This morning, an invocation is beginning by Matt Richardson, director of our health department and our pledges will be led by Len Yergen. Will you please stand? Is the light on on the microphone? Okay. Yes. Let's pray. Our father, we come to you this morning thanking you for a great day. We thank you for the day that you've made. We thank you that we get to come and serve others. In our capacity, Father, I thank you for this court. I thank you for their leadership and their wisdom. Father, we come to you today asking your blessing and we ask for you to impart wisdom upon them when it comes to the budget of our county. We have these decisions in front of us, Father, and we just asked that those decisions be guided by you and your presence. Father, we come to you thankful that we can petition you for strength and for wisdom. We're thankful for all that you provide to us in our lives, all of the gracious gifts that you give. The Father, we thank you for our families, friends, neighbors. We thank you for a wonderful place to live, work, and play. But Father, most of all this morning, we're so thankful for the sacrifice of your son. His example for us, teaching us how to live, teaching us how to love others. And Father, it's through that sacrifice that we ask for guidance in our lives, and we thank you for the life of your son, Jesus. And it's through his name, we pray to you today. Amen. Amen. Please join me in pledge to the American flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic, which is thanks for one nation, under God, in this individual, with liberty and justice for all. And now the Texas line. Under the Texas line, I pledge allegiance to the Texas one more day under God, one more and indivisible. OK, thank you very much. Item one is for public input for items not posted in the agenda. If there's any member of the public that would like to address commissioner's court, we ask that you please complete a public comment farm available on the side table. I want to remind everyone please turn off cell phones, pages and electronic device that might be disruptive. The first public comment form I have this morning is from Paxton Swisher. Paxton, good morning. You have three minutes, sir. Good morning. Thank you. Coming here, again, in support of either moving the Confederate statue on the square into the museum or putting up other statues representing other cultures. There's an article out in the didn't record Chronicle a few days ago following the really powerful speech game by the woman here. We could go on the sidewalk that surrounds the courthouse and the plants to replace that. Now, according to the record, Chronicle article, which I can't remember the name of the journalist who wrote it, apologized, but he said that it's, I'm not sure if it's been officially stated, but the progress is being made toward that goal. It really seems like it would be a great opportunity to also check with the Texas Historical Commission to move the statute as well, because you already have to check with them about, as I understand, changing a sidewalk. So hopefully this could be like a two birds one stone. And just to put a button on it, the artwork that's on this, this is really fantastic artwork. It's a really great, like a little render ofen, and it kind of shows the courthouse. And it's, you know, in my view, it would be nice just to have that kind of one thing that's kind of marring it from the outside, put into a place where it can be given its proper context. So thank you. The second public comment format has, Mr. Willie Hutzbeth. Good morning, Mr. Hutzbeth. Comment for my house to Mr. Willie Hutzbeth. Good morning, Mr. Hutzbeth. And his Willie Hutzbeth. I'll have a 623 Newton. It's okay, Willie. I'll give you your three minutes. Thank you. Give me a thumbs up, a thumbs down, or fierce or something. Pakistan is going to be our future. It's a young man. I think he's going to govern the way I think government should be ran. He's going to listen. He's going to evaluate. And then he's going to vote openly in front of the community and communicate why he's voting the way he's voting. Now when it comes to the commissioners, what I've found again is some of you should work at what God has shown me, I should work at. And I'm finding that this pointing at the finger thing is not good You you know you point your finger in this forum three-on-point back at you So let me say about me what I've learned is I've got to listen to other people and just evaluate what they say But listen openly and that's what I've done with you. I talked to you. So now I know things. So I think you ought to work together more. But that said, I want you all to consider the issues that I've been raising. And I know I asked you this all the time, so I'm going to ask you again. The statute out front now, the compromise to appease everyone instead of just taking it down and making some unhappy about it or leaving it up, continue to leave it up and making some unhappy about that. The compromise would be leave it up if that's what some wants, but then add to it some other history, put some other history out there. Some that I would be proud to walk around. I would be proud to walk around. I would be proud to take a photograph with. It's something that some other my supporters said that you notice that none of the commissioners take a picture with that statue out front. And I've been to go under, well if you think it's such a, it's okay. Why don't you take pictures with it? Right there by it and show yourself to be proud of that situation. I don't know that was just a question that raised to me. The other two issues is meet at night. Now talk to each several of you about why you don't do that. I still say meet at night. There are some people who will come up here and talk to you even though you have some other commitments that you could make. We all have commitments that we'd like to make but we have to choose. So I'm saying, need at night so people can come up here and voice their opinions. Those of us who work all day. And the last issue is, put the water on. It used to be be on and I think the water should be turned back on. It was turned when it was all on and one race could drink from those fountains. Now we all have been freed and we are enjoying freedom like we should. Turn the water back on so that all of us can share in that. Thank you. Members, in consideration of our guest time, I'm going to first go to item 6B on the agenda. 6B is approval of award of RFP 01172402, delinquent tax attorney and collection of delinquent court fines to joint proposal from the Currieves of the South of Bragg and Allen PC and Salkon Burrows PC is recommended by the evaluation committee. We'll call them back. Good morning. The county did receive two proposals in response to this RFP. The evaluation committee scored them independently. Then we met and talked about the interview process. Came up with the list of information we would like to discuss further. And then we scheduled those meetings on July 10th. At that time, the committee then took the evaluations and rescored them based on the additional information that we received. So we are recommending the award to Macriere, the Selkie-Brag and Allen and Sacco and Burles based on the evaluation criteria that was in the RFP. The firms together presented the best overall qualifications and experience, like fully described their approach to collecting the taxes they had a methodology in place that worked well. And then they also had some innovative approaches to collecting for unclaimed bankruptcy funds and condemnations that would benefit the county and the long run. So the committee is recommending the ward and I would like to commend the committee. There's a lot of work that went into this and developing specs and also the evaluation process and the time and dedication. Michelle French, our tax assessor, Becky Kerbo, just as of the piece, precinct three. Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances any questions. All right. There are any questions and members of court. I hear no questions. Did you all wish to say anything Mark? It's not like you did not have something to say. It's a dangerous thing to ask. Come on up to the microphone please. Brief word. Very much appreciate the process that y'all went through. It's very detailed. There's a lot of additional questions that honed in on very specific subject matter. And we're very proud to link up with, we're Query Fistuckle-Bragon, Alan, Mike, our firm. And we've historically represented most of all the taxing entities in the county anyway, inclusive of the county and I think it will, the joint venture will be a real net benefit to the taxpayers themselves, getting single bills and such where in the past, they've been getting multiple and it gets sometimes computing and frustrating for folks. And I think this will net out the best for all concern. And I very much appreciate the opportunity to come before you. All right, well we have Go Brigha with us this morning too. Good morning, Gilm. Good morning, Judge. Members of the Court Committee, I wanted to take the opportunity to express our thanks for the opportunity to present our proposal to the committee. As I told the committee, our proposal to the committee. As I told the committee, I started out in 1985 with myself and one lady and was tasked with the future of building a delinquent tax collection program for Denton County. And over the years, I've added more staff in the office. We have four ladies over there now. I have two partners from Austin that work with me. And in this most recent venture, we've added Mark Burr's and Greg Soko to our team. And the future is bright. And we thank you very much for the confidence expressed in us this morning. Thank you, Jerry. Appreciate y'all being here this morning. You have a great track record of doing a great job for Denton County. I talked to Judge Kerbo after y'all were done and she told me she learned a lot. It was an interesting process for everybody. All right, well, Chair is gonna make her a motion for approval. Seconded by Commissioner Marchant. Here are your questions on favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Posting in motion is carried. Thank you all for being here today. Appreciate it. Okay, members, item two is the consent agenda. Are the items on the consent agenda that you need to have some discussion on or do we have a motion? The motion for approval by Commissioner Mitchell. Seconded by Commissioner Marchand. Hearing no questions all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Motion is carried. Consent agenda today consists of two a, which is approval of the order making appointments. We have a promotion in the purchasing department. We have a promotion in a new hire in the tax office. We have two promotions in the county jail, three new hires in the county jail. A new hire for the sheriff and one promotion in road bridge east. 2B is a provola intro departmental transfers. 