Okay, let's call the court to order please. Let's stand for the opening prayer of the Pleasant Valetians. There any volunteers for the prayer this morning? Mary? All volunteers. All right. Kind and Heavenly Father, as we join our hearts and our hands with you, we come looking to you for the guidance and the direction that most most of all, Lord, we just ask for these gentlemen that you would just pour out the blood on them and give them the wisdom and knowledge. And the understanding that they need to guide this county, the most of all, Lord, we lived up our country to you. And we ask that you give our leadership in Washington, also, that wisdom and knowledge that they need. But Father, we just do protect our women that are overseas and anywhere of the world. I pray that you just bring them home safe and sound. But most of all, Lord, we thank You for who You are and what we are. And we just ask for this special Sunday that we remember what Easter is really all about Lord. That You wrote the victorious, far of sins in our lives. And we thank you for that. And we ask all this in your name. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, one under God, to the individual, The liberty and justice are all. Our mind under the text of Latin, how they believe in the truth, the text of Jesus. One, say, under God, one under the visible. We should know all the things you want to know. Yeah, we've got quite a contention here from Magnolia ISD with our leadership program. I think Charlie Riley is here. I see Dr. Todd Stevens. I don't know who's going to make the presentation, Charlie. But if you want to come up, let's know what's going on. We'd be glad to meet this fine group of folks you brought with you. Good looking group of people here. Morning, Judge, Commissioner. Morning, y'all this morning. Good morning. I can introduce, if I could, Dr. Todd Stevens, Superintendent from Magnoia ISD. He's got some special guest with us this morning for Magnolia ISD leadership leadership leadership. So if I'm gonna let Dr. Stevens introduce the folks he's got and They want to observe court today, right? We need y'all to be on y'all's best behavior Good good. I'm sorry. Rody That's asking a lot I'm pleased this morning that I have 20, actually I guess I have 19 juniors from Magnoia High School and Magnoia West High School here, and they're part of a student leadership group. And one of the things our school board has just been passionate about is that part of our process and public education is that we make sure that our students understand and appreciate the importance of our representative government. So this year, this is the first year we've actually done this in Magnolia I.C., we have a student leadership group and one of the things we're doing is we're sort of touring different representative bodies. Last month we had an opportunity to be in Austin and we visited, we were in the House of Representatives and the Senate. We visited with our representative Cecil Bell and had a chance to kind of attend one of the committee sessions there. And so this month we're looking at our representative bodies, the commissioners court here in Montgomery County. And we hope to have an opportunity to kind of, we're going to watch the court today and we'll also have an opportunity to visit with our elected officials, the sheriff. Later on, it's a great opportunity for our students to understand a little more of the importance of what goes on in our representative government. So we're awfully, let's let them stand up. I think they are. It's a great looking group. looking group. And I also have some of the best teachers, government teachers, history teachers that you can find in the state of Magnolia. Would you all please stand up to another group that they're with us? And I also have two directors from Dr. Bullock and Dr. Clark, would you all please stand up Mr. Mille in this program? We're proud and please which all allows to be here today. Thank you so much. Thank you for coming today. Yes, Mr. Stins. Welcome and congratulations on the job well done and it's good to see young people involved in our government every day. Appreciate that effort. Thank you. Thank you all. in our government every day. Appreciate that, every. Thank you. Thank you. All right, the underroad call, all members to the court are present. We need a motion on the agenda, please. Who? Like? All the favors say, uh, Healthy living month. Do we have anyone here to read that? I don't have the confirmation, but I do. I am here to... We can leave you a copy of it up here if you'd like to have it. Do you have a copy of it there? All right, great. I'm Amy Ressler. I'm county extension agent for family and consumer sciences working with Texas A&M AgroLife Extension Service and we are pleased to be a part of the Healthy Living Alliance. The resolution for Healthy Living Alliance Healthy Living Month. Whereas the Healthy Living Alliance is a local coalition whose mission is to empower the people of Montgomery County to seek the highest health potential by promoting healthy choices through education and nutrition, physical activity, and health literacy. And whereas the Healthy Living Alliance encourages all citizens to weave healthy choices into the fabric of the community. And whereas the Healthy Living Alliance promotes the cooperation and action in local businesses, schools, and faith-based communities and organizations to inspire healthy choices in every aspect of life. And, where as the Healthy Living Alliance leverages the talents and knowledge of the local healthcare professionals, business people, and concerned citizens to shape its strategies, including healthy living month and, whereas the Healthy Living Alliance brings together community leaders to develop sustainable, effective solutions, and whereas the Healthy Living Alliance serves each Montgomery counties, each ob Montgomery counties thriving communities, and whereas the Healthy Living Alliance has examined scientific research and determined promoting healthy eating, physical activity, and health literacy in the community are vital to improving the lives of its citizens. And whereas the Healthy Living Alliance has examined scientific research and determined that a healthy workforce is vital to economic growth. Now therefore be it resolved that in the interest of providing the means for Montgomery County residents to attain an optimal level of health and economic sustainability the Commissioner's Court of Montgomery County declares April as Montgomery County healthy living month. Great good job. Thank you. I'm a second. All in favor say out motion passes very much okay under candy clerk commission's windy to approve the minutes for Mars the 11 move second all in favor say all consenters, I have no changes. I move on consent. All in favor, say aye. I'm going to go to the other side. Okay, under county judge, consider approved the appointment of Betsy Powers to serve as member of the Montgomery County Historical Commission. 2013 and 14, I move. Second. All of the favor, see how? Infrastructure. On Judge, commissioners. Good morning. So discussing appropriate take action on established gain utilities line item account for utility bills received for the impound lot located at 23628 Roberts Road, New Guinea, Texas. This facility is used by multiple law entities. Energy charges were previously paid through the Gospel precinct for a forbidure account. Now that there's additional agencies using it He's requested that this line item be set up. It averages about anywhere from 176 to 220 dollars a month. Move. Second. All the favor, sir. Thank you. Mr. Novak, is this one you were talking about? Yes, it is. The first. I received a letter Saturday. JR was also copied in on the letter as is the Woodlands Township and Forrest Ridge Office condominiums from the CEO of Puente Holdings, LLC, also known as breast cancer charities of America. And they have some questions regarding the default notice and a requesting an appeal and in JR's absence. I think we should go ahead and defer this until we can seek his guidance. Okay, as your motion is deferred this. Move. Second. On the fair was yet. Okay, library. Good morning gentlemen. I bring before you the annual report of fiscal year activities for 2012. This is the basis for our presentation with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. We've never failed to meet their standards. However, you will note there is a slight decrease of about 39,000 in circulation this year. We believe that part of this is the impact of lower allocations for new Our electronic materials have taken off 273%, but we've had this slight decrease in print circulation. I would ask that you approve this for submission to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and ask that Judge Sideler sign the application for membership in the Texas Library system. Move. Second. All favor, see I? Okay. The second matter on the agenda is for acceptance of the grant from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. When I came before you in February, we were asking to apply for the grant. You asked for written agreement from the South American Reconnaissance Board from an entity to support maintenance of big grants if it were awarded with a thousand Montgomery County Friends have in fact provided that. Unfortunately it came about 20 minutes after our staff member brought the agenda item over here last Tuesday. We do have acceptance for the grant. There will be set aside up to $15,000. However, we've been investigating a number of vendors and the most efficient development with the greatest amount of experience would be somewhere between the minimum that we have in our grant threshold here in Montgomery County 2500 to about 50- 200 for that service. And then the South Montgomery