you you you you Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, Denton County Commission's Court for Tuesday, April 1st is now in session. Thank you. This morning our, excuse me, our invocation was given by Dr. Bing Burton, Director of our Health Department and our pledges to be led by Donna Stewart, our budget director, will you please stand? Would you pray with me? God is our refuge and strength, and a very present help and time of trouble. Therefore we will not fear. What we thank you for this day, today that you've made, we pray Lord that you will bless us with some rain in due season. We thank you Lord for all the other blessings that you daily and richly shower upon us. Pray that you would bless this meeting of the commissioner's court. We ask that all that is said and done today would be pleasing to you. We ask you blessing upon our county, and upon our state, and upon upon our nation and all those who serve them for Jesus' sake on it. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the education of the education of the education of the education of the education of the education of the education of the education of the education of the education of the education of the education of the education of the education of the Well, thank you everybody for being here this morning. And we have quite a few guests with us today. So in consideration of people's time, we're going to first go to our resolutions. Let's go to item three A on the agenda. Three A is approval of a resolution for claiming April. 2014 is child abuse awareness and prevention month. And I'm going to read the resolution. Excuse me. Proclamation, child abuse awareness and prevention month. Where is child abuse and neglect as a complex and ongoing problem in our society, affecting many children in Denton County. And where is in 2013 Dent County Child Protective Services received, this is a sad number, 3513 reports of child abuse, and of those, 3,028 were assigned to case workers. And whereas in 2013, Denton County Child Protective Services obtained legal custody of 196 new children who were then placed with an appropriate relative or kinship caregiver or in a foster home. And whereas in 2013, Denton County Child Protective Services had an average of 359 children in his protective custody. And whereas every child is entitled to be loved, cared for, nurtured, feel secure and feel free from verbal, sexual, and emotional, and physical abuse and neglect. And whereas it is a responsibility of every adult who comes in contact with a child to protect that child's inalienable right to a safe, nurturing childhood. And whereas Denton County has dedicated individuals and organizations such as Denton County Child Protective Services Board, community partners of Denton County, the Cumberland Presbyterian Children's Home, a court appointed special advocates of Denton County, and the Children's Advocacy Center for Denton County who work daily to counter the problem of child maltreatment, and to help parents obtain the assistance they need. And whereas our communities are stronger when all citizens become aware of child maltreatment prevention and become involved in supporting parents to raise their children in a safe and nurturing environment. And whereas effective child abuse prevention programs succeed because the partnerships created among social service agencies, schools, faith organizations, civic organizations, law enforcement agencies in the business community. Now therefore the Denton County Commission's Court does hereby proclaim April as child abuse, awareness, and prevention month in Denton County. And we call upon all citizens community agencies, faith-based, faith groups, medical facilities and businesses, including the Denton County Child Protector Services Board, community partners of Denton County, the Cumberland Presbyterian Children's Home, court appointed special advocates of Denton County and the Children's Advocacy Center for Denton County, to increase their participation in our efforts to support families, thereby preventing child abuse and strengthening the communities in which we live. The chair will some move. Seconded by Commissioner Eidz, on favor please say aye. I oppose the same name. Motion does carry unanimously. We have Mayor Pat Davis with us this morning. Mayor, if you'd like to join us at the podium. Good morning. Thank you everybody for being here. Good morning, Judge and commissioners. It's a pleasure to be in front of you today and to say thank you for what you do to help protect the children in Denton County. You read the statistics in Denton County. You read the statistics, they're alarming. It's dramatic and we need to all participate and do everything we can. This is April's child abuse a month that we're all recognizing. I'd like to recognize some of the people that are on the CPS board. You just hold up your hand, Leanne Kelly, Betty Prior, Dorothy Mentor. There's a few that couldn't be here. Martin, Dr. Jennifer Martin is our president and could be here today because her son was having surgery and there's a few others but Gwyn Gary and Lorraine Perry that I'd like to recognize. I'd like to also recognize Claudia Gross who is the program director for CPS right back here. Again we want to thank you for all that you've done. The other thing I wanted to say is it's a recognisable what the money that you just spent at the Denton Facility that we have here, the extra space that was provided makes it really nice for families that come together with their attorneys and their children so that they're not butted up right at each other where they have an opportunity to argue. Instead they're actually fostering their children and taking care of. We do have a need. I can't be in front of you without mentioning a need. And that is we don't have a bathing facility in the Lewisville office. And often when we take in a child, they're dirty and festive and they they need to be bathed and so we have to take them to another facility to bathe them. So sometime down the future if you can think about that we appreciate it. But again thank you very much for everything that you do for us and we're just gonna keep working for the children. Thank you. Thank you so much. Dan Lill would be remiss if I did recognize you and