Travis County Commissioners Court
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 (Agenda)
Citizens Communication
Citizens communication is first, this gives citizens an opportunity to address the court on any matter not on the agenda.
four citizens have signed in.
gus pena first.
harvey Davis, second.
john k.
kim, third.
ronnie reeferseed, fourth.
>> good morning, judge.
Commissioners.
welcome back, judge.
well deserved vacation.
you are going to need it for the budget.
it's going to be hot and heavy.
number 1, I would like to say that -- that we're meeting with senator ogden this morning just to listen to the community.
our goal is to state again as we did to the governor and to the house, speaker straus is that we need to tap into the rainy day fund for the biennium 2012-2013.
I tell people call and lobby the governor.
his vote is the ultimate vote, whether he vetoes or accepts it.
call the governor's office and tell them we need to tap into the rainy day fund to fund all of these other initiatives and precious, precious projects that need to be funded.
we need help for dropout prevention, mental health, education, and all of the other veterans survivors benefits, et cetera.
number 2, jobs.
a lot of people are -- are unemployed.
I don't care what the newspaper says, local statistical data says, this Travis County, city of Austin, has a high unemployment rate.
people have given up.
there are not too many jobs, they are very selective.
you have a position.
you are lucky if you have 150 applicants.
it is very difficult to get a job, especially if you have a record.
criminal record.
and I want to thank this elected body because y'all set the pace and the foundation for helping people who apply for jobs and they are not asking the questions until the interview, but I would say this to the interviewer, interviewees, whatever, to look at the experience of these individuals, look at their past.
not based on their criminal record.
a lot of people have paid a debt to society, so we have to move forward and help employ these individuals.
they have families, the families are hurting because their moms and dads cannot get a job.
anyway, no.
3, a couple of
>> [indiscernible] sold here in the city of Austin.
a lot of families, homeless families, a lot of homeless singles males and females live in these hotels.
by June they are going to have to move out.
they are going to join the homeless ranks.
where are we going to put them.
a lot of people talk about housing the homeless.
you need to know what their needs are in order to meet their needs so they can become self sufficient.
these new initiatives that bought out these motels require you to have a salary, a pension, disability, ssi or retirement pay in order to qualify to live in these motels once they are refurnished owe remember had.
guys -- or rehabbed.
we need to have a different strategy, it's bigger than you think.
a lot of veterans are homeless, also.
two items, support our military troops.
I don't know anybody that likes war, you know.
support our military troops, irregardless of whether you are no the war or not.
I don't know too many people for the war.
let me tell you this much, military troops and their families need help over here back home, coming back with ptsd mental health, they need our support.
anyway, a society's worth is measured by its treatment for the less fortunate.
I've said this for 25 years.
thank you very much, judge, welcome back.
>> thank you, sir.
mr. Davis?
>> good morning, Commissioners.
judge, and I'm very pleased to introduce to you andrea shields, who is the new corporation administrator.
andrea has a -- she comes from the private sector.
she -- she stakeholders a -- she holds a degree from the university of Texas at Austin.
she has worked for the last five years for one of the two national cpa firms that deals exclusively with affordable housing issues.
so she has a broad background with working on housing, tax credits, working with Texas department of housing and communication.
working with developers.
so she -- she has a good background with affordable housing.
before that, she worked for the Texas affiliation of affordable housing providers, which is a trade organization for affordable housing developers.
so we are very pleased that she has come to Travis County to manage the Travis County corporations.
>> thank you, mr. Rhoades.
>> I just wanted to echo harvey's comments and to say that we're pleased to have her.
obviously, harvey will be missed, but we get the good fortune of having him around for a little bit longer, so that's a plus for us.
and we're looking forward to good things from andrea.
>> ms. Shields.
>> I'm excited to be here, I appreciate the opportunity to be in front of you today.
harvey has been a great asset so far.
I've only been here a week, I've learned a lot.
I'm looking forward to my experience with him over the next few months and working with you all.
>> if you lasted a full week, ms. Shields, that's a good sign.
we look forward to working with you.
>> as do i, thank you.
>> I understand that you are from a family of affordable housing advocates and whatnot.
seems to be a family business?
