Travis County Commissioners Court
May 13, 2008
Executive Session
I believe that brings us to executive session.I know you thought we would never get there.
25 is to consider and take appropriate action on a request from the city of Pflugerville to purchase 1.443 acres of land that are no longer needed by Travis County or the general public as a result of the realignment of schultz lane at a.w.
grimes boulevard/pflugerville parkway in noofl located in precinct #.
this is under the consultation with attorney and the really property exceptions to the open meetings act.
we did postpone 26 and 27.
28, consider request for waive of conflict of will for holland and knight in its representation of teachers retirement system.
consultation with attorney.
29, consider request of wafer of conflict of interest of vinson and elkins.
30, receive briefing from county attorney regarding legal duties and authority of the Commissioners court concerning application of the Travis County grievance resolution procedures, section 9.257 of the Travis County code.
consultation with attorney exception.
31, receive legal briefing from county attorney and take appropriate action regarding the contested case hearing on the pending application for the expansion of waste management of Texas landfill located on giles road near state highway290 east.
consultation with attorney.
32, consider and take appropriate action on a counteroffer from Texas twenty, ltd, for the sale of parcel number 2 needed as right-of-way in the 2055 bond program, slaughter lane east roadway improvement project located in precinct 4.
that's the consultation with attorney and real property exceptions.
33, receive briefing from county attorney and take appropriate action regarding the pending litigation in Travis County, Texas and state of Texas versus coldwater development, ltd, and rodman excavation, inc., et al.
consultation with attorney exception.
and number 34, receive briefing and take appropriate action regarding reappointment of Travis County fire March mar.
that's under the personnel matters exception and the consultation with attorney exceptions to the open meetings act.
we will discuss these items in executive session but will return to open court before taking any action.
>> we have returned from executive session where we discussed the following items. The land that we need to purchase for 0 particular project.
>> I move we accept their offer of purchase at $315,000.
>> second.
>> discussion?
all those in favor.
that passes by unanimous vote.
we did not discuss --
>> thank you.
>> good luck to you.
we did not discuss items 26 and 27.
they were earlier postponed.
number 28 is the request for wave a potential conflict of interest for holland and night llp and its representation of teacher as retirement system.
do we not see a conflict of interest but we go ahead and consent to its representation of teacher's retirement system anyway.
motion?
that's the motion.
discussion?
was that clearly a motion?
okay.
all those in favor.
that passes by unanimous vote.
29 is the request from vincent n and elkins for waiverrer of its representation of carma of Texas inc., we move to wave this representation of this entity.
>> second.
>> questions?
all those in favor.
that passes by unanimous vote.
we will have this item number 30 back on for last week and enable us to take a further look at the policy as well as apply it to a particular case that is now pending.
31 we discussed also.
basically the scheduling order.
did we say we would have it back on next week?
>> we will get more information and he will bring it back to us.
>> next week?
okay.
then we will have number 31 back on next week also.
and next week is may 20.
of '08.
32 is a matter involving the slaughter lane east roadway improvement project in presink four.
>> I would move we x had the out the $91,000.
>> we offer them 91,000.
>> or offer them 91,000 reject their offer, or their counter and counter with our own offer of $91,000.
discussion?
was there a second?
>> second.
>> second by Commissioner Daugherty.
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
33, the matter involving hamilton pool erosion project, we did get some information today, my notes says postpone until next week.
we'll have it back on for an executive session discussion.
34 is a matter involving a reappointment of the Travis County fire marshal.
I move that we reappoint our fire marshal for a term of one year, commencing may 23, 2008.
second by Commissioner Davis.
discussion?
all those in favor.
that passes by unanimous vote.
that does it for the day.
>> move adjourn.
>> second.
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