Okay, I've got 908. We'll call this regular meeting device, we'd ask that you place it on silence at this time. And for those of you that are participating by Zoom, we would ask that you place your device on mute until such time that you would need to address the court. We'll begin this morning with the word of prayers. Please stand in joint. I'm most graciously having Father. We are thankful to be of the gather here in your site today. We come before you asking for the forgiveness of our sins. Lord, we're so thankful for many blessings that you continue to be still upon us. And as we go about the business here on earth today, we ask you to place your hand of guidance and wisdom upon us. And Lord, we ask that you especially encourage us to do here on earth what honors you in heaven. We ask all these things and your son's holy name. Amen. Amen. And the pledge to our flags. Plagia leads to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all, honor the Texas flag. Play the lead just to the Texas one state under God and indivisible. We next item on our agenda is the public forum. Citizens may address the court on any matter of other than the matter is concerning county personnel or matters under litigation. Each citizen will be allocated five minutes with a total time not to exceed 30 minutes. Is there anyone here in person that would like to address the court this morning? Seeing and hearing none, is there anyone that is participating by Zoom that would like to address the court this morning? Yes, I would my name's Joette Marquella Yes, miss Marquella I am a landowner at Twin Caverns Ranch in Oglesby. I came before this court four weeks ago on May 28th, 2024. At that time, I passed out a 20-page report that represented an accumulation of testing performed by Langerman engineering out of Waco for moisture, density, and compaction, including the lift for road construction within Twin Caverns. As you may remember, the contents of the report were provided to me by the city attorney for my request. They date back to March 2023 through April 2024. In the report, it was noted if a specific station along the roads either met specifications or failed, and if retesting was required. In many instances, retesting was never done and are recorded if completed. On April 3, 2024, the subgrade for 9th 10th of a mile was approved, an additional 9th 10th of a mile was subsequently approved May 1st for Yellowstone Drive. This is curious as to how and why it was approved, as we do not have in our possession any documentation showing a retesting and passing. In fact, the last test provided to us, the landowners, is dated April 12, 2024. Newburst requests have been made to the court and commissioners in an email chain that we have all been provided with. On June 6, 2024, the county attorney's office stayed at the following. I have uploaded the May folder to field notes folder on Dropbox. There are no other documents in our possession responsive to your request. I acknowledge the receipt of the field notes which were completed by the third party inspection company, Rice Inspections of McGregor. This is not sufficient as rice inspections does not do any testing, only records what is visual. I asked when and why did the Road and Bridge Department stop receiving the engineering reports from Agerman engineering or did they? As the Road and Bridge Department arbitrarily decided, not to make them available to me and others by keeping them within the department walls. I verified with Egerman engineering that there was still that they were still employed by the developer, which they are, and they have continued to do testing for the developers request. In conversation, I mentioned that the last written report I personally saw was dated April 12. I was assured that testing continued in April, May, and part of June. I have yet to receive copies of April 13, 2024 and beyond. It is my understanding that the Road and Bridge Department bears a considerable amount of responsibility for new and existing subdivisions within Coriel County, as stated in the Coriel County subdivision regulations and permitting requirements approved and accepted by the Coriel County Commissioners Court on June 8, 2021. On May 28, 2024, I asked the Court to grant a stay until June 11, 2024. So the testing and retesting, if if needed was completed. This request was ignored. In fact, it appears that my concerns as well as other landowners have been ignored. Before the meeting was adjourned, I raised my hand and asked when the court would decide if they would honor my request. The response given to me from the court can be found on the recorded minutes, part three, one minute before the end of the recording. In just, it was stated, it could be dealt with in three ways. Being my report and comments were in the public forum and not on the agenda, the court could, one, take action for future agenda, two, recite policy orure already in place, three state of fact. Excuse me, state of fact. As none was offered, I requested that I be on the next agenda to be held June 11th. No one rejected my request. I even stated to the Road and Bridge Department that I would be on the agenda June 11th, and I would see them then. No one seemed to have any objection, but when I look at the agenda for that day, I found that I was not listed to appear. Last Monday, June 17th, I sent a text to my commissioner with my request to be included on June 25th, 24 agenda and asked for written confirmation this time within 48 hours. Last Thursday, I did receive a reply, and as you can see, I was not included once again. It was stated that a private citizen cannot be on the agenda. Although I am one person, I could represent 250 land-overs as it could affect us all at a very high cost if the roads are not constructed correctly from the start. A meeting with the road and bridge department is too little too late. Pading begins any day, any time. They may be doing it as I speak. You're all aware that the road work has continued. Are the road and bridge department confident in the final product? I have videos that show otherwise. In closing and food for thought, in the future, please don't string out others when they come to you for your help or consideration as most have done to me. Your positions are to serve your constituents to the best of your ability and you have failed all 250 landowners if this project continues at the status quo. Thank you. Ms. Marcella, thank you for your comments. And again, I will reiterate the previous that you've stated that the court may respond by taking action on a future agenda. The court may respond with the recitation of a policy or procedure that is currently in place or a statement of fact. Does any member of the court wish to engage any of those three options at this point? Okay, Ms. Marcell, the court has taken no action on any of those three options at this point, but we do appreciate your comments. Which mean nothing? Is there anyone else participating in the Zoom that would like to address the court's move. Seeing and hearing none, we'll move on to the regular agenda. Item number five is award announcement and project presentation from the Texas General Land Office. For many of you, that may seem like a very generic term, but in fact, this has been in the works for several months. And quite possibly it could be argued that this has been in the process for about the past year and a half. First and foremost, before I turn it over to the general land office, I want to recognize the efforts of specifically two agencies, the American Conservation Foundation, with Gene Richardson and the partnership that we've had over the last couple of years. And even with all of his good efforts, what you're about to hear would not be possible under any stretch of the imagination without the fact that we're about to hear would not be possible under any stretch of the imagination without the support of the General Land Office and specifically Commissioner Don Buckingham, which is enabling the award that you're about to hear and the impact that has not just to Coyle County, but a regional effort. So what I'd like to do is we have a pretty expansive contingency here. So before we get to the heart of it, what I'm going to ask them to do is they're representing multiple agencies. And gosh, this has just been a collective effort. And I hope that resonates with the court on what a team effort this has been in coming to this point today in really a pretty relatively short period of time when you talk about government agencies, multiple government agencies, private partnerships coming together to this point. So what I'm going to ask Chris Wing start with you. If you'll stand up, give us your name and the agency that you're representing. Good morning, I'm Chris Robles with the GOLO and I am the Intergovernmental Relations Manager. Hi, I'm Brittany F. I'm with the Texas General Land Office and I'm the Canadian Space and Director for disaster recovery. Jeff Hates, the Protection General Land Office and I'm a Deputy Director and my section is responsible for studying, databases and stuff that call it program integration. Morning everyone, my name is June Wolfe. I'm a research scientist. I work for Texas Indian Magdalife Research at the Black Unusurge Center in New York. Church on Arnie Vendelins, I hold the Bob Bullock Chair in Government Public Policy and I direct the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Bush group of Government Public Service in Texas Indian University. Thank you you Judge. I appreciate that introduction for American Conservation Validations. I'm President and I'm a director for that organization. And we've been working at this for a little while. And thank God finally everything is coming together. And so if you've been land-offed, all these guys are not here. everything coming together and so if you land off it, I'll leave you out of my ear. Steve Manning, after a short solution. Yes, because we're going to, we're going to, if you're sitting on a white piece of paper, we're asking that you stand up and identify yourself. Our painting, natural resource installation. Good morning, Greg and good to a lot of pork avasos, Garrison. I'm the deputy Garrison. Hello everyone. Brad Hunt, the interim city manager for the city of Kansas. I'm Jerry Chumier to the beginning. Yeah, you're right. I have a lot of covers. Red wolf owner that big. David Jones, Natural Resources Solutions, Basin Chilbers, Natural Resources Section. Good evening, milk County Commissioner. Right there, you're welcome. I'm with the Army Corps, engineer, Dr. Orr, and the chief of the pilot body of the Hydraulic State, Flintin, and you can kind of go out and run into this lake, but we're more than happy that how our air will come to be kind of got running this late, but we're more than happy to help out and we can just kind of take it for a basket for data, finally in the other things. So I think that's a vision of more than two minutes. And I thank you all for your time this morning, because I truly believe this is a hate to use the word, but this is a historic event. It would not be achievable or possible without the participation of the supportive alladinement. So with that, I'm gonna turn it over to Jet. I think that's Brandon told me that you're on tap to start out. So. I'm a sticky, but for any case. Yeah. First off, thank you for having us today. We really appreciate it. We have the vision of the time, but I'm glad you have. I'm happy to announce that we're able to help with this project. It's folks that aren't new with this. It's kind of the