Travis County Commissioners Court
March 9, 2010,
Citizens Communication
>> let's pick up citizens communication .
this item gives residents an opportunity to address the court.
kenneth smarter, speaker number 1, gus pena number two, ronnie refer seednumber 3.
>> my name is ken ent er.
first of all, who took the sm place is this.
>> that person took his place and then left.
>> oh.
>> mr.
snider.
>> dan promised after we get water in he would start on the sewer next and everything.
there has to be a way to get that thing in there.
i had talked to the water development board, and they said they are waiting for paperwork from y'all and everything to get everything started for the next grant or something like that, which I'm going to go down there today and talk to them.
they said they are moving and supposed to call me back and everything.
they said they was moving.
i called you to ask you that question too, but he --you didn't call me back but I'm sure you have been busy and everything.
se we have to get this problem fixed and everything.
i don't want take keep talking about hud and everything, paying water bills and electric bills and fixing houses up and stuff like that, that ain't going to happen if they don't start coming out there.
there are about three or four houses am ty for the reason they can't get the water to go to the ground.
it's all coming up.
they can't sell the places.
there's a mound as high as this building trying to get the water out and he moved out of the house and it's sitting there empty.
quite a few of them like that.
i'm glad to have the water.
we have safe water now if we don't have a water break.
the thing about it is the waterline is going right through the ditches into the houses.
if they have a break or something like that, it's going to suck all that water right in there, all in the ditches it's all green and everything else coming through the backyard.
eventually they are going on come out and do something to us out there.
we need to get something started on this here.
i'm hoping all y'all get together and fixel problem.
i don't need to come up here and doing all this here and everything.
i may not ever see the sewer, took about five years to get the water in once we got the grants.
i may not live long enough to see the sewer and everything, but at least I'd like to see something done.
it's uncalled for we have to live like this.
there's grants out there for everything in the world but ten miles down the road no way to fix our problem.
and we're so close to everything.
and we don't put that building right next-door, apartment house next-door, water and sewer, everything over there, big buildings out there right next-door and that race track, developed all of that and we're sitting in that little bitty hole between Austin and Round Rock and we can't get the basic facility of the sewer.
we should have got the sewer before the water.
if we got the sewer in, it would have been safer because the sewer would have been gone.
if the water breaks at least you have the water going into the waterlines, not sewer.
but they switched it around because we had so much problem with king and everything.
that was a lot of the problems.
a hundred dollar water bills.
that is when they could have used that assistance and everything for the water.
we have water bills and half the subdivision didn't have any because they couldn't pay two or three hundred dollars for water.
i wish somebody could come in like dan.
i know he stepped on a lot of of toes.
that is probably why he isn't here.
he did get the water there for us.
i think judge Biscoe will keep his word and get the sewer in for us.
i kept my word.
i think I stayed away for three or four years.
i think I kept my word on that part of it.
i will come up here over and over and over until I do see something done.
i'm going to go to the city council Thursday if I can sign up and get in there and see if we can't get them to help us.
dan did push everybody together and we got the water in.
so somebody pushes them together and get the sewer.
and everybody will be happy.
>> thank you.
mr.
pena.
>> good morning, judge, Commissioners.
gus penan and my hand some young man, luscio to my right side.
i want to thank him and the youth that helped out in the various campaigns, the judicial and on the campaigns.
i'm proud of him and of the students that loaned their time.
a lot of them were not paid but did it because of civics, they want to improve the quality of life for people everywhere.
number one, Margaret, I want to congratulate you on your victory small slim victory, because you look at the votes and at that timy--tally, it was very close.
we say close only counts in marbles.
you can see the vote reflex people not content in what is going on.
i can tell you about a lot of problems.
all I have to do is point to this endorsement, Austin american statesman.
you and other people have read it.
i want to let you know I'm here to support you.
i summeded ranul all varez because we needed a change.
i pray for you and that you will be for everybody.
number one.
(spanish).
i hope it's not true here.
i told that to the mayor of city of Austin.
we expect things and changes from you.
improving need in precinct had, the final vote tally, you need to be for all and not just some.
we did tally the senior citizen vote.
i'll leave it ate that.
i want to thank leonard martinez we helped in his campaign.
this gentleman is a christian gentleman with wife and family.
he takes cases other attorneys won't take, death penalty, you name it, capital purchaseders.