2C is a provola budget amendment request 101 590 for printed material and law and reference books. Per criminal district attorney in the amount of $4,000. And 2D is a prov the budget management request, 101-6000 for computer equipment for criminal district attorney, Treasury purchases in the amount of $2,000. This is for recording purposes only. 5A is approval of the bill report payments from CSCD, community corrections, TAIPS shares, training shares for a future. TIT interest in DA4, for sure funds are allfeiture, TIT, Interest, and DA4. Forfeiture funds are presented for recording purposes. Only good morning, James Wells. Good morning, judges and commissioners. I'd ask approval of the bills as presented. Taking note of five deletions that need to have some be reprocessed. And then three additions, one of which is sales tax. And another is actually distribution of grant funds to the subrecipient agency. And then take note of the travel city bank peak hard payment, which does have all the detail is attached to that too, because that's a large payment that has a lot of details you can see that actually means that's all the corrections I have. Do you have any questions? May I be recorded? Do we have a motion? To move. Motion by Commissioner Marchin. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Posting. Motion to carry. 6A is approved of report on proceeds from surplus online auctions. This is number 05172422 held May 2017. We'll call them Beth again. This is just a report on the proceeds. I would like to point out the efforts that go into an auction like this. Our staff is very busy coordinating the technology services. We actually do this on their site, but there's 200 lots here. And if you take a chance to look at what's in those lots and how we do that, we would cover 40,000 which is significant, but the work that goes in is really appreciated from both departments. All right. We need a motion. Motion by Commissioner Eid. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. Hearing no questions on the favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed,聲ee. Motion is carried. Seven a is approval of budget of mental quest. One of one five eight zero for court appointed attorneys, including the transfer of funds from non-departmental and appropriated court order contingency for county criminal court number four in the amount of $95,000. Motion by Commissioner Marchant. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. That time of year again, we're going to be transparent. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Posting, aye. Motion to carry. 7B is to approve appointing the tax assessor collector to calculate and publish the effective enrollment tax rates for a dent county for tax year 2017. This is required in the tax code that we officially appoint our tax assessor so the chair is going to move for approval. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. Hearing no questions on favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Motion does carry. We've got this posted for 10 o'clock for the presentation. I guess we need to wait till 10 o'clock, don't we? Okay, 10 a is approval of the request to hold the public hearing on August 22, 2017 at 9AM for the replat of Hawk Road State's edition. This is Lott's 5A 1 and 5A 2 block A. This is 6.5 acres commissioner precinct 4. Motion by Commissioner Eads, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. On favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye, Opposed, aye, aye. Motion is carried. 10B is approval, change order number 10 for credit and the amount of $22,000, $8. For the DEMC kind of government center first go to close out the contingency allowance. Motion by Commissioner Marchin. Motion by Commissioner Marchin. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. Hearing the questions all in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed to the name. Motion is carried. In 10c is approved of change order number 7 for the Dayton County Southwest Courthouse. This is no dollars. It's for a time extension requesting 83 calendar days. Motion by Commissioner Eads, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye, Poussiné. Motion does carry. Anybody that missed the opening, you missed a good time. It's a beautiful facility. If you haven't seen it, go see it. Okay, 12 a is approval of the First Amendment to the Under Local Corporation Agreement for shared governance communications between the City of Lilliam Fire Department and the police department and Dent County for the 2016-2017 fiscal year. Motion by Commissioner Marchand. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. All in favor, please say aye. Aye, pose aye. Motion does carry. 13 a is acceptance of the 2017 X official road commissioner precinct one road and bridge in compliance with the requirements of the Texas Transportation Code 252.006 and 251.005. Vote for approval. Motion by Commissioner Marchin, seconded by Commissioner Eads. I'll in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye, pose in aye. Motion is carried. Okay. This is in a long list of tax collection agreements. 14A, 14B, 14C, 14D, and 14 E are all interlocal agreements for tax collection. Are you read it 100 this year? Is that what I heard? You're over 100 hundred and what? With the inclusion of some new pids we believe we're going to be right at 104. Okay. Well, let's see here. We have Hickory Creek, number one public improvement district. Hickory Creek, number two public improvement district. Hickory Creek, one safety servicesID, Public Improvement District, Hickory Creek number 1, Roadway Maintenance, another PID. 14B is between Denton County and City of Clark, Lake Dallas, ISD, City of Shea Shores, town of Dish, Little Elm, ISD, town of Hickory Creek, 14C is town of Crossroads for collection of special assistance levied by the Crossroads Public Concertment District and 14D is Sanger ISD, Argo ISD, Ponder ISD, Town of Flower Man, Pilot Point ISD, Argo ISD, Ponder ISD, Town of Flower Mound, pilot point ISD, Trophic Club Municipal Utility District number one, and 14E is between Denton County, Town of Flower Mound for what collection of special assessments levied by Grr, River Waltk Public Improvement District number one for texture of 2017, and all of these are as recommended by the Denton County Tax Assessor the commission. The chair is going to move for a 14-ABC D&E. Seconded by commission or eeds. I would favor please say aye. I posted a name. Motion does carry. Well, we do have the presentation of the budget, but it's posted for 10 o'clock. And I believe we need to wait till 10 o'clock to take that up, correct John? Okay, so we're going to be in recess until 10 o'clock. Okay. I'm sorry. the Commission's Court is reconvened under item 7c. It's a presentation of the 2018 recommended budget. Donna, you're on. Good morning, Judge and commissioners. This is a day I always look forward to. Like I've said before, I'm finished with the hard work on my end, and now it's passed over to y'all to peruse and make whatever changes that you would like to make. I think by the time we're in, we end this today, I think you'll feel really good about the budget. I promise. Cross my heart. So let's just start off with a quick review of the process. We did the picture. Actually, John had a friend, she gave her a picture and she had a friend that actually drew that and she has a big painting in her office and so she decided to share that with us for the cover this year so I think it's awesome we've gotten tons of compliments it's kind of whimsical and fun so it's different than what we whoever did it credit yeah I think we've given her credit on all the covers will give her credit to to that process. That's great. Okay. Okay. As you know, the budget process starts for us in the budget office in January. If I can, here we go. This is when we start our work of getting everything ready and everybody gets their fun packet thinking, didn't we just finish budget and the answer is yes but in February we have our budget kickoff meeting with the Commissioner's Court where we get direction from you and you provide us with what your goals are and what you'd like to see in this budget. During March and April departments complete their budget request submit those to us and then during the months of May and June, our office works hard on preparing a recommended budget