The Commissioners’ Court of Lamb County met at 11 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, in the Lamb County Courthouse, where a 7– item agenda was discussed.
The meeting was called to order at 11 a.m. by Lamb County Judge James DeLoach and he also gave the invocation before leading the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance and Texas Pledge of Allegiance.
Nobody opted to speak during the public comment portion of the meeting.
Prior to the Consent Agenda, the Court skipped down to item five on the agenda, which was to consider and take appropriate action on IGT.
“Mike had texted me on Monday that they had a fairly large IGT coming up that they weren’t comfortable funding on their own; it’s $103,049.84,” Judge DeLoach said. “He didn’t say that it was going to be spread out, so it should come back fairly quickly, so they asked us to consider that. It will need to be in with the bills, so we’ll need to make a motion on that first. We will get that money back.”
The motion was made by Commissioner Lee Logan and seconded by Commissioner Kent Lewis. The motion carried. Consent Agenda: a) Consider and take appropriate action on minutes from previous meeting(s). Judge DeLoach Stated that their was one set of minutes and they did appear to be in order. b) Consider and take appropriate action on budget and salary amendments and/or line-item transfers; County Auditor Gina Jones said there were none. c) Consider and take appropriate action on bills presented by the County Auditor; Jones asked that the commissioners approve bills in the amount of $633,456.83. d) Consider and take appropriate action on payroll; Jerry Yarbrough requested that the Commissioners approve payroll for Lamb County ending on Jan. 10, 2025, in the amount of $173,462.95 and for LHC ending on Jan. 11, 2025, in the amount of $210,562.73. e) Consider and take appropriate action on departmental reports; none.
The motion to approve the consent agenda items was made by Commissioner Danny Short and seconded by Commissioner Logan.
Item four on the agenda was to consider and take appropriate action to Readopt County Investment Policy of 2019 and advertise for Depository Contracts.
Yarbrough talked about this item, saying, “We have to go out for bids every four years or extend it for two years. We already extended it for two years, so we have to go out for bids this year. I’m just asking you all to readopt the County Investment Policy of 2019 and to approve a resolution to go out for bids for depository contracts.”
The motion to approve readopting the County Investment Policy of 2019 and advertising for depository contracts was made by Commissioner Cory DeBerry and seconded by Commissioner Short. The motion carried.
Future agenda items were discussed.
“It continues to be a really busy month,” Mike McNutt said. “There is a lot of Flu out there, we had 26 admits to the ER and we’re up to 21 this month. Volume is good, it helps with a lot of things. Dr. Gagnon will be with us this upcoming weekend, covering shifts for our doctors and giving them a break. It’s an arrangement we have with her.”
Dylan Brown talked about the IGT, saying, “It’s about $103 thousand and we’ll be getting back about $257,000, which should be here by the end of February. Some highlights from December; we paid off our Lowes repayment, which was over $100,000 at one point. Our revenue for the month was $2.24 million and our cash collections were right about $1.14. It was the first month we cracked half a million in revenue, the sleep lab brought in $186,000 in cash, and over the past three months it has averaged cash collections of $194,000 and I only expect that to increase. We’re collecting roughly 50%, so I’m expecting us to see maybe $250,000 in cash for January. The 340-B program is averaging $83,000 per month in net revenue since we got it back up and running properly last January. Our daily deposits for November was $23,000 and in December they were $31,000, so we’re seeing increased daily deposits.”
With no further business to discuss the motion for adjournment was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Short. The motion carried and the meeting was adjourned at 11:27 p.m.