Good morning. Everybody doing this morning? I'd like to call our Tuesday March 5th, 2019 meeting of the Ditton County Commissioners Court to order. This morning we are fortunate to have Pastor Jerry Reagan with a lifeline church here in Ditton, come and lead us in our invocations and our pledges will be led by Matt Shovelyn, our Assistant District Attorney, please rise. Morning, Judge commissioners, thank you. Let's pray. Father in heaven, we come before you, and the mighty name of Jesus, we just worship you as creator. Your word says that you created all things, and for your pleasure we were created, so we honor you in that. We thank you for the day you've given us. Thank you for the beautiful day, the weather, the sunshine. And Lord, I thank you for these folks that have been called to serve and are serving faithfully our county. We ask you, Lord, to give them wisdom. Your word also says that in Proverbs that you give wisdom out of your mouth come knowledge and understanding. And I pray that you would give them that as they deliberate the affairs of our county. I pray a blessing on the people of Denton County Lord that there would be a awakening of your peace, your truth, your light and your love all throughout this county in Jesus name amen. A pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state under God God one and indivisible. Thank you for being here, Pastor. On our mind, everybody, to turn off your cell phones. This morning we're going to go to 3a, which is a presentation from the city of Carrollton. We have our mayor of Carrollton, Kevin Falclerne, Kevin, come on up. The mayor and I serve on RTC together for many years and it's good to have him in the courthouse this morning. Commissioner Marche, did you have any opening comments? Yeah, I, it's an honor for you to be here, Kevin. And Kevin has, has the pleasure of the City of Carroll to represent, I just found out this morning representing three counties. Colin County, Denton County, and Dallas County. And so when I moved into the Carroll to area there was 3,500 and something people there now and so we're pushing over 130,000 over 130,000 and it's again it's an honor for you to be here this morning and I'll wait your presentation. Thank you so much. Thank you Judge and commissioners. This is an honor for me to be able to come and talk about one of my favorite topics, Carrollton. So we appreciate that opportunity. We're proud to be a part of Denton County and I'm proud to be a Denton County resident. So if I might, we actually had our state of the city last week. It was a great attendance and we were very happy to be able to do that. The hard part for me was that's about a 45 minute presentation so I had to cut this down and cut significantly and there's so many great things going on in Carrollton. That's a tough thing. But let's go through. I've got a presentation here and I will go pretty quick because we got a lot of good things going on in Carrollton. So one of the things that we adopted, I always like to start, we adopted our vision for Carrollton a couple years ago is that we want to be the community that families and businesses call home. That's an important thing for us. All of us that are Carrollton residents understand that whole home aspect very much. We want to make sure that our businesses feel the same way. So that is a big piece of how we are operating our government. We are very proud of our fiscal responsibility and how we treat our citizens dollars in Carrollton. So obviously we adopted our annual budget a few months ago. In the middle of that we're proud of the fact that we had our fifth consecutive tax rate cut in that budget. That takes us down to a tax rate that is the lowest it's been since 1995. And so we're proud of that. We're proud of the fact that we will continue. We believe to do that and give back to our citizens. We do have a AAA bond rating. I know all of you know how important that is. A stat that we're very proud of in Carrollton, which for other growing cities may not seem as big, but our tax base has increased over 50% in the last five years. And for an entering suburb that is essentially built out like Carrollton, we think that's an astounding fact and we're very proud of that. We have that tax base over half of that is commercial. A lot of people think of Carrollton as mainly residential, but we actually have over half of our tax base that is commercial that helps out obviously with our residents. Last year we passed a $106 million bond package. That passed with flying colors. We're very proud of that. We're proud of the fact that that shows in my opinion how confident our citizens are in what we're doing at the city. We always like to tell everyone that we're a high value low cost city. We take great pride in the fact that we are very stingy with our citizens dollars. We have been awarded many awards for being one of the most efficient governments around. We get constant calls from around the country actually for advice on how to do some of the things that we're able to do with Manage competition and many of the other things that we have implemented in the city of Carrollton to make it as efficient as it is So one of the other things that obviously we're very proud of in Carrollton is our our public safety We are and that starts with obviously our police. We are in in the Metroplex, the fourth safest large city and right on the hills of Plano expect to pass them very quickly. So we we're very proud of how safe our city is and we we have a great police force and additionally have an absolutely outstanding fire rescue squad. So our Carrollton Fire Rescue is ISO Class 1 rated. I know you all probably know that is also the highest insurance classification rating that you can have for a fire department. And we are very proud of that. They are very proud of that. You see a picture here of our gravely center in downtown Carrollton, our fire administration recently, we recently relocated them to that center in downtown Carrollton. It's a bit of a homecoming for them because that's where our original fire station was. So they were back there and our residents and businesses are extremely happy to have them in downtown Carrollton. A little bit about our mayor's office. We're implementing several things in the last year or so. We have a mayor's commission on safety that we started several months ago, leading led by our executive director of public safety and former police chief Rex Redden. We are bringing together residents, students, and our ISDs. We have multiple ISDs in Carrollton to ensure that some of the horrific things that we've seen around the country happening in our schools doesn't happen to our students. So we're going to make sure that that will not happen in Carrollton. And we're proud that we've got a great collaborative group working on that. We also started last year Mayor's Roundtable. This is where we gather our business community in small groups to talk over specific items we brought together, our retailers, our restaurants. We talked with our manufacturers and some of our HR will continue to do this. It's a great form for being able to hear from those business communities that call Carrollton home and talk a little bit about what we can do better, what we can do to help them and it's been quite a great venue for doing that. And lastly, we started about a year ago, a Mayor's Advisory Council. This has helped me out largely, but I hope it has actually been reciprocal