Okay, let's bring the court order, please. Good morning, everyone. Let's stand for the opening prayer and the pleasure of allegiance. Mary, would you please do the prayer, please? Sure will. Kind of the father as we join our hands and our hearts with you. We just look to you for the direction from this court. And we just ask that you give each and every one of the commissioners the wisdom and knowledge and the understanding that they need to only make this county better. But Father I just said Department of Women and arms way right now and I just ask that you just cover them with the blood and bring them home safe and sound. But most of all, Lord we lift up our country to him we just ask that you, we just give them leadership attention and most of all fathers put the right people where they need to be to make those decisions. But why are we just thank you for the time together and we ask all of you in your 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, the individual, the liberty and justice for all. Our next slide, I pledge allegiance to the Exist, one state under God, one in any visible. All right. I'm a further record. I'm members of the court. All present this morning. We need to motion on the agenda, please. Thank you. All in favor say out. We have commissions. We have two resolutions this morning or two issues under proclamation resolutions. The first is employee committee. Good morning. We'll be presenting the October employee of the month and that is Aaron Smith and Nicole with the District Attorney's Office is going to present this. Okay. I would like to read the letter that I wrote to nominate Aaron Smith for this award. Aaron is a white collar investigator and has been with our office for four years. Prior to that time, she was a criminal analyst for Montgomery County Sheriff's Office SIU division since 2002. I have worked with many investigators and law enforcement officers during my time here at the District Attorney's Office. No one has ever been as dedicated to her job as Aaron. There is never a task too big or too small for Aaron to handle. Aaron works all day long. She never takes a break, never socializes, just works, works, works. She does the work of several people in a day. She does a job with a smile on her face and never complains. She takes work home often and takes great pride in her job. Since working at our office, she went to school to become a certified police officer and recently spent hundreds of hours studying to become a certified police officer and recently spent hundreds of hours studying to become a certified fraud examiner and accomplishment that she does not get paid for. She passed her certified fraud examination test with flying colors. Erin is a joy to work with and when she testifies in white collar cases as both the detective and a fraud examiner, she is usually the key in the prosecution's case. She represents our county well. Aaron does not only lend a hand to help her co-workers. She also is leaned upon by NCSO and other local law enforcement agencies on a regular basis to use her investigative and analyst skills to find out information that others cannot find. I highly recommend Erin for this honor. If she receives this award, which she has, everyone in the county that has worked with her over the years will agree that nobody deserves this award more. Congratulations, Erin. Thank you. Here you go, congratulations, well deserved. Okay, I think the sheriff. Judge, we just wanted to recognize and congratulate three individuals that have recently been promoted from the Tinson deputy Chad Bowers Tyler Hall and Daniel Sengster. So congratulations to those three individuals. And then last thing I did just want to make a quick comment that as you'll maybe be able to see I'm trying to grow a beard for the first time ever and it is no shave November so precinct three the entire staff we've all voted to kind of go along with this to help raise awareness for testicular and prostate cancer so you'll see this for about a month. I'm gonna see I thought I got it. Okay. Thank you. All right. The undercut the Senate agenda commissioners under tax disaster collector would need to move 15 a seven to the open agenda. Is that right, Commissioner? Uh, chair. I have a B on page 3, B1 and 2 to open agenda in the meeting today. So that allows us to take the ready. Already. That's 9B1 and B2 on page 3. No. B2 we're going to defer. 9B2 we're going to defer. Not B2 we're going to defer. That's all I have is your motion. Second. All in favor see I? Okay so I want you to come all this move, the tax abatement issue up and Johnson development up. This is 15A-37, I believe. All right, this is, you know, the data is gathered all over. The key step is to identify a first one here to be with you. The full-on facts of statements and taken actions from the new. The missing facts of making policies policies, procedures and guidelines. Okay. The first change is on that, but there was an addition because we're finding out about the management districts. We had nothing in there, so if you'll look on that first item there. What we've done is if you'll look at our abatement policy or guidelines, I had Daniel Jones add language on page 10, I believe it's page 10 of 16. We added item, oh it's called other economic development and this is where it allows us the opportunity to talk about these municipal maintenance districts as we have just found out the camp strike is all about. And the language that we put in here after talk with Commissioner Metter and Commissioner Noak and Commissioner Dole primarily, our concern was that we've taken action on this when it's going to be bringing a lot of other people that might want to come to us as well. And we wanted to stipulate some kind of terminology on an interim so where we could actually form a separate committee. And after discussions with them and after the research that I've had to do with the maintenance district, I've found that I do not really think it belongs with the abatement. I think we need to have a separate one. And I think I'd like the court to go in keep me in charge of that, but a point of person, just like we did with the abatements of member of each one of the courts are y'all give me a person that make the in particular I would like the county auditor and county engineer to be the advisors to that and county attorney of Mr. Griffin's already violent here to give me all the legal and I've found that he's been a worth worth his weight and gold as