And in a minute I'll tell you who's going to lead the prayers and pledge. Jack Taylor is going to pray for us. He's construction coordinator and our pledges will be led by Tom Reese, the department manager for the tax office. Will you please stand? Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this beautiful day, this time of year, as we see a renewal of your creation, Father. Father, we're grateful for this court and for these members that serve and serve the citizens of Denton County well. Father, we pray that you will bless them with your wisdom, your discernment, and your strength. And if all we pray for peace, we, how much global strife right now, Father, we pray that calm our heads or prevail and we just pray that these people sit down and discuss their differences. these people sit down and discuss their differences and if I'll reprieve for those men and women who stand out there all around the world and harms way for us Father Thank you for them bless their families bless them and bless this court If Father just as Jesus taught his disciples to suck it to pray will end our prayer this way Jesus taught His disciples to pray, will end our prayer this way. That kingdom come, that will be done. And Jesus made my prayer. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivitable with liberty and justice for all. I'll clear the text as flat, led to we just to be Texas one state. Thank you gentlemen. Item one is for public input for items not listed in the agenda. If there's any member of the public that would like to address the minister's court, we ask that you please complete a public comment form. They're available on the side table. I want to also remind everyone to please turn off cell phones, pages, any electronic device that might be disruptive. The first public comment formed that I've received is from Lisa Pierce. Lisa, if you'd come on up, please. This is Lisa Pierce, 4401. This game drive for our man. Good morning. Thank you. A tour in Commissioner of March tour in Commissioner Eads. If you come closer to the microphone, so we can pick up the voice there you go. Okay, my name is Lisa Pierce, and I am privileged to serve on the Board of Directors for the Children's Advocacy Center of Denton County. My purpose this morning really is to share with you some of the information about the Advocacy Center and to thank you for your ongoing support. It's difficult to talk about child sexual abuse. One in 10 children will be sexually abused before age 18. The Children's Advocacy Center of Denton County helped to provide justice and healing for over 1,800 children and are not offending family members in 2016. In that year, the Center saw 700 new children who entered our doors by providing a forensic exam for them. That would represent every seat in Hawk Elementary School or every seat in Bratawood Elementary School in Flower Mound. More than 95% of these cases were child sexual abuse. And the sole mission of the Children's Advocacy Center is to provide justice and healing in collaboration with the community. How do we provide this justice? We do this by working very closely with law enforcement agencies throughout the county. In addition to the local law enforcement, we also work on how protective services, the district attorney's office, sexual assault nurse examiners, juvenile probation, volunteers, and other staff that we have. It's a multi-disciplinary team approach, and it's all housed under one roof, which is why we have such a great conviction rate. In 1997, only 7% of people who were brought to trial for child sexual abuse who were convicted. We had a conviction rate of 93% in 2016, representing 60 abusers who were put in prison, thanks to these brave children and to the amazing police and criminal court system in the district attorney's office. Child abuse is typically reported to the police department and the statewide child abuse hotline. Once it's reported, they come to our center and we have trained staff that do extensive interviews. We do videotape forensic interviews in a child-friendly environment to prevent these kids from having to be re-traumatized by telling their story over and over again. We then provide ongoing coordination with the multidisciplinary team and it's focused on investigating and prosecuting the case. We also prepare these kids to go to trial because they may have to face their perpetrator in court. In addition, to help with healing, we provided over 11,000 hours of therapy last year, all free of charge at our two locations in Louisville and Denton. You guys have always been supporters of the Children's Advocacy Center, and we appreciate your path and ongoing support. Unfortunately, our needs are great. Didn't count a group by 52% according to the last census. And we continue to see an increase in the number of child abuse cases. We provide education to the community through our program called stewards of children. And we help people be able to recognize and prevent child abuse. You can find out that information to our website or contact in our office. But in closing, I just want to thank Judge Horne, Commissioner Smoshank-Holman, and Eidz for your continued support. Thank you for your attention and time today. Thank you. Appreciate you. The second public comment form I have is from Mr. Wheelhead, Mr. Hutzpeth. Good morning. There's a hand in commission. My name is Willie Hetz with the Liturist 623. I want you to welcome my entourage with me today. They are my supports system. I As I was talking to Commissioner Marchant, just earlier, the frustration that I have is to work with the system to be kind and sensitive to you all and others in other areas that I have a say in in the political realm. And so I want to say to Commissioner Coleman, my son talked to me about what you all talked about and he's right. And you're right. And I'm going to fix that. He's right. And as I say, what you said to him was right. I just got off track. So you watch. I'm going to fix that. So with God with me, it hasn't been going to an established building and trying to build up stuff in that building which is church and staying in there. It's always been, get out of that place and go do what I tell you and you do what I tell you. Here lately it's loving everybody. And then he says, who it is I'm supposed to love and how and that is so hard. And if you look at your own lives, it's the same way with you. Aren't there people that you just would much rather not see? And then you want to avoid them? Well, I don't think that's the way he tends for us to do. So I'm working on that. So it would is that that in mine, I want to say to you, you are public servants. You are here to serve the public. I don't know how well I would do with trying to work together like you are having to work together and you have these different areas that your voters come from. But you're not supposed to look at those voters as just the ones you serve and you're a piece, and I know you do. I know you know you're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to work together for the good of all of us. That's hard to do. I don't know if I can do that. I know that's the way it's supposed to be done. So with that in mind, I want to say to you, public service would be better served if you meet in the evenings. So people can come up with people, those who work all day long, and let them have a say in this political situation. I think Trump figured it out, and he's right. There's a large group of people out there that's not being listened to, that weren't being listened to, and he spoke to them. So I ask you, consider meeting at night. Thank you. The last public comment from I have is from Paxton Swisher. Paxton, good morning. Good morning. Thank you. So here again about just advocating for the movement of the Confederate statue to museum. And if failing that, some other histories you represent on the square, just about it would speak because it's topical, y'all probably saw in the news. But New Orleans is kind of beating us to the punch. Here's the article, there's New York Times. New Orleans on Monday began removing four monuments dedicated to the air of the Confederacy and its aftermath, capping a prolonged battle with about the future of the memorials, which critics themes symbols of racism and intolerance, and which the purer's viewed as historically important. I would argue that actually the people are arguing to take down the thing, view them as more historically important because they realize what those actually represent and they kind of want them to put in a museum where it could be given proper context. So I'm the family, they're bothersome. But the monument, which sometimes uses a rallying point for David Duke in the Ku Klux Klan has stirred debate for decades. Local leaders unsuccessfully tried to remove it in 81 and 93. Here's a quote from the mayor. The removal of these statues sends a clear and unequivocal message to the people in New Orleans and the nation. New Orleans celebrates our diversity, inclusion, and tolerance. This is not about politics, blame, or retaliation. This is not a naive request to solve all of our problems at once. This is showing the whole world that we as a city and as people are able to acknowledge and understand, reconcile, and most importantly, choose a better future. I thought those words were rather inspiring, and I very much agree with them, but I also have this to say, which is, this is Texas. We're going to let Louisiana beat us. I have a lot of Texas pride, even though I'm a very passionate Democrat and a little bit in the minority, but come on. We got to show Louisiana, you know, we can hang with the best of them. So, end with that called action. Thank you. You're great. We live in the free country and everybody's in touch with their opinion. I love it. Okay, members, we're going to first go to item 3B. On the agenda, 3B on the agenda. 