Remarks by Stephen Germann
78 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
- Play at 5:51:42
“Yes, sir. New Berlin bought a truck. Marion bought a truck. Dunlap bought equipment.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:52:49
“I don't have a problem at all with the way we did it either, where they came back, they had an invoice or whatever, and they showed it to the court and we voted on it. That's fine, and I don't think they have a problem with that either.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:55:33
“Let me answer that a little bit, if I could. When I took office before, I said to myself and I said to a number of people, there's going to come a point when fire protection is going to cost the county more than it ought to cost the county because when you transition from from volunteers, which the volunteers know that eventually they won't be able to service everything. When you transition from volunteers to like GCFR or more with the municipals, you're going to have a point where you're having a crossing over not a crossing over of service, but you're going to have to spend money like with…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:12:24
“He's saying what I was trying to say a minute ago. We have to take care of both right now to make it work.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:15:10
“towards the community and the county so I could give some sort of guidance and it's unbiased it's not them versus them it's it's just a neutral party to come in and do the assessment so thank you I just wanted to say real quick and one thing we're both of you gentlemen I think will agree with this so we're talking about volunteers and we're talking about GCFR and we're talking about this balance but in the meantime The developers are building thousands of houses. So we can sit here and talk about how to balance it. Let's just say that it all remained stable today and there was not another…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:16:55
“Yeah, we're all moving in the same direction.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:25:31
“I could do 300. Now we're playing poker. I could do 300.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:39:24
“If you figure the 3%, what's the total compensation for a year?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:41:38
“I haven't used $1,000 this year. I'd be willing to kick some in.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 6:49:13
“I think I'm on board with what Commissioner Ott is saying. We've juggled around positions here and made part-times, full-times, and I'm not saying we're finished doing it, but we're doing it. Our admin has a completely different job than a lot of the employees in the county. She has four bosses, has to run the court basically, and I'm on board with giving her more money because it's an extremely important position. When people call, they're either going to call law enforcement for you know, something that's going on, or they're going to call one of the commissioners. And that person is a face…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 7:01:52
“I'm not understanding, though, because I had a discussion with Marion about And Marion said that what they were doing was using off-duty deputies and paying them, you know, whatever, the fee per hour, that they had really, and that the sheriff's, I'm quoting what I was told, and that the sheriff's office coordinated, yeah, so-and-so's going to be you know and and that they would that it was working fine for them and that they were paying these off-duty deputies to be their SRO so the only thing that we were really out of as a county which I don't have a problem with is if the Tahoe sitting…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 7:03:12
“Because if we weren't doing it before with paid people, I hear what you're saying. But what changed? Why was what they were doing before not working now where you're having to pick up the slack more and more? Am I making sense?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 7:12:53
“One thing has been brought up. Maybe you can clarify this. It won't take a long time. On this SRO program, I was talking to some people from Cibolo, and they were trying it with steel. And they said that the problem they ran into is the school days are long. Those deputies have to be there a long day. And so they said what happened was that it sounded good on the outset, but But the deputies used up so much overtime and comp time or vacation time, whatever you want to. And when you got to the summer or to the Christmas holidays, when you figured you would have them more. And I understand what…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 7:33:12
“Chris, let me just ask you this, because we're trying up here to figure some things out. Is there anything from what you requested? I hear what you're asking for now, if it could work out. Do you know of anything from what you requested off the top of your head where maybe you could knock $100,000 off that you know of?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 7:34:28
“And they've gone up a lot. And they have gone up a lot. I heard you the other day. Yeah, it's ridiculous.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 7:44:53
“JP. Let me be sure I understand because So we don't go back. You're saying a 3% COLA, and we give $1,000 longevity. OK. I want to be on page.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 7:53:01
“So if you wanted to make it that if you were here six months, you got the bonus, we'd have to change policy? Yes.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 7:54:00
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 7:55:14
“I say we revolve around October 1st because it's our fiscal year.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 7:56:52
“Linda, let me say this real quick. So Teresa ran me some numbers recently. We have a lot of employees that have been here less than a year. And so I'm on board with that six months. It's like a bonus, you know, thank you for staying and coming to workforce. That's why I'm on board with that six months because it's a bunch. It's a lot of employees.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:07:08
“Isn't it true that that's what we have to call it? I mean, it's sort of a bonus or whatever, but officially that's what we have to call it?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:07:21
“Yeah. So could we establish that for this budget, it's six months, but then we go back to what we've done before?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:24:42
“name lois ellie as the interim human resources director and set her salary at 85 000 a year second would you have a motion and a second any further discussion i'm sure hearing no other comments or questions all those in favor say aye aye opposed”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:48:32
“If you went back to the 4% increase at a 3493 tax rate... We're sitting at a little over 2 right now with what Chris figured, right?”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 8:52:37
“You're saying try to move back to 4%, correct? If we move back to 4%, it would be 2.1 plus that figure at the bottom of the 4%.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026