Good morning ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Mr. Court for Tuesday, January 9th, and this morning, our invocations are given by Matt Richardson, Director of our Health Department, and our pledge will be led by Louis Flickling. I'm sorry, our economic director, please stand. Let's bow. Our father we thank you so much for a new day. Father we thank you for the new beginnings of this year. We thank you for an ability to reset, recharge, to look at the world maybe a bit differently. Father, we thank you for the ability to start again. God, we come to you today asking that you be with those who are experiencing loss. When some of us are thinking ahead and thinking about a new year, Father, there are some that have lost something or someone and new beginnings are hard. Father, we just ask your blessing, a special blessing on those. Also, Father, we ask a special blessing on those who are away from home at the beginning of a new year. And Father, those protecting us abroad, we just ask a special prayer and a special blessing on them and their families. And God, we ask this morning for a wisdom and a strength to reflect what you and your son have taught us. Jesus' example of love and mercy, peace, patience and kindness, God we ask that we have the strength and wisdom to reflect that. That we live our lives in such a way that people see you through us. Father, that's difficult and we ask for a way for you to strengthen us and just to lead us in that direction. God, Father, we thank you for the sacrifice of others, the people that serve us each and every day, people that have thankless jobs, whether it's in law enforcement or service, public service, just those who give of themselves. We thank you for them and we ask a blessing upon them this next year because we know that those sacrifices make lives better for those all around us. Father, we most of all thank you for the sacrifice of your son Jesus, his example, his life, his death and that resurrection so that we know that life will be better. Father, we thank you for him and we thank you for all you do. It's through Christ your Son's name we pray. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the public for which it stands. One nation, under God, and invisible with liberty and justice for all. Honored with Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to the Texas Wednesday, under God, one in the visible. and the other one at the end of the business. Thank you very much. Good morning, everybody. I'd like to remind everyone to please turn off cell phones, pages, and the electronic device that might be disruptive. Item one is for public input for items not posted on the agenda. If there's any member of the public that would like to address commissioners court, we ask that you please complete a public comment form they're available on the side table Want to remind you again to please turn off cell phones pages I have one public comment for mr. Hudson Smith you stated this is for agenda item 13.A. Do you want to wait for that item? Okay Members item two is the consent agenda are there items on the the consent agenda you need to have some discussion on it? Do we have a motion? Motion by Commissioner Eads. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye, post, aye. Motion does carry. Consent agenda today consists of two a, which is approval of order-making appointments. We have a new hire, I'm sorry, a re-higher in the kind of district clerk's office, a new hire in the budget department, a new hire in facilities, two new hires in the county, three new hires, I'm sorry, in the county jail. One new hire is for the sheriff, promotion and public health clinical, a new hire and public health clinical, and a promotion in public health clinical, a new higher public health clinical, and a promotion in public health diabetes case management. 2B is approval of the intro departmental transfers to CS approval payroll, 2D is approval of renewal for temporary personnel services. This is RFP 08132212 to on track staffing, 2E is approval of budget amendment request 1004's or for computer equipment and software for public health, death investigations, medical examiner, and the amount at $807. 2F is approval of building use request from Genie, the arminant, to use the Southwest Courthouse Community Room for our candidate form on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 from 5pm to 9pm. And lastly 2g is a pair of the building news requests from Paul Bastich that are in service officer for the Louisville Government Center Community Room. On Thursday, February 8 and Friday, February 9, Southwest Government Center Community Room on Thursday, April 12th, and Friday, April 13th, and the first school government center community room on Thursday, May 10th and Friday, May 11th. All these from 8 until 5 p.m. for the purpose of veterans training for Project Camo. I don't know what that is. I have to find out. for a and for B are both public hearings. Let's start with for a with the public hearing to consider discuss approve and or take appropriate action on the request for special use permit. Dear tracks edition lot one block a commissioner precinct one is recommended by the Lake River Roberts planning and zoning commission. Do we have a motion to go into our public hearing? Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Marchand all in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Motion does carry. It's my understanding that the committee did recommend the request. Is there anyone in attendance that would like to address commissioners court on this issue either in favor of or oppose to the request Hearing none do we have motion of close the public hearing motion by commissioner marchin seconded by commissioner Coleman all in favor please say aye aye Posting a motion carries we now need a motion to approve the request Motion by commissioner Coleman secondeded by Commissioner Marchant. In favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Post and a motion carries. Ford B is also public hearing to discuss approve or take a provoked action. In the request for a variance, Lake Ridge estates, Block 4, Block 1, Commissioner Prisink 1 is recommended by the Lake River Roberts Planning and of the Council. Registration of the Council. Registration of the Council. Registration of the Council. Registration of the Council. Registration of the Council. Registration of the Council. Registration of the Council. Registration of the Council. Registration of the Council. Registration of the Council. Registration of the Council. Reg the request for the variance. Is there anyone in attendance that would like to address commissioners court on this issue, either in favor of or opposed to the requested variance? Hearing none, let's have a motion for close to public hearing. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye, pose a name. Motion does carry. Now we need a motion for approval. Motion by Commissioner Cullen. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. All in favor, please say aye. Aye, post, aye. Motion does carry. Five a is approval of the bill report. Payments from CSCD. Committee correction to TIP. Shares, training, shares, forfeiture. VIT, interest in DE4, forfeiture funds, all presented for recording purposes. Only good morning, James Wells. Morning, Judge and commissioners. I'll ask approval of bills that's presented with the one edition noted on separate page. These are grant payments to the University of North Texas on the contract. These need to be expedited, because a grant has expired, and we have to grant everything up out of the 50 with the grant or agency. That's all corrections I have. Thank you. Are there any questions that we have a motion? Motion by Commissioner Marchant, say they'd buy Commissioner Eads. In favor please say aye. Aye, post, a name. Motion carries. 5B is approval of a non-cor non corporate resolution for farmers bank and trust. This is posted by the county treasurer. She's confined with statutory requirements here. The chair is going to move for approval. Seconded by Commissioner Marchin, other questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye, post, seen a motion does carry. 7A is approval, budget amount of cost 100410. motion. Motion to carry. Motion to carry. Motion to carry. Motion to carry. Motion to carry. Motion to carry. Motion to carry. Motion to carry Opposed to name. Motion does care. Commissioner E.D. Do you want to go ahead and, or Bobby, do you want to do the recognition of our Flower Man chambered guest today? Good morning, Paul. We're happy to have our Flower Man leadership class here this morning every year. We do this. We want to thank all the citizens who participate in the Flareman Leadership Class. We all know learning about our cities, our county government, our city government, our school district is a wonderful opportunity and it's opportunity for you to lead you to be an elected official. And so I always say that because you learn a lot when you come to see how we Hold our meetings and what we do and perhaps You will want to do the same thing someday matter of fact I Talked to many people who have gone through these classes and we have a lot of people that have gone through the leadership classes Commissioner Eats have. I have. Commissioner Marchion. Commissioner Coleman, have you gone through leadership? You haven't gone through? Absolutely. Okay. So, but anyway, we want to welcome you here this morning. We have a great day planned for you. Thank you, Don and Shannon, for all you did to help get this done. Cindy, thank you for the flower man chamber. We appreciate you every year. You have a great group that can lead to all the rope challenges and all that. And I always say I'm so glad that when I went through, I didn't have to do the rope challenge. It would never be the same. It would never be the same. Congratulations. Oh, well, thank you, Commissioner. And I just want to say again, thank you all for being a part of the class. I know you have a great day. Planned ahead of you. Donna did a great job. And I want to thank all the elected officials and department heads who took time out of their busy schedule today to host y'all. So it's a, we couldn't do it by ourselves. So pardon our dust up here. The courthouse is a little stripped down all the walls and the artwork and our artifacts are missing because we had the fire across the street at Christmas and so that the courthouses you may have read got smoke damage and so it looks a little bit different so I hope you'll come back and see it when all our exhibits are up so thank you. Let's have them all stand up. Let's give them a big hand. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Stay standing. Stay standing. Picture. There you go. All right. Well, we wanted to take a moment and acknowledge that you were here and to welcome you. Thank you for being with us today. Apologize for my cold, yo. Okay. I apologize for my cold, yo. Okay, 7B is approval of budget of M requests 100420 to increase revenues, allocate expenditures for computer equipment and software. In the creation of new line items for computer hardware maintenance and computer software maintenance for public health, this is delivery system reform incentive payment to diabetes case management program. This is in the amount of $23,235. The per approval. Motion by Commissioner Marchand. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. Hearing no questions on favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Posting name. Motion carries. Seventy is approval. Budget and mental quest 100430 to increase revenues, advocate expenditures, or contractual services or public health diabetes case management. This is also a disrupt in the amount of $163,111. The approval. Motion by Commissioner Marchant. Excuse me. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Motion carries. 70 is approval of budget amount of cost 100440 to roll over remaining. Unspent grant funding from fiscal year 2017 to 2018 for drug court expenses for the 211th District Court in the amount of $7,724. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. Hearing no questions, all in favor, please say aye. Aye, pose, aye. Motion is carried. 