1 1 2 3 KERR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' COURT 4 Regular Session 5 Monday, December 10, 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 DON HARRIS, Commissioner Pct. 4 2 1 I-N-D-E-X 2 NO. PAGE 3 1.1 Consider discuss and take appropriate 8 action for the Commissioners' Court to 4 approve the reflective pavement markings contract with Flasher Equipment Co. for 5 Hermann Sons Rd., Elm Pass Rd., Rim Rock Rd., and Sheppard Rees Rd., and have 6 County Judge sign same. 7 1.2 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 13 action to accept a deed from Martin 8 Marietta of 0.92 acres of right of way, and authorize the County Judge to execute 9 the associated IRS form 8283 for the Sutherland Lane Intersection Improvement 10 Project. 11 1.3 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 16 action for the Court to approve the 12 revision of plat for Oak View Estates Lot 20, to be known as Lemon Estates, 13 Lots 20A, 20B, 20C, Volume 4, Page 85. 14 1.4 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 17 action to authorize the County Clerk to 15 advertise for bids for the 2019 Road Reconstruction Project. 16 1.5 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 19 17 action to open, read, and award the annual bids for road base, cold mix, aggregate, 18 emulsion oil, and corrugated pipe. 19 1.6 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 23 action to approve a final plat for Crooked 20 Creek Estates, Precinct 4. 21 1.8 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 25 action on request to close Flat Rock Park 22 (not Dog Park side) to public parking from February 7, 2019 after 11 p.m. until 23 February 10, 2019 at 5 p.m. for the use of stock show trailer parking for the Texas 24 Pork Producers Elite Showcase. Public access to the Dog Park would be allowed 25 from the walk-through gate near the bridge. 3 1 I-N-D-E-X 2 NO. PAGE 3 1.9 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 27 action on request to allow the Road and 4 Bridge Department to assist in leveling the dirt in the indoor arena for the use 5 of the Hill Country District Junior Livestock Show Association(HCDJLSA) with 6 work starting no earlier than December 10, 2018 and being completed before December 24, 7 2018. Additional assistance requested for January 2, 2019 for the building of a show 8 ring and dirt work in the show barn. 9 1.10 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 29 action on logo design for the Hill Country 10 Youth Event Center. 11 1.7 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 35 action to appoint a member of Commissioners' 12 Court, or designate a person to perform investigation under Section 751.005 of the 13 Texas Health and Safety Code for the purpose of determining if the minimum standards for 14 ensuring public safety and order as prescribed by law will be maintained under 15 the application for permit for mass gathering by the Texas Pork Producers Elite 16 Showcase for their show on February 7 to 10, 2019. Hearing will be held on January 24, 17 2019 at 9 a.m. 18 1.11 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 44 action on request to surplus equipment. 19 1.12 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 45 20 action on Resolution to the Texas Department of Transportation regarding 21 State Highway 27. 22 1.14 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 52 action to ratify and confirm Construction 23 Change Order No. 7, Contract No. 2 with Pesado Construction Company for the East 24 Kerr/Center Point Wastewater Project. 25 4 1 I-N-D-E-X 2 NO. PAGE 3 1.15 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 54 action to ratify and confirm Construction 4 Change Order No. 8, Contract No. 2 with Pesado Construction Company for the East 5 Kerr/Center Point Wastewater Project. 6 1.16 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 55 action to clarify Victim Service Coordinator 7 salary for October and November, 2018. 8 1.17 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 61 action regarding Commissioners' Court Rules 9 on procedure, conduct and decorum. 10 1.18 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 63 action to address possibility of prohibiting 11 the sale or use of restricted fireworks (i.e. "skyrockets with sticks" or "missiles 12 with fins") in any portion of the unincorporated area of Kerr County pursuant 13 to Local Government Code 352.051 for the December fireworks season. 14 1.19 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 68 15 action to appoint members of the Commissioners' Court as the Kerr County 16 Representative and Alternate on the Alamo Area Council of Governments (AACOG) Board, 17 effective January 1, 2019. 18 1.20 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 69 action to appoint member of the 19 Commissioners' Court as the Kerr County representative on the Hill Country Mental 20 Health and Developmentally Disabled (MHDD) Centers Board of Directors effective 21 January 1, 2019. 22 1.21 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 69 action to approve Assistant County Attorney 23 job description. 24 1.5 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 73 action to open, read, and award the annual 25 bids for road base, cold mix, aggregate, emulsion oil, and corrugated pipe. 5 1 I-N-D-E-X 2 NO. PAGE 3 1.22 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 81 action to approve the contract with Ubeo 4 to lease three copiers and to authorize the equipment removal and buyout of the 5 copiers we currently have. 6 1.23 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 82 action regarding KEDC (Kerr Economic 7 Development Corporation). 8 1.25 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 83 action regarding salary for employee in 9 Human Resources Department. 10 1.26 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 85 action regarding personnel issue. 11 4.4 Approve and accept Monthly Reports. 86 12 4.6 Court Orders. 87 13 5.1 Reports from Commissioners/Liaison Committee 87 14 Assignments as per attachment. 15 5.4 Update on East Kerr County/Center Point 88 Wastewater Project. 16 *** Adjournment. 88 17 * * * * * * 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 6 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: All right, good morning. 2 Let's go ahead and get started. I think the County 3 Judge may be coming in a little about it late, not 4 positive. Jody is checking on that. But we'll go ahead 5 and call the meeting to order. It's Monday, December 6 the 10th at 9 a.m. for our regular Commissioners' Court 7 meeting. Start with the prayer and the Pledge, and I 8 believe Commissioner Belew. 9 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I'm up. 10 (The Prayer and The Pledge of Allegiance.) 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We'll start with the 12 visitor's input. Anyone who would like to speak on an 13 item that is not on the agenda please come forward. I 14 do not see anyone, so we'll move on to Commissioner's 15 comments. Commissioner Belew. 16 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Frost on the pumpkin 17 today. It was mighty cold out there, and we had a good 18 weekend of burning off brush because it was wet. And 19 the recycle trailer's in Precinct 1 right now at the 20 Turtle Creek School for anybody that needs it. And 21 that's all I got. 22 COMMISSIONER MOSER: How about your 23 chickens? 24 COMMISSIONER BELEW: The chickens -- 25 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I heard on the radio 7 1 this morning you were concerned about your chickens. 2 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Well, last week -- or I 3 guess it was last week when it was so windy, you know. 4 It was so windy I saw this chicken lay the same egg 5 three times. 6 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Let's see, I want to 7 bring up something, and I think Jonathan and I both, and 8 Harley heard it -- 9 (Judge Pollard is present.) 10 COMMISSIONER MOSER: -- at a conference last 11 week, and that is there's some potential legislations 12 being proposed that would preclude counties from having 13 tax abatements for economic development, so that would 14 be a big ditty. You know, here they want to limit how 15 much we can raise what our ad valorem rates will be. 16 Now they want to say now you can't even do abatements, 17 and by the way here's some more unfunded mandates. So I 18 set that up and keyed that up for the Judge, is what I 19 did. 20 JUDGE POLLARD: Hello, taxpayers, guess who 21 the burden falls on. No way to help the economy and 22 pump up the economy here, so take that away and let all 23 the tax burden fall on the taxpayers. I tell ya it's 24 just -- it's hard to be at the bottom of where all that 25 stuff goes down to. We're at the bottom. And we got 8 1 our work out for us. We need to talk to our legislators 2 and be active and let's see if we can't stop all of this 3 stuff. It's too heavy a load, the taxes are too high 4 already for the taxpayers in the County. I believe 5 that. And we need to hold it down as much as possible. 6 That's all I got to say. I'm sorry I'm late. Have you 7 got anything? 8 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I don't have anything 9 this morning. 10 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: I second what the 11 Judge just said wholeheartedly. And I think winter is 12 here, so like Harley said we got a lot of burning done 13 over the weekend. Thank heavens for the rains allowed 14 us to do that, so we'll move on. That's all I have. 15 JUDGE POLLARD: Thank you for setting that 16 up for me. All right, that's comments, I assume, is 17 where we are. All right, let's go to item 1.1 consider 18 discuss and take appropriate action for the 19 Commissioners' Court to approve the reflective pavement 20 markings contract with Flasher Equipment Co. For Hermann 21 Sons Road, Elm Pass Road, Rim Rock Road and Sheppard 22 Rees Rd., and have County Judge sign same. Of course 23 this affects all four precincts. Kelly. 24 MS. HOFFER: I have before you in the backup 25 data the contract with Flasher Equipment. The prices 9 1 have gone up tremendously. The last time I received a 2 quote from Flasher on something we didn't end up going 3 through with. I want to say it was 28 cents a linear 4 foot, and it's 62 cents a linear foot in about a year's 5 time, so it has gone up tremendously. But you all were 6 so good to us in our budget this year, when I said 7 there's a lot of roads out there that the striping needs 8 to be redone and replaced, so I was able to get this 9 contract on some roads that have quite a bit of traffic, 10 the reflective pavement marking is a 90 mil thermo 11 paint. You probably have smelled it at times when a big 12 striping truck is around, you can smell that paint. 13 It's better than regular paint, it lasts a lot longer. 14 JUDGE POLLARD: And it smells a lot more. 15 MS. HOFFER: Yes. Plus it has a 16 crushed-like glass beads in it for reflectivity, so it 17 will also add some reflectivity. I did get a quote for 18 the raised pavement markers along with that, and it 19 threw the -- the quote was about 70 thousand dollars for 20 the same roads that are in front of you. So if we have 21 some areas in curves that we feel that the addition of 22 the rpm's, the raised pavement markers, might be needed 23 we can go out, our staff can go out, and put them in 24 curves and that. But this type of striping does have 25 reflectivity in it. It's a really good paint. Yes, it 10 1 does cost more, but it lasts a lot longer. And again, 2 these are for Hermann Sons Rd., Elm Pass Rd., Rim Rock, 3 and Sheppard Rees. You all gave us 55 thousand dollars 4 in the striping line item, 15-612559. I need to keep it 5 under 50 so I don't have to bid it. So if you look, I 6 think I have it at 49,800 and some odd dollars, so I'm 7 here to get the Court's approval. The County Attorney 8 has looked over the contract, provided us with the 9 contract, and we're ready to go with this. Flasher has 10 us penciled in for January 14th. 11 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Kelly, question. If 12 they increased by a hundred percent. You said from 28 13 to 62? 14 MS. HOFFER: Yes, Sir. 15 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So that's over a 16 hundred percent increase. Should you go out for bids? 17 MS. HOFFER: I don't believe so. It's still 18 under $50,000.00. 19 COMMISSIONER MOSER: No, no, I understand 20 that. But just from the price point. 21 MS. HOFFER: We could. 22 JUDGE POLLARD: Competitive bidding does a 23 lot to help get the price down. It sure wouldn't hurt. 24 MS. HOFFER: Yeah. 25 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: I have a question 11 1 Kelly. How long do you -- you say it should last a long 2 time. How long do we look at it lasting? 3 MS. HOFFER: A lot of it depends on what 4 kind of traffic you have on that road. 5 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Sure. 6 MS. HOFFER: But for instance, we did some 7 striping on Scenic Hills and Scenic Valley that are in 8 Precinct 1 off of Highway 16 North heading to 9 Fredericksburg, and we did those a few years before the 10 previous road administrator left, and if you go on those 11 roads, I would say that not every spot is perfect, but 12 overall pavement marking is pretty good. If you go with 13 a regular paint, I bet you won't even get three years on 14 some of these heavily traveled roads. 15 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Okay. 16 MS. HOFFER: So I think you could easily get 17 five, but I think you probably -- those roads are 18 probably at about seven years, eight years and the 19 striping still looks good. It's a very thick paint, and 20 it's put down hot. 21 COMMISSIONER LETZ: How many companies in 22 the area are capable of doing the striping? 