Good evening ladies and gentlemen, the County Commissioners Court for Tuesday, September 6, is now in session. This morning, I should say this evening, our indication of being given by a Nick Pearson, who is pastor, cross timbers, teaching teaching pastor I believe, correct? And our pledges will be led by Addison Eads. Will you please stand? Let's pray. Oh God, thank you so much for what you have for us to do here. Lord, may we lead well, may our decisions be clear, may you give us wisdom, Father, to do the right thing, and Father, thank you for all these individuals who desire to do what is best. We pray all these things in your awesome and amazing name. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God. One indifisible. Well, thank you, gentlemen. Item one is for public input, for items not posted on the agenda. If there's any member of the public that would like to address Mr. Court, we ask that you please complete a public comment form. They're available on the side table, to remind everyone please turn off cell phones, pages, any electronic device that might be disruptive. We have two public comment forms. One has asked to speak on a specific agenda item but this first one is Mr. Willie Hutzbeth, Mr. Hutzpeth, good evening. There's Willie Hutzpeth, I live in 623 Newton. This is nice to me. You know, I like dark things. So being at night is great Anyway, Mr. Co. Commissioner Coleman. I look around here and I got a you a right brother But I think if you have more of these and they'll get used to it. So I don't care. I'm just here I like it. I'm glad that you were here tonight and I think it's a it's a better way to get to have citizens participate. That's my thought. Now, I want to remind myself in YouTube that all lives matter. Now, I found that that happens even when I'm driving my car. I'm old. I'll be dead soon. My wife keeps telling me, could say that, waiting for all the kids to grow and go. So when people cut me off when I'm driving, the thought comes to mind, all lives matter. Quit talking negative about those people who cut you off. Slow down. Let them go. We'll all get there that way. And I say to you. We got a quick doing that. And I almost went home from Corinth the day. The sirens were coming and they were passing me trying to get to something. And just before that, going to Corinth, someone just cut me off. I don't know why people do that. Commissioner Coleman, but they just cut me off. I was picking up. And he got said, you'll get there, just slow down. Sure enough, on the way home, I saw a car that was re-ended. When you get re-ended, that bad, somebody's hurt, and that car really, really bad. And he said, it could have been you. So just slow down. Now my statement for the night is, I'm inviting all of you to come out, Saturday, from 10 to 12. We're going to have a time with the people who started this keynote and some of those who are just silent supporters and one guy that we know has a family member buried there. He'll be there. And it's just the time at the grave site to just walk around and do like I do. Just enjoy yourself. Just walk around that quiet, beautiful place with us. For how long you want to come? It's from 10 to 12 this Saturday and I invite all of you to come if you can. Thank you. Thank you. Members, we're going to first go to item 7a on the agenda, which is the public hearing of the proposed fiscal year 2016, 2017 didn't kind of budget and we'll call on Donna Stewart. Good evening, judge and commissioners. I have a PowerPoint presentation today to take us through the budget process. It seems rather lengthy, but we are all familiar with this information, but the public may not be. So you're gonna see some duplicate information you've seen throughout the process, but we wanna make sure everyone understands this. As I mentioned, the budget process began for us in February, where we had the initial budget meeting with commissioners and you established your priorities and goals for this process to help us in drafting a recommended budget. In March, packets were distributed to departments. They were submitted to us in April. And we worked through those budget requests and presented you with a recommended budget on July the 19th. We had our first workshop on July 26th, which was the budget workshop for any department that felt like their budget wasn't sufficient for them to operate. August 2nd and 9th we had workshops with the court and we filed the budget for public inspection as we're required to do on September 1st and of course we're here tonight to go over that public hearing handout and we hopefully will adopt the budget and tax rate shortly thereafter. There are several legal requirements with this public notice process. We have posted notice in the Dintnric Chronicle according to the provisions in the local government code and that specific article ran on August the 19th. We also posted the notice on our main page of the website on that same day. And then again we filed a copy of the proposed budget with the county clerk, the county auditor, and our office on September 1st for public inspection. And again the entire proposed budget, the 700 page document was posted on the main page of the website as well. Just to give a recap initial request were submitted to us totaling over $273 million. That was an increase of $18.1 million. That would have required an estimated tax rate at the time of 0.252957, which was equated to a 2.412% tax rate increase. So just to give you a quick comparison, the current budget that we're working under now totals over $254 million and the budget that's being proposed for adoption tonight is $265 million, $613,432. That is a proposed increase of $10 million, $722,912. This is just a quick report here to show you the various funds we have in the county. This really shows just a very brief summary of that and how it's broken down. You can see general fund is our most, it's our operating budget that most everything falls within unless it is required to be tracked separately. We actually have 23 separate funds in the budget. Six that are partially funded with property taxes that includes our general fund, juvenile probation, indigent care, road and bridge, public health and our debt service fund. Then there are 17 other funds that we have in our budget that are paid for with special revenue or user fees. We're going to talk a lot about the effective tax rate. This is the rate that will provide taxing units with approximately the same amount of revenue it had in the year before on properties taxed in both years. So generally if values increase the effective rate, we'll go down and if values decrease the effective rate we'll go up. And that's to make sure that we are able to maintain the same level of revenues from year to year. New property value is very important to Denton County. This year, well it generates new revenue for us to help offset property value that's lost or on first time exemptions on the role. The taxing units deduct new property value from the appraised values and that's all a part of the effective rate calculation. So new property values for Denton County this year are total 7,158,2010 dollars in new funds to help us with this proposed budget. That is actually an increase of $108,000. This is a quick little history just to show you what new property values had meant to dent county over time. This is a little tenure history that shows that in 2007-8 we received about $5 million in revenue. And when we went through bad economic times, you can see from starting in 2009, down to 2012, those values declined significantly. But then when the economy changed some in 2014, we saw that going back up. And this year we're at actually a record high as far as I can tell on going back in my history of being here that F7.2 million dollars. So that's a good sign didn't county as you all know is booming and growing and everywhere we look there's new buildings and construction going on that benefits didn't count. This is a summary of our current tax rate and our proposed rate. The current rate this year is 0.262 per $100 of value. The effective rate this year, again, that's the rate that will bring in the same amount of revenue as it did for us last year, was 0.248409. There's a rollback tax rate so if we were to exceed that rate that opens up a public scrutiny of the rate and a possible election that could roll our tax rate back. That rate would have been 0.261945 but we are actually proposing the effective tax rate tonight at 0.248409. That's a variance of just under a penny. It's 0.013591 cents less. Again, we're proposing the effective tax rate. This will give you an idea of what that right means to us in value, total taxable values in Denton County, total 77 billion, 171 million, 230,232 dollars. That means to the county, based on the effective tax rate that we're considering tonight, is $191,700. $191,700,281. This is a quick recap of average home owner in Denton County. You'll see from this chart, the average home value for Denton County is now at $274,839. As you may or may not recall last year that rate, but that value was $253,066. So you'll see from looking at this house, basically, school district taxes of what makes up 62% of