The Commissioner’s Court of Lamb County held their regular meeting Monday at the Lamb County Courthouse to discuss a 12-item agenda.
The meeting was called to order at 9 a.m. by Lamb County Judge James DeLoach and the invocation was given by Lamb County District Attorney Rickie Redman.
There was nobody present to comment during public forum.
The five Consent Agenda items to be considered are: a) Consider and take appropriate action on minutes from previous meeting(s); Judge DeLoach stated there was 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 asked that the Commissioner’s Court approve bills in the amount of $330,692.92. d) Consider and take appropriate action on payroll; Terra Hopper asked that the Commissioners approve payroll for Lamb County ending on August 11th in the amount of $154,981.86 and payroll for LHC ending on August 12th in the amount of $214,915.25. e) Consider and take appropriate action on departmental reports; packets.
The motion to approve the consent agenda items was made by Commissioner Danny Short and seconded by Commissioner Lee Logan. The motion passed unanimously.
Item four on the agenda was to consider and take appropriate action on the District Clerk’s Records Archive fee for 2023-2024.
“This is actually more of an update,” Debbie Long, District Clerk said. “With Senate Bill 41, that rolled our Archive fee into our consolidated court costs, so District Clerks are no longer required to file the Archive plan before the Commissioners Court. They’re hoping to do the same thing for the County Clerks next Legislative Session.”
The motion to approve the District Clerk’s archive fee for 20232024 was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Short. The motion passed unanimously.
The next item on the agenda was to consider and take appropriate action on the County Clerk’s Records Archive fee for 2023-2024.
“We have completed the 10year project, so from 1995 to present, those files are online,” Tonya Ritchie, County Clerk said. “It’s on a flash drive and Ben Warren put it in and then they’re proofing everything before we can put it online.”
The motion to approve the County Clerk’s Records Archive fee for 2023-2024 was made by Commissioner Cory DeBerry and seconded by Commissioner Kent Lewis. The motion passed unanimously.
Item six on the agenda was to consider and take appropriate action on Order and Notice of Special Election on Nov. 7, 2023.
“There are 14 propositions that are going to be on the ballot. There is one change, we will do early voting at the courthouse for nine hours every day for two weeks. They changed it for the last two days we have to be open for 12 hours each day. So, that Thursday and Friday we’ll be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.”
She added, “On Election Day, we will have to move everything to Danny’s Barn for voting.”
The motion was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Lewis to approve the Order and Notice of Special Election on Nov. 7, 2023. The motion passed unanimously.
LHC CEO Cindy Pope and CFO Dylan Brown were on hand do discuss LHC Operations. Brown read the Financial Report for the Commissioners.
“As far as our Sleep Lab in Lubbock, we started trying to get utilities moved into our name, but LP&L had the wrong address, so it took about two weeks to get that fixed,” Pope said. “The City of Lubbock was trying to zone us as a clinic and charge us $6,000 more, but our contractor found where we can just be a business because we don’t have a physician in there that is prescribing medicine. So, that is finally taking care of, and we’re hoping to get our final things back from the City this week so we can get started.”
The court did not take a recess and there wasn’t anything to go over in the Budget workshop. County Auditor Gina Jones stated that they will be adopting the budget next week.
Future Agenda items were discussed.
With no further business to discuss the Commissioners as authorized by the Texas Open Meetings Act, and pursuant to Government Code 551, sub-chapter D, went into executive session at 9:40 a.m. They reconvened in open session at 10:26 a.m.
With no further business to discuss the motion was made by Commissioner Logan and seconded by Commissioner Lewis that they be adjourn. The motion passed unanimously.