Okay, let's bring the court, daughter, please. Let's stand for the opening prayer and the pleasure of allegiance. Do we have any bell and tears for the prayer this morning? Go ahead, sir. We have to. No, we just have a thanks for our food. We just left up this mission of court to pray that you would grant them wisdom. Or to say, instead of business, this is ultimately for you, Lord, we just pray that you would grant them wisdom or to say a their business is ultimately for you Lord we just pray that you with the child give them discernment Lord we also lift up our men and women around the country. I'm not depending this country Lord we just thank you for the opportunity to live and live in this nation Lord and we just recognize you during this time we ask all this Christ name. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God in the middle of the liberty and justice cross. I don't know if I to take the flag of play to the city of Texas. One state, one under God, one in Indian New Zealand. Already for the roll call, all members of the Commission's Court are present. We need a note motion on the court agenda, please. Move. On February, see how? Aye. Passes. Commission's we have three proclamation and resolutions this morning. The first is Tricanney, first quarter operations update. Good morning. Good morning, Cindy. Good morning. Good morning, Cindy. Good morning. How are you all? Good. Good. Let me kind of hand out here for you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. We are boarded of trustees every year, does strategic planning and set goals and objectives for the upcoming fiscal year. And one of the things that they asked staff to do this fiscal year is to make more frequent routine reports to our three sponsoring agencies, the commissioners court. So, hence our presentation today just to give you an update on services and give you a status report on the things that are happening at Tri County. We have one of our board members here, Sharon Walker. Right there. Did you wait? Okay. And Evan Robertson who will be the next executive director February 1. Right. Because I'm retiring this Thursday. Whether my office is packed or not. Congratulations Cindy. You done a great job. Well that's not why I'm here. I should have come in December, but I got behind schedule. I miss you retirement party. And I'm good. I can say a few words to you. What a great job you have done. I know the courts enjoyed working with you over the years. Thank you. Thank you so much. I have, but I had a chance to go. And it was quite a tribute to a very fine deserving lady that has done miracles at Tri-County. Evan made a statement that I thought was funny. He said, I wear a size 16 shoe, but I don't think I can feel ours. Pretty can certainly out-hide me for sure. I want to give you just a little summary of our services. Our first quarter we're on the September 1 fiscal year. As you can see, we served over 2000. This is from Montgomery County. We served over 2000 adults with serious mental illness. Over 350 youth with various emotional disturbances. One of the things that you all may not be aware of, and I wanted to certainly highlight this last fiscal year, fiscal year 12, the Department of State Health Services because of the pressure on the State Hospital system, offered to some of the community centers the opportunity to contract for private psychiatric beds so that there was civil commitment capacity. And they didn't offer that. So I got on the phone and I said, we'd like some of those. And we were able to get five beds in hospitals in North Harris County down on one stand on 1960 and the others in Kingwood and since September 1 we have had 33 individuals from Montgomery County that have been hospitalized there on civil commitments but for almost 400 bad days we've only had the law enforcement the mental health deputies have only had to make three trips to us in September 1. So we think that's a benefit to the county. Certainly we work with Lieutenant Dan Lafferty and the mental health deputate unit in Constable Chumley. And that's so much more efficient for them terms of time and resources. We hope to be able to maintain those funds in the next biennium. We'd like to have a few more beds if the need arises, but we think that's been a real benefit since you can hardly get somebody in the state hospital system for a civil commitment there, as you know, lots and lots of forensic commitments. Our psychiatric emergency treatment center that you all graciously provided some of the most of the funding for the construction through CDGD funds. We've served 114 individuals there from Montgomery County on the intellectual and developmental disability side. We have served over 400 youth and adults, 33 adults with that disorder and supported employment. The home and community-based waiting list is just growing, growing, growing, growing. We add 25 to 30. We have over 1,500 here in our three counties and there's over 60,000 people waiting in the state. I Also wanted to give you just a very brief overview about the Medicaid 1115 transformation waiver. We have been deemed to be an intergovernmental fund transfer agency and also a performing provider. So we submitted four proposed projects that we think will be beneficial for two of our counties are in one region and Liberty counties and another. But for Montgomery and Walker County, the four projects that we proposed is an enhanced crisis intervention and observation. We think this will be an opportunity for folks to be brought to this location and observed, evaluated, determined whether or not they need to go to an inpatient facility, whether they can be served in our emergency treatment center or whether they can be discharged home. And we hope that we can continue to have law enforcement bring more individuals who commit minor offenses, don't really need to be treated in jail to such a treatment facility so that we can avoid incarceration. We're also proposing to integrate primary care into behavioral health care on average folks in Texas with behavioral health disorder die 27 years younger than the average population. So a lot of their physical health needs are not taken care of. We also are one of the projects is to expand who we can serve Department of State Health Services allows us to serve people with schizophrenia by polar disorder major depression. There are lots of other diagnoses, folks that need treatment. And so we want to serve those diagnoses with one of our 1115 projects. And then one program that will be or services that will be for individuals who have developmental disabilities, but also have severe behavior problems. Sometimes those individuals they end up in jail, they end up at the emergency room. So this will be an opportunity to do some assertive treatment in the community to keep them out of higher levels of care. And of course you know that matching funds are critical. It's about you know 40% of the dollars have to be raised locally and fortunately we were able to cobble together enough funds to be able to match those but that will be an ongoing issue for the center and the board and our, uh, uh, have in our leadership. And then just to, to say a few things about the current legislative session, I think that, you know, one of our priorities is to get rates that support quality services. I think, personally, I think one of the problems in having providers in our community, treat individuals with mental illness and developmental disabilities, that's the Medicare rates are so very low that, you know, not going to find many doctors in private practice that will see someone for 20, 30, 40 dollars per visit. That's just not reasonable. So we're going to be advocating for a rate that will support quality treatment. I hope and one of the things I will be doing for at the center and the board is continuing to interface with the legislature after I retire is we need to have some thoughtful, deliberative conversations about mental health treatment. I know it's going on across the country, but there's been some very unfortunate tragic events that have highlighted the need to rethink how we are working with individuals with these disorders. The young man in Newtown, Connecticut, I don't know specifically what his diagnoses is, they haven't released that. But the other events that have happened in Colorado and other places just highlight that what we're doing with folks with serious mental illness is not always effective. So