So moved.
COMMISSIONER BALllWIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner
Griffin, seconded by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court
approve Budget Amendment Request Number 2, Nondepartmental.
Any further questions or comments? if not, all in favux,
raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous voLe.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: A11 opposed, same sign.
(Nc response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Number 3 is
for the County Clerk's office.
MR. TOMLINSON: This is a request from
Jannett Pieper to replace a printer in the Land DepartmeriL.
This would be a transfer of $500 from -- out of Ballot
Expense in the -- in Line Item 10-402, which is Elections,
to Capital Outlay in the Land Department for $500.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: So moved.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second,
JUDGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court
approve Budget Amendment Request Number 3 for the County
Clerk's office. Any further questions or comments? If not,
all in favor, raise your right hands.
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(The motion carried by unanimous vote.i
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Do we have
any late bil]s, Tommy?
MR. TOMLINSON: No.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. At this time, I would
entertain a motion to waive reading and approve the minutes
of the January 1, 2001, January 8th, January 12th, and
January 22nd meetings.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I move.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second,
JUDGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner
Baldwin, seconded by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court
waive reading and approve the minutes of the January 1,
January 8, January 12, and January 22, Year 2001 meetings of
the Commissioners Court. Any questions or comments'? If
not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: A11 opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: At this time, I will
entertain a motion to approve and accept the monthly reports
as presented.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: So moved.
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COMMISSIONER BALDw1N: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner Letz,
seconded by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court approve the
monthly reports as presented. Any further questions or
comments? If not, all in favor, raise your right hands.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. We'll now
turn directly to the consideration agenda. The first item
of business ~s to consider and discuss presentation by Dr.
Dan Bacon regarding what's going on at the Kerrville V.A.
Medical Center. Dr. Bacon?
DR. BACON: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Glad to have you this
morning.
DR. BACON: Judge, Commissioners, it's a real
pleasure. I appreciate your inviting me to come, and maybe
I can tell you a little bit about the V.A., and maybe I can
dispel some of the confusion that's existed around us since
1995. I'm the Chief Medical Officer of the Kerrville
Division of the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, and
as they always say, the shorter the name, the longer the
power or the more power you have. And Z'm getting a longer
one as I go along here. You know, you start with a director
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and then the associate director and then the deputy
associate director and so on down the line. As it gets
longer, it gets weaker.
The idea of care of those who defend our
homeland is not new. And, I won't frighten you with Lhis,
but as far bark as 1635, Plymouth Colony passed a colonial
law whereby those who fought for the defense of the colunies
would be compensated or r_ared for. That's pretty good.
Now, I won't fill in all the gaps in between, but bring us
up to 1921. And, in 1821, the United States Veterans'
Bureau was formed, and it was a consolidation of tYir ee
bureaus; the Veterans Bureau, the Bureau of Pensions, and
the National Home for Disabled Veterans. Okay. Move ~n up
to 1930. By the way, in 1921, our V.A. Hospital was under
construction at that time. This V.K. Hospital opened in
1923. It was the first V.A. Hospital in Texas. It was the
91st V.A. Hospital in the United States.
Back in those days, it was primarily a TB
hospital. TB was the AIDS of the world at that time.
Veterans coming back from World War II had been in Europe,
which was endemic to tuberculosis at that time, and believe
it or not, this hospital where I work was a -- had about
1,000 beds; it varied from 800 up to 1,200 at one time, and
this was back when there was no real treatment for
tuberculosis, and so it was mostly a place that you put
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people, You put them to bed, and if they had the ability
to, they got well, and if they didn't, they died. And,
having a diagnosis of tuberculosis at that time was just
a -- pretty much of a -- like -- it ruined your life. It
might not have been a death warrant, but people were just
scooped up out of their homes and their jobs for a year.
At any rate, in 1y30, the Veterans
Administration was organized under the executive order of
President Hoover, and after World War lI, when the real
influx of V.A. began to be felt, there were two generals,
General Omar Bradley and Paul Ho11y, who established the
Title 38 system of hiring physicians and nurses, and then
the V.A. affiliations with medical schools, which brings me
up to the three main missions of the V.A. What does the
V.A. do? The V.A. first takes care of eligible veterans.
Secondly, medical education and research. Over 50 percent
of the doctors in the United States were trained at some
part of their training in a V.A. Hospital, so the
affiliation between medical schools and the V.A. is -- has
been extremely important. And, the third one is to support
the Department of Defense, the contingency planning in the
event that we get into a great big war again and the
military treatment facilities would not be adequate.
For many years, the V.A. was a hospital-based
organization; buildings, hospitals, campuses, lots of
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property, golf courses. We don't have quite that nice one
here, but there's -- some of them are truly spectacular.
Now the V,A. has shifted primarily to an outpatient
patient-focused system. We now have outpatient care. We've
reduced the sizes of our hospitals. We've reduced the
numbers of our hospitals, but we still are fo~~using on the
care of the veteran. The contingency plan with the
Department of Defense is not nearly as critical as it has
been. In 1989, the V.A. Secretary was elevated to the
cabinet level, so it became a cabinet position in '89. And
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs is Anthony Princippi,
just -- the new man who's just been appointed. Princippi
was Deputy Secretary about 10 years ago. Probably more,
though, he's }mown for having been John Tower's program
person for the Armed Forces -- I forgot the exact name, the
title.
At any rate, the V.A. then was reorganized in
about 1990 to '95, and into 22 networks. Twenty-two
networks. There was going to be a decentralization, and it
was going to put more power into the local hospitals, and as
a result it would be decentralizing more local influence,
and we in this area are Network 17. Network 17 has three
systems, whi~~h is Dallas, the North Texas system, Temple,
Central Texas, and Kerrville and San Antonio are in the
South Texas system. Inpatient care -- when I told you we
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had 1,000 beds at one time, we now have 25 acute-care bens,
and out of those 25 beds, we have 5 intensive care unit
beds. But, one of the rumors has been that we were closed,
that we didn't have any beds, that there was not a hospital
any more. There was just an outpatient facility. So, it's
real important for you to realize that we still have a
significant medical mission there. We have eight primary
care teams on the outpatient side -- did I say eight? We
had eight. We have seven now. We converted one of those
teams over to a GI service so that that particular person
could take the load of the GI in complicated cases, off of
the primary care doctors, and particularly with the new
emphasis on hepatitis C, so that is helping to meet that.
We have specialty clinics in nearly every
specialty. Now, most of those clinics are staffed by
doctors from San Antonio who come to Kerrville. But, at the
risk of forgetting some, we do have a gastrointestinal
service, we have an extensive women's clinic. We have a
neurology, dermatology, minor surgery, ophthalmology,
audiology, which has just come in, and that's going to be
real important 'r_ause all of our veterans are the age group
that are losing their hearing. We have urology,
orthopedics, psychiatry and other special programs like
prisoner of war counseling groups, pcst-traumatic stress
disorder and so forth. In our long-term care -- please stop
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me if I'm saying anything that's contusing, or -- or clap if
it's enlightening, whatever.
At any rate, 154-bed nursing home. I was
stunned when I was told Saturday by one of my very best
friends who knows me very well that he had no idea we had
beds at all. Well, we have the 25 acute-care beds and we
have 154 nursing home beds. Out of that nursing home group,
we have three levels of care. The -- one, two, three; the
lowest level are those that require almost complete care.
Out of that group is our dementia unit. We probably have
the finest dementia unit that I know of, maybe -- certainly
a far advanced dementia unit. It's closed, but patients
that are at risk for wandering can come in there.
Let me give you another little, bitty
breakdown here, and that is that before 1y95, all V.A.
Hospitals were organized basically under a Director, the
Chief of Staff, and Associate Director. And, under the
Chief of Staff side came all the clinical services; surgery,
nursing, medicine, all that. On the other side, you had the
administrative services like engineering, environmental
management, so forth. In 1995, on March the 17th, they
merged the Kerrville Division and the Audie Murphy Division
into the South Texas Veterans Health Care System. At that
point, we -- I became -- I had been Chief of Staff of a
freestanding, independent hospital. I became Chief Medical
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Officer of the Kerrville Division, and we were reorganized
under one staff, which is basically based and directed out
of San Antonio, which is the Audie Murphy Division. Bu L,
our system covers all the way from here to Brownsville.
We have outpatient satellite clinics in
Laredo, Corpus Christi, Victoria, south Bexar County,
McAllen. We have -- those are the fixed clinics. Those are
staffed by V.A. personnel. And then our two hospital
divisions, which is Kerrville and San Antonio. We also have
contracts which we call community-based outpatient clinics,
CBOC's. These are in places like Alice, Kingsville, New
Braunfels, Seguin, Del Rio, and these are community clinics
where they have contracted with physicians to take care of
veterans in that area, the idea being that if you were a Del
Rio guy with high blood pressure and you really didn't want
to come to Kerrville or go to San Antonio, you can get that
care in -- in Del Rio. Now, another thing to remember is
that the quality assurance in those clinics is very strict.
We put them onto the decentralized, computerized program; we
install computers and our quality assurance staff qo out and
check those clinics out. They have to keep records. They
have to keep up to snuff. All of this is under -- according
to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and
other organizations, such as the A.M.A., T.M.A. and so
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I want to focus on the things that we really
preventive care. Probably nowhere else do we -- do you have
the emphasis on hypertension screening, protection against
stroke, prostate screening -- prostate cancer screening,
colorectal cancer screening, osteoporosis, all of these
things that are conditions that affect our age-group
population, and this is probably the best thing we do.
Medical education, of course, is a big program for us, and
we	-- you don't	have -	- one of	the	biggest things I'd	like
to	let everybody	know	is that	you	don't have to have	been in
combat. You don't have to have been in a war. You don't
have to have been a hero to be able to come to the V.A. If
you are a veteran, and almost no exclusions -- I guess some
dishonorable discharges, maybe, but most of the time, most
of the people you know who have ever been in the military at
all are eligible for V.A. rare. Now, there are categories
of such that some of them will be billed a co-pay for some
of their care.
I'll wrap this up with this, and that is that
during the past week, I have met with patients that I was
treating. One of them had been a Pearl Harbor survivor. He
went from there to the battle of Midway. He went through
Guadalcanal, he went through two other landings that I rant
name, and ended up on Okinawa. And, another one was a guy
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that said, "Did you ever hear of the Bataan boys?" He had
been in the Bataan death march, had been a prisoner of the
Japanese for 4U months. And, finally, the other one said he
had been at the biggest beach party in the world; he had
been at D-Day, all the way through the Europe war to Berlin.
Every one of them had something funny to say about his
experience. 1 don't know if this is how these guys have
compensated with life or not, but they have been a
remarkable group of people to work with. I was in private
practice in Kerrville for 32 years, and I've been with the
V.A. Tor 10. Just don't add that up. And, it has been a
distinct high point in my life to be able to work with the
veterans. Do you have any questions'?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Dr. Bacon, you told us about
the clinics and the nursing homes. What else is going on at
the V.A. in the form of new and proposed programs?
DR. BACON: We have --
JUDGE HENNEKE: The local V.A.
DR. BACON: We have a new program in which --
if you remember, there's a CARES program which looks through
-- kind of like the BRAC closure for bases, that's looking
through all of the V.A. facilities, and they're looking for
anything that's vacant. One of the things we're doing to
remove ourselves as a target from that is to fill up the
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home on 2 up to the 6th floor, will completely occupy that,
and then the 7th floor, which was vacated when we lost our
surgery program, will become a wellness and physical therapy
area. So, that will build -- that will fill up the main
column.
JUDGE HENNEKE: What's going to go into the
second floor when you move the nursing home?
DR. BACON: The Residential or Assisted
Living Program, and that will be a 60-bed unit. Residential
Care Program, which will be operated on a contract basis by
some contracting company; Living Centers of America,
Mariott, somebody of that sort, and they will operate that.
It will be according to V.A. standards, but it will be a
contract-type thing. Then we will be developing Adult Day
Care, which is a day care just like for children, but it
will be an adult day care for those families that have
someone who needs to be placed during working hours. We
also have our Geriatric Evaluation and Management Program,
which is expanding to include home-based primary care, and
we are consolidating all of that into the area where my
office is, where -- in the -- in the left -- if you're
looking straight at the building in that right front wing,
and the basement, that will all be involved in the Geriatric
Evaluation and Management Program and Home-Based Primary
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for the future will be possibly to have a State Veterans
Home in Kerrville. We also could be looking at having a DOM
here. We have 72 acres. San Antonio's totally landlocked.
They did just now buy some land for a parking garage, but we
have 72 acres. We also have a new laundry which has
received pro and con popularity, I should say, but that can
be expanded probably to three times its present capacity,
and we might be looking at outsourcing contracts for
laundry.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Does anyone have --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Just one quick
question. Dr. Ba~~on, there's been some reshuffling of the
hierarchy of the South Texas Veterans Health Care System.
Could you just enlighten us to who's in charge of the shop
now?
DR. BACON: Our Network Director was Vernon
Chong, who was the first Network Director when the networks
were lined up. Dr. Chong has retired and Jose Coronado, who
is the Director of the San Antonio Division, or -- well, of
the South Texas System, is now acting as Network Director,
and his Associate Director, Tim Chay, has moved into Acting
Director. My understanding is that we will probably have
another Network Director from the outside, but I don't know
that at all. And, certainly, Mr. Coronado may or may not be
the next Network Director.
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: 1 received this
question from several people, and I've always referred them
back to the hospital directly, but could you generally tell
us what is the eligibility of spouses or dependents of
veterans for -- in general for treatment at the hospital?
DR. BACON: Okay. Just -- just quickly, I'll
say this on eligibility. That the veteran, himself -- we
have categories, but basically the first six represent those
who make less than about $25,000 a year, or they have some
special thing like dementia or spinal cord or homelessness
or AIDS or some of those things, but those fundamentally get
their care for nothing, and then the Category 7's, which is
the old Category C, are the ones who then are billed a
co-pay. As far as spouses are concerned, we have a Tricare
program which, as you know, up until this point has been for
retired military up to the age of 65 and their dependents,
and then from -- at age 65 they went into Medicare.
Tricare, as of October the lst of this year, hopefully will
have a program whereby they'll come under Tricare for life,
as they call it, and that will, I think, be a lot more
compatible to most retired military and it will include
their spouses.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any other questions or
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Just one. Excellent
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rundown, Doctor. Really appreciate this.
DR. BACON: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN; And, just for the
record, because I hope it gets covered well, the TB epidemic
was after World War I, and you had a slip of the L~figue
there and said World War II.
DR. BACUN; Did I say that?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: But it was after World
War I.
DR. BACON: That was definitely World War I.
CUMMISSIUNER GR.I FFIN: Right.
DR. BACON: Incidentally, I can go another 30
minutes on --
J~JDGE HENNEKE: Not today, you can't.
DR. BACUN: -- on the interesLiny story of
the endemic -- and epidemic of Europe, east and western
Europe and how TB became a human infection. But, I -- I
promise I'll stop. Thank you very much.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you, Dr. Bacon, Lur
taking your time to come and enlighten us as to what's going
on in one of the major programs here in Kerr County. Thank
you very much.
DR. BACON: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Item Number 2 is consider and
discuss an acceptance of the annual report by the Kerr
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County Historical commission and approve the membership
thereof. General Schellhase.
MR. SCHELLHASE: 't'hank you, Judge,
Commissioners. This report was submitted; it's in your
packet. I'd like to cover quickly the activities for the
year 2000 that are significant. The James Kerr marker, as
you know, we finally got completed and erected on the
courthouse grounds. That was a three-year project. That
has taken a considerable amount of time. The other marker
that we had this year was at Cade House up in the Ingram
area. The five that we still have worY,ing are the A.C.
Schreiner, Sr. House, the Rose House, Woo71s Building in
Center Point, Zion Lutheran Church, and the Union Church
building, and those are all in some sort of process that are
being worked.
The restoration of the Union Church
continues. That was a big project during 2000 and will
continue into 2001. We have a considerable amount of work
to do, and as those funds become available, they're applied
directly to that project. And, in an effort to help that,
of course, we developed the 2001 historical calendar that's
out on the market today. That has been distributed quite
well. We've raised something over $4,000 so far, and that
all goes directly to the restoraticn of the church.
Our big project, the one that continues and
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is ongoing, is the Oral History records that we're
maintaining. As you know, we have now over 30. I think we
brought a sample of one of those to you last year when we
did this. We're continuing on that. It's just long, hard,
consuming work by a lot of people, because of the difficulty
in lining up these elderly people to do these oral
histories. We still have, I believe, 108. The last time I
reported, I think we had 102 on the list. We've completed
another 13 and now we have 108 on the list, so our list is
getting larger. And, we have missed this year, I believe,
four because -- that were cn our list because of death that
we did not get to record.
Of course, we still have the archives
those that want to use it for research
archeological finds in Kerr County to us at the time we have
a place to distribute those. Hopefully, the Union Church
might help us in providing that space for us, Long-awaited
period. The courthouse display cabinet is complete. I have
seen it. It is, in fact, complete. It still lacks tc be
installed, and that has been coordinated with Glenn
Holekamp. We intended to do that, I believe, in December.
Because of the work on the lighting committee, Glenn asked
us to wait until after the holidays and get that coordinated
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so we can have the display put up, so that will be a big
project for 2001. Our membership still stands -- or stands
today at 13 active and 12 members. On Page 4 of your report
we have a list of those, which we would like for to you
approve, and this is a project for those Commission members
for the year 2001. Any questions?
DODGE HENNEKE: Any questions or commentst
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I have a comment on
your calendar. I wanted to say, if y'all haven't seen that
calendar -- of course, that's their major fundraiser; it's
10 bucks. The -- the months and days are the same as any
other calendar, it doesn't change, but those photographs on
there are truly Kerr County. You have those old pens full
of hair goats and the Real Ranch and all that. It's -- it's
the neatest group of photographs I have seen put together.
I own one -- I'm the proud owner of one, and I think that
they're for sale down at the Clerk's office. And where
else?
MR. SCHELLHASE: Well, there are about 1S
places around town that have them, large list of places.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I have bought mine.
Have y'all?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Yes.
DODGE HENNEKE: Mine is on display out here
in the Commissioners' area.
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: A11 right. All riyhL.
I noticed a "For Sale" sign on it the other day.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Are you going to
repeat that again next year with the calendar?
MR. SCHELLHASE: Yes. We have laid out a
five-year program for the calendar. 2001 were general
photographs. 2002 are going to be historical buildiciys,
those that still remain or that we have current pictures of,
so we can show both the dual picture of those as tkiey
originally were and as they are today. We're going to do
another one cn families; we have a super collection of
historical families in the county where we have -- group
families, and try to coordinate that with those that are
still living in the area and descendants of ~_hose families.
We have the one for historical markers; we're going to do
one with all of the county markers. I think we have about
142 markers in the county, and we do not have a single
document that puts all those together. We're going to work
on that. We have a map -- a little display for people to
drive around and look at these. It needs to be updated;
that`s one of the projects for 2001. And, the fifth one I
don't recall, offhand. But, anyway, a good project for the
next five years,
JDDGE HENNEKE: Any other questions or
comments?
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MR. SCHELLHASE: By Lhe way, I appreciate,
Judge, you sending out the message to the Commissioners to
solicit those in the district who might be ititeLested to
serve on the Historical Commission. We didn't get any
returned.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I nominate Bill
Williams.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Don't nominate me,
but you can nominate my wife.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We have had a nomination of
Lou Williams to be on the Commission.
MR. SCHELLHASE: Great.
JUDGE HENNEKE:: With your agreement, we would
add that name.
MR. SCHELLHASE: We'll add that name Lo the
list.
COMMISSIONER GR1E'FIN: And I also had a
nomination.
DODGE HENNEKE: Okay. koger Chapman?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Roger Chapman in Hunt.
MR. SCHELLHASE: Hunt? Great.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Are we adding names
to the list?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Yes. We've added Lou
Williams and Roger Chapman.
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: I move that we accept the
annual report and approve the membership list, as modified
today.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner Letz,
seconded by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court approve the
annual report and approve the membership list, as modified.
Any questions or comments? If not, all in favor, raise your
right hands.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
MR. SCHELLHASE: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you, General. General?
MR. SCHELLHASE: Yes?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Are we going to try to have
that display cabinet in before open house on the 22nd?
MR. HOLEKAMP: Yeah, of course.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you, General, I
appreciate that response.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: That was General
Holekamp.
MR. HOLEKAMP: Were you looking for me?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: He promoted himself.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Next item is Item Number 3,
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consider and approve the Road and Bridge advertisement for
the annual bids on materials and equipment by the hour.
Franklin Johnston.
MR. JOHNSTON: Morning. I think we have a
sample of the newspaper ad to put out t_o bid, along with the
packet of all the items that we're going to bid, which will
be road base, cold mir„ black base, paving aggregate,
asphalt and emulsion oil, corrugated metal pipe, and
equipment by the hour with operator. We have a separate bid
packet for all those items.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: So moved.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner Letz,
seccnded by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court authorize
Road and Bridge to advertise for annual sealed bids. So
everyone's on the same page, the bids will be due at the
Kerr County Clerk's office by 5 o'clock p.m. on March 9th,
Year 2001, to be opened at 10 o'clock a.m. Monday,
March 12th, Year 2001, in our regular Commissioners Court
meeting. Any questions or comments? If not, all in favor,
raise your right hands.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Item Number
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4, consider the acceptance of a gift on behalf of Road and
Bridge Department of ArcView GIS software from Ed Higgins.