for you guys. And here we are today where we're presenting that recommended budget. We'll start off a little bit just about what departments had requested. There's some information in your packet. We won't go over the details today, but on page S13 through 21, budget request total $293 million this year, which is an increase of $27.2 million. That would require a tax rate of 0.242038. Just as a reminder, our current rate is 0.248409. It would require a 3.43% tax rate increase. There were total of 32.25 new positions requested this year. One in human resources. Three for technology services. One department of public works, requests from the Office of History and Culture to go from part time to full time. Pro-Bate Court, two positions, Crown E. Cremac Court number three, point five positions. District Clerk one, JP five1, death investigations 1, criminal district attorney 2.5, facilities management 3, Sheriff's Department 7, Denton ISD School Resource Officer 1, Copper Canyon Interlocal 1, Constable precinct 3, and 6, each ask for 1, emergency the same. The same. The same. The same. The same. The same. The same. The same. The same. The same. The same. The same. The same. The same. The same. The same. The same. The same. of our budget by fund. You'll see that the majority of our budget of course is tracked in general fund, totaling about $171.3 million. And the recommended budget that we'll be presenting today is a total of $290.4 million. Sorry. The recommended budget totals are included in your packet on page S22 through S29. This gives you some history by department with their total budget. Gives current budget status by department. Again, I mentioned what the recommended budget is being proposed at. We reduced department requests by $2.5 million. We are proposing an increase of $24.8 million above current budget. Don't fly out of your chairs. It's going to be good, I promise. We have detailed budget by line item starting on page one behind the recommended tab. So there's where you'll see each department's budget and all their particular line items listed out specifically. There's a on page S, the end of that. You'll see there's what we refer to as a summary of tax levies and projected fund balances. It includes again, a breakdown by fund. It shows you where we think we're going to start the budget year with with our fund balance and where we're going to end. It also gives you a snapshot of our non-tax revenue totals as well as the taxes we're living for those funds that apply. Expinder true totals are listed as well. And then the tax rate information is included. As you know, we don't have final numbers at this point in the process, but James and I work real hard and with the help of the tax assessor collectors, obviously specifically Stacey. DeVore check, we've been getting updates from them. We click, we get updates from the appraisal district as well. So what we are estimating the effective tax rate to be, keep your fingers crossed because maybe next week we'll have that number, is .234. Again, that's the tax rate that will generate the same tax revenue on existing property as in the prior years. We are proposing a tax rate of 0.239132. Again compared to the current rate 0.248409, you can see that's still reducing the tax rate by almost a penny. So there's that number shown there. So we're proposing a 2.19337 percent increase above the effective rate that is to pay for the recently approved voter debt and tax notes. We're estimating our ending fund balance for all funds to be about $68.3 million. So we can't prepare a budget without having revenue estimates from our county auditor. So at this point, I'm gonna turn it over to him and he's gonna give a quick recap of his analysis for all our various revenue sources. Judge and commissioners, the commissioner's court has great discretion and leeway on the expenditure side of the budget. You don't really have a lot on the revenue side other than the tax rate. And as often happens, the taxes we need become the plug figure with all the other revenue. The good news is this is a strong, we're seeing strong growth in revenue. Obviously, property taxes make up the large bulk of our revenue about 65 to 70% that is in line with other. County governments in Texas of our size, if not a smaller percentage. Key thing this year is we're seeing fantastic tax-based growth. And I don't mean, and I mean don't mean fantastic, just high increases in existing property, which actually is we all know does not give the county any extra amount money because of effective tax rate rules, truth and taxation rules, but we are seeing, we will see record, all time record, growth in our tax base in new construction, possibly 30%, 32% more than the last year. Pre-recession in the late 2008, we had the county hit growth, new property growth, which really does fuel our budget of 2 billion a year. And that gives the county a lot of revenue to match the growth in our business with the growth in the county. Post-recession we got dropped back down to about 600 million more than two-thirds dropped. Took several years to build back up to the pre-recession level. Last two years we've been close to three billion. This year's total new revenue is very close to four billion. We're almost double our pre-recession limit and the pre-recession or max was fine for the county. So the tax-based growth gives us an excellent new revenue stream. Again, it allows us to do things like Donner's Expo, just mentioned actually lower the tax rate by almost 4%, barely exceed the effect of writing and still have lots of new revenue. That and then the other point with taxes that just timely points since you've just awarded the bid today on collections. Our fiscal year collections have always been strong. We're already by the end of actually April, we were at 98.64% of the collections of the current levy. You know, they didn't leave a lot left. We will continue to collect before years over will be well over ninety nine percent up to ninety nine and a half by year in. But a couple just a strong economy and a good program allows people to pay with a strong delinquent program. It's been in place many years and we will get it. We get over nearly a million and a half to $2 billion, $2 million collections from the delinquent role. And remember, that's a role that's close to non-existent. Well, it means that the end of any year, very little tax revenue is being left on the tape. Our current, our delinquent role is overall delinquent role is overall the link role is really small. What you're saying is the delinquent, cumulative delinquent role gets harder and harder to collect every year. It does but we still do so. And and and and is that means that again the whole idea of property taxation it is. Taxes are fairly assessed against the citizens of our county and the property owners that's to find our government and also means we're not even 5% of that on the table that forces people like all of us. I mean homeowners and stuff to to bear a large burden. It is as fairly distributed as it possibly can be, and everybody's doing their share, based on the program we have people do their share. So, and so that will total revenue from new construction will be about additional revenue, will be about nine million dollars. Our tax role, because of the process with taxes, that people, there's always a large number of people that, and individuals and entities that protest their taxes. We've actually, we'll have about two and a half million more revenue based on the outcome of those protest, where again, that's always at the lowest value. So we have a lot of extra revenue coming in pending and we're now what? Ten days, ten days or less than about a week, actually a week from the final row. The numbers are not going to change a whole lot from we are. So tax revenue is very strong. Again a part of that will go to the new taxes on our debt. All the point out that our debt will be the new taxes, the new taxes for debt will be decreased already by the excellent sale we had, about $10,000 less. Our refunding that we completed about a week ago will actually lower that about another $600,000 because we saved right at 9.3 million on the refunding which we'll report on that later. So actually that we even have another piece of better news next week for that. So that's the tax portion of debt of revenue. And you've got a full report starting on page S4 in your bigger book, the full revenue report that gives you some, you're by your information, some growth percentages if you care to look at that. Equally important to the county and all local governments particularly as this special session I think just started today, we're seeing also growth in non-tax revenue. Considered, we think about two and a half million growth in non-tax revenue is included in the next year's budget. That's important because it, well, it takes a burden off tax payers, property tax payers, it also justify, we have other revenues that come in like the administration fees of office those all show those increased because there's more work being done in the county there's more more filings there's more at all levels of courts there are more health inspections and more property inspections more cars being registered you You can have about 600,000 of those. And that just fasts why our budget grows because the job gets bigger every year. So, the motor vehicle registration is a big part. The $10 fee that is locally assessed, that is one of the optional things county does't we've done it for a long time where It's growing some it slowed a little bit, but It all of course it all is a major funding for road bridge now the additional revenue for older registration