23 MS. HOFFER: The only one that I have found 24 is Flasher Equipment that's out of San Antonio. Now, 25 there might be some that are in Austin, and there might 12 1 be some elsewhere, but the only one that I have found 2 close to us, there are none in Kerr County, would be 3 Flasher Equipment out of San Antonio. And like I said, 4 there might possibly be some other ones out there, but 5 Flasher is the only one when I have gone in to San 6 Antonio to look that I have found. 7 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Who does TxDot use? 8 MS. HOFFER: They bid it every year. 9 They've used Flasher. I don't know who they used this 10 year when they were striping in front of Road and 11 Bridge. I think they did a pretty decent job. 12 Flasher's work is pretty phenomenal, but I don't -- the 13 trucks didn't have like a lot of advertisement on the 14 trucks this year that did the striping, so I'm not real 15 sure where they were out of. 16 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I'd like to see us go 17 out for bids for that big a -- a hundred percent 18 increase. 19 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: I would too. Just to 20 keep them honest. 21 JUDGE POLLARD: I would, too. 22 MS. HOFFER: Okay. We can do that. Thank 23 you. 24 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, is there a motion 25 on that then? 13 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: No. 2 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, we'll pass it 3 then and see what happens on the bids. Item 1.2 4 consider, discuss and take appropriate action to accept 5 a deed from Martin Marietta of 0.92 acres of right of 6 way, and authorize the County Judge to execute the 7 associated IRS form 8283 for the Sutherland Lane 8 intersection improvement project. Mr. Hastings. 9 MR. HASTINGS: Thank you. I just want to 10 give some background just for the record to kind of 11 close this out. The Sutherland Lane Intersection 12 Realignment Project was approved as a capital project in 13 the 2019 Kerr County budget. In order to realign 14 Sutherland Lane with Highway 27, a larger radius must be 15 incorporated into the road and the road must be shifted 16 east onto and through property that was formerly owned 17 by Martin Marietta. They have since donated the right 18 of way to us, and I'll get to that in a moment. Martin 19 Marietta in donating that property to the County at this 20 intersection, has also -- they've agreed to do that, but 21 subject to us filling out some forms so that they can 22 turn their forms in for tax purposes as a donation to a 23 public entity. The Court authorized Gipson Real Estate 24 Services to conduct an appraisal of that property. The 25 appraisal's complete. It was 0.92 acres and valued at 14 1 $20,000.00. Martin Marietta did execute that deed, it's 2 been filed in the clerk's office, it's record number 3 18-07620. And the County Engineer requests that the 4 Court accept the deed from Martin Marietta of 0.92 acres 5 of right of way, and authorize the County Judge to 6 execute the associated IRS form 8283 for the Sutherland 7 Lane Intersection Improvement Project. This is Precinct 8 2. 9 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Move that we accept the 10 deed from Martin Marietta for the 0.92 acres of right of 11 way, and authorize the Judge to sign the IRS forms. 12 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. 13 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved by Commissioner 14 Precinct 2, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 4 to 15 accept the deed from Martin Marietta of 0.92 acres of 16 right of way, and authorize the County Judge to execute 17 the associated IRS form 8283 for the Sutherland Lane 18 Intersection Improvement Project. Of course this is 19 situated in Precinct Number 2. Is there any further 20 comment or question or further discussion? I have a 21 question. 22 MR. HASTINGS: Yes, Sir. 23 JUDGE POLLARD: Isn't -- Highway 27 is not a 24 county road, is it? 25 MR. HASTINGS: No, it's not. But Sutherland 15 1 Lane is. That's where we're getting the right of way. 2 JUDGE POLLARD: Is this an extension of 27, 3 or an extension of Sutherland Lane? 4 MR. HASTINGS: No. It's realigning 5 Sutherland Lane with Highway 27. We're coming in at a 6 bad angle right now and it needs to come at a 90 degree 7 angle. 8 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Realigning means just 9 coming in perpendicular. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. Once again, 11 taking away some County taxable property. Yeah, but 12 it's needed. 13 COMMISSIONER MOSER: No. We're getting 14 property. 15 JUDGE POLLARD: Yeah. 16 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah. Right. 17 JUDGE POLLARD: Well, we don't -- we don't 18 tax the right of way. 19 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Oh, I see what you're 20 saying, yeah. But it's -- it's a safety issue. 21 MR. HASTINGS: Safety. 22 COMMISSIONER MOSER: And there's going to be 23 another one that Charlie's going to bring up pretty 24 shortly, and that's at Peterson Farm Road, same thing. 25 They're coming in at obtuse angles as opposed to 16 1 perpendicular, so a safety thing. 2 JUDGE POLLARD: Obtuse angle. 3 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Obtuse. 4 COMMISSIONER BELEW: That's an engineering 5 thought. 6 JUDGE POLLARD: Do you know what that means, 7 Aggie? 8 MR. HASTINGS: Yes, I do. 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: The drawing, it's all 10 Sutherland, and even if it was TxDOT, it wouldn't be 11 taxable either. 12 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Right. 13 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, if there's no 14 further comment or question, those in favor of the 15 motion signify by raising your right hand. It's 4-0-1, 16 one abstention, it passes. 17 Item 1.3 consider, discuss and take 18 appropriate action for the Court to approve the revision 19 of plat for Oak View Estates Lot 20, to be known as 20 Lemon Estates, Lots 20A, 20B, 20C, Volume 4, Page 85. I 21 guess that's the Plat Records of Kerr County, Texas. 22 Mr. Hastings. 23 MR. HASTINGS: Thank you. The public 24 hearing was held at our last Commissioners' Court 25 meeting in November. The County Engineer requests the 17 1 Court approve the Revision of Plat for Oak View Estates 2 Lot 20, to be known as Lemon Estates lot 20A, 20B, 20C, 3 volume 4, Page 85, Precinct 2. 4 JUDGE POLLARD: It's Limon(phonetic); not 5 Lemon, hu? 6 MR. HASTINGS: Yes, Sir. 7 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. 8 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Move for approval. 9 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved by Commissioner 11 Precinct 2, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 1 to 12 approve item 1.3 on the agenda, and that is to approve 13 the revision of plat for Oak View Estates Lot 20. The 14 new plats of lots to be known as Limon(phonetic) Estates 15 Lots 20A, 20B and 20C, all of the record in Volume 4, 16 Page 85 of the plat records of Kerr County, Texas. Any 17 further comment or discussion? There being none, those 18 in favor of the motion signify by raising your right 19 hand. It's 4-0-1, it passes. One abstention, myself. 20 Item 1.4 consider, discuss and take 21 appropriate action to authorize the County Clerk to 22 advertise for bids for the 2019 Road Reconstruction 23 Project. This affects all four precincts. Mr. 24 Hastings. 25 MR. HASTINGS: Plans and specifications have 18 1 been prepared by the County Engineer for the 2 reconstruction of approximately two miles of county 3 maintained roads. Last year the project included Indian 4 Creek Road and Rim Rock Road. The 2019 Road 5 Reconstruction Project consists of the following roads: 6 Peterson Farm Road intersection with State Highway 27, 7 that's a realignment that we just talked about. 8 Sutherland Lane intersection with State Highway 27, 9 that's a realignment. Upper Turtle Creek Road, Hermann 10 Sons Road, and Elm Pass II Road. The project schedule 11 is the following: We'd like to advertise on Friday, 12 December the 14th, and Friday, December the 21st, 2018. 13 There'd be a pre-bid conference in January. Bids would 14 be due in February, and we'd like to open and award 15 those bids in February. 16 County Engineer requests the Court 17 authorize the County Clerk to advertise for bids the 18 2019 Road Reconstruction Project. Precincts 1, 2, 3, 19 and 4. 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Charlie, remind me what 21 the Elm Pass II reconstruction involves? 22 MR. HASTINGS: There's a portion there 23 that's about a half to three quarters of a mile long 24 that is in real bad shape, and it needs to be milled 25 down, and then the base relaid, and then we'll come back 19 1 and chipseal over the top of it. 2 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay, thanks. 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Move for approval. 4 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 5 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved by Commissioner 6 Precinct 3, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 1 to 7 approve item 1.4 of the agenda, and that's to authorize 8 the County Clerk to advertise for bids for the 2019 Road 9 Reconstruction Project, with bid dates and opening dates 10 and all that as dictated into the record by the County 11 Engineer. Any further comment or discussion, or 12 questions? There being none, those in favor signify by 13 raising your right hands. It is four zero, unanimous. 14 One abstention, myself. 15 Item 1.5 consider, discuss and take 16 appropriate action to open, read, and award the annual 17 bids for road base, cold mix, aggregate, emulsion oil, 18 and corrugated pipe. Hi, Kelly. 19 MS. HOFFER: Hello. After the bids have 20 been opened and read, we would like to review 21 immediately and return to this Court day, December 10th, 22 2018, and award the annual bids for road base, cold mix, 23 aggregate, emulsion oil, and corrugated metal pipe. All 24 bid prices are to begin January 1st, 2019, and be in 25 effect until December 31st, 2019. And at this time we 20 1 ask the Court to open and read all material bids. 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Judge, the first bid we 3 received was from Wilson Culverts, and they only bid on 4 the corrugated metal pipe portion. 5 JUDGE POLLARD: And they are from -- 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Elkhart, Texas. 7 JUDGE POLLARD: Elkhart, Texas. 75 zip 8 code, must be close to Dallas. 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: The second one we 10 received, it was from Allen Keller out of 11 Fredericksburg. They bid on base material, and that 12 appears to be it. 13 The next one, it is from Wheatcraft out of 14 Center Point. They bid on base material. That appears 15 to be it from them. 16 The next is from Allen Keller of 17 Fredericksburg bidding on paving aggregates. There's 18 that one. The next one of one from Wright Asphalt 19 Products out of Houston. They bid on emulsion oils, and 20 that was it. Next, I have one from Martin Marietta bid 21 on base material. Martin Marietta based out of San 22 Antonio. 23 JUDGE POLLARD: And the world. 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And the world. 25 JUDGE POLLARD: Is this delivered here? Do 21 1 these bids include delivery here? 2 MS. HOFFER: The Martin Marietta one hasn't 3 in the past, and we have to go -- so the price looks 4 really good on it, but when you look at it, we actually 5 have to go to San Antonio to pick it up, so -- I'm not 6 sure how they bid it this year, but that's generally how 7 they bid it. 8 COMMISSIONER LETZ: The next one received is 9 from P2 Emulsions, LLC, out of -- Elm Mott, maybe? Elm 10 Mott, Texas. Yeah, Elm Mott, Texas 76640. They bid on 11 emulsion oils. That appears to be it. 12 We have one from Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions 13 out of Austin. They bid on emulsion oils, and that was 14 it. 15 And last one we received was from -- one 16 from Vulcan Materials in San Antonio. They bid on 17 paving aggregates, base material, hot mix asphalt, and 18 that was it. 19 And last one is from Wheatcraft in Center 20 Point. They bid on paving aggregates, and that was it. 21 JUDGE POLLARD: Wow, lots of bid. 22 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So there's two choices 23 on pretty much all of them, right? 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I move we accept all 25 bids, and refer to Road and Bridge Administrator for 22 1 recommendation. 2 MS. HOFFER: Thank you. 3 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Second. 5 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved by Commissioner 6 Precinct 3, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 4. This 7 to pursuant to item 1.5 of the agenda to refer all of 8 the bids, quite a few of them we received, to the Road 9 and Bridge Department for study, and to come back with 10 recommendations, so we'll pass action on it for now and 11 maybe later in this meeting. All right, is that okay 12 with everybody? 13 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Uh-huh. 14 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Uh-huh. 15 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, let's is go to 16 item -- 17 COMMISSIONER BELEW: We didn't vote. We 18 need to vote. We had a motion and a second, we need to 19 vote. 20 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay, let's vote on that 21 motion I dictated into the record. Those in favor 22 signify by raising your right hand. 4-0-1. One 23 abstention, myself. I really was thinking we were going 24 to reserve that motion until we got a recommendation 25 back. Anyway, it'll work either way. 23 1 All right, 1.6 consider, discuss and take 2 appropriate action to approve a final plat for Crooked 3 Creek Estates, Precinct 4. Mr. Hastings. 