We apologize for the tardiness the now time now is 414. We'll call this meeting to order. We welcome everyone that's in person and possibly online. We have the agenda before us. I'd like to recognize that we do have a quorum even though we have two members that are absent at this particular time. I'll call for a motion of the agenda. I'll send it. I'll send it. Any discussion? All in favor, aye? Aye. Pose same sign. Paces. Passes. It has been set out the adoption of last month's minutes. I hope everyone's had a chance to look at it. I'll call for a motion. Second. Any discussion? All in favor aye. Aye. Okay. Any public comments? I'm going to recognize the person I would like to do before we get to the personnel report. It's recognized a new employee that we have. I'm so excited to introduce you to Kim Murray. Kim Murray is, I'm going to let introduce you to Kim Murray. Kim Murray is, I'm not even gonna let him talk in just a moment, but Kim Murray took the position as executive assistant to the director. And so we're very excited for her and Kim, if you would say something to the board. I'm glad to be here today. And with the SES for 21 years now and the financial section under PAM. And I'm just I'm excited to be here and help deal. Thank you very much. We appreciate that. And now if you will focus your attention on, of course, never report dated 331, 2024. If you don't mind, just reviewing the report and letting us know if you have any questions about any numbers or anything that looks interesting. I would have to say we are a little bit up if you would notice under the much care and adoptions that we are up on our come time. If you notice there's one that employee or 207, the come time is now up to 125 hours. And we do our very best not to allow that to happen, but when they have to work, they have to work. This particular person has children outside of the county. And when they're doing visits, it just, it happens like that because they have to take the kids back and forth. So we're going to work on that to try and get that to, to decrease. So that's the most significant difference. It's just, just the overtime. I'm sorry. New poll. It's going well. It's going well. We've hired a few. We've got a new supervisor. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. New poll. It's going well. It is going well. We've hired a few. We've got a new supervisor who is in our in-home services and she comes to us for five years of experience. She's working bunking county and in another state. So, yeah. So, I'm very well. Has employee morale been pretty holding study any ups or downs lately? You know I use the water cooler to come to talk with people and ask them how things are going. And I know sometimes I don't get the full story, but I feel like it's okay. I'm going to open it up to Pam, some of the other managers candy. What do you think about him around? One of the things that we did for Social Work Appreciation Month was do things that tried to increase them around. So we've done that. I feel like it's going okay. We had a little bit of a setback in our Don't Make a Unit. We had a long-term care experience worker to leave. We tried our best. We did. We did it to stay. I spoke with you. Yeah. And so, but I think when that happens, there's a little bit of a one. Thanks. But we quickly got a planning place. And I think it's really important. Once you get a plan in place I feel like things started common down and I'm checking every day and it seems everybody seems to be better. It's just been a lot of new staff in that area so that's the only thing on our side I think. I'm sorry, the adult Medicaid. Yes. Transition for your age. Yes, yeah. I did talk with someone that wondered if child support would be privatized. I think that's happening in some place. So sometimes people get worried. And my response was, you know, if there's anything going on, I'm going to be transparent. And so I haven't heard anything about that. I said, I would know, but there's some counties around that are going private for child support. So there are people that are leaving and you know the work is back to us but I told them right now I hear something, built or something. And I think people appreciate the transparency. In a decision like that would would that be something local, or that's something that's followed down from the state? Or something like that? That would be local because it's all about budget. When people privatize, a lot of times it saves the county a lot of money, and that's what make people do it. You also do some employees as well without a shadow of a doubt. So, you know, and it's come up before. So, but right now we're good. And- Comments by ask that kind of question at some point. Exactly. And as a director, it is something that I will look at in the future because I'm supposed to, to use the money, the tax credit's money to the best and to make sure that it goes as far as it can. But for right now, I told him, and if there's something happening, you'll know. I promise. So. That's a great question, though. But I think the morale is pretty good. Too kind of heavy concerns in my mind are always, especially now, that might be weighing on playing morale as abuse, and obviously they deal with a lot of abuse in many ways, but kind of like, you know, adult taking advantage, and then now with, you know, gender identity things, getting in the middle of trying to