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Meeting of May 3, 2022

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Summary

Grayson County Fiscal Court – May 3, 2022

The fiscal court handled a routine slate of business including approval of prior meeting minutes, payment of bills for the county and jailer, budget transfers, and several grant and program agreements. A sealed bid from Syscom Solutions for a hardware/internet service upgrade at the jail was opened but not immediately acted upon, pending further review by the magistrates.

The court approved the county road aid cooperative program agreement, totaling roughly $1.65 million for gravel, blacktop, and chip-and-seal work this year. Other approvals included the Saint Paul busing grant contract, the county clerk's claim for calculating motor vehicle and boat bills, the E-911 consumer price index adjustment, acceptance of Board of Health minutes, bid advertisements for road materials and mowing at the judicial complex, and reappointment of the FEMA agent designation.

During new business, the county clerk explained the upcoming election schedule, noting excused early voting begins May 4 and runs through May 11, with no-excuse early voting from May 12–14. She discussed possible future consolidation of voting precincts to save costs, similar to changes in other counties, and mentioned a shortage of poll workers.

Magistrates also discussed the county's road paving budget ("flex" funds), noting that blacktop prices have risen from about $70 to $90 a ton, offsetting increased state funding. A letter from the state secretary indicated that discretionary funds requested for road projects were not granted due to high demand statewide.

The meeting concluded with no additional old business and a motion to adjourn.

Agenda (16)

  • 0:47

    Approval of previous meeting minutes

    The court approved the minutes from the previous meeting.

  • 1:24

    Approval of payment of bills

    The court approved payment of the county's bills.

  • 1:39

    Approval of treasurer's budget transfers

    Budget transfers as presented were approved.

  • 1:58

    Approval of jailer's payment of bills

    The court approved payment of the jailer's bills.

  • 2:11

    Jailer's budget transfers

    There were no jailer budget transfers to approve this meeting.

  • 2:28

    Sealed bid opening for jail infrastructure (Syscom Solutions)

    The court opened a sealed bid from Syscom Solutions for hardware/internet upgrades at the jail, discussing costs including a subscription fee, but did not vote to accept it at this meeting.

  • 5:39

    Approval of Saint Paul bussing grant contract and resolution

    The court approved the contract and resolution for the Saint Paul busing grant.

  • 5:51

    Approval of county clerk's claim for motor vehicle and boat bill calculations

    The court approved the county clerk's claim for calculating motor vehicle and boat bills for 2021.

  • 6:13

    E-911 consumer price index adjustment

    The court approved an adjustment to E-911 fees based on the consumer price index.

  • 6:25

    Acceptance of Board of Health minutes

    The court accepted the Grayson County Board of Health minutes from March 10, 2022.

  • 6:39

    County Road Aid Cooperative Program agreement and resolution

    The court approved the county road aid agreement, totaling about $1.65 million for gravel, blacktop, and chip-and-seal work this year.

  • 7:22

    Advertise bids for road materials and judicial complex mowing

    The court approved advertising for bids on road materials and mowing services at the judicial complex.

  • 7:37

    FEMA agent designation reappointment

    The court reappointed the agent designation for FEMA, a routine annual action.

  • 8:11

    Committee updates

    Magistrates noted they had met prior to the meeting and reported everything was in good shape.

  • 8:26

    Election preparation and early voting schedule

    The county clerk explained the early voting schedule, discussed possible precinct consolidation to save money, and noted a shortage of poll workers.

  • 12:26

    Road paving (flex) budget discussion

    Magistrates discussed rising blacktop costs (from $70 to $90 a ton) and a state letter denying discretionary road funding requests.

Motions & votes (12)

  • 1:06

    passedApprove minutes from the previous meeting

    Moved by Darren · seconded by Damon · all in favor

  • 1:30

    passedApprove payment of bills

    Moved by Kevin · seconded by Neil · all in favor

  • 1:45

    passedApprove treasurer's budget transfers as presented

    Moved by Tommy · seconded by Darren · all in favor

  • 2:03

    passedApprove jailer's payment of bills

    Moved by Brian · seconded by Neil · all in favor

  • 5:43

    passedApprove Saint Paul bussing grant contract and resolution

    Moved by Damon · seconded by Tommy · all in favor

  • 6:00

    passedApprove county clerk's claim for calculation of motor vehicle and boat bills for 2021