unique thing where we have a lot of collaboration with private sector. If that's with the core. Even though we're not listed, we're using a lot of data from the water to the level board as we'll need to move full into this. But the whole intent is to, from our viewpoint, is to model the river, the two rivers, Calf Creek and the Leon, and then, see just places to build structures that might help with flood generation and not just flood control but also water storage and water management. The best one thing we did not understand very well in the state is how water flows through and how floods occur and is a state population increases, is sucking more water resources out. So we all are helping us extend the model we're building and started in the coastal zone and we're working in land and we're very happy to help with this. So far, the general land office operated in Coriopounding, $400,000 in for two different studies. One study of local hydro mitigation planning program, that lets you compete for FEMA grants for the disaster mitigation. It's important that we try to get, that we get every county in the state covered under that, we're only about half down the track. And the other one in the Resilience Program is just funds available for cities and counties to exiling land use, that kind of thing, and change the regulation so you can grow in a more and a supportable way, and help you manage growth. And also, they'll mitigate to keep folks from becoming a victim of the disaster. There's another grant of 3.1 million dollars for the Drainage Projects that are coming into the county through the irrigation program. That is underway right now and it's kind of going through a lot of the governmental stations and stuff like that which takes a while. We all wear these federal requirements can take a little bit to fight through because it is the mention of federal money. And lastly, this watershed study, and we're real proud of this. I think that this is certainly the largest area of an instrumented floodplain, and what we wind up with this, and when the study is completed in the projects and finished, that will give us the largest mid-adventure minute in the projects and finished that will give us the largest mid-adventure minute in the early morning piece of water in the state. Maybe in the country, I don't know what Connecticut may have something in that. But I'm here to tell you that Texas may is made huge strides in this in the past four or five years. We are in a head of California and we're ahead of all the other states in this floodplain. But we still have a long way to go. And there's some of your questions or that's all I've got. Unless she has something else, she'd like me to get questions for. Did you add just for clarification, the award that Creole County is the beneficiary of for this particular project, what's that amount? It's a little over 2.5 million. We don't know exactly, could it still in the contract, the final part of contract state to the work negotiations, we expect that to be through with a couple of weeks. The contract is not directly with Creole County, could look at actually saving a little time, the whole money going to the vendor, which in this case is the Black Land Research Institute, X and ZM. And they're a good partner for this because a lot of these flood and evasion models they wrote them. So they understand them more than anybody models or needs nationwide. And this also will help us And this also will help us help us capture that data and the models as well. Cause the past flood models would usually reside with just the community. We have built a database in conjunction with the text of the system to put all of them. So that information is maintained, hopefully forever. And it is free of use and anybody at that point you don't have to pay for it. But that's a one year of reason to anybody out of that point. Don't have to thank you. But that's a wonderful reason to work with the University Department. It's that makes that easier on the first two days. And, Jed, I understand that the scope of the work of this particular project is kind of two-fold. One deals with surface and groundwater, and then the other part of that is the flood plain management. And that extends not just, it's not just specific to Queryl County, but the entire watershed and aquifer. Oh yes, sir, it does extend up in the transit county, Hamilton County. You ran into thinking the magic county, Hamilton County. You ran to thank you, the third top, Bell County, you said well, she's run in the Coriela as a focus to push the sand, which we really appreciate y'all holding her hand up and helping with that. It will try to get the whole system pin into one big model and then into one plant to build this morning system in water management slash storage system. It's sort of you mentioned the groundwater that's very important that's becoming a much more in the as the state growth reason a lot more water reach to kind of not think as much about it is the dead although it've been doing. I think it's much better than the water that we've been doing. I think it's much better than the water that we've been doing. I think it's much better than the water that we've been doing. I think it's much better than the water that we've been doing. I think it's much better than the water that we've been doing. I think it's's real concern about water leaving Bell County and going into Williamson County to support the field's flow. And the groundwater is becoming more important as I know from the study that Lake Work Like Groundwood did. In August, they lose about two tenths and then some day water to the population on that lake. July, August and then they set tenor until weather cools off the operation right drop. Put it back down in the aquifer you don't lose. So that's another way you can store it to this water like they're almost full right now you get opportunity to pump some of that down the store to the lake. And I know very it's born at home. So it's that's probably new the new way in areas and spend it in an awful good Jim Hunt study that y'all are fortunate here that you have that Any any further questions for mr. Hayes Yeah, thank you so much. Really appreciate. I believe we've got mr. June wool has a presentation for us to kind of cover studies, scope, and parameters. You're on it better than on it. I'm going to. Can we darken this a little bit? Yeah, I think that's a little bit of a point. That would be helpful. Thank you very much. Okay, good morning again. In my name's June Wolfe. I work for the San Diego I live. I'm here today, representing the model team for this effort. I'd like to point out the names Dr. Ragewan Shunab is also on the modeling team and Dr. Arun Bawa. We're all out of the temple office. What I'm going to present to you today briefly will be a description of some of the experience that we had that we got at the Black Lives Matter Center with flood programs, flood mitigation programs. I'll describe a little bit about the models that we're planning to use. And I'll also talk about some of the flood warning programs that we worked on over the years. over the years. So we've been working out at Fort Cavassos, formerly Forthead since the mid 1990s. We started out there doing sediment and run off the erosion, looking at erosion and sedimentation and exports that led into the development and implementation of the first flood alert system that we installed and ran out there at the installation to help implement a flood warning program, which has multiple components that include engaging systems, training and education and forecasting components. We've also worked with the city of Belton back in 2010 when they had a big flood through there. They knew we had been working at Port Cabasos and asked for our assistance and help with designing an implementation of a flood warning program there. So now, the City of Belton's, Harter Heights, Kaleed, Nolenville, they all operate a series of gauges along Nolen Creek. Caled, Nolan Mill, they all operate a series of gauges along Nolan Creek. We've also done hydrologic flow studies looking at Nolan Creek. We've worked for the Central Texas Council of Governments for the region to go back and assess the flood mitigation efforts of areas of problems in the known Creek watershed, and assessment of the operation of the flood-allet system there. In Lampassas County, we work with developing a watershed protection plan that's been ongoing for a number of years. So Blackland Research and AgriLife has a lot of local presence doing water projects. So you may, if you're not from this area, you may or may not know or have heard of Flash-Flood Alley in Texas is this region that starts up near the Dallas-Wort Worth area follows the Bacconi's fault line down along I-35 to San Antonio and out west towards Evalde. This area has been known as Flashfoot Alley for a reason, up until a data front that was collected from the mid-50s up in Tutile 2019. This area led the nation by almost three times in the number of flood incidents and fatalities. And that's basically due to the climate and topography of the area. As you know, those that are from here, know that they're aware of the northern edge here in Corriot County, Mark in the Yellow County there. We're right on the northern edge of the Texas Hill country. So, and then the climate here with the moisture coming off the Gulf big storms that come down, and build near when the hit this plateau, lots of water is dumped out west. It flows through the river valleys and leads to flash flooding. So flash flooding. So flash flooding is the real problem that we have here in this part of the state with contrast to something like that on the Houston area with Harvey, we had the Harvey event, they had flooding for three, four days. That was a slow moving event. The events that happened here are fast moving. They're typically vehicle related. People driving into floodwars, they often happen at night. Unfortunately, the statistics show that younger males tend to make decisions about driving into flooded areas, leading to disastrous results. Over the past four years, five years or so, these trends have started to disastrous results. Over the past three, four years, five years or so, these trends have started to turn downward. I believe this is in due to state efforts as well as some of national efforts. I'm sure everyone in the room is sort of the slogan, the National Weather Service slogan, turn around, don't drown. And so that's been very effective. So today we're talking about the Corial County watersheds, the Leon watershed goes all the way up to Eastland County through Comanche, Hamilton down here to Corial where we are. This is a I don't remember the area of the watershed but it's in thousands of square miles. So when it rains up here, water flows downhill and Coriil County and Bell County are receiving, receiving these flood waters, they end up in Lake Belton. Something I also wanna mention about floods, they're not, people don't, floods don't happen every day, people tend to forget. So it takes constant vigilance and looking for these events and being prepared for them because you can have a drought. What breaks a drought? A flood. Last summer, we were all worried about drought, not enough water here in Coriel and surrounding counties. Now, if you drive across late Belton, then I go across it this morning. The lakes are narrowly bold. So some of our history. We again work with Fort Tavasu's back in the moon. When I was working out there, we developed a flood a flood monetary system, flood alert system, based