The Commissioners Court of Lamb County held their regular meeting on Monday, Dec. 23rd at the Lamb County Courthouse to discuss a 6-item agenda.
The meeting was called to order at 9:01 a.m. by Lamb County Judge James DeLoach, who also gave the Invocation.
There was nobody present for the public comment portion of the meeting. Consent Agenda Items: a) Consider and take appropriate action on minutes from previous meeting(s); Judge DeLoach stated there were no minutes to approve for this meeting. b) Consider and take appropriate action on budget and salary amendments and/or line-item transfers; Lamb County Auditor, Gina Jones requested that the Commissioners approved the Budget Adjustments as presented. c) Consider and take appropriate action on bills presented by the County Auditor; Gina Jones requested that the commissioners approve bills totaling $902,900.72. d) Consider and take appropriate action on payroll; Jerry Yarbrough requested that the commissioners approve payroll for Lamb County ending on Dec. 13th, in the amount of $171,850.95. She also requested that the commissioners approve payroll for LHC ending on Dec. 14th in the amount of $209,044.80. e) Consider and take appropriate action on departmental reports; packets. f) Consider and take appropri- ate action on Donations; Jones said that the Lamb County Library had monetary donations exceeding $1,376.16, as well as donations of physical items for door prizes for their open house.
The motion to approve the consent agenda items as presented was made by Commissioner Danny Short and seconded by Commissioner Lee Logan. The motion carried.
Item number four was an update on 4-H.
“This is one of my favorite things to do in our job, we really enjoy the kids, because we know that we are instilling opportunities and providing opportunities for our youth, who will grow up and take our place one day,” Kathy Lostroh said. “In today’s world of already busy lives, these kids making an effort and putting 4-H as a priority is really something. According to our 4-H annual report, only nine-percent of our membership is grades 9-12, which is all but three of these youth that are here today.”
She added, “We have four community clubs, two project clubs, an adult leaders association and we currently have 100 youth members, which is more than we had at this time last year. We have two ambassadors, Kealee Bussey, shooting sports ambassador and Claire Lostroh, fashion and interior design ambassador. We had two different youth members who were on task force for four different contests, we had participants in junior leader lab, and we had two members who were junior leaders at junior leader lab, Ty Carr and Claire Lostroh. Three of them went to Senior Power Camp, and Ty and JT went to Congress this year, and JT was invited to the Governor’s Reception because of his bill.”
Nine of the 4-H seniors went to Texas 4-H Round up this year and between our youth and adults we have over 50 volunteers at the 4H Summer Program.
“Shooting sports is one of our most active programs, and we have a couple of champions here in Cayton Redman and Kealee Bussey,” Kathy Lostroh said. We have restarted the archery program and have volunteers and will be building it back up in the spring. We had 56 participants in our food nutrition project, including 11 teams that participated at district food challenge. We had seven kids who participated at district food show and 14 of our food challenge kids placed at the Tri-State.”
She added, “Last year, we had 50 participants in livestock projects, including district livestock judging contest, Tri-State Fair Livestock judging contest, and county and area shows, with 133 entries at major stock shows. We had 18 participants in the FCH Quizbowl contest and four in the Horse Quizbowl contest. All of those have competed and earned the right to compete at state this year. We have 12 kids who are going to senior 4-H round up in June. We have two senior teams and they went head-to-head in the final round, and our intermediate team swept the contest. We have participants in Consumer Decision Making, which is one we started back up this year. They were state alternates. We had nine participants in public speaking and talent contests, seven of those competed in educational presentations, and two in solo band and musical instrumental, including one individual Garicyn Bigham, who won state with her rendition of Piano Man. She was playing piano and harmonica at the same time. We had 19 participants in Fashion and Interior Design. Jaden and Claire both competed at state with their fashion show projects. 21 participants submitted record books. 15 participants competed at the district contest and one of our largest growing projects is photography.”
“Robotics is our project that we’re really building on right now,” she said. “We had 11 participants in three different contests. Two of those teams are going to be going to some major contests at some major stock shows for that this year.”
Future agenda items were discussed.
Mike McNutt gave an update on LHC. “We have continued to have strong volume and December has been really busy,” he said. “We’ve already had 21 or 22 admissions through the ER, we’ve had seven to nine inpatients everyday this month. We had our annual Christmas luncheon this past Friday and we awarded our Employee of the Year, Department of the Year, and we recognized our tenured employees for their years of service as well.”
With no further business to discuss, a motion was made to adjourn by Commissioner Short and seconded by Commissioner Logan. The meeting was adjourned at 9:33 a.m.