Travis County Commissioners Court
October 13, 2009,
Executive Session
Beginning with number 25, 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.
consultation with attorney exception.
26, consider and take appropriate action regarding the potential lease of real estate in north Austin for the Travis County juvenile probation department.
consultation with attorney and real estate exceptions to the open meetings act.
37, receive legal briefing -- 27 and 28 let's wait until this afternoon.
29, consider and take appropriate action regarding potential lease between the housing authority of Travis County and Travis County for property located near highland mall.
consultation with attorney and real estate exceptions to the open meetings act.
30, consider and take appropriate action regarding the potential purchase of real estate in central Austin area.
consultation with attorney and real estate exceptions.
31, consider and take appropriate action concerning settlement offer regarding payment for starflight services rendered to lance bigheart.
consultation with attorney exception.
32, receive legal briefing regarding george gikas versus Travis County, a political subdivision of the state of Texas; lester meyer rodeo company; and Texas style professional event planners and take appropriate action.
consultation with attorney exception.
33, receive legal briefing from the county attorney and take appropriate action regarding the contested case hearing on the pending application for the proposed solid waste amendment to expand waste management of Texas landfill located on giles road near state highway290 east.
consultation with attorney exception.
and number 34, consider and take appropriate action concerning the offer to settle Travis County's workers' compensation lien on the claims of benjamin maldanado subrogation.
consultation with attorney exception.
note that I skipped over 27 and 28 which we will not call up in executive session until this afternoon.
we'll discuss the items that we are announced, but will return to open court before taking any action.
>>
>> [inaudible].
>> let's take it up this afternoon.
that may well be a long discussion.
>> > we are back from executive session where we discussed some of the items that we announced the but not all of them.
we'll have to finish executive session this afternoon.
move we recess until 1:30.
>> second.
>> all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
>> now that brings us back to executive session.
we did discuss a few items this morning but not all of them and the ones we did not discuss are these.
26, consider and take appropriate action regarding the potential lease of real estate in north Austin for the Travis County juvenile probation department.
consultation with attorney and real estate exceptions.
27, receive legal briefing and take appropriate action regarding claims by alicia perez.
consultation with attorney.
28, receive legal briefing and take appropriate action regarding claim by linda Moore smith.
consultation with attorney.
29, consider and take appropriate action regarding potential lease between the housing authority of Travis County and Travis County for property located near highland mall.
consultation with attorney and real estate exceptions.
30, consider and take appropriate action regarding the potential purchase of real estate in central Austin area.
consultation with attorney and real estate exceptions.
number 33, receive legal briefing from the county attorney and take appropriate action regarding the contested case hearing on the pending application for the proposed solid waste amend to expand waste management of Texas landfill located on giles road near state highway 290 east.
consultation with attorney.
and going back to the main items, we indicated we will take item 13 into executive session.
13 is to approve award for ifb number b-10000.
there's four -- 1 dr, residential roof repair, replacement services to the low bidder valdez remodeling and weatherization, inc.
and this will be under the consultation with attorney exception to the open meetings act.
we'll discuss these items in executive session but will return to open court before taking any action.
>> good afternoon, we have returned from executive session where where we discussed the -- the second that we announced this afternoon.
beginning with 13, the matter involving the contract for residential roof and repair.
and replacement services.
in the valdez remodeling and weatherization inc., matter, move that we reject all bids and authorize staff to rebid.
>> second.
>> discussion?
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote, by the way Commissioner Eckhardt will be absent for the rest of the meeting.
25 is the matter involving Travis County and others versus cold water development limited, rod man excavation, hamilton pool matter.
i -- we did get our briefing, we will have this matter back on the court's agenda next week, October 20th, 2009, with additional wording broken down into three or four parts.
that will allow us to take multiple items.
we will make that happen.
26 is the the potential lease of real estate in north Austin for the Travis County juvenile probation.
i move that we authorize county staff to proceed with the lease negotiation.
>> second.
