Good morning ladies and gentlemen, Deputy County Commission's Court for Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 is now in session. This morning, our indication will be given by Dr. Bing Burton, our Director of our Health Department, and our pledges to be led by John Polster, please stand. Pray with me. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help and time of trouble. Lord we thank You for this day, the day that You have made. Pray that You will be with us and that You will bless this commissioners court and all that is said and done here today. We ask You blessing upon our county, our state, and our nation, and all those who serve it, both in home and abroad. We thank you for your steadfast love and endures to all generations. We pray in Jesus name, amen. Don't leave me pledges to flag pledges to flag from the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands on nation under God, individual, with liberty and justice for all honor and effect is fact. 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Is there anything else on the consent agenda that members need to discuss or do we have a motion for approval? Second. Motion by Commissioner Ead, seconded by Commissioner Marchion. All in favor, say aye aye opposed seen in motion does carry. Consented agenda today consists of two a which is approval of order making appointments. We have a new hire in the criminal district attorney's office. We have a new hire in print mail department. We have six new hires in the county jail. We have a promotion in the county jail and a promotion in the district clerk's office To see is approval payroll to D is approval to declare surplus one fuel tank reader red jacket our RLM 5,0001 as a trade and Toward the purchase and installation of a TLS 300 C fuel tank reader system. Item 5A is approval of the bill report payments from CSCD, Community Corrections, T-A-I-P, shares, training shares, forfeiture, VIT, interest, DA check fee, and DA forfeiture funds are presented for recording purposes only. Good morning, James Wells. The SAT Interest DA Check P and DA 4 Ferture Funds are presented for recording purposes only. Good morning, James Wells. Morning, Judge. Commissioners, I ask the court to prove the bills as presented with the three deletions from the general fund, processing errors. In one addition from the general fund to the comptroller's office, it's really not an expense. It's just a return of I expended grant funds. It's all questions I have. Thank you. Do we have a motion for approval? Motion by commission. Seconded by commission march on favor. Please say aye. Aye opposed seen in motion does carry. Six A is approval approval from a exemption from bidding for medical staffing contractors for each1N1 temporary staffing is allowed in section 262.024A2 of the local government code for an item necessary to preserve or protect the public health or safety of the residents of Denton County. Will calm death money. Good morning. As you know, the county has accepted a grant for H1N1 vaccination and most of those services are either professional services that we've already taken care of through another exemption for program management or the rest of it is mostly for nursing staff and clerical staff to set up mass vaccination as the vaccine is due at any time, there is not time to go through bidding process. The state has negotiated contracts with, I believe, 13 firms and they're continuing to negotiate those. So they have agreed on terms and conditions to satisfy the requirements of this grant, but it does not satisfy our procurement requirements. They do recommend we use one of those firms. By doing this we are able to finalize a contract with one of the firms, bring that back to you hopefully next week so that we can start hiring nursing staff to set up the vaccination clinics in the next week or two. Questions to approve? Thank you. We have a motion by Commissioner Marchin. Seconded by Commissioner Eads are the questions or comments. They are not all in favor. Please say aye. Opposing. The motion does carry. We have some guests with us this morning. So in consideration of their time, I'd like to go to first go to item 14B. 14B is approval of amendment number four and renewal number three to the agreement for guardianship services between Denton County Texas and AIDS of North Texas doing businesses health services and our Texas guardianship services is recommended by the probate court of Denton County. We have Paula Florida with us this morning. Good morning, Paula. Thank you, Judge and commissioners. Again, my name is Paula Flowerdai. I'm the attorney and auditor for the Denton County Pro-Bate Court. And I can't believe this is the second time in two weeks. I've spoke over for you. I want to thank you, first of all, for, again, supporting our budget requests this year and increasing the number of positions that are funded through this contract with Health Services of North Texas. As you know, this contract is for providing guardianship services to people in our county who are indigent and who have no family members who are willing to step up and service guardians for them. So these are some of the neediest folks in our, and we appreciate your support for providing services for them. I want to thank the DA's office, and particularly Jennifer Stout in helping us put this contract together. I want to mention that we are in the process, as you know, this is the last renewal for this particular contract, and we are in the process of having it evaluated, pursuant to a consultant