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          ALL RIGHT. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          WELCOME TO COMMISSIONER'S COURT BUDGET WORKSHOP TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD, 2026. 
          UM, GOING OFF OUR AMENDED NOTICE OF MEETING, WE'LL 
          [1. Communications, including citizens who signed the register to speak, and reports.]
GO WITH AGENDA ITEM ONE, CI, COMMUNICATIONS CITIZENS WHO SIGNED, REGISTERED SPEAK. 
          FIRST ONE WILL BE PATRICIA CASTILLO. 
          WELCOME BACK. 
          PATRICIA. 
          OH, YOU'RE YIELDING. 
          YES, SIR. 
          NO PEOPLE. 
          PATRICIA, EVERYBODY YIELDS TO YOU. 
          . 
          ALRIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, ROSE RODRIGUEZ, ROBIN. 
          YEAH. 
          YES. 
          ALRIGHT, YOU'LL YIELD YOUR TIME. 
          SO, ROSE, YOU GOT SIX, SIX MINUTES. 
          GOOD MORNING EVERYONE, AND THANK YOU. 
          UM, COMMISSIONERS, PLEASE PROTECT THE STAR PROGRAMS WHILE BALANCING THE BUDGET TO NOT HAVE IT ENDANGEREDS REAL PEOPLE AND UNDERMINES JUSTICE RIGHT HERE IN BEX COUNTY. 
          BEXAR COUNTY DID SOMETHING INCREDIBLE BY BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER, THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, RAC AND TEXAS FORENSIC NURSE EXAMINERS. 
          THEY CREATED A SYSTEM OR SPECIALIZED FORENSIC NURSES RESPONDED ME IMMEDIATELY TO SURVIVORS 24 7. 
          THAT DISPATCH SYSTEM SAY SURVIVORS FROM SITTING THROUGH AGONIZING DELAYS OR TRAVELING FROM PLACE TO PLACE WHILE TRAUMATIZED AND I NOTE TRAUMATIZED, IT BRINGS EXPERT COMPASSIONATE CARE RIGHT TO THEM WHILE ENSURING EVIDENCE NEEDED TO LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS IS PROPERLY GATHERED. 
          I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I LIVED IT WHEN I WAS RAPED, I FROZE EVEN AS AN EDUCATION PERSON WHO THOUGHT I KNEW WHAT I WOULD DO IN A CRISIS. 
          I DIDN'T AND I COULDN'T FUNCTION. 
          UM, UNLESS YOU'VE EXPERIENCED SEXUAL ASSAULT, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT GOES ON IN A SURVIVOR'S HEAD UNLESS YOU EXPERIENCE SEXUAL ASSAULT. 
          WILL YOU FULLY GATHER THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS PROGRAM? WHEN I FINALLY FOUND THE COURAGE TO REACH OUT, IT WAS A FORENSIC NURSE WHO HELPED MY HAND THROUGH IT ALL. 
          SHE MADE ME FEEL SAFE, REASSURED ME, AND GUIDED ME THROUGH THE HARDEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE. 
          THIS SYSTEM IS ACTIVELY SAVING LIVES AND BRINGING JUSTICE AND IS A MASSIVE SERVICE TO SURVIVORS LIKE ME. 
          IF I COULD REMEMBER THE NURSE'S NAME, I WOULD GO BACK AND THANK HER, BUT I DON'T. 
          PLEASE, PLEASE, COMMISSIONERS PROTECT OUR SURVIVORS AND KEEP FUNDING FOR THE STAR PROGRAM NOW AND FOR IN THE FUTURE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, LINDA JIMENEZ. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          I'M HERE TO ADVOCATE THE CONTINUED FUNDING FOR THE SAFETY TEAM ACTIVE RESPONSE PROGRAM, ALSO KNOWN AS THE STAR PROGRAM. 
          YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD THE ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS PROGRAM AS A METHOD TO ADDRESS THE STARTING SITUATION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          THE STAR PROGRAM'S INNOVATIVE APPROACH IS GROUNDBREAKING, NOT ONLY IN ITS COLLABORATION WITH SIGNIFICANT PARTNERS, BUT THE IMPACT IT CAN AND DOES HAVE BY PROVIDING ON THE SPOT SERVICES TO SUPPORT THE VICTIM. 
          SPECIFICALLY, THE STAR PROGRAM PROVIDES ITS CLIENTS AND OTHER CHILDREN, AND OFTEN THEIR CHILDREN WITH HOTEL STAYS WHEN THEY CAN'T GO HOME. 
          DOORBELL CAMERAS TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHO'S AT THE DOOR, GIFT CARDS TO HEB, TO GET THE PROVISIONS THEY NEED AFTER FLEEING THEIR HOMES NEEDED TRANSPORTATION AND SUPPLIES. 
          STAR IS ESTIMATED TO HAVE SERVED OVER 3000 INCIDENTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DURING FISCAL YEAR 2025, RESULTING IN 26,000 INTERACTIONS WITH VICTIMS, THEIR FAMILIES, AND THE GREATER COMMUNITY. 
          THIS IS NOT BAD FOR A TEAM OF 15 STAR HAS PROVIDED TRAINING SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN THE BELIEF THAT IF PEOPLE KNOW WHAT TO DO TO TAKE CARE OF AND PROTECT VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, THEY WILL. 
          BEXAR COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH. 
          A COLLABORATOR IN THE STAR PROGRAM HAS TRAINED ALL PATROL INVESTIGATORS AND OTHER STAFF OF BEXAR COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. 
          THEY HAVE ALSO PROVIDED TRAINING AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 1 0 1 FOR MEMBERS OF THE GREATER COMMUNITY. 
          THEY HAVE MADE YOUR CONSTITUENTS STRONGER AND MORE INFORMED TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THEIR NEIGHBORS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OCCURS. 
          AND WE ALL KNOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HAS NO RE REGARD FOR WHO YOU ARE REGARDLESS OF ETHNICITY, INCOME, IMMIGRATION STATUS, AND GENDER. 
          THE STAR PROGRAM'S GROUNDBREAKING COLLABORATIVE APPROACH GIVES THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO NOT ONLY ADDRESS THE IMMEDIATE NEEDS 
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OF VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, BUT TO BECOME AWARE OF THE FOLLOW ON NEEDS AS WELL. 
          ADDRESSING THESE FOLLOW ON NEEDS CAN PROVIDE STABILITY AND SAFETY FOR THE VICTIM THAT HAS PRE PREVIOUSLY BEEN MISSING, CAUSING MANY VICTIMS TO RETURN TO THE SITUATION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO RECOURSE. 
          THIS PROGRAM HAS DONE AN INCREDIBLE JOB OF ADDRESSING THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE THAT MANY HAVE HAD TO SUFFER THROUGH IN THE PAST WITHOUT ADEQUATE SUPPORT OR UNDERSTANDING. 
          PLEASE UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STAR PROGRAM AND CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THIS GROUNDBREAKING, INNOVATIVE APPROACH YOU HAVE PUT INTO PLACE. 
          I KNOW YOU CARE ABOUT THE WELLBEING OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS, SO YOU'LL UNDERSTAND THAT PROTECTING THE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS EASILY AS IMPORTANT OR MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING ELSE YOU WOULD CONSIDER WITH THIS BUDGET. 
          MAINTAIN THE CURRENT FUNDING OR INCREASE IT TO SHOW YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HAS ON THIS COMMUNITY. 
          ITS INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES. 
          YOU'RE, YOU'RE PUT, YOU'VE PUT IT IN PLACE. 
          PLEASE DON'T LET IT DOWN NOW. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, ROSE. 
          THANK YOU PATRICIA. 
          THANK YOU, LINDA. 
          UH, CAN, MAY I COMMENT? YES. 
          UH, I KNOW WE NORMALLY DON'T COMMENT ON CITIZENS WE HEARD. 
          I JUST WANNA THANK YOU. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          THE FIRST PERSON WHO SPOKE TO SHARE SOMETHING SO PERSONAL AND PRIVATE, UM, AND KNOW THAT WE ARE WORKING WITH 'EM. 
          SO THIS IS THE PROGRAM THAT WE TOOK OVER FROM THE CITY, RIGHT? 'CAUSE THE CITY CUT, IS THAT CORRECT? SO THE CITY CUT IT. 
          SO LET'S BE CLEAR. 
          AND SO WE REALIZE HOW IMPORTANT AND WHAT NEC NECESSITY IT IS FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 
          SO THAT'S WHY WE TOOK IT OVER. 
          RIGHT? AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT WE ARE NOT CUTTING IT, BUT THE CALLS HAVEN'T BEEN AS, UM, FREQUENT AS WE EXPECT IT. 
          SO WE ARE MAYBE LIMITING, BUT WE'RE NOT GONNA CUT IT. 
          AND OF COURSE, IF THE CALLS RAMP UP AND WE NEED TO HIRE SOMEONE ELSE, THEN, THEN OF COURSE, UM, I'M COMMITTED TO FIGHT FOR THAT. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR COMING. 
          ELIZABETH LUTZ. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          GOOD MORNING COMMISSIONERS. 
          UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 
          I'M HERE TO ACTUALLY, UM, GIVE YOU GUYS A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION REGARDING THE IMPACT OF THE, UM, AR ARPA INVESTMENT THAT YOU GUYS DID, UM, UH, TOWARDS COMMUNITY. 
          UM, SO INVESTING IN ARPA RESOURCES IN THE HEALTH COLLABORATIVES PATHWAYS EXPANSION. 
          UM, THIS INVESTMENT DID MORE THAN FUND A PROGRAM. 
          IT BUILT A COUNTYWIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER RESPONSE THAT COULD IDENTIFY NEEDS, STABILIZE FAMILIES, CONNECT RESIDENTS TO SERVICES AND FOLLOW THROUGH UNTIL THOSE CONNECTIONS WERE COMPLETED. 
          AND SERVICES WERE CONFIRMED OVER THE GRANT PERIOD. 
          WE MET, UM, OUR GOAL OF HIRING 25 COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS AND CONDUCTING OVER 397 OUTREACH EVENTS, A HUNDRED AND MET OVER 140%, 47% OF OUR TARGET. 
          UM, IN THE JUNE BENCHMARK REPORT, OUR LAST REPORT THAT WE SUBMITTED, UM, AT RECORDS INDICATE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO, UM, IMPACT OVER 4,000, UM, RESIDENTS JUST IN THIS COMMUNITY ALONE. 
          UM, ABOUT 11,400 NEEDS WERE IDENTIFIED, AND OF THAT 9,309 SERVICES WERE CLOSED. 
          THAT'S AMAZING WORK DONE BY COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS IN THIS COMMUNITY. 
          UM, ABOUT 82 CLOSED SERVICES FOR EVERY 82 CLOSED SERVICES FOR EVERY 100 NEEDS WERE THAT WERE IDENTIFIED. 
          THE LATEST SURVEY SHOWED THAT 92% OF THE CLIENT SATISFIED. 
          92% OF OF CLIENTS WERE SATISFIED WITH THE SERVICES. 
          98% OF PARTNERS WERE SATISFIED WITH THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND PARTNER SUPPORT, AND 97% OF CLIENTS REPORTED GREATER ABILITY TO CARE FOR THEIR HEALTH. 
          THE REACH WAS COUNTYWIDE. 
          UM, IN THE AVAIL, UH, THE AVAILABLE REPORT I JUST WANNA SHARE WITH YOU GUYS. 
          PRECINCT ONE ACCOUNTED FOR ABOUT 38% OF OUR, OF OUR, UM, SERVICE VOLUME PRECINCT TWO ACCOUNTED FOR ANOTHER 29%. 
          PRECINCT THREE AND PRECINCT FOUR ACCOUNTED FOR ABOUT 16 TO 18% EACH. 
          UM, THE NEED DETER THE NEED REALLY DETERMINED THE INTENSITY OF THE SUPPORT. 
          BUT EVERY COMMISSIONER PRECINCT REALLY BENEFITED. 
          AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS EACH OF YOUR, UM, SPECIFIC AREAS, THE, UH, FINDINGS THAT WE HAVE AND ALSO THE WAY THE SERVICES WERE RENDERED TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS. 
          THE ARPA, UM, SUPPORTED INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, ALLOWED US TO RESPOND QUICKLY WHEN FAMILIES FACED A CRISIS. 
          OUR BROADER FINANCIAL REPORTS, UH, REFLECT APPRO APPROXIMATELY $341,000 IN CLIENT ASSISTANCE THROUGH JUNE OF 2026. 
          SO THIS IS SHARED REVENUE, NOT JUST BY ARPA INVESTMENT, BUT FOR OTHER, UM, OTHER FUNDERS THAT WERE ABLE TO COME TO THE, TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE FAMILIES. 
          THE HIGHEST VOLUME NEEDS CENTERED AROUND SOCIAL SERVICES, UM, HEALTH EDUCATION, FOLLOWED BY MEDICAL ACCESS, FOOD SECURITY, AND HOUSING, HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, HEALTH COVERAGE, UM, AND ORAL HEALTH REMAINED AMONG THE MOST DIFFICULT BARRIERS TO RESOLVE THROUGH THE ARPA PERIOD ENDING THROUGH JUNE 30TH. 
          THE WORK DID NOT, THE, THE, 
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WHILE THE ARPA FUNDING, UM, ENDED JUNE 30TH, THE WORK DID NOT. 
          ACTIVE CLIENTS WERE TRANSITIONED INTO OUR BROADER COMMUNITY CARE COORDINATION POOL, AND WE ARE SUSTAINING THE STRONGEST COMPONENT THROUGH PAYER CONTRACTS, NEW GRANTS, PARTNER CONTRIBUTIONS, AND REOCCURRING NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC, UM, CLINICS THAT WE'RE RUNNING. 
          THE NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ARE A NEXT EVOLUTION OF THESE, THIS INVESTMENT. 
          AND THESE ARE NOT ONE-TIME HEALTH FAIRS, BUT TRUSTED ACCESS POINTS FOR PREVENTION, NAVIGATION, DIRECT RESOURCES, AND FOLLOW UP. 
          UM, I WANNA SHARE WITH YOU THAT IN SUMMARY, UM, ARPA HELPED BEXAR COUNTY BUILD LASTING COMMUNITY CAPACITY, A TRAINED WORKFORCE, A COUNTYWIDE REACH, UM, EMERGENCY STABILIZATION, CLOSED LOOP CARE COORDINATION, AND NEIGHBORHOOD BASED FRONT DOOR SERVICES THAT CONTINUE BEYOND A GRANT PERIOD. 
          WE'RE ESPECIALLY GRATEFUL FOR BEXAR COUNTY'S PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT, DR. ANDREA GUERRERO AND HER STAFF FOR SUPPORTING US, GUIDING US, AND TRUSTING US TO DELIVER THESE RESOURCES. 
          SO AGAIN, WE THANK YOU FOR THE INVESTMENT THAT YOU'VE MADE. 
          WE KNOW YOU HAVE DIFFICULT DECISIONS AHEAD OF YOU. 
          WE JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION AND SOME BACKGROUND ON HOW COMMUNITY RESPONDED WITH THE INVESTED DOLLARS THAT YOU PROVIDED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, LET'S 
          [2. Presentations and discussion regarding the proposed Bexar County Fiscal Year 2026-27 Operating and Capital Budgets related to appropriations and/or capital expenditures for the following County offices and departments:]
GO INTO AGENDA ITEM TWO. 
          COURT. 
          MAY I REMIND Y'ALL, WE HAVE A VERY LONG LIST OF BUDGET PRESENTATIONS, AND I BELIEVE THE BUDGET OFFICE WILL LEAD THE CONVERSATIONS AND ALL OF 'EM. 
          SO LET'S GET THROUGH THIS, MAKE SURE WE HEAR FROM OUR ELECTEDS OR DEPARTMENTS, BUT I'M ALSO MINDFUL THAT WE NEED TO MOVE THE AGENDA ALONG. 
          SO, MS. GAAN, WE'LL START WITH, UH, AGENDA A, WHICH IS AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT GRANT PROGRAMS AND POSITIONS CURRENTLY FUNDED THROUGH DECEMBER 31ST, 2026 NINTH MONTH PERIOD WE REFERENCED. 
          AND THE BELOW ITEMS WILL BE FOR THE REMAINDER OF FISCAL YEAR 26, 27, SPECIFICALLY JANUARY 1ST, 2027 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2027. 
          FIRST UP, REQUEST FROM BIBLIOTECH REGARDING A PROGRAM CHANGE TO ADD SIX BIBLIOTECH DIGITAL NAVIGATORS FROM NINE MONTHS OF CONTINGENCY TO THE GENERAL FUND AND THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $273,831. 
          MS. GAAN, GOOD MORNING JUDGE AND COMMISSIONERS FOR THE RECORD. 
          MY NAME IS TANYA GAAN, BUDGET AND FINANCE DIRECTOR. 
          UH, LIKE YOU MENTIONED, JUDGE, THE FIRST ITEM WE WILL DISCUSS IS THE REQUEST FROM BIBLIOTECH. 
          SO, BIBLIOTECH, UH, REQUESTED TO RETAIN SIX DIGITAL NAVIGATORS FOR A COST OF $273,000. 
          UH, THESE POSITIONS WERE A PART OF THE DIGITAL DIGITAL INCLUSION PROGRAM TO IMPROVE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE. 
          SO THESE, UH, INDIVIDUALS HELP CONSTITUENTS DIRECTLY. 
          THE BUDGET DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDS ONLY RETAINING TWO PART-TIME POSITIONS AT $45,000 BASED ON THE WORKLOAD. 
          CURRENTLY, THE POSITIONS CONDUCT ONE HOUR SESSIONS WITH ABOUT EIGHT TO NINE PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING THOSE SESSIONS. 
          THE NAVIGATORS CONDUCT ABOUT 15 SESSIONS A WEEK, WHICH REQUIRING ABOUT 15 HOURS. 
          UM, ADDING THE TWO PART-TIME POSITIONS WOULD PROVIDE ABOUT 40 HOURS OF COVERAGE FOR A WEEK, WHICH IS ENOUGH TO COVER, UM, EACH OF THOSE SESSIONS. 
          AND, UH, AT ONE PER SESSION, THEY USUALLY PAIR UP, BUT WE'RE JUST RECOMMENDING THAT THEY, UM, ADDRESS IT BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF THE, UM, CLASSES. 
          UM, ANY QUESTIONS? THAT'S, UH, MY PRESENTATION'S PRETTY SHORT. 
          I JUST WANNA PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION TO WE'RE RECOMMENDING TO PART-TIME VERSUS THE SIXTH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          LAURA COLE, OR WHOEVER FROM LIO TECH. 
          GOOD MORNING JUDGE AND COMMISSIONERS. 
          LAURA COLE, LIO TECH DIRECTOR. 
          I'M HOPING TO ADD A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT TO WHAT TANYA JUST, UH, PROVIDED WITH YOU. 
          I'M HERE TODAY TO REQUEST CONTINUATION OF FUNDING FOR BIBLIO TECH'S SIX DIGITAL NAVIGATOR POSITIONS. 
          BIBLIO TECH WAS CREATED 13 YEARS AGO WITH A MISSION TO EQUIP ALL BEXAR COUNTY RESIDENTS WITH THE TOOLS TO THRIVE AS CITIZENS OF THE DIGITAL AGE, AND A VISION TO BE THE DRIVING FORCE FOR TRADITIONAL AND DIGITAL LITERACY IN BEXAR COUNTY. 
          AS, UM, AS YOU ALL HEARD ON TUESDAY, BEXAR COUNTY HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN BROADBAND AND DEVICE ACCESS. 
          SADLY, EVEN AFTER 13 YEARS, BIBLIO TECH COUNTY STILL, OR EXCUSE ME, BEXAR COUNTY, STILL FACES A DIGITAL ADOPTION WALL, PARTICULARLY AMONG OUR SENIORS, OUR ESL POPULATION, AND THOSE WITH MOBILITY CHALLENGES. 
          ACCORDING TO 24 25, DATA FROM PEW RESEARCH SENIORS ACROSS THE COUN COUNTRY ARE AT RISK FOR DIGITAL EXCLUSION. 
          IN SENIORS IN BEXAR COUNTY ARE NO DIFFERENT ONLINE SERVICES THAT COULD BE USED TO ENHANCE INDEPENDENCE, IMPROVE HEALTHCARE, REDUCE SOCIAL ISOLATION, AND IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE, ARE UNAVAILABLE TO THEM BECAUSE THEY LACK THE SKILLS OR THE CONFIDENCE TO ACCESS THEM. 
          I'M NOT GONNA GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE STATISTICS, BUT PARTICULARLY NOTEWORTHY IS THE FACT THAT DESPITE THEIR LACK OF ABILITY, 
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THERE'S A STRONG DESIRE AMONG OUR SENIORS TO LEARN. 
          SO IN RESPONSE TO THIS, UH, THE DIGITAL NAVIGATOR PROGRAM WAS DEVELOPED TO MEET THE GROWING DEMAND FOR PERSONALIZED SUPPORT THAT BUILDS CONFIDENCE, DIGITAL LITERACY, AND LONG-TERM CAPABILITY. 
          WE HIRED A TEAM OF SIX FULL-TIME. 
          ANY NAVIG, ANY ONE NAVIGATORS, THE NAVIGATORS WERE INTERVIEWED AND HIRED FROM AMONG THE BIBLIOTECH STAFF. 
          THIS IS SIGNIFICANT FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. 
          FIRST AND FOREMOST, YOU HAVE ALL PROBABLY HEARD ME SAY MULTIPLE TIMES THAT WHERE STAFF IS CONCERNED, BIBLIOTECH SUFFERS FROM AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES. 
          OUR STAFF ARE MISSION MINDED AND LIVE OUT OUR CORE VALUES EVERY DAY. 
          SO IT WAS IMPORTANT TO ME THAT THIS SPECIALIZED TEAM OF NAVIGATORS START WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIBLIOTECH WAY OF DOING THINGS, OF RELATIONSHIP AND COMPASSION, AND MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE LEARNERS WHEREVER THEY ARE. 
          WHEN THESE INDIVIDUALS EXPRESSED INTEREST IN THE NAVIGATOR POSITION, IT WAS FOR A REASON. 
          IT WAS BECAUSE THEY FELT CALLED TO DO SO. 
          THE NAVIGATORS ARE THE SAME PAY GRADE AS OUR TECHNICAL CENTER ASSISTANTS, AND THEY HAVE ALL WORKED AT OUR BRANCHES. 
          THEIR FOCUS AS NAVIGATORS IS TRAINING AND INSTRUCTION, AND THEY HAVE SPENT MANY HOURS PRACTICING AND LEARNING TO TEACH BOTH IN A CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT AND ONE-ON-ONE. 
          ADDITIONALLY, THEY ALSO PROVIDE BRANCH SUPPORT AS NEEDED, AND OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT AS NEEDED. 
          SO IF THEY'RE NOT PROVIDING INSTRUCTION, THEY'RE HELPING AT OUR BRANCHES OR THEY'RE WORKING COMMUNITY EVENTS. 
          OUR OBJECTIVES FOR THIS PROGRAM WERE TO INCREASE CONFIDENCE, IMPROVE ABILITY TO BE SAFE, ONLINE SUPPORT, ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL SERVICES, TELEHEALTH, COMMUNICATION, GOVERNMENT, ET CETERA, REDUCE ISOLATION, REMOVE BARRIERS, INCLUDING TRANSPORTATION COST AND DIGITAL LITERACY NAVIGATORS ARE TRAINED USING THE NORTH STAR DIGITAL LITERACY CURRICULUM, WHICH IS REALLY THE GOLD STANDARD OF ALL DIGITAL LITERACY CURRICULUMS IN THE UNITED STATES. 
          WE OFFER INSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH IN ONE-ON-ONE SITUATIONS AS WELL AS CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENTS. 
          WE ARE AT TRUSTED COMMUNITY LOCATIONS AND IN-HOME THROUGH MEALS ON WHEELS, REFERRALS. 
          OUR TARGET POPULATIONS ARE OLDER ADULTS, LOW INCOME RESIDENTS, MOBILITY CHALLENGED, AND THOSE WITH LIMITED, UH, DIGITAL OR ENGLISH LITERACY. 
          I WANNA SHOW YOU A LIST OF OUR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS WHERE WE, UH, CURRENTLY OUR ON LOCATION OR HAVE BEEN ON LOCATION IN THE PAST. 
          AND WE'LL REVISIT AGAIN BASED ON THE PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS. 
          THE ONE, UH, ORGAN PARTNER ORGANIZATION THAT I WANNA HIGHLIGHT TODAY, AND I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO KNOW ABOUT, IS OUR MEALS ON WHEELS PARTNERSHIP NAVIGATORS PROVIDE INSTRUCTION AT LOCAL, SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTERS. 
          BUT THE QUESTION OF HOW TO REACH THE HOME BOUND SENIOR POPULATION REMAINED, THIS IS A TOUGH NUT TO CRACK, YET. 
          IT IS EXACTLY ONE THAT WE ARE MISSION BOUND TO SOLVE. 
          THE HOME BOUND FACED MULTIPLE BARRIERS, TRANSPORTATION ACCESSIBLE SPACES, EVEN IDENTIFYING, UM, THOSE WHO NEED ASSISTANCE. 
          BIBLIOTECH FOUND ITS SOLUTION THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP WITH MEALS ON WHEELS. 
          MEALS ON WHEELS RECEIVED A GRANT TO PURCHASE TABLETS AND ENROLLS CLIENTS TO LEARN DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS. 
          BIBLIOTECH SETS UP THE TABLETS, LOADS THEM UP WITH APPS, AND THEN IF A CLIENT SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES FOUR HOURS OF DIGITAL LITERACY TRAINING WITH A NAVIGATOR, THEY GET TO KEEP THE TABLET. 