far as what we've had to go through in the last week and half with this other stuff. So right, I'm old at some page 10 of 16. I think we'll just use that as a catalyst to put this community together. We can take it out of this particular deal. That way our current abatement policy remains the same and no action has taken other than to renew it, which is required over two years. Okay I move that we renew the existing tax abatement policy and number two of this motion is the creation of a committee which is the head of that committee to study policy decisions in connection with municipal management districts. That's correct. You want somebody from this court on that committee? I would juggle point somebody you can be yourself or somebody else It doesn't matter to me if there's two more than two of you on that your Individuals and we'll have to have it as open meetings. I second your motion. Good. Thank you all in favor say I and I'm that Craig Commissioner door to be member of that committee Okay, you're also gonna put somebody out of your free sink owner How am I pretty one out of each? I don't know if you need a committee. Okay, all right. Just a member of the Tax abatement all right, that sounds good. We didn't necessarily have a committee We had yeah, we did because we had to go to the process of the application and all the other things. But we had to sit at Conor people and pretty much you and I, but I don't think we had any outsiders in that committee. In the beginning, we did because I remember that in precinct three over there and precinct four, Jerry Hayden was on there and I don't think I personally don't think we need. But it doesn't matter to me I just don't want to do it myself. I want some feedback from the court and I felt like if you you yourself or remember you're a good guy. We'll get you back with you in the next court on who's on that committee. It may be a three-member committee. It may be five. We'll give you some thought. We'll take action next. We'll take action next. No, we need to overthink it. Exactly. But we need to set some parameters. And I think with people that we have, that we've already talked about, we can certainly accomplish that. Okay. Take those first two pages of what I gave you and take them put them on the back and I want to look at the next report there. This is my update on my findings related to the proposed agreement with Con Room Municipal Management District number one. So we don't get long-winded about this. I think if you'll just look at the page two there where I've given a comparison of a summary. Montgomery County has been the leader for economic development. Our current tax abatement program reflects that. Our January 2013 report shows that we're abating 243 million plus value and taxing of value of 387 million. When the abatement expired, the taxable value will be over 631 million. We only abated taxes on new property value. Our agreement with CMMD number one does that same thing except we limit the tax involved to maintenance taxes. Instead of the total tax what we've done is we've looked at the debt service which are aware of that's been a big concern for me, especially with what's going to happen in 2018. And I felt like that we just couldn't give up that property permit was pledged towards that anymore. And so they agreed to that. We pulled that out of it. The main thing I wanted to show in this example there is to let you show the difference there. Because if you look at what maybe we aren't getting a tax decrease if you look at the hospital district countywide they've got a higher taxable value than us because we give abatements but as a result of that the hospital district the college district and CISD continue to lower their tax rates because of that growth that we brought in as resulted in the abatement. And that gives you a comparison there with what happens with this particular thing. The in 2015, the hospital tax there would be 10905 but in 2024, their tax will be 743,000. CISD on the other hand, will have $192,750 a year coming in the beginning and when it's complete it's 13 million coming in a year. So that's a huge number that the county is participating with and the county from 61,000 to 4 million too. So that's using their numbers. I've since found out that with the 90% in there that we need to add some more onto that but I didn't change those because I didn't have time with my stuff this morning. The bottom line is your next copy there is a comparison that I had done and again that did not include 90% of the M&O rates so we would add another $11,498 for maintenance and operation coming in each year. What I did is I felt like that the debt service needed to be met. This builds us some pocket money also that we can put there for when those increases start hitting us in 2018. At the same time with that minimum tax at this morning, the Eiffraisal District confirmed to me that the new value is the, basically the 29,700,000, I'm sorry, 27,900,000 is going to be the base tax amount instead of being the 15,000. It was there. 15,000 was an old value that once you established something's tax exempt, the value didn't need anything so they haven't re-appraised it years. So we told them that we were going to have to get a re-appraisal and the re-appraisal was given to me this morning. And these numbers reflect that. If you look at the new proposal on the next page there. It shows that our cap is 20 million, compared to the old proposal where our cap was 52 million. So we're now down at a 14.5% versus a 37.9%. I have looked at this more in depth and probably any member of the court here and more in depth than I have a lot of the companies with the abatement and I feel very good about this now. I was not. I had mixed emotions when I first came back, found out about it, but after turning over the rocks and looking underneath all the things that were there. I feel like this is something good from Montgomery County. I think it's something that's going to be good for us down the road. And also for other endeavors, but I think it's important that we set some kind of a guideline for people to follow so that we don't get in this issue where we're having to hurry up and determine what's good and what's not good. And I think that the committee can do that as a result of what we discovered here. And I also feel like that out of all the things that we've done and towards preparing for that debt service increase that we're going to have, this probably can have the biggest