I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm sorry. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm sorry. Well good morning. We have a great crowd here today for our Ditton County Commissioner's Court meeting for Tuesday March the 26th, 2019. I'd like to welcome our Ditton County Health Director, Matt Richardson. If you'll come forward, he is going to lead us in our invocation. And our pledges will be led by our Farm Marshal, Joe DeGonzalez, if you'll please stand. Join me in prayer. Our father, we thank you so much for new beginnings. We thank you for springtime. We thank you for this refreshment that we see in your creation. Father, we just asked that we see this, the illustration of beauty and the strength of your word being carried out in the world. And we just asked that we use that in our lives, that we see this renewal, this time for starting over, that we can find areas in our lives that we can turn over those new leaves that we see. Father, we thank you for that opportunity. We thank you for this change of the seasons and that we see. Father, we thank you for that opportunity. We thank you for this change of the seasons and this reminder. And Father, this time of year, we thank you for your son's life and soon his sacrifice. Father, as new beginnings this morning, we just thank you for many of the people, the men and women that work with the county, that serve the county, serve the people that live in this county. Follow me. Thank you for them. We lift up James Wells to you this morning. James is a faithful friend to us and we ask you're blessing on him and his new endeavors and his journey into retirement. And father, we just asked that you keep him close to us, that he can continue to share his wisdom and his encouragement, Father, that so many of us treasure. Father, we thank you for his service. Father, we just ask you be with those this morning that we all know of, that are heavy on our hearts, people without you, people that are sick, people that are hurting. Father, we ask your blessing upon them. Father, we ask your blessing on people that protect us, people that are away from home and loved ones. We ask your blessing upon them. Father, we finally thank you for the life of your son, Jesus, his sacrifice, and the forgiveness of sins, Father. And it's through his name, we bring these things to you this morning. Amen. Please join me in the pledge of the United States flag. Our pledge allegiance to the pledge of the United States flag. Our pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic which stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. The Texas flag, honor the Texas flag of pledge allegiance to the Texas one safe under God one and then the business What's great is this audience knows the Texas pledge Lots of groups I'm involved with they don't know that so much All right, I'd like to I'd like to go to item one on our agenda and I'd like to welcome Miss Charlotte Mooney Ham forward. She's an Aubrey resident and she is going to speak about railroad awareness and she is a past chair of our Ditton County Historic Commission and a dear friend of the counties and so I would like to welcome Charlotte Ford. Good morning. One of the main reasons I wanted to come this morning was to thank the court. Ditton County is such a revered and special place. We and special plus. We move closer to the ideal every year. And if you all didn't sacrifice your anonymity and your hours to work with us, it wouldn't be what it is to die. The reverence I have for this building, for this court, for those of you that I voted for, I only voted for two of you because that was all I could vote for legally. But Commissioner Mitchell and Martin, I respect you and Commissioner Edmondson, I'm sure you'll be called catered into this body. I could just go and forever about my love for Denton County. It is a very, very special place. And we live on a little farm in the ET Junior Arbery. And it was a dark road when I was first on that dark road when I was nine. And there were two little wooden bridges and I'd hold my breath, close my eyes when we drove over them. So I say the progress of the county both physically and feel it in the spirit of the ideal of what we stand for, progress, and more than that it's a caring for each individual. I know that from you all treat all people the sign, you care as much for the rascals in our county as you do for those who aren't rascals and you just try your best to allocate the resources and take care of all of us. I graduated from high school, I was 20 years younger. Just the connections, the fibers, I think, the historical Vietnamese, what's the name of it, Ross? Obviously, history and culture. Oh yeah, you had threads, a tapestry of community, as one of your things and that is such a, I want everybody that works with or in our county to respect it. And I railroad might be a little behind in some of that commissioner Coleman and I have spoken a little bit about some things. This might be a personal problem, but because of the wisdom of this court, the way you all are informed, your knowledge, I wanted to put it before you all in case, based on your experiences, you had a solution. Well, I have one right in this little rocky farm that my dad bought in 58. His parents were tenant farmers to own land, it was everything to him. He says, the only thing you can give your children to help them with a leg up and never sell the land. Well, if they close our crossing and we don't have a way in or out. Not only do we live on it but we probably want to sell it. So daddy we're there. We asked our neighbors if there was an easement where we could come in and out because daddy had showed me where a key was hung inside a fence post and I could always go in and out that one. And I said no, no, there's no easement there. Just agreement. So after a year and a half of searching, I found on the neighbors' deed, not our deed, that there was an easement. But they had bought a strip from us that blocked that easement. So if I haven't able to find their deed sooner and it's kind of serendipitous, but anyway, Commissioner Coleman spoke to me yesterday and I appreciate it, Commissioner, I called the wrong phone, his personal say all I'm sorry. It was printed in red. I'm trying to discourage people to contact me on my personal cell phone. Well, of course. Did you call the county office? Of course. I knew that the minute that it said it was your law office on the phone. I apologize. But anyway, my last thing that I'm going to say here is it might be a problem with my neighbors and the railroad and there might be nothing you can do. But Commissioner comments that it would benefit condemning the land if they close that crossing. And my daughter and her husband and two children live on Daddy's farm and my husband and I built out there and lived out there for 23 years and it's not only for the place we have to live. So in your collective wisdom, experientially, or in your research or information, if this is low priority one person, but just be on the lot for the railroad and how they're maintaining things. There was a derailment in Aubrey and there have been some deaths on the crossings to either side of us. So I know you all know more and are highly aware, but I'm focusing on this. And I love y'all. I'm very y'all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Charlotte. Thank you for being here. We will be looking into that and see if we can make sure that your interests are fully addressed. So thank you for your service to the county. Members at this time I'd like to go to item 3a and this is a presentation from the town of Copper Canyon and we have Mayor Sue Tamel is with us today and this is part of our ongoing discussion that we're having with our over 40 mayors across Ditton County as they have an opportunity to come forward and Share about the great things that are going on in their town and the county and and the town of Copper Canyon have done a lot of good work together for many years and so We're excited to have you know happy to acknowledge Commissioner Ed Benson Thank you, Judge. I'd like to acknowledge Robert Canumay or Sue Tamel. She's an Adip Texan, and she actually graduated originally with the VA in history from the University of Texas. And so I'm sure she's enjoying the presentation she just heard, and also some other things that will come up later today. What really fascinates me about a mayor Sue is that she went back to school at age 40 to become a lawyer. And I admire her so much for having done that. As a matter of fact, she's got some other things that are pretty impressive. She was the Texas representative that President Eisenhower appointed to go to China's Justice Department for one month. She was alone 50 female attorneys from America, who were asked to do that. And one thing she's done that we appreciate so much here in Denton County. She initiated the annual Denton County Mayor's Crime Luncheon. I know the sheriff attends and many of the other mayors. And so Mayor Sue, thank you so much for all you've done for us. And tell us in three minutes or so about copper canyon thank you thank