contract that you approved last year. And we are hoping that the results of that consultants review will help us in later on this year in the first part of 2010 in preparing our RFP for letting the contract again next year. I'll be happy to answer any questions, but with that we respectfully request your approval of the contract. Thank you, Rayden. Any request your approval of the contract. Thank you. Are there any questions to remember support? Do we have a motion for approval? Motion for the Commissioner Marchant. Seconded by Commissioner Eans. I'll in favor of the motion. Please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Sen. Motion is carried. Thank you, Paul. Now I'd like to go to item 14G. 14G is approval of the first renewal to the agreement for alternative dispute resolution services between Denton County, Texas and Denton County alternative dispute resolution program. It's recommended by the Denton County Director of Purchasing. That was easy. We have a motion for approval by Commissioner I'm going to ask the committee to be able to approve the commission. That was easy. We have a motion for approval by commissioner Coleman. Seconded by commissioner march. Other questions or comments or anything anybody wanted to state. All in favor of the motion. Please say aye. Oppositing. Motion does carry. Thank you. Okay. Let's go back to item 7A. 7A is approval of budget amendment of course, 102, 350, to increase revenues and advocate expenditures for overtime benefits for the 2009 US Army Corps of Engineers. We're calm down. Good morning, Judge and Commissioners. This amendment will actually allocate revenues that we've already received as well as expenditures. The court entered into a contract with the US Army Corps of Engineers in March for some overtime services that are provided by our Sheriff's Department. This is just a cleanup, urine, and budget amendment to get all this on our system correctly. Thank you. Are there any questions and members of the court? Do we have a motion for approval? Okay. The motion by Commissioner Marchant, seconded by Commissioner Coleman. Commissioner Coleman, did you have a question? I just remember negotiating this contract originally. It's a really good program that allows them to share its department to go out and patrol those areas like up in Lake Ray Roberts and those provide law enforcement. It's a good thing. The motion is second. I'll in favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Signing. Motion does carry. Seven D is approval. Budget amendment quest one of two three six zero to transfer funds from the non-departmental and appropriate contingency health insurance contingency line item to the health insurance fund in the amount of $400,000. Again we're calling Donna. Last year during the better process we did include funds in contingency and it's our recommendation that we go ahead and transfer these funds to our insurance funds so that we can develop a reserve fund in the account since we are self-insured in order to avoid having to come back to the county and borrow money from general funds. So we're recommending approval of this and hopefully it will start establishing a reserve fund in the health insurance fund. Good idea. Sure, we'll move for approval. Seconded by Commissioner Eads are the questions. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed to the name? Motion does carry. In 7c is approval of budget amendment of quest 102-320 for salary assistance, including the transfer of funds from non-departmental personnel contingency for $34,506 in various line items within departmental budgets for salary assistance at $283,1112 for a total amendment of $317,698. I think that's pretty self explanatory of an item, but if you have something in the end. Good luck. I can give you just a quick update. Typically we have a year- clean up amendment as this. This year it's a little larger than normal. We have had less turnover in the county. We've had some overtime paid out. We've had holiday pay this year. So with that, it's a little bit larger than normal. Departments for the most part have found the money in their own budgets, especially when there was overtime involved. And there's only a small amount, 34,000 for departments. They're so small they don't have the kind of funds to cover their deficits. So we are also putting procedures in place in the budget office to monitor these expenditures a little more closely and we will be notifying departments and commissioners court with quarterly reports so that departments can start planning better and prepare to fund their own deficits in their payroll line items. So we're recommending approval of this amendment today. Thank you. We have a motion for approval by Commissioner Marchant, seconded by Commissioner Coleman. Other questions? No, and favorably say aye. Aye. Oppositing. Motion does carry. 