County friends have agreed to pick up maintenance and made a commitment for three years. It's not that they're not unwilling to go further than that, but after that time, the company is indicated that there might be a price increase. And so the South friend said before we allocate in our budget for a price increase, we'd like to know what that would be. So they have allocated $2,400, which is the maintenance for the following three years. So this would be after four years of the grant. I ask you today to agree to accept the grant and let us proceed with the activities necessary for the development. Well, we already approved the grant based on you getting this letter. Yes, are you agreed to have us? You authorize this to apply for the grant. I believe the grants administrator asked that we get official authorization to accept it. J.L.L.I. want to thank you and thank the friends of the South Montgomery County Library Association for coming together and providing funding for this and this is a sort of activities I think that we need to participate in more often countywide is trying to find other entities to help us fund programs That we would like to see but we may not have the budget dollars for So thank you for following through with your word and answering the questions I had on the grant. I move Favorite set up most some passes. Thank you very much. Thank you. Second. On favor say up. That's for most of the passengers. Thank you very much. Thank you. Middle-health treatment facility. This is a matter of concern except performance indicator report. For the month ended February 28, 2013, it's required by a Greenwood Clean Montgomery County and Texas Department of State Health Services, recommended by the Treatment Society Advisory Board. I move. I'll have every set. I'll have every set. I'll have every set. Considering except minutes of February 19th, advisory board meeting has set forth and paperwork on file. Move. Thank you. Well, favor, sir. Concerned approval of revisions, the table of organization and the management plan is recommended by the treatment facility advisory board. And it's set forth. I move. Do it. On move on favor. See I consider a pring revision is to three policies in the management plan. It's recommended by the treatment of self-advigable and set forth on file. I move. Second. All the favor. See I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. I'm a nurse here. Thank you. Great to see you. Good morning, Dr. Wormy. You couldn't make it in this morning or a little bit busy. This is just requesting for our department to be able to build Grayson County for an ex-emation that we helped in last week. And Dr. WC also extracted some DNA from the decedent and just thought this would be a good opportunity to fill and make some money for the county. I move. Second. All in favor, say yes. I'm passing. Before you as a request to provide additional funding for $53,844 for changes to the animal shelter contract that was previously approved, I would the contingency part of the agenda. Okay. So item B is regarding contingency. And before you is a request to consider and approve changes to the contingency balance at two weeks ago whenever I came and discussed with you the balance that was $83,000. It has not gone up since then. It has actually gone down. We've needed to provide additional funding for indigent variables to the county judges budget and staff. And commissioners, the obvious place for us to increase the funding balance for contingency. One part would be the $720,000 that has been earmarked for a building for precinct three. And so what I'd like to do is I have just a quick presentation. I'd like to show you just regarding precinct three facilities and why the funding request is there and then how we may be able to change that and move forward. So, Judge commissioners, I've been working with infrastructure and building maintenance on a plan to best address the needs for precinct three when seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars became available I secured it knowing that we have building needs it must be addressed I did so to utilize cash not debt to meet the needs of the county I've talked with JP and constables three about the cramped inefficient space that they operate in today both of which need more room after looking into how to best utilize property and space we have in precinct 3, we are looking at the total renovation of my building and the construction of a new building on or next to the property where my office sits for a Constable 3 building. We are still in the early phases of the needs analysis and things could change. There is a possibility of a joint building for the Constable and Sheriff District 2. This would still give JP the space that they need, provide additional space for both the Council and the Sheriff, and limit the costs of construction as this building would be less expensive to build and maintain than the commissioners building would. By sharing property and possibly integrating the Sheriff and Constable, this would create efficiencies and cost savings for the taxpayers. However, before we move forward with that, and decide on how to move forward with contingency there, some needs that we must first meet immediately with the Pre-Sync 3 office. While the outside of the office looks great, the facade ends there. Once you enter the building, you have unfettered access to the office. The front desk personnel cannot see or hear those that are entering the building, you have unfettered access to the office. The front desk personnel cannot see or hear those that are entering the building. High voltage wires next to water sources created a dangerous situation that we certainly need to address rather quickly. We're just going to jump through some of these slides here. You'll want to draw your attention to the sink in front of you. This is the sink that the custodians used empty the mop water. This is also the only sink my employees have to wash their hands in. This is a bathroom for the pre-sync three employees. You may notice there's not only not a door to the bathroom. There's a very small swinging door for the stall. Over 20 men share this bathroom and it's certainly not ADA compliant as an industrial and it's in desperate need of total renovation. We have multiple places like this throughout the building where pests and rodents can easily enter the building. Just last week we had a phone call from Wayne Mac letting me know that this building has a worse rodent and infestation or pest infestation of any building in precinct in the entire county not just precinct three. A couple of slides before you just show us the shape of the building. Some other holes that are leading out to the exterior. The four design overall lack of space for the employees with numerous loose wires that are dangerous and hazardous. In some areas we've had the actual ceiling collapse causing the ceiling tiles to cave in and bow. The ceiling is deficient as it stands today. And when we do need to access the attic for storage or just access for certain reasons, you have to be extremely cautious as the four could cave in. We have rust and falling particles throughout the shop. It's very dark and dingy. We need to have this renovated as well. We have several buildings on the exterior that need to be addressed. Either don't close properly, that are rusted, and the entire outside of the building needs to be repainted immediately. The lot is in disrepair. There's no place for the shop guys to come in from the elements to heater the cold. The older part of the building needs to be gutted and rebuilt. The design is haphazard and the hodgepodge of buildings create the shop signal maintenance area, etc. Does not meet code. There are stairs that don't meet code and vary in grades between connecting buildings that make trip hazards and falls occur quite often. I need to begin to address these items immediately before someone is hurt and I'm asking for $200,000 to be designated for the rehabilitation and refurbishment of this building from contingency. This is the precinct three building. You tell them that the barn area or your actual, everything, where you're located. It's all in one. So it's everything from the new part of the building that was put on about six or seven years ago. That is all fine and adequate. We made that a work just fine. It's from there back, the old original portion of the building. And then we need to make changes within the shop and the lot and other areas as well. Do you want to spend $200,000 and address a new building? The new building, what we decided this summer, and do the budget hearings? Yes, what we decided to do was we're going to go ahead and leave the commissioners office here. I think it'd be better to build a smaller building for at least the possible, possibly the consumable in the sheriff located on this same property. Look at sharing a lot, increasing the size of our lot, and being at a shared lot with sheriff and consumables providing security for our office as well as theirs, and keeping the cost down overall. So I do want to make certain that we leave $200,000 in contingency year mark for the rehabilitation of this building and then that we address the other building needs during the budget process. Okay. Have you visited with maintenance on these repairs? Yes, we've talked with, well, I've been talking with building maintenance for 12 months. There are at least 200,000 dollars. We don't have full estimates yet. What we are trying to do is see just what we can do and when we can do it. And so, I just want to make it. We ought to move that money back to contingency and whatever Powell comes up with on some repair figures we can transfer to his department to make whatever necessary repairs you need to make until you