your tax bill, city taxes here in Denton would make up 28%, and your Denton County rate would make up 10%. This is just another quick visual to show you what you would pay in monthly taxes on that same home. It would be $57 in county taxes, $353 in school district taxes, and $157 in city of Denton taxes. Again, these are the proposed rates for each entity. Just another visual that shows if someone owns a hundred thousand dollar house based on our current tax rate they would pay $262 a year currently or if based on the right we're proposing tonight it would be $248.41 which is a decrease of $13.59 a year or $1.13 a month. And we've got that same visual for you based on that same home owner value. The average home value would be $37.36 less per month or $3.11. I'm sorry, that's permit. This is a 10 year history of our tax rate. You'll see just from looking at this. This the rate we're proposing tonight is lower than the rate was in 2009 seven years ago This compares top counties in Texas, the top 10 most populated counties. This combines all of their tax rates that are levied countywide. And then county, of course, we only have one tax rate that's countywide that shows us in purple and everyone else. It includes all their combined rates. So they may have a hospital district rate, they may have a port authority or flood control district, community college, et cetera. So that shows you in comparison what Denton County's tax rate would be to all citizens versus the other counties. This is a bill just with the it would show that same home value if you lived in Collin County, Tarrant County or Dallas County compared to what didn't county taxes are. So you'll see if you lived in Tarrant County, you'd be paying $1818 a year compared to $683 here in Ditton County. We also did some research of all counties in the whole state, all 254. Last year you may recall that there were nine counties that had a lower rate than we do. This year based on our proposed rate and everyone's rate for last year, there are only three counties that would have a lower rate. Of course, that all depends on what rates they adopt this year. The rates range from $0.14 per $100 value, up all the way up to $1.19. That means the average rate for all counties would be $0.55 per $100 value. And again, we're proposing almost just under $0.25. $2.48409. This gives a 10-year history of employees in the county. You can see that employees only in the last 10 years have grown by only 230. That's a 16% increase in 10 years. Looking at the population of the county for that same period of time, you'll see the counties grown by 159,000 Which is a 26% increase This shows the top 15 counties comparing populations to employees and you'll see that dent in counties and for a Per 1,000 per capita is 2.21 and that range that the range throughout these 15 counties are 2.10 for Cone County all the way up to 4.38 in Brasora County. So that average if you average all of them together that's about 3.28 would be the average. So we're really 48% below the average on our employees per capita. Just another visual of the same thing that trends are history on that at the county. And we're still, of course, almost at a record low. The next chart will give us a quick recap of revenues that are included in the budget. Taxes from new property, as I mentioned before, is $7 million 158 to 10. We have additional money that was added to the tax road. During the year, these were properties that were under protest that were settled at a higher rate. So the county received the benefit of $651,000 from that. We have auto registrations are at $300,000. Inner governmental, which the best way to define that is primarily other forms of revenue that may be in the form of grants includes other things like mixed beverage taxes and also it's of other things. So that's up $1.7 million. These are up $1,161,000. That's primarily for county clerk, tax office office and our records are Calvin preservation fees so you can tell you know They how the economy is going we look at the fees collected and especially those large departments We saw a small decline or seeing a small decline and fines Those are particularly from a few JP courts, as well as some decline in counting district courts of $160,000. This year for the first time, we are seeing an increase in interest earnings about $481,000. So that brings the total revenue changes to $11.3 million dollars. This is a quick chart that summarizes how our revenues are derived with most of that being at 71% being property taxes, but the other 29% is made up of all the things we just discussed before. Property tax revenue by category. We just broke down for you how much was for residential, 76% of our revenue comes from residential properties, 23% from commercial and only 1% from mineral. Mineral values did decline. This chart last year showed 2% so we're seeing a decline in our mineral values This just lists the functions of the county including public safety All those departments are listed there such as running the jail the sheriff's department probation departments Our constables far service and emergency management Of course, we're responsible for maintaining the county roads and bridges. We run the criminal justice system, which is comprised of 22 district county and justice of the Peace Corps, the criminal DEA, district clerk, medical examiner services, and all of our security services. A debt service, that includes, when we refer to that, that's our long term debt that's used to fund roads and bridges, as well as some of our new county facilities. We have funds included for capital projects. Health and welfare includes running our health department, some funding for CPS, child protective services, as well as indigent health care. Our financial division includes our Auditor's Office, County Treasurer, Texas Assessor Collector, and the Budget Office. General Administration includes County Clerk, Commissioners Court, Human Resources, Purchasing Information Services, Elections, Veterans Services, Public Works, and a new Economic Development Department. Also, we have Facilities Management that maintains all of our various buildings. A quick summary of expenditure changes included in this budget includes a 5% pay scale adjustment for all employees, as well as the various benefits that increase along with that. Included in this budget, of course, is for the first time since 2012, we have included an increase in the retirement rate to provide our retirees with 80% of the CPI. So that total was $4,681,000. Repairs and maintenance, this is typically attached to our buildings, our computer software maintenance, any audio system maintenance, those types of things increased by over $2 million. We were able to include new hires in this budget. A total of 44.5 new hires, that total was $2,673,000. We have included some increase in our contingency, primarily for capital replacement fund, a few new hires that are going to be used for possibly needed for some of our new buildings, as well as some facility contingencies. That totals $1,758,000. A debt service payments are included. These are again, our long-term debt, pay for roads, technology and buildings. Total $1,474,000. We have a capital replacement fund. This year we were able to include an extra of $1,000,000. That's for road project planning contingency. These funds are, we don't really raise the tax rate for this or use tax money. We use our reserve funds when it gets to a certain level to help us handle these projects in the lieu of issuing long term debt. Professional services includes consultants, architect fees, security services, et cetera, are included at $811,000. As you know, we're picking up the remainder of our transportation consultant in the budget this year at an impact of $385,000. Missile English court expenses, those are typically court appointed attorneys or any other court ordered line on them such as psychological or placements in the area of juvenile. Total 372,000. Increasing our communications area that's for phone service, radio repairs, wireless service included at $340,000. Fire and ambulance funding increased this year. We're actually proposing to raise the fire call rate from $500 to $525. For the impact of $220,000, this is for all the fire departments that make calls to the unincorporated areas of the county for us. So we are able to increase that rate this year. Tax incentives, these are for tax rebates. We've included an increase of $147,000. Capital equipment purchases are up $133,000. We have about $150,000 included for some various reclassifications that were recommended. We have prisoner medical expense at 115,000 training and education. The insurance is up slightly. Radio purchases, we see a decline in that. That's because we had a large purchase last year. And so this year that line on them reduced significantly. We have Nisolaneous Supplies and Equipment Reductions totaling 265,000. Reductions in rental, that's our computer lease payments and miscellaneous office rent decreased by almost $800,000. And then we have less budgeted for buildings in our capital replacement fund. So that's just an internet shell, the expenditure side of the budget. This is a pie chart showing