Lo que no se sabe es por qué el fondo economico que se tenía para emergencias desde un principio  nunca fue utilizado, si se hubiera usado tal como se planeo para de alli sacar dinero  para completar todos los pagos,   no  se tendria que haber sacado  cada mes por los 18 meses  dinero del fondo general del condado y desgraciadamente por ese motivo el condado  durante este tiempo acumularon mas deudas  tratando de sacar a flote la carcel.

Si se hubiera utilizado ese dinero posiblemente el condado no hubiera tenido la necesidad de haber perdido tanto dinero, y como ejemplo se aprobó en esta junta sacar $200,000.00 de otros fondos para poder solventar los pagos de los empleados.

Desgraciadamente la posibilidad de que se vuelva a abrir la carcel en una fecha cercana seria imposible, aunque extraoficialmente se nos ha dicho  que se esta tratando de hacer arrreglos siempre y que lo que se haga sea para beneficio del Condado de Maverick  

El Sheriff Schmerber informo que pese a todos los problemas el fin de mes se podra ver un alivio economico ya que el condado no tendrá que pagar mas salario a  empleados de la carcel, habra ahorros en la energia electrica,  tambien de el agua, y que esto ayudar a que el condado no tenga que hacer gastos inecesarios.

"Estamos declarando el Condado de Maverick en un estado de emergencia, ¿es correcto?" preguntó el juez David Saucedo,  Comisionado Gerardo Morales procedió a expresar su moción  para mover $200,000.00 de un fondo a otro y de ese fondo al departamento de nómina a fin de que  los emepleados reciban su cheques  

Con esto dicho, el tribunal procedió a la votación por unanimidad para hacer precisamente eso y la reunión de emergencia  fue terminada.

County in State of Emergency Over MCDC Payroll

Maverick County Commissioner's Court were all present on Thursday morning at an emergency meeting called in order to conduct a series of budget transfers in order to fulfill their obligations to make the final payroll for the employees of the nearly defunct Maverick County Detention Center, the center formerly known as GEO.

What is not known is why the fund which was set aside at the onset of said project for the county to use in case of emergencies was never utilized, and an even bigger question is whether Maverick County which is in need of such funds to reimburse itself, if you will, for the failed endeavor.

If said funds were allowed access to during the eighteen months that the facility was in the hands of the county, perhaps neither of these drastic measures would have needed to be taken, but the saga of the Maverick County Detention Center is far from over according to sources who are hopeful that the jail could be opened again in the not too distant future.

What is positive about this situation is that the county may be able to bounce back from this sooner than later with the lack of the burden and responsibility of paying from their own coffers for the day-to-day operations of the MCDC after August the 15th when the facility officially closes its doors.

"We are declaring Maverick County in a state of emergency, is that correct?" asked Judge David Saucedo before Commissioner Gerardo Morales proceeded to voice his specific motion to move $200,000.00 from one fund to another and from that fund to the payroll department in order for them to disburse the last checks to those 70-80 employees left on the facility's payroll.

Under item 3 (b), (c), "My motion would be to transfer money needed from the deficit reduction account to the general fund account and then to the payroll account to pay the employees at the Maverick County Detention Center and to amend the original budget not to exceed $200,000.00 for that payroll," stated Morales.

With this said, the court proceeded to vote unanimously to do just that and the emergency meeting was adjourned.