Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Debt and kind of commissioners court for Tuesday, December 16th is now in session. This morning, an invocation of the given by Jack Taylor, construction coordinator, and our pledges will be led by Kevin Carr, Director of Tech Services, will you please stand? That's a great. Father, we thank you for this beautiful fall day, Father, and we thank you for this court and these officials that have given their time and their efforts to work for the citizens of Denton County. Father, we pray that you will bless them. We pray that you will give them uncommon wisdom and discernment as they consider matters for the good of this county, Father. Father, we ask that you be with those who serve on foreign fields. Those who serve in our military around the world, whether it be in hospital situations or are helping those in need and keep them safe. And Father, we're grateful for their sacrifice that allows us the situations are helping those in need and keep them safe and Father, we're grateful for their sacrifice that allows us the freedom that we have to gather today like we do. Father, we pray that you'll be with us as we go from here, keep us ever mindful of this time of year that your son is a reason for this season. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. for this season in Jesus' name we pray, amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible liberty and justice for all. Honor of the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you, gentlemen. Item one is for public input for items not listed on the agenda. If there's any member of the public that would like to address commissioner's court, we ask that you please complete a public comment form available on the side table. Want to remind everyone to please turn off your cell phones and pages. We have one public comment form this morning from Mr. Gerald Marsch who's with us this morning. Mr. Dammarsch, if you want to come up to the podium, please, I want to make sure that you understand that items that aren't hosted on the agenda, commissioners court is prohibited by law from responding to what you have to say today, but we're glad that to give you an opportunity to speak. Oh, Dad, I have had a foreshot and I've had a real bad air and it is hard for me to hear. I couldn't understand the other things you were saying. But I hope I can make myself clear. I appreciate visiting with you and the council. I mean the commissioners. My complaint is on the 13th of this month my grandson had his 13th birth birthday and they were celebrating it and him and his friend has a poor Wheeler and my grandson has a poor Wheeler. And they were on Cactus Drive, that's just south of Argonne. That's in the county's jurisdiction. It's not under Ron Oak or Oggle. Anyway, this guy told him he was going to shoot him. If they kept riding those four wheelers down there in front of his house, that was on Kakas Drive. My son went down there to see about him and they pulled him on him and my son stood to ground and so he bellyed down and he took his pistol back in the house. All right, there's a couple old women came in and jumped in between my son and this guy, all right, he comes back out and he picks up a shovel. And he hits out my son, my son put his hand up like this, but it knocked it down. The force was just that hard. All right, he wound up getting a concussion. If he'd had hit my son with the sharp edge of that shovel, it would have killed him. Now I've been in the military and we had those little, you know, slight shovels and we shortened them out where we could kill a person if we had to, you know, in actual hand-to-hand combat. But I know enough about that, that that was a very serious thing. I'd just share a death to you. Share comes out there and he says, my son shouldn't even bend down there. He wouldn't do a thing and Mastan, they call the ambulance out and give him, you know, examination. And he's going to have a concussion check because he'd been sick. He'd been having a headache. All right. I've got a million dollar damage suit and federal court against your sheriff. I had cancer surgery and I went to an old war over at senior center three days after I had the surgery. And my dad was one of the best athletes in the United States. He won the National A U Collegiate gold medal. He won two National A U gold medals, one silver and one bronze and the Missouri Valley Conference. He taught martial arts at great lengths, naval training center. I whipped that old boy over there with one arm. I couldn't raise this arm any higher than that. And he just instigated the whole damn thing. First off, my son was selling a pickup, roughly, and it all. All right, I was sitting there at senior center, and I pulled these ten tickets out. I sent them on the table where we were getting ready to go in and eat dinner. I went into the bathroom and I ate and I washed my hand and came back, picked up the tickets, and went in and ate. When I got home, there were four tickets gone. All right, then I had a, my family are the ones that educated and financed George Bush senior in the oil business out of metal and they were developing the Beggow Field out there. All right, then Teibun Pickens came in, he would just allow him to fill his. He didn't know what I am saying about developing a big ol' opium. So they took him under the wings. He participated all well at Stillwater, Oklahoma. That's where he started, my petroleum. the Trojan. They took him in, educated on how to develop a bagel opening. He was their frontman out of the Amarillo. Am I running out of time? Yes, sir. There's a whole lot more I can tell. I'm sure there is where we We want this settled if we don't we're gonna file a high dollar loss statement got a super low your from dollars. They got in a bad car right and This old boy is rated as a five store Attorney so So boy is writer does a five store attorney. So this sounds like a lot of the first apartment to be handling in we appreciate your time this morning. We appreciate the effort to come here today. And sure for deal with us. Thank you. I just hope we can get something done. Yes, sir. Okay. Okay. We have a long list of retirement resolutions today. So let's get right at it. The first one on our agenda is item 3a and some of these people could be here today and a whole lot couldn't but I want to take time to read all the resolutions anyway. We appreciate the service and we certainly want to recognize everybody in Commissioner's Court. The first one is 3A in Commissioner Marchant. I've asked to read this one. It's a provable resolution recognizing Julie Lundberg's retirement commissioner. This is a resolution honoring Julie Lundberg for 21 years of service at Denton County, the Denton County Commissioner's Court Denton County Texas during a regular session on the 16th day of December 2014, considered the following resolution. Whereas Julie Lumberga originally began her career with Denton County on October 19, 1987 as a court clerk for the Justice of the Peace Precinct I. And whereas Julie was promoted a year later to Chief Court Clerk and continue to work up until 1992 when the Justice of Peace office closed. And whereas Julie returned to Denton County to work in the purchasing department in July 1st of 1998 before transferring to the Justice of Peace, precinct five office where she finished out her career. And whereas Julie provided responsible leadership in addition to consistently conducting herself with an attitude of helpfulness and fairness towards her co-workers. And whereas Julie was demonstrated, has demonstrated the pinned ability and diligence in all aspects of her position as cheap court clerk for just the piece. Precinct five. And whereas Julie will retire on December the 31st of 2014 after 21 years of dedicated service and shall henceforth dedicate herself to the finer arts of cooking, traveling, and grandmothering. Whereas Julie's dedication to Denton County has been appreciated and respected by all, and she will be greatly missed. Now therefore, it be resolved that Denton County Commissioner's Court Denton County Texas does hereby extend to Julie Lumber. Our sincere and grateful appreciation for her dedicated service to Denton County. We congratulate Julie on her well earned retirement and extend our best wishes to her for continued success, happiness, and good health in the years to come. Done in open court by a motion of myself. Thank you, we have a motion by Commissioner Marchin, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Posting, aye. Motion does carry unanimously. And for the retirees that are here, if you'll wait after we read your resolution, we'll have a nice framed copy for you to take with you. Item 3B is Provo Resolution Recognizing Judge Mike Bateman's Retirement, and I've asked Commissioner Coleman to read. Thank you. This is a resolution monitoring that Mike Bateman is retirement and I've asked Commissioner Coleman to read. Thank you. This is a resolution honoring Judge Mike Bateman. Is your mic on? Yes. Okay. Thank you. This is a resolution honoring Judge Mike Bateman for 12 years of service to Denton County. Whereas Judge Bateman was sworn in office as Justice of the Peace Precinct 5 for Denton County on January 1st, 2003. And whereas prior to coming to work for the county, Judge Bateman worked for the City of Denton as an policeman for 20 years. And whereas Judge Bateman upheld his esteemed position with Denton County with honor and professionalism during his entire tenure which consisted of three terms. And whereas Judge Bateman's cordial personality and positive encouragement resulted in excellent work in relationships with his employees and the community. And whereas Judge Bateman faithfully and diligently executed his duties as just at the peace, praising five during his time with Denton County, and whereas Judge Bateman will retire December 31, 2014 after 12 years of dedicated service to Denton County. Whereas Judge Bateman's dedication to his employees and to all the citizens of Denton County have been greatly appreciated and respected by all and he will be greatly missed. Now therefore be it resolved that the Denton County Commissioners Court here by extended Judge Bateman are sincere and grateful appreciation for his dedicated service to Denton