Health and Human Services Committee Meeting Transcript – 03/10/2021 Title: City of Austin Channel: 6 - COAUS Recorded On: 3/10/2021 6:00:00 AM Original Air Date: 3/10/2021 Transcript Generated by SnapStream ================================== Please note that the following transcript is for reference purposes and does not constitute the official record of actions taken during the meeting. For the official record of actions of the meeting, please refer to the Approved Minutes. [1:05:11 PM] this is meeting of public health & human services. Meeting, and we have one agenda item before us -- today is our rescheduled meeting to interview our candidate for the sobering center lgc so we are going to go into executive session in just a minute. I just need to find my script. >> Tovo: I think we do also have some minutes, so I would entertain a motion to consider those minutes at any time. In the meantime. Mayor pro tem. >> Harper-madison: Moves approval is there a second? Thank you. I am sorry. I can't see if there is a second, so if you would just [1:06:12 PM] call out if there is a second. Ah, vice chair Fuentes, thank you. >> Tovo: All in favor by signifying by raising your hand. >> Mayor Adler: I didn't hear what the motion was, just the minutes? >> Tovo: Just the minutes. Councilmember skip no longer on my screen. Anybody else there? >> Mayor Adler: No. >> Okay. So that is. >> Tovo: That is unanimous on the dais with 0 councilmember kitchen off the dais. So the committee is now going to go into closed section pursuant to 551074 of the government code, the committee will discuss personnel matters related to the selection of the joint appointee member to the sobering center local government corporation board of directors. Is there any objection to going into executive session on the item announced? Hearing none can, the committee will now go into executive session. So colleagues, I am going to -- ah, councilmember kitchen is now joining us. So I will see you in our [1:07:13 PM] executive session in just a couple of minutes and we will interview our candidate and then we will come back out and decide if we are going to take action. See you there. [Executive session ] [1:49:58 PM] Discussion of personnel matters related to item 4, today is -- actually I should have brought that up in executive session. Possibly we may need to go back in executive session so I can close this out. With apologies. >> Mayor Adler: So we can actually do that. It is still open, according to the -- >> Perfect. Well, we will pop over there, apologies, colleagues, if you would just join me quickly in executive session so we can close out that script and then we will come back. >> [1:55:27 PM] In closed session we discussed personnel matters related to item 4 can. Colleagues, -- colleagues, I would now entertain a motion. >> Chair. >> Tovo: Yes. >> I will move that we take into consideration before the entire council for the candidate that we interviewed just so -- >> Thank you, mayor mayor pro tem. >> Is there a second? Vice chair Fuentes. Thank you. >> Any discussion? Yes, mayor pro tem. >> I just, you know, I know that what it requires to take on a [1:56:28 PM] task like this and to be of service to your community so I would just like to say thank you to whoever was willing to put themselves out there and who applied and we are open to consideration and really appreciate the candidate for allowing us the opportunity to meet with him and I appreciate the enthusiasm to serve the community. It is definitely you know, a lot of the mutual aid we have been doing as of late, if nothing else it really reminds us to be thankful for the members of our community who go above and beyond with that level of service. So I really appreciate it. >> Tovo: Thank you. >> Any other comments? >> Okay. Thank you. Well we are he ready to go ahead and take a vote. Mayor, if you would. I am not sure if our mayor is still with us. >> Mayor Adler: Yes, I am a with you. >> Tovo: Okay, perfect. [1:57:28 PM] So all in favor of the motion on the table please signify by raising your hand and so that motion is unanimous and this is a recommendation to the full council and will go before the full council on 3/25 as our recommended joint appointee to the joint -- to the sobering center. So colleagues, that is the last item that we have on today's agenda. I know that we did discuss ideas for streamlining the process for the joint appointment. I don't know if our staff is prepared to talk about that today, but just know that is a conversation that the vice chair and I can have with our city staff about how to get those applicants sinked up with the county process so the next time we have a joint appointment applicants can apply to either portal and have those applications to be shared. Okay. Anything else? >> All right. Well, thank you. We stand adjourned at 2:00 o'clock. [1:58:30 PM]