give you an opportunity to address the court if you'd like to. Thank you for being here. Good morning. I also want to introduce the board members that I have in attendance. So they would please stand up and be recognized. Those that are on our board of directors and staff of the advocacy center that are in attendance. We have Chief Russ Kerbo, Dean Barnes is the past chairman of our Board and works at the AccuCredit Union. He also has Eric Fields of Arga also in the Arga ISD School Board. And I remember our Board of Directors along with his wife Lynn. And also Claudia Gross from CPS who's a member of our Board in Christina Dowers, our community outreach coordinator as well. So I just wanted to say thank you as well for your support. Not only the CPS, but also the community based organizations like ourselves, Kass and Comberlin that provide these services. We too, if the children's advocacy center for Denton County of sadly seeing an increase in children, we saw about a 15% increase in the number of interviews of kids from 745 to 814 interviews last year of the most severely abused children in our county, which is horrible news. We wish we weren't even existing to provide these services. The good news is that Denton County is an elite county in terms of the team that we have assembled from law enforcement, got outstanding law enforcement agencies. There's 33 law enforcement agencies that work these cases in Denton County. And every one of them from your district, from your precincts rather, do a fabulous job of working as part of the team. We have a unit of child protective services on site that works with us as well as the District Attorney's Office and juvenile probation, their county agencies and while around the state of Texas, I'll be brief and saying this, I think it needs to be pointed out, I've learned that there's been a decrease in other counties on forensic interviews of kids. However, that doesn't mean child abuse is decreasing around the state. What we are seeing is that our team in Denton County does a fantastic job of following the children's advocacy center model and the kids that need to be seen with a forensic interview and a follow-up counseling are getting it here in Denton County. So that's just a testament to the kind of teamwork that we have in our county. Thank you for your support. Thank you. Sherry, get in. There she is. I was just getting ready to ask, I'm sure there's somebody else that I need to be calling them. Good morning, Sherry. I was hiding in the back and always hate to go after Dan because he's so eloquent. Thank you. Thank you for having us. And you know I Have to say that as the population in Ditton County is growing You know you've been kind of working in this business a little too long when as you drive to work and you see a new development You say wonder how many kids we're gonna be serving out of there Wonder how many children that came from the North or that have moved into that new Apartment complex or whatever we're gonna be serving in Kasa. Unfortunately, it's a lot. We did serve 80% of the children that were in CPSC last year. And as you know, because I know you're very familiar with what we do at Kasa, the other 20% were served by attorneys. We have some great attorneys in Ditton County. They're just frankly not as good as Kasa. I would like to take a minute to introduce the people that are here for Costa because I just thought well everybody else did she. Sure. Best curbo. Chief of police in Louisville is also on our board at Costa for the second time. He's a two-timer. Victoria Calvin is our training and recruitment coordinator. Lori Powell is our program director. Debbie Martin is our office manager. Laura Wilner is our development associate and Lizetta Wing on the end is been a cost of child advocate for how long Lizetta? Three years. Three years serving directly with children and families in costas. So we have a lot of support. I know there's a lot of people here in spirit. I want to take a moment to thank you for the 25 plus years that you've been supporting costa and the children we serve. I know I've come before you plenty of times to say thanks, but it's not enough. I want more. And I know I write that into everything that I send to Dr. Burton every time that I send something or when I send a report to James Wells, I'm on a quarterly basis, but the truth is you do a lot. You do a lot for our community and you do a lot for our child welfare system locally. And I believe that CAUSEA, the Advocacy Center, Cumberland and CPS works really well in Denton County for our children. And I think we do a pretty darn good job. If any of you noticed the editorial that was in the Denton paper a few days ago, from I can't remember the author's name, but anyway about children that are dying in Florida and the number of children and how messed up their child welfare system is. There were two points that he made that I said to myself, I am so glad that I live in Ditton County and that we take care of children. One of his points was we have a lot of laws on the books that protect children before they're born. We have a few that protect them after that and we have even fewer that take care of the perpetrators, but in Ditton County we're pretty good about taking care of all of those situations. And the other point that he made is it's never too much. You can never help too much when you're helping in the life of a child who's been a user neglected. So I just leave that thought with you because you do a lot, but you can never do too much. So we employ you and encourage you to get involved and help others in our community give involved as well. Thank you. Cherry, don't run off while you're here. Do you have the mic? Plug your pull-up for kids. Oh, I would love to do that. And then I want Dan to do your upcoming event while you are here, so you have to do some mic time. Friday, May the 9th is the 15th annual 14th annual, 14th annual, Casa Pulling for Kids Sporting Clay Tournament. We had 365 people last year. We're shooting for 400 shooters this year. And do you better come shoot? I will. And I know, you know, I forgot to mention John Polster is also a Casa supporter for 14 years, right John? Thank you. He won't let me shoot with him on his team. Mr. Mitchell, I won't either but you're welcome to come volunteer. And if you'd like to come back and... Because there's a big event coming up. How about the event that you've got coming up? Our fifth annual Champions for Children Gale will be held this Saturday night, Circle R Ranch, and Flower Man, and we're just very blessed that it's a sold out event at this break. 