    Moved by Brian · seconded by Kevin · all in favor

  • 6:18

    passedApprove E-911 consumer price index adjustment

    Moved by Brian · seconded by Damon · all in favor

  • 6:30

    passedAccept Grayson County Board of Health minutes from March 10, 2022

    Moved by Tommy · seconded by Kevin · all in favor

  • 7:09

    passedApprove county road aid cooperative program agreement and resolution

    Moved by Name (unclear) · seconded by Darren · all in favor

  • 7:28

    passedApprove advertising bids for road materials and mowing at judicial complex

    Moved by Neal · seconded by Damon · all in favor

  • 8:05

    passedReappoint agent designation for FEMA

    Moved by Tommy · seconded by Brian · all in favor

  • 15:37

    passedMotion to adjourn

    Moved by Darren · seconded by Damon

Transcript (13 segments)

  • 0:00

    [Music] so all right we're gonna go ahead and call the meeting to order uh first thing on the agenda is uh prove the minutes from the previous meeting make a motion second uh

  • 1:14

    who made the motion i did motion by darren second by damon all in favor next we have approved payment of bills to make a motion motion by kevin i'll second second by neil all in favor next we have approved treasures budget transfers as presented make a motion motion by tommy second second by who second that darren all in favor all right next we have approved jailor's payment of bills mega question motion by brian second second by neil all in favor next we have approved jailor's budget transfers as presented and there's none and there is none so i don't need a motion on that next we have open sealed bids for jail infrastructure this is uh syscom solutions i think this is for their internet services all right

  • 2:58

    yes it's for a hardware upgrade for their their internet service or their computer service wow oh there's a bunch of pages here that's the sub total of 60. all right it looks like the total of the bid

  • 4:18

    uh total of the bid for and it's this is a new server system and some other stuff that they've got on here one you rack server 17 point i mean it's got a lot of details on it look at this before we vote on it that's fine uh jason said he's aware of it and uh i think they already use this company correct i'm not for sure i'm i'm pretty sure they are i think it's just up to date yes they're talking about you all probably looked at that he's already probably talked about that 167.13 but now there's also another tri-annual expense uh is sixty eight hundred and ten dollars and a monthly subscription is four hundred dollars so if you all wanna look at this lid we already know all right

  • 5:38

    moving on approve saint paul bussing grant contract and resolution need a motion motion by damon second second by tommy all in favor all right need to approve county clerk's claim for calculation of motor vehicles and boat bills for 2021 any questions i'm going to need a motion make a motion motion by brian second second by kevin all in favor all right next we need to approve e 911's consumer price index adjustment on that exactly motion by brian second by damon all in favor all right next we have accept grayson county board of health minutes from march 10 2022 make a motion motion by tommy second second by kevin all in favor next we have approved county road aid cooperative program agreement and resolution which is actually the grand total 1.6 okay this is our basically this is our county road aid this is how

  • 6:51

    we get the gravel drop the black top and the chip and seal total this year is 1.6 million which is one million six hundred and fifty two thousand two hundred and forty six dollars and ninety one cents so i need a motion i'll make that motion by name second second but baron all in favor promotion of damon bernie there in a second uh approved to advertise bids for road materials and mowing at the judicial complex need a motion too exactly motion by neal second by damon all in favor all right uh next we've got approved agent designation for federal emergency management agency what are we doing with that just every year we do that every year this is repetitive of course dd tony and dd both do it but we have to uh dd's been doing this so we just need a motion to reappoint her to be the agent designation for the fema i'll make a motion

  • 8:04

    motioned by tommy second by brian all in favor and we have updates from fiscal court committees we met prior to the meeting and everything is in good shape other new business new business no i knew um i like that it's just we're busy preparing for the election coming up we do start our early voting tomorrow so that's the process starting tomorrow early voting starts tomorrow and that means you can come to the courthouse so how does that tell us how that works the early voting um excused early voting starts tomorrow which runs may 4th 5th 6th 9th 10th and the 11th which will be held there in my office um early voting no excuse will start the 12th run the 12th 13th and the 14th which will be on the center on may what justifies an excuse and not an excuse there's different qualifications i don't have that list in front of me but you can get on um my clerk whips on the facebook page has the listing it's been listed in the

  • 9:18

    newspaper um but it's like if you're going to be um out of town a town if you've got surgery do you have to have that with you like proof of that with you well you're just signing an affidavit can you sign in that's your so if you sign an affidavit and i see you in towns today is the last day today yes the mail ends the last day is today let's hope everybody gets out and votes and then on election day of course the center on maine is the central location where everybody anybody can go vote for many preschools any crew saints you can go vote and then all precincts will be open on election day from 6 to 6. you know while we're talking about it do you foresee i mean i know some of these counties are dwindling away some of their precincts and going to because of the the price of it do you foresee anything like that ever happen i think so i think i mean just to it's more convenient i think um do a central location in other words do like four or five i mean if you can't make it to your