Commissioner Williams.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Former Kerr County
Commissioner, Precinct 2, Ed Higgins has generously offered
a gift of ArcView GIS software for basic use by the Road and
Bridge Department. And, Franklin, why don't you give us a
little bit more insight on this so the Court knows exactly
what this is all about. Eddie is also present and may be
able to enlighten us, as well.
MR. JOHNSTON: This was a very generous
unsolicited gift. It will allow us to access some of the
data from KCAD and from 911 using their mapping and aerial
photographic database that they have.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I might just add, it's
a very powerful piece of software. You can do all sorts of
things with it. It's -- it is excellent.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: For those of you who
may not remember former Commissioner Higgins, Ed, stand up,
please. We thank you for your generous gift. I move the
acceptance of the gift of the ArcView GIS software from
former Commissioner Ed Higgins for use by the Road and
Bridge Department.
MR. HIGGINS: If I may say, I have one more
piece of equipment I haven't delivered to him yet, and I
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MR. JOHNSTON: Okay.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I'll second that.
i JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you, Ed. Motion by
Commissioner Williams, second by Commissioner Griffin, that
the Court accept the gift of ArcView G1S software from Ed
Higgins for use of the Road and Bridge llepartment. Any
further questions or comments? If not, all in favor, raise
your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Again, Ed,
thank you very much. Very kind of you. Item Number 5,
consider approving road names for privately maintained roads
in various locations in accordance with 911 guidelines.
Commissioner Griffin.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Actually, this was a
compilation, and I coordinated to get it on the agenda with
Road and Bridge. These are all -- as you see in the
package, all privately maintained roads, with the name --
the naming of the roads has all been through the 971
process, as in the Road and Bridge database, and I would
move that they be accepted as submitted.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Griffin, second by Commissioner Williams, that the Court
approve the name changes for private roads as presented.
Any further questions or comments?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Judge, question. Go we
have a time, Larry, when they're going to be coming to
Commissioners Court with a revised plan? As I recall, we
asked for that last fall sometime.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Talking about the 911?
We're shooting for next -- the next meeting, 26th.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Okay.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Which will be the
first of what we hope will be quarterly reports under the
new board structure, and with our very active members of the
board, we have a new process going into place where tkiat
will be reported quarterly with progress, percentage of
completion, et cetera. So, that should happen next time.
Thanks for the question.
COMM155IONER LETZ: Note my patience; I
haven't brought this up in at least a quarter.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any further questions vi
comments? If not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous voLe.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Item Number
6, consider and discuss abandoning right-of-way as deeded
and described in Volume 79, Page 200 of the Kerr County Land
Records. We each have in our packet a letter from Chris
Wallendorf regarding this easement, and Mr. Wallendorf is
here.
MR. WALLENDDRr': Morning.
DODGE HENNEKE: Morning, Chris.
MR. WALLENDORF: Morning, Commissioners. I
represent Joe and Lucy Drymala and Drymala Family
Partnership, Limited, and they own an approximate 16-acre
tract of land which borders on I-10, Loop 534, and also a
small portion of it on Sidney Baker. And, this piece of
property is located in the Patrick Fleming Survey 666.
There is a -- an old deed back in May of 1946. The Siekers
conveyed to Kerr County a 30-foot-wide roadway easement
which goes through the Patrick Fleming Survey 566, and I
have a copy of this deed for the Commissioners if they'd
like to -- oh, each of you have it? And it provides that if
this road is ever abandoned or ceases to be used as a -- as
a county road, that it would automatically revert back to
the grantors and their assigns. And, of course, my clients
are the assigns of the Siekers. We've had a -- a very
detailed survey made of the property by a surveyor in San
Antonio, Thomas Hubbard, and he has found no evidence of
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this road on the property. And, I also have -- may I
approach the Commissioners? I have some updated --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Yes, you may.
MR. WALLENDORF: -- updated information. I
obtained a letter from the surveyor in which he states that
there is no evidence of this road on the property, and I
also have the surveyor's report here where he also certifies
in Paragraph Number 1 that he has found no reported evidence
of any public roads across the property, and that the only
roads that exist are private drives within the piece of
property. So, what Mr. Drymala is asking the Court to do,
insofar as his 16-acre tract -- it's actually 15.9921 --
insofar as that tract is concerned, to abandon that roadway
within the boundaries of that property.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any questions?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Chris, where is this
tract exactly? You just described it --
MR. WALLENDORF: Okay, it's right across the
street from Y.O. Hilton, and part of it abuts up against
I-10. The other part of it is along 534 -- Loop 534, and
then there's a little strip of land that comes all the way
down to Sidney Baker.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: On the south side or
the north side?
MR. WALLENDORF: It's on the south side of
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: So it goes back behind
those other hotels that are --
MR. WALLENDORF: Right.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: -- between the Y.O., that
tract back there?
MR. WALLENDORF: Right. There's a little
location rnap on the plat, if y'all would like to see it to
further indicate where the property is, and I can show that
to you.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: That answered my
question.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I have one follow-up
question, though. Is that -- does this include that parcel
of -- on the corner that is intended to be the Lowe's store,
or not?
MR. WALLENDORF: It -- 1 think you have --
you have the right piece of property, yes. You -- I think
you have the right piece of property.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I just have a
question. Under the rules -- and I don't see any -- it's
obviously not a county road there, but does this have to --
does this require a public hearing? Because we're
abandoning a right-of-way. Under the rules? I mean, I
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: We11, it's not a platted
subdivision, so it wouldn't come under our Subdivision
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN; Okay. Okay.
MR. WALLENDORF: All we're asking the Court
to do is not abandon the entire road; just that -- if a
portion of that road was located within this tract, to
abandon that part of it. And, what I would ask the
Commissioners to do is to enter an order referencing the --
in the surveyor's letter of February 9th, x'001, it
references three tracts of land. This is actually three
separate traits of land; a 13.8-acre tract, a 1.4-acre
tract, and a 0.7912-acre tract, and also references the
relevant deeds. I would ask the Court to -- in their order,
to reference those deeds so it's clear to the title company
that you've abandoned the roadway within these particular
tracts.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Franklin, clo you have any
comments on this?
MR. JOHNSTON: I had one -- one question, I
guess, more than anything. In 1946, this, of course, was in
Kerr County. It's still in Kerr County, but now it's also
in the city limits of Kerrville. I wonder, as part of the
annexation, does the City also annex that easement and do
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they have to also agree to the abandonment, or how does that
work?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Mr. Lucas, do you have a
comment on that?
MR. LUCAS: Well, if the City had annexed and
had provided for some right-of-way, I believe so. They
would have to do like measure.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We need to do what we need to
do, and then if the City has any jurisdiction, then the
developer would have to take it to the City.
MR. WALLENDORF: That's fine.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: So moved. Now that you
said that, Judge.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I would -- I believe I'm
correct that this takes unanimous approval of all of the
Court. So, motion by Commissioner Letz, second by
Commissioner Griffin, that the Court abandon the
right-of-way referenced as a 13.8-acre and 1.4-acre tract of
land described in Volume 715, Pages 790-793, Real Property
Records of Kerr County, Texas, and a 0.7912-acre tract
recorded in Volume 908, Pages 138-140, Real Property Records
of Kerr County, Texas. Does that work?
MR. WALLENDORF: Yes, Your Honor. Thank you.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Any further questions or
comments? If not, all in favor, raise your right hands.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Let the record reflect that
it was a unanimous vote in favor of the abandonment.
MR. WALLENDORF: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you, Chris. Okay. It
is now 10 o'clock. At this time, we will open the required
public hearing for revision of Tract 64 and 66 of Ingram
Hills, Precinct Number 9.
(The regular Commissioners Court meeting was
closed at 10:00 a.m., and a public hearing
was held in open court, as follows:)
P U B L I C H E A R I N G
JUDGE HENNEKE: Are there any members of the
public who wish to address the Court on the issue of
revision of Tract 64 and 66 of Ingram Hills in Precinct 9?
And, I'll note this is a public hearing which was posted in
the Kerr County -- Kerrville Daily Times on January 24th,
January 28th, and January 31st. Come forward and identify
yourself, please.
MS. ROSLIER: I'm Annette Roslier. I was
invited by notice. I'd like to know where exactly up in
Ingram Hills this property is.
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Here's a map.
MS. ROSLIER: Can you just point out --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Here's the --
(Discussion off the record.)
MR. DIGGES: It's roughly a mile off of
Highway 27 going back on Ingram Hills Road.
MS. ROSLIER: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: You're welcome. Anyone else
have any comments? Yes, ma'am? Come forward, please.
MS. DAMS: Hello. I'm Carol Davis and I
have the Lot 65 that's adjacent to that property. 1 think I
sent in some of my objections already on this. Did you
receive them?
JUDGE HENNEKE: I have not received them.
Has anyone?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: No.
MS. DAM S: They're all written out and sent
in. I think, you know, they're asking to subdivide property
that looks pretty large. You know, who'd have any
objections to subdividing something like 9 acres or
something? The problem in that area is that it's a very
rocky prominence. The area actually available for a
building site is very, very small up along the roadside.
Nearly all of the property is on a very, very steep dropoff
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small area that's available for housing up there. And,
we're worried about -- what we were worried primarily about
is the runoff. We were told that that area wouldn't support
multiple septic system use. We don't -- you don't have any
idea of where the groundwater's going once it starts into
that steep decline. But, cur -- our water would have to
come from there. I think that this is primarily for us. We
had planned on building a retirement home in that area, and
we thought at the time that we bought the lot that each of
those lots were not going to be subdivided. It's a
beautiful area, scenic, but I don't think it's going to
support more than one home per lot.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Is there any prohibition in
the rules of Ingram Hills against subdividing?
MS. DAVIS: I don't know. Our understanding
at the time we bought the lot was that they would not be.
But --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I guess I better -- my
general comment is that, I mean, it's really up to the
subdivision -- the rules of the subdivision association as
to this type of a matter. I mean, this division meets the
requirements, you know, of the County, and it's very
difficult for us not to approve one, you know, that --
MS. DAVIS: We'd like an environmental
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rules -- I mean, the acreage size doesn't -- isn't really a
requirement on septic, or is not a requirement, and a system
would have to be designed that would insure that nothing
would be polluted.
MS. DAMS: You know, for somebody --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: It'd require
licensing. These -- any septic system put on any of these
lots as subdivided would require licensing, and in
accordance with state rules and regulations.
MS. DAMS: For somebody like me -- and this
area would be lovely for a retirement home, but not if
you're going to crowd multiple housing in there. It simply
becomes at that point sort of an overcrowded suburban area,
which is what we didn't want in the first place.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you. Is there anyone
else who'd like to address the Court in the public hearing?
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: One more time, is there
anyone else who would like to address the Court in the
public hearing on the revision of Tract 64 and 66 of Ingram
Hills? If not, we will close the public hearing and move to
Item Number 8, which is consider and discuss approval of the
final revision of plat for Tracts 64 and 66 of Ingram Hills,
Precinct 4.
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back in '88 or '89 that allowed -- you know, raised the
tract size for a minimum of 1 acre. And, priuL to that,
there was a subdivision that was done that was even, like,
half-acre tracts. But, there's been probably in the number
of 10 revisions out there, so there`s no prohibition on
subdividing this land. That is a -- a rouyYi, Lucky area,
and probably soil would have to be imported to perhaps do
spray irrigation, one method of -- of wastewater disposal.
So, you could pretreat it with an aerobic system and, you
know, spray irrigation. we basically need about 4,000 or
5,000 square feet in order to accomplish that safely, and
these are -- are very -- with a 3-acre -- 3-acre tract, you
have about 120,000, 130,000 square feet, and so we just need
a very, very small percentage of that area to dispose of it.
And, if you start getting, you know, densely populated --
real densely populated areas, I think you do kiave to become
concerned about water quality, but this is, in my opinion,
still not to that density.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Any questions or comments?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Are these served by
individual wells on these tracts' Or --
MR. DIGGES: Yes. Yes, currently they are.
There's -- there`s a water system -- I guess it's probably
Aqua Source?
AUDIENCE: I believe it's about a mile or
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MR. DIGGES: It's a pretty good ways away. I
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I have a question of
Commissioner Griffin. Larry, is this the same Ingram Hills
for which we formed the road district?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: No.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Okay.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: That's Lake Ingram
Estates.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Franklin, as I recall,
this is one that was started that was kind of halfway
through the process before we changed Subdivision Rules, and
we agreed --
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concept was in before.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: -- to a variance on those
two smaller lots sizes based on the good faith of the
developer. We can't change the rules in the middle of a
plat.
MR. JOHNSTON: Right.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I don't see any reason
not to approve the final revision. It's -- they've done
everything they're supposed to, and I'll make the motion
that we approve it as submitted.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second,
JUDGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner
Griffin, seconded by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court
approve the final Revision of Plat for Tract 64 and 66 of
Ingram Hills, Precinct 4. Any questions or comments? If
not, a]1 in favor, raise your right hands.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Next item is
Item Number 9, which is open bids for electrical, plumbing,
and heating and air-conditioning services. I have some
bids. The first bid under Item Number 9 is from Benno's
Electric. I'll just read their little handwritten cover
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letter, which says Benno's Electric will take 540 an hour
for two men and 535 for one man. We do not charge overtime.
Mark-up on material is 25 percent.
Next bid is from Hardin Hearing and
Air-Conditioning. They have bid a total of $65 per hour for
HVAC tech and maintenance mechanical support.
And, final bid is from Whelan Plumbing, and
they have offered a plumber at $53 per hour, a plumber
helper at $26.50 per hour, with overtime rates being $79.50
and $119.25, $79.50 being one person and the other beinq the
rate with a helper. Material mark-up from cost is
20 percent.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I move that we receive --
accept the bids and refer them to Maintenance for
recommendation.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: The way this is
written, this is just the opening we've got to go through.
DODGE HENNEKE: That's the next item. Now --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: All right. Now I'll move
we accept all bids and refer them to the Maintenance
Department for recommendation.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Second.
DODGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner Letz,
seconded by Commissioner Williams, that the Court accept all
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and Maintenance Supervisor for review and recommendation.
Any further questions or comments"? If not, all in favor,
raise your right hands.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.}
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries.
Mr. Holekamp, do you think you'll be in a pusition to make a
recommendation today?
MR. HOLEKAMP: Yes, sir.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. Next item is Item
Number 11, which is to open bids for repair, parts, labor,
service, and related items for Kerr County vehicles, trucks
and vans.
MS. ALFORD: We have no bids.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We have no bids on the
solicitation for repair, parts, labor, service, and related
items.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I think it`s
interesting to note, Judge, t_he City of Kerrville was
invited to bid, because they have a shop and they were
presented with a bid package, and we've not received an
answer. I think that's interesting to note.
JUDGE HENNEKE; Me too.
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think -- I guess I have
a question. If we're required to bid these and you don't --
and no one submits a proposal, who do you -- I mean, do you
just award it to anyone you want and then you're out of the
bidding requirement?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Mr. Lucas, we're in need of
your wisdom.
MR. LUCAS: Repeat that one more time? I was
looking up something.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: He's looking in the
book.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: The question is -- is
that when you're required to bid under State law, and you do
bid it, but you don't receive any bids, how do you go about
awarding the contract?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: The question is, ~~an
we award it sole source?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Come up to the podium.
MR. LUCAS: Well, I'm not really sure. I
don't know. You know, $25,000 is going to be the -- you
know, the threshold limit that -- that dictates whether or
not you've got to bid or not to begin with, but I've never
really seen that question before.
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Well, and I think -- I
think I recall that we can go sole source if we receive no
bids, but we'd better check that.
MR. LUCAS: Well, yeah, but I think that sole
source is just for if there's no one out there, almost like
as if it's a monopoly unto itself.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: That's what I mean.
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: We need your opinion.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yeah, really, on that
one.
MR. JOHNSTON: Or if it's something you
declare an emergency on, you can -- if it's something you
have to do, you can -- you can go ahead and do it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We'll have to figure out
legally how we can proceed. Moving down the list, the next
item would be Item Number 13, which is to open bids for body
shop repairs.
MS. ALFORD: One bid.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We do have a bid.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: We have a bid.
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COMMISSIONER W7LLIAMS: And the winner is?
JUDGE HENNEKE: We have a bid from JDS Paint
and Body, Wrecker Service. Paint and body labor, $3U an
hour. Mechanical labor, $92 an hour. Paint and materials,
$20 an hour. Frame labor, $32 an hour. So, that is the --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I would move that we
-- oh, it's the next item.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Accept?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I would make a motion
that we refer that to the Sheriff for evaluation and let us
know if it meets the requirement.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner
Griffin, second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court
accept the bids for body repair services and refer them to
the Kerr County Sheriff for evaluation and recommendation.
Any further questions or comments? If not, all in favor,
raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: A11 opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: I'll pick it up in just
a few minutes, Your Honor.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Come get it now.
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SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: I was going to let you
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(Discussion off the record.)
COMMISSIONER LETZ: He needs the exercise.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN; You need the exercise.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Thanks.
JODGE HENNEKE: I want to make it -- I'm sure
the Sheriff understands -- just make it clear, we don't have
to accept -- we don't have to approve a bid.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: I'm concerned --
JUDGE HENNEKE: If it doesn't meet the
requirements, we do have the ability to reject all bids and
recycle. So --
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Mr. Holekamp and I
talked about this. I'm just concerned about one bid. You
know, we really only have one.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: One more than you got
a minute ago.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER.: That's true.
JUDGE HENNEKE: All right. The next item is
to consider and discuss authorizing the sending out of the
request for proposals for the communications systems for the
Sheriff's Office.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: I would refer this to
Trott Communications. George Weimer is here if y'al1 have
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COMMISSIONER LETZ; John Stewart.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: John Stewart.
DODGE HENNEKE: John, come forward, please.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: I think you each have a
copy of the proposal.
JUDGE HENNEKE: A copy of the Rr'P is in the
packet. Anyone have any questions?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: No, I have a comment.
It's one of the best RFP's I've read in a long time.
MR. STEWART: Thank you very much. I noticed
two mistakes while I was sitting in my r_hair here.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: We'11 make those
changes.
MR. STEWART: Dashes and dots.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: This looks more like
the thing I'm used to seeing in the federal government and
Department of Defense and NASA and that sort of thing. It's
very, very well done.
MR. STEWART: Thank you very much.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Y'ou can respond to
this. Any bidder ought to be able to respond to this very
easily. I believe they will either meet the requirement or
they won't, so very good job.
MR. STEWART: Thank you very much. I was
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wanting to bring one thing up, and that was the process of
competitive bid and how you went out for it. George had
told me there was, I guess, some concern on whicki
competetive bidding process to award it under. If y'all
have to approve it under that, I was going to bring that up.
If it's just approving this for competitive bid, and then
you can select one of the two ways to do it, then we can
dispense with it.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I'm not sure I
understand. What are the --
MR. STEWART: For competitive bidding on most
things that you get, you go out, just like you did these
others, you get a price back. The lowest price is generally
regarded -- the compliant bid is the one that's regarded as
the one that's accepted. If it's done under a -- another --
it's an alternative that's available, and since this is for
public safety, you can put it under that alternative. It's
a -- it's 262.030 under the laws that you have here for the
State of Texas, and it's Alternative Competitive Proposal
Procedure for insurance, high-tech knowledge items, and
other special services. And, what this does for you is
when -- when we -- and one of the reasons I didn't -- the
Sheriff had asked me to bring something regarding how we
would put that in a paper. Depending upon which way you
select this is how you would do it in the paper, because
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part of this process is -- in going out for the bid is
giving the -- the potential bidders the relative assignment
of a value for pricing, for meeting coverage characteristics
or whatever. What it does for you, then -- let's say when
it comes back in, then you have the ability Lv negotiate a
price, once you are given a price, whereas the other ones
you're given a price and you have to accept un that price.
So, I'm --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I understand now. And
we -- I would recommend that we go the alternative route,
because this -- and this is the way most government --
federal government and state government high-tech contracts
work, is that you pick the best bid package, and then you
are authorized at that point to go negotiate a final price.
In other words, cost is considered, but it's alsu -- what
you're looking for is best value to the government, not
necessarily the low bid. Because one technical approach may
be much better than another technical approach, and what
this process does then is allow you to negotiate a final
price, and that's the first step. You're authorized to go
negotiate price, and if you can't reach a price, yuu can
say, "That's it," you know, "We're not going to buy." You
don't -- you don't have to accept the price as ofLered. You
can negotiate it after the fact. And, with something this
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MR. STEWART: It also means that you don't
have to accept, in the beginning, the lowest prime.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: You don't have to
accept the lcwest price, because you're lookiny for the best
value. 'Cause it may be the life cycle cost of this
system -- you could own it for 15 years. If you accept the
low bid, it may cost you a lot more over 15 years than the
higher front-end cost, because it has a better life cycle
cost. So, that's definitely what we want to do if we can.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Is that a motion?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: That's a motion.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second -- third.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissicner
Griffin, second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court
authorize the Request for Proposals for communications
systems for the Sheriff's Office under Section 262.030,
which is the Alternative Bidding Procedure. I presuiue
that's Local Government Code?
MR. STEWART: I think this is the -- the
State of Texas Code, but I can get back to you on that.
JUDGE HENNEKE: The appropriate --
(Discussion off the record.)
MR. STEWART: It's the Purchasing and
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I'm not sure what the "of" is.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Local Government Code, I
believe.
MR. STEWART: Okay.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any further questions or
comments? I want to ask John to take just a minute and walk
us through the steps and the timetable so that we
understand. Just take a quick second before we vote and
tell us when these will go out, what the interim steps are,
and what your role is.