you I have to tell you I got up at six this morning to try and decide how I could cut this to three minutes it may go to five that's five you take your time mayor soon okay thank you for having the mayors and taking the time to listen to us with our updates because it does change month to month year to year Copper Canyon runs on volunteers in the first volunteers the mayor and the second volunteers are our council and our PNZ and our commissioners We're one of the smallest towns in Denton County. We have One of the smallest towns in Denton County, we have been incorporated for 46 years. We have four square miles about the size of trophy club and we have a population of not quite 1500. So we are never going to be a home rule. We're always going to be general law. But our people who live in Copper Canyon absolutely love it and they'll tell anybody that. Because it's rolling land, it's 20% open land feels forest and so we have plenty of room for growth. Except our big land owners are pretty much hanging onto their land until their children tell them please tell. We've got, we're wedged between Highland Village and Lantana. So lots of high density around us. And that's one of the things our residents tell us they love. We have minimum one acre home lots. And they all say when we come and get through copper canyon we just breathe a sigh of relief because of all the space around us which is unusual in this day and age. We're very stable community people move in and live forever. Their adult children are coming back now and buying a home down street from their parents and raising their children there. So it makes for an extremely stable community virtually crime-free, which is also unheard of this day and age. We have a neighborhood watch with a block captain on each street. They know if something unusual is going on. Grudge door that's always down is up. There's a moving van in front of a house. They know they're not moving. We also contract with the Denton County Sheriff for our deputies. We are not 24-7. We don't have a police force. Your deputies courtesy of our sheriff, Herpry. Drive each road in town on their shift and then in the rush hours morning and late afternoon evening they patrol the commuter roads that border copper canyon all the way around to hold the traffic down and they're pretty good about not giving a citation unless you're 10 miles over the speed limit then they do. But our property values remain very high. We have new acreage coming up, one acre lots, 100,000. A developed lot in Copper Canyon can go for over 200,000. So the property values are being maintained. Our tax rate is stable. Same tax rate for five years, 0.297505. We don't foresee it going up, which most people appreciate. And we have like a 99% plus collection rate. And I have to tell you the funniest thing that happened at our last council meeting. I looked at our pro forma budget, the line item for property taxes and sales taxes. I was fainted. We had less than half the property taxes in by the first of the year. And our people always pay their property taxes. And we had an unusual sales tax revenue. Well, our town administrator accidentally reversed the line items she put those on. So we're still good with our tax collection. We've had clean on it. We understand our budget every year and roll 40,000, 100,000 into the road fund or into our crime prevention fund. Every month for transparency we've been recognized by the state controller. We have listed in the packet that the Council and the public yet our check register. Every check that went out, the amount, the line item, it's associated with and who it was paid to. So, if you want to know what's going on in the town financially, you just look at the council packet every month. We have a pro forma budget designed by our council member, Steve Hill, who's one of the senior executives with KPMG. That's one of the four large global accounting firms. You can look at this pro forma and for every month, you know, everything that was spent for every line item. And then at the end, you can look and you can see for your fiscal year, what percentage did you have coming in and what percentage do you still have to come in or what percentage did you spend to that line item and what percentage will still come in. So at all times that's an outstanding tool to flag us if we have anything over budget or under budget. We have excellent roads. The perimeter roads we are so appreciative to former commissioner Andy Eads to Bobby Mitchell who did the south part of Chinchapel which was flooding in everybody's backyard. And our half associates engineers had a great solution. They raised Chinchapel up and put five by seven foot culberts, three side by side under it. So all that stormwater that used to back up in Highland Village and at Capercanyans homes went under and went on towards Lake Lewisville. So that was a super solution, Bobby. Bobby got up at 9 1 morning in a downpour and drove that road and verified how dangerous it was with all the water on it. Thank you, Bobby. Commissioner, he's also helped us get crossings, railroad crossings, and silent the zones. That not only helped our town, but the adjoining people in Highland Village, the adjoining people in Lantana. It reduced the noise tremendously. And we really thank you for that. really thank you for that. We have tow brothers coming in to build a subdivision of over 200 homes. Tow brothers is the top US luxury home builder in the US for four or five years. For them to choose copper canyon was pretty phenomenal. That will add enough to our property taxes that we don't foresee having to increase our base rate anytime soon. So that's a real blessing for us. We have the seventh annual Get and County Mayor's crime luncheon. All the mayors are invited. They're police chiefs, commissioners court, sheriff, sheriff's deputies, or his staff. Congressman Burgess has come, our legislators if they're not in session come. And we've had police chiefs, Highland Villages, Doug Grime and Fireman's Andy Council who came from Tarant County and they said no way in Tarant County could we have a luncheon like this with all the participants. So we really thank you all for coming in. No service now, co-sponsoring it with us also. We also maintain miles of equestrian pedestrian trails on the Corps of Engineers land. That's our chairman of our committee for questions and horses and things of that sort. She served for 20 years and we clean up that trail every spring with volunteers. We have a problem with fire suppression. I want to bring that to your attention. Three years ago, cross-temperer's water told everybody in their district that's Martinville, double oak, copper canyon, canyon oaks that they could not have any more building unless they were near a current fire hydrant. They would have a moratorium on new fire hydrants. This is a huge problem. They told us that they have one elevated tank, 500,000 gallons and double oak. They needed a second elevated tank in Bartonville. And about nine years ago, the mayor of Bartonville, who's my current opponent for mayor, did not allow them to put in their elevated tank. It has a pedestal standing and the bowl on the ground. They've been in lawsuits for years. And all those water users in double-oat Bartonville, copper canyon, canyon oaks, are going to have to pay those legal fees one of these days. They've told us they won't make us pay all in one month, we'll probably spread it out. But because of that, any new building subdivisions in Copper Canyon have got to sprinkle every home. Now that can add $4,000 or more to a home. They also have to put in a pond that has a well that keeps upon a constant level. And they draft out of the first four feet if they have a fire because they can't get to a fire hydrant. That's a huge expense for anybody wanting to put in any subdivision at all. And Tob Brothers said one of the reasons they increased their density was because they had all the fire suppression cost. Argo fire district had to buy a pickup a mile and a half of hose that goes on a trailer and very high density pumps in order to pump that water out and take care of a fire at home. So I'm hoping that we'll settle sometime soon. That's a huge amount of wasted time in legal fees and in houses that shouldn't have to be sprinkled, they should have a fire hydrant nearby. So thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions. Thank you, Mayor Sue, and thank you for all your years. How long have you been mayor? 14 years. 14 years. 