on a series of of gauges that we placed in where rivers cross roadways. That was done so that we can put instrumentation in there and maintain it. We do, we can be through the modeling efforts. We can calculate the watersheds that drain through those points. And then over time, we can look at we looked at rain events and how they produced rises in the water at different locations. So we put this out, ran it for about 10 years and then they better things have come along since then. Currently we are working with the... That's the next one. Now this is the city of Belton during a flood event. So this is what this channel that no one creek looks like when it's not flooding, when it looks like it is flooding. Again, we did a study for the Central Texas Council of governments back in 2017, 1819, where we evaluated no-linked upstream looked at the potential problem areas, offered solutions, and then the Blackline Research Center did a year-long evaluation of the current blood alert system, which is basically a system of the ages in work towards helping the city improve their management of the system. Basically documenting it. We've done the same thing at Fort Kavasos. I do want to point out that flood warning systems, flood alert systems, most people think of a flood alert system or flood warning system as a surface of a network of screening agents. It's far more than that. A functional well-functioning flood alert system has a number of components that are based on management and documentation of that system. You have, I know we can't read these, but this is a risk assessment and forecasting. Let's collect the information from gauges, how it's communicated and distributed, how we prepare for floods, before they happen, and all that goes back to planning and documentation and management. This is what we've been working with for the Basins over the past four years, doing helping them identify the different directorates on the installation that are responsible for the different parts of the different components of the blood-borne system. So one director, for example, is in charge of maintaining gauges. Another director is responsible for gathering data off of those gauges and distributing it and yet another is responsible for planning and response. So what we've helped do is help hopefully improve some of the coordination between the director. It's formally go in and document who's responsible for what, who relies on what, making again written standard operating procedures so that when people retire or you have changes in staff, you have something to fall back upon besides institutional memory of how everything works together. So, Flood Morning Systems, you have two basic types. You have flood monitoring systems which are ages that tell you what's going on right now. You can't through experience, know that when this gauge hits a certain height, you know, you're going to have a problem downstream. So, that'd be a simple monitoring type system. The other type is an actual forecasting system that's using modeling. We're actually feeding in weather data, feeding it to a model, running this computer simulation that will tell you how much water is coming. When it will get there, how long it's going to be there, that kind of thing. Remember, we can never, we can't stop floods but we can through good science, good engineering, we can make good estimates and judges of when flooding events are going to happen, what they're, again, what their intensity is going to be. And that helps give lead time for flood managers or authorities to prepare, get the public out and move equipment, things of that nature. So our approach here, we're going to use integrated surface and sub-circuentry model. So I talked about models and said this is what the Blackland Research Center is, what our task will be to do. We will collect historic data from these watersheds. That's a precipitation temperature, wind speed, things of that nature. This is what is fed into the models. We will consider climate scenarios because what's going to happen 50 years from now? We can use computer simulations to get a glimpse into the future and plant and make plants for those types of conditions. The models that we will be using will be the soil and water analysis tool. That was developed at Blackland Research and Extension Center in Temple. It was developed as an agricultural and environmental model and over the past 25, 30 years has become one of the world's premier hydrologic models. A little bit more about that later. We'll couple this with the Corp. Engineers River Analysis System. This is a hydraulic model that's used to look at water elevations and behavior in channel flow. These surface water models will also be linked to a groundwater model, mod flow. This is a USGS model, I'm just going to show you a survey model. It's important to know what the groundwater is doing because groundwater affects surface water. For example, if the water data, the soil's in saturated water, people are high. You can have more run-off and that can, you know, if the water is a saturated water, people are high, you can have more runoff and that can, you know, make blood worse. If it's dry, soak in, it can be less. So again, it's important to know not just subsurface, but subsurface of flow as well. So the solar water analysis tool developed in temple is developed by USDA. The Blackline Center is a joint campus with the US Department of Agriculture, Agriculture, Research Service as well as Texas A&M, Agilite. The inputs for the solar water analysis tool include the topography, you know, the land, shake look like, water, the soil types, what is the land use as a city, as a farmland, and then of course, weather inputs, primarily rainfalls, it's a big driver. So you can think about what happens on a landscape, when it rains, that's what things really happen. Water comes water, new things around, so things are very dynamic during a rainfall. So this is a hydrologic model, meaning that it looks at hydrologic cycle precipitation, and filtration flow and evaporation, you know, the hydrology cycle, we're all familiar with. It computes hydrology, it computes, it can also, how much water will be delivered to a river channel given land conditions, weather conditions, land use, all of those things. It can also be used to look at land management practices. If you're at a culture, you can run simulation models to determine how will this crop respond under this type of fertilization and degradation or whatnot. So you can use, again, these computer simulations to test scenarios, to look at current effects, to look at things in the future, and then even in flood application in flood warning, to run them in real time to generate inputs for other models, determining amounts of water that will be delivered to a watershed and into the channels. I mentioned briefly that we can use a SWAT to get a peak into the future by considering climate scenarios as it gets hotter as long as you come more intense, but definitely space throughout time. All of these things can be looked at and used to create simulations and we can do what is scenario. So what if this happens when we plan for this? So it can be useful for planning. Swat outputs generally in a graphically pertainable type form, this is an example of an output. This will be looking at this is a current conditions or measured conditions, the red line looking at something that is predicted by the model. So, depending on what we, what the inputs are from, again, from a climate standpoint, would we have higher flows or lower flows, droughts? That's kind of thing. The model that we'll be coupling with with this other surface model will be coupling with SWOT is put up by the US Army Corps of Engineers, their hydrologic engineering center, river analysis system or HECRAS for short HECRAS again as a hydraulic model it computes what happens in a channel. So we'll be using the SWOT model to determine when when get a heavy precipitation. We'll use those calculations to route them to the screen channel. We will then route the flows through the channels. And using HECRAS, we can produce things such as what an inpatient maps. Where's it going to be? How deep will it be? how long will it last? Again, Modflow is the subsurface model that will be linked to these, to these surface models. This is put up by the US Geological Survey and it determines or can consult for underground waters of looking at different conditions like well pumping. And I know that's one of the things that's of interest to the county is what do the current and future groundwater conditions? What are they? How can we manage for those? Again, these models have multiple application, not just for one morning, again, and blood planning, but other types of county planning. We'll be using Moxlow to look at the Trinity aquifer, which is the major aquifer here under a Coriel and Surround in counties. This is some data from the Texas Water Development Board's Water Report from 2017. So it's getting on and age a little bit. I think they may be doing this again soon, but I went in and pulled out the water sources and the amounts for municipal, the projected water supply versus demand for Coriel and Bell County. And under current scenarios, if we don't look at saving and developing or figuring out new sources and different conservations, we're looking at a significant deficit by 2017. So as I just mentioned, these models have multiple applications, not just for flood mitigation, but also for planning for future water supplies for the local citizens. Something that I mentioned here is the term managed aquifer recharge or mar. There's a number of different strategies for managing water. And I think many of you have probably seen it in the recent news, the interest in aquifer storage and recovery ASR. That's where we know taken, physically inject water into the ground and pull it out later. That's just one type of strategy for managing aquifers. So we'll be able to use our modeling efforts to get some of these different strategies. That's all I have for you this morning. Appreciate your attention and questions. Okay, good deal. Thank you. Thank you. If nothing else, I hope all of you have a better appreciation of the magnitude of this particular award, as well as all of the partners that are associated with this. So kind of recap. General Land Office and Commissioner Buckingham, I extend my immense gratitude. We're currently, Crayo County is a beneficiary of approximately to include this award, $2.9 million in grant funding. And there is another 3.13.2 million that is community development block grant mitigation that Crayall County has been aligned with and we're still waiting for the federal processes to evolve on that. So funneled through the general land office, Crayall County over the past year and then kind of looking forward in the future is really a beneficiary of about $5.7 million in funding. And that is huge in any rural community. And again, my sincere gratitude to Commissioner Buckingham and her staff in recognizing the needs of the rural communities. Second of all, I would be remiss if again I did not recognize our partnership with Gene Richardson and the American Conservation Foundation. Gene, this is, you know, I said it a little bit earlier. It may not be the most appropriate word, but I've never been accused of having the most elaborate, elaborate linguistic, a verbiage pool. So I'm just going to say it's historic. What you've done in our partnership is truly historic in what we've accomplished. I mentioned to Gene that we were three for three that