I hope that we can have some thoughtful conversations and often about that. And I hope we can count on your support when we're down there having those conversations. We also want to build on the crisis services that we've started in the last few years and we want to re-emphasize that it needs to be local governance, local treatment that folks need to be close to family and friends whenever possible. I'm going to try to get back the funding that was cut for intellectual developmental disabilities that was 26% less or this current biennium that was $600,000 for us and we had to close a program for adults with intellectual disabilities. And finally, we're going to be going to Austin and trying to advocate with all of our good delegation on February 26th and you'll be getting an invitation for us. So I hope you'll join us in supporting mental health and intellectual developmental disability services. And thank you for your support. And I know that the board and the center appreciate the work that you all do and support that you've given Try County through the years. And Mr. Walker came. He's our board chair. I think you all know him. How's your time, David? Yeah, I have discovered that since I became unemployed, my watch doesn't work as well. But are you enjoying retirement? Absolutely. Yes, I am. Right. I am counting on him to say yes. I would be for people that are saying yes. I would be. Enjoy your well-deserved retirement, Cindy. And it sounds like you're going to be busier in your retirement than you have been even. Well, she'll be busy with grandkids. That's my other part, a full time job over you with my grandkids. So do you all have any questions or would out of our board? Good report. We appreciate it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay thank you thank you. Okay nice commissioners from Montgomery County Historical Commission. Is it just a coincidence that you put me right behind the middle health? No it's not a coincidence that they have done things. No, no, it was a well thought out Larry. All right. County Judge and commissioners, thank you for giving me an opportunity on behalf of the Montgomery County Historical Commission. We're giving you an annual update on what we've done. You were kind enough to appoint me to serve as the chairman of the historical commission last May, I believe. And since that time, we've attempted to be busy to do things that will help encourage the history, the heritage, and even tourism here in Montgomery County. Does each of the commissioners have a copy of the annual report? If not, I can copy. I can pass out. You have a copy of the annual report if not I can copy I can pass out. You have a copy? If I may, I don't. I'm going to give you a copy of the report. This is going to briefly go over it and I'm also going to give you a copy of a proposed emblem for the new, a new emblem for the Montgomery County commissioners. Thank you very much. Thank you. Have you all got your new book on sale there? Now I'll talk about that in a moment. Okay. Well, I appreciate the time. Thank you. Thank you. County Jason commissioners, as you may, and for the benefit of the audience, the Montgomery County Historical Commission is created by Texas Statute. It reports both to you and to the Texas Historical Commission. And the first page of the report simply outlines a little bit of the history of the commission. Its missions in connection with promoting history and heritage within both our county and certainly within the state of Texas. Also as a recap on page two, and let me just go through this very briefly, since June of last year you have appointed eight new members of the county historical commission. Many of these represent historical organizations around the county or have particular expertise that makes them valuable to the commission's efforts to preserve and promote our county's rich history. We have by law we're required to meet at least four times per year. We did that this past year. We expect that we'll be meeting every other month unless there's a special meeting called beginning this January and then every other month thereafter for a total of six meetings. During this time, we also, with the approval of Commissioners Court, approved the bylaws for the Historical Commission, which follow the format proposed by the Texas Historical Commission. I'm very excited to announce that we're very close to having a new County Historical Commission website ready. And in a moment I'm going to introduce you to you, David Frame who will give you a little bit more brief about that. We're here to give you some information and also get your input and your blessing to what we're doing in that regard. This Commissioner's Court was kind enough to give us $30,000 in our budget for this fiscal year. The money for developing the website will be coming from that money along with other funds we're using. We report directly to Phyllis Martin and to the County Judges Office with regard to the expenditure of those funds. And on occasion we also report to the county judges office with regard to the expenditure of those funds. And on occasion we also report to the commission's court. As I said, I'm going to introduce David Framian a minute to talk more about the website. I also point out to you that I'm on the subject. One of our members has proposed a new emblem for the commission. It would show our own courthouse on there, which is now approaching 80 years of age. And again, if there's any comment about that, we'd welcome that. I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time talking about it. It hasn't even been approved by our commission yet, but I'm excited about having an emblem that would represent our historical commission. One of our members, Jay Ribnats, is an architect with the specialty in historical preservation of old buildings. And so he is working on an update of the historical resource survey, identifying old, all the historical buildings throughout Montgomery County. It's a major undertaking and the purpose of that is to identify these buildings for purposes of recognition, for purposes of state, historical significance, maybe historical markers, and certainly for preservation on some occasions. Another one of our members, Brenda Bevin, who is a seventh grade Texas History teacher in Montgomery has been working on the development of a new youth advisory board. There will be composed of two juniors or seniors from each high school public and private here in Montgomery County. That board will allow us to get some input from the young people about what would be of interest to them in promoting Montgomery County history and Texas history. And these people will also help us in recruiting volunteers for various historical preservation projects in the county. You have given, as I mentioned a moment ago, money that allows us annually to provide for funding for the preservation of historical buildings. We have worked up a new formula working with the county judges office and Silas Martin to provide a mechanism that will be complete accountability for every dollar that's spent in that regard. We also have two historical markers here on the courthouse square that have been approved that's been submitted to the Texas Historical Commission. One has to do with the history of the Montgomery County courthouses and there have been five total over the last 100 plus years. There's also another marker that's being worked on that will recognize the 1911 fire in downtown Conroe that destroyed virtually all the buildings, wooden buildings, in downtown Conroe. There's a pool cemetery marker that is on the north end, that Commissioner Metter and I attended, recognizing that new, his text historical marker just north of Montgomery, and there's plans to develop state historical markers for the once very prosperous town of Danville, just north of Willis, and another one for Astoria, a large farming or sawmill community, just east of here. We're also discussing the possibility of having a Montgomery County Historical Commission landmark for those buildings throughout the county or sites that would not otherwise immediately qualify for Texas Historical Marker. Part of the reason for that is we're only about 23 years away from celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Texas War of Independence. We believe there will be a lot of international guests as well as people from around the country coming to this state. And we're working on a