3B is a prologue for claiming May 2017 is motorcycle awareness and safety month. We had some guests with us this morning. Did you wish to address court or go straight to the resolution? If you would introduce this help, please. I'm George Richards. I really appreciate you doing this for me, motorcycle awareness month. The only concern I have besides that is people using their cell phones in their cars and text messaging. I realize that I believe was the county put up some signs on 35. Southbound coming out of Oklahoma stating about the use of cell phones. I think those signs went down, but I'd appreciate if you put up more. If it was a state of Texas, I believe the state is the one responsible for the signage not to count. It'd be nice to see county signs that show that text messages are not tolerated. And because that's one of the things that all the people that I know that have been in close calls with cars, trucks. That is a big issue. If I'm going by somebody there at text messaging, they're not paying attention to the road. They're not paying attention to you guys driving around either and they cause a lot of problems. Problem for everybody. Thank you, sir. That's all I have to say. Thank you. sir. That's all I have to say. Thank you. This is the proclamation, whereas today's society is finding more citizens taking part in motorcycling on the roads of our country. And whereas motorcycles are roughly unprotected and therefore more prone to injury or death and a crash than other vehicle drivers, and whereas campaigns have helped inform riders and motorists alike on motorcycle safety issues to reduce motorcycle related risk injuries and most of all fatalities through a comprehensive approach to motorcycle safety and whereas it is responsibility of all who put themselves behind a wheel to become aware of motorcyclists regarding them with the same respect as any other vehicle traveling the highways of the country. And it is the responsibility of riders and motorists alike to obey all traffic laws and safety rules. And whereas we urge all citizens of our community to become aware of the inherent danger involved in operating a motorcycle for the riders and motorists alike to give each other the mutual respect they deserve. Now, therefore, it is resolved that the commissioners court of Denton County hereby proclaims the month of May 2017 as motorcycle safety and awareness month, and urges all residents to do their part to increase safety and awareness in our community. Then, an open court, the 25th day of April by motion by myself. In fact, and then by Commissioner Marchand. On favor, please say aye. Aye, opposed, Cinean. Motion does carried. Do you'll wait just a few minutes? We'll have a nice signed resolution to take with you. Thank you for being here this morning. Members, next slide, I'm sorry. Oh yes, do we have the resolution ready? Okay, let's take a brief recess here just to do a little picture take. Now we will go to item 3a on the agenda which is the presentation of the annual report of the Denkhani Behavioral Health Leadership Team. All right, we got a lot of team members here. Good morning. Thank you for waiting. Judge Horan and commissioners, thanks again for making time for us. We want to give you our annual report, and especially to this court, since you all are one of the initiating stakeholders back in the beginning. And we appreciate your involvement since then. And especially the county apparatus, the players that have come to the table, Dr. Matt Richardson and Paul Bastowicz, Laura Prillitz, and I'll probably name 20 others, but we don't have the time, but they are true in public servants. And when they come into the equation, their concern, caring concern is for the public, and they give their best and were very well represented so we thank you for that. Behind me is Gary Henderson, Alex Reed and Dr. Teresa McKinney. These are the folks that turn the gears that make the wheel spin to get everything done and I'm going to try to be brief and make good use of your time. So we'll go to the next slide. Well, you see, I need IT help. You just stay right there, Alex. All right. So on this slide, there's 131,000 people in Ditton County make the criteria for a diagnosable mental health concern in 2015 well, you can move that number forward every year. It's a percentage of the population But if you do the simple math You can see that behavioral health challenges will touch every family if not this year, but next year the next slide is a start figure that we need when we go away today, is remember this, that in Texas, there's only one provider to approximately every 990 individuals with mental health needs. So relate to this number when your own families in need and that 990 starts to really hone in on you. Okay, I'm going to turn it over to Gary Henderson. It's going to address the collaborative process that we've gone through thanks with y'all's help. Here. Yeah. So let's talk about the structure by which the didn't county behavior health leadership team is accomplishing this work and it really goes back as Joe pointed out to your initial small investment with other community partners to bring the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute into the county and help us understand how to move forward once we understood through needs assessment what the size of the problem was. The mission, I think I really want you to focus on the leadership teams purpose to advocate and facilitate. We'll talk about some advocacy opportunities down in Austin during this session, but to advocate and facilitate a collaborative person centered approach for behavioral health system to repair restore lives and we have to give Joe Joe Molloy credit for that phrase. It's really as simple as having our community members receive the help they need so their lives are repaired and restored. Now you have filled all five of your seats since the beginning of the Denton County Behavior Health Leadership Team. You see in the upper left hand corner you appointed five individuals to serve as leaders in this. I would say quasi-governmental, policy-ish kind of organization. It's not a 501C3 and it's not a governmental entity. It's really collaboration with a very formalized structure around it. You can see the other groups that are at the table with their appointees as well. City of Denton and City of Louisville sent both elected officials and city management staff, Mayor Pro Tem, Gilmore, Mayor Wads have been actively involved. You've had Commissioner Mitchell representing you as one of your appointees. And then the work groups, in the lighter blue, you can see the work groups that were initially launched, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute recommended a number of work groups, but also recommended only implementing a few initially so we could be successful and then and grow with that success. The three that are left wide in terms of shading will be released at a future date and the darkest blue and crisis detention commitment. That really reflects the prioritized next group to launch because of consistent feedback we're hearing from the jail diversion work group around the amount of time law enforcement, both county and municipal law enforcement, spend in a crisis situation. Upwards to six hours or an entire shift dedicated to one individual. Stanford Review really put a best large scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination. Yet the social sector not just in Ditton County but many communities across the country remain focused on isolated intervention of individual organizations. This is such a complex community need challenge, building a coordinated system that's person centered in a growing county like Denton County. There will never ever be one organization, not the