All right ladies and gentlemen I'd like to officially call this meeting to order. This is November 6th. Welcome. Thank everyone for being here. And I would like to start out by asking Mayor AJ Connors to please come forward and give us an invocation and leave us in the pledge. Everybody please rise. and give us an invocation and leave us in the pledge. Everybody, please rise. That is great. Heavenly Father, we come before you tonight. Just thank you for the wonderful blessings of each and every day that you have blessed us with health, strength, and ability to travel from one place to another. And as you cover us in protect us, we're just so grateful to say thank you again. Tonight Lord we thank you for the spirit of wisdom and knowledge that you will share with each commissioner and with the county managers. They go forth to deal with the bendest affairs of this county. We thank you for making Duke McHenry and treat him place to want to live in industry to want to come. We thank you for the progress that you've given to us and we thank you for the increase that will be coming later. These things we ask tonight, Lord, and your precious Son's name, let all God's children say amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the life of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nationnation, under God, in the visible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, sir. And this time any commissioners have anything to add to the night agenda. Mr. Miller? No, sir. don't know. I don't know. I do not. Just a matter. No sir. No sir. All right. I would entertain a motion to accept the agenda as printed. I got a motion in a second. Any further discussion? Here and none. All in favor say aye. All opposed, same sign. All right, here All right at this time I was asked for a motion to approve the minutes from the October 16th for me An emotional second Any further discussion Here in none all in favor say I all opposed same sign here all right All in favor say aye. All opposed same side. Carry. All right. Hopefully everybody's taking time to look through the consent agenda. If everybody satisfied I entertain a motion. I got a motion in a second to approve the consent agenda any further discussion. Here and none. All in favor say aye. All opposed same sign. Carry. Maybe anybody signed up the public comment? No, sir, no one signed it. All right, so we'll move right on to item number two, Mr. Scott. Good evening. Good evening. It's days like this where I really really love my job. I love bringing good news. And tonight we're here, we're home. We're conducting our public hearings, And we're about to move in. Okay. Yeah, I'm here tonight. We're souped. We don't care on general stage. One let's go. Let Mr. Edwards. Thank you, Senator. Okay. I didn't see that on my list. I'm sorry Okay, all right. We got a public hearing I'm gonna open the floor up for the public hearing and I'll turn the floor over to Scotty to explain All in favor say I All opposed okay public hearing is nine session Yes, sir Okay public hearing is nine session. Yes sir, I presume to note down on the general statute 158-7.1. We are required to have a public hearing and tonight we're talking about an incentive for a project that we term project refresh and I'll be speaking tonight about the nature of that incentive and what we're looking at. I also have our airport director. Josh's, Josh Rainer is here with me this evening to maybe answer any technical questions from the airport side. I do come tonight to the public and I do come tonight to the public and I will come back to the commissioners with the blessings of the DC board as well as the airport board and we have a long-term tenant at the airport who as is seeking renovations up to $250,000 or an airport to hangar, belonging to, you know, the people are belonging to the county. And they have committed to bringing in a new plane that essentially is about the equivalent of 86 homes as it compares to a tax value. That'll be based in Dupland County at the airport. They have committed to skilled level jobs. New jobs that would be piloted in a mechanic. and also to retaining to semi-skilled jobs within the company. And what the nature of the incentives is that with these commitments in a hand, and that's for a time period of up to five years. Now, obviously, if the plane is sold, it would not stay in Dupland County. But at this plane, as long as it's retained, ownership of the company, before a new plane is purchased, we have a guarantee that that plane will be based at the airport, or at least a body of period. In return for that, they're only asking that we reimburse them up to $250,000 for the improvements to our hanger. That the incentive of that is that on top of taking on those improvements to the county anger again and emphasize that enough They've also committed to these Ford two jobs committed new jobs and two jobs retain So that would be a plan in paying the taxes on the new plane Year one would be a reimbursement of $83,334. A plan paying their taxes in year two, it would be $83,334 again. And then in the final year, the reimbursement for the cost of the rates to the hanger, a final reimbursement of $83,332. That is the nature of the incentive from a practical and personal perspective of mine. Again, I can't reiterate enough how strongly our board supported and we hope that you and the public will also support this endeavor to keep that nice playing in the group. And to take on these improvements to that hanger. I will say that hanger was constructed in 1994. And the tenant has been in that hanger about