Which now goes again about nearly five million It's grown this year, but from all indications, may flatten out as for the last year, nationally, vehicle sales are slowing down, are slowing down. Various reasons. I think when you pay as much as you have to for a new car, people are keeping them a little longer these days. So that's still going to flatten out a little bit, but those are both significant sources of revenue for the county. We've owned to intergovernmental revenues. There is a wide variety of those. Some of those, I think some of those are statutory. They're just money that we get and some of those continue to rise. Again, some of them are functions of the population in the county and those rise. And we are seeing an increase there at the end of the presentation. A small increase there. The small increase there. Yeah, I say actually about 65,000. Some of those things also are functions of court activity like the Infants Grant. They're a function of the interest rate like the unreinversed health care grant, or we call the baccala settlement. Those are stable, and those will start rising too. So the integral mental revenue is a pretty decent source of revenue. It's pretty much stable, but the future looks good for that. The real one that's a nice showing nice growth is fees of office, which again are, you know, our elected officials can't go out. They don't generate extra money coming in by just advertising. It's just always a reflection of work they're doing. And fees are actually increasing in this next year's budget by million dollars. Those are centers in the big offices that you think a lot of way the clerks public health records management records archive and those are just activity based but again that's again that's another good source of revenue and it's nice, the growth in that besides funding our budget also, I think, would demonstrate anybody that cared to look that our budget is growing because the workload's growing. So I think that's the number one thing I was would stress. We're not just sitting around here raising taxes for the fund of it. There's bonafight. You can look at our budget and you see evidence after evidence of more work being done because, of it. There's bonafide. You can look at our budget and you see evidence after evidence of more work being done because by thinking about the monies, the monies from these things hit our table, hit our treasury. You cannot dispute that the work has been done to go with them because we can't change their rates on any of those. So that's fees, very good sign. Finds is one area is cord activity that is flattening out. Some will show a small increase. There are a lot of factors going into the flattening of cord revenue activity in the cord, also the demeanor of the entire criminal justice system actually really going all the way to the federal government and down. So a lot a lot of emphasis now on and so a lot of bills I don't know that any of them pass or bills filed to give judges either more leeway to dismiss fines or actually having portion of them to under certain situations if the defendant has a certain financial situations and meeting all of the other factors about the conviction or about probation that actually forcing fine collection and stuff actually is becoming harder and harder and it's not seen as a, in the overall scheme of things, it'd be as conducive to criminal justice and rehabilitation as it might be. So that's an area that's flattened. It's still a really, it's a significant source of revenue. 3.1 million, it is down from peak years though. So, go on with that. And we'll go on to interest. Think about interest, we are getting about a half a million. We've put about a half a million more of investment or an interest income into this year's budget. We probably had about that much in 2017. There'll be about that much in 2018. We are finally because of interest rate increase that are very minimal, but when you're making almost nothing, when they raise it by 25 points, basis points, it's actually a lot. So we're getting about half a million more. It's up to 1.2 million. I would stress that that is what far, far removed from pre-recession levels. We would about $6 million in investment, actually investing a much smaller amount of money a decade ago. So again, I think from a management point of view and a leadership point of view from the, I get to the Kissed Missioners Court, again, the critics of county finances need to be reminded that this, we bled out $6 million of revenue because of federal policy. And we didn't lose any workload and irresponsibility didn't go out with it. You know, every office still had to do it as we see an increasing workload and we had to replace that $6 million of interest with some other source of revenue. James, when do you think that, when was that swing, when was the peak of that six million, what do you think? When was it? The peak of it? Yeah, that's six million. Was that like, it was 2008, 2000 years. I was 10 years we've had absorbed that. Yeah, we saw one year rates, rates on one year investments over 5%. But actually that's, I mean, 4% to 5% for one year is the historical norm. You know, we've gone a decade with, I mean, we're going back to pre-grade depression rates. You know, I mean, there's the Iroh back in the, I think even before Donna or I were probably in the county finance, there was an Iroh when, you know, cash management, in the 50s and 60s, cash management, investments, or just an effort thought, you know, actually governments didn't have much extra money and you couldn't make any. When I started, I don't remember when Donna started myself. Thank you for about 50 years ago. No, it went quite that long ago. No, I didn't serve in forward, too. But no, when I started cash management and investments where I really actually a new idea that was taught when I started, because when I started with the county, the fixed rate on one year CDs was 15%. But the, conversely, the prime interest rate was 18%. And when you're more than just 15% when I started here, but all of a sudden, this monumental idea that, hey, if you actually get your cash working, you can make a lot of money. Now, that was an abnormal time. It quickly went back down. And 45% of one-year investments is what we would we would agree to expect and be very happy with but we're at 1.25 percent we barely just got over 1 percent now after 10 years. So yeah any person interested in our and even our budget really the facts behind our budget that you remember and this goes for every city every county to some degree we've all spent a decade with just a prime revenue source just pulled out from Honduras six million dollars and it went back when it did go out about three years six million dollars and our budget still is hard to replace when it goes in a year because you know you. Because you don't have the freedom just to raise taxes that much for most places. So that's a better sign. There is the Federal Reserve is going to move. Repeated leaps since a message they are on the path to raise rates again, but it's going to be slow. We have had three 25 basis point increases in the last year plus there are most people expect two more this year. So that could get us actually up to 1.75 maybe over one and a half. So it's a long way back to three or four percent. And I don't know when we'll see that because so much, you know, actually so much other governmental debt is that that does particularly the federal government, you know, they have a terrific amount of debt that's been sold for 1 percent, 2 percent, you know, treasury bonds and bills. To raise that back up to 4 percent% that's a big shocker their system too. So anyway, almost an area where the interest is got a long way to go but it's another very positive sign to get a half a million years of positive, very positive sign. You can go on to the miscellaneous revenues which are almost a misnownware because they're not sometimes miscellaneous. We have some items that don't fit in the normal county mold like bond forfeatures, inmate foam fees, the criminal forfeiture accounts. We're actually seeing an increase of 400,000 there. So overall, the revenue picture is good. For the administrative level, another one thing is tax base is growing. The tax collection program, things to our tax collector and their staff. And the contracting for the other parts of it is about as strong as it could be. So, me, and which means we get every of that 23 and a half percent levy, maybe proposed, or county will get almost every dollar out of that. So, that's it. Oh, oh, we need to do fund balance. It's not yet. Okay. We need to do fund balance. It's not yet. Okay, we'll talk about fund balance real quickly. Donna has already mentioned that the projected ending fund balance for the budget as a whole is 68 million. Now that is a lot of money, but I agree. Remember the budget itself is 300 million. So we're at about 20% A very prudent level not It's not a mount that's You know, it's just not overly overly cautious amount we have it but and also we put a lot of that fun balance to use through the capital replacement fund our policy budget mission is very similar to recent years. We've budgeted a draw down of about 10.3 million in the general fund. That includes a $6 million transfer to the capital replacement fund. The projecting ending fund balance for all funds would be should be exceeded because in a normal year we spend about 95% of our expenditure budget. We collect about 102% of the revenue budget and again at the size of our budget that's more than enough to make up that swing. We haven't actually and right now we're almost like managing the general fund balance. Not