with our council. We have about 25 or so citizens who come together and we do this quarterly. They, we talk a little bit about what's going on in the city, but then we have a good dialogue with what feedback they might have on how I can do better and how we can do better as a city. And that's been, I believe, quite successful with continuing that as well. One of the things that we're really proud of in Carrollton is our retail rehabilitation program. We've been doing this for about eight to 10 years now, but as a city that has quite a bit of age, we're an older city with a lot of growth that happened in the 70s and 80s, obviously we had a lot of those shopping centers and retail centers in Carrollton that were starting to grow a little long in the tooth a few years ago. And so we decided to take a proactive approach to making sure that blight and other things didn't start to happen with that. So we go in and we partner with the landlords in those centers. And with just a little bit of incentive from the city and a lot of work from the landlords we're able to redevelop those centers into very prosperous centers. We have an example here this is one that we did actually fairly recently at Trinity Mills and Josie and that was kind of before and then this is an after. This turns out to be a big win win. It ends up being a, you'll see a little later, full occupancy in these things. The landlord's actually win with these things and our residents win because not only do we get much better centers and better occupants in those, in tenants in those centers, but we actually also are able to get additional sales tax and get those things back. So it's been something we're very proud of. We've actually taken care of all of the major centers in Carrollton and actually looking at some of the smaller ones and some more targeted ones too. This is an old shed that some of you, if you've been in downtown Carrollton, might know, has been there for decades. It's not necessarily. I'm an architect. I wouldn't call this an architectural wonder. But we think it may be because we come in and we do a little work and we are going to bring in three nations brewing, they're a local craft brewery that will renovate that entire shed into something that is very cool. It's going to be right in the heart of historic downtown Carrollton. It'll be a great synergy with the events that we do downtown. So we're very excited about having three nations called Carrollton home as well. We also extend that to our corridor and a beautification program we've been doing for years there. We feel like it's important that our city look as beautiful as we know it to be. So we have implemented screening walls and bridge retrofits and landscaping, wayfinding signs. Our residents have really appreciated this and we believe it's something that is important to the overall well-being of Carrollton. Then when we get to economic development, we're very, very happy and very strong with our economic development in Carrollton. This gives you just a few of those facts. We have over $14 billion of assessed value. We have over 14,000 businesses in Carrollton, which we think is an astounding number of businesses that call Carrollton home. Our employment's been up almost over 4.5% in the last couple of years. And our wages have gone up over 5% in those years. We feel like we don't have any wage stagnation in Carrollton. We have five of DBJ's fastest growing 100 companies called Carrollton Home as well. And we're very proud of that. And then I mentioned this a little bit earlier, but our occupancy rates in Carrollton have steadily increased over the last several years. And they're up at essentially 96% occupancy. That is, if you know anything about our occupancy rates and things, that is essentially 100% occupied just with normal tenant turnover. So we're very proud of that and proud to make sure that we're keeping that moving along quickly. I have a real quick video here I wanted to just show for you that talks a little bit more about our economic development, some stats and carols. So let's start that. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go I wish I could tell you I was helping keep that a medium age of 36 years old down and not. But we are proud of what's going on in economic development. Why is one of those other big stars that we're very proud of is if you're familiar, Marisource Bergen is a massive Fortune 50 mega company that has just recently made Carrollton home to its regional headquarters in North Carrollton. This is an absolutely outstanding campus up in the Austin Ranch area. And they are just moved in recently and they're very proud of how that is gone and we're very proud to have them. They're already gonna be starting on phase two very quickly. We have lots of great development happening in downtown Carrollton. If you haven't been to historic downtown Carrollton recently, I encourage you to go. We will, from 2018 to 2020, we will more than triple the number of residents that we have living in the downtown itself with several new developments you see coming online that are just open or that we'll be opening soon. So we're proud to see all of the developments just happening organically now around our square in downtown. We continue to see growth in our northern areas as well. We've got over 1100 new homes in North Carrollton. I know all of you familiar with Castle Hills. We're proud of the fact that the newest to Castle Hills developments are actually in Carrollton now. And the first one of those is already, the houses are being built. They're selling like hotcakes. The second, the newest development is just underway. And we have 500 of those new homes are actually a newly annexed land as well. So we are seeing still strong positive growth up there. We have a golf course, Marito Golf Club in the heart of Carrollton. Some of you might remember it is honors golf club or Colombian club. It was purchased a couple years ago by a new owner and they invested millions and millions of dollars. This is now a PGA level world-class golf course. I had an opportunity to tour it. I think they saw me golf before, so I don't think they're going to let me golf there, but it is a beautiful course while I was touring it. Tony Roma was there playing. It's that level of golf course we hope and expect to see lots of notoriety and some real tournaments showing up here in the near future. We have a development at our Trinity Mills train station, a transit-oriented development that we are working on. This is right in the middle of our three dark stations. It's at I-35 in George Bush. It is 23 acres of developable land that we are working with a master developer to bring in a class A mixed-use development. It is something that we are very proud of and you'll start seeing happening over the next couple of years. Of course you all know the cotton belt line has been fully funded by Dart. That will be coming from Dallas Fort Worth Airport all the way through Carrollton to East Plano. We're very proud of the fact that we will have very soon three rail lines coming right into downtown Carrollton. Cottonbelt will be a great benefit to the Carrollton as well. We also just recently introduced a new app. This app is going to give our residents a great way to communicate with our city and be able to pay bills and point out where we might have potholes and that kind of thing. It shows where businesses are. It's a great app. I encourage you to look at the