MR. STEWART: All right. We are going to get
you sort of a framework for something on how to advertise
this as we've discussed it. That shou]d be put in your
local paper that's used for this sort of thing within the
nett couple of weeks. That should run for a couple of weeks
for people that we might inadvertently overlook. We have a
list of people that we will be sending a notice to that's
saying that we want a response from them, as well as what
we're doing through the paper here, because we do want as
many responses as possible. Those will go out. Thal will
elicit people calling us or you, however we have this set
up, as far as getting a copy of the proposal so that they
can then bid it. We will have also sent to the people that
we've contacted that they say, yes, we're interested, we
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will send them a copy of a Request for Proposal. We then
have a date set up here for March 14th for a preproposal
conference, probably at this location, for any of these
issues, maybe, that aren't discussed, at least as ~mpactinq
their equipment or their response. We've -- we'll take all
those questions, give everyone that's on the list the
responses that we have to those, so that everybody has
similar information to keep going on their bid. We then
have a proposal due date of May the 11th of this year at
4 p.m., which all responses should be in here. We're, I
think, requesting five copies of each; that's for -- maybe
to cover all of y'all with a copy. At that time, we'll
evaluate the responses. That might take -- let's say a
month, just to figure out the thing, give y'all time also to
review them. We'll get together with y'all and go over any
things that perhaps aren't evident, or some things that we
may know about their equipment that's not necessarily in
their bid, and sort of let y'all evaluate which direction
y'all want to go with our input and help on it. So, at that
time, then, we would say, "Hey, we've chosen this one for
negotiations." We'll get with them -- and, again, that may
or may not be based on their lowest price. And, then have
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can qet everything aligned with how the County wants it, acid
then award that to that vendor. Or if -- let's say if that
doesn't work out, then go to the -- to another vendor that's
responded.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Judqe, is it going to be
better, do you think, for us to appoint one Commissioner to
represent, or for -- to go back and forth and work witki the
whole Court with Trott Communications during the process? I
mean --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Let me make a
Suggestion on that. The process that's being described here
is what the federal system calls a source evaluation board.
In other words, the board makes the decision, And I think
the entire Court needs to sit as the source evaluation board
for the proposals. Now, you'll have -- in essence, this is
our program manager for the competition who ~s coming to us.
Trott's going to be coming to us and saying, "xere were the
proposals as received; here is the technical." We can even
ask -- if there are several bidders, we can ask for them to
come and talk to us, as the source evaluation board, make
their pitch, see what they can sort of "marketeer" us, if --
as they desire. If we want to. We don't have to have that
kind of competitive presentation, but we can. And sometimes
that's helpful, and we may want to look at that option later
on to see if there's -- what kind of interest we have and
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what the levels of the proposals are. It may be that Lhat
would be a good thing to hear.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Looks like Larry's going
to make this whole Court get high-tech literate before this
is done.
MR. STEWART: I would also like to make my
own request, that we have the Sherift --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Oh, absolutely. I
think he's going to be -- he would probably be the --
MR. STEWART: Okay.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: He's the customer,
so --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Final recommendation is going
to come from the Sheriff.
MR. STEWART: Okay.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: That's right. We only
act as an evaluation board. We can let him know what our --
our analysis of the various proposals is and what it means
from a funding standpoint and all the downstream things that
have to be done, but -- but if -- that's a clean process.
It really -- and it works. It works.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any other questions or
comments? Sheriff, do you want to add anything?
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: The only thing, I agree
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point, the entire Court, due to the size of this project and
the financial impact it's going to have -- just anticipated
cost -- I think this needs to be something that is done,
especially with Trott Communications, 'cause they have the
expertise that 1'll never have in the communications field.
But, their guidelines, what they've said in here, and
hopefully the completion date of having it totally going and
installed of January lst, 2002, I think is none too soon.
We definitely need it, but it needs to be something --
because of the financial payment plans through the County
Attorney's office and how the County can pay for this type
of deal is going to be something the entire Court needs to
be made aware of.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thanks, Sheriff. We have a
motion made and seconded. Any further questions or
comments? If not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
DODGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion passes. Thank you.
MR. STEWART: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Judge, I might just
add -- you indicated that there were a couple of minor
revisions?
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have that done up for you --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Those kind of things
in something this complicated happen. So, we'll -- the
draft version that goes -- the version that goes -- this is
the draft. There will be a final version that actually games
out for RFP, just so everybody understands.
MR. STEWART: You should have that by Friday.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Let's take a 10-minute break,
return promptly at 20 minutes till 11:00.
(Recess taken from 10:30 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All right. Let's reconvene
this meeting of the Kerr County Commissioners Court. Next
item for consideration is Item Number 16, consider
preliminary revLsion of a plat for Tract 44 and 95 of
Kerrville South II, Precinct 1. Commissioner Baldwin.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Excuse me, got a Milky
Way stuck in my throat. County Engineer.
MR. JOHNSTON: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: My question --
dadgumit. My only questions are on the note from Headwaters
Underground Water District, it says -- a couple paragraphs
down, it says, "Please be advised there is a $50 plat review
fee payable to the District." Do you know if all that --
and on the routing slip, as well. It doesn't show that the
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MR. JOHNSTON: I don`t see him here. I don't
know, can't answer that. At the time it wasn't paid.
MS. ALEORD: County Clerk's office? Is that
what you're speaking of?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: We11, one of them is
the County C]erk's office, yes.
MS. ALFORD: Apparently, their copy does not
have my signature. The copy I have in my office has been
paid.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: It has been paid?
MS. ALFORD: For the County Clerk's.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: For the County
Clerk's. I wonder about the Headwaters.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I believe the note says that
$50 can be paid when they bring the final mylar in for
signature.
MR. JOHNSTON: They sign the little deal, but
they --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Signed off on it?
MR. JOHNSTON: It doesn't really indicate.
I'd like to see if they signed the mylar, but --
JUDGE HENNEKE: This is a preliminary.
MR. JOHNSTON: Oh, okay. The preliminary,
okay.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Goes anyone have any
questions about the preliminary revision?
MR. JOHNSTON: You know the background of
this? Want to go over that a little bit?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Go ahead.
MR. JOHNSTON: Lot 49 dug a well and they
inadvertently dug it on Lot 45, and so subsequently they
moved the property line that little angle, and that's what
they had to do to get the easement for the well, sanitary
easement.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Do they have all the required
easements from the property owner?
MR. JOHNSTON: What Buster just read, we got
an e-mail from Headwaters that all the requirements were met
eYCept that one payment. I guess that would be for the
final plat -- sorry, this is a preliminary. So --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I have no questions,
but I have a comment, that the word "preliminary" was left
off of this document. And I think, just to make the --
clarify that we are approving a preliminary plat and not a
final, in case somebody wanted to guardhouse lawyer -- I
mean, lawyers don't do that, but --
MR. JOHNSTON: It should be marked or stamped
or something.
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is -- this kind of goes into a discussion on the next one as
well, but as a revision, they don't need a public hearing
under our current rules?
MR. JOHNSTON: Under our current rules, they
do, yes.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: As our rules are right
now. 1 mean, this may or may not, depending on what we do
under discussion on the next item.
MR. JOHNSTON: 1 think this one was actually
started back -- golly, a long time ago. We've been waiting
on Headwaters to approve it. I don't know if you'd call
this one grandfathered or not. This is a preliminary, so --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'm just raising the
issue. It's up to Commissioner Baldwin and -- and Road and
Bridge as to whether it's grandfathered under our previous
rules or is under the new rules.
MR. JOHNSTON: I think the survey was made
September 1, 2000, so it`s been around awhile. And the
hang-up was Headwaters getting the easements properly drawn,
so I don't know if that qualifies or not.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Probably does, in my
opinion.
J~D,E HENNEKE: Any questions or comments?
Where are we?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: It's --
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we approve?
MR. JOHNSTON: Yes, I recommend approval.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I move that we approve
the preliminary revision of plat, Tract 44 and 45 of
Kerrville South II.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Under our previous
Subdivision Rules?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yes. It's been around
longer than -- than our adopting --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Motion -- second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court
approve the preliminary revision of plat for Tracts 94 and
45 of Kerrville South II under the previously adopted
Subdivision Rules. Any questions or comments? If not, all
in favor, raise your right hands.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Next item is
Item Number ]7, consider preliminary revision of plat for
Tracts SA and 6A of Whiskey Ridge Ranches, Precinct 3, and
set public hearing date for the same. Commissioner Letz?
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the previous one, what used to be called a minor revision or
minor replat. But, due to the perseverance of the developer
on this one, Mike Lindley -- he's talked to me several Limes
about this and seeing if there was a way we could go back to
our old format of doing minor replats, as we used to Lean
them. And, I said -- you know, he referred it to David
Jackson to review our Subdivision rules and current stale
law, and has come up with a possibi]ity that we may be able
to go back to our old rules, and I've referred that to the
County Attorney to look at. It doesn't really affect this
one. I've told Mr. Lindley that, you know, current rules
are current rules. We need a public hearing, but we -- just
from an information standpoint, there's a possibility we
might revise our new Subdivision Rules if we can find a way
to allow discretion on the revisions so we don't have to yu
through -- on minor revisions, we don't have to go through
that full public hearing process, and that's being passed,
like I said, to the County Attorney's office. But, this one
is just a -- two brothers, I understand'?
property line goes through the corner of a lake which they
share, okay? But one cf the sisters says, "Well, we're
going to move and change our plans," and so on. From a
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marketing standpoint, nobody wants to share a lake, so the
common line that goes between the property said, "Well, I'll
sell you two and a half acres and buy your portion of the
lake, and then it goes with my home, and you end up" --
minimum requirement's 25 acres -- "you end up with 38 acres.
We've qot 42 and a half." Okay. The line does not affect
the access, does not create another tract. It's not a
hardship on anybody else in the -- in the development. So,
my question is, on an obvious situation like this, why do we
have to go back through all the fees of a preliminary, a
public hearing, a final plat? It causes a hardship on them.
It costs $400 worth of fees, plus it takes 60 days for them
to be able to market their property. Isn't there some
flexibility in this situation, when we see an obvious deal
like this? We can have it before you folks and the County
Engineer, so if there is some problem there, that's a
stopgap,	but	if --	if	not,	we can	just	do a	preliminary
hearing	and	go on	with	this	deal.	And	other	situations that
may come up on large tracts where it doesn't affect anybody,
doesn't affect the building site or the home or the well, is
there some flexibility in the regulations?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: That's being done.
We're -- and it's been referred to the County Attorney, and
we're taking a look at it. But, as for this one, I move
that we approve the preliminary revision and set public
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hearing for	-- when's our first meeting	in March?
March 12th?	Set the public	hearing for	March 12th.
	COMMISSIONER	WILLIAMS: I	second that. i
have a question.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Williams, that the Court approve the
preliminary revision of plat for Tracts 5A and 6A of Whiskey
Ridge Ranches and set a public hearing for 10 o'clock a.m.
on Monday, March 12th, 2001, here in the Kerr County
Commissioners' Courtroom.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Mike, this dotted
area that looks like a lake, is that -- that's shown on
there, is that the lake? And, if so, how have we gotten it
off of one parcel?
MR. LINDLEY: No, no, no that's the proposed
100-year floodplain.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Where is the lake'?
MR. LINDLEY: The lake -- if you compare the
two tracts, the previous line, the lake's right here. So,
this little jag right here moved it out to the edge of the
lake, and of course the lake now goes with the home, and
we've got a building site. One sister owns that. We can
sell the lake.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: That was confusing as
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN; Are these -- is tkiis
]ot -- Lot 5A is 37.76, and 93; is that correct numbers?
MR. LINDLEY: Yes.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Not exactly the
numbers you threw out a while ago.
MR. LINDLEY: I was just giving you a
ballpark. This is what the previous numbers were. But, it
was, like, 2 acres, or a little over ^_ acres.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I think our
regulations say that Mike Lindley's minimum lot size has to
be 50 acres, doesn't it?
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COMMISSIONEK GRIFFIN: 7 have a quesLiuii.
Again, it goes back to the form. The word "preliminary" is
left off of here, which is okay as long as we have a
preliminary stamp or something to put on these things so
that we don't get confused between --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: That's good.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: -- a final plat.
MR. LINDLEY: Well, we left that off hoping,
Commissioner Griffin, that you all would ]ook at this as a
final plat and gc ahead and approve it. We didn't want to
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Didn't want to exclude
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MR. LINDLEY: Yes, sir, right.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN; preliminary stamp
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Any further questions or
comments? If not, all in favor, raise your right hands.
(The motion carried by unanimous vcte.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I would like to thank
Mike Lindley for taking the time to have another attorney
review our Subdivision Rules. And, if we make some
clarification to them, we might make things easier for us
and the developer.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Absolutely. The next item is
Item Number 18, consider and discuss establishing a speed
limit of 30 miles an hour on Center Point River Road,
eastbound, beginning at Brinks Street, and set a date for
public hearing.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I've had a lot of
folks talk to me about excessive speed on that area oY C.P.
P.iver Road that is within -- essentially within the former
corporate limits of the City of Center Point. 7 asked
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bands across the road and take those speed tests. Franklin,
would you please step up and address that for us as to what
we discovered there?
MR. JOHNSTON: Well, we tested that road at
three locations; one at Brinks Street and one down at the
southern end, one on the other side of the river. The 85
percentile speeds on River Road itself was generally all 50,
55, in that range. Less than 55 miles an hour, so 1 don't
see a problem with -- with that. I think the county roads,
the default is 55 if they're not posted, so we're well
within that. The area of concern, of course, is Brinks
Street, which is in the old corporate limit of Center Point,
which there's houses and it's a -- you know, a city
subdivision-type --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Goodly number of
children in the area.
MR. JOHNSTON: They're going also 55 miles an
hour in that area, so that's -- I think there's an existing
court order that set -- all of the areas of Center Point was
set at 30 miles an hour -- 30, 35. So, we may just need
some enforcement down there.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I think all -- there's
a 30 mile-an-hour speed limit in all Kerr County
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MR. JOHNSTON: Mm-hmm.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Sy court order.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: So we're already
covered, is what you're saying?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: If we're talking about
a subdivision. Well, we're probably talking about more than
a subdivision.
MR. JOHNSTON: Center Point probably consists
of severa] --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Possibly comprised of
more than just subdivisions.
MR. JOHNSTON: But there are subdivisions, so
it would probably just need some enforcement.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Is that all -- I mean, is
that stretch all within a subdivision?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: It's all within the
former corporate limits --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: -- of Center Point.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I would be surprised if
that's a platted subdivision.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I would too.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right along --
MR. JOHNSTON: Probably all the subdivisions
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back in the early 1900's.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: As a subdivision in any
way --
MR. JOHNSTON: I don't know if they -- they
called them that back then, but --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: If you go through the
process with settinq the speed limits, then there's no
question.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: And I think it's
interesting -- just another piece of information. Franklin
gave me some accident reports from D.P.S., and this
particular stretch of ground, we've had speeding, driver
inattentive, evasive action, animals, impaired -- alcohol
impaired, and so forth. So, I think it's a safety measure.
And, while the agenda item, I think, says -- 1 know it
says -- we talk about eastbound. We're really talking about
within the corporate limits east and westbound on that
particular stretch of road.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Where -- going down Rivez
Road where? Brinks Street? What is the stretch, from
where? The first big house you come to, to the river? I
mean, into where it crosses the river? Is that what --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Essentially, yes.
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MR. JOHNSTON: I think the corporate limits
is back down the road where that big ditch is, the drainage
structure goes across the road. And then, actually, Brinks
Street -- there's two or three streets before you get to
Brinks Street. It`s -- it should be at the limit, I think,
of the corporate limit -- old corporate limit.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: WYrat was the former
-- that`s where we used to have the sign posted, "County
Maintenance Ends," that same point. Do you remember,
Jonathan?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Looks to me like we ought
to go from Bolin Drive to --
MR. JOHNSTON: Yeah, Brinks is riot the first
street. It should be down toward the end of the --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: From Bolin Drive, based
on this map, to where it crosses the river.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: We need to amend that
to say Bolin when we set the public hearing. Bolin --
(Discussion off the record.)
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Let's make it Bolin
right now, both east and westbound.
JUDGE HENNEKE: That's his motion.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Public hearing on the
12th of March?
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Right. Motion by
Commissioner Williams, second by Commissioner Letz, that the
Court establish a speed limit of 30 miles per hour on Center
Point River Road, beginning at Bolin Drive and continuing
both east and west there, and set a public heariny uri the
same for Monday, March the 12th, Year 2001, at 10:15 here in
the Kerr County Commissioners' Courtroom. Any questions or
comments?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Question.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Comment -- go ahead
with your question,
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Bolin Road is on the
western fringe of Center Point, so if we go westbound of --
I mean, we only want to go east of Bolin Road to the
crossing on the Guadalupe River.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Right.
r_OMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: And my comment was --
was that it would sure be handy on these kind of things to
have at least a sketch highlighted along the area that we
want to establish a speed limit.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I'll provide that as
well.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: So that we can look at
it and answer questions.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Any other questions or
comments? If not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Item Number
19, consider and discuss approving the annual accounts and
status of investments pursuant to provisions of the Texas
Probate Code 887(b) Jannett Pieper.
MS. PIEPER: This is not actually a
requirement. The Code just says that I have to make a
written report of the status of investments, which we did
want to hear anyway, and this is a -- a copy of what is sent
out. This just shows the original investment that was made,
the date it was made on, the interest that was paid, the
name of the depository, and the type of investment that was
made.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Does anyone have any
questions regarding the report on the annual investments?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Do we need a motion to
accept the --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Let's have a motion to
accept.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I'll make a motion we
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: -- annual --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Griffin, second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court
accept the annual accounts and status of investmecits
pursuant to provisions of Texas Probate Code 88~(b) Any
questions or comments? If not, all in favor, raise your
right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Next item is
Item Number 20, consider and discuss reimbursement of
interest per District Court order. Linda Uecker.
MS. UECKER: Well, I wish this one would be
that easy. I'll give you some basic history. There was an
order entered on October -- oh, I take that back -- May the
31st by Judge Ab1es, Stephen Ables, directing the District
Clerk to deposit 105-plus thousand dollars into the registry
of the court. Attached to the order was a check. Somehow
-- and I have my suspicions as to how all this happened, but
anyway, it doesn't matter at this point. It happened. The
check was attached to the order. The order was put back in
the file. The file was put back on the pending shelf with
no file mark, nothing. I did an inquiry with all my staff;
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no one had seen it -- you know, how it got there, so we
don't know.
Then, on October the 19th, we quite by
accident discovered the check in that file. So, what has
happened is that the parties to this suit have lost some
interest, interest from May the 30th to October the 19th.
One of the parties did file a claim for the -- the lost
interest. I got a statement from the bank saying that the
interest lost on this account was $1,564.50. The one party
that filed a claim is entitled to 65 percent of that lost
interest. The other party did not make a claim; however, I
did turn this over to -- the party with the 35 percent is
what i meant. We did turn it over to my errors and
omissions. There is a $1,000 deductible. They did send --
1 do have a check here for $16 and something from Mission
Claims Services, and so I'm asking the Court to reimburse
Farbara Jane White the amount of $1,016.92, which is her 65
percent of that interest. I'm also asking to add an
additional $35.59 to that, which is the interest that she
lost from October the 19th till now, having lost use and
benefit of that interest.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Compound, yeah.
MS. UECKER: Okay. You understand what I'm
saying? Then there's the issue of the other party, the 35
percent of the interest, which was $59/.58. That went to
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Mr. Bailey, who was the cross-defendant in the suit. He has
not filed a claim for that interest. I don't know if he
doesn't realize that he's lost interest or what, but I -- I
am asking at this point, as a good gesture, for -- to also
reimburse him for his lost interest. 7 think it would be
good for the County to do that, since that's what the order
says, and maybe alleviate later on findinq out that, you
know, he did lose some interest, and coming back then and we
go through all of this again. It's up to the Court.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: What's the total
amount?
MS. UECKER: Total amount is $1,619.26.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: You have given us
about 12 or 13 different numbers, and not one of them are on
this sheet of paper.
MS. DECKER: That's because I didn't know at
the time. I had to make that exactly what those numbers
were, and I apologize for that.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: What was the total?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Total is $1,619.26.
MS. UECKER: As a matter of fact, between --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Which is divided up,
$1,016.92 for Barbara Jean White and $547.58 to Mr, Bailey.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: When does the meter
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COMMISSIONER GP,IFFIN: 't'his will do it.
MS. UECKER: As soon as we write this check.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: 1 have a question,
though. You know, where does the deductible under the
insurance figure into this?
MS. UECKER: My errors and omissions.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: PJO. But, I mean, that
was the total amount. Is that after the $1,000? I mean,
that's -- where is our --
MS. DECKER: No, that is the total amount.
The deductible -- see, this Mission Claims did not include
in their claim the loss to Jerry Don Bailey. You know,
that's another issue. Do you go back and file another claim
with them?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: i think you have to.
MS. UECKER: You know, we would get -- the
money would come directly to us then. And I will do that.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: But if this is a
one-time occurrence, it would seem to me that if this was
all on one error or omission, as the insurance probably
covers it, then we would have to pay $1,000, and that the
balance of the $1,500-plus would be paid by the insurance
company.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, let me just
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Linda's not going to get a lot of cooperation from the
insurance carrier, and I believe Travis is now working on
her behalf to straighten that out. We need to pay the
money.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Oh, yes.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We can't wait till the
insurance company pays its share. What we're going to --
what Linda's asking us to do is to authorize payment of the
full amount, and then when we get the money back from the
insurance company, then all the County would be out was the
$1,000 deductible.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Okay. That's my
question.
