1 1 2 3 KERR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' COURT 4 Regular Session 5 Monday, July 22, 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 PRESENT: ROB KELLY, Kerr County Judge HARLEY BELEW, Commissioner Precinct 1 24 JONATHAN LETZ, Commissioner Precinct 3 DON HARRIS, Commissioner Precinct 4 25 2 1 I-N-D-E-X 2 NO. PAGE 3 *** Commissioner's comments. 8 4 1.1 Presentation of the Texas Historical 10 Commission's Distinguished Service Award 5 to the Kerr County Historical Commission. 6 1.2 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 14 action regarding the KEDC (Kerr Economic 7 Development Corporation), FY 19/20 proposed budget. 8 1.3 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 33 9 action to approve the optional $10.00 County Road and Bridge fee for 2020 vehicle 10 registration per request from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. 11 1.4 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 35 12 action to approve and authorize County Judge to sign the Interlocal Agreement 13 between Kerr County and Texas Department of Motor Vehicles for provision of 14 Equipment and Consumables. 15 1.5 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 37 action to approve the renewal of the TAC 16 HEBP (Texas Association of Counties-Health and Employee Benefits Pool) medical and 17 dental plan for FY 19/20 for employees and retirees. 18 1.6 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 40 19 action to approve supplemental benefit plan options administered by SWBC 20 (Southwest Business Corporation) for employees effective FY 19/20. 21 1.7 Presentation and recognition of the 2019 49 22 Kerr County 4-H Golf Challenge/First Tee D.R.I.V.E. Team. 23 1.8 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 51 24 action to approve Auction Agreement between Trey Garrett and Kerr County Sheriff's 25 Office for the sale of property awarded to Kerr County Sheriff's Office. 3 1 I-N-D-E-X 2 NO. PAGE 3 1.9 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 55 action to approve the addendum to the 4 Inmate Telephone Services Agreement between Kerr County and NCIC renewing 5 the original contract for an additional five-year term. 6 1.10 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 57 7 action regarding the "Scrap Tire Storage Registration Notification" letter received 8 from Reichhamm LLC in Ingram. 9 1.11 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 69 action on request to allow the TAS (Texas 10 Archeological Society) Archeological Field School exclusive use of Flat Rock Park (not 11 the Dog Park area) from June 10, 2020 to June 20, 2020 for use as an overnight 12 camping area for their group. The TAS has a contract with the HCYEC (Hill Country 13 Youth Event Center) to use River Star Park during this time. 14 1.12 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 74 15 action to authorize the County Judge to execute Change Proposal 68 to the East Kerr 16 County/Center Point Wastewater Project for additional wastewater system connections. 17 1.13 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 76 18 action for the Court to set a public hearing for 10 a.m. on September 9, 2019 19 for a revision of plat for Elmwood Lots 1 through 5, and parts of 6 and 7, Volume 5, 20 Page 330. 21 1.14 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 78 action to accept a $500.00 donation from 22 the Kerrville Junior Service Guild. 23 1.15 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 78 action to approve Nomination Committee 24 selection of the County employee to participate in the Kerr County Leadership 25 Class of 2019-20, and submit application to the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce. 4 1 I-N-D-E-X 2 NO. PAGE 3 1.16 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 78 action to approve payment of the 4 Director's and Officer's insurance for the Kerr County Bail Bond Board. 5 1.17 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 86 6 action regarding Information Technology operations and use of RxTechnology. 7 1.18 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 90 8 action regarding the Information Technology Manager position. 9 4.1 Pay bills. 103 10 4.2 Budget Amendments. 103 11 4.3 Late bills. 105 12 4.4 Accept Monthly Reports. 106 13 4.6 Court Orders. 106 14 5.3 Status reports from Elected Officials. 107 15 5.1 Liaison Commissioners status reports. 109 16 4.4 Accept Monthly Reports. 112 17 1.20 Consider, discuss and take appropriate 113 18 action on salary adjustments for the Department Heads in the following 19 departments: Environmental Health, Veteran Services, Victim Services, and 20 Human Resources. 21 *** Adjournment. 115 22 *** Reporter's Certificate. 116 23 * * * * * * 24 25 5 1 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, it is Monday, July 22nd, 2 2019, and the Kerr County Commissioners' Court is now in 3 session. It is 9 o'clock. Commissioner Belew, I think 4 is here, but we're going to ahead and begin. If you 5 would stand for the Pledge and the Prayer. 6 (Prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance.) 7 JUDGE KELLY: And for those of you who 8 haven't been here before, I need to remind you that cell 9 phones do not go off in this courtroom without being 10 turned over to the Sheriff, and you can pick them up 11 afterwards. We have yet to do that, but just giving 12 everybody a reminder that you don't want your cell 13 phones to go off during Court. 14 With that, the next part of the agenda is 15 the Visitor's Input. We've had one speaker who's asked 16 to speak to us today. If anyone wants to address the 17 Court this is an opportunity. If you're going to 18 address the Court about something that is on the agenda, 19 we ask that you wait for that agenda item to be called. 20 Other than that, this is an opportunity for 21 anybody to come tell us, or ask us anything that they 22 have on their mind. 23 Mr. Jones, if you would give us your name 24 and your address here in the County? 25 MR. JONES: My name is Ward Jones, I live at 6 1 2126 Bluff Ridge Dr. here in Kerrville, Texas. Judge 2 and Commissioners, I thank you for the opportunity to 3 address you today, and to inform you of an entirely new 4 organization and event about to take place here in 5 Kerrville. The organization is called Hill Country Gala 6 Inc., and it is filed and received non-profit status as 7 a 501(c)3 organization from the IRS. 8 It's entire purpose will be to hold an 9 annual Gala to raise money for Wounded Warrior Project. 10 I'm wearing a Wounded Warrior Project shirt, as you can 11 see, today. All of the funds that are raised from this 12 organization and event will go to the San Antonio office 13 of Wounded Warrior Project, which services San Antonio 14 and all of the Hill Country. 15 So I'm here today to hopefully inform you 16 not only of this, but to get your support, and the 17 support of the County in promoting this particular 18 activity. The event will take place on November 9th, 19 which is the weekend of Veterans Day. It will be held 20 at the Hill Country Youth Event Center. It will start 21 at approximately 5:30 p.m. and end at approximately 22 midnight. It will be a full Gala. It will be a 23 sit-down dinner, all of the events that take place at 24 fund-raising event. And we will have a great band as 25 well. 7 1 I have given you a packet of information, 2 which I'm not going to go through today. Don't have the 3 time nor would you probably be interested in all of 4 this. But I'd like to hit a couple of high points in 5 regard to wounded warrior projects. 6 This particular organization's logo is very 7 significant in the sense that the reason for one man 8 carrying the other is to help that man on top become the 9 man or woman on the bottom. So it is for each warrior 10 to support each other, and to help make them whole. It 11 is the largest national not for profit treatment 12 facility for wounded warriors from 911 on. 13 You can see a lot of information here, but 14 again hitting on some of the high points. Since its 15 inception in 2003 Wounded Warrior Projects has actually 16 spent 1.1 billion dollars on treatment for Wounded 17 Warriors in this country. They have 27 offices around 18 the United States with approximately 750 employees. 19 They are involved in physical treatment, mental 20 treatment, finding jobs for Wounded Warriors and their 21 families. And several other areas that you can see in 22 this particular set of information. 23 We also have a rather distinguished number 24 of Officers on the Board of Directors, which I would 25 refer you to. Kind of reads like a who's who, and 8 1 business here in Kerrville, including the CEO and 2 President of the Chamber of Commerce who is sitting 3 here, Walt Koenig. And many others whose names you will 4 recognize. 5 Again, my purpose for being here is to let 6 you know about this benefit, hopefully to get your 7 support in promoting the benefit. We hope that each one 8 of you will consider attending the benefit. 9 And I'd be happy to answer any questions at 10 this time. 11 JUDGE KELLY: Thank you. Anybody have any 12 questions? 13 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: No. Sounds great. 14 COMMISSIONER LETZ: No. 15 MR. JONES: I'd like to approach just to 16 give each of you one of you -- if you pass each one of 17 these down, one of the wounded warrior logo pens for 18 your use. And I'll give the secretary a couple for 19 those who are not here. And thank you again for the 20 opportunity to let you know about this. 21 JUDGE KELLY: Thank you. Okay, this part of 22 the agenda is an opportunity for the Commissioners to 23 share what's going on in their Precinct or anything 24 around the County. We've got a couple absences today so 25 why don't we start with Precinct 4, start at the other 9 1 end of the Court today. 2 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Great. Not a whole 3 lot going on. It's getting dryer out there, but we're 4 still in decent shape. Haven't put a burn ban on yet. 5 A couple people watching it as we go along. That's 6 about all I have. 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I don't really have 8 anything. I will introduce somebody that's in the 9 audience who I was surprised this morning, Roman Garcia. 10 He's a great young man in our community. He's been very 11 very involved in a lot of organizations. He's 12 interested in local government, he attends City Council 13 meetings on occasion. Asked why he was here, he said he 14 just wanted to see what we did. So thank you, Roman. 15 JUDGE KELLY: I guess the only thing I would 16 remind everybody is we do have a national funeral on 17 Friday, Billy Butler. Of the first four veterans that 18 have been returned from Korea with that latest 19 negotiation by President Trump, one of them happens to 20 be here in Kerrville, so this is a major event. And I 21 would ask you to spread the word. Would like to have 22 Junction Highway lined as best we could. 23 The funeral's going to be at Kerrville 24 Funeral Home on Junction Highway. And the internment 25 will be at Nichols Cemetery, which is just up the road 10 1 from there. So just remind everybody we have one of our 2 heroes coming back home. I just want to remind people 3 of that. 4 Is there anything else? Okay, let's begin. 5 Item 1.1. Presentation of the Texas 6 Historical Commission's Distinguished Service Award for 7 the Kerr County Historical Commission. 8 I saw Julie here, but I don't see Harley. 9 MRS. LEONARD: Good morning. Well, I notice 10 Harley is not here. I was listening to him on the 11 radio, so I knew he wasn't going to make it. 12 Since Judge Kelly, you and Commissioner 13 Harris have not been here, this is the first time you 14 probably heard about the Distinguished Service Award. 15 Commissioner Letz has heard about it a lot. 16 Anyway, I'll kind of explain what this is 17 and how we get the award. We've been a regular 18 recipient of this award for years, and I've been 19 Chairman for 11 years, and we've gotten it every year 20 for 11 years because of our dedicated group of 60 21 members, the Commissioners' Court, the county staff 22 we've continued to get this distinction. 23 We are 1 of 65 County Historical Commissions 24 out of 254 in the state. Last year there was a hundred 25 and something, so it's growing. We're really honored. 11 1 The criteria for this award is determined by the Texas 2 Historical Commission. I fill out a ten page, 41 3 questionnaire called a survey monkey, which is a good 4 name for it, on the computer. 5 The first that criteria -- like I said is 6 determined by the Historical Commission. The first 8 7 pages are general questions. There are a few more 8 questions, and I'll try to hit on a few of the notable 9 ones. They ask how many members we have. Right now we 10 have 60. How many volunteer hours we have. Last year 11 we had 4,140. Do we keep and maintain records of 12 cemeteries, historical markers and their conditions. 13 Yes. 14 How does the County support us. In a lot of 15 ways. A yearly allotment, internet access, computer 16 hardware, web hosting on the county website. Y'all give 17 us storage space, legal advise. We have a lot of 18 assistance from the county staff, including but not 19 limited to the County Treasurer. The maintenance staff, 20 space for historical exhibits and information in the 21 courthouse lobby. We have a Liaison Commissioner Harley 22 Belew. So you get give us a lot of support and we 23 appreciate that. 24 Another question is how many County 25 Commissioners and Elected Officials are invited to our 12 1 events. And we usually invite all of you. And how many 2 attend, and they want your names. So anyway, we have 3 several of you that attend our events, and we appreciate 4 your support for that. 5 Another question, do we participate in 6 county-community planning to preserve our history. Yes. 7 Do we support Texas history and it's preservation. We 8 do that through many projects. And then, at the end of 9 the survey, they ask -- they have three specific 10 questions, and they want your projects and they want 11 detailed answers, and this year the first question was 12 pick one project/effort that demonstrates robust, their 13 words, partnership with multiple organizations. 14 The second question was share one project 15 effort or service that focused on educating citizens 16 and/or celebrating history with citizens of the county. 17 The third question was share one 18 project/effort or service that educated citizens or 19 celebrating history and promoted to people outside our 20 county. 21 So every year they try to change it a little 22 bit, so -- but basically they just want to know, you 23 know, how we're performing in our county. It helps for 24 us to see how we compare with the much larger counties 25 in the state, Bexar County, Dallas, Houston, El Paso. 13 1 And it's notable that we -- like I said, we are 1 of 65 2 of this 254 historical commissions. 3 The report is used by the State to document 4 the importance of the County Historical Commissions to 5 the archival of life in our active counties and in the 6 state. 7 And again, I thank my KCHC members and their 8 dedications preserving our history. And also on behalf 9 of our members, I thank Judge Kelly, the County 10 Commissioners, Kerr County Treasurer, the County 11 Attorney, and all the Kerr County staff for their help 12 to make our historical commission a success. And thank 13 you again. 14 JUDGE KELLY: Well, on behalf of the Texas 15 Historical Commission and the Kerr County Commissioners' 16 Court, we want to applaud our local Historical 17 Commission as being in the top echelon of historical 18 commissions in the state, and we appreciate what you do. 19 MRS. LEONARD: All right, thank you. 20 JUDGE KELLY: And we have a certificate here 21 to present to you from the Texas Historical Commission 22 in recognition of your accomplishment. And get it from 23 Commissioner Harris on the end. 24 (Photos taken.) 25 JUDGE KELLY: The next item on the agenda is 14 1 item 1.2 consider, discuss and take appropriate action 2 regarding the KEDC (Kerr Economic Development 3 Corporation), budget for fiscal year 19/20. Gil 4 Salinas. 5 MR. SALINAS: Thank you. Judge, members of 6 the Commission, thanks for your having us here today. 7 Walt and I, we're going to be -- we're going to have a 8 10 to 15 minute presentation in regards to some of our 9 efforts pertaining to economic development in Kerrville, 10 Kerr County, And then leading up to our actual budget 11 ask. 12 So I'll be covering the first three 13 sections, and then Walt will come in and do the year to 14 date deliverables, getting a -- leading up to the budget 15 proposal. Again, I'll be talking a little bit about the 16 wants and the needs in the Kerrville area, and then I 17 was really looking at the road map for the next two 18 years as far as what we're going to be working on. 19 With that, I am now officially on my seventh 20 month here in Kerrville, seems like a lot longer, and 21 that's a good thing. So the first three to four months 22 a lot of what I did was I called in my emergence of just 23 getting in front of as many community stakeholders as 24 possible, to hear from them as far as what they wanted 25 to see in the Kerrville area. 15 1 And there was a some recurring trends that I 2 picked up on as far as economic development. A lot of 3 people would say this was the biggest one, we want the 4 Target in our community. I'm like we'll put it on our 5 list. But there was quite of a few other businesses 6 that they wanted. 