          MOST OF OUR MEALS ON WHEELS CLIENTS DON'T WANNA STOP AT FOUR LESSONS THEY USUALLY WANT TO GO FOR THEIR AVERAGE IS SIX TO EIGHT, UH, DIGITAL LITERACY SESSIONS. 
          THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN SO SUCCESSFUL IN FACT THAT MEALS ON WHEELS HAS APPLIED FOR AN ADDITIONAL GRANT FOR ANOTHER 50 TABLETS, SO THEY CAN EXPAND THEIR PROGRAM IF THEY DO THAT. 
          THAT REPRESENTS TO US AN ADDITIONAL 300, UH, HOUR INSTRUCTION HOURS OF MEALS ON WHEELS CLIENTS ALONE, YOU KNOW, PAIRING MEAL DELIVERY WITH DIGITAL LITERACY IS UNIQUE AND IT'S BEEN HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL. 
          IT EARNED US A NACO ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN THE HUMAN RESOURCES CATEGORY. 
          AND IT ALSO, IT ALLOWS US TO REACH ALL AREAS OF THE COUNTY. 
          YOU CAN SEE BY THE MAP WHERE JUST THOSE RESIDENTS THAT WE VISITED IN THE COUNTY ARE. 
          SO I'VE GOT TWO PAGES OF CLIENT 
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TESTIMONIALS ARE, ARE, UM, CLIENTS THAT HAVE RECEIVED OUR SERVICES AND WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN IMPACTED SIGNIFICANTLY. 
          UM, I READ THEM, I'LL READ THEM OUT LOUD, BUT AT THAT SEEMS IMMODEST. 
          I DON'T THINK THAT'S NECESS, UH, REALLY NECESSARY. 
          BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW, UM, THAT THEY WERE HAPPY TO PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION TO US. 
          UM, THEY WERE HAPPY TO, UM, TELL US HOW THEY WERE BEING AFFECTED BY THIS PROGRAM. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE OUTCOMES. 
          THE THING ON THIS SLIDE THAT I WANT TO POINT OUT IS THAT 100% OF OUR CLIENTS, UH, HAVE GAINED SUFFICIENT CONFIDENCE THAT THEY WANNA LEARN MORE. 
          UH, THE, THE REQUEST WE'RE CONSTANTLY GETTING FROM OUR, OUR NAVIGATOR CLIENTS IS THEY WANNA LEARN ABOUT AI, THEY WANNA FEEL SAFE WITH AI. 
          THEY WANNA, THEY WANNA KNOW HOW TO MANAGE THEIR LIVES, AND THEY WANNA GAIN THOSE SKILLS THAT WILL ALLOW THEM TO STAY IN PLACE AND BE COMFORTABLE AND, AND REDUCE THEIR ISOLATION. 
          SO I HAVE ALSO INCLUDED FOR YOU IN YOUR PACKETS, TWO LETTERS OF SUPPORT, UM, FROM OUR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH OUR NAVIGATORS. 
          I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS I'M EATING. 
          YES. 
          LET ME TAP DANCE WHILE SHE FINISHES HER SNACK. 
          UM, LAURA, UH, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME THANK YOU IN YOUR, YOUR, UM, ENTIRE TEAM. 
          I KNOW WE GET IN MY PRECINCT A LOT OF USAGE FROM BIBLIOTECH. 
          A LOT OF GREAT FEEDBACK. 
          AND, UM, IT'S NOT JUST THE, THE DIGITAL NAVIGATORS, BUT I THINK, UM, ALL OVER THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, I WANTED TO ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THE MAP. 
          THAT HEAT MAP YOU PUT UP, YES. 
          THERE'S SOME, UH, SHADES OF BLUE THAT ARE A LITTLE MORE INTENSE THAN THE OTHERS. 
          IS THAT JUST ONE ON TOP OF ANOTHER? NO, IT'S THE OVERLAID ADDRESSES. 
          AH, GOTCHA. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, SO, BUT IT'S JUST, THAT'S OVERALL, UM, USAGE OF THE NAVIGATORS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY IS WHAT? THAT THROUGH THE MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAM? THROUGH MEALS ON WHEELS ONLY. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          GOT IT. 
          UM, SO LET ME ASK ABOUT THE, UM, HAVE YOU HAD A CHANCE TO, I GUESS, EVALUATE WHAT THE PROGRAM WOULD LOOK LIKE UNDER BUDGET OFFICE'S PROPOSAL USING, UM, I TWO PART-TIME NAVIGATORS WOULD, I THINK ESSENTIALLY FORCE ME TO SHUT THE PROGRAM DOWN. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, SIMPLY BECAUSE WE WOULDN'T HAVE THE CAPACITY TO MEET ALL THE ONGOING NEEDS AS WELL AS NEW NEEDS THAT WE'RE RECEIVING. 
          OKAY. 
          IT, IT WOULD DELAY, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD, IT WOULD TAKE THAT INSTRUCTION OUT FOR A VERY, VERY LONG PERIOD OF TIME. 
          SO, UM, AND I, I, I DON'T NEED TO UNDERSCORE THIS, BUT YOU, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE IN SOME TOUGH TIMES. 
          UM, WHAT I'D LIKE TO FIGURE OUT IS A WAY, AND MAYBE IT'S, UH, SOME COMPROMISE, UM, BETWEEN WHAT BUDGET'S ASKING FOR AND WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR. 
          I REALLY, UM, APPRECIATE AND UNDERSTAND THE VALUE, PARTICULARLY, UM, OF THOSE HOME-BOUND SENIORS. 
          AND I KNOW WE'VE ALL BEEN SUPPORTERS OF MEALS ON WHEELS AND, AND BEEN OUT TO SOME DELIVERIES. 
          I, AND I THINK, UM, BUT FOR THAT INTERACTION WITH YOUR NAVIGATORS, UH, SOME OF THESE FOLKS WOULD BE CUT OFF FROM, UM, NOT JUST SOCIAL INTERACTION, BUT I THINK THE, THE, THE WORLD THAT OPENS UP TO THEM HAVING ACCESS TO, UM, YOU KNOW, AN IPAD AND, AND THE INTERNET. 
          SO, UM, I'D LIKE TO WORK WITH YOU, LAURA, AND BUDGET TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT WHAT WE CAN LIVE WITH. 
          AGAIN, I THINK WE HAVE TO HAVE THE EXPECTATION THAT SOMETHING'S GONNA HAVE TO BE CUT, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THERE'S SOME COMPROMISE WE CAN WORK OUT. 
          I I JUST REALLY BELIEVE THIS PROGRAM IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE, AND NOT JUST THROUGH THE TESTIMONIALS THAT YOU PROVIDED, WHICH I APPRECIATE, BUT FROM THE FEEDBACK WE GET FROM CONSTITUENTS AS WELL. 
          SO, UM, SO I'LL, UH, THIS IS AGAIN, JUST FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, I'D LIKE TO WORK WITH YOU TO TRY AND WORK SOMETHING OUT. 
          THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. 
          I AND I, I APPRECIATE THAT SO MUCH. 
          AND I, I WANNA SAY THAT I THINK THAT WE HAVE LEFT OURSELVES OPEN TO SORT OF WORKING SOMETHING OUT WITH THE WAY THAT WE'VE ESTABLISHED THIS PROGRAM. 
          THAT THERE, UH, ANY ONE IS JUST LIKE REGULAR BIBLIOTECH EMPLOYEES. 
          I THINK THERE'S SOME ROOM THERE THAT WE CAN WORK, WORK WITH THIS. 
          THANK YOU, JUDGE. 
          OH, COMMISSIONER, HOLD ON. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          JUDGE. 
          COMMISSIONER MOODY. 
          COMMISSIONER CALVERT, BACK TO YOU, COMMISSIONER KLER. 
          UM, SO THERE ARE CURRENTLY, HOW MANY N NAVIGATORS ARE CURRENTLY SIX? 
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SIX FULL-TIME? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          AND BUDGET, YOU'RE RECOMMENDING TWO PART-TIME. 
          SO I THINK WHEN I MET WITH Y'ALL, I ALREADY MENTIONED THAT I DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA. 
          I PERSONALLY HAVE BEEN AT EVENTS OR SENIOR CENTERS AND HAVE SEEN THE NAVIGATORS THERE. 
          UM, I AGREE WITH WHAT COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ SAID, MAYBE WE CAN'T KEEP ALL SIX, BUT WE NEED TO DEFINITELY KEEP FULL-TIME POSITIONS. 
          I AGREE. 
          AND IF WE GO BACK TO THAT MAP, UM, I THINK THIS MAP'S A LITTLE MISLEADING BECAUSE THIS IS ONLY THE WORK WITH MEALS ON WHEELS. 
          THAT'S CORRECT. 
          DO YOU HAVE A MAP THAT SHOWS WHERE, BECAUSE IF YOU JUST LOOK AT THIS MAP, IT LOOKS LIKE, OKAY, WELL YOU'RE NOT IN AN OUR UNINCORPORATED AREAS AND THAT'S NOT CORRECT. 
          NO, WE DON'T, THE REASON I DIDN'T PUT THOSE IN IS BECAUSE, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN WE'RE DOWN AT SENIOR, WELL, WHEN WE'RE AT THE ST. 
          CLAIR SENIOR CENTER, THOSE RESIDENTS COME FROM ALL OVER THE PLACE. 
          WE DON'T NECESSARILY CAPTURE THEIR ADDRESSES. 
          THAT'S WHERE THEY, THOSE AT THE SENIOR CENTER IS WHERE WE'RE AT. 
          WE DON'T GET THEIR ADDRESSES. 
          YEAH. 
          SO I, I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT I'M JUST SAYING THIS MAP IS A LITTLE MISLEADING. 
          OKAY. 
          GOT IT. 
          SO I WOULD LIKE TO DIRECT BUDGET TO WORK WITH MY OFFICE. 
          LAURA, I'M HAPPY TO WORK WITH YOU, UM, TO TARGET OTHER AREAS IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREA WHERE THERE ARE SENIORS WHO I KNOW NEED THIS, ESPECIALLY WITH THE RISE OF AI AND FRAUD. 
          I MEAN, TO CUT THE NAVIGATORS AT THIS TIME IS, IS REALLY DIFFICULT BECAUSE OTHERWISE THEY'RE GONNA BE CALLING MY OFFICE IN MY, 'CAUSE WE DO HAVE SENIORS WHO CALL US ON A REGULAR BASIS JUST TO CHAT, AND THEN MY STAFF ARE GONNA BE GOING OUT TO HOUSES TRYING TO EXPLAIN DIFFERENT THINGS. 
          SO I THINK IT WOULD BE BEHOOVE US TO, UM, FIGURE OUT HOW MANY FULL-TIME NAVIGATORS WE CAN KEEP, AND THEN WE CAN WORK TO BE MORE DILIGENT IN GETTING THEM INTO SPECIFIC HOMES WHERE THEY ARE HOME BOUND SENIORS OR OTHER SENIOR CENTERS, UM, THAT, THAT HAVE SOME, SOME ISSUES. 
          THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU, MOODY. 
          WELL, AND, AND I JUST THINK THAT AS WE HAVE A LOT OF TOUGH CONVERSATIONS TODAY, YOU KNOW, BUDGET HAS PUT TOGETHER WHAT THEY BELIEVE IS A COMPROMISE, UH, PROPOSAL WITH THE TWO PART-TIME NAVIGATORS. 
          IS THAT NOT CORRECT BUDGET? THE, THE TWO PART-TIME, UH, RECOMMENDATION IS, IS WHAT YOU RECOMMEND CAN CONTINUE THE PROGRAM YES. 
          BASED ON THE HOURS THAT THEY'RE CURRENTLY OPERATING. 
          I JUST, YOU KNOW, THIS ISN'T SPECIFIC TO BIBLIOTECH, BUT WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS TODAY. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO DRAG THIS OUT, BUT THERE'S, THERE'S AN ARGUMENT TO BE MADE FOR EVERYTHING. 
          BUT WE ALSO KNOW WHEN WE HAVE HAD MULTIPLE CONVERSATIONS OVER THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS ABOUT THE COSTS AND THE BUDGET AND HOW MUCH WE ARE CUTTING INTO OUR RESERVES WITH THIS BUDGET. 
          AND SO, I MEAN, THERE'S, THERE'S GONNA BE A, A DOZEN OTHER ITEMS THAT COME UP HERE, AND THERE'S GONNA BE AN ARGUMENT TO BE MADE FOR ALL OF 'EM. 
          BUT, UM, IF, IF, UH, IF WE'RE NOT WILLING TO MAKE THESE TOUGH CHOICES NOW, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MAKE 'EM LATER. 
          SO I JUST RECOMMEND WE MAKE 'EM NOW, AND I, I SUPPORT THE BUDGETS COMPROMISE PROPOSAL WITH THE TWO PART-TIME. 
          I HAVE A QUESTION, YES OR NO, I HAVE A COMMENT. 
          LET ME, I LIKE TO DISTILL THINGS TO THE SIMPLEST TERMS, ESPECIALLY SO THAT THE PUBLIC CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT I JUST HEARD IN THE INCORPORATING, WAS IT YESTERDAY, I'VE LOST TRACK OF TIME. 
          TUESDAY'S MEETING FROM THE SA DIGITAL CONNECT AND COURT HELPED ME, IF MY FIGURES, I THINK WE SPENT $20 MILLION OF ARP OF MONEY IN ORDER TO, UH, BILL AND WORK ON THE DIGITAL DIVIDE THAT WE SAW AND WAS APPARENT INVISIBLE FROM THE COVID AND HOW IT AFFECTED CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AND SENIORS. 
          THAT $20 MILLION IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT AS THE RESULTS OF SA DIGITAL CONNECT AS IT COMES TO ITS END. 
          SO IN MY MIND, WE BUILT A DIGITAL HIGHWAY, JUST LIKE WHAT WE DO WITH OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS, MONEY AND BUILDING ROADS IN ORDER TO HAVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          I THOUGHT, AND I STILL BELIEVE THAT BREAKING DOWN THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IS SOMETHING THAT WAS NEEDED. 
          IT'S AN INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          AND WHAT I'M STRUCK WITH AND TRYING TO DECIDE IS A BUDGET REQUEST. 
          OKAY, IS THERE A COMPROMISE, WHATEVER, OR CAN WE, SHOULD WE FULLY FUND THE BIBLIOTECH REQUEST IS THAT WITHOUT THE NAVIGATORS, WE'VE JUST BUILT A HIGHWAY, AND IF WE DON'T HELP PEOPLE UTILIZE THE EXITS AND ENTRANCES TO THE 
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INFRASTRUCTURE HIGHWAY, WE JUST BUILT A HIGHWAY AND NOBODY'S GONNA USE IT. 
          AND WE KNOW THAT WE'VE BEEN HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL AS I THOUGHT FOR THE REPORT THAT THE DIGITAL HIGHWAY WE BUILT HAD NEARLY A HUNDRED PERCENT CONNECTIONS WITH THE PEOPLE THAT WE MOST NEED AND KNOW, NEED TO SERVE. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S IN PRECINCT ONE AND PRECINCT FOUR. 
          SO I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY ABOUT THE BIGGER PICTURE, NOT JUST A, BUT YOUR REQUEST. 
          SURE. 
          BUT WHERE THIS COURT HAS GONE, WHERE THIS COURT IS AT, AND WHERE THIS COURT NEEDS TO GO. 
          SO I'M CONFIDENT THIS COURT WILL MAKE ITS RIGHT DECISION. 
          SO, MS. COLT, THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPORT. 
          I JUST NEEDED TO MAKE THAT COMMENT ON THE RECORD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          NUMBER TWO, REQUEST FROM BUDGET AND FINANCE REGARDING THE PROGRAM CHANGE TO ADD ONE ANALYST BUDGET FROM NINE MONTHS OF CONTINGENCIES TO THE GENERAL FUND IN THE APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF $62,903, INCLUDING ANY REQUEST. 
          AND THE PROPOSED BUDGET PRESENTED ON AUGUST 18TH, 2026 TO DELETE TWO VACANT POSITIONS WITH A COST SAVINGS OF APPROXIMATELY $148,115. 
          MS. ? YES, SIR. 
          SO TODAY THIS IS A REQUEST FROM THE BUDGET AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT. 
          UH, WE WERE WANT TO RETAIN ONE BUDGET ANALYST FOR A COST OF $62,000. 
          THIS POSITION WAS ORIGINALLY AUTHORIZED IN 2022 TO MANAGE THE $389 MILLION GRANT FUNDING THAT WE RECEIVED FROM ARPA. 
          IN ORDER TO RETAIN THE POSITION, UH, WE ARE RECOMMENDING TO DELETE TWO VACANT POSITIONS, ONE IN FINANCE AND ONE GRANTS TECHNICIAN. 
          THIS IS BASED OFF OF CAREFUL EVALUATION OF THE WORKLOAD FOR EACH OF THE DIVISIONS. 
          UH, THIS WILL NOW ALLOW SEVEN ANALYSTS TO BE WITHIN THE BUDGET DIVISION TO MANAGE $1.1 BILLION, EXCLUDING CAPITAL AND, UH, GRANT FUNDS, AND NEARLY OVER A HUNDRED, UM, OR NEARLY A HUNDRED INDIVIDUAL BUDGETS. 
          SO THE NET SAVINGS FOR THE GENERAL FUND WILL BE ABOUT $85,000. 
          I AM OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS. 
          I'LL JUST SPEAK TO THAT. 
          I THINK IT'S GREAT THAT YOU ARE CUTTING THE VACANT POSITIONS, UM, IN ORDER TO HAVE IT. 
          SO I'M, I'M SUPPORTIVE. 
          I, I, I, THIS SOUNDS LIKE A PRETTY EASY ONE. 
          UH, TANYA, SO THE RECOMMENDATION IS JUST TO CLARIFY, UH, DELETING TWO VACANT POSITIONS? THAT'S CORRECT. 
          AND, UH, ESSENTIALLY THE SAVINGS IS ABOUT, YOU SAID 80 85. 
          85,000. 
          OKAY. 
          I'M SUPPORTIVE. 
          THANKS, JUDGE. 
          I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, SO WAS THIS THE PROPOSAL IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET, OR THIS IS A CHANGE AFTER THE PROPOSED BUDGET, WE WERE PROPOSING TO DELETE THE POSITIONS ANYWAY, UH, BUT THIS IS A REQUEST TO RETAIN THE ANALYST, SO THAT'S NOT IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT YOU'RE GIVING UP MORE THAN WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR, RIGHT? THAT'S CORRECT, COMMISSIONER. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          THREE. 
          A REQUEST FROM COMMUNITY RESOURCES REGARDING THE PROGRAM TRAINING TO DELETE ONE CRISIS COORDINATOR TO RETAIN PARTIAL FUNDING OF 25% FOR TWO PROGRAM ASSISTANCE SPECIALISTS. 
          DELETE TWO ANALYSTS, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FROM NINE MONTHS OF CONTINGENCIES TO THE GENERAL FUND IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $25,036. 
          MS. ? YES, SIR. 
          UH, SO THIS IS A REQUEST FROM COMMUNITY RESOURCES. 
          COMMUNITY RESOURCES IS REQUESTING, UH, THREE POSITIONS AND TWO POSITIONS THAT ARE, WERE PARTIALLY FUNDED IN POST ARPA. 
          THESE ROLES INCLUDED PUBLIC ASSISTANCE, INTAKE, CRISIS SUPPORT WORK, AND, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING ANALYTICS FOR A TOTAL COST OF $175,000. 
          IT IS RECOMMENDED TO DELETE TWO FULL-TIME PROGRAM ASSISTANCE SPECIAL, UH, AND ADD TWO PART-TIME PROGRAM ASSISTANT SPECIALISTS, WHICH WILL MAINTAIN, UM, WHICH THESE TWO POSITIONS WERE PARTIALLY FUNDED. 
          THESE POSITIONS WERE ADDED IN FISCAL YEAR 22 TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY AND ENROLL APPLICANTS INTO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AND SOCIAL SERVICES. 
          THESE POSITIONS SUPPORTED INTAKE FOR ABOUT 550 CLIENTS, UH, ROUGHLY ONE CLIENT PER DAY FOR EACH OF THESE ASSISTANTS. 
          BASED ON THAT WORKLOAD, WE RECOMMEND TO RETAIN TWO PART-TIME PROGRAM ASSISTANT SPECIALISTS THAT CAN MANAGE THESE DUTIES. 
          AND BY CHANGING THESE POSITIONS FROM FULL-TIME TO PART-TIME, THIS WOULD SAVE THE GENERAL FUND 46,185. 
          THE NEXT RECOMMENDATION, UH, IS TO DELETE ONE CRISIS SUPPORT COORDINATOR POSITION. 
          THIS DEPARTMENT IS NOT RECOMMENDING TO KEEP THIS POSITION. 
          THIS ROLE WAS ORIGINALLY CREATED IN FISCAL YEAR 22, UH, TO SUPPORT OR TO DEVELOP RATHER CRISIS SUPPORT PLANS, MAINTAIN EMERGENCY RELATED DATA, AND PREPARE FORMAL REPORTS FOR COMMISSIONER'S COURT. 
          HOWEVER, NO RESPONSE PLANS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED SINCE THE POSITION WAS ESTABLISHED. 
          AND 
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OVER TIME, THIS WORK SHIFTED AWAY FROM ITS ORIGINAL SCOPE, UH, BEFORE THE POS. 
          BECAUSE THE POSITIONS NO LONGER ALIGN WITH THE ORIGINAL SCOPE, WE ARE RECOMMENDING TO DELETE THIS POSITION. 
          THE NEXT RECOMMENDATION IS TO DELETE THE TWO ANALYSTS. 
          THE DEPARTMENT'S NOT REQUESTING TO KEEP THESE POSITIONS EITHER. 
          THESE ROLES WERE TRANSFERRED FROM CDBG IN FISCAL YEAR 23 TO SUPPORT THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS WITHIN ARPA. 
          ALL THESE PROJECTS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND BOTH POSITIONS HAVE BEEN VACANT SINCE 2024. 
          BECAUSE THE WORK IS FINISHED AND THE POSITIONS ARE NO LONGER NEEDED, THE DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDS DELETING THEM, WHICH WILL RESULT IN A COST SAVING OF 79,000. 
          AND THAT'S THE END OF MY PRESENTATION. 
          OKAY. 
          ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. ? I HAVE COMMENTS, SO I'M EVEN GONNA READ THOSE TWO, UM, FULL-TIME POSITIONS THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO CUT TO PART-TIME. 
          SO MY STAFF, I HAVE HEARD BACK FROM MY STAFF, AND THEY'VE SAID THAT THOSE TWO INDIVIDUALS SPECIFICALLY ARE TWO OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT THEY REFER TO A LOT MM-HMM . 
          WHEN WE GET CONSTITUENTS CALLS. 
          YES. 
          UM, SO I'M JUST GONNA READ THIS. 
          THE NAVIGATORS ARE OFTEN THE FIRST COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES RESIDENTS SPEAK WITH WHEN SEEKING ASSISTANCE. 
          THEY RESPOND TO REFERRALS WITHIN 48 HOURS, CONDUCT INTAKE ASSESSMENTS, IDENTIFY BASIC NEEDS, CONNECT RESIDENTS WITH COMMUNITY RESOURCES OR CASE MANAGERS, CONDUCT HOME VISITS WHEN NECESSARY, AND COORDINATE WITH COMMISSIONERS' OFFICES. 
          THE NAVIGATORS ALSO ADDRESS ROUTINE CONSTITUENT NEEDS THAT MAY BE BE RE THAT NEED TO BE RESOLVED WITHOUT OPENING A FORMAL CASE, ALLOWING CASE MANAGERS TO FOCUS ON COMPLEX HIGH NEED CLIENTS. 
          SO I AM ADVOCATING, UM, FOR THOSE POSITIONS TO SAY AS FULL-TIME. 
          OKAY. 
          COMMISSIONER MOODY. 
          BYE, MS. UH, JACKIE IBARRA. 
          JACKIE, FIRST LET ME THANK YOU FOR YOUR YEARS OF SERVICE. 
          YOU'VE ANNOUNCED THAT YOU ARE STEPPING DOWN, UH, RETIRING, IS THAT THE RIGHT WORD? MM-HMM . 
          RIGHT? YES. 
          AFTER MANY, MANY YEARS OF SERVICE FOR THE COUNTY, STARTING IN THE DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE, WORKING IN CHILDREN'S COURT WITH ME. 
          YES. 
          WHEN I WAS A DISTRICT COURT JUDGE WORKING IN JUVENILE WITH YOU. 
          IN JUVENILE. 
          WELL, YOU ARE AN ADVOCATE JUDGE, AND I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR BEING THE INTERIM DIRECTOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. 
          UH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER ON MANY ISSUES. 
          AND SO I JUST WANTED TO PUT THIS ON THE RECORD. 
          UM, I UNDERSTAND THE RECOMMENDATIONS TO BUDGET. 
          I THINK IT'S A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION FOR REALIGNMENT, BUT I ALSO WANT TO PUT ON THE RECORD WHAT PROGRAMS, AND I THINK YOU'RE GONNA HIGHLIGHT THAT. 
          BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WHAT I SAY AND WHAT YOU SAY IS IN ALIGNMENT. 
          SO LET ME SAY THAT I'M A BOARD MEMBER OF THE RE PROGRAM WITH THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND CPS ENERGY, AND I SUCCESSFULLY PUSHED IN 2024 FOR CHANGES THAT ARE KEPT, THAT KEPT OUR COMMUNITY RESOURCES TEAM VERY BUSY. 
          AND SO, LET ME PUT ON RECORD, I SECURED APPROVAL BY THE REIT BOARD, WHICH IS SEPARATE AND OVERSEE A FUND TO EXPAND COUNTY UTILITY ASSISTANCE ELIGIBILITY AND AUTHORIZE A ONE YEAR PROGRAM TO ENHANCE THE BENEFIT FROM $400 TO $101,200. 
