Okay, let's bring the court daughter, please. Let's stand for the opening prayer and the pledge of allegiance. Charlie, would you please be prepared please? Okay, I'll do that. Sir, shall you hand? I'll probably come before you. Can you say for this day, not from sunny, but another day of life and liberty. Thank you Lord for this privilege to gather. We thank you for your blessing. Watch over our choices in both a heart and a year if it be a real dream of home safely. Father God, this cordon is a decision that they made that they would be a perceptible year of time. I met up with the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God and a visible. The roll call of members of the court are present. We need a motion on the agenda. Second. All in favor say aye. Commissioners, I have no changes on the consent. Judge I just I do want to make one change under item number under the auction for commissioner precinct three I prove the minutes number seven. Right, the mystery. We'll come back to that. Is there a motion on the agenda? On the consent. Move. All the favor, see how? Aye. We need to prove the minutes to January 13th. Move. Second. All with every seeout. Mr. Smith, we need to make an appointment to the CPS Board. Randy Dohmann, his, I think maybe here today, is an outstanding perspective member this board. I highly recommend it by Terry Jaiers, who you all know is the chairman of this board. I move. Second. All in favor see out. Are you here Randy? Thank you for serving. Thank you. And Terry. Thanks for all, yes. Thank you for serving. I appreciate it. Thank you, Terry. Thanks for all the good work you do, Force. Thank you, Commissioners. I just want to thank all of you and Judge for all of your health and assistance. I think that's the world of difference for our country. And I just want to get off of another chance if I can. Thank you. Thank you, Terry. Okay, consider discussing approved requests for a variance by the Lytus of Michigan Grill. For this, this is new, the commissioners court now can give a variance. Let's say the alcoholic beverages near a school are a church. This is the 07 Luegas restaurant that sold alcohol for many, many years. And the church nearby has no problem with this. Is that the one in Montgomery? Yes. Right there at the old F. The A&X. I'm going to take it. All in favor say aye. I'm on the management. One judge. Commissioner. Good morning. I'm going to go ahead and get a one. Here this morning talk about the 2014 grant process. Today we're having our kickoff meeting or seminar or we're having our own kickoff process. The current process we have for dealing with the grants is we have to get approval on what we're going to apply for from the court prior to making the application. The problem with this year is the applications are due March the 7th. The court prior to that would be March, would be February 24th. So I basically have about one week to prepare everything I need to apply for the grants. And that's not much time where one day I'd like to ask since these grants are handled in the region and don't go anywhere else for those decisions, we make the decisions in the Houston region, I'm asking that you allow me to go ahead and submit the applications on March the 7th and review on the 10th on the cord date on the 10th Knowing that if you had any objections I can go back and modify anything that you didn't want in the grant project Are you making any new grant requests beyond what you've done in the past? We just now I just sent requests out to the sheep. Do you know you'll probably be making some new requests? We just we just got we didn't know we were going to get word this soon. The last two years the federal government has been slow and getting budget passed and we did this like in May and June. So we're going a little quicker this year so we're more in a tight timeline to get things done. I think that's a good way to handle it. I move for Nicky's request. I say all in favor, see how? Thank you. Thank you, Nicky. IT. Good morning, Judge Commissioners. Good morning. Good morning. We have an item to consider to approve the creation of a new position as a part-time computer analyst, one. As you know, the auditor and the county attorney have reviewed contract positions and this is one of those that they have recommended they have become a part-time position. We've had an individual in that role for a year. He does our new system deployments, our five-year managed life cycle for our desktop PCs. He works 20 hours a week. We can fund the salary position, salary of the position just like we have in the past. So there's no budgetary changes? Judge, if at the court chooses they could fund the benefits portion of this or IT could fund all of it. I move IT fund all of it. I thought you might. I think I knew that, Mark. So, a second, second. One favor, C.I.? Thank you, Chairman. Thank you. Bill, the C-Shirt has some unused salary dollars in there from employees that have left this year. Well, in the past, in the past, this particular position wasn't a position. It was funded through contract services. And so I did visit with Marshall. And I believe the intent is to move that money up from his contract services to fund this as a position since that's more in compliance with the IRS reg. I think there's about $2,600 on saying that could probably come from positions that were employees of vacated and haven't filled them yet. I can certainly look at that commissioner I'm not familiar with that at this moment. Thanks. Marshall was there a concern about exceeding the 30 hour limit on that position? Is that what we're okay? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Dolly, we've done we we've done anything more on a policy for those those employees that are close to 30 hours. We talked about that. I get with you later. Okay, ultra. First item before you is a request from County Court at Law. Number three, to use $103.99 from the Court Reporter Service Fund. Move. On favor, Seattle. All right. Motion passes. The second item before you is a topic that I did discuss briefly with the County Judge. The second item before you is a topic that I did discuss briefly with the county judge. There is a transparency tool that we are aware of that seems minimal in cost and does seem like it might offer some benefit to the commissioner's court and the public at large. If you'll look on the screens, Deborah has pulled up a sample budget and report of financial data that were this software is being used in Excuse me where it's being used in Palo Alto, California and what we can do is Go into their budget and look up according to their functions. So if you look If you wanted to look under say police, which is the purple line You could click on one of the purple lines for the past five years actual data and what they've budgeted for police, which in our functions might be public safety. It would then give you another level of detail in our scenario. It would show things like all of the departments that contribute to public safety. So it would show you the Fire Marshalls office as a percentage of total public safety, the Sheriff's Office as a percentage of total public safety, the sheriff's office as a percentage of total public safety, etc. You could then click on another one of those so you could then go down in there as it might be say the purple one again which would be technical services. You could click on that and it would go even further in and show you things like what the expense is where in each of those departments so it would be able to show you what was the salary and the fire marshals department as a total of their budget as opposed to their operational expenses. This tool seemed like it would be relatively helpful as we went through the budget process, which is why I brought it to you now. If you decide it would be helpful, you could name a funding course for that. It's about $6,000 per year. It's purely a subscription service. The county doesn't have to own or maintain anything. We would need to of course speed them our data so they could get it in there for current activity. And the general public would have access to this as well. Yes, sir. We don't have any special rights or privileges to Pelo Alto's website. This is something that anyone anywhere can look at. And Phyllis, I think this is certainly a step in the right direction and providing greater transparency to the public and give more information to the court. I've also brought some information back from another organization that is based here in Texas. It does a very, very similar type of information. And as you know, they work with Williamson County. And that's a Texas-based company. and one of the biggest benefits in exploring this would be same type of application it's web-based full access to everybody but one of the bigger benefits is that it also aligns specifically to the Texas Comptroller open data requirements and it will be updated based on any changes so I would wouldn't want to move on this today but I would want to make certain that we maybe take a look at this other information. The company is called MoMAX and I believe you know the auditor that uses it currently. I can certainly look into MoMAX. I did as you and I discussed on Friday commissioner. I did go to the Williamson County website and couldn't receive. I couldn't get to data that was like this. I did go to the Williams and County website and couldn't receive I couldn't get to data that was like this I did try I went through their transparency link And I wasn't able to get to any graphical representations other than some charts that were fixed that they had uploaded I Didn't see any functionality that allowed it to move around like this and not saying it doesn't exist I just couldn't find that yeah, no I do want to just make sure that we take a look at it. I've explored it. I think it's worth taking a look at. Why don't we table this to you review this, Philus? We can certainly do that if you'd like, Judge. Well, I'm going to be table this item until we have auditory view of this other transparency item. Second, on the paper, see how? Aye. Aye. Okay, purchasing. Morning, Judge and Commissioner. Morning. No action on item 13a. Be, consider and approve the proposal from Diamond Commercial Construction 8 into re-grade, reshaped, ranged ditch as a Montgomery County Mental Health Treatment Facility in the amount of $17,834.40. and 40 cents. Department of Infrastructure and designate a funding source. What is the problem they ever understand? I guess they have some drainage problems by a power pole. Mark? This is a drainage problem on the backside. The geocary passes through the gattles. We don't think the problem is going to have to go back. Our bulls don't pull around. It just needs to rip wrap in it and have elin. But it needs to be taken care of and spent this way for awhile. If it's something we could do with a grain or it's going to take that track hoe or something to get back in there to do. It's going to take some concrete and ripbed in there, right? I mean, you could, it's going to need to be in there. They've been waiting for it to be taken care of. And I don't know if they've waiting on, but it hasn't been yet. So they asked me to look at it. We put a price together. I don't know why we can't do it. I got some real prep left over. You need to be done because it's getting worse every time it rains. Yeah, what it needs done is reshaped and some rep rep put in it. We bring our track home to it. I got rep left over. Oh, it needs some stabilizing there with some rep rep. Mr. D even do this? Yeah. I'll do it. Okay. We'll help. All right. John get turned to you. Thank you. All right John get turned you thank you In item 14 a rise in the court to approve a temporary employment contract with Michael Huddle This is