negotiate between families and children that are trying to make adult decisions, not sort of thing. I just, those are kind of heavy things that I imagine are difficult for our staff to navigate. There are. They're difficult. I can tell you that we had a, are, they're difficult. I can tell you that we had a, I got a call earlier or we had a social worker threaten today and I said we're, you know, we just don't play with that. So we definitely press charges and that was right before I came over. So, you're writing fine adult. I think that would be big to let the staff know that if somebody, if their safety is a jeopardy, I know sometimes agency says, okay, we're not going to do anything about it. But yes, to let the staff know that, yes. We're going to do something every time. One of us. Every time. That's our job is to protect our staff. And they can't protect children if we can't protect them. This is true. So yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. We did have what we're on this subject with child abuse and neglect. We did have our pinwheel ceremony this morning. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. For coming. I thought that went great. I thought it was wonderful. I just wish the wind was blowing a little bit more so we could get videos of the pin with turnip. Oh, no, that would be nice. Well protected, different. And that year, in that case. And that concludes the personnel report. When I have budget discussion, is price please. Okay. Everyone have your current fiscal year report, which ends March 31st, 2024. You'll see on page two, your highlighted area, the quarter wave down the page, your contribution from General Fund for your administrative expenses is at five point. 57, excuse me, 57.51% which is 17.49% under budget. We should be at 75%. Spending here on page four, your contribution from General Fund for your programs. We should be at 75% spending here. On page four, your contribution from General Fund for your programs is at 94.48, which is 19.48 over budget due to foster care, mostly. And then on the very back page, you'll see that the total budget is 67.65%, which is 7.35% under budget. So we're still under budget for the year. There's no programs or any administrative lines that are over budget this time that we're not over last time. Again, foster care. If you look on page, what page is foster care on? Seven. You'll see you're spending for state foster care is 189% and you're spending for four E foster care down near the bottom is at 85.7%. So really, that's what's driving that program line over, you know, to be so much over as a foster care and this is as close as we've ever been on a budget it's been long as I've been here to you know not being under budget for the year I'm hoping and praying that that foster care will remain a little constant so we won't be going over budget for the year we may have to do a budget amendment on the foster care. I'm hoping not, but like I said, we usually have a lot of good bit of funds left in our budget. But this is the closest that we've been. I mean, we're still under right now. We're at 7% under. We've got three more months to go. So just let me you guys know where we are on that foster care number. You'll see we budgeted 400,000. We've already spent 7509 in that state foster care. That just we've got so many children with behavioral issues that are in group homes out of county. We're at cost a lot more. We've lost foster homes, the SS homes, having lost 13, 14 this year. Right. So hopefully we have not, the SS homes, how many do you have all 13, 14 this year? So hopefully. We have not, we have three that we gained, but that's been at. So we're like at maybe 23 now. We're working, we're putting things in place. We have a problem that I'll talk about in this a little bit. We're putting in place to try to get them. I'm hopeful about the same program you mentioned last time. Yeah. Hope you're excited about that. Well, I'll hold off on my comment then if you're going to talk about the program. OK. I see that the unclang bodies is over. Is? Yeah, we still got that many days very last page. Yes, we've had we budgeted $6,000 which we spent $750 for the commission right you see we've already spent 8,095 so we're yeah 2,095 hours over so and that's not necessarily that there are no family members, but there are no family members that want to pay for the cost of They did not claim cremation or burial. They did not claim the bodies And if I'm not mistaken no matter where the person dies that if they are traced back to Rutherford County Rutherford County's responsible if they're a resident of Rutherford Yes, sir our trace back to Rutherford County, Rutherford County is responsible. If they're a resident of Rutherford County, yes sir. That's correct. Is there a resident? That looks overall on the budget. Thank y'all. I mean, you're squeezing those terms. Yeah. You squeezing it. Right. So, like I said, I'm hoping that you know we come out you know right at budget. Hopefully we won't be over, but we're looking at, like I said, that foster care is just something. There are so many lines to keep up with, and I know like, came you really, you do a really good job of kind of balancing things, moving them around. I know our audit was great so you do that all, you try the book and I mean like yeah, a lot of times you're like this can come from here, this can move from there. I wonder if