Travis County Commissioners Court
December 30, 2008
Citizens Communication
Citizens communication is first. This item gives residents an opportunity to address the court on any matter not on the agenda for up to three minutes. Gus pena has signed in as had ronnie reeferseed and philip a. Dick, in that order, the first three.
>> good morning, judge, Commissioners. Gus pena. Speaking on behalf of and also addressing issues from the community. We thank you heavenly father for your goodness throughout the year coming to its close. We praise you for caring for us. We gratefully acknowledge your many physical and spiritual gifts and look to you to supply our needs, especially forgive us our sins. As we mark the transition from one year to the next, grant that we come into more christian living. In difficult days let us count on you. Hear our prayer for the sake of jesus. Give us our peace at the year's end, amen. Judge, Commissioners, again I'm hear to speak on next year's budget. First and foremost, before I forget, Commissioner Daugherty, I want to thank you for your job you've done not only for the precinct 3 folks and residents because I've lived in precinct 3, but I am a native of precinct 4 and proud of it. Thank you for your stewardship. I want to thank terry pickerring. When I was a bailiff at criminal district courts, thanks for everything you and your family have done. I met your mother-in-law and beloved family and proud of your family. Thank you for your help in the community also, terry. Good luck to you in bastrop county. You will be an asset. Budget. Social service agents are needing in funding. The haves and have nots look to the county for help. I told the city council last November, December we're in a recession. Truth be told, we are and it's going to get worse but we can help alleviate the hurt working together with all city and county agencies. The t.i.f. We spoke about the active last week. We look forward to more discussion on the t.i.f. I don't know of anybody who wants to buy a structure not on the land, but the funding the city of Austin wants us to -- or wants the county to assist them with. Captain louie white passed away on Sunday. May he rest in peace. He try to to recruit me for the Austin police department in 1974. May he rest in peace and to your I have would and children and family, our condolences, but I want to thank you who men toward and tutored me. You are going to be missed. Thank you, mr. Raymond diaz for helping veterans and their families in time of need and helping the youth, especially in christmas. And for helping with rent and et cetera and other things other people would not have helped with. Pray for and support our military personnel. To protect veterans jobs, ptsd, screening, more mental health treatment, for funding for other issues. Last item mentors for students in math.
>> [speaking in spanish] god bless you. Thank you for all your stewardship and help in the community. God bless you.
>> thank you, mr. Pena.
>> thank you, gus.
>> mr. Reeferseed.
>> okay. Hey, ronnie reeferseed here saying happy new year everyone and yes, now is yet another chance for me to visit this year sixth street and campaign for dr. Ron paul and again ob-gyn dr. Ron paul has delivered over 4,000 babies. And by the way, he came pretty close to delivering our nation back to our sacred constitutional. Meanwhile, our biggotted zionist controlled media banks or complex somehow hijacked miss hillary trader from the democratic ticket. Because they want the republicans to win this time. Ms. Felony and her truly evil husband will now only be several heartbeats away from officially regaining power. But once again peace and freedom, constitutional enthusiast can only provide guidance from the sidelines through our ongoing, ever extrapolating ob-gyn doctor dr. Ron paul. Now dr. Paul's one man revolution of love for the last 30 years has at least a million reinforcements expanding every day as our economy dissolves. We can all support our devoted service personnel, many returning home with life altering traumatic brain injuries by finally demanding that they get the full range of best treatments available. How? Well, voters in now 13 states and many, many municipalities have at least decriminalized medicinal marijuana since 1996. My ongoing recovery from my own coma inducing traumatic brain injury has been greatly enhanced with medicinal marijuana. The time is now for all of us to get up and make sure that the safe legal medicinal marijuana is available, is at least an option for doctors to help treat their patients. Only organized crime thrust and their short-sighted trial lawyers get any short-term benefit from on ongoing war on pot smokers. However, conserving topsoil to help feed our hungry future on the planet earth will soon obliterate all delusions about our need to liberate all farmers with freedom. Once again the united states can earn leadership on the world stage by promoting freedom for farmers and to help save family farms to help feed our hungry future. I just wanted if I had a moment to share with you guys something from american free press. This list of obama's helpers that are actually all build a burgers. If you don't know what a build a burger is, google it or something, but it's a bunch of criminals who rule our world, are unelected.