county, not a city, not a 501C3, who can accomplish building this system alone. So it really requires what we would call collaboration on steroids. And the fundamental aspects come in agenda, meaning everybody who walks into that room. When they come into that meeting room at United Way for the monthly behavior, bi-monthly behavior, health leadership team, whatever their agenda was before walking in that door, it was left at the door and they're focused on that person centered, restoring lives mission. Common progress measures, mutually reinforcing activities, constant communication among those work groups, and then backbone organization, because the work needs to continue to happen when these volunteers and appointees go back to their day job. In 2014, we were one of the lowest funded counties and that's in terms of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission funding our local mental health authority, MHMR. 2008 we were the very lowest. We don't see that number growing. In fact what we hear out of Austin is the continued echo that they want to see local communities put a structure together much like Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute recommended for Denton County and combined state funding with private funding and local funding in a way that accomplishes more and have these appointed leaders who are on the ground in Denton County speak on behalf of their needs. I want to allotry to come talk to you a little bit about the accomplishments to date the ground in Denton County, speak on behalf of their needs. I want to allotry to come talk to you a little bit about the accomplishments to date financially, and then I'll give you one more advocacy pitch. So if you guys can believe it, no one gave us a trophy for being dead last for funding, but we've actually been able to make some progress. The Denton County Behavioral Leadership Team, just in the last calendar year, has been able to leverage $540,000 directly through their efforts. The largest sum of that funds has been through our Texas Veterans and Family Alliance pilot program that you guys let us come and talk with you about just here recently. I get to be kind of the storyteller for the leadership team being on the front lines. And I just want you guys to know what that $175,000 from HHSC has been able to do in our community. Many of you were there at the Grand Opening of the Veteran Center and I appreciate that. Just days before the Veteran Center opened we had a gentleman come in that was in a lot of emotional distress. And he told me something that I think will probably stick with me for the rest of my life. He said I'm more worried and stressed today than I was in Afghanistan. He was facing eviction with three young children and didn't know what to do that evening. And our team was able to leverage some of the funds from HHSC and the matching funds that were provided from our community to be able to pay that gentleman's rent, keep that family house while we worked out getting his VA benefits reinstated. So I want you all to know the impact of those funds that have been able to be dispersed throughout our community. We've also been able to receive $100,000 of award for supportive housing for the most chronically homeless and at risk individuals in our community. What that looks like is there's, believe it or not, a score that people are given to say their vulnerability to die on the streets today. And we're able to take the most vulnerable individuals within our population and get them housed for a year due to the generous support of our community. And then lastly, the most recent $30,000 made available for Denton County Specialty Court to start up funds for the Family Drug Court, Drug Court, and for the Mental Health Treatment Court. So we appreciate your continued partnership in just letting us kind of leverage those funds in the community to best try to make sure that we have a comprehensive approach to behavioral health in our community. So Senator Jane Nelson, Senate Bill 55 was the original funding source for the four pilots. We were one of the four that helped launch the Texas Veterans Initiative. Senate Bill 292 in the current session has been authored by Senator Nelson, passed the Senate recently unanimously, companion bill to Senate Bill 292 is House Bill 13. Would really ask that you join us with your influence as elected officials to communicate to our Denton County delegation, the impact that House Bill 13 can have in our local community. It creates more funding opportunities. It's a competitive grant process to be sure, but we feel with our structure, your support and the collective impact approach we're taking in these areas, we feel that we would be a very strong applicant for continued state funding to go with our local private public partnerships. And now Dr. Tresom McKinney who serves as Joe Mollway's co-chair leading the Ditton County Behavioral Health Leadership Team will wrap it up for us. So there's a quote by an anonymous source that I like to say to all of you this morning. It says, if serving is beneath you, then leadership is beyond you. And so I'm so happy to be able to report this morning that for all the members of the Behavior Health Leadership Team, for all of the work groups, serving is definitely not beneath them. It's part of their core. It's at the very essence of everything that they do when they come to serve the citizens of Denton County. So some of the accomplishments of that work group, of those work groups include launching of the Denton County Veterans Center, implementation of the Veterans Community Navigator Program, and today we've served over 165 veterans and their families. We've been able to launch child-specific anti-stigma materials through partnership with the OK to say campaign, and some of those materials have been included in your packets this morning. We've also been able to create a law enforcement training video for when they go out and they're responding the calls related to those suffering with a mental illness. And so we're very proud of that effort. We want to share it across all law enforcement agencies throughout the county. And lastly, support of mental health treatment court and SOAR juvenile mental health court. So we're very proud of those accomplishments. Some additional accomplishments include training, and so are juvenile mental health court. So we're very proud of those accomplishments. Some additional accomplishments include training mental health first aid trainings. And so so far just in 2017, we launched the mental health first aid trainings in 2016, but so far in 2017, we've been able to serve a number of agencies, and we have those listed here before you. A number of agencies have come out and they've been able to participate in that wonderful training. They include Denton Oak Point and Lewisville Police Department's Flower Mound Library, Lewisville Library. Oh. I did the same thing as Joe. All right, thanks Alex. And then University of North Texas, TWU and CTC, Salvation Army, et cetera. So we've been able to train a number of individuals throughout these agencies, and we look forward to training additional people in the near future as well. We would like to recognize Dint County for hosting training through local probate court this week. And like I said, we really look forward to being able to train some additional people in the near future. In terms of some of our immediate needs, we'd need to be able to train some additional people in the near future. In terms of some of our immediate needs, we need to be able to sustain the veteran community navigator program. The sustainability funding totaling $147,000 is needed for the veteran community navigator program. As Gary mentioned, the crisis stabilization unit, this is something that we've been hearing again and again from our law enforcement officials that we really, really need to have a crisis stabilization unit because, as Gary mentioned, sometimes they're spending back on the street and to protect and serve and not to spend their entire shift or sometimes multiple shifts on dealing with one incident involving someone with a mental illness. And then finally, low barrier housing with intensive case management for individuals with mental health needs. And so those are some of our immediate needs and we're going to try and really focus our efforts around those more intentionally. And do you have any questions for us this morning? I have a question for Gary. Gary House Bill 13, where is it in the legislative process through the committee? I believe it's still in committee, George Horne. It's still in committee. It was last week, yes. Okay. If you would get some talking points on that to my staff and so the court can do a resolution in support. That would be outstanding. Thank you, Judge. We did it to the committee and