that's okay but I imagine that it is. Yeah, that's you know we have you know single auditors come in and they sell us in the administrative side you can move funds around in the program side you can move funds around in the program side, you can move funds around. So, I mean, programs are sometimes it is what it is because that's what funding we do yet, but especially on the administrative side, and you look, if there's money left over in salaries, you might move at the temporary salaries and that type of thing. So, where we have, you know, some lab salary money, where we have vacancies. So, yeah, when we go over a little bit and one we can move it around into the end. A lot of stuff. Yeah. Keep up with that. Bill, this is what I look at every day. Thank you Pam. You're a great job. It's just wearing the budget. I think you've already met with the county manager and finance director From the board standpoint with the budget as being presented correct Is there an increase? Okay, go to you know, we've go to the next report that's The next year I like yeah, the one with all the yellow highlights on yet, so Yeah, if you'll go to the very last page, you'll see that what we asked for was $635,848 dollars over last year, which comes to what did I figure? 11, about 11% increase over last year. about 11% increase over last year. We can go to each line that I've got highlighted, shows the increases in the administrative expenses. We had requested, go back to page, I don't even know how these pages numbered. It's been in been administrative page three. You'll see that we requested three new FNS positions and one social worker positions. It's in the increase and decrease explanation out to the right. This is 656,473 of this increase is Medicaid expansion positions, much dear. The 197,770 are those four positions that we requested in new positions. See that total show 854,000 over in salaries. And while we're there, let me just give a justification of the positions, I know we said we would talk about that, and then just give a justification of the positions. I know we said we were going to talk about that and then we'll turn it back to PM. For one, since Medicaid expansion has happened, we have seen a sharp increase in the people applying for food and nutrition services. So one created another one. So it's been really, really difficult. You'll see some overtime over there. Most people have had to work overtime just to try to manage. So, you know, the Medicaid recipients came and then they also applied for the stamps. And so that's why we're requesting those positions. And then for the such work position, we're doing it in the licensing unit. Why? Because we have now, like 187 children in foster care, which is more than even one of our neighboring counties. And it just keeps rising. It just keeps rising and we just don't have the foster homes here. So we feel like, and then we've got some other homes coming into the community that's going to help us make sure the kids are not sleeping at the office on the floor. So that's creating even more work because somebody's got to manage all of that. So we're asking for a social worker in the foster care unit for the licensing part to try to get people out in the community trying to find foster homes. So we feel like that position by some number of kids that we have in foster care that looks like is not increasing at all. That is, it's very important. So that's the rationale for that. These are working on that currently. A position that you've got working specifically on. They're sharing it. So the supervisor or the the clerk are sharing. So let's just say when we have kids that come in, they don't have a placement. Whoever that supervisor is, that who is all, is the supervisor that's kind of over it and that's kind of managing it. And really and truly, it's kind of difficult because every week there's a new supervisor. So there's a lot of things lost. And we've noticed that there's been some things that was lost that could be potentially risky for us. So getting someone in that position is going to keep their eyes on that all the time is so critical. Okay. I'll cut people in. That's fun. I don't know if you want to go down through each one of these lines by line, but just going down when your salaries increase, of course, you're fired to make a retirement for a NK. All that increases. And then there was an increase in our retirement percentages and that came from the state and then Paula our finance director requested told me you know the increase to put in the retirement then going on to the next page health and life insurance of course that increases based on the new positions plus there's an increase as far as the county portion of the health and life insurance. Then for the administrative expenses going down you'll see the professional services childcare that's just based on our numbers from the state, the state estimates. Office supplies we requested 5,000 more and office supplies travel. We requested 5,000 additional in travel just based on our out of county. We have to feed these children as well and that comes out of that line when they're in our office. They've missed lunch. They have to be taken out of school for doctor appointments. all that goes in travel and I know that doesn't sound like that would be where those claims are filed that they are, the calls are filed in that travel line. Employee training, we