8 a.m. is approval of a temporary salary adjustment for Lieutenant Bruce Elsie. You have backup information. This is basically a temporary assignment correctly. We have a motion for approval by Commissioner Mitchell, seconded by Commissioner Eads. Did you hear that? This is as a result of that statute that says if a officer does their job, but now they're required to be compensated at their level. That's one of the reasons and the other reason is because we have done it in the passport so more than twice when the supervisor goes to the academy we have done it in the process. Thank you. All right we have a motion to second all in favor please say aye aye Poe say name motion does carry 9A is a presentation of the accreditation and community health improvement plan. And we have Matt Richardson prepared to do that for us. Good morning again. Good morning, Judge and commissioners. We're going to do a very quick presentation this morning, give you an update on our accreditation efforts. I also have Alex Reed with me this morning. She's going to walk you through the presentation. But I'm going to give a very, very brief history lesson. You recall that public health has been preparing for local health department accreditation. Our health department has never been accredited before. Very, very few health departments in the United States are accredited. This is a fairly new phenomenon. It came about in about 2011, 2012. So we have been making preparations to do that. There are certain things that have to happen prior to being audited for your accreditation status. And so we're going to walk through some of those details for you. What I want you to know is we've been working really hard at some of these things. The things you see on a PowerPoint, there's lots and lots of effort that has gone on behind some of these slides. So I want you to know that your health department has been working diligently to get this documentation to engage community partners so that we're not doing it alone. Some of you have been involved in some of those outside efforts, collaborative efforts with other cities, with other agencies, United Way, hospitals, municipalities have been involved in this discussion. It's really kind of an A to Z effort for public health services that we will be audited for, everything from our primary care to local governing ordinances, training for staff, both public health staff and others. So you're going to see some of that. I want to congratulate Alex Reed with her hard work. We had done quite a bit of work prior to her hiring. And then she has really taken up the baton and run a good distance with it. You're going to see the fruits of that labor. Juan Rodriguez, our assistant director, our epidemiological staff that have worked on community health assessment. You're going to see some of that. I also want to remind the public that our documents are posted on our website. We're one of the few health departments that have this type of information in an age of transparency and an age of, we want wanna make sure that people see the work that's happening with their tax dollars in public health. And so that evidence is posted on our website and I hope people go and look at some of that information. So I'm gonna do Alex Reed, our trainer and program coordinator for accreditation. She's our accreditation coordinator and will be our point person for this process in the next year, 18 months among other duties. So Alex is going to take it away. Good morning. Good morning, good morning, Judge and commissioners. Thank you for having us here this morning. I will try to give you a 30,000 foot view but I know that I speak in acronyms. So if something comes up don't hesitate to stop me. But as Matt said our team has been making a lot of progress towards National Public Health accreditation and what's really required of our department is Kind of a gold steel seal of approval of saying these are the things that we Expect from local health departments to really show that they're for Runners in the state of Texas there are only five local health departments that are Currently accredited so we want to be an industry leader and do that within our community. So FAB is the Public Health Accreditation Board, which is the governing body that permits accreditation. They're the ones that will oversee our process and have begun our application with them to date. So the steps to accreditation, there's a pre-application. Our team has already completed that process. We've been accepted in the pre-application process and so we've passed that point, now we're in the official and formal application process. That requires for us to complete the prerequisites that will go over here in just a couple of minutes. Once we finish our application, which we anticipate to be done with in February of this year, we'll move on to our documentation submission. There's about 380 documents that will have to submit for review that prove that we're doing the standards and metrics that are required by FAB. After those are reviewed by their team, they'll send site visitors here to meet with us, to meet with you all, community members to see that we're doing the things that are said that we're doing in our documents. And then they will come back with a decision for us. If we are accredited, which I anticipate we will be, then we will be accredited for a five year term before applying for reacreditation just so that you know what the process looks like. So those prerequisites that are required by our team, the first one that we completed and sent to you all was our departmental strategic plan. That was in motion long before I came on board, but the team really outlined some goals altogether to the SWOT analysis, including all of our employees and staff, then the leadership team met and defined some goals and objectives. And we've got about eight goals that we've set forth to guide our progress through 2020. So our strategic plan goes through the year 2020 and that's been completed. Oh, you're fine. We've also got our community health assessment, which was the second document that was completed. That has an overview of what our community health needs are, what are some of the disparities that we have in our community. The red X. Yes. Thank you. I'm going to work. You're going to have to be. Looky there. Good idea. Now you don't have to guess what's behind there. You can actually see it. But our community health assessment was the second document that we completed. It's about 80 pages, so it's a long read. But we did do a condensed assessment that has kind of a high level overview for community members that are interested in knowing. what are our five areas of concern? How did we define those areas of concern? Why are there areas of concern? So we did do a higher level overview so that folks didn't have to try to sift through the 80 pages if they didn't want to. Then our Community Health Improvement Plan, which a lot of you were a part of our Health Summit. Thank you for allowing us to use the Southwest Courthouse. Everyone loved that location and judge horn