essentially a renewal of the six month six month contract that he has he's a CDBG grant employee And this is a grant fund a position. There's no changes in his salary Second all of their Russia All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All favor or say aye. In item 14C, we're asking the court to approve an agreement between the county and adult probation. This agreement would allow the adult probation participants to provide work or to complete work assignments at the law library. The contract is substantially similar to other contracts the county has with the adult probation for this type of project and the county can refuse any participants that they see as unfit for the assignments. All in favor, say aye. Item 14D, right in the court, they're proving amendment to the agreement that the county has in place with the Montgomery County Fair Association. The current contract allows the fair association to construct improvements and the county provides up to 50% of the funding for those improvements up to maximum of $50,000. The amendment would increase that cap up to $100,000 and there's no other changes in the agreement. finish you want to explain that please. Through the budget process last year, the commissioners court approved an agreement where they would fund $50,000 toward improvements out at the fairgrounds and the fair association would contract for some work to be done to be reimbursed up to half. And we've done that for two or three years. Yes sir. And we would reimbursed up to half of the we've done that for two or three years. Yes sir. And we would reimburse up to half of the cost up to $50,000. They've identified some projects that are more costly than they had originally thought. And so they're looking for a county 50% match up to $100,000, which means of course we'd be getting up to $200,000 worth of work then out there through the fair association. And that extra 50 comes out of my budget so it's not going to increase what we approved it budget time. I'm a favor. Yeah. I would like to take items 15 a b and c together. 15 a is approval of the minutes of the December 17th Montgomery County Mental Health Treatment Facility Advisory Board meeting. 15B is the acceptance of the performance indicator report for the month ending 1231 2013 and 15C is approval of the reappointment and privileging of a psychologist at the facility. I move on 15ABC. All in favor. Yeah. Uh, item six to an a one, we're asking the court to approve a resolution in order that would authorize judge salad to execute an agreement of sale and purchase. This is related to the legal and road extension project. All in favor. Yeah. Commissioner's precinct one. They're in favor of the middle of the agreement with the city of Willis for road repairs. I'm a second. All in favor. Say, uh, uh, precinct three. Prove, uh, moving $240 from position number 614, 2510-1 to 614, 3202-4 for a cell phone allowance. I move. Second. Home of favor, CA. And two and three will take together in one motion, close position 614-3900-1, open position 614-3920-1, and transfer 3589613 from 614-3900-1 to 614-3920-1, and Ms. Martin, please note that the start date is February 10th on this PCR. Okay, thank you. I move. Second. All in favor, see you. In number five, discuss and take appropriate action on increasing transparency by posting our track registry online. I'll go ahead and defer this for now. Most of the software that I've looked at includes some sort of combination of that in it for transparency. So we'll bring that back when we we have more information. Number six, discuss and take appropriate action on establishing a committee that will create a written code of ethics for commissioners court. I move on that. I think it's a good step, a good way for us to move forward and just solidifying a written code of ethics for the court to move on. One thing that I think we probably ought to do to commissioners is get some of the politics out of this is to hire Larry Foster, who does a lot of government work. He can pick his own committee that maybe our DA, maybe our county attorney, maybe others. But I'd like to make the motion to hire Larry Foster to head this up, I say. Any other discussion? All in favor, see how? Aye. Motion passes. And then last number four, consider to discuss. And if the appropriate take action, I'll remove an head chance from the mental health treatment facility advisory board. I think that this court ought to wait on that open until after we receive additional information from our attorneys is my opinion. Okay. Motion fails. Pay under Article 551. I'll just go ahead and move that we once we have the additional information from our attorneys, we bring this back to court and discuss it and build on it at that time. That's fine. Thanks. Under Article 551.072, the government code let's read this court for executive session. Pay, let's bring the court back to order. There's no necessary action from executive session. Next we have citizens or there any citizens who would like to address the court today. Yes sir? Bill O'Sullivan Woodlands, I want to talk on two topics. First, should think of certificates to obligation. Seems to be in the paper quite a bit. I have actually requests submitted wording to define an emergency for the certificate to be issued so that they cannot be for willy-nilly reasons to extend, it's not a whim of the court. It's supposed to be there for an emergency and what I attempted to do is define an emergency and I hope that this is proceeding. It's been I guess about four months now. Second thing I want to talk to the abatement which was made in the last court. Now I found out that when you had this marine construction firm that you brought in they wanted to be closer to the SHIP channel and they were coming from 600 miles away up by Amarillo. Now locating here would seem to be a logical thing for them to do to be proximate and it was in their