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KERR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT
Regular Session
Monday, January 14, 2002
9:00 a.m.
Commissioners' Courtroom
Kerr County Courthouse
Kerrville, Texas
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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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January 14, 2002
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--- Commissioners' Comments 4
1.1	Pay Bills		12 aZ
1 . 2	Budget Amendments `j„`j 3 £~A ~	a.~13$\ , a~ 382-	13
1.3	Late Bills		17
1.4	Read and Approve Minutes	x'1383	17
1.5	Approve and Accept Monthly	Reports 7."13$`-4	18
2.2	Registration reduction from $2/$5 to $1 during	
	Rabies Drive February 2-16, 2002	19~7~5
2.4	Preliminary plat, Hutte Addition, Precinct 2	20113~Co
2.7	Approve name changes for private Kerr County	
	roads in accordance with 911 guidelines	241'139
2.10	Method of acquiring remaining piece of Sheppard	
	Reese right-of-way	25a,T3~
2.12	Discuss County's obligation to pay subcontractors	
	for work on courthouse renovation ~J~S~-~~~o+c\	29
2.13	Report from 911 Director on implementation of	
	road name changes on Bailey Jo & Michon Road	32~~~5R•
2.15	Creation of five-person citizens commission to	
	consider elected officials' salaries	33x738°1
2.15	Renewal of lease for west Kerr County annex	392~~90
2.17	Proposal by State Tax Management and Review to	
	collect misallocated sales tax revenue	43~`~
2.18	Commissioners Court meeting schedule for 2002	457-341
2.5	PUBLIC HEARING, name changes for County-maintained	p,~syar
	roads in accordance with 911 guidelines	48
2.5	Approve above road name changes	SOV.'13°+2
2.11	Consider disposition of surplus property	552x343
2.19	Budget amendments to convert unfunded State	
	mandate to pay longevity supplements to 198th	
	and 216th Assistant Prosecutors	572~5`1`f
2.8	PUBLIC HEARING, abandoning, discontinuing, and	
	vacating Gulch Ranch Road (South Park) in	
	Guadalupe Ranch Estates, Precinct 4	60D~~S
2.9	Consider abandoning, discontinuing, and vacating	
	Gulch Ranch Road above	64TJ~SC~
3.2 Evaluations of persons employed directly by
Kerr County Commissioners Court 66+~~
Russ Duncan 71
Ed North 76
Thea Sovil 83
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On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 9 o'clock a.m., a regular
meeting of the Kerr County Commissioners Court was held in
the Commissioners' Courtroom, Kerr County Courthouse,
Kerrville, Texas, and the following proceedings were had in
open court:
P R O C E E D I N G S
JUDGE HENNEKE: Good morning, everyone. It's
9 o'clock in the morning on Monday, January 14th, Year 2002.
We welcome everyone to this first meeting of the Kerr County
Commissioners Court in calendar year 2002. Commissioner
Baldwin, you have the honors this morning, sir.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Thank you, sir. Would
you stand and pray with me, please, and then when we
complete the prayer, we'll do the pledge of allegiance.
(Prayer and pledge of allegiance.)
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you. At this time, any
citizen wishing to address the Court on an item not listed
on the regular agenda may do so. is there any citizen who
would like to address the Court on an item not listed on the
regular agenda? One more time, is there any citizen who
would like to address the Court on an item not listed on the
regular agenda?
(NO response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Seeing none, we'll move to
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the Commissioners' comments, and we'll start with
Commissioner Baldwin.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Thank you, Judge.
I've got a couple of things. One of them may be a little
bit of a discussion. I've seen in the Kerrville newspapers,
I think, five articles about the County transferring the
ownership of the Ingram Indian Creek bridge to the City of
Ingram. And, I mean, it's gotten down to the point last
week where they are getting bids now for repairs, et cetera,
and -- and this Court has only had a very, very, very brief
discussion about it, and that was many months ago, and we
haven't had any more discussions about the transfer of that
bridge to Ingram, but it -- it looks like to me, by the
articles, that it's already been done. And it's one of
those things, it may be a -- a philosophy difference between
myself and some of you fellows, that I just believe that any
time that we're dealing with the people's business in this
county, that -- that it should be -- everything be brought
into this courtroom and laid on the table before everyone,
so everyone in this county can see it if they so choose.
And it just appears that there's -- it has the appearance --
I know it's not, but it has the appearance that there's
water under the bridge. But I was just wondering if someone
could enlighten me of what the status is of the Indian Creek
bridge.
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I can help some on
that, because I have discussed that with Danny Edwards, the
Ingram City Attorney. And, where we -- where we left this
several weeks ago with the City of Ingram was that they
would get estimates for the total repair of everything, and
then they would bring that to the Court, and that we would
discuss it and come to some accommodation and work the
transfer as we could. That is all that's been done. And I
don't know where -- what the source or how the -- how the
reports that have been in the paper have come to the
conclusion that there's any kind of a done deal, because
there hasn't been -- hasn't been a discussion, as you say,
before this Court. And that was the process, that they were
going to get the estimate on the total cost and what had to
be dome, and then they would come to us and we would try to
work it out. Very straightforward.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I think it's useful to have
the historic perspective on this, Commissioner. This really
came up when Franklin Johnston and Leonard Odom brought it
to our attention that there was no evidence that the County
owns that bridye. No deed, and it was a W.P.A. project back
in the '30's. It was just used for a state road until they
built the new bridge, and there's no evidence that the
County owns it. And, in a discussion that we had over
different topics, we expressed the view that if the City of
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Ingram wanted	the bridge, that	the	Court	would	consider
quitclaiming	whatever interest	we	had.	But I	want to make
it clear that, at this point in time, the County does not
claim ownership of that -- of that bridge and that dam. And
I'm not -- and we would have to have a very detailed
discussion if we were to try to assert ownership over it.
So, I think what we have is -- is, as Commissioner Griffin
pointed out, is a process that's working whereby hopefully
the City of Ingram will come in and say to the Commissioners
Court, "We'd like for to you give us whatever interest the
County might have in the bridge," but that has not been
decided. And you are absolutely right, Commissioner
Baldwin; there's been no public discussion of it in this
Commissioners Court, because there's not, in fact -- and the
timing has not been such that we needed to do that at this
time.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think my only comment
is -- I mean, I don't know where the papers got their
information, but it's -- it puts the Court in an awkward
position when have you members of the public coming to me --
and I've had them ask, too. They said, "What are y'all
doing with the bridge?" I have no idea. Makes me feel
pretty stupid when the paper is saying that the County's
getting ready to do something that I've never even heard of.
And -- you know, and that's all I can say. But, I don't
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know, I mean, but that's --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, you know --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: That's about all
anybody can say.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Yeah. The source of the
stories in the paper are a confusion to me too. I mean,
that's in Commissioner Griffin's precinct. After the last
story about the -- about how the County was requiring
certain repairs before it was transferred, I contacted him
and said, "Where did that come from?" And his response was,
"I have no idea."
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Because I don't.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yeah.
JUDGE HENNEKE: So --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Thank you. The other
item I had was Mr. Johnston -- that's Franklin Johnston, our
County Engineer. He's recently been elected as
Secretary/Treasurer of the Texas Association of County
Engineers and Road Administrators. So, again, we have
another Kerr County leader that is elected to statewide
office, and that's something we need to be very proud of.
Congratulations, Franklin. Thank you for serving.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Congratulations, Franklin.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: That's all. Still not
back in Tivy Yootball season, so I don't have anything to
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Want to talk about
basketball?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Commissioner Williams?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Only thing I have is
a note from a resident in Precinct 2, Dr. Lee Liggett, who
says, "Dear Commissioner Williams, two of the County
employees are deserving of special recognition for their
excellent work effort on the spur road leading into 2550 and
2670 Medina Highway: Jose Gonzales and Gail Matter." And
he wasn't sure of the spelling, but anyhow, it says,
"Cleaning the area as they so capably did will discourage
illegal parking and trashing of the area." He gives his
thanks to all involved. We'll pass that on to Road and
t~ridge for those two persons for the nice work that they
did.
JUllGE HENNEKE: Very good. Commissioner
Letz?
CUMMlSS1ONER LETZ: I have a bunch this
morning, mostly pretty short. First, I think most of the
Commissioners realize that there's a new map out in our
foyer which gives the new precinct lines. If anyone has a
question as to what precinct they're in, it's up there. And
we got that, I guess, from 911?
M5. SOVIL: Appraisal llistrict.
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: Real quick, appreciate
that. Stock show is this week. We'll be out there -- I'll
be out there. I think the rest of the Court will be out
there announcing their various events. I encourage everyone
in the public to attend. Water. I see a couple people from
-- related to water, Mr. Siemers in the audience. The
Plateau Water Planning Group is getting ready to gear up for
our next planning phase, seeing as we haven't done much in a
while. A lot of behind-the-scenes, trying to work through
masses of new regulations and procedures and everything else
that came out of S.B. 12. We'll be having a meeting on the
31st of this month, which we'll be kicking off our next
five-year planning phase, and at that meeting we will be
primarily working on the scope of work for this period. So,
anyway, anyone that wants to attend that meeting, it will
probably be in Bandera. It was supposed to be in Del Rio,
but I figured that I could not make it back for the
Commissioners Court meeting that same day from Del Rio by
6:30, so I moved to it Bandera. Also, I know Commissioner
Williams was there, but we have a new historical marker in
Center Point, in his precinct, Storey's renovation of the
Woolls Building, which used to be Edens Implement. Big
turn~uL; it was the largest crowd I've ever seen for a
historical dedication. Probably close to a hundred people
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: No question about it.
(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER LETZ: And, finally, the annual
Tivy Athletic Booster Club raffle is tomorrow night at the
basketball game against Boerne. I would encourage everyone
to attend the game, and more importantly, probably, buy a
raffle ticket, which have I right here, plenty of them for
sale. They are everything from hunting for -- a whitetail
hunt on Bill Carter's ranch in Commissioner Griffin's area;
trip to Las Vegas; golf rounds at Schreiner, Buckhorn, River
Hills, Comanche Trace; fishing; two tickets to a Dallas
Cowboys game next year. Very good seats, I might add.
Hotel is also inr_luded in that. A lot of good prizes.
Twenty dollars a ticket, or two for $35.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Is second place four
tickets to a Dallas Cowboys football game?
(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Maybe they'll be better
next year.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Can't be any worse.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Commissioner Griffin?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Two things. I'll
remind everyone that our technology workshop for this year
is next -- on the 28th, our next court meeting date, in the
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afternoon, and there is a memo out that sort of sets the
available to us today, and what in your specific areas there
might be that you are aware of that we should be looking at.
Not to spend money, but certainly ro plan for future
capability in the technology area, but primarily to look at
what we have today that we can better exploit. And,
secondly, I'd like to pass along my thanks, and I think the
thanks of everyone, to T. Sandlin at 911 for getting the
voter precinct maps in a forum where they can be put on a
web site, which should be up -- if not -- if they're not
already up, should be up this week. And they will be by
voter precincts, so that there's enough detail that someone
can figure out exactly where they are. And we look forward
to probably having more to talk about at the technology
conference on things like that, on how we ~~an better use
that capability that we have. That's it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Very good. I'll remind
everyone, as Commissioner Letz has alluded to, that we have
a joint meeting with the City Council -- City of Kerrville
on January 31st at 6:30. That will be upstairs in District
Courtroom Number 1. This is a session designed to talk in
strategic terms about joint projects, both the existing
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projects and future projects. If anyone has any specific
topics they want to be on the agenda, please let me know. I
met with Ron Patterson; we kind of drafted out an initial
agenda, but if there's any anything anyone specifically
wants to be on there, please let me know, and make sure that
it gets on there. The other thing I'll remind everyone is
that the -- we are hosting locally the District 10
Commissioners and Judges seminar for January 23rd. It's
going to be at the U.G.R.A. building. Attendance -- the
responses are coming in very good. We expect to have a good
turnout, and look forward to seeing everyone there. It will
be a good opportunity for us to get some of our education
credits locally, as opposed to having to go spend money at
Austin hotels, so it's a good opportunity for all of us.