how our budget is divided out amongst public safety, financial, etc. So basically our law enforcement and judicial system make up 44% of our budget with our debt service being 20%. Our general administration and financial being 15%. Facilities and capital projects, total 9%, road and bridge, total 5% and are health and welfare in just Miss Alanguist, total 7. This is a quick breakdown that shows that 50% of our budget is for payroll and the other 50% is for maintenance and operation and capital expenditures. new employees. This year Department's requested 68.5 new hires. They're recommended budget included 36.5 and this proposed budget includes 44.5. They're all listed here but we're going to go into just a little bit more detail here in just a second. We've also included four new employees that are not in that count for that's in contingency and these are for the county clerk's office and the tax office. That's for the Flower Mountain Frisco government centers. These are, if the workload demands additional staffing, We have some money set aside for that. We have included 19 new employees. They're really tied to new buildings or new facilities. The county clerk would receive five new positions for Flower Mountain Frisco. They best for those positions to begin in January for a training period. The tax office for Flower Mountain Frisco as well had various starting dates, but they are receiving 10 new hires and the department will actually gain three additional positions from the colony building closure and those positions will be moved to Denton, Louisville and Carrollton, where we typically see long lines. So we're hoping that some of this move will, and the new centers will really help reduce the lines at those locations. Veteran Services asks for a new hire specifically for the Louisville Center that just opened. The law enforcement facility includes one. This is typical, this is for basically the new jail that was put online just recently. Facilities management asked for, actually several new hars, we've included one. And these are for the new buildings coming online and lose Bill Frisco and Flare now. Juvenile probation has asked for one position tied to Frisco and Crossroads. And again, as I mentioned earlier, there are four other positions tied to new buildings if work load warrants. This next chart says 13 new employees for work load increases that really is 12 and a half. Purchasing includes a senior buyer and this is primarily for road and building construction projects. As you know, we have lots going on at this time. Technology services includes three positions that include a database administrator. That's due to the just large number of databases that they maintain. There's a server engineer. We have a large increase in servers and application and storage capabilities. There's a new audiovisual technician to manage projects, systems, and productions. In public works, we have a development coordinator included. We've seen an 81% increase in permits in the last five years. That's significant. In the Prebate Court, there's a new court visitor coordinator position. This is because we are required to have annual visits for the 1200 wards that are under the direction of that court. Death investigations includes a part-time medical investigator. This is for a workload and just basic coverage. It's a part-time position. Quite frankly, looking at their recent overtime and all that probably could have been a full time position. It's probably something we'll have to address in the near future. The criminal district attorney, this is a felony prosecutor one that's needed for all of our specialty courts. In the Sheriff's Communications Division, there are five officers included and this is specifically tied to fire and EMS for them to have their own separate change. There is one new position for that's included for a Trans-Use Turn period for the budget office. There's one new employee for a new program, and this is the Economic Development Department that was created with an Economic Development Coordinator. This position will assist the court with all the opportunities, including preparing all the various data that's needed for you to make your decisions when it comes to that. We have nine new employees included for Juvenile Provation. Two are tied to the actual Juvenile Provation Department. That's a probation officer and an ISP officer that stands for intensive supervision. They support the juvenile mental health court. Juvenile detention includes six new hires. These are juvenile supervision officers based on current coverage needs. And also to be in compliance with a new law that's called Prison Rate Elimination Act. Are we called it PREA? This has to be, they have to increase their ratio by October of 2017. But because there are, you have in shortages with staffing and just covering your areas, we decided to implement that a year early. Grant A, mental health. This is a councilor position. Again, directly related to the PREA and new safety standards based on various seclusions that they have to have. We have two new employees for public health clinical. That's the assistant director of public health. It's really a transfer of a position from the two grants that are funding the position now. So it will be now under the Public Health Clinical Division fully funded there. This will free up some grant funding to assist with actual program needs. to assist with actual program needs. There's a local licensed vocational nurse position based on the primary care needs in the Lewisville area and also necessary due to the closing of Christian community action. But as you know, they closed their clinic, leaving 1900 patients without primary care service. So we're having to increase our staffing in the health department. Also included were some various reclassification, equity adjustment and job title changes. There were 34 reclassifications requested. 22 were included in the recommended budget. And 35 are subject to approval tonight with the adoption of this budget. There were 23 job total changes also included. This is a quick recap of the number of employees and by division. So you'll see those are listed there. Public Safety, I would say our criminal justice system, which is public safety judicial and legal, total 71% of our budget. Road and bridge, public health and facilities, total 11, and the rest is tied to general administration, financial, et cetera. So, etcetera. This is a list of our various contingencies. As you know, things happen throughout the year that we may not be aware of or when the legislature's meeting, which is going to start up early this next year. There are things that happen that we don't anticipate and need funds for. So we have $965,000 included in what we call regular contingency. We're also self-insured on our vehicles, other than mobility. So we have $100,000 included there. Court ordered contingency. We actually sort of under budget these expenses by court now because from year to year court to court You never know exactly what type of case they're gonna have so we traditionally budget those low Because once they're budgeted in a department's budget. You can't really need those funds So you see a lot of amendments and you see some probably tonight on regular agenda as we do that money out To the courts as they get low on funding. Insurance contingencies included at $25,000. Law suit settlement contingency at $100,000. Contingencies included at $303,000. This is in case we lose a grant and the program needs to stay in the budget. We have utility and gasoline contingency at $200,000. Fire call contingency at $100,000. This is all tied to weather. If we have really dry, drought times, fire calls can change significantly. So it's good that we have some money on hand in case that happens. We have funds for out of county prisoner contingency at $150,000. We did include the court suggested and we earned $35,000 for possible homeless funding in the shares budget. And we have personnel contingency totaling 468,866. So the total included in contingency is about $4.59 million. And just to break down of the personnel contingency, typically we include funds in case CSCD requires us to hire another employee to help in an area that state funds won't pay for. We also have two, as we mentioned, potential county clerk employees for new buildings at 60,000. Two potential tax office employees for the same. Possible salary adjustments you'd mid year after surveys or included it to an 18,000, 866. And then just a small amount for he payroll shortages that may be needed for some of the smaller departments that don't have a lot of turnover. We have also just issued text notes and so we've included many in our debt service payments for that. That includes a project for story-jerry network at $2.4 million. project for StoryJerry Network at $2.3 million. Lee Walker government center to complete that project is about $2.5 million in additional dollars and then architect fees tied to the Charlie Cole juvenile services building and court renovation. So we just recently issued just under $6 million at a super low interest rate. I think it was 1.1% or so. 1.1%. Capital replacement fund summary. We have many