800 people expected to attend, so thank you so much. Very good. Well, we'd be remiss if we didn't thank all of you for all of the work that you do and the great care that you give to these children of Dent County that so need your services unfortunately. Okay, anybody else? Did I skip anybody? Did I introduce everybody that needed to be introduced? Sounds like that. Okay. Thank you. I'd also like to go to the resolution the the 9B on the agenda, which is approval of a resolution recognizing April 7th through the 13th is public health week in Denton County and a related presentation and we'll call on Commissioner Marchand is going to read that resolution. Go ahead. This is a resolution recognizing April 7th through the 13th as a public health week in Denton County. The Denton County Commissioner's Court in Denton County, Texas during a regular session on the first day of April 2014, consider the following resolution. Whereas the strength and future of every Denton County community depends upon the health and well-being of its citizens. And whereas public health helps to protect every resident, every day, in every part of the Denton County, from infectious diseases, environmental exposures, and terrorist threats. And whereas public health promotes the benefits of wellness, including active living, and healthy eating. And whereas the emphasis of public health on prevention assures an outstanding return on investment in terms of saving lives and saving money and whereas public health activities throughout Denton County routinely prevent disease, partnerships and expand access to healthcare and to end, whereas thousands of public health professionals throughout the nation and dozens throughout Denton County dedicate themselves to preventing disease and promoting and protecting the health and safety of their fellow citizens. Now therefore be it resolved that the Commission's Court of Denton County, Texas does hereby declare the week of April 7th through 13th, 2014 as public health week in Denton County. In addition, it recognizes the efforts of public health professionals to assure the health and safety of our residents and our communities and does hereby affirm strong support and appreciation for all that public health does to prevent, excuse me, protect and improve the quality of life in Denton County. Done in the open court this first day of April upon motion by myself. Thank you very much. My commission, March and seconded by commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, Sen. Motion does carry. And. Aye. Aye. Opposed, Sainte? Motion does carry. And there's a related presentation. Did we have something else that I should be calling on? Not really? Okay. I didn't want to make sure I wasn't missing something. Thank you, Bing. Okay. Now I'd like to go to item 4A on the agenda, which is public hearing to discuss the proposed traffic regulation in a special district for Dyncony. Freshwater Supply District numbers 8A, 8B, 11A, 11B, 11C, located in Dyncony Commissioner Prisnet 1. First, we need a motion to go into our public hearing. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. On favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Motion does carry. We have a public comment form here from Nikki Rogers. I'm assuming Nikki, this is on this agenda item, correct? Okay, if you would come to the podium, please. We have a public comment form and I'll let you cover all the items that you listed here. Thank you guys so much for having us and making this public. For the last year, let me just introduce myself. I'm Nikki Rogers. I'm a resident in Paloma Creek North. We bought and built a house out there almost 11 years ago now. So we were there when 380 was two lanes and the closest Walmart was in the colony. Yeah. So we used to have to take a cooler with us in the summer months to get our frozen things back home before they would melt. So we just love the growth and we're excited that everything's coming out that way. But it brings up concerns of safety, especially where the children are concerned. I have four children, believe it or not. I've got one currently serving as Airman Rogers in San Angelo at the Air Force Base. I've got a 14-year-old special needs son that attends Naval Middle School. I have an eight-year-old, I'm sorry, nine now. A nine year old daughter that attends Paloma Creek Elementary. And then I have a four year old that's not quite ready for school just yet. For a year, I have been an advocate for all the children that are in our community. Not sure if you folks have been out there, but Naval Middle School and Paloma Creek Elementary are right across the street from each other on Naval Road. The way that that was built and developed, every single child that walks home from school has to cross a gravel road. Where there are very large gravel trucks that are going 30 to 40 miles an hour down that gravel road and they can't see kids. They're crossing it anywhere. They're crossing, there's probably about a quarter of a mile radius that they're crossing. And those trucks can't see them because of the shrubs and the debris and the high trees that are that have developed right in that area. So I'm pleased to say that in my year efforts, we finally got the homeowners association to build a fence. So the homeowners association has built a fence that marks our property line and it makes every single child now walk the same path. With that said, it's presenting also another problem. Those children still have to cross that gravel road and it's very slippery. And I've seen, within the last two weeks, I've seen two kids fall off their bikes and their bikes go into the street. They could have gone with it. One of the reasons that the teachers now from Paloma Creek Elementary walked the kids out was because one of the kids fell off of his whip stick. I don't know if you've seen these. I have grandchildren. He's seen these whip sticks. He fell