With that, let's turn to the approval agenda and pay some
bills. Tommy? Anyone have any questions or comments
regarding the bills as presented by the Auditor?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I move we pay the
bills.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Second
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Williams, that the Court
approve payment of the bills as presented and recommended by
the Auditor. Does anyone have any further questions or
comments? If not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
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(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Turning to
budget amendments.
MR. TOMLINSON: The first one you have -- you
have in your packet, there's an agenda item -- separate
agenda item on. I don't know if you want to go ahead and
handle it now, or wait for the --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Why don't we hold this one
for the agenda item? I think we need a little more -- a
little discussion about it.
MR. TOMLINSON: Okay.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Budget Amendment Number 2 is
for the County Auditor.
MR. TOMLINSON: Okay. This amendment is a
request from my office. We currently -- our printer in our
office is currently out, and I need to purchase a
replacement. Rather than -- well, the last, I think, three
printers I've had are -- are really not the grade that I
need in my office to last for a very long time. In fact, I
think they -- my experience has been, like, 18 months for
one printer. So, what I'm asking the Court to -- to approve
is a transfer of $2,600 from Contingency into our Capital
Outlay line item to purchase a heavy-duty impact printer to
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: So moved.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Williams, second by Commissioner Letz, that the Court
approve Budget Amendment Request Number 2 for the County
Auditor's department. Any questions or comments? It 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. Do we have
any late bills?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Wait. We have 3 and
4.
(Discussion off the rer_ord.)
MR. '1'OMLINSON: I still have 3 and 9; they
were on the table. I put them on the table, Judge.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Oh, I didn't get them.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Well, here.
JUDGE HENNEKE: All right. Court will next
consider Budget Amendment Request Number 3, which covers a
number of different departments.
MR. TOMLINSON: This amendment is -- is to
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for -- this covers the auto liability and property damage,
and for the property coverage for all of our real estate and
heavy equipment. The -- part of this -- part of the
increase over the budget -- over what we had budgeted is
related to -- part of it is to the amount of the numbers of
for our buildings. About three years ago, we had the
Appraisal District come in and do an appraisal on -- on all
of our properties, and in the meantime, I have -- I have
increased those amounts by -- by a percentage of whatever --
whatever is reasonable, I think, as far as what the cost of
construction is. So, that's -- that's part of it. The
other part of it is -- is related to just the increase in
the premiums for -- for property damage, nationwide. TAC
actually assigns about 70 or 8U percent of their risk to
property coverage to -- to the private sector, so the
private sector has seen some increases in -- in the premiums
on property damage for all -- across-the-board for this
year. So, what	-- what	I need	for a	budget amendment	is to
transfer $4,982	in the	General	Fund	from Contingency	to
Property Insurance, and then in the Jail budget -- no, I'm
sorry, in the Maintenance budget, I need $319 transferred
from Major Kepairs to Insurance, and for the Jail,
transferring $2,136 from Jailers Salaries to Insurance. And
in the Sheriff's Uffice, its $1,644 from Deputies Salaries
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to Vehicle Insurance. And for Juvenile Probation, I'm
asking for a transfer of $31 from Transportation of
Juveniles to Vehicle Insurance. And for the Ag Barn, I'm
asking for a transfer of $116 from Major Repairs to
Insurance.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: So moved.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second.
DODGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court approve
Budget Amendment Request Number 3 relating to property
insurance premiums and other insurance premiums. Any
questions or comments? If not, all in favor, raise your
right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(NO response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Budget
Amendment Request Number 4 is for the Sheriff's Department.
MR. TOMLINSON: Yes. This is related to the
coverage for law enforcement liability that the Court
approved on the sper_ial meeting we had on the 31st. The
premium for the jail and Sheriff's office alone was $53,819.
We had $47,826 -- no, I'm sorry, we had $98,855 budgeted, so
I'm asking for a transfer of $5,993 from Contingency out of
Nondepartmental.
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: So moved.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court approve
Budget Amendment Request Number 9 for the Sheriff's
Department.
MR. TOMLINSON: I would like to have a hand
check for this last one.
JUDGE HENNEKE: And authorize issuance of a
hand check payable to --
MP.. TOMLINSON: First Insurance Agency.
JUDGE HENNEKE: -- First Insurance Agency in
the amount of $53,819. Any other questions or comments? If
not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(NO response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Is that the
only late bill or hand check we have?
MR. TOMLINSON: All I have.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. At this time, I would
entertain a motion to waive reading and approve the minutes
of the December 10th, December 21st, and December 31st, Year
2001, meetings of the Kerr County Commissioners Court.
COMMISSlUNER LETZ: So moved.
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court waive reading
and approve the minutes of the December 10, December 2l, and
December 31 sessions of the Kerr County Commissioners Court.
Any questions or comments? If not, all in favor, raise your
right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(NO response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. I would also
entertain a motion to approve and accept the monthly reports
as presented.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: So moved.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court approve and
accept the monthly reports as presented. Any questions or
comments?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Comment, that the --
looks like our reports are coming in more on time these
days. Looks like maybe that they are all there this time.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Very good. Any other
questions or comments? If not, all in favor, raise your
right hand.
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(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Okay. We'11
turn to the consideration agenda. I don't see Mr. Holekamp
in the audience yet, so we'll move on to Item Number 2,
w ns~der and discuss registration reduction from $2 and $5
to $1 during the P,abies Drive February 2 to February 16,
Year 2002. Marc A11en.
MR. ALLEN: Okay. Well, I'd like to ask the
Court to reduce our registration from $2 Tor a non -- for a
neutered animal and $5 for non-neutered to just $1 during
the Rabies Drive from February 2nd to the 16th. I think at
this time we've got about 750 people -- animals registered
with the County, which is way up from the past. So --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: So moved.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second.
JUDGE HEL`SNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Griffin, second by CommissioneL Baldwin, that the Court
reduce the registration fee of $2 and $5 to $1 during the
Rabies Drive, which is from Febxuar.y 2 through E'ebruary 16,
Year 2062. Any other questions or comments?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Do we -- question. Do we
have some of the local vets participating like they usually
do with this?
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MR. ALLEN: Yes, we do. In Inqram, Cuatro
Patterson's going to try to do it on Saturday -- well,
it's -- the drive starts actually 1 p.m. on Saturday, the
2nd, and we'll have a vet at the fire department in Inqram,
which will be Cuatro Patterson. Dr. Leifeste will be at the
fire station in Center Point, and Dr. Janssen will be at the
Community Center in Cypress Creek, and Dr. Cardwell will be
at Turtle Creek Fire Department. And then, after that, you
can have it done in all of the local vets during that time.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Very good. Good program.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: It is good.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Questions or comments? If
not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carried. Thank you,
Marc. Item 4dumber 3 has been pulled at the request of trie
County Engineer. We'll go to Item Number 9, consider a
variance to lot size and road frontage, and consider
approval of preliminary plat of Hutte Addition in Precinct
Z. Commissioner Williams.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Mr. Johnston?
MR. JOHNSTON: This plat is similar to the
one we had last time which would quality for the abbreviated
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meeting schedule, except for two items, the two items which
we have on the agenda for a variance request. The two lots,
when they're divided, one is 5 acres and one is 4.99 acres.
It technically doesn't meet the 5-acre requirement. They
asked for a variance for that. And road frontage, it now
has 206 feet. When you divide it up, it will only have
103 feet of frontage, and we require 200 feet.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: So we really need two
variances, right? We need a variance on the lot size for
1/100th of an acre.
MR. JOHNSTON: Right.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: And a variance for
the road frontage.
MR. JOHNSTON: Road frontage.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Okay.
MR. JOHNSTON: With those exceptions, it's
exactly the same as that one we did last time, when we
divided a lot.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: And I think Mr. Hutte
was requesting, so as not to have to come back a second day,
that we -- that the Court found it favorable to do both the
preliminary and final today.
MR. JOHNSTON: At one time, yes.
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noted for the preliminary -- for the Hutte Addition in
Precinct 2.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Third.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Williams, second by Commissioner Letz, that the Court grant
a variance to the lot size and the road frontage as
requested, and consider approval of the plat of Hutte
Addition in Precinct 2, both preliminary and final approval.
The agenda item reads "consider approval of preliminary
plat."
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I'll pull my third.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I'm hesitant to jump to the
final with that wording.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I am, too.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I agree.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: We'll put it back on
for final, but it will be just a formal matter.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Do you want to go ahead and
take a vote on the preliminary?
CUMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Do preliminary, put
it back on for final at the next meeting, since the agenda
item is not structured properly.
JUDGE HENNEKE: The motion, then, is to grant
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consider approval of the preliminary plat of Hutte Addition,
Precinct 2. 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: Preliminary plat is approved.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Just for information, it
will be on our next agenda to do that change. I didn't want
to do it just now because Jim Brown's been out of town.
He'll have some input, I think.
JUDGE HENNEKE: All right. Next few items
relate to public hearings. I guess we could go to Item
Number 7, as that's not related to public hearings; is that
correct?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Can we do 6? I think
we can do 6, can't we?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Six is the follow-on to the
public hearing.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Number 5
JUDGE HENNEKE: You have to have 5 before you
can do 6, but 7 doesn't appear to be tied to a public
hearing; is that correct?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: That's correct.
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Number 7, consider and approve name changes for Kerr County
roads in various locations in accordance with 911
guidelines. Commissioner Griffin.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Okay. These are
the -- before we go down to 7, I hate to be picky, but it
says -- on E, it says that they already had a public
hearing.
JUDGE HENNEKE: But the public hearing is
already had. lt's Number 5, which is scheduled for
10 o'clock.
COMMISSIONER	GRIFFIN:	Is that true,	Truby?
MS. HARDIN:	Except --	well, there's	two on
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: There's two on there
that have already had a public hearing. That's what was
confusing me, I guess. Okay. So, on 7, these are -- these
are all private roads that have been worked with 911 and
Road and Bridge, and I would move that we approve them as
presented.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Griffin, second by Commissioner Letz, that the Court approve
iiauie changes for the Kerr County private roads at the
various locations, in accordance with 911 guidelines, as
presented. Any questions or comments?
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I would add, of
course, that affected property owners were also conferred
with in selection of those names.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Very good. 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. Let's go,
then, I believe, to Item Number 10, consider and discuss a
method of acquiring the remaining piece of Sheppard Rees
right-of-way. As y'all may recall, the landowner had
requested that we consider giving a tax credit in exchange
Yor the small piece of land. Included in your packets is a
memo from the County Attorney indicating that that is
probably not appropriate, and I'm handing out to the Court
just now copies of the Property Code regarding the eminent
domain proceedings, if that's the direction the Court wants
to go. we do need to acquire this remaining piece of the
Sheppard Rees right-of-way. Franklin, are there any new
developments on this that you're aware of?
MR. JOHNSTON: I don't know of anything.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIYd: I have a thought, is
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I don't think that we've done anything formal with the
property owner out there, and it's my opinion that we should
go back now and formally offer him fair market value for
that piece of property and give him the opportunity to turn
that down before we move in the -- in the only other step I
see, the eminent domain. And I would be more than happy to
do triat in this case, but I think that we should do the --
that's a fair way to do it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: You're reading my mind this
morning.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: So I think if we need
a court order, and we probably do, to authorize Franklin
Johnston ox whoever you think is appropriate -- I'm not sure
if it should be an attorney or whoever, or you to make the
formal uffer to the landowner.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: It's kind of -- I agree.