8A is approval of plan changes, vendor rates, and employee retiree and co-oper medical, dental, and vision premiums for plan year 2010. We specifically recommend option B medical plan premiums for a full- and part time employees and option A medical plan premiums for pre 65 retirees. LeCon Amy Phillips, good morning. Thank you, Judge. You're members of the court. Good morning. There are a lot of plan changes to go over. You may remember, about a year ago, that you approved some changes that we knew were going to take effect January 1, 2010 and that was the elimination starting with the elimination of the HMO plan, adding some co-pays to hospital services for the EPO plan and eliminating the pre-existing condition in language in both the EPO and the EPO plan. Today we're asking you to approve about a dozen additional changes. I probably go through them so that they're on the record. The EPO plan will have an out-of-network benefit level. We haven't had an out-of-network benefit level there before. It will be 60-40, which is the same level as the PPO has. We're recommending changing the lifetime maximum, employee lifetime maximum from 2 million to 4 million. PPO plan right now, the has an in network out of area charge of or co insurance at 7030. We're planning to eliminate that so that everything that's out of network, I'm sorry, it's 80-20 and everything out of network would be 70-30 or 60-40 in network 80-20, I'm sorry. That's having trouble seeing today with my allergies, they're clouding up my allergies. They're clothing up my eyes. The EPO plan inpatient coltay, you originally had approved that a year ago to go $600 per admission, but the PEVC is recommending that we revise that now so that it's $150 per admission up to a maximum of $600 per admission. Vision benefits right now in the EPO, there are some limited vision benefits. In the PPO also, it includes an examination with a refraction for a $30 copay. But there are no material benefits in those plans. And only about 185 employees in the entire PEBC made use of that benefit in 2008. And so it's really not working for our employees. So we're taking that out of the EPO and PPO and actually introducing a separate standalone vision plan that has benefits for not just examinations but also materials, lenses, contacts, frames, and some out of network benefits also. And those benefits are detailed on pages 120 and 121 of this packet. Also recommending switching the DHMO, which has been for years under Safe Guard Denial to Assurance Dental, switching the Carrarington network, which has been what we call the PEDPPO plan. That's the one in network and out of network benefits, switching that to the dental, sorry, Delta dental network. The Delta dental network is larger. It's not a lot larger in the dentin area, but it is larger. And it has some better benefits and it has a couple of tiers of benefits. Also, the third party administrator would switch from health smart to Delta Dental. Improving the PPO, P-E-B-C plan, the one with in-network and out-of-network benefits, we would add dental implant benefits in 2010. We don't have that benefit right now under major care. Also, right now preventive care charges are applied to the $1,500 maximum in the plan that would not happen anymore. So that increases the benefit amount of the dental plan in addition to the earlier improvements. Right now in the plans, if you are new, you have to wait 12 months before it will cover major care. And we're recommending changing that to a six month waiting period for major care. So you can see that there are a lot of improvements being made to the EPO plan, some to the PPO plan, and also a lot to the PEPPO dental plan. For our retiree plans, the Pacific Care PPO commercial plan would change to the United Healthcare Choice Plus Plan, part of the transition to United Healthcare. Those plan changes are detailed on the next page, which I believe is page 119. I'm in to look, the doctors, the dentists that were in the care unit network in the dent in the area, are they also in the delta that people are going to have to achieve changes? Honestly, I don't know. I meant to look at that. In addition, we are offering this morning vendor rates. These are new vendor rates have been negotiated for three years. And a lot of them have decreased due to the elimination of the EPO. Or I'm sorry, the HMO. So, I have a lot of rates here for all the different plans. I won't detail all of them. I don't think the employees are particularly interested in a lot of them, but they are here. They are negotiated for three years. And we will ask for your approval along with the other changes that we're asking for approval for. You recently approved long-term care rates, or I'm sorry, long-term disability rates that were decreased for the last three months of the year, and you'll see that those are included the same rates that you just approved. If you remember, that was a decreased rate, and that will carry through to next year. Also we have three sets, three options for you, options A, B and C, four employee full time employee medical rates. You can see that in option A and in option C, some of our employees would experience an increase in those medical premiums. So we are recommending option B, which was specifically designed to so that our employees would not experience any increase in their employee premiums this year because the economic situation. The EPO premiums would stay the same. The PPO premiums would have significant decreases and you can see it makes the PPO premiums actually lower than the EPO premiums and that's because with all the changes that have been made to the plans, the EPO is now the richer plan. Instead of the PPO being the richer plan. So we're recommending option D. For part time employees, we have, we've not calculated these parttime rates the way we usually do. What we usually do is we add together the county portion and the employee portion and divided in half. But to do that, a lot of our part-time employees would have experienced significant increases. You can see that in option A for part time employee. So what we've done is we have reworked those premiums so that none of our employees would have an increase and some would have a significant