Travis County Commissioners Court
October 21, 2008
Item 13
13. Declare certain vehicles and equipment as surplus property and sell at public auction pursuant to section 263.151 of the Texas local government code. Question?
>> I just wanted an opportunity -- I'm sorry that I wasn't able to reach you all before voting session. We tried but there was just too short of a time span. Health and human services had requested a vehicle for their agrilife program, there were a lot of pickup trucks on the surplus list. I'm wondering if there is any possibility of working with health and human services on the possible surplus vehicle.
>> there absolutely would be. That wouldn't be a problem. But we first have to get the fleet manager to determine if the vehicle would be road worthy or not. It would be a vehicle that could be added to the fleet as a surplus vehicle, so --
>> it has been discussed some at budget about getting a surplus vehicle for hhs for that purpose. Is there -- is there -- I'm concerned that we may be listing stuff without having a mechanism to get with health and human services to see if there is a vehicle. I mean they are pulling goats --
>> sure, sure.
>> mac joyce in t.n.r. Is the one who gives us this list of the vehicle that's he's determined are not road worthy.
>> what would be the ramifications of not approving this item today to give it another week to see if any -- because there's a significant number of pickup trucks on this list, to see if --
>> we do have an auction pending for the 26th of next month, I believe. I'm sorry the 22nd of next month.
>> November.
>> November.
>> so would it be a monkey wrench in the works if we were --
>> no. We could wait another week and it wouldn't prevent that from happening. We can still be within our time lines to get our advertising done.
>> if I recall, during the budget hearing, when hhs did request that and in fact it was more than a -- more than a truck they wanted something more like an s.u.v. That could hold passengers --
>> any update for us.
>> excuse me.
>> let me finish my thought. What I'm saying is that the fleet persons were present, if I can recall, during this discussion. At this point I thought -- at that point I thought they had identified a vehicle that they could use to do the thing that they needed to do as far as the services they were rendering. Now, that was my impression. What I remember at the budget hearing that the -- was basically something that had been looked in and taken care of.
>> it's possible --
>> it's possible that it has and that vehicle is not listed on this list. We need to get with mac joyce to verify that.
>> if there's no answer we will take another week.
>> I didn't hear --
>> Travis County planning and budget office. I didn't hear all of the discussion. There was a bunch of discussion going on what would be the best way to handle this. Ultimately during markup the Commissioners court approved a new truck for the Texas cooperative extension. That is in the fy '09 budget.
>> okay. That's what it was?
>> that was the ultimate decision.
>> the ultimate decision.
>> there was discussion due to how it would best be handled. Last year it was handled with a loan vehicle but that was temporary, there were discussions of whether or not that should be continued. During markup one of the days the court approved a new truck.
>> okay.
>> so --
>> [multiple voices]
>> a new one.
>> my apologies for gumming up the works.
>> move approval.
>> second.
>> all in favor? That passes by unanimous vote. Thank you very much.
>> thank you. 17? Do we have the right people here on 17.
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