Ladies and gentlemen, Denton County Commissioner's Court, for Tuesday, January 13th, its mouth session. This morning, an indication of the game about James Wells, a county auditor and our pledges to be led by Doug Sanders, who's in Jell-Health for Denton County. Will you please stand? Oh, okay. You pray with me. We're here on the father. We thank you so much for this day and it's opportunity to gather together and to do both the work of the citizens of this county and the state and to do your work. We ask you to have your Holy Spirit in all of us all and lead us and guide us and give us directions. Help us to be worthy of your calling and worthy of doing the service that you ask us to do. Watch over everyone here. Protect us all and bring us back safely next time. We ask all these things in Christ's name. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the five of the Irish states of America, and to the Republic of Oichistans, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Honourable Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one in state under God warmly in this. We're going to be tried to click right through everything this morning. Tiffany Hartling's investiture is at 10 o'clock. So we'll scoot. We're going to hustle. Okay. Item one is for public input. Our item is not listed on the agenda. 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. Once we remind everyone to please turn off your cell phones and pages. Item 2 is the consent agenda. Members are the items on the consent agenda. Do you need to have discussion on 2v? There are no inter-departmental transfers, so we'll be pulling that. For approval. Motion by Commissioner Marchant, seconded by Commissioner Eads. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Motion carries. Consent agenda today consists of 2a, which is the order of making appointments. We have a promotion in Commissioner Prissington 1, a rehire in the County Clark's Office, three promotions in the County Clark's Office, new hire and technology services, a promotion in the County Clark collections, three new hires in the District Attorney's Office, two promotions in the DA's office, a new hire in the County jail, a promotion in the County jail, a rehire in a doubt. I'm sorry, a possible precinct one, two new hires in the adult probation, a promotion in public health planning, and a demotion in public health under the WIC program. 2B has been pulled to C as approval payroll, 2D is approval renewal of RFP 12122175 transportation of human remains to Howard Mortuary and Norkan Tech's Prematory Services. 2E is approval renewal for FlexBase, grade 1 type A, road and bridge Bidnever 02142238 to CGA Enterprises. Two F is approval of building use requests from Ms. Robin Davis to use the Cortes on the Square 1896 room on Sunday in February 1, 2015 from 11 to 5 for a surprise congratulatory party for Ms. Davis's son Dakota Freeman who will be returning from Marine Boot Camp. And 2G is approval of building use request from Taylor Ice to use the quartet sound the square for a wedding on Saturday, April 11th, 2015 from 630 to 830. 3A is approval of proclamation honoring the town of Troke Club on its 30th anniversary. The call on Mr. Eads. Thank you, Judge. Yes, I'm going to be presenting this proclamation after we adopt this morning, the Saturday night up to the town of Trofe Club and on other 30th anniversary. They're going to be having a nice dinner at their club. So this is a proclamation honoring Trofe Club Texas, whereas in the 1980s, a dedicated group of residents went through the arduous process of incorporation of trophy club. And whereas the process of incorporation required the release of the area from West Lakes ETJ, as well as approval from the Ditton County Commissioners Court to hold a vote for incorporation. And whereas in 1985, the vote for incorporation passed with 80% of the vote. And whereas in 1985, trophy club residents elected Jim Carter as its first mayor. And whereas under Jim Carter's leadership, the First Town Council began developing trophy clubs. First comprehensive master plan in the 1988, the first bonds were sold to pay for trophy club municipal district two and trophy club municipal district number three. And whereas during the 1990s, Trophy Club continued to grow in population and in 1992, the comprehensive land use plan was prepared by the Plane and Zone Council. And whereas the 2000s and Trophy Club were marked by building parks, opening by our Nelson High School, initiating economic development and establishing a master district to combine Trophy, mud one and trophy clubs mud two. And whereas the town of trophy club has benefited by the contributions of visionary leaderships of mayor's Jim Carter, Marshall Engelbeck, Scott Smith, Connie White, and Nick Sanders. And whereas over the years trophy club's development has included the buildings of schools, parks, golf courses, and housing developments, as well as a focus on economic development. And whereas a high standard of living has become central to the trophy cup culture, bringing together a variety of community elements that deliver an outstanding quality of life. And whereas with a focused mission, strategy, and values, trophy