JUDGE HENNEKE: This will take care of these
people at this time. Correct, Linda?
MS. UECKER: And, you know, to make things
more understandable, I think it happened because of a
misunderstanding of files being brought back from the courts
to the Clerk's office. And we're, you know, addressing a
procedure that wouldn't allow those files to go to -- back
directly into the pending without us having checked them
first to see if there's anything that needs to be done in
them.
JUDGE HENNEKE: And the funds for this would
come from Nondepartmental Contingency; is that correct?
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MS. UECKER: That's what 1 understood, yes.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Just one final
question, Linda.
MS. UECKER: Okay.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: The $1,619.26, that
brings through today?
MS. UECKER: Yes.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Okay.
MS. UECKER: Mm-hmm, and I have already
alerted Mrs. White and told her that that check would
probably be drafted by this afternoon.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Okay.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any questions or commentsl
MS. UECKER: My only other question is -- and
I haven't really discussed this with Travis -- is would he
need to draft some type of a release for them to sign -- for
her to sign? Especially --
JUDGE HENNEKE: I would think so, but we'll
leave that up to him.
MR. LUCAS: Yes.
MS. UECKER: Can you do that by this
afternoon?
MR. LUCAS: Yes.
MS. UECKER: What a guy.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Do I have a motion?
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yes, you do.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Commissioner Baldwin is just
chomping at the bit.
MS. UECKER: I apologize, Commissioner
Baldwin, but Travis and 1 just came up with the exact
figures, you now, about an hour ago, actually.
COMMISSIONER BALllW1N: No apology necessary,
Mrs. Uecker.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We have a motion. Do we have
a second?
COMM1SSlUNER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court
authorize payment of $1,052.51 to Barbara Jean White, and
$597.58 to Mr. Bailey, for a total of $1,619.26, for
interest owed on sums awarded by the District Court; that
such sums be taken out of the Nondepartmental Contingency
line item, and that the Court authorize handchecks for those
amounts.
MS. UECKER: I only have one other question
of the Court and the County Attorney's office. The check
that I have here is for $16.95, which is Mrs. White's part
of that settlement, minus the deductible; $16, but I have --
I'm not going to sign anything, because it says here "full
and final settlement." And if -- I'm not -- I don't know
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what to do.
JUDGE HENNEKE: You just need to work that
out with mr. Lucas, let him hand]e that.
MS. UECKER: I'll let Travis take care of it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any questions or comments?
If not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you, Linda.
MS. UECKER: Thank you very much.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I think it's worth noting
that this is the first time this has happened in Linda's
long and distinguished time that you've been here.
MS. UECKER: Thank you. Yes, and hopefully
the last.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Pretty good system,
absolutely. Ner,t item is Item Number 21, consider and
discuss request from the Kerr County Fair Association to
place a portable building on the Exhibition Center property
to house Fair Association supplies. Mr. Holekamp?
MR. HOLEKAMP: Okay. The little note in
your -- it should be self-explanatory. The Fair Association
has requested a space -- a nondetermined space. I mean,
it's at our -- our discretion wherever they place it, but
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it's a 16 x 16 building in good repair. That will be a
portable building. It can be moved if needed to be, and
they have asked if there is a possibility that it be placed
on the Exhibition Center property out of the way, everything
to -- as much as possible.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I don't have any
problern with it. I'd like to know where it's going to go.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I don't see any
problem with it, except there's one question and that is
liability and insurance, responsibi]ity for the stuff
therein. For example, if for some reason the building was
broken into -- or I know it wculd be a metal building, but
if it burned down or got knocked over or something, the
County should not be responsible for what's in it.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I mean --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Or the building. So,
we need to make sure that there's some kind of agreement, I
would think, or something that -- where the County has no
liability of any kind, tort or otherwise, from what goes on
in and around that buildinq.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I agree.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: And, the answer to
Commissioner Baldwin's question was that Mr. Holekamp
discussed with -- with me, and I guess with Commissioner
Letz, or maybe I discussed it with Commissioner Letz, the
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placement of this storage facility, and there were two
locations suggested. I'm not sure which one they finally
settled on. One of them was behind the existing horse stall
barn, which is an open barn, between it and the fence line
on Riverside Drive. And the other area was suggested by
Commissioner Letz, and that's over somewhere in the general
proximity of the outdoor arena, and there's an outdoor
restroom facility there as well. Which one did you finally
settle on?
MR. HOLEKAMP: I have not. I left it open
for the Court to --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Okay.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: My reasoning for
suggesting over by the -- where the re.strooms are is that
there is more activity with livestock around the horse
arena, and it's just more of an obstacle and might present a
problem. And there's not much traffir_ goes over near the --
the restroom facility. That was my reasoning for that.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second,
COMMISSIONER LETZ: That was a motion.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: But does the motion
include this point I just made?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: A hold-harmless
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authorize County Judge to sign same.
COMMISSIONER. LETZ: Just what I said.
COMMISSIONER WTLLIAMS: That's fine.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court approve the
request from the Kerr County Fair Association to place a
portable buildinq near the outdoor arena/restroom facilities
on the Hill Country Exhibition Center grounds to house Fair
Association supplies, subject to the execution by the Fair
Association of an agreement holding the County harmless from
any and all possible claims and causes of action arising
from the building or its contents or the operation thereof,
and giving County Judge approval to sign the same. Any
questions or comments? If not, all in favor, raise your
right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Item Number
22, consider and discuss resignation of Chuck Brecher from
the Kerr County Solid Waste Code Enforcement Officer
position, and also the Kerr County AACOG representative for
Solid Waste and Closed Landfill Committee. Mr. Holekamp.
MR. HOLEKAMP: It's just -- it was just an
official act to advise the Court of Mr. Brecher's intent to
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-- intentions to leave this particular position, and he's
taking a full-time position within the county for the
Sheriff's Department. So, this was to notify you and give
you a final report of his activities from October until, I
guess, January 31st.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Mr. Holekamp, what are
you going to do about replacing him?
MR. HOLEKAMP: That's -- I was hoping for the
Court to give me that direction of what they chose. And --
and that -- this may not be the time to really visit about
it. It's really not on the agenda, but this particular
position is funded by grant monies through AACOG. There is
a possibility that the grant money may not be eligible -- or
we may not be eligible for grant money under this particular
kind of a program this coming year due to the -- we've been
getting it three years. So, what I -- I think that
decisions have to be made. We're good through spring until
October 1 for sure, because it's funded. But, I think it's
up to the Court to decide how they wish to pursue this; iT
they wish to try to find somebody part-time temporarily, or
-- because at budget time you decide how much you're going
to spend on a particular budget, salaries or whatever. So,
I feel --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Let me tell you what
one of my concerns is. And, you know, as you know as the
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department head, I've used this service quite a bit in my
precinct, and there's several -- there are several areas
that Mr. Brecher investigated, and the public calls me on
the phone and says, "Commissioner Baldwin, when are we going
to do something about this particular pile of junk?" And so
I call Mr. Brecher, and Mr. Brecher says, "Well, you can
rest assured we're going to get it done." And it hasn't
been done. So, I'm -- I'm going to take no -- I'm not going
to take the heat on it. You are. But there's going to be
some heat. So, my concern is, when are you going to fill
it? And, it's your position. It's not the Court's position
to fill; it's your position.
MR. HOLEKAMP: Well, I understand the
Commissioner's thoughts, but do you -- do you go out to
advertise for a position that everyone on the inside knows
that it possibly would go away October 1? I guess that's
what I'm asking.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Okay.
MR. HOLEKAMP: Because I don't know if the
Court is ready to commit to say, yeah, we're going to fund
it at this level October 1. Because I would hate to be in a
position to hire a man for $12 an hour, and then come back
October 1 and I'm going to say, "Well, I'm sorry, we're only
going to pay 7 and a half from now on." So -- so what I'm
saying is --
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: So you're not going to
fill the position?
MR. HOLEKAMP: No, I didn't say that. I said
some direction of the Court as to -- do you fill it with law
enforcement again?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Well, isn't that the
kind of grant that we -- that we received'?
MR. HOLEKAMP: At this time, yes.
JUDGE HENNEKE: It's not a law enforcement
grant, though.
MR.. HOLEKAMP: Not a law enforcement --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Code Enforcement?
MR. HOLEKAMP: No. At this time, due to our
group things, he's a certified peace officer.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Following up on
Commissioner Baldwin's --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Is that a requirement of the
grant?
MR. HOLEKAMP: No, it's not a requirement.
But the way we asked for the money in the grant was -- it
was listed as certified peace officer.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Following up on
Commissioner Baldwin's --
MR.. HOLEKAMP: At that time.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Following up on
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Commissioner Baldwin's concerns, you and I had a discussion
about the same matter, and I agree, Commissioner, we need to
fill this spot. We need to fill it now, even though funding
from AACOG only takes up through September 30. That's a
long time. That's seven months.
MR. HOLEKAMP: Mm-hmm.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I agree, I don't want
to see us go seven months without some Code Enforcement in
this particular area. I think -- even though you and I
talked about you assuming some of these responsibilities, I
think you've got enough on your plate. I think we need to
find somebody we can hire, that you would recommend us to
hire, and that person be paid in accordance with the funds
that were given to us by that grant for this particular
purpose. And, I think we need to do it now, even though the
Court hasn't made a decision as to continuing the --
continuing this particular service to Kerr County citizens.
Although I, for one, believe we should, but that's for
another day and another time.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think what -- what I
hear Mr. Holekamp asking for is direction, or is there
some -- is there a chance it's going to be funded in the
future by the County? I mean, so he can tell that --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I would -- I would be
in favor of continuing this function, even if the County had
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to fund it, because -- and, in fact, it needs to be
developed then for the same reason Commissioner Baldwin
pointed out. There's several problem areas where I'm -- I
wish this could be more than part-time.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Me too.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Because where we have
a problem, it's very difficult to get a part-time person out
to see what the problem is, and then to take enforcement
action to correct it, and that's difficult. I'm not -- I'm
not criticizing anybody. It's just hard to do on the basis
of a part-time job. I think this is something that we ought
to be concerned enough about that -- at least my sense is
that we would continue funding it, even if we don't get a
grant. We'll go for every grant that we can get, but in the
budget process, we might even look at strengthening this
function with County funds.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Of course, we don't
know what we're going to do at that point.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: That's right.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And any agreement -- I
think we should do everything we can to keep the program
going. But, we're in -- we're inside a -- an annual program
right now, and -- and I -- I have made some commitments out
there that we're going to clean up some things. And I think
that we should at least try to finish those cases that have
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been opened by him. And, I don't know if you can go to
Rusty and get a part-time deputy that -- who would like to
pick up -- I mean, I don't have any idea whu could do this
part-time, or through the remainder of this year. I don't
know.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I think we want to
fill the position. I think the sense of ttie Court is that
we ought to fill this position, keep the function going.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I agree.
MS. NEMEC: Judge, I know where Glenn is
coming from, and if I can just say something, it's going to
be hard for him to go and find someone and tell them that
he's paying them $12 an hour; however, in September, he
doesn't know if the job is going to be there or not. And I
think what I'm hearing from him is, he just wants to see how
you all feel; that if he does not get the grant, are y'all
going to make that a priority to keep Lundiug that position
so he can at least tell this person, "I only have a grant
through the end of December; however, I believe that I have
the Court's backing, that we'll somehow or another try to
keep that position intact," rather than say, "I don't know.
We're just going to have to find out in September what's
going to happen."
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, we can't make budgetary
projections. I think he could easily say Lr~m the sense of
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discussion that it's the consensus of the Court that the
position would be funded.
MS. NEMEC: That would help.
MR. HOLEKAMP: Yeah, that helps immensely.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Probably be in the
newspaper tomorrow. That would help.
JUDGE HENNEKE: So, I think what -- what's
coming out of this is the direction from the Court to go
ahead and advertise and fill that position riow. The only
question in my mind is whether it has to be a certified
peace officer or not.
MR. HOLEKAMP: I'll --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: It does riot.
MR. HOLEKAMP: I'll look at some -- I'll
research that a little bit before 1 do it. Let me get
back --
JUDGE HENNEKE: I would certainly think that
you have the guidance you need to go ahead and fill the
position and -- and say it's your understanding that the
consensus of the Court at this time is to continue the
program.
MR. HOLEKAMP: Okay. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I would also add that
if it is possible to have a peace officer -- and
Commissioner Baldwin may have some of the same experiences
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that I've had. There are some of these enforcement actions
that can get pretty nitty-gritty.
MR. HOLEKAMP: Yes.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: And, having a
certified peace officer doing that job is certainly, I would
think, desirable. It may be not necessary, depending, but
it would certainly be desirable to have enforcement
experience in that job.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I've had several
conversations with Glenn and Mr. Brecher about that when we
started the program, when we went to AACOG and get the grant
in the first place. Lt -- I've always been uncomfortable
about somebody walking up to my neighbor's door witki a
pistol on his hip, you know, to tell him he needs to move
that junk car out there. But, that badge is good. The
badge is good.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: The pistol's a little
bit strong at times, I think, but he has --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: You may want to visit
with the constables. One of them may be willing to take
that on as an additional assignment. They're certified
peace officers, and they --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Perhaps constables.
MR. HOLEKAMP: Well, that's what Mr. Beecher
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was.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: That's right,
JUDGE HENNEKE: He was a deputy constable.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Deputy constable.
Thank you, Glenn.
MR. HOLEKAMP: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Move we accept Lkie
resignation of Chuck Brecher.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court accept the
resignation of Chuck Brecher from the Solid Waste
Enforcement position and the AACOG committee. Any questions
or comments?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I guess we need Cu now
replace that person on the AACOG committee?
JUDGE HENNEKE: We will, but we might want to
wait and see who we qet as a replacement.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: All right.
JUDGE HENNEKE: All in favor, raise your
right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. At this
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time, I'm going to suggest that we skip to Number 24 and 25
since we have some citizens here for those items. Let's
take up Item Number 24, consider and discuss grantLng a
variance to O.S.S.F, licensing requirements to Eddie and
Joyce Sowell. Commissioner Williams?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: This is the issue
that we brought before the Court last meeting in January,
and at that time, after listening to some of the issues
involved in this, the Court said, "Let's think about it aria
come back on another day." In that interim period of time,
I asked Mr. Sowell to avail himself of the services of a
licensed sanitarian to inspect his system and to determine,
for the Court's benefit, whether or not it is functioning
properly as of today, as of this date, and to bring any
evidence of that that he has or any written reports about
that so we ~~an have that available for discussion. Mr.
Sowell, it's all yours.
MR. SOWELL: Yes. I did have a sanitarian
engineer come out there and overlook my property -- my
septic system. I do have a copy for each one of y'all to
take a look at.
DODGE HENNEKE: A11 right.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Thank you.
MR. SOWELL: You're welcome.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Is "puddling" a
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technical word? Puddling?
MR. SOWELL: I did bring -- if you'd like to
ask him, I did bring -- I asked Mr. Seidensticker to be here
today.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Ask him to come up.
MR. SOWELL: Mr. Seidensticker?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Let me start by
asking a question of Mr. Seidensticker.
MR. SEIDENSTICKER: Yes?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Before I ask a
question, tell us who you are and what you do.
MR. SEIDENSTICKER: I'm Hoyt Seidensticker.
I reside in Kendall County, Texas. Waring, Texas. I'm a
registered sanitarian, with experience in on-site septic
systems and numerous other water conservation practices,
wildlife management and range management. I've got a resume
if y'all would like to see that.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I bet one among us
knows you. One of the issues that has surfaced often with
regard to Mr. Sowell's situation is that the system in place
on his property that you have inspected and certified as
being workable is undersized by today's standards. Is that
correct?
MR. SEIDENSTICKER: I did not inspect the
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Mr. Sowell did not have a backhoe there to uncw er the
system, so therefore I only inspected the system above the
surface.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Well, if we take the
word of the Designated Representative, it's undersized. And
if that is the case, in your view, does that prohibit it
from functioning correctly for the size of property Mr.
Sowell owns and the utilization of the system that it serves
on a daily basis?
MR. SEIDENSTICKER: As inspected on the day
that I inspected it, the system was not failing. There was
no surface effluent. There was no odor. Under the current
use -- or water use of the homeowner, the system did not
appear to be failing.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Okay. Anyone else
have a question?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: question about the --
Commissioner Williams, you mentioned that it was -- it was
undersized according to our current state rules, I believe,
and I would ask Charlie Wiedenfeld -- I don't think -- I
thinY, it's undersized even all the way back to the 1977
rules, which I think were the earliest rules that were
written, and it was undersized at that point. So, I mean,
failing or not failing is -- is a separate issue. But, as
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1977 rules, this is an undersized system.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAM5: Mr. Sowell?
MR. SOWELL: Mr. Wiedenfeld -- one of his
articles in the newspaper said that there wasn't even any
mandatory rules in 1971.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I think that was the
first year that they wrote them. Is that correct?
MR. WIEDENFELD: '77?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: State wrote Ltie first
rules. My point is, is that since there has been a state
rule, this system, by any rule, would be undersized. Nuw,
the workability of it is a separate issue, but it was
undersized -- and I don't know when the system was
installed. Do we know that?
COMMISSIONER WILLiAMS: 'Sb?
MR. SOWELL: I don't know the exact year that
it was installed. I got a feeling that in 1986 it was
upgraded from the clay leach line to the perforated plastic
leach line.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAM5: I think there's
another issue which has surfaced with regard to this
particular case. As I pointed out to the Court the last
time we discussed it, this has been in and out of J.P. court
on at least two occasions, and for whatever reasons, there
was not any judgment against Mr. Sowell. For whatever the
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reasons may have been, I think, you know, enough is just
about enough. We just passed new enforcement rules.
T.N.R.C.C. has signed off on them. We do not require at
this point a licensing transfer or an inspection upon real
estate transfer. We have several issues of these -- of this
same nature pending in court right now. I think we have to
figure out what we're going to do with them. As for me and
mine, I would just as soon that we leave this particular
situation in place. It's there. If it comes a time he
sells the property, he's going to have to do something, I
would suspect, even though we're not requiring an inspection
the at real estate transfers. I think it's time for us to
dispose of this and let Mr. Sowell go about his life.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Do you argue with
that?
MR. SOWELL: No. It would be the first time
in two and a half years I haven't argued about it.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Was that a motion, I take
it?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I would move that a
variance as applied for by Mr. Sowell in this case be
granted.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think I would second
that, and my basis is that -- I mean, the system isn't
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greatly undersized. But, I mean, it's been in and out of
court, you know. It's getting -- I tend to agree with
Commissioner Williams. I mean, it's not failing at the
present time, and let's get on with our lives. We've wasted
enough time on it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Is your motion, Commissioner
Williams, more in the nature of a license, so that it's not
exempting the system forever and a day?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: No, my motion is to
grant a variance to the O.S.S.F. licensing requirements that
were in effect prior to the new regulations for Eddie and
Joyce Sowell, owners of Lot 1, Block 2, and Lot 1, Block 3
of Harrison Tract, Center Point, Texas. That's under the
old set of rules, not the current set of rules. There is no
reason for it under the current set of rules, if I
understand correctly.
JUDGE HENNEKE: The nature of the discussion,
which is what I'm trying to clarify, which is that the
variance would not necessarily carry forward to any
subsequent owners of the property.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Not by my motion or
intention, no.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I just want to make sure that
we`re clear to Mr. Sowell in every way.
MR. SOWELL: Yes.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Was there a second?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion made by Commissioner
Williams, seconded by Commissioner Letz, that the Court
grant a variance to the O.S.S. F. licensing requirements to
Eddie and Joyce Sowell, owners of Lot 1, Block 2, and Lot 1,
Block 3 of the Harrison Tract, Center Point, Texas, the
variance being under the previous O.S.S.F. Rules, and the
variance being specific only to Mr. and Mrs. Suwell, not to
any subsequent owners of the property or the system in
question. Any other questions! If not, all in favor --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Comment. Just so the
Court's aware, the conversations I've had witYi T.N.R.C.C.
regarding the new rules versus old rules and when things
went into effect and how things are done, and my uwn reading
of the law, which says that once the Court or its Designated
Representative becomes aware of a noncompliant situation,
that the system has to be fixed, for whatever reason, even
if it's not surfacing effluent. I'm reluctant, iii the
interest of consistency -- on my own part, I'm reluctant to
vote in favor of granting a variance.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Question on the -- to
you, Larry, 'cause you -- you know, 1 view you as a little
bit of an expert on O.S.S.F. rules. Is the fact that the
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does that deem it not compliant, and therefore, does state
law require that it be compliant?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Phat's right, and
that's my reading of it. You know, and the -- and the
undersized drain field is much more -- in my view, from a
technical point of view, is probably much more of an
incipient danger to public health and safety than the
undersized tank. I don't even think -- even if the tank
were the proper size, the undersized drain field probably
has a higher risk. And I'll defer to the other expert
opinion on that, but it's just -- I have tried to be very
consistent on this from the very first as far as the new
rule is concerned and why I thought that was necessary, and
to do it the way we've done, and I wou]d just be reluctant
to throw that over. I'm not -- I'm not saying anything
about the Court following along with me, but I would be very
reluctant to grant a variance when we know that a system --
and there is no -- you know, no requirement, so that when
Mr. Sowell sells his property the next time, he can go sell
that property and nobody's going to know about it. And,
there's probably others, but here's one we know about, and
so I'm reluctant to not be consistent on that point. So,
that's -- that's just a comment.