County. We congratulate him on his well-earned retirement extend our best wishes for him to come with continued success, happiness and good health in the years forward. And I will still move. Thank you. We have a motion by Commissioner Coleman, second and by Commissioner Marchin. On favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, Sennhe? Motion does carry unanimously. Item 3c is approval of resolution recognizing Gerry Alexander's retirement. Commissioner Bobby Mitchell, I've asked to read this. This is a resolution on a run, Jerry Alexander, for 31 years of service to Den County. The Den County Commission is called, Den County takes this to an irregular session. On the 16th of December 2014, consider the following resolution. Whereas Jerry Alexander was appointed as an adult probation officer, the DIN County Adult Probation on May 17, 1983, and whereas Jerry provided conscientious supervision of adult probationers in Louisville and the colony, and whereas Jerry was promoted to internal caseload auditor and trainer in 1995, where he provided staff training and monitor compliance with state standards and department procedures. And whereas Jerry was appointed as the department's first human resource officer in 2000, and continues to serve faithfully in coordinating benefits, screening applicants and insurance, ensuring compliance with human resource laws and best practices. And whereas Jerry has given his best effort to numerous departments, committees, and projects, including new office of training, career days at universities and high schools, the regional training network, trainers network, and United Way campaigns. And whereas Jerry further contributes to the community by volunteering in his church, citizen review team, and the Disp Proposial Allity Committee, but Den County Child Protective Service, where's Jerry's plans to retire from Den County Community Supervision and corrections department on December 31, 2014. And after 31 years of dedicated service and for Jerry continues to give 110% to the department throughout his final days of employment. Now therefore be it resolved the Den County Commission school at Den County Texas. Do hereby extend to Jerry Alexander a sincere and grateful appreciation for his dedicated service to Den Kahn. We congratulate Jerry on his well earned retirement and extend our best wishes to him for continued success, happiness and good health in the years to come. Come, Don and open court the 16th December 2014 upon a motion made by myself. Thank you. We have a motion by Commissioner Mitchell, seconded by Commissioner Eads. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, Cine? Motion does carry. 3D is approval of resolution recognizing Debbie White's retirement. Commissioner Eads. Your turn. Debbie White. OK. This is a resolution. Debbie White. Okay. This is a resolution honoring Debbie White. For 33 years of service to Ditton County, the Ditton County Commissioner's Court Ditton County, Texas during a regular session on the 16th day of December 2014, considering the following resolution. Whereas Debbie White, Deputy Clerk III retired on December 5th, 2014 after completing more than 33 years of dedicated service to Ditton County clerk's office. Whereas Debbie was hired by Ditton County on January 1st, 1981, and has served the citizens of Ditton County within an exceptional level of customer service. This level of service is evident by the numerous letters, phone calls, and emails that County clerk's office has received from citizens as a result of their positive interactions with Debbie. Whereas Debbie also became an established vital statistics clerk who has been part of an award winning team and recognized by the Department of State Health Services. Whereas Debbie, a devoted employee, has provided an outstanding level of valuable service and many laughs to the Ditton County clerk's office with her talent and witty personality, which has earned her the respect of all that it had the opportunity to work with her. Dibi always took pride in her work and that is the department. Whereas Dibi, and whereas during all the time of said service with Ditton County clerk's office, Dibi has faithfully and diligently carried out her duties and obligations while maintaining high level of excellence and has conducted herself in a responsible manner as a representative of the department. And whereas Debbie's dedication to the Ditton County clerk's office has been appreciating, respected by all, she has been dependable, law and possesses an immense amount of institutional knowledge that will be greatly missed. Whereas Debbie plans to enjoy her retirement by spending time with her family and her husband. Now therefore, it resolved the Ditton County Commission as Court Ditton County, Texas. This hereby extend to Debbie White, our sincere and grateful appreciation for her dedicated service to Ditton County. We congratulate Debbie on her well-owned retirement, and extend our best wishes to her for continued success, happiness, and good health in the years to come. Done an open court this 16th day of December 2014 upon a motion by myself. Thank you. We have a motion by Commissioner Eid, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, Cine? Motion does carry. Now this one's here. Margaret Patton. Want you to come on up to the podium, please. We like to look at the people we're honoring. Thank you for being here this morning. I'm glad you could be. Mrs. Item 3E on the agenda. Okay. Resolution honoring Eddie Margaret Patton for 20 years of service to Dan County. Dan County commissioners Court, Dan County, Texas, during the regular session on the 16th day of December, 2014 considered the following resolution. Whereas Eddie Margaret Patton, assistant records manager, will be retiring December 31, 2014. After completing more than 20 years of outstanding service to Denton County. And whereas Margaret Patton was hired on May 13, 1994 by the Denton County Sheriff's Office, Engine 1 officer. On April 24, 2000 Margaret transferred to the records management department as the records circulatory was later promoted to the assistant records manager as a result of her outstanding skills. And whereas Margaret was a devoted team member and was always willing and available to assist whenever and wherever needed. Margaret's high personal integrity quickly generated trust in all who worked with her. And, whereas Margaret was passionate about serving the needs of others and has been an excellent mentor to many employees, Margaret always exhibited a positive attitude in through her calm nature and proactive leadership, has guided her team to personal and professional achievements and successes. And, whereas Margaret took great pride in her work and most certainly placed considerable importance on the retention disposition and preservation of county records. Margaret has been instrumental in supporting the Department of Technology Services and meeting their mission statement. And where is Margaret was a valued colleague and a dedication to Denton County has been appreciated and respected by her supervisors, peers and co-workers alike. Margaret consistently made the workplace welcoming and fun. And whereas Margaret has always been a dependable, trustworthy and compassionate team member and a great friend, she will be deeply missed as she enjoys her well-deserved retirement in relaxing, gardening, and spending time with her beloved children and grandchildren. Now therefore, be it resolved that Denton County Commissioner's Court, Denton County, Texas, does hereby extend to Margaret Patton, our sincere and grateful appreciation for a dedicated service to Denton County. We congratulate Margaret on her well-earned retirement and extend our best wishes to her for continued success, happiness and good health in the years to come. In an open court this 16th day of December 2014 upon a motion by myself. Thank you. Seconded by Commissioner Eadz. On favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, Cindy. Motion does carry unanimously. I have a few words to say. I just want to say good morning, Your Honor and Commissioners. And thank you for hiring me back at 1994 and it's been a great great time and I just want to say that this is a great county to work for and I've enjoyed my time with records management of the Technology Services Department and I will enjoy my retirement and but I will miss the daily association with my team. And thank you again for this opportunity in a great 20 years. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Three F is approval of a resolution recognizing Maryland Mabel's retirement in Commissioner Mitchell. That has to be this one. This is a resolution honoring Maryland Mabel for 18 years of service to Den County. The Den County Commission is called Den County Texas doing a regular session. On the 16th of December 2014, considered the following resolution. Whereas Marilyn Maverick was hired on January 24th, 1996, and will retire on December 31st, 2014, after 18 years of service within County. And whereas Marilyn's career had didn't count, it began as a clerk in jail health. She was later promoted to the detention officer, one for the Sheriff Office in 1997, where she finished at her career. And whereas Merlin achieved her in a media jale of license while working for the Sheriff Office, and whereas during her time with the DIN County Sheriff Office, Merlin was known for demonstrating in-depth knowledge of her job duties, a high volume of productivity, and her ability to recognize and act on actionable situation. And whereas doing all the time of service with the Sheriff Office, Merlella has faithfully and diligently disjoys the duties and obligations of the office and trusted to her, worked well with her coworkers, and implemented the policies of the office entrusted to her, worked well with her co-workers, and implemented the policies of the Sheriff's Office in an honorable and responsible manner, with vigilance for the safety and security of the families and citizens of DIN County. And, whereas the citizens of DIN County, are grateful to Merlin for answering the call to service, for a commitment to duty, and for the service she has rendered during her law enforcement career and tenure with Den County. Now therefore be it resolved the Den County Commission to school at Den County, Texas does hereby extend to Merlin-Mabel as sincere and grateful appreciation for her dedicated service to Den County. We congratulate Merlin on her well-earned retirement and extend our best wishes to her for continued success, happiness and good health in the years to come. Down in open court the 16th day of December 2014 upon a motion made by myself. I have a motion by Commissioner Mitchell, second and by Commissioner Eads. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed to the need. Motion does carry unanimously. John, aye. Opposed to name. Motion does carry unanimously. And 3G is approval of resolution recognizing Lannell Johnson's retirement, Commissioner Coleman. This is a resolution honoring Lannell Johnson for 10 years of service to Denton County. Whereas Lannell Johnson, a detention officer of the Denton County Sheriff's Office since June of 2004, while we're tired December 31, 2014 after a 10-year career with Denton County. And whereas Lennel's service to Denton County is a detention officer included time spent both on the floor and in property where she achieved her immediate jailers license and was during her time with the Denton County Sheriff's Office, Lennel was for demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of her job taking pride in her work and her willingness to go above and beyond the scope of her assigned duties. And whereas, during all the time of said service with the Sheriff's Office, Lynelle faithfully and diligently discharged the duties and obligations of the office entrusted to her, worked well with her co-workers and implemented the policy of the Sheriff's Office in an honorable and reasonable manner with village and for safety and security of the families and citizens of Denton County. And whereas the citizens of Denton County are grateful to LaNale for answering the call to service for her commitment to duty and for the service she rendered during her law enforcement career in tenure with Denton County. Now therefore be it resolved that the Denton County Commissioners Court does hereby extend to LaNale, our sincere and grateful appreciation for dedicated service. We congratulate her on her well earned retirement and extend our best wishes to her for continued success, happiness and good health and years to come. And I will so move. Thank you. We have a motion by Commissioner Collins, seconded by Commissioner Marchand. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, any? Motion does carry unanimously. Okay, three-h is a provable resolution recognizing Judge Richard Pregarski's retirement. He's asked that the resolution not be read in court, but I do want to make, members do have a copy of it, and I would like to make a motion to approve. Second. Third. Okay. Commissioner Mitchell will do the second. Allen favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed to me. Motion does carry unanimously. And I wish the judge shall we always to the judge happy retirement. And thank you for your service. Free aye is a provable resolution recognizing Judge Petty Larson's retirement. Run. Here I am. This is a resolution honoring Judge Petty Larson for 31 years as service to Denton County. The Denton County Commission's Court Denton County Texas during a regular session on the 16th day of December 2014, consider the following resolution. Whereas, Judge Petty Larson began her career with Dint County on January 25, 1983, as a chief administrator to Commissioner Sandy Jacobs. And whereas as result of her diligent work, professional integrity and service to the community, she was elected as Justice Peace precinct six, and sworn into office on January 1, 2007. And whereas Judge Larson conducts herself with an allegiance to family and community that reflects a high degree of dignity and strength reflective of a true Texan. And whereas Judge Larson has brought great credit upon Denton County and demanding it and important positions of County government and whereas Judge Larson is an active and important part of the community and has served the citizens of Denton County with fairness and dedication both at work and as a volunteer and whereas Judge Larson is a highly respected person has served the citizens of Denton County in numerous ways and will retire on December 31, 2014 after 31 years about standing service. Now therefore, be it resolved that Denton County Commissioner's Court, Denton County, Texas does hereby extend to Judge Patel L, Seer, and grateful appreciation for her dedicated service to Denton County. We congratulate Patel, Hunter Welle, earned a retirement and extend our best wishes to her for continued success, happiness, and good health in years to come. So move. I'll start. Motion by Commissioner Marchin, seconded by Commissioner Coleman. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, sitting. Motion does carry. Okay, this one, I believe is here. Patty Biffers. Yes. Come on up to the. Okay, we don't want to mispronounce your last name. Please help us. Biffer, Biffer, I did say it right. Okay, I've asked Commissioner Eads to read this on this item 3J on the agenda. Good morning. Thanks for being here. This is a resolution honoring. Patti Biffer for 18 years of service to Ditton County. The Ditton County Commissioner's Court Ditton County, Texas during a regular session on the 16th day of December 2014, considering the following resolution. Whereas Patti Biffer, administrative manager for the Appellate Division of the Ditton County District Attorney's Office since December 30th, 1996 will retire on December 31st, 2014 after 18 years of dedicated service to Ditton County. Whereas during her time with the District Attorney's Office, Patty has been known for her willingness to help when needed, as well as for her outstanding performance and professionalism. Whereas Patti's presence, attitude, laughter, and Johnny Depp memorabilia will be sorely missed in the appellate division and throughout the District Attorney's Office. Whereas Patti was always a great asset to many attorneys over the years, helping them draft and revise their documents. And whereas we wish Patty well in her retirement in Chico, Texas, and we hope she enjoys the time she will spend there with Michael, her parents, her sister, her llamas, and countless other animals. Now therefore, it was all the Ditton County Commissioners Court Ditton County, Texas Court, Ditton County, Texas, hereby extend to Patty Biffer, our sincere and grateful appreciation for her dedicated service to Ditton County. We congratulate Patty on her well and retirement and extend our best wishes to her for continued success, happiness and good health in years to come. I've done an open court the 16th of December 2014 upon a motion by myself. Thank you. We have a motion by Commissioner Eads, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed to the Dean. Motion does carry. I believe you have a family member here if you'd like to bring them up. Come on, Nicole. No. Fine. I'll try to introduce them anyway. I might say something bad. I didn't introduce them anyway. It's kind of a bittersweet event. My job's been great. You couldn't find better people to work with the DA's office and all the county people that I have to deal with every day and I've just loved my job. I love Denton County. So been here for a long time. Denton County is blessed with a lot of wonderful dedicated employees of what you have been one and we appreciate your service. Thank you very much. Thank you for being here. Okay. And this one I believe is here also. Yolanda? Yes. Yolanda. And here again, is it Justin? It is right. Hey. I'm going to read this one. This is item 3K on the agenda. Resolution honoring Yolanda Justin for 20 years of service didn't count the Denton County Commission's court. Denton County, Texas during the regular session on the 16th of December 2014, considered the following resolution. Whereas Yolanda Justin began her career with the Denton County District Attorney's Office on October 3, 1994, and retired in December 5, 2014, after more than 20 years of dedicated service with Denton County. And whereas Yolanda worked as an appellate attorney for the District Attorney's Office from October 1994 in February 2001, she was appreciated by her co-workers for her legal knowledge, integrity, sunny disposition, and pineapple upside down cake. Mm-hmm. And whereas Yolanda worked as a felony intake attorney for the District Attorney's Office on February 2000 until her retirement in December 2014, she was valued by her co-workers for her remarkable legal research skills and her wisdom and case analysis. And whereas Ylanda was respected by lawyers and law enforcement for her leadership in guidance in the law, whereas Ylanda was appreciated for mentoring high school students in the DISD pre-law leadership program. And whereas Ylanda with the hardest biggest Texas was cherished by all for her attitude of helpfulness, for generosity, her laugh, her fashion advice, and her unwavering loyalty to support and support to her co-workers and friends. Now therefore, be it resolved the Denton County Commission's court, Denton County, Texas does hereby extend to Yolanda Judson, our sincere and grateful appreciation for a dedicated service to Denton County. We congratulate Yolanda on her well-earned retirement and extend our best wishes for her continued success, happiness and good health in the years to come. And an open court this 16th December 2014, upon a motion by myself and seconded by Commissioner Mitchell on favor please say aye aye Aye opposed any motion does carry unanimously Thank you very much. I feel bad for not bringing cake to Commissioner So I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Every Tuesday, not a talk. Here we are. I'd like to thank everyone I've worked with in the district attorney's office. All of the agencies in Denton County, I've had such a wonderful experience here. Thank you, Paul. Then to my media supervisor Jeff Fleming and to the commissioners for this honor. Thank you. Thank you for being here in happy retirement. If you'll all wait a little bit, we'll have a nice frame document for you. Okay. We're next going to go to item 3L on the agenda, which is a presentation by Mark Payne, Executive Director of Demko Area 911 District of Demko Next Generation 911 