just, that $2,015 just to give us more additional funds for employee training. Then the next page, property insurance, vehicle insurance, and professional liability insurance. And I know that you know when you're paying insurance, that it's gone out of the roof. And so those are increases, Paula suggested that we do 3% increase over what was paid this year. And see what we paid this year and see what we paid this year was a $92,000 in the professional liability $30,000, $708,000 and $92,000, $3,000. So those of just skyrocketed insurance calls have. Attorney dues, we have that $200 just based on the cost from the vendor for the software for the attorney software. Capital outlay data automation that's increased $204,108. Part of that is we combined one of the lines, the capital outlay and the software maintenance. And then the rest of that is about $30,000 that is for new equipment for the new employees. We have to, if we do get new positions, the four new positions, of course we have to have computer phone, all the works for that. Day sheet software, the 1080 is just increased from our vendor, Medicaid transportation software, 405, it increased from the vendor. In the vehicle replacement program, it's just a, I don't know if we'll leave that at 60,000, we might take that back because we're trying to get increase from the vendor. And the vehicle replacement program is just, I don't know if we'll leave that at 60,000, we might take that back because we're trying to get right now, three or four vehicles right now. If we get those, we'll be in pretty good shape for next year. We kind of, you know, how hard it is to get vehicles right now from the dealerships. So we've been kind of behind on being able to get, you know, vehicles. And that was in the previous budget. Yeah. That was in the previous budget. Right. Then go on to the next page. That's just the program side. And again, you'll see down the middle of the page, state foster care. We've increased to $199,500. The kinship foster care is in there. And that's new this year. You know, we were paying key and ship for placements for children in their relative placements. For e foster care, we increased that 131,496 and the drug screenings, 30,000 just based on costs. Maybe that is a five year average of cost, the for those drug screens in their court ordered a lot of them I'm surprised that's not in create you didn't increase that even more. Yes, and That's our county funds. We don't get any reimbursement for drug screen That's the that's a bad thing on that that one Then just I you can ask questions on this. Yes. And I should know the answer to this. Court order correct. Does the court impose a civil fine? No, they don't. I don't think I've ever heard it, but I'm like, I should have known the answer to that. A civil fine for the drug screen? Yeah. Yeah. I know the court has ordered them. A civil crime for it. But the drug screening? Yeah. Yeah. I know the court has ordered them to get a drug screen. I'm just wondering why the court does not order them. To pay for it. To pay for it. Even as a civil crime failure, we got a refund of something back. They probably would never screen if you did anyway. If they got like a tax refund or something back, then that's a possibility of possibly recouping some of the funds. I want to Josh get checked on that. I know Josh don't people do that. Sorry. Just to make me think about that, when you say court. Well, they make them pay for the batter or stuff. They put the DVD batters that they do make them pay for some of that. Attorney Williams. Is that something possibly the court could do as a civil fine to these defendants that are being ordered through the court system, that they have to get a drug screen. Is that something that could possibly be requested? That's going to be more a Josh Powell question. So it would be Josh Newy. That piece on your deals with it. I know that it's been something in the past that was done. My time in court in DSS has been a lot of years ago. I put a badge of things at the age. Is that something you could possibly just run by him? And if it's all county funds that we're not getting reimbursed for and folks that are choosing to use illegal substances are being ordered to go through if they're getting refunds back from the state as a civil judgment that money could come back to Rutherford County. I was able to say some conversations that all could be worth them more than I could. I can say with other contexts that is an available remedy. That is an available remedy and frequently in civil judgments. It's an available remedy, for instance, for other county, remedy department, unpaid taxes. To be frank, I don't know that's necessarily available through a DSS court setting. We'll check with them. I don't know. And I know that we all, all the directors complain about it. The only issue I see with it is if someone knows they're gonna have to pay back or their taxes may get intercepted, we may have work as in foster care. Because they may not do it and not work with us. And then if they're not because they definitely have the will to not do it, to not work with us. What happens then, they come and occur. So sometimes we have to do everything in our power to work with a family and be as family centered as possible so that they can learn how to take care of their children without the drugs. And the only way we can see that sometimes is to see where