Travis County Commissioners Court
May 12, 2009,
Item 2
>> good afternoon, good afternoon.
good afternoon.
let's call back to order the voting session of the Travis County Commissioners court.
we have a special item posted this afternoon at a special time.
that's item no.
2.
recognize Travis County employees who completed 20, 25, 30 and 35 years of outstanding service during calendar year 2008.
and we do expect Commissioner Davis to join us momentarily.
let me just begin by saying that we owe all of you a great many thanks, some of you are like me, I was headed from tyler to mexico and ran out of money here in Austin
>> [laughter] 19 years ago.
and I've been here since, and I've enjoyed most of those years.
any other comments from the court?
>> that does it
>> [laughter] any additional comments before we come down?
>> yes, judge.
always -- we are always very excited about bringing to you each year this employee recognition service and, of course, a couple of weeks ago you declared as a court employee recognition month, really, for Travis County.
the employees, of course, received that information and we had the two week period to get ready for today.
so you mentioned, judge, that we're recognizing the services of 103 employees today with 20, 25, 30 and 35 years of service.
but one of the things that's often not really highlighted at this level, but especially at the department level, we have employees who have been acknowledged for five, 10 and 15 years of service.
although we don't bring those employees to you, we certainly want to lift that not only on behalf of those employees, but also the departments who have recognized their services at the department level.
i always like to take the total number of those who have been recognized and kind of multiply it out and do the math thing and present that to you.
so today of the 103 employees, we have represented 2,240 years of service with Travis County collectively.
and it also represents an average of 22 years of service for each for the entire group that you will be presenting certificates to today.
so, again, on behalf of all of the Travis County employees, we always appreciate the support of the court and I will turn it over to chris nelson, who will guide us through the presentation of the certificates.
>> very good, good afternoon, Commissioners, judge.
just wanted to -- to start with the very top of the milestones and then we will work down.
>> we -- we have our final court member, so we have a full complement.
can I just make one or comment that one of the employees' great friends and supporters suggested that we have light refreshments this afternoon.
ms.
Moore-smith homemade cookies and punch.
and I would have suggested or your friend would have suggested heavy refreshments, but he knew that you would want to get back to work after the ceremony.
>> [laughter] so with that, let's go down front and get ready.
>> all right.
okay, Commissioners court, judge, as everyone comes down to the front, we will start with milestone 35 and we have two employees in that category.
march jerry bell and lieutenant richard grisner.
>> [ applause ] we will move on to -- 30 years, we have mary manor, betty copeland, lieutenant jamie page, debbie rich, dolly day, barbara hart, kim ellenberger, I have gone too far.
these are the 30 years right here -- mary manor, lieutenant page and dolly day.
if you want to mix and mingle.
>> [ applause ] that's great.
congratulations.
now we will move on to 25 years.
barbara hart, kim ellenberger, steven harris, linda doyle, denise george.
christine smith, terri johnson, armindina casteneda, richard kosper, I think that we have a good group here for a picture.
>> one more.
>> come on up.
>> [ applause ] we still have some more 25 year recipients, honorees, sergeant mark downer, sergeant stanley hibbs, laura landrum, amanda shipman, andrew colbert, steven ethridge, jaime garcia, curt nielsen, anthony castillo, anthony hargess, ramon martinez.
25 years.
>> [ applause ]
>> [ applause ] that's at the end, the I pods, susan spitaro for 20 years, doing 20 years now.
susan, charles vince young, john serta, rosa linda garcia.
>> go rose.
>> rose garcia.
go rosa.
>> giselle horton, barbara wilson,
>> [ applause ] louie lemon, julie montoya, I think we have enough here for a picture.
>> [ applause ] more 20 years.
jay david phillips, laura taylor, elizabeth van hoy.
alison benesch, barrett hanson, sally hernandez, joanie, salanonen, Karen, muller, sergeant jeffrey anderson.
donald banks, dale boring, paula cross, stanley dowley, rodalfo escobar, martin, robert frederick.
did you call jerry?
>> not yet.
almost.
>> is this the two year group?
>> [laughter]
>> we have 76 in the 20 year group.
nathaniel gillespie, james gonzalez, richard hale, mark harden, laura johnson, david johnson, charles l.
jones, dwight jordan, alfred le blanc, pete lera, michael manon.
deputy guirellmo martinez.
>> [ applause ] rolando medina, john oman, lieutenant robin on his born, greg raven, bryan ridelle, robert spear, wauneke stuart trotman, yak lynn welch, andrew ybarra, bats, garcia, donna harp, debbie howell, diana lambreras.
>> [ applause ] stella mata, kelly pawn, john chate, kathryn sharply.
>> [ applause ] priscilla thurmon, sylvia mendoza,
>> [ applause ], merriam oswald,
>> [ applause ],.
>> we have a good group here for a picture if everyone can kind of squeeze in together.
>> [ applause ] last group for the 20s, 20 years, ronald phillips,
>> [ applause ], josie arjona, kathy dawkins, geraldine chrone,
>> [ applause ],.
dora ancera, kathleen haas.
>> [ applause ] fred lugos.
>> [ applause ] roberto ortiz.
jo anne spoker.
>> [ applause ] and last but not least, mary williams.
>> [ applause ]
>> thanks.
>> [ applause ] thank you, that's it.
>> [ applause ]
>> that's it.
>> why don't we stand in recess for five minutes.
give them a chance to clear the courtroom and -- and meeting will be in recess for five minutes.
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