Remarks by Andra M. Wisian
282 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 11 of 12
- Play at 3:39:27
“You did that on your own? No. The department had sent it all in.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 3:44:18
“There's something else we can talk about while waiting. She should be here briefly.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 3:52:20
“I think we're going to have to say yes for doing it for one.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:23:40
“That's a little bit more than what you were calculating yesterday. A little bit more. Yeah. I was thinking it was about 99.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:26:18
“So he's at, with his 89, 404 and 1200, he's at 90,604. And then with the stepping up and a 4,800 certification, it'd be at 105, 445. That's a $14,841 increase. I just wanted y'all to know that it,”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:27:38
“I am because it is a nice bump for him, and I'm really leery about hopping all over the board and not being consistent. And I just think that's something that this court needs to do, if anything, is be consistent.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:31:01
“How much do we have budgeted, Corinna, for Burdick renovation?”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:38:05
“And just to kind of back up, we had asked him early on the price per square foot, and What was that, Commissioner? 400, 450?”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:42:53
“So adjourning today and going tomorrow is not an option, even just one more day? We can't follow a timeline?”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:44:05
“So the budget has to be filed by the 5th.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:47:22
“We can have a meeting when? On the 25th?”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:47:50
“Well, if we don't do that, then we're faced with the day that we adopt the budget of saying we're not going to adopt the budget. And that can't happen. I mean, it can, and I wouldn't want that to happen. So if we could, if you could, we could file as much as we can, but just one look, on the 10th, wherever we meet.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:49:36
“Chad, do you think we can talk to TxDOT and get something out of them?”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:50:07
“I don't know. We gave them five already. And then general counsel remind us, we have to do some sort of service agreement with them because of their nonprofit status.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:51:09
“And if we gave the money to the area foundation or whatever that foundation is, then that foundation could make a grant to them that would be acceptable.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:51:23
“It's a 501c3. And then it makes grants and in turn it could give the money to them or is that circumventing the law?”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:53:00
“You know, we got to talk about Burdick. And so I'm going to just...”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:54:02
“grades that everyone's looked at i just want to put it on notice and then i'd like to rediscuss the general counsel position so on the um steps now where that's going to potentially move more people potentially 25 it's going to do it for 27 people i do think that deb and melissa deserve to be taken care of right so um i don't know where weather stands but i think we should Pull that total, because it was kind of up in the air. I think we did. We did? Okay. Oh, you haven't pulled it yet. It's still here.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:54:33
“Yeah, pull the weather, because now we've just increased employees, and I would rather take care of employees that we have.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:56:26
“I'm going to keep my position that taking on one more employee with benefits without first defining the scope of what the office should be doing. As we heard, general counsel wears many hats and general counsel needs to wear general counsel hats and whatever deficiencies we have need to be brought to the court. So we can address those, and then I'd rather outsource to experience attorneys who have expertise in a particular field, and then we could look at it again next year.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 4:58:41
“Well, to clarify, I didn't say that the general counsel was just for the court. I addressed general counsel wearing many hats, and what I think Commissioner Carpenter put well the other day is that if there are departments that need help as a department, we need to figure out what they need that may not be legal. I just think general counsel is taking on responsibilities that are outside the scope. But I have asked three or four times now to get that scope defined so that we better know what we're doing and get a handle on it.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 5:03:54
“So to clarify, I didn't say you were deficient nor your department is deficient. I was referring to what you said about wearing many hats because nobody had been hired to wear them or nobody was wearing them. That was my deficiency. So you misunderstood. And so I'm clarifying that. I always started the conversation with, I think you do a great job. I think you care about the county. I fought to hire you at a higher salary. And so I've been your champion. So there's no need to think anything else because I tell you that every time that we talk. Defining what else you need to do in your scope,…”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 5:06:28
“Sheriff, can you get by with some part-time help so we don't have to take on another employee with benefits?”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 5:09:02
“Well, it's commercial building and we have to follow procurement laws and we have to have a set of stamped architectural plans and we have to have an owner's rep and to do business as a government. You're absolutely right. We can talk about alternatives if we don't want to proceed.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
- Play at 5:13:58
“I mean, we could take nearly a million dollars out if we didn't put the mezzanine up.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026