do something in the summer. Well we're looking to take some of these on now and I'd argue that the needs of this building are no less important than any other needs that you're gonna address out of contingency and I'm asking for $200,000 to stay earmarked for rehabilitating this building. Okay. It's that in the form of a motion. Commission, let's go ahead and address the other items that we had a brief discussion on telephone. One thing we talked about is revising the Sheriff's motion and let the Sheriff use what he needed out of contingency out of your potentially swept funds to pay for your people to leave for your comp time, over time, sick time, or whatever. And sweep the balance. Well, Judge, you know, when y'all approve a budget for me at the beginning of the new budget year, and I'll, I need everything that y'all approve in that budget. And things come up just like this escape prisoner that we've had and we've had four days running of people working just about 24 hours a day on this thing. I don't know what that totally gonna be on overtime. And these things come up for us and we don't know what tomorrow is gonna hold. And I would think that you'll expect me to be a good manager of that budget. It's hard to manage a budget whenever you sweep a budget all year long. If it's the end of the year and there's money left over in there, that's the sweep the budget. But you know when you take it out, ever pay period, and all it's hard for my finance director to keep up with our budget. I don't think that's what we're talking about, Sheriff. I wouldn't be in favor of that. Topped Carol, I guess Friday afternoon, seems like, and a top two fill us. We certainly want you to have the money do what you got to do. I mean, I supported that motion. But if the money accumulates, it can be pretty contingency. Obviously, we're going to have an issue with funding contingency for the rest of the year. If it accumulates, it's to the set in there, we can put it in the case, so you use it. If you need it, if you need something comes up, but we're not talking about, I'm not talking about sweeping it every month, I don't know. That's what they do, that's what she does every month. We just, we just, we just, we just, we just, we just, we just, we just, we just, we just, we just, we just, we If it's going to stay like it was passed in court a month ago, that's good. I'm good. But I'm saying if it accumulates, it was a period of time. I wouldn't be opposed to sweeping some of it, putting it in control. And you said what I'm saying. And how much time will we talk about the measurement that you had? I don't know. Phyllis, have you got any ideas or Carol or you know Compared to this time last year we don't have the exit fund last year in March we had about 30 detention officers open I know we Now, we have seven. Yeah. Oh, I found seven. And so the non-excess fund that we had previously, now there is as far as, you look at the end turn line, but this is what's right in the essence that we have right now in about hours between jail and sheriff's office. We have about $207,000 in excess funds. But we're probably going to be about 300,000 short over time this year, because we're spending about 30 grand every pain period on over time due to so many deputies and dispatchers being maxed out. And now after these next times she's come in, I mean, we have deputies that were working 23 hour a day, and then going home and sleeping, and I'm afraid, if you take those excess hourly funds, we're gonna be back about May, and telling you we need overtime money. I guess my point is, this court has never denied the sheriff what he needs, whatever that is. I can give you many examples. You've needed you've needed bailiffs. We funded those bailiffs. You needed extra detention officers to meet the one to forty eight criteria. We funded those. I know Joe notice things. I mean we can't run the jail without being in compliance with the jail Commission and what I'm saying is with what you need we've always funded What Commissioner Metters talking about is when funds accumulate that are truly not needed And that's fine if she let me know when she's going to take that money out of my budget, you know, it's hard to deal with something whenever you say, where the money going, we find out where she's... But every 60 days be sufficient for us. See more often judge than we've done in the past. In the past, we've done a sweep when you've asked this too, which has been once maybe twice a year. And obviously, you're saying that you've swept money only twice a year out of my budget? I'm saying sheriff that I do not recall sweeping from your budget more often than twice a year. Well, what we're talking about is we're not talking about writing your budget. I mean, obviously we're not. I don't think anybody wants to do that. But if that money accumulates, fill us in Carroll and talk about it. If there's need for it, we'll leave it there. If it's not, well then it can be put to better use. But fill us need, you do need to contact Carroll if it comes up. Maybe what the work commissioner is, as Carol sees that they have excess funds, they could come to you like they did a couple of court dates ago when they brought the 214,000 heavily as well. Yeah, we don't know that. That's what we're talking about. That was a really great question. You feel like you're gonna need though the excess funds that you have right now for upcoming overtime pay. The excess salary is fine over time thing. We're going to need them to pay off to go through over time for the rest of the fiscal year because we have so many decadent deaths of 48 hours, 480 hours already, through Hawkson. We can't tell them it will take it off because it comes out of our overtime budget then. And see some things that we've tried to do for Mr. Heard, if we've got a deputy that's that's the crew he's maxed out on his comp time and he get promoted and he leaves. I can get promoted. We got to pay him at that higher salary. So we like that when we're promoted. I'd use that money to pay that overtime off now. You know what I'm just. Sheriff, I agree with that. And I'd like to see some sort of a policy come through court where we make that official. Any time you have a you have that situation occur their comp time is paid out and you know I also support the idea of using your excess funds that you have and pay down those unfunded liabilities just to remove them off the books of the county. I think we all agree with that. Good. I think the part-thing, if you're talking about him having plenty of money, if he got plenty of money, he needs to put some more debt to his niece's county. If it happens, cause... I beg your ass to answer. Because if it wasn't for what Rowdy does for him over there, these guys are busy. How many debuts you got over there? I don't know, about 30, 31? Same thing in North part of my precinct. I've come out of Willis, Mike's affair. You got no debuts he's up there. He needs some help. I agree. I take that seven hundred thousand and give it to the sheriff and then he'll harvest the day of the day. Is that fair? Need some help? Yes. I agree. I think all the way to the west. I think I said I'm under town and give it to the sheriff and then he'll hire some day of this. Put on a street. Well, in a perfect world if we had that money in excess, that would be great. The problem is, is it fill us these intensity money to address some of the things in this very budget. And I guess what I'm saying is, Sheriff, with every 60 days, every 90 days, be sufficient for Carolyn and fill us to get together. Every 90 days be great. Yeah, they just need to talk, see what they got, see what's coming up and whatever excels. All right. OK. Yes. So then my motion would be to move $520,000 that was earmarked for a precinct 3 building, 2 contingency, leaving $200,000 that was earmarked for precinct three building to contingency, leaving $200,000 with precinct three for the remodel of the commissioners office, and then to check with the sheriff every 90 days about the potential of sweeping his funds, excess salary funds to contingency as well. I think we're going to do what Mike says. I'm moving back to the early bird item. We talked about what was the third item Having maintenance look and Funding their needs to make these repairs Down there out of contingency in the polls, but if he needs it Okay. There's a motion to basically modify the motion we did two or three weeks ago with the sheriff for Carol and fill us together every 90 days to determine what could be swept from the sheriff's budget if any. And that would just be a practice that we can enact. And the second part of the motion is to move 500,000 back to contingency out of the 720 that we put in there about a month ago. Is there anything else? Is there any other discussion? Commissioner Zagisad, again, this is no less important for us to address the deficiencies in this building than any other items from contingency are there that we could come up with to utilize contingency dollars. And I think we've got to think of the health safety and welfare of the employees who are working to precinct three office. This is the right thing to do. Okay, all in favor see I I All opposed I Okay, what part of this motion to you all opposed I propose another motion judge all right We move the 725 back in the contingency Get with Paul maintenance see what they can do to rectify some of these problems that Commissioner Noeck has down there. Obviously there are some. If Paul doesn't have the money as a budget to make these repairs, then that can be funded out of contingency. And the part of the motion that Philis and carol visit access funds that are available placed in contingency at that time and that's my motion. Second. That's very close to the first motion. Real