HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 2019-R0427 - Interlocal Agreement With Lubbock County For Joint Magistration Services - 11/19/2019 Resolution No. 2019-RO427
Item No. 6.27.1
November 19, 2019
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Subsection 30.00008(b) of the Government Code provides that the
governing body of the City of Lubbock may appoint one or more qualified persons to
be available to serve for a municipal judge who is temporarily absent due to illness,
family death, continuing legal or judicial education programs, or any other reason; and
WHEREAS, the presiding judge, or the municipal judge if there is no presiding judge,
shall select one of the qualified persons appointed by the governing body to serve
during the absence of a municipal judge; and
WHEREAS, the substitute judge, while serving as a municipal judge, has all the
powers and shall discharge all the duties of a municipal judge; and
WHEREAS, a substitute judge must meet the qualifications prescribed for the
municipal judge; and
WHEREAS, the City of Lubbock and Lubbock County, Texas have detennined that it
would be mutually beneficial for the City of Lubbock's temporary substitute judges to
jointly serve as County Magistrates, to provide booking and detention services for
City's arrestees and provide magistration services for arrestees in the Lubbock County
Detention Center; and
WHEREAS, the City of Lubbock and Lubbock County, Texas have entered into an
Interlocal Agreement Between Lubbock County and the City of Lubbock for
Joint Magistration Services which provides, inter alfa, for persons to be appointed
by both the City of Lubbock and Lubbock County to serve as jointly as temporary
substitute municipal judges and as County Magistrates; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the citizens of the City of Lubbock to appoint
the following persons to serve jointly as both temporary substitute judges for the
Lubbock Municipal Court of Record and as County Magistrates;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LUBBOCK:
Section 1. THAT the following named persons who have been duly appointed by
Lubbock County to serve as County Magistrates are hereby appointed by the City of
Lubbock to serve jointly as temporary substitute judges for the Lubbock Municipal
Court of Record:
Michele Hart
Enrique Martinez
Dwight McDonald
Melissa McNamara
Patricia Moseley
Travis Sandoval
Section 2. THAT any person named above shall serve as a temporary substitute judge
of the Lubbock Municipal Court of Record at the pleasure and discretion of the
Lubbock Municipal Judge.
Section 3. THAT any person named above shall serve as a Lubbock County Magistrate
at the pleasure and discretion of Lubbock County, Texas.
Section 4. THAT the above-named persons shall be compensated in accordance with
the terms of the Interlocal Agreement Between Lubbock County and the City of
Lubbock for Joint Magistration Services.
Passed by the City Council on November 19, 2019
DANIEL M. POPE, MAYOR
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