My question is a procedural question, is whether it should
be the County Attorney's office or Road and Bridge. It
seems last time the County Attorney's office was doing it,
because you get into a legal and --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah, I'm more
comfortable with the -- with the attorney doing it, myself.
COMMISSIONEK LETZ: But we need -- you know,
we also, because of the lack of, I guess -- I don't know if
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Have we
established --
COMMISSIONER LETZ; If he can get it done,
also.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Have we established
in our own minds what fair market value might be?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: "Yes, sir. They have
had -- had an appraisal done.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: What's the timeline on
this, I mean, Franklin'?
MR. JOHNSTON: I think they're going to do
some work this summer.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Summer? I mean, I would
-- you know, I think I would go alcng with Commissioner
Baldwin and refer it to the County Attorney's office with a
timeline oii it; if it's not done by a certain day, I think
we need to go out to private counsel. We just can't let
things sit down there, but I think we need to give the
opportunity for it to be done in the County Attorney's
office. 'Cause I have one coming up, too; I want to make
sure the procedure is set.
JUDGE HENNEKE: What time frame would you
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afternoon?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'd say a month. I mean,
if they're going to do it in the summer when they're
starting to get into more details, I mean, it's not a --
JUDGE HENNEKE: If we have to go eminent
domain, you're talking a fairly lengthy time frame, so a
month is probably not unreasonable, but I --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Either way. Whatever.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Okay. I'm going to
say that -- that we want to refer this to the County
Attorney's office and ask him to have it done by the next
court meeting, which is --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: 28th.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: -- the 28th, to
formally offer the property owner the fair market value of
that piece of property.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay.
COMMISSIUNEK LETZ: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Letz, that the Court request
that the Kerr County Attorney formally offer the landowner
of the remaining piece of the Sheppard Rees right-of-way the
fair market value, as established by the appraisal, such
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(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(Nc response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries,
Mr. Tomlinson seems to have stepped out for a moment. Let's
go to Item Number 12, consider and discuss Kerr County
obligation to pay subcontractors for the work on courthouse
renovation. Commissioner Baldwin.
COMM[SSLGNE1l BALDWIN: Judge, we're going to
pull this, but I wanted to make a comment, kind of give
y'all an idea wkiat this is about. Now, we have the
contractor on this -- on our new facility over here that is
from another county, and the subcontractors are local
people. And this has been rocking along, and some of our
subcontractors here in this community have not been paid in
over two years. And, personally, that angers me, that this
is going on. And -- let's see. I had written the County
Attorney a letter back in October asking him, is there any
legal things that we can do to urge the contractor on so
that our subcontractors, the local people, can get their
money? And I have not received an answer to -- after
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thing is winding down, and that it's finishing up, and we
should be settling with the contractor in full. It looks
that way to me, anyway. And so the subcontractors, which
there aie several, wanted to come in here today with
Bazookas, and I have asked them to kind of just hold off and
just -- let's give the process a little bit more time.
That's what all that's about.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any other questions -- any
questions or comments?
COMMISSIQNER LETZ: Question on that. I
mean, the money that -- how do we insure that the
subcontractors get the money when we free up the last
10 percent?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I cannot answer that,
Jon. I can't get a legal answer to that, but probably there
is not one. However, to me, there is some responsibility of
us to see that they get their money, you know, as -- as the
county fathers.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Whatever we can do.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Whatever we can do to
get their money. I think it's not right.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I agree.
COMMISSIONER. BALDWIN: But, to answer your
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Did you pose that
question to the County Attorney?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yes, sir.
MR. JOHNSTON: We11, from my experience in
the engineering and construction business, the general
contractor has to sign off a deed release that he's paid all
oT his subcontractors before you give him his final
retainage, which guarantees that all the bills will be paid.
Mostly, it's bonding in place that covers any --
JUDGE HENNEKE: The lien releases and waivers
are one oY the sticky points, because I'm adamantly taking
the position I'm not releasing any retainage until I have
lien releases and waivers from 100 percent.
MR. JOHNSTON: That's common practice, I
think, to have that -- as an owner, to have that before you
can pay your final release.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We'll keep pushing on it.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Buster, do you -- or
Judge, do you Y,now, does he owe more than his retainage?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: No, he does not.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: So, I mean, you would
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CUMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah, it's a
considerable sum.
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: No, sir, that's all.
I just wanted to give that report.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you. Item Number 13,
consider and discuss a report from 911 Director on the
implementation of road name changes on Bailey Jo and Michon
Road. Take it away.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I think they're
standing right outside the door.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I can do it without
them. I mean, it's mine.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. Go ahead,
Commissioner.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: The -- if you remember
in our last meeting -- and I put comments from the minutes
of our last meeting, where Commissioner Williams and
Commissioner Griffin and Sheriff Hierholzer was -- at that
time was the chairman of the 911 Board, and my comments
asking them to move forward on those two -- on those two
roads, to go around the rules a little bit, and because it
was kind of an emergency-type situation. And I put this on
the agenda, and Friday afternoon I got a phone call from
Cindy Guerrero of the Postal Service in San Antonio. It's a
done deal. 911 sent in all the information to her, and it's
done, it's over, and thank you guys very much for doing what
we asked you to do. And so it's a -- it's another miracle
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Are you saying that
the road name and the Post Office addresses now match?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: According to
Mrs. Guerrero, yes.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Careful.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Have we -- the road
names are already up, are they not, Truby?
(Ms. Hardin nodded.)
C:OMMISSIONEF. WILLIAMS: Wonderful.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Very good. That's a good
report.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah, that's a good
onz. I was exited about it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Absolutely. Let's go to Item
Number 15, consider and discuss creation of a five-person
citizen's commission to rnake recommendations on elected
~Lficials' salaries, one person to be appointed by each
Commissioner and County Judqe, with technical support from
Shaun Branham. We talked about this last year during the
budget discussions, and I'm bringing it to the Court. I
think it's ari excellent idea. I think we should go ahead
and set up the commission, perhaps give ourselves a month or
two to uuminate the members so that they can do their
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deliberations without too much time pressure, but bring back
some rer_ommendations in the late-May or early-June time
frame so that we can consider them during our budget
deliberations.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Question -- may I ask
a question? The way I remember it, Commissioner Letz was
the brain child on this thing. Do you see -- what would be
the charge of this committee?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think to review all of
the elected officials' salaries in Kerr County and come back
with a recommendation on what they think they should
currently be in Kerr County.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Much like what we have
done several times, by comparing them with other counties?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yeah. It's not only --
just basically to let them look at it, let them come back
wil.h what they think every -- each elected official should
be making in this county. xou know --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: If they act as an
independent -- I think that was the idea. I mean, they will
act independently. They can use whatever data they think is
appropriate.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: And --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: We'll turn over
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: -- that doesn't mean they
do a survey, necessarily. They may decide that every county
official in Kerr County needs to be paid less, or whatever
they may think should be done. But hopefully they would
take into consideration whatever, you know, comparable
people make, and cost-of-living, whatever they want. I
uieau, my only -- and I -- you know, 1 fully support the
creation of it. I think five members is a good number of
citizens. Any more than that, it starts getting cumbersome.
My only -- and having Shaun involved from a technical
standpoint is good. My only question is, some -- and I'm
trying to think of who would be a good person to get on this
involved also, because we need somebody who understands a
little bit what these people do. We need somebody from the
County government on this, but 1 hate to have an elected
official, because it kind of gets a little bit tainted.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yeah, then you lose
the independent --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Unly one I can think of
possibly is Tommy. He is not -- you know, he's appointed by
the -- the judges.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: He could be a part of
the committee, ex-ulficio.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: An ex-officio part,
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-- they really need that involvement.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I think that's a good
idea.
JUDGE HENNEKE: That's an excellent idea.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I agree.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: If Tommy will do it. If
not, we'll have to find somebody. But, I mean --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I didn't bring
somebody from my precinct today.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, I think the idea wasn't
to name people today, but to set up the commission, like we
with did with the other commission. Give ourselves -- I
would say announce the members the first meeting in
February. 't'hat gives us a month to go out and talk to
people and find people who are willing to take the time to
do it. We're not under any time crunch right now. If it
slips a whole lot more, then we do put them under a time
crunch that they may not be comfortable with, because there
is fair amount of education that's going to have to go on.
CUMMISSIONER LETZ: I think they need to have
a report back to the Court probably June 1st.
JUllGE HENNEKE: I would say June 1st.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: June 1st. And, I think
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support they need to get the information, the data that they
need.
JUDGE HENNEKE: The reason Shaun was
suggested is because he has the technical ability to take
data -- he can collect data off the web, he can put it in
spreadsheets, he can manipulate it, he can give the -- you
know, our committee whatever they need in order to make the
recommendations that are asked for.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Okay. I'll move the
creation of a -- a salary commission to review elected
officials' salary in Kerr County, one member coming from
each of the -- one citizen member coming from each member of
the Court, Shaun Branham for technical assistance, and Tommy
Tomlinson for additional ex-officio member as additional
technical information.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Do you want the names
announced February 10th, and request them to report by
June 1st?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Williams, that the Court create a
five-person citizen's salary commission and make
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County Judge, with technical support from Shaun Branham and
substantive support by Tommy Tomlinson, members to be
announced at our February 10th meeting, with the report to
be requested not later than June 1st, Year 2002.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Judge, an additional
thing. I think it would be helpful for -- and I'll be glad
to make a stab at it -- to have at least a one-page or a --
in writing, what we want from the commission, with some
recommendations.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Charter.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: A general charter. I
think, as a recommendation, they should be encouraged to
talk to all the elected officials. I mean, if they don't
want to, they don`t have to. They can do what they want,
but I'll take a stab at that and run it by you at our next
court meeting. We can get that ready by the --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: That's a great idea.
And it should stress the independence of the commission,
that they will make recommendations independently. Of
course, the Court has to act on it as part of the budget
process.
JUllGE HENNEKE: Good. Anyone else have any
questions or comments regarding the motion on the floor? If
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
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DODGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Let's take
up Item Number 16, consider and discuss the renewal of the
lease for the West Kerr County Annex and increase in rental
for that facility. Commissioner Griffin, I believe you had
some discussions on that?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yes. I did not get a
copy of -- of the letter, apparently, that -- that
Mr. Priour sent. Did you have a copy of that? Only thing I
don't have, but it's really not required, but -- but I just
didn't see a copy of it. I know that there was one. The
issue here is that the lease for the annex in Ingram is up
for renewal. Mr. Priour has -- has offered to renew the
lease. He has -- did he mention an amount, a new rate in
that letter'?
MS. RECTOR: I think he's increasing it by
$50 a month.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: That's what I had
heard was in the letter, and that was his proposal. And --
and that's -- that's probably reasonable, off the top of my
head. I'd like to hear the rest of the Court. Also, as a
part of that process, when we originally did the -- when we
originally did the lease, you know that we did pay, I think,
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a $400 security deposit, and I discussed that with
Mr. Priour at that time, that at some point we would like to
get that security deposit back, since, generally speaking,
governmental agencies don't pay security deposits. But we
did it to close the deal, and in good faith. We said we'd
talk about that at renewal time. So, what I would suggest
is -- is that -- and I'll be glad to make the contact with
Mr. Priour, see if we can renew on those terms, with perhaps
the -- if he will agree to a $50 increase per month, and
that at the same time we'll make adjustments, perhaps in $50
increments, until we get that security deposit back, and see
if we can proceed along those lines. Then I would bring
that bark to the Court and perhaps ask Mr. Priour to come in
if he'd like to, and we can try to finalize that, perhaps as
early as the next meeting.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Where would the extra
$50 come Lrom out of the budget?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Well, for the first
eight uwnLhs -- for the first eight months, it we can work
the thing to get our security deposit back, there would be
no impact. For the last months of the lease, then we'd have
to consider it in next year's budget, and we'd perhaps have
a -- like, $100, $150 this year that we'd probably have to
take out of the budget, a budget amendment of some sort.
