Remarks by Stephen Germann
78 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“Yeah, I have a quick question. Okay. This is not a, I promise you it's not a gotcha. With all these cases that y'all, work on, what would you say is your average success rate that you saw?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“Sure. Be honored to. Proclamation recognizing October 2026 is Mediation Awareness Month in Guadalupe County. whereas each year thousands of disputes between individuals, corporations, small businesses, governmental agencies, and others are resolved using a variety of conflict resolution processes both prior to and after the initiation of a court proceeding. And whereas conflict resolution processes can foster communication, enhance relationships, potentially save parties time and expenses of prolonged litigation, and increase the efficiency of the courts, thereby conserving taxpayer dollars.…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“Commissioner, any other comments? Yes, sir. I just wanted to say I appreciate everybody. This has been a process perhaps longer than it needed to be. But still, it's been a process. There have been meetings. There have been times when people would get a little bit upset. But in the end, we could all work through it for a common goal of trying to produce a plan that would take the county forward instead of backward. various projects like the judge said setting aside land for roads when we're when we're platting which is extremely important because if a big subdivision is coming in the private…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“Move to approve the remaining consent items. Second.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“I move to approve authorization to use available general fund budget resulting from vacant assistant county attorney positions to fund the family justice prosecutor position for the period October 1st, 2025 through September 18th, 2026 in lieu of state forfeiture funds and to reimburse the state forfeiture fund or expenditures previously incurred for the position during this period.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“We have all this written down on paper as contracts. Yes, sir, we do.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“I just wanted to make the comment on Jen Road. That discharge is supposed to be like 3 million gallons a day when they get going on that Green Valley sewer. So my best, and I'm not an engineer, but my estimation would be that that bridge practically has water over it even on a sunny day. So we have to see where we're going to be before we can rebuild that bridge.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“Yeah. Maybe we'll get some this week. To make the comment on Jen Road, it was inadvertently left off a few days of work for New Berlin. That's a typical... The way we've always done interlocals, our crew will be there. So they came to court with all those holes that a lot of the citizens are complaining about, so we can fix a few holes while we're there. That's the plan. Yes, sir. It's just real simple.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“You get a little money for that too, right? The county gets tipping fees. Yeah, the tipping fee, yeah.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“I move to approve the authorization to pay Mike Brooks, Road Administrator's unused vacation hours earned prior to the appointment of his salary position. Second.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“I'm in agreement with the three days a month. I wanted to ask Judge, because you know the budget like the back of your hand. There's a budget workshop and it says probable in August. And I'm sure we'll have one somewhere in May. It's not on there. Didn't we have one in July this year because we thought that There might be a problem. When would you estimate that ought to be?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“But the thing is, if we go to three courts a month, we could just easily schedule a 9 o'clock workshop before a standing court are ready.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“I agree with the working draft. The one question I have is none of the other days off line up the way Thanksgiving week does. Is that gonna be a chore to have?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“Their work on the other half of Stagecoach Road was outstanding.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“Move to approve the bid results and award the contract ifp 26-19 stagecoach road overlay project phase two to dean word company second do you have a motion and a second on action item l any other discussion hearing none all those in favor say aye aye opposed”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“I just want to voice my opposition to this. This project is very similar to the Marion project. The outcome is different because it's a fire station. But this is almost $300,000. If you look at the hours, it's $291 an hour. I don't think for this small a project we don't need this. I'll do the project. I'LL OVERSEE THE PROJECT.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“It's real simple. You've got to get the architect and the CMAR together, and you've got to have a meeting with them. We're coming in below budget in Marion. and you can't spend a dollar more than what the court allocates and you got to have meetings about where you are uh on your timeline and where you are on your money and if you do that and everybody's on it communicates it's not that difficult this is not a very big project yes it's a It's millions of dollars. I mean, but this is, I don't think we need to spend, we need to spend $300,000 on something for our people there, not $300,000 to…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“Well, the other thing about this, too, I'm going to say is in order to start 725, you have to finish Marion, which is real close. So that's why I said I'll go ahead and do that. I don't know what we need to do with action right now today.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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Commissioners Court · Sep 29, 2026
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“I'm just going to say, I'm going to tell the people online and in this audience, 95% of the time when you walk in that justice center and you hang a right and you go down that hall, that lady's office is open. And that lady welcomes you into her office. And her expertise, you cannot match it. In what she does, the advice she gives, words can't describe it. But that friendly open door, that is so important. That is so important. We're going to seriously miss her. It will be extremely difficult to replace her. She has absolutely been an asset to this county.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm going to speak after a while, but Judge, can you get back to that graph that you put up about the $1.04 billion?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yes. Those of you that know me know I'm not scared to take on issues and say what I feel. If you look up there at the key takeaway... State required exemptions and corrections over 65 tax ceiling reduce the taxable value. I listen to every one of you good people and I agree with you. But we're sitting up here right now in a situation where we are taking the brunt of what the state has inflicted upon us. It's not the county employees. It's not the volunteer fire departments. It's what the state has done to us. And I seriously agree with Commissioner Ott in that I think the appraisal district…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm just going to ditto what she says about FAR. Two weekends ago, GCFR was up north of Seguin at a big fire. It was close to 40 acres outside of Marion on fire. And who put it out? The volunteers. So to this rhetoric about are they qualified or not? If my pasture's on fire, I want a wet hose there. I want that truck there. I don't care if it says McQueenie or New Berlin or GCFR. And my constituents are the same way. And until we figure out how to make GCFR move forward, these volunteers are our firefighters. They're all we got. And we got to make it work. And to some of the points that were…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026