implementation effort. Good morning. Thank you for waiting. Good morning. Thank you for giving me a few moments here to update the court Before I get started. I do want to recognize Court of pointee the honorable Bill Lawrence and attendance this morning Our board chairman also court of pointee Jack Miller unfortunately was unable to attend today. So he sends his best I Think it's the court is aware. I didn't go has several years ago embarked upon a next generation 911 migration from legacy 911 services to what in the industry's term next generation. Next generation 911 is a fundamental change in the way calls are handled and routed and delivered to 911 answering points. Please to report that after several years of working towards this goal and October, we've completed that. And we've set up what essentially is the foundation for all future next generation on-one services. Those 11-piece apps that we served here in Denton County have all been migrated and I'm also pleased to report that throughout all those migrations, not a single 911 call failed to route properly to a primary or secondary site. So I'm determined to success on the part of the staff and all public safety agencies involved. One interesting thing about our project was we made history in Texas. Actually the Dincuere 911 district was the first agency in the state of Texas to route the next generation internet protocol Base call from the entry to the network in 9-1 all the way to the peace app. So we're pleased to bring those services to the public as well as the public safety entry points to take their calls. I would also like to take a moment to just commend Sheriff Travis in his communications division personnel. They worked so well with our staff and our vendors to create a seamless, smooth cutover. It was one of the smoothest ones we encountered, so I want to publicly thank them for the work that was done during that cutover. With this new infrastructure, as I indicated, it is a foundational element. Next generation 911 is really the promise of what the future holds. With smartphones, mobile apps, and the light, more and more data can be sent and shared between individuals and organizations and the expectation on the public's part is that it does be able to be shared with public safety. This infrastructure will provide that foundation to transmit things such as pictures, video, automatic crash vehicle notification, on-star and similar services, biometrics from wearable technology. All those things are what are envisioned to be part of next generation on one. And with this new NG901 system, we'll be able to accept those when commercial providers begin to make that data available to public safety personnel. So we're on the front edge and we're able to be ready for whatever it is our public safety agencies need with respect to this new types of data. The most basic of NG services is Text9-1. You probably heard of a lot of some early adopters of adjunct, adon if you will, SMS texting services. While I won't go into the detail or value of why texting is important in this era, it is needed. Our board has made the decision to go for a fully integrated voice and messaging, text messaging solutions. So while we could do an add-on, we didn't feel that that was the best service to the public safety agencies. We're trying to streamline their job, not make it more complicated. So in first quarter of this next year, we will be implementing, working with our 9-1-1 call, call-taking equipment provider to test, and then hopefully end of Q1, early Q2, we'll be able to fully support texting. Who would they would text text and I would one call in? They could. Nationally data has shown most will not text unless they cannot speak. So that's the fear from the public safety side, is it right? It's the Virginia Tech scenarios where people were hiding, trying to remain silent. That's really what drove a lot of this. People who were hiding in a closet with an intruder in the home and they're afraid to speak, locked in a trunk there. There's just a small number of scenarios where it can be helpful. The big issue, and this is what our board is focusing on, is from an ADA compliance standpoint, there are more than 35 million deaf, hard of hearing, or speech impaired, individual in the US who have essentially given up on TTY and TDD services, on data services such as texting. So we need to bring parity in that respect. So they have equal access. So that is a texting is just the tip of the iceberg. I alluded to some of these other things. Wearable technology, biometrics, pacemakers and the like. That kind of stuff will soon be sent to 9.5. I shouldn't say soon, I'm not recorded. It's an envision future capability. So as the commercial providers make those services available, moving a position to utilize them and pass them on to the public safety agencies. With Incos, sorry, forgive me. I have to have notes where I will go so technical and geeky that y'all will just let me me believe, with this new system, we're able to both utilize next generation capabilities, but we've also been able to leverage the jointly owned Dinton County and Dinton Co-Mico Wave Network as a fill-over network. So, without a doubt, we have one of the most robust, if not the most robust, communications network and systems to deliver 911 calls. So we're very proud of that. And we appreciate this long, long standing, I guess almost 10 year old relationship we've had with the County on the microwave network. I suppose there's a lot more detail like an ad. I know you've already have a long agenda, but the purpose for me being here today was really to celebrate in this forum the completion of this in-ge migration. As we move forward with new services such as the deployment of texting and other technologies, I'll come back to inform the court of what the latest and greatest is that we have to offer for the public. So proud to have the opportunity to serve the latest and greatest is that we have to offer for the public. So proud to have the opportunity to serve the citizens and the public safety agencies. And certainly I'm always available in my office if you ever have any questions and would like to discuss what next generation is all about. So I'm very glad. Thank you for being here. It's fascinating technology has really taken us into the next generation and bottom line that saves lives. It does. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate your time. I remember when we first started 9-1-1 back in 1985, I think it's a telephone company. People working on 9-1-1 are never envisioned that we'd be this for, especially with the Texan variety of it. But, you know, I'm gonna have to learn how to Texan. I'm gonna Texan, I'm the one, because it takes me 10 minutes to get my Texan on. So, yeah. Yeah. Thank you very much. Some of us are more technologically advanced than others. And, will help you, Bobby. Good. Don't microphone, the microphone button and just talk to it. Yeah, don't confuse you. Okay. I don't know if we're going to fix it. Thank y'all for being here. Mayor Lawrence, thank you for your service to the county and to the 911 board. I would just ask that there's anything, we have a legislative session coming up. If there's any issues that your board Has on your radar for the session that you can express those now or just be sure to let us know as we Travel and deal with our legislators this session that we can have be sure to Evaluate that and potentially support it. Thank you I appreciate that we certainly will and at our January board meeting I intend to take a legislative agenda to the board on issues that we certainly will. And at our January board meeting, I intend to take a legislative agenda to the board on issues that we've previously discussed. Maybe one of the most important is multi-line telephone systems. You may recall from about a year ago the young lady in East Texas who was killed by her estranged husband in a hotel. Her 14 year old daughter attempted to dial 911 four times from the hotel phone but didn't know she had to dial 911 first. That's a 30-year-old problem. And it's finally, this has brought national attention. Congressman Burgess has been made aware of this. This is a need not just in Texas but everywhere. So that is something that we'll be taking up this this coming session as well. But thank you for the offer and we certainly will keep you all informed of those activities. Okay, we're going to go to item 3M on the agenda. 3M is presentation of Commissioner's Court regarding the current overview of 2014 United Way of Denton County Campaign. Thank you Judge and commissioners. I just wanted to make a final notification of the 2014 United Way of Denton County Campaign. As of December 5th, the numbers that have come in from Denton County were that 68 staff and elected officials had contributed over $11,000, either through payroll deduction or one-time donations, which is a county, city, municipal governments as well as anybody who receives public funds has done phenomenally well this year. Our goal had been 400,000 and we made 340,000. So it really was an accomplishment that we did not think we'd get to, but we really have accomplished a huge amount. United Way overall has earned over $2 million for the 2014 campaign. And that's due to individual givers, to the court members, to the cities, to businesses, and just making everything available that is needed for our clients, for United Way, for the citizens of the county. So thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. serve on the Ditton County and out of way board. And I want to thank you, Kate, as a behalf of the board for your spearheading effort here at the county. And it's amazing when you listen to the things that the United Way does in the partnering with all those agencies, those directly, those clients that they serve, if they weren't meeting that need or preventing the need, it would fall at the foot of the Ditton County taxpayer. And so as the middle health challenges that they're working to accomplish right now, the big initiative the United Way, this next year, those are things that directly impacted county taxpayers in our budget. So thank you so much, Kate. Thank you. Hey, let's go back to item two on the agenda which is the consent agenda. Are there items you need to have discussion on or do we have a motion? Motion by Commissioner Mitchell. Seconded by Commissioner Marchin. On favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Ann Motion is carried. Consent agenda today consists of two A which is approval of order making appointments. We have a new hire in the county clerk's office, a new hire in the district attorney's office, a new hire in the sheriff's department law enforcement facility, three new hires in the county jail, and a new hire and adult probation. 