7 So what I found was that Kerrville wants 8 growth, but not full-blown growth, but they want 9 selective economic growth. So that's what we're working 10 achieving. And then they would also say -- a lot of the 11 people would say we need more jobs in some of our -- 12 people here in the community. And actually there's a 13 lot of, you know, for -- you know, help wanted signs in 14 the community. So really what that means is we're 15 looking at quality jobs over quantity. And then 16 everybody pretty much said don't disrupt the quality of 17 life we have in our community. And like I got that, 18 that was pretty clear. 19 And then financial responsibility. Fiscal 20 responsibility was huge as far as now moving forward 21 with economic develop. And now being here six to seven 22 months, now I can actually say what the community or the 23 stakeholders are asking KEDC to do. We're ready to do 24 more with less, and don't disrupt the lifestyle that we 25 have here in the area. 16 1 Now, taking it a step further -- again, look 2 at just demographics of the area, who are we, what can 3 we do? I'm here to tell you all, and obviously this is 4 something that you all know, is that we do not have the 5 capability to recruit a company that employs four or 6 five or six hundred people. We just do not have the 7 employee base for that, and we do not have the 8 facilities or the adequate land at the moment. 9 Now if a project comes our way, for 10 instance, if it's in a sector that I like, particularly 11 like, which is the aerospace. And if it's considered a 12 game changing project then we would start working on the 13 plan, granted that we would have the time, two to three 14 years to develop, you know, the answers that we need for 15 that particular project. But for the most part we would 16 not be able to recruit companies in that category. 17 And then human capital, which is our work 18 force. You know, look at the numbers, crunching all the 19 data. Not only do we have -- we lack a particular work 20 force, but our work force is actually shrinking, by a 21 little, but it's actually shrinking. So we need to now 22 look at how we're going to start mitigating that. 23 So what we found is that the sweet spot for 24 this community and for this Countyc reallt for this 25 region, is at 40 to 60 person operation. Those are 17 1 small to midsize companies, which tends to be tiered to 2 two or three tier suppliers, to some of the bigger 3 companies. They tend to be family owned, so you get to 4 work with the decision makers fairly quick. So that 5 that's the company, or the profile that fits our 6 community. 7 And now switching gears looking traditional 8 model for economic development. And economic 9 development has only been around really since the late 10 80's as far as an actual field. The traditional model 11 really is marketing heavy. It's really intensive on 12 just going out there promoting your region for good 13 found investments that in turn leads to recruitment of a 14 company, lead generation, which then ultimately you'll 15 have deals at the table where your executive directors, 16 your community leadership will come in and work to close 17 a deal. That means ground breakings, companies, new 18 jobs in the area. 19 And then when you clump all of that, and you 20 have a new company in the area then that starts 21 attracting the work force into your community. And 22 that's how you grow in a particular region. But I'd 23 like to say that we're Kerrville, right, we're a little 24 special. 25 Now, what we're doing is we're reverse 18 1 engineering that model for economic development, which 2 is called inclusive economic development. Where now 3 instead of being heavy on the promotion side for the 4 community, now what we're doing is we start championing, 5 or becoming the champion for local business, for local 6 industry. 7 When you do that then you start working with 8 your community leadership and your stakeholders and 9 start building a quality of place. And this is already 10 happening here in Kerrville. That in turn starts to 11 attract talent. And, you know, I'll use the word 12 millennials. That's what millennials are looking for, 13 for that particular quality of place. 14 You can look at what Amazon and YouTube did, 15 and basically what's that done in the last two years is 16 just turn economic development on its head because of 17 what it is that they're requiring. And then in turn 18 once you get the talent, then that starts attracting the 19 forward thinking companies. 20 I just mentioned for instance a big company 21 in the aerospace sector that could potentially fit us to 22 the T. That's what they'll be looking for, they'll be 23 looking for that particular talent. When you've done 24 that, then you start creating for your community. Your 25 community starts to create a particular brand. And once 19 1 you have that brand, which is other people start talking 2 about your community then that marketing effect starts 3 to come into. So you can see it's reverse engineering. 4 And economic development is in a state of 5 transition, and this is basically the future of economic 6 development, and Kerrville is one of the case studies at 7 a national level as far as how we're going to now be 8 conducting economic development. 9 Now I'll come back more at a local level. 10 We've grabbed all of the different plans that we have, 11 and basically we've aligned them. So the 2050 12 comprehensive plan, which is a great document. I wish I 13 can take credit for that, but it was done before I got 14 here. But the economic development section of it is 15 very thorough, and that is a great blueprint for myself 16 and the organization, the Chamber, KEDC businessmen. 17 That was done by Avalanche Consulting. 18 My emergence were, which were the first 19 three to four months, making a lot of the one-on-one 20 visits. And then the interagency stakeholder retreat 21 which some of y'all attended. So what we did is we 22 aligned all those different plans. This was information 23 that was already developed by our community. By the way 24 I don't expect you to read this screen. 25 JUDGE KELLY: Good. 20 1 MR. SALINAS: So we developed the -- it's 2 basically the business eco system for Kerrville, for the 3 Kerrville Region. It's a two-year road map. 4 Now moving forward granting all the data 5 that was developed through the comprehensive plan, the 6 alignment for those different plans. Looking at the 7 model of economic development, the future of economic 8 development -- one more slide please. 9 And so there's seven lines of engagement for 10 strategy that we came up with. And each one of those is 11 divided up into three areas. And the first one is the 12 action items. And again this is information from the 13 comprehensive plan. This is basically for pulling all 14 that information that was created that was voiced by the 15 community. 16 And the action items were the business 17 retention expansion, which is going to be a huge focus 18 for us. It was said we need to expand our industrial 19 footprint, we need shovel-ready sites, so on and so 20 forth. We need an inventory of buildings, which we 21 currently it's very minimal the inventory that we have. 22 The performance indicators are basically 23 okay, so this is what we want and how we want that 24 delivered. So at the end of the year this will be the 25 valuation for our organization. So it'll be okay, so 21 1 how many companies did you visit as part of your 2 business retention expansion program. As a result of 3 that were any jobs created. Was there an increase in 4 payroll from all these expansions in the area. And 5 those absorption rates which are actually very low right 6 now. What are they right now. 7 So again these are the action items and then 8 the actual deliverables. And again, that is just an 9 extension of all the different plans that have been 10 created by this community. 11 What's in the box is where we come in. 12 That's actually the how. It's the one -- the what's 13 deliverable and how we're going to get that done. So 14 then there you can see how we're go to be approaching 15 that and developing our BRE Program. And again what 16 we're doing is creating committees where some of our 17 board members will be involved to help us launch these 18 different efforts. 19 For instance, the committee for the BRE 20 Program will be an industry of round table group. Where 21 we're going to have plant managers and key level 22 executives of our local, or the top ten or top 20 23 employers come together on a quarterly basis to start 24 discussing, you know, some of the issues that we have at 25 hand. 22 1 Now, switching gears here to the budget, and 2 I'll be turning it over to Walt now. The budget that 3 you have, which is tied into the road map for the 4 ecosystem that we have developed is designed -- it's 5 going to have minimal travel. The only travel is going 6 to be for professional development and for any prospect 7 activity that starts coming up that we need to go travel 8 to their headquarters to visit these particular 9 companies. 10 It's going to be strictly focused on BRE, 11 which is the local business aspect of it. Specifically 12 focused lead generation. And Walt will further discuss 13 this here in a little bit. We're going to be going 14 after companies who have ties to the area. And then 15 again, there's a small grassroots marketing component to 16 it. And I'd like to say that this is a very affordable 17 plan. 18 So with that now Walt will come in and touch 19 on the year to date deliverables and the actual budget 20 proposal. 21 JUDGE KELLY: Thank you 22 Walt, welcome. 23 MR. KOENIG: Judge Kelly, County 24 Commissioners, good to see y'all today. I'll wrap this 25 thing up with starting to talk about what we've done 23 1 since we last talked to y'all about the budget last 2 year. If I can go to the next slide please. We did 3 commit to some certain action items. And I'd just like 4 to bring you up to speed with that. We have recruited 5 new VP and COO as evidenced by Gil Salinas's presence 6 here today. We are working on reengineering our 7 processing procedures. And by the way, we still have 8 about three months left in our fiscal year. We 9 anticipate getting all this stuff done by then. So this 10 is a temperature stake on where we're at now. 11 We are proactively marketing and we have 12 greatly improved our web presence. We will be launching 13 our brand new website within the next week. Property 14 data base and site selector capacity is also growing. 15 We have a game plan for our trade show 16 participation, which will be relatively modest this year 17 because of the budget constraints that we will have 18 built into the budget that we are going to be asking 19 funding for. And our work with site selectors, I think 20 has been a great, great success story. In the last six 21 months we've met with more site selectors here in Kerr 22 County than we have over the last years of my knowledge 23 of this operation. So we've met with literally over a 24 dozen site selectors already that have come to our 25 community to kick the tires and take a look at it, and I 24 1 think that that's a fantastic process improvement. 2 Leveraging success is a big part of building 3 the brand. As Gil said that's a fundamental part of our 4 plan is building the brand of Kerr County as a great 5 place to do business. And if you look at the successes 6 we're having for example with the HOBBY LOBBY project, 7 we're in very regular contact with the developer there 8 out of North Carolina, and they are huge evangelists for 9 us and our area, and we are already seeing some positive 10 outcome in terms of lead generation in that area of 11 interest. 12 So being excellent in what we do here at the 13 City, at the County, and KEDC and Chamber is a big part 14 of building that brand, which is going to be very, very 15 important to us going forward. What's not on this 16 commitment list, and I think it's very worthy to note, 17 is that we're back on the map as far as Austin's 18 concerned. We've had a lot of very good productive 19 meetings with the Texas Economic Development 20 Corporation, and the Workforce Commissioners Group. And 21 they're very aware of what we're doing. They're very 22 supportive of our strategies and effort, and we 23 anticipate them as being meaningful partners with 24 respect to funding some of the recruitment effort that 25 we're undertaking. Particularly for those companies 25 1 that we're attracting from out of state. There's a 2 number of good funds available that we can leverage out 3 of Austin to our benefit in terms of recruitment from 4 companies out of state. And that's been a huge 5 progress. That wasn't something we put down as an 6 objective, but it's certainly something I think will 7 bear a great deal of fruit in terms of both exposure, 8 and funding opportunities. 9 I think if you in note it all out, right now 10 we have no kidding real primary job opportunities in our 11 pipeline right now. Every one of which achievable; not 12 all of which are guaranteed wins, but all of them we can 13 address meaningfully. They do fit into that profile for 14 the most part that Gil identified, 40 to 60 jobs. 15 There's one that somewhat larger. 16 The ties to the Kerr County area is an 17 important one. Two of the opportunities fit into that 18 nicely. One of the opportunities is a northern company 19 looking to expand into Kerr County. Their justification 20 is the fact they have a family history here and they 21 want to come back to the Hill Country. 22 The other one is a manufacturing company out 23 of Alabama. They have a product that's particularly 24 challenging from a transportation logistics standpoint. 25 They have an aspiration of growing their business in the 26 1 Hill Country, and they see Kerrville's geographic 2 location as being a show -- I mean a very important 3 aspect of their consideration of relocation. 4 So these efforts -- and I would say a year 5 or two years ago our pipeline was zero, maybe a half. I 6 mean, so we've really made -- and we really haven't 7 begun our proactive effort to any great extent yet. So 8 it's an exciting time for our County. I'm very pleased 9 with the team that's been put together here. 10 I'll note just a couple things. I'll talk 11 about some specific areas of the budget where we're 12 looking for a little bit of enhancement. I will say up 13 front, we are asking for more money than we asked for 14 last year. 15 JUDGE KELLY: We noticed that. 16 MR. KOENIG: So I want to go through that in 17 detail. But one of the key things we're going to do 18 with that budget request is to bring Theresa Metcalf 19 back. She was part of the EDC two years ago, or two and 20 a half years ago. She moved over to the Chamber as the 21 EDC was going through it's restructuring efforts. She 22 wants to move back and become our full-time business 23 retention expansion person. And in the interim she has 24 undertaken the training necessary, and she's almost 25 completed that to fulfill that very important role. 27 1 She's an outstanding individual if y'all haven't met her 2 yet. She's really, really outstanding. 3 So that's really the lion's share of the 4 additional budget we're asking for, and if we could 5 advance the slide. That's sort of the highlight, again 6 not to be read, but just to show it's there. Next. 7 Some specific areas where we where we want 8 to up and identify dollars associated with those. And 9 I'll note that that seven line of effort sheet that Gil 10 presented. Each of which, you know, what our objectives 11 are, what our resources are, how we're going to do it, 12 and what our accountabilities are all tie back to these 13 specific budget items, so we can do that cross-reference 14 as to what line of effort they're supporting, and what 15 the deliverables are expected out of that. And we want 16 to be held accountable by the way. 17 So business recruitment, we are building a 18 list of those addressable opportunities that fit that 19 target sweet spot that Gil indicated, 40 to 60 20 companies, members hired on an average wages and 21 benefit, low impact to the community and consistency in 22 some way with the needs and advantages Kerr County 23 brings. So we need to build that list, and that's what 24 that money's doing. 25 Marketing and design, we're going to 28 1 continue to update our social media and website 2 presence. Part of that's maintenance and continuing to 3 build the website and integrate some of the property 4 aspects into the website and other things. But it's 5 also to develop a local marketing program. 6 One of the things I believe we've been able 7 to achieve in the last year is a great deal of improved 8 transparency with respect to what the EDC's doing, how 9 that's impacting the community, that's been manifest in 10 a number of ways. We've had community events, we've had 11 stakeholder events, and we've had a greatly enhanced 12 media presence, newspaper, Business Monthly Magazine, 13 and others. That money is going to be used in part to 14 continue making sure that we keep the community involved 15 in what we're doing, so that they're informed and where 16 the community's going from the economic development 17 standpoint. 18 Training is obvious. We need to continue to 19 keep our staff up to date with the latest development, 20 and it is a fast moving industry where training and 21 updates are really necessary. 22 Travel, as Gil said is a little bit up from 23 last year. We anticipate in order to advance deals or 24 to close deals some selective trips to targeted 25 companies to ensure both that they are aware of our 29 1 interest, but also as importantly to be assured that we 2 are understanding what their needs are and how they fit 3 into our overall economic plan. 4 Meals and entertainment is a bit up from 5 last year as well as well. As we are hosting various 6 site selectors in our community. Obviously we want to 7 show Hill Country hospitality like taking them out for 8 meals and sometimes in some cases subsidizing their 9 lodging cost, and that's included within that number. 