for doing our introduction at our community health summit. So we hosted our first annual summit in partnership with United Way of Denton County and Texas Health Resources Denton and hosted a summit of round table discussions with community members and leaders. And basically what they did was kind of buckled down and sat around round tables and talked about how we address areas of concern together. They formulated goals which we then translated into a community health improvement plan. Again it's about 70 pages I have to warn you but it really really sets a game plan for going forward over the next three years of how we can address these things in partnership with one another rather than one team just trying to go out of the loan. So those are the three prerequisites that are required by FAB before we can even submit our application. And those are now complete and again posted on our website for public viewing. An overview of the summit took place in October of this year. We had about 75 members of our community show up to be a part of that day, participated in those roundtable discussions. The feedback that we got from the summit was that folks felt engaged. They liked kind of the forced participation of the roundtable discussions. At first it felt a little unnatural because we're like, you have to sit with strangers and you have to talk about how we're going to address these big ticket items. But really people kind of gave us some feedback in our follow-up meeting that they enjoyed that and they felt like it was tangible, that we were able to keep it at a grassroots level and things that can really be addressed over the next three years. Our areas of concern that you'll see in the community health improvement plan and the community health assessment include access to care. That includes transportation, includes insurance, all of those sorts of things are kind of bubbled up into access to care. Behavioral health, exercise weight and nutrition, health outcomes including chronic disease, and education and prevention. So those are the areas that we've got goals surrounding each area of concern has one to three goals that we would like to tackle over the next three years. In our summit, a lot of the kind of recurring themes that came up that didn't necessarily say specific to one area of concern, but came up across all of the domains is making sure that we do a good job of health promotion saying the same thing. So we want to make sure all of our partners, when we talk about flu prevention, are all of our partners in the community sending the same message. Community collaboration, decy-loaning, and making sure that everyone's going at it together and then health literacy, addressing concerns of due folks understand the information that they get and use that to make health behavior change. And we're kind of coming to the end of the presentation and this is where it gets a little bit in the weeds, but this is available on our website and as you can see this is just an example of one area of concern and one goal. So they get really, really in-depth but we wanted to make sure that we were looking at what other communities have done and been successful in. So those are iterated there. Any laws or policies that are applicable to that goal, we wanted to include those, as well as the community partners that we felt would be participating on that goal. So each goal has a full page overview as the one you see here to kind of iterate what is the implementation of this look like, what did we consider in setting this goal and why was this a goal that we set? So moving forward, as I mentioned, we will submit our application to FAB for review to be in the official application process. In February of this year, we hope to have that completed relatively quickly. At that time, we will have 12 months to submit those over 300 documents and then we'll move forward with the site visit process. We would like to continue to host the annual summit. We felt like that went well. We had a lot of engaged partners and people felt like that coming together once a year was really bonding and also kind of set a plan in motion for the next year. So those are kind of our action items going forward. We're continuing those conversations with our community partners and making sure that it doesn't fall on deaf ears. That plan stays in motion over the next couple of years. So that's kind of what we've got going on. I'm looking forward and I'd like to now open it to any questions that you guys may have. I just have one question. Yes, ma'am. We have lofty goals here that they are. I think the whole idea of a concept is good. You stated or mad stated early that very few county health departments have this accreditation. What does that do for our health department receiving that designation? That's a good question. So in 2009, I was part of a statewide committee that talked about national accreditation. and we actually were pursuing a Texas accreditation in lieu of a national accreditation because we were concerned there were such large departments Dallas Harris County and in such small health departments Cherokee Angelina County there were there were this huge spectrum and what we found out in 2009 at this at this conference I was a panelist, I had, I was sitting next to someone from the CDC who was in charge of the Texas Portfolio, so dollars coming into Texas, and the dollar number for just public health into Texas was in the hundreds of millions. And that gentleman said, in 2009, said, you know, we're really thinking that federally, we're going to start requiring accreditation whenever you submit grant requests to the federal government. Well, we knew money was a task. So, follow the money, it explains everything. Abandoned this idea of a Texas accreditation, we feel, feel quickly in line with the federal vision and so, it's really about quality. I do believe that accreditation does demonstrate the good housekeeping seal of approval. I think it's important that we prove to others that we engage community members that it's not just Matt and Juan and Alex sitting in a room in a corner of a county building that it's not just our ideas, but this is the community think. This is the opinions of people who are involved day to day. That's important. The other thing that's important is after we demonstrate that we want to talk about that. We want people to know that this was a community collaborative. A accreditation