WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.000 Welcome to the meeting of the Court Services Committee, Wednesday, June 10th, 2026 at 630. I'll call the meeting to order. 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:17.000 First order of business is prayer. I'll take care of that. 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:27.000 Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us this time to get together and talk about our Court Services Committee. 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:36.000 Father, we thank you for all the blessings and we thank you for the rain today, if you need that, we could do without the wind, but you know, we'll take what we get. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:43.000 So just guide us, Lord, as we go through the process today, in Jesus' name, Amen. 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:50.000 Next is the approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion? Motion to approve the agenda. Second. 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.000 Any discussion? 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.000 All those in favor say aye. 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:59.000 Opposed? Same sign. 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.000 Motion passes. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:05.000 Approval of the meeting minutes 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:08.000 from May 13th, 2026. Can I get a motion? 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:11.000 Motion to approve. Second. 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:14.000 Motion approved or second. 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:15.000 Any discussion? 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.000 All those in favor say aye. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:36.000 Did everybody get a chance to look at them? The total is $30,274.84. Any discussion, question for any of them? 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:47.000 Motion to approve. Second. Motion passes. Motion in second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:52.000 Motion passes, okay, I'll just quickly sign this and pass it on. 00:01:55.439 --> 00:02:00.439 All right, public comment, I see no, 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:03.879 unless somebody has a public comment. 00:02:05.039 --> 00:02:08.719 Reports to committee, Judge Hauser's not here. 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:10.259 Travis Lutz is here. 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:15.520 So you sent a report, I saw it. 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:28.080 Yep. Yep. If you guys got any questions about it, I don't know what that would be, but if you do have any questions, I'm here to assist in a new manner. Getting on a question about public finance office in general. 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:32.640 I would just ask if you are level staffing levels. 00:02:32.640 --> 00:03:02.640 We are doing fine. We've got the same people that we have had. So we've got me and then the three other full-time attorneys in one part-time. So that one part-time person was improved as a full-time position originally, but we're, we're fine exactly how we're doing right now. So hopefully things stay the same and aren't uprooted and we'll be going in the right direction. So what's like your business? Yeah, summer is, 00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:21.640 Some are a different animal than normal. It continues and it hasn't really been a, I guess it hasn't been horrible. It has not been horrible to try to resolve some of the older stuff that we have gotten on this, start to come back. So, this has been a bit busier. 00:03:21.640 --> 00:03:27.640 Are these numbers right? Open felony cases, 691? 00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:33.160 Yeah, but those would also take into account like petitions to revoke that are felony offenses too. 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:41.560 They are not like actual open offenses. Like the felony cases are open, but not pending new offenses 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:47.640 that have never been resolved. They're generally speaking probably less than half of that. 00:03:49.160 --> 00:03:52.920 That seems like kind of how I know. We're on a very big county. 00:03:52.920 --> 00:03:59.480 Yeah, we get a fair amount of film and film. I suppose, yeah, that makes sense. 00:03:59.480 --> 00:04:07.320 Yeah. Okay. Anybody else have any questions for Mr. Lutz? No. Thanks. Are you coaching? 00:04:07.320 --> 00:04:14.920 I am to see if next season I go to field agreements this weekend. So that practice was supposed to be 00:04:14.920 --> 00:04:17.879 Today, but the weather changed that. 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:19.080 What, eight? Good. 00:04:19.080 --> 00:04:19.560 Ten. 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:21.640 Ten, okay. Let's vote. 00:04:21.640 --> 00:04:23.000 Yeah, it's fine. 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.360 Probation? I haven't heard from the doctor, maybe. 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.000 She was on the, she told me the department had a meeting this morning. 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.319 She had a conflict this morning, so she couldn't make it, 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:37.960 but she did say to please reach out with any questions if anything was unclear, 00:04:37.960 --> 00:04:40.680 but she did include her report, so. 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:49.920 So she's busy too, okay, State's Attorney, Mr. Larson. 