2B is approval intro departmental transfers, 2C is approval payroll, 2D is approval specifications and authority to advertise for bid number 10142276 for a dead and county communication tower repairs with funding to come from 2014 tax notes. Line item 8276399010 and 2E is approval budget amount request 1-0-0-390 for computer equipment for jury and grand jury in the amount of 9,537 dollars. 5-A is approval of the bill report payments from CSCD Community Corrections TAP, Sheriff's Training, Sheriff's Propagio of the IT Interest, DA Check-B and DA-4-Pature Funds funds are presented for recording purposes on the committee meeting. James Wells. Good morning, Judge. Commissioners. I'd ask approval bills as presented with two deletions noted. Three additions and point out that one one of those payment to the tax successor collector is to increase change fund and one of the municipal offices. So by cream that payment you're actually also pretty the increase in the change fund. All of the municipal offices. So by cream that pay much, you're actually also pretty the increase in the change fund. It's all corrections I have. Thank you. Are there questions? Or do we have a motion? I'll say good. Motion by Commissioner Marchant. Seconded by Commissioner Coleman. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed to the need. Motion is carried. 70 is approval. A of May request 100360. For a wireless service including the addition of two new phones for Constable precinct five in the amount of $1,650. I move for approval. We have a motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Eads. Any questions? Any none? No, my favorite please say aye. Aye. Opposed, Cine? No, no. My favorite please say aye. Aye. Opposed to the name? Motion does carry. I'm sorry, 8A is discussion impossible of approval revision to policy 3.1 concerning the attendance. I asked this to be reposted on the agenda. I had concerns with the revision, the simple reason. This is not an easy thing because I realized people are hired to do a job and they're assigned hours and they do them. But at the same time, we call on people, for example, facilities to go to the courthouse and ship ice out of the driveway so the people reporting for jury duty, jury duty aren't slipping inside in our parking lot causing accidents. Or we asked like last year certainly Andy year crew out and helped up and sang her when the interstate 35 was shut down and all over the county actually not just up there. But when we ask these people to come out I don't feel that it's right to not compensate them. I mean they could say I'm getting my eight hours paid by staying home. Why do I want to go up there and risk my life? So I just have a problem with the revision to programming and would like to go back to the policy that we had prior to that and studied this further. We're going to pay them over time. Not unless they work over 40 hours and then they usually get compensatory time. Compton. Mr. Eads. I had the policy pulled up here. I've read it previously and I was reviewing it one last time and my screen has failed. We take a five minute recess, yonder, and get this revised so I could read the edits again and I'm not pulling up on here. Okay. But you should get it in paper for many. But if you get it paper for one. Pull it up on your iPad. He can't pull it up on his iPad. That last week. Like I said, some of us are technology, like you challenged, but... I'd better be quiet. They're going to take back the Christmas present. Okay, let's take a five minute recess and Kevin will come up here and clear up your problem. We're in recess. Reconvened. Okay, we're on item seven A and Commissioner Eads. Okay. Okay. Well, I believe Cindy Brown would have some comments concerning this issue. She doesn't, she doesn't. I understand. Monage, yes, it's a very difficult policy from the perspective of riding it to where it advocates for all of our concerns, right? You know, from a humble position, there are two fair options. You grant nothing or you grant something. You grant something, you accrue liability to your overall benefit liability. You do nothing. We don't accrue liability. In fact, we take the opportunity to reduce liability. Anything in between, you're not gonna make somebody happy. Let me ask a question, excuse me for interrupting. If you grant something as you put it, can we put a stipulation on there that it has to be used within a, you know, like if we grant extra time, is there any way legally to stipulate that that be used within a certain period of time? In my opinion, no, because it is compensatory time. And we can, in fact, if an employee comes to a supervisor and says, I need to take time off, and I would like it to be vacation, we can, in fact, say, well, we can use your comp time. So to that degree, we have the ability to reduce our comp time mobility by allowing them to use their time off. But as far as putting limitations on the FLSA comp, that would be very difficult. And I believe the legal opinion would be illegal. Along those same lines, Judge. So let's say during office hours, the county judge closed the county in Rodenbridge, was to remain open. And let's say there's 35 people. There is enough equipment to keep 10 people out of the trucks and so forth. There's only 10 workers to work. So only 10 employees were on reported for duty for the 10 assignments. And the other 20s are not working and they would get, is there a way to where the department head could give comp time during that pay period, as a judge said? So they work and for those ten because they they worked and the others did not. Could they could they not just give them comp time during that same payroll period or at their discretion later? We could we craft a policy this or same thing for facilities if I don't have any employees or facilities off the top of my head, but an XM out of them showed up to operators, only so many Sanders or so many things to do, that those who showed up were allowed to be not committing anything. We are always going to compensate our employees for their hours' work. And once they exceed the threshold, and in your case for the Roambridge crew, and they exceed the 40 hours physically worked, then comp time is granted. During that 40 hour week, you know, a supervisor, if they have the opportunity, can flex those schedules to where, so we have an OCD one one day and they work over then the next day and conditions have improved and perhaps that crewman doesn't come in. So, sometimes not granted on a daily basis, it's granted on a weekly basis for your staff and for law enforcement on a two week basis. My concern is not that is that appropriate. It's not equally applying the policy among our workforces. And that's what concerns me the most is that right now the old policy was written in such a way that it was only if your shift was impacted by the closure. Well, the closure typically only impacts the day shifts. And those aren't the only people that are out working in conditions that are negative. And whereas they're trying to get to the jail facilities or the probation facilities to do their deep night shifts. So that was a problem that I had with the old policy is that it was not equally distributed. Therefore, I felt like it was unfair to our entire workforce. And again, it comes down to what's most fair, and I also what's most visibly responsible. And that's where the tough decision comes in is, do we give something to everybody or give nothing to nobody? And everything in between you take the risk of hearing disgruntledness because somebody is going to be left out. We, at one time we defined, did we not, what essential services were. Remember when we went through that exercise? We did discuss essential and non-essential, but we, I don't believe ever made a definition or made an interpretation of that because who is to say who's essential and non-essential. On a payroll week, my staff who is normally non-essential becomes very essential. Payment. And so- All employees would be to that. I mean, it is easy, understandably, conditions to say law enforcement is obviously essential personnel. Our detention facilities are obviously essential personnel, but I believe that at that time when it was discussed that we decided not to define it in the policy because we believe that's up to the interpretation of the elected official or the department head to classify their staff as essential or not. And where I was going with that, if we put in one policy, does it have to represent every employee within the county no matter what their job is, are can we institute separate policies in relation to this subject to the Sheriff's Department, to facilities, to Roden Bridge? In other words, are we limited by law? Do you understand what I'm talking about? are we limited by law? Do you understand what I'm talking about? I do, and perhaps Amy can shed more light on that one. I don't know that you're limited by law commissioner. I think it goes back to hearing complaints if we have one policy for, say, law enforcement employees and a different policy for facilities or road and bridge employees There's a fairness issue that employees will be uncomfortable with So so you're saying that the complaint would be If there was a different policy for road bridge that someone in the sheriff's department would be upset with that policy because they didn't have the same kind of policy. Possibly if you know we've heard some discussion in commissioners court before where people have said well but that's their job, their law enforcement. They know they have to do that when they take the job, but then we've heard discussion about other departments that while they have to come in to clear the sidewalks and that kind of thing, I think employees see themselves as employees and they feel like they all should be treated