Remarks by Jacqueline Ott
223 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 9
- Play at 8:13:58
“It was already built into the previous. I'm assuming that's what's down here. Gotcha.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:19:05
“Are we going to executive session for a few moments?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:19:13
“I think we should knock those out if we can quickly.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:22:17
“What dates are we looking at? September 15th.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:31:49
“I would like Judge Hines to have an opportunity to come up and address the court.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:34:11
“So one of the things that when this was brought up earlier, I said that I wasn't educated enough about at the moment because I had reshifted my focus a little bit with the most recent proposal. So I'm glad that you're here to talk to us about it, is that I know that sometimes the county attorney can fill the role of a staff attorney in a sense, but when it comes to things that are of course criminal, then you would have your conflict of interest. So I wanted to talk a little bit about that. and talk about, you know, maybe I think really also research for the courts probably, right, and…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:36:05
“Is the county attorney's office even able to fully research or give opinions on certain criminal cases when they're the prosecuting entity?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:36:35
“So I wanted to talk about suppression issues as well for the court. And just what that means is that often in cases, one side will present a motion to suppress. And so that will be suppressing evidence so that the judge or jury, whoever the trier of fact is, cannot consider that evidence and ultimately reaching a verdict. And so that decision by the a judge is really important because if they do suppress that evidence and later it's appealed and that appeal is granted, that it means that case has to be tried again with that evidence in consideration for that subsequent verdict, which is bad.…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:39:39
“And I'm playing ping pong, but on the same side here, I suppose. But, you know, as you all know, the legislature does potentially change every two years. And so I remember as a prosecutor with jury charges, with child victim cases, feeling very challenged about hoping that that jury charge was perfect, and then sometimes you're wanting to research an issue and not even really know, like, what all do I need to research based on all these legislative changes, and I hope I get this right, and the judge told me to come back in 15 minutes, and is that enough time? And I think that is really…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:41:55
“I think that we have not done paid re-raids across the board, and I think for consistencies and fairness purposes, I think that we need to stay consistent. I am on board with the staff attorney. I really think it's very important and be very meaningful.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:48:26
“Can we pull the chart back up with the options? Yeah. Yeah, and we talked about...”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:49:18
“When you say tax rate decrease, we are just talking about a decrease in the ceiling, correct? Correct. A lower amount of increase. As it turns out, 11 and a half hours makes my brain go...”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:51:02
“Okay, so can we talk about the options on both far sides of this, if that is our prize package? If we pulled none out of general fund and it all went into a tax increase versus if we did no tax increase and pulled it all out of general fund, what are our parameters and what's in the middle?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:51:33
“I was just saying if you can keep the boundaries of each one and then we can talk about the range. No problem.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:52:26
“5.65 increase is pulling 2.1 out of reserves. Correct. So we could move money from the two, the building and the land purchase,”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:53:01
“building purchase line, the land purchase line, and the little less than $300,000 that would come out of potentially the TxDOT match, if that... Is the TxDOT match an estimate, or is the TxDOT match something that it's like the all-or-none package?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:53:45
“Judge, do you have handy the chart of the tax increases over time? Sure do. So you're talking about the tax rate? Yeah, yes. Well, do you have it by percentage? Do we have it by percentage?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:54:38
“Yeah, just how the numbers match up to the different options that we're looking at in the columns.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:55:56
“So 5.65 will reflect the 6.2 in the notice? Correct. Okay. And what was 2020? Okay. Thanks. 7.7.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:56:44
“I wanted to observe the trend from a percentage standpoint, so I think that's something we hadn't really looked at.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 9:06:22
“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, I'm sorry, I know it's not break even, and that's the wrong term for it, but.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 9:06:54
“Is that what you're saying? Between like two 60 K and two 90 K. Right. Yeah. So, I mean, I, we, we get there with, if that's the, if that's the in-between and we get there with just removing the building purchase.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 9:17:06
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Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026