4 MR. HASTINGS: Thank you. Crooked Creek 5 Estates is off of FM 479 in Precinct 4. The concept 6 plan was approved on April 30th, 2018. The preliminary 7 plat was approved May 14th, 2018 by court order 36740. 8 Approval of the final plat will begin the one-year 9 maintenance period for the road. A maintenance bond in 10 the amount of $88,749.00 has been submitted as a 11 financial guarantee for the one-year maintenance period 12 required for the road. It's set to begin today. At the 13 conclusion of such one-year maintenance period the 14 County Engineer will request the Court to accept Crooked 15 Creek Path for maintenance. That's assuming that it's 16 still in good shape after a year. So over the next year 17 if there's any issues that come up, we'll call the 18 contractor who issued the maintenance bond, he'll come 19 out and fix it. If he doesn't, we have a maintenance 20 bond that we could get some money from if we had to do 21 those repairs ourselves. I don't anticipate that would 22 be the case. 23 The County Engineer requests the Kerr 24 approve the final plat for Crooked Creek Estates, 25 Precinct 4. 24 1 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Hey, Charley, a quick 2 question. Probably it's on this plat, but specifying 3 the condition of the road base, etc. etc., is this in 4 here, or how's that specified? 5 MR. HASTINGS: It is in the construction 6 plans. 7 COMMISSIONER MOSER: As part of their 8 construction plans? 9 MR. HASTINGS: Yes. 10 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Is that referenced in 11 this agreement with them? 12 MR. HASTINGS: No. The plans are complete 13 and the road has already been built now, and -- 14 COMMISSIONER MOSER: No. But how do we know 15 it's built to the standard we want to accept? That's my 16 question. 17 MR. HASTINGS: Because I've signed the plat 18 saying that it has been built. I've signed that plat, 19 there's a certifications from me, and I had certified 20 that it meets our specifications. 21 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay, thank you. 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Under the subdivision 23 rules, and the standards and that he inspects the 24 current construction. 25 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Well, I move that we 25 1 accept this as dictated by Charlie, our County Engineer. 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second. 3 JUDGE POLLARD: Moved by Commissioner 4 Precinct 4, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 3 to 5 approve the final plat for Crooked Creek Estates 6 situated in Precinct 4. This is item 1.6 of the agenda. 7 Is there any further comment discussion or question? If 8 not, those in favor of the motion signify by raising 9 your right hands. It's 4-0-1. One abstention, it 10 passes. 11 Item 1.7 consider, discuss and take -- 12 MR. WILLIAMSON: Can we pass on this one 13 until my client gets here? 14 JUDGE POLLARD: Want to pass 1.7. 15 MR. WILLIAMSON: Yeah. he'll be here in a 16 few minutes. 17 JUDGE POLLARD: Item 1.8 consider, discuss 18 and take appropriate action on request to close Flat 19 Rock Park (not Dog Park side) to public parking from 20 February 7, 2019 after 11 p.m. until February 10, 2019 21 at 5 p.m. for the use of stock show trailer parking for 22 the Texas Pork Producers Elite Showcase. Public access 23 to the Dog Park would be allowed from the walkthrough 24 gate near the bridge. Mr. Williamson. 25 MR. WILLIAMSON: Yes, Sir. Thank for your 26 1 time today. We have a new event that we've added to our 2 calendar. They'll be coming in February of next year. 3 because this is another stock show type event like we 4 have the district shock show, we're going to have a lot 5 of animal trailers. In anticipation of not having 6 enough parking on wite, we're asking to use Flat Rock to 7 park those trailers safely so we can mitigate access and 8 traffic flow to the events. 9 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Move for approval if 10 that pathway is fixed. It's not passable now. 11 MR. WILLIAMSON: Not passable now, okay. 12 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Right. So I move for 13 approval. 14 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. 15 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Move for approval with 16 that condition. 17 JUDGE POLLARD: Moved by Commissioner 18 Precinct 2, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 4 to 19 approve item 1.8 on the agenda and that is to close Flat 20 Rock Park, not including the Dog Park side, to the 21 public parking from February 7, 2019 after 11 p.m. until 22 February 10, 2019 at 5 p.m., for the use of the stock 23 show trailer parking for the Texas Pork Producers Elite 24 Showcase. Public access to the Dog Park will be allowed 25 from the walkthrough gate near the bridge. All right, 27 1 is there any further comment or discussion? 2 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: I'd like to say 3 something. This is a big deal, a big event you've 4 added, Jake. I mean it brings a lot of people from all 5 over the state, so we're going to reap a lot of reward 6 from this. 7 JUDGE POLLARD: And credit to Jake 8 Williamson for getting this. 9 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: You bet. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: And I think it was -- it's a 11 big show statewide show. 12 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Oh, yeah. 13 MR. WILLIAMSON: Yes, Sir. 14 JUDGE POLLARD: And it has formerly been in 15 San Angelo, and it's now down here because of our really 16 nice facility that we have out here, and of course our 17 location being more centrally located here, that helps. 18 And the good work of Jake Williamson. 19 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: No doubt. 20 Congratulations. 21 JUDGE POLLARD: Is there any further comment 22 or discussion? If not, those in favor of the motion 23 signify by raising your right hands. It's 5 zero, 24 unanimous. Thank you, Jake. 25 All right, item 1.9 consider, discuss and 28 1 take appropriate action on request to allow the Road and 2 Bridge Department to assist in leveling the dirt in the 3 indoor arena for the use of the Hill Country District 4 Junior Livestock Show Association(HCDJLSA) with work 5 starting no earlier than December 10, 2018 and being 6 completed before December 24, 2018. Additional 7 assistance requested for January 2, 2019 for the 8 building of a show ring and dirt work in the show barn. 9 Jake. 10 MR. WILLIAMSON: Thank you again. This is a 11 request the stock show's made annually. I hadn't done 12 this before so I apologize for the tardiness on it. I 13 believe we need to request the Road and Bridge if we can 14 use their resources to level dirt for the stock show in 15 the arena so we can set up for them, and then again Road 16 and Bridge has annually donated time to help build the 17 show ring after the new year, and they set up January 18 2nd this year that would be allowed for them to donate 19 their time. 20 JUDGE POLLARD: So you talked to Kelly about 21 this. 22 MR. WILLIAMSON: Yes. 23 JUDGE POLLARD: And she's in agreement? 24 MR. WILLIAMSON: Yes, Sir. 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I move for approval. 29 1 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. 2 MR. BELEW: Second. 3 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved by Commissioner 4 Precinct 3, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 4 to 5 approve item 1.9 of the agenda, and that is to allow the 6 Road and Bridge Department to assist in leveling the 7 dirt in the indoor arena for the use of the Hill Country 8 District Junior Livestock Show Association(HCDJLSA) with 9 work starting no earlier than December 10, 2018 and 10 being completed before December 24, 2018. Additional 11 assistance requested for January 2, 2019 for the 12 building of a show ring and dirt work in the show barn. 13 Is there any further comment or discussion? If not, 14 those in favor of the motion signify by raising your 15 right hands. It's 4-0-1, it passes. One abstention, 16 myself. 17 Let's go to item 1.10 consider, discuss and 18 take appropriate action on logo design for the Hill 19 Country Youth Event Center. Commissioner Letz. 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I was going to show you 21 the final version of the logo but left it on my computer 22 at home this morning, so you don't have at this time. 23 JUDGE POLLARD: Let's pass on it until we 24 can look at it. I don't want to vote on something when 25 I can't see it. 30 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Not going to vote on 2 that; we're going to discuss it. Schreiner University 3 marketing class did a -- and Jake arranged this, did a 4 lot of work coming up with a logo design. I think most 5 the people on the Court have seen versions of them. The 6 class went fast, and we are slow, so it was difficult 7 for us to really get it before the Court prior to the 8 end of the class, which has already taken place. 9 (Mrs. Grinstead handing paperwork to the 10 Court.) 11 JUDGE POLLARD: So we do get to look at 12 them. 13 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Are those the final 14 ones? 15 COMMISSIONER LETZ: They're the final 16 versions, they're final from the class standpoint, but 17 they're not final from our standpoint. And I don't know 18 if Jake had time, I know he had to go -- he was a little 19 under the weather towards the end of the week. We 20 talked about him -- if he would go back to the professor 21 at Schreiner and see if they can start with these the 22 next semester, and then get them to a final product, you 23 know, that we can kind of work on. I don't know if 24 they'll do that or not. I don't think that these are -- 25 I mean they're great ideas, they're going in a great 31 1 direction, but it's just not a finished product yet. So 2 that's kind of where we are on it. I think we'll come 3 back probably after January, after he has time to visit 4 with the professor at Schreiner and see if they're 5 willing to do it that way, or how that professor 6 recommend we finalize some of these. I think it's a 7 great idea. 8 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Question. One time we 9 talked about changing the name to Hill Country Event 10 Center. Just a more marketable visible thing, and 11 it's -- you know, the youth used it, but percentage wise 12 it's not that great, but the history goes with it, so 13 that's something we oughta discuss before we establish a 14 logo, Event Center rather than Hill Country Youth Event 15 Center. 16 JUDGE POLLARD: Well, everybody calls it the 17 Event Center anyway. 18 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Well, I think that -- 19 oh, I can't remember the discussion, but I think it was 20 a Visitors Bureau Convention, Visitors Bureau had a 21 thought along that line, and I think before -- I don't 22 remember if it was before we had you guys in there, 23 Jake. I think that was part of the discussion, we 24 wanted some people to manage the facility had that a 25 comment, too. So I just bring that up as maybe before 32 1 we go forward on getting a logo, we look at if that's 2 the name that we want to keep. 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think I agree that it 4 needs to be looked at again before we finalize things. 5 I don't think it's going to change the style of it much. 6 I think it keeps it, you know, on most -- I won't say 7 most. Some of the logos emphasize the word "Youth", and 8 some of them de-emphasize, and I personally would like 9 to de-emphasize it, but I think that's a good 10 discussion. But I think that would go back into 11 January -- 12 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Right. It would be a 13 different agenda item. 14 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: It's a long name for 15 people to remember. 16 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Well, and I went back 17 about three or four years ago and looked at and that's 18 when 4-H was doing all their bow and arrow and bb guns, 19 and stuff like that, and I think they were using it 19 20 percent of the time, and now that's moved out to the 21 shooting center. So if you looked at a percentage of 22 the time that that facility is used by youth, it's not 23 that great, but on the other hand the history is, okay? 24 And Jonathan and the Judge know that better than I do, 25 that that's the reason the facility's there, so you know 33 1 looking at history and then looking at what's the best 2 way to market. 3 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: I like it from a 4 history standpoint, but for marketing aspect, I think 5 you got a point. 6 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah, okay. All right. 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: The other thing we can 8 look at and we have talked about it before, and Jake, 9 and the Court, and Spectrum as well, is that it's 10 possible to name the overall facility, and name 11 components as well. Right now there's three components, 12 and this will also go into another conversation we'll 13 have after the first of the year. 14 The arena needs work, and because it needs 15 work, it gets very little use right now. So that's 16 another conversation that we need to go. So we need to 17 have that after the first of the year a good discussion 18 on that facility, we'll include naming. And I don't 19 know when Schreiner starts up in the spring, but I 20 assume January, mid January, and the various marketing 21 classes. That's kind of where we are on that. And they 22 did a good job, I think they have a lot of good 23 concepts, but they're not quite there yet. 24 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Well, they certainly 25 need to know what it's going to be called before they 34 1 put any more effort into it. 2 JUDGE POLLARD: Well, I realize that I won't 3 be here next year and able to vote on this issue, but I 4 feel very strongly that the -- we have to recognize 5 where this whole facility originated and started from, 6 and that history is really important, and I personally 7 would object to any change that takes out the "youth" 8 reference on it, because this was an organization of 9 hundreds of our local citizens that ran that show out 10 there for a long time in that facility, and ended up 11 donating that facility to the County. And I'm telling 12 you that I just -- I think it's an affront to them if we 13 leave the "youth" reference out of it. We gotta keep it 14 in there. I don't care about the marketing thing, but I 15 guess it is important, but I think we need to honor 16 those guys that worked so hard to do that and get it, so 17 I'm just telling you right now how I feel about it. I 18 won't be here to vote on it. 19 COMMISSIONER MOSER: We have a forum that 20 people can talk if they're not members of the Court. 