FY2024 Budget / Tax Rate

January 18, 2022

Agenda
Board of Commissioners
January 18, 2022

IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 551, TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE BLANCO COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES DISTRICT NO. 2 WILL MEET ON TUESDAY JANUARY 18TH, 2022 AT 3:00 P.M. AT 431 BLANCO AVE, BLANCO, TX 78606 AT WHICH TIME THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS SHALL BE DISCUSSED AND ACTION CONSIDERED AND/OR TAKEN. 

  1. Call to Order / Announcements – Establish a quorum.
  2. Public Comment – No action may be taken on these items unless on agenda.  Please limit comments to 2 minutes per person.
  3. Officer Elections – Election of Officers for 2021 – President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer.
  4. Consent Agenda – Items will be approved with a single vote.  Items can be removed from the Consent Agenda for discussion. 
    • Approval of the December 21, 2021, Regular Meeting minutes
    • Financial Report as of 12/31/2021
      • Monthly Financials:
        • Texas Regional Checking: $1,572,581.07
        • Texas Regional CD: $132,643.63
        • Lone Star Money Market: $223,377.25
  5. Fire & EMS Auxiliary
    • Quarterly Report due
    • Consider requests / actions submitted to ESD
  6. Chiefs’ Report
    • COVID-19 Update
    • Operations Reports Fire & EMS
    • Acknowledge Chief Oakley’s completion of EMS Administrator continuing education as required by 25 TAC § 157.11
  7. Finance & Planning Matters
    • Strategic Plan Workshop – Cancelled due to COVID-19 Surge – To be rescheduled
    • Update on Required Action Items for January
    • Renewal of Texas Regional CD (Action taken)
    • Commissioner required training
      • SAFE-D Conference and Online Training
      • New Commissioner Orientation – information item
    • Consider Participation with Blanco County on update of Blanco County’s Hazard Mitigation Action Plan (HMAP) and participation in Blanco County’s application for a FEMA Hazard Mitigation Planning Grant, including contribution of a proportional amount of required grant matching funds, if necessary.
    • Approve Resolution 2022-01-18.1 authorizing the District to participate in The Local Government Purchasing Cooperative (BuyBoard)
  8. Executive Session if requested – Discuss personnel matters, meet with attorney as authorized by Texas Government Code.
  9. Return to Open Session: Discuss and consider action on matters discussed in Executive Session
  10. Adjourn:  Next meetings will be Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 3:00 PM

The District reserves the right to consider and take action on the above agenda items in any order.  It also reserves the right to enter into a closed meeting on any agenda item as allowed by law.  If at a meeting of a governmental body, a member of the public or of the governmental body inquiries about a subject for which notice has not been given as required by the Texas Open Meetings Act, the notice provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act do not apply to a statement of specific factual information given in response to the inquiry, a recitation of existing policy in response to the inquiry.  Any deliberation of or decision about the subject of the inquiry shall be limited to a proposal to place the subject on the agenda for the next meeting. 

CERTIFICATE OF POSTING 72 HOUR NOTICE
The above Notice of Meeting was posted at 2:45 P.M. on this 15TH day of JANUARY, 2022 at a place convenient to the public at the Blanco County ESD 2 Station, 431 Blanco Ave., Blanco, Texas and on the Blanco County ESD 2 website at bcesd2.com.
WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL of office on the above date.
By /s/ Ben Oakley