The Commissioners Court of Lamb County met in regular session on Friday, October 10th, in the Lamb County Courthouse, where a 9– item agenda was considered for appropriate action.
The meeting was called to order at 10:06 a.m. by Lamb County Judge James DeLoach and the Invocation was given by Lamb County District Attorney Rickie Redman.
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 that there was one set of minutes from the Sept. 22nd meeting 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; the Auditor’s office requested that the Commissioners approve bills totaling $798,435.22. d) Consider and take appropriate action on payroll; Lamb County Treasurer, Jerry Yarbrough had two sets of payroll for the Commissioners to approve. The first set of payroll was for Lamb County ending on Sept. 19th in the amount of $163,024.19 and for LHC ending on Sept. 20th in the amount of $236,465.66. The second set was for Lamb County ending on Oct. 3rd in the amount of $174,136.58 and for LHC ending on Oct. 4th in the amount of $235,765.57. e) Consider and take appropriate action on departmental reports; Packets.
The motion to approve the Consent Agenda items was made by Commissioner Cory DeBerry and seconded by Commissioner Danny Short. The motion carried.
The next order of business was to consider and take appropriate action on IT Service Contract with Warren Computers.
“This is something that we didn’t do prior to budget, we budgeted it, but we didn’t approve the contract,” Judge DeLoach stated.
The motion to approve the IT Service Contract with Warren Computers contingent on DA Redman’s approval was made by Commissioner Kent Lewis and seconded by Commissioner Lee Logan. The motion carried.
The next item on the agenda was to consider and take appropriate action on Soil Conservation work in Precinct #4.
“The Co-Op is putting in a road back there where the modules are. They asked me if we could do some conservation work back there, so they can transfer their cotton modules back there,” Commissioner Logan explained.
The motion to approve Soil Conservation Work in Precinct #4 was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Lewis. The motion carried.
Item six on the agenda was to consider and take appropriate action on Out of State travel for the County Judge.
“I am mainly just doing this for full disclosure, but I will be traveling to Washington D.C. to discuss rural EMS funding,” Judge DeLoach explained. “We’ve got one meeting at the National Association of counties and another meeting at the White House.”
The motion to approve out of state travel for the County Judge was made by Commissioner Lewis and seconded by Commissioner DeBerry. The motion carried.
The next item on the agenda was to consider and take appropriate action on letter supporting a proposed investment by Aperion Energy.
“This is not the first time this has been on the agenda, but we finally got Rickie and Aperion together on the letter,” Judge DeLoach said. “They basically approved her original letter with a few edits that Rickie made herself. I think everybody is on the same page now.”
The motion to approve a letter supporting a proposed investment by Aperion Energy was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Short. The motion carried.
Future agenda items were discussed.
LHC CEO Mike McNutt gave a brief update on Hospital operations, saying, “We remain steady volumewise, not quite as busy as were the last seven to 10 days, but we’ve been steady. I will be attending some informational conferences, one later today and one next week, regarding the rural health transformation funds. We’ll continue to try and make heads or tails of what this new landscape is going to look like.”
With no further business to discuss a motion to adjourn was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Short. The motion carried and the meeting was adjourned at 10:31 p.m. ”