he has partnered with us on the on an application with the Corps of Engineers for the 2001, I believe it's the 2001 program. It's one of 12 projects that was submitted by the US Corps of Engineers to be funded by Congress and it is potentially a $53 million study of the entire watershed of the Leon River from Proctor to Belt and Lake. And that again, that's one of 12 projects in the nation that was submitted forward. Jean, it wouldn't have gotten done without your assistance. Jean also partnered with us on the Community Wildfire Protection Plan. We did not receive the grant funding to develop that plan, Jean stepped forward and sponsored that for us. So we do have a plan that we can, and we have unfortunately submitted funds for that the federal government did not feel like we were worthy of those at the time, but we've got the plan. And then of course, with this particular project, junior partnership. So again, you're three for three. As far as I'm concerned, and that's much better than the Aggies did batting last night. I know, I know, I just had to throw that in, had to throw that in there. But all of this had a foreroot start of somewhere. And so, you know, we've had a very, what I'm gonna consider, and I'm not gonna put the words in any commission's math, but a very successful relationship with one of our hometown families. And that's Stephen Carlemaning within RS. They have kind of been the ground roots effort in a lot of our projects that we have pursued over the last two years, maybe even going back two and a half years. Some of them have been fruitful, maybe some of them have not been quite so fruitful, but the thing I think everyone should take away is that these are local folks. They grew up here, they're vested in our communities, they are devoting their own time and resources in many, many cases to perpetuate these projects and these endeavors. So Stephen Carly, I thank you truly. I really do. And then last but certainly not least, I wanna recognize this commission's court. Kyle Mackie, Keith Taylor, Scott Wood, Ryan Bash. These gentlemen have done things that commissioners court Cal Mac, Skith Taylor, Scott Wood, Ryan Bash. These gentlemen have done things that commissioners court in the history of Coriel County have never taken, have never pursued before. Many times it is uncharted territories and uncharted waters. A lot of times we don't know what we don't know. But they have stepped out on the limb, they've heard their constituents concerns about conserving our resources, about managed development within Coriel County and protecting the resources and the rights lies in my ear, protecting the resources and the rights, lies in my ear, protecting the resources and the rights of our local landowners as we positively shape the growth within Coriol County. And it's a very unique dynamic because I have said since, well, one of my things I like to pat myself on the back for and I shouldn't. But we have an urban area within the Copper's Cove, you know, clean area that is urban development. And then what I consider rural, and that's Gatesville, Gatesville is kind of a rural setting. And then what we have we call country. And countries where you can't even see your name, you can walk out the back door with a cup of coffee in the morning and nobody knows what you do on out your back door. And I won't expound on that. But to try to manage those dynamics between country and rural and urban is a challenge because ultimately at the end of the day, this court puts an immense, I believe this court puts an immense amount of time and effort to ensure that our taxpayers are getting value those tax dollars that we take from them. And then to kind of summarize when we come back and we say these are the efforts that the court has put forward in the partnership with ACF in working within RS and ultimately that funding mechanism that comes from the GLO, it's a home run. It's on the verge of a grand slam, which I didn't even could have used last night. But I digress. I digress, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Bless their hearts. So again, I want to thank each and every one of you. From Black, land, the Bush School. Our governmental entities that are here, the Corps of Engineers. You know, this truly is. And I hope everyone appreciates what a collective and team effort this has been and this is not just a choral county thing. This is a regional impact. It goes beyond borders and I apologize. I missed our Fort Cavaça's friends. You might have noticed on the map that the cowhouse and Leon tributaries don't start and end at the borders of Fort Cavauses. So again, having the collective effort and the collective support and needing that support from our Fort Cavauses friends, gosh, I should be kicked in the rear end. I'll be outstanding for a drastic Colonel Stokes desk or Garrison Commander's desk here after this is over. I'm so sorry to see you at the next stage. Okay, fair enough, fair enough. So with that, we're gonna take a brief 15 to 20 minute recess to give you an opportunity for the commissioners, if they've got any personal questions, anyone ask if you've got questions of us, and then we will reconvene back in open session and we'll pick up with our regular meeting. So at this time, we are in recess. Thank you all. Okay, I've got 1043 and we will reconvene in an open session and I appreciate everyone's patience with us. It was just truly a one to give item number five on the agenda. It's I want to give item number five on the agenda. It's a do attention. Really a great thing before you can do it. I'm not sure if you can do it. I'm not sure if you can do it. I'm not sure if you can do it. I'm not sure if you can do it. I'm not sure if you can do it. I'm not sure if you can do it. I'm not sure if you can do it. I'm not sure if you can do it. I'm not sure if or choose to select any of those to be discussed individually. One vote in position. In the end, A and B. We've got a motion to approve the consent agenda from Commissioner Bash on the second from Commissioner Taylor. Any further discussion on item number six? Here you're done. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed to no. I just have it motion carries. Item number seven on the agenda is road and bridge report. Mr. Layton. I'm not sure. So you're part of the month. Two, seven, four back open. It's not right. When it's open, we get to share a lot of it. Put some cleats here around it. We're going just a little bit. We did get it passable. Okay. We can get in to know something. Yeah, other than that, we just been well, I don't want to like the mayor started back to know some fun packages. Start getting famous. I wasn't here last week. When are they coming back down? Did I say anything that we? Yes. If you'll let me get to eight. I'll kind of give you kind of a roll up on where we are with that that particular process. I'm never one to well. When you say the second part of the month and not much, I think you're not giving yourself credit. There's there's there's quite a bit that's that's going on and I'll tell you that I appreciate the partnership that you've got going within our S and that data collection packaging and again I'll talk about it a little bit more when we get to 80 you just that's huge huge as far as you know where we're going and what that funding is going to look like. Yeah. Another thing you get, same position of original team, we're making a rip wrap and we ordered a lot of culprits. Move on May, the money coming in, they're starting to install, replace some of these damage. I think they're going on white roads. That $5.25 has got in. Is that $2.25? The cut problem with the loss of that road? We're reclaimed in. It's all used to know that. Yeah. I'm still trying to get a hold of the problem with on that view. Yeah. Yeah. So I think last week, you know, the red climate's coming the next day on my last week. Yeah, then it broke down and it's sure to bring four days later. But I still don't know what to do. Yeah, we've regained the 137 and 148. Oh, we had it. So that's probably a total of about 15, 16 miles and back to your level. Well that was the one where the record was. Just redone that one in the last one. The fatal scene and then all that traffic this time. Turned into all that. Yeah. Did you see the picture of Dustin? Yeah, I think you said that. I went over there too. Yeah, pretty nice. Yeah, I me, I guess kind of this recap. People do that. Well, that good. So I have to be toward down and move instruction drive everything and just started picking up the lowest moisture. Where's the gravel down, sort of picking all of this ribbon strips off. I mean, about 3.8 miles road. Yeah. trips all the three point eight miles road yeah some of the old companies have been having more these days you're gonna just create all the moisture has got a little very water very very between the old and it's ready to out and you think they've got nothing about that you've combination that heat and traffic the big traffic yeah all that instructions nature that he can track it. The big track. Yeah, all that destruction. Yeah, the road like that, we don't use if we know we probably would have, but we finished that road and they didn't vote in bridges. We would have used a premium hole on the bottom so it sticks to the base better, but you wouldn't expect it. You wouldn't expect it now from now from a thousand cars a day to 10,000 a day. Perhaps, or eight two thousand. Yeah. When you said 274 is open. Do you, or you had a point where you can share kind of maybe what your recommendation is with 274? So that this the one that was in the CDV, the CDV. Yes, correct. So there's two or three on crossings underneath that you have to think of it like onion, these crops, it was like just keep the floor and make a bigger water of one. And we currently were using rip cap all rip items all. So we took it back to the old structure that was probably built back in the 40s. Snare ore, little bit narrower, particle walls. They recap that that second tail because it was showing some signs of fatigue, some cracks in it, say the spand, there's three boxes in it, they're handmade, they're not like pre-casts when we used to do it, your model liquid would be pulled. It's pretty rock-staff to stack up, like. It's these be replaced. Destroyed the upside jail. We've come down to single lane just to take the weight off of it. We left it open just because I access. Should be safe with single lane. Okay. We need to make a plan to replace it. Okay. Which I think that is in process. So I don't know how to make a C. B. G. Med and how that's in there. There's going to be two different. You know, we've got two different avenues to have an use to be able to address that. Obviously the CDB G. Med, it's already been submitted. but then we're also going to include this in our FEMA roll-up because there is damage to that, regardless of the mitigation project that's, you know, so I just want to make sure that the court is aware that there may be a project to stabilize 274 as it is right now with another project in the future that takes that to a bridge piece. So there's some conversations we need to have with the GLO, Langford, as well as what your input is. And I'm saying that the right way. It's just not a clear cut, but either way it's going to be a good value, I believe, to our citizens. Not to rush you along, but is there anything else? How those are highlights? That's pretty much my things. We've been collecting data more damage if we find it more work. We're sprangdang it, right now. All I mean, All I mean, and