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Austin Recommends New Court Clerk

Friday, September 11, 2015 Public Safety Committee Regular Meeting
  • The Public Safety Committee met to discuss a key city personnel appointment.
  • The committee nominated and recommended Mary Jane Grubbs for the Municipal Court Clerk position.
  • An annual salary of $125,000 was approved for the role.
  • This recommendation will be presented to the full city council for final approval on October 1st.

Full Transcript

Public Safety Committee Meeting Transcript – 09/11/2015 Title: ATXN 24/7 Recording Channel: 6 - ATXN Recorded On: 9/11/2015 6:00:00 AM Original Air Date: 9/11/2015 Transcript Generated by SnapStream ================================== [10:37:30 AM] >> Zimmerman: Good morning, everyone. My name is Don Zimmerman. We're at the public safety committee meeting at Austin city hall. I have 10:37 and we're going to call the meeting together in the boards and commissions room. We need to go into executive session to discuss candidates for the position of the clerk of municipal court and we'll go into executive session under the 551.074 of the Texas government code. Is there any objection to going into executive session? Hearing none, we're in executive session. I think the first thing we had is you were going to talk about what you learned of the candidates, right? Fix. >> We have to go to executive session. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> [11:17:52 AM] >> Zimmerman: All right. We're back from executive session. We did not take any final action in the executive session so we're now back to our open meeting. And the floor is open for nominations for clerk for the municipal court. Are there any nominations for this position. >> Casar: Which chair? I'd like to move that we nominate and recommend Mary Jane grub grub for the municipal court clerk position at $125,000 a year. >> Zimmerman: Councilmember Casar has nominated Mary Jane grub. Is there a second? Council member Pool seconds. Was there another -- any discussion about the salary that we would -- >> Pool: I think that councilmember Casar put 125,000 in his motion? >> Zimmerman: 125,000 base. >> Pool: That's right. >> Zimmerman: Any more discussion on this item? We'll take a vote. All in favor say aye? The vote is 3, with councilmember Houston off the dais. 3 in favor. So that is approved. And I believe that's the end of our business. >> Pool: I think we may try to have this on the agenda the first meeting in October. >> Zimmerman: Thursday, October 1st. That's our target to have it in front of the full council. We're recommending to the full council Mary Jane grub Guadalupe B at 125,000. Thank you guys for all your help. We stand adjourned.