14 years. I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that. I remember one of the first projects that we did together right after I came in office was we did a horse trail parking lot. And members, I think, y'all can relate to the complexity of this. We were building a horse trip to County in partnership with the city. We were going to go to horse trail parking like, is if, you know, miles and miles and miles of horse trails around Lake Lewisville. And so we were partnership with the city. So the county crews were going to construct it for the city with a state parks and wildlife grant under a brazos utility line on Corv. Engineers property. What could go wrong? But we did it and I thought goodness. I hope not all projects moving forward are this complicated. But that was a great one and it's been a great asset to that whole part of the county. I wanted to add one plug for DINC for 911, your 911 service in Denton County serving all the cities in Denton County. Yes. And that's one that I represent the city. So I try and go to at least eight of the cities every year and update them on 911. We have one of the most outstanding 911. When Dallas County was having all their problems and other counties around us, we were running just great. Yeah. Yeah, thank you for your service on that. All right. Thank you. Any questions from Mayor Sue? Thank you, Mayor. All right. Next on the agenda is item 3B. This is approval of resolution recognizing James Wells' retirement and any appropriate action. And members, Commissioner Coleman is going to read our resolution, but before he does, does members do have any comments you would like to add before we hear our resolution? Sure, I would. James, you've been here as long as I've been here, not probably longer. And I can remember I was unable to be at retirement party on Friday or would have said the same thing because of the doctor's appointment. But I've always respected your words. And if you know our relationship, I don't call you very often. Because when I do call you, I trust what you say to me. And I've always trusted what you said to me, except one time. I think it was a conversation you and I had when I first came to JP asking you why we didn't accept credit cards. And so you had quite a long dissertation on that. But I want to personally thank you for not only your professionalism, what you have done for Ditton County, but also for your friendship. And don't make yourself scarce. What else, Commissioner Mitchell? Well, he didn't listen to me. I told him he couldn't retire, but he's never listened to me, so I'm not surprised. But he does expect me to listen to him, and I try sometimes, I'm not surprised. But he does expect me to listen to him. And I try sometimes, Shane, but sometimes I'm unable to. You know, I just got that stubborn streak that you talked me. You've been here a long time. You've done a great job. We appreciate your wisdom, your knowledge, what you have offered to Dinn County. And I thank you for your professionalism. I thank you for your little smart remarks that we can have between each other and I respect that and you respect me and I just appreciate it and I know that your wife is going to enjoy having you at home sometimes. So. But thank you for all you've done for Dinn County. I could say that I'm not ready for you to leave. I thought you'd wait to all that. But you didn't do that. So I just want to wish you happy retirement and be blessed and know that you are loved. Commissioner Edmondson. James, years and years ago the commissioners appointed me to the first ever citizens budget advisory committee and I remember talking with you about some the budget issues. So one of the very pleasant surprises for me when I became commissioner was that you were still here. And I thought that was great and enjoyed my visits with you and as Bobby said, I wish you were not leaving now, but appreciate so much all the service you've given for Denton County. Thank you. I would like to echo some of the comments my colleagues have made and say that, first of all, thank you. Thank you for your service, Mrs. Wells, thank you for sharing him with the county for all these years. I think that when I took office 12 years ago as a commissioner, I went down to the new officials training that tack offers and also the different associations we have to do our training through. And without fail people from across the state would say, oh, you're from Ditton County and you all have James Wells. And I said yes. And your reputation here among the court for all these decades and here within the county government, but also across the state. I think you've been such a leader and I really appreciate your integrity. And I think we may not always want to hear James's news on some issues, but we respect it and know that it comes from a good place and it's accurate. It's unbiased and that it really is based in best practices as far as accounting standards, but also the law and it was neutral and unbiased and so I really want to thank you for the DNA that you put into the infrastructure here in the county year decision making and your values and your viewpoint has residual federal organization and you leave big shoes so thank you so much. So I will have Commissioner Coleman read the resolution. Mr. Wells, I'm sad to see you, Gail. You know, most people don't realize that the county auditor is appointed by the district court judges as part of the checks and balances of county government and that having worked in another county and seen, you know, other counties. Being a county auditor is a very hard job because you've got the county commissioners who want to do something. You're appointed by another body and often if you read case law there's been conflicts between the county commissioners and the auditor and I really have to salute you having seen the graceful and diplomatic manner that you've always behaved in and that the excellence guidance that you've been able to give to the County Commission over the years as an attorney for the county for many years before I was elected. I got to give you legal advice which was fun and then as a County Commissioner I've gotten to receive direction from me and I can tell you that as I viewed it from afar as an attorney for the county when you had other county commissioners I always thought you were very sage and wise and providing excellent guidance and you know you're gonna enjoy your retirement but it's sadness that I read your resolution you've always responded well to the stuff I have given you in the You know, I know you're gonna enjoy your retirement, but it's sadness that I read your resolution You've always responded well to the stuff I have given you in the humor. I have provided you I think I gave you a book earlier today Yes, what is that? Dr. Seuss. Oh the places you will go There you go And so you've always managed to take that well. So I'll start with our resolution honoring James Wells for 37 years of service to Denton County. Um, the Denton County Commissioners Court during a regular session on the 26th day of March 2019 considered the following. Whereas James Wells will retire in March 31st, 2019 after 37 years dedicated service to Denton County. And whereas James started on June 8th, 1981, I was in seventh grade. I was at Central Elementary as an assistant to the County auditor and through dedication and hard work advanced to the current position of County auditor. And whereas James has distinguished himself, there is leadership as president of the Texas Association of County Auditors and the Denton, Coana's Club of Denton. He actually got me to join that. He is also a DACQ Board member in chairman. The Texas Association of County Auditors presented James with the Jerry Ware Leadership Award with honors which honors a select few who have proven to exemplify exceptional professionalism, leadership ethics and friendliness and service to others. And whereas due to James demonstrated ability, the government financial officers association awarded Denton County the certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting for 27 years. Wow. Why didn't they do it the other 10? I don't know. Whereas under five years, excellence in financial reporting for 27 years. Wow. Why didn't they do it the other 10? I don't know. Whereas under financial leadership of James, the bond rating was raised from a AA1 to AAA and the higher bond rating allowed didn't county to reap the benefits of more favorable interest rates and bond refundings saving the county over $45 million since 2004. And whereas James holds a wealth of knowledge upon which so many employees, officials and colleagues have come to depend. That knowledge, along with this kindness and sense of humor, will be greatly missed. Now therefore be it resolved that the Ditton County Commission's Court does hereby extend to James Wells our sincere and grateful appreciation for his dedicated service to Denton County. We congratulate James on his well earned retirement and extend our best wishes for his continued success happiness and good health in the years to come and I will sum up. With a motion by Commissioner Coleman the chair will second any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Well, thank you for all the kind words. I did note no one said to come up to the podium, maybe what you were fearing. I will say this, I'm pondering how a career with the county that was supposed to last three years lasted quite this long. My plan was always about three years. I'm very seriously very happy that this is coming to an end on much different note than my career as county auditor, September 8th 1985, seven days later, the commissioners court sued the county auditor. First of about six lawsuits I was involved in the first couple