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Thank you very much, Matt. Well, don't sit down. Let's go first to get the right agenda item here. 3B. 3B, agenda item 3B, which is approval of a resolution recognizing Boy Scout Troop 65, celebrating their 100th anniversary in Denton County and proclaiming March 3, 2018 as Boy Scout Troop 65 Day of Denton County and proclaiming March 3rd, 2018 is Boy Scout Troop 65 Day of Denton County. And if our guests would please come on up to the podium here, we like to look at all the good folks that we're honoring today. Just gather around up there and I've asked Commissioner Coleman if he would read the resolution. Thank you. This is a resolution honoring Boy Scout Troop 65. My son is a member and I'm currently an assistant scout master with this troop. Whereas the Boy Scouts of America is one of the nation's largest and most prominent values based development organization and the BSA provides a program for young people that provides character, trains them in the responsibilities of participating in citizenship and development of physical fitness. And whereas Boy Scout Troop 65 was chartered in 1918 and has a distinction of being the oldest continuously chartered truth in the Longhorn Council. Yes, how about that Andy? And we'll celebrate its 100th anniversary on March 3rd, 2018. And where's the Boy Scout Troop 65 is the oldest troop of Longhorn Council serving youth in Bell, Bosky, Cook, Correll, Denton Falls, Freestone Hamilton Hood, Jack Leon, limestone, McKinnon, Mylon, Palo Pinto, Parkville, Robison, Summer Set, Tarant Wies and Young Counties and whereas the Boy Scout Troop was the only local troop to survive the move from the old city park in 1967 to the Evers Boy Scout Park. You all get a chance you need come check out the Scout Hut this weekend. And whereas the Boy Scout troop 65 is given over 150 scouts an opportunity to learn into many skills They might not know what otherwise have learned and grow into responsible adults. to learn into many skills they might not otherwise have learned and grow into responsible adults. And whereas Boy Scout Troop 65 has the honor of rewarding the 182 young men the rank of Eagle Scout and the fact that the young men as an Eagle Scout carries with it a special significance not only in scouting but as he enters higher education business or industry and community service. And whereas the early years Boy Scout Troop 65 took part in many community projects for the betterment of Denton County such as food and clothing collections, assisting with medical clinics and in recent years, community projects have included water conservation, cemetery repair and the placement of historical markers. You all remember we had an eagle from the troop to the cemetery out on Shea Han Pray. Now therefore be it resolved, the Ditton County Commission's court that's hereby proclaim March 3rd, 2018 as Boy Scout Troop 65 day in Ditton County. And urge all citizens of Ditton County to join with me in recognizing the contributions that the troop has made to our community throughout the last century. And I will some move. Thank you. We have a motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Ease, all in favor, please say aye. Aye, pose, aye, nay. Motion does carry unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. Applause. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Why don't you come up here and we need to come down here and do a picture group picture, okay? So I want to remind y'all we're having the big party this weekend over at the Scout Hut. You should come get some barbecue and see a model scout camp and check out the hut. Yeah, I can't really. Together, I could like these guys. Yeah, I can't really. Let me get a thing. I'm just in at lot. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, I know. I know. OK. That was... Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. All right. Members, next we're going to go to item 3A on the agenda. 8.3A is approval of a resolution recognizing Donald Workman's retirement. Donald is with us this morning. Come on up, please. Good morning. Thank you for being here. And I believe I best Commissioner Mitchell to reach a resolution. Don't is it workman or workman? What? It's work. This is a resolution on an honorant down what man for 20 years of service to Dean County. The Dean County Commission is caught. Dean County, Texas doing a regular session on the 27th day of February, 2018, considered the following resolution. Whereas Donald Woodman has been a law employee with the DIN County Sheriff's Office since February 9th, 1998, and will retire on February 28, 2018, after 20 years of service. And whereas Don started his career in law enforcement as a Texas deployment of public safety trooper, trainee on March 6, 1969, he was drafted into the US Army on July 6, 1969. And whereas after serving his country, Donald returned home and began his career as a Texas troop on May 1, 1971. He retired as a DPS troop of December 31, 1995, and later was assigned as a Special Texas Ranger until February 1998. And whereas, when Don joined the Sheriff's Department he was assigned to the WANT Extradiction Unit, he has served hundreds of Wants and has traveled thousands of miles. He has been an exceptional employee who is highly respected by his fears and supervisors. Now therefore be it resolved that then County Commissioners Court, then County Texas does hereby extend to Deputy Donald Wartman our censurer and grateful appreciation for your dedicated service to Den County. We congratulate you Donald on your well earned retirement and extend our best wishes to you for continued success, happiness and good health in the years to come. Don in Open Court this 27th of February, 2018, upon a motion made by myself. Check it. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell, seconded by Commissioner Marchin. I'll in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Post any? Motion does carry unanimously. It looks like you have some family members here if you'd like to introduce them. Melinda, my daughter Megan. Good morning. My daughter Melissa, my grandson Ricky, granddaughter Abby. That's great. Thank you so much for being here this morning. Well I have a little something for you too. Thank you. Gustavo told me that you requested the watch. So that's what this is. Congratulations and thank you so much for all your years of service. We appreciate you. We need to do a little picture taking for this momentous occasion. Yeah, please do. I've had the honor of working with Don. I came here as a trooper in 1993 and when Don was a trooper here. And we'll just stick to what happened in 1993. You should probably stay in 1993. But also when I became the Ranger here, Don had just went to work for the Sheriff's Office. So in some shape or form for over 20 years, Don and I have worked together. His family are wonderful people. And I think the world of them and I think the world of Don and you don't replace that experience but wish him all the best. What else to do to picture taking? We went to end the picture. I want to run it off if you come up here. It'll rake you come up here, buddy. How you doing? I'm okay. Okay. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Do I need to bring the revolution to? I need to take the revolution to. Okay. I am. I'm going to get back to work. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Members, let's go to item 3c, which is a presentation and update regarding the Dink County Okay. Members, let's go to item 3C, which is a presentation and update regarding the Dink County Sheriff's Office by Sheriff Tracy Murphy. Sheriff, there he is. Good morning. Good morning. I certainly appreciate this opportunity to come speak come speak with you I think it's important that you guys know what's going on that the public knows what's going on at the sheriff's office And I'm Don't recently got to go to the state of the Union address as a guest of Dr. Burgess I wanted to have somebody announce me as I came in but better that might be a little over the top So I didn't do that. I know I'm this my bad to the union. I appreciate that. I would like to before I get to this quickly I'd like to start off I want to read to you an email that I sent out to everyone of my employees yesterday and email reads as follows With the recent tragedy in Florida, I wanted to make clear my policy on responding to an active shooter. All commission deputies, if you respond to an active shooter, you're expected to take immediate action. We do not stage and wait for the SWAT team. We do not take cover in the parking lot, and we do not wait for another agency. We go in and do our duty. We go in to engage and stop the shooter and save lives. If for any reason you feel you cannot bottle this directive, please inform your supervisor and we will work to get you reassigned. And I just wanted to make it crystal clear to this body and to make it crystal clear to this court and to the public that we will not wait outside. We will not stand in a parking lot while children are slaughtered, that we will do our duty and go in. And I promise you that the men and women of the Denton County Sheriff's Office won't let you down. And the buck stops with me. And if that happens, I'm responsible. I'm responsible for them. I'm responsible for their safety and I'm responsible for their actions because I'm their leader and I just wanted to make that crystal clear on some of the things we've seen across the nation that in Denton County you're well represented by the men and women of your Sheriff's Office. They even bring bags in for little bag ladies. That's right. That's right. Sheriff, we had no doubt that at the same time, it was nice to hear. Thank you. Yes, sir. Go through this quickly as I can. You're going to hear me use the word we, every time that I talk about what we are doing at the sheriff's office. But to start out with, I'm going to use the word I. Because I am the very best at selecting qualified, good, honorable, hard working individuals to come to the Sheriff's Office and serve you in this community. I'm convinced I'm the best at it because I'll put my staff up against anybody's in the state and they are that good and we are very fortunate. I'm about to bring on a new CID captain I went down and stole him from Russ Kerbo. A guy who's only second and tenured at Lewisville to Russ Kerbo. And Eddie Barrett, Eddie Barrett's going to come run my CID. He's a 30 year veteran of the Lewisville Police Department, very well respected law enforcement officer in this county and we're looking, April, he's gonna come in and have you run in my criminal investigations unit. So, very fortunate to get him. When we came in in January of 2017, the first thing we did, I think you'll recall, is we canceled that bottomless pit of a drug lab that was going on over at the University of North Texas, costing taxpayers $40,000 a year just to maintain the outdated equipment. That's not even anything else. Plus, a salary for a lab director. We did away with that, we did away with