10 Outside contract services is where we do 11 impact analyses. As we're advancing deals through the 12 pipeline it's important to do the return on investment 13 metrics as far as what the specific impacts of any given 14 opportunity are versus what the asks are to make that 15 opportunity happen, and that's where those numbers come 16 from. 17 There's a couple conferences we want to 18 attend. Both to enhance our exposure, but also to learn 19 more about what's going on. One is a national one, 20 IEDC, and one is a Texas one. This allows us to 21 continue the relationships necessary to access ourselves 22 to various funding sources and support forces in order 23 to close deals, particularly in the case of Texas for 24 those companies who are being asked to come here from 25 other states. 30 1 So that concludes my presentation. We do 2 request favorable treatment of this. I will note that 3 one of the adjustments we have made in the last year and 4 I think has had great positive affect is that we have 5 expanded our Board. There are now two County 6 Commissioners on the Board. 7 We have expanded also the City's 8 participation, City Manager and Mayor are on the Board. 9 That has not been the case in the past. And I believe 10 that the Board that we have in place now is really 11 representative of the community. We've got KPUB who is 12 a funding partner. We've got also ISD, CVB, and three 13 at-large business representatives. This is a very 14 strong Board. 15 This process that got us to today in terms 16 of the numbers was highly iterative. I think 17 Commissioner Letz can attest to this. We got sent back 18 many times to revise, to reshape and to re-explain, and 19 so far we've had favorable responses from the EIC and 20 KPUB on this proposal. 21 So pending your questions, that concludes my 22 brief this morning. 23 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, thank you. 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Judge, I'll make a 25 comment, and I think it won't be a secret that I was 31 1 fairly critical of KEDC and several years ago. And a 2 lot of my criticisms, I think that they have corrected. 3 They are much more transparent than they used to be. 4 They increased communication with County, which was my 5 biggest concern. I think they're Gil is doing a really 6 good job. 7 So I just want to make a comment that I 8 think that there is a -- it's a large budget increase 9 percentage-wise, but I think it's -- you know, they kind 10 of have done what we've asked as a Commissioners' Court, 11 and I think we need to then turn around and fund them 12 and give them the opportunity to perform, and support 13 their budget. I presume, I think, the EIC did support 14 it? 15 MR. KOENIG: Yeah. We've now have support 16 from the EIC and KPUB as well, so again and that in 17 large part because we have had such a great degree of 18 collaboration on this budget through all the 19 stakeholders, and I do appreciate everybody's 20 participation from our Board on that because it did take 21 quite a bit of time and effort to come up with this 22 number. 23 JUDGE KELLY: Well, we thank you for coming 24 and making your presentation. As you probably know this 25 is budget week and we're meeting tomorrow. This is just 32 1 a busy week. And we certainly have you on the agenda to 2 address. 3 Is there anything else we need to address 4 today? 5 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Do we formally have to 6 approve the budget? We have to approve the funding 7 amount, but do we approve the budget itself? 8 MR. KOENIG: We at the KEDC Board? 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We as the Commissioners' 10 Court. 11 MR. KOENIG: I don't recall what we did last 12 year. I think -- 13 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Well, I'll make a motion 14 that we approve the Board and the funding request. But 15 I real can't do that, can I? We can't approve the -- 16 well, I'll approve that we include the amount in the 17 budget of forty-nine thousand -- 18 JUDGE KELLY: It's in the proposed budget. 19 And we approved it to be in the proposed budget. We 20 just have to finalize our budget. 21 MR. KOENIG: Very good. Well, if there's 22 any additional information you need from us, or support 23 for that process, please let us know and we'll be part 24 of that. 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'll withdraw the 33 1 motion. I don't think that we need that. 2 JUDGE KELLY: I think that we've already 3 done it. 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And I don't think we 5 need to approve it. I don't recall the Interlocal 6 Agreement saying we approve the budget. 7 JUDGE KELLY: We've got it in our proposed 8 budget and we should be done here within a week or so on 9 the expense side of the budget. 10 MR. KOENIG: Well, it's an exciting time for 11 our county, and I'm really looking forward on 12 capitalizing all the opportunities that we have and 13 others that we don't even know about yet. And thanks 14 for your support as always, and we appreciate the 15 collaboration. 16 JUDGE KELLY: And we thank you for your 17 efforts. 18 MR. KOENIG: Thank you, Sir. 19 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, next item on the agenda 20 is item 1.3 consider, discuss and take appropriate 21 action to approve the optional $10.00 County Road and 22 Bridge fee for 2020 vehicle registration per request 23 from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. Mr. 24 Reeves. 25 MR. REEVES: Good morning, gentlemen. 34 1 Section 502.401 of the Transportation Code allows the 2 County to charge a fee not to exceed $10.00 when 3 registering a vehicle. The $10.00 fee is dedicated to 4 the County Road & Bridge fund. 5 According to the Department of Motor 6 Vehicles during the 2018 calendar year Kerr County 7 collected $560,850.00 from this fee. We must approve as 8 a County this fee prior to September first of each year, 9 and the fee would then become effective on January first 10 of the following year. 11 In your handout, I copied the section of the 12 Code regarding this optional county fee. I will say to 13 the best of my knowledge we've been collecting it for at 14 least six years, if not longer. And I respectfully 15 request that you approve this $10.00 optional fee to 16 fund the Road & Bridge Department, and the fee would be 17 effective January first, 2020. 18 (Commissioner Belew is present.) 19 MR. REEVES: After your approval, I would 20 forward the court order to the DMV. 21 JUDGE KELLY: Could you repeat the number, 22 what was amount again? I wanted to write that down. 23 MR. REEVES: During the 2018 calendar year; 24 not a fiscal year, but the calendar year, $560,850.00. 25 JUDGE KELLY: Okay. 35 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'll make a motion that 2 we approve the optional $10.00 vehicle registration fee 3 per Section 501.401 in the Transportation Code. 4 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. 5 JUDGE KELLY: It's been moved by 6 Commissioner Letz, seconded by Commissioner Harris to 7 approve the $10.00 optional fee, which will go into the 8 Road & Bridge fund. Any other discussion about this? I 9 think we need the money in Road & Bridge. So with that 10 those in favor raise your hand. It's four zero, 11 unanimous. 12 Mr. Reeves, you got the next item on the 13 agenda also, which is 1.4 consider, discuss and take 14 appropriate action to approve and authorize the County 15 Judge to sign the Interlocal Agreement between Kerr 16 County and the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles for 17 provision of Equipment and Consumables. 18 MR. REEVES: Yes, Sir, thank you. As you 19 know that Kerr County acts as an agent for the DMV 20 regarding the administration of car titles and car 21 registration. The DMV provides all of the equipment 22 that is necessary to handle these transactions, and the 23 equipment includes computers, printers, monitors, and 24 the server which handles this system. They also provide 25 the IT support. The equipment is housed in our main tax 36 1 office, as well as the Annex. 2 They also provide consumable materials such 3 as the forms, the license, toner, sticker paper, and 4 various advertising materials. The DMV is requesting us 5 this year to execute an Interlocal Agreement between the 6 parties. I will say that this has not be done in the 7 past. Probably the last agreement was done when it was 8 still part of the Department of Transportation; not DMV. 9 And what I've learned from my colleagues in 10 other counties was that when the DMV went through the 11 Sunset review. This is one of the things that they 12 found that they should be requiring, so that's why the 13 interlocal agreement is being presented today. 14 The County Attorney has reviewed and 15 approved the Interlocal Agreement, and I request the 16 Court approve the agreement, and authorize the County 17 Judge to sign. 18 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, any discussion? 19 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'll make a motion that 20 we approve the Interlocal Agreement with the Texas 21 Department of Motor Vehicles as presented, and authorize 22 the County Judge to sign. 23 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 24 JUDGE KELLY: Been moved by Commissioner 25 Letz, seconded by Commissioner Belew to approve the 37 1 Interlocal Agreement. Any further discussion? Those in 2 favor raise your hand. Unanimous, four zero. 3 MR. REEVES: Thank you, gentlemen. 4 JUDGE KELLY: Thank you. 1.5 consider, 5 discuss and take appropriate action to approve the 6 renewal of the TAC HEBP, that's Texas Association of 7 Counties-Health and Employee Benefits Pool, medical and 8 dental plan for fiscal year 19/20 for employees and 9 retirees. Miss Doss. 10 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Good morning. 11 Gentlemen, I believe you received this packet earlier at 12 one of the budget workshops, and I think you wanted to 13 get a little further along in the budget process before 14 making a decision of signing it officially. 15 So there's a 3.8 percent increase in the 16 premiums, and I think y'all were hoping to be able to 17 absorb that in the employees. Zero increase to the 18 employees equates to about a $10,600.00 increase per 19 month based on current participation in the program. 20 And annually we're talking about 128,000. 21 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Jennifer, any given 22 year, and I don't if you can answer this off the top of 23 your head. Any given year we have employees that change 24 their coverage, they have time off, they quit, they 25 leave, whatever. What on average is saved through that 38 1 process? 2 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Saved? 3 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Uh-huh. 4 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: I don't know about 5 savings. I would say the majority of employees have 6 employee only coverage, so if you replace an employee -- 7 COMMISSIONER BELEW: It stays about the 8 same? 9 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Yeah, I would think so. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I mean I would recommend 11 that we keep the plan as is with no changes. 12 JUDGE KELLY: That means no increase to the 13 employees with the medical and dental coverage. 14 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right. But there's also 15 several options that we could take that change the 16 deductible and things of that nature, and I'm 17 recommending that we keep it the same. 18 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So you are recommending 19 that we not go -- vote for the 3.8 percent increase? 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: No. We do the increase. 21 We do the renewal. We're not changing the plan 22 structure. 23 JUDGE KELLY: Keep the plan the way it is. 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right. 25 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Four percent increase. 39 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right. I'll make a 2 motion that we approve the medical and dental plans at 3 the current plan structure. 4 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Attaboy. 5 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Attaboy. 6 (Laughter.) 7 JUDGE KELLY: Commissioner Letz has made a 8 motion -- 9 (Mrs. Lantz raising hand.) 10 JUDGE KELLY: Go ahead. 11 MRS. LANTZ: I'm just wondering if there's 12 been any increase, and just what part of it? 13 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: About four percent. 14 COMMISSIONER BELEW: That's across the 15 board, isn't it? 16 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Well, for our area. So 17 it's 3.8 for the medical for our County, and 4 percent 18 for the dental for our County. 19 COMMISSIONER LETZ: So the employee rate for 20 the dental went from 2382 to 2476, so it's a dollar, a 21 little over a dollar, or little less than a dollar a 22 month for the employee part. 23 JUDGE KELLY: So that we're all clear though 24 that the motion that Commissioner Letz made is to 25 approve the plan as is with the increased rate. 40 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Right. Correct. 2 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. 3 JUDGE KELLY: Commissioner Harris has 4 seconded the motion. Any other discussion? 5 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Pretty big increase. 6 That could cut into something else later on. 7 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: It will. 8 JUDGE KELLY: What do we do? 9 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I'm just putting that 10 out there so everybody would be mindful of it. That 11 four percent is a pretty big part of our budget. 12 JUDGE KELLY: Okay. Any further discussion? 13 Those in favor raise your hand. Opposed? Unanimous, 14 four zero. Thank you, Miss Doss. 15 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Thank you, Sir. And I 16 gave the contract to Commissioner Harris. If y'all 17 could pass that down. 18 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, got that. Next item on 19 the agenda is 1.6 consider, discuss and take appropriate 20 action to approve supplemental benefit plan options 21 administered by SWBC for employes effective FY 19/20. 22 Miss Doss. 23 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: And I would first like 24 to welcome Terri Perez from SWBC, and she's our broker, 25 and she's worked very, very, very hard to get these 41 1 options, as well as the proposed change to go to move 2 our -- some of our product from Allstate to Mutual of 3 Omaha. 4 We have Jordan Galjour, he's here from the 5 Dallas office to answer any questions that you might 6 have. 7 May I approach and hand these out? That's a 8 summary of the changes. There's more here to read than 9 a bible. Just to highlight some of the changes. The 10 vision plan, we'd like like to keep the Avesis. There 11 has been no rate increase. 12 The basic life, voluntary life, short-term 13 disability, long-term disability, we'd like to move to 14 Mutual of Omaha. And each of these coverages we have a 15 three-year rate lock, which is huge. And actually with 16 a basic life, a decrease in cost in premiums. The 17 voluntary life, they matched the current rate. There's 18 just a lot of pluses here. I don't know how many you 19 want me to list. 20 Basically a two-year incremental increase 21 per year with underwriting. The employee and the spouse 22 can elect equal amounts of coverage up to 300 thousand. 23 A decrease in cost of the child for Life and AD&D. 24 Increase of child's maximum to 20 thousand. We had ten 25 thousand prior to this year. No evidence of 42 1 insurability required for 2019 open enrollment. And 2 they will grandfather any previous amounts currently in 3 force. 4 And with the short-term disability, they've 5 matched the rate. We're going to have election options 6 of 20, 40 and 60 percent benefit, and another huge 7 change is there's no offsets. In the past people used 8 to have like huge sick banks, choose not to take this 9 because they have to offset it with their sick time. So 10 if they have sick time, they can just use their sick 11 time, why pay for additional coverage. 12 But this is saying that you can choose to 13 get 20, 40, or 60 percent, up to a thousand a week of 14 your benefit, in addition to if you have 400 sick leave 15 hours you can use 8 hours a day for that sick leave. 16 And that's it. A huge plus. 17 Again, a three-year rate lock. The 18 long-term disability matched the current rate. Again, 19 that three-year rate lock. No evidence of insurability 20 required for open enrollment. So that's the life 21 insurance. 22 Now, what you consider the aflac plans that 23 we've had with Allstate actually before. The group 24 accident, there's actually been a rate reduction for 25 comparable benefits. No evidence of insurability. 43 1 The group critical illness, we proposed also 2 to move to Mutual of Omaha. You can see the detailed 3 benefits below there. 4 And the group cancer we'd like to keep with 5 Allstate however. We feel the coverages are good and we 6 don't want to move this at the time. 7 So if you have any specific questions about 8 any of these coverages, Terri and Jordan will be more 9 than happy. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: They will be present at 11 our open enrollment? 12 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Yes, Sir. 13 COMMISSIONER LETZ: That's the main thing in 14 my mind is that they're here to explain to the employees 15 the various options, if they want to. 16 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Yes, Sir. 17 JUDGE KELLY: When will open enrollment be? 18 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: August 8th and 9th. 19 I'll be sending out an e-mail tomorrow. 20 And also, I have an agent of record. We'd 21 like Terri Perez to be our broker for MASA. And they'll 22 be no change in coverage or cost. It's just kind of 23 putting it under their umbrella. 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'll make a motion that 25 we approve the supplemental benefit plan options as 44 1 presented, and authorize the County Judge to sign any 2 and all documents related to same. 3 JUDGE KELLY: This is a lot of change, and 4 I'm hearing about it for the first time here in open 5 court this morning, which causes me a little concern. 6 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Well, the changes are 7 saving the county money, saving employees money, and the 8 coverages are equal or better. 9 JUDGE KELLY: I understand what you're 10 saying. 11 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: And I apologize, you 12 know. She's been working the deal up through last week, 13 so we've just been able to get everything signed, sealed 14 and delivered, so it's a moving work in progress, a 15 moving target. But as of late Thursday or early Friday 16 we had the books ready to go, so -- 17 JUDGE KELLY: Well, I think it's pretty well 18 known in the county that I don't like surprises in open 19 court. And I like to be prepared. And I don't feel 20 prepared for this vote. 21 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Is there anyway we 22 could get a comparison of the two? 23 JUDGE KELLY: I'd like a workshop. I want 24 to sit down and discuss it. I know we've got to deal 25 with it. But I don't like having this just thrown on me 45 1 at the last minute, and I don't know what the emergency 2 was that we couldn't know about this before hand, but 3 I'm not happy with it. 4 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: I apologize, Sir. 5 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Well, I'll withdraw my 6 motion then, and then set another workshop. 7 JUDGE KELLY: We can put it on a workshop -- 8 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We can probably do it at 9 another workshop. We can just add it on another -- to 10 one of the other items. 11 JUDGE KELLY: I don't think it will be that 12 long, but I would like explanations before we vote on 13 this. 14 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Also, do we have clear, 15 did you delineate what the savings is in each one, 16 because am I not seeing them? 17 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Well, most of these -- 18 I mean this cost is to the employee. 19 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So it depends on each 20 employee? 21 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Yes. 22 COMMISSIONER BELEW: But you said the 23 county. By that you meant what? 24 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: Well -- what do you 25 think? 46 1 MS. PEREZ: Good morning. In the packets 2 that were handed out there's actually a line item at the 3 very bottom that shows the specific savings of today 4 versus what it looked like. And it's got the actual 5 number on the bottom there. 6 JUDGE KELLY: Which packet are you talking 7 about? 8 MS. PEREZ: That packet in front of you. 9 JUDGE KELLY: Okay. Under which tab? 10 MS. PEREZ: It would probably be the first 11 tab. It should say basic life insurance on the top. 12 COMMISSIONER BELEW: What does it say? 13 MS. PEREZ: Basic life insurance. You want 14 me to come up there and show you? 15 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Sure. Page 2, or tab 16 2? 17 (Ms. Perez at the bench.) 18 JUDGE KELLY: Under this one? 19 MS. PEREZ: Behind that yes, Sir. So this 20 is what you have today, and this is the potential. So 21 today's rate listed are about 14 -- I'm sorry. 1468 per 22 month. Of the renewal would be 1727 if you leave it as 23 is. On an annual basis it's 17,616, approximately. If 24 you renew as is, that would go up to 20,729. If you 25 move over it would go down slightly, negative 1.88 47 1 percent, which is 17285 per year. So it's just like 2 savings to the County. 3 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Thank you. 4 JUDGE KELLY: I'm sorry. Where are you 5 talking about? 6 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Right here. 7 JUDGE KELLY: I'm in tab 2. 8 COMMISSIONER BELEW: After the first colored 9 page, right there at the bottom. Is that the same 10 thing? 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Your book's different. 12 JUDGE KELLY: Tab 2. Here's this one, too. 13 So what I am looking at? 14 MS. PEREZ: At the very bottom, the very 15 dark blue line on the very bottom. 16 JUDGE KELLY: Okay. And what is that 17 supposed to tell me? 18 MS. PEREZ: Can I borrow that one? So the 19 monthly volume, this first blue line right here. This 20 tells you based on the body count what the volume of 21 coverage would be. So today's volume is roughly 5.519 22 million per year. So that's all the employees together 23 included in the volume of life coverage. 24 JUDGE KELLY: I can't find that number. Can 25 you show me where it is. You know what, this one is 48 1 different. 2 MRS. LANTZ: Terri, can I ask you a 3 question? 4 MS. PEREZ: Yes. 5 MRS. LANTZ: Is that all inclusive for 6 voluntary life, too? 7 MS. PEREZ: No, no. This is just the basic 8 life. 9 So we'll just go with this one right here. 10 So the dark blue line is the basic life only, does not 11 have anything to do with the voluntary life. So this is 12 what the County pays for by way of coverage for all of 13 the staff. So simply because they work here and the 14 county provides them with life insurance. 15 So all the body count together, you take 16 that 20 thousand times the number of people that are 17 covered, and gives you 5.5, give or take. So the amount 18 that the county pays per month is about $1,458.00 to pay 19 for everybody to have coverage for life/AD&D. So on an 20 annual basis that runs about 17.6. 21 JUDGE KELLY: And you can see why we need to 22 go over this in detail so we can understand it? 23 MS. PEREZ: Sure. Absolutely. 24 JUDGE KELLY: And we'll try to add to the 25 July 29 workshop that we've already got scheduled. And 49 1 so that'll be Monday, next Monday, and so kind of get 2 things together. 3 I appreciate you guys coming, I really do. 4 I just wish we had advance notice of what we were doing 5 today, so sorry about that. 6 Anything else on this one? 7 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I would say it would be 8 nice to have it up on the screen for everybody. 9 JUDGE KELLY: Yeah, that would probably be 10 good. When we do the workshop, can we get it? 11 MRS. JENNIFER DOSS: I'll work on that, Sir. 12 JUDGE KELLY: That's all of that. 13 Okay, the next item on the agenda -- I'll 14 tell you what, it's ten o'clock. I know Miss Schuster, 15 I think you're ready to go, but why don't we take about 16 a ten-minute break and court will be back in session at 17 10:10. 18 (Ten-minute break.) 19 JUDGE KELLY: It is 10:10, and 20 Commissioners' Court is back in session. Item 1.7 21 presentation and recognition of the 2019 Kerr County 4-H 22 Golf Challenge/First Tee D.R.I.V.E. Team. Carla 23 Schuster. 24 MS. SCHUSTER: Good morning. I'm Carla 25 Schuster, and I am the Special Program Coordinator for 50 1 the Juvenile Probation Department. And one of our 2 annual events that our department helps coordinate is 3 the Texas State 4-H Golf Challenge, and it is hosted at 4 River Hill Country Club. 5 And our sponsors this year were Peterson 6 Health, and we had trophy sponsors, which were Community 7 First National Bank, and Harvey Hills Realty. And we 8 host the State Tournament for the Golf Challenge every 9 year here. It consists of a three-person scramble, 10 they're all juveniles. The kids come from all the 11 counties. Everybody in the state is invited who has a 12 4-H club. So that's a unique thing about this is that 13 it is half of a golf tournament, and then they get to 14 take a test. 15 So Kerr County this year, I have two of my 16 teammates here. Our third one is at camp this week so 17 he wasn't able to come. But we placed second. And I 18 was very, very proud of them because they did really 19 well on their golf, and then they pulled the clutch on 20 their test. So that's how we moved up into second 21 place. And I wanted to introduce them to y'all. 22 JUDGE KELLY: Please. 23 MRS. SCHUSTER: This is Donovan Urban. He 24 is a Junior at Tivy High School. And this is Payton 25 Torchelson, and she is a sophomore at Tivy. And they 51 1 were part of our team. The one that's missing is Owen 2 Martin, and he's like I said at camp. So it's a moment 3 for them to shine for y'all because Kerr County, we came 4 in second. 5 JUDGE KELLY: We're very proud of you. 6 (Applause.) 7 JUDGE KELLY: I think we won first last year 8 and second this year. We're on a roll. We appreciate 9 everything you've done. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Thank you boys, and 11 girl. 12 JUDGE KELLY: 1.8 consider, discuss and take 13 appropriate action to approve Auction Agreement between 14 Trey Garrett and Kerr County Sheriff's Office for the 15 sale of property awarded to Kerr County Sheriff's 16 Office. 17 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: A little more than 30 18 days ago there was a judgment entered in a criminal case 19 where we worked that the suspect stole several hundred 20 thousand dollars of cash from a citizen, and he was 21 found guilty. But the problem was he had purchased a 22 whole lot of equipment with all that cash, so we seized 23 all that equipment in the criminal investigation in the 24 case. It includes over 50 guns, an RV, and a travel 25 trailer, zero turn mower, a Ford pickup truck, just all 52 1 kinds of equipment. 2 In the judgment once he was found guilty the 3 Court ordered that the Sheriff's Office sell all this 4 equipment, and return the proceeds minus our cost over 5 to the victims of the crime. With this type of -- and 6 it's the first time I've been ordered to do that. With 7 this type of deal, I did not want to conduct a sale 8 ourself as the Sheriff's Office. We're not a 9 professional auction company and I did not want to give 10 the suspect in the case a deal to argue that I didn't 11 get enough cash for this, then he shouldn't have to pay 12 more in restitution. Because whatever he doesn't make 13 up in the theft, then he's got -- he's going to be 14 ordered to pay restitution to this victim. 15 And so I would rather a professional 16 auctioneer or auction company handle this sale. Trey 17 Garrett's one of the ones around here that can do guns 18 and all. He does have a license for that. He's given 19 us a contract to handle the sale. I've run the contract 20 by the County Attorney. The only thing she wanted to 21 added to it was the "to the extent allowed by law" under 22 the indemnity. That has been added to the contract. 23 And I would just ask that the County approve this 24 contract so we can go forward with selling all this 25 property through Trey Garrett Auctions. 53 1 COMMISSIONER BELEW: What's the percentage 2 for the auctioneer? 3 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Anything under a 4 thousand dollars -- that goes for under a thousand 5 dollars, he gets 20 percent. Anything over a thousand 6 dollars, he gets ten percent. And it's in the contract 7 itself that spells that out. And he does it online and 8 out at his auction place both. 9 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Well, I move for 10 approval. 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second. 12 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Here's two copies of 13 the contract that both need to be signed. 14 JUDGE KELLY: So this is going to be like a 15 writ of execution sale, but it's going to be conducted 16 by the auction company. 17 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Correct. And all the 18 proceeds from it will go to the victim. And what's kind 19 of interesting is the victim has called us wanting to 20 make sure we notify him when the auction is, he may want 21 to buy some of it, because then he still gets the cash 22 back minus the percentage and the restitution for the 23 rest. 24 JUDGE KELLY: Just like you would at a 25 sheriffs sale. 54 1 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: That's right. 2 MRS. LANTZ: None of that needs to go into 3 the registry, it's going all straight to you, so we 4 don't have that confusion? 5 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Right, no. This is 6 going straight by order of the Court, and each item is 7 listed in that court order. By order of the court it is 8 being sold, proceeds go to him. The cost of the sale, 9 which is actually coming out of those proceeds, his only 10 cost, you know. And we're not paying the extra; it's 11 coming out of proceeds, and then the suspect in that 12 will still be ordered to pay restitution on all that. 13 JUDGE KELLY: Just like a customized court 14 ordered Sheriff sale? 15 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: You got it. 16 JUDGE KELLY: And you delegate it through 17 the auctioneer? 18 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: That's it. 19 JUDGE KELLY: Commissioner Letz, I think you 20 made a motion. 21 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I made a motion and he 22 seconded. 23 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, motion been made by 24 Commissioner Belew, and seconded by Commissioner Letz to 25 approve the contract with Trey Garrett. Is there any 55 1 other discussion about that? Those in favor raise your 2 hand. Unanimous, four zero. And we'll get the signed 3 contract. 4 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Thank you. 5 JUDGE KELLY: Okay. Next item on the agenda 6 is 1.9 consider, discuss and take appropriate action to 7 approve the addendum to the Inmate Telephone Services 8 Agreement between Kerr County and NCIC renewing the 9 original contract for an additional five-year term. 10 Sheriff Hierholzer. 11 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: It's a one page 12 addendum, our contract's up, but it does have in our 13 original contract an ability to extend it. We have had 14 -- this is the inmate phone system where Kerr County 15 actually makes a little profit off of it on the cost on 16 it. Plus we have a couple other things where they've 17 installed what they're already saying in here the video 18 conferencing from the jail to the courthouse with 19 inmates. All that's run through that system. Doesn't 20 cost the inmate or the county anything. It works real 21 well. And since our contract is up, and this is allowed 22 in the contract, and we have had very good success with 23 this company, I would recommend that we extend this. 24 I have given a copy and gone over a copy of 25 the addendum with the County Attorney. She has no 56 1 problem with it. She actually saw the original contract 2 along with it. I just gave y'all the addendum for the 3 backup. And I'd ask the County to agree to it. 4 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: I move for approval. 5 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 6 JUDGE KELLY: Been moved by Commissioner 7 Harris, seconded by Commissioner Belew to approve the 8 addendum for the NCIC contract for the County. Is there 9 any further discussion? 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Rusty, how much does the 11 County make off this contract, do you know? 12 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: You know, I'd have to 13 -- it's a percentage and a cost per deal. What I can 14 tell you is the proceeds in it go into the commissary 15 account because that goes through the commissary and all 16 that. And right now the commissary account balance 17 which as you know has to be used back on the inmates, 18 and for certain supplies, and that's -- it can't 19 supplement the budget in any way, but it does help me 20 keep the budget down when I prepare it. And you know 21 right now that account is well over two hundred thousand 22 dollars, so it's been good. And we make that off 23 whether there are inmates for these out of County 24 inmates we're housing. We're still using that phone 25 system. 57 1 JUDGE KELLY: Okay. Did we vote on that? I 2 forget. 3 COMMISSIONER BELEW: We didn't. 4 JUDGE KELLY: Everybody in favor raise your 5 hand. Four zero, unanimous. 6 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Thank you. 7 JUDGE KELLY: Thank you, Sheriff. 8 The next item on the agenda is 1.10, and 9 this is really more for discussion, but consider, 10 discuss and take appropriate action regarding the scrap 11 tire storage registration notification letter received 12 from Reichhamm LLC in Ingram. And really from TCEQ 13 also. I didn't -- is anybody here? Okay, did y'all 14 want to address that? 15 MR. HAMMIT: How are y'all today, Judge 16 Kelly, Commissioners. My name is Maurice Hammit, I'm 17 the owner of Reichhamm LLC. I'm working through -- 18 JUDGE KELLY: Let make sure we got your 19 name. Say it again. 20 MR. HAMMIT: Maurice Hammit. 21 JUDGE KELLY: Maurice Hammit. 22 MR. HAMMIT: Reichhamm LLC. 23 JUDGE KELLY: And your address here in the 24 County? 