since itsivity for a lot of 30-year periods. They would be counting a long time. At this point, I can name the company. It's a Murphy family interest. LLC. Without all polls, I'm not answering any questions. Okay. This is a public area. So feel free to ask any questions you might have And anybody back there in fact that didn't hear y'all can step up and we'll repeat it Any further questions Josh is okay I'm only a work Australian, the youth employment, would there be a residency requirement for the two-time county law, which can be a living place? There is no residency requirement in the agreement. Josh, any comments you want to make about the hangar? Another, the hangar does leave some oak key and if they want to put their money up for them, we can reimburse them. I think I'll go for the hammer so they'll get a nice looking hanger out of it and keep it for a long time to come. Any more comments from the public? comments from the public. Here in none I'm on close to public here and go back into open session. Any comments or questions from the commissioners? Okay if there is no comments or questions from the commissioners, I would entertain a motion to approve this agreement between Murphy Family Ventures and Dukeland County and authorize me to sign the agreement. I got a motion in a second. Now is any further discussion. Here none, all in favor say aye. All opposed, same side. Carry. Thank you. Good job. Thank you. Okay, that brings the item number three. Chris, Chris Hatcher, how about that? That's what I go back. We need to open this for public here and do. All right. Okay, Mr. Hatch is bringing us some information for the public to be able to speak to. So I'm going to open the floor for a public hearing. All in favor say aye. All opposed same sign. We're now in to public hearing. So Mr. Chris explain information. Good evening. Good morning before you. According to General Statute 160D, we are required to hold public hearing for the adoption of the Board of Adjustments. The Board of Adjustments ordinance was in the commission's packet. And it's fairly straightforward. It outlines the requirements as followed by 160D and what are required for the county to move forward with the board of adjustment. The Article I membership is one that was brought to staff's attention today because after this we are also requesting to appoint members to the Board of Adjustment. Staffs wrote that we have five members, five board members, and two alternate members. And also that the citizens should be residents of Duke and County and that the others should hold no public office under County Government. We would like to point out that two of the people that were recommended for the appointment one is not a county resident and the other holds one office as well. These are not state requirements. We can change that if desired by the board. Currently we have six members who have six potential members who can meet those requirements. But you have a full board. We still have the ability to bring on those people if they get the board desires. I can go to board and get to the rest of the ordinance if anyone has any other questions. There's no compensation for the board members. All board members and alternate members are required to come to every meeting. So everyone will be here. The duties of the board are listed as shown. One item was the submission and fees. Staff is suggesting a fee of $350 for the variance requests and also the appeal request. There's a notice appearing that has to be done. We will be mailing letters to all adjacent property owners. And we will also be posting a sign at the property. The $350 per applicant will help pay for all the signage that has to be purchased and staff time. In the application for the Board of Adjustment board adjustment has been requested that the applicant submit letter or the envelopes with stamps and I will be able to help them with who they need to mail it to. I'll have them with that. Just long as they get in the envelopes to get the stamps, I can take it from there. We'll draft a letter and those letters get mail out to the adjacent property owners. After speaking with the cog about this, the East and Sea, which is the Eastern Carolina Council, we do not have to make public notice in the New K-4. That'll save money because publishing in the New Spegrin doesn't get expensive. And that's just one less date that we have to abide by. So we can still move forward with getting these people, if they do want to go forward with the various requests with the fee that we have. I'm here to answer any questions. Okay, this is a part of the committee. Feel free to speak up. One more chance. Any questions from the panel? I'm going to move to the next floor. One more chance. Any questions from the Department? Here and none. I'm offloading the public area. We'll go back into open session. Any commissioners have any questions or comments? Okay. Mr. Hatcher, with the states in there about members of the Board of Adjustments shall serve without compensation and may be removed by the County Commissioners at any time for any reason? Is that a pillow? Not in our ordinance. It would be, I will say that our ordinance that has been drafted is pretty standard statewide for everyone that has aborted adjustment Either if they are in the municipality of the city or town commissioners with Accounting commissioners can point those members in remove their These members will take up so they understand that they can be removed at any time And it's up to your discretion when you would like to remove. Gotcha. OK, one other thing is the statement