--murders, to run a campaign and be involved in a capital murder trial, make sure his cleaned is taken care of, I'm not judging anybody, says a lot about that individual.
i hope he runs again.
this is the time of compassionate skills we like to see in a judge and vision.
census, please fill out the forms.
everybody needs to be counted (spanish).
the roundup, central Texas roundup.
i would like to tell people this.
if you have tickets, warrants, call the court and tell them that you want to make payment arrangements, if it's applicable b, community service if it's applicable according to the judge.
they will work with you.
do not, I'll wrap it up judge.
go up to the municipal court.
if you have warrants, get it taken care of.
students need your help, mentors and tutors.
society is measured by treatment of less fortunate.
and thank you for your service.
it helps the dropout rate.
we need to keep students educated in school.
thank you very much.
>> thank you, mr.
pena.
mr.
referseed.
>> okay, for your information, the irs taxes collected only pay interest on the national debt.
that is just for your information.
thank you, judge, and also patriots vote no to the bankster bailout.
we can do the same thing, people.
march 20, a million for piece--peace, at the capital, see you all there.
of course, this Friday is why I'm wearing this shirt.
it's gilbert shelten fabulous free brothers and fat freddy cat so anyway, underneath my Ron paul shirt.
>> no, keep the shelten t shirt.
>> I'll keep it now for now.
>> fat freddy loves you for it.
>> ronnie referseed.
saying kids, libelife is shorter than you know.
so don't waste a moment of your precious irreplaceable childhood trying to be a grown up.
you will have plenty of time for that later, believe me.
with that first swig of beer or whoever and your first hit off a cigarette or joint, you have canceled your own chance to be a kid ever again.
it's over.
judge Biscoe, Commissioners Davis, black america, are you aware that throughout bangsters obama's first year as president here, more black babies were er--murdered in the womb than allowed to be born?
what is wrong with this reality?
is it to liberate women so as to grant them the choice or privilege to kill their own offspring?
guess what ladies?
most babies aborted world worldwide are little women.
in china, boys are preferred and they are only allowed one child.
chinese all over the world have no restrictions.
lots of the best and brightest work hard to become except from these rules and become spies or party officials, et cetera.
this is not unrelated to another ongoing self inflicted death wish for everyone here.
fluoride ated water is killing with toxic sludge with poisonous chemicals that use up over a million I think precious taxpayer dollars right here in Austin each year to purchase our own poison.
thanks to the Austin city council of criminals.
i don't blame you all.
call mayor leffingwell to ask him why he insisted on using precious taxpayer dollars each year poison us all with this toxic sludge.
tell him that way back in the year 2001 the federal centers for disease control, the cdc, admitted the only potential benefit possible from fluoride comes from brushing, not ingest chun.
it's harmful to infants.
please pay attention to reality.
it's really important.
triple 8-322-1414 for weekly updates from the incredible dr.
ron paul.
thanks for your time.
>> thank you, mr.
referseed.
rustle sergeant.
>> your honors, eem just here mostly as observerer for my student project.
the honorable Commissioner Davis invited me here to observe your session.
i really don't have much of a subject.
just here to observe.
thank you much.
>> thank you.
i asked him if he would come up for citizens communication.
his professor called me would know he was not playing hooky today.
>> a good day for hooky.
>> he is here for observation, judge, a university.
>> good to have you.
>> we welcome you here.
thank you.
>> thank you.
>> morris priest.
>> judge, Commissioners, speaking on my own barf.
my ten reasons for voting republican today.
number ten, because tom, I just really like saying don't delay.
vote republican today.
number nine, while america is out looking for a job, obama can say is healthcare.
number 8, how is that hope and change working for you.
7, yes, democrats, republicans and even c pack all agree, it just doesn't get any better than republican Ron paul.
>> (applause)
>> bailouts, cap and trade, tax and spend, tax again.
i thought when obama said we have to spread the wealth around that is socialism but no, it's just redistribution of wealth.
just means he is just another globalist working for the builder burgers.
number five, has anybody seen obama's birth certificate.
number four, democrats used to lose to republicans.
now they lose first to fellow democrats only to lose again to a republican.
number three, democrats kirk watson when asked what does campo really mean he said it stands for lose your next election.
number two, hey, did you say what happened in hays and Travis County?
they chose a republican judge in the last primary.
finally, my number one reason for voting republican is finally instead of voting for the lesser of two evils, always voting against someone, finally someone we can be proud to vote for, david betros, precinct two, Travis County exister.
i did want to congratulate Margaret get mez on your victory.
i was glad that it worked out for you.
