07-28-2016 CC AGENDA.pdfNOTICE OF MEETING
The Commissioners' Court of Calhoun County, Texas will meet on Thursday, July 28, 2016
at 10:00 a.m. in the Commissioners' Courtroom in the County Courthouse at 211 S. Ann
Street, Port Lavaca, Calhoun County, Texas.
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The subject matter of such meeting is as follows:
1. Call meeting to order.
2. Invocation.
3. Pledge of Allegiance.
4. Consider and Take Necessary Action on Independent Audit Report for the year ended
December 31, 2015 by Rutledge Crain & Company, PC, Certified Public Accountants.
(MP)
5. Consider and Take Necessary Action on Amendment No. 1 to the Agreement for Inmate
Telephone Services at the Adult Detention Center. (MP)
6. Consider and Take Necessary Action on 2016/2017 EMS/Trauma Care System Fund
payment to Calhoun County EMS in the amount of $6,196.00. (MP)
Consider and Take Necessary Action on request to close, abandon and vacate that portion
of a 0.106 acre tract of land situated in the Juan Cano Survey, Abstract No. 5, Calhoun
County, Texas, and being a portion of Elizabeth Street (an unimproved right of way) of
Bayside Beach Unit 2 according to plat recorded in Volume Z, Page 35B of the Plat
Records of Calhoun County, Texas. (RG)
Consider and Take Necessary Action on Resolution of Commissioners' Court of Calhoun
County, Texas Authorizing the County Judge, Commissioners and Office Managers to
sign all documents concerning the County Transportation Infrastructure Fund Grant
Program. (MP)
9. Consider and Take Necessary Action to approve specifications and authorize the County
Auditor to advertise for requests for qualifications and technical proposals for
Professional Audit Services for a three-year period (fiscal years 2016-2018) with an
option to renew for one-year terms. Qualification statements and proposals will be due
Thursday, August 18, 2016 and considered for award on Thursday, September 8, 2016.
(N'IP)
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10. Consider and Take Necessary Action on request by Peter DeForest with the Seadrift
Volunteer Fire Department to apply for a $25,000 Grant from the M. G. & Lillie A.
Johnson Foundation, for equipment to be mounted on Inventory #24-0463 (Humvee) to
be utilized as a grassibrush truck. There will be NO grant match from Calhoun County.
(KF)
11. Consider and Take Necessary Action on new Insurance rates with Texas Association of
Counties/HEBP for the term of October 1, 2016 thru September 30, 2017 and authorize
County Judge to sign. (MP)
12. Consider and Take Necessary Action on Change Order No. 1 for the Tyler Technologies
contract for Eagle Recorder in the County Clerk's Office and authorize County Judge to
sign, (MP)
13. Consider and Take Necessary Action on insurance proceeds from VFIS in the amount of
$37,103.43 for damages to an ambulance on April 27, 2016. (MP)
14. Consider and Take Necessary Action on Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Calendar
year 2017 Optional County Fees. (MP)
15. Consider and Take Necessary Action on Resolution Authorizing County Grant for food
programs provided by the Calhoun County Senior Citizens Association, Inc. (MP)
16. Consider and Take Necessary Action on Resolution naming August 6, 2016 as Coast
Guard Appreciation Day in Calhoun County. (MP)
17. Executive Session: The Commissioners' Court shall go into Executive Session as
authorized by V.T.C.A. Government Code Chapter 551. Following is the subject matter
of the Executive Session and the Specific Section of the Open Meetings Act permitting
discussion/deliberation in Executive Session.
Section 551.087. (1) To Discuss or deliberate regarding commercial or financial
information that the governmental body has received from a business prospect
that the governmental body seeks to have locate, stay, or expand in or near the
territory of the governmental body and with which the governmental body is
conducting economic development negotiations; or
(2) To deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to a business
prospect described by Subdivision (1).
18. Public hearing regarding the request by Novus International, Inc. for designation of a
Reinvestment Zone. (MP)
19. Consider and Take Necessary Action on Resolution of the Commissioners' Court of
Calhoun County, Texas Designating Novus International, Inc. Reinvestment Zone No.
16-01. (MP)
20. Consider and Take Necessary Action on Tax Abatement Agreement between Calhoun
County, Texas and Novus International, Inc. (MP)
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21. Public Hearing regarding the request by Union Carbide Corporation for designation of a
Reinvestment Zone. (MP)
22. Consider and Take Necessary Action on Resolution of the Commissioners' Court of
Calhoun County, Texas Designating Union Carbide Corporation Reinvestment Zone No.
16-02. (MP)
23. Consider and Take Necessary Action on Tax Abatement Agreement between Calhoun
County, Texas and Union Carbide Corporation. (MP)
24. Accept reports of the following County Offices:
i. Calhoun Tax Assessor/Collector
ii. County Treasurer
iii. County Sheriff
iv. District Clerk
v. County Clerk
vi. Justices of Peace
vii. County Auditor
viii. Floodplain Administration
ix. Extension Service
x. Adult Detention Center SHP Medical
xi. Calhoun County Library Meeting Room Usage Report
25. Consider and take necessary action to accept donations to Calhoun County.
26. Consider and Take Necessary Action to declare certain items of County Property in the
Calhoun County Sheriff's Office as surplus/waste and remove from inventory. (See lists)
(MP)
27. Consider and Take Necessary Action to declare certain items of County property in
Department 690, Seadrift Fire Dept. as waste and remove from inventory. (KF)
28. Consider and Take Necessary Action to declare certain items of County Property in
Department 340, Seadrift Ambulance as Waste and remove from inventory. (KF)
29. Consider and Take Necessary Action to declare certain items of County property at
Calhoun County Precinct #3 as surplus/salvage. (See List) (NF)
30. Consider and Take Necessary Action to declare certain items of property at the Calhoun
County Precinct 41 as waste and remove from inventory. (RG)
31. Consider and take necessary action on the matter of declaring certain items of County
property as surplus/salvage.
32. Consider and Take Necessary Action to transfer the following items of property in the
office of the County Sheriff to Six Mile Volunteer Fire Dept:
Inventory Number 565-0526
1 Ox10 wood frame building located at landfill
Value $1,115.47
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33. Consider and take necessary action on matter of transferring certain items of County
property from one County department to another County Department. (See List)
34. Approval of payroll.
35. Consider and take action on any necessary budget adjustments.
36. Approval of bills.
37. Consider and take necessary action on single source, emergency and public welfare
purchases and bills.
38. Public discussion of County matters.
Michael J. Pf e , un Judge
Calhoun Founty, Texas
The above is a true and correct copy of the original notice, which original notice was posted by
me at a place convenient and readily accessible to the general public at all times, to -wit: on a
bulletin board by the front door in the County Courthouse in Port Lavaca, Calhoun County,
Texas on July 25, 2016 at q .' i i a.m.
Anna Goodman, County Clerk
Deputy Clerk
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