to get in the meeting to order as the assembly and And once it is produced, you will remember the own call on which you guys just all know. The other is regarding our January meeting and more members, I know Davis, not here. So when our board chair will continue to serve, when her term ended, we would have did appreciate that. She's, we have a new appointment, which basically leaves us with a vacancy as with the board chair. That's why it's chair, it's my role as to step in and during the interim here to chair the meetings. But the board will or should appoint a, or a life-to-new chairperson the board will or should appoint a or a lengthy new chairperson before the interim, or the mayor of this term, which is July. And so what I was, I didn't know when he was gonna be here today because he not talk about this week that he wasn't gonna be on here, that I was gonna have it and asked if the board would consider having that discussion or that vote in January or the beginning of January meeting. And that way we have a full board here to make that discussion. Any member of our board could be considered to be the board chair, including the vice chair. I'm just gonna lay it out there. If the vice chair happens to be as the service chair to July, then we will have to vote and appoint a vice chair, a new vice chair from here through July. So we basically end up at our January meeting having a chair and vice chair to a July. Because July is when we do our normal reappointments or normal voting for our officers for the new year. Does that clear his mud? I'm not looking for a vote. I'm just looking for consensus and say that vote was okay. All right. So that's kind of the game. The game plan. I am going to ask for an adoption of the agenda. to ask for an adoption of the agenda. I mean, we adopted agenda. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm gonna call a question on favor as you write hand. He opposed likewise. Harry, thank you. And again, they've heard it. So many taxes. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, you have a chance to read it for the minutes. I'm very much into putting for about two minutes. Make a motion that we have down in it. It'll second. We got much of a second in discussion. Bring out a call of question. All favor, raise your right hand. You have a call of favor, raise your right hand. You have a call of words. Okay. Do we have any public comments today? No public comments. You're okay. Now, we're going to have some more fun. We're going to ask Barbara Fullstead over here. Oh, did you take them? Yes. Oh, my goodness. You can take your jacket. Oh, you to the next floor. I'm going to take you to the next floor. I'm going to take you to the next floor. I'm going to take you to the next floor. I'm going to take you to the next floor. I'm going to take you to the next floor. I'm going to take you to the next floor. I'm going to take you to the next floor. I'm going to take you to the next floor. I'm going to take you to the And so, on behalf of the board, our wonderful director, and his father's. And on behalf of the board, we're gonna do a Christmas tree and have our picture in the background. Let's do the Christmas tree. I'm gonna have a Christmas tree. That's okay, you guys are fine. Are you sure? Yeah, we're just, I'm just seeing our own image in there. We're going to have a, I don't wanna hold we do this. Let Yeah, we're just uh, just seeing our own image in the right now. I want to help you with this. Thank you. I'm a happy board thinking for your services from 2018 to 2020. Very. Thank you. Wow. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for believing in our mission and offering us the new leadership service, dedication and support. Thank you. It has been a pleasure. I have enjoyed every minute on this board. It has been an honor. Just, it's like a family to me. I have enjoyed it. Thank you so much. You can still call me here in the middle of the day. I'm telling you, I'm real. I'm trying to call. Okay, you may send me the voice mail. I'll be your asker to the picture. I would love to. If you could work, help them send like me. I would. I would be. Absolutely. That was the one of my greatest surprise. Thank you so much. All right, y'all turn towards me and scoot you in the corner. Thank you. Let's do it. One, two, three, and nine. And the picture will be skirt-y-roost. One, two, three, four, five, two. All right. Thank you. Thank you. One, two. All right. Thank you. Thank you. I will be a bit in. You know, we need to say this to, you know, both comments, though, you know, you're more than welcome to stay. Yep. But you have better things to do. I know we've started to understand. Well, I think I'm going to be able to even. Thanks to God a lot. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You may have a very nice. So we do want to announce the paper. Two seconds. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Two questions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. The next item on our agenda is the person over four. I recognize our director. Director, I'm going to see. Thank you very much. We have some new personnel that we can introduce. I think that's an interesting name. So we have Ms. Bethany here with us. I'll let her introduce herself. She's in the adoption of foster care unit. Yep. So I'll let you tell us a little bit about you. Hey, I'm Bethany. I just graduated from NW in May with my social work degree. And I worked a little bit for nonprofit and then I decided to come back to the forecounning. I was living in Washington. Yeah, and I graduated from Hongshen. And my sister loves you. And yeah, and while I was in school, I worked at an university school. I did my internship there, so I did my focus in school social work. And then I also was a site coordinator for the YMCA. So I ran one of their programs. While I was there, I also did some work with story goals and other nonprofit that focuses on education for children and supporting their families and things like that. So it's kind of the whole game I don't have done so far. Well, welcome. Thank you. We're so happy to have you here. Thank you for coming. This is going to be the same thing that we just outweighed this morning. You are more than welcome to stay with us, but you can also take this opportunity to. Okay, go back to your work. Thank you. Thank you, that's a popular decision. And for everyone else, if you'll look at the personnel report this day, the government took 23 and let us know if you have any questions or comments about the report. I was in a leadership front-ford class with Bethany, and she was very competent, she was very very driven, she was very good-hearted. She was friends with my sister for a long time, so I'm really happy to see you. Wow. For joiner. I think we've blessed you have for sure. The monster, Carol, they should be really great. There. One, definitely. Thank you. See you, Gene. You're showing a difference in the amount of serum. I'm going to count on. Which dose we are in. Well, two of us, you're primarily clerical. And you have to see Medicaid. In the differences between last year and last year, last month and this month, so some are going down and some are going up and definitely it don't Medicaid because naturally Medicaid expansion. That's what's creating that. New expansion level all, my chance. Oh, we will still look. Let's talk to the other people. Nadeem, I'll talk to you in a minute. That's something I can check this through. Are there any questions on the first note and forward from the members of the board? So, do you have any other questions? I'll come to the person. Thank you so much. Thank you. More members, any signs of both discussion? Okay. I'll just hand it over to the next slide. And please. Okay. Dan, we have our financial report. This is for the period ending November 30th, 2023. The five months ended. On page two, you'll see your contribution for general fund for your administrative expenses is at 29.33%, which is 12.34% under budget. Then go to page four, your administrative, or your contribution for general fund for your program expenses, is it 62.9% or I'll tell you why that's over in a little bit. That's over about 21%. But that's due to Lee Appens. I'll look at that in just a minute. Then on page, utilities on page 5, that line is a little over this month. It wasn't over last month. There was two utility bills that got posted to this month. One at the beginning of the month, one at the little over this month. It was an over last month. There was two utility bills that got posted to this month. One at the beginning of the month, one at the beginning of the month. So that's why that's a little over. That'll let well. Next month. And that's just posting and for us processing the invoices. Reynolds, at the bottom of the page, is a little over budget this month. And that's due to the invoices for that line or paid quarterly. So we've already paid two invoices for this year. So that's one of that's a little over budget. So that's a little over budget. So that's quarterly invoice. And then that's all it would be to demonstrate the expenses that it's over this month. That was over last month. Then going on to your programs on H7. Actually, all of those were over last month. Go to H8, the adoption assistance, vendor payments, adoption vendor payments. That's a little over, well, it's actually 119% spending. That is 100% remersed, and that's just based on needs of the children that have been adopted. If they have special needs, have the voices that we, you know, reimburse for that. So those costs are 100% reimbursed. So we'll just add a budget amendment to make that little higher. We budgeted 7,000. That's just based on what we spent last year. So we'll, we'll, that'll, let's, let's that a little bit and it says 100% reimbursement. We'll build that in a sense out from the county. And then at the bottom of the page, the permissions on claim bodies, Mr. King does want to call it that, but it's a pre-machining. It's a pre-machining. The pre-machining is at that 50% we have a little more cremations this year than we had last year, so far this year than last year. So we're about 50% standing on our cremation calls. And then on the very last page, you're at 8. The blind, that's the social or blind cost. And that's one invoice was paid this month, so that's why that shows that's 100% spending on that. So we won't have any other invoices that'll be paid our own line. And then your very last line, your budget, total budget is 38.38%, which is 3.29% under budget. So we're under for total budget. It