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that O.G.R.A, is aware of but haven't been corrected.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: And if they are --
were known about before our new rule went into effect,
T.N.R.C.C says they can be corrected, and forceably
corrected under the old rule, if they were known about
before our new rule went into effect. So, there's not an
ambiguity there. It's not a judgment call or anything. If
there were -- in fact, I don't know what kind of judgment
call we could make when we know there is a problem. That's
my reading of it. I'm just -- and I wouldn't expect
unanimity on the Court's part. I'm just -- I'm just telling
you why I will have to vote against it.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: My Only comment is --
is similar, but a little different. Mine is addressed more
to granting variances in general. You know, the thought --
and I respect what you said, Commissioner, but the thought
of a time frame of us having to deal with this over and oveL
again is not a good reason for a variance, I don't know
what -- what is a good reason for a variance, but that's a
rare -- and it should be a rare occasion at this table. I
could see how this issue -- if we grant this variance, I can
see how it is a -- we're really setting a precedent. It
wouldn't surprise me if they beat the door down from this
point on because of -- it's been in too many courtrooms and
the size is a little bit off and et cetera, et cetera. Just
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not -- it's just not a good reason to grant a variance, in
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: I have a -- another
question. Going back to the compliance -- I'm more
concerned about the compliance issue. Based on what you're
saying -- and maybe I'll defer it to Charlie or to whoever
can answer it. If a -- are all systems that axe riot
compliant illegal? Or does it have to be a failing system
that's not compliant that's illegall
MR. WIEDENFELD: We11, failing, for one, is
not defined in T.N,R.C.C. rules. Also, T.N.R.C.C. septic
rules do not set performance standards for septic systems.
There are construction standards, and then it is assumed if
it is constructed properly, it will function properly. But,
there are no standards. There are no provisions in arry
T.N.R.C.C. rule that indicates what a properly operating
septic system is.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: If you look --
MR. WIEDENFELD: It's based entirely, like
Mr. Griffin says, on construction standards, first
component, soil conditions and such. If that's there, them
it is assumed to be functioning properly. And if we are in
knowledge of a system that is not in compliance, then it
cannot be licensed -- a system cannot be licensed.
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licensed. I'm more concerned, is it -- I mean --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I asked this specific
question of T.N.R.C.C., and in the Compliance Division, Mr.
Graber, I asked this question specifically. I said, "If we
have knowledge, because of actions taken during the old
rule, that a system is not compliant" -- does not meet --
did not meet Chapter 282 requirements, all that stuff in the
back where you calculate how many feet of drain field you've
got to have and what size tank you've got to have and so on.
"If it's not compliant, do we have to...?" He says, "You
either make it compliant or you grant a variance."
And, on what basis are we granting a
variance? That would establish a tremendous -- tLeuiendous
precedent, in my mind, that -- in fact, I think we can even
go back in history, that people have come forward and said,
you know, "You made me put in a compliant system, because in
those days you had -- you had a real estate transfeL rule.
You made me put in a system, and I can document that the
system wasn't, quote, failing. According to the staudaLd
that is in" -- I'm sorry about the pronunciation -- "that
Mr. Seidensticker's made, it wasn't failing in that regard,
so therefore you're liable for those monies that I spent to
upgrade that system."
I -- I just -- and it's unfortunate that Mr.
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T.N.R.C.C. If you are aware that a system is not compliant,
you need to make it compliant or you grant a variance. We
can't do anything but that. And I realize that we're
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: Judge, I'm going to
withdraw my second.
MR. SOWELL: I'd like to bring up a situation
at this time. If my septic system is not up to compliance,
okay, Charles Wiedenfeld should have known that years ago,
back in the mid-'80's. I don't know the exact date when he
bought the well system --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Mr. Sowell, that's -- excuse
me. Excuse me, that's not the issue here.
MR. SOWELL: Okay. But I just --
JUDGE HENNEKE: The issue is not what Mr.
Wiedenfeld may or may not have known, may or may not have
done. The issue is your system on this day, February 12,
Year 2001. That's where we're going to stick. We have a
motion and no second. At this time, is there anyone else
who would like to second the motion?
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion fails for lack of a
second, and the variance -- request for variance is denied.
Thank you, Mr. Sowell. Next item is Number 25, consider and
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discuss accepting a donation of Texas Ranger photographs to
display in the courthouse. Mr. Joe Davis.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'd like to make a couple
of comments first on this thing to explain how it came
about. I was driving in my truck, like I do most days for
many, many miles, and lots of time to think, and I was
thinking about the historical, I guess, relics that exist
with the Texas Rangers in Kerr County and related to Kerr
County. I thought it would be a great idea to display some
of the old photographs and things of that nature in the
County courthouse. And we have more space now, and I think
there's other agenda items that I think we'll talk about on
what to do with this space, but I really think that it's a
great opportunity for us to display Kerr County history in
the Kerr County Courthouse. And, I called Mr. Davis up and
presented the idea, and he thought it was -- was worth
pursuing. But, before anything was sent or dollars spent, I
wanted to make sure that the full Court thought it was a
good idea. And, you know, we can, you know, pretty much
give a reading to Mr. Davis whether to proceed or not
proceed. So, Joe, I'll turn it over to you with that
introduction, and appreciate you coming this morning.
MS. DAMS: You bet. Good morning. Yeah,
after Jonathan called me and we discussed it, I told him I
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we felt like it -- our Association and Foundation, I talked
to our directors. They felt like it would be a good idea to
-- to do this. And, so, what I thought I'd do is maybe just
suggest that I -- I've got a few photographs here. Of
course, they're old photographs, and these here have been
scanned to bring over here. But, maybe get some together,
then sit down with Jonathan or whoever and put them together
and see what you think about it. And, we'd be glad to
donate them to Kerr County, have them framed it it pleases
the Court, and -- if you agree on the photographs, and label
them and so forth.
These will be the early Rangers going back,
like, to Captain Neil Caldwell, who formed the Frontier
Battalion here, and -- I have one of him and A.J. Sowell,
who was ari early Ranger; settled in Center Point, buried
there at Center Point. And he's the type of guy, Buster,
you don't want to go on up to the door, the way he's
dressed. Well, I've got one a little better in a suit and
tie. But, we -- we would -- it would be our privilege and
honor to be able to donate these to Kerr County after we get
them together and have them framed and labeled and so forth,
if you agree to do so. And, if you want to look at them
before you decide, well, we'll go ahead and do that, because
we'll surely have a place for them if you don't agree on
what you want to do here.
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COMMISSIONER BALUWIN: Fantastic.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Sounds like a great
idea -- suggestion.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Great. My question is, can
we have them by the 22nd?
MS. DAM S: The 22nd?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: 't'hat might be pushing it
a little bit.
DODGE HENNEKE: Well, we'll -- how many are
we talking about, Mr. Davis?
MS. DAMS: We're supposed to meet with a
lady -- somewhere around 32 are buried in Center Point, and
I don't know what-all she has. Probably we can go through
them, pick out whatever you figure out will be a good
number, just to kind of show maybe the most popular ones or
the ones that are the most well-known and so forth, or -- or
some of the better photographs, and sit down and look at
them, and -- and then go from there and just decide on a
number. We can -- we've got plenty of photographs.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I think -- Joe, I
think you just nominated our representative.
MS. DAMS: Got a committee; I can work with
Jonathan.
JUDGE HENNEKE: The reason I asked that, Mr.
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accept this afternoon, and we're going to try to get them up
for our open house. We want to reserve a sufficient space
as we hang these other pictures for your Texas Ranger
pictures. They, I think, should have a very prominent place
in the courthouse. So, I want to get -- if I can get just,
you know, an idea of what it's going to be, 6 or 8 or 12,
then as we arrange the other pictures, we can say, no, this
is for -- the Ranger pictures are going to qo here, and so
we can insure that they get the proper attention. 'Cause
I'm just thrilled with the idea; I think it's something that
we need to do more of.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I would think that
something along the line of, you know, 8 or 10, something
like that, or 8 to 12.
MS. DAMS: That's what I figured.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: They're not going to be
real large. I think they're, like, 8 by 10.
MS. DAMS: I have one that's a little larger
that's currently on display in San Antonio of two of the old
Rangers. It's -- I don't know. It's a little larger than
8 by 10, but we can always reduce it down. They're standing
by an old corral there in Center Point. Or we could get the
others blown up a little bit, too, with the technology. We
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it would be kind of a neat idea to have a -- a little area
of just the Rangers; you know, one spot.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I think so too. And, one of
the things we're not going to have by the 22nd, but that
we're getting, is an 1886 map of Kerr County which is
presently in the archives with the Land Commissioner's
office, and a local bank has located the funds to have that
map restored, and as a result of which we get a framed copy
of that map. So, I think it would be interestirry to perhaps
juxtaposition that map with the Ranger photos.
MS. DAM S: Yeah, 'cause it would be around
the 1880's we're speaking of here in these photographs.
1874 to --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I have a signed print
of one Ranger picture, too; that painting that hangs in the
Capitol building, and I would be glad to put that on loan to
the courthouse if there's a use for it,
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Would these be
Rangers that we know for sure served Kerr County, or perhaps
are even buried in Center Point?
MS. DAMS: Yes, they were all in -- well,
when they served, they served Kerr County and surrounding
areas, and those are all the ones that would be buried in
Center Point, yeah.
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with Mr. Davis and, you know, go over it and come back with
a number. I -- being realistic, I don't think -- we want to
have them done right. I don't think it would be ready Ly
the ^2nd, but I think we can certainly, you know, proceed in
due haste.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Have to get your
pricrities in line, though, Letz. You can have them done
for the 22nd.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: 1 was trying to
accommodate --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Is that a motion to accept
the generous donation?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yes.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner Letz,
seconded by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court accept,
with thanks, the donation of photographs of Texas Rangers
who served in and around Kerr County. Any further questions
or comments? If not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you, Joe.
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MS. DAMS: Okay, thank you. I'll get back
to you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: While we're on gifts, why
don't we go to Item Number 31, which is consider and accept
gift of western prints from the Cowboy Artists of America
museum and the gift of custom framing from Wells Fargo Bank.
Pictures that have been donated and framed are on display on
the benches over here outside the Commissioners Court area.
They're mostly Jack Terry prints, which is very significant,
although not all of them; some of them are other C.A.
artists.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: They look nice. One of
the things I was thinking, Judge, I mean in a way, is to, I
mean, hang nice pieces of art, but also to get publicity to
the Cowboy Artists Museum, which is a structure here in Kerr
County. Kind of have them in -- I don't know; pick an area
and put them up, along with a little bit of -- maybe a
little plaque about the Cowboy Artists Museum that's housed
in Kerr County, and these are prints -- you know, just kind
of give them some publicity to kind of have a -- I guess tie
a reason to having these prints in the courthouse. They're
not just works of art; they're here for a reason, because
the Cowboy Artists Museum --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: We]1, that sort of
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they graciously gave us those prints for framing. We can do
it one of two ways. Either you can do it with a plaque
that's -- that the people can see, but that would -- that
would presuppose that they're going to be in one particular
area, and look at them all together, or we can do them as
small, you know, plaques on the bottom of the frame
indicating that this particular print was donated by Cowboy
Artists of America. Either way, I think it's a great idea.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think my personal
preference would be -- not that I'm an interior designer --
is to kind of group these different items, you know, iii
proximity to each other; to have, like, the paintings in one
general area, whether it be on the second floor of tkie
courthouse or first floor of the building, and then put the
Texas Rangers somewhere else, you know, Kind of have things
grouped a little bit so there's a -- kind of more cohesive,
rather than have a Texas Ranger picture here and a -- you
know, another --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: The Western art that
Cowboy Artists of America Museum gave us was intended for
Commissioners Court.
MS. NEMEC: I have wall space in my office.
(Laughter.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: No, you don't.
MS. NEMEC: Hanging wa1L space, I do.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Let's accept the gift and
then we'll figure out where we're going to put it. Do I
have a motion to accept the gift?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yes.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner
Griffin, second by Commissioner Williams, that the Court
accept the gift of prints from the Cowboy Artists of America
Museum and framing from Wells Fargo Bank prominently
displayed in the courthouse. Any further questions or
comments? If not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: A11 opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: In this grouping
thing, is there going to be a -- eventually going to be a
Hall of Shame? Where maybe the 1969 Ingram Dam hippie group
-- I mean, a picture of me sliding down the dam? Could we
get that -- a little print out there somewhere?
JUDGE HENNEKE: We can do that.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Right next to the
holding cell.
		COMMISSIONER BALDWIN:	Put it in the holding
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Make those guys want
to go straight.
DODGE HENNEKE: What's the desire of the
Court? Do we want to break -- you know, do we want to break
at noon, or what's the desire?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Couple more out of the
way, then break for lunch.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I'm ready to go.
Let's do it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Sheriff has some
recommendations for us on his bids. Sheriff? Let's go back
to Item Number 19, bids for body shop repairs. Sheriff, do
you have a recommendation for us?
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Well, mine is just that,
due to the fact that we only got one bid received, and
therefore making it impossible for me to really judge
whether the County got the best deal price-wise or not, I
would recommend that we reject that one bid and possibly
start the entire process for both of those, repair and the
body work on vehicles, all over again, this time maybe
trying to publicize it a little bit better, get a little bit
better word out to where people really know what we're
looking at, see if we can get some additional bids.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Make some phone calls.
That's usually what purchasing agents do in this case.
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: What about computer
gurus?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: 1 can make phone calls.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Okay. What do we
need? An order -- a motion to reject all bidst In that
same motion, can we also allow the Sheriff to go back out
again?
JUDGE HENNEKE: No.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I move that we reject
the bid.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second,
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court
reject the bids for body shop repairs for Kerr County
vehicles.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Just a comment. We might
request the Sheriff to get with the County Attorney again.
I mean, I think this is -- one of the problems I perceive
happening is that the bid document became overwhelming, 1
think, to local small businesses. I mean, it was about a
30-page document, and surely we can come up with something
that's a little bit simpler and still protect and -- you
know, the County and get done what we are trying to achieve.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: I agree, that may be
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Attorney's office, and that's where this bid process came
from. But maybe we can explain things a little bit clearer
or something. I'll put it back on the agenda, I guess, for
next time to go out for bids again.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. Any further questions
or comments? If not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
DODGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Mr.
Holekamp, did you have something for us, sir? We'll go back
to Item Number 9 -- 10, consider and discuss the bids for
electrical, plumbing, and heating and air conditioning
services.
MR. HOLEKAMP: Personally, I would like to be
able to do the same thing. I think Commissioner Letz'
comments were very appropriate, that the contractor was
rather overwhelmed. There were a lot of people that
attempted to bid, because I got several calls, but we didn'C
get their bids. I would like to reject and go back out and
rebid, I thinY., and with a simple summary sheet, to include
it into the bid packet for those intending to bid, to
explain it a little bit better what our needs are.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: So moved.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second.
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DODGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Letz, that the Court reject
all bids on electrical, plumbing, heating and air
conditioning services. And the basis for the rejection is
what?
MR. HOLEKAMP: Only -- we only had one for
each item, And, I would prefer we be a little bit more
competetive, because we do know that there are numerous air
conditioning repair people in Kerrville -- Kerr County,
plumbers, electricians. And, I -- I really believe that
they need to be competetive in giving us prices.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We need to be careful,
because these people did bid.
MR. HOLEKAMP: Yes, sir. 1 understand.
JUDGE HENNEKE: And, basically, what we're
saying is it wasn't enough competition, and I'm assuming
that we have the ability to do that, but if we go out and
solicit bids in good faith, we've got to be prepared to
evaluate the results and not the non --
MR. HOLEKAMP: Yes, sir. But I really --
JUDGE HENNEKE: If we're going to go back out
again, we need someone to spend some phone time on
soliciting --
I would also point out
MR. HOLEKAMP: We will.
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that you can -- in the next solicitation, there should be a
comment that this is a rebid of a previous thing, and that
previous bidders can either reaccomplish or they can
resubmit their previous bid. That's --
MR. HOLEKAMP: Oh, yeah.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Is this a -- the County
Attorney -- or Assistant County Attorney is still in the
courtroom. Can this form be simplified, do you think, and
accomplish what we need to from a bid standpoint?
MR. LUCAS: My boss drafted this document,
and so -- when did you need this, Glenn? Maybe November?
MR. HOLEKAMP: November, December.
MR. LUCAS: I haven't looked at it.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Okay. Thank you.
MR. HOLEKAMP: I'll provide him with a copy.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion's been made and
seconded. Any further questions or comments' All in favor,
raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: A11 opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Let's go
ahead and break for lunch and return at 1:15, finish up.
(Recess taken from 11:58 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.)
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JUDGE HENNEKE: All right. lt's 1:15 p.m. on
Monday, February 12. We'll reconvene this regular session
of the Kerr County Commissioners Court. The next item on
the agenda is Item Number 23, consider and discuss revision
to Kerr County Personnel Policy to, (a), require annual
Employee Performance Review for all employees who work for
the Commissioners Court or in county departments not
directed by elected officials or persons not appointed by
the Commissioners Court, said performance reviews to be
completed by January 31st and to be provided to the County
Treasurer for inclusion in employee personnel files; and
(b), to recommend and encourage other Kerr County elected
officials to do likewise for employees in their departments.
Commissioner Williams?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I became aware that
our policies do not contain such an admonition, and I'm not
sure why. I was advised that it was there at one particular
time and was removed for reasons I really don't know. I've
talked to the Treasurer about it. It does not -- it does
not happen now as a result of any act of the Court, although
there may be some departments who do do it, and that's
commendable; hope that they do. To me, it's just an
automatic good business practice, and good business
practices should start with Commissioners Court. And, so, I
thought it might be a good idea to put it in and get it back
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on the books.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any questions or comments?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I'm certainly in
agreement. I always have been. Let's see. Do you -- in
your -- in your subject here, you outline the folks that we
need to do that under Commissioners Court.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yes, I do,
Commissioner. That's -- which is directly under our
supervision. Road and Bridge, Animal Control facility, and
Maintenance are specifically those things -- or any
employees that work directly for the Court would be things
that we would take care of, and we would provide copies to
the Treasurer for incorporation into personnel files. We're
recommending that others do the same. We can't order it,
but we can recommend it.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Mm-hmm.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: And there's a sample
attached, which -- of a form which comes from the District
Clerk's Office. So, I think it's pretty safe to believe
that the District Clerk is on line, does that now.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Let's see, completed
by January 31st of this -- each year.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: When you say completed
by January 31st, you mean in the month of January by the
31st?
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Right.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: So, January of each
year.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: For the preceding
year.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: We're into February
now.
COMMISSIONEP, WILLIAMS: We11, we would make
an exception this year if we wanted to do that, yes.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Maybe I had a long lunch.
7'm trying to read through this, make sure I understand who
we're reviewing.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We're reviewing -- we cannot
force other elected officials to review --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right, so they're out.
JUDGE HENNEKE: And the Auditor's otiice is
not under our control. The Auditor is appointed by the
District Judges, so it's everybody else.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: That's what I thought.
That's how I was reading it. But, to me, I mean, I don't
think that we should necessarily appraise the employees in
Road and Bridge.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We don't. Their supervisor
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Mr. Holekamp to do an annual performance review on everybody
that he -- that he supervises.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: We would only do one
on him.
DODGE HENNEKE: Right.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER LE'PZ: Ukay. I just wanted --
wanted to make sure that's what I was reading.
JUDGE HENNEKE: That's --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I would move
adoption.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Just a minute.
MS. NEMEC: Okay. If -- would this be
separate from what is in the policy now? In the policy, in
7.04, are we still going to keep this section which says
that employee evaluations are to be done by the elected
officials in order for them to put in for merit increases?
And then there's this section that pertains to that section
that is to be done -- that is more merit increases. It's
not just for annual evaluations. Are we going to still --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: 'PO my mind, that's
separate. That's a separate issue, raises. This -- this --
this is just an employee performance, that's all. Has
nothing to do with --
MS. NEMEC: With salary or --
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COMMISSIONER GRlr'FIN: But it gives you --
gives you another tool to use during consideration for --
MS. NEMEC: Okay.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: -- salary increases or
whatever.
MS. NEMEC: And I will say this, that in here
it also says that those evaluations are to be kept in their
files. The elected officials have always argued that point.
They don't want me having other employees' personnel files,
so I know I'll never get the other elected officials'. As
far as the Court, the departments that the Court are under,
you know, that's -- that's up to y'all, and that can be
done, but as far as the others, I doubt that I would ever
get them.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Fair enough.
DODGE HENNEKE: Any other comments or
questions? Mr. Holekamp?
MR. HOLEKAMP: Yes. Is the -- do y'all have
a form that y'all are --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: There's a suggested
one that apparently the District County Clerk -- Kerr County
District Clerk uses. It's attached to ours. If you have a
better --
MR. HOLEKAMP: Is it a different one that --
oh, this is different than the one we use. My department
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does it every six months.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Okay.
MR. HOLEKAMP: But a different form.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: That's fine. Only a
suggestion.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: It would be good if you
would provide us with a copy of your form, just so that we,
you know, have something to compare to.
(Mr. Holekamp handed his form to the Court.)
MR. HOLEKAMP: Immediate response.
MS. NEMEC: Okay. So, are we saying that
his --
MR. HOLEKAMP: No, no.
MS. NEMEC: -- employee evaluations should be
in my office in their personnel files?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Yes. Once we -- once we
adopt this -- change that, we'll --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I'd like to see all --
everybody that we -- that comes under Commissioners Court be
in a centralized location, and the Personnel Officer of the
County is the likely place for it.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Are these subject to
public review --
DODGE HENNEKE: No.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: -- in the files?
