Jim Allison opened his conference presentation with a focus on dedicated and diverted funds and charged county judges and commissioners with the following: Contact your legislators and ask them to release and reinstate:
- 9-1-1 emergency services funds;
- indigent defense system funds; and
- indigent health care funds.
Quotes from the Conference:
- Opening Session: “We never know the lives we influence and how we impact people.” Dr. Doug Steele, Director, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
- Public Hearings: “Try hard to appear as the most fair and reasonable person in the room.” Charles Kimbrough, Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP
- Public-Private Partnerships: “Determine what will be a success in your eyes.” Mary Scott Nabers, Strategic Partnerships, Inc.
- County Judge: “Unless it happened in an open meeting and the commissioners court voted for me to sign it, then I can’t sign it.” Ector County Judge Susan Redford
- Transportation: “Texas is adding 1,000 people per day…there is no money for new roads with our current budget.” Phil Wilson, Executive Director, Texas Department of Transportation
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