included for some furniture for the Lee Walker government center and the Southwest courthouse. We have budgeted all of our replacement computers and literally seeing them. This is our second year to be doing that. Architect fees are included. ADA repairs. Just various repairs and maintenance. That would include the PAYVER replacement project and RIF repairs at the courts building and a possible new fence for the historical part. There's also contingency funds included. As you know, we have several new projects under construction now. There's always the potential of bids coming in above budget or change orders that may be necessary. So we have some money in case that happens. Road project planning, I mentioned earlier, is included at a million dollars. And then capital, computer equipment is also included for network for facilities, as well as our county wide network project. Countywide Network Project. I want to just talk a little bit about the financial condition of the county and you can tell a lot based on the county's bond rating and the fact that we have the highest possible credit score given to a government. I think is it real true testament to the financial burdens and of our counting? What does the bond rating actually mean? This is a grade that's assigned by private rating services such as Standard and Poor's and Moody's where they evaluate a bond issue's financial strengths or its ability to pay those funds back in a timely fashion. There are bond ratings expressed with letters ranging from A's, triple A's, which is the highest, to a rating of a C, which is the lowest. And of course, you all just got an email recently that our bond rating was reaffirmed again by Moody's and standards and pours at triple rate rating. So we have the best bond rating that's possible. So just a quick recap from what Moody's said about our financial situation is that the stable outlook reflects the county's stable economy and conservative budgeting, which will enable it to maintain solid financial performance and reserves. Standard employers said the stable outlook reflects their opinion that then county will likely continue to benefit from its location to the DFW allowing for continued tax-based growth. The county, oops, I'm sorry. The outlook also reflects an expectation that the county will likely maintain its very strong vegetarian flexibility and strong vegetarian performance. Just a quick overview, I promise I'm finishing up here. I think this budget, I think it's a great budget. We're lowering the tax rate by over a penny. And that means a lot to our citizens. We're actually lowering it by .13591, which is just a lower opinion. Again, the budget's a very sound financial plan. We're gonna be able to continue to provide and improve services to our citizens. And the most important thing I think is that we're able to reward our employees for their hard work and dedication by including various reclassifications, as well as a 5% pay scale adjustment to get our employees closer to the market. Leading us with a more competitive pay scale. As you all know, we've got a ways to go, but we're chipping at it year after year, and hopefully in the next couple of years, we'll be at the point where our salaries will be a lot more competitive. It just can't be done overnight. Expenses are included to bring on these new satellite centers for flyer mounting for SCO. We have additional staff that were able to include to assist with increased workload. We did reduce expenses when it was feasible. And we are going to be able to maintain a sufficient reserve level. There's lots of information available on the county's website as well as the budget office website. And so after today you'll be able to click into that and see the adopted budget assuming it gets adopted as presented. You can still see the proposed budget that we're looking at tonight as well. So at that point I think we're ready for any questions or comments from the public or any questions that you as members of this body have. Okay, thank you so much, Donna. For the members of the public, there's copies of our PowerPoint presentation that are up on the front. Calder here if anybody would like to help themselves to a copy. We have one public comment form this evening from Michael Sibley who come to the microphone please My name is Michael Sibley. I live at 3992 Hartley Field Road in Denton, Texas. I'm a Denton County Sheriff's Office employee. I'm an investigator and I'm a member of the Denton County Law Enforcement Association. And I'm going to read an article that I wrote to a Denton Record Chronicle and to the I don't want to upset anyone. If your name is brought up, it wasn't meant to be. I took it right out of the newspaper. So at this point, I'll begin. The Dint Record Chronicle reported on 7, 20 of 16 that Dint and County officials, Dint and County commissioners court led by Dint and County Judge Mary Horne. We're going to propose lowering the property tax rate by more than a penny. And now understand that it's a little bit more than a penny. According to their numbers, this reduces the homeowner's property taxes by approximately $1.66 per month for $150,000 home. Here's an idea. Use that money to increase the pay for didn't county share patrol deputies, mid-level patrol supervisors, and all investigators and their mid-level supervisors. Not everyone in Dintin County encounters a deputy on a daily basis but didn't county deputies encounter citizens and non-citizens each and every day each and every hour. People are now seeing the inherent dangers of police work. Didn't county deputies patrol the county alone? Didn't county investigators are usually alone when following up on criminal activity? Deputies responding to critical calls often have to wait for backup for several minutes while deadly escalation only takes seconds. Recently we have seen the deadly violence against police officers that is ravaging our nation and heard continued threats against law enforcement. Your Dyn County deputies put their lives on the line daily for safety and security of Dinton County residents. As budget officer Donna Stewart told the County Commissioners on Tuesday, July 19, 2016, I think the departments have been asked to do more with less, where actually a growing county. In 2009, Dinton County hired evergreen solutions LLC to study compensation issues for county employees. According to the survey, the pay discrepancy for patrol deputy in Dinton County was over 15% below the market average. That margin has continued to increase. According to published pay scales, the first year officer at Dinton Police Department earns $14,500 more than a first year deputy at the Denton County Sheriff's Office. In recent months, deputies with up to 15 years of experience have left the county for entry level positions at nearby departments for a pay raise. The Dallas Morning News dated 724-2016 post-iron article stating that Dallas police officers were flooding to Fort Worth Police Department for raises of 10 to 15,000 for entry pay. When pay raises were brought up by the Sheriff's Office at Commissioner's Court this year, some of the commissioners responded. You can leave because there are 400 more people ready to take your job. And also, we can't give a raise to law enforcement without giving a raise to road and bridge. So we can't give a raise to law enforcement without giving a raise to road and bridge. We in law enforcement in Denton County believe in the safety and security of all citizens, believe in our duty to respond to critical incidents, and believe in our obligation to protect and serve. We do not believe that our job should be compared to road and bridge. My intent in writing this letter is to gather support from Denton County citizens to help convince the commissioner's court that law enforcement deserves better. Bring our pay scale equal to other departments in the county and surrounding area. We want Denton County to continue to grow and to be a place to live, a great place to live. Why not use that dollar and sixty-set per month tax decrease incentive toward equal pay for personnel sworn to keep the peace no matter the risk we believed in county citizens are willing to back the blue. Thank you very much. Anything else sir? No ma'am. Thank you. That's the only public comment for them I have was something else been added. I believe not. Any comments from members of the commissioners court? I've got one. I don't recall anybody saying that there are 400 people ready to take their job and any commissioners. I know I didn't say it and so I hope no one else said. That's the only comment I have. I hope no one else is. That's the only comment I have. Well, I don't mean to be an appreciative of the great job that law enforcement does in Denver County. At the same time, we've done enough a lot of employees in every department to do a great job and their faithful employees. Gosh, we do retirement resolutions here in this courtroom all the time. People have been here 25, 30 years. That takes great dedication. And as we are discussing, they're not here for the big bucks. They're here because they enjoy doing the job and they are appreciated. I'm glad that we were able to see our way clear