Does that answer your question?
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: In other words, if we
can work the thing on the security deposit, it goes up $50,
but then we recover that, and that would be my going-in
position with Mr. Priour.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And if we don't work
out the dial with the security deposit, we have to come up
with some bucks?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Right.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: So, where --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Does the lease run
concurrently with our budget, or calendar-year lease or
something else?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Paula, do you know
offhand?
MS. R.ECTOP,: It's January 1.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: It's January 1.
Probably be a good idea, at the same time we redo this
lease, to put it on a Fiscal year basis so that we line it
up.
JUDGE HENNEKE: It's been an excellent
program out in west Kerr County, Paula.
MS. RECTOR: I just have a question. I don't
think, in the contract, that it mentions anything about how
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the sky's the limit. I don't think that he would ever do
that, but is there something that we can put in that
contract that kind of locks him into a certain amount that
he can increase each year? Because when you talk about S50
a month each year, every year, over a ten-year period, let's
say, that's going to be a substantial amount.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Well, this would be a
multi-year lease. It would not be --
MS. RECTOR: 'Cause we've been going
year-to-year on the lease.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yeah. What I mean is
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that we should try -- we should go for a multi-year lease at
a fixed rate.
MS. RECTOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: And it comes up for
renegotiation when the new lease comes up.
MS. RECTOR: I'd like to see that in a
multi-year lease that has a fixed amount.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: But I will take that
as an action item, if the Court would like to proceed that
way, and try to Lrinq it back for the next meeting.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, I suggest we have a
motion to renew the lease at 5450 a month, a multi-year
term, and ask Commissioner Griffin to negotiate the terms
and bring it back to the Court for approval,
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: You just made the
motion.
JUDGE HENNEKE: No, I didn't. I said I'd
entertain a motion.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Oh, I see.
COMMISSIONER. GRIFFIN: I said so moved.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I kind of wanted to
hear him make a motion.
JUDGE HENNEKE: You haven't heard me make one
yct. In three years, you haven't heard me make one.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Griffin, second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court
renew the lease with Mr. Priour on the West Kerr County
Annex, and at a monthly rate of $450 a month and multi-year
term, and authorize Commissioner Griffin to negotiate the
final details and bring it back to the Court for final
approval. Any questions or comments? If not, all in favor,
raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
DODGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HEPdNEKE: Motion carries. Next item is
Item Number 17, consider and discuss a proposal by State Tax
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Management and Review to collect misallocated sales tax
revenue. You have in your packets the correspondence in
your proposal from the outfit called State Tax Management.
Apparently, based on my discussions with Mr. Morgan, there
is a situaticn which state sales tax gets misappropriated
for the benefit of metropolitan transit authorities and not
properly czedited to the county that collected the tax.
Mr. Morgan was not able to tell me whether there was
actually un -- misallocated tax on behalf of Kerr County,
although he indicated he was ~=ertain that there was some. I
don't know whether this is something that the Court wants to
entertain or not. I --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: No.
JUDGE HENNEKE: -- felt obligated to bring it
up for consideration.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think it's interesting
to look into, but I don't see that we need to use Mr. Morgan
to do that.
	JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay.		
	COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN:	Me	either.
	COMM[SSIONER BALUWIN:	Is	this something
done -- see,	I couldn't even get my	mind	to that point. I
thought they	were saying that we wer	e sen	ding money
somewhere, to	these metropolitan tra	nsit	authorities.
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: This is happeninq
before the money gets back here, huh?
JUDGE HEP~NEKE: At the -- at the
Comptroller's oYfice, money that would otherwise come to
Kerr County somehow is getting siphoned oYf to San Antonio
because they have a metropolitan transit authority. And I
don't understand exactly how that works, and I talked to a
couple people, and they don't either, but that's the
scenario and that's the proposal. If the -- if the Court's
not interested in it, I certainly don't disagree with that,
and we'll so notify Mr. Morgan.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: So, some lawyer in
Austin probably -- oh, no, Dallas -- wants us to give him
~I 40 percent of wtrat he can collect on behalf of Kerr County.
What a big-hearted man he is. I appreciate that.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I believe we have the sense
of that one. Let's move along. Item Number 18, consider
and discuss the Commissioners Court meeting schedule for the
calendar year 2002. The proposal prepared by our court
coordinator is in the -- in our book. It's the same general
proposal that we have operated off of for three years now.
It shows the evening meetings on a quarterly basis, as well
as adjusting the schedule for the three Monday holidays that
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: So moved.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court adopt the
schedule for the calendar year 2002 meetings of the Kerr
County Commissioners Court, to include quarterly evening
meetings. Any further questions or comments?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: My only comment would
be that if I were going to oppose it, I'd oppose it on the
grounds that the evening meetings are not that beneficial.
You know, we have a few people here and we do take care of
business; however, we're holding staff over and paying
sometimes overtime for them. But I'll vote for it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any other questions or
comments? If not --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I would tend to agree.
I just think that we need to look very carefully at the cost
effect of the evening meetings, and would -- is it really
increasing the number of people who will show up? At times
I think it has, in the past couple years -- three years, and
at times it has not. And there is a dollar cost associated
with it, so I just think we need to take a look at it this
year, to maybe consider dropping it if we don't really
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JUDGE HEP~PJEKE: Well, I would disagree with
that, because I think it's incumbent upon us to offer
government to the citizens. And, you know, if we wanted to,
we could take our show on the road and have these meetings
in Ingram and in other places around the county. We've not
chosen to do that, because that really does get into a cost
by the time you transfer all the records and everybody
travels. But I think that this is the minimum effort that
we make on an annual basis to make government more available
to the citizens, whether or not they take advantage of it.
I think the dollar cost is minimal, because our department
heads are good managers, and I don't think we get charged
hardly any overtime for evening meetings, because they
adjust the -- the work schedule of the people who have to be
at the court meetings in order to accommodate the fact that
it's in the evening. But, those are my thoughts on the
issue.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I'd be in favor of
our -- our looking seriously at taking two meetings out of
the courthouse, whatever's the best use of the county, in
lieu of two of the four evening meetings.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We could do that, if we want
to work up a proposal to that effect. We could always
substitute it for what we do. The motion is to approve the
schedule. All in favor, raise your right hand.
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DODGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries.
(Discussion off the record.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Is the gentleman in the back
of the room here for the presentation on the landowner
signs?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Joe.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: No, Joe is here for
the name changes.
MR. ESQUELL: For the Reservation Road --
JUDGE HENNEKE: A11 right.
MR. ESQUELL: -- changeover with Tatsch Road.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We're just fir>ing to get to
that. So, it's 10 o'clock. At this time, we will recess
the Kerr County Commissioners Cour~ meeting and open a
public hearing on name changes for County-maintained roads
in accordance with yll guidelines, and a speed limit sign.
(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
DODGE HENNEKE: These -- the names of the
roads that are to be considered have been published in the
paper, as has the speed limit sign change. Just for
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purposes of the public hearing, I'm going to read the names.
The proposal is t_o change what is now known as Reservation
Road Northwest to Upper Reservation Road Northwest, to
change Tatsch Road Northwest to Lower Reservation Road
Northwest, to change Benson Road North to Eugene Road North,
to change the paved portion of South Park Road Southwest to
Cougar Yark Road Southwest, and to change the name of
Windcrest West to Yavo, Y-a-v-o, Road West. Additionally,
on Highway -- on Westwood off Highway 27, set a speed limit
of 35 miles an hour. Is there anyone in the audience who
would like to address the Court on those name changes? Once
again, is there anyone in the audience, any citizen, who'd
like to address the Court on those specific name changes and
the speed limit change? One more time, is there any citizen
who would like to address the Court during the public
meeting on the proposed road name changes and the speed
limit sign change?
MR. ESQ[JELL: Are you going to change it to
Upper yr Lower? The Tatsch Road.
JUDGE HENNEKE: The name "Tatsch Road" was to
be changed. I believe it is to Lower -- Lower Reservation
Road, yes, sir.
MR. ESQUELL: Well, I'd like to have seen it
be "West," but I'll settle for "Lower."
JUDGE HENNEKE: All right. Thank you, sir.
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name changes? If not, I will declare the public hearing
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(The public hearing was concluded at 10:03
a.m., and the regular Commissioners Court
meeting was reopened.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: We will reconvene the Kerr
County Commissioners Court meeting. The next item for
consideration is Item Number 6, consider the name changes
for County-maintained roads that have had a publi~~ hearing,
and a speed limit sign change. In addition to those roads
that were just the subject of the public hearing, we have
North Oak and South Oak Drive West being changed to Oak
Drive West. We have East and West Cedar Drive West being
changed to Cedar Drive West, and we have West Cedar Drive
West being changed to Bush Drive West. Those names were
previously the subject of a public hearing.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I'll make a motion
that we accept all of the changes as presented for this
agenda item.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Griffin, second by Commissioner Letz, that the Court approve
the name changes for County-maintained roads and the change
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COMMISSIONER LETZ: Comment -- do you have a
comment? It relates to the signage portion of it. At the
moment, Road and Bridge is under a moratorium, not changing
names for the time being. The speed limit sign can go up,
but everything else can't change until we get everything
worked out with 911 and the Post Office, I understand.
Which leads to my question; I see Mr. Ballard back in the
audience. At what point should we get it on the agenda to
get a new procedure set up so we can continue -- I mean get
the signage and all that changed? Or are we ready to do
that now?
MR. BALLARD: Well, we talked about it with
Cindy Guerrero and the Commissioners. We've established
that and agreed to the procedure. I don't know what more
action -- what --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I guess it sounds, then,
that we're able -- at our next meeting, we can put it on the
agenda to get it in writing so Road and Bridge knows what to
do and when to do it? That's my question.
MR. BALLARD: Road and Bridge was there.
Buster or Larry, do we need a -- what else do you think we
need?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Well, I think what we
wanted -- what we talked about was making sure that the Post
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Office has the information.
MR. BALLARD: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Before we do the sign
change. That was -- so that we need some feedback loop from
Cindy Guerrero that, indeed, it's in the system.
MR. BALLARD: Well, our approach, as we
described in the meeting, was to continue on the path that
we're going, and as we approach these areas, we coordinate
with Ms. Guerrero and she updates her postal charts
accordingly.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Right.
MR. BALLARD: And we just -- it's a continual
process of coordination. However, we weren't going to jump
over and do the rural mail route, per se, because that
disturbs our procedure.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I think the question
is, how do we -- we just need to make sure that we have
something set up so that we get feedback from San Antonio,
from Cindy Guerrero, that, indeed, it's in the system. Now,
have we -- I don't recall if we really discussed that in
that meeting.
MR. BALLARD: I don't -- I don't think we
did.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I don't think we
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than anything is this letter from the Post Office and County
Judge, both signatures on that. And it's my opinion, like
the earlier item here of Michon Drive and Bailey Jo Road, or
whatever it was, that now is the time for that letter to go
out.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Right.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Now that the Post
Office has called back said everything's clear and rocking
and rolling.
MR. BALLARD: That's a demonstration of the
procedure as it should work, as you described it before.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yes, sir.
MR. BALLARll: As soon as she gets back to you
guys, then the co-letter signed by the Judge and by the
Postal District can be sent out.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And that's what we
need to do by court order, is design this letter and
authorize this letter thing to go out.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Which will be the trigger
to Road and Bridge.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: That's correct.
MR. BALLARD: Yes.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: You're doing that,
Commissioner Baldwin?
