1 1 2 3 KERR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' COURT 4 Special Session 5 Monday, October 29, 2018 6 9:00 a.m. 7 Commissioners' Courtroom 8 Kerr County Courthouse 9 Kerrville, Texas 78028 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 PRESENT: TOM POLLARD, Kerr County Judge HARLEY BELEW, Commissioner Pct. 1 24 TOM MOSER, Commissioner Pct. 2 JONATHAN LETZ, Commissioner Pct. 3 25 2 1 I-N-D-E-X 2 NO. PAGE 3 1.1 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 4 action to interview candidates to fill 4 the unexpired term for the Kerr County Tax Assessor. 5 1.2 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 4 6 action to appoint individual to fill the unexpired term for the Kerr County Tax 7 Assessor. 8 1.3 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 5 action regarding applications for the 9 Director of Human Resources position. 10 *** Adjournment. 5 11 *** Reporter's Certificate. 6 12 * * * * * * 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3 1 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, it is -- what is 2 this, October the what. 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: 29th. 4 JUDGE POLLARD: 29th, 2018, it's about 9:02 5 a.m., and the Kerr County Commissioners' Court is in 6 session, in a work session, interviewing certain people 7 who have made application for the Tax Assessor position. 8 And do you want to just take them in this order? 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes. The first thing, I 10 think that there was an e-mail that I received, and the 11 rest of the Court received as well, from Judge-elect 12 Kelly whether he could -- should -- you know, is 13 appropriate for him to stay in the courtroom or not for 14 the interviews. I have no problem with it. As a 15 precedent we've done it before in this situation. I 16 believe Harley sat in on some interviews before he was 17 in office, so I have no issue. 18 COMMISSIONER MOSER: No. I'm all for it. 19 Yes. Yes. 20 JUDGE POLLARD: Jody called me about it. My 21 answer was absolutely get him in here. 22 MRS. STEBBINS: May I offer some advice in 23 closed session before we get started, and with Judge 24 Kelly here, or Judge-elect Kelly. May I turn that 25 around? 4 1 JUDGE POLLARD: We're in closed session 2 pursuant to Section 551 of the Texas Government Code. 3 (Executive Session.) 4 JUDGE POLLARD: We're going into open 5 session, we're going to call 1.2, we've already done 1.1 6 consider all the applicants. 7 1.2 is consider, discuss and take 8 appropriate action to appoint individual to fill the 9 unexpired term for Kerr County Tax Assessor. Is there 10 anybody want to make a motion at this time? We're in 11 open session. 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'll make a motion we 13 appoint Bob Reeves as Tax Assessor Collector. 14 JUDGE POLLARD: Is there a second? 15 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I'll second that. 16 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved by Commissioner 17 Precinct 3, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 1 to 18 appoint Bob Reeves for the unexpired term for Kerr 19 County Tax Assessor. Is there any further comment or 20 discussion? 21 COMMISSIONER MOSER: The only comment I make 22 is we had some very, very good candidates -- 23 JUDGE POLLARD: We did. 24 COMMISSIONER MOSER: -- extremely good. I 25 want to make that point. 5 1 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. There being no 2 further discussion, those in favor of the motion signify 3 by raising your right hands. It's four zero, unanimous, 4 okay. 5 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And item 1.3, which we 6 discussed briefly while we were in executive session, I 7 have got some direction, we will set up interviews at a 8 future date for the -- 9 JUDGE POLLARD: We don't have to come back. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: No. 11 JUDGE POLLARD: This is over. 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yeah. 13 COMMISSIONER BELEW: And bring him in? 14 JUDGE POLLARD: Yeah. Thank you. 15 * * * * * * 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 6 1 STATE OF TEXAS * 2 COUNTY OF KERR * 3 I, DEBRA ELLEN GIFFORD, Certified Shorthand 4 Reporter in and for the State of Texas, and Official 5 Court Reporter in and for Kerr County, do hereby certify 6 that the above and foregoing pages contain and comprise 7 a true and correct transcription of the proceedings had 8 in the above-entitled Commissioners' Court. 9 Dated this the 29th day of October, A.D. 10 2018. 11 12 /s/DEBRA ELLEN GIFFORD Certified Shorthand Reporter 13 No. 953 Expiration Date 12/31/2018 14 * * * * * * 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25