>> [buzzer sounding] that includes not only the treasury secretary, paul voelker, rahm emanuel, bill richardson, robert congratulations, tom daschle, janet napolitano or however you pronounce her name, and sue says rice. They are all guilty. Americanfreepress.net is the place to get the information. Thank you for your patience.
>> thank you. Ms. Dick is next and she will be followed by thomas ibarra.
>> good morning. And I'm hoping that everyone had a merry christmas. I'm hear today to not only talk about my -- what has happened to me about my lawsuit and everything, trying to sign my orders and judgment and here it is 2008 going out and I still haven't found it. And I got this information from ms. Amelia rodriguez's office. And they are saying that they have no file for order of judge patrick okeel on November 23, 2004. And I have an investigation going right now. I'm trying to find out what in the world did happen to him because that file, he was the very first judge who presided over the case. And it says that the information they sent me was about judge laura livingston's orders on November 23, 2004. And this statement here claims and shows that ms. -- judge laura livingston was the second judge in this trial. I have talked with ms. Clara at abc news and she even wanted to know, well, you know, ms. Dick, it's very strange that like the second judge's orders are there and everybody else's judges are there and judge patrick okeel was the only judge really who presided over the case, where is his orders? So I am still in search of those orders, final judgment and orders. I would like to see them. Ms. Alvarez, which is judge patrick okeel's clerk, said he wasn't in court that today to take the recording of the trial, but that's not true, he was. He claims that ms. Latonya thomas is the clerk and she has written a statement to ms. O'neill stating she was not the clerk. And that on November 23, 2004, this statement states that I was not in judge laurie livingston's courtroom either. That's not true. So I would like all of this here, you know, revealed and I would like to find out what did happen to judge keel and my orders. I'd like to know were they destroyed? What happened to them? Tampering with the evidence. I also would like to pay my respects to captain louis white. I've been knowing mr. White ever since I was a child coming up. And his mother lived right there on chestnut by the creek. And me as a child growing up and born and raised here in Austin, Texas, the children wasn't allowed to play in that creek.
>> [buzzer sounding] but I would play in that creek with those other children and I would get told on and I would get whipped. Okay? And punished. And this is what you call raising of the community. Because he can -- you know, that family could tell something on you, you wouldn't get talked about or whatever, your parents would take care of it because they trusted what the community said about that child. Nowadays you might get shot for something if you go over and tell somebody about their child because they don't want to hear about it. Thank you. You all have a very -- a happy new year's too.
>> thank you, ms. Dick. You too.
>> I didn't get to mention about jennifer. Ms. Jennifer gale.
>> mr. Ibarra.
>> hello, judge and Commissioners. Again I'm here with a short, brief request for the indigent and the homeless and regards to jennifer gale. If you all would see it in your hearts to do a plaque for jennifer and make available to the land at the expo center during this wintertime as a camping site under the jurisdiction where you would have a patrol of us out there and there are some of us who would be willing to pay on a nightly basis, on a dayly basis on a safe place to camp because there's many homeless men and women over the age of 60 who just cannot deal with certain restraints of the homeless shelters around our county. And just sad to say that jennifer gale passed away, a former marine and see it in your hearts to do some kind of plaque or memorial out there because that's the way she was. Thank you.
>> thank you.
>> thank you, mr. Ibarra.
>> judge?
>> yes, sir.
>> if you don't mind, I would like to maybe have a moment of silence for the passing of captain louis white this Saturday and have a moment of silence for captain louis white's family who is going through this trying period of time. So at this time I would like to have a moment of silence.
>> amen.
>> thank you.
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