1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 KERR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT 9 Regular Session 10 Monday, August 10, 2015 11 9:00 a.m. 12 Commissioners' Courtroom 13 Kerr County Courthouse 14 Kerrville, Texas 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 PRESENT: TOM POLLARD, Kerr County Judge H. A. "BUSTER" BALDWIN, Commissioner Pct. 1 24 TOM MOSER, Commissioner Pct. 2 JONATHAN LETZ, Commissioner Pct. 3 25 BOB REEVES, Commissioner Pct. 4 2 1 I N D E X August 10, 2015 2 PAGE 3 --- Visitors' Comments 5 --- Commissioners' Comments 6 4 1.20 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action 5 regarding soccer field in Flat Rock Park 10 6 1.1 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action to approve holiday schedule for F.Y. 2015-2016 34, 7 61 1.2 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action to 8 approve payroll schedule for F.Y. 2015-2016 38 9 1.3 Recognition of Caycen Thompson, part-time temporary Engineering Technician, for out- 10 standing work in Road and Bridge Department 39 11 1.4 Consider/discuss take appropriate action to authorize budget amendment for Road and Bridge 12 Department 40 13 1.5 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action for Commissioners Court final approval to name 14 private road “D Bar Ranch Rd. E.,” Precinct 2 43 15 1.6 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action to approve Central Counting Station personnel 16 pursuant to Chapter 27 T.E.C. 44 17 1.7 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action to approve appointment of Election Judges and 18 Alternates for term of 1 year in accordance with Texas Election Code, Section 32 44 19 1.8 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action to 20 approve consolidating the polling locations in accordance with Chapter 43 of Texas Election 21 Code for November 2015 election 45 22 1.9 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action to approve appointment of Early Voting Ballot 23 Board Judge for term of 1 year in accordance with Texas Election Code Section 32; consider 24 and set number of members to be appointed by Early Voting Ballot Board Judge 46 25 3 1 I N D E X (Continued) August 10, 2015 2 PAGE 1.11 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action to 3 close one block of Avenue C between China Street and First Street in Center Point on Saturday, 4 August 22, 2015, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon for the purpose of distributing free school supplies at a 5 back-to-school block party sponsored by First Baptist Church of Center Point 47 6 1.12 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action to 7 approve Regional Mutual Aid Agreement with AACOG, replacing the current agreement from 2003 48 8 1.13 Review/discuss, take appropriate action on 9 contracts for Kerr County Juvenile Detention Facility, and authorize County Judge and Chief 10 to sign same 49 11 1.14 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action to approve M.O.U. with Jeannie Hargis -- 12 1.15 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action to 13 approve items related to budget, including personnel, insurance, salary, and all other 14 expenditure and revenue items 53 15 1.10 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action regarding 2016 Kerr Central Appraisal District 16 budget 53 17 1.16 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action to accept final report from Pressler, Thompson and 18 Company, LLC, pertaining to Agreed Upon Procedures associated with the County Clerk’s office 19 (Executive Session as needed) -- 20 1.17 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action regarding lease renewal of West Kerr Annex 21 building (Executive Session) -- 22 1.18 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action regarding possible sale of real property 23 (Executive Session) -- 24 1.19 Consider/discuss, take appropriate action to fill one vacant/budgeted position in the 25 Maintenance Department (Executive Session) -- 4 1 I N D E X (Continued) August 10, 2015 2 PAGE 3.1 Action as may be required on matters discussed 3 in Executive Session 64 4 4.1 Pay Bills 64 4.2 Budget Amendments 64 5 4.3 Late Bills 65 4.4 Monthly Reports 65 6 5.1 Reports from Commissioners/Liaison Committee 7 Assignments -- 5.2 Reports from Elected Officials/Department Heads -- 8 --- Adjourned 66 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 5 1 On Monday, August 10, 2015, at 9:00 a.m., a regular 2 meeting of the Kerr County Commissioners Court was held in 3 the Commissioners' Courtroom, Kerr County Courthouse, 4 Kerrville, Texas, and the following proceedings were had in 5 open court: 6 P R O C E E D I N G S 7 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. It's August 10, 2015. 8 It's 9 a.m. The Kerr County Commissioners Court is in 9 session. Please stand and bow your head, please, in prayer. 10 (Prayer and pledge of allegiance.) 11 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. We have a lot of folks in 12 the courtroom, and we've had a lot of requests to speak 13 publicly on the matter, and I think most of them have to do 14 with the soccer field and the dog park. Is -- is there 15 anyone who's filed a request that wants to speak in the 16 public part on something other than the soccer field/dog park 17 issue? If so, raise your hand. Well, I think you're wanting 18 to speak on the soccer field/dog park thing, aren't you, 19 George? 20 MR. PRENDERGAST: Sir? 21 JUDGE POLLARD: Aren't you wanting to speak on the 22 soccer field/dog park? 23 MR. PRENDERGAST: I couldn't hear all the 24 questions; I'm getting old and deaf. 25 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And ugly. 8-10-15 6 1 MR. PRENDERGAST: And uglier. (Laughter.) 2 JUDGE POLLARD: Well, all right. I think everybody 3 that -- 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: This guy over here. 5 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. You wanted to speak on what, 6 sir? 7 AUDIENCE: Something other than the dog park. 8 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. Is it something on the 9 agenda? 10 AUDIENCE: I don't know; I haven't read the agenda. 11 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. Well, tell us what it is. 12 AUDIENCE: Well, you guys have done a really good 13 job at going through the park here and there. At the end of 14 the park where the road splits, where it goes to the dog park 15 and then it goes to the end of the park, there's some really 16 nasty potholes in there, if you could fix those. 17 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. All right. 18 MR. HASTINGS: That's on the list. 19 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Check's in the mail. 20 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. Is there anyone else 21 wishing to speak on -- on something other than the dog park 22 and the soccer field thing? If not, we'll go to the 23 Commissioners' part, then. Any comments? 24 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I wanted to talk about the 25 dog park and the soccer field, but I'm not going to. 8-10-15 7 1 (Laughter.) 2 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. All right. 3 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I have one thing I wanted to 4 bring up; it was in the paper this morning about the E.I.C. 5 and local economic development. I think E.I.C. does a 6 fantastic job of improving the community, and I just hope 7 that -- that they consider other things, both city and 8 county, primarily in the city, of leveraging the potential 9 with Mooney International building a $30 million or so 10 facility out there; that there may be something there in 11 economic development that could be leveraged with their 12 investment and our investment. That could be good for 13 overall economic development. So, that's all I'll -- that's 14 all I have. 15 JUDGE POLLARD: I don't have anything. 16 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Two brief things, just as more 17 of announcements. On the 17th, which is next Monday, 18 Commissioner Moser and I will be meeting with the Kendall 19 County Commissioners Court. I think Commissioner Moser -- if 20 he's in town. He just found out about it last night. 21 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I shall be there. 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Going over the east Kerr 23 project. They've requested that we have a meeting, go over 24 the project, kind of a presentation to their full court, and 25 that will be done on the 17th. I think it's going to be at 8-10-15 8 1 10:00 or 10:30 in the morning in Comfort, that agenda. I 2 don't believe it's been posted yet. And then I guess last 3 week -- last week? -- a bunch of us went to Austin, or week 4 before last, met with Water Development Board, had a very 5 good meeting with a whole bunch of their staff, which was -- 6 and what's noteworthy at that meeting was that Director 7 Jackson sat through the entire two-hour meeting. She's one 8 of three directors at Water Development board. Which, I 9 think, shows a lot about her interest in this project. It's 10 rated the number two project in the state. Looks like 11 there's going to be a fair amount of funding coming that way. 12 And we've been doing -- "we" -- I use the word generously; 13 mostly Brenda has been doing a whole lot of work getting a 14 lot of paperwork ready for that. 15 And the third thing is that later this week, on 16 Wednesday and Thursday, Commissioner Reeves and myself will 17 be meeting with Rick Hontz, who is the area vice president 18 for Global Spectrum, and he is coming down from -- he's in 19 Colorado. He'll be -- assuming we work out a deal, will be 20 the operations manager for this area. And we'll be meeting 21 with him, but primarily he's going to be meeting with other 22 groups in the community; hotels, Chamber, all kinds of 23 things, to get a good feel, spend about two days in the 24 community trying to get a good feel for Kerrville and trying 25 to figure out on the operations side what they think needs to 8-10-15 9 1 be done. That way they'll start working on budgets. That's 2 all I have. 3 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Just a couple things from me. 4 One of them, the 22nd, I believe it's at 10 o'clock, at the 5 Presbyterian Church in Ingram, they're referring to it as the 6 christening of the bridge on Highway 39. I believe State 7 Representative Murr will be there. And so we're looking very 8 forward to finally getting some of that road project taken 9 care of out in Ingram, and it's been a long ordeal. But I 10 invite everybody out to that. And then, just as we all know, 11 whatever -- Friday, week ago, with the problems with 911 12 going down from the cut fiber lines, all of the volunteer 13 fire departments which man their stations -- and I stopped at 14 Ingram and Mountain Home. They had quite a few people there 15 as well. I think every station but one had somebody come 16 out, is what I've heard, so that's real good, and I 17 compliment our volunteers for helping out in the situation 18 like that. That's all I've got, Judge. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. The room is full related 20 to -- I think it's Item 1.20 on the agenda, and I don't know 21 if those people want to all sit around and listen to all our 22 technical stuff. I'm going to suggest that we go to Item 23 1.20 first, if that's agreeable with the Court. 24 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: It is with me. 25 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. 8-10-15 10 1 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yep. 2 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay, Tom? 3 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Sure. 4 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. And Item 1.20 on the agenda 5 is consider, discuss, and take appropriate action regarding 6 the soccer field located at Flat Rock Park, and Commissioner 7 Moser. Now, I'll recognize anybody that wants to speak on 8 that issue, but first let's see what Commissioner Moser has 9 to say. 10 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay. We -- some time ago, 11 and I forgot just how long ago it was when some of the soccer 12 groups came in -- and I think the gentleman's in the back of 13 the room -- requesting that they have a place to practice 14 soccer. And it's been -- and we said let's do it -- let's 15 put the -- let them do it at the soccer fields at Flat Rock 16 Park in the -- quote, the dog run area. And there was a 17 question about compatibility between the dog run area and 18 soccer. I've been down there a number of times; I've talked 19 to a lot of people. There are not major issues with the dogs 20 and the soccer, from -- and we'll let them speak -- that I 21 can see. And I was down there yesterday afternoon, and one 22 of the -- one of the things is where the soccer guys -- and 23 they've fixed the area; they've mowed it a little bit. They 24 have portable goals that are easy to move. But where they 25 park is probably a quarter of a mile from where they actually 8-10-15 11 1 do their soccer, so I was -- thought it may be -- we said 2 let's see if it's compatible. 3 And we discussed the possibility of letting them do 4 their soccer practice at the polo field, okay? If -- as long 5 as it was not an interference with anything -- with parking 6 with circus or livestock show or anything like that. So, 7 what I asked a couple people to do, I said if you -- if you 8 see that there's an issue, come in and just tell us what your 9 experience is, and see if we need to do anything to improve. 10 I hate to think if it's not broke -- if it's not broken, 11 don't fix it, but there could be an improvement for the 12 soccer folks and for the -- for the dog run area also. I 13 know that some of them -- there were probably 20 or so cars 14 down there yesterday in a very congested area, and that's 15 where the people let their dogs out. So, there -- I know 16 there's concern about dogs being, you know, accidentally run 17 over or something, 'cause when they get out of the car, they 18 let their dogs run, which is -- which is fantastic. So, all 19 I would like to do is just say let's look at it. Do we have 20 the right situation there? And if not, maybe we can improve 21 it. 22 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. Anybody on the Court 23 wish to make any comments at this time? 24 COMMISSIONER REEVES: I may in a little while. I'd 25 certainly like to hear the public's opinion right now. 8-10-15 12 1 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. Let's start off with -- 2 I've got a stack of requests for people to speak on it, but 3 you know who you are. I'm going to ask -- why don't you in 4 the blue shirt -- 5 MR. ULVESTAD: I'm not on that list. 6 JUDGE POLLARD: You're not on this list? 7 MR. ULVESTAD: I didn't know there was a list, but 8 I'd like to speak. 9 JUDGE POLLARD: Why don't you step forward and 10 talk, and we'll hear one after another. 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: You need a name. 12 JUDGE POLLARD: Yeah. First, state your name and 13 where you live. 14 MR. ULVESTAD: My name is Dave Ulvestad; I live in 15 Kerrville. I'm a fairly new resident; been here roughly 16 seven years. 17 JUDGE POLLARD: What street do you live on? 18 MR. ULVESTAD: Carol Ann. 1315 Carol Ann Drive. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. 20 MR. ULVESTAD: And I'm kind of with the 21 Commissioner. You know, I'm kind of new. I come and go. 22 I'm coming down from Alaska; go back and forth a lot, so I'm 23 not here all the time and I don't see all the issues that a 24 lot of these people have seen. However, I'm really concerned 25 about it, because one of the reasons we moved to Kerrville 8-10-15 13 1 was because of the dog park. I mean, that was kind of the 2 clincher for us when we moved here, was having this 3 world-class dog park. And then they moved us down in the 4 other end, which is even better. And then -- and then we 5 have this so-called conflict, and I kind of agree with the 6 Commissioner here. I don't know that I really see that 7 much -- I went down yesterday also so I could experience it 8 firsthand, and there's just a couple issues that I really see 9 as a conflict, and they're easily resolved, in my mind. 10 One is garbage. We do not have enough facilities 11 to cover that many people and that much garbage. And what's 12 happening is -- and you saw it yesterday yourself -- the 13 garbage cans are like this, so it falls on the ground. The 14 dogs pick it up; they carry it all around the park, you know. 15 There's people getting -- having to pry Pampers out of their 16 dogs' mouths, things likes that. This is not all necessarily 17 soccer people; this is just people in general are going and 18 abusing our parks. You know, I mean, littering in this state 19 is an incredible problem. So one of the issues that I see -- 20 and, I mean, we've got -- I don't want to promote the blue 21 color, but we've got these blue trash cans all around town. 22 Let's take some 90-gallon containers out there, let the 23 public come pick it up and police it the way it needs to be 24 done, and we won't have the garbage problem. We'll have 25 some, because some people refuse to use the garbage can, but 8-10-15 14 1 however, predominantly people will use it if it's available 2 and if it's not overflowing. They're constantly overflowing, 3 okay? That's the one issue. The next issue I see -- 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Could I ask a quick question? 5 A clarification. So, you mentioned that you came to 6 Kerrville because of the dog park. There's -- I believe 7 there's two dog parks now, because there's the one that we're 8 talking about at Flat Rock, and the city now has a dog park. 9 MR. ULVESTAD: Well, they just opened that one. 10 No, we came down in -- originally when we came down to Flat 11 Rock, the original front part of the park was leashless. 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: That's all I needed. 13 MR. ULVESTAD: And that's what's attracted us here. 14 And then we moved to the back park, which is fine too. It's 15 even better, you know. 16 COMMISSIONER LETZ: All right. 17 MR. ULVESTAD: Which I guess is another question. 18 Why can't they play soccer in the front part where the dogs 19 are contained, as opposed to the back part? Anyway, the only 20 other conflict I see is the traffic. Now, I wasn't there the 21 day that supposedly the gate was opened and everybody was 22 driving all around back through the park and stuff, which is 23 inherently dangerous. I can't even imagine somebody arguing 24 against that. But, however, evidently the gate was open and 25 cars were driving down there and driving down the river and 8-10-15 15 1 blah, blah, blah. You know, it's like, "Okay, is that really 2 necessary?" No. Emergency personnel, county workforce, 3 those are the people that need the combination to the lock. 4 The dog park -- or the dog park people or the soccer people 5 are all capable of walking 300 feet down the trail. And if 6 we're not, we're not playing soccer; we're not walking our 7 dogs, so that's not an issue. 8 But, however, yesterday when I was there in the 9 parking lot, that was full. We've got to have some way of 10 controlling the speed limit of people coming in there. I 11 mean, I saw three, four, five cars coming in there at 25, 12 30 miles an hour. There's kids, there's dogs, there's old 13 people, there's young people. There's people everywhere, 14 people unloading coolers, walking back to the soccer field 15 and whatnot, you know, which is -- which is fine and all 16 that, but we've got to watch out for one another. So, it's 17 really just a matter of common respect. And, I mean, we all 18 get use of this county park. I assume that's what it is. I 19 don't know the land, whether it's a county park -- 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Mm-hmm. 21 MR. ULVESTAD: Okay. So, we all have access and 22 use of the county park as residents, and we need to share it. 23 But we need to be responsible, and the County has to help us, 24 because we're not going to go put the trash containers down 25 there, and we're not going to go pick them up, so we need 8-10-15 16 1 your support. You know, and we need your support to -- you 2 know, even on the -- in the initial part of the park there, 3 people just drive too fast. We need some postings or 4 something, you know, and we need community support so when 5 you see people race through these places dropping off -- I 6 mean, I went over and picked up a pile of -- of dog droppings 7 right in front of its owner yesterday. And I said -- and he 8 looked like he was kind of sick and stuff. I said, "I'll get 9 that for you." You know, "You don't look like you're feeling 10 that well." But he had no intention of picking it up. It's 11 not like the dog people are any better, you know, so we just 12 need to work as a community, as a county, as a city, as 13 patrons of the park, and we need to work together, and we 14 need your help to make it be successful, you know. Because 15 if people are doing what they're doing, there's going to be 16 conflicts. It's just unnecessary. 17 JUDGE POLLARD: Thank you very much. 18 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Thank you. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. We're going to have to 20 limit these -- there are lots of people, so we're going to 21 have to limit it to three minutes per person, okay? Who's 22 next? You're up. Who wants to get up and talk next? 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: The lady in the back. 24 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay, lady in the back. 25 MS. BOWLES: Hi. 8-10-15 17 1 JUDGE POLLARD: Hello. How are you doing? 2 MS. BOWLES: I'm doing good. 3 JUDGE POLLARD: I know you, but you're going to 4 have to state your name. 5 MS. BOWLES: I'm Pat Bowles. I'm a therapist here 6 in town; lived here 24 years, and for 20-plus years, I've 7 been taking my big dogs down to that park. Before it was a 8 park, I was taking my dogs down there. So, for the last 9 eight years it's been a dog park and had the, you know, gate 10 there so that people can let their dogs run around. And I've 11 got to say, it's been a very popular place. When Louise Hays 12 Park was closed, during the time they were closed, that park 13 was heavily utilized. All kinds of people came down there. 