Jun 14, 2022 Commissioners Court

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>> LINA HIDALGO: I DON'T USE THE GAVEL.

I ONLY USED IT BECAUSE COMMISSIONER RADDACK DIDN'T LIKE. IT COMMISSIONER CAGLE?

>> PRECINCT 3 IS PRESENTING OUR INVOCATION THIS MORNING.

>> IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE MY FRIEND.

IN SOMEWAYS I CALL HIM MY PASTOR , WILLIE DAVIS.

>> DOES DR. YOUNG KNOW THAT? >> DON'T TELL DR. YOUNG.

I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE THINGS THAT WILLIE HAS DONE FOR THE KINGDOM ARE BEYOND OUR TIME TO DEAL WITH TODAY.

HE HAS DONE MANY GREAT THINGS. HE AND I HAVE HAD MANY GREAT KINGDOM CONVERSATIONS IN TERMS OF DOING THINGS THAT MATTER.

HIS BACKGROUND IS STELLAR. HE SERVED THREE YEARS IN THE U.S. ARMY SPECIAL FORCES, GREEN BERET.

A GRADUATE OF SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS SOUTHERN.

HE GOT HIS DEGREE IN THEOLOGY SO HIS BACKGROUND IS GREAT.

HIS PASTORING FROM HOUSTON TO CHICAGO, SO HE HAD SOME WONDERFUL EXPERIENCES OUT IN THE KINGDOM.

AND WITHOUT SAYING ANYMORE, PASTOR DAVIS, PLEASE OPEN US UP.

>> TO THE JUDGE AND THE COURT AND ALL GATHERED, LET'S PRAY.

ETERNAL GOD OUR FATHER WE THANK YOU FOR LIFE AND LIBERTY OF LIFE. WE ARE GRACIOUSLY THANKFUL FOR THE FACT THAT WE WOKE UP TODAY SINGLE IN OUR RIGHT MINDS.

WE PRAY FOR STRENGTH, GUIDANCE AND GRACE TOWARD THIS COMMISSIONERS' COURT. GOD, WE NEED YOUR PRESENCE, WE NEED YOUR POWER AND THE WISDOM OF HEAVEN TO CONDUCT THE BUSINESS OF THIS COUNTY. DEAR GOD, WE ARE ALL GRATEFUL FOR THE LEADERS AND THEIR LEADERSHIP, BUT WE INVOKE, LORD, YOUR INTEGRITY AND HONESTY TO ALL OF US WE ARE IN THE RIGHT MIND WHEN WE ARE MAKING DECISION THAT'S ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CITIZENRY OF THIS COUNTY. OH GOD, WE PRAY YOU BLESS ALL OF US GATHERED IN THIS ROOM, KEEP US SAFE AND PROTECT IT.

AND LORD LET US CONDUCT THE BUSINESS AND THE WISDOM IN JUDGMENT AND FAIRNESS AND INTEGRITY AND HONESTY TOWARD THE INTEGRITY. WE PRAY FOR THIS COMMISSIONERS' COURT THAT THEY WOULD DO THE RIGHT THING AND THE RIGHT WAY AND FOR THE RIGHT REASONS. AND SO GOD WE ASK OF YOUR BLESSINGS AND STRENGTHEN EACH AND EVERY ONE AND LET US ALL BE REMINDED THAT WE ARE NOT JUST CITIZENS OF HOUSTON HARRIS COUNTY, BUT WE ARE CITIZENS OF A GREAT NATION FOR THOSE WHO SERVED WE DID IT WITH COMMITMENT TO GIVE OTHERS THE RIGHT TO DO WHAT THEY DO AND WE LAY DOWN OUR LIVES AND WE INVOKE THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THIS PLACE AND EVEN THOSE WHO ARE NOT BELIEVERS AND EVEN THOSE WHO HAVE OBJECTIONS TO THE SPIRITUALITY OF OUR EXISTENCE, WE PRAY FOR THEM ALSO AND LET IT BE AND WE ASK THESE BLESSINGS IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST WE PRAY.

AMEN. RODRIGUEZ

>> I JUST HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE GREAT PASTOR.

I KNEW HIM -- WILLIE, I WAS GOING TO SAY I KNEW YOU BEFORE WERE YOU IN YOUR RIGHT MIND. AND I'M JUST SO GLAD YOU HELPED ME GET IN MY RIGHT MIND. IT IS GOOD TO SEE YOU.

>> [INAUDIBLE]. >> THAT'S THE GOOD PART.

I MAY CALL YOU ABOUT A COUPLE OF THESE FELLOWS.

>> THANK YOU. WE'LL RECITE THE PLEDGE.

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION, UNDERGOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THEE, TEXAS, ONE STATE, UNDERGOD, ONE AN UNTKAU VISIBLE.

>> LINA HIDALGO: WE'LL GET STARTED WITH THE RESOLUTIONS AND WE HAVE 10 ITEMS TO TAKE OUT OF ORDER THIS MORNING.

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>> YEAH. WE JUST WERE DISCUSSING THIS.

THE "NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL" SAID GUN VIOLENCE IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG KIDS, 0-19, KIDS AND ADOLESCENTS.

IN HARRIS COUNTY WE HAVE DATA FROM THE INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE THAT IT IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FROM 0 TO 17.

JUST THIS MORNING THREE KIDS SHOT IN SOUTHEAST HARRIS COUNTY.

THIS WEEKEND A YOUNG MAN SHOT WHILE HE SLEPT.

OF COURSE THAT COMES AFTER THE TRAGEDY IN UVALDE, BUFFALO AND SO MANY OTHERS WE HEARD ABOUT. SO I AM PROUD TO CONTINUE THE WORK, ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS ON THE ISSUE OF GUN SAFETY. I'M PROUD OF THE PROGRESS THAT'S BEEN MADE AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL. IT IS AN IMPORTANT STEP TO BREAK THE GRIDLOCK. THE PROPOSALS THEMSELVES ARE NOT GOING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM, BUT THEY ARE A STEP, AND THE STATE HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A BIG STEP CALLING A LEGISLATIVE SESSION AT LEAST TO DISCUSS THE GUN SAFETY POLICIES THAT SO MANY TEXANS -- THE MAJORITY OF TEXANS AND THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS BY FAR SUPPORT. WITH THAT -- COMMISSIONER

GARCIA? >> ADRIAN GARCIA: THANK YOU FOR STARTING THE DISCUSSION ON THIS. I PUT OUT A TWEET THANKING SENATOR CORNYN FOR HIS LEADERSHIP, SENATOR MURPHY FOR HIS WORK AS WELL AND WORKING TO CRAFT SOMETHING BIPARTISAN TO HELP MOVE US ALONG. I KNEW THAT IT WAS NOT GOING TO BE EVERYTHING WE HOPED FOR. NO BAN ON A -- ON AR-15'S.

THE RED FLAG LAWS. IT IS AN IMPORTANT STEP.

I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS KIND OF A MOVEMENT IN A FEW DECADES.

SO I ACCEPT WHATEVER MOVEMENT WE CAN CREATE ON THIS AND DEMONSTRATE AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL THAT THEY ARE NOT DEAF TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE LOCAL LEVEL AND THE IMPACT THAT THE -- THE ACCESSIBILITY TO FIREARMS IS HAVING ON OUR COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY THE HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINES AND THE AUTOMATIC RIFLES. I ALWAYS GO BACK TO MY CAREER WHERE IF YOU TOOK A TWO-SHOT DARRINGER OFF SOMEBODY YOU THOUGHT YOU GOT AL CAPONE. I REMEMBER TAKING AL REVOLVERS AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT BRAND IS AROUND ANYMORE.

YOU WOULD BREAK IT OPEN, AND IF YOU WEREN'T CAREFUL YOU WOULD BREAK IT BECAUSE IT WAS SO CHEAPLY MADE.

THAT'S NOT WHAT THESE GUYS ARE UP AGAINST TODAY.

THEY ARE UP AGAINST IF NOT THE SAME CALIBER, A HIGHER CALIBER OF WEAPONRY, THE HIGH-CAPACITY MAGAZINES ARE FEARFUL TO BE UP AGAINST. I REMEMBER BEING ON A DRUG CASE IN TAMPA, FLORIDA WHERE I GOT BORED RIDING AROUND IN THE EVENINGS. AND THIS WAS AT THE HEIGHT OF THE JAMAICAN AND COLUMBIAN DRUG WAR.

THEY WERE GOING OUT WHERE THE MACHINE GUN WAS REPORTED.

I REMEMBER HOW THE DEPUTIES WORKED TO RESPOND TO THAT.

I WAS LIKE, WAIT A MINUTE. DID I HEAR MACHINE GUNFIRE? HE WAS LIKE, YEAH. WE GET THOSE ALL THE TIME.

IN HOUSTON, WE DON'T. SO DROP ME OFF.

THAT'S NOT THE CASE ANYMORE. MACHINE GUN FIRE IS A REGULAR OCCURRING EVENT. AND WHAT IS INTERESTING IS IT USED TO BE SYNONYMOUS WITH GANG VIOLENCE.

IT USED TO BE SYNONYMOUS WITH DRUG VIOLENCE.

AS WE SAW IN UVALDE, LONE ACTORS ARE A PART OF THE EQUATION THAT

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IF BLAME WANTS TO BE PUT ON MENTAL HEALTHCARE, THEN FUND IT.

FUND IT. JUDGE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND THANK YOU FOR STARTING THE CONVERSATION AND COINCIDENTALLY, I HAPPEN TO BE WITH FOLKS THAT HAD STRONG TIES TO UVALDE AND SOME OF THE LEADERSHIP IN UVALDE BECAUSE OF THE PAIN THAT IS STILL EVER ALIVE NO MATTER WHERE.

MY WIFE IS TALKING ABOUT IT AND SHE WAS REACHING FOR HER TISSUES FAIRLY QUICKLY. AND THINKING ABOUT MOTHERS AND WHAT THEY HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IN TERMS OF THE SAFETY OF THEIR CHILDREN. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT DISCUSSION, AND AGAIN I'M PROUD OF SENATOR CORNYN AND MURPHY FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP IN HELPING US AT LEAST TAKE SOME STEPS FORWARD.

>> COMMISSIONER ELLIS? >> RODNEY ELLIS: DO YOU MIND?

>> GO AHEAD. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I KNOW I JUST WENT TO THE PRESS CONFERENCE WITH YOU AND I MENTIONED HOW PROUD I AM OF SENATOR CORNYN AND SENATOR MURPHY AS WELL.

I ALWAYS FELT IN POLITICS IT IS IMPORTANT TO ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT AND THEN TAKE WHAT YOU CAN GET.

DURING MY TIME IN THE LEGISLATURE I ALWAYS HAD THE FEAR THAT MY INTEREST IN TRYING TO COMPROMISE WOULD EAT ME TO THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR AT THE RISK OF A SOUND BYTE AND DOING NOTHING. I DON'T THINK SENATOR CORNYN DID THAT YET. IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS IT IS THE BARE MINIMUM. ONE REASON IT IS SO IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE STATES LIKE THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR HAVE GONE SO FAR IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. ALL OF THE DATA IS THERE AND WE HAVE THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE. I DON'T KNOW THE NUMBER.

COMPARED TO WHEREVER ELSE IN THE WORLD OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE THEIR OWN GUNS. THERE ARE A LOT OF FACTORS THAT LEAD TO CRIME AND TO VIOLENCE. IT IS AMAZING HOW WE HAVE GOTTEN SO FEARFUL OF THE NRA, ONE LOBBY GROUP.

PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO TALK ABOUT THE ONE SENSIBLE THING THAT WE KNOW DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE GUNS.

I MEAN, TO BE IN A POSITION WHERE YOU TELL YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS AND YOUR FRIENDS -- EVEN IF YOU OWN A BIKE SOMEBODY IS IN YOUR LANE AND YOU SAY, I'M SORRY I AM IN YOUR LANE.

IF YOU BLOW YOUR HORN GO TOOT, TOOT AND THAT SAYS SORRY.

THINK ABOUT IN AMERICA, THE GREATEST LAND AND MORE FREEDOM THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD AND WE DO THAT.

AND THIS HIDING BEHIND THE SECOND AMENDMENTS -- THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS RIDICULOUS. DOES THAT MEAN YOU HAVE A RIGHT FOR BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS OR HOW ABOUT AN ATOMIC WEAPON? HOW CAN ANYBODY THINK THE FOUNDING FATHERS INTENDED FOR ANYBODY TO HAVE ANY ARMS THAT THEY WANTED? SENATOR CORNYN'S BILL AS I ANALYZED IT, IT WAS THE BEST HE COULD GET. I KNOW IT WELL.

I THINK I MAY HAVE GOTTEN TO THE SENATE BEFORE HE WENT ON THE STATE SUPREME COURT AND I WORKED CLOSELY WITH HIM AS ATTORNEY GENERAL. A LOT OF BILLS I PASSED HE HAD TO DEFEND AND MAYBE EVEN SOME HE DIDN'T AGREE WITH.

WE WERE IN DC AND WE GOT TO CHAT IN THE BACK ROOM A LITTLE BIT. WE WORKED CLOSELY ON A LOT OF ISSUES. IT IS NOT ENOUGH.

TO THE EXTENT IT IS A CARROT APPROACH, MY FEAR IS TEXAS WILL BE THE LAST STATE TO TAKE THE INCENTIVES TO DO MORE.

IT IS A FEDERAL ISSUE MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

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THERE ARE SEVERAL WHEREASES IN THIS RESOLUTION.

EVEN IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT I CALL FOR IN TERMS OF THE SPECIFIC LEGISLATIVE ISSUES, IF YOU ARE AGAINST UNIVERSAL BACK GROUND CHECKS AND IMPLEMENTING RED FLAG LAWS AND REQUIRING A COOLING OFF PERIOD FOR GUN PURCHASES OR REGULATING CIVILIAN OWNERSHIP OF HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINES, YOU CAN STILL BE FOR A SPECIAL SESSION. I'M JUST SO SICK OF PEOPLE OFFERING THEIR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.

I SAID AT THE STATUE UNVEIL THAT THEY SHOULD STOP AND PRAY FOR THEMSELVES AND PRAY FOR BEING FOR GIVEN FOR HAVING THE POWER AND NOT DOING A DAMN THING ABOUT IT.

WE NEED A SPECIAL SESSION. I ADMIRE THESE YOUNG PEOPLE.

MY READ OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TELLS ME MARTIN LUTHER KING'S INFLUENCE, DESPITE THE PRESS COVERAGE, HIS STATURE HAD GONE DOWN I'M MEASURE -- IMMEASURABLY AND HE COULD NO LONGER MOBILIZE THE CONSCIENCE OF AMERICANS, EVEN AFRICAN-AMERICANS, TO SHOW UP AND FIGHT FOR BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS THAT EVERYBODY KNEW WERE -- WITH THE CONSTITUTION. IT HAD BEEN THERE FOREVER.

A COUPLE OF ADVISERS WANTED HIM TO TURN TO CHILDREN AND PUT THEMSELVES IN HARM'S WAY. HE THOUGHT IT WAS CRAZY AND TO READ SOME OF THE WRITINGS EVENTUALLY HE WAS PERSUADED BECAUSE HE WAS SO DESPERATE THAT HE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO TURN TO CHILDREN. EVEN PRESIDING OVER A FEW.

AS PHOD -- MODEST AS IT IS IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE A SPECIAL SESSION THIS SUMMER. IT IS A $600 A MONTH AND TK-GS -- AND $72 A YEAR JOB THAT MET MORE DAYS THAN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS BECAUSE GOVERNOR WOULD CALL SPECIAL SESSION.

GOVERNOR BUSH RARELY CALLED THEM.

GOVERNOR PERRY CALLED PLENTY OF THEM.

THE GOVERNOR HAS HAD SPECIAL SESSIONS TO RESTRICT THE RIGHT TO VOTE. AND THIS RESOLUTION IS SIX POINTS AND SEVEN WHEREAS' AND I HOPE IT WILL HAVE BIPARTISAN SUPPORT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH EVERY WORD IN IT. THE FIRST SIX WHEREAS' ARE FACTS. IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT FACTS, JUST VOTE FOR IT AND SAY I DIDN'T LIKE THE FACTS.

SHOULD HAVE PICKED OTHERS. IF YOU ARE NOT FOR THE ONE THAT CALLS FOR SPECIFIC ACTIONS, I DON'T SAY WHAT IT IS, BUT I HOPE THAT WE ON THIS BODY WOULD DO SOMETHING.

WE TOOK THE LANGUAGE FROM BEXAR COUNTY TO A GREAT EXTENT THE THINGS THE MAYOR PUT IN. A LOT MORE OF THEM I PUT IN AND I DIDN'T LIST -- I DIDN'T ASK FOR THE CALL.

SOME I CAN THINK OF THAT PASSED MAYBE ONE CHAMBER, BUT IT IS REASONABLE. I RESPECTFULLY ASK ALL OF US, HEY, IF YOU HAVE BEEN IN THIS BUSINESS AS LONG AS I HAVE, I MAKE THE COMMENT THAT SOMEBODY IS ANGRY WHO GAVE ME A CHECK WHILE I GIVE THE CHECK BACK. I SEPTEMBER ONE BACK -- I SENT ONE BACK WHEN I WAS IN THE LEGISLATURE.

YOU KNOW WHAT I FOUND OUT? THEY SAID HE IS CRAZY.

IT IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD. OR IF SOMEBODY IS DEFEATED BECAUSE YOU TAKE ON THE POWERFUL LOBBYISTS, SO WHAT.

MY NAME HAS BEEN ON THE BALLOT 38 YEARS, AND IF I LOSE, SO WHAT. I HOPE YOU CALL ME AS FEISTY AND WITTY IN DEFEAT AS I HAVE BEEN IN VICTORY.

I HOPE I HAVE THE COURAGE TO SAY MY OPPONENT, I DON'T LIKE YOU,

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>>> I DISAGREE WITH THE PREMISE OF THIS BEING A FEDERAL SOLUTION. I LIKE EACH STATE BEING A PART OF THEIR OWN EXAMPLES AND EACH STATE MAKING THEIR OWN RULES.

I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU BELIEVE THAT THIS RESOLUTION IS SOMETHING ALL OF US COULD SUPPORT.

IT IS NOT. SINCE WE ARE GOING TO CITE THE FEDERAL MODEL I WOULD LIKE TO READ A STATEMENT BY KEVIN BRADY BECAUSE I THINK IT SUMS UP HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS MATTER.

AND HE SAYS "TO ADDRESS GUN VIOLENCE IS NOT SIMPLY ENOUGH TO, QUOTE, DO SOMETHING," END QUOTE.

WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING THAT WORKS.

MAYBE THE DEADLIEST CITIES IN AMERICA ARE IN MODEL GUN CONTROL STATES WHOSE LAWS NEITHER PREVENT MASS SHOOTINGS NOR STOP VIOLENT CRIME IN MAJOR CITIES. AS A CONGRESS AND AS A SOCIETY WE MUST ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSES OF THIS VIOLENCE WHILE KEEPING GUNS OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE CRIMINALS AND MENTALLY UNSTABLE.

WE NEED TO STOP DENYING THAT TOO MANY OF THESE SHOOTERS HAVE BROKEN FAMILIES, BROKEN LIVES AND ARE ANGRY AND HATEFUL.

WE NEED TO IDENTIFY THOSE WHO ARE STRUGGLING BEFORE THE VIOLENCE OCCURS. THIS WON'T BE EASY.

UNFORTUNATELY, THIS RUSHED POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED BILL IN THE HOUSE RECYCLES THE FAILED GUN CONTROL LAWS THAT HAVEN'T WORKED IN THE PAST AND WON'T WORK IN THE FUTURE.

PERHAPS THE SENATE WILL FIND COMMON GROUND ON A MEASURE THAT GENERALLY ADDRESSES THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE VIOLENCE.

I WILL BE VOTING AGAINST THE RESOLUTION.

I AGREE WITH REPRESENTATIVE BRADY AND I WILL BE SECONDING THE -- SECONDING COMMISSIONER RAMSEY'S MOTION.

>> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER RAMSEY?

>> TOM RAMSEY: I SPENT TIME LAST WEEK WITH THE COLLINS FAMILY.

THE STORY THERE IS A GRANDFATHER WHO GOES FISHING WITH HIS FOUR GRANDSONS, WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED BY WHAT I CALL EVIL, EVIL LET LOOSE BY BAD POLICIES. WE NEED TO DEAL WITH A LOT OF THINGS IN TEXAS. THAT'S ONE OF THEM.

A LITTLE GIRL LAST NIGHT SHOT IN HER HOUSE.

AGAIN, EVIL LET LOOSE. THIS PARTICULAR CASE WAS SOMEONE OUT ON LOW BOND. SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ISSUES, WE CAN -- WE HAVE BEEN TALKING FOR TWO YEARS ON THE CRIME EPIDEMIC IN THIS COUNTY, BUT I HAVEN'T HEARD A CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION TO DEAL WITH THE CRIME EPIDEMIC. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE BORDER AND THE MILLIONS THAT ARE COMING INTO THIS COUNTRY, HAVEN'T HEARD ANYBODY CALL FOR A SPECIAL SESSION RELATED TO THAT. THE 170 PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN KILLED BY PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN OUT ON BOND IN THIS COUNTY BY EVIL. YOU CAN SAY BY GUN AND I WILL SAY BY EVIL. I WILL SIT HERE AND SIMPLY SAY THERE IS A LOT OF THINGS WE NEED TO BE HAVING A SPECIAL SESSION ON. IT IS NOT ONE THING.

IT IS MANY THINGS. I WILL BE VOTING NO ON THE RESOLUTION AND PRAYING, AND YES I DO PRAY, WITH AN EXPECTATION THAT EVIL WILL BE OVERCOME AND THAT WE HAVE THE GOOD SENSE TO RIDE THE LEADERSHIP TOWARD THAT END.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THERE CAN BE SEPARATE CALLS FOR DIFFERENT SPECIAL SESSIONS AND CERTAINLY YOUR PER ROG TKPWAU -- PREROGATIVE. I HEAR YOUR STATEMENT THAT WE SHOULD DO IT AT THE STATE LEVEL BECAUSE THE FEDERAL LEVEL IS NOT GOING FAR ENOUGH. IF WE MAKE A MOTION THAT SIMPLY SAYS -- AND I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THIS, THAT THE HARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' COURT CALLS UPON THE TEXAS GOVERNOR TO CALL A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE TEXAS STATE LEGISLATURE TO PASS COMMON SENSE GUN LAWS THAT WOULD PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE AND NEEDLESS LOSS OF LIFE IN THE LONE STAR STATE.

THAT'S IT. CALL A SPECIAL SESSION.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: I LIKE THAT AND I WOULD LIKE TO VOTE ON THAT AND THEN MAKE MY MOTION. I WILL SECOND THAT MOTION.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: SECOND. YOU MAKE IT AND I WILL SECOND

IT. >> MOTIONED BY COMMISSIONER ELLIS AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA.

THIS IS SIMPLY TO CALL FOR A SPECIAL SESSION AT THE STATE LEVEL THAT DOESN'T SAY WE ARE NOT GOING TO DISCUSS ANYTHING ELSE. IF YOU WANT TO CALL ANOTHER SPECIAL SESSION ON SOMETHING ELSE.

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>> NO. WHEN THE GOVERNOR CALLS A SPECIAL SESSION THEY CAN ADD ANYTHING TO THE CALL.

>> LINA HIDALGO: MENTAL HEALTH AND WHATEVER IT IS?

>> RODNEY ELLIS: YES. AND HE DOESN'T HAVE TO DO IT IN ADVANCE. HE CAN JUST ADD TO THE CALL.

THAT'S PURELY WITHIN THE PREROGATIVE OF THE GOVERN -- OF THE GOVERNOR. I AM PROUD TO MAKE THAT MOTION.

>> LINA HIDALGO: MOTIONED BY COMMISSIONER ELLIS AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA ON A PLAIN OLD SPECIAL SESSION CALL AT THE STATE LEVEL. ALL IN FAVOR?

>> I. >> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED?

>> NO. >> WHAT ITEM IS THIS IN

REFERENCE TO? >> RODNEY ELLIS: SHE IS MAKING IT AS AN ADDENDUM TO MY MOTION? DOES THAT WORK? SHOULD WE DO IT AS A SEPARATE ONE? WE CAN DO IT AS A SEPARATE RESOLUTION.

AND THEN I WILL GO BACK TO THE ONE YOU HAVE.

>> LINA HIDALGO: WE MIGHT AS WELL INCLUDE THE -- ALL OF THE WHEREAS'. WOULD YOU LIKE TO COVER THEM, COMMISSIONER ELLIS FOR THE PUBLIC?

>> SO IT WILL BE A NEW RESOLUTION WITH BOTH?

>> RODNEY ELLIS: IT WILL BE A SEPARATE ONE FROM ELLIS AND THEN I WILL DO THIS OTHER ONE SINCE I MADE THE MOTION, WHETHER IT IS HIDALGO OR GARCIA OR ELLIS, I JUST WANT TO MAKE THE POINT.

AND AS AN ADDENDUM TO IT, JUDGE, MAKE SURE IT IS CLEAR THAT THE GOVERNOR CAN ADD MENTAL HEALTH COVERAGE OF ANY OF THE ITEMS HE WANTS TO THE SPECIAL SESSION. I KNOW THE CONSTITUTION PROVIDES THAT ANYWAY. BUT IN ADDITION TO WHAT THE JUDGE SAID I WILL ADD OR ANY OTHER ITEM THE GOVERNOR DEEMS

APPROPRIATE. >> THAT'S AN ADDENDUM TO YOUR

MOTION AND NOT THE -- >> RODNEY ELLIS: TO THE LANGUAGE

THE JUDGE JUST SAID. >> IF YOU DON'T MIND REPEATING IT FOR CLARIFICATION FOR THE RECORD.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: SHE KEEPS BETTER NOTES.

>> LINA HIDALGO: SO IT IS THAT THE HARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' COURT CALLS UPON THE TEXAS GOVERNOR TO CALL A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE TEXAS STATE LEGISLATURE TO PASS COMMON SENSE GUN LAW THAT'S WOULD PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE AND THE NEEDLESS LOSS

OF LIFE IN THE LONESTAR STATE. >> RODNEY ELLIS: AND INCLUDE ANY OTHER ISSUES THE GOVERNOR DEEMS APPROPRIATE.

>> LINA HIDALGO: SHOULD WE VOTE ON THAT AGAIN THEN?

>> RODNEY ELLIS: HAVE WE VOTED? DO WE NEED TO VOTE AGAIN, JAY?

>> NO. THERE IS NO NEED.

>> LINA HIDALGO: I THINK WE HAVS CHALLENGING TO SEE SOMETHING SO EVIDENT AND FOCUS ON EVERYTHING BUT THE GUNS.

THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE -- WE HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS ON SO MANY OTHER ISSUES AND THE STATE FAILED TO ACT ON THIS AND INSTEAD MADE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO CARRY GUNS.

HECK, THEY FAILED TO ACT ON THE BOND ISSUE AND FAILED TO ELIMINATE BAIL. THAT'S WHY THE BAIL BONDS MEN GIVE DISCOUNTED BAIL WHICH WE WORKED ON.

AND THAT'S WHY THE GANGS PITCH IN FOR THE BOND.

THEY COULD HAVE TACKLED THAT IN THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION IN THE THREE THEY HAD, BUT THEY DIDN'T TACKLE.

IT THEY COULD HAVE WORKED ON MENTAL HEALTH.

IT IS NOT A NEW PROBLEM AND THEY DIDN'T TACKLE IT.

WE HAVE KNOWN FOR A LONGTIME THE HARRIS COUNTY JAIL IS THE LARGEST MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY IN THE STATE.

WE DON'T HAVE THE FUNDING TO KEEP IT FROM BEING SO.

WE NEED STATE SUPPORT. THEY COULD HAVE EXPANDED MEDICAID AND AGO -- ACCEPTED THE FUNDS THERE -- FUNDS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT SO MANY STATES HAVE ACCEPTED.

AND THAT WOULD HAVE COME WITH ITS OWN MENTAL HEALTH MONEY.

IT IS PLAIN FOR ALL TO SEE AND I KPHEPD SENATOR CORNYN -- I COMMEND SENATOR CORNYN AND EVERYBODY CAN SEE WHO IS PRETENDING NOT TO SEE WHAT THE TRUE ISSUE IS AND I FIND IT IMPRESSIVE THAT YOU CAN KEEP A STRAIGHT FACE IN THAT BEHAVIOR.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: IT WOULD BE QUICK ON THE ISSUE IS WANT TO MAKE A POINT, THAT I WANT TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY AND I THINK I HAVE BEEN MOST OF THE TIME, BUT YOUR POINT THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF THE ISSUE. THE COOK COUNTY JAIL, I HAVEN'T CHECKED, BUT IT IS STILL THE LARGEST MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY IN CHICAGO, BUT IT WAS JUST -- THE PRESIDENT OVER THERE WHO PIONEERED USING THE MEDICAID EXPANSION MONEY CAN GET COVERAGE AND DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR IT IN COOK COUNTY.

MEDICAID INCLUDES THAT. IF I CAN AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, AND I DOUBT MY COLLEAGUES WILL HAVE A CHANGE OF HEART, BUT MY STAFF TALKED TO SOME OF THE ADVOCACY GROUPS AND WORKED WITH SOME OF THE PARENTS OF THE CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED AND WE WERE TRYING TO LEAVE THIS AS BROAD AS WE COULD.

I THINK IT PASSED IN BEXAR COUNTY OR MAYBE IT IS GONNA

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IT MAYBE THEY ARE DOING IT TODAY AS WELL.

I SPENT 26 YEARS IN THE LEGISLATURE AND I DID SPELL OUT SOME OF THOSE ITEMS. I DIDN'T LIST THEM ALL, BUT I WILL MAKE A MOTION ON THIS ITEM AS WELL.

>> LINA HIDALGO: DO WE HAVE SPEAKERS ON COMMISSIONER ELLIS'

MOTION? >> YES, MA'AM, WE HAVE A SPEAKER AND WE HAVE SPEAKERS FOR ITEM 236 AS WELL.

>> LINA HIDALGO: YOU MAY BE ON MUTE, TIFFANY.

>> CAN YOU HEAR ME, JUDGE? >> LINA HIDALGO: THAT'S ITEM ONE. LET ME JUST CHECK.

IT SEEMS THAT -- WAS MARGA MATTHEWS SPEAKING? LET'S RAOET -- READ THE MOTION AND THEN TAKE UP MS. MATTHEWS.

>> I WILL JUST MOVE ADOPTION. [INAUDIBLE]

>> LINA HIDALGO: THAT'S THE ONLY SPEAKER I SEE, TIFFANY, IF THERE

ARE ANY OTHERS. >> CAN YOU HEAR ME?

>> LINA HIDALGO: YES. >> OKAY, YES, WE HAVE FOR ITEM 1 MARGA MATTHEWS SPEAKING IN PERSON.

>> CAN YOU CLARIFY SOMETHING FOR ME? I SIGNED UP FOR THREE THINGS AND I WANTED TO SPEAK REALLY QUICK ON ALL THREE. AM I ALLOWED TO DO THAT?

>> LINA HIDALGO: YEAH, BUT YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE?

>> BUT THE CLOCK IS ALREADY GOING.

>> LINA HIDALGO: STATE YOUR NAME AND AFFILIATION.

>> I AM MARGA MATTHEWS. I REQUESTED A SPECIAL SESSION ON GUN VIOLENCE. I REQUEST ALL SCHOOLS HAVE AN ARMED POLICE OFFICER TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS AND INCREASED AWARENESS AND WARNING SIGNS [INAUDIBLE] TO ANYONE.

HAVE THEM TAKE A MENTAL EVALUATION AND DON'T ASSUME THEY ARE OKAY AND RELEASE THEM QUIT -- THEM.

QUIT LETTING CRIMINALS OUT. IT IS NOT THE GUN.

IT IS THE CRIMINAL HOLDING THE GUN.

THE LAST TIME I HEARD, WE UP ON CRIME IN HARRIS COUNTY.

ON RESOLUTION 3, I AM AGAINST HONORING THE LGBTQ AND JUST WANT TO SAY GOD DOES NOT MAKE MISTAKES AND FOR THIS TO BE ON THE AGENDA IS A PUSH FOR ADRIAN GARCIA IN PRECINCT 2 TO GET VOTES FROM THE LG -- LGBTQ. I DO NOT WANT SEXUAL PER -- PERVERSION TO BE PUSHED ON CHILDREN OR ANYONE.

THOSE WHO PLANTED SUCH THINGS ARE DESERVING OF GOD'S WRATH.

>> THANK YOU, MA'AM, YOUR TIME IS UP.

>> JUST REMEMBER [INAUDIBLE] GOD WILL HAVE HIS WRATH.

>> JUDGE? >> [INAUDIBLE].

>> THANK YOU. >> LINA HIDALGO: [INAUDIBLE].

IT IS A COURTROOM -- >> JUDGE, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU ALL ON THE WEBEX AND THE LIVE STREAM.

>> LINA HIDALGO: WE MAY NEED TO TAKE A BREAK?

CAN YOU HEAR US, TIFFANY? >> WE STILL CAN'T HEAR WHAT

Y'ALL ARE SAYING. >> RODNEY ELLIS: [INAUDIBLE].

>> LINA HIDALGO: ALL RIGHT. TIFFANY, CAN YOU HEAR MY VOICE?

>> YOU ARE COMING THROUGH BETTER NOW.

>> LINA HIDALGO: JUST LET US KNOW IF WE CUT OUT AGAIN.

THANK YOU. >> WE HAVE A FEW SPEAKERS FOR 236. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO TAKE

THEM NOW. >> LINA HIDALGO: WE HAVEN'T GOT TO THAT ONE YET. WE WILL TAKE THEM AFTER WE

PRESENT THE ITEM. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT WE DID NOT ASK ANY SPEAKERS TO COME.

WE ENCOURAGED THEM NOT TO COME BECAUSE I WANTED TO TRY TO GET BIPARTISAN SUPPORT, BUT I WILL MOVE ADOPTION.

>> LINA HIDALGO: MOTION BY COMMISSIONER ELLIS AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA. ALL IN FAVOR?

>> I. >> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED?

>> NO. >> LINA HIDALGO: I AM IN FAVOR AND MOTION CARRIES 3-2. ITEM 236, AND SO WE WILL TAKE 236 AND THEN 313 AS WELL ON THIS TOPIC.

THIS ITEM, WE ARE ALREADY -- WE ALREADY KNOW THE DATA AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL AND IN HARRIS COUNTY.

GUN VIOLENCE PARTICULARLY AMONG YOUTH IS A LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH. WE HAVE DONE WORK ON THIS TOPIC.

WE HAVE THE GUN VIOLENCE INTERRUPTION PROGRAM AND WE HAVE THE YOUTH VIOLENCE REINVESTMENT FUND THAT HELPS WORK WITH KIDS BEFORE THEY GET INTO TROUBLE TO YOUR POINT COMMISSIONER RAMSEY BEFORE THEY END UP INVOLVED IN THOSE KINDS OF BEHAVIORS AND WE WORKED ON SPEEDING UP THE REPORTING THROUGH THE DISTRICT CLERK SYSTEM. CLERK BURGESS HAS BEEN KEY TO

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>> RODNEY ELLIS: SO MOVED. >> LINA HIDALGO: MOTIONED BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER ELLIS.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: AND, JUDGE, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT FORWARD. MY STAFF DIDN'T TELL ME THE SOURCE, BUT I SAW WHERE THEY DO THE CHECK ON DATA AND I THINK IT WAS ON SHUBER AND I BET MY STAFF DIDN'T GIVE IT A SOURCE, BUT I BET IT IS CORRECT. OUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN AT WAR IN THE PAST TWO DECADES. YET, IN THIS TIME WE HAVE LOST MORE CHILDREN TO GUN VIOLENCE THAN ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY PERSONNEL AND ON DUTY LAW ENFORCEMENT COMBINED.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: THE PRESIDENT SAID IT.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: IT IS PARTICULARLY A PROBLEM IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY WHERE GUN VIOLENCE IS THE HRAOETDING -- LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH THAN ANY OTHER COMBINED.

I AM PROUD TO SECOND IT AND THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT

FORWARD. >> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER

RAMSEY? >> TOM RAMSEY: SO YOU CAN DIRECT THE ANALYST'S OFFICE TO DO JUST ANYTHING.

IS -- DOES THIS REQUIRE A MOTION? DOES THIS REQUIRE TO BE VOTED ON?

>> TECHNICALLY IT CANNOT. >> SO WE ARE JUST VOTING BECAUSE

WE WANT TO AND DON'T HAVE TO. >> THE JUDGE CAN DIRECT THE ANALYST'S OFFICE TO DO ANYTHING SHE WOULD LIKE INFORMATION ON,

RIGHT? >> I THINK THAT IS CORRECT.

WELL, I I WILL LET THE JUDGE ON THE FACT WHY YOU WANT TO BRING

IT TO COURT. >> TOM RAMSEY: FROM CLARITY AND TRANSPARENCY AND BRINGING IT TO COURT, THAT'S NOT BAD, BUT I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE RULES.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: DO YOU HAVE A RUNNING TAB ON HOW MANY THINGS THAT HAVE COME TO THE AGENDA THAT WE DON'T NEED TO VOTE ON?

>> TOM RAMSEY: TRANSMITTALS AND THOSE SORTS OF THINGS.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: HAVE I SEEN NUMEROUS REQUESTS MAYBE FROM YOU

IF NOT YOUR PREDECESSOR. >> [INAUDIBLE].

>> RODNEY ELLIS: Y'ALL LOOK ALIKE.

I AM BEING RHETORICAL THERE, BUT THERE WERE A NUMBER OF TIMES WHERE THERE WERE REQUESTS OF THE ANALYST'S OFFICE THAT FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH A LOT OF THE RESOLUTIONS YOU BRING UP, I SEND THEM OUT FROM MY OFFICE. I LIKE HAVING Y'ALL'S NAME ON IT, BUT JUST TO SAVE TIME, I SET THEM OUT FOR ME.

THEY LOOK PRETTIER TOO BY THE WAY.

>> LINA HIDALGO: YOU KNOW, I HAVE SEEN HAD -- SEEN THE REQUEST FROM THE ANALYST'S OFFICE COME THROUGH BEFORE AND I KNOW SHE LIKES EVERYONE TO BE AWARE ANYWAY.

MS. SHORT CAN STEP IN IF I AM MISSTATING THE POLICY.

MY UNDERSTANDING IS SHE WILL NOT PURSUE AN ANALYSIS WITHOUT ALL OF THE MEMBERS BEING AWARE OR ON BOARD OR ANYWAY THERE IS A DEMOCRATIC BACKGROUND TO THE WAY HER OFFICE FUNCTIONS SO THAT IT IS NOT JUST EACH OF US ASKING HER TO WORK WITHOUT THE OTHER

FOUR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENT. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I THINK IT IS A GOOD PRACTICE BECAUSE I HOPE NONE OF US HAVE ABUSED IT.

IF ALL OF US ASK FOR 50 THINGS WE CAN RESEARCH AT SOME POINT AND WE WOULD FIND A WAY TO DECIDE.

YOU GOT ME? >> AND LOOK, JUDGE, I THINK -- I KNOW I REQUESTED MOTION THAT'S WERE NOT ENTIRELY NECESSARY.

IT WORKS TO SET THE VOICE OF THIS BODY ON DEFINING PARTICULAR

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>> LINA HIDALGO: EVEN IF IT IS NOT NECESSARY FOR ALL OF US TO VOTE ON IT, I WOULD LIKE FOR HER TO SEE A MAJORITY.

IF YOU MOTION AND SECOND I WILL VOTE FOR IT.

IT IS SO SHE KNOWS WHERE TO PUT THAT IN HER PRIORITY LIST.

I KNOW WE HAVE SOME SPEAKERS, TIFFANY.

IS THAT RIGHT? >> YES, MA'AM.

>> LINA HIDALGO: WHY DON'T WE HEAR FROM THE SPEAKERS ABOUT OF

WE VOTE ON THIS. >> FIRST IS SPEAKER NUMBER 10, SAMMY BOG WITH MARCH FOR OUR LIVES HOUSTON SPEAKING IN PERSON. YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE.

>> MY NAME IS SAMMY BAG. IT SAYS PLEASE STATE FIRST AND LAST NAME. CAN I COLLECT MY TIME?

>> LINA HIDALGO: WE CAN'T DO THIS EVERY TIME, SO EVERYBODY BE AWARE STATE YOUR NAME AND AFFILIATION COUNTS TOWARD THE TIME AND YOU HAVE A MINUTE AND WE HAVE DONE IT TWICE, BUT WE CAN'T RESTART THE CLOCK WITH EVERY SPEAKER OR WE WILL BE HERE

ALL DAY. >> I AM SAMMY BAG AND I AM THE CO-AUTHOR OF THE HOUSTON POLICY PLAN AS WELL AS A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATION BLANCH FOR MARGINAL LIVES HUE -- HOUSTON.

I AM JOINED BY KENDAL AND JESSICA AS WELL.

I STAND HERE TODAY BECAUSE MY GENERATION HAS TO GROW UP WITH THE DEVASTATING REALITY THAT THEY ARE NOT SAFE IN SCHOOLS OR GROCERY STORES OR PLACES OF WORSHIP.

THE PLAN HAS EMERGED FROM A YEAR AND A HALF OF RESEARCH ON GROWING GUN VIOLENCE IN HOUSTON AND THE MEASURES NECESSARY TO STOP. IT ALTHOUGH HARRIS COUNTY HAS ESTABLISHED THE GUN INTERRUPTION PROGRAM THERE ARE MEASURES TO BE TAKEN TO ADDRESS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND ACCESS TO GUNS IN HOUSTON. BY ESTABLISHING A GUN VIOLENCE TASK FORCE AS WELL AS YOUTH COUNCIL, THERE IS POTENTIAL TO DECREASE ISSUE THAT'S NOT ONLY ADDRESSES THE ROOT CAUSE OF GUN VIOLENCE, BUT SAVES LIVES BEFORE THEY ARE LOST IN TRAGEDY.

ON BEHALF OF THE YOUNG VICTIMS TO GUN VIOLENCE, I ASK WE

IMPLEMENT THE POLICY -- >> THANK YOU, SIR, YOUR TIME IS

UP. >> TO ENSURE THE FUTURE OF MY

GENERATION. >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU SO

MUCH. >> RODNEY ELLIS: YOU DID A GOOD

JOB. >> LINA HIDALGO: GO AHEAD.

IF YOU WILL STATE YOUR NAME AND AFFILIATION FOR THE RECORD.

>> MY NAME IS JESSICA LAY AND I AM FROM THE LEGISLATION TEAM OF MARCH FOR OUR LIVES, HOUSTON. IT IS IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT THE PERSONAL YOUTH EXPERIENCE INSIDE STATISTICS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT TEENS TRULY FACE. THEREFORE I WANT TO SHARE MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH GUN VIOLENCE AT STEVENSON MIDDLE SCHOOL LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST HOUSTON.

I WAS SITTING IN MY ALGEBRA CLASS AND A VOICE ON THE SPEAKER APPEARED. ATTENTION, WE ARE UNDEROC LK DOWN. MY TEACHER TELLSTO US GO TO A CORNER AND STAYT. SILEN SHE SHUTSHE OFF T LIGHTS IN THE ROOMER AND COVS UPDO THE WINW. SHE WALKSCK THE -- LOS THE CLASSROOM DOOR.MO FOR A MENTIN WE ALL SIT SILENCE. AI STUDENT GOES THINKT THERE MIGHBE A T SHOOTER. MYEACHERD CONFIRM ITSELF AN B IMMEDIATELY MYREATHINGAN IS MORE RAPID D I TAKE OUT MY PHONE AND TEXT MY MOMFI SOMETHING FOR THE RST AND. POSSIBLY LAST TIME I LOVE YOU.

HOW MUCH LONGER DO WE HAVE TO WAIT BEFORE MORE LIVES ARE TAKEE EXPERIENCES SIMILAR TO MIN SHOW YOUTH POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL IN PREVENTION -- PREVENTING GUN VIOLENCE.

>> THANK YOU, MA'AM YOUR TIME UP.

>> I ASK IT IS IMPLEMENTED IN OUR CITY.

>> THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

GOOD JOB. >> HI, MY NAME IS KENDAL COPPER AND WITH MARCH FOR HOUSTON. AS STATED BY FELLOW MEMBERS WE REALLY FEEL INCLUEDING YOUTH BEING -- INCLUDING YOUTH IN THE DECISIONS ON GUN VIOLENCE IS IMPORTANT.

WE APPRECIATE THE GUN VIOLENCE REPORT, BUT WE WANT YOUTH TO HAVE MORE OF A VOICE. WE PROPOSE THERE IS A GUN VIOLENCE TASK FORCE AND YOUTH COUNCIL THAT ALSO KIND OF GOES WITH THIS REPORT. AS THE MAYOR OF 2019 COMMISSIONED WE THINK IMPLEMENTING MORE OF AN ACTION-BASED COMMUNITY SOLUTION TO GUN VIOLENCE BY HAVING AN OFFICIAL TASK FORCE AND YOUTH COUNCIL WILL REALLY HELP TO ENGAGE COMMUNITIES AND DIALOGUE REGARDING GUN VIOLENCE.

MOREOVER, THIS WILL FOCUS ON YOUTH VIE -- VIOLENCE AND DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS TO REALLY INFORM STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND HEARING WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY ABOUT SOME OF THE RECENT VIOLENCE THAT HAS HAPPENED.

THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU.

>> GOOD JOB. >> THANK YOU.

>> LINA HIDALGO: YEAH. AND I THINK IT IS A GOOD POINT THAT THEY RAISE. I ALWAYS ASSUME THE ANALYST'S OFFICE IS CONSULTING WITH STAKEHOLDERS AS SHE DEVELOPS POLICIES, BUT I WOULD ASK -- IS MS. SHORT ON THE LINE?

>> I AM, JUDGE. CAN YOU HEAR ME?

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>> TELL ME IF IT WORKS TO YOU. IF I ADD TO THE MOTION AT THE END TO CONSULT WITH RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS, AND THAT WILL INCLUDE THESE YOUNG PEOPLE, I'M SO PROUD OF YOU.

THE ORGANIZING YOU DID AFTER THE SHOOTING IN FLORIDA, PARKLAND, AND THEN TO BE BACK AGAIN, IT WOULD BE VERY EASY FOR PEOPLE TO FEEL JADED, TO FEEL APATHETIC AND FEEL DEMORALIZED, BUT IF SOMEONE CAN PROVIDE THAT ENERGY IT IS OUR YOUTH.

WE ARE SO VERY PROUD AND WE NEED YOU TO CONTINUE WITH THE ADVOCACY. I THINK COMMISSIONER ELLIS IS RIGHT. THE REASON LEGISLATORS WHO WERE SCARED OF THE NRA AND SCARED OF TALKING ABOUT AN ISSUE THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS IS OBVIOUS HAVE ENACTED IS BECAUSE OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE, BECAUSE OF YOU. I KNOW THE COMMISSIONER WAS THERE BECAUSE I HAD A LONG-STANDING COMMITMENT OR I WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE. I URGE YOU TO EP COULD THIS UP -- I URGE YOU TO KEEP THIS UP AND KNOW THAT OUR HANDS ARE TIED HERE. IF THEY WEREN'T, WE WOULD DO SO MUCH MORE. WE ARE EAGER TO HEAR WHAT MORE YOU THINK WE CAN DO THAT WE ARE NOT ALREADY DOING.

DIRECTOR SHORT I WOULD SAY CONSULT WITH RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS AND IT INCLUDES THE YOUNG ACTIVISTS AND CONSIDER YOUTH VIOLENCE AND GUN VIOLENCE TASK FORCE.

WE WANT SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY BRINGS BACK RECOMMENDATIONS.

>> I WANT TO COMMEND THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE AND EVEN THE SPEAKER AGAINST MY ITEM, YOU CAN ALWAYS SUBMIT YOUR STATEMENT AND ON MY PART MY STAFF WILL POST IT AS WELL.

IF I AGREE WITH IT. I WON'T AGREE WITH ANYTHING I DISAGREE WITH PROBABLY. YOU DID A GREAT JOB IN ORGANIZING AND I ENCOURAGE YOU TO KEEP IT UP.