off of it into the street. He was physically in the street. And I take that path every day and the 20 mile an hour is not enforced and it's not followed. And I know that we can't control what other people do and we can't control their actions. But I'd really like to see maybe a higher presence of police. Maybe even just on foot shake the kids hands in the warning, tell them good morning, just some sort of police presence in that area so that we can get some folks to slow down a little bit. And Naval Road, I don't know what happened to it. I'm not quite certain. It's been the same way for quite some time, but it just looks like a project that was forgotten about. There's merging traffic right where the kids cross that sidewalk and it's dangerous. It's just dangerous. We have middle school students that like to push each other and hit each other with backpacks and So I just like to see something done. I'd want to see that sidewalk widened. And I believe if I'm not mistaken, little Elm has annexed that. So I'm not quite too sure. I'd love you all's help with that. And if there's people in little Elm that I need to contact in order to help be an advocate for that part of the county. Also the turn lanes, the turn lanes on 380, there are none. There are none. I've seen, I've almost hit someone because I'm trying to go left. They're trying to go right. They're heading eastbound. I'm heading westbound and we're going 65 miles an hour. There's no definite turn lanes. People are using the turn lane as a lane itself, both ways, so I'd like to see some of that. Maybe marked a little bit better and slowed down. I'm not quite too sure what the numbers are of how many houses are out there, between Savannah, Paloma Creek North, Paloma Creek South and Providence. We're also getting two more communities now of mixed use property that is in between Paloma Creek and Savannah, which is going to be on the north side, which is going to encompass Fish Trap Road. And then also there's another one I believe that's going to belong to Prosper, which is also still off of 380 and Denton County. So it's growing, which is wonderful. People love Denton and we love the school district that we're out. We're so excited that this high school is being built on the southeast corner of Nevo and 380. It's been a long time coming. All that's going to do is increase the traffic and increase the underage traffic, which is going to be potentially dangerous if we don't get some of the lights fixed, some of the turn lanes fixed. That's coming in two years and it's not far off, so I'd like to see just some changes. And I would love to be part of the solution, anything that I can help do or present to anyone, I'd love to be part of that solution. So thank you for hearing my thoughts. Thank you very much. We have another person that signed up to speak on this agenda item. Is that Kin Bots? Good morning. Thank you for being here. Good morning, Judge. Good morning, commissioners. And I'm so glad I went after you because I don't have to say all that. But I've actually been out in Paloma Creek on the south side in the little Elm address area for about eight years now. And so I've had the great honor of seeing our beloved community develop and grow and new families come into the area. And not only am I a resident at 600 creeks I drive, but I'm also on the freshwater supply district, 11 A is one of the directors. So I've got two reasons to be here today to speak with you. Probably the biggest concern that I have other than the coyotes that can potentially eat my cats is the fact that we've got and work hard with our Commissioner Coleman to get a police contract in place. That was a big win for us that you all helped us with last year and we can't thank you enough that that's happened, but now we're faced with a situation where the residents out there realize and know that our police officer that we love so much can't do his job. I grew up in the Los Angeles area and on the side of all the police cars, it says to serve and protect. And we have a police officer out there, sheriff, who can't do that for our community. And I share, even though I don't have children, I share the same concerns in watching all of these young families come into our community. I just think what happens if at one of these bus stops, which isn't identified as a bus stop, but everybody knows where it's at, steps off the curb. Somebody runs a stop sign, who's accountable for that? I think that we as a water district and as a community and also as a county, have a responsibility to those residents out there to make sure that they feel safe, that their kids are safe on the streets. And so for that reason, I hope that today we can empower our police officers out there to be able to do the job that we've hired them to do. And it'll bring a lot of comfort to the people who have bought houses and who are raising families out there. Thank you. Thank you very much. So, anyway, I'll say an attendance that would like to address the commission's court on this issue. Either in favor of or proposed to the proposed traffic regulation in the special district. Did you have some comments? Right, Ed. proposed traffic regulation in the special district? Did you have some comments? Right hand. This is similar to the contract that we did for Crossroads Ranch in those wickets, the water control improvement districts. And this is something that we worked on for a long time since the beginning of the last summer. Thank you, Mr. Felt, for helping us with this. It took a long time to kind of go through the legalities of it and kind of get what Andy and I both wanted into the contract, but I think it's going to be very effective and it'll establish whatever is promulgated right now, set them as traffic laws to be set by the commissioners court. Hopefully that will effectively make the traffic regulations enforceable out there, so I'm very happy to be able to do this. In regards to Naiveau North, that is in fact going to be incorporated and remodeled by the city of Littelheim. In regards to Naiveau South, I met just last week with the representatives from the city of Littelheim, their city manager and their mayor, and the county's going to be splitting the cost of, hopefully, depending on what the, we can't write