of course to the Dantle County delegation. Excellent. Thank you so much. Right here. That's a question. I have to pay your electric bill. I know. I have horrible allergies. The crisis stabilization unit. Can you give me more detail exactly what that is? Absolutely. Alex. A crisis stabilization unit. Lots of communities have it. They often function out of a community hospital, a county hospital. So what it is is it has medical triage. So basically if someone's in a mental health crisis right now, say they're in respiratory distress, they have to go to an emergency room and receive treatment and then be triaged to a psychiatric facility. Now if that person's unfunded, being able to be triaged from a medical unit into a psychiatric unit often can take a very long time, as well as individuals that are under the influence of drugs or alcohol cannot be accepted into a psychiatric facility or a local site triage unit. So, for an individual that's intoxicated, the officer actually takes them to a local hospital, allows them to detox their in the hospital until their blood alcohol content is able to go down enough to go into the site triage. And so that's why law enforcement are spending up to 10 to 13 hours with an individual that has a high blood alcohol content level because they're having to flesh that out of their system. And so it's really, really time intensive for law enforcement because often they're taking them directly to either UBH or May Hill and then being saying they're in a medical crisis they need to go to the local hospital. and they're taking them directly to either UBH or Mayhil, and then being saying they're in a medical crisis they need to go to the local hospital. So they have to take them to the hospital, stay with them while they're in the hospital, become medically stabilized, and transport them back to a psychiatric unit. I bet this would like initiated a county hospital. Like Parkland does it, for example, because they're able, they have psych and medicine, they're on the they have psych and medicine, they are on the same, they will be at on the same time. It's in a clinical environment, it's not, it's in a hospital or. Right, right. So a crisis stabilization unit would require that there's a medical doctor on board, someone to manage detox, as well as psychiatric nurses and those sorts of things. We don't have those two components existing together within our community right now. So is it the officer who makes the decision, like the mental health officer, that makes the decision whether to take them to the hospital or UBA, to or whatever? The officer from the Sheriff's Office is the one who elects to take them to the facility. However, the doctor, the attending physician at the psychiatric unit is the one who must sign and say that they're willing to accept them into the facility. So, have you spoken to Sheriff about this? Yes, sir. He is on our jail diversion work group and that is something that we've been in collaboration with over the last couple of months, especially with the new administration of talking about how we can prioritize and what this would look like. And we're working on generating an operational budget. The facilities would be, they estimate approximately a million dollars to be able just to build a facility that would house both psychiatric and medical care in one location. We're not going to build a facility. Right, no, no, no. We're not asking for a facility to be built. We're just saying that this is something that we want to prioritize with our local law enforcement because it's become a huge barrier and the money's being spent in the domain of law enforcement time, rather than being able to get people to the appropriate level of care. I just wanted to know, Donna, I didn't look at the Sheriff's budget. Did he make any budget requests for going in this? You know? Okay. As you know, you know, the Sheriff's have independently elected official in the way I've always done stuff and must be elected official, asked for the funding out force upon us. Sure, absolutely, absolutely. I don't think they're totally making an ask question. No, absolutely not. It just seems like a good idea because it seems like spend a little money upfront and save a lot of time. Right. And I agree we're not making an ask today but we do want to put it on your radar just to be aware of that over the next couple of years it isn't our strategic plan to address what this would look like in our community. It would be a probably multi-year project to actually make it a functioning unit. So looking for a, go ahead. I was just going to ask about the procedure itself. Doesn't most hospitals, when a person is medically unstable, not only psychologically unstable, but also medically unstable, they have to get a medical release from the emergency room or from a doctor, psych evaluation and to get into it. I've been through that process, not me, but I've been through the process with loved ones before. And once they enter into the hospital environment, isn't it the responsibility then of the hospital environment to provide that care for that person until they sober up? I just recently had put someone in there and they Had a person in the room the entire time they that person was in there sobering up Officer person in the room the entire time that person was in their sobering up. An officer? An officer? No. Oh. Oh, stat. A nurse. So the only reason I say in that is that there may be other and this happened to be in the Carrollton area. But there are hospitals that have protocol already set up for those types of things of issues that keep the officer basically, I don't want to say, dump them off, but they transfer that responsibility over to the hospital. So we are in the heart of the conversations that will happen in that work group that needs to be launched. I mean, these are all outstanding questions. We would want that work group to formulate recommendations from the ground up. Having looked at best practices and research-based evidence-based practices, not only in Ditton County but in other communities across the country. And then that work group would recommend the Behavioral Health Leadership Team an approach that would include budget, as well as the therapeutic treatment aspect. But it's awesome that you guys are at this level of this conversation. You should come to our work group. Well, I mean, because they cannot be denied based upon financial responsibility at the ER, but they have to treat them no matter what it is and no matter whether they have financial resources to do that already. I think it's just a protocol or a procedural initiative that the group could put together to make sure that all the hospitals throughout the county, not just up here in the world with that. So Commissioner, one of the things you're mentioning is this idea that the hospital has a legal responsibility to stabilize. And so, emergency rooms do have that legal responsibility, but stabilization to the letter of the law and compared to our community standard of stabilization, those two aren't the same. And so what we're seeing is that hospitals will stabilize, medically stabilized, meaning that the vital signs and the condition of the individual is not deteriorating. So that might be stable. But what's happening is they're now stable, but a psychiatric facility might not agree. And so now law enforcement has left with this terrible decision of what do we do? The hospital has already treated them and the psychiatric facility may not have a bed or doesn't agree that that individual stable. So now we're abandoning a person in crisis. Again, the community standards don't necessarily meet. And so the idea of a crisis stabilization unit is to take the stakeholders hospitals in HMR Indigent care for the county perhaps law enforcement and Lewisville and saying or and Denton and flower man All of these agencies to come up with some shared responsibility to have a stabilization unit in a triage facility So there's a medical component and then there's a case management component on getting linking to psychiatric care. That's the vision. I don't think anybody wants the whole funding piece of that. I think the idea is for the leadership team to come up with a construct, a suggestion, a straw man budget to present to all of the agencies involved to reduce that recidivism, which is part of this group, the jail diversion. So again, same thing with jail, right? We have these crises, and so we're trying to address the recidivism by having an entry point, the stabilization unit, which isn't the ER, and it's not MHMR, and it's not the jail, it's got to be in the malgum. It's got to be that malgum. It has to be a unit that is recognized by health care professionals. That's right. And I don't know that it's certain certification through OSHA. I mean, not that job, but