The Goliad County Law Enforcement Center has a fenced, secure area behind and beside the building. This area is to provide space to store abandoned, seized and impounded vehicles. This area is the Sheriff’s Office Impound Yard. Within the impound yard are six large pecan trees. Before the Scarborough building was sold, reducing the size of the impound yard, we had more space to park vehicles and could avoid the area covered by the trees. But we are now forced to park vehicles near the trees. Owners of impounded vehicles are charged a daily fee and expect to get their vehicle back in the same condition as when it came into the yard. We have had a windshield knocked out by a pecan limb and the roof of another vehicle dented. The trees are close enough to the building to have limbs come thru the jail roof or to fall across the tall fencing. As much as I would like to keep the trees as they are, since the major concern is the safety and security of the facility, I decided, after discussing the problem with the county judge, to cut back the trees. I knew this decision might not be a popular decision, but it is a necessary one.