forces us to do that. So it does require we post in our website. It does require that we engage policymakers at the state level and to local level. All of those requirements I think will increase quality. And that's its idea. Owen, by the way, it also makes sure that we're eligible to receive the current grant funding that we receive from the federal government passed through the state. So those are really compelling reasons to go through this. How many counties have health departments that have already received this? Is it nations? I believe there are five in the state of Texas and That's not and they are typically much larger departments. With the exception of Williamson County, Williamson County has some money, as you will know. But larger health departments had staff to dedicate to this. We are very conservatively staffed. As again, you will know compared to our constituent health departments in the Metriplex. So, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm I'm sorry was that I tried to look at it, but we do we per capita we're some of the lowest staffed health department. So we don't have a lot of margin typically to devote to this kind of effort, but we've made that happen we've made that a priority. So we just told our current staff compliment that this is part of your job now and we're gonna we're gonna run after it So that's what we're doing but Houston Dallas-Tarent Austin Travis and in Williamson County and again they had staff Dedicated to this for about 12 to 18 months prior to their submission, that that was that individual's full-time job. As a contrast, this is in fact, as not Alex's full-time job, nor mine, but we continue to work through that as a small committee. So we're working on it and we're gaining. Okay. Remaining time. Your mic's let on. Is it? What's the remaining time frame? So the time frame, we're going to be submitting a letter after court today. We'll be submitting a letter. We're going to submit those three items, the strategic plan, the community health assessment of which we had done the majority of the work. And then what we did is we took the community health assessments from Texas Health Resources Denton and we added the United Ways work as well. So that was all summarized, and then we did this Community Health Improvement Plan. So those three things are required, as long as, in addition to support from you, we'll submit that, and that starts a 12-month cycle of document submission. We're really far down the road already on those documents that Alex mentioned. So we're hopeful that we will complete that in six to eight months. We're hoping to get on their schedule at the end of this year or the beginning next year for an accreditation decision. That's our hope. And it's really going to be determined, I think, by their timeline at this point not necessarily ours. We anticipate being ready by late summer. The massive, on this community health assessment, I saw health promotion, community collaboration, health literacy. Was any of this stuff in the plan addressing the mental health stuff or is it? So the behavioral health is a goal. So those are the three, those were three topics, kind of overarching themes. But I think the page before are the goals that were identified by the communities in behavioral health. So that behavioral, and by the way, we didn't just come up with these out of the blue. A lot of this is what's already happening. The BHLT with mental health concerns, behavioral health concerns, these are things that are happening. And we're also not saying that this is the county's sole responsibility. We're not saying public health wants to be in charge of all of this. We're saying that we want to facilitate and convene conversation of things that are already happening, and then maybe pursue grants for these same goals. The goals really outline what we expect to happen and we as a community, as Denton County expect to happen. The health department certainly wants to facilitate pursuing those goals, but again, we're not going this alone. We're not saying we're taking responsibility alone. We're saying we recognize it's our role to facilitate and convene and assist in any way possible while managing obviously the resources that are allocated to us. So we're cognizant of that. But yeah, so they answer your question. Yes, it's the mental health behavioral health is a goal. And those were again goals identified by the group interested constituents. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you good plan. Okay 12 a there's been a request to pull it it'll be reposted at a future meeting 13 a is update by mr. John Baines chair the Confederate soldier Memorial Advisory Committee good morning, sir the Confederate soldier, Memorial Advisor Committee. Good morning, sir. I understand we're in for a treat today. I hope so. Well, I don't know that everybody in the room has had the pleasure of being with Mr. James Baines when he serenades us with little things that he has made up. I have had the pleasure of participating in that from time to time. And so you have the floor, sir. I watched the video of you singing that pretty neat. Thank you. Thank you. Well, and swimming in this matter, I wake up at night sometimes thinking about it. And so I decided to write your song to serenade you so I hope you like it and I have some copies in case you need one. I do. Asking your receive. Thank you, John. I'll let I'll let Ron sing and I'll just come along. I'd rather listen, I'd rather listen to you. Yeah, I'll hum. Okay, let's see. Here we go. The tune is before the throne of God above. I thought it again here. Before us tears this daunting task To find consensus that will last That fifteen voices might be one. This county work that must be done. Confederation soldiers, what to do? To find consensus that is true, protect our future, guard our past, with a consensus that will last, with a consensus that will last. Now there are 15 voices strong. They are like lyrics to a song. 15 A tasty consensus cake. It's buffering. Let's see here. It's hot. It did. I'll just sing it. Ronnie Mike, Judy Fred, Donazanobia, and our friend, Tim Howard Willie, Charlotte Paul, Who recommend something to you? Professors come and they profess, and many say the sense of test to give their feelings or end or while committee members keep the store. Then in four weeks and offering bring tasty consensus, cake that thing. A tasty cake enjoyed by