what's the hospital? Yeah, that's right. To have a certain unit certified in order to have that health care on it, it just seems that you could sit for instance, the system that I had. The reason why the person wasn't released was because the psychiatry of the fall would not release. So then I, then family got totally involved in it and would basically made certain demands that they take care of and they had nothing to do with funding because they walked in the door without any funds at all. So on telling is that procedurally I would ask that the work group would work through a procedure that each hospital or a health care facility could do until a stabilization unit is So somebody didn't get dumped out on the street right where they don't need to be and we might we might need some Some help on some influence because these facilities are course there for profit facilities And privately owned facilities in Denton County, so even the not for profit privately owned so our ability to compel them to follow that procedure We struggle with and that's one of that's been one of our struggles is We can't force those hospitals For this partnership, you know, it's good. We're all gonna have to kind of come together and agree on some shared Responsibility and that's that's the idea And we won't get too far in the weeks. But the idea is the shared responsibility, whether it's a protocol for whenever we hit the door, to what will MHMR take, what will the jail agree to take. Those procedures all need to have that community agreement. And I think that's one of the beauties of the leadership team, is that we're beginning those conversations for integrated care. And I know that's what Joe is passionate about. Everyone on the, we want to, we want to continuity of care on the spectrum so that people don't fall through the cracks. And right now, lots and lots of people falling through the cracks. It made Chimar has been a very, very valuable tool. They're the glue that makes everything stick together and they are the ones that work through the trends that transcend from one department to another. They are the ones that follow that personal law that's in a crisis situation. Again, and I emphasize again no matter whether they're able to pay or not. Well, and there's a bill that the legislature right now about the 1115 waiver, which is funded MHMRS Triage Center. So the exact services you're talking about are at risk today because that Triage Center is part of that continued 1115 funding, which we enjoy at the county as well. But the level that I don't have the bill on top of my head, but I can get it to you. But you do this over here. And yeah, so that bill is to stabilize 1115 funding, which is to stabilize what happens when they make you more right now, which is not the crisis stabilization, but we may actually go backwards if we lose that funding. So it's hypercritical. You may have a tailing or a trailing criminal case, and that's why they're picked up by the police. They may or may not have a criminal case. Right now, the Denton County jail is the number one provider of mental health services in Dent County. And so we're really trying to determine another pathway, particularly if we lose this funding, which we're all hoping very much that we do not lose that particular funding, the 1115. But we don't want that to be the number one provider of mental health services. We're trying to really shift the load, you will to this crisis stabilization unit and or a difference. Well it sounds like we need somebody who will take all covers. I don't understand why a doctor would say somebody's medical stable and then a facility say oh, when I'll believe you doctor, if you signed off on it you're responsible and then we're not taking that. It's about beds. You're responsible and we're not taking it. It's about beds. I mean once you're in the ER each Health as I understand it each health care Hospital will contract or they will designate site beds And of course the ER is the portal or the entry point to that, getting there. And it's not necessarily the hospital that is the issue. It's the rehabilitation center. It's the centers that you need to take next steps with that person to that would have beds. person to that would have beds and that's usually managed by MHMR, a private institution, it's like, you know what I'm talking about and so it's the end user if you would that sometimes it's the one that's pushing back like this and we can't take him, we can't take him. Even if you say he's medically accepted, I mean, can release him medically, there's no bed for him, there's just no bed for him. I mean, wind up at the drink and get the distance. That's exactly right. So I think to punctuate this entire conversation before Judge Horne pulls out her hook, go back to the Stanford Review comment. Think about the last 10 minutes, large scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination. And it just does not get any more complicated than a social change in the area of mental health. Pretty confusing, but we're buzzwords. Large scale social change. That off-texter. We're trying to build a system commissioner Coleman where one doesn't exist because entities function in the silos that they're funding streams created for them. And everything you're saying, Commissioner Marchin, it's absolutely right in terms of coordination. Just want to punctuate the autonomy of those organizations that need to be coordinated severe. But your comments have been tremendous. You're coming, it's a venture. Can you give us a 30 second further explanation about the barriers to housing and mental health stuff? That was the last bullet point. I'm going to start with bricks and sticks. And then Alex can speak about wraparound intensive case management, the care. They just simply isn't enough bricks and sticks units in Denton County, Texas for the number of people that are here, both at risk of homelessness and who are homeless. And it's a long story as to why in the universities and the student populations involved in a very robust real estate market and the wisdom in investing in another form of real estate as opposed to housing for individuals whose education level left them at a very low wage earning level but at the end of the day we lack the number of units to put people into within the second part of the story is. Well the second part of the story is just that low barrier housing is minimal within our community. Low barrier just meaning if you've had a criminal conviction if you have a felony charge if you're on probation As well as if you have a prior eviction filed against you all of those things It's very very difficult in our community to find housing if you have any of those deans Because there are students there is a market for individuals to pay a higher market share higher market rent is a market for individuals to pay a higher market share, higher market rent than individuals that are on disability and maybe just receiving that fixed income. And so it's just difficult for as far as affordable housing that also offers low barrier. And then the third barrier to that is just having the capacity as providers to be able to provide intensive case management to ensure housing stability once they do get housed. So once an individual that has a criminal record, severe persistent mental illness has been hospitalized multiple times. Once they do get housed, they require intensive case management. And so building up that capacity in our providers to provide those wraparound services in a very coordinated manner. I'm not hard to believe because, man, I get a notice like every other day from HUD, from some developer, wanting credits for bringing in low income housing and housing. Yeah, all the time. They want us to write them a letter to get stuff and they say they have to dedicate all these different houses. I mean, they're flooding our offices and I'm surprised to hear that you're saying that all these things are coming, but that I mean, that I can see coming, but that there's not any access to it. There are about 3,000 individuals on the HUD waiting list right now within our community. The waiting list hasn't been opened for quite some time so that would probably be larger if that waiting list was opened. And for unicorn white. A lot of those apply and the, a lot of those people apply and they don't ultimately qualify. Those projects don't materialize. And most of those I have found, most of those in my community that I represent, most of those HUD section 8 housing are being taken up by single parents. That automatically raises them up on the list of the child. But of course with the child. And then another thing that raised them up is if they're getting food at school, you know, a real program or whatever. And it becomes a financial, a financial rather, a screening profile at, I