Travis County Commissioners Court
August 17, 2004
Executive Session Items
By my record that takes us to executive session. 31 is to discuss and take appropriate action on the health and human services lease facility located at 5546 highway 290 west. That's the realtime property to the open meetings act. 32, receive briefing from the county attorney in Travis County et al versus tim wolf and associated, incorporated, ted biggerstaff resale deed, and take appropriate k. Consultation with attorney exception. 33 is to receive briefing from the county attorney and Travis County et al versus williams artramease, lee and esther resale deed and take appropriate action. That's the consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act to the open meetings act. 34, receive briefing from county attorney and take appropriate action concerning the extension of administrative leave for precinct four constable's office employee. That's the that's the consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act and the should be personnel matters exception, although they have number four, which is security.
>> i'll bet it's three.
>> let's just announce all four. Consultation with attorney, personnel matters and security exceptions to the open meetings act.
>> 35 an a, consider and take appropriate action on request to determine value of 4.38-acre tract of county land at 4001 state highway 620 for purposes of calculating annual rent for the solid waste transfer station located on the tract, and 35-b, receive briefing from county attorney regarding unpaid back rent. That's the that's the consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act and the real property exceptions to the open meetings act. 36, receive briefing from county attorney and authorize county attorney to accept, reject or counter settlement offer and take appropriate action in sally decker versus Travis County and stephen l. Williams in his official capacity. That's the consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act exception to the open meetings act. 37, receive briefing and take appropriate action on ferguson and tuscany way extension project. Consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act. 36, receive legal briefing and take appropriate is on I am implementation of Travis County hospital district. Consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act. 39, consider and take appropriate action on request for investigation into various issues regarding -- do we need that item? I did not follow through on what I said I would do. I will do that this week, though. I don't think we need 39 unless somebody else has something. And the a-1 is to receive briefing from county attorney regarding settlement negotiations on claim received from keystone construction, incorporated for work at northeast metro park and take appropriate action. Consultation with the attorney exception to the open meetings act also.
>> do we need to discuss 23-b separately or is that going to be covered by the hospital district?
>> 23-b is --
>> the maxwell contract. We didn't act on it.
>> I’m not sure they'll be ready, but they may be in there. I think we can cover it with the other one.
>> I just need to be sure we didn't need to come back out and redo.
>> we'll discuss in executive session, but return to open court before taking any action.
we have returned from executive session where we discussed the following items. Number 31 involving the county property at 5546 highway 290 west.
>> judge, I would move that we authorize -- to executed a new lease agreement at our 5546 highway 290 west that houses our county health clinic for a five month period. With the ability to have win-month extensions beyond that -- one-month extensions beyond that point in time. Any discussion? All in favor that passes by unanimous vote. Number 32 involves a recommended resale deed to ted biggerstaff. I move that we authorize the execution of this deed by the county judge on behalf of the Travis County Commissioners court to mr. Ted biggerstaff who has paid Travis County the sum of 57 $17 and -- 5712.8 the -- 5,717.89 with a special note that they conveys number 2 and not number 1 and 3. And 1 and 3 will remain in the ownership of Travis County.
>> second.
>> and it's the clarification on that, judge, is the amount that actually will come to Travis County is 3,912.58, the balancings to Leander? I think that's how it was worded.
>> that's fine with me. We never do that. We always just --
>> whatever. Okay.
>> that is the division, but the total will be 5,717.89.
>> got it. Okay. Discussion? All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote. Number 33, involves the proposed -- the proposed resale deed to lee and esther montoya. And they have paid Travis County the sum of $6,411 and 21 cents. Move that the county judge be authorized to execute this deed on behalf of the Commissioners court.
>> second.
>> any discussion? All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote. Number 34 involves a request for extension of administrative leave for a precinct 4 constables office employee. Move August 9th to August 18th which will be a total of -- of 9 days.
>> 1 days.
>> a total of 8 days.
>> additional days.
>> August 9th through August 18th. 8 additional days and hopefully the matter will be resolved by then.
>> second.
>> discussion? All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote. We did have a brief discussion on number 35 a and b, we will have that back on in two weeks for follow-up consideration and hopefully action. Number 36, the sally decker matter, move that we accept and approve the counter to our offer in the amount of $65,000 that we authorize the county attorney to execute or draw up the appropriate settlement and release of papers for all parties to execute.
>> second.
>>
>> discussion.
>> as a clarification this is the no rehire counter.
>> yes.
>> just making it clear for the record.
>> you need it back on in a week or two weeks to execute the paperwork --
>> authorize the county judge to execute the paperwork as long as its consistent with our determination today.
>> okay.
>> discussion? All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote. We discussed number 37 briefly. We need to take another two weeks and try to get it done, it will be back on August 31st, '04. We did discuss number 38. Let's try to draft an appropriate letter to the board of managers to the court and have that ready for court review. Can we have that next Tuesday? Okay. On that one. And on number 39 we have not announced that and we did not discuss it. We do need to recess --
>> a 1.
>> a 1. We did discuss.
>> and on a 1 I would move that we reject the counter offer from keystone construction and offer no --
>> second.
>> which means I guess joe keep negotiating with them. Okay.
>> discussion? All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote. This morning we did discuss under the hospital district the -- the proposed contract with maxwell and ritter on the 23 b 1, I move that we recess that item until 1:00 tomorrow afternoon for further consideration and action. So we will be recessed of the voting session.
>> second.
>> discussion? Sorry about that. All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote.
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