way to develop this county along with several other counties in our area as the Texas cradle of the Republic. And so, efforts are being made to give tourists something to come to Montgomery County. This in turn should help also our tourism dollars for the various communities throughout the county. Another thing that we are working on or I've been working on for a little over a year and I think this gets back to Commissioner Metters' question is a chronological historical timeline of Montgomery County. Commissioner, I'm at about 120 pages long and about every time I think I'm about finished, somebody gives me some more archives of the county. We're working on a pictorial history book of Conroe, a walking tour of Conroe. There will be a Texas legacy fest that you'll hear more about in April that our commission, some of the members are engaged in and the commission also serves as a clearinghouse of information for various historical organizations around the county. Very briefly and I thank you for your time. I want to introduce David Framert this time who is chairman of our website committee. Just give you a very brief overview of where we're headed with the website for the Montgomery County Historical Commission. David Framert. Thank you Larry. Commissions for Judge? David. How you doing? Good to see you. Sir? David? I'm on behalf of my committee and the commissioners. We'd like to thank you for your support. The website is something that we're looking forward to starting next month. We just want to let you know what we're planning. Before you is a draft of our proposed home page. And I think one of the things that you can see right up front is the banner from Montgomery County. We plan to use that as part of our home web page. So that adds some consistency. The committee that made all those decisions is made up of myself and four others. Three of us have a great deal of experience with developing web pages. I don't have a great deal of experience with developing databases. So Jay and I are the data guys and we'll put the maps and all the underlying data together and the girls have been doing the design. So it's worked out really well and we're kind of proud of it. And like I said, this is just a draft but you can see that the page has a number of pull down menus on it which are typical areas of interest for historical commissions and commission websites. There's a lot of precedent for this. If you go through the web, there's some 70 counties with historical commission websites. And you can look through any of those and kind of pull and select what you think is a good way to do business. The latest one out there is the Texas Commission itself, brand new, beautifully done. And what we're planning will probably come very close to that one. So we're looking forward to it. I think there's three or four things in here that you really need to know what we're after. The first one is the picture of the courthouse, down in the bottom. That will be a slide show. However many pictures that we can collect for the county, we plan to put down there. So as you come up, the show will be going through and it will be flashing a new picture of something in the county as you're looking at the website. The other one which is very, very important is the calendar of events. There are a number of historical entities in this county beside the commission. We want to be a clearinghouse for all of them, a center stage for them to advertise what they're doing. There's at least six or eight. So the calendar is a way for them to do that. And we'll have to figure out how to let everybody have access to that. That's a technical issue, but we feel like we can work it. So we think the calendar will be a central feature of this that will be very important. The other part, the historical markers and the locations, there's probably a hundred right now for this county. And if you want to look at page three or four, I think it's four, we plan to use a Google map to do that with the pens. So when you click on a pen, it will give you the name of that historical location, the historical marker, the site, how to get the information about the site, and whatever we decide to put in that box that defines it. So there's a lot of information out there that will be a key part of what we do. Now the other part to all of this. We question, Dave. Yes sir. Actually, Jay's brought this up, but it's a good question. It seems like you're really creating two seals for this packet. You have the county seal that the county owns and uses in our logos, business cars, etc. Then you have a new seal with the courthouse on it. Do we have one seal too many? That seals for the commission. The seal is for the commission. That's a seal for just the commission. And it's not necessarily a seal. We prefer to call it a logo. But if you want it to be a seal, that's probably doable too. So however you like it, see it. They won't conflict. I mean it's for the historical combination. Commission. Yeah. That's all that is. Okay. Okay. So the next piece of this that's very important is the social media and you'll see a couple of boxes up there where you have Facebook for example. Now I got to admit I'm not a big Facebook fan, don't use it but a lot of people do. Anyway, all of the social media can be linked directly to our website. And when you're in Facebook and you want to go to a particular page in our website. You can do that. If you want to go look at the calendar for example you can go right to it. If you want to go look at the locations, historical locations you can go right to that page. So conversely on the web page we also have links to Facebook and the other social media that we'll have there. There's a blogging capability and there's also an application called Pinterest, which allows members in the community to post pictures and whatever else they would like to post on a bulletin board is what it really is. That's what it amounts to. So these are our ideas for now about how to put this together and how to build it. And we're certainly open to any input and any suggestions that the commissioners have about how you would like this to look but we plan to get started next month. So I put a lot of thought and work into it. Well, I'm in the great side. The committee members have been very helpful and have been great. So, you can't say that. Appreciate your work, David. Alrighty. Thank you guys. Thank you. Larry, I was just going to comment that it, thank you for what you've done. It seems like you've accomplished a lot with very little tax dollars. And then with the county historical markers, I'd like to recommend that JR Moore's tax office receive that first plaque. You know what I mean? We could slam one on JR, or switch your top to that one. We're talking about that. Yes, yes, that would even be more appropriate. One thing if I may, Commissioner, I'm still looking for at least one, maybe two representatives from South County. You know, for your benefit, you probably, I don't have had a chance to talk to you. Typically, 50 years is the measure of how long of when history begins. We're rapidly approaching that down in the woodlands. You've got the Tamina area, you've got the Grogon, Tachron, Somal area down there. So there's a lot of history that is evolving in South Montgomery County and I'd like to have at least one representative from that area that has a keen interest in history that you could help me locate for that. If you've ever spent any time talking to JR, you know he goes back a long way. So I recommend Mr. Moore. Well he's pretty busy. I'd love to have him long years. We've got BD Rift back there and BD who is one of your new members of the county attorney's office. His family goes back well over 100 years, right, BD? And he's got, I think, great, great grandfathers that served his county, Clarkson, so forth in Montgomery County. So he brings a lot of history to our county as well. I'll keep that in mind. All right, thank you. I forgot one thing. We went through quite a betting process looking for a provider and the providers proposal is the last page in that package Right, okay. Thank you Next commission's Mary Margaret Terry Milton resolution of appreciation Thank you good morning gentlemen Margaret Terry Milton has worked for the county for 24 years Terry Melton has worked for the county for 24 years. She developed the position that is the circulation coordinator position and she is going to retire on Thursday. And I would