a black check, obviously. But to a certain limit, we're gonna be splitting the cost to make sure that we don't have the same situation as happened at Gire in 2181. So we will be working with the school district and Littlem to improve NABO South. From what I understand, the cog is going to be getting to start a study on US-380 because that is extremely problematic with all the turn lanes and that. On one hand it's problematic because you want to keep the traffic flowing and text. It doesn't necessarily want to put more stoplights on there. Some of them they can actually be more dangerous than helpful, but we're gonna have a study for the expansion. So these are things that are big on our concern. Unfortunately, it just doesn't happen overnight, but I'm working very diligently to make sure that Naivo South is improved before the high schools built. So we want to avoid the same situation that happened with Gire in 2181 and have to improve the road after the fact. It's just like I told the City of Little Elm in the school district, the county cannot bear that whole burden. The school district needs to contribute because they're building the school and the City of Little Elm, since it's partially in there, they need to contribute as well. So it's going to be a good partnership. We're just working out the details and I think we talked to Mr. Felt about that yesterday. So I'm just happy that we were able to get this done and I'm in favor obviously of getting these traffic rules promigated. I don't think we're going to have any objections to it. I think this is the first step and really putting some teeth in the whole process so that the law enforcement officers that are out there can do something about those that are endangering the children for sure and all the citizens go ahead. And just to let you know that it is Denton County that has taken the lead role in any kind of legislation that allows the county to expand its traffic regulation powers. In fact, Lantana was the first water district that employed the initial legislation about doing that. And then legislation has changed to make it even easier for now water supply districts to have that that traffic regulations. And so, I didn't county has been on the front end of that because of the amount of water supply districts that we have in our county and how we want to protect those citizens and give teeth to the law as the judge and Commissioner Coleman has said. So I think I'm proud of this Commissioner's Court taking the lead in that. And Commissioner Coleman and Mitchell and Eads and Judge Horne have taken the lead in making sure that that happens. So this is just another opportunity to enforce that. Thank you. Come on up to the microphone please we can't hear a real good. Little element is going to take care of the north part of that. It's still in progress I mean I can't. Okay, but we're working on it right now. Okay, I would just like to add that just keep in mind when that is being developed that there is a fire station right there also. I've also seen that block numerous times where the emergency crews can't get out because of the amount of cars that are coming from Naiveau Middle School and the elementary school and that's just going to get more when that high school gets done because there's only one way in and one way out unless you take fish trap, which nobody takes. So- I should take fish trap, which nobody takes. So. A little bit, I'm just going to close down parts of fish trap. I understand that. I understand that. That's, you know, where Stanley York's place, the developer, where it's put into two lanes, the developer was already, when he's supposed to continue that down, and they never did. Right. It was very deceptive, and that's why we put up that rail guard. And Mr. I don't know if you know where Mr. York is. He's an interesting fellow, but I think it's so important. I've not had the pleasure. So anyway, that's going to be wonderful. Well, anybody that I can kind of bark at and maybe, well, I'm sorry. I'm just letting me know I'd love to help in any way. It's a work in progress and nobody gets everything. Wonderful. Thank you so much. Thank you both for being here today. We I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm going to second it. Okay, we have a motion to close the public hearing from Commissioner Marchant, seconded by Commissioner Coleman. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, Cine? Motion does carry. Do we have a motion for approval? I'll move for approval. Thank you. We have a motion by Commissioner Coleman. Seconded by Commissioner Mitchell. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, Cine? Motion does carry. Okay. I beg your pardon? Yes, I'm sorry, that was actually 14 B. Yes. If you need to clarify, I'm going to motion. Let's clarify that. My motion was to approve 14 B. Thank you, and the second was to second the motion for 14b. And once again, we'll take the vote just to make sure it's. Crossed all the tees and dotted all the eyes. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye opposed, any motion does carry. Okay, we have. I want to now go to items 5a and be on the agenda 5a is approved of the bill report, payments from CSCD, Community Corrections TAI, P-Share, Estrany, Shares, Forfeiture, EIT, Interest DA, Tech B and DA Forfeiture funds are represented for recording purposes only. Good morning, James Wells. Good morning, judges commissioners. That has approved of the bill as presented with the one addition to take care of some toll charges that have not been taken care of. And that is all corrections I have. Thank you. Do we have a motion for approval? Assembly. Motion by Commissioner Marchon. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed to any? Motion does carry. 