Travis County Commissioners Court
March 10, 2009,
Executive Session
We have come to executive session.
and what we need is for dieks eksstein in his best judgment to determine whether or not he thinks a full hour is needed on item 23.
and if not, we will give him whatever time he thinks he needs.
do do have a lot of executive session items, so these may take us awhile.
>> 36 can be pulled unless you have objections to that.
>> the understanding that we reached a few days ago is still in effect.
then we will not take up item 36 in executive session.
and only put it back on if it is needed in the future.
we will not do 25 either.
we will get to it this afternoon.
26 is to receive legal briefing from county attorney regarding office of parental representation and office of child representation and take appropriate action.
that's the consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act.
27, receive legal briefing from county attorney and take appropriate action in Travis County et al versus roland and mary anne peloza, sandhya and harsh zadoo resale deed.
consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act.
number 28, receive briefing from county attorney and take appropriate action in settlement offer on attorney's fees in reliable consultants, inc., d/b/a dreamers, versus ronnie earl, et al, number a-0-ca-086-ly.
consultation with attorney exception.
29, consider and take appropriate action on the possible disposition of .733 acres, 31,949 square feet of unused, excess right-of-way adjacent to the Travis County emergency services district number 4 fire station on hunters bend road as requested by the Travis County emergency services district number 4.
consultation with attorney and real estate exceptions to the open meetings act.
30, consider and take appropriate action on offer to sell approximately 18.5 acres of land located near state highway 130 and u.s.
highway 71 east for inclusion in the onion creek open space project.
consultation with attorney and real estate exceptions.
31, consider and take appropriate action regarding security improvements to the Travis County administration building.
that's the security exception to the open meetings act.
32, 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 open meetings act.
33, receive legal briefing from county attorney and outside counsel reneea hicks he is choir and take appropriate action regarding northwest Austin m.u.d.
versus holder in the supreme court of the united states.
that's the consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act.
34, receive legal briefing and take appropriate action regarding new leases between Travis County and the Travis County health care district for county-owned clinics.
consultation with attorney and real estate exceptions to the open meetings act.
and -- nope, no and yet.
35, receive briefing from the county attorney and take appropriate action regarding the pending litigation in Travis County, Texas and state of Texas versus coldwater development limited and rodman excavation, inc.
et al, consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act.
and number a-3, receive legal briefing and take appropriate action regarding the mediation of claims by Karen stitle, including settlement offer and eeoc charge number 31 c-2008-01470.
this is the consultation with attorney and personnel matters exceptions to the open meetings act.
we'll discuss these matters in executive session, but will return to open court before taking any action.
Now let's call back to order the voting session of the Travis County Commissioners court, and miss porter, I think this morning we got through all of the open court items.
we went into executive session and discussed part of them.
we will complete our executive session items at this time, including number 26, which we posted at 2:30.
looks like it will be about 2:30 before we get there.
conduct hearing and take appropriate action on appeal from December 15th, 2008, Travis County grievance panel decision in gerald siem versus Travis County facilities management department pursuant to Travis County code section 9.257 k and that will be under the consultation with attorney and personnel matters exceptions to the open meetings act.
>> and that one is item 25, right?
>> 25.
did I call it another?
>> yeah.
>> 25, the only one we've announced for this afternoon so far.
we will also discuss 29, consider and take appropriate action on the possible disposition of .733 acres, 31,949 square feet of unused excess right-of-way adjacent to the Travis County emergency services district number 4 fire station on hunters bend road as requested by the Travis County emergency services district number 4, consultation with attorney and real estate matters exceptions.
number 30, consider and take appropriate action on an offer to sell approximately 18.5 acres of land located near state highway 130 and u.s.
highway 71 east for inclusion in the onion creek open space project.
consultation with attorney and real estate matters exceptions to the open meetings act.
31, consider and take appropriate action regarding security improvements to the Travis County administration building.
the security exception to the open meetings act.
and I think those are the only four items that we will need this afternoon.
we will conduct executive session plus conduct our hearing in number 25, but will return to open court before taking any action.
now let's call back to order the voting session of the Travis County Commissioners court, and miss porter, I think this morning we got through all of the open court items. We went into executive session and discussed part of them.
we will complete our executive session items at this time, including number 26, which we posted at 2:30.
looks like it will be about 2:30 before we get there.
conduct hearing and take appropriate action on appeal from December 15th, 2008, Travis County grievance panel decision in gerald siem versus Travis County facilities management department pursuant to Travis County code section 9.257 k and that will be under the consultation with attorney and personnel matters exceptions to the open meetings act.
>> and that one is item 25, right?
>> 25.
did I call it another?
>> yeah.
>> 25, the only one we've announced for this afternoon so far.
we will also discuss 29, consider and take appropriate action on the possible disposition of .733 acres, 31,949 square feet of unused excess right-of-way adjacent to the Travis County emergency services district number 4 fire station on hunters bend road as requested by the Travis County emergency services district number 4, consultation with attorney and real estate matters exceptions.
number 30, consider and take appropriate action on an offer to sell approximately 18.5 acres of land located near state highway 130 and u.s.
highway 71 east for inclusion in the onion creek open space project.
consultation with attorney and real estate matters exceptions to the open meetings act.
31, consider and take appropriate action regarding security improvements to the Travis County administration building.
the security exception to the open meetings act.
and I think those are the only four items that we will need this afternoon.
we will conduct executive session plus conduct our hearing in number 25, but will return to open court before taking any action.
we have returned from executive session, we could -- we could have staff working on this and trying to figure out part or all of the mediation settlement, but I think we need another week and so in my view where he ought to have a 3 back on the agenda next week.
and no further action required today.
item no.
25 is the matter involving the appeal from the grievance panel decision of gerald siem.
>> I move we uphold the judgment of the grievance panel.
>> second.
>> any discussion of the motion?
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
lets indicate our -- we will have that on some point in the agenda for future consideration.
26 is the matter involving the parental representation and office of child representation I move that we ask the county judge and Commissioner Eckhardt, two members of the committee that set up these offices to check with the rest of the committee members, specifically judges mueller and born about the legal briefing that we received and decide how we should proceed.
thank you, we will report back to the court about -- about the court date.
discussion?
>> I did put that in the form of a motion.
second.
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
27 -- legal briefing -- I move that we authorize the county judge to sign the prepared tax sale deed to -- to sandehya and harsh zadu who have paid Travis County the sum of
>> [indiscernible] in cash.
any discussion?
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
number 28 we did discuss.
no action required today.
the county attorney will meet with our district attorney and also the attorney general's office and report back too us at the appropriate -- back to us at the appropriate time in the future.
29 is the matter involving county owned property out near the -- the esd number 4 fire station and I move that we authorize county staff to proceed with this matter, to follow the steps that they outlined for us.
and to indicate that Commissioner Davis will be the -- the Commissioner for the sale of this property.
and if -- if -- after we communicate that to Commissioner Davis, if he has other plans we will put that back on the court's agenda.
>> second.
>> discussion?
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
number 30 the matter involving about 18.5 acres of land near state highway 130 and u.s.
highway 781 east that we need for the onion creek open space project, I move that we accept the offer to sell this property to the county for the sum of $90,000.
>> second.
>> discussion?
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
31 we did take up security issues here at the ned granger administration building and the directions we gave was for the security committee to look at this matter further.
and any court member that has recommendations to give those to the committee.
and -- and we will plan to have this back on the agenda on April 1st of '09 unless we hear otherwise from the committee.
all right?
>>
>> [indiscernible]
>> April.
April 1st.
>> oh, okay.
March 31st?
>> March 31st.
>> I had three people giving me bad advice, ms. Porter.
>> that's because it's April fool's.
>> [laughter] March 31.
okay.
12 is the matter involving 32 is the matter involving potential sale of county-owned land off fm 969 we did receive appropriate briefing, let's give the direction for staff to proceed and when the matter is ready for court consideration and action, and they advise us, we will it back on the agenda.
33 we received a briefing, also, in my view no action today.
34 involves a proposed lease amendment or new leases between Travis County and the county health care district.
I move approval of the proposed leases.
>> second.
>> discussion?
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
we got a briefing on 35.
the matter involving hamilton pool.
and our -- our lawsuit along with the state against cold water development and rod man and based on staff's advice we need to have this back on the court's agenda in about two weeks and fortunately negotiating are proceeding in the right direction.
number 36, we did not announce and did not discuss.
and that is all the business we have today.
>> move adjourn.
>> second.
>> all in favor?
that carries unanimously.
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