Good morning. We're excited to have everybody here today with a big crowd. Lots of special things going on. I'd like to go ahead and open up this Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019, meeting of the Ditton County Commissioners Court. And we would like to welcome Joan Mazza. She is going to come lead us in our invocation and our pledges will be led by Miss Lynn Yurgen if you'll please stand. Good morning. Is it on? Good morning. I'd like to read from the word someone 27 says unless the Lord builds the house or the county. They labor in vain who build it unless the Lord guards the city county. The watchman stays awake in vain. So today, Lord, I thank you for the watchman of the city. I thank you for the judge and the commissioners, all the county workers, the mayors, the first responders. Lord, I thank you that you're giving these watchmen eyes to see and ears to hear and a heart to understand what the needs of this county are. Bless the work of their hands today, Lord, in every decision that they make. Thank you, Lord, that we will see your goodness today in Denton County in Jesus name. Amen. Please join me in the pledges to our country and state. A pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation and under God, and in the visible with liberty and justice for all. On under the Texas flag, our pledge Thank you, Joan and thank you, Lynn. At this time, we have one public comment form from Mr. Rick Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton, if you would come forward, there are you. Thank you Judge, thank you commissioners. I make this brief. As many of you know, Thursday will be my last day here in Friday, would be my last day in this uniform. It's, it's, it's, it's lucky for me to do this. Frankly, it's kind of like losing no friends. Yeah. I don't like it. But it's the way things go. And it's decision has been made. And there's all people in this uniform do. We carry on. And I expect you to and you will. I want to say it's been a privilege and honor to serve Ditton County in the 12, 13 years of been doing it. One in a Brown uniform and didn't two, three in this one. And it's just been great. And I've enjoyed it a bit of honor. Everything that this place stands for. And that's why I did this job. I didn't do what every bit of, I don't know, everything that this place stands for. And that's why I did this job. I didn't do it for the money. And I didn't do it to get famous. I needed what was happening and never will. But the same thing. But it is. What does matter is those two flags out there, that memorial statue and everything this court stands for, civility and dignity and law, law by God given to the Constitution not by men. And I strongly believe that. We'd like to change the world from the top down, from the President down, and the King if it's me. But we can't. Not necessarily we live in, we live in a democracy. And the best way to change that is from the ground up. And so I'll leave you with this parting statement and it's my own personal. There have been 30 million people slaughtered under the rule of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Take note of that name, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. America is the marketplace of ideas. If you've got an idea, you've got to sell it. And if you have that idea in place, and someone else has another idea, you have to promote it and defend it. Now is the time and defend it. Now is the time to defend democracy. It has Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers set it out. They weren't perfect, but I do believe they were gifted to us by God. The Constitution they wrote is what we should stand on. And the Word of God, the Word of God first. The thing about it is we can't let our constitutional republic be undermined and destroyed by a group of people. Any group, I don't care what it is, it says that it promotes the welfare of the people when in truth and in fact the end results of what they've always done Has been death poverty and destruction We don't have a perfect government. We never will that won't happen till Jesus Christ comes back again But what I've lived believe firmly in my life that we have the best form of government to serve been put on this planet and we need to defend it and not back up. We need to have civility and respect for those who oppose us. And there needs to be a bridge built between the two major priorities in this county and through the nation where we find ways to communicate. We find ways to cooperate, or we're going to find such polarization that it would become dangerous to our civility. Anyway, that's the last word you want to say, and I love you guys all. They're going to be, and I hope to see you again. Thank you. Thank you. That's a close to that. Come on, Mrs. Molling-Earthport. Thank you. Thank you for the wonderful lesson in civics. You were right on with everything. Great. Thank you for your service to the county and you'll be missed and don't be a stranger. Come back and see us anytime, my friend. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your service to the county and you'll be missed and don't be a stranger. Come back and see us anytime, my friend. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you. He's quite a fixture around here. All right. Members at this time, I'd like to welcome Mayor Sean Terry the mayor of Salina and he is with us today in Commissioner Coleman did you like to provide any other introductions to the good mayor? I've known Mayor Terry or Sean for a long time. He started serving on the City Council in 2008. I always remind him I used to do their city attorney work. It's amazing how developments take so long because this morning he was talking about light's ranch and I said I did that agreement in 2007. Wow. Sometimes things go fast, sometimes it out. He has served the mayor of the city I'm five years, he's done a wonderful job. He does a lot of strategic planning, does a great job with the budget and has a lot of good core values and he attends workshops on that. He serves on the Meals on Wheels Board and is a member of the North Texas Mayors Association. He's been married for 26 years to his wife Angie Terry. He has two kids, Kay to junior at Solana School. And I know he's very proud of this. He has a daughter Kylie who is a sophomore at Texas A&M where he also actually also played football. So I'm thank you for coming today to tell us about your city. Now I appreciate you having me and you know a little more on Hugh is just kind of funny. One of his guys I play with at A&M, Yark's he went to high school, Ray Mickens. He was good. Yeah. And so I've got a, you came over to our golf tournaments and Ray was there, he played in the NFL eight or ten years and he had two Eagles that day and I said, you know, he was like, man, you brought a ringer and I said, I don't know, he can play golf at all. But he just came to help me with, I appreciate the introduction and I've always appreciated you, you know, you know, he when he was our city attorney to now being our commissioner, you know, Slanted doesn't have a whole lot in Denton County, maybe a quarter of our city, but he has always treated us like we were 100% in Denton County and to help with the tow road, to really get connectivity to the tow road when our own county didn't really work with us too well. But we always see the bigger picture. And I know Jodi over there from the fireside, we have to work regionally to make North Texas successful as is today. You know, we had a problem with our bridges on Mobile Road and the bus couldn't get down there and it was dangerous and he stepped up when his leadership helped us find funding to get that fixed. So I just kind of want to appreciate you and the whole tire commissioners court for the leadership and the way you treat Salana, you know, we're about 80 square miles. We're going to be a big force one day, you know, and I'll kind of go into my spill. This first picture here is kind of a cool rendering of a 3D picture of our downtown. And so kind of we're very deeply passionate about integrity, excellence, community, and service. And we don't look at those as just words on a piece of paper We really try to believe that every day. I've got a great city manager and Jason Lommer who couldn't be here today He had another commitment this morning, but I wouldn't let him talk anyway. I like to brag about my city all I can so But these core values they work on every day We know our citizens are our customers and we try to hire people that will do that. Our two-year goals are kind of hard to see up here but we try to set goals that we can attain in a two-year period. You know our city is changing evolving fast every month and We want to share our story. Where do we come from? You know when I've being I was on a fire department there in Slano for 11 years You know people don't move to cities because they like the mayor or they like the council. They move there because you're safe city and you have good schools. We're fortunate that we have Salana and Prosper in our city limits. And so I always tell people, if you want the big school model, you live in the south part of the town. And if you want the small school model today, you move to the have both of those. We have great relationship with both of our schools. We understand partnerships with them. You know, we're not in the custodial business, but the school kind of yes. We use our custodians to basically clean our buildings. You know, we have some land that we're going to help them park buses on. How can we build parks and schools together we can share parking? All those things today with the money restraints we have already. We really tried to work with the schools. And then plan the city, I won't go through all these. This was kind of my same spill we give to all of our state of the city addresses and just kind of wanted to touch on a few of them there. Be creative and encourage agrateros and opportunities. Everybody says they moved to Slana or Denton County in general for the nice fields and the country field. How can we maintain some of that? We know we have to work with developers and we have to work with development, but how can we find places in the city that we can keep that agriturism going? The budget highlights are capital projects for $48 million. Our total adopted budget this year is $87 million, which was crazy when I first got on council, it was about $1 million. So just the changes over the last five to seven years has been phenomenal. We have 145 people currently on staff. We hired 62 people in 2018. And I think what we found out was we were contracting some of that out. It was cheaper to bring it in. But just we had a lot of people doing a lot of jobs. And retention is huge. You bring them in and and you train them we have to compete with Frisco We have to compete with Plano we have to compete with with Prosper and those cities that are growing and paying more So we actually you know retooled our whole budget to make it competitive to keep people You know I was here in December and I was very impressed with how many people had been here 25 30 years You guys do a great job on that. And so that's what we're trying to build on is retain it. To train somebody and you lose them, it doesn't do any good. We want them to understand the Salana way and keep them there. So we've tried to do that. 62 of those higher, but 18 were firemen. We were able to get the safer grant to bring them in today. And so get them trained up we're actually currently building two new stations right now and so we want to make sure when we open those stations we're ready to go. Again our fire department added 20 new fire fire, 20 new firefighters over the past 12 months. Again going to that safety we have almost 80 square miles but we also cover Weston and we partner and help 13 to 5 corridor with Aubrey and Pilot Point. You know mutual aid is huge and I would chief over there will address to that. You know, Monday morning we had a huge table of fire. And it's not slining out there. It's slining a Pilot Point Aubrey. You need everybody hands on deck. Because we still have a lot of green space and open space that can burn. City engagement, we're trying to be as transparent as we can. And sometimes that's hard. We did a community survey in 2018. We just approved our downtown master plan in January. We actually had a date where we brought everybody in to our downtown for a day and said okay walk around with staff, tell us what you like and don't like. We met back up at six o'clock that night. We had about 150 people show up, which in our mind that was a great turnout. We had over 700 people that responded to the survey. The number one thing was they're passionate about downtown. And you guys have a great downtown here in the city of Denton. We actually stowed LSA over here. Your burger joint, they're opening up a new place in Slano on the square. Called Bongo's Billies and I don't know the rest. But it's going to be a cool cage and restaurant on the square. You know, two years ago we were about 55% occupied on the square and six months will be 99% occupied. We have one