5B is approval of the 2013 Dent County Comprehensive Annual Financial Statement, Independent Auditors Report and SAS 114, I'm sorry, 114 letter. And we'll again call on James Wells. Good morning, again, good morning, Judge and Commissioners. The, we have this item on the agenda to review, I'll submit the county's financial statement and the annual independent audit to you. That's just been completed and been already been filed with the required agencies that it has to be filed with. The background of both the audit and our financial highlights are in the agenda on pages 25, 26, 27. Those are pretty complete, so I'll just sign those for you and then be glad to answer any questions. We also have Mr. John Manning, as a partner with Patilla Brown and Hill, a certified public accounting firm from Waco that conducts, has been contracted with by the Commissioner's Court to do our audit. Their required report is actually on pages 29, 30, and 31, 33, 32 of the agenda book. And with that introduction, and 31, 3332 of the agenda book. And with that introduction and just reminding of those of the information that's evolved. And you all also have an electronic copy of the financial statement to get any questions. I'll just turn it over to Mr. Manning. Morning, Mr. Manning. Thank you for waiting. No problem. Thank you, judge and commissioners. I know James has given you a pretty good overview of the financial statements that I'm just going to spend just a little bit of time and go over some of the highlights on you. I'll have a big agenda. This is 150 page documents, so I'm not going to go over all 150 pages obviously. But I would like to point out some of the highlights. Page one of that, that a financial statements has are what we call our opinion letter, and that's an unmodified opinion. That terminology's recently changed, but what that means is we did not have any modifications to the report. That's a good thing. I know that y'all issued debt with all the road projects that are going on, vehicles, and things that y'all's purchased. And this is a report that everybody that looks at this rating agencies, they will open to this to make sure that the county has controls and that the numbers and the financial information that are presented are accurate and timely. And that's only a three page report out of 150, but a lot of people look at that. And it's a very good thing to have while I have some counties that do not have unmodified opinions and things do not move as well as they do here at Denton without that. On page four is the Managing Discussion and Analysis. This is a document that is created by county staff, particularly the Auditor's Office, that gives a financial overview of the county as of 2013. It's about a 12-15 page document that's very informative. It's the only place that has comprehensive numbers. And I would draw your attention to that part of the report because you can see all of the growth and all of the changes that are happening and how those impact the financial statements. So the auditor's office spends a lot of time on that. And I would like you all to take a look at that when you get a chance. Your governmental balance sheet on page 18, it's six major funds presented this year. The fund balance and the general Fund was almost at 34 million. And although that's a large number with the amount of about 120 million of expenditures in the general fund, give about almost 3.5 months of expenditures, which is right in line with everybody's prescribed levels of not having too much fund balance, but yet not having enough. So, with the amount of numbers and the level of numbers that we're talking about here, staying around that three and a half month target is very good. And I know that y'all work diligently to do that. On page 19 is your statement of revenues and expenditures and changes in fund ballots, which is a summary of all of your revenues and expenses for the year. And two things that just stand out if you look at that was the $53 million refunding bonds that y'all did in FY 13. I don't recall the amount of savings, but it's in the millions by refunding that debt and getting those higher interest rate bonds off the books. There was also 55 million issued in new money and those are two of the new funds that were created because of the amount of level of those bonds that were put in. Budget Actual on page 21, I know the budget is a very involved process and this is kind of a year-end summary of what happened there and you were able to collect more revenue than you budgeted. You also stayed under expenditures and I know that you all get that every month in a financial package. But just to let you know for 13, you stayed under expenditures and I know that you all get that every month in a financial Package but just to let you know for 13 you stayed under on both so that's one of the reasons why fund balance increased and Why your fund balance is at that three and a half a month level Page 26 Sometimes a point of contention the health insurance fund this year it actually added a lot to fund balance I know that those levels had not been where y'all wanted them. And y'all are constantly looking at things to try and make that fund a little bit more attractive as far as from a financial standpoint. And it was about $4.5 million got added. Part of that was a transfer from the general fund. But a bulk of that was actually collecting more revenue than you expense. So again, that's very good. Page 142, I think James had those letters broken out for you because the county is a local government. We have to do our audit under government auditing standards, which makes us look at things like collateralization of funds, making sure the taxes are being spent and the proper funds and we did not have any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies. And on page 144, because the county spent $4.2 million of federal funds and a little over a million in state funds, we have to do our audit under the single audit act and the state single audit act where we look at two major federal programs and one major state program. We did not have any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies there either. So I don't know how many federal programs you all have ever dealt with, but they're extremely involved, they're very technical. If you do not spend that money properly, they ask for it back. So the fact that you all did not have any weaknesses or deficiencies there is a credit to the amount of time and the level of scrutiny that these funds receive. By both the auditor's office and the department's that are in charge of those. I know this year we did not do WIC, we've done it before. That's just about over $3 million just in that program alone and it's always run very well. And you would know if