was probably not the whole room. I was aware at the beginning of the meeting around 415, our last year's attorney has another engagement. And he was waiting for you to take a breath. But I was also saying, he wanted a run. I was hoping that he wanted to mayor for a guy who was going to call out to be his. Yes. sorry. He wanted to make it for that Mr. Gollum. Yes, I wasn't gonna miss this Thompson being honored or wasn't gonna miss Mr. Gollum being welcomed. My apologies to everyone for having to leave the world. Okay, thank you. Merry Christmas. Thank you, thank you to you too. Thank you, Mr. Price. That's all. I'm sorry, I wasn't paying That's fine. I'm sorry. I'm going back to page 8 when I said for a leop. You'll see we've paid out $111,000 in leop. That will come back to us this next month. So we always pay upfront payment by the 15th and we get reimbursed by the end of the month the next month. So that's why we're over budgeting into programs. So that's our, we've got $111,000 that's been paid out, basically. And that's seen that, is anybody having questions? See if I see anything that looked so... That was a waste. Yeah. One thing was jumped out of the last couple months. Okay. Not a huge dollar amount, but can you tell me not the kind of origin of the court order eternity testing why we do that? Why that seems like a, it's like a defendant in a case, it seems added, I'm just wondering why it's DSS and therefore taxpayers pay for that. The NITS team on the bare-ass page. Now that is reimbursable. So we get 66% of vampires for the child support that I 50% for CPS side. That's paternity testing for both that, you know, when they have to claim paternity or determine paternity on both sides, CPS and child support. Tiffany, make them elaborate on more of that kind of a long standing thing or is it something recent? No, it's a long standing. The bottom line is it's better for us to go after fraternity so that we can find the parents and pursue them for support rather than the state dollars and federal dollars paying for it. So it's better for us to make the investment in determining paternity so we can go after them for support. Okay. And that's why it's really reversible because it's relative to child welfare. And in child support, the client actually does pay part of that. They pay part of the paternity to ditch and we get the un-card. And then sometimes if they don't have the funds then we have to pay the end time. Councils are not going to go after them. It's a small dollar amount for a front that pursues. Right, right. And we do give the reimbursement. So it's not an all county house. So we could get reimburse for it. Thank you. The questions regarding the question. I'm getting them other comments from you. That's up. All right. Thanks so much. Wish you a good start. That's a good. Directors, the next item on our end is a certain report. I can recognize a report. I recognize. Director, the time. All right, so if you look at the service report, it's for November 2020. Great. You will notice that there are a couple of changes that I'll just make a couple of comments on. If you look at the CPS reports under children's services, we received 103 reports in October, November of 1977. It's something about November and December where things, for some reason, they've just been a trend over time where things kinda calm down. People look at nicer about the holidays. I don't know, but whatever that appears right back there. So that's why you haven't seen the difference in that. I had a note to congratulate the team on producing the number of foster children in non-paid placement from 64 to 11. I can probably that. Probably because of our new home. That's because it's a new policy. The new policy. Right, so there's a new law that if you are a relative, then you can get a payment for keeping children. It's half of the board rate, but you still get that. So it's not non-paid anymore, which is not right. So which is great. That's good to see you. Yeah, is that state wide or federal policy? It is. Is that why they love state wide? OK. Could you explain that a little bit about these relatives are they fostered, certified or they just kinship or how is that? And that is great. It's kinship placement. It has to be some kin to them in order to the money. But you have some placements where you know they call on them, but it's really not on them. So that's the 11 that you're seeing that's still in those non-paid placements. So they don't get paid men. So the other 53 people, they do get that payment now. So we still have these kids in foster care, but now we got these placements. There's a kid shift, there's some kids of these children, there's now getting half a board right now. So let's say it about the other one that don't get paid then. If it's not a relative, it has to be a blood-browned marriage or a yash. Blood-browned. So if it's not any type of kid, then they don't get paid money. But if they would get qualified as a... They could do that. Absolutely. They could come and get... That's someone who had gone through the process. Yes, ma'am. And then they could get that pay. So this kind of like your aunts, of course, is just like grandparents. Right. Anytime a blood, marriage or adoption. And now get a payment. Does it stop at the first degree, like