14 There was really very little conflict. I mean, it's a big 15 area. But the concern with the soccer people -- we have two 16 concerns, mainly; I do. And my one concern is, it's a park. 17 It's a place for people to come down and relax by the river. 18 Those of us who go down there, we're either people who work 19 all day and we just want to relax, or they're retired people. 20 It's not a sports venue, and it's just not the same kind of 21 thing. Although we haven't had any problems with the soccer 22 people. There's been no problems with them and the dogs. 23 You know, I'm with this gentleman here. The 24 traffic is awful. I was down there yesterday at 6:30; there 25 were 34 vehicles there, most of them big trucks. And because 8-10-15 18 1 there's not lined parking down there, it's just, you know, a 2 little windy road, it was just a free-for-all. There were -- 3 there were vehicles parked in all kinds of directions. They 4 were, like, jammed in there together. And I'm concerned that 5 either a dog is going to get run over, or one of their kids 6 is going to get run over. And, again, you're right; people 7 were speeding along. I was sitting down by the river with my 8 dogs and just watching the big trucks just barreling in and 9 barreling out, so maybe we need some speed bumps or 10 something. But I'm just concerned that it's going to become 11 a sports venue and we're going to lose our park, and I just 12 kind of want, you know, to let you guys be aware that a lot 13 of people use that park, and we enjoy it, and it is a super 14 place to come down and relax, and please don't take it away 15 from us. 16 JUDGE POLLARD: Thank you, Pat. All right. Who 17 wants up next? There were several of them filled out -- 18 request forms. Yes, sir? Come forward. 19 MR. BISHOP: My name is Graham Bishop, and I live 20 on Spence Street in Kerrville, 315 Spence. And I've been 21 going out to the dog park now for about, I guess, a year and 22 a half, since I got my dog. Unfortunately, I go out there 23 early in the mornings, so there's no soccer people out there 24 when they're playing, but I don't understand why the two are 25 mutually exclusive. I think we ought to be able to both do 8-10-15 19 1 soccer and walk dogs out there. There are some problems with 2 garbage there. I think there's three 55-gallon drums, 3 period, for garbage. And I go out there on Monday mornings, 4 and there's garbage all over the place, but it's all piled up 5 around the trash cans. They're not leaving it up in the 6 middle of the football field or, you know, down the sides of 7 the trails or stuff like that. It's all piled up around the 8 garbage cans. They're trying to do the right thing; it's 9 just we're setting them up for failure, 'cause we don't have 10 enough containers out there to put the trash in. I just 11 don't see that as a great problem, having the dog park and 12 the soccer players out there together. And, you know, I 13 don't know who the guy is that maintains that soccer field, 14 but that guy does it with a hand mower, and it takes him 15 hours. And that's a lot of work; he's out there on -- I 16 mean, he's putting some sweat equity into it. I got to 17 respect that part of it. That's all I've got to say. Thank 18 you. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: Thank you. 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Thank you. 21 JUDGE POLLARD: Next? Surely there's somebody 22 else. Come forward. 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: From the soccer. 24 MR. GOMEZ: You speak about the field, but when 25 anybody go to the field, we cut the grass. I talk to my -- 8-10-15 20 1 all the guys, my teams, and the people; I say, "Pick up your 2 trash and throw it away in the big cans." We don't leave any 3 trash on the floor -- the grass, any trash in there. About 4 the speed, I think I talk to the guys. The speed is five -- 5 five mile; that is what I explain, to go slow. To go slow. 6 There is no dogs, there is no people, there is no kids in 7 there. Just only the parking that's a problem. Because, 8 yeah, a lot of people have a lot of cars; like, 24, 25 cars. 9 That's why. But the trash, the maintenance I do myself. The 10 maintenance, picking up the trash early in the morning. When 11 the guys -- when the guys -- the other guys make -- leave the 12 trash over there, I pick it up and put it in my truck; I 13 leave it somewhere. We make it more better over there. 14 JUDGE POLLARD: Thank you, sir. We appreciate what 15 you do. All right. Who else? Anybody else wishing to speak 16 on this? Yes. Come forward, George. 17 MR. PRENDERGAST: My name is George Prendergast; I 18 live at 120 Peterson Farm Road. I'm at the park, at least 19 most days, twice a day, and everything that gentleman said is 20 true. Everything this gentleman has said is pretty much 21 true. (Laughter.) 22 MR. ULVESTAD: We'll talk afterwards. 23 MR. PRENDERGAST: But I have a couple requests, 24 too. You know, there's -- I think we ought to make it a 25 no-smoking zone, 'cause there's lots of smoking butts down 8-10-15 21 1 there, you know, people throwing their smoking butts out. 2 And I think we ought to put in a -- I think a sand volleyball 3 deal would be nice there to utilize all the -- 4 AUDIENCE: No. 5 MR. PRENDERGAST: It wouldn't cost a whole lot. 6 Actually, I don't think that the -- the soccer is interfering 7 at all with the dogs. I think the soccer people are there 8 usually on what, Wednesdays and Sundays? 9 MR. GOMEZ: Yes. 10 MR. PRENDERGAST: Yeah. It might help if, when 11 they came in the ramp, they park their cars over to the left. 12 There's an apron there. It's not paved; it's grass, but that 13 would allow people that need access right to the park to get 14 out of their cars. They could drive up, park where they 15 normally park. I'm usually there in the mornings anywhere 16 from 6:30 to till 9 o'clock. There's usually, what, eight of 17 us, nine of us there? In the evening, there's usually eight 18 or nine. In between all of that, you have a number of people 19 that come and go. They are interlopers, because you know 20 we're entitled to this park; it's ours. (Laughter.) And 21 everybody else needs to understand that we need to be there 22 first and get -- you know, get first priority. Originally, 23 when this piece of property was bought, I think we discussed 24 putting some different fields out there back in the mid-'90s. 25 So, having been here for a while, you know, we know where all 8-10-15 22 1 the dead bodies are buried, most of them. And that was -- 2 that portion of the park has really been under-utilized. 3 There's a track around that area. Nobody goes in that center 4 area because it's -- it's infested with cockleburs and 5 stickers. After five years of drought, there's no grass. 6 This gentleman is mowing basically weeds to play on. I think 7 he's saving Tim a little bit of effort having to mow that. 8 I would suggest, too, while we're putting in the 9 new volleyball -- sand volleyball field, that we go ahead and 10 seed all of that and get some grass growing out there, and 11 start irrigating it like we did previously. 'Cause y'all 12 have some water rights, don't you, out of the river? Bottom 13 line, I don't see this as a problem at all. I think this 14 gentleman -- and he's trying to help keep some kids involved 15 and playing some soccer. As we well know, the city has taken 16 away some soccer fields -- are in the process of taking away 17 some soccer fields. It's property that we haven't been 18 utilizing. It is a park. Like I say, they're only there 19 twice a week. And so if we could slow them down a little 20 bit, have them park over to the side -- these are kids. He's 21 got some youth that are going to be playing also. So, I 22 don't -- I don't see where you have a fight with any dog, or 23 even people who have multiple dogs, so that's all I had to 24 say. But I would like to -- the volleyball. Give it some 25 consideration, please. 8-10-15 23 1 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. Who else wants to talk on 2 it? Well, first of all, are there any -- 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Ms. Bowles. 4 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. Come forward. 5 MS. BOWLES: I just want to briefly respond, 6 something I forgot to mention. That little guy was talking 7 about mowing. It was last Sunday that I was down there on 8 Sunday, and the soccer people were driving through the gate. 9 Someone had opened the gate and they were driving back and 10 forth across the park. Now, I don't blame them. It's real 11 hot, and, you know, I wouldn't want to walk that far to play 12 soccer either. But, however, that's when I first called 13 Mr. Moser, because to me, if they can go in and out the gate, 14 everybody should be able to go in and out the gate. I just 15 didn't think that it was fair for them to, you know, have 16 access, but I understand that's been taken care of. I just 17 wanted to say that. 18 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. Thank you. Anyone 19 else? 20 MR. BOLLIER: May I speak, Judge? 21 JUDGE POLLARD: Yeah. 22 MR. BOLLIER: Can I speak? 23 JUDGE POLLARD: Yes. 24 MR. BOLLIER: As far as the trash goes -- 25 JUDGE POLLARD: State your name and address. 8-10-15 24 1 MR. BOLLIER: Oh. My name is Tim Bollier; I work 2 for Kerr County Maintenance. I live at 301 Harper Valley 3 Road, Harper, Texas, 78631. 4 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. 5 MR. BOLLIER: The trash cans, we have added more 6 trash cans in the front park. We added -- we only had two in 7 the back; we added another one. The problem that we have 8 with the trash cans is that the more trash cans that we put 9 out, we start finding a whole lot more household garbage. We 10 pick up the trash every Monday morning; that's what they're 11 doing this morning. We pick up the trash every Friday 12 afternoon, and I make a pass through there a couple of times 13 during the week, and if there's any trash, we pick that up if 14 it's over-full. I keep hearing the gate thing, about the 15 gate being open. That was my fault. You can -- that is my 16 fault. I have taken care of that problem. But -- 17 JUDGE POLLARD: Is there a speed limit sign up out 18 there? 19 MR. BOLLIER: Not that I know of, sir. I have 20 never seen a speed limit sign in that park. We need one. 21 There are some little things that we need to do there. I do 22 see that the traffic in that park on most days is -- 23 especially during the summertime, there is a lot of people 24 that come in and out of that park each and every day. Those 25 river banks are full of people swimming, sunbathing every 8-10-15 25 1 single day. So, we have to do -- the main thing I see down 2 there is that we have to do something with the -- with the 3 speed limit and the vehicles, some kind of parking, something 4 there. I don't know what -- what there is to do there. 5 JUDGE POLLARD: How many trash containers did you 6 say were down there? 