All right. Welcome to the meeting of the Court Services Committee, Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 630. I'll call the meeting to order. First order of business is prayer. I'll take care of that. Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us this time to get together and talk about our Court Services Committee. Father, we thank you for all the blessings and we thank you for the rain today. We needed that. We could do it without the wind, but we'll take what we get. So just guide us, Lord, as we go through the process today. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Next, the approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion? Motion to approve the agenda. Second. Any discussion? Stating none. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. approval of the meeting minutes from May 13th, 2026. Can I get a motion? Motion to approve. Second. Motion to approve or second. Any discussion? Say none. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed, same second. Motion passes. Approval of claims. Did everybody get a chance to look at them? The total is $30,274.84 Any discussion, question for anything? Motion to approve, second. Motion passes, or I'm sorry, motion in second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Okay, I'll just quickly sign this and pass it down. Sure, please Public comment? I see not unless somebody has a public comment. Reports to committee. Judge Alzer's not here. Travis Lutz is here. So you sent a report. I saw it. 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. and Amanda. Getting on a question about the public defender's office in general, I would just ask a little of you, uh, our level staffing levels. We are doing fine. We've got the same people that we have had. So we've got, uh, me and then the three other full-time attorneys and 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 right now. So hopefully things stay the same and aren't uprooted and we'll be going in the right direction. So it looks like you're busy. Yeah, summer is a different animal than normal. It continues and it hasn't really been, I guess it hasn't been horrible. It's not horrible, but trying to resolve some of the older stuff that we have got around us, it's starting to come Backstone. It's a bit busier. Are these numbers right? Open felony cases, 691. Yeah, but those would also take into account, like, petitions to revoke that are felony offenses too. They are not, like, actual open offenses. Like, the felony cases are open, but not pending new offenses that have never been resolved. They're generally speaking, probably less than half of that. So that seems like kind of high knowledge on a very big county Yeah, I mean, we get a fair amount of felonies, so I can get a fair amount I suppose, yeah, that makes sense Yeah Okay, anybody else have any questions for Mr. Lutz? No? Thanks Are you coaching? I am The CF6 season will go to feel the dreams this weekend So that practice was supposed to be today, but the weather changed that What eight? Good. Ten. Ten. Okay. That's fine. Yeah. It's fine. Approbation? I haven't heard from Dr. McGee. She told me the department had a meeting this morning. She had a conflict this morning, so she couldn't make it, but she did say to please reach out with any questions if anything was unclear, but she did include her report. Okay, State's Attorney, Mr. Larson. All right, you've got my report in front of you. Didn't close quite as many felonies this last month as we normally like to do. We had two prosecutors and our 7-Eleven and our victim and witness coordinator all went to Dallas for a conference focusing on violence against children. It's been a longstanding conference. I went there when I was a new prosecutor and found it to be very worthwhile. That was paid for by the grant that we had received previously. So that might have something to do with us resolving a few fewer cases. One of our third assistant state attorneys, Seth Balling, has moved on. He went to the Lee County State's Attorney's Office, which, you know, he got along well in our office and we liked him. he is getting married to an assistant public defender 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 for them both they're both great people beyond that I'd be happy to answer any questions you have any questions was it just because of the marriage or the pay or You know, Seth is a little bit of a taciturn man, and I didn't want to pry too much. One of the things he said is, well, they've got a 457 plan or something like that. I said, Seth, we have that. And he went, oh, I don't know. I don't know what the totality of it was, but I would say that he was an individual, I think, that took quite a bit of pride in being a felony prosecutor. and just due to our staffing, I had moved him down to misdemeanor court and I don't think he was very happy with that, although he never complained, he's not a complaint, but in Lee County, he'll be back in Valley Court. The only case is down there. Yeah. The prison. So you're short? Two now. Two now. Yeah, okay. How long have you been short two? Well, we had that month where we were only short one, and then, I don't know, years, we've been down two. Okay. All right. So, still looking. We are. Okay. Good. In the class, graduate, or? Yeah, we got no resumes from the graduating class. We'll wait for people to take the bar exam in July and we'll post again and see what happens there That's it. Thank you. Thank you. All right, we'll move on to sort of question health. Good evening. Good evening. You should have my report if you have any questions, let me know. I do have two new employees. One's been there a little over a month and the other one a little over two. They're doing well. Hopefully they stay. Okay. I'm in the process of applying, again, for the Access to Justice grant in the past of the self-represented litigants. So I'm filling that out, and that's due next month, and hopefully we'll get some funds. Are those funds restricted to any certainty? The self-representant of litigants, we can use it for carbon orders on loaves, trying to get new printers in the courtroom, asking for guardian ad litem fees. Last year I was denied that, but I asked. So is that those two new ones bring you up to full statement? Okay, very good. Any other questions? Thank you, Chanel. All right, well, thank you. Use diversion fees in June, $526.79. Brings the total up to $2,620.78. Just as a note, one of the checks have that that was issued. Okay. That probably explains the balance. That was a little higher than I thought it was going to be. Okay. All right. Which one? Sorry. Which one? Hope wins. Hope wins. Thank you. Okay. Moving on to old business. I see none. New business. Anybody have anything they'd like to bring up? Is the business? Seeing none. Motion to adjourn. Second. Motion and a second for adjournment. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Same sign. Thank you for your time. Really appreciate it.