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:03.600 All right, you've got my report in front of you. 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:07.080 Didn't close quite as many felonies this last month 00:05:07.080 --> 00:05:09.240 as we normally like to do. 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:14.240 We had two prosecutors and our seven lawyers 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:23.480 2011 and our Victim and Witness Coordinator all went to Dallas for a conference focusing 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:29.280 on violence against children. It's been a long-standing conference. I went there when 00:05:29.280 --> 00:05:38.879 I was a new prosecutor and found it to be very worthwhile. That was paid for by the grant 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:40.980 that we had received previously. 00:05:42.719 --> 00:05:44.959 So that might have something to do with us 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:48.500 resolving a few fewer cases. 00:05:48.500 --> 00:05:53.459 One of our third Assistant State Attorney, Seth Balling, 00:05:53.459 --> 00:05:55.480 has moved on, he went to the Lee County 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:57.180 State's Attorney's Office, 00:05:59.779 --> 00:06:03.779 which, you know, he got along well in our office 00:06:03.779 --> 00:06:04.860 and we liked him. 00:06:05.819 --> 00:06:08.420 He is getting married to an Assistant Public Defender. 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:22.519 of course. So moving to a different county did resolve some conflicts that we might otherwise have had to address. But we're very happy to the vote. They're both great people. 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:27.959 Beyond that, if you have to answer any questions you have. 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:30.759 Any questions? 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.159 Was it just because of the marriage or the pay or? 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:43.160 You know, Seth is a little bit of a taciturn man, and I didn't want to pry too much. 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:50.720 One of the things he said is, well, we've got a 457 plan or something like that. 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:57.360 I said, Seth, we have that, and he went, oh, I don't know, I don't know what the totality 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:02.800 of it was, but I would say that he was an individual, I think, that took quite a bit 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:09.400 of Pride in being a felony prosecutor. And just due to our staffing, I had moved him 00:07:09.400 --> 00:07:13.920 down to misdemeanor court. And I don't think he was very happy with that. Although he never 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:20.519 complained. He's not a complaint. But in Lee County, he'll be back in felony courts. 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:46.079 We had that month where we were only short one and then, I don't know, years we've been 00:07:46.079 --> 00:08:11.839 down too. Okay. All right. So, still looking. We are asleep. Okay. Good. Did the class graduate or? Yeah, we got no resumes from the graduating class. We'll wait for people to take our exams in July and we'll post again and see what happens there. 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:21.519 That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Well, we'll move on to sort of the collection now. 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:23.159 Good evening. Good evening. 00:08:23.159 --> 00:08:27.000 You should have my report if you have any questions, let me know. 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:32.799 I do have two new employees, one's been there a little over a month and the other one a little over two. 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:36.559 And they're doing well, hopefully they say. 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:41.840 I'm in the process of applying again for the Access to Justice Grant in the past, 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:44.740 of Fossus Self-Representative, Lynette Grant. 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:48.800 So I'm filling that out and then to do next month 00:08:48.800 --> 00:08:50.879 and hopefully they'll get some funds. 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:55.920 Yeah, those funds are restricted to this, any certainty. 00:08:56.879 --> 00:08:58.840 The self-representative, I guess, 00:08:59.980 --> 00:09:04.980 we can use it for carbon orders on loaves, 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:08.100 trying to get new printers in the courtroom, 00:09:08.100 --> 00:09:23.100 Asking for L.I.M. fees, last year I was denied that, but I'm going to ask to end it. 00:09:23.100 --> 00:09:28.100 So is that those two new ones bring you up to full staff? 00:09:28.100 --> 00:09:31.100 Okay, very good. 00:09:31.100 --> 00:09:34.100 Any other questions for Chanel? 00:09:34.100 --> 00:09:37.100 All right, well thank you. 00:09:37.100 --> 00:09:47.820 Used Diversion Fees in June, $526.79, brings the total up to $2,620.78. 00:09:48.540 --> 00:09:52.300 Just as a note, one of the checks have that. 00:09:52.300 --> 00:10:08.300 Hope wins. Thank you. 00:10:08.300 --> 00:10:17.300 Okay. Moving on to old business. I see none. New business. Anybody have anything they'd like to bring up with the business? 00:10:17.300 --> 00:10:28.300 Seeing none. Motion to adjourn. Second. Motion and second for adjournment. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Same signs. 00:10:28.300 --> 00:10:32.300 Thank you for your time. Really appreciate it.