of years. So I'm glad it's actually really glad it's ending up one of the much more pleasant note and I really thank you for your kind words. I really don't have anything else to have say I have my wife here John Ann Wells who's been with me this whole time. They enabled me to do this. I have my whole office here and I really don't have anything else to say, but obviously you don't do a good job in anything without good people to work with. And I think they all want to say something. Come up here. Is that right? Or an order? I think you're not going to come up here one other time. OK. So we'll let them get out of that. But again, thank you very much. I wish it's been a pleasure to work with a very interesting array of elected officials all over. But frankly though, in the last decades, the best set of elected officials in the state, Barna. I did know a lot of them. I've heard a lot of stories about them. And also by far, the absolute best set of professional department heads. Each individually, the budget, budget, HR, purchasing, DP, tech services, health department, I mean, just unparalleled, unparalleled. And DA Civil Division, I was talking to somebody yesterday and from other county of God, you don't have a DA Civil division. We don't have that. I'm like, oh my gosh. You don't know what you're missing. Have a group of professionals that are so great to work with and always so supportive. So thank you very much. So what we're going to do. I'd like the court's going to take a picture with James and his resolution and then I'd like to have the whole auditor's office come join us for a Wembee group picture because we're going to take a quick break for that. the the the the the All right. Check the verse we are going to go to our some appointments so we can get some of our guests They're scheduled freed let me We are gonna I'm gonna have Peggy Riddell come forward and talk about items 13c and 13d I'm gonna go ahead and read the And talk about items 13c and 13d. I'm going to go ahead and read the agenda items for 13c and 13d will do them as one vote. This is the approved, we'll open them both at the same time. This is approval of the appointment of Mr. Gary Hayden, Mr. Roman McAllen to the 2019-2020 term of the Ditton County Historical Commission. Per chapter 318 of the Texas government code and any appropriate action. And item 13D is approval of the reappointment of Connie Baker, Gene Carter, Judy Clements, Melody Kohut, and Lynn Yergen for the 2019, 2020 term of the Ditton County Historical Commission. Per chapter 18 of the Texas government code. So we have an appointment of two new folks and the reappointment of the others. And so they are here with us today. And so we go ahead and open it up for Peggy Reddler, director of the Office of History and Culture Peggy. Is that on? Is it on? Here we go. Okay. The Reddler on? Hello. Hello. Okay. All right Is that on? Is it on? Here we go. Red light on. Hello. It's my pleasure to introduce Gary Hayden, who lives in the Bell Avenue historic district. I first got to know Gary when he was a Texas history teacher for Capella ISD. So he has a great appreciation of Texas history, getting his students involved in interactive types of activities and he's retired now. But he loves to do historical research. He did the recorded Texas Historical Labmark designation for his house, his wife, his Deb Conti. the recorded Texas Historical Lab Mart designation. For his house, his wife is Deb Conti. I served with her on the Ditton Lamar Commission. So they love Ditton, they love the history of Ditton County. So Gary's gonna bring a wealth of knowledge and helping those who want historical markers, he can help them with their research. So we're really pleased that he agreed to accept this position on the Historical Commission. Roman McAllen has, I got to meet him through Preservation Texas when he was still in Brownsville, Texas when he was still in Brownsville, being he was their historic preservation manager. So, didn't recreated him, got him up here, and he has just done wonders for the city of Dayton as their historic preservation manager. He does have a masters in architecture, so we're real pleased with that. He's also a very hands-on person who can reconstruct wood windows. We're going to maybe let him work with us on our woodhouse wood windows. So the y'all can see how you don't have to tear out your wood windows. You could actually repair them. And next year, Roman will be the president of the board of preservation Texas so we're just really pleased that both of them are going to be joining our historical commission so thank you good good good well gentlemen welcome and I'm gonna let Ross introduce our returning our reappointments three five returning members Melanie co-host and Judy Clemens they're not here today, but we have Nane Jarrigan who's been with the commission over 25 years, right? We have Jean Carter and Connie Baker both about over 10 years. They're Now they're going to be returning to share. Absolutely well. Absolutely well. Sure. Really pleased to have them. And I want to remind everyone you should have one of these little magnets on your desk there. We will be celebrating our 40th year of being open as a museum at the courthouse on the square. We're going to have some really fun things to do on Saturday, and then of course we'll have our official ribbon cutting next Tuesday with you. Thank you. Perfect, good. Well, I'm eager to get to work with and get to know our new appointees, and I'm telling you, have big shoes to fill because our DCHC are just some of the heartbeat of the county. There's such great leaders and servants of the county preserving our buildings, our artifacts, and our history and our oral history. And you're well represented by having Lynn here every week because I think she's taking Jim Heath spot. Jim, it took me the guardian of the courthouse. Well, Mildred too. I know that Jim Heath was here for years too, watching, making sure the court behaved. So, so Lynn's kind of filling in with that capacity. But, Connie, thank you, Jean. Thank you for both of y'all for coming back and continuing your service to the DCHC. So, I will go ahead and move for approval of items 13C and D. Do we have a second? We have a second by Commissioner Coleman. Members any further discussion or comments? Thank you very much. All right thank you so we have a motion and a second all in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you so much and welcome aboard. Great. Thank you, Roman. Brown and C. Good. He didn't corner, he's super sharp. Okay, members, we're going to go back to number two A is our consent agenda. Do we have a motion for approval of the consent agenda? So we have a motion by Commissioner Marche, seconded by Commissioner Edmondsson, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? The motion carries your name. So item two A's are approval of the order making appointments in any appropriate action. And we have a promotion in the purchasing department. We have a new hire and technology services. We have a promotion in the purchasing department. We have a new hire and technology services with a promotion in the public health jail health and a rehire in the public health jail health. Item 2B is approval of inter-partner middle transfers. Item 2C is approval of renewal of flexible base grade 1 type ARBE bid number 01172404 to CJA Enterprises LLP. Item 2D is approval of renewal of for surface treatment aggregate. Type D, grade four, bid number 01182446 to green, dream international. Item 2E is approval of budget member request 100890 for law enforcement facility to transfer 25,000 from miscellaneous building maintenance to plumbing repairs and any appropriate action. We have already done items 3A and B, we'll go to items 3C which is presentation of the county health ranking so that we'll welcome Dr. Matt Richardson forward. And I believe he has good news. Good morning, Judge and commissioners. I'm going to present to you the 2019 County Health Rankings. This is going to be maybe the third time I've presented this to the court. So we're excited to do this. Every year we will talk about the process and I won't belabor the points. The county health rankings background, this is the largest public health philanthropy in the nation is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They partner with the University of Wisconsin and they rank every county in America based on a set of health metrics and that ranking is published in March of every year right before public health week so public health week is next week and so the county health rankings come out the week before we talk a little bit about or two weeks before we talk about where every county ranks in Americans. So we'll be comparing Denton County to counties in Texas. You'll see those rankings. The idea is talking about what we know when it comes to keeping people healthy, what makes them sick. It's this idea of a standard set of metrics over time, trending over time, so that we can compare. Really helping communities identify and implement solutions that's always part of the intent. Their county level measures lots