impact on it. I really feel that way about it. And I think this is something we need to do. Because I'd answer any questions that you might have. JR, when did you get the final agreement from John's development? This morning. But I'll tell you it doesn't seem to be. Last Friday, I had the final agreement except for about four changes. And we all met on that to judge and and I met with the representatives of that along county attorney. And they agreed to the other issues that I had concerns about and Mr. Griffin put them together. So technically I saw the final product Friday, but it just didn't say that because they did not have any problems with the changes that I requested. Commissioner, let me sum this up a little, I think a little more concise. Basically, the interest is out. The debt service is out of the formula. And 10% of the MMO. And 10% of MMO is out. That leaves 90% of MMO will be whatever is given with a cap of $20 million. Yeah. Instead of us not taxing them, we're going to collect the tax and give it back to them. That's the difference between the abatement program versus this program. That's very similar to a TURRS. Exactly. Exactly. I think it's 10 years instead of 30 years. Right. The only thing that's great too that the legislators passed and gave the counties to use. And I think this project here is a perfect example of what it was passed for. This is billed in the future of Montgomery counties. What we're doing here. I think it's a great investment. The only dollars used to reimburse this project will be dollars generated by the project. It's a big, big, big's a pretty of other types of dollars. We're going to reap some of those extra dollars ourselves. It won't be given back. Exactly. It's in the city of Conrose. It will have minimal service requirements. It'll be a few things done by the city. If it's our duty here, and I believe it is, to create and generate positive development in Montgomery County, I think this is the shining star for what can be done certainly support the issue you know one thing the newspapers and a lot of people had a misconception about this project is that we were going to find twenty million dollars uh... to jenston development when it's actually i think he is not funding anything it's not earned via the increase in tax assessed value. Just like an abatement. So, anyway, before we vote, commissioners, I need to put on the record that I have to abstain from this vote simply because I'm a the board of directors of the Boy Scouts. Even though this is not a Boy Scout contract, it still needs to be fully disclosed that I am a director of the Boy Scouts. And there will be some direct benefits of this contract. We'll benefit the Boy Scouts. Judge, I think that what we vote is to move up 16 B. Yeah, 16 B. We're not going to talk about. Yeah, okay. And B.D. has something to say. B.D.? Yeah, okay. And BD has something, just a BD? Yes. Just, which is for one thing I want to clarify is $20 million dollars, this is a hard cap. It will either be the actual cost of the road and the structure of the road that are identified in the agreement for $20 million in the river to left. And of course, the estimate of $20 million, we believe is probably a little higher than the actual cost of the actual money that will be rebated and the tax rate will most likely be left at $20 billion. But it's going to be the actual cost. Good. Good. Any other discussion, James, just you. I was just going to say that I know where this is headed and I know how the vote is going to go, but I just think it's too quick. Johnson Development Company's urgency is not Montgomery County's emergency. For us not to have had this agreement to read it. Which one of these commissioners have read the agreement and covered a cover? Four we vote on it. We got it this morning. So one of us. Sounds like Obama cared to me and that's not the way Montgomery County needs to operate. That's all I got to say. The agreement has been worked on time and time again and tweaked down to this final agreement. This was just passed. This is new legislation that just came out out of the last legislative session. These districts. It's the first one we've ever done. 11 is when they passed it but well VD's done a great job J.R. is done a great job I think this is a project that we need to get behind and support I think it's a huge benefit to Montgomery County ultimately this project will put five to five point seven million dollars in revenue to Montgomery County at its full build out I know I've seen in Montgomery County in precinct two certainly my share of less than quality developments with a group like Johnson's development doing this project. I feel very comfortable that at the cornerstone of the city of Conno you're going to have quality development on the ground and that's critically important. I just fully support it. I just have I don't see how this development is going to put a billion dollars of property on the ground in eight years when it's got to compete with the superblock in precinct three. It's got to compete with use landings, it's got to compete with waterway and they can't give tax evapments. Name me a company that's going to move in for that. Who's coming? I think it's a flight offancy and I think it's a flight offensive and I think it's disappointing but I think the other thing that a lot of my reasoning went behind who it is that's developing. They've got a great track record in Montgomery County with what they've done already. You have a well-trained individual that they've engaged Mr. Virgil Yolkum that I have the utmost respect for because of what he's done with the woodlands with what happened with the town center and what's happened with the wood forest out there and I think these people are here to say they've got their families living here. They've got integrity and they've got the background that we need to have the assurance that they're going to do everything to make this work. Well I make a motion that we take a proof of a proof that proposed agreement between Johnson Development, from a half-cono municipal management district one with the agreement that we have in as completed that BD Griffin. Yeah. We have prepared a word. We all allow to have the folks in the back to the resolution. Just that we have we've included in the order that the oil find a agreement on behalf of every county. So we can have work to do that fact-langer between governing Congress and the technical and the steel team on behalf of Congress