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KERR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT
Regular Session
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
9:UU a.m.
Commissioners' Courtroom
Kerr County Courthouse
Kerrville, Texas

PRESENT: FREDERICK L. HENNEKE, Kerr County Judqe
H. A."BUSTER" BALDWIN, Commissioner Pct. 1
WILLIAM "BILL" WILLIAMS, Commissioner Pct. 2
JONATHAN LETZ, Commissioner Pct. 3
LARRY GRIFFIN, Commissioner Pct. 9
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November 12, 2002
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2.1 Renew permission for Kerr County Market
Association to hold Market Days in 2003 <~~7~'f'~ 14
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2	Resolution of thanks	and appreciation to Ruth	
.	Priest for service on	Airport Advisory Board.;/~~5	26
2.3	Discuss order calling	bond election, rescind ,~(7<~~y~	
	Order No. 27831 dated	October 28, 2002	28
2.4	Approve lease agreeme	nt & operating agreement :l'%•S1
	relating to Juvenile	Detention Facility project	31
2.5	Plat revision, Lot 9	& 10, Horizon, Section One	37
2.7	Approval of 2002 LLEBG grant, set public hearing	
	for same =%7K~F$		37
2.8 Approve contract with Kendall County to house
prisoners in Kerr County Jail .?7Y'H'j 40
2.9 Appointment of Constable, Precinct 1, for interim
period through December 31, 2002 7h'•_C 41
2.12 Approve lease agreement with Arts and Crafts
Fair Foundation - ~~A"~ 49
2.13 Approve contract with Kerr County Soil & Water
Conservation Distrir_t, authorize County Judge to
sign same
2.14 Approve paying election judges, alternates, and '~,'(=_
clerks for service performed in General Election 47
2.6 Open sealed bids for lease of motor grader %~``~ 49
2.10 Informational report of Kerrville South Waste-
water project status as of October 29, 2002 51
2.11 Easement agreement with Riverhill County Club
~ City of Kerrville 54
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2.15 Canvass of 2002 General Election_;'; - •%° 50
2.16 Discuss sexual harassment complaint and any
disciplinary action thereto -'Jn"iw- 65
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On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 9:00 a.m., a regular
meeting of the Kerr County Commissioners Court was held in
the Commissioners' Courtroom, Kerr County Courthouse,
Kerrville, Tesas, and the following proceedings were had in
open court:
P R O C E E D I N G S
DODGE HENNEKE: Good morning, everybody.
It's 9 o'clock in the morning on Tuesday, November 12th,
Year 2002. We will call to order this regular session of
the Kerr County Commissioners Court. Commissioner Baldwin,
I believe you have the honors this morning.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Do I? Okay. If you'd
stand and pray with me, please, and then we'll -- after Lhe
prayer, we'll do the pledge of allegiance.
(Prayer and pledge of allegiance.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you, Commissioner.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Thank you. It's an
honor to pray.
DODGE HENNEKE: At this time, airy citizen
wishing to address the Court on an item not listed on the
regular agenda may come forward and do so. Are there any
citizens wishing to address the Court on an item not listed
on the reqular agenda? Seeing none, we will turn to the
Commissioners' comments. We'll start with Commissioner
Baldwin.
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Oh. Thank you again.
You're catching me off-guard here. I thought Larry did it
last time, so I thought we'd go through you first.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, but I covered Larry
when he was gone for Sandy.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: That's a typical
lawyer, isn't it, trying to weasel his way in there like
that. I wanted to bring you up-to-date. Commissioner
Griffin and I will meet with our new 911 coordinator
tomorrow -- and Mrs. Bullock's in the audience -- and the
following Commissioners Court meeting, we will ask him to
r_ome in to meet all of you and kind of give us a report on
where he is. And I think -- 1 think he has his feet on the
ground and up and running, and -- and this logjam is fixing
to go from the 911.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Pig's about to go
through the pipe.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Get that pig through
that pipe after all. And then the first meeting in
December, we will have a stormwater presentation from TAC;
they're coming over, so I don't know who all we want to
invite. I know Road and Bridge. Of course, I --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: County Judge acid
Commissioner-elect.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: County Judge and
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Commissioners are certainly welcome to the Commissioners
Court meeting -- oh, yeah, the new Commissioner-elect and
the new County Judge-elect. Of course, I see this thing as
inviting surrounding counties and doing a workshop, but
sometimes I think a little bit bigger than my brain is.
But, anyway, that's the first meeting in December.
JUDGE HENNEKE: 1 think that's a good idea.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: That's a good idea.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I do, too. Y'ou know,
we've done several things like that and invited other
counties in, and some of them haven't heard about some
things that is fixing to run right over the top of us. And
what we might do, we may have them in and present it Lo us,
and then from that point, set up a -- set up a workshop,
maybe in January. I don't know, but we'll try to do that
and do, like, a half-a-day thing and get the Commissioners
Court from Bandera to buy our lunch and the wholz thing.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Yeah, right.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And then, last }.gut not
least, I'd like to report to you about the Kerrville Tivy
Antlers. I know y'all are shocked and -- that I'm going to
bring this up. Most of you know that we won last week
against Boerne, ZS-14. And Fred left a little bit early;
they scored on us right there at the end.
DODGE HENNEKE: I knew you had it covered.
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah. Yeah, we had it
under control at that time. And -- but, anyway, perfect
season, and real proud of our kids. And they play this
Friday in San Antonio against Fox Tech in Harlindale
stadium. I have directions to the stadium, and I'll make
one for all of you if you would like -- if you would like
one. They play at 7:30, Fox Tech, Harlindale Stadium in San
Antonio. Counting today, there's 35 days to the state
championship game. And I notice in the rankings this
morning, cur Tivy Antlers moved from 8th place to 7th place
in the state. So, things are fun. Things are fun around my
house, I can tell you that. So, that's all I have to say.
Tivy fight never dies.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you, Commissioner.
Commissioner Williams?
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Yesterday we had the
Veterans Day event on the courthouse lawn or driveway, and I
thought it was a particularly moving event yesterday. I
guess the -- the reason being that we're besieged by
military activity and threats from abroad, and sometimes
from within, and to see our veterans there being honored was
extremely moving, particularly when General Schellhase
presented a bronze star to Lieutenant Colonel DeVOre for his
valor and bravery in action and combat in Afghanistan. I
thought that was particularly moving. And we don't often
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have the opportunity to see the presentation of a high
military award on our own courthouse grounds, and I thought
that was good to be a part of it and to witness it. Sorry
you missed it, if you did miss it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: It was fine. Commissioner
Letz?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Couple things. First,
the Comfort Bobcats will he in the playoffs once again,
which I think we all expected, even though they did have one
loss this year. Wish them well. Second, several months ago
we passed a resolution regarding GMA boundaries, groundwater
management areas, and the new map that's going to be
presented to the Water Development Board was announced last
Friday, I believe, and they modified it slightly. Kerr
County remained in Area 9, which was the -- we had requested
t?iat it get moved into -- the whole Trinity get moved into
the -- or not only requested Kerr County, but other counties
get moved into the San Angelo area, where Edwards -- where
the Edwards Trinity is. That did not happen. The boundary
we are in, it's basically -- they changed it and added
Bandera County into it all the way, so it's Bandera County,
Kerr County, Kendall County, Hays County, part of Comal and
part of Bexar, as I recall. So, that is the boundary. It
appears that they've pulled in more of Bexar than they had
previously, based on the way the map -- you know, until you
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see the actual close-up. It's not all bad, but it's not
fantastic. It's -- they leave the Middle Trinity pretty
much as the driving force behind that boundary. There is
one chance left to appeal it to the full Water Development
Board, but I don't think that would be -- I mean, I think
the chances of getting a change at that point is going to be
pretty slim without a bunch of rew information. This is the
third revision they've come up with through staff, so I
think we'll live with it. It's certainly a lot better than
the first one, so we've made some improvements.
And the last thing is kind of going back to
what Bill was talking about on Veterans Day. I heard a
statistic -- actually, this morning, I heard it, and it
really moved me. And it was the number that each day,
currently 1,000 World War II veterans pass away, and by the
year -- before 008, 2009, there are likely to be very few,
if any, World War 11 veterans left. That just kind of
really makes me think about what the generation has done for
the country and how fast they're leaving us. And, really,
everycne -- I would encourage you to -- if they know any
world war II veterans, to spend time with them and talk to
them in the coming years, because they're quickly, you know,
going on. That's it.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I want to say
something about the veterans thing, too.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Every year I get
together with some buddies of mine and our kids, and we have
lunch over here at the barbecue place.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Buzzy's?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: No.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Choo-Choo's.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Choo-Choo's, thank
you. And -- because that -- that's the old train station,
and we think that is the last time any of our veterans that
died in the war, that's the last time they touched ground in
Kerr County. And so we just kind of get together and have
lunch and kind of honor them. That's all. 'T'hank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Commissioner Griffin?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: One more thing on
that. I was privileged to attend a -- as a guest, a
veteran's celebration yesterday in -- in San Antonio, and I
was amazed -- of course, being an old veteran myself, I was
amazed at how many young ones there are now. I mean, gosh,
the faces of the guys that served in Kosovo, Afghanistan,
and even before that, some in the Gulf war, even though
that's 10 years ago now. But, I'm just amazed at how well
we are served by our -- our youth that are dedicated to
military service, and it's nice to be around them. Every
time I get around them, I Leel better. And I would talk
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about A & M - Oklahoma football, but in deference to the
County Judge, who's my good friend, I won't say anything
about that.