25 MR. HAMMIT: Well, what I'm after is 58 1 approval for a tire storage facility permit -- 2 JUDGE KELLY: We're just trying to identify 3 that your a resident of the County here? 4 MR. HAMMIT: Yes, Sir. 5 JUDGE KELLY: And your address? 6 MR. HAMMIT: My address it is 306 Cub Lane. 7 JUDGE KELLY: 306 what? 8 MR. HAMMIT: Cub Lane, Kerrville, Texas. 9 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, you may proceed. 10 MR. HAMMIT: I'm after a registration -- I'm 11 after a permit to store tires. This is part of the 12 process from TCEQ to get y'all's permission and let 13 y'all know what's going on. We have an end game of 14 trying to use tires to restorate(phonetic) property, 15 mine. 16 I mean there's not a lot to it right now. 17 We haven't really done much. We're kind of touching on 18 the waters here in the county, let y'all know what we're 19 up to. Kind of see what your opinions are, your 20 thoughts. I mean it. Do you have anything you're 21 concerned with, or -- 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I guess this is going to 23 be outside Center Point? 24 MR. HAMMIT: Yes, Sir. 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I mean tires are -- for 59 1 lack of another word, for problems with mosquitoes? 2 MR. HAMMIT: Yes, Sir. 3 JUDGE KELLY: What's not? 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: What's the plan? Are 5 you just consuming a big amount of tires? 6 MR. HAMMIT: No, absolutely not. No. What 7 we want to do is we want to store the tires. I mean 8 TCEQ is really not going to let you just lay tires all 9 over the ground. What we're trying to do it collect 10 them, store them in a shed in a building. 11 We have a pest control company that is going 12 to come, if needed, every week. I don't think it will 13 be every week; I think it will be more like 30 days to 14 treat for mosquitoes. 15 Like I satisfied the end game is to get all 16 the permits needed to kind of take the tires, split them 17 in half, and lay them in the ground to help reclaim some 18 of these old mines up and down 27. 19 JUDGE KELLY: To reclaim old what? 20 MR. HAMMIT: The old mines. Like bedrock, 21 you know, where they took the material out, there's 22 nothing you can do with the property. I mean it's just 23 a big hole in the ground, nobody really wants it. So 24 what I'm trying to do is use the tires and soil to bring 25 the elevation back up. 60 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: What is the -- maybe ask 2 the County Attorney. 3 MRS. STEBBINS: Yes. 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: What's the county's 5 authority and rule in this process? 6 MRS. STEBBINS: What's required of him and 7 businesses like him is that they are required to give 8 the landowners surrounding them notice, and the 9 Commissioners notice. The Commissioners' Court has 45 10 days to send comment to TCEQ if we have issues with this 11 business being in the location that he's requesting. 12 And so I just visited with Reagan a little 13 bit about it, and maybe ask that you give us a little 14 more time to evaluate and provide recommendations to the 15 Court on what you're able to do. I don't believe, and I 16 could be wrong, Reagan and I have -- or well I've done 17 this one other time with a former Director, and I don't 18 think this issue has been proposed while Reagan's been 19 here. 20 If we have more stringent controls than the 21 requirements of the State, which likely we don't, but 22 I'm not sure about that, then we can make sure that the 23 State knows. 24 JUDGE KELLY: I think we're required to give 25 notice, and we have the opportunity to comment to TCEQ. 61 1 MRS. STEBBINS: Correct. 2 JUDGE KELLY: We have the opportunity to do 3 that, and the public does also. And so we wanted to put 4 it on the agenda so that the public is aware of the 5 request, and County is aware of the request. I know 6 we've got a similar type business south out off 173 -- 7 MRS. STEBBINS: Yes, Sir. 8 JUDGE KELLY: -- if I recall correctly. And 9 I remember when I sat in those chairs instead of this 10 chair listening to some presentation with regard to some 11 of the problems that they were having out there with 12 regard to that site. And I think it had to do with West 13 Nile virus, so that's one of the reasons that we invited 14 you hear to talk to us about what your plans are so that 15 we can make informed decisions and recommendations as to 16 what the County's official position would be with regard 17 to your request. 18 MR. HAMMIT: Yes, Sir. 19 JUDGE KELLY: So anything you can tell us 20 about what your planning to do out there would be 21 beneficial. 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I would really recommend 23 as it's Commissioner Moser's Precinct, and I would 24 recommend that you get with Commissioner Moser, he's out 25 today, and get him up to speed. And probably use that 62 1 as a time to get information. 2 JUDGE KELLY: That's pretty much our 3 operating procedure here is you go through the Precinct 4 Commissioner where your business is going to be located. 5 MR. HAMMIT: Yes, Sir. 6 JUDGE KELLY: He comes back, that way he 7 gets a chance to listen to it first, and he comes back 8 and tells us what he thinks about it, and we may agree 9 or not agree. But that's kind of the chain of command 10 that we go through. 11 And we appreciate you coming down and 12 talking to us today. And I'm curious about the 13 procedure that you are talking about for splitting 14 tires, and using those as fill for the empty quarries, 15 is that what you're thinking about? 16 MR. HAMMIT: Yes, Sir, that's what we're 17 after. 18 JUDGE KELLY: So you split them and then put 19 them face down so it doesn't collect any water? 20 MR. HAMMIT: There's more to it. I mean The 21 State of Texas has just come about and decided this is 22 okay to do. I know there's a lot of recycling plants. 23 I know what they're doing. They're taking the tires and 24 they're turning it into a product. The problem is that 25 there's so many of them, not just in this state but in 63 1 every other state, selling this product that they're 2 starting to mound the tires at their facility. So my 3 idea was to take land that had no use, I mean, it has no 4 real value anymore. You can't mine it, MSHA won't let 5 you mine it. And try to correct it in a sense that it's 6 at least nice to look at. Maybe possibly if it's not in 7 the lood floodplain it could be sold some day. 8 And I know that TCEQ is holding me 9 accountable for an engineer. There's A CPA involved 10 because there's tonnage versus value back to the County, 11 back to the State. I mean this is just literally the 12 beginning stages, even though we've been working at this 13 for about 9 months, so we have a ways to go. 14 I know TCEQ made it very clear to be 15 transparent with the County, to tell the County what 16 we're doing. I know it has to go in the newspaper, and 17 there's a bunch of steps that we haven't gotten to yet. 18 But step one was this, come in and let everybody know 19 what's going on. I mean I'm sure people are going to 20 have questions, I'm sure the Commissioners are going to 21 want to come see what's going on. The EPA's definitely 22 going to want to know. We're involving UGRA. 23 I mean there's a lot to it. So taking the 24 tires and just saying that you are splitting it, putting 25 it in the ground is not quite it. You're taking the 64 1 tire, instead of grinding it or using heat to incinerate 2 the tire to try to capture the energy from the tire, all 3 of those things are being done, but they're not done in 4 this state, and there's a reason for it, because there's 5 a lot involved, a lot. 6 There's a lot of runoff, there's a lot of 7 silt, there's a lot of carbon that comes back to the 8 ground. Things that I don't think the County is going 9 to to want, especially so close to -- well as you know 10 Memorial Blvd. Right across from the Airport there's 11 the river ten thousand or so feet away, somewhere in 12 there. 13 I had in my mind when I was looking at all 14 this land -- I mean there's elevation drops of 30, 40 15 feet. It's not feasible to take fill from the City of 16 Kerrville, or anywhere else, and try to fill these 17 holes. And what we're trying to do is correct the 18 floodplain. Give, you know, the RV Park and anyone else 19 around, a better view of a nice long canal at the end 20 game. 21 It's not a one-year project, it's not a 22 two-year project. Honestly it's going to end up being 23 over several years. I know they're going to want core 24 samples, they're going to want a lot of things. I mean, 25 this is not just a fly by night deal, it's not. 65 1 173 out there, the tire yard there, you know 2 they tried the same thing. They tried to whole cut 3 tires. And then they tried to sell them as a product. 4 And when that market fell out -- 5 JUDGE KELLY: So we got a bunch of tires out 6 there collecting rain water and creating a health 7 problem? 8 MR. HAMMIT: Right. And here's the solution 9 to that: So I do everything I need to do, I get all the 10 permits I need from the State of Texas, I provide them 11 to y'all. Y'all tell me what else you need added to it 12 to make you happy. 13 I believe there's some road issues, there's 14 pest control issues. None of that in my mind when the 15 facility opens, and the product comes in, and the 16 value's there, it's not hard to take care of. I mean 17 anyone can hire a pest control company to come out, 18 anyone can correct the road. None of those things are 19 the issue. 20 The issue for me, what I'm concerned about, 21 is over 8 or 9 years of putting tires in the ground and 22 burying them, and people come, people go, you know. 23 They're going to want to know what's the standard, what 24 are you going by with each lift, and I understand that. 25 And I've told TCEQ over and over again, I don't mind 66 1 paying, you know, an engineer, like Mr. Hewitt, a 2 density engineer, whatever I need to do to keep the 3 standard stable as we bring the lift up. 4 There's a lot of pits up and down Highway 5 27. Martin Marietta, you know. Bedrock was one. 6 Martin Marietta got a sand and gravel pit right beside 7 it. There's Drymala, which can't do anything with that 8 property. I mean there's a big potential there to 9 correct a lot of land using what everybody in here uses 10 everyday, which is tires. 11 You know, I understand that there's leaching 12 this, or there's carbon that, and I get it. But it's 13 the same thing as you driving up and down Highway 27 and 14 it rains and washing the rubber off into the drainage 15 ditch. I mean it's the same basic idea. 16 What I'm trying to do is take the tire, cut 17 it, and the methane gas as it breaks down within the 18 next 80 years doesn't help it lift to the top. I want 19 to cut it and be able to bury it. Whatever the depth of 20 the tire cut is, whether it's three inches, six inches, 21 whatever the County says I can get away with, will be a 22 matched elevation. It will be a matched lift with soil, 23 it will be compact. 24 I mean it's not -- it's not we're going to 25 put 8 feet of tire in the ground and then 6 foot of dirt 67 1 over it and then call it good. There is a lot put your 2 shoulders when you go for the permit and you pull the 3 trigger on it. So their big thing in Austin, Texas is 4 that I'm honest with the County, upfront with the 5 County, and like you said, y'all have a review. I'm 6 sure you'll be communicating with them. I know once it 7 gets in the newspaper, you know, there's going to be 8 people, they're going to see scrap tire in ground, and 9 they're immediately going to want to call and have an 10 argument with me. 11 But the base thing is, is every individual 12 in here that parks in the parking lot, up and down our 13 river, every time it rains it's running off in your 14 ground, it's running off into the river. Every time we 15 do the Guadalupe cleanup, how many tires do they pull 16 out of the river? Is it 50, 100. I mean does anyone 17 know that number? 18 Discount Tire, how many scrap tires are 19 behind there shop right now holding water? A&A Tire. I 20 know that they have to store their tires. They have to 21 be cut, they have to be done away with. 22 What I'm trying to do is open a facility to 23 use those tires to correct these mines that are not 24 mines anymore. I can't go make a hole to put tires in. 25 There's plenty of holes out there up and down 27 to do 68 1 this. I just need it done systematically where it makes 2 sense, and 30, 40 years from now there's not a crater in 3 the ground. 4 JUDGE KELLY: Well, just so that you know, 5 we're not here today to judge; we're here today to 6 listen to your notice. And you've taken a very good 7 first step in getting Mr. Hewitt on board because he's 8 one of our respected engineers here in our community. 9 MR. HAMMIT: Yes, Sir. 10 JUDGE KELLY: But this is going to be -- I 11 think it's going to be an arduous task with the public. 12 MR. HAMMIT: Yes, Sir. 13 JUDGE KELLY: And so what we are is we're 14 representatives of the public and we're making sure that 15 everybody knows what's going on. And we will involve 16 our Environmental Health and Engineering Department to 17 work with you on this. And I feel certain that we will 18 be communicating with TCEQ also. 19 MR. HAMMIT: Yes, Sir. 20 JUDGE KELLY: So we welcome the opportunity 21 to collaborate together, and work what is in the best 22 interest of the community. 23 MR. HAMMIT: Thank you. 24 MRS. STEBBINS: I think we have until August 25 29th to make comment to TCEQ if you all would like to do 69 1 that. 2 JUDGE KELLY: August 29? 3 MRS. STEBBINS: Yes, Sir. 4 JUDGE KELLY: Do we need to put it on -- 5 MRS. STEBBINS: The notice that I have in my 6 hand is the one that went to Kerr County Environmental 7 Health and that was dated July 15th, and the rule says 8 45 days after the applicant mailed notice, so that's the 9 date allowance. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: It is August 26th. 11 JUDGE KELLY: So we'll put that on the 12 August 26th agenda, okay? Jody's not here but I'm 13 making a note, and remind me to remind her. We'll put 14 that on the agenda for August the 26th. 15 MR. HAMMIT: Thank you. 16 JUDGE KELLY: And good luck. Anyone else 17 here to speak on that? This is an opportunity. 18 Okay then let's go to item 1.11 consider, 19 discuss and take appropriate action on request to allow 20 the Texas Archeological Society Archeological Field 21 School exclusive use of Flat Rock Park; not the Dog Park 22 area, from June 10 to June 20 for use as an overnight 23 camping area for their group. The TAS has a contract 24 with the Hill Country Youth Event Center to use River 25 Star Park during this time. Jake, I know you're going 70 1 to make this presentation on -- 2 MR. WILLIAMSON: On their behalf, yes, Sir. 3 Good morning, and thanks for taking the time to discuss 4 this today. We have contracted with a group, Texas 5 Archeological Society, to use Flat Rock -- or excuse me, 6 River Star Park next June for their event school. 7 They've selected a site outside of Kerrville, and they 8 need a place for a very large group to primitive camp 9 overnight, which we allow in River Star Park, for this 10 endeavor. 11 Upon their recent dig site in Palo Duro 12 Canyon they've had great response to this. People want 13 to come to Kerrville. Their registration is looking to 14 top over five hundred people for next year. 15 With that, we have taken the proactive 16 approach that we will need more space than River Star 17 allows. The closest adjacent property of course would 18 be Flat Rock Park. Being this is primitive camping, 19 this group understands that they would like to work with 20 local vendors -- 21 JUDGE KELLY: This is going to be primitive 22 camping? 23 MR. WILLIAMSON: Primitive camping. 24 JUDGE KELLY: I've done that before. 25 COMMISSIONER BELEW: But you'll have 71 1 port-a-potties. 2 MR. WILLIAMSON: Correct, we'll have 3 port-a-potties, and trash service Just to make this 4 work, because River Star has those facilities. If they 5 need more they can -- 6 JUDGE KELLY: This is going to be modified 7 primitive? 8 MR. WILLIAMSON: Modified, correct. 9 JUDGE KELLY: I feel a little better about 10 that. 11 Mr. Williamson: There will be no power. 12 They will produce no generator lights, things of that 13 nature. They do want to stay as a group the best they 14 can. Of these five hundred people that they expect to 15 register, many will also stay in hotels, many may bring 16 RV's and camp in the campground as well. We're just 17 trying to ensure we have enough space for those that 18 elect to do modified primitive camping. 19 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So if there's tents all 20 over the place in the bigger part, Flat Rock Park, 21 people still be able to launch a boat, take a stroll 22 through there, whatever? 23 MR. WILLIAMSON: And that's up to the Court. 24 With the boat ramp being outside the fence, I would say 25 that that's of course allowed. They would like to have 72 1 sort of at least an area. They will have camp directors 2 that will monitor this area throughout the day as the 3 rest of the group is out at the dig site. So it will 4 never been left unattended. They just need the space. 5 And the Dog Park area of course would be open as well. 6 JUDGE KELLY: And I would also encourage you 7 to talk to Commissioner Moser about this. He very 8 zealously protects Flat Rock Park, okay? So keep him in 9 the loop. 10 MR. WILLIAMSON: Absolutely. 