21 (Laughter.) 22 JUDGE POLLARD: But I can tell you once I'm 23 gone, I may not come to these Commissioners' meetings. 24 You guys have too many of them. I'm going to be busy 25 doing some other things. 35 1 COMMISSIONER BELEW: And I'll bet even money 2 on that that we won't see him much anymore. 3 JUDGE POLLARD: That's right. 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I just reminded him 5 that we do have a forum and he is invited back. 6 JUDGE POLLARD: Well, I appreciate the 7 invitation. I've had about all the fun I can have over 8 here. 9 MR. WILLIAMSON: My client is here. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: I said my peace about the 11 "youth" thing, I think it's really important. I can 12 think of a lot of guys, some of them gone now, that it 13 would be kind of -- they'd be very disappointed if we 14 took that out of it, and I don't think that's the right 15 thing to do. 16 All right, go to 1.10 -- 17 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Go back to 1.7. 18 JUDGE POLLARD: Go back to 1.7 consider, 19 discuss and take appropriate action to appoint a member 20 of Commissioners' Court, or designate a person to 21 perform investigation under Section 751.005 of the Texas 22 Health and Safety Code for the purpose of determining if 23 the minimum standards for ensuring public safety and 24 order as prescribed by law will be maintained under the 25 application for permit for mass gathering by the Texas 36 1 Pork Producers Elite Showcase for their show on February 2 7 to 10, 2019. Hearing will be held on January 24, 2019 3 at 9 a.m. at which time I will be presiding to see if 4 the statute is complied with. That's not true; it'll be 5 Judge Kelly over there that'll be presiding at that 6 time, okay, to determine that the statute is complied 7 with. Jake. 8 MR. WILLIAMSON: Yes, Sir. Thank you. I 9 want to introduce Brandon Gunn with the Texas Pork 10 Producers Association, and again thank him for choosing 11 this town to bring the show to. On behalf of him and 12 the show, we're submitting the Mass Gathering Permit. 13 If there's any questions on any details we can ask 14 answer to help that process go as smoothly as possible. 15 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Can Mr. Gunn just give 16 us a little overall what to expect from this show since 17 it's the first time it will be in Kerrville. 18 MR. GUNN: Yes, Sir. Good morning. A 19 pleasure to be here. I'd like to thank you all for the 20 support, and Jake, and the County, and the Commissioners 21 with this new venture of ours. So it's a new major 22 stock show for the State of Texas, but it's just one 23 species, swine, and in particular breeding gilts. 24 Perhaps though as we look in the future expanding upon 25 it. But for now, for this next year, what we can expect 37 1 is a large gilt show. We just finished with entries 2 this past week, and so there were 17 hundred entries, 3 and that's 940 exhibitors, students, FFA and 4-H members 4 with 1700 total gilts that were entered. Typically, 5 historically amongst the stock shows, the majors, 6 there's the 70 percent turnout rate in terms of what 7 shows up. So for us that would be 600 to 650 8 exhibitors, with approximately 11 hundred to 12 hundred 9 gilts, so still I think that'll even maybe perhaps be 10 higher than that. 11 Our Association, the Texas Pork Producers is 12 comprised of all the swine producers, and breeders 13 across the State, and so there's a lot of push and 14 support for this show, and really the scheme behind the 15 show is -- it is to offer something for the youth. And 16 you're just speaking about the youth, and I missed the 17 beginning of the conversation, but it is extremely 18 important, and that's one of the focal points of our 19 organization. And so with that a stock show when we 20 compared to all the other stock shows in the state, I 21 mean they have a lot of things that go into it, and you 22 know, their bottom line and what not. For us, we don't 23 necessarily need to be making a profit, and so -- I mean 24 breaking even, so our deal was to provide an 25 opportunity, a unique opportunity, for the youth that 38 1 are showing hogs in the state, and to be able to offer 2 them, you know, higher premiums than anywhere else, an 3 event that was completely focused just on them, just the 4 swine show for our enthusiasts, so everybody's extremely 5 excited. So for this being its first year, it's really 6 only second in entry numbers to the largest show in the 7 state, which is San Antonio. So I think that shows the 8 amount of support for this first year. There's a lot of 9 individuals within our organization and outside of it 10 that are serving on committees within the show that are 11 working to make this event a success, and I have every 12 confidence in them. And so we -- our association has 13 had a long relationship with Kerrville. We've had our 14 conference -- our annual pork industry conference here 15 on and off over the years. We try and rotate it around, 16 but Kerrville really seems like the place that we enjoy 17 the most, so we thought it would be very fitting the 18 facility that's out there, the Youth Event Center is 19 exceptional. Y'all have done a tremendous job with it, 20 and so the thought that it would be a prime opportunity 21 to do it and to try and utilize that facility some more 22 within our organization, and as we look at the future. 23 There was already -- it was used by members of our 24 association running it to host the sale earlier in the 25 years. We would get, you know, during the course of a 39 1 year what the show here does for other opportunities. I 2 think there's a lot of potential and promise. 3 But back on the show, we're very excited and 4 happy to be here. 5 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Thank you. I presume -- 6 well, I mean the Court appointed me to do the stock show 7 mass gathering. I would think this is equivalent to 8 that, so I'll be glad to do it again, and work with Jake 9 and Mr. Gunn. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: The Sheriff's been popping 11 up his hand back there. You got something you want to 12 add? 13 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Has there been an 14 application for a permit filled out? 15 MR. GUNN: Yes, Sir. 16 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes. 17 MRS. GRINSTEAD: You'll get it today. 18 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Okay, thank you. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: Yeah. I think it would be 20 appropriate since you did it last year, would be the one 21 appointed. 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Okay. That is final -- 23 JUDGE POLLARD: But I'm not going to make 24 the motion. 25 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: I got one question for 40 1 you. I see that the days are a little bit different. 2 I've gone to it many years in San Angelo. I guess it'll 3 end on the 10th with a sale? 4 MR. GUNN: Yes, Sir, correct. 5 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Okay. 6 MR. GUNN: So that's the one thing. We've 7 normally done this show in San Angelo, our association 8 has. We've decided to in order to reach more youth 9 across the State in a more central location, and doing 10 it right here in Kerrville. And also that show and sale 11 was drug out over the course of four to five days; 12 whereas, we want to do it in one weekend so students 13 don't have to miss school, to make it more convenient, 14 no hassle, you know, things like that, you know. No 15 gate passes, car passes, we're not charging anything 16 like that that you find at other stock shows, so just 17 trying to -- the youth and family spend enough money 18 going to stock shows all year long that, you know, we 19 want to try and make this a better opportunity. 20 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Good to hear. 21 JUDGE POLLARD: We certainly appreciate your 22 choosing our location, and proud of our location. I 23 like your explanation. I was going to ask you about 24 that, what the process was in choosing us, but I 25 appreciate that. My daughter attended the big -- what's 41 1 the big show up north in -- Pork -- 2 MR. GUNN: World Pork Expo. 3 JUDGE POLLARD: She attended that, and she 4 was really impressed with all of the vendors up there at 5 the time. Of course that's huge swine country up there. 6 MR. GUNN: Yes, Sir. 7 JUDGE POLLARD: But I was going to ask you 8 do you anticipate a lot of vendors that are going to be 9 here for this one? 10 MR. GUNN: So not in year one. As we look 11 to the future, because there are events taking place 12 around this weekend, and so just kind of uneasy about 13 maybe the amount of flexibility and what we would have 14 available for people early on to approach them. Plus 15 with year one we wanted to make sure we put on that high 16 quality event, and didn't worry so much about the 17 outside, and wanted to focus on the youth, and then as 18 we look forward we can expand the hall -- the exhibit 19 hall part of the facility presents a great opportunity. 20 We will have several. We have a few sponsors. One of 21 the large feed companies is a sponsor of our 22 association. A trailer -- livestock trailer company, 23 and also Double L Feeds and Supplies, they're going to 24 be a major sponsor of our show. And so between three, 25 four vendors or so, is about it. And those are mainly 42 1 the sponsors of our association are specifically this 2 show. Now as we go to the future, I think that also 3 lends more opportunity to bring in some additional ones. 4 JUDGE POLLARD: Well, up there most of the 5 vendors I understand were big pork meat producing 6 processing plants, and all that kind of stuff. A lot of 7 sausage and all that, you know, came in there, and a lot 8 of free stuff. My daughter won on a drawing, won one of 9 those high dollar coolers. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: YETI. 11 JUDGE POLLARD: Yeah, YETI. Unbelievable. 12 MR. GUNN: And that's what we look to do. 13 We said three is on that Sunday, before the sale -- in 14 between the conclusion of the show and the sale, is to 15 offer a free feed, you know, a meal for everyone in 16 attendance with another one of our sponsors. 17 JUDGE POLLARD: Of course it'll be pork. 18 MR. GUNN: Of course. Would there be 19 anything else? 20 JUDGE POLLARD: I'm looking forward to it. 21 I think it's great. 22 Okay, we ready to vote? 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: There's no motion yet. 24 I make a motion to appoint myself as the designated 25 member of the Commissioners' Court to perform 43 1 investigation under Section 751.005 of the Texas Health 2 and Safety Code -- 3 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: -- for the purpose of 5 determining minimum standards ensuring public safety. 6 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. I didn't mean 7 to cut you off. 8 JUDGE POLLARD: That's all right. This is 9 item 1.7 of the agenda, and Commissioner 3 has moved to 10 appoint himself as the investigator to investigate under 11 Section 751.005 of the Texas Health and Safety Code for 12 the purpose of determining if the minimum standards for 13 ensuring public safety and order as prescribed by law 14 will be maintained under the application for the permit 15 for Miss Gathering by the Texas Pork Producers Elite 16 Showcase for their show on February 7 through 10 2019, 17 and the hearing will be held on January 24, 2019 at 18 9 a.m. by then County Judge Kelly. Is there any further 19 comment or discussion? If not, those in favor signify 20 by raising your right hands. It is 5 zero, unanimous. 21 I'm really glad you're coming. 22 MR. GUNN: Thank you very much. 23 JUDGE POLLARD: We want to do a good job for 24 you. 25 MR. GUNN: Appreciate it very much. Look 44 1 forward to it. 2 JUDGE POLLARD: I want this to be permanent. 3 MR. GUNN: That would be great. We love it 4 here in Kerrville. 5 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay. Item 1.11 consider, 6 discuss and take appropriate action on request to 7 surplus equipment. Candice Flores. 8 MS. FLORES: We have six printers that we 9 need -- we are wanting to declare surplus and dispose of 10 or, you know, give to the Information Technology 11 Department for them to use as they see fit, either for 12 parts or maybe as a backup to someone's printer goes 13 out. We have four brand new printers in our office that 14 we are using, plus a new copier that other people in our 15 office have decided they want to use that instead of 16 having a printer at their desk, so now we have these six 17 printers. 18 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So John, have you 19 looked at this equipment? 20 MR. TROLINGER: Yes. It's good stuff, and 21 we really appreciate it. Thank you for going to the 22 trouble. 23 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So my motion is that we 24 have John check the equipment and decide where to put 25 it. 45 1 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Well, they just want to 2 surplus it. 