advantage to move here. On top of that, I asked J.R. about it and he said, well that's automatic based upon a million dollars, et cetera, et cetera. And he's given me the rules and regulations on that just this morning, which I'll review. But at the same time, he told me that a bunch of other companies are contacting them because of ExxonMobil. They're coming here because they want to be near ExxonMobil. And I guess they're going to get tax abatements too. And I think that needs to be revisited. I think if you want to use tax abatements, it should have a specific purpose, such as all the jobs that were involved in Exxon mobile, and all the other business that would attract. And then for development in other areas of the county, let's say out to the East County, if you wanna get more commercial development out there. It's like creating an enterprise zone. So it's an abatement zone as opposed to giving abatements to the woodlands when people are coming there anyway. So I would make an exception for a significant amount of jobs. And I understand you wanted to get away from seeming be favorite to big business, and I understand you wanted to get away from seeming be favorite to big business and I understand that but I think that you really have to use that power that you have for a bait man to encourage developments elsewhere in the county where where it would be needed and that's basically it. Thank you. No one thing on the specific is obligation We have issues CEOs in connection with our airport expansion Where we have a 90 ten match ten percent of county money we get a 90 percent mass mistake the federal government That's not an emergency, but that is money well spent. Would you agree or disagree? Would I agree or disagree? If you're going to get 90% match from the federal government, yes, sir. OK, which is our money anyway. And as far as what is, if you have a contract and you need to expand it, or you have a contract and you need to expand it or you have something which is committed or something of that nature and you need to expand it as opposed to a bread being cast upon water, I wouldn't give you a stiffer obligation on maybe we hope something will come, but I give you a sub-servant obligation if company, ABC and D come to you, you said, if you got a longer airport, we're gonna use that airport, we're gonna do it. So that you need the money to do it, that to me is an economic development, which I would make an exception for, but I would also... Still not an emergency. I would spend... Let an emergency. I would I would also think it was fine that if you had a unanimous consent from from from the a board that you could make an exception in a situation such as that otherwise you would lose the money. But I don't think it's just a, I don't, I just don't think you just do it for the sake of doing it. Well, we never have. Okay. Well, what was the, what was the reason for the extension? Was the reason for the extension was because the money was available? Or was the reason for the extension was because companies committed to you that if you had a big longer runway that they would use it. Pretty both. So now when this runway is built, these companies that promise that they were going to come are going to come and how much economic equity is that? It'll be a lot when I was already there. Right, right. Who is that? Right for us. Right for us. Yeah, I'll give you a few minutes. But they're the ones who run the airport right now. No. This is dark out of the woodlands. Anyway, thank you Bill. Thank you very much. Are there any other systems comments today? I'd like to clarify something Mr. Selleffin just said, he misunderstood me when I said that ex-on-mobile attracts other people for tax abatement. What I told him is that when you have a company that comes in and provides you 1300 jobs, basically what you do is you have that economic development that starts by those people buying homes. When you buy those homes and your trip centers get in, then you got sales tax, you got other jobs that come in. So it becomes a multiplier. What we are doing is no different than what would be in County and Harris County. The other's effect except we have a better package. And it's because of the amenities that we have, the quality of life and the mode of living that makes Montgomery County attractive to everybody else. And so I want to clarify that. 16,000 jobs since we started as a lot of jobs that we created here. And it's been done in a matter of means. It's been very productive and beneficial in Montgomery County to this point of over 13 cents per hundred dollars on a tax rate that we've saved over the years. That's all I'm saying. JR. Just on Gene Campbell Boulevard in the bill. The Campbell was paying $4,400 at 200 acres. We've done a tax abatement for Walmart distribution center. The first year they paid us $164,000. But now hundreds of people to work. 96 hours a year. So when you just talk about tax abatement, you can't get nobody. You can best meet tax ab convince me to activate one thing to good. Okay. Bill, you're not up. Yes, sir. Good morning. Thank you, Judge. Good morning. John Wordsworth and commissioners. Yeah, I have a concern about going to the federal government for money. I have a son that's currently an Army Ranger combat veteran and those guys are severely underpaid. I'll submit to you that I'd rather my tax money go to them, which I think a large majority is. I think the rest is going to our $17 trillion debt. I don't think it's a good idea for us to go out with our handout from the county. I think if it's such a great idea, we use venture capitalists to think it's a good idea and utilize everybody. Thank you. Thank you, sir. There are any other citizens comments today? You may have resources Good morning, please consider and approve that payroll change requires forms Thank all the papers. Yeah Anything else committers No sir we adjourned