club elected officials, resident volunteers, and town staff work to ensure that trophy club governance remains solid. And with a purpose to maintain trophy club mantra of being a great place to call home. Now therefore, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the incorporation of trophy club, the Ditton County Commissioner's Court is here by proclaim January 17th, 2015, as town of trophy club day in Ditton County. And I'll move for approval. Thank you. We have a motion by Commissioner Ead, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Motion to carry an in. Thank you. Item five is the approval of Bill Report, payments from CSCD, Community Corrections, TAIP, Shares, Training Shures, Forfeiture, VIP, Interest, DHETP, and DA4, forfeiture funds are all presented for recording purposes. Only we also have the auditors monthly financial reports for October and November that are submitted for approval. Good morning, James Lowe. The guys in the commissioner asked approval bills with the one edition and one deletion. No, don't separate page. It's all corrections. Thank you. Are there any questions concerning the bill report here? None. Do we have a motion? Motion by Commissioner Marchin. Seconded by Commissioner Coleman. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed to any motion? Does Curie want to go back to number one for public input. Just take a moment to acknowledge, I guess, the leadership flower mound group that is with us today. We're glad to have you. Sorry we're kind of rushing through things. We wish we had a little more time to visit with you. But we're glad you're here. At any time, if you have questions of me or any other member or court, go to the county website and you can send us an email, we'd be glad to answer any questions you may have. And glad you're here today. I just want to add, in addition to the judge, I want to thank the leadership flower man for being here every year you come and it's so important that we have leaders in the community that attend leadership flower man. So when we go home, you all can step up and take our places when we go home now. Don't try to do it now. But I want to thank you for being here. I thank you for your time that you put in to learn about happenings in Den County and the school boards and county work, city work. I appreciate all you do. I know your business owners. And so it's important to you that Den County has success. And so with you all going through these classes, you learn a lot about what's going on. And I appreciate all you do for Den County. Appreciate your businesses too. I wanna echo Commissioner Mitchell, Cinemeds and those are the judge. And I know that Lori and Cindy have been working on it at gender free all. And y'all have, I'm looking over it right now. And they have a wonderful day planned for you here at the county and That we're so excited to host y'all here today and I know Commissioner Mitchell and I will see y'all at lunch and Gonna give you our viewpoint. I know the judge gave y'all her viewpoint this morning and so It's a great. It's gonna be a great day. It's gonna be a great day. And it's it's gonna be a busy day, so anyway, thank you all for being here. And thank you, Laurie. Okay, item 6A on the agenda is approval specifications and authority to advertise for transportation, strategic planning, funding and project management services. RFQ 01142268, appointment of evaluation committee. Good morning. I did present this this morning in a red line draft, which I normally do not do because we spent so much time on it when we bit it out of five years ago. Then I wanted to make sure that we saw what changes were made from the previous and that I have included all of those in this document. I also included some information about the competition, the survey that we did with other engineering firms five years ago, and I'll be available to answer any questions. We do need to appoint an evaluation committee. I asked Beth because I couldn't remember who I was on the evaluation committee last time, and she responded, Bennett Howell James Wells, John Felt and Beth Fleming. It's my understanding James is asked to not be on the committee this time. Not true, true. I'm going to be on the committee. Okay, and then I have it correct. And of course Bennett Howell isn't with Denton County anymore, so we need to take that into consideration. I would suggest that we put the two new engineers on the committee. and with that in count anymore. So we need to take that into consideration. I would suggest that we put the two new engineers on the committee. Right with me. But I was thinking as well. And first of all, I probably don't have support for this, but as I've probably stated previously, I think we spent a considerable amount of money on this contract. And to me, I think we'd get a better bang for a buck if we were to expand our engineering department much like Tarrant and Cullen County. And program a lot of these bond functions in-house and allow us to hire additional staff that would be only be holding to us. Haven't worked with John, you know, for the past five years, I think we've had positive experiences, we've had negative experiences. I don't think anytime, you