to the 5% slide in the pay scale this year because it not only addresses everybody's salary, but it addresses the people that are maxed out too. So they, for change, get an increase. I'm glad we're able to do that. The same time, you know, we want a tight line here. We want to be always recognizing the burden of John Cude's citizen homeowner, which as you saw from Donna's Firepoint presentation, the residential homesteads bear the burden of the majority of the taxes that are support the operation of the county and so we're always cognizant of that so it's it's hard to try and do right by everybody and we can't yes we did that evergreen study and certainly law enforcement was behind the other departments were behind also and you can't do it all at one time. Rightly so you'd have a taxpayer revolt. So we've been chipping away on it and we've done I think a pretty good job of doing that every year and far as I can see I think the intention is to continue doing that every year and far as I can see, I think the intention is to continue doing that. But I think we've come up with a logical, frugal budget here that addresses a healthy increase for employees that they're certainly deserved and it also addresses things that we want to do, that we need to do, that addresses the needs of a rapidly growing county and still bottom line keeping an eye on what we're doing to the homeowners that support the majority of our budget. So I don't mean to be unappreciative and I don't certainly don't want to be disrespectful, but As far as I'm concerned, I think we've done a good job with this budget and we'll look at it again next year I'm certainly not opposed to that and I don't believe any other members of the court are either but there's only so much that we can do at one time and So with that, there's any other questions or comments? Anybody want to add anything? Just one more point of clarification. It's a court order to adopt the same tax rate that we have now. It would be above the rollback rate. So we would put our whole process in jeopardy. Yeah, we would, because once you get back, then there's laws that kick in. We'd be holding more hearings. We'd be required to have other notifications in the newspaper. And that would probably push us past our deadline. There's also a law that says that the county doesn't have our tax rate adopted by the end of September. By law it's set for us. It's a calculated effective rate or last year's rate, whichever is least, which that's what we're adopting or proposing to adopt tonight is our calculated effective tax rate. So good point. Did you have anything else you wanted to? I'm sorry. Donna. Not at this time. OK. Well, members, all the items, yeah. Were we supposed to officially open that as a public hearing? And we're supposed to officially open that as a public hearing, which I don't think we did, really. I don't believe we did. All right, let's go ahead through the motion. We're motion by Commissioner Mitchell, signaled by Commissioner Eads on the favor of police AI, high post and aid, motion carries. Now. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell, seconded by Commissioner Eads on favor, please say aye. Aye, pose, aye, motion carries. Now, anyone in attendance that would like to make additional statements concerning the proposed budget and tax rate for next year? Hearing none, do we have a motion to close the public hearing? Motion by Commissioner Eads, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell, on favor, please say aye. Aye, pose, aye, aye. Thank you. The way these are worded and item seven B and seven C is exactly the way the law requires them to be stated. I always say that because when the legislature writes these laws, is like by go and make sure they state whatever and then it kind of comes out a little cock-eyed. So 7B is to approve the adoption of the fiscal year 2016-2017 Denton County budget in the amount of 265 and 6613,432. The chair is going to so move. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. Are there questions or comments? Very none. Only favor please say aye. Aye. Poe, C.N.A. Lucien does carry. 7C is approved of the adoption of the tax rate on $100 of taxable value. It didn't kind of for a tax year 2016, including point 182418 for the purpose of maintenance and operation expenditures and point 065991 for the payment of principal and interest of paid debt service for the total county tax rate of point 248409. This rate will raise more taxes for maintenance and operations than last year's tax rate. And that is my motion. Is there a second? Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. Questions or comments? Hearing none all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed Cine? Motion does carry. Donovan? Just a few acknowledgements that I'd like to make. The county auditor James Wells and his staff in particular, James Natalie Riggleman and Lila Timis, work real close with me during the budget process on all the revenue estimates and expenditure estimates for the current fiscal year. That's vital in making this a smooth process and I appreciate all their work. Purchasing plays a big role as well on Beth Fleming and Scott and their buyers and senior buyers help us with pricing and information like that to give us the best estimate that we can provide to you during the process. Human Resources Director Gustavo Hernandez and his staff in particular Michelle Brew, Crystal Amix, Shayna Williams, and Monica Graham have been very instrumental in various things, including salary surveys, insurance information as well as just preparing various budgets. It's been very helpful. Chief Information Officer Kevin Carr and his staff, Brian Keane, Sean and Sean Buchanan always do an excellent job helping us with the computer needs of the county. This year, Texas sister collector, Melector, Michelle, French, and Stacey, DuVorchette were very instrumental in getting us what I thought were up to date, weekly updates on our tax rate as the preliminary role information was put out. That's very important to James and I. We're looking at this and trying to give it our best guestiment. And I think it proved to be very helpful to have those weekly updates from them and we appreciate all their hard work on that. And then of course Ashley Deanna for Ken Clark's office for all she does to keep up with us during that Mad Dash, the last meeting of the year. So again, I appreciate it and I appreciate the court and your commitment to doing what's right for the taxpayer, as well as for the county and our employees. Last but not least, I can't forget my staff. They're all not at work. John and Max is Assistant Budget Officer, LeDon Fitzgerald, our Budget Endless, Shirley Joseph, our Budget Systems End analyst, and Donna Henrickson, our financial support specialist. They all do a great job. Y'all seeing lots of work from all these people the last few weeks with budget amendments and getting things cleaned up for the end of our fiscal year. So my hat's off to them for all that they do. And then my hat's off mainly to you guys for making the tough decisions, being supportive of us as we go through this process. And I think you all have done an excellent job. And I think this is a budget we can all be proud of. Yeah, yeah, for Donna. Yeah, we want to thank you, Donna, because She's the budget queen, isn't she? We appreciate you to thank you very much. We'd like to. And I'll be taking a few days off, and since I don't get a summer break, we'll be happy. But I would like to announce to the world that we have a new grandson. Yes, we have a new grandson. Very cute, by the way. And as I'll leave here, I'm going to go stay with them for a few days. So it's for you. You earned it for sure. Donna, I would like to say thank you so much for all your efforts year round. I mean, the budget cycle really is the year round. It's a year round process, and thank you so much and all your colleagues, I will tell you to our employees in the audience. And Donna is a great advocate for our employees as is our HR department. And in all of our conversations throughout the year, that is always one of the top priorities of our budget offices to respect our employees. And I believe the court shares that same sentiment. And Donna, you've been a wonderful advocate to champion the employees and the taxpayers and find that common ground and I appreciate your years of dedication and your viewpoint on that. So thank you. I appreciate that. So thank you. I appreciate that. Okay, members, I'd like to go to item 14H on the agenda. This is an option of a resolution and approval of a tax abatement agreement between Mary Kay Incorporated and Dimkani, Texas is recommended by the Dimkani Commissioner, precinct three. We have a guest representing Mary Kay with this this evening that has been very patient. So we hope to take this up soon. We don't totally ruin your evening. Did you just make the motion to a certain degree? Go right ahead. Thank Claire, Hansi and our DA's office and the roles for all their hard work on this item. This is a very exciting time for us. We're glad to have Mary Kate moving in to Louisville in a 330,000 square feet building. With a total initial investment of $100 million, $500 employees, a medium wage of $52,000. We're certainly glad to have you as a citizen of Den County. And if you'd like to have words, we'd like to. If you have any comments. You're not obligated to, but you're welcome to. Yeah. Really, just thank you. I really appreciate it. We have any coming you're not obligated to but you're welcome to yeah Really just thank you. I really appreciate it It's been a pleasure Claire was really great to work with and I appreciate all that y'all are doing for Mary Kay And we look forward to our partnership as we move forward and Miss Ross says that her and her children come up and walk around the courthouse then. So we're going to try to find her a house so she can move up here and become a didn't county citizen. Thank you for being here and thank you for all your hard work and thanks to Mary Kay for wanting to do business with the greatest county in the state of Texas. All right well I believe we have a motion by Commissioner Mitchell, second head by Commissioner Eads for the questions or comments. Here in Nunow in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. She full warned you didn't she? Motion does carry three in favor. One opposed. Thank you. Thank you for waiting. Okay. I'm going to slip up one. Yeah. Okay. All right members item two is the consent agenda or items on the consent agenda you need to have some discussion under we have a motion for approval. The motion by Commissioner Eads seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor please say aye. Aye, post, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye, pose, aye, nay. Motion carries. Consent agenda today consists of approval of the order-making appointments. We have a promotion of technology services. We have two new hires in the tax office, a promotion in the tax office, promotion in county jail. New hire, county jail, new hireire and Rodenbridge EASS to re-hire an adult probation, a promotion and juvenile detention, and Newhire in public health immunization. 2B is approval of the Intra Departmental Transfers to C as approval of payroll. 2D is approval of specifications and 30 to advertise or bid number 0 816 2381. Rotten Bridge West Foundation. 2E is approval budget amendment request 101 960 for landscaping expense or various county buildings. Any amount of $4,500. 2F is approval budget amendment request 101 970 for vehicle repairs and vehicle parts for Rotten Bridge precinct for in the amount of $50,000 to G is approval budget memo quest 10190 for various operating line-annis for county jail in the amount of $8,000 to H approval budget memo quest 10190 for computer software for healing resources in the amount of $2,695 to J. Pro-glob budget amendment quest 102-030 for various operating minotives for Constable Bursing 1, in the amount of $5,567 to K. Pro-glob budget amendment quest 102-040 for commitments for a probate court in the amount of $3,500 to L, approval of building use request from Sarah Sidington, the bridge church to use the Denton County Historical Park parking lot on Saturday, October 29, 2016. I'm forward to 9 p.m. for the purpose of trunk or treat. trunk or treat. And lastly, 2M is approval. Building use request from Nick Parsons cross-gymbers community church used the cortisone the lawn, cortisone the square lawn, north side, and basement restrooms on Tuesday, October 11, 2016, for the purpose of showing the movie, the goonies on the lawn from 5.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. Okay, five a.m. is approval of the bill report. Payments from the CSCB community corrections, TAI, P-Share, Shares, Trein Shares, Provincial VIT interests and VA forfeiture funds are represented for recording purposes only. Good evening, James Wells. Thank you, Dr. Smith The Civil Bill's as presented with the corrections in another separate page. It's five deletions for various, either per department or for processing areas. And in one addition, it is the payment of the official bond for one of the constables. Thank you very much. and you know, official bond for one of the council members. Do you have any questions or is there a motion? Motion by Commissioner Eads. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. Hearing the questions, all in favor, please say aye. Aye, opposed, aye. Motion carries. 6A is approval. Renewal of auto liability coverage and auto physical damage coverage from Texas Association of Counties Risk Management Pool for fiscal year 2017. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell, secular by Commissioner Eads. Hearing no questions all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Motion carries. 6B is approval renewal of general liability insurance coverage from Texas Association of County's Risk Management pool for 2017 I'm going for a pregnant motion by Commissioner Coleman second and by Commissioner Eads all in favor please say aye I post a name Motion does carry succeeds approval to declare a surplus. 10 Watch Guard, COP view body cameras to trade. Use this trade in for credit towards 10. Action the body cameras. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Post-synne. Motion does carry. What I Commissioner Eads, all in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposing. Aye. Motion does carry. Six D, the posting has been corrected or I should say the corridor has been corrected. This is a approval of ward of RFP 05162358, dem county pre-trial remodel to the SedalcoCO construction services in the amount of $4,993,500. So, funding to come from 2013 tax notes. This is auditor, line item 79752030, in the amount of $3,500,000. 2014 tax notes. This is auditor number 8275209020, in the amount of $694,000. 2015 tax notes, auditors number 7275279050 in the amount of 1,000, $66,000 and approval of the use of capitol replacement fund on appropriated contingency. This is Auditor line 9806810901010, any amount of $284,392. And that's Fleming with calling you. Good evening. I did submit some updated information today from the evaluation committee and we are recommending Sadako as the award adventer. We did receive eight proposals and narrowed our list to a competitive range of four firms and interviewed those firms. And all of the recommendations for the initial evaluation and the final one is all based on the evaluation criteria established in the RFP. During the evaluation process, it was determined that Zodaco had extensive knowledge of the Texas Jail Standards. Their proposal included a project manager and a supervisor have worked on many occupied jail renovations and they have shown those to be in compliance with jail standards. So they really excelled in those areas. Their schedule qualifications and experience demonstrate they could do this project successfully. So we are recommending approval and approval does include the use of the inappropriate contingency from the Capitol Replacement Fund in the amount of $284,392. We have a motion by Commissioner Eads. Seconded by Commissioner Coleman, other questions? Any minimum favour please say aye. Aye, Poe, Cine. Motion carries. Thank you, death. Six E is approval of specifications of 30 to advertise for RFP 06162370 for property management services. Appointment of evaluation committee to include Beth Fleming, Director of purchasing James Wells, County auditor, Danny Bromley Facilities Manager and John Felt, Chief of Civil Division DA. Judge, I do have one change to the specifications at the request of the Civil DA. On page 10 of 19 of the specifications item number 17. This is where we're asking the property manager institute on necessary legal actions or proceedings on the for the collection of rent or other income. And what we want to do is strike through the Civil Division of the District Attorney's Office and we'll have them be responsible for those duties independent. Okay. All right questions or comments do we have a motion? I'll move for approval. Motion by Commissioner Eads. Second. Seconded by Commissioner Cohn. Favorite please say aye. Aye,, Sen. motion does carry. Sixth, is approval of Ward. To business interiors, facilities and companies is the best value supply for RFP zero four one six two three five two TCP and furniture purchase southwest courthouse and fiscal government center. McCollum Bethling. We are recommending business interiors. McComb Bethlehem. We are recommending business interiors. This is a solicitation that went to five firms that could provide the product that we're looking for for both the Flower Mound and the Frisco government centers. And the recommendation is to the firm that scored the highest based on the evaluation criteria. This is based on cooperative contract crossing, national contract, and then we received an additional discount on top of that. So it'll be a good value for the counting, and we're recommending approval, so we can start discussions about actual pieces to buy. If when we admit to discuss the furniture package, we believe that this supplier has the inventory that we discussed. Yes, they will buy directly from the manufacturer. They have, they're a dealer for that company. So the Jasper desk company is the manufacturer and this is a dealer and they don't sell, Jasper does not sell directly. So you have to go through. So this is a dealer and they don't sell, Jesper does not sell directly, so you have to go through. So this is following the protocols we discussed that day with the, I'll move for a. And this is actually the same company that did the Lewisville project and did next on job force. Okay. I move for approval. And the motion by Commissioner Eads. Second. Seconded by Commissioner Coleman for the discussion. Very none on favor, please say a line. Aye the committee. The committee is the committee. The committee is the committee is the committee is the committee is the committee is the committee is the committee is the committee is the in the amount of 140,993 dollars. I'm in for approval. Motion by Commissioner Eads. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. Here are the questions on favor please say aye. Aye, pose aye. Motion does carry. Seven e is approval of budget of request 102, 012, 010. For operating equipment for various local law enforcement agencies from the forfeiture funds in the amount of 149,000. This is for recording purposes only. And let's do it. So what are the rules when you're a lame duck and we start passing out your forfeiture funds? I'm sorry. Are there any specific rules when you're a lame duck sheriff and you're asking out the forfeiture funds? Can you remember we experienced this with Sheriff Parkie? Yes, it's my understanding after talking with the Civil Division that there definitely are some parameters, but it's with the regular four-fature funds and these happen to be the federal side, federal seizures, and so those policies do not apply. So my information on that came from Mora in the Civil DA's office. These are not under chapter 59. These are not under chapter 59. They're called judicial purchases, which is their federal seizure funds. So if it were the regular DA chapter 59, I mean the not DA, Sheriff's Office 59 funds, then they would apply. This court would have the authority to approve or to separate How much is left in this account in the to you in the federal judicial account as a empty James is gonna look at that real quick. I went away that the rules were different depending on if it's the federal calendar of chapter 59 firms. I had to seek clarification on that before placing this on the agenda. Should we start telling the cities that they should approach the sheriff for some of these firms? Should we start telling the cities that they should approach the sheriff for some of these funds? Talked about Point and Peruvial, the Northeast Police Department. And then he's giving them away. This one does include some funding for the City of Bartonville, Holland Village, Flower Mound, and the Northeast Police Department. O-point two. Did you see that? O-point two. Did you see that? That work. O-point? No. No, okay. But, they're actually digital. Budget for traditional fund expenditures have these judicial funds. So it has over 500,000 dollars left in it. Over the years. have these judicial funds still has over $500,000 left in it. There have been several amendments presented to you over the last few months to expend some of these funds and things have happened that have changed their process. For example, they were going to buy a large mobile command unit and that was sold before they could purchase it. So they're basically using some of those funds to provide to these local law enforcement agencies. So there have been several projects that they presented that they had to backtrack because of the availability of the equipment or the software and so on. So we've done a lot of paperwork kind of for nothing. Okay. We have a little just a ministerial act just he saying I'm doing this and we say all right. Okay. We need to move on. We do about it. No, there's not. All right. Motion by commissioner Mitchell Telling by commissioner Eads further questions comments hearing none all in favor please say aye I post you need Motion does carry seven if is approval a budget may request one of two zero five zero to transfer funds from non-departmental to human resources Computer software maintenance in the amount of 25,000 six hundred and forty dollars 102-050 to transfer funds from non-departmental to human resources, computer software, maintenance, and the amount of $25,640. I'm out for a preview. Motion by Commissioner Coleman. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. Questions? Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Motion to carry. 7G is approval of Budget Mental Class 102060. The various court ordered lie-ans including the transfer of funds from non-department on appropriated court ordered contingency for judiciary and court support in the amount of $14,200. Motion by Commissioner Common. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. Hearing no questions on favor, please say aye. Aye. OpposedSanine. Motion carries. 8 a.s. approved contribution rate of 12.58% for the 2017 TCDRS plan year. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell. Okay. By the by Commissioner Coleman. Hearing no questions on favor, please say aye. Aye. Post-S 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. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your terms, this is identifying immediate family. Are there questions or do we have a motion for 8B? Motion by Commissioner Mitchell. Cheryl, we'll second the motion here in no discussion. On favor please say aye. Aye, post and aye. Motion carries. Hc, did you have a question? Sickly pool. Just to have a while would we not allow people to contribute to vacation time? the We have to have at least a million people population wise in order to allow that by law we cannot do it. This is a regulatory compliance. Yes. This is the cleanup. Yes, sir. Okay. I'll move for approval. All right. Motion by Commissioner AIDS. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. This is for 8C. Are there further questions or comments? All right. Motion by Commissioner Eid, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. This is for 8C. Are there further questions or comments? Hearing none, all the favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Motion does carry. 9A is approval of contract amendment to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Expanded primary health care grant to extend the terms of the contract to August 31, 2016 and Amanda performance measures as stated in the contract for fiscal year 2016 Motion by commissioner Ead's Cheryl second the motion We're extending the contract to August 31st. We're a little late, huh? I mean, judging commissioners. So that's actually something the state asked us to do. They had some language changes in the actual contract. You could submit the final, your final voucher up to 45 days after the contract has expired. So this was to do some legal cleanup for them that was required by the Feds. So we're backtracking. They did it. We didn't do it. That's correct. We weren't, we weren't, I'm not going to say a fault. This was something requested by them for again a contract term. It's really housekeeping. We have a motion and a second. I'll in favor please say aye. I pose a knee. Motion carries. 10 a is approval of a final plat for our TGA phase 5b. This is the Commissioner of Pristinct 1. Yes, we'll go with that. Motion by Commissioner Common, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye, post, aye. Motion carries. 13A is approved of accepting the attached listing of artifacts transferred from the University of North Texas to Denton County through a certificate of acquisition by political subdivision for historical preservation education and interpretation. The chair was so moved. Ha, LaLouye. I was done, though, and there wasn't. We have a motion by Mia, seconded by Commissioner Eads. All in favor, please say aye. Aye, opposed, aye, aye. Motion does carry unanimously. I want to take a moment to thank Judge Horn for her advocacy and piggy riddle and we've all been working on this. That was a little bit like gum on there, she wouldn't I? Yes, she has been a great advocate to keep our baits done collection intact as best we can and here in Ditton County and here at the courthouse and so Thank you for for all your efforts judge. I thought that's a great Great contribution. Well, I'd like to express appreciation to University of New York Texas and particular Lee Jackson Chancellor It's a good thing for Ditton County We didn't want to lose those They ever get separated. They never would have been pulled together again. So the good thing. All right. We did take a vote in the past unanimously. Moving right along. 13B is approval of the reappointment of Gwen Gary to the Board of Directors of Child Protectors Services. Is this a Commissioner for approval. Motion by Commissioner E. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Motion does carry. 14A is approval elections administrator bond in the amount of $20,000 or the premium of $70, $70 for a landing noble didn't kind of elections administrator the funding to come from general funds county official bonds. This is ordered in line at m 0155104040. I'm a approval motion by Commissioner Eads. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell on favor please say aye. Aye. Poisoning motion. 