all, a cake that's bitter, tart and sweet. Consensus, K for all to eat. That was great. It was great. It was great. Take something so controversial and be able to put something together that make people smile. Well, thank you. Thank you. Well, we're anticipating something that's bitter, tart, and sweet. And I want to thank the commissioners for the job and the judge for the job that you do as a citizen in the both of the city and the county who's done worked in a number of committees and boards throughout the city. The average citizen doesn't realize how complicated running an operation like this can be. So this Confederate committee is just one of many things that you have to oversee. And while some I think it's the most important, I realize it's not. It's one of many things that need your attention because it gives a public image both locally and then to others. How we address this issue will be very important. This past Thursday I sang the song to the board to the committee. We had Dr. Marvin Delaney, a history professor from UTA, come and talk about his impressions. Excuse excuse me I forgot to acknowledge my committee member Mr. Hutsbeth this morning and and he basically said he's in favor of moving the statutes and monuments and then When Paul asked him about if we had enough context, would he consider keeping the, consider recommending keeping the committee and he said he would be in favor of that? If we had enough context and then I asked the question, well what's enough context? And he didn't provide us with that information immediately, but had promised to provide us with that. And I'll come back to that in just a moment. And then, Jessica Luther came and gave us a very good presentation on the political environment that was going on in 1918. And the perceived connection between the political climate of that day and the movement of the African-American community out of Precure Town to Southeast Dittin. So we felt that the presentations last week were very good and then lastly, Mike Cochrane gave us a recommendation about taking all this information that we've been gathering for the last several months and putting it in an African American historical archives overseen by the county. Feeling like we've garnered quite a bit of information and would be a waste. If we didn't put it together in a place where others could access it and also community members could add to it. So that was the recommendation that we're looking at taking. This week we're going to meet in Flower Mound at the annex at 9 a.m. for our meeting and then we're going to meet in the evening at 6 p.m. for a public input session. And one of the items of note was that we only had one African-American show up at the last public input. And so there's been quite an effort to make sure that there is more of a cross-section of individuals, including more African-American input at this next session. So we're getting the word out. And if there any in this room that would like to connolly would encourage you to come and let your voice be heard as well. So we're going to focus on this week on keeping the statue. As leading the organ of this committee, I felt like if we try to talk about too many things, I think we can lose something. So let's focus. Let's get a concentrated session on keeping the statue. The next one will be on moving the statue and then we're going to gather our thoughts and then we'll bring a recommendation to you on February 1st. We still have another historian, and we're looking to invite the artist that put in the fireman's statue in front of Station I. It's a local artist who did that and talk about what it would take to perhaps bring another piece of art to add context. And one of the things that I'll be recommending eventually is that all of our committee members will get a five minute summary. So there will be 75 minutes if all 15 of us come and give us the distillation of their thoughts. Say this is what I'm thinking and then we'll take that and then come back with a final recommendation. But I wanted to leave the commissioners with this thought as I conclude. If the statue is moved to the historic park, would it generate the same level of conversation and consideration as if we left the statue here and added context? And how much context would it take to have a meaningful conversation? And then I'll end on this note. Well, all the problems be gone if the statute was gone. Then if the statute stays, how do we take advantage of pushing the conversation and making the future better. Thank you again, and we look forward to visiting with you next next speaker. Mr. Banks. I've sent it before, and I'll say it again, we certainly have the right person this term, and thank you very much sir. Thank you. Commissioner Coleman. So I really like the fact that you all are fixing to go to Flower Mound for a hearing, because that was kind of one of the things that, you know, I represent geographically half the county, but only quarter of the population. And, you know, I've had, you know, I live in the city of Denton, and I've had a church and other people talking about this. And I don't think that a lot of people get the breath of the fact that this is a county-wide issue, not particularly the city of Denton, just through social media and chatter. You've heard they say they should have an election for the city of Denton. If y'all considered maybe having additional public hearings and like like either Carrollton for the colony in that area or out in Frisco or up in Pile Point along the 370s having four doors, I really think that would be good to be able to get y'all to distill, can I get out of the dent, I know I know Mr. Hutspith has recommended let's go ahead and get some county input and not just a dent input. So I think that's a very viable and needful recommendation which I'll you know I saw this is in Hamilton we got a nice office up in Frisco. We got one up in Crossroads. I think we all those facilities. I will definitely take it to the committee. And so now let's do it this way. If the commissioners say we need another public input, we'll schedule one. Otherwise, I'll just ask the committee what they want to do. But if you say let's do one, down south or out to the- I think it would be better to do that to get more input. Yeah, input. But also like I've told you before I really don't want this to extend on forever. I think it's a great idea and if you if we have a few more remaining