the same. Ron, I think, I mean, it's tough to have a one size fits all policy. I think we could cover it with a one policy that perhaps different chapters within it that said, look, if you're an eight to five employee, this is how you're treated for inclement weather. If you're a shift employee that has where you are working like the Sheriff's Department, swing shift, the late shift, the morning shift, that's how we treat inclement weather. And I think if you put that within the policy and said this is specifically how we're going to treat each category, I think that would make a lot of sense. I went through the policy last night and it was difficult for me to discern how we would compensate the employees in the area that I supervise along with commission or ease. So that was my concern is why I wanted to go back to the original property in policy and maybe do a do-over and have it where we classify it and even if let's say you're in the DA's office but you're working for tens you fall under the 4's office, but you're working for tens, you fall under the 410 policy. If you are working at the constable and for some reason they're working swing shifts or something like that, then you fall under that policy. I think that would clarify it a lot more. That's what I would like to do. If you're able to do a bite apartment, do it by whatever your schedule is and you know what their schedule is. So then you would say, look, this person works the swing shift. This is how they're affected and out and based upon that thought. Would you consider that if there's a closure. On a specific day that all shifts within that 24-hour day, if somebody worked, they would be eligible up to a certain number of hours based upon what they are physically working hours worked, plus up to inclement weather credit for that 24-hour period. So that would cover, I mean, I can't tell you how many shifts are going on out there. I mean, there's hundreds, believe it or not. And to isolate them in a policy, it would be delineated for 20 plus pages. And we don't want to do that. But if we encompass the 24-hour period in any shift during that 24-hour period that the judge grants a closure, then they may be granted if it's a full day closure, may be granted up to equivalent to their scheduled shift. If their shift is impacted within that 24-hour period less than their scheduled shift, then they only get a credit up to that point. I think that would work, and I don't think it'd be too hard for us to ask our elected officials or our department heads to classify your employee as one of these three shifts. Because those in my opinion, you have a lot better handled than on this and I do, but those are the three main durations of what we have working. I mean, there may be other iterations, but I think those are the three ones. And if we adopt an overlapping policy with those three categories, it would be a lot easier to understand. I'm not going to ask why. I like the idea. I like the idea of bracketing the and identifying early on what those schedules are and what classification you fall into. I think that employees know that they know early on. I think it would be easy for the Treasurer's Office. And I think I appreciate the Judge Putnis on the agenda and that we look at fairness. And I think we were talking about last week about engagement with the employees. And I think that I think this court is trying to do a good job of trying to be fair and prudent in the financial ramifications to the budget too. And so I think we're trying to strike a balance there. Maybe we could start with a clean budget. I was reviewing this over the weekend, and maybe we could start with a clean policy after we get that bracket it down of what that wish list looks like. Clean and whole without all the markups. What do you all think? I was gonna ask for you to repeat what those brackets were because I didn't get them all written down and I'm not sure I got them. I would say in my opinion there's three basically work periods. There's people who work for tens either Monday, three Thursday or Tuesday through Friday. There's people who work in normal business week, which would be 40 hours a week with normal office hours. And then there are those, I think, in our ploy who work in an environment where you have a 24 hour shift where you have somebody working 7 to 3, 3 to 11, and 11 to 3. And then if we bracket those into those three categories, then we would if you work a swing shift, this is what happens for employment weather. If you work four tens, this is what happens in employment weather. If you work normal business hours, this is what happens in employment weather. I think it would be a lot easier for our employees to understand and we ask our elected officials to designate what kind of shift does this employee have that way everybody knows. And then after they work those hours, say for instance those categories that you're talking about, how are you going to compensate them if they have to work? I think we have to roll all that into it. I agree. But we figure that out when we agree. You want to figure that out? I'll have to find those out into three categories. Okay. And that's when the sausage gets made on how you... When I hear that, I hear we're going to give... If it's a full day closure, I hear we're going to give everybody up to their scheduled day shift of inclement weather, which is time not worked. And then they're going to get credit for their hours worked because it's hours worked. Both of those components factor in to how much comp time they accrue. So they will be getting compensation for hours worked and then they would be getting compensation for inclement weather, which is going to approve comp time. So if that's what I'm hearing no matter what shift they work. I think we still need to work on that but I think if we can just clarify it. If it's a full day closure and nobody works or the ones that are essential works. They get what they worked. And the rest of us get, we get the inclement weather pay job that we're taking and what it entails. And when we do this bracket, go back and explain to the employees, I hope that covers that. Because if I take a job, that it's essential service, and I've got to be there. And you've got just a regular job. And you get that day off because of the Inclement Weather. And you get paid for that day. I don't expect to be paid for the Inclement weather other than what I worked. And if I worked over eight hours, I expect to be compensated for that. But I can't go back and say, I'm going to pay you Inclement Weather time plus where your regular hours work for that, but I can't go back and say I'm going to pay you implement well the time, plus, plus that, where you're regularly, I was worked when you're an essential employee. So under Commissioner Coleman's example of bracketing the shifts, am I hearing then that if it was a shift that started at 11 p.m. and worked to 7 a.m. that they would get nothing because there was central personnel. I think the complaint is they were scheduled to work under your saying no, but under your scenario you're saying possibly. We need to encourage employees to come. I'm an office that the Sheriff's Department at a long time, or from what I understand when it was inclement weather There was really no incentive to have people show up and Like Sheriff Parkie used to say, you know the inmates are there whether we're there or not And if you start drawing I understand but I think like people have mentioned that there's inequities that They don't get in they don't get the benefits of somebody else who has an eight to five job who got completely the whole day off and I think you know we might want to consider some sort of you know shift them to differential or something like that but I don't believe so we don't have shift to parental. No, no. No, and I'm a little concerned in Sydney, Perkney, if I'm wrong, but I think we have people in, for example, the medical examiner's office who wouldn't necessarily fit into any of these scenarios. And then I couldn't even tell you where where but it's very possible that we have people that work for four days one week and five days the next week that's the regular schedule. Some people work three 12-hour shifts one week and four 12-hour shifts the next week and so I don't it sounds really nice to be able to just put a bunch of brackets in the policy, but that's why we keep redoing this policy. There is not a way that's fair to everybody if we break it out and do different sections. The way that's fair is either to do nothing or to do everything like Cindy said. If we do it for one group, we should do it for every group. To me, you need to somehow reward employees for showing up to work. All employees. All employees, yeah. But for instance, correct me if I'm wrong Andy. When we have so many works of 10 hours shift, right? And they get a couple of days of inclement weather. For that second day of inclement weather, did they only get eight hours when they're normally supposed to get 10? Both policies would say up to their scheduled day. So if it was a 10 hour day, it would be 10 hours of inclement weather. So. I just worked eight hours. Even though it's just case of the winter, I'm going to be sick for the cold and I need that for the evening. I don't get what it's like that kind of thing. I can just not go. I've worked that shift in sports to play overtime. I think it's the evening that I have a sick of cold and I just want to put in my experience and to put in my work I don't really believe it. Now, we got old times they were laid out, but they didn't get laid out. They didn't know what they didn't get either. They were kicked out of the zone. But there was the human homeowner, and so you put them in the mirror, and they got up to the area. Yeah. And if you get to stay, then you have to stay here, so you don't get to find open. Oh, Bobby, I mean, also, I get the sheriff's department when people can show up. You have somebody working the double shift. Yeah, man, you've got the same pool. And you know, we have employees that have actually, that work at some of these 24 hour facilities. We've had employees actually stay at local hotels. So they are next to their work site so they can meet their obligation without failing to meet their obligations. And so, I