Travis County Commissioners Court
September 18, 2007
Executive Session
Then we will take this item (40) into executive session under the consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act. By the way, this morning we announced the postponement of 42 and 43. Let's add to that 45. We were notified during lunch by gary martin, attorney, that we could postpone 45 until next week.
>> and 48 also, judge?
>> yes, sir, 48 is postponed also.
>> did we handle 38 already?
>> no.
>> a couple of these, I thought we would take them because we had people. Is 38 the executive manager's item?
>> no, the utility right-of-way.
>> I think john hill will be the one to talk to us on that in open court. I think that is fairly routine. 41 is to receive briefing from county attorney on a construction related erosion event in hays county, associated water quality and environmental impacts on hamilton pool and other natural resources in Travis County, and take appropriate action. That's consultation with attorney exception. 44, receive briefing from county attorney and take appropriate action regarding settlement offer in janice baiting workers' compensation lien case sub row gages. Consultation with attorney the. 46, consider and take appropriate action regarding lease agreements between city of Jonestown and Travis County for space located at 18649 highway 1431. Consultation with attorney and real property exceptions . And number 47, consider and take appropriate action on the potential purchase of real estate along airport boulevard. Consultation with attorney and real property exceptions. We'll discuss these matters in executive session under the appropriate exception but we will return to court before taking any action.
We have returned from executive session where we discussed the following items. Number 40, the proposed resale deed to frank yi. Is there is a motion?
>> judge, I would make the motion that we reject all the bids and had a we advise the county attorney's office to set up a special arrangement for dealing with this particular piece of property.
>> is there a second? That motion dies for lack of a second. There is another motion? Move that we approve the staff recommendation and deed this property, autrize the county dge to sign proposed tax resale deed to frank y i. Is there a second?
>> I second.
>> second back Commissioner eckhardt. Discussion? All in favor of that motion? Show Commissioner eckhardt and judge Biscoe. Those in opposition? Show Commissioner Daugherty, abstentions, Commissioner Davis and Commissioner Gomez. Is that the same as no action? That is the same as no action. Is there another motion? This matter will be back on court's agenda at the appropriate time in the future. Thimport of all of this iso action today.
>> judge.
>> yes, sir.
>> let me ask this. I mean, would it be proper to work with mr. Razee to get his money back to him?
>> that is a separate issue. Absolutely, that is something that I intend to do.
>> okay. That doesn't even take a motion.
>> we are not posted for that item.
>> all right.
>> sorry, you onized and worked hard. The matter is not resolved yet. Turning to the other items that we discussed in executive session. Number 41 is a matter involving the erosion event in hays county. We did get a briefing om st staff. I can't think ofany action required today. Can anybody? We'll have that matter back on at the appropriate time in the future. We did not discuss 42 and 43. We did discuss 44, the matter involving janice bading. I move that we accept the insurance company's offer to settle this matter after the county accept is a 25 percent reduction in our claim that we authorize the county attorney to file lawsuit on Thursday unless this matter has been resolved.
>> second.
>> discussion? All in favor. That passes by unanimous vote. We did not discuss 45. 46 is a matter involng the city of jones town property that Travis County now leaseat 18 18649 highway 1431.
>> judge, the motion would be that we continue to occupy the space through the term of the lease, which is end of September of 2008, and allow the usage by hss.
>> second? Discussion? All in favor. That passes by unanimous vote. Our final item today was number 47, the matter involving the potential purchase of real estate along airport boulevard. I move that we dire stf one la run ate lls make basilly offer or counter oer to sell, that e touch ba wh appropate fincial people at trisounty to ve us so full financiasortingf what it wouta to purchase this property and probably demolish and rebuild to meet the county's needs in the future and hopefully have had a ready next week.
>> second.
>> iscussion? I guess the are oth things that we thof that staff should give us on this matter, we can get it to them. Okay. All in favor. That passes by unanimous vote. There being no further business today.
>> move adjourn.
>> wait, wait.
>> 38 and 39.
>> wait, wait, wait.
>> wait, there's more.
>> okay. On number 38, there is good news thank you all, consider and take appropriate acon n quest from forth belknap electric cooperative foelectric utilit right-of-way easement to serve trav county hoand proper. Jo, the purpose this?
>> is to provide electricity for the drilling operations going out there. You have an entity that is drilling out there and is running off a generator right now. They can work more efficiently if they had electricity coming out to the property. Drilli sincefor oil and other valules that may ell inease the amount moy that our scho dtricts t as a result of ostewardship of this property.
>> hat is correct.
>> questions?
>> move approval.
>> second.
>> discussion in? All in favor. That passes by unanimous vote. Tell our new extension agent that we are working in his absence. Has he started yet?
>> I think so.
>> he has.
>> if not, it will be real soon am tell him we are taking care of hisusess.
>> needs to binoded to the court.
>> yes, sir.
>> there's one more item, which was it sm.
>> 39.
>> yes, 39 is to consider and take appropriate action on adoption of process and schedule to conduct performance evaluations of executive managers and certain other managers. A month so when we looked at this matterwe tkeabout doing ese evaluations. We missed our opportunity in fisc '07 what diin ae-mail was to send out a prosed chedule, and what I tedtoo was pu enoughime inthere f the lf-eation. Edh has helped us in the past and if she is vaable is ar sicallweive almo amont to the executive managers self evaluate. We'd receivetse, give ourselves roughly two eks to prepare our evuaons, give those to edith, and I think she has about a week ten days to compile master valuationsfor us. Then we would couct thos evaluations. I s trying toeat thksgiving. I have recommeed Tuesday before the week of thanksgiving. In the e-mail I ave specif dates. Have ki ospread it out. The other thing that I'm thinking that we may be, whatever actions we propose to take in '08, if any, maybe we ought to go ahead and take them after these evaluations. Historically we have kind of waited until later in the year but I don't know that that was by design anymore than sort of looking up mid summer and realizing the end of the fiscal year was approaching. We can think about that later but if we do these evaluations, we get them done by mid November I ess when you asme about e probability of doing a second evaluion before September 30, iuld ththat very low it maye n oppounity to kil two birds with one stone.
>> this follows the other work that we're going to do on the executive manager for planning.
>> right. Kind of the same time but I'm hoping we can file it.
>> solve the problem.
>> right. The other thing is that I suggested that we do the evaluationa thursd befor thanksgivingthat we stt at nine that morning and kinofgo until we get them done if whave fi and do them 45 nute to an hou we ought beout by mid aftnoon. Do we need to mull over the dates some?
>> that's fine.
>> we retain flexibility to change them if we need to.
>> I move approval.
>> second.
>> anymore discussion? All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote. Now, ms. Porter, we are done for the day.
>> second.
>> motion to adjourn. All in favor. That passes by unanimous vote.. . . .
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