The Commissioner’s Court of Lamb County held their regular meeting on Monday in the Commissioner Court Room at the Lamb County Courthouse, where the discussed a nine-item agenda.
The meeting was called to order at 10:07 a.m. by Lamb County Judge, James DeLoach, who also gave the invocation before leading the U.S. and Texas Pledge of Allegiance.
There was nobody present for 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 were one set of minutes and they 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 requested that the Commissioners approve bills totaling $1,233,831.87. d) Consider and take appropriate action on payroll; Jerry Yarbrough requested that the Commissioners approve two sets of payroll, the first was for Lamb County ending on March 21st in the amount of $165,423.30, and for LHC ending on March 22nd in the amount of $215,905.44. The second set is for Lamb County payroll ending April 4th in the amount of $168,898.54 and for LHC ending on April 5th $215,806.69. e) Consider and take appropriate action on departmental reports; packets. f) Consider and take appropriate action on Donations; we have some donations for the Olton Library totaling $500 and for the Lamb County Library totaling $1,050.
The motion to approve the consent agenda was made by Commissioner Danny Short and seconded by Commissioner Cory DeBerry. The motion carried.
Item five on the agenda was to consider and take appropriate action on TAC Health and Employee Benefits Pool (HEBP) Cobra Agreement for 2024-2025 plan.
“So, as it is now, I send it in and they don’t charge us anything. The only way we’re ever charged is $150 if they do choose to get Cobra, then they have to pay for it themselves, but we get charged a fee,” Yarbrough said. “Blue Cross Blue Shield is changing their contract with TAC. TAC has kind of always serviced us, this agreement is just to make sure we’re aware of the change and we’re going to do it the way we are until the new enrollment comes along.”
She added, “ Starting then, they’ll charge us $20 every person I send it, so those who hire/ fire people, it’s going to cost us $20 a person each time someone leaves.” The motion to approve the COBRA Agreement for 2024-2025 was made by Commissioner Lee Logan and seconded by Commissioner Short. The motion carried.
The next order of business was to Consider and take appropriate action on approving the County and District Attorney’s Office’s Addendum 5, Exhibit 1, “Non-Exclusive License and Services Agreement,” to add additional user to LGS Prosecutor Module.
“The reason we needed this to be on the agenda is because it involves an increase in the amount of money that would be coming out of the County to LGS,” DA Redman stated. “It’s only going to be about $360/ month. We use the LGS software as our case management software and they have rules about how employees access it. The situation in my office right now is, I have one legal assistant up front, who is uploading video and discovery. It would make us much more efficient if she was able to work on two different computers at once, and the only way LGS is going to allow us to do that is if we buy another license.”
She added, “We are asking for you to approve that increased cost/ month. It is less than $500/month, but it requires that we make an addendum to the original contract that we signed with LGS back in 2021.”
The motion to approve the Addendum was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner DeBerry. The motion carried.
The next item on the agenda was to consider and take appropriate action on Contract with Kofile.
“This was a contract that Tonya had with Kofile for imaging and indexing,” County Clerk Rene Trevino explained. “This is just the next phase.”
Judge DeLoach added, “If y’all remember about four years ago we did this, and it is just to basically digitize the records in the Clerk’s office. Rene had reminded me that this was a multi-phase project, so she’s just asking for phase two at this time, which will cost $94,140, which will be paid out of Records and Management.”
The motion to approve the Contract with Kofile was made by Commissioner Kent Lewis and seconded by Commissioner Short. The motion carried.
The meeting jumped back up to Item four, which was to consider and take appropriate action to award Depository bid contract.
The Commissioners went into executive session in accordance with Subject 2 Section 551.0725 of the Local Government Code at 10:21 a.m. and returned to the open meeting at 11:04 a.m.
First United Bank was awarded the Depository bid contract and the motion to approve this was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Kent Lewis. The motion carried.
Future Agenda items were discussed: LHC CEO, Mike McNutt gave an update on the hospital, stating, “We had our annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday. We had a great turnout, the Easter bunny was there, we had hot dogs and had a great time. Our Auxiliary luncheon is coming up next week, where we get to recognize our Auxiliary and all the wonderful things they do for us, and we’ll introduce all of our new officers.”
He added, “A Physician Recruiting update, I’m still talking to that physician and I think we’re in her list of finalists, and will continue to plug away at that. Sleep Lab has the two new units in and they’re installed and being booked out. Dylan and I are working on some grants that are available. Those grants mostly revolve around capital equipment, which is something that is beneficial for us.
With no further business to discuss the motion to adjourn was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Short. The motion carried and the meeting was adjourned at 11:21 a.m.