appreciate your consideration of the following resolution. Whereas Margaret, Terry Melton has addressed library and information needs from Montgomery County citizens for 24 years and whereas she has provided leadership to the Montgomery County Memorial Library System serving as circulation coordinators since February 1989 and overseeing expanding services including a 290 percent increase in the total number of items checked out through the library system in FY 2012 as compared with the total circulations in FY 1989. And whereas she has endured the challenges of change, including developing circulation, desk, and shelving configurations for the library facilities built during her tenure, as well as responding to advancing technology and multiple material formats. Remember when she began, we pretty well just had books and a few AV items, and now we have nearly 700,000 items in a wide variety of formats. She's maintained a positive customer service attitude and a joy-filled sense of humor. And whereas she has contributed her time in talent, representing the library system at the original automation consortium between North Harris, Montgomery College District, which is now the lone star college system, and MCMLS, and was instrumental in the review and revision of circulation policies and procedures when Harris County Public Library joined the consortium to farm harmonic. Whereas Terry has shared her special knowledge of library and community activities as a member of the systems administrative leadership team. And whereas she's given her time with numerous service activities over the years, including overseeing voting sites set up at Central Library. You know, somebody has to come in at 6 in the morning to let the voting judge, precinct judge Jan and be there at 7 and after to close up and she's been our go-to person. Whereas Margaret Terry Milton is retiring on January 31, 2013, therefore be it resolved that Montgomery County hereby recognizes and honors Margaret Terry Melton and appreciation of her many years of service with a library system and her dedication to the community. I'll move. Second. All in favor say aye. Motion passes. Thank you very much. Thank you very much and I would invite you to a modest reception. We're having in Terry's honor on Thursday afternoon from 2 to 4 30 at the Central Library in the large meeting room. I'd be happy to have you join us or if you need more details. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Commissioners under 8A County clerk, we need to prove the minutes for January 14th and January the 18th. Let's take A and B move. Move. All in favor say aye. Aye. All in favor say aye. All righty say hi. Alrighty infrastructure. Morning. Morning, Judge, commissioners. Morning. And the infrastructure A, considering improve the acceptance of a project completion report I'm going to do it. No one? Yes, commissioners? Morning. I'm the infrastructure A. Consider and improve the acceptance of a project completion report in the send of check in the amount of $4,340 for the 2012 score, city smart program. I'd like to say before you accept the check that Angie and Renee with Entity, that we're working together. We picked up 165,000 plus with all our Angie refund checks of which 73,000 comes from Entity. So in the kilowatts, Angie has worked on with those, the Angie companies have been over 1.7 million in savings in kilowatts on that. So anyways, just here to accept the check and this will be our second check this year. We had 8,000 in October. Good job. Good you. Your motion? I'm moving. Second. I'll have a paper see. Thank you. Thank you. Fire Marshall. Good morning. The Fire Marshall's office would like the court to consider accepting place into service to explosive detection canines. The canines are being donated to the Montgomery County Farm Marshal's Office by the U.S. Marine Corps. This donation is being done through programs created to enhance local law enforcement with surplus military equipment, allowing local responders to procure needed resources without the initial and sometimes birdings start up costs. At this time, the Montgomery County Farm Marsson's office agrees to support these canines and make them available in each agency requesting these assets without additional support and funds from the court. There you go. How old are the dogs? Both the canines are four and a half. They've each done one tour of duty in Afghanistan. What about after duty care for these animals? How would that be provided? Is there any costs to the county after the canines retire after the After hours after hours they stay with the handlers that they're gonna be assigned to the only cost would be Would follow what the program already have in place with the seller in detection canine In that cooperative program with ATF and that is the county provides the food and medical okay, so there's no There's no a dice vendors after and medical. Okay so there's no uh there's no a dosage tender or a spare hours pay okay let's go. Okay I'll move. On the favor say hi. Hi. Taxicester collector. Thank you. In the beginning God created the evidence here. I do not believe that this young man let me get on a regular agenda instead of a consent agenda. He'll learn. It might be the last is that what you're saying. Out of number 12, A, consider and approve the following change in redemption building. We need to purchase a laptop computer. And we're currently doing a lot with the personal property. That's what the redemption penalties are for. It's restricted use to help operations and collections of personal property. And so we're asking to move that money over to change out the line items and basically fund us to $700 out of the line item for regular supplies for capital supplies. I'm a favor, Si. The number two is to consider and approve a default, a partial default. Frog is a regional person on this and in the contract for abatement he was building 44 pods of four offices each and this is one of his tenants and we allowed them to sell that portion one time to the new tenant but not a second time in this particular case with our July, I mean our January reports we caught were that they had actually sold a second one So that automatically defaults them and allows us to recapture $814 Move second All the favor see out. Thank you. Thank you all favorite see I and the motion passes already agri live extension and the motion passes already AgriLife Extension. Good morning, members and forward. I come before you today to ask for your support in trying to purchase a sign. They help us out with advertising our program efforts and educational activities at the Extension Office. The current sign we've got out there was installed shortly after we moved into that building in 1993. It's one of those marquees that we place letters on we have to get on top of a 12-foot pruning ladder to get that done. So our changing out program activities is a little bit difficult. Our office is extremely busy on any at least two nights a week or three or four activities going on in our office complex. So we're not able to advertise many of the opportunities going on there for the public. So we have kind of moved forward in our December report when we kind of interpreted our program activities to you. We expressed an interest in trying to, over the next couple of years, get the funding together to help purchase this sign. For volunteers on urgency of that. So we've got a bid, they've actually come out and placed a sign up there to give us the idea about the visibility and the clarity of the sign is going to look extremely nice for the folks we've got a bid with are the ones that initially put up the sign with sign mark and they've come in with that bids will be able to use existing cabinet and then put that 16 millimeter double-sided sign up there again that allows us to go ahead and advertise many activities we've got going on Our volunteers have already come up with the $14,500 and we ask for the court's support in trying to supply that other funding. So we can move forward with getting this sign put in place to help us advertise and get information out to the public. Yeah, the CS and office does a great job. They, over the years, have put a lot back into this community every year year we get their report on what they've done and we don't we don't see y'all making a lot of requests for funds and I'd like to see this one of the signs that they come up with half the price. Absolutely and commissioners