Lamb County Commissioners met Monday morning, for a regular business meeting, when they took care of a 12-item agenda.
Following the Call to Order by Lamb County Judge James M. DeLoach, he offered the opening prayer, then led the congregation in the Pledges of Allegiance to the U.S. and Texas flags. Consent Agenda Items:
a) Minutes from the last two meetings, March 28 regular meeting, and the special meeting on April 8, were considered to be in order for later approval.
b) There were no budget and salary amendments and /or lineitem transfers to be made.
c) Bills presented by the Lamb County Treasurer included: $102,294.35 tor Lamb County; and $452,458.54 for Lamb Healthcare Center, for a total of $554,754,752.89 of bills to be paid.
d) Payrolls, presented by the Lamb County Treasurer, included: The Lamb County payroll, ending March 25, 2022 in the amount of $144,816.66; and the Lamb Healthcare Center payroll, ending March 26, 2022, in the amount of $166,612.13, were considered for payment.
e) The departmental reports were received for approval.
f) Several combined donations received by the Littlefield Lamb County Library, in the amount of $2,400 were considered for approval with the other Consent Agenda items.
4. After the Consent Agenda items, the first presentation was from two representatives of Resound Networks, regarding wireless access to county internet ser vice, that is transmitted by radio, from towers that allow the service to be received by about 90% of the southern-most residents of the county. For greater covrage in the northern part of the county, more towers will have to be erected, they explained.
Following the presentation, Judge DeLoach suggested that no action be taken, in order to give the commissioners (and others) to take time to consider the proposal, before bringing it to the commissioners again.
5. Commissioners considered forming a policy for handling requests for soil conservation and dirt work from County residents.
They discussed that if a request for conservation or dirt work will only take less than two hours, the commissioner have the authority to handle the request, but if it will take longer, it was suggested that if it takes more than that, it must be brought to the Commissoners for a decision.
A policy is being formed, regarding the handling of conservation jobs for the county’s residents, and it will be brought back to the commissioners for consideration at a later meeting.
6. Commissioners then took action on a request from a Lamb County resident, regarding soil conservation work in Precinct 1.
Commissioners were advised that the job will only take less than an hour, so folllowing the motion by Cory DeBerry and second by Kent Lewis, the work was authorized to be done.
7. A representative from the Caterpiller dealership, in the absence of Precinct 4, Commissioner Lee Logan, who wants to purchase a new CAT 140 Motor Grader, explained the situation with the purchase of the new machine.
Following the motion by Precinct 2 Commissioner Kent Lewis and the second by Danny Short, Commissioners voted unani mously to purchase the machine. It is to be delivered sometime in October.
8. Commissioners reluctantly accepted the retirement of Candy Seth, Littlefield’s Lamb County Library Director. Judge DeLoach read her letter of retirement, which will become effective May 31, 2022.
After he read her letter, he highly complimented her on her work in the library.
9. The Lamb Healthcare Center operations report was not received, since the CEO, Cindy Pope was not able to attend the meeting.
10. Commissioners went into an executive session at 10:50 a.m. to discuss personnel issues, pursuant to Texas Government Code 551.074, and 551.0745.
The executive session was closed at 11:11 a.m., and no action was taken in open session.
11. A few future agenda items were discussed before the executive session..
12. Court adjourned, following the executive Session.