of national data sources, so we're really trying to eliminate the subjective nature of rankings. And we're trying to keep it objective, and so you look at national sources, I'm not going to read those, it's in really small writing, but there are examples. The National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, National Center for HIV, AIDS, USDA. These are the types of data points that you're going to see. And what they do is they rank on health outcomes and health factors. And then they'll talk about policies. And so I think that's important. there's really two sections of the ranking. The health outcomes that really includes the length of life and quality of life, there are some national metrics for that. The health factors, you're going to see social and economic factors, which is part of the county's business, no doubt. Policies and programs, you're going gonna see how policies drive some of those things. And one of the things that we'll be bringing to the court in the next several months, we're gonna be focusing on this when it comes to our budget. But we're gonna be trying to inject public health in all policies. So we're gonna be asking you as decision makers, as county leaders. We're gonna be asking you as decision makers, as county leaders. We're going to be asking you to consider health factors when you make decisions regarding the changes in laws. You've already done that. You've supported us in immunization laws that are being submitted at the legislature. So we're going to be asking for you to consider public health and all policies. When it comes to environmental factors, business, we're gonna ask that that be part of the decision making process and maybe more formally. That's how Robert Wood Johnson, that's how university was constant, that's how we believe as a discipline in public health that things improve. So you're gonna be seeing that. So I didn't hear a drum roll. I asked James Wells to do one thing today. Okay. So we do last year and the health outcomes, didn't county was number one, and I can hear kind of a, I don't know, it's not taps, but I do hear music in my head saying, well, we were not number one this year, we're number two. Hartley County in the Panhandle was number one. I'm not going to say anything to Sparaging about Hartley County, but they don't have almost 900,000 residents. So I still think number two in Texas is really, really good. I think that you see the length of life metrics, you see quality of life. Those are something to be celebrated in a number two ranking. Whenever you look at our colleagues, not that I've done this, but if you look at counties that are similar in size to us, Colin, Fort Bend, Williamson, they're not number two. So, anyway, we'll just leave that there. We're really happy about the health outcomes ranking. I think it really highlights many positive things about Denton County. And that's reflected in the metrics that next slide, you see health outcomes. We talk about premature death. And that Denton County is certainly ranking better than the state and the top US performers. That's something to be proud of. So that's telling us that we have access to care. That's telling us that prevention is important. We really embrace that in public health, as you can imagine. Quality of life, these are reports from the Centers for Disease Control, the what we call the burface is the behavioral risk factor surveillance study. Can we all say that together? I'm just kidding. All right, so this birth is metric. It's a national telephone survey where you ask people how they feel today, how they felt this month. Reported sick days asking them to report on their physical health. Denton County has done very well there. on their physical health. Denton County has done very well there. Low birth weight and live births, that's something to continually consider, that is sometimes a metric for health access, OBGYN access, access to care for prenatal situations. So I think there's a little work to be done there, but we still rank favorably. The overall rank for health factors that next slide, how healthy will the county be in the future? So we talk about health behaviors, clinical care, social, economic factors, and physical environment. We ranked fourth there. The reason that's a little bit impressive is last year we ranked sixth. So this is one of those you take two steps forward, one step back. We, you know, if we were going to average, we did a little better this year, but I hated to give up the number one. But it is nice to go from six to four in health factors. You see the list there smoking. And I do want to mention public health is using these. This isn't just a commercial for the health of Denton County once a year. We actually use these metrics, this data analysis and the trending for decisions. So when you look at smoking, for instance, the smoking rates, we're hoping to improve that. We have adult smoking interventions. Obviously, you as the court have already endorsed the tobacco 21. I'm so sorry. Yeah, thank you. Health out, Council, factors, health factors with smoking. Thank you. So we do have programs in place to address this smoking rate. We have the Healthy Communities Coalition that we facilitate through public health. We're a non-voting member, but we facilitate that conversation and they do have a tobacco prevention association committee. The tobacco 21, we've been working in conjunction with health officials, counties, city health officials across Texas. Obviously the court has had a conversation and you have voted on resolution and a legislative letter of support for tobacco 21 legislation obviously been in conversations with the city of Denton and Denton ISD about supporting that same legislation So what you're seeing there is a concerted effort to address smoking STD's last year we're going the wrong direction and sexually transmitted infections and diseases in the reporting for Denton County. So we're trying to combat that last year. You graciously granted us a new position for a STD STI program manager. We're asking this year in the budget process, you'll see we have a disease intervention specialist. Sort of a disease detective to do partner elicitation and do additional testing and additional treatment in Denton County. So we're gonna be we're gonna be requesting that and why it's because we see that the trend is going the wrong way. So we're using the data to inform strategy for our department moving forward. What else do we have? In the next part you're're going to see overall rank and health factors, some more discussions about primary care physicians. Per capita, you see dentists per capita, mental health providers. That's a very much a concern, I know Commissioner Mitchell serves on the behavioral health leadership team. We still don't have in Denton County enough mental health providers per capita that's reflected in the health rankings. Preventable hospital stays, we're improving, but still there's work to be done there. Flu vaccinations, not good. So we reported yesterday that we had our first pediatric flu death in Denton County. Flu vaccinations, this is not trivial. This is not something to be dismissed on Facebook or Twitter. This is serious. We've talked about this in the past, but repetition is the mother of mastery. Flu shots are important. They are a very inexpensive way to prevent disease, to prevent illness, and to prevent death. So, this is a metric that Denton County needs some improvement and we'll be working on that in the months and years to come no doubt. There are some social and economic factors of which I think we all share ownership, high school graduation rates, some college, unemployment rates, children in poverty, income inequality, children with single parent households. What you see here is there are health factors that really reflect the overall, the overall encompassing status of health. When you think of spiritual health, when you think of economic health, when you think of the stability in Denton County, whether it's unemployment, socioeconomic status, educational attainment, those are all proxies for a community's health. And it's no coincidence that the communities that excel in those areas that have lots of jobs, that have well-paying jobs, that have high educational attainment, high college rates, high graduation rates, there's no shock, there's no mystery that those communities then reflect better health. And so, again, when you think of public health and all policies, transportation, violent crime, injury prevention, these are all part of the community's reflection of health. Social associations is important. We talk about a community where it's a great place to live in Denton County with your families, friends and neighbors. Social associations, there is a lot of research showing that the more people that know and care about you that you interact with, the better your health. People that are reclusive, people that are isolated, whether it's because of race or socioeconomic status or mental health status. People that are isolated have poor health outcomes, and that is something that is being realized over and over