(Laughter.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: You're too kind,
Commissioner.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: If the Longhorns don't
gain on them as well.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Oh, yeah. You know
Oklahoma is going to try -- and, in fact, coming out of the
stadium on Saturday, there were several Oklahoma fans that
stopped and said, you know, you got to do the same thing to
Texas for us.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'm sure they'll try, but
hopefully it won't happen.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I would remind everyone that
our next regular scheduled meeting is an evening meeting.
It will be on Monday, November 25th, beginning at 6:30. I
believe we will have to have a special session that
afternoon in order to open and accept the design-build
proposals. Just so everyone's aware of the scheduling. It
was an honor to be part of the Veterans Day celebration
yesterday. As Commissioner Williams said, it was
particularly meaningful when we had the bronze star
presented to a new member of the Kerr County community.
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Kevin DeVore and his family were here. I think he's made an
outstanding addition to our community. And, as Commissioner
Letz said, and Commissioner Baldwin, we all need to
recognize the fact that the greatest generation, according
to Tom Brokaw, is rapidly becoming the former greater --
greatest generation, and we need to take time to pay tribute
to those people, not only on Veterans Day, but every
opportunity we get. With those preliminaries, let's move
into the business at hand and pay some bills. Mr. Auditor,
do we have any bills to pay?
MR. TOMLINSON: Always.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Anyone have any questions or
comments regarding the bills as presented and recommended by
Mr. Tomlinson?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Judge, I move that we
pay the bills.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Second.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second -- third.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Williams, that the Court
authorize payment of the bills as presented and recommended
by the Auditor. Any questions or comments? If not, all in
favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Budget
amendments. Budget Amendment Number 1 is for the District
Clerk's Office.
MR. TOMLINSON: With this amendment, I have a
late bill that I need a hand check for, payable to First
Insurance Agency. It's for the District Clerk's
professicnal liability insurance renewal. We had budgeted
$1,240 for this -- for this payment, and the bill totals
$1,837.50. We need to amend that line item by $597.50, to
come from the Microfilm Records line item.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: So moved.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court approve
Budget Amendment Request Number 1 for the District Clerk,
and authorize payment of a late bill and issuance of a hand
check in the amount of $1,837.50 payable to -- First
Insurance Agency? Was that it?
MR. TOMLINSON: Yes.
JUDGE HENNEKE: First Insurance Agency. Any
questions or comments? If not, all in favor, raise your
right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Budget
Amendment Request Number 2 is for Election Expense.
MR. TOMLINSON: This is a request from the
Clerk's office to transfer $97.85 from Ballot Expense to
Notices in the Elections Department.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: So moved.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Griffin, second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court
approve Budget Amendment Request Number 2 for Election
Expense. 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.)
Jr~DGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Do we have
any additional late bills?
MR. TOMLINSON: I have one, payable to OYYice
Depot, for $588.05. It's for the jail.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: So moved.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Williams, section by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court
approve a late bill and authorize a hand check in the amount
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of $588.05 payable to the Office Depot for office supplies
for the jail. 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. Thank you,
Tommy. At this time, I would entertain a motion to waive
reading and approve the minutes of the October 1Sth and
October 28th Kerr County Commissioners Court.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: So moved.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Letz, that the court waive
reading and approve the meeting -- minutes of the August --
of the October 15th, 2002, and October 28th, 2002, meetings
of the Kerr County Commissioners Court. Any questions or
comments? If not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion r_arried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. We don't
have any monthly reports to approve, so we'll commence
directly into the consideration agenda. Item Number 1 is to
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Market Association to hold Mar}:et Days events on the
Courthouse Square. Commissioner Baldwin.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yes. Ms. Anderson'?
On your way up to the podium, I have a comment to make.
Actually, I want to read something, and then I have a
question for you. This is out of the Commissioners Court
minutes of the meeting of that -- when we approved of this
program, the Kerr County Market Association to use the
courthouse square, and I want to read you one of Mrs. --
Ms. Anderson's comments here. And, quote, "If, on the date
that we open on the first market day, we can have 10 vendors
here, I will feel that we have been extremely successful.
If, at the end of the year, we could report that we averaged
10 vendors each market day, I would feel like we had been
even more successful." How many vendors did you have
Saturday?
MS. ANDERSON: About a hundred more than we
thought we would have.
(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I would consider that
successful. That's all I wanted to bring up at this time.
Thank you.
MS. ANDERSON: Thank you. Good morning,
Judge, Commissioners. I appreciate time this morning to
visit with you for a few minutes. Appreciate being on your
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agenda to request approval for Kerr County Market Days 2003.
I know you have quite a lot of business to conduct today, so
I'll limit my comments, but there are a couple things I
think I really have to take just a minute to say. And the
first of those is, I thank you. Thank you to you. If you
your counsel through these last months as we've gone ahead
with the market, Kerr County Market Days wouldn't exist.
So, the very fact that it's there and that it's moved
forward is totally to the credit of. this group, who are our
Judge and our County Commissioners, and we never lose sight
of that, and we thank you for it. We'd also like to say
thank you to Thea and to Glenn and his staff for all the
help that they've been to us. Thanks to K.D.B.A., K.A.C.,
K.A.C.C., Dietert Senior Center, Convention and Visitors
Bureau. They have all been a tremendous support, as well as
community. And I guess the really, really big thank you is
to all the citizens of this community. They've come to the
They've come
And they've even
dropped money the donation jar. It's just been a tremendous
experience for us to get to meet, get to have experience
with so many people here in this community, and it makes me
know that f chose the right town to make my home.
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The proposal we provided to you requests your
approval to begin Market Days 2003 on the second Saturday in
April and run through the second Saturday in December. The
markets would be held here on the square for a total of 17
Saturdays in 2003. Several pages i.n the proposal document
outline accomplishments from this year. I believe all of
those accomplishments are positives. We've also outlined
what we believe are economic imparts here in the community;
again, all positives. We even gave you a little brief
financial statement, which shows that market expenses have
been very modest, and that we're meeting all of those
expenses through donations. These donations come from
vendors who participate in the market, and it's strictly
voluntary. And, as I said, some of these donations come
directly from the community. Saturday, there were several
times I noticed people -- just people who came to the market
to visit, people who came to shop, they came by the K.. C.M.A.
booth and dropped a dollar or two in the coffee can, and it
just gives us a tremendous, positive feeling that the
community has received us in this way.
Our proposal for 2003 is to basically
continue the market, the same guidelines that are being used
this year. Most importantly, we reaffirm our commitment to
provide a high-quality community event based on the theme of
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continue to apply about no live animals, no flea market, no
used things, no alcohol and so on. The primary new element
in the 2003 proposal is a modest fee structure. The key
point I'd like to make about the fees that we're currently
considering are, one, everybody gets two free marke*_s. We
think this is a critical part of the market, that anybody
who wants to try this gets a chance to do that at no cost to
them. There will always be two free markets for anybody
that wants to participate, as long as we have some space
where we can put them. So, if somebody is new to crafting,
somebody who thinks they've got something that they can
sell, they can come down here and try it and see if it will
work for them before they make any commitment whatsoever in
terms of a fee. For those people who are wanting to be
full-time participants, this is something they really do,
they -- we're proposing an annual fee that we believe is not
only very competitive, but in most cases, it's dramatically
less than fees for this type of market anywhere in the Hill
Country or South Texas area. We want to keep the fees very
low. Again, we see this as an economic generator, that
people can come here, start a business, build up a business,
add a little to their income, whatever, and that the ar_tual
profits from this go into their pocket, and K.C.M.A. will
continue as a nonprofit organization.
The proposal documents also outline some
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future goals for the market. The number one goal, the one
that I want most and one that I think our customers want
most, is to see more produr_e in the market. We're working
on several ideas. Among that is contact with the state
organic growers' association, and an idea to expand a little
growers co-op so that we can bring more produce to the
market. Another important goal is to increase community
participation, where we would really like to see people from
the community who would like to join us in the association
to participate in the day-to-day operations, as well as
long-term future management Tor the market days. We think
this would be very important to maintain this as a community
event.
The final, and perhaps the most important
item listed on the goals list, is to define a long-term
vision for Kerr County Market Days. Last time I was here,
we didn't know really quite what was going to happen. We
believed it would work and we believed it would be a good
thing. lt's grown far more rapidly than we ever
anticipated, so we've come to a point now where I think it
would be appropriate to start to define just exactly where
do we want to take this in X003 and '4 and 'S. And, again,
this is where I think it would be critically important to
have the community participate, downtown businesses
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the market's future development.