that position. Saving taxpayers a great deal of money. It was just a bottomless pit that was never going to end. We're proud of that, that we were able to do that. We've reestablished our relationship with the FBI, joint terrorism task force. We have an individual who sets on that task force, who works with that task force, who knows the threats who was working on cases, not only that affect Denton County, but nationwide. And to that, myself and my chief deputy, Duane Dockery, we actually went through the process and received FBI clearance so we could even know what he's doing. And that was one of the things that, I've got to know what he's doing because he belongs to me. And but we went through that process. We were approved, we have that security clearance and not only do we get briefed on things he's involved in, we get briefed on all kinds of things. We get briefed on, there's no doubt my mind will probably get a briefing on this on the shooting in Florida before too long. Things that we can't really share but it gives us some insight to what's going on and some of the things that happened there. We created an internal affairs division. There was not an internal affairs division at the sheriff's office when we got there. It's important that we police ourselves. It's important to the public sees that we're not going to tolerate wrongdoing by our people and on the flip side of that. It's also important that police officers are wrongly accused a great deal of time and it's important that they are exonerated as well. In 2017 there was 61 internal affairs investigations. Now those minor things can be handled by immediate supervisors. These are major investigations. These are things. These are 61 that they've been accused of, of A, their crimes or major policy violations. And it's important that we do that. And we've let a lot of individuals go over these investigations. And on the other hand, we've also, I think, saved some careers of some officers that may not have been given that opportunity because of they didn't have the adequate investigations that needed to be done that we've put in place here that we're very proud of. Along with working with Gustavo and his folks, we created a new position which is a sex offender registration deputy, that is all he does. When I got here, Admin Special specialists were handling sex offender registrations. It was dangerous. It was something that, not in their job description, something that should not have been handling, and they had no investigative authority or power to do anything. It took pictures of these idiots and have to be in their presence. This position, all this deputies does is he tracks sex offenders, he registers sex offenders, and he's been given a mandate to really go after these guys to make sure they're doing everything correctly, that when they buy a new vehicle, that we know about it, when they move, we know about it, when they do anything, we know about it, and if it violates any of their probation or any of their probation or any of their rules, I want them in jail and we're going to keep a close eye on them and also we're going to assist a lot of these smaller agencies on monitoring some of their sex spenders. They just don't have the manpower for it. And one guy, we're going to evaluate it over the year. We're going to see what's going on with this and in the future we may need more. But for right now at least it's a step and I appreciate that very much and the community appreciates it. We also created a community relations division. I'm a firm believer that one of the main reasons that there's such a problem between the public and law enforcement today is because lack of communication. I tell the story when I was a young trooper, my first stop in the morning was the coffee shop to sit at the liars table and listen to what's going on and know these folks. You know, people are scared to do that. Officers are scared to do that because they have supervisors that are watching them on video and why are you spending this much time here? Why are you doing that? When I grew up, my baseball coach was a highway patrolman who influenced my life so much that I became a highway patrolman. And you don't see a lot of that anymore. You see, when you walk into restaurants, law-biting, back to blue, good citizens, will avoid eye contact with police officers and police officers vice versa because they just don't wanna talk to each other. And that's ridiculous. We're working at changing that. And through that division, you know, we started a Citizens Police Academy where citizens can come in and volunteer. We show them how the Sheriff's Office works. We have all aspects of the Sheriff's Office brought to them. They see the training. They know who the officers are. It's been very, very successful. We're working on an Explorer program for the youth. We've gotten our approval, y'all approved, we go through the Boy Scouts, that's how you go through that. It's a little bit slower process, but we will have that in place, and we will have a place for young people who are interested in law enforcement to go and to learn about law enforcement. We recently started a Women's Empowerment program, and I'm very learn about law enforcement. We recently started a women's empowerment program, and I'm very excited about this program. What this program is, it's free. People want to sign up. We did our first one a couple of weeks ago at the MLK Center here in Denton. We had a huge turnout. And what it is is we're teaching women basic self-defense