YOU KNOW SOCIAL MEDIA AND THOSE THINGS MUCH BETTER THAN WE DO.

IT IS ALL ABOUT GETTING SOME ATTENTION.

THAT'S WHAT IS MOVING THE NEEDLE ON THIS.

DON'T STOP. KEEP PUSHING ITOU YRE A -- KEEP PUSHING IT. YOUKE SPO ON THE LIMITE TO ON MINUTE.WE I NT AND YOUI ALL SAID TW HAD O MINUTES AND I DID IT IN A MINUTE AND A HALF. T I WANTEDO CLOSE AND SEEOT IF THE HER S POLITICIANS WHOTICK TO IT. IS IT -- IT WAS BYHA 96 DEGREESI D TO GET TO THE OTHER TWO STOPS.OU YOU CAN SUBMIT YRSL STATEMENT. YOU ARE DOING THIS BECAUSE YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME GOOD NOISE AT JOHN LEWIS USED TD SAY. I WANT TO KPHE YOU FOR IT.

COMMEND YOU FOR IT. >> LINA HIDALGO: I WOULD HAVE IT READ THIS WAY, DIRECTOR SHORT. TO DIRECT THE COMMISSIONERS' COURT ANALYST OFFICE TO WORK WITH THE GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH ENTITIES AS APPROPRIATE TO DRAFT A REPORT TO COMMISSIONERS' COURT ON THE FREQUENCY, LOCATION AND CAUSES OF YOUTH GUN VIOLENCE IN HARRIS COUNTY FROM 2015 TO THE PRESENT AS WELL AS THE MOST EFFECTIVE EVIDENCE-BASED SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS AND PREVENT YOUTH GUN VIOLENCE AND DEATH OF CHILDREN DUE TO GUN VIOLENCE IF HARRIS COUNTY. TO CONSULT WITH RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS AND CONSIDER THE CREATION OF A YOUTH COUNCIL OR

GUN VIOLENCE TASK FORCE. >> ABSOLUTELY.

THAT'S A FINE CHANGE AND WE CAN WORK WITH THAT.

>> LINA HIDALGO: OKAY. >> JUDGE, IF I COULD JUST CLARIFY ONE QUICK POINT. I JUST WANT TO BE SURE THAT EVERYONE KNOWS WE DO ACCEPT WORK THROUGH COMMISSIONERS' COURT AND OUTSIDE COMMISSIONERS' COURT TO THE OFFICES DIRECTLY.

WE DO NOT CHANGE THE PRIORITY OF AN ITEM THAT COMES THROUGH COURT OR THAT WE RECEIVE DIRECTLY FROM A REQUESTING OFFICE.

A LOT OF OUR WORK IS DEADLINE DRIVEN.

>> AND DIRECTOR SHORT, WHAT WAS THE PART ABOUT -- I THOUGHT -- MAYBE I AM MISS REMEMBERING THAT YOU ALWAYS LET ALL OF THE OFFICES KNOW. EVERYBODY KNOW WHAT'S ARE YOU

WORKING ON, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. >> WE DON'T DO PROPRIETARY WORK.

WE DISTRIBUTE TO ALL OFFICES WHEN COMPLETE.

>> LINA HIDALGO: GOT IT. >> RODNEY ELLIS: HOW MANY EMPLOYEES DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR OFFICE?

>> RIGHT. SO WE HAVE FIVE ANALYTICAL POSITIONS. EIGHT TOTAL EMPLOYEES.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: I WAS MAKING A POINT EARLIER THAT OBVIOUSLY AT SOME POINT IF EVERYBODY IS MAKING REQUESTS, I AM OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IF SOMEBODY HAD INTERNED IN A CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE YOU COULD REQUEST THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

I NEVER DID IT, BUT WHEN I WAS A CHIEF OF STAFF TO A MEMBER IT STOPPED US FROM THE PEOPLE CREATIVE ENOUGH TO WRITE THE OFFICE AND KNOW WE ARE DOING THE PAPER FOR THEM.

AS A METHOD OF DOING BUSINESS AT SOME POINT, IF ENOUGH PEOPLE PUT IN REQUESTS, FIVE PEOPLE CAN'T DO IT ALL.

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WHEN THEY STOLE YOU FROM MY POLICY TEAM, WE HAD TO GET MORE PEOPLE TO DO THAT WORK. THANK YOU.

>> ARE YOU OKAY WITH THE CHANGES, COMMISSIONER ELLIS, TO

MAKE THE MOTION? >> LINA HIDALGO: MOTIONED BY

COMMISSIONER ELLIS -- YES? >> R. JACK CAGLE: SINCE WE ARE THROWING IN STAKEHOLDERS THERE ARE VERY, VERY DIFFERENT VIEWS AS WE LOOK AT THIS AS TO WHAT ARE THE ROOT CAUSES AND THE PROBLEMS. COMMISSIONER RAMSEY'S SPEAK OF HRAOEFL AND THE ISSUE IS IT THE HANDS OR THE GUNS THAT IS THE CYCLE OF THE REPEAT OFFENDERS. SINCE IT IS GOING TO THE ANALYST'S OFFICE TO LOOK AT, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND AS A STAKEHOLDER TALKING TO SYDNEY SEAGAL WHO IS THE CHAIR OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, I DON'T MIND THIS BEING ANALYZED, JUST CATCH ALL OF THE VOICES IN THE PROCESS.

>> LINA HIDALGO: IS THAT OKAY, DIRECTOR SHORT?

>> IF THAT IS WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE RESEARCH REQUEST WE ARE

HAPPY TO DO IT. >> LINA HIDALGO: YEAH.

CAST A WIDE NET WITH STAKEHOLDERS.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: CALL THE NRA AS WELL.

>> TOM RAMSEY: I THINK THAT IS A REALLY GOODME COMNT, COMMISSIONER.. GOODRT, INO THINK ATHER BANK OF Y INFORMATIONOU CAN CONTACT IS. CRIMESTOPPERS IF YOU CAN INCLUDE THEM,VE THEY HA A LOT OF DATA ON VIOLENCE ANDTH CAUSES AND OTHER INGS.UR ADD THAT TO YO LIST OF DATA

COLLECTION.CH >> ADRIAN GARCIA: ILDREN AT

RISK IS ANOTHER GOOD ONE. P >> LINA HIDALGO: ANDREMIERE CRIME-FIGHTING ORGANIZATION MOMS DEMAND.E

>> RODNEY ELLIS: I LIKE TH MOTION, BUT WE HAVE TO VOTE ON THIS. PARTICULARLY THE YOUNG PEOPLE HOW TO GET THE TERM PAPERS WRITTEN.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ANYWAY, YOU WILL CAST A WIDE NET.

THE MOTION BY COMMISSIONER ELLIS AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA. ALL IN FAVOR?

>> I. >> I.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED? I AM IN FAVOR AND MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. COMMISSIONER RAMSEY --

>> FOR CLARIFICATION, IT IS APPROVED WITH THE ADDED CONSULT

WITH RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS. >> LINA HIDALGO: AND CONSIDER THE YOUTH COUNCIL OR GUN VIOLENCE TASK FORCE.

>> FOR 236. >> LINA HIDALGO: YES.

AND WE ALL ADDED STAKEHOLDERS -- >> BUT --

>> LINA HIDALGO: IT IS NOT IN THE MOTION, BUT SHE WROTE IT DOWN. COMMISSIONER RAMSEY, YOU HAD 313

RELATED TO THE ISSUE. >> TOM RAMSEY: YES, THANK YOU.

AS A MATTER OF INFORMATION, IN AUGUST SCHOOL STARTS.

THE SECOND WEEK IN AUGUST SCHOOL STARTS.

THE AGENDA ITEM HERE IS TO SET UP A HARRIS COUNTY SAFE SCHOOL COMMISSION. THIS IS NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART BECAUSE I HAVE SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN ATTENDING PUBLIC SCHOOL IN THIS COUNTY. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT I KNOW LIKE ALL OF THE OTHER GRANDPARENTS AND THE PARENTS AND THE AUNTS AND UNCLES THAT THE SCHOOLS ARE AS SAFE AS WE POSSIBLY CAN MAKE THEM. THE DIFFERENCE I THINK IN THIS COMMISSION IS THAT IT IS BEING SET UP TO LISTEN TO THE YOUTH.

IT IS BEING SET UP TO LISTEN TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

IT IS BEING SET UP TO LISTEN. SOMETIMES WE HAVE PRE CON -- PRECONCEIVED IDEAS TO WHAT THE PROBLEM IS WHEN WE HAVEN'T LISTENED TO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE MOST INVOLVED WITH THE ISSUE.

BY LISTENING TO WHAT I WOULD SAY IS THE EXPERTS AND SPENDING TIME WITH THESE EXPERTS IN THE SCHOOLS BECAUSE I KNOW IN MY PRECINCT THERE ARE 25 SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN HARRIS COUNTY.

14 OF THEM ARE IN MY PRECINCT. I KNOW I AM OUT THERE TRYING TO LISTEN AND TRYING TO MAKE SURE WE GET THEM RIGHT.

WHETHER WE OPEN THE -- WHEN WE OPEN THE SCHOOLS THE SECOND WEEK IN AUGUST, IT IS NOT LIKE, COMMISSIONER, WHEN WE WERE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND THERE IS A DRILL AND EVERYBODY SAID WE'RE HAVING A DRILL AND IT HAD TO DO WITH AN ATOMIC BOMB.

GET UNDER YOUR DESK AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THAT PART OF IT AS BEING A DRILL.

SO WE ADDRESS THE ANXIETY WITHIN THE SCHOOL AND THAT WE ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES THAT ARE IMPORTANT AND THAT WE DO LISTEN.

THE KEY PART OF THIS COMMISSION ISN'T THE COMMISSION BEING SET UP TO DIRECT. IT IS SET UP TO LISTEN.

IN TERMS OF GETTING LAW ENFORCEMENT AND IN TERMS OF GETTING LEADERSHIP WITHIN THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS INVOLVED IN THE COMMISSION, I KNOW PRECINCT 3 CONSTABLE EAGLETON, HE HAS 60

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THE COUNTY IS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN IT.

I PARTICIPATED IN ACTIVE SHOOTER SCHOOL TRAINING IN CROSBY LAST WEEK JUST TO GET A SENSE OF WHAT IS THERE.

THERE ARE FOUR MORE SESSIONS PLANNED.

THE SCHOOLS ARE EACH ONE ADDRESSING IT.

WHAT WE NEED TO DO, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE WE CAN DO AS THE COUNTY TO DEAL WITH IT? SIMPLY TO PUTN IA CATEGORYF O ACTUALLY DOINGET SOMHING IN TERMS OFOU A CNTY AND IN TERMSOF SPECIFICALLYIN ENGAGG WHATSO REURCESND WE HAVE AUR ENCOAGING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN TERMS OF PARTNERINGEM WITH TH, IGR KNOW I HAD THE EATY OPPORTUNIT TO SPEND TIME WITH UCTHE HARRIS COUNTY EDATION DEPARTMENT.

THEY HAVE A PERSON THERE NAMED JULIE ANDREWS.

ANDREWS IS A ROCK STAR WHEN IT COMES TO WORKING WITH THE 25 SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND DEALING WITH SAFETY ISSUES.

SO SHE WOULD BE A GREAT RESOURCE FOR THIS COMMISSION.

MY MOTION IS PRETTY SIMPLE IN TERMS OF WHAT WE WILL DO.

AND I SILL SIMPLY STATE THAT AND WE CAN HAVE THE CONVERSATION.

THE HARRIS COUNTY SAFE SCHOOL COMMISSION -- AND I EVEN HAD MRD VERSION OF THE MOTION. I MOVE FOR APPROVAL TO DIRECT THE OFFICE OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS TO IMMEDIATELY, IMMEDIATELY BEING TODAY, ESTABLISH A HARRIS COUNTY SAFE SCHOOL COMMISSION UNDER THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA.

THE COMMISSION WILL CON -- CONSIST OF FIVE WHAT WE WOULD CONSIDER SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS AND EACH MEMBER OF THE COURT WOULD APPOINT. WE TASK WITH COMPILING RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW COMMISSIONERS' COURT CAN SUPPORT ALL 25 INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS SAFETY STRATEGIES IN TIME FOR THE 2023 SCHOOL YEAR AND FUTURE SCHOOL YEARS AS NEEDED. EACH MEMBER OF COURT SHALL MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TO THE COMMISSION AND SHOULD INCLUDES MEMBERS FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT, SCHOOL LEADERS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS.

EACH MEMBER OF THE COURT MUST FORWARD A NOMINEE BY JUNE 17TH, 2022. THE COMMISSION SHALL DIRECTLY COORDINATE WITH THE HARRIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND WORK WITH THE HARRIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CENTER FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INITIATIVE AND HARRIS COUNTY WILL COLLABORATE THE -- CLAP PWRAEUT WITH THE -- COLLABORATE WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND WORK WITH JULIA ANDREW WHROZ -- WHO IS THE RESOURCE THERE. NOMINEES WILL MEET WITH JULIE ANDREWS NO LATER THAN JULY 25TH.

THAT JULY 25TH IS NOT SOON ENOUGH.

SCHOOL STARTS IN AUGUST. PERSONALLY I WILL BE MEETING NEXT WEEK. I WOULD CHANGE THAT TO MORE ACCURATELY CLOSER TO JUNE 25TH THAN

JULY 25TH. >> MY APOLOGIES.

THAT WAS A TYPO ON MY PART. >> THAT'S MY MOTION.

>> COMMISSIONER CAGLE? THEN COMMISSIONER ELLIS.

>> R. JACK CAGLE: I SECOND. LAST WEEK WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A COALITION OF A LOT OF OUR NONPROFITS IN THE NEW PRECINCT 4. I WANT TO THANK THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE CONSTABLES. SO I'M GRATEFUL FOR THEM ALONG WITH A NUMBER OF OUR OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT ENTITIES.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME OUT OF THAT DISCUSSION, WHERE ARE LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE TRYING TO WORK TOGETHER IN THIS AREA.

I NOTE THAT YOU ARE PULLING UP MINUTES AND WE FOUND OUT THERE ARE A LOT OF NONPROFIT ENTITIES WHO ARE ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH SCHOOLS AND WITH CHILDREN AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WOULD ACCEPT AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT, BUT TO ADD PRIVATE SCHOOLS INTO THIS

CONTEXT. >> TOM RAMSEY: GOOD CATCH.

>> R. JACK CAGLE: THEY HAD SOME OF THE SAME CONCERNS AND THAT'S WHAT WE LEARNED THE NONPROFIT FORUM WE HAD LAST WEEK.

>> LINA HIDALGO: SO SUPPORT ALL 25 INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS

AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS. >> RODNEY ELLIS: COMMISSIONER RAMSEY, THANK YOU AND I WILL VOTE FOR IT.

I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF SUGGESTIONS OR EVEN A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. HAVE YOU BEEN TALKING TO THE

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APPOINTMENTS OFFICE ABOUT IT? >> TOM RAMSEY: I HAVEN'T.

I THINK JAYE MADA CALLUT IN, B . HAVEN'T

>> RODNEY ELLIS: HERE IS AES SUGGTION.

WE ALL KNOW THAT WE WANT TO DO SOMETHING T AND WE WANTO BE MEANINGFUL. I SUGGEST WELO TAKE A LITTLE NGER AND GO TO THE NEXTHR COURT AND JUST TOWOF OUT NAMES BECAUSE THE DEADLINE. I KNOW WE CAN SEE IF ANY OF THE CITIES ARE DOING SOMETHING ALONG THESE LINES.

I USUALLY LIKE LOOKING AT WHATEVER BEST PRACTICES MEANS AND KNOWING THAT WITH THE LIMITED RESOURCES, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE CAN COMBINE RESOURCES AND MAYBE EVEN WITH THE PRIVATE SCHOOL. SO I SUGGEST MORE TIME.

I THINK BACK AND I GUESS I WAS PRETTY YOUNG, BUT MAYBE IT WOULD BE GOOD IF SOMEBODY TALKED TO US SOME OF US ARE CLAUSTROPHOBIC.

I ENJOYED IT BECAUSE YOU GET A LITTLE BREAK.

I CAN TAKE A LITTLE SNACK WHILE THEY ARE UNDER THERE.

IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO GET THE STUDENT'S PERSPECTIVE.

PARTICULARLY WHERE YOU CAN GET A GUN AT 18 AND UNFORTUNATELY SOME OF OUR KIDS ARE IN SCHOOL PAST 18, BY THE WAY.

I SUGGEST TAKING 30 DAYS. CHECKING WITH THE CITY, BAY TOWN OR PASADENA. MAYBE YOUR STAFF -- MAYBE SOMEBODY LOOKED TO SEE IF IN BUFFALO OR COLUMBINE, YOU GOT ME? MAYBE THEY CAN HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO SEE SOMEBODY THAT DIDN'T DO MUCH THAT WE CAN LEARN FROM, OR IF SOMEBODY DID SOMETHING THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO CUT AND PASTE AND THAT MAY TAKE MORE THAN TWO WEEKS.

JUST A SUGGESTION, BUT I'M VOTING FOR IT.

>> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER GARCIA?

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER RAMSEY, FOR THINKING THROUGH THIS.

ALBEIT YOUR INFORMATION CAME VERY SLOW, SO I WAS NOT SURE WHAT YOU WERE PROPOSING, IT LOOKS PRETTY BASIC, BUT I ASK YOU TO GIVE THIS SOME THOUGHT. NUMBER ONE IS THERE'S A LOT BEING DONE AS A RESULT OF UVALDE.

A LOT BEING DONE AND BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE. YOU MENTIONED THE ACTIVE SHOOTER TRAINING, BUT THE IDEA OF INCLUDING THE PRIVATE SCHOOLS IS PROBABLY THE GOLDEN NUGGET HERE. THEY DON'T HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE. SO INSTEAD OF GETTING IN THE MIDDLE OF THOSE THAT HAVE THE CAPACITY AND HAVE THE SUPPORT, I WOULD PROBABLY ASK YOU TO ENCOURAGE THIS BE DIRECTED MORE TO THE PRIVATE SCHOOL COMMUNITIES BECAUSE THEY ARE LARGELY OUTSIDE THE TYPICAL SPACE OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

THEIR BOARDS ARE SMALLER. THEIR FUNDING IS MUCH MORE LIMITED. AND THEY DON'T HAVE IN MANY CASES THEIR OWN POLICE DEPARTMENTS.

SO THAT IS WHERE I THINK THERE IS GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

MY CONCERN WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT'S DO HAVE THE CAPACITY IS THEY ARE BUSY RIGHT NOW.

TO ASK THEM TO STOP AND COME TO A MEETING FOR WHERE WE HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT IS THE REAL OPPORTUNITY TO FUND, WE CAN'T SPEND COUNTY DOLLARS ON SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND THEN TO RY ARE DOING MAY NOTE B CONSTRUCTIVE FOR THEM.

WITH THETE PRIVA SCHOOLS THERE ISTO ROOM BE HELPFUL.

I WOULD JUST THROW THAT OUT THERE>>.

TOM RAMSEY: THANK YOU,SI COMMISONER.

THAT'S A GOOD COMMENT.E THE PRIVATEEDS OF SCHOOLS WILL PROBABLY BE A PRIORITY.

BUT I WILL SAY HAVING TALKED TO ME, THE COMMISSION BETWEEN NOW AND WHEN SCHOOLS STARTS WE ARE TO LISTEN.

I DON'T -- THINKING IN TERMS OF A LIMITED NUMBER OF PEOPLE, WE

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I WILL BRING INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE 25 SCHOOL DISTRICTS, BUT IF WE DO -- IF WE ARE ABLE TO DEFINE BEST PRACTICES THIS PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND OTHERS BECAUSE SOME OF THESE SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE SMALLER THAN OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS. SOME HAVE THEIR OWN PD AND SOME DON'T. SOME USE CONSTABLES AND SOME USE OTHERS. JUST BEING ABLE TO GET A BANK OF GOOD IDEAS THAT THE SKAOLT -- THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS CAN TAP INTO WHEN THE BELL RINGS IN THE SECOND WEEK OF AUGUST IS THE

OBJECTIVE. >> RODNEY ELLIS: JUDGE, ONE QUESTION RELATED TO THIS. COMMISSIONER GARCIA, YOU MADE ME THINK OF RESOURCES FROM THE BUDGET OFFICE.

MR. BERRY, HOW MUCH HAVE WE RE -- HAVE WE REDUCED SINCE

JUDGE HIDALGO HAS BEEN HERE? >> I WILL NEED TO FOLLOW-UP WITH YOU ON THAT ONE. IT IS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN

THE REDUCED TAX RATE. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I JUST WANT TO MAKE A POINT THAT IN TERMS OF RESOURCES AS TRAGIC AS THIS IS, PEOPLE HAVE TO FACIAL FOR THEM. COMMISSIONER GARCIA, I WAS WITH CHIEF LEE AT A TOWN HALL MEETING AND OF COURSE WE ARE GOING TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF WHAT THE FEDS ARE LOOKING AT AND WHAT HAPPENED AT UVALDE -- YOU NATURALLY SAY UVALDE.

BUT WHAT HAPPENED AND THE OFFICERS IN THE ROOM NEXT DOOR THAT WERE TEXAS RANGERS IN THE SCHOOL.

HE WAS MAKING THE POINT THAT WHEN IT IS A SEMIAUTOMATIC WEAPON, YOU REALLY ARE -- YOU KNOW THAT'S A REAL COMMITMENT.

WHEN YOU WALK IN THAT ROOM, MOST LIKELY -- UNLESS YOU HAVE A SHIELD AND IT WORKS, YOU KNOW BETTER THAN ME, AND YOU MANAGE TO STAY BEHIND IT, YOU KNOW REGARDLESS OF HOW MANY LIVES YOU SAVE THAT IS PRETTY MUCH A DEATH SENTENCE WHEN SOMEBODY HAS AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON. THIS WHOLE DISCUSSION IS GOOD, BUT FOR UVALDE MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, IF SOMEBODY DIDN'T HAVE A SEMIAUTOMATIC WEAPON, THAT'S THE REAL ISSUE.

I'M FINE WITH THIS, BUT -- YOU GOT ME? I HOPE THE GROUP RECOMMENDS THAT.

WHOEVER I PUT ON THERE WILL SPEAK UP.

I JUST HOPE I CAN FIND AN 18-YEAR-OLD TO DO IT AS FEISTY

AS I WAS AT 18. >> R. JACK CAGLE: I THINK WE NEED TO INCLUDE THE FIRE MARSHAL'S OFFICE AS WELL.

>> LINA HIDALGO: HERE IS WHAT I AM HEARING ON CHANGES.

MOTION TO APPROVE COMMISSIONER RAMSEY -- LET ME KNOW IF THIS IS ACCURATE. PHOEGTS TO APPROVE DASH DARR MOTION TO APPROVE THE DIRECT BOARD OF COMMISSIONS TO WORK

WITH THE FIRE MARSHAL'S -- >> INCLUDE THEM.

>> LINA HIDALGO: TO ESTABLISH A SAFE SCHOOL COMMISSION UNDER THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA. THE COMMISSION SHALL CONSIST OF FIVE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS WHO WILL BE TASKED WITH RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW COMMISSIONERS' COURT CAN SUPPORT ALL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS, SAFETY, STRATEGIES IN TIME FOR THE 2022-2023L SCHOOYEAR AND EACH SCHOOLNE YEAR EDED.CH EA COURTWI MEMBER LL APPOINT ONE MEMBER.EM EACH MBER OF THE COURTE MUST -- ARYOUON SAYING COMMISSIER YOU WOULDSH LIKE THE FIRE MARALEA TO HAVE A ST ON THE COMMISSION OR FOR HER TO BE ONEES OF OUR

APPOINTE? I >> TOM RAMSEY: SHES LIKE A RESOURCE. LIKEME THE HARRIS COUNTY

DEPARTNT OF EDUCATION. >> R. JACK CAGLE: IT WOULD BE UP TO TOM. JUST TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE

THERE. >> LINA HIDALGO: I THINK MAYBE UNDER THE -- COMMISSION SHALL COORDINATE DIRECTLY -- LET ME KEEP GOING. LET ME GO EACH MEMBER OF COURT SHALL MAKE ONE APPOINTMENT TO THE COMMISSION AND SHALL INCLUDE MEMBERS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SCHOOL LEADERS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS. EACH MEMBER OF THE COURT MUST FORWARD BY -- YOU SAID JUNE 27TH, BUT THEN SAID YOU WANTED TO MEET WITH JULIE ANDREWS ON THE 25TH SO WE NEED THE NOMINEES BEFORE JUNE 25TH.

SO JUNE 25TH IS A SATURDAY. >> TOM RAMSEY: WHEN IS THE NEXT

COURT MEETING? >> TUESDAY SO SHOULD BE THE

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28TH. >> LINA HIDALGO: JUNE 28TH

IS THE NEXT COURT DATE. >> TOM RAMSEY: SO THE 25TH IS THAT FRIDAY WHICH WOULD BE OUR -- WHEN WE HAVE TO HAVE OUR

AGENDA ITEMS IN ON THE 25TH. >> LINA HIDALGO: THE 24TH IS

THE FRIDAY. >> 24TH IS THE FRIDAY AND --

>> LINA HIDALGO: EACH MEMBER OF COURT MUST NOMINATE BY JUNE 24TH, 2022. THE KPWHEUGS SHALL DIRECTLY -- THE COMMISSION SHALL DIRECTLY COORDINATE WITH THE HARRIS COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL'S OFFICE AND HARRIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WORKING WITH THE HCEB CENTER FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INITIATIVE, HCCSC WILL COLLABORATE WITH DISTRICTS AND WILL WORK WITH JULIE ANDREW TO AID TPAOEU PRIORITIES.

NOMINEES WILL MEET WITH ANDREWS NO LATER THAN JUNE 25TH?

>> THAT WILL BE AFTER -- PUT JULY 1ST.

>> NO LATER THAN JULY 1ST, 2022.

HSCC SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED NO LATER THAN THE NEXT MEETING OF

THE COURT. >> AND JUDGE IF I COULD JUST SO THAT WE CAN HAVE SOME SENSE OF URGENCY ON THIS LIKE MY SENIOR CARE FACILITY TASK FORCE, I GAVE IT A DATE CERTAIN TO WORK AND COMPLETE THEIR WORK SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANOTHER BOARD OUT THERE GOING ON IN PERSON FEW TEE.

IN PERPITUITY. >> TOM RAMSEY: I THINK COMPLETE WORK BY AUGUST 1ST AND THAT GIVES IT TWO WEEKS BEFORE SCHOOL

STARTS. >> LINA HIDALGO: AND I WANT TO ADD A COUPLE OF THINGS. FIRST, I COMMIT -- I THINK 2* WAS MENTIONED, BUT NAMING A YOUNG PERSON TO THE COMMISSION AND THAT IS A SCHOOL STUDENT. WE WILL WORK WITH YOU GUYS ON FIGURING THAT OUT. THAT WOULD BE MY NOMINEE.

AND I WANT TO MAKE THE POINT THAT THIS IN MY MIND IS BELT AND SUSPENDERS. COMMISSIONER CAGLE, I LEARNED THAT FROM YOU. IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS AN ASK, BUT NOT SUFFICIENT BY ANY MEANS. WE HAVE VARIOUS EXAMPLES OF THIS ATTEMPT AT THIS KIND OF WORK IN THE PAST, HARRIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, FOR EXAMPLE HAS A CENTER FOR SAFE SCHOOLS ALREADY THAT INCREASES SAFETY AND SECURITY STRATEGIES.

MARCH 2020 GOVERNOR ABBOTT HAD A SCHOOL SAFETY AND VICTIM RESEARCHY SURVEWE WEREN'T ABLE TO FINDC PUBLI, RESULTSBUT IT WAS SENT00 TO 500,0 500,000 EDUCATORS AND IT WAS AN THE SANTAN FOLLOWING FE SCHOOL SHOOTING.

SO THIS HAS BEEN ATTEMPTED AT THE STATE LEVELS BEFORE.

THE TEXALEGISLATURE CREATED THE SAFETY CENTER THAT DISSEMINATED SAFETY AND SECURITY INFORMATION FOR K-12 SCHOOLS AND JUNIOR COLLEGES. THE GOVERNOR TASKED WITH CONVENING A SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL SAFETY.

UVALDE DOUBLED THE SECURITY BUDGET AND ADOPTED AN ARRAY OF MEASURES OF THREAT ASSESSMENT TEAMS AT EACH SCHOOL AND SOCIAL MEDIA SOFTWARE AND REQUIRE TEACHER LOCK CLASSROOM DOORS.

THE MASSACRE HAPPENED ANYWAY. ONE STUDY BY TEXAS APPLE SEED WHICH IS A WELL-KNOWN EDUCATION FOUND SOME DISTRICTS HAVE MORE POLICE OFFICERS THAN SCHOOL COUNSELORS.

IF IT IS ARMING EACH SCHOOL OR PERHAPS EACH CLASSROOM EVEN THOUGH THERE MAY NOT BE FUNDING FOR IT, WE WOULDN'T HAVE THE SITUATION. MORE THAN TRIPLE THE RATE AND IT IS NOT LIKE EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD WHERE THEY HAVE A RATE OF 3.0 THAT THEY HAVE ARMED SCHOOLS.

THE U.S. ALSO HAS A HIGH RATE OF GUN OWNERSHIP AND ACCOUNTS FOR NEARLY 46% OF ALL CIVILIAN-HELD FIREARMS IN THE WORLD.

WE ARE NOT 46% OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION.

I VOTE FOR THIS BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HURT, BUT IT COULD HURT IN THE SENSE THAT IT DISTRACTS FROM THE ISSUE AT HAND.

AND MAKE NO MISTAKE THAT THE ISSUE HERE IS GUNS AND THE LACK

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TABLE. >> I AGREE WITH YOU.

AS I WOULD SAY, I WOULD LIKE TO ASSOCIATE MY SUPPORT WITH THE COMMENTS OF THE GENTLE WOMAN OF THE CHAIR.

HERE IS ANOTHER ONE AND I WAS TRYING TO LOOK UP THE AMOUNTS.

NOW THE GOVERNOR WANTS TO GO PUT MONEY INTO MENTAL HEALTH BEFORE SCHOOLS GO INTO SESSION. IF WE DRONE DOWN THE MEDICAID EXPANSION 12 YEARS AGO I THINK IT WAS NOW, OVER A DECADE AGO AND THAT INCLUDED MENTAL HEALTH COVERAGE, BUT IT GOES IN THE CATEGORY OF I WON'T VOTE FOR IT AND IF THAT HELPS, GOOD.

IT IS GOOD THAT IT HAS A DEADLINE.

BUT ON ONE HAND WE CAN'T COME IN AND DECIDE THAT WE ARE GONNA CUE COUNTY DID OVER THE PREVIOUS YEARS BEFORE YOU THREE GOT HERE AND CUT WHATEVER IT IS OUT. AND IT WILL SAY WE WILL PUT MORS THAT THEY WILL FUND OFFICERS IN SCHOOLS.

YOU DON'T HAVE THE MONEY. YOU CAN SAY, WE WILL ELIMINATE THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND LIBRARIES AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

THANK YOU. >> DO YOU NEED THE MOTION

REPEATED? >> YES, JUDGE, PLEASE.

>> OKAY. SO HERE IS WHAT I HAVE.

IT SAYS THAT A MOVE FOR APPROVAL TO DIRECT THE OFFICE OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS TO IMMEDIATELY ESTABLISH A HARRIS COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSION UNDER THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA.

THE COMMISSION SHALL CONSIST OF FIVE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS TASKED WITH COMPELLING RECOMMENDATIONSHO ON W COMMISSIONERS' COURTUP CAN SPORT ALL FIVEDE INDEPENNT SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND PRIVATE SCHOOL SAFETYS STRATEGIEFOR THEAN 2022 D 2023ND SCHOOL YEAR AAR EACH YE AS NEEDED.

EACH COURT MEMBER WILLN MOTORCYCLE AAPPOINTMENT AND S WILL INCLUDECHOOL LEADERS AND OTHER COMMUNITY LEADERS N EACH COURT MUSTOMINATE BY JUNE 24TH, 2022.

MUST COORDINATE ARE HAIR -- HARRISAN COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT D CENTER FOR SAFE AND SCHOOLS INITIATIVE.

IT WILL COLLABORATE WITH ALL COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND HSSC WILL WORK WITH JULIE ANDREWS TO IDENTIFY PRIORITIES.

NOMINEES WILL MEET NO LATER THAN JULY 1ST 2022.

HSCC -- HCSSC SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED BY NO LATER THAN JUNE 28TH, 2022 AND COMPLETE WORK BY AUGUST OF 2022.

IS THERE A MOTION? >> MAKE A MOTION.

>> LINA HIDALGO: IS THERE A SECOND?

>> SECOND. >> LINA HIDALGO: MOTIONED BY COMMISSIONER RAMSEY AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER CAGLE.

ALL IN FAVOR? >> I.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED? I AM IN FAVOR AND MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. THOSE ARE ALL OF THE ITEMS RELATED TO THE SHOOTING. WE WILL CONTINUE WITH THE RESOLUTIONS. COMMISSIONER RAMSEY, YOU HAVE A RESOLUTION -- OH, THIS IS 313. OKAY.

AND WE DON'T HAVE A RESOLUTION OUT OF ORDER FOR COMMISSIONER CAGLE. COMMISSIONER GARCIA DID YOU WANT TO TAKE OUT OF ORDER YOUR RESOLUTION?

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: I DO. THANK YOU, JUDGE.

MY FIRST RESOLUTION IS TO RECOGNIZE A PHENOMENAL PUBLIC SERVE VENT -- PUBLIC SERVANT. IT IS SOMEONE WHO HAS MADE HIS CAT A PART OF OUR FAMILY AND THAT WOULD BE NONE OTHER THAN SCOTT LEMOND. AND SCOTT IS -- [INAUDIBLE].

AND TO PRECINCT 2. AND TO THE CITY OF BAY TOWN.

AND SO WE ARE VERY -- I'M EXCITED TO HAVE YOU DOWN AT -- DOWN IN BAY T*P TOWN. NOT EXCITED TO SEE YOU LEAVE THE COUNTY, BUT NONETHELESS I JUST WANT TO PRESENT THIS RESOLUTION ON BEHALF OF SCOTT. I KNEW HIM IN MY PREVIOUS LIFE AS A SHERIFF AND I ALWAYS APPRECIATED THE DISCUSSIONS BACK THEN AND HE HAS BEEN A PHENOMENAL INDIVIDUAL TO WORK

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LET ME READ THIS RESOLUTION. IT STARTS WITH, WHEREAS SCOTT A LEMOND HAS BEEN A LICENSED -- I AM GLAD ABOUT THAT.

I WOULD HATE TO THINK WE ARE TAKING LEGAL ADVICE AND YOU WERE NOT LICENSED. A LICENSED TEXAS ATTORNEY SINCE 1994. AND HAS REPRESENTED GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES, OFFICIALS AND CORPORATIONS FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS. WHEREAS, SCOTT A. LEMOND WORKED WITH THE HARRIS COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SINCE 2013 AND I GAVE YOU 30 YEARS AND IT IS MORE LIKE 19.

SERVING THE RESIDENTS OF HARRIS COUNTY AND HARRIS COUNTY GOVERNMENT THROUGH VARIOUS ROLES INCLUDING REPRESENTING THE HARRIS COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY, THE SHERIFFIV CIL SERVICE COMMISSIONND A MEMBERS OF COMMISSIONERS' COURT ANDRE WHEAN OF21 UNDER THERS LEADEHIP HARRIS COUNTY ATTORNEYAN CHRISTE MENEE SCOTT A LEMOND WAS SPECIAL ASSISTANT COUNTY ATTORNEY WITH DUTIES RANGING FROM MANAGING THE GENERAL T COUNCIL DIVISIONOTO SERVING AS THE ATRNEY FOR THE OFFICE OFND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR A WHEREAS DURING HIS TENURE ATY' THE HARRS COUNTY ATTORNES OFFICE SCOTT LEMOND WAS A VOLUNTEER MEDIATOR WITH THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION SEN -- CENTER IN HARRIS COUNTY AND IS A VOLUNTEER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE.

AND BE IT RESOLVED THAT HARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' COURT HERE BY COMMANDS -- COMMENDS SCOTT A SP*PBS LEMOND.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE A IS FOR, HOPEFULLY ADRIAN, FOR HIS COUNSEL AND LEADERSHIP TO HARRIS COUNTY.

CONGRATULATIONS, SCOTT. >> JUDGE, IF I MAY, I JUST WANT TO COME AND SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO SCOTT WHO IS FANTASTIC.

AND THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER GARCIA FOR CARRYING THE MOTION.

I MET SCOTT WHEN I TOOK OVER THE OFFICE AND COVID WAS GOING ON AND I ONLY KNEW SCOTT AS THE GUY ON ZOOM WITH A BOW TIE AND THE CAT IN THE BACKGROUND. SINCE THEN I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH HIM DIRECTLY ON MANY MATTERS AND AS YOU KNOW HE HAS ADVISED VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS AT THE KOUPB -- COUNTY AND ALL OF YOU. HE IS NOT JUST A FANTASTIC LAWYER, BUT A FANTASTIC PERSON. HE HAS TIES TO BAY TOWN AND I WONDER WHAT THEY R-FPLT I SAY THIS IS A FANTASTIC JOB AND WHAT LEAD TO YOU SEEK IT OUT? HE SAID IT IS A 15-MINUTE COMMUTE TO MY HOUSE. WE ARE SAD TO SEE HIM GO AND IT IS GOING TO BE HARD TO REPLACE HIM, BUT I KNOW BAY TOWN IS IN GOOD HANDS AND WE WILL WORK OUT A RATE WE CAN CHARGE HIM IF HE CALLS AND ASKS FOR ADVICE ON HIS WORK.

NOW TURNING IT OVER TO SCOTT SO HE CAN SAY A FEW WORDS.

WE ARE HAPPY TO SEE HIM MOVE ON TO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: WONDERFUL. >> JUDGE AND COMMISSIONERS, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE RESOLUTION.

I AM HONORED AND HUMBLED. I AM HONORED AND HUMBLED TO SERVE THE RESIDENTS OF HARRIS COUNTY AND WILL TAKE THE LESSONS I HAVE LEARNED HERE WORKING WITH EACH ONE OF YOU TO SERVE THE RESIDENTS OF BAY TOWN. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING THE WORK BETWEEN THE CITY OF BAY TOWN WITH PRECINCT 3 AND PRECINCT 2. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH ALL OF YOU.

THANK YOU. >> CONGRATULATIONS.

WHAT IS THE TIE TO BAY TOWN? >> THE TIE TO BAY TOWN IS I HAVE SEVERAL AUNTS AND UNCLES WHO WERE PART OF THE FIRST CLASSES AT STERLING HIGH SCHOOL TO IMMIGRATE.

MY GRAND -- GRANDMOTHER, MY MAMA WAS THE LUNCH LADY AT BAY TOWN.

SHE THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO COMMUTE FROM BARRETT STATION OUT TO STERLING SO THAT HER KIDS COULD GET A BETTER EDUCATION, AND FOR THOSE OF YOU LIKE ME WHO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF GRAY HAIR, YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THE 1972 STERLING HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

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MY UNCLE MARTIN QUARTERBACKED THAT TEAM.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: NICE. >> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER

RAMSEY? >> ADRIAN GARCIA: QUICKLY WHAT

IS THE A? >> IT IS ADRIAN NOW.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: I MOVE ON THE RESOLUTION.

>> TOM RAMSEY: LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU, MR. LEMOND NOW THAT YOU ARE PART OF PRECINCT 3 AS WELL.

THAT'S ON THE ROAD TO BARRETT, RIGHT?

>> YES, SIR, IT IS. >> TOM RAMSEY: WE HAD A LOT OF FUN TALKING. I DID NOT KNOW THAT STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, OR PLAYING IN THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.

THAT'S A BIGEA DL. WE NEEDTA TO LK MORE ABOUT

FOOTBALL. >>OU I WLD LOVE TO.CA BOTH WAITIT TO WORK WH OF YOUR OFFICES AND COUNTY AS A WHOLE. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK, TRULY.

FROM THE MOMENT I ARRIVED, IT HAS BEENYO GREAT TO WORK WITH UH AND CARRYING US ROUGH THE PANDEMIC AND PERHAPS YOU INSPIRED ME TO GET A CAT. ALL MY VERY BEST.

COMMISSIONERAN ELLIS? >> RODNEY ELLIS: I WTED TO THANK YOU AS WELL. I HAVE KNOWN YOUR FAMILY FOR A VERY LONGTIME, AND OBVIOUSLY THE CONNECTION TO BAY TOWN IS THERE ARE MANY LEMONDS COMING OUT OF LOUISIANA, BUT WHAT A GREAT, RICH FAMILY HISTORY. AND I KNOW THEY ENCOURAGED YOU AND A GOOD NUMBER OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS TO WORK FOR HARRIS COUNTY. I WANT TO SAY WE WILL MISS YOU AS YOU HAVE WORKED WITH ME OVER THE YEARS.

I AM PRONE TO GET INTO OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS.

YOU GOT THAT HUMIDORE OVER THERE.

IS THAT YOU OR RAMSEY? TRYING TO DO SOMETHING OUT THERE

TO HONOR HENRY DOYLE. >> YES, SIR, I DO.

I CERTAINLY DO. >> KENNEDY LBJ CHANGED IT.

IT WOULD BE NICE. I THINK IT WAS YOUR UNCLE'S TOKEN STORY. HE USED TO BRAG ABOUT BEING THE TOP OF HIS CLASS AND BOTTOM OF HIS CLASS BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONLY PERSON. THE FIRST STUDENT IS THE WHAT IS

NOW TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY. >> COMMISSIONER, MY AUNT VIRGIE WHO WORKED IN THE COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, ONE OF THE CLERKS SO WE HAVE THAT CONNECTION AS WELL.

>> CONGRATULATIONS. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.

>> LINA HIDALGO: DO WE HAVE SPEAKERS?

>> NO, JUDGE. HE WAS UNAVAILABLE WHEN WE TRIED

TO REACH HIM. >> LINA HIDALGO: GREAT.

DO YOU HAVE ANOTHER RESOLUTION, COMMISSIONER?

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: I ACTUALLY HAVE TWO MORE BECAUSE OF THE SPECIAL OCCASION. LET ME JUST SAY I AM ALSO PROUD TO ONCE AGAIN BRING THE PRIDE RESOLUTION TO COMMISSIONERS' COURT. I DO IT ON SO MANY MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY INCLUDING MY BROTHER WHO PLAYED AND MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR SOCIETY.

THIS RESOLUTION IS TO RECOGNIZE THE FACT THAT FOR OVER 50 YEARS THE LESBIAN, GAY, TRANS SEXUAL, QUEER COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES THE SO MANY LIVES THAT FOUGHT FOR ACCEPTANCE AND EQUAL TREATMENT AND DIGNITY AND RESPECT IN ALL ASPECTS OF DAILY LIFE, WORK, EDUCATION, HEALTH AND FAMILY AND JUNE 28TH, 1969, POLICE RAIDED THE STONEWALL INN, A GAY CLUB IN GREENWICH VILLAGE IN NEW YORK CITY AND PRIDE MONTH FOLLOWED THAT LEAD TO THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT FOR EQUALITY. A YEAR LATER THE FIRST PRIDE PARADE WAS HELD BEGINNING IN 1970.

PRIDE MONTH WAS OBSERVED IN THE UNITED STATES IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THE RAID.

WHEREAS TODAY, THE STREUG TKPWEL FOR EQUALITY AND RESPECT -- THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY AND RESPECT FOR THE LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY CONTINUES AND BATTLING THE ATTACKS ON LGBTQ PLUS EDUCATORS AND TRANSGENDER CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS AND WHEREAS AS POSITIVE EXAMPLES THE RESIDENTS OF HARRIS COUNTY CONTRIBUTE TO THE GREATER COMMUNITY IN BUSINESS, EDUCATION, CIVIL SERVICE AS PARENTS, LEADERS AND FIRST RESPONDERS IN THE FIELDS OF MEDICINE, SCIENCES,S ART ANDRE

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ANDOC WHEREAS LAL ORGANIZATIONSO DRIVES ENOMIC OPPORTUNITY TO THE LGBTQ PLUS AND ALLIEDNI BUSINESS COMMUTY THE CHAMBERMI FOCUSES ON ECONOC INCLUSION LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGEUG, CONNECT AND LEARN THROH EVENTS AND PROGRAMS AND WHEREAS THROUGH EVENTS SUCH AS PRIDE IN BUSINESS, THE CHAMBER RECOGNIZES THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF THE LGBTQ PLUS AND ALLIED BUSINESSES IN THE KPWR -- GREATER HOUSTON ECONOMY, IT UNDERSCORES HOW THE LGBTQ PLUS AND ALLIED BUSINESSES PARTNERS WORK WITH THE BROADER BUSINESS COMMUNITY TO REALIZE A BETTER HOUSTON. CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY CLAIM -- CHAMBER MEMBERS AND CORPORATE PARTNERS AND KEY STAKEHOLDERS BUILD A MORE DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND SUPPORT LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY. BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE HARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' COURT PROCLAIMS JUNE 20, 2022 AS LGBTQ PRIDE MONTH AND CELEBRATES THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE LGBTQ PLUS RESIDENTS IN HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS.

TAMMY, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERET AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP IN THE COMMUNY. ARE YOU THE CO-FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT -- CURRENT PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE GREATER HOUSTON LGBTQ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. LET ME JUST SAY I PROBABLY NEED TO RENEW MY MEMBERSHIP BECAUSE IN MY CONSULTING DAYS I WAS PROUD TO BECOME ONE -- I THINK I WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TO AGO -- TO ACCEPT THIS

RESOLUTION. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I JUST WANT TO ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH THE COMMENTS OF THE GENTLEMAN TO MY RIGHT. YOU BEAT ME TO IT EVERY YEAR, BUT I KNOW YOUR PASSION FOR THIS ISSUE.

I WANT YOU TO KNOW ON MARCH 22ND, I ASKED THE DEEO DEPARTMENT TO LOOK INTO CERTIFICATION FOR LGBT-OWNED BUSINESSES AND I THINK SOMETHING IS COMING BACK SOON.

I'M GOING TO BE ON VACATION SO I WON'T BE AT THE PRIDE PARADE THIS YEAR, BIT I HAVE BEEN MOST YEARS.

WE WILL HAVE A SPECIAL BUS OUT THERE AND I THINK MY STAFF WILL BE THERE AND MAYBE COMMISSIONER GARCIA WILL BE THERE.

I KNOW THE CITY HAS A POLICY. WE'LL DO IT IN A WAY THAT IS LEGALLY DEFENSIBLE AND I THINK YOU WOULD BE PROUD.

I THANK YOU AND I AM HONORED TO SECOND THE MOTION.

>> GO AHEAD. WE ARE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE.

>> JUDGE HIDALGO AND ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COURT IT IS AN HONOR TO RECEIVE THE RESOLUTION ON BEHALF OF THE GREATER HOUSTON LGBTQ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND RECOGNIZING PRIDE MONTH.

COMING FROM THE HEART, I KNOW, THE CHAMBER LAUNCHED IN 2016 AND IS NOW THE VOICE FOR THE LGBTQ PLUS ALLIED BUSINESS COMMUNITIES IN THE REGION. WE HAVE GROWN EVERY YEAR SINCE WE STARTED. I OFTEN JOKE AND YOU ALL KNOW IT SO WELL, SINCE WE LAUNCHED THE CHAMBERS HAVE BEEN THROUGH TWO 500-YEAR FLOODS AND STORM YURI AND THE PANDEMIC AND THERE WAS A CITY-WIDE LOSS OF WATER ON OUR CELEBRATION.

IF WE CAN SURVIVE THESE FIRST 6 YEARS WE HAVE THE NEXT SIX AND BEYOND. WITH THAT AS YOU MENTIONED OUR WORK IS ABOUT MAKING SURE THE LGBTQ PLUS BUSINESS COMMUNITY HAS A SEAT AND A VOICE AT THE TABLE.

AND THAT IS WHAT PRIDE MONTH IS ABOUT.

