Travis County Commissioners Court
February 10, 2009, 2009
Executive Session
37.
receive briefing from the county attorney and take appropriate action in Travis County, et al v.
daniel william henson (patrick crosby resale deed).
1 consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act.
38.
receive legal advice from and give direction to county attorney regarding offer to settle claims against valdez remodeling and weatherization, inc.
and nautilus insurance company (ophelia milicia claim).
consultation with attorney exception.
39.
consider and take appropriate action on a city of Austin proposal to sell 2.359 acres of land in the historic Moore's crossing district for addition to the onion creek open space project.
consultation with attorney and real property exceptions to the open meetings act.
40.
consider and take appropriate action regarding possible sale of county-owned land off fm 969 in east Austin.
consultation with attorney and real property exceptions to the obey meetings act.
41.
receive briefing from the county attorney and take appropriate action regarding outstanding obligation from kennedy ridge water supply corporation for utility relocation agreement.
consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act.
42.
a, receive legal briefing from county attorney on issues regarding confidential climate assessment and implementation of human resources management department (hrmd) development plan for executive manager of administrative operations and director of hrmd and take appropriate action; and b.
deliberate results of confidential climate assessment and implementation of hrmd development plan for executive manager of administrative operations and director of hrmd and take appropriate action.
both of these are under consultation with attorney and personnel matters exception to the open meetings act.
>> I'm sorry, we will not need 43.
mr.
roger el khoury just called and said we will not need that until next week.
>> we will not need item no.
43, won't announce it.
we will have it back on the court's agenda next week for any appropriate action.
and number 44.
consider and take appropriate action concerning settlement offer regarding payment for star flight services rendered to concepcion huerta and samantha huerta.
this is under the consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act.
to the extent that we need legal advice on a 1, let's announce it, too.
a1.
approve modification no.
2 to contract no.
ps080310ml, employment practice solutions, for additional human resources analysis services.
and a 1 is sort of linked to 42 a and b.
it will be the consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act.
we will discuss these items in executive session, but will return to open court before taking any action.
and there is backup on item 42.
We've returned from executive session where we discussed the following items. Number 37 involving the proposed tax resale deed that we received from patrick crosby in the action by Travis County against daniel william henson.
I moo of that we authorize the county judge to sign the proposed tax resale deed to patrick ryan crosby who has delivered to Travis County the sum of $4,127.82 in cash.
>> second.
>> discussion?
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
number 38 was a matter involving an offer to settle the claims against valdez remodeling and weatherization inc.
and nautilus insurance company.
I move that we offer to sell and counter to settle for the amount of $95,000.
>> second.
>> discussion?
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
39 is a matter involving the offer from the city of Austin to sell 2.359 acres of land in the historic Moore's crossing district to Travis County for use in our onion creek open space project.
>> judge, I move that we accept the offer for $123,000.
the source is the 2005 bond project or bond program for this purpose, and to authorize you to sign that contract.
>> all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
we did discuss item number 40 and decided to have it back on the court's agenda next week for action and with two alternative sources of funding, of which we'll choose one.
and wait a minute, that's number 41.
>> that was the northridge kennedy ridge water supply corporation item 41.
that will one will be back on next week to identify the source of funding.
40 we discussed and I guess gave general direction to staff and the broker and we'll have that back on the court's agenda.
should -- we'll have it back on next week unless notified otherwise.
how's that?
>> that's fine.
>> okay.
>> 44 is the matter involving an offer to settle an invoice from starflight here for services provided.
I move that we accept the offer to settle for the amount of $10,000, conditioned upon Commissioner Eckhardt's being satisfied along with the county attorney that the documentation and other evidence ascertainable within the next few days corroborates the information we've been provided.
>> second.
>> mr. Connally, did I get that done for you?
>> yes, sir.
>> any discussion?
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
>> 42 is a matter involving the climate assessment provided us by the employment practice solutions firm, and a variety of recommendations.
I think two of which require additional action today.
first motion is for us to appoint Commissioner Gomez and the county judge to serve as a subcommittee of the Commissioners court to work along with ms. Hall and the mediator coach who is selected to implement plan a that we approved at our last meeting.
>> second.
>> discussion?
all in favor?
show Commissioners Eckhardt, Gomez, Huber and yours truly voting in favor.
>>
>> [inaudible - no mic].
>> Commissioner Davis voting in opposition.
>> we have a draft minimum code of conduct, and we have basically indicated acceptable behavior in the workplace and unacceptable behavior in the workplace, and we authorize the county attorney to go ahead and finalize that draft code of conduct for submission to members of the Commissioners court, and if any member has an issue to communicate that or -- to communicate that to the coarpg's office, but we cannot communicate that to one another.
and if it looks like there are significant changes that the court should deliberate on, we'll just have it back on the court's agenda next week.
let's self n impose a deadline of 12:00 Thursday.
and if we have a document that based on our responses is satisfactory, then we'll sign that document for distribution to employees in hrmd Thursday afternoon or at the latest Friday morning.
that's a long motion.
>> second.
>> discussion?
long discussion?
all in favor?
show Commissioners Eckhardt, Gomez, Huber and yours truly voting in favor.
Commissioner Davis abstaining.
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