strategies, basic ways to protect themselves not only from strangers from domestic situations, empowering them where they know they can take care of themselves. We're going to spread that county wide. We're going to go to different parts of the county. We had a very first one, very successful, I'm excited about it. It's going to be a great program. One of the things that we continually work on, and I know we work with Gustavo almost on a daily basis for a year's streamlining our hiring process. Sometimes it takes so long that you know these folks either A. Luzentris B. Find another job or C. Think we forgot about them. And we're working on that. And I got to tell you, working with HR, we have developed an excellent relationship. We've talked to them all the time. We're friends. We disagree. We do it with a wink and a nod and go on with our day. But they've been extremely helpful in some of the things that we're trying to do. Like one of the things we're doing, we're giving veterans priority when hiring. We're moving into the top of the list. If they have served in the United States military, they pass everybody else who hasn't. I'm counting that military time as experience. And that has to go with salary. And I believe it is. It's, we are a paramilitary organization with a chain of command and the things that we do. I want to count that. I want that to count for something when these men and women decide to get out of the military and they're looking for a career in law enforcement. So we've done that. We've completed a policy manual, believe it or not, that hasn't been completed in, I don't know how many years you had folks having to rely on policies that were brought in under Sheriff Lucas and referred to this one under Sheriff Parkie and referred to this one under Sheriff Travis and we're finally consolidating that where they have one policy manual, they know where to go, it's up to date and we're making sure that these policies are lawful and that they meet our policy of making sure that people are held accountable and that we can definitely have no excuse not to know what the policies are. The thing we're very proud of is funding the drug court and the CPS drug court. Working with Judge Hartlein and Judge Shanklan, I think it's the proper use of cease funds. I think that's what they're meant for. I don't think they're meant for a political tool at the end of someone's tenure when they get beaten in election to try to give away as much as possible to make sure the other guy doesn't get it. That's not the way we're going to operate. We're going to use these funds for things that matter in the community. We're going to use these funds for seasoned drug dealers' money and helping people who are addicted to drugs or helping folks put their families back together is more important to me than making some sort of political statement. I think that's important. That's what we're going to continue to do. Judge Hartley has her first graduation from CPS Court coming up and very excited about that. She's excited about that. Those of you who judge Hartley knows how much she talks about that. We're going to work with her in any way possible. We worked on a lot of security improvements for our facility. We're not afraid, as Mr. Wells could tell you, to use our commissary funds, which has always been the third rail over there for whatever reason. And we're using it properly. We check with Mr. Wells to make sure we're using it properly. We're using it for what it's meant for. And we're using it properly. We check with Mr. Wells to make sure we're using it properly. We're using it for what it's meant for. And we're using those funds, which saves a wide spin tax payer dollars on some things that we can use this for. And that's what it's meant for. And I appreciate Mr. Wells for helping us on that because we're going to do it right. And he makes sure that we do it right. know we don't use that without checking with him first because we want to make sure that we're doing it right. We've gone to an automated inmate tracking system we're modernizing the jail where you actually have scanners that tell you that this detention officer actually had to walk up to that sale and scan that individual cell, not just something they wrote on a piece of paper which was easily could be manipulated or not done correctly. And with Senator Blandaak which is coming to effect where we required to have outside agencies come in and investigate deaths in our jail, even some major infractions in our jail. We want to make sure that they have, who was there, when they were there, how long were there, and we're able to give that to them immediately. And this has been a, we've had a lot of folks from around the state of Texas come in and visit our jail to look at this process. And Chief Cabe has done an excellent job at researching this and making sure this is what we need and it's tension officers love it, it's a much better system and we are so far so good it's working great. We're keeping both paper and that at this time until we get through the process or we know it's going to work correctly and so far so good. We've increased the number of security cameras in the facility. The places where even in the pods where people could go would not be seen inside those pods. And that's unacceptable, especially when officers are locked in this pod with these individuals. So we've increased the cameras. We actually had the outdoor areas. We came in and covered those with another layer of screen because the holes on the top of it