          AND I'M GOING BACK THIS FALL. 
          IN FACT, TO ASK FOR THAT EXTENSION REAP ALLOCATED $1 MILLION FOR THAT PROGRAM. 
          AND THE UTILITY ASSISTANCE TEAM UNDER VIRGINIA JIMENEZ DELION DID THE OUTREACH WORK TO GET THOSE DOLLARS WHERE THEY WERE NEEDED MOST VULNERABLE FAMILIES IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS AND THE SUBURBAN CITIES WHO WERE GRAPPLING WITH RISING COST CUTS TO MEDICAID AND SNAP. 
          AND COMING OUT OF THE COVID PANDEMIC. 
          AS I INDICATED EARLIER, I'M ASKING THAT THIS SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM CONTINUE. 
          SO I ASSUME, MS. JACKIE, YOU'RE GOING TO BE ASKING THAT, UH, WE SUPPORT YOU IN WHATEVER REQUEST YOU MAKE, UH, IN ORDER TO KEEP THESE PROGRAMS RUNNING, ESPECIALLY IF THE SUCCESS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM THAT I PUSH FOR IS CONTINUED FROM THIS FALL. 
          YES. 
          SO WITH THAT, YES, I YIELD THE FLOOR TO YOU, SO THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, COUNTY JUDGE. 
          GOOD MORNING, COMMISSIONERS. 
          MY NAME IS JACQUELINE IRA AND I'M THE INTERIM DIRECTOR FOR ECONOMIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. 
          SOON TO BE, UH, COMMUNITY RESOURCES, I'M HERE TO PRESENT THE JUSTIFICATION FOR MAINTAINING TWO NAVIGATOR POSITIONS AS FULL-TIME ROLES TO SUSTAIN THESE FUNCTIONS AT FULL-TIME CAPACITY. 
          FROM JANUARY THROUGH SEPTEMBER, 2027, WE'RE REQUESTING A REALLOCATION 
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OF AN ESTIMATED $25,036 FOR CONTINGENCY TO GENERAL FUND NAVIGATORS. 
          PERFORM DAILY TIME, DAILY TIME SENSITIVE COMPLIANCE DRIVEN TASKS, AND THAT REQUIRE CONSISTENT FULL-TIME COVERAGE. 
          RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE 48 HOUR CLIENT CONTACT FOR INTERNAL REFERRALS, INTAKE ASSESSMENTS, SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION AND DATA ENTRY, PREPARING AND SUBMITTING REFERRALS, REESCALATING COMPLEX CASES, COORDINATING WITH PARTNER AGENCIES, ASSISTING WITH CLIENTS WITH SER THE CLIENTS WITH SERVICES AND ROUTING INDIVIDUALS THROUGH APPROPRIATE SOCIAL SERVICES RESOURCES. 
          THESE DUTIES OCCUR EVERY DAY AND CANNOT BE COMPRESSED INTO A PART-TIME, PART-TIME HOURS WITHOUT CREATING DELAYS, MISSED CONTACT TIMELINES AND DOCUMENTATION GAPS, AND INCREASED WORKLOAD TO CASE MANAGERS, NAVIGATOR REFERRALS AND INTAKE ASSESSMENTS. 
          ACTIVITY HAS RE HAS REMAINED STEADY ACROSS FISCAL YEARS. 
          WE RECEIVED 662 REFERRALS IN FISCAL YEAR 23 24, 784 REFERRALS IN FISCAL YEAR 24 25. 
          AND TO DATE, 502 REFERRALS SO FAR THROUGH JULY, 2026. 
          WE'VE COMPLETED INTAKE ASSESSMENTS OF 561 IN FISCAL YEAR 23, 24, 435, AND 24 25, AND 470 THROUGH JULY, 2026 OF THIS FISCAL YEAR. 
          REFERRALS AND INTAKE ASSESSMENTS ALONE REQUIRE SUBSTANTIAL TIME. 
          MOST NAVIGATOR CLIENTS ARE SENIORS OR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITY WHO REQUIRE ADDITIONAL, ADDITIONAL SUPPORT DURING INITIAL CONTACT. 
          NAVI NAVIGATORS OFTEN MAKE MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS TO REACH A CLIENT'S DUE TO LIMITED TECHNOLOGY OR HEI, HE HESITANT, OH MY GOD, HESITANCY TO ANSWER CALLS FROM UNFAMILIAR NUMBERS. 
          YOU KNOW, THEY WORRY ABOUT SPAM, YOU KNOW, THEY WORRY ABOUT AI, THEY WORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          SO WHEN WE CALL 'EM, IT, IT, IT, IT TAKES, EVEN THOUGH THEY CALLED US FOR ASSISTANCE OR THEY CALLED YOUR OFFICES, IT TAKES, IT TAKES TIME FOR US TO, TO GET IN CONTACT WITH THEM. 
          WITH THIS POPULATION, EXTRA TIME IS NEEDED TO BUILD RAPPORT AND TO HELP CLIENTS FEEL COMFORTABLE AND SUPPORTED WORK. 
          HERE, WORKLOAD IS CONVERTED INTO HOURS TO HIGHLIGHT THE LABOR DEMAND FOR FISCAL YEAR 24 25. 
          SINCE THOSE ARE ACTUAL NUMBERS FOR A COMBINED MEASURED WORKLOAD OF 1,937 HOURS, THIS IS NEARLY ONE FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE EMPLOYEE'S ENTIRE ANNUAL CAPACITY OF 2080 HOURS. 
          AND THIS TOTAL ONLY REFLECTS TWO DUTIES, REFERRAL PROCESSING, AND INTAKE ASSESSMENT. 
          IT DOES NOT INCLUDE CLIENT COMMUNICATION AND FOLLOW UPS, DOCUMENTATION AND SUP SUPPORT, AND THE VERIFICATION ADVOCACY DATA ENTRY AND REALTIME DASHBOARD UPDATES, ROUTING TO SOCIAL SERVICES RESOURCES, COORDINATION WITH AGENCIES AND PARTNERS, ASSISTING CLIENTS WITH SERVICES AND PROGRAM NAVIGATION SCHEDULING, PRE-SCREENING FOR HOME BOUND CLIENTS. 
          WHEN ALL RE ALL, WHEN ALL REQUIRED DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES ARE INCLUDED, THE TOTAL WORKLOAD EQUATES TO TWO FULL-TIME POSITIONS. 
          PART-TIME STAFFING CANNOT HANDLE 1,937 HOURS OF MEASURED WORKLOADS, PLUS ALL ADDITIONAL DUTIES THAT OCCUR EVERY DAY. 
          TWO FULL-TIME NAVIGATORS ARE ESSENTIAL TO MAINTAIN TIMELY INTAKE, ACCURATE OF DOCUMENTATION, AND RELIABLE ACCESS TO SOCIAL SERVICES. 
          HERE WE HAVE THE CLIENT DEMOGRAPHIC NAVIGATOR. 
          CLIENTS ARE AMONG OUR HIGHEST NEED POPULATIONS. 
          44% ARE SENIORS, 30% ARE DISABLED SENIORS, AND 24% ARE DISABLED ADULTS, WHICH EQUATES TO 94, 90 5% OF OUR CLIENT REFERRALS. 
          THESE CLIENTS REQUIRE MORE TIME, MORE FOLLOW UP, MORE DOCUMENTATION, AND MORE COORDINATION. 
          THEIR AVERAGE MONTHLY HOUSEHOLD IS $1,816. 
          REDUCING NAVIGATOR AVAILABILITY WOULD DIRECTLY AFFECT VULNERABLE CONSTITUENTS ACROSS ALL PRECINCTS. 
          SO BASED ON THE WORKLOAD TOTALS, DEMOGRAPHIC NEEDS, COMPLIANCE PROCESSES, AND OPERATIONAL RISKS, WE REQUEST MAINTAINING BOTH NAVIGATOR POSITIONS AS FULL-TIME, PART-TIME STAFFING WOULD CREATE BACKLOGS, MIS CON MISSED CONTACT DEADLINES, DELAYS IN ASSESSMENTS, AND UN AND INCREASED BURDEN TO CASE MANAGERS. 
          THE CAUSE REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN FULL-TIME OPERATIONS FOR FROM JANUARY THROUGH SEPTEMBER IS AN ESTIMATED $25,036. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDER CONSIDERATION. 
          ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. 
          QUESTIONS. 
          COMMISSIONER 
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CLAY? I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. 
          I ALREADY SAID I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP 'EM, THEY DO A LOT OF GOOD WORK, SO I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP 'EM. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ. 
          UH, JACKIE, JUST A QUICK, UH, FOLLOW UP. 
          YES, SIR. 
          AT SOME POINT, UH, EITHER NEXT FEW DAYS NEXT WEEK, CAN YOU GET US A BREAKDOWN BY PRECINCT OF, UH, CALLS TO, UH, SOME OF THE, THE LOCATIONS? JUST A, JUST A GENERAL IDEA. 
          YES. 
          I KNOW, UM, IN SPEAKING WITH MY STAFF, THEY UTILIZE THEM QUITE A BIT AS WELL. 
          BUT THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO SEE, ALMOST SIMILAR TO WHAT, UH, THE BIBLIO TECH FOLKS HAD. 
          YEAH. 
          ON A HEAT MAP. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I, I WANTED TO ASK, AND THIS MAY BE MORE FOR, FOR DAVID, UH, SMITH OVER THERE, UH, DAVID, I, I KNOW THERE'S SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT, UH, REORGANIZING A LITTLE BIT OF ECONOMIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. 
          UM, I JUST WONDER IF THAT IS, UH, ONE OF THE CONSIDERATIONS IS UTILIZATION OF SOME OF THESE POSITIONS. 
          UM, PERHAPS EVEN, YOU KNOW, THERE MAY BE SOME OVERLAP WITH WHAT, UH, YOU KNOW, LAURA COLE JUST CAME AND, AND DISCUSSED ABOUT THOSE DIGITAL NAVIGATORS. 
          IS, IS THERE O OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANNA SAY USE THE WORD CONSOLIDATE, BUT BE MORE EFFICIENT WITH THOSE POSITIONS WHERE THEY CAN MAYBE DO, UH, A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH, UH, THE DIGITAL NAVIGATION AND SOME OF THE MORE, UM, IN INTENSE OUTREACH THEY'RE DOING WITH RESPECT TO UTILITY ASSISTANCE AND HOUSING ASSISTANCE. 
          UM, I KNOW THERE WAS A, A BUNCH OF INFORMATION, BUT I GUESS MY MORE DIRECT QUESTION IS, UH, YOU ARE, UH, I, I UNDERSTAND GOING THROUGH A POTENTIAL REORG WITH SOME OF THESE, UH, ALIGNMENTS OF THOSE TWO DEPARTMENTS. 
          IS THAT ACCURATE OR IS THAT FORTHCOMING? IT'S IN THE, OR AM I COMPLETELY DREAMING THIS UP? . 
          SO FOR SURE, WE'RE RECOMMENDING IN THE BUDGET TO REMOVE THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUNCTION FROM UNDERNEATH, WHICH IS WHY THE NAME CHANGES FROM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO COMMUNITY RESOURCES. 
          I'M NOT A, WE, WE HADN'T ANTICIPATED MOVING BIBLIO TECH FUNCTIONS UNDER COMMUNITY RESOURCES IN THE BUDGET. 
          UM, THE OTHER THING I'LL JUST POINT OUT, I I, WELL, GO AHEAD. 
          I'VE GOT ONE MORE POINT I WANT TO MAKE. 
          YEAH, NO, I THINK THAT HELPS. 
          AND I WAS CERTAINLY NOT SUGGESTING NECESSARILY MOVING BIBLIOTECH THERE, BUT IN TERMS OF SOME OF THE FUNCTIONS AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT, UH, MAY BE POTENTIALLY MORE EFFICIENT WITH SOME OF THE POSITIONS. 
          IF, IF, IF THEY COULD MAYBE DO A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH. 
          IT, IT MAY HELP, UM, IN OUR FUTURE DISCUSSION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, RETAINING POSITIONS ANYWAY. 
          BUT, BUT SURE. 
          UM, SURE THERE'S ALWAYS ANYTHING THAT MAKES US MORE EFFICIENT. 
          I'M GENERALLY IN FAVOR OF, YEAH. 
          SO THE OTHER THING TO CONSIDER IS, AND THIS IS NOT ON POINT FOR THIS, BUT I KNOW, UM, THERE'S ALSO DISCUSSIONS WITH, UH, ROBERT REYNA AND THE JUDGE'S LEADERSHIP ON, UM, REFORMING OUR HOUSING POLICY. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA NEED PROBABLY SOME, UH, FTES FOR THAT AT SOME POINT TO HELP WITH. 
          UH, I KNOW WE, IT'S PROBABLY TOO LATE FOR THIS BUDGET, BUT, UM, JUST SOMETHING ELSE TO CONSIDER. 
          'CAUSE THAT'S, UH, COMING, I THINK TO COURT HERE PRETTY SOON. 
          AND THE OTHER THING I'LL POINT OUT IS REALLY, THIS IS MORE CLEARLY LAID OUT IN THE BUDGET PRESENTATION. 
          I THINK THE FIRST OR SECOND SLIDE, THERE ARE REALLY THREE DIFFERENT REQUESTS INVOLVED HERE THAT WERE ARPA FUNDED. 
          JACKIE'S ASKING FOR THE $25,000 FOR THE PROGRAM, THE 25% FOR THE PROGRAM ASSISTANCE SPECIALIST, WHICH WAS 25% OF THEIR FUNDING. 
          I BELIEVE THAT WAS ARPA FUNDING, IS THAT RIGHT? YES. 
          UM, 75. 
          YEAH. 
          BUT THERE ARE TWO MORE EXPENSIVE POSITIONS THAT TOTAL ALMOST 150,000 THAT AREN'T IN THAT 25,000. 
          SO EVEN IF YOU FUNDED THE TWO PROGRAM ASSISTANCE SPECIALIST AND KEPT THE BUDGET RECOMMENDATION ON THE TWO MORE EXPENSIVE POSITIONS, YOU WOULD STILL HAVE A NET SAVINGS THERE. 
          SO COMMISSIONER COMMITTEE, COMMISSIONER CALVERT, DOES THIS POSITION AFFECT THE REAP PROGRAM OR NOT? NO, NOT REALLY. 
          NO. 
          OKAY. 
          FAIR ENOUGH. 
          THAT THAT FALLS UNDER CA. 
          OKAY, THAT'S CA. 
          YES. 
          WHICH IS A SIMILAR PROGRAM. 
          WELL, WELL, YES. 
          CACA IS THE, IS THE GRANT THAT THE STATE GIVES US. 
          REAP IS THE, IS THE, IS THE, UM, NON-PROFIT FROM CPS ENERGY THAT WE DON'T HAVE ADMIN, ADMIN, UH, DOLLARS FOR. 
          SO WHEN WE GO OUT INTO THE RURAL AREAS, 'CAUSE REAP IS ONLY FOR US, FOR THE RURAL, FOR THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS BECAUSE THE CITY GETS THEIR OWN REAP, CAP, THE COUNTY GETS 
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IT FOR THE WHOLE, FOR THE CITY AND, AND THE COUNTY. 
          SO WHEN WE ADMINISTER THOSE DOLLARS IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS, WHEN WE SEE THAT THEY QUALIFY FOR REAP, THIS IS WHEN WE BRING IT TOGETHER. 
          OKAY. 
          LET ME LET FO FOLLOW COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ'S COMMENT WITH THIS. 
          THESE WORK SESSIONS, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE ELECTEDS AND DEPARTMENTS THAT WANT TO SAVE POSITIONS OR EITHER AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THE BUDGET REQUEST, BUT I, I LIKE WHAT COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ, AND THIS GOES OFF WHAT DAVID HAS POINTED OUT EARLIER IN OTHER MEETINGS, IT, ONE IS I'M STRUCK WITH THE FACT THAT THESE NAVIGATORS ARE THE CONNECTORS PEOPLE, IT'S LIVE PEOPLE. 
          AND I'VE BEEN VERY CRITICAL OF CERTAIN DEPARTMENTS THAT DON'T ANSWER THE PHONES WITH LIVE PEOPLE WITH VOICEMAILS, WHICH SOMETIMES BECOMES COMPLAINTS TO MY OFFICE AND YOUR OFFICES. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE TO CALL SOMEBODY IN YOUR OFFICES, WHICH IS VERY INEFFICIENT. 
          AND SO I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT A NEW WAY HOW WE CONNECT WITH OUR CONSTITUENTS. 
          AND NAVIGATORS, OBVIOUSLY, IN MY OPINION, ARE THE LIVE PERSON. 
          SO WHY ISN'T THERE A CONSOLIDATION OF NAVIGATORS THAT ARE TRAINED, CROSS-TRAINED WITH EVERY DEPARTMENT AND EVERY COUNTY SERVICES, SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT'S THE WAY IT'S ALWAYS BEEN, EACH DEPARTMENT HAVING ITS NAVIGATORS, ITS PUBLIC INFORMATION, IT'S ALL, ALL THE SEPARATE FUNCTIONS. 
          AND THEN ULTIMATELY, DAVID'S PUT SOMETHING OUT THAT I'M STRUCK WITH. 
          AND I THINK COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ, YOU HAVE ALLUDED TO IT, AI, NOW I'M GOING ON RECORD. 
          THESE POSITIONS ARE GOING TO BE OUTDATED AT SOME POINT. 
          AI IS GONNA BE ABLE TO DO THAT. 
          NOW WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT, IS AI GOING TO BE THAT CONNECTION SO THAT PEOPLE WILL UTILIZE IT AND UNDERSTAND IT AND BE COMFORTABLE WITH NOT TALKING TO A LIVE PERSON, BUT TO AN ARTIFICIAL PERSON THAT CAN DO THE SAME FUNCTION AND DO THE SAME THINGS THAT A LIVE PERSON CAN DO. 
          SO ON THE SHORT TERM, I THINK WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S THE BEST EFFICIENT USE OF THE LIMITED AMOUNT OF TAX DOLLARS WITH THE TIGHT BUDGET, WITH NO PROPERTY TAX INCREASE. 
          BUT ON THE LONG TERM, I SUGGEST WE LOOK AT THE UTILIZATION MUCH LIKE 3 1 1 HAS DONE FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          I THINK THAT'S A, NOW I THINK THEY HAVE LIVE PEOPLE THERE, BUT I'M ALSO GONNA SUGGEST THOSE POSITIONS ARE GOING TO BE OUTMODED. 
          AND DAVID HAS SAID THAT THAT TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION IS NOW, HAS STARTED AND WILL CONTINUE. 
          AND I HOPE THAT THE BUDGET OFFICE AND FUTURE COURTS AND FUTURE DISCUSSIONS ON BUDGET WILL LEARN HOW TO MAKE MORE EFFICIENT USE OF THE LIMITED RESOURCES WE HAVE. 
          DAVID, DID I MISS THE MARK ON YOUR PROGNOSIS OF WHAT'S TO COME? YOU DID NOT MISS THE MARK, JUDGE. 
          GOT IT. 
          CAN I MAKE A COMMENT? SURE. 
          SO JUST FOR THE RECORD, I DON'T LIKE TALKING TO AI . 
          I WILL CALL BACK AND PRESS A MILLION BUTTONS TILL I HAVE A REAL HUMAN, AND I'M SURE A LOT OF OTHER SENIOR, I SEE SOME PEOPLE NODDING AND I'M SURE A LOT OF SENIORS. 
          SO, UM, YEAH, JUST FOR THE RECORD, AND I DO TOO, . 
          OKAY. 
          UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT, LIKE ONE NAVIGATOR CANNOT BE TRAINED IN EVERYTHING, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT A DIGITAL NAVIGATOR. 
          SO JUST BECAUSE I KNOW ABOUT COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND I CAN CONNECT PEOPLE, DOESN'T MEAN THAT I UNDERSTAND ALL THE TECH STUFF, ALL THE FRAUD STUFF, ALL THE AI STUFF. 
          SO, UM, THOUGH I DON'T NECESSARILY DISAGREE. 
          I THINK WHEN WE SAVE THESE POSITIONS, LAURA LEFT ALREADY, I HOPE SHE'S LISTENING FOR THE DIGITAL NAVIGATORS, WHEN THEY GO INTO A HOME, THEY NEED TO LOOK AROUND AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON, AND THEN COMMUNICATE THAT WITH THESE COMMUNITY RESOURCE NAVIGATOR POSITIONS THAT WE ARE SAVING. 
          SO FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ TALKED ABOUT, UM, WHEN HE'S GONE OUT TO DELIVER MEALS WITH, WITH, UH, FOR MEALS AND WHEELS, WHEN I'VE GONE TO DELIVER MEALS FOR MEALS AND WHEELS. 
          AND FOR EXAMPLE, I NOTICED A WOMAN, SHE DIDN'T WALK WELL, BUT THERE WERE STEPS TO GET INTO HER PORCH. 
          SO WE ASKED HER, MEL, YOU DON'T HAVE A RAMP. 
          AND SHE WAS LIKE, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET A RAMP. 
          SO MY STAFF CONTACTED YOUR OFFICE, AND I THINK A MONTH LATER THEY HAD SOMEONE OUT THERE BUILDING A RAMP. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE KIND OF CONNECTIONS THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR COUNTY EMPLOYEES KNOW. 
          WHEN YOU GO TO THE COMMUNITY, WHEN YOU GO TO SOMEONE'S HOUSE, YOU MIGHT BE SENT TO, TO DO DIGITAL NAVIGATION, BUT YOU NEED TO BE A COMMUNITY, A GOOD NEIGHBOR, BASICALLY A GOOD STEWARD, AND LET US KNOW IF THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE 
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CAN HELP WITH. 
          UM, MY QUESTION IS, PERHAPS THIS IS FOR TANYA IN THIS PRESENTATION, WHY ARE Y'ALL EVEN LISTING? UM, THERE'S A COUPLE POSITIONS AND YOU'RE SAYING THE DEPARTMENT'S NOT REQUESTING IT, THE DEPARTMENT'S NOT REQUESTING IT. 
          SO IF THE DEPARTMENT'S NOT REQUESTING IT, WHY IS IT ON HERE? I MEAN, WE'RE NOT GONNA ADVOCATE FOR THOSE. 
          UM, JUST TO GIVE YOU A FULL SCOPE OF THE POSITIONS FOR ARPA. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT WE PROVIDED THE COURT. 
          OH, BECAUSE IT'S UNDER ARPA? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          GOT IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COMMISSIONER CALVER? YEAH, I, I DO WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT, UM, I WANT BE MORE SENSITIVE TO OUR EMPLOYEES ON AI, THE FIR I WANT TO INVOKE A SMIDGEN OF CARE AND HUMANITY INTO THAT CONVERSATION. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN MOST CORPORATIONS HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT REDUCTIONS IN FORCE, THEY HAVE A PLAN FOR SEVERANCE AND A PACKAGE THAT THEY OFFER THEIR EMPLOYEES, UH, TO TRANSITION THEM. 
          AND I DON'T THINK, I THINK GOVERNMENT HAS TO BE AT THE FORE OF HUMAN CARE AND OVERALL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE SO THAT WE DON'T ENGAGE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MALPRACTICE FROM EON, OR, EXCUSE ME, OODLES OF PEOPLE UNEMPLOYED, UH, FORMER COUNTY EMPLOYEES UNEMPLOYED ON OUR STREETS WITHOUT A TRANSITION OR ANY KIND OF, UM, PLAN FOR INCOME, UH, SEVERANCE OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE. 
          SO BEFORE WE JUMP INTO A VENDOR'S, UH, CLUTCH ON AI, WE NEED TO REALLY THINK ABOUT WHAT IS THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN LEADING BOTH GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN THE GOOD CARE OF PEOPLE WHOSE JOBS ARE GONNA BE REPLACED WITH AI. 
          WE NEED TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION FIRST. 
          UM, OR ELSE WE WILL HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF BOOING THAT I SEE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS GETTING AT COLLEGE GRADUATIONS WHEN THE ISSUE IS BROUGHT UP TO COLLEGE GRADUATES WHO ARE FACING AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY'RE NOT GETTING HIRED. 
          SO I'D LIKE US TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THE AI CONVERSATION. 
          JUDGE, COULD I, I JUST WANT TO COMMENT ON THE COMMENTS FROM THE COMMISSIONER PRECINCT ONE, WHEN DAVID MARQUEZ AND I SAT DOWN AND THOUGHT ABOUT THAT'S YOUR COMMISSIONER. 
          YES, IT IS. 
           THOUGHT ABOUT REFORMULATING, WHAT IS TODAY COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AS A SINGLE DEPARTMENT. 
          KIND OF THE IN-STATE VISION WAS SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU'RE EXPRESSING WAS THAT A SINGLE COUNTY UNIFORMED OR WHATEVER BRANDED EMPLOYEE COULD RESPOND TO A REQUEST FOR, I'LL JUST MAKE IT UP UTILITY ASSISTANCE. 
          BUT THAT WOULD BECOME THE ONE POINT OF ENTRY INTO OUR ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM OF POTENTIAL SUPPORT AND BENEFITS THAT THIS PERSON MIGHT NOT NEED, MIGHT NEED. 
          AND SO THAT PERSON WAS NOT THE ACTUAL PROVIDER OF THE BENEFIT, BUT THAT PERSON WAS, OH, AS THE COMMISSIONER BROUGHT UP, WELL, THEY COULD USE A RAMP. 
          WE HAVE A PROGRAM THAT CAN HELP WITH THAT. 
          UM, THEY NEED UTILITY ASSISTANCE, BUT THEY ROOF IS LEAKING. 
          SO IT BECAME AN MORE OF AN ASSESSMENT AND SINGLE POINT OF ENTRY INTO OUR SYSTEM. 
          THAT WAS THE VISION. 