and the whole matter. Okay. Well, I have that emotion. Second. If you would add to that emotion, Commissioner Metter matter that Craig dole will sign the documents instead of me I prefer your door will sign documents prepared by Canyon attorney's office. Okay, all in favor say aye All opposed aye Okay, let the record show there or three votes in favor of this doc of this contract One opposition to one abstention favor this contract, one opposition, and one abstention. Well, I say one thing. I mean, JR has done, I don't know how many tax abatements in East County, and JR has never led me down the wrong path, and we've never had one to fail. And it has really put a lot of tax dollars back to the county for you to know where. So I'm going to a new J.R. Thank you, Commissioner. I will not fail you. Thank you, J.R. Good work, B.D. Thanks for all your hard work. I know that was a tough one to put together, but I think it will benefit Montgomery County hugely in the long run. And Mr. Johnson, thank you for all your effort. Thank you gentlemen ladies. Look forward to working with you. Alrighty. Do we put on the consent agenda commissioners or not? I can't remember. I move on to consent. I think we do, but I'm moving. I believe we do. So I can. All in favor, see you. Okay, I would like to defer 9 a 10 a sheriff. Good morning, commissioners. In 10 a we are asking for something unique in the time frame that the sheriff has been in office and so on. He's never come to court asking for something without having a funding source and this is the first time that that's being done. But here in 10 first time that that's being done. But here in 10A, we asked that you consider and approve the creation of a county wide crime response unit under the Sheriff's jurisdiction. The team will consist of 10 commissioned officers in a civilian position, which would be an analyst. With an annual salary budget of 873,000 and an initial year budget of 340,000 for operations and we would ask the two name a funding source This unit is in response to a number of high-profile crimes that have occurred since January, bank robberies, some armed robberies, car jackings, etc. That have certainly received a lot of media attention. We have gotten a lot of feedback from citizens regarding the approach to solving some of these crimes. And although we've done a good job, we are limited by the current staffing that we have and This would be a method by which we could attack those specific types of violent crimes with a unique specialized unit that could move throughout the county and hopefully Solved the crimes in a faster fashion utilizing this unit to the extent that we can. So that's why we're here. We didn't have the need specifically during budget process. That's why it wasn't brought up during budget process. But the issue was raised, so that's why we're here now. Chief and if we're fair to say this isn't just a blip on the radar. This isn't something that we think is going to go away. This is. That is correct, Commissioner. The result is we have an increase in population here in Montgomery County. The economy is doing well here in Montgomery County. our friends to the south certainly have an impact on the businesses that they're doing. There is a growing gang problem in Houston and Harris County and I would tell you that the vast majority of the problems that we've had in terms of the violent crime have been attributed to gangs. Our intelligence has told us that the arrests that we have been able to make, you know, we identify those suspects as gang members. They're not going away. Right now it's very easy to access Montgomery County and then return quickly to Harris and Houston. And you know, it's a problem that we believe we can fix with this type of specialized unit. These units do exist in the large metropolitan areas. Houston has a number of specialized units. I guess it's time for Montgomery County to move into that need because it's here now and it will not go away. And the thought is if we don't do something, if we don't act now, that we will be, this will only get worse. They'll continue to come, they'll see it as an easy target. And we just cannot afford for that to happen. Especially in curaging development like we do attracts people from all over. There's no way to get, you know most of them are gonna come right down 45 through South County and what I think we need to do is is really work with the Sheriff's Department. When you come and ask for something like this, I think is a governing body. Our job first and foremost is to protect the citizens. And if you need it, I'll definitely make a motion to move on it. One of the things I want to ask though, is there any way we can look at deputies that you may have in the jail, go into civilians, move in those deputies somewhere you may have in the jail going to civilians moving those deputies somewhere else you know to kind of create this task force bring down the cost somewhat in fact commissioner we have had tasks the jail captain uh... with with a uh... strategic analysis of his jail staffing uh... that he was supposed to bring back to me at the end of the year to give us a better determination of moving forward with reducing the number and to patrol positions and backfilling those positions with civilian detention officers. Obviously because of the very requirements and job function of the jail we're going to have to have a certain number of commission employees that remain in the jail. But we believe that we can move a number of commission positions out to the field and replace those with civilians that are reduced cost. Whether that's possible here and now, I don't believe that it's probably a good thing to do. One of the things that we want to look at with the Specialized Unit because of the nature of the job function, we've got to have some people that are experienced in the field and have some decent training because they're not only conducting intelligence or valence investigations that are uniquely different than the basic, if you will, that for instance a patrol deputy generally comes across during a regular day shift. Whether it can be, you know, nine deputy investigators and a sergeant, if you want to look at possibly doing it in a multi-year purpose, you know, anything at this point in time is better than nothing. Do you know what we would say? We would never, you know, we're in the middle of a budget year. Our budget set. We're meant to create almost what basis of an innovation in the