were about this big around and there were people from the outside who could launch whatever ping pong balls loaded with drugs or whatever they wanted into the facility. So we eliminated that. So we're very pleased with the security efforts that we've implemented. We passed our gel inspection this year and did so. That's not an easy task. That's a long drawn out process and sometimes the judge has to come over on a Saturday or Sunday and sign the paperwork. But just, you know, we're at the mercy whenever they do that. And I know she's used to that. She's done one or two of those. Thing I'm most proud of, and I have to thank, once again, HR and I'd like to thank budget, and I'd like to thank you guys, is we secured a pay raise for our detention officers. Well overdue, we've made them more competitive, we're competitive with everybody around us. They were very appreciative of it. I'm very appreciative of it. And to me, it shows what you can do when you're willing to go sit down and talk these things out and come to you guys and talk about it. And we just want to thank y'all and thank you guys for the work you all did on that because it was definitely a collaborative effort. We've increased our jail training to make sure that our DEOs can defend themselves, to make sure their defensive tactics are up to date to make because I've got a I had it prepared if I was going to have any issues with them getting the pay raise I had a DVD I called greatest hits that I was going to play for you that I didn't bring out because everything worked out but you'd be amazed at what these individuals have to deal with on a daily basis and I guess it I was a cop for 30 years I dropped them off the door and I left. That's what I did. I spent my whole career putting them in jail since I've been sheriff. I just want them out. And so that's the biggest difference that I've found and I've developed a definite new found respect for these men and women who do what they do back there in the jail. We've implemented a new restraint system. It's a restraint system that will keep us from getting sued. It's a better system where you kind of bag them up, but you can instead of having to let them completely go, like in the old big plastic chairs that you're seeing the lock down in, these restraint systems, you can loosen where they can still stand up. You can still comply with jail standards, but they're still controllable. And we actually have those not only in the jail, but we put them out in the field where they've come in very handy on subduing suspects who for whatever reason didn't want to go with us. I don't know why. Our drug enforcement unit in 2017 seized over 60,000 grams of cocaine with a street value of $3.6 million. Over 27,000 grams of methamphetamine, the street value of $1.1 million. Over 20,000 grams of marijuana with a street value of $390,000. Over 16,000 grams of black heroin worth 1.5 million. 1,700 grams of white heroin valued at 388,000, with a total of 7.2 million worth of drug seized off our streets. They also seized 2.4 million of currency. $422,000 worth of vehicles have been seized, $32,000 worth of weapons taking off our streets in the year. And that's just the drug enforcement unit, which I'm extremely proud of. They're very under manned, but they do a fantastic job. Our criminal interdiction unit, these are the guys out there with our K9 and doing things out there on the street. They've seized over 49,000 grams of methamphetamine worth 2 million, 14,000 grams of heroin worth 1.2 million, 27.5 million dollars worth of marijuana, 173,000 dollars worth of coating, and 143,000 worth of coding and $143,000 worth of money seizures taken off our highways. That's incredible. We only have a couple of guys out there doing that, and that's what they've done so far, and they continue to do a great job. Our extradition unit has traveled 201,000 air miles. They have driven 183,000 driving miles. We've extradited 153 prisoners from other states and 477 prisoners within Texas. They're constantly on the move. They're constantly, I don't know why people come here and commit crimes and go all over the United States in the world, but they do. Our warrant unit has received and processed 7,372 warrants. 2700 of those are felony, 4,600 misdemeanors. They served 1,400 felony warrants, 1,000 misdemeanor, and 37 federal warrants. Our CID, our criminal investigations, over 1,400 cases have been assigned to these investigators. And there's not that many of them. There's about 10, I think. So that's a huge caseload. Burglaries, vehicle burglaries, thefts, and criminal mischiefs are all down. The crime rate on those are down. Our violent crimes are up a little bit. I think that's a nationwide trend. But what I'm seeing here is the crimes where we actually can put people in locations where these crimes are being committed, the burglaries, the vehicle burglaries, the thefts, the criminal mischiefs, where our patrol guys are actually in the area patrolling and going into these areas, those have decreased. The violent crimes, we all, you know, majority of those are domestic or something that nature. Those are, those are reactionary crimes. We will react to those. There's not a heck of a whole lot we can do to prevent those. So it just, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, zero homicides. We're proud about that. But some of those you just can't do anything about. It always makes me laugh a little bit when when sheriffs get blamed for crime rates. Like, you know, just is what it is sometimes, you