iTunes store at Google Play and download that app as well. We're also very proud of our parks. We have beautiful parks in Carrollton. Just in the last few years we've opened two water parks which are always full during the summer and two dog parks which are extremely popular. And we are very proud of all the parks we have in Carrollton. So come down and take a look at those sometime as well. The other thing that I am especially proud of are our trails in Carrollton. I believe we have some of the best trails in the entire Metroplex. We have over 28 trails, 25 miles of trails that are continuing to expand. We would be connecting down to Farmer's Branch soon and then on to the broader Veloweb. We're expanding our major trails as well. This is something that has really turned into one of our most popular amenities that we have in the city of Carrollton. And of course, our big signature event is our festival at the switch yard. This happens the first Saturday of every November. We had a great festival this last November. We had a little rain in the middle of it. That didn't stop anybody. So we had an absolutely outstanding opportunity in that one I just want to see if I can see if I can just give you a quick flavor for that I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Sounds like a typical commissioners court meeting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's me. the Let's Kevin Oh, man the I'm sure you're going to be able to see the next year. I'm sure you're going to be able to see the next year. I'm sure you're going to be able to see the next year. I'm sure you're going to be able to see the next year. I'm sure you're going to be able to see the next year. I'm sure you're going to be able to see the next year. I'm sure you're going to be a small part of that so thank you so much for allowing me to show you just a little bit about what's going on in Carolton. Wow, well I think you get the award for the liveliest presentation we've had in a long time. Well thank you. Well Mayor thank you for being here today and I know we've had a rich legacy of partnership between Ditton County government and the City of Carrollton and Commissioner Marches and a great job representing y'all for 12 years and our partnership I know will continue to grow and Commissioner do you have anything to? I was just going to say you see us looking down we have our monitors. I knew you had your monitors. Oh good. That's that didn't want my head to get in the way. But thank you. Thank you very, very much. It's a, I spent most of my life there. The Lynn Yeargan spent most her life there in Carrollton. And the golf course that you mentioned died was run off of that golf course many, many times. Fish and for balls and water traps. Yes. And then go home and bleach them and then sit on the front gate, sell them to people for practice balls. So it's, I have a long history with Carrollton and a very, very pride. You're one of those 14,000 businesses. I'm one of those 14,000 businesses. That's right. That's right. Thank you so much for the opportunity. Are you all a member of Dart? Yes. Oh, OK. Yeah. We are. That's really neat to transit oriented development. Yeah. We're very excited about that. There's a lot of the economic stuff. Yeah, they. It's going to be fantastic. Yeah, the new homes and the development that you see that's going on in downtown Carrollton, I mean, for years when I was on the council, we tried everything we could to basically bring about their renewal of the downtown. And it wasn't until transitory development and rail coming through that that became possible in the first development that was done the first apartment complex within six months it was 95 percent that's right yeah they just finished the same type of one right off the roadway. You can see it as you go over on the road part of I-35 now and and so they've taken advantage of that opportunity of transformative development that has been very very successful. That's great and mayor I want you to be sure to meet our new economic development director Michael Talley before we want. Oh good perfect and we're going to connect him with our economic development perfect good good good thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Congratulations on all your achievements. Thank you. So glad we're doing these we're all learning so much about our different rich communities here and vibrant communities here in Ditton County. All right, members, I'd like to go to item one is public input for items not listed on the agenda. And I have one public comment form and as with Mr. Willie Hatsbeth. Mr. Hatsbeth, could you see you again? Welcome. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Mr. Judge, I'm Willie Hesworth. I live at 623 Newton. Mr. Morden, Morden Hesworth. Mr. Judge, I'm Willie Hesworth. I live at 623 Newton. Mr. Morden Hesworth. Mr. Morden Hesworth. Mr. Morden Hesworth. Mr. Morden Hesworth. Mr. Morden Hesworth. Mr.'m Willie Hesworth, I live at 623 Newton. Mr. Morden, you mentioned something last time that I was here and so did God, mentioned it to me as well. The chains are that I have, chains that hold me back and cause me to do the things that I do is anger and past things that this court has done and has not done. The change is I don't need to do it in anger. I just need to inform and leave it alone. For instance, changing the agenda. It's 30 minutes I've been sitting there. For the number one thing that I was supposed to talk about, statue removal, turning the water back on, cleaning up the freed slave cemetery in Zach Rollins. Anger was associated with all of those and I'ma get you because you've gotten me for years. God said to me, no, we're not gonna do it that way. Thank you, Commissioner Marche. This is for you and me. I'm gonna give up, I'm gonna shout, there's an army, here's an I'm crying every day, crying every day, crying every day I'm singing the power of the universe, power of the universe I'm singing the power of the universe, power of the universe, power of the universe Thank you, sir. I can hear you singing that. Love it. Love it. I love it. All right, members, we have another presentation this morning. I'd like to welcome our good friends from Cosser to join us. And they have that this is item. I'm going to welcome our good friends from Cosser To join us and they have that this is item 3b on the agenda This is a presentation of a capital credit check to Ditton County from Cosser of an any appropriate action It's always good to see Cosser walk in the door With a big check Good morning. Good morning, everyone. Thank you, Judge Eves and commissioners, for having us on the agenda this morning. I'm Julie Willis and with me this morning is our community support manager, Tracy O'Rod, and we're delighted to be here to present on behalf of Cosa. As most of you know, Cosa is a is a nonprofit electric cooperative owned by our members. This is fantastic because COSER earns financial overages throughout the year and I guess you could think of these as dividends and then they're allocated back into each member's capital credit account. On that note every year our Board of Directors determines if there's going to be Capital credits that are retired and if so you'll get a capital credit check back just like the one that Tracy and I are Presenting to you this morning $4,714 Good Thank you for being our energy partner Thank you. Thank you. I want to thank you for being our energy partner. Perfect. Thank you. I