middle of a budget year with a million dollar price time. I mean, have we, you know, this court supports slow and forth? Well, it's that. You know this court supports law enforcement. I was there, but I don't know. I don't think I can support a million dollar increase right now in law enforcement. If you could scale it up, maybe a couple of deputies or something. I might could vote for that, but I just don't see how I can support this in a middle of a budget year when we don't have that kind of money available. And I certainly understand what you're saying. I believe me, I do, but you know, you've got a problem supporting it. You said, you know, Sheriff never has come. I've been there 15 years and I've never been here a year that the Sheriff ain't come here and wanted people. Three years in the row, I asked the court to raise the taxes one cent for law enforcement totally. And I never got a second. The last time I marled it up, I was told, yeah, you're not going to get a second. So I'm a mic. I don't see where I can support this. You know, in the middle of the budget year, say it wasn't here. You know, we're only a month in this budget. And somebody had to know about it prior to this. Budget. Well, I would point out, you know, I understand the concerns of the commissioners in a perfect world, a ten-man unit with an intelligence and analyst would be ideal. The sheriff did not ask for any people during this budget process. Well, I'd be the first year though, right? There have been a couple of years commissioner where he has not asked for personnel to offset the other requests for operations or equipment. So each year in the sheriff's department Department salary sweeps are somewhere in the neighborhood 350,000 or so give or take. You've had 122,000 that you moved to the General Fund last week in court. I'd like to move that we any salary sweeps from the Sheriff's Department throughout the year used to offset this. We take the $122,000 from last do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work We do that and your next 10 hires are for this task force. So I move. Should I second? Commissioner, if you'll recall, you all have said in the past that you didn't want to perform salary sweeps at the sheriff's office. Well, we'll allow you to sweep those salaries for this purpose. So we would then get with the role on that? Okay. That will be part of the motion. That would be a vote. Yeah, I said there's a motion is there a second? The motion dies for like a second. And chief I would like to really apologize to all of the sheriff's department to this taxpayers in Montgomery County. We can find a way to give $19 million to a developer who can't make the project work on his own evidently but we can't give you the money to run the Sheriff's Department as you see fit. Well I like to make a motion, Commissioner. My motion is to find approximately half of this through the same means of siler sweeps. It would be approximately five hundred thousand dollars. Now we did give you the salary suede last year to make adjustments on your payroll. Yes sir. You're saying you're not going to need that t-shirt. You're not going to need to make adjustments. You're not going to have overtime. You're going to be able to place all those suede and to this fund is out of your stand. I would refer that to the auditor and because we have been utilizing those for various other things throughout the course of the year. Traditionally, to be paid, I'll believe without Carol here, I'd hate to speak. I'd like to see you do some kind of analysis and determine about what's going to be there and then we could fund however many positions that that would fund for this year, I don't want to see us go into contingency in the middle of a budget year for a new program like that. But if we can sweep some of those salaries and fund two or three deputies, you'd let me know what's the court know, what that number would be, I could certainly support that. Chief three deputies do not make a task force, does it? No, sir, not really. In my motion was for five deputies. If commissioners judge, if we could table it temporarily until I have an opportunity to discuss some information with the district attorney and perhaps come to y'all in executive session and further discuss this and maybe address it later on. Good idea. All right. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Officer vintage defense. Good morning commissioners. Good morning, Judge. Morning. Morning. Please consider and approve the physical year for the end of Gen Defense formula grant, the application and the resolution. Up in submission, it will require a signature from Judge Sattler. Is there a motion? I'll move. Second. All fair for sale. All right. I'll be right back. All right. All right. Thank you. Dr. Court. Good morning. Good morning. Masking you to please consider approved the de-obligation of $29,152 for the 2012-2013 DWI Court grant from the state of Texas. Move, Secretary. A lot of favor, CAI. Motion passes. Thank you. Officer Court of Administration. Morning, Judge. Commissioner, nice to meet you. I would ask that you consider and approve a contract between the Texas Indian Defense Commission and Montgomery County for reimbursing of travel expenses incurred attending the Indian Defense Workshop October 27th, 28th of this year and authorized Judge Salad to sign this contract on behalf of Montgomery County. What does that do? Judge Kara Wood and the staff of the Office of Injured Defense attended this workshop last week and the commission offered us up to $300 per person, reimbursing those Thank you. What's your thing? Good morning, Darloos. Good morning. Good morning, Judge Ackman. Item 14A, I would like to present the recommendation and contract for item number nine, custom-tatical surveillance kit to Simmons Law Enforcement in the amount of $52,495 funded out of 2012 UASC grant emergency management. Move. Second. All in favor, see how? Motion passes. Thank you. Thanks. County Attorney. Thank you, Judge. The court has already addressed item 15A. 15B is going to be deferred. And item 15C, right in the court, to approve a Gulf Coast Planning Region Mutual A Degreement. This is an agreement between entities in our entire region. It's for the coordination of resources during emergencies. There's no initial cost or obligation to the county. The agreement's only activated upon request for assistance by another county and our county's only obligated to respond if we determine that we have sufficient resources to provide assistance. If we do provide assistance, the agreement does provide for reimbursement of costs that we incur in providing that help. If the court decides to approve this as part of the investment of costs that we incur in providing that help. If the court decides to approve this as part of the motion, we need the court to appoint Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel or Nikki Kelly as the person of contact for the agreement. I move on that agreement with both Nikki Kelly, I mean Nikki and, and the chief deputy is the primary contacts. Second, all favor, see aye? Motion passes. Item 15B, requesting the court to approve a revised agreement for law enforcement services with the Riverwalk POA. A few weeks ago, we brought this agreement before the court. Since that time, the POA has advised us they can't afford to pay the amount that the contract was initially for. So this agreement has been reduced to 81,000 from 93,000 and it's my understanding that the employee that is providing services under the contract will be compensated with the 81,000 dollars and no more. Broughty is that you've got that agreement I move Second all the favor see I I'm going to say, yeah. In item 15, you're asking the court to approve a CDBG social services agreement with access billed children. It's contracts for $30,000 and provide staff security and training to facilitate their supervised visitation services. There you go. See ya. the item sixteen a right in the court to approve an interlocal agreement for maintenance and operation of traffic signals is that the agreements between the county and the city of Shenandoah move favor say ah The court has already addressed item 16B. And BD Griffin is going to present the next item 16C. Judge Commissioner, item 16C is the final document on what you took action on with regard to the Grand Parkway and the cell of the right away to the state of Texas. This is to authorize Judge Saillard Yeah motion passes Okay under commissioners precinct three minute deferred item 17 a 1 and then 2 Consider and approve the de-application of the fiscal year end 14 lip grant in the amount of 19,000 896 from TCEQ To allow funds to be used by another participant county move Passers fun to be used by another participant county. Move. Second. I'll favor the other. Passes. Under Article 551.071 and 0.072. Let's All right. Questions we need a motion to pursue claims to connection with the Joe Corley detention I move. Second. All fairs see aye? Motion passes. Do we have any citizens that would like to address commissioners court? Where's Miss Bacic? I'm Terry Bacic here. She's a little less. She was just here. Yeah, she was here. Huh? She's in the hall on the phone. She's working. Bill, did you want to dress the court? There she is. Ms. Vaica, you're up. I apologize. If you would stick to the three minutes, we appreciate it. Thank you, Judge and commissioners for this time. Pregnant mothers, babies and strollers and toddlers running around. Grandma with asthma, a four-year-old brother with leukemia, and each player on a ball field. These citizens are present and our future. Their help is being compromised in our county parks. It is a serious county health issue that you have the power to resolve. We are all victims to second hand smoke in our county parks. It is a proven fact that the second hand smoke is a killer, responsible for cancer, asthma, heart disease, and death. Even outdoors, second hand smoke is a serious health hazard. The breeze or lack of it carries the chemicals into the dugouts. It hovers over the bleachers and right into the cars as mothers attempt to get their children in and out of vehicles. Smoking is currently allowed a mere 25 feet from the dugout, allowed in the concession stands, and allowed in the pavilion where the picnic tables are. No sidewalk, eating, or play area is safe. I cannot get myself a bottle of water or snack from my grandchildren. And try taking a picture of your child or grandchild while running away from cigarette smoke. I'm forced to watch a game with a washcloth covering my face. Do you think your children and grandchildren could perform their best when fearful for a loved one's health? I, like most mathematics, struggle to breathe. Cigarette smoke is our number one trigger, even at a distance of 50 yards outdoors. I no longer can play in the park with some of my 16 grandchildren. I can barely make it to the end of a baseball or a softball game. The Willis Park does not allow dogs. If my Yorkie was sitting on my lap in the bleachers, her presence would not cause any harm to another individual. In direct contrast, the smoke from just one cigarette could kill me. Each time mathematics are exposed to second hand smoke, our exasperations are more severe. How many dogs killed someone last year? Second hand smoke killed over 50,000 asthmatic patients. Now, I add cancer and lung disease to that figure. The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that over 8% or 18.9 million adults have asthma. Over 9% or 7.1 children have asthma, and that's on the increase. When I informed someone that I have asthma and asked them to please put their cigarette out all too often they reply. It's a free country. It's not freedom for me when I can't watch a child's ball game. Can't play in the park, no walk on a public sidewalk. It's not freedom for me when I can't breathe because of their selfish choice. The third general environmental protection agency recommend that no one smoke when young children are present. I am respectfully pleading with each of you to become proactive and make not only the realest part a non-smoking facility, but each park in the county. Conno city parks provide a safe, smoke-free environment. Please allow their lead to provide the same for the rest of our amazing county parks. A room by this Commissioner's Court will not eliminate smoking, but will restrict smoking in public places where non-smoking citizens' health is presently being compromised because of exposure to second hand smoke. Please restrict smoking to 25 feet from the entrances to all public parks and recreation centers and eliminate smoking inside all county parks and the parking lots. It becomes a public health issue when people's health is at risk and being compromised. This commissioners court in the Montgomery Department of Public Health's role should be to ensure that our children and adults can play at and enjoy public places events without unwillingly