IT IS MAKING SURE THAT A COMMUNITY HAS AOI VCE AND IS SEEN AND IT ISUT ABO BEING HEARD AND LOVEDAL AND VUED.

>> YOUR TIME IS UP. A >>DRIAN GARCIA: DO YOU HAVE

ANYTHING>> MORE? THAT'SIS WHAT TODAY ABOUT.

HISTORY.KING THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THEUS GREATER HOTON LGBTQ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE STANDS BEFORE A YOU TO ACCEPTRE RESOLUTION. WE A WORKING TO RAISE THE VISIBILITY OF THE LGBTQ PLUS BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND OUR WORK MATTERS BECAUSE THE LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY NOT ONLY NEEDS A VOICE, BUT BUSINESS OWNERS WHO STARTED BECAUSE OF MARGINALIZATION ANDSE DISCRIMINATION.

WE HAVE EN LGBTQ PLUS BUSINESS OWNERS WHO HAVE COME OUT IN THE PAST SIX YEARS, BUT YET THERE ARE MANY MOTHER WHO RAW FRAYED OF LOSING CLIENTS AND CUSTOMERS AND ARE AFRAID TO COME OUT.

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WE ARE TRULY HONORED. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS

RECOGNITION AND HAPPY PRIDE. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: THANK YOU VERY

MUCH. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU CONTINUE TO DO AND FOR THAT WONDERFUL PRESENTATION. IT IS JUST A REALLY -- PRIDE IS THE BEST WAY -- PRIDE IN EVERYTHING YOU REPRESENT AND SO MANY LEADERS. DIVERSITY AND EMBRACE OF IDEAS AND EMBRACE OF THE WONDERFUL COMMUNITY WE HAVE WHICH INCLUDES OUR LGBT COMMUNITY. I AM SO HONORED, AND SO VERY HONORED TO VOTE IN SUPPORT OF THE RESOLUTION AND BE PART OF THE PRIDE PARADE AND ALWAYS STANDING BESIDE YOU GUYS VERY,

VERY PROUDLY. >> WE HAVE ONE MORE SPEAKER FOR

THIS ITEM. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: OKAY.

>> DOROTHY HABLINSKY SPEAKING IN IN PERSON AND YOU HAVE ONE

MINUTE. >> YES.

I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TODAY BECAUSE MY FEAR IS IN THE FUTURE THAT MY VOICE WILL BE SILENCED.

MY FEAR IS THAT MANY OF OUR VOICES WILL BE SILENCE EDZ, THOSE -- SILENCED THOSE WHO DISSENT AGAINST THE POWER THAT'S BE. THE REAL ISSUE AND I WILL SPEAK QUICKLY ON THE FIRST ISSUE TALKING ABOUT GUNS AND THE REAL ISSUE HERE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GUNS.

THE REAL ISSUE HERE HAS TO DO WITH A COUNTRY THAT HAS LOST ITS WAY. WE NO LONGER HAVE RULES AND WE NO LONGER HAVE LAWS. WE NO LONGER HAVE THE 10 COMMANDMENTS. OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT BEING TAUGHT RIGHT FROM WRONG. THEY ARE BEING TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS TERRIBLE THINGS. AND IT IS TIME THAT WE REALIZE THAT IT IS A COUNTRY AND A CITY THAT -- THEY HAVE LOST THE HEART AND WE ARE WORSHIPING THINGS THAT ARE OUTRAGEOUSLY WRONG.

WHEN I WAS A YOUNG GIRLS I WENT TO JUNE BETTER HIGH SCHOOL AND THEY CARRIED GUNS AND THEY HAD RIFLES IN THEIR CARS.

THEY HAD RIFLES IN THEIR CARS BECAUSE AFTER THAT THEY WOULD GO

AND SHOOT SQUIRRELS. >> MA'AM, YOUR TIME IS UP.

>> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FORGIVING ME THE TIME WHEN MANY OTHERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO.

THESE BOYS WOULD HAVE RIFLES IN THE CARS AND THEY WOULD BE ALLOWED -- NOBODY EVER SAID ANYTHING TO THEM.

WHY? AFTER SCHOOL THEY GO SHOOT SQUIRRELS. YOU KNOW WHY THERE WAS NO CRIME GOING ON AND NO SCHOOL SHOOTINGS? BECAUSE THERE WAS THE 10 COMMANDMENTS AND DECENCY AND RULES. OUR TEACHERS TAUGHT DISCIPLINE.

OUR COUNTRY HAS LOST ITS WAY IN EVERY DIRECTION AND UNTIL WE FACE THE REALITY THIS IS THE TIME WE NEED TO PULL TOGETHER AND FACE WHAT IS GOING WRONG IN THIS NATION.

IT IS NOT ABOUT THE GUNS. IT IS ABOUT WHAT WE ARE TEACHING

OUR CHILDREN. >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: THANK YOU. LET ME JUST SAY THAT AS FAR AS I CAN REMEMBER, THE 10 COMMANDMENTS HAVE BEEN AROUND A LONGTIME, EVEN DURING THE TIME OF LYNCHING.

>> COMMISSIONER YOUR MIC. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: ANYWAYS, MY NEXT RESOLUTION -- OH WE NEED TO VOTE ON THIS.

>> LINA HIDALGO: IT IS ON TIFFANY, CAN YOU NOT HEAR HIM? YEAH? OKAY.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: HE WASN'T SPEAKING INTO THEIC MROPHONE.

>> Y'ALL SOUND BETTER NOW. IT WAS LOW AT FIRST.

>> LINA HIDALGO: I THINK YOU MADE A GREAT POINT.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: SO WE HAVE A MOTIONMO.

I VEM. ON THIS ITENE >> RODY ELLIS: I SECOND.HI

>> LINA DALGO: MOTIONEDSI BY AND SECONDEDRCIA BYS. COMMISSIONER ELLI ALL IN FAVOR?

>> I.LG >> LINA HIDAO: ANY OPPOSED?

>> I AM -- >> NOO:.

>> LINA HIDALG I AM IN FAVOR PROUDLY.

THE MOTION CARRIES FOR ITEM 3, 3-2.

COMMISSIONERIA GARCIA? >> ADRIAN GARC: THANK YOU, JUDGE AND THIS FINAL RESOLUTION ON BEHALF OF MY OFFICE IS REALLY SORT OF IN A SIMILAR SPIRIT TO RECOGNIZE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF MANY. IT IS TO RECOGNIZE THE TALENT AND THE CAPACITY AND THE POTENTIAL THAT EXISTS IN OUR COMMUNITY. IN FACT, THERE IS AN ITEM ON OUR AGENDA THAT IS SUPPORTIVE OF SOMEONE IN THIS COMMUNITY.

AND WHEN I WAS THE SHERIFF I HIRED ONE OF THE FIRST TO PROVIDE CONSULTING AND ADVICE TO MY OFFICE ON RELATED ISSUES.

THIS PARTICULAR RESOLUTION SPEAKS TO THOSE MEMBERS OF THE DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS, DACA, RECIPIENTS.

WHEREAS DEFERRED ACTION CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS WAS CREATED

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ON JULY 16TH, 2021 WHICH HAS MADE IT INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN DACA RENEWALS, EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZATION AND NEW APPLICATIONS. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES TO FIGHT FOR THE SECURITY OF THE DACA PROGRAM THROUGH THE COURT OF APPEALS IN RESPONSE TO THESE ATTACKS AND AS IT IS LIKELY TO RETURN TO THE SUPREME COURT AND WHEREAS DACA RECIPIENTS DO NOT DESERVE TO LIVE FROM COURT CASE TO COURT CASE IN THE ONLY HOME THEY HAVE EVER KNOWN IN FEAR OF WHETHER THEIR LEGAL STATUS MAY CHANGE DEPENDING ON CHANGING POLITICAL CLIMATES. BE IT RESOLVED THAT HARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' COURT HERE BY KPHEPL RATES THE -- KPHEPL RATES THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY ON JUNE 15TH, 2022.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THE COURT SUPPORTS AND CELEBRATES THE POSITIVE IMPACT THAT DACA MAKES IN THE LIVES OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YOUNG IMMIGRANTS AND CALLS UPON THE TEXAS FEDERAL DELEGATION TO FOCUS THEIR EFFORTS ON IDENTIFYING AND SECURING PERMANENT SOLUTIONS FOR DACA RECIPIENTS WHO MADE SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEIR COMMUNITY.

JUDGE, I WANT TO THANK CEASAR ESPINOZA FOR BEING HERES I-- FOREI BNG HERE. HE COULDE HAVBEEN IN WASHINGTON,. D.CON OTHER IMPORTANTRS MATTE, BUTHT THOUG IT WOULD BE JUSTIF AS SIGNICANT FOR HIMER TO BE HE TO RECEIVE R THISESOLUTIONE. AS HFI SUPPORTS AND GHTS FOR SO MANYIT IN THE COMMUNY THAT ARE UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF DACA.

THEY HAD BEEN VOCAL IN THEIR PURSUIT FOR RIGHTS AND DIGNITY OF ALLLY IMMIGRANTS, BUT PARTICULAR THOSE UNDER THE DACA PROGRAM. THERE ARE SO MANY THAT HAVE FOUGHT ALONGSIDE YOU. I SEE YOU AS A YOUNG GUY AND YOU ARE STILL A YOUNG GUY COMPARED TO ME, BUT I HAVE SEEN YOU GROW IN YOUR PATH AND YOUR CAPACITY AND JUST PROUD OF THE VOICE YOU CONTINUE TO GIVE SO MANY IN OUR COMMUNITY I WOULD BE HONORED TO HAVE YOU ACCEPT THIS RESOLUTION, CEASAR.

>> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER CAGLE?

>> R. JACK CAGLE: JUDGE, I'M NORMALLY RET -- RETICENT TO GET INVOLVED IN FEDERAL MATTERS IN COURT.

I QUOTED KEVIN BRADY EARLIER AND I WILL QUOTE HIM AGAIN.

THE KIDS ARE HERE GETTING OLDER AND HERE THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET LEGAL STATUS, ONE WHERE THEY CAN EARN IT OR SCHOOL OR MILITARY SERVICE.

I AM A BIG FAN OF LEGAL IMMIGRATION.

I THINK AS CONGRESSMAN BRADY AND OTHERS ARE WORKING ON THE BOARD, THEN I WILL BE SUPPORTING THE RESOLUTION TO THE EXTENT THAT WE ARE TRYING TO FIND A WAY WHERE WE CAN HAVE LEGAL IMMIGRATION

AND THE DACA PROGRAM PATHWAY. >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: I SECOND THE MOTION.

>> LINA HIDALGO: GO AHEAD. >> THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER CAGLE. WE CAN MEET WITH MR. BRADY AND WE WOULD LOVE TO DO SO AND TO FIGURE OUT COMMON SENSE SOLUTIONS. THANK YOU TO COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND COMMISSIONERS' COURT. ON JUNE 15, 2012 THE LIVES OF ME

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AND HERE WE ARE 10 YEARS LATER STILL FIGHTING TO KEEP THIS THING AND TRYING TO ESTABLISH COMMUNICATION FOR COMMON SENSE SOLUTION TO FIX SO MANY IMMIGRANT LIVES.

OFTEN TIMES PEOPLE ARE ASHAMED TO USE THE WORD IMMIGRANT.

THE WORD IMMIGRANT IS A BEAUTIFUL WORD AND A SIMPLE WORD

WHICH IS A PERSON WHO -- >> THANK YOU, SIR.

>> HE GOES ON AND MOVES TO A DIFFERENT COUNTRY PERMANENTLY.

REMEMBER THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THIS COUNTRY, THEY DID EXACTLY THAT. A PERSON WHO GOES TO ANOTHER COUNTRY AND LIVES THERE PERMANENTLY.

WE, IN ESSENCE, AND IN FACT, ARE A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS FOR IMMIGRANTS AND BY IMMIGRANTS TO CONTINUE TO CONTINUE ON TO MAKE THIS AMERICAN DREAM A REALITY. I DID WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY TEAM THAT IS HERE AND IF THEY CAN STAND UP.

A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE SEE ME AND SAY YOU DO EVERYTHING, AND EVEN THOUGH I TRY TO TAKE CREDIT FOR DOING EVERYTHING, THEY ARE THE REAL MACHINE. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. >> THANK YOU, GUYS.

>> AND I COULD LITERALLY SIT HERE AND TELL YOU GUYS HOURS WORTH OF STORIES, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO DO THAT TODAY.

I WILL JUST NAME A COUPLE OF NAMES.

JESUS IS A PARAMEDIC. WENDY IS A TEACHER.

SHANNON IS A NURSE. AN LONZO GUILLEN WAS A DACA RECIPIENT WHO DIED AFTER HARVEY RESCUING HIS NEIGHBORS AND DIED AS A DACA RECIPIENT. WHETHER IT IS HARVEY OR THE WINTER FREEZE ORID COV, IMMIGRANTSNU CONTIE TO BE HERE.

WE CONTINUE TO BE ESSENTIALRE BEFO, DURING AND AFTERND THE PAEMIC ANDT WE HOPE THA WE T CAN CONTINUEO BE HERE AND LOVE THIS COUNTRYCO AS MUCH AS THE UNTRY HAS LOVED US.

AND THE NAYSAYERS WHETHER IT IS ON THIS ISSUE OR ANY OTHER ISSUE I ASK -- I JUST ASK ONE QUESTION, WHEN YOU TKPWHRO TO -- WHEN YOU GO TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE ARE YOU DYEING FROM COVID OR CALL THE PARAMEDICS BECAUSE YOUR FRIEND ADD SEIZURE -- THIS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED TWO WEEKS AGO.

I WAS AT A RESTAURANT AND A FRIEND HAD A SEIZURE.

WE CALLED THE PARAMEDICS. THEY CAME AND SAID CEASAR, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? HE WAS A DACA RECIPIENT AND NOW A PARAMEDIC WITH THE HOUSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT.

WHEN YOU DRIVE ON THE ROAD AND EAT YOUR VEGGIES AND WHEN YOU EAT YOUR TACOS AND HAMBURGERS OR WHATEVER IT MAY BE, MORE THAN LIKELY IT IS TOUCHED BY THE HAND OF AN IMMIGRANT.

THE QUESTION IS ARE YOU GOING TO ASK THEM FOR THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS BEFORE THEY SAVE YOUR LIVES? I DON'T THINK SO. YOU SHOULDN'T.

DACA RECIPIENTS AND IMMIGRANTS ARE HERE TO SERVE.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER GAR SEE -- GARCIA AND COMMISSIONER ELLIS, THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR THE BIKE RIDE A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. WE WILL GET MORE DACA RECIPIENTS OUT THERE AND THANK YOU, JUDGE HIDALGO.

I WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO MR. BRADY AND HEAR STORIES.

I AM IN PRECINCT 3 AND 4 AND MY FAMILY LIVES IN PRECINCT THROUGH AND OUR OFFICE IS IN PRECINCT 4. WE ARE ALL OVER THE COUNTY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> NEW OR SOLD -- NEW OR OLD?

>> IN -- NEW. WE ARE STILL THERE.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: CEASAR, THE HOMES WE LIVE IN ARE BUILT BY

IMMIGRANTS. >> ABSOLUTELY.

>> LINA HIDALGO: AND YOUR COUNTY JUDGE IS AN IMMIGRANT.

>> AND OUR COUNTY JUDGE IS AN IMMIGRANT.

>> THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

THANK YOU FOR VOTING. IMMIGRANTS ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR COMMUNITY AND IN SO MANY WAYS ARE ABUSED AND DISRESPECTED AND IT IS DIFFICULT TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN THE TRUE HISTORY OF TEXAS. WE JUST MAKE UP STUFF.

OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF THAT WAS DIRECTED AT WHAT MY ANCESTORS WENT THROUGH. IF YOU WERE DRAGGED OVER YOU WOULDN'T BE CALLED AN IMMIGRANT, BUT OBVIOUSLY DACA KIDS HAVE BUILT SO MUCH IN THIS ECONOMY. I'M GLAD THAT TEXAS WAS THE FIRST STATE WHO INCLUDED THEM IN OUR STATE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.

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I HOPE THERE ARE SILL RECIPIENTS AND IT IS IMPORTANT.

REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOUR OFFICE IS NOW, MY DISTRICT CHAINED -- CHANGED A LITTLE BIT. MY COMMITMENT REMAINS THE SAME.

I AM AS COMMITTED TO THE ISSUES WITH THE NEW BOUNDARIES AS I WAS WITH THE OLD ONES. I INVITED HIM TO THE BIKE RIDE.

WE DID ABOUT 20 MILES? >> 32.

AND I ONLY FELL DOWN ONCE. I COUNTED EVERY SINGLE ONE.

>> HE DID 60 THIS WEEKEND. YOU WORKED YOUR WAY UP TO THAT.

>> I HAPPENED TO BE BUSY THIS WEEKEND.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. >> LINA HIDALGO: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND THE SPEAKER- -

>> I. >> I.

>> I. >> ANY OPPOSED?>> MOTION CARRIESMO UNANIUSLY.AM I IN FAVOR.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING T. >>HANKAR YOU, CEAS.

>>R COMMISSIONERAMSEY, DO YOUNE HAVE O MORE RESOLUTION.

DO YOUAT WANT TO TAKE TH O ONE T OFRDER?

>> SURE. S >> TOM RAMSEY:EEMS LIKE WE ARE IN BAY TOWN IN TERMSI OF HONORG FOLKS AND AM PLEASED TO HONOR MR.AL CHRISTOPHER ALLEN MACDOND.

I I WILL -- I WILLT READ THE RESOLUTION BECAUSE I PERFECTLY DESCRIBES MR. MACDONALD. WHEREAS MR. CHRISTOPHER ALLEN MACDONALD WAS BORN IN 1972 AND ORIGINALLY FROM LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI. THAT'S WHERE DR. ED YOUNG WAS BORN. THEY MOVED THEIR FAMILY TO TEXAS IN THE 70S ALONG WITH OTHER MEMBERS SEEKING BETTER OPPORTUNITIES. WHEREAS CHRIS ENJOYED A LONG AND SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, HE STARTED WORK WORKING DISPATCH FOR HPD IN THE EARLY 90S AND ATTENDING THE LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY. ON GRADUATION HE WAS HIRED BY BAY TOWN PD. HE ENJOYED HIS TIME AS AN OFFICER, A SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER IN THE HRA*PBG OF LIEU -- THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT. AS LIEUTENANT HE OVER SAW THE BUDGET AFTER RETIREMENT AFTER 27 YEARS OF SERVICE.

HE WAS A FUN-LOVING GUY AND ENJOYED HIS TIME WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY. HIS HOBBIES WERE CARS AND POLITICS. HE LOVED HIS MOTORCYCLES AND OTHER UNIQUE VEHICLES. HE COULD ALWAYS BE WORKING ON A PROJECT TO UPGRADE HIS SHOW CARS.

HIS OTHER HOBBY WAS POLITICS. HE WAS SERVING ON THE BOARD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS AND VOLUNTEERING FOR CANDIDATES AND WHEREAS CHRISTOPHER IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, DAWN AND SON LUKE AND DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW CHELSA AND TRISTAN AND TKRAPBD DAUGHTER, ROWAN AND PARENTS CHERYL AND CHARLES AND LINDA AND RILEY AND NUMEROUS NIECES, NEPHEWS AND FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND MOURNFUL COMMUNITY. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THE HARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' COURT CELEBRATES THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF LIEUTENANT CHRISTOPHER MACDONALD.

I THINK HIS WIFE IS HERE. >> DAWN MACDONALD FOR SENATE DISTRICT 6 AND DISTRICT DIRECTOR FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DENNIS PAUL. I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS MOMENT ON BEHALF OF MY CHILDREN AND I TO THANK COMMISSIONER RAMSEY AND THE COURT FOR THEIR TIME TO HONOR MY LATE HUSBAND, CHRIS MACDONALD. HIS DEDICATION, PASSION AND WORK IN PUBLIC SERVICE AND SAFETY FOR HE CERTAINLY COMMITTED ALL OF HIS LIFE TO THAT AND WE CERTAINLY DO APPRECIATE YOUR TIME TODAY FOR THIS. THANK YOU.

>> TOM RAMSEY: THANK YOU, DAWN. >> CONGRATULATIONS.

>> LINA HIDALGO: SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS.

>> GOD BLESS. >> LINA HIDALGO: HE WAS TOO YOUNG. I'M SO, SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS.

>> THANK YOU. >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU FOR

JOINING US AND FOR YOUR SERVICE. >> THANK YOU.

>> LINA HIDALGO: DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER SPEAKERS, COMMISSIONER?

>> TOM RAMSEY: I THINK THERE IS ONE VIRTUAL.

>> LINA HIDALGO: TIFFANY, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE ON THE LINE?

>> WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE ELSE SIGNED UP FOR THIS ITEM, JUDGE.

>> LINA HIDALGO: LET US KNOW IF THEY HOP ON LATER.

IS THERE A MOTION COMMISSIONER RAMSEY?

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>> TOM RAMSEY: YES, MAKE A MOTION.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: SECOND. >> LINA HIDALGO: ALL IN FAVOR?

>> I. >> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. THAT SHOULD BE IT FOR THE RESOLUTIONS. I KNOW WE HAVE TWO ITEM THAT'S WE HAVE TO TAKE AT 2:00, HISPANIC CULTURAL COMMISSION AND AT 3:00 IT IS A REPORT BY THE PORT OF HOUSTON AND RICK CAMPO.

FOR NOW TAKE THE PICTURES AND THERE -- THERE ISNO ATHER RESOLUTION? SORRY?

WE WILL TAKEIC THE PTURES -->> ADRIAN GARCIA: WHAT TIME DOES METRO COME UP? I SAWE, HIM BACK THERDN BUT I DI'T KNOW IF THEY THOUGHT O THEY WEREN EARLIER.

>> LINA HIDALGO: WHICH ITEM IS THAT?LI

>> RODNEY ELS: METRO. 305O:.

>> LINA HIDALG LET'SAK TAKE PICTURES AND TEUR A BREAK AND THEN FIGE THIS IS THE SPEAKERS SO I THINK WE SHOULD START. IT IS 12:44 AND COMMISSIONERS' COURT IS BACK IN SESSION. TIFFANY, IF YOU WILL PLEASE CALL

UP THE SPEAKERS. >> YES, MA'AM.

FIRST IS SPEAKER NUMBER 5, MARISSA HANSON SPEAKING IN PERSON ON ITEMS 10, 314 AND 15 THROUGH 20.

YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> I JUST WANTED TO SAY LAST NIGHT, THE NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHO WAS MURDERED, THE CRIMINAL WHO KILLED HER WAS OUT ON FIVE FELONY BONDS, BUT I ASSUME THE BOND REFORM IS NOT TO BLAME FOR HER DEATH.

SO AFTER TODAY BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP IS OVERSEEING $12 MILLION IN THE COUNTY. YOU VOTED FOR AN AUDIT OF THEIR SERVICES, YET NO ONE HAS SEEN THE RESULTS OF THE WORK THEY HAVE DONE FOR $6.4 MILLION. THIS TIME WITH UPDATED CONTRACT BOSTON KWAN -- CONSULTING GROUP IS CHARGING ABOUT 223,000 A WEEK FOR THEIR SERVICES AND AN HOURLY RATE IS $537.

DOES THAT SEEM LIKE AN ACCEPTABLE AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR OUR ARPA FUNDS AND COVID PROJECTS.

SEVERAL MONTHS AGO YOU REFUSED TO FUND OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT --

>> THANK YOU, MA'AM YOUR TIME IS UP.

>> SEVERAL MONTH HAD AGO YOU REFUSED TO FUND OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR 5 MILLION WHEN OUR COUNTY'S CRIME RATE IS 13 TWRO -- 132% PRIOR. YOU HAVE NO ISSUE AWARDING A CONSULTING GROUP $5.9 MILLION. HOW CAN YOU RECONCILE AWARDING 12 MILLION TO A CONSULTING GROUP OVER THE SAFETY OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS. IT DOESN'T MAKE MUCH SENSE.

THE WEEKLY RATE OF THIS GROUP CAN COST THE COUNTY OVER 223,000, BUT I CALLED BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP SEVERAL TIMES AND THEY CAN'T ANSWER WHAT SERVICES THEY HAVE GIVEN TO THE COUNTY. IT SEEMS LIKE THIS IS A MASSIVE WASTE OF MONEY. I HAVE TRACKED ALL OF THE MONEY THAT BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP HAS GOTTEN THROUGHOUT OUR COUNTRY.

11.7 MILLION DOLLARS FROM TOM WOLF FOR VACCINE OUT REACH AND 1.85 MILLION FROM GINA RAMANDO FOR VACCINE OUT REACH.

THERE IS NO YIELD TO WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.

IT IS JUST A BLACK HOLE OF MONEY.

JUDGE HIDALGO, I AM SPEAKING WITH YOU.

CAN YOU LOOK AT ME? >> LINA HIDALGO: GO AHEAD.

>> WELL, I ASKED YOU A QUESTION? CAN YOU ANSWER IT? DO YOU THINK BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP OF STK-S -- $233,000 IS AN EFFECTIVE WAY OF USING THE COUNTY'S MONEY.

THE SAFETY OF OUR CONSTITUENTS SHOULD BE THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. A LITTLE GIRL GOT MURDERED BECAUSE OF THE BAIL REFORM POLICY.

,> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER HOWAR LONG E YOU HAVING HER

SPEAK FOR? >> I'M DONE.

>> NEXT IS SPEAKER NUMBER SIX, CHRISTOPHER SKWR*EPBG KINGS -- JENKINS, SPEAKING ON ITEM NUMBER 11.

>> JUDGE, THIS IS CHRISTOPHER JENKINS.

I HAVE BEEN STAYING IN AN APARTMENT UNIT UNDER THE CARE AND THEY TOOK ME TO COURT AND THERE IS NO EXECUTIVE ORDER UNDER THE SUPREME COURT. SINCE THEN I WAS RETALIATED

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NOBODY WANTS TO POINT A FINGER AT THE BAIL BOND COMPANY --

>> YOUR TIME IS UP. >> SO I HAVE A QUESTION -- WHY

TKAU -- >> THANK YOU, SIR, YOUR TIME IS

UP. >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU SO MUCH. WHICH NUMBER SPEAKER WAS THIS?

>> HE IS SPEAKER NUMBER 6. >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU, SIR.

WE WILL FOLLOW-UP. SPEAKER FROM PRECINCT 4, COMMISSIONER CAGLE. THANK YOU.

>> NEXT IS SPEAKER NUMBER 7, BETH WHITE OF HOUSTON PARKS BOARD SPEAKING ON ITEM 12 UNDER COUNTY ADMINISTRATION.

YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. GO AHEAD, PLEASE.

>> THANK YOU. THIS IS BETH WHITE FROM HOUSTON PARK. WE PROTECT AND ADVOCATE AND I AM HERE TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF THE TIMELY CONSIDERATION TO INVEST IN THE PARK TRAILS. IT IS PART OF YOUR CONSIDERATION TO ISSUE BONDS. THE IMPORTANCE OF PARKS CAN'T BE OVERSTATED FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AND I KNOW HAVING WORKED WITH HARRIS COUNTY AND HARRIS COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT THAT THE COUNTY EMBRACES THE POWER TO BE CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND CREATES JOBS AND MAKES OUR CITIES MORE RESILIENT AND INCREASES CITY ENGAGEMENT AND IMPROVING -- AND IMPROVES PUBLIC HEALTH. THEY ARE TOOLS WHERE THE CITY AND THE COUNTY CAN ACHIEVE THEIR EQUITY GOAL.

I APPRECIATE WORKING IN CLOSE PARTNERSHIP WHERE THE POWER OF INVESTING IN A SYSTEM THAT ADDRESSES THE ENTIRE COUNTY --

>> THANK YOU, MA'AM. YOUR TIME IS UP.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: JUDGE, MA'AM, DID YOU HAVE A QUICK CLOSING COMMENT? THIS IS RODNEY ELLIS?

DID YOU HAVE A QUICK CLOSING? >> THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER ELLIS. AGAIN, I JUST WANTED TO SAY TO OUR SUPPORT AND WILLINGNESS TO HELP AS YOU CONSIDER INVESTMENTS IN PARKS AND TRAILS, AND PARTICULARLY IN COMBINATION OF FLOOD MITIGATION AS THE CITY HAS BEEN WORKING TOGETHER AND ALL OF THE WORK TO HELP PEOPLE LIVE WITH WATER AND USE MULTI-PURPOSE INFRASTRUCTURE. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR HAVING THIS

UNDER CONSIDERATION TODAY. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I WANTED TO JUST THANK YOU, BETH. I'M REAL PROUD OF WHAT THE CITY DID. WELL, IT IS COUNTY LAND, BUT IT WAS TREMENDOUS LEADERSHIP ON THE PART OF THE CITY.

I THINK BAYOU GREEN WAYS WAS $100 MILLION THAT THE CITY PUT UPN IA BONDKA PACGE. AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND THE KINDERS WERE AT. BIG PART OF IE WHAT WERTHE NUMBERS AGAIN ONGR

THE BAYOU EEN WAYS? >> 100 MILLION INUS THE CITY OF HOTON BOND PASSED IN 2012 BY 60% OF THE VOTERSAM AND 128 MILLION IN A CPAIGN TO MATCH THAT INCLUDING GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE COUNTY FROM PRECINCT 1, ARE 3 AND 4 AND COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND IT HAD A HUGE IMPACT AS THE SINGLE DOWN

PAYMENT ON THE CITY'S HISTORY. >> I ALWAYS LIKE TO GO THROUGH THE NUMBERS AND I WANT TO MAKE THE POINT THAT THE CITY STEPPED UP WITH $100 MILLION. THE PRIVATE SECTOR COMMITTED THE OTHER 120. THE CITY PUT IN ANOTHER 7 MILLION TO CLOSE THE GAP AND THEN YOU GOT SOME FROM THE REST OF US. THE POINT IS, IT IS COUNTY LAND WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN WASTE LAND.

THIS IDEA OF TURNING IT INTO A LINEAR PARK SPACE HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONGTIME. MAYBE EVEN BEFORE I WENT INTO

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THAT'S WHY I AM HOPING THAT WE WILL GET THE KIND OF BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR WHATEVER WE DO THAT THE CITY HAD.

I KNOW IT WAS UNDER DENISE PARKER'S DEAL AND I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU DID. THEY WERE BRINGING YOU IN, BUT YOU HAD ONE OF THE YOUNGER BUSHES, I THINK NEIL BUSH'S SON, PEARCE BUSH AND A SLIGHTLY OVER KWRA*EUT -- OVERWEIGHT STATE SENATOR. I HOPE WHATEVER WE DO, YOU CAN PUT THE ITEM ON THE AGENDA TO DISCUSS IT AND ASKING FOLKS TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING AND THAT WILL BE WHERE WE ARE TODAY.

MY ATTITUDE IS REGARDLESS OF WHERE WE END UP I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT. THAT WAS TRUE LEADERSHIP AND Y'ALL STEPPED UP AND YOU KEPT IT GOING.

THE BIPARTISAN SUPPORT MEANT A LOT AND THE PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT AND THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT STEPPED UP.

IN PARTICULAR THE GENDERS. EVEN IF I HAVEN'T BEEN AS SUCCESSFUL ON MY PROJECTS, THEY REALLY STEPPED UP IN A BIG WAY.

I'M SURE MORE IS COMING. THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO

DIAL IN. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH AND WE JUST KIND OF CASH DASH WELL, WE HIT -- WELL WE HIT THE GROUND BREAKING ANDS IT IS CALLED SEGMENT 26 AND WE WERE SO HAPPY TO HAVE COMMISSIONER CAGLE AND COMMISSIONER RAMSEY TO JOIN US TO CELEBRATE ONE OF THE LONGEST STRETCHES AND WE WILL BE ADDING ANOTHER SEVEN MILES. THERE ARE A HUNDRED REASONS FOR NOT DOING BIO GREEN WAYS. BUT EVERYONE WORKED TOGETHER TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. AND IF WE HAD TO BUY ALL OF THE LAND THAT IS BEING INCORPORATED NOW FOR RECREATION AS WELL AS THE FLOOD MITIGATION, WE WOULD HAVE HAD TO HAVE BUY $2 BILLION WORTH OF PROPERTY. IT WAS A SMART ECONOMIC MOVE.

BOTH ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS.

SALUTE COMMISSIONERS' COURT FOR THE VISIONARY YOU HAVE AND PARKS AND OPEN SPACE AND MULTI-PURPOSE INFRASTRUCTURE.

JUST WANTED TO SHOW OUR SUPPORT AND THANKS.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ONE MOMENT. COMMISSIONER?

>> TOM RAMSEY: BETH, TOM RAMSEYE RE.

THANK YOUAL FOR CLING IN.GR A EAT ADVANTAGE OFON THE HOUST PARKS BOARD IS YOU.E YOU ARAER REAL HARD PSON TO SAY NO TO.RE WE NEED MO LEADERS OUT THERE

THAT ARE HARD TO SAY NO TO. THANK YOU FOR>> WHAT YOU DO.

THANK YOU. T >> LINA HIDALGO:HANK YOU,

BETH. >> NEXT IS SPEAKER NUMBER 9, JACOB CLEMENTAGE SPEAKING ON 181, 250 AND 275.

YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. >> I'M JACOB CLEMENT AGE [INAUDIBLE] HARRIS COUNTY CHAIR. [INAUDIBLE] THEY DON'T NEED TO BE SET BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN IN THAT PLACE BEFORE AND SO WE DON'T NEED TO BE BABY SAT BY DEPUTIES OR THE SERGEANTS.

IN FACT, THEY SHOULD BE OUT THERE IN THE CITY AND IN THE COUNTY FIGHTING CRIME. NATALIE IS A GOOD CHOICE FOR THE HARRIS COUNTY IED. I HAVE A MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM AND, WELL, SINCE MY HEAD INJURY HAPPENED WHEN I WAS 14 IN HIGH SCHOOL AND I WAS REGULATED BACK TO FRACTIONS.

I HAD TO LEARN TO DO MATHEMATICS AGAIN.

AND ENGLISH OEU -- I WAS HELD BACK A YEAR BECAUSE OF BAD GRADES. THE THING IS -- THE BUDGET FOR THE HARRIS COUNTY -- [INAUDIBLE] IS GOOD BECAUSE YOU ARE SHOWING

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PARKS AND FOR THE COMMISSION. >> THANK YOU, SIR, YOUR TIME IS

UP. >> THANK YOU.

>> NEXT IS SPEAKER NUMBER 15ALEX I SWARSKY SPEAKING ON 287 UNDER SUPPLEMENTAL ITEMS. YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE.

>> MY NAME IS ALEXI SWARSKI. I AM SPEAKING AS A MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER AND TWO LITTLE GIRLS THAT ARE NEAR THE SITE, THE PROPOSED SITE. I HAVE CONCERNS AND ASK A VOTE ON THE DEVELOPMENT BE POSTPONED UNTIL THE COMMUNITY HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE FULLY INFORMED.

THERE IS NO DEVELOPMENT OF AN APARTMENT COMPLEX AND IT IS TWO BLOCKS FROM THE SITE OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AND NOT MANY PEOPLE HAVE NOTICED THAT. TRAFFIC IS CONGESTED IN THE AREA AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF RESIDENTS HAD NO IDEA IT IS BEING PROPOSED. THE CORPORATION THAT IS BASED IN INDIANA HAS COMPLEXES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND THE IMPACT ON LOCAL SCHOOLS AND THE AVAILABILITY OF SCHOOLS WHO

MIGHT LIVE IN THE COMPLEX -- >> YOUR TIME IS UP.

>> THANK YOU. >> NEXT, SPEAKING ON ITEM 287.

YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> GOODOR MNING.

I AM GENE LATCHAW. AND I REPRESENT THE OWNER AND DEVELOPMENT OFCR WILLOW EEK MANOR.

WEGN HAVE A SI UP PROPERTY AND I HAVE A CARD AND AM HAPPYNY TO ANSWER A QUESTIONS FOR YOU.

I DID HAVE SOME COMMUNICATION WITH SOME OTHER NEIGHBOR S WHO CALLED ON MY SIGN -- NEIGHBORSMY WHO CALLED ON SIGNHB AND HELD A NEIGORHOOD MEETING, BUT UNFORTUNATELY NOT REALLYED ATTENDED AND REACH OUT TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

WE HAVE SUPPORT FROM NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES.

SUPPORT FROM SOME OF THE OTHER LANDOWNERS AROUND TOO.

I WOULD APPRECIATE YOURWE CONSIDERATION TODAY, BUT IF E NEED TO TAKE A LITTLE MORE TIM TO ADDRESS SOME CONCERNS, I AM HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT PED CORE AND THIS PROPOSAL. I CAN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS NOW

OR WHENEVER IT IS YOUR PLEASURE. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.

>> GLASS DIS-- GLADYS HA -- HOWFELD CALLING ABOUT 3619.

AND JUDGE HIDALGO AND AN INDEPENDENT AUDIT INVESTIGATION OF THE TAX ASSESSMENT OFFICE AND THIS IS AN ENTIRE YEAR WHEN I PRESENTED THE CONCERNS TO PRECINCT COMMISSIONER ELLIS' OFFICE AND NO *R -- NO TANGIBLE PROGRESSIVE RESULTS.

HE KEPT GETTING CONFUSED BY WHAT THE TAX ASSESSMENT COLLECTOR'S OFFICE WAS TELLING HIM AND TO THIS DAY I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING THAT WAS SHARED TO HIM AND I CAN'T EVEN BILL BECAUSE I AM NOT PAY ONE CENT ON MY 2021 PROPERTY TAXES.

WILL YOU PLEASE UH POINT SOMEONE FROM YOUR OFFICE JUDGE HIDALGO TO WORK WITH ME SO WE CAN SET UP THIS INDEPENDENT AUDIT INVESTIGATION OF THE TAX ASSESSOR --

>> THANK YOU, MA'AM, YOUR TIME IS UP.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU, MA'AM.

WE WILL HAVE SOMEBODY REACH OUT FROM MY OFFICE.

>> THANK YOU. >> NEXT IS KAREN HOLMES SPEAKING VIRTUALLY. YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE.

GO AHEAD, PLEASE. >> YES.

THIS IS KAREN HOLMES REGARDING HERE IN HOUSTON, TEXAS.

NO ONE HAS GOT IN CONTACT WITH ME AND EXPECTING A CALL FROM YOU , JUDGE HIDALGO OR YOUR REPRESENTATIVE, PLEASE.

>> LINA HIDALGO: MA'AM, MS. HOLMES, WE WILL MAKE SURE YOU GET A COMMUNICATION FROM SOMEONE.

>> I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU.

>> NEXT IS NONAGENDA SPEAKER NUMBER FOUR, ROBERT HOUR --

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GO AHEAD, PLEASE. >> YES.

I WAS JUST TRYING TO FIND OUT WHEN Y'ALL ARE GONNA START PAYING -- [INAUDIBLE] I KNOW THE TEXAS RANGERS HAVE BEEN DOWN THERE AND HAVEN'T GOT IN TOUCH WITH ME YET.

I'M WONDERING WHAT IS GOING ON BECAUSE THE LAST ADMINISTRATION AND THE STUFF GOING ON IN THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL RIGHT NOW.

I SHOULD BE THE WEALTHIEST PERSON IN THE WORLD.

I'M THROUGH. BUT I AIN'T.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU, SIR. >> HELLO?

>> NEXT IS NONAGENDA SPEAKER NUMBER 6, RAY NAVARRA.

YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> SOMEBODY ON THE PHONE TOLD ME I HAD THREE MINUTES, BUT THAT'S FINE.

THE NAME IS RAY. TRYING TO SUM IT UP AND MAKE IT QUICK BECAUSE I HAVE A MINUTE. THERE WAS A SITUATION ON MAY 30TH WHERE MY WIFE RAN TO HER BROTHER AND NEIGHBORS.

I DON'T WANT TO SAY TOO MUCH BECAUSE IT IS A POSSIBLE PENDING SITUATION. ME AND MY WIFE WERE NOT CHARGED.

THE PRECINCT CAME TO HANDLE THE SITUATION UNPROPERLY AND UNJUSTLY. THEYIO VLATED MY RIGHTS.

THEY TOOK MY PHONE AWAY ANDDE TAINED ME FOUR TIMES AND UP LETTING ME GO. THEAT REPORT TH I GOT ANDTE REQUESD WASF. COMPLETELY OF THE PERSONTH THAT STARTED E EVEN ON THESN'T REPORT.PO THE WHOLE RERT IS WRONG.AI THEY BASICALLY SD LIKE YOU SAID, TIT-FOR-TAT. SINCE I AM NOT BEINGMA CHARGED THEY SAID THE N WAS IN ICU. I WASED DEFENDING MY FAMILY, SUPPOSLY IS WHAT HE SAID. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO CHARGE THE GUYS -- THE FIVE GUYS THAT PULLED GUNS ON ME AND MY FAMILY.

>> SIR, YOUR TIME IS UP. >> THEY PULLED WEAPONS ON OUR FAMILY AND NOTHING WAS DONE. THEY SAID SINCE THEY DIDN'T CHARGE ME THEY ARE NOT GOING TO THEM.

>> LINA HIDALGO: WE WILL MAKE SURE SOMEBODY FOLLOWS UP AND I CAN SEE ARE YOU IN COMMISSIONER GARCIA'S PRECINCT.

>> I HAD SOMETHING DONE AND SOMEBODY TOLD ME I HAD THREE

MINUTES. >> LINA HIDALGO: WE HAVE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF SPEAKERS AND IT GOES TO ONE MINUTE.

WE WILL REACH OUT TO MY OFFICE. >> TO ME THIS IS IMPORTANT.

I MEAN, THE COPS DROPPED THE BALL AND MY FAMILY WAS ALMOST MURDERED AND NOBODY IS DOING NOTHING.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU. >> NEXT IS -- WE WILL JUMP BACK TO AGENDA-RELATED SPEAKERS AND ONE JUST ARRIVED.

SPEAKER 8, APRIL AGUIRRE IS SPEAKING IN PERSON ON ITEM 153 UNDER SHERIFF. YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE.

>> HELLO, EVERYBODY. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME FIRST AND FOREMOST. I WANT TO SAY THAT I AM SO PROUD OF OUR COMMUNITY FOR COMING FORWARD AND STEPPING UP AGAINST THE THINGS YOU DON'T AGREE WITH. THIS IS HOW WE START TO VOICE OUR OPPOSITION. FIRST AND FOREMOST, I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT ALTHOUGH YOUR INTENTIONS ARE NOBLE WITH FUNDS GOING TO CHILD CARE AND WE ONLY HAVE 7 MILLION GOING TO KIM OGG.

WE ARE ONE OF THE FAMILIES IN LINE FOR THE 35,000 CASE BACKLOG WAITING FOR THE MURDER OF MY NIECE FACE TRIAL.

AND ON MONDAY THERE WAS A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY SHOT AND THEN A 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL. I AM SYMPATHETIC FOR THOSE GOING THROUGH MASS SHOOTINGS, BUT CHILDREN ARE DYING HERE EVERY SINGLE WEEK AND IT IS UNACCEPTABLE.

WE USED TO HAVE A SAFE SOCIETY AND THAT'S NOT THE CASE ANYMORE.

SO $7 MILLION GOING TO KIM OGG AND LINA HIDALGO, I URGE YOU TO PUT YOUR DIFFERENCES ASIDE BECAUSE THERE ARE FAMILIES LIKE ME STILL WAITING FOR JUSTICE. THEY TOLD US IT COULD TAKE UP TO

FOUR YEARS. >> THANK YOU, MA'AM, YOUR TIME

IS ON. >> CONTINUE.

>> THEY TOLD US IT COULD TAKE FOUR YEARS FOR THE TRIAL.

IF YOU CARE ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE, THEN YOU NEED TO CARE ABOUT PROSECUTING THE PEOPLE WHO ARE KILLING PEOPLE IN HARRIS COUNTY.

I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE VERY NOBLE.

YOUR REASONINGS ARE NOBLE. THEY ARE.

RIGHT NOW WE CANNOT HAVE LAVISH SPENDING.

WE CANNOT AFFORD TO SPEND $50 MILLION ON BIKE TRAILS WHEN WE NEED MORE OFFICERS. I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. ALL I KNOW IS I USED TO LIVE IN A SAFE HARRIS COUNTY AND I HAD TO TAKE A CRASH KORTS OF HOW -- CRASH COURSE OF HOW SOCIETY WORKS.

I DIDN'T USED TO KNOW WHAT YOU PEOPLE DO ON THIS BOARD UNTIL I LOOKED IT UP FOR MYSELF. I HAD A PACKET FOR EACH ONE OF YOU. I URGE YOU TO SPEND MONEY ON THE RIGHT PLACES THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE WHERE SOCIETY IS SAFER AND WHERE WE CAN SPEND ON BIKE TRAILS AND EXTRA THINGS.

THE TIME IS NOT NOW. IF THIS MANY KIDS WERE DYING DURING COVID WE SHUTDOWN SCHOOLS AND MATCHING -- MASKED PEOPLE.

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO HELP WITH THE CURRENT CRISIS.

IT IS A CRISIS. IT IS A CRISIS.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE OR WHO TO SPEAK TO.

IT HAS ONLY BEEN A FEW MONTHS SINCE SHE WAS DILLED AND SINCE

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FIVE FELONY BONDS! LOOK IT UP. IT JUST CAME OUT AN HOUR AGO.

THIS IS UNAGO -- UNACCEPTABLE. UNACCEPTABLE.

I URGE YOU TO USE YOUR POSITION AND MAKE OUR COUNTY SAFE EVERY.

I DON'T HAVE A VENDETTA AGAINST ANYBODY.

WHEN YOU WISH BAD ON POLITICAL PEOPLE LEADING OUR SOCIETY IS WISHING BAD AMONG THE PERSON DRIVING THE PLANE YOU ARE ON.

I WANT EVERYBODY TO WORK TOGETHER SO THAT OUR WHOLE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM CAN WORK AS EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE FROM THE BAIL BOND AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND OUR POLICE OFFICERS,VE ERYBODY. WE ALL NEEDEL HP.

PLEASE WORK TOGETHER. >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU.

>> ITS INOT GOOD ENOUGH, LINA. 50 MILLIONO TE BIKTRAILS AND WHEN YOU ONLY GIVEIL 7 MLION TO KIM OGG, Y PUTOUR DIFFERENCESAS IDE. I URGE YOU.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THANKO YOU S MUCH FOR COMING.I

WILL REMIND - FOLKS->> HAVE I-- YOUR IYO HAVE URCK

PAETS.>> LINA HIDALGO: I REMIND FOLKS ABOUT THENG HOLLERI IN THE COURTROOM. I ITS JUST NOTIA APPROPRTE. I THAT,NOT THELACE FOR

BUT THANK YOU.HE >> T DEMOCRATS WANTUD

[INAIBLE]. L >>INA HIDALGO: THAT SPEAKER,

TIFFANY -- >> NEXT ISPE NONAGENDA SAKER S NUMBEREVENRT SPEAKING VIUALLY. YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE.

>>ON I'M SORRY I D'T HAVE THE ADDRESS IN FRONT OF ME AND SO IT IST OUT IN NORTHWESUN HARRIS COTY.GL GOING -- GOOE THAT. IT IS NOT BY INAT A LIST OF THINGS TH HAVE PRESERVE IN THELL TITLE.

YOU WI SEE A POST SAYING THAT SOMEONE CLOSE TO MESA WAS SEXUAY ASULTED BETWEEN 8:27 AND 8:37 AT PICC -- IT SAYS THIS PERSON WAS ATTACKED FROM BEHIND.

THIS IS AHB HEAVILY-USED NEIGORHOOD PARK,E PRESERVE, PARK, WHER MANY, MANY PEOPLE WALK WITHTH THEIR FAMILIES AND EIR DOGS. THEY ARE NORMAL -- THERE AREEO NORMALLY QUITE A FEW PPLE USING IT.

>> THANK YOU, MA'AM. YOUR TIME IS UP.

>> MY TIME IS UP? >> I DIDN'T EVEN CAME TO SAY WHAT I SAY -- I DIDN'T SEEN -- MAY I HAVE 30 SECONDS.

>> LINA HIDALGO: MA'AM -FRPBGS -- MA'AM, THANK YOU.

WHICH ITEM WAS THIS? >> IT IS NONAGENDAS.