>> all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
27 and 28 we did not discuss although we announced them, we probably need a full complement of court members and not much action since we last discussed this matter.
i move that we authorize the county judge and Commissioner Gomez to get with our lawyers and meet with legal counsel for both of these claimants to discuss this matter further.
with an eye to having it back on the court's agenda on October 20th, 2009.
for appropriate action.
>> sending.
>> discussion?
--
>> second.
>> discussion?
all in favor?
show Commissioners Gomez, Huber and yours truly voting in favor.
Commissioner Davis abstaining.
>> number 29 is a matter involving a potential lisa pinto between Travis County and the housing authority of Travis County for real property located near highland mall.
i move that we authorize facilities staff to deal with health and human services to negotiate a possible lease of this real estate.
>> second.
>> discussion?
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
30 we discussed and got a briefing and instead of taking action today, I move that we mull over this possibility, have it back on the court's agenda next week for possible action.
that's October 20th.
is that okay.
>> that would be fine.
>> directions, is that right all right.
motion instead of a direction.
>> 31 concerning the settlement offer regarding payment for star flight services rendered to lance bigheart.
i move that we accept the offer of $1,257.60, 1257.60 to settle this matter.
seconded by Commissioner Gomez.
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
32 is the matter involving the lawsuit by george gikas against Travis County and others.
i move that we authorize the county attorney to file an appropriate cross claim in this matter to protect the interests of Travis County.
>> second.
>> discussion?
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
and -- a 3 is an open court matter.
>> yes.
>> okay.
hold on.
>> 34 is our last -- last executive session discussion.
that's the -- the compensation lien on the claims by benjamin maldanado subrogation, I move that we accept the counter offer of $6,000 to be paid to Travis County by the insurance carrier.
>> second.
>> discussion?
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
and --
>> judge, what about 33.
>> you were going to say and.
>> we previously had a 3 on the agenda, but roger was apparently doing other real important county work and could not be found in this courtroom.
right?
but that's -- I think we ought to lay this out and kind of hear it and see if we're interested in doing it.
a 3 to consider and take appropriate application regarding application for american recovery and reinvestment act funds through the Texas state comptroller state energy conservation office competitive grant to use for the installation or distributable renewable energy power generation facilities at Travis County owned facilities located at the exposition center and at the san antonio parking garage.
>> judge, before you go there, on the other executive session item, 33, did we -- did we need to maybe address that?
at this time?
or --
>> 33, I don't --
>> ready for district court.
>> the thing about that is that the -- that the -- there are a couple of other matters even before it gets back to the commission, for the commission action.
so --
>> let's just hold up and wait until those actions are --
>> yeah.
>> exhausted.
>> because they are saying that the new proposal from the administrative law judge will probably be January 7, 2007.
so the commission probably late January or February at the earliest, I would think.
>> okay.
>> we kind of gave our lawyer direction to start pointing toward -- toward follow-up action based on what we anticipate.
the decision to be.
but you want me to call it back up for a motion?
>> yeah.
i just basically just wanted to make sure that we -- yeah, let me make a motion on that.
>> why don't we finish a 3 and we will call it back up.
>> okay, thank you.
>> now, let's call back up item 33.
that's the matter involving the application for expansion filed by the waste management of Texas landfill located at giles road.
Commissioner Davis?
>> yes, judge.
i would like to move that we direct the Travis County attorney's staff to continue to pursue an effort through the -- through the administrative law judge efforts, of course that process has not been exhausted, but we like to direct the county -- Travis County attorney's staff to report back to the Commissioners court as soon as this particular issue is -- is finalized, as the folks may recall, Travis County has gone on record as opposing this particular expansion by waste management of Texas.
and, of course, I think that we will be able to proceed accordingly after the exhaustion of this particular matter.
so I want to make sure that the county attorney's office is aware of what we're trying to seek here and we may have positioned ourself to take other actions after that particular last ruling, action by the administrative law judge has taken place.
so I want to make sure that's a part of the record so they will know that -- that there's other actions that we need to probably pursue after that.
>> seconded by Commissioner Gomez.
discussion?
all in favor?
that passes by unanimous vote.
there is no further business today y'all.
>> move adjourn.
>> second.
>> all in favor?
that passes unanimously by an enthusiastic court.
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