Legislative Committee - Regular Meeting

Oh, there we go.

All right. Good evening. Tonight is 6 o'clock on May 21st. This is our legislative committee meeting. We do have a quorum. As of right now, we have two members absent, Roseanne Cardin-Smith and Tim Brown. We do have a quorum. I'll go ahead and open the meeting to come to order. We have an... The only item on our agenda tonight is the recommendation for law enforcement to appoint judicial commissioners yearly. If we have no modifications or corrections on the agenda, I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda.

I'll make that motion.

Motion by Commissioner Miller.

I'll second.

I'm not on this committee technically, so I had to.

She's a guest. That's right. Thank you for coming. Okay. Commissioner Chambers, second. All in favor? Aye. You will see we have two minutes to approve tonight. One from 11-10-2025. That's because I didn't have it at the last meeting. And then the one on our last meeting was 3-30-2026.

I'll make that motion.

Motion to approve by Commissioner Chambers.

I hadn't really had a time to read it, but I'll say I'll second.

Okay. Seconded by Commissioner Miller. All those in favor?

Aye.

Aye. All right. Public comments? No one here. No one signed up. No one finished business. Again, new business. Recommendation from law enforcement to reappoint judicial commissioners yearly. Based on the previous... I guess the way it has been going, commissioners have been appointed every four years. The way TCA states, they can be done no more than for four years. This comes from a recommendation from law enforcement on the judicial commissioners on various aspects as far as a possible supervisor. and this brought up the notion to appoint these for one-year terms instead of four-year terms for reasons for evaluation purposes.

And, Chairman Watkins, if I can, whenever we were looking into a supervisor position for the judicial commissioners is what brought this about. That TCA code says you can have reappoint every up to every four years but nowhere in the county policy does it state that's what the governing body has sure it was just it was just going off the tca of no more than four right so they've just been done every four right so we feel like there needs to be something in writing sure and something somewhere stating when they get hired that they're going to be reappointed and sure CTAS actually recommended yearly.

Okay.

And in some cases, people didn't do four years anyways.

Sure. So it would work out to have one, a point that there would be an evaluation process to make sure they're doing their job, doing a good job, performing adequately for their job, that they're in that position. And then that way, if there was any issues or any problems since, There are some nuances to their position, unlike any other employee, that they are not per se fired. They are ousted like any other elected official. So at that point, then, if they weren't performing adequately, then they could not just be reappointed. They would drop off. and then a new person would be hired for that next year cycle. Correct. Okay.

And I don't want judicial commissioners to have to worry about their job if they're doing it correctly. No, sure. There should be no issue of them being reappointed. I mean, they have to do it every four years anyway.

Sure, and this is just part of the grander scheme as far as to, Re-update their job description and actually get a more codified structure for them to have where you did have somebody that would supervise or at least be a spokesman for them to the committee to be able to say what they're doing, like we've had in the past, how many warrants they're doing, how many search warrants they're doing, how people are doing, how's training going, anything new coming down the pipe that may have come from training that needs to be, uh, told to the committee or to the legislative body since they are actually affirmed by the full legislative body. Yes. So that would be something that they could report to, to then be able to be given back to us. So, um, I guess if there's no other statements, I'll entertain a motion to have this, um, recommendation from law enforcement forwarded to the full commission. Um, and then if passed, uh, placed into their, the, uh, job description as such.

I'll make that motion.

Okay. Motion by Roger. Roger. I'll second. And commissioner Miller second. Uh, any other further discussion? All in favor?

Aye. Aye.

All right. Motion carries. Um, I know we don't got everybody here, but again, our committee meets as needed. I guess that's good with everybody still that's here. If we have anything else, we will have our next meeting. All right. Thanks, everybody, for coming. Thanks, Missy, for coming from law enforcement. I know Roger's on it. Missy Cain being the chairman. Oh, y'all.

We're pretty much aware. Y'all are aware. Very familiar.

We're trying to get the judicial commissioner office more structured, and this is a good start.

All right. Well, next.

And I'll make a motion to adjourn.

Motion to adjourn. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Thanks, everybody, for coming.

We'll just go to the next one when we call. When we get called. Or let her know real quick why she's in traffic. Yeah. Not at all.