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Surplus it and provide 4 it to the IT Department. 5 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Provide it to the IT 6 Department, yes. 7 JUDGE POLLARD: Is that your intention to 8 surplus it and provide it, donate it, to the IT 9 Department, to the County? 10 MS. FLORES: Yes, Sir. 11 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay, all right. Thank you. 12 Is there a motion? You made the motion. 13 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Second. 14 JUDGE POLLARD: Moved by Commissioner 15 Precinct 1, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 2, to 16 surplus the items of equipment listed in the agenda 17 package, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 items, all IT equipment type, 18 to declare it as surplus by the 216th Judicial District 19 Attorney's Office, and to donate it to the IT Department 20 of the County of Kerr, a separate entity. All right, 21 any further comment or discussion? If not, those in 22 favor of the motion signify by raising your right hands. 23 It's 4-0-1, it passes. One abstention. 24 All right, thank you, Ma'am. 25 Item 1.12 consider, discuss and take 46 1 appropriate action on Resolution to the Texas Department 2 of Transportation regarding State Highway 27. 3 Commissioner Letz. 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes. I put a Resolution 5 before everyone that I prepared, and the intent of it is 6 to ask TxDOT to lower the speed limit on 27. There have 7 been -- I asked the Sheriff if he would check into it, 8 which he did, he got the numbers from TxDOT. And it is 9 overall a couple of numbers that are kind of 10 interesting. There were 15 injury accidents in the 11 period from July -- excuse me, August of 2017 through 12 July of 2018 during a 12 month period. There was 15 13 from Kerrville to the County Line, and on the rest of 27 14 going west and through Kerrville there was two. I-10 15 has a total of 14, the entire length of the county, and 16 Highway 16, the entire part of the County had 13. So 17 it's that segment is the most dangerous state highway -- 18 or in the state -- I mean in the county. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: I had another incident. My 20 daughter hit a deer out there last night. 21 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And there's a lot more 22 accidents. These are just injury accidents. 23 COMMISSIONER BELEW: And the segment you 24 mentioned, Jonathan -- 25 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Is she okay? 47 1 COMMISSIONER BELEW: -- where's there's only 2 two accidents -- 3 JUDGE POLLARD: Yeah. She messed her car 4 up. 5 COMMISSIONER BELEW: -- the speed limit is 6 lower there -- 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes. 8 COMMISSIONER BELEW: -- that's what you're 9 saying. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'm not sure what it is. 11 It think it goes up to 70 when you get out past towards 12 Mountain Home again. I'm just saying out in this area 13 there is -- well, the Resolution -- and I'll just read 14 the Resolution. 15 Kerr County Resolution related to the 16 request of Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to 17 lower the speed limit on State Highway 27 from Kerrville 18 City limits to Kendall County line. 19 Whereas; State Highway 27 continues to have 20 increased traffic and congestion from City of Kerrville 21 east to the Kendall County line, and 22 Whereas; the number of businesses, quarries 23 and increased population continues to grow in this area, 24 and 25 Whereas; the number of injury accidents on 48 1 this segment of highway is the highest in Kerr County 2 with 15 injury-accidents from August 2017 to July 2018, 3 and 4 Whereas; in the past 30 days there have been 5 at least two additional injury-accidents on this segment 6 of highway east of the community of Center Point, and 7 Whereas, the most common reason for 8 accidents in Kerr County is unsafe speed and a failure 9 to control speed, and 10 Whereas, while TxDOT is adding a turn lane 11 and making other improvements that are needed from the 12 city limits of Kerrville, FM 1350, State Highway 27, 13 additional efforts to control speed and safety are 14 needed. 15 Now, therefore be it resolved Kerr County 16 Commissioners' Court request Texas Department of 17 Transportation lower the speed limit on Texas State 18 Highway 27 to a maximum of 60 miles per hour from the 19 City of limits of Kerrville to the Kendall County Line. 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Would it be better 21 instead of saying Kerrville City limits to have a 22 designated line like Spur 100 to Kendall County line? 23 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Yeah, 'cuz the city 24 limits actually runs a long way out. 25 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Because that can change 49 1 and run along Highway 27. So I think your Resolution's 2 a good idea. 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: It's 50 -- it's already 4 below 60 all the way to the airport, or to Silver Creek. 5 JUDGE POLLARD: Yeah, it's 55. 6 COMMISSIONER MOSER: To Silver Creek. 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right. 8 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Once you pass the 9 airport it speeds up a little before Center Point. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: It goes to 65, I think 11 it goes back down to -- or maybe it was 60. And it goes 12 up to 70 when you get just passed 1350, almost all the 13 way to Comfort. 14 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah. I think Silver 15 Creek it goes to 65. 16 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Maybe we'll put it at 17 Silver Creek. 18 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah, Silver Creek. Or 19 I'll tell you what, make it Mooney Road. How about 20 Mooney Road? That's a -- 21 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Why don't we just find 22 out where it changes exactly. 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We can go back to Spur 24 100 which is a State Highway, because it stays a maximum 25 of 60. 50 1 JUDGE POLLARD: I like your wording. 2 COMMISSIONER BELEW: And stop at the County 3 line. 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Well, we don't have any 5 jurisdiction outside our county line. Spur 100. 6 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah, I'd say Spur 100, 7 and I would second your motion. 8 COMMISSIONER BELEW: That's a good idea. 9 JUDGE POLLARD: Are you changing your motion 10 to Spur 100 now? 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes. 12 JUDGE POLLARD: And you second that motion? 13 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yes, I did. 14 JUDGE POLLARD: Moved by Commissioner 15 Precinct 3, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 2 to 16 execute a Resolution -- proposed Resolution to the TxDOT 17 recommending a lowering of the speed limit on Texas 18 Highway 27 from Spur 100 to the County line on the east 19 side of the County on Highway 27. Is there any further 20 comment or discussion? 21 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I'm going to ask a 22 question. Do we know now TxDot, will they any further 23 study, or they'll accept what's already been done or 24 what? 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: To be honest probably 51 1 not do anything. 2 JUDGE POLLARD: I'll bet you they'll do a 3 study. 4 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Or look at their 5 records. 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I mean, hopefully they 7 will. 8 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Interesting, too that 9 local people don't have any authority, it has to come 10 out of San Antonio District to do it. 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yeah. But it's really 12 an effort -- we have done similar things on this segment 13 of the road. They do listen. But they look at their 14 traffic counts and they have a method. I know that a 15 lot of the road improvements are because of the number 16 of wrecks on that segment of the road. 17 COMMISSIONER BELEW: We're starting to 18 experience more growth out that way so it makes sense to 19 to do it. But just wondered what TxDOT, if they have a 20 standard procedure once it's requested. 21 COMMISSIONER LETZ: All we can do is 22 continue to raise it as an important issue for us, and 23 hopefully they'll study it and do what they think's 24 best. 25 JUDGE POLLARD: It sure won't hurt anything. 52 1 It a good thing to do. 2 COMMISSIONER BELEW: No, good idea. 3 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, any further 4 comment or questions? If not, those in favor of the 5 motion signify by raising your right hand. I like that 6 one, 5-0. 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Thank you, Rusty, for 8 getting that information, I appreciate it. 9 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, 1.13 consider, 10 discuss and take appropriate action regarding Resolution 11 for Judge Pollard. 12 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I want to pass on that 13 until -- 14 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay, good. 15 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Because I question that 16 voting, I'm not sure that is valid, and you may be 17 around for that. No, I just want to pass on the 18 Resolution if I may. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: That's good. That's good. 20 Okay. 21 All right, let's go 1.14 consider, discuss 22 and take appropriate action to ratify and confirm 23 Construction Change Order No. 7, Contract No. 2 with 24 Pesado Construction Company for the East Kerr/Center 25 Point Wastewater Project. Commissioners Moser and Letz, 53 1 whichever wants to step forward. 2 COMMISSIONER MOSER: This is to ratify. Am 3 I looking at that thing correctly? 4 JUDGE POLLARD: To ratify. 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah. It's to ratify 6 that. It's a Change Order No. 7, it's within the 7 budget. It increases the length of time and the 8 schedule for, I think, 25 days. I move for approval. 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved by Commissioner 11 Precinct 2, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 3 to 12 ratify and confirm the Construction Change Order NO. 7, 13 Contract No. 2 with Pesado Construction Company for the 14 East Kerr County/Center Point Wastewater Project. Any 15 further comment or discussion? 16 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Just make a comment. As 17 Commissioner Moser said it's within our overall budget 18 but it's increasing the contract with Pesado of, I think 19 $72,394.91. And there's a mechanism in that contract 20 where there's adds and deducts based on the actual 21 footage of things that they're doing, and just a few 22 generator issues that were changed, things of that 23 nature. So we'll have several more of these as we go. 24 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, so both the 25 movant and the second agree to add that stipulation to 54 1 the motion? 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: It's not really 3 stipulation -- 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: It's not stipulating; 5 he was just explaining it. 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: -- just explaining it. 7 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, those in favor of 8 the motion signify by raising their right hand. It's 9 four zero, unanimous. One abstention, myself. 10 Item 1.15 consider, discuss and take 11 appropriate action to ratify and confirm Construction 12 Change Order No. 8, Contract No. 2 with Pesado 13 Construction Company for the East Kerr County/Center 14 Point Wastewater Project. 15 COMMISSIONER MOSER: And this is 16 ratification of approval that was made, and it's for 17 $112,000.00 and it's for an electrical control panel 18 modification that had to be made as far as evolution of 19 this project. It's within the budget and doesn't add 20 anything to the schedule, so I move for approval. 21 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second. 22 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved by Commissioner 23 Precinct 2, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 3 to 24 approve item 1.15 of the agenda and that is to ratify 25 and confirm the Construction Change Order No. 8 on 55 1 Contract No. 2 with Pesado Construction Company for the 2 East Kerr County/Center Point Wastewater Project. This 3 amounts to $112,000.00, and it was in the budget. Any 4 further comment or discussion? 5 COMMISSIONER BELEW: You said it was 6 electrical. Is this for lift station stuff? 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: No. It's for control 8 panel at the wastewater -- 9 COMMISSIONER BELEW: At the facility. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: At the facility. 11 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, those in favor of 12 the motion signify by raising your right hand. It's 13 4-0-1, unanimous. One abstention, myself. 14 Item 1.16 consider, discuss and take 15 appropriate action to clarify Victim Service Coordinator 16 salary for October and November, 2018. Commissioner 17 Letz. 18 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We discussed this in 19 executive session a while back, but there was no action 20 taken in Court. And I received an e-mail, which I 21 believe everyone has a copy of, from Mrs. Lavender. 22 Going through the, you know, confusing paining process, 23 and I'll try to summarize the way I understand it, and 24 Mrs. Lavender is here and she can explain it herself. 