meetings if those could just be it could be at those areas. I mean areas. I mean, I'll meet you and I'll let you in there in Crossroads. We have a wonderful facility and meeting room. It's huge. I know you all have a nice facility. And over in Frisco, there's brand new. They would get I think people who don't particularly participate in county government to be involved. I don't know what y'all think. I don't want to send the committee to for I agree with you that it's not a din issue it's a county issue but you know briscoe that's not so far but it's been crossroads at night you. You know, it's pretty dangerous. Don't believe it. I mean, it's not a child. I mean, the mall, the malls, that's what I'm talking about. If we could get one that would come. I'll let them in. I mean, I'll meet them and look the door open. But I mean, if that's what the commission is supposed to do, that's how we may be able to do the consolidate part of yeah, southeast part of the county consolidate. Yeah, let's consolidate. Call me but include. Call me and yeah, and that's out these. It's not far drive and that that would be the east east and slide of the county. But we got to get the word out that this that there is a public hearing and we need to we could word out that there is a public hearing and we need to ask people to. I'll put it in my newsletter. Yeah, that's the thing. I think having it crossroads and giving everybody in the Aubrey, Kruegerville, Pilot Point, Sanger, Metraplex, we'll parole you in and let you come out there, Bob. I think that's awesome. I don't know what to drive here. I know. I drive here. I know. You come pick me up. I'll come get you. I just Mr. Bains, I appreciate it. I want to, like I said, I don't want to micromanage all, but I think Andy's idea of having y'all having your next meetings and then maybe incorporating a public hearing in that would be good. That way we don't stretch it out. But then also kind of get us out of the dent and mindset, centric, and then get input from other parts of the community. We're 43 cities. I think people want to realize that. There's 40 Denton County, not Denton City. Yeah. Right. Okay. So we can at least plan on, at least one more, be on this one. Thank you. I'd love for you all to get up to crossroads. Crossroads, Carrollton, the colony for us. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Huspith has asked to speak on this agenda item. Thank you for your patience, sir. Good morning. Yes, I am. My voice is that my church they asked me not to sing it, my church. That's how bad that is. And my wife makes front of me all the time. I think I sound pretty darn good. I'm in the shower. I'm great. Anyway, as Mr. Bain said, those speakers we had this time for me were excellent. Here's what I'm having to do from all these years of protesting against that monument out there and just going through all the changes in my life that it is produced by the fact that I'm doing it, I've gone from a very angry time and just hurtful and vindictive time to, we're okay and God's got this. That to this. But still, there's a responsibility, I feel, that you have to say something in government. I'm looking at the movie The Crown. I love that movie. It is a good movie. Going in and going somewhere and finding move in and look at the series. I think it's great. So here's what's happening with me with this monument deal. It says to me, others have a thought. Others have an idea. We ought to come together and share ideas and thoughts. And then it's not necessarily compromised, but we kind of come together and say, well let's just do this. What do you think? And that's what's happening in the media. Now, it came about because, believe it or not, the two people who were speaking were talking about the negatives that the monuments present. And they got real specific, but in that process, the God that I served said to me, you know, you should start looking at the other side of things. Now they were presenting the side that I agreed on. Slavery was bad. It is bad. And no matter where he is, slavery is not good. But then he said, you know, there's some things in your life that you do exactly like that. I said, what are you talking about? I'm great. What, what, what, what, what, haven't I done that's great? Oh, why did I ask that? He started in. And one of them was like the story I heard about the woman who complained about this guy had these kids at the train station and they were running all over the place, acting out, acting out. And the woman, I got on to him and said, you need to do something about those kids and get them in line. And he said, I'm sorry, ma'am, but we've been in the hospital for a week with their mother and now and my wife. And she just passed away. And what that lesson teaches me is, if I only knew what was going on with the other person, what's going on with you, what's going on with people who have different views? Maybe I wouldn't be so quick to chastise you and put you in your place when you just lost the loved one. That's what it says to me. And so I still have my view. I think the thing needs to be addressed, and it causes me problems, but I just don't need to be so angry behaving. Now let me tell you something that's what happened to me. I have a store like the ones that burned down over here. I have a second-inch store and I know what those people are going through now. We just kind of get attached to our junk. We wanted to say all, but we are attached to it. And we know where everything is. And that was a large place with a lot of stuff. So I don't mean to minimize the loss. But here's what God showed me in my weird sense of humor. He said, you know, we are correcting that statute problem. I've put this sit on it and made it more African-American. I just laughed. I thought you know that's what needs to be done. Paint the sucker black and then I'll be alright. I'll be alright. I'll be alright. Oh my. Well this has been an entertaining morning. All right. Well, thank you very much, gentlemen. I appreciate your time. Okay. Members, item 13C is approval of drawing the names of the 2017 grand jury To serve on the Denver County salary agreements committee Okay, Cheryl coming up By state law the proposed salary for elected officials has to be not only Do they have to be advised of it but has to be put in do they have to be advisory but has to be put in the paper. Whose phone keeps going off? Five books. Five books. But