All right, we're going to bring the court to order here this morning. Welcome to all. As we begin, there's someone who would come and deliver the invocation for us today. Opening prayer. Someone do that for us, please. All right, if you would rise, I will do it today then if you would. And then I will lead you in the pledges. Father God would come before you today and we recognize the trust that you have put in us to leave the county, lead the county and the trust that the people have given us to lead the county. So Father pray today that our that our deliberations, that Father would be operate with reason and with common sense and that we would move forward to the affairs of the county that they would be accomplished with excellence. Which would please help us to do that, Lord, because we, at the end of the day, we're all accountable to you, and we want to be pleasing to you as well as have the favor of our people. I pray that you would bless us now. Bless us time and Jesus name my pray. Amen. Now to the American flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which with fans, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Justice Flag, one of the states is Flag, and the flag is lead into the effects, one state under God, one indivisible. Thank you and you may be seated. I'd like to welcome with us today Brad Bailey who is the chairman of the Wooden Steinship Warrior. Brad Stanips everybody can see you. Thank you for being here and also Merrill Skar who is the mayor of Shandola. Thank you for joining us. Pretty little elected officials here. Sounds like a fundraiser. We have elected officials I need to recognize. So thank you all for being here. As we begin with the record reflect that all are present. We have a motion to approve the Commissioner of Court agenda today. Move. We have a motion. There's our second. A second. I'd like to move. Okay now is your discussion. Yeah. I'd like to move up up item 19C2 to the beginning of the open court agenda. Is it 19C2 or 10C2? Maybe I can't read my own handwriting. So you're right. 19C2, okay. 19C2. Okay, there you go. It's on page 14 of, Yeah. Thank you. We have some guests here in the open agenda to the beginning of the open agenda. Yes, sir. All right. I'll move on that motion for you, Commissioner. Thanks, sir. I'll second it. Okay. I'll add that to the original motion. on favor, I pose motion carries. All right. At this point, we have not proved first. I'll add that to the original motion. On favor? I. Opposed? Motion carries. All right. At this point, we have not been for our citizens to come and make comments. We just asked that as you do that, that you restrict your comments to items that are either on the consent agenda or are on the open agenda. As you come forward, state your name, state the item. We have three minutes for you to speak. If you are going to hand something to us, we ask that you would ask permission from the bench before you approach the bench. So the question is now, are there any citizens who would like to make any comments on any of our items on an open or consent agenda? All right, there being none, let's move forward, proclamations, resolutions and presentations. Presentation employee of the month. Lieutenant? Good morning, Sergeant commissioners. I'm Gautel Lecane Washington, Reckon can watch the recognition coordinator with the Montgomery County employee committee. Thank you for allowing the committee to be here today to present and play the month for March with a gift card from red brick. Can we have county close when Stephen come to present the award for March. Good morning, Judge and commissioners. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to present the employee of the month award for March to an outstanding employee in the County Clerk's Office. If this kind of Larry Aris could come please, please come and enjoy me here. While she was on her way down, I wanna say she was nominated by another very hardworking employee of our office, our very own commissioners court, assistant coordinator, Larry Namanas. So just wanted to say another hardworking employee that works here in the county for us. This may be one of candy. That's what we call her. Has worked in our office more than nine years, mainly in our courts division. I've observed her work interaction with the public over the past two years, and I can definitely tell you she is very deserving of this award. Candie is our senior teller clerk in the county clerk's court division and she exemplifies what it means to be a good public servant. She goes above and beyond her deliative duties to assist our county and all the visitors that come and see us. Often I've seen her calling other departments in the county to assist our visitors when they're coming to our office and we're not the source of the information and the answer that that they need. She makes sure that they get to where they need to go. I've even seen her walk her to other courtrooms when folks were lost need. She makes sure that they get to where they need to go. I've even seen her walk into other courtrooms when folks were lost and weren't really sure where they needed to go. She's just truly a good-hearted person and we're so lucky to have her. Apart from her resourcefulness and dedication to helping our visitors, the office does not be complete without a light and endearing heart. She's not smiling as much now because she's a little nervous, but she always has a smile on her face and brings that to everyone that comes to our office. She grades you warmly and is genuinely lending a helping hand, and that's especially true for our visitors when they come in for those that are non-native English speaking. She speaks to them, they're trying to get information. You can see their shoulders drop and the smile come on their face when they see something that can interact and help them through this difficult time. Even on days when she's out, we have people that come back because they've had good reactions when they say, is candy there? Can she help me? So it's just a testament to her enduring presence, her contagious smile, and the fact that on what's usually one of the darkest days or one of the most difficult days that folks lies when they're coming in to pay their fines and fees or set up some type of probationary a payments plan. She's able to put a smile on their face and try to make that day a little better. All those folks that come in in that difficult day, they just want to be heard and candy somebody who listens. So she's an exemplary employee, as I already said, she has an excellent work ethic, she's resourceful, she always says joy in her heart and care to try to help everyone diligently and she just makes the function of our office so much better. So, Candy, thank you for who you are. Thank you for your amazing hard work. Thank you for your selflessness and thank you for being a part of the County Clerk's Office. And I'm honored to give you today the award for employee of the month for March. Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. Come on, coach. Come on. Come on, coach. Come on. Take sure. Come on. Great. I'm going to go to you. Come on, coach. Come on. Teacher. Come on. Let's go. Come on. Mike. And Andrew. Come on. Very good. Jim, we all smile too for candy because she's going to be there. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your time, gentlemen. Appreciate that. Congratulations. All right. Let's move to item number nine. Consent agenda. I have a motion to approve the consent agenda. As it is. We have a motion. We have a second. I need to defer ank1 on page seven. Okay defer that. So modify the motion with deferring 9k1. We have a motion the second correct. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. All right. Let's go ahead and move to our open agenda if we good. And with that in mind, we have the item that you had mentioned, Commissioner 19C2, which reads, consider discussing appropriate take action on renaming the new South Montgomery County Library and Community Center. Thank you Judge just a little bit of information about this particular agenda item. At the beginning of the year three months ago uh... we did put together a library naming committee if you remember and so the name of the committee which uh... we actually have a couple of members here uh... find cromansons here i think Nicole she here somewhere Nicole's not here okay uh... working on a couple of members here Mrs. Brady is here as well today Kevin Brady Mrs. Brady if you had a rise and just want to recognize you I didn't see you earlier thank you for being here at former congressman firstly anyway the the naming committee's job was to obviously explore several different options whether whether that be something related to the woodlands Sk, South Montgomery County Esk, Montgomery County as a whole, or individuals that we might name their library after. After several meetings, we sort of kind of kept coming back to the same name. And because of that today, I would make a that we would name rename the South Montgomery County Library and Community Center as the Kevin Brady Library and Community Center. I'll second that motion. That's actually not yoga. That's awesome. Some things are laid into that and I will make this discussion too long but I've known Congressman Brady for years obviously as I was the mayor of Shenandoah I got a chance to meet him. I didn't know some of the little things or big things but he wouldn't tell you unless you pride it out of him. Kevin Brady was obviously instrumental in the Woodlands area Chamber of Commerce for a long time. After that, he was the first Woodlands resident to be elected to the Texas House of Representatives, the first. He was then later after serving in the Texas House of Representatives. He was later the first Montgomery County resident elected to Congress, first in Congress, at Montgomery County, served for 26 years, and while he served, he was only the third Texan ever to chair the House, Bayes and Means Committee, which is the most powerful committee in Congress. So to say that, you know, he represented Montgomery County is an understatement. And more specifically along those lines, South Montgomery County, we were very intentional about if George Mitchell is the most influential person in the history of South Montgomery County, who is the second most important? And obviously Cynthia Woods Mitchell is right there with George Mitchell and she has the Bavillion named after her. So we kept coming back time and time again to the name Kevin Brady. And I think this is fitting for South Montgomery County. And with that, we would like to invite up his lovely bride, Kathy Bradyiding who will also have a room named after her inside the library and we have a presentation from the spree Kevin wanted to be here but like the good public servant he is he's indeed he right now help him the president only we have a unique all vote's a really more discussion. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Congratulations, Kathy and to your husband, Kathy. So the folks at Harvard Peace Corps were nice enough to get us a rendering with Kevin's name already on the library. That's awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. So you kept that on. Yes. I'm Hey, Rob's throw. My director's public affairs. We've got this put together for me in less than 24 hours. So. Gentlemen, if you would, let's all stand. Come on down here, please. where do I look? Ready, one, two, three. Commissioner, can we also get one with with Kim and Jordan? Let them know who. Hey Jessica, would you like to take a picture so wrong? Oh, thank you. Does that ring all over town? Is it the same name? I appreciate it. Hold on. Thank you. Good. All right. That's awesome. And thank you to those who got together and formulated what probably was a very, very wise move commission to the right thing. Thank you so much. All right. If you would now go back to the beginning of the open agenda, item number 10a. Consider discuss and prove resolution of intent to establish among gummy county property assessed, clean, energy or the pace program. Now what this says is this is what properties are assessed for energy efficiency of improvements that will then on commercial property. This increases the ad volume taxing ability on our part and it's at no cost to the county. Most are pays as an administrator. Also this individual businesses have already approached cities and whatnot for efficiency if we made this available to the whole county and Tammy and I have talked about this it would be a good thing for us in keeping things more orderly and it's more streamlined that's ever been in the past. I'm going to ask this time Lee McCormick you're here if you would come forward and share with us what this is about please. Good morning, Judge commissioner Lee McCormick with L a. Any report? I'll give you a kind of. If I can approach the bench. Yeah, please. Thank you. Commissioner's Lone Star PACE is a program administrator for city and county property assessed clean energy or paste program here in Texas. We essentially do all the administration for cities and counties with, as the judge mentioned, is a way for commercial industrial and multi-family property owners to upgrade their buildings with energy and water efficiency improvements or build new buildings that exceed code by at least 5% to qualify for this type of financing. It is financing that is so secured by an assessment on the property and because there is a voluntary assessment on the property and only a city or a county component assessment on the property that's the reason the county is involved in the program. Because the lenders of these programs have that assessment as their security, they're willing to loan out for longer periods of time, typically 20 to 30 years which match up the useful ice of these improvements on the properties. The goal of pace is to align the utility bill savings from higher efficiency HBAC systems, cool roof, insulation, any that can save water and electricity with the cost of The goal of pace is to align the utility bill savings from higher efficiency HBAC systems, cool roof, insulation, any that can save water and electricity with the cost of the financing. So you're kind of putting a carryout there for these property owners to spend a little bit more on their buildings to upgrade them on their energy and water efficiency improvements. But ultimately it doesn't cost them anymore because they're getting the savings from these utilities to offset the cost of the financing. In the last few years over 100 cities and counties in Texas have adopted paste programs. As the judge mentioned, we have of the financing. In the last few years over 100 cities and counties in Texas have adopted paste programs. As the judge mentioned we have a few projects we actually have three right now of course the property owners would like to utilize this program in Montgomery County which is why we're approaching the county right now. There is no risk no liability to the county. This is private dollars going to private projects. The county's involvement is strictly for the fact that an assessment is being placed on the property. In the event of the fault, the paste lender actually picks up any costs and we would work with the county tax assessors office to make sure that goes for the normal collection process as an heavy-learned tax. We handle that process again no cost to the county. As the judge mentioned this is a great economic development tool for the cities and counties in Montgomery County at no cost to taxpayers also helps to support your tax base and economic development With that I'm happy to answer any questions you might have Kimmy when we talked about this shit. We talked about the increased ad valarm How can you tell us a little bit about that? Good morning Judge commissioners. Yes, we did talk about that. As we were saying, it encourages them to bring in a higher tax base because they're bringing in like the HVAC systems and different things. And so I would expect to see an increase in the ad-vlaw and tax base for the county based on some of these projects. How has that made known to the appraisal district? Well, anyone that qualifies through the paste program, I anticipate, Lee and I have not really dug down into the weeds with it, but I would expect that I would receive a report from from the paste program and that we would I would in turn then turn that over to the appraisal district. Okay. Am I correct? I know that's how it works in other counties. Yeah. Actually, once here I will come to the court and let you know what projects were done among Montgomery County. So you get a court wide update annually on projects done. Did you say there were three approved right now from Montgomery County? No, there's three that would like to participate in the program if the county so adopts a program. Could you describe those three? Yes, one is a medical facility in Conroe. Another one is a strip mall that is going through redevelopment. So they like to use this to upgrade. It's probably a 30- strip mall they want to upgrade with All a lot of improvements including energy and water efficiency improvements And the third is a multi-family facility that's approached us in Magnolia Where's the strip mall? It's a round-lake con row 45 just north. I'm not quite sure I'll check for sure. I know we're hoping for that one. All right. So I have a couple questions. Number one, so you're saying, because from what I read on my research is the county is responsible for placing a lien on the property if they go into fall and it's a tax lien. So then we're responsible for collecting the the past due assessments if you will. It would be that I'm not sure if the county uses an out a third party collection agency or if you collect in health. The county uses a third party collector, which is line bargar, line bargar would then take over with the delinquent collections are foreclosure under a lot of normal proceedings. And based on my research, it looked like we can charge the property owner for those services that were incurring. The peace lean actually is primarily before the mortgage holder lean, right? So in other words, it supersedes the mortgage. Yes and no. That's a good question. So the PACE lane has the same standing as a property tax. So in the event of default, it's only the past due assessment or past due debt service payments that are ahead of the senior lender. And because of that, under the Texas statutes, the senior lender has to consent to PACE being utilized on a property So anytime that there's a pace lien on the property, there's a senior lender they have to actually give a written consent to it. So I haven't been able to find a whole lot of research on the commercial properties, but on states where they have residential, pace then in turn caused lenders to be much more apprehensive to serve the area. It's caused, you know, people to have a harder time getting mortgages. It's caused housing, cells to drop, as well as appraisals. So do we anticipate any of that for on the commercial sector? No, it's you did your research. Yes residential paces have a lot of problems. The typical issues of residential paces actually have been residential contractors that have found ways to gain the system. Commercial paces programs nationwide have not had any of those issues. Actually I believe there's only been one commercial default on paces that I'm aware of. Nationwide we haven't had any in Texas. Yes residential programs have had aggressive residential contractors that have taken advantage of programs had home undersigned completion certificates when the work wasn't done and they got paid forward and skipped town type of thing. So there have not been anything like that with regards to commercial pace. Including down to small business owners Because that's where I got concerned was is when you have mom and pop shops that are trying to go out from loans that they may be adversely affected. But you're saying that hasn't been a trend. No, Texas, the statutes, those states that have those issues, did not have what Texas has in there, that requires an independent third party engineering study done before and after implementation. So you make sure on the front end, the energy and water savings that are being promoted are realistic and on the back end that they've actually been installed so the two areas that they were fraud in other states Texas legislations taking care of that. Thank you. Sounds a lot like a lead program with a financing component not familiar with the lead program. You know I'm familiar with the lead. Yes I'm sorry the goal for Texas when they did the program was to put an incentive out there for property owners but not having get all web to the lead certified level because that has a quite a bit of a cost to the program That's why they basically said I had like a 5% improvement over over code So it's attainable, but it's not gonna add so much cost you don't have people participating in the program Ten Ten minutes is originally, if I'm very done to assure. Well, kind of. I'm trying to tie that together with sustainable construction and clean air and efficient energy with the financing piece of it. It's just trying to make it link up for me and make sense with the economic drivers you're trying to explain. It is. It's basically providing low cost long term financing for those property owners. If it, for example, if a property owner wanted to put in a HVAC system, it's going to cost $1 million for one that's code or even if they have an existing building and they're kind of putting off their HVAC system just doing their fur maintenance on it. The goal is to incentivize them to go ahead and do a high efficiency HVAC system in their building versus just meeting code because it's delta on it. They don't want to pay that extra money upfront, usually. Pace allows them to finance that upfront and then get the savings on the back end from their low utility bills to pay for that higher efficiency, higher cost equipment. So does pace finance the appliances and these items that use the energy for the entire construction? No, it's only the energy. So good question. So pace is used for like an HVAC system, LED lighting, insulation, low flow bathroom fixtures, anything in the building that will save energy or water. That component of the building can be financed with pace. Anything else, wall structure, that has to be financed either with a senior loan or with equity. There's only the qualifying improvement. And that's why you have the engineering study done. So they're making sure that only qualifying improvements are getting financed on that building. I guess the one question we haven't asked is, Tony, are you okay with this program? I mean, this file is really squarely on your shoulders, your office is gonna be responsible for. I am, I've breached out to other counties that participate in this program specifically, Denton County, and Denton County, I believe Lee has been participating for several years, and they've had great success with it. And I am okay with the program. But with that in mind, as Commissioner had brought to set, I was going to mention something along that line. Initially, when this was brought to us, you were not in favor of it. That is correct. And what has changed that now you are in favor of it? Didn't county. In other counties that have since participated in the beginning and I think there have been some changes as statutory changes in the reporting and Participation or the administration of it and so now the pace administrators are primarily They're handling everything my only involvement would be in the event of Default of the agreement at that point. Okay. And it seems like industrial would be the better choice for this type of equipment, correct? Because it's a homeowner and a builder for years. I understand people can't upgrade to the highest, efficient, HVAC, and all of those things. But to take out a loan on a house and then have to bring somebody else in, if you had to replace it. Right, so peace can only be used for commercial. Commercial type of properties. Peace can't be used for residential in Texas. It's only commercial. Okay. So yeah, all right. What are those big counties? What are the what? What are those big counties that are currently enrolled in the program? Well, currently it's Colin Denton, Tarant, Dallas Harris, Fort Bend, Galveston, Travis. Travis. some of the bigger ones. There in the report that you provide. In the annual report, there's a list of the counties that we currently serve. All right. I will make a motion to move on this to accept this program as there are second. I'll second. There's a motion as second. There's any more discussion. There being none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. Appreciate that, Lee, for coming and sharing that with us. To run the item 11a emergency management. Jason Millsap, director of Homeland Security Emergency Management. Consider discussing to appropriate action action regarding the hauling road fire. Morning Judge and commissioners the map I passed out for you just in case you haven't seen it, is the fire in St. St. St. County. As you can see, the black line around the shaded area is the acreage burned. It burned at 2,421 acres. Pretty much all in one evening, one afternoon, one evening. It pretty much had a good handle on it by the end of Wednesday night, early Thursday morning. It came with them 570 feet of crossing into Montgomery County. In effect, we had about 80 homes and total in Montgomery County that we evacuated and anticipation of not being able to get this stop before it crossed the Peach Creek. About 900 homes were evacuated to San Jacinto County. And of those evacuated homes between both sides of the county line None of those homes burned as a result of the good work firefighters and the dozer crews did Wednesday night and put in a stop on this fire It was a remarkable amount of heroic effort. I watched a number of instances where firemen were between fire and and homes building protection lines and saving property. Even saw a video that was posted on social media where a homeowner come home from being evacuated and had it on their ring camera and put it up where the fire crews came into the yard and started work and stopped the advancing fire from damage in their home. So a lot of good effort. And total, I'd talk a few things, because there's been some confusion on containment and controlled burn. Fire is controlled when we have a line around it. So when we woke up Thursday morning and had our press conferences, we had a dozer line around this fire. It was now controlled. Still burning, but controlled. It was not expected to break control lines throughout the day, but we were still concerned as you recall the high wounds that we had Thursday with the red flag warning that prompted us to continue and remain the evacuation orders in place just because we didn't know what the fire potentially could do Thursday. But all day Thursday, dozer crews and fire crews continue to build lines of containment. Shore those up, they continue to do that as we speak now. So the four services places at 95% contained at this time. And we expect that to remain at that level through the week, potentially as early as tomorrow, it could be raised 100%, but likely by Friday, the four service will be very comfortable with calling it 100% contained at that point. Overall Montgomery County had a 101 fire apparatus from our fire departments on scene. A little over two dozen sheriff's deputies from sheriff's office and command staff that was there. And about two dozen constables from all five constables precincts. Commissioner Gray, Commissioner Walker had crews there. And Commissioner Riley and Commissioner Wheeler had offered to send whatever we needed to assist. So we had an enormous response from the Montgomery County side, not just for our residents, but we also provided mutually to San Jacena County threat event. And our guys, along with their volunteer fire departments, did a number of great work, saving houses. The only two structures burning this was a barn earlier in the day on Wednesday, and then we did find a deer camp home early Thursday during reconnaissance flight that was way up north of our containment line that did burn. But no other properties, other than acreage. And so the nice thing about this is we worked collaboratively together. It was a seamless, insident command structure. We unified command structure and the county really got to flex its muscles and help out our neighbor and protect our properties as well. Because of that the governor has authorized our ask for and received authorization for this to be considered a F-M stands for fire management assistance grant So this is a federal fire now and the county is eligible for a 75 25 percent split so the 25 percent is on us and the 75 percent will be reimbursed by the federal government. We'll be working this is the county's first F mag this program didn't exist back when we have the Riley Road fire in 2011 They use the different type of program back then so we'll be working with TDM to go through the process of the F mag paperwork and stuff like that It is very possible That TDM and the state will only want one applicant So that will be the county and all of our fire agencies will be sub applicants under the counties So we may have to roll it all up into one And we'll work through with team of more like 30 days to get that short up and figure out what they want us to do to submit What we need to submit to get reimbursed for everybody And I have nothing further to say at this time. It was so impressive to be to see what was taking place and now seamless Everything was and everybody working together. You had mentioned that we would visit Commissioner Gray and I were there for a bunch of it as well as others had come in and go but we were fundamentally right there. And how that the there was not attention among all these people working there. They had the force or the sheriff's office is constable. He had teed him, they had strike people from teed him plus our office of emergency and plus San Jacinto and they're sheriff and they're a commissioner that came down and everybody was in sync and it was amazing how quickly by working together you guys and all of the ESDs that were there were able to put this together. So it's a great effort. Thank you for all the planning that your department does. I don't know if you know this enough but Jason and the EOC were on scene first. You were there. You put the you established the location where we were going to have our all of our things and that became the center of activity. So well done, very well done. It was a big team effort. It was unfortunately our firemen get a lot of practice in this because we deploy. So a lot of our guys are deployed across the state currently even as part of Texas Center State Mutual Fire Mutual Aid System. And so because of those deployments, there is no cost for them to deploy to the local fire apartments or even to the county the state picks up those deployment costs but they're gaining invaluable as valuable training on the on fire lines across the country not just in Texas but across the country. So it's not the first time a lot of our guys on the ground saw something like this. It's just the first time we've seen it here. And so they just put the place good training. And because the county's been very forward in planning for featured disasters, utilizing our cares and our funds, we have the assets and the resources on a county level to set up an instant command post right quickly and get everything spun up and operational forward and in the field as close to the fire as possible and be safe within a matter of minutes. I mean, we really had a lot of equipment in the field within the first hour. So where's the Forest Service of the investigation of the control burn? So it was a prescribed burn that did get out of control of the Forest Service has taken a lead on that investigation to clear up some confusion. Prescribed burns are regulated by the Texas Department of Agriculture and they require a prescribed burn manager to conduct them. They're not required to receive approval from even the local level or the state level to do a prescribed burn. And under Texas law, prescribed burn can be done even in a burn ban. So the prescribed burn manager is responsible and has to be ensured by a commercial insurance carrier for the work that they perform. So that investigation will wrap up over the next couple of weeks and I'm sure the Forest Service will put more information out. But prescribed burn manager is going to be the one responsible for any of the acreage and damages and structures that did receive damage and then then the forest service potentially could take charges before the San Jacinto Grand Jury, if it's warranted at that point. But really, it's gonna be on the forest service to conduct that investigation moving forward. It was a private individual. Yes sir. Yes for the prescribed mine. Yes sir. He had done one two or three days earlier that actually got our attention. and my selfum and myself. We monitored the infrared satellite passes that go throughout the state on about a six-hour pass. And so we had noticed some heat signatures in North of the county and Sanisana County that prompted us to start asking some questions and found out that there was a prescribed burn that day. And so he had done one three days earlier and then I guess conducted another one the day of this fire on the 19th and because it was windy it got away from him very quickly. It's in a very remote area. It took us an hour just to find the head of the fire and we could see it from the air with our drones. There was no roads to get to this fire. It was in a very rural, inaccessible area. And so since Sinacowney was overwhelmed very quickly, being an all volunteer fire agency, but they requested help from the state and from us very quickly and we were able to provide that assistance to them. Jason, you and all the agencies involved did an excellent job. It was Commissioner walkie were there, judge you're there. It was spooky Wednesday night. The wind was ripping and I didn't know what was going to happen. The next day we did a mandatory evac, part of precinct four up there. And you guys, everybody involved, got it contained, you Jim put by the Sheriff's Office, all the conference was office, a lot of live stocking animals were evac out of there. And big thank you to, you know put those animals up can you create cowboy church and those people with arenas and the pins so great effort and I know San Jacina County is very appreciative as well the that commissioners reached out and they needed the help and it's it's a great thing that we were able to help them so good job one. One of the things that we're doing to point out, we've talked about the sheriff's office and the cost was being there, but at the end of the day, when it was time to evacuate these people, sometimes, you know, 11, 12, one o'clock in the morning, fire burning around them and no clue where this is going to lead, those guys didn't hesitate. They got in the subdivisions and went door to door, knocking on doors and helping residents get out and let the firemen be firemen and not have to worry about the people. So it was a huge team effort and because of that there was a lot of property and life savings. And that's one of those psychonists that say that without the team effort and what we threw at it, it would have pushed all the way to the creek in, in NNCC County. We just losing that one structure too that fire was so intense and running so fast it is amazing that they wouldn't lose any more homes but those those firemen set up and staged around those houses and you look at your map you see those neighborhoods with the square the box that's in San Sinac County. I had the drone I was at the end of North Duck Creek Road and watching this fire advance very quickly, about 100 yards of minute, as how fast it was moving. And there were fire crews there building containment lines and protection lines and that subdivision that did not leave, even though this was coming straight out. I mean, you can see how precise that stop line is, that's a dozer in a fire crew line that stopped it at that subdivision edge. And so there's millions of this throughout Lee Trotter Road and others where they build protections around homes that they're still here today. So tell you, 2,421 acres that burned in the loss of life, basically no loss of infrastructure. We know the source of it to correct that for the future. Great job. Yeah. Appreciate it guys. Anything else? I'll be bringing back, thank you all very much. I'll be bringing back anything related to that FMAG over the next couple of ports as we have to go through contracts and things with these entities if that's what TIDA wants to do so just expect something in the future but as of right now I'm waiting on to get some answers to my question. I don't know if you wanted to share how much of that was covered or as you said it. 75% of these federally covered 25% cost share to the county or to the fire agencies that responded. So which is a huge deal. All right. Good job. Yeah. Good job. Thank you. I appreciate it. All right. Let's move on to item pro-bay risk management, Michael Howard. Good morning, George and commissioners. This is our yearly renewal of our excess insurance policies. I was spending about the last four months shopping our policies in the marketplace. As we always do, visited this with the county attorney's office in several of the affected departments. Consider and approve annually, removal of the self-insurance excess coverages, property, casualty, and workers compensation for the 2025-2026 policy period, authorize director of risk management to buy coverage and execute required documents to effectualy the same. I have a motion to approve. I'll make motion. There's a second. I get any discussion. All in favor? I pose motion carries. Thank you. I will thank you very much. Great work tax assessor collector Can if you'd make a comment on this force Judge commissioners we're going to either you need to do the fire or just pull this this has been resolved Okay, thank you very much. We appreciate that so much. All right, I'm 14A County auditor, Raquesh. Considered except the annual comprehensive financial report for the fiscal year ending September 30th, 2024. Good morning, just commissioners. We had out of 2024 counties of books ordered and externally ordered by the auditors at the Tio Boundi Hill and have gotten a clean opinion. So I was gonna go through some of the quick highlights as to how 2024 ended. And as far as the receipts and revenues about half of all we collected who came from property taxes followed by charges for services and then grants. And as far as some of the notable grants, ARPA, we had about $18 million in spending ARPA in fiscal 2024 and barrel, contributed for about $21 million through 930 of 2024. Looking at the priorities of our county government as far as the breakdown of expenses expenditure by function, consistent with previous years, we were law enforcement enforcement heavy followed by transportation and general government Looking at the fund statement in the general fund level we had about three hundred forty two million dollars in revenues and 300 almost three hundred twenty-seven million dollars in expenses resulting in a net ad net increase to the fund balance in the general fund of about 8.9 million dollars and that increase a fund balance resulted in bringing our FY 2024 fund balance to about $158.4 million compared to $149 million in 2023. Based on the adopted fund, where was the increase just coming from, Rakesh? Yes, or so. The increase as you look at the different buckets committed assigned, unassigned, committed was sitting at about 90 to almost million dollars assigned, which is essentially assigned for the live billies associated with the retarded healthcare, which I'll talk about two slides later. We assigned about 90 million dollars by increase about, of about three quarters of a million dollars in the unassigned, which is true cash, true savings in the fund balance, that increases roughly about nine and a half million dollars to about 67.4, nine million dollars. And one of the metrics that always interests the commission court members is looking at the savings ratio over total annual expenses. And we're at about 20.60 percent, slightly over 20 percent on that essentially one-fifth of our analyst pensions is set aside in our savings. You know, that's a good metrics to look at. When you look down the county percentage of legal debt limit, the 23, it was 2.13. Now it's at 1.98. Yes, so that is the debt limit. So as we've made principal payments towards our bond, and as the principal balance has been decreasing since the last bond issues we had was back in 2018. Ever since we've been just paying down our debt service, you know, perfect defeat. Yes, and we've decreased and we've decreased about twice and refunded twice, bringing our total bond out to 10 to about $417.9 million. So roughly about just in fiscal 24, we see about $23.6 million in the principal payment. So what that did, Judge, was that helped us make our credit limit better. So essentially looking at the utilization as to how much have you borrowed against the credit limit, we're at under 2%, which is really good. Wow. How does that compare to other counties? So I did a quick search for some of the neighboring counties, Fort Bend County, Galson County, Fort Bend County is at about 4.85%, Galson County is about 6%, so we're really good from a credit standpoint. Okay. Next slide, looking at the required disclosure from the government accounting and reporting requirements, since 2017 we're required to disclose the liabilities of social shared with post-employment benefit, which is the retiree health care that we offer for certain retirees that actually stay with the kind of for so many years. That library jumped about $35.5 million from $222 million to $258 million. Now, this is an actual really calcantant number, you know, factors in all kinds of macro and micro economic indicators including 20-year bond rating, interest in the bond. Again, this is an actual calcantant number, but again, we do have some fun balance set aside for that. So, for now, we're just monitoring it and obviously in constant communication discussion with other departments No issues to report on this one as a now Last week I put a call out to our financial advisor to get a refresh on counties bond rating and I'm very proud to report back to you That out of nine counties in Texas that actually have a triple a bond rating with Moody's we are one of them. So the numbers look good. Twenty-twenty-four ended, very strong. But, Keshe, I had a question on the report from the order as they were talking about potential risks. Yes, or identified. Yes, or identified. So any time an external auditor engages into an audit, they look at all kinds of suffrage assessment. The identify potential risk, cash has, you know, a lot of risk, management, override of controls, they have a lot of risk. So what they do is they build their controls and they build the testing around those and do some heavy testing. And essentially it's a standard language in the audit. They look at all kinds of inherent risk before they even issue an opinion on the audit and we have gotten a clean opinion on the audit. So as I was reading that report I came to one area where it said that they basically evaluate the controls that we have in place to determine their audit procedures. Yes, our first statement. Yes, okay. All right. With that gentlemen? Can I get a motion? I have a motion. Is there a motion to approve? Motion. Motion is our second. Thank you. Any more discussion? All in favor? Aye. Posed. Motion carries. Well done, Marquesh. Thank you very much. And Amanda and all the guys in your teams that work on our behalf. We appreciate very much. All right. Gilbert. Would please consider to approve the following change orders. So we have three change orders, first change order, this change order in before for Commissioner precinct one. This is a deduct of $7,985. Okay, with motion. I'll move. Second. We have a second. Commissioner Riley. We can eat on the bus. All in favor. All right. Motion carries. All right. Change order number three. Change order number three for community development. This is a $6,860 increase. Have motion to approve. Emotion to second. Second. All in favor. Opposed. Motion carries. Amendment number one. The third one, this is an addendum two, or amendment two, on-call engineering services contract with WSP to allow for them to do subcontractors. Right? Just, for precinct 30. I'll move. Thank you. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. All right. I am be approved granting a discretionary exemption for. Gilbert? Yes sir. We have number one is our legal and professional online services research with the tungsten router. This is the social service item. We just need discretionary exemptions so we can utilize this service. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. I'm on favor. I pose motion carries. And the second item is service billings. This is a Migos library service. This is a company that it's a consortium that our library uses. They buy books through this consortium and then amigos will then build the individual libraries. It's a really good program. I think going on for many, many years, again, this is a source item for the library. The emotional proof. Sir, second. Second. Does our new library director like this one? It's about to ask. Yes's going to love it and she'll be in our next meeting to introduce her to everybody. So. All right. Proceed. Yes, sir. We had a motion to prove all in favor. Both. Okay. Opposed motion carries. And in part three, this is a chemical recognition system. This is a source item with sear technology for emergency management. a's a $56,600 purchase and this is under U-AZ grant. Move. Is it you, Occee Grant? Occee. Yes sir. We have a motion of the second. All in favor? Aye. Fosed. Motion carries. All right. Next item we are awarding three projects. First project is foundation, service and immigrant conduit installation for motion on C123. Zero second. Second. On favor. I posed motion carries. Item D. Request permission to advertise for bids for 4thift and motorcycles for the share. Second. All in favor. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And on E we're asking permission to negotiate a agreement with the highest evaluated vendor for a mobile training trust. Second. All in favor. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Item F. Item F. Our current towing contractor all points is no longer able to serve us our account. I think they went out of business. I talked with Sheriff's Office on Thursday. And the current group of bidders back in 2001, there was only one left that still in business that's Milstedt. So I suggest that let's award this to Milstedt that where we have a contract, we know what the prices are. And then we'll see how that works out. We can always bid it out, but this gives us an option. Part of the contract allows for the Sheriff's office to also, if they need to, they can go on the open marketing and get a tone service for whatever they need. These are all done by zones, so we're still both will service all the zones in the county. But the main thing is we have a contract, there's insurance, there's indemnification, the whole nine that will protect the sheriff's office, and they'll know what the pricing is. I'll move. Give a motion. Second. Any discussion? All in favor. I opposed motion carries. Thank you. But thank you very much. County attorney precinct four. Consider and accept the filing of petition for the creation of the villages and Magnolia Farm's public improvement district. This is going to set a discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. All right. So we move forward. Let's recess Montgomery County Commissioner Scort to convene of public hearings. Consider the partial reply of Lexington Great Section Wounds to be known in Flexington Great Section 3. The purpose of the proposed partial reply is to reconfigure reserves B of Lexington Great a replay is to reconfigure reserve B of Washington Wright Section 1 in order to create 79 residential art for reserves. and Flexington's right section three. The purpose of the proposed partial report is to reconfigure reserve B of Lexington's right section one in order to create 79 residential art, four reserves and four private right-aways. It is ready for approval under 18 A, but is anybody here to speak about that? Come on in. Come on, let's go. Come on, let's go. I'm just a resident of the Lexington High, so I'm not sure this is a right moment to speak, but I'm very prepared for the record. Richard, lasting fullness, FU and ES, the concern a lot of the residents have is how are we going to, how are they going to configure or change what they, they're adding more residents if they haven't even fixed the issues with the water yet. We still have water issues for a lot of residents that have been there for over a year. I moved in in February, a lot of other neighbors moved in there in 2023. August August timeframe and nobody has alleviated the water issues that we've been having so far. We've bothered up multiple times to TCEQ and other avenues we tried to reach out with that the water has burned problematic from the beginning. And we a lot of us are concerned because the want to add 70 more residential lots. We don't understand what they're trying to do with the reserves. Because as for me as a resident, the reserves themselves were one of the selling points for us. Moving there, there was supposed to be nature reserves, and we were not now they were saying that they wanted to change it. So there's not a lot of information out there that that's bringing a lot of concerns for a lot of the residents. Wish you walk around here. Yeah, if you would please. Yeah. Where's what kind of, what is it a mud, or is it in city of Conno or's it's it's not a mud. The developer himself is the one that's probably the water surface. There's a well there that the developer. He's the one who installed it. Yeah, Kush out suggested after the meeting today that you guys you talk to the resolution on that. Let's get with you after and just a little bit. I'll get Brian to speak with you. And Commissioner, we do have the file here and Hunter from our office is here with the with the file to answer some questions at least about what has been submitted to the engineer's office. Yeah. Do we have time for that? I mean, is it sure? Which we're in public hearing go ahead yes if you would come up please explain kind of what's going on. I know there's water issues in different places, but... Yeah, that's aren't. But it's not... Yes. You speak about the water issues? Well, the water issues is more of a private matter between the residents there and the development. I guess the question is, exactly. The question is, if you're going to create more lots, but you can't provide water for what's there in the aisle, it's just going to create more problems as this gentleman was talking about. Yes, sir. And like I said, that's a private matter. We can get the microphone. That's a private matter between the developer and these residents who then comes to their water. It's a private water system. Then why are we vote? Yeah. So this is just the public hearing. The planning issue is ready for approval under the county engineer. I'm not sure where we are in the timeline for approval if that has to be today or if we're. I'm not waiting to talk about deferred. Yes, that's the point. I think that's what we need. Okay, we're going to be for it. Public hearing, when it comes up, yeah under 18 a. I'm talking about move. Okay, all right. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you all. There's second. Thank you. All right. Thank you all. There's second. Thank you, Richard. Is there anybody else who wants to talk about Lexington Heights? Come on up. It's on the Lexington. You're talking about Lexington Heights. Yeah. Same Lexington Heights. Correct. Proceed. My name is Jason Payne. I'm a better resident in county, most of my life. I'm an educator for Coast Springs, Ocarstice, D. I'm also a small business owner in Montgomery County. So, been here most of my life, my wife and I. We don't really know what this is. We don't know what the reply is. We haven't seen anything. But like the previous gentleman said, one of the things that we're sold on this particular subdivision as residents is of the green areas. Because the developer left a lot of green areas. Now that they're kind of moving through that back area, a lot of that's being taken down and so on and so forth. And there's nothing clear that we can find that we've been given that shows, hey, this area is gonna stay green. This area is gonna be this. This area is gonna be this and so on and so forth. Anytime you reach out through our management company, you never get anything. You never get anything from him. You never get anything back that has any kind of substance whatsoever one particular instance they decided they needed to pour concrete overnight and sometimes I realize you know my my family's been in construction for most of my dad's life sometimes that's an necessity because of heat and cracking and things like that but we did this when the temperature during the day was 60 degrees. So we had a huge dozer right next to my master bedroom and ended up having to call Montgomery County Sheriff and so on and so forth and everything else. And nothing's ever been said or done about it, not from a Sheriff's side, but just from a development side. So really my issue with all of it is, is there's nothing that tells us what none of this is. What's being replied it what's being taken away because some of it's being had it obviously. What is being had it? You know what is what are we looking to hear versus this is what we're doing you know does it need to be you know given permission or not. So that's really mommy and issue. Well if it's been replied and it's it has, there's a game plan right there that you could look at. I mean, you shouldn't be restricted from seeing that. Is that fair? Yeah. So we have what the developer submitted for the repotting in Hunter and the back can kind of show you at least what we've been provided. Okay. Is it already been approved to be replaced? It has not been approved yet. This is just the public hearing to discuss it. It is, the plot is subject to approval under items. Yeah, but we're going to. 18A, however, the court may choose not to take action today. Yeah. Okay. Because I believe, obviously I haven't seen any other, but there's been a lot of stuff going on that I believe some of may have already been cleared. You know, that if that's the case, so that's really my main issue. Is there work going on that hasn't been approved yet? So, but I guess we can look at that and see. Yeah. We appreciate it. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you so much. And I'm new guys. I'm asking you got questions. It isn't there a statute in the state of Texas that a county can deny a plot if it can't be properly served with water. Not all the county cities can, but I don't believe the county. I'm not a hundred percent sure about do believe that correct is I think you're what you're think matters in two twelve section two twelve of the little government code generally counties not subject to those and as far as I know as however whichever sub-chapter of 236, it is applied to counties. And there's a private water system. Now they can, you know, you have some leeway, but, you know, really on a re-plat, The rule of somewhat different than an original plant. Unless it is... Unless it is, unless it is interfering with vested rights of the property owners within the subdivision, you're going to be limited in your discretion or have no discretion to prove the re-plat. Okay, but when we come to that after this public meeting, we have an opportunity to deal with it. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to build something you can't put supply of water through though. Well, we don't have a lot of teeth, but I think that's correct on the 232.00. That's what I was just looking at. But if they were building those lots without the supply of water, they could be up to the residents to drill their own wells, I correct? All right, I've been gaming. Is there anybody else here to speak about the workington? All right, let's proceed 17. Consider the partial reply to Bluejack National Phase 1A and reply to Bluejack Southern Living Enclave to be known as the Gardens Bluejack National. The purpose of the repudage partial reply to said being in two public utility easements and reconfigure lots 1 through 7 block 1 of Bluejack Southern Living Enclave to reconfigure lots 1 through 3, 8 through 10 and reserve you of block 10 of Bluejack National Phase 1A in order to create 10 residential lots and 1 unrestricted reserve. Is anybody here to speak about that? This is ready for approval under 18B. All right. Appreciate it. Considering the previous establishing and all ways, stop sign to control the VM, Maria, Drive, and Green Robo Drive intersection into the lower section 20, is anybody here to speak about that? All right. Thank you. Did we just go and reconvene and take appropriate action? A clear section or item C1, 17C1? Oh, excuse me. I'm sorry. Appreciate. have a motion to approve item 17 C1 the always stop sign control. On favor. Post motion carries. And now in our county engineer commissioner or you wanted to defer 18. Yes, I would like to. We'll 18 a is there a motion to approve considering approve the final plot of gardens blue Jack on saver I posed motion carries 18 B. Thank you. Emotion to approve on favor that was it. It was okay wait a second. It's not over just did a motion to appeal or to defer. Did you take a motion to defer? Was it a motion for both items? Yes. Okay. I didn't get it. Sure. Let's clear the record. Okay. Do we have a motion to defer item 18A and approve 18B? It's so moved. Make a motion again. Thank you. All in favor. All right. Post. Motion carries. Thank you. I didn't hear the both appreciate that so much all right commissioner Gray consider discuss bills in the state legislature that would benefit Montgomery County boy all right so a couple courts ago might have been last court We were able to pass the new development regulation standards, which was a very high point for the county after 41 years of redoing those. So my goal here will be to memorialize unanimous support on the next court. But let me describe what we have real fast. We've got two important bills filed in partnership with State Rep Cecil Bell that have been introduced into the 89th Texas legislative session that will benefit Montgomery County as a whole. And the reason I brought up the development, regulation standards because both of these bills will tightly complement the work that we put in over the last 18 months and in the last court. So let me give you a brief overview of those two bills that I proposed to House Bill 2012 is titled Regulating Roadside Vendors. It sounds, doesn't sound like much, but it is because the goal is to give wrong enforcement the necessary tools to address safety and nuisance concerns caused by roadside vendors. So what happens is we have these people that set up in the right away, they often operate without the proper food protocols or the food safety protocols at circumvent your storefronts and tax compliance. And ultimately, in my opinion, it undercuts the established local businesses. And I think that's something we can all get behind matter of fact. We all agreed on it when we discussed it before, before it had a bill number. Just a couple other bullets on it real quick at prohibits the right roadside vendors in the right away. And unincorporated areas, it will help regulate the cell food, merchandise and live animals in the right away on our streets and roads in Montgomery County. And it restricts the plate, the placement of temporary structures in the right away. And it limits the solicitation of money on roadways. So I know that's show guys, we have, we're starting to shift very hard from rural to suburban, even urban to some areas of Montgomery County. It's no longer your grandmother or somebody's grandmother sitting on the side of the road selling tomatoes. That's not what we're seeing or produce or something like that. We're seeing live animals, you see a lot of aviants moving to the areas and what we need to do is support our law Enforcement and give them the teeth to be able to do what they need to do when we have these issues So that's house bill 2012 and so is that gonna apply seven days a week or just Monday through Friday My intent would be seven days a week, 365, yes sir. Okay. And House Bill 4494, this title also is ensuring fair and consistent oversight of residential development. So this one operates very tightly, very tight with the development standards that we just approved. So this seeks to classify rental housing development, such as apartments, multifamily housing, any type of trailer park or RV park as residential rather than commercial properties. Currently these developments are not subject to the same level of planning, planning and review of single family subdivisions. And despite placing the similar demands on the local infrastructure schools, law enforcement, natural resources, this bill would require rental developments to meet the same planning and review standards as single-family housing, ensure consistency in all regulations across residential developments, and it would help support proper infrastructure planning to accommodate Montgomery County and it's rapid growth. So what's happening is these type of housing developments hit I would say a loophole that an 18 we work could drive through, but really what it does, it's a loophole that 500 or a thousand homes can drive through, but really what it does, it's a loophole that 500 or a thousand homes can drive through or more than that. So this would seek to make those type of developments meet the same criteria and standards as our residential. The fact is they're all dwellings. And so a dwelling should meet those standards in Montgomery County. And it just helps us regulate. It helps protect Montgomery County. And it helps us have a cleaner need or future. And also try to manage and keep up with the growth we're experiencing. So. Too far. If I may, we're not taking any action on this at this point. Correct. It's not listed on the agenda with an action. So the goal would be to have the unanimous support memorialize this. It'll be listed on the next agenda. Right. If you'd like me to draft a resolution and support, I'm happy to bring it back. Please do so. And we also encourage you to reach out and support Representative Cecil Bell on these bills, help them get moved through, and we'll also have to work on the Senate side and encourage you to reach out to your representatives to keep these moving to protect Montgomery County going forward. What was the second house bill number? 2012 and what was the other one? 44, 94, 44, 94. Now in these, these so for the next meeting we're more realizing it now that we're in discussion on it and you will bring to us the bills and the resolutions. Yes sir. Offered debt we would help you do it the resolutions to my office Jason will be able to do that so. That'd be fantastic. All right I just wanted to make sure we share that with the public and with the court and the direction we're going again that compliments the The moves that we're making here and it protects Montgomery County going forward Very good. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any discussion on that at all? We were forward. All right. Thank you. Commissioner Gray Item 19 be precinct to Commissioner Riley consider discuss an appointment Vice Chairman and confirm new director of the Montgomery County Toe Road Authority and accordingly approve resolution appointing Vice Chairman and confirming directors for term expiring December 31, 2021.. Commissioner Walker is the vice chairman. Judge Keo is a secretary. The treasurer is Commissioner Gray and James Noat was the director. We need to take him off and we need to appoint Commissioner Wheeler as a director. That's what this item is about. Yes. And this is actually an item taken. The Commissioner's Court has to, I know that the officers for the toll road, but it's actually set by Commissioner's Court. So I think you have a resolution, the county clerk has a resolution that we need to fill in and memorialize it and make sure that we have everyone correctly appointed in if the records of commissioners court reflect the directors for this whole road. So do we take action on this today? Yes. There is a resolution in order and all we need. We need to fill in the blanks. We need to fill in the blanks on that resolution in order. If you pull the last one, I think commissioner Commissioner Walker's vice chairman expired at the end of December of 2024. So we need to just make sure we're just cleaning up the records at this point. So all right, thank you very much. Well, I would like to, how do we appoint Commissioner Wheeler now? Can we just do that here? Just right here? Right here. Right here. Okay, we're going to move to appoint Commissioner Wheeler and I can we just do that here just right here. We're going to move to a point commissioner Wheeler as a director as the director and we were able to read the real point commissioner Walker as the vice chairman all right. Reo point judge Leo as a secretary and Reo point commissioner Gray as a treasurer. That's it right? Yeah, you have everything and and you as the Terrick and Charlie will just will just reaffirm that. Thank you. The motion is the motion is second. Thank you, Commissioner. Welcome aboard. Thank you. All right, all in favor. Aye. Opposed? We'll be sure to get you in one moment. Motion carries. Twice seconded really quick. All right, let's move forward. Item C, 1918C precinct 3. Concert Disgusting Prohibit Action on creating a new organizational chart for all county departments. Proceed. Yeah, so this really could have just been considered and discussed wasn't necessarily supposed to be an action item. My main purpose for bringing this up was literally just so we could discuss the old chart. I'm again being a new guy. It seems as though, and I don't know why my iPad's not working here Bobby But I will pull up I won't pull up my that's I'm just kidding don't come up here But it's not Can maybe we could get it. I maybe we can get an old chart up on the screen Is that possible? Yeah, I know that's why I was trying to pull up and it wouldn't come up But I was thinking thinking it might be good to get on screen anyway. I mean, at any rate, my plan bringing this up is before we get to budget, I just want to make sure that these are all the departments that all the departments are listed, that it's accurate in that all the departments here are the departments that report to commissioners court. And then my understanding is there are certain departments that report to certain commissioners. That's correct. That's correct. Amanda, if you would share with us. Yeah, and if we get some clarity, which is which? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm going to be back to the next slide. I'm going to be back to the next slide. I'm going to be back to the next slide. I'm going to be back to the next slide. I'm going to be back to the next slide. I'm going to be back to the next slide. I'm going to be back to the next slide. I'm going to be back on the budget side. What does that mean on the budget side? So if I have, if there's budget changes, personal changes, I work directly with Tommy and Commissioner Riley in getting those. Tommy basically can't just say yes on this by itself, on we go through with the Commissioner. Okay. Basically a Commissioner overseeing. Gotcha. Oversley. So yeah, that occurs when and the Commissioner's court says they come out typically after a discussion or during open court and says this department is going to be overseen by a designated representative of the court. That's occurred most of the time it happens during transitions and someone's retired or something like that. This isn't an objection. I'm just asking questions because I'm not having been here. I don't know who reports where. So that was again the main focus of the the gym item. You have IT traffic also supervised by Commissioner Pricing to. OEM by statute reports directly to the county judge. Yeah, OEM by statute reports directly to the county judge. Yeah, OEM has to report county judge by statute. Right now the library. Memorial system, Memorial system supervised by county judge. Animal services, including animal control, supervised by the county judge. But last, But last, there's no positions existing right now in the department. The last motion that was made with special projects was supervised by Commissioner Precinct One. And then mosquito abatement supervised by Commissioner Precinct Four McCree. Now the maintenance department was put under me at one point in time. Look, I've got... I oversee or I try to oversee, I help permits in the floodplain administrator. That was put under me when we were trying to... When we were... when permits were struggling... Correct. I went and said how them. I was the only one that went and said how with them for two weeks, a month, or whatever. So kind of got handed to me and I'm glad it did. Flood playing with the same way when we have a trouble with the floodplain administrator. They asked me to come in and we cleaned that up and got the right person in that position. So I still oversee that position with him. Look, I built the forensic center so that was kind of handed to our health. I didn't build it. Hang on, hang on. We saw that they got done so that was handed to me the forensic center. So that's the ones that I oversee or I currently oversee, try to oversee. I do oversee. I think Commissioner Wacken, normally, I mean, I don't think any previous actions have been taken, but Airport, normally we work directly with the guys. You have the airport. That's not official, you're It's not an official act. It's just because it's located in precinct one. And so he ends up with a lot of what airport-related activities. What I do, if I may, what I do is I meet with each of the department heads once a quarter to find out what's going on. Although I'm involved pretty much individually with these other departments and have become. And so any commissioner here who wants to meet with the department head can certainly do that, especially as your approach in my judgment, but at the end of the day, somebody has to work with these individual departments to facilitate what they need to get done and these are the assignments that we have done corporately as a group. And it has worked, I think pretty well. Yes. And like for instance, when we were hiring, or we were talking about hiring the new guy, we worked on that over in forensics. And getting that resolved and commissioner Riley and I worked on that. But all of these, by statute, you know, the departments are subject to, or the local government code, I guess, subject to the commissioners' course. They're not elected officials, but we have the ability to assign them as we think we'd just necessary. And it's done so. So that's kind of where we're at. So maintenance, precinct one, and airport precinct one, and custodial, I'll help Lorraine Garcia, quite a bit. Mr. Walker also the convention center. And it can make it easier because it's located in your precinct. Yes, tone your precinct. So the far Marshall's office, where are they? Oh, we am. Okay. That's what I. I switch off to the management. Yeah. And forensics is combination between precincts and gender, but the commissioners pick up the ball and that deal rich. Also, the mental health treatment facility. Well, yes, I'm over that. Yeah. Maybe be's easier to find out who's not under somebody. I won't know part of the forensic. I think when I think when I and I may be wrong, but I think when I got elected is when we all turned it over to the judge and you aim that was that wasn't the thing to do. Right. So I remember that. We went back to the O.A. but I don't know if we ever really assigned departments and I don't maybe assigns not the right word. Well, I think you know that I think Commissioner Noak was He was overseeing the budget payroll risk management pay row He was involved in those he wasn't assigned us I was just to show you guys know in 2018. I was the first department head that was I Directly by commissioner and squirt. I was reporting directly to commissioner and squirt at that time that was during that transition but I was the first department had back in 2018 that was put underneath all of commissioner and court so that there's other directors that have moved and gone since then but I just want to let you guys know that was the first dynamic change to that commissioner and court made to change the reporting directly from to the county judge to all commissioner and court and previously before the previous county judge it was this way the way we're doing it right now and then when during I guess short time that was a vote to have put it under the one county judge and then we came back and we figured it didn't work so as it is right now though those the general assignments but everybody because they are departments of the county, anyone of the commissioners can talk to those. And it just makes sense. That wasn't the question. I understand I can talk to them. But here lately, we've had job performance has become a question in certain departments, right? So we were worried about job performance in a couple departments by department heads. Well, that's what was presented though. We were worried about job performance. My commitment was to all departments, including elected and didn't get handled. No, no, no, no, I'm not talking about the Doge deal. I'm talking about an individual department head. We had some issues with job performance that we had to make changes. Correct. And so my point is if we see a job performance issue with a department head, it'd be nice to know is this somebody that reports to a particular commissioner and is in that somebody that we need to get. You can't coach and develop somebody if you don't even know who you're supposed to be directing that question too. I would agree. I'm not in the screen with anything you're saying. I just think we need to clean this org chart up a little bit so that we actually know if Commissioner Gray is having a problem with the airport because he can't fly his personal jet in and out as effective as he wants to. He needs to get in with your walker. It's his helicopter that he's concerned about about that. Jim, and if I may make a recitation that you guys direct staff to come back with an updated draft for the org chart, and we can present one at the next quarter, even a quarter to from now, and we can kind of memorialize the discussion on what's what, because like Amanda says, we know who's generally reporting to who, based on official action or unofficial action, and we can bring that back to court for an old chart approval of the court and maybe even make corrections or edits to it then baseline recommendations you give us at that time if you also choose who's the perfect idea. Thank you, Jason. I would go to that. I'm going to go with the way I've been taken. No action. Great discussion. All right, we're good. All right, at this time, we're going to move to executive session, the quote recess, pursuant to one or more of the following provisions of the Texas government code to wit. Chapter 551 sub-chapter D. Article 551.071. 551.074. be patient and we shall return as we go to executive session. We do have a call and we're going to take action on item number 20D and I'd like to make a motion that in the replacement of our medical examiner and the reassignment of duties that Commissioner Riley worked with the county attorney to finalize the appropriate documentation and do what needs to be done in order to hire. Reserves second. Second. Motion second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. All right. Thank you all very much. Got motion to adjourn. Move. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Thank you all very much.