decrease. Because there are only eight part time employees participating in our medical plans, this should not have a significant financial impact on our plans. We also have two options for medical premiums for pre-65 retirees. You can see then in option A, there is an increase for our retirees in their medical premiums. Option B, there are also increases. We are recommending again the option that has the smaller increases in premiums, which is actually an option B again. For our retirees age 65 and over, we just have one schedule here. Those are negotiated rates are fully insured plans. The county does not make up those premiums, pay claims on those plans. So there's only one option there. Dental premiums, the same thing. Those are fully insured plans or at least. Well they are actually the DHMO is fully insured. The other one is not fully insured but they are all employee paid. The county does not contribute to these plans and you can see the premiums there on the dental premium page. Cobber premiums are always calculated by adding the employer contribution and the employee together and adding a 2% administrative fee and those are on the next page. And the vision premiums of course are negotiated rate. I should say that the PEC went out for proposals and evaluated about half a dozen different proposals. This one that they're adopting is the VSP plan through administered through Health Smart. It was a little bit cheaper than the VSP plan that VSP proposed on its own with the exact same benefits. So those premiums are also up for your review and we are recommending approval of the plan changes that I detail vendor rights that are in the book and also the premiums that we have recommended. And now open it. Questions or any discussion. All right. Members, do you have questions? Everybody's got their head down. There's a lot to wade through to get all this done. Believe me. Well, hearing no questions, the chair is going to move for approval of option be the medical plan premiums for full time and part time employees and option A medical plan premiums for pre 65 retirees. Seconded by Commissioner Eads. No more chance to ask questions. I was going to ask them. For vision, is there going to be an additional under the old plan? There was some limited vision coverage and now there's going to be an additional fee for that. But you paid by the employee. On the exam. I just came up with the vision exam. On the vision exam, there is a, it's paid for with a copay, there's a medical exam covered. If you go in network, I believe refraction is also covered. If you go outside of network, there is an additional refraction charge. Currently, right? I think he was. Currently, if you're in network, the refraction is covered by the plan. It's here telling us that under the new, what you're proposing here, that PEBC took that vision element totally out of coverage. And if you want any vision coverage at all, you would have to, it would be, let's say, a supplemental like you would in dental. Unless you have, unless you're being, I should, I got your question better now. I'm sorry, I misunderstood. There would be a medical vision benefit so that if you have an eye disease or if you're being checked for glaucoma and that kind of thing, that would be covered. But if you're getting, if you are requiring the refraction for glasses, contacts, that kind of thing. That would be an additional charge, approximately, probably $40, $45, depending on what your provider charges. Is that more clear? Sorry. Are there any other questions? Okay, we have a motion in a second. On in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed to the name? Motion is carried. Thank you, Amy. We're gonna come back to, well, we'll go to 10A and we're gonna come back to 10B. 10A is approved of the North Central Texas Council of Governance Funding Commitment for fiscal year 2010, regional storm water program. They have been it with us this morning. Morning, Judge, morning, commissioners. This is the annual storm water program that the county has been involved in a number of years. The in the backup of what the proposed work program is going to be this year and it's going to cover a lot of materials. What this is is the funding commitment. We send it into COG help assist in documenting and creating the various manuals on stormwater management. I request that you'll approve it tonight. I like the way you put that, gives you the opportunity to be on all these committees. Yes, it certainly does. Pay for the privilege of to participate. Yeah, you need to pay for the privilege to attend all these meetings. That total is $2,301. Yes, sir. I have a motion of approval by Commissioner Eid, seconded by Commissioner Marchand other questions on this item. Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye, opposed, aye. Motion is carried, thank you. And it will come back to 10B. 12A is to approve one, the Software License and Service Agreement, and two, software maintenance agreement between Sungard Public Sector Incorporated and Identity Taxis. Public sector incorporated in the Dent County, Texas. Other questions on this item? Do we have a motion for approval? I move for approval. Motion by Commissioner Coleman, seconded by Commissioner March. In hearing no questions, all in favor, please say aye. Aye, opposed, aye. Motion carries. 