1 1 2 3 KERR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' COURT 4 Regular Session 5 Monday, January 28, 2019 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 24 PRESENT: HARLEY BELEW, Commissioner Precinct 1 TOM MOSER, Commissioner Precinct 2 25 JONATHAN LETZ, Commissioner Precinct 3 2 1 I-N-D-E-X 2 NO. PAGE 3 *** Commissioners' Comments. 4 4 1.1 Annual Kerr County AgriLife Extension 5 Commissioners' Court Report. 5 1.2 Annual report from Kerr County Historical 26 6 Commission. 7 1.3 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 37 action to appoint/reappoint members to 8 the Kerr County Historical Commission and submit current membership list to 9 the Texas Historical Commission. 10 1.4 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 42 action regarding Emergency Management 11 Director/Coordinator notification form for the Texas Department of Emergency 12 Management(TDEM). 13 1.5 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 43 action to accept annual Racial Profiling 14 Report from Constable Precinct 4. 15 1.6 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 43 action to approve contract with Kerr County 16 Soil and Water Conservation District, and authorize the County Judge to sign same. 17 1.7 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 44 18 action to approve a donation of $250.00 for the Sheriff's Equipment Fund 72-370-531. 19 1.8 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 45 20 action regarding a revised job description for the County Veterans Service Officer. 21 1.12 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 48 22 action on request from GDM Enterprises to replace existing vending machines in 23 various county facilities. 24 25 3 1 I-N-D-E-X 2 NO. PAGE 3 1.13 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 55 action regarding discharge of treated 4 wastewater to surface waters in Hill Country streams, and in particular the 5 Edwards Aquifer Contributing Zone of the Nueces Basin. 6 1.10 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 72 7 action regarding donation to the Animal Services Department. 8 1.11 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 74 9 action to approve job description for a Public Relations Officer and post position 10 as appropriate. 11 1.14 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 83 action to approve donations in the amount 12 of $25.00 to be credited to an account designated by Commissioners' Court. 13 1.15 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 85 14 action for Commissioners' Court approval to fill budgeted open positions in Kerr 15 County Tax Assessor-Collector's Office. 16 4.4 Approve and accept Monthly Reports. 86 17 4.6 Court Orders. 87 18 5.1 Reports from Commissioners/Liaison Committee 88 Assignments as per attachment. 19 1.16 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 89 20 action to purchase 0.13 acres of right of way for the Peterson Farm Road 21 Intersection Improvement Project. 22 *** Adjournment. 89 23 *** Reporter's Certificate. 90 24 * * * * * * 25 4 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Let me call to order the 2 Commissioners' Court meeting of January 28th, it's 9 3 a.m., and we'll start with the Prayer and the Pledge by 4 Commissioner Belew. 5 (Prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance.) 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We have a short number 7 of members of the Court this morning. Let the record 8 show that Judge Kelly and Commissioner Harris are both 9 absent today. We'll start with the citizens comments, 10 visitors' input, anyone that would like to comment on 11 any item that is not on our regular agenda feel free to 12 do so at this time. 13 As we do not have any, we'll go on to the 14 Commissioners' comments. Commissioner Belew. 15 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I really don't have 16 much to report. Oh, the people that were in the fire in 17 Precinct 1, I posted on my Commissioner's Facebook page, 18 we'd like to help them out, all sizes for the kids and 19 everything on Camino Real. They were completely burned 20 out. I went by the morning after to look at it. And 21 amazing how quick that fire went. It burned up 22 everything within the structure itself, and even the 23 trees beside it were not burned. It burned just like a 24 flash fire. But everything that this family had in the 25 world was in this house, and they do need our help, so 5 1 if you can help them, if you know somebody that has a 2 bunch of kid clothes to pass down, then you might take a 3 look at that. It has all the sizes written out for you. 4 Okay, that's all. 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I think we've got an 6 important subject on the agenda later on, so I'll just 7 hold off on that, and that's wastewater into creeks. 8 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And I don't believe I 9 have anything this morning, so we move on to the agenda 10 1.1 Annual Kerr County AgriLife Extension Commissioners' 11 Court Report. Roy Walston. 12 MR. WALSTON: Good morning, Commissioners. 13 I appreciate y'all giving me the opportunity to come 14 before y'all, and give y'all a little bit of a summary 15 update on what we've been involved with for 2018, this 16 past year. 17 We're full force ahead in 2019 getting our 18 stock show under way, start kicking it off here at the 19 County and District and school shows, and just pulled in 20 last night from Fort Worth, and so we'll be on the road 21 there. But what I would like to do is is give y'all an 22 opportunity to meet some of the other folks that work 23 with us in our office or in our program. And I do have 24 some handouts that I would like to give y'all that kind 25 of summarize some of the -- 6 1 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Just hand it. 2 MR. WALSTON: Each one separate. And if you 3 would it kind of gives you some numbers of our contacts 4 throughout the year, The Making a Difference pamphlet 5 there gives you a summary of the different educational 6 programs that we conduct throughout the year. And in 7 all three categories, both in agriculture and natural 8 resources, family and community health, as well as 4-H 9 and youth development. That gives you some contacts 10 that, you know, we deal with throughout the year. And 11 so that's some information that we feel like y'all might 12 be interested in. 13 The other pamphlet that we handed out is a 14 summary of our outcome programs that we work with, and 15 that is some evaluations and results of those programs 16 in AG and natural resources, that encompasses our Beef 17 706 Program. Also a new landowner program, the Bennett 18 Trust Program, as well as our youth agricultural 19 lifetime leadership program. So those are some 20 summaries of the educational programs that we've been 21 involved with. I'll expand on the AG and Natural 22 Resources here in a little bit. 23 But before we get much further what I'd like 24 to do is invite a young lady that is currently serving 25 on our State 4-H Council, Miss Cameron Poole. Cameron 7 1 is -- we actually visited earlier, is our seventh member 2 from Kerr county that has served on our State 4-H 3 Council in the past 16 years since I've been here. So 4 it's a quite an honor to have an individual serve on 5 state council and represent Kerr County and their 6 families in that leadership role, so I'm going to ask 7 Cameron to come up and visit with you a little bit about 8 exactly what all she's involved in on Council. 9 MS. POOLE: I was elected to serve on State 10 Council this summer, and I was also elected for District 11 10 1st Vice President for 4-H. And that was a huge, 12 huge step for me, very exciting accomplishment. My 13 biggest role model in 4-H Leah Bauer handed down her 14 green jacket to me when I was in 6th grade, and at that 15 time I thought I had to get my own, but then I realized 16 it was kind of a motivational aspect to get my own green 17 jacket. So my Junior year I served as the Junior 18 District 4-H Secretary, and then was elected in District 19 10 for Vice President this past June. So that gave me 20 the opportunity to serve on the state level. And on 21 state council there are 30 members of -- 30 4-H'ers from 22 across the State, all districts. We stretch from Dallam 23 County down to Kingsville, so we've got a pretty wide 24 variety of kids and a wide variety of activities, which 25 is a really cool opportunity to be able to work along 8 1 side these other members that participate in some 2 different activities than I do. 3 And we -- so far this year, we met for a 4 week in July and worked to start planning our roundup, 5 which is this coming June, and so that's our state 6 competition, our group and state competition for 4-H. 7 And then after that we all met at the State 8 Fair and we were recognized by the State Fair. We also 9 had the opportunity to do a lot of community service 10 throughout that week at the State Fair. We worked at 11 the North Texas Food Bank and packaged over 20 thousand 12 meals in four hours. And then we went on to -- I got to 13 read to students at a school in Dallas that they're all 14 homeless students, but this school is a really eye 15 opening thing. It's infants through six year olds, and 16 it gives them a place to sleep in a comfortable 17 environment, they have three meals each day at that 18 school. And so we got to teach them a little bit about 19 agriculture, which was a lot of fun. And then after 20 that in November, I got to serve as an mentor at the 21 Junior Leadership Retreat where we have 4-H'ers from 22 across the state that are junior members and have the 23 opportunity to work on their leadership skills, and meet 24 people from cross the state as well. It's a great 25 opportunity. We meet in Brownwood, and so that was lot 9 1 of fun to be able to put one of those camps on. 2 And then we went back again in January and 3 we are working hard to accomplish our State-wide 4 community service project, which is gathering items for 5 the veterans hospitals across the state, which is a 6 really cool opportunity for Kerrville in particular, 7 because we have one of our big veterans hospitals here 8 that we get to donate to, and then we are also working 9 on a new leadership program that we will have this year 10 the week of Roundup, which is for our state competition. 11 So we are working hard, working together with kids 12 across the state, which is a really cool opportunity. 13 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Thank you. 14 COMMISSIONER MOSER: A question. How 15 many -- with your green jacket come back up. How many 16 4-H students are there in Kerr County? 17 MS. POOLE: In Kerr County? 18 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Or maybe Roy knows 19 that? 20 MR. WALSTON: Yeah. There's right at 300. 21 COMMISSIONER MOSER: 300, okay. All right. 22 COMMISSIONER BELEW: And Haley, if you ever 23 want to be a talk show host, I think you could do it. 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Another thing I want to 25 mention about Cameron, she's a -- 10 1 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Oh, I called you Haley, 2 I'm sorry. 3 MS. POOLE: It's okay. It's okay. 4 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I called her by her big 5 sister's name. 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Cameron is probably the 7 most eager to help young kids in the 4-H programs and 8 stock shows, she helps anyone there. She's been a 9 fantastic role model for Kerr County and for the 4-H 10 program, so thank you. 11 MS. POOLE: Thank you. 12 (Applause.) 13 MR. WALSTON: If I could, I'd like to call 14 on my co-worker Angela Fielder to come and visit with 15 you about family community health programs.. 16 MS. FIEDLER: Good morning, thank y'all. 17 And I'm just going to give you some highlights of a few 18 things that I've been involved with, but by no means is 19 it the only thing, but we stay pretty busy going lots of 20 different directions at our office. But just a couple 21 of them, our child care conference, this is a Hill 22 Country Child Care Conference that we put on. It's a 23 multi-county. I team up with Gillespie, Bandera, of 24 course Kerr, Kendall, and we put on a child care 25 conference every year. We have already started the 11 1 planning process for the one in September. So just to 2 be able to provide education to those child care 3 workers, and directors of those centers. 4 This past year we had 104 child care 5 providers attend our conference providing care for 1,174 6 children involved in 18 different centers and family day 7 homes. So they received a total of 624 clock hours, so 8 we're proud of that, and that's something that we've 9 continued to do. And that was something that has been 10 in place before I ever came to Kerr County, and they've 11 been doing it for 30 something years, so it's been 12 something that they look forward to every year to get 13 these educational hours, and we do it right here in Kerr 14 County. So I like to be able to host that here. 15 Another area -- of course my job title 16 changed to Family and Community Health, so really trying 17 to focus more a lot on health. So walk across Texas is 18 a big part of that, and just keeping people active and 19 we'll kick that off here in March again. And this past 20 year we had 171 folks that registered for the program. 21 146 actually completed the 8 weeks, so I'm proud of 22 that, I'm happy to have those. You always have some 23 that start off good and then they lose their steam. 24 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Angela, let me ask you 25 a question. On community health, you guys do it. Who 12 1 else does it? The school does it? 2 MS. FIEDLER: Now, are you asking where do I 3 go to do the programs? 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: No. Who all 5 participates in that? I know you guys do. Does the 6 school have a community health program, and does the 7 city, and who else in this county does it? 8 MS. FIEDLER: All the schools have student 9 health advisory committees, and I help serve on those to 10 help give direction to some of their health programs. 