mean, those are certainly commendable things and people going above and beyond. And, you know, and they're slipping and sliding in at 11 o'clock at night, whereas, you know, for the eight to five shifts, I mean, that's why it's important to me that our entire workforce, and I think I mean, it reiterated that too me that our entire workforce, and I think I mean, it reiterated that too, that our entire workforce be considered for whatever policy is accomplished. I agree. Yeah, and we need to do that really quickly because it is a season. I just looked at a weather forecast and we're not forecasted for any ice and snow in the immediate future anyway but may I. Yes or go ahead. When we go back and look at that the question I think the question was asked earlier can you put a limit on the uses of the comp time. Because you were talking at any given time, the county has a liability of comp that's out there. And by awarding more comp time, then we increase our liability. Can we limit our liability in a certain time frame? I can just envision when I first came into office and I had a had a a My chief clerk came in with 300 comp hours She had a Humulated over a certain period of time. And I worked for three years to get that compound to totally go away by giving her every Friday off that that kind of thing. And it grows every year we award raises. Yeah, I mean, but we're limited. I mean, our vacation time, you use your vacate, you use it or you lose it. And the difference between the two is the Fair Labor Department of Labor oversees the compensatory time because we have opted to use at a policy. Right. In lieu of paying overtime, which there's a difference between overtime and comp time, then we have opted for a compensatory time policy to where we accrue. And those are cash wages to an employee that we're holding on to until which time they either use it as time-off or at which time they terminate or sever their employment with the county or at which time they meet the maximum threshold that is determined by the Department of Labor, which for civilian employees is 240 hours, for law enforcement it's 480 hours. Beyond our compensatory time policy, it is purely up to the Department had a elected official to make a departmental administration to oversee those accruals and to minimize the opportunity for employees not to work. One more more question. Who identifies within, is it the elected official or the department had that identifies within within its organization who is eligible for comp time. For instance, at same chief clerk as the exempt employee serves at the will of the elected official. So if they walk in one day and say, I'm not feeling well, we'll go home. You don't have to use your comp you know whatever just co-home because I know that you worked extra hours or what but because they're positioned I remember the DA's office doing a investigation on a constable's office real to me, right across the hall from me, that constables office it wasn't had signed a contract for security services and the exempt employee that was part of that would come in and work one hour a day because that was what the elected officials said that they could work had to work and the rest of the day went and worked the second job. Something? Well what did he use? The DA's office did an investigation of that did an investigation of that and said that elected official can choose whatever time that person has to work to do their duties of the office. As an exempt employee the Department of Labor tells us that we cannot dock a salaried exempt employee for less than a full day. So if that employee comes in and works that one hour, and let's say does not have any other type of benefit time on the books, then we cannot dock that employee for their day's salary, okay? So the Department of Labor tells us how that is administered. Now if a salary to employee or exempt employee, synonymous terms, is absent a full day and has no benefit time, then they can be docked for a full day absence. Where sometimes people get confused is because we grant our exempt salary employees vacation and sick time even exempt comp time. We have an expectation in the policy sense that if they are not at the office for their full shift that they should use their accrued time. And in that example that employees should have under our policies used benefit time for the hours that they were not working at their Ditton County job. Well, then I ask a question here. Are exempt employees paid, are they paid by time, or are they paid by the task that they do? Their salary is determined by their task. We do look at their time cards. They do submit time cards to the county, to my office. And if they don't fulfill their 80 hour because we pay by weekly, it is possible if they have a full day absence and have no other accrued time, they can be done. Therefore, we are looking at their hours. Who determines whether they get comp time that it sees the 80 hours? If we're not part of the time? The department. I've always had a problem with the exempt. Yeah, I don't give it. It used to be that was a good way to change your employee into an unexampt. But I think the DOL when they did their changes in what 2011 allowed for executive compensatory time. For an exempt time, for an exempt position. So what who regulates whether that elected official or department head has the discretion to give comp time to an exempt employer or not, is not? I mean, it's purely, well, it's not regulated by anything other than the department head or elected official. Well, I know that, but who gives them the authority to do that, to have that discretion? Well, by policy, the court does, to the exempt employee. So, if the commission's court by policy excluded an exempt employee from comp time, then even elected official, or a department head could not give comp time for an exempt employee. That would be true. Of course, exempt comp time, other than loss productivity is not a liability. I don't care if it is a no. Okay, I'm just saying that, you know, as compared to an hourly employee accruing comp time, there may be times where perhaps a salary person can do the job of an hourly employee that whom they supervise, and it might be the best interest of the county, to have the salary person work those additional hours to accomplish a task. perhaps an hourly employee may have done but yet we're going to be compensating a liability by giving that hourly employee comp time. So many times our supervisors may need to step up more to the play. So then the only purpose. Excuse me, I'm sorry. So the only purpose of giving an exempt employee comp time is to let them use it for time itself, not cash itself. So at the end of their employment, if they have 300 hours of comp time, it is not a cash liability. That is a time liability. And the Court took action many years ago to limit the exempt comp time accrual to 160 hours. So even once an employee, an exempt employee reaches that threshold, anything over and about that is lost anyway. Thank you. Okay. All right. So we're going to go back to the zone. That's what I hear. Yeah. Jody wanted to address this on this issue too. But it works, but as we go back to the drawing board, one of the things to consider is the essential staff has significantly increased through pandemic planning that we've done with the health department. Other off emergency type planning and things like that through the county. Essential personnel has really increased what is considered essential. And that to the county. Essential personnel has really increased what is considered essential and that is the definition and senior and Amy are both right. It's really left up to the department had to determine what their essential and non-essential personnel is. But I mean for example, we sometimes don't look at IT, but IT is one of the most important functions during severe weather. We also have so much staff with deadlines that are still working from home. So how do deadlines that are still working from home. So how do we address those employees working from home answering their phones? Still dealing with county government business on their county computer at home or their personal computer through the county network, those some of the things that they probably need to be addressed with. The mask who's going to address those? That was going to be my question. No, I mean who who who is going to be charged with the addressing those through human resources and through the Treasurer's Office. We need to put an ad hoc panel together. What we I mean what we need to do to move it They don't want your help I mean, that would that would be my question. Who moves it off the point? I'll finalize by saying whatever you're doing, I will do my best to implement. And to administer, you know, to the best of my accomplishments and I have a great staff. It's just I'm trying to work out everyone's concerns and not only the court's concerns, but our employees' concerns and department head and elected officials that have employees coming to them not happy about all the shifts that are affected one way or the other. So I think bottom line, not everybody's going to be happy, but we need to come up with the best solution possible. But I was totally uncomfortable with our last action and wanted to go back to the drawing board sort of speak. Do I have volunteers that would like to sit on this committee to- That's one question, please. Go ahead. But do you have horrible heartburn if we committed or created a new category of inclement weather time? I know we can probably do that. I mean, we currently have a pay code. Are you saying an accrual balance of an inclement weather time? Honestly, I don't know that the benefit exists. It is a comp time. So therefore we are. We can compensate our impulence. Ever a man or we won't. So as it's approved in the legend. I mean, we can set, we can accrue it separately, but I don't know that it would benefit anything other than the employees can see its inclement weather, but it's still a form of comp time. All right. This or all we could see that see that. And you can ask that that be used first. Can we categorize that differently on the on Chronos so that it be used first? What is the objective? I'm not sure what we're trying to achieve by creating a new code. It doesn't matter to