13A is approval of the 2010 Sheriff and Constable Fees Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye I'm just going to say three set three changes. Sorry I missed that. Thank you. You see it. Any other questions? Very none. I'll in favor of the motion. Please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. This is my building was approached and referred to me. These folks were referred to me by Steve Mossman. He was approached. This is the text thought working with this consulting firm to do a 183 study of maintenance lanes. And what they're gonna do is come into our facility of already verified with the other elected officials within the facility that difference was okay. They're going to set up tables in our little community room and then survey people as they come out of the tax office. So they wanted to set up in the lobby five computers but we said we don't have room for that. Now I believe, and the reason I'm bringing it to use because it's a general use of the entire facility. I believe that Mr. Mossman has already given approval in his standalongs to happen, but it's an effort by tech thought to really go out to the people that are using the roadways in our area and find out what they want to have happen. So I move for approval. Thank you. We have a motion by Commissioner Marchand and seconded by Commissioner Eens. Other questions? Any none on the favor favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed to the name. Motion is carried. 13C is approval of a nomination. The Dentist Central Prasad District Board of Directors. Commissioner Cullen brought me the resume or sent me the resume yesterday for a gentleman that you'd like to recommend for this appointment and I don't have a problem with that but when I didn't have a contact form until this morning and I tried to call him and I had to leave a message I wasn't able to get through. When I'm trying, do you know exactly how long he's been in Denton County I I saw him in his resume that he retired after 29 years of service with this company and all this stuff, but we need to verify his residency before we nominate. I don't want to put him through the exercise of trying to get votes and he's... Sure, how long does he need to be here? Two years. Two years. I can get a hold of him in this afternoon and find out for sure. I think he's been there two years. I think he moved from Richardson and moved to Frisco Lakes about four years ago. So he's been in here. They were in Frisco. They didn't count in Portia and Frisco or nine. On 423. Yeah. If you don't mind, I'd like to hold off on this to do the official nominee I don't have a problem with them other than I don't want to nominate them and put them through that exercise only to find out he doesn't quite qualify. I'm pretty sure he he he qualifies for the two years but that's a good idea to confirm and also like I mentioned I've already started talking to government entities to see if we can get them. If in fact that all checks out just fine as far as I'm concerned we can put it on consent next week. Great. So there will be no action on 13C today. Unless of course you cause my office before court is done and I've got Cheryl set up to. Let us know if I will see. Okay, let's move on to item 14 A. 14 A is approval of the 29, 20, 10 social service agreements to Denton County and one Christian community action to Nelson Children's residential treatment center in three span incorporated and four youth and family counseling is recommended by the director of Denton County Health Department. Motion to approve. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Marchant, seconded by Commissioner Eads. Hearing the questions on favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed to name. Motion to carry. 14c is approval of 2009 2010 interlocal cooperation agreement for library services between Denk County, Texas and pilot point community library It's a city of pilot point chair. I move for approval Seconded by Commissioner marching on favor please say aye aye Posting motion is carried 14d is approval of the interlocal cooperation agreements for property tax collection between Denton County Texas and Clear Creek Watershed Authority and for property tax collection and to assess and collect assessments for Valencia on the Lake Water Conservation and Improvement District. Boy is that a long name? I'd recommend that the Denton County Taxor collector. Chair, I move for approval. Seconded by Commissioner Marchand, are there questions? Here none on the favor, please say aye. Aye, opposed to the name? Motion does carry. 14 E is approval in their local cooperation agreement for property tax collection between didn't kind of Texas and crime independence school district. Is recommended by Denton County Tax Assessor Collector Approval motion by Commissioner Ead second by Commissioner Marchin on favor please say aye aye Opposed to name motion to scurry 14 F is approved in local cooperation agreement for property tax collection between Denton County, Texas and one the city of Crime to the city of Oak Point is recommended by the Dentimcony Taxic Assessor Collector, Motion by Commissioner Marchand, Seconded by Commissioner Eads, all in favor, please say aye. Aye, opposed, and in. Motion does carry. We've already done 14G, we've got a 14H, which is approval of a Dendom number one to the 2008-2009 Transportation Consultant Professional Service Contract between Dem County, Texas and Innovative Transportation Solutions and Corporated ITS is recommended by the Director of the Dem County Purchasing Department. We have a motion by Commissioner Marchant. Chair will second their discussion. Any none? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Any? Motion does carry. 