Welcome to the meeting of the Court Services Committee, Wednesday, June 10th, 2026 at 630. I'll call the meeting to order.

First order of business is prayer. I'll take care of that.

Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us this time to get together and talk about our Court Services Committee.

Father we thank you for all the blessings and we thank you for the rain today if you need that we could do without the wind but you know we'll take what we get. So just guide us Lord as we go through the process today in Jesus name amen. Amen. Next is the approval of the agenda can I get a motion? Motion to approve the agenda. Second. Any discussion? Seeing none all those in favor say say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Same sign.

Motion passes.

Approval of the meeting minutes are May 13th, 2026.

Can I get a motion?

Motion approved.

Second.

Motion approved.

Or a second.

Any discussion?

Say none.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed?

Same sign.

Motion passes.

Approval of claims.

Motion passes, approval of claims.

Did everybody get a chance to look at them?

The total is $30,274 and 84 cents.

Any discussion, question for anything?

Motion to approve.

Second.

Motion passes, or I'm sorry.

Motion and second, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, same sign.

Motion passes.

Okay, I'll just quickly sign this.

Fastcom. Public comment. I see none unless somebody has a public comment. Reports to committee. Judge Hauser's not here. Travis Lutz is here. So you sent a report. I saw it.

Yep. Yep. If you guys got any questions about it, I don't know what that would be, but but if you do have any questions, I'm here to assist in a manner.

Getting on a question about public finance office in general.

I would just ask if you are all staffing levels.

We are doing fine.

We've got the same people that we have had.

So we've got me and then the three other full-time at Bernie's in one part-time.

So that one part-time person was improved as a full-time position originally, but we're fine exactly how we're doing right now.

So hopefully things stay the same and aren't uprooted and we'll be going in the right direction.

So what's life your business?

Yeah, summer is a different animal than normal.

It continues and it hasn't really been a, maybe it hasn't been a horrible, it has not been horrible but to try to resolve some of the older stuff Are these numbers right? Open felony cases, 691?

Yeah, but those would also take into account petitions to revoke that are felony offenses too. They are not actual open offenses. The felony cases are open, but not pending new Yeah, we get a fair amount of film and film, so okay, we get a fair amount of film.

I suppose, yeah, that makes sense.

Yeah.

Okay.

Anybody else have any questions for Mr. Lutz?

No?

Thanks.

Are you coaching?

I am.

We'll just see if next season we'll go to fielded rains this weekend, so that practice was supposed to be today, but the weather changed that.

Oh, eight? Good. Ten. Ten, okay. Let's vote. Yeah. It's on.

Probation? I haven't heard from the doctor, maybe.

She told me the department head meeting this morning she had a conflict so she couldn't make it but she did say to please reach out with any questions if anything was unclear but she did include her report.

Okay, state's turn Mr. Larson.

All right, you've got my report in front of you.

Didn't close quite as many felonies this last month as we normally like to do.

We had two prosecutors and our 7-11 and our victim and witness coordinator all went to Dallas for a conference focusing on violence against children.

It's been a long standing conference.

I went there when I was a new prosecutor and found it to be very worthwhile.

That was paid for by the grant that we had received previously.

So that might have something to do with us resolving a few, fewer cases.

One of our third assistant state attorneys, Seth Balling, has moved on.

He went to the Lee County State's Attorney's Office.

which, you know, he got along well in our office and we liked him.

He is getting married to an assistant public defender, of course.

So moving to a different county did resolve some conflicts that we might otherwise have had to address, but we're very happy with them both, they're both great people.

and John. Beyond that, if you have to answer any questions you have.

Any questions?

Was it just because of the marriage or the pay or?

You know, Seth is a little bit of a taciturn man and I didn't want to pry too much.

One of the things he said is, well, they've got a 457 plan or something like that.

I said, Seth, we have that.

And he went, oh, I don't know.

I don't know what the totality of it was, but I would say that he was an individual I think that took quite a bit of pride in being a felony prosecutor and just due to our staffing I had moved him down to misdemeanor court and I don't think he was very happy with that, although he never complained, he's not a complaint, but in Lee County he'll be back in felony courts.

How long have you been short, too?

Well we had that month where we were only short one and then, I don't know, years we've been down too. Okay. All right. So we're still looking. We are. Okay, good. In the class, graduate or?

Yeah, we got no resumes from the graduating class. We'll wait for people to take our exams in July and we'll post again and see what happens there.

Good evening. You should have my report if you have any questions, let me know. I do have two new employees. One's been there a little over a month and the other one a little over two. They're doing well, hopefully they say. I'm in the process of applying again for the Access to Justice grant in the past of all the self-represented litigant grants.

So I'm filling that out and then to do next month and hopefully we'll get some funds.

Those funds are restricted to this, any certainty.

The self-represented litigants, we can use it for carbon orders on loaves, trying to get new printers in the courtroom, Asking for guardian item fees.

Last year, I was denied that, but asked.

So is that those two new ones bring you up to full staff?

Okay, very good.

Any other questions for Chanel?

All right, well, thank you.

Use diversion fees in June, $526.79, Brings the total up to $2,620.78.

Hope wins. Thank you.

Okay. Moving on to old business. I see none. New business. Anybody have anything they'd like to bring up with the business? Seeing none. Motion to adjourn.

second. Motion and a second for adjournment. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Same science. Thank you for your time. Really appreciate it.