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think we've done 12 similar -- I don't know we need to block the whole park, 13 but I think it'll be dependent on if we have an actual 14 count on how many we're looking at that maybe, you know, 15 corner off a spot. 16 The other thing I can remember, that time of 17 year is a flood prone time, early June, and that's going 18 to be a consideration. It could be the last minute 19 close. I mean depending on the weather. 20 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Did I understand you to 21 say, Jake, that this is a backup plan, or you're just 22 going to put them there? 23 MR. WILLIAMSON: Because of the registration 24 numbers that we're looking at, we need to be proactive 25 and get the extra space. 73 1 JUDGE KELLY: So the primary's going to be 2 at River Star Park. 3 MR. WILLIAMSON: Right. 4 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Some will be camping in 5 River Star also? 6 MR. WILLIAMSON: Yes. 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Maybe will can all get 8 in River Star. I mean River Star's pretty big, which 9 would be a better facility because of the fence. 10 MR. WILLIAMSON: That's why the contract is 11 with us to begin with. That's why we're happy to 12 welcome them to town. We're just trying to be proactive 13 knowing that it looks like overflow is to be expected 14 already. 15 JUDGE KELLY: I don't really foresee a 16 problem, but I would suggest you get with Commissioner 17 Moser, he loves details, and get back with us and put it 18 back on the agenda. And this doesn't appear to be 19 anything that will be a problem. 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And probably closer when 21 you have an idea of the number of campers. I mean if 22 it's going to -- if there's a hundred they can probably 23 be in River Star. If there's five hundred you'll 24 probably need additional. 25 JUDGE KELLY: You can report back and will 74 1 be warmly received. 2 MR. WILLIAMSON: Okay, I will. Thank you. 3 JUDGE KELLY: Thank you. 1.12 consider 4 discuss and take appropriate action to authorize the 5 County Judge to execute Change Proposal 68 to the East 6 Kerr County/Center Point Wastewater Project for 7 additional wastewater system connections. Mr. Hastings. 8 MR. HASTINGS: Change Proposal 68 includes 9 connections for the Center Point ISD consisting of 10 10 services, 25 septic tank abandonments, and 267 linear 11 feet of extra length to the sewer service for the lump 12 sum of $89,419.31. Per the Kerr County sewer connection 13 policy, any cost over $4,600.00 per connection will be 14 the responsibility of the property owner; therefore, 15 this total amount would be split, and we've got 10 16 connections. $46,000.00 to the project that will be 17 paid for with our contingencies, and $43,419.31 would be 18 to the Center Point ISD. 19 County Engineer recommends that the Court 20 authorize the County Judge to execute Change Proposal 68 21 to the East Kerr County/Center Point Wastewater Project 22 for additional wastewater system connections in the 23 amount of $89,419.31 subject to accepting reimbursement 24 of $43,419.31 from the Center Point ISD as their portion 25 of the work. It's in Precinct 2. And the Center Point 75 1 ISD Board will be meeting on this later this week 2 Thursday. 3 There's a push to get this done this summer 4 before school starts. The quote that we got from Pesado 5 for this work assumed that they would do this work 6 before school starts. The school's aware of that, we're 7 aware of that. That's why we're asking today before 8 Center Point ISD has made any kind of decision on this, 9 and we can get -- 10 JUDGE KELLY: When does school officially 11 start in Center Point? 12 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: The 15th of August. 13 JUDGE KELLY: We're close. 14 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I visit with 15 Commissioner Moser on this. We had a couple of 16 questions, he and I both had about the need -- not the 17 need for it. It was just -- it was taken out of the 18 original contract because it was an unknown. That 19 probably needed to do a change order. 20 And I'll make a motion to approve the change 21 order as presented, subject to Center Point ISD paying 22 their portion. 23 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 24 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, motion's been made by 25 Commissioner Letz, seconded by Commissioner Belew to 76 1 approve and execute the necessary paperwork for Change 2 Proposal 68 to the East Kerr County/Center Point 3 Wastewater Project to include the reimbursement from 4 Center Point ISD. Any other discussion? Those in favor 5 raise your hand. Unanimous, four zero. Thank you. 6 1.13 consider, discuss and take appropriate 7 action for the Court to set a public hearing for 10 a.m. 8 on September 9, 2019 for a revision of plat for Elmwood 9 Lots 1 through 5, and parts of 6 and 7, Volume 5, Page 10 330, in Precinct 2. Mr. Hastings. 11 MR. HASTINGS: Thank you. This proposal 12 revises 6 lots into 4 lots. All lots are currently 13 served by septic system. Lots 1R and 2R will be 14 accessed from FM 480 by a common driveway. Lots 4R and 15 6R will be accessed from Elm Pass Road. 16 The County Engineer requests that the Court 17 set a public hearing for 10 a.m. on September 9, 2019 18 for a revision of plat for Elmwood Lots 1 through 5, and 19 parts of 6 and 7, Volume 5, Page 330, Precinct 2. 20 COMMISSIONER BELEW: What is the water 21 source? 22 MR. HASTINGS: They're on a water system 23 over there already. 24 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So this is okay as far 25 as -- 77 1 MR. HASTINGS: Yes. And additionally, 2 because they're taking -- you know, their lots are 3 getting bigger, so they're going to have less lots. 4 That's a good thing, we like that. And there's still an 5 opportunity to get them on the sewer system. 6 And this lot configuration will make what we 7 do in Phase 2 of the sewer system less sewer pipe, so 8 it's a win-win. 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I move for approval. 10 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 11 JUDGE KELLY: Is September 9 the correct 12 date? 13 MR. HASTINGS: I got September the 9th at 14 10 a.m. 15 MRS. DOWDY: Is that Labor Day? 16 COMMISSIONER LETZ: No. Labor Day's the 17 second. 18 MRS. DOWDY: Thank you. 19 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, let's go back over here. 20 Okay, motion's been made by Commissioner Letz, seconded 21 by Commissioner Belew to approve setting a public 22 hearing for 10 a.m. on September the 9th, 2019 for 23 revision of plat for Elmwood Lots 1 through 5, and 6 and 24 7. Any other discussion? Those in favor raise your 25 hand. Unanimous, four zero. 78 1 1.14 -- thank you, Charlie. 2 MR. HASTINGS: Thank you. 3 JUDGE KELLY: Consider, discuss and take 4 appropriate action to accept a $500.00 donation from the 5 Kerrville Junior Service Guild. Reagan. 6 MR. GIVENS: Good morning. The Kerrville 7 Junior Service Guild donated $500.00 to the shelter 8 actually toward the end of last month. I missed it on 9 the last agenda. But re there was no particular 10 designation for it other than to our department. So it 11 was very nice of them and wanted to say thank you. 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I make a motion to 13 accept the donation of $500.00. 14 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. 15 JUDGE KELLY: Been moved by Commissioner 16 Letz, seconded by Commissioner Harris to approve and 17 accept the $500.00 donation from the Kerrville Senior 18 Service Guild. Any other discussion? Those in favor 19 raise your hand. Unanimous, four zero. And please 20 thank them for us. 21 1.15 consider, discuss and take appropriate 22 action to approve Nomination Committee selection of the 23 County employee to participate in the Kerr County 24 Leadership Class of 2019-20, and submit application to 25 Kerrville Chamber of Commerce. Miss Soldan. 79 1 MRS. SOLDAN: Good morning. The committee 2 that you authorized, which was the County Attorney, the 3 HR Director, and myself met and we have an applicant 4 that we would like to bring to you for approval, which 5 would be Carol Macetta with the Crime Victims. 6 JUDGE KELLY: Okay. 7 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I move for approval. 8 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second. 9 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, been moved by 10 Commissioner Belew, second by Commissioner Letz to 11 approve Carol Macetta to attend Kerr County Leadership 12 Class 2019 and 20. Any other discussion? Those in 13 favor raise your hand. Four zero, unanimous. Thank 14 you. Don't go away. 15 MRS. SOLDAN: No. 16 JUDGE KELLY: 1.16 consider, discuss and 17 take appropriate action to approve payment of the 18 Director's and Officer's insurance for the Kerr County 19 Bail Bond Board. 20 MRS. SOLDAN: Awhile back, might be three 21 months ago, I came to the Court to ask for you to accept 22 the Bail Bond Board as an official board of Kerr County. 23 You did that. And the purpose of that was for us to try 24 and find the Director's and Officer's insurance for the 25 Board as there have been a couple of other counties -- 80 1 one most recently that went through a lawsuit and then 2 realized they didn't have insurance that protected the 3 entire Board. 4 The Occupations Code 1704 designates who is 5 on that board, and it's mostly elected officials with 6 the addition of a licensed bail bond surety practicing 7 in the county, as well as a criminal defense attorney. 8 And those are the two that TAC has declined to offer 9 insurance to the county for the Bail Bond Board because 10 the board is not a political subdivision which means 11 that we can't have county insurance covering the entire 12 Board. It would cover everybody that's an elected 13 official, except for those two, the bail bond surety and 14 the criminal defense attorney. 15 So we've had to go out and get quotes for 16 other insurance policies, and I've received a quote. 17 It's $750.00 per year. The Board does not take in 18 annual funds to cover that each year, and so we're 19 coming to the Court to see if the County would pay for 20 that as the Board is doing business on behalf of the 21 County to license and regulate bail bond companies. 22 JUDGE KELLY: If I understand correctly, 23 those of us that serve on the Board, yourself included, 24 that are elected official are covered under the TAC 25 policy. 81 1 MRS. SOLDAN: Under the TAC policy. 2 JUDGE KELLY: And so the ones that are not 3 covered that are members of that board is is the private 4 bail bond person that we have on there -- 5 MRS. SOLDAN: Uh-huh. And the criminal 6 defense attorney that is also on the board. 7 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Do you know if that's a 8 single payment, Tracy? 9 MRS. SOLDAN: It's an annual payment. 10 JUDGE KELLY: Now, this D&O policy like 11 most, directors and officers liability policy. Is it a 12 reimbursement policy where we have to go ahead and front 13 the contempt cost if pursued, and then go to the 14 insurance company to be reimbursed? 15 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: That's the way most of 16 them are. 17 MRS. STEBBINS: I don't know the answer. 18 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Can we find that out 19 before we decide on this policy? 20 MRS. SOLDAN: I have it here. 21 MRS. STEBBINS: Yeah. I have it here, too. 22 MRS. SOLDAN: I sent it to the County 23 Attorney to review, but that's not one of the things 24 that we were looking at. 25 JUDGE KELLY: Well, those auto liability, 82 1 general liability policies, they actually fund and 2 provide the defense up front. Some of these other 3 policies like D&O sometimes -- especially D&O, the 4 directors and officers, we have to pay for the defense 5 and then we apply to get reimbursed afterwards. 6 COMMISSIONER BELEW: That could be a long 7 process. 8 JUDGE KELLY: Well, you're working with an 9 insurance company. 10 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: A lot easier to buy it 11 than -- 12 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Collect. 13 JUDGE KELLY: Can't live with them; can't 14 live without them. 15 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: They're evil. 16 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Pretty steep premium to 17 me for two people. 18 MRS. SOLDAN: Well, it actually covers the 19 entire board. You can't do just selective people on the 20 Board. 21 JUDGE KELLY: But the TAC got the elected 22 officials -- 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: The rest of them are all 24 covered except those two people. 25 JUDGE KELLY: Any other discussion? 83 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: The County Attorney's 2 looking it up to answer your question, I believe. 3 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Well, I'll tell you a 4 little bit of history on that board. Technically since 5 Kerr County is not over the 50 thousand population mark, 6 but it will be in the next census, the Board is not 7 required by Kerr County. In counties under 50 thousand 8 the Sheriff can decide who writes and who does not write 9 bail bonds and how it's all done. 10 But there's a lot of sheriffs that get sued 11 over that, and get into issues other that, and when I 12 took office 18 years ago we had a Bail Bond Board before 13 under the prior administration and they let it go 14 because they didn't have enough quorum to show up. 15 And so when I took office and looked at 16 that, I decided -- it's optional in counties that were 17 under 50 thousand, and I think for the best liability 18 for the county, I opted to go ahead and create the Board 19 again. And it is set out by the Occupations Code when 20 you create it, who all serves on it, and the board and 21 all that, and that's where we have it. 22 So just so you are aware, I think really and 23 we are over 50 thousand mark now, but I think officially 24 we're at what, 49,600 and something, so it's not 25 technically required until probably after the next 84 1 census. But I would strongly recommend keeping that 2 board going. 3 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Well, do we need it yet 4 then? 5 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Yes. 6 COMMISSIONER BELEW: No, not the board. So 7 if we're going to have the board, we're going to have 8 the insurance and we already have the board. At least 9 one board member got a little squeamish at the thought 10 that we might be open to lawsuits, which I think is what 11 set this whole thing in motion. 12 MRS. STEBBINS: And the insuring agreements 13 say insured person pays on behalf of insured person, and 14 indemnification pays on behalf of the organization, and 15 the organization pays on behalf of the organization. So 16 it pays on behalf of the organization and the insured 17 people. Does that answer the question you asked? 18 JUDGE KELLY: No, but I'll look at policy. 19 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Not in layman's terms. 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Where would these funds 21 come from? 22 MRS. SOLDAN: I've spoken to our Interim 23 Auditor, and he said that he could find it. I didn't 24 ask him where. 25 MR. ROBLES: We have a bail bond training 85 1 and expense account that has $979.00 in it, so we'll 2 take it out of there for now. But we needed to do an 3 adjustment later for what it was originally budgeted 4 for. 5 MRS. SOLDAN: Those funds that he's talking 6 about though is what we collect for licensing fees. But 7 we only collect those every two to three years, which is 8 why I was asking for the County to pay for it, and not 9 necessarily come out of the bail bond board funds that 10 are collected because we can't maintain that annually. 11 MRS. STEBBINS: In the last training that we 12 had was provided by an attorney who this is his 13 specialty. He suggested when we told him this is where 14 we were looking at coming, and it was his suggestion to 15 go to the Commissioners' Court and see if Commissioners 16 would be willing to pay for it as this is what happens 17 in other counties he deals with. 18 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Does this go with like 19 County-sponsored? It's going to be a budget item if 20 we're going to have to do it recurring? 21 MR. ROBLES: Either County-sponsored, or 22 non-departmental. Whichever y'all prefer. 23 JUDGE KELLY: Probably nondepartmental. 24 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Either one. 25 COMMISSIONER BELEW: As long as is doesn't 86 1 end up in the same little thing with K'Star and all 2 that. 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'll make a motion that 4 we approve insurance for the Kerr County Bail Bond Board 5 in the amount $750.00 -- 6 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: -- for the funds to come 8 from an account -- 9 JUDGE KELLY: Been moved by Commissioner 10 Letz, seconded by Commissioner Harris to approve the 11 purchase of directors and officer liability insurance 12 for the Kerr County Bail Bond Board. Any further 13 discussion? Those in favor raise your hand. Four zero, 14 unanimous. 15 MRS. SOLDAN: Thank you. 16 MRS. STEBBINS: I'll get you that policy, 17 Judge. 18 JUDGE KELLY: 1.17 consider, discuss and 19 take appropriate action regarding Information Technology 20 operations and use of RxTechnology. We do have 21 executive session as needed, but I think -- 22 MR. MOTHERAL: I've got a contract here. 23 JUDGE KELLY: I think we can handle this 24 part in open meeting. Yes, Sir. I need you to identify 25 yourself. 87 1 MR. ELLIOTT: Paul Elliott, RxTechnology. 2 Meeting with IT, looking at the security services for 3 Kerr County, we did a review, identified that overall 4 things are running pretty well, but there are a couple 5 of areas to address as you move forward. 