Travis County Commissioners Court
September 7, 2004
Item 3
3 is to consider and take appropriate action a budget agenda request forms
from members of the Commissioners court for use during markup.
>> to refresh your memory, you have completed a document
entitled the budget agenda request form which is intended to facilitate discussion
during markup to allow members of the court to identify topics and budget
issues that each one of you wishes to discuss during markup. And since there
are literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of issues, you made check
marks against those that you wanted to discuss at markup which starts tomorrow.
All of the forms were submitted to the judge's office as the presiding officer
and I then took each of those independent forms and put them all together
on to one form. And for the purpose of facilitating markup, we color coded
those. And any time that we saw three, four or five check marks to discuss
an item during markup, we put a yellow band across it -- orange, excuse me,
band across it. Any time we saw two check marks, we put a blue band. And then
everything else we left alone. So this will allow you very quickly to see
where three, four, five of you want to talk about markup and typically as
is our tradition we start markup after a bit of house keeping with those agenda
items that have three, four or five people wishing to talk about them. So
you now have these forms. Hopefully they have been edited and proofed and
they hopefully reflect a perspective of how you wish to start the markup process.
One thing that I did do on my own was just to get a feeling for the magnitude
of your orange marks. And -- because it may or may not have bearing on anything
else you might want to do, and I total $3.2 million of one-time resources
and $2.3 million worth of ongoing resources. I count $3.2 million worth of
one-time resources where three, four or five of you want to talk about it.
I should note that 2.2 of that 3.2 is made up of two large projects. One the
airport project and the other is the gardner betts project. So that --
>> [inaudible].
>> 2.3 million. Of ongoing resources. Now, that doesn't mean
anything other than there's $2.3 million worth of ongoing requests that you
feel you want to talk about. That number could be anywhere from zero to 2.3
million. Just as another exercise, I also added up the blue lines. And on
one-time resources that totals 8.2 million but that's deceiving because 8
million of that is the helicopter. So that's about 200,000 outside the helicopter.
Then there's another million of ongoing resources. And then have you the hospital
reserve which a number of you checked as wanting to discuss. So that's where
we stand and the curtain opens tomorrow morning.
>> christian, on the -- the various items that I would put
in the request category that did not come by way of department hearing, I’m
thinking of the basic needs request, after school. So in terms of check marks,
treat those the same as you would the departmental requests or what?
>> well, actually basic needs is a departmental request.
If you look at item number --
>> did you try to associate each request with a department?
>> yes. Item number 460, reference number 460 on page 19
shows the after-school program. And the basic needs issue that you referred
to is item 487.
>> so the answer to my question -- came up in accordance
to interest on the sheet somewhere?
>> yes. And if it isn't, we have not done our job.
>> and I certainly wouldn't even think that.
>> well, every once in a while we do make this indication.
I should point out tph-pb of those numbers include any compensation issues.
>> > so any compensation issues that have not been acted
on or any compensation issues period?
>> no, any compensation issues that have not been acted on.
>> acted on, though --
>> you have acted on issues that are already in the preliminary
budget. .
>> okay.
>> I’m saying any incremental increase on compensation that
is not in the preliminary budget that you may be discussing is not in the
number that I just gave you.
>> okay.
>> so it would be layered on top.
>> all right. Anything else on number 3? This is scheduled
to begin budget markup tomorrow morning at 9:00.
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