you've been worried about that. I helped to manage to know what he had put in the ground seven million dollars. Yeah, and they were pretty broad strokes currently. I think that's pretty known for guidelines and what people would say about this probably. I would tell you. My very crude assessment is we're over six. I mean, I really think that we're north of six. Maybe not quite the seven, but we are north of six. It's that it is. Okay. Is anyone have anything else for Mr. Layton? Very good. We'll move on to item number eight. Update and actions on grants include, but not limited to start out with SS4A. Mr. Belding here, but it's my understanding that under the SS4A that he has submitted closing documents through sit cog to be able to close out our portion of the SS4A grant and then draw down our funds that we were allocated under that award. Any questions under SS4A? Okay, moving on to the hazard mitigation plan. I miss the other portion of this. I was I was focused on the the plan as opposed to we have applied for funds for implementation. So and that that's what Hannah was referring to is the implementation portion. My part was the plan development portion. So with that is anybody have any questions for Hannah? Good catch. Thank you, ma'am. Okay, so moving on to a B the hazard mitigation plan. I believe Mr. Belt has collected all of the resolutions and those have been submitted. But I cannot confirm that. But I believe that's where we are with the hazard mitigation plan. and those have been submitted, but I cannot confirm that. But I believe that's where we are with the hazard mitigation plan. And then again, it would be submission to the state for reimbursement of those funds that would have funded that particular plan. Questions? Okay. When we want to the resilient communities program grant. RCP. We've completed round one of public engagement. We have established and set dates for round two of public engagement. And that's where I believe we are at this point. I haven't received any updates on data collection or any type of analysis from MRB. But if any of the commissioners have anything to share on that. Yeah, I think the survey closed out last Friday. I think they're putting that data together. We have what July 22nd is event July 23rd is Oglesney July 24. 4L. It's Gatesville. Yeah, I mean, Gatesville. Yeah, I do. And the 31st is Congress federal. So 23rd, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and the 31st. 31st. Okay. And I'll double check the lease, but I believe those should be posted to our website as well. Okay. Anything else to cover under our CP? Here none. We'll move on to CDBG, Mitt. And again, you know, we had our partners here from the general land office. Mr. Hayes alluded to the 3.13.2 million that's still pending out there under CDBG met of which county road 274 putting a bridge into that or replacing that lower crossing with a bridge is one of the projects that's identified under CDBG met. It is my understanding and belief at this point that those funds, although allocated, have still not been released from the federal government standpoint, not the state, not the general and office, but that the hold up with that funding, although designated has not been released from the federal government. Questions, comments or discussion on CDBGN? Okay, here we are. Covering AE under DR 4781. Lots has been going on with that. For the past approximately 10 days, we've had a DRC, a disaster recovery center that was established in conjunction with Gates, fly SD, and it's been open and operating from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. since, well, the soft opening was last Sunday afternoon. So last Monday through today, and it will continue to operate through tomorrow. Tomorrow will be the last day that the disaster recovery center will be operated by FEMA. Initially I'd been led to believe that the individual assistance and that's what they're capturing at the FEMA at the DRC. The individual assistance also included agricultural related claims. That was not the case. So before I get too far off, we have met our threshold for public assistance. It has not been confirmed that we've made our threshold for individual assistance. So the next piece of this, the third piece is agricultural assistance. And we have a briefing set up for Thursday night, 7 a 9 p.m. at the Gatesville Civic Center. And that is being hosted by the USDA. They are the agency that is responsible for the agricultural assistance piece of the disaster. We are registered in the FEMA grant portal. Mr. Latham, I need to get with you sometime in the next day or two. That all that stuff that we're registered in the portal goes back to 15 and 16. So it's got you and Joyce listed as admin and assistant admin. And you're the only two that have the ability to change roles. And so we've got some roles that need to be addressed within that portal. So if you can log back into this, there's a little bit of information. But so that we can get things aligned kind of how we're currently following them. And so that you're not having to do all of that data entry and input on these projects. That's what I'm saying we've got to get some roles established. And I don't think it should be a problem, but if you, myself, Mr. Belt can sit down in the next few days because I don't want to lose sight of it. All right, within that, we have until July 16th to submit our RPA, which is request for public assistance. It's not that we're dragging our feet on it. We've got to get the... July 6th. July 6th. Thank you. July 6th is our RPA request for public assistance. We've got to get the rolls right. Because once we get, we submit our request for public assistance, then FEMA will assign us a, for lack of a better term, I forget their, their, doesn't have a designated representative. They'll have, we'll have initial meeting with them. Once that meeting or once we've had that initial meeting with our designated representative, then we have a 60 day time period to input our projects. And I believe without having seen a hard number, I believe that we are at about 30 low water crossings that were impacted and some road segments. And then that's what tallies up to, individual assistance, and the ag assistance. RPA was that just a fraudster of gasoline when you breathed in and you just didn't want to? It's just going off the briefing that we had last week. It is, it's kind of a broad overarching statement that says, this is the impact to our county from a damage standpoint on the public assistant side. So it will, you know So we'll describe, in general, we will describe impacts to low water crossings, to bridges, to roadways. It's a narrative. It is a narrative. So that year, it's the administrative side. Okay. Okay. Anything to cover any questions that I may not have covered under the R 4781. Okay. And I would encourage, you know, as much as possible, the attendance on Thursday night. AgriLife is going to be there to help with us. You said seven to nine. Seven to nine. Seven to nine. And there was, we did have a notice, an ad went out in the newspaper. The Gainesville messenger for that. So we've had some print media. I think social media it's been shared as well. So we're just trying to our best to get the word out. Okay, anything else to cover under the R47A1? Is there any other grant or action that the port wishes to take under item number eight? Okay, very good. We want to item item nine, which is update on construction projects. Do we want to start with the remodel here? Yeah. OK. I suppose we'll start a cab and install yesterday. But they just got there material. And they're planning on mud. This comes mud, and we bring it all in the mood. This is the moods back to the quail. the same moves back to the quill. So we can get them to 10 bills and put in. Get this over and done with my. We're good. Well. All right, I'll try not to step on our guest's toes too much, but just so I do every court session. When an owner's meeting on 613 and 24, we're getting F8 to quote the data racks for the third, fourth, fifth and sixth physician. These are outside of the GMP. This is for future expansion, but it's smart to go ahead and so I'll bring that proposal in once we get everything. That was not part of the, well, I have two racks, I guess, designated in the actual server room. Topping out party was held on the 20th. JNM Bar Barbe Hube hosted it, but we're going to find a job of hosting that for, and it was really specifically for the trains, the electricians and plumbers, and I know they really appreciated it and they ended out a few awards. That was good. The permanent power invoice is being submitted, I guess, this next pay period. We're setting up the power over to now the county. That's see, the detention pond is done, light poles are set. The plumbers, taxed on the plumbers are on site, who are the electrical TTTG is back filling. And six loads were provided by the county. The FDC, the fire department was installed, I guess, that week. Let's see. The next meeting, it was on the 20th. And we're still working through some of the VE engineering. The spastic conduit runs from the Leon Street Manning Care Office. PPG has started that or they've already, a lot of times I say, it's already done by the time we get here. They're running the conduits over so they can run the video communications to the newly on-street annex. Let's see. We've got a meeting set up to go visit another county and look at their magnetron security units kind of get an idea of what we're going to put up front there, whether... Let's see. We discussed using... This was more internal. The judges were there using the JP courtroom for the visiting judges. CPS, AG. So when it's not in use, we can use it for those with the read fantastic. And I'll leave it that other than we had a very spirited conversation about value engineering items, trying to find a few more cost settings. And I'll know what that presents. I'll leave it at that. Okay. We're good. Anything to add under date on construction projects or any questions for. Commissioner Taylor commissioner, let alone commissioner, mission. Okay. Very good. When we're going to item number 10, which is to consider actions on items to support construction projects. Is there any items that the court, which is any actions that the court wishes to take to support construction projects? I don't have any action. Okay. All right. Ms. Newton, if you would note, under item number 10, no action taken. Item number 11 is presentation and discussion by south wet architects on the Leon's. Oh, I do. I want to go back and ask one question. I apologize. I wrote this out the side. Did we ever update address. For the Leon Street annex to get it to a Leon Street address as opposed to a Main Street? Updated with food. That would be submitted to the sit cog for 911 addressing. And then that filters down through all the utilities, the CAD, I mean the, the, Praiseville District, all of that gets updated through that. But we have to submit that request to sit cong so that and I think it'll be prudent to do it now when the utilities are starting to get hooked up. So there's not a there's not confusion on what that address is going to be in the future. Sorry, I assume before that was one continuous piece of property and the address was main street. You correct? Okay, correct. Yes, we know with them. It's 420. It's 420. So it exists. Well, that's that's main street though. I don't know I don't know what the address that yeah because there's there's not an address off of the on street. That property was was under