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Personnel are specifically
exempt from the Open Records Act.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: How do you see us
doing this? Fill out one of these forms and then have an
oral interview with that person?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I think there's
nothing wrong with reviewing with the employee the contents
of the review, going over it with the employee. If there
are things that need to be corrected, that should be brought
to the person's attention. If there are things that need to
be commended, they need to be commended.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Absolutely, and I
agree. I guess we could do that in Executive Session, could
we not?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I would think so.
Judge?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, the way I've done it
before on boards I've sat on where the whole board reviews,
like, the General Manager, is everyone would turn in their
reviews, and then there would be a subcommittee which would
compile a consensus of the reviews, and that subcommittee
would sit down with the employee -- with Mr. Holekamp or
Mr. Allen or whoever, and go over the review, rather than
have it be a full posted meeting.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: That's probably --
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Just the way I've seen it
done before.
COMM1551UNER LETZ: I don't -- I mean, I
think it's -- someone needs to be delegated or appointed or
whatever to be the subcommittee, to compile all the results
from the Commissioners court. But I think any discussions
with the employee would be done with the full Court, because
I don't -- I mean, we just don't represent, necessarily,
each other's opinions. And, I mean, I think --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: If you had -- if you
had some critical idea or something like that about one of
our employees, I would want you to say that to them, to
express your concerns.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I probably would.
COMM155IUNER BALDWIN: I'm just using that an
example.
MS. NEMEC: Can I say something about
subcommittees? I'm not real sure how they work or what you
really mean by them, but I think what I'm hearing is that
y'all would all turn in your evaluations, and then they
would be -- then you would turn them in to this one person,
and that --
JUDGE HENNEKE: No, we've got a difference of
opinion here.
MS. NEMEC: Oh. well, I'm just trying to
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clear my mind on it. Are you saying that y'all are all
goinq to do evaluations on whoever it is -- Animal Shelter
Supervisor, y'all are all going to do an evaluation, you're
going to hand in your evaluations to one person that's going
to put all those evaluations together and is going to tell
this person, "This is what your evaluation is," rather than
you individually --
JUDGE HENNEKE: That's what we're discussing,
whether that's --
MS. NEMEC: Okay. That's what I'm asking.
JUDGE HENNEKE: -- that's the better way to
do it, or whether there seems to be some consensus for
everyone --
MS. NEMEC: Okay, 'cause if that's --
JUDGE HENNEKE: As opposed to having it --
MS. NEMEC: -- cause if that's what you're
saying, I have an opinion on it. I just want to make sure
that's what you were saying. And, my opinion is that --
that if there's something that you're trying for the
employee to correct or that they're not doing right, if it
doesn't come from you, and later on you write up that
employee and try to get rid of them for whatever reason,
they can always come back and say, "Well, that person didn't
explain it to me the way you saw it."
COMMISSIONER LETZ: The other side of that,
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Good point.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Point is, if we don't do
it as a body doing it -- I mean, we may speak individually,
but it's not -- I mean, there may be -- I may want this
employee to do this, and no one else in the Court may want
-- may say, "No, that's a stupid idea," and that Court
can -- it's not fair to the employee. And, that employee
has to know what this Court as a whole wants, not what each
individual wants.
JUDGE HENNEKE: You have to remember, this is
a performance evaluation. It's not a job description. You
don't have the ability to tell someone to do something
different that's not in their job description. You have the
ability to evaluate their performance under their job
description. So, there may be differences as to
performance.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: But, under the -- but
under the job description, there could be -- Jonathan's got
a point. There could be somebody that says, "Hey, I think
Item A in your job description ought to have priority, and
everybody else says no, that's dumb, 'cause Item C is really
the one that -- that the employee needs to pay the most
attention to. So, there could be, well within the job
descriptions, varying degrees of priorities and what's
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JUDGE HENNEKE: But -- that may come up
during the evaluation, but LkiaL exercise is amending the job
description. It's not -- not evaluating the performance of
the employee --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Oh.
JUDGE HENNEKE: -- undeL the job description.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I mean -- yes, but I
think it's unfair for the employees -- I mean, how is the
employee going to know how to react if they have me
individually, as a Commissioner, yuiug and saying, "I want
you to do this," and Bill says something completely
opposite'? I mean, they're going to be -- I mean, are they
doing right or wrong, based on this Court as a whole? And
that's not -- I don't think that's fair to the employee. I
think you need to have a discussion with everyone present,
and if I want to voice my view --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: That can be in
Executive Session.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: If I have an opinion, I
should be free to voice it, but iI the rest of the Court
doesn't think it's an important point, I think the employee
has that -- needs to know that, really.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I don't disagree.
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cae're talking about reliability, enthusiasm, accuracy,
alertness, initiative, effectiveness under stress, job
knowledge, adaptability, quality of the work product, volume
of acceptable work, ability to make sound decisions. We're
not talking about specifically your work being done before
mine or vice-versa. We're taking about all those things
which go into a performance evaluation.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: But -- so, even there, I
mean, I may think -- every time I call Road and Bridge, I
may get, you know, a reliable, quick response. Every time
you call, you may not, so I may view reliability as great,
and you may say this is, you know, terrible.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: That's a good point.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: So, I mean, I think that
-- you know, I just think that if we're going to -- I don't
have a problem with each of us filling out a form and
providing that to the employee as just an educational tool
as how we feel, but I think when it starts coming to, you
know, having any sort of counseling session, I think the
full Court -- if we want to individually talk to them, fine,
but I think if we're going to do anything ofTicially, I
think it needs to be done with everyone here.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: And in closed
session.
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Oh, okay.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: That's fine.
JUDGE HENNEKE: That's -- don't start down
that road with the mentality that this is going to be in
Executive Session.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN; Could be, unless the
employee wants it otherwise.
COMMISSIONER. LETZ: And it could be -- we
could also set it up where the employee requests it. We
could just provide the forms, and if the employee wants --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Maybe the employee
doesn't want a closed session, or doesn't want any session.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Or doesn't want any
session.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, that's -- that defeats
part of the purpose of having a review, You need to sit
down and talk to the employee about the review, and to allow
them to waive it is to allow them and us to miss an
opportunity to really talk about their performance. It's
for their benefit, but it's also for our benefit.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I was going along with
the form here, 'cause at the bottom there is an initial; it
says, "I acknowledge receipt of the evaluation and do not
wish to respond." Now, that's not necessarily in a
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face-to-face meeting, I know, but -- we'll try it, try all
of it. Won't hurt.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I don't think we need
to get off on the leg either, though, that -- that this is a
negative way to do business.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: No, can be very
positive. It can be --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: It can be a very
positive encouragement tool to use, and that's the way I
choose to look at it. So, it would -- to me, I agree with
-- I agree with Fred. I think it's an opportunity for us to
sit down with our employees and just get real open and
honest with them and really evaluate them and give them the
opportunity to -- and have a dialogue.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Mm-hmm.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN; To work through some
possible bad issues or good issues.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: But each of us
individually do it? Or doing it as a --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Pao, I want to -- my
preference is to sit right here -- or get down here at a
table, preferably; I like to be at eye level, and with the
employee and in a closed session is what 1 would prefer.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'm in favor of that.
JUDGE HENNEKE: That's line.
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS
needs a second.
Do we need a motion?
There's a motion; it
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE': Motion by Commissioner
Williams, second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court
adopt a revision to Kerr County Personnel Policy Lo, (d),
require annual Employee Performance Reviews for all
employees who work directly for the Commissioners Cuurt or
who work in County departments not directed by elected
officials, or persons not appointed by the Commissioners
Court, said Performance Reviews to be completed by January
31st of each year and to be included in the employee
personnel files to be maintained by the County Treasurer,
and also (b), to recommend and encourage other Kerr County
elected officials to do likewise for employees in their
departments. Any further questions or comments? Mr.
Holekamp?
MR. HOLEKAMP: Just a question, you know, on
the job descriptions -- forms -- I mean, not job
descriptions. Job evaluation forms. Is there a preference,
or could we use the one we currently are using? Do y'all
have a problem with that? Ur --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: It's almost the same.
MR. HOLEKAMP: Do you want us to turn in the
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-- the previous job evaluations we have on employees to the
Personnel Officer? We currently keep those. We do them
every six months in my department.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I think it's the sense of the
Court that all those employee personnel records should be
centra]ly maintained in the Treasurer's office.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: You can use either
form. We're not adopting the form, only a policy.
MR. HOLEKAMP: Not adopting a form?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Suggested form, but
it's not adopting.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Or the frequency. If
it's more than -- if it's more than once a year, that's
fine. But --
MR. HOLEKAMP: We do it twice.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: -- do it in January
for the previous 12 months. You could have it in July for
the previous six months and then at the end of January, the
previous six, or whatever. There's -- you know, you can do
more. We're saying you can't do less.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any further questions or
comments? If not, all in favor, raise your right hands.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Item Number
26, consider and discuss resolution supporting the Plateau
Water Plan Group's request for funds for implementation of
the Trinity Aquifer Monitoring Program. Sounds like a
Commissioner Letz request.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes. I think everyone
received a copy of the resolution in your box. The purpose
of the -- well, two reasons. One, one of our -- we're going
to submit for this to be done either right now, there's some
interim financing which is available, or if we don't get
that, we're going to continue to pursue it under the next
water planning period, which that phase starts October 1st.
But, what it is, basically, there's a tremendous lack of
knowledge of the Middle Trinity, Lower Trinity, and Edwards
Trinity Aquifers and where they are on the monitoring
standpoint. We just don't have good monitoring wells in the
county. This is a proposal to submit to the Water
Development Board for them to pay for a total of eight
wells -- siz wells -- I can't remember how many wells.
AUDIENCE: Eight.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Eight?
(Discussion off the record.)
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Well, I think we upped
it. I think it's six in Kerr and in the Trinity -- Lower
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in the Edwards Trinity, to increase the ones out on the far
western part of the county. All these wells would be
used -- would not be production wells at all. They'd all be
equipped with continuous monitoring data which will -- and
also each location would have rain collection
instrumentation, so it can start for the first time tracking
in this area exactly how the aquifer responds in general,
and then when a rain event happens on the surface, what it
does to the aquifers in various parts of the county. It's
rea]ly a vital step for us to learn really what the water
availability is in this part of the state,
And, there is some additional funding that
became available from the Water Development Board that
everyone's fighting for right now, and I felt -- I think the
whole P.W,P.G. Board feels that it certainly will not hurt
to get a resolution from the Commissioners Courts that are
affected and cities to help encourage them to give us the
funding right now, and that's what this resolution is for.
We're submitting this to the Water Development Board for
funding on the 15th of this month, which is this Wednesday.
That is the reason for it. Any questions?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I'm certainly in favor
of it. If -- I think if the State does anything, they
should support this, 'cause we're talking about accurate
science here, finally.
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COMMISSIONER GRIE'N1N: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER, LETZ: And, this also --
actually, one of the, you know, exciting things about this
if we can get the funding -- this is really how we're
selling it to the State, because they don't really -- they
were not really inclined to pay for these pure monitoring
wells. It's some of the recharge information that we could
obtain from this. Y'ou can look at a rain event in
Fredericksburg and see what it does to wells in different
parts of the county. And, you know, in -- also out in
Rocksprings, if that has an effect. So, even though we may
not get_ the rain here, we have a general idea of where the
rain falls -- does fall, and somehow what the impacts axe.
Anyway, I'll make a motion that we adopt -- approve and
adopt the resolution supporting continuously monitoring
wells in the Middle Trinity, Lower Trinity, and Edwards
Trinity Plateau aquifers.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court adopt the
resolution supporting the Plateau Water Plan vroup's request
for funds for implementation of the Trinity/Edwards Aquifer
Monitoring Program. Any further questions or comments? If
not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
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JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.}
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I might ask if we can --
I don't know whether the original is here today on that, but
if we can sign it today so I ran get it over to U.G.R.A. as
soon as possible.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We'll find it.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: We'll find it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Item Number 27, consider and
discuss project agreement with USDA/NAGS for constxucLi~n of
temporary bridge at Hermann Sons crossing and authorize
County Judge to sign same.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: This is going back to the
Hermann Sons Bridge that washed out. And the money, we've
been told -- we haven't seen any cash yet, but it has been
appropriated out of Washington in the amount of $190,000,
sent to Texas, and this is the agreement basically for the
County to work with NRCS to get that bridge reconstructed.
This has not been by the County Attorney yet. I would run
it by the County Attorney, but I make a mction that we
approve the agreement and authorize the County Judge to sign
same, subject to County Attorney's agreement,
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: This provides only a
temporary bridge, right?
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: A temporary bridge. They
are looking at a little bit heavier duty structure than
originally talked about. The price went up, and we're
obligated under this for 25 percent of the cost. Part of
that will be in-kind, and Leonard has -- is earmarking out
of Special Projects other funds where we can, you know, come
up with it, so it will not be any kind of a budget
amendment, but it will require maybe some readjustment, once
we get the exact amount, in allocation of funds at Road and
Bridge.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Jon, you're talkiny
about this year too, aren't you?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: This -- the bit oL a rush
on this is that the -- everyone is trying to get this bridge
up and workable by the 1st oT June when the summer camps
open out on that road. And, the federal government's very
much aware of that deadline, and they feel they can complete
it still.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: You're talking about
miracles now,
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right now we're working
on right-of-ways. That's been a little bit of a -- that's
the next agenda item.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We have a motion to authorize
the agreement. Do I have a second?
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COMMISSIONER. BALUWIN: I seconded it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Did you?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yes, sir.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Sorry, Commissioner. Motion
by Commissioner Letz, second by Commissioner Baldwin, Lhat
the Court approve the project agreement with USDA/NRCS for
construction of temporary bridge at Hermann Sons Crossing
and authorize County Judge to sign same upon its approval by
the County Attorney. Any further questions or comments? If
not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, Same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Next item goes with this one.
Item Number 28, consider and discuss required assurances
relating to real property acquisition for Hermann Sons
Crossing and authorize County Judge to sign same.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: This goes along with the
same item at Hermann Sons. The agreement, as I understand
it, also needs to be run through the County Attorney's
office, but it assures the government that the County has
acquired right-of-ways where needed to do the structure, and
we're currently working on that. We have, I believe, three
of the four individuals that will need right-of-ways or
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fourth person, the County Attorney's office is working with
him right now and with Road and Bridge to come up with an
agreement that is suitable. And, this is just basically
assuring that we will get -- that we have the right-of-ways,
and I make a motion that we -- that we approve, I guess, the
assurances relating to real property acquisition and
authorize the County Judge to sign same once we have all
right-of-way agreements in-hand.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Second.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yeah, and I have a --
DODGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Williams, that the Court approve and
authorize giving the required assurances relating to real
property acquisition for Hermann Sons Crossing and authorize
County Judge to sign same once the necessary agreements
about the right-of-way have been executed.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Will these
right-of-ways only have to be there until the Hermann Sons
bridge is a permanent bridge, restored, and -- and Lheii
these would revert or something?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: These --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: The other
right-of-ways set up?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: These are only temporary
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the same place, but it's going to take some pretty heavy
equipment and some storage of equipment, and there's no room
in our County right-of-way, so we're working out a
potentially -- since we're not sure exactly how it's going
to work with getting on all tour corners of the bridge,
those property owners are in the right-of-way agreements
with us.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I've got a question.
Wasn't the bridge that washed away -- Hermann Sons bridge
that washed away, wasn't that one of our off-system bridges?
No?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Yes, it is.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: lt's on the list.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Yes, it is,
MR. HOLEKAMP: Now.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: It's been on the list.
It's been very low priority, which means --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: No, I mean the actual
bridge that washed away. Wasn't that built with the
off-system program?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Nc.
JUDGE HENNEKE: No. It's on the --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: lt's on the list to
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Okay. So, it's Lane
Valley that we did years ago?
MR. HOLEKAMP: Yes, sir,
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Okay, I'm sorry.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: We don't have many.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Anythinq further? If ~i~t,
all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And the County
Attorney's going to look at this and make sure it's a good
document also?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Also approve and look at
all agreements as well, right-of-way agreements.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Item 29 is to consider and
discuss approving the job description Yor the Kerr Comity
Information Systems Support Specialist and approve the
method and schedule for filling the position. Commissioner
Griffin?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: The Court will recall
during the budget process of the current fiscal year, we
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information systems specialist until halfway through the
year. That was a pure budget-driven decision that we made,
and now we are at the point of hiring that person on or
about April lst. What's in the packets is a -- a draft of a
job description which actually I took and modified from a
job description that the State has in their job description
handbook, because it sounded like this was about the level
of the person that we would want. Several things we need to
do -- let me ask a question, Barbara. Do we have a
specified job description format --
MS. NEMEC: Yes.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: -- for the County?
So, one of the things -- can you get me a copy of that
format? I will redo this before we finally approve it, but
what we need to do -- it will have words in it like this,
subject to the Court's approval. I suspect we'll have to
come back to the next session to do that with -- to formally
approve this, but if you see anything in here you think
shouldn't be there or if there is something that you think
should be included that is not, then please get that
information to me. And, Barbara, I'd ask that you review
this too, and I'll work with you to get it in the right
format.
MS. NEMEC: Okay. That was part of what Nash
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN; Right.
MS. NEMEC: They redid all the job
descriptions in one format.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I thought they did,
but this is the state format, and 1 know we can squeeze it
into the --
MS. NEMEC: Okay.
COMMISSIONER GP,IFFIN: -- new format pretty
easily, What I would propose to do is, at the next session,
do a final approval on this job description. I would have
an announcement that would appear in the Texas Workforce
Commission, and we can transmit that to -- it doesn't cost
us anything. That will be -- it then goes out statewide.
Actual]y, it's on a web site, and this is what kind of
people are looking at jobs that we want. This is the kind
of thing that can get us broad coverage. But, we'll also
advertise it locally. And, of course, if we can find
somebody local, that's great. If -- if we don't, though --
and if you look at these requirements in here, there's some
pretty important things, like acting as the County's web
master for the web site. Any good guru can do that, but he
or she's got to have some experience before we would
probably want to hire them cold, for example.
So -- and then I would propose that we --
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2 would say that we would ask for responses within about 30
3 days, with resumes. That will -- we'll go through Lhose,
4 we'll pick the top two, three, four, whatever it looks like
5 the break is, and conduct interviews with those people.
6 During that process, we would also determine the salary
7 level, not to exceed our budgeted amount, and we would then
8 probably, in the course of those interviews, make a
9 selection, make a job otfer and that sort of thing, and have
10 the person on board by about -- on or about April lst.
11 There's nothing magical about that date. It can't be -- it
12 depends on the budget dollars, so we'd have to play with
13 that a little bit, but -- and I would hope that by,
14 certainly, not later than the middle of May, we'll have that
15 person here on board. We should have an interneL
16 connectivity by then. We should be off and running.
17 COMMISSIONER LETZ: If you post it iii Austin,
18 you should have quite a few applicants in that area.
19 COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: It's amazing how Lhe
20 Workforce Commission can even -- I hate to say this with our
21 employees present, but you can go set up a -- a query there
22 where you're interested in this kind of a job anywhere, and
23 every day you turn on your computer, it pops up on your
24 screen, here's where you can go to work if you're
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people wanting to move here rather than move away, but --
and it does get used. And, we may very well get a fair
number of applications.
COMMISSIONER LETZ; Hope we get more than a
fair number.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN; Let me ask you a
question, Larry. You said beginning date would be around
April 1?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN; Mm-hmm.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Have we talked about
office space for this person?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN; No. And, in fact,
that's sornething I've -- I've briefly spoken with Tommy
about it. Actually, this -- I would like to see if we can
find a place where this person can have enough room to have
some equipment around, 'cause that's what they need. They
may have two or three different computers, and we would then
-- we're going to have another computer that's related to
just the virus analysis that gets done every morning, noon,
and night. That equipment could be there. This person
could also have a -- a PC -- oh, it also has to have a PC
that has access to the server. There's a number of things
like that. And, generally, where you find these things is
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fancy. You don't -- I'd like to look and see if maybe we
could work out something fairy close to the mainframe,
'cause this person's going to have some access to that.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: The mainframe is down
in the Tax Office area?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Well, no, the server
is actually downstairs, as I understand it, over to the
side. But --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN; Well, that's what I
was going to say.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN; We really need to go
through that in detail.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN; Okay. What I wanted
to say to you, though, is I'm still in -- there is a -- the
downstairs area that we're developing into oiTice space down
there.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: That may be the
best --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: We -- there's still a
lot of construction things going on down there, is the
reason I haven't pushed it through. I don't want to bother
those guys, but we're still in that planning process. And,
if you all think that that would be a good place, let me go
ahead and start putting that in our plans and we'll get it
in the drawings.
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: The cabling is already
in. And, see, this -- by the way, this position that I'm
talking about, physical location can be moved as long as
there's cabling to get all the equipment in that needs to
be. And that's one good thing about that area over there,
is that the cabling is run and it would be relatively easy
to make drops into a space over there. But, I'll get with
Tommy and probably come up with a couple of -- and maybe get
with, oh, Buster and look at what space might be available.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: New space. And we'll
come up with a plan, certainly, by the next session of what
we would do.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Good.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Ukay. Do we need anything
else at this time?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: No. Just please read
through this and see if there's anything that you think
we've missed or ought to include or take out or whatever.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Very good. Next item is Item
Number 30, consider and discuss the date and format for
workshop on O.S.S.F. technical and regulatory issues.