through the code of second cousin, you'd be like cousin instead? Is that blood, adoption and marriage? Is that all I can show? Yeah. I was like in proof. I've done a lot of kids, I hear that somebody is taking care of everybody everybody else, you know, I tell the one that you're so bad. That's a good thing. And they're hoping that this will help end some of the kids without placements that are going to at least work were given them a little bit of support. Right. And these kids are foster care. Yeah, these are kids that foster care. Not the ones that's like an end-home person that may be placed in a kid's shoe. And the kids are fostering. And the kids should, they don't have to go through the foster care. Yes, these are kids that's in foster care. But are the kids with them? The kids with them. But they go do. Oh, they don't have to go to a fall conference that would you accept? I mean, I don't have a smaller mind to be able to write something. Oh, yeah. And I'll let them. They made it. OK. The kids are, and then a relative, blood relative, found out just long as they do it for the right reason, though, don't tend to kids, they end just for a pay. But it's all about the kids. Right. Thank you. Thank you. If any of the other questions are for the director. I don't unless you have any other questions. For members to. I would like to say this. I thought I knew what you'll do. Then I started looking at what all, not only, you know, when you think of DSS, all you think about is child protective services, all adult, but then you have to realize it is social services. Thank y'all for schooling me on a lot of the back story of what goes on and this facility and around the state I commend you for what you did. Thank you. I'm very glad. It's only started. Good. I'd like to state with a record how thrilled I am to have Officer Godluck's law enforcement experience join this board. Really good. Just gonna be awesome. Thank you. Rick Real, as well. Oh, it's about like I tell you, I've been serving for a few years and almost every month I learned something new. And in PagEx, we have one community. The Smedicated expansion, suddenly we've been talking about for about a year. And we thought politics out of the window because we're really going to serve in people. And we're such a neat year. And finally, we, the folks in Raleigh, came to a decision to allow it to expand. And we're going to see the difference in the lifestyle of speaking of things. But you learn that, what we learn that. And you'll just wait and see. Is there anything else on the service reports? Nothing. Thank you. We're in program updates. As God, I know you've said a few words, but I mean, that's all about the support. Right. So most of my, what's going to be about the kids you're paying me, which is great. And I also cover adult services. So I want to give them some kudos. They just recently had a consultation and they scored very great scores. They're continuing to protect our adults in the community. We're getting out Christmas presents for our children. We're getting out things for our awards. So things is coming down for adult services is that the state is really taking a look at how we take people in for guardianship. They're really saying adults are adults. They can do what they do, they can make bad decisions. So we need to make sure that we respect that. And if they got a village, then we need to let the village take care of it. So that's some things that's coming down for adult services. So yeah, fun times. We just keep tricky. So yeah, find out. We just keep track. Are they the closest from us guys? I know we've talked about this, but on the way here, I saw three individual young men on bicycles, not on the bike trail. Like basically on the road, one with Milo on the back of his backpack. Are we seeing any, like an increase in potentially dangerous young men about, and what do we maybe with partnership with law enforcement have anything to do with it? We talked about a little bit yesterday, our leadership and Ken was talking about us, been a lot and you know, her a lot becoming in and need help and services and things like that. And so we are seeing a lot. We had a, you know, not long ago, I had an incident with someone in our lobby, but we had the contact law enforcement because, you know, he was having some notifications and some things like that. So we were in a weapon, he had a weapon, which was actually one of the officers' weapons that he lost on the side of the road. And the guy had it. So yeah. So yeah. And so I got officers, but it was off. It was a, no, no, no, no, no. Not gonna hurt you, but like, he had dropped a special knife that he had. I can't believe it. It was a personal thing now. He said that for the record. What is it? But yeah, he most definitely had women and it was scary because he was struggling. But we got into the phone. We got in the call. Moe crisis. Think it, you know, some things like that. So it can't you can talk a little bit more about what she's standing her. Her style is, it's, it's traffic. We have my resident this week as well, but she was a female and just upset her services and she actually held both the officer. So that's why she was arrested. It was Jordan Ray who arrested her. But I think you're related to the homeless population and we are seeing a rise in that. And we did talk about it yesterday, the limited resources that are available. We can have them with food nutrition and Medicaid, but they're coming in and asking for assistance to make a disability application with Ceshkriti office where they don't have a phone. They're asking for a chance, they're asking for sleep and bags, just daily necessities. And just to be honest, we don't have those services. And so they reached out to someone, supposed to send us an email with some different resources that we give those individuals. But mostly we're not seeing anybody that's combative. They do hang around and most of the time, they're being pretty compliant. I guess my biggest concern is like if we're seeing something big happening, a trend happening, especially folks from Asheville being displaced for one reason or another and kind of being, I don't want to say sent here, but perhaps sent here by someone. If there's something we need to get ahead of. We didn't have a bus stop here and they're dropped off that bus stop and they're riding our transit bus every day just throughout the day just just to have something to bid. It was good to see a Rutherford County Transit bus on the room for hopefully our citizens. Right. But it is free transportation. It's somewhere to get you out of the weather. So I know Kerry's spoken about that. Question. What were you on? Are you gone on the service? And that'll work. We're on the homeless side. I know you're on the street. We're on the service and then we'll go get some more of the home. We'll see you guys next week. She may have looked back. We'll be fine. And I believe to answer your question, it might have been at the last board meeting or me, I mean, I don't know. Transition is just a policy if I'll long be on the subject because of that. And we were very fortunate in this county. The transit department. This program that we all offered are citizens, this one, or a rural county that you just see in an large metro city where they have two routes. And if you have your first job for six months, I think $1 a week or something, they'll pick you up, take you to your job, all this majority of it, there was the county does have input on this, but the majority of the federal funds, it's a federal program, it's a real reperson. I think there is a balance, it's a partnership in a lot of ways, but the majority of it is federal. And it's made a big difference of, also Gastonia, well there's Rattstrauss there, and I just lady come up to me to start hugging me and say because she could get to the her dogs on it, someone told about transit and that's it. So I told them. I had a very good experience, certainly years ago when my transmission went on my handicapped big accessible van and the transit folks were very good to me and had very good conversations and a very good experience with our drivers and I think very highly of Robert Kennedy Transit. She does rely heavily on Medicaid dollars when she has seen a decrease with Medicaid transformation going to the property health plans. So that has affected that. Okay. Any other? Okay. Thank you so much. Economic services. It's really. So economic services just kind of like you know, many conferences. Anything within the economy such as big nutrition, Medicaid, we have an energy program. And if you do a, I don't know if you're going to be able to, just think about a little more, maybe as this, what you found earlier, a training. I'm going to go on the phone. I'll try to go on that with you. But the big thing right now is Medicaid, and the Narcubic is Cardinal, and just Medicaid, and food nutrition. So as I present to you every month we were continuing to not meet our cutoff and our food nutrition program. We had over 80 recertifications that went past U.S. month and we didn't meet our time limit and our applications we had to meet 95% and we were down to 9% and as you all know I've had very transparent with a word in that, it's just a capacity issue with the turnover rate. And Deanna, I've spoken of, we are not mandating over time. Just simply because it would help for a little bit, but then our employees get burned out and they end up leaving. So that's why we've not done that. But we continue to work on getting our new inch train. We only have two open inch right now in economic services, which is phenomenal. We've got one and food and nutrition, and one in family insurance Medicaid. So that's really good. We have 49,000 left in our SIP funds, which is our crisis intervention program. And that helps pay for power bills and people that are behind on their power. And Barbara always asked me about that. So I was kind of levered by that. But so that will be winding down. That's not a lot left when you get $300,000, $400,000. So that will be winding down. And then in January, we'll be ending up for our public app, which will be if they have a heating source that you get a check, $2,000,, $400, and then I'll help people with the heating source and help that energy cost in January. That's open up to public. So then I'll be rang back up. But Medicaid is pension, the big topic. It is wrapping up. We received over 82% more applications. And these seemer so far than we have in December of last year. received over 82% more applications and these