close. This motion is second. All in favor see I. Aye. I. I. Long as the building is going to be addressed. That's the main thing. Okay. Now let's go back to your item. Kill. Fill us. You're a your 16 a. Uncare corporation. I'm looking for funding source source for $53,844. What's this for? This is for the animal shelter. There was a change order that came back to court dates ago. That change order did include an increase to the cost associated with running the shelter. At the time, it did appear that we could fund that into the 2014 budget, but we can fund part of that in the 2014 budget. This part will need to be paid in the 13 budget. And this is due to more animals coming in shelters than what we are doing. This is primarily due to increased animals at the shelter, yes sir. The funding source continues. Any other discussion on this matter? Judge, thank you. I'm on the board for the animal shelter. And while I know that there's this proposal to put the money in forward, we've got a real problem with figuring out the proper numbers, the accurate numbers on intake and the way things are calculated. I'm not sure that this is the best thing for us to do right now until we get a better handle on how things are looked at within the shelter. This is a very specific number, I think, in 2008-44. Yes, because we've said that there's been such an increase in the number of animals, but we've seen the way that the numbers are reported to us on the board and the fluctuation. I can't tell you that those are proper numbers that are coming forward to you. Mark. We can't I can't tell you that those are proper numbers that are coming forward to you Yeah, it's both to Tim and Amy They intend to get with you all and talk about it Based on the chameleon. It's a software that says come in and looked at it They believe the current numbers are pretty accurate. They're going to do an audit chameleon will to software And what I spoke with Tim about I'm actually was going to go this also, that their new contract will be for a two-year contract. So we won't see an increase for two years at that point. I think it's a good number at this time, but we have not approved that contract. We deferred the contract last commission's court. So Tim could come and visit with you all about some of the concerns with people speaking on it. I am also on the board. But I think it's a good number and I think a two year deal will benefit both parties in the long run. Communion stands back in the comment now by Communion is there were 25,000 animals there. There was some discrepancy in how we were counting, but the numbers came out pretty close regardless. It was the first year of the contract. People want an audit. You have to wait to go through the contract to determine your audit. It's a new phase for us. You know, we finally have had somebody there full time. It's a tough thing when you work with animal shelter and animal control. But as a board member and director of infrastructure with a shelter underneath me, I think approving the funds is a good thing. I think Tim will visit you and I think they will come back with the contract for two years if you approve that. There's a motion in the seconds. And Mark, on the contract requires there to be an outside audit. Correct. We're working on it as we speak. And so the only thing I'd like to add is if you see something in that audit that makes you think that these numbers are not correct, that you come back to court, bring that to our attention and we adjust the contract at that point. Absolutely. One thing I have to remember, this is not a veterinary clinic. It's a shelter. You're hurting animals through there. It's a tough thing and get a lot of volunteers. Sure, there's some paperwork that runs and guns there. But I spoke with Phyllis this morning and she feels that she needs to do a financial audit. She has the right. It doesn't have to be in the contract staturely you have the right to do that. So we spoken that issue really trying to work it out judge you gave me till January to work things out between the board and the shelter and we did it in October. I mean actually sat down at the table together and worked it out so I just say let's just try to see where it goes or steal some concerns with some people outside that have spoke to you from issuing commissioner but Tim's going to speak with you. Camillians in there looking at the software, so that's where I stand on that. Okay, there's a motion by Commissioner Meathers, the second by Commissioner Dool. All in favor, say aye. Okay, see. Next on the agenda is a request for you to consider and take appropriate action to approve the budget policy Guidelines calendar and forms for the 2014 budget process this calendar does include the changes that were approved last court date of moving the Some of the dates to comply with the the statutes and proposed new legislation Commissioner's quickly before we Have the final vote on this, there are some things that I would like to bring up that I think that we should consider as we go through the 2014 budget process. I believe first of all that we can all agree that Montgomery County serves a diverse population with different needs that continues to grow. We're highly unincorporated meaning that more responsibilities and duties and costs fall upon our shoulders. We have to address road maintenance, building the new roads as well as courtroom security, and maintaining remodeling in some cases, building new facilities, all while balancing debt, spending, and our tax rate. We have been asked to approve a budget policy for 2014. Before we do that, I believe we as a court should set goals for the 2014 budget year. This will give department heads and other elected officials clear direction as they prepare their budget. I believe that what the auditor has before us is a good start, but that we as a court could further refine. In the policy before us today, we challenge department heads to examine all programs, survivability and effectiveness, but we do not give direction on how this should be measured. This should be consistent across the county. We state that budget requests will be submitted, evaluated and adopted at the line item level, but where do we require that the line item amount be justified? These are just some of the questions that we as a court need to answer. Historically, our budget has grown year over year, outpacing both the population growth and inflation. At the same time, our debt has risen dramatically. In the past, our spending was simply limited by our ability to collect tax dollars. This chart shows you that our spending simply follows the appraised values of our property. As appraisals have increased, so has spending in lockstep. Our spending has increased 120% has spending in lock step. Our spending is increased 120% over the last 10 years. Some argue that the population growth and inflation of the root cause. Some others suggest that the combination of the 2B uses of growth to limit is a budget measure to limit growth. But with the population growing at 40% and inflation totaling 26.4% during that same 10-year period, the argument that population and inflation are the root cause falls flat. This is the same chart as the previous one that illustrates to you this chart has been adjusted for inflation and as you can see, inflation is not driving to spending alone. We're spending 26% more per capita above the rate of inflation. So this demonstrates that our spending is certainly outpacing the combination of both population and the growth. At the same time, our spending is in, at the same time, our spending increase so has the accumulation of debt and required debt service. We know we have to address many issues during the next of debt and required debt service. We know we have to address many issues during the next budget process and this is not an indictment on how things have been done in the past. Rather, I think that we need, as we approach this budget process, we need to do so open mindedly. Some of the things that we need to consider addressing are number one, our employee's raise was eliminated with the restoration of the payroll tax. Courtroom security is an issue that we're gonna have to face. Overcrouted and maintenance issues in precinct three and elsewhere throughout the county. And we're gonna have to address how we're gonna maintain and build new roads. How can this be done? If we eliminate just 3% of the budget that represents nearly 8 million dollars. 