again in research. And I think, didn't county, when we talk about family, you talk about family values, this concept of family, this overarching concept of caring for our neighbors, that's reflected in good health. And I think I'm proud to be in a place that values that. Physical environment, this is one where we do poorly, although it did improve in the last metric, but the air pollution. So just because of our geography and the numbers of vehicles and industry, we do have some particular matter that shows up in these national metrics and state metrics. And when you look at comparisons there, we rank 151 look at housing affordable housing We still struggle because it's a growing community that is reflected in the data driving alone to work I do that some of you do that along commute. I don't know that my commute is long But it these are two that Denton County We don't rank and rate as highly as other communities. So again, the physical environment, this is a place where I think policies in Denton County, this is a place where we could improve when we're thinking about public health. Okay, overall, I would like to believe that's good news. Went from number one to number two, but went from number four to number six. I think we see some stability. I think we are seeing the reflection of good health in our communities. We're excited about that, but there's still work to be done, and we're happy to do the work, and I'm also happy to answer questions. And if they're very difficult, I'll try to get Mr. Wells to answer them. All right. It is still good news. Members, do you have any questions? Questions? Congratulations. That's great. We'll have that presentation on our website. You can get there from DentonCounty.com. And we'll have this presentation. We also have some of the underlying information on our website under Health Statistics. We have a health data section and there are over 500 health metrics that you can click, cancer rates, you can compare to the nation and the state depending on the metric. And that's always available for anyone who accesses it. Thank you. Thank you, Matt. Next, I'd like to go to, we have several items for the sheriff and so I'd like to go ahead and address those. Item 8B is approval of reclassification of three communication officer positions. Pay grade 9 to communication officer two positions. Pay grade 11 in any appropriate action and the sheriff is with us here this morning to answer any questions we may have That's sure, yes, ma'am. I will First of all, I want to congratulate Mr. Wells on his retirement and I'll tell you as a newly elected official Always willing to help us and always willing to listen to us and It's greatly appreciated and thank you for your service I know this has been recorded so this is very difficult for me to say commissioner but I made him state. As you know in March which was approved in the last budget we're doing a complete renovation of our communications facility and we have seven new communications operators coming on board as our workload continues to grow in that area. One thing that I overlooked was the fact that we need a supervisor on the shifts with these individuals. And the main reason for that is not that we need to keep an eye on our folks, but we need somebody there in case there's a emergency. If there's some big thing going on, because the rest of our communications operators can't quit What they're doing and go help this one individual who's in this crisis? We have to have someone there Available and these open is effective in April We're going to address these supervisor positions in our upcoming budget that we're going to present to you But since these become effective in April what we're asking is that we can make this But since these become effective in April, what we're asking is that we can make this Using attrition which I think for the six month period is about 11,000 dollars is the difference for these three and To make sure that we have supervisors for each shift and The one of the biggest Issues with our overtime has come with having to pay supervisors overtime and communications to come over. So I really think this is a complete offset. We won't have to pay as much overtime to bring these other supervisors in and we'll have a supervisor there for each shift to make sure that everything's being taken care of if one individual has an emergency that needs help, that there's somebody there to help that individual. Our renovation is going great, it looks great, and when we get things done I like to about you to come over and look at it. We continually have more and more work in communications, and one of the reasons is we're bringing on some new fire channel. We as each of these departments that we do a dispatch for grow. You know, they add an officer or two to four or five of the departments. Well, not all of a sudden our workload goes up those 10 positions instead of that one. So I should have asked for this last time and it was just something that slipped our mind that and what we're asking is that Y'all allow us to do it for this April through the end of the fiscal year and then we will address those positions in our next budget to make sure that's taken care of. Thank you for that good explanation. Okay, thank you chair. Any other questions? The Chair for approval. Motion by Commissioner Marchion. The Chair for second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you, sir. Let's go ahead and do 12a while the chair is here. We have the approval of the law enforcement services agreement between the US Army Corp engineers in Ditton County for the 2019 summer patrol services at Lake Lewisville. And this is just, we've done this for years and years and this is just a renewal that where my guys work off duty for the Corps engineers to make sure that they're the core land around the lakes and things are patrolled and taken care of. All right, do we have any questions? We have a motion for approval. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell, second by Commissioner Edmitzer, any questions? We have a motion for approval? Motion by Commissioner Mitchell, seconded by Commissioner Edminton, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries an answer. I have 12 Bs approval of the memorandum of understanding between the Boy Scouts of America. And the Ditton County Sheriff's Office, the agreement renews the sponsorship by the Ditton County Sheriff's Office for an explorer post in any appropriate action. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, second by Commissioner Marchant. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Sheriff. Thank you so much. Sheriff, Judge May I just? Yes, ma'am. Sheriff, as you know, my husband Bob is a member of your citizens' police academy. I might have picked on him a little bit the other day. I apologize if that's what you're going to get off of. I just wanted to compliment you on the heat come some Monday night. It's just delighted with what you're offering. And for those who may not know about this program, I'd love to suggest that you keep publicizing it. It's a great way for citizens to learn about what you're department. We're very excited about that and we're my community relations folks are doing a great job. We have the Women's Empowerment Program. We have the Citizens Academy. We have our Vips which is the Volunteers and Police Service that do a lot of things for us and it's just important that we stay engaged with the public and that Academy is a great way to get some really great people who support us and even if you don't support us come in and take a look at what we go through and maybe maybe The end of the day you will so thank you commissioner appreciate we're gonna do that. That's a great program All right members will go to five a's approval of the bill report payments to from CSCD community corrections TA IP sheriff's training sheriff's forfeiture of VIT inter and DA Fortfordshire Funds are presented for recording purposes only Mr. Wells. Thank you, Judge Commissioner. As the approval bills as presented, we want received the closing statement on the 339th 100 mortg street building and land purchase so we get a proof that actually and that actually is tied to five things. I'd be yes sir. Actually I think it's actually overpayments of of Medicaid fees from the health department. Okay. Commissioner Margin. Looking through that, I just had a question on the line item of a special hospitality event and the check was made out to James Wells for $50,000. And I just wondered what that's all about. That's all the person that I'm going to be able to know that much about. They're well, they're fund. Good call, sir. Yes. All right, do we have a motion for approval? Motion by Commissioner Coleman. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. Oh, Edmitzer, I'm sorry, pardon me. Motion by Commissioner Coleman. Seconded by Commissioner Edmitzer. Any further discussion or rising? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, and thanks, Mr. Wells. Item 5B is approval of a resolution declaring Ditton County's expectation to reimburse expenditures with proceeds of future debt, the 2019 tax notes and any appropriate action. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, second by Commissioner Mitchell. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 6A is approval award of base bid for Old Alton Road Colvet Replacement Project. Bed number 192505 to rate tech services, LLC, and the amount of $541 $216,86 to be funded from 6674-94025. County roads precinct floor bridges and culverts and 7874-940-5020, 2013 PI bonds, county roads precinct floor bridges and culverts. Motion by Commissioner Edminton. Second about Commissioner Mitchell. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries an Ms. Lee item. Six Bs approval of award for disaster debris management services RFP 05182470 to fill some Jordan Inc as the primary and TFR enterprises Inc as the primary and TFR Enterprises Inc as the secondary and Sirus Environmental Inc as tertiary and any appropriate action. I'll start with motion by Commissioner Coleman, second by Commissioner Mitchell in the discussion. All in favor say aye. Any opposed, motion carries. Name say on to our budget item 7a is approval of budget member request 100850 for roads and bridges precinct one to transfer $51,985 from asphalt products to road maintenance equipment. We're very exciting by the broom. By the broom. Motion by the motion by Commissioner Coleman, second by Commissioner Marche. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 7b is approval of the budget member request 1-00860 to transfer 17,736 dollars from non-departmental, unappropriated contingency, regular contingency to appropriations. Didn't central appraisal district and any appropriate action? Motion by Commissioner Mitchell, seconded by Commissioner Edmonds in any discussion. All in favor say aye. Any opposed, motion carries unanimously. Item 7c is approval of Budget Memories, request 100870 for records management contract labor to transfer $22,700 to county wide technology. Contract labor and records management service contract to transfer $4,742 to computer software maintenance for a total transfer of $27,442. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, second by Commissioner Marchin, any discussion? All in favor say aye, any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 7D is approval of Budget and Re 10080 for facilities management to transfer funds from miscellaneous county building maintenance to vehicle equipment amount of $1,500. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell, second by Commissioner Edminton, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 7E is approval of Budget Memory Quest 1009000 for dental services to transfer $506 from computer equipment to software maintenance and any appropriate action. Motion by Commissioner Evanson, the Chair will second any discussion. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 7F is approval of Budget Memory Quest 100910 to increase revenue and allocate expenditures for salary, assistance, benefits, and various operating line items for the Ditton County Transportation Authority, the DCTA, in the amount of $108,667. Chair, move for approval. Second by Commissioner Mitchell, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item eight a is a report from human resources regarding hiring actions of elected officials. This is presented for recording purposes only, Mr. Hernandez. Judge Commissioner Good morning. We have two promotions in the county clerk. One promotion in the tax office. Two new hires in the county jail, one new hire in the sheriff's office, one new rehired in juvenile post adjudication. That's why we have for this week. Perfect. Thank you for the report. We already did 8B. We already did 8B. 9A is approval of the Business Associate Agreement between Ditton County, Texas and Liza Kaiser, RPH, DBA Health Strategies 2000 and any appropriate action. Motion by Commissioner Marchit. Second by Commissioner Mitchell, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries namously. Under other departments, 13a's are approval of change order number three. For the Ditton County administrative complex number three in amount of $0 for a time extension of six days due to weather impact delays for the months of January and February 2019. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell. Chair will second any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 13b is approval of Ditton County participating in the North Texas Fair and Roadio from August 16 through the 24th, 2019 in any appropriate action. From the motion by Commissioner Marchin, the Commissioner, seconded by Commissioner Coleman. Any discussion? Looking forward to another great event. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. All right. 13E is approval and acceptance of the certificate of completion of certifying that the continuing education provisions of Texas local government code article 810025 have been satisfied by commissioner Hugh Coleman for the calendar year 2018. Motion by commissioner Mitchell second by commissioner Edmondson, any discussion? Will it be a good will? All right, all of the favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries an answer. Okay, this is mine. So this is item 13, F is approval and acceptance of the certificate completion certifying that the continuing education provisions of local government code article 810025 have been satisfied by Commissioner Andy Eads for the county or 2018. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell seconded by Commissioner Coleman any discussion. It is the truth. If you don't do that, I think a remove is from office is a commissioner. Yes. Well, I've already passed all that path. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 14a is approval of the 2019 interlocal agreement for professional services agreement between the counties of Tarant, Dallas, Denton, Parker, and the North Texas Toa with already in TTA as members of the public employee benefit cooperative. Nor Texas, this is the PEDC and the North Central Texas Council of Governments with with didn't county green to pay a sum of $17,496.63 per month. We'll find it to come from the employee benefit plan. Most of them by Commissioner Ebbetson, seconded by Commissioner Marchant, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Members, I'd like to go to 21, item 21, which is a legislative agenda. Ms. Chosky is out of town today, but I do want to bring forward and seek approval from the court. There is a Senate Bill 1281, which I'd like to have you authorize the judge to send a letter in opposition, which is they are requiring this is the creation of a statewide pace program. It would only be one vendor in a state, which would be selected by the state, to operate in a pace program, which we recently approved back in the, we already do, and this is a, a limitation on local control, so I think it is something that we would be in opposition of. So, are you on favor? Do we, sir, agreement for me to write a letter? Okay, so I will make a motion to the court authorize the county judge to send a letter and opposition to Senate Bill 1281. The chair will motion. We have a second by commission and Mitchell any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed, motion carries the name, so we'll do that today. Do you have any other items for legislative agenda today? Off you all, we're looking at your tax stuff, but I just wanted to bring something up to you all about unfunded mandates. There's a bill, I think it's going to get passed. It's going to require a $15,000 raise for our district court judges. Or not a 15, a 15% raise, which will put them over $170,000. The problem is that not only does that, it says we have to give raises to all other judges that track salaries. Onescence, we will be required to then give a 15% raise to all the county judges. JPs aren't in that? No. Can we share it? I'm not sure, but I hear that bill is fixing to pass. Not that the judges, because if they're the judges, they don't get raises like the rest of our employees, if they're capped out, they don't get a raise. I'm not quibbling about that. I'm just saying it's an unfunded mandate. I know it's tough to live on 158,000 but you know anyway it's just one of those things where it just is exemplary of the unfunded mandates that are pushed down on us. You have a bill number on that commission? It was on their tax stuff. I think it was 15% it may be 10%, it may be confused if it was either a $15,000 raise or $16,000 or it's a 15% but I just when I was going through the bill report I was like man that's an unfunded mandate that's an example of what happens to us and then we get you know talked about how you know we're full hearted with our funds. Are they increasing our contribution as well as their contribution to the district judges? No, from my understanding it would just be, we are allowed to cap out, I think Mr. Wells, right? This is what Mr. Wells and so good for, it's going to be tough to have not having to. Mr. Wells, I mean, they'd state pays with certain amount of money That's correct and then we we can give them a local match We can give them a supplement that's actually question the budget not