7 MR. BOLLIER: Flat Rock itself, in the front part, 8 I have one at -- and correct me if I'm wrong -- I have one at 9 every picnic table. I have a couple more down there besides 10 those. And at the dog park, I believe there's one at the 11 front gate, one at the back of the dog park, and one in the 12 middle, right? There's plenty of trash containers. The 13 problem is that -- that the park is open all the time, and 14 people can slip in there, and they just dump their household 15 garbage. And when hunting season comes along, you'll see, 16 it's even going to be worse. When hunting season comes 17 along, it's going to get worse, and you're going to find all 18 kinds of stuff down there. And you can't -- you cannot put 19 any kind of roll-off down there, because it will be full in 20 one night, because those people will -- I don't know who they 21 are. I'm not accusing anybody or making accusations against 22 anyone, but there are people that -- you can go down there; 23 you will find televisions. You will find, like up at the Ag 24 Barn, lawnmowers that people just drop off there. We just 25 need another way of containing the trash. I can't -- the 8-10-15 26 1 more trash cans I put out there, if it -- it's more trash, 2 but it's mainly household garbage. 3 COMMISSIONER MOSER: But, Tim, I don't think 4 household garbage is an issue in the back at the dog park 5 area. 6 MR. BOLLIER: No, sir. 7 COMMISSIONER MOSER: They have to drive a mile from 8 the front, so it's not -- that's -- 9 MR. BOLLIER: No, just up in the -- 10 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Just probably some more cans 11 in the dog park area are -- 12 MR. BOLLIER: I will -- 13 COMMISSIONER MOSER: -- what these people are 14 talking about. 15 MR. BOLLIER: I will put some more out. 16 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And not at the gate. Back far 17 enough that if they're going to take their household garbage, 18 they have to -- 19 MR. BOLLIER: I can put another -- 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: This is a mile from the front 21 gate. 22 MR. BOLLIER: This is a mile from the front gate. 23 I can put another two or three out there, see what that 24 covers. 25 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Good deal. Thank you. 8-10-15 27 1 MR. BOLLIER: Okay. Is that cool? 2 JUDGE POLLARD: Can you put up some signs -- this 3 area that they were talking about where they suggested they 4 park when they're going to park and go play soccer, can you 5 put a sign up down there saying that's the parking area? And 6 can the guy in charge of the soccer ask his people to start 7 parking over there? 8 COMMISSIONER MOSER: There's not a parking area 9 back there. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: Well, perhaps I'm talking about 11 there on the apron, on the grass. 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: What we can look at, probably 13 should look at, and we looked -- and we talked about it -- 14 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Hey, Tim? Tim? 15 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Tim, quiet. Only one person 16 talking. We talked about it with some of the capital funds, 17 to go ask Road and Bridge to go into that area where people 18 park on the hill, and to kind of level out a big area. It's 19 pretty -- fairly expensive, but Bob and I were down looking 20 at kind of the overall master plan for that whole facility. 21 That area needs parking, both to get access up to the -- 22 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah. 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: -- show barn and that area 24 during stock show, 'cause there's a huge wasted area at kind 25 of the end of the gravel area, right before you get to the 8-10-15 28 1 bridge that goes to the dog park area. There's just a big 2 section in there that it would take some big machines to 3 level it, take out some -- not adding materials or moving 4 material. I don't think we have a floodplain issue. It's a 5 matter of grading it so you can make a true parking lot. 6 'Cause -- and also, at the same time, that would eliminate 7 people driving up on that bank, which causes an erosion 8 problem. 9 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Right. I think the -- the 10 bank -- driving up on the bank's been eliminated somehow; 11 that back gate's not open. But let me just make an 12 observation. I think we got two things that are going that 13 are really good. I think, number one, the dog park is -- and 14 I think I mentioned this the other day. I was down there 15 several weeks ago, a month ago, and a person said that they 16 travel all over the United States, and they thought that was 17 the best dog park in the entire United States that they've 18 been to, just 'cause it's so large and so accommodating for 19 the dogs and on the river and everything else. So, item 20 number one, it's greatly utilized. I think that a lot of 21 people use it in the morning as opposed to the evening, and 22 the soccer folks don't use it that much. 23 The soccer thing, I can't say enough good things 24 about what they've done down there. And if we're talking 25 about parking before you cross the bridge -- and in all 8-10-15 29 1 fairness to the soccer guys, okay, you know -- well, first of 2 all, they have to drive a mile from the front all the way to 3 the back, and then to -- so that's a mile where they park, 4 and then it's probably a quarter of a mile from where they 5 would park, where you were discussing, back to where they 6 actually play soccer. And yesterday when I was there, there 7 were a bunch of little kids and things like that. That's a 8 long way to carry their coolers and everything else. So, I 9 don't understand -- or let me make a suggestion; it's not 10 that I don't understand. What would be the pros and the cons 11 of letting the soccer field be up where there's plenty of 12 parking up at the polo ground? Polo ground is never used for 13 polo since I've been here for 20 years; never seen anybody 14 playing polo. So, it's a polo ground. I don't know why 15 10 percent of that area -- and it's not permanent. When they 16 set up their soccer, they're movable goals. They move them 17 out of the way, no problem. I talked to the gentleman back 18 here yesterday, and he -- I said, "Would that be acceptable?" 19 He said yeah, they would like to do it, because then they can 20 park right next to where they're playing soccer. I said, 21 "But you have to understand, if you did that -- or if we did 22 that, you'd have to not be there when the circus is there or 23 the livestock show. You know, you'd be prohibited from 24 playing soccer out there any time there's a -- it's needed 25 for parking." So, it seems like we got two really good uses 8-10-15 30 1 of soccer and dog run, and I don't know why we can't utilize 2 that polo area for soccer. 3 JUDGE POLLARD: Soccer is on Wednesday? 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Wednesdays and the weekends. 5 JUDGE POLLARD: And when on the weekend? 6 AUDIENCE: Sunday night. 7 JUDGE POLLARD: Sunday night? 8 AUDIENCE: Sunday afternoon. 9 MS. BOWLES: At 6:30, there were 34 cars there. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: There might be a conflict there, 11 but not likely on Wednesdays. 12 COMMISSIONER MOSER: No. And if there's a 13 conflict, the soccer folks said no problem, they just won't 14 use it then. So, that's -- that's my understanding. That 15 would not be a problem, would it? 16 MR. GOMEZ: No. 17 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Another option to me -- I don't 18 know; it may be a little bit of work. I haven't been out 19 there in -- there's a secondary entrance to that area, to 20 that park that goes up by the Swap Shop. 21 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Oh. 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And that's -- 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: He doesn't like that. 24 MR. BOLLIER: Better talk to -- well, he's gone 25 now -- Leonard. There was a reason why we didn't use that, 8-10-15 31 1 Commissioner Letz. I don't remember exactly why. 2 MR. PRENDERGAST: More dead carcasses. 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Dead carcasses. Well, if you 4 put a gate, you could gate that area. If walking too much is 5 an issue, there is another area that you can set up parking. 6 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So what's the problem with 7 seeing how it works in the polo field? 8 COMMISSIONER REEVES: I think, one, we just let a 9 contract with a new management company, and let's wait till 10 they get in here and decide if that's something they want to 11 do with the management of the fields. 12 COMMISSIONER MOSER: That's fair. 13 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Two, I'm worried about the 14 safety of that field out there because of the ruts. It's 15 nothing but hard, packed ground, and I'm worried about the 16 safety on it. But the biggest thing is we just let a 17 contract for the management of that whole facility, and until 18 they take over, I don't think we should be adding something 19 else to it till they can look at what all they're going to 20 do. 21 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay. I think that's fair, 22 'cause they may be looking at something to bring in more 23 revenue. So let's just -- my suggestion is we listen to 24 this, we think about that as an option, look and see what the 25 management company may want to do, and -- and recognize that 8-10-15 32 1 it's probably an enhancement to separate the two if we can, 2 contingent on -- contingent on what the best utilization of 3 the polo field is. But it's not used as a polo field, and 4 it's just used for parking on the occasion, so -- and I think 5 it will really help, because it -- when I walked from where I 6 parked yesterday to where these guys were playing soccer, 7 that's a long way back there, and they carry their coolers 8 and carry their little kids, and it's -- and there's not 9 parking. If we move the parking even further away, then 10 that's even compounding the problem that they have. So, I 11 think we just need to keep an open mind on using that -- on 12 that polo field. Plus, you know, if they're out there 13 playing soccer, people that drive up and down Highway 27 will 14 see it used for that. That's a real plus for this community 15 to see how it's being used, so I think that's a key part. 16 Okay, that's all I have. 17 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think that we can answer a 18 lot of the questions probably by the end of -- at our next 19 Commissioners Court meeting, because I think when we visit 20 with Mr. Hontz later this week, he'll have a lot of 21 information. 22 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Super. 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'm not sure how -- I know that 24 last dog show, that field got really rutted. I mean, pretty 25 hard to get it smooth. I'm not sure how bad it is right now. 8-10-15 33 1 I guess it's been leveled; they put a lot of shavings out 2 there to try to level it out. But, I mean, certainly we can 3 look at an option. 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Good enough. That's all for 5 me. 6 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. 7 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Thank everybody for coming. 8 JUDGE POLLARD: Appreciate it very much. Thank 9 you. 10 AUDIENCE: Thanks for hearing us. 11 COMMISSIONER MOSER: The road to success is always 12 under construction. 13 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: George? George, are we 14 going to have men's and women's sand volleyball? 