>> TOM RAMSEY: LISA, THI IS TOMN RAMSEY, COMMISSIONER OF PRECCT 3. THANK YOU FOR CALLING IN.N WE ARE AWARE OF THE SITUATIO. WE WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ON THE PHONE. WE LOOK FORWARD TO VISITING WITH

YOU SOON. >> LET ME SAY ONE THING.

WHAT I WAS TOLD WHEN THINGS SWITCHED FROM PRECINCT 4 TO PRECINCT 3, WHY ARE THERE NO STAFF THERE ANYMORE? THERE USED TO BE TWO PEOPLE AS I UNDERSTAND ON STAFF ON THE PROPERTY ALL THE TIME. I WOULD SEE THEM IN THE GOLF CART RUNNING AROUND AND I COULD ALMOST ALWAYS SEE SOMEONE THERE.

SOMEONE WOULD OCCASIONALLY COME IN TO CLEAN THE Y RESTROOM.

>> TOM RAMSEY: I WILL CALLOU TO DISCUSS.

LET ME JUST SAY THAT SECURITY IN THAT PARK SPECIFICALLY HAS INCREASED, AND I AM GOING TO BUILD ON THE GOOD THINGS THAT COMMISSIONER CAGLE HAS BEEN DOING.

I WILT CALL YOU BY -- I WILL CALL YOU BY PHONE.

>> IT IS A GREAT PARK THAT IS HEAVILY USED.

IT JUST NEEDS TO BE ADEQUATELY STAFFED AND REASON -- REASONABLY

SAFE. >> TOM RAMSEY: THANK YOU.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU SO MUCH.

>> NEXT IS NONAGENDA SPEAKER NUMBER 8, DIANA WILLIAMS OF GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP. YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE.

GO AHEAD, PLEASE. >> HI, GOOD AFTERNOON, JUDGE HIDALGO AND COMMISSIONERS. I AM DIANA WILLIAMS AND WITH THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION GREAT ROOTS LEADERSHIP.

I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THE COUNTY WAS AWARE THAT THEY WILL HOST THE EVENT ON TUESDAY AUGUST 2ND.

THE EVENT IS SPONSORED NATIONALLY BY THE ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. ELLA BAKER WAS A BEHIND THE SCENES ORGANIZER AND CIVIL RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND A CO-FOUNDER OF THE SCLE THAT WAS HEADED BY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. IT BEGAN IN 2013 AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE MORE POLICE CENTRIC NATIONAL NIGHT OUT THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE PARTNERSHIP AS A PATHED WAY TO -- AS A PATHWAY TO COMMUNITY SAFETY. THE CONVERSATIONS WERE INVOLVED

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>> THANK YOU, MA'AM, YOUR TIME IS UP.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CALLING IN.

>> JUDGE, THOSE ARE ALL OF THE SPEAKERS WE WERE ABLE TO REACH.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU. THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE SPEAKERS. PW*F -- BEFORE WE CONTINUE WITH THE AGENDA I KNOW METRO HAS BEEN WAITING.

ARE THE REPRESENTATIVES HERE? HELLO.

>> THE. >> LINA HIDALGO: THE REPRESENTATIVE. WELCOME.

ECONOMICSER EL -- COMMISSIONER ELLIS, I KNOW THIS IS AN ITEM CLOSE TO YOUR HEART. COMMISSIONER GARCIA POSTED THIS ONE ITEM. 238 AND WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY THE CHAIR OF THE METRO DIRECTORS AS WELL AS I BELIEVE OTHER FOLKS ARE HERE. GO AHEAD CHAIR.

>> GOOD MORNING JUDGE AND COMMISSIONERS.

I AM THE CHAIR OF THE METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY OF HARRIS COUNTY. I AM GOING TO BE JOINED BY OUR VICE CHAIR JIM ROBINSON AND BOARD MEMBER CHRIS HOLLINS.

MR. ROBINSON IS UNDER THE WEATHER AND MR. HOLLINS IS ON TIME. I AM JOINED BY OUR EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL AND DEPUTY CHIEF PROCUREMENT HOSPITAL AND JOSE PAULITO.

WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT ON THE DISPARITY STUDY AND THE EFFORTS WE WERE UNDER -- UNDERTAKING TO BRIDGE THE GAP. THE SMALL METRO PROGRAM HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE SINCE 2005. IT IS RECOGNIZED AS A TRAIL -- TRAILBLAZER WITH THE HIGHEST PARTICIPATION GOAL OF 35%.

IT IS TO BE NOTED THAT THE 35% IS NOT UNIFORM ACROSS CONTRACTS.

IT IS SET ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS BASED ON THE CAPACITY IN THE MARKETPLACE FOR THE SERVICES OR THE GOODS BEING PROCURED.

IT IS A PASS OR FAIL. IF A RESPONDER OR A BIDDER DOES NOT MEET THE GOAL SPECIFIED FOR THE CONTRACT, THAT RESPONSE IS CONSIDERED NONRESPONSIVE AND REJECTED.

IF THEY COMMIT TO A PERCENTAGE HIGHER THAN THE GOAL SPECIFIED IN THE CONTRACT WE HOLD THEM TO THE LIFE OF THE CONTRACT.

IN OTHER WORDS, IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO LOOK GOOD DURING PROCUREMENT WITH A HIGHER PERCENTAGE, THEY GOT TO MEET THAT DURING THE LIFE OF THE CONTRACT AS WELL.

WE ARE INCREASING PARTICIPATION TO THE BIGGEST EXTENT POSSIBLE.

THE SMALLEST DIRECTLY -- DIRECTORY, 95% OF THE BUSINESS FIRMS ARE MINORITY CERTIFIED FIRMS OR DBE CERTIFIED FIRMS. WE HAVE A SMALL BUSINESS CERTIFICATION PROGRAM AND WE ACCEPT THE CERTIFICATION THAT HAS THE SIZE THRESHOLD OF THE SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM. ON OUR FEDERALLY FUNDED PROJECTS WE HAVE A GOAL AND WE NEED THAT THROUGH THE SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE BECAUSE A SIGNIFICANT SUBSET OF THE SMALL BUSINESSES ARE DBE CERTIFIED FIRMS AS WELL.

METRO HAS BEEN ONE OF THE EARLY ADOPTERS OF THE B TO G AND IT HAS BEEN IN EFFECT SINCE 2008. ALL CONTRACTS ARE SMALL BUSINESS GOALS AND ALL CONTRACTS AWARDED TO A SMALL BUSINESS EVEN IF THE CONTRACT DID NOT HAVE A SMALL BUSINESS GOAL AND ALL FEDERALLY-FUNDED PROJECTS ARE TRACKED AND HAVE BEEN TRACKED ON B TO G WHICH MEANS WE HAVE GOOD DATA OVER THE LAST 14, 15 YEARS.

THE SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM IS PRETTY GOOD.

WE HAVE ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. BACK IN 2019 WE AWARDED A DISPARITY STUDY CONTRACT TO MASON TILLMAN ASSOCIATES.

WE GOT THE RESULTS OF THE DISPARITY STUDY IN MAY OF 2021.

THAT DISPARITY STUDY DID LOOK AT CONTRACTORS AND -- PRIME CONTRACTORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS. IT BROKE THEM UP TO MULTIPLE SIZES, BUT HAD AN UPPER THRESHOLD.

THE UPPER THRESHOLD WAS -- IF I CAN GET MY NUMBERS RIGHT, 3.53 MILLION FOR CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS AND 1.6 MILLION FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACTS AND 670,000 FOR GOODS.

WE ALSO AS AN AGENCY HAVE POSTED WHAT I CONSIDERED OUTLIARS.

THEY ARE HIGHER THAN THE THRESHOLD.

THE ANALYSIS HAS BEEN POSTED ON OUR WEBSITE AND WE HAVE GOOD NEWS ON THAT AS WELL. YOU 35% ON CONSTRUCTION SERVICES AND 28% PARTICIPATION ON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND 14% ON GOODS. WHY ARE WE PLEASED TO REPORT THAT WE DO NOT HAVE A DISPARITY ACROSS THE BOARD? THAT IS OFTEN THE CASE FOR ENTITIES THAT UNDERTAKE THE DISPARITY STUDIES. WE WE IS IT IN TWO GROUPS.

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FOR UH KAY SHEPB -- CAUCASIAN WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES IS 22.1 AND 22% FOR CONSTRUCTION AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES.

THE UTILIZATION IS 13.8 TO 13.9%.

CLEARLY THERE IS ROOM TO IMPROVE.

THAT'S WHAT WE ARE FOCUSED ON NOW.

WHAT WE HAVE TO CRAFT IS A CAREFULLY CRAFTED AND NARROWLY TAILORED PROGRAM THAT WILL WITHSTAND SCRUTINY AND BE CLEAR AND MOST IMPORTANTLY SOMETHING THAT IS ENFORCEABLE.

WHAT WE WANT IS A PROGRAM THAT WILL WORK AND MOVE THE NEEDLE.

WE GOT THE RESULTS IN MAY OF 2021.

WE ARE LOOKING AT WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO INSTITUTE PROGRAMS, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE WANT TO WAIT TO BRIDGE THE GAP.

KAREN HUDSON AND HER TEAM ARE EXTENDING OUT REACH PROGRAMS TO PARTICULARLY THE GROUPS WHERE WE HAVE IDENTIFIED THE DISPARITY TO SEE HOW BEST WE CAN WORK TOGETHER TO BRIDGE THE GAP.

WE ARE LOOKING AT A DISABILITY ENTERPRISE PROGRAM AND VETERAN-OWNED BUSINESS PROGRAM. SO QUICK NUMBERS BEFORE I OPEN UP FOR QUESTIONS. IN 2021 OUT OF THE $671 MILLION IN CONTRACTS THAT METRO AWARDED, CONTRACTS WORKS $511 MILLION HAD GOALS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES. WE ARE LOOKING TO SEE HOW WE CAN INSTITUTE THE LARGER CONTRACTS THAT WAS TYPICALLY NOT THE CASE.

EVEN IF THE PERCENTAGE PARTICIPATION GOAL IS SMALLER BECAUSE A SMALLER PERCENTAGE OF A LARGE AMOUNT IS STILL MORE DOLLARS SPENT WITH SMALL BUSINESSES THAN A LARGE PERCENTAGE ON A SMALL CONTRACT. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? WE ARE LOOKING TO SEE IF WE CAN INSTITUTE GOALS WITHOUT DIESEL PURCHASES. YES, SMALL BUSINESSES DO NOT OWN REFINERIES. SMALL BUSINESSES DO OWN TRUCKING SERVICES TO DELIVER. BUSS AND TRAIN PROCUREMENT, SMALL BUSINESSES DO NOT BUILD BUSS AND TRAINS, BUT THEY MANUFACTURE COMPONENTS THAT GO INTO THE BUSES AND TRAINS.

THEY HAVE DONE THAT ON THE METRO LIFT PROCUREMENT.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT COMMITMENTS TO THESE GOALS ON THE CONTRACTS SINCE 2018, IT WAS AT 40% AND 20257%.

IN 2021 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE 50% RANGE.

THE REASON IT IS NOT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE NOW INSTITUTED GOALS ON THE LARGE CONTRACTS. UP TO $387 MILLION FOR THE NEW BUS OPERATING FACILITY. THE NUMBER OF DOLLARS, THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT WERE SPENT WITH THE SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, WE TRIPLED OUR AWARD SPENT ON SMALL BUSINESSES TO HAVE 130 MILLION ANNUALLY.

LARGE CONTRACTS HAVE A TKPWOELT INCLUDED -- HAVE A GOAL INCLUDED IN THAT. FROM 2018 TO 2021 CON TPRABGT DOLLARS -- CONTRACT DOLLARS ON AFRICAN-AMERICAN BUSINESSES WENT UP TO 12 MILLION AND NOW 70 MILLION, 7-0, IN 2021.

IT IS TRENDING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT STILL THINGS NEED TO BE INSTITUTION -- INSTITUTIONAL LIESED.

IMITATION IS THE BEST FORM OF FLATTERY.

ACROSS THE REGION MANY ENTITIES HAVE SAW DON'TED -- HAVE ADOPTED MANY PARTS OF THE PROGRAM AND HOW WE SET UP THE PROGRAM AND ADMINISTER IT AND HAVE OUT REACH AND HOW WE ENFORCE GOALS ON VARIOUS PROJECTS AND MOST IMPORTANTLY HOW WE TRACK IT TO GET BETTER. THE DISPARITY STUDY HAS RECOGNIZED THE UNIQUE NATURE OF THE SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM AND HOW SUCCESSFUL IT HAS BEEN, BUT WE KNOW THERE IS ROOM TO IMPROVE AS WE EMBARK ON DELIVERING METRO NEXT, IT IS IMPORTANT WE FOCUS ON THIS. I WANT TO SHOUTOUT TO THE SMALL BUSINESS TEAM LEAD BY KAREN HUDSON.

WE UNDERSTAND THERE IS A DEMAND ON INTPRAU -- INFRASTRUCTURE THE PARKS AND RECREATION WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH EACH OF YOU.

I WANT TO THANK COMMISSIONER ELLIS FOR PUSHING US ON THE DISPARITY STUDY AND JUDGE HIDALGO AND COMMISSIONER CAGLE AND COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND COMMISSIONER RAMSEY, WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH EACH OF YOU NOT JUST TO ADDRESS THE DISPARITY STUDY, BUT TO SEE HOW WE KWAN DELIVER -- HOW WE CAN

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WITH THAT I AM OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS THAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO

ANSWER. >> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER

ELLIS? >> RODNEY ELLIS: THANK YOU.

THANK YOU TO YOU AND TO YOUR TEAM.

I AM VERY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT YOU ARE DOING.

IN MY MOTION OF PASSION ALONG THE WAY, IF BEFORE YOU WERE CHAIR I CAME ACROSS HEAVY HANDED, IT IS BECAUSE I KNOW AS YOU KNOW THIS HAS NOT BEEN AN EASY JOURNEY.

COMMISSIONER GARCIA AS YOU POINT OUT, IT IS A SIX-LETTER WORD.

BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT FOR IT. I THINK THE PROGRAM IN METRO GOES BACK -- I THINK IT GOES BACK TO WHEN ALLEN KIEFER WAS THERE AND IT GOES BACK TO WHEN THE DECISION CAME DOWN AND SHIRLEY WAS VERY AGGRESSIVE AND ONE OF YOUR PREDECESSORS MADE SURE IT WAS SUED. BY A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE WAS OVERREACTION AND IT WAS A DIFFICULT TIME.

I APPRECIATE THE WHOLE TEAM OVER THERE BECAUSE THE SETTLEMENT THAT EXPIRED A LONGTIME AGO IS SOMETIMES WHAT IS CALLED B2G.

>> B2G. >> THE PORT PAID FOR IT AND NEVER TURNED IT ON. SOMETIMES WHEN I WOULD ASK THE QUESTION WHAT ARE THE NUMBERS? I RAISE THE AGENDA FOR EVERYBODY. I APPRECIATED YOUR CANDOR FOREGOING TO THE COURT. FOR GOING TO THE COURT.

WE DO IT SOMETIMES. GETTING THE C IN STATISTICS IN GRAD SCHOOL IS HOW TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE NUMBERS.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAD THAT AT THE END.

I HAD TO GO ON TO GET OFF PROBATION AND GET MY SCHOLARSHIP BACK AND I FIGURED OUT THE TWO-TALE PROBABILITY TEST.

I GOT IT NOW. PEOPLE WILL SAY FOR THE PIE OR THE AREA THAT LOOKS GOOD, AND NOT GO AND LOOK AT THEVE ORALL PIE. I ASKOR F THE SIMPLEUM NBER, WHAT DOOU YPE SND? I DIDN'TSK AT WHADID YOUND SPE IN CERTAINEG CATORIES -- NOT YOU, BUT WHATSK I A ANYIT ENTY IS ASK A SIMPLEST QUEION.US UALLY I AM ONEHA IF I VE TO FIGHT TO GETNS THE AWER BECAUSE SOMEBODYRS ANSWE OTHER THAN WHAT I WANT T, THENHIS CREATES A LACK OFPA TRUST, RANOIA KNOWING YOU HAVERO COME ACSS THE DECISION AND SO HAVE I.AD I REMA THURGOOD RSHAL'SEN DISSTHO AND YOU SULD READ IT AS WELL. FOR PEOPLEER, COMMISSION GARCIA, YOU P PUTTING EVERY ITEM ON THEA AGENDAND PEOPLEND WILL CALL A Y I TOLDOU THIS. T I WANTEDO BE A RAPPER.RE IF YOU A'T BLACK YOU DON GET THE CONTRACT.

DON'T HANGBROWN YOU AROUND.

IFOU YOU ARE ASIAN Y DON'T GET THE A.F WITH ALL OTHESE PROGRAMS BEING CREATED, I KNOW THAT SOME PEOPLE WILL BITEY OFF MORE THAN THECAI CHEW.

H HAVE BEEN THERE WITMY BUSINESS.

THANKOK GOD I DIDN'T GET CHED TO DEATH 4*OF AND -- AND PUT OUT BUSINESS. I ENCOURAGE THE MWBE'S TO MERGE AND INCREASE CAPACITYME AS WE IN TRYING TO BRIDGE THE DIVIDE. IT IS GOOD THAT YOU ARET LOOKIG AT ALL WHAYOU CAN SPEND.E WE SHOULD HAVE DONGO THAT A LONGTIME A. THAT'S THE ONE CHANGE IN THE PROGRAM. WHEN THEY SAY WE DON'T COUNT THOSE. I ASK DO THEY DO IT IN DETROIT? THEY DO IT IN ATLANTA? THEY DO IT IN NEW YORK? HOW ABOUT MIAMI? THE WAY THATE WORKS, I DON'T CAE WHER THEY FROM. IF THEY THINK IT ISL AN OPPORTUNITY THEY WILMOVE HERE. I COULDN'T DO BUSINESS WITH THE STATE FOR 26 YEARS. I COULDN'T DO BUSINESS WITH THE CITY FOR SIX W AND COOPERATE DO BUSINESSITH THE COUNTY BECAUSE I WOULDN'T STAY OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS.

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PARTICULARLY WITH SO MANY BUSINESSES GOING UNDER.SI PARTICULARLY THE SMALL BUNESSES.

IT IS A BIPARTISAN ISSUE. IT WAS A WAY FOR PEOPLE -- AND IN THE OTHER FRIENDLY PARTY, OPPOSITE OF MY PARTY TO TRY TO CUT INTO FOLKS THAT GO ON MY SIDE AND THEY TAKE THE ON -- THE ENTREPRENEURIAL CLASS. IT IS THE AMERICAN WAY.

I COMMEND YOU. I HOPE YOU ARE SHARING BEST PRACTICES. YOU ARE IMPROVING ON WHAT YOU ARE DOING. WE OUGHT TO NOT ALL TRY AND REINVENT THE WHEEL. I DON'T WANT SOMEBODY TO BLOW SOMETHING UP AND THEN FIND SOME DETRACTOR BECAUSE THEY ARE WATCHING TO FIND ANOTHER CASE AND IT COMES OUT OF HARRIS COUNTY AND MOST OF US RELY ON THE CERTIFICATION.

I DON'T GET HUNG UP ON FRONTS SO MUCH BECAUSE THAT WOMAN, SOUTH ASIAN, HISPANIC OR BLACK THAT SOMEBODY SENDS UP AS A FRONT, THEY ARE ON IT. THEY CAN TALK BACK IF THEY HAVE CONTROL. IT IS IMPORTANT AND I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU ARE DOING. I HOPE ONCE A YEAR I WILL ASK YOU ALL TO LOOK AT THE NUMBERS. I GET THAT.

I KNOW I DID AGENTS PUSHING -- I KNOW I DID A LITTLE PUSHING AND PULLING. WERE YOU ON THE BOARD WHEN I HAD JESSE JACKSON COME IN HERE? IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO AND I APPRECIATE THIS ON OUR SIDE. WE DID THE FIRST ONE.

EVEN IF IT WAS KICKING AND SCREAMING TO GET THERE.

I THINK BY DOING THAT IT LEAD TO METRO AND HARRIS HEALTH AND THE CENTER WILL -- THEY DON'T SPEND THE KIND OF MONEY THAT WE SPEND.

I HOPE WE ARE SUCCESSFUL AND WE ALL WORK TO GET OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES.

THERE IS NO REASON WHY THE LARGEST BLACK BUSINESSES IN THE COUNTRY TEND TO BE ATLANTA, CHICAGO AND NEW YORK BECAUSE IT IS NEW YORK AND LARGEST HISPANIC BUSINESSES ARE L.A., MIAMI AND NEW YORK BECAUSE IT IS NEW YORK. HERE, AND THIS IS THE FRONT TO

MAKE MONEY. >> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER RAMSEY AND THEN COMMISSIONER GARCIA.

>> TOM RAMSEY: THANK YOU FOR COMING.

I WILL START YOU FOR THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND THANK YOU FOR THE MANY, MANY, MANY YEARS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN OUT THERE MAKING GOOD THINGS HAPPEN. I LIKE YOUR STORY IN TERMS OF YOU ARE A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE PROGRAM, RIGHT? I MEAN, WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TEAM UP ON MANY PROJECTS.

WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT MWBE PROGRAMS I SAY CALL MY FRIEND SANJAY. HE WROTE THE BOOK ON IT.

I HOPE YOUR FAMILY IS WELL. I WON'T BE GOING THERE.

>> IT IS TOO HOT. >> IT IS TOO HOT.

I WILL SAY I APPRECIATE THE ENGINEERING COMMUNITY SPECIFICALLY. AND IT TAKES FOLKS LIKE YOU OUT THERE MAKING A DIFFERENCE. WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A PROGRAM AND BRING UP METRICS SUCH AS CAPACITY.

IT MAKES A BIG STATEMENT THERE. THE ONE QUESTION IS I CONSIDER IT LOCAL IN THE REGION AND WE WERE ABLE TO SATISFY THE GOALS, BUT IT TOOK A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF EFFORT FROM OTHER AREAS OF THE U.S. TO GET THERE. MOST OF THE ACHIEVEMENT HERE

LOCALLY -- -- >> I WOULD BE WILLING TO BET MOST OF IT IS LOCALLY. I KNOW 95% OF THE SMALL BUSINESS FIRMS ARE MINORITY BUSINESSES OR WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES.

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>> ABOUT 75% OF OUR BUSINESSES COME FROM THE 13 SURROUNDING

COUNTIES. >> THANK YOU.

>> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER GARCIA.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: THANK YOU, JUDGE.

MR. CHAIR, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU ARE DOING. I WANT TO TOUCH ON SOMETHING THAT YOU MENTIONED. FIRST, YOU MENTIONED AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ANGLO FEMALES.

I WOULD LIKE TO UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU ARE WITH THE HISPANIC

COMMUNITY. >> YES, SIR.

THE REASON I HIGHLIGHTED THOSE TWO IS BECAUSE THE DISPARITY STUDY IDENTIFIED THAT IN TERMS OF AVAILABILITY OF UTILIZATION -- EXCUSE ME, THE AVAILABILITY OF OUTIZATION THER.

WITH HISPANICS AND THE ASIAN-AMERICANS THE UTILIZATION

WAS ON PAR. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: GOOD.

>> IT MAY NOT BE ON THIS HANDOUT, BUT WE CAN GET THE

SPECIFIC DETAILS TO YOU. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: AND ARE THESE NUMBERS BASED ON SOLELY YOUR SUB CON TRACKING -- SUB CONTRACTING

OPPORTUNITIES? >> THIS WAS DURING THE PERIOD OF 2013 TO 2018. THE STUDY LOOKED AT TWO SETS OF NUMBERS. ONE OF PHRAOEUPL CONTRACTOR -- ONE OF PRIME CONTRACTORS ONLY AND ONE THAT EXCLUDED THE THRESHOLDS THAT I MENTIONED, BUT IT LOOKED AT PRIME AND SUBCONTRACTORS FOR THE ENTIRETY OF ALL CONTRACTS THIS METRO LETS

OUT. >> I WOULD LIKE TO WHEN YOU COME BACK FOR YOUR NEXT PRESENTATION, I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO SEE WHERE THE PRIME PARTICIPATION IS AT.

TOM, WHO IS IS YOUR PREDECESSOR DURING BILL WHITE'S ADMINISTRATION? I AM TRYING TO REMEMBER HIS

NAME. >> FRANK WILSON AND PRIOR TO

THAT SHIRLEY -- >> I AM GLAD HE IS NOT HERE ANYMORE. WHEN I WAS ON COUNCIL I COULDN'T GET HIM TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX AND IF NOT FOR MY PER SPEUS TENSE -- PERSISTENCE OR OVER IN ENGINEERING, THEY WOULD HAVE DONE THE LINE. HE MENTIONED SOMETHING YOU TOUCHED ON. MINORITY BUSINESSES DON'T BUILD THE TRAINS. THE RAILS COME IN ONE PIECE.

THERE WASN'T A LOT THAT MINORITY FIRMS COULD DO.

MINORITY COMPANIES DO SELL FUEL AND HAVE TRUCKS AND THEY DO SERVE FOOD. THEY SELL SAFETY EQUIPMENT AND WE HAVE ENGINEERING CAPACITY. WE WERE ABLE TO CRAFT AN INCREDIBLE TEAM WITH RICK AND THE OTHERS.

THERE WERE ULTIMATELY THOSE WHO BUILT THE LINE.

I WANTED TO JUST URGE THAT THINKING THAT THERE ARE WAYS TOO GET TO NEW THRESHOLDS. AND 75% OF YOUR BUSINESS IS IN THE REGION AND THERE IS DISPARITY THERE.

MAYBE WE CAN DO BETTER THERE. THE PRIME IS THE NEXT FRONTIER

OF WHERE WE ARE GETTING TO. >> AND WE HAVE LOOKED AT THAT AS WELL. AMONG THE CRIME THE DISPARITY IS THE SAME IN THE TWO GROUPS. CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.

THAT'S IN THOSE TWO GROUPS AS WELL.

IF I MAY, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THINKING OUT OF THE BOX, TOM LAMBERT HAS BEEN IN THE BOX IN METRO FOR 43 YEARS.

BUT THAT'S WHAT ALLOWS HIM TO THINK OUT OF THE BOX TO SEE HOW HE CAN EMBARK ON THE $7.5 BILLION METRO PROGRAM.

WE NEED TO BE SURE THE OPPORTUNITY IS AVAILABLE TO

EVERYBODY ACROSS THE REGION. >> RODNEY ELLIS: COMMISSIONER GARCIA, YOU BROUGHT THE POINT THAT IT IS IMPORTANT.

I WAS IN INVESTMENT BANKING ALTHOUGH I COULDN'T DO BUSINESS HERE BECAUSE I WAS ON CITY COUNCIL.

I WAS SENSITIVE TO OTHER MINORITY WOMEN-OWNED FIRMS BECAUSE EVEN IF I WAS THE ONLY ONE HERE, ONE HISPANIC IN SAN ANTONIO, ROBERT RODRIGUEZ, AND APEX.

[INAUDIBLE] AND SO WE ENCOURAGED OTHER PEOPLE TO COME IN AND THEY

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IT WASN'T BECAUSE THEY WERE IN NEW YORK.

THEY WERE AROUND THE COUNTRY. I DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN THE LOCAL STUFF. SOMETIMES LOCAL STUFF IS THE WAY TO KEEP US OUT. AFTER THEY GOT SO LARGE THEY WERE DOING STUFF EVERYWHERE. I DON'T GET HUNG UP ON THAT.

AND I DON'T GET HUNG UP ON GRADUATION.

I THOUGHT TO GET MORE SECURITY AND STHAOE WAS MY COMPETITOR.

I GUESS BEFORE THE DOT-COM STUFF, I TOOK HER IN TO SEE THE MAYOR. SHE WOULD COMPETE WITH ME SOMEWHERE ELSE. SHE WAS RAISING LLAMAS.

USED TO BE IF YOU WERE BLACK, GET BACK.

IF YOU WERE BROWN, DON'T COME AROUND.

SOUTH ASIAN, WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING.

YOU KPWOT ME? -- YOU GOT ME? THAT WAS THE ISSUE BECAUSE YOU CAN LOOK IF THERE ARE MWBE'S DO IT IN COOK IN CHICAGO OR IN NEW YORK.

IF THEY CAME HERE TO DO THE STUFF THAT FRANK WILSON WAS SAYING WE DIDN'T HAVE PEOPLE TO DO T THE QUESTION FOR ME IS, OKAY, IS THERE ANYBODY ANYWHERE ELSE? THEY HAVE TO COME AND OPEN AN OFFICE.

IF THEY DON'T TREAT THEM RIGHT, THE LOCAL ONE WILL HAVE THE CONTRACT. IT IS THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX.

THE REASON WE DO THIS, THE REASON PEOPLE SUE IS THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN MAKING THE MONEY WANT TO KEEP MAKING THE MONEY.

I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T PULL UP THE LADDER.

IT IS A CUT THROAT BUSINESS. >> AND ON THAT POINT I WANT TO BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT GRADUATION. THE CHALLENGE I HAD WHEN I WAS ON COUNCIL WAS THAT THOSE WHO WERE PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND PARTS -- HAD BEEN PARTICIPATING FOR A LONGTIME.

IT CHOKED OFF THE OPPORTUNITY FOR OTHERS TO COME IN SO I WANT

TO BE -- STRATEGIC ABOUT THAT. >> IT TAKES TIME.

I KNOW THE LARGEST BLACK BUSINESS IN THE WORLD WAS A GRADUATE KID AND HE WENT ON. MANY WHEN THEY GRADUATE, THEY GO OUT OF BUSINESS. THAT'S WHY I PUSHED WHEN OUR PROGRAM CAME UP NOT TO DO IT WITH THE CITY.

THE CITY'S PROGRAM DOES KEEP -- IN MY JUDGMENT, THEY ARE LOOKING AT CHANGING IT AND I WAS THERE AND THROWING THE BOMBS AND I DIDN'T READ THE FINE PRINT WHEN WE DID IT.

IF YOU GET TO BE THE PRIME YOU HAVE TO BE AS WELL.

I WANT A BROWN GOLDMAN SACHS. I MAY BE DEAD, BUT I WANT A FEMALE BIG ENGINEERING FIRM. IT GOES BOTH WAYS.

YOU WANT TO BRING IN OTHERS, BUT THE CAPACITY -- AND I KNOW EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE THE CHAIRPERSON OR THE PRESIDENT AND THE CEO, BUT THAT SOMETIMES RELEGATES THEM TO ALWAYS BEING VERY SMALL FIRMS. IT IS WORTH TRYING TO FIGURE OUT. MOST OF THEM WANT TO DO --

>> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

>> JUDGE IF I MAY ONE LAST ITEM. COMMISSIONER, THANK YOU FOR PUSHING US BECAUSE WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER TO TRY TO MOVE THE NEEDLE. WE ARE HERE TO HELP AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH THE COUNTY.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU. GOOD WORK AND MORE TO COME.

IT IS VERY EXCITING. >> ITEM 238 IS CONSIDERED A NO

ACTION ITEM? >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU.

YES. WE HAVE SOMEONE ELSE HERE FOR A PRESENTATION THAT IS EARLY. WE WERE GOING TO TAKE IT AT 2 AND WE MAY AS WELL TAKE THE SECOND PRESENTATION NOW BEFORE WE GO THROUGH THE CONSENT AGENDA.

THAT IS A REPRESENTATIVE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 242, THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HARRIS COUNTY HISPANIC CULTURAL HERITAGE COMMISSION. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE REPRESENTATIVE HAS ARRIVED? WELCOME.

>> GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON, JUDGE AND COMMISSIONERS. MY NAME IS BONITA AND I AM THE CURRENT CHAIR OF THE HARRIS COUNTY HISPANIC CULTURAL COMMISSION. I PUT TOGETHER S AUMMARY OF OUR ACTIVITIES TO DATE. ITAS H BEEN ONE YEAR SINCEHI TS

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I DID AMA SUMRY OF THE ACTIVITIESHA WE VE BEEN ACCOMPLISHING ANDAR THEY E SETTING THE O BASISF THE DE COMMISSIONWE. HAVE ANNG UNDERSTANDI OF THEIR ROLES AND GOALS ANDSU MAKG RE WE ARE NOTOV OVER -- ERLAPPING IN EFFORTS, BUTTI CONTRIBUNG TO HIGHLIGHTLT MORE CUURAL EVENTS INUN HARRIS COTY.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: I KNOW YOU ARE GETTING YOUR SEA LEGS, BUT IF YOU ARE SHARING DISCUSSIONS OF THE FUTURE OF WHAT THE L COMMISSION MAYOOK LIKE, WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THET LOW-HANGIG FRUI OPPORTUNITIESON FOR THE COMMISSI O TO FOCUS ON.

>>NE OF THE THINGS WE T DISCOVERED IS THATHETO HARRIS COUNTY HISRICALAR COMMISSION, THERE E CLOSE TO 200 SITE THAT'S HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED HISTORICAL SITES, BUT VERY FEW, LESS THAN 2% ARE HISPANIC. WE THINK THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO IDENTIFY EVENTS, PLACES AND PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE WORTHY OF RECEIVING THIS KIND OF RESIGNATION.

THAT'S THE NUMBER ONE FOCUS. I THINK THERE IS A LOT OF THAT.R WE ARE WORKING WITH DIFFENT ORGANIZATIONS AND PEOPLE AND WE ARE BRINGS -- BRINGING MORE PEOPLE SO THEY CAN SHARE THEIR KNOWLEDGE. WE DO NOT WANT TO -- THAT'S ONE OF THE MAIN CONCERNS OF WHAT THEY DO AND WHAT THEY DO WELL AND WHERE WE CAN SUPPORT THEM IS PART OF THE EFFORT.

AND WE ARE PROMOTING MORE CULTURAL EVENTS AND CIVIC EVENTS THAT RELATE TO HARRIS COUNTY AND OUR COMMUNITY AND THAT'S WHY THE WEB PAGE IS SOMETHING WE ARE REALLY LOOKING INTO TO TRY TO KEEP THAT INFORMATION UP-TO-DATE ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH CULTURE FROM MUSIC TO FESTIVALS THERE WILL BE A GREAT OFFER UP THAT WE ARE HIGHLIGHTING. THESE ARE THINGS THE COMMUNITY CAN GO TO OUR WEB PAGE AND BE AWARE OF WHAT ELSE -- WHAT OTHER CULTURAL EVENTS ARE BEING CREATED.

>> VERY GOOD. LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.EY

>> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER RAMS IN.

>> TOM RAMSEY: THANK YOU, BENITO FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING HERE AND THROUGHOUT HARRIS COUNTY. PARTICIPATING ON SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS THROUGH THE YEARS WITH YOU AND SEEING YOUR LEADERSHIP AND TRYING TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.

I HAVE SEEN YOU WALKING AROUND WHERE EVERYBODY IS ESSENTIALLY THROWING FOOD AT EACH OTHER. IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG BEFORE BENITO HAS THEM ALL ON THE SAME PAGE.

FIND THOSE SITES IN HARRIS COUNTY AND LOOK FOR OTHER OPPORTUNITIES WE CAN BRING OUR COMMUNITY TOGETHER.

SO MANY THINGS THAT ARE BEING DONE ARE DIVISIVE.

YOU HAVE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BRING US TOGETHER AND UNDER THE BANNER OF CELEBRATION OF A GREAT CULTURE.

LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO.

>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU AND GOOD TO SEE YOU. EUGSER ELLIS?

>> RODNEY ELLIS: THANK YOU, BENITO.

ARE YOU LOOKING AROUND THE COUNTRY TO SEE IF SOMEBODY IS CUTTING EDGE OR DOING SOME STUFF? FOR EXAMPLE, I TOOK A CROSS-COUNTRY TRIP LAST YEAR WITH MY SON MONTGOMERY, AS AN EXAMPLE, I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS A LOCAL MARKER OR A STATE MARKER, BUT IT IS MORE COLORFUL THAN OURS. IF IT WAS BLUE OR GOLD IT STOOD OUT MORE AND WE STOPPED A BIT. YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF STUFF AND IT IS INTERESTING IN ALABAMA AND THEY SEEM TO DO A BETTER JOB AT THAT. I WANT TO HELP ANYWAY I CAN.

I KNOW SOUTH AFRICA, THE SON OF THE LIBERATION LEADER OVER THERE, THEY DO THESE STATUTES OUT THAT WERE BATTLES.

I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY GET THE FUNDING FROM.

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I DID A BIKE RIDE THIS WEEKEND ALONG -- IN YOUR PRECINCT PRIMARILY, COMMISSIONER GARCIA, AND IT WILL BE MORE OF A -- I FORGOT THE PHRASE. WE STOPPED BY A LITTLE BLACK SETTLEMENT AND THEN A COWBOY MUSEUM WAS ONE SITE.

THEY MOVED THE PLACES AND THERE WERE 50 OF US RIDING AND ONLY 20 MADE IT TO THE END, 15. BUT THESE LITTLE TOWNS WANT TO FIGURE OUT HOW THEY CAN GET THEIR MONEY FOR THE TRAIL.

I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU WITH WHAT HAS HAPPENED ON THE STATE LEVEL PEOPLE HAVING US HIDE WHAT OUR HISTORY WAS.

TO ME TO BE AKIN TO WHAT SOMEBODY SAID, DON'T TEACH ANYBODY ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY WITH GERMAN ANCESTRY, THEIR FEELINGS MIGHT BE HURT.

TELL THE REAL STORY. I APPRECIATE THE MURAL YOU ARE GOING TO PUT UP AT TOURIST SQUARE.

SMART ON THE CITY'S PART. TAKE WELL-DEVELOPED AREA THAT WAS GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER NAME AND I THINK IT WOULD ATTRACT PEOPLE WHOEVER THEY ARE. I ALWAYS ENCOURAGE US.

EVERYTHING IS MODEL FOR THE NATION.

I'M THINKING EVERYWHERE I GO PEOPLE SAID THE MODEL OF THE NATION. IS ANYBODY TALKING? JUST LOOK AROUND. I WANT TO HELP IN ANYWAY I CAN.

>> THANK YOU. >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU SO

MUCH. >> ONE LAST COMMENT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE AND I REALLY NEED TO MAKE THIS COMMENT BECAUSE THIS COMMISSION COULD NOT RUN THROUGH AND REALLY HAVE STARTED WITHOUT THE HELP WITH CARAMEL LAW VANS VANS FROM PRECINCT -- CARMELLA SR-PBZ -- VALENZUELA. SHE HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS HELP AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE HER. WITHOUT HER THIS WOULD NOT BE

POSSIBLE. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: THANK YOU.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I THINK IN THE 6 CYCLE -- IN THE NEXT CYCLE WE CAN CREATE THEM AND WE CARE ABOUT THE ISSUES WHETHER IT IS THE WOMEN'S ONE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN ONE, HISPANIC ONE, IT ALMOST BECOMES LIKE THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ON A RESOLUTION.

IF YOU DON'T FIND SOMEWHERE IT IS A WASTE OF MONEY.

>> WE WILL GO OVER THE CORRECTIONS AND THEN WE WILL GO THROUGH THE CONSENT AGENDA. ITEM 123 OF THE 4* -- OF THE BROAD LEGISLATIVE ITEM, NO ACTION ON THAT ITEM.

ITEM 213, AN AGREEMENT WITH FREEZE AND NICHOLS, FLOOD CONTROL REQUESTED NO ACTION. ITEM 234 NEEDS A CORRECTION.

THAT'S THE AGREEMENT WITH THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS. REMOVE THE TERM "OF THE COUNTY COURTS" AND REPLACE WITH AND AN ASSESS MEANT OF WORKLOAD FOR THE DISTRICT COUNTY AND PROBATE COURTS OF HARRIS COUNTY.

IT SHOULD READ REQUEST OF APPROVAL OF A PERSONAL SERVICES EXEMPTION FROM THE COMPETITIVE BID REQUIREMENTS AND THE COUNTY JUDGE EXECUTE WITH THE STATE COURTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $399,533. CASE FLOW MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND AN ASSESSMENT OF WORKLOAD FOR THE DISTRICT COUNTY AND PRO COURTS OF HARRIS COUNTY FOR THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET FOR THE PERIOD OF JUNE 14, 2022 THROUGH JULY 13 OF 2023.

SPECIALIZED TECHNICAL AND UNIQUE IN NATURE.

274, REMOVE THE TERM TWO-YEAR AND CORRECT THE DATE TO SAY DECEMBER 31ST, 2022. SO IT SHOULD BE REQUEST BY THE COUNTY JUDGE FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION OF THE APPROVAL OF LAKEYA WILSON TO THE SECURITY DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR A TERM ENDING DECEMBER 31ST, 2022.

SO THOSE ARE THE ONLY EDITS. DID I MISS ANYTHING? SO LET'S GO THROUGH THE CONCEPT AND WHAT WILL GO ON THE CONSENT

AGENDA. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: THERE WAS ONE

ITEM? >> LINA HIDALGO: THOSE ARE

CORRECTIONS. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: YES.

271, NEEDS TO SAY IN PLACE OF CHANNEL VIEW AREA, FLOW RELIEF

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AREA. >> LINA HIDALGO: DID YOU GET THAT? CLOVERLEAF INSTEAD OF CHANNEL LEAVE. GOT IT.

THE CONSENT AGENDA WE WILL START WITH EXECUTIVE SESSION.

COMMISSIONER GARCIA MENTIONED HE DOESN'T NEED TO GO TO EXECUTIVE ON THE APPOINTMENT OF THE SHIP CHANNEL SECURITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS. DOES ANYONE NEED TO DISCUSS THAT APPOINTMENT? 274?

>> NO. >> LINA HIDALGO: 275 THE APPOINTMENT OF NATALIE HERTADO TO THE HARRIS CENTER.

>> NO. >> LINA HIDALGO: ROSALINDA.

>> NO. >> LINA HIDALGO: MARISSA BRIGGS TO THE HARRIS COMMISSION. DO FOLKS NEED TO GO TO EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN HARRIS COUNTY AND ALLEN BOONE HUMPHREYS FOR ASSISTANCE WITH STRATEGIC DIRECTION AND PLANNING

IMPLEMENTATION ON TEARS MATTER. >> WHICH ITEMS ARE THOSE?

>> LINA HIDALGO: THAT IS ITEM 278.

>> DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION ON 278?

>> RODNEY ELLIS: I DO. >> LINA HIDALGO: WE WILL DISCUSS 278 IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. 279 I KNOW WE NEED TO DISCUSS WHICH OF THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION SUGGESTIONS WILL BE APPOINTED TO THE WOMEN'S COMMISSION.

CORRECT? WE HAVE MORE RECOMMENDATIONS THAN THERE ARE SLOTS. SO WE WILL DISCUSSION -- DISCUSS 279 IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. ITEM 280 IS TWO APPOINTMENTS TO THE HARRIS COUNTY WOMEN'S COMMISSION.

I DON'T NEED TO GO TO EXECUTIVE SESSION ON THAT ONE.

>> NO. >> LINA HIDALGO: 295, EXECUTIVE SESSION ON THE COMPENSATION OF THE COURT MANAGER.

WE DO NEED TO GO TO EXECUTIVE SESSION ON THAT ITEM, 295.

>> WHICH? >> LINA HIDALGO: 295 ON PAGE 35.

ITEM 307, COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 1 FOR POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING AN APPOINTMENT TO THE HARRIS HEALTH BOARD.

SO WE WILL GO TO EXECUTIVE SESSION ON THAT ITEM AS WELL.

HERE ARE ITEMS FLAGGED ON THE REGULAR AGENDA.

>> REPEAT ONE MORE TIME THE EXECUTIVE SESSION.

>> LINA HIDALGO: I WILL GIVE YOU A FULL LIST.

ITEM 4, COMMISSIONERS RAMSEY AND CAGLE WANT TO DISCUSS A FLEX FUND. DO YOU NEED TO DISCUSS THAT?

>> YES. >> LINA HIDALGO: ITEM 10.

THIS IS OUR EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE, COMMISSIONER CAGLE.

YOU FLAGGED THAT. >> YES.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ITEM 11, THAT'S THE BROAD COVID ITEM.

DO FOLKS NEED TO DISCUSS THAT? I WILL PROVIDE A BRIEF UPDATE.

ITEM 12, I KNOW FOLKS WANT TO DISCUSS POTENTIAL BALLOT INITIATIVE SO WE WILL KEEP THAT ON THE AGENDA.

ITEM 13, CHANGE THE NAME OF JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT AND THE TRANSFER OF TWO POSITIONS.

DO COMMISSIONERS CAGLE AND RAMSEY STILL NEED TO DISCUSS

THAT? >> [INAUDIBLE]

>> LINA HIDALGO: MOTIONED BY COMMISSIONER ELLIS AND SECONDED BY GARCIA. ALL IN FAVOR?

ALL IN FAVOR? >> I.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSE -- OPPOSED.

>> NO. >> LINA HIDALGO: I AM IN FAVOR AND IT PASSES 3-2. GARCIA AND RAMSEY WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE TAX EBG -- EXSWREPL -- EXEMPTION.

23, DO YOU NEED TO DISCUSS THE VOLUNTARY PAYROLL DEDUCTION?

>> YES. WELL -- [INAUDIBLE]

>> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER CAGLE, DO YOU NEED TO DISCUSS

THAT ITEM? >> R. JACK CAGLE: I DO.

I HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT THE PAYROLL DEDUCTION PROCESS AND WHERE THAT CAN GO AND ALTHOUGH I'M SUPPORTIVE OF WHAT ANY COMMISSIONER WANTS TO DO IN THEIR OWN PRECINCT WITH THEIR OWN BUDGET, THE PRECEDENT OF THAT IS ONE THAT I FIND CONCERNING AND MAYBE ONE OF THE THINGS WE CAN DO IS OUR OFFICE CAN DISCUSS IT IF YOU WANT AND THERE PLAY BE A WAY OF MAKING IT WORK WHERE IT DOESN'T HAVE A PRECEDENT EFFECT OR WE CAN JUST

VOTE. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: JUST VOTE.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: I SECOND. >> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER GARCIA IS MAKING A MOTION ON ITEM 23 AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER ELLIS. ALL IN FAVOR?

>> I. >> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED?

>> NO. >> LINA HIDALGO: I'M IN FAVOR.

MOTION CARRIES 3-2. THAT WAS ITEM 23.

ITEM 38. COMMISSIONER GARCIA, YOU WANTED TO DISCUSS THIS INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH CHANNEL VIEW?

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: YES. >> LINA HIDALGO: 46.

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COMMISSIONER GARCIA? >> YES.

>> LINA HIDALGO: 66, COMMISSIONER GARCIA, A STUDY PREPARED BY WSB AND ASSOCIATES ON RED BLUFF ROAD?

>> YES. >> LINA HIDALGO: HOW ABOUT 129, AN INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH COASTAL WATER AUTHORITY?

>> YES. >> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER GARCIA, ITEM 145 FOR AN MOU BETWEEN THE SHERIFF -- CONSULT PRECINCT 2 AND HARRIS COUNTY MULTI AGENCY WARRANTS TASK

FORCE? >> ADRIAN GARCIA: YES.

>> LINA HIDALGO: 153? WRAOE NEED TO DISCUSS -- WE NEED TO DISCUSS THE COUNTY JAIL OPERATIONS.

I THINK EVERYONE FLAGGED THIS ONE.

ITEM 160 WE NEED TO DISCUSS THE POSSIBLE CHANGES TO RULES AND PROCEDURES. THIS IS A DISCUSSION ITEM ONLY, BUT WE WILL KNOW WHAT TO BRING BACK NEXT TIME AND SO IT IS INCORPORATED WHAT EVERYBODY EXPRESSED AT THE LAST COURT TO SEE WHAT WE PUT IN THERE. 164, RECLASSIFY THREE POSITIONS FOR APPROVED SALARY STRUCTURE. THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: NEED A VOTE? >> [INAUDIBLE].

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: SO MOVED. >> RODNEY ELLIS: SECOND.

>> LINA HIDALGO: MOTIONED BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA.

SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER ELLIS. ALL IN FAVOR?

>> I. >> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSE

STPHED. >> NO.

>> LINA HIDALGO: I AM IN FAVOR. THE MOTION CARRIES 3-2.

NEXT ONE IS ITEM 181. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: YES.

>> LINA HIDALGO: WE'LL DISCUSS 181.