so often 15% of Total compensation of 15% of the 15 yeah, yeah, that's a big deal 15% of total compensation of 15% of what I just said. 15, yeah. That's a big deal. All judges, all court judges from district up through a pellet have Sally set, Sally set in the approach to the H.O.D.O. every year. But there is a state, a maximum that the district judges can get paid. So they get a fixed amount from the state and a supplement from the county. And rule is now if the county goes over the supplement, the state will lower what they pay. So they have a very, very rigid upper limit on salary. So what would this do? It will release the bill. What happens is it basically our county court judges track and the bill says by statue track what the district court judges are paid. And so and the bill from what I understand says that district court judges and all judges who track that will receive this raise. And there are county court judges that we fully fund that will track the raise given to the district court judges. The be a 15% increase. I have to look at it again, but I think it would be either a $15,000 raise just kind of eyeball or a 15% increase. So James, when we give a countywide raise, we'll say for 5% currently the district judges would get that increase but then it has decreased the state's portion decreases is what you're saying? No actually the district judges and didn't kind of not pay the maximum by getting paid that they could be okay where annual stipends from the county is only about 15,000. Remake. So again, they are not still not at the max. But again, what always happened in any year, if the Ditton County increases what they pay to district judges, or the state increases what they pay to the district judges, by statute for the county courts for Ditton County, the county court law judges salary to increase, have to increase also. So there's always a ripple effect on any increase in payment to the judges. I think according out that that's an unfunded mandate, I think it was listed in Shannon's bill list as well, but I also saw it on a recent tackle and legislative update. It's not that we would be in opposition to the concept of giving them a raise but there would be an opposition to the unfunded mandates that they dictate to us. That's correct. It's an example of an unfunded mandate. Correct. If it's an example of an unfunded one to be taken the wrong way, I just... Right. I tried to. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I I'm going to change this up to you. It's an unfunded mandate. Yes, it is an unfunded mandate. Members, is there any other legislative items? Commissioner Edmitzer, did you have one? No, I'm looking to get the big sorry. Okay. Is there any other items? I do believe there's a bill that's been proposed that we had discussed having vote centers, which would just allow us to do countywide polling places on election day just like we do for early voting. And there's a bill that's being presented which would limit counties to do that at all that are over $400,000 which would close the any further further or future opportunities for the county so we'll bring that forward next week to first to consider opposition to that that dictate on the counties. Judge. Yes ma'am. I did talk to the author of that bill about the bill Stephanie click who's represented from Terrent County and former County chairman she and I meet you and I asked her reasoning on that and may I share that with you would you prefer to hear it? I'd love to hear it. She feels and I think this is just for next cycle is what she is intending and she said next cycle is the first time we do not have straight party voting anymore which means that many people will take longer to make more intelligent choices on their ballot but she also feels that in 2020 we will have a huge primary turnout both in the Democrat and the Republican side. And so her thought was combining those two perfect storm events that we would probably have very long lines which might discourage voting, might also lead to criticism of Texas as far as our system of voting, etc. So that's why she proposed that bill. Okay. All right. Thank you for the information. All right. Community updates. Let's go through any Commissioner Ebets and we'll go down the road. Sorry. I was a little premature. I'll let you go right ahead. Okay, so first of all, I want to thank Commissioner Mitchell. She and I had a lovely road trip through the western part of Denton County yesterday afternoon, observing road conditions and stopping to say hello to our road crews. It was thoroughly enjoyable and hopefully can go again sometime. Who judge raised it to thin me? Okay. Hey to when that happens. Okay. I'll miss your evidence. The second thing I wanted to tell you all is that Todd has to leave the room. You all may have noticed that the Rundbridge West crew is in the process right now of redoing the parking lot near the historical buildings across the street. And I just wanted to thank our Rundbridge crew who is doing that. They're under the supervision of Eric Grumley, hit the foreman, and then of course, our administrative foreman, Eddie Pierci, and so Peggy, we just want, and you probably already know, they're finishing up today. If we have two big projects over there right now, trenching for the new electric code that will improve community market vendors as well as future use, I'm so, um, trenching for the new electric code that will improve, uh, community market vendors as well as future use. Uh, I believe the equipment had a malfunction. So, they're still digging the asphalt out because we want to go down about six to eight inches and then they're ready to bring the soil in and start seeding. So, we'll have a beautiful lawn, hopefully by June. So everything's looking really good. I would, Commissioner, I'd like to echo your comments and thank you for you and Commissioner Mitchell, both, from Rodent Bridge, West, allowing it to work on that. They've worked over there for years and we couldn't do without them. Peggy has been most appreciative because they, I'm so glad you're continuing that process. So thank you. It's fun to walk by, drive by every day and see the great things that they are doing over there. So it's good. Any other thing else? Commissioner Evans? We also too at the FreeSync 3 commission at Ipnison couldn't go with us because of our commitments. But we did FreeSync 3 at Hickory Creek and to it's some the roads that we had approved last week and Make sure they were in order here and so Yeah, a great time yesterday just doing the roads It's nice to get out in the country Commissioner Marchin Commissioner Coleman I think you know celebrating the museum this weekend. Yes, so we are we are having a sneak peek on Thursday evening from 537 here at the museum to celebrate our 40. 40 years of the Ditton County Museum and we've invited a lot of our former museum committee members and others who've been very critical to the success of the museum all these years. So they are going to be here and in a saturday, we're going to have a full schedule of activities. I'd like to compliment Commissioner Coleman and congratulate him on this successful completion of Section 5 of 2499. We opened that up. Did the ceremonial opening on Friday morning. And congratulations. Thank you for your hard work. As we talked about that day at the ribbon cutting that it's been in the works for three decades. And a lot of people, a lot of people have worked on that. And Commissioner, thank you for actually seeing the construction project to a successful completion. Yes, I can relate. So as Commissioner Mitchell she can relate to the bridge over through Highland Village. So the section four, three and four. So it's a wonderful critical segment north south mobility and thank you for your leadership on that. So we are going to go into executive session. We have a birthday today of one of the staff members Theresa Hershey. Theresa. While you're getting here, we actually have two birthdays that are great. We have my son, Addison, he's, he turned 17 today. So if you're watching, which I know you're not, you're happy birthday son and we're proud of you. And all you do, he takes a great step forward today on his Eagle project. I have this meeting done today. Stalling for Teresa. So hello, Teresa. We've got to embarrass you sufficiently. So. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to Teresa. Happy birthday to you. And many more. Applause Oh, Daria. Oh, she's young. All right, well, happy birthday, Theresa. Okay, I'm going to go to item 15A as the Texas Government Code 551087, deliberation regarding economic development negotiations, closed meeting to 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 governmental body seeks to have locates, stay or expand in or near the territory of the governmental of the body located and didn't county commissioner precinct for. And with which the government of body is conducting economic development and negotiates with any appropriate action. We will recess into executive out of executive session item 15A where we discuss there will be no official action today and we are adjourned.