that. That was part of the park where you have to know what building of measures. Yeah, that's the, and we don't have to identify what that address is. Like this based off numbering sitcom. Right. Oh, don't know. It's gonna be a success. If I'm not to find it, Janet, when we went for the address, it was sitcom that told us at this point in time, keeping it on Main Street because everybody's queued in. And because we're in such a flux of gas companies, electric companies and everything, my suggestion is if you want to change it to Leon Street for just for recognizable to your public, I suggest we do it at the end. That way it's one one time we have to address it with utility companies and and and sitcom. But they're the ones that insisted even though we started out, you know, going to Leon Street as our front door because that's what the city wanted us to do and we all agreed to but I'd suggest if you want to change it and it's not a bad idea for recognizing it for your community but I think we should wait till the end only from a standpoint we could really throw a monkey in the ranch with the utility companies because it's been quite a it's been quite a concerted effort to get the utilities worked out in the beginning of it. And we're still in the gas company and I know that they've been working with the two Internet providers right now and man that might really, so it can't get it just much. and man that might really just might investigate it. We'll look into that. So Mr. Health finger you're saying that you have talked to the sit cog about the address. Yeah, and very started the project of years ago, maybe longer. We got addresses for that property, Judge, for this other property behind the old gym lots. We had all those addresses that they said use this address for those properties. And that's how we addressed them in our previous study and everything else. So we have not addressed them about changing. Is that correct? That's what it's like. Okay. Don't give your own end at that point in time. I think the recognition was, we just need to mention that everybody, from the utility companies, et cetera, we're all kind of human on the same address till such time that you want to go there. And quite frankly, we haven't approved any numbering system yet on the bill in itself for the exterior signage judge that we get farther down. And so changing that number would not be difficult. Commissioner Reddell, I'll get with you. We can figure out what's the timing on that. Okay, thank you. All right, I appreciate the courts and doleddits allowing me to revisit that one question. Moving on to item number 11, which is presentation and discussion of Southwest architects on the Leon Street annex. We've got Mr. Jeff Helping from Southwest architects here, please. Thank you, Judge. Yeah, I wanted to kind of share with everybody been working with the construction group and John's his team. We got in on samples of the materials that we specified. I have a partner that's an interior designer that I work with and a her company and my company. We have made the final choices to present. As everybody knows, this, the headers and the siles color. We have the metal pounds on now that we can see the three eventually, the District Court room has a metal pulse up on the roof on the, and in the color for that. The Wainscoat is a split-phase shedown, pre-cast cat, and then the front of the building is the solar limestone. That's next to your color scheme, very institutional. You know, think you guys good with Courthouse square, which is more of the ransom. Going to the inside of very, what I consider just standard office finishes, what we have is this is our main courtrooms. All that would work in the main courtroom is red oak with a, All that would work in the main courtroom is red oak with a, they call it a clear, clear, warm, and stained. The doors are made out of the same materials. And the wall paneling, the judges bench, the prosecutor and defense tables, and the rails around both the jury and the gallery are all this same woodwork. The back wall is an acoustic wall for the acoustics it will have a pattern of the acoustical panels. You guys if you want you can kind of follow along in your pocket. We try to give you some drawings of how that handling looks and the doors and stuff in that space. In the offices, well, also in the courtroom district terms offices and the offices for the JP. We've used a office carpet. Now the corridors we went to a different pattern. Just to differentiate the two down and there's no additional process, same materials, just a different pattern. The offices will be, the walls will be basically an off-flight with a great tent. We use an accent with an agreeing tent into the base. Every office behind the desk in the densest is an accent wall. So there's one accent wall in each space. The door frames are hollow metal, and they will be painted. This mauve color. And then obviously the ceilings are white. They're all acoustical, two by two ceilings in the office areas. And here again, the wood doors throughout the building are the red over your free finish red doors. In the clerk's office we have a a mega-night countertops. It's the same mega-night right there. With the wood-toned laminated cabinets, there'll be hollow metal flamethrower glazing that'll be painted with the same colors, and their walls will be that same offline. The base, the the base will match the finish. Under the cabinets they get a standard base that matches the cabinets and in the rooms where there's no cabinetry it gets this color base. Just a different you don't want this color on the bottom of that cabin it just would look on So they switch the bases at least but the men's of women's restaurants in the in the main lobby in the main lobby we have a very standard finish we don't differentiate blue and pink it's the floor colors, the wall colors. This is the Meganite countertop. That way you don't have to worry about long-term problems with the moisture and the plastic. The landing base for the cabinet itself, where the Meganite sets on top of, is a lighter wood grain. The ground obviously for the tile walls and tile floors matches the color of the surfaces. Now in the there is a drawing about there's a water fountain in the lobby. It's kind of almost like an object there. And you'll find that there is a drawing in there. Yes, I think they did. Yeah, on page 9. We did some accent, worked with John, this thing, and they helped us through a little where we can do some accent there, where it doesn't look like a bathroom, I mean a bathroom wall in the school. So it's got a little color and a little differentiation in the patterns. Nothing outlandish but just to accent water fountain on it. In the in the jail area we used our standard jail colors, the holding areas, you're developing a gray floor, wide sealings, excuse me, great floor, gray wall, base and wide seals. Just very similar. Furniture in there will be stainless anyway, just like in the in the gym. That's the basic color schedule. Okay, and at the end of the day, it's just very soft, institutional off space. Okay, nothing exorbitant. I think that with the materials that we use, the carpet is two by two squares. So with any accidents take place, it's very easy to fix by replacement. This kind of funny was talking to Commissioner Bash, and like, he's doing it somewhere else right now. I also, in the main lobby, I wanted to point out, in the main lobby, we have a laminate floor with carpet under the center for acoustics, if y'all recall. We've got a lower ceiling and a limestone wall that'd be at the epititual. And with that we just we wanted to take care of the acoustics you'll see here in the real near future, the fixed seating that's put in there and stuff like that and kind of all close together. But we didn't we don't have a bunch of change materials. The secondary bathrooms, which is like in the district judges offices area and the JP's area, very similar to the main lobby, just very standard finishes, with the great floors in them. And the off-line walls and the main night and the land made cabinets. Working with the contractor, they're really good. If we can keep that consistent, we can keep our numbers down. I know we're all at part of our media process that Josh keeps continually working on. Is there any questions about that? Yeah. Okay, so in the diagram on page four, where you've got the dotted line in the common areas in the in the front hallway, you're saying that is carpet. Is that correct? I didn't hear you. Yes, that's exactly correct. This is carpet. Yes, sir. That's carpet. And then, then, so in the seating area in the courtroom is the whole thing is carpet. Yes. There's so these walkways here are car. All car. The entire courtroom is carpet. Okay. The cleaning of if you put tile floors in there, the cleaning of those floors would be very difficult under the benches. And it's ironic I'm working right now with getting alternatives. I know we talked about going cues which we've shown in all of our drawings that we could get 100 people. Well, I just had one of the vendors supply the I drawn that I'm reviewing using the fixed seeding versus the P seeding and he can get 120. I haven't brought that to you. I was just going yesterday. At the end of the day, those options bring. But Genji, it's all about fur acoustics. Don't have any of the middle seating is get some any different signs of the beat when you're trying to fiddle in it. Please understand, I was the big fan of going to Puse because of that. What I just, I'm just exploring avenues to save money. I have not done any research on it yet. Or, you know, it's just like the old stadium seating or your talking about, was 16 inches. Okay. I don't fit in 16 inches. So if I don't fit, nobody fits. That's the way I look at it. So there is options and I told them that we didn't want to look at the micro CD or whatever to expand for people but more importantly we had to have the big but I'm working as you had discussed. I'm working with the Texas criminal justice system. I talked to them actually yesterday. I'm just now getting back into all the rest of the furniture. I'm pretty well good on the offices. I'm working on that. Yeah, that's, you go getting people trying to squeeze in a little safe there. That would be huge. Well, and the biggest issue in a court in this board, I, because that's when you get everybody is in there. Okay, so we talked to the judges about it. They prefer to, plus there's more access in the row area because you know they get called up and stuff. So we'll be discussing the furniture a lot in the near future. Okay. Did that answer your question, Judge, about the wars and stuff? Yes. No, no. Right now on the computer's verses is thank enough there. I should, I should have held my mouth shut. You know, my mouth. Well, I just here again, I know Judge Farrell Judge Kenzie's issue was numbers, which they gave him a minimum number. And so I wanted to look above the options to bring you guys to my decision. Yeah, that's just one of that. You go to the individual meeting. Well, the myth and the legend of that is that you can't hit as many people. So that legend, I mean, that myth already gone away. That's where, that's where, that's where I got my ear. The question is, can you put them comfortably in there but won't get hear taken? Very important. I'm not completely, I need to know about it. They're not watching you move. Well, let me say, let me get the options together, Commissioner, that's what I'm doing. And let you look at the options. You know, and