WEBVTT 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:12.199 Welcome to the meeting of the Court Services Committee, Wednesday, June 10th, 2026 at 630. I'll call the meeting to order. 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:17.199 First order of business is prayer. I'll take care of that. 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:27.199 Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us this time to get together and talk about our Court Services Committee. 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:31.920 Father we thank you for all the blessings and we thank you for the rain today if you need that 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:38.240 we could do without the wind but you know we'll take what we get. So just guide us Lord as we 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:46.320 go through the process today in Jesus name amen. Amen. Next is the approval of the agenda can I 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:54.960 get a motion? Motion to approve the agenda. Second. Any discussion? Seeing none all those in favor say 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:55.960 say aye. 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:56.960 Aye. 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:57.960 Opposed? 00:00:57.960 --> 00:00:58.960 Same sign. 00:00:58.960 --> 00:00:59.960 Motion passes. 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:07.599 Approval of the meeting minutes are May 13th, 2026. 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:08.599 Can I get a motion? 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:09.599 Motion approved. 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:10.599 Second. 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:11.599 Motion approved. 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:12.599 Or a second. 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:13.599 Any discussion? 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:14.599 Say none. 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:15.599 All those in favor say aye. 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:16.599 Aye. 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:17.599 Those opposed? 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:18.599 Same sign. 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:19.599 Motion passes. 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:20.599 Approval of claims. 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:23.920 Motion passes, approval of claims. 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:27.959 Did everybody get a chance to look at them? 00:01:28.900 --> 00:01:33.900 The total is $30,274 and 84 cents. 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:35.879 Any discussion, question for anything? 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:36.719 Motion to approve. 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:37.959 Second. 00:01:37.959 --> 00:01:41.299 Motion passes, or I'm sorry. 00:01:41.299 --> 00:01:44.519 Motion and second, all those in favor say aye. 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:45.359 Aye. 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:46.579 Opposed, same sign. 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:48.680 Motion passes. 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:50.400 Okay, I'll just quickly sign this. 00:01:50.400 --> 00:02:05.459 Fastcom. Public comment. I see none unless somebody has a public comment. Reports to 00:02:05.459 --> 00:02:15.379 committee. Judge Hauser's not here. Travis Lutz is here. So you sent a report. I saw it. 00:02:15.379 --> 00:02:19.539 Yep. Yep. If you guys got any questions about it, I don't know what that would be, but 00:02:19.539 --> 00:02:24.539 but if you do have any questions, I'm here to assist in a manner. 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:29.039 Getting on a question about public finance office in general. 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:33.000 I would just ask if you are all staffing levels. 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:34.879 We are doing fine. 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:37.120 We've got the same people that we have had. 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:40.400 So we've got me and then the three other full-time 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:41.919 at Bernie's in one part-time. 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:44.800 So that one part-time person was improved 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:46.479 as a full-time position originally, 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.879 but we're fine exactly how we're doing right now. 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:53.120 So hopefully things stay the same 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:57.759 and aren't uprooted and we'll be going in the right direction. 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:00.800 So what's life your business? 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:05.800 Yeah, summer is a different animal than normal. 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:09.960 It continues and it hasn't really been a, 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:13.560 maybe it hasn't been a horrible, it has not been horrible 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:15.639 but to try to resolve some of the older stuff 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:26.919 Are these numbers right? Open felony cases, 691? 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:33.000 Yeah, but those would also take into account petitions to revoke that are felony offenses 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:41.080 too. They are not actual open offenses. The felony cases are open, but not pending new 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:57.960 Yeah, we get a fair amount of film and film, so okay, we get a fair amount of film. 00:03:57.960 --> 00:03:59.719 I suppose, yeah, that makes sense. 