know, like in all things, you can't say it's always been bad or it's always been good, but I think it's been basically positive. But I still think that overall, we would get a better bang for our buck, bringing the bond management programming house That being said, I know I probably don't have support for that although I think Mr. Wells pointed out in his memo that We're gonna have to search additional funding because the interest is not there. I do have some suggestions for the bid specs That I would like to be considered I guess it's a good idea to appoint the committee, but I'd like to make my suggestions and if Beth could incorporate them with y'all agreed and they would push off a week that we will have a time, a week to think about it. But I had originally called him with Fleming, I think last week and I talked to Scott. And one of the things I saw as a result of the survey was that people were concerned about their bidding that they were conflicted out if they bid, if they became the consultant they weren't allowed to bid on County Engineering Project or work. Is that kind of one of their concerns, Beth? They were not allowed to do design work for Denton County. And typically I'm sure, I don't know, the way it works is if it's a state project, Poles for In-Democfire Engineers and stuff like that. But if it's a county project, we'd usually administer that in-house that I do. So one of the things I wanted to do was to change our bid specs to allow them to be our consultant for state highways and stuff like that, but then also be allowed to bid on those projects that are not affiliated with that. In other words, if they wanted to bid on culverts for precinct one or precinct four, and hopefully maybe that would entice somebody else to encourage the bid. Because to me, you want to have competition for this sort of thing. I think it makes it, it's always good for transparency. I think it results in a better project and anytime you have only one person bidding on something, you know, maybe they think that, you know, they don't have to work as hard. I'm saying that John doesn't work hard. I think the way to go today is I think there's agreement about adding our two new engineers to the evaluation committee. Let's do that today. And then, Commissioner Coleman, if you'll put your proposed changes to the RFP in an email so that we can study it and think about it and we'll delay the rest of the question until next week. Does that meet everybody's approval? Just to kind of give you all an idea. Now I wanted to strengthen the waivers provision where if somebody has we have our consultant working with the city or other governmental entity on the same project I'd like to have the disclosure of that and a waiver. I know that we've done that. I'm sure there were waivers done. I just haven't seen any. I would like to take the procurement portion out of the task assigned because I think we now have a very strong engineering staff that would be able to help Beth put together the bid specs for projects and I think if we take that procurement portion out of the task that will also increase the bidders because from what I understand, I've just anecdotally talked to people about the bidding is they feel that our consultant is hip deep in the procurement process and if they bid against him He's then subsequently consulting on the procurement They've just basically because they've competed with them. He may not they you know, purchasing may not look as favorably upon them. So I think we have a real strong engineering cat and they've done a great job so far with some of our, the two fellas that we fired have already prod some really good suggestions for some of our culverts and stuff. And so just that's kind of what I'm gonna just for my changes. Thank you Judge Horne. I will put those in writing and make some suggestions to the stuff But that's kind of what I'm going to make a motion then we had our Pass five I believe list that he will be involved in procurement and Assist the purchasing department in developing scope of services and coming up with bid specs and contracts and task orders and stuff I don't think we feel heavy. The part that ITS assist with the on system projects is that he gives me the scope of work for what the project entails. It goes into my RFQ. He's not involved in the procurement part of it in the selection. Okay. That's an internal category. That's important to thank you. But he does assist in some of the negotiation of the terms and conditions, or not the terms and conditions, the scope and the cost once we select someone. But the actual selection is done totally in-house. Okay, we're good. I'm glad we clarified that. Okay. My motion then is to add our two new engineers to the evaluation committee. And we'll take this up again next week. Is there a second to my motion? Seconded by Commissioner Marchand, the only favorite please say aye. Aye. Opposed to the name? Motion is carried. 8A is a reclassification of an RN position, slide number 021 HD, grade 11 to Health Planner, Trainer Grade 13. Motion by Commissioner Eads. I'm moved for approval. Motion by Commissioner Eads. Second. Second by Commissioner Mitchell. Bring the questions on favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed to name. Motion is carried. 