Remarks by Jakie Allen
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“Any questions? No. I'll make a motion. Commissioner Phillips makes the motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. Commissioner Crowell makes a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Once again, Constable Johnson discussed, considered, and approved Deputy Miguel A. Del Toro to fill a vacant patrol contract position in Department 192, that's Mud 5, Travis Ranch, with Coffman County Precinct 2 Constable's Office. Yes, sir.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“That's good. I'm paying cash. That's good.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“And the stewards here with the city, and they've kind of been mimicking what we do pretty much. And so now it's time for the first to discuss because 12 years ago, things didn't cost as much as they do today. And some counties are not giving abatements. Some are, and some have got limits where they start at a higher number than what we do. So now is the time to discuss it. Give me your thoughts and ideas. And we've got triggers in here. And if they don't do something, who's going to monitor it if we do give an abatement? So what's your thoughts?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. Back in the day, we started at $10 million. Now, we started at $3 million. Three, five, and ten. You can't hardly buy much today for $3 million, even $10 million on new construction. This does not include any houses or apartments. This is strictly commercial. Anything tax-exempt will not be included because they're tax-exempt. You know, the pilot, you know, the payment in lieu of taxes, that's the way a lot of counties are doing it because it doesn't affect our tax rates, which is good. The 180 agreements, I don't like. Do you all still do 180 agreements?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“The last conference we went to, what, last week was... Most counties are not doing the 380s at all. They're just doing 312s and pilot, which is the same thing.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, we don't do those. We don't do sales tax. We don't have sales tax.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, I know, but I'm not doing it. I'll deal with a sales tax. I think we need to get part of the city's sales taxes. I think that works. Would you agree to that? I think the city would agree to that. Talk to Jeff Jordan about that. I don't think that's going to work. Okay. Okay. So, honestly, some counties start now a minimum of $25 million. Don't even talk about a tax abatement. And, you know, we have a seven-year. We don't do 10. We just do seven. That's as far as we can go. So we need to come up with some plan to where when someone comes in here, just like we did recently, we did the…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“But that's been the last one we've done in some time.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“And the things we run into sometimes is who reports to whom is the number of employees. Do they actually hire who they say they're going to hire? Who's keeping track of that?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“And you can do that being the city, but we don't have that authority.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“I haven't gotten anything from the appraisal district as to what they're doing.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“I think that would need to be automatic, right?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“That's something we need to update ours. That's the reason I want to do this report.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“Modern day instead of 12-year-old programs.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“Right. There's just a lot of things that we need to revisit.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“You know, I mean... Well, and I think there's value in large companies bringing a large number of employees, because that helps the economy overall, not just for cities, but for counties all the way around, and we need to be mindful of that also. But you were self-employed. How long did it take you to break even? Yeah, oh, the first year. Oh, well, he's a plumber. He can charge you. You're going to pay.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“If the end result is to get a good corporation here, you have to be able to negotiate with them to make it work for both of you. Yeah. It can't be one-sided.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“And we've got some examples of other counties, what they're doing. And some of them, they don't tie exact numbers to it. It's just all negotiations. And I think that's probably a pretty good thing to do.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm supposed to be back in Austin the 16th. We'll see what some things are going to happen.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right. Anything else you want to ask Stuart about while he's here? I know we're not the same as the city, but We still have to work together with all the other cities. I want you all to take our abatement policy, look at it, mark it up. In a couple of weeks, we're going to come back and revisit this again and try and tie some things down because we want to get this done before the first year for sure. We'd like to get it done next month, by the end of this month if possible, so we know where we are, what direction we're going. We've talked about TIFs and TIRs. No one here is in favor of…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“Houses have to be cut out. Well, houses. We're not giving payments to houses.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“Percentage of the cost. So two weeks, we're going to discuss this again, another workshop. Stuart, if you don't mind coming back if you want to, you're welcome. Anytime. Anytime. Oh, yeah. And we work with Karen to get the wording right and follow some of the other counties that's updated theirs recently. It's a lot easier than what we have. And get it tied down. So when someone comes, we hand it to them, here it is. We always make exceptions to the rule. So, okay. You had a good teacher. Or I was a good teacher, wasn't I? Yeah.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026