6 But currently with proliferation of malware 7 and other things that get on the system network, we're 8 offering a security protocol to be able to handle the 9 firewall, the external sites to make sure that you're 10 secure there. We have an engineer to handle those 11 services. 12 E-mail security for prevention and viruses 13 or links, making sure that things are safe before they 14 get to the images here in the County. I think it's 15 around 350 mailboxes. That's generally how things get 16 in. Spoofed e-mail, it looks like it's from somebody, 17 but it's actually just they're pretending to be that 18 individual. We do have protection against that so you 19 don't get those from outside. 20 And the firewall, and also some engineering 21 hours, additional are for working with Bruce to handle 22 or identify some issues that he's not able to escalate 23 and he can work with us to get those taken care of. 24 JUDGE KELLY: Okay. I'm trying to get my 25 head around exactly what services are being provided, 88 1 and also to identify the services that aren't being 2 provided so that I can evaluate. 3 MR. ELLIOTT: So in this particular 4 agreement we're just providing services to Bruce in the 5 sense of e-mail security for the front end, the volume 6 that's going to run through to be filtered and 7 processed. And the second part is to handle the 8 firewall. 9 Those are just some -- if there's feed-in or 10 other connectivity between the different offices and 11 making sure that that runs smoothly, and that is 12 maintained, patched and -- 13 JUDGE KELLY: That's one of the external 14 perimeter security for the county system? 15 MR. ELLIOTT: Yes, Sir. 16 JUDGE KELLY: The internal is still operated 17 internally with our IT Specialists, is that right? 18 MR. ELLIOTT: Yes, Sir. 19 JUDGE KELLY: So you keep the External safe, 20 and they take care of everything internal? 21 MR. ELLIOTT: Yes, Sir. 22 JUDGE KELLY: Is that a pretty good way for 23 me to understand what we're talking about? 24 MR. ELLIOTT: Exactly. 25 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Like the wall around 89 1 the Court. 2 JUDGE KELLY: Right. The Great Wall of 3 China, hu? 4 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Well, we wanted you to 5 go in circles. 6 JUDGE KELLY: True. 7 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So has this contract 8 been reviewed by the County Attorney, Bruce? 9 MR. MOTHERAL: No, not yet. 10 MRS. STEBBINS: No. The last contract that 11 I reviewed I gave over to Bruce on Thursday, Monday, or 12 last week? 13 MR. MOTHERAL: Yeah, this needs to go back 14 to her. 15 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I don't think we can 16 take any action with it right now. 17 JUDGE KELLY: So I know we've got you up 18 there right now, but I kind of have to look at Bruce. 19 What's the overall plan? They're going to provide the 20 external security, and then we're going to handle 21 everything -- 22 MR. MOTHERAL: Everything inside of that. 23 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, and we got the next item 24 on the agenda, which is on the Information Technology 25 Manager position, so why don't I go ahead and call it at 90 1 the same time. Please don't leave. I don't mean to 2 keep you stranded. 3 MR. MOTHERAL: No worries. 4 JUDGE KELLY: Let's go ahead and call 1.18 5 consider, discuss and take appropriate action regarding 6 the Information Technology Manager position. 7 And so help me understand how we're taking 8 RxTechnology internally and how we're going to meet our 9 needs. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Not people, just -- 11 MR. MOTHERAL: What we're trying to do is 12 leverage their expertise on top of what we already have. 13 And that's strictly all it is, is a leverage. So that 14 we're protected from the outside, and we continue to 15 maintain and move forward what we need to do on the 16 inside. 17 COMMISSIONER LETZ: So any time anybody gets 18 an e-mail, goes on the web, does any of that stuff, it's 19 going through your company? I mean -- or you're just 20 monitoring how it's set up? 21 MR. ELLIOTT: So a lot of that goes through 22 the firewall, which is the entry point to your network 23 that's exposed externally, so you get dinged all over 24 the world to your servers, that firewall protects that. 25 It looks it up and filters all that information. 91 1 We're making sure that that's up to date. 2 You mentioned the Great Wall of China earlier. It's a 3 moving target. Everyday you hear about something new, 4 there's some new vulnerability of something else. So we 5 monitor that. 6 There's patches that we can apply in a 7 timely manner, a maintenance schedule so we're not 8 interfering during the day. We looked externally at 9 your firewall to see what's going on and make sure that 10 it is blocking, that it is being secured, so we're 11 checking that. 12 And then as far as e-mail goes, this is 13 going on a layered approach. We just don't say there's 14 one size fits all, right. We have to work together to 15 come up with this. And the e-mail is it's becoming 16 more -- it's to a point where you really have to look at 17 every single e-mail before it gets in, because it's 18 getting -- it's getting very sophisticated in how they 19 approach that. 20 As an example, right, the Sheriff might get 21 an e-mail that happens to be from Judge Kelly and 22 responds to it like oh, I need to do this, and it opens 23 it it up or looks in the file, and then it backs in the 24 system and then goes from there. 25 With those sophisticated attacks anti-virus 92 1 is not effective. Typically anti-virus is fooled 70 2 percent of the time in the real world studies. So in 3 that particular instance we just check it off before it 4 gets there. Is it going to be something new next year, 5 five years down the road, sure. But like I said it's a 6 moving target, so we just try to stay ahead of that, 7 make sure that external threats are stopped at the 8 perimeter. 9 JUDGE KELLY: Bruce, what I'm trying to 10 understand, and by the way, let me just stop right here 11 and let you know that the County it is very pleased in 12 working with RxTechnology and the way you came in and 13 helped us with the security audit. We've been very 14 impressed, so we thank you for that. What I'm trying to 15 understand now, Bruce, what is it that y'all were doing 16 that they're going to do for you? 17 MR. MOTHERAL: Okay. A lot of this was done 18 by John on his own, and he's no longer here, so we have 19 to still be able to do those things. 20 JUDGE KELLY: So what was it that he did? 21 What are we talking about that they're doing. 22 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Let me interrupt here 23 real briefly. Here's the deal. These guys have the 24 nuts and bolts day-to-day that Bruce and all rest of the 25 IT department, and they're at somebody's desk and 93 1 they're fixing the problems with all the help desk 2 stuff. 3 And with RX, you have a bunch of different 4 experts, depending on what the threat may be, all of 5 whom have a field of expertise. Some of them are 6 general practitioners, some of them are very fine point 7 on what they to, and they're at our disposal, which is 8 the reason I like this continuing our relationship with 9 RX, which we have already established. 10 And rather that having just a one-person, 11 John, who was kind of a, God bless him, a workaholic. 12 And there was a lot of conflict because of how it was 13 handled. Now we have an array of people that can 14 perform that, and basically without interruption of 15 service. That's the concept. 16 So we got our guys taking care of the 17 day-to-day, and you guys can correct me if you feel or 18 add to this and put a fine point on it if you want to, 19 but that's basically what we are looking at. It's like 20 going to a legal firm, and this guy is a specialty in 21 that and so on. You got them all there at your 22 disposal. 23 JUDGE KELLY: You got the company. 24 COMMISSIONER BELEW: You got the company. 25 And that's why I think this is a happy little marriage. 94 1 We can continue with these guys, and then because if, 2 for example, regardless of who's the next IT Director is 3 named, it's still a colossal effort because this 4 continues to grow. This isn't a job you take on and it 5 stays static; it's nonstop. 6 And Paul can tell you, one of the things 7 their company does is watch for changes or patterns or 8 something that looks a little bit out of the ordinary in 9 who's trying to go log into the county system. So there 10 may be a pattern we wouldn't see, a kind of algorithm 11 that they're going to be watching for, and that's their 12 expertise. And if we had to put one man on the job all 13 the time,I mean he or she would never get any sleep 14 anyway. 15 MR. ELLIOTT: Yeah. If I could -- like you 16 said a little finer point is we do -- we do work like 17 this a lot, and it's a hand in hand. So we break it 18 down into tiers, so we have tier 1, and 2, and 3 of 19 engineers, right. So the tier 1 is everyday stuff, my 20 outlet's not working or something. 21 And then tier 2 is a little more 22 complicated, and tier 3 would be engineering. Firewall, 23 high-end layers, network layer stuff, right. I'm not 24 that smart; I'm in sales. But those guys, you don't -- 25 that director position is somebody that you need to be 95 1 very proficient in that area, but you don't know, like 2 me, I don't know, if they understand firewalls or they 3 understand this, that or the application layers. And 4 then you go out and hire that person and you find out 5 that they don't do this job or that job well, but you 6 don't know until after really. 7 In our -- the way we operate well is because 8 we have those different proficiencies. We put those 9 guys -- you have a team of individuals that cost less 10 than a single individual that you are not sure of their 11 abilities. 12 JUDGE KELLY: I got that. I guess where -- 13 and I apologize, I was out of town late last week, but 14 after our workshop, I think it was on Wednesday, I 15 looked at a preliminary contract that looked like it was 16 a turn-key operation. 17 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Which has been refined. 18 JUDGE KELLY: Well, I understand that. I'm 19 trying to understand, we went from turnkey to a 20 perimeter security contract, so I'm trying to understand 21 what's in this deal and what's out. 22 MR. MOTHERAL: Okay. What we had taken out 23 of that original agreement was that the day-to-day stuff 24 that we can still handle ourselves. That was really the 25 crux of what was taken out. 96 1 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Local control? 2 MR. MOTHERAL: Yeah. All of our in-house 3 stuff we can still handle ourselves. 4 JUDGE KELLY: It looked like to me, and I 5 hate to be talking about the old contract because 6 apparently we're not going to renew the old contract, 7 but it looked like to me that that was going to be in 8 lieu of bringing in another IT person. 9 MR. MOTHERAL: Correct. 10 JUDGE KELLY: And this is not in lieu of 11 bringing in another IT person? 12 COMMISSIONER BELEW: It could be. 13 MR. MOTHERAL: Could be. 14 JUDGE KELLY: Could be. Just depends? 15 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Could be. 16 MR. MOTHERAL: Could go either way. 17 COMMISSIONER BELEW: You see, the thing is 18 that things have been going well. We're very pleased. 19 JUDGE KELLY: Been going very well. 20 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Going very well. So 21 adding this second line of defense, or first line, 22 depending on which way you want to look at it, is an 23 inexpensive way to have that backup. 24 JUDGE KELLY: Just to keep us secure. 25 COMMISSIONER BELEW: That wall around around 97 1 the board, yeah. 2 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: What kind of -- we get 3 a monthly report what y'all found, or what do you 4 provide? 5 MR. ELLIOTT: We can do it anyway you like. 6 We have ongoing, so we have a board that shows realtime 7 so the tickets are submitted to us for the high level 8 stuff showing resolution time and things like that. But 9 engineering tends to take a little bit longer, it's a 10 longer process. For the internal and external 11 perimeter, that could be weekly report. I recommend 12 monthly if it's going to be at a high level. Half of it 13 is going to be plain English, and the other half is 14 you'll have to understand that part. We try to be as 15 transparent with that as possible so you'll see that -- 16 you'll see the state and things that we identify that we 17 pick up along the way. You'll see that in that report, 18 so you'll see a problem on one line and the next you 19 should see it cleared up. 20 COMMISSIONER BELEW: The Sheriff wants to 21 talk. 22 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: The only quick question 23 I have, how you many employees does your company have? 24 MR. ELLIOTT: We have about 26. Ten of them 25 are engineering and IT, and we have a construction site. 98 1 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Okay, but are they all 2 going to have the required the DPS clearances and 3 everything else, since they are going to be infiltrating 4 in some way in our system? 5 MR. ELLIOTT: Yes. All of our engineers are 6 security officers. 7 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Oh, they are security 8 officers through DPS, so anybody that -- 9 MR. ELLIOTT: That' might be. I know that 10 there's a long process they have to go and get finger 11 printed. 12 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: They have to all be 13 fingerprinted, criminal history, everybody that even 14 touches this system. I don't know if y'all have other 15 counties that you're doing this for already, because if 16 you do, they should have it, City or County Government. 17 COMMISSIONER BELEW: That probably should be 18 in this document. 19 MR. ELLIOTT: Sorry. 20 COMMISSIONER BELEW: What the Sheriff's 21 talking about, should be in the contract. 22 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Yeah. 23 MR. ELLIOTT: Yeah. 24 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So there's one 25 revision. 99 1 JUDGE KELLY: Obviously we're going to need 2 to talk about this in executive session, and get into 3 the personnel issues. And you're going to have to be 4 involved in making sure that we're okay with the 5 contract, and that we have the requisite certifications 6 and approvals for the personnel. We just have to 7 coordinate with each other on all of that. 8 What else can we do right now? 9 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Can we decide to accept 10 this with whatever revisions and -- 11 JUDGE KELLY: Subject to. 12 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Subject to the approval 13 of the County Attorney? 14 MRS. STEBBINS: I'm not as comfortable with 15 that as I am with something that's a little bit more 16 like time or money, something that's easier to identify. 17 But if we need to go and visit with the Sheriff about 18 the provisions that they're required to have, they're 19 going to touch information, then it may not be something 20 that's quite as -- 21 COMMISSIONER BELEW: It may be that Paul can 22 make a phone call and find that out, said he just wasn't 23 sure. Did I understand that correctly? 24 MR. ELLIOTT: Yeah. Just like where they 25 went through. I mean they had to get a security license 100 1 through The State of Texas. I couldn't speak to the 2 DPS. I know that they had to go and get fingerprinted 3 and go through that process, but I'm not -- 4 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: They've all gotta be on 5 file with DPS in Austin. It'S kind of like Odyssey, all 6 of those people that are employed with Tyler Technology, 7 if they don't have all those clearances, it's a big 8 issue. And so the only thing I would like to see is 9 something in the contract that says they will maintain 10 all those clearances. And with getting that in there, I 11 don't know how that oughta be worded. It may be that I 12 need to contact DPS's legal on what they require in 13 those contracts and make sure we're covered; otherwise, 14 it can jeopardize everything we have with DPS. 15 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Well, this says this 16 proposal's good for 30 days from today so -- 17 JUDGE KELLY: Just so that we don't 18 misunderhear, I think what you --what I want you to hear 19 from me personally, I can't speak for the other 20 Commissioners, but we're interested and we want to 21 pursue this. It sounds like to me we've got some 22 details, and devil can be in the details, we all know 23 that, but details that need to be refined and clarified. 24 And so with that what I would like to do is 25 make a motion that we task our County Attorney and 101 1 Sheriff to work with the Liaison Commissioners, and our 2 IT Director, as well as Mr. Elliott, and whoever with 3 RxTechnology to bring us back a refined agreement that 4 we can adopt. Okay. 5 MR. ELLIOTT: Okay. 6 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second. 7 JUDGE KELLY: So I made a motion, been 8 seconded by Commissioner Letz to task our department 9 heads and elected officials to work with RxTechnology to 10 try to get us a contract that we can sign off on. Is 11 there any other discussion? Those in favor raise your 12 hand. Unanimous. 13 Again, very warmly received. 14 MR. ELLIOTT: Thank you. Thanks for y'all's 15 time today. 16 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Thanks, Paul. 17 JUDGE KELLY: I think we've got about 4 18 items that we're going to need to take up in executive 19 session. 