* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. UH, MEETING [00:00:01] OF THE RECORD MEETING AT THE COURT OF KAMAN COUNTY. NUMBER. TODAY IS MONDAY, JANUARY THE 22ND. IT'S, UH, 9:00 AM WE DO HAVE A FORUM PRESENT. UH, COMMISSIONER ALLEN IS OUT TODAY SICK, AND HE WILL NOT BE HERE TODAY, TODAY. SO, UH, WE, UH, APPRECIATE, UH, YOU BEING HERE AND WE'LL BEGIN HERE. JUST IN A MOMENT. UH, WE HAVE A GUY WALK WITH A BIG CHECK AGAIN, I HOPE THAT'S, UH, ANOTHER CHECK FROM , BUT WE'LL HEAR ABOUT THAT IN JUST A LITTLE BIT. SO, UH, WE WILL BEGIN THIS MORNING WITH OUR INVOCATION. IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO ANY ITEM ON THE AGENDA, THERE ARE SOME FORMS THAT, UH, ARE OUT IN THE HALL. YOU WILL NEED TO, UH, UH, FILL OUT IF IT'S THE, UH, IF IT'S ON THE PUBLIC HEARING, UH, THAT WILL NOT BE NECESSARY, UH, BECAUSE THAT'S A PUBLIC HEARING. THAT'S WHAT WE WILL BE DOING DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME. SO, UH, ANYWAY, THANK YOU, UH, FOR BEING HERE. UH, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND BEGIN WITH OUR INVOCATION AND COMMISSIONER, WOULD YOU GIVE YES. PRAY WITH ME PLEASE. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY AND, UH, WE THANK YOU FOR ALL THESE FOLKS THAT HAVE COME OUT THIS MORNING. UH, IF YOU GET INVOLVED IN OUR PROCESS HERE IN OUR COUNTY GOVERNMENT, I WANT TO ASK YOU THIS MORNING TO PLEASE BE WITH ALL OF OUR TROOPS AND OUR FIRST RESPONDERS, AND, UH, BE WITH, UH, ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WE'VE HAD OUT SICK, UH, WITH THIS ILLNESS THAT'S BEEN GOING AROUND. PLEASE HELP EVERYONE GET OVER IT AND BE WITH US ALL. ASK YOU TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS AND TRESPASSES AND BE WITH THE SONG KEEP SAFE AND YOUR SON'S NAME WE PRAY, AMEN. AMEN. ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHAT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, THE INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL FLAG TO UNDER GOD. RIGHT? I DON'T HAVE ANY ROUTINE CORRESPONDENCE, UH, TO HAND OUT THIS MORNING. UH, SO WE'LL MOVE RIGHT INTO THE CONSENT AGENDA. ITEM A IS TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER APPROVING COMMISSION COURT MINUTES FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING ON JANUARY 3RD, 2018, AND THE REGULAR MEETING ON JANUARY THE EIGHTH, 2018. ITEM B IS TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER APPROVING VEGETATION OF DIANA MARICK FOR THE DISTRICT CLERK'S. OFFICE C IS TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER APPROVING THE LOCAL OFFICIAL BOND FOR LISA CALLAHAN AS THE CAUFMAN COUNTY PURCHASING AGENT. AND ALSO THE ITEM D IS TO PRESENT, WHICH YOU HAVE A COPY IN YOUR, UH, PACKET OF STORE TRANSIT, KAUFMAN COUNTY'S DEMAND AND RESPONSE ON CALL CALL CONTROL LINK NUMBER EIGHT OH TWO CAR HIGHWAY NUMBER 8 0 3, AND THE, UH, CAR HORSESHOE 8 0 4 RIDERSHIP REPORTS BETWEEN, UH, 2017 AND 20. SAY ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, UH, ABOUT ANY OF THOSE ITEMS? THEY A MOTION, UH, UH, TO APPROVE? I BELIEVE COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS HAS DONE THAT. COMMISSIONER HUNT. SECOND, THE MOTION. ALL THEY FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? OPPOSED. UH, NEXT WE WILL MOVE INTO AN IMMEDIATE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING. AND SO I DO NEED A MOTION TO EXIT OUR REGULAR MEETING SO WE CAN GO INTO A PUBLIC HEARING, UH, CONCERNING THE USE OF COUNTYWIDE PRECINCT, UH, UH, POLLING PLACES. SO, DO I HAVE A MOTION TO DO THAT? COMMISSIONER BARBARA MAKES THAT MOTION. COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS MOTION? UH, ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. THOSE OPPOSED? ALRIGHT, WE WILL MOVE RIGHT NOW INTO, UH, ITEM NUMBER FOUR, AND THAT IS TO RECEIVE INPUT FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING THE USE OF A COUNTYWIDE PRECINCT POLLING PLACES IN AN ELECTION. I POINT OUT THAT WE DO HAVE A COURT REPORTER WITH US TODAY. UH, THAT'S ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS. WE HAVE TO SUBMIT THIS, UH, TO NO LONGER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, BUT TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND, UH, MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF OUR COMMENTS ARE ARE HEARD. SO, UH, PRO OR CON, WE WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO, UH, SPEAK UP TODAY AND GIVE YOU, UH, YOUR OPINION OF THE COUNTYWIDE VOTING PRECINCTS. WE EXPERIENCED THAT I BELIEVE BACK IN NOVEMBER. AND, UH, SO, UH, IF WE MOVE FORWARD, IT'LL BE, UH, HANDLED, UH, THE ELECTION WILL BE HANDLED THE SAME WAY. UH, AND, UH, THIS COMING, UH, UH, MARCH, WE HAVE PRIMARY, SO I KNOW OF SARAH, I BELIEVE YOU WERE ALREADY, UH, HERE, YOU SIGNED UP. SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO START, UH, START AND IF YOU WOULD STAND AND [00:05:01] IDENTIFY YOURSELF SO WE CAN HAVE THAT FROM THE, UH, COURT, COURT REPORTER. I'M SARAH, ER, THE TON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CHAIR, AND, UH, WE ARE FOUR VOTE CENTERS. I THINK THEY'RE GREAT. I THINK IN NOVEMBER THEY WORKED. THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, SUCH A SMALL ELECTION. IT'S HARD TO JUDGE BY, BUT I KNOW WE'LL SEE IN NOVEMBER A BETTER RESPONSE FROM 'EM. THESE MACHINES THAT YOU'VE ORDERED SEEM TO BE, WILL BE EASIER FOR OLDER PEOPLE. UM, PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT COMPUTER, UM, SAVVY TO USE EASIER, I THINK WITH NOT HA WITH HAVING TOUCH SCREEN. ALSO NOT CONNECTING TO EACH OTHER. NOT DOING THE DAISY CHAIN WILL MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE FOR OUR WORKERS THAT HAVE TO GO AND SET 'EM UP BECAUSE THEY DON'T ALWAYS CONNECT RIGHT OFF. AND SO THIS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. I THINK WE HAD, UM, I DID NOT HEAR BACK FROM ANY OF MY, UH, PEOPLE THAT I KNOW THAT WORKED THAT WERE NEGATIVE AGAINST HIM AT ALL. THEY THOUGHT THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT IT HELPED. IT WAS EASIER THAT, THAT WAY IF SOMEONE SHOWED UP AT FIVE TILL SEVEN TO VOTE, THEY CAN'T BE TOLD, OH, YOU'RE AT THE WRONG PLACE. YOU'RE NOW NEED TO GO. YOU KNOW, EVEN SIX MILES DOWN THE ROAD. IT WOULD BE HARD TO GET THERE BEFORE THE SEVEN O'CLOCK CUTOFF AND GET IN LINE TO VOTE. I THINK IT'LL MAKE IT EASIER FOR EVERYONE TO VOTE. MY ONLY CONCERN OF 'EM IS THAT DOWN THE WAY, IF WE START CLOSING POLLING PLACES, UM, THAT I HOPE WE HAVE A LOT OF STUDY AND RESEARCH TO LOOK AT THAT TO COMPARE IF WE REALLY NEED TO CLOSE VERY MANY, UH, POLLING PLACES. THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR THE COMMENTS. UH, I, I REALLY DO ENCOURAGE YOU TO SPEAK, UH, JIMMY JUDY WEAVER, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN COMPANY COUNTY. I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING SARAH HAS SAID. UH, THIS IS A NIGHT AND DAY EXPERIENCE AS FAR AS VOTING GOES. IT'S GONNA BE THE MOST GREATEST IMPROVEMENT WE'VE HAD IN A LONG TIME AS FAR AS VOTING MACHINES, UH, VOTERS CAN GO ANY LOCATION NOW THEY WANT TO. THE, UH, PROCEDURE IS PROBABLY SATISFY, PROBABLY SATISFIES EVERY MEETING THAT I'VE HEARD FROM THE PUBLIC AS FAR AS HAVING A PAPER RECEIPT FOR WHAT THEY DO. UH, THE VOTERS HAVE A SECOND LOOK AT THEIR, AT THEIR BALLOT BEFORE THEY CAST IT, WHERE PREVIOUSLY WE DIDN'T. ONCE YOU PUSH THE BUTTON AND THE LITTLE FLAG CAME UP, IT WAS DONE. NOW WHEN YOU PRINT THE PRINT THE BALLOT OUT, YOU CAN ACTUALLY REVIEW THAT BALLOT. IF IT'S NOT CORRECT, YOU CAN CORRECT. YOU GOT A SECOND, YOU GOT A SECOND, YOU GOT A THIRD, FOURTH BITE AT THE APPLE ON THIS ONE. UH, WE HAVE A PERMANENT PAPER RECEIPT IN A LOCKED BOX, SO IF THERE'S ANY KIND OF CHALLENGE, WE CAN STILL GO BACK AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. IF THE ELECTRONICS WERE DEFECTIVE OR IT WAS JUST SOMEBODY DIDN'T WIN OR WHATEVER WE GOT, WE GOT A, UH, PAPER, PAPER RECEIPT. AND, UH, THE PORTABILITY OF THE MACHINES IS OUTSTANDING. UH, WE CAN EVENTUALLY PROBABLY REDUCE SOME OF THE POLLING PLACES. SOME OF THE ONES THAT ARE MORE DANGEROUS AND HARD TO GET TO, UH, COST. ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS FOR A COUNTY CHAIRMAN TO DO IS ESTIMATE COST OF BALLOT PRINTING. THAT ISSUE HAS GONE AWAY. WE GET BLANK BALLOTS AND THEY'RE, WE CAN USE 'EM NEXT TIME. THEY'RE, THEY'RE GOOD FROM HERE ON. SO WE'VE REDUCED THE COST OF THE BALLOT PRINTING PROCESS. IN FACT, THE SECRETARY OF STATE HAS, IN OUR EXAMPLE, HAS TAKEN IT OVER COMPLETELY. WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT NO ABOUT THE, UH, IT'S PASSED ON TO THE, THE SOS. SO YEAH, IT'S A TREMENDOUS IMPROVEMENT THERE. AND, UH, THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS FOR COUNTY CHAIRS. TRY TO ESTIMATE THE COST OF THE ELECTION. OKAY? AND IN DOING THAT, WE'VE ALSO REDUCED THE HEADACHE OF GETTING BALLOT TO A POLLING PLACE THAT RAN OUT. THAT ISSUE'S GONE DOWN TOO. SO THERE'S, THERE'S A WIN-WIN WIN KIND OF SITUATION, THIS ENTIRE THING. SO I THINK IT'S A BIG, BIG STEP FORWARD. AND, UH, ANOTHER THING I WANNA CONGRATULATE, BRENDA SAMPLES A GREAT JOB THAT SHE DID BRINGING THIS, HER AND HER STAFF WORKED VERY HARD TO GET THIS DONE, AND IT WAS A LOT OF EFFORT. THEY HAD TO CROSS A LOT OF HURDLES TO GET THIS THING APPROVED. AND THEY, THEY NEED A, A REAL STRONG APPRECIATION AND APPRECIATE WHAT THEY DID. THEY DID A WONDERFUL JOB. SO YOU ARE TESTIFYING IN OF COUNTYWIDE MOVING FORWARD ON THE ELECTRONIC, UH, NEW ELECTRONIC. REALLY? THIS IS DISCUSSING THE COUNTYWIDE HOLY, THAT'S I, YES. WHICH ARE KIND OF TIED TOGETHER. IT'S ALL, IT HAS TO BE ONE OF THE SAME. IT HAS TO GO TOGETHER. IT CAN'T DO ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER. BUT YOU HONOR IN SUPPORT OTHERS. I ATTORNEY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO WE HAVE OTHERS THAT WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT. ANYBODY. I ENCOURAGE YOU IF YOU, UH, UH, THINK THAT THIS IS A GOOD IDEA OF HAVING COUNTYWIDE, UH, VOTING, WHICH MEANS YOU CAN VOTE ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTY [00:10:01] ON, UH, THE DAY OF THE ELECTION. UH, PLEASE SPEAK UP OR IF YOU'RE AGAINST THAT, PLEASE DO THAT. SO DO YOU WISH TO? NO, HONOR, MY NAME IS JOANNA SMITH AND I, AND CHERYL AND I WORKED THE LAST ELECTION, AND I WANTED TO REPORT THE, THE FEEDBACK THAT WE HAD FROM OUR AID VOTERS, THAT CAME TO OUR POLLING PLACE. BUT, UM, THEY WERE ALL JUST VERY, VERY THANKFUL THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO DRIVE TO THEIR PRECINCT. WE WERE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF CORNY AND THEY CAME FROM WORK AND WERE ABLE TO, UH, DIDN'T HAVE TO DRIVE TO THEIR POLLING PLACE IN KAUFMAN COUNTY TO, UH, THEIR REGULAR PRECINCT POLLING PLACE. SO THEY WERE ALL IN FAVOR OF IT. AND I AM EXCITED ABOUT THE NEW MACHINES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MM-HMM . OTHERS THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK UP FAR OR AGAINST EMMA? I, I COULDN'T IMAGINE THAT YOU WOULD NOT GLEN. AND, UH, I TOO AGREE WITH WHAT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT THE COUNTYWIDE VOTING. I'VE WORKED AS AN ELECTION JUDGE FOR MANY YEARS AND ONE OF THE WORST THINGS IN THAT EXPERIENCE IS HAVING TO SEND PEOPLE AWAY BECAUSE THEY'RE AT THE WRONG PLACE TO VOTE. A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST DON'T KNOW WHERE, THOUGH I'VE EXPERIENCED PEOPLE SAYING, THIS IS THE THIRD PLACE I'M GONNA DO. SO THAT ELIMINATES ALL OF THAT AND PEOPLE CAN GO AND VOTE FOR OPEN. SO I THINK IT SAID SO. AND FOR THE RECORD, YOU'RE FROM KAMAN. KAMAN. OKAY. YOU MAY HAVE SAID THAT, I'M NOT SURE, BUT I MAKE SURE OTHER COMMENT. WE CERTAINLY WELCOME THOSE THIS MORNING CROW, OR A COMMENT. DO WE HAVE OTHER COMMENTS? AND FOR THE LAST TIME, ANY OTHER COMMENTS? OKAY. DO I HAVE A MOTION THAT WE EXIT, UH, THE PUBLIC HEARING AND GO BACK INTO THE REGULAR MEETING? I HAVE A MOTION FROM, UH, COMMISSIONER BARBER AND A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER HUNT IN FAVOR SAY AYE. OPPOSED? AND SO THE PUBLIC HEARING, AND YOU'RE WELCOME TO STICK AROUND IF YOU'D LIKE TO, UH, RECORD THE WHOLE MEETING OR WHATEVER YOU DO, YOU KNOW, MIGHT FIND IT IN. BUT ANYWAY, SO, UH, WE WILL GO NOW INTO THE NEXT ITEM. UH, AND THAT WILL BE TO HERE FROM ROBERT MESSER, WHO IS OUR APPOINTEE TO THE NORTHEAST TEXAS REGIONAL MOBILITY AUTHORITY. AND ROBERT BROUGHT IN ANOTHER CHECK TODAY. I THINK IT MIGHT BE THE ONE THAT WE GOT A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO OR THREE, THREE OR FOUR MONTHS AGO. AND HE WANTED TO GET IT OUT OF HIS OFFICE, I THINK. SO YOU ALWAYS GET A LOT OF ATTENTION. WE CAN TAKE A BIG CHECK AROUND AND BRUCE WAS DOWN AT THE GENERAL WINDOW AND DID PRESENT THAT, BUT WE MAY NEED TO GET A DIFFERENT ONE, BRUCE. SO THIS IS OVER 60 DAYS OLD. OH, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT. SO, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THE CHECK THAT I'M PRESENTING IS A LITTLE OVER $77,000 THAT REPRESENTS COFFMAN COUNTY AWARD OF A FOR A PROJECT FOR THE NORTHEAST TEXAS REASONABLE MOBILITY AUTHORITY. REASONABLE MOBILITY AUTHORITY IS A PARTNERSHIP OF 13 COUNTIES THROUGHOUT EAST TEXAS. AND WE DO DO TRANSPORTATION, REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION. OUR PRIMARY PROJECT IS TOLL 49, WHICH IS THE LOOP, IF YOU WILL, AROUND TYLER. I DUNNO IF YOU ANY OF, YOU'VE TRAVELED ON 1249 BEFORE, BUT THAT'S OUR PROJECT. THE REASON I'M HERE TODAY IS ONE, IT'S TIME FOR US TO CONSIDER THE ANNUAL RENEWAL TO WANTS TO CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NORTHEAST TEXAS R MAY. AND THEN IF YOU DO DECIDE TO CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE, UH, YOU NEED TO NAME A REPRESENTATIVE BECAUSE MY THREE YEAR TERM IS UP. SO THOSE ARE THE TWO THINGS THAT'LL BE UNDER CONSIDERATION AT SOME POINT IN TIME. I WOULD GUESS. I WANTED TO TELL YOU BRIEFLY ABOUT THE RMA. WE'RE DOING GOOD PRETTY WELL. OUR REVENUES ARE ON TRACK FOR WHERE THEY SHOULD BE. WE DID A BOND ISSUE ABOUT, OH TWO YEARS AGO, AND WE WERE, WE ARE WITHIN THE PROJECTIONS OF OUR BOND PROGRAM. SO WE FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT. AND WE HAVE EXPERIENCED SOME DROP IN OUR TRANSACTIONS ALONG TOTAL 49 BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN THROUGH A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT MAINTENANCE PROJECT AND SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS. SO WE'RE ON PLAN, WE WERE WAY ABOVE PLAN. SO, UH, WE FEEL OKAY, BUT WE FELT REAL GOOD FOR A WHILE. UH, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE NOTICED, BUT WE ARE, WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF CONSTRUCTING THE LYNDALE RELIEF GROUND. OKAY? AND THAT'S PART OF THE EAST TEXAS HOURGLASS. NOW, IF YOU EVER WANT TO HAVE COFFEE AND BE BORED FOR ABOUT 20 MINUTES, I CAN TELL YOU ALL ABOUT THE DALE RELIEF ROUTE AND THE EAST TEXAS HOURGLASS THAT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW THAT WE'RE CONSTRUCTING A SEGMENT FROM I 20 NORTH TO HIGHWAY 69 WEST OF LINDEN. AND WE THINK THAT'S GOING TO, UH, PROVIDE A LOT OF RELIEF FOR FOLKS TRAVELING [00:15:01] DOWN FROM 69 SOUTH OF TYLER. SO WE'RE PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. WE'RE ABOUT SIX MONTHS BEHIND, UH, AND PROBABLY A MILLION DOLLARS MORE THAN WE THOUGHT WE WOULD BE BECAUSE WE FOUND TWO INDIAN ARCHEOLOGICAL SIGNS. YOU KNOW, , THAT'S A PROBLEM. , AFTER ABOUT SIX MONTHS THOUGH, WE THINK WE FINALLY HAVE CLEARANCE. THE TRIBE HAS BEEN BY, THEY SAID THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO CONSTRUCT YOU AGAIN. SO WE'RE UP AND GOING, BUT WE STILL GOTTA PAY FOR THAT. SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE ARE WITH THE DALE RELIEF. WE'RE AT, WE DO HAVE TWO NEW COUNTIES THAT WANT TO ADJO THE REASONABILITY AUTHORITY CAS AND CAMP COUNTY. SO YOU GUYS WILL HAVE RESOLUTIONS BEFORE YOU TO ADMIT THOSE TWO COUNTIES AT SOME POINT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. SO WE'RE CONTINUING TO GROW. I THINK IF YOU WANT TO ASK WHAT'S NEXT ABOUT THE RMA, IT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE STATE LEGISLATURE RIGHT NOW. UH, TOLL ROADS IS TWO FOUR LETTER WORK WITH THOSE GUYS. AND IF THAT CONTINUES TO BE THE, THE POLICY OF THE STATE, THEN I THINK THERE'LL BE LIMITED OPPORTUNITIES TO DO MORE TOW ROADS. I DO DO BELIEVE THAT THERE'S A SPACE FOR TOW ROADS IN OUR PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE, A LOT OF PLACES. SO, UH, WE, WE'LL SEE HOW WE GO FROM THERE. BUT WE DO HAVE ALMOST $78,000 AS A RESULT OF OUR MEMBERSHIP. I DUNNO IF WE'LL BE AWARDED OTHER PROJECTS OR NOT, BUT WE'LL CONTINUE TO STAY THERE. IN FACT. AND I GUESS I WOULD LIKE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU GUYS MIGHT HAVE WITH ME IN THE NORTHEAST TEXAS REASONABILITY COURT COMMISSIONERS. HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ROBERT? UM, WHAT'S IT COSTING COFFMAN COUNTY TO BE INVOLVED IN THAT 25,000 A YEAR. PRETTY GOOD RETURN THEN. SO FAR IT HAS BEEN THREE YEARS. YEAH, IT'S ALRIGHT. I, I, I THINK FOR COFFMAN COUNTY TO BE IN THERE, WE HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT FOR US TO REALLY ACCOMPLISH WHAT WE NEED TO DO REGIONALLY, WE'RE GONNA NEED TO PARTNER, COLLABORATE WITH OTHER FOLKS. I'M NOT GONNA SAY THE RMA IS THE ONLY WAY TO DO THAT, BUT IT'S A GOOD WAY. YEAH. SO I I I THINK IT'S WORTHY IF YOUR CONTINUED, UH, MEMBERSHIP. WE'VE BEEN A MEMBER DOWN FOR SEVERAL YEARS, THREE YEARS YEARS, YEAH. ROBERT WAS FIRST APPOINTED. HE