25 But she'll originally was paid at $27.60 an hour, and 56 1 that went to September 30th. After that she went to -- 2 was hired by the DA's to work within their budget, and 3 just work for the two DA's. That comes out to $20.72 an 4 hour. And then after that time the grant -- we received 5 the grant from the Governor's Office for that program, 6 and there was a difference between the pay of what was 7 in our budget and what was paid originally, and Mrs. 8 Lavender thinks there's a difference of $6.88, that she 9 should be paid at that rate and not the rate that she 10 was paid at. That's the summary of it. 11 The only question, I don't -- you know, the 12 only question I have, and I don't know the answer to it, 13 is I was under the impression that the work was being 14 done after October was just for the DA's. 15 MRS. LAVENDER: Heather can speak to that. 16 JUDGE POLLARD: You want to speak to us, 17 Rosa? 18 MRS. STEBBINS: This isn't my -- not my 19 employee. 20 MRS. LAVENDER: Well, I think Joseph in her 21 office did. And I think the only thing he did was mail 22 out letters, and he and I worked together on the ones 23 that he had that came in, and I kind of trained him to 24 do the victim compensation claims and victim impact 25 statements during that interim time. Didn't have a 57 1 whole lot of them that were misdemeanors; mostly 2 everything I dealt with were the felonies, that's 3 correct. 4 But the reports, I did do the reports, and 5 that covered both programs. 6 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. Thank you. 7 COMMISSIONER BELEW: What are both programs, 8 Rosa? 9 MRS. LAVENDER: The misdemeanor cases that 10 go through the County Attorney's Office, and felony 11 cases that go through the DA's office. 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I mean it's -- you know, 13 it's a strange situation in my mind. I mean the fact 14 that the grant came in is somewhat irrelevant other than 15 the fact that there -- I guess that there's some work -- 16 or I don't know. I wasn't involved to know what work 17 under the grant was done. I guess there were some 18 reports that were done. 19 MR. BELEW: Well, here's what I would like 20 to do, I'd like to go back through the minutes from when 21 we brought Rosa back and review those before making any 22 kind of decision on this, and see what was actually 23 said, what we decided on that day, because it was 24 discussed how long she would -- she would go to the end 25 of the grant. After that it was a wait and see, that's 58 1 all I can remember was that she would go forward and 2 there would be no more money for it from the grant. 3 That's as much of it as I remember, and I'd like to know 4 what was said that day by everyone and what the final 5 decision was that day. I need to read that. 6 MRS. LAVENDER: Well, the reality of it is 7 if the old grant had not been completed successfully 8 it's unlikely that you would have gotten the new grant 9 because the Governor's Office would have red flagged 10 that application. And because we completed the first 11 grant correctly, and did all the reports and stuff. The 12 month of September was the month that there was so much 13 done. I think I sent out 57 victim impact statements, 14 and got back about half of them, and dealt with those 15 victims that were catch up from the May time until I 16 came back in August. I've carried through October and 17 November all of the cases that where filed, all the 18 grant jury reports, all the court stuff, everything, 19 during those two months, which I would have done in a 20 full-time position, but I didn't want to work full time 21 so I just came in and did it during those two months so 22 that everything would be current for the new person 23 who's going to come in hopefully shortly. 24 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Right. But we had a 25 conversation as to how you would be compensated. 59 1 MRS. LAVENDER: Yeah. I don't remember 2 that. I mean I was there. We didn't know at the time 3 we had the conversation that we were going to get the 4 grant and continue the program. 5 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Okay, I really think it 6 warrants a review. 7 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: I'm with Harley. I 8 mean I wouldn't be able to vote on it without seeing 9 what -- 10 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Because Don needs to 11 know what we said, too. 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: It's a strange 13 situation. I mean I don't disagree with looking back at 14 it because then there's no question. I mean the salary 15 before October 1 is clear and that's not an issue. And 16 then there's no question that you were hired by the 17 DA's, and nothing ever came back to the Court other than 18 working for the DA's, because we even talked about 19 moving -- we had to get special permission so to speak 20 to keep the office in the courthouse, and I just don't 21 know what was done. 22 JUDGE POLLARD: So your point is you can 23 look at the discussion, but there wasn't a discussion 24 about the specific pay, right? 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I don't recall one -- I 60 1 don't recall us ever talking about what happened after 2 the grant came back, other than we knew we could pay it 3 out of -- pay the amount out of the grant, but I don't 4 recall us talking about ever, I guess, expanding -- 5 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I remember asking the 6 question what happens when the grant runs out. So after 7 that point, I don't remember what everybody said and 8 where -- if we landed on something solid. And the 9 reason that I think this is important, it's not likely 10 we're going to go through this grant process and do this 11 again. It's not likely, but it's possible, and we need 12 to know what we did and not set some kind of precedent 13 with this. 14 JUDGE POLLARD: Yeah, Sheriff. 15 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: You did discuss this 16 specific issue in executive session at either the last 17 Commissioners' Court, or the one before that, and I 18 suggest you go back and preview that. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, so we pass it for 20 right now. It's getting cold, you can't go to the 21 Valley yet. 22 MRS. LAVENDER: Oh, yeah. 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: We can mail the check. 24 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, we're going to 25 pass it for now. 61 1 Item 1.17 consider, discuss and take 2 appropriate action regarding Commissioners' Court Rules 3 on procedure, conduct and decorum. Commissioner Moser. 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Thank you, Judge. It 5 came up in discussion again at some conference that 6 Commissioner Letz and Belew and I were at the other day 7 about whether the counties that are participating in 8 that had rules of procedure, conduct and decorum, and I 9 wasn't sure. I've looked at that, and Jody did some 10 research and found a Court Order 25797, which said such 11 rules of procedure, conduct and decorum were approved 20 12 years ago, March 1999. But the only thing we could find 13 is where it pertained to agenda items, so assuming that 14 we do not have such rules of procedure including 15 Robert's Rules and things like that. This is for 16 discussion, I'm not going to ask to take any action on 17 this today, but to ask that the Judge-elect Rob Kelly, 18 and the County Attorney take a look at a boilerplate, 19 which the Texas Association of County has for such rules 20 and procedures and conduct and decorum, take a look at 21 that. And also Kendall County has one that I looked at 22 that seemed to be -- follow that boilerplate, and added 23 to it a bit for their unique circumstances. 24 MRS. STEBBINS: A couple months ago I did 25 that and presented it to the Court, and so no action was 62 1 taken, so I will send that on to y'all for your review 2 and comment. 3 COMMISSIONER MOSER: All right. And then 4 we'll bring it up and take a look at it and see. 5 MRS. STEBBINS: Yes. And I provided Judge 6 Kelly with a copy of that, of that boilerplate sort of 7 language, and we added some that related to recording, I 8 think, that was standard. 9 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Good deal. So we'll 10 put that on the agenda for the next time, okay? 11 MRS. STEBBINS: All right. 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We oughta do it in 13 January. We don't want to do it at our second meeting 14 in December. 15 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Well, as a matter of 16 fact we oughta do it in January after Judge Kelly's in 17 place, too. 18 JUDGE POLLARD: I agree. 19 COMMISSIONER MOSER: That's a good point. 20 MRS. STEBBINS: But I'll resend it to all of 21 you so y'all can have a chance to review it so if you 22 have comments or questions, I'll be glad to do that. 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Just put it on the 24 agenda, we'll discuss it. 25 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I don't remember that, 63 1 what prompted that? 2 MRS. STEBBINS: Recording. Conversation 3 about recording. And so then at that time we did the 4 same kind of leg work that you did, Commissioner Moser, 5 and looked back at last time we had something was 1997, 6 so we worked on getting something together that was 7 exactly what you indicated. 8 COMMISSIONER MOSER: All right, very good. 9 Thank you, that's all on that subject. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, we pass on it for 11 now. 12 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Right, no action. 13 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, item 1.18 14 consider, discuss and take appropriate action to address 15 possibility of prohibiting the sale or use of restricted 16 fireworks (i.e. "skyrockets with sticks" or "missiles 17 with fins") in any portion of the unincorporated area of 18 Kerr County pursuant to Local Government Code 352.051 19 for the December fireworks season. It's in the package. 20 We voted on this before. I think fire risk was a big 21 consideration at the time. What do you want to do? 22 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: I talked to all my 23 fire chiefs this morning and they're all for eliminating 24 the aerials. 25 JUDGE POLLARD: Prohibiting the use of 64 1 aerials during that season. 2 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Rockets with fins 3 and -- 4 JUDGE POLLARD: Missiles with fins and sky 5 rockets with sticks. 6 MRS. STEBBINS: You can only do it if the -- 7 whatever that scale is. 8 COMMISSIONER LETZ: The fire index. 9 MRS. STEBBINS: Yes. It's a particular 10 number, and I don't know what that is. I don't know 11 what it is now. 12 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I don't think we've 13 ever talked about that. We've done this before every 14 holiday. 15 MRS. STEBBINS: That's right. 16 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah. 17 COMMISSIONER BELEW: You're saying we can't 18 prohibit certain types of fireworks unless -- 19 MRS. STEBBINS: You can if the scale is 20 closer to drought conditions. And I don't know what the 21 particular number is. I'll look it up right now and 22 tell you what it is. 23 COMMISSIONER BELEW: It's not going to be 24 close to drought conditions. 25 MRS. STEBBINS: Let me tell you what it is. 65 1 Let me tell you what that statute says. 2 JUDGE POLLARD: Not really. We're supposed 3 to get some more rain, Commissioner. 4 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Suppose that when this 5 has come up in the past that it was obvious that we were 6 in drought conditions. Maybe that's why that was not a 7 factor. 8 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: I remember sitting out 9 there in June or so when y'all tackled it. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: So is there a motion? 11 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Well, Heather's looking 12 up the statute -- 13 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. 14 COMMISSIONER BELEW: -- and see what it 15 says. 16 MRS. STEBBINS: Drought index of 575 or 17 greater. It says -- 18 COMMISSIONER BELEW: We're not even close to 19 that, I don't think. 20 MRS. STEBBINS: -- upon a determination 21 under the section that drought conditions exist on 22 average in a specified county the Commissioners' Court 23 of the County by order may prohibit or restrict the sale 24 or use of restricted fireworks in the unincorporated 25 area of the County. In addition, during the December 66 1 fireworks season a Commissioners' Court of a county by 2 order may restrict or prohibit the sale or use of 3 restricted fireworks in specified areas when conditions 4 on rural acreage in the County not under cultivation for 5 a period of 12 months are determined to be extremely 6 dangerous for the danger of fire because of high grass 7 or dry vegetation. 8 COMMISSIONER BELEW: What's the index now? 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We're currently at 10 between zero and 200. 11 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Then we're way -- 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We're way, way. We're 13 not going to get -- 14 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Even if we wait a week 15 it won't matter. 16 COMMISSIONER LETZ: If we wait month. 17 COMMISSIONER MOSER: What's it say, Heather, 18 with high grass? 19 MRS. STEBBINS: It says in addition to the 20 December fireworks season the Commissioners' Court of a 21 county by order may restrict or prohibit the sale or use 22 of restricted fireworks in specified areas when 23 conditions on rural acreage in the County not under 24 cultivation for a period of at least 12 months are 25 determined to be extremely hazardous for the danger of 67 1 fire because of high grass or dry vegetation. 2 COMMISSIONER MOSER: We have that. 3 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: You bet we do, and 4 that's why I want to do it. 