know, when you're in a county with almost a million people it's hard to keep them all under wraps. But that's where we're at. We're proud of the decrease in the crimes that I think we can actually make a difference in and putting people in places they need to be. Our property evidence has taken in over 3,100 pieces of evidence and property. Our crime scene been called out 38 times. We processed 276 pieces of evidence through our forensic lab and done over 64 hundred print comparisons. We're very fortunate to have people who are some of the best in the state at comparing those fingerprints and do an excellent job at that. What we call our support services, we've hired 121 new employees. We've assigned 491 applications for background. We promoted 44. We passed our TCO audit. We implemented the attorney access cards, which I don't know why that hadn't been done. It took so long. It took like a day to get it done. So we're proud we did that, but it was there and we've worked hard to get that done. I've heard nothing but good about it and then I think it's working out perfect. about it and I think it's working out perfect. We're actually having job fairs where we're recruiting to try to get DLs. We know we stay about 40 short. That's just the way we do and we try and really hard. But we're making progress, we used to stay 50 short when I got here. Now we're staying 40 short. So we're making some progress. We've actually hired 20 people at these job fairs to have them come in and apply. We hosted a retiree, luncheon and qualification. I think it's important that we take care of our retirees. And especially with the Sheriff's Office, when we're holding a lot of those commissions for our retired officers, we want to come in and make sure they have an opportunity to qualify with their weapons, make sure they're proficient with it, and also just to give them a chance to come back and visit and feel like they're a part of our organization because they are, and they work for a long time, so we're proud of that. Our training, we've held 102 training classes with over 1600 hours of onsite training. We've trained 72 to basic jail school, including students from Collins County, Wise County, Montaille County, Louisville PD and Cook County. Very fortunate that we can have those schools and train all these folks and they come here and the sheriffs of those counties and the chiefs of those police departments are extremely appreciative of that. These next stats shocked me and it's something that we're working on now. Our communications are overlooked, this battery communications officers and some of these numbers in 2017 alone 92,718 calls for service in one year. The Denton County Sheriff's Office was responsible for 22,000 of those. The municipalities we serve are responsible for 49,000 of those. By an EMS, 17,000. There were over 205,000 officer initiated events. That's where the officers calling in and then our communications folks have to do something. Once again, the Sheriff's Office 26,000, and this appellate is 49,000. They took 270,000 phone calls down there. And it wouldn't even election season back then. So, and 82,000 of those were emergency, and 194,000 of those were non-emergency. They dispatched for the Denton County Sheriff's Office, six constables, DPS, 20 police departments, and 12 fire and EMS, and they're doing it with 10 people short. And that's how phenomenal of a job they've done. We're starting to work on some things to try to, you will hear through the budget process, some of the things that we're trying to do to make that easier on them and to expand that community. We're just gonna have to, because there's a new police department coming up out on 380 that's taken over some of those areas and middle-arms killing us, little-arms growing at such a rate a new police department coming up out on 380 that's taken over some of those areas and little alms killing us, little alms growing at such a rate that it's unbelievable, the amount of calls they have. We work great with that chief there and with city manager we're working on some things that we can work with little alms that maybe alleviate some of this for us. Our patrol guys took 31,000 calls for service issued 4900 citations, 3500 warnings and worked 162 vehicle crashes. Our Marine Unit did 120 safety inspections, our Animal Control Unit 170, Strayer Neglected Animals, and our Mental Health Unit, our Crossless Intervention Team, another very overworked division in the Sheriff's Office that we're trying to work with some other agencies to try, frankly, to try to get them to pull their fair share. 974 Crossless calls in a year. 393 were transported to a mental health facility many times at Twitch Tle falls, you know they're making very long trips and and having to deal with that 305 other transports which are to Court and things of that nature We are reorganizing our Reserve unit we're making it what I believe is a true reserve unit should be First of all, we had unbeknownst to to me we had I don't know how many vehicles issued out to reserve officers who had said in the driveway where we actually pulled the paperwork on it where maybe 14 miles have been put on in a year maybe five gallons of gasoline had been run through it. Those are now being reassigned and redistributed. I believe the true reserve of the guys that hey we're short-handed we need you to come in and do this so we're working on reorganizing that it's not true that we have abolished our reserve unit we are reorganizing it and making it into what a true