IS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE OFFICERS. I THINK YOU'RE THE TREASURER. I'M THE TREASURER GROUP AND REALLY BEEN A LEADER WITH, UH, UH, RMA AND, UH, AND I EXPECT THAT AS THIS REGION GROWS, THAT RMA ROAD AS WELL. SO WE'RE, UH, PLEASED FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP. UH, WE DON'T HAVE ANY, UH, ACTION TO TAKE, UH, ON THIS, UH, REPORT. I, I DO THINK AT SOME POINT, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S BEFORE YOU, NOW IT'S, YOU NEED TO EITHER REAPPOINT ME OR APPOINT SOMEBODY ELSE. THAT'S THE NEXT ITEM ON YOU. OH, I'M SORRY. EXCUSE ME. WHERE'S THE SHERIFF? I'M NOT GOING. UH, ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OF CLARK? NO. OKAY. THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER UPON ROBERT MESSER TO THE NORTHEAST TEXAS REGIONAL MOBILITY AUTHORITY AND THE BOARD DIRECTORS A MOTION FROM THE COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS, I SECOND, SECOND, SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER HUNT. ANY, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. OPPOSED? OPPOSED. AND ROBERT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE. THANK YOU GUYS FOR ALLOWING, WE APPRECIATE YOU FIGHTING TO HELP US GET THOSE KINDS OF FUNDS AND EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS IN TRANSPORTATION. SO WE REALLY, REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT. WELL, UH, IF YOU'RE AROUND FOLKS IN EAST TEXAS, YOU'LL SEE 'EM HUDDLED UP AND YOU'LL HEAR JUDGE WOODS SAYS, AND THEY ALL LISTEN VERY CAREFULLY. I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, ROBERT. ALRIGHT, UH, NEXT ITEM IS TO, UH, NUMBER EIGHT IS TO DISCUSS CONSIDER RFP NUMBER OH THREE DASH 18 ROUND SHEET SECURITY FOR HOFFMAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE. LISA? YES, SIR. I BELIEVE YOU GENTLEMEN RECEIVED YOUR EVALUATION SHEETS THIS MORNING. UM, APOLOGIZE FOR NOT GETTING THEM TO YOU SOONER. WE JUST, WITH MYSELF BEING ON VACATION AND, UH, THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE MEETING A LITTLE BIT LATER, WE KIND OF HAD TO PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE AND GO AHEAD AND GET IT ON THE AGENDA. AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, GUARDIAN RFID COMPANY, UH, SCORE OUT A LOT HIGHER THAN SHIP.COM. THAT WAS THE ONLY TWO, UH, VENDORS THAT BID ON THIS PROJECT. UM, OF COURSE, ACCORDING TO THE EVALUATION SHEET, GUARDIAN APPEARS TO BE THE PREFERRED VENDOR. UM, I WOULD ASK THAT YOU GENTLEMEN APPROVE THIS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF LEGAL STILL NEEDS TO REVIEW THE CONTRACT, WHICH THEY HAVE NOT RECEIVED COPY OF THAT, BUT YET, [00:20:03] OKAY. AND THIS IS BEING PAID ON THE COMMISSARY FUND SINCE WE ARE TRACKING INMATES STUFF. SO IT IS COST THE TAXPAYER, IT'S THE FUND THAT WE'RE INMATES PURCHASE COMMISSARY, AND THEN WE GET A PERCENTAGE OF, IT'S NOT A COMING OUTTA THE GENERAL PHONE THAT MUCH. THAT IS CORRECT. CIGARETTES AND CHOCOLATE CIGARETTES. NO, WE DON'T SELL CIGARETTES. SORRY. WE'RE A NONSMOKING FACILITY. ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? NOT DO I HAVE A MOTION TO, UH, ACCEPT THIS RECOMMENDATION? I HAVE A MOTION. I HAVE A MOTION FROM, UH, COMMISSIONER BARBER. DO I HAVE A SECOND? UH, COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS SECONDS MOTION. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. OPPOSED? ITEM NUMBER NINE IS TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER A PURCHASE OF A 2018. HE DEVELOPED 3 37 DISTRIBUTED TRUCK IN THE AMOUNT, $165,207 28 CENTS FROM THE RUSH TRUCK CENTER, UTILIZING BY BOARD CONTRACT NUMBER 5 2 1 DASH 16 FOR ROAD AND BRIDGE PRECINCT NUMBER THREE, SIR, THIS WAS BROUGHT TO OUR OFFICE BY PRECINCT THREE. UM, THE NEED FOR A DISTRIBUTOR TRUCK, I BELIEVE THIS IS QUITE SIMILAR TO THE ONE THAT PURCHASED THAT, UH, PRECINCT ONE PURCHASED JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO. UM, UTILIZING THIS BIBLE OF CONTRACT, THIS APPEARS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST PRICES OUT OF THE QUOTES THAT WERE RECEIVED. UM, I BELIEVE HE'S STILL, UH, TALKING TO THE AUDITOR ABOUT, UH, FINANCING FOR THIS PARTICULAR PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. AND AS LONG AS, UH, THE FINANCING APPROVED APPEARS TO BE THE BEST VALUE. OKAY. ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? AND THE FINANCING WILL BE, UH, WILL, WHO, WHO'S WORKING ON THE FINANCE? UM, KAREN'S WORKING WITH EITHER WAY. WE, Y'ALL I HAVE THE MONEY, BUT PAY CASH FOR IF WE NEED TO DEPEND ON FINANCES, BUT I'D RATHER NOT PUT THAT MUCH CAPITAL OUT. IF WE CAN DO IT OVER A THREE YEAR PERIOD, I THINK IT'D BE BETTER. OKAY. SO SHE'S WORKING ON THAT FOR ME AND WE'LL WAIT TO HEAR BACK ON THAT, BUT IF THAT FALLS THROUGH, WE'RE STILL GONNA BUY IT. OKAY. ALRIGHT. SO, UH, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND, UH, THEN APPROVE IF THE COURT SO SO AGREES. UH, UH, SUBJECT TO THE FINANCING OF THIS PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. MM-HMM . YOU HAVE THAT FORM OF A MOTION. I MAKE A MOTION. HAVE A MOTION FROM MR. BARBER. DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. COMMISSIONER HUNT. SECOND. ANY OTHER DISCUSSIONS? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. NEXT ITEM. ITEM IS NUMBER 10 IS FROM OUR DEFENSE COORDINATOR TO GIVE A QUARTERLY HEALTHCARE. HEALTHCARE, YES. YEAH. OKAY. UM, OKAY. THERE WAS A COUPLE THINGS I WANT TO GO OVER WITH YOU GUYS, IF YOU NOTICE. UH, UH, LEMME, I WANT TO SHOW YOU THE DIFFERENCE IN LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR. UM, THE NUMBERS, JUST SO YOU KIND OF KNOW THAT THIS IS A UNPREDICTABLE PROGRAM LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME FOR INDIGENT. UM, WE ONLY SPENT 16,996 AND SOME CHANGE THIS YEAR. I'VE ALREADY SPENT $98,000 AT THIS TIME. SO THERE IS A DIFFERENCE, AND I WANTED Y'ALL TO KNOW THAT THERE IS, THIS IS AN UNPREDICTABLE PROGRAM. IT CAN HAPPEN AT ANY TIME, AS MANY CAN GO UP AND DOWN. WITH THAT BEING SAID, I RECEIVED AN EMAIL THE OTHER DAY THAT APPARENTLY A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO STOP A LOT OF FUNDING THROUGH THE HOSPITALS, WHICH MEANS IT MAY GO BACK ON THE COUNTIES. SO I'M JUST KIND OF LETTING YOU'ALL KNOW THAT THAT IS POSSIBLY GONNA HAPPEN TO THE COUNTY, THAT THEY'RE GONNA COME BACK FOR US FOR MORE MONEY AND, AND PUSH US MORE, UM, IN, IN GETTING ASSISTANCE TO HELP. SO, UM, I WANTED TO BE AWARE OF THAT. OKAY. UM, NOTHING UNUSUAL. IT'S NOT AN UNUSUAL, I'M JUST LETTING YOU KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED TO DROP A LOT OF FUNDING AND, UH, TO HELP THE HOSPITALS. THERE'S A LOT OF HOSPITALS ALREADY IN THE RED, AND WITHOUT THE FEDERAL FUNDING, THEY'RE GONNA EVEN PROBABLY DROP MORE. SO. UM, BUT ON WITH THE, UH, IF YOU NOTICE MY NOTIFICATIONS, UM, FOR OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, AND DECEMBER, WE STILL AROUND ABOUT 300, UH, FROM HOFFMAN OVER HERE. PARKLAND, IT RANGES ABOUT 25 30. UM, AND WE'RE JUST NOT GETTING PEOPLE TO APPLY. THEY'RE GOING TO THE HOSPITAL, [00:25:01] BUT THEY'RE JUST NOT FOLLOWING THROUGH. UM, THEY'RE GETTING SERVICE THAT THEY NEED. THEY'RE DONE. SO THEN THEY DON'T FOLLOW, THEY WANT, THEY DON'T WANNA FOLLOW THROUGH. UM, THE HOSPITALS ARE TRYING TO GET ON TOP OF THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE WE'VE STARTED THIS NEW THING AND WE'RE LETTING 'EM KNOW WHO IS NOT FOLLOWING THROUGH. SO THEY'RE TRYING TO STAY ON TOP OF THE PEOPLE. UM, AGAIN, IT'S, THE NUMBERS STILL AREN'T SHOWING HERE. SO, UM, I GUESS THE PEOPLE GET THE PHONE CALL AND THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY WILL IF THEY WILL. IF THEY WON'T, THEY WON'T. SO, UM, DO Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME OR ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO ASK? UH, JUST ONE QUICK QUESTION. OKAY. WE HAVE THIS, UH, PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER DOWN UHHUH RIGHT DOWN THE STREET. YES. MM-HMM . HOW, HOW DOES THAT FUNCTION? I MEAN, UH, IS IT FOR ANYBODY IN THE COUNTY OR ANYWHERE OR IT'S FOR ANYBODY IN THE COUNTY. THEY WORK ON A SLIDING SCALE FEE. THEY BASE IT ON THE INCOME OF THE HOUSEHOLD. UM, NOW A LOT OF MY CLIENTS, THEY GO AND THEY MAY NOT HAVE NOTHING AND THEY'RE STILL A LITTLE COST, BUT THEY USUALLY GET HELP FROM FAMILY OR A FRIEND OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. UM, AND THEN WHAT THEY DO IS THEY, UM, TRY TO GET THEM, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST HELP THEM WITH SOME MEDICATION OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THEIR NEEDS ARE IN THAT WAY. BUT, YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE THIS, I CAN DO, YOU CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH. IT'S