being exposed to serious health hazards. I think we get the message. You've already gone about four minutes. If you can wrap it up very quickly. I got one paragraph. Okay. The Texas Department of State Health Services states that placing restrictions on smoking in public places is a key strategy to limiting the exposure to these dangerous hazards. Please act now. Place this ordinance request on your next agenda. This action would have no negative effect to the county budget, but it would have a positive effect to all citizens. Thank you very much. Thank you Terry. Very well done. Thank you. Do we get any other comments from citizens today? Bill, good morning. A couple of things. Thank Thank you. First Sunday at 2 p.m. in town green park, there will be ceremony for the 238th Marine Corps birthday. We'll honor the 16 Marines and one Navy corpsman who are on the monument that's there. We recognize them annually and then we'll have a cake ceremony and a street-be-cake. The second thing, I'm a little confused by what all has gone on with the Johnson Development. Now as I read about this in the paper, you understand that there was, I think it was a sealed bidding process. My question was that everybody in the sealed bidding process get the advantage of the what is now looks about to be about $40 million between Conroe and the county or is that something that's unique to a development as opposed to, no, there were rumors about big businesses coming up there, etc. That I have a concern with that. The third thing was, I sat here in this court when the district attorney and the grand jury read the problems that they had with the Joe Corley. And part of that, it was pretty evident when you sat here that there was a lot of throwing under the bus of a departed commissioner to use a point phrase. And now as I read the appraisal district, the departed commissioner is now on the appraisal committee and I'm confused by that after the reaction that I saw up here during the Joe Corley. It wasn't nominated by this body. Okay, I don't know. Okay, I understand. And I understand that you guys have approval, I expect it's there because you have the ability to approve it and I'm confused by that. And that's basically it. Okay, thank you. Okay, thank you Bill. Okay. Is your any additional citizens comment today? Human resources. Additional citizens comment today human resources Good morning, please consider an approved payroll change request forms move No, you just a quick question on we have we have a ton of payroll change forms every time every court session 40 or 50 how many of those ballpark percentage do you have any idea or re-evaluations of positions to give salary increases to? The majority of them are new hires commissioners. And then step plan increases that are going to help. There's that many new hires every two weeks. The last time we looked at the average it was mostly the new hires and I can get that information when I get back to my office. Okay well you're removing the old employee putting on the new employee and then I get a lot of FMLA movement on there. Mm-hmm. It's a lot of them. It's put amazing to me the number that come through. I do want to talk with you and fill us again about trying to limit the times in which we give raises. It on the agenda I defer it because I wanted to talk with you a little bit more about it. We have some it is addressed in our sorry administration plan commissioner which I meet with you on that later on. Okay thank you. Okay. Who's still in the June? Yeah I judge and commissioners I've asked Mike Stone to come up for Fort Bend County. We've got 242, the flower is 242, that will be opening for the end of next year, which will be our first toll facility. We're going to be in the toll business. And so Mr. Stone, I've talked a lot with the guys at Hektrin, a lot with Mr. Stone, who's contracts with Fort Bend County about operations of toll roads and toll road facilities. And he is the toll road guru in Fort Bend County and their model seems to fit what we're moving into pretty well. So I asked Mr. Stone to come up this morning and give us kind of an overview of toll road operations. So Stone if you would. Sure. In the last. If you were expecting something real fancy, you're going to be really disappointed. We're not. Okay. That's good. Well, the main thing about Port Bend County, because we operate a little bit different model, is we operate the toll road authority there as a real low cost business. Everything is outsourced. There are no employees, there's no office, there's a phone number but no phone. That just rolls over to our office. The management of the toll road authority is contracted out actually to two people myself and to Bill Jamison. All engineering is contracted out. All the maintenance is contracted out. We take bids on a regular basis. We've contracted with Harris County since our inception to collect our tolls. On the Grand Parkway it's going to be a little bit different this year. When we complete our section of segment D, we will have trans core doing all of the lane side toll collection and we'll have Z-Rox doing all our violation processing. Trans-core does toll side equipment for probably a third of the toll roads in America. Z-Rox collects about half of all the electronic transactions in America. So our model is all together different. It's based on very low cost. We've been recognized as being the lowest cost toll road operation in America. Probably that may not be the world, but that's close enough for me. Glad to answer any questions. And basically the discussions that we've had with commissioners in Fort Bend County and with Commissioner Doyle is, and with our county judge back in Fort Bend County is, we're here to help y'all in any way we can, teach you whatever we know. There's some interesting things about the tolling business that's a little different. The threshold to get into the business is very high. It costs a lot of money to get set up. The day-to-day operation if you set it up as a business it's not too bad. But that initial threshold is lengthy and rather expensive. But it's very manageable if you're all electronic, which I think is planned for Yolthroids. And what's involved in that threshold? Well, for the lane side equipment, you have to install the equipment on the lanes. And that makes no difference who or where you are. But it's a back office operation. You have to have a place for all of those transactions to be transmitted to. And unless you're going to