1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 KERR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT 9 Special Session 10 Thursday, November 12, 2015 11 9:00 a.m. 12 Commissioners' Courtroom 13 Kerr County Courthouse 14 Kerrville, Texas 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 PRESENT: TOM POLLARD, Kerr County Judge 23 H. A. "BUSTER" BALDWIN, Commissioner Pct. 1 JONATHAN LETZ, Commissioner Pct. 3 24 BOB REEVES, Commissioner Pct. 4 25 ABSENT: TOM MOSER, Commissioner Pct. 2 2 1 I N D E X November 12, 2015 2 PAGE 3 1.1 Canvass the Official Election Results for the 2015 November Constitutional Amendment Election 4 as per Texas Election Code §67 3 5 --- Adjourned 9 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3 1 On Thursday, November 12, 2015, at 9:00 a.m., a special 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: It's 9 o'clock on Thursday, 8 November 12, 2015. Kerr County Commissioners Court is in 9 session. Item 1.1 on the agenda is to canvass the official 10 election results for the 2015 November Constitutional 11 Amendment election as per Texas Election Code Section 67. 12 And we have before us here a cumulative report, which is -- 13 let the record reflect that Commissioner, Precinct 1, has 14 just arrived. 15 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Or you can say "number one 16 Commissioner," you know. 17 JUDGE POLLARD: Number one. Number one 18 Commissioner. 19 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: If you're more comfortable 20 with that. I am. 21 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. And Commissioners 3 and 4 22 are also here. I have before us a report here, and it 23 indicates that for Proposition Number 1, the cast votes were 24 2,181 -- 25 MS. ALFORD: I'd just read the total. 11-12-15 4 1 JUDGE POLLARD: -- votes, and then the election 2 part was 2,503, for a total of 4,684, or 97.99 percent for. 3 So, Proposition Number 1 passed. I'll just read the totals. 4 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Was that the -- I'm having 5 trouble reading this, Mrs. Alford. The cast votes is the 6 total votes in the election? Like, where it says 4,684, 7 that's the total votes? 8 MS. ALFORD: Yes, that's the total cast votes, 9 early voting and election day. 10 COMMISSIONER REEVES: That's not necessarily who 11 voted for and who voted against; that's above the line. 12 MS. ALFORD: Yes. 13 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Okay, thank you. 14 COMMISSIONER LETZ: What -- how much detail do we 15 need to read into the record on this? 16 MS. ALFORD: I would just read the for and against, 17 the total. That's -- I believe that's all we need there. 18 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. All right. On Proposition 19 Number 2, there were 4,713 votes cast, which constituted 20 98.6 percent for, and the opposing votes were 60 -- 21 MS. ALFORD: Well, no. 22 JUDGE POLLARD: I read the wrong line? 23 MS. ALFORD: Yes, sir. 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: That line above it. 25 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. All right, let's start 11-12-15 5 1 over again. For was 4,285 votes, 90.92 percent for the 2 proposition. And against it were -- looks like -- I'm trying 3 to read -- 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: 428. 5 JUDGE POLLARD: Yeah, 428 votes against, 6 9.08 percent against. So, Proposition Number 2 passed. 7 Proposition Number 3, 3,293 votes for, constituting 8 70.70 percent. Against that proposition were 1,365 votes, 9 constituting 29.30 percent, so Proposition 3 passed. 10 Proposition 4, 3,074 votes for, constituting 65.84 percent. 11 And against it were 1,595 votes, constituting 34.16 percent, 12 so that proposition passed in our jurisdiction. Proposition 13 5, 3,892 for the proposition, constituting 83.11 percent. 14 Against were 791 votes, constituting 16.89 percent, so 15 Proposition 5 passed in our jurisdiction. Proposition 6, 16 4,035, constituting 85.31 percent for, and 695 votes, 17 constituting 14.69 percent against, so that proposition 18 passed as well. Proposition Number 7, 3,868 votes for, 19 constituting 82.23 percent for the proposition. Against it 20 were 836 votes, constituting 17.77 percent. That proposition 21 passed in our jurisdiction as well. 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Ms. Alford, do you have in 23 front of you what each of these propositions was? If you 24 don't, it's not a big deal. 25 MS. ALFORD: I know the first one was the changing 11-12-15 6 1 the tax exemption from 15,000 to 25,000 on the school, the 2 homestead thing on the school, and then 2 was the disabled 3 veteran one. And after that, I don't remember. 