letting it, we don't need it to go much more, we want to control it and put it to use in a real prudent way and that's what we're doing. And again, the main thing with our reserve funds, the fall we have a cash flow lag because taxes haven't come in, we have to have operating cash. That's poor sum of this fund balance comes to play. Plus, you never know what's going to happen tomorrow. You don't know tornado season, hurricane season, flood season, we've seen all of those things. So again, fund balance reserves, their sound amount, they're not an overly large amount, but also, and again, it's all this part, it's very consistent with the way we craft a budget and that's actually a management thing too, keeping that fund balance wherever we want it. Okay, got it? All right. Next slide is just a recap of everything he's covered. Just don't go over that detail. The now it's time to get to the expenditure side of the budget, which is where I come in. Dead service payments are included in this budget of $5.9 million. The taxes that we're increasing for debt service only total $5.3 million. So we are absorbing some of that debt with some of our new money and not just raising the rate by the full amount. We have included salary and benefit increases that are equivalent to a 5% raise for employees. That amount is 5.4 million. It also includes $225,000, including that for our visiting judges and our election judges. So we also have a large expense and next year's budget, which is parking lot repairs. This was part of the master study that was recently approved where we're going to expand the parking area at the courts building. This will be funded the design in this year's budget and the construction of course in next year's budget. So again, we're doing that with capital replacement funds next year. We are recommending 23.25 new positions and we'll get into the details of that here shortly, but that totals $2.2 million. We have an increase in transfers and as James mentioned, we're moving money to the capital replacement fund as you may recall last year. We transferred four million this year. We're transferring six million. We have $1.8 million for the outdoor area of the Loop Phase 3 project. Again that's funded with capital replacement funds. We are anticipating the county paid portion for employee health insurance to increase this year with an impact of $1.7 million. Just to clarify the current amount that we budget per employee per year is $13,643. And we're proposing that that amount go to $14,500. That's keeping the same percentages as far as our participation. Yes, and we'll be back to the core at a later date with some options. Okay. I think for you to make that determination, but what a great benefit you guys provide to our county employees. That is a good stuff. And I look that up. Well, ago, I think it's $24.6 million of our budget. That's huge and I for one appreciate that and I know all employees do. Employee market adjustments and reclassifications are included. We'll have the details on follow-up slide for about a million dollars. Road projects in the Capital Replacement Fund, we've increased that. We put one million dollars in there last year. We've put $2 million in their this year. So we have a total of two. We're also have funds to renovate the old law library portion of the courts building for a new court that will become effective next budget year in January of 2019. As you know know there were some deferred hires this year some of those were related to adding the new buildings that are just now coming on board either in Frisco or in Flower Mound. So with that comes a little bit of an impact for next year's budget. We also the court added four positions to the elections department. We upgraded a position in mid-year for death investigations where we took that position from part time to full time. And then we also had six juvenile detention officers that had appropriated higher dates. So that impact is about $816,000 to this budget. Capital Equipment's up about $671,000 this year. That's primarily for road maintenance equipment, about $500,000. Vehicles, we had more requests this year for vehicles, so that's up $443,000. But then we had some decreases as well for some major facility items that were included in last year's budget. Computers in software, this is one of our largest years. We were experiencing for replacement computers. A total is about a $580,000 increase. a total is about a $580,000 increase. We are proposing that the fire call rate increase this next year from $525 to $550 per call. What we're seeing with this is about we're projecting that the runs are going to increase. As you all see that every year, we tend to have to do a budget amendment towards the end of the year. This year we've seen even a greater number. So not only are we raising the per call rate, we're having to raise it because our calls are up as well. So that impact is $314,000. There is a small increase for ambulance funding for a total of $30,000. There is a small increase for ambulance funding for a total of $30,000. And that's really just to keep the funding formula we have now in place so that those entities don't lose anything with regard to the credit they get for the rural area they cover and the population. Missillating is court expenses are up to $81,000. That's primarily for some of our drug court expenses that we've added to the budget as well as some of the mental health, that specialized court for mental health about $41,000. We have some other slight increases for substitute court reporters, interpreters, and so on. We were notified during this process that we're anticipating a rather large capital murder case at the county for next year, with a prostag of anywhere from 200 to $250,000 for just that one case. So we have built that money into contingency and we will allocate those funds if that comes to fruition. In appropriations, we're looking at a $211,000 increase. We were able to recommend an increase for NMHMR funding of $149,820. The hospital days have increased from 2014 to $209,000 to over $530,000 just this last year. So we were happy to be able to recommend an increase for MHMOR this year. Training and education is up about $100,000. That's primarily for the DA for Fitcher Fund. That's a fund that, of course, we have no control over, but the DA submits a budget to us during the process, and they've had a rather large increase included for training. Contract labor, $100,000 is included as an increase. That can be attributed to having a phone bank at the elections department during this next election. And also, as I mentioned with the replacement computers, you know, Kevin Hire's temporary to help with that. And because of that increase in number, we had to increase the contract labor to match that as well, so those could get installed as quickly as possible. Utilities are up about $96,000. That's primarily for the loop to 88 buildings. Social service agencies are up $73,000. Social service agencies are up $73,000. There's an increase in available funds from the interest earnings received from the tobacco settlement money, as well as the fees and interest for that account as well. So the committee has made a recommendation and we'll see that here in just a little bit of how that breaks down for each entity. There's a slight decrease in supplies and miscellaneous decrease in insurance expense of $33,000. That's primarily due to a decrease in our fleet liability insurance premiums. Prisoner expenses, project access funds were deleted from the health department budget this year to help offset some of the new hires that are included in the recommended budget. Professional services, that's primarily due to a decrease in the master plan study that we had budgeted last year. Gasoline, for several years we carried budgets at the higher level for gasoline. Just in case we saw another swing. That's leveled out so much. Plus, we have contingency funds. We took it upon ourselves this year to go ahead and reduce those budgets and all the various departments, including the sheriff, the constables, emergency management. To be a little bit more realistic based on their historical data. Contingency and miscellaneous funds are down about $2,000 or $9,000. That's primarily in the capital replacement fund contingency line. Rental expenses are down $489,000. the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of a lot of the work that we're going to do. We're going to be able to do a lot of work that we're going to do. We're going to be able to do a lot of work that we're going to do. We're going to be able to do a lot of work that we're going to do. We're going to be able to do a lot of work that we're looking at a savings of about $1.5 million. So now we'll touch on the new positions that we are recommending that the court consider voting on later during the workshops. In general administration we're recommending one for human resources, two for technology services. We're recommending the part-time position go full-time in the Office of History and Culture. We're recommending a part-time position for a probate court, a part-time position for County Criminal Court number three, one for District Clerk, one for Death death investigations, two for the criminal DA, three for facilities management, five for the sheriff's department, one for Constable three and six emergency services, one, two positions for Red and Bridge, one for each precinct, and then two for public health clinical. So to get into a little bit more detail about those, we also, by the way, the court last year did include some positions in contingency for the new facilities that have just come online. So rather than