reserve unit should be. Last but not least we are cross-training all our admins. One of the things we found is when we came in and we had an admin that did a certain job and they retired or left or were sick or for whatever reason, completely shut us down. Some of it was territorial, some of it was just nobody else had ever been trained to do the job. So hopefully when you come to my office, if someone in personnel is down, somebody else can step right in and take that. If we're having some budget issues, somebody else can, if Sherry's out for a time, instead of us being completely sunk, we're going to have somebody who has a working knowledge of what needs to be done. And so far, so good, we've been very successful and quite frankly, the admins like the different parts of the job and learning every aspect of it and makes for better opportunities for promotions and things of that nature when you know the job. I know this was long, I appreciate your time. If y'all have any questions, I'll do my best to answer them. I know y'all want me just to get out of here. Thank you, Sheriff. The members. I just want to thank you Sheriff. As I was listening to you go through that list of accomplishments, that sounds like something some of it would be able to say at the end of a term, not at the end of just the first year. So I agree in it. It's a team that they they amaze me every single day. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart. They are, because I, y'all know how it is, you walk into a room and people, they just get real quiet until you leave. You know, that goes on a lot over in my place because they're doing things. They don't want me to screw things up for them, you know. They're busy, go away. I just, I'm drinking my coffee up in the door and they just, they tell me to leave. So appreciate the relationship that I have with each and every one of you and Folks at this table. Thank you very much and It's been my honor sir. Thank you. Good information Great information we appreciate it chair Members need to go back to item number one for public input Mr Mr. Huspiths, you've been waiting patiently. Please come forward. I want to remind everyone turn off your cell phones, pages, and electronic device that might be disruptive. Good morning, Willie. Thank you for waiting. Judge and commission remains will have scheduled six or 23 minutes. We're waiting. Judge and commission remains we're at the limit 623. I want to finish what I've been talking about the last two times. And that is when we made that decision, we meaning the committee on what should be done about the monument, we decided that we would add something to it to make it more informational for some like myself, which was basically I wanted it removed what it was honoring from what I said was the war that we had that the Confederate fought against or fought for and that war basically represented slavery as the main ingredient of why the war was fought. So I don't want something like that. Just personally, that's just my thought being there and reminding me that didn't, city of Denton and Denton County is saying, this is what we stand for and that's what it does for me. So as a concession in on that committee, the five of us gave in to the recommendation of the 10, which was to leave it there. But with the thought being we'd add something to it to then balance things off. Well that hadn't happened and I don't hear any discussion. I want to give you some thoughts from me as to what needs to take place. My thoughts come up with a committee and let the committee be something chosen for people who would like to be on it. Not ones that you pick and let the committee be something chosen for people who would like to be on it, not ones that you pick. And let the discussion go as long as it needs to go. I think it will be a healing process just that discussion. I realize though that the way the process works, the way it's set up now, is that the citizens me and anyone else doesn't have a say in it. And I see that nothing's being done and what probably has to be done, what shit is going to have to be done is an election. In the process here in America, the way you make change sometimes, is the leadership that's in place has to be replaced. That's just a process. It doesn't mean that what the people want who are trying to replace that leadership is right. It's just the way it works. You go out and you try to get elected and make a change that way. So I see that that's probably what's going to have to happen here because there's no movement at our taking place. Members, item two is a consent agenda. Are there any need to have some discussion under? Do we have a motion? I'll show move. The motion by Commissioner Coleman. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, Sine favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye, Poe, Sainine. Motion to carry. Consent agenda today consists of two A, which is approval of the order making appointments. We have a new hire in the district attorney's office, a new hire in the county jail. Five promotions within the sheriff's department. One new hire and adult probation and one new hire in public health. Two B is approval of the intro departmental transfers. Two C is approval of the Intro Department of Transfers. 2C is approval of specifications and authority to advertise. Duck Creek Road Colbert Replacement Project. The bid number is there. 