building and that's because we have good stakeholders. We have one guy that owns 80% of the square and when he brings somebody in he wants sustainability and so some of the citizens don't understand that sometimes is why and he put in people in there but when he gets them there they stay because he gets to write user and user. And so we're really happy about that. We've approved our master trail's master plan. You know, I work in a lot of different cities in my private life and trail systems always, you talk about it, you talk about it, but you hardly ever see a good bill. So we're starting to put that in places when they come in, they have to build those trail systems in one of the first or second phases of their development to keep that connectivity. Because people want to live, work and play and they want walkability. Growth in the past 18 years is kind of hard to see. Right now we're about 18,000 people and we consider light farms even on their mud. We consider them in arc we serve them water and sewer. We're doing about 100, this next slide shows that our January first population was 18,860. We're growing about 300 new people a month right now. We're doing about 120 to 135 building permits a month. So, you know, we talk about when Frisco hit that boom, they're coming north, well they're coming north now. And if you don't work with them, you're going to get in trouble. So we've been lucky that we've had three or four quality developers, the Hill Woods, the Cambridge, that come in and do more than one project. Because we like that because they kind of get with our staff and they both know how each other works. And so in 2018, we did 1,249 single family permits. Residential COs were 987 and commercial COs were 12. Right now we've refocused our EDC a little bit on growing downtown. I think our focus for a little bit was a little off working on the Wal-Mart and the big box stores were like if you build downtown everything else is going to come. When you got Preston Road and the tow road border in both parts of your city they're going to come if you make something unique downtown. So the big boxes will be there. We're really working on the mom and pops and unique stuff that we can bring in and make them sustainable. Because everybody wants to go somewhere that's something unique. If you've seen Tinders, barbecue, it's on the square. Tori Hunter who played for Minnesota twins for 20 something years. He got number two on Yelp in the country six months ago and they can't keep food. There's your Fridays and Saturdays right now. It's amazing the growth that it's brought to the square and not only just them but the other restaurants down there have really, we found out how critical, we always said parking was critical downtown, we found out how critical that is today. Right now, you know, we did a senior tax freeze in 2018. We put an ordinance on, no cell phones have to be wireless. You have to have hands free. We felt like our police department we support them 100% and they brought this to us and it was something that felt like most of our crashes were some kind of doing filling with your phone so we put that in. We also kind of changed our city hall business hours. We looked in Friday after newsons, nobody comes in city hall. And so we closed at 11.30 on Fridays, but we're open 7.30 to 5.30, Monday to Thursdays. It really helped morale in the city. And we also found out doing other cities that have done this is people won't come in when they're sick. They'll actually take off sick because they can plan their stuff Friday afternoons to take the dog or take the kid or do whatever. And so, morale has been really great and our citizens have really embraced this. Again, city halls are changing. We need a city hall at some point, but I don't want to go out and spend $20 million on a city hall when we need more fire stations, police stations, we need streets fixed. Because as we grow more in this technology phase, city halls are becoming less and less more important. The only goal they got to go to court, they don't want to be there anyway. So we're going to have our court building somewhere else. So we've made a commitment to our citizens to build City Hall downtown. This was kind of a, this slide was kind of more for our citizens, but you know, social media is a good thing and a bad thing sometimes. And we took a lot of heat that we were going to tear down this water tower. We had decommission at first, but we've partnered up with our local school. We're actually in the process of redoing it. It'd be done in about 60 days, so we're going to have lights on it. So if our team wins a victory, we're going to be able to light it up. So my dad's a no football coach and we used to do this when I was in Van Texas. They had a big V on it when you wanted to be lit up. Well we may have to have green and we had to have orange because we got both cities or schools in our city but we parted up with the schools to help pay for this project and it's just staple for downtown. People see it when they drive downtown they know you're downtown slana. We never had an intention to ever tear it down but when they heard we were decommissioned it's percentage of people said you can't tear that down it's no we're not. Again being transparent and getting that word out there. And so we got another storage tank that we're putting up, you know, water's key to everything we do. We're part of, we're part of opportunity today. We're working with North Texas to become part of them at some point for our eastern sections of the city, but this project's underway and it should be completed shortly. This is kind of our downtown master plan. We have to have a plan of where we're going. And so we got that approved in January. You know, we had a couple of businesses down there that says, hey, my air conditions company is not there anymore. They go, yeah, we've been talking to you. We want to try to help you kind of move off the square. But we have good relationships with those guys and we're really working on building our downtown. We know we have to have density on there to make it work and we're really passionate about getting that done. This is our fire station number two that was under construction right now. We had $9 million to build a station. And as Chief knows over there, that's about what one station would cost. Well, we were driving around town and me and my city manager there was a building that was office warehouse that was built in downtown Slanted. It was just, it looks like a barn, but didn't have all this brick around it. We're like, man, that looks really good. So again, thinking outside of the box, our chief metric that we have in our city is great about that. And he goes, you know, we really need two or three stations right now. For not me and Bucks So now we have two of these under construction. That's what we got 18 firemen so when these open we can automatically put them in there. We're going to have a station that's out on 13-5 which will be in Denton County. We worked with the developer. We also have a prosper elementary school site that's going to be there. And so we feel like having a fire station on that 1385 quarter will help all of us regionally over there. Because right now, whether it's Aubrey, Pollock, Point, or Slina, we're off 15 to 20 minutes from getting to that spot. With all the growth on 1385 right now, we need some protection out there. That's number three is gonna look kind of the same as number two. We're fixing to expand our part. We know park systems, part of our survey was number two was very passionate. We went out about four years ago and bought, if you've ever been to Slano, we got a pretty cool old Slano park. We bought the 20 acres north of there to expand our park. This is starting to weigh in about 30 or 45 days. With Colin County, we got some funding for parks and we're moving forward with that. This is kind of just another picture of how it looked. We've partnered up with Aubrey Pollock Point Gunner. You know, Prosper's gotten so big, they've kind of got their own thing going. So we kind of need to stand around two feet, but we want to pay it forward and keep moving into the Grayson, Denton County areas to bring people to play at our fields because they eat your restaurants, they come and shop at your stores. That's just some more renderings. We've got a bunch of street projects going on right now. We really feel like we have so much new growth. We don't want to forget about our old growth downtown. So right now we are in the process of redoing our infrastructure downtown, putting some storm gutter in downtown because we have some flood areas and really working on putting our money where our mouth is and fixing up downtown because the new growth comes out there and the new developers are taking care of that. City Hall annex, we bought the old method as church about four years ago that we've been using for council chambers. We're fixing to renovate our city hall. It's underway right now. If you'll see on the right, there'll be a new clock tower. We're gonna, we had an elevator in it, and I wouldn't ever get in it, because I don't know if you'd ever get out of it. So we're making it truly ADA We're truly 88 compliant, but we've always had a problem with cell phones downtown. So we're going to have cell phone towers hidden up in there so we can increase our cell downtown. You know, our goal was to become a gigabit city. And we tried to challenge that two years ago and we didn't realize, we did realize what we thought we had enough political pressure and often, but we found out we didn't. But we wanted our EDC to have some ownership in, and they didn't do it. But we went out and put our money where our mouth is again and designed the fiber ring. Well, it woke AT&T up, and now 98% of the city of Slion is tree fiber. We have one neighborhood left for them to retrofit, and then we'll start going after getting that gigabit designation. We felt like, to me, internet is as important as water and sewer is today. It must be with minds. You know, we a lot of people moving to Salina or living out of their house, working out of their house. And so I think that's why the dynamics of retail and office is changing. You need more restaurant to accommodate those people living in your houses. And so, you know, we have a lot of different ways to get out to people. One thing I would like to brag about our staff as city bot is a program that we started and I think we're only one of the only cities in Texas using this deal. Where if you're driving around Salina and you see a pothole, you see a street sign down, you text the address and the problem to city bot which you put in your phone and keep it there. It automatically goes to that department whether it's public works, whether it's streets, they text you back and say we've got it. It gets accountability and only for our staff to get it done, but then they send you a text back saying it's been completed, or what the time frame is. Not everybody wants to go on the phone and find the number to call, but they'll text. And we've had good success with being transparent with our citizens and good success stories of that working. We're also on next door, Twitter, Facebook. We actually were able to hire a true marketing slash PIO person that really gets stuff out there. With CityBotch you can identify areas when there's a water leak. They can send it out just to that area saying this road is going to be shut down for a period of time. It's been really good and I think it's just another reason to be transparent how we get the word out there about our city. This report is kind of hard to read but we send this out every month in the water bill and it's also available online and just Kind of shows the progress of what developments are doing good how many building permits we have going on if you see lot Farms had 10 bluewood had 14 and Sutton fields had 44 so you kind of see the area that the growth's really coming you know Sutton's right there on 1385 which is in Denton County so we're getting a lot of a lot of growth on 1385 and county. So we're getting a lot of a lot of growth on 1385. And again I want to thank you you and Andy both Judge and Commissioner for all the relationships we've had over the past really being strong and understanding the regional approach. Again we're just a little blip and didn't county but we are in didn't county we're proud to be in didn't county. I can tell you I've been involved in politics for the last 10 years and we've never been asked by Colin County to come speak at commissioners court And we've asked for that. I think it's important that we're on the same page Susan Fletcher our commissioner and Colin County does a great job for us Sure, I know her and you have a good relationship But when we go to Austin we all have to be singing the same tune Right, and you know and I don't want to appreciate you off or allow me to come and brag about my city and Any questions I can take I'll be more in happy downtown we got a new candy shop coming to we stole the one from Rona open up coming to need to come try tenders the Cajun restaurant