14, aye is approval of the acceptance of the criminal district attorney's family violence expansion grant. We need to call on Donnie here. We have a little clarification. The revised grant memorandum that I submitted to you yesterday has a small adjustment into the additional county funding cost. FUNs have been included in the budget for our portion of this in contingency pending grant awards. So with that correction being in the record we recommend approval. Thank you. Motion for approval of the chair will move. Thank you. Backed in by Commissioner Ead's other questions. Your none. Only favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed sitting. Motion does carry 14J as approval of an interlocal corporation agreement between Denton County Texas and the City of Plano Texas for the Marshallaine and Plano Parkway Improvement Project located entirely within the City of Plano, Texas and Denton County Commissioner precinct 2 with Denton County green to contribute a total estimated amount of $3,500,000 with funding to come funding in the amount of two million dollars to come from Commissioner precinct 2, triple eight marsh lane funds. This is auditor line item 61-735-39060 and 1,500,000 to come from Commissioner Prissing 2, 308 Plano Parkway funds. This is Auditor Line Item 6173-559060. Motion by Commissioner Marchant, seconded by Commissioner Eads's questions. None on favorably say aye. Aye. Opposed say aye. Motion carries. 14K is approval of the Interlocal Corporation agreement between Denkundi, Texas and the town of Bartonville. For the FM407 road improvement project loaded and located entirely within the town of Bartonville, Texas and Denkundi Commissioner precinct four. We didn't agree to contribute an amount which will not exceed $150,000. So funding to come to commissioner precinct four, triple eight discretionary funds. Second. Motion by commissioner Ead, secondly by commissioner Marchand other questions. On favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed to any? Motion does carry. 14L is approval of the acceptance for the criminal district attorney's prosecution enhancement grant. Motion by Commissioner Marchandt. Seconded by Commissioner Coleman. Other questions? No, no in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed to any motion does carry. Okay. the post-syncing motion is carried. Okay, we need to go back to item 10B, which is a workshop and considered discuss and or take appropriate action on improving the revised versions of the documents provided by Opportunity Regional Water District for protecting the Lewisville Lake watershed. If you recall, we had some documents sent to us that we weren't totally comfortable with. I have spent at how to make some recommendations and now he's incorporated them into what we hope is a final version. And before we sent them back to Opportunity, we wanted to make sure the court was comfortable with them also. And what will be following this is a new contract with Denton County. It's not on the agenda today, but it's going to be coming in the future. If you recall, our contract ran out and they did like a six month arrangement or extensions, so to speak. So we have a new contract coming to, but the language in the proposed guidelines resolution and now the proposed contract all had the same issues. So to speak that minute, thankfully took the time to clean all that up. So once this is approved, I've asked Bennett to go back to the proposed contract and make the necessary adjustments to that too and we'll be bringing that to court later. Okay, Bennett. Thank you, Judge and commissioners. I just want to go briefly about why we care about the watershed protection of Lewisville Lake. Avaloo is feel like and the first thing to look at is Technology at it's Maybe not Water damage It's locked up. Oh well. Anyway, you all have the presentation in front of you. The first thing is basically what is a watershed the simple definition, is the area of land where all water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place. And pretty self explanatory, but for more, for y'all on the court that wants a more philosophical definition. That area of land, a bounded hydraulic system within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and whereas human settled simple logic demanded that they become part of the community. It's not working. Working with you now? Huh? Well, we got it. It's all working. It's working. It's working. It's working. It's working. It's working. It's working. It's working. It's working. It's working. It's working. It's working. It's working. It's working. It's working. It's working. It's short to the point. Just the first, you can't go to the next turning page. We got it in your back up. Turn it our Himal. Yep. The next one is a map of the Lewisville Lake watershed. And you can see it's very large. It covers six counties, including Colin County, Grayson, Cook, Montague, Wise, and Denton. The shaded areas on the watershed are areas where the opportunity regional water district has collected samples over the years. And it has elevated concerns. These concerns may be from population densities. It could be from heavy farming or ranching activities or heavier industrial activities in those areas. Logic, basically, is wherever there's a high population or a high use, there be a potential for watershed damage. So why is Lewisville Lake watershed important not just to this county but to the area that covers most of Denton County. Right now as you we are all aware that Denton County is being transformed from a rule of setting to urbanized county. All communities