Commissioner Griffin?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yes. This is a
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And, even though things are proceeding along with the new
rule, and -- and our r_ontact with U.G.R.A. is still open,
I think that the -- that the topic and the way this should
be read or should be announced and posted is that it is for
technical and regulatory discussions, not a rehash of the
current rule. Not a rehash on how we got where we are, but
how the septic systems work, what are the options, what is
the data that relates to O.S.S.F. and what's in the
literature. Not -- again, I say not as a rehash, but i£
anybody wants to try to convince us that the data indir_ates
something, then let them have a shot. And, I want -- I'd be
glad to hear any arguments that anyone has, public or -- or
those in the business or whatever.
And, I'm thinking that unless we had a very
short court session -- you know, we had a short court
session for this workshop, that we might want to schedule it
to a day that's not a court date. But, I -- whatever you
think. I guess -- I would guess that we probably ought to
have as much as an hour and a halt, two hours available.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: It takes about 45
minutes for Charlie to get his camera set up.
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COMMISSIONEx GRIFFIN: Yeah. So, what's the
feeling? Do we do that maybe -- do you want to do it with
the court date, maybe make it for 2 o'clock in the
afternoon? Or --
JUDGE HENNEKE: I'm generally here, so it
doesn't matter.
COMMISSIONER LET'L: Uh, I'd probably rather
do it -- I mean, it's hard -- court days are running pretty
long. I can get pretty brain-dead by 2:00, 3'o'clock. It's
probably better to do it on a separate day, I think.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: What about if we do it
at 10 o'clock in the morning on a separate day? Then we
sort of have a natural stopping point in case we get
long-winded.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I like that.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: So, how about 10
o'clock on -- I don't have a calendar with me.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I have one.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Okay. And, this has
to be announced two weeks in advance?
JUDGE HENNEKE: No, we can set it whenever we
want to; we just have to give 72 hours. We can have it a
week from today.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: A week from today is
good. That is February 19th.
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: That's a holiday.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: That's a holiday.
It's President's Uay.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: We probably --
JUDGE HENNEKE: That's a good day.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: That's a good day.
What about Tuesday'?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Tuesday, the 20th?
JUUGE HENNEKE: I won't be available, but
that --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: No, you get to be tie re
Tuesdays.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I've got to go to the State
Hospital Tuesday.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN:
the 21st? Is the courtroom in use?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Buster
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN:
COMMISSIONER GR1F'FIN:
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN:
The morning of the 22nd. I'll be her
opening, courthouse grand opening.
COMMISSIONER GRIFF'1N:
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS:
We're here.
How about Wednesday,
won't be here.
I'm out of town.
On the 21st?
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Right. So --
Why not the 22nd?
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: He won't be here.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I'm not going to be
here, but you're welcome to do it.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Aren't you going to
be here for the open house'?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah, but I won't be
here in the morning.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Oh, I'm sorry.
COMMISSIONER GR1r'FIN: We could do it Tuesday
after the court session.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: 27th?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: 27th.
MS. NEMEC: 't'hat Monday's a late court
session.
JUDGE HENNEKE: The 26th is our evening
meeting.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: 4:30? You've got a
natural stopping point before it starts at 6:30.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Ukay. How about that
Wednesday?
JUDGE HENNEKE: The 28th"?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: 28th. 10 o'clock?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Oh, that's Ash
Wednesday. Lent begins.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: That's my wedding
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anniversary. I can't talk septic on my wedding anniversary.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Do we have to
determine that date today?
DODGE HENNEKE: We have to have a date so we
can post it.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN; Yeah, I know. But, I
mean, do we --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Why can't we do it -- the
26th is our next court date. It's an evening meeting. Why
don't we do it that way?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Late afternoon?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: That's what I said.
4:30?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Okay. Do it at 4
o'clock?
JUDGE HENNEKE: At 4:30?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: At 4 o'clock.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: 4 o'clock.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I like it.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I like it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Do we have a motion to that
effect?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: You have a motion.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion made by Commissioner
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Griffin, second by Commissioner Letz, that the Court set a
workshop on O.S.S.F. technical and regulatory issues for
Monday, February 26th, Year 2001, at 4 o'clock p.m. in the
Kerr County Commissioners' Courtroom.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Two and a half hours
ought to be plenty.
MS. SOVIL: What time?
JUDGE HENNEKE: 4 o'clock.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN; 4 o'clock.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any questions or comments?
if not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Judge, can we revisit
2.31 just for a second? 'Cause I started -- we made our --
several comments about where would you put up all this new
stuff we're getting, and it was kind of left. But, I think
that's pretty important, and I think we haven't a whole lot
cf time to figure out where to put this stuff, considering
we're not going to meet again. And, I'm just wondering -- I
mean, it wasn't -- has not been resolved with the Western
print deal or, for that matter, until recently with the
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decide where these go'? And who's going to deride, and --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, my plan was to appoint
an informal working subcommittee of Jannett Pieper, Barbara
Nemec, and Thea Sovil and let them decide where to hang the
Western prints.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: You left out the
County Attorney. How about you folks?
DODGE HENNEKE: I think he disqualified
himself based on no artistic ability.
MS. NEMEC: We'll do a good job.
JUDGE HENNEKE: lhat's what I was going to
do. Do you want to be in charge of it?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: No, no, no, I don'l want
to be in charge.
COMMISSIONER. Gk1FFIN; You can run that. If
you want to run that committee, you can do it.
COMMISSIONER. LETZ: i3ut, they're also yoiny
to, I guess, look at what's up right now and decide what's
going elsewhere?
JUDGE HENNEKE: That's right. I mean, give
them pretty much broad -- broad discretion as far as workii,g
with what's here. I think if any of us have any strong
feelings about things that are currently up that need to
be --
MS. NEMEC: Should one Commissioner be on
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: No.
COMMISSIONER BALUWIN: Yeah, Jon. I agree.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: We just got a
volunteer.
MS. NEMEC: Okay. Then we don't want to hear
it.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Is that painting going?
JUDGE HENNEKE: I'll be -- the bottom one?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: The bottom one.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: 1 agree with that.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: We need to keep it,
remember what that thing used to look like.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I'll be -- agree to be the
informal liaison.
MS. PIEPER: If that goes, can I have it in
my office?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Sure. Point out
where your office is.
MS. NEMEC: What else is going? Is that one
going?
JUDGE HENNEKE: The top where the --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: See the drawing right
above that painting back there? The old, old courthouse?
That's 1913 or something, isn't it, Thea?
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DODGE HENNEKE: I think it's the mirror image
of the one that's on the wall over here.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Is it 1927? That's
the only thing in there I can see to stay.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I think this old map probably
would stay, but it should be redone. That's a --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yeah, it's going to
deteriorate badly if it's not fixed up.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Other than that, I think most
of the rest of it can find a new home.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN; I agree.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I'm going to stick my
neck out, since I'm the one that got the prints from Cowboy
Artists Museum. I'll work with the ladies.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. Commissioner Williams
has volunteered to be the Court's representative.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I'm like Barbara. I
don't want to hear it after it's hung.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. We'll consider that
one done.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN; Is that all?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: That was the only
question I had, just about how it was going to, you know --
COMMISSIONER. WILLIAMS: I agree with you
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: Now I know who the
committee is, so I can lobby one-on-one if I have any
problems.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Rest assured, the County
Judge is not brave enough to make that decision on his own.
Okay. Item Number 32, consider and discuss authorizing each
Commissioner and the County Judge to appoint one high school
student to the Citizens Advisory Committee on Redistricting.
This came up as a result of my conversations with people
about their interest in being on the committee. It is a
unique opportunity, something that's done only once every 10
years, as we all know. I think I put in my explanatory
materials, I'm kind of loathe to expand the committee, but
at the same time, to me, it is a unique way to reach out to
the next generation of voters and citizens and provide them
with an opportunity to be involved in something that's going
on at the county level. Any thoughts or comments?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Always have thoughts,
Judge.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I'm glad. It's not a vacuum.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Overall, I mean, I like
the idea of getting youth involved. I don't like the idea
of having them on the committee. I think a lot of them that
I would recommend -- at least that I would choose are so
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young leaders in the -- you know, in the community or in the
schools, that even something else to do -- I just think it's
a burden to them. They're already stretched pretty thin.
But I would like -- but I would like to get students
involved. I was thinking, how about if we had a government
class or something in which more kids come down and kind of
participate, but listen to how it's going for one or Lwu of
the workshops we have? And invite, you know, a group of
students to -- as opposed to just picking out five.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: For the redistricting
workshops?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yeah, just have them pick
one. I'm sure we're going to have one where we kind uI --
hopefully, someone's going to explain to us the whole
process.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I hope so.
COMMISSIONER LE'PZ: And be real -- you know,
we could get a large -- one of the district courtrooms;
there's a larger area. We could have, you know, a
government class come and listen to that presentation. I
think they'd learn a lot.
JUDGE HENNEKE: That's not a bad idea. I
mean, I -- it's actually a bit more cumbersome than the idea
of just putting -- but the two aren't mutually exclusive.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: We can -- each of us can
choose someone, and at the same time, we can extend an
invitation to all the government or Texas History classes in
the county as to a specific day, which I think would be in
April, and invite them to come -- to come as part of that.
The conversation I had was that, gee, why don't you get --
why don't you pick someone to be on it from students, but I
don't think the two are mutually exclusive.
COMMISSIONER LETZ; Right.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I think it's an
excellent idea, and I agree with everything that's been
said. I just -- I'm looking, Jon -- the first person that
popped in my mind is a leadership-type person up at Tivy.
Man, I don't know if I could ask him to put in another hour.
You know, there's just -- they're extremely busy. And
that's my only -- that's my only concern. Of course, busy
people are the ones that get things done; I understand that,
but we're talking about high school kids. And --
JUDGE HENNEKE: They're the ones who benefit
from the -- from the program, the ones who are willing to
commit the time.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Work around our baseball
season.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Would we try to make
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sure we covered all of the high schools'? And I think we
should make sure --
DODGE HENNEKE: I would think --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: -- we come up with an
Ingram and --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Ingram, Center Point,
and Kerrville.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Comfort.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Comfort is not in this
county.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: We can help out those
folks, though. We --
DODGE HENNEKE: We don't mind.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: We could help them
out.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I think it's a good
idea. I don't know whether we should have that individual
young person come from a government or a political science
class, or just from the student bodies at large. I don't
know, but I think it's a good idea.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I know what I'm going
to do if we do this. I'm going to call the principal. The
principal can probably figure it out.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Select someone.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: An appropriate student
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or, you know, counsel or whatever, get it down to some level
where it can be done that way.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Let's ask Ms. Lavender, from
her previous experience, whether she thinks that -- that
we'd get any response if we invited the government classes
to attend some of the public forums.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Get every word. Every
word.
MS. LAVENDER: I don't know. I don't have
any idea. As a teacher, probably I would not, because I
don't know that it would be interesting for the kids. The
idea of selecting one kid like you were talking about, it's
going to be the same kids; they get selected to do
everything else, and those are the same kids that in the
spring are out with so much other things and have to worry
about absences. I think you want to talk to the principals
of your high schools about it before you make a decision to
do it, because if the kid's just looking at it as a day out
of school, they're not going to be of any value to you as an
additional part of it, and they would tend to socialize
rather than be a part of. And, if they don't understand the
process before they qet here -- and that's not really
something that's big in the curriculum.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Good -- all those are
good points. Plus, also, I mean, these are pretty much --
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they're pretty regimented in their lessons and all that. To
try to throw out a date might be difficult to bring the
classes.
MS. LAVENDER: You might have a better chance
having a whole class come down ahead of time. If ttie
teacher knew it and did the planning ahead so the kids knew
what they're going to see, then it might be a youd deal.
But, just to pick a kid from a high school to come and sit
in two sessions without background on it, I don't krrow --
I'm not sure how much of a learning experience it would be
for the kid. I'm not sure what kind of distraclioii they
would be to an adult that's not used to working with them.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And we definitely
shouldn't expect them to have input to us. I mean, it -- my
view of the thing would be to be an education for tkiem.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Exactly my point.
COMMISSIUNER BALDWIN: So they can --
JUDGE HENNEKE: We'll certainly take their
input. But the idea is, you take young leaders and get them
involved in the process early, and that tends to keep them
involved in the process throughout their careers.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And give Republican
literature on the way out.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Would there be any
value in working through the principal, which is someone
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the principal to government or political science classes for
any that are interested to come monitor the process? The
workshops are open.
MS. LAVENDER: How many times are you talking
about?
COMMISSIONER WILLlAMS: I have no idea.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Three to four, max.
MS. LAVENDER: See, there's the issue of them
being out of school.
JUDGE HENNEKE: They won't necessarily be in
the daytime.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yeah, some of these
will probably be
JUDGE HENNEKE: Many people that we've asked
to be on the committee also have commitments during the
daytime; they have jobs and everything, so we may very well
do this, you know, to a certain extent in the evening.
MS. LAVENDER: Just --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think what she's trying
to tell us is that we're pretty boring.
MS. LAVENDER: Put that in the record.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think it's probably a
good idea. You know, why don't we -- we have time, I think.
Why not, you know, each of us talk to the principals in our
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areas and see if there's an interest on their side? I mean,
that's probably a real good first step to see what they
would like to do.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: We can certainly
extend the invitation, anyway.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, the concepts that are
being discussed are not mutually exclusive. If we can find
a kid who's really interested, who wants to do this, fine.
Appoint them to the committee, and at the same time, go out
to the schools and say, "We're doing this. This is a unique
experience and only happens once every 10 years. How would
you -- would this be something that your students would be
interested in participating in in some way or another?" And
then let them respond to us as to whether or not this is
something that they're -- that the school and the students
would find meaningful. We could do it on a two --
two-track.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: And the other thing is,
up in the -- I know there's a Young Republicans Club that
does this type of thing. I mean, I know they were --
because when we were out at the County Fair, they manned --
helped man the -- what booth was that? Republican Party
booth, I guess. They were at that booth helping them out.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Those were Schreiner
College students.
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COMMISSIONER GRIN'r'1N: And Democrats, too.
Let the record reflect we'd invite the Democrats, too.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: There are some kids that
are very active, interested in politics. There's two young
men out there that, you know, were sincerely interested in
the process.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Where do we got Do we want
to give each of us the ability to appoint someone?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Sure. If it turns out
that the principal says, "Hey, I don't think it's a good
idea," we can go back to -- opt it out. And -- but we still
-- still give the invitation down the other track. I'd be
glad to send a letter to the principal of Ingram -- Tom
Moore and say, you know, session's going to be on
such-and-such, and invite any of your students that may be
interested to attend, blab, blab, blab. That's the other
track, see if he -- he or she's got -- or if he or she would
like to actually participate as officially being on the
committee, though really in an absorption/learning mode, not
so much for input. If they have one, then they may.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I don't have any problem
talking with, I mean, Comfort or Tivy also, asking them the
same thing. But, I mean, with the -- Tivy comes to mind
because there's -- it falls pretty much within all our
precincts. So, we're just going to have one of us contact
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Tivy? Or --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, and the proposal is
that each of us have the ability to appoint a young person
to the committee. You know, we've got an idea that most of
the people with high schools in their precinct would
probably go to a high school.
COMMISSIONER GR1Nr'1N: Yeah. You may go ask
if you -- I may go talk to Ingram High School; could be that
there's a number of students that are really interested in
doing that, and we can get together. And, if you happen to
find no interest, then maybe two of them could come from
Ingram, or two from Tivy. But, it -- I think the idea that
each member of the Court could have one, at least, and then
if there's something that we've got enough room, somebody
can't find somebody that wants to do it, then --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I kind of agree with
that. I've got one young person in mind in Center Point
school, but I would ask the superintendent or the principal,
and he may have other suggestions of persons who would be
more interested in what I am --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Hey, as one who has
evaluated many applications to various colleges,
universities, and particularly to academies -- service
academies, you can put -- if you could put on your last
thing before it goes into the service academies that you
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were a part of the Kerr County Redistricting Committee --
advisory committee or whatever we call it -- that's a good
little thing to have on your resume. There may be some
young people out there that would love to do it for that
reason, if none other, and they'll be bright and energetic,
just to get it on their resume. It might be a highly
successful thing. Probably not -- won't hurt anything to
try it.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'm just saying with
Tivy, I think that it is better if only -- I mean, I don't
think the principal needs three of us calling him asking for
the same thing, but probably wording it differently. I
think it may be confusing to him. I'm saying one oL us
should contact Tivy.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I'll contact Center
Point, so that takes me out of the construction.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Call him, Jon.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Okay.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: You win.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: It's still in my
precinct.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Tivy High School is in
your precinct?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: The new end.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: The new one?
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: Both of them.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Fistfight.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I graduated from Tivy.
COMMISSIONER LETZ; You want to redraw the
]fines now?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN; Yeah. We're getting
down to some line-drawing now, buddy.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Do we need a motion or
anything for this, or just do it?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, if we're going to let
each Commissioner appoint somebody, we need a motion.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: That's right.
JUDGE HENNEKE: If we want to contact
principals -- although I think when the school decides -- if
Tivy -- the principal may or may not know all the kids who
would be interested.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'll call Steve and tell
him that one or more of their students may be asked to
participate in this, so he'll know what's going on. If he
has any recommendations, I'll pass it on to you and Buster.
How about that?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Great.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I'll make a motion,
then, that we authorize each member of the Court to appoint
one high school student as a member, through whatever
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process is appropriate. And that's it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I have a motion. Do we have
a second?
COMMISSIONER W7LLIAMS: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Moved by Commissioner
Griffin, seconded by Commissioner Williams, that the Court
authorize each Commissioner and the County Judge to appoint
one high school student to the Citizens Advisory Committee
on Redistricting. Any comments or questions? If not, all
in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. And, last
but not least, Item Number 33, consider and discuss the
unveiling of the cannon, tour District Courts, District
Clerk's office, Commissioners' Courtroom on February 22nd,
2001, at 1:30 p.m., with refreshments outside of
Commissioners' Courtroom. Commissioner Baldwin is goinq to
bring refreshments for all of us.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Well, I just want to
go over with you what -- what we had talked about.
Commissioner Williams and I visited a couple of times about
it, and as you know, on February 22nd -- that would be
George Washington's birthday -- we will have the function
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here on the courthouse square, and we're going to be
beginning at 1:30 p.m. And, before going any further, I
would think -- I would like to have a completion time,
actually. Begin at 1:30, and we're going to start with the
unveiling of the cannon. And, I assume that it would be
anchored down and all that at that time.
COMMISSIONER. LETZ: Going to shoot it.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Hopefully.
MS. NEMEC: Where do you --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Make sure that the
windows upstairs don't fall out.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And so we'll do the
unveiling, and I guess Mr. Bocock will be here to make --
make -- give a talk and a little history about the cannon,
and we need to be there to say thank you to him. And then
we will go -- come to the courthouse and go upstairs to the
district -- district courtrooms for tours up there, with the
two judges and their staff. And, from that point, we want
to come across and tour the new District Clerk's offices,
which if y'all haven't been up there, you need to go see
that. I am really big-time impressed with that. And, while
everyone is up there, what we want to do is set up some
tables right out here in the hallway with some cookies and
coffee, maybe a punchbowl or something, I don't know. And
-- and then, as they complete their little tour of the
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district courtroom, we're going to bring them back duwn into
this courtroom to look at this artwork that you guys are
going to have up by that time. And --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, that's good.
COMMISSIONER BALDWiN: And, at that time,
we'll -- we'll herd them out and let them pick up a cookie
and a cup of coffee and show them where the front door is,
and gently urge them on about their way.
COMMISSIONER. GRIFFIN; Is this more in the
nature of a tour or an open house?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: It's an open house,
but we want to kind of keep them together so Judge Ables
upstairs -- Judge Ables can talk and answer some questions.
You know, kind of a -- just kind of groups or, you know,
kind of keep them as close together as we possibly care. I
have not a clue of how many is going to be here.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: It might be helpful to
have a schedule, just so people can show up where they want.
I mean, it's going to be hard to get people moving through a
big group if you have, like, a -- what time is this thing
starting?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: ]:30.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Okay, 1:30 outside. Then
say, you know, 2 o'clock up in the district courtroom, and
then -- you know, just something so that --
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COMMISSlONEK BALDWIN: We can do that.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Just may facilitate
people getting from here to there.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: We can do that.
DODGE HENNEKE: We can have a ribbon-cutting
thing upstairs. Is anyone going to say anything?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I don't know about
that.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Grip and grin pictures
and the whole thing?
DODGE HENNEKE: is the plaque going to be
ready?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: For outside?
JUDGE HENNEKE: No, the one on the court --
the annex.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Who does that, Mike
Walker? Is that a Mike Walker function?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Longnecker had it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Walker or Longnecker.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: We can do a
ribbon-cutting, I think, up in the crosswalk between the two
structures. You can put a ribbon across there, have people
-- I mean, there's a lot of space; people have room to cut,
showcase that area.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I know that Mr.
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Court's order accepting as to whom it's dedicated to, and
I'll give him a call, see it that's going to be ready. So,
we can ask Mr. Holekamp to post it or something.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: That was just an idea.
I mean, it's just an idea; there's nothing in concrete here.
It's a -- this is a living document.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: It's a work in
progress.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: It's a work in
progress.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: If we have a
ribbon-cutting, we probably -- I mean, we need to get a
little bit of planning as to who's going to cut the ribbon
and all that type of stuff.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Is that -- is that --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: So we can -- I would
think the County Judge.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: You're going to get
the ribbon? Is that what you're saying?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: No. I'm saying --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Cut it.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: -- give him the scissors.