April 13th we have the Cajun Fest on downtown Salana we have Wayne toots George straight of Cajun music will be down there so we're trying to get cool things to come and one thing is great about Salana is a lot of our old timers so to speak that's been there they brace the growth because they actually own the land. Right. And that makes a difference. These farmers, I know we're pushing some farmers out but they own the land and they've embraced the growth. And one thing when I took over a major five years ago is we got a task force together from some of the people that's been there 60 years, people been there five years. And we named all the streets off of like, Punk Carter Parkway. And we got with the school. And so there's one history class. The third job is to research street names and try to see why did we name the streets after. Because I think you got to keep where did you come from. You know, my grand ever student in the Allen 30 years. First school was named after him. And it's so cool for me and my mom to go back every year to talk even though some of those kids don't know who he is. At least it makes us feel good that we're telling the story of back in the 60s when he had to pay money out of his own bank account to keep school open. We've got to remember where we came from to get where we're going. So any questions y'all have? Mayor, I just want to commend you. You're in a wonderful position of a new community that's growing and having the ability to put in a vision of what you want your community to look like in 50 years. I heard somewhere on the TV the other day that they were projecting that Salina was going to be as big as Frisco. Yes. And but it sounds like that you are have a small community with a grand vision of what that future looks like. It's hard coming into communities that's been here a long time that may have 100,000 people in it. And then you try to retrofit that city to do what you're doing right now. And I commend you. I think your forward vision and your forward thinking is exactly the way we want to be in Denton County. And I think that's the way we have been in Denton County with our transportation and with getting from point A to point B. And I commend you and wonderful success, wonderful presentation. But thank you. And I thank you, literally, in 2007, when he helped write, light farm, it was the one that kind of set us on a map. And it was a mud district. We get zero taxes off of them. But what he was able to do, and I can't take all the credit, our mayor is Corbin Howard, our mayor for six or seven years. I weigh his knowledge. I weigh his knowledge. Did you? Well, you know, he's on my EDC board. But having guys like that that stay around to understand, sometimes contracts get changed, but knowing what the intent of the deal was. And that helps us when I bring Corbett in. We don't have egos. We're all here to work towards one go. And Corbett goes to me on all these He had to intend and in 2007 when y'all did light farms, oh eight, everything went down. We had already had signed up with the opportunity for the water capacity. So my citizens had to pay more for a while for water. And so we were very honest about that. Hey, we got all the water we want. We're doing good, but we can't dictate the market. But by having light farms come in with a, I mean our average home price in slinas 468,000. And that's one of our biggest challenges right now is how do we create affordable housing? And what is that today? Because we have commercial businesses that wanna move in, but people in those $480,000 homes aren't working at my restaurant downtown. So we've got some ideas about that too. Now, the city council and the people of slown are extremely understanding. Because I went out there to work with them. They all wanted to know about me in my background and they finally Pried out of me that my wife was a teacher at pilot point Which is their big rival makes so Yeah, we still accept them after that because we can't beat them so is good so Well Sean, I just want to thank you for being here and I want to echo Commissioner March's comments about your visionary leadership Well, thank you, and I'm happy the court, we really commend you for listening to the public, but also being a leader and sharing a vision and getting the public on board and engaging the decisions. So thank you. And don't leave, already takes to the staff. Can you, I want to love to get a copy of your PowerPoint. Sure. That's a great, that's a great, that's great. That's a great job. And we try to keep our message the same. That's what we bring it, because we've been out. It's amazing. When I first got mayor, maybe one person everyone had taught to you. Now we're doing nine of these. Which to me, HOAs, I used to think we're a bad thing. But really for a growing city, they to an HWA, we tell our story. And some people who live in Carter Ranch, or South of town, never took a right to go downtown. Now we do things to get them down there, which is pretty cool. We as a court made a conscious decision last year to bring on a director of community relations so that we could be communicating with our public and engaging our citizens in a very strategic and thoughtful way. And so that's something we're engaging in as well and getting input as we grow the county. So thank you so much. We are doing our standing job and thanks again for letting me be here today. Thank you Mayor. Thank you Mayor. Thank you Mayor. Wow, that's quite the act to follow. At this time, I'd like to, members, I'd like to go to item 3B, which is approval of a resolution proclaiming April 2019 as child abuse prevention month. And we had a wonderful breakfast for the commissioners court this morning hosted by our partners at the Children's Protective Services Board. So I would like to welcome all of our CPS board members. If you all would come up to the front here. Okay, there's a lot of you. I'll just amend to go upstairs. We want you all would come forward. And in Kristen Howell is the director of the Ditton County Children's Advocacy Center and we invited Kristen to come join us. If you'll come up Kristen as well. I want to who from CPS wants to speak first. I'd love to have you. you all give an update or talk. Does anyone want to speak from CPS? Don't be shy. Anyone? Quinn? Kristen, would you like to speak about... Come forward, yes. We'd love to. Hi, how are you? Hi, I'm good. Come forward, yes, we'd love to. Hi, how are you? Hi, I'm good. My name's Kristen Hall. I'm the CEO of the Children's Advocacy Center for Denton County. I stand with this multidisciplinary team of people who respond to child abuse cases. This is a fraction of the professionals that are in the field in Denton County who literally respond day and day out in the middle of the night. First thing in the morning, when kids are suicidal, when kids are at their wits end because they are afraid of what's happening in their home. They are being touched like no child should be touched and they are being hurt by the very people that they love. This response is designed to make sure that every single child in this county has their needs met that they get justice, that their investigation goes through in a neutral way so that we don't engage in witch hunts, but we do really thorough neutral investigations. And then those, the baton has passed to the healing services, to the teams that are in charge of safety, to the teams that are in charge of safety, to the teams that are in charge of mental health services, to the teams that are in charge of helping kids navigate a really complex criminal justice system. And so on behalf of all of these people here, we are grateful to the city, to the county that we serve. We are thrilled at the support that we get in Denton County. And there are the numbers of people who have zero tolerance against abuse for children and who stand with us in our efforts to ensure that we have a first-class response to kids. The very best thing that all of us could do is prevent this work. Some days our best job is done interrupting the cycle of abuse, but we absolutely love this eye toward prevention. And as we look at April as being a month of preventing this thing, every one of us would give our right arm to prevent this from happening to any more children in our county. Thank you very much for your time, sir. Thank you, thank you. Kristen is exactly right. It takes many groups of people working together for our children and we were talking this morning upstairs and it's the desire of this commissioners court that didn't count to be the shining example of best practices on how we treat our children and with our agencies and we prevent child abuse and so we're going to continue this dialogue and we're going to in a very strategic and intentional ways for us to be the best county in Texas on how to address this growing problem. And unfortunately it's a growing problem. Yeah, and what we also found out, Stairs was kind of shocking and was that you had 600 kids within Denton County that are placed in foster care. That is a tremendous amount. It has actually a record amount. It meant for this time, time of the year, early in the cycle for a place where those foster kids and need foster parents to step forward to provide a safe environment for those kids. And we're going to work our best as a commissioners court to get that message out to the committee within Denton County that the foster program, child program is a great program that will reap eternal benefits. Okay. Perfect. Okay. Members, any other comments before I read the resolution? Okay, all right, this is a proclamation regarding child abuse prevention month. Whereas child abuse and neglect is a complex and ongoing problem in our society affecting many children in Ditton County. Whereas in 2018, Ditton County Child Prot protective services receive 5,400 and two reports of child abuse and of those 3,038 were assigned to case workers. In whereas in 2018 didn't county child protective services obtain legal custody of 430 new children who were then placed with an appropriate relative or kinship caregiver or in a foster home. And whereas in 2018, Ditton County Child Protective Services had an average of 462 children and its protective custody. And whereas every child is entitled to be loved, cared for, nurtured, feel secure, and be free from verbal, sexual, emotional, and physical abuse and neglect. And whereas it is a responsibility of every adult who comes in contact with a child to protect, that child's an a little bit of rights, an ailiable rights to a safe and nurturing childhood. And whereas Ditton County has dedicated individuals and organizations who work daily to counter the problem of child maltreatment, and to help parents obtain the assistance they need. And whereas our communities are stronger, when all citizens become aware of child maltreatment prevention and become involved in supporting parents to raise their children in a safe and nurturing environment. And whereas effective child abuse prevention programs succeed because of partnerships created among social service agencies, schools, faith communities, civic organizations, law enforcement agencies, and the business community. Now therefore, the Ditton County Commissioners Court does hereby proclaim April as child abuse prevention month in Ditton County. And we call upon all citizens, community agencies, faith groups, medical facilities, and businesses, including the Ditton County Child Protective Services Board, community partners of Ditton County, the Cumberland Presbyterian Children's Home, the court appointed special to advocate SCASA of Ditton County, and the Child Advocacy Center of Ditton County to increase their participation. And our efforts to support families thereby preventing child abuse and strengthening the communities in which we live. Done an open court that's the ninth, the tenth day, well, that's the wrong date on here. Today's date upon a motion by myself, second by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. All right. say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. All right. Thank you. I'm going to take a photo. No, you don't have to get everybody. Yes, I'm Bearing for Chair here. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go All right, thank you all for all that you do. All right, next I'd like to welcome Peggy Riddell and our Office of History and Culture staff forward. We have an approval of a proclamation and honor of the 40th anniversary of the Ditton County Courthouse on the museum, Courthouse on the Square Museum, and a ribbon cutting ceremony. And I'd like for Peggy to speak, and then I'd like to welcome our special guest with us today, Georgia Caraway. She's with us today, and I would like to, Georgia to come say hi in just a second, so Peggy, go ahead and... Yes, thank you so much, judge-eeds and commissioners were just thrilled that we could have this exhibit after our year of being closed due to the fire of the mini-mall. We are featuring 40 artifacts that have unique stories and you have before you our gallery guide which gives more information than what's on the text panels. This was truly a team effort. I want to recognize our curator of exhibits, Matthew Long, our curator of collections, Kim Kupit. They worked extremely well together and putting these stories together, as well as Kelsey Jistle. Come on. He's back this morning. Grattle LaRue who has gotten our volunteers together and trained. We've got a great group of volunteers. And Roslyn Shelton, our assistant director, who always makes sure we stay within budget on everything. But it was more moves the money around if we don't. Exactly. We just, yes, but we're always right there. But it was a great experience and we've got more exhibits coming up that we know you'll enjoy. So thank you very much. Georgia, you want to come up? I call Georgia the day and I said Georgia, you left such a legacy here at the courthouse. For all your years of service, I said it would be incomplete without you joining us today. So thank you for being here. I'd love to hear from you. Thank you. It was really interesting this morning. It's the first time in seven years that I walked up. That sidewalk and looked up like I always did in grade. How thankful I was for Denton County and that opportunity that I had to be the museum director. And I know that I had to be the museum director and I know that I was followed by somebody incredible and thank you Peggy for continuing that legacy. Thank you all for all the support you gave all those years. George how long were you the director? 13 years and maybe 13 years and change. Well, Georgia, thank you for being part of that continuum. So through these 40 years and being that a visionary leader for the time that you were here as well. And any success that we all have, we really stand on the shoulders of the ones who come before us and Peggy and her team, and the great legacy you helped build. And I'll tell you, Georgia, you did a good job with all the commissioners over the years in building the department, in building the department. And the courts agreeing with your vision to staff it up. And look at the staff here, these positions that you work to create so that we could do the good work that we do. And the exhibit is great, but members I really wanna also highlight this gallery directory that Matthew did. It is just, he created this whole thing, am I right? Just about, I mean, did this whole thing. And he had help from Sydney Eads on the photographer. My dad came up and helped him with some of the pictures, but he was happy to do it. But really, this is a great, a great directory. And I think it just shows the professionalism in the staff and the work product, which they work so hard to create. And I just want to thank you all for the long hours you all put in. I'm up here a lot on the weekends. I'm up here late at night in Yard too. And so we always take turns who's going to set the alarm system off. You know, so they always come by and I said, well, first or I'll go last. But I want to thank you for your hours that you've put in year round. It's they're always doing some kind of different show. And they're up here over Christmas holidays, New Year's Eve up here late, getting the museum ready for the swearing in, ceremony, and just thanks for all y'all do. So I'm going to read this proclamation, and then we're going to go downstairs. We'll take a 10 minute recess, and for the audience, and the court members to go down to the gallery, and we'll take a view of the thing, of the new exhibit. And we did an opening on Saturday for the public and Had hundreds of people here throughout the day and we won't show talk about the days event so everybody can Yes, and Well, we had a band playing in here right out right right here and we had a macramé Class of that was well attended We had a macrame class that was well attended. We had children from 1979. That was one of the two of us popular in 1970s. And I want to thank West Oak Coffee for supplying the coffee and to atomic candy that supplied vintage candy. It was new candy, but it was from the time period it was fresh fresh Yes, vintage style candy But we had a lot of fun and we gave tours of the tower that People just really appreciated some people who had been in here before that we just had Constant going up the spiral staircase. Great, it's great. Okay, so a lot of fun. It was a fun day. So, this is a proclamation regarding the 40th anniversary of the Courtaus on the Square Museum, whereas on May 16, 1977, Yvonne Jenkins and Merle Watson of the Ditton County Historic Commission, along with members of the Congress of Junior High School History Club appeared before the Ditton County Commissioners' Court to Request Space in the Courthouse on the Square for a museum. And whereas the young students of Congress Junior High School under the leadership of their teacher, Adeline Martin, saw the value in safeguarding local history and encouraged the DCHC to protect and preserve the history of Ditton County. And whereas the first museum committee formed in July of 1977 consisting of members of the DCHC and three members of the Congress Junior High School History Club, Lava Bray, Amy Dye, and Tina Jordan. Whereas in September 1978, the DCHC moved into the former 16th District courtroom now known as the Commissioner's courtroom and began making plans for the museum. In Reservue Museum Committee selected Thelma Stevens as director and made a call for donations to the public with a theme, everyday life in Ditton County the first hundred years. And whereas on April 1st 1979 museum officially opened with a barbed wire cutting and whereas the Ditton County Office of History and Culture commemorates the 40th anniversary with an exhibition themed 40 for 40, 40 artifacts for 40 years. And whereas the Courthouse on the Square Museum is committed to preserving and interpreting the history of Ditton County and to serve as a historical resource for residents and visitors alike. And whereas the museum continues to operate by offering exhibits, lectures, events, tours, programs, and research assistance. Now therefore be resolved that the Ditton County Commissioners Court looks back with pride at the 40 years of accomplishment and service of the Courthouse on the Square Museum and looks forward to its expanding success in the future. Done in open court this second, they have April 2019 upon a motion by myself, seconded by Commissioner Ebbetson, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Okay, so we are going to go downstairs and do another cutting. We're going to take about a 10 minute recess. We are meeting. I'd like to go to item 3D. This is approval of a resolution recognizing public health week in Ditton County April 1 through through April 7th to coincide with National Public Health Week 2019 in any appropriate action. And I also like to open up item 3e which is a presentation of the Ditton County Public Health 2018 annual reports. I'll go ahead and Matt, why don't you go ahead and go into your presentation and we'll do your resolution at the end. Excellent. Thank you. Judge commissioners, good morning. Cheryl, did I? Sorry. Thank you. I know you'll read the proclamation a little bit. This is National Public Health Week and we're doing several things to celebrate National Public Health Week. One of those is we're having our annual Denton County Dash. We're doing that in Louisville. I think this is the fourth year. We're doing this in Louisville. We're really excited. We have a great partnership with Railroad Park, the Toyota facility there, and the City of Louisville. It's a great run. We have great turnout just to really a lot of fun. it's been a great partnership in the last few years and so we're excited about that. That starts at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning, this coming Saturday. What I have provided to you is our 2018 annual report. This is just a quick snapshot of our dashboard information for the last year. Just a quick snapshot of public health deliverables. I want to recognize Jennifer Rainey and Alex Reed, so if you all just wave your hands, I'd make them stand up then they'd be frustrated. So Jennifer and Alex have done a great job. We had a casual conversation, I don't know, six or eight months ago, about other health departments in their annual reports. And honestly, some of my colleagues, there's a ton of information. We've had a community health assessment and a community health improvement plan that one might be 60 pages, one might be 90 pages. We love the data, and I think we're the only ones. It seems like that's not as helpful or as useful to others. And so we wanted to have something bite size, something that really, thank you, Bobbi. Something that really shows what's happening. And then these are some data points, just a quick snapshot of what's happening in public health. And there's a lot of data behind that. We'll just kind of narrate through, but if you see the annual report, we've got some of what's happened in 2018. You see the new building opening in Louisville. That was a highlighted event for us, of course. We really have increased our social marketing, our social media presence. You're going to see WIC and some of the food that has been provided to our needy families, our moms and kids. You see how many immunizations have been administered. Lots of just quick hits on public health. And so we're excited about this. I was actually sitting in church, believe it or not, and the church, thank you. I'm glad that's not surprised. And so I, the church, I tend, they had an annual report much like this. And so I brought it to the staff and they had already, they already are seeing something like that. And I said, you know, it'd be great if we had something like this for National Public Health Week or maybe Public Health Week, if we could ever get it done. I didn't mention it again, I actually went on vacation and came back and the staff had really used our dashboard things, sir. The staff had really used our dashboard to inform just a quick hit. So we wanted to present that to you. We have several copies, AlphaGraphics folded these for us, printed these, it really worked overtime to make sure that we would have this for public health week. Thanks to Ali sure that we would have this for public health week. Thanks to Ali for that. And if we could get some of those for our office or the other members. When we go out and speak, that'd be great. What I'll do is I'll have the staff communicate with each of your chiefs and talk about how many you would like and will facilitate that to you quickly this week. Perfect. So just wanted to hit those highlights for that annual report, answer any questions you have. And again, as a reminder, this information comes from our dashboard. We've, we're about a year, a little over a year, into our dashboard information, where our programs send us information monthly. I'll be getting you the dashboard for February, is that correct? I'll be getting that to you this week as well. So you'll see the metrics in the last full month that was reported. Any questions on the annual report before the proclamation? How was the utilization of the new building in Louisville? I think it's fantastic. We get great feedback, we get great comments. It's really helped our throughput of patients, the patients in the exam rooms. That's much more efficient. We've expanded our diabetes case management, really doubled that effort in Lewis build. The new building has helped do that. That's just, that's all much more effective and it's been nothing but a blessing. I think that's not a surprise, but it sure has been a lot of fun to participate in. It was much needed. And really, I think the residents of Denton County, in the southern part of the county, I think they are proud of it. So there's a real pride with the building and that new space. The community pride is something that's a lot of fun to see too. So again, it's not repetitive to say thank you for the courts investment in that and your leadership. That we get so much positive feedback. That can you talk a little bit about measles? Yes, so we have one case of measles in Denton County. I think there's two in Tarant, maybe two in Colin. I wish Juan was here. He could give us the most up-to-date numbers. I did see this morning. I read an article that said already we just started April 2nd. There are more measles cases this year than all of last year. The highest year since 2000. I'm sorry. Is that nationally? It is nationally. Thank you. Nationally, more cases in the US this year already by April the 2nd than there were all of last year. We're anticipating that this year will exceed 2014, which was the most measles cases since 2000. There have been three deaths in the US since 2000 from measles. So if someone tells you, if you hear the Facebook rhetoric sometimes that measles isn't serious, there are still three families in the US that grieve the loss of a child because measles. And so we would highlight those concerns. I think you saw maybe last week in New York some town leadership took some extraordinary measures on measles. And while we won't talk about the political ramifications of all of those extraordinary measures, they were having many, many