THAT NEXT DOOR THAT'S GOTTA OPEN FOR YOU. YOU CAN RE SUGGEST OR REFER IT OR WHATEVER, BUT THE NEXT DOOR'S GOTTA OPEN UP FOR YOU. AND IF IT DOESN'T OPEN UP, WE'RE STILL NOT GONNA SQUARE ONE AGAIN. SO THAT'S AN OTHER SITUATION. SO YES. ANY QUESTIONS OF, UH, DESIREE? NO. APPRECIATE THE JOB DOING. AND UH, ITEM NUMBER 11 IS TO HEAR FROM RALPH. YOU DID FIRST EMAIL. HOW ARE Y'ALL THIS MORNING? EVERYBODY GOT OVER THE COLD WEATHER, RIGHT? I LIVE IN THE SOUTH FOR A REASON. I LIKE COLD WEATHER. UH, THANK Y'ALL FOR HAVING US THIS MORNING. UH, I THINK THIS IS THE THIRD REPORT WE'VE DONE TO Y'ALL. AND, UH, THE FIRST TIME ALL THREE OF US HAVE BEEN, UH, THE WELL FROM THE AG AND NATURAL RESOURCES SIDE OF EXTENSION. UH, DECEMBER, DECEMBER AND JANUARY. JANUARY. BOTH REALLY ARE KIND OF PLANNING MONTHS FOR US AND, AND MONTHS THAT WE DO ALL OF OUR YEAR END REPORTS TO THE STATE, STATE AND DISTRICT OFFICE. UM, BUT I DO HAVE TWO BIG PROGRAMS DURING DECEMBER, UH, ON AG AND NATURAL RESOURCES. AND ONE OF THEM IS OUR AG, ANNUAL AG INCREMENT REPORT, WHICH I HAVE GIVEN YOU A COPY OF, UH, COFFMAN COUNTY. OUR RECEIPTS. WE DO HAVE REPORT. IT'S REAL QUICK TO HOW, HOW THAT'S DONE. I HAVE LIKE, I THINK I'VE GOT 16 MEMBERS ON A COMMITTEE MADE UP OF ALL KIND OF AG PRODUCERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY THAT WE GATHER EVERY DECEMBER. AND WE SIT DOWN IN OFFICE AND, UH, UH, NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION SERVICE AND THE FARM SERVICE AGENCY ARE ALSO PART OF THAT COMMITTEE. AND WE PUT TOGETHER ALL THE COMMODITY ITEMS, TRY TO COME UP WITH SOME KIND OF FIGURE THAT PUTS THE VALUE OF AGRICULTURE IN CAMAN COUNTY, UH, TO A, TO A FIGURE. UH, THAT GOES TO USDA. IT IS PUBLISHED BY USDA. UH, THEY USE IT DURING THEIR CENSUS REPORT THAT THEY DO EVERY YEAR. YOU CAN FIND THAT ONLINE, UH, AT THE SDA WEBSITE. UH, UH, IN MY LITTLE MONTHLY REPORT. I DID THE MATH WRONG NOW Y'ALL, Y'ALL SEEING THIS? I PUT DOWN 81 MILLION WHEN WE REDID THE FIGURES. UH, JUST FRIDAY. UH, AND PUT THIS REPORT TOGETHER. WE ACTUALLY DID A LITTLE OVER $88 MILLION WORTH OF AGRICULTURE, HAD AGRICULTURAL RECEIPTS IN THE COUNTY THIS YEAR. THAT'S, UH, THAT'S PRETTY, BEEN PRETTY STANDARD. LAST YEAR WE WERE DOWN A LITTLE BIT FROM THAT. CATTLE PRICES, DEPRESSED CATTLE PRICES CAUSED THAT YOU MIGHT SEE IN YEARS PREVIOUS. WE WERE UP TO 120 SOMETHING, UH, FOR A COUPLE YEARS. THAT WAS WHEN CATTLE PRICES REALLY, REALLY GOOD. WE STILL RAISE A LOT OF CATTLE HERE. WE [00:30:01] RAISE A, UM, TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF HAY. WE HAVE A LOT OF HAY RECEIPTS. OUR HORTICULTURE RECEIPTS ARE, ARE REALLY KIND OF RUNNING THROUGH THE ROOF, UH, CONTAINER TREES. I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE AN AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT'S IN A CONTAINER TREE. UH, AND WE SELL A LOT OF THEM FROM CAMAN COUNTY. UH, SO ANYWAY, THIS IS A PRETTY IMPORTANT REPORT THAT WE DO EVERY YEAR. EVERY COUNTY IN THE STATE DOES THAT. UH, AND IT'S PROPOSED BY THE USDA. UH, WE DID, UH, WE HAD A JOINT PROGRAM IN DECEMBER. DECEMBER 15TH. WE HAD OUR ANNUAL, UH, UH, MAYBANK, TRINITY VALLEY PESTICIDE CU PROGRAM HAD 190 THAT, UH, CAME TO THAT. IT'S UH, IT'S A BIG PROGRAM. UH, WE CAN'T DO THAT WITH THE FIRE. WE'VE BEEN DOING IT 15 YEARS NOW. 16, 16 YEARS. AND, UH, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, THEY MOVE ALL THE FIRE TRUCKS OUT FOR US. THEY GIVE US THAT BUILDING SET, THE, UH, BUILDING UP FOR US. SAME, THE MONEY THAT WE MAKE FROM IT. ANYTHING OVER THE COST, WE GIVE IT RIGHT BACK TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. UH, COUNTY, HENDERSON COUNTY AND CALLON COUNTY GOES TO THREE COUNTIES. WE DO THAT AS A JOINT PROGRAM PROGRAM. UH, MY, UH, HORTICULTURE PROGRAM IN DECEMBER, OF COURSE Y'ALL ALL ATTENDED, UH, THE AWARDS BANQUET WE HAD, UM, PRETTY GOOD AWARDS HAD. BUT I THOUGHT THIS YEAR, UM, A COUPLE OF GOOD REPORTS FROM FROM THE MEMBERS HAPPENED. WE INDUCTED 18 NEW MASTER GARDENERS THEN, UH, AS INTERNS. UH, SO WE NOW HAVE 62 IN THE COUNTY. 62 TOTAL MASTER GARDENERS. UH, UH, WHEN WE DID THE FIGURES FOR THE MASTER GARDENERS PART OF 2017, THEY GAVE 6,318 HOURS OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE BACK TO KAMAN COUNTY. UM, IF YOU USED THE COMPTROLLER FIGURES ON VOLUNTEER SERVICE, THAT MEANS THEY GAVE BACK TO KAMAN COUNTY A $152,592. PRETTY GOOD FOR 2017. UH, THE OTHER THING THAT I HAVE ON THE REPORT IS OUR LEADERSHIP ADVISORY BOARD, WHICH, UH, COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS IS A MEMBER OF. UH, THAT BOARD IS MADE UP OF ALL AREAS, ALL THREE AREAS AND, UH, ALL OF OUR STAKEHOLDERS. UH, WE ARE PLANNING A TWO PART EDUCATIONAL SERIES THIS YEAR. I HOPE, UH, Y'ALL GET A CHANCE TO COME TO THAT, BUT WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT IT SUBSEQUENT MEETING. OKAY, KATIE. THANK YOU. UM, I, DECEMBER IS ROUGHLY, DECEMBER IS A YEAR IS THE TIME OF YEAR FOR MY AREA THAT WE START, UM, DOING ALL REPORTING. AND I HAD, SO IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE I DID A LOT, BUT IT'S ALSO, I DIDN'T WANNA REPORT ON PAPERWORK . SO I, UH, HAD MY, UH, FAMILY CONSUMER SCIENCE OR FAMILY COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAM AREA COMMITTEE AND SEVERAL OF, UM, I THINK JACKIE CAME TO THAT. AND WE SERVED LUNCH AND WENT OVER WHAT HAD HAPPENED THROUGH, UM, 2017 AND WHAT WE'RE PLANNING FOR 2018. SO THAT WAS A FUN MEETING TO GET EVERYBODY TOGETHER. AND THEN WE HAD A, I HOSTED A SKILL BUILDING WORKSHOP, IF YOU'LL REMEMBER LAST FALL I TAUGHT ABOUT 25 CHILDREN TO, UM, SO THREE FOUR H AND THEN WE DID A SKILL BUILDING WORKSHOP AND MADE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. SO I HAD SEVEN CHILDREN COME BACK AND WE HAD A GOOD TIME. AND, UH, WE MADE TWO DIFFERENT CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. I THINK WE MADE WHAT'S CALLED A CORD KEEPER, WHICH IS A SMALL, UM, PIECE OF FABRIC WITH CAROLINA THAT HOLDS YOUR CORDS TOGETHER. AND THEN A TABLE RUNNER AND THE KIDS ALL LOVE IT. SO I'VE ALREADY GOT, UM, A COUPLE EMAILS SAYING, WHEN ARE WE GONNA DO THE NEXT ONE? SO WE'LL SCHEDULE ANOTHER ONE. AND THEN, UM, SINCE DECEMBER IS WE'RE CLOSING OUT REPORTS AND EVERYTHING, THAT'S WHEN I START PLANNING FOR JANUARY. AND UM, I DIDN'T EVEN LIST EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN JANUARY BECAUSE JANUARY'S WHEN MY PROGRAMS KICK OFF, UM, YOU'LL REMEMBER IT'S NEW, IT'S NEW YEAR RESOLUTION TIME AND THAT'S WHEN EVERYBODY WANTS TO GET HEALTHY. SO THAT'S WHEN IT'S TIME FOR ME TO JUMP IN AND HELP 'EM ALL BECOME HEALTHY. SO WE'VE GOT LOTS OF THINGS GOING ON RIGHT NOW. I WALK ACROSS TEXAS KICKS OFF TODAY WITH KAMAN ISDI AT 1230. I'LL BE OVER AT MONDAY PRIMARY WALKING WITH ALL 500 KIDS. SO , I THINK YOU'RE HELPING US WITH THAT, AREN'T YOU, ? SO, UM, WE'VE GOT THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT INVOLVED BLOCKING OFF ROADS AND WE'RE GONNA WALK FIRST GRADERS. SO THAT'LL BE FUN. THAT WILL BE FUN. YEAH, I GUESS CORRALLING IS BEST TERM, . SO WE WILL, UH, SO I'LL REPORT MORE ON WHAT'S HAPPENING IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY. IT'S HARD TO DO THIS 'CAUSE DECEMBER'S OVER [00:35:01] AND WE'RE ALREADY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT. OH, YOU'RE WELCOME. DECEMBER FOR FOUR H PROGRAM IS KIND OF A COME BEFORE THE STORM. UH, THE JANUARY THROUGH SPRING SESSION STARTS UP OUR STOCK SHOW SEASON. SO, UH, DECEMBER WAS SPENT, UH, WEIGHING ANIMALS, MAKING SURE THAT WE WERE GETTING THEM TO MAKE WEIGHT, UH, HEIFERS WERE CHECKED ON IF THE HAIR WAS BEING WORKED AND WE STARTED TRIPPING EVERYTHING UP AND GETTING KIDS READY TO GO ON THE ROAD. UM, IT'S AN EXCITING TIME OF YEAR FOR ME BECAUSE, UM, ALL OF OUR NEW KIDDOS THAT HAVE NEW PROJECTS, UM, THIS IS THE MAKE OR BREAK TIME WHERE CARRIE COMES OUT AND SAYS, YEAH, WE NEED TO EITHER WORK SOME MORE OR B, NEED TO WALK SOME MORE, OR, UH, YOUR LAMB'S NOT WALKING BECAUSE HE'S NOT COOPERATING. AND SO WE NEED TO HAVE SOME CARRY TIME. UM, AND SO, BUT WITH THAT ALSO OUR, UH, TEAM LEADERS ARE ALSO SETTING UP FOR THE SPRINGTIME IS WHERE WE DO A LOT OF OUR LEADERSHIP BUILDING, UH, TIMES OUR KIDS THAT ARE ON OUR YOUTH LEADERSHIP BOARD OR GOING THROUGH A SIX PART LEADERSHIP TRAINING. UM, THEY LEARNED THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATION AT THE LAST, UH, LEADERSHIP. AND WE'RE GONNA FINISH UP THIS MONTH BECAUSE IN MARCH WE'LL START WRITING BILLS WHERE WE, UH, QUALIFIED KIDS IN FOR THE TEXAS FOUR H CONGRESS. SO FOR SOME OF YOU THAT ARE ELECTED OFFICIALS, YOU MIGHT BE GETTING SOME CALLS FROM OUR FOUR H COUNCIL KIDS ON WHAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE A GOOD ISSUE, UH, TO BE ABLE TO WRITE A BILL ON. YOU HAVE TO WRITE A BILL AND PRESENT IT, UH, IN WRITING TO BE ABLE TO QUALIFY TO GO TO THE CAPITOL AND LEARN TO THE WHOLE ENTIRE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS IN JUNE, JULY ON HOW A BILL ACTUALLY BECOMES A LAW. SO, UM, FOR SOME OF YOU, UH, I CAN WARN YOU RIGHT NOW, THERE'S SOME INTERESTING ISSUES OUT THERE THAT I'M TRYING TO TALK TO THE KIDS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY ACTUALLY SHOULD BE AN ISSUE OR NOT, OR WHATEVER THEY WANT TO APPROACH THAT ISSUE. UH, I KNOW THERE'S TWO THAT MIGHT BE HEADING YOUR WAY . SO, UM, BUT UH, WITH THAT BEING, UH, WITH IT BEING SAID, UM, WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF FORT WORTH RIGHT NOW. UH, THE KIDS ARE DOING AWESOME AND, UH, ONCE AGAIN, I'M VERY BLESSED BECAUSE OF THE LEADERS I HAVE IN THIS KAUFMAN COUNTY AREA. AND MY PARENTS MAKES MY JOB, UH, AN ENJOYABLE JOB AND ONE THAT I CAN DO EASILY WORKING WITH THE YOUTH, UH, ON THE SCHOOL OF CURRICULUM ENRICHMENT. DECEMBER'S A DOWN MONTH FOR US 'CAUSE WE'RE DOING REPLANNING, BUT LISA AND, UH, VICKI ARE DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB. THE NEW PROGRAMMING THAT WE HAVE GOING THROUGH THE SCHOOLS RIGHT NOW TO WHERE LISA AND VICKI ACTUALLY DO TRAINING WITH THE TEACHERS TO HELP THEM BE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH EITHER SOIL SCIENCES, WATER SCIENCES, OR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES TO WHERE THOSE TEACHERS CAN ACTUALLY GO BACK INTO THE CLASSROOMS AND TEACH THEMSELVES INSTEAD OF BRINGING AN OUTSIDE PERSON IN, UM, IS DOING VERY WELL. WE JUST HAD TERRELL ISD SIGN ON FOR ABOUT, UH, 600 KIDS. SO ALL OF THIRD GRADE AND TERRELL WAS SIGNED UP. UH, FORNEY, ISD IS ONE OF OUR MORE PROMOTED, UH, ISDS WHERE THEY HAVE THE KINDERGARTEN TO DO FIFTH GRADE WORKING WITH THOSE TWO SCIENCE DIRECTORS IN GIVING THE TEACHING OR GIVING THE TRAINING TO THE TEACHERS. AND THEN WITH FARM BUREAU'S HELP AND WITH THE COMMISSIONER'S, COURT'S HELP WITH THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM, UH, WE CAN HELP THOSE TEACHERS BUY A FEW OF THOSE SUPPLIES THAT THEY CAN'T GET IN THE CLASSROOM. SO THOSE ARE KICKING OFF. SO. OKAY. AND THE DATE OF THE COUNTY SHOW IS MARCH THE FEBRUARY 28TH THROUGH MARCH 3RD, FEBRUARY THE 28TH. THAT'S JUST AROUND THE CORNER. YES. THE, ANY MORE QUESTIONS? NO, I ALRIGHT. THANK YOU EVERYBODY. YOU'RE WELCOME. SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TO WALK WITH. YEAH. Y'ALL WALK 1230. NEXT ITEM IS THE, UH, NUMBER 12, THE REPORT FROM SHERIFF DEPARTMENT. WE HAVE THAT, WE GOT QUITE A BIT HERE. IT'S SUPPOSED TO YEAR ON IT, BUT WE'RE NOT GONNA SPEND A WHOLE BUNCH OF TIME. I'LL GO THROUGH IT PRETTY QUICK. UH, AND THEN Y'ALL LOOK AT IT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, TERRY'S DONE HEARD THIS. I BEEN AT THE CRIME WATCHING ELBOW RELAYED ALL THIS INFORMATION, BUT DECEMBER'S PRETTY NORMAL. YOU CAN SEE WE HAD 626. OUR CLEARANCE RATE IS, UH, 57, A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN STATE AND NATIONAL. UM, YOU CAN SEE THAT, UH, WE DID A LITTLE OVER 7,000 SECURITY CHECKS FOR BUSINESSES, UH, DURING THE DAY AND NIGHT. UH, YOU CAN SEE OUR CASES FILED, UH, 56, UH, 38 AND 42 ON OUR CASES. AND OUR CID FAR IS, UH, PROPERTY GOT 98, UH, CASES, 31 FILED AND 30 DEFENSE. CONSIDERING JAIL IS RUNNING A LITTLE BIT LOWER THAN NORMAL, WE'RE RUNNING ABOUT 386, UH, AVERAGE POPULATION, 15 OF THOSE ARE BEING HELD. TDC AVERAGE IS ABOUT 12 INMATES IN AND OUT OF THE JAIL A DAY. SO, UH, WE'RE HOUSED ABOUT 103. YOU CAN SEE WE MADE ABOUT 162,000 ON THE, UH, INMATES, UH, US MARSHALS COMMUNICATION CENTER. YOU CAN SEE THAT IS RUNNING ABOUT 103 CALLS PER SERVICE IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD. [00:40:01] WARRANT DIVISION IS RUNNING ABOUT 33, UH, WARRANTS PER DAY IN AND OUT OR CIVIL PROCESS. YOU CAN SEE RECEIVED SEVEN SIX SERVICE, SEVEN TWO, UH, ANIMAL PATROL PICKED UP 58 AND 22 CATS COMMERCIAL VEHICLE DID 153, UH, CONTACTS. YOU CAN SEE THAT 92 OF THOSE WAS OVERWEIGHT AND MOVING VIOLATION. THEN ON THE BACK SIDE OF THAT SAME FARM, YOU SET OUR TRAINING. WE HAD NO TRAINING IN DECEMBER. UH, OUR NARCOTIC DIVISION DID TWO ARRESTS, UH, PILED 19 CASES AND ONE VEHICLE SEIZURE K NINE UNITS, UH, IS REALLY GETTING AFTER WE HAD EIGHT ARREST, UH, COVERED OVER 10 GRAMS OF NARCOTICS AS CALLED OUT THREE TIMES, DID 25 SEARCHES. AND I ALSO DID CALLS FOR SERVICE OF 211 AND THEY ASSISTED NINE OTHER AGENCIES IN THE COUNTY. OUR ENVIRONMENTAL DID 20, UH, NINE ILLEGAL DUNKING, 13 PUBLIC NUISANCE. AND THEY HAD 30 FOLLOW UP, 11 CLEANUPS. ONE HEALTH SAFETY INSPECTION AND ONE CITATION. AND YOU CAN SEE IN OUR TRANSPORT DIVISION THAT WE DID A TOTAL OF 75 TRANSPORTS, UH, AROUND THE STAGE AND A FEW OUTSIDE. AND THEN OUR TRANSPORT, THE COURT, UH, WE TRANSPORT OVER 291 INMATES TO COURT FOR DECEMBER. AS FAR AS THE YEAR END STATS, YOU CAN SEE WE, WE HAD QUITE A BUMP QUITE A BIT. UH, I'M GONNA MAKE SURE I GAVE YOU THAT NUMBER AND THE FINANCES ON THE BACK IN DECEMBER. I GET THAT REAL QUICK. BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, WE, WE DID OVER $34,000, UH, IN FINANCING FOR DECEMBER. UH, AS FAR AS THE TOTAL OF ANY YEAR, YOU CAN SEE WE DID 800 OR 8,495 INCIDENT REPORTS. 4,000 OF THOSE WERE SENT OVER TO CID, UH, FOR INVESTIGATION. AND OUR CLEARANCE RATE OUT OF THAT WAS 60%, UH, MADE OVER 1300 ARRESTS, DID OVER 48, UH, THOUSAND SECURITY CHECKS IN THE COUNTY. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WE DID, CAPERS DID 106 CASES SIGNED TO 'EM, 3 6 5 AND 165 WAS CLEARED. UH, AND THE PROPERTY WE SAVED, TWELVE HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT FORTY FIVE, A HUNDRED SEVENTY SIX CLEARED. AND THEN THE PROPERTY RECOVERED FOR THE PROPERTY VISION WAS A LITTLE OVER 2.6 MILLION. AND PROPERTY RECOVERED, UH, IN THE COUNTY. UH, OUR AVERAGE, AVERAGE DAILY POPULATION FOR THE YEAR OF ABOUT 4 0 4 IN DETENTION CENTER. YOU CAN SEE WE'RE HAVING ABOUT 14 INMATES IN AND OUT ON A DAILY BASIS. AND THEN WE, UH, PILED OVER 1,246 INMATES FOR $1.9 MILLION THAT WE MADE. UH, THIS LAST YEAR. UM, US MARSHALS AVERAGE ABOUT 329 CALLS FOR SERVICE. 24 HOURS OUTTA COMMUNICATION. AND WE'RE DOING ABOUT 49.67 WARRANTS A DAY OUT OF WARRANTS DIVISION. UH, WE TOOK IN 1,610 CIVIL PROCESS AND WE SERVED 1588. AND THEN WE WIND UP TAKING $861 AND 521 CATS FOR THE YEAR. OUR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES, THEY GET 3030 CONTACTS AND YOU CAN SEE WHERE IT BROKE DOWN IN, UH, MOVING AND ALL. AND A TOTAL, UH, CITATION IS AMOUNT LITTLE UNDER $400,000. WELL, UH, TRAINING, YOU CAN SEE THAT WE DID A TOTAL HOUR. 1523, WE HAD OVER 1,097 STUDENTS. SO WE SAVED ABOUT $78,000 DOING IN-HOUSE TRAINING. OUR NARCOTICS DIVISION DID 24 ARRESTS, DID 2,654 GRAMS OF NARCOTIC, UH, 4.5 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA. AND THEY, THEY FILED 189 CASES, EIGHT VEHICLE SEIZED, 12 SEARCH WARRANTS. WE HAD, WE ASSISTED 42 AGENCIES AND WE TOOK 10 FIREARMS OFF THE STREET. K NINE UNITS DID 58 ARRESTS, 376 GRAMS, UH, NARCOTICS, UH, DID 25 CALL OUTS, 210 SEARCHES. THEY DID OVER 1,078 OF CALLS FOR SERVICE AND 69 AGENCIES ASSIST ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL. YOU GOTTA REMEMBER, THIS IS ONLY NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER THAT WE STARTED KEEPING STAFFS ON IN. UH, ILLEGAL DUMPING WAS 96. PUBLIC NEWS. 48 FOLLOW UPS WAS 74 CLEANUPS OF 19 TWO HEALTH SAFETY INSPECTION, ONE AGENCY ASSIST AND TWO CITATIONS AND TRANSPORT. WE DID OVER 1,025 OF PICKING UP, UH, AROUND THE, THE STATE. AND 20 OF THOSE WAS OUTSIDE THE STATE. AND YOU CAN SEE WE TRANSPORTED OVER 4,033 INMATES TO THE COURTHOUSE AND THE FEDERAL BUILDING. AND THEN AS FAR AS THE FINANCIAL REPORTS, YOU CAN SEE WE HAD OVER $451,000 RUN THROUGH THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE AS FAR AS FINES AND COLLECTION. SSI, LAST THING IS JUST A COMPARISON. YOU'LL NOTICE, UH, CRIME IS DOWN A LITTLE BIT IN THE COUNTY, WHICH I'M TYPICAL TO SAY. THE ONLY THING A FEW THINGS WE'LL COVER IS THE HOMICIDE WAS UP BY 50%. 'CAUSE THAT WAS ONE, UH, KIDNAPPING AND ABDUCTION WAS DOWN BY 75%. SEX OFFENSES WAS DOWN BY 3.9. OUR ROBBERY WAS DOWN BY 53%. UH, THE ASSAULTS WAS UP BY 1.4. OUR BURGLARY BREAK-INS WAS DOWN BY 1.8. [00:45:01] UH, OUR THEFT WAS UP BY 24%. OUR VEHICLE THEFT WAS UP BY 3.1 AND OUR FRAUD WAS DOWN BY 1.6. AND OUR NARCOTICS IS GLAD TO SAY WE'RE UP BY 28% BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE PRODUCING OUT OF THAT. SO THE NARCOTIC PEOPLE WE'RE REALLY STEPPING IT UP. SO THAT'S A YEAR REVIEW IN DECEMBER. ANY QUESTIONS? ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE SHERIFF ON THE REPORT? UH, JUST ONE THING. UH, OTHER THAN THAT, AT THE CRIME WATCH MEETING, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL THESE THEFTS AND THESE VEHICLE ARIES. TELL 'EM AGAIN WHAT YOU TOLD US. NO, MAJORITY OF THE DEAL, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THEFT IS PEOPLE LEAVING STUFF UNLOCKED. WE MAKE MORE REPORTS. THEY'RE NOT BREAKING IN THE CARS AND THEY WALK, THEY'RE SEE IT, IT'S A CHANCE OF OPPORTUNITY AND THEY WALK BY AND LOOK AND IF IT'S UNLOCKED, IT'S OPEN. THEY GO RIGHT IN. SO IF EVERYBODY WOULD REALLY WORK ON SECURING THEIR CARS AND SECURING THEIR HOUSES AND STUFF LIKE THAT, IT'D BE A LOT EASIER BECAUSE CHANCE OPPORTUNITIES, A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T LIKE BREAKING INTO STUFF. THEY CHECK IT, THEY CAN WALK ON. USUALLY YOUR STUFF IS NOT GONNA GET BROKEN INTO. IT'S VERY SELDOM WE HAVE A VEHICLE BROKE INTO WHEN THEY'RE BREAKING THE GLASSES, THEY DO THAT THEY STEAL. SO, UH, IN THE FIRST PART OF THE REPORT, YOU MENTIONED THAT, HOW MANY ARE WE HOLDING FOR TDC? UH, 15. AND THAT'S A, THAT'S ON A GOOD AVERAGE. THAT'S WHAT WE TAKE. THEY GOT 45 DAYS TO PICK THOSE UP FROM BEFORE THEY HAVE TO PAY US. SO IT, IT VARIES HOW THE STATE, BUT USUALLY THEY GET 'EM OUT HERE FOUR FOUR, USUALLY OUR, OUR AVERAGE RIGHT NOW IS ABOUT 21 DAYS. OKAY. A MEETING, HUH? AFTER THE, AFTER THE PAPER GETS DOWN THERE? YEAH, 21 DAYS IS WHAT THEY'RE USUALLY TAKING. THEY'RE NOT TAKING THE WHOLE 45 THAT THEY HAVE. OKAY. OKAY. I'VE HAD A MEETING RECENTLY AMONG SOME OTHER COUNTY JUDGES AND THAT WAS A HOT TOPIC ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY WERE HAVING TO HOLD STATE PRISONERS, UH, BECAUSE THE STATE WOULDN'T PICK 'EM UP. THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE PLACE TO PUT 'EM. RIGHT. AND THAT'S ANOTHER UNFUNDED MANDATE. BEEN CONVICTED THAT YOU SHOULD BE PICKED UP BY THE STATE AND, BUT YET WE WIND UPHOLDING THEM. BUT IT SEEMS TO BE THAT WE HAVE A PRETTY GOOD AVENUE TO GETTING THEM OUT. WE WORK REALLY GOOD WITH THE STATE. WE'VE GOT A GOOD CONNECTION. UH, THE LADY THAT TAKES CARE OF THE PEN PACKAGE GETS MAKE SURE THEY'RE SHIPPED DOWN IN A TIMELY MANNER. AND WE USUALLY WORK ON THAT, ESPECIALLY IF WE HAVE A HIGH RISK OR INDIVIDUAL THAT'S COSTING US QUITE A BIT OF MONEY. UH, FAR AS MEDICAL ISSUES. WE HAVE A GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP. TRY TO GET COUNTY AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. WE'RE GONNA PEOPLE HUH? DON'T TELL ING COUNTY, BUT WE'RE GONNA KEEP IT TO OURSELVES. KEEP OUR REPORT. IT'S ALL ABOUT BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS. THAT COUNTY JAIL STILL SHUT DOWN FAR. I HADN'T HEARD. I KNOW THEY'RE HOUSING AND ALL OF 'EM IN HENRY IN HENDERSON COUNTY AT ONE TIME. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY GOT A BACK BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY HEAT, BUT THEY HAD GAS ISSUES THE YEAR BEFORE. UH, BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE GAS IN THE BUILDING, SO I DON'T KNOW. I KNOW WE DIDN'T HAVE AT ANY, NO, WE, WE DIDN'T HAVE ROOM TO HAVE ANY, WE'RE HOUSED WITH US MARSHAL. SO YEAH, I KIND OF LIKE THAT CONTRACT A LITTLE BETTER THAN IN AND OUT FEW PEOPLE, BUT WE SHOULD HAVE YELLOW INSPECTION FOR TOO LONG. I'M, I'M THINKING THE AIR COMMISSION SHOULD BE DOWN ANYTIME THEY'VE HAD, OUR LAST INSPECTION WAS IN NOVEMBER, SO THEY SHOULD BE ANY DAY. SO HOPING WE CAN GET THAT DONE AND OUT OF OUR WAY. DO YOU THINK, UH, MAYBE ON THE NEXT REPORT WITH ALL THESE CATS AND DOGS WE HAVE BEING TAKEN IN, UH, CAN YOU TELL US HOW MUCH THAT'S COSTING US? YEAH, I THINK MORE THAN THAT. I MEAN, BECAUSE I, I GOT DOLLAR MINUS COSTING EACH ONE. YEAH. THAT'S EXPENSIVE. OH, ON, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ON HIS TIME, RIGHT? RIGHT. YEAH. FAR AS TIME. HOW MUCH, HOW MUCH TIME Y'ALL HAVE? OH, IT COST US, YOU KNOW WHAT THE PRICE IS. OH YEAH. SHELTER. MM-HMM . YEAH. THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM. I'LL JUST FIGURE OUT THE TIME. I, THAT'S WHAT I MEAN. THAT'S ALL THIS, I'LL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW MUCH HE'S USING. JUST PICKING UP ANIMALS. HE DOES ANIMAL CRUELTY CASES TOO. UH, HE'LL GO INVESTIGATE THAT IN BETWEEN THE PICKING UP. SO, ALRIGHT, I'LL GET THAT BROKE NOW. OKAY. BUT YEAH, I CAN DO THAT. IT'S NOT A PROBLEM. ALRIGHT. ALRIGHT. THANK Y'ALL VERY MUCH, SHERIFF. NEXT ITEM IS, UH, NUMBER 13 FROM OUR TREASURER, MR. WE DISCUSSED AND APPROVE TREASURER MONTHLY. WELL THAT, THAT CLEARED OUT THE ROOM. JUDGE. WE GOT ROOM NOW. UH, NOTHING LIKE A FEW DRY ON BRUCE TO KIND OF CAUSE THE AUDIENCE TO DISSIPATE, BUT LET'S TRY TO MAKE IT INTERESTING. WE'LL AT LEAST MAKE IT QUICK. UH, THE FIRST PAGE IN YOUR PACKET WAS THE DECEMBER, 2017 TREASURY BEFORE, BEFORE THE MONTH OF DECEMBER. YOU KNOW, GENERAL FUND BALANCE STARTED WITH 3 MILLION 8 0 3 0 0 7 89 AT A AND B AND THE 12 3 18 83 THAT WE HAD LEFT AT TPO, WHICH WAS, UM, A, A GOOD REFERENCE FOR WHAT INTEREST WE EARNED. UH, ROLLING OUR, UH, OPERATING CASH THROUGH TPO. THE RECEIPTS ARE 16 MILLION 871, 6 38 10. I DIDN'T LOOK UP THE EXACT NUMBER, BUT YOU KNOW, WE COLLECT, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE [00:50:01] OVER A MILLION A MONTH IN, IN OUR OPERATIONS. SO, YOU KNOW, WE COULD THINK THERE'S 15 MILLION OF PROPERTY TAX MONEY THAT'S COME IN. I DUNNO, ASSESSOR IS GONNA GIVE US REAL THEN OUR DISBURSEMENTS ARE 5 MILLION 68 7 26 81. ANY VIOLENCE OF 15 MILLION 6 0 5 9 19 18 AT A AND B AND 12,000 333 40 AT, UH, . NOW WE WILL, THIS WEEK YOU FINISH THE JANUARY TAX COLLECTION COLLECTIONS, THE TIMELY PAYMENTS. SO FEBRUARY 1ST OR OR SECOND, AS SOON AS WE GET A SWEEP FROM THE TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTOR, WE WILL SEND THAT POOL OF MONEY BACK TO TEXT POOL PRIME AGAIN. AND HOW DOES THE TEXT POOL PRIME COMPARE TO THE OTHER THREE, UH, GROUPS THAT KAREN, THE AUDITOR AND I HAVE, UH, ? YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE VERY SIMILAR. YOU KNOW, AS WE'VE SEEN IN OUR, OUR REPORTS, I THINK LOGIC CLAIMS TO BE, UH, A LITTLE ABOVE TEXT POOL AND TEXAS CLASS CLAIMS TO BE A LITTLE ABOVE TEXT POOL. UM, A TEXT POOL TODAY IS 1.52. IT STARTED JANUARY AT 1.47. SO THERE, THERE'S GOOD MOMENTUM IN, UH, DAILY AVAILABLE CASH INTEREST RATES. ONE THING THAT, UH, I'M WORKING, WE'LL WORK THIS WEEK TO SCHEDULE, UH, WITH THE INVESTMENT COMMITTEE, JUDGE WOOD AND, AND, UH, COUNTY AUDITOR KAREN THE CLUB IS, THERE'S A MAN THAT WANTS TO COME AND HE WANTS TO TALK TO US ABOUT THE, UM, INVERTED YIELD CURVE. AND THAT IS WHEN 10 YEAR INTEREST RATES ARE LESS THAN OUR SHORT TERM RATES. AND, AND HE, THIS IS ONE OF HIS THINGS AND HE'S BEEN SHARING WITH ME AND, AND THE YIELD CURVE IS VERY, VERY NARROW. YOU KNOW, WE ARE, IF WE APPROACH THE TIME THAT ONE OF THE TRADITIONAL RELIABLE RECESSION WARNING BES IS AN INVERTED YIELD CURVE AND, UH, I, THAT YIELD LEADS YOU TO BELIEVE THAT THE FED IS GOING TO EASE OFF ON RAISING INTEREST RATES. 'CAUSE IF THEY PUSH THE SHORT TERM RATE ONE MORE TIME, YOU KNOW, WE, WE VERY WELL CAN BE THERE. SO A CRITICAL PERIOD OF TIME. UM, THEN, UH, IN LOOKING AT, UH, I, I SEE A, A CD QUOTE FROM A PARTICULAR BANK AND HERE WE'RE AT 1.52 DAILY IMMEDIATE AVAILABLE. UH, WE COULD GO 18 MONTHS FOR INSTANCE WITH THIS ONE BANK AND BE AT 1.9. UM, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER GENTLEMAN IS SHARING WITH ME THAT, THAT THE, THE, THE BLENDED RATE NOW FOR, UH, A, A CD LADDER OUT TO 24 MONTHS, UH, IS A BIT OVER 2%. I KNOW THE TEXAS CLASS AS OF THIS MORNING WAS AT 1.5608. SO IT'S A LITTLE HIGHER ON SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS. THAT'S, WE STAND UP TO A LOT OF, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S OUR FOLLOW UP MEETING AS TO DECIDE WE, WE'VE TALKED TO EVERYONE, UH, WE'VE TALKED TO LOGIC AND TEXAS CLASS AND IT'S FOR THE INVESTMENT COMMITTEE TO DECIDE REALLY BETWEEN TEXAS CLASS AND LOGIC AND THEN THE, THE PRODUCT THAT AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK, UH, SUPPORTS. SO, UH, I THINK THAT WE KIND OF, IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE PAST THE FLU AND PAST THE HOLIDAYS AND IT'D BE A GOOD WEEK TO HAVE A MEETING. WELL, WE MET ABOUT THREE TIMES NOW AND I JUST WONDER WHY WE'RE WAITING TO GO AHEAD AND INVEST THE MONEY IN THE HIGHEST RATE THAT WE CAN GET. THAT'S CORRECT. YES SIR. I THINK, AGAIN, I THINK THAT'S WHERE WE'RE THIS WEEK. UH, WE, WE'VE GOT THE MONEY. WE'RE, WE'RE ON OUR TIME SCHEDULE. ALRIGHT, SO IS THAT THE TREASURER'S REPORT? THERE'S THE TREASURER'S MONTHLY REPORT. WE, WE ARE THE MONTHS OF, UH, WE EARNED INTEREST OF 29,000 927 38 ON OUR TECH SCHOOL ROAD BOND FUND THAT IS AT, UH, TECH POOL. UH, YOUR, YOUR BALANCE IS ON YOUR ROAD BOND FUNDS, UH, IS 5 0 6 4 18 84 AT AMERICAN NATIONAL 25 3 4 9 7 7 98 AT, UH, UH, TECH POOL FUND. SO WE'VE GOT VIRTUALLY ALL OF THAT SECOND ROUND ISSUE. WE'RE JUST STARTING, UH, SPENDING ON THAT SECOND ROUND OF BOND ISSUE. ALRIGHT, DO I HAVE, UH, ANYTHING ELSE ON THIS ONE? I HAVE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF, UH, DECEMBER MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS, THE SECOND FROM MAY. ALRIGHT, BARBARA. ALRIGHT, ARE YOU HARVEY BARBER? ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY I. THOSE. ALRIGHT, I HAVE NUMBER 14 IS TO, AND THAT'S Y'ALL AND THAT'S THE SECOND PAGE OF YOUR PACKET. IT'LL BE [00:55:01] THE SECOND PAGE THERE I BELIEVE. COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS AND, UH, QUICKLY RUNNING THROUGH OCTOBER, UH, WE STARTED WITH 3 MILLION 374 0 9 6 74 AT AMERICAN NATIONAL 3,009,000 988 43 AT, UH, TEXA POOL PRIME. SO A BID OVER $6.38 MILLION RECEIPTS OF 21 MILLION 506 2 55 25, UH, UH, RECEIPTS AT TEX POOL, PRIME INTEREST INCOME 2000 344 97. WE FLIPPED THE LAST 3 MILLION OUT OF SPOOL PRIME INTO AMERICAN NATIONAL. HAD DISBURSEMENTS OF 12 MILLION 274, 4 32 81. SO THAT WE GOT AN ENDING VIOLENCE, UH, AT THE END OF DECEMBER 15 MILLION 6 0 5 9 19 18. AND, AND THEN THE TAXABLE PRIOR BALANCE, UH, FOR THE, UH, QUARTER YOUR ROAD BOND, AGAIN A A BURN RATE OF ABOUT 300,000 A MONTH. SO WE SPENT 9 14 5 10 44 IN THE MONTH OF, UH, OR IN, IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF THIS FISCAL YEAR. THEN, UM, THE UH, AND THEN, WHICH INCLUDED A A A A TEXT POOL OH OH SIX ACCOUNT HAS INTEREST INCOME OFFSETTING $1 MILLION THAT WAS SENT TO A AND B. THAT'S THE 9 14 5 10 44 DRAW DOWN ON TPO OH OH SIX A AND B ROAD BOND ME 180 7 4 58 50 STARTING 6 81 0 39 66 DRAW DOWN. AND THEN THE ENDING VIOLENCE OF 5 0 5 0 6 4 18 84. INTEREST INCOME FOR THE QUARTER AT AMERICAN NATIONAL ON A DEPOSITORY CONTRACT WITH 43 BASIS POINTS IS 17,000 463 36. INTEREST EARNED AT TAX POOL 87,000 836 87 FOR THE QUARTER. YOU KNOW, OUR BILL OVER 33,000. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? ANY QUESTIONS ON THE COURT REVIEW REPORT? NO. MOTION TO ACCEPT AS APPROVED MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER BARBER? NO. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. THOSE OPPOSED, AND I THINK I GOT ONE MORE JUDGE. YEAH. AND WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE, UH, WE, WE MAKE SUCH A COMPREHENSIVE QUARTERLY REPORT ON THE, THE, UH, TREASURY'S REPORT. THE INVESTMENT REPORT IS REDUNDANT. UH, IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS ON THE, UH, INVESTMENT REPORT, I, I'LL ANSWER THEM. BUT WE HAVE RUN THROUGH ALL OF THAT INFORMATION, JUDGE. OKAY. SO RUDY, THE ITEM NUMBER 15, THERE'S NO ON THAT. WELL I THINK WE NEED TO APPROVE AND ANSWER QUESTION. SO I'M KIND OF THE QUARTERLY INVESTMENT REPORT. I THOUGHT THAT'S JUST WHAT WE DID. UH, THAT IS THE QUARTERLY TREASURER'S REPORT AND THE DIFFERENCE IS, UH, THE INVESTMENT REPORT JUST, UH, PRIMARILY FOCUSES ON THE ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE OUR DEPOSITORY CONTRACT. WE HAVE MOTION TO APPROVE THE QUARTERLY INVESTMENT REPORT FROM THE TREASURER'S OFFICE. I'LL MAKE THAT HAVE A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS TO HAVE A I SECOND MOTION. AYE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. NOW WE HAVE OUT 16 THE TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTOR MONTHLY REPORT. YES, SIR. GOOD MORNING, GENTLEMEN. GOOD MORNING. CURRENTLY, UH, WELL THROUGH DECEMBER WE HAVE COLLECTED $17,800,785 AND 26 CENTS. WE STILL HAVE $99,930 85 CENTS DELINQUENT AND I AM WORKING ON OUR DELINQUENT TAX ROLL. UM, WE, UH, HAVE $85,551 AND 41 CENTS THAT ARE ON DEFERRAL ROAD AND BRIDGE. WE HAVE, UH, COLLECTED THREE 3,579,000 925 0 7 FOR ROAD AND BRIDGE. AND WE DO STILL HAVE $17,235 AND 44 CENTS DELINQUENT ON, UH, WE HAVE HAD TWO ROLLBACKS IN DECEMBER. ONE WAS IN 40 AND IT'S GONNA BE CLOSE TO THAT, UH, LIMITS. YEP. YEAH, OVER THERE. AND THEN THERE'S GOT ONE THAT'S STILL IN KAUFMAN COUNTY, BUT IT'S GOT A ROCKWELL [01:00:01] ADDRESS. IT'S LIKE SEVEN 40 NORTH OVER IN THAT TRAVIS RANCH AREA. YEAH, IT'S OVER NEXT TO THE SCHOOL WAY. YES, SIR. THE, THE ONE ACROSS FROM IT, THAT'S THAT WHOLE HOUSING, RIGHT? THAT'S THE ACRE PLAZA BETWEEN KNOX AND CLE RANCH? YES, SIR. OKAY. YEAH, THERE WAS LIKE 51 14 ACRES, LITTLE OVER 14 ACRES IN THERE. AND THEN UP WHERE BY TREVOR'S RANCH IS LIKE 51 LITTLE BIT OVER 51 ACRES. UH, IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE WE COLLECTED ABOUT $5 MILLION MORE THAN WE DID LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME? YEP. DURING MONTH? YES SIR. DECEMBER? YES SIR. YEAH, EVERYBODY'S STILL UPSET ABOUT GETTING UP. OKAY. YEAH, BUT I THINK COURT, NO, EVERYBODY KIND WAS TILL THE LAST MINUTE HERE DECEMBER, BUT I'M SURE YOU GEARING UP. GOOD BACK. YES, SIR. AND YOU KNOW, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF ROLLBACK TAXES, I THINK THAT THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT IS WORKING ON. SO YES SIR. UH, WE MAY NEED TO HAVE A FOLLOW UP WITH THEM AT SOME POINT IN TIME. THE ONE DOWN IN PRECINCT FOUR I KNOW, SHOULD BE A FAIRLY LARGE ROLLBACK. YES SIR. UH, WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT? UH, UM, OFF WHAT IS EDGE WATER? VERY. IT'S A VERY NICE SUBDIVISION. YEAH, IT IS. OKAY. ANYBODY HAVE ANY, UH, QUESTIONS OR I MAY, NO. ALRIGHT. THAT MOTION TO ACCEPT THE, UH, TAX ASSESSOR REPORT, MR. HUNT MAKES THAT MOTION. SECOND MOTION. ALL IN FAVOR SAY I. AYE. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, NEXT IS THE, UH, FIRE MARSHAL'S OFFICE. THE PUBLIC WORKS, UH, DEPARTMENT. MONTHLY ACTIVITY. MORNING JUDGE. THE, UH, FIRST REPORT WOULD BE THE, UH, PUBLIC WORKS MONTHLY REPORT. THIS WILL CLOSE OUT THE FISCAL FIRST QUARTER AND, UH, BECAUSE OF DECEMBER YOU'RE GONNA SEE SOME OF THE NUMBERS ARE DOWN, DOWN THE HOLIDAYS. UH, AMOUNT OF TIME WE WERE CLOSED. SO THERE'S A LITTLE BIT LESS ON THE, UH, INTAKE COMING INTO THE OFFICE, BUT WE STILL HAD 30 INSTALLATION PERMITS AND PUTTING THIS UP 103 FOR THE FISCAL YEAR. UH, PUTTING THIS ON TRACK OF THE AVERAGE FOUR TO 500 NEW INSTALLATIONS THAT WE HAVE EACH YEAR. UH, ADAMS REPAIRS WERE MADE ABOUT THE SAME, UH, 333 CONTRACT RENEWALS. UH, 1,909 INSPECTION REPORTS THAT KIND OF GO HAND IN HAND WITH THOSE CONTRACT RENEWALS. COMPLAINTS WERE UP AT 4 25, YOU KNOW, FROM LAST MONTH WAS THREE 19, AND, UH, WE'VE ONLY CLOSED OUT 268 OF THOSE COMPLAINTS A LOT. THAT HAS ALSO ATTRIBUTED THE FACT THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE THE NUMBER OF DAYS IN THIS MONTH TO FOLLOW UP ON THIS COMPLAINT. UH, WE FILED A, I BELIEVE A RECORD NUMBER OF 81 COURT CASES THIS MONTH AND ONLY HAD ABOUT 20% OF THE PEOPLE SHOW UP FOR THAT COURT. SO, WE'LL, WE'LL ADDRESS THOSE OTHER ISSUES DOWN THE LINE. THE INITIAL INSPECTIONS ARE, UH, 35 FOR THE MONTH ARE PRETTY TRUE TO THE NORMAL. AND THEN THE FOLLOW UPS, OF COURSE, WERE DOWN AGAIN FOR THE, UH, JUST THE LACK OF TOTAL WORK DAYS IN THE MONTH, DECEMBER. BUT, UH, WHAT I HAVE FOUND IMPRESSIVE IS THE, UH, QUARTERLY FISCAL FIRST QUARTER FISCAL FOR THE, UH, YEAR GONNA BE 93,000 ON THE REVENUES THAT'S GOING TO PUT US, THIS IS THE SLOW QUARTER, THE THIRD QUARTER. IT'S TYPICALLY THE LARGEST QUARTER, SECOND QUARTER AVERAGE. SO WE'RE, WE'RE ON TRACK FOR ABOUT A HALF A MILLION REVENUE WITH THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. YOU FULLY STAFF BEHIND THAT DEPARTMENT? YES, SIR. OKAY. AND MAYBE LOOKING FOR MORE IF IT'S CONTINUED, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE DOING GOOD. YEAH, WE JUST RECENTLY FULLY STAFFED BUT STILL HAD SOME TRAINING, BUT, UH, THEY'RE DOING WELL. CATCHING ON REAL WELL. THE, UH, NEXT REPORT IS THE FIRE MARSHAL'S OFFICE REPORT, THEN A DRY YEAR, DRY END OF THE YEAR. WE HAVE 10 STRUCTURE FIRE CALLS, UH, SEVERAL OF WHICH WERE SIGNIFICANT FIRES THAT WE STILL HAVE ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS ON. UH, FOUR VEHICLE FIRES FOR THE MONTH AS EVERYONE'S WELL AWARE OF OUR GRASS BRUSH AND HAY TYPE FIRES, YOU KNOW, WAS UP SIGNIFICANTLY. UH, WE'VE EVEN HAD SOME ASSISTANCE FROM OTHER, UH, DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE COUNTY THAT HAVE ASSISTANCE WITH HAY GRASS FIRES AS OF LAKE. SAW THAT PICTURE? YES SIR. AND, UH, THE ILLEGAL FIRES FROM BURN BAND TYPE FIRES. UH, WE ONLY HAD ABOUT FIVE. PEOPLE ARE DOING PRETTY WELL THERE. [01:05:01] OUR, UH, KIND OF A GENERALIZED CATEGORY. IT'S OUR CONTROL BURNS, FALSE ALARMS, NON-EMERGENT TYPE CALLS. UH, WE HAD 19 OF THOSE. IF Y'ALL DO NEED THIS BROKEN DOWN MORE SPECIFICALLY, LET ME KNOW AND I CAN GET THAT TO YOU. I'M JUST, JUST TRYING TO KEEP IT AS A ONE PAGE REPORT FOR YOU. OUR INSPECTIONS ARE, UH, PRETTY MUCH HOLDING AVERAGE ABOUT 32. UH, WE HAVE EIGHT FOLLOW UPS ON THOSE, UH, SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN OUR, UH, WARRANT SERVICE ARRESTS AND CITATIONS. ALSO DUE TO THE INCREASED NUMBER OF FIRES THAT WE'VE HAD, YOU KNOW, THE FIRES AND, UH, BROUGHT IN 18 NEW PERMITS. YOU'LL SEE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE QUARTER THERE. WE START OFF AT 10. SO WE'RE, WE'RE STARTING TO SEE A BIGGER INCREASE IN THE NUMBERS 21 LAST MONTH, 18 THIS MONTH ON THE NEW PERMITS COMING IN, SUBMITTAL, SOME PLAN REVIEWS. AND THEN THE, UH, THE FINANCIALS DOWN AT THE BOTTOM. UH, LAST MONTH WAS A SIGNIFICANT, UH, REVENUE FOR THE COUNTY, BUT IT WAS ALSO TWO PRETTY LARGE PROJECTS WERE BACKED DOWN TO AVERAGE OF, YOU KNOW, FIVE TO 6,000 A MONTH AS WELL. IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS? QUESTIONS FOR THE FIRE MARSHAL PUBLIC WORKS? CORRECT. GOOD REPORT. THANK YOU. HAVE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE MOTION. I'LL SAY MR. BARBER. MOTION. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. A UH, ITEM NUMBER 18 IS PRESENT. ACCEPT THE AUDITORS MONTHLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER, 2017. YES SIR. UM, YOU GOT THESE EARLIER IN THE MAIL. MM-HMM. I HOPE YOU HAD TIME TO REVIEW 'EM. THEY'RE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? ANYTHING SPECIFIC YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW OR ASK ABOUT? WELL, IT'S COOL ABOUT THE DON VOTE. OH YEAH. I FIGURED YOU'D LIKE THAT. THAT'S, THAT'S THE KIND OF LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE I LIKE TO HAVE. THE, UH, OUTSIDE AUDITORS GIVE YOU A, A, UH, ANY KIND OF INDICATION THEY MAY HAVE THE OUTSIDE AUDIT READY? NO, SIR. THEY'VE DONE, UH, A LOT OF THEIR FIELD WORK ALREADY. OKAY. AND WE'RE STILL ANSWERING QUESTIONS AND THEN THEY USUALLY START COMING IN ABOUT FEBRUARY AND MARCH, BUT I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM JOHN YET. OKAY. ALRIGHT. ANY QUESTIONS ON THE UH, UH, AUDITOR'S MONTHLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER, 2017? NO, NOT I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ACCEPT THAT REPORT. MAKE MAKES THAT MOTION TO HAVE A SECOND. SECOND, MR. HUNT. SECOND THE MOTION. ALL FAVOR SAY AYE. A. THOSE OPPOSED. NEXT ONE IS THE, UH, PRESENTATION AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE OFFICER'S OR QUARTER REPORTS FOR THE QUARTER ENDING DECEMBER 31ST, 2017, WHICH WE ALL HAVE A COPY OF IT. ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I'D CALL IT TO YOUR ATTENTION THAT LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME OUR, OUR REVENUES WEREN'T BUT AT 14 MILLION AND THIS YEAR IS ALMOST 20 MILLION. YEAH. SO CHANGING SOME THINGS AROUND AND TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS ECONOMY, GETTING A LITTLE BIT BETTER AND EVERYBODY'S PAYING THEIR BILLS. SOMETHING YEAH, I'M GETTING TAX SALES OUT EARLIER. YES. THAT HELPS. NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. SO ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE THE OFFICER ABOUT THE ORDER OF THE INVESTMENT BEFORE NOT ON ENTERTAINED MOTION TO ACCEPT MR. PHILLIPS MAKES THAT MOTION. I HAVE A SECOND FAVOR SAY AYE. OPPOSED? AND NOW, UH, APPROVING THE LINE ITEM TRANSFERS, WE HAD SOME LINE ITEM TRANSFERS AND SOME BUDGET AMENDMENTS. UM, EVERY YEAR WE ALWAYS BUDGET TO TRANSFER MONEY OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND TO JUVENILE PROBATION. THEY GOT SOME ADDITIONAL FUNDING AND THEN THEY CUT SOME PROGRAMS AND, UM, SHE DIDN'T NEED ALL OF THE TRANSFER THAT WE WERE GONNA GIVE HER. SO I TOOK BACK $25,889 AND I'M PUTTING IT BACK IN CONTINGENCY INTO THE GENERAL FUND. AND I WANTED YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHY I'M DOING THAT. OKAY MAAM. OKAY. UH, AND THEN THE OTHER TRANSFER IS FIXING HER FUNDS. LIKE SHE WANTED IT. WE MET WITH HER SEVERAL TIMES AND ASK FOR INFORMATION AND WE DIDN'T GET IT IN TIME BECAUSE YOU KNOW HOW THE STATE IS SOMETIMES THEY MAKE THEM WAIT BEFORE THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE GONNA GET AND WHAT THEY CAN DO WITH IT. SO NOW WE'RE HAVING TO FIX THEIR BUDGET [01:10:01] DUE TO THAT. AND THAT'S WHY THERE'S SO MANY TRANSFERS. THE BUDGET AMENDMENTS ARE DUE TO, UH, MS. PAM GETTING US A GRANT FOR SOME FIRST RESPONDER SAFETY EQUIPMENT OF UH, $58,364. SO I NEED TO UH, MAKE A LINE ITEM TO BE ABLE FOR THEM TO SPEND THAT AND I NEED TO MAKE A LINE ITEM TO RECORD THAT REVENUE OF THAT GRANT. SO THAT'S WHAT THAT IS. THEN THERE'S ONE MORE FOR THE GENERAL FUND. UM, THAT WE ARE PAYING A BILL FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, $3,773 AND WE'RE PUTTING 179,000 INTO CONTINGENCY TILL JUDGE WOOD BRINGS IT TO THE COURT. WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO OR MAINTENANCE NEEDS TO DO WITH SOME OF THE BUILDINGS. BUT, UM, THEN I'M PUTTING IT, UM, REVENUE IN A REVENUE LINE ITEM AND 182,000 807 67. AND THEN, UM, THE REST OF IT IS FIXING JUVENILE PROBATION'S BUDGET. THEN THEY HAVE, UH, ADMISSIONS, WE GOT, UM, SOME ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT WE HAD TO TRANSFER AROUND TO FIX THAT. RIGHT. THAT'S ON ANOTHER GRANT. IT'S NOT AN GENERAL PLAN AND I BELIEVE ON THAT, UH, UH, ADDITIONAL, THE LARGE AMOUNT, THE 179,000, I BELIEVE WE HAVE THAT ON THE AGENDA FOR WEDNESDAY, I BELIEVE TO OFFICIALLY HANDLE THAT, BUT RIGHT. THE TRANSFER ALREADY. AND I, I THINK ONE OF THE MAIN REASON IS WE WANTED TO BE ABLE TO WRITE THAT CHECK FOR THE 3,700 THAT WE OWE AND, UH, WITHOUT THE BUDGET RIGHT. GET MONEY. I CAN'T PAY THAT. YEAH, I, I TOTALLY AGREE. BUT, SO I JUST WANTED TO EXPLAIN IT IN CASE THERE'S ANYTHING YOU WANTED TO QUESTION ME ABOUT OR SEE THE BACKUP OF WHY WE DID WHAT WE DID. THANK YOU DID A GREAT JOB OF GETTING ALL THE INFORMATION TO US. SO ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OF THE AUDITOR NOW ON THE LINE? ITEM TRANSFERS? IF NOT, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THOSE WHENEVER MR. BARBARA MAKES THAT MOTION. I SECOND. I SECOND MR. PHILLIPS SECOND MOTION. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. THOSE OPPOSED. STAND THEN ITEM NUMBER 21 IS TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER CLAIMS FOR PAYMENT. YOU WERE EMAILED A LISTING OF ALL THE BILLS AND I'M CHANGING. I HAD AN INVOICE SENT TO ME THAT WAS FOR 12,500 AND IT WAS FOR CONCRETE FOR THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER FOR DIG ROCK. THEN THE SAME DEPARTMENT SENT ME ANOTHER INVOICE FOR 13 FIVE. THE ORIGINAL PO WAS FOR 13 FIVE. SO I DON'T WANNA HAVE TO WRITE ANOTHER THOUSAND DOLLARS CHECK AND Y'ALL APPROVE IT. WAIT FOR TO GET SIGNED AND ALL. I'D LIKE TO ADD A THOUSAND DOLLARS 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT Y'ALL APPROVED ORIGINALLY. AND INCREASE THE BILLS INSTEAD OF 283. 946 65. I WANT IT TO BE 284. 946 65. AND THE REASON, THE REASON FOR THIS IS THE, UH, THAT'S THE CONCRETE I THINK THAT WE, UH, PAID OUT OF THE CAPITAL CREDITS FUND. YES. UH, FOR IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER I BELIEVE. YEAH. SENT THE WRONG EXACTLY. WELL SEE IT. AND THE REASON WHY I'M SAYING I'M GONNA PAY IT NOW IS BECAUSE THEY SENT THE NEW ONE WITH THE SAME INVOICE, NU NUMBER, NUMBER, THE SAME DATE AND EVERYTHING. AND MY SYSTEM WON'T LET ME PUT AN INVOICE IN TWICE. TWICE BECAUSE IT THROWS IT OUT. YOU GOT A PROBLEM, YOU'RE PAYING SOMETHING TWICE. YES. SO I'D JUST RATHER GO AHEAD AND CORRECT IT AND GET IT PAID AND UH, KW CAN GO IN THERE BEFORE WE PRINT CHECKS AND CHANGE THAT ABOUT ADD A THOUSAND TO IT. SO THEN THAT BILL IS PAID. JUST TRYING TO GIVE A THOUSAND DOLLARS DISCOUNT. YEAH, THAT'D BE GOOD IF WE DO THAT. I LIKE WELL IT'S FOR T AND T NOW YOU'RE GONNA HAVE ANOTHER INVOICE FOR A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN THAT. RIGHT. FOR SOME ADDITIONAL BUT WE HAVEN'T, DON'T EVEN HAVE A W NINE ON THERE THAT YET. THAT'S SEPARATE. THAT'S A SEPARATE THING. YEAH, SEPARATE. IF YOU'VE DRIVEN OUT BY THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER, IT LOOKS GOOD. IT GOOD. AND IT GAVE THEM SOME ADDITIONAL PARKING PLACES AND EVERYTHING, SO THEY'RE VERY PLEASED WITH IT. UH, LOOKED NICE AND ABLE TO PAY FOR IT OUTTA THAT CAPITAL PREVIOUS FUND THAT WE'D GET. GET BACK INTO. I WAS TOLD BY THE STAFF THAT I WAS THE INAUGURAL USER OF THAT. OKAY. SO I HOPE YOU DIDN'T CRACK IT RIGHT OVER OR ANYTHING. I DIDN'T. AND I DIDN'T GET OUT AND WRITE MY NAME. THAT'S A GOOD THING TOO. SO ALL DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE COMPLAINT? RIGHT? I, MR. PHILLIPS, HAVE A SECOND MR. HUNT. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. A. THOSE [01:15:01] OPPOSED DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? MR. PHILLIPS? BARBARA, WHERE ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? THERE I'M GOING. OH, OKAY. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.