Remarks by Jacqueline Ott
223 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 9
- Play at 30:56
“Judge, do you have handy the chart of the tax increases over time? Sure do.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 31:06
“Yeah. Like this? Yes. Well, do you have it by percentage? Do we have it by percentage?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 31:50
“Yeah, just how the numbers match up to the different options that we're looking at in our columns. Sure.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 33:07
“So 5.65 will reflect the 6.2 in the notice?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 33:56
“I wanted to observe the trend from a percentage standpoint, because I think that's something we hadn't really looked at. Thank you.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 43:33
“Do we need to remove the second one, or are we solid with removing the first one, just the first one, and we break even with what we have? I mean, I know it's not break even. That's the wrong term for it.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 44:06
“Yes, if it factors between like 260K and 290K. Correct. Yeah. So, I mean, we get there with, if that's the in-between and we get there with just removing the building purchase.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 54:17
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Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 34:49
“Commissioner? Well, you know I love you. It's so...”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 35:06
“You have an amazing ability to look at things from such an aerial view. And you know all of the problems. And you're still positive all the time. And when things have gotten out of control, or stressful, or even when they're really good, you always have a very steady perspective. And it's been amazing. I think you've truly been a blessing to this county. You've been a voice of reason and encouragement. You've been positive when people are feeling down. You've helped people come back to filling the role that they're meant to fill. And I really couldn't appreciate you enough. I think that you…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:58:00
“So I'm going to talk in a little bit of bullet points, because a lot of things were said today. And I think a lot of valuable things have been said. And I think, first of all, I want to extend some thanks to the citizens that took their time to come here today and talk to us. We appreciate you, because everyone's time is really your most important resource, your time and your health. But I also want to thank the court. Because this has been quite a ride. We've had quite a ride. We have a lot of years of experience in this court. I personally have really benefited from that, from learning from…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:02:51
“What I would like for us to do in the next fiscal year is engage the services of an outside auditor so that they can go through with the numbers that the appraisal district has given us, work together with our tax assessor, and see what we can come up with so that we can make decisions going forward. Now, the benefit of that is that we will be able to look at those numbers and those figures and get that information throughout the next fiscal year, plan accordingly, and speak and communicate with our departments and the public as it goes, so that this is not an unexpected surprise this time.…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:11:26
“I have more to say and some specific things that I don't know if the court wants to reserve more of the conversation for the actual action item if we want to try to cover a lot of this just up top. That's your preference. Do we want to cover more of the conversation right now up front or during the action item?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:14:47
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Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:14:56
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Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:16:13
“No, I don't think so. I don't think anyone's requesting it unless somebody feels differently than I do, so I don't want to speak for the rest of the court members. But I wanted just to give my impression, because I know we had received correspondence from the sheriff in regard to the creation of a chaplain position asking us to do that.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:17:13
“It was my understanding in the last conversation that we had before this court that the retirement and perhaps the benefits were the reasons that we needed to maybe talk about it as a court and vote on it, other than just the simple creation of it.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:17:45
“Okay. So, you know, I think there must be some sort of misunderstanding here, because we received correspondence from the sheriff, and sheriff, you know, any input you have is totally welcome, but in our correspondence from the sheriff, we have received that if we don't do this, then we will, there's a potential that he is going to mandamus us to do this, and As a court member, I'm surprised and a little confused about that because I don't feel like there was any negative conversation about it. I think we brought it up. We talked about whether or not we needed those ancillary funds for…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:19:09
“What I want to note, court, is can we talk about that right now? As I stated before in the prior court, I have no issue with it. I think that it would be fine and beneficial if we did have a chaplain that is paid for out of commissary fund on an annual recurring basis. I don't have an issue with that person's benefits in or retirement. I think that it would be a benefit to the county. I think that that person would be made available to our law enforcement. I think that it's a positive thing. I wanted to see if the court would entertain that conversation right now.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:21:42
“I think for me, some of the confusion came from, you know, I attended one of the meetings with the department heads and some of the electeds. We were presented. We were given a proposition. There were 14 new positions in this proposition. There wasn't conversation about the chaplain. We had the conversation in court. I did not feel that we were necessarily opposed to it. Certainly not a majority was opposed to it. And so I was surprised to receive that correspondence. it was not my impression of how we left the conversation. I wanted to address it now with the court, if we can talk about…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:22:43
“I think we need to have some opinions from court members. As I said, I'm for it. Could any of the rest of you let us know so that we can try to include or not include that in the decisions we have today?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:26:08
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Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:29:13
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Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:33:38
“Yes, no problem. Let me pull some of that.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:33:54
“No, the three positions are planner, assistant planner, and floodplain manager. The current step in grade is an 11.5. Danielle, is that correct? Yes. Okay.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026