11 So every school is required to have some type of health 12 coalition that works to provide health programs and to 13 their staff and to the students, so yes. And I do help 14 with some of those. 15 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay. But so does the 16 city do it? Who else in Kerr County does it beside you 17 guys? 18 MS. FIEDLER: The City has a wellness group 19 that meets, and I have attended some of these meetings. 20 Right now currently I'm actually collaborating with 21 Peterson Hospital on one of their health initiatives for 22 child health initiatives, and so that came from -- I 23 think that was stemmed from one of the city things that 24 they were doing, but they asked me to serve with that 25 group to continue on. So we're going to be doing some 13 1 things this March, starting in March. 2 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah. I was just 3 curious if you're integrating all these activities and 4 and sharing responsibility and resource needs, etc. 5 MS. FIEDLER: Well, there's no reason to 6 recreate the wheel. So if there's some good things 7 going on out there then yes we partner. But a lot of 8 them are wanting to partner with AgriLife, because of 9 the resources that we have. And so any specialists that 10 we have on board, so yeah. I serve on a lot of 11 different committees throughout the coming year, and 12 it's a great question. So, but just a little -- there 13 is a little bit of background there. 14 You know, and the main thing about walk 15 across Texas, and it is an 8-week program, and that's 16 what's been shown that if we can keep them active for 8 17 weeks, then they have a life long -- they'll continue on 18 with that, so that's one thing that we want to continue 19 to see that grow and keep them -- it's not just that two 20 months out of the year, we want to see them active all 21 year around, right. 22 So but the economic impact is there, over 23 four million dollars in health care costs. Mainly, this 24 is to attribute avoiding type 2 diabetes and different 25 diseases and things like that that would come from 14 1 health concerns. 2 And then another group -- another program is 3 Better Living for Texans. And this is really 4 targeted -- this is one of the ones that I can target 5 towards the school. It's a nutrition health program, 6 and targeted for low income, so any chance I get to work 7 with those. One of the ones that I do every month is I 8 go over to the early childhood center, the Head Start, 9 and I do some nutrition classes for their parents and 10 for their kids. And so that's something I like to do 11 with them, as well always with Hunt School and Ingram 12 has their student health advisory groups. I serve on 13 those as well. 14 And then I'm just going to move on to the 15 food safety, keeping Kerr County and our food safety 16 supply safe, so our food protection management program, 17 and that's where we will teach the food protection 18 management to the managers. It's a two day -- it's a 19 full two-day class. And they have to go through a 20 national exam to get through that, so that's been 21 something that we continue to do here. And we actually 22 have Rebecca Dittmar. I'm sure y'all are familiar with 23 her down in the basement. So she helps me with that. 24 She's one of the specialists that teaches with me, and 25 as well as our food handler classes, I do all year long, 15 1 so I do both of those all year long. This year we had 2 31 folks that went to the food protection management 3 program. That's a two day certification with a 90 4 percent pass rate, so I'm happy with that. It's a very 5 tough exam. 6 And then over a hundred participants for 7 food handlers here in Kerr County just this past year, 8 so I continue that. That seems to be a need. One of 9 the groups I work with, the City Health, they have a 10 food safety advisory board that I help serve on with our 11 health department. 12 And then I'm just going to move on to just 13 the 4-H, FCH projects that I help with. And Roy and I 14 have stayed busy with everything. But one of the newest 15 thing is our gardening, our Junior Master Gardening 16 Program. We actually were able to train -- one of our 17 master gardeners, and I helped her with that program. 18 But I'm definitely not the master gardener; she is. So 19 I'm glad that she's able to help. We real rely on our 20 volunteers to help with those. Some of those others are 21 sewing and our food nutrition, photography, consumer 22 decision making, teaching kids to make a better consumer 23 decisions. Our golf challenge, and we'll host the golf 24 challenge state competition this summer here in July 25 here in Kerrville. The horse program, vet science. So 16 1 those are just a few of the things that I've been able 2 to help with this past year. 3 So do y'all have any more questions? Or if 4 you think of some, please let us know. You got a lot of 5 paper to read through there, so -- 6 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Lots of activities. 7 MS. FIEDLER: Thank you. 8 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Are you the only one 9 locally that teaches the food manager course? 10 MS. FIEDLER: I am. They will bring people 11 in from San Antonio some, but I'm the only one that 12 teaches the food protection management. 13 COMMISSIONER LETZ: So it kind of -- a lot 14 of that's with the City, because I believe the city 15 requires their people to have that course, so it's -- 16 MS. FIEDLER: Well, the State requires it. 17 But only the city has a health inspector. So he goes 18 over and he checks all that. But as far as outside of 19 his jurisdiction, it's the State. 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So you teach it, they 21 inspect it? 22 MS. FIEDLER: They inspect it. I know and a 23 lot of times they get a little frustrated, and I have to 24 tell them I'm not the one that's inspecting; I'm here to 25 help you. And I want to keep the food safe. So I enjoy 17 1 serving on that. I think that there definitely is a 2 need for that here in our community, because I am the 3 only one. Rebecca and I. 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: The question about 5 community health and the collaboration between the 6 school, the city, the county and all that. Okay, 7 thanks. 8 MS. FIEDLER: Yes. And let me know if you 9 think of more questions, so thank. And I'm going to let 10 Miss Patti up and talk about the Master Gardeners. 11 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Gentleman at the back, 12 there's chairs up here that you could sit in. 13 MS. SCHLESSIGER: Good morning. I'm Patti 14 Schlessiger. I'm with the Hill Country Master 15 Gardeners. And in the absence of our 2018 President 16 Jackie Skinner, she has asked me to report for the 17 Master Gardeners. So I'm going to read her report 18 because it's very thorough. 19 The Hill Country Master Gardeners concluded 20 2018 with 116 certified members. Those members 21 volunteered some 9000 hours. Translated into dollars 22 the labor value of their efforts equals approximately 23 $222,210.00. Of the seven activity projects in Kerr 24 County, we would like to highlight two of those. Glory 25 Community Garden . Hill Country Master Gardeners 18 1 assisted in the design, fund raising and construction of 2 over 30 raised beds, which are now being cultivated 3 regularly by individuals, families, local organizations, 4 and senior groups. The garden located on Davis Street 5 brings residents together with neighbors and members of 6 organizations promoting a community spirit as gardeners 7 learning cultivating techniques and the nutritional 8 benefits of organically grown products. Hill Country 9 Master Gardeners award selective participants 10 scholarship to our training classes each year. An added 11 bonus has been to host children from the community who 12 might not otherwise have experienced the joy of growing 13 a plant or learned the basic skills required to achieve 14 a successful garden. The gardens are now so popular 15 there is a waiting list of those who would like to adopt 16 a raised bed. 17 Another project is Upper Guadalupe River 18 Authority landscape design project. Perhaps the jewel 19 of Hill Country Master Gardeners list of accomplishments 20 in 2018. The project centered around a 17,376 square 21 foot office building on a 1.5 acre lot. Because low 22 impact development, water conservation and clean 23 waterways are a major focus of the UGRA. Hill Country 24 Master Gardeners created a plan to redesign the property 25 to demonstrate those principles serving as an 19 1 educational display for the public. This project was 2 completed successfully during the fall receiving much 3 publicity and lot of appreciation from the UGRA Board 4 and staff. 5 Other projects, Hill Country Master Gardener 6 continues to provide construction, maintenance of garden 7 at the Hill Country Care Patio, the butterfly garden, 8 the Kerr County Juvenile Probation Center, the Special 9 Opportunities Center, and the Hunt School Discovery 10 Garden. In addition, we promote earth kind gardening 11 and principles through information tables at local 12 events. Our speakers bureau, our research response 13 desk, home visits, advance training courses, our 14 demonstration garden, and Junior Master Gardeners 15 Project. During 2018 the Hill Country Master Gardeners 16 made contact with over 1000 community residents through 17 information tables, speaking engagement, CEU, which is 18 continued education unit, programs offered to the 19 public. Our annual Blooms and Barrels Plant sale, and 20 Rain Barrel Promotion, home visit and individual 21 inquiries received through phone calls and visitors to 22 the Kerr County Extension Office. Any questions? 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So you have 116 24 certified members. Is that about steady, or is it 25 increasing, decreasing, or -- 20 1 MRS. SCHLESSIGER: It has increased. It has 2 increased over the last -- actually the last year, we 3 picked up -- I believe our class last year had 15 in it, 4 and so in this year our new class has 16. And that 5 class will start on February the 26th. 6 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Good work. 7 MR. WALSTON: Thank you, Patti. 8 And I can say personally they're a big help 9 to me. As an agent trying to discover the horticulture 10 questions and phone calls that we get into the office, 11 so to say the least what they get done in the community, 12 so -- 13 I'm going to go over a little bit about the 14 AG Natural Resource portion of my position, the 15 educational programs and working with landowners, and 16 new landowners. Some of them may be new, some of them 17 may be families that have been around for numerous 18 years. But one of the programs that we get actively 19 involved with, and we partner with Gillespie County, 20 Kendall County, Blanco in a new landowner Bennett Trust 21 Program, and this is a multi-tiered. We have a new 22 landowner program in April, and then we'll have a ladies 23 landowner program in October. And the ladies landowners 24 program is one that targets ladies that maybe have 25 either inherited, or maybe taking over the management of 21 1 an operation or a ranch, and is somewhat new in that 2 role. And so we -- in the past, I believe, we have done 3 this for the past four years, and we'll typically have 4 around 60 ladies that will show up in October for that 5 first week of October. That program was just recently 6 recognized at Texas A&M as a Vice Chancellor Award for 7 diversity, and so we appreciate that recognition coming 8 to Kerr and Gillespie County. These programs are thanks 9 in part to Bennett Trust, which is a trust that has been 10 made available to Texas A&M AgriLife to do educational 11 programs for landowners in the Edwards Plateau, and so 12 we're able to utilize those funds to help reduce the 13 cost and maintain the successful, maybe a larger program 14 and do some things we may not be able to do otherwise. 15 We also have an AG Day typically in the 16 fall. This year it ran a little later than normal. We 17 were waiting on trying to get some hay samples in, with 18 the drought didn't look like we were going to have any 19 hay samples and then we all of a sudden in the fall we 20 started getting rain, and we couldn't get the hay out of 21 the fields, so it went from one extreme to the other, 22 and so the program ended up getting held in December. 23 And this is typically a five-hour continuing education 24 unit for private pesticide applicators, and we try to 25 get a very diverse program lined up on that. 22 1 The Hill Country Beef 706 program is one 2 that we hosted this year, and it was in partnership with 3 Kendall and Gillespie Counties. And it was a program in 4 which we had about 30, 35 beef producers from the 5 resident counties and Kerr County. Went through a 6 series of three programs. Educational programs, 7 starting with a mock auction in January. And then going 8 into in April -- I believe it was in May, we had a 9 feedlot field day over at Luckenbach at Behrends 10 Brothers Feedlot where the calves were actually fed out 11 and the producers were able to learn how to grade and 12 evaluated on hoof these animals. And then we culminated 13 the program in June at Texas A&M where we were able to 14 go into and harvest the animals, and the participants 15 actually went through a fabrication program where they 16 broke down and fabricated a half a carcass and were able 17 to learn how -- what all's involved. The economics 18 behind each step of this is the important part of it 19 where they're able to see the economics at the cow calf 20 level as well as at the feedlot level, and then at the 21 packer level, and so that's a very unusual type program 22 that we're able to be able to get producers a hands-on 23 opportunity at that at all three of those categories 24 those levels. 25 Our Youth AgriLife time leadership program, 23 1 y'all have heard me talk about this probably the past 2 five years. We're starting on our 5th year. This last 3 year we went to South Texas with a group of about 25 4 kids from all over Texas. We've opened this program up 5 statewide. It cost us about $30,000.00 a year to 6 conduct this program. That money is generated from 7 sponsorships from various feed companies, capital Farm 8 Credit. Also the Community Foundation here is a big 9 supporter, the Gillespie County Wild Game Dinner is a 10 big supporter, and we were able to generate those funds 11 as we prepare each year for the next year. 12 As I said last year we went to South Texas. 