I think that about covers our proposal. As I
said, I tried to make it -- limit my remarks. I'll just
draw your attention to the two charts that are provided as
attachments. These charts show you what our participation
has been in terms of vendors, as well as the geographic
reach that the market has come to have. I wish I had
similar data for nur customers, but we haven't done a
customer survey. Maybe someday we'll get to do that. Just
from my personal experience in talking to people who shop
the market, we're getting lots and lots of visitors trom the
entire surrounding area. We're now listed in the Weekend
Guide in the San Antonio Express. We've got lots of
visitors from San Antonio. We're on the radio stations from
time to time. We're in the Fredericksburg paper. Uur
Convention and Visitors Bureau is really passing the word,
so we are getting people who've come to Fredericksburg,
found out about the market, and come on down here and spend
some time in our community. Spend some time and some money.
One of our things for next year is to expand our publicity,
to reach out into some national and statewide publications
like Texas Monthly, try to get our Market Days even more
widely known and draw visitors from a wider base. So, with
that, we request your approval for County Market Days 2003.
Hnd I'll close and I'll try to answer any questions that you
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might have. Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Anyone have any questions for
Mrs. Anderson?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I do have one. I've
noticed -- it appears to me that you've outgrown the
courthouse, possibly. I mean, you're not going to be able
to add very many more to your list. Is there a possibility
of moving over out on the sidewalks in dcwntown Kerrville,
or what do we do?
MS. ANDERSON: We were actually -- that idea
was mentioned to us through K. D.B.A. They have been
extremely supportive from the very beginning. And we're
havinq some very, at this point, informal conversatiuiis with
them about doing a little test ride; that is, the
December 14th market, to see if this is someCY-ling that -
and I realize this would involve the City of Kerrville. If
it would work for all -- for everybody who would be affected
by that, for the market, for the businesses, for the whole
traffic situation and so on. So, that's something that, at
this point, is sort of an informal discussion.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I have a comment,
Judge.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I just want to say
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reservations at the outset as to whether or not your venture
would be successful. I commend you for the success. I
think it's been good for Kerr County, for the City of
Kerrville, for the utilization of the courthouse grounds. I
think all of that's good. I particularly want to commend
you also for your willingness to work with those groups that
routinely use the courthouse grounds and -- and who, I
guess, on two or three occasions, we really came upon a
potential conflict, and I appreciate your willingness to
work with them and wor}: out those conflicts and make it
possible for those small organizations to continue to raise
their funds for their purposes on those dates where there
could have been a problem. I really thank you for doing
that.
MS. ANDERSON: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: One other thing. And
in that same connection, I have just one question here about
your proposal. It has to do with the prohibited items. And
I assume, when you list these, you're talking about those
vendors who would report directly to your organization, when
you talk about prohibited items, anything that might have
been purchased for the purpose of resale?
MS. ANDERSON: Yes.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: You prohibit that,
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intention for that to, by any chance, slop over onto the
Fiwanis, who buy brooms and mops, for example, or anything
like that?
MS. ANDERSON: No. We see those events as --
as pre-existing, separate, and not under the guidelines that
apply to people who come here for profit. We think that
having the community activities like the mop and broom
sales, like The Tivy Debate Club, like the Tivy Golden
Girls, the Lion's Club acid so on, we think that's critical
to the success and the quality of a community event, and add
tremendously to the spirit of the market.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Thank you.
JOD,E HENNEKE: Any other questions?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'm just amazed at the
sur_cess of that. I think it's great.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Fantastic.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Appreciate the amount of
hard work y'a11 have put into it.
MS. ANDERSON: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Making it happen.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Before we act un treat,
Janelle Bullock, the president of Kerr County Women's
Chamber, has signed up to make a Lew ~_umments. Janelle, do
yeu want to come forward at this time?
M5. BOLLOCK: I want to thank everybody.
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It's such an honor, and thank you for allowing me to speak.
I'm here on the behalf of LuAnn, because due to 4th of July,
the Women's Chamber wasn't able to make their major
fundraiser event for their community projects, and the Kerr
County Market Days was one of those that allowed us to make
up the loss that we had during that time. And I think it
has been very wonderful for us, being out in the community,
seeing the people and meeting with them, and plus raising
funds for our community projects, plus our Women Helping
Women scholarships. And I would like to say I would love to
see this continue. I think it's a good thing for the
community. While I was out at the booths, I met people
from -- all the way from Alaska and, you know, all across
the country, and it was wonderful to be out there and meet
these people, and also support our community. And I would
like to see this pass. I'm in favor of LuAnn. Thank you so
much.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Judge, I do have one
other question. LuAnn, do you have an idea as to what your
sales are or have been on an average Saturday? I know it's
probably pretty hard to --
MS. ANDERSON: It's very difficult, 'cause
we've had a constantly expanding number of vendors, so we've
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Thank you,
Ms. Anderson. We appreciate your help. It's a wonderful
deal.
MS. ANDERSODI: Thank you. And y'all come see
us.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We'll be back. The next item
is Item Number 2, consider and discuss and take appropriate
action on a resolution of thanks and appreciation to Ruth
Priest for her years of service on the Kerrville/Kerr County
Airport Advisory Board. Commissioner Williams and
Commissioner Griffin.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Thank you, Judge. We
had -- Larry and I had talked about paying a tribute to Ruth
Priest for her years of service to Kerr County, and
particularly tc the Kerrville/Kerr County Airport Advisory
Board. She will be honored at a reception at City Hall on
the ]4th. We thought it would be appropriate for this Court
to pay some respect to her and thanks to her for her years
of service, and with your permission, I'll read into the
record a resolution. "Whereas Ruth Priest has spent a vast
number of years working ~n the field of aviation in the
public and private sectors; and whereas, as a citizen of
Kerr County, she offered her time and expertise to The City
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and County for the betterment of local aviation; and
whereas, Ruth Priest served 14 years as Chair of the
Eerrville/Kerr County Joint Airport Advisory Board; and
whereas, during her tenure, significant beneficial
improvements have been made to the Kerrville/Kerr County
Airport; and whereas her advice and counsel were invaluable
to the City of Kerrville and Kerr County during the
development of the long-range master plan for the airport;
Now, therefore, be it resolved that Kerr County
Commissioners Court expresses its thanks and appreciation to
Ruth Priest for her 14 years of service to the citizens of
k"err County as Chair of the Kerrville/Kerr County Joint
Airport Advisory Board; and be i*_ further resolved that a
signed and sealed copy of this Resolution be presented to
Ruth Priest on the occasion of a reception in her honor on
Ncvember 14th, 2002." I'll offer the resolution for
approva].
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commiosioner
Williams, second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court
approve a resolution of thanks and appreciation to Rnth
Priest for the years of service on the Kerrville/Kerr County
Airport Advisory Board. Any other comments? Questions? If
not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
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DODGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Judge, before you
move on, I just think it would be appropLiate to note that
in the TexDOT directory or book of airport improvements that
will be undertaken or scheduled for undertaking in the years
coming forward, we're in line for about $12.4 million worth
of airport improvements in the next fiscal year.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Outstanding. Okay. Moving
along, the next item is Item Number 3, consider and discuss
Order Calling a Bond Election and rescinding Order Number
~ 7831 dated October 28, Year 2002. Mr. Spurgeon?
~ MR. SPURGEON: Judge and members of the
Court, the item that's on the agenda this morning is to
essentially redo the item that you did on October 28th,
which was calling your bond election for November 1st. The
reason that I'm asking to put this back on the agenda is an
error on my part, and there's a provision under a separate
part of the Texas statutes that apply to cities and
counties; doesn't apply to any political subdivisions but
cities and counties, calling an election not earlier than 90
days ir. advance of an election. Calling that on October the
2L'th was actually 96 days. Now, that was an error on my
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the election, et cetera, my concern at the time was to be
sure we had things done in advance so we could make
submission to the Justice Department. Y"ou're g~ir,g from 19
voting places -- polling places down to four, which is
permitted by the statutes ~n terms of allowing to you
consolidate your -- your polling places, but in submitting
it to the Justice Department, I wanted to be sure that we
got through their process, which takes FO days -- or up to
60 days for them to respond. In case they had any problems,
we have the opportunity to come back and -- and make
adjustments as we need to do that.
Election Code normally says -- or Election
Code does say, as a general rule, that you cannot -- or you
must call an election at least 45 days in advance; that the
9G-day rule is something that, frankly, didn't come to mind
until I was actually preparing the documents going to the
Justice Department, and that's when iL hit me that we called
it a little too early. So, to correct that, to be sure that
o-ae don't have any problems in terms of election, I'm asking
that ycu rescind the order trom October 28th, and
essentially recall the election today. Everything else
about the election stays the same.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Anyone have any questions?
COMMLSSIGNER LETZ: So moved.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. Eefore we -- before I
recognize your motion, we need to hear from Jannett, the
County Clerk.
MS. PIE PER: There's one change that we would
need to make; that would be the Precinct ~ location. we
haven't got a definite okay on it, but I think it'd probably
be better to change the location for Precinct 2 to the
Extension Office meeting room, because the Cailloux Center
will not be available.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: My motion is amended.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: And second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Griffin, to approve the order calling
the bond election, rescinding Order Number 27831, as amended
to provide for the voting location for Precinct 2 on
election day to be the Kerr County Extension Office meeting
room, 5001 San Antonio Highway, Kerrville, Te.;as, 7.9D~R.
Questions or comments?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Docs the -- a
question. Does the motion also include the vacation of the
earlier order?
JUDGE HENNEKE
rescinds the previous order.
MR. SPURGEON:
Yes, the order itself
It's actually in the order,
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Okay.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. If not --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Is this going to be
amended? What I'm seeinq here calls for Schreiner --
JUDGE HENNEH:E: Yes, it will be.
MR. SPURGEON: We'1]. note that. We'll put
that in this, yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Okay.
JUDGE HENNEKE: If there's no further
questions or comments, all in favor, raise your right hand.
(Commissioners Williams, Letz, and Griffin
voted in favor of the motion.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed?
(Commissioner Baldwin voted against the
motion.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Okay. Item
Number 4, consider and discuss an order approving a Lease
Agreement and Operating Agreement relating to Kerr County,
Texas Juvenile Detention Facilities Project, and consent to
the execution and delivery by Hill Country Juvenile Facility
Corporation of a Trust Agreement, Mortgage, and Security
Agreement, and to the issuance of bonds by such corporation
to refinance, and finance improvements to Kerr County
Juvenile Detention Facility, and authorizing other actions
relating thereto. Mr. Spurgeon.
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MR. SPURGEON: Judge and members of the
Court, this is the first of actually four different bodies
with the refinancing of the Juvenile Facility and providing
funds for the extension of the facility. As I -- just to
kind of refresh your memory, the actual -- the bonds,
themselves, are going to be issued by the Hill Country
Juvenile Facility Corporation, which was a public finance --
or public facility corporation created by the County about a
year ago. We are -- due to provis=ons under state law, it's
necessary because of -- frankly, because of the lack of
specific statutes dealing with Juvenile Board and who they
could contract with, it's necessary to involve the County in
this financing to actually enter into the lease agreement
with the Hi11 Country Juvenile Facility Corporation, which
is very, very -- which is a common type of financing for --
for a public facility corporation like we're doing here.
It's called a lease revenue bond financing
where, literally, the County will be entering into a lease
agreement with the Hill Country Juvenile Facility
Corporation, which technically, they would be leasing the
facility to the County. But, all along, the desire of the
County has been that the County would have no responsibility
in terms of payment and those things, so in order to move
all of those payment responsibilities over to the Juvenile
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Board, which is the way it should be in the first place, the
County will be enterinq into an operating agreement with the
Juvenile Board, which essentially says that you will be --
or that they will be operating the facility, and they will
be assuming -- "they," the Juvenile Board, will be assuming
ail of the payment responsibilities for -- you know, for the
operation of the facility; not only just maintenance and
operation, but also payment of debt.
So that what you're being asked to do today,
really, are three things. One is to enter into the lease
agreement with the Hill Country Juvenile Facility
Corporation. Second is to enter into the operating
agreement with the Juvenile Board, which again transfers all
of your responsibilities, essentially, over to them. And
third is to formally approve or consent to the issuance of
the bonds by the Hill Country Juvenile Facility Corporation.
That's parr of the provision under the statute, that the
sponsoring entity, being Kerr County, would have to assent
to the issuance of bonds by the public Yacility corporation.
Bob Henderson has estimated that the bonds would be issued
in amounts of approximately $S.2 million. That inr_ludes
about a million, nine to pay off the old debt, the 1994
lease. Approximately two hundred -- or $2,600,000 for
construction, give or take several tens of thousands, I
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the reserve fund, and then there's some cost of somewhere
around $100,000. Comes to about $5.2 million.
We've included in the order that you'll be
approving today that you will be consenting to the issuance
of funds up to 55,250,000. We don't think: we'll gc that
high, but we want to give a little bit of -- slight little
bit of wiggle room in case there's something we need to
adjust in the numbers. Those numbers will be set next week.
When I mentioned that there are four boards that aLz
meeting, three of those boards will meet next week on the
21st, and the sale of the bonds will be conducted by the
underwriters next week, and all the final payment terms will
be set at that point. So, in a nuLsk-,ell, that's }:ind of
what you're being asked to do. And it also approves, sort
of, the concept of the other documents -- the szcurity
documents that are behind the bonds. Again, you're no*_ the
party to those documents, buL you're being asked to consent
to those documents.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Tom, basically, the
public facility corporation doesn't have bonding authority,
so the -- this body here, is that --
MR. SPURGEON: No, not exactly.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Not exactly.
MR. SPURGEON: The public facility
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issue the bonds.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Okay.
MR. SPOR.GEON: The -- the Juvenile Board is
the one that doesn't have the authority to specifically
enter into a contract with the public facility corporation.
It has authority to enter into contracts with political
subdivisions for the operation of the juvenile facility.
So, because they didn't have the authority to directly
contract with the public facility corporation, you couldn't
enter -- have them enter into the lease agreement directly
with the Hill Country -- Hill Country Juvenile Facility
Corporation; that would have been the preferred way to do
it, but the statutes don't permit ghat. And, for that
reason, because the statutes do permit you to enter into
contracts with the juvenile facility -- ox, I'm suiiy, with
the public facility corporation -- juvenile facility
corporation; that's the right name. Aud it also permits you
to enter into operating agreements, and the Juvenile Board
did enter into an operating agreement; that's where we're
going. It's sort of a two-step process.
JUDGE HENNEI~E: Any other questions or
comments? If not, I'd entertain a motion to approve the
order as presented.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And in the order and
the motion is all three uL tt-ie items tk~at he has discussed?
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Yes, that's correct.
MR. SPURGEON: Yes, sir, they're all there.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I move for approval.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Griffin, that the Court
approve an order approving a lease agreement and operating
agreement relating to the Kerr County Juvenile Detention
Facilities Froject, consenting to the execution and delivery
by the Hill Country Juvenile Facility Corporation of a trust
agreement, a mortgage, and security agreement, and to the
issuance of bonds by the corporation to refinance and
finance improvements to the Kerr County Juvenile Detention
Facility, and other necessary actions related thereto. Any
additional 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.
MR. SPURGEON: Thank you very much.
JUDGE HENNEKE: I don't see Franklin. Is he
coming for this?
MR. ODOM: No, sir, he's in San Antonio in a
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Weil go ahead, and I guess
someone else will speak on his behalf. Item Number 5,
consider a plat revision of Lot 9 and 10 of Horizon, Section
One.
MS. HARDIN: We got a letter from Domingues
just before court started, and he asked us to table that,
please.
JUDGE HENNEKE: All right. We11, we'll do
that, then. That takes care of that one. We have a time
for the opening of the bids at 10 o'clock, so we'll have to
come back to that. Let's go ahead and go to Item Number 7,
which is consider and discuss approval or rejection of the
2002 LLEBG grant. Sheriff?
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: I believe y'a11 have a
copy of it; I don't have it with me. But this -- it's the
same grant, no matching funds. We get this grant each year.
At one time, it was $14,000, but then the Department of
Justice decided that us and the City needed to start
splitting it, so that's what we do.
CGMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I don't have a copy
of it.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: I don't have it. It's
right at $7,000. And there just has to be a public hearing
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little committee hearing on what it's going to be used for
and things like that. I just need a date for public hearing
for y'all.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: We11, I move we
approve it and set a public hearing for -- suggestions?
MS. SOVIL: December 9?
JUDGE HENNEKE: That's less than 30 days. Do
we have to give 30 days notice on this one?
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Is it 14 on this one?
Fourteen days.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. December the yth at --
do we have anything else on that day?
MS. SOVIL: Not yet.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. December 9th at
10 o'clock. Is that your motion?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: So moved.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second.
DODGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Griffin, second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court
approve application for the 2002 LLEBG grant and set a
public hearing on same Tor 10 o'clock a.m. on Monday,
December the 9th, here in Kerr County Commissioners
Courtroom. Questions"?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Question is, do we
approve it now or approve it after the hearing?
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Approve the application, I
believe.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: The application is
automatic; we just get notice of it each year now.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Basically, we're
setting the date.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We11, I --
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: That's the way it's
written.
JUDGE HENNEKE: It said "approved," so I want
to approve something.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Approval is actually
the grant.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Just setting a date for
the hearing. But, see, the application used to -- when we
first started this, I came to you and asked you if we could
apply for the grant, which was approving us applying for the
grant. Now, since we've been doing it for a number of
years, the application is kind of automatic by the
Department of Justice. We just have to make sure we submit
it with the City of Kerrville.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. Let me restate the
motion, then. The motion is to approve the LLEBG -- LLEBG
grant and set a public hearing for 10 o'clock on December 9.
Any ether questions or comments? If not, all in favor,
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(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Item number
8, consider and discuss approval of contract with Kendall
County to board prisoners Yor Kendall County.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: This is the original.
County Attorney Motley has not signed that yet, but it is
exactly the same as the contracts we have with the other
counties. Kendall County had asked us a couple months ago
to house some of their inmates; they were getting
overcrowded, so we told them we would. At that time, I got
with their County Judge. They said fine, so we did the
contract, sent it over to their Judge, and everybody has
already signed that contract. We don't have any of their
inmates at this time, but it's just one of those where we
can have it on file in case it happens again. When they do
want us to house some, then we can.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: So moved.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner Letz,
second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court approve
contract with Kendall County to board prisoners from Kendall
County in the Kerr County jail. Any questions or comments"?
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(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you, Sheriff. Want to
do the constable now? Let's go on to Item Number 9,
consider and discuss appointment of constable for Precinct
Number 1. Commissioner Baldwin.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yes, sir. Due to the
recent elections, the voters choosing Mr. Pickens as the new
constable of Precinct 1, and due to the workload that
sometimes barks up in the J.P.'s office there, and us having
to ask other people for help, I thought that we'd just go
ahead and appoint Mr. Pic}:ens to fill the unexpired term;
that is, through January -- December 31. And then,
January 1, I assume that he will be sworn in as the new
constable for a four-year term. So, my motion is that we
appoint Bobby Pickens to fill the unexpired term.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Second.
JrJDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Williams, that the Court
appoint Bobby Pickens to fill the unexpired term of
Constable, Precinct 1, which is through December 31st, the
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COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I -- Mr. Pickens, I
haven't spoken to you about this. I assume that it would be
all right for us to do this?
MR. PICKENS: Yes, sir. And, for correction,
it would be to be sworn in January 1st of 2003 to
December 31st of 004. That's when we'd have to run for
office again.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well, that's the term that
you just won, but we're appointing you for the time from
today until January lst.
MR. PICKENS: Right.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Right.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Just a quick technical
question. There's a bonding issue here that we might ought
to address --
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN:
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN:
DODGE HENNEKE: Well,
bonded. There is money in the --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN:
JUDGE HENNEKE: -- in
Constable, Precinct 1, for bond. Co
sure that that was covered. So --
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Yes, sir.
-- in the same motion
he'll have to go get
There is money?
the budget for
umissioner Baldwin made
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He's going to have to office out in the yard for a couple of
months, but --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: I thought we couldn't --
is it different than -- I thought there was some issue about
how -- that we couldn't appoint constables.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Well, the --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: This is a --
COMMISSIONEP. BALDWIN: This is a different
animal.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Okay.
JUDGE HENNEKE: 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. Go to work.
Mk. PICP:ENS: Thank you.
(Laughter.)
MS. PIEPER: Excuse me, Judge. Who seconded
the motion?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Commissioner Williams did.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: He'll be sworn?
JUDGE HENNEKE: He'll have to be sworn --
have to get his bond, get sworn in.
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effective today, immediately.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Correct. As soon as he
qualifies, he takes office.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: That's exactly right.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Let's go ahead and take up
Item 12 before we open the bids, which is consider and
discuss approval of lease agreement with the Arts and Crafts
Fair Foundation. I know Mr. Miller is anxious to -- anxious
may be not strong enough a word.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah, he's always a
little anxious.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Mr. Miller, can you come --
let me say preliminarily that the Court is exercising its
authority, pursuant to the powers contained in Article --
Section 320 of the Local Government Code, which the Court
specifically assumed at its last meeting with respect to
this 7.1, more or less, acre tract of land.
MR.. MILLER: Good morning, Judge and
Commissioners. The draft of the lease agreement that is in
your hands this morning, the only change that has been made
from the original lease agreement that you were provided was
the removal of any reference to maintenance work by the
County, period. We just said we'd leave that out of the
lease and we'd negotiate on a case-by-case basis in the
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Does anyone have any
questions or comments?
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: I move we approve the
lease and authorize County Judge to sign same.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I'll second it if he
promises me we're going to have bluegrass music out there
twice a week at noon.
MR. MILLER: What time, sir?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Twelve noon.
MR. MILLER: I'll do my best.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Griffin, second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court,
under the authority granted in Section 3~0 of the Texas
Local Government Code, approve a lease between the County
and the Texas Arts and Crafts Educational Foundation, Inc.,
for approximately 7.18 acres of land frontinq on State
Highway Number 27 and adjoining the Kerr County Agricultural
Facility, more particularly described in the lease. Any
questions or comments? If not, all in favor, raise your
right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
DODGE HENNEKE: OppOSed, Same Sigri.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries.
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MR. MILLER: Thank you, gentlemen. Did you
get a legal description back there?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Yes. Yes.
MR. MILLER: Okay. I wanted to make sure.
Thank you, gentlemen.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Thank you. Okay. What do we
want to do next? We're picking these off before --
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: 13?
JUDGE HENNEKE: No, let's go back and let's
do 10 -- okay, let's go ahead and do 13, consider and
discuss approval of contract between Kerr County and the
Kerr County Soil and Water Conservation District, and
authorize County Judge to sign same. The contract is part
of our packets. Anyone have any questions or comments
regarding the contract?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Move for approval.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Williams, that the Court
approve the contract between Kerr County and the Kerr County
Soil and Water Conservation District, and authorize the
County Judge to sign same. Any questions or comments? If
no*, all in Lavor, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Item Number
19, consider and discuss approval of paying the election
judges, alternates, and clerks for their service performed
in. the General Election. Jannett Pieper.
MS. PIEPER: Gentlemen, I just brought this
before the Court so that we could get the judges and
alternates paid in a timely manner, rather than making them
have to wait until our newt court date.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: That's it?
MS. PIEPER: That's it.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: So moved.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Williams, second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court
authorize payment of the election judges, alternates, and
clerks for their service performed in the recent General
Election. Any questions or comments? If not, all in favor,
raise your right hand.
iThe motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Jannett, how
did it go?
MS. PIEPER: Very well.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: I will say that I was very
pleasantly surprised by how early voting went. Did you get
any --
MS. PIEPER: I got a lot of good comments on
the location, because people were able to come and do their
car tags and pay their taxes; at the same time, they were
able to come down and vote. So -- and the location, they
said, was great.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: What was the final
tally on early voting, Jannett?
MS. PIEPER: I have seen so many figures
since then -- I think it was around 5,700 something. I'm
not real sure.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: We11, as you know, I
sometimes act as a hall monitor at the courthouse, and I
directed a lot of folks down there to vote, and I -- I
actually stopped and asked some of them, "Was that a nice
experience for you?" And everyone enjoyed it very much.
And I commend Commissioner Let? for his foresight and good,
general knowledge.
MS. PIEPER: It made it much easier on my
staff, as wei1, because that way every night we could just
load the ballot boxes and ballots on the little cart and
just pull them up and lock them up in our election room.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Turned out good.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: And well done. When we read
about the problems at certain other areas of the state,
we're just glad we're here. Okay. At this time --
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Did we vote on that?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Yeah, we voted on that.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Okay.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Yeah, we voted.
MS. PIEPER: Yes.
JUDGE HENNEKE: At this time, let's go ahead
and gather up the bids on the road grader, and we'll take
action on those here very shortly. Do you have any other
bids, or is this the only one we have?
MR.. ODOM: There was supposed to be another
bid.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: What number is the
road grader?
JUDGE HENNEKE: Let's call up Item Number 6,
which is opening of sealed bids for the lease of the motor
grader. I have been presented with one bid.
(Discussion off the record.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Without any objection, I'm
going to go ahead and open the bid. The bids were to be
turned ir, to the County Clerk by 5 o'clock last Friday, so
any bids that were -- would be received at this time are not
timely. Bid form for lease of motor grader with scarifier.
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This is from Holt, and the amount of the bid is $77,550.
That's a five-year lease at $1,280 per month, plus a
guaranteed repair expense of $750, for a total of $77,550.
At this time, I would entertain a motion to refer the bid to
Road and Bridge Department for evaluation and
recommendation.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: So moved.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Griffin, second by Commissioner Baldwin, that the Court
accept the bids from Holt Equipment for motor grader and
refer same to the Road and Bridge Department for evaluation
and recommendation to the Commissioners Court.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Judge, we're probably
going to be here a few more minutes. I mean, do you think
that --
MF.. ODOM: I would accept it. I'm ready to
go.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: You're ready to go
with it? He's ready for approval.
JUDGE HENNEKE: He needs to look at it to
make sure that it meets --
MR. ODOM: I think I made them put it down as
such, that we were going to have enough time to look at it.
We sent some out --
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Road and Bridge Department
needs to look at it and make sure that the equipment that's
been proposed meets the specification. So, at this time, if
they want to come back to us today while we're still here,
we'll be happy to -- well, I don't know if we can or not,
looking at the agenda item.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: We can take a break and
-- well --
JUDGE HENNEKE: But the agenda item doesn't
call for approval.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Oh.
JriDGE HENNEKE: All in favor of referring the
bid to Road and Bridge Department, raise your right hand.
(The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. At this
time, I think I'd be in favor of taking a little break.
We'll take a break at this time and return at 10:15.
(Recess taken from 10:01 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: All right. Let's reconvene
this regular session of the Kerr County Commissioners Court.
Next item for consideration is Item Number 10, consider and
discuss for information purposes Kerrville South wastewater
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Project status report as of October 29, Year 2002, and a
notice to proceed in the Oak Grove M.H.P. issued to the
contractor. Commissioner Williams.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Just kind of an
F.Y.I., Judge. I attended a lot of -- a lot of summits
going on, but I attended one that's a little unusual here.
We got together with the grant people and the engineering
people and U.G.R.A, people and discussed the project,
wastewater -- P"errville South Wastewater Project status as
of the 29th of Gctober, and all I want to do is present this
to the Court as an F.'x.L., so you }:now exactly where we
stand. There has been, in the pas t_, some confusion about
what we have applied for, what has been funded, and what
it's being used for, so I asked the Grantworks folks to put
together for us, hopefully, an understandable spreadsheet in
terms of what moneys we have, what moneys we've applied for,
and what moneys are pending and what moneys we hope to
attract for the project. And they have done that. And
it -- also accompanying that spreadsheet is a map of the
area, which derails where the money is being spent and the
number of units. The units are identified in terms of -- of
where the money is being spent and what work is going on.
There is work currently under way. The
engineer has given the contractor, Compton Associates, I
believe it is -- Enterprises, ar. approval to move forward.
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Fipes are being put in the ground even as we speak. I think
it's important ro know exactly what we do or are doing.
'01 -- ~OU1 Colonia grant, which the target area is for Oak
Grove Mobile Home Park, that was awarded to the Court -- or
the County for a halt a million dollars, and U.G.R.A. put up
a match of $75,000, and all that contract work is underway.
We have another grant for a quarter million for 200,
Community Development Grant. It has been funded.
Engineering is in t_he preliminary stages, and work. is
supposed to begin in spring of '03 on that. We have an
'03-'04 Community Development Grant which would propuse to
take us from Ranchero Road at 16 down to Contour -- to
Contour and Ranchero. Those funds are pending; should be
available '03-'04 in the spring. That's a quarter of a
million dollar grant, and the match for that firm O.G.R.A.
has been 12,5, and that's been approved by them,
The last one that the Court authorized was
the '03 Colonia, which would deal with the remainder of the
Loyal Valley area. Proposed funds there on Lhe Colonia
grant would be a half million dollars. The match required
would be $/O,U00, and O. G.R.A. will Lake up that issue in
terms of its funding. They'd already approved $55,000 for
that, and so they will need to take another look at another
$15,000. And if they approve that, that increases our
scoring by about 10 points, enabliuy us to get up, we
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believe, into the funding range. We missed the funding
range in the initial application. You'll remember, we
reapplied. We missed the funding range by about three
applications. I think they funded 19 and we came in at 17.
If we have that extra match, that puts us -- gives us
another 10 points, and should assure funding for that
particular one. So, that's kind of where it is. This just
outlines exactly where the dollars are, what they were
funded for, and the uses. The map shows you where the
moneys are being spent, and as we work. our way down toward
Camp Meeting Creek. I thought the Court would find that
interesting to have an update cn that.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Anyone have any questions or
r_omments on the update as to the Kerrville South wastewater
Project? Thank you, Commissioner.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Very good.
JUDGE HENNEK.E: Item Number 11, consider and
discuss and take appropriate action en an Easement Agreement
between Riverhill Country Club, Inc., and the City of
Kerrville, of which Kerr County is a party in interest due
to construction of the Rolling Green Sewer Bypass, which is
a part of the Kerrville South Sewer Project. Commissioner
Williams.
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easement has been in the development and scrutiny phase for
some time. Ir is a part of -- of this project, because part
of the project requires building a -- constructing a bypass
to the Rolling Green -- the City's lift station so they can
take the increase in effluent unto their trunk line on
Bandera Highway. Doing it this way, by taking out the
Rolling Green station, saves the project considerable money,
as opposed to taking the line up o~~er the top cf the hill by
the old Schofield girls' school up on top. So, a local
attorney had drafted this. I presented it to the County
Attorney for his review. County Attorney had significant
questions about the language. We might ask Mr. Morley if he
would address the Court and tell us whether these problems
have been ironed out so we can go ahead and approve this and
get it out of the way.
MR. MOTLEY: Well, we made the -- we had
concerns -- or I had concerns about the real]y apparent
discrepancies within the body of the easement agreement
itself. It Indicates early on in the -- the easement t}iat
the intent overall is fcr Kerr County to be responsible for
construction -- the constructinnn contract portion of the
project as it crosses the country club property, and that
after that, the City, which is referred to in this document
as the Grantee, would be responsible for the upkeep,
maintenance, et cetera. And it said in tYie ayreement cn the
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very first page that once the contract for construction was
completed, or on a date certain -- a specific date certain,
that Kerr County was no longer a party to the contract, or
to the agreed -- to the agreement or the easement, which was
fine. But yet, then it went in about six or seven other
places and had instances included in the easement where Kerr
County would be held liable for damage or harm that occurred
after	they	were	no longer	a party	to the agreement,	by	the
terms,	and	had	liability -	- or the	requirement that	we	hold
parties harmless for activity not related to construction,
as it related to use and maintenance of the thing.
And so I thought, well, if -- if the intent
of the agreement is that we build it and we're out of it,
let's make it that way, and so that's what I communicated to
Commissioner Williams, and I've also talked to David Jackson
a couple times. He sent over a new agreement, and the new
agreement really only corrects one of those multiple
references. And I -- I left voice mail with him that I'd
like to see either a more global statement in the
easement -- my real preference is just to quit saying in
here that Kerr County is responsible for something if
somebody is injured by faulty maintenance of this -- this
line. 't'hen I -- if that's the responsibility of the City,
and that's as it's intended to be, then that's what I'd like
to see happen. I'd like to have them take Kerr County out
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of that if we're not supposed to be responsible. And, so,
it really hadn't -- I wouldn't say it was quite done yet,
but it's very close. And I've left voice mail with David,
and I think probably this is something that can be done very
shortly. And I do know that this is urgent on the time
frame, so as soon as David gets it to me, I believe we can
present it to the Courr for signing.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Did the City hire David
to do it?
MR. MOTLEY: I think David's representing the
country club.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Oh, representing
Riverhill.
MR. MOTLEY: 'Cause my -- Michael Hayes
called about it, and I returned his call, but he's
representing the City on it. But, again, I don't really
know what to say, other than I feel like that if we're out
of it, let's be out of it. And if -- you know, and I -- I
even told him, I said, look, iT there's something -- there's
an issue that arises that there was a faulty action taken --
there was a faulty action taken in the construction, then
Kerr County would certainly be amenable to a lawsuit, just
like anybody else. I mean, they sue us and we'll defend
ourselves if they say we did something negligent during the
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be holding the City or anybody else harmless for anything
that occurs outside of construction and outside of this time
frame, and so I feel like I'm going to stick to my guns on
that.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: So, you would be
comfortable with -- if we brought this back on the 25th for
action; is that correct?
MR. MOTLEY: Well, do you have a copy of --
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I have a copy of what
was sent in the mail. I'm not sure it's the latest.
MR. MOTLEY: Yeah, it is. It is. And what
I'm referring to specifically, Commissioner, is on Page 4,
the very end of that top paragraph, which would be Paragraph
A; it's carried over from the previous page.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Yes, sir.
MR. MOTLEY: One sentence, and this is one of
the six or seven occurrences. It says, "The liability of
Kerr County hereunder shall be limited to the period of
construction and shall not extend to the period after
completion of construction and assignment by Kerr County of
its rights hereunder to Grantee." Again, I'd like this to
be set apart in a completely -- it makes no sense for me to
say Kerr County is legally responsible -- liable to have to
hold somebody harmless, and then come back and say no, they
don't. Why not just take it out in the first place? So
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: You want that
removed? Is that what you're saying?
MR. MOTLEY: Either removed, or I'd like to
have that paragraph at the end of every place where I think
that we have inconsistent provisions. Because the idea is,
once we build it, we're out of it, except for something that
comes up with the construction later.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Have you conveyed
these thoughts to Mr. Jackson?
MR. MOTLEY: Sure have.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: All right. I'll put
it back on the agenda for the 25th.
MF. MOTLEY: I thin:{ we'll probably have
something real quick. If need be, I think I might be able
to scan this and -- and make the change myself and send it
to him for approval, if that might help.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Whatever will get it
done.
MR. MOTLEY: I want to get it done. So,
that's my comments on it.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Thank you.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Gkay.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: We'll pull it.
JUDGE HENNEKE: We'll bring this back at such
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COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Okay.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Next item is Item Number 15,
canvass of the 2002 General Election, per Texas Election
Code. County Clerk, Jannett Pieper.
MS. PIEPER: Judge, I be]ieve in your -- the
backup, you have the totals that was taken out of our --
from our printouts. And then I'd also put up a list of all
the write-ins, and you'll just need to call those out and
approve them.
JUDGE HENNEKE: All rrgnt. wnc -- wno wanes
to do the calling?
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Go ahead, Judge.
JUDGE HENNEKE: All right. I'll r_a11 off the
kook. Go you want to tell me tf there`s any discrepanci?s?
United States Senator: John Cornyn, 10,884.
Ron Kirk, 2,997. Scott Lanier Jameson, 130. Roy H.
Williams, 52. James W. "Jim" Wright, who was the write-in,
11.
Onites States Representative: Lamar Smith,
11,349. John Courage, 2,47"1. D.G. Roberts, 184.
Governor: Rick Perry, 11,15?. Tony Sanchez,
2,726. Jeff Daiell, 187. P.ahul Mahalan, 69. Elaine
Henderson, a write-in, 15. And Earl W. "Bill" O'Neill, also
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Lieutenant Governor: David Dewhurst, 10,278,
John Sharp, 3,635. Mark David Lessner, 158. Nathalie
Paravicini, 77.
Attorney General: Greg Abbott, 10,949. Kirk
Watson 2,824. John Roland, 175. David Keith Cobb, 93.
Comptroller of Public Accounts: Carole
Keeton Rylander, 11,703. Marty Akins, 2,139. Bowie Ibarra,
128, Ruben L. Reyes, 703.
Commissioner of General Land office: Jerry
Patterson, 10,465. David Bernsen, 2,879. Barbara
Hernandez, 347. Michael McInerney, 133.
Commissioner of Agriculture: Susan Combs,
11,104. Tom Ramsay, 2,493. Vincent ~. May, 186. Jane
Woodward, 1h6.
Rai]road Commissioner: Michael Wil]iams,
10,496. Sherry Boyles, 3,017. Nazirite R. Flores Perez,
1P~. Charles L. Mauch, 129.
Chief Justice, Supreme Court: Tom Phillips,
10,961. Richard G. Baker, 2,63tf. Eugene J. Flynn, 2,028.
MS. PIEPER: 2~8.
JODGE HENNEKE: I'm sorry, 228. Thank you.
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 1: Michael Schneider, 10,651.
Linda Yanez, 2,727, Quanah Parker, 366.
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 2: Dale
Wainwright, 10,709. Jim Parsons, 2,785. Brad Rockwell,
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Justice, Supreme Court, Place 3, an unexpired
term: Wallace B. Jefferson, 10,697. William E. Moody,
2,882.
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 4, unexpired
term: Stevhen Wayne Smith, 10,13 . Margaret Mirabal,
3,499.
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 1;
Tom Price, 10,862. John W. Bu11, 2,447. Stephan Kinsella,
229. Robert C. Owen, 161.
Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 2. Paul
Womack, 10,799. Pat Montgomery, 2,854.
Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3: CatYiy
Cochran, 11,009. J.R. Molina, 2,925. Ollie Ruth Jefferson,
219.
Member, State Board of Education, District l:
Trini Munoz, 9,528. Rene Munoz -- Rene Nunez, 2,662.
Catherine F. Harrel, 899.
State Senator, District 29: Troy Fraser,
11,327. Steve Kirby, 1,200.
State Representative, District 53: Harvey
Hilderbran, 11,805. James E. Harrell, 10,063.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: 1,063.
JUDGE HENNF.KE: 1,063, thank you. Chief
Justice, Fourth Court of Appeals: Paul W. Green, 10,7E0.
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Alma L. Lopez, 2,856.
Justice, Fourth Court of Appeals, unexpired
term: Sandra Byron -- Sandee Bryan Marion, 11,365.
District Judge, 188th -- 198th District:
Emil Karl Prohl, 11,755.
County Judge: Pat Tinley, 11,657.
Judge, County Court at Law: Spencer Brown,
11,621.
District Clerk: Linda Uecker, 11,862.
County Clerk: Jannett Pieper, 11,8]4.
County Treasurer: Barbara Nemec, 1],762.
County Sur~~eyor: Lee Voelkel, 11,770.
J.P. 1: Vance Elliott, 3,405.
J.P. ~. Dawn Wright, 2,987.
J.P. 3; Kari Ingram U'Dell, 1,946.
J.P. 4: Bi11 Ragsdale, 3,295.
County Commissioner Number 2: Bill Williams,
2,966.
County Commissioner Number 4 -- I don't have
a total.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: 3,250.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Is that correct?
MS. PIEPER: That's correct., six,
JUDGE HENNEKE: County Commissioner Number 4:
Dave Nicholson, 3,250.
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Ccnstable, Precinct Number 1, unexpired term:
Robert A. "Bobby" Pickens, 2,528. Mark Myers --
MS. PIEPER.: I think that should be 2,528.
JUDGE HENNEKE: x,528 is what I have.
MS. PIEPER: Okay, I'm sorry. I
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Mark Myers is a write-iii,
1,07.
Constitutional Amendment Number 1: Iii favor,
8,941. Opposed, 1,624.
Do I have a motion to approve the official
canvass of the votes of the November 5 election?
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: So moved.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Baldwin, second by Commissioner Lets, that the Commissioners
Court officially approve the canvass of votes of the
November 5th, Year 200, election. All in favor, raise your
right hand.
!The motion carried by unanimous vote.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Okay. We'll pass around the
book.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I tell you who I am
proud of, and that's our County Surveyor. That son of a gun
got 11,000 votes. I'm telling you what, bud.
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COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Once again, Judge, if
I may, I'd just like to congratulate Jannett on a greatly
run -- great run election.
MS. PIEPER: Thank you. But I could not do
it, though, without all my staff.
COMMISSIONER GRIFFIN: Yeah. We]l, and
please pass that on to all of them.
MS. PIEPER: Yeah.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Court will next take up Item
Number 16, which is consider and discuss sexual harassment
complaint and any disciplinary action related thereto.
We'll take up this item in Executive Session. The action
pursuant to this item will be in open session following the
Executive Session. So, all of you who are not cordially
invited tc Executive Session may depart, please.
(The open session was closed at 10:37 a.m.,
and an Executive Session was held, the
transcript of which is contained in a
separate document.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: The Court having considered
the sexual harassment complaint, let's now return to open
session. Is there any action necessary as a result of the
Executive Session?
MS. NEMEC: Do we need to Lurn the miss back
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impartial investigation conducted, and that the facts as we
know -- or the facts that were presented certainly indir_ate
that there was some thoroughness to that investigation, and
that -- that I would make the motion that the determination
of -- of any outcome of that should be referred to the
department head, and that such action, up to and including
dismissal of the employee involved, is within his bound of
authority and responsibility. And that -- but that the
Court attests that we have accepted -- and this is the
motion I would make, ,judge, is that. -- that we accept the
fairness and impartiality of the investigation as conducted.
COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second.
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion by Commissioner
Griffin, second by Commissioner Letz, that the Court accept
the investigation. into the sexual harassment complaint as
appropriate and impartial, and finds that no further
investigation is necessary. Any questions or comments? If
not, all in favor, raise your right hand.
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JUDGE HENNEKE: Opposed, same sign.
(No response.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: Motion carries. Unless
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CGMMISSIGNER BALDWIN: What about Leonard
buying lunch? Did you --
JUDGE HENNEKE: Well that was -- your buying
lunch, isn't that part of the motion?
(Discussion oTT the record.)
JUDGE HENNEKE: We stand adjourned.
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STATE OF TEXAS ~
COUNTY OF KERR ~
The above and foregoing is a true and complete
transcription of my stenotype notes taken in my capacity as
County Clerk of the Commissioners Court of Kerr County,
Texas, at the time and place heretofore set forth.
DATED at Kerrville, Texas, this 15th day of November,
2602.
JANN~;,T~T/ PIE PER, Kerr County Clerk
BY: ____ ~ ~~~r2t-~- - ---- _
Kathy Bani'k, Deputy County Clerk
Certified Shorthand Reporter
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ORDER NO. 27839
CLRIMS RND RCCOUNTS
On this the 12th day of November, 2@@2, came to be considered
by the Court various Commissioned pr^ecincts, which said Claims
and Acco~_ints ar^e:
1@-General for 8116, 345.22; 14-Fire F'r^otection for• 88, 333.34;
15-Road ~ Nridge for 853,991.9@; 18-Co~_inty Law Library far
86, 128.7@; i9-F'~_iblic Library for 833,@98.34; 27-J~_iv Intensive
F'r^og-State Aid Fund for 82,684.@@; 28-Records Management tF
F'reser^vation for $35,86@.@@; 5@-Indigent Health Care for
812,@77.@2; 81-District Administration far 8184.83; 83-State
F~.inded-c16th Dist Attorney for• 81,295.@@; 86-State
Funded-216th llist F'rob for• 81,797.84; and 87-State
Funded-Community Corrections for 84,399.98.
TOTRL CRS'H REGlUIRED, RLL FUNDS: 8276,196.17.
Upon motion made by Commissioner Baldwin, seconded by
Commissioner Williams, the Court unanimously approved by a
vote of 4-@-@, to pay said accounts.
ORDER NO. X784@
BUDGET RNENDMENT IN DISTRICT CLERK
On this the i~th day of November, c@@2, upon motion made by
Commissioner- Let=~ seconded 6y Commissioner Baldwin the Co~_~rt
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-@-@~ to tr•ansfer• X597.5@
from Line Item No. 1@-45@-41'~ Microfilm Records to Line Item
No. 1@-456-~@6 Bonds and Insurance. The Co~.inty Ruditor^ and
County Treasurer are hereby authorized to write a hand check
in the amount of $1,837.5@ to First Insurance Agency for
Professional Liability Insurance Renewal.
ORDER N0. 7841
BUDGET RMENDMENT IN ELECTION EXPENSE
Un this the 12th day of November-, 2002, upon motion made by
Commissioner Griffin, seconded by Commissioner Baldwin, the
Co~_irt unanimously approved by a vote of 4-Q-0, to transfer
547.85 from Line Item No. 1N-402-2121 Ballot Expense to Line
item No. 10-4~2-4~0 Notices.
ORDER NO. ~784c
RF'F'ROVRL OF LATE RILL TO OFFICE DEPOT
On this the lEth day of November, 200c, upon motion made by
Commissioner Williams, seconded by Commissioner Griffin, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to
transfer $c94.03 from Line Item NO. 10-J1G-310
Office S~_ipplies and 'bE'34.~~ from Line Item No. 10-56Q-310
Office Supplies. The County A~_iditor and Co~_inty Treasurer are
her~e6y authorised to write a hand check in the amount of
SJAB. ~J payable to Office Depot.
ORDER N0. 27843
RCCEp'f MINUTES RND WRIVE RERDING
On this the 12th day of November, c202, upon motion made by
Commissioner Baldwin, seconded by Commissioner Letz, the co~.ir•t
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, waived reading and
approve the following mini_ites: Kerr County Commissioners Court
Regular Session T~_iesday, Octo6er^ 15, 20Q~c, '3:@0 a. m. and Kerr•
Coi_inty Commissioners Co~_irt Special Session, Monday, October
28, 20x2, 9:00 a. m.
ORDER NO. X7844
RENEW R6REEMENT WITH KERR COUNTY MARKET ASSOCIATION
On this the 18th day of November-, 2@@~, upon motion made by
Commissioner Paldwin, seconded 6y Commissioner- Williams, the
Co~_rr-t unanimously approved by a vote of 4-@-@, to extend the
Rgr•eement with the Ker•r• County Market Days Rssociation for
continued use of the Co~_~rtho~_ise gr•o~ands on the second and
fo~_irth Sati_irdays of the year commencing in Rpril, running
through the end of the year.
ORDER NO. c7845
RESOLUTION OF AFF'RECIATION TO RUTH PRIEST
On this the loth day of November-, 2QQ~c, upon motion made by
Commissioner- Williams, seconded by Commissioner- Griffin, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, a Resolution of
thanks and appreciation to R~_ith F'r-iest for her years of
service on the t<errville/Kerr- County Airport Advisory Roard.
ORDER NO. ,='7846
AP'P'ROVE ORDER CALLING BOND ELECTION
AND
,.._ RESCINDING ORDER NO. 27831
On this the 12th day of November^, 202, i_ipon motion made by
Commissioner^ Letz, seconded by Commissioner Griffin, the Co~_tr^t
approved by a vote of 3-1-0, with Commissioner Baldwin--L
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opposing the motion, the Order^, calling a Bond '~
Election and Rescinding Or-der^ No. 27831, as amended, to
pr^ovide for^ the voting location for F'r^ecinct 2 on Election Day
to be the Kerr^ County Extension Office meeting roam, 50+1 San
Rntonio Highway, Kerrville, Texas 78@28.
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ORDER NO 7847
APPROVE LEASE RGREEMENT RND OPERRTING RGREEMENT
RELATING TO KERB COUNTY JUVENILE DETENTION FRCILITIES PROJECT
On this the 10th day of November, cN~c, upon motion made by
Commissioner Baldwin, seconded by Commissioner Griffin, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-4~-0, a Lease Rgreement
and an Oper^ating Rgreement relating to the Kerr Co~_inty
Juvenile Detention Facilities F'r•aject; Consenting to the
execution and delivery by the Hill Country Juvenile Facility
Corporation of a Tr•iast Rgreement, a Mortgage, and a Sec~_irity
Rgreement and to the issuance of bonds by the Corporation to
refinance, and finance improvements to the Kerr• L'o~_inty
Juvenile Detention Facility; and authorizing other necessary
actions relating they^eto.
ORDER N0. X7848
RGGROVE LLEPG GRANT
RND SET F'URLIC HERRING FOR SRME
On this the lath day of November-, 2~0E, upon motion made by
Commissioner- Griffin, seconded by Commissioner- Baldwin, the
Court unanimously approved 6y a vote of 4-Q~-0, that the Court
approve the LLEBG Grant and set a public hearing on same for
Monday, December- 9, c~0:?, at 1~:04~ a. m.
ORDER N0. 27849
AP'P'ROVE CONTRACT WITH 1<ENDALL COUNTY
On this the 12th day of November-, @@2, upon motion made by
Commissioner Letz, seconded by Commissioner Paldwin, the Coi.~rt
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-@-@, the contract with
Kendall Co~_inty to board prisoners from Kendall L'aunty in the
Kerr County .Jail.
ORDER N0. 27850
RE'P'ROVE RF'F'OINTNENT OF CONSTRBLE FOR PRECINCT N0. 1
On this the 12th day of November^, 2Q~02, ~_ipan motion made by
Commissioner Baldwin, seconded by Commissioner Williams, the
cour^t unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, the appointment
of Bobby F'ickins to fill the unexpired term of Constable for^
Precinct No. 1 which is through December 31, 2N~D2.
ORDER N0. 27851
gF'pROVE LEASE RGREEMENT
WITH RRTS R CRRFTS FOllNDflTION
On this the 12th day of November, 2002, upon motion made by
Commissioner' Griffin, seconded by Commissioner Raldwin, the
Co~_irt unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, that the Court,
~_~nder• the authority granted in Section 320 of the Texas Local
Government Code, appr'•ove a lease between the C:o~.inty and the
Texas arts and Crafts Ed~_icational Fo~_indation, Inc., for'
approximately 7.18 acres of land fronting on 5t ate Highway 27
and adjoining the Kerr Co~_~nty Rgric~_iltur'al Facility, more
partic~_ilar'ly described in the lease.
ORDER NO. c785
RGpROVE CONTRRCT WITH
KERR COUNTY SOIL & WRTER CONSERVRTION DISTRICT
On this the icth day of November, ~04ic, upon motion made by
Commissioner Baldwin, seconded by Commissioner Williams, the
~ Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, the Contract
between Kerr Co~_~nty and the Ker•r• Co~_inty Soil ~ Water'
Conservation District and ai_ithor•ized the County Judge to sign
the same.
ORDER N0. ~78~3
RE'P'ROVE PAYING ELECTION JUDGES,
ALTERNATES AND CLERKS
On this the Icth day of November-, :_00c, upon motion made by
Commissioner- Williams, seconded by Commissioner- Paldwin, the
Court unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-Q~, a~.~thar•izing
payment of the election .judges, alternates and clerks for•
their- services per•for•med in the General Election.
ORDER N0. X7854
OPEN SERLED BID
FOR LEASE DF MOTOR GRRDER
On this the loth day of November, ~:Q~Oc, upon motion made by
Commissioner Griffin, seconded by Conimissioner• Paldwin, the
Co~_ir•t unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, to accept the
bids from Holt Eq~_iipment for motor gr•ader• and refer same to
the Road and Bridge Department for evali_~ation and
recommendation to the Commissioner^s Cour^t.
ORDER N0. c78JJ
CRNVRSS OF c@@~ GENERAL ELECTION
On this the 12th day of November, 2@@2, upon motion made by
Commissioner Baldwin, seconded by Commissioner Let z, the Court
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-@-@, ttie canvass of votes
of the November v, 2@@2 General Election.
ORDER NO. 2785E
RCCEPT INVESTIGRTIUN RS FRIR
On this the 12th day of November, 2002, upon motion made by
Commissioner Gr-iffin, seconded 6y Commissioner Lets, the Co~_irt
unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, and accepted the
investigation into the sex~_ial harassment complaint as
appropriate and impartial, and finds that no f~_ir-ther-
investigation is necessary.