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Huh? I can't even
spell post office.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: We'd have to put that
on the next agenda.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: We have that other
letter that Gillespie County uses.
MR.. BALLARD: Use that as a form, yes.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I just have one
question, Commissioner. In your discussions with
Ms. Guerrero in San Antonio, has she given you any feel for
what the time frame of this process would be? Under normal
circumstances.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Once she gets it?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Very quick.
MR. BALLARD: When --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: When she gets it, it
goes in the system, she says.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: It took -- it took her
a good month, a month and a few days on this one, and this
was an emergency and was a small amount. But I think she --
I think she indicated that -- that that's about the time
frame.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Okay, good. Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. I think we have a
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I have another
question, Judge, I'm sorry. To Truby, I guess. Yavo Road,
there's not a conflict with that name in any way?
MS. HARDIN: Yavo? The -- I forgot the name
of it; it is just -- Windcrest is just an extension of Yavo
at this point.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Very good. Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any other questions or
comments?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I would like to make a
comment. This was -- in both cases of Reservation Road in
the Bivouac Estates Subdivision, that the process really
worked right. The public came to us with their concerns,
they came to us with their input. We reacted to that. 911
was a big help. Everybody jumped in. We came up with
something that both the citizens could live with and that
fit our guidelines, and it was an excellent -- I think an
excellent example of how the system will work.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Very good. Any other
comments? If not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
DODGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
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up Item Number 11, if we could, please, gentlemen. Consider
and discuss disposition of surplus property. Tommy?
MR. TOMLINSON: We have one item that I think
you have a note from me about. That's a -- that's a PC that
I had a request from -- from Russ Duncan that -- that if we
want to sell this, we can sell it to Gillespie County. It's
a 1996 PC that's -- that the mother board is -- we're having
problems with, and we don't want to put any more money in
iL. So, we either have a choice of -- of putting it on
auction and -- sometime in the future, or selling it to
them.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'd send it up the road
to the north.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Actually, it goes
downstairs.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Well --
(Discussion off the record.)
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I make a motion that we
surplus tYie 1995 Gateway 133 and accept Gillespie County's
offer of $35.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court declare as
surplus the 1996 Gateway computer and authorize sale of that
surplus properly to Gillespie County for the sum of $35.
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right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
I DODGE HENNEKE: Motion carries.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Judge, I'd like to
take just a moment and congratulate Tommy, our Auditor, for
his recent appointment to the committee. And, Tommy, thank
you so much for your service. We appreciate your --
MR. TOMLINSON: Did I miss something?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yes, you did.
(Laughter.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: I'll explain it to you later.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Congratulations, and
thank you for your service.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: You shouldn't leave.
JUDGE HENNEKE: The next item we'll take up
is Item Number 14, consider and discuss budget amendment,
unfunded State mandate to pay longevity supplements to the
198th and 216th Assistant Prosecutors. And you have in your
packets the letter from Judge Prohl, as well as the
memorandum from Texas District and County Attorneys
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MR. TOMLINSON: There is some good news about
this. We didn't have to do a budget amendment for -- for
Bruce Curry's office. His -- his assistant is paid through
the City of Kerrville, through the task force grant. All
the County does is reimburse the City. So, Bruce -- the
D.A, has enough surplus in his -- in his fund to pay the
difference for this year without having to assess the
counties any more for -- for this purpose, so there's no
need to have a budget amendment for the 216th.
JUDGE HENNEKE: That lessens the blow
somewhat.
MR. TOMLINSON: Yeah.
JODGE HENNEKE: Any questions or comments?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I would just hope that
we have -- we should contact our State Representative one
more time about unfunded state mandates, and see if at
least -- even though this one is not as big as some of them
have been, that we probably need to once again voice our
concern to the Legislature about laying unfunded mandates on
us.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: So I guess all we do
is approve the amendment?
COMMISSIONER. GRIFFIN: Correct.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: That's the only thing

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JUDGE HENNEKE: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I move that we approve
Budget Amendment Number 1, moving $1,404 from Contingency to
the operating expense of Code 10-445-330.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court
approve Budget Amendment Request Number 1 for the 198th
District Attorney in the amount of $1,909. Any other
questi~us or comments"? If not, all in favor, raise your
right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. At this
timz, it appears we have successfully completed the agenda,
with the exception of the presentation of landowners' signs
by George Holekamp and the public hearing scheduled for
10:30 on the abandoning Gulch Ranch Road. So, I'm going to
suggest at this time that we take a break and be back
promptly at 10:30.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Raffle tickets are right
here.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: We will reconvene this
meeting of the Kerr County Commissioners Court, and promptly
recess for purposes of conducting a public hearing on the
abandonment, discontinuation, and vacation of Gulch Ranch
Road, parentheses, South Park, close parentheses, in
Guadalupe Ranch Estates in Precinct 4.
(The regular Commissioners Court meeting was
closed at 10:30 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
i JUDGE HENNEKE: Is there any member of the
public who would like to address the Court on the issue of
abandoning, vacating, and discontinuing Gulch Ranch Road,
formerly a portion of South Park Rcad, as provided by the
Texas Transportation Code? Come forward, sir. Identify
yourself.
MR. SLEYKO: Yes, Your Honor. My name is Joe
Sleyko, and I represent the Guadalupe Ranch Estates property
organization, and I am their president. And we held a
meeting Friday -- pardon me, last Saturday concerning this
proposal, and I want to represent the board as being
unanimously against Lhis. And we think it would be a
detriment to our -- our neighborhood. And I just want to
call attention to -- would everybody stand up from Guadalupe
Ranch Estates?
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MR. SLEYKO: I just want to identify them as
interested parties, property owners of Guadalupe Ranch
Estates that have come to accompany me to -- to protest
this. We're quite shocked at this whole thing, and we
would -- we would like to really unanimously protest this.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. Anyone have any
questions or comments?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: A comment, that I did
meet with the board on Saturday, and there was a lot of
discussion about the utility of the road from several points
of view. And -- and the board was definitely unanimous that
they did not want to abandon, discontinue, or vacate.
Thanks, gentlemen.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you.
MR. SLEYKO: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Is there anyone else who'd
like to address the Court during this public meeting on the
issue of vacating, abandoning, and discontinuing Gulch Road?
Come torward, sir, and identify yourself, if you would.
MR. BELMONT: My name is R. B. Belmont. I'm
a property owner, Lot 22 /, and I'd like to point out that
the advantage to be gained by keeping this road open would
be that the County and the Hunt School District and the
homeowners property association would gain by keeping this
open. At the present time, Ms. Hightower and her heirs own
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Lot 202, 203, and 204. Now, if you close that road, there
Now, of course, they could have access by building a long
road into their property from North Park Road, but the --
these lots I mentioned first, 202 through 204, would be no
access at all. And if Ms. Hightower or her heirs wanted to
sell this property, they would gain by selling the
individual lots, which they couldn't sell otherwise. Also,
it would benefit Kerr county for their tares when these lots
are developed, and the Hunt School District. And that is my
point, is that we all would be -- could be victims of a --
of a loss of -- of revenue on your taxes and so forth, and
the homeowners association dues. And I just wanted to point
that out, that that is my reason for objecting to closing --
now, isn't this -- South Park Road, isn't that a designated
road that the County has already signed off that they --
like the rest of the roads out there, that they have agreed
to maintain? See, they came out and -- and improved the
roads and then they paved the roads, except for South Park
Road. They did not do -- well, they did put some gravel and
some fill in there, but they did not pave it.
JQDGE HENNEKE: It is apparently a
County-maintained road; however, there is a procedure under
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the Transportation Code where that road can be abandoned,
dropped as a public road, and the county maintenance ceases,
and that's the procedure we're undergoing now, which was
initiated by the owners of the property who are serviced by
that -- by the road to be abandoned.
MR. BELMONT: Well, there's another thing,
too. Anybody that lives south -- all of us that live south
of the South Park Road, which is Fallow Run, that goes all
the way around, makes the loop in Cherry Springs back to
1340 on the east, use that road because our garbage dump is
down in the park. We have two garbage containers that they
pick up garbage twice a week, and that's the nearest way.
We just, force of habit, cut through there to take our
garbage. Of course, it wouldn't be far to drive on up to
North Park Road and come down that, but it is convenient.
That's my point. Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you, sir. Is there any
other citizen who would like to address the Court during
this public hearing on the issue of abandoning, vacating,
and discontinuing Gulch Road? Yes, sir?
MR. SLEYKO: May I make one more comment?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Come forward and do so.
MR. SLEYKO: Mr. Belmont made mention of the
garbage containers, our dumpsters down there. One thing
that I didn't bring up, because I wanted really to keep it

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brief -- I have a whole list of reasons, but one of the main
reasons is that at the bottom of that hill, where the trash
containers that Mr. Belmont referred to, is our firehouse.
And, actually, that's a main -- that's a main artery for our
firehouse, and I want to let you know that.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay, thank you.
MR. SLEYKO: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Yes, sir? Did you have a
comment?
AUDIENCE: That's the point I wanted to make.
JUDGE HENNEKE: All right. Does anyone else
have any comments they'd like to make during this public
hearing? Going once. Going twice. Once again, are there
any other citizens who'd like to address the Court during
this public hearing on the abandoning, discontinuing, and
vacating of Gulch Ranch Road? If not, we'll close the
public hearing and reconvene the Kerr County Commissioners
Court meeting.
(The public hearing was concluded at 10:38
a.m., and the regular Commissioners Court
meeting was reopened.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: The next item listed on the
agenda for consideration is to consider and discuss the
abandoning, vacating, and discontinuing of Gulch Road.
Commissioner Griffin, this is in your precinct. Do you want
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I think the issue is
clear here, and that this -- this agenda item should die for
lack of a motion. If there is further interest downstream
of those property owners that are affected on that road of
trying for an abandonment, then they need to go get not just
their two affidavits that we have, but they would have to
get 75 percent of the owners in the subdivision, since this
is a platted subdivision, to agree to that. That should
have happened in this go-around. So, I really think that we
need to pull Item 2.9, not even address it, because there's
-- it really not would not be appropriate to do this with
just these two affidavits, and I think the issue is dead.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Question,
Commissioner. Isn't this similar to one up in -- closer to
Hunt -- Japonica Hills?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Japonica Hills.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: When we did that, they
had to get the signatures.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Mr. Don Townsend, who
was the property owner -- they had some unimproved, platted
roads that they wanted to officially abandon, and they had
to go get affidavits from all their property owners, and it
took them months to do it because some of them were absentee
and they had to chase them down all over the U.S. and
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abroad, I think. So, it's a very -- and then we had to have
a public hearing, and then we had to have a vote on it. But
as long as it's a platted subdivision, there is use for the
road, which is obviously indicated by the board and their
residents, that I would never be in favor of -- of vacating,
abandoning, and discontinuing.
DODGE HENNEKE: Any other questions or
comments? If not, it appears to me that the sense of the
Court is to take no action on this item at this time.
Failing a motion, we'll move on to recessing until
2 o'clock, at which time we have scheduled the evaluations
of the nonelected department heads and direct hires by the
Commissioners Court. So, we stand in recess until
2 o'clock. Thank you all for coming.
(Recess taken from 10:44 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.)
DODGE HENNEKE: It's 2 o'clock in the
afternoon. We'll reconvene this regular session of the Kerr
County Commissioners Court. The agenda item for 2 o'clock
is to conduct reviews of performance evaluations with the
department heads and other employees that are elected
directly by the -- or hired directly by the Commissioners
Court. These reviews will be conducted in Executive Session
unless the employee chooses to have the session conducted in
open session. Mr. Duncan has requested that his review be

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conducted in open session. Is there anyone else who'd like
to have their review conducted in open session? Ms. Sovil.