obviously, obviously, I would think that we want to make sure we get a blessings from the course before even bringing those options to you because the user is very important in this and the big heart that happens is people moving through an aisle and people having a wide enough seat and that's the bottom line and even in our pre-design meetings, comfort wasn't the issue but the issue was how we move people in and out of that space. Exactly. Right. So I'll get you out of that. Like I said, I've been starting to work with the users on golf adventure, having had any issues with that. And it's been all still like we budgeted, but I really, the courtroom thing is a big, big deal to all get. a big deal to all again. I don't have any more questions for me. I've turned it over to Josh to kind of give you the construction. Okay. Is there anything else the court wishes to address under item number 11? I'm sorry, I didn't look right. I actually see a real physical. And I'm going to share this with the district court and the J.P.'s offices. And then I'll turn it over to you, Commissioner. If you all want to leave it in your lobby with the reader or whatever, they'll have it available. And if you don't want to put it in the lobby, I'll put it in the trailer for the lobby. Okay, moving on to item number 12, presentation and discussion by Butler Cohen on the Leon Street annex. Thank you, good. Josh, how are you? I'm doing well. I'm doing pretty darn well. Well, I just want to give you guys an update where we are. First one, say thank you to give you guys an update where we are. First one, say thank you to the Mission Bachelor and Wettler for all your help and Jeff. We're getting to where we are. We're heading into the fourth month of construction. I'm not sure if you guys have driven by where we're out of the ground. So, so kind of what that means for us is all the infrastructure except the power is tied in and the gas, but the water and the sanitary, the storm, all that is in the foundation of out of the ground. The steel is up and is wrapping enough here in the next week. We have about 90% of the outside of the building complete, far as the skin. And that move goes in to the inside of the building. So for the next couple months, we'll start to roof here in the next couple of weeks and the outside face of the building. So we're tracking along pretty well to get us wrapped up by the end of the year, which is I know Commissioner Wattled Gold, get a Christmas tree in there. As far as financials, we're on the green side of things and Commissioner Venge Jeff have been very helpful in finding, finding cost saving measures that we can bring to you guys an implement on this. The overall it's going very well. So what you're telling me is, is we're going to be ready to move in on November 28th. Not for the turkey, but maybe. All right, after turkey. As I'm saying, I'm not saying it's for the turkey. I'm saying it's after turkey. Oh, you're one of those. Yeah. There's three up right out of left. Yeah. Yeah. That's that is that no, realistically, I mean, is December 31st, is that a realistic mark on the wall? Yep. Okay. That may not be the move in, but that will be a being able to open it up to the public. I would reserve that to say, you've always said January was your number. But to have a soft opening as they call them, right? For sure. Okay. All right. This is this kind of like the jail. We're going to have we have to deal with the state also, not just the city, but we'll have to deal with the state. And that's a tough, that's a tough time of year because they're, their shortages in staffing and their availability. We make inspections. Okay, so that I can understand correctly, we're dealing with state on a small portion of the overall building, correct? Yes, correct. Okay, and that portion is independent of Offices being occupied is that correct? Part of the Joa inspection will be certificates of occupancy fire All the firearms have to be approved at the end of the day the building has to be completed because all those same documents have to be submitted to the state for that small portion. That makes sense. Okay, so we're dependent upon the state then. For final occupancy. In December. I don't know if you know. Sometimes that takes a couple of weeks to get out. Well, I've seen those folks quite a bit in the last couple of years. I don't mind. I didn't see them voluntarily. I might be on Christmas card listed too. We'll give them an early, early warning. And they've been great to work with. I know Jeff had a great relationship with them. Go to leave, but they, I think to say they can't be everywhere especially that time. Oh, they can, they're the state. I know. They're everywhere. Come on, you don't need them. They can be. I know they're everywhere. Come on. You don't need them. They can be. I told you court this, but you know, in the jail, our inspector showed up. There was a day before a state holiday. She sat out in the parking lot with her laptop on Wi-Fi submitted the forms of the director and the director of the fruit of that afternoon. So that goes a pretty strong one of the relationships that we've been able to get garnered with them so I don't see it but I understand why we're saying that's part of it. Josh let's get nice. I mean really it it is that and we will. We'll be in dollars and we're sure. You're working. The roof. I think the room often. There. Okay. This court have questions, comments for Josh. Anything for the boat. Okay. Josh, we do appreciate it. Thanks. Questions comments for Josh anything for Butler Cohen? Okay, Josh we do appreciate it. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, moving on to item number 13 which is to consider Quail County Resolution CC 24-06, the exemption of three vehicles for the juvenile probation department. I think Miss D's been sitting patiently back there the whole time waiting for this one event. What has been presented, of course, is an exemption for yearly vehicle registration tags. Is that the correct? I'm not going to see all of that by the bar. Okay. So they would be not sound not sound covert, but just unmarked vehicles while transport. That is resolution CC 24-06. Mike, what is the exception of the CC 24- folks, the extension of the CREVIA, which will be given out for a patient in the fall. How's the second that one? We got a motion to approve CC 24-06 from Commissioner Bashman, second from Commissioner Wettel, any further discussion on item number 13. Here you're going to all those in favor say aye. All those opposed to now. Let's have it motion carried. All that time for 30 seconds. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all ladies and gentlemen. Item number 14, which is to consider and roll in Coriel County in the Texas Association of County Cybersecurity Training Program at No Cost of the County. The annual cyber security training is required under Texas Government Code 2054.5191. I do want to, I did not have an opportunity to clarify with tack on this. There may be an $8 charge per user. Now, what that would amount to, I mean, if you talk about the impact, is that'd be about $1,600 if you said 200 users. We don't have 200 users. So it's less than $1,600. I just didn't have the time to run that ground. But to keep us in compliance with 2054.5191 and eligible for certain grants for the state, we have to have cybersecurity training. That is a requirement. Which we did last year. Yes. We're going on participation rate was last year. I'm sure they have a certain minimum standard we have to do. That's pretty good. I want to say that I think we were well over 80%. I think we were well over 80%. There's just a couple of departments that weren't quite as supportive, but we're going to reach out to them and. No, a computer user. I mean really that's that's the requirement is if you're a computer user and then most of those are associated with email addresses but ultimately that's what it amounts to. are going to we enjoy this every year. So I think we'll probably have to say. 67 at this point. I mean, the past and the link. Yeah, the email you a link and you'll go through and once you complete the training, satisfactory, it feeds right into the tax system and they send us a roll-up saying this is all incomplete. But I do want the court to be aware that even though we put the no cost here on this agenda item, I do believe that this year, I even though we put the no cost here on this agenda item, I do believe that this year there will be a cost associated with that. We know our deadline for signing up. You have 30 person bills. Oh, $5. Is it five? Okay. For the handout. For the handout. For the handout. Well, the lunch that's more of a bargain than I thought it was. And this is something we have to do to something that we've been qualified for. Excuse me. But I think we're supposed to. You know, you both probably have to complete this. Okay. Yes. I'd even water words and other things. That's my deal. How do you like to hear? Yeah, so. I think I saw someone I have a hundred or so. We have a hundred and you should take the phones that didn't have that. Don't probably talk about less than a thousand dollars. Yeah, that's a lot of time. That's a big deal. Yes, I've identified that. That's your good. No. I'm not going to. I'm not going to go over there. It's our more wood fashion. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not. You hadn't been hanging out with you, you're hanging out with me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I would encourage the court to take action to enroll us in the New Nation. New Nation. I'm not okay with it. Okay. I think I've posted the Cornell County in Gated with the Texas Association of County Cybersecurity Training Program at a cost of $5 per user to enroll us in the annual Cybersecurity Training. Motion from Sedestion or Weddle, second from Commissioner Taylor, any further discussion on item number 14 Hearing none all those flavors are all those posts. I know I just have it motion carries Yes, sir It's gonna be email we're gonna we've got the I believe we've got about a 90 5% solution on capturing all the email addresses. We submit those to tack and so in your email address or within your email the next let's say 14 days you should be looking for it. They will send you a link. Click on the link and you go through the process and I as best I recall from last year it's 30 minutes maybe. Is it? Yes, but yes it's easy to get in 12 minutes. I'll let you know what some videos and answers and questions. You start around. Brain and probably do the key chance. Or you do what Ms. Newton does and I'm not going to be a teacher. Or you do what Ms Newton does and I'm not going to. Okay, but yes, those. I will double check with Lisa, but I think within the next 10 to 14 days. People should be receiving email. If you've ever been in the boys and don't have email addresses, we still use our computers. We need to associate them with an email address. Even if it, you know, we like within the Sheriff's Department, there's some group emails that they have access to. And we sign up multiple individuals. We like within the Sheriff's Department, there's some group emails that they have access to. And we sign up multiple individuals. Yeah, but we don't have this thing. That one email address. Yes, certain thing. Yes. But we will so that I'm not overstepping my bounds, I will confirm that would lease and tack on how we will address that. But it is, it's a user requirement, not necessarily. It's mostly associated with email addresses, but it is a user requirement. A good question. Okay, anything