I think that there was almost kind of a challenge during the budget sessions last time that said that they found half money we would come up with half. Is that correct? Yes, sir. Well, you done your job. We thought it'd take a little longer to come up with it, but the volunteer assigned urgency there to follow through. Before the bid went up and some Ikti, you know, opportunities might prevent it. It's a little bit more of a challenge to get this project done. So they're wanting to see us move forward with it. Great. I appreciate you moving and working with the volunteers raised half the funds. They make things happen for us. I think it's great. I'll move. We approve. I'll have a favor. See. Is that from contingency? Yes. All right. All right. District clerk. Barbara. How are you? Good. I've come for you with two items this morning. All righty district clerk How are you? I've come for you with two items this morning. The first one is for our jurors pay The state sent out a letter to which no one here in this county received But it was sent out in August saying that they would raise their rate of pay for the jurors per day, $2. They've been paying $28 a day and they will now pay $30 a day. We pay them, we add $6 to it, they get $34 a day per juror, the second day on the second day. Otherwise when they just appear they get $10 a day. So my question to you is would you like to keep it there? I mean, just drop ours to four a day, so it stays at 34. Now, I think we should. Larger sign. Right, that. OK. Second question. They said it was effective October 1. So do we go backwards? Or do we just continue today? No, we continue today. You start today. Great with judge. Okay. Okay. Very good. So it starts today. I move. Second. It's a motion in a second. Any discussion? All in favor? Say aye. Okay, item B, considering I approve the agreement with eye docket. You allowed me to put my images on the internet a while back. We have those on there, but we have no way for the public to purchase copies of the images. So we have brought in a company called eye docket, I believe, County Clerk uses them to an order for them to put a shopping cart on there to purchase copies of files. So they do everything, they put it on there for free. They do all the work, carry over the images, and then we get 20% of the revenue. And that will only be, I believe, until we come in with our other system and our new system. And we get that in place. You know, it's just a simple little contract. I'll move. Don't you agree, Daniel? Yeah. And they told us we can cancel it any time. Okay. Motion is your second. Second. Second. All in favor, say aye. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Barbara. Thank you, Barbara. Thank you. Okay, Montgomery Mental Health Treatment Facility, Commissioner Metter. The Senate except performance indicator report for the month ended December 31, 2012, as required by the agreement between Montgomery County, Texas Department of State Health Services and recommended by the Montgomery County Health Treatment Facility Advisory Board. Move. Second. All my favor, sir? Be considered approved payment for joint commission for annual fee for accreditation, certificate certification, program participation as required by the agreement between county, Texas Department of State Health Services to move. How much is that? $100,000. Something that is... The annual pay and the revenue is included in the operating budget. Second. All in favor? Motion passes. Okay, Joe Crawley Detention Facility. Mr. Metter, you want to handle that? We'll consider an accept modification number P-002-0 to contract between Montgomery County, Immigration and Customs and Forthment ICE to increase federal funding for 300 additional detainees at Joe Card Tension Facility and asset fourth and work on file. That's a good thing. I move. Commissioner, is the 300 detainees already at the facility now? Are they coming soon? No, they're already there. I think it's good move as well. What this is is a commitment on the part of ice, Kribefemre, England, this is a commitment on the part of ice, the 300 permanent contains. Now this is a budget funding by I, stating that if we have the best available, they will bring 300 more than they usually have. So it's not a available at this point. Our facility doesn't allow any of the federal agencies to make explicit rise to the best. So, I guess what I'm saying is, if the beds are available, they will have 300 more people guaranteed in the... Not guaranteed, there's no guarantee. If they have funded, the federal government has funded enough that if they have 300 who need for the needs then the hard facility from this area. Okay. I think it's a great program. I don't know why we shouldn't accept that. There's a motion and was there a second? Yeah, second. Second by Commissioner Dore on the favor of the CAI. Hi. Motion passes. Item B, considering accept modification and contract between Montgomery County and immigration and customs enforcement to incorporate ICE 2011 performance based detention standard 2.11 sexual abuse and assault prevention and intervention is set forth in paperwork on file. Was this something just that ICE wanted us to? We're required under our contract with OCS to make sure that the county through its operator of compliance with of performance based nation of detention standards. This is a standard evidently that was added to the expected January 1 of 2012. And we kicked this information over to our operator back in September 2012 to make sure that they put the line list of those data sizes. They can't apply their form. We are going to go ahead and turn today I'm a paper see a motion passes. Auditor. With the office of the tax assessor on an audit of an old lot box account at this time that account has been closed and we're requesting that you accept our audit findings and transfer $721,741.91. We've requested into the general fund the county judge did call me and asked that the amended is to contingency. Move. Move. Second. Gerard, do you want to address the court and give us a little bit of information on this $721,000 and how it came about? All I wanted to say thank you. You know, I could get a long speech on this, but this was here long before any of us. This happened in 1982. And what happened is when I came into office, statute of limitation was three years for payment records. So you didn't have a payment record of who that money went to. And so it's set out there for a long time as potential refunds without documentation to support it. And so in 2009, legislation changed and took that authority away from y'all and put it on the tax assessor collector. So I got the county auditor to assist me once again with that. And we went through that and you see the records back to Linda Brazil when she was an interim auditor. And David Walker was a new county attorney telling us what procedures to follow. Well, I'm glad to know now that since that statute that went into effect January of 2010, we only had to hold them another three years, which is January of 2013. So I'm ready to get rid of it with the condition that if I needed to get it back, the auditor said said good luck. But I want to thank you and in particular for the cooperation with the staff and my staff. It gets a load off and it gives you the opportunity to utilize that phone for something that's more properly needed. There was a motion in the second to put this in intensity. All in favor say aye. I'm going to pack. Thank you. Motion passes. Participant. Good morning, Judge and commissioners. Good morning, Garlene. Good morning. I'd like to present the recommendation for approval. Item number three. Construction of interchange facility in electronic toll direct connectors. State Highway 242 for precinct 2 and 4 and CTP. To William Brothers Construction Company Inc. in the amount of $33,988,617.26. The second low with Weber LLC, $34, $653,118 and 4 cents. A move, second. And this, the funding will follow the next available court date. All in favor, say aye. Item number five, remodel of the building from Montgomery County, Magnolia Clinic, precinct II and CCD, award to Diamond Commercial Construction Inc. in the amount of $675,438. The second low was W.M. Jones, $762,639. And that's all CDBG. I'll move. Second. All the papers, C.I. Item B. Consider and approve the purchase of Hand Health Chemical ID kit from Fisher Scientific Company, LLC through the Interlocal Agreement with HEC in the amount of $81,200 funded out of the 2011 UASI grant emergency management. I'm seeing, considering to prove the proposal with LJA engineering ink with a preliminary engineering services related to the league line road extension in the amount not to exceed 181,000 precinct one. No second. And Scott Smith, I believe you said this is currently in the budget you are funded for this. Oh, I, no. This is, this is. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm jumped ahead. I'm thinking of the festivary contract. Sorry about that. OK. There's motion in second. All in favor say aye. Item D, considering to approve the following discretionary exemption, ask for local government code 262.024A4, best of read and associates LLC for consulting services to secure a US customs and border protection destination to include phase one through three, not to exceed amount of $54,000 and $50. The loan star executive airport. This gets us to a point where we can find out if the feds are going to do the customs agent or not and that correct. Scott Vesta's got quite a bit of history with this very thing. She's helped with two airports, received customs. Oh, there you are Vesta. Good morning. Anyway, we're lucky to have Vest on board. Scott does have the money in his budget, and I move. Second. All right, Vest. The Vest is agent would be huge. If Scott, as we, Scott and Vest is, we were talking in my office. I think that this is worth exploring, but it's also important to continue to seek private dollars for the construction and ongoing maintenance of this facility. So keep up the good work. Okay, there's a motion to second. All the favor, Sarah. Motion passed. Thank you. Alrighty, county attorney. passes. Thank you. Alrighty County Attorney. Item 19A we're asking the court to approve the termination of the contract between the county and the Texas General and office related to the round two Hurricane Ike housing program. This contract currently administered by the county is my understanding that the plan is a following termination of the contract between the county and the GLO the GLO will then enter into an agreement with HGAC to administer the contract within our within Montgomery County. Move, move, second. All in favor, say aye. Motion passes. Not a 19v resident court to approve the termination of a contract between the county and Bridgewood Farms. Bridgewood Farms has notified the county in writing that they wish to relinquish unused grant funds back to the county. So this termination is just acknowledging that and terminating the agreement related to that funding. Move. All in favor, see ya. and terminating the agreement related to that funding. Move. All in favor, see out. And an item 19-C, we're asking to, we're asking the court to approve the following transfer of funds and the amounts indicated on the agenda. This funding is necessary for our attorney in our office that's transitioning from part time to full time. And the funding, the portion of funding from contingency is necessary because the part time position is currently not funded for any benefits and when this person transitions to full time there needs to be some additional funding to cover the benefit costs for the remaining fiscal year. JD, you don't have the 4782, 25 anywhere else in your personal budget? No, this wasn't budgeted. A Julie Stewart, who's been on a fine job over on real property section. And we see usually full time in this apartment of the permanent chamber, but now she's ready. She wants to go back to this be a 432 hour week. And we certainly have to pay our part. Thank you, we've worked with you in some of the previous visits. That was the inspection of the room. Okay. Okay. Okay. It's your motion on this. Motion to second all in favor say aye. Push some passes. Alrighty. In precinct two we need to recess the court to convene a public hearing. Supposing a banding and vacating a portion of Bayer Lane right away. Is there anyone here to discuss that? Not good. Okay, the leds. Abandoned in the public hearing, Reconvening Commission's Court. I'll move on that second amendment. Okay. Okay under commissioners, please think for one. I need to vote on that. Please do. Do we have the motion in seconds? I will. Okay, I'll the favor see I I Considered a pruer request from my camera can't meet mud numbers 133 334 35 for use by the law firm of Allen been hump freeze Robinson LLP move I'll be there. I'll be there. Just before we recess court, I would just like to mark Moody. You hear stand up, sir. Just want to thank you and your entire staff for all the help you have given precinct three in the transition period. The amount of time and energy your guys have spent with us trying to make certain that we have a full understanding of the projects underway and what we're doing in South County in terms of engineering we just all want to thank you for all the hard work. Appreciate it. Okay, it's your need to commissioners to recess this court for this executive session. I don't know what the... I felt it would be. No, I had a meeting with our bond council as well as Fulbright-Dorski. We had a lot of questions that we went through. I'm sure I feel like at this time that I'm comfortable with where we are. Okay, let's cancel the equities session on this one. And I did a motion to cancel 22A. Move. Thank you. I'll favor say aye. Huh? Okay. Under Article 551.072, see. to the order of five five one. Excuse me, commissioners, we need to to abandon 22 really a B and C. Move. Second. All in favor say aye. Okay, under Article 551.072, this recess for executive session. Judge, it's under the, the session is 071. 071, yes. I'm sorry. Okay, let's bring the court back to order, please. We have one item from executive session. We need to pay one eight a Stanley. Certain comp time, sick time, vacation time, etc. In connection with her job with the county before she retired. What is that amount Craig? $6,56. I move on that. All in favor, see. Okay, with those the olden signs of the state today, Bill. Good morning, gentlemen. Good morning. Just a couple of things I wanted to clarification for the last time I was up here. We discussed about, though you have specific obligation for projects, they're not really allocated to a project, but then at the end, yes, the Ms. Martin, that if you will, use it for roads that if there's money left over, it has to be used for roads. Is there an obligation for it to be used for roads? Is there any obligation on this money for any specific use once you take out the certificate of obligation? If the county has issued road costs, you can go to the county's office. Okay. Okay. So the bond itself has to be issued for roads and then once it's issued for the roads then it's dedicated for any road use even though you might not have used all the money up for the particular project that was initially slated for. All right. It might be used on other projects. The only thing we could do is to buy more of a better approach from every buyer's project. Okay. All right. Thank you. And the second thing, again, it gets to wish the gentleman reconsider having stood this obligation for a defined emergency purposes as opposed to just opening the way it appears to me. And the funds, and let's talk about the funds that we just recovered $700,000. Is there a specific place that those monies go or just go into the general fund? Just goes to contingency. Those are the contingency funds. Yes, sir. Okay, thank you. Now on the Joe Coil Unit, a couple of questions. The 300 are 300 new neighbors. I'm wondering what's the make up of the entire population? Is it is it is it light risk? Is it heavy risk? I'm wondering why they're up here. Bill, let me explain to you with the citizens part of the agenda is about first. of the agenda is about first. This is for us to hear what you had to say. Yeah. This is not a, if you want to ask an answer, if you want to ask an occasional question, I don't have a problem. OK. But this is not a give and take. This is for us to listen to what you had to give, the information to give to this court. That's what this is for you for us to listen to what you had to give the information to give to this court that's what this is for. Okay all right well thank you then I just just question that I wish we had a is there some place that I can go to get information on what consists of the can just of the population etc. for the the great great and and and I'm sure that you've had a lot of fun. Good. OK, thank you. Bill, any