15 MR. PRENDERGAST: I don't think we can combine 16 them. I don't -- 17 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: They won't get along? 18 MR. PRENDERGAST: I think they're separate. 19 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Got to get bigger trash 20 cans. 21 MR. PRENDERGAST: Yeah. If the Court will give me 22 a rake, I'll rake up some of the cigarette butts, not all of 23 them. 24 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Don't pick them up and take 25 them home. 8-10-15 34 1 MR. PRENDERGAST: They're not the kind you want to 2 re-smoke. (Laughter.) 3 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay. 4 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Thanks, George. 5 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, let's go to Item 1.1 on 6 the agenda. Consider, discuss, and take appropriate action 7 to approve holiday schedule for 2015 and '16 fiscal year. 8 Dawn Lantz. 9 MS. LANTZ: Good morning, Judge, Commissioners. 10 This is just part of the budget process, and Jody went ahead 11 and put it on the schedule, 'cause we didn't know where it 12 would be through that. There are two different proposals for 13 our holiday schedules for this coming fiscal year, so I just 14 need the Court to decide which one. One has Presidents' Day 15 and the other one has Texas Independence Day, but they're the 16 same number of holidays. 17 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Texas Independence Day, I 18 see, will be a Wednesday this year. 19 MS. LANTZ: Yes. 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And the actual day -- 21 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Last year we -- let me look at 22 this, excuse me. 23 MS. LANTZ: We took Texas Independence Day last 24 year, and we gave up Presidents' Day. 25 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So -- hold on, Dawn. So, are 8-10-15 35 1 you proposing that we not do Texas Independence Day this 2 year? 3 MS. LANTZ: No, I bring both of these proposals to 4 the Court every year, and it's the Court's decision which -- 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: You know, I heard some 6 comments from people about kids in school, and when we moved 7 that to Texas Independence Day, that eliminated a thing for 8 kids and families. And we just added Texas Independence Day 9 last year, so my thought is, I'd rather see Presidents' Day 10 rather than Texas Independence Day. 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think -- well, it wasn't just 12 last year. We added -- we've gone back and forth several 13 times. 14 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay, I'm sorry. 15 COMMISSIONER LETZ: But I think from an issue with 16 parents, it's more the school holidays. 17 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Right. 18 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And the school holidays have 19 gotten to the point they don't follow anything, 20 unfortunately. 21 MS. LANTZ: The first proposal -- 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: The schools are not giving kids 23 holidays when they should have holidays, in my mind. But, 24 you know, it would be interesting to look at maybe a third 25 option, to try to look at school holidays. 8-10-15 36 1 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Good point. 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And -- and I know that 3 different schools -- all the districts around here don't 4 follow the same ones, but I think Kerrville's certainly the 5 largest school district in the area, so you'd follow 6 Kerrville's. But, anyway, I just -- my thought is that I -- 7 the issue I hear a lot with, you know, some of the parents is 8 that it's hard when we give a holiday -- or the school's 9 giving a holiday and we don't, or vice-versa. But -- 10 JUDGE POLLARD: That's a good idea. In fact, I 11 think we ought to adopt it as the permanent rule. Whatever 12 the K.I.S.D. does, why, that ought to be our holiday -- 13 COMMISSIONER LETZ: No, we don't want to do that. 14 They don't give Veterans Day. I'll vote against anything 15 that doesn't give Veterans Day off; some other holidays off, 16 too. 17 COMMISSIONER REEVES: And some of the school 18 districts do not give Memorial Day off, depending on bad 19 weather days, make-up days like that. 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yeah. 21 COMMISSIONER REEVES: And I'm going to add to 22 Veterans Day, Memorial Day better be given off. 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: So, yeah. I mean, I like -- I 24 like to accommodate the schools. 25 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Right. 8-10-15 37 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: But there's certain holidays 2 that should be holidays. 3 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I agree with you. I agree 4 with everything you're saying. So, we're asking Dawn to take 5 a look at -- 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yeah. 7 COMMISSIONER MOSER: -- a third option? I think 8 it's a good suggestion. 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And then we can kind of pick 10 and choose, and make everybody mad. (Laughter.) 11 JUDGE POLLARD: So, you want to come back every 12 year with three options now? 13 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Well, while we have come back 14 with different options, it's 'cause we have to adopt it each 15 year individually, and because some years we have deleted a 16 holiday to help around Christmas or New Years, depending on 17 how they fall sometimes. So, I think we still need to look 18 at it each year. 19 COMMISSIONER REEVES: For the essence of time, 20 since we have pretty good agenda, could we pass on this? I 21 imagine just looking at the website of K.I.S.D. will answer 22 that question pretty quick, and we can still act on this 23 today. 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Possibly. Or if not, this 25 doesn't have to be done until -- 8-10-15 38 1 COMMISSIONER REEVES: No. But, I mean, one less 2 thing. 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right. 4 COMMISSIONER REEVES: 'Cause I have a feeling we're 5 probably pretty close on most of these. 6 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Good idea. 7 COMMISSIONER REEVES: I don't want to take every 8 work day that they -- 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: No. No, not their work days. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: Well, all right. So, we're going 11 to pass it for consideration a little bit later in this 12 session? 13 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Yes. 14 COMMISSIONER LETZ: If Ms. Lantz has time today to 15 look at it. If not, we'll do it next meeting. 16 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. All right. 1.2 -- that was 17 it. Let's see. 1.2; consider, discuss, take appropriate 18 action to approve payroll schedule for 2015-16 fiscal year. 19 MS. LANTZ: This is something else that has to be 20 done with the budget every year, just so we stay in pay 21 periods within our fiscal year. And the schedule, you should 22 have a copy of the schedule. 23 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Is this your recommendation? 24 MS. LANTZ: Yes, sir. 25 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I move for approval. 8-10-15 39 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second. 2 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded for 3 approval of the schedule as suggested by Dawn Lantz. Is 4 there any further discussion? There being none, those in 5 favor, signify by raising your right hand. 6 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 7 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. Let's go to 8 1.3; recognition of Caycen Thompson, part-time temporary 9 engineering technician, for outstanding work in the Road and 10 Bridge Department. Charlie Hastings. 11 MR. HASTINGS: Thank you. Caycen Thompson worked 12 in the Road and Bridge Department for six weeks during the 13 summer, this summer with us as a temporary part-time 14 engineering technician, and during that span he created a 15 spatial database by inputting previously acquired street 16 data -- street sign and low-water crossing data. Using 17 formulas in Microsoft Excel, he converted the 18 latitude/longitude coordination of each data point into 19 decimal degrees for input into our GIS system. And in 20 addition, he created point and line GIS layers for utility 21 information located in the county's right-of-way for the Hunt 22 area, very beneficial to us and to the utility provider. 23 Caycen's work will be used by road technicians, GIS 24 professionals, engineers, and administrators indefinitely. 25 Caycen is to be recognized for his accomplishments. And, 8-10-15 40 1 Caycen, if you'll stand up, please, and be recognized. He 2 did a good -- a great job. 3 (Applause.) 4 JUDGE POLLARD: What is his first name? 5 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Caycen. 6 (Low-voice discussion off the record.) 7 MR. HASTINGS: Thank you, Caycen. 8 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Charlie, is this 9 Mr. Thompson over here? 10 MR. HASTINGS: Yes, it is. 11 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Congratulations, sir. 12 You've done good. 13 MR. THOMPSON: I'm very proud. Thank you. 14 MR. HASTINGS: Caycen's skipping out of band 15 practice right now to be with us, so they know about it. 16 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Is it true Tivy fight never 17 dies? 18 MR. CAYCEN THOMPSON: Yes, sir. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, thank you very much. 20 Let's go to Item 1.4; consider, discuss, and take appropriate 21 action to authorize a budget amendment for the Road and 22 Bridge Department. Charlie? 23 MR. HASTINGS: In 2010, Kerr County Road and Bridge 24 purchased a used 2001 Peterbilt truck-tractor. This vehicle 25 has an estimated over 3 million miles on the original engine, 8-10-15 41 1 and it's consuming oil excessively now. We recommend 2 installing a new engine to extend the useful life of the 3 vehicle and avoid what appears to be an inevitable engine 4 failure. We got three quotes for installation of an engine, 5 and one quote for an overhaul of the existing engine. Those 6 are attached. And it's more cost-effective, we think, to 7 install a new engine than to overhaul the existing one. Our 8 lowest quote was 28,907, versus to overhaul, 25,785, 9 respectively. We have salary savings from vacant positions 10 that would cover the cost if approved. Road and Bridge does 11 request the Court to authorize a budget amendment that 12 transfers $30,000 from Line Item 15-611-111 -- that's our 13 crew salaries -- to 15-611-450, equipment repairs. 14 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Is that okay to do? 15 MS. DOSS: Yes, sir, as long as you agree to it. 16 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So moved. 17 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second. 18 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded that the 19 budget amendment as requested be approved. Is there any 20 further discussion? 21 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Charlie, only 3,000 -- 22 3 million miles? 