183? IT IS A REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF PAYMENT OF AUDITED CLAIMS. COMMISSIONER CAGLE?

>> R. JACK CAGLE: WE HELD THAT BECAUSE WE HAD NOT YET HEARD IF THERE IS ANYTHING FROM PFM, AND NOW WE HEARD AND SO IT CAN GO

BACK ON CONSENT. >> LINA HIDALGO: WE WILL PUT ITEM 183 BACK ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.

#*RTE IM - 2- >> LINA HIDALGO: I --TE IM 213.

THAT'S FLOOD CONTROLEQ RUESTED NOIO ACTN.

COMMISSIONERCI GARA FLAGGED THAT AS WELL, BUTFL WE AGGED IT FOR NO ACTION. 215, COMMISSIONERSE RAMY.

ANME AGREENT WITH ALL PAID INK.

>> TOM RAMSEY: JUST HAD SOME QUESTIONS.

,> LINA HIDALGO: 220 COMMISSIONER GARCIA.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: YEAH.S. YED

.N221 >> LINA HIDALGO: AND 221.IS COMMSIONERU GARCIA YO FLAGGED 222.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: YEAH.IN >> LA HIDALGO: COME PRABGT --T CAMPACTRACK -- OKAY. 226 WE VOTED ON.SN THAT DOE'T NEED TO BE LISTED. 237,EL COMMISSIONER LIS, IYO THE UPDATEO WANT FROMIN THE JUSTICE ADMISTRATION ITEM 238 WDISCUSSED. I'M TAKING THAT ONE OFF.

271,IA COMMISSIONER GARC, TRANSMITTAL.

A S PROJECT ON BETTERTREETS TO NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY A PROGR.

>>DRIAN GARCIA: YES. IT WAS JUST A CORRECTION.LG

>> LINA HIDAO: JUST THE CORRECTION.

SOT WITH THE CORRECTION I WILL GO TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.

281 THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET ASKED WE PULL IT FOR A DISCUSSION FOR COST SAVINGS AND SAVING BONDS.

WILL KEEP IT FOR A BRIEF DISCUSSION.

286 COMMISSIONER RAMSEY, THE INAUGURALNF VIOLENCE PREVENTION

COERENCE. >> TOM RAMSEY: YES.

>> LINA HIDALGO: 287 COMMISSIONER CAGLE?IS

>> R. JACK CAGLE: TH IS THE ITEM THAT MS. ALEXI SWARSKY SPOKE ON EARLIER AND I JUST NEED TO VOTE. C

>> RODNEY ELLIS: WHEN ITOMES UP, I WANT TO ASK -- THIS IS ONE WHERE MAYBE I CAN ASK SOMET QUESTIONS.

I CAN DO I NOW OR LATER. WE CAN JUST WAIT AND GET TO IT

LATER. >> LINA HIDALGO: WE WILL KEEP 287 ON THE LIST. 289, COMMISSIONER GARCIA, YOU FLAGGED THIS THREE DEPUTIES AND SIX CIVILIAN SCREENERS FOR

PRECINCT 1. >> YEAH.

A DISCUSSION ON THAT. >> LINA HIDALGO: 301,

COMMISSIONERS CAGLE AND RAMSEY. >> R. JACK CAGLE: THIS IS THE

BOSTON GROUP?CO >> LINA HIDALGO: THIS IS

O'NNELL CONSENT DECREE. >> JUST NEED TO VOTE.

>> SO MOVED. >>VO SECOND.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ALL IN FAR? >> I.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED? >> NO.

>> LINA HIDALGO: I AM IN FAVOR. MOTION CARRIES 3-2.

ITEM 303, COMMISSIONER ELLIS -- OR COMMISSIONER CAGLE FLAGGED

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IT. >> JUST NEED TO VOTE ON IT.

TWO PARTS. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I MOVE IT AND 302. 304 I PULL DOWN AND 303 ON MOVE

IT? >> R. JACK CAGLE: 303 I WILL JOIN AND SECOND YOU IF YOU EXCLUDE THE WORD "ART".

>> RODNEY ELLIS: I DON'T WANT THAT.

>> YOU DON'T WANT A TWO-PART? >> I WILL MOVE IT WITHOUT THE

"ART". >> RODNEY ELLIS: I MOVE IT.

I MOVE IT THE WAY IT IS. >> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER ELLIS MOVES IT AS PRESENTED AND SECOND BY GARCIA.

ALL IN FAVOR? >> I.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED? >> NO.

NO MORE ART FROM PRECINCT 1. >> LINA HIDALGO: I AM IN FAVOR

AND IT CARRIES. >> IS THERE 303?

>> LINA HIDALGO: 303 HAS BEEN VOTED ON.

305, COMMISSIONER ELLIS. ON MWBE.

310, COMMISSIONER RAMSEY AND YOU WANTED AN UPDATE ON MOVING TO THE CJC. 311, COMMISSIONER RAMSEY ON PRISONER TRANSFER PROCEDURES. 312, RECOGNIZING PROPERTIED TAX -- PROPERTY TAX ASSISTANCE. 314, AN AGREEMENT W-LT BOSTON

CONSULTING GROUP. >> NEED TO VOTE.

>> SO MOVED. >> SECOND.

>> LINA HIDALGO: MOTIONED BY ELLIS AND SECONDED BY GARCIA.

ALL IN FAVOR? >> I.

>> LINA HIDALGO: OPPOSED? >> NO.

>> LINA HIDALGO: I AM IN FAVOR AND THAT WAS ITEM 314 AND IT PASSES 3-2. THERE ARE NO PUBLIC HEARINGS ON TODAY'S AGENDA. LET ME READ THE ITEMS FROM THE BEGINNING. EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEM 278.

EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEM 279. EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEM 295.

EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEM 307. REGULAR AGENDA WE HAVE ITEMS 4, 10, 11, 12, 14 WHICH WE MAY AS WELL TAKE WITH THE RESOLUTION ON

THE TAX WEEK, 23 -- >> 23 WAS VOTED ON.

>> LINA HIDALGO: 23 WAS VOTED ON.

THANK YOU. WAIT A MINUTE.

THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR. REGULAR AGENDA 4, 10, 11, 12, 14 , 38 -BGSZ -- 46, 66, 129, 145 , 153, 160, 181, 215, 220,

221 -- 215. >> I THOUGHT 213 WAS NO ACTION.

>> LINA HIDALGO: CORRECT. 215, 220, 221, 222, 237, 281, 286, 287, 289, 305, 310, 311 AND 312.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: AND JUDGE, I DO HAVE A MINOR --

>> YOUR MICROPHONE. AIDE AIDE OH.

I HAVE A MINOR CORRECTION ON ITEM 23 WHICH WE VOTED ON.

THE CORRECTION IS -- IT READS REQUEST FOR APPROVAL TO ESTABLISH AN EMPLOYEE VOLUNTARY PAYROLL DEDUCTION OF THE PRECINCT TOGETHER, ,INC. AN ,INC IT HAS AND/OR FOR THE PRECINCT TOGETHER/PRECINCT 2 EMPLOY CRISIS FUND.

>> AND CLARIFICATION IS 304 NO ACTION?

>> LINA HIDALGO: WHAT WAS THE FUND, COMMISSIONER GARCIA?

>> THE EMPLOYEE CRISIS FUND. THE ADDITION WOULD READ AFTER PRECINCT TOGETHER INC. AND/OR FOR THE PRECINCT TOGETHER/ PRECINCT 2 EMPLOYEE CRISIS FUND.

>> DO WE NEED TO VOTE ON THAT ONE AGAIN THEN, JAY?

>> YES. LET'S VOTE ON IT AGAIN.

IT IS SUB STAN SHALTLY CHANGED -- IT IS SUBSTANTIALLY CHANGED. I THINK AS AMENDED IS THE EASIEST TO DO. IF YOU CAN READ IT WITH THE NEW LANGUAGE AND WE CAN TAKE THE VOTE IDAHO --

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: REQUEST APPROVAL TO ESTABLISH A VOLUNTARY PAYROLL DEDUCTION FOR A PRECINCT TOGETHER INC, AND/OR THE PRECINCT TOGETHER,/PRECINCT 2 EMPLOYEE CRISIS FOUND -- FUND

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>> ADRIAN GARCIA: AND I WANT TO SECOND IT --

>> RODNEY ELLIS: AND I WANT TO SECOND IT.

LEGAL, YOU HAVE LOOKED AT IT. >> YEAH.

OUR OFFICE WORKED OTD -- WORKED ON THE DOCUMENT.

WE ARE COMFORTABLE. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I WANT TO ADD SOMETHING TO IT, BUT I WILL BRING IT BACK.

>> AND 247. >> LINA HIDALGO: WE NEED TO VOTE ON IT STILL. COMMISSIONER, -- COMMISSIONER GARCIA MADE THE MOTION AND COMMISSIONER ELLIS IS A SECOND.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? >>

>> LINA HIDALGO: OPPOSED? >> NO.

>> LINA HIDALGO: I AM IN FAVOR. MOTION CARRIES 3-2.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: AND ON 303 IF I MIGHT, I WANT -- I APPRECIATE THE WORK YOU ALL DID ON IT. IT IS HISTORIC TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY WILL DO A PROGRAM FOR ART AS STATE LAW PERMITS.

THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON HAS BEEN DOING IT FOR 40 YEARS.

YOU DID A LOT OF WORK AND I APPRECIATE IT.

FOR THE RECORD I WANT TO MAKE SURE LEGAL HAS SIGNED OFF ON IT.

>> YES, WE HAVE. IN FACT, IT WASN'T ME.

JOHN DID ALL OF THE WORK. JOHN DESERVES THE CREDIT.

>> GOOD JOB. HE WAS PRETTY HAPPY BECAUSE HE

THOUGHT IT WAS FALLING APART. >> THANK YOU.

>> I APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT. >> COUNTY ENGINEER JUST REMINDED ME THAT 251 IS A PUBLIC HEARING AND WE NEED TO HOLD OFF ON THAT.

IT CAN'T BE IN CONSENT. >> LINA HIDALGO: I HAVE A NOTE NO PUBLIC HEARING SO LET ME MAKE SURE -- I PUT THAT BACK.

AND I WILL ASK MY STAFF TO PUT THAT BACK ON THE AGENDA AT THE END, PLEASE. WE WILL COVER THAT AS A PUBLIC

HEARING. >> FOR ITEM 241, I KNOW IT IS JUST REQUESTING FOR A PRESENTATION, IS THAT CONSIDERED

A NO ACTION? >> LINA HIDALGO: LET ME CHECK WHICH ONE THAT IS. THAT IS A NO ACTION.

THAT IS THE PORT HOUSTON PRESENTATION ON THE BILLION DOLLAR SHIPMENT CHANNEL. AND SO WE WILL PROBABLY TAKE A BREAK. IT WILL BE TWO HOURS AT 2:40 SO WE WILL TAKE A LUNCH BREAK AND THEN HEAR FROM MR. CAMPBELL.

LET'S START TO GO DOWN THE DISCUSSION ITEM.

WE WILL LEAVE EXECUTIVE SESSION UNTIL THE END AS PER USUAL.

STARTING WITH ITEM 4 THERE WERE QUESTIONS ON THE FLEX FUND.

DO YOU HAVE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS? SHOULD THEY JUST PRESENT ON IT?

>> WE ARE GOING TO VOTE ON THE CONSENT OR WAIT?

>> LINA HIDALGO: YEAH. WE CAN.

IS THERE A MOTION FOR ALL ITEMS 3 THROUGH 314 WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE ITEMS ALREADY VOTED ON AND THO*S LISTED?

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? >> I.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED? I AM IN FAVOR.

MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU.

WE WILL GO TO ITEM 4. THAT IS THE FLEX FUND.

>> TOM RAMSEY: MY QUESTIONS WERE WHY DO WE NEED SPECIFICALLY THIS FUND SET UP? IT APPEARS TO BE THE JUSTIFICATION AND THE BACK UP WOULD HELP US AS WE NAVIGATE THROUGH FEDERAL REVIEWS, BUT I FOUND FEDERAL REVIEWS EVEN THOUGH WE ARE NOT CHARGING FEDERAL REVIEW EASY DON'T WANT TO SHORT CIRCUIT ANYTHING. I AM NOT SURE WHAT THE NEED FOR THIS FUND IS RIGHT NOW AND HOW MANY DOLLARS ARE GOING INTO THE

FUND. >> THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION.

THIS FUND IS CREATED BY MOVING AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN EXPENDITURES FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO THE GRANT ACCOUNT OF ARPA. WE ASKED AND IT IS ACCEPTABLE

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SO HAVING THAT MONEY AVAILABLE COULD WHEN ADVANTAGEOUS ALLOW US TO USE THE GENERAL FUNDS IN LIEU OF ARPA FUNDS.

THE NUMEROUS WATER PROJECTS, WE HAVE ENGINEERS AVAILABLE AND CONSULTANTS AVAILABLE AND WE CAN GET STARTED ON THEM RIGHT AWAY.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE WE NEEDED TO DO IN CONNECTION WITH MOVING JURY OPERATIONS BACK DOWNTOWN, SOME QUICK RENOVATIONS FOR WHICH WE HAD FIRMS ON CONTRACT. SO IN SHORT THIS HAS BEEN VETTED PRETTY THOROUGHLY AND IT ALLOWS US TO MOVE FASTER ON THINGS IT

IS IMPORTANT TO MOVE FAST ON. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I WANT TO COMMEND YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR THE TIME AND WORK YOU PUT IN ON THIS AND LEGAL DEPARTMENT AND EVERYBODY ELSE AND I AM HAPPY TO

MAKE A MOTION. >> I DO WANT TO MAKE A FOLLOW-UP COMMENT. SORRY.

>> R. JACK CAGLE: YOU CAN MAKE THE FOLLOW-UP COMMENT, BUT AS MY TEAM WAS REVIEWING THIS THEIR COMMENT WAS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU SAID, MR. BERRY. WE ARE MOVING THE FUNDS OVER BECAUSE IT IS AN IFFY FUND IN A WAY WHERE WHAT IS THE BACK UP IF WE DON'T GET THE ARPA OR THE RETURN ON THESE FUNDS AND SO TO A CERTAIN EXTENT IT IS MOVING MONEY AROUND AND WHAT IF WE

DON'T GET THE EXPEPPED TOUR? >> WE -- EXPENDITURE.

>> WE HAVEN'T DETERMINED WHICH ONES THEY ARE.

THESE ARE TPUPBGDZ THAT WE KNOW HE WILL BE ABLE TO.

IT IS A MATTER OF ACCOUNTING. WE KNOW WE ARE SPENDING MORE -- WE ARE CURRENTLY SPENDING GENERAL DOLLAR FUNDS ON ARPA ITEMS. MAJOR JURISDICTIONS ARE BEING AS TRANSPARENT AND SINKING THE MONEY INTO THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH EXPENSES AND DOING REVENUE REPLACEMENT IN ORDER TO HAVE THE GENERAL FUNDS THEY SPEND AND NOT TRACKING AS WE ARE DOING. THIS IS 100% VETTED AND WE WILL

NOT HAVE ISSUES RELATED TO IT. >> WHAT IS THE IMPACT TO THE

GENERAL FUND? >> WE ARE TRANSFERRING

$30 MILLION IN EXPENSES. >> IT WOULD BE 30 MILLION IN THE GENERAL FUND. WE ARE SEGMENTING THE SEPARATE

FUND. >> SO YOU ARE APPROPRIATING THE

ARPA DOLLARS TO THE GENERAL FUND >> WE HAVE A BASELINE APPROPRIATION, SOME OF THAT IS GETTING SPENT RIGHT NOW.

IT IS LEANING TOWARD ZERO AND WE ARE JOURNAL ENTERING EXPENSES INTO ARPA AND THERE BY CREATING A GENERAL FUND.

>> ARPA IS NOT SPENT BY ITSELF. >> THERE IS AN OPERATIONAL COMMITMENT THAT ARPA NEEDS TO FUNCTION TO UTILIZE IT.

>> THAT IS CORRECT. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: ARE YOU CREATING A BUDGET LINE ITEM SO WE CAN ALL SEE WHAT WAS ACTUALLY SPENT ON THE UTILIZATION OF ARPA AND IMPLEMENTATION AND THE PROCESSING AND THE BUDGETING AND THE ACCOUNTING FOR ARPA.

>> FOR THIS PARTICULAR ACTION IT IS MOVING CURRENT GENERAL FUND EXPENSES TO THE ARPA FUND, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION.

>> R. JACK CAGLE: I THINK WE JUST NEED TO VOTE.

I WILL RELY ON MY RECOMMENDATION ON THIS ONE.

THEIR CONCERNS WERE THE MOVEMENT OF THE FUNDING.

>> I AM GOING TO MAKE AOT MION. >>OT MIONED BY COMMISSIONER ELLIS AND SECONDED BYCI GARA. THATIT IS EM FOUR, F THELEX BUNKED. ALLFA IN VOR?

>> I. >> ANYOS OPPED?

>> NO. >> IIN AM FAVOR I AND APPRECIATE THE TRANSPARENCY ONIT .

MOTION CARRIES 3-2.AN DOS NOW I LTE. MY PLAC I H HEAR WEAVEPO MR. CAM ON THE EARLYND EVERYBODY IS

TODAY. >> A CAN WE DO THREE-MINUTE

BREAK? >> IAY WANT TO P ATTENTION TO

YOU. >> IT IS 2:18 B AND WE WILLE BACKUT IN HEARING FROM MR. CAMPO AND THEN WHEN THE OTHER FOLKS GET HERE. IT IS 2:30 AND COMMISSIONERS' COURT IS BACK IN SESSION. FOLKS, WE ARE GETTING STARTED.

IS THAT MR. CAMPO ON THE LINE? >> I AM ON WEBEX.

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YES. >> LINA HIDALGO: WELCOME.

GO AHEAD. >> I WILL BE MORE BRIEF THAN NORMAL BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE HUNGRY.

THERE IS A MAP I SUBMITTED OF THE HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL AND I

CAN SHARE MY SCREEN AS WELL. >> CAN YOU PUT IT UP,

MR. CHAIRMAN? >> LET ME SHARE IT HERE.

YOU ALL THE KNOW WHERE THE SHIP CHANNEL IS.

LET ME START WITH A QUICK OVERVIEW SO THAT WE CAN PUT IN CONTEXT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHICH IS THE EXPANSION --

>> MR. CAMPO, SHOULD YOU BE ABLE TO SHARE YOUR SCREEN NOW.

>> PERFECT. HERE WE GO.

CAN YOU SEE THAT? DOES THAT WORK?

>> I CAN SEE SOME GREAT ART BEHIND YOU.

>> WE HAVE IT ON HERE. LET ME SEE.

SHARE AND THEN I WILL PUT THIS GUY UP.

>> IT IS THE DREDGING SCHEDULE. WE HAVE IT.

YOU CAN SEE MY GREAT ART. I APPRECIATE THAT.

LET ME JUST START OUT AND TALK A LITTLE ABOUT THE PORT.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED THAT PORT HOUSTON AND THE PORT OF HOUSTON. PORT HOUSTON IS A SIMPLE ENTITY.

WE OWN AND OPERATE THE PUBLIC WORKS AND TERMINALS ALONG THE HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL. THAT'S EIGHT AND THERE ARE 200.

WE ARE A SMALL PART OF THE PORT ITSELF.

WE PARTNER WITH THE CORE OF ENGINEERS AND THE COAST GUARD FOR OPENING AND CLOSING THAT GOES ON LIKE THAT.

THE PORT DOESN'T RUN THE CHANNEL.

IT IS RUN BY THE FEDERAL CHANNEL.

A COUPLE OF HIGHLIGHTS AND PORT HOUSTON IS THE BIGGEST CONTAINER PORT IN THE GULF. MOST OF THE PRODUCTS THAT THE CONSUMERS USE IN AND AROUND THE REGION COME IN THROUGH THE CONTAINER PORT. WE ARE RANKED NUMBER ONE IN TONAGE IN THE U.S. IT IS THE BUSIEST WATERWAY IN THE NATION. IF YOU TAKE L.A., LONG BEACH AND NEW YORK HARBORS COMBINED WE HAVE MORE TRANSITS IN OUR CHANNEL COMPLEX THAN ANY OTHER PORT.

WE ARE HOME TO THE LARGEST PETRO CHEMICAL COMPLEX.

AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE PORT IT IS A MAJOR ECONOMIC GENERATOR. IT ENCOUNTERED A BILLION DOLLARS THAT SUPPORTS 3.2 MILLION JOBS NATIONALLY AND IT IS ABOUT 350 MILLION IN TEXAS AND ABOUT 1.35 MILLION JOBS IN TEXAS.

WE ARE 20% OF THE TEXAS JDP GOES THROUGH THE PORT.

AND IT REALLY IS ABOUT JOBS. YOU CAN SEE I AM WEARING A PORT SHIRT. TO EMPHASIZE THE FACT THAT THIS IS REALLY ABOUT JOBS. WHAT OUR JOB IS AT THE PORT IS TO CREATE JOBS FOR THE REGION AND MAKE SURE WE HAVE 75% OF THE JOBS ARE JOBS -- [INADDABLE] THEY PROVIDE FORIS DADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES.

TOIV GE YOU A SENSEF OWHAT IS GOING ON RIGHTOW N, THERE IS A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SUPPLY CHAINND A ALL THAT.

IN 2021 WE 3 HIT.5 MILLION CONTAINERS THAT CAME THROUGH THE PORT R ANDOUGHLY A 15%AS INCREE OVER 2020.IN C 2022,ONTAINER BUSINESS WASUP 15% AND IT IS JUST -- I'MRR SOY. 20% T THROUGHHE END OF TOTALAS CARGO W UP 24% THROUGH THE END OF MAY.

LIKE MOST WENG ARE DEALI WITH SUPPLY CHAINNS DISRUPTIO AND DEMAND OF GOODS AND WE ARE SEEINGER THE CONTAINS SIT ON THE PORT LONGER, BUT WEFI ARE DENITELY MOVING MORE THROUGHEM THE SYST AND DOING EVERYTHINGO WE CAN THI SPEED THOSE TNGS UP.

WRAOE -- WE ARE MAKING MAJOR INVESTMENTS O INTO THE PORTN THE LANDUS SIDE. WE JT GOT THE ARRIVAL OF THE THREE T ADDITIONAL SHIPO SHORE CRANES IN BAYPORT.T OUR LARGES CRANES EVER ARE 28 SHIP TO SHORES AND 116LL CRANESS WE. WE EXPANDED OUR GATES TO DOUBLE

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WE AREOF INVESTING $1.6 BILLION PORT CAPITAL BETWEEN -- INS THE NEXT FIVE YEAR AND THAT INVOLVES EXPANDING YARDS AND THG DEEPENING AND WIDENI. OF THE SHIP CHANNEL THE DEEPENING AND WIDENING OF THE SHIP CHANNEL IS A MAJOR PROJECT THAT STARTED IN 2014 -- ACTUALLY IT STARTED IN 2010BO WH PEOPLE TALKING AUTDE IT, AND WE ARE NOW UNR CONSTRUCTION.

THE CHANNEL THAT YOU CAN SEE THERE, WERI ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTN GHT NOW WITH 1A WHICH IS THE FIRST PART OF THE CHANNEL.

THE CHANNEL IS GOING TO BE WIDENED FROM 530 FEET TO 700 FEET AND MAKE OTHER ENHANCEMENTS FOR THE APPROVAL OF SAFETYL. AND EFFICIENCY IN THE CHANNE ON JUNE 1ST WE CELEBRATED THE DREDGING KICKOFF AND WE APPRECIATE LINA HIDALGO ATTENDING.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR REMARKS. WE WELCOMED THE DREDGE CAROLINA WHICH IS A HYDRAULIC DREDGE AND THERE IS A REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY THAT REDUCES EMISSIONS AND RESULTS IN A 60% CLEANER THAN 2-1 CATEGORY DREDGE AND 38% CASH DASH A TIER3 DREDGE.

FROM THE -- JUST FROM THE CONTRACT FROM THE FIRST SEGMENT WE ARE SPEAKING ABOUT OUR SMALL BUSINESS AND MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES. IN THE FIRST SEGMENT WE GOT A $600 MILLION CONTRACT THROUGH THE MINORITY GROUP.

THE PROJECT JUST RECEIVED A MAJOR BOOST FROM THE U.S. ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS. IN JANUARY WE WERE AWARDED $142 MILLION FOR THE PROJECT. WHAT THIS DOES IS IT FUNDS ALL THE WAY THROUGH SECTION THREE WHICH IS THE BARBER'S CUT.

WHAT IS IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS IS FROM 1A THROUGH THREE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE CHANNEL.

THE SECOND PART IS THROUGH THE PORT COMMISSION MEETING.

AND WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH 2025.

AND IN A NORMAL SITUATION IT WOULD TAKE TO 2032 AND BECAUSE OF THE WAY WE ARE FUNDING THE PROJECT WE CAN GO FASTER AND IT IS 820 MILLION IN FUNDING. WE HAVE 168 MILLION OF FEDERAL FUNDS AND THE REST IS BEING FUNDED BY THE PORT AND PROJECT THREE IS MORE FEDERALLY FUNDED. TO GIVE UH QUICK DISCUSSION OF HOW WE FUNDED IT PORT HOUSTON HAS 41 MILLION OF REVENUE BONDS, AND THOSE ARE BASICALLY -- THOSE ARE TOTALLY RELATED TO THE PORTS BY THE CONTAINER BUSINESS. NO PUBLIC SUBSIDEE RUNNING AND WE ARE USING THE INTERNATIONALLY GENERATED CASH TO FUND OUR PORTION OF THE PROJECT AND THE LAND SIDE IMPROVEMENTS THAT I MENTIONED, THE 1.6 BILLION. THERE ARE NO PLANS TO ISSUE ANY GEO BONDS AT THIS TIME. AND IT IS THROUGH CASH FLOW GENERATED TO THE PORT. IT IS A GREAT TEST MEANT TO THE HISTORY OF THE PORT THAT WAS FUNDED WITH GEO BONDS AND NOW WE HAVE ENOUGH CASH FLOW THAT IS BEING GENERATED BY THE OPERATIONS AND BY THE INVESTMENTS AND MADE BY COMMISSIONERS' COURT AND THE TAXPAYERS OF HARRIS COUNTY THOSE INVESTMENTS ARE PAYING OFF AND WE NO LONGER HAVE TO USE TAXPAYER FUNDS TO FUND THESE PROJECTS.

TO HIT A COUPLE OF HIGH POINTS, SUSTAINABILITY, WE JUST ANNOUNCED OUR GOAL FOR -- TO BE CARBON KNEW TROLL BY 2020 AND WE ARE IMPLEMENTING PLANS TO GET THERE.

WE JUST HAD OUR FIRST ZERO EMISSION DRAINAGE TRUCK.

IT PICKED UP A CONTAINER FROM BAYPORT AND DELIVERED IT AS A TEST AND IT WENT VERY WELL. WE HAVE 72 ON GOING PROPBLG KWREBGTS -- THAT ARE GOING ON. WE ARE WORKING WITH THE

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WE HIT A COUPLE OF HIGH POINTS WHERE WE HAVE REDUCED OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT BY 55% IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS.

THE OVERALL PORT HAS REDUCED THE CARBON FOOTPRINT BY 21% AND WE ALL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO ON THIS, BUT WE ARE ON THE WAY TO THESE. A HIGH POINT ON BUSINESS EQUITY, SINCE 2020, WE ARE MORE THAN 670 MILLION TO THE SMALL BUSINESSES. WE LAUNCHED OUR MWBE PROGRAM IN JULY OF 2021 AND WE HAVE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ENROLLED IN THAT. 670 ARE MWBE'S AND 373 ARE WBE'S SO WE HAVE COMBINED A TOTAL FIRM 73% OF THEM ARE MWBE'S FROM JULY THROUGH MARCH WHEN WE STARTED THE PROGRAM.

AND WE HAVE ISSUED 23.8 MILLION IN FORMAL AWARDS TO THESE FOLKS.

AND GOING TO MINORITY FIRMS. IN DECEMBER WE GRADUATED THE FIRST GROUP OF 28SMWE AND AND WE HAVE 300 OTHER BUSINESSES THAT WERE INVOLVED IF THAT AS WELL. AND WE IMPLEMENTED THE DEI PROGRAM. I KNOW YOU ARE HUNGRY SO HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS THEY ARE IN A REALLY GOOD SPOT BECAUSE OF THE COUNTY JUDGE AND SO I APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT AND ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO GIVE YOU MORE INFORMATION OR HELP YOU IN

ANYWAY, JUST LET US KNOW. >> COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND THEN

COMMISSIONER RAMSEY. >> THANK YOU.

MR. CHAIR, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.

AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AT THE PORT.

PROUD OF YOUR WORK AND PROUD OF THE COMMISSION AND ALL IT IS DOING TO ENSURE THE PORT REMAKES RELEVANT IN THIS EVER-CHANGING ECONOMY AND GLOBAL LANDSCAPE. AND OBVIOUSLY DEEPENING AND WIDENING THE PORT IS CRITICAL TO THE LON -- TO THE LONG-TERM SUCCESS. TO THAT END A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. NUMBER ONE WHICH IS THE THOUGHTS ON WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE TUNNEL THAT IS UNDER THE PORT.

WILL IT POSE CHALLENGES TO THE DEEPENING AND THE WIDENING OF THE PORT? AND SECONDLY WE WILL HAVE MORE VESSELS TO DISPERSE THROUGHOUT OUR RETAIL COMMUNITY AND FACILITATING THE LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL ECONOMY.

THE CHALLENGES OF INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND THE PORT, I HAVE BEEN ASKING MR. TREVINO AND NOW OUR NEW ENGINEERING DIRECTOR TO VISIT WITH THE PORT AND MAKE SURE WE ARE THANKING DOWN THE LINE. ONE THING I WOULD HATE TO SEE IS THE MEGA VESSELS ARRIVE AND BE STUCK.

BECAUSE OUR TRUCKS CAN'T GET IN FAST ENOUGH AND THEY CAN'T GET OUT FAST ENOUGH. SO I WOULD LIKE TO MAKES -- I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE I AM WORKING WITH YOU AS PROGRESSIVE AS WE NEED TO BE TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE THINKING ABOUT THE INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AROUND THE PORT AND HOW TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE MAKING THE RIGHT DECISIONS NOW.

WE ARE FINALLY GETTING THE SAFE BELT WAY BRIDGE, BUT MAYBE WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE NEXT BRIDGE.

MAYBE IT SHOULD BE A DEDICATED FREIGHT BRIDGE.

I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE BEING AS FORWARD THINKING IN RELATION TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND WHAT THE PORT OUGHT TO LOOK LIKE IN 30 YEARS FROM TODAY. SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PUTTING THAT IN THE FOREFRONT OF YOUR MIND AND

HAVING THE DISCUSSIONS NOW. >> ABSOLUTELY.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. FIRST ON THE TUNNEL, WE HAVE HAD

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WE HAD TO MOVE A LOT OF OTHER PIPELINES AND THAT'S PART OF THE PROCESS. WRAOE DID ALL OF THE ENGINEERING AND WE KNOW -- WE DID ALL OF THE ENGINEERING AND WE ARE IN GOOD SHAPE ON THAT PERSPECTIVE. OBVIOUSLY ONE OF THE BOTTLENECK THAT'S WE HAVE IS WHEN WE GET SHIPS IN AND UNLOAD, WHERE DO THE PRODUCTS GO? HOW DO THEY GET THERE? THE POINT IS WELL TAKEN. WE HAVE A 20/40 PLAN FOR THE PORT AND THAT INCLUDES A MULTI-MODAL TRANSPORTATION ISSUE. AS PART OF THE BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL WE PARTNERED WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER PORTS IN OUR REGION AND WE PUT FORTH A MEGA GRANT REQUEST THAT INCLUDES A -- IT INCLUDES SOME TWRAPBS -- TRANSPORTATION ISSUES INCLUDING FREIGHT. THERE ARE A LOT OF PROJECTS WHERE THE KEY IS MOVING IT AND MAYBE HAVING THE CON -- CONCEPT BEING AN INLAND PORT WHERE YOU CAN MOVE CONTAINERS AND PRODUCTS THROUGH A SHUTTLE THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE TRUCKS AND THEN YOU GET IT TO A MORE UNCONGESTED LOCATION SO IT CAN BE DISTRIBUTED FROM THAT. WE ARE ALL OVER THAT.

I THINK WE HAVE A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR TKPWRAPBLT -- GRANT THAT WAS PUT IN THAT INCLUDES A LOT OF THAT STUFF.

YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT. WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT NOT JUST THE CHANNEL, BUT ALL OF THE DISTRIBUTION HUBS IN AND AROUND THE CHANNEL SO WE ARE NOT PUTTING MORE TRUCKS ON THE ROAD.

>> GOOD DEAL. >> COMMISSIONER RAMSEY.

>> GOOD TO SEE YOU. I LIKE YOUR ENERGY.

I LIKE THE FACT THAT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING IN EIGHT YEARS WHAT MIGHT HAVE TAKEN 16 YEARS. THANK YOU FOR THAT LEADERSHIP AND THAT UNDERSTANDING REALLY OF THE FINANCES AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU CAN DO. ALONG THOSE SAME LINES AS COMMISSIONER GARCIA, WE GET A LOT MORE FREIGHT COMING THROUGH AND IT IS IN PARTNERSHIPS AND I HAVE SEEN STUDIES FOR THE LAST 40 YEARS AT LEAST ON HOW WE GET FREIGHT IN AND FREIGHT OUT.

UNFORTUNATELY FOLKS DRAG THEIR FEET.

YOU DON'T NEED TO SAY THAT. I CAN.

PROBABLY OUR MOST IMPORTANT PARTNER IN THIS WOULD BE TEXDOT.

DO YOU BELIEVE TEXDOT HAS A GOOD, ROBUST PLAN TO SUPPORT THE PORT IN GETTING FREIGHT PROPERLY DISTRIBUTED AS BEST WE CAN KNOWING THAT OBVIOUSLY FREIGHT SOLUTIONS ARE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THAN EXISTING ROADWAY SOLUTIONS?

>> I THINK WE DO HAVE A GOOD REGIONAL PLAN, ABSOLUTELY.

TEXDOT IS PART OF THE PLAN AND THEY DO A GOOD JOB WITH THE GALVESTON GROUP. YOU KNOW, THAT -- WE ARE LOOKING AT LONG-TERM PLANS. SOME OF THE PROPOSALS LIKE THE HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PLAN WHICH IS VERY CONTROVERSIAL HELPS IMPROVE TRANSIT SOME, BUT ULTIMATELY THE BIGGEST ISSUE IS MONEY. HOW DO WE FUND A FREIGHT SHUTTLE AND HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THE ROADS ARE MAINTAINED AND PUT IN THE RIGHT POSITIONS? I THINK THEY ARE DOING A REASONABLY GOOD JOB. WE NEED TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT INLAND PORTS. WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT HOW TO MOVE THINGS WITHOUT BEING ON THE ROAD.

THE FREIGHT SHUTTLE I MENTIONED IS A VERY INNOVATIVE PROJECT THAT BASICALLY TAKES -- THINK ABOUT LIKE A TRAIN SYSTEM THAT TAKES THE CONTAINERS AND PUTS THEM ON A SEPARATE TRACK THAT GOES SOMEWHERE. THE OTHER THING THAT WOO BE HELPFUL IN THIS AREA IS RAIL. 99% OF OUR CONSUMER PRODUCTS GO OUT ON TRUCK. RAIL HAS BEEN AN ISSUE WHERE WE THINK LONGER AND HARDER ON HOW WE USE INFRASTRUCTURE AND WORK WITH THE RAIL COMPANIES TO GET THAT DONE.

IN THE PAST IT HAS BEEN KIND OF AN ECONOMIC CHALLENGE BECAUSE THE RAIL COMPANIES MAKE MORE MONEY GOING FROM L.A. TO DALLAS

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THAT'S LIKE SAYING WE NEED TO DO MORE THAN A GOOD JOB.

WE NEED A LOT MORE CAPACITY TO ENHANCE THE ABILITY TO MOVE

THINGS THROUGH. >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU HAVE DONE.

I MENTIONED THIS THE DAY THE WORK STARTED AND IT WAS A VERY JOYOUS EVENT WITH GOOD REASON. THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PULL ALMOST THE BILLION DOLLARS TOGETHER IN RECORD TIME WITH SO MANY STAKEHOLDERS,HA TT IS NOT A GIVEN.

THAT'S BEEN DUE TOOU YR LEADERSHIP AND WE ARE SORO PUD OF IT. IT IS GOING TOE BHUGE FOR OUR REGIONND A IT IS HUGE FOR THE IMMEDIATE ISSUE OF COURSE ANYTHING THAT H CANELP WITHPL SUPY CHAIN IS A BIG DEAL.

SO TO BE MOVING IN THAT DIRECTIONPO IS IMRTANT.

AND TOAI MAINTN THETI COMPETIVE EDGE, THES POINTOF PRIDE THAT YOUED MENTION AS FAR AS THESI BUESTY WATERWAAND THE ECONOMIC IMPACT AND THE JOBS AND SO MUCH MORE.

I WANTD TO COMMENYOU TO THERO ENVINMENTAL IMPACT.

YOU KNOW, ONE THING THAT THE CHAIRMANVE DIDN'T COR, BUT THEYI EXPLNED IT TO ME THAT DAY IS THEY COULDN'TA HAVE FOUND R CLEANEDREDGE.S THAT ITHE CLEANEST ONEBL AVAILAE. AND IF THEY HAD A CLEANER ONELD THEY WOU HAVE GOTTEN THATPP ONE. SULY T ISSUES ARE INHEKN WAY.

I OW THAT THE WORK YOU GUYS DO IS IMPORTANT IN TERMS OFR LEADG OUCOMMITMENT TONM THE ENVIROENT AND TAKING THAT SERIOUS LIE. -- SERIOUSLY.

>>HE AND IN TERMS OF T SUPPLY CHAINR ISSUE COMMISSIONETO ELLIS WANTS MAKE SURE HIS SHAMPOO GETS TO HIS

POSSIBLE.S:S SOON AS >> RODNEY ELLI I WASOT LOOKING FOR MY NE CARD. I SNOW YOU -- I KNOW YOU SENT ML A PICTURE AND I AMOOKING FOR. IT YOU HAVE AN AN INCREDIBLE LEADER. I WAS ASKING COMMISSIONER GARCIA BECAUSE IET FORGOT ABOUT THE MEING THAT INITIALLY PUT YOU OVER THERE AS CHAIR. I THINK SO MANY ROUNDS OF VOTING, AS I RECALL WE HAD TO STOP AND COME BACK., YOU'VE COME A LONG WAYMYER FRIEND. I REMEMB THE DISPARITY STUDY WAS ONE OF THOSE I WROTE ON THE NOTE CARD.

YOU FIGURE OUT HOW TO DOR IT. >> I HAVE IT HERE FO YOU,

COMMISSIONER. >> SEND THAT TO ME AGAIN.

I WAS LOOKING FOR THAT. >> I WILL.

>> WHAT DID THE FIRST ONE SAY? DO YOU REMEMBER?

>> I THINK THE FIRST ONE WAS NOTICE.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: SOMETHING LIKE DON'T GO CRAZY?

>> OH THAT WAS THE FOURTH ONE, DON'T GO CRAZY.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: YOU HAVE DONE EVERYTHING WE OPENED YOU WOULD DO. YOU HAVE GONE ABOVE ANYBODY'S EXPECTATIONS IT WILL GO DOWN IN THE HISTORY OF THE REGION.

IN MY JUDGMENT, RIGHT UP THERE WITH JESSE JONES IS BIG STUFF.

AND IT IS A BIG JOB. THANK YOU.

>> THANK YOU. AND WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM AND THE COMMISSIONERS I WORK WITH, THEY WORK VERY HARD AND IT IS NOT

JUST ME, BUT THE TEAM FOR SURE. >> THANK YOU AND TO YOUR TEAM.

>> GO HAVE LUNCH. >> LINA HIDALGO: ON THAT POINT, THE PLAN WAS TO TAKE LUNCH RIGHT AFTER THIS.

SHOULD WE TAKE -- >> RODNEY ELLIS: CAN WE DO A QUICK ONE? I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP GOING.

>> LINA HIDALGO: WE WILL MEET IN THE MIDDLE.

WE WILL TAKE 35 MINUTES. WE WILL BE BACK AT 3:30.

THANK YOU.

>>> IT IS 3:42 AND COMMISSIONERS' COURT IS BACK IN

SESSION. >> DID YOU SAY 3:30?

>> YEAH. LET THE RECORD REFLECT I WAS HERE ON TIME. SEVERAL OF US WERE.

I WAS DEFINITELY HERE FOR ONCE. >> WE JUST RESTARTED, COMMISSIONER CAGLE. WE ARE GOING TO ITEM 10 AND ITEM

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10 IS THE --AU [INDIBLE]. >> LINA HIDALGO: OKAY.

ITEM - SEN- 10 IS THE EARLYCH ILDHOOD PROPOSAL.AS WE KNOW C EARLYHILDHOODPR OGRAMS HAVE THE HIGHEST RETURN A ONNY PROGRAM H AND THEARRIS COUNTY FAMILIES AREY SEVERELCK LAING SUPPORT C WHEN ITOMES TO EARLY CHILDHOOD.

HALF OF THE INFANTSER AND TODDLS WHO HAVE AAR WORKING PENT DO NOT CARE.E FORMAL CHILD ABOUT 105,000TY HARRIS COUN CHILDREN AGES 0 TO 3 WORKING PARENTS LIVE INIT A QUALY CHILD CARE THERE AREOR FEW OPTIONS F CHILD CARE IN THE A AREA. WERE WORKING ON SUPPORT CHILDREN AND TO SUPPORT YOUTH.

BUT THIS IS AN. INCREDIBLE STEP ITLA USINGS ARPA DOLRS TO CREATE THE 1,000 SLOTS AND THAT ISSE A 10% INCREA IN THE NUMBER OF C HIGH QUALITYHILD CARE SLOTS A THAT WILL OPENBOUTOT A THOUSAND SLS OVER THREE YEARS FOR CHILDREN 0 TO 3 AND THE SPECIFIC ITEM ALLOWS FOR THAT TO GO FORWARD AND IT ALLOWS THE RFP FOR TWO ENTITIES AND OCA AND PURCHASINGEY THE COUNTY ATTORN, YOU HAVE TO CORRECT ME IF I GET ANY OF THIS WRONG.

ONE IS FOR THE ENTITY THATY WOUD GO AND IDENTIF WHICH CHILD CARE CENTER WOULD GET FUNDING AND THE OTHER WOULD FIND THE FAMILIES AND HELP CONNECT THE FAMILIES WITH THE CHILD CARE SLOTS.

I'M VERY GRATEFUL O FOR EVERYONE WHO WORKEDN IT AND THEEE STEERING COMMITTEE HAS BN WORKING ON THIS FOR A LONGTIME AND SO MANY FOLKS DID. STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS OVER THE PAST EIGHT MONTHS AND PARTICULARLY THE EARLY CHILDHOOD DIRECTOR WHO HAS BEEN WORKING VERY HARD ON THIS.

COMMISSIONER GARCIA.ED >> ADRIAN GARCIA: I AM EXCIT AND I AM HONORED TO MOVE ON THIS ITEM AND SIMPLY TO SAY THAT THIS WILL CREATE SO MANY LIFE-CHANGING -- POSITIVE LIFE-CHANGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SO MANY BABIES IN OUR COUNTY.

I AM HOPEFUL THAT PRECINCT 2 CHILDHOOD FACILITIES ARE CONSIDERING THIS. I WILL BE OUT THERE TALKING ABOUT THIS AND ENCOURAGING SO MANY.

WE HAVE SO MANY CHILD CARE DESERTS IN THE PRECINCT.

I AM VERY PROUD OF THE LEADERSHIP ON THIS.

YES, THEY FOCUSED ON THIS PARTICULAR ITEM.

WE HAVE DONE AND YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH IN THE SHORT-TIME IN THIS COUNTY. THIS ONE IS LEGACY.

THE DATA, IF YOU JUST FOLLOW ALL OF THE SCIENCE AND RESPECTIVE O -- OF WHAT YEAR YOU LOOK AT THE RESEARCH, YOU GET THE QUALITY CHILD CARE, QUALITY EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND THEY ARE PHENOMENAL MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY.

THEY BECOME CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS , POSITIVE CONTRIBUTES -- CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS TO SOCIETY. THEY DO NOT COME IN CONTACT WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. THEY DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN COMMUNITY VIOLENCE. THEY GO ON TO HAVE COLLEGIATE CAREERS. THEY GO ON TO BE HIGH-PERFORMING MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. THIS IS LEGACY, JUDGE.

AND I WILL TELL YOU AS I HAVE FOUGHT FOR THE GRAND CAFE AND PROJECT GRAD, THE REASON I FOUGHT FOR THOSE WAS BECAUSE I WAS A YOUNG POLICEMAN, I JUST STARTED MY POLICE CAREER AND I WAS STANDING ON DR. KLEINBURG'S ENVISIONING HOUSTON SESSION AND HE PREDICTED IF HE DID NOT INVEST -- HE DIDN'T SAY IF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. HE SIMPLY SAID IF WE DO NOT INVEST IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION THAT THE PICTURE WOULD

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AND THEN IT WAS JEN KELSO WHO WAS PRESIDENT AT THE -- JIM KELSO WHO WASN'T AND HE LOOKED AT THE DATA OF MY HIGH SCHOOL.

THE HIGH SCHOOL WAS JEFF DAVIS AT THE TIME.

JEFF DAVIS HAD ABOUT A 2500 FRESHMAN CLASS.

THE SENIOR CLASS WAS 100 OR LESS.

HE STARTED THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND AND PEOPLE LIKE MY NEPHEWS PARTICIPATED IN IT AND IF NOT FOR THAT, THERE IS PROBABLY LITTLE DOUBT THAT THEY WOULD HAVE DONE WELL BECAUSE OF THEIR PARENTS, BUT IF NOT FOR THAT THEY PROBABLY WOULD THOUGHT BE IN THE ROLES THEY ARE AT TODAY. THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING.

I AM EXCITED AND PROUD AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.

>> THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER AND FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THIS AS WELL. COMMISSIONER ELLIS?

>> RODNEY ELLIS: I TOO AM PROUD TO SUPPORT IT.

I WAS A LATCHKEY KID AT A TIME WHEN A LOT OF KIDS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD DIDN'T MAKE IT. I WAS THE YOUNGEST IT HELPED.

YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL, THEY DIDN'T SAY IT WAS MISCHIEVOUS, BUT MY DAD WAS AN ORDERLY. SOMETIMES THEY SAY A NURSE'S AID, BUT HE WAS AN ORDERLY. OUR HEALTHCARE WAS, SINCE WE DIDN'T HAVE INSURANCE, YOU CAN SEE A DOCTOR ON THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT AND GIVE HIM THE BOOTLEG HEALTH INSURANCE.

I I REMEMBER THEY PUT ME ON RITALIN AND INSTEAD OF IT SLOWING ME DOWN IT WOULD SPEED ME UP.

THEY WOULD SAY MAYBE THEY NEED TO PUT HIM IN A CERTAIN CLASS AND SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH HYMN.

I -- WRONG WITH HIM. I WAS LUCKY.

A LOT OF KIDS WERE NOT. IT IS A FIRST STEP IN TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE HAVE A BETTER LIFE. IT IS A WORTHY INVESTMENT ON THE FRONT END INSTEAD OF WAITING ON THE BACK END WHILE WE INVEST A LOT OF MONEY. I KNOW AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL THE CCDBG IS THE BIGGEST FEDERAL FUNDING SOURCE FOR CHILD CARE AND ON THE STATE LEVEL WE DO VERY LITTLE AND THERE IS A TREMENDOUS NEED OUT THERE AND FOR PEOPLE SERIOUS ENOUGH TO FIGHT CRIME FOR NEIGHBORHOODS OTHER THAN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEY SUBSIDIZE A LOT OF PROGRAMS ON THE NEXT YOU WERE AGAINST AFFORDABLE HOUSING. IT IS CONCENTRATED IN A DIFFERENT AREA. IT WON'T ALWAYS BE LUCK BECAUSE SOMEONE SLIPPED THROUGH CRACKS AND DIDN'T GET THE DAYCARE.

