Remarks by Richard Chapman
131 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 6
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“Those are important things. So we will definitely. I'd like to see this come back to court next time with some instructions that are not AI written, that are just simple, plain language on the process. The process needs to include the final thing is that the HR department is going to review them to make sure that they meet the overall standards of HR, and there have been or not been changes made.”
Commissioners Court · Aug 25, 2026
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“Judge, I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda items for August 25, 2026, items A through O.”
Commissioners Court · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes. This is in reference to the $5,000 that we approved earlier in the year, and this is just a formal contract.”
Commissioners Court · Aug 25, 2026
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“Any further discussion? I do have one comment. Yes, sir. As to this and the previous item, which we approved, both meet our rules? Yes, sir. Both are using more water. And in looking at both the Twin Canyon well and the Comfort well, with two years of July flooding, the Comfort well is up one foot over its low. And so that's going to be a problem. I've said this many times. I'm going to keep saying it. And with the Twin Canyon well, this right now it's at the roughly the second lowest since 2019. So at some point in time, all of these wells are going to hit bottom and then this land is not…”
Commissioners Court · Aug 25, 2026
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“Because that's easy to do. Yeah. And, I mean, it's going to be in a rotation anyway. So somebody's going to go first and somebody's last and it'll be that one. And it'll start all over. Yeah. Yeah.”
Commissioners Court · Aug 25, 2026
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“Commissioner Chapman? Well, notice, I mean, the engineer's part is drastically cut, which I'm questioning is, did you give yourself enough space, number one? Number two, under contract services, you went from $250,000 to $225,000. With the flood event that we just... Should we not keep that at 250 and put 50,000 in yours?”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“Well, what I'm saying is your members don't add.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“But we don't know for sure that they will even allow us to take the grant money and pay somebody else. So we have to be prepared to pay for this out of pocket.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“All right, so $300,000. I think that Little Joshua, that's a little on the low side.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“On Little Joshua, I think $300,000 would be closer.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“There's another component to this. Even if we get, let's just say GrantWorks, because that's the first name that comes to mind. We get GrantWorks to come in here on a temporary basis. GrantWorks is not going to do everything that we need done, correct me if I'm wrong, and hand us a check going, here's your money.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“We're going to budget $115,000 for GrantWorks or somebody, $150,000 for a interim service, person and the grant manager yes that's what it sounds like and uh the and i want to get across the fact that we if grant works portion is covered by the grant it's not free it still cost us 115 000 that we could have been using as repairs as what as repairs on a bridge or whatever out of the CDBG out of the grant.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“I think the landowner would like to have it removed. And so I think the landowner would cooperate with us. I don't think that'll be a problem. I just think that, yeah, where are we going to get the money from?”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“I would suggest working with the landowners and if there is protruding rebar, that type of stuff, that we, as a bare minimum, we go in there and if that's the only hazard, we remove that immediate hazard and then try to”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“From a legal standpoint, I think we have to keep the county engineer.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“Silly me. We have to keep county engineer for them to oversee road and bridge.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“Go. Before you leave Mountain Creek Trail, I think we need, I mean, it would be a road and bridge while you're here. So let me explain. On Mountain Creek Trail, there are three five-foot diameter culverts that got undermined very similar to the Ranger Creek. We did a temporary repair. We were crushing the culverts. We have to get in there and replace them. There's 50 to 100 homes back in there that have no other access in route. Donnell has been working with Mary Ellen and myself to get some estimates. For $14,000, we can buy two eight foot by 40 foot, basically temporary bridges. And it…”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“All in, you are probably... uh what it was uh 60 somewhere in the 75 000 range let's add 90 92 or budget line is this similar to like a railroad or like yes it is a railroad that's what they used to have yeah that they've converted into a bridge it's uh it would be two bridges and two flashers. The flashers are actually the arms that go down over in your precinct or off your street. They're on Adler where you only have one way and they have the arm. We would need two of those, one at each end. I think this would all go under road and bridge.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“Okay, $65,000, so we'll put $100,000 in. Okay. Is that your last item?”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“Is that going to give? That's essentially going to leave him. It's going to take away half of his budget.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“I guess I'll go first here and just ask Brian. You want to come up, please? Explain the $317,000 one more time. Actually, $318,000. How much of that is critically required this year? Do you have that spreadsheet?”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“And I think we were supposed to be brought down from that 317 number. What number is your department, Brent? 415.”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“I'm good with leaving that in. Commissioner Carpenter?”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026
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“I don't, and I will just caution the court. I think that's a very conservative, well, that's not a conservative number. It's probably going to be 500,000. Well, I don't think it'll go five, but I think it could be slightly higher than three, which... We're hoping, doesn't look like it's going to happen, that we had $50,000 in this year's budget that we could have used towards it had we gotten started on it. But I don't think we're going to get started on it. Ladies, what are your thoughts?”
Commissioners Court · Jul 30, 2026