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I think we should put 6 it in effect, because of the high grass. 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I do, too. That's 8 probably -- this is one of the more dangerous years 9 we've had. 10 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: You bet. 11 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I make a motion that we 12 prohibit the sale of restricted fireworks, which is sky 13 rockets with sticks and missiles with fins in Kerr 14 County outside of incorporated areas. 15 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. 16 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved by Commissioner 17 Precinct 2, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 4 to 18 prohibit the sale or use of restricted fireworks, being 19 sky rockets with sticks and missiles with fins in any 20 portion of the unincorporated area of Kerr County 21 pursuant to the Local Government Code, Section 352.051 22 for the December fireworks season. Is there any further 23 comment or discussion? If not, those in favor of the 24 motion signify by raising your right hands. It's 4-0-1, 25 it passes. One abstention, myself. 68 1 1.19 consider, discuss and take appropriate 2 action to appoint members of the Commissioners' Court as 3 the Kerr County Representative and Alternate on the 4 Alamo Area Council of Governments (AACOG) Board, 5 effective January 1, 2019. 6 I occupy the first position on that now. 7 Just what are your wishes with that regard? You want to 8 institute Judge-Elect Kelly in there as the first one? 9 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: That's what I would 10 say. 11 JUDGE POLLARD: And who's the alternate? 12 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: I would welcome it. 13 JUDGE POLLARD: Is that a motion? 14 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Yes. I move that we 15 insert Judge-Elect Kelly and myself as the liaisons for 16 AACOG. 17 JUDGE POLLARD: I've already sent in a 18 letter resigning from the Board effective December 31. 19 All right, that it's. All right, is there any further 20 comment or -- is there a second? 21 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I second. 22 JUDGE POLLARD: You second. Commissioner 23 Precinct 4 made the motion, Commissioner Precinct 1 24 seconded the motion. Is there any further comment or 25 discussion on the motion? If not, those in favor of the 69 1 motion signify by raising your right hands. It's five 2 zero, it passes unanimous. 3 Item 1.20 consider, discuss and take 4 appropriate action to appoint member of the 5 Commissioners' Court as the Kerr County representative 6 on the Hill Country Mental Health and Developmentally 7 Disabled (MHDD) Centers Board of Directors effective 8 January 1, 2019. 9 Same situation. I've already sent a letter 10 in resigning from that Board effective midnight December 11 31. I suggest that Judge-Elect Kelly be appointed to 12 that Board. Is there any further discussion -- 13 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I make a motion to that 14 effect since he's the one that handles mental health. 15 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. 16 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 17 JUDGE POLLARD: Moved by Commissioner 18 Precinct 3, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 1 to 19 appoint Judge-Elect Kelly to the Board of the Hill 20 Country MHDD effective January 1, 2019. Any further 21 comment or discussion? If not, those in favor signify 22 by raising your right hand. It's unanimous. I'll agree 23 with that, too. Five zero. 24 1.21 consider, discuss and take appropriate 25 action to approve Assistant County Attorney job 70 1 description. Heather Stebbins. 2 MRS. STEBBINS: Yes, Sir. I have attached 3 two job descriptions to the agenda, or Jody did for me. 4 Thank you. That I switched some responsibilities in two 5 of the Assistant County Attorney's positions. The one 6 that will be a new hire, he'll be coming on in January, 7 and then for the Second Assistant's position. Just ask 8 for your approval. 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Move for approval of the 10 job descriptions as presented. 11 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 12 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I have a question. 13 MRS. STEBBINS: Yes, Sir. 14 COMMISSIONER MOSER: And this does not 15 pertain to just this, but all of our job descriptions. 16 Why do we include -- and this would be a question for 17 Cindi, I guess. Why do we include things that are 18 applicable like being able to have the amount of time 19 that's for standing, for walking one third of the time, 20 sitting for over two thirds of the time, etc. etc. That 21 may be applicable, but it also says a person in a wheel 22 chair couldn't take that job. So how do we cover that? 23 MRS. STEBBINS: I don't know. These are the 24 standard forms that have been here for a long time and 25 I've never been asked to really review that. I'll tell 71 1 you just something silly, on the last Assistant County 2 Attorney job description one of the conditions under 3 there said extreme weather conditions, and so I thought 4 that that was funny and I removed it, but I mean it is 5 hot in the summer. 6 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I don't have any 7 objection with what you're requesting -- 8 MRS. STEBBINS: Thank you. 9 COMMISSIONER MOSER: -- but just when I 10 looked at this, because I was looking at it relative to 11 some other positions we have to fill. And another 12 example is the amount of time we have to lift -- the 13 person has to lift, over 50 pounds. It says not 14 applicable, not applicable, applicable. So a lot of 15 things are not appear lek able. So we oughta take them 16 out of the job description if they're not applicable. 17 So anyway -- 18 MRS. STEBBINS: And the way that 19 accommodations can be made for people who need them that 20 they can be requested, and reasonable accommodations are 21 always provided. 22 COMMISSIONER BELEW: The way it's worded our 23 Governor couldn't get a job there in your department. 24 COMMISSIONER MOSER: That's right. 25 MRS. STEBBINS: Reasonable accommodations 72 1 are always provided. 2 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Actually, having dealt 3 with this in having a dispatcher that is in a 4 wheelchair, okay, permanently, we had the same type of 5 job description. You can have it in your job 6 description, but as Heather alluded to, for people that 7 are handicapped or have a disability, you have to make 8 reasonable accommodations for them, all right, or try 9 to. And with the way we remodeled our dispatch center 10 with raising and lowering desks, we could make those 11 reasonable accommodations. It didn't change the job 12 description, but we could make reasonable accommodations 13 for that person which kept her included in and exempted 14 her from that part. So I think they're good items to 15 have in your job description, because you don't know 16 what's going to happen. Anywhere around here an 17 employee could be asked to move something and be able to 18 lift, and if they've got issues you're going to find 19 some limitations you don't want. 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: The lifting thing is, I 21 think, a workers comp issue that protect us on that, but 22 on a bigger topic and when we'll get to a little bit 23 later agenda item, I want to go over a conversation I 24 had with the Sheriff this morning. I think we need to 25 relook at a lot of our job descriptions and hiring 73 1 practices, and maybe after the first of the year. 2 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay. That's good 3 enough. So do -- 4 JUDGE POLLARD: So we pass it for now? 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: No, no, no. Somebody 6 has to have a motion. 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I made a motion, didn't 8 I? 9 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I seconded it. 10 MRS. STEBBINS: You did. Thank you. 11 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I asked a question, 12 that's what screwed it up. 13 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. Commissioner 3 14 made the motion, Commissioner Precinct 1 seconded the 15 motion to approve the job description as submitted by 16 the County Attorney for Assistant County Attorney. Is 17 there any further discussion or comment? If not, those 18 in favor of the motion signify by raising your right 19 hand. It passes 4-0-1. One abstention, myself. 20 I notice Road and Bridge is back in. Do you 21 want to go back to 1.5 and consider what they have come 22 up with, the recommendations on the bids? 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes. 24 JUDGE POLLARD: 1.5, it's already been 25 called, so what do you have, Kelly? 74 1 MS. HOFFER: Let's see. What we've got here 2 on the culvert pipe Wilson Culvert was the only company 3 that bid on the culvert pipe. Would you all like for me 4 to run down based on size and give the amount? 5 JUDGE POLLARD: Uh-huh. 6 MS. HOFFER: Yes. For your 15-inch arch 7 pipe it's $11.11 a foot. The 18 inch arch pipe is 8 $13.09 a foot. 24 inch arch pipe is $17.09 a foot. 9 Your 30 inch arch pipe is $21.15 a foot. And then the 10 couplers for these pipes if you're adding two pipes 11 together, the 15 inch coupler is $15.16 each. The 18 12 inch coupler is $18.14. The 24 inch coupler is $24.13. 13 And your 30 inch coupler is $13.23. And again that's 14 Wilson Culvert. 15 JUDGE POLLARD: Do those sound like they're 16 in accordance with what the price oughta be? 17 MS. HOFFER: Yeah. Last year's pricing, for 18 instance, for three-inch coupler last year it was 19 $26.55. This year it's $30.23. Your 15 inch arch pipe 20 was $9.25 a foot; this year it's $11.11 a foot. So it 21 has gone up. 22 JUDGE POLLARD: So has everything else. 23 MS. HOFFER: Yes. 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Steel especially. 25 JUDGE POLLARD: Well, do you recommend it? 75 1 MS. HOFFER: Yes. And being that we aren't 2 driveways, we don't have near with the pipes, but we 3 still deal with pipes on projects, so we feel it still 4 is very important to be bidding these. 5 On your base material, I know there was 6 discussion last year on here, and for base material and 7 your uncoated rock, all bids will be accepted, and Road 8 and Bridge will be given the authorization to accept the 9 low bid based on the location of the material and where 10 it is needed in the County. And that also was added to 11 the Court order from last year. There was a blurb put 12 at the bottom of the Court order, and I believe we had 13 some discussion, but we get in some areas that Allen 14 Keller is a better location if we're running 20 or 30 15 loads of something as opposed to having to go all the 16 way towards Comfort-Center Point and run the same 20 or 17 30 loads. 18 JUDGE POLLARD: And part of that 19 consideration would be was there a charge for delivery 20 on it or not, too? 21 MS. HOFFER: Yeah. Some of the prices we 22 have delivery charges, some of them we're picking them 23 up at that location. 24 JUDGE POLLARD: So you'll have discretion to 25 pick basically considering that as well? 76 1 MS. HOFFER: Yes, Sir. 2 JUDGE POLLARD: That's a good idea. 3 MS. HOFFER: So what I have for the bid 4 prices Allen Keller, their pit on Harper Road, Rogers 5 Quarry, their grade 1, they had 850 a ton, and that's 6 picked up at their plant, and $15.00 a ton delivered. 7 Grade 1 from Allen Keller was the low bid. 8 Grade 2 Martin Marietta bid on this, and 9 this was very interesting when y'all had said where that 10 pickup point was. It's San Antonio, but they also 11 included Hondo, and they included their Center Point 12 location, and I found it kind of odd on this for the 13 Grade 2, to pick it up in San Antonio it was 550 a ton. 14 Delivered to Kerrville was $14.18 a ton. Hondo 550 a 15 ton for us to pick it up in Hondo. To deliver it to 16 Kerrville $15.53 a ton. And then our location here, the 17 old bedrock location in Center Point, for us to pick it 18 up was $14.00 a ton as opposed to 550 a ton, and 19 delivery from the Kerrville plant $18.02 a ton. And I 20 did look it over like three times when we were going 21 over the numbers. So just kind of wanted to bring that 22 to your attention when you see the 550 a ton you're 23 picking it up in San Antonio, so there is a big variance 24 in that. 25 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Is that worth a call 77 1 to say hey, are y'all sure about this? 2 JUDGE POLLARD: Is there a representative 3 here? 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: No. I mean a bid's just 5 a bid. We can't negotiate it. 6 MS. HOFFER: Yeah. Wheatcraft didn't bid on 7 the Grade 2, and Allen Keller did not bid on Grade 2, so 8 Martin Marietta for the Grade 2 was the closest location 9 is that Center Point location at $14.00 a ton to pick 10 up, and delivered $18.02 a ton. 11 For Wheatcraft the three quarter inch down 12 base they were the only bid on that, and for us to pick 13 it up at their plant is $10.75 a ton, delivered is 14 $17.92 a ton. 15 JUDGE POLLARD: Well, we can't negotiate on 16 those bid prices. If we do pass the Resolution we did 17 like last year it is sort of up -- she has the election 18 to choose, considering those charges like that, and end 19 up with a net best figure for cost to us, so that'll 20 cover that, I think. 21 MS. HOFFER: And I have one more I just want 22 to get it on the record. This one with the base 23 material is a the bit different based on the project 24 location. Wheatcraft for the Grade 1, they were 875 a 25 ton to pick up at the plant, 1592 a ton if it's a 78 1 semi-truck with a trailer. If it's a tandem axle dump 2 truck it's $17.92 a ton, so that is an option. But 3 Allen Keller overall had the best price on the Grade 1. 