mean, screening process at the very, very beginning, then those people that you're talking about and we're talking about now are on the bottom of those waiting rooms. Absolutely. And being able to provide services to those folks because even once they get the voucher, if they do have severe and persistent mental illness, making sure they have those wraparound services to stabilize that housing rather than losing the housing due to barriers and those sorts of things. Thank you for further. Thank you very much. We're going to end. I promise. OK. Denton Housing Authority's waiting list is well over 2000 people. And then I think I'm hearing 3000. I didn't want to repeat that number without some backup. But it's humongous., so never overcome the waiting list He could hold the rest of the county. He could find it probably will be a group of with not more but the Keep in mind of your homeless folks the demographics almost 50% have demographics almost 50% have behavioral health issues. So rather than just saying I found you a roof and a bed, we really need to complement this effort of getting people out and being homeless with the wraparound services to get their lives repaired and some sort of sustainable, as close to mainstream as they can get. If you're just moving someone in an apartment for three or six months and then on their own volition because they didn't have the wraparound services, they're back on the streets and you really haven't accomplished anything. Anyway, I appreciate all the questions. This is furlough ground for workshops or a couple of hours lunch for these different topics to bring the commissioners and the whole community up to speed with the knowledge that we've gained to date. I mean, you can see all the questions. And there were new questions every day to us and we'll try to get the data assembled where it makes more sense to be able to do forward programming. Anyway, thank you very much, Judge Harin. Thank you, commissioners. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay. Okay. Members, item two is the consent agenda. Are there items on the consent agenda? Do you need to have some discussion on it? Do we have a motion? I move for approval. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Marchant. All in favor, please say aye. Aye, pose, aye. Motion does carry. Consent agenda today consists of approval of the order making appointments. We have a promotion in the County Courts Office and new hire in the justice of the piece facing one, three promotions within the tax office, C as approval of Budget Amendment Quest 101050 for office machines for taxes, his or collector in the amount of $8,582.2D as approval of building use request from Lauren Barker with keep dent and beautiful to use the dent and kind of historical park on May 18th, 2017 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. And next we'll go to item 5a, which is approval of the bill report payments from CSCD, Community Deprecisions, TIP, Chair, Training, Chair's forfeiture, VIP interest in DA. Forfeiture funds are all presented for recording purposes only. Good morning, James Wells. Good morning, Judge and Commissioners. I approve of the bills that's presented. I think we have one addition. We have one addition. Yeah, we can get came through. Okay, and the one addition. Alrighty. Do we have a motion? I'll show you. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Eads, hearing the questions on favor, please say aye. Aye, please say nay. Motion to carry. 5-B is approval of the one commercial card agreement. Any questions on this item? Do we have a motion? I'll submit. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Eidz. All in favor, please say aye. All right. Aye, Poe, aye, nay. Motion does carry. 6-A is approval of report on proceeds I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I This auction was for vehicles and we did receive NAD 108,628 33. Thank you. If there's no questions, we need a motion. I'll move. Thank you. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Eads. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Posed to the name. Motion carries. 6B is approval of specifications and authority to advertise for RFP 040172412 for a coffee kiosk operation. Appointment of evaluation committee to include judge Sherry Shipman, 16th District Court, Danny Bromley Facilities Manager and Larry Harbor District Court of the administrator. Thank you for approval. Motion by Commissioner Eads. Thank you. Seconded by Commissioner Common. Hearing no questions. All in favor, please say aye. Aye, Opposed, aye. Motion is carried. 7a is approval. Budget amendment request 101-060 to increase revenues. Now, the committee expenditures for sour assistance benefits and dairy sovereignty and line items, including the creation of a new line item fiscal year 2016-2017 for grant purposes, for public health, hands in hand, grant in the amount of $105,000. I've got a question, Matt. Is Hanson's disease grant just the name of the grant? Or is that disease I've never heard of before? You have heard of that disease. Hanson's disease is a little more palatable discussion of leprosy. Okay. So Hansa's disease is, it is the name that the State Health Department goes by. It's the technical disease name. This is for individuals who do have this condition that are already living in County, of course, or surrounding counties that we would take over treatment. Previously, the State Health Department has done that, and they offered us some money to take over that effort for them and Dintin County and some of the surrounding counties. And we agreed because we anticipate fewer than 20 patients. So this amount of funding with all the case management for fewer than 20 patients seemed like an appropriate trade for the county. So we're actually excited we've been able to in this upcoming budget, we've been able to shift some of the county nursing costs to this grant. And so we're hoping to see some savings on the FTE side. So anyway, I think it's been beneficial. But that's what Hansons is, since you asked. I don't know why, I'm aware of that. Related to that, we have 20 cases a year. Sorry. No, we don't have, we don't have, we don't have. We think there'll be 20 patients. I anticipate much fewer than that in Denton County, but we're going to serve essentially the Metraplex. So we'll be doing that at the States request and again, they gave us some money to do that. Last year, how many cases were there? Do you have an idea? I don't have any idea. I think I'm not sure. I think it was fewer than five in Ditton County, but there are 20 for our region, a 40 county region. And I think there are fewer than 100 cases in Texas. So- Here about it, don't think about it. Here about it, don't think about it, I'm sorry. I'll play with Armour Dillard. Okay. Okay, we need a motion for- I'll move for approval. Okay, we have a motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Marching. I'll in favor, please say aye. Aye. I, Poto-Ceneen. Motion is carried. 7B is approval. Budget may have a quest 101-070 to increase revenues and allocate expenditures. There are salary assistance benefits and various offered and line-on, so public health immunization grant funds in the amount of 280,147 dollars. Very cool. Motion by Commissioner Eid, seconded by Commissioner Coleman. Hearing the questions on favor, please say aye. Aye, pose, aye, motion is carried. 8A is approved of changing the part-time medical investigated position slot number 007ME to a full-time position in the medical examiner's office. We have a motion for approval by Commissioner Eid, seconded by Commissioner Marchand, are there questions? We have good backup on this. I did, I saw that. Go ahead. Not to go Bobby Mitchell on them, but here he submitted our budget. Why are we doing this? Go ahead. I do have an answer for that. And I think you saw in the submitted paperwork we have a problem with overtime in this budget. In fact, previously I met with Amy Phillips when she was here and I'm so glad to see Cindy here but Cindy was part of this conversation a couple of years ago where we worked with Troy and we talked about that there was Mandatory overtime for our shift workers that are medical examiner investigators Mandatory overtime is weird to me and so as we went through it It looked like that every investigator had eight hours of mandatory overtime every two weeks So that's 32 hours for four when you total it up. That's 32 hours of mandatory overtime because we didn't have enough individuals. So what we did last year, I submitted a budget request for a part-time medical investigator. And that was good, you approved that in the budget process. And I think I made essentially a mistake. I should have asked for a full time instead of a part time. I was trying to respect the wishes of not a lot of new employees. But the