Travis County Commissioners Court
Tuesday, August 24, 2010,
Item 19
Now, the only other thing, and i noted earlier that i would spend half a minute suggesting that in a matter involving combined charities, for some reason or another i think by default i take the lead on this, number 19, consider and take appropriate action regarding appointment of chair persons and -- our county clerk dana debouvier earlier indicated she would not be able to do it again. I have issued the invitation to everybody i thought was worthy and deserving of travis county and either they have all quietly rejected me or came out and vehemently turned down the opportunity. So my strategy will be to go to the various large departments and try to get a co-chair and have the co-chairs work in some sort of coordinated effort and do this year's campaign and try to raise as much money as we can. And i must note that dana was able to work magic her two years and raise i think more than we ever had before. I know for the last year she had. And i think she did -- i thought she did pretty much the same thing, but evidently she did it with either renewed enthusiasm or -- jill, do you have any idea what it was?
>> no.
>> but the money flowed in. So i guess we can -- i don't know -- i don't know that it would be true for me to masquerade as dana debouvier, but i'm going to try to use her name as much as i can in this effort. But that's about the best idea i have come up with. That we try to have several co-chairs to lead the effort and get it done that way.
>> and one of the things that dana debouvier also do was she streamlined all the legal processes, arranged for a funding agent to collect the money.
>> at a much lower cost to the county, at a much lower cost to the overall --
>> the headaches are really minimized thanks to the work she spearhead odd that.
>> we ought to be able to piggyback that. And john just volunteered from the county attorney's office, i believe.
>> you need someone who has some pzazz and that's not a lawyer.
>> you are full of pzazz.
>> unless there is a better idea, we'll proceed in that manner. Okay? And if you all have additional ideas for me over the next 60 days, by all means make them. And we'll do them.
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