13 The youth are able -- this is an opportunity for youth 14 across Texas to see commercial agriculture in whatever 15 part of Texas we're touring. Where in South Texas we 16 toured beef cattle, wildlife operations as well always 17 we got into the Rio Grande Valley we were able to see 18 the citrus, programs, the seafood industry, and all the 19 different marketing opportunities that are out there 20 that go along with it. 21 They also were faced with some of the 22 challenges that the ranchers are faced with, and we 23 asked them to look at those challenges and see really 24 what the individual producers are faced with. And the 25 immigration issue has been a big one. We toured the 24 1 McAllen Station and where the Border Patrol is housed, 2 and they explained to us on how some of the challenges 3 that they're faced with and how it has improved over the 4 last several years with an amount in the numbers of 5 immigrants that are coming across and where they're 6 coming from. It was very educational. 7 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Immigrants, or illegal 8 immigrants? 9 MR. WALSTON: Sir? 10 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Immigrants, or illegal 11 immigrants? 12 MR. WALSTON: Illegal immigrants. Yes, yes. 13 We actually went down to the river and they showed us 14 the cameras, you know, in the station where they're able 15 to see the different parts of the river and talking 16 about all the different technology that they're trying 17 to utilize, and you can see firsthand the challenges. 18 And while we were on the river they were telling us how 19 many usually come across on a nightly basis at that 20 point. 21 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So what was the purpose 22 of them providing all that information to you? 23 MR. WALSTON: Just to let them understand 24 the kind of challenges that's going on that the 25 landowners are having to deal with. And a lot of that 25 1 is the landowners are -- I mean we had one landowner 2 that is a veterinarian that was showing them pictures of 3 what they find and, you know, the things that when you 4 pull up to a gate at your ranch and you get out to 5 unlock it and you turn around and there's immigrants 6 between you and your vehicle. 7 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So this is not for the 8 youth; this was for general population. 9 MR. WALSTON: The youth are the ones that 10 are participating on the tour. 11 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay, gotcha. Thank 12 you. 13 COMMISSIONER BELEW: It's agriculture 14 related? 15 MR. WALSTON: It's agriculture related. 16 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay, gotcha. Thank 17 you. 18 MR. WALSTON: This next year we're planning 19 on going back to North Texas to the Panhandle, and the 20 North Texas Tour is the one we started with. And it is 21 one that -- this is a week long tour that we go, and so 22 they'll tour Texas Tech University, West Texas A&M 23 University, Angelo State University and see the various 24 degree programs that are available for those kids. Job 25 opportunities, internships, those are the things that 26 1 we're trying to provide those kids an opportunity to 2 see. These are sophomores through graduating seniors 3 that are on this tour. So hopefully it's giving them 4 some insight on what to look forward to, what career 5 opportunities are out there. 6 So that's kind of what we've got the 7 majority -- I mean that's just kind of a little bit of 8 what we're covering. We gave you a lot of information, 9 and, you know, if there's anything we can ever do, 10 answer any questions, please don't hesitate to call and 11 ask. 12 COMMISSIONER MOSER: How many County 13 Extension Agents are there in the state? 14 MR. WALSTON: Well, out of the 250 -- 15 there's 250 counties that have agents. 16 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Oh, 250 out of 254? 17 MR. WALSTON: Out of 254. There's a couple 18 counties out in West Texas that they combine. And 19 offhand, I believe the number's around 900, 950 as far 20 as agents across the State. 21 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay. Good deal. 22 Thank you. Good job. 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Thank you, Roy. 24 All right, let's go on to item 1.2, the 25 Annual Report from Kerr County Historical Commission. 27 1 Julie Leonard. 2 MRS. LEONARD: Good morning. I think this 3 is my 10th year to give this report. Trying to make it 4 a little interesting for y'all. But those that don't 5 know, the Kerr County Historical Commission is charged 6 with the protection of Kerr County historic and cultural 7 resources for the use, education enjoyment and 8 appreciation of present and future generations. Our 9 purposes are different from organizations focusing on 10 genealogical or family history preservation. We are a 11 unit of the Texas Historical Commission and we serve 12 under the guidance of the Kerr County Commissioners' 13 Court. The KCHC was awarded the Distinguished Service 14 Award by the Texas Historical Commission for activities 15 in 2017. This is our 9th consecutive year to receive 16 this distinction. 17 In 2018 the KCHC had 63 members that 18 volunteered 5,764 hours to our preservation efforts, and 19 I think that might be under estimated. We meet at noon 20 at the Union Church building the third Monday of the 21 month, with the exception of June, July, August and 22 December. And our meetings are always open to the 23 public. 24 Our officers for 2018 through 2019: Julie 25 Leonard, Chair. Mike Bowlin, Vice Chair. Mary Lee 28 1 Stewart, Secretary. Wilma Teague, Secretary. This last 2 year we had a wide variety of programs that included 3 Laura Bechtel, Director of Butt Holdsworth Library, and 4 her Assistant Danielle Brigate. They gave updates on 5 library services and Kerr History Center. 6 Clifton Fifer, historian, actor, singer, 7 presented "Walk Through the Old West". Another program 8 was "Women Whose Lives Impacted Kerr County" was March 9 program. The ladies featured were: Delphina, Maria, 10 Carmen Torres, Betty Holecamp, Harriet Gill Scott, and 11 her sister Louise Gill Garrett, Henrietta Rees and 12 daughter Martha Adeline Rees Starkey, and Annie Walker 13 Doyle, and each lady had a family member give their 14 story. 15 In April Deborah Gaudier gave a program 16 "Entertaining Kerrville: Saloons, Pool Halls, Theaters 17 and Eating Establishments". And according to her 18 Kerrville was not boring back in the early days. 19 May's meeting was a social event with pot 20 luck lunch. 21 In September, Aaron Yates, professional 22 video photographer proposed a joint project with the 23 KCHC to create a historic video/DVD by Kerr County. It 24 could be used by schools, conventions, Visitors Center, 25 local clubs, Chamber of Commerce to promote our County. 29 1 The cost to produce that video was out of our budget, 2 but we hope that another source could be found to fund 3 this project. 4 Our October meeting was special. Retired 5 U.S. Marine Corps General Michael Hagee from the 6 Fredericksburg Nimitz Museum gave an impressive talk at 7 a power point presentation of the life and family of 8 former Kerrville residents and Tivy High School 9 graduates, Admiral Chester Nimitz who was Commander of 10 the Pacific Fleet in World War II. 11 November meeting was a social program. 12 Members wrote anonymous interesting incidents or 13 personal information about themselves and group tried to 14 identify the writer. We learned a lot about each other. 15 Our major project last year was a six-week 16 January/February Exhibit "Legacy of a River" at the Kerr 17 Arts and Cultural Center. It attracted hundreds of 18 visitors. Commissioner Harley Belew participated in the 19 grand opening by reading a poem by newspaper editor 20 Jackie Grinstead. The exhibit showed the impact of the 21 Guadalupe River on the development of our county. It 22 included geology, settlers, dozens of photos and 23 pamphlets of summer camps, news articles and photo about 24 several devastating floods. There were displays of 25 tools and articles used in early industries, such as 30 1 shingles made from cypress trees that grew along the 2 river. There was a display of 1920 bathing attire. 3 There were no bikinis. We had photos of irrigation 4 equipment used in the 20's by Mosty Nursery. There was 5 a continuous running video provided by the UGRA. 6 Another project is our oral history project 7 chaired by Francelle Collins with assistance by Bonnie 8 Flory and Louis Stephens. Hour long video recorded 9 interviews are conducted with county residents that have 10 contributed to our county's history and development. In 11 some cases several have influenced world events. These 12 interviews are transcribed in printed format. Copies of 13 videos and printed versions are provided to the person 14 interviewed. Copies are also placed at the Kerr History 15 Center and in our KCHC archives at Logan Library, 16 Schreiner University. And they can be looked at at the 17 History Center, they're open to the public. They also 18 can be accessed and read on the North Texas University 19 portal to Texas website under the Kerr County link. 20 There are to date 119 oral histories, and 92 21 can be found on the portal's website. Interviews 22 conducted in 2018 were Walter Poppe. He immigrated from 23 Germany with his family, including his brother Hans, 24 after World War II. They spoke only German. His father 25 was imprisoned at Stalingrad. Zion Lutheran Church and 31 1 local master ironsmith Eric Reisel sponsored the family. 2 Phyllis Schwelthelm Shelton, her father Cade 3 was a rancher, and her grandfather August Faltin was the 4 first business partner of Charles Schreiner. 5 Betty Wildman Braswell, her father Ed was 6 Superintendent of Kerrville Schools during integration. 7 Norman "Button" Forehand and Jerome 8 Alexander were guides at the YO for 50 years. 9 Beverly Peterson Sullivan, stepfather 10 Charlie and his brother Hal "Boss" Peterson established 11 Peterson Hospital to honor their father Sid. 12 Tommy Daniels -- Tom Daniels, Jr., is a Rice 13 University graduate and was one of the founders of the 14 Bank of the Hills. His father Tom was elementary 15 principal and has a school named for him. 16 Bill Jonas, Special Agent, U.S. Marshal, 17 Texas Ranger. He was recognized by President Ronald 18 Reagan for his service to his country. His mother 19 established the Rose Shop in the 50's, and his dad drove 20 with the Kerrville Bus Company for 50 years, with a 21 perfect record, I understand. 22 Hagi -- I have a time saying his last name, 23 Hagigholam owner of Mamacita's Restaurant in Kerrville 24 and other towns, including San Antonio. He was born in 25 Iran and immigrated to the United States. He started 32 1 work as a waiter. Hagi has donated thousands of dollars 2 for 9 years for the 4th of July fireworks in Louis Hays 3 Park. 4 Bob Schmerbeck, his family company, Garrett 5 Insurance, celebrated 100 years in 2018. His uncle was 6 Earl Garrett. 7 Al Bishop, a retired U.S. Marine Corps 8 Colonel Sam Adams are first cousins that grew up in 9 Center Point. The movie "A Few Good Men" starring Jack 10 Nicholson as Sam, loosely characterized Sam's years at 11 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Al retired from Prudential 12 Insurance Company as a million dollar producer. 13 Our historic plat/sign project, Brenda 14 Williams, Chair. We worked last year with the 15 Convention and Visitors Bureau, along with Garrett 16 Gathings, and Jesse Olivera at Quik Signs to redesign 17 our four downtown historic building plaques/signs. They 18 have been installed as of Tuesday. This is an ongoing 19 project, and there are four more commitments from owners 20 for plaques. We hope to expand this project as our 21 funds allow to east and west Kerr County community. 22 There has been positive response from City and Chamber 23 of Commerce as well as many individuals. 24 Our Historical Marker Project. Paul Parks 25 worked with Notre Dame School Boy Scout Troop 111. The 33 1 boys refurbished five historical markers including the 2 two in front of the courthouse. 3 Gregory Banks Lucas III earned his Eagle 4 Scout designation with this final project. We hope to 5 have the County present them with certificates and 6 badges in the near future. 7 Deborah Gaudier, Historical Marker Chair, 8 has two marker applications sent in last year, and we 9 just received notification they both were approved. 10 They would be Glenrest Cemetery, and the Methodist 11 Encampment. And Barnett Chapel United Methodist Church, 12 the oldest African church in Kerrville marker was 13 dedicated in November. 14 Cemeteries. Linda Nielson-Reynolds, 15 Cemetery Committee. This committee add graves to the 16 Findagrave website. Headstones are photographed, adding 17 obituaries when possible, and research graves that are 18 no longer marked to ensure all can be accounted for. 19 They work extensively with Glenrest Cemetery. Tivy 20 Mountain and Garden of Memories North have been 21 researched to compile the most accurate black history 22 cemeteries of Kerr County. 23 Larry Welty cleaned and repaired fencing at 24 the Hollimon Cemetery. And this is Linda -- this is 25 her -- what she says about her work. "A wealth of 34 1 history has been discovered about the prominent, the 2 brave, the working class, the poor, the professors, the 3 uneducated, the healer, the student, the business owner, 4 the mother and father, the servant. None should be 5 forgotten. All our links to our past and deserve to be 6 respected, honored and remembered. 