20 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Can I go to the little 21 girls room? 22 JUDGE KELLY: We're going to take a break 23 before we do that. 24 We're going to discuss 1.17 with regard to 25 this contract that we just spoke about. We're going to 102 1 discuss 1.18 with regard to what to do with the IT 2 Manager position. We're going to discuss 1.19 about 3 pending and possible litigation with the County 4 Attorney. And then we're going to discuss salary 5 adjustments for department heads for Environmental 6 Health, Veteran Services, Victim Services and Human 7 Resources. And some of those department heads want to 8 speak to us, and so we'll do that in open session. 9 Let's take a five-minute break. Come back 10 at 20 after. 11 MRS. STEBBINS: Before you do that. You'll 12 need to vote to go into closed session to discuss the 13 contract. 14 JUDGE KELLY: Right. What I'm trying to do 15 is get us about a five-minute break, and then we'll come 16 back in and hear from department heads that want to 17 address the Court, and after that go into executive 18 session with regard to any discussions with regard to 19 contracts, employment matters, litigation. 20 I'll make a motion that we go into executive 21 session. That we take a five-minute break and come 22 back, listen to our department heads with what they want 23 to present to us, and then go into executive session. 24 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 25 JUDGE KELLY: So I've made the motion, 103 1 seconded by Commissioner Belew. Take a break, come back 2 here and hear our department heads and go into executive 3 session. Is there any other discussion? Those in favor 4 raise your hand. Unanimous. 5 Let's come back at 11:20. 6 (Executive Session.) 7 JUDGE KELLY: Court is back in session. 8 Let's quickly to do the approval agenda. We have to pay 9 bills. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I move to pay the bills. 11 JUDGE KELLY: All right, and I second that. 12 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We've got to wait for James 13 to go over these bills. 14 MR. ROBLES: Kerr County to disburse 15 $410,476.54. Airport $1,702.39. Adult Probation 16 $2,282.25. And fund 95 $471.01. 17 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I make a motion to pay 18 the bills. 19 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. 20 JUDGE KELLY: Commissioner Letz has moved, 21 Commissioner Harris has seconded that we pay the bills. 22 Any further discussion? Those in favor raise your hand. 23 Unanimous, four zero. 24 Next is budget amendments. 25 MR. ROBLES: We have four today. First 104 1 one's nondepartmental, we're moving some money around 2 from four different accounts to fund four other 3 different accounts. Most of it's coming out of 4 contingency and into autopsy and inquest, as well as 5 professional services to handle some potential 6 litigation issues. 7 The next one is Sheriff's moving some money 8 into the radio tower. Third is Specialty Drug Court at 9 the request of the Adult Probation to move drug testing 10 money into counseling. And the last is certifying new 11 revenue for insurance proceeds in the Sheriff's and 12 setting up a corresponding expenditure account. 13 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Move we approve the 14 budget amendments as presented. 15 COMMISSIONER BELEW: I have one question. 16 Is the ten thousand dollars for the drug testing? 17 MR. ROBLES: Yes, Sir. 18 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Was there nothing in 19 there before? 20 MR. ROBLES: We had two accounts in there, 21 both funded at ten thousand. They're not using the drug 22 testing this year. They decided that they'd have better 23 use doing the counseling, and so Adult Probation had 24 asked the District Judges, and they both agreed on it. 25 COMMISSIONER BELEW: That's drug testing for 105 1 probation, or through -- 2 MR. ROBLES: It's for the special program 3 they will have that the -- 4 MRS. STEBBINS: The Drug Court. 5 COMMISSIONER BELEW: The Drug Court. 6 MRS. STEBBINS: Uh-huh. 7 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: It has nothing to do 8 with the Sheriff's Office; this is Drug Court. 9 MR. ROBLES: Yeah, Speciality Drug Court. 10 COMMISSIONER BELEW: But that's probation. 11 MRS. STEBBINS: Yes, that's accurate. 12 MR. ROBLES: And drug testing is provided 13 out of a different fund that's in Adult Probation. This 14 one's more for counseling. 15 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Okay. 16 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, Commissioner Letz moved, 17 and I'll go second that we approve the budget 18 amendments. Any further discussion? Those in favor 19 raise your hand. Four zero, unanimous. 20 Late bills. 21 MR. ROBLES: We have two of them. One's for 22 Pesado Construction, and the other is for civil 23 engineering construction. I think the contract we have 24 with them is once we get reimbursed for this, we have 25 five days to pay it out, and we got reimbursed last 106 1 Friday after the packet already closed. 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Move for the East Kerr 3 project, I move for approval. 4 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 5 JUDGE KELLY: Commissioner Letz has moved, 6 Commissioner Belew has seconded that we approve the 7 payment of late bills. Any further discussions? Those 8 in favor raise their hand. Unanimous, four zero. 9 Monthly reports. 10 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Yes. We have four of 11 them. Animal Services, Director Reagan Givens. 12 Indigent Services, Director of Human Resources, Jennifer 13 Doss. Constable Precinct 4, Gene Huffaker, and 14 Treasurer's report, Tracy Soldan. 15 I move for approval of the monthly reports. 16 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 17 JUDGE KELLY: Commissioner Harris has moved 18 that we approve the monthly reports, seconded by 19 Commissioner Belew. Those in favor raise your hand. 20 Unanimous, four zero. Auditor reports. 21 MR. ROBLES: No, Sir. 22 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, Court orders. 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes, we have court 24 orders from the July 8th meeting, Court orders 37564 25 through 37583, and court orders from our July 15th 107 1 meeting, 37584 through 37586. I move that we approve. 2 JUDGE KELLY: I'll second that. Any further 3 discussion? Those in favor raise your hand. Four zero, 4 unanimous, court orders are approved. 5 Any other business, Sheriff? 6 SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: A report from the 7 elected officials. I think there's three things that 8 I'd like to mention real quick. One, just to get 9 something straight is the arrest of a Deputy last week, 10 and just to let you know what happened, is that officer 11 was off duty. Had been off for a couple of days, went 12 to pick up his car off-duty, his patrol car, while it 13 was getting some scheduled maintenance on it. He picked 14 it up and then he backed into a stopped vehicle at a 15 stop sign. 16 I was on my way over here that morning, so I 17 went ahead and stopped by. It don't do any damage to 18 the other vehicle at all, zero. Did a total of $401.00 19 damage to the back bumper of the patrol unit. I noticed 20 that things just didn't appear correct with the officer, 21 been an officer for about four years. 22 So under my protocol if a deputy hits 23 another vehicle in any way, shape or form, I require DPS 24 to work those. I asked DPS to come out and work it, and 25 I asked them to this also test him, and they did and 108 1 showed he was intoxicated at the time. He was actually 2 terminated before he was even booked into the jail. He 3 sat in the drunk tank for awhile until he could make 4 bond. 5 But I think that needed to come out 6 correctly compared to what you hear. And in my entire 7 38-year career this is the third one of those we have 8 ever had; there was not two in one month. One of our -- 9 I don't mind saying this, the Daily Times presented that 10 we had two in one month; we hadn't. That was over a 11 year ago the one before, and I don't appreciate the way 12 it came out. I always address things straight up and 13 straight forward, and make sure we're open about it, but 14 we do handle it. All three of those I've ever had in my 15 career lost their jobs immediately. 16 Now, other thing is my Administrative 17 Assistant Miss Nancy Robinson who we know, and has been 18 with me since the day I took office, and has been with 19 the County a couple years before that, gave me her 20 official retirement notice effective August the 30th. 21 So I might walk out then, too, because I don't know 22 how -- I'm not sure how I'm going to handle things 23 without her, because if I call her Ma and she sends me 24 to my office, and it's going to be -- it's going to be 25 different. So I really appreciate -- the County should 109 1 appreciate the service she's given us, at least during 2 my tenure. 3 And the last thing is my Jail Administrator, 4 Sylvia Foraker has been named to the advisory board for 5 Alamo Area of Council of Government for the State, or 6 their 19 counties, you know, deal for corrections 7 officers, tests, and state exams and everything else, 8 that she's respected enough throughout the State that 9 they asked her and the Board voted to put her on that 10 board, and I think that's great honor for Kerr County, 11 and for her. So those are the three things I have to 12 say. 13 JUDGE KELLY: Thank you. And be sure and 14 express our appreciation for her service. 15 For the County Attorney, if you'll look at 16 5.1, Jody and I have been working on how to be more 17 inclusive in identifying the Liaison Commissioner status 18 reports, and discussions about those reports, and list 19 them each one by -- I don't know if that's satisfactory 20 or not, but we're trying to meet your concerns. 21 MRS. STEBBINS: Thank you. 22 JUDGE KELLY: I don't know if we have any 23 yet, or any Liaison Commissioner reports at this time, 24 but you can see we're trying to identify specifically 25 which ones we're going to talk about. 110 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Judge, I have one item 2 under those -- under that item. Insurance -- I don't 3 know, we had the hail storms, I guess, in May sometime. 4 I've been -- we received a final report from the 5 adjuster from TAC. Looks like it's about $208,000.00 6 worth of damage primarily at the airport roofs. I 7 talked to Charlie a little bit about this, and he is 8 going to help with the RFP for those roofing projects. 9 In our discussion he doesn't think we need to hire a 10 consultant like we did last time. It's something that 11 he can probably work with James on RFP's before we get 12 to that point. 13 We are working -- or Shane and Mary Rohrer 14 at the airport are looking at those. She's looking at 15 the airport, and Shane's looking at some other claims we 16 had just to make sure we're in agreement with the 17 adjustor's report. So all of that is working, and we 18 probably will be receiving about $208,000.00. And the 19 way those work if the cost to do the repairs exceed 20 that, we submit those bills, and get reimbursed for that 21 as well. 22 JUDGE KELLY: Good. Anything else? Any 23 elected officials, department heads, status reports? 24 Okay, then to go back and try to wrap up the 25 public part of our meeting before we go into executive 111 1 session with regard to item 1.20, which that has to do 2 with the salary adjustments for department heads. Any 3 department head that would like to address the Court 4 with regard to any public concerns, this would be the 5 time. If there's anything confidential that's not a 6 matter of public record then we'll take that up in 7 executive session. But anything that has to do with 8 public information, we need to address in the public 9 meeting. So is there anybody who would like to address 10 the Court? Okay, and it is 11:30 -- 11 COMMISSIONER LETZ: We need to vote on one 12 of the items though. 13 MRS. STEBBINS: Before we go into executive 14 session, on the RxTechnology contract, the Open Meetings 15 Act requires determination in writing that deliberation 16 during an open meeting will have a detrimental affect on 17 provisions of the Commissioners' Court negotiations from 18 a third person. I have submitted that to Commissioners 19 Belew and Moser on the 18th, but the Court also needs to 20 vote to go into executive session on that matter. 21 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, then I'm going to so 22 move that we go into executive session. 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'll second. 24 JUDGE KELLY: Any further discussion? Those 25 in favor raise your hand. Unanimous. The Court's going 112 1 into executive session at 11:32. 2 (Executive Session.) 3 JUDGE KELLY: Commissioners' Court is back 4 in session. It is 1:30, and the first action item that 5 we want to have is to revisit item 4.4 on the approval 6 agenda. 7 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: We have a supplemental 8 report we need to approve, and it's the payroll for the 9 month ending 2019. 10 JUDGE KELLY: That's from the Treasurer? 11 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Yes, from the 12 Treasurer. 13 JUDGE KELLY: Payroll approval, and that's 14 the one we left off of our reports? 15 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Right. 16 JUDGE KELLY: And this motion is to include 17 that? 18 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Yes, I move to approve 19 it. 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second. 21 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, it's been moved by 22 Commissioner Harris to supplement the report that we 23 presented to include a payroll approval from the 24 Treasurer's Office, which was seconded by Commissioner 25 Letz. Is there any further discussion on that? Those 113 1 in favor raise your and. Unanimous, 4, zero. 2 Next item on the agenda, we don't have 3 action item on 1.17 regarding RxTechnology. We've got 4 that one done, right? 5 MRS. STEBBINS: Yes. 6 JUDGE KELLY: And then the action item 1.18 7 is a motion to -- 8 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I don't think we need to 9 do anything on that, do we. 10 JUDGE KELLY: We don't to have to anything? 11 COMMISSIONER BELEW: No, I don't think so. 12 I'm going to contact those people. 13 JUDGE KELLY: Contact them and then we'll 14 repost it. 15 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Yes, Sir. 1.19, 16 there's no action item for us to do at this point other 17 than contact TAC and report the claim? 18 MRS. STEBBINS: Yes, Sir, that's correct, 19 and I'll get that this afternoon. 20 JUDGE KELLY: Okay. And then on 1.20, we 21 probably oughta take each one of those individually. 22 And the idea being that County Clerk wants separate 23 orders for each one of these. Not one order, but 24 separate orders. One, two, three, four -- 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: A, B, C, D, whatever you 114 1 want. I make a motion on the Environmental Health 2 Department that we change the title from Environmental 3 Health Supervisor to Environmental Health Director, and 4 that we add a $2,500.00 a year annual stipend, as long 5 as Center Point/East Kerr Wastewater Project is ongoing. 6 JUDGE KELLY: And that's a grant. 7 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think we can do it as 8 a grant. We have have to check with TWDB. 9 COMMISSIONER BELEW: So it's pending. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I think we'll do it as a 11 stipend. Whether it's out of our budget or out of our 12 other budget, we'll determine later. 13 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: Second. 14 JUDGE KELLY: Any other discussion on 15 Environmental Health Director? Those in favor raise 16 your hand. Unanimous, four zero. 17 COMMISSIONER HARRIS: I'll make a motion for 18 the Veteran Service Officer due to her certification 19 she's obtained and by merit a $5,000.00 a year raise. 20 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Second. 21 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, been a motion made by 22 Commissioner Harris, seconded by Commissioner Letz for a 23 $5,000.00 a year raise for Veteran Service Officer. Any 24 other discussion? Those in favor raise your hand. Four 25 zero, unanimous. 115 1 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And then under the Crime 2 Victims Department, I make a recommendation that we 3 increase the salary of the Crime Victims Coordinator by 4 $999.90 annually. And we would increase the Crime 5 Victims Assistant's salary by $600.00 annually. 6 JUDGE KELLY: And that is to be compliant 7 with the grant specifications. 8 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Yes. 9 COMMISSIONER BELEW: Second. 10 JUDGE KELLY: Okay, any further discussion? 11 Been moved by Commissioner Letz, being seconded by 12 Commissioner Belew to increase the Crime Victims 13 Coordinator annual salary by $999.90, and the Assistant 14 Coordinator by $600.00 to complete the amount provided 15 for in the grant. Any further discussion? Those in 16 favor raise your hand. Four zero, unanimous. 17 Is there anything else that we need to 18 address today? Okay, then we stand adjourned. 19 * * * * * * 20 21 22 23 24 25 116 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. Dated this the 9 28th day of August, A.D. 2019. 10 11 /s/DEBRA ELLEN GIFFORD Certified Shorthand Reporter 12 No. 953 Expiration Date 04/31/2020 13 * * * * * * 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25