allocate those to those budgets again this year, we are recommending that they be retained in contingency. And as their workload increases, they'll have the ability to come to Commissioner's Court and make their case and release those positions to go back into their budget. So there's two for County Clerk, for Flower Mountain, Frisco. I did receive a call the other day with the recent tentative approval of the passport application for Flower Mountain. They may be coming back and asking for one of those positions during this budget year. they may be coming back and asking for one of those positions during this budget year. Tax office, there are two positions as well, one for Flower Mound and one for Frisco. Again, that will be based on the need as workload warrants. We have three new employees for new buildings. There's two maintenance repair specialists ones. Those cost approximately $100,000 each. Again, that's a little high this first year because we're having to buy vehicles for those positions. And then there's a contract administrator at $110,000 with a vehicle. And this is to help them monitor all the bids and the various contracts that they're responsible for. We have 16.75 new employees that can be attributed to workload. One in human resources is an HRIS administrator. The cost is about $92,000. This is based on workload and to help them manage and prepare reports from that new HR system that court recently purchased for them. I think they've run into some difficulty. They've asked for Kevin Carr's help so much that he doesn't take their calls anymore. Just kidding. But this will be somebody that they'll have in house that can generate their own reports and provide the court and others with whatever information you may need. Technology services have two positions, one is a software administrator at about $70,000. It's really for workload and administration and just compliance. There's a cyber security risk and compliance administrator at about $97,000 due to workload and increases in our network size. As you know, that just continues to grow as our business grows and it's just inevitable. Office of History and Culture I mentioned the tourism coordinator will go from 30 hours a week to 40 hours a week. So that's a small impact of $17,000 to our budget. Probec Court has included a senior paralegal at a part-time level of 20 hours a week. About $44,000 is the cost for that. The request was for full time, but when I met with the judge, we were able to agree that they might be able to handle that with a part time position. Again, it's workload for auditing, probate, and guardianship, which continues to increase in the county. One position for the district clerk is a senior clerk at about $72,000. This is to help with the efficiency of the courts, to have a clerk present in the court range to handle matters at that time. Death investigations, even though we included a part-time position in U-Upgrade at the full time, we feel very strongly that another medical investigator is necessary. So that's about a cost of $76,000. This additional staffing should also allow those employees to take some time off. They're already at the maximum of their level to where we're paying them for overtime pay. So we're hoping that with this additional position, they'll be able to have what they need to handle the on-call services. And as you know, unfortunately, as the county grows, the number of deaths due to and requires their attention. Criminal District Attorney, there's a felony prosecutor to A. This is for the mental health area. It's a cost of about $127,000. It's to have one prosecutor sign to handle the mental health docket. You may or may not know that right now there's a variety of prosecutors that have been helping with that court, and they feel like having one person that specializes in that will be more efficient and will help this well. There's a felony prosecutor one at a cost of about $138,000. This is primarily to comply with the Michael Morton Act and the Brady compliance process. This new law requires the prosecutors to produce all ex-copatory I can't ever say that word evidence before trial and to inventory and make copies of all that information to the defense. So that's been a big hit on that department and that is their number one priority. In the Sheriff's Department, there's a deputy sheriff position, I'm included to handle six of vendor registration. The cost of that is about $171,000. It's rather high because of the one time set up vehicle expenses and other equipment necessary. But there'll be the liaison to the six of vendor program currently, and administrative position handles that. And so they feel very strongly and we agreed that that should be handled by an officer, that those people have to report to versus a clerical position. Research crime analysts, we are recommending a transfer of that position from DPS. Cost is about $85,000. This is where they will analyze the crime stats and also help with the workload. We have included, DPS has three positions and you'll be hearing from them next week. We've asked them to appear before you and basically read justify themselves to the court. But we did go ahead and include this transfer, but we also included a lower level administrative specialist position. Something the court will have to make that determination on after you hear their presentation next week. Constable precinct three, we are recommending a deputy constable. Cost is about $138,000. Their workload numbers are significantly more than some of the other departments, as well as the same for Constable 6. There was a point in time where I was considering recommending eliminating a position from Constable Precinct IV, but I submitted information to them and asked them if they had a position from Constable Precinct IV, but I submitted information to them and asked them if they had a position that becomes vacant over the next year that they leave that position vacant and let us look at the stats again before they fill it. I have yet to hear from Constable Burgie if he's willing to do that. I emergency services. We have an emergency management officer too. This is I think the second or third year. Jody's requested the volunteer coordinator position. This is cost about $61,000, but this person will coordinate over 500 volunteers and it's currently handled by a volunteer and paid position. Unpaid. Redden Bridge precinct one has a lead mechanic position at a cost of about $70,000 just due to workload. Same for Redden Bridge precinct four, driver equipment operator three at $60,000 due to workload. Public health clinical includes two positions. They are both called program coordinators. One is a PIO or recruiter of programs that are cost of about $76,000. And one is for the STISTD program and will also pursue grant funding opportunities. That position's going to cost about $76,000. We do have some positions included in the budget based on some expiring grant or contracts. County criminal court number three, as you know, has a veterans court program. The veterans, the governor's grant was not awarded this year. This budget previously funded half of a position, and we're asking if the county go ahead and pick that up. There was a point in time where the county did fully fund that position, and when the grant funding became available, we switched that, so unfortunately, this time, we need to just change that and keep that back in. It's about a $50,000 impact. In the Sheriff's Department there are some expiring law enforcement contracts so they will get those, we're proposing that they retain those positions that will be assigned to patrol but that comes from the elimination of the fresh water providence contract as well as the vehicle submission grant. That cost for those positions are about range between 73 and $85,000 each because they all have varying time with the county. Pardon me? time with the county. Pardon me. Story done. On the providence. He's asking it on Providence. They decided to go with another entity to handle their rather than using the Sheriff's Department. They've contracted with another police department to do that. We are proposing to keep those and just add to our patrol staff. Sowing revisions, title changes. We have 489 that were requested and we are recommending 470 of those. There's detailed information on page S51 through S55 of your packet, but we'll kind of touch on these a little bit in groups here We had 10 job job title changes recommended Departments requested 31 reclassifications HRs recommending 14 of those And there were no equity adjustments recommended, even though two were requested. We have what we are referring to employee market reclassifications, including in this budget, 445 are recommended. As you know, we have a significant problem, retaining employees in the county jail. So we are proposing that 329 all DO1s in the county jail receive that market reclassification and be increased by one pay grade. We have two DO1 crewmen in road bridge 1 as well as two in precinct 4 that would receive that same increase. We have 78 juvenile supervision officers that guard our juveniles. And let me back up the cost on the county jail. The DO's is about $712,000 and the cost for the Red and Bridge was about $9,500. Juvenile officers total of 78 will increase our budget about $165,000. HR found that we had a group of employees that needed to be reviewed. They were significantly below market as well. Those were the administrative manager positions. There's 24 of those. And various departments departments countywide The impacts about 68,000 Fix mechanic welders and red and bridge precinct Not sure which precincts and two diesel mechanics total