          SO WE'RE, WE'RE NOT QUITE THERE, BUT TO THE EXTENT WE CAN GET THERE, I DON'T THINK THAT'S A BAD IDEA. 
          'CAUSE THAT WAS THE THOUGHT. 
          MR. SMITH, WE, WE ARE KIND OF, SORT OF THERE. 
          SO WHEN, WHENEVER, UM, SOMEONE FROM UM, THE UTILITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ENCOUNTERS A CLIENT THAT NEEDS OTHER WRAPAROUND SERVICES, THEN THEY MAKE THAT REFERRAL TO THE SOCIAL SERVICES DIVISION AND THEN THEY TAKE IT. 
          BUT THE NOTION WAS WE WOULD BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY SERVICES THEY DIDN'T KNOW WE HAD. 
          SO THAT WAS THE IDEA. 
          IT WAS TO THE POINT, AGAIN, IN STATE VISION OF WHEN SOMEONE CALLS FOR UTILITY ASSISTANCE, WE NOT ONLY RESPOND, BUT WE ATTEMPT TO SEND THE COUNTY EMPLOYEE OUT TO ASSESS THEIR SITUATION SO THAT THEY'RE A SINGLE MOTHER WITH EIGHT PEOPLE. 
          AND OR ANYWAY, THAT WAS THE VISION. 
          SO TO THE EXTENT WE MOVED THERE, THE BETTER, THIS 
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IS AN NOT A DIRECTIVE. 
          THIS IS A INVITATION FOR ALL THE DEPARTMENTS. 
          WHY DON'T Y'ALL TALK TO EACH OTHER AND SEE HOW Y'ALL CAN COMMUNICATE AND SHARE AND SEE IF YOU CAN COME BACK TO THE COURT WITH A PLAN THAT WOULD ENABLE US TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT. 
          AND ULTIMATELY, AND MAY I THANK COMMISSIONER CALVERT AND COMMISSIONER CLAY FLORES, THAT THEY HAVE REMINDED ME AND I EXPRESSED THEIR APPRECIATION FOR MY FOUR YEARS HERE, THAT WE SHOULD NEVER LOSE OUR SENSE OF HUMANITY. 
          AND I WOULD HOPE THAT AFTER I LEAVE THIS COURT WOULD NEVER, EVER LOSE ITS SENSE OF HUMANITY AND WHAT, HOW OUR SERVICES CONNECT AND TOUCH AND AFFECT THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY THE LEAST OF US IN OUR COMMUNITY, WHICH ARE THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES. 
          SO JACKIE, THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU AND YOUR EMPLOYEES DO AND ALL THE COUNTY DEPARTMENTS, BUT THIS I THINK, IS A LIFE LESSON FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTY. 
          WE BETTER LEARN HOW TO DO THINGS SMARTER, MORE EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT, AND HOW WE BETTER SERVE THE CONSTITUENTS. 
          'CAUSE I THINK COMMISSIONER CALVER HAS PUT OUT QUITE CLEARLY OUR CONSTITUENTS ARE SCARED, THEY'RE ANGRY, AND THEY'RE GONNA TAKE IT OUT ON THE ELECTEDS WHEN ELECTION TIME COME. 
          SO LESSONS BE LEARNED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH. 
          OH, ONE MORE QUE OH, WE ALSO HAVE, UM, ALSO LIKE IN OUR, OUR UTILITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SURE. 
          WHENEVER WE HAVE A CLIENT THAT, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW IS A GOOD, IS A IS A GOOD, UM, IS A GOOD CHOICE FOR, WE RECOMMEND IT TO THE TEXAS FAST TRACK PROGRAM. 
          SO WE'VE DONE THAT AS WELL. 
          SO, OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY, DEBORAH. 
          ALRIGHT, WE GO ON TO FOUR REQUEST FROM THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY OFFICE, THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY REGARDING A PROGRAM CHAIN TO ADD TWO COURT COORDINATORS, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, HIGH RISK FROM NINE MONTHS OF CONTINGENCIES TO THE GENERAL FUND AND THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $113,771 RELATED TO THE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER HIGH RISK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM. 
          MS. , YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IS REQUESTING TWO COORDINATORS FOR THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HIGH RISK PROGRAM, UH, FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $113,000. 
          THESE POSITIONS WERE ADDED BACK IN 2020 IN RESPONSE TO INCREASES IN HIGH RISK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASELOADS. 
          ONE COORDINATOR WAS PREVIOUSLY FUNDED IN A GRANT AND WAS RETAINED PERMANENTLY WITH THE COUNTY. 
          AND THE COORDINATORS USE A DANGER ASSESSMENT SCORE TO IDENTIFY HIGH RISK SURVIVORS, UH, WHICH CAN INCLUDE FIREARM RELATED, UH, VIOLENCE AND OTHER, UH, REFER REFERRALS FROM OTHER AGENCIES. 
          ONCE INDIVIDUALS ARE IDENTIFIED AS HIGH RISK, THEY'RE ASSIGNED TO THESE COORDINATORS AND THEY FOCUS ON CASE COORDINATION, ADJUSTING SAFETY STRATEGIES, AND COLLABORATING WITH OTHER AGENCIES. 
          GUIDEHOUSE EVALUATED THIS PROGRAM AND SINCE 2021, THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS HAS INCREASED CONSISTENTLY, UH, WHICH IS NOW AROUND 1,900. 
          ALTHOUGH THERE HAS BEEN A SLIGHT DECREASE FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR, THE NUMBER OF HIGH RISK INDIVIDUALS, UM, HAS INCREASED SINCE 2020 FROM 17 ALL THE WAY NOW TO CLOSE TO 400. 
          THESE INDIVIDUALS RECEIVED A HIGHER LEVEL OF CARE. 
          AND THIS ALSO SHOWS THAT ALTHOUGH THE OVERALL CASELOAD IS DECREASING, THERE'S STILL A NEED FOR CASE MANAGEMENT OF THE HIGH RISK INDIVIDUALS AND THIS IS FOR THEIR LONG-TERM SAFETY. 
          THEREFORE, THE BUDGET, UH, AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDS RETAINING THESE POSITIONS FOR A COST OF $113,000. 
          THESE POSITIONS HAVE SO FAR ASSISTED OVER 5,000 INDIVIDUALS AND HAVE PROVIDED ABOUT 3000 HIGH RISK INTERVENTIONS. 
          AND THAT'S THE END OF MY PRESENTATION. 
          ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COURT? DO GOOD MORNING, JUDGE. 
          GOOD MORNING, JUDGE AND COMMISSIONERS. 
          JUDGE, REAL QUICK, I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY, SORRY, REAL, REAL QUICK. 
          GOOD TO SEE YOU THIS MORNING. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          UH, TANYA, I WANNA MAKE SURE I HEARD YOU RIGHT. 
          YOUR, UM, BUDGET OFFICE IS RECOMMENDING WE RETAIN THE POSITIONS? YES, SIR. 
          OKAY. 
          SO COMMISSIONER, CAN I JUMP IN HERE REAL QUICK? YEAH, QUICKLY. 
          OKAY. 
          SO DURING, IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET, ALL OF THE POST ARPA IS IN CONTINGENCIES, RIGHT? SO WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY IS SOME OF, SOME OF THE, WE AGREE WITH THE OFFICES AND DEPARTMENTS ON SOME, SOME OF THEM, AND WE OBVIOUSLY DISAGREE, OTHERS, RIGHT? SO WE WANTED TO PRESENT TO YOU THE ONES WE ARE RECOMMENDING SO THAT WHEN WE INCLUDE THEM IN THE CHANGE MEMO, IT'S NOT A SURPRISE THAT THAT'S, THAT'S A GOOD CLARIFICATION. 
          YES. 
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SO, SO, UM, BETWEEN THE TIME YOU GAVE US THE PROPOSED BUDGET MM-HMM . 
          CERTAIN POSITIONS WERE IN CONTINGENCY. 
          YES. 
          NOW YOU'RE RECOMMENDING THEY NOT BE, CERTAIN ONES NOT BE IN CONTINGENCY. 
          THAT'S CORRECT. 
          AND BE A PART OF THE BUDGET. 
          SO THESE ARE, THESE ARE ONE OF THE TWO OF THE POSITIONS YOU'RE NOW SAYING THEY'RE NOT BEING RECOMMENDED IN CONTINGENCY, WE'RE RECOMMENDING FULL FUNDING. 
          CORRECT. 
          GOT IT. 
          SO THIS SHOULD, THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING. 
          IT SHOULD, SHOULD BE EASY, BUT GO AHEAD. 
          GO AHEAD, JUDGE. 
          AND I WAS, I WAS PREPARED NOT TO, TO WASTE A LOT OF Y'ALL'S TIME BECAUSE I KNOW, UM, YOU HAVE A LOT ON YOUR AGENDA TODAY, BUT I ALSO DIDN'T WANNA BE PRESUMPTUOUS. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND I, I DID WANT Y'ALL TO HEAR ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THIS PROGRAM THAT Y'ALL HAVE SUPPORTED. 
          SO, UM, I'LL JUST BRIEFLY, UM, AS I, UH, THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO FIRST SAY THANK YOU, THANK YOU, UH, THAT THE, UH, THE BUDGET OFFICE IS RECOMMENDING CONTINUED FUNDING FOR THESE TWO, UH, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HIGH RISK COORDINATORS. 
          AND HOWEVER, I, I WANT Y'ALL TO KNOW, I WOULDN'T EVEN BE HERE BEFORE YOU TODAY ON THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM IF IT HADN'T BEEN, UM, FOR, FOR YOU ALL'S LONG-TERM COMMITMENT TO TURNING CONCERN FOR SURVIVORS AND THEIR FAMILIES, UH, IMPACTED BY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTO TANGIBLE ACTION. 
          UM, ESPECIALLY YOUR SUPPORT FOR STRENGTHENING SERVICES FOR THOSE HIGHEST AT RISK. 
          SO BEFORE TURNING TO THE SLIDE BEFORE YOU TODAY, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO BRIEFLY REFLECT ON HOW THESE TWO POSITIONS CAME TO BE IN, UH, THE NEED THAT THEY WERE CREATED TO ADDRESS. 
          SO WHEN I STEPPED INTO THIS ROLE AS THE CENTER'S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN 2019, MY EXPERIENCE AS A FAMILY VIOLENCE COURT JUDGE AND PROSECUTOR, UH, HAD PUT HIGH RISK IDENTIFICATION AT THE FOREFRONT OF MY MIND. 
          IN THAT SUMMER, WE BEGAN IDENTIFYING HIGH RISK SURVIVORS THROUGH THE CENTER'S CENTRAL INTAKE PROCESS. 
          WE ALSO BEGAN DEVELOPING PROTOCOLS WITHIN OUR MULTI-AGENCY, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY FRAMEWORK, UH, TO PRIORITIZE THOSE HIGH RISK SURVIVORS NEEDS. 
          SO THE FOLLOWING YEAR, THROUGH OUR INVOLVEMENT WITH THE CCDV AND ITS LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PROSECUTION COMMITTEES, THE CENTER LAUNCHED THIS DVHR, UH, COORDINATOR PROGRAM, AND THE PROGRAM FILLS A IMPORTANT GAP IN OUR SERVICES FOR HIGH RISK SURVIVORS. 
          SO LATER, WHEN WE SOUGHT TO EXPAND THIS PROGRAM WITH ARPA FUNDING, THE COURT RECOGNIZED THE IMPACT OF THAT FIRST COORDINATOR THAT WE RECEIVED AND SAW THE INCREASED DEMAND FOR SERVICES WE WERE EXPERIENCING. 
          AND SO YOU GAVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPAND FROM ONE, UH, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HIGH RISK COORDINATOR TO THREE. 
          AND SO WHERE ARE WE TODAY? UH, THE INCREASED DEMAND THAT WAS SPURRED BY THE PANDEMIC, UH, HAS BECOME THE NEW NORMAL AT THE BEXAR COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER. 
          AND TODAY WE SERVE MORE THAN 5,000 SURVIVORS ANNUALLY. 
          AND THIS IS A 50 A 40% INCREASE FROM OUR PRE COVID, UH, YEARLY AVERAGE. 
          SO WHAT HAS THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF THE PROGRAM'S EXPANSION SHOWN US THAT JUST AN ADDITIONAL TWO COORDINATORS CAN DRAMATICALLY INCREASE THE IMPACT OF THIS HIGH RISK PROGRAM AS A RESULT OF IT BEING EMBEDDED WITHIN OUR ONE STOP SHOP MODEL? SO WHEN SURVIVORS REACH OUT TO THE CENTER, OUR CENTRALIZED INTAKE STAFF IDENTIFY RISK EARLY ON AT THE VERY BEGINNING, AND THOSE IDENTIFIED AS HIGH RISK RECEIVE THE SPECIALIZED INTERVENTION IN SUPPORT FROM OUR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HIGH RISK COORDINATORS. 
          SO BECAUSE THAT COORDINATOR IS WORKING WITHIN THE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTERS, A MULTIDISCIPLINARY MODEL, SAFETY, LEGAL COUNSELING, AND UH, MANY OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE UNDER OUR ONE ROOF. 
          AND THIS REDUCES BARRIERS AND ALLOWING FOR TRUE WRAPAROUND SUPPORT THAT ALSO ALLOWS THE COORDINATOR TO RESPOND QUICKLY TO MONITOR RISK OVER TIME AND TO ADJUST SERVICES WHEN CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE. 
          SO THE SLIDE THAT IS BEFORE YOU SHOWS THE DRAMATIC INCREASE IN CAPACITY WITH THE TWO ADDITIONAL COORDINATORS. 
          SO IN 2025, THE THREE COORDINATORS COMPLETED 2,858 HIGH RISK REVIEWS 
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AND INTERVENTIONS. 
          AND THAT WAS NEARLY SIX TIMES THE NUMBER IN 2021 WITH JUST THE ONE COORDINATOR. 
          AND THEY ALSO PROVIDED ONGOING CASE MANAGEMENT TO APPROXIMATELY 295 SURVIVORS NEARLY FIVE TIMES. 
          THE NUMBER SERVED IN 2021 WITH ONE COORDINATOR. 
          AND OUR 26, OUR 26 NUMBERS ARE ON TRACK TO MIRROR THOSE OF THE 25. 
          SO THIS IMPACT OF OUR EFFORTS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS TO STRENGTHEN SERVICES HAS ALSO BEEN RECOGNIZED BEYOND OUR WALLS. 
          UH, EARLIER THIS YEAR, I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT THE ECUMENICAL CENTER RECOGNIZED THE CENTER AS A LEVEL ONE TRAUMA INFORMED CARE FACILITY, AND MOST RECENTLY, THE SAN ANTONIO BAR FOUNDATION SELECTED THE CENTER TO RECEIVE THE 2026 PEACEMAKER AWARD. 
          THESE HONORS BEAR THE CENTER'S NAME, BUT THEY ALSO, UH, MORE IMPORTANTLY, REFLECT THE WORK OF ALL OF OUR ONSITE PARTNERS, AGENCIES, AND STAFF. 
          AND THAT INCLUDES OUR LEAD AGENCY, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY GONZALEZ IS HERE TODAY, AND ALSO THIS COURT, WHICH HAS SUPPORTED THE CENTER FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS. 
          SO WE HOPE YOU WILL SUPPORT THE BUDGET OFFICE'S RECOMMENDATION TO FUND THESE PROGRAMS SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO SUSTAIN WHAT WE HAVE BUILT TOGETHER AS AT THE CENTER FOR HIGH RISK VICTIMS. OKAY, JUDGE, I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE BRIEFING. 
          UM, I'M THINKING ABOUT JUST HUMAN CAPACITY ON A DAILY BASIS. 
          SO YOU HAVE A HIGH END TECH INTAKE PERSON, THEY NEED IMMEDIATE HELP. 
          UM, SO HOW MANY FOLKS PER DAY DOES A CASEWORKER OR HOW MANY CALLS PER DAY COME INTO THE OFFICE? SURE. 
          SO WE, IN OUR CENTRAL INTAKE PROCESS, THERE ARE FIVE. 
          THERE ARE FIVE OF THEM. 
          AND OUR AVERAGE IS AROUND 5,000 A YEAR. 
          WE'RE A LITTLE OVER 5,000. 
          SO EACH ONE OF OUR FIVE INTAKE STAFF ASSIST MORE THAN A THOUSAND SURVIVORS A YEAR. 
          AND NOW THE ONGOING, I CAN'T CALCULATE THAT. 
          YEAH, I, I WENT, I GOT A LAW DEGREE , SO I, UM, SO, UM, EACH ONE OF THEM IS DOING ALSO ONGOING CASE MANAGEMENT. 
          IS THAT NO. 
          NO. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THERE, THERE ARE TWO PROGRAMS. SO EV EVERY SURVIVOR WHO SEEKS SERVICES AT THE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER GO THROUGH OUR CENTRAL INTAKE PROCESS. 
          SO IT IS THERE WHERE THAT WE'LL CALL IT SERVICE NAVIGATOR, UH, AT DOES MANY THINGS. 
          UM, IT'S NOT UNUSUAL FOR A SURVIVOR TO PRESENT TO THE CENTER, UM, UH, BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT WE CAN ASSIST WITH PROTECTIVE ORDERS, NOT REALIZING THAT WE PROVIDE A WHOLE HOST OF SERVICES LIKE COUNSELING, UM, CHILD THERAPY, UH, POLICE REPORTING, SO ALL OF THESE OTHERS. 
          SO THAT PERSON GOES THROUGH THE CENTRAL INTAKE PROCESS. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY DO IN ADDITION TO, UH, ADDRESSING CONFIDENTIALITY AND VICTIM'S RIGHTS, IS ADMINISTER FOR THOSE SURVIVORS THAT ARE DOMESTIC, IT'S INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IS TO ADMINISTER THE DANGER ASSESSMENT. 
          WE USE THE JACKIE CAMPBELL DANGER ASSESSMENT. 
          THEY ADMINISTER THAT, AND THAT THAT ASSESSMENT IS WEIGHTED RIGHT. 
          AND THERE'S THREE CATEGORIES, LOW RISK, MEDIUM RISK, AND EXTREME DANGER. 
          WHEN, UM, A INDIVIDUAL IS IDENTIFIED TO BE AN EXTREME DANGER, THAT TRIGGERS THE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTERS HIGH RISK PROTOCOLS. 
          SO THAT TRIGGERS THESE COORDINATORS INTERVENING AND PROVIDING LONGER TERM SUPPORT AND INTERVENTION, AND ALSO WORKING WITH OUR DIFFERENT SERVICE PROVIDERS, UM, TO ENSURE COORDINATION. 
          MR. THOMAS? THANK YOU, JUDGE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, JUDGE. 
          LET US GO TO NUMBER FIVE, REQUEST FROM DISTRICT CLERK REGARDING THAT A PROGRAM CHECK CHANGE TO ADD ONE CIVIL COURT CLERK FROM NINE MONTHS OF CONTINGENCY TO GENERAL FUND AND THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $45,047 REGARDING THE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER PROTECTIVE ORDERS PROGRAM. 
          AND THEN FOLLOWING THAT IS PRE ENDOWMENT COURT. 
          SO MS. , THANK YOU, JUDGE. 
          UM, SO THIS IS A REQUEST FROM THE DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE, UH, THAT IT WAS A POST ARPA POSITION, UH, BASED ON, EXCUSE ME, I WENT THROUGH THE WRONG SLIDE. 
          UH, THE DISTRICT CLERK REQUESTS TO RETAIN A CIVIL COURT 
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CLERK THAT WAS ADDED IN 2021 TO PROCESS TIME SENSITIVE PROTECTIVE ORDERS APPLICATIONS FOR ABOUT $45,000. 
          UM, AS DISCUSSED EARLIER, UM, BASED ON WORKLOAD, UH, WHICH IS SIMILAR, UH, THE BUDGET AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDS TO RETAIN THIS POSITION. 
          THE CHART BELOW, UH, SHOWS THE COLLECTED DATA BY GUIDEHOUSE WITH THE NUMBER PROTECTIVE ORDER CASES. 
          THE BLUE, UM, BAR REPRESENTS ACTIVE CASES, AND THE ORANGE BAR, THE KIND OF UT COLOR BAR IS, UH, BASED OFF OF NEW CASES. 
          AND AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, IT'S ABOUT 1500 CASES THAT ARE STILL INCOMING INTO, UM, INTO THE PROTECTIVE ORDER PROCESS. 
          SO BECAUSE OF THAT RE UM, WORKLOAD, WE ARE RECOMMENDING TO RETAIN THIS POSITION TO CONTINUE THE PROTECTIVE ORDER PROCESS. 
          I HAVE A QUESTION, AND MAYBE IT NEEDS TO GO TO JUDGE, PUT THAT LAST GRAPH UP, IF I'M READING THAT RIGHT. 
          PROTECTIVE ORDERS PEAKED IN 2223, AND IT'S CONTINUING A DOWNWARD TREND. 
          WHAT'S THAT REFLECTIVE OF FROM THE BUDGET PERSPECTIVE? UM, WE WOULD HAVE TO WORK WITH, UM, WE GET THIS, UM, INFORMATION FROM GUIDEHOUSE. 
          SO WE'D HAVE TO SEE, I THINK IT'S FROM OCA, SO WE WOULD HAVE TO TALK WITH THE, DID YOU ASK ANYBODY WHY I, I'M HAVING A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING HOW THAT IS A DOWNWARD TREAD IN LIGHT OF THE HIGH PROFILE MEDIA CASES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ESPECIALLY MURDER SUICIDE. 
          SO I, I KNOW IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT ANSWER, THEN IF SOMEBODY HERE CAN ANSWER THAT, PLEASE. 
          WE, IT'S APPARENTLY FROM GUIDEHOUSE. 
          SO I WANT KNOW IF GUIDEHOUSE, I'M SORRY, I'M JUST FROM THE DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE REGARDING THIS POSITION. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          ARE YOU GONNA MAKE A PRESENTATION? WELL, I DIDN'T HAVE A PETITION, A PRESENTATION PREPARED. 
          UH, THE DISTRICT CLERK JUST ASKED ME TO MAKE A STATEMENT IN FAVOR OF, UH, MAINTAINING THIS POSITION. 
          BUT THE NUMBERS WE DID PROVIDE MM-HMM . 
          TO BUDGET SHOWS UP UPWARD TREND. 
          UH, SO YOU YOU DISPUTE THESE? I DO. 
          YEAH. 
          SO WHERE, SO THAT'S THE REASON WHY I NEED APPLES TO APPLES. 
          WHERE ARE YOUR NUMBERS? SO I KNOW THAT, UM, WE SHOW 1100, ROUGHLY 1100 BACK UP FROM 24 NOW TO 1700 PROTECTIVE ORDER S. 
          OKAY. 
          WHERE, WHERE ARE YOUR NUMBERS? SHOW ME IT'S A MORE THAN 40% INCREASE. 
          UM, SHOW ME YOUR NUMBERS. 
          LET'S GO. 
          THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THESE PRESENT PRESENTATIONS. 
          YEAH, MY APOLOGIES. 
          I, THAT WAS PROVIDED TO BUDGET IN OUR, UM, REQUEST BUDGET. 
          DO YOU HAVE IT? I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE GET ACCURATE PRESENTATION. 
          SORRY. 
          UM, SO THAT, UM, THAT LAST BAR, UM, I BELIEVE IS THE INFORMATION THAT WE, IS THIS FROM GUIDEHOUSE OR WAS THIS FROM OURS? THIS IS FROM OCA. 
          SO WE PULLED THIS INFORMATION FROM THE OFFICE OF COURT ADMINISTRATION. 
          IS THAT, ISN'T THAT THE STANDARD TO MEASURE THE COURTS? IS OCA IT HAS THE PROTECTIVE ORDER, UH, ACTIVE CASES AND INCOMING CASES? YES, IT IS. 
          IT'S THE INFORMATION THE COURTS ARE REQUIRED TO REPORT TO THE STATE EVERY YEAR, AND THEY DETERMINE THE STANDARD. 
          SO HOW DO WE GET, OKAY, THAT NUMBER ON THE BAR GRAPH SHOWS LESS THAN A THOUSAND. 
          AND DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE IS TELLING ME 1700? NO, NO, SIR. 
          IT'S A LITTLE BIT UNDER 1500 ON THE ORANGE BAR ON THE VERY LAST ONE, IT'S RIGHT UNDER 1500. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THIS IS THROUGH, I THINK THE END OF JULY. 
          SO I'M NOT SURE IF THE DIS WHERE THE DISTRICT CLERK GOT THEIR NUMBERS. 
          THEY MIGHT HAVE MORE RECENT NUMBERS SINCE THEY'RE THE RECORD. 
          OKAY. 
          SO NOBODY'S GOT ANSWERS FOR ME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ANYTHING ELSE FROM THE DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE? UH, YES, SIR. 
          YES, SIR. 
          SIR, WE DID HAVE A PROBLEM WITH, UH, SUBMITTING FAMILY, UH, OCA SINCE, UH, DECEMBER. 
          UM, IT HAD SOMETHING IN THE SYSTEM IN ODYSSEY DEADLOCKED, UH, US FINALIZING THE JANUARY REPORT. 
          SO WE'VE HAD TO SUBMIT, UH, SUBMIT REPORTS REPEATEDLY THAT HADN'T BEEN FINALIZED, WHICH MAY HAVE CAUSED A, A SLIGHT ISSUE WITH THE NUMBERS. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          COOL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, PRE, WAS IT PREMA COURT, ARE YOU? NEXT, NUMBER SIX, PREMA COURT NUMBER ONE, REGARDING THE FAMILY REQUEST FOR CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURTS REGARDING A PARAGRAPH CHANGE TO ADD ONE DISTRICT COURT COORDINATOR FROM NINE MONTHS OF CONTINGENCY TO GENERAL FUND IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $66,865. 