I WILL SUPPORT THE MOTION. >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU.

>> R. JACK CAGLE: THERE ARE 25 SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN HARRIS COUNTY. THERE IS A HARRIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO DEAL WITHNESS -- DEAL WITH THESE EDUCATION NEEDS.

WE IN HARRIS COUNTY HAVE A JAIL OVERPOPULATED AND EXPORTING PEOPLE TO LOUISIANA. WE HAVE ISSUES WITH REGARD TO OUR CONSTABLES AND OUR SHERIFFS WHO WE, ARE AS A BODY, ON A 3-2 VOTE, DENIED 82% OF THEIR REQUESTED FUNDING TO FIGHT A CRIME PANDEMIC. THE PRESS CONFERENCES AND THE OTHER THINGS WE MENTIONED UP TO $48 MILLION WILL GO TO THE EARLY

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I THINK THIS IS, A, A PROGRAM THAT WE ARE STEPPING INTO SOMEONE ELSE'S JOB TO DO. AND B, IF WE HAVE THESE KINDS OF FUNDS, WE SHOULD INVEST IN THEM WHERE OUR CURRENT CRISIS SITS.

THANK YOU. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: AND QUICKLY, JUDGE, I WANT TO TAKE EXCEPTION, WE DIDN'T DENY.

WE BUDGETED. WE BUDGED REQUEST -- WE BUDGEDDED WITH RESOURCES WE HAD AVAILABLE.

WE BUDGETED WITH WHAT WAS AVAILABLE.

>> TOM RAMSEY: I CONSIDER THIS AND THE PRIORITIES AND I CAN TALK ABOUT GROWING UP IN A SMALL TOWN WITH FEW RESOURCES AND I DIDN'T KNOW ANY RICH PEOPLE. I REMEMBER THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY ENTITIES. THEY COULD BE CHURCHES AND THEY COULD BE OTHER KINDS OF FOLKS THAT REALLY YOU GRASP THESE KINDS OF ISSUES BY THE HORNS AND DEALT WITH IT.

I WOULD THINK THERE IS PROBABLY A LOT OF OTHER ENTITY THAT'S WOULD DO A MUCH BETTER JOB WITH THIS THAN WE WOULD.

>> LINA HIDALGO: I AM PRESENT VOWED -- I AM VERY PROUD OF THIS ATOP OF THE 1.4 BILLION WE PUT TO SAFE -- SAFETY AND THE TENS OF MILLIONS THAT GOES TO THAT. PART OF THE REASON WE ARE HERE IS BECAUSE HISTORICALLY FOLKS HAVE TREATED THE ISSUE LIKE A HOT POTATO. I THINK WE CAN DO BOTH AND WE

NEED TO DO BOTH. >> I'M GLAD YOU SAID THAT.

IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE THAT WE HAVE HISTORICALLY PUT MORE MONEY IN PRISONS. WE HAVE PLANNED OUR PRISON SPACE WITH A VIRTUE OF THIRD GRADE READING LEVEL.

THAT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE. MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT THEY HAVE PLANNED TO HAVE A SPACE IN THE FACILITIES LOOK LIKE RODNEY AND I. THAT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN BY MISTAKE. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE.

AS A CAVEAT AND BECAUSE WE RECOGNIZE THE ANNIVERSARY OF DACA, I ASK THAT IN THE PROCESS OF THIS WE HAVE CULTURALLY COMPETENT APPROACHES AND MY OLDER BROTHERS AND SISTERS WOULD REMIND ME THAT BECAUSE WE DIDN'T SPEAK ENGLISH WHEN THEY STARTED HERE, THAT MANY PEOPLE WERE PUT IN -- NOT DETENTION, BUT LOWER GRADE CLASSES OR IN SPECIAL EDUCATION.

>> YES. >> I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T THINK THE BIDEN/HARRIS ADMINISTRATION AND CONGRESS VOTED TO GET THIS FUNDING. I HOPE PEOPLE SUPPORT THE PROGRAM AND THANK YOU TO THE ADMINISTRATION FOR SENDING IT

HERE. >> LINA HIDALGO: I WANT TO GIVE THE ADMINISTRATION A BIG THANK YOU AND THE PURCHASING AGENT WILL BE ADMINISTERING THIS AND I'M SURE THEY HEARD COMMISSIONER GARCIA'S NOTE -- OR DWIGHT LET US KNOW AS FAR AS BEING

CULTURALLY COMPETENT. >> MOVE ON THE ITEM.

>> MOTIONED BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER ELLIS. ALL IN FAVOR?

>> I. >> ANY OPPOSED?

>> NO. >> I AM IN FAVOR AND I JUST THINK OF THIS 1,000 SLOTS AND ALL OF THE LITTLE BOYS AND TKPWEURLGS -- GIRLS WHO WILL WILL BESET UP FOR A BETTER LIFE BECAUSE OF THIS. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS AND WE WILL COUNT ON THE FOLKS WHO WILL BE ADMINISTERING THIS. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

>> THE NEXT ITEM -- THE MOTION CARRIES 3-2.

THE NEXT ITEM IS ITEM 11 ON COVID.

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IT LOOKS LIKE WE ARE HEADED IN THAT DIRECTION AND WE WILL STAY

WATCHFUL. >> CLARIFICATION, WE ARE STILL

IN YELLOW? >> WE ARE STILL IN YELLOW BECAUSE THE CASES ARE STILL IN RED AND THE OTHER TWO ARE IN ORANGE, BUT THE HOSPITAL USAGE HAS GONE BACK TO GREEN.

COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND THEN COMMISSIONER RAMSEY.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: IN RELATION TO THE HOSPITAL, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF DR. POUR -- DR. PORSA IS AVAILABLE IF THE FUTURE LOOKS BETTER, I WANT TO -- AS A FUTURE LOOKS BETTER I WANT TO HAVE A QUICK DISCUSSION ON MONKEYPOX. OBVIOUSLY IT IS CATCHING EVERYBODY'S ATTENTION. THE PICTURES OF IT, YOU KNOW, CAN BRING CONCERN TO FOLKS. IN MY DISCUSSIONS REQUEST -- IN MY DISCUSSIONS WITH DR. PORSA, HE HAS A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE.

AT SOME POINT WE WILL GET SOME POSITIVE CASE AND I WANT TO JUST TALK ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THAT CIRCUMSTANCE IS COMPARATIVE TO

COVID-19 OR NOT. >> CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS UNDER

THIS ITEM, JAY? >> DO YOU MEAN TO DISCUSS

MONKEYPOX? >> ADRIAN GARCIA: YES.

>> IEA MN, WE AREIM LITED TO COVID.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: OKAY. >> LINA HIDALGO: [INAUDIBLE] THEY WERE WATCHINGHE AND TRE WAS A CONVERSATION WITHSL MARK OAN.

JUST KNOW THAT PEOPLE AREWA TCHING AND I THINK IT IS AN IMPORTANTSS DISCUION, COMMISSIONER.

>>RR IT OCCUED TO ME A THAT WERE CURRENTLY TWONT YEARS IO COVID-19 WORLD.AV WE HE VACCINES H.

WEAVE VACCINE EXPERIENCE AND WETE HAVE, QUO,MA UNQUOTE, SKING EXPERIENCE.AV WE HE ALL OF THESE EXPERIENCES AND THERE IS HARD DATA INT SUPPOROF A LOT OF THINGS.

MUCH THERICS ARE PTTY SAME.

I WOULDRI THINK THE METCS AREAT DIFFERENT THIS POINTUL AND WE WODN'T BESA LOOKING AT THE ME U METRICS WESED 10 YEARS AGO.

AND THOSE METRICS WERE PUT IN PLACE WITHOUT KNOWING A WHOLE LOT.T WE KNOW A LONOW ANDVE FOR US TO MO TOWARDWE NOVEMBER AND SAY ARE GOING FROM ORANGE TO RED, I THINKHE WE SHOULD LOOK AT T METRICSE AND FOLLOW THE SCIENCAT AND FOLLOW THE DA. OF DATA OUT THERE

THAT WE MIGHT PAY ATTENTION TO.C >> LINA HIDALGO:OMMISSIONER, WE HAVE UPDATED THE THREAT LEVEE FRAMEWORK SEVERAL TIS BASED ON THE DISCUSSION AND SO FAR IT DOESN'T HAVE US AT RED AND DOESN'T HAVE US AT ORANGE. IT HAS US AT YELLOW.

IT HAS US AT CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC.

NO ACTION ON THAT ITEM. ITEM 12, DISCUSSION ON BALLOT INITIATIVES, COMMISSIONER GARCIA.U,

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: THANK YO JUDGE.

I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THIS AND I WANTED TO THANK MR. BERRY'S OFFICE FORGETTING IT ON THE AGENDA.

I MADE A MOTION AND I DON'T REMEMBER HOW FAR BACK, BUT IT WAS TO START THE PLANNING PROCESS ON WHETHER WE COULD SEEK AND IF IT WOULD BE VISIBLE TO SEEK ANOTHER YOU BOND AND HOW

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I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE STAY FOCUSED.

I JUST WANT TO ASK MR. BERRY OR MR. RAMOS, WHERE ARE WE ON ANOTHER BOND ELECTION? I WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT OUR PROJECTION FOR DEBT SERVICE WILL BE.

WHAT WILL WE BE PAYING FOR IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS AND WHAT THE TAX RATE WOULD BE NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN THE DEBT SERVICE FOR WHATEVER THE BOND MAY BE, AND THEB -- AND THEN RECOGNIZE THAT OUR COUNTY IS GROWING. AS WE HAVE BEEN HEARING, THE PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS. THE HARVEY BOND WAS PUT ON AN AUGUST BALLOT. WHY NOT PUT IT NEXT TO THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE SUPPORTING IT? IS THAT BY DESIGN? CAN WE PUT IT ON A -- IF WE'RE IN TIME FOR THE NOVEMBER BALLOT, CAN WE DO THAT? IF YOU CAN WALK US THROUGH THAT AND WHAT THE IMPACTS TO OUR PORTFOLIO -- THE FINANCIAL

PORTFOLIO MIGHT BE? >> SURE.

AND I WILL START WITH THE TIMING AND SOME OF THE POTENTIAL AREAS OF INVESTMENTS WE HAVE OUTLINED AND I WILL LET DIRECTOR RAMOS WALK THROUGH THE BOND CAPACITY THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE.

THERE ARE NUMEROUS THINGS AND IT CAN'T JUST ISSUE WITHOUT APPROVAL. IF COURT WANTED TO MAXIMIZE TURNOUT THAT WOULD BE THE ELECTION TO HAVE IT.

THE STATUTE OUTS ARE SPECIFIC ABOUT WHEN THE COURT WOULD NEED TO ADOPT AN ORDER TO DO THAT. THERE IS A NARROW WINDOW BETWEEN AUGUST 10TH AND THE 22ND WHICH IS TO UH -- TO ADOPT THE ORDER. THIS IS A DISCUSSION ITEM ONLY.

WE DO NEED TO GET MOVING IF THIS IS SOMETHING COURT WANTS TO PURSUE. I THINK WE HAVE SOME OF THE INITIAL BUILDING BLOCKS SHOULD COURT WANT TO PUT A PACKAGE HERE. WE DON'T NEED EVERY PROJECT SPELLED OUT. BUT I THINK IT IS HELPFUL TO HAVE SOME PROJECTS IDENTIFIED AND THE PROGRAMS AND FUNDS TO CONVEY WHAT COURT WOULD WANT TO DO WITH THE MONEY.

WE OUTLINED FOUR POTENTIAL CATEGORIES THAT WE WILL GO THROUGH BRIEFLY. ONE IS PUBLIC SAFETY.

WE ARE MAKING LARGE CAPITAL INVESTMENTS THAT IN MANY CASES DON'T HAVE TO BE VOTED. WE ARE GETTING THE FLEET ON CIV AND RENOVATIONS TO THE JAIL. I WAS SPEAKING WITH SHERIFF GONZALEZ ABOUT THIS AND COULD WE BUILD A SWIFT BOAT TRAINING FACILITY TO ENHANCE THE PREPAREDNESS? I THINK WE ARE ALL INTERESTED IF MORE JUDICIAL FACILITIES.

WE ALL LEARNED A LESSON AFTER HARVEY.

THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF THINGS THAT WITH EXTRA CAPACITY WE COULD BUILD ON. THERE HAS BEEN AN UP TICK IN CAPITAL AND WE ALSO HAVE A PROGRAM SCHEDULED FOR 2023 AND 2024. SO CAPACITY TO BUILD ON THAT AND KEEP IT MOVING. IT WOULD BE PROEP PREP TO -- IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE TO SEEK THIS YEAR OR THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

AND I HAVE DISCUSSED WITH THE COUNTY'S VISION ZERO PROGRAM AND WE ARE AT THE TOP FOR FATALITIES.

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EVEN IF WE LEVERAGE IT TO $5 BILLION WITH TWO AND A HALF BILLION OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY IT IS A FRACTION OF WHAT WE NEED. 75% OF THE AUTHORITY WE HAVE HAS NOT BEEN INCOME BETTERED OR SPENT.

WHAT THIS COURT WILL HAVE TO WEIGH IS WHAT IS THE RIGHT TIMING? DO WE WANT TO GET THE BOND PRODUCTS DONE? YOU CAN BRIEFLY HEAR FROM DIRECTOR RAMOS ON THE FINANCIAL QUESTIONS AND THEN WE WOULD LIKE

SOME GUIDANCE. >> AND WHAT WOULD BE THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE BOND LEVEL PURSUIT.

I KNOW MY OFFICE DIDN'T GIVE THAT NUMBER SO YOUR THOUGHTS ON

THAT. >> IN TERMS OF CAPACITY AND IMPACT ON THE CREDIT, IT WAS BLESSED TO HAVE ONE OF THE BEST FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND ONE OF THE HIGHEST CREDIT RATING THAT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED. IT IS NOT JUST IN THE COUNTY, BUT IN THE REGION AND STRONG ASSETS.

WE FEEL CONFIDENT THAT WE COULD GO TO MARKET AND IF YOU SAW THE DIFFERENT REVENUE SOURCE, BUT OUR FOLKS WERE ABLE TO SAVE $41 MILLION. WE HAVE EXPERIENCED UNDERWRITERS THAT ARE ABLE TO GIVE US THE BEST DEAL POSSIBLE.

I HAVE NO CONCERN. WE HAVE SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF A BILLION DOLLARS THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY PAYING DOWN. WE ARE STARTING TO SEE THE COMMISSIONER'S OFFICES START TO SPEND THAT DOWN RAPIDLY.

WE ARE GOING TO MARKET FOR ABOUT $190 MILLION AND THAT INCLUDES A SUBDIVISION BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN THE BILLS PICK UP AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE STAY AHEAD. I DO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE DEBT MODEL. WE ARE SEEING OUR DEBT PAYMENT GOING DOWN. WITH THE TAX RATE YOU ARE SEEING THE DEBT TAX RATE CONTINUE TO BE AN OVER ALL SMALL TAX RATE.

WE ARE PROJECTED TO SPEND $80 MILLION IN DEBT SERVICE.

WHEN WE GET TO 2025, IT GOES DOWN TO $66 MILLION.

BY 2029 IT IS DOWN TO 32 MILLION.

WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO KEEP IT BUDGET NEUTRAL WHILE CONTINUING TO INVEST. I DO WANT TO FLAG THAT THE COUNTY'S CREDIT RATING IS AN ASSET.

AND WHILE WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO BORROW CHEAPLY THAT WE SHOULD IMPROVE THE LIVES OF OUR RESIDENTS.

>> IN TERMS OF THE PROJECTS -- THE POTENTIAL SCOPE OF PROJECTS WOULD YOU HAVE AN INFLATION DAHL KHRAEUTER -- AN INFLATION CALCULATOR TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T SAY ONE THING TODAY AND THEN SAY, OOPS, WE DIDN'T CALCULATE FOR INFLATION AND WE WILL HAVE TO TAKE POTENTIALLY SOME PROJECTS OFF THE TABLE.

>> ABSOLUTELY. AND THERE ARE MANY GREAT THINGS ABOUT THE 2018 FLOOD BOND. ONE LESSON I TOOK AWAY IS PROVIDING MORE FOR PROJECT COSTS IF COSTS GO DOWN YOU CAN DELIVER

AND THEN IF COSTS GO UP -- >> ADRIAN GARCIA: THANK YOU.

>> GOING THROUGH THE NUMBERS AND HAVING HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH THE COUNTIES AND BEING ASKED TO BE THE PERSON WHO

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YOU NEED TO INFORM WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

YOU REALLY DO NEED IN A TWRAPBS -- IN A TRANSPARENT WAY THAT YOU HIT ALL OF THE RIGHT POINTS.

EACH PRECINCT HAS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF WORK AND NEEDS.

I KNOW MY PRECINCT HAS 250 MILLION.

SO I AM SITTING HERE KNOWING WE HAVE TO GET THINGS DONE AND I UNFORTUNATELY KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO PROPERLY COMMUNICATE ON WHAT THAT WILL BE. WE WANT A UNANIMOUS SUPPORT ON THIS BODY AS COMMUNICATED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH THE 2018 BOND.

AND SO WHEN YOU TELL ME FOR A TPH-F -- FOR A NOVEMBER ELECTION WE NEED TO CALL THE ELECTION IN AUGUST, I AM LOOKING AT MY WATCH AND SAYING, IF WE ARE GOING TO DO SOMETHING IN NOVEMBER, THEN WE WILL HAVE TO -- WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO GET BUSY IN THE NEXT MONTH. I DON'T THINK THAT IS REALISTIC TO DO A BOND ISSUE IN 2022. IT WOULD BE GREAT IF WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION A YEAR AGO. AND YOU HAVE A FEW MONTHS TO COMMUNICATE TO THE FOLKS AND SET UP THE GOOD DIALOGUE OUT THERE.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHEN YOU MIGHT DO IT, WE NEED A BOND ISSUE.

THE SOONER WE CAN DO IT, THE BETTER.

THE SOONER WE CAN DO THIS KIND OF THING BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE

IS 2023 AT THE EARLIEST. >> DO YOU AGREE WITH THAT?

>> I WOULD SAY IF THE ELECTION WERE IN AUGUST I WOULD AGREE.

I THINK IT IS POSSIBLE TO SET THE PARAMETERS AND THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS AND THE PROGRAMS AND DO FURTHER WORK ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS WITH A LOT OF COMMUNITY OUT REACH.

I THINK THAT IS A GOOD AMOUNT OF TIME TO DO THAT WORK.

WE WILL TAKE THE GUIDANCE ON THIS.

WE DID OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND WE KNOW WHAT OUR NEEDS ARE AND SO IF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE SUPPORT -- SUPPORTIVE OF THIS, YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHERE IT IS GOING TO GO AND HAVE THE PRONG SKWREBGTS DEFINED -- PROJECTS DEFINED.

HOW DO WE SEE THIS BOND ELECTION WITH THE IDEA OF PROTECTING THE

TAXPAYER. >> I WOULD ASK MR. BERRY TO HELP ME OUT HERE IF I GET IT WRONG. MY UNDERSTANDING IS AT THE VOTER APPROVED RATE, THE DEBT SERVICE IS BUILT INTO THE TAX RATE.

AT THE NO NEW REVENUE RATE, WHAT WE WILL BEGIN TO SEE IS THE DEBT SERVICE RATE CROWDING OUT THE OPERATION RATE.

AND SO THAT WOULD REQUIRE US AND I WILL HAVE MORE INFORMATION IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS ON THE PHYSICIAN WALL OUTLOOK FOR FISCAL YEAR3, 2 BUT I WOULDAV HE CONCERNS AT THEO NNEWEV RENUE RATE. YES,MI COMSSIONER?

>> A COUPLEIN OF POTS. ONE AT AON BILLI DOLLARS, WHAT

?OULDME THAT AN TO THE AVERAGE >>RA THE AVEGEE TAX RATWOULD GO

UP .0108.T I WOULD BE $>>27.

WHAT ISF THE PRICE OTHE AVERAGE C HOME IN THEOUNTY?

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>> IT KNOW I DON'HAVE MY NOTES IN FRONT OF ME.

PER YEAR. >> COMMISSIONER RAMSEY ON THEE COURT THERWAS A BOND ISSUE AND THIS IS H MORE TIME THAN WEAD FOR THAT ONE.E SINCE THERE ARA FEW LEFT,Y I FELT STRONGLTHATTO THE BEST TIME GO AND ASK PEOPLE TO VOTEMB AND THE LARGEST NUEROW OF PEOPLE WOULD SH UP.

MY ASSUMPTION WAS BASED ON THE FOLKS WHO WOULD VOTE ON A BOND ISSUE IN HARRIS COUNTY. I DIDN'T REPRESENT IT, BUT I DID CHECK THEWA NUMBERS. A LOT OF THAT S BASEDHO ON MY EXPERIENCE FROM SCOL BOND ISSUES AND IT WAS IN THE CITY THERE ARE A NUMBER OF REASONS WHY THAT I WON'T ANALYZE. IT HAS BEEN OUTSIDE THE REGION AROUND THE STATE AND AROUND THE COUNTRY.

SO THE HISTORY HERE WAS 2001 FOR A REGULAR COUNTY BOND ISSUE AND 2007 TO 2015. I WOULD INDICATE THAT THIS IS ABOUT THE TIME. MY GUESS IS THIS IS PROBABLY MORE TIME -- THEY PROBABLY DIDN'T DISCUSS IT IN PUBLIC THIS EARLY. YOU HAVE TO HAVE THESE BOND ISSUES ON A UNIFORM ELECTION DAY OR YOU HAVE AN ISSUE.

HARVEY 2018 WE PAID A MILLION DOLLARS AND GOT PERMISSION TO HAVE THE ELECTION IN OFFICE. I CAN'T REMEMBER THE DATE.

MAYBE YOU CAN HELP ME, CACTUS. I CANNOT REMEMBER, BUT JULY IS IN MY MIND, BUT I THINK IT WAS JUNE.

IT IS PROBABLY JUNE. IT WAS A HOLIDAY, JUNETEENTH OR FOURTH OF JULY. THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION AND THERE WERE SIDEBAR CONVERSATIONS.

SOMEBODY GOT IT AS HIGH AS A BILLION DOLLARS.

I ASSUMED THAT THE JUDGE'S OFFICE AT THE TIME WAS POLAND.

MY SENSE WAS IT WAS 2.5 BILLION. IT MUST HAVE SCARED SOMEBODY AND IT WENT DOWN TWO BILLION. THAT'S WHEN WE STARTED MY EBG -- EQUITY ARGUMENT. MY POINT IS IT WAS MORE TIME THAN HARVEY. I THINK, I AM NOT SURE, BUT IT IS MORE TIME YOU COULD ASK YOUR PREDECESSOR.

I THINK THERE IS MORE NOTICE THAN THEY HAD TO PAY US.

WE HAVE TO GET OVER IT. SOMEBODY WAS TALKING ABOUT 10 BILLION AND LOOKING BACK I SHOULD HAVE MADE THE MOTION.

THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN UGLY. DESPITE MY REPUTATION I DIDN'T WANT TO BE UGLY. A MILLION DOLLARS, GET PERMISSION FROM THE GOVERNOR. MY GUESS IS WE NEVER GET PERMISSION AND THEN THERE ARE THOSE THAT CRITICIZE SPENDING A MILLION DOLLARS. I THINK WE WOULD BE BETTER OFF IN NOVEMBER. THAT'S FROM THE ONE CONVERSATION I WAS INCLINED TO VOTE NO. YOUR PREDECESSOR ASKED ME IN A RARE MOMENT OF NICE -- MICETIES AND THAT'S WHAT HE STARTED -- NICETIES. HE ASKED ME AT THIS TABLE TO SWITCH MY VOTE. I VOTED NO.

HE ASKED ME TO SWITCH MY VOTE. YOU KNOW, I KIND OF THOUGHT

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FOR THIS TO HAPPEN WOULD NEED BIPARTISAN SUPPORT.

PARTICULARLY A REGULAR ELECTION DAY.

IN ADDITION PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES THIS IS ON ACCOUNT TO THE MARGINS AND TRANSPORTATION AND IT IS MORE THAN A RESOLUTION WHICH IS WHAT IT IS IN MOST PLACES.

IT IS A RESOLUTION. WE HAVE TO HAVE MONEY TO DO IT.

PARKS, CONNECTIVITY, IT IS ALL IMPORTANT.

COMMISSIONER GARCIA, I AM GLAD THAT YOU BROUGHT IT UP.

I AM NOT GOING TO LEAVE YOU OUT THERE BY YOURSELF.

YOU KNOW PEOPLE IF YOU HAVE BEEN IN THIS BUSINESS FOR A LONGTIME.

I WOULD LIKE TO GO BIG. YOU AND I ARE THE SENIOR ONES IN TERMS OF AGE. I DON'T WANT TO KEEP KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD. YOU GET TO THE POINT WHERE YOU AND I ARE, MY FRIEND, SOMETIMES YOU THINK MORE OF YOUR LEGACY THAN THE NEXT ELECTION. I THINK AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS AN ISSUE. IT IS COMPLICATED BECAUSE WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH SOME TOOLS -- SOME HOOPS.

IT IS GROWING AND BURSTING AT THE SEEMS. I DON'T THINK THE GOOD LORD INTENDED TO HAVE FIVE MILLION PEOPLE SITTING HERE THIS CLOSE TO SEA LEVEL, BUT WE'RE HERE, BUT WE ARE SPREAD OUT. EVEN OVER RICE PATTIES AND OVER MARSH LAND. IT IS A BIG CHALLENGE.

I THINK WE OUGHT TO BE SENSITIVE TO HOW THE OTHER PROJECTS HAVE PRIORITIZED TO AREA THAT'S WERE HISTORICALLY NEGLECTED.

HOW THAT IS DONE, I DON'T KNOW. THE COURT AGREED TO TWO THINGS.

IT MAY HAVE BEEN WOLF TALK. I THINK THEY THOUGHT I HAD A LITTLE LEVERAGE SO THEY AGREED TO DO MY -- AS YOUR PREDECESSOR USED TO SAY MY DISPATE STUDY. AND THEY AGREED TO EQUITY GUIDELINES WHATEVER THAT MEANT. I DID IT NOT TO TRY TO DEFINE IT AND THEN MESSED IT UP. I KNOW IT IS TIME BASED ON 2001, 2007 AND 2015. THIS IS ABOUT THAT TIME AND IT MEANS IF THERE ARE THREE OR FIVE VOTES OR FOUR HOPEFULLY AND SOME BIPARTISAN SUPPORT TO PUT SOMETHING ON THE BALLOT AND FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS, MY SESSION IS TO ASK THEM TO FLUSH SOMETHING OUT THAT GETS US A COUPLE MEETINGS.

IT IS IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO DO AN EXTRA MEETING OR TWO TO FLUSH IT OUT. IT IS NEVER EASY.

WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN OVER YOUR CAREER IS THERE IS MORE SUPPORT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS THAN THERE IS FOR MAINTAINING.

WE HAVE NOT RAISED FLOOD CONTROL 'S BUDGET BY A DIME, I DON'T THINK. I THOUGH HE IS STILL MOWING THE GRASS WHICH I AM SENSITIVE TO BEING THE SON OF A YARD MAN, THREE TIMES A YEAR NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT RAINS.

HAVE WE RAISED OPERATING? >> 2 TO 3%.

>> A JOKE. I JUST HOPE WE CAN GET THERE.

IF NOT, COMMISSIONER GARCIA, I APPLAUD YOU FORGETTING OUT THERE. I WILL GET OUT THERE WITH YOU.

IF WE DON'T HAVE THE SUPPORT, THAT'S OKAY.

>> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER. >> TOM RAMSEY: I THINK THE EXAMPLE OF HARVEY, IT IS PRETTY UNIQUE.

I WAS IN THE COMMUNITY AT THE TIME.

I THOUGHT YOU WERE BRILLIANT, MAYBE YOU DIDN'T KNOW IT.

BUT CALLING FOR IT ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HARVEY, WAS BRILLIANT. THEY RALLIED AROUND A WE HAVE GOT TO DO SOMETHING. ALL I'M SAYING IS THIS IS TOO

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I KNOW WHAT TO DO. I ALSO DON'T WANT TO GET A NO ANSWER. I DON'T WANT TO DO A BOND ISSUE.

YOU DO A BOND ISSUE AND YOU WAIT A COUPLE YEARS.

IF WE GET IT WRONG AND WE DON'T COMMUNICATE WELL WITH THE FOLKS AND IT GOES DOWN, THAT'S A SACRIFICE OF AN OPPORTUNITY WHERE IF WE HAD TAKEN A BIT MORE TIME AND IDENTIFIED THE PROJECTS THAT CAN RALLY A COMMUNITY AND WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HAVING THE

CONVERSATION A YEAR AGO. >> IT WAS THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE DECIDED ON BY THE SMALLEST PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE IN THE HISTORY OF VOTING FOR BOND ISSUES BECAUSE IT WAS THE SAME ELECTION. WE AN -- WE CAN SAY THERE WAS WIDESPREAD SUPPORT. IT WAS THE LOWEST TURNOUT.

WHEN I CAN MOTIVATE MY CROWD, YOU WOULD THINK I HAVE INFLUENCE AND THEY NORMALLY VOTE FOR IT, AND THE PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE SOMEWHAT SUPPORTIVE MIGHT DEAL WITH CLIMATE CHANGE.

IT MIGHT BE ON VACATION. I PUBLICLY SAID I READ THAT ONE WRONG. WHAT TURNED THE TIDE IS THE JUDGE AT THE TIME SAID I THINK THE VOTES ARE GOING TO DO IT IN NOVEMBER. HE SAID I HAVE TO CAMPAIGN ON THIS INSTEAD OF MY ELECTION. THAT TURNED THE TIDE.

THE TURN WHO TOLD ME I WILL MAKE A MOTION AND I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS. YOU LAY LOW.

PUT IT TO THE SIDE AND SAID I CAN'T DO THAT.

HE SAID THIS GIVES ME THE IMPRESSION THIS GOES DOWN PRAB -- [INAUDIBLE] AND THE SECOND PART I CAN'T BE AS EL TPEPT AS THE PREDECESSOR. KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY BEFORE YOU DECIDE. I GOT OUT THERE AND CAME BACK.

IT WILL NEVER BE EASY. THE THIRD POINT IS IF WE KEEP GOING THE WAY WE ARE GOING, WHO KNOWS?

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>>> IT IS 4:56 AND COMMISSIONERS' COURT IS BACK IN SESSION. WEBEX HAD GONE DOWN AND IS IT BACK UP? I WANT TO MAKE SURE THIS IS REFLECTED ON THE RECORD. I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS.

ONE IS WHAT IS THE CAPACITY RIGHT NOW FOR THE BOND, AND I JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE ARE DEALING WITH, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT IT MAY BE LESS THAN NORMAL BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMIC SITUATION, BUT AT THE END, ARE I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AS FAR AS CAPACITY.

THE SECOND QUESTION IS I THINK -- MY POSITION WOULD BE THAT IF WE DO SOMETHING IT SHOULD HAVE A VISION.

IN MY MIND WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE FLOOD BOND IS LET'S PICK SOME PROJECTS AND IT MOVES THE NEEDLE, BUT IT DOESN'T SOLVE THE FLOODING PROBLEM. THIS IS THE PROBLEM WE HAVE AND WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SOLVE IT AND BASED ON THAT WE DEVELOP THE PROJECTS. IF WE WANT TO REDUCE TRAFFIC

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THAT WAS NOW COMING INTO THIS ROLE AND SEEING THE WAY THE FLOOD BOND WAS SET UP, I WAS COMPLAINING THAT IN PRECINCT 2, WE ARE SAVING RICE PAT -- RICE PATTIES AND NOT HOMES.

$150 MILLION CAN GO TOWARD TAKING MORE PEOPLE OUT OF THE FLOOD WAY, BUT IT IS NOT. I THINK A VISION IS NECESSARY.

I WOULD BE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF USING.

I HAVE PROJECT THAT'S ARE STOPPING AND DEPENDING ON BONDS.

I HAVE PROJECT THAT'S ARE NOW SLOWING DOWN BECAUSE LOWER CAPACITY BONDS AND SO IN ORDER TO KEEP WORK MOVING AND PROGRESS MOVING I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO PUT A BOND ELECTION OUT. MAKE THE DECISION AND UNDERSTAND OUR FINANCES AND UNDERSTAND OUR CAPACITY AND DEFINE THE AMOUNT.

WE NEED TO USE THIS TIME GOING FORWARD TO WORK WITH THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT WITH FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT AND WITH THE OTHERS TO CRAFT THE BROADER VISION SO WE ARE CONNECTING THE ADOPTS. THERE IS A CONCERN THAT THERE IS SUCH LEVERAGE USED TO BRING THE DISCUSSIONS TO SIMMS AND HALLS AND WE ARE STILL SHORT THERE AND THAT THE GLO HAS BEEN A GOOD PARTNER AND THEY HAVE NOT BEEN. AND SO I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO CRAFT THAT VISION AND STRATEGY AND WE STILL HAVE TO WORK -- AT LEAST I WILL SAY ON BEHALF OF MY PRECINCT AND MY CONSTITUENTS IT IS NEEDED AND IT IS NECESSARY AND I AM WILLING TO

PUT A BALLOT NEXT TO MY NAME. >> I DON'T WANT TO SKIP AHEAD SO COMMISSIONER CAGLE, YOU CAN SAY IT.

>> R. JACK CAGLE: PROBABLY 75% OF THE HISTORY OF THE HURRICANE BOND I AGREE WITH, WITH WHAT YOU SAID, RODNEY.

100% OF THIS COMMENT THAT IT IS TIME TO KEEP MY POWDER DRY, I AGREE WITH. THANK YOU.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER CAGLE.

CACTUS, MAYBE YOU CAN HELP ME REMEMBER THERE WERE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WOULD COST TO SOLVE THE FLOODING PROBLEM. DO YOU REMEMBER THOSE? IT WAS MORE THAN THE 10 BILLION THAT WAS TOSSED AROUND.

>> 35. >> 35 BILLION? JUDGE, I WANT TO SAY THAT TO MAKE A POINT.

IF WE SOLVE IT WE WILL BE BETTER OFF.

I DID GOOGLE A QUESTION. THIS GOOGLE THING IS AMAZING.

THEY HAVE ALL KINDS OF THINGS. THEY EVEN HAVE A DEAL IF YOU WANT MUSIC, YOU CAN HOOKUP WITH SPOTIFY AND THERE IS ALL KINDS OF STUFF. IS THIS FROM THE TAX POLICY

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HERE IS A LIST WHO TAX MORE THAN US.

IRELAND, CHILE AND MEXICO. THE POINT I WANT TO MAKE IS IN MY CAREER, 38 YEARS OF BEING IN POLITICS I HAVE NEVER SEEN US VOTE FOR A TAX INCREASE AND A BOND ISSUE THAT WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM AND WE HAVE NEVER GIVEN FALSE HOPE AND WHETHER IT WAS AN INTERN WITH GOVERNOR CLEMENTS OR WHEN ANNE RICHARDS DID A BIG JAIL ISSUE, AND A LOT OF IT WENT INTO REHAB TO TREAT PEOPLE IN THE JAILS OR THE DRUG ACCEPTANCE ABUSE.

SOMETIMES ALL OF US HEAR WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR INSTEAD OF WHAT WAS SAID. I AM TALKING ABOUT THE PUBLIC AND INCLUDING US. I DON'T THINK THE PEOPLE OF HARRIS COUNTY WILL TAX US FOR 35 MILLION -- 35? 35 BILLION. NOR ARE THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTY RESPONSIBLE BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO ARE OUR PRESENTED -- PREDECESSORS ARE RUN BY DEVELOPERS.

MY 18-YEAR-OLD COULDN'T FIGURE IT OUT.

BUT PEOPLE IN LEADERSHIP DID IT. WHAT WE DO IN GOVERNMENT TO MAKE PEOPLE'S LIVES BETTER IS GENERALLY INCREMENTAL.

ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT AND TAKE WHAT YOU CAN GET.

THAT'S BEEN MY MANTRA THROUGHOUT MY CAREER.

I CAN'T THINK OF A BILL I PASSED OR ANYTHING ATTH -- ANYTHING AT THIS TABLE WHERE I GOT EVERYTHING I WANTED.

I DON'T EVER REMEMBERING ASKING FOR ANYTHING, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT THE PEOPLE WE HR -- THAT WE ARE ELECTED TO REPRESENT, I JUST DON'T THINK THEY WOULD DO IT. I JUST HOPE WE DON'T PASS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING AND THEN JUST DECIDE BECAUSE WE CAN'T DO IT ALL OR BECAUSE IT MAY IMPACT US POLITICALLY WE ARE GONNA TRY. I TOOK THE LEADERSHIP AND IT IS NOT NEARLY AS AGGRESSIVE AS THE DISTRICT Y'ALL GAVE PRECINCT 1, OR THE DISTRICT I LEFT IT WITH. YOU GOT ME? I DON'T THINK WE NEED A MOTION BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO PUT IT BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE BUDGET PEOPLE TO PROCEED WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS.

THEY CAN ASK US TO KEEP OUR POWDER DRY.

I AM WILLING TO GO OUT AND TRY TO CREATE SOME AWARENESS OF THE NEED AND I KNOW THIS BOND BUSINESS.

I KNOW THAT. I MAKE A PRETTY GOOD LIVING.

THE COUNTY HISTORICALLY SAID SREUR -- VIRTUALLY NOTHING.

WHAT WE DID WAS NO WAY COMPARED TO WHAT THE CITY DOES.

THE CITY DIDN'T ALWAYS DO IT. MAYBE 89 I GOT THE FOOT IN THERE. $20 MILLION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. THE CITY TAKES ITS MONEY AND WE

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I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS. WE PUT IT ON THE BALLOT, BUT THEY PUT IN THE 20 MILLION. THE MAYOR TOOK THE POSITION WHERE SHE WANTED TO FUND ONE WHICH WAS DRAINAGE STREETS ROADS, BRIDGES, PARKS, LIBRARIES AND THAT WAS PROPOSITION 1.

AND THEN BECAUSE I WAS PUTTING PRESSURE ON IT, I WAS NO LONGER ON COUNCIL, BUT I TEED IT UP. PROPOSITION 2 WAS AFFORDABLE HOUSING. SHE SAID, HEY, I WILL PUT YOU -- ALL OF YOU GONE AND YOU TALKED ABOUT THIS AND I WILLO D 20 MILLION. SHEAI SD YOU CAN'T COMBINE THE TWOAU BECSE IT IS NOT JERMAINE -- ITNO IS TMA GERINE.

I TOLD THEIL COUNCMAN,U IF YO CAN SAY THATRA A LIBRY AND JAIL ARE GERMAINT , I DON'KNOW WHYU YOCAN DO THE AND IT PASSED. ANDTO THEN THE ATRNEY GENERAL, T DEMOCR, IN -- INVALUED TKAEULTEDA THE -- INVALITEDE. TE ISSUD SOMETHING WAS CALLED LOG ROLLING AND IT WASHE NOT JUST T HOUSE W MONEY.

ITAS ALL OFTH IT THERE. E COUNTY WAS STILLL DOO -- STILDOING ITS BOND ISSUES AND THEY WERE NEVERI CHALLENGED.

BET IF YOU GO BACK AND LOOK AT THAT 2005 OR THE OTHER YEARS, 215,R 2000, 2001, WHATEVETHEYEY WERE DOING, TH WERE NOT DIVIDING THEM. THEE CITY WOULD GO IN THER AND

PUT A LIBRARY -- >> 15 WAS DIVIDED.

>> 7 I'M ASSUMING WAS NOT AND 1. THEY WOULD PUT IT INME DETAIL AD SOMETIS IN THE STREETS. I WAS TOLD IF YOU PUT MONEY IN FOR THE BAYOU AND IT COMES IN FOR 250 -- I DIDN'T THINKOW THAT MADE SENSE BECAUSE H WOULD THE CITY FIGURE IT OUT? THAT'S WHAT WAS SAID. THEY WERE AT THIS SEPARATE MEETINGS. IT IS A CHANCE TO TRY AND DO SOMETHING. $27 A YEAR FOR THE AVERAGE HOMEOWNER. CABBING -- CACTUS, YOU WERE HERE. IF YOU ROUND OFF THE NUMBERS IF WE WENT TO 10 BILLION IT WAS $27 A YEAR FOR 2.5 AND MULTIPLY THAT BY THREE AND TO GET UP TO THE 10 BILLION --

>> MULTIPLY IT BY 10. >> WHAT WOULD THAT BE?

>> $270. >> YOU GOT ME? I GAUGED THE NUMBER TKAUB -- MAYBE I WENT BACK TO WHAT THEY WERE THINKING. WHATEVER THE POLLING INDICATED AND CACTUS YOU WERE HERE. I DON'T WANT TO DIVULGE ANY CONFIDENCES, BUT WE GOT TO THE 2.5 BILLION.

MAYBE IT WASN'T $27 PER HOUSEHOLD.

IT WAS IN THE PAPER, WHATEVER IT CAME TO.

I WOULD JUST SAY TO ALL OF US, IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS. I JUST WANT TO ASK THEM, DO WE

NEED A MOTION? >> IT IS NOT AN ACTION ITEM.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: IT IS NOT AN ACTION ITEM?

>> LINA HIDALGO: I THINK IT IS CLEAR WHERE FOLKS ARE COMING

FROM. >> IF YOU WOULD LIKE I COULD OUTLINE WHAT I SEE AS A POTENTIAL PATH FORWARD BASED ON WHAT I HEARD AND YOU CAN TELL ME IF IT IS DIRECTIONALLY RIGHT OR

NOT. >> RODNEY ELLIS: WE DON'T VOTE ON IT. I CAN REQUEST IT, BUT NOT VOTE

ON IT. >> TOM RAMSEY: I AM GLAD WE ARE HAVING OUR FIRST CONVERSATION. I WILL JUST SAY THAT.

I TALKED WITH MR. BERRY AND HE PUT IT ON THE AGENDA AND THAT'S

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>> RODNEY ELLIS: HOW LONG AGO WAS THAT?

>> LAST CALENDAR YEAR. I DON'T KNOW.

>> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER, IT IS OKAY AND I CAN HAVE MY TEAM CIRCLE BACK WITH WHOMEVER ON THIS.

SO FORGIVE ME IF IT IS NOT SOMETHING YOU HAVE OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD, BUT AS FAR AS THE FUNDS RUNNING OUT, DID YOU BECOME AWARE OF THAT LAST YEAR, AND HOW DO WE KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER PARK OR MONEY RUNNING OUT?

IS IT AN EFFICIENCY MATTER? >> IT'S A PROCESS ISSUE.

WE HAVE ACCELERATED OUR WORK. AS I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT CREATING DEFICIENCIES IN THE PROCESS.

DR. RAHMAN [INAUDIBLE] AND WE WERE ABLE TO CUE UP WORK AT A FASTER RATE AND AS A RESULT WE WOPBTD DO OUR MONEY [INAUDIBLE] THAN BEFORE. SKPWH -- AND SO NOT -- IT WAS JUST SIMPLY NOT -- [INAUDIBLE] THE COMMUNITY WANTS IMPROVEMENTS ON THEIR PARKS AND SO WE HAD TO WORK AND RECOGNIZING THE FACT THAT THE PARK BONDS AND THE LOW BONDS HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN A MATTER OF TIMING FOR THE COUNTY. THEY DID THEM ON A REGULAR BASIS. THE ISSUE OF FLOOD BONDS IS ONE I AGREE WAS A LACK OF VISION ON. IT WAS A POLITICAL RESPONSE TO HURRICANE HARVEY. I THINK YOUR POINT OF BEING STRATEGIC AND THOUGHTFUL ABOUT IT IS AN IMPORTANT ONE.

I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING ON THAT.

THE OTHER SIDE TOO IS THAT I DIDN'T BY MISTAKE LOOK AT ROAD CONDITIONS PER PRECINCT. I CAN DRIVE YOU AND BLINDFOLD YOU AND YOU WOULD KNOW YOU ARE IN PRECINCT 2.

>> IT HAS BEEN DONE. >> I STKARTED IT -- I STARTED IT

AND EVERYBODY PIGGYBACKED ON IT. >> DID IT HAVE A PRICE TAG.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.

TO YOUR POINT, FIRST MEETING. ONE WAY TO LOOK AT IT IS, OKAY, WE KNOW THAT THE ROADS ARE LACKING.

WE KNOW THERE ARE PARTS THAT NEED TO BE BUILT.

WHERE WE HAVE GONE SO FAR IS WE DO STILL HAVE ISSUES WITH ROADS THAT LACK SIDEWALKS WITH AREAS THAT DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF PARKS PER CAPITA. EVERY PARK WE BUILD WILL BE GOOD AND EVERY ROAD WILL BE GOOD. HOW ARE WE MOVING TOWARD THE ULTIMATE VISION. THAT'S MY ASK FOR YOU, MR. BERRY , FROM MY STANDPOINT -- TO THE EXTENT YOU CANADA FINE IT THEY ARE COMPLICATED ISSUES AND WHERE DOES THIS GET?

>> WHEN -- WHAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR IS DOABLE.

WE WERE WITHIN 10% OF HAVING ALL OF OUR ROADS UP TO SPEED.

DID WE GET THAT ALL THE WAY OVERNIGHT? NO. DECADES OF WE ARE GONNA MAINTAIN THE ROADS. AND NOW WE ARE GOING INTO NEW AREAS AND EVALUATING THE ROADS AND TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT.

I HAVE A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF THE PRECINCT AND WHAT THE NEEDS ARE.

THE 350 MILLION THAT WE KNOW IS OUT THERE IN OUR PRECINCT, THAT'S NOT A GUESS. THAT'S BASED ON REAL NEEDS.

WE SPENT ALL OF OURS. I GUESS WHEN YOU GO FROM 9 30 YEARS AGO, 9 PARKS TO 63 PARKS, I THINK THE PRECINCTS HAVE GOOD DATA AND BACKED UP DATA IN TERMS OF SPECIFIC NEEDS THAT ARE OUT THERE. WITH MY EXPERIENCE ON THE FRONT EDGE OF TRYING TO DO THE TIMING RIGHT IT SEEMS LIKE WE WILL BE PUSHED ON TIME, BUT MR. BERRY CAN COME BACK WITH THE TIMING AND WE CAN FIGURE OUT IF WE CAN HAVE THE CONVERSATION.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: AND IF YOU WOULD WHEN YOU COME BACK, SEND IT TO US IN ADVANCE. THE RECORDS OUGHT TO SHOW HOW EARLY SOMETHING CAME ON THE AGENDA AND WHAT THEY DID.

DON'T KILL YOURSELF LOOKING AT IT, BUT I HOPE IT IS TKEUPBLG TIESED TO SEE -- DIGITIZED TO SEE HOW IT COMPARES TO 2001 AND

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SOMEBODY HIRED THE U.S. TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDS ON $700,000.

WE ASKED IF ANYBODY WANTED TO PARTICIPATE AND THEY LOOKED AT ALL OF THEM AND YOU CAN GO ON THIS MAP AND SEE UNDER MY OLD PRECINCT HOW FAR EVERYBODY WAS FROM GREEN SPACE, ANY CITY, ANY COUNTY. SOMETIMES I WONDER IF I SHOULD HAVE DONE IT. THEY DID THIS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND THEY WANT A COMMUNITY SIGN AT EVERY PARK.

SOMETIMES I WOULD SAY, WELL, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IT.

CAN I RAISE YOUR TAXES? OH NO.

DO SOMEBODY ELSE'S. IF WE DON'T WANT TO DO IT, I'LL TAKE THE HEAT. IT IS NEVER FUN AND WE ARE NEVER GONNA SOLVE IT. BUT EVEN IF WE COME BACK AFTER THE ELECTION, IT IS GOING TO BE A CHALLENGE FOR SOMEBODY THEN.

BY THE WAY, COMMISSIONER RAMSEY, I PARTICULARLY ADMIRE IF WE PUT SOMETHING UP THESE THREE BECAUSE THEY ARE ON THE BALLOT.

I WILL SEE HOW MUCH PLANNING -- HOW YOU WILL FEEL ABOUT THE PLANNING WHEN YOUR NAME IS ON THE BALLOT, BIG BOY.

WE'LL SEE. >> TOM RAMSEY: YOU KEEP MAKING IT A POLITICAL CALCULUS, COMMISSIONER.

IT MAY BE SO. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT SOMEONE IS SERVING -- AND WHETHER IT IS ECONOMICAL AND WHETHER IT IS THIS YEAR OR NEXT YEAR FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT IS.

MR. BERRY WILL COME BACK AND WE WILL DO OUR CALCULUS.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: YOU GOT ANY GUIDANCE?

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: ONE THING I WANTED TO ADD TO THE CALCULUS IS WE ARE GLANCED ON PUBLIC SAFETY. WE ARE STILL NOT IN A PLACE THAT REFLECT HAD US BEING THE LARGEST COUNTY IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.

WITH ALL OF THE THINGS WE HAVE GONE THROUGH DURING THIS PANDEMIC AND I WAS JUST LISTENING TO A DISCUSSION ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND WHETHER THAT WAS TRULY CAUSED BY THE PANDEMIC OR THE PANDEMIC MADE IT MORE EVIDENT.

THE QUESTION OF HOW WE USE OUR DATA AND HOW WE SHARE OUR DATA AND HOW WE WORK REQUEST -- HOW WE WORK WITH THE 80 SOMETHING LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN HARRIS COUNTY.

THE SWIFT WATER BOAT OPERATION IS AN IMPORTANT ONE.

WE CAN COUNT ON FLOODING AND THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS A PARTICULAR VISION ON THIS AND I WANT TO SUPPORT THAT.

I KNOW HE IS ONE FOR SMART POLICING AND DATA DRIVEN AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE INCORPORATE THAT TYPE OF THINKING AND THAT

VISION INTO THIS DISCUSSION. >> LINA HIDALGO: OKAY.

SO WE'LL LOOK OUT FOR AN UPDATE FROM YOU GUYS.

>> IF IT IS OKAY WITH COURT, I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP THIS MOVING SO WE CAN BRING SOMETHING BACK IN TWO WEEKS AND IT CAN EVOLVE OVER TIME IF THERE IS INTEREST. IT WILL NOT BE DISTRIBUTED WAY IN ADVANCE, SO IF IT IS OKAY, GETTING SOMETHING ON AND PRESENTING WHAT WE HAVE AND IF KIDS NEED MORE TIME TO DIGEST,

THEY CAN. >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: JUDGE, WHAT IS THE DEADLINE AGAIN?

>> TO ADOPT AN ORDER, IT IS AUGUST 10 THROUGH 22ND.

I WILL SAY THE LIST OF PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS OFTEN EVOLVES AFTER THAT WITH THE FLOOD BOND IT DID AFTER THE FLOOD BOND WAS ENACTED. MORE DETAILS ON HOW IT CAN BE

SPENT FOR THE ELECTION. >> LINA HIDALGO: WE'LL MOVE ON -- THAT IS NO ACTION. WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM 14 AND THAT IS TO INCREASE THE TAX CONSUMPTION.

THE -- THE VALOREM TAX EXEMPTION.

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>> RODNEY ELLIS: I WANT TO APPLAUD MR. RAMOS FOR QUICKLY SEEING WHAT INFLATION IS DOING FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE COMMUNITY AND PROACTIVELY PUTTING THIS ON THE AGENDA TO PROVIDE MUCH-NEEDED TAX RELIEF IN THE FORM OF A HOMESTEAD EXEP.

I WAS JUST SHARING WITH A FRIEND ABOUT THE BOND ELECTION.

I PUSHED FOR THE FIRST THREE SENIOR AND DISABLED HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS THAT THIS COUNTY DID IN I THINK 10 YEARS.

AND GOVERNOR BETTENCOURT WAS ABLE TO GET THIS ON THE STATEWIDE BALLOT. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US IN LIGHT OF INFLATION AND FIXED INCOMES AND THOSE THINGS, I AM VERY, VERY EXCITED TO SEE THIS ON OUR AGENDA.

AS FAR AS I UNDERSTAND THERE IS NO NET IMPACT.

IF WE WERE TO ADOPT THIS TO 4% ON ALL OTHER PROPERTIES TO REMAIN REVENUE NEUTRAL IS THE IDEA.

AND TRANSLATING TO THE INCREASE OF THE COUNTY TAXES FOR THE AVERAGE SINGLE-FAMILY HOMEOWNER TO BE LESS THAN $6 PER YEAR.

>> CORRECT. >> AND MR. RAMOS WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON INCREASING THIS SENIOR DISABLED HOMESTEAD

EXEMPTION ABOVE THE 250,000? >> TO TELL YOU A LITTLE OF THE CONTEXT, IT WAS IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE WE WERE KEEPING UP WHAT GROWS. IT REFLECTS WHAT OUR AVERAGE PRICE IS. THE AVERAGE ASSESSMENT GROWTH WE HAVE SEEN ACROSS THE COUNTY, THE TIMING IS A LITTLE AUBG -- AWKWARD. WE ARE IN A POSITION TO PASS THIS OR THE HOSPITAL DISTRICT TO HAVE THEIR BOARD APPROVE IT WHERE IT IS NOT AN OPEN -- IT IS NOT A SECRET CONVERSATION WITH THE TAX RATE. SO WHILE WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY, YOU WILL SEE THE COST DISPERSED ACROSS THE OTHER PAYERS IN THE SYSTEM. WITH THE UNCERTAINTY THE REALITY OF THE TAX REVENUE CAPS I FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE.

THIS SOMETHING THAT IS TOP OF MIND FOR ME AND VERY OFF SEASON IT IS SOMETHING I WANT TO HAVE A LOT MORE EYES ON.

THE CITY OF BALTIMORE, WE DID A HUGE ANALYSIS LOOKING AT ALL OF OUR INCENTIVES AND MAKING SURE THEY WERE EFFECTIVE AND PRICED IN THE APPROPRIATE PLACE TO KEEP HOMEOWNERS IN THEIR HOMES.

>> TOM RAMSEY: THANK YOU MR. RAMOS.

YOUID D A REGIONAL LOOK AT WHAT OTHER FOLKSER WE DOING.

WE WERE BY FARDI LEANG THEK PAC ON THAT.

>> WE HAVE THE GENEROUS NOT ONLY IN S THETATEUB OF TEGZ -- IN THT ATE OF TEXASOS AND MT JURISDICTIONSVE ARE OR 65 AND TOP ARED, DISABLE BUT THE ISND FORT BE AND TRAVIS AND THEN WE ARE OVER 300,000. T GOODRAMSEY: THAT'S A POINT, PARTICULARLY WITH INFLATION DOINGWI WHAT IT IS TH NOT. END IN SIGH GOOD JOB.

YOU.ANK >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU.SI COMMISONER RAMSEY, HAVE YOU ANAT ITEM RELED, ITEM 312 ON PAGE

37 AND IGH THOUGHT WE MIT TAKENG THAT ALO WITH THIS>> ONE.

TOM RAMSEY: THE ONLY COMMENT THERE, JUDGE, IS TOAT REINFORCE WH WEEN TALKED ABOUT AT LGTH ABOUT PREVIOUSLY.CE OUR TAX OFFI DOES EVERYTHING THEY CAN T TO COMMUNICATE WITHHE FOLKS THAT ARE ALMOST TKAU LINK WENT.

WHEN -- DELINQUENT. WHEN THEY GO INTO THE DELINQUENT CATEGORY, IT GIVES THEM A SHOUTOUT.

I TRY TO COMMUNICATE ON A REGULAR BASIS.

IT IS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT ONCE YOU DON'T DO IT BY JULY 1ST, YOU ARE DOWN IN A BAD PENALTY SITUATION.

SO BEING SURE OUR TAX OFFICE ANN MR. BERRY, IF YOU WOUL'T MIND CHECKING WITH THEM TO E MAKE SUE THEY ARE DOINGVERYTHING THEY

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NEED TO DO BEFORE JULY 1ST. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I'M CURIOUS, DO WE DO ROBOCALLS? JUST ASKING AND IF WE CAN PAY FOR THAT. SOMETIMES YOU KEEP GETTING NOTICES AND YOU ALREADY KNOW YOU ARE LATE.

I KNOW THE ISSUE CAME UP WITH THE PRIVATE FIRM.

JUST CHECK AND SEE. >> R. JACK CAGLE: [INAUDIBLE] IS

PROPERTY TAX ASSISTANCE -- >> TOM RAMSEY: JUST A MOTION.

>> LINA HIDALGO: SO WE NEED A MOTION --

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: QUICKLY, SINCE WE HAVE ITEM 141ST -- FIRST -- 14 FIRST, IT IS YOUR RECOMMENDATION TO MOVE ON THIS

ITEM? >> YES.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: LET ME MAKE A MOTION.

>> LINA HIDALGO: MOTIONED BY GARCIA AND SECONDED BY RAMSEY ON 14. ALL IN FAVOR?

>> I. >> LINA HIDALGO: OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. AND THEN ON 312, ALL IN FAVOR?

>> I. >> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. WE WILL MOVE TO ITEM 38 AND

COMMISSIONER GARCIA -- >> JUDGE, I'M SORRY.

IT IS APPROVED AS PRESENTED? >> BOTH AS PRESENTED.

AND GREAT WORK ON THE TAX EXEMPTION.

THANK YOU FOR THAT. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: THANK YOU, JUDGE. I WILL BE BRIEF ON THIS.

THIS IS A PARTNERSHIP WITH CHANNEL VIEW ISD.

I WANT TO FIRST WELCOME THE -- WELL HE IS NOT A TOTALLY NEW SUPERINTENDENT AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO -- CONTINUE THE PARTNERSHIP WITH CHANNEL VIEW AND CHANNEL VIEW ISD IN PARTICULAR AND TO CONTINUE TO APPLAUD THE SPARK PARK OPERATION AND OFFICE FOR THEIR INCREDIBLE WORK.

YOU CAN TELL WHEN YOU ARE COMING ACROSS A SPARK PARK BECAUSE OF ON YOU HUE TPHAOEBG THE DESIGNS -- HOW HUE -- UNIQUE THE DESIGNS ARE. THIS IS GOING INTO HAMLIN ELEMENTARY AND IT HAS HARVEY BROWN ELEMENTARY.

THIS WILL BE A TOTAL OF $25,000 THAT WE WILL BE PUTTING INTO THE

PARTS AND EXCITED FOR IT. >> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. MOTION ON ITEM 38 BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA. IS THERE A SECOND?

>> SECOND. >> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER RAMSEY IS NOT HERE. LET'S GO OVER THE NEXT ITEM AND THEN WE WILL -- YOU FLAGGED 46 AS WELL.

>> YES. >> R. JACK CAGLE: I HAVE A QUESTION AND I NEED TO ASK OF DAVE -- DAVID.

WAS IT THE PIED PIPER OF HAMBLIN? THAT STRIKES ME DIFFERENT THAT YOU WOULD NAME AN ELEMENTARY

SCHOOL AFTER THAT. >> I APPRECIATE THE ESTEEM YOU HOLD MY LITERACY, BUT I DON'T KNOW.

>> R. JACK CAGLE: YOU YOUNG PEOPLE WITH THE GOOGLE, LIKE COMMISSIONER ELLIS OVER THERE. HE WAS EXTOLLING THE VIRTUE OF GOOGLE. WHERE WAS THE PIED PIPER FROM?

I THOUGHT IT WAS HAMBLIN. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: YOU CAN GOOGLE. ITEM FURTHER 6 AND 66 -- ITEM 46 AND 66, THE DISCUSSION THAT WE JUST HAD I AM EXCITED ABOUT THE HARTWICK SAN TERRY -- SANITARY SEWER EXTENSION.

IT WILL BRING BENEFITS LIKE A NEW PUBLIC SANITARY LINE THAT WILL BE INSTALLED ALONG HARTWICK ROAD.

APPROXIMATELY 250 FEET -- 250 LINEAR FEET OF SAN TERRY LINES -- SANITARY LINES AND IT WILL HELP 21 SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTS AND ADDRESS IN PART THE ABANDONMENT OF THEIR ACCEPT PARTICULAR -- SEPTIC LINES AND GET THEM INTO SOMETHING HEALTHIER. EXCITED ABOUT THESE PROJECTS AND 66 ALSO INCLUDES THE IMPROVEMENT OF MOBILITY IN THE LA -- IN THE LA PORT AREA. MAYOR RIGBY HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON THIS AND THERE IS A LOT OF FEEDBACK SAYING THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE OUT THERE. THIS LOOKED AT THE IMPROVED

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THIS STRETCH IS A KEY LINK TO OUR TRAIL NETWORK.

COMMISSIONER ELLIS AT SOME POINT WE WILL BE ABLE TO WRITE ON AND EVENTUALLY CONNECT OUR PARK IN PASADENA TO THE PARK IN THE BAY AREA AND ALL OF THE OTHER COMMUNITIES ALONG THE WAY.

THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT WILL WRAP UP -- RATHER, IT WILL BEGIN IN JULY OF THIS YEAR AND IT WILL HAVE A FOUR AND A HALF MILE IMPROVEMENT. IT JUST GOES A LITTLE TO WHY I AM REALLY FOCUSED ON THIS BOND ELECTION.

IT WILL BRING ENHANCEMENTS TO THE AREA.

I MOVE ON THESE TWO ITEMS, 46 AND 66 AND 38.

>> R. JACK CAGLE: I WANT TO SECOND ESPECIALLY 66.

THEY HAVE BEEN DOING THAT PROJECT AND IT WAS A PRIVILEGE TO PRESENT THE COUNTY RESOLUTION IN HONOR WHEN SHE WAS THE ENGINEER OF THE YEAR. I WILL -- SHE IS AWESOME.

I PROUDLY SECOND. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: SO 38, 46 AND

66. >> LINA HIDALGO: MOTIONED BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER CAGLE AS PRESENTED. ALL IN FAVOR?

>> I. >> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED? IT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. COMMISSIONER GARCIA, 129.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: YES. AS WE ARE FOCUSED ON DOING ALL WE CAN TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF OUR AIR, WATER AND LAND AGAIN, DR. BABBIN, YOU ROCK. YOU AND YOUR TEAM AT POLLUTION CONTROL ARE DOING A PHENOMENAL JOB.

THIS IS PART OF A LARGER PROJECT WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON AND IT IS FOR VOC MONITORING DUE TO THE DETECTION OF COMPOUNDS INCLUDING STYRENE AND THE PROXIMITY SURROUNDING BAYPORT. THEY WILL ADD SIX NEW SITES TO THE BAYPORT AREA. AND IN RECENT REPORTS WE APPROVED LA PORT AND POLLUTION CONTROL IS WORKING ON AN AGREEMENT THAT WILL BE COMING TO COURT REALLY SOON.

WITH THE PASSAGE WE WILL ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE COASTAL WATER AUTHORITY LOCATED IN PASADENA TO PLACE ANOTHER MONITOR ON THEIR BAYPORT PUMP STATION, AND THE DATA LIKE ALL OTHERS WILL BE AVAILABLE PUBLICLY FOR CITIZENS IN THE AREA TO REVIEW. JUST I WANT TO ALWAYS UH -- APPLAUD THE GOOD WORK OF DR. BAB BIN AND HER TEAM.

THIS IS BUILDING ON THE WORK YOU STARTED WITH THE EXPLOSION OF ITC AND IT JUST REALLY SHOWS OUR CITIZEN THAT'S WE HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT THEM AS IT RELATES TO THE CONCERNS OF THE AIR QUALITY IN OUR AREA. I MOVE ON THIS ITEM.

>> MOTIONED BY COMMISSIONER CAR SEE -- COMMISSIONER GARCIA.

ALL IN FAVOR? >> I.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.

THANK YOU TO DR. BABBIN. 145, COMMISSIONER GARCIA.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: YES. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: IT IS AN UPDATE ON THE EFFORT GOING FOR THE VIOLENT INDIVIDUALS.

HAVING WARRANTS OUT ON THEM AND I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE. I THINK I SAW MAJOR COLEMAN EARLIER AND THE CONSTABLES OF PRECINCTS 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 AND 8 FOR THEIR COLLABORATION IN THE CREATION OF THE VIPER TASK FORCE

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I WANT TO APPLAUD FOR THOSE LEADERS FOR STEPPING FORWARD.

THIS IS GOING TO BE TOUGH WORK. IT IS NOT JUST HAVING A WANTER IN YOUR -- HAVING A WARRANT IN YOUR HAND.

YOU HAVE TO DO SOME RESEARCH AND DO SOME INVESTIGATION.

YOU HAVE TO KNOW YOUR TARGET AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE -- YOU HAVE TO RECOGNIZE WHERE THE LATEST INFORMATION WAS A -- WAS AT.

YOU ARE GOING AFTER BAD PEOPLE. I ALWAYS KEEP ALL OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT IN MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS, BUT I WILL KEEP THESE IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE THEY ARE TRULY GOING TO BE RUNNING INTO THE FIRE AS IT RELATES TO THESE DANGEROUS PEOPLE.

AGAIN, I WANT TO APPLAUD THEM AND THIS IS AN EXCITING UPDATE ON THE PROGRESS THAT HAS BEEN MADE.

I'M NOT SURE IF MAJOR COLEMAN WANTS TO ADD ANYTHING TO THE UPDATE. SKWROER COLEMAN? MAJOR COLEMAN? HE IS THERE.

>> HE IS TRYING TO TALK. >> WE CAN'T HEAR YOU, BUDDY.

ARE YOU MUTED? >> RODNEY ELLIS: I THINK HE IS MUTED. I MIGHT HAVE A QUESTION.

MAYBE YOU CAN ANSWER. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: TWO THUMBS UP.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: WHO ARE THE CONSTABLES THAT ARE NOT INCLUDED ARE THEY COMING ON BOARD? IS THERE A REASON?

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: FROM WHAT I I UNDERSTAND PRECINCT 1 WANTED TO MODIFY THE MOU THAT WAS FINE FOR EVERYBODY ELSE, AND MAYBE THE REASON THEY HAVEN'T PARTICIPATED AND PRECINCT 7 DID NOT EXPRESS INTEREST IN PARTICIPATING. MAJOR COLEMAN, IS THAT AN ACCURATE ASSESSMENT. IF YOU CAN GIVE US A TWO THUMBS UP AGAIN. 1 AND 7.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: WHEN WE CAN HEAR YOU THE NEXT GO AROUND AND IT IS ALL RIGHT FOR TODAY, MAJOR, BUT WHY ARE THEY OUT? ONE OF THEM IS MINE AND I WILL CALL AND WHO IS THE OTHER?

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: ROSEN. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I JUST LIKE TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON. IT FEELS LIKE AN IMPORTANT THING. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THAT.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: THANK YOU. I MOVE ON THE ITEM.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ALL IN FAVOR? >> I.

>> R. JACK CAGLE: AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY COLEMAN WAS THE BEST SUBJECT MATTER OF THE DAY IN MY OPINION.

>> LINA HIDALGO: I'M IN FAVOR. MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.

ITEM 153 AND IT IS THE SHERIFF AND TRADITIONAL FUNDING ON THE JAIL. AND PERHAPS WE CAN GET AN UPDATE, MR. BERRY ON THE SITUATION.

>> I WILL LET MR. RAMOS TALK. >> LINA HIDALGO: I'M.

-- I'M SORRY, I WILL GET USED TO THIS.

>> I WANT TO THANK SHERIFF GONZALEZ AND THE CHIEF FOR THE COLLABORATIVE EFFORT. WHILE WE ARE SPENDING MORE MONEY WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING EVERY BUDGET DIRECTOR IS EXCITED ABOUT , BUT IT HAS LEAD TO THE VERY TRANSPARENT AND KHRAB BRA -- COLLABORATIVE STAFFING MODEL FOR OTHER DEPARTMENTS TO EMULATE. THE SHERIFF IS SPENDING 5.5 MILLION OVER WHAT WAS HISTORICALLY BUDGEDDED.

BUDGETED. WHEN WE HAVE A JAIL AT THE POPULATION IT IS AT, WE ARE SPENDING MONEY.

THERE IS THE MINIMUM RATIO FOR STAFFING AND WE HAVE SEEN COVID IMPACT THE STAFF AND IT DRIVES OUR COSTS UP.

WE LOOKED AT ALL OF THE POSTS AND THE UNITS IN THE JAIL TO IDENTIFY WE -- WE WERE USING MORE AS OPPOSED TO FULL TIME FTE'S. OUR RECOMMENDATION IS A HUNDRED NEW DETENTION OFFICERS. BECAUSE OF THE TRANSITION IT WILL COST US MORE AND WHAT THAT OVER TIME IS, IT WILL BRING FOLKS TO THE TRAINING. AND WE ALSO THOUGHT IT WAS

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UP HERE. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: VERY GOOD.

I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU, MR. RAMOS.

I REMEMBER WHEN YOU SHARED YOUR BACKGROUND WITH THE BALTIMORE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND I WAS EXCITED THAT YOU HAD SOME UNDERSTANDINGBO AUT A FAST-MOVING ORGANIZATION.

I WAS EXCITED THAT THERE WOULD BE SOME SINRO KPB TPHEUS TEE -- NCSYHRONISITY. EVEN WHEN YOURE A IN IT ITS IAN ORGANIZATION THAT MOVESRO AUND ON YOU.

I WANT TO THANKOU Y AND THE SHERIFF FORIT STING DOWN AND WORKING THROUGH THIS. THE COLLABORATION T IHINK IS AN EXAMPLEND A A MODEL I HOPE OTHERS WILL FOLLOW.

THISUN IS PLANNED AND ITS IAN EMERGENCY AND ITOE DS HAVE SERIOUSLI IMPCATIONS WITH THE STATE IF THERE ISAD NO HERENCE TO CERTAINND STAARDS, AND AS IE HAV SAID REPEATEDLY, THE H GELAS GONE FROM AGE LARLYIM MINUM OR MEDIUMUR SECITY TOIG A HH SECURITYIL FACITY AND WE NEVERWA NT TO SEE THEDY TRAGEAT OF WHHA PPENED PREVIOUSLY.

AND IPE AM HOFUL THIS DISCUSSION AND THIS AGREEMENTT THAHAS BEEA DE SPEAKS TO THE SAFETY SECURITY OF OUR O STAFFVER THERE.I AM EXCITED T ABOUTHE COLLABORATION BETWEEN YOUR OFFICE AND THEFF SHERI'S OFFICE.

>> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER CAGLE.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: I MOVE ON THIT EM.

>> R. JACK CAGLE: DO WE HAVE SOMEBODY FROMHE THE SRIFF'S OFFICEE? ONLINLL HEO.WH

O DO WE GOT? >> THIS IS MIKE LADUM.

I AM THE DIRECTOR OF A FINANCET THE'S SHERIFF OFFICE.>> R. JACK CAGLE: THANK YOU. THISIS IS COMMSIONER CAGLE. A INND AROUND THE BUDGET HEARINGS T EARLIERHIS YEAR THEER SHIFF'SMA OFFICE DEST A REQUE THEN DETENTI POSITIONS IN JAIL AND SOME W OF THATAS THE OUTOF GROWTH PROBLEMS. WHAT N WAS THEUMBERCE OF OFFIRS THEY REQUESTED AT THAT TIME? B

>> IELIEVEON, COMMISSIER, WED ASKEFOR. ABOUT 300 W THATAS BACKBE AT THE GINNING OF THE BUDGET CYCLE. 1 THIS00 WE ARER ASKING FONOW ANDLY REALLY ON ONE PIECE OF T THATOTAL.OW I KN MR. H RAMOS ANDIS STAFF ARE WORKING ON CONSULTANTS TOFI DO A STAFNGY STUDOF THE JAIL. CEWE HOPE ON THE STUDY IS DONEIL IT WL VERIFY WHAT WE BELIEVE IS THE RIGHTET NUMBER OF DENTIOR

OFFICEED STAFF WE NE.. >> RJACK CAGLE: I AMOR SUPPTIVE OFG US GETTINTO WHERE T THE SHERIFFHINKS WETO ND BE. B I WILLE VOTING FOR THIS AST A FIRSSTEP TOWARD THATIO DIRECTN, BUT BY NO MEANS DO T I MEANO INDICATE THAT THIS MEANS WE'REWE DONE.

NEEDHE TO FOLLOW T OF OUR LEADERSHIP.

>> THEREON WERE ADDITIAL POSITIONS BUDGETED FOR AT THE SO IT IS 120O IN ADDITION TWHAN WAS GRTED INPS THE BUDGET YCH

>> COMMISSIONER RAMSEY,U THANK YOFORRO WALKING US THUGH THIS.

I KNOW WE DON'T LIKE TO DODJ BUDGET AUSTMENTS,CI BUT THE RCUMSTANCES ARE DRIVING THISS . IT GETTO BE A ROUTINE THING ANDCA HOPEFULLY WE N GET AN HANDLE OIT SO WHEN WEH ESTABLISTHE BUDGET WE CAN DO THE BUDGET.LL THE 7.3 MIION DO YOUE EXPECT THOFFICE TO BE INCREASEDLL BY

7.3 MIION?S >> THERE IWI A PORTION THAT LL HAVE TO BE BUILTYE INTO NEXT AR'S BUDGET R.

>> TOMAMSEY: IT WILL CAUSE THAT TOAN BE AN INCREASE D WEOK ARE ALL LOING AT THETE NUMBER IN RMS OF WHAT THE ENFORCEMENT IS. B THAT WOULDE BAKED INTO THE LAW

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ENFORCEMENT BUDGET. >> YES, SIR.DA

>> LINA HILGO: COMMISSIONER ELLIS?EL

>> RODNEY LIS: WHEREY IS THIS MONECOMING? FROM BY THE WAY

>>E I DID WANT TO MAKONE COMMENTE AND I AM NOT QUITCO SUE WHERE MMISSIONER RAMSEY WAS D HEADING, BUTETENTION OFFICER POSITIONS ARE SPECIFICALLY EXEMPTEDBL FROM THE STATE PUIC LAW ENFORCEMENT.S I THINK IT IBECAUSE THEY DO GO UP AND DOWN AND IT T HAS TO DO WITHHE POLICIES FROM NEXT YEAR MY STAFF IS WORKING ON THE S.QUARTERLY PROJECTION I KNOW OUR REVENUE BASED ONTI PRELIMINARY ESMATES ARE HIGHER. WE WILLIN BE PRESENTING THAT THE NEXT FEW COURTS. I WILL SCHEDULE BRIEFINGS FORL YOU. WE WILBE UNDER BUDGET.

>> I KNOW THERE ARE 9900AI PEOPE IN THE JL AND IT G IS CONTINUING TOO UP EVEN WITH 551 WE HAVE BEEN OUT SOURCEDTH AND PEOPLE SY EY ARE DANGEROUS NOWAT AND OBVIOUSLY WH WE CAN DO ANDD IT IS PREDICATEON WHAT WE HAVE. WE CAN POINT OUT WHAT EVERYBODY WANTS. WHEN WE MAKE A DECISION ON WHERE TO SET OUR TAX RATE AND IT IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT.

IF WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT IT, WE WILL MAKE THE DECISIONSN.

>> WE APPROVED I THE BUDGET THAT WE ALREADY APPROVED -- I HAVE A NOTE OF 60 ADDITIONAL TDETENTION STAFF.

ISHATIS CORRECT? >> THAT CORRECT.

>> AND THEN WHAT DID WE -- I THOUGHT WE HADUN DISCUSSED THE OPPORTITIES FORIS ADVANCEMENT, COMMSIONER GARCIA.

HAS SOMETHING BEEN DONE ON THAT ALREADY?

>> WE ARE STILL WORKING ON THAT AND WE WANT TO COME BACK WITH A CAP END SERIES. I WILL DEFERFI TO THE SHERIFF'S OFCE IF THEYHE WANT TO COMMENT ON WRE WE ARE.

>> DO YOU HAVE AN UPDATE ON THAT?

I DON'T KNOW IF HEOU IS ON THER. >> I WLD HAVE TO DEFER TO CHIEF HERCLOTZ ON THAT. I AM NOT CERTAINS HOW FAR THE

DISCUSSIONHAVE GONE. >> CAN YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION? AS FAR AS ADVANCEMENT WHAT IS YOUR QUESTION?

>> LINA HIDALGO: I H REMEMBER TT EVERYONEAD BROUGHT UP ONE OF THE ISSUES WITH RETENTIONO BEING THAT THERE HAS T BE RETENTION.

WE SUPPORT THAT. SO HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO PULL THAT TOGETHER OR WHAT IS THE LATEST?

WHAT DO YOU ALL NEED? >> YES, MA'AM.

I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT DATE. WE HAVE SOME PROMOTIONS COMING UP IN JULY WITH THE LARGE GROUP SET TO THE DETENTION -- THE DETENTION OFFICERS SET TO SERGEANT AND THE GAP IS THE DETENTION CAPTAIN T POSITION. WE ARE WORKINGO CLOSE THE GAP.

ONCE WE GET THOSE POSITIONS FILLED AND APPROVED, THEN THERE WILL BEAL PROMOTION OPPORTUNITIS L THE WAY UP TO MY RANK FOR

DETENTION OFFICER>> WHICH IT SHOULD BE.

I'M EXCITED ABOUT THIS, JUDGE.

I STARTEDAM PART OF THE PROCESS AND I VERY EXCITED ABOUT THETI DISCUSSION OF THE COORDINAON AND I THINK THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE GETTING TO, JUDGE. AS INDIVIDUALS WAMT TO -- AS

>> THERE MAY BE LESS MOVEMENT BECAUSE YOU ARE GIVING OUR STAFF A TRUE CAREER PATH THAT HAS NOT PW-FRPB -- THAT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THERE AND I AM HOPEFUL IT WILL CREATE A LONGER TENURE SO -- SO A STRONGER EXPERIENCE CAN EMERGE IN THE ORGANIZATION THAT WILLNS FURTHER STABILIZE TE OPERATIO THERE.

I WANT TO APPLAUD YOU, CHIEF, FOR YOUR WORK AND ASK YOU TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE BUDGET OFFICE SO THAT YOU CAN LOOK AT

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THERE. >> LINA HIDALGO: I KNOW YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, BUT I DIDN'T FINISH MINE.

WILL YOU GIVE ME A MOMENT? >> ABSOLUTELY.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THAT WAS THE ADVANCEMENT PIECE.

THERE WAS ANHER PIECE ON THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF OFFICERS.

THERE WE GAVE 60 AND NOW WE ARE GIVING 120 MORE AND SO WE ARE AT 180 AND YOU ARE DOING AN EVALUATION TO SEE WHAT MORE IS NEEDED. I COULD HAVE SWORN THERE WAS A THIRD PIECE. I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT THE

CAMERAS. >> IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE COMBINATION OF THE NUMBER OF REPEATING CLASSES AND THE HOURLY SCHEDULE. DOES THAT RING A BELL?

>> LINA HIDALGO: I THINK IT WAS THE NUMBER OF CLASSES.

>> I THINK THERE WAS MOVEMENT THERE.

>> LINA HIDALGO: CHIEF, DO YOU HAVE AN UPDATE, THE RECRUITMENT CLASS, THE NUMBER OF CLASSES AND RECRUITMENT SCHEDULE?

>> WE CURRENTLY HAVE A CLASS EVERY TWO WEEKS.

WE ARE AVERAGING ABOUT 15 TO 20 PER CLASS.

RIGHT NOW WE ARE TRYING TO ON BOARD MORE PEACE OFFICERS AS WELL TO HELP ON THE LAW ENFORCEMENT SIDE.

WE ARE MOVING FOLKS AROUND TO HELP FILL THE BPOC CLASS AND WE ARE TRYING TO ON BOARD AT A HIGHER CLIP THAN WHAT WE HAVE BEEN. I ALSO WANTED TO MENTION THAT MYSELF AND MAJOR WYNN FLEW OUT AND THEY HAVE AN ARMED DETENTION OFFICER PROGRAM. WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED THAT AT THE HARRIS COUNTY JAIL AS WELL. WE ARE NOT IN THE FULL THROWS.

WE HAVE ABOUT 62 TO 65 CERTIFIED, BUT WE ARE TRYING TO GROW THAT PROGRAM AS WELL TO ALLOW SOME OF THE PEACE OFFICERS TO MOVE OUT TO PATROL IN THE -- AND THE OTHER AREAS WHERE IT IS NEEDED. IF WE KEEP ON BOARDING THOSE DETENTION OFFICERS IT WILL ALLOW US TO BACKFLOW SOME OF THE PEACE OFFICERS THAT ARE IN JAIL AND MOVE THEM OUT TO PATROLS WHERE THEY WILL BE NEEDED. SO LONG-TERM IT WILL HELP US.

>> LINA HIDALGO: WHAT IS THE BOTTLENECK RIGHT NOW? DID YOU HAVE ONE ON THE LASS -- ON THE CLASSES, OR THEY ARE PIECES AND THEY ARE MOVING AND IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME?

>> WE WERE DOWN TO 49 VACANCIES AND IT MAY SEEM LIKE A LOT, BUT I WAS AT A CONFERENCE IN SAN MARCOS AND I WAS HIT WITH JAILS WITH 350 EMPLOYEES AND NOW THEY ARE DOWN TO 100.

>> THEY ARE LOW ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU COMPARE TO OTHER

DEPARTMENTS. >> RIGHT NOW WE ARE TRYING TO GET THE PEACE OFFICERS ON AND I KNOW THEY ARE NEEDED.

THE CLASSES CONTINUING TO COME AND WE HAVE THEM EVERY TWO WEEKS. WE WOULD LIKE TO GET THE SIZES UP AND IF WE DO WE COULD CUT INTO THAT A LITTLE MORE.

WE HAVE THE STATE-MANDATED RATIOS AND WE HAVE TO MEET THE RATIOS. IF WE DON'T, WE WILL HAVE A STAVE IN THE BUSINESS AND THAT'S NOT GOOD.

>> LINA HIDALGO: LAST QUESTION IS THE CAMERAS ISSUE.

I REMEMBER ONE OF THE TRAGIC DEATHS SAID WE NEED MORE CAMERAS. HAS THAT BEEN DONE.

>> THAT PROCESS IS ONGOING. WE ARE SAY ABOUT THREE-QUARTERS THROUGH AT 701. NOT SURE WHO APPROVED THE PLAN BEFORE I GOT THERE, BUT THERE WERE ABOUT 700 CAMERAS MISSING THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THAT PROJECT.

U.S. SERVICES ARE IN THE PROCESS OF GET -- OF GETTING THOSE AND INSTALLING THOSE. WHEN WE GET TO THE BIGGEST PART WE WILL MOVE TO 1200. THEIR SYSTEM IS A LITTLE BETTER THAN WHERE THEY WERE. 701 IS WHERE WE CONCENTRATED OUR

EFFORTS. >> IT IS A CHALLENGE AND IT IS NOT OKAY. I KNOW WE ARE TACKLING THIS FROM EVERY POSSIBLE ANGLE. LET UTS -- LET US KNOW IF THERE ARE IN I SNAGS. ARE ANY SNAGS.

>> AND I WAS THERE WERE COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND ELLIS AND THERE IS A LOT OF DISCUSSION IN THE COURT BACKLOG AND THE JAIL POPULATION. AND WHAT EMERGED IS THEY ARE ONE IN THE SAME PROBLEM. WE ARE NOW SPENDING TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO THE CRIMINAL CASE BACKLOG.

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KEEPING IT UP IS VITAL. >> WE NEED TO FIND OUT WHERE THE BOTTLENECKS ARE. I KNOW WE HAVE A MEETING PENDING WITH COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND MRE OF OPEN MEETINGS CHALLENGES, BUT CERTAINLY -- IT IS NOT AS BAD AS WHEN IT WAS PLAYING THE ASTROS GAME. COMMISSIONER CAGLE?

>> WILL YOU PUT ON THE AGENDA FOR THE NEXT COURT FOR US TO HAVE AN UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF THE LAWSUIT FROM THE UNION?

THANK YOU. >> LINA HIDALGO: THAT WAS 153.

THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE. IS THERE A MOTION?

>> SO MOVED. >> LINA HIDALGO: YEAH.

>> [INAUDIBLE] >> THERE IS A DIRECT COST TO BEING VACANCIES IN THE JAIL. WE SAID IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE IF WE ARE NOT DEDICATING EQUIPMENT RESOURCES FOR THE JAIL.

THEY WERE SHARING RESOURCES WITH THE DEPUTY REKWRAOUT MEANT.

>> -- RECRUITMENT. IT IS A DIFFERENT PROBLEM WE ARE TRYING TO SOLVE. SO MAKING SURE THERE ARE RESOURCES FOR THE SHERIFF -- FOR THE SHERIFF TO FULL THE POSITION. WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE BARE MINIMUM NUMBER OF STAFF AND THERE IS MINIMUM STARRING AND SO THERE IS A RATIO. THE MORE BODIES YOU HAVE TO SHOW UP, THE LESS OVER TIME YOU SPEND THE MODEL SHOWS WE NEED TO BE CLOSER TO 300. I DIDN'T WANT TO PUT THE SHERIFF IN A POSITION WHERE WE WOULD HAVE SO MANY VACANCIES WHERE WE WOULD BE TRYING TO DIG OUT OF THE VACANCY HOLE.

THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE CONVERSATION AND NOT THE END OF THE CONVERSATION. THE MORE WE CAN GET BODIES IN THE SEATS, THE MORE WE ARE ABLE TO SAVE ON THE OVERTIME WHICH I DON'T THINK ANYBODY THINKS IS EFFICIENT.

>> I THINK THAT IS WORTH UNDERSTANDING.

FUNDING POSITIONS THAT ARE NOT FILLED AND MR. -- CAPTAIN -- CHIEF HERCLOTZ POINT AND THEY WERE BROUGHT DOWN TO 48.

I KNOW THAT'S A GOOD NUMBER FOR Y'ALL, BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE

YOU PERCENTAGE-WISE. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: AND LET ME JUST REMIND US THAT, JUDGE, WHEN I CAME IN AS A SHERIFF, I INHERITED IN THE JAIL HUNDREDS OF VACANCIES THAT WE WERE FUNDING THROUGH OVERTIME. BY THE TIME I LEFT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE I HAD A LARGER HEAD COUNT, BUT MY BUDGET SHAW -- BUDGET SHRANK. AND IT IS BECAUSE WE HAD A VERY, VERY STRATEGIC FOCUS ON REPLACING THE OVER TIME POSITIONS WITH FULL TIME POSITIONS.

IT IS VERY COST EFFECTIVE AND IT IS IN PART -- AND LOOK, AT THAT TIME I HAD NO ADVOCATES ON THE COURT.

I JUST HAD TO WORK WITH WHAT WE KNEW TO BE THE STANDARD JAIL OPERATIONS, BUT RECOGNIZING WE HAD TO BUILD MORE.

AND EVEN WHEN PR -- PRIA CAME UP TO SPEED, EVEN WHEN THAT CAME INTO LAW I HAD TO CULTIVATE THE RESOURCES INTERNATIONALLY.

WHAT MR. RAMOS IS DESCRIBING IS THAT THERE IS TRUE SYNYHRONICITY AND POSSIBLY FOR A LONG, LONG TIME THAT IS A MEANINGFUL CHANGE. I APPLAUD THE DISCUSSIONS AND

THE WORK BEING DONE. >> RODNEY ELLIS: CURIOUS, DID

YOU EVER GET AN INCREASE? >> ADRIAN GARCIA: I DON'T THINK

SO. >> RODNEY ELLIS: IT IS SIX

YEARS. >> AND THE COUNTY IS ALWAYS ADOPTING -- WELL, THEY HAD MORE REVENUE.

>> IT DIDN'T GO TO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

>> COMMISSIONER GARCIA? >> ADRIAN GARCIA: YES, SIR.

>> I KNOW I WILL FORGET SOMEBODY, BUT I WANT TO ECHO YOUR SENTIMENTS. THE BUDGET MANAGEMENT AND MR. BERRY'S TEAM HAS BEEN EXCELLENT TO WORK WITH AND VERY UNDERSTANDING AND PATIENT AND I WANT TO THANK THEM TOO.O:

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: THANK YOU. >> LINA HIDALG THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. ITEM 153 AS PRESENTED.

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IS THERE A MOTION? >> SO MOVED.

>> LINA HIDALGO: MOTIONED BY GARCIA AND SECONDED BY ELLIS.

ALL IN FAVOR? >> I.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED? I AM IN FAVOR AND IT PASSES TPHAPBLG MUSSILY. UNANIMOUSLY.

ITEM 160, OUR FAVORITE TOPIC. FOLKS RECEIVED THE UPDATED RULES WITH EVERYTHING ON THEM SO IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO OFFER ADDITIONAL COMMENTS. THIS IS ONLY FOR DISCUSSION.

THIS IS BEFORE AN ITEM KOPLT BACK WITH POSSIBLE ACTION -- AN ITEM COMES BACK WITH POSSIBLE ACTION.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: HAVE I A COUPLE OF COMMENTS.

OBJECT YESESLY WE -- OBVIOUSLY WE WILL VOTE WHEN IT COMES BACK.

I WOULD BE RELUCTANT TO RESTRICT THE TESTIMONY TO PEOPLE WHO SHOW UP LIKE ON ADVANTAGE AND A LOT -- KIND OF CHANGED MY POSITION, BUT A LOT OF FOLKS WHO WANT TO COME MAY NOT HAVE ACCESS TO CHILD CARE OR TRANSPORTATION TO GET HERE.

I DO THINK WE OUGHT TO BE SENSITIVE TO OUR OUT OF TOWN ELECTED OFFICIALS IF A MEMBER OF CONGRESS OR A STATE LEGISLATOR COMES FORWARD OR A MAYOR OR GUEST AND WE CAN CHANGE THE RULES, BUT I THINK FOR OUR OTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS HERE, THEY CAN GET TO US. TO BRING SOMEBODY UP BECAUSE THEY HAPPEN TO BE A COUNTY ELECTED OFFICIAL, THEY CAN TALK TO US ANY TIME. THEY DON'T HAVE TO COME IN AND DO IT HERE. I DO LIKE THE IDEA OF US PICKING A TIME TO DO THE RESOLUTIONS. THE -- IT WOULD BE LATER IN THE DAY IS MY SUGGESTION. IT WOULD BE GOOD IF WE AGREE IF BE ARE GOING FROM 10 UNTIL A LATE HOUR OF THE EVENING, PROBABLY AGREE WHEN WE HAVE LUNCH AND SO WE CAN KNOW WE CAN

MAKE PHONE CALLS AND IT MAY HELP >> ADRIAN GARCIA: I MOVE ON THAT

ITEM. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I WON'T ALWAYS BE OFF MY DYE TKWRET -- DIET. I DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT RESTRICTING RESOLUTIONS. LET US KNOW WHO HAS PUT IN THE MOST. USUALLY IF I DO A RESOLUTION I TRY TO DO A RESOLUTION THAT MIGHT HAVE IMPACT OR BITE TO IT, SO TO SPEAK. I THINK I PUT IN THE MOST.

I DON'T KNOW. IT WOULD BE GOOD TO THINK OVER AS WE MAKE OUR DECISIONS. IF SOMETHING COMES BACK AND I SAY THAT I WOULD BE FOR IT. IF WE SLOW DOWN PROCESSING PAYMENTS, WHATEVER IT IS, I WILL BE FOR HAVING THE MEETING TO DO THAT. I WILL BE FOR IT TO THE EXTENT EVEN IF I HAVE TO PUT AN ITEM ON THE AGENDA TO DO IT.

I DON'T WANT THAT ON MY CONSCIENCE AS WE OPEN THE DOORS AND TRY TO HAVE MORE EQUITY AND SOMEBODY GOES BELLY UP BECAUSE OF OUR PROCESS. I THINK IT IS DURING THAT LONG BREAK, WHATEVER IT IS AND I WOULD BE SENSITIVE FOR ANY OF US TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW CAN BE CAN BE -- HOW SOMEBODY CAN BE VIRTUAL. TWO PEOPLE CAN'T BE VIRTUAL.

AT THE END OF THE DAY WE SHOULD ALL BE MINDFUL OF LETTING SOMEBODY WHO IS IMPORTANT TO US OR FEELS LIKE THEY OUGHT TO BE IMPORTANT HAVE EXTRA TIME. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU SORT THROUGH IT. YOU GOT ME? WE CAN FIGURE OUT THEY CAN SUBMIT WRITTEN TESTIMONY.

MAYBE WE TELL THEM THAT. SOMETIMES THEY DON'T KNOW LIKE THE YOUNG PEOPLE HERE EARLIER. OBVIOUSLY THEY DIDN'T KNOW THEY

CAN STILL SUBMIT. >> COMMISSIONER, THOSE ARE GOOD SUGGESTIONS AND I WILL CERTAINLY INCORPORATE THAT IN THE NEXT VERSION. I DID WANT TO SAY ONE THING.

THE ISSUE YOU BROUGHT UP RELATED TO SPEAKERS, AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT IT BECOMES A LOGISTICAL ISSUE AND THAT'S WHY THAT CAME UP. WHEN THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC APPEAR VIRTUALLY, THEY GET A CALL ABOUT 10 MINUTES BEFORE THEY ARE GOING TO SPEAK. WHEN MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE HERE IN PERSON, THEY ARE HERE ALL DAY IN PERSON.

IT IS COMFORTABLE AND RELATIVELY EASY TO APPEAR VIRTUALLY WHICH WE ALL AGREE IS A NET POSITIVE. THE THOUGHT PROCESS WAS IT WAS

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THERE IS A SUBSTANTIVE LEGAL LIMB TKPWAEUGS BECAUSE -- LIMITATION BECAUSE YOU MUST BE ABLE TO SPEAK BEFORE AN ITEM IS VOTED ON. THAT WOULD BE THE ONLY THING.

THAT WAS THE RATIONAL BEHIND IT. IT IS WHATEVER THE COURT FEELS

MAKES MORE SENSE. >> RODNEY ELLIS: ARE WE REQUIRED BY LAW TO MEET AT 10 OR IS THAT OUR DECISION?

>> THAT'S YOUR DECISION. MY SENSE WAS GENERALLY -- GENERALLY THE 10:00 TIME WAS A DESIRABLE TIME.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: I MADE IT IN AUSTIN BECAUSE I ALWAYS TAKE A NAP WHEN I KNOW I GET A LITTLE AGITATED.

AS I GET OLDER I GET AGITATED A LITTLE MORE IF YOU HAVEN'T

NOTICED. >> R. JACK CAGLE: MAYBE.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: YES. BE CAREFUL.

IF WE PUT A TV WHERE PEOPLE CAN HEAR IT, THAT MIGHT HELP IF IT IS NOT DISRUPTIVE. YOU CAN HEAR IT.

IT IS GOOD THAT WITH THE TV BACK HERE AND SOMETIMES I WILL -- THERE ARE ONLY FIVE OF US, I WILL LISTEN MOST OF THE TIME AND IF THERE IS A WAY TO DO IT IN THE HALL -- I KNOW WHEN WE MOVED DOWNSTAIRS -- TRAVIS COUNTY IS AN EXAM WHERE -- EXAMPLE WHERE PEOPLE CAN WATCH FROM OUT THERE. I GET IT ON PRIORITIZING PEOPLE IN THE ROOM. I KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO

CAN'T GET HERE. >> LINA HIDALGO: I FEEL LIKE WE HAVE HAD THIS DISCUSSION BEFORE AND I DON'T WANT TO RELITIGATE THIS IN DISCUSSION. WE WILL WORK ON ANOTHER DRAFT AND JUST BRING IT OVER AND THEN WE CAN VOTE ON IT AND THEN I HEARD WHAT YOU MENTIONED THOUGH ABOUT THE FIRM LUNCH, AND WE WILL PUT THAT IN THERE. AND WE CAN VOTE YAY OR NAY.

BUT THIS IS WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE AS A CHANGE IN THE RULES.

COMMISSIONER CAGLE? >> R. JACK CAGLE: BRIEFLY ONE OF THE THINGS WE CAN DO WITH REGARD TO THE BUSINESS PROBLEM WE SUGGESTED BEFORE YOU GUYS CAME WAS THAT WE AUTHORIZE THE BUDGET OFFICE TO EXPENDITURES THAT ARE UNDER A CERTAIN LEVEL TO GO AHEAD AND HAVE OUR PRE-APPROVAL SUBJECT TO THEM COMING BACK AND BEING REVIEWED BY US. IF WE MAKE THAT LIMIT TO ONE WHERE IF IT IS A SMALL BUSINESS, $100,000 IS NOT A BIG DEAL TO A BIG COMPANY, BUT IT IS A HUGE DEAL TO A SMALL COMPANY.