4 JUDGE POLLARD: 6 was the one -- the right to hunt. 5 MS. ALFORD: Yeah, I believe so. 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: The right to hunt, I know that. 7 COMMISSIONER REEVES: I'm curious what 4 was. 8 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah, me too. What was 4? 9 MS. ALFORD: I have to go look. I don't know off 10 the top of my head. 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think 4 -- 3 or 4, one of 12 them, was -- I believe -- I think it was 4 was the TexDOT 13 initiative. 14 MS. ALFORD: Yes -- no, that was 7. 15 COMMISSIONER LETZ: That was 7? 16 MS. ALFORD: Wasn't that 7? 17 COMMISSIONER REEVES: I'm wondering if 4 was not 18 the one changing the population on the counties that could 19 basically contract road work out. 20 MS. ALFORD: Right. 21 COMMISSIONER REEVES: And raising the minimum 22 population from -- or from 5,000 to 7,500. 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Just an interesting thing from 24 a meeting I was at yesterday. On Proposition 6, on the right 25 to hunt, any guess on which county had the highest -- they 11-12-15 7 1 passed in every county, but which county do you think had the 2 lowest percentage of passing? 3 JUDGE POLLARD: I don't know. 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Travis County. 5 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Oh. 6 JUDGE POLLARD: That doesn't surprise me at all. 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: It was basically 60 percent 8 for, 40 percent against. But statewide, I believe it was 9 81-19, which was -- 10 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: I think the neat thing to 11 see in these numbers is that people didn't just blanket go in 12 and vote. They actually looked at the issue, and you can 13 tell that by the amount of for and against numbers. 14 JUDGE POLLARD: The variances. 15 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Yeah, the variances in that. 16 And that's so darned neat. And how many -- how many people 17 voted? I mean, what percentage of our voters voted? 18 MS. ALFORD: 14.89 percent. 19 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And that's a huge number. 20 MS. ALFORD: That is a very huge number. When we 21 first started, I didn't think we'd make 10 percent. 22 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Did we have any problems? 23 MS. ALFORD: Not that I'm aware of. 24 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Tabulating or anything? 25 MS. ALFORD: No. No. 11-12-15 8 1 JUDGE POLLARD: We need a motion to accept. 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'll make a motion that we 3 accept the election results as provided and read into the 4 record. 5 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Second. 6 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved and seconded that we 7 accept the election results as read into the record. Is 8 there any further discussion? There being none, those in 9 favor, signify by raising your right hand. 10 (The motion carried by unanimous vote, 3-0.) 11 JUDGE POLLARD: It's 3-0, unanimous. Thank you 12 very much. 13 MS. ALFORD: What did you say, Bob? 14 JUDGE POLLARD: Anything else? 15 MS. ALFORD: You were going to say something? 16 COMMISSIONER REEVES: I was just curious if we had 17 any problems with the tabulating or the voting or the -- 18 MS. ALFORD: No. 19 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Any problems? 20 MS. ALFORD: No. I actually -- on poll books, what 21 they signed the voters onto, I only had one at each place. I 22 had to take another one 'cause the lines were so long on 23 election day. Election day was lots heavier than early 24 voting was. 25 COMMISSIONER REEVES: I know. And when I voted -- 11-12-15 9 1 I voted election day, and there at the annex, and even at 2 7 o'clock, there was quite a few people in there voting that 3 day. 4 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay, we're adjourned. 5 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Thank you. 6 (Commissioners Court adjourned at 9:10 a.m.) 7 - - - - - - - - - - 8 9 10 STATE OF TEXAS | 11 COUNTY OF KERR | 12 The above and foregoing is a true and complete 13 transcription of my stenotype notes taken in my capacity as 14 official reporter for the Commissioners Court of Kerr County, 15 Texas, at the time and place heretofore set forth. 16 DATED at Kerrville, Texas, this 12th day of November, 17 2015. 18 19 REBECCA BOLIN, Kerr County Clerk 20 BY: _________________________________ Kathy Banik, Deputy County Clerk 21 Certified Shorthand Reporter 22 23 24 25 11-12-15