          AND B, A REQUEST FROM DISTRICT ATTORNEY REGARDING A PROGRAM CHANCE TO ADD ONE, PROSECUTOR, FIVE, ONE, PROSECUTOR FOUR, AND ONE INVESTIGATOR FROM NINE MONTHS OF CONTINGENCIES TO GENERAL FUND IN THE AMOUNT OF $294,572. 
          ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          YOU'LL BE FOLLOWING THIS PRESENTATION, MS. GAAN. 
          THANK YOU, JUDGE. 
          UH, THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURTS ARE REQUESTING TO RETAIN THEIR 
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PRE INDICTMENT COURT, WHICH IS THE FIRST ONE THAT THE COURT ESTABLISHED. 
          THIS INCLUDES ONE POSITION IN POST ARPA FOR THE DISTRICT COURTS AND THREE POSITIONS FOR THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR A COST OF $361,000. 
          COMMISSIONER'S COURT APPROVED THE FIRST PRE INDICTMENT COURT TO ADDRESS THE BACKLOG CASES IN THE FELONY COURTS. 
          UH, THIS COURT SERVES AS A FIRST OPPORTUNITY TO DISPOSE OF CASES BEFORE FILING, ESPECIALLY FOR JAIL CASES WITH SETTINGS WITHIN 60 DAYS OF BOOKING IN 2025. 
          COURT APPROVED A SECOND PRE INDICTMENT COURT IN THE GENERAL FUND, AND ALSO WITH THE DEPLOYMENT OF ODYSSEY, THE COURT'S CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. 
          THE NUMBER OF PRE, PRE INDICTMENT CASES HAVE INCREASED IN 2026. 
          THE PRE INDICTMENT COURTS MANAGED OVER 12,000 CASES. 
          ONE OF THE MOST COMPELLING OUTCOMES WAS THE AGE OF DISPOSITION OF FELONY CASES. 
          THE 10 STATUTORY COURTS WERE PROVIDED, UH, PROVIDED LESS TIME ON PRE INDICTMENTS WITH WHICH THEY USED TO DO AND MORE TIME FOR THEIR CASELOAD. 
          SO, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE ON THE GRAPH, UH, PRE, UM, I GUESS WELL BEFORE PRE INDICTMENT COURT, UH, JULY, 2022, MOST OF THEIR CASES WERE OVER 365 DAYS. 
          AND IN JULY, 2026, THUS HAS SWITCHED MAJORITY OF THEIR CASES ALMOST HALF OR NOW LESS THAN 90 DAYS. 
          SO THEY'RE ALLOWED MORE TIME TO DISPOSE CASES FASTER, WHICH WAS THE GOAL FOR THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. 
          THE PROSECUTORS MANAGE ALL MOTIONS, PLEA CONFERRAL AND DISCOVERY ACTIVITIES, AND THE DA INVESTIGATORS GATHER CASE INFORMATION FOR THE PROSECUTORS. 
          THE DA'S OFFICE CURRENTLY HAS THREE PROSECUTOR, FOUR VACANCIES, AND THREE INVESTIGATOR VACANCIES. 
          THEREFORE, WE ARE RECOMMENDING TO DELETE THE PROSECUTOR FOUR AND RETAIN THE FIRST CHAIR, PROSECUTOR FIVE, AS WELL AS KEEP THE COURT COORDINATOR FOR THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURTS. 
          THE RECOMMENDATION FOR THIS IS $117,000. 
          DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I'M AVAILABLE. 
          GO AHEAD, COMMISSIONER WOODY. 
          UH, JUST BETWEEN PRE INDICTMENT COURT ONE AND TWO, THE DISPARITY IN CASES IS PRE INDICTMENT COURT ONE, LIKE JUST STAFF WITH MORE INDIVIDUALS, ATTORNEYS, INVESTIGATORS, OR WHY THE DISPARITY? I WOULD HAVE TO ASK THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURTS. 
          I'M NOT SURE WHY THERE'S A BA MISSED BALANCE ON THAT, BUT THEY DO HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF STAFF, JUDGE OR HONOR FROM CRIMINAL DISTRICT. 
          WHY DON'T YOU COME UP AND IF YOU WISH TO MAKE A PRESENTATION, GO AHEAD AND THEN COMMISSIONER MOODY. 
          OKAY. 
          OR YOU CAN ASK THE QUESTION NOW. 
          I THINK I CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION. 
          UM, ONE OF THE REASONS IS IT IS ALSO IN YOUR COURT. 
          SO IT'S JUST, UH, RECENTLY GONE ONLINE. 
          SO WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE THE NUMBERS, UH, FOR PRE INDICTMENT COURT ONE THAT FOR PRE INDICTMENT COURT TWO THAT WE HAVE FOR PRE INDICTMENT COURT. 
          UH, ONE, SO IT'S A MORE RECENT, SO IT'S NOT APPLES APPLES IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, RIGHT? CORRECT. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND THERE IS A NEED FOR THE, UM, OF COURSE THE PROSECUTOR'S THE ONE THAT MOVES THE CASES. 
          SO WE DEFINITELY NEED THE PROSECUTOR. 
          WE NEED THE COORDINATOR, UH, TO DO THAT. 
          WE ALSO NEED THE INVESTIGATOR ON THE FAMILY VIOLENCE CASES. 
          UM, IT IS DIFFICULT, UH, FOR THE PROSECUTOR TO MOVE THOSE CASES IF THE INVESTIGATOR DOESN'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT WITH THE VICTIMS. UM, AND ANYONE ELSE THAT'S INVOLVED IN THE CASE IN ORDER FOR THAT CASE TO BE RESOLVED. 
          UM, THERE ARE NUMBERS, UH, THAT INDICATE, UM, THAT IN THE PAST YEAR, I THINK ANNA HAS IT. 
          UM, AND JUST, LET'S SEE. 
          WE, UH, RESOLVED PRE INDICTMENT COURT HAD RESOLVED, UH, OVER 2000, ALMOST 3000 CASES, SAVING OVER $7 MILLION, UH, IN JAIL BED MONEY. 
          THAT'S GOOD. 
          OKAY. 
          THERE'S NO, IF WE REALIZE IT, OKAY, KEEP ASKING THOSE QUESTIONS, COMMISSIONER. 
          OH, YES. 
          AND, AND OUR PRE INDICTMENT COURT TO ALSO DOES NOT CURRENTLY HAVE A COURTROOM. 
          SO ON OCCASION THEY SHARE WITH PRE INDICTMENT COURT ONE, AND THEY FLOAT AROUND TO ANY SPACE THAT WE CAN FIND. 
          SO IF THEY HAD A SOLID COURTROOM WHERE THEY COULD SET CONSISTENT DOCKETS, THEY WOULD PROBABLY BE ABLE TO MOVE MORE CASES IF THEY HAD THE PROSECUTOR, THE COORDINATOR, AND THE INVESTIGATOR AVAILABLE. 
          THAT'S ANOTHER BUDGET REQUEST. 
          ANOTHER ISSUE, RIGHT? JUDGE  ALWAYS IS . 
          UM, I, I JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, THE PRE INDICTMENT COURT OR THE SECOND PRE INDICTMENT COURT, WAS THAT PART OF THE, UH, IMPACT COURT CONVERSATION? 'CAUSE WE HAVE TWO IMPACT COURTS, WHICH IS A SEPARATE BUDGETARY DISCUSSION. 
          YES. 
          THAT'S FOR COUNTY COURTS. 
          THESE ARE FOR FELONY COURTS. 
          I UNDERSTAND, BUT WE ADDED ONE OF THESE, UH, PRE INDICTMENT COURTS, RIGHT? CORRECT. 
          THERE'S TWO PRE INDICTMENT COURTS. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          AND WAS THE SECOND ONE FUNDED DONE THROUGH ARPA? NO, THROUGH GENERAL FUND. 
          OKAY. 
          BOTH ARE THROUGH GENERAL FUND TODAY. 
          UM, PART, MOST OF THE, THE, 
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THE FIRST ONE IS PARTIALLY FUNDED BY POST ARPA. 
          THERE ARE SOME POSITIONS IN THE GENERAL FUND, BUT THE SECOND ONE'S COMPLETELY FUNDED IN THE GENERAL FUND. 
          OKAY. 
          AND I'LL JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, FOR BOTH THESE DISCUSSIONS TO ME REALLY REQUIRES LIKE GOOD DATA AND GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS BECAUSE IT'S REALLY HARD TO SEE, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A NEED AT ONE POINT. 
          UH, THE DATA LOOKS LIKE IT HAS PRODUCED THE RESULTS THAT WE HOPED FOR AND EXPECTED, BUT LOOKING FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE MIDTERM LONG TERM, TRYING TO UNDERSTAND LIKE WHAT THE VOLUME OF CASES WILL BE, BOTH FOR THESE PRE INDICTMENT COURTS AND FOR THE IMPACT COURTS, RIGHT? 'CAUSE ULTIMATELY WE NEED TO KNOW, NOT, YOU KNOW, HAS IT BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN THE PAST, BUT IS THIS GONNA PROVIDE THE VALUE IN THE FUTURE? THAT MEANS WE'RE GONNA INVEST IN IT TODAY AND TAKE OUT OF OUR RESERVES TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO, TO INVEST IN IT. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS IN MY MIND. 
          MM-HMM . 
          I'M NOT SURE IF WE HAVE THE, THE DATA TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THAT, YOU KNOW, UH, DETERMINATION A DAY. 
          BUT THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS IN MY MIND. 
          LET'S GET THE PRESENTATION SIDE. 
          SO JUDGE STA STALL, AND JOE GONZALEZ, YOU'RE HERE. 
          SO JUDGE STAHL, DO YOU WANT TO CONTINUE OR JOE. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          JOE, YOU ON THE HOT SEAT? GOOD MORNING, JUDGE. 
          AND COMMISSIONERS. 
          UH, SO, UH, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THIS COURT APPRECIATES WHAT GOES ON IN THESE PRE INDICTMENT COURTS. 
          THE WHOLE IDEA IN CREATING THESE PRE INDICTMENT COURTS IS TO MOVE THESE CASES AS SOON AS PRACTICAL. 
          AND SO WHAT, WHAT PRO WHAT PROSECUTORS DO IS THEY APPEAR IN COURT AND, AND WHENEVER A JUDGE HOLDS COURT, UH, THEN WE'RE DOWN THERE IN COURT, UH, CONFERRING WITH THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY, UH, ATTORNEYS, I'M SORRY, UM, UH, OFFERING PLEAS, UM, TRYING TO MOVE CASES. 
          AND THAT'S ALSO THE COURT WHERE THEY, THEY SCHEDULE THE VARIOUS MOTIONS, MOTIONS FOR BOND REDUCTION, UH, MOTIONS TO, TO, UH, MODIFY BOND CONDITIONS AND OF COURSE EXAMINING TRIALS. 
          SO THOSE ARE VERY ACTIVE COURTS. 
          AND WHAT, WHAT I I'M HERE IS TO SAY, IF THIS COURT IS CONSIDERING, UH, APPROVING TWO COURTS THAT ARE RUNNING SIMULTANEOUSLY, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE ANY EFFICIENCY WITH JUST ONE PROSECUTOR. 
          WE HAVE TO HAVE THE STAFF TO BE ABLE TO STAFF BOTH COURTS ALL. 
          AND SO WE HAD SUBMITTED A REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF, UH, A PROSECUTOR FIVE, WHICH IS A FIRST CHAIR AND A PROSECUTOR FOUR, AND AN INVESTIGATOR. 
          WELL, BUDGET IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL, AS YOU SAW OF THE PROSECUTOR FIVE, UH, BUT NOT THE OTHER TWO. 
          IT IS CRITICAL THAT WE HAVE THE SECOND PROSECUTOR AND AN INVESTIGATOR. 
          AND BY THE WAY, THE INVESTIGATOR IS THE ONE THAT, THAT DOES THE LEGWORK TO TRACKS DOWN THE DISCOVERY A LOT OF TIMES, UH, PROVIDING THE, THE EVIDENCE, UH, UH, TO ENTICE OR MOTIVATE A DEFENDANT TO, TO ENTER A PLEA. 
          REMEMBER THESE, THESE CASES ARE PRE INDICTMENT. 
          UH, SO IF WE CAN GET EVERYBODY TOGETHER IN THE COURTROOM AND MOVE THESE CASES, THAT, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S, UH, ULTIMATE EFFICIENCY. 
          SO WHAT I'M, WHAT I'M GETTING AT, UH, UH, IS THAT IF YOU ALL ARE CONTEMPLATING CONTINUING TO RUN THESE TWO COURTS SIMULTANEOUSLY, AND IF AT SOME POINT YOU CREATE A A SECOND COURT, YOU, YOU NEED TO STAFF THEM. 
          WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE, UH, PROSECUTORS, UH, AND INVESTIGATORS THAT CAN STAFF THESE COURTS. 
          AND SO, UH, WE KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, TO YOUR QUESTION, COMMISSIONER MOODY, THAT THAT, UH, YEARLY, THERE ARE ABOUT 20,000 CASES OR SO FELONY CASES THAT COME IN A YEAR. 
          THESE ARRESTS CASES, A LOT OF THEM ARE, ARE REFERRED THEN FROM THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGES TO THE PRE INDICTMENT COURT FOR POTENTIALS OF RESOLUTION. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, IN 23 WE SAW 21,000, UH, THEN 24 IT JUMPED TO 20 2007 60, AND LAST YEAR WAS 24,523. 
          SO WE'RE SEEING AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF FELONY ARREST CASES, UH, THAT ARE FILED IN OUR OFFICE, UH, SOME OF WHICH, UM, END UP IN, IN PRE INDICTMENT COURTS. 
          SO WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO, TO STAFF THESE COURTS IN ORDER TO, TO MOVE THESE CASES. 
          AS, UH, JUDGE TOAL MENTIONED, UH, THE DISTRICT COURTS, THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURTS ARE IN SUPPORT OF OUR REQUEST, UH, TO, UH, TO ADD THE SECOND PROSECUTOR AND THE INVESTIGATOR. 
          AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE. 
          OKAY. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? LET, LET ME, UH, GET CLARITY. 
          UH, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ANNA OR JUDGE OR JOE ON THE SLIDE THAT'S UP THERE. 
          PUT THAT NUMBERS BACK UP. 
          POST ARPA INDICTMENT COURTS WORKLOAD SAYS THAT 20 FY 25 26 
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COMBINED DOCKET OF 12,468 CASES BEING A FORMER DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, ALTHOUGH WASN'T ON THE CRIMINAL SIDE, THAT'S A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT NUMBER I NEED TO KNOW ARE THOSE PENDING CASES. 
          I'D LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY CASES GOT PROCESSED THROUGH THESE COURTS AND CASE CLOSED AS A RESULT OF PRE INDICTMENT COURT ONE AND SEPARATELY PRE INDICTMENT COURT TWO, OR GIVE ME THE TOTAL FOR BOTH COURTS AND MY SECOND, UH, METRICS. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY JAIL CASES DID Y'ALL MOVE AND CLOSE, BECAUSE I'LL BE REAL BLUNT, I, IF YOU CAN, IF YOU CAN SHOW ME, I'M GONNA GIVE THE JUDICI CRIMINAL DISTRICT JUDGES AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S CREDIT FOR HELPING THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT WITH JAIL POPULATION SHOULD, I DON'T KNOW WHO IN PARTICULAR, AND MAYBE IT WAS THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE OR THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE OR THE COURT, BUT I THINK WE SHOULD ALL SHARE IN THE FACT THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MOVE CASES. 
          OUR JAIL POPULATION HAS HAD A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION FROM LAST YEAR. 
          WE'RE KIND OF GETTING BACK TO THE NORMAL RANGE. 
          AT LEAST I MONITOR THAT ON A DAILY BASIS. 
          TWO, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO STOP THE OVERFLOW ASCENDING, UH, PRISONERS TO ADJOINING COUNTIES THAT I THINK WE JUST PAID 3 MILLION BUCKS FOR. 
          AND SO, AND I UNDERSTAND, COMMISSIONER MOODY, YOU ALWAYS ASK THE QUESTION IN JAIL OVER TIME, AND WE'RE HOPING THAT GETS MORE MANAGEABLE. 
          SO I WANT TO APPLAUD OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. 
          SO MY QUESTION IS, IN ORDER FOR ME TO DECIDE IN ABOUT THE REQUEST, WE'RE GONNA PRESERVE WHAT I HEAR BUDGET SAY, THAT WE'RE GONNA PRESERVE TWO COURTS. 
          IT'S JUST THE FACT THAT THEY'RE RECOMMENDING A, UH, STRIKING OF THE, UH, PROSECUTOR FOR AND AN INVESTIGATOR. 
          YOU'VE MADE YOUR PITCH. 
          SO CAN YOU GIVE ME THE METRICS, SAY THIS IS THE OUTPUT AND THESE ARE HOW MANY PEOPLE WE GOT OVER OUR JAIL. 
          'CAUSE IF YOU CAN DO, IF YOU CAN MAKE THAT CASE, I'M READY TO SUPPORT IT. 
          SO, JOE, JUDGE STALL ANNA, SOMEBODY GIMME ANSWERS PLEASE. 
          SO IT APPEARS FROM THE NUMBERS WE HAVE, FROM THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU'RE ASKING SPECIFICALLY, AS TO OCTOBER, 2025 TO SEPTEMBER, 2026, THIS IS AN ESTIMATED AMOUNT THAT WE HAVE OF 2,606 CASES, UH, THAT WERE MOVED, THAT WERE JAIL RELATED. 
          UM, THERE WERE 934 HEARINGS THAT WERE HELD, AND THESE ARE ALL CA UH, HEARINGS THAT HELP MOVE THE CASE FORWARD. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UM, THEY COULD POSSIBLY BE RESOLVED IN A MOTION TO SUPPRESS, THEY COULD BE RESOLVED IN, YOU KNOW, BOND REDUCTIONS WHERE WE'RE MOVING, UH, PEOPLE OUT OF JAIL. 
          UM, AND COURSE I'M GONNA PRESUME THE COURTS DID THE INTEREST OF JUSTICE. 
          AND SO WHETHER PEOPLE GOT MOVED OUT OF THE JAIL BECAUSE THEY JUST, THERE WERE CHARGES DISMISSED OR PEOPLE PLED AND WERE SENT OFF TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE TDCJ. 
          I APPLAUD Y'ALL. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          Y'ALL ARE SAYING THAT THESE CASES ARE MOVING AND AND AFFECTING OUR JAIL POPULATION. 
          SO THAT VALIDATES MY COMPLIMENTS OF WHAT Y'ALL ARE DOING. 
          THANKS. 
          WORKING IN AS A GROUP OVER THERE. 
          I WILL POINT OUT ONE THING, AND I MENTIONED THIS EARLIER, BUT I JUST TO BE MORE SPECIFIC, IT HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO MOVE SOME OF OUR FAMILY VIOLENCE CASES BECAUSE THERE IS AN INVESTIGATOR AVAILABLE, UH, TO WORK WITH WITNESSES AND VICTIMS. AND SO THOSE ARE A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT FOR US TO MOVE IN THE PRE INDICTMENT COURTS. 
          AND SO TO HAVE THAT WOULD CERTAINLY INCREASE OUR ABILITY TO RESOLVE SOME OF THOSE CASES EARLIER. 
          DOES, DOES THESE PRE INDICTMENT COURTS, CAN WE PUT A FOCUS ON THOSE FAMILY VIOLENCE CASES? JOE, WHAT? SO, BECAUSE WE KNOW, AND I'LL BE REAL BLUNT, WE HAD A REPORT THAT THAT'S AN ISSUE IN THE MISDEMEANOR COURTS. 
          AND AGAIN, I'M NOT TRYING TO POINT FINGERS. 
          THIS IS WHAT'S THE REALITY? HOW CAN DEPARTMENTS, OFFICES WORK TOGETHER? I REALLY NEED JUDICIARY AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S, ESPECIALLY AS A FORMER JURIST, IF Y'ALL DON'T WORK TOGETHER, THEN DON'T BE ASKING FOR MORE MONEY. 
          'CAUSE THE MONEY AIN'T FIXING IT, BUT FIXES IT WHEN WE GET TOGETHER AND MAKE THINGS MORE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT. 
          SO HELP ME UNDERSTAND HOW THIS BUDGET REQUEST MORE PRO ONE MORE PROSECUTOR AND ONE MORE THE, AND THEN THE REALITY IS CAN WE GET BY WITH A LOWER LEVEL PROSECUTOR? I MEAN, ARE THOSE THINGS WE CAN WORK WITH OR JUDGE WE NEED THAT PROSECUTOR FOR? THAT'S JUST, THAT'S THE WAY IT IS. 
          AND I CAN ACCEPT THAT. 
          'CAUSE YOU NEED A HIGH LEVEL PROSECUTOR, I PRESUME. 
          GOTTA MAKE DECISIONS, GOTTA MAKE DECISIONS, WHETHER TO DISMISS A CASE, MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO PRISON, OR GET READY FOR A TRIAL AND PRESENT THE STATE'S CASE. 
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SO I GET THE, I GET THE DEAL AND THE COMPLEXITIES OF THE DA'S OFFICE AND UNFORTUNATELY, AND SOMETIMES THE NO WIN SITUATION, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IS OFTEN PUT IN, RIGHT? THAT'S THE REALITY, JOE, YOU'VE HAD TO PUT UP FOR EIGHT YEARS. 
          WE HAVE BEEN IN CONSTANT COMMUNICATION IN TERMS OF PROSECUTORS. 
          UM, I'VE TALKED TO, UH, SOME OF THE INTAKE PEOPLE, OF COURSE EMILY, WE HAVE HAD, UH, COLLABORATIVE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE PROSECUTORS AVAILABLE, UM, TO MOVE THESE CASES IF THERE'S AN ISSUE. 
          I'VE GONE DIRECTLY TO JOE AND SAID, PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS. 
          UM, AND HE CERTAINLY HAS RESPONDED AND MADE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE PROSECUTORS NECESSARY UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE ARE VACANCIES AND THERE ARE PEOPLE, I THINK THAT HIGH LEVEL PROSECUTOR IS NECESSARY BECAUSE WE'RE NOT TALK, IT'S EASIER TO MOVE A LOW LEVEL DRUG OFFENSE THAN IT IS A HIGHER LEVEL OFFENSE. 
          AND SO WE HAVE A HIGHER LEVEL PROSECUTOR WHO CAN ACTUALLY HANDLE THESE TYPES OF CASES THAT WILL MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN WHICH CASES WE RESOLVED. 
          AND, AND THAT'S WHY I WANNA SEE YOUR NUMBERS. 
          IF YOU, YOU SHOW ME NUMBERS AND I'M READY TO SUPPORT Y'ALL IN, IN, IN KEEPING THIS EFFECTIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM MOVING, ESPECIALLY IT APPLIES TO JAIL CASES AND MORE. 
          AND NOW THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT, MORE IMPORTANTLY WITH THE SENSITIVE CASES OF FAMILY VIOLENCE AND OBVIOUSLY WE'VE HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY, THEY DON'T WANNA SEE CUTS BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANNA SEE THE EFFECT ON VICTIMS. AND FOUR, THAT I SUPPORT THEM IN THAT REGARD. 
          SO ANNA, YOU GOT SOME MORE METRICS? UH, JUST WHAT WE PROVIDED IN THE BUDGET, PIC ONE AND TWO COMBINED THE NUMBER OF JAIL, JAIL CASES THAT WERE DISPOSED OF THROUGH THAT COURT JAIL INMATES, WHICH IS MORE CASES, BUT INMATES WAS 2,606. 
          AND THAT IS WHEN YOU, THIS LAST, THIS LAST FISCAL YEAR? YEAH, WE HAD TO ESTIMATE, YOU KNOW, FROM THE LAST FEW MONTHS. 
          BUT YES, AND WE ANTICIPATE, ESPECIALLY WITH THE PROSECUTORS CONTINUING, UM, THAT THAT WILL JUST BE HIGHER NEXT YEAR. 
          SO I BELIEVE IT'S OVER $7 MILLION IN JAIL BED DAYS SAVED BY PIC ONE AND TWO. 
          AND THAT'S JUST THE COST TO THE COUNTY FOR JAIL BED DAYS. 
          THERE'S A, A BROADER HUMAN COST, YOU KNOW, TO MOVING THESE CASES SOONER AND QUICKER AND GETTING PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, OUT IN THE COMMUNITY ON PROBATION IF THAT'S WHERE THEY GO OR INTO TDCJ. 
          SO, UM, I THINK IT'S WORKING WELL AND IT HELPS THE COURTS FOCUS ON THEIR INDICTED CASELOADS, WHICH AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN APPROVED OR DESIGNATED FOR 2.7 MORE COURTS AT THE DISTRICT COURT LEVEL. 
          AND SO THIS ALSO TAKES SOME OF THAT PRESSURE OFF OF THE, THE OFFICIAL DISTRICT COURT. 
          SO YOUR $7 MILLION SAVINGS IS A MUSCLE MENTAL TYPE, RIGHT? NO, JUDGE. 
          NO, IT'S MORE MAS . 
          IT'S MORE MAS. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          IT'S CONSERVATIVE. 
          OKAY. 
          I GET IT. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          JOE, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU CAN ADD TO HELP US UNDERSTAND? I JUST WANTED TO ANSWER TWO, UH, ISSUES THAT YOU RAISED. 
          NUMBER ONE, WE CAN ASSIGN AN INVESTIGATOR THAT IS FAMILY VIOLENCE EXPERIENCED TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF, OF, OF TRAINING TO, UH, TO ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES THAT ARE, THAT ARE, UH, PARTICULARIZED TO FAMILY VIOLENCE VICTIMS. IN ADDITION TO THAT JUDGE, AND YOU, YOU HIT IT RIGHT ON THE NAIL, WE DO NEED EXPERIENCED PROSECUTORS BECAUSE IF YOU REMEMBER A COUPLE YEARS BACK DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME WHEN THERE WAS FATE OF, OF, OF SHOOTINGS INVOLVING OFFICER VICTIMS, UH, THERE WAS, UH, SOME MISINFORMATION ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE LOW BONDS WERE THE, THE FAULT OF THE DA'S OFFICE. 