that they all have to be present. So does that mean that if they're not all here, the meat and the cancer was to deal on that? No, sorry. So what we have to have is a corn for the variance request. We have to have a four-fist majority so if we have at least four members present we can move forward with variance requests. We would prefer five. The reason for that is because sometimes it's hard to get all four votes at one time. So if you have the fifth member who's there that may or may not assist the citizen in the Reveillance Request. In the PEO request, we actually can move forward. It's a majority. So three fifths could approve or deny the PEO. And the reason that we need to alter this there, in case a member was to have to recuse themselves. So in the ordinance for Article 3 duties, we have board members and staff or it's begging to abide by conflicts of interest. So essentially if someone's going for an variance request, they and board member was to gain financial reasons for getting this request. They have to recuse themselves because that's a conflict of interest for that variance request, allowing the other board members to come in and take part of the meeting. Now, that doesn't mean they have to step out for the whole meeting. They'll step out for that particular idea. And when I say step out, I just mean step down. They have a kidnomic of a dog. We have, again, we have about eight potential people who can be appointed board, two of them, according to the ordinance as is written, do not meet the residents. One does not meet residents, if the other one does not, is actually appointed to another public office that can change. The ordinance can be admitted right now to allow those members, potential members to join forward. If the board gets the commissioners what's the exact, the exact, uh, any further questions? And we could also update this to say three alternates instead of two alternates. Because we like, so we do have eight people and they can all eight be on the board there's no statute for requirement on how many have the maximum number of people we have to at least good practice as at least five good board members to get a fourth this majority for the variance request but if you just you went with the six and qualified you used still be all right. We will be okay and we can amend this and have one ultra-division member or we could ask the board to find one more person that will pull me down a later time. What the individual that holds the leg of the office, what office could they hold? DSS. They're under the county government. Commissioners, it's actually an appointed office as a DSS board member. There's not an elected office. That's correct. OK. Is that? I mean, I don't have a problem in serving on a noble board's life. I mean, if we change it to an elected position, I don't know what the feeling of the board is. So commissioners, I think you have a couple decisions to make. Number one, are you going to allow residents outside of the county to participate on the board of adjustments? Number two, I think your second decision needs to be whether or not to amend the ordinance and take away the serving as an elected or appointed official on another board. So I think those are the two main decisions you have to make and after considering those and making your decision, we can give you an update on what your next decision may be depending on how you decide on those two items. I had, you know, if we were to amend the ordinance to allow that and the commissioner spelled that those in the version were not fit to serve the forward they could be removed and then we could find other all the members. But as stands right now we have the five plus three. Currently we have we have eight people but two of those about this ordinance we cannot appoint. Okay, so we have six. Correct. So we could start doing what we need to do with those six. We can't. And if something needs to be tweaked out of the fact, we could look at it. We can. Okay. And then that way we wouldn't have to amend the ordinance. Right. That's correct. That's correct. No mending, we would just add another person. And that could be done at the next meeting. Don't have that in public here to appoint a member. All right. I entertain a motion to the dog, the ordinance. And give me the authority to ask. I got a motion in a safe father's question here and none all their papers. This is a member that you're talking about. Mr. Attorney the is anything in here that says that they can't serve right now. As it's drafted, as it's drafted, as it's drafted, as these gentlemen are pointed out, you either need to make this motion subject to an amendment or two amendments or move forward with it as it is drafted and appoint six of the eight with two options going forward. You know, one, bring back another name if he needs a certain name or come back later in the ordinance. Now we'll tell you if you come back later in the ordinance, then you are going to have to have another public hearing. So I would say if you're inclined to amend the ordinance in just in the sense of efficiency I'd encourage you to go ahead and do that tonight so you don't have to have a second public hearing. Right. We do have several people in the county that are appointed to more than one board. So you shouldn't take away somebody's ability to do servo on the board just because they servo on another board. And if somebody's outside of the county, they should think more than likely will be unbiased as far as hearing the situation, or if it's too anything that comes up. To your point, Mr. Dowd, there are other boards that have both somebody from outside the county and somebody wearing two hats so it is a loud and or work other ordinances. As this ordinance is drafted which Mr. Hatcher pointed out is borrowed from I think from City of Wilmington and the Sparrow standard in the in the state and in the industry it includes that language precluding it but that doesn't mean that you can't change water both of those limitations when you adopt it. Right. The state statute doesn't require that person live within the county. Nor does it require that they can be appointed to make the police. But our ordinance is written does. This is not what it does at this time. The way it's written does, and not what it does at this time but the way the way it's written does and yeah we've got emotion in a second on the floor so further discussion. Mr. Chairman I just want to point out one more thing the way the way the ordinance is written you actually have seven members that are qualified in my opinion you actually have seven members that are qualified. In my opinion, you actually have seven members that are qualified to serve. The only member that's not qualified to serve as written is the one member that lives outside of the county. Father's discussion. Does anybody have any objection to the, uh, does changing that this evening, or do you want to just think I mean, here, this is consensus object. I'm gonna change it. I don't think I have a kind of citizen she'd have a right to approve very existing County. That didn't. I agree. All right. What about you, Mr. Ed? I'm fine with it. I guess if we're going to change it, we don't know if it's going to be based on what you guys just said. I mean, I guess it's now now, and if it's now, it was never. Well, I mean, for my standpoint, we have, this is our first time out at the gate asking for people to serve, and we've had very good results inside the county. I don't see any reason to why we would change the orders to go outside the county. If we get to the point that we can't fulfill, we can always come back with another public here and it changed ordinance. But you know there is a lot of question or gonna be a lot of questions about What's going on with this board anyway because of some of our lack of father in this procedure previously and I just don't think we want to mix Bring in somebody from outside a Non-resonance into the mix and this given time or that's where I feel and it sounded like that's the way the mission arrived was felt. All right well I think if that's the case then we need to look at all the other boards but that we have people from out of the county in certain boards that represent different places. the board the chair my call to question the motion that was on the floor is that we adopt the ordinance that we have in place and authorize the chairman to sign it. All in favor say aye. All opposed. They carry. Thank you again, Mr. Chairman. That is time. With the passing of the ordinance, we would like to move forward with appointing members to the board. Staff's motion presents that Monti Thorne, Herbert Rainer, and excuse me. Monti Thorne, Morris Murphy, co-philips for a three-year term, Joey Carter and Nick Bell for a two year term, Herbert Rainer and Angela Rainer for a major, a major, excuse me, Angela Rainer, as the alternates, Herbert being a three year appointment and Miss Mayer as a two year appointment. I wish I to approve. The right, the motion has drafted is different than whatever it is. Okay. Because we had to change it because the person who lives outside of town. Okay. All right. I still have a motion to approve as we read. Yes. Second. Second. I have a second. Any further discussion? to the previous meeting. Second. Second. I have a second. Any further discussion? I have one notation as far as the spelling that needs to be corrected. For his minor, that's M-A-I-N-O-R. And to the minor. Andrew and Mayna. You're following the discussion. We go back over that list because what you're reading is different than what we've got. Yeah, I just figured one. We had to change it up. At the beginning the regiment emotion of motion was Joy Blaine. She actually lives outside of the county. There's a sheet down. Yeah. So we have Monty Thorn, Morris Murphy, Cole Phillips, appointed as a three year term for the board members, Joy Carter and Nick Bell, appointed to two year terms for the players. Joy Carter and Nick Bell. Appointed to two your terms for the board. For the alternate members, we have Herbert Rainer, Herbert Rainer as a three-year appointment. All right, hold it right there. I'm not willing for him to be an alternate because he is my only guy on there. We can we can change that. Okay. Because what I'm seeing on the hours is Montethorne and Hebrew for three year terms and our alternates are gonna be Nick Bell and Marsh Murphy. Like whatever this is. They all have the same authority. Right, they all have the same authority. They do. They're all voting in this. But I do not want my one guy to be an alternate. Understood. If we would like to make a change to that, we have monkey- Thorn, Herb Arranger. As it's listed, we'll read off Monty Thorn, Herb Arranger, and then add cold fillets for a three year term. We'll just put a Joey Carter and Nick Bell for the two year terms that leads us with more submerging as a three year alternate and then the misangular as a two year alternate. Everybody clear? I'm just gonna do a sting. Okay, that's what I just wanted to clarify. I'm sure everybody was clear before I asked. Okay, so I have a motion on the floor as it was last listed. To accept those people at those years and those positions. Second. Got a second. Now, further discussion. Here and none. All in favor say aye. No. All opposed, same sign. Carry. Thank you, Mr. Hatcher. Thank you. This works well. I know you've been through a lot. Try to get here. It was all just good. All right, that brings to item number five. Miss Kennedy. Good evening. I'm here to ask for approval to increase the cost of naming a private lane due to the sign supply increase. 25 from 150 for the signs and the public here to 175. Now I think when I owed the ordinance, it had them very burst, like the vote here was 100 in the sign-blades or 50, you know, the opposite. See, we're currently at 115, you won't care to 175? Yes sir. Most do it for instance. Okay so I've got a motion and a second to move it to 175. Any further discussion? Yeah. Is that going to be enough? Yes. Make some of your calculations. Any more discussion? Here and then, all in favor say aye. All opposed to same side? Carry. Thank you. All right, that brings us to item number six, RH, CPAP, LLC. Thanks, sir. My name is TD Hill. It's Tom David Hill. I'm a good guy TD with RH and Associates. I want to talk to you about your 2022 audit. First, I want to cut the chase a little bit though and talk about 2020 period. It is trending very well. I know we have a decent of first deadline and we are trending well towards that date. Also the odds are that it's in three weeks. And I also want to say that part of that, or a large part of that, is Chelsea in there getting us things on time. We've gotten the final trial balance. We've gotten a secret. Actually, I was out looking at the Medicaid test in the day we're doing that this week. We'll be talking about this in my presentation, but we've had a finding last year, also it's a finding from 2021, but it appears that right now our first day of testing that things were looking good over there. So before I get started, any questions about 2020? Thank you, Mr. Nguyen. You're welcome. Did you pay? Yeah. We talk all those daily, getting things back and forth. We have a very good, good working relationship. She's done a great job and at one point, just a little, a little father here. She was working on both the 2022 and the 23rd throughout at the same time. Also, and Mr. Miller got a good relationship with him. And we've just been here in a couple of weeks, but we've been working well as well. Any questions or comments for our start? Okay. Financial statements, or this for 2020 to the financial statements are complete, you got an unqualified or clean opinion. That's the best audit opinion in the business. So, financial statements been filed and approved by the LGC state and we did the federal filing with the clearing house. Let's talk a little bit about roles objectives, It's all your independence. We have to be independence, in fact, in appearance, and nothing, basically we're independent. Everything is fine on that. We do a plan. We look at internal controls, look at the processes here, we go over that with the finance team. We also perform a risk assessment. We look at higher risk things like cash, also assets and revenue. Then we perform audit procedures. And then we, our opinion also, we have reasonable assurance, which means we don't test every transaction. But we do test a sample to give us a good opinion. Reform is sing a lot on Medicaid, Medicare, just to how large that is. Then also we did a major program testing on low-income home energy assistance, coronavirus, and then the state programs, steam debris removal, debris removal, and the public school building fund. We ran to our opinion on the financial statements on the whole and on the compliance testing that I did in the, and we did in the prior slide. We have required supplemental information, we have management decision, discussion analysis, and then we have various schedules with the pension lovilities. Then we have a lot of individual fund statements and schedules, and this is required by the LGC, and that's why your financial statements are almost 150 pages or a lot. We have audit finding in the medical related to pedagogic Medicaid eligibility. It's related to recertifications. It's a repeat of finding and we'll talk about that in detail here in just a minute. Then we had some adjusting journal entries and these basically were around how the LGC likes things presented. We had to do that. For this year, new was this Gatsby 87 over leases, and that was a little bit of a presentation of how we go about presenting those. All your estimates appear reasonable. There were no disagreements with management, and no difficulties encountered with county management and we had a complete cooperation by Chelsea and her team. Significant deficiencies. Okay. There was two of them. One of them was over the Medicaid testing and basically these were technical issues. These were over some documentation and there were no question call string thing and it was just ineffective record keeping in case review so we recommend a better review and the corrective action was that the supervisor basically got to do they've got a template and they've been reviewing. So that's been a my understanding, that's effective now as of October. Then we wanted, they're going to do a checklist and that was implemented as well as October. Then late submission. This was due to finance staffing issues. And we got several trial balances. And also we didn't get a see fun till spring of this year for 2022. And I can go ahead and tell you that this is not an issue anymore because we've got, like I said, we've got all the information that we need at this time and Chelsea actually has been quite proactive asking us, hey, is there anything else that you need? Actually, we just have that conversation this morning. But we got everything that we need from the county at this point for 2023. Let's talk a little bit about results of the operations for 2022. Obviously the blue here is the revenues and the green's expenditures. So that's obviously trending well. Then the general fund balance, that's base here equity, you know, kind of what you're worth. You see that positive trend there? You guys are trending well and that was good. That's obviously a direct correlation to the good business and finance decisions that you guys may. You're a good steward for the county. The large part there, the brown, is the unallocated, non-restricted. So you've got a lot of, you can do a lot of different things because you don't have much time down. I guess positive trend here, this is the asset to put it in sell as of the percentage of expenditures. Property taxes, not your largest revenue, that's trending well. Other taxes and licenses, obviously that's trending well. well expenditure breakdown this is from the general fund basically they're your largest expenditure is public safety human services and education then proprietary funds this is the airport transportation of water and waste. And we asked last year we had a profit. So major takeaways again, unqualified opinion for 2022, the best one you can get. The health appears strong, financial health, no discrepancy with management. We receive complete cooperation with current financial team. We are trending well for the 2023 audit and we have a team on site this week performing Medicaid compliance testing. Any questions or concerns? Sounds mind-of-good. Again, thank you, here. Do you when you go back to slides? Yes, sir I've got a question some time Let that sure Yeah That's my personal cell phones and also you need to get in touch with me you talked to Chelsea But if you have any concerns or comment or anything about the 2023 audit, please give me a copy. Do they have a copy of this? Yes. It was good. Any questions? Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you sir. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right. That brings us to item number six. Number seven. Mr. Miller. Commissioners, I have just a few general announcements and comments. I want to remind everybody that tomorrow's municipal election. I believe it begins at 6.30 a.m. and goes to 7.30 p.m. Veterans Day is this coming Saturday on the 10th, it's observed on Friday so the county government will be shutting down on Friday. The library contributed or participated in a very successful truncretry event that had about 1,200 participants or 1,200 attendees at Dupland Commons. So congratulations to the library on a very successful event. The Christmas parade is November 25th. I wanted to pull the board and see if the board was interested in participating in the Kenensville Christmas parade. When you say interest in participating at what level? Riding on a fluke. If someone had not been there, that would be great. Probably out of the way. What day was that? That'd be great. I think that's correct. That's correct. I don't sound like there's a whole lot of interest. Okay. I think we'll sum up the details of it and make it a half. You gonna be doing something? I'm going to be out of town. No, it don't sound like it's any reason to invest in money. I understand. So I did want to let the board know that I had at this point have met with all the department heads. And I have been very impressed with both the professionalism and the knowledge base. And I think been very impressed with both the professionalism and the knowledge base contained here in Dupland County. I think you have a very knowledgeable staff and I want to commend the department heads for all of their efforts and their hiring efforts. Incredibly difficult to hire folks right now, but I believe Duplen has a really good staff. Short a couple positions, but good people, knowledgeable people. I want to bring the board up to speed on the new animal shelter. We are still missing two electrical panels, one of which were told will be delivered next week. The other we still do not have an ETA on, but we are making weekly, if not semi-weekly, inquiries into when that panel will be received. So we're staying on top of it, but I know it's been a long drawn out process, but supply chain shortages being what they are, we don't have an ETA on the other panel. Can I ask you one question? Yes, sir. Until we get an occupancy permit on that, they're still carrying their insurance requirements on the correct. That's correct. Okay. So they're pushing for the electrical panel just as much as we are. So and the only I think the only other update that I have is there's a groundbreaking ceremony for veteran services and senior center, senior services center at Dupland Commons. This Thursday at 10 a.m. we hope members of the board will be able to attend. And with that being said I'm happy to answer any questions you may have about anything you want to ask. anything you want to ask. Question, Commissioner Meadow? No, exactly to see both of you. Where's Micheal's? I think this first time we've seen you. It's my first meeting. It is. I'll point out that Carrie and I have been able to spend quite a bit of time together and I think we're forming a really strong team. Any further comments? Hearing none, I didn't take any motion to adjourn. So good. I got a motion in a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aficionary adjourn.