about 19,000 dollars $19,000. And then there are two assistant directors, one in human resources and county auditor that they're recommending at a cost of about $12,000. We do have one market salary adjustment that they're recommending and that's for the chief deputy at the Texas sister collectors office. And we do have one slot that was deleted at the request of the department. That's the criminal district attorney hot check division. It's an administrative specialist. It's actually part time that they've requested to be eliminated is vacant at this time. There's information in your packet too that gives you a 10 year history by the Department of the number of positions they've had for each of those years. If you need to reference that at any point when you're looking at new hires. Breakdown of county services just real quickly includes mandated expenses of about $166 million or 57% of our budget. Essential departments total about 93, 94 million or 32% and non-mandated would be about 30 million or 11% of our budget. There's a complete breakdown on Payjust 31 through 39, so you can see how we categorize those. Quickly, we have a list of our non-departmental contingency funds. We have $1.2 million in regular and appropriated contingency. $100,000 in vehicle repair contingency. As you know, we carry liability insurance, we are self-funded. So if there's a vehicle that's repaired, we are required. And it's our fault. We're required to pay that out of the budget. So sometimes departments don't have sufficient money. So we put some funds in contingency. Court ordered contingency, who's included about $2.3 million. What we do is we take what all of the judges have requested for court appointed attorneys, and we've included that number in the budget, but just not by court. Historically, those numbers fluctuate significantly. So when lieu of having higher budgets and them expanding less than was budgeted, it helps to have this so that we can transfer those funds to the budgets that may increase. Insurance contingencies included at $25,000 lawsuit settlement contingency at a hundred grant contingencies $675,000. This includes just a quick breakdown about $300,000 or so for public health grants. As you know, we don't budget the grants in the budget at this point until we get the contracts. So that would be the county portion that would need to be included. $192,000 is due to decrease in state aid funding from TJJD for our juvenile department. And then we have about $155,000 for miscellaneous, if a grant expires, the court would have some flexibility to keep that program in place. Utilities and gas, gasoline contingency, as I mentioned, I cut the budget by 200, but we've got contingency about that much as well. Our call contingency is at 200,000 out of County prisoner at 100. Homeless funding contingency. I really want to ensure if the court was interested in continuing that, but I kept it in the budget at this point and that's something we can talk about during the process. And we have personnel contingency for, again, those four positions I mentioned earlier for the new locations, as well as for some of our smaller departments that might have significant turnover and need some personnel money added to their budget 8 year end. So total contingencies in general fund are total about $5.3 million. Fixed car out summary. We have about $396,000 in the budget and it's primarily, there's a slight increase, but it's for the department, one department manager in County Clerk, assistant director of facilities, assistant chief deputy of the county jail was already approved mid year, but it does impact the sheriff's budget. Assistant purchasing director again that position was approved for car allowance mid year. And the economic development director carl ounce increased mid year. Again, a detailed report is on page s 63 through s 70. If you want to look at that in great detail. This is just a quick recap of our capital budget. Again, it totals almost $3.8 million. We've talked a little bit about most of this throughout the presentation. But again, we're replacing 40 vehicles this year. So that cost is $1.6 million. There's a K9 included in the budget at $16,500. That's being paid for with share for future funds. Again, we've got road equipment, heavy trucks, that includes a new asphalt distributor for precinct one and a new dump truck for precinct four. for precinct one and a new dump truck for precinct four and various operating equipment, radios, radars, etc. The vehicle assessment committee met and the meeting resulted in about $253,000 worth of savings. We reviewed a lot of information, a lot of detail about the condition, mileage and usage of the vehicle. We transferred vehicles within the county as we felt was appropriate. There were 43 replacements requested. We recommend in 35. Seven new vehicles were requested for new hire, Fiver included based on our recommendation. One surplus vehicle was requested. We actually allocate three surplus vehicles. So in lieu of giving some departments a new vehicle, we transferred surplus vehicles to them. And again, the recommended budget includes about $100,000 for vehicle repairs for self-funded insurance costs. The standardization of equipment stays the same as it was last year. And the price that is included is $48,000 for share of patrol vehicles, $44,000 for emergency services, $44,000 for Sheriff Patrol vehicles, 44,000 for emergency services, 44,000 for constables. Again, those are the process for a fully equipped vehicle. So that includes the sirens and all the lighting and those departments have a flexibility of ordering whatever packages they can get with that money. Other vehicles such as jail, mental health, for vans, and that sort of thing require a quote. Social Service Agency funding was requested at $419,000. The committee, the newly established committee that the court recently approved, reviewed those and they're recommending $335,000. Again, that's equal to the revenue projection that James has provided for 2018, which is an increase of $73,000 above the current funding. So that meant the requests were reduced by $84,000. And all agencies have been notified of the committee's recommendation. Pages S111 through S14, you'll see a full report with some of the historical funding information. Here's a quick recap with a little bit of history and showing by agency what the committee is recommending. You'll see in some cases, even there may be a slight increase that the committee recommended above what the divisions actually requested. Library funding remains at the same current level of $340,000. The library board did request $340,000 again, but they also asked for $14,737 for an online library subscription service, and that would apply to those participating, those libraries that participate in county funding. This would give, I did not include that in the recommended budget, but it's something that the court may want to look at. But it would provide for 500 online courses with regard to business and computer training that cost of about $6,000 and about $8,700 for hands-on, science, experiment videos. For that cost, it would be something, I guess the county would purchase, but it would be made available to all those libraries. That again, that's something you'll have to determine. Oh, thank you, Dona. Okay. Moving right along. Again, we have the same six libraries did not request county funding. They choose to charge a fee in lieu of accepting county funding. And those are Denton, Kapel, Rhona, Plano, Frisco, and Lake City. Building projects. We had 18 building projects requested, Building projects. We had 18 building projects requested and we were able to recommend all 18 but facilities did reduce some of these expenses in light of receiving the new hires. So that's why you see some cost differences here. There were 32 preventative maintenance projects and they're recommended at $344,000. This is significantly less than was requested last year as I mentioned earlier. But there's the detailed report broken down for you. You'll be able to see the specific request on page 117 through S127. Quick recap of the capital replacement fund. We have furniture included for the Lee Walker Government Center at $348,000. We have replacement computers, as I mentioned, and we have oneasing $1.1 million. We have architect fees in case the CIP committee needs assistance with any pricing for a project. We've got $50,000. Miss Alainius building, these two are part of the master study, which was $275,000. That included restacking of the courts on different floors of the courts building as well as construction that might be needed for temporary space for AgriLop at $200,000. Pardon me? The courts would be the court house, the court building, the new courts building. So apparently the judges have agreed to move courtrooms around so that the ones on the lower floors with the most activity will be getting used the most or the lower floor. As you know whenever the Carroll building vacates and everyone moves to the loop, Agrilyph will have to be removed from the Carroll building while they're renovating that building. So we would be proposing to start looking for lease space for them and we're more than likely going to have to renovate some of that space. Unappropriated contingencies included at $3 million and again $2 million for road planning. We do have the construction as I mentioned previously for the law library into a court rate of $95,000. Outdoor area of the loot, parking lot repairs and computers. So total, sorry, was $12.7 million in our capital replacement fund. So I promise I'm almost finished. Recap summary, I think this is a, as I mentioned before, I hope