seem are so far than we have in December of last year. So, because this is really good. It's coming in faster than we can get it done. But this date has given us a gift. They are shifting some of the children's cases where they are standing in those cases automatically without us having to work them for 12 months. And so what that has done is offset our workload where we call those reviewers. And so these reviewers are not, their work has decreased and so intake has increased. increase. So we did a restructure and announced that this morning we're going to be moving quite a bit of workers to our applications side to be able to have the workload to handle the employment applications. North Carolina, the state, is doing a huge marketing effective next year. I know you're all seen probably some advertisements. They have already sent letters to everybody in our county that terminated within the last year as funding next year. I know you're off scene probably some advertisements. They have already sent no letters to everybody in our county that terminated within the last year as funding about dedicated spend so that happened on the 13th of December. In January that got to get the the people from the marketplace that are receiving Obamacare that they would have been eligible for Medicaid expansion if we had expanded years ago. So that would be a letter from January if they're at the 100% of the federal poverty level. So that'll happen in January and in February, they're going to send us to everybody at the federal marketplace that is receiving alarm and care between 100 and 150% of their income level. So that right there is just 520,000 people state why they're going to get correspondents in letters. Not to mention they're doing texting, TikTok, social media, commercials, buzz reps, both wraps, in your second video. I see a lot of them, every time. Really? A lot. Okay, so they're really efficient. Yeah, honestly, I might eat these ones, but I think we'll let's eat the 4,000. I could be wrong, but they all really, really advertise in it. And word of mouth is the greatest. So when people start receiving receiving you get all these people I'm out in my friend got Medicaid and you can tell me about it and we've got people that are coming in that don't even want to go through the disability process anymore which has to be central Raleigh and you might wait six to nine months for a decision that's I don't want to pilot that I just want Medicaid and suspension which they're running they can do that. Because they can get quicker. So, but I'd be a little bit want to let you know, even though we are almost going to staff, like I've told you before, we've got more to train than trainers to train. And so 23% of our staff has less than three months experience. 37% of our staff has less than three months experience. 37% of our staff has less than 12 months experience. So that's a lot of new individuals to train. But we're all hands on deck. I think everybody's got a great attitude. The ones that I told will be moving to applications this more, they were very receptive. And I think we're really still trying to do it without a lot of overtime. Again, we're trying still trying to do it with our own lot of overtime. Again, we're trying to keep that at a minimum because we don't want to block your staff out. And so just constantly reevaluating where the need is, reassessing and moving staff where they need to move. And we've told them from the very beginning, this is very fluid. At some point, it will level off. Everybody will have a plan that's going to apply our majority, I don't mean everyone, but it will level off and then we'll have to reshift and move people back to doing reviews. So they're aware of that. I know that's a lot. You got questions. I know, probably one of the best things I've heard you say is that you was not mandating over time. No. Which lets us know that you are considering the workers. And you're getting the job done, but not, you know, when you've got staff at three to twelve months, then you take somebody like, well, is there any misbehave any? That came from the camera, went off, could have went somewhere and come back to work if we can get more right young people to do that. Showing the appreciation for the workers who's on the ground. I think that is very good. Thank you. We're trying, we are doing, we don't say no about a ring. It's really good. It's absolutely correct. Because we're trying to keep people today. No, you've probably already got this report. So you probably won't have majority of it. But I just wanted to give a highlight that it is a lot of marketing, a lot to come, but a lot of people are getting at that's very appreciative. It's nice to hear that when we hear a few of those stories and it's nice to hear. Mentioned. Thank you so much. I'm a Director for the Director. No, not too much. I do want to let the board know that we received a call from back to children's home. And they call us the dearest and first, and they may call the next from any corporate grade. And someone in the second-mush community here in Buster County donated land it land for DSS. And I'm lost at children. So it is going through dogwood health trust. The good thing is that they are the ones partnered with dogwood health trust. So, peon doesn't