23 MR. HASTINGS: Yes, sir. 24 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Couldn't you use higher 25 viscosity oil, maybe? 8-10-15 42 1 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Really? 2 COMMISSIONER MOSER: To get that -- 3 MR. HASTINGS: I think we can with the new engine. 4 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Charlie, I see we paid 45,000 5 and some change for this -- 6 MR. HASTINGS: That's right. 7 COMMISSIONER REEVES: -- in '10. 8 MR. HASTINGS: Yes, sir. 9 MR. ODOM: That's with additions. That's not -- I 10 paid about 30,000 for that, but different things that we did 11 is 45, okay? 12 COMMISSIONER MOSER: He stole it. 13 JUDGE POLLARD: Any further discussion? 14 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Question, just real quick. It 15 just dawned on me, with the slow-down of the oil industry, 16 have y'all -- is there any need for a newer truck? I mean, 17 there's a fair amount of equipment that's on the market right 18 now. 19 MR. ODOM: I'm sorry, I couldn't hear. 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: There's a fair amount of 21 equipment -- big equipment on the market at very good prices 22 right now because of the slow-down of the Eagle Ford Shale. 23 MR. ODOM: Uh-huh. 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Have y'all looked at that? 25 MR. ODOM: I haven't looked at that. 8-10-15 43 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I mean, if the truck's fine -- 2 MR. ODOM: Are you talking about -- a brand new one 3 is a quarter of a million, but you're probably looking at six 4 figures even for a used one. 5 COMMISSIONER LETZ: That's fine. If you're happy 6 with this -- 7 MR. HASTINGS: It's a good truck. 8 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Okay. 9 JUDGE POLLARD: Any further discussion? If not, 10 then those in favor of the motion, signify by raising your 11 right hand. 12 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 13 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. 1.5; 14 consider, discuss, and take appropriate action for 15 Commissioners Court final approval to name a private road 16 "D Bar Ranch Road East" in Precinct 2. 17 MR. HASTINGS: Thank you. Don Davenport applied 18 through the Kerr 911 office on August 3rd to name his 19 driveway -- it's very long -- to his property "D Bar Ranch 20 Road East." This driveway has never been named before. At 21 this time, we're asking Commissioners Court for their final 22 approval to name this driveway "D Bar Ranch Road East." It's 23 in Precinct 2. 24 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So moved. 25 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second. 8-10-15 44 1 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded that the 2 name of the road be changed -- made "D Bar Ranch Road East." 3 Is there any further discussion? There being none, those in 4 favor of the motion, signify by raising your right hand. 5 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 6 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. 1.6; 7 consider, discuss, and take appropriate action to approve the 8 central counting station personnel pursuant to Chapter 27, 9 T.E.C., and I'm not going to read the Spanish of that. And 10 presiding manager, Michele Schneider; judge, Nadene Alford; 11 tabulation supervisor, Eva Washburn; clerk, Mimi Valverde; 12 clerk, Patty Thompson; clerk, Cindy Guardiola; and calls to 13 S.O.S. and website, John Trolinger. Nadene? 14 MS. ALFORD: Yes, sir. We do this every year. And 15 since we have a November election, these are the people I 16 would like to have appointed for the November election. 17 COMMISSIONER REEVES: So moved. 18 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: Any further discussion? If there's 20 none, those in favor, signify by raising your right hand. 21 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 22 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. All right. 23 1.7; consider, discuss, and take appropriate action to 24 approve the appointment of election judges and alternates for 25 the term of one year in accordance with the Texas Election 8-10-15 45 1 Code, Section 32. Nadene? 2 MS. ALFORD: Yes, sir. We do this every year. We 3 get names from the Republican party. They give us names for 4 the judge, and the Democrat party for the alternate judges. 5 They're appointed for a whole year in case we have a county 6 election, which we will in November for constitutional 7 amendments. 8 COMMISSIONER REEVES: So moved. 9 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second. 11 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. It's been moved and 12 seconded for approval of Item 1.7 as read. Is there any 13 further discussion? There being none, those in favor, 14 signify by raising your right hand. 15 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 16 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. 1.8; 17 consider, discuss, and take appropriate action to approve 18 consolidating polling locations in accordance with Chapter 43 19 of the Texas Election Code for the November 2015 election. 20 MS. ALFORD: Yes. There are only seven 21 constitutional amendments on for the election on November the 22 3rd, and I'd like to consolidate down to four locations for 23 that election, since it's a small election. And I'd like all 24 the 1's to be at River Hills Mall, all the Number 2's to be 25 at Union Church, the 3's at Cailloux City Center, and then 8-10-15 46 1 all the Number 4's at the annex in Ingram. 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Nadene, do we need to have 3 four, or can we -- 4 MS. ALFORD: You have to have one in each 5 commissioner's precinct. 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: You can't do just one 7 county-wide? Okay. 8 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: So moved. 9 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Second. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded for 11 approval of Item 1.8, reducing the four polling locations to 12 the four dictated -- announced by Nadene Alford. Is there 13 any further discussion? There being none, those in favor, 14 signify by raising your right hand. 15 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 16 JUDGE POLLARD: 4-0, unanimous. 1.9; consider, 17 discuss, and take appropriate action to approve the 18 appointment of the early voting ballot board judge for the 19 term of one year in accordance with Texas Election Code, 20 Section 32. Nadene again. 21 MS. ALFORD: Yes. We have to have a ballot board 22 judge to process the mail ballots for the November election, 23 and if we have any county elections during the one year, and 24 I would recommend Jane Trolinger to be my early ballot board 25 judge. 8-10-15 47 1 COMMISSIONER REEVES: And you said the maximum 2 number of -- of workers the early voting ballot board judge 3 can appoint is four? 4 MS. ALFORD: Yes. 5 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Does that need to be in the 6 record? If not, I guess it just went in. Move to approve. 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second. 8 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded for 9 approval of Item 1.9. Any further discussion? 10 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah. The -- you make this 11 appointment? This doesn't have anything to do with the 12 parties? 13 MS. ALFORD: Correct. 14 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Okay, thank you. 15 JUDGE POLLARD: Those in favor of the motion, 16 signify by raising your right hands. 17 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 18 JUDGE POLLARD: 4-0, unanimous. 1.10; consider, 19 discuss -- 20 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Timed item, Judge. 21 JUDGE POLLARD: Oh, it is. All right, we'll come 22 back to it. 1.11; consider, discuss, and take appropriate 23 action to close one block of Avenue C between China Street 24 and First Street in Center Point on Saturday, August 22, 25 2015, from 9 a.m. to noon for the purpose of distributing 8-10-15 48 1 free school supplies at a back-to-school block party 2 sponsored by the First Baptist Church of Center Point. 3 Mr. Moser. 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Thank you. This is to be the 5 11th year that we've done this, and so there have been no 6 issues. I think they set up the barriers, remove them. I 7 don't believe there's any impact with the Sheriff's 8 Department. Is that true? So, I so move that we -- we take 9 that action, to allow the street -- Avenue C to be -- and 10 China -- between China and First Street in Center Point to be 11 closed from 9 a.m. till noon on August 22nd. 12 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second. 13 JUDGE POLLARD: Any further discussion? There 14 being none, those in favor of the motion, signify by raising 15 your right hand. 16 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 17 JUDGE POLLARD: 4-0, unanimous. 1.12; consider, 18 discuss, and take appropriate action to approve the regional 19 mutual aid agreement with AACOG, replacing the current 20 agreement from 2003. Sheriff Hierholzer. 21 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: That's all it is, an update on 22 their agreement for mutual aid with all the area agencies in 23 case of emergency and emergency-type stuff. 24 COMMISSIONER MOSER: The same as in previous years? 25 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Pretty well the same as 8-10-15 49 1 everything. 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: So moved. 3 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second. 4 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded for 5 approval of Item 1.12, the agreement with AACOG. 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And authorize the County Judge 7 to sign. 8 JUDGE POLLARD: Authorize the County Judge to sign 9 same. Any further discussion? There being none, those in 10 favor of the motion, signify by raising your right hand. 11 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 12 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. 1.13; review, 13 discuss, and take appropriate action on contracts with the 14 Kerr County Juvenile Detention Facility and authorize County 15 Judge and the Chief to sign the same. Hi, Jason. 16 MR. DAVIS: Good morning, Judge, Commissioners. 17 These -- these are our contracts we send out to our 19 18 counties that we contract with for services in the Juvenile 19 Detention Facility. There have been no changes to the 20 contract from last year. I would ask approval so that we can 21 mail these out to these contracts -- or mail these contracts 22 out to these counties, and try to get them back so that we 23 can keep the other counties placing children within our 24 building. 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Move approval. 8-10-15 50 1 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So moved. 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second. 3 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded for 4 approval of that item, 1.13, signing all those contracts with 5 the various counties. Any further discussion? 6 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I just have one question. 