>> it is a family business.
my dad is jim shaw, the executive director of the capital area housing finance corporation.
growing up this was dinner table conversation on a nightly basis.
he's always told me you can do well and do good at the same time.
and I hope to bring that to Travis County.
>> thank you so much.
>> thank you.
>> dr. Kim.
>> welcome.
>> good morning.
>> good morning.
>> it's a great pleasure to see all you five Commissioner court members sitting there.
you prove a perfect Travis County Commissioners court, five ladies and gentlemen, great to see you, perfect here.
I always here to praise, pressurate united states of america and the state of Texas and Travis County.
today, I'm celebrating the greatness of american democracy, american government.
we killed osama bin laden, it's great news.
for all of us.
we would like to do something to appreciate american soldiers and the police, constable, the sheriffs and f.b.i.
and cia, all of american government officials, we have to do something to support to them.
not in the body is not here, already gone into the sea.
some people say something argument about that.
no.
we don't need that kind of person in our history.
but we have 400,000 terrorist suspects in our record.
I read a newspaper reported we have 400,000 suspects, terrorist suspects in our record.
we need support, american soldiers, and the police.
and the sheriff and a constable, troopers, all of the government.
we need support.
don't plan for
>> [indiscernible] because of a something, something, something.
I am here, thanks to american government.
and the Travis County court officials.
no one arrest me, even though I said that court is monkey court.
I said right here.
no one arrested me.
and an officer lady told me, we do not arrest you because you said that something, something, I met sheriff officers and assistant lady, shellie eaton.
I had 30 minutes last Friday.
I said everything.
but she said we have no power to control court.
I provided all of the documentations and I was coming here; I met the gentleman in the bus, a gentleman told me, talk to me.
old, a little bit, 60 or over.
he talked to me.
I said what did he think, where do you come from?
I come from south koreary I can't and I studied african government.
after I studied my ph.d., I go back to south koreary I can't.
I said I need to democratickize the united states quota system.
I just started.
thank you very much.
I really appreciate all of you.
Biscoe, you may read what I want to say.
I gave it to you.
>> thank you, dr. Kim.
>> thank you.
>> ronnie reeferseed.
>> obama's starts war no.
4, hey.
well, not to mention the one million that -- don't -- don't bomb libya.
but yippee, yes, I'm ronnie
>> [inhale] reeferseed with the headline so-called president peace prize thaws out long dead osama bin laden for propaganda power, yes.
our indonesian subject so-called president with the digital poll numbers for our so-called president subject to the queen thus ineligible and blackmailable so-called barack obama, ie barry sataro, launches yet another illegal war crime, this time against libya to get more votes.
that's right.
many of our fellow american citizens have been so dumbed down successfully by our evil zionist controlled mainstream media and crippled public school sewer system, et cetera, so that it's hard for people to remember that the relevant realities like assassination is an internationally illegal war crime.
and ghadafi knows and both he and obama know some inconvenient truths all about our recent leaders, so by golly, you need to -- we all need to hear whatever ghadafi or assume has to say.
guess what toppling another leader through assassination is counter productive, earning even more hatred from the united states to the rest of the world.
no, we don't have the right or privilege or authority to pick and choose puppets to rule other nations.
by the way, 50 years later, our nation has still not come to groups with the peace loving jfk with the war rabid jfk, the schememy, slimy, treasonous Texas politician who shortly thereafter surrendered completely to israel by attempting to sacrifice the entire u.s.s.
liberty crew, but you know what?
some of those brave sailors survived.
the truth is out now how our nation's foreign policy has been manipulated in decades in servitude to that most bigoted criminal regime, israel.
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yes, we can stop the killing by these power hungry war criminals, stick to the constitution, let's hijack the tyranny to help save our once proud constitutional republic that we are now living in a police state, people, being led to the slaughter with mind numbing poison fluoride dated water ...
>> [buzzer sounding] especially including the toxic sludge shoved down our throats to poison our kids, it's poison, people.
thank you so much.
>> thank you, mr. Reeferseed.
those are the four who signed in to speak under citizens communication.
anybody else whether you signed in or not.
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