          UH, AND SO IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE EXPERIENCED PROSECUTORS GO BACK TO THESE BOND HEARINGS AND, AND URGE THE JUDGES TO INCREASE THOSE BONDS OR KEEP 'EM AT A HIGH LEVEL, OTHERWISE WE RISK, UH, COMPROMISING THE SAFETY OF THE COMMUNITY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          HEY JUDGE, CAN I GET YOU BACK UP? YOU'RE, YOU'RE YOUR COURT ADMINISTRATOR OPENED THE DOOR, SO TO SPEAK. 
          OKAY. 
          Y'ALL, Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? SURE. 
          SHE MENTIONED ABOUT THE NEED FOR COURTS. 
          CAN I ASSUME THAT IN THIS BUDGET YEAR THAT THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURTS ARE NOT ASKING FOR ADDITIONAL CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURTS? IS THAT, CAN I PUT THAT ON THE RECORD OR IS THAT A MATTER THAT WE NEED TO DISCUSS? WE'RE ALWAYS ASKING FOR THE COURTS THAT WE NEED TO MOVE OUR, I'LL PUT, I'LL PUT YOU ON THE RECORD. 
          UM, IF THERE'S NOT A REQUEST AT THIS TIME, I CAN RESPECT THAT UNDERSTANDING. 
          THERE'S ALWAYS A NEED FOR COURTS. 
          AND I'M JUST WANTING THE COURT TO UNDERSTAND THAT, THAT PERHAPS IN LIGHT OF THIS BUDGET REQUEST, WE SHOULD LOOK AT THE BIGGER PICTURE THAT MAYBE NOT THIS YEAR, BUT MAYBE IN THE NEXT BUDGET YEAR, Y'ALL CAN MAKE THOSE REQUESTS. 
          WELL, IT WASN'T OUR PRIORITY IN OUR, IN OUR BUDGET REQUEST, BUT OBVIOUSLY WE ALWAYS OUR, UH, UNDERSTANDING THAT OUR CASELOAD CONTINUES TO INCREASE. 
          AND WHEN I DO MY PRESENTATION LATER ABOUT THE COORDINATOR PAY, I WILL INDICATE TO YOU HOW OUR NUMBERS HAVE INCREASED FROM 2021 TO 2025. 
          ALMOST. 
          I, SIR, I UNDERSTAND THE CASELOADS, BUT THAT'S THE REASON WHY I WANT THE COURT TO 
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UNDERSTAND THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM BEING ON THAT SIDE OF THE FENCE ABOUT CASELOADS AND THAT PRE INDICTMENT COURTS, ASSOCIATE JUDGES AND THE USE OF ASSOCIATE HAS BEEN AN EFFECTIVE USE OF JUDICIAL RESOURCES. 
          AND IT'S DEFINITELY BEEN AN, AS BEING A FORMER ASSOCIATE JUDGE, GOD BLESS IT. 
          'CAUSE THEY DO ALL THE, EXCUSE ME, BUT THEY DO THE HARD WORK. 
          OKAY. 
          THEY DO THE GRANT WORK FOR SURE. 
          YES. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          YES. 
          AND I SAY THAT WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO OUR ELECTED DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, ESPECIALLY THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGE. 
          RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, ANY FURTHER COMMENT QUESTIONS? LET'S MOVE ON. 
          UH, SEVEN. 
          REQUEST FROM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REGARDING PROGRAM CHANGE TO ADD ONE, WORKFORCE TRAINING ADMINISTRATOR, ONE FORCE SUPPORT SERVICES SPECIALIST, ONE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST FROM NINE MONTHS OF CONTINGENCY TO THE GENERAL FUND TO CONTINUE FAST TRACK TWO AND COUNTYWIDE WORKFORCE INITIATIVES IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF 200,003 $993. 
          YES, SIR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, TODAY, THE COUNTY, UM, OR THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENTS REQUESTING, UH, TO RETAIN THREE POSITIONS, UH, FOR A TOTAL COST OF $203,000 FOR THE FAST TRACK PROGRAM. 
          THE FIRST POSITION IS AN ADMINISTRATOR THAT'S DEDICATED TO FAST TRACK NUMBER TWO AND WILL BE PROVIDES OVERSIGHT AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THAT LOCATION. 
          AND THE SECOND POSITION, THE WORKFORCE, UH, SPECIALIST, UH, PROVIDES WRAPAROUND SERVICES FOR THE PARTICIPANTS. 
          AND THE THIRD POSITION IS THE SPECIALIST FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, WHICH COLLECTS DATA FOR THE PROGRAM. 
          UH, THIS INCLUDES JOB PLACEMENT AND PROGRAM SEX SUCCESS METRICS. 
          THE COUNTY FIRST DEVELOPED THEIR FAST TRACK PROGRAM IN 2020, UH, WITH PARTNERSHIP WITH TEXAS FAME. 
          THE PROGRAM CURRENTLY HAS TWO FACILITIES. 
          UH, EACH FACILITY HAS FOUR COHORTS A YEAR WITH UP TO 14 STUDENTS. 
          AND ANNUALLY THE PROGRAM WILL TRAIN OF OVER A HUNDRED STUDENTS. 
          ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DID PROVIDE STATISTICS REGARDING THEIR PROGRAM. 
          THE PROGRAM HAS AN 81% EMPLOYMENT RATE, UH, WITH AN AVERAGE WAGE OF ABOUT $24 AN HOUR. 
          MOST STUDENTS GRADUATE FROM THE PROGRAM, WHICH IS AT 94% WITH 203 GRADUATES TOTAL. 
          AND THE TOP EMPLOYERS ARE LISTED HERE, AVINAD AS BEING THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES THAT WERE, UM, EMPLOYING THIS, UH, THE GRADUATES FROM THIS PROGRAM. 
          SO BASED ON THAT INFORMATION, UH, IN THE NEW LOCATION THAT WAS RECENTLY DEVELOPED, UM, THE BUDGET AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT REQUESTS RETAINING ALL THREE OF THE POSITIONS, INCLUDING THE ADMINISTRATOR AND THE TWO SPECIALISTS. 
          I AM OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS THAT Y'ALL MAY HAVE. 
          QUESTIONS. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, DEBORAH CARTER, DO YOU WANNA COME UP? IS THERE ANYTHING DO YOU WANT TO, TO ADD? UM, YES. 
          SO I, I DID SEND IN A POWERPOINT. 
          OH, THANK YOU. 
          UM, I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT AS THE DIRECTOR. 
          I'M DEBORAH CARTER, DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HERE AT BEXAR COUNTY. 
          OUR TOP THREE GOALS FOR OUR DEPARTMENT IS NUMBER ONE, BUSINESS EXPANSION AND ADVANCEMENT. 
          NUMBER TWO IS, UM, RECRUITING COMPANIES TO RECRUIT THEIR CAPITAL INVESTMENT AND HIGH WAGE JOBS TO OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND NUMBER THREE IS HOW DO WE HAVE AN ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAY FOR BEXAR COUNTY RESIDENTS TO ACHIEVE THE SKILLS TO GO INTO THE WORKFORCE, SPECIFICALLY IN MANUFACTURING, WHICH IS THE FASTEST GROWING INDUSTRY CURRENTLY IN BEXAR COUNTY. 
          I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT BACK IN 2022, UH, GREATER SAT X'S SA WORKS DEPARTMENT, UH, SUBMITTED A SURVEY FOR EMPLOYERS, LOCAL EMPLOYERS, IT'S CALLED THE US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TALENT PIPELINE MANAGEMENT DATA PROCESS. 
          AND THEY HAD 13 RESPONSES OVER A TWO YEAR PERIOD OF TIME. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT NEW POSITIONS OF EXPANSION OF RETIREES, UPSKILLING, INDIVIDUALS, OTHER, UM, ATTRITION, THE TOTAL PLACEMENT IN THE TOTAL NUMBER OF JOBS THAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR IN MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS, THEY HAD A DEFICIT OF 428. 
          AND THAT'S JUST THE 13 EXISTING EMPLOYERS WE KNOW, COMMISSIONER. 
          UM, WE KNOW THAT THIS IS EXPANDING RAPIDLY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SAYING TO KEEP IT, I WANNA HIGHLIGHT THAT THROUGH THE COUNTY'S LEADERSHIP, WE'VE HAD SOME AMAZING HEADLINES IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          IEM JUST ANNOUNCED THEIR 1 MILLION SQUARE FOOT PLANT AT BROOKS WITH A $200 MILLION INVESTMENT IN 3000 JOBS. 
          THIS IS THE HIGHEST RENDERING PROJECT OF JOBS SINCE THE ORIGINAL TOYOTA PLANT. 
          SO OVER TWO DECADES TO GET THIS MANY, 
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UH, JOBS IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THEY WILL DIRECTLY RELATE WITH TEXAS FAST TRACK GRADUATES AND THEIR SKILLSET. 
          HEB ANNOUNCED AN EAST SIDE PLANT EXPANSION OF $700 MILLION INVESTMENT WITH 720 NEW JOBS AND RETAINING ALMOST 1400 JOBS IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE COULD HAVE LOST TO ELSEWHERE. 
          TOYOTA ANNOUNCED THE ADDITIONAL LINE THAT WILL BRING THE TACOMA BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY. 
          $3.6 BILLION INVESTMENT IN 2000 JOBS. 
          TOYOTA'S ALSO OPENING THEIR REAR AXLE PLANT THIS YEAR, $532 MILLION INVESTMENT IN 411 JOBS. 
          AND JCB WILL BE STARTING THEIR PILOT LINE NEXT MONTH WITH A $500 MILLION INVESTMENT AND 1,580 JOBS. 
          AND SANCO PLASTICS, UM, IS INVESTING $39.8 MILLION WITH 50 JOBS, A SMALLER JOB AMOUNT, BUT THEY HAD THEIR GROUNDBREAKING THIS YEAR. 
          AND THEN ECCO GLOBAL ANNOUNCED THEIR NEW PLANT IN PRODUCTION HERE WITH $160 MILLION INVESTMENT AND 150 JOBS. 
          SO THROUGH ALL OF THESE INVESTMENTS, WE ARE JUST OVER $5.7 BILLION COMING TO OUR COMMUNITY, UM, GAINING 7,911 JOBS AND RETAINING 1,389. 
          SO WE ARE SET UP FOR SUCCESS, BUT MANUFACTURING IS GROWING AND THE NUMBER ONE RESOURCE AND INCENTIVE THAT THESE COMPANIES ARE LOOKING FOR IS A SKILLED WORKFORCE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I HANDED OUT TO Y'ALL IS A TOOL THAT I TAKE TO EVERY MEETING THAT I HAVE WHEN, UH, SITE SELECTORS AND COMPANIES ARE CONSIDERING OUR LOCATION TO SHARE WITH THEM THE POSITIVE NEWS OF BEXAR COUNTY, REALLY LEANING INTO A WORKFORCE PROGRAM THAT WILL PROVIDE THEM WITH THE SKILLS AND THE TALENT THAT THEY NEED. 
          JCB HAS ALREADY HIRED THREE OF OUR GRADUATES AND THEY COME TO EVERY SINGLE GRADUATION READY TO, UH, INTERVIEW. 
          SO THE COMPANIES ARE ON BOARD. 
          WE GOT ANOTHER ONE COMING UP, DON'T WE? GRADUATION? I CAN'T TALK ABOUT THAT ONE. 
          . 
          OH, OKAY. 
          TO BE CONTINUED . 
          OKAY. 
          SORRY. 
          I THOUGHT, OKAY, LET'S KEEP GOING. 
          OH, GRADUATION. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          I THOUGHT YOU MEANT A COMPANY , BUT YES. 
          WELL THAT, THAT TOO, BUT NO, I GET THAT. 
          WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T REVEAL SOME THINGS. 
          THANK YOU, JUDGE. 
          YES. 
          GRADUATION WILL BE TAKING PLACE ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE WHERE OUR NEW, UH, TEXAS, I'M GLAD IT WASN'T CONFIDENTIAL. 
          . 
          OKAY. 
          WE HAD AN AMAZING RIBBON CUTTING THERE. 
          WE CAN NOW ACCOMMODATE 28 STUDENTS PER QUARTER. 
          UM, 14 AT BROOKS IN PRECINCT FOUR AND 14 AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE IN PRECINCT TWO. 
          UM, WE HAD A RIBBON CUTTING. 
          WE HAD SO MANY EMPLOYERS AND NONPROFITS AND SUPPORT THAT CAME OUT FOR, FOR THAT. 
          AND I WAS VERY, VERY GRATEFUL, UM, FOR EVERYBODY'S PARTICIPATION. 
          AND OUR COURTS AND OUR REENTRY PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL ABOUT FEEDING THE THESE PROGRAMS. RIGHT. 
          COMMISSIONER CALVERT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          YES. 
          UM, COMMISSIONER CALVERT ALWAYS GIVES US A PREMIER TABLE AT THE SECOND CHANCE HIRING FAIR, WHICH WE REALLY APPRECIATE IN THE PARTNERSHIP WITH HIM. 
          AND THEN THE BEXAR COUNTY REENTRY SYSTEM, UM, THEY HAVE PROVIDED US WITH SEVERAL TRAINING READY CANDIDATES THAT HAVE DONE EXTREMELY WELL. 
          UM, I'D ALSO LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT WE'VE HAD FOUR RECRUITS, UH, FROM HAVEN FOR HOPE. 
          THREE OF THOSE WERE SUCCESSFUL. 
          ONE UNFORTUNATELY DIDN'T, UH, GRADUATE FROM THE PROGRAM, BUT I THINK THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT WIN. 
          I THINK SO TOO. 
          SO THIS IS THE DASHBOARD THAT WE MAINTAIN. 
          UM, I WANNA HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE, THE KEY NUMBERS HERE. 
          WE HAVE AN 81%, UM, FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT RATE, 60 DAYS POST-GRADUATION. 
          SOME OF OUR GRADUATES ARE GETTING HIRED EVEN BEFORE THEY GRADUATE FROM THE PROGRAM WITH A CONTINGENCY THAT THEY DO GRADUATE. 
          WE HAVE A 94% COMPLETION RATE, AND I BELIEVE THAT THE REASON THAT PERCENTAGE IS SO HIGH IS BECAUSE OF THE WRAPAROUND SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE TO OUR STUDENTS TO REMOVE BARRIERS. 
          SO GAS CARDS, RENTAL ASSISTANCE, UTILITY ASSISTANCE, CELL PHONE BILLS, ANYTHING IF THEY GET A FLAT TIRE, UM, THAT COULD REALLY DISRUPT, UH, UH, A HOUSEHOLD THAT'S ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, WE ARE RIGHT THERE TO HELP THEM SOLVE THOSE PROBLEMS. WE PARTNER WITH PROJECT QUEST, DON'T WE? WE PARTNER WITH PROJECT QUEST AND FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION. 
          UM, WE ARE THE NUMBER ONE PERFORMING PROGRAM IN THE MANUFACTURING AND AEROSPACE ON THE ESSAY READY TO WORK DASHBOARD. 
          UM, SO WE ARE THE HIGHEST PERFORMER WITH HALLMARK UNIVERSITY RIGHT BEHIND US. 
          WE'VE HAD 203 
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TOTAL GRADUATES AND THE AVERAGE HOURLY WAGE POST GRADUATION IS $23 AND 65 CENTS AN HOUR, WHICH IS JUST OVER $49,000 A YEAR WITH PAID TIME OFF AND BENEFITS. 
          AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR OVERTIME. 
          I HEARD NUMBER ONE, RIGHT? NUMBER ONE. 
          NUMBER ONE, YES SIR. 
          THE THREE POSITIONS THAT THE COUNTY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND BUDGET IS RECOMMENDING THAT WE CONTINUE AND MOVE FROM ARPA DOLLARS TO GENERAL FUND. 
          THE FIRST ONE IS THE ADMINISTRATOR. 
          OUR ADMINISTRATOR DELIVERS HAND ON HANDS-ON TECHNICAL ADVANCE MANUFACTURING TECHNICAL TRAINING FOR 14 STUDENTS PER QUARTER. 
          UM, THEY ASSESS A STUDENT'S TRAINING READINESS COMPETENCY ON TECHNICAL LABS, EXAMS, AND ADMINISTERS THE FINAL ASSESSMENT. 
          THEY MAINTAIN A SAFE AND EFFECTIVE TECHNICAL TRAINING ENVIRONMENT AND RATES STUDENTS' SAFETY SCORES CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVES THE QUALITY AND INDUSTRY RELEVANCE OF TEXAS FAST TRACK CURRICULUM AND HANDS-ON LABS ENSURES PROGRAM ALIGNMENT WITH INDUSTRY'S BEST PRACTICES, INCLUDING SIX S, OSHA 10, AND LOCKOUT TAGOUT MAINTAINS MACHINERY AND INVENTORY OF TOOLS AND DISPOSABLE PARTS. 
          OUR SPECIALIST FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, THIS IS OUR DATA, UH, PERSON. 
          UM, THEY DESIGN CODE AND MAINTAIN TOOLS AND DASHBOARDS TO TA TO TRACK TEXAS FAST TRACK KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS, MAINTAINS AND UPDATES TEXAS FASTTRACK.COM INCLUDING ALL SOFTWARE PLUGINS, UPDATED ENROLLMENT CALENDARS, CURRICULUM CHANGES, ALUMNI PAGE, ET CETERA, DEVELOPS AND DEPLOYS AND ANALYZES. 
          STUDENT ALUMNI AND EMPLOYER SURVEYS GATHERS DATA FROM PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS PROJECT QUEST ESSAY, READY TO WORK FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION AND TRISTAR, AND PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THE DATA AND SCORING THAT BACKED BEXAR COUNTY'S OPPORTUNITY ZONE 2.0 SUBMISSION. 
          THE SPECIALIST FOR WORKFORCE SUPPORT SERVICES ASSESSES 28 STUDENTS PER QUARTER ON THEIR SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH TO REMOVE BARRIERS AND PROVIDE SUPPORT THAT INCREASES THE POTENTIAL FOR THE STUDENT TO GRADUATE. 
          AGAIN, IT'S THOSE RESOURCES SUCH AS GAS CARDS, RENT, PHONE, UTILITIES, UNIFORMS, ET CETERA, ADDRESSES, ISSUES AND BARRIERS AS THEY ARISE DURING THE 10 WEEK PROGRAM. 
          DESIGNS DEVELOPS AND INSTRUCTS OUR CAREER READINESS TRAINING. 
          THIS INCLUDES RESUME BUILDING, INTERVIEW SKILLS, ET CETERA, SCHEDULES, PLANT TOURS, MOCK INTERVIEWS WITH OUR EMPLOYERS, AND, UH, CREDIT HUMAN COMES OUT AND DOES A FINANCE 1 0 1 CLASS WITH OUR STUDENTS AVAILABLE FOR TEXAS FAST TRACK ALUMNI FOR CONTINUED SERVICES IF NEEDED. 
          SINCE THE CREATION OF THIS ROLE IN 2024, THIS POSITION HAS SUPPORTED 136 ALUMNI AND 25 CURRENT STUDENTS AND HAS DELIVERED $98,070 OF SOCIAL SERVICE GRANT FUNDING DISTRIBUTED TO, TO STUDENTS. 
          AND I WANNA HIGHLIGHT, THESE ARE NOT BEXAR COUNTY FUNDS. 
          THIS IS LEVERAGING SA READY TO WORK AND OTHER GRANTS THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THEN HAS HAD 621 TOTAL STUDENT INTERACTIONS. 
          UH, VERY VALUABLE POSITION. 
          AND WHAT I DO WANNA HIGHLIGHT IS THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CANNOT OPERATE BOTH TEXAS FAST TRACK ONE AND TWO WITHOUT THESE THREE POSITIONS. 
          UM, AT OUR RIBBON CUTTING, WE HAD ALUMNI ROMAN THERE WHO SHARED HIS VERY VULNERABLE STORY TO LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW THAT YOU CAN RESTART, UM, ROMAN'S STORIES THAT HE WAS IN AND OUT OF INCARCERATION, UM, OVER 13 TIMES. 
          HE ENTERED THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM AT THE AGE OF NINE YEARS OLD AND, UM, HAD A VERY DIFFICULT, CHALLENGING LIFE. 
          HE'S NOW A PROUD MEMBER WITH AVANZA AND THERE'S A GREAT VIDEO IF YOU WANT TO SEE HIM IN ACTION ON THE JOB SITE@TEXASFASTTRACK.COM JOB. 
          GOOD JOB. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          ALRIGHT, NEXT EIGHT. 
          REQUEST FROM OFFICE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE TO ADD TWO PRETRIAL SUPERVISORS, FIVE PRETRIAL BOND OFFICERS, TWO PRETRIAL BOND OFFICERS FROM NINE MONTH OF CONTINGENCIES TO THE GENERAL FUND FOR CASELOADS RELATED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE GPS MONITORING IN THE AMOUNT OF $526,800, INCLUDING A REQUEST TO DELETE THREE VACANT POSITIONS WITH A COST SAVINGS APPROXIMATELY $140,274. 
          NEXT WILL BE PREVENTATIVE HEALTH AFTER THAT. 
          THANK YOU JUDGE. 
          UH, AGAIN, THE OFFICE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE IS REQUESTING TO RETAIN SEVEN OF THEIR NINE 
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POSITIONS THAT WERE FUNDED IN POST ARPA TO SUPPORT THEIR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE UNIT FOR A COST OF $413,000, INCLUDING PRETRIAL BOND OFFICERS AND ALL SUPERVISORS. 
          THE POSITIONS WERE ADDED, UH, TO THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ELECTRONIC MONITORING UNITS IN OCJ. 
          AND AT THE TIME THERE WAS ABOUT 7,500 CASES. 
          UH, AND SINCE THEN THEY HAVE INCREASED TO 10,000. 
          OCJ REQUESTED TO DELETE THE DELETION OF THREE VACANT POSITIONS, INCLUDING TWO VACANT COLLECTION OFFICERS AND ONE PRETRIAL BOND OFFICER. 
          ONE FOR COST SAVINGS OF $140,000. 
          UH, THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO RETAIN TWO SUPERVISORS TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE GPS AND THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DIVISIONS. 
          UM, AND THEY WILL HAVE AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT 10 OFFICERS WITHIN EACH OF THOSE, UM, WITH EACH SUPERVISOR. 
          AND THE SECOND RECOMMENDATION IS TO RETAIN FIVE PRETRIAL BOND OFFICER THREE POSITIONS FOR A TOTAL COST OF 291,000. 
          MAINTAINING THESE POSITIONS WILL ALLOW THE UNITS TO KEEP THE CASELOAD AT ABOUT 55 PER OFFICER, AND THESE POSITIONS ARE ALSO REQUIRED TO BE AVAILABLE 24 7. 
          SO THIS WOULD STILL PROVIDE THAT COVERAGE FOR THEM. 
          ANY QUESTIONS IS OFFICE CRIMINAL JUSTICE? GOOD MORNING. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          NORMA GREENFIELD LATI, THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE. 
          AND FOR THE SAKE OF TIME, WE DO HAVE A PRESENTATION. 
          HOWEVER, I WANT TO THANK BUDGET AND MY BOSSES. 
          UM, WE ARE IN AGREEMENT OF MAINTAINING THOSE FIVE PBO THREES AND THEN ALSO THE DELETE TO BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN OUR SUPERVISORS. 
          SO WE TRY TO DO A COST SAVINGS. 
          WE UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION THAT BUDGET AND THE COURT IS IN WITH THIS ARPA FUNDING AND UNFORTUNATELY SOME PEOPLE LOSING THEIR JOBS. 
          SO WE DIDN'T WANNA ASK FOR MORE. 
          UH, WE WERE IN AGREEMENT WITH, WITH, UH, BUDGET AND I THINK OUR NUMBERS AND, UM, JUSTIFY THAT. 
          HOWEVER, WE CAN DO THE PRESENTATION OR IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, IT'S UP TO YOU ALL I KNOW FOR THE SAKE OF TIME. 
          UM, IT'S UP TO YOU. 
          WE'RE HERE. 
          ANY QUESTIONS? I THINK IF YOU GUYS IN OUR AGREEMENT, THEN THAT SAYS A LOT. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          I'M HAPPY TO SUPPORT. 
          YES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ANYBODY ELSE? THANK YOU. 
          ANYTHING ELSE? THANK Y'ALL VERY MUCH. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          UH, NUMBER NINE, REQUEST FROM PREVENTATIVE HEALTH REGARDING A PROGRAM CHANGE TO ADD ONE, HEALTH POPULATION MANAGER, ONE PREVENTIVE HEALTH DIVISION DIRECTOR, TWO, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CASE MANAGEMENT SUPERVISORS, 12 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CASE MANAGERS, ONE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM MANAGER, ONE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER, ONE PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR, ONE MANAGER BUSINESS SERVICES, ONE SENIOR EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT AND TWO SENIOR CONTRACT SPECIALIST, ONE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH YOUTH AND FAMILY AND ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST. 
          PREVIOUSLY A PROGRAM MANAGER FOR SCHOOL-BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES AND ONE PRE-CRISIS PROGRAM MANAGER AND ADD ONE ASSISTANT PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER. 
          DELETE ONE DIETICIAN, ONE NUTRITIONIST FROM NINE MONTHS OF CONTINGENCIES TO THE GENERAL FUND AND THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $1,958,395 MS. TON. 
          THANK YOU, JUDGE. 
          SO, UM, IN FISCAL YEAR OR IN 22, UH, COMMISSIONER'S COURT APPROVED THE CREATION OF THE PREVENTATIVE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND AT THAT TIME, THE SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS NEWS FOUND THAT DURING THE PANDEMIC THERE WERE CERTAIN AREAS THAT WERE GRAVELY IMPACTED. 