their levels are with the drugs. Nine percent of our cases are drugs. It's like nine percent. Are we still treating all drugs the same or I mean, like, another different schedules, but like, is there a difference between like marijuana and like fentanyl? Well, there is a difference that no one would definitely kill you. And sometimes, you know, the babies are exposed. But at the end of the day, for substance use, what we look at is how the substances are affecting the children. And that keeps us without being biased. So how is this affecting the children? And if someone says, you know, I smoke a little bit before I get home, and I'm not with my children. They don't come home until like at, at clock and they haven't done it around the children. And we're not getting anything that's affecting the children. Then we look at that a little bit differently. Does that make sense? Yeah, I'm glad you heard that. So it's different than, you know, math. Yes. You can have that discussion with Josh, let's just see. And then he could say, yeah, we can do it. But it's still going to be up to the judge to impose it. Right. Yeah, I've got a note here. We're asking the state to pay for directors. We couldn't land on it. So, yes. It'd be nice. We should have more. Yeah, you should have more. Usually somebody had an egg, and I was just getting them all on board. Okay. Then that can be. Okay, thank you. Part of what's fast forward on room back. But Chairman Leon, I really do appreciate that comment though, because if anything that can help bring these county calls down And like I said you you've explained how okay we can do this lower this but then it's gonna cause a rise over here And then just is that ready for me? I'm just going into the links down the bottom of the page. On the next last page you'll see links, adoption assistance, 4B and 4E and adoption assistance vendor. It's just up just based on spending. Your 4E, the adoption assistance is 100% reimbursed. So those are just minimal compared to our other increases that we requested. They're on the very last page. Descriptionary funds. We've increased a little DDS reimbursement. And that's where we get reimbursement for our DDS transportation. And claim bodies. As you're speaking, we added a little extra to that. Just based on spending eight to the blind is our contract and that's a contract from the state. And then that voice over IP is just our phone system and they charge part of that to us for the county. And again, 635,848 over last year. Going back the salaries of the four positions with the fringe benefits and then the foster care is two major things that we have. The rest of it is pretty, pretty minor, 5,000 here, 3,000 here, 1,000 here. The time for the maintenance extension. Yeah, the extension services positions are. And important to pound the difference in last year's budget and this budget is another 11% increase. 11.8 almost. Taking everything back to where we were and before or after we added the Medicaid expansion, we would look at 4.45% increase, which we can't control that because that's got the Medicaid expansion salaries in there because Medicaid expansion salaries were not included in last year's budget. So if we took everything, you know, we increased, we still have a 4.4% increase. We can't get past a 4.4. That's our, you know, anything else is above. In our meeting, Mr. Garrison said, we don't know to tell you what we can give you and what we can't right at this point So because they hadn't even met with school system at that point, which I know they already have done that But you know finance director is about trying to balance the budget nail to get that out to to the commissioners And they you know for there after workshops, so to tell you Whether they're gonna let us have any positions no positions any positions, no positions, we didn't really get a... We didn't get anything. So he wasn't, I wasn't sure what we could get or what we could get anything. I don't know. Well, I command you, director Hunt, you miss price and everybody else that has worked on the budget because when you actually go through it especially the things you got highlighted. It's not big numbers that you're asking for but like I say State is putting more and more burden upon Rutherford County and I know the other counties Right and then we look at foster care. It is what it is. I mean we can't control Those numbers how many kids I mean I know we try to always do the foster you know preach or outreach and try to get more foster homes and get to keep those kids in the county but a lot of times. I think if a key to being proactive on getting foster, your home wishes become more challenging, challenging the live buildings and the behaviors. I don't know if you have any questions. Any other questions? Anything. Just a big thank you. Thank you. Anything else in this part? That's all. So we should put that right there. Oh, buddy. That's all. So we're supposed to go down like the hunt. All righty. So it's on. It's on. This one is a day that March 2024, the service report. And basically we just want you to take a look at that and see if you have any questions and we'd be happy to answer those. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. And happy that. Thank happy to answer those. There's a pair of those. And, hello Ms. And, good afternoon. Good, very good. There we go. Welcome. Good. Gotcha. If you'll look at Children of Boster Care March 2024 is 185 and we just took us to the yesterday so that number is 1 to rise. It's been a steady increase. The case that came in was suffigies. Let the majority of cases or report the reasoning behind. That no was a huge, huge case. I remember hearing that this county and surrounding areas of, you know, such a problem with methamphetamine is that, have we seen that kind of change? Is it people that were using methamphetamine that know until they die? Or, meth is still a wound, but it's more fentanyl. That's the, I don't know. Until they die, right, basically, like, yeah. Like they could build up, like, some, like, resistance, but it actually killed them. And what's happening right now is that she knows is a very toxic substance. And so the children are exposed. I heard like someone else touches it. Like touches you can't find it. They can kill you. Yes. So literally it's a bio weapon. And it's allowed into our country. But that's, yeah. Yeah. Anything else on the service before? No. Nope. We have a social work or another Miss Dodd is not here. Somebody want to present it for her. I can, I can certainly present it. I want to start out by saying our numbers are up in foster care. Last year, it was our first year in May of 2023. We implemented what we call EPPOP, the foster parent outreach program, where each one reach one. We're asking anyone who's foster parent to bring someone to have dinner. It's going to be on May the 16th. If we're looking at, you should have a flyer. But what we're asking is we're asking them to, we're gonna honor our current foster parents and then we seek to expand our foster and community. Our current foster parents are encouraged to bring that perspective foster family along. And we're asking them anybody who's so interested. So we're also asking the board to come and share with us. Liam's there last year as one of our singers. So he had no idea he was going to be on the board. So we had a whole view and your wife can be there. And that's for everybody else here. But this is, I think this program is going to help us a lot. The only other thing that I want to mention is that it is for Ben Child abuse month and we have partnered with the Claire Allen Center with doing some things there. We had our pinwheel ceremony this morning. It went very well. We pretty much gave the staff a speech told them how much they are appreciated and how this work is hard but they're doing wonderful things and they're really helping families. So that ceremony was very nice. We have uploaded pictures yet. The pictures are already on our Facebook. So if everybody wants to see the chairman there it's been uploaded to to our Facebook. So we do try to do activities so that our staff will know how appreciated they are. do activities so that our staff will know how appreciated they are. And that's, we're still waiting to hear when they're going to start on the house. I mean, that's still the thing that hasn't happened yet, so we're just still waiting on that. And that's all we have to report on the social work department. That's kind of that'll lead in my coming down. So if we can get a couple of these houses erected in the county, so these kids and the workers aren't having to go out of the county, that hopefully will help some of our numbers and everything. Well, not cost of. Not yet. It'll help a little bit. The ones that we are getting in the county are just so that they won't have to be in the office. Okay. Because they can still be in the county, but in the office. What we're looking at, the program that we bring the kids home campaign, that one, that program which we're going to, which we're kind of starting on that one, that program is trying to erect group homes here in the county, so that because right now we have a lot of kids across more. That takes a minute to get there and back. And then if it's a sibling group and one is here, one is there. We have policy that says you must allow the siblings to visit with each other. And one could be on one side of the state and one on the other. And so it just calls, so that's what we're working on, that's to bring the kids home campaign that I mentioned that you guys said that you were in agreement with. We're still going to work that program as well. That has a lot of work, but we're in the foundation stages, everything starts with a drain. So we're doing that, that's going to be a good problem. In the meantime, is there a requirement that like, like say, yeah, that situation where siblings are together, could someone, I'm just thinking, and I'm just bippling, could someone, I guess it would be a social worker ride with the child on the train across the state because I have to be that like a separate driven Being a little or something no I don't know I don't like flexibility As long as there's supplies for us and there's Any kind of cost savings that we can do? Any kind of cost savings that we can do? We can do we can do we can do we can do we can do that. It would be great to have raised kids from here. We just need to bring them back home so that there's still an air environment. And school and church and people that they love and that support them. That's all I have. Unless you have any questions for the social work department. We're written as Miss Reefy. I don't really have a lot this month as well. You got your Medicaid expansion that for that date. And I won't worry about