7 MR. DAVIS: Yes, sir? 8 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Didn't we just recently sign 9 a contract with someone -- Uvalde? 10 MR. DAVIS: We added a county, yes, sir. But we -- 11 Medina County that we previously had not had a contract with. 12 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Medina. So, are they 13 included in this stack? 14 MR. DAVIS: They are, yes, sir. 15 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And so even though this 16 contract is just a few months old, we're going to renew it 17 and get everybody on the same page? 18 MR. DAVIS: Exactly. Yes, sir. 19 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: At the same time? Okay. 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: What percent of the population 21 are from out of county, just average? 22 MR. DAVIS: It varies. The highest is normally 23 about 50 percent. Right now we're at about, probably, 24 30 percent. We probably average 25 to 35 percent 25 out-of-county children. If we go back in May and June, we 8-10-15 51 1 were at about 50 percent out-of-county, which is pretty high, 2 but normally we're going to run -- 75 percent of our kids are 3 normally Kerr County kids. It fluctuates from time to time. 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And the cost amount in the 5 contract covers that cost? I mean, we're -- we're not losing 6 money on these kids? 7 MR. DAVIS: I'm not going to make that claim. I 8 mean, it's $95 a day. That's pretty much the going rate 9 throughout the state. It's not a for-profit entity; I can 10 tell you that, and I'm not going to claim that at all. 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: But it's as much as we can 12 reasonably charge? 13 MR. DAVIS: We could probably go up as much as 14 another five dollars, $100 a day. But realistically, $95 to 15 $100 a day is about the maximum you're going to get and be 16 anywhere else in the market. If we go any higher, we're 17 going to lose a lot of those 19 counties, 'cause they're 18 going to start taking those kids to other facilities, such as 19 Atascosa County. 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Our county cost is pretty much 21 fixed out there? 22 MR. DAVIS: Yes, sir, correct. 23 JUDGE POLLARD: What is the average population? 24 MR. DAVIS: Again, it fluctuates. It's going to 25 fluctuate seasonally. I can tell you right now, we're at 8-10-15 52 1 about 13 to 15 kids a day, which is extremely high for June, 2 July, and August. Normally, June, July, and August are very 3 slow; we average about 5 to 7 kids in the building a day. 4 Right now we're at about 13 to 15 a day, so we're basically 5 double what we normally would be this time of year. 6 JUDGE POLLARD: And the high -- what's the maximum 7 capacity? 8 MR. DAVIS: 25. And we have not been at that level 9 since 2009. I will tell you, about May we were bumping that; 10 we were at 22 kids in May, and we ran that for two weeks. 11 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. Any further discussion? 12 Then those in favor of the motion, signify by raising your 13 right hand. 14 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 15 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. 16 MR. DAVIS: Thank you. 17 JUDGE POLLARD: Thank you, Jason. The next one, 18 I've been told by James to pass that one for some reason. Is 19 that correct, James? 20 MR. ROBLES: Yes, sir. 21 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. That's 1.14. 22 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Are we passing it for all 23 day? 24 MR. ROBLES: We're taking -- removing it from the 25 agenda. 8-10-15 53 1 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Thank you. 2 JUDGE POLLARD: 1.15 -- wait a minute, let's go 3 back and get an explanation of that. Are we going -- ever 4 going to consider it? 5 MR. ROBLES: No, sir. 6 JUDGE POLLARD: No, okay. 7 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I spent the entire weekened 8 developing questions on this thing. (Laughter.) 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: You had way too much time this 10 weekend. 11 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I had too much time. But 12 I'll visit with you in a little while privately. 13 MS. DOSS: Okay. 14 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I need to know about that. 15 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. 1.15; consider, 16 discuss, and take appropriate action to approve items related 17 to the budget, including personnel, insurance, salary, and 18 all other expenditures and revenue items. Commissioner Letz. 19 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think this should be after 20 our workshop. 21 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay, let's pass it right now. 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: But it's 10 o'clock. 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: It is. 24 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay, then, it's 10 o'clock. We'll 25 go back to Item 1.10; consider, discuss, and take appropriate 8-10-15 54 1 action regarding the 2016 Kerr Central Appraisal District 2 budget. And -- 3 COMMISSIONER REEVES: You can present it, Brenda. 4 JUDGE POLLARD: -- come forward, Fourth, and 5 present. 6 MR. COATES: I brought y'all's representative. He 7 also happens to be my chairman, Chuck Lewis. 8 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So, if there's any problem, 9 it's his fault? 10 MR. COATES: He's a combat-ready veteran, so -- 11 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: We have dealt with Mr. Lewis 12 before. 13 MR. COATES: I know you have. 14 JUDGE POLLARD: Well, do you have anything to say 15 about presenting it, or just want to open it up? 16 MR. LEWIS: No. We understood the Court had some 17 questions, or had some further discussion from when you 18 considered it the first time, and we just thought we'd make 19 ourselves present if we could assist you with any questions. 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I have one question. One of 21 the big increases you had on the -- let me find it here. 22 Well, I don't see it right now, but it had to do with what 23 you call the aerial -- 24 MR. COATES: Yes, the mapping pictometry. 25 MR. LEWIS: Pictometry. 8-10-15 55 1 COMMISSIONER MOSER: And a big change was to add 2 the capability so you can integrate changes in the system, so 3 if somebody adds a building or something like that, it goes 4 through and -- 5 MR. COATES: Yes. 6 COMMISSIONER MOSER: -- does the survey and says, 7 bing, you -- 8 MR. COATES: It's basically software to determine 9 changes in structures. It's called Change Finder. 10 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay. 11 MR. COATES: And we actually had a new contract 12 that we were able to get this because now that we've had more 13 than one aerial flight, we can now utilize this -- this 14 portion. It's something that we had anticipated getting all 15 along, but it will make a big difference in determining, you 16 know, not only buildings that have been added to, but 17 buildings that's been torn down. 18 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So, how -- what's the 19 frequency by with which you do this? 20 MR. COATES: Once every three years. 21 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay, that was my question. 22 MR. COATES: Right. 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So, every three years; you do 24 not do it every year. 25 MR. COATES: That's what we've been doing in the 8-10-15 56 1 past. There's some large districts that do it once every 2 year, and basically -- 3 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So this is the software you 4 have to have? 5 MR. COATES: Yes, sir. 6 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Or you just hire this service? 7 MR. COATES: It's software that we get along -- 8 from Pictometry, along with the original pictometry 9 fly-overs. 10 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay. 11 MR. COATES: They provide it. 12 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Good deal, okay. 13 MR. LEWIS: And it's found a lot of changes. 14 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay, you answered my 15 questions. 16 MR. TROLINGER: And, Commissioner, to make sure you 17 understand, pictometry is a program that 911 commissioned. we 18 tie in -- 19 MR. LEWIS: Right. 20 MR. TROLINGER: The county I.T., we throw in, and 21 many offices use the aerial photography, and this is just an 22 add-on to that. 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah. I was just questioning 24 the add-on. I know about the other stuff; it's good. 25 MR. TROLINGER: Looks like a good piece of 8-10-15 57 1 software. We sat down in a meeting, and it looked like a 2 really good program. 3 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay. All right, thanks. 4 MR. COATES: Thanks, John. 5 JUDGE POLLARD: Any other questions of any of the 6 Commissioners? 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I have just a quick comment, 8 not a question. I appreciate you holding the line on salary 9 increases. I think y'all looked at -- I mean, they're very 10 conservative. 11 MR. COATES: Thank you. 12 MR. LEWIS: Thank you. 13 COMMISSIONER MOSER: And I guess -- 14 MR. COATES: It's hard to get good people and keep 15 good people. The problem is, as has been the problem all 16 along, is that we train people, get them up to where they're 17 a Level 5, an RPA appraiser, and then they get -- 18 MR. LEWIS: A marketable -- 19 MR. COATES: -- other jobs, better jobs. So, 20 that's been our hard time. 21 JUDGE POLLARD: I know you got a 1.7 COLA, and does 22 that help a little bit with the turnover rate? 23 MR. COATES: I'm sorry, what? 24 JUDGE POLLARD: The 1.7 percent cost-of-living 25 increase. 8-10-15 58 1 MR. COATES: Yes, sir. 2 JUDGE POLLARD: That raise should help a little bit 3 with the turnover rate? 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: But I notice the difference in 5 your salary is 5.53 percent, but -- so 1.75 COLA, and then 6 you use the other for merit? 7 MR. COATES: That's correct. 8 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Does that work well for you? 9 MR. COATES: Promotion. Yes, sir, it has. 10 MR. LEWIS: It has. 11 COMMISSIONER REEVES: As they advance in their 12 level of expertise, that's where some of the merit goes, 13 isn't it? 14 MR. COATES: Yes, definitely. I've got a couple 15 employees that are going to be approaching that Level 5 next 16 year, so -- 17 COMMISSIONER REEVES: I compliment you on trying to 18 watch out for everybody's pro rata share of their budgets by 19 trying to hold yours. 20 MR. COATES: Thank you. 21 MR. LEWIS: That's what we're supposed to be doing. 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: So, move approval -- or 23 acceptance, I guess? -- approval of the budget as submitted. 24 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second. 25 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded for 8-10-15 59 1 approval of the budget as submitted, the budget from the Kerr 2 Central Appraisal District. Is there any further discussion? 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We just wanted to get Fourth 4 and Mr. Lewis down here; that's why we had questions. 5 MR. COATES: Any time. I'm available. 