downside of that decision was that we had some FMLA and sick invocation time. So if you have four investigators and they're sick, one investigator, if you have an investigator that takes six, one investigator, if you have an investigator that takes eight weeks of FMLA, when everybody was already gaining eight hours, every two weeks of mandatory overtime, now people are covering that shift that's absent for eight weeks. We have a balloon in overtime charges. In fact, I think you see the budget office and I want to thank Donna and her staff, Johnna, particularly she's got a migraine over this, I know. But what's happened is these overtime costs have just gone through the roof. And I'm already aware in the same fiscal year of at least an eight week FMLA experience that's upcoming. So we're struggling, and so we're already going to have to ask you for a lot of overtime money. This conversion, if I've done the math right and if we've worked with the budget office correctly, this conversion of a part time to a full time in this fiscal year will actually save roughly $3,000 from what we're going to have to request if you don't approve it. So if you don't approve the change, that's certainly your prerogative, we're going to have to charge the overtime through the end of the fiscal year, and that will be more than converting the part time to full time, and it's a difference of about $2,800. So we're going to have to pay the piper either way, and choice here as a resource. He can tell you about this and the reasons for this are simple. We're we're understaffed and our workload is increasing. So what happens is if you're serving the shift today and then we have another call. If we if we have another call of a death and you're about to have a shift changed, that investigator still has to finish that shift and we've got a call in another investigator to take over maybe outside of shift and that's just because we're understaffed. There's not humans for the hours in the day, particularly when we've had the FMLA impact that we've had. And again, I know of an upcoming FMLA experience in this fiscal year. If I could just add to the further defend his case, last year when we had our public hearing on the budget, I think I spoke up and mentioned that we may have been remiss in not recommending this fee full time. And that we might be coming back to you during the year. So here we are. We think it's going to save us money and you're going to see a new request for next year for an additional position just to get them out of the hole. They're already at their maximum levels of comp time and we're required to pay them time and a half. So you're going to see that and we're going to do everything we can and our power to recommend that. Thank you, Matt. Are there already carrying the max? Is that right, Troy? Yeah, and that's right. Gustav has already done the report as well. We have a motion. We have a motion. A motion that's second. Yes, we have a motion. The second further question. Comments hearing none all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye, post and in motion to scary. Thank you very much. Okay, item 10 is discussion and approval of right away dedication of flow court to Denton County and of adding the roadway to the county maintenance system. This is Commissioner Prussend for. For approval motion by Commissioner Eads. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. for the regional strategy for managing stormwater in North Central Texas in the amount of $3,70. I'm in for a pool. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Eads. Hearing no questions on favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Posting. Motion carries. TNC is a proletor request. I've request to hold a public hearing. Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 9 a.m. To consider a special use permit to the Lake River Roberts Land Use Ordinance Effect of February 24, 2009. The property of located that this is account number R 224135, Oxbow Estates Block A lot five for a total of 4.77 acres. This is increasing one, a special use permit is recommended by the Lake River Roberts Planning and Zoning Commission in the Dantle County Public Works Department. I move for approval. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Eads. On favor please say aye. Aye, post, in a motion carries. 10 days approval of the final flat for Bosch. Is that Bosch? Ridge edition. We can also take 10 E at the same time, which is approval of the minor flat for Tucker holding to addition. They're both in Commissioner. Let's go ahead and take 10 F also. This is approval of preliminary flat for Artesia retail. They're on Commissioner Chris and Flan. But you know what Bosch means? Hand been for Minnesota. I'm going to ask for a commission to be on the floor. I'm going to ask for a commission to be on the floor. I'm going to ask for a commission to be on the floor. I'm going to ask for a commission to be on the floor. I'm going to ask for a commission to be on the floor. I'm going to ask for a commission to be on the floor. I'm going to ask for a commission to be on the floor. I'm going to ask for a 10G is approval of the preliminary plan for the legacy branch phase one. Also, this is in commission precinct four. I'm looking for approval. Motion by Commissioner Eads. I'll second. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Commissioner Coleman. On favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. Post and E. Motion does carry 10H's approval of change order number four. They didn't kind of Charlie Cole re-roof for this is a zero dollar impact But it's for a time extension of 24 days due to weather impact delays for the month of January 2017 I'm looking for approval I can motion by commissioner Eid seconded by commissioner Coleman. Oh in favor please say aye I post in a motion is carried one favor please say aye. Aye, Poe, Cine. Motion is carried. 12 a is approval of the non-entry 24 hour terminal agency agreement between Denk County Sheriff's Office of Denk County Community Supervision and Corrections Department. I move quickly. We have a motion by Commissioner Coleman. Thank you. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. On favor please say aye. Aye, Po, any? Motion does carry. 13A, I don't have any policies for you, but it's been an interesting time in the legislature. I got a text from former State Representative Fred Hill just yesterday. And I said the apple carts been slightly upset. They've defeated a motion to limit the number of amendments for Senate Bill four, commonly known as the Bathorn Bill, which comes up Wednesday. This means they can continue to offer amendments without ceasing as long as they can continue to ask questions and speak for ten minutes. At some point in the morning hours of Thursday, there will be motions offered to call for the previous question, which will require 25 seconds. And eventually the body will become worn down to the extent that everyone gives up and wants to go to bed. When that happens, it will be over. But the important thing is that a bunch of bills, scheduled to be heard in committee on a German Wednesday will be delayed possibly into the following week. Act when Senate Bill 2 and House Bill 15 is heard. Later they are hearing the more difficult it will be for them to pass. We will just have to see how this all plays out and he's going to keep me advised. So I may or may not be going to Austin next week. Interesting process. So I don't have any positive statements. So we'll get to the two that have been brought up today and have been ready for next week. 13B is approval of acceptance of the certificate of completion certified in the continuing education provisions to detect the slow-code government code article 81.0025 has been satisfied by Commissioner Hugh Coleman for the calendar year 2016. Motion by Commissioner Eads, seconded by Commissioner Coleman. All in favor, please say aye. Aye, pose in aye. Motion does carry 13C is approval of boundary changes to county election precincts and commissioner precincts. And we have Frank Fertz, Phillips with the system on the committee. Frank, thank you for waiting. Good morning, Judge and commissioners. I have before you really, it's almost two items you may want to consider, Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? Any further questions? are, I breached active voter population of 5,000 or more. We historically look at ones that are, we start looking at about 4,000. And see if there's any room for growth. And if there is room for growth, we go ahead and split those out too. So we're recommending that we had eight, nine precincts that were 5,000 or more. We had nine that were 4,000 or more, we had 9,000 or 4,000 or more that have significant room for growth and already have development within those precincts. We met with both Democratic