within the watershed are linked from all the water courses. And Lewisville Lake itself is a multi-purpose reservoir. Not only is it a drinking water source to many areas including Denton, Lewisville and Dallas, but it's also a recreational area. Place to protect the watershed, the opportunity regional water district is sponsoring a regional watershed protection program with Denton County and other participating communities. They have prepared guidelines for review. We have reviewed them. The first set of guidelines sent to the county were too restricted. From a staff point of view, they would be great because basically the answer is no to any question as far as development along the floodplain. And we were the enforcement too. Yeah. So but from a practical standpoint, you all would be driven nuts by the developers. They'd be calling you constantly. Then you get into land taking issues and all kinds of other stuff. So what I've gone through, the guidelines is made them more palatable to the developer, but still protect the public. One of my calls of being a professional engineer is to protect the public's safety. And it's a trade off of just how rigid do you want to go? And I think we've come to a set of guidelines that both the county and opportunity will agree to. And they've also revised the attached resolution to correspond to the draft guidelines. Any questions? I appreciate you taking time to do this, Bennett. It was a lot to wade through, but like you say, it's important we want to be supportive of their goal of preserving the watershed, but at the same time, since we are, we the county are the enforcement of this. It's really easy for somebody else to say, you know, do this that and the other thing, and you make sure they do. And so, you know, we need to protect, obviously not only the developers that want to develop in Ditton County and certainly the health and safety of the residents of Denton County. But we needed to apply some logic to this and you certainly done a good job of doing that, I believe. Are there questions from members of the corridor? Do you have, are you comfortable with this so that we can send it back to upper Trinity, making the necessary adjustments to their proposed contract but essentially says the same things what you see here in the resolution and guidelines but we just want to make sure that when it all goes forward both opportunity and the county are on the same page here. Thank you. We have a motion for approval by Commissioner Marchin. I'm going to second it for purposes of discussion. Commissioner Eads, did you have an issue with that? What's the time? I just wanted to. Well, there's no real specific, you know, that dropped a deadline on this. I just know that opportunity has been talking to Bennett me and we've had this on the court agenda over a period of months. But the contract portion of this is coming up, but this needed to be established before we go forward with any contract. And the paternity needs time to digest everything that we give them to. You OK? All right. We have a motion in second on. In favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Motion does carry. Thank you, Bennett. For a lot of hours in on this, and I appreciate it. This will come back before it's going to come back. I will tell you now that we've cleaned up these guidelines in this resolution. I'll send it back to opportunity. We'll hear back from them if they're okay with our changes. Hopefully they will be. And then the guidelines, the resolution, and the contract. An opportunity wants to come make a presentation to Commissioner's Court. And I said, I really don't want you going through all that effort until we get our parameters established. Commissioner Coleman, we just passed this, but I want to give you an opportunity to ask anything you might like to ask. You'll pay with the guidelines and... Yes. Okay, this is all going to be coming back to court, but trying to hash out some of these questions in advance. Okay, I believe that takes a... The contract will be the most difficult thing because it's very specific, very language-intensive and financial-intensive, and that sort of thing. This is- The dollar amount in the contract has actually been presented to Donna during the budget period. So, dollar wise, we're okay. It's the language on everything else that I want to be careful of. All right. No more questions and I believe we've taken care of everything on the agenda. So with that, we voted, didn't we? Yeah, we did. That's it. Sorry. That's what we did. Okay. I'm glad you checked. Sometimes I miss those things. All right. With that, we're adjourned. Everybody have a great day. Early in September and we open and close the public hearing, have the discussion, everything. And then I never called for a vote to approve the plan so that's going to be on the agenda. There was no problem with it. There weren't any people here to oppose it. You know they took all the appropriate steps. I just failed to do the last step after we closed the hearing. I guess well I know what it was. It was when we were also having the second public hearing right behind it on the tax rate and we did have public here to speak on that issue so I get sidetracked between emails and notes being passed to me and things like that so I want you all to remind me if I don't do those things it's easy to slip up on you. I told Ashley to throw something at me next time. Okay. I think that just missed. I hate you. No, we need to tell him to come up on the phone. Often, but not because I got a call.