2D is approval of building new subcress. I'm sure you're getting with Kasa, of Denton County to use the court of San de Square Law on April 5, 2018 from 430 to 730 for the purpose of child abuse awareness. A booth will be set up on the lawn to distribute information. And 2E is approval of the building news request from Seth Roberts with Denton County Public Health to use the Steven Everett Copeland Government Center conference room on Saturday, April 28, 2018 from 730 AM to 1215 PM for the Dent County Medical Reserve Corps shelter operations training. Two F is approval building news request from Michael Fagra with the thin line film festival to use the court as on the square lawn in April 18th through April 22nd, 2018 from 8 AM to 5 PM for a family, friendly festival with stage and information booth. And 2G is approval of the New Yorkshire question Parker Hips to use the courtes on the square lawn Saturday April 24th from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. for the purpose of the gathering. And 2H is approval of the New Yorkshire question Samuel C. Johnson to use the courtes on the square lawn on Tuesday April 15th, 2018 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. for the purpose of another gathering. And before I forget, Teresa has found a pin somewhere in this building right here in the courtroom. And it looks like one of our kind of service pins. I believe it's got a little emerald in it. So if you're you'd lost something like that. See Theresa. I think we just found the owner. Good. Okay. That's good. Okay. Five A is approved of the bill report payments from CSCD, Community Decorrection of T.A.I.P. shares, training shares, furniture, D.I.T. interest, and D.S.C.D., Community Decrection, T.A.I.P. Sheriff's Training Sheriff's Furniture, D.I.T. Interest and D.A. Fortperture Furns are all presented for reporting purposes only good morning, James Wells. Morning, Judge and commissioners. I'd ask approval of bills as presented with the one deletion that was known separate page. That's all corrections I have. Thank you. Doed by Commissioner Coleman. On favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye, Post-Cinane. Motion is carried. 6A is approval of Board of BID. Is there on 917-2438 exterior envelope weather proofing? This is Denton County Courts Building to Sunbelt Building Services. As see in the amount of $269,582. The funding to come from them, kind of courts building repairs and maintenance and the line item is posted. Is there a question on the side of it? Do we have a motion? Motion by Commissioner Mitchell. Seconded by Commissioner Eid. So on favor, please say aye. Aye, post-signain. Motion does carry. 7a is approval. Budget amendment quest 100640. They're transfer some facilities, miscellaneous building maintenance to Copeland Government Center, repair maintenance in the amount of $1900. Motion by Commissioner Marchant. Seconded by Commissioner Coleman. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Posting. Motion carries. 7B, as approval, budget amendment quest 100650 for operating equipment. For law enforcement facility in the amount of 16 hundred and forty dollars motion by commissioner Mitchell Seconded by commissioner marching on favorite please say aye aye Posting motion carries 12 a is approval of amendment number three to the food services contract between Dem County and I'll use approval of amendment number three to the food services contract between Dem County and ARA Mark Correctional Services LLC. And for a preview. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Marchin. Here are no questions on favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye, post, any motion to carry. The next three agenda items are all appointments. We'll take them all in one motion here. 13A is approval of real pointy, Richard Bowenkel, to the Lake Ray Roberts Planning and Zoning Committee. That's my appointment. 13B is approval of Rio Pointy, Mr. Edgar Pilkington, to the MHMR Board of Trustees. And 13C is approval of the reappointment of Dr. Gordon Ray Paine, second to the Child Protection Services Board. They're all my appointments. So the chair was so moved. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. In favor, please say aye. Aye, pose, aye, nay. Motion does carry. 14 A's approval of 2017-2018. In our local cooperation agreements for fire protection services between Denton County, Texas, and City of Frisco Fire Department. Kind of fly around fire department in town, the little and fire department. I'm moved for Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy for ambulance services between Denton County and the City of Fiscal, ambulance service, time to fly our man, time to the little album, ambulance services. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Marchin. On favor please say aye. Aye. Posting, motion carries. 14zhe is approval of supplemental agreement. Number three to the professional services agreement. Between Denton County, Texas and Chang, Battelle and Yearby, Inc. for Engineering Services and the Lube288 project from University of Highway 35W, the I-35E, in the amount of $1,357,924 for a total revised contract amount of $4,423,103.60 This funding to come from Luluv28 2017 AAA P.I. bonds and the other number is listed. Motion by Commissioner Eads. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye, post and in. Motion carries. Glad to get that going. And ladies and gentlemen, I believe that concluded our business for the day. Remember to go vote. Go vote early. Notting some going to be done soon. And if you don't make early voting, please go vote on Election Day March 6th with Outward and Jurn to have a great day.