know this problem with the goals. If you somehow award everyone equally in climate weather time, and there's a positive reinforcement for showing up to work, where you would get that? I don't really think the employees care if it's called Inclimate Weather, if it's called Compt Time, they just want credit for it. Sure. And if they're getting the same credit to an implement weather balance as they're going to get to a comp balance, that's all they want is the equal credit. And I don't care what you call it, label it. Or they just care about how it's derived. And I don't think a separate balance would do anything other than make our own E goes feel better, cycle over, that's what we you you know and I don't think that accomplishes anything except programming changes in cronos and a little bit more headache for administration to facilitate so in the end it's still comp time. Okay I think we need to put together a committee to try and come up a reasonable solution and we're not going to come up with a solution that makes everybody happy that I think that Road and bridge one of the other needs to be represented and I think somebody from law enforcement needs to be represented and Probably asked Cindy because obviously she knows the administration of all this the best Andy you want to represent it from your office or my office? I hope it's taught. Okay. I'm going to hold it. Lipa Cone. I can trickle the dentist. We'll talk afterwards on that. I don't think either of us, either nominate somebody. Well, and maybe somebody from Danny Brumley's area. Facility facilities, law enforcement, road and bridge and Cindy. But, yeah. Yeah, I'm sure. That's true. Okay. And if y'all will, Andy, if you'll email those folks and the time and the time to get everybody together and start hashing this out because we do need to come up with those, the best solution we can. I don't think we're going gonna be able to make everybody happy, but we'll do it. We need to do it, we need to do it soon, and I know it's Christmas, but. Okay, thank you for putting it back on the agenda, Amy. Let's move on to item 8B on the agenda, which is approval of exercising the option to exempt the self-funded portion of the kind of benefits plan, PBC, PPO medical plan, PBC, high deductible plan, PBC, PPO dental plan from the requirements of Title 27 of the Public Health Service Act. Amy, you want to add? This particular placement relates to the same exemptions that this court has approved every year. Hit the exemptions. Most of them we comply with. One or two of them, one of them does not even apply to us, but the other three we comply with, but we still exempt the plan under our discretion to do so and we're asking approval today. Are there any questions to members of the Court or do we have a motion? Motion by Commissioner Marchin Chair will second the motion hearing no questions., all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed to the name? Motion does carry. 8C is approval of one appointment of the PBC Executive Director or designated PBC employee to serve as the serve in the role as submitter, as well as of HIPAA opt out elections and two electronic opt out procedures beginning in the year 2015 and this subsequent years. This would be the procedures have changed so that there will be electronic elections in the future and this would give the executive director of the PEDC authority to simply file those elections annually for us, unless something changed if the Department of Health and Human board changed the HIPAA opt-out elections, then it would be brought back to each commissioners court. But if there were no changes, it would just be automatically filed each year by the executive director and we're recommending approval. Other questions? Do we have a motion? Some move. Motion by Commissioner Marchant. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed to the name? Motion carries. A.D. is approval of a memo to the kind of flexible benefits plan effective January 1. It should be 2015. No, actually it is 2014. It's okay. Flexible benefits plans have different requirements than other parts of the plan. And the rule is that they have to be approved before the last day of the year in which they were effective. I don't know why it's that way, but that's the way it is. Each of the changes though was approved previously. This is just approving them as a whole in the amendments to the plan. The provisions in the flexible benefit plan are the ones we've been operating on all year. And the ones that, any changes to them were brought to you a year ago. So we're asking approval. It's kind of a ministerial function today. Okay. The move. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell, seconded by Commissioner Marchion. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, Cindy? Motion is carried. So essentially, we've been approving these days, we go along and now we improve it in mass. Okay. A, let's say 10A is approval, construction change directive number one for the purchasing three governments that are located in Louisville. Michael Tuglioz with this this morning? Good morning. Good morning, Judge, good morning, commissioners. This is a construction change directive, which is a little bit different than what I brought to court before. At this time, we do not know the financial impact of the change. We think it's going to be about a watch, but we were not safe to say. The peers on this project were exceptionally deep, abnormally deep from what I saw. When we first started the project, we drilled one peer, we went through, completely through the bedrock into some soft soil and into water and we said, hold on a minute, we need to start oil. Which we did, but no. Be it our God. But this was, at the same time, we made a transition from structural engineers on the project. So the new engineers looked at the peers and decided that we could shallow them up, but we had to widen them out. And so this change that we're trying to make is direct them to that work and we have no idea specifically what the cost will be, but we think it's going to be a lot better situation, a lot easier, it may even be a little bit of a cost savings. But so it's different than a change order because we don't have the pricing with it. So that's what this is. Don't move. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell. Excuse me, seconded by Commissioner Ease. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Post and in. Motion carries. 10B is approval of one, that county participation in the North Central Texas Regional Strategy for Managing Stormwater during 2015-2, kind of judge signing the North Central Texas Council of Governments Fiscal Year 2015 funding commitment response form for a regional strategy for managing stormwater and North Central Texas. Second, motion by Commissioner Eid, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell, questions. Hearing none, on favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Motion carries. 13 A is approval, providing nominations to the North Central Texas Council. I've got on this executive board to replace chief Russ Kerbala as one of four didn't kind of represent it as in the North Central Texas Council government's criminal justice policy development committee. And we've had a volunteer to pour this chief Randy Flemmins. I don't believe he's here, the sheriff was here, he maybe had to go. Are there any other nominations from court members? I ask chief Hall, he'd politely declined. Correct. from court members. I ask chief Hall he'd politely declined. Correct. Chief Hall politely declined your correct maybe another time. Okay, so I'm going to make a motion to approve chief Randy Flemmins. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. If he was here, we were going to question his qualifications. Give him a more time, but he's not here. So all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Any motion does, Carrie? Thank you, Chief Lennon. 13B is approval of appointing Mr. Jeffrey Schoots to replace Rear Roberts on the Denton Housing Finance Board. Motion by Commissioner Eads, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Poe, Cine. Motion does carry 14 A's approval of interlocal cooperation agreement between Denton County, Texas and the City of Lisville, Texas for the Hallford's Prairie Road Project located entirely within the City of Listville, Texas and David County Commissioner of Prison 2. But, Dan, the kind of Commissioner Court authorizing the appropriation of $300,000 to come from 2014 PI bonds. This is Auditor 8175249030. Motion by Commissioner Marchand, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. Hearing the questions, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, Sainin? Motion carries. 14b is approval of TechShare Common Integrated Justice System fiscal year 2015 resource sharing addendum between Dan County, Texas and the Texas Conference of Urban Counties. Any amount of $430,181. So it's funny to come out of Auditor line m 0166 6 1 2 0 75 software maintenance Motion by commissioner Mitchell seconded by commissioner marchand Hearing no questions all in favor please say aye aye Opposed to see any Ocean does carry we don't have any executive session items, but commissioner marchand go ahead It should be in the public forum. Okay, item one under public comment then. Members, I'm going to be talking with election administration as well as the Civil Division. I've had a request to alter a precinct line and I'm going to be asking them to work on that and so if you have precincts, we have the right to do that. We have the right to do that or the election administrator to ask us to... Good up, so you can pick up. To ask us to amend any precinct lines at least once a year, I believe that's right. And that happens about March. And I'm going to be asking them in an unpopulated area to be moved, precinct, into a JP precinct so that to ease the load of one court for another court. So if you have anything, I would just suggest that we're going to do it one time a year that you need to put your request in now because I'm getting ready to make it. Okay. I think we did you have anything? No, I think I can say on that was that would have to be after January 1st. Okay, with that we're joining everybody have a good day. Okay, with that we're joining everybody.