Mr. North. Anybody else? Okay. Well we'll do the open
session first, and then we'll go into Executive Session and
conduct the other reviews. So, let's start with Mr. Duncan.
Have a seat, Russ. The purpose of these evaluations,
really, is not -- first of all, is, you know, so that the
department head can get the sense of the Court as to the
kind of job we're doing and if there's any unmet
expectations, but also for us to hear from you all how we
can better serve you all in serving the citizens of Kerr
County. And I think it's important that we approach this
process as a dialogue, as opposed to a monologue. So, never
having done this before, either this Court or myself, we'll
kind of stumble through it, but I think we'll make out all
right in the end.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Before you start, can I
make kind of a general comment? 'Cause a lot of people are
here.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Sure.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Just -- it's something
that, you know -- I don't know, a little bit on the format
that I think we decided to use. I think that the whole
Court thinks it's good to get feedback from those that
report straight to the Court, but I don't think we're --
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it's unclear the best way, necessarily, to do this.
Because, essentially, each of you have five bosses, but we
can	only act	together	as a court,	so it's	kind of --	it's a
very	strange	situation	in the fac	t that,	you know, I	may
want	Leonard	to do one	thing and	Larry ma	y want him	to do
something else; I mean, put Leonard in kind of an awkward
situation where he has two people kind of telling him what
to do, and he doesn't work for either one of them
individually. So, it's a difficult situation.
So, to me, the -- the purpose of this is
really just to get a little feedback, like the Judge
mentioned, back and forth, much more than necessarily a
performance review. Maybe get down the road so that, you
know, if there are expectations that aren't being met, you
know, the employees understand that. And if there's, you
know, things that we're doing that the department heads and
other employees find uncomfortable or don't like or
whatever, they can give the whole Court, as a whole,
feedback. Personally, I think everyone, you know, -- well,
some of them I didn't think really worked for the Court, so
f didn't fill them out, and some of them that I thought did
work for the Court aren't on the list, so it's a little bit
strange right in this area, anyway. I think Russ is one
that I didn't really think he worked for the Court directly,
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But I probably am not going -- I will have very few
comments, because I think it's -- in my opinion, I'd rather
make my comments one-on-one. Y'all have -- you know, that
received an evaluation from me, you saw mine. If y'all have
any questions, you know, you're -- feel free to come to me
one-on-one. So, to me, really, this process is much more to
get that Teedback coming back from you all, as opposed to me
giving feedback to you, 'cause I've already given you one.
If there's any questions, I would hope y'all feel free to
come to me and let's talk about it.
CUMM1SSlONER GP.IFFIN: If I could just add to
that?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Sure.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: And I echo everything
Jonathan just said about the purpose of this and how it can
be most beneficial to all of us. Another thing, as we go
through this, I would like to hear -- and I'm sure everybody
else on the Court would like to hear, are what are ways that
yuu may have in mind that we could communicate better to
employees, to employees that work directly for the Court?
Is Lhere a better way of doing business that maybe we
haven't tried? And I'm talkinq about, for example, would it
Le -- would it be better to have written -- more written,
less verbal, or would it be easier for you to, say, pick up
the phone and just call me? You know, sort of the
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trade-offs that are being -- that are possible there. I'd
like to hear, you know, what works best for you in your area
and that sort of thing. So that the idea of how we can
communicate better with our -- with our supervisory
employees, I think, is another big topic I'd like to hear
feedback on.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I want to also echo
everything that's been said down there. I think that we all
probably, each one of us, has some discomfort in what's
going on, because this field hasn't been plowed before. But
I think my dis -- one of my discomforts is that it's -- it's
political season, and I'm just a little bit uncomfortable of
that, just the -- what it might look like. But I'm
certainly willing to go through the process, and I think
it's going to be a good, healthy process. I agree with
Commissioner Letz that Mr. Duncan is an example. I never
have viewed him as a Commissioners Court employee because
that never was really established, in my opinion. You know,
I just -- I thought he worked for the good Judge down the
hall. I've always just kind of viewed it that way, although
we work together very closely, and have, and will continue
to do so. So, that's -- you know, those are my concerns.
Minor concerns, but I think that if we go through the
process, I think it will end up being healthy.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Bill?
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I have no comments.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. My fault, I did omit
two employees; Kathy Banik, our court reporter, and Shaun
Branham, the computer information specialist. It was my
error. We'll -- we'll recycle around and pick those up as
we go on down the road. I think what I'd -- the format I'd
like to suggest for these is, each of the persons being
reviewed has a copy of our individual reviews. What I'd
like to do is, I think, to ask the individual being reviewed
if they have any questions about the reviews they've
received. After we respond to any questions, then give the
Commissioners a chance to make any comments, and then get
some feedback from the person being reviewed. If we could
just follow -- kind of follow that format for everyone, that
will allow the process and framework for moving forward.
Anybody have any comments on that?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Sounds good.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. Well, you're the
guinea pig, Russ.
MR. DUNCAN: Well, see, I wish I only worked
for the five of y'all, because it wouldn't be so bad, but
I've got two district judges, County Court at Law judge, you
as juvenile judge, a District Clerk, County Clerk, County
Attorney, two District Attorneys who I all have to kind of
work for and with and report to, and keep them all happy.
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And that's part of my job. And, as far as my evaluations
go, I -- I concur with what I got and the way I got it and
the numbers I got. Because what we do in my operation is --
we probably are tougher evaluators, because whenever we have
to issue a capias, provide a warrant, we look at that as a
failure, because we have to put somebody in jail rather than
collect the money. So, we look at ourselves. "Okay, what
did we do in this case that we shouldn't have done? Or what
didn't we do that we should have done?" So, we kind of do a
self-evaluation in our program. And, let's face it, our
goal is to collect dollars for the county.
Now, besides that, I run around the state and
do other things. I teach for the Texas Municipal Court
Education Center, and I do stuff for the Office of Court
Administration, and here and there and everywhere as
president of the Government Collectors Association. But,
really, we do -- we evaluate what we do, and I guess the
biggest evaluation I look at in my department is how well we
get along with the courts and how long -- how well we get
along with the clerks, and we don't get any complaints. As
far as the defendants go, they're never happy with us
because we tell them, "You've got to pay the money," and
their evaluation doesn't count. So -- but, like I say, our
self-evaluations of what we do and how we do it are very
important to us, and we look at our dollars. And when we
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see our dollars falling -- like, over Christmas every year
we face the same thing. People don't pay; there's Christmas
here. And we look at that and go, "Well, how do we get
around that?" So, what we did this year was we just took
the payments from about the 15th of December and moved them
to the 15th of January. And, guess what? Our stats went
up.
You know, but the workload -- the workload in
months by about 30 percent, and that's true in the courts
and that's true everywhere else. Everything's going up by
about 30 percent. And, very frankly, we're running to catch
up and to stay up. And we feel good about ourselves, you
know. We feel good about the money and we feel good about
how we do it. And we're always looking for -- every time I
go teach somewhere, what I always find out is it's an
education, because I bring back as much information as I
took. And we're always saying, Wait a minute, we can change
this application. We can change this application to read in
English and Spanish. So, we're -- so that will help us with
that issue. And we're always modifying what we're doing.
If we find the right way, then I'll let you know, but so far
we haven't found the perfect way.
And, that's really my comments. But, like I
say, I wish I just worked for the five of you. And I -- and
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the bottom line is, I work for a bigger group, and I feel
like I really am responsible to the citizens of Kerr County,
because, see, what I'm dealing with is tax money. It's
money that should be recovered that has -- in the past has
not been recovered, and that is a big thing to me. I feel
very responsible for that. That's my comment.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Does anyone have any specific
comments for Russ?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: None at a11.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: The results speak for
themselves.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: They do.
MR. DUNCAN: Money comes in -- I forgot, I
have to keep the Auditor happy too. I can't forget Tommy.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Anything you want to offer to
us as far as improvements? As far as feedback --
MR. DUNCAN: No. All I ask --
JUDGE HENNEKE: -- to the report you got from
the Court
MR. DUNCAN: You know if I have a problem,
1'll come to the Court, like 1 try to keep you informed.
And I work with Buster a lot, because on the statewide
things, I know Buster's been involved with TAC and
everythinq else. And we've recently been accepted as
associate members of TAC, as far as Government Collectors
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Association. And, like, next Thursday I've got to be in
Austin, because Judge Ables wants me to go with him to the
Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on collections of fines
and court costs. And, so -- but I kind of keep
everything -- if I've got something new, I come in to you,
if I'm going to be somewhere. And I think that
communications just needs to be kept open. I don't -- if
somebody hears something or sees something that they don't
agree with, stop right then, pick up the phone and call me,
get me up in your office and tell me. Or if you know
something, give me -- tell me, because I have not got tea
leaves down in my office; I can't read them. So, you know,
communication -- and let me tell you, I think everything you
do, having been a chief of police and being in
administration, communication is the secret. If you -- if
you don't tell somebody what's wrong, they sure as hell
can't correct it. So, that's -- and if I have a complaint
with y'a11, I'm going to do the same thing; I'm going to
come to you and say, "Hey, guys, you're not giving me the
support I need in order the get this money." And so far, I
haven't had to do that.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Get out of here and
leave us alone.
MR. DUNCAN: And you notice, it was kind.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Ed? Ed North.
MR. NORTH: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Solid Waste.
MR. NORTH: No -- am I solid waste, Judge?
JUDGE HENNEKE: You're not solid waste.
MR. NORTH: God, I'm happy with my
evaluation. I think you're probably kinder to me than I
deserve. I'm trying, you understand, to -- it's my first
year on the job, and right in the middle of my first year,
they changed all the laws, and what used to be a Class C
misdemeanor offense is now all the way up to a felony grade
offense. There are some offenses now, environmental
offenses, where people are facing i5 years in prison.
Substantially a more serious -- you know, dumping oil on
your fence line, Buster. You can't do that any more; 15
years in prison.
(Laughter.)
MR. NORTH: We have the problem with Highway
41; we're still going to have a problem off that. Like I
told Glenn, with the new laws, anything over 5 pounds they
drop there, I can't write a ticket for; I have to put them
in jail. I know the Commissioners are not going to be happy
if I bring busloads of people in on the weekend and shut
them in jail, losing all this money, so I'm trying to
balance that out with -- with signs, a little bit of
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enforcement. Some -- I've issued some citations, and we've
had -- you know, we've had several court cases starting --
court cases starting to come up. Went to court this morning
on a guy, have another one at the end of this month, have
one the first of February, so we're starting to roll with
it. Maybe we'll get some attention; maybe we'll get some
fine money coming in.
Went to an AACOG meeting there in San Antonio
last week. They're probably not going to fund us any more,
my salary, but they did say they would probably fund some
equipment for us. And, so, I've got a package -- bid
package or an application to send to them through Glenn
for -- maybe for a new computer and some things like that.
But, otherwise, I'm happy, and if you're happy, I'm happy,
and I appreciate the good comments I got.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I have a question for
you.
MR. NORTH: Yes, sir?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: If -- 'cause this has
happened several times, where constituents have reported to
me that someone has dumped trash somewhere. If there is
something that's in the trash that could identify where that
came from, can you act on that?
MR. NORTH: Yes, sir, I can. What I've been
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that is, when you go to court, all they got to say is, "How
do you know that was me that dropped it?" I can't prove it;
it did not happen in my presence.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Right. That was my
question. Do you have --
MR. NORTH: The judge has to throw it out.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Right.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Didn't we acquire an
infrared camera for use in this -- for this purpose?
MR. NORTH: We have a camera.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Have we ever --
MR. NORTH: Surveillance camera. It cost
$6,000; I'm a little afraid to take it out there and leave
it. I don't want to be responsible for that. I don't -- I
don't have $6,000, guys.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Particularly on C. P.
