Travis County Commissioners Court
March 14, 2006
Executive Session Items
Any county -- counter points? Then we will convene in executive session to discuss item number 11 under consultation with attorney. I have 5 or 6 legal questions I would like to ask our esteemed legal counsel. In addition, item number 3 is to consider and take appropriate action on a memorandum of understanding from the Texas department of criminal justice regarding a proposed visitation center at the Travis County community justice center. We will need james connelly here for that item. That is consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act also. And my thinking is there are four items posted for executive session discussion, we may as well take those while we're in there, they should be pretty straightforward. 27, consider and take appropriate action on the sale of county owned property located at 9207 johnny morris road located in precinct 1. That is the consultation with attorney and real property exceptions to the open meetings act. 28 receive briefing from county attorney regarding settlement negotiations and take appropriate action involving land owners thomas dshaffer and debra vshaffer. Partial number 3. Consultation with attorney and real property exceptions to the open meetings act. 29, consider and take appropriate action regarding the purchase of an office building located at 5555 airport boulevard, Austin, Texas. Consultation with attorney and real property exceptions to the open meetings act. 30 we announced earlier was postponed until next week. It will be back on on March 21. 31, discuss and take appropriate action regarding lease agreement between city of jones town and Travis County for space located at 18649 highway 31. Consultation with attorney and real property exceptions to the open meetings act. 32, receive legal briefing and take requests for agreement on hewlett packard corporation regarding financial incentives under programs policy, consultation with attorney. A-1, the final item is receive briefing from county attorney and take appropriation action regarding entertainment by j and j, inc. Et al, that is the consultation with attorney exception to the open meetlings act. We will return to open court before taking any action.
good afternoon, we have returned from executive session where we discussed the following iteming number 3, the visitation center at the county community justice center. I move that we direct the county attorney to negotiate with the state lawyers and prepare an appropriate memorandum of understanding which involves option 4 in which the county will take from the housing finance corporation the sum of $50,000 toward implementation of the memorandum of understanding.
>> second.
>> discussion? All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote. Number 11, the sweetwater matter. We do appreciate those who came down to give testimony on this issue. Not only for the input but also for their patients. Again, the county county judge demonstrated his outstanding ability to project how long this court would take in executive session and to discuss different mearts. Commissioner Daugherty, is there a matter?
>> yes, judge, I’m going to make a motion for the approval -- staff approval of 11 (a), (b) and (c), with attachment (b) that we discussed this morning with the change in number 2 where it says may and use whichever legal-ease we want between will and shall and that would be my motion.
>> is there a second? Then that motion dies for lack of second. Let me try another one and that is to approve the phasing agreement with the following three conditions as to highway 71 improvements, construction of streets and drainage in the subdivision shall not begin until completion of construction of the center left turn lane on highway 71 at pedernales summit parkway as required by this agreement and we have referred to those as the permanent 71 improvements. The second condition would be involving wastewater utilities. There may be no occupancy of homes until wastewater from the homes will be disposed of through wastewater lines connected to a completed and operating tceq approved wastewater treatment plant and the third condition involving storm water treatment and commercial tract, issuance of an lcra type one permit for each phase of the subdivision is required before Travis County approval of the subdivision approval plans slash county development permit for that phase, so basically it's approval subject to these conditions being met.
>> second.
>> seconded by Commissioner Gomez. Any discussion of that motion? All in favor, show Commissioners Gomez, yours truly voting in favor. Voting against, Commissioner Commissioner Daugherty and Commissioner Davis, that dies for a lack of a second also. Is there another motion?
>> thank you for your input and participation today. So the equivalent is no action taken on this matter today because no action secured the approval of a majority of the Commissioner's court.
29 involves the potential purchase of the building located at 5555 airport boulevard here in Travis County. And I move that we first authorize the county judge to execute closing documents on behalf of Travis County and that we authorize staff to proceed to closing on March 30th, 2006, and I understand that these two will satisfy the auditor.
>> second.
>> discussion? All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote. We did not discuss 30 as that was proposed. Number 31, the matter involving a little disagreement with the city of Jonestown over property that the county is leasing from them. Move that we authorize Commissioner Daugherty to represent Travis County in the negotiations with the city council or the city manager there or mayor about this matter and report back to the court as appropriate.
>> second.
>> discussion? All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote. And action number 32 I move that we authorize the county attorney to proceed with designating an appropriate reinvestment zone and take other steps necessary to enter into a tax abatement or tax rebate agreement if there's a difference there, for the two centers that hewitt packard plans to do and that we otherwise move forward with a county financial incentives program policy at a 60% abatement rate conditioned upon the capital investment and jobs as promised in writing and I’ll get another copy of that confirmation to members of the court as well as did we put in the backup the city of Austin newspaper clippings? I can get those too. The newspaper reported those. Yeah.
>> two separate agreements, judge?
>> one for each facility.
>> second.
>> any more discussion? And that would be brought back as appropriate or should we -- all in favor? That passes by unanimous vote.
>> did we do all the corporations?
>> yeah.
>> now, the other one that's kind of delicate is a-1, the j and j incorporated versus rufino versus luke mercer. I move that we increase our offer to settle this matter to $40,000.
>> second.
>> that we authorize the county attorney to communicate that and do any other reasonable steps possible to try to get this matter behind us and also that we communicate with our legislative consultants soon about making sure that we chat with the legislature about trying to address this issue for Travis County and other counties in Texas.
>> second.
>> seconded by Commissioner Davis. Any more discussion? All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote.
>> move we adjourn.
>> and that is --
>> second.
>> -- our business for today. All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote.
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