have to manage that money, which is good, but we reap the benefits. And that's just such a blessing. So, it's a done deal. It is happening. They are working on, you know, they see where the land is and they're working with the team to just start building. They're all going on break right now now so they're going to be back in touch with us in January to talk about you know, when and where and our goal is we have a lot of kids out of the county I don't know the number right off without looking at that right numbers But we have a lot of children out of the county and it takes the workers It uses county dollars To the out of the county to see the people living in it. There's this gas, there's their food, and all of that went out of the county. But we're hoping to bring some of the kids this out of the county's back so that they can have that home rather than the homes out of the county. So we're excited about that. And so we're still continuing to work on home that that's going to be here. And Mosaic hope is to work on home that that's going to be here. And Mosaic hope is still working on opening that. And they're all going to have a different purpose, but we're doing it there. We felt since we do have a board member, Kristi Nicaran, who is part of the School of Government in Chapletille, is open to doing a training for the board. who is part of the School of Government in Chapel Hill is open to doing training for the board. So if you guys are open to that and of course we can, you know, include in there information or information about what we do, but you just let us know we can do it by Zoom. However you would like for that to happen. The one that should present that to you. You guys are open to that. Well, I have a line of consideration that our next meeting was in the agenda this time. Okay. Yeah. And to comment is that, Joseph does this. We're being I back in our Charlottesville days went through all kinds of board training. And it was like constant. And it was the biggest, is what taught us out at that point. And I put government together. And at the end, the SS, I think it'll be a good thing for us. I'm always, but as it was the head, the refresher was always good, it was a bad, as well. So we'll discuss that here next meeting. So that'll be an action on it. Okay. Is there anything else? I just wanted to mention that that in North Carolina, we met, we exceeded the federal child visit requirements. So we, it so that was good. But I just wanted to add that it was worth for County that tilt to the scale that helped us actually get there. 98% of our child visits were done, and the only 2% was the energy that compact kids that were out of the county. So that means that we're seeing those kids face to face every month, which is good. So the state comes in and then they check our numbers. And I'm at because our number is 98%, which you know when they do it federally, they don't choose everybody, but our numbers, the one that tilted the scale. So they let us know that. So I just wanted to let you guys know that we're doing well there. So they need to have an A and your team. And that is all I had. There's not a whole lot of the big Christmas. We're just, you know, just people are just very nice this time of year and sympathetic to our foster children and our teenagers. So, we're we're doing okay and that's all I have to say. Well, there's was part of the meeting house for announcements there in the announcements If not I do have one the Board of Commissioners after last meeting there was a policy that Mr. Garrison and Deb a Connor and other department heads and I'm if you guys are by tonight But I think we're gonna throw almost a year is the exempt personal leave policy. We appreciate that. All right, guys. Thank you. That's all right. But the thing I was going to say is that we got the notices letter from DSS signed. And other departments too, I had a deputy active church department wrote a little on its letter too as well. Going through this for the past year or so, but hearing, you know, the way out of the odds and the benefits and all that, I personally didn't realize how much of an impact has to work with. And I see that now. And it's kind of like jumping on what you were saying is that, you know, we need to find ways to thank our team and especially when they're having some of the days of Medicaid expansion, we have to have all the pressure and extra hours. And when we come up with a manageable policy that we can thank our employees, or something to help their life out. I mean, it's actually the agreeable quality of life. The Debbie, the letter was same thing. And I don't, I can't remember exactly the words you used, but you know, she has young children playing sports. You know, she won't have to miss that. You still heard. Now I, so. And it was thank you for your letter that you sent. It was passed around. It was actually hand-written, you know. So thank you and we'll continue working together. Thank you. We appreciate it so much. Any other assamuses? I look for a motion. I look for a motion. I look for a motion to adjourn. I'll make a motion that we adjourn. I'll second. Thank you. I'm make a motion that's like a new station. You're going to call question. I'll pay the bill if you're right here. I'll go out and watch my picture.