7 Our Portals to Texas website, Mary Elaine 8 Jones. We received grant funding for the past five 9 years. Our submission this year includes Judge Bob and 10 wife Joyce Barton, Ronald Girard, Mary Elaine (Adamek) 11 Jones, Karen Herzog, and Clark Klein, Nell Leonard, 12 Wayne O'Bryant, JoAnn Redden, Wayne Rogers, Louis 13 Romero, Joe Schmerber, Lois Shaw and Evelyn Shields, 14 Frances, Billie and Jeanne Schumacher, Wilma Council 15 Teague, James "Bud" Wright, Bob Zumwalt. And several of 16 these interviews -- interviewees past away in this past 17 year so we're happy we have those recorded. 18 Several books and pamphlets were submitted. 19 The "History of Eastern Kerr County" was by Gerald Witt. 20 "Hill Country Boy", Herbert E. Oehler, and historic sign 21 at the 223 Earl Garrett. 22 Our website, the KCHC online county website 23 monitored by Mike Bowlin has honored requests for photos 24 and information from museums, travel writers and 25 organizations, and Mike has answered individual history 35 1 requests from 43 states, and three foreign countries. 2 And he's absolutely a genius about Kerr County. And 3 because of this link we recently received some 1877 4 early Kerr County School District records from an 5 individual in California who had discovered papers from 6 a Professor Fanning who taught in Kerrville between 1876 7 and 1878. He sent copies of these records and he's 8 arranging for us to obtain the originals. Professor 9 Fanning taught at a school that was located in the 500 10 block of Jefferson, and was in operation until the 11 1890's some structure was built, which is the former 12 Tivy High School building off Tivy Street. 13 We also have a Facebook page with 567 14 members, and we post meetings and our events on that 15 website. And we thank the Internet Department, the IT 16 Department for Kerr County for helping us with that 17 website. 18 Also, I want to thank Harley Belew for your 19 interest and support. And Tom, and also everyone on the 20 Commissioners' Court for our support. And Jody 21 Grinstead who pulls everything together. And that's it 22 for 2018. 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: A couple of questions, 24 real short. Does any other County in the State of Texas 25 do as good a job as you guys do? 36 1 MRS. LEONARD: Probably. 2 COMMISSIONER MOSER: But you've gotten that 3 recognition 9 years in a row. 4 MRS. LEONARD: I think out of the 500 5 counties, I think about 90 are recognized. And we have 6 to fill out the enormous questionnaire called a -- put 7 us on a survey monkey. 8 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Are the oral histories, 9 can you access those through the website? 10 MRS. LEONARD: Yes. Only 92. They're kind 11 of short of staff in North Texas so they're kind of slow 12 getting them all on. But with the 11 that we have this 13 year we'll have 119 that are available. 14 COMMISSIONER MOSER: And one final question 15 on the cooperation between the Kerr History Center and 16 KCHC, is that working well? 17 MRS. LEONARD: Yes. It's a little slow 18 because they're only open two days a week. So I think 19 they could probably use some more staffing. 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: There were some issues 21 early on, but now that's resolved? 22 MRS. LEONARD: Yeah. 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Thank you, Julie. 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Thank you, Julie. 25 I think we need a motion to accept the 37 1 report. 2 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I'll make a motion to 3 accept Julie Leonard's report from the Historical 4 Commission. 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Second that. 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Motion from Harley 7 Belew, second from Tom Moser to accept the annual report 8 from the Kerr County Historical Commission. Any further 9 discussion? All in favor raise your right hand. It's 10 unanimous. 11 MRS. LEONARD: Thank you. 12 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Thank you, Julie, and 13 to all the other members. 14 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Thank you, Julie. 15 And now we go on to item 1.3 consider, 16 discuss and take appropriate action to appoint/reappoint 17 members to the Kerr County Historical Commission and 18 submit current membership list to the Texas Historical 19 Commission. 20 MRS. LEONARD: I'm going to ask that our 21 proposed members to come up here. We're missing two. 22 COMMISSIONER BELEW: We're going to get a 23 photo? Y'all want to do a photo up here? 24 MRS. LEONARD: While we're getting organized 25 here. 38 1 (Photographs being taken.) 2 MRS. LEONARD: All of these, I made them 3 this year write a short biographical description. I 4 edited some of them, and after reading these, I feel 5 like I'm really unqualified compared to some of these 6 resumes. 7 Jeanie Berger is a fourth generation almost 8 native Kerrvillian. She was born in San Antonio, but 9 she lived here from three days old until seventh grade. 10 Her great grandfather was Max Grona who came to 11 Kerrville around 1889 and opened a blacksmith shop on 12 Water Street. Her mother Esther Grona and three 13 brothers were born in the family home at 400 Jefferson 14 Street. Her grandfather worked for Schreiner Store for 15 52 years. Jeanie's parents, Esther and Gene Stover 16 owned a funeral home in the former home of Lena 17 Schreiner and Hiram Pardue. She taught school in 18 Garland, Texas for 21 years. She and her husband Tim 19 relocated to Kerrville two and a half years ago. 20 Ken Berger was born in Dallas, has a 21 Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kansas City Art Institute, 22 and served in the United States Air Force. They are 23 both members of the Kerrville Genealogical Society and 24 interested in Kerr County. He says he's only here 25 because of Jeanie. 39 1 Donna Brewton. She moved to Kerrville in 2 1942. Her father David Brewton was a two-time Kerr 3 County Commissioner. Her father and grandfather 4 established the first cattle auction on the hill above 5 Tivy Stadium in 1947. Donna graduated from Tivy and has 6 a nursing degree from Schreiner University, and she 7 wants to have Kerr and Texas history preserved. 8 Austin Cartwright Dickson is a seventh 9 generation Texan. I think he wins the award though. 10 Anyway, his ancestor Cartwright came to Texas in 1819 11 and has the first cotton gin in Texas. Cartwright was a 12 founder of St. Augustine, Texas and was the largest 13 landholder in Texas at that time. Austin is a Waco 14 native and TCU graduate. He also has degrees from the 15 University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Emory University, 16 Atlanta, Georgia. He moved to Kerrville in 2017 to lead 17 the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country. He 18 has a passion for philanthropy and is "excited to become 19 more involved in the Kerr County Historical Commission". 20 Terry Farley is not here. She is an active 21 member of the Hill Country Archeology Association, and a 22 member of the Texas Archeology Society for 12 years. 23 She has served as HCAA secretary and is on slate for 24 Vice President this year. She is "fascinated by the 25 rich history of the area, and wants to preserve it". 40 1 Barbara Goss Johnston graduated from Tivy, 2 has a Master of Education from Schreiner University, and 3 taught at Starkey Elementary for 27 years. She was 4 director of the Kerrville Public School Foundation for 5 seven and a half years. She is a descendant of Sarah 6 Jane Goss who married Joshua Brown, early settler and 7 shingle maker. Her family has been in the area for 8 generations. Barbara's a trustee of the Brown-Goss 9 Cemetery on Spur 100 where many of her ancestors are 10 buried. And I think I just discovered that we're 11 related. 12 Dr. Seabrook Jones is not here. She's 13 teaching this morning at Schreiner. She's six years on 14 the history faculty at Schreiner University, she has her 15 Doctorate from the University of Delaware. Her research 16 is in the education field focusing on African American 17 schools in Kentucky, and recent work on Doyle Colored 18 School in Kerrville. She lives in Kerrville with her 19 spouse and two boys. 20 Charlie McIlvain. Charlie McIlvain was born 21 and raised in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He attended New 22 Mexico Military Institute and graduated from New Mexico 23 State University Las Cruces. He is the CEO of the 24 Kerrville Convention and Visitors Center Bureau. He's 25 been active in marketing and tourism in Las Cruces, New 41 1 Mexico, Farmers Branch, Texas, Odessa, and Fort Worth. 2 He was responsible for major tourism development in 3 Grandbury, Texas, and he came to Kerrville in 2012. 4 Thank you, Charlie, for coming. His list of 5 accomplishments and studies fill a page, and enjoys 6 restoring and driving antique cars. I don't know when 7 he has time to do that, but -- 8 Robert Puig is a Tivy graduate that recently 9 moved back to Kerrville from El Centro, California. He 10 retired from teaching 28 years. He has a degree from 11 the University of California, Irvine -- Irving. Is it 12 Irvine? 13 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Irvine. 14 MRS. LEONARD: Irvine. I said Irving. He 15 has a Master's from the International University, 16 San Diego. He served in the United States Air Force in 17 California and Viet Nam. In 2015 Robert wrote a 18 historical document about celebrations in the Kerrville 19 Mexican-American community, which can be found on the 20 Portals to Texas website. The KCC, his friends and 21 family have welcomed him back. 22 So I present these members to the Commissioners. 23 (Applause.) 24 COMMISSIONER MOSER: A lot of history there. 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Okay, I think we'll need 42 1 a motion to accept the new members and the existing 2 members that were provided in the backup. 3 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Right. I'll make the 4 motion. 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Second. 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Motion from Commissioner 7 Belew, second from Commissioner Moser to accept the new 8 members and reappoint the members that are listed in our 9 backup material. 10 MRS. LEONARD: Thank you. 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Any further discussion? 12 Those in favor raise your right hand. Unanimous. 13 1.4 consider, discuss and take appropriate 14 action regarding Emergency Management 15 Director/Coordinator notification form for the Texas 16 Department of Emergency Management(TDEM). Dub Thomas. 17 MR. THOMAS: Good morning, Commissioners. 18 Anytime we have a change in elected officials especially 19 for the Emergency Management Director for the County, we 20 are to notify the Texas Division of Emergency 21 Management, so it's just like we did for the local 22 emergency planning committee. 23 Basically this is replacing Judge Pollard 24 with Judge Kelly as the Emergency Management Director 25 for the County. 43 1 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Move for approval. 2 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Motion from Commissioner 4 Moser, second from Commissioner Belew to accept the Kerr 5 Emergency Management Director/Coordinator notification. 6 And I'll note that the form has already been signed by 7 Judge Kelly. Any further discussion? All in favor 8 raise your right hand. It's unanimous, three zero. 9 Item 1.5 consider, discuss and take 10 appropriate action to accept annual Racial Profiling 11 Report from Constable Precinct 4. I don't believe he's 12 here. We just needed to accept that report as 13 presented. 14 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Move that we accept the 15 report from Constable Precinct 4 on Racial Profiling. 16 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I'll second. 17 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Motion from Commissioner 18 Moser, second from Commissioner Belew to accept the 19 Racial Profiling Report from Constable Precinct 4, and 20 it's the annual report. Any further discussion? All in 21 favor raise your right hand. It's unanimous, three 22 zero. 23 Item 1.6 consider, discuss and take 24 appropriate action to approve contract with Kerr County 25 Soil and Water Conservation District, and authorize the 44 1 County Judge to sign same. 2 That is just a standard contract, I believe, 3 and it's in the backup material. I will note that it 4 has been signed already by Judge Kelly and by the 5 Chairman of the Kerr County Soil and Water Conservation 6 District. So we need a motion to approve contract as 7 presented. 8 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I'll make the motion. 9 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Second. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Motion from Commissioner 11 Belew, second from Commissioner Moser to accept the 12 contract as presented. Any further discussion? All in 13 favor raise your right hand. Unanimous. 14 1.7 consider, discuss and take appropriate 15 action to approve a donation of $250.00 for the 16 Sheriff's Equipment Fund 72-370-531. Sheriff 17 Hierholzer. 18 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: It's just a donation 19 that was given to us by one of the families around town, 20 and rather not use their name. We have it, but just 21 request it go into in the equipment fund to be used for 22 equipment. 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Make a motion that we 24 accept the donation of $250.00 for the Sheriff's 25 Equipment Fund. 45 1 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I'll second. 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: A motion by Commissioner 3 Moser, second by Commissioner Belew to accept the 4 donation for the Sheriff's Equipment Fund. Any further 5 discussion? All in favor raise your right hand. 6 Unanimous. 7 1.8 consider, discuss and take appropriate 8 action regarding a revised job description for the 9 County Veterans Service Officer. 10 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yes, thank you. In 11 your backup package is a modification, suggested 12 modification changes to the job description for the 13 County Veteran Service Officer. And they're so noted, 14 they're in track changes so you can see the changes. 15 Basically what it says is two things. Number one is 16 that the Veteran Service Officer received their 17 accreditation within two years of employment. That's 18 the primary change. 