else to cover on? Number 14, 4, and move on. a good question. Okay, anything else to cover on number 14 for move on? All right, here we go. Item number 15 is to consider bids for real estate broker services to sell real property. If you recall, I believe about two, maybe three meetings ago, we should, we should a bid for real estate broker services to address some of the real property that the court has discussed selling or potentially would sell. We received two bid responses from that Ms. Kenney-Lonsman, as well as Mr. Howe-Dun. Like a local, like a local, they accept candy lonesmen from Fort Realty for the real estate, local shows to sell real property. Second, we have a motion to award the bid to Miss Candy Lonesman from Front Ports Realty, from Commissioner Bashman, a second from Commissioner Taylor. I would note for the record Ms. Lonsman was the low bid from the two bids that win receive. But now that's just but I mean I'm comfortable what I just want to make sure that we are acknowledging that Ms. Lonsman did have the low bid out of the two that were presented to the court. the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the second was the I have motion carries item number 16 is to consider proposals to RFP 2024-02 grant writing and management services. If you recall the court issued that RFP anticipating the need to manage our grant services and funds that we anticipate receiving through FEMA. There were three respondents from that. If the court has no objection, I would entertain a motion to table that item to pick it up after or at some point during our afternoon workshop. Thank you, Jackson. That was actually kind of my request. I'll make the motion. I'll make the motion that we table the RFP 2020-22 into the beginning of the workshop starting at 1.30pm this afternoon. Motion to table to this afternoon from Commissioner Wettel. And is was a second, Commissioner Taylor? Yes. All right, very good. We have a motion and a second table until the Saturday. Any further discussion on item number 16? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. All those opposed to no. I just have motion carries. Item number 17, pay bills. We did have a request to add one additional bill in the additional bill. Sorry. We had initial vehicle registration renewal come in to the turn of $7.50. So it was a bit of total for bills. This was seven to eight nine to fifty. I do apologize. Seven dollars. Yes, Chris. Okay, so what you should be reflected in addition to the sheet that went out from this Campbell was originally $7,834.77. There was one additional bill in the amount of $50.25. And then at the request of Mr. Wood, one additional $7.50. That would bring our total balance to pay bills for today being $702,892.52. I agree with you. Pay the bills. Second. I got a motion to pay bills by Commissioner Wettler, the second room commissioner Taylor, any further discussion on item number 17 hearing none all those of every say I all those opposed they know I just have it most carries reports commissioner mad use we've got participating but zoom report yes there's the only thing I really have is myself, Mr. Wood, they've been working with the Public Utility Commission, Texas Mexico and Shell to try to rectify the billing issue or the surge of electricity, try to identify that for the end. So I was still in the work. All right, very good. Thank you, Commissioner. Mr. Weddle. I went to an event, I don't see what it was. On June 13th, where the I pronounce it the Dela Express Pipeline, extraordinarily well attended, they had representatives from the land folks, the construction company. They also had, I found out that this is federal money. So there was a group called Per had, I found out that this is federal money. So there was a group called Perk, I think, FERC or something like that. They're the advocate from the US government that was there. It was very interesting. You know, at the end of the day, you know, the result is this. I've heard some terms that I had never heard before. One is condemnation, which is just another term for imminent domain. And so each one of these landowners is independent to cut their own, you know, deal with this pipeline company. And so that's what this was, you know, kind of for. It was, it was good. I heard some very interesting conversations going on. pipeline company and so that's what this was you know kind of for It was it was good. I heard some very interesting conversations going on I thought I better show up his vast majority of it comes through the R2 in the northern portion of you know Coria and it's already what existing four pipelines Yes, and they're gonna probably follow that Halfway mostly they was deviateiate off a couple little places, but it's a 40-inch natural gas pipeline. That's all. It was interesting. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Bassett? Yes, Sunday it was at Fort Hood, Fort Vosso. They had a hamburger hotdog, there were soldiers in the concert and volunteers by performance there cooking and then they were finishing up. You guys, I helped them cook and it was a pretty well while people there, probably not for you in the afternoon because soldiers there. So it was really good. The band is good. It's pretty good to see you. Of the royal people. We're going to keep out there and just support that. You know, you're their appreciation to those soldiers. They had 400 or so. All right. Very good. Thank you. Commissioner Taylor. Well, I have a whole lot of my side starts his recostructive stuff Thursday this week. He had one surgery, Thursday, and then they'll come from up there hoping to finish up and get everything back like it was. Other than that, I got to seeing yesterday, he was eating some fried chicken, so I had to eat. Yeah, he's saying it. Yeah, he's saying it. He's pretty excited to get rid of his, you know what? He calls it his shabby thing. But he's ready to get back to him. Yeah, man. Thoughts of prayers with him must have. I went and saved Lucy. His son sat at him and then he's doing good. He's glad me on this. Yeah. Anything else? No, I'm giving us rain by two weeks. Okay. Anything else? No, I'll give us rain about two weeks. Okay. Get my head. Yeah, we're on the one with a couple of inches. We're not going to walk. We want to get slowed. Maybe three. Okay. First of all, I want to give you a quick update on the Hill Country Transit District at our last meeting, which was the Thursday after our last Commission's Court meeting, the Hill Country Transit District Executive Committee took action to give direction and guidance to separate off Mason County, Lano County, Hamilton County, Mills County into individual or they will separate and they will be absorbed into other rural transit districts which will then leave Coil County, Bell County, Mildem County, and Lampassas County as the core element of what I believe is going to continue to be a Hill Country Transit District but that's still to be a hill country transit district, but that's still to be determined. These actions will take place targeted to be no later than December 31st of this year. At this time, the management group for hill Country Transit District believes that our contribution of $50,000, which was last year's contribution to the transit district, is sufficient to carry them through this transition period. So, there's not going to be an additional cost to maintain the current level of services. I cannot tell you what it's going to look like in the years coming forward. But and they're working on that model. I mean, they don't have the answer right now. But I would anticipate that there would be some additional costs in the future. I do have a slide on it and I will get that sent out to all of you so you've got kind of you can see where the various counties are going and who they're going to be linked up with. Last week, I had the steering committee for the Bell Corps Regional Habitat Conservation Plan. Thursday, I believe we've got the executive committee for that group. In the last update, Mr. Bell had inquired about there was a there was a pretty expansive number of initial species that they were looking at I think it was 20 plus. It had been narrowed down to about six or eight I believe at that point and it has been now expanded to 10. There are 10 species that they intend on listing. I don't remember all of them off the top of my head. Again, I need to get that slide out to you so you will see what those 10 species are. About half of those are aquatic. I don't recall there's two or three of them that are cost or invertebrate type species and then there's one to that or aerial. The monarch butterfly being one of those, but I will get that list out to you. And then finally, and I apologize for not actually getting on the judges report some latitude from the court. Commissioner Mwettel, as well as the sheriff, we met with representatives from Bell County last week to discuss potential future bed space representatives from Bell County last week to discuss potential future bed space and what might be available as Bell County opens up their expansion. They indicated to us that they would be opening up in the late winter early spring time frame is I believe that's the words that Judge Blackburn used. Right now based off of what they plan on opening up, they indicated to Coriel County that they were gonna have somewhere between 175 and 200 beds available. They do not have a price at this point on what those beds would cost. However, they did indicate to us that that cost might be in the 100 to $120 range. They were willing to do a multi-year agreement with us, but they were also going to ask that or put into the agreement that they're going to be fixed number of beds. I mean, like, you know, if we ask for 60, they will give us 60, but we're going to pay for 60, whether we have somebody in that bed or not. That is the structure of their agreement that they currently have with Barnett County. And they gave us a copy of their agreement with Barnett County. And I will forward that to you for your review because we're going to during the budget season need to make some decisions about how we want to manage bed space. Yesterday's number I believe was 186 and I also believe that approximately 40 of those give or take or waiting to be sent to TDCJ. Bell County also told us that they have submitted their request for reimbursement to the state. They have already sent that again. They had their jail administrative there with us. She said the feedback that they got was that the state then asked for their direct deposit information, which she has since forwarded to them. So Bell County has in fact executed paperwork to be reimbursed for their inmates that have been convicted and are ready to be sent to state, state jail state prisons. And that's that's my update. I know that that was kind of a lot to dump on you from an update standpoint, but there's there's a lot of things that are going on and I'm committed to doing a better job of updating you on some of these meetings because there are there's lots of dynamics that are coming into play. So with that, that includes the regular business portion of our meeting. Again, we have some workshops lined up for this afternoon. We will also address the one item that has been tabled. I would ask that at your convenience during this recess, you would drop off your score sheets with the auditor's office so that he can be our independent abulator of those scores and we'll take a look at addressing again item number 16 at 130. We are in recess until 130 in section. Thank you, gentlemen.