8V is approval of engagement survey to be conducted via PMA, HR, and discussion of work for strategies for Denton County. I'll move for approval. We have a motion for approval by Commissioner Coleman, the chair. Well, second Amy, did you want to add anything? Okay, here you know, for taking from. I'm sorry. I'm going to be taking from personal personally. I'll continue to see fine. I think the price is right. Okay. We have a we have a motion in the second. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, Ceney? Aye. Motion carries, foreign favor, one opposed. 12A is approval of communication systems agreement between the city of Fort Worth and then kind of the half of the Dink County Sheriff's Office for mutual use of communication system. For approval. Motion by Commissioner Eves. Seconded by Commissioner Marchant. Question? Your none. My favorite please say aye. Aye. Opposed any? Motion carries. Excuse me. 13 a.m. Approval of the drawing of names from the 2014 Grand Jury to serve on the Dent County salary grievance committee. And hopefully we won't ever have to use it, but we'll get this process going. Right. Okay, Ross Littman of Denton. I did. Okay, well, one's over here at the time. Elles Mary French in Frisco. George Prior of Frisco. Sarah Taylor of our file. Roger Hall of Frisco. Rudy Kajak, of know her too. Okay, that's the committee. Now we draw the alternate names. Kara Kraft of Crossroads. Teresa Galvin of Argo. Emroy. The last name is G-E-H-I-S-E-N, a Frisco. I'm going to get a Frisco, another Frisco learn. Phillip Mango of Fireman. We're getting there. Charles Corsi of Aubrey. Misty Cidillo of Highland Village, three more. Jean Lemonick of Flower Mound, Flower Mounds, well represented too. And Russell Bookser of Denton, This is the last one, right? Thomas Patrick of Highland Village. That it? Okay. Do we need to vote on that, John? I think you're right. Okay. The motion by Commissioner common second and by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed to the聲ee. Motion carries. 13V is approved of the interlocal cooperation agreements for public safety, application support and maintenance with Bartonville Police Department. Chair will move for approval. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. I'll in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Senator Nguyen. Motion carries. 13C is approval to add a monthly wireless air card service account number and it's listed here in fiscal 2015 budget. This is for Constable precinct six. So for approval, second. Motion by Commissioner Marchance, seconded by Commissioner Ease. Go ahead. Members, if you remember, we reactivated the telecommunications and we went through all of the usage of all the departments for their phones, their cards and everything. Question came back to me asking if they met the request met the requirements, budget requirements, if they had the money, they had proved up through the department, through purchasing, through technology, if they had to come back to the committee and I said no. That if there were any questions they could come directly. As far as you're seeing these, rather than coming through the committee. We have a motion in a second. Any other comments? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed to the knee. Motion carries 13D is approved of the appointment of Aye. Posed to name. Motion carries. 13D is approval of the appointment of Mr. Ronnie Anderson to replace Bruce Thomas on the Lake Ray Roberts planning and zoning committee. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Marchant. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Posed to name. Motion carries. 14A is approval of CUC Techshare Juvenile 2013 resource sharing to Dendom amendment number two for continued maintenance and operations in calendar year 2015 in the amount of 220,000 984 seven to five. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell. Seconded by Commissioner Ease. Hearing the questions on favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed to say aye. Motion carries unanimously. Would we've done it? We're adjourned, everybody have a great day. Did I forget something? Big pardon? Oh. Well, I'm gonna point out under future meetings is Denton County Day in Austin, Monday and Tuesday, February 23rd, 24th. No court. Okay. Okay. Well Andy said no court. Everybody keep that on your schedules and make sure we don't have an issue concerning payroll. If you will James and let me know if we need to meet the Friday before. Okay, we're adjourned. Everybody have a great day. You think we could get, I'm sorry, the ITS stuff postponed another week. I'm going to be at the transportation conference and I'm leaving tomorrow morning. And I don't get back until Friday and I'm also going be at the transportation conference and I'm leaving tomorrow morning and I don't get back Until Friday and I'm also going camping with the boys. Oh It's the mystery camp out. I have no idea where I'm going I say we keep it out of the agenda We need to hold the ITS two weeks not one week because I'm gonna be gone tomorrow all the way to Monday so anyway I just forgot all I just forgot all