COMMISSIONERS' COURT AGENDA REQUEST
PLEASE FURNISH ONE ORIGINAL AND NINE COPIES OF THIS REQUEST AND DOCUMENTS TO BE
REVIEWED BY THE COURT.
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MADE BY: H.A. "Buster" Baldwin OFFICE: Commissioners' Court
MEETING DATE: January 14, 2002 TIME PREFERRED:
SUBJECT: (PLEASE BE SPECIFIC)
Consider and discuss report from 9-1-1 Director on the implementation of road name changes on Bailey
Jo and Michon Road.
EXECUTIVE SESSION REQUESTED: (PLEASE STATE REASON)
NAME OF PERSON ADDRESSING THE COURT:
ESTIMATED LENGTH OF PRESENTATION:
Commissioner Pct. #1
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551 and 552, Government Code, is as follows:
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new address, a new street name, we pay my clerks' time on
the clock to memorize those new addresses. We'll do that.
lead time to get the computer set up and get my folks
trained on these new addresses.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I guess my question
would be to T. more than the Postmaster. If we're having
this problem -- and it was brought to our attention, really,
by the Monroe Drive change to Michon Drive. And one of the
constituents -- that's a street that splits Buster's and my
precinct; I think a piece of it is in each of ours. And one
gentleman wrote letters to the editor, he wrote letters to
Mr. Hanson, and, you know, this thing has been going on now
for several months. e ch
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MR. SANDLIN: Well, I thought that we had.
And, like I said, it was either last Tuesday or Wednesday I
got the A.M.S. or the check and edit sheets for that area.
Now, that doesn't mean I can drop what we're doing where
we're doing it and go work that whole route. I mean, I can,
but any time we do that, start that skipping around -- I
don't want to get into a helter-skelter mode.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Let me ask a question.
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/right for the future, but we have a problem out there.
There's a problem on Monroe Drive and Michon Drive, whatever
we're going to call it, and it is -- the problem's now
exacerbated because the route carrier has been told to
return the mail to sender. Now, think about that. You
multiply it by "X" number of houses on this street, but
think about all the mail being returned to sender. Checks,
bills, bank statements, everything that you can possibly
think of is being returned to sender, and these people's
lives are flipped over. And you're telling me you don't
want to do this thing on a helter-skelter basis. Well,
their lives are already helter-skelter if that's really
being -- happening, that their mail is being all returned to
sender. Think about it.
MR. HANSON: T., did your letter tell them to
use that for the mailing address?
MR. SANDLIN: No.
MR. HANSON: If I recall, it tells them not
to.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: It tells them not to.
MR. BALLARD: Tells them not to, absolutely.
MR. SANDLIN: Here's -- I brought y'all each
a copy of the blank, if you'd like it.
MR. HANSON: It says wait till the Post
Office notifies you to start using your -- for mail service.
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But some people jumped the gun on that and didn't read it or
whatever.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I guess so.
MR. HANSON: Starting to notify people that
they had a new address.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: And my suggestion
was -- was that -- forgetting Michon and Monroe for just a
second, but my suggestion would be, is that we don't do that
until you are ready to tell them to change their address.
MR. HANSON: That would save a lot of phone
calls and headaches.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Now, that's the
longer-term problem. Short-term problem is --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I'm in total
agreement.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN:
I suspect we -- did you count up the
Baldwin counted them up. About how
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN:
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN:
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN:
Short-term problem is,
-- I think Commissioner
many --
There may be --
-- mailing addresses?
Maybe 15 total on
those two.
asr';:~1~i~j` t~s 'auCJgc~t ice, maybe we °~~h wo'rk out' some way t`
`n~'~it~ :a *resy ~tioi`ity't~am~, and then get to the
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MR. BALLARD: Is it within our budget?
MR. SANDLIN: Yes, sir.
MR. BALLARD: Okay.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Sheriff?
,/SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: I'm kind of in agreement
those two roads, 'cause if I were a resident out there, I
wouldn't want my mail getting sent back, either. To take
care of those, I'd like to ask T. -- T., how long would it
take for those two roads -- for to you furnish the Post
Office with their old address and their new address?
MR. REESE: May I see the transmittal that
they gave you,	please?		
	JUDGE HENNEKE:	The problem	with that,
though, gentlemen, is that the Postal Service wants
carriers -- they wants intact carriers, and so fixing those
two roads, the Post Office is still not going to --
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right thing. This ought to be coordinated and all done at
one time. ,°' '„:~~~'~~`!5~"YtYlS$'i6"YldritlLS ~titii3t them,
C'": exceptiese~.~an that" nos, that if T. gets you
exactly what it is you need, can you go ahead and program it
in for those two roads so those people don't start getting
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the Postal Service won't recognize the --
MS. RECTOR: Not if they don't have an
address to tie it to, a previous address.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Well, they've got to
have -- I think all Mr. Hanson was saying was that he's got
to have the right address in his database for it to be
recognized. So, we just need to get the right address to
him, cross-referenced to the old address so that it will --
the system will recognize it.
(Discussion off the record.)
MR. BALLARD: It's a cross-reference issue,
and sync.
~~~~ 4i13. '90, if -- balk to
t.krese two psrticuiar roads;th8t the Past Office said that
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Thank you very much.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Now we have those two
roads, you know, but I'm still concerned, kind of like
Commissioner Williams is, I think, about all these other
to wait, but I think if -- I don't know what the cost is,