issue your own tags, that information has to be transmitted then to the statewide interoperability hub. They sort out whose tag it was. They're going to keep how much is going to come back to you. Anything that wasn't a tag read, an easy tag or a text tag read has to be separated, filtered out if you will. All of those go to violation processing. Again, you have to have a back office operation to process those mail-out notices, receive the money coming back in on violations and get that money back to the county treasurer. And who does that back office operation for Fort Bend? For us, it's going to be Z-Rox. Z-Rox has also got a contract now with the state to do their back office. It's good to see the state is taking our lead. We hired Z-Rox one off and they drink around higher than the next month. So that's a it's always nice saying your big brother take your lead so. And you're contracted to Fort Bend you don't actually you're not an employee of Fort Bend County correct? I don't want to be one. You know, I'm just like, nothing personal, but not excited about being a county employee. So, is it a employee employee of exactly what's the name of the company? Well, I have my own firm and we changed the name. I saw on the agenda it said professional project management services and that was our name for the last 15 years, but we changed it this last year. It made a lot easier. It's just Mike Stone associates. And I work for that guy. And Mike, and you and two other people that basically run the accounting system. I mean, we have Bill Jameson is kind of our general management consultant. Bill used to be liquider Jameson engineers years ago. We tired from that sold out business, and he's in the financial management business today. He and I are the two leads. I have about five people that work for me. None of us work full time on the toll road, all of it's part time. I spend about probably about 75% of my time doing toll road business. Maybe not quite that much right now. Maybe a little probably about 75% right now because we're finishing the Grand Parkway. But on day-to-day operations when we're not constructing things it's probably more like 50% 40 40% 50% hopefully we'll be back there this spring once we open the road. You know I like what you say Mike. I like your discount you know I like what you say Mike I like your discount agenda and I know it's not only agenda today but I would start the process of course that the commissioners agree with me of some kind of a not necessarily a contract but a way to proceed to the next step. Sure. One of the things that we've extended the offer to from Fort Bend County to both Missouri County and to Montgomery County is we spent 10 years in the toll road operation business now alongside of Heector. We've learned a lot of lessons over the last 10 or 12 years. And we've extended the offer to help Montgomery County, Missouri County, to teach them everything that we've taught, or that we've had to learn. Some of those lessons weren't too expensive some were pretty expensive but after this time It just seems and part of it is because Harris County has has elected not to collect holes on the Grand Parkway for us. So we had to step back and Go learn a whole new set of skill sets and that's to really embed ourselves into what it really takes to do electronic tolling. So we're glad to extend all the help we can. As Fort Bend County toll rate authority, if it's more help than that, I can't commit the county. The judge said I could do just about anything except agree to do work for you as the county. So in anything up to teaching you everything we can do that. If it's more than that, if if there's some help that we can do as our little company, we'd be glad to do that. Have visited with Commissioner Goll with the county Engineer, your County Engineer. It sounds like y'all have some stuff. There's some real cost savings that we could probably extend as Fort Bend County to Montgomery County and the toll collection side since we've already paid the roughly, call it $3 million to get set up the back office. That's $3 million y'all could avoid paying and just pay the transactional cost. So, and the more office, that's $3 million, y'all get a void paying and just pay the transactional cost. So, and the more transactions, this isn't just a, you know, a gift because it actually helps us the more transactions we have, the lower our cost. And so we'd be glad to do that, work with y'all however we can. I think it's a good idea, Judge. We try to put something in place because Mike's got things running pretty lean in me. I agree and the scale that we're coming in on is very small. It would be similar where y'all started. Yeah and we started with Harris County as our big brother helping us and that was really good. We couldn't have done it without their help because we would have had to expend all this money upfront. Plus we just didn't know what we didn't know. Now we know a lot more, a little more comfortable. But it takes about something close to about 20 million transactions a year before you kind of reach that threshold of going out on your own until then. It'd really be nice to have somebody you can lean on. Thank you for coming. Here at Gerskine, it's kind of indicated that they're not really that interested in taking on anymore and so I think Mike's probably our best bet to learn from some of your mistakes and we certainly appreciate the help you get into. Oh, I've made a few. Thank you. Thank you, Mike. Thank you. Is your motion to adjourn? Anything else, commissioners? Thank you. Is your motion to adjourn or anything else commission? Judge before we adjourn on item 18A when the court took action we need the court to amend that motion to include a funding source for expenses that are incurred in pursuit of those claims. And I'll amend that. I'll amend my motion to include contingency of the funding source. Okay. I might mention to the next week in honor of the Veterans Day celebrations, the Vietnam Wall will be in Magnoia. Those of you that have not had a chance to see it, it will be one of the few times it's been only for like four times in the state of Texas. Okay, and so next week it will be in Magnoia if you want to make a trip over. We need your second on that motion. I'll second the motion of 1880 County Attorney. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. All in favor, see ya. Hi. Hi. We got a bill. We're good. Thank you. Things in motion to adjourn. Food. All in favor, see ya. Hi.