you think it's a good budget. It lowers the tax rate by almost a penny. As you can see, we've been able to do a lot and make a lot of, I think, positive recommendations to the court this year. It's one of the best budgets I think we've prepared. There's various salary and benefit increases that affect a huge number of people. Not only do they, you know, 400 and some on people get a 5% raise, they get an extra 5% raise for that. Those market reclases. We have 23.25 new employees. We're doing a lot with buildings, parking lots, courtroom space. We're paying for our debt service payments. Capital replacement fund. We're taking care of our health insurance for employees. We're taking care of some of our capital needs, computers, software, and maintenance. We're increasing the fire call rate. Missilani's court expense, MHMR funding increase. One thing that I failed to mention was guardianship services. I believe there's like a 90-$1,000 increase in the budget this year because they are basically out of out of room out of beds. So we're proposing to add to that budget to help with that situation. In fact, you may be seeing them come back to you in the next month or so asking for some additional funds because those beds are full. Child Safety Programs, Security Guard Service. There's increases for the additional locations. We've got drug court expenses included. Training, contract labor, utilities, social service agency increases. We're going to take care of some of our road maintenance equipment. Cars. We have a postage increase. That's primarily due to the elections. One every other year they may allow their voter registration cards. And we have less gasoline. And we were able to do all of this with new property added to the role, supplemental taxes added to the role during the year this year, increases in our non-tax revenues, a slight increase for debt projects and the tax, a less slight increase in the tax rate, and some various fund balance drawdowns. The next meeting has been scheduled for appeals. I'll be next Tuesday. We have, from what I have noted, we have a revision to the vehicle maintenance department that will actually be less funding. The probate court, I believe, will be addressing the court on some contract attorneys they want to hire to help with the mental health bucket. Public works wants to address the court about a new construction coordinator position. Tech services has some reclassification appeals and some reallocation of funds to take care of some allowances for employees. I think the Sheriff's Office is going to appeal three reclassifications. The JPs are asking for incentive pay for their clerks. Facilities, we may be coming back and we can give you for some projects that are not going to be able to be finished this fiscal year, and we may need to consider rolling those funds forward for next year. Just a small increase for the DA victim notification contract and then we've got a couple of cleanup things that we need to do or some items were missed. I think elections is coming back asking for about $70,000 for print cartridges due to the new system. Now that we're going to have the ballots that are printed versus ordering them, I guess, pre-printed, it's going to cost more in that. And that was not included in the initial request. So we'll schedule those workshops. We'll try to start those at 10 o'clock. We can fill in with some stuff before that appointment time counts. I understand we may take a break next week from about 11 to or 1115 to about 145. And then we'll come back and address the rest in the afternoon. I'm sorry. and then we'll come back and address the rest in the afternoon. I'm sorry. Okay. I was just told that it would be 11, 15 y'all would need to leave. So you need to leave 11. You want me to drive you? Just kidding. So we would come back at 145. And again, we'll have workshops for two more meetings after next week, on Tuesdays, immediately following Commissioner's Court. We will have two public hearings on the proposed tax rate. On August 22nd, we'll have the first one at 7 o'clock PM at night is Willie here. We have another one on August 29th at 10 a.m. We also have a public hearing on the proposed budget and adoption again at night at 7 p.m. We also have a public hearing on the proposed budget and adoption again at night at 7 p.m. on September the 5th and with that that pretty much concludes our presentation just so you know the slideshow as well as the recommended budget in detail that as you have it is posted on the county website for the public to see as well. But I'll be happy to answer any questions. If you need additional information for any future budget workshop that we haven't touched on, be sure and get with me and we can certainly address that during one of the workshops. I'd like to end by just acknowledging a lot of people. This is a big joint effort and it's all about teamwork and let me tell you you have a great team of county departments that we work with. The budget office staff I couldn't do it without them. I'm kind of getting emotional I guess maybe it's because it's my last one. Maybe. Maybe. I don't do it without them. I'm kind of getting emotional. I guess maybe it's because it's my last one Maybe I don't know if it's happiness or sadness. I was good. I think it's happy Good. And anyway, uh Johnna is here. Johnna Maxis. Uh, she's my right hand. Uh, Alejandro is here. You've all met him. I was going to ask Alejandro, you got all this? Let me tell you, he's been in major training mode. We've been pulling him in to all of our meetings. In fact, I think he's going to help with part of the presentation for the text right coming up. So, Rob? He is now so they have been there with me for the last few weeks getting through this and getting this presentation ready getting this document ready and and not only them but LaDawn Fitzgerald back in the office as well as Donnie and Rickson Feel them so the names come up on them. And Shirley Joseph, I don't have their names. Oh, okay. But LaDawn, Donna, Alejandro, Donna in-rexon and Shirley, I couldn't do it without you. You, you make me look good. The Denton County Auditor's Office and staff, again, we can't start a budget without having revenue estimates. He also estimates what expenditures are going to be for each department. For this fiscal year, that takes a lot of time and effort by he and a couple people in his office, Natalie and Lila help with that and I appreciate. Don't miss anybody. Lila? I did say Lila, didn't I? And he also provides us with fund analysis sheets that give us what we need to know where we're going to start the year as well. So I couldn't do my job without you guys either. Director of purchasing and staff, they do a great job looking over a lot of the items that people submit. They get tons of forms or spreadsheets from us. They analyze it. They see if people are asking for too much money or if there's duplications. They spend a lot of time and effort and to Beth and her staff, I appreciate you. Director of Human Resources, well we'll just go on to the next one. I'm just kidding. Human Resources and their staff's been a lot of time working with the departments on any reclassifications. They look at all the salary study information. They spend a lot of time trying to provide you with the best recommendations they can. They also look at all the new hires that have been requested. They provide a ranking to us so that we know what pay grade should be included if we're able to recommend them. So thank you, Gustavo. And to Michelle and Shana and Crystal and everybody else in there, they do a phenomenal job. Director of Technology Services, of course, we couldn't do anything without Kevin Carr. He helps us with our, and his staff help us with our budget application. That makes this all happen and they also help us with the pricing for computers and e software, software maintenance and that's a big list that they help us with. Vehicle Assessment Committee meets and provides great recommendations and we do all that we can to trim those requests down when we can but I appreciate all the time and effort everyone puts into that. Billy Willis is the person that we deal with at the Sheriff's Department. He provides pricing information for the various radio equipment. And the department heads and elect officials, my hats, go off to out to you. You do a phenomenal job. You make the commissioners court proud of what you do. You address the needs of the citizens. And most of the time you do it within the budget that we recommend. And, you know, some departments feel like they're going to need to appeal to you, and that's okay. That's what this process is all about. So you'll be hearing from a few of them. Hopefully very few next week. And the Texas Heser Collector, I'm sorry, I'm way behind here. And her staff, again, as I mentioned, they help us with some preliminary rate information along the way and they'll be helping us a lot here in the next week or two with coming I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question. I think that's a great question the trust you put in to our department to make this process what it is. I think we have a great process and I know it will continue at this level with the staff that we have in place. So again, I appreciate everybody's input and help throughout this. I couldn't do it without everybody. But thank you. Okay, good job. Don't have any questions now, probably real later, but good job. Thank you everybody for all your hard work to get this point, especially you Donna. Any questions, comments from anybody? Are we ready to go have some lunch? You could put you on. Okay, without a adjourned everybody have a great day.