Discuss, consider and take appropriate action on the selection of a salary grievance committee, including alternates.

Per Local Government Code 152.014, a grievance committee must be selected each year in the event a salary grievance is filed by an elected official.  In the past, the Commissioners Court has followed subsection (b), which requires the random drawing (out of a hat) of 9 names to serve on the grievance committee and twenty names to serve as alternates.  Recently, an alternative to the above process has been added as subsection (b-1).  This authorizes the commissioners court to adopt the randomized list (as attached) and enter the list into the minutes of the meeting.  Generated by our Clerk’s Office, this list is composed of the names of all persons who served on a grand jury in the county during the preceding calendar year.  The list was populated in Excel and the RAND function was used to randomly select the names.