anyway, we have to draw these names from the Grand Jury wheel and that these people and see if they're willing to serve, of course. The only time they would have to serve on this committee is if a proposed salary for an elected official is grieved by that elected official. They don't think it's enough. They have the right to ask for a hearing in front of this committee. Fortunately, we didn't have to do that at all last year and several other years too, but it has happened. So we will draw 10 names for the committee and 10 names for alternate names. I serve as a chair of that committee, but I don't have a vote. It shouldn't meet. Hopefully it won't. OK. First one, Susan Wright from Savannah, Texas. Gerard Austin, also Savannah. Mix it up here a little bit. No, Salinas Stone from Ponder. Mix it up here a little bit. No, Salinas Stone from Ponder. Charlotte Stempowski, Flower Mound. Geraldine Miller, Highland Village. Michelle Rainey, Louisville. You keep them count? Anthony Alt, Lantaner. Michelle Reeves, Carolyn. Gini Zimmerman Crossroads. That's 10. This one will be 10. Okay, Donna Peters, Fireman. Now we need 10 alternates, right? Grendeland Chandler, court. Lola Lee Armador, Denton. Kevin Hartwell, Luisa. Consuelo Moreland, Flyerman. Marvin McKinney, Oak Point. Okay, Susan Connell, Lantana. Gary Davis, Crossroads. Donna Romaine, Romaine Luisville. Sandra Adcock Frisco. About there. One more. Last one. Surely parish from Flora Man. It. Okay. We need to officially take a vote on that. We move for approval by Commissioner Eads, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. On favor, please say aye. Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, The drawing was 13c, which we just did. I'm sorry, 13b is discussion and update of a courthouse on the square restoration. And we have Danny Brumley with us, and we have both Peggy Riddle, too, Danny. If you and Peggy had come up and talked to us a little bit about the restoration, while they're coming up to the microphone, I'll just let you know that you don't really realize how much SUT is in the air, but yesterday Cheryl brought the Styrofoam cups. I believe they were in the break room right over here, and they were just dided with SUT. You can really see it on that white cup. Good morning, go ahead. Good morning. Yes, and we have changed the filters. I believe for the third time we've got charcoal filters in there now, which should help a lot. And then we'll change those here. But once they get totally complete with another set of charcoal filters, but we're getting there. Talked with Brad yesterday. He says he thinks he's around 90% complete. He still hasn't done the basement yet because he's waiting on Peggy. He'll give you updates on that. I'll ask the estimates for all the artifacts, but right now he's finishing up a few little odd names but we should be he should be out of here with the exception of the basement by the end of this week. Thank you. As of yesterday his numbers he had given us a estimate of around 2.25 to 2.50 to clean the building and we were at 2.02 estimate as of Thursday. I don't really, I'm just going to back up, let Peggy talk now. It's not the heart of the chat. No. Not yet. But as you know, our collections were damaged. And the people that we need to professionally take care of them are going to be expensive. We've gotten estimates for our objects, for our fine art, which includes the paintings and textiles. We're finishing up the numbers for the paper items, which would include books and any photographs, and we should hopefully have that estimate by tomorrow Thursday. But they're coming in high. I'll tell you that. I don't know where the insurance company is as a blast night. They had not seen the estimates, so I don't know how they're going to fill them out those. But we tried to find professional conservators from our area, so we wouldn't have to send them off anywhere too far. There's not many paper conservators, so we were going to be asking the fine arts conservator who can do paper items if she'll give us a bid and I feel like she's very reasonable and she's in the area. We are moving objects everything out of the basement so that they can get into those rooms to clean them. So that is our charge this week to get everything out so that the restoration people can come in and get the rims all cleaned up. Do you know how many questions? It's gonna clean the Picon Shell's cultures. You know what? Our Picon collection is down. Oh, no. Seguin, it's in Seguin. Oh, really? Because they have a PCOM museum and they wanted to exhibit them. And so, we had very few PCOMs in the building at this time. So, we have the first things I saw when I moved to Nettin County in the... I'm using on display. Okay. All right. Do we have any other questions? Thank you, Peggy. Appreciate all your hard work. That poor girl. She's putting a lot of hours on this. Understatement. All right. They were the pecans culture around the time. In a good way? All right. We're going to take 14 A and B together. 14 A is a perfect way. We're going to take 14 A and B together. 14 A is a perfect in a good way. All right, we're going to take 14 A and B together. 14 A is approval of the 2017-2018 Interlocal Corporation Regents for Ambulance Services between Denton County and all these jurisdictions listed. 14 B is approval of 2017-2018 Interlocal Corporation Reguments for a fire protection services between Denton County and the jurisdictions as listed do we have a motion Motion by Commissioner Eads Seconded by Commissioner Coleman very no questions all in favor. Please say aye aye Posting a motion does carry 15 is executive session under Texas government code 551.087. Yeah, we took those together. This is under 15A degeneration regarding economic development negotiations, close meeting to liberate the offer of a financial other incentive to a business prospect regarding commercial or financial information that the governmental body has received from a business prospect that the governmental body seeks to have locate, stay, extend, expand, enter near the territory of the governmental body located and didn't kind of commission or precinct for, and with which the governmental body is conducting economic development negotiations with that we are an executive session. Commissioners, court is reconvened from an executive session. There'll be no action on 15A today. So with that, we're adjourned. Everybody have a great day.