you reading that. Work the words. Just our numbers have increased to 3,150 out of the 4,000 54. So we continue everything is kind of stabilized as far as the amount of applications that we're getting. It looks like a lot on paper but we do have enough staff that we're able to handle the influx of applications. Well, as you can see in my report there's a lot of staff that is still in training. I feel like we'll calm down a little bit. We are on our staff at Squale in May with Income Maintenance Appreciation Week. And I think we're gonna do a little out thing. I don't know yet. I'll wait that. So I'm gonna be cooking them chicken. I'm sure there'll be some pineapple in there somewhere. So we're just gonna try to honor the element and keep the morale up. So yeah, everything's going pretty well. I think majorly important. I just want to add, when Candy and I started working on this, it was the scariest thing. There was. It was just scary because you know, you just didn't know what to expect. So we just wanted to make sure that we had the staff in place and we said a goal at that time that we would send out notices all across the county hey Medicaid expansion is here please apply and we said that you know by December because we started December 1st 2023 and we said by December 2024 we would try to reach it 100% of our Medicaid expansion, Medicaid expansion, eligible benefit cherries. So now if you look at the very last bullet, we're almost at 70% of our original estimate of gold. That is absolutely amazing. And when they did the determination, it was determined at 4,000 54. People were eligible for Medicaid expansion, and now we're at 3,150. That's pretty good. It's a huge lift that you guys have done. Now I will tell you, I haven't shared this with you that just someone that I know personally that was ineligible for Medicaid because of the previous eligibility requirements. He is a substance abuser and he got Medicaid expansion and he was going through his book that he got from his provider that was sent and he was able to check himself into a rehab and detoxed and he's wrong, he's right, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he's well-informed, he So that was something I just heard last week. Well, the healthier your community, the better off your community is going to be the more successful. So we're just excited about Medicaid expansion. I mean, it's scary in the beginning, whereas money coming from, but the state's done a great job helping us with that. And I feel like in about five years, we will see a major difference in what's recounting because of this notebook and be healthy without an out. One item that I started about it next, I know or listed in there, and I know it's meant to be like to help with healthcare costs. I think there was like a line for like wellness, like what is that? I'm just me thinking like I do, I wanna make sure it's sustainable for people who really need it, and I'm just me thinking like I do, I want to make sure it's sustainable for people who really need it. And I'm just imagining someone saying like, well, from my wellness, I need like Ruth Chris steak. I mean, I don't mean to be as suspicious. Like, do you like, you know, I think it's more of the managed care part of Medicaid in general, not Medicaid at suspension. When managed care was implemented, Medicaid would only pay for health-related medical bills, itemized medical bills after you went to the doctor. So managed care is more of that holistic approach where I think the sample will always use like if you have somebody that's chronically have allergies. And you got a social worker who will go into the home and they see that the carpet would need to be replaced with there's mold in their house. So they can take action with the managed care dollars to be a preventive service, prevent those allergies. Therefore increase in the cost of Medicaid dollars. And so I think that's what they mean by wellness. They can help with housing, retail individuals to call that number on the back of their car. They can help with rent, there's all kinds of resources that are available through the managed care providers that wasn't available just when it was Medicaid direct. So in a well-bodied adult, that could be worked from just chooses not to, is not going to be basically given free room and board at the expensive others who really need it. Well, yeah, I know and remember with the current election or whoever appointed this, there was no work component attached to it, but that has been discussed and who knows it could the attic later, but it is a possibility, yes, you could have an able-bodied individual. I can imagine for our case workers dealing with situations when they see people that are really in such desperate need, I can imagine that being a burden. That is more of a burden, I think, in our ethnic program, and our food nutrition program. I'm sure it's alphair but they don't see it as much. The food nutrition, they see individuals that come in that yes that could actually work and are getting in the food nutrition program and there's no component attached yet that requires you to work. Now there is a program that's able body without dependence that you're only supposed to get food nutrition for three months, the certain criteria applies to you, but they provide that. And after three months, if you stay fit for homeless, we have to take your statement on that and