The Commissioners Court of Lamb County held their regular meeting on Monday at the Lamb County Courthouse in Littlefield to discuss an 11-item agenda.
Lamb County Judge James DeLoach called the meeting to order at 9:01 a.m. and gave the invocation before leading the U.S. and Texas Pledge of Allegiance.
There was nobody present to comment during the public comment portion of the meeting.
Consent Agenda: a) Consider and take appropriate action on minutes from previous meeting(s); Judge DeLoach stated there was one set of minutes and that they were in order. b) Consider and take appropriate action on budget and salary amendments and/or line-item transfers; none. c) Consider and take appropriate action on bills presented by the County Auditor; Lamb County Auditor, Gina Jones, requested that the Commissioners approve bills totaling $737,552.46. d) Consider and take appropriate action on payroll; Jerry Yarbrough requested that the Commissioners approve payroll for Lamb County ending on May 2nd in the amount of $165,155.81; and for LHC ending on May 3rd in the amount of $223,986.57. e) Consider and take appropriate action on departmental reports; Packets. f) Consider and take appropriate action on Donations; Cash in the amount of $1,143.65 for the Littlefield Library, Gift Certificates from Savannah’s, Taco Bell, McDonald’s and Sonic for the Littlefield Library and the City of Olton donated 20 Pool Passes for the Olton Library.
The motion to approve the consent agenda was made by Commissioner Cory DeBerry and seconded by Commissioner Danny Short. The motion carried.
Item four was to consider and take appropriate action to apply for the Unclaimed Property Capital Credits for Counties.
“We do that every year, we fill out the form and they send us back the money that was unclaimed in our county,” Cynthia Bussey said.
The motion to approve applying for the Unclaimed Property Capital Credits for Counties was made by Commissioner Lee Logan and seconded by Commissioner Kent Lewis. The motion carried.
The next order of business was to consider and take appropriate action on the letter of Support for Aperion Energy Group in support of construction of an NG Power Plant.
“Lee and I met with this guy, I’ve met with him twice and Lee and I met with him once,” Judge DeLoach stated. What they’re talking about doing is building an emergency power plant in the neighborhood of where Tolk is. What this power plant will do, is in an energy crisis, where our area is getting low on power, they will crank that thing up.”
He added, “Lee can speak to this better than I can, but sometimes at Tolk it can take at least 24 hours to start a unit up. This plant can be online in five minutes with engines cranked and producing power. The Letter of Support is what they asked us for. Rickie has re-written the Letter of Support, but she also does not think that we should do the Letter of Support because it sets a precedent. Rickie’s recommendation is that we don’t do the letter.”
The motion was made by Commissioner Logan not to approve doing a letter of support for Aperion Energy Group in support of construction of an NG Power Plant and it was seconded by Commissioner Short. The motion carried.
The next item on the agenda was to consider and take appropriate action on Resolution for Highway Rail Grade Crossing upgrades.
“I got this back at the first of the year, but basically what I understand, none of this is on the north side of the railroad tracks. TxDot is doing this and they’re looking at updating the approaches to the railroad tracks and signage. Where there is asphalt they’ll put stripes and things like that.”
The motion to approve the Resolution for Highway Rail Grade Crossing upgrades was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Short. The motion carried.
No action was taken on Item seven or item eight.
Item nine on the agenda was to consider and take appropriate action on IGT funding for Lamb Healthcare Center.
“This is our Harp IGT, which we’ve done in the past,” Mike McNutt, LHC CEO said. “With it being in the middle of the month, I don’t know when they would fund it, I would say 30-45 days.”
The motion to approve the IGT funding for LHC was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Lewis. The motion carried.
Future Agenda Items were discussed.
With no further business to discuss, Commissioner Short made the motion to adjourn and it was seconded by Commissioner Logan. The motion carried and the meeting was adjourned at 9:31 a.m.