19 The other one is a change, or recommended 20 change, it shows as a note there that the Veteran 21 Service Officer will -- let me find that. Will make 22 visits to nursing homes and so forth, and it's been 23 recommended that that not be the case because of 24 liability associated with that person going to those 25 locations. So I think that my recommendation is to 46 1 remove the requirement that meetings be held in private 2 homes, nursing homes, retirement homes and hospitals, at 3 any locations convenient by the veterans and their 4 dependents. 5 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Delete the last sentence 6 of that item 8? 7 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yes, delete the last 8 sentence of that, right. And the other comments were 9 observations that there are some things that are in here 10 that are I think standard in the job description 11 throughout the county about physical capabilities, and I 12 think some of those -- I'm not going to make a big issue 13 of that. If we want to leave them to be consistent we 14 can and let HR speak to that, but if we want -- seems to 15 me like it's precluding the Veteran Service Officer from 16 being a handicapped individual to do things like having 17 to lift certain amount of weight, climb stairs, do all 18 those kinds of things, but I don't know if Jennifer Doss 19 wants to comment on this or not. 20 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Well, good morning. 21 The American with Disabilities Act of 1990 supersede any 22 of these physical requirements so we cannot discriminate 23 based on any physical handicaps, and we have to make 24 reasonable accommodations. 25 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So even those these are 47 1 in here, they're superseded by -- 2 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Federal Law. 3 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay, so I don't have 4 any issue with that then. Then we'll be consistent. So 5 I would not recommend those changes. So with that those 6 are the other changes that I'd recommend, and I think 7 maybe somebody's here from the advisory group, I saw him 8 come in, but I don't see him now. But I think we've 9 incorporated the changes that they wanted to have in 10 this job description. 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Commissioner, the only 12 question I have is on item 11, which says consults 13 frequently with VSO Advisory Committee. To me it would 14 be better to probably say consults frequently and at 15 least quarterly. 16 COMMISSIONER MOSER: That would be fine, 17 yeah. Yeah, that's fine. So with that change, I'll 18 accept that. And with that change I make a motion that 19 we modify the job description for the County Veteran 20 Service officer as dictated into the record, and as 21 provided as backup. 22 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Have a motion from 24 Commissioner Moser, second from Commissioner Belew to 25 accept the revised job description for the County 48 1 Veterans Service Officer, as presented with the two 2 modifications. One being on item 8 under essential job 3 duties, delete the last sentence. And item 11 add the 4 words after frequently, "at least quarterly". With that 5 said, any further discussion? All in favor raise your 6 right hand. It's unanimous. 7 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Thank you. Thank you, 8 Jennifer. 9 We have some ten o'clock timed items. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Item 1.9, we're going to 11 pass on that until the next meeting. 12 We'll go on to item 1.12 consider, discuss 13 and take appropriate action on request from GDM 14 Enterprises to replace existing vending machines in 15 various county facilities. Glenn Morrow. 16 MR. MORROW: I have some documents that you 17 guys can look at here, these are the attachments. 18 There's one for each of you on that. 19 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I see you specialize in 20 health food. 21 MR. MORROW: We specialize in all food. 22 There is a healthy option in every machine, so we do. 23 And that includes snacks and soda machines. So I'm not 24 sure if you guys are familiar with the type of machines 25 you have on property -- on the properties. The 49 1 Juvenile, Adult Probation, Jailhouse and this -- 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: To be honest, I'm not 3 familiar with all the details. 4 MR. MORROW: It's a simple request. We 5 tried to upgrade your vendors from your previous -- or 6 your current provider. I've spoken with Jody and with 7 Shane and, you know, tried to determine what the, you 8 know, situation with the machines are. So by our 9 proposal and your accepting it, we were able to -- well, 10 we will be able to come and bring you brand new soda 11 machines, snack machines, and regular servicing of the 12 machines, along with commissions, which you do not get 13 right now. According to Jody you're not on the 14 contract, so this could be executed -- I have a contract 15 here, and it could be executed very quickly without any 16 recourse, and it would be immediate. Should be 17 completed within two to three weeks upon your approval. 18 COMMISSIONER BELEW: This is to replace all 19 vending machines that are currently here? 20 MR. MORROW: Yeah. And the research that 21 I've done so far is you have three properties, but I 22 think that there are many others or several others that 23 could receive service. And again, this is at no charge 24 to you, we take care of everything. It's an invisible 25 process. 50 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think it's something 2 to look at. But I don't recall us ever looking at this 3 on a countywide basis before, and to be honest, I don't 4 know how we got the existing machines that we have. 5 MR. MORROW: That's a very common, no one 6 knows anything, so -- 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: But I think that it's 8 something to entertain. I'd be probably in favor of 9 putting this out for bid of some sort to give others the 10 opportunity if we're going to do a countywide change. 11 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Well, if we have 12 already somebody in there, I would give them the first 13 right to refusal. They're already there. 14 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Well, I don't know with 15 that. 16 COMMISSIONER BELEW: It might sweeten their 17 deal. 18 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes. I don't think we 19 have any deal with them. 20 MR. MORROW: Right, you don't. This sounds 21 like a deal that I really can't find, because I can't go 22 back and talk to people that even know how it started, 23 how it exists now. So it's kind of one of those things 24 that flies under the radar. But if you'll look at our 25 proposal, not only have we been doing this for 17 years, 51 1 we're the only professional provider in this area. So 2 we do James Avery, we do Schreiner, we do Cecil 3 Atkinson, these huge businesses. I can bet you right 4 now they don't even have insurance. It's a scarey thing 5 when you start thinking about what it encompasses if 6 someone -- if you have one of their workers come on the 7 property and slip and fall, it's a lot to consider. So 8 we are a professional company that's been doing this for 9 a long time. We have two million dollars of liability 10 insurance. So this, not only do you get rid of 1985 11 machines that you have that probably rarely work, but we 12 bring in brand new stuff, so it's much more professional 13 looking. 14 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I'm with Commissioner 15 Letz. I would have a hard time explaining to somebody 16 why we chose -- and I think everything you said sounds 17 really good, okay, but why we chose GDM Enterprises and 18 threw away -- and pushed out somebody. I couldn't 19 explain that without having something to say, here's the 20 reason we competed it or -- 21 MR. MORROW: Well, one reason is they don't 22 give you any commission. 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right. 24 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I understand all that. 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We're not arguing or 52 1 disagreeing with that. We need to look at it, and how 2 we look at it. 3 MR. MORROW: No. And I'm certainly open to 4 that. There's a reason why all these other of the large 5 professional businesses in the region here do business 6 with us. 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: So it sounds like you 8 very well could be a company to go with us, but I think 9 we have to open it up to other ones, including our 10 current vendor. And I see the Sheriff in the back has a 11 comment, because I suspect that any agreement we have 12 will be different at the jail because of unique things. 13 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: You know, we don't have 14 any inside the jail, I'll say. But we do have several 15 at the Sheriff's Office and at the Sheriff's annex. And 16 the thing is there is an agreement, at least with the 17 current vendor, because I have a copy of it. They've 18 been doing it for over 20 years with the County. The 19 only thing is, this man is right, because we noticed it 20 several months we weren't getting a commission anymore, 21 and in the agreement there had to be a certain level of 22 sales and all that before a commission kicked in. Sales 23 have dropped, and that's my understanding. But I'm like 24 you, I think that current vendor, whether we change or 25 not, I don't care, you know. We haven't had issues with 53 1 the machines, but most of them are older machines. But 2 I think you oughta put something out and let a lot of 3 people -- 4 MR. MORROW: Well, there aren't a lot of -- 5 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Well, there's at least 6 two. And the current one oughta have the opportunity to 7 come into the County and give bids also. 8 MR. MORROW: And I agree with that also, so 9 thank you very much. And there are much more 10 opportunities, too. That's the other thing, too. We 11 can -- you know, we're certainly open, we're still 12 growing, even though we've been doing this for a while, 13 but this is the route that we have people that want to 14 have more property. 15 COMMISSIONER MOSER: And you're located in 16 Fredericksburg? 17 MR. MORROW: That's where my company 18 headquarters are, that's where I live. And so we're a 19 family-owned business. We've been doing this for, you 20 know, 17 years, so -- 21 COMMISSIONER MOSER: We're not like 22 Fredericksburg; we welcome other people. 23 MR. MORROW: That's terrible. 24 COMMISSIONER MOSER: That's off the record. 25 MR. MORROW: Yeah, I know. You know, Kerr 54 1 County's very dear to me. That's why we have all these 2 businesses here. We do a lot of business here. 3 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Well, we'll do that. 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'm glad you brought it 5 to our attention, and I think we'll get with the County 6 Attorney and the Auditor's Office to prepare some sort 7 of a bid proposal that we can receive -- 8 MR. MORROW: I'm glad the Sheriff got 9 involved, because I was trying to shake the trees, and 10 no one knew anything. And that's generally what'll 11 happens if you shake a tree, and then something comes 12 out. 13 COMMISSIONER MOSER: We have monkeys drop 14 out of that tree. 15 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right. Thank you, Mr. 16 Morrow. 17 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Thank you very much. 18 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Do we want to take a 19 break, or go on to item 1.13? 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Let's that a quick 21 break if that's okay with you. 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Ten-minute break, and 23 we'll come back at 10:20. 24 (Ten-minute break.) 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: (Hand knock on bench.) 55 1 Irene. (Whistle.) Irene. 2 All right, call item 1.13 consider, discuss 3 and take appropriate action regarding discharge of 4 treated wastewater to surface waters in Hill Country 5 streams, and in particular the Edwards Aquifer 6 Contributing Zone of the Nueces Basin. Commissioner 7 Moser and Sky Lewey. 8 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Let me set this up, if 9 I may. Headlines of this is Hill Country we got a 10 problem. And the problem is that we've seen it in Kerr 11 County, seen it in -- around the Nueces River Basin, but 12 it's where treated wastewater which meets TCEQ's 13 requirements is incompatible with Hill Country streams, 14 background in the makeup of the ground, okay? 15 Nitrites or -- help me, Sky. Nitrates? 16 MS. LEWEY: Nutrients. It's kind of a group 17 of chemicals. 18 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah, but Sky's going 19 to speak to that. But we have got an issue in 20 particular in Kerr County. There's an application from 21 TCEQ to modify a permit, and that is to directly dump 22 treated effluent wastewater into Verde Creek, and it's 23 because of some of the work that's been done on -- and 24 the Nueces River has demonstrated very crystally and 25 clearly the incompatibility between treated wastewater 56 1 and the Hill Country streams. So this is the issue with 2 Starlite facility, and the applications they've 3 permitted, or are requesting is will be a -- it's being 4 considered by TCEQ right now. A public hearing has been 5 called for by Representative Andrew Murr, and that has 6 not been scheduled yet, but the purpose of this is to 7 give two parts, is to let Sky Lewey present some of the 8 information they have, and she presented this at 9 Schreiner University in a forum a couple of months ago, 10 I believe, which was well attended, and caught my 11 attention. 12 And the second thing is, they have a 13 Resolution over there that they're proposing some 14 specific action by the Legislature, which I'll let her 15 speak to this, and so with that teeing that up, I'll 16 turn that over to Sky Lewey. 