want to picture with our check here in just a second. Thank you so much for explaining that. Tell the members and our viewing audience at home. We also do a great thing with your foundation, which is wonderful. Many of us are on nonprofit boards and know about the CoSERF foundation. So Tracy, could you tell us a little bit about your foundation? I will. We've got actually two. We have the CoSERF Turbo Foundation, which is what Judge Eages is talking to. And we have what we give our education foundation checks to all the ISDs that are in our service territory. So the education foundation for this year, we have given back $265,000 to all of the ISDs and then since 2004 we've given 2.9 million back to the ISDs for our education foundation funds. The Co-Serve Charitable Foundation, we have given back since 2004, $10.8 million to places in our service territory to nonprofits and I just got an email from my boss this morning. The portal for applying for the grants for the CoServe Turbo Foundation is actually open it open this morning. So if there's any nonprofits here that are interested in that, all our guidelines, rules, anything you need to know is at CoServe.com. So thank you again. We truly appreciate your support and your at co-serve.com. So thank you again. We truly appreciate your support and your partnership with co-serve. Thank you Tracy for being here and we appreciate y'all being a corporate resident and also your dividend check and also participating around up programs. So if you're a co-serve customer and you don't do the round up, participate in the round up as it goes towards the wonderful foundation. And I should explain that a little bit more bit more each member if you're a member out here You may notice on your bill that your bill is rounded up to the next dollar level and that is what is the most Funding part of our co-serve charitable foundation is the dollars that our members give back So we thank you for that your part of something pretty big Absolutely absolutely that all adds up so to do great things here in the county and y'all service area So let's pause for a second. We'll take a picture Thanks here in the county and y'all service area. So let's pause for a second. We'll take a picture. Joyce is also a member of the Hickory Creek town council. Yes she is. Yes I am. I am the cross-dumbers rotary. He takes it to the next slide. I'm sorry. All right. Thank you all for being here. Members, let's go to item two and we have no action on two A and two B. So it would be just items two C and two D. Do we have a motion for approval? So second. We have a motion by Commissioner Coleman, second by Commissioner March and any discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed motion carries unanimously. And that is for item 2C approval of payroll and 2D approval of budget member request 100750. For facilities management to transfer funds from shop supplies to vehicle equipment in amount of $2,000 in any appropriate action. Next is item five A's approval the bill report payments from CSED community corrections, TAIP. Sheriff's training, Sheriff's forfeiture of VIT interested in DA forfeiture funds are presented for recording purposes only Mr. Wells. On a judge's commission, I suppose the bill has presented with two deletions that need some processing, re-processing, and the separate page. That's all the changes I have. Okay. Members, is there any comments or motion for approval? Motion by Commissioner Coleman. Seconded by Commissioner Marchett, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Mr. Wells, how many more meetings, Commissioner's court meetings do you have? I'll look that far ahead. I'm going to move. At one a week I think three more after this. Two more? Well I think three more after this one. Three more after this one. Michelle start meeting once a week. A few more. Well, I think three more after this one. Three more after this one. Michelle, start meeting once a week. Not so much. I signed his paperwork yesterday and I can't believe his start date. That was a long time ago, so we were excited. Thanks for that. Thanks for that. Thanks for that. I won't tell you what grade of elementary school I was in. All right. Item 5B is approval of the exemption from bidding for professional services under chapter 262-024A4, the local government code and approval of a contract with Hilltop Securities, our financial advisory services, any appropriate action. The chair will move for approval. Second about Commissioner Mitchell, any discussion? Mr. Wells. I'll just note that Hilltop representative John Martin's here, if anybody has any questions for me. Okay. Mr. Martin, do you have any comments or members? Do you have any questions? Come on up John No, no comments judge just you know one of my mentors told me whenever you're gonna get hard you'd be sure and go to those meetings Good answer. Good answer. That's one you don't want to miss. That's right. Thank you, sir All right, we have a motion and a second in the other discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed, motion carries unanimously. Thank you, Mr. Martin, for being here. Under budget is item 7a approval of budget member request 100710 for a council precinct 5 to transfer from cars and small trucks to vehicle repairs for $2,000 in vehicle equipment for $2,278 for a total of a minimum amount of $4,278 in any appropriate action. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell, second by Commissioner Edmondson, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye, opposed? Motion carries your name. So item 7b is approval of budget memory request 100720 for Sheriff's Communication Division to transfer $8,550 from salary assistance to overtime cash option in any appropriate action. Motion by Commissioner Edminton. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries your name. So item 7c is approval of budget memory quest 100730. For public health, clinical to transfer from office applies to clothing benefit for $500. Office machines for $635 and equipment maintenance for 1200 for a total amendment amount of $2,335. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, second by Commissioner Edminton in the discussion. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 70 is a approval of budget member request 100740 to transfer $204,526. I only restate that. $204,526 from capital replacement fund unappropriated contingency, and $10,179 from parking lot repairs to architect fees for a total transfer of $214,700, $705. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, second by Commissioner Marchin, any discussion? All in favour say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 8A report from human resources regarding hiring actions elected officials presented for recording purposes only Mr. Hernandez. Judge, commissioners, good morning. We have one letter on transfer in the county clerk. One new hire in the county clerk. One new hire in the county clerk. One promotion in the JP six office. One new hire in the county jail. One new hire in Drowland Bridge West. Two new hires in Juvenile Detention and two new hires in Juvenile Postage Education. That's what we have for this week. Thank you. Under Health, under 9A approval of Department of State Health Services, fiscal year 2020 State to Berkulosew's Prevention and Control Grant, award amount of $101,176 for FY 2020 from September 1st, 2019 through August 31st, 2020. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell. Seconded by Commissioner Ebbetson in the discussion. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries your name. It's like item 9b is approval of Department of Health Services, DSHS, fiscal year 2020 immunization grant. H.S. Fiscal Year 2020 Immunization Grant, Contract Renewal Award in the amount of $280,147 from September 1st, 2019 through August 31st, 2020. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell, second by Commissioner Ebbetson. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, namously. Item 9 sees approval of pharmacy services agreement between Ditton County Texas, on behalf of Ditton County Public Health, in digit health care, and integrated prescription management and the appropriate action. Move for approval. Motion by Commissioner Marchert, seconded by Commissioner Coleman, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, should the item say item 9D is approval of business associate agreement between Ditton County, Texas and integrated, oh, I just read that. No, what did it do? We already do that. Okay, in prescription management, ink, this is for 9D. We have a motion by Commissioner Ebbetson. Take it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We have a motion by Commissioner Ebbetson. Take it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We have a motion by Commissioner Ebbetson. Take it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I move for approval. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. I had on 9F as approval of Business Associate Agreement between Ditton County, Texas and Deaf Action Center. I move for approval. Motion by Commissioner Coleman. Seconded by Commissioner Marchant. Matt, would you mind coming to explain to this to us, please sir, or we vote? Morning Judge and Commissioners. So these are business associate agreements with organizations that might be receiving protected health information from our department. And so this final one is our department and so this final one is the DEF Action Center that is going to be some translation services that we could have on call but they might be receiving protected health information from our department. So that's just information that obviously is hip are protected but we need that organization to protect it on their end, and this legal document basically has them comply with the federal law. We comply. This agreement assures that. Somebody, we needed to call somebody in to help us. That's correct. A patient who is deaf, and they agreed to comply with our hit the regulations. That's correct. And then we have the patient sign to hit a agreement on our side as the agency, which keeps us in compliance. And then we have the patient sign to hit the agreement on our side as the agency which keeps us in compliance. And this agency agrees to protect the information that they're exposed to in the translation process. I think it's the greatest one. It does. It does outline that for the public. It would be great. Thank you. May I ask a question? Commissioner Marche. Since we're talking about public health. Let me ask you Mr. Richardson. The clinic that you have on 288 is that clinic and your building is that building accessible and your service is accessible to any employee of Ditton County? Or do they have to meet the end-of-the-jump requirement before you provide any services? That's a good question. We are not an employee clinic per se. So what happens if we have some income guidelines that we apply? And those income guidelines basically end up restricting county employees, except maybe at the very front lines and the very lowest grades. Now county employees, family members who don't exceed those income guidelines are certainly welcome and we do treat several employees families. But as far as kind of what you're asking is do employees, do they get a carve out or an exception, they do not. So we don't see Benton County employees as an employee clinic. I know several counties and cities that do that, but we don't currently do that. Is there, you know, when I was, we'll quick talk to him. Is that Siri? I know Siri, she's demanding. I know as echo what you're talking about, I also worked in healthcare and we were very, very work with a lot of different companies in industrial medicine and workers comp. And so any workers comp claim that we have in the county, they can't come to you first. Use the services they have to go over their own private. You're correct. We do not act as a workers comp provider or county claims. And what would you have to do to become there? That's a good question. It depends on the scope and the scale of what we're talking about. So I know I have lots of colleagues again in public health that run an employee clinic in a former life I was associated with an employee clinic in another organization as well. So that's possible but that becomes, again, just to scope and scale employees and covered lives and how much the court wants to invest in that. There are obviously money is fungible, dollars a dollars a dollars a dollars. So maybe you save dollars on the health insurance side by providing some primary care services, urgent care, primary care services. That's a big topic, but I'm always interested in having that discussion. I'd like to have that conversation with you, Ben. I probably better addressed in Gustavo. Well, absolutely. I, well, and the other thing about workers come under the law, the employee gets to choose the provider. We cannot force the employee to go out to explain and see. So, we're running to the problem that not many facilities, not many doctors, are set workers come. So, we have very little, been members of the Texas Association of County, POOL, we have to go through the head network. And there are not many people that have said workers come. So again, the employee gets to choose, we have primary care positions here in town. Each city has a few of those, but there are not that many around the income county. Well, and what I hope we're not off topic and we're still talking about the type of services that we're contracting. I just know of several municipalities within Denton County that partner and have their own employee clinics. And in fact, the municipality's partner with himself. In fact, I believe the city of Ditten has their own clinic. And they and the workers, they as well as Losville, partners with CPL, the city of of Carlton partners with the colony. There are employee clinics throughout all of Denton County and that's where they send their workers come, people. Are we precluded from that? Right, right now. No, we are not precluded. We can, like Matt said, we could create, depending on the amount of money that we want to spend because all that ties to how much we want to pay for the doctor's space, all those sort of things. New doctors and all that. Well, I understand that, but there is a discussion for another day that I would like to get into. We're happy that there is not only an opportunity for a workforce of 1,500 or better or more people. And the argument has always been having an employer clinic is that you have employees that are throughout the county. But now that there are so many municipalities within the county that themselves are having employment. The idea of partnering with them, partnering with them to provide urgent care or remedial if you would solutions to health care without them having to pay a copay is a big benefit to a self-insured county like us. Ron, I think it would be a