5% equates to 13 million dollars. With a 264 million dollar budget, I know it can be done. We just have to show the will and the fortitude and the leadership to make that happen. In doing so, this will provide needed funding for short term projects and assist with debt service for long term projects that will require the issuance of new debt. How do we free up these budget dollars for projects? We can have a hiring freeze. Headcount has increased faster than the population has. 48% to 40%. Department hedge would have to come before us to justify the replacement of any new employees or employees that have left. We could close all the unfilled positions. This would be a simple solution. Greater use of technology. Move forward more quickly with the integrated financial system that would save time and money. Should we be utilizing cloud technology? We should integrate more of our county systems. Look at adaptive signal technology and lots of other opportunities where technology can yield better results. Arrigned by line justification of the budget uses to eliminate waste. Budgets don't have to grow perpetually. There are economies of scale that we can recognize. Should we adopt zero-based budgeting? Start over from scratch and justify all spending from the ground up. At some point we need to do this. It's healthy for all organizations to go through that process. Would a budget office help or a separate budget office? Would there be any added value that would occur from that? We could recognize efficiencies by possibly moving from the precinct road system to the unit road system. Improve communications between all departments and elected officials to identify promote efficiencies across all departments. Eliminate silos that some of the departments work in today. Are there services that we could be outsourcing that the county provides today? All of these options need to be explored. Next steps. First, I think we should defer the adoption of the budget policy as it's written today. I think is a court that we should identify priorities for the 2014 budget year. We should agree on these goals and we should write a policy to reflect the priorities and goals with more clarity. This would then be shared with elected officials and department heads. And also, I'd like to hold a pre-budget workshop seeking public input. It's a taxpayer's dollars. Let's ask them how they'd like to see it spent. Commissioners, haven't an ideological discussion on the issues is good for the county. It's good for the taxpayers. I think we should work together to improve the process. Thank you. I don't know what you're talking about all this stuff, but you've got a lot to learn when you get out there You know, I would you can't go to a unit system in other county was biggest hours Well, I think that was just For a bit emotion at all to mr. But you get out there right now And you're equipment breaks down. What are you gonna do to do? I had a unit go out Friday, $18,000. What are you going to do about that? When fuel costs... That couldn't be a draft. I mean, you couldn't address that. I addressed it. It had a unit in back on the street. I don't think that a unit system would preclude us repairing equipment. And that may not be the best way to move forward. That may not be the best way to move forward. Not everything that is mentioned is something that we need to move forward with today. But I think to turn to blind eye to it and pretend that what we've done in the past is good enough, just isn't true. And I can remind each and every one of you that we just went through an election process and Every one of you saved the judge Supported an opponent of mine that he stood for the status quo and you may remember that that opponent was defeated two to one by the Taxpayers and the voters of Montgomery County. I think it's time that we pay attention to what the taxpayers want to see happen You know one thing James think it's time that we pay attention to what the taxpayers want to see happen. You know, one thing, James, I agree with a lot of what you had to say here. You pulled the last screen back up. Justin? Oh, the historical tax rate slide or the next steps. The next steps. Thank you, Judge. And again, this wasn't meant to be an indictment on how we've done things in the past. It's just can we do things differently going forward? Is there a better way to operate? These are questions that the best organizations in America challenge themselves with every day to become better. And I don't think that as accounting, we should operate any differently. You know, one thing I think we ought to do is identify priorities for 2014 budget. I think we need to agree on goals prior to the budget. And one thing, commissioners, you all want a road bond issue. I want a road bond issue. If you really think about it, if we could cut this budget by this amount, this gives us the debt service for that bond issue. And there's a possibility we wouldn't do that. And we've always done that. I mean And we've always done that. I mean, we've always balanced the budget. But I mean, we won't know what we got to get into it. And a lot of these things we do anyway. I mean, we obviously are pretty much a bare bones budget. We really have done a lot of huge increases in the past, but since girls went from double digit down to 3%. But a lot of these things we obviously do. Commissioner, my point is that if we're going to ask our department has another elected official to prepare a budget and have that turned to, I think, on the 19th of April, that it's going to be much easier for them to do so if they know what our goals are before they sit down and create their budget. I don't want to share if to sit down and create a budget where he's asking for you know a 10 percent more than he has today when we're looking to reduce the budget by 5 percent, 10 percent, 3%, whatever that number may be. It's just a much cleaner way to move through the budgeting process. Our department heads and elected officials need to know what our goals are before they write a budget. There's a lot of proactive thinking here on these next steps. And I really think we have to look at some of these items. For example, a pre-budget workshop. We get a important to committee. Anybody on this court that wants to be on that committee? Mar-A-Bosma and have a pre-budget workshop. I think is one item that could help reduce this budget to create the money for the debt service for a bond issue. And if we don't have a bond issue soon, our roads are going to be out of control. We still have debt last time. Last time, commissioners, we had a tax increase associated with that budget. We had no matching funds. It was a pure rooftop increase in spenders. That's why it failed. I think if we're able to go to the taxpayers and show them that we've taken the proactive steps of cleaning up our budget and we saved 3% or 5% I mean, it's a much more compelling story to let to talk with the taxpayers about the fact that we have saved 5% on the budget 13 million dollars and we could direct a debt service That's over a hundred million dollars in borrowing capacity your bonding capacity maybe more Who we what are you gonna do by the employers raises, you know? Well, I gave my a raise this year, 3% and now the government took out all out of way from them plus more. And I addressed that in my presentation. I said that's something that we need to consider looking at. If we were to save 5% off the budget today, again, that'd be $13 million. We could use a portion of that to put our employees back where they belong going forward that 5% would just continue and we would be able to put that money into debt service we wouldn't pass a road bond and issue hundred million dollars and debt immediately I mean so as I mentioned by cleaning the budget up agreeing to what let's have a goal as to what we should be shooting for then we can allocate those monies for other opportunities that we need to find. So this is what it's got to do with your Adam C. Commissioner, this would change my seat because I believe the recommendation from Commissioner Noek is to defer the adoption of the policy. Right now we're trying to figure out if you did defer that. Certainly the departments wouldn't be able to get the information back to us by April 19th because they wouldn't even have the request for the information yet. I'm not sure without all of the information in front of me that we can still accommodate complying with all of the statutes as far as timeliness and public notifications for tax rate changes, and the requirements to file proposed budgets online and with the county clerk. And so I don't have a clear answer for you on that on if you would defer this if we could even still meet all of our deadlines. We're ready to defer this one. I don't know if we need to defer it. I think some of these things we could obviously put it to effect prior to the budget meeting. But, you know, if we have a if we have a time problem with creating a budget by deferredness, I don't think we're probably to do it. But and that's what I'm hearing from you. We could probably work some of what Commissioner Noak's requesting in through the budget process things like if y'all wanted to have some goals to give to the departments, y'all could still articulate that to those departments that that would certainly need to happen before they turn in their submissions on April 19th, which is just a couple of weeks away. Absolutely. I think the main thing in here is for the court to have a conversation and for all of us to be thinking about where do we go from here? What are the goals for 2014? What are the priorities that we're trying to address? Once we identified the priorities and we know the funding that what it's going to cost to implement those priorities, we can start to figure out how we're going to fund them and I'm telling it with a $264 million budget there's waste in there. We all we have to do is identify and eliminate it. It's there. Some of you sitting on this court have talked to me about the fact that there's waste in a budget and that we need to identify it and remove it. Let's challenge ourselves to do that. Let's do it for the taxpayer. Let's do it for our employees. Your action would just set the timeline for what we're needing to do to meet our goals for our requirements for passing this budget. Yes, sir. We've got included in this packet the timeline and the forms that we have traditionally used. And we do tweak this process every year. Last year, we included things like for infrastructure improvements. We consolidated all of those and now they go to the director of infrastructure to eliminate some of the double up request. You might recall that that came up last year that we changed that process a little bit. We now have all technology requests. We consolidate all of those and we send them to IT because what we don't want is a department, departments, they may be one of your departments, or my department asking for new computers, and I, T, was asking to replace or update those anyway. So we have tweaked this process some over the years. It's not like it's been