there's problems, because there'd be people here and Mr. Wells would be asking what's going on. But the 12-cafer met the requirements for the GFLA Award, and we looked at the comments that they had, they were very few. But we did make sure that those comments got addressed. And as the financial statements has presented by Mr. Wells and the county, we feel that the 2013-cafer will also meet the requirements to get that award again. I don't know how many years in a row that is, but it's a lot. Yeah. So with that, if you all have any questions, I'd be glad to entertain those now. But we would like to thank Mr. Wells and his office for all their help. And we would also like to thank the county judge and commissioners for allowing us to do the work. Y'all are a valued client. We really appreciate all the help that we get while we're out here doing the field work. So thank you everybody that we deal with. Thank you. Great report, James. You'll do a great job and we appreciate you. Very much. With any questions or members of the court of comments. Thank you for being here and we appreciate your time. Thank you very much. Any questions or members of the court of comments? Thank you for being here and we appreciate your time. Appreciate your time. Okay. We need approval of the financial statement. I'm going to approve. Motion by Commissioner Coleman. Chair will second the motion. Here are no further questions or comments. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, Cine? Motion does carry. Members, we need, Cine? Motion is carried. Members, we need to go back to item number one. This republic can put for items not listed on the agenda. Little late, but I need to remind everyone to please turn off cell phones and pages. I heard one go up earlier, but I hadn't given that advance notice. So I let it go this time. April Fool's Day. Yeah. Right. so I'll let it go this time. April Fool's Day, yeah. We have a public comment form here from Donna Woodford. Donna, if you'd like to come to the microphone. Thank you for waiting. Good morning. I'm in a lot of pain this morning, but I'm here. I want to say to you all the commission. I am Donna Woodford, the same Donna Woodford that has been appointed more than was, so there didn't count a museum commission. I'm Donna Woodford, the same Donna Woodford, who was on the photo when O. Altam Bridge was dedicated. I have supported many of the current leaders in the room and invited you on my talk shows and various other outlets in the city. Last, after last Tuesday in Commissioner's Court, it was last Tuesday that I said to Judge Horne I had been an automobile accident and there was a question I had later on in the week concerning the expansion of Interstate 35. So since I had Judge Horne's cell number, I just called her. It was a quick conversation. Someone else was in the car with me. I said, Judge Horne, how long will the expansion take for interstate 35? She simply said years. That was the end of the conversation. I say thank you, Judge Horne, I understand you're busy for the month of April. Our last night at a candidate forum in Dina Park, one of the staff members that directly supported you. Lenin McAdams had addressed me with a question from the floor, and I was getting ready to answer it relating to the expansion of 35 and how do I plan to handle that as the future mayor of the city of Denton. One of your staff members stood up interrupted the flow of the forum, took me by surprise, and basically said I was lying that I never had a conversation with you. So I stand here before you as the same Donna Woodford that would continue to love Dean County, that would continue to love the city of Denton, that would continue to be here as much as possible for every city leader that's representing here. On today, I'm on my way to 10 o'clock meeting at the city of Denton, but as soon as I finished that meeting, I have to go to the counter-practor. But as soon as I get finished with the counter-practor, I would like to put in a formal complaint against that staff member, who I am an elected precinct chair. So would I lie? I would not lie. That staff member stood up, Ms. Lenny MacAdams had to ask the young lady to please sit down and allow me to answer the question. So that's basically all that I have to say this morning, judge horn. I will call your office when I'm in route to make a complaint. And that young lady is Ms. Kay. Linus, I think she's the director of administration for you. So I would like to say to you that every since I've met you, I've always admired you. And but I am totally embarrassed at what she did to me last night. So I want to say thank you all for giving me a whip lash and a lot of other pain going on right now. So that's why my voice is kind of shaky. But I would like to put in a formal complaint against her for what she did to me in public last night. And thank you, Judge Moore. Okay. Well, since this is item posted for items that are posted on the agenda, there'll be no further discussion on that item. Moving on to the consent agenda, which is item two A or two on the agenda. Members, the questions about the consent agenda agenda or do we have a motion? I'll second. We have a motion by Commissioner Ead, seconded by Commissioner Coleman. I'll in favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, Cine? Motion does carry. Item 2A is a consented. I mean, the order made to appointments. We have a new hire on the sheriff's county jail. We have a new hire in jail health. We have three new hires in juvenile post adjudication. 2B is approval of the intro department of transfers. Okay. 8A is approval of temporary salary adjustment for Jeremy Oliver to continue temporary assignment as a school resource officer investigator with Northwest ISD. We have a motion by Commissioner Marchin. Seconded by Commissioner Eads, other questions or comments? Ms. Phillips, did you recommend this? Yes, the sheriff is having difficulty filling the school resource officer positions. In back in August, this commissioners court approved a similar assignment for Mr. Oliver, actually the same assignment for six months. The sheriff is still been unable to draw applicants for that position. And since that six month assignment has expired, the sheriff is asking that you reassign this employee with the same salary adjustment. Okay. The same salary is making. Yes. For another six months. Okay, we have a motion and a second or further questions or comments. Here none on favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, Sunni? Motion is carried. 