WHATEVER THAT NUMBER IS THE MAJORITY OF US ARE COMFORTABLE WITH, WE COULD AUTHORIZE THE BUDGET OFFICE TO VET, REVIEW THOSE INVOICES AND HAVE THE PRE APPROVAL CAPACITY AND THEY SUBMIT TO US AFTERWARDS, THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE DONE.

THAT ALLOWS US TO HAVE THE SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ARE DEPENDING ON THE INVOICES TO GET PROCESSED TO BE DONE QUICKLY.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: KPHEUGTS -- COMMISSIONER CAGLE, IF I COULD PIGGYBACK, I THINK IT IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN JUST THAT BECAUSE IT INVOLVES THE AUDITOR'S OFFICE.

AND WE ARE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT PAYING SMALL BUSINESSES.

THEY HAVE TO PAY THEIR SUBS. MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE DO STRUCTURE A BUSINESS COURT MEETING THAT IS LIMITED TO THE APPROVAL OF VENDOR INVOICES AS PRESENTED BY THE COUNTY AUDITOR.

INVOICE THAT'S REQUIRE ANY DISCUSSION WILL BE PLACED ON THE AGENDA ON THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING.

I WOULD RATHER DEFER TO THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO STRUCTURE THAT BUSINESS COURT MEETING SO IT CAN ACCOMPLISH WHAT WE ARE BOTH COMMUNICATING. I REMEMBERING COG TPHAOEUZ THAT WE ARE -- RECOGNIZE WE ARE NOT JUST PAYING SMALL BUSINESSES, BUT PAY THE PRIMES WHO PAY THE SUBS.

THAT'S ONE OF MY RECOMMENDATIONS THE OTHER ITEM I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST IS THAT IF THE COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE COULD COORDINATE -- I DON'T KNOW IF THIS WOULD BE THE COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, BUT I GUESS SINCE YOU ARE WRITING THE RULES

TO COORDINATE THAT -- >> LINA HIDALGO: I WILL BRING THE NEW SET. WE DID THAT WITH THE ELECTIONS

COMMISSION. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: THIS PARTICULAR ITEM THAT WE COORDINATE BUDGET REQUESTS AND ADJUSTMENTS THAT MUST COME THROUGH THE BUDGET OFFICE BEFORE BEING PLACED ON THE UH -- AGENDA SO THE OFFICE HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO VET, REVIEW AND POTENTIALLY UH PROFESSOR OR -- APPROVE OR NOT OR DECIDE IF IT IS PUT ON THE AGENDA AT ALL.

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>> LINA HIDALGO: SO IF IT INVOLVES THE BUDGET, THEN THE BUDGET OFFICE HAS A SAFETY VALVE.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: CORRECT. >> TOM RAMSEY: AND A COMMENT ON THE BUSINESSES HAVING BEEN ONE OF THOSE DIS-- THE BUSINESSES DEPENDING ON THE COMMISSIONERS' COURT TO MEET AND IMPROVE INVOICES I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT.

PWR-F -- BEFORE THE NEXT MEETING HOW MANY BUSINESS MEETINGS, QUOTE, UNQUOTE, DO WE THINK WE WOULD NEED TO FILL THE GAP? IT CAN'T BE THAT WE MEET THREE TIMES EVERY MONTH.

THERE WOULD BE THOSE GAPS THAT WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO APPROVE INVOICES. HAVING AN ESTIMATE OF THOSE

WOULD BE GOOD. >> I --

>> I THINK IT IS FOUR OR FIVE. WE HAVE 21 OR 22 COURTS A YEAR AND IF WE MET EVERY 2 WEEKS IT IS 26.

THAT GETS US TO EVERY TWO WEEKS AND WE WOULD NEVER GO MORE THAN

-- >> AND YOU ARE SAYING WE HAVE A PROBLEM NOW WITH PROCESSING INVOICES?

>> WE PAY PEOPLE LATE WHEN THERE ARE THREE WEEKS THAT PASS AND WE

DON'T GET APPROVAL. >> SO WHEN WE HAVE A THREE-WEEK BREAK WHICH IS FOUR TO FIVE TIMES A YEAR.

>> THAT'S ONE ISSUE. >> CAN I FOLLOW-UP ON THAT ONE? SO WE'RE SAYING IF WE DO THIS AND WE HAVE THE BUSINESS MEETING THEN I KNOW WE HAVE ALL BEEN VERY JUDICIOUS OF TRYING NOT TO HAVE TOO MANY THREE-WEEK GAPS, BUT WE COULD HAVE MORE THREE-WEEK GAPS IF WE HAVE THE BUSINESS MEETING THAT COMES IN.

WE WOULDN'T BE QUITE SO SENSITIVE ABOUT THAT?

>> JUST PUTTING THAT OUT THERE. >> YOU JUST GOT MY VOTE.

>> CAN I JUST SAY FOR THE RECORD THAT I DON'T KNOW WHOSE IDEA THAT WAS, BUT I'M STARTING TO LIKE IT.

>> SO US ADDRESSING THE BUSINESS PART OF THE AGENDA, THOSE DISCUSSION ITEMS THAT MANY TIMES WERE 6:00 AT NIGHT AND DOING IT AT 11:00. OF COURSE WE TAKE THE SPEAKERS FIRST AND WE HAVE TO DO THAT IS FIRST.

I GET THAT. AS SOON AS WE CAN PROGRAM THE BUSINESS DISCUSSION, THE DISCUSSION ITEMS, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A STEP TOWARD TRANSPARENCY.

WHETHER IT SAVES ANY TIME OR NOT WE'LL SEE.

BUT IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT. AND THEN ONE MINOR THING, IF WE CAN SIGN RESOLUTIONS ON THE SAME DAY WE PASS THEM WHILE WE ARE ALL HERE, I THINK IT MAY SAVE PEOPLE A LOT OF TIME TRACKING US DOWN. I THINK Y'ALL USED TO DO THAT.

>> WE DIDN'T QUITE HAVE AS MANY. IF I MIGHT? I SAY IF IT SLOWS US DOWN -- I AM AN ADVOCATE OF STARTING AN HOUR EARLY. WE DON'T ALL HAVE TO BE HERE HERE TO HEAR THE PUBLIC TESTIMONY.

WHEN WE GET TO LATE IN THE DAY AND MAKING ON DECISIONS ON BIG ISSUES, IT MAY BE THE MOST PRODUCTIVE WAY TO DO IT.

I DON'T WANT TO MEET ANYMORE THAN WHAT WE HAVE TO MEET, BUT COMPARED TO EVERY OTHER JOB MEETING EVERY TWO WEEKS, I AM NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT, BUT IF WE ARE HERE AT MIDNIGHT, 10:00 AT NIGHT, I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE, I JUST TELL YOU IF I

AM IN A BAD MOOD. >> TOM RAMSEY: I GET SNARLEY

MYSELF. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT -- WHEN WILL THE NEW SCHEDULE OF COURT COME

OUT? >> FOR THE SUB -- SUBSEQUENT

YEAR? >> ADRIAN GARCIA: FOR 23.

>> I THINK IT IS LATE IN THE YEAR.

>> YEAH, THIS LAST YEAR I THINK IT WAS NOVEMBER.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: YOU MAY WANT TO TAKE A SHOT AT DRAFTING SOME EARLIER BASED ON THIS BUSINESS COURT DISCUSSION AND THAT WAY WE CAN MAKE SURE TO LOOK AT IT EARLY ON AND IT IS NOT FINAL UNTIL IT IS PRESENTED IN NOVEMBER, I GUESS, BUT IT WILL BE GOOD TO LOOK AT IT UNDERSTAND IT.

>> LUCINDA SAID WE DID IT IN SEPTEMBER.

THAT'S WHEN IT COMES OUT. >> TOM RAMSEY: AND ONE OTHER

POINT -- >> ADRIAN GARCIA: QUICKLY, AND TO MY OTHER POINT ABOUT COORDINATING THE BUDGET ISSUES THROUGH THE BUDGET OFFICE, I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO INCLUDE SOME DISCUSSION WITH THE COMMISSIONERS IF WE WANT TO PUT

SOMETHING ON THERE LATER. >> SOMETHING ON THERE?

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>> ON THE AGENDA RELATED TO THE BUDGET.

>> TOM RAMSEY: AND AS I UNDERSTAND EVEN A BUSINESS MEETING TWO MEMBERS CAN BE VIRTUAL?

>> YES. IT IS ESSENTIALLY NO DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER CASH DASH

>> LINA HIDALGO: THERE HAS TO BE A ROTATION BECAUSE I WILL BE

HERE EVERY TIME. >> AND I KNOW THERE ARE NOT ALWAYS FIVE MEMBERS AT THESE COURTS.

YOU JUST NEED THREE. IF SOMETHING IS CONTROVERSIAL IT WOULD BE PULLED AND DISCUSSED ANYWAY.

>> WHAT DID YOU PUT IF -- IN THERE AS TAKING THE PICTURES IF WE DO THAT LATER OR ONLY -- YOU FOUR CAN BE IN FOR THE PICTURES AND I HAVE A POP UP YOU CAN PUT IN OF ME.

>> PERHAPS WE SIGN -- THERE IS A LOT OF GOOD IDEAS HERE.

THE SIGNING OF THE RESOLUTIONS,E END OF THE JUVENILE BOARD, THAT WORKS. WE CAN GET THE CALENDAR AND FOR THE BUSINESS COURT WE DON'T NEED THE DISCUSSION.

THE OTHER PROBLEM IS WE DON'T WANT TO NOT HAVE A QUORUM.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE IS I THOUGHT YOU WERE COMING AND YOU

THOUGHT I WAS COMING. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: I DON'T SEE THE BUSINESS COURT BEING LIKE OUR REGULAR COURT MEETINGS WHERE WE KNOW WE NEED TO BE HERE. I THINK THE IDEA OF COORDINATING AND HAVING THE KOUPB TAOEP -- COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SAYING WHO IS PLANNING ON ATTENDING OR WE NEED ONE MORE TO ATTEND

BEFORE WE CANCEL THAT MEETING. >> AND WE WOULD NEED THAT FIGURED OUT BEFORE THE THREE WEEKS OTHERWISE THAT WOULD BE A

PROBLEM. >> I WOULD BE ONE TO COMMITTING TO BEING THERE OR ACKNOWLEDGING I CAN'T BE THERE OR BEING A VIRTUAL ATTENDEE. I THINK WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT

THE PROCESS. >> JUDGE, AS A PRACTICE -- PRACTICAL MATTER A BUSINESS MEETING IS NO DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER MEETING AND THE JUDGE WOULD CALL THE MEETING OR PRESIDE. THE SAME WAY THAT THE SYSTEM WORKS RIGHT NOW WHERE THE NOTICE IS EVERYTHING IS DONE THROUGH THE JUDGE'S OFFICE, THAT WOULD BE THE SAME THING.

PROCEDURALLY HER OFFICE WOULD BE ONE TO COORDINATE THE PROCESS.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: I WILL ALWAYS BE HERE.

I THINK I HAVE BEEN ON THE COURT FIVE -- SIX YEARS AND I HAVE NOT MISSED A MEETING YET. I CAN'T REMEMBER IF I MET VIRTUAL. AND THE WAY IT WORKS NOW, THE VIRTUAL STUFF, I THINK PEOPLE -- LET FOLKS KNOW.

IF I HAVE DONE IT I LET PEOPLE KNOW.

IF SOMEBODY SAID THEY ARE GOING TO BE VIRTUAL, I KNEW YOU ONLY

NEED THREE. >> LINA HIDALGO: THAT IS A GREAT DISCUSSION AND WE WILL CONTINUE ON.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. IT IS A NO ACTION AND THIS WAS A DISCUSSION ITEM. THAT WAS 160.

AND NEXT IS 161, COMMISSIONER GARCIA.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: ON THIS ONE -- >> RODNEY ELLIS: WHICH ONE IS

IT? >> LINA HIDALGO: 181, PAGE 21.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: YES. I AM KWERPBED WHY THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE IS MAKING THE MOVE. I WANT TO ASK MR. RAMOS HOW MUCH OF THE R AND R MONEY WE HAVE LEFT AND WHETHER WE CAN USE THAT TO BUILD A CONTRACT WITH THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND THE HARRIS

CENTER. >> I BELIEVE IT WAS THREE COURTS AGO THIS COURT LIQUIDATED THE R AND R.

CAN WE USE ARPA MONEY TO DO THIS? I HATE TO LEAVE THE HARRIS CENTER WITHOUT SECURITY.

>> I DON'T THINK THERE ARE GAPS IN SECURITY, BUT I WILL FOLLOW-UP WITH YOU ON ARPA ELIGIBILITY.

>> IF I UNDERSTAND THIS ITEM THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE IS PULLING

THEIR RESOURCES, AREN'T THEY? >> I AM READING MY NOTES.

>> LINA HIDALGO: DO YOU WANT TO LET US KNOW AT THE END OF COURT?

>> YES. >> LINA HIDALGO: WE CAN COME

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ONLINE BAIL BOND SERVICES. >> TOM RAMSEY: QUICKLY, I UNDERSTAND THERE ARE PEOPLE HAVING TO SECURE BONDS AND GOING TO DARK AREAS LATE AT NIGHT AND I DON'T THINK THAT IS A GOOD SECURITY THING AND TO GIVE THEM A SAFER AND MORE SECURE WAY TO GET THEIR BONDS MAKES ALL THE SENSE.

I JUST WANT TO BE SURE THAT'S WHAT THIS IS.

IT IS HELPING THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO SECURE A BOND.

THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE HERE IN PERSON.

THEY CAN DO IS VIRTUALLY. IS THAT CORRECT?

>> LINA HIDALGO: IS THERE SOMEONE FROM THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE? MY NOTES HERE COMMISSIONER SAID IT WOULD ALLOW PEOPLE TO PAY AN ONLINE -- TO PAY ONLINE TO REDUCE TRAFFIC AND CONGESTION AT THE JAIL.

>> AND I THINK IT MAKES SECURITY >> I MAKE A PHOEBGS -- MOTION TO

ACCEPT IT. >> SO MOVED.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ALL IN FAVOR? >> I.

>> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED? I AM IN FAVOR AND MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. ARE YOU GOOD ON 181?

>> MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE HARRIS CENTER HAD APPROVED THE CHANGE. IF WE WANT TO PULL THE ITEM I CAN CHECK ON THE ARPA ELIGIBILITY.

>> ADRIAN GARCIA: I WOULD REQUEST NO ACTION ON IT THEN.

>> WE CAN FOLLOW-UP WITH THE ARPA ELIGIBILITY.

MY UNDERSTANDING WAS IT WAS MOVED BY BOTH PARTIES.

>> I AM JUST CONCERNED BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PLAN IS.

AS I READ I AM LESS CONCERNED. >> NO ACTION ON 181.

>> IS THERE A PROBLEM WITH DELAYING IT?

>> THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITH DELAYING IT.

>> THERE IS A NOTIFICATION THAT IT IS HAPPENING.

>> WE CAN FOLLOW FOLLOW-UP. >> LINA HIDALGO: WE VOTED ON 215. 220, COMMISSIONER GARCIA.

>> ON 220, 221 AND 222 I JUST WANT TO UH-HUH PHRAUD MY -- I JUST WANT TO APPLAUD MY TEAM, MY PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND ROAD AND BRIDGE TEAM. THEY ARE PHENOMENAL, PHENOMENAL HARD BLANK, BLANK, BLANK WORKING PEOPLE.

I AM HAPPY FOR THEM AND I APPRECIATE ALL OF THE WORK.

WHEN YOU GO OUT AND YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THE PARTS AND THE PROJECTS, I MEAN, I GET SO MANY EMAILS AND MESSAGES FROM THE PUBLIC WHEN THEY RECOGNIZE THE CHANGE OR THE IMPACT OF THEIR WORK IN A PARTICULAR AREA. ALL THAT TO SAY THAT THIS IS THEIR WORK BEFORE THEY HAD GOOD EQUIPMENT.

I REMEMBER THAT IN 2019 WE DID AN ASSESSMENT OF THEIR VEHICLES AND THEY HAD TRUCKS WITH HOLES IN THEM TO THE ROAD UNDERNEATH.

THEY WERE HARD AT WORK. WE WORKED TO IMPROVE THE EQUIPMENT. AND THESE ITEMS ARE JUST SIMPLY MORE IN THE SAME VEIN. WE ARE BUYING TRUCKS THAT BLOW THE BEGUNKING -- THE GUK AND THE MUD OUT -- THE GUNK AND THE TRUCKS. WE HAVE TRACK LOADERS FOR THEIR OTHER AREAS OF WORK. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PURCHASE OF THE ITEMS AND MY EMPLOYEES DON'T COMPLAIN AND IF WE HAVE ASSESSED THE EQUIPMENT WE WOULD NOT HAVE REALIZED WHAT KIND OF MAGIC AND SCOTCH TAPE AND THEY WERE HAPPY TO DO THE WORK. AND THEY ARE DOING MORE IMPRESSIVE WORK. PROPS TO THE PRECINCT 2 PUBLIC WORKS TEAM. THANK YOU.

MOVE ON THIS ITEM. >> LINA HIDALGO: ITEM 220, 221, AND 222, MOTIONED BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA.

>> SECOND. >> LINA HIDALGO: SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER ELLIS. DID YOU CATCH THAT?

>> YES. >> LINA HIDALGO: ALL IN FAVOR?

>> I. >> LINA HIDALGO: ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. MOVING ON TO ITEM 237.

COMMISSIONER ELLIS. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I KNOW THERE WILL BE A PRESENTATION ON THIS ITEM.

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HIS DEATH IS A GLARING AND TRAGIC EXAMPLE OF THE LONG ROAD TO MAKE OUR CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM PROTECT SAFETY AND INJUSTICE FOR EVERYBODY AND THAT HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE.

EVEN IN 2021 THE LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE U.S. SHOT AND KILLED MORE PEOPLE AND TWO YEARS AGO THEY ADVANCED THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE AWARENESS IN OUR SYSTEM AND WE TASKED THE AWARENESS PROJECT AND I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM THEM NOW AND WHERE WE ARE NOW AND WHAT WORK WE NEED TO DO TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR COMMUNITY. THEY POOHED DOWN A PRESENT -- THEY PASSED DOWN THE PRESENTATION TO US.

>> GOOD EVENING. PROBLEM -- [INAUDIBLE].

THE JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT.

ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT I WILL BE PRESENTING TO YOU IS INFORMATION THAT IS NOT NEW IT IS SOMETHING AT YOUR STAFF HAS RECEIVED AND I WILL DO WHAT I CAN TO MAKE THIS AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS I CAN.

NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. AS COMMISSIONER ELLIS --

>> LINA HIDALGO: DIRECTOR, HAVE YOU SENT THIS PRESENTATION TO

OUR STAFF? >> WE ACTUALLY SENT A MEMO

OUTLINING THIS CONTENT. >> LINA HIDALGO: I WILL LOOK AT

THE MEMO. >> WE SENT IT ON FRIDAY.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU. MY GLASSES ARE STILL IN THE MAIL SO I CAN'T SEE THE PRESENTATION, BUT I WILL LOOK AT THE MEMO.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: THAT'S WHY I GO OLD SCHOOL WITH THE PAPER.

>> AS COMMISSIONER ELLIS ARTICULATED THEY PROVIDE A WIDE RANGE OF TOPIC AREAS COVERING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND WAYS TO ADDRESS POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY AND THE VIABILITY OF THE TOWN'S EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND WAYS THE TOWN CAN ENHANCE LAW ENFORCEMENT PRACTICES AND WAYS TO IMPROVE THE INDIGENT DEFENSE AND ADDRESS THE PROCESS OF DISPARITY.

THERE IS A LOT OF WORK TO BE PROUD OF.

I WILL BEGIN WITH THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT BUDGETING PROCESS THAT WAS GIVEN TO US BY THE COUNTY JUDGE.

OUT OF THIS PARTICULAR SCOPE OF WORK, A FIRST OF A KIND ADJUSTMENT REINVESTMENT FUND. WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE COLLABORATION AND SUPPORT OF THIS PARTICULAR EFFORT WITH THE HARRIS COUNTY SKWRAOUF -- JUVENILE PROBATION.

AND I WANT TO SHOUTOUT TO THE BUDGIE MANAGEMENT -- THE BUDGET MANAGEMENT SO THEY CAN PROVIDE THEIR FEEDBACK AND INPUT AND A PRODUCT OF THAT CAN BE SEEN ON THE WEBSITE AND IEN -- I ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO SEE THAT. ANOTHER ITEM YOU PROVIDED US WAS THE VIABILITY OF LOOKING AT WHAT IT WOULD TAKE FOR HARRIS COUNTY TO PROVIDE A FIRST RESPONDER STUDY THAT A REPORT WAS COMPLETED WITH THE COURT ANALYST OFFICE AND WE ARE HAPPY TO REPORT THAT THE PROGRAM BEGAN OPERATING IN MARCH OF 2020.

WE ARE GOOD TO GO ON THAT ONE. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

THE PREVENTION REPORT WAS COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED ON AUGUST OF 2021 AND IT HELPS THE PREVENTION SERVICES WITHIN THE COUNTY AND THE COMMUNITY PREVENTION PROGRAM WAS APPROVED

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AND HE GAVE US A REPORT TO LOOK AT WHAT IT WOULD TAKE FOR THE PUBLIC DEFENDER OFFICE TO INCREASE CAPACITY BY 50% OF INDIGENT DEFENSE CASES. WE PUBLISHED A REPORT AND THE REPORT OUTLINED NOT JUST THE WAY OF BEEFING UP THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE, BUT THE COUNCIL TO BE FULLY OPERATIONAL.

THERE ARE QUITE A FEW DASHBOARDS AND GUIDES AND A REPRESENTATION IN 2018 IS 24%. MISDEMEANORS IT IS 18% AND

FELONY IT IS 15% FROM 5.76. >> RODNEY ELLIS: ONE QUESTION, WHAT DOES THAT MAKE THE OVERALL NUMBER OR PERCENTAGE OF CASES WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE INDIGENT. WHAT PERCENTAGE OF CASES DOES THE PD OFFICE -- I THINK WHEN I MAKE THAT MOTION, THE GOAL WAS

TO GET IT TO 50%, PERIOD. >> THE GOAL IS TO GET IT TO 50%, COMMISSIONER. MR. BONNET IS NOT HERE TO ANSWER SPECIFIC QUESTIONS, BUT IF IF I CAN FINISH THIS PRESENT -- PRESENTATION I CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH THE OTHER INFORMATION.

YOU GAVE US A STUDY ON NON-PUNITIVE INITTER -- INTERVENTION ALTERNATIVE. THE DATA GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE APPROVED THE DATA USE AGREEMENT YESTERDAY AND THEY ARE LOOKING AT IT AND ALL OF THE RELEVANT PARTIES WILL FIND THE AGREEMENT AND THEN WE WILL PROCEED WITH SHARING THE DATA ELEMENT.

>> IS THAT THE ONE I SENT A LETTER ASKING FOR IN 2018?

>> NO, COMMISSIONER. THAT'S ANOTHER ONE COMING UP.

>> I'M SORRY. THANK YOU.

>> NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. >> YOU ALSO GAVE US A STUDY ON FEES THAT ARE ON ITS WAY. THE VENDOR IS LOOKING AT THE SCOPE OF WORK AND WE WILL BE -- AS SOON AS WE HAVE ALL OF THAT WE WILL GIVE UH TIMELINE TO BE COMPLETED.

NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. COMMISSIONER, THIS IS PART OF THE QUESTION YOU ASKED US. THERE IS A REPORT TO LOOK AT THE ROOT CAUSES OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES TO THE EXSENT THAT -- EXTENT THE RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES EXIST, THE CAUSES AND THE EVIDENCE-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS TO REMEDY THOSE PARTICULAR DISPARITIES. WE SUBMITTED A REQUEST TO THE COMMITTEE AND THEY ARE HOPING TO RECEIVE IT.

ONCE WE ARE ABLE TO RECEIVE IT, WE WILL PROVIDE THAT AND WORK WITH THE COUNTY KOERPB -- COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.

THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE NOT IN PUBLIC VIEW THAT WE WILL HAVE TO DO MORE ADDITIONAL WORK TO GET FROM EITHER THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE OR SHERIFF'S OFFICE OR OTHER AGENCIES.

>> I WANT TO REQUEST THAT YOUR OFFICE JUST PUT THAT ON THE

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2018 IS WHEN I ASKED FOR IT. WHEN I CAN GET A VERSION OF IT, AS I MENTIONED TO YOU AT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE COORDINATING COUNCIL WHEN I WAS IN THE LEGISLATURE, AND THE CONSTABLE WAS HERE AND I'LL PUT IT ON THE AGENDA AND I WILL FIGURE OUT -- I KNOW THE PRESS IS HERE AND MAYBE THEY WILL DO THE OPEN RECORDS REQUEST. THAT'S TAKING TOO LONG.

IT WAS SINCE 2018. IF YOU WOULD POST THAT EVERY COURT SO WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION ON THAT ITEM.

>> YES. COMMISSIONER -- YES, COMMISSIONER. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

WE RECEIVED A REQUEST FROM COMMISSIONER GARCIA REGARDING RACIAL PROFILING DATA. OUT OF THAT PARTICULAR EFFORT WE WERE ABLE TO DEVELOP A FIRST OF A KIND DASHBOARD THAT LOOKS AT RACIAL PROFILING DATA AND NOT JUST -- BASICALLY DATA THAT IS SUBMITTED TO THE TEXAS LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION AND ALL OF LAW ENFORCEMENT IN 254 COUNTIES.

IT IS SELF-REPORTED. YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT IT.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO UPDATE ON U. WE ARE ASKING ALL AGENCIES FOLLOW THIS. ONE IS AN EXAMPLE BY CONSTABLE JERRY GARCIA'S WEBSITE. HE HAS HIS OWN LINE COMPLAINT FORM AND ANOTHER ONE IS THE SHERIFF'S BUSINESS.

HE HAS A CARD AND YOU CAN SEE IT ON PAGE 6 OF THE REPORT THAT HIS DEPUTIES PROVIDE. THAT WAS SOMETHING HE WAS DOING PRIOR TO THE REPORT AND IT ALLOWS INDIVIDUALS TO KNOW HOW TO REACH OUT TO THE DEPARTMENT AND THAT'S ANOTHER GOOD EXAMPLE WE THOUGHT WOULD BE WORTHY OF UP LIFTING.

THE OTHER THING WE LEARNED FROM THE REPORT IS WE NEED ADDITIONAL DATA SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY DIVE DEEPER INTO THE VARIOUS PRACTICES. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

WE WILL HAVE A PUBLIC SITE ON THE USE OF FORCE DATA.

AND NOW THIS IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE IN PROGRESS.

THE COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE HAS BEEN WORKING ON THE SENDING AND THE POSSIBLE TRACING. THEY SUBMITTED TO THE CONSTABLES THE MOU IN MAY OF 2021. IT HAS NOT BEEN SIGNED BY THE PARTIES AND HAS NOT BEEN SIGNED BY THE CONSTABLES.

INDEPENDENTLY WE HAVE BEEN REACHING OUT TO THE CONSTABLES AND WE ASKED FOR INFORMATION IN SPECIFIC BASES.

WE UNDERSTAND THAT THEY HAVE A LOT ON THEIR PLATE.

AND SO WE WANTED TO GET INFORMATION BASED ON SPECIFIC BASIS. RIGHT NOW WE WOULD REALLY LIKE TO GET INFORMATION ON HOW-LEVEL AGGREGATE MONTHLY DATA SO WE CAN START DEALING WITH THE PUBLIC-FACING DASHBOARD.

THAT'S PHASE 1. PHASE 2 WILL GIVE IT CHARACTERISTICS AND PHASE 3 WHERE IT IS LEGALLY AND TO HAVE THE BODY CAM FOOTAGE. THEY DID HAVE A VERY GOOD MEETING WITH THE HARRIS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER GARCIA SO WE CAN GET MORE MOVEMENT ON THIS THING.

NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. WE ALSO HAD THE INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT REPORT. THAT REPORT IS FINAL -- FINALIZED -- WELL, IT IS CLOSE TO BEING FINALIZED.

WE PROVIDED QUESTIONS AND THE CONSULTANTS FOLLOWED UP AND THE INSPECTOR GENERAL AND WE ARE THANKFUL TO COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND THE HARRIS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE FOR ANSWERING OUR QUESTIONS, BUT WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED RESPONSES FROM THE OTHER CONSTABLES. WE PLAN TO SUBMIT THE REPORT AND

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NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. WE ALSO HAVE A MODEL USE OF FORCE POLICY TRAINING. WE REVIEWED THE JURISDICTIONS AND THE USE OF FORCE POLICIES AND WE ARE DEVELOPING A TOOL KIT TO MAKE IT EASY FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO UTILIZE OUR RECOMMENDED POLICY. IT IS ALL RECOMMENDATIONS.

THEY ARE POLICIES THEY CAN DOWNLOAD AND REVIEW.

ALL WE CAN DO IS PROVIDE OUR RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON THE PRACTICES AND OBVIOUSLY LAW ENFORCEMENT CAN CHOOSE TO IMPLEMENT OR NOT IMPLEMENT AND THAT'S SORT OF WHERE WE ARE ON

THAT PARTICULAR FRONT. >> ADRIAN GARCIA: BEFORE YOU MOVE ON, ON THE USE OF FORCE POLICY DO YOU HAVE A RECORD OF

WHO HAS ADOPTED IT? >> THE LAST TIME I KNOW THE CONSTABLES WERE GETTING TOGETHER TO HAVE A UNIFIED USE OF FORCE.

THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO SHARE WHAT THEY WERE USING. WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO IS LAUNCH THIS TOOL KIT TO MAKE IT EASY FOR CONVERSATIONS SO WE CAN DELINEATE THE LOGIC BEHIND OUR RECOMMENDATIONS.

I DO NOT HAVE -- >> ADRIAN GARCIA: SO THE ANSWER

IS NO. >> NO.

NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. YES.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY YOU HAVE GIVEN US TO WORK ON THESE VERY, VERY IMPORTANT ISSUES.

WE UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE AND THE WORK AND WE ARE GRATEFUL TO ALL OF THE PARTNERS WRAOE HAVE GOTTEN TO COLLABORATE AND WORK WITH. THIS IS A LABOR OF LOVE AND GLAD WE WERE ABLE TO -- COMMISSIONER YOU HAD A QUESTION REGARDING WHERE THE PDO IS REGARDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REPORT AND PR BONNET IS NOT -- MR. BONNET IS NOT HERE, BUT WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT -- A COUPLE OF THINGS WILL BE NECESSARY FOR A FULL 50% IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PDA.

AND IT IS GO -- OF THE PDO. AND IT IS GOING TO TAKE RE-- RESOURCES IT WILL TAKE RESOURCES TO HAVE A ROBUST PUBLIC DEFENSE AND SALARIES AND NONPERSONAL COSTS.

THIS COURT WILL HAVE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FUNDS.

THE NUMBERS I SHARED WITH YOU, THE 15% REPRESENTATION FOR THE FELONY APPOINTMENT AND FOR MISSED APPOINTMENTS, THEY ARE LOWER THAN THE CASE CAPACITY BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT MOVING FORWARD AT NORMAL SPEED. THEY HAVE MANDATORY CASE MAXIMUMS AND FELONIES, THEY CAN'T GO ABOVE 150 AND MUST REFUSE NEW CASES IF THE LIMITS ARE EXCEEDED.

ACCORDING TO MR. BONNIN IT WOULD GO SMOOTHER AS TRIALS INCREASE AND SO HE IS HOPING ABSENT OF ANOTHER PANDEMIC SHUTDOWN WHICH WE SEE THAT THINGS ARE GOING WELL ON THAT FRONT THAT THE PDO SHOULD BE AT 20%. THE PDO IS ADDING LAWYERS WITH ARPA FUNDS AND THAT ADDITIONAL LAWYERS SHOULD ENSURE IT IS 20%.

I WISH I COULD CHANNEL ALEX AND THAT IS BASICALLY THE INFORMATION HE RELAYED. I'M SURE IF YOU HAVE FOLLOW-UP

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>> RODNEY ELLIS: THANK YOU. THIS ITEM WAS FOR DISCUSSION ONLY SO I WON'T MAKE A MOTION. BUT I WILL MAKE A REQUEST THAT THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR COME BACK TO US WITH A PLAN I GUESS IT TKR-RBGS CORREIA AND MR. PERRY WORKING ON -- I HAVE A TOUR OF ITEMS HERE ON WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS AND HOW WE CAN IMPLEMENT THEM. FOUR OF US WENT TO -- IT WAS A SPECIAL TIME IN OUR COUNTRY AND AT LEAST THE ONES I PUT ON THE AGENDA AND WAS THE CASE FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO PUT IT ON THE -- THE AGENDA, THEY WERE HEART FELT AND SERIOUS AND DAY TAU- DATA-DRIVEN REPORT. WHY DO THESE DISPARITY STUDIES AND I SAY THAT'S WHAT THE LAW REQUIRES EVEN WHEN THAT'S WHAT WE KNOW IS THE DISPARITY. THAT IS A POWERFUL TOOL.

JUST AS I HAVE SUPPORTED USING IT FROM MY FEDERAL PARTNERS AND I WOULD KNOW THAT THIS IS THE SHORT-TERM I HAVE MADE AN EXCEPTION. INDIGENT DEFENSE AS AN EXAMPLE.

WE RAISED SALARIES IN CERTAIN OFFICES AND YOU NEED BALANCE ON BOTH SIDES OR SOMEBODY IS NOT GOING TO TAKE A PLEA IF THEY DON'T HAVE CONFIDENCE IF THE JUDGE JUST APPOINTED SOMEBODY.

I WANT YOU TO COME BACK WITH A PLAN.

WHAT IS NEXT SO WE DIDN'T JUST STUDY THESE 12 ITEMS TO GO THROUGH A REPORT TO PUT ON THE SHELF I WON'T GO OVER THE SPECIFICS, BUT CLEARLY ON THE ONE RACIAL DISPARITY DATA.

SOMEBODY IS HIDING SOMETHING. IF THEY WERE GIVING REPORTS -- AND I CAN LOOK AT THEM WHEN I WAS IN THE LEGISLATURE.

I THINK MY STAFF IS PULLING THEM, BUT CAN'T GET THEM NOW.

IF SOMETHING IS LEGALLY PROTECTED, I GET THAT.

GOING OFF TO A DATA COMMITTEE, THERE IS NO LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY TO HOLD THAT. ON THE PUBLIC DEFENDER, THERE IS A LOT OF PRODDING AND THE MONEY WE CAN GO AFTER WE CAN GO AFTER AND I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO COME BACK.

DO YOU THINK 30 DAYS IS SUFFICIENT? I WANT TO DO IT BEFORE WE DECIDE HOW TO SPEND ALL OF THE ARPA MONEY AND I DON'T THINK ANY OF US WENT TO THE FUNERAL AND WASN'T SERIOUS ABOUT WHAT WE ARE PUTTING ON HERE.

I AM PREPARED TO MAKE THE CASE. >> IF WE NEED TWO MORE WEEKS WE

WILL ASK. >> LINA HIDALGO: ON THE PART 1 I WANT TO MAKE THE POINT AND I I KNOW WE HAD THE DISCUSSION AT THE TABLE BEFORE. IT IS A GOOD START, BUT I REMEMBER HAVING A CONVERSATION WHERE YOU WALK BACK FROM THE UNIVERSE OF MENTAL HEALTH CALLS AND THERE ARE ENORMOUS GAPS.

AS YOU EVALUATE THE NEXT STEPY -- STEP ON THE ALTERNATIVE RESPONSE, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS SOMETHING FROM MR. PERRY TURNER TO OWN ORAR BBIEOB RINSON OR WHOM, BUTOW H -- WHAT ARE THE GAPS ON THE MENTAL HEALTH RESPONSE SIDE AND HOW AREE W GOING TO MEET THEMND A THE CITIES AREOI DNG SOMEND A HARRIS CENTER IS DOINGOM SETHING AND HART ISOI DNG SOME.

THAT LEAVES ANNO ERMOUS, ENORMOUSNI UVERSE OF PEOPLE

WHOSEEE NDSRE A NOT BEINGET M. >> RODNEY ELLIS: THERES I TREMENDOUSRO PGRESS ON SOME OF THEM,ND A I DON'T MEAN TO SAY I AM DISAPPOINTEDPL COMETELY BECAUSE THEREPR IS OGRESS ON A LOTTH OF OSE ITEMS WE LAID, OUT BUT THERE ISTI SLL ROOM ON SOME.

THEIG INDENT DEFENSEPS JUM IN MY MIND

>> LINA HIDALGO: COMMISSIONER RAMSEY.

>> TOM RAMSEY: COMMISSIONER, DO YOU THINK WE W HILLAVE A GOOD SENSEPR OF IORITIES? I MEAN, I READ THE 12.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: IT IS 12. >>MI COMSSIONER, THESO REAN IT SHOWSIS 12 BECAUSE ONE OF THE ITEMS HAD AON SECDARY MOTION.

IT WAS ON THEIA RACL PROFILING REPORT ANDN THECOMMISSIONER GARCIA HADER ANOTH AMENDMENTTH AT WAS ON THELI PROFINGAN ALYSIS. THERE WAS TWO F ITEMSOR ONE.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: I WAS JUST MAKING A I POINT HAVEST EXHAUED.

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>> TOM RAMSEY: SO WHENCO THEY ME BACK IN 30 DAYS THEY UNDERSTAND E A SENSOF PRIORITY ANDWE WILL SET THEIT PRIORYOR HERE DO YOU THINK THERE U IS ANNDERSTANDINGF PRIORITIESIS AT TH POINT?

>> I WOULD SAY SEETH WHAT EY COME UP WITH.SO ME OF THESE WEDO HAVE NE,AL TERNATIVE RESPONDER.SO ME OF THESE WE HAVE DONE. I JUST DIDN'TOU RUN THRGH IT.

IT I IS LATEN THE DAY AND I KNOW WE WANT TO O GET OUTF HERE.

>> LINA HIDALGO: THANK YOU FORTH E PROGRESS.

>>BE JUDGE, FORE WE GO TO THE NEXTOM ITEM, CMISSIONER CAGLEIS RAED A QUESTION RELATED TOEM IT 153,Y DIRECTLRELATED TO LITIGATION. JOHN, ARE YOU ON? I

>>'M ON.N ME?U SEE SEE

>> JOHNRO IS ON FM THE COUNTYTO ATRNEY'S OFFICE.

ANHINKED HE NEED TO ADDRESS ISSUE THAT WAS U BROUGHTP.

IT IS R 153 ANDELATED TO THE JAIL AND THAT PROGRAM.

>>NE COMMISSIOR CAGLE,UN MY DERSTANDING IS YOU ASKEDAN FOR

>> WETH CAN DO IS ONE HERE. I >> AM JUST A PROVIDING FACTUALTE UPDAU. YO A ASKED FORN UPDATE ON THEUI LAWST BROUGHT BYIE THE DEPUTS. THAT LAWSUIT WAS DISMISSED BY AGO. COURT A CPLE MONTHS AND WE UNDERSTANDBE THEY MAY TRYING I TO REFILET, BUT STAGE WEEE HAVEN'T SN ANYLA

COMPINT YET. >>TH WAS THAT ERT STATE COU?

>> ITL IS FEDERACOURT.HO >> WDG IS THE JUE?

>> PAN?T' STRONG.

>> THANK YOUDA FOR THAT UPTE.IN >> LA HIDALGO: TWRO 37 -- 237PL IS SIMY AN UPDATEN SO NO ACTIO IS NEEDNE OWED THAT O.

281, MR. RAMOS, YOU WANTED TO COVER TOLLE ROAD REVENU. S

>> ANDO LAST WEEK WE WENT TO MARKET TO REFUND OF OF HCTRA FUNDS.UD I AM PRO TO SAY WE GOT 2.9 ALLAN IN RATE DRD THAT IS UNHEA OFST AND A TEST MEANT TO THE RENGTH OF THE COUNTY AND THEST HCTRA SYEM ANDY A GREAT JOB B ALLPA

PART -- RTNERS.NE >> RODY ELLIS: DO YOU NEED O A MOTIONN THIS? OH JUST A TRANSMITTALA .

>> LINHIDALGO: CONGRATULATIONSY >> RODNEELLIS: GOOD NEWS.HI

>> LINA DALGO: SO THATSM IS A TRANITTAL.

AND NO ACTION ON 281. 286, COMMISSIONER RAMSEY.

THAT IS ON PAGE 34.AM >> TOM RSEY: SOER THIS CONFENCE WILL BE HERE ONH AUGUST 30T AND 31ST.

AND IS O THAT REGIONALLYR IS IT JUST IN THIS AREA ALL OVER?G FROM ALL OVER THE U.S.?DA

>> LINA HILGO: ISBI DIRECTOR RONSON ON THE LINE?

>> GOODOO AFTERNOON -- OR GD EVENING, JUDGE.F THIS IS CHIEOF STAFF TO DIRECTORIS ROBINSON.

TH IS OPEN TO ANYONE AVAILABLE WE WILLN HAVE 300 IN-PERSOD ATTENDEES AN A VIRTUAL OPTION T AND WE CAN GETHOSE NUMBERS TO YOU AND IT IS OPEN NATIONALLY AND IT IS TO PROMOTE THE METHODN OF COMMUNICATISVE AND PLAN TO ADRTISE THROUGHME MEDIA, SOCIAL

DIA AND -- >> I AND IT IS GOING TO BES ACE TWO-DAY CONFEREN?

>> SECOND.LG. >> LINA HIDAO: MOTIONED BY COMMISSIONER ELLIS AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA.

ALL IN FAVOR? >> I.O:

>> LINA HIDALG ANY OPPOSED? COMMISSIONER CAGLE?

>> I WAS ANDA I. >> LINA HILGO: I AM IN FAVOR.

IT IS PAS UNANIMOUSLY.TH >> DID YOU MAKE EL REQUEST THAT ALOF OUR OFFICES ARET INFORMED SO THAWE CAN -- [INAUDIBLE] I DO MAKE THE REQUEST THATIT YOU COORDINATE WH OUR OFFICES OF ALL OF THE BOARD MEMBERS SO WE CAN PARTICIPATE.

>> ABSOLUTELY. WE WOULD LOVEHI THAT.

>> LINA DALGO: COMMISSIONER CAGLE, 287 ON PAGE 34.

I THINK IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE WHO HAD ANE QUESTION.

>> RODY ELLIS: IS HE GOING TO MOVE IT?

>> R. JACK CAGLE: ON 287 I AM WAITING FOR COMMISSIONERWH RAMSY TO DECIDE ATNC HE WANTS TO DO SIE THAT IS IN HIS PRECINCT

NOW. >> TOM RAMSEY: I HAVEN GOTTEN

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I HAD IN THE LAST COUPLE DAYSN GOTTEN INFORMATION O. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN FACT, THEY MET LAST NIGHT AND THEY HAVE CONCERNS WITH THE PROJECT AND HAVE RECEIVED INPUT FROM ONE OF THE STATE REPS AND THEY HAD FEEDBACK FROMAR CONSTITUENTS IN THE EA AND THEY HAVE CONCERNS AND THIN -- AND THENTH SOME RECOGNIZE THAT ERE IS A BAR ACROSS THE STREET FROM WHERE THIS WOULD BE BUILT. THERE AREAT CONCERNS RELATED TO TH. THAT JUST HAPPENEDS IN THE LAST COUPLE DAY SO IE AM NOT PREPARD TO VOTAND SUPPORT THIS UNTIL I T UNDERSTAND BETTER WHATHOSE CONCERNS ARE.

>> RODNEY ELLIS: IS THERE A TIMETABLE ON THIS?EP DOES SOMEBODY FROM A DARTMENT KNOW THE STABILITY? I KNOW AFFORDABLEBL HOUSING IS SUCH A PROEM HERE AND I AM GLAD WE HAVE STOPPED A POLICY WHERE EACH COMMISSIONER WILL DECIDE AOUPB -- N UNILATERALLY WHETHER OROT THE PROJECTS CAN GO IN THE AREA WHICH IS WHY MOST ARE IN PRECINCT 1 AND 2 PROBABLY. I'LL MAKE A MOTION.

ANY DEADLINE ON THIS? DOES THIS JEOPARDIZE THE ABILITY DOESN'TE HOUSING IF IT PASS TODAY?

>> THIS IS A 4%, SO THERE ISN'T AN APPLICATIONF DEADLINE.

I DON'T KNOW ITHEHE DEVELOPER IS STILL IN TE COURTROOM.

SHE WAS THEREARLIERAM FROM THE DEVELOPMENT TE.

NOT SO MUCH AN APPLICATION DEADLINE.

I THINK THAT MIGHT BE HERNK APPROACHING.

>> THA YOU, DR. HOLLOWAY. >> THAT'S CORRECT.

THIS IS A 4% TAX CARD APPLICATION AND -- TAX CREDIT APPLICATION AND NOT 9%. I WILL SAY WITH RESPECT TO THE DEADLINE WE ARE UNDER CONTRACT TO PURCHASE THIS PROPERTY.

THIS IS THE FIRST OF SEVERAL APPROVALS THAT WE WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH INCLUDING WITH THE CITYTH OF HOUSTON AND THEN ALL F E PRACTICAL DEVELOPMENT APPROVALS WITH THE COUNTY FOR PERMITTING AND EVERYTHING AND. PLATTING AND EVERYTHING ELSE THIS IS STEP ONE. I AM BASICALLY NOT GOING TO DO THOSE OTHER STEPS UNTIL I GET PAST STEP ONE.

I WILL ALSO -- I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE CLEAR ABOUTKI WHICH DEVELOPMENT WE ARE TALNG ABOUT.

THERE WAS A PROPOSAL THAT WAS A COUPLE BLOCKS AWAY WHICH I THINK MS. LEXY -- I FORGET -- SWARSKY, THANK YOU.

WE TALKED THROUGH THAT AFTER SHE MADE THE COMMENTS AND SHE IS CLEAR ON WHICH DEVELOPMENT IS OURS AND WHICH IS THE OTHER ONE AND THE OTHER DEVELOPMENT IS NOT HAPPENING.

I KNOW IT DID HAVE OPPOSITION. I HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH NORTHWEST BUSINESS AND PUT NOTES IN MAILBOXES AND CONTACT WITH ALL OF THE NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES INCLUDING THE BAR OWNER WHO SOLD THE PROPERTY. IT HAS A RECENT NEW OWNER WHO I HAVE ALSO BEEN IN CONTACT WITH. IF THERE IS A LITTLE MORE OUT REACH THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE OVER THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS, I'M CERTAINLY -- OR THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS, I CAN CERTAINLY DO THAT.

I HAVE REACHED OUT TO CLIENT ISD MYSELF SEVERAL WEEKS AGO AND DIDN'T RECEIVE ANY NEGATIVE FEEDBACK THERE EITHER.

THERE COULD HAVE BEEN CONFUSION OVER WHICH PROJECT IT WAS AND HOPEFULLY IT CAN CLEAR ALL OF THAT UP.

TWO WEEKS WON'T KILL THIS PROJECT, BUT I I WOULD HOPE THAT IF IT IS A TABLING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT THAT I COULD COME BAC-

>> RODNEY ELLIS: I AM PREPARED TO MAKE A MOTION FOR IT.

>> THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU.

THE ONLY THING I WILL SAY IS THAT WE DO MEET ALL OF THE CRITERIA OF THE POLICY INCLUDING NOT BEING IN THE FLOOD PLAIN.

THERE IS NOT A CONCENTRATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE AREA.

ALL OF THOSE THINGS. >> RODNEY ELLIS: I KNOW WE NEED AFFORDABLE HOUSING. I AM NEVER GOING TO OBJECT TO ONE IN MY PRECINCT. IT IS SUCH A SERIOUS PROBLEM.

I HOPE PEOPLE DON'T TAKE IT IS WRONG WAY WHEN I SAY I DON'T BELIEVE THEY SHOULD ALL BEACON SEN TRAITED IN -- BE CONCENTRATED IN A CERTAIN AREA, BUT I I DO BELIEVE IT IS WRONG TO DO THAT. I KNOW I NEVER HAD TO LIVE IN ASSISTED HOUSING, BUT I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO DID.