17 MS. LEWEY: Thank you. Thank you for having 18 me, too on your extremely busy agenda today. I'm Sky 19 Lewey with Nueces River Authority. And we're here real 20 specifically today to ask for your support for a piece 21 of legislation that we have asked Tracy King to file in 22 the Legislature that would prohibit the discharge of 23 treated wastewater into Nueces Basin streams within the 24 contributing zone of the Edwards. So on this map right 25 here you can see that's a tee-nincy little piece of 57 1 geography. But it's what's left in the Nueces Basin of 2 pristine streams, and we -- yes, Sir. 3 COMMISSIONER BELEW: And by that you mean 4 what? 5 MS. LEWEY: So we at the Nueces River 6 Authority implement the Texas Clean Rivers Program, 7 which is a monitoring program, so we take samples in 8 streams, and we also evaluate them or asses them for 9 compliance with Clean Water Act Standards. So out of 54 10 stream segments in the Nueces Basin, only four remain 11 without impairments or concerns, without a problem 12 identified. And those all exist within the Headwaters 13 of the Nueces Basin in this little piece of geography 14 right here. And there's a good reason for that. 15 There's fewer people there yet, there's no discharge of 16 treated effluent into any of these streams, currently. 17 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Say that again. 18 MS. LEWEY: There's currently no discharge 19 of treated wastewater into any of these headwater 20 streams within the Nueces River Basin. And that's 21 important, and that's been a choice, a choice that each 22 town and each camp has made. And they made that with 23 good information and for good reason. And primary piece 24 of information that's been considered and understood 25 pretty widely among the citizenry is that these streams 58 1 are too clean, and their flows are too unpredictable to 2 process wastewater in almost any amount. And it really 3 doesn't matter how good you clean the wastewater, 4 because the phosphorus background in these streams is so 5 low, it's below detectible limits almost always, and 6 then that depends on which lab your using, what that 7 detectible limit is. So in places where we've really 8 had the opportunity to test to the nth degree, we found 9 that .002 milligrams per liter of phosphorus, so it's 10 almost none. And anybody that operates any livestock 11 operations or agriculture in this area knows that. You 12 know, you have to feed phosphorus, you have to feed 13 supplement to your livestock with minerals, including 14 phosphorus primarily, and that's because the soils are 15 just -- it's a lacking. It's tied up with the calcium. 16 COMMISSIONER BELEW: And for the benefit of 17 all listening, what is the danger? 18 MS. LEWEY: So the problem with phosphorus 19 is number one big problem is that it's not a regulated 20 pollutant. So in the Clean Rivers Program, for 21 instance, we -- 22 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I don't mean 23 regulation. What's the danger? What does it do? 24 MS. LEWEY: And so when we add phosphorus in 25 a stream that has none there, it's a called a limiting 59 1 nutrient. And what it causes is plants to grow. Just 2 like it would on land, if you put nutrients or 3 fertilizer on the land then your crop is going to grow 4 better, or plants are going to respond. In a stream 5 though there's not the same kind of plant community, and 6 the plant that respond quickest are usually filamentous 7 algae. So we call that when we see that algal bloom. 8 It's a bloom of plants that are responding to the 9 provision of the nutrient, and one that's typically in 10 short supply. 11 COMMISSIONER BELEW: And that chokes out 12 other -- 13 MS. LEWEY: So there's all kinds of problems 14 with that. That, you know, it's fine when it's growing, 15 it's producing oxygen, but at night, it doesn't 16 photosynthesize, so you get diurnal swings into 17 dissolved oxygen. That can affect your aquatic life. 18 In these Hill Country streams, I think 19 probably the overarching change when you nutrify or 20 fertilize these waters is that it changes the base of 21 the food chain. Right now the base of the food chain in 22 these little country streams is mostly parasitin, kind 23 of a little community growing on rocks. You know, it's 24 just little bitty stuff. But then the mayflies harvest 25 that, and the fish eat the mayflies, and on down. That 60 1 is a food chain. There's not a lot of productivity of 2 plant life in these Hill Country streams, and when you 3 add this nutrient of any amount, it's just going to have 4 a dramatic -- it's going to make a change. So we 5 haven't got that situation. We're ahead of the game 6 here. And the reason we're ahead of the game is because 7 a lot of people understand this, and we've been 8 successful in educating some of them. We became aware 9 of the the potential threat here in an application that 10 was filed by a camp on the very top of the Nueces, in 11 the east prong of the Nueces in 2016. And the camp 12 owners are good neighbors. I mean we have done a lot of 13 outreach there, so they see about 8000 kids a year at 14 this Camp Eagle, and so it was a surprise to see this 15 application for discharge of wastewater. And when we 16 began to communicate with them about that, they thought 17 that they were doing the right thing. I mean they 18 thought they were going to help the creek flow better, 19 and they thought that they had the best technology, so 20 what could possibly be wrong with that. You can reuse 21 that wastewater almost to human consumption, so why 22 couldn't you discharge it to the east prong in the 23 Nueces. So once the Board at Camp Eagle, and the staff, 24 became aware of the real situation, which is that creek 25 is way too clean to discharge even drinking water 61 1 treated effluent to, because of the phosphorus content. 2 You know, with the best possible treatment of a small 3 package treatment plant without any kind of elaborate 4 technology for phosphorus would treat it to something 5 like .3 to .5 milligrams per liter. So this would be on 6 an order of a thousand times greater than the .002 that 7 exists. And so then the question is only dilution, how 8 much stream flow do you have to cut that down. Well, 9 you don't have a thousand times, for sure. And the 10 flows in the headwaters are erratic. I mean we all know 11 that, this is ground water. It's going to come out when 12 it's stored up to the right level. 13 So this is what I ran into in '16, and the 14 story ended well and good, it was the best possible 15 outcome. All of the landowners downstream became 16 informed about the risk. They were prepared to mount, 17 you know, any kind of contest needed, but then the camp 18 decided that sure enough there was a real better way. 19 And the better way is to put the wastewater on the land, 20 on the soil where plants can utilize it, rather than 21 counting on some dilution in the stream. So even though 22 permit criteria -- by permit criteria that permit would 23 have been granted. I mean they're using appropriate 24 technology, they could meet a permit requirement of 25 around .3 to .5 phosphorus, so we were lucky. 62 1 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So, Sky, did they 2 change their permit application then to -- 3 MS. LEWEY: No. They withdrew it. 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Withdrew it. 5 MS. LEWEY: Uh-huh. With the Land 6 Application System. 7 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay, went with that. 8 So that's the issue that we have in Kerr County right 9 now along Verde Creek, is they have a land use 10 application, I believe is what it is. Ray Buck's back 11 there, he probably knows. But they want to change that 12 so that they put it into a creek that doesn't run most 13 of the time, like probably a lot of stuff in the Nueces 14 River Basin. And in addition to that -- won't go into a 15 lot of detail on that, but we can later, but they also 16 put a lot of medication in there, which can't be taken 17 out and so, you know, they'll have .5 milligrams per 18 liter is what they'll probably get through with there, 19 so it's going to be an issue. We've got a lot of 20 landowners similar to what you had there that are 21 pleading with this institution to put it on the ground, 22 or put it into a central sewer system, which is probably 23 about a thousand feet from where they are, and so that's 24 where we are. So I thought it would be very good if you 25 could come today and explain what the issue was, what 63 1 you found technically, and what the solution was with 2 Camp Eagle. 3 MS. LEWEY: Well, certainly land application 4 and real use is best solution in the Upper Nueces Basin. 5 You don't have the stream flows to dilute a discharge 6 sufficiently. 7 COMMISSIONER BELEW: How many of those 8 streams are even navigable, or you can just jump across 9 them, or walk through them? 10 MS. LEWEY: Well, navigability, I guess, has 11 got a lot of other connotations, but we have of the 12 classified stream segment, you know, classified by the 13 clean water action for monitoring, the Nueces, the Frio, 14 the Sabinal, Hondo Creek, and Seco Creek. 15 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So a lot of those are 16 navigable? 17 MS. LEWEY: All the big blue lines, the -- 18 COMMISSIONER MOSER: The certain distance 19 the slope of a vein, then you connect to water and it 20 could be navigable. 21 MS. LEWEY: That's just the main rivers. 22 There's creeks going into each of those. What our 23 solution may not be the same solution for everybody else 24 in the state, but we think now is the time. It's very 25 expensive process to fight these things and try to 64 1 change them when a case by case basis. And so far in 2 the Upper Nueces Basin, we have several permitted 3 treatment facilities, and none of them discharge to a 4 river, I mean including small towns. Leakey is a plant 5 that we're involved in the develop of, the Nueces River 6 Authority is involved there, and that wastewater will be 7 applied for beneficial use on the land. 8 COMMISSIONER MOSER: On the land. 9 MS. LEWEY: On the land. 10 COMMISSIONER MOSER: All in Comfort goes -- 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: No. She's talking only 12 about -- 13 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah, I know. But I'm 14 talking about -- and ours is going to be -- 15 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Comfort, a hundred 16 percent of their wastewater goes for the golf course. 17 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So that's a land 18 application. So just to make the point clear, if the 19 facility we're talking about in Kerr County were to go 20 into a central sewer system, it would then go into land 21 application -- 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yeah. 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: -- on a golf course in 24 Comfort. Okay. 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I want to make a comment 65 1 on that so if someone corrects it. Comfort does have a 2 permit to discharge into the river, but they don't 3 because the golf course takes more than they can 4 produce. 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Okay, good enough. 6 Thank you. 7 MS. LEWEY: Well, certainly if you think 8 about it logically, we're producing a wastewater stream 9 that has nutrients in it, and the obvious thing to do is 10 to put it on some plants that can utilize those 11 nutrients. That's a sustainable approach. If it is 12 discharged to a river then it has to be diluted to 13 sufficiently to not affect the background of the stream, 14 so in these little headwater streams of the Upper Nueces 15 our background of nutrient composition is so low. And 16 lows are so erratic, there is just no -- there's no way 17 that that's a good solution. The best solution, we 18 think the place to start should be zero discharge, and 19 then if something comes up later on those folks can go 20 to the Legislature and get that changed. 21 But today we have a bill filed in the House 22 and hoping for a Senate companion, and much of the 23 success of that bill depends on organizations like Kerr 24 County Commissioners' Court, and the citizen 25 involvement. Because if you look at the map, we got a 66 1 tee-nincy piece of Kerr County here that's within the 2 Nueces Basin and the contributing zone. And so far we 3 have Resolutions from the Commissioners' Courts in 4 Edwards, Kinney, Real, and Uvalde. And we're on the 5 agenda in Bandera and Medina. So if all of the counties 6 affected by this bill are in favor, and all of the 7 land -- and we can justify a large enough landowner 8 population to speak up, then we do have a shot, 9 regardless of how complicated legislation can be. 10 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So it would help with 11 your legislation if we passed -- approved or passed a 12 Resolution that you're proposing here today? 13 MS. LEWEY: Yes, Sir. Showing your support 14 of the County, the County support, for the Bill HB817, 15 it's very simple. Again, it doesn't affect all of 16 Central Texas; it's only the Nueces River Basin. It's 17 this little piece of geography where everybody has 18 already decided in previous years not to discharge. We 19 just want the future people to know, and not have to 20 fight each of these battles with the landowners 21 downstream of each of the applications. 22 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So for Nueces River 23 Basin, it would help if this Commissioners' Court pass 24 this Resolution in support of proposed legislation? 25 MS. LEWEY: Yes, sir. 67 1 COMMISSIONER MOSER: And to me would help 2 our cause, okay, of trying to get the same type of 3 agreement with institutions that want to have treated 4 wastewater discharged directly into creeks in Kerr 5 County. 6 Okay, so with that, I'd like to read the 7 Resolution into the record. 8 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Well, just to be clear, 9 what we're looking at now is only the portion of Kerr 10 County that's within the Nueces portion. 11 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Well, just let me read 12 the Resolution. It says a Resolution by Kerr County 13 Commissioners' Court supporting legislation prohibiting 14 the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality from 15 authorizing the discharge of treated wastewater, or 16 pollutants into any surface water in the contributing 17 zone associated with the portion of the recharge zone of 18 the Edwards Aquifer that is within the Nueces River 19 Basin. 20 Okay, that's the area you defined. 21 MS. LEWEY: Yes, Sir. 22 COMMISSIONER MOSER: WHEREAS, rivers and 23 creeks within Edwards Aquifer Contributing Zone identify 24 the Texas Hill Country and support the region's visitor 25 and recreation-based economy; and 68 1 WHEREAS, these streams are clear and 2 pristine because they carry little or no nutrients, such 3 as nitrogen or phosphate, and, 4 WHEREAS, even the best treated wastewater 5 carries levels of nutrients that exceed the natural 6 levels found in most of these Hill Country streams, and 7 WHEREAS, the addition of nutrients to these 8 pristine streams will degrade water quality and may 9 result in algal blooms, fish kills, and interruption of 10 recreational use, and 11 WHEREAS, these streams can be protected by 12 prohibiting direct discharge of treated wastewater, and 13 instead requiring alternative means of disposal through 14 land application, reuse or other means, and 15 WHEREAS, the Kerr County Commissioners' 16 Court recognizes the value of these pristine streams to 17 the environment and economy of Kerr County. 18 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY KERR 19 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' COURT: 20 The Kerr County Commissioners' Court hereby 21 supports legislation prohibiting the Texas Commission on 22 Environment Quality from authorizing the discharge of 23 treated wastewater or pollutants into any surface water 24 in the Contributing Zone associated with the portion of 25 the Recharge Zone in the Edwards aquifer that is within 69 1 Nueces River Basin. 2 Adopted this 28th day of January, 2019. 3 And with that, I'll make a motion that we 4 approve this Resolution. 5 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I would like to ask a 6 question of Ray Buck with UGRA since he's here, and 7 what -- if you have a position on this, Ray? 8 MR. BUCK: Since it's dealing with the 9 Nueces River Basin, it's the prerogative of this Court 10 to make that decision. We don't have any authority or 11 jurisdiction. 12 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Well, what information 13 could you add about your knowledge on this? 14 MR. BUCK: We're in the process. We had a 15 board meeting the other night, Harley, and the Board has 16 instructed me to talk to our legal counsel to find out 17 our best options for opposing discharge into the creek. 18 We think that with the County investing so much money 19 into the centralized collection system, it just makes 20 sense to look at that option. We've learned a little 21 bit today. I've been listening to Sky. They've done a 22 lot more work on the pristine rivers than we have; 23 although, we have the same programs. We just haven't 24 had that comparative data. 25 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So you could pick up 70 1 information from what she's doing, is that what you're 2 saying? 3 MR. BUCK: Absolutely. We have been in 4 contact with her. 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah. I should have 6 mentioned that at the beginning. UGRA had a really long 7 discussion this past Wednesday, I believe, on this 8 subject, and did exactly what Ray just alluded to here 9 of looking at what the best option is and -- oh, I won't 10 repeat what he said. That's it. 11 MR. BUCK: Thank you. 12 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Thank you. 13 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So we had -- there were 14 several residents that are in the audience today, and 15 that were at the UGRA Board meeting, and that are 16 downstream of what we have. So facing the same kind of 17 problem that property owners in some of the streams in 18 the Nueces River Basin were facing, so with that -- 19 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We have a motion. Is 20 there a second? 21 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We have a motion from 23 Commissioner Moser, and second from Commissioner Belew 24 to approve the Resolution as presented. 25 I have a question, and it's not -- why is it 71 1 included in here stating about the Contributing Zone 2 associated with the Recharge Zone of the Edwards Aquifer 3 Authority, why is that added to it? I don't see that 4 that is pertinent. 5 MS. LEWEY: That's a good question. That's 6 a very good question, Commissioner. The discharge of 7 wastewater is already prohibited in the Edwards Aquifer 8 Recharge Zone. So all of those streams that cross the 9 recharge zone -- in the recharge zone portion of those 10 basins all the way across Texas, discharge is already 11 prohibited. 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: So this is just really 13 expanding it into the Contributing Zone is included in 14 the Recharge Zone. 15 MS. LEWEY: It's always been kind of 16 mysterious how, why, what logic led to prohibiting 17 discharge in the Recharge Zone and not addressing that 18 situation on rivers before they get there. 19 COMMISSIONER BELEW: That's not mysterious; 20 that happens in the Legislature. 21 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Okay, thank you. Sky's 22 a regular attendant Region J, and very active. 23 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So she'll be there. 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'll see her Wednesday. 25 MS. LEWEY: Thank y'all so much for your 72 1 consideration. 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Is there any further 3 discussion? All in favor raise your right hand. It 4 passes unanimously. 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Sky, thank you. 6 MS. LEWEY: And if you happen to go to the 7 Legislature you might just mention this around because 8 it's not going to be easy. Even though it has a hundred 9 percent support within the jurisdiction; it's still 10 nothing easy up there. 11 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Thank you so much. 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think the issue is 13 going to be a little bit more difficult when it gets to 14 Kerr County, and the reason it's larger than the City of 15 Kerrville. 16 COMMISSIONER BELEW: And we're not 17 completely included. You got a couple of them to worry 18 about. 19 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think we need to make 20 sure we're working closely with the City of Kerrville on 21 that, because until recently they did discharge, and I'm 22 not sure if they still do or not. 23 But anyway, let's go back to item 1.10 24 consider, discuss and take appropriate action regarding 25 donation to the Animal Services Department. 73 1 This item in the backup, we have two 2 donations that we need to accept. One is from an 3 individual that is making a $75.00 donation in cash to 4 be used at the facility. And the guidance is to help 5 dogs, it's just pretty general. The other is one that 6 not certain that we do have to accept, but it is a 7 donation, and I'd like to recognize it, is from the 8 American Pets Alive conference at Austin. They have 9 donated two free admissions to that conference to Kerr 10 County Animal Services. Nicole Goldman is going to 11 attend. Reagan cannot. He has conflict, he cannot make 12 it. So we will be sending one, and I've advised the 13 conference person, it's Texas Pets Alive, I believe, is 14 working with it, and out of Austin. So it's just a big 15 conference and we're just going to accept a free 16 donation from Texas Pets Alive for the American Pets 17 Alive Conference in Austin. 18 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Make a motion that we 19 accept $75.00 to help pets, and to accept donations from 20 the American Pets Alive Organization Conference. 21 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Been a motion and a 23 second to accept the $75.00 donation, and to be used for 24 benefit of dogs at the Kerr County Animal Services 25 Department, and accept the donation for the American 74 1 Pets Alive Conference in Austin. Any further 2 discussion? All in favor raise your right hand. It's 3 unanimous. 4 Item 1.11 consider, discuss and take 5 appropriate action to approve job description for a 6 Public Relations Officer and post position as 7 appropriate. Commissioner Belew. 8 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Okay. I guess 9 everybody got the what I think should be required, and 10 the duties. And the reason I want to go over this in 11 Commissioners' Court is to get everybody to get a 12 consensus that it's the approval of the majority. Add 13 to or take away from any of these duties of the Public 14 Relations Director, Officer, or whatever we decide to 15 call this person. 16 And so the first is to collaborate with 17 departments and maintain open communication with 18 Commissioners' Court. To confer with department heads 19 and manage any PR issues. To address inquiries from the 20 media and Kerr County citizenry. Proactively prepare 21 and distribute informational press releases. To develop 22 PR campaigns and media relations strategies for all 23 departments, as needed. To edit and update promotional 24 material and publications, including brochures, videos, 25 social media posts, etc. To organize PR events and to 75 1 serve as the county's spokesperson. To prepare and 2 submit PR reports to the Commissioners' Court. 3 Then the requirements -- and do y'all want 4 to add anything, or take anything out? 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I've got a question. 6 This is for departments, okay, but how about for elected 7 officials? 8 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Same thing. They run a 9 department, so -- 10 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So you mean -- 11 COMMISSIONER BELEW: If you want to change 12 the wording. 13 COMMISSIONER MOSER: No. I'm just trying to 14 understand for clarification. So you intend it to be 15 for elected officials also like -- 16 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Yes. 17 COMMISSIONER MOSER: -- Treasurer, Tax 18 Assessor-Collector, etc. 19 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think when it comes to 20 elected officials, it has to be clear that it's optional 21 for them, or they can do it themselves. I mean -- 22 COMMISSIONER MOSER: The Sheriff may want to 23 do his own. 24 COMMISSIONER BELEW: That's the wording 25 and -- okay. 76 1 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: I just think there 2 should be at least a note in there of some sort that the 3 Sheriff's Office and Emergency Management have their own 4 Public Relations Officer, okay, they can collaborate 5 together. But the way you read that, Harley, it sounds 6 like they're going to be over it all, and I don't want 7 three courts down the road, you know, to be -- when we 8 get to an issue. 9 COMMISSIONER MOSER: As a matter of fact he 10 didn't say elected official; he just said departments 11 heads. 12 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Of course, if you talk 13 officially, they say it's an office and not a 14 department, but you know a lot of people say that the 15 Sheriff's Office is a department, okay, or the jail is a 16 department, or CID is a department. I think you need to 17 either designate in there somewhere that the Sheriff's 18 Office and Emergency Management have their own PIO's, 19 okay, that can work collaboratively with this one, but 20 not -- don't make it sound like this one's over -- 21 COMMISSIONER BELEW: We can cut out elected 22 officials entirely. I think it oughta be worded so that 23 it's either/and/or so that you can call on the press 24 person to do that, or you can tell them you're out of 25 this one, okay, selective. 77 1 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: But I don't want it 2 getting into a position or an argument that this one 3 over here then starts telling the one over at the 4 Sheriff's Office, we're the official one, yours is only 5 in your department, we're over the whole county, we'll 6 do what we want. 7 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So that's why I wanted 8 to have this discussion this way, and it's almost like a 9 workshop thing, but I want to just clear these lines out 10 or add to them here. 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think we need to add 12 somewhere in there just a general statement that elected 13 officials and their departments may utilize the services 14 of the PI Officer if they so choose. 15 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Is there a legal way 16 that we should or shouldn't say that, or -- 17 MRS. STEBBINS: I think the way that 18 Jonathan just stated it is pretty clear. 19 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Okay, which line is 20 that? 21 COMMISSIONER MOSER: He's got it. Let him 22 do it. It's in the record. 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: The other comment that I 24 would have is the third one, address inquiries from the 25 media and Kerr County citizens. Inquiries to me, I'm 78 1 going to continue to address directly. I guess I'm an 2 elected official so I can do what I want. But I also 3 think that, you know, if there's an inquiry from Karen 4 Guerrero to the Animal Service Department, I think 5 Reagan needs to respond. It doesn't need to go back 6 through PR. So I think there needs to be -- you know, 7 it's kind of -- if it's requested by the department 8 head -- 9 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Well, we can take that 10 all the way out of there. That's the point of all of 11 this. 12 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: And just say that they 13 do work with the department head or elected official in 14 responding to public inquiries. 15 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right. I like that, 16 yeah. They may work with them. 17 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Right. 