6 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I just wanted to say that 7 this is not Mr. Lewis' first rodeo for this -- for 8 Commissioners Court of Kerr County. Years ago, I don't know 9 where we found him; under a rock. He was wandering the 10 streets or something, and he came in and helped clean up the 11 911 system, which was a total wreck at that point, and -- and 12 he's agreed to carry on into this -- into this capacity in 13 the last few years, and it just seems like everywhere he 14 goes, things get better and better and better and make more 15 sense. That makes government mean more to everyone, so I 16 just wanted to say thank you, Charles. 17 MR. LEWIS: Thank you, sir. 18 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: For what you do. 19 MR. LEWIS: Very kind words. Appreciate that very 20 much. 21 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And it was under a rock up on a 22 mountain. 23 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: It was under a rock where we 24 found you. 25 MR. LEWIS: I was summoned to provide adult 8-10-15 60 1 supervision. (Laughter.) 2 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah. I know what it was. 3 He's outstanding in his field, and that's where we found him. 4 MR. LEWIS: Exactly. 5 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Thank you. 6 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. 7 MR. COATES: Thank you. 8 MR. LEWIS: Appreciate that, sirs. 9 JUDGE POLLARD: Uh-huh. Those in favor of the 10 motion, signify by raising your right hand. 11 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 12 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. Okay. Now we 13 go to -- 14 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Everything else is executive 15 session, I believe. 16 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. Let's take a -- 17 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Could we recess? I need to 18 talk to Mr. Coates a minute. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: Yeah. 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Little break. 21 JUDGE POLLARD: 10-minute break. 22 (Recess taken from 10:06 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.) 23 - - - - - - - - - - 24 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. It's -- the 10-minute 25 recess is over. We're going to go back and reconsider Item 8-10-15 61 1 1.1. We have some further information on the calendar 2 schedule situation. 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Ms. Lantz handed me -- and if 4 you look at Proposal 1, which is the one that does not give 5 Texas Independence Day, it gives Presidents' Day, and that's 6 pretty much modeled after the federal holidays; banks are 7 closed. The two -- our two holidays that K.I.S.D. does not 8 give, one is Veterans Day and the other was Independence Day, 9 and the 4th of July, that's because they're out of session, 10 so really, it's Veterans Day. On Proposal 2, that one has 11 Texas Independence Day on it, which is a Wednesday, and 12 K.I.S.D. does not give Veterans Day or Texas Independence Day 13 on that one. So, the one most like K.I.S.D. is Proposal 1, 14 but it does not give Texas Independence Day. Okay. 15 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second. 16 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Did you move for that? 17 JUDGE POLLARD: You're moving for Proposal 1? 18 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Well, I would rather go with 19 Proposal 2, 'cause I like Texas Independence Day, but I don't 20 have a real strong preference. And since I spoke about going 21 with K.I.S.D., I'll make a motion that we go with the second 22 one. 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Second. Or did you second? 24 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I don't know. 25 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. 8-10-15 62 1 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. It's been moved and 2 seconded that we adopt Proposal Number 1. Is that -- 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes. 4 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. For the calendar year. Is 5 there any further discussion? 6 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I'll tell you, I'm not going 7 to be here on Texas Independence Day, so I can tell y'all 8 that right now. 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I will make a comment; that I 10 think for the offices that handle cash, and the Treasurer, 11 that they usually prefer that we go with the bank holidays as 12 well. That's what I've heard in the past, anyway. 13 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. Any further discussion? If 14 there's none, those in favor of that motion, signify by 15 raising your right hand. 16 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 17 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. Okay. Now 18 we're going to go to -- going to a closed session. The 19 Commissioners Court reserves the right to adjourn into 20 executive session at any time to discuss any of the above 21 matters listed, as permitted by law, including if they meet 22 the qualifications in Section 551.071, .072, .078, .0785, 23 .076, .087, all in Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. 24 So, we're now in closed session, and would ask that the room 25 be vacated, except for folks involved in that. 8-10-15 63 1 (The open session was closed at 10:17 a.m., and an executive session was held, the transcript of which 2 is contained in a separate document.) 3 - - - - - - - - - - 4 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. We're back in open 5 session; the executive session is closed. Is there any -- 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We don't have a clerk yet. 7 JUDGE POLLARD: By the way, I don't know if 8 anybody's been introduced. This young lady that just came in 9 is -- is a new employee in the Auditor's department. Stand 10 up; give them your name. 11 MS. TOWNSEND: Courtney Townsend. 12 JUDGE POLLARD: Glad to have you. 13 MS. TOWNSEND: Thank you. Glad to be here. Nice 14 to meet y'all. 15 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Where did you move here from? 16 MS. TOWNSEND: San Antonio. 17 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Southwest side? 18 MS. TOWNSEND: No, northwest side. 19 COMMISSIONER REEVES: I know some Townsends on the 20 southwest side. 21 MS. TOWNSEND: No, I lived over by the U.T.S.A. 22 campus. 23 MR. ROBLES: She has a degree in accounting from 24 U.T.S.A. 25 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay, good deal. 8-10-15 64 1 JUDGE POLLARD: Go ahead. 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Related to items 1.17 and 1.18, 3 I'd like to make a motion to give Commissioner Reeves 4 authority to work on -- negotiate a new lease on the West 5 Kerr Annex, and authority to further look into disposition of 6 the Recycling Center plot. 7 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Second. 8 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded as stated 9 by Commissioner Letz. Any further discussion? There being 10 none, those in favor of the motion, signify by raising your 11 right hand. 12 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 13 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. All right. 14 Is there anything else in open session other than paying 15 bills and that sort of stuff? Any motions that's needed? 16 All right, let's go to paying the bills, then. 17 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Move we pay the bills. 18 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Second. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded we pay the 20 bills as presented. Is there any further discussion? There 21 being none, those in favor, signify by raising your right 22 hand. 23 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 24 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. Budget 25 amendments. Ms. Auditor? 8-10-15 65 1 MS. DOSS: We have 27, and most of them are just 2 interdepartmental, moving line items. 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Move we approve the budget 4 amendments. 5 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Second. 6 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded that we 7 approve the budget amendments. Any further discussion? 8 There being none, those in favor, signify by raising your 9 right hand. 10 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 11 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. Late bills? 12 MS. DOSS: One late bill. 13 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I move we pay the late bill to 14 Pressler Thompson. 15 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Second. 16 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded that the 17 late bill -- the one late bill, the one to Pressler Thompson, 18 be paid. Is there any further discussion? There being none, 19 those in favor, signify by raising your right hand. 20 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 21 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. All right, 22 approve and accept monthly reports. 23 COMMISSIONER REEVES: We have several. J.P., 24 Precinct 1, for the month of July 2015; J.P., Precinct 2, for 25 the month of July 2015; J.P., Precinct 3, for the month of 8-10-15 66 1 July 2015; J.P., Precinct 4, for the month of July 2015; 2 Constable, Precinct 1, for the month of July 2015; Constable, 3 Precinct 2, for the month of July 2015; Environmental Health 4 activity report for July 2015; Animal Services for the month 5 of July 2015; County Clerk for the month of July 2015; 6 District Clerk for the month of July 2015; County Treasurer, 7 payroll approval for the month of July 2015. Move to approve 8 and sign as needed. 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded to accept 11 all of those reports as dictated into the record. Is there 12 any further discussion? There being none, those in favor, 13 signify by raising your right hand. 14 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 4-0.) 15 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 4-0, unanimous. All right, 16 reports from Commissioners and liaison/committee assignments? 17 Anybody have any reports? 18 COMMISSIONER MOSER: No. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: No. Okay, reports from elected 20 officials/department heads. Anybody? All right. Reports 21 from boards, commissions, and committees? City/County joint 22 projects or operations reports, or any others? Anybody? All 23 right. There being none, I think this session is over, then. 24 (Commissioners Court adjourned at 11:24 a.m.) 25 - - - - - - - - - - 8-10-15 67 1 STATE OF TEXAS | 2 COUNTY OF KERR | 3 The above and foregoing is a true and complete 4 transcription of my stenotype notes taken in my capacity as 5 official reporter for the Commissioners Court of Kerr County, 6 Texas, at the time and place heretofore set forth. 7 DATED at Kerrville, Texas, this 12th day of August, 8 2015. 9 10 REBECCA BOLIN, Kerr County Clerk 11 BY: _________________________________ Kathy Banik, Deputy County Clerk 12 Certified Shorthand Reporter 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 8-10-15