>> thank you.
>> I really think that ranul al varez shot himself in the foot when he came up here during the many people that showed up against the abortion issue and when he came on camera, I know that that had to have had a big effect on his race coming up here during that time because it was a packed house.
i think that we have these differences when it comes to political issues, but I do always respect and appreciate everybody that servers on the court or wherever they serve.
i did want to also mention, I know it is going to come up later but I did want people to recognize mr.
voguel.
he is here on the manchaca issue all the hard work he has done.
i was going ask Commissioner Huber and you judge if we can get a proclamation maybe if you would look into that.
i think it would be a good gesture for all the things he has done in the community.
all right, thank you.
>> thank you, mr.
priest.
>> (applause)
>> mr.
voguel and ms.
namen, the community center is item number 36.
my guess is that we won't reach that item until probably three this afternoon.
but if you would like to give comments now on the citizens communication, we will give you an opportunity.
>> yes, sir, we would.
>> please come forward.
if you would give us your name, we would be happy to get your comments.
>> thank you, your.
>> good morning.
>> mr.
voguel is here on behalf of the manchaca fire hall and would like to speak to the court here.
i went to speak to him last night about the situation.
i knew that everything had been delivered that you had requested last week as far as on hour behalf.
i sat with mr.
vogel for a couple hours in the man shalk fire hall and thought about your positions where you are at right now and if I were in your positions and looking at what is black and white on paper may look completely different.
my intentions were to approach mr.
vogel and ask him to, being that he is 82 years old, to maybe consider retirement with the situation that has come up with the finances there.
pardon me.
after a couple of hours sitting there and observing the fire hall and observing a man that has devoted 40-something years to the manchaca community, what a coincidence to be here today after all the recognition given to the wonderful folks that took care of the emergency situation, for a man that started a fire department in a community that did not have a fire department, for him to be sitting here today at your mercy.
so I went there with the intentions of trying to encourage him to walk away with your head high and maybe call it quits.
kind of locked between a rock and a hard spot here.
i watched people come in and out of the fire hall.
i watched this man sit here with tears streaming down his eyes for a few minutes.
put my hand on his shoulder and I said maybe this is the right thing for you to do.
then I watched the folks coming in and out to the building to decide, off the side of the community center there.
coming in there with their plates, with their own food.
this man never saying one word.
not charging one penny for those folks to come in there and use that building to have, if I'm not mistaken, their 4 h meeting.
sat there with him about 30, 40 more minutes and watched these downboys come down with their baseball caps on, their uniforms.
they were coming from a meeting upstairs that they were not charged anything for.
and I thought to myself, what this man does from daylight until dark and what they does for the community.
you know, yeah, he is behind on his rent, but I can guarantee he is behind on his rent, probably behind with irs, and he is behind with everything that is probably possible to keep that community center going.
so that all of the people of the community of manchaca feel welcome to couple there and have meetings and to help our youth groups to be able to get organized so that they can stay involved with what they can do for what this man does for everybody.
i honestly think that we should be paying him to manage the community center.
that was my thoughts after I sat there.
now I have wasted all of his time, would I ask if he might be able the speak even though I have taken upel time.
>> what is yours first name?
>> marianne.
two words.
>> thank you.
mr.
vogel.
good morning, any comments?
>> no.
>> would you like to tell them a little bit of how you come to be 41 years ago, what you started there?
>> yes, I had a fire in my garage.
and I called the Austin fire department, and they said we're sorry, we can't come out.
i said what do you mean, you can't come out?.
they said, you're outside the city limits, we can't go outside the city.
and I said, what do I do?
they said do the best you can.
so we did.
we started a fire department in high home.
my wife dispatched for first eight years free of charge.
she never has received a penny.
we still have a dispatch system in my home.
we have dispatched, done everything, and we have never taken a nickel out of the place.
it's been there for the community, a community center.
they named it a community center now.
and that is what it is.
i just want to stay there and do my part for the community as long as I can.
>> (applause)
>> any questions?
>> thank you very much.
>> thank you for what you do.
>> thank you.
>> thank you.
>> thank you.
>> (applause)
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