questions that you have, I'm happy to address them at any time. So feel free to either email me or come by and visit. And if I don't know the answer, I'll work with the other commissioners and judges to get the answers to your questions. And I'm also happy to entertain some sort of a public forum where I'm available to answer questions that the general public may have. It also bill if you want to call me anytime with these questions I'd be glad to talk on telephone with you. The thing is we can't have this citizen session become a show and visit you go on and on and on and on and on. No, I understand. And but call me in time or the commissioner. Okay. And we'll be glad to talk to the telephone. All right. Whatever amount of time it takes. Well, I have minor questions. I, you know, I wasn't aware of that and I'm very happy to do that. Well, I'm in the phone book. My home number is in the phone book. I expect to do enough hours without me bothering you at home but that's not. Office numbers in the phone book. So I'll get hold of James and you and Anna off the regular office. Got it. Okay. Thank you. Thanks Bill. Do we hear any of the citizens who would like to address commission's court today? Thank you. Ms. Wise. Sarah Wise. Good to see you, Mrs. Wise. I was threatened that I had to get up here, but I'm real glad I'm here. I want to thank you, Judge Allen Sadler, for performing that wedding this morning. It was exciting for me. I want to thank Doris Goldman and Patty Werner who helped us through this thing. I also want to thank Gail Shore who was brought along to pay for your services. So I want to thank everybody for that. And I recognize a lot of the people in here from the tea party and I have had such an exciting time with them but I think since I had six minutes I'd get in where I could about the homeless okay I've had two homeless people moving my house the first one well they both had the same complaint. They told me I didn't make their coffee the way they liked it. Now, I'm so relieved that we had a report from Fry County. He told me what to do with these people because I don't want them in my house if they're going to do that. They complain. I'm not going to compliment my house if they're going to do that. But I'm playing. Now the second one who works for $400 an hour and no less told me when he saw the condition in my house, he would get Julie Turner who is head of the key party down inside to hire me for minimum wage. Now, my dude, I have a master's degree in psychology, so I'm going down the tri-counting to try and get a job down there after I've heard of all the facilities they have down here. And so that might solve a lot of problems for me. But the homeless, we need to do something judge there you know I I'm not letting anymore in my house and and they need some place to go we've got a lot of poor people in this county and I'm not putting up with them anymore for August 3. Absolutely. Okay well thank you so much. Thank you ma'am thank you for coming out. Well, thank you so much. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you for coming out You want to tell them the confidence that Joe done Devon microphone I'm reading the Central Region Vice President for the Geo Group. No most of you gentlemen ladies Part of the reason I'm down here today is what Commissioner Ryan Hart was alluding to is our Joe Corley facility. Every year, every facility in our company has an annual financial audit. To check compliance with Sarbanes Oxley and other things. I'm proud to say the Joe Corley facility is the first facility in our company to score 100% compliance on this audit. That's part of the reason I'm down here is to congratulate his business office folks. When you look at the, unfortunately, 100 units we have around the world. And then I don't know if any of you are familiar with Sarvaine's Oxley requirements to score an absolute 100% is amazing. It's great. Congratulations. Very good job, buddy. I could also answer that other question if you'd like real quick. Or do you want to wait till after? I'll see. Why don't you get with you? OK. I will. All right. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations, Joe. Congratulations, Joe. Okay, other any other citizens that would like to address commission's court today Here well, thank you. Thank you Are there any additional citizens that would like to address commission's court today? If they're not, oh wait, Walter's coming. Uh, Walter's in there. Walter's out of the building. Walter, by the way, I've got to go. Walter was a substitute for him this morning. That's amazing. Yeah, y'all should. I know you're just appointed for keeping the resources. Oh no. Give me resources. Don't you give me resources? Good morning. Please consider and approve the payroll change request forms. No, second. I'll have to see. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. Houston Galveston area council has requested that they give to this court a 2040 Regional Transportation Plan update. Good morning, Judge Commissioner. Actually calling it a workshop is a bit of an emphasis. I can see that what I want to do is bring you up the speed on where we are in terms of a developing connect long range transportation plan. Great. Thank you. And we are beginning of our process and I think that's why we created some of the materials and what the regional transportation plan is all about. As you know the Houston Yelves and Area Council does the long range transportation plan for our region. The long range transportation plan is exactly that. It's a 30, about a 30-year, 20-plus-year document for all of the major transportation facilities in our region. And one of the innovations that we're doing in this time around in our transportation plan, which is done about every four years, is that with the new legislation of map 21 moving ahead for progress in the 21st century is that we now are required to begin using performance measures in our transportation planning. So we have, so our subcommittee of the regional transportation plan got together to reformulate the goals and the visions that we have for our plan and based on that we are now going to be also developing performance measures. I'm here today to tell you that we're basically, in a, we're finishing the first phase of a three phase process on this plan. At the end of each phase, we come out to the public. I'm here to tell you today that we're meeting with members of your public as well. So that if they have any questions about it, you will have heard it from us first as it were. The second this first phase is just an initial assessment where are we what is the demographics what are our goals and vision what what do we see happening in the future we come out to the public to tell you today what what some of those base conditions are the next phase is looking at some corridor analysis. Where are in the region, where do we have the greatest needs? Where are our investments needed most? We'll be coming back to the public probably this time, again, next year with some of that analysis. And then finally, probably about a mid or late summer next year, we'll come back to you with a final time with the completed plan before we take it to the Transportation Policy Council for their approval. Okay, so quickly where are we today? Our region as of 2010 census we have about in our eight county region we have about six million people and we're on pace to continue adding about a hundred thousand people per year over the next 30 years to be over nine million people by the time we reach 2040. It's a lot of people, a lot of them are going to be coming to this area as well as other parts of the region. One interesting thing to note about the composition of the people that are coming is that we're seeing actually our age cohorts shifting slightly. Cohorts are the people who are born in the same years. So if you look at the, for example, the people born that are between zero and twenty years of age, they currently make up about 30% of our population as of 2010. By 2040, we're expecting those groups to shrink to about 25 percent. On the other end of the age spectrum, the groups that are 60 plus years in age, they are currently 14 percent and they're expected to become more like 22 percent of our regional population. These kinds of changes, of course, can have significant transportation impacts as well. How will an increasingly elderly population move around? These are the kinds of questions