          THESE AREAS HAD HIGHER RATES OF DIABETES, UM, AND OBESITY AND HAD A LOWER EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND LOWER INCOMES. 
          AND MANY OF THOSE AREAS WERE IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREA. 
          THIS DEPARTMENT WAS CREATED TO COLLABORATE WITH UNIVERSITY HEALTH, METRO HEALTH, SUBURBAN CITIES AND OTHER HEALTH UH, PROVIDERS. 
          THE ORIGINAL POSITIONS INCLUDED THE PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR, ONE DIETICIAN AND ONE NUTRITION SPECIALIST. 
          ADDITIONALLY, AGRILIFE ANIMAL SERVICES, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES WERE REASSIGNED TO THIS NEW DEPARTMENT. 
          SINCE THEN, THE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN BEEN REBRANDED TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND HAS ADDED THE STAR PROGRAM AND THE SENIOR JUSTICE ASSESSMENT CENTER PROGRAM. 
          ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES HAS BEEN REASSIGNED TO PUBLIC WORKS, UM, AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT CONTINUES TO OVERSEE AGRILIFE ANIMAL SERVICES, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, AND THE PREVENTATIVE HEALTH DIVISIONS. 
          THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS REQUESTING TO RETAIN 27 POSITIONS FROM POST ARPA FOR A COST OF $2 MILLION, 
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WHICH INCLUDES POSITIONS FROM PREVENTATIVE HEALTH, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND STAR. 
          THE BUDGET DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDS 984,000, WHICH IS 12 POSITIONS, WHICH I'LL GO INTO DETAIL ON, UM, THE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          SO THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO RETAIN THE POSITIONS FOR PREVENTATIVE HEALTH DEPARTMENT THAT WILL FOCUS, UH, COMPLETELY ON COMMUNITY OUTREACH TO THE ORIGINAL PLAN. 
          THESE ARE THE POSITIONS WITH OUR PROPOSED CHANGES. 
          DURING THE ARPA PROGRAM, $178 MILLION IN CONTRACTS WAS APPROVED BY COMMISSIONER'S COURT AND MAJORITY OF THOSE SERVICES WERE PROVIDED BY THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DIVISION OR SUPERVISED BY THE BE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DIVISION. 
          AND THESE CONTRACTS WERE ONE TIME. 
          SO THESE WERE ASSIGNED TO THESE DIVISIONS TO MAINTAIN, UH, WITH POST ARPA FUNDING. 
          UM, THE CONCLUSION OF THESE, UH, POSITION OR THE CONTRACTS IS A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN WORKLOAD AND THERE WAS TWO POSITIONS CALLED SENIOR CONTRACT SPECIALISTS AND ONE PROGRAM MANAGER THAT WERE DEDICATED STRICTLY TO THESE CONTRACTS TO MAINTAIN THEM, UM, DURING THE, UH, POST ARPA, UM, TERMS. AND THOSE PHYSICIANS ARE RECOMMENDED TO BE DELETED. 
          THIS SLIDE PROVIDES, UH, THE ADDITIONAL $69 MILLION THAT WERE FOCUSED ON PREVENTATIVE HEALTH PROGRAMS. AND THIS IS A LIST OF THOSE CONTRACTS AS WELL. 
          AND THIS IS THE LIST THAT I I MENTIONED EARLIER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH. 
          THIS WAS $106 MILLION THAT WAS FUNDED AND APPROVED BY COMMISSIONER'S COURT FOR POST ARPA THAT ARE EXPIRING THIS YEAR. 
          THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO DELETE FOUR POSITIONS WITHIN THE PREVENTATIVE HEALTH DIVISION. 
          THE FIRST ONE IS THE PRE-CRISIS MANAGER. 
          THIS POSITION WAS ADDED IN 2022 AND THE POSITION WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERSEEING PRE-CRISIS AND CRISIS INITIATIVES. 
          IT WOULD MONITOR COORDINATION WITH ALL THE SYSTEMS OF CARE OF ABREAST INDIVIDUALS, ASSEMBLED DATA RELATED TO THE PROGRAM, IDENTIFY ANY GAPS IN TREATMENT, ACCESS AND MONITOR CONTRACTS RELATED TO THE MENTAL HEALTH COURT SMART, AND ANY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH STAKEHOLDERS. 
          THIS POSITION IS NOW FOCUSED ON TRAINING COUNTY AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS ON HEALTH FIRST, MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID, AND HAS CONDUCTED 48 TRAININGS THROUGH THE AUGUST, 2026. 
          IT IS ALSO RECOMMENDED TO DELETE THE ONE SENIOR EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT. 
          THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT OBTAINED A HIGH LEVEL ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION SINCE ITS INCEPTION TO OVERSEE THE ADMINISTRATIVE ADMINISTRATION OF ALL THE DIVISIONS. 
          THAT'S AND SUPPORT THE DIRECTOR. 
          UM, SO THAT IS, UH, MANAGER OF BUSINESS SERVICES. 
          UH, THIS EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT POSITION IS A POSITION THAT'S MOSTLY RESERVED FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS OF THE COUNTY. 
          IT'S ALSO RECOMMENDED TO DELETE ONE HEALTH POPULATION MANAGER. 
          THE DEPARTMENT CURRENTLY HAS ONE SENIOR PROGRAM ANALYST, UH, RESPONSIBLE FOR COLLECTING AND DEVELOPING THE DEPARTMENT'S DATA. 
          AND THIS POSITION'S CURRENTLY ASSIGNED TO THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DIVISION, BUT IT HAS SUPPORTED THROUGH ALL THE DIVISIONS WITHIN THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
          AND SO WE'RE RECOMMENDING FOR THAT POSITION TO CON CONTINUE TO SUPPORT. 
          IT IS ALSO RECOMMENDED TO DELETE ONE DIVISION DIRECTOR OF PREVENTATIVE HEALTH. 
          THIS POSITION WAS INITIALLY ADDED TO ALIGN WITH THE OTHER DIVISIONS, WHICH WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT, AND IT WAS TO OVERSEE STAR DATA ANALYTICS, SPECIAL PROJECTS AND ANIMAL CARE. 
          THE STAR PROGRAM, WHICH I'LL GO INTO DETAIL IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES, IS PROPOSED TO BE RETAINED BUT AT A LOWER STAFFING LEVEL. 
          AND IT INCLUDES TWO SUPERVISORY ROLES THAT REPORT DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR, WHICH IS SIMILAR TO HOW THE ANIMAL CARE DIVISION IS BEING STRUCTURED, WHICH ALSO HAS MANAGERS THAT REPORT DIRECTLY TO THE DIRECTOR. 
          SO THE NEXT SECTION I WILL DISCUSS IS THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NAVIGATION LINE. 
          UH, THIS WAS ALSO REFERRED TO AS A STAR PROGRAM. 
          THIS WAS LAUNCHED IN 2021. 
          IT WAS A PARTNERSHIP THAT INCLUDED METRO HEALTH, UNIVERSITY HEALTH AND STRAC, AND ALSO ANY OTHER FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAMS. METRO HEALTH ORIGINALLY PROVIDED 11 CASE MANAGERS TO SERVE THE UNINCORPORATED AREA THROUGH A GRANT. 
          AND IN SEPTEMBER OF 2023, THE GRANT ENDED WITH THE CITY AND LEFT THE COUNTY FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE POSITIONS. 
          AND ON MARCH 6TH, 2024, COMMISSIONERS APPROVED THE CREATION OF THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LINE, WHICH INCLUDED 15 POSITIONS. 
          THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO ASSESS VICTIMS, WHICH IS CONDUCTED BY THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND STRAC FOR THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS. 
          AND GUIDEHOUSE RECEIVED DATA FROM STRAC AND ALSO THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ANNUAL REPORTS AND FOUND THAT THE COUNTY'S PROGRAM EMPLOYS MORE STAFF THAN ANY OTHER COMPARABLE PROGRAMS. STAR HAS ABOUT 6,100 CALL INTERACTIONS WITH VICTIMS OVER A 16 MONTH PERIOD, WHICH EQUATES TO ABOUT 13 INTERACTIONS FOR THE 12 FRONTLINE EMPLOYEES. 
          THIS GRAPH RIGHT HERE PROVIDED BY GUIDEHOUSE SHOWS THAT 
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THE COUNTY HAS MOST POSITIONS, UH, HAS THE MOST POSITIONS AT 15 WITH, UH, THE LEAST AMOUNT OF INTERACTIONS AS YOU CAN SEE ON THIS GRAPH TO THE RIGHT. 
          UM, COMPARING TO OTHER SI SIMILARLY SIZED LIKE DALLAS, WHICH HAS OVER 23,000 INTERACTIONS IN TARRANT COUNTY, WHICH HAS OVER 27,000 INTERACTIONS. 
          AND THESE ARE LIKE PHONE CALLS, CONTACTS WITH THE VICTIMS. GUIDEHOUSE ALSO COLLECTED DATA OF DATA FOR REFERRALS. 
          AND BETWEEN JUNE, 2024 AND SEPTEMBER, 2025, THE STAR PROGRAM RECEIVED 1,400 REFERRALS OVER 15 MONTHS. 
          MORE RECENT DATA PROVIDED BY STRAC SHOWS OVER 2,600 REFERRALS FROM OCTOBER TO JULY WITH OVER 10 OVER 10 MONTH PERIOD. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE, THE REFERRALS HAVE INCREASED, BUT IT'S STILL WELL BELOW OTHER COMPARING, UM, COUNTIES. 
          GUIDEHOUSE ALSO COMPARED EMERGENCY RESOURCES THAT WERE PROVIDED BY VICTIMS, WHICH INCLUDES HEB GIFT CARDS, UBER GIFT CARDS, AND BLINK CAMERAS, WHICH WAS MAJORITY OF THOSE, UM, UM, RESOURCES. 
          AND THE COUNTY AVERAGED VIEWER THAN 30 INSTANCES PER MONTH IN 2025 AND IS SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THAN OTHER COUNTIES. 
          SO BASED ON THIS DATA, IT IS RECOMMENDED TO RETAIN THE STAR PROGRAM, BUT REDUCE STAFF TO FIVE CASE MANAGERS, ONE CASE MANAGEMENT SUPERVISOR, AND ONE PROGRAM MANAGER FOR A COST OF $472,000. 
          THIS WILL CONTINUE TO WRITE FULL 24 HOUR COVERAGE AT THE REDUCED STAFFING LEVEL. 
          AND EACH CASE MANAGER BASED ON THE WORKLOAD THAT WE RECEIVED, WILL HAVE ON AVERAGE ABOUT TWO REFERRALS A DAY, WHICH IS MANAGEABLE, UM, FOR THE PROGRAM TO CONTINUE. 
          AND I'M OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS THAT THE COMMISSIONERS MAY HAVE, MR. MOODY. 
          SO IT'S JUST HARD. 
          THERE'S A LOT TO UNPACK HERE IN TERMS OF WHAT, WHAT WHERE WE STARTED AND, AND KIND OF WHAT, UH, PUBLIC HEALTH REQUESTED VERSUS WHAT IS THIS KIND OF A COMPROMISE PROPOSAL NOW THAT WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE AND RETAIN SOME OF THESE, BUT SOME ARE GOING AWAY. 
          IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT, COMMISSIONER. 
          UM, AND THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES, I, I APPRECIATE THE DATA, RIGHT, WHEN IT COMES TO THE, THE, THE CALL VOLUME COMPARED TO SURROUNDING COUNTIES. 
          SO HOW, HOW WILL WE NOW COMPARE IN TERMS OF CALLS PER EMPLOYEE VERSUS DALLAS AND TARRANT COUNTY? I'M SORRY, COMMISSIONER, CAN YOU REPEAT AGAIN? OH, HOW WILL WE COMPARE VERSUS DALLAS AND TARRANT COUNTY NOW WITH, UH, THE REDUCED NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES? UM, SO SOME OF THESE ARE PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER. 
          UM, LIKE I THINK ONE OF 'EM, LET ME SWITCH TO THAT SLIDE. 
          UM, THEY HAVE THE SAME NUMBER OF STAFF, AND I BELIEVE OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD AS I MOVE THROUGH THESE SLIDES IS ABOUT 27,000, UH, FOR TARRANT COUNTY. 
          UM, AND IT'S ALMOST CLOSE TO FOR DALLAS COUNTY AND THEY HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF STAFF MEMBERS. 
          YEAH, I THINK THE SIMPLE ANSWER IS WE'LL STILL HAVE A LOWER CALL VOLUME PER EMPLOYEE YES. 
          THAN THOSE OTHER COUNTIES. 
          UM, WE'LL WE'LL LOOK AT THIS MORE. 
          ME AND MY STAFF WILL, BUT YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IS, AND WE HAVE TO, WE HAVE TO PUSH RESET ON SOME OF THESE THINGS. 
          AND, AND THEN THERE'S ALSO THE QUESTION OF ABOUT WHAT, WHAT BELONGS IN PUBLIC HEALTH. 
          I KNOW YOU MENTIONED HERE THAT SOME, SOME FUNCTIONS WENT BACK TO PUBLIC WORKS, ENVIRONMENTAL, UH, SERVICES. 
          HOWEVER, SOME OF THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE STUFF, I GUESS IS THERE NOT A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER THAT SHOULD BE IN UH, OCJ VERSUS PUBLIC HEALTH? UM, WHEN WE EVALUATED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACROSS ALL OFFICES AND DEPARTMENTS, WE RECEIVED A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF REQUESTS TO EITHER RETAIN OR ADD POSITIONS. 
          UM, WE DID FIND THAT THERE WAS, UM, EVERYBODY WAS DOING A LOT. 
          AND SO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IS HOW MANY PATHWAYS THAT VICTIMS HAVE. 
          UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE WERE LOOKING AT BUT HAVEN'T GONE INTO GREAT DETAIL. 
          HAVE WE LOOKED AT A SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON WITH UHS PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND OUR, OUR PUBLIC HEALTH? I ACTUALLY THINK THAT, UM, DR. 
          ANDREA, UM, WAS DOING THAT. 
          UM, I THINK SHE HAD A COMPARATOR OF UM, LIKE WHO DOES WHAT. 
          UM, AND SHE PROBABLY WILL BETTER ANSWER THAT QUESTION. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, JUST 'CAUSE I, I'VE SAID IT BEFORE SEVERAL TIMES, BUT YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE A COUNTY HOSPITAL AND THEY DO HAVE A PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
          SO I GET CONCERNED ABOUT REDUNDANCIES AND OBVIOUSLY IN THE BUDGET ENVIRONMENT WE'RE IN TRYING TO MINIMIZE THOSE REDUNDANCIES IN TERMS OF HAVING A BEXAR COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND HAVING A BEXAR COUNTY UHS PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
          SO, THANK YOU. 
          ANY QUESTIONS, 
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COMMENTS? ALRIGHT, DR. GOOD. 
          STILL MORNING. 
          I WAS GONNA SAY GOOD AFTERNOON, BUT GOOD MORNING JUDGE. 
          IT'S STILL MORNING TIME. 
          IT'S STILL THE MORNING TIME. 
          THANK GOODNESS. 
          UH, FOR THE RECORD, UH, MY NAME IS DR. ANDREA GUERRERO. 
          I AM THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH FOR BEXAR COUNTY. 
          AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, PRESENT, UM, ON THE WORK OF OUR DEPARTMENT OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, AND ESPECIALLY THIS YEAR. 
          UM, I PROVIDED IN YOUR PACKET AN ORG CHART THAT OUTLINES SORT OF WHERE THESE POSITIONS LIVE. 
          UM, AND THE ORG CHART REALLY ONLY JUST COVERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND PREVENTATIVE HEALTH, UM, BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE THE ARPA POSITIONS ARE LOCATED. 
          UM, BUT AS, UH, TANYA MENTIONED, UH, THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT DOES HAVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANIMAL CARE AND FOR AGRILIFE. 
          SO, UM, FOR THIS PRESENTATION, UM, I'M GONNA PRESENT TO YOU, UM, SOME OF OUR ARPA COMMUNITY IMPACT. 
          AND THE REASON I'M GOING TO DO THAT, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE TALKING ABOUT POSITIONS TODAY, IS BECAUSE EVERY POSITION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, ALL OF THEM HAVE TOUCHED PART OR ALL OF THE, UH, ARPA FUNDED PROGRAMS THAT WERE APPROVED BY THIS COURT. 
          UM, THEN WE'LL GO THROUGH A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL IN THE PREVENTIVE HEALTH DIVISION ABOUT THE STAR PROGRAM, WHICH WE'VE, UM, DISCUSSED AT LENGTH OR HAVE, HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THAT, THE POSITIONS IN THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DIVISION, AND THEN OUR PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION. 
          AND THEN I'LL LEAVE YOU WITH SOME, SOME LOOKING FORWARD AND SOME STRATEGIC, UH, PRIORITIES THAT WE'RE GONNA COVER IN THE FUTURE. 
          SO BEGINNING WITH ARPA IMPACT, UM, BACK, UM, IN, SORRY, BACK IN 2023, THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT PRESENTED A STRATEGY THAT IDENTIFIED TARGETED ZIP CODES IN EACH OF YOUR PRECINCTS THAT WERE OBSERVED TO HAVE HIGHEST NEED ACCORDING TO THESE HEALTH INDICATORS. 
          AND THESE ARE LARGELY INDICATORS OF POVERTY, OF INCOME, OF DEATH RATES, CHRONIC ILLNESS, UM, FAMILY VIOLENCE, CHILD ABUSE, AND ACCESS TO CARE FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNINSURED. 
          AND SO WHEN WE, UM, THIS STRATEGY WAS BASED ON LOOKING AT THE AREAS OF HIGHEST NEEDS IN EACH OF YOUR PRECINCTS. 
          THE FRAMEWORK YOU SEE HERE REPRESENTS COMMUNITY IDENTIFIED PRIORITIES. 
          UM, SORRY, THIS ONE, THE FRAMEWORK YOU SEE HERE REPRESENTS THE COMMUNITY IDENTIFIED PRIORITIES THAT ARE WORKED ON COLLECTIVELY, COLLECTIVELY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, AND THE KINDS OF PROGRAMS THAT ADDRESS HEALTH DISPARITIES AT THE POPULATION LEVEL. 
          AND THIS WAS THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT ALIGNING ITSELF WITH THE COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT 2022. 
          THAT WAS, UH, THE MOST RECENT AT THAT TIME, THAT HAD BEEN CREATED, UM, THROUGH THE HEALTH COLLABORATIVE THAT IS SHARED BY ALL HOSPITAL SYSTEMS AND MANY OTHER NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. 
          SO, LOOKING THROUGH THESE SORT OF VERY NEBULOUS PRIORITIES, THESE WERE THE TYPES OF PROGRAMS THAT WE EXPECTED TO RECEIVE APPLICATIONS FOR FUNDING. 
          UM, AND THAT WOULD BE ROOT CAUSES FOR DISPROPORTIONATE, UM, DEATH DUE TO COVID OR OTHER DISPARITIES RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH. 
          UM, AT THAT TIME, THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT WAS GIVEN AN ALLOCATION OF $35 MILLION, UM, THROUGH AND, AND, UH, DISTRIBUTED THAT THROUGH A COMPETITIVE APPLICATION PROCESS IN RFP, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT. 
          UM, AND WE ULTIMATELY APPROVED 27 INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS BASED ON THESE TARGETED PRIORITIES. 
          THIS IS A REPRESENTATION OF THE APPROACH THAT WE TOOK AND IS OFTEN USED IN PUBLIC HEALTH, UM, DESCRIBING UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM INTERVENTIONS. 
          UM, BECAUSE WE ARE PREVENTATIVE IN NATURE, UM, WE WANTED TO FOCUS ON THOSE THINGS THAT WERE FOCUSED ON PREVENTING CHRONIC ILLNESS AND DISEASE, PREVENTING ADDITIONAL DISPARITIES, AND TRYING TO MITIGATE THE EFFECTS OF THOSE, THOSE, UH, CONDITIONS TO BETTER IMPROVE THE POPULATION HEALTH. 
          AND SO YOU'LL SEE, AND THESE ARE, THIS IS NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST ON THIS SLIDE, BUT THESE ARE SOME REPRESENTATIVE, UH, PROGRAMS OR REPRESENTATIVE OF THE TYPES OF PROGRAMS THAT WE, UM, FUNDED. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE MAJORITY OF THEM ARE UPSTREAM, ALTHOUGH WE DO ACKNOWLEDGE THE NEED TO HAVE DOWNSTREAM INTERVENTIONS AS WELL FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY EXPERIENCING CHRONIC ILLNESS OR OTHER, UM, CONDITIONS RELATED TO SUBSTANCE USE LIKE RECOVERY AND RELAPSE PREVENTION. 
          THIS IS A FULL LIST OF ALL THE COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS THAT WERE FUNDED THROUGH THE RFP. 
          UM, AND YOU'LL SEE THAT 60%, ROUGHLY 60% OF THE PIE CHART, WHICH IS SORT ON THE RIGHT SIDE, UM, ARE WHAT YOU COULD LOOK AT IMMEDIATELY AND SEE THAT THESE ARE PREVENTATIVE IN NATURE. 
          THESE ARE PROGRAMS THAT ARE, UM, UPSTREAM THAT ARE, UH, INTENDED TO, UM, PROVIDE 
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EARLY IDENTIFICATION INTERVENTION FOR A NUMBER OF HEALTH, UH, PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES. 
          UM, AND EVEN WITHIN THE COMMUNITY-BASED TREATMENT SLICE OF THE PIE. 
          THE OTHER 30%, ALTHOUGH IT SAYS COMMUNITY-BASED TREATMENT, THOSE, UM, ARE LARGELY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS, MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING, SO THAT PEOPLE CAN TAKE CARE OF THEIR MENTAL WELLNESS BEFORE THEY REACH CRISIS. 
          UM, WE, UH, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, UM, WERE FOCUSED ON DATA COLLECTION BECAUSE WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE TRACKING, UM, ALL OF THE, UH, EXPENDITURES. 
          AND WE, UM, ALTHOUGH THIS SLIDE IS REALLY, UM, IS THE, THE VOCABULARY OF THIS SLIDE IS VERY PUBLIC HEALTH RELATED. 
          WE WERE TRACKING OUR ARPA FUNDED PROGRAMS THROUGH ARPA SUB EXPENDITURES, SO THAT WE WERE ENSURING COMPLIANCE WITH ARPA ALLOWABLE COSTS, AND SO THAT WE WERE SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGE AS THE ARPA OFFICE. 
          UM, THE MAP THAT YOU SEE REPRESENTED ON THE LEFT SIDE ARE, ARE THE LOCATIONS OF WHERE THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT WERE FUNDED, WHERE THE LO WHERE THEY'RE LOCATED. 
          BUT THE, UH, ARPA SUB EXPENDITURES BY PRECINCT ARE THE ZIP CODE LEVEL DATA FOR WHERE EVERY PERSON THAT WAS FUNDED THROUGH ARPA PROGRAMS LIVED. 
          SO IN, FOR EACH OF YOUR PRECINCTS, WE WERE TRACKING WHERE ALL OF THESE SERVICES WERE BEING PROVIDED. 
          AND THIS IS IN UNINCORPORATED BEXAR COUNTY, OBVIOUSLY. 
          AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS THROUGH THE RFP, THAT THEY HAD TO FOCUS ON THOSE ZIP CODES THAT WE HAD IDENTIFIED FOR PRIORITY. 
          AND THEN AT THE BOTTOM, YOU'LL SEE THE, UM, AR SUB EXPENDITURE, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE SERVED FOR THAT ARPA EXPENDITURE. 
          UM, AND THEN THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT WAS ALLOCATED. 
          AND I'LL JUST SAY THAT THIS IS A, A DYNAMIC DASHBOARD. 
          ALL OF YOUR CHIEFS HAVE SEEN THIS, UM, ON TEAMS MEETINGS. 
          THERE ARE MANY LAYERS TO THIS. 
          AND SO IF YOU HOVER OVER AND YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING THAT'S UNDERNEATH ANY OF THIS DATA, YOU, UM, WE CAN DEFINITELY GIVE YOU MORE SPECIFICITY. 
          UM, WE ALSO HAVE BEEN CREATING A MUCH LONGER FORM, UM, ARPA IMPACT REPORT THAT HAS, UM, MORE SPECIFIC DATA ON INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS IN THE SUCCESSES THERE. 
          AND I'LL GIVE YOU A COPY OF THIS. 
          IT'S IN DRAFT FORM, BUT I'LL GIVE YOU A COPY OF THAT AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION. 
          ALSO, UM, THROUGH ARPA FUNDING, OUR DEPARTMENT WAS TASKED WITH MANAGING THE 13 CONTRACTS THAT WERE, UM, FUNDED WITH A $20 MILLION INVESTMENT FOR SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL WELLNESS. 
          UM, THIS IS ANOTHER DASHBOARD, AND WE SEPARATED IT OUT BECAUSE THE UNIQUE NATURE OF SCHOOL SYSTEMS AND THE UNIQUE NATURE OF THE PROGRAMS THAT THEY WERE IMPLEMENTING. 
          UM, BUT THROUGH THE SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL WELLNESS PROGRAM, UM, OVER THOSE 13, UH, CONTRACTS, THERE WERE 27,528 COUNSELING SESSIONS THAT WERE PROVIDED TO STUDENTS, UH, 16,349 MENTAL HEALTH REFERRALS THAT WERE MADE TO OUTSIDE AGENCIES OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND 1082 SUBSTANCE USE REFERRALS. 
          UM, AND YOU'LL SEE THERE WAS A, A SIGNIFICANT DROP OFF, UM, FROM 2324 TO 25 IN SUBSTANCE USE REFERRALS. 