you can continue receiving the nutrition benefits. It's a very political issue and it's constantly changing. And the policy changes about monthly on that. But yes, it is. Joseph, it is frustrating sometimes when you see people that make your dollar over and really are just leaving off a little bit of fixed income. Right. And then you say, oh, there's that, yeah, it's not, my sister's done her pledge to determine that we should try to get that. I was going to do it. A common sense element built in, you know, that one. I just don't have a lot of time. I want to take a drive. I want to take a drive. I want to take a drive. I want to take a drive. I want to take a drive. I want to take a drive. I want to take a drive. I want to take a drive. I want to take a drive. I want to take a drive. I want to take a drive. I want to take a drive. I want to take a drive. So I just thank the board for your support of us and your empathy for the work that we do. I appreciate that and I'm grateful that we have Kim. The job that Kayla had is a lot for one person and we said that in the beginning. So we have been able to take some of those responsibilities and give them to another person. And I feel very confident that she's going to make us all proud. So we're excited. And this is something that I feel like personally as a director that I have needed. So I have lots of ideas going along. I want to implement a lot of things. And it just takes kind of somebody to help keep up with me and help manage me so thank you Kim you got job girl that's all I have there you the other now I had a question I didn't get to some writing but I recently met with folks at Hands of Hope, wonderful organization, nonprofit in the county. And this is something about folks like like young mothers with like a baby and like a car seat. So it's hard for them to get on the transit, whether it can, the county transit. Is that something that we have some leeway over? Because we have our buses running. I know when I had to ride it in my wheelchair, they took time to buckle me in. So I don't know why it'd be the different if a young mother in need has a car seat that needs to be strapped in that shouldn't be a deterrent. Well I can tell you they're currently trying to work with everyone is that been recent? I just really I asked this person put it, put it, send me something in writing. Yeah. Yeah. So I could see it. Because you're right they do accommodate rule chairs and now for our part of transit that we pay, of course, it's Medicaid transportation. But just the transportation services just in general, I would think so. But that would be a carry question. But if you want to send it to me, I can ask you for it. And I mean, did you send in the email that I sent you or I followed up when I picked, okay. So I'll just make sure you don't get it. And Joe, I just wonder if that is the person trying to get on there with the car seat or are they wanting transit to have a car seat on there? Okay, question. Good, good. That's the first time I've ever heard that ever. I heard if I heard it, I remember correctly was that there has been some experience, I don't know how prevalent of transit drivers, not either not wanting to, and this is coming from you know, young mothers at the work work. So I don't know, maybe it's a matter of perspective, or misunderstanding, but feeling like the drivers didn't feel they could or had time to buckle the car seat in. I didn't think that sounded right. I'm on the transit board. So I'll be glad if you'll get me the specifics on that. I'll be going to reach out to the kids and ask about that. She's very safe. Didn't she write to me, but I wanted to I'm glad if you'll get me specific something, I'll be glad to reach out to you. I'll ask you about that. She's very specific. Didn't see right to me, but I wanted to ask. Yeah. Well, I didn't know one of the infant conversation, I don't know if it's very particular how you buckle this. Thank you. I was wondering that as a new grandmother. So I don't know since they have different vendors, ask her to make sure that she's connected with the other vendors because it could be a particular vendor that's doing that and not everybody. What do you know me? So we have transit services, but then they also contract with other vendors. I mean, nothing I don't love. What transit, transit doesn't contract with other people? They have different, what they're trying to change is the different automobiles that they have. Like they have certain types of ants and smaller vans. You have to be competitive with the motive care and all the different transportation availability for managed care. But if I do, I don't know. Okay, so we do. Yeah, we have maybe, but through Medicaid transportation, we have taxis. Yeah, that's the important thing. So, with Medicaid transportation, if they can accommodate her, we can use Eagle Transport. That's where you're going. Ego transport and taxis and other vendors that we have that we contract. We have four Medicaid transportation, other than transit. You can make it correct. So we want to make sure. Right. Was it a taxi? Was it a walk? Yeah. That would be helpful. Yeah. Definitely. I'd want to get them specific. Guy, this is the seat. Do you need this help? Yeah, we want to be able to help. Sure. Any other announcements? Call for a motion to adjourn. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. We are adjourned.