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Commissioners set payment plan for Drymalla
Commissioners and Judge Al Jamison signed a resolution recognizing Shaws Bend Extension Club. Pictured, front row, from left: commissioners Darrell Gertson, Tommy Hahn, Jamison, Herbie Helmcamp and Doug Wessells; back, Lillian Brune, Myrtle Kotrola, Marjorie Brune, Alvina Poenitzsch, Connie Ilse, Esther Rhodes, Marie Poenitzsch, & Kathryn Haluska. Brune and Alvina Poenitzsch are charter members from 1947.
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By Cyndi Wright, Managing Editor
Local citizen Margie Raborn urged commissioners and County Judge Al Jamison to attend a public hearing on state policy for toll roads, public and private partnerships and the Trans Texas Corridor in Austin on Thursday, March 1 at the county's commissioners court meeting on Monday, Feb. 12.
"Thank you for passing a resolution opposing the Trans Texas Corridor," Raborn said. "Please consider attending this meeting."
Jamison asked the commissioners to consider authorizing a change in how Drymalla Construction Company will be paid for work in the district courtroom.
"There is a clause in the agreement with Drymalla that makes it difficult to live with," Jamison said.
The commissioners authorized payment for Drymalla's bills only after they have been submitted to and authorized by Volz & Associates, the firm that is overseeing the repairs to the historical courthouse.
The Shaws Bend Extension Education Club was recognized at the meeting for having been in existence for 60 years. Two current members were in the group when it was first organized in 1947.
The court authorized a resolution agreeing that Precinct 2 Commissioner Herbie Helmcamp will contribute in-kind work at two locations in the county in order to satisfy a 10 percent match by the county in either dollars or in-kind work for a project in precinct 2 regarding a bridge located at Harvey Creek on CR 208.
The in-kind work donated by precinct 2 will take place in precinct 2, replace a culvert at CR 273 at CR 230, and in precinct 1, repair a bridge at CR 112 over Bucksnag Creek. The 10 percent amount due for the Harvey Creek work is $31,900. The two projects that will comprise that amount in in-kind work are $23,100 for replacing the culvert and $9,800 for repairing the bridge.
An amendment was made to the salary order for 2006-07 to include EMS shift pay, run pay, no transport pay, meeting pay and mileage. The amounts were left off the originally submitted documents, but were planned for during budget preparations.
County Auditor Raymie Kana reported that collections to the county from delinquent accounts resulting from justice of the peace courts 2, 3 and 4 totaled $300,000 since the county hired a debt collection service.
In other business, the court:
Made changes to the personnel manual to reflect the absence of the juvenile facility and to include new drug and alcohol policies for the sheriff and EMS departments.
Set a date of Feb. 26 at 9:15 a.m. to hold a public hearing to adopt the county's revised flood damage prevention ordinance.
Authorized a mutual aid agreement for EMS services with the city of Wharton.
Authorized a special warranty deed to transfer 0.406 acre of land to Robert and Violet Krenek.
Appointed Lyndy Messersmith to serve on the Colorado County Children's Services Board and accepted the resignation of Arline Brune from that same board.
Authorized advertising for bids for road oil, emulsion and road paving in all precincts.
Accepted an application for a limited land division for Mary Ellen Obenhaus Bolton in the James Cornett Survey.
Accepted an application to revise section 1 of Woodglen Subdivision as submitted by George Kimmey, president of Basic Services, Inc.
Acknowledged Francis Truchard, JP, Precinct 3, and clerks Jennifer Stancik, Kimberly Cloninger and Rose Kersh for collecting $100,000 in a single month.
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