that we begin to ask. Same with ethnicities. We see a definite mix back in 2000 already since we saw that the white Anglo-Saxon or white ethnicity was no longer the main ethnicity in the region. It had dropped to the largest plurality. That trend is continuing as Hispanics population groups continue to increase in size and we are reversing our percentages that we see now with the with Hispanics by the time we reach 2040. In the presentation I hand you on where it shows the economic changes if you flip to that for just a second. That just shows a few different indicators of what's happening with our region. The chart I present to you all the indicators are 100% at 2009. We're seeing the top two bars is light vehicle fleet which includes cars and pickup trucks. That is about to grow to double in size by 2040. It's the same with the state real gross domestic product. That is what we're expecting that to grow about in size. Number of households is only going to be increasing by about 75%. And the state VMT in comparison, the vehicle miles traveled as a state, is only going to be increasing about 55%. That means that as a region we're actually beginning to more urbanized, trips are getting shorter. There are other implications. But the most important line on this chart is the bottom one and that is the motor fuels taxes collected in the state. And that's only going to be growing by 30% by the time we hit to 2040. And again, we have to ask ourselves how do we provide the transportation system for a population that is growing dramatically while revenues for its funding that system are not growing very quickly. Our system today entails about over 10,000 highway lane miles and about 20,000 arterial street lane miles, a lane mile again is each lane one mile So if you have a six lane highway that's six lane miles of Transit we have about 4,400 fixed route miles and about 204 H.O.V. lane miles Like raised, apparently we are about to 500 designated on street miles and 400 miles of off-street facilities. And on the next slide you'll see the largest capital priorities that we have in our current plan, the 2035 Regional Transportation Plan. The largest one in there as far as roadways is of course the State Highway 99 Grand Parkway where we're expecting to spend over $6.5 billion in the next 30 years. The US $290 corridor is another large project and as far as the transit goes, bus replacement is actually the one largest single entity for about almost $3 billion. So in the next 30 years we'll be spending on that. And then the different corridors that Metro is building out in downtown Houston, the different light rail lines that's also several billion dollars. Bike pet there are a number of facilities that the city of Houston is building for almost $30 million. Green's point is also expecting to build a lot of things, but obviously bike pet is much much smaller, or not a priority, but a much smaller pool of money to that than to roadways. I've included a priorities in this area, just a quick slide for your view. Again, that's only the priorities. It's not all the projects that we have. What we do have on our website from HCAC is a project viewer and you can see exactly every project that we have for this region and across the region on our website. Finally, I want to bring, I come now to the vision statement. The reason why I'm here, I want to quickly go over what our new vision is. And I forgot to mention the early on in my presentation that the reason why I'm here today is we're making these kinds of presentations to different groups because we're trying to do outreach in a new way and sub-having presentations to groups that we call in the evening time where very few people come. We're trying to meet with groups that are interested in transportation and then driving them to a website where they can give feedback on our different things that we're doing on the website. And that website is 2040 plan dot org. But to get us ready for these, for the, excuse me, the words get my mind now. For the new, apologize. For the new measures that we're, uh, performance measures that we're trying to, uh, implant, we are, we've developed a new vision statement and four goal areas with, uh, with a total of nine goals. And we're asking people to comment on these, uh, on the vision statement and on the goals and very briefly, the vision statement that the RTP subcommittee has come up with is in the year 2040 our region will have a safe multimodal transportation system that has coordinated investments that allow for a desirable quality of life, enhanced economic vitality and the high level of safety, access and mobility. And our goals, like I said, are divided into four categories where asking people to respond to those. And while they think of those goals, to see whether or not they hit the mark, if something is left out and also what might be a good measure for that goal. What website do they go to today? 2040plan.org. That'll take you to all of this material and more and where people can comment on that. The first goal is mobility that is kind of self-explanatory. We want to ensure that travel is safe and reliable for people and goods. Secondly, to maximize mobility and access to jobs, goods, services and global markets. Third, to provide meaningful and equitable transportation options. The second goal area is stewardship, how well we maintain our system. And so the first goal on that is keep our transportation system in the state of good repair. Secondly, to manage transportation systems, assets efficiently and effectively. The third goal area is prosperity. Our transportation system isn't just to move us around, but it's supposed to help us live better lives and create a more economic activity. So in these areas or in this goal area we've said support the region's economic development and competitiveness and to enhance the community health and quality of life by improving air quality and environmental conditions in conserving natural resources. And finally, the last goal area is implementation, and here we have delivered our investments quickly, cost effectively, and in a way that incorporates our life cycle costs. And finally, to encourage regional coordination, cooperation, and decision making. Those are the goals of the question. Yes. If you all dropped your opposition to what you call urban sprawl. It's not that we've dropped our opposition to it. It's we're trying to make sure that the way that we're stating things is for the entire region and to develop some goals that are adequate for central city Houston as they are for more urban or for more rural and suburban areas. Of course, that's what Montgomery County is. Well, certainly, but you also have urban areas here. You have the city of Conroe. You have very distinct urban issues that are here as well, sidewalks, pedestrian ways. And this is something that we're trying to make sure that our transportation plan is being more balanced as well as making sure that we're addressing all of the range of needs in the different parts of the region as they arise. On this 2040 plan.org, is there a list of the folks that were put this plan together, I mean, it may be a plan. And the RTP subcommittee. And that is, I can make sure that that list of the RTP subcommittee members is on the website. Okay. But that is basically sums up my presentation to you today. Just to go to 2040plan.org. If you know of other groups that would like to have today. Just to go to 2040plan.org if you know of other groups that would like to have a presentation similar to this. We'd be happy to send out staff. You have this. I have included my speaker's notes for your edification. This, again, this information and more can be found on that website. There is a survey as well, a very short survey, as one method to get people's feedback. There's also a place where people can leave much more extensive comments as well as to email staff directly. Finally, there's also going to be an open house meeting at HGAC on March 19th, where we will be discussing in a more formal setting this RTP and this mode of outreach. And you'll be coming back to give us updates along the way along the way most latest again this time next year great phase two very good thank you very much thank you okay commissioners anything else we'll return second all the papers yeah Second. Old paper seal. I'm going to buy you a brawl. Yeah, thank you, I said. I think that kind of defines us. I'm sure about that. Yeah.