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:00.719 Yeah. 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:01.719 Okay. 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:03.919 Anybody else have any questions for Mr. Lutz? 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:04.919 No? 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:05.919 Thanks. 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:06.919 Are you coaching? 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:07.919 I am. 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:17.920 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. 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:24.920 Oh, eight? Good. Ten. Ten, okay. Let's vote. Yeah. It's on. 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:27.920 Probation? I haven't heard from the doctor, maybe. 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:40.920 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. 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:00.120 Okay, state's turn Mr. Larson. 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.120 All right, you've got my report in front of you. 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:09.279 Didn't close quite as many felonies this last month as we normally like to do. 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:18.779 We had two prosecutors and our 7-11 and our victim and witness coordinator all went to 00:05:18.779 --> 00:05:25.879 Dallas for a conference focusing on violence against children. 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:28.439 It's been a long standing conference. 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:32.519 I went there when I was a new prosecutor 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:34.920 and found it to be very worthwhile. 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:38.920 That was paid for by the grant 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:41.019 that we had received previously. 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:44.959 So that might have something to do with us 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:48.500 resolving a few, fewer cases. 00:05:48.500 --> 00:05:51.639 One of our third assistant state attorneys, 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:54.439 Seth Balling, has moved on. 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:57.180 He went to the Lee County State's Attorney's Office. 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:05.879 which, you know, he got along well in our office and we liked him. 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:09.779 He is getting married to an assistant public defender, of course. 00:06:09.779 --> 00:06:15.899 So moving to a different county did resolve some conflicts that we might otherwise have 00:06:15.899 --> 00:06:24.000 had to address, but we're very happy with them both, they're both great people. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:28.000 and John. Beyond that, if you have to answer any questions you have. 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.279 Any questions? 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:34.279 Was it just because of the marriage or the pay or? 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:41.279 You know, Seth is a little bit of a taciturn man and I didn't want to pry too much. 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:50.459 One of the things he said is, well, they've got a 457 plan or something like that. 00:06:50.459 --> 00:06:52.459 I said, Seth, we have that. 00:06:52.459 --> 00:06:55.459 And he went, oh, I don't know. 00:06:55.459 --> 00:07:20.459 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. 00:07:20.459 --> 00:07:37.569 How long have you been short, too? 00:07:37.569 --> 00:07:46.089 Well we had that month where we were only short one and then, I don't know, years we've been 00:07:46.089 --> 00:07:58.810 down too. Okay. All right. So we're still looking. We are. Okay, good. In the class, graduate or? 00:07:59.769 --> 00:08:06.889 Yeah, we got no resumes from the graduating class. We'll wait for people to take our exams in 00:08:08.970 --> 00:08:11.850 July and we'll post again and see what happens there. 00:08:11.850 --> 00:08:27.410 Good evening. You should have my report if you have any questions, let me know. I do 00:08:27.410 --> 00:08:32.049 have two new employees. One's been there a little over a month and the other one a little 00:08:32.049 --> 00:08:39.169 over two. They're doing well, hopefully they say. I'm in the process of applying again 00:08:39.169 --> 00:08:41.929 for the Access to Justice grant in the past 00:08:41.929 --> 00:08:44.769 of all the self-represented litigant grants. 00:08:46.129 --> 00:08:48.850 So I'm filling that out and then to do next month 00:08:48.850 --> 00:08:50.769 and hopefully we'll get some funds. 00:08:53.250 --> 00:08:55.889 Those funds are restricted to this, any certainty. 00:08:56.929 --> 00:08:58.889 The self-represented litigants, 00:09:00.009 --> 00:09:05.009 we can use it for carbon orders on loaves, 00:09:05.450 --> 00:09:11.590 trying to get new printers in the courtroom, 00:09:11.590 --> 00:09:15.309 Asking for guardian item fees. 00:09:15.309 --> 00:09:17.750 Last year, I was denied that, but asked. 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:28.159 So is that those two new ones bring you up to full staff? 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.889 Okay, very good. 00:09:31.889 --> 00:09:34.169 Any other questions for Chanel? 00:09:34.169 --> 00:09:35.529 All right, well, thank you. 00:09:37.210 --> 00:09:42.210 Use diversion fees in June, $526.79, 00:09:42.210 --> 00:10:00.070 Brings the total up to $2,620.78. 00:10:00.070 --> 00:10:13.379 Hope wins. Thank you. 00:10:13.379 --> 00:10:27.379 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. 00:10:27.379 --> 00:10:33.419 second. Motion and a second for adjournment. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Same 00:10:33.419 --> 00:10:36.899 science. Thank you for your time. Really appreciate it.