completely state-lin stagnant. However, the farms would not change at all anyway. I think a budget committee would help because it's hard to sit here and in one week listen to every department in a 15 minute time slot and understand what the truth is are. I agree. I agree. Most important. But we've always had budget workshops. You could consider a change and I don't know that you could fit it in this year unfortunately because of timing issues. But some other counties have their budget workshops over the course of many months. They'll have some departments come say after commissioning support today, and in two more weeks, some departments could come. That way they would be able to have more in-depth discussions. Now it would of course take more of your time in some, but it would be scattered over the course of several months instead of all in one week. Who would want to volunteer to be on a pre-budget workshop and take the time to do that? I would do it. Would you? Okay. Can I tell you something? Yes. I was asked to look at some of the... One of the things I looked at is the... I highly recommend against this is a zero-based budget. Because every year you'd stout out at zero. And everybody would be concerned about what are they going to give me? And the idea of a line item budget to me is what you kind of do anyways is basically, people get their basics, but you give them the opportunity to look at what their needs and their creativity are. When you do zero based budget, you take that right out of the loop. And like I said, I was asked to look at it, and I looked at it, and I pretty well it and I pretty well exit off pretty hard. You know, so it's just one of those things, just to keep in mind, I think the way you do your budget, line that in, you all done a great job with that, but you allow the creativity by the departments to come up with the extras they need. And like Commissioner Meadows said, we run it pretty bare-bone based on those needs and what you're saying is, would take a group of guys like you to sit down with a lot of department heads and other people say okay what can we do? Where can we do it at? And you know to deliver what the needs are that what the commissioners are talking about that you all have already done. So it's food for thought. I think your budget the way it's set up, how you've looked at us all and you've hammered us pretty hard in the years. There's no doubt about that. I've seen you all come back and hit us on 5% because we had needs and we all reached in and we were able to get it. One year, Commissioner Meader, I helped another department. So you remember that? That we had to help somebody with. So I think we can do a lot of things, but I agree with the fact about that every employee, and if I'm speaking online, I apologize, but every employee lost their raise. But it was a good thing that they got an increase last year because they didn't step back two years. They only stepped back that one year. So anyways, food for thought on that. That's zero-based budget. You know, my research on that is you don't want to go there at all. Well, there are some benefits of a zero-based budget. As you and I discussed market, I think it would be a challenge to implement that county-wide year over year just because of the...there are some programs. I mean, the sheriff has to fund his jail. He's got to fund his deputies. I mean, he knows what his bare minimums are. But I think for other departments and to have a time period in which we look at bringing everything back to zero and make every dollar be justified, I think that'd be a worthy exercise. And we'd probably find that there's some things that we're spending money on and we probably don't have to. That's in the typical reaction when you talk to zero based budget is just what you said there's a lot of oh we don't want to go there but once you go through that exercise you do find it a healthy for the organization you're able to purge you're able to purge spending that's unnecessary but you can do some of that by tighter controls on the line item budget as well or a variation of such and yeah because we're running out of time this year I mean we're Because we're running out of time this year. I mean, we're There's not much time between now and the budget hearings Is the stop get measure? Let me make a motion commissioners and see if you all would agree with this We have we seek a goal of a 3% cut in this year's budget. We had created pre-budget workshop committee of Commissioner Doyle, Commissioner Noak and Mara Basma. I think you involved Phyllis in that as well. Phyllis whoever you want to have there. If you could probably get a decision, Judge. Yeah. And we have had those four people be involved in a pretty much the workshop with a goal of a 3% cut. We give us a start of debt service for a bond issue. And that's my goal. I hate to say another failed bond issue. Commissioner Noan, did you get a chance to read the articles that I sent you about zero-based budget? Yes, that's what Mark and I were talking about. I went over to go with that. And do you all both recall the actual advice that trying to approach a budget with just a flat across the board reduction is really not the best way to approach your budget process? I think the, I disagree with that in theory, it doesn't have to be necessarily 3% across the board, but I think that if department heads know ahead of time that we are looking to reduce the budget, they will be more proactive in trying to identify opportunities in which they can cut their own cost. And I want to challenge and work with the department heads to make this a reality. I don't think there's anybody here that would feel bad when a headline reads that Montgomery County reduces budget for the first time in however many years it's been. I think that's something that's good for every one of us in his department heads. We're looking for your leadership and helping to make that happen. I've found that when we had buy-in from the leaders of various departments, we can make something like this a reality. And I think it'll stand firm with our taxpayers when they know that they see the fighting going on in DC and often today looking for ways to reduce the budget if we're proactive about the approach and come together and work together to make it happen, I think it's a win-win for everybody. And I know that my dealings, even though they're limited with the leaders that we haven't elected and department heads, I think they're willing to step up to the challenge and make this happen. And did you recommendation that the 3% be 3% total or 3% only a operating cost? A lot of departments can't cut. There's any small department. Small. It's going to come from about three or four different places. It's 3% total. I'm engaged. Not. No bridge. There's your money. I mean, you can't take out mild apartments and cut anything there already now The department's like veteran services unless you cut You don't weigh you're gonna do that That's why I ask if you mean operating only your total because it was I'm talking about total Yeah, because it we can't come from a lot of departments so they had good people and I think of you know one way as I mentioned would be to close all unfilled, all funded, but unfilled positions. That would free up budget dollars right there. We did that a year or two ago. But we still have plenty of them now. We could look at a hiring freeze. You know, anybody who's spent any time working with a population or employee base besides the V,000, 2,500 plus employees, there's no way you can tell me that, you know, there's not some slack that we could pick up cumulatively by not replacing people as they leave. Have the department had just to buy the need for that person in court and will make a decision independently. Yes, Mark? I think we need to look at realistic cuts, but again be realistic. The sheriff's department like the sheriff's department'll tell him about cuts in a major, a large department like that. He's not funded enough to do the job he needs to do now. By any stretch of the imagination. I'm not gonna weigh in on the sheriff's funding. I want to make certain that the sheriff's department is adequately funded and they can, they are able to do the job that we have, but I'm telling you, my experience shows that every department, there's something that we can save. I mean, I think we're looking at it a little close-minded saying, I mean, I know the sheriff does a great job, his deputies do a great job every day, but there's something somewhere that could be cut if we were to identify, you know, you just have to take a good hard look at it. I'm not looking to... Well, the author made the statement about cutting people with a terminal. I don't want people to be able to... We did that a couple of years ago and it was to me. Anyway, let's try it out. Mark, what I'm talking about is a budget committee, a pre-budget committee of these four people I've mentioned because nothing off the table. That's fine but I'm going to say right up front some departments may have some some fat where some people can go. Some may need more. I will. I need more. Phil, it's with your department to be part of that look that you work for district judges and my question is with your department to be part of that look? But you work for district judges, and my question is, will your department be part of that look on the committee? She said yes. I mean, how do the auditors... Her department is not funded by commission. I was approved by commission's court, but not funded. It's funded by district judges. If you go see on the committee, will you always be looked at like everybody else's? It's actually the other way around. And last time we our department was included in that reduction. So it will be the same. Okay, that's