14 B is approval. Constable bond for Constable Doug Boydston is didn't kind of Constable pressing five in the amount of $1,500. Move approval. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell, seconded by Commissioner Eads. All in favor please say aye. Aye, aye. Pose, aye. Motion carries. 14 C is approval of agreement for construction services technology services HVAC upgrade This is bid number 0 616 2364 between Dayton County, Texas and DMI Corporation Decker Mechanical and the amount of 130,440 dollars with funding to come from facilities management Miss Linia County building maintenance. This is auditor line at M016601 at 5090s, requested by the Denton County Purchasing Director in Denton County. Construction manager, do we have a motion or are there any questions? Also moved. Prove. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Eads. Hearing no questions on favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye, post and e. Motion does carry it. Okay, we're going to take some of these together here. 14 days approval of the 2016 in a local cooperation agreement between Denton County, Texas and the town of Flyer Mountain for collection of special assessments levied by River Walk Public Improvement District number one. Your tax year 2016 is recommended by the Denton County Tax Discessor Collector. The toward. Can we take that one separate and then vote on all the other ones? You want to vote no one? You want to take that one separate? Yes. All right. I'm looking for approval. We have a motion for approval by Commissioner Eads. Chair, I will second the motion. Questions or comments? Hearing none, our favorite please say aye. Aye, opposed, aye. Motion carries three and favor one opposed. 14E is approval of local interlocal agreements between Depp and County, Texas. And the following entities for tax year 2016 have a Larrym tax collection that is recommended by the Depp and County tax assessor collector. And let's see, this is one. Lake Dallas Independent School District, Luceville, ISD, city of pilot points, city of Justin, town of Argo, town of Flour, Mound, 14 F. It's the same type of an agreement. It's between Denton County and the town of North Lake for collection of special assessments levied by North Lake Public Improvement District number one, two of the Highlands Public Improvement District protects you 2016. And that's it. Mochera is going to move for approval, both 14 E&F. Seconded by Commissioner Eads, questions or comments? Here none on favor, please say aye. Aye, opposed, aye. Motion does carry. 14G. It's a pretty low second amended interlocal cooperation agreement between Denton County, Texas and the City of Saint-Gur Texas where the McDonald's Road Project with Denton County agreeing to contribute an amount which will not exceed $6 million, $100,000 for a revised contract amount of $6 million, $900,000, with $855,220 to come from gravel to pavement projects. This is Auditor 999-6675189020 to transfer to the 2010 PI bonds, 304, this is Auditor 8574119080 and $1,467,061 to come from pavement improvement projects. Auditor of 7875439040 to be transferred to 2010. PI Bonds County Roads Commissioner Pracington, Auditor number 8574119050. Do we finally think we've hit the magic number? We have. All the right ways acquired. No more delays. Yay. I'll move for approval. All right, motion for approval by Commissioner. Common seconded by Commissioner Eads. Questions or comments? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Posts, a name. Motion does carry. We've already done 14-H. 14-I is approval of amendment number one to the Dendon number three to the Master Service Agreement between Dancati, Texas and DNS engineering labs. LC to increase the original estimate by $2,233 for geotanical engineering and construction materials testing services on Gural Road, Culvert replacement project for a total estimated cost of $9,091.50. The funds to come and fund surveys, titles and testing, ordered the line-down of 205395-850. Motion by Commissioner Ead, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell, where are there questions You're none all favorite police say aye. I post any Motion carries 14 J Not going too fast for you. Okay 14 J is approval amendment number two to add them Number four to the master service agreement between Dent County, Texas and DNS engineering labs LLC to increase assessment by between Dentk and Texas and DNS engineering labs, LLC, to increase estimate by 1,512 dollars, 50 cents for geotechnical engineering to construction materials, testing service, unburied road, covert replacement project for a total estimated cost of $10,015,50. We're funds to come from surveys, titles, and testing auditor lined out of 205,395, 855, zero. Auditor lined out of 205395 85550. Motion by Commissioner Eads. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor please say aye. Aye, opposed any? Motion carries. All right, we're gonna put some together here again. 14K is interlocal agreement with each of the following entities for tax year 2016. Now the alarm tax question. This is between Denk and Denk and fresh water supply district number one B two town of Coral City three city of Sanger for Belmont fresh water supply district number one five Belmont fresh water supply district number two. 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 is the same type of agreement that's between Denton County and City of Ponder for collection of special assessments, levied by Ponder Public Improvement District number one for Tax Year 2016. And 14M is the same type of agreement between Denton County and the City of Aubrey for collection of special assessments levied by Jackson Ridge Public Improvement District for Tax Year 2016. And 14M is the same type of agreement between Debt and County of the City of Louisville for a collection of special assessments led by Josie Lane Public Improvement District Protecture 2016. Chair is going to move for approval of 14 KLM and N. Seconded by Commissioner Eads, questions or comments You're none on favor please say aye Aye opposed in a motion does carry we have an addendum Which is item 16 a which is approved in the local corporation agreement between dental County, Texas and the town of copper, can you Texas? For Chinchap or road phase II project located entirely within the town of Copper Canyon to then kind of Commissioner for precinct four. At a total estimated project cost of $3,153,200 so it didn't kind of green to contribute in amount which will not exceed $3,153,200. Funding for this project is as follows. Weyman $657,818.85 since to come from 2012 PI bond funds Chinchappal Road, auditor, line out of 6673729053, 778,199 dollars to come from 2012 PI bond funds, pressing four discretionary funds, auditor, line out of 667509035 to be transferred to Chinchapel Road, Auditor Line-out of 6673729035 and 717182.15 to come from 2014 pay-i bond funds, pricing for discretionary funds, Auditor Line-out of 8175409030 to be transferred to Chinchapel Road, Auditor line out of 817-372-9030. It's all in Commissioner Prisnt IV. As you take a breath from that long item, I would like to just publicly thank my colleague, Commissioner Mitchell for her participation, financial participation, this project, and Bobby, thank you for we put this in the bond election. You contributing, we see three funds as well as it goes between both of our jurisdictions and the time is right to do this project and we're very excited about moving forward. So I just want to thank you. I'll move for approval. You have a motion by Commissioner Ead seconded by Commissioner Mitchell for the discussion or questions. Hearing none on favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Motion carries. We have one executive session item. This is under Texas government code 551.0711A and B. Consultation with attorney and close meeting with the governmental body, 60 advice. It's attorney regarding pending litigation or settlement offer, this is cause style Denton kind of versus Mitch. I can't begin to pronounce his last name. And Lone Star Land Bank, F-L-C-A, pending in the probate court of Denton, kind of with that, wearing executive session. And I think. and I think. The commission's court is reconvened from executive session. This is my motion. A parole of a mediated settlement agreement attached and incorporated here in this exhibit. One reached by the parties in an imminent domain lawsuit style, Denton County, Texas versus C. Schmidt. C. Mitch. Schmidt. Schmidt. Okay. This is pending in probably quite a dent. County, Texas, where Denton County, Texas, Shell, acquired title and ownership to 1.195 acres of land, more or less by agreed judgment. And this is in exchange for a payment of $225,000 as total just compensation for the taking and damages if any to remain any property to be paid by Denton County. Within 30 days of the probate court entering the agreed final judgment in law suit. That is my motion. Second. Seconded by Commissioner Coleman. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Ma'am. Carries. We're adjourned. Everybody have a great day. And if anybody didn't know it today was Commissioner Ron Marchinsworthly, so you might want to send him a little note.