(Discussion off the record.)
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: That's what I was
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going to suggest, is getting the Chamber of Commerce
involved, 'cause they do that stuff every day.
COMMISSIONER LETZ; Yeah, they cut ribbons
all the time.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: They've got the big
shears.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Do you want me to --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN; That's a good idea,
'cause the Chamber will also publicize that well through
their members.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: All a work in
progress.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We have a
MS. LAVENDER: Can I make a suggestion? Get
people dressed up and have little, small tour groups and
tell them the history of the courthouse in, like, groups of
15 or so, and then you could have them leave at, you know,
3-minute intervals.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Do you have some
suggestion of who the docents will be?
MS. LAVENDER: Yeah. Your people that work
here.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Well, I'm not a docent
coordinator, I can tell you that. I know where the front
door is, and that's the end.
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AUDIENCE: You can be that docent, then.
MS. LAVENDER: Have a little script for them.
JUDGE HENNEKE: My suggestion is that we have
the cannon dedication at 1:30, ribbon-cutting at x:00,
followed by tours of the district courts and District
Clerk's office and Commissioners' Courtroom, period.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: We could probably, I bet,
ask the Historical Commission to conduct those tours.
General Schellhase.
COMMISSIONER BHLDWIN: Would you do that?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Historical
Commission, there you go.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Would you do that?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: What?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Cal] General Schellhase.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I'll call him.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: They probably have more
knowledge.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I think they may.
MS. NEMEC: Your 3U-minute reception just
turned into two hours, Buster.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: What we haven't
talked about is, what happens with the guy who drifts in
here at 4 o'clock and wants the whole thing done again?
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: Sorry.
MS. NEMEC: Commissioner, do you need us to
bring anything?
MS. SOVIL: This is the invitation to the
courthouse.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay, Anything else we need
to talk about on that one?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: No, other than -- I'm
glad you brought that up. I have -- Thea has put together a
little letter for me to take around to all the elected
officials that -- no, not that one -- to ask them to provide
some baked goods. So, if you guys want chocolate chip
cookies, you have to talk to them about that.
MS. NEMEC: They're elected officials, too.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Well, hopefully we'll
-- I've already talked to Commissioner Letz about bringing
some.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I'll see if I can get
Ms. Lou to make up a batch.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: See? Here's a couple
of dozen.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I got a chocolate
heart in there that I'll donate, 'cause Jonathan gave his to
me. I ate mine,
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: So, that's all.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Anything else? If there's
nothing else to come before us, we stand adjourned.
(Commissioners Court adjourned at 2:20 p.m.)
STATE OF TEXAS
COONTY OF KERR
The above and foregoing is a true and complete
transcription of my stenotype notes taken in my capacity as
County Clerk of the Commissioners Court of Kerr County,
Texas, at the time and place heretofore set forth.
DATED at Kerrville, Texas, this 21st day of February,
2001.
JANNETT PIEPER, Kerr County Clerk
Kathy Ba k, Deputy County Clerk
Certified Shorthand Reporter
ORDER N0. 26853
CLAIMS RND RCCOUNTS
On this the 12th day of Febr•uar•y 2@@1, came to be considered
by the Co~.trt the various claims and acco~_ints against N.er•r-
County and the various Commissioners' pr•ecinets, which said
Claims and Recounts ar•e 1@-General Fund for- $193,897.65;
11-Jury Fund for $149.25; 13-Road & Fridge Rdd'1 Registration
Fee fund for• $3@,655.@3; 14-Fire Protection F~_ind for•
$17,4@1.86; 15-Road 8 Bridge Fund for• E27,924.53; 18-County
Law Library Fund for $2,555.2@; 19-P~_~blic Library F~_ind for
$58,492.67; 23-Juvenile State Rid Fund for^ $36@.@@; 24-Traffic
._ Safety Fund for $275.92; 27-Juvenile Intensive Program-State
Rid Fund for^ $829.5@; 5@-Indigent Health Care F~.~nd for-
$^c5,668.@5; 7@-Permanent Improvement Fund for $9,794.36;
76-Juvenile Detention facility Fund for $4,122.34; Bi-District
Rdministration Fund for f3@. 66; 83-State Funded 216th Distr-ict
Attorney Fund for• $1,@99.11; 86-State Funded 216th District
Probation Fund for^ $5,@14.98; 87-State Funded Community
Corrections Fund for $4,5@5.6@. (TOTAL FUNDS-$382,776.71) Upon
motion made by Commissioner Williams, seconded by Commissioner
Let z, The Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-@-@,
payment of said Claims and Recounts as recommended by the
County Ruditor.
ORDER NO. 26854
APPROVAL OF BUDGET AMENDMENT
ROAD AND BRIDGE - ADMINISTRATION
On this the loth day of Febr•uar^y 2001, upon motion made by
Commissioner Gr^iffin, seconded by commissioner- Baldwin, the
Cour^t unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to tr•ansfer•
675.99 fr-ome Line item # 15-611-575 Maintenance Facility to
Line item # 15-600-570 Capital Outlay for- the Road and Br^idge
Department.
ORDER NO 26855
RF'F'ROVAL OF BUDGET RMENDMENT
NON-DEPRRTMENTAL
On this the 12th day of February 20411, upon motion made by
Commissioner Griffin, seconded by Commissioner 2aldwin, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to tr^ansfer^
$43'3.00 from Line item # 10-4Q9-205 Insurance Liability to
Line item # 1@-4Q`3-480 Pr•oper•ty Ins~_irance in Non Departmental.
ORDER N0, 26856
PUDGET RMENDMENT/COUNTY CLERK°S OFFICE
On this the 12th day of Februar^y 2Q~01, upon motion made by
Commissioner Baldwin, seconded by Commissioner^ Griffin, the
Cour-t unanimously approved by a vote of 4-Q-0, to tr^ansfer
1500.00 from Line item #10-402-21Q Hallot Expense to Line
item #10-4@4-570 Capital Outlay in the County Clerk's Office
for the pur^chase of a new pr^inter^,
ORDER N0. 26857
APPROVE TO ACCEPT MINUTES
AND WRIVE RERDING
On this the 12th day of February 2001, upon motion made by
Commissioner Baldwin, seconded by Commissioner Griffin, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to waive
reading and approve the following minutes; Ker•r• County
Commissioners' Court Special Session, Monday, January 1, 2001-
9:0Q~a.m.; Commissioners' Court Reg~,ilar Session, Monday,
Jan~_iary 8, 2001-9:00a. m. ; Commissioners' Coi_ir•t Special
Session, Friday, January 12, 2001-9:0Qa.m.; Commissioners'
Court Special Session, Monday, Jan~_~ar•y 22, 2001-9:0Sa.m.
ORDER N0. 26858
RPPROVE RND RCCEPT MONTHLY REPORTS
On this the 12th day of Febr^uary 2001, upon motion made
Commissioner Letz, seconded by Commissioner Baldwin, the
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, the following
reports and directed that they be filed with the County
for future audit:
County Clerk- Jannett Pieper
Trust fund Monthly Report
R11 Monies and Fees Collected
as Clerk of The County Court
Month ending January 31, ^c001
Co~_inty Clerk- Jannett Pieper
General Fund -Fees Report
Month of Jan~_iar•y, 2@01
County Clerk- Jannett F'ieper^
Tr~.ist Fund Report
Month of Jan~_iar-y, 2001
JP#- William E Ragsdale
Monthly Report
Fines, Judgement s, and Jury Fees
collected for the month of January, 2001
JP#3- Bober^t L Tench
Monthly Report
Fines,Judgements, and Jury Fees
collected for the month of January, 2001
Kerr County Sheriffs' Department
Monthly Report- Rugust, ^c000
by
Court
Clerk
Kerr County Sher^iff's Department
Civil Report for• January, 2001
ORDER N0. 2E859
RPPROVE RND RCCEPT RNNURL REPORT
N,ERR COUNTY HISTORICRL COMMISSION
On this the loth day of Fehr^uar•y ~'Q~01, upon motion made by
Commissioner Let z, seconded by commissioner Griffin, the Court
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-2-0, the N.er•r^ County
Historical Commissions' Rnual Repor^t for• the year^ c0Q~0, and
membership.
ORDER N0. 26860
RG'PROVE RORD & BRIDGE ADVERTISEMENT
REF: RNNURL RIDS ON MRTERIRLS AND EG!UIPMENT
On this the 12th day of Fe6ruar^y 2001, upon motion made by
Commissioner^ Letz, seconded by Commissioner^ Baldwin, the Cour^t
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to accept the
advertisement for^ annual bids on materials and equipment by
the hour^ for^ the Road and Bridge Department.
ORDER N0. 26861
RF~PROVE RND ACCEPT GIFT TO ROAD R BRIDGE DEPRRTMENT
ARCVIEW GIS SOFTWARE
On this the 12th day of Febr-nary 2001, upon motion made by
Commissioner Williams, seconded by Commissioner Griffin, the
Coi_tr-t unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to accept a
gift of ArcView GIS Software from Ed Higgins to the Road R
Bridge Department.
ORDER NO. 26862
RRF'ROVRL OF RORD NAMES
pRIVATELY MAINTAINED ROADS/ IN RCCORDRNCE WITH 911
On this the 12th day of February 2Q~01, upon motion made by
Commissioner Griffin, seconded by Commissioner- Williams, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to accept Road
Names for the following pr^ivately maintained roads in var^ious
locations in accordance with 911 guideline .
Existing Road Name
None
Er^w in
Langwor^th Farm
None
None
Nane
None
New Road Name
Enchanted valley Dr. W.
Land's End E.
RLR Lane N.
Lakehouse Trl. W.
Roberts Rd. N.
Indian Spring Trl. SW
Corry Sue Trl. NW
ORDER N0. 26863
AF'pROVE RNRNDONING RIGHT-OF-WAY
VOLUME 79 pRGE 200 LAND RECORDS
pATRICf'. FLEMING SURVEY # 666
On this the 12th day of February 2001, upon motion made by
Commissioner Letz, seconded by Commissioner Gr^iffin, the Coiar•t
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to accept abandoning
the right-of-way r^efer^enced as a 13.8-acre and 1.4-acre tract
of land described in Volume 715, F'ages 79G-793, Real F'r•operty
Records of Kerr County, Texas, and a 0.7912-acre tr^act
r^ecor•ded in Volume 908, F'ages 138-14N, Real property Records
of Ker^r• County, Texas.
ORDER N0. ^c6Ci64
APPROVE FINRL REVISION OF PLRT
TRRCTS 64 R 66 OF INGRAN HILLS
On this the 12th day of Febr-~aar•y ."_'001, upon motion made by
Commissioner Griffin, seconded by Commissioner Baldwin, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to Accept the
final revision of Plat for- Tracts 64 & 66 of Ingram Hills
S~_~bdivision.
ORDER N0. 26865
RE'P'ROVE OPENING OF RNNURL BIDS
ELEC./HERTB•AIR/PLUMRING- FRCILITIES R MAINTENANCE
On this the 1^cth day of Febr•~aar•y c:Q~01, upon motion made by
Commissioner- Let z, seconded by Commissioner- Williams, the
Court approved by a vote of 3-0-Q~, to accept Opening of the
Annual bids for- Electrical, F'l~ambing, and Heating R Rir•
Conditioning services for- the Facilities & Maintenance
Department. Refer- the same to the Facilities 8 Maintenance
Department for- f~.ir~ther• review.
ORDER N0. X6866
CLERICRL ERROR,ISSUED RY MISTRKE- SHOULD RE DISCUSSION ONLY.
ORDER N0. X6867
RPRROVE RND RCCEPT ORENED RIDS
SHERIFFS' OFFICE-BODY SHOP REPAIRS
On this the lEth day of Fe6r•uar•y cQ~Q~l, upon motion made by
Commissioner Griffin, seconded by Commissioner Baldwin, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to accept and
open bids for• body shop repairs for• lier•r• Coi_tnty Sheriffs'
Department and to refer the same to the Sheriffs' Department
for• fur•ther• review.
ORDER N0. 26868
RUTHORIZE FROF'OSALS FOR COMMUNICRTIONS SYSTEM
SHERIFFS' OFFICE
On this the 12th day of Febr•uar•y 2001, upon motion made by
Commissioner Griffin, seconded by Commissioner Baldwin, the
Co~ar-t unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to approve
sending oiat request for proposals for a communication system
for Sheriffs' Department. All proposals due May 11, 2001 by
4:a0 p. m.
ORDER N0. 6669
ARRROVE RRELIMINARY REVISION OF F'LRT
TRRCTS 44 R 45 N.ERRVILLE SOUTH 11 RCT.1
On this the 12th day of Febr^~aar•y :'001, ~_ipon motion made by
Commissioner Paldwin, seconded by Commissioner 6r^iffin, the
Co~ar•t ~~nanimously approved by a vote of 4-Q~-0, to accept the
pr•eliminar•y revision of Rlat for• Tracts 44 ~ 45 of fSer•r•ville
So~_~th II, Rct. i.
ORDER N0. 26870
RPPROVE PRELIMINARY REVISION OF F'LRT/TRACTS 5R R 6R
.-,
WHISKEY RIDGE RANCHES/ RND SET PUBLIC HERRING
On this the 1^cth day of February 2001, upon motion made by
Commissioner- Let z, seconded by Commissioner- Williams, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to accept the
pr•eliminar•y revision of Plat for- Tracts SR R 6R of Whiskey
Ridge Ranches, Pct. 3. And set p~.~blic hearing to be held for'
the same on Mar^ch 12, 2001 at 10:00a.m. in the Commissioners'
Co~.irtroom.
ORDER NO. ~E871
RE'P'ROVE TO SET F'URLIC HERRING REGARDING CENTER F'OINT
RIVER RORD SPEED LIMIT CHRNGE
On this the icth day of Febr~aar•y 0Q~1, upon motion made by
Commissioner Williams, seconded by Commissioner Lets, the
Co~ar-t unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-~, to accept
discussion to establish a speed limit of ~@ m. p. h, on Center
Point River- Road east and west bound beginning at Rolin Drive,
and set public hearing for same on March 1:'th, X001 at 1Q:15
a. m.
ORDER N0. 2687
AP'P'ROVE ANNURL ACCOUNTS RND STRTUS OF INVESTMENTS
TEXRS PROBATE CODE
On this the lath day of Febr~aar-y 2001, upon motion made by
Commissioner- Griffin, seconded by Commissioner- Baldwin, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to accept the
Rnn~aal Rccoiants and Status of Investments pur•s~aant to the
pr-ovisians of the Texas Probate Code 887(b), County Clerk's
Office.
ORDER NO. 26873
APPROVRL OF HAND CHECKS
DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE/ REF: JERRY DON BAILEY R BARBARA JANE WHITE
On this the 12th day of Febr•uar•y 20~D1, ~_ipon motion made by
Commissioner Baldwin, Seconded by Commissioner Griffin, the
Co~_irt unanimously approved, by a vote of 4-0-0, to a~_~thorize
The County Auditor and The Co~.inty Tr•easur•er• to write a hand
check to each of the individ~_ials listed below:
Jer•r•y Don Bailey 5566.7.
Barbara Jane White 5105c^^. 51.
The above iss~.ied for• r•eimbur•sment of intr•est on Court
Registry, to be taken o~.it of line item # 10-409-571 Non Dept.
contingency fund.
ORDER NO. 2E874
AF~RROVE pORTABLE BUILDING
KERR COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
On this the 12th day of Febr•~_iar-y 2001, ~_ipon motion made by
Commissioner Let z, seconded by Commissioner Baldwin, the Court
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to accept the regi_iest
fr^om the N.er•r• County Fair Rssociation to place a portable
b~.~ilding on the Exhibition Center property to ho~_ise Fair^
Association s~_ipplies.
ORDER N0. ^cEB75
APPROVE RESIGNATION OF E A "CHUCK" RRECNER
On this the lath day of February :'0~l1, upon motion made by
Commissioner Letz, seconded by Commissioner Griffin, the Co~_~r^t
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-Q~-0, to accept the
r^esignation of E. A. "Chuck" from the I',err Co~_inty Solid Waste
Code Enforcement Officer- and Kerr County ARCOG representative
for• Solid Waste and Closed Landfill Committee.
ORDER N0. 2E87E
RCCEF'T DONRTION OF TEXRS RRNGER pHOTOS
On this the 1^cth day of February 2001, upon motion made by
Commissioner Letz, seconded 6y Commissioner Griffin, the Court
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-Q~-0, to accept the
donation of Texas Ranger F'hotogr-aphs to be displayed in the
Courthouse.
ORDER NO. 26877
ACCEPT GIFT OF WESTERN PRINTS
COWBOY RRTISTS OF AMERICA MUSEUM
On this the 1'c'th day of Febr•uar•y 2G01, upon motion made by
Commissioner Griffin, seconded by Commissioner- Williams, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to accept a
gift of Western F'r•ints from Cowboy Rrtists of America Museum
and gift of custom framing from Wells Fargo Bank, N. A.
ORDER NO. ^c6878
REJECT BODY SHOP REPAIRS
FOR N~ERR COUNTY SHERIFFS' DEF'ARTNENT
On this the 12th day of Febr•~aar•y 2001, capon motion made by
Commissioner Baldwin, seconded by Commissioner 6r•iffin, the
Co~ar•t unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to r•e.ject the
bids for• body shop r•epair•s for the I{er•r• County Sheriffs'
Department.
ORDER N0. cE87'3
REJECT RIDS FOR ELECTRICRL,PLUMBING, AND HEATING
R AIR CONDITIONING SERVICES
On this the loth day of Febr•uar•y ~OQ~1, capon motion made by
Commissioner Baldwin, seconded by Commissioner- Let z, the Co~_~r-t
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-O-Q, to reject ann~_ial bids
for electrical, plumbing, and heating R air- conditioning
services.
ORDER N0, 2688@
REVISION TO THE F:ERR COUNTY PERSONNEL F'DLTCY
On this the loth day of Febr•iaar•y C@@1, upon motion made by
Commissioner Baldwin, seconded by Commissioner Let z, the Court
unanimo+asly approved by a vote of 4-@-@, to discuss revision
to the I;er•r• Co~_+nty F'er^sonnel Policies to (a) r•equir•e annual
Employee Per•for•mance Reviews for- all employees who work for•
the Commissioners' Co+ar•t or• in County departments not dir-ected
by elected officials or persons not appointed by the
Cnmmissioner•s° co~.+rt incl+ading Road and E3r•idge Dept., Animal
Control Dept., and Facilities Use and Maintenance Dept. Said
,.~ F'er•for•mance r•eview(s> to be completed by Jan. 31st of each
year-. The County Tr•easur•er• will be provided with copies of
reviews for inclusion in employee personnel files; and (b)
recommend and encourage other- f:er•r• Co+.+nty elected officials to
do likewise for employees in their- Departments. (Pet.)
ORDER NO,^c6B81
RCCEF'T RESOLUTION SUPPORTING F'LATERU WRTER PLRN
GROUP'S FUNDS REQUEST FOR TRINITY AG!UIFER MONITERING PROGRAM
On this the loth day of Febr•uar•y ^c001, upon motion made by
Commissioner Let z, seconded by Commissioner Baldwin, the Court
unanimously appr^oved by a vote of 4-Q-0, to accept Resolution
supporting the Plateau Water Flan Group's request for f~_mds
for- implimentation of Trinity Aquifer monitering well pr^ogr-am.
ORDER NO. c^^6882
ACCEGT GROJECT AGREEMENT WITH USDR/NRCS
CONSTRUCTION OF TEMPORARY BRIDGE AT HERMRNN SONS CROSSING
On this the 12th day of Febr•~aar•y 20@1, ~.ipon motion made by
Commissioner Let z, seconded by Commissioner Baldwin , the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-Q~-0, to accept the
pr^oject agreement with USDA/NRCS for• the canstr•~_iction of a
temporary bridge at Hermann Sons Cr^ossing and authorize the
County J~.idge to sign same.
ORDER NO. 26883
APPROVE ASSURANCES RELATING TO RERL PROPERTY
AC~UISTION (RIGHT-OF-WRY) FOR HERNANN SONS CROSSING
On this the 12th day of Febr•uar•y 2@@1, ~_ipon motion made by
Commissioner^ Let z, seconded by Commissioner^ Williams, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-@-@, to accept
r^equir•ed assurances r^elating to real proper^ty acquisition
(right-of-way) for^ the Hermann Sons Crossing and authorize the
County Judge to sign same.
ORDER N0. 26884
RFF'ROVE DRTE AND FORMRT FOR WORKSHOP'
ON OSSF TECHNICRL R REGULRTORY ISSUES
On this the lath day of Febr^uar•y c@@1, ~_ipon motion made by
Commissioner Gr^iffin, seconded by Commissioner^ Let-<, the Co~_ir-t
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-@-@, to accept setting the
date and for-mat for a workshop on OSSF technical and
r^egulatory issi_ies. Workshop set for Monday, Febr~_iary c6,c@@1
at 4:@@ p. m.
ORDER NO. 26885
RUTHORIZE ERCH COMMISSIONER RND COUNTY JUDGE TO
AF'pOINT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO REDISTRICING ADVISORY
On this the lath day of Febr-~_~ar•y X001, ~_ipon motion made by
Commisioner• Griffin, seconded by Commissioner- Williams, the
Co~_ir•t unanimo~_isly approved by a vote of 4-Q~-s, to authorise
Co~_inty Commissioner and the County J~_idge to appoint one
High School st~.~dent to the Citizens Advisory Committee on
redistricting.