good. That's fine. I just want to make sure. Anyway, as a start of Commissioner NewX, I think we have a goal or three percent cut. I mean, I make the three percent cut, but a goal or three percent cut in the pre-budget committee I just talked about. I think we can make some great progress by these people meeting with certain departments prior to the budget. And that's my motion. Second. Along with approving item C. All the forms say the same. And we could always supplement changes to the policy and reissue it correct. The budget policy itself, it could change based on the court. We could amend our budget policy if there. Okay, that's in our second motion. Any other discussion? All in favor see aye. May I pose? Motion passes. Sure. Thank you. Are you ready? Okay. How ready? Members of the court before you is the comprehensive annual financial report for the county for the year that ended September 30, 2012. This report was prepared for the county's approval. Thank you. Are you ready? Okay. How ready? Members of the court before you is the comprehensive annual financial report for the county for the year that ended September 30, 2012. This report was prepared in compliance with the provisions of the governmental accounting standards board, which requires that state and local governments prepare financial statements on a full accrual or government-wide basis. This is an attempt to be able to compare governments to for profit businesses. This report also includes the value of capital assets and the depreciation of those assets for the county, for the fiscal year into 2012, those totaled $664,368,000 in some change. This report also includes outstanding long-term debt with amortization of its discounts and premiums. Details about the county's debt can be found in Note 9, which begins on page 59 of the financial report. This report includes the management, discussion, and analysis, and the narrative form, which discusses the financial statements in more words instead of charts. This is where your most readers will go first, and that begins on page 11. The actual balance sheets and statements begin on page 30. But first I would like to talk a little bit about the government-wide presentation, which is the attempt to compare County government to a for-profit business. Those are on pages 28 and 29. On page 28, what you have is a statement of net assets. It tells you the county's financial position at the end of the year are total net assets or $308 million. $562,587. That represents a decrease in your net assets of $5.9 million from the previous year. That has your total assets of $891,000 with your liabilities of 582 included in your net assets or unrestricted net assets. That is a negative amount in government-wide statements. I don't find that to be particularly unusual here in Texas. The primary result for that in Montgomery County is the fact that we do issue debt for improvement of state-owned roads. We see that still happening with the direct connectors that are being built for 242. I don't expect that number to become positive anywhere in the near future. If you go to page 29 you'll see a statement of activity. The charts that are in front of you give you a graphical picture of that statement of activity. If you look the first item that you have is a pie chart that is for 2012, the next page is what looks like an identical pie chart that is for 2011. That represents the revenues that Montgomery County brings in and it tells you what percentage of those revenues contribute to our revenues as a whole. And as you can see, there is very little change between 2011 and 2012 in that adulurum tax dollars provide for about 50% of Montgomery County's total revenues. That's followed by fees, fines, forfeiters and charges for services that is close to 34% of the county's revenues. Those are strikingly similar from last year to this year. There's no reason to think we'll see a dramatic change in that over the years. The next charge that you have are a bar chart. This represents the expenses by function for the different departments. These are still graphical pictures of the statement of activities that can be found on page 29. These graphs will show you by function how much each expense was per function and how much revenue that specific function brought into offset its expenses. These are governmental expenditures. They are not intended to represent, to finance themselves. That is why we have advalorn tax dollars to pay for them. We would never think, for example, that prisoners in the jail would pay enough money to support keeping the jail. If you move on to the schedules, which are the fund statements, this is what you're more used to looking to and where the majority of the focus falls on governmental funds and a government's financial picture. They begin on page 30. Our total revenues for the year were $332.9 million. This was an increase of $11.8 million from the previous year. Our total expenses were $338.9 million. This was an increase of 2.1 from the previous year. In our balance on page 30, in the general fund, you will see that we have unassigned fund balance. If you'll recall two years ago, we brought before you a policy that is a requirement of gas and statement number 54. It required that we change the terminology for those. The way Montgomery County practiced all that enacted or very little was changed except for a renaming of those designations of your fund balance. We already practiced that way mostly. So now instead of things like restricted or unrestricted and undesignated and unreserved fund balance, which you see is an unassigned fund balance. So all the way at the bottom of page 30, the county's unassigned fund balance is $30,241,977. What that is is a half the percentage for you. 17.5% of your expenditures. If you'll recall, your fund-balanced policy says that you strive to have between 10 and 15% of your expenditures and an unreserved fund balance, that's because the best practices recommendation is that you have no less than two months, which would be 16.7. You fall right in where the best practices they you should be. This report is available in the County Auditors Office. It will also be available on the County Auditors webpage and will be on file with the County Clark Summit. Pum sellers is here with our outside audit firm of Harvard Lunch Sellers and Kirkham. He can address any questions that you may have at Hill. Will this the grassman is here? I would like to thank her for her assistance in preparing this financial report. It certainly could not have been done without her help or that of Chris Agarmin and every County Department who contribute greatly toward getting their financials recorded in a fashion that we can compile this report. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Tom. I'm going to accept the financial report. Second. All in favor favor say aye much in passes purchasing Delection County Attorney County Attorney. Not an 18A where I was in the court to approve an agreement with Easter Seals of Greater Houston. This agreement provides CDBG funds of $250,000 to Easter Seals and they use that money to carry out the down payment assistance program. The county has participated in for several years now. The program provides down payment assistance for low income first time home buyers in the county. It's each or the other. They're subrecipient. They do all of the work with the with the program. We essentially give them the money and they do the administrative work, find the people and then do the paperwork to grant those people. It's a forgivable loan they get to cover the down payment on the purchase price of a home. Is this part of Joanne and Joanne? Yeah, it is. Is this the home grant? Oh, okay. This is the home grant contract you down. We recharge the budget periodically. So this is CDBG pass through dollars. It's not CPPG, it's the home grant, yes, the community development has. Okay, how much? Second. All of them favor, yeah? No. In 18B, right, to approve an inter-local agreement between the county and the Southern Montgomery County Municipal Utility District, this contract is for law enforcement services for that mud. It's similar to the Williams Township Agreement we have for law enforcement services. The sheriff will assign the deputies to patrol. The mud will pay 100% of the salary cost, including benefits and administrative costs. The mud will also provide funding for the vehicles and fuel costs. Move. Second. All very Vesia. In 18C, right in the court to approve a personal services agreement with James Patrick. This is for Deputy Constable and Pre-Saint-1. It's the standard form we use for all these Deputy Constables. Move. Second. All very Vesia. Item 18, D. I'd like to move that to after the executive session. If we've gotten item. The session that may change the course action on that item. On 18 E rise in the court to approve an expenditure of funds for the county attorney's office from Line Item 7300. We need the funding to provide for purchase of food and snacks and that sort of thing for when we have victims that have to spend the day in our office or witnesses that spend some time in our office. Previously County Attorney employees have bought those things out of their own personal funding and so we would like the authorization to spend money out of that line item for those items. It's actually the group that's seven months. OK. What do we do with that? And actually, he said line 7300. There is no line 7300. It's actually a grouping of lines that represents supplies. We can set up in their budget. If you all approve this, a line called food Shelter or Supplies, which is a line 74-86. No, I move. Second. A little favor, say aye. 18F, arresting the Court to approve a resolution order that would outline the procedure for the county to accept