          AND THAT HAD LARGELY TO DO, UM, WITH RISE RECOVERY. 
          RISE RECOVERY IS A HIGH SCHOOL THAT IS, UM, SPECIFICALLY A RECOVERY CAMPUS TO HELP, UM, STUDENTS HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL THAT ARE IN RECOVERY. 
          THEY HAD SOME ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES AND SOME TURNOVER, AND SO WE'RE NO LONGER A REFERRAL SOURCE FOR AT LEAST TWO SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
          AND THAT WHY, THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THAT SIGNIFICANT DROP OFF. 
          UM, THE PIE CHARTS AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE, UM, TALK ABOUT THE, OR DESCRIBE, UM, THE SITE, THE TYPES OF COUNSELING WHERE STUDENTS WERE ACTUALLY RECEIVING COUNSELING. 
          AND SO OVER THE THREE YEARS OF THE A RPA PERIOD FOR THESE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, YOU'LL SEE THAT ONSITE COUNSELING, WHICH MEANS LIKE THE STUDENT WAS ABLE TO RECEIVE COUNSELING ON THE CAMPUS, WHICH, UH, REDUCES ABSENTEEISM, REDUCES THE BURDEN ON PARENTS TO TAKE CHILDREN TO COUNSELING SESSIONS OUTSIDE AT A PRIVATE PROVIDER, UM, SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED OVER THE LIFE OF THE ARPA PERIOD. 
          UM, SO AGAIN, THAT WAS, THAT WAS THE COLLECTIVE WORK OF PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE THAT YOU SEE ON THAT ORGANIZATIONAL CHART. 
          UM, SO NOW I'LL GET, UM, SPECIFICALLY INTO SOME OF THE, UM, INDIVIDUAL POSITIONS. 
          UM, AND MANY OF THEIR, MANY OF THEM ARE IN THE PREVENTATIVE HEALTH DIVISION, UM, WHICH IS WHERE THE STAR PROGRAM RESIDES. 
          UM, FIRST, UH, THE PREVENTIVE HEALTH DIVISION DIRECTOR, WHICH WE JUST HEARD, UM, IS BEING RECOMMENDED TO NOT RETAIN, BUT THIS DIVISION DIRECTOR CAME ON BOARD, UM, OR, WELL, WHEN WE FIRST CREATED THE DEPARTMENT AS, UM, THE BUDGET DIRECTOR SAID WE WERE GIVEN RESPONSIBILITY FOR THREE EXISTING DIVISIONS, AND THEN I HAD THE DIRECTION TO CREATE A DIVISION OF PREVENTATIVE HEALTH THAT WOULD BASICALLY COVER ALL OF THE OTHER FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH THAT DIDN'T ALREADY FALL INTO, UM, THE OTHER DIVISIONS. 
          UM, AND SO AS YOU'VE HEARD THAT WE WERE TASKED WITH CREATING THE STAR PROGRAM, WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY A PROGRAM AT THE CITY. 
          THEY LOST THEIR, OR THE, 
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THE COVID ERA CDC FUNDING THAT WAS FUNDING THAT, UM, CEASED. 
          AND SO THIS COURT, UM, DIRECTED US TO CREATE A PROGRAM IN ITS PLACE. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT, UM, I'LL HAVE SOME DATA ON THAT IN JUST A SECOND. 
          UM, THE DIVISION DIRECTOR ALSO, UM, THROUGH GRANT FUNDING, IS CURRENTLY STANDING UP A SENIOR JUSTICE ASSESSMENT CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF ELDER ABUSE. 
          UM, AND THAT WAS CHAMPIONED BY SENATOR JOSE MENENDEZ AND JUDGE VERONICA VASQUEZ. 
          UM, AND THAT IS IN PROGRESS. 
          WE'VE, AND WE'VE HIRED TWO CASE MANAGERS THROUGH GRANT FUNDING IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THAT. 
          UM, THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS AND SPECIAL EVENTS, THAT WAS A POSITION THAT WE CREATED SPECIFICALLY TO, UM, CREATE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE COMMUNITY THAT WERE NOT TRANSACTIONAL. 
          MUCH OF WHAT WE DO IS RELATED TO CONTRACTS, AND WE WANTED BEX COUNTY TO HAVE A PRESENCE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT WASN'T NECESSARILY TIED TO A FUNDING RELATIONSHIP. 
          UH, DATA ANALYTICS AND VISUALIZATION, UH, THE POPULATION HEALTH DATA MANAGER THAT, UM, WE CREATE THE POSITION THAT WE CREATED THROUGH ARPA FUNDING. 
          UM, REALLY ALL, EVERY SINGLE DATA POINT AND EVERY MAP AND EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION THAT YOU SEE IN THIS PRESENTATION WAS COLLECTED, UM, ANALYZED AND CREATED VISUALIZATIONS FOR, UM, BY THAT PERSON, BY THAT POSITION, AND WORKED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DATA ANALYSTS THAT WE HAD EXISTING, UM, TO DO THIS. 
          AND IT REALLY IS A COMPLETE, THE TWO, THE TWO DATA POSITIONS ARE TWO DIFFERENT SKILL SETS. 
          UM, DATA ANALYTICS AND VISUALIZATION IS, UM, INVOLVES PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES IN INVOLVES RGIS, POWER BI R UM, AND A A DIFFERENT SKILL SET THAN WHAT THE DATA ANALYST JOB DESCRIPTION DE UH, DESCRIBES. 
          ALTHOUGH THE DATA ANALYST IS ALSO A VERY VALUE, VALUABLE POSITION. 
          AND THE TWO WORKED HAND IN HAND TO CREATE A REALLY STRONG DATA TEAM, UH, IN, IN ADDITION, HEALTH INSPECTIONS AND SAFETY, WHICH IS AN EXISTING, UH, AN EXISTING FUNCTION DIVISION, HEALTH PUBLIC PREVENTATIVE HEALTH DIVISION DIRECTOR HAS A RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT. 
          UM, AND THEN CHRONIC DISEASE AND MANAGEMENT, UM, THAT POSITION, UM, ACTS AS A LIAISON WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH TO MANAGE OUR RYAN WHITE FUNDING. 
          UM, THAT IS A PASS THROUGH IN RELATIONSHIP TO, UM, UNIVERSITY HEALTH. 
          UM, AND ALSO THROUGH THE LEADERSHIP OF COMMISSIONER CLAY FLORES OVER THE LAST YEAR, WE'VE ADDED, UM, COLON CANCER PREVENTION AS A PROJECT WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT AND ARE WORKING WITH HER OFFICE TO CREATE, UH, THIS NEW, UH, PARTNERSHIP WITH UT SAN ANTONIO MAYS CANCER CENTER TO CREATE A SALUTE AMERICA PROJECT THAT WOULD BRING MORE AWARENESS TO COLON CANCER PREVENTION. 
          I'M SORRY, UT HEALTH, I'M SORRY. 
          IT'S SALUD AMERICAS WITH UT HEALTH. 
          UT UT HEALTH, IS THAT WHAT I SAID? YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          . 
          UM, AND THEN ADDITIONAL PROJECTS, OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE OF THE STAR PROGRAM, UM, WE HAVE, UM, THE, UH, MANY DIFFERENT, UM, ADDITIONAL SORT OF ADJUNCT, UH, RESPONSIBILITIES RELATED TO THAT. 
          THIS COURT APPROVED A $740,000 INVESTMENT INTO THE DOMESTIC VIOL INTO A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EVALUATION PROJECT THAT SPANS THE ENTIRE CONTINUUM OF ALL COUNTY SERVICES AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SAPD, UM, AND ANY OTHER NONPROFITS THAT TOUCH THAT SYSTEM. 
          UM, THAT'S A TWO YEAR, UM, EVALUATION PROJECT THAT HOPEFULLY WILL BRING A LOT OF INSIGHT INTO HOW BEXAR COUNTY, UM, ADDRESSES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 
          WE'RE ALSO IN THE PROCESS OF ESTABLISHING A, UH, ACCESS POINT FOR HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION. 
          DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, OR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ARE ACTUALLY CATEGORIZED AS AN OFFICIAL CATEGORY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE UNHOUSED. 
          UM, AND SO THE CURRENTLY THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU CAN ACCESS CLOSE TO HOME SERVICES THROUGH AN ACCESS POINT, UM, IF YOU ARE INTERACTING WITH COUNTY SYSTEMS IS THROUGH THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE. 
          SO IF YOU ARE, UM, ACCESSING THEIR SERVICES, AND SO WE'RE ESTABLISHING AN ACCESS POINT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SERVICES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS. 
          UM, AND THEN THERE'S SOME OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS. 
          SO FOR THIS SLIDE, THE, UM, THE, THE, THE CATEGORIES THAT YOU SEE IN BLUE ARE THOSE THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO ARPA PROJECTS OR ARPA FUNDING, OR THINGS THAT WERE CREATED BECAUSE OF ARPA. 
          AND ALL OF THE REST ARE ADDITIONAL DUTIES THAT THAT POSITION HAS TAKEN ON IN THE, IN THE, IN THE, UM, SINCE THE INCEPTION. 
          UM, SO NOW WE GET TO STAR, AND I KNOW THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT STAR. 
          UM, BUT THIS IS A, A REPRESENTATION OF COMMUNITY IMPACT AND SORT OF THE, UH, THE, THE NUMBER OF FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN SERVED SO FAR OVER THE YEAR, UH, OR THE LIFE OF THE PROGRAM, WHICH IS ROUGHLY TWO YEARS, UM, FOR FISCAL YEAR 24, 25 AND 26, UM, THERE HAVE BEEN OVER, AND THIS THIS IS FROM JULY DATA, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN OVER 7,000 INDIVIDUALS SERVED. 
          SO THESE ARE UNIQUE CLIENTS, UM, AND YOU, YOU'LL SEE BY PRECINCT HOW MANY, UM, RESIDE IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL PRECINCTS. 
          THE MAP REPRESENTS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, 
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THE LARGER THE BUBBLE, THE THE LARGER NUMBER OF PEOPLE. 
          UM, AND SO YOU CAN SEE THE CONCENTRATIONS OF WHERE SOME OF THE MOST HIGH VOLUME REFERRALS COME FROM, FROM BCSO, UM, AND THAT YOU WILL SEE SOME THAT ARE INSIDE THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND BECAUSE THIS IS A PARTNERSHIP THAT IS BASICALLY A FRONT DOOR, BCSO IS THE FRONT DOOR. 
          WHEN SOMEONE CALLS, UH, BCSO FOR HELP WITH A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SITUATION, UM, BCSO RESPONDS, THEY ARE THE ONES TO ADMINISTER THE LETHALITY ASSESSMENT. 
          AND IF THEY, A PERSON IS DEEMED TO BE HIGH RISK OR AT RISK, UM, STAR SPECIALISTS RESPOND WITHIN AN HOUR FOR HIGH RISK, WITHIN 24 HOURS FOR AT RISK. 
          UM, BUT YOU MIGHT SEE SOME THAT ARE INSIDE THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          BUT THAT IS BECAUSE SOMETIMES BCSO RESPONDS TO CASES INSIDE THE CITY. 
          AND CHIEF NANCY SANFORD IS HERE, IF YOU WANNA ASK HER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT OPERATIONALLY, HOW IT, UH, HOW THE PARTNERSHIPS WORKS WITH THEM. 
          THIS IS, UH, DETAIL ON ALL OF THE SERVICES AND SAFETY PLANNING THAT, UM, ARE PROVI THAT IS PROVIDED BY OUR STAR SPECIALIST. 
          UM, WE HAVE THE REFERRAL SOURCES, WE HAVE THE RISK LEVEL BREAKDOWN. 
          UM, AND I THINK THAT THE TAKEAWAY FROM THIS IS THAT, UM, NOT ALL OF THESE SERVICES ARE ONLY FOCUSED JUST ON, UH, SAFETY PLANNING. 
          IT'S NOT JUST GETTING A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER. 
          SAFETY PLANNING ENSURES ACCESS TO FOOD, TRANSPORTATION, CHILDCARE, PET ASSISTANCE, REFERRALS FOR JOB TRAINING, HOUSING ASSISTANCE, AND ANY NUMBER OF THINGS THAT, UM, THAT ARE, THAT A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVOR FACES. 
          UM, BECAUSE ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE NECESSARY FOR A SURVIVOR TO FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO LEAVE AN ABUSIVE SITUATION. 
          YES. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR VOLUMES, AND I'LL JUST ADD THAT STRAC IS OUR DATA PARTNER. 
          UM, THEY STRAC OVERSEES AND PROVIDES INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A NUMBER OF NAVIGATION LINES, UM, LAW ENFORCEMENT, NAVIGATION, SUBSTANCE USE, NAVIGATION. 
          AND SO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NAVIGATION IS ANOTHER PROGRAM THAT THEY HAVE EXPERTISE IN. 
          THEY HOUSE OUR SOFTWARE PRODUCT, WHICH IS CALLED DATA POINT, OUR DATA PATH. 
          UM, WE ALSO HAVE PET POINT WITH THE ANIMAL CARE, AND I GET THE TWO, EXCEPT SOMETIMES, BUT DATA PATH IS OUR SOFTWARE. 
          UM, STRAC IS THE ORGANIZATION THAT HOUSES IT, MANAGES IT AND WORKS WITH US TO PRESENT ALL OF THESE NUMBERS. 
          SO THESE ARE NUMBERS THAT WE RECEIVE FROM, FROM STRAC, UM, ON A DAILY, MONTHLY BASIS. 
          UM, SO TOTAL ACTIVE CASES, AND WE PUT THESE, UM, NUMBERS TOGETHER, UM, REALLY WITH CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATES. 
          SO THE, THE HIGHLIGHTED NUMBER THAT YOU SEE IS WHAT WE WERE PROJECTING FOR THE REST OF 2026, JUST UNDER 3000. 
          UM, BUT WE, FOR TOTAL ACTIVE CASES THAT WE HAVE SO FAR, UM, FROM, UM, THIS FISCAL YEAR IS OVER 3,100. 
          UM, SO YOU'LL SEE THAT WE HAVE BEEN UNDERESTIMATING KIND OF WHAT THE VOLUME HAS BEEN. 
          SO TO EXPLAIN KIND OF WHAT WE'RE GETTING AT WITH THIS CHART, THE NUMBERS FOR FY 25 ARE ACTUAL NUMBERS. 
          FY 26, UM, ARE OBVIOUSLY PROJECTED THROUGH THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR. 
          UM, WE TOOK THE AVERAGE YEAR OVER YEAR INCREASE, UM, AND THAT'S HOW WE'RE PROJECTING FY 27 AND FY 28. 
          UM, AND, YOU KNOW, AS AN EXERCISE WITH BUDGET, UM, WE WERE, WE ALSO CALCULATED THE NUMBER OF AVERAGE YEARLY CASELOADS THAT THAT WOULD REPRESENT IF WE HAD THE EXISTING, UM, FULLY STAFFED 12 CASE MANAGERS, IF WE ONLY HAD NINE CASE MANAGERS OR IF WE HAD FIVE. 
          UM, AND SO YOU'LL SEE, UM, HOW THOSE NUMBERS CHANGE, UM, WITH A REDUCTION IN STAFF. 
          UM, AND THEN WE DID CALCULATE THE NUMBER OF CLIENT INTERACTIONS, UM, WHICH IS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER OBVIOUSLY THAN CASELOAD FOR EVERY CLIENT THAT WE HELP. 
          UM, THERE, YOU KNOW, AN INTERACTION CAN BE A PHONE CALL, IT CAN BE, UM, TAKING THEM TO COURT. 
          IT CAN BE AN IN-PERSON MEETING. 
          SO FAR THIS YEAR, OUR CASE MANAGERS HAVE DONE 217 HOME VISITS. 
          UM, 'CAUSE THAT'S JUST WHAT IS MORE CONVENIENT FOR THAT SURVIVOR. 
          UM, AND SO THERE, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF WAYS THAT CLIENT INTERACTIONS CAN HAPPEN. 
          39% OF OUR CLIENT INTERACTIONS ARE UNSUCCESSFUL, MEANING WE HAVE CALLED THEM, UM, AND WE TRIED THREE DIFFERENT TIMES. 
          UM, AND IT'S, AND I, NOT TO PUT THE BLAME ON SURVIVORS, IT IS OFTEN DIFFICULT TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER THE PHONE IF YOU'RE IN A DANGEROUS SITUATION OR THEY'RE JUST NOT READY TO RECEIVE SERVICES YET. 
          BUT EVEN FOR AN UNSUCCESSFUL INTERACTION, IT STILL TAKES ABOUT 30 MINUTES TO COMPLETE THAT. 
          AND THAT IS BECAUSE THIS, THE CASE MANAGER, THE STAR SPECIALIST WILL REVIEW 
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THE CASE. 
          THEY WILL MAKE NOTES, THEY WILL OUTLINE OBJECTIVES FOR WHAT THEY WANT THAT INTERACTION TO ENTAIL. 
          THEY MIGHT CALL A COUPLE OF TIMES. 
          AND THEN IF THE, IF THE CALL IS UNSUCCESSFUL, UM, THERE'S STILL A LOT OF DOCUMENTATION THAT HAS TO HAPPEN. 
          SO EVERY INTERACTION IS DOCUMENTED EXTENSIVELY. 
          UM, SO, AND WE DO TRY CONTACTING AN INDIVIDUAL ONCE THEY'VE BEEN REFERRED TO THE, TO THE STAR PROGRAM AT LEAST THREE TIMES. 
          SO THAT IS CONSIDERED AN ACTIVE CASE UNTIL WE EITHER DON'T REACH THEM AFTER THREE TIMES OR, UM, THEY TELL US, NO, I DON'T WANT YOUR SERVICES. 
          AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS A REALITY FOR SOME PEOPLE. 
          UM, SUCCESSFUL CONTACTS CAN TAKE AVERAGE OF ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF. 
          A HOME VISIT TYPICALLY TAKES ABOUT THREE HOURS. 
          SO AN HOUR AND A HALF IS WHAT WE MIGHT EXPECT OVER THE COURSE OF A CASE FOR IN-PERSON INTERACTIONS TO TAKE. 
          SO IF WE LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF INTERACTIONS THAT WE KNOW FOR SURE HAPPENED IN 2025, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH THE SAME, UM, INCREMENTAL INCREASE IN FY 26, UM, 27 AND 28, YOU'LL SEE THAT AVERAGE INTERACTION PER CLIENT FOR EACH 12, NINE, AND FIVE CASE MANAGERS. 
          THEN IF WE CONVERT THAT WITH AN AVERAGE OF AN HOUR AND A HALF, UM, FOR EACH INTERACTION, UM, THEN WE JUST CONVERTED THAT TO A NUMBER OF HOURS. 
          YOU KNOW, WE WANTED TO DRILL DOWN LIKE HOW MUCH, NOT JUST A CASE LOAD THAT EACH CASE MANAGER IS, IS HANDLING, BUT HOW MUCH TIME IT ACTUALLY TAKES TO REALLY PROVIDE SERVICES TO SOMEONE. 
          AND SO FOR, UM, IF, FOR FY 26, UM, FOR, FOR, IF WE'RE AT FULL STAFFING FOR 12 CASE MANAGERS, WE WOULD EXPECT THAT EACH ONE CASE MANAGER WOULD NEED TO SPEND 2,192 HOURS, UM, A YEAR HANDLING THAT CASELOAD. 
          UM, FOR NINE, IT WOULD BE 2,922 AT FIVE 5,262. 
          UM, WE WENT THROUGH THE EXERCISE, UM, PROJECTING FOR FY 27, AND THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE OUR CALCULATION ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, UM, AT 12 CASE MANAGERS FOR THE VOLUME THAT WE EXPECT TO SEE NEXT YEAR. 
          UM, 12 CASE MANAGERS WOULD BE ABOUT THE EQUIVALENT OF 1.5 FTES. 
          FOR NINE CASE MANAGERS, IT WOULD BE ABOUT TWO FTES. 
          UM, AND FOR FIVE IT WOULD BE ABOUT THREE AND A HALF. 
          NOW, WE'RE NOT SUGGESTING THAT FIVE CASE MANAGERS CAN HANDLE THE VOLUME OF THREE AND A HALF FTES. 
          UM, IT'S NOT REASONABLE TO EXPECT THAT, BUT WE DID WANT TO CALL ATTENTION TO THE IDEA THAT THIS IMPACTS PUBLIC SAFETY. 
          IT HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THEIR ABILITY TO STAY SAFE. 
          WE'VE HAD SEVEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOMICIDES THIS YEAR COMPARED WITH NINE TOTAL LAST YEAR. 
          UM, AND SO WE REALLY FEEL LIKE THE CURRENT STAFFING, OR, YOU KNOW, EVEN A SMALL REDUCTION WOULD BE ESSENTIAL IN ORDER TO HANDLE THE VOLUMES THAT, UM, THAT WE'VE DOCUMENTED AND THAT WE'VE RECEIVED FROM STRAC. 
          UM, AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO, UM, ADDRESS THE IDEA OF, UM, THE SUPERVISORS. 
          'CAUSE THOSE WERE NOT RECOMMENDED TO BE RETAINED. 
          IF YOU LOOK AT YOUR, UM, ORG CHART, WE HAVE THE 15, I MEAN, I'M SORRY, THE 12 CASE MANAGERS THAT HANDLE THE EVERYDAY DAILY BUSINESS OF INTERACTING WITH CLIENTS. 
          THE TWO SUPERVISORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERSEEING THEIR WORK, AND EACH STAR CASE MANAGER IS ON CALL. 
          'CAUSE THIS IS A 24 7 365 PROGRAM. 
          THE 12 CASE MANAGERS ARE ON CALL A FEW TIMES A MONTH, WHICH MEANS THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING ANY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CALLS THAT HAPPEN AFTER HOURS. 
          AND THERE ARE MANY, AND WE COULD GET THE BREAKDOWN OF THAT. 
          UM, AND SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THAT, WHEN A REFERRAL COMES THROUGH THE MEDCOM LINE, BCSO, UM, CONDUCTS THE LETHALITY ASSESSMENT IN THE FIELD, THEY CALL MEDCOM, MEDCOM SENDS AN ALERT DIRECTLY TO THE CELL PHONE OF OUR CASE MANAGER. 
          UM, AND IF IT'S THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, THEY WILL ANSWER WITHIN AN HOUR. 
          IF IT'S HIGH RISK, THE THE ALERT ALSO GOES OUT TO THE SUPERVISOR THAT'S ON CALL. 
          THE SUPERVISORS ARE ON CALL BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO TWICE A MONTH. 
          SO THEY EACH COVER HALF THE MONTH, UM, AS A REDUNDANCY AND AS A BACKUP TO THE STAR SPECIALIST BECAUSE, AND IT'S HAPPENED ONCE OR TWICE THAT AN ALERT DIDN'T GO OUT, AND WE HAD TO TROUBLESHOOT AND DIG IN TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE STAR SPECIALIST DIDN'T RECEIVE THAT, BUT THEIR SUPERVISOR DID. 
          AND THE SUPERVISOR NOTICED THAT IT HADN'T BEEN RESPONDED TO WITH WITHIN AN HOUR. 
          AND SO THE SUPERVISOR FOLLOWED UP. 
          AND SO, UM, EACH OF THOSE SUPERVISORS PROVIDES ADDITIONAL BACKUP, ADDITIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY, JUST IN CASE. 
          UM, AND SO HAVE REDUCING THOSE SUPERVISORS TO ONE WOULD MEAN THAT THAT SUPERVISOR WOULD BE ON CALL 24 7, 365. 
          UM, THERE WOULD BE NO, UM, ADDITIONAL SUPPORT, UM, IF, YOU KNOW, FOR ANY OTHER CALL OR ANY ALERT AND TO, YOU KNOW, JUST TO HAVE OVERSIGHT OF MAKING SURE THAT THOSE CALLS ARE RESPONDED TO. 
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SO TO, I WANTED TO, TO FINISH OUR PRESENTATION ON, WELL, I'M NOT FINISHING MY PRESENTATION, BUT TO FINISH UP WITH THE STAR PROGRAM WITH SOME GOOD NEWS. 
          UM, AND WHEN WE PRESENTED THIS PROGRAM, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE NOT JUST COUNTING THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT, UM, THE STAR PROGRAM SERVES, BUT THAT WE WERE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT OUTCOMES AND WHAT CHANGES AS A RESULT OF THE SERVICES THEY PROVIDE. 
          AND SO WE USE THE MOVERS SURVEY, WHICH IS A MEASURE OF VICTIM EMPOWERMENT RELATED TO SAFETY. 
          IT'S A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED VALIDATED TOOL, AND IT'S A PRE AND A POST SURVEY, UM, VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS WHO ARE REFERRED TO US, WE ASK THEM TO TAKE IT, UM, WHEN THEY BEGIN SERVICES, AND THEN WE ASK THEM TO TAKE IT AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH AFTER THAT WHILE THEY STAY IN SERVICES. 
          AND FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS, WE USED, UM, SOME STATIST STATISTICAL ANALYSIS TO MEASURE THE IMPROVEMENT OVER TIME AND TO ENSURE THAT THAT IMPROVEMENT THAT WAS REPORTED WASN'T JUST RANDOM, IT WASN'T BY CHOICE. 
          IT WASN'T THAT THEY GAINED SAFETY, UM, IN SOME OTHER WAY. 
          UM, WE ACTUALLY DID, YOU KNOW, A, A CALCULATION THAT SHOWED THAT FOR ALL OF THE DOMAINS THAT ARE MEASURED BY THE MOVERS, WHICH ARE EMPOWERMENT, THE FEELING THAT THEY HAVE POWER OVER THEIR LIVES AND CONTROL OVER THEIR OWN DECISIONS, UM, INTERNAL RESOURCES, THAT THