Travis County Commissioners Court
June 2, 2009,
Item A3
Let me -- let's take the golfsmith item and then we'll go to the veterans item and then we'll go to cdbg, okay?
and golfsmith is a-3, consider and take appropriate action on order nominating golfsmith as an enterprise project by either ratifying order with changes or withdrawing nomination.
and there was some changes after the court approved the draft we had before us last week.
marietta?
>> there were a couple of corrections, typos, but the major change that I thought you needed to be aware of, there was an exhibit 6 and another portion that had the information on employee data, salary ranges, ethnic breakout, those things.
the company had a desire not to have that in this.
that information is in their application, which will go to the state.
and then we can address it in our mou.
so what we did was strike those -- that information specifically, but we added the section 6 on the second page.
it says golfsmith has presented information to Travis County upon which Travis County has substantially relied, related to employee numbers, categories, salary ranges and ethnic representation, which is included in the application to the state of Texas, which this nomination supports.
and that information constitutes a portion of the basis for the determination by Travis County to make this nomination of golfsmith as an enterprise project.
so the reference is there, but the specific data is not a part of this order.
but it is a part of the application that goes to the state.
and we can include in our mou.
>> I'm sorry.
the specific data isn't in our mou, but it --
>> no, it's not in this order.
we haven't finted the mou yet.
>> it will be in the mou.
>> that was my thought.
but the company -- of course, we haven't gotten that done, we haven't agreed to it.
so I can't guarantee what will be in the document that hasn't been finished.
but it is included in their application to the state?
>> what is included?
>> the information we took out of the order.
will salary ranges, the ethnic backgrounds, the table that we took out.
>> okay.
i'm just having a hard time following it without having it in front of me.
>> and I will send you these, but if the chart here that was in pink that had the salary categories and the salary ranges, and then the information that they had given us on the ethnic breakout that they had.
>> I'm looking back --
>> exhibit 6?
>> exhibit 6.
>> a couple of questions I had from was it last week that we had this?
>> yes.
>> was in regard to mou section 5, c and d.
>> that's not -- we're bringing that back after we get that negotiated.
that's not a part of what you approved last week.
last week the order that identified our local incentives and this order that nominates golfsmith as an enterprise project.
those two things were what were approved last week.
then we will bring back the mou, the company had not had time for their legal to review that.
so that's in process.
we can still work on the terms of that mou, which is between the county and golfsmith.
these are the documents that are going to the state as a part of the nomination.
>> so -- I'm just trying to get my bearings here.
so what we're looking at doing today --
>> we're just revising the order.
by taking out the specific data and putting in a reference to that data as it is included in the application.
>> okay.
>> any other questions?
>>
>> [ inaudible ].
>> I apologize.
i had --
>> but at any rate, what we did also lay out was that we, the county, had the authority to withdraw our nomination.
>> yes.
if for some reason the mou isn't brought to fruition to everyone's agreement, then that information owe.
>> that information could be conveyed to the state.
>> that's what the court agreed on if they did not comply with an aggressive hiring practice of new employees, then the court had the --
>> I think what we discussed was that there's --
>> there's an option to withdraw.
>> there's a 60 to 90 day period that the state takes to review and approve.
>> exactly.
>> that time period the court could express a change.
>> exactly.
>> after that, though, whether our agreement is continued or not or met or not, the state's --
>> let me make sure I understand.
if we come up with an mou that we both feel good about and there are targets in that mou with regard to people who live inside the enterprise zone or a diversity policy and outcomes from that diversity policy.
and after the 90 days they get approved for this enterprise zone funding for the five million dollars, and a year from now we receive information that they have not met their goals under the mou, we have no recourse.
>> right.
>> but at the end of the day, after discussing this with them during the discussion period of the last week, we did -- we did lay out the percentages of the employment structure that exists currently of the 331 golfsmith employees that are there now.
of course, we laid it out pretty good as far as percentages, 3.8 being black -- black persons.
27% hispanic.
60% being white employees.
and then you have the other categories, asians and others.
>> [one moment, please, for change in captioners] within the 90-daytime frame.
that's the window we have to operate.
>> but that is just the reach the agreement.
that's not the enforcement, which will take a longer period of time.
>> I understand.
>> but the reason we're back today is the one change we want to make.
>> take out exhibit 6 which is the existing job showing the position and salaries, the demographics and the existing job at other Texas locations.
take out that specific data, however that is referenced in a new section 6 of our order.
>> is the information still going --
>> it's going to the state, it's just not in our order.
>> that's the only change we're considering today.
>> the others were typos.
>> discussion?
everything else remains the same as we voted last week.
>> yes.
>> all in favor?
>> based on what I've heard I'm going to support it.
>> show Commissioner Davis, elkhart, yours truly voting for, against Commissioner Huber.
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