18 COMMISSIONER MOSER: To post this, Heather, 19 does this have to have a job description with it as 20 opposed to just these bullets? 21 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Yes. 22 MRS. STEBBINS: It should. 23 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Well, there's a job 24 description on the next page, or at the bottom of that 25 page. 79 1 COMMISSIONER MOSER: But it's not the job 2 description the way all our other job descriptions are. 3 COMMISSIONER BELEW: No. Because Jennifer 4 will deal with that. 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: So my question to post 6 it, do we have to have a job description from HR? 7 MRS. STEBBINS: The general practice is to 8 adopt the job description, for the Court to approve the 9 job description and then post it. 10 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Then post it. That's 11 what I wanted to make sure we understood. 12 MRS. STEBBINS: Yes, Sir. 13 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Yeah. She already has 14 something pretty official ready to go. 15 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Right. 16 COMMISSIONER BELEW: But we want to make 17 sure the content is correct. So we would change 18 addressing inquiries to working with the department 19 heads and so on to address, okay. Anything else? 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: No. I think with the 21 changes we talked about it's the prerogative of the 22 elected officials to do this or not do it. So the same 23 thing if somebody -- if I want to say something to the 24 press, I don't have to go through PR. 25 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I would say that if we 80 1 just strike line three there, we're fine, because the 2 one above that will pretty much that care of it. I just 3 want to make sure citizens get the information they want 4 or need. 5 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And there may be times 6 when it would be helpful to use the PR person, and other 7 times it's better just to reply directly. 8 COMMISSIONER BELEW: But if it's optional to 9 call them and say can you help me with this. 10 Okay, so on the requirement proven 11 experience -- I didn't want to require that somebody had 12 a degree in marketing or something because there are 13 plenty of people that have on the job experience that 14 could do this, so I didn't want to preclude those. And 15 that's up to y'all if you want to decide that you want 16 somebody to have of a degree in marketing or in public 17 relations or whatever, but in my experience I haven't 18 seen that's really necessary. 19 COMMISSIONER LETZ: A lot of times that we 20 say in our formal job descriptions is preferred, but 21 work experience can -- you know. 22 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Okay, so proven 23 experience as a Public Relations Officer or similar PR 24 role. Experience managing media relations, online, 25 broadcast and print. Background in researching, 81 1 writing, and editing publications. Strong communication 2 ability, oral and written. Excellent organizational 3 skills. Ability to work well under pressure. 4 Creativity and problem solving aptitude. Proficiency in 5 MS Office and social media. Familiarity with necessary 6 software, video, photo editing is a plus. And 7 experience in Communications or a related field. 8 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Are these must have? 9 COMMISSIONER BELEW: No. We can take any of 10 them out, or put -- 11 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah, but I'm just 12 saying they're desirable as opposed to must haves. 13 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Yes, desirable. 14 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Because the reason I 15 ask that is because if somebody -- we talked about this 16 being part-time, somebody's already in the organization 17 or an employee of the County, it could do this at, you 18 know, with a stipend as opposed to an individual. Hire 19 a new hire, then they may not have all these 20 requirements but, you know, have the ability to do it, 21 okay, as long as they're desirable. 22 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Working under pressure, 23 for example, when we have floods and stuff like that and 24 you gotta get the information out in a hurry. But there 25 may be people that are working here, or people that have 82 1 never had to work under pressure, and they don't really 2 know what to tell you about that, as an example. 3 COMMISSIONER MOSER: As long as they're 4 desirable requirements, I don't have any problem. 5 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So the rest of that is 6 basically a public relations job description template, 7 and -- 8 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Harley, before you go to 9 the next page, I would add when you say proficient in MS 10 Office, I have that as one and as a separate line item, 11 or separate dot, and proficient in social media, and 12 maybe put after that Facebook, Instragram, Twitter, so 13 -- 14 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Describe what it is. 15 COMMISSIONER LETZ: What we're talking 16 about, because I think that's an important -- 17 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Right. Okay. 18 COMMISSIONER MOSER: And spell out MS. 19 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Yeah, Microsoft Office. 20 The rest of it, I don't know if you want to go over 21 that. 22 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I think whatever 23 Jennifer comes up with, and we'll look at it, approve it 24 and go. 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: At the next meeting take 83 1 this and Jennifer put it in the format and -- 2 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Well, I think we could 3 go ahead and pass it along now if you want to. 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Oh, no. We can go and 5 pass it to her and she'll come back. 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yeah, and she'll come 7 back on your next meeting and approve it. So really no 8 action necessary at this point. 9 All right, item 1.14 consider, discuss and 10 take appropriate action to approve donations in the 11 amount of $25.00 to be credited to an account designated 12 by Commissioners' Court. Tracy and Bob. 13 MR. REEVES: Good morning, Commissioners. 14 The tax office has received two cash donations totaling 15 $25.00. I have deposited the funds with the Treasurer's 16 Office, but we're both at a loss where you'd like the 17 money to go, so I'll leave that to you. 18 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I recommend if it wasn't 19 designated it goes to the general fund. 20 COMMISSIONER REEVES: That's fine. Thank 21 you. 22 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Somebody just tip at 23 the tax office? You got a tip jar? 24 MR. REEVES: There were two donations, 25 Commissioner. There is no tip jar. 84 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I need a motion. 2 COMMISSIONER BEEW: I make a motion that we 3 accept the donations. 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Second. 5 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And the funds -- 6 COMMISSIONER BELEW: And apply to the 7 General Fund. 8 COMMISSIONER LETZ: A motion from 9 Commissioner Belew, seconded by Commissioner Moser to 10 accept $25.00 donation that was received by the Tax 11 Assessor's Office, and funds to go to the Kerr County 12 General Fund. 13 MR. ROBLES: Contingency, would that be the 14 appropriate account, or should it stay in the tax office 15 since they received it? 16 COMMISSIONER LETZ: As a contingency. 17 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So I'll modify my 18 motion to go into the Contingency fund. You good with 19 that? 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Yeah. 21 COMMISSIONER LETZ: All in favor raise your 22 right hand. All right, it's unanimous. The rest of the 23 items are executive session items. 24 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Commissioner, my item 25 on postings is only if y'all deem it necessary with 85 1 questions regarding specifics. Simply, I need to post 2 for three positions. 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Well, let me go ahead 4 and call it if we can deal with it now. 1.15 consider, 5 discuss and take appropriate action for Commissioners' 6 Court approval to fill budgeted open positions in Kerr 7 County Tax Assessor-Collector's Office. 8 COMMISSIONER REEVES: Yes, Sir. I request 9 Court approval for posting of two Motor Vehicle Clerks 10 at the step of 15.1, and one Election Clerk. Two of the 11 positions have become vacant because of promotions 12 within the office. The third one, I only learned about 13 this morning. So I respectfully request the permission 14 to post those. 15 COMMISSIONER LETZ: These are all budgeted? 16 COMMISSIONER REEVES: They are budgeted. 17 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Well, I make the 18 motion. 19 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Second. 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Motion from Commissioner 21 Belew, second from Commissioner Moser to authorize the 22 posting and filling of three open positions in the Kerr 23 County Tax Assessors-Collector's Office. Any further 24 discussion? All in favor raise your right hand. It's 25 unanimous. 86 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Do we want to go ahead 2 and do the approval agenda items, or go into executive 3 session? 4 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Let's see, one of them, 5 Charlie, 1.16, is that in executive? 6 MR. HASTINGS: Yes, Sir. 7 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I don't have any 8 objection to that. 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Go into the approval 10 agenda and move to 4.1 pay the bills. There's none 11 today. 12 4.2 budget amendments? 13 MR. ROBLES: None. 14 COMMISSIONER LETZ: 4.3 late bills. None? 15 MR. ROBLES: No. 16 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Approve and accept 17 monthly reports. Monthly reports, we have two of them. 18 December, 2018 Indigent Services report, and December, 19 2018 Animal Services amended report. 20 We need a motion to accept the two monthly 21 reports. 22 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I'll make a motion to 23 accept the monthly reports. 24 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Second. 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Motion and second to 87 1 accept the monthly reports as read into the record. Any 2 further discussion? Everyone raise your right hand for 3 approval. It's unanimous. 4 Auditor reports? 5 MR. ROBLES: No, Sir. 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: None. 7 Court orders. We have court orders for the 8 January 14th meeting, January 17th meeting, and January 9 24th meeting. I did note that on the January 17th 10 meeting I think as it reads right now approve paying the 11 budget amendment numbers 1 through 5 as presented. I 12 believe it should say approve authorizing the budget 13 amendments numbers 1 through 5 as presented. And that 14 same change, I think should be made on our January 24th 15 meeting. It's court order 37261 should read approve 16 authorizing the budget amendments number 1 as presented. 17 And I went through them all and they all look fine, so a 18 motion to approve monthly reports as amended. 19 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: Second. Go ahead. 21 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I have a motion from 22 Commissioner Belew, second by Commissioner Moser to 23 approve the monthly reports as amended. Any further 24 discussion? Do we need to read all court orders? 25 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I thought we decided we 88 1 weren't going to. 2 COMMISSIONER MOSER: No, no. 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We're not. All right, 4 all in favor raise your hand. Unanimous. 5 Any reports from Commissioners/Liaison 6 Committee Assignments? 7 COMMISSIONER BELEW: The most recent 8 Historical Commission meeting was good. And I took a 9 quick review of bad floors over there, and you'll hear 10 about that on a coming agenda. 11 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I don't have anything. 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I don't have anything. 13 5.2 reports from elected officials, 14 department heads. I don't see any. 15 Reports from Boards, Commissions and 16 Committees. I do not see anyone. 17 Update on East Kerr County/Center Point 18 Wastewater Project. 19 I don't have anything. 20 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I don't have anything. 21 COMMISSIONER LETZ: All right, let's go into 22 executive session at this time. 23 (Executive Session.) 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: All right, we're back in 25 open session. 89 1 Call item 1.16 consider, discuss and take 2 appropriate action to purchase 0.13 acres of right of 3 way for the Peterson Farm Road Intersection Improvement 4 Project, Precinct 2. Commissioner Moser. 5 COMMISSIONER MOSER: I make a motion that we 6 approve the purchase of 0.13 acres for $10,000.00 from 7 Sabina Properties, LLC for the stated reason, and 8 contingent upon approval by the County Attorney of the 9 appropriate title. 10 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Motion from Commissioner 12 Moser, second from Commissioner Belew. Any further 13 discussion? All in favor raise your right hand. It's 14 unanimous, three zero. 15 There's no action on item 1.17, so we're 16 done. Thank you. 17 * * * * * * 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 90 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 Reporter in and for Kerr County, do hereby certify that 6 the above and foregoing pages contain and comprise a 7 true and correct transcription of the proceedings had in 8 the above-entitled Commissioners' Court. 9 Dated this the 23rd day of February, A.D. 10 2019. 11 12 /s/DEBRA ELLEN GIFFORD Certified Shorthand Reporter 13 No. 953 Expiration Date 04/31/2020 14 * * * * * * 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25