really good idea if we put this on for a workshop item later. Yeah, that's a great idea. I think there are lots of, and I don't know you know this, there's lots of variables when you talk about urgent care versus primary care because continuity of care in a medical home is always important We're going to manage like me. We're going to manage a chronic heart condition or you know, it's it's great to have a physician relationship Sometimes that's difficult in an employee clinic and so there are some In fact complex we can we can with that direction. We'll put it on a workshop. I'm trying to find the other way. It's good. I wonder if everybody is interested in that. I mean, if you're interested in that future conversation. And then we can put on for later in that. We'll be allowed to fully discuss it. And most of those clinics are not manned, are womanned by a staff. Yes, thank you. Thank you. M.D., but a physician assistant. Yeah. Thank you. Great. Thank you. It's a great topic for future discussion. I think it's great. Thank you, Commissioner. Public works. Item 10 A is approval of requests to hold a public hearing on April the 9th, 2019 at 9am for approval of the replat of Sunrise Vista edition Lot 6 block A. This is 46.679 acres and commissioner precinct for Motion by Commissioner Ebbetson, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 10V is approval request to hold a public hearing on April 9, 2019 at 9 a.m. For the approval of the reply to Vodark Aikers, lot one, block A 4.95 acres, also held in Commissioner precinct 4. Motion by Commissioner Ebbetsoninton, second by Commissioner Mitchell. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item ten sees approval of the preliminary plat for stone, valley, farms, phase two, and any appropriate action. This is a commissioner precinct 4. Motion by Commissioner Edminton. Second. Second by Commissioner Coleman. Any discussion? All in favor Commissioner Coleman. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 12a is the Sheriff's Department approval of request from the Sheriff's Department to add one clothing allowance for the Courthouse Security Captain slot 001 CF at $722 in the appropriate action. There if you need to comment on this. Okay. Okay. All right. I'll move for approval. Motion by Commissioner Coleman. The chair will second. Any discussion? Thank you, Sheriff, for being here. Any, any, any, any eyes and how are jackets involved in that? Okay. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Other departments, 13 A's are approval of contingency allowance authorization number two for the Ditton County Road and Bridge West locker room project amount of $2,508 and a time extension of six days due to conditions of existing foundation and structured any appropriate action. Motion by Commissioner Emerson, the chair will second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries your name. It's Lay item 13b's approval of change order number one for a credit in the amount of $38, 36 stars and eight cents for the Ditton County Law Library Law building to close out the contingency allowance and the appropriate action. I'm all for credit So I'm going to move for approval. We'll all second the credit motion by Commissioner Coleman seconded by Commissioner There's going to be nothing left to the lawman eventually Any discussion all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries your name say I'm 13 little mean of mentally. Probably not. Josh. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries your name. So I'm 13 C's approval of change order number one for a credit amount of $82,250.87 for the Ditton County Courts Building courtroom addition to close out the contingency allowance. I move for approval. Motion by Commissioner Coleman. Second by Commissioner Mitchell. Any discussion? I would like to thank our construction management personnel. Thank you all for shepherding those projects to completion with it. So waiting for the judges to call a bond election. Let that sit there. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 13D is approval of change order number three for the Lee Walker Government Center and the amount of zero dollars for a time extension of two days due to whether impact delays for the month of October 2018. You could get motion by Commissioner Mitchell, second by Commissioner Edminton. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 13E is approval of change order number four. Here we go for a credit amount of $109,000, $833, $0.50 for the Lee Walker government center to close out the contingency allowance. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell, second by Commissioner Edmondsson in the discussion. Thank you all again for helping with that one as well, construction management. All in favor say aye. Opposed, motion carries unanimously. Legal is 14A approve of interlocal contract between the Texas Department of Information Resources and didn't county related to the use of the Texas DIR shared services master services agreement contract DIR SS ILC Security Services Terms and Conditions as recommended by Kevin Carr, Chief Information Officer. The firm approval. I get motion by Commissioner Marchant, seconded by Commissioner Coleman. Commissioner Mitchell, do you have the question? Okay. Any questions, comments? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries your name. Say item 14B is approval of designated didn't counting as a hybrid entity under the health insurance portability and accountability act. HIPAA and the health information technology for economic and clinical health act, HITEC, H and any appropriate action. Motion by Commissioner Coleman. Second. Seconded by Commissioner Marchin, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 14 sees approval of the district office lease contract between Ditton County Texas and the committee on House of Administration for the House of Representatives of the State of Texas for the benefit of honorable Jared Patterson, a member of the House of Representatives of the State of Texas, which begins April 1st, 2019, and ends January 12, 2021, in any appropriate action. Motion by Commissioner Coleman. Seconded by Commissioner Edminton. Any discussion? Any have? I always share. Commissioner Coleman? I always share my office's body. Will you have plenty? I always share my office's body. Well, you have plenty. I do, that's my point. Well, this is my office in Frisco, but I'm letting the state rep have everything except for one little office in there that I'll keep to meet with constituents. This is much like what I do with the office and crossroads where constable Boydston occupies it, but I keep one room just to meet with constituents. I think it'll be good to serve the resident. That was a good one. Mr. Coleman, how many officers? I heard everything is both known kindergarten. What's it? I said, Commissioner, how many officers do you have? You're so generous. I don't know, because it's a big precinct. I think it's a, I think it's a, I'm almost what? 57%. So I think it's twice as big as yours, three times as big as yours, four times as big as yours. And it's not way bigger than precinct four. Oh, I'm calling you to get that. All right, I'm calling the question. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed, motion carries, you know, as we do. And I, I, I, I was just going to say that this is one of those funded mandate not a mandate It's a funded mandate of $300 a month Yeah, I'll share it with you Ron Embers we're gonna go back to nine a nine F. I don't believe I call the vote on nine F Nine F is approval of the business associate agreement between Ditt and the county Texas and the debt action center. Sorry, we learned all about it this morning after Matt spoke. So all in favor, do we have a motion for approval? Okay. Okay. We just need a vote. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. I have one item of housekeeping before we go into executive session and that is I wanted to introduce I'd neglected to do this a couple of weeks ago was our purchasing director. I want to introduce him formally, Scott Arlidge. I don't think I've made that public announcement so Scott is our director of purchasing welcome. We're glad to have you. All right, we're going to go, if Ms. Jawski had come forward, we're going to go to 21A, which is our legislative agenda. This is a proof of legislative policy statements and or resolutions and discussion or approval of other matters related to the 86 legislative session. Ms. Jawski. Morning, Judge. Commissioners. Oh, no. Look at that. Okay. Well, on February 27th, there was a public hearing held for HB705, which is one of a couple, but it seems to be the one that is getting the most attention that would allow for a substitution of county sales and use tax to offset a portion either all of our the ability to use sales tax for the offset. So they had the hearing, they came up with a number of new changes and amendments during that testimony and they're going to make some changes and the bill is still pending in the committee. And I just pulled some numbers with the controller's office and working with a few different people on what that would mean for Denton County for 2017. And it gets a little bit confusing because the sales and use tax is on a calendar year versus our fiscal year, which does not fall on the calendar year. But for 2017, for us, if we wanted to offset our MNO, the tax levy from a sales tax perspective would be about one and a half cents that would offset our MNO. It require a penny and a half, right? Okay. HB2, which is the sister bill to SB2, is pending in the committee that was opened up last week for public hearing and it remains in committee and people expected to stay there for quite some time. Two successes for Senator Nelson this last week. First one is just yesterday. They passed the first bill in the senate. is just yesterday, they passed the first bill in the Senate. SB 212, which is her bill, which is the pay increase of $5,000 for all teachers. That was passed unanimously yesterday. And she also has submitted a bill SB 67 relating to the administration of the adverb for lamb tax system authorizing a fee. And this is really just a kind of general clarification and more transparency on the appraisal board process. And that seems to be getting some legs and could go forward. One other thing, very quickly, Cindy Brown, our county treasurer, did ask and we wanted to raise that today, see if there is agreement here to bring forward a policy statement next week on HB 2538. on HB 2538. She is asking us to pass a statement that would oppose that bill. The bill is essentially asking to take away the benefits of tax employees, so the Texas Association of Counties. And so this would remove their district retirement system, etc. And we all know how important they are to counties and she asked if we would support her in that. So is there an agreement to do that? I move that we support. Okay. As you're on that. Bring that back. Yes, we'll bring it back. Friday, just one. Remember, we will bring a, we wanted to. Breathe on that today so that it, and we spoke to. Treasure Brown last night after hours. We wanted to bring that to you all's attention today. So you could contemplate it and then we'll bring a policy statement next week. I'm going to go to the office and I'm going to go to the office and I'm going to go to the office and I'm going to go to the office and I'm going to go to the office and I'm going to go to the office and I'm going to go to the office and I'm going to go to the office and I'm going to go to the office and I'm going to go to the office and I'm going to go to the office and I'm going to go to Okay. Okay. And one key date that obviously is very important. This Friday, March 8th, is the 60 day filing deadline. So after Friday, technically, no new bills. And then the only other thing is that there is one legislative policy statement that was submitted for this week. Commissioner Coleman asked that we do a statement to support Senate Bill 239, which Senator Nelson has brought forward for us and I think you have all signed that statement as well. I'll remember that's the bill that I wrote and Senator Nelson was generous and I took care in 2016. It was a very novel concept that you actually have your meetings within the district you represent. you actually have your meetings within the district you represent. A lot of those special districts have their meetings way outside of their district including several counties away. Or directly adjacent or nearby if there's not. Right. Right. Well, that's so what instead of having your meeting and you get now you're required to have it inside your district or within ten months. Correct. And it's suitable facility nearby. Yeah, yeah, and it's good for the residents to be able to. So we have passed that, that's a good bill and we've passed it around the policy statement. Yeah, so thank you. So we need to vote on that. Mm-hm. We have a motion to- I'll so move. That's second. We have a motion in this second, I'm gonna go ahead and with a motion and a second, with a motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Edminton. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries your name, so I will read this for the record. This is a legislative policy statement of the Ditton County Commissioner's Court. This is the subject, this is a port for Senate Bill 239 requirements for meetings of certain special districts. An act relating to the requirements for meetings of certain special districts with populations of 500 or more to post, record and hold board meetings inside the district. If the board is unable to designate a suitable meeting place inside the district, the board may designate a place outside the district that is located no more than 10 miles from the district's boundaries. The proposed bill provides the members of the district the opportunity to attend the meetings and give them full transparency of board decisions. The commissioners court of Ditton County strongly supports Senate bill 239 requiring a special district with a population of 500 or more. Today's the place inside the district for conducting the meetings of the board. Done in open court this fifth day of March 2019 upon a motion by Commissioner Coleman and seconded by Commissioner Amitson and all five members being present and voting in the affirmative. Okay. Any other actions? Any other questions or comments? Any other questions or comments? I know I've spoken to you about that. Texas 21 bill regarding vaping and stuff like that. Remember we worked with the city of Denton regarding that? Yes. Okay. Can you tell the court what that's about? Basically, there's a pretty good epidemic going on with 18-year-olds selling smoking devices to underage children. And so I've got underage kids and like keep hearing it about at home quite a bit. So I had approached the city of Denton, yeah. If they would, because in San Antonio, they had passed a ordinance that said you had to be 21 in order to buy vaping materials tobacco In tobacco and tobacco and I had asked the city to consider as a constituent not of the panic commissioners constituent to consider duplicating the Statue that the ordinance that the city of San Antonio and other people had done and they instead passed a resolution supporting legislation to put that in place and I was wondering if Matt wanted to bring that forward. I think they were just supporting legislation that was being proposed. So now y'all may have strong feelings about it one way or the other but I was you know I would like for us to engage in the support and manage the- What's the current law? 18. 