cases of a communicable and infectious disease in New York. And so they wanted to at least have a community conversation. And so certainly we applaud prevention now. I don't know if that's the way we might go. But the enforcement, there's not much of a stick or a carrot, I think, in some of what's happening in New York. However, what is happening in New York is a very broad conversation about prevention of a communicable infectious disease that remains serious and remains preventable. And I think that's the headscratcher for public health professionals and just anyone concerned about health care. The headscratcher is that we have a really effective vaccine and it's not always being used. Yeah, and Matt, I'd like to say that, you know, some up here on the diias, out in the audience, in many people listening, are product of private schools. And there's a misconception. I believe there's a misconception that just because you go to a private school, you're not required to have vaccinations. And I don't know a bit, and I was on the board of the Association of Christian Schools International, which is a worldwide a worldwide organization, and every school, which is about 40,000 of those throughout the United States. Every one of those school require vaccination immunizations before they let their kids into the school just like in the public school. It does remain state law, that's right. Those exemptions are still possible and that happens. But we really focus on prevention. You see in our annual report, we have 27,564 immunizations administered. We still coordinate the Texas vaccine for children program in Denton County. So we work with all pediatricians offices that have that statewide vaccine available. We work with every pediatrician in Denton County to coordinate that vaccine program. We do monthly audits with them. I know that can be frustrating but we always want to assure that that vaccine is potent, that it's stored properly so that it will be maximally effective. And we spend a lot of time working with our community partners on that. And you see, we spend a lot of time in Louisville and Denton giving some shots and we're proud of that. Other questions about the annual report? Perfect. Thank you so much, my friend. And we will make sure that your offices get these. We have printed about 400. I anticipate another printing. I want every health department employee is going to get one of these and then if you have any one that you want to have those, if you can have your office contact us, we will facilitate the delivery of those to you. Thank you so much. All our places have places where we disturb this discussion. Thank you. We would love to do that. Okay. Members, any other questions or comments? Thank you. Okay, this is a resolution recognizing April 1st through the 7th, 2019 as Public Health Week in Ditton County. The Ditton County Commissioner's Court Ditton County, Texas during a regular session on the second day of April 2019 considered the following resolution. Whereas the strength and future of every Ditton County community depends on the health and well-being of its citizens. Whereas public health helps to protect every resident every day, in every part of Denton County from infectious diseases, environmental exposures, and various health threats. Whereas public health promotes the benefits of wellness activities, including active living and healthy eating. Whereas primary prevention practices practices such as childhood and adult immunizations, prenatal care, early diagnosis and treatment, good nutrition and avoiding tobacco products are essential to good health. And whereas public health activities throughout Ditton County routinely prevent disease, strengthen collaborative partnerships, expand access to health care, and improve the quality of life for Ditton County residents. And, rest public health helps to protect every Ditton County resident with personal preparedness education, medical reserve core recruitment and training, and reportable disease tracking and investigation. And where thousands of public health professionals throughout the nation and hundreds throughout Ditton County dedicate themselves to promote and protect the health and safety of their fellow citizens. Now therefore, it resolved that the Ditton County Commissioners Court does hereby declare the week of April 1st through the 7th, 2019, as public health weekend Ditton County. In addition, it recognizes the efforts of public health professionals to assure the health and safety of our residents and communities and does hereby far strong support and appreciation for all that public health does to preserve, to protect and improve the quality of life here in Ditton County. Done an open court this second day of April 2019 upon a motion. Commissioner Marchant, seconded by Commissioner Edmonton. Any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you, Matt. Thank you. Thank you, my team. And we'll do a group shot after we break to go to executive session. Y'all will be here. We'll expedite the meeting. Members, I'd like to go back to item two, which is our consent agenda. Do we have a motion for approval? I'll start moving. Motion by Commissioner Coleman. Second about Commissioner Edminton, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. The consent agenda is item two a's approval of order making appointments in any appropriate action. And we have, when we read that, we have a new hire in the technology services, records management, a new hiring facilities, and a re-hire in public health wick. So welcome to Ditton County Work Family. Item 2D is approval of interdepartmental transfers and any appropriate action. Item 2C is approval of payroll. Item 2D is approval of renewal for mowingal transfers in any appropriate action item two C's approval of payroll item two these approval of renewal for mowing and landscaping RFP 0 4172410 to quality care landscape services in any appropriate action item 2b 2e is approval of budget amendment 1 0 0 9 2 0 to transfer funds from the Mary and Jim Horn government, sit or landscaping expense to Ditton County storage building, gas service in the amount of $1,700 in the appropriate action. Item 2F is approval of budget memory request 100940. For law enforcement facility to transfer $3,000 from miscellaneous building maintenance to pest control in the appropriate action. All right, we did all of the three. Item five is approval of the bill report, payments from CSCD Community Corrections, TAIP, Sheriff's Training, Sheriff's Fortressor, VIP Interest, and DAF forfeiture funds are present for recording purposes only and Mr. May. Welcome, this is your first meeting. Perfect, okay. All right, do we have a motion for the amended bill report? Second. Motion by Commissioner Marche, second by Commissioner Coleman in any discussion. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Purchasing item 6A is approved to declare as surplus window 7 PC unit serial number A03053. And to use this trade in for credit towards the purchase of an upgraded windows 10 PC OPEX AS7200 unit from OPEX Corporation Inc. In any appropriate action. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell. Seconded by Commissioner Edminton, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 6B is approval of specifications and authority to advertise RFP 192516 Multi-Building Access Control Project. Appointment of the evaluation committee to include Jeremy Crowe, Systems Project Manager, Tim Flower, Assistant Construction Project Manager, and Larry Harbor, District Court Administrator, and any appropriate action. So the motion by Commissioner Marchett, second by Commissioner Mitchell, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 7b is our budget. Approval of budget amendment request 100930 to increase revenues and allocate expenditures for medical supplies. For public health diabetes case management program delivery system, reform incentive payment, DSRIP, an amount of $75,000. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell, second by Commissioner Edminton, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye, any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 8A is Human Resources Approval from Report, from Human Resources regarding hiring actions of elected officials. This is presented for recording purposes only, Mr. Hernandez. Judge, commissioners, good morning. We have one new hired in the county clerk, one new hired in Provide Court, one new hired in JP6, one promotion in the tax office, seven promotions in the county jail, five new hires, county jail, three promotions in communications at the sheriff's office, five promotions in the sheriff's department, one demotion in the sheriff's office, one rehired in the sheriff's office, one new hire in juvenile provision, and one newired in the Shedding Office, one new hired in Juvenile Provection, and one new hired in Juvenile Detention. Thank you, sir. The Health Department is item 9a is approval of a memorandum of understanding between Southern Methodist University and Ditton County, Texas. and how, Sotheren Methodist University in Ditton County, Texas. Matt, could you, do you mind explaining this? You bet. So Judge and Commissioners, this is an example of an MOU or an MOUA in this case, with SMU for an internship process. And so we're going to have an ongoing memorandum of agreement understanding with SMU. We're executing these to sort of formalize the internship relationships we have with the schools to outline the expectations of the students and then our agency. And so we are just going to be presenting these. It's part of our accreditation effort too, that we keep these on file, that we maintain those annually. And so this is an example of that. Was this a new practice? This is a new practice for us. I say that there have been some in the past, but we are much more diligent and we're requiring this formal relationship whenever we take on an intern. We're requiring this documentation up front. Perfect. Okay, any questions? Sorry. No financial impact? That's correct, budget neutral to the county. All right, yes, ma'am. Music to her ears. All right, do we have a motion for approval? Motion by Commissioner Coleman, second by Commissioner Marchant. Any other questions or comments? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. We're going to pull items 10a and 10b for future meetings. Item 13 is other departments. Let's go ahead and go through. We're going to skip 13a right now. We're going to go to these other items and we'll come back into 13a. So 13b is approval of about any re-aportment of Joseph Jody Gonzalez as County Farm Marshal and Renewal of Bond as required by local government code 352 and any appropriate action to chair and move for approval. Second by Commissioner Edmondson in any discussion. The OD has been behaving particularly nice recently. Yes he has been. He always behaves. He always is good. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries your name. It's like item 13 sees approval to apply for the fiscal year 2019 Homeland Security Grant Program. Urban Area Security Initiative UASI for one project. I move for approval. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, second by Commissioner Mitchell, any discussion? All in favor say aye, any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 13D is approval to temporarily relocate the community market vendors from the Ditt count historical park located at 317 West Mulberry Street, didn't count to the parking lot of the Joseph A. Carroll building located across the street at 401 West Hickory Street here in didn't building beginning opening day this Saturday April 6, 2019 and continue as needed until the construction project located at the Ditton County's Dorko Park is complete and appropriate action to chair move for approval. Second about Commissioner Edminton. Do you want to tell us what's going on? I know you're working hard on that. Commissioner's Court approved unanimously several years ago, the expansion of green space at the historical park and expand our grass area, and we're going to be installing our Taylor log cabin there and it's going to be surrounded not by asphalt, but by green space as log cabins typically are. And so we are going to we're in a process. I want to thank Commissioner Ebbetson and the road and bridge west crews for continuing our practice at road and bridge west for any commissioner Mitchell for agreeing as well for allowing the road, our road crews do that in-house and so they reclaimed and recycled that parking lot and they're going to make that green space and so we couldn't get that done in time to get the grass sorted and so we do want to continue our partnership with the didn't community market and so they're going to be over with the court wishes we're going to be over at the Carol building for the time being to get that established so and I would invite everyone to come out this Saturday to the didn't community market it's celebrating its 10th anniversary and so that has been a great it's 10th anniversary and so that has been a great asset here to residents of the city of it and also Ditton County and it's been a great business incubator actually because many of those vendors have gone on to have storefronts here in town and have a thriving businesses that are based right here if there are a partnership with them so it kind of fits our historic preservation gets folks to the park and get visitors there and to our exhibits and also is the economic development generator. So is there any other questions with a motion and a second? All of them favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 13E is discussion approval of designating the Department of Public Works planning to be the point of contact for co-serve as they shall collect and distribute new electric service to property located in the unacorporated area of the county which is listed weekly. I stated in the Texas Health and Safety Code section 366-005 in any appropriate action. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Marchett. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 13-E. F is approval of reappointing Mr. Johnny Harris to the Board of Directors for the Opportunity Regional Water District in any appropriate action. The chair will move for approval. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell, any discussion? Yes, I believe he is in the Lake cities. He's in the Lake cities. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 13G is a discussion of employment engagement initiated by the county judges office. Members, I wanted to let you know what some of the things that we've been doing. The staff and the staff of the county judges office has been working with the department heads that report to the full commissioners court. And we've had a series, we've had two meetings with last couple of months talking about ways in which we can engage our citizens, I mean, our engage our employees here at their County Government, at their employer. And many years ago, our HR department did an employee engagement survey and we took some of those recommendations. We couldn't afford all those recommendations at the time. We have one of those was adjusting to pay scale and I think the courts over the years have done a good job of trying to make those adjustments. But we realize that not every thing about employment engagement is based on just your pay. But it's also based on the quality of work that you're doing and the environment in which you do that work. And so we've been as a work group, have been determining best practices to increase employee engagement. And it's been a very fruitful initial process as we've started. And part of that is really to listen to our employees and hear from our employees about what can make the day in the life of their work experience better for them. And so I'm very pleased that it's been a very good work group to start with but we need to expand that and we want to include all the elected officials here in the county. We didn't want to roll it out to all the elected officials until we kind of got somewhat of a game plan with some of our leaders here in the county. And we naturally started with some of our department heads. But we want our elected officials to be on board as well, because they are supervisors and are elected as well as represent our employees. So, within the next month or so, we're going to have a combined meeting of our elected officials, we're going to have all the elected officials in the county and the department heads to a lunch meeting where we're going to talk about some best practices here from them and roll out a plan of how we're going to formally accept input from our employees. And so I wanted to let you all know about that. We do have core issues. And so I think we need to, we had to obviously be limited for members of the court. It's going to be an ongoing dialogue. One of the first things that we're going to do is hear from the employees about what words would they describe an ideal work environment. And so we're going to go through and listen to the employees and have them vote on that. And then we're going to go through and listen to the employees and have them vote on that and then it will take those the top five or six words that they are going to work to describe their workplace. And then we will develop a core value system and a mission statement and a long term vision and then we'll build a strategic plan based on where we want to be in the future. And so it's going to be a visionary process, very much looking forward, forward looking, but based on our great history that we have with our employees. So we're very excited about that. Okay. Okay. Okay, Commissioner Mitchell, you'd like to be at that meeting. Okay. We'll let you know when that is. So this is just the beginning of the dialogue, and it's going gonna take several months. We wanna do it right, we wanna take time, but we don't wanna delay, because it's good work that we're gonna be doing. So I will put you down, Commissioner Mitchell, for that first meeting. You think this will have some sort of impact on our upcoming budget? It may have some budgetary impacts, and that's why we're working rapidly. It's what we've been having these two meetings over the last two months. I think it may have some budgetary impact. I don't think it'd be significant budgetary impact, but it may have some budgetary impact. So, but we really want to hear from the employees. And we've had some great partnerships from the for-profit business realm who's been generous with their time and support and kind of give us pro bono, consulting and some ideas which has been very much appreciated. And so I think there's some great ideas out there. We want to hear from them and we want if you're watching employees, we want to have a fully engaged workforce and we really want all departments to participate. And so we'll probably have a contest which department has the highest completion of the survey and engagement. That's a key indicator from the very beginning. So I wanted to publicly discuss that with the court and before any of our elected officials or other department heads get an invitation to attend that, I wanted to get input from the court and you also bless them as we move forward. Any other comments? Okay. All right. 14A legal is approval of a license agreement concerning CEO Puedo. Control our meat, that'll be be better. Program between Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Services and Didn't County in any appropriate action. Are you going to recite it? We have a motion for commission Commissioner Mitchell for 14A. Los Yentos. Second by Commissioner Coleman. Yes. Did you say you second of that? Yes. Yes. Los Yentos. I'll second. We have a motion and a second. Any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carried unanimously. Item 13a. I'd like to go back to 13A, which is our other departments. This is approval of legislative policy statements and or resolutions. In discussion or approval of other matters related to the 86 legislative session. Welcome Shannon Jawski. She was up here at about seven o'clock last night getting ready. This session has been fast moving here the last week or so. Yes, crazy week. Fortunately. Very crazy. Okay. Well, good morning, Judge and commissioner. I think most of you may know some of what's in here today, but I'm trying to track as many bills as I can, but they definitely woke up and started doing a lot of work last week. The House of Representatives did pass their budget last week, vote of 149 to zero. $251 billion state budget. The new budget included a, it's a 9% increase over the general revenue funds and 16% on all fund increase over FY18 and 19. But wasn't 2.5% increase? It was over 2.5, yes it was. Much more. It's even greater than the 8%. than the 8%. The bill included a $4.3 billion amount from the rainy day fund assigned to Hurricane Harvey relief and it was then sent to the Senate for consideration. HB3, which is the public school finance and public education bill is placed on emergency calendar for 4-3. So that's tomorrow. So it's out of the committee of 13 to 0. And then more importantly, I guess in some ways is HB2, which is relating to our county tax caps, that was reported favorably as substituted on 4-1. That bill, the way that they did make some changes to it last week, they carved out the hospital districts, the emergency service districts, and the community college districts, leaving only the municipalities and the counties at the 2.5% cap. The only thing that they added to that was the provision that would allow counties and cities to adopt a rate below the 2.5 to bank that amount so that that could be used in increments for the future. HB360 relating to the extension of the expiration date of property redevelopment and tax abatement act, which we were in favor of obviously. That was set to expire this year that is being pushed out to 2029, and that came out of the committee favorably without amendments on March 27th. Both DCTA bills did go to public hearing last week. The House bill was reported favorably and came out that's HB 2319. Same day. Sorry. It came out the same day which was nice. Yes, absolutely. The Senate bill remained pending as of Friday still in committee. So I'm sure the House bill can go forward. SB 21 and HB 749 which we also had signed policy statement in agreement with. They both held the public hearings last week. Those are relating to the tobacco products, the sale of tobacco products raising that age from 18 to 21. And HB749 was reported favorably as substituted and that came out, I think it's important it came out with a 10-0 vote out of committee so full support. When it says as substituted, does that mean they changed the original bill? They made some changes to it but I didn't read, they did not yet post all the changes as of Friday when I read a lot of the updates so I'm not sure exactly what was substituted. Oh, all right. I'm going to look that up. Yep. HB281 relating to the use of the political subdivision of public money for lobbying activities. That moved out of committee last week as well, of 9 to 4. That would have an effect on our associations like TAC and CUC. Yes. Would that not allow us to be a member of TAC? Correct. Well, we would not be able to use, we would not be able to. Can we still use them for educational requirements? I don't know. I've been saying it, but I mean. That's what our main interface with these organizations is these are where we get our education. I show credit for what it's doing. But it's also. It's good. It's good. It's a trade association, basically. Yeah. Right. One of the 254 county judges and hundreds of commissioners and tax assessors and everything. And so part of what they do is when they represent us down there is they increase efficiencies instead of having every elected official go to the drive, spend tax dollars going down there, bringing hotel rooms, providing testimony and it's an efficiency matter that I don't think they have a true appreciation of that. I was just to speak with the unified voice. Speak with the unified voice and- And they will have- The legislative processes complicated and for them to stay on, it helps by them tracking the legislative process. It helps to keep us informed of the process as well. So it's efficient manner of operation. Commissioner Edmiss. Do we have any feeling for how our legislative delegation is all around this bill? I don't. I would believe that they are, I'm not going to speak for all of them, but I would have a sense that they are Support of the bill. Yeah, but I will not speak or that's that's the sense that I get as well I don't I think that they have a different interpretation like it's not gonna affect these and in fact when you read it Based on how it's written right now And in fact, when you read it based on how it's written right now, it could even affect that you wouldn't be able to get reimbursed with taxpayer dollars for your own travel. So any elected official that would travel down would not be able to get reimbursed for your own lobbying. Like you're, we would just have to sit here and hope that they do the best. The Democrats. Yes, can we do some sort of a letter to our legislative delegation with the wishes of the court and these things explained about our training, about our own lobbying, if we were to do it, the... The score is not there. Then does. If we could do... I'll be happy for us to do a letter if the court so desires. We could do what we did last week and send a letter to the committee members or although it did come out of committee so we could just send something to our delegation. So could we each make a personal phone call to people we know in that delegation? I think that's- So do we have a motion to authorize the judge to send a letter on behalf of the court? Yes. Motion by commission or Edmondson's second by commission or march in any further discussion. We will work up a draft today and let y'all see it and it'll be expressing our concern regarding that bill. Okay, so let me make sure that is this the prohibition of us spending any money at all for the tours, do's or I mean not do's lobbying of any kind. I understand the lobby of any kind that This is prohibiting them from lobbying on behalf of the counties. But the reason why we pay our dues and fees into these organizations is not only for education, but for lobby. Right. yes. Mm-hmm. So if this passes, then it will relegate them to an education body only. Is that, is that so? Probably. Right, yeah. And I will say for the record didn't count, we do not have lobbyists. So we do not have lobbyists. So, but we are members of our associations. Right. And so, so we don't have lobbyists. When I was looking at a lot of our sister counties do and our cities do have lobbyists but the didn't county does not come. When I looked into this, this is I think their aim at Hillco and various lobbying groups. When I looked at the bill, to me it seemed like we tack in the CEC would still survive Because they just serve as a resource to provide information for like Dr. Stucky and people who have questions about County government But they do provide testimony before they do provide testimony before hearing resources to me I think it'd be pretty hard for the legislature to prevent us from traveling to Austin because that's part of our job. I think that would be pretty per sneaky. If you remember, y'all accused me of having a long memory, but there's a member of Governor Abbott's office currently who sued TAC and accused us of illegal lobbying several years ago. So, tack has always been very, very, very mind but we're doing that. So I think, you know, this is more of the Empower of Texas people who are trying to, they don't like TML, they don't like tack, and I like any of that. Because I think a lot of them, they represent our membership and they oppose a lot of those opinions. It's a collateral attack. We can express our concerns about it. But do you think this is one of the power tax bills that they'll be voting on? Yes, absolutely. I think so. Okay, so we will, we will, we need have a motion of commissioner Evanston who was seconded it Commissioner March and seconded I think the efforts are misguided So we will we will send a letter expressing our concern regarding the bill I'll email you the language in the bill Hugh commissioner Coleman that actually in the bill, Hugh, Commissioner Coleman, that actually states that nobody, you know. Why don't you send that bill to everybody? I sure will. Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Okay, 1281. 81. SB, 1281. That was discussed last week. I was not here, but I think you all discussed the letter that Judge Eads submitted to all the committee members that's regarding pace and that does really create a monopoly and create this administrative or administrator, a single administrator of the program. And would- Otherwise known as a monopoly. Uh-huh, right. And would have a direct effect on what we've already done. SB 554 relating to the, this is more in the eminent domain property. And this was something that I had spoke about a couple weeks ago, and so this is just a little bit of a follow up on that. Additionally, yesterday I did receive, I think we might have all received from the CUC, asking us to consider adopting a resolution opposing legislative action to remove a county's authority to regulate fireworks. So there is a bill out there right now that actually several proposals to expand the days on which fireworks, fireworks retailers can sell fireworks without the approval of a county's commissioners court. I also got an email from Jody Gonzalez and he asked that we speak out against it as well that that is something he would oppose to. So that is another one that has just creeped up on us. So I think we need to send something on this and I'm personally a big fan of fireworks. I've purchased large amounts and set them off at my parents' farm. I've yet to lose a finger or a hand. But if you get on YouTube and you look at Crossroads Ranch or Ponomic Creek or Savannah, you will see these huge amount of fireworks displays that are going on on those very small, lot tightly built communities there in the unincorporated area and in the Fourth of July another holidays come by and you can talk to them. I mean I'm sure Jody will be able to tell you but it is it is a big big shouldn't I mean if I understood that bill correctly it adds a large number of days to the calendar on which those kinds of displays can be done. Everything from April Vools' day, for example, to anything. And so I think there's a real danger to life and property by having these unsupervised controlled exhibitions all the time. I don't think shooting fireworks in the unincorporated areas is a bad thing, particularly when you're in the largest state lots for farms, ranches where you have a large amount of space between homes. We have communities that are extremely tightly built better in the unincorporated area that these cause a huge public health has. Just get on the internet and look at YouTube and you'll see people. But fundamentally this is a restriction on the county's local decision making authority. So do we want to, do you want to authorize a letter? Yes. In opposition? This one will letter in opposition. This one will be in opposition. Excuse me. They sent us a sample of a resolution that another county had done and asked that we do something similar. I can send that around and have a take a look at that. Do you want me to, do you have in here, do you want me to read it and we'll treat that one as a resolution. I did not. We can come back after executive session. We'll vote on it. Okay. Okay. Just a couple of other quick things to point out. HB2899 that was submitted by Leach and that I had sent a note about that from the NTTA. That is the one relating to civil liability and responsibility for defects in plan, specifications or other documents for the construction or repair of roads, highways and related improvements. That did come out of committee and was reported favorably without amendments on 325. That would affect us, that would affect tech stock, that would affect a lot of, you know, cities, everybody that's paying for any road repairs. Because it takes the liability away from the vendor and kind of leaves it with us. So that's another one to consider. the vendor and kind of leaves it with us. So that's another one to consider. HJR114 by Coleman, that is an addendum, I guess. They are looking to, are proposing a constitutional amendment. I spoke to TAC about the grant, when they sent us that email asking for some information about big projects we have coming up for potential grants that might come out of the rainy day fund or what have you. I spoke to him about that and he said this is something they're trying to create. It has not been created yet. This is the bill that would create an actual constitutional amendment that would provide every year some money to counties on a grant basis for these types of improvements. So things like building a new emergency services building or what have you. But there are some things that we can potentially look at. They were really asking for us to support this. Send them some high level estimates of things that we have coming up in the future. This would not apply to our, we originally thought this might apply to our election equipment. This one does not. There is another bill that has been filed to do reimbursement on election equipment purchases, but that is not the one. And one more thing just to point out, SB 1141, which was sponsored by Fallon, is relating to the eligibility of certain local officials to serve as the chief appraisal, appraiser of an appraisal district. That one is scheduled for public hearing today. So just wanted to put that on your radar. Yes. Shannon on your HCR-14, it talks about reconstructing state or local infrastructure. We certainly have a great need for that given all the heavy trucks that pay their fines to the state. Right, better than the money staying here. Perhaps if that passes that would be something that we could investigate. Yes, and I believe there is another bill specifically related to that for oil and gas and the trucks, the damage that they do to the roads. So I'll look up the bill number and I'll send that out. Okay. Members, I'd like for us to discuss bill number 4048. Frank Phillips is with us today to discuss this. We had talked about this last week a little bit. I don't know. Discuss this we had talked about this last week a little bit Good morning house bill 40 48 house bill 40 48 was filed by Representative Stephanie click out of a tarant county and it relates to the eligibility of populous counties To participate in the countywide polling place program Otherwise known as vote centers What the bill does is it restricts the participation in vote centers counties That are under 400,000 in population so If the bill passed any county that is over 400,000 would be prohibited from being a vote center county. Currently that would affect 13 counties, 13 largest counties in the state, of which were number nine. Even further though of those 13, six are already votes in our counties. That's good. And they're not, and they're not grandfathered in this. As the bill reads right now, they are not grandfathered in. They would have to cease to be votes in our counties. Someone who may live in a, in a, in a terrace. It's a palliative and they're willing to go and they routinely vote on their lunch hour at their place of work they'd get there that day and they would not be able to vote. And some of these let's see they've been votes in our counties Travis since 2012. I've been calling since 2013. Lubbock's not in the top 13. That's right. Uh, Colin, our neighbors, they've been vote centers for six years and they would no longer be able to do that. So. There's any quick is from Terrick County. Is there a vote center sitting place for Terrick County? They are not vote centers at this time. Well, early voting, sorry, in place early voting is already employees. It's for election day. That could be damaging to people who on a let who waited to the election day and they may want to vote as their current practices for many years. It's not going to impact didn't count, but it'll be our impacting our sister counties. And it would be prohibiting us for having that opportunity in the future. Right. And we've already passed a resolution from this body to support a bill that would amend the current language to allow us to participate in that. So I can't see any reason at all that this body, since we've already passed a resolution in support of it, that we wouldn't pass another resolution, not supporting this bill. Because it defeats everything that we wanted. Opposing this. Exactly. And I'm sure there's at least 12 other counties right there that are going to be opposed to this bill. I know the Texas Association of Elections and Administrators is opposed to the bill. Good. Yes, ma'am. May I reiterate the information I received from Representative Click? Please do. By she filed the bill. Stephanie Click was chairman of the Terrent County of the Public Emporied during the same time I was chair of the Vancouver Public Emporied and we shared a lot of same ideas and information, et cetera. And her concern, she told me, is that in 2020, we're going to have a huge election, the primary and the general election, because of course there's a lot of activity in the political arena right now. So her concern was that with more people voting, than normal, because of this heightened election, and the fact that for the first time, there will not be any straight party voting allowed. That people will go in not knowing that they can't vote straight party and they're going to get confused and they're going to be in their longer long lines would be a result. And she's concerned that it will depress the voting in scenarios for that reason and that it will not make Texas look good on the national stage because of course all eyes will be on several of our races here in Texas. So that's her reasoning and I understand that reasoning. I wish that her bill had perhaps started after that cycle just so that there are at least grandfathered the ones who already had it because I do understand the concerns With those counties who have the vote centers those people are used to vote series, but I'm just Reliving what she did. Well, I think I appreciate those comments and her concerns, but I will tell you that if If there's a long line and one One polling place the flexibility the beauty of a vote centers, if there's a backed up in flower mound, and people are not voting in a double vote, people get in line. There's no line in double vote, good, I'll vote in double vote. I live in flower mound, I can go vote. Just like we do early voting, the people who do that for election day, it's contrary to the comments expressed, because actually it restricts the flexibility. If there was a line or a polling place that was lying, you're constraining people to vote at one polling place and being forced to vote in a long line winner. Instead of providing the flexibility and a relief to go to another polling place that is not experienced high track. And remember, just because your vote centers didn't mean you have to have less polling locations. Right. So you could say the same number. Exactly. Right. And then if we ever went to that, I'm sure that like Colin County, the Colin County has their system of voting centers to where you can actually go online. And there's a tally of how many people are waiting in line at that particular polling site. And you can shop where you want to go. And actually out to where the shortest line is. We're working on something similar, right? How, actually. So I don't understand the logic of the suppression. In fact, to me, it opens up a wider gate that more voters can come in because they have a larger selection and are not restricted to a geographical area. Well, I don't think I could have said it better than Judge Eaches did. It kind of is contrary to exactly what would happen at a polling site. Does the removal of straight party voting is that going to cause voting to take longer? Absolutely. But that's going to be whether you're a vote center cany, whether you're a precinct based cany, but it will affect a precinct based cany like we are more than it will a vote center county, whether you're a precinct based county, but it will affect a precinct based county like we are more than at Willa Votes Center because they can't go somewhere else. They're going- I'm only voting, they can. An early voting they can, but not on election day. The one that's even more critical when it's election day, when you have a big turnout on election day, and there's no tomorrow to vote. You have to vote that day. And if you plan your day to vote on election day, it's your location. I mean, for these counties to have that taken away from them is going to be unbelievable. You talk about people wanting to have a practice of voting near their place of work or coming home from school or whatever their place is. And then they have to get to that polling place and they can't do it. and they might have already been planning. They may not be able to be redirected and have time to go vote on it. I think it's going to be. I mean, do you have any other other than the comments that, Mr. Edmondson, you have any other insight of why she may have put this forward? I mean, is it... I did speak to our... just out of curiosity, I called my colleague in Tarant County to see if he had been contacted to get his thoughts and he had not. Frank, why did Tarant County never adopt votes? You were there for... Yeah, when I were there, we did discuss it. I was there for two years and it never got off the ground. And when I first went there, I did speak with Judge Whitley about it. And I know he was in favor of it. And it was just something that we didn't pursue at the time. About the concerns about possible motor fraud. That's been brought up. You know, I've heard that. I've heard that. Visual ballots because, and we're gonna have a lot of news based on the 2018 elections. We're gonna have a lot of new elections, judges who are not experienced that may not have been passed for the minimum ballot. You would take the ballot. Sorry. That's what I was, I mean, because I inquired as to it, it seemed like a good idea to me. And that was one of the activist concerns is that there was going to be rampant voter fraud, people voting outside, people who aren't registered, the largest new election in the world. I don't understand, I've heard that. I do not understand where that rationale comes from. You still have the same processes to check in, to be issued a ballot. Regardless if we're vote centers, not vote centers, if there's 500 voters or five voters. I do not understand at all the rationale that vote centers increase the opportunity for voter fraud. If you believe that vote centers increase the opportunity for voter fraud, then you believe the same thing of early voting as we currently do it right now because they're exactly the same thing. Same thing. Oh, somebody could come in and vote provisionally and then the election judge feeds the ballot through the machine as opposed to holding it back. Well, that's not necessarily voter fraud. That could be human error. I understand. That was the example. Yeah. I'm just that firefighter. Yeah, but we use I mean we vote provisional ballots now. But they're generally not counted until the end, correct? They're not counted into the reviewed by the early voting ballot board to determine their eligibility. The vast majority are not counted at all. I'd just be a mistake if the judge, the new judge, whoever it is decided to run them through the machine, because they'll be able to wait and double check it. Then it happened. If it happened, the judge decides to vote on a provisional balance that day, is there a safe guard against that? Well, that's with any election. Yeah, that is with any election. And that's just part of our training and part of the process. I'll be in it. I'm just going to be able to address that. Sure. Just a great answer. Right. I'm just telling you, that's what they told me. And I'm glad you brought that up. I think stuff to have more people vote is a good thing. I'm glad you brought it up because I've been hearing the voter fraud term thrown around but that's the first explanation I've heard of how they think voter fraud is going to occur. There's both to be a huge switch in precincts and there's going to be a lot of new election judges. Right. But an election judge goes through a process and we train them to remove any provisional voter away from a normal qualified voter. And they go through a paperwork process where they're not even issued a ballot until they complete all of their paperwork. And then that normally the judge handles that themselves or they assign one person to do that. It's not where it's not a normal situation where just any clerk in the polling site's going to handle their provisional ballots. And once they have completed all of their paperwork, then they're issued a ballot that judge goes with that voter again away from the normal stream of voting ensures that after they fell out their ballot that is placed in a secrecy envelope and then inside another envelope. I guess they're concerned and my concern was, and I guess I was on the opposite of the side of the spectrum, was during the 2016 elections there was a rule made about our ID, there was a court that decided what made a judicial decision. And then I can't remember correctly, I may be misremembering, but there were some partisans who were in election judges who decided that they were going to make their own rules about BUD or ID. And as a result, we had some problems with the Secretary of State. You weren't here. It was the previous fella. And so I'm concerned that these people who are election and judges are going to not take construction well, have their own ideas about who should be able to vote who shouldn't. And that's kind of like that's their concern is that we'll have some more partisan people who are new who have different ideas about who should be voting. Well, First of all, they're all partisan. I know. I'm in. Every judge we have, it's a part of that. Yeah. Well, my point is I was trying to bring up an example of one point in the past and then perhaps concerns about another party in the future. I want to commission our Edmonton as a prior party chair to speak about poll watchers and so forth. How do we work to prevent that? Well, poll watchers are very valuable and the parties do utilize them. For example, in the last election cycle, the voting site that was at one of the universities was being overrun with people who were being registered right then and there, which is illegal. I mean, they can register them, but they can't vote if they aren't registered in this 30 days before the election. And these people were just coming in. It really did seem to overwhelm the election judge and the election workers. Luckily, we had a strong alternate judge there and a Pomerania watcher who were watching because we were looking for exactly what you were talking about here. If somebody by mistake and all the confusion of having this overwhelming voter would put that through accidentally. If I might point out one of your thing that you did. Yes, ma'am. Talk about earlier. The vote centers would be run by my Frank, et cetera, only really for the general election because the parties are still responsible for running their own primaries. And one of the issues that I mentioned, and Frank agreed with me on, was that there's a difference in the pay scale for the people who work a county paid for election and a state paid for election. The primaries are paid for by the state. And it's harder for the primaries to get good, experienced, qualified judges because we pay $8 an hour as opposed to what is this county pay? Judges are 12, alternates are 11. And we need to look at that. We look at that as a budget item. At our response, but we allow this up to. We can. We can. Yes. The commissionary admin is correct during the primary because they are paid by state funds. The state will only pay them $8 an hour. They also don't pay them for training like we do. There's some other work. We do want them trained and I know Frank and his team have really increased their training and have a deadident Paula does their training and she's very dedicated to that and developed a whole new curriculum. And so if we need to make that as part of a, John, if we need to work with Frank on that for a budget impact, and we have the primaries we're taking care of with the qualified poll workers, we need to do that. So. I think that will help both of us. It's happened to have a spreadsheet already. He's already got it. What you're saying is that we have the state pays the election judges or the workers for the primary election day primary election day primary and then the other and then for general election day we pay for that. So as well as the early voting days. That's correct. And we established that. So what you're saying is there's a difference between the primary versus the actual general voting. And we could cure that and we could bring that gap to where it's more beneficial or financially and put it incentive by increasing that. She's absolutely correct. I mean, because that's one of the huge complaints we're getting our offer in the primary. I come last election I was making 12 and now making eight well Let's work to fix that and you can do some training. Can't you Frank on both primary and general? We do we do that. It'll get paid for the trainings What do you say? Well, correct, but I mean bottom line If every precinct is a voting center there should that shouldn't be a problem Because then you're not turning people away. Oh, right. So let's do this. That's a different issue than the pay. I think we can, I think we can have an opportunity to fix both of these. So Shannon, what it do, or Frank, what is the time frame? I'd like first to do a resolution of opposition for the full court. But, but is. But does it need to be done? Can we wait till next week or what do we need to do? What's the time? I think next week's fine. We could work in some more. We'll address this next week. I think this was a good discussion. I think we got some good comments and some answers. Thank you for all your support. Any other items for this for today? I don't have anything more than thank you. Members, we're going to go to executive session. I'm going to go to. With four items for executive session today, 15A, under the Texas government code 551074A1personilematters, closed meeting to liberate the evaluation or duties of the position of chief information officer, this is part of our ongoing process with all of our department heads. 15Bs, a closed meeting pursuant to Texas government code 551-071-1, a consultation with attorney in a closed meeting when the government bodies seeks the advice of its attorney about contemplated litigation regarding claims by JC Commercial Inc. and Sunt Construction Inc. and 15C is deliberation regarding economic development negotiations, closed meeting, and deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to a business prospect regarding commercial or financial information that the governmental body has received from a business prospect that the government body seeks to have Locate, stay or expand in or near the territory of the government body located in County Commissioner precinct 4 And with which the government body is conducting economic development negotiations and 15D is a deliberation regarding economic development negotiations closing deliberating the offer of a financial or other incentive to a business prospect regarding commercial or financial information that the governmental body is received from a business prospect. But the governmental body seeks to locate, stay or expand in or near the territory of the governmental body located in Commissioner precinct one. And with which the governmental body is conducting economic development negotiations. And it is 11-18 and we are going to recess into executive session I would recommend that we don't take any further action on any of our items on executive sessions in the adjourn. All right, there's going to be no action on any of our executive session items. So we will adjourn at 156. Thank you, sir.