The Commissioners Court of Lamb County met in regular session on Friday, April 21st, to discuss a 10-item agenda.
The meeting was called to order by Lamb County Judge James DeLoach at 10 a.m. and he gave the invocation.
Consent agenda items:
(a) Consider and take appropriate action on minutes from previous meeting(s); There was one regular meeting and the Judge said that the minutes appeared to be 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 Gina Jones; Jones asked the commissioners to approve bills totaling $775,324.74.
(d) Consider and take appropriate action on payroll presented by Jerry Yarbrough; she asked the commissioners to approve payroll for Lamb County ending on April 7th in the amount of $154,192.69, and payroll for LHC ending on April 8th in the amount of $199,626.54.
(e) Consider and take appropriate action on departmental reports; packets.
(f) Consider and take appropriate action on Tax Deed R15977; “This is a trailer house on a lot in Amherst. It’s Lot 6, block eight in the original town of Amherst, Lamb County, Texas. The bid is for $10 and it looks like it’s an old un-liveable trailer house and I recommend that it be approved.
The motion was made by Commissioner Lee Logan and seconded by Commissioner Danny Short to approve the consent agenda items. The motion carried unanimously.
The next item on the agenda was the Burn Ban for the county.
“Our Burn Ban expired about two weeks ago; it expired the day of our last Commissioner’s Court meeting and I failed to catch that and didn’t get it on the agenda,” Judge DeLoach said.
The motion was made by Commissioner Cory DeBerry to put the Burn Ban back in place for 90 days and it was seconded by Commissioner Logan. The motion carried unanimously.
Item five on the agenda was Soil and Water Conservation work in Pct. 4.
Commissioner Logan explained, “I have two different places that need some work done.”
The motion was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Kent Lewis to approve the Soil and Water Conservation work in Pct. 4 contingent on paperwork being completed. The motion carried unanimously.
The Commissioners Court discussed the acquisition of Real Property.
The motion was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Short to approve the Purchase of Real Property contingent on the contract being reviewed by DA Rickie Redman and Judge signing the contract. The motion passed unanimously.
LHC CEO Cindy Pope was not in attendance to discuss LHC Operations.
Future Agenda Items were discussed and the motion to adjourn was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Short. The motion passed unanimously and the meeting was adjourned at 10:36 a.m.