18. And so we're talking about the vaping, the jewel is the most common and popular electronic device that has been, as Commissioner Coleman was mentioning, what happens is it's legal for an 18 year old to own and operate that. Obviously there are 18 yearolds in our high schools. And so what that means is that in a lot of times they have a USB charging port, so you can charge it on your laptop or computer. They bring that into the schools, then that makes the vaping both the device itself and in the cartridges more available to underage students. I think there is a universal concern about that. It's happening all across Texas, all across the nation. San Antonio, Colleen Bridger, the director of Metro Health, the Health Department in San Antonio, a friend of mine, C, worked with the city of San Antonio to pass this Texas 21. It took a while and it became well honestly sort of the darling of Texas. I think many of us are very, are very, were jealous of that law because it's protecting both children and younger adults. It is delaying the onset of smoking because again it's 21.18 so delaying that onset which statistically is very important. It was just a really really good program. It met some opposition and yet they overcame that opposition. It seems to be successful and Denton again wanted to support that. There was some discussion across Texas that municipalities want to wait for a state law. I know I worked with the representative Crown over for years past when I was in a different place on a state law. That didn't ever come to fruition. Still somewhat skeptical of that. However, in public health, we are very, very, very supportive of Texas 21 across the state. We believe that that would be economically advantageous to Denton County because of the costs of smoking and vaping. The science is evolving on vaping but what we see is those high concentrations of nicotine in the clouds. The second hand vape still has really high concentrations. It's hard on children nicotine and those concentrations can be problematic for young ones. Anyway, yeah, we agree in public health. We agree and wholeheartedly support a statewide Texas 21 initiative. I would say that we would help craft a resolution if you would like. There is a bill. I've heard them too, but I think you may have them as well. There is a bill. There is. I will. I will. I will. We will work. I will get some verbiage with Shannon and we will present that for your consideration. The members next week would we like to. Okay. Mr. Davidson. Does the bill provide penalties for those who violated? It does. They're week. Probably a class theme. It's a misdemeanor and the violation, the violations are not stiff. Members, would you all like to have Shannon bring back next week a resolution supporting the sales tax? Giving counties the option for that. And our letter to our delegation stated that we delivered during the county days stated that we were unborefully exploring it. But if we get some more, and we left that language like it was because we didn't have the full dollar amounts from the controller's office, but if we have some of that we could develop a policy statement. And I didn't know if we should try and cut work with our state reps to maybe, I know that the deadline to file a bill is coming up. But Mr. Wells didn't tell me that other counties are allowed to collect the sales tax, a small one, but we're prohibited because we have a small because it correct me if I'm wrong the small transportation agency kind of peaking into county now it's at a half cent that right mr. well I don't want to speak for you sir that is correct there's been a bill passed more than 20 years, allows counties to have a half-centen sales tax, but they're restrictions and any county that has any other entity within its boundaries that displays in transit, bureau, transit authority, such as DART, that preferred an account that made the DIT in County an eligible from day one. Subtlical, Seattle, San Luis in DART. That's what I would like to explore if we can't get some things, you know, like maybe it's a representative of DARREN's bill passed. Maybe we could get something that would allow us to take that half-cent that we're not allowed to. Or if that one doesn't pass, do a revision to that one to remove the language of prohibit assistance. We have a half-cent. There might be another strategy. That's what I'm just saying. Yeah. Okay. All right. Very good. Any any other questions or comments from the members? I want you all to know I fully support that stuff but I'm going to be gone next week. That was my next item on the agenda that Cheryl has. Can you ask about next week? So that was so Commissioner Coleman you were you were gone next week. None of our going to try and start the beginning of the Appalachian Trail. Hopefully we don't. Oh my gosh. You're going next week. None of them are going to try and start the beginning of the Appalachian Trail. Hopefully we don't. All right, my gosh. You're going to get your job. Good luck on that. OK, so is everyone else going to be here? Bring banjo music with me. Yeah, you can. All right, we will have a quorum. Next is executive session. 15A is under the Texas local government Code 551074, personal matters, closed meeting to deliberate it for the evaluation or duties of the position of Director of Public Works. This is a part of our ongoing process of department head reviews. I know 15 Bs and Texas Government Code 551071, won a consultation with attorney in a closed meeting when the Government of Body seeks the advice of its attorney about pending litigation and calls number 419-cv0079 styled Gary Lee Sanders versus Sherry Adelstein Which is currently pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Sherman Division And 15C is Texas local government code 551-071-1 a in a closed meeting with a governmental body seeks advice of its attorney about pending litigation, cause number 17475016, styled Denton, I-35, Milam LLC versus Denton County, Texas. Currently pending in the 16th Judicial District Court of Denton County, Texas. Any appropriate action? We are in recess. It is 1217 and we are reconvening out of executive session. There will be no action on 15A. There will be no action on 15C, 15B. There is action. This is to us. The chair will move to assign the, didn't county district attorney's office, a civil division to represent Sherry Adelstein, the civil action number four, one nine CV zero zero zero nine seven nine, styled Gary Lee Sanders versus Sherry Adelstein, which is currently pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division of Any Properate Action. Five a second. Second by Commissioner Evanson, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. We are adjourned.