9a is approval of an amendment to the Texas Department of State Health Services, Women, Infants, and Children's Program Services contract. This is the WIC contract extension 2014-04-5029. We have a motion by Commissioner Coleman. is the WIC contract extension 2014-045029. We have a motion by Commissioner Coleman, the seconded by Commissioner Marchant. Bing, did you need to add anything? It's a six-month extension. They didn't have funding in place that they were sure of, so they did this before too. Thank you. Questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye. Opposed, Cine? Motion is carried. Thank you, Bing. 10a is approval of the final plat for Andrew Kimmel edition, lot one block A. This is Commission of Pristinct 1. I move for approval and can also move for approval on 10b and 10c. Yeah, we can do them all at the same time. 10B is approval of the final plat of the ETJC at pilot point for Bradley Paul. How do you pronounce that? Gilbert, Geyspert, whatever. In addition, a lot one block A. This is Commissioner Prisinkton. And 10C is approval of final plat for Georgia Village 2 at Savannah Phase 7 Commissioner Prisinkton. So your motion is for all three Commissioner Coleman. This may I say. Seconded by Commissioner Marchant. Questions or comments? Hearing none all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, aye. Motion does carried. 13A is discussion of possible approval becoming a cooperating agency with a Bureau of Land Management for the duration of the resource management plans slash environmental impact statement project. We sent out an email about this and Kate did a little follow up email. Are there any questions or comments? I'm just surprised we had any public plans. I'm just surprised we had any public plans. I'm just surprised we had any public plans. I'm just surprised we had any public plans. I'm just surprised we had any public plans. I'm just surprised we had any public plans like Lansk. Texas was a nation before we became a state. Well, what we have is under water, as I understand it. We really don't have any federal property. That was very, I don't think we have, except for maybe the T.G.O.S. West Texas. I don't think we have any Indian tribes. So they're asking us, I think. Are they not to actually send a representative to represent it in county to their meetings and stuff I can't see whereas that's even isn't that a waste of somebody's time? Where are the meetings? Where I don't even know where the meetings are. Well meet them on our land in the middle of the lake, kind of. Sir, I'm not sure. Yeah. I've nominated I will not run. I will not run. I have elected I will not serve. I guess you know they have to ask the question but I don't want to vote say we don't want to be a cooperating agency because I'd like to think we cooperate with everybody. At the same time I think it's a waste of time for anybody to go to this one we have no. Oh, at least it's under the of time for anybody to go to this one. We have no. Oh, at least under the legs. Yeah, exactly. Or property. How about if we just say communicate with the judge via email? How about that? And then if anything comes up that you all need to know about, we'll be glad to pass it on. Is that me, everybody's needs? OK, we'll do that. That'll be my motion then. Seconded by Commissioner Eadson, in favor, please say aye. Opposed, CNA, motion does carry. 13b is approval of resolutions filed in the district court of Denton, County, Texas to collect the link for Texas on, and there's a long cause number. This is County of Denton versus Bobby Joe Cili, A.K.A. Bobby J. Cili, A. Cili, aka Bobby Cili, and Ramon Lee. And this is property that went to a share of sale and didn't sell. Motion by Commissioner Mitchell. Seconded by Commissioner Marchant. Questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye. Opposed, say aye. Motion does carried. 14A is approval of the 2014 interlocal agreement for professional services between the counties of Tarrant, Dallas, Denton, Parker, and the North Texas Toa Authority. As members of the PEC, that's public employee benefits cooperative in North Texas. With the North Central Texas Council of Governments in the amount of $13,580 per month, with funding to come from employee benefit plan. Chair will move for approval. Seconded by Commissioner Marchant. Questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. Opposed? Aye. Motion does carry. Item 15 is executive session. 15A is under 10. It's a government code section 551.0711A, consultation attorney in a closed meeting when the government bodies 60 advice of its attorney about pinning litigation with regard to white versus that county at all in the US District Court, Eastern District of Texas Sherman Division. 15V is under government code 551.087, deliberation regarding the economic development negotiations, close meaning to deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to a business prospect regarding commercial or financial information that the government of the body has received from the business prospect that the government of the body seeks to have locate, stay or expand in or near the territory of the government of the body located in that kind of commission of prison before and with which the government of the governmental body located in the kind of commissioner of prison for and with Which the governmental bodies conducting economic development negotiations and 15C is under government code 1.072 to the relation regarding real property close meeting to deliberate the value of real property Where a deliberation in open meeting that have a developmental effect on the position of the governmental body negotiations With a third person regarding the value of real probably located in that kind of commissioner prison for with that we are an executive session. you The commission is called as reconvened from executive session. Under items 15A, B and C, there will be no formal action today. With that, we are adjourned. Everybody have a great day. Okay.