and extend funds that are donated by individuals to the Animal Shelter Building Fund. The proposed procedure, the Department of Infrastructure would collect all of the checks or money orders and present them to the court to be accepted on behalf of the county. And then they would be restricted to be spent only on construction or renovation of the Animal Shelter Building. The spending would require approval of the commissioner's court. And before the money is spent, the animal shelter advisory board would review the project and present the recommendation to the court to consider before the court authorized spending out of that fund. We already set up a line out of them to accept those dollars into. Yes, there are on February 25th, there were two donations that were brought to the court. There just wasn't a policy established at that time, so there wasn't any clear guidance on if people donated what they would be donating or what that money could be. Hello. Second. All in favor, yes. Public hearing. Okay. In precinct three we have a public hearing. This recess is accorded to be the public hearing. Anyone here to address the loading zone to be established one would lock for us drive precinct three. Okay. Let's return return the public hearing and Rick of the commission's court. Sir. Yes sir. Did you have something to say? Are you? The development company has a new building. The new waterway under construction that like Robinson would lock for us and plan showing current recessed drive off would lock for us to do not in the street. And so we are just trying to simply get that designated as a loading or unloading zone. We have entered into an agreement with a red front to lease the northeast corner of that space and they would like to then use that loading zone to set up a ballet stand. Thank you. Thank you. OK, Commissioner, precinct four. We want to take action on this, or do we need to? We did a thought. Not just those over here. OK. We did a thought. Not just those over here. Okay. We, uh, is that the public here here, your week committee, commissioners court. So, uh, considering the provost apples in the loading zone on the west side of woodlocked forest drive, South of Lake Robbins Drive. I move. All in favor, say aye. Okay, under commissioners, precinct four. We to take one and two together Consider a pretty transfer of funds Sociedad would benefit send amount of 46,000 908 dollars and 87 cents from 6153203 dash 8 to 615 8316 dash 2 I move three, dash eight, two, six, one, five, eight, three, one, six, dash two. I move. That's eight. Oh, there it is. Yeah. All right. County attorney running bridge. Precinct three. Thank you. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Park and Doll and Bay Branch Drive. Under this agreement the road utility district number one will be providing up to $200,000 toward the cost of materials for the project and the county will design construct and complete the project. And this is the, because it will be a joint project between precinct two and three in Commissioner Doyle and I've spoken about that and I move. Thank you. All of our viewers, yeah. Thank you. Already under Article 551.071, let's recess the court for exacting session. I'm going to go back to order, please. On 22 a. Daniel, you got one of the authorization for expenses on the, yes, Judge. I move. All favor, see how? Aye. No action necessary on 22b. Do we have these citizens that would like to address commissioners court today? Bill, come on. Signed up to speak. I guess it's time we all talk about the budget and everything else. I'll talk about that today after watching. You know, we had the special meeting relative to the airport and a sudden new expenditure of I think of the six months of about $150,000, which will be annual $300,000. And then at that time we were short within the contingency fund and watching you know find the out and understanding a little bit more how the contingency fund works, it was sweeping stuff out of unused overtime, et cetera from the sheriff's department. And just my thought is I think you probably have a reasonable handle on how many times during a year you go into the contingency fund, the fund things, and I think part of the budget process you should set up a stuff happens fund for lack of a better turn. And then at the end of the following year, then sweep the stuff in that wasn't used before, but it gives you an idea of stuff which kind of comes, jumps up and grabs at you over an average three, four, five-year period so that you have the money there so you don't have to go through this again. I'm watching this thing on the $720,000, which essentially as I recall was kind of found money, if not found money, but finally took 40 years to clear it as nothing on terms of taxes and things of that nature, and that's not going to happen every year. And yet we're going through all of this. So I think you need, you know, from my perspective, on the contingency fund, then the other thing is the operation of the tower. I think you have to take a hard look at the economic feasibility with $600,000 more a year to operate the tower at where is this going and what do we do to make this better? So those are my concerns. Thank you Bill. Thanks Bill. Thank you Bill. Are there any additional comments from citizens today? If you can do the other boarders' comedy act coming up. All right. Judge Sibler and commissioners, my name is Walter Boyd from the Woodlands now. And I know Commissioner Reinhart was waiting for it in me to make my endorsements in his rights. But I'm going to defer that and keep him anxious about it. I'm glad to see you back, Judge Saber. I don't know. I was so lonely last week when you weren't here. It last two weeks ago. Let me, I know you've given us three minutes now, which I think is a good thing rather than six. So I just wanted to mention, I've really learned a lot from John here, Sir John, from the tea. He's really pretty red at this. He does presentations on this and Mr. O'Sullivan to the Tea Party and Commissioner Dawood, you're going to come over there and see us sometime, aren't you? The Tea Party Patriots were waiting for you. And I think that I can just say, speak to this, that Judge Satter, you came over and addressed us a couple weeks ago. Do you remember? And you talked about how three or four years ago on this county. I'm not familiar with this county like I am Paris County and Walker County. But I'll tell you, you talked about the legislature imposing these additional courts on this county and It's cost cost y'all don't know the particulars of that, but let me tell you I think generally speaking What the lawyers and the judges have done it's a I don't know if it's a scam or not, but they've created so many courts and they're so inefficient as a general rule. And then Harris County, they're really top petty on expenses and they, I don't know about here whether the judges work so much or not. But I do know that maybe that's a way you could think about cutting. And I know Mr. Lambrite here is really he's a tea party guy too. I mean, and I know he's trying to do something with legal fees and I don't want to get into that but I really appreciate what he's done and I don't want to jump on lawyers. I made my mistakes myself but I do think the legal profession, that judicial system could be looked at. I want to just say that this has been very educational to me and next tomorrow night, Commissioner of Dahl, I am so intrigued with you because I've heard so much about you and I don't know you well enough But Judge Siler is it Siler's gonna speak tomorrow night at the tea party, didn't he? I believe so he's He's gonna be there so I think we'll get into a little bit of the Judiciary there. It's at 630 Saw dust and they don't even like me. I don't know why I promote them. But anyway I want on this case here it's very interesting. You had a case at the 55th District Court. I just got as a matter of personal privilege. I guess say my grandfather Ewing Boyd was the judge of that 55th District Court for 40 years, about 50% of the time that court is in operation. So he was a wonderful judge, really, maybe not as good as you judge that, but he was really pretty good. And thank you very much and Commissioner Ryan Hart want to invite you to. All right. Are you going to be a speaker? I don't want to. Don't let me speak. I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want to stay in East County. Oh, well, listen, you just invite me wherever and I'll cut. I'll show up, OK? So you wait on that. Yeah. Can you give me your address, please? Thank you, thank you, thank you. Are there any additional citizens who would like to address the court today? I move with you. HR, come on up, do we? Do you have a lot of point in that if you do that? Please consider and approve the payroll change request forms. All in favor, Sia? Thank you. Joe, do you have one more thing? Item 18D, I had to be moved to after executive session. That's right. We no longer need action on that item, so we'll defer it. All right. So, Phil, when we approved the airport funding, weren't we going to name a funding source for that? We did get done, okay. Thanks. One last comment on the airport. I don't anticipate this going really past three or four months, six months at the outside. I think then the federal government will kick back in. So I don't see this as a long-term funding. Because there are too many air force that are suffering that don't have the money to fund it. And I think that's going to be the case here. Okay. It's your motion to adjour charm. Oh. Like, all the fairies see up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to be playing you today. It's going on a good. I'm doing alright. Jimbo, I have you. Happy to court? What would you do different if you were up here?