River Road, huh?
MR. NORTH: Yeah. Biggest problem right now
is Highway 91, and it's really more of a problem to the guy
that underbid the contract than it is to us. That's whose
problem it is. It's $70,000 a year to clean it up. I'll
take the job for $70,000 a year.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yeah.
MR. NORTH: I go out there every Sunday and
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Department -- we got some new signs put up. Now it says,
"This area under surveillance." It's five years in prison
if you -- for illegal dumping. And, once again, like I say,
I just don't think it's a good idea to set on it out there
and arrest people for throwing garbage out, because you're
going to have to put them in jail, and Sheriff Hierholzer's
not going to like that, and I know you -- my bosses are not
goinq to like that. So, we can only -- we have to balance
out enforcement with common sense. I'm trying to, anyway.
But, hopefully we can hit a happy medium here. Buster's qot
a problem out here in his precinct; I know we've been
working on it for a long time now. We finally got the guy
arLesl.ed, put him in jail. His case has not come up yet,
but he calls me every day begging me to drop the charges.
I'm not yuiny Lu do that. And then I find out he's got
another place down in Precinct 2 that I found belongs to
him. I know Cormnissioner Williams will be calling me about
once a day like Buster.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Not once a day, once
a week.
MR. idORTH: This guy is just a deadbeat, but
we're getting him in court, and the judges have been working
with him. We've tiad to educate everybody on new laws. And,
what the judges have been doing so far, they've -- the
fine's been normally a $100 fine up front, and $100 a day
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every day the violation continues. That's been getting
their attention real well. I believe we're -- we're not up
to speed, but we're getting there.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: That's good.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Anyone else?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: You have my permission
to put him in jail.
MR. NORTH: Every chance I get.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Every chance you get.
We'll talk to Sheriff Hierholzer about that. But let me ask
you, do you have -- is there plenty of work out there for
you?
MR. NORTH: There's 1,100 square miles, and
there's some sites that are -- that are career -- Westwood
Uaks Trailer Park is a career site.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Fourth generation.
MR. NORTH: Center Point. Ingram. I don't
worry about Ingram; it's a city.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Whatever happened to
that one on Elm Pass 2?
MK. NORTH: I sent him a registered letter.
He refused the letter. I sent him another letter under
plain cover. I have not received it back, but I understand
he's working offshore. On Center -- on San Antonio Street,
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away. That probably was in probate. I talked to his
family; now they've started to clean it up a little bit.
Still bad, but they've started to clean it up. The guy that
had 2 tons of shingles parked in front of his house, some
guy had moved into his house, and moved -- just moved into
it, just squatted there. The guy that owned the house
didn't realize that the guy didn't have any right to be
there. And he was a roofer, and he piled up all these
shingles. When he got a letter from me, he had to throw the
guy out. Now he's got -- he's got shingles stacked probably
as high as this roof of this building. Little bit of
household garbage; they threw it out the back door. He's
trying to clean it. The one on the -- next to waterworks
you told me about, I wrote those people a letter. They got
front yard cleaned up. Back yard's still bad, so I'm
waiting on that. That's about the worst sites besides Elm
Yass. And I understand he works offshore, so I'm trying to
get -- by law, you have to notify them, then you have to
give them 30 days before you can abate -- or enforce the
law. You have to give them 30 days. They have to -- that's
by law, 345.011 of the penal -- of the Health and Safety
Code.
CUMMISSIUNEH BALDWIN: Eddie, when is that
grant up?
COMMISSIONER WILLlAMS: Couple months?
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MR. NORTH: Just about now, I think.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: When is your salary
up?
MR. NORTH: I don't know, Buster, to tell you
the truth.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Glenn, do you know the
answer?
MR. HOLEKAMP: What was that?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: When is the grant --
his salary grant up?
MR. HOLEKAMP: It is already. The budget
took it up this year.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Okay.
MR. HOLEKAMP: But we're applying -- we're --
we are going to apply here in February for some other
grant -- for the grant again, but to -- to a limited extent,
because the perimeters have changed.
DODGE HENNEKE: Anybody else have any
comments for Mr. North? Eddie, anything else you want to --
MR. NORTH: Only question Kara had for you
would be if you want to appoint somebody to the U.G.R.A.
Board. She wanted to know if you appointed me; I said no.
She said she would call you.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: U.G.R.A. Board?
MR. NORTH: Excuse me, the AACOG Board. Too
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Did you say no?
MR. NORTH: Pardon me?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Did you say no to the
appointment?
MR. NORTH: I just told them I didn't -- I
don't play well with others and I run with scissors.
(Laughter.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. All right. Thanks,
Eddie. We appreciate your time.
MR. NORTH: Yes, sir.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Here, take your -- Eddie?
MR. NORTH: Sir? I thought you wanted to
keep them.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We've got some.
MR. NORTH: I made a copy for my file. These
are yours. Thank you, gentlemen.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you. Ms. Sovil wanted
to be in public session, too.
MS. SOVIL: Yes, sir. I have responded with
a little written statement. There was -- I requested this
to be open because there were two really bad reports, two
bad evaluations, and three medium-to-good. And I prefer to
have some ~~irection from the Court, which I have never
received. And the Judge and I had this conversation on
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Friday, that we -- I have never received direction from this
Court as to what the job expectation is. All I have to go
on is a job description. My perception of the job
description and your perception of the job description are
two entirely different things, apparently. So, it's been
mentioned already, communication. I'm in a different
situation than these two gentlemen before me. They're
department heads. I work as an employee.
I looked at the job descriptions, and you'll
notice in the -- there's a spreadsheet in here, and only two
of you checked yes, that you even looked at my job
description. So, I question, how can you evaluate something
if you don't know what my job description is? And you
haven't told me what your expectations are. I feel that --
I think you should read the written explanation in my
response. I'd appreciate if somebody is dissatisfied with
my performance, that they have the courtesy to come tell me
they're dissatisfied. Tell me how I can rectify the
situation. Don't wait three or four months down the line,
whisper behind my back or do whatever, and not tell me about
it. 1 can't change a situation if I don't know about it.
So, I'm asking for direction from this Court.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Well, I'd like to
start with a comment. In light of the fact that Ms. Sovil
is a declared candidate Tor the commissioner's spot in
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Precinct ~ in the Republican primary, it would be unethical
for me to make any comments about your performance in the
public, notwithstanding the fact you've asked for this
public hearing. And I filled out a confidential survey
depicting what I believe to be your performance. You have
chosen to make it public, but that's your business.
MS. SOVIL: Yes, sir, I have that choice.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Right.
MS. SOVIL: But I still need to know where
you're coming from on your evaluations, what your
expectations are.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: My only comment in
response to that is, the numbers on the evaluation form
speak for themselves.
MS. SOVIL: Okay.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Does anyone else have any
specific comments'?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Only comment I have is
I've discussed with '1'hea my evaluation one-on-one, which I
will do with any other employee if they so choose.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. Anything else?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I don't have anything,
other than -- than I agree that you got a -- you got to hear
what the criticism is and what would make it work better,
and I don't have any problem doing that.
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MS. SOVIL: Communication is the key. But I
have to add that since being asked to resign, or
suggested -- let me -- let me rephrase that. It was
suggested that I consider resigning because I was a
candidate for office. I think that's wrong.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Are you saying that I
suggested you resign?
MS. SOVIL: Yes, sir.
JUDGE HENNEKE: That is distinctly different
than my recollection.
MS. SOVIL: Okay.
JUDGE HENNEKE: The word "resign" never came
out of my mouth. The conversation we had back in August?
MS. SOVIL: Mm-hmm.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I asked you how things were
goinq to be different since you were an announced candidate,
and you said you didn't think they were going to be
different at all.
MS. SOVIL: That's correct.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I said, "Well, that's fine,
but just remember that as an employee, you are not able to
use county facilities as part of your campaign." And you
said that you didn't think that was proper, and I said,
well, that's -- if you'll remember when people ran for
election last time around, I sent out a memo to people
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saying, "Remember that you can't use county facilities as
part of your election r_ampaign." I did not ask you to
resign. I did not suggest that you resign. You put in the
public comments that I did.
MS. SOVIL: Yes, sir.
JUDGE HENNEKE: My recollection is --
MS. SOVIL: That's my recollection.
JUDGE HENNEKE: My recollection is that you
are in error on that.
MS. SOVIL: Okay. But that's my recollection
of it. And that's your recollection of it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: That's right.
MS. SOVIL: So, it was a conversation between
the two of us, and ne'er the two will meet at this point.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Probably so.
MS. SOVIL: But, you know, I feel like it is
political. And it should -- maybe should have been done
before or afterwards. But, during it, and especially after
my announcement came out, I -- I have a problem with it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, until your announcement
came out, no one knew you were a candidate.
MS. SOVIL: Yes, sir, you did. You knew it
in August.
JUDGE HENNEKE
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This was in August that this
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MS. SOVIL: No, I'm talking about the
evaluations.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Oh. Well, okay. You changed
gears on me.
MS. SOVIL: I'm sorry.
JUDGE HENNEKE: That's your prerogative. I
agree with you that communication is the key, and I will
stand up in front of everyone and say that I probably have
not held up my end of the communication. That's my failing.
We had a conversation about that on Friday. I've committed
to you I will do a better job of communicating, and I will.
MS. SOVIL: Well, I think we had the first
good conversation we've ever had --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Probably so.
MS. SOVIL: -- in two years, was Friday. And
it was after we got through yelling at each other.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Sometimes that's necessary in
order to get the juices going.
MS. SOVIL: But we did -- I mean, it came out
that both of us are not ~~ommunicating. We have to
communicate as a body. I have to have direction from this
Court as a body. What -- there's an evaluation on the sheet
that says office policy, and policy -- did not follow office
policy. We don't have any office policy.
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MS. SOVIL: So, you know, I question some of
the -- some of you left some of it blank. Not much, but I
wanted the public to know I believe in this, and this is my
response.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay.
MS. SOVIL: So I'm asking for direction from
this Court.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Any other questions or
comments?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: No
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. Thank you.
MS. SOVIL: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We'll now -- the Court will
now go into Executive Session to conduct the rest of the
evaluations that are scheduled for today. I think we'll
take them in order. We'll take -- we'll do Leonard's and
then Franklin's and then Marc's and then Glenn's. So,
Leonard and Marc and Glenn -- I mean Franklin and Marc and
Glenn, unfortunately, we have to ask you guys to kind of
hang loose out here. As you can see, this probably won't
take a whole long time, but if everyone else who's not
required would please vacate the room, I'd appreciate it.
(The open session was closed at 2:28 p.m.,
and an Executive Session was held, the
transcript of which is contained in a
separate document.)
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open session, having completed the Executive Session. Is
there any action necessary? Seeing none, unless there is
any further business, we stand adjourned.
(Commissioners Court adjourned at 3:39 p.m.)
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF KERB
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 17th day of January,
2002.
JANNETT PIEPER, Kerr County Clerk
B Y : _~~ --
Kathy Bani Deputy County Clerk
Certified Shorthand Reporter
ORDER NO. :'7379
CLRTMS RND RCCOUNTS
On this the 14th day of Jan~aar-y '~00:'_, came to be considered by
the Co~ar•t var-ions Commissioners' pr-ecincts, which said Claims
and Recounts are:
1Qi--C,ener-al for• $187,390.59; 14-Fire F'r•otection for• $11,313.19;
15-Road R Rr^idge for- $6~,06c.93; 18-County Law Library for^
$3,840.00; 19-public Library for $31,431.34; 23-Juvenile State
Rid Fund for^ $7,79"T. 50; 27-Juvenile Intensive Prog--State Rid
Fund For $9,958.69; 50-Indigent Health Care for $a,So5.5~;
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61--1998 Tax Anticipation Note for• $31,3c3.75; 6c-1994 Jail
Nond for• $375.00; 70-Permanent Impr-ovement for• $x,019.95;
76-Juvenile Detention Facility for $3,300.00; 83-State
Funded-c16th Rttor-ney fur $1, 897.5; 86-State Funded Dist F'r•ob
for^ $.:,6c8.33; 87-State Funded-Community Corr^ections for
$$,889.86
TOTAL CRSFI REG!UIf2ED FOR ALL FUNDS IS: $367, 7E;7. 17
Upon motion made by Commissioner- Haldwin, seconded by
Commissioner Williams, the Court unanimously approved by a
vote of 4-0-0, to pay said accounts.
ORDER N(:). ~73Ei0
BUDGET AMENDMEhdT
COUNTY RUDITOR
On this the 14th day of Jan~aar^y c00c, upon motion made by
Commissioner Williartis, seconded by Commissioner Letz, the
Co~ar-t unanimously appr^oved by a vote of 4-0-0, to transfer^
b2, 600. 00 from Line Item No. 10-409--571 Contingency to Line
Item No.10-495-570 Capital Outlay.
ORDER N0. 27,:181
^ BUDGET RMENDMENT
COURTHOUSE, JAIL, SHERIFF'S DEF'gRTMENT,
JUVENILE PROBRTION, HC YOUTH EXHIBITION CENTER
Qn this 14th day of January 2@@2, upon motion made by
Commissioner Williams, seconded by Commissioner- Let z, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-@-@, to transfer
X116.@@ from Line Item No.i@-E6E-55@ Ma.jor• Repairs to Line
Item No.l@-666-~'@6 Insurance on Rg Rarn; $3i.@@ from Line Item
No.l@--57@--x:15 Tr•anspor•tation of Juveniles to Line Item
No.i@-57@-481 Vehicle Insurance; 9;1,644.@@ from Line Item
No.l@-56@-1@4 Deputies Salaries to Line Item No.l@-56@-48@
Vehicle Ins~ar•ance; X2,136.@@ Line Item No.l@-512-1@4 Jailer
r-• Salaries to Line Item No.i@-512-2@6 Insurance Bldg. R Jail;
9;315.@@ from Line Item No. 1@-51@-55@ Major Repairs to Line
Item No. 1@-51@-48@ Insurance; X4,982.@@ from Line Item
No.i@-4@9-571 Contingency to Line Item No.i@-4@9-4B@ F'roper•ty
Ins~ar•ance.

ORDER N0. X738'
BUDGET RMENDNENT/LATE RILL
SHERIFF'S DEPRR"fMENT
On this the 14th day of January :00:, motion made by
Commissioner Let z, seconded by Commissioner Griffin, the Court
~.~nanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to tr•ansfer• $5, 993.GG
from Line Item No.10--409-571 Contingency to Line Item No.
10-560-'07 Insi_irance-Liability and approve late bill in the
amo~_int of $53,819.0 to First Insurance Agency. The Co~.tnty
A~_~ditor and County Treas~_rrer are hereby authorized to write a
hand check in the amount of $53,819.0Q made payable to First
Insurance Agency.

ORDER N0. 2-1383
RERD AND AF'F'ROVC IhlNUTES
On this the 14th day of January 2222, ~_ipnn motion made by
Commissioner•!_etz, seconded 6y Commissioner Griffin, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote 4-2-2, to waived reading
and approved the following minutes; Kerr County Commissioners'
Court Regular Session Nonday, December 10th, 2221- 9:02 a. m.;
Ker•r• County Commissioners' Court Special Session Friday,
Deceni6er• Gist, :'221-- '3:22 a. m. ; and N.er•r Coi_inty Commissioners'
Coi_trt Special Session Nonday, December 31st, 2221- 9:22 a. m.
ORDER NO.c7~84
RF'PROVE RND RCCEF'T MON1"HLY REPORTS
On this the 14th day of January ~_OGE, ~-ipon motion made by
Conimissianer• Let z, seconded by Comniissioner• Griffin, the Co~ar•t
unanimously appr^oved by a vote of 4-0-0, to accept the
following r^epor•ts and direct that they be filed with the
Coy"mty Clerk for the futi-ire a~"edit:
County Extension Report
r. llecember c001
Linda Uecker^, Distr^ict Cler^k
Fees-December• EOQ~1
Jannett Pieper^, County Cler^k
Tr•~.ist-December^ c001
Fees-December^E~G1
W. R. Flier^holzer^, Sheriff
Civil Report-December ~~@1
Vance Elliot-J. F'. #1
December^ c~01
Dawn Weight-J. P. #2
December OQ~01
Robert Tench-J. P. #.
December^ C0~1
Willims Ragsdale-J. F'. #4
December^ EOGS
ORDER NO.c7„85
^ RRPIES DRIVE
REGISTRRTION REDUCTION
On this the 14th day of Jan~aar•y c~d0c:, upon motion made by
Comrtiissioner• Griffin, seconded by Commissioner Paldwin, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-4~-0, to reduce the
r•egistr•ation fee of ~c.~~b and 35. 0a to X1.00 d~ar•ing the Rabies
D1r~~~iyve, which is from Febr•~aary cnd through Febr~aar•y 16th, year
LYI ~L.
ORDER ND. :'_7386
^ CONSIDER VRRIRNCE RND
PRELIMINRRY FLAT OF HUTTE ADDITION PCT.='
On this the 14th day of Jan~.rary c00c, ~_rpon motion made by
Commissioner- Williams, seconded by Commissioner- Let z, the
Co~ar•t unanimously approved by a vote 4-Q-0, granting variance
to the lot size and the road frontage as r•eq~aested, and
approving preliminary plat of H~_itte Rddition Precinct c.
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APPROVE NAME CHAPdGES FUF2 I'.ERR CO. ROADS
IN ACCORDANCE WT1"H 9--1- i GUIDELINES
On this the 14th day of Sang"nary c~0c, upon motion made by
Commissioner- Griffin, seconded by Commissioner- Let z, the
Coy"ir•t unanimously approved by a vote of 4-Q~-Q~ the name changes
for the Kerr County private roads at the var•io~"is locations, in
accordance with 911 g~"sidelines, as presented.
EXISTING RORD NRME
REG?UESTED NRME CFiRNGE PCT
River- Valley Ranch Rd S River Valley Rd S 4
(Location of Road off Cade Loop, j~"~st ac:r•oss the river- on
right)
Rancheos De Dios
(Location of Road
Hound Recess Rd)
1..39
(Location of Road
Rd NW Thomas Ranch Rd NW 4
i/4 mile soy"rth of Midway Rd off 1-10 East
E Old F'ast~"ire Rd E c
Petween Mackholliman and State F'ar"k)
ORDI.R N0.'~7~8©
RCG!UIRING I~F_MATNING F'IECE OF StiEFPARD REFS
^ RIGHT--OF-WRY
On this the 14th day of .Jane-iar•y~~Z~c, upon motion made by
Commissioner Baldwin, seconded by Commissioner- Let z, the Coy-~r•t
unanimously approved 6y a vote of 4-0-0, r•equestiny that the
N.err County Attorney formally offer the landowner of the
remaining piece of the Sheppard Rees right--of-way the fair
market vale-ie, as established by the appraisal, si-ich action to
be taken not later- than w-ir next meeting, JanuarySBth, year
c00c.
ORDER N0.c7„H9
.+~ CREATION OF FIVE PERSON CITIZENS COMMISSION
TO MAKE RECOMMENDATION OF ELEC"FED OF"FICIRLS SRLRRTES
On this the 14th dray of January 'c00~, upon motion made by
Commissioner Letz, seconded by Commissioner, Williams, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-@, to create a
five-person citizen's salary commission and make
recommendations on elected official's salaries for- N.err•
County, one person appointed by each Commissioner- and by the
Co~_tnty J~_idge, with technical support from Sha~_m Branham and
s~_rbstantive support by Tommy Tomlinson, members to he
anno~_inced at ^~_u• Fe6r~_tary 10th meeting, with the report to be
req+_rested not later' than June 1st, Year c0Q~2.
r
ORDER NO.c7~9Q~
RENEWAL LEASE FOR WEST I~ERR COUNTY ANNEX
On this the 14th day of Jani_iary 200c, ~_ipon motion made by
Commissioner Griffin, seconded by Cvmmissivner• Baldwin the
Cvur•t unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to renew the
lease with Nr•.F'r'io~.ir• an the West Ker-r• Coi_inty Annex, and at a
monthly rate of ~45G.00 a month and m~_~lti-year term, and
authorize Commissioner Griffin to negotiate the final details
and bring i.t back t the Court for final approval.

ORDER N0.~739
NAME CHRNGES FDR CDCJNTY MAINTAINED F20ADS
THAT HAVE: HAD F'UPLIC HERRING AND SPEED LIMIT SIGN
On this the 14th day of Jan~_~ary (_'00~, japan motion made by
Commissioner Griffin, seconded by Commissioner Let 4, the Court
unanimously appr^oved by a vote of 4-~-0, 'the name changes for•
County--maintained roads and the change in the speed limit
sign as presented, and the subject of the public hearing.
CURRENT NAME
Reservation Rd NW
Tatsch Rd NW
CHANGED TD F'UPLIC HEARING DATE
Upper	Reservation	Rd	NW	1l14/0'c
lower	Reservation	Rd	NW	1; 14/0^c
Denson Rci N Eugene Rd N 1/1~r/0c
(off Highway (_7 near- Comfort)
South park Rd SW Co~_tgar F'ark Rd SW 1/14/0c
(paved portion in Guadalupe Ranch Est)
Windcr•est W Yavo Rd W 1/14/0
(end of Yavo>
North Oak & South Dak Dr. OaIK Dr W 8/c7/01
tP.ivouac Subdivision off Hwy E7)
East 8 West Cedar Dr W Cedar Dr W 6/c7/01
(Aivouac Subdivision off Goat Ck Ci_it off)
West Cedar Dr W Rush Ur W 8/'E7/0i
(Connecting road between ~ circles)
SPEED LIMIT WESTWDDD (OFF HWY ~7 NEAR CDMFDRT) 35 MF'Fi

ORDER N0. 27391
~. COMMISSIONERS' COURT MEETING SCHEDULE
FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2005
On this the 14th day of 7wnuary ='00f=, upon motion made by
Commissioner Letz, seconded by Commissioner, Griffin, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-Q~-@, to adapt the
schedule for• the calendar year 2005 meetings of I:err County
Commissioners Court, to incli_tde quarterly evening meetings.
ORDER N0. c7~9,~
DISGOSITION OF SURGLUS f-'RDF'ERTY
On this the 14th day of Tan+aar•y E47~F'_, upon motion made by
Commissioner Lets, seconded by Commissioner Griffin, the Court
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to declare as siarpl~as
the 199E Gateway compiater• and authorize sale of that spar-plus
property to Gillespie Co~.mty for the sum of 85.00.

DF2DER N0. ~7~94
~ PUDGET RMENDMENT TO COVER UNFUhJDED STRTE
MRNDRTE TO F'pY LONGEVITY SUF='F'LEMECdTS
TO 198TH c4 c1GTl1 R55ISTRNT PROSECUTORS
On this 'the 14th day of ,Tani_iar'y c00c, upon motion made by
Commissioner- Baldwin, seconded by Commissioner Griffin, the
Coi_ir-t ~_inanimo~_isly appr^oved by a vote of 4-Q~-0, Pudget
Rmendment ni_imber 1 for' the 198th Di~str^ict Rttor•ney in ttre
amo~_mt of ~1,4~4.00 from Line Item No.iL~-409-071 Contingency
to Line Item Nn.i~--445-3 0 Operating Expense.

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