4 And then for your emulsions Ergon won the 5 bid on the AEP, it was $3.01 a gallon. The CSS-1H was 6 $2.06 a gallon. Ergon received low bid on that. Wright 7 Asphalt bid on the CSS-1H, they were $2.6508 a gallon, 8 so pretty significant difference between the two. 9 The CRS-2TR, Wright Asphalt was the only one 10 that bid on it, they were $2.6542 a gallon. The 11 MC-3000-TR-2, Wright was the only one that bid on that, 12 $2.8542 a gallon. DMC-800-TR, Wright Asphalt was the 13 only one that bid on that, 2.9542 a gallon. The CRS-2, 14 which is what we use for our paving with the rock, 15 Wright Asphalt was the low bid, and it was 2.0308 a 16 gallon. Ergon bid 2.06, so that was very close in the 17 bid, but Wright Asphalt one the bid on the CRS-2 for our 18 sealcoat program. 19 Vulcan Materials was the only bidder on our 20 cold mix asphalts. Our black base, it's a Type AA, per 21 ton was $28.90. The cold mix, the CC 28.90 a ton. And 22 then they also -- we didn't spec this out for bid, but 23 I'll read it into the record. They bid AA, a black base 24 AA plus. I'm not sure what that means. It's 6490 a 25 ton. A CC plus at 6490 a ton, and then the type D, they 79 1 did a D plus and it was 6690 a ton, and your regular 2 type D mix was $60.90 a ton. 3 On our black trap rock, we still bid it, but 4 we are switching over on our white lock. We have had a 5 couple instances this past year that we already had the 6 black rock in place, so those roads got sealed with the 7 black rock. I like the option if we run into a weird 8 situation that we need to do the black rock, but our 9 plan is pretty much everything is going to be with that 10 white rock, but that trap rock bid for the grade 3, 3913 11 a ton, Grade 4, 4113 a ton, and the Grade 5, $40.13 a 12 ton. 13 The rock we're using this year, which is an 14 uncoated white rock, Wheatcraft won the bid on the Grade 15 4 and the Grade 5. If we pick it up at their location 16 it's $20.00 a ton. If it's a truck delivery that's 17 actually a semi-trailer, you add $4.70 a ton onto that, 18 so it would be 2470. If it's delivered with a tandem 19 axle dump truck, it would believe 2645 a ton. 20 The Grade 5 is $20.00 a ton if we pick it up 21 at Wheatcraft, and the delivery would be the same for a 22 truck trailer compensation it would be 2470 a ton. For 23 a tandem axle dump truck it would be 2645 a ton. 24 Wheatcraft does not do a Grade 3. Allen Keller does a 25 Grade 3, and their price is $36.00 a ton. 80 1 Allen Keller across the board was $36.00 a 2 ton for their paving rocks, so Wheatcraft this year -- 3 they were close last year, and Wheatcraft this year is 4 significantly lower. Their price didn't change from 5 last year. And that's all of my bids. 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I make a motion that we 7 accept all bids. 8 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second that. I do have 9 a question, Kellie. 10 MS. HOFFER: Yes, Sir. 11 COMMISSIONER BELEW: You talked about being 12 able to pick up some of the black rock. Would you do 13 that if you're going to go and repair one of the roads 14 that has the black rock on it? 15 MS. HOFFER: Yeah, I could see possibly 16 using it on that. If you had possibly a fresh seal and 17 it was maybe one to three years old and it got damaged, 18 you know, maybe somebody moving in a manufactured home 19 or something, and we went in to have to fix it and we 20 were going to need to put a seal on it, you could use it 21 for that, some other locations sometimes. I think when 22 they started using the black rock here many years ago, 23 they just used it for steep inclines, like Pikes Peak, 24 some of those, to get the best traction that you can get 25 on those roads. So you know there might be a road that 81 1 we may say this really is actually a better rock to put 2 in this section, but for the price difference there's a 3 huge savings in going. And it's nice we actually are 4 supporting local. 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Good. 6 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, it was moved by 7 Commissioner Precinct 3 to accept the bids as 8 submitted -- who seconded it, was it Precinct 1 9 Commissioner? 10 COMMISSIONER BELEW: (Raising hand.) 11 JUDGE POLLARD: All right. As the bids were 12 all read into the record, and so is there any further 13 comment or question? Then those in favor of the motion 14 signify by raising your right hand. It's 4-0-1, it 15 passes. One abstention, myself. 16 MS. HOFFER: Thank you. 17 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Thank you. 18 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, going to item 19 1.22 consider, discuss and take appropriate action to 20 approve the contract with Ubeo to lease three copiers 21 and to authorize the equipment removal and buyout of the 22 copiers we currently have. County Judge to sign same. 23 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Be real quick if Tom 24 would just make the motion. 25 COMMISSIONER MOSER: We just say move for 82 1 approval. 2 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 3 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: It will save money. 4 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved by Commissioner 5 Precinct 2, seconded by Commissioner 1 to approve item 6 1.22 of the agenda package as submitted -- 7 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: And allow the Judge to 8 sign same. 9 JUDGE POLLARD: And that is to approve the 10 contract with Ubeo and lease three copiers authorizing 11 the equipment removal and buyout of the copiers we 12 currently have, and authorize the County Judge to sign 13 same. 14 COMMISSIONER MOSER: And my motion is also 15 to authorize the County Judge to sign same. 16 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: And a comment is, it is 17 under budget. 18 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, those in favor of 19 the motion signify by raising your right hand. It's 20 4-0-1, unanimous. One abstention, myself. 21 Item 1.23 consider, discuss and take 22 appropriate action regarding KEDC (Kerr Economic 23 Development Corporation). Commissioner Letz. 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Won't take any action on 25 this. I visited with Commissioner Moser about it. They 83 1 have a group called the Go Team, which is part of the 2 organization over there. And Commissioner Moser and I 3 when we discussed it, whoever the liaisons are to that 4 are the appointees to that board, they just would fill 5 that role as part of that job basically, so there's no 6 reason to make -- 7 JUDGE POLLARD: This is just information 8 only. 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Information only. No 10 reason the make an appointment, whoever has that spot. 11 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, is there any 12 further comments or discussion on that matter? 13 COMMISSIONER LETZ: No action. 14 JUDGE POLLARD: We'll go on to 1. -- 15 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I thought we were going 16 to take a break. 17 JUDGE POLLARD: Ten minute break. 18 (10-minute break.) 19 JUDGE POLLARD: We're going into Executive 20 Session pursuant to Section 551 of the Texas Government 21 Code. 22 (Executive Session.) 23 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, we're back in 24 open session. It's about 8 minutes until 12 noon, 11:52 25 or so. Are there any motions necessary as to item 1.25? 84 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes. I make a motion 2 that as a result of some pending job description changes 3 for the -- for the position -- I forget what it's 4 called. The position that Cindi Scherwitz has currently 5 at HR, that that position will have a ten percent pay 6 increase, and it'll be effective January 1st. 7 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 8 JUDGE POLLARD: Motion made by Commissioner 9 Precinct 3, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 1. This 10 relates to item 1.25 of the agenda package to address 11 the position of the acting HR Director, is that right? 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Well, but it's that 13 position -- it's the position that Cindy Scherwitz 14 currently has. 15 JUDGE POLLARD: Okay, that position. A ten 16 percent increase effective as of January 1st. 17 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right. Based on job 18 description changes. 19 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Newly created position, 20 or change of job description? 21 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Change in job 22 descriptions. 23 JUDGE POLLARD: Any further comment or 24 discussion? Those in favor of the motion signify by 25 raising your right hand. It's 4-0-1. One abstention, 85 1 myself. 2 Item 1.26, are there any motions there? 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes. I make a motion 4 that we authorize Animal Control -- or Kerr County 5 Animal Services Department to post job openings for two 6 Animal Control officers. 7 MR. BELEW: Second. 8 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved by Commissioner 9 Letz of Precinct 3, seconded by Precinct 1 Commissioner 10 to authorize the Animal Control Officer to advertise for 11 the two vacated positions in Animal Control. All right, 12 anything further on this? If not, then those in favor 13 of that motion signify by raising your right hand. It's 14 4-0-1. One abstention, myself. 15 Are there any other motions on that 16 particular one? 17 COMMISSIONER LETZ: No, Sir. 18 JUDGE POLLARD: All right, we'll go to 4.1 19 pay the bills. 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: There are no bills. 21 JUDGE POLLARD: 4.2 budget amendments? 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: None. 23 JUDGE POLLARD: 4.3 late bills? 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: None. 25 JUDGE POLLARD: As far as I know, none. 86 1 4.4 approve and accept monthly reports. 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Don, there's a big stack 3 behind you. 4 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Kerr County Clerk 5 report for November, 2018, Kerr County District Clerk 6 report for November, 2018, J.P. Precinct 2 monthly 7 report for November, 2018, J.P. Precinct 3 monthly 8 report for November, 2018, J.P. Precinct 4 monthly 9 report for November, 2018, Constable Precinct 1 report 10 for November, 2018, Constable Precinct 2 report for 11 November, 2018, Constable Precinct 3 report for October, 12 2018, Constable Precinct 4 report for November, 2018, 13 Environmental Health amended report for June, 2018, 14 Environmental Health November report for November, 2018, 15 and Kerr County Treasurer report for October, 2018. 16 JUDGE POLLARD: Is there a motion? 17 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I make a motion to 18 accept the reports as read. 19 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Second. 20 JUDGE POLLARD: Commissioner Precinct 1 21 moved to accept the monthly reports as dictated into the 22 record, and to authorize approval thereof where it is 23 needed, and it was seconded by Commissioner Precinct 2. 24 Is there any further comment or discussion? If not, 25 those in favor of the motion signify by raising your 87 1 right hands. It's four zero, unanimous. One 2 abstention, myself. 3 4.6 court orders. 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Here they are. I make a 5 motion that we approve the Court orders from the 6 November 26th Commissioners' Court, they all look to be 7 in order, and also from the November 29th meeting, and 8 the December 6th meeting. 9 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I second. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: Been moved by Commissioner 11 Precinct 3, seconded by Commissioner Precinct 2 to 12 approve court orders as dictated into the record by 13 Commissioner Precinct 3. Any comments or questions? If 14 not, those in favor signify by raising your right hands. 15 It's 4-0-1, it passes. One abstention, myself. All 16 right. 17 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Just for the record you 18 might note that there was no Auditor's report. 19 JUDGE POLLARD: No Auditor report, all 20 right. 21 Let's go to 5.1 reports from 22 Commissioners/Liaison Committee Assignments, so forth. 23 Anybody? 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes. I just -- Peter 25 Lewis, myself and Reagan Givens went -- last week went 88 1 to the Kendall County Animal Control Facility, and also 2 to the Fredericksburg Animal Control Facility and looked 3 at them, looked over their operations, and Peter's using 4 that to develop kind of steps. It's very interesting -- 5 probably the most interesting thing was they obviously 6 both have heard of the criticism that we've been under, 7 and that they basically feel that criticism towards us 8 is very unwarranted with what we have, we do a very good 9 job. So it was good to hear from those two managers. 10 JUDGE POLLARD: Anybody else have anything? 11 All right, let's go to 5.2 reports from 12 elected officials and department heads. Any of them? 13 Anybody? 14 There being none, reports from Boards, 15 Commissions, and Committees. City/County joint projects 16 or operations reports. Anybody? 17 Update on East Kerr County/Center Point 18 Wastewater Project. 19 COMMISSIONER LETZ: It's working. 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Either 160 connections 21 or lines in the yards have been put in. That's a bunch. 22 JUDGE POLLARD: That's a bunch, it is. 23 All right, is there anything else for the 24 Commissioners' Court at this time? Then we're 25 adjourned. Thank you. 89 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 4th day of January, A.D. 10 2019. 11 12 /s/DEBRA ELLEN GIFFORD Certified Shorthand Reporter 13 No. 953 Expiration Date 12/31/2020 14 * * * * * * 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25