and Republican parties and unanimous agreement with the recommendations that are before you today. These would become effective in January 1 of 2018. Hold on just a second please. We actually have two items here. One is boundary changes to county election precincts and commissioner precincts. Did you want to? Yeah, I'll go ahead and address the second. If you'll look, I mean, you could take one motion I suppose, but if you, uh, I just want to make sure everybody's in the Green bit before we do if you look at precinct 2028 There's a very small Actually, it's the it's the one we have it drawn on precinct 1036 And precinct 2035. Back after the 2010 census and we redistricted our commission of precincts, we followed the city limits of Frisco. Since then, Frisco has incorporated a small area and they've built out some houses and the small area that if you can see, get it in right here. What that does is it has the citizens that are currently in 1036, they go vote in Frisco and the ones that were in the other precinct, they have to go up to Lil' Lamp. So the city of Frisco has been requesting for some time that that small portion Redistricted and that's a commissioner precinct change because that is a commissioner precinct line Court does have the authority to make that change and You can make that effective when you want it. It's not have to be January It could be effective immediately. Now we would I would request July 1st effective date. If you choose to go that route simply so we can make it through our but we can make it through our May elections and the associated June runoff and then we could have that change made before the November election. So those voters could go vote and then you're precinct. So does it change the city, the city boundary? I mean, the changing that is it go over to the state within the city. It cooperates at all end of Frisco. Because right now we have neighbors that are voting, some are voting in Frisco and the guy right across the street has to drive up to Little Lamb. Correct. Okay. One. Right. No way. And put an additional property. Okay. Found out being in Commissioner Lawrence, for you to think. Okay. That makes sense. And I'm, I'm,. That makes sense. And I try to keep communities together. Sure. I told you. And then Frank, the other splits and the 4,000s, you know, are doing the maps that those are staying within the cities. You know, it's important that we keep the cities together. Right. And that's one of our main goals. If you'll notice, I'm gonna use 1,000 floors in example because it's an extreme split this time. We've taken that from one precinct to five. And a lot of that is because of the growth on 380, because we had the city limits of prosper, little lamb, the community of Savannah, Salina, and part of pilot point all of one precinct. So what that meant is either the pilot point and Salina people were having to come all the way south to boat or the other way around everybody had to go north. So we've tried to split that into Savannah's community. We got the little portion portioned out, prosperous its own, the portion of the county that includes Salina is its own and the unincorporated portion of North, which has a small part of Pollock Point and there will become its own prison. That way, how do the 21 communities together? How do the 21, voting precincts that we had the split because they were over and they can 5,000 12 when precinct one. That's indicative of almost 60,000 people that have been added. And if you remember during 2010, I was already on the high side, we barely made it under the 10%. Plus or minus and when I was talking to the office of state demographics, I know maybe, you know, in some instances, 75,000 people more than like Bobby Mitchell just because of the rampant growth of doing something wrong. But, you know, I'm going to plan to help try and do some redistricting, but we're not gonna do it immediately. It needs to be done just because of the, you need to be within the paradigms of the Department of Justice rules, no more than a 10% plus or minus. But I think any kind of redistricting like that needs to be done by a committee and thoughtful. All this is to clean up that everybody who lives in that retirement community votes at the same place. And keep in mind when when we originally grew those precinct lines, that was the city that was not developed as just a natural process of development. We're not going to bulk in either the Corinthians put it down right. Exactly. and I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can that. I just wanted to make sure that. I'm ready to be big, but I'm just going to get bigger. Okay. We have a motion by Commissioner Marchand. Oh, it's actually by the way. I'm sorry. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Marchand. Any further discussion or clarification? Hearing none on favor, please say aye. Aye. I pose aye. Motion is carried. Thank you. Okay, 14A is approval of amendment number three to the engineering services contract between Dinkini, Texas and TransSystems Corporation in the amount of $13,380.90 for a total revised contract amount of $704,537.90 for engineering services related to reconstruction of the Arvon Hill Stewart, US 377 intersection design. Let's find in to come from Commissioner Pristink I, County Road Projects, Rock Hill Road, Arvon Hill Road, Auditor line item 667-4359020. I move for approval. Second. The motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Eads. Hearing no discussion, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye, Poe, Cine. Motion is carried. 14 B is approval of a amendment 1 to agreement for architectural services between Dan County, Texas. And I can consult and group the LLC for the Dan County Torx building. This is remedial upgrade in the amount of $17,000 funding to come from 2016 capital replacement fund auditor lie item 8066979010 is recommended by director purchasing death flowing a debt and kind of construction manager doing smatter. Any other questions on this issue? Do we have a motion? I'll send them. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Marchant. Hearing the questions on favor, please say aye. Aye, aye, post-cenae. Motion is carried. We have an addendum item 16A, which is approval of 2017 Homeland Security Grant Program, request to submit a grant application for the urban area security initiatives for two projects. This is posted by emergency services. Are there questions? The motion by Commissioner Eads. Chair, we'll second the motion hearing no discussion on favor please say aye I Motion does carry I'd like to briefly go back to item number one for a public comment by myself Unfortunately Recently Commissioner who common libeled me on his Facebook page claiming that I did not disclose the 1994 purchase of investment property. This is not true. I have with me today a copy of the personal financial report for the 1995 property listing this property as an asset. Over 17 years before it was purchased by a text thought. Anyone that would like to come look at this report is welcome to do so. Jim and I have served the people of Denton County for 40 years and have lived in the glass house. Never once have we not filed a proper report. Well, you know, speaking of libel, I think you mentioned that I was fined by a federal judge for hiding evidence, Mary. I did. You did when you were supporting my opponent and you stated that. I have worked for the counting since 1998. I never saw and I checked personal financial statements. I checked and you never disclosed that and you never disclosed it to the court. And when you were the person leading the charge, I 35. So if you want to choose me, you know what? Sue me if you want, I really don't care. But you know what, let me go ahead and go through the stuff that you've done. There was a tree farm that you voted on and I was at the DA's office. And we explicitly told you that you were not supposed to be involved. There was a gas station center that was up on missile base road. You own property near there. You told BJ Lewis from the Denton Record Chronicle that you had no property interest nearby. You held stuff in a trust for which the trust never disclosed the rest. And that's what you listed on your personal property, personal statement. So I don't really think that this is appropriate time to discuss this. But if you want to talk about it, I'm more than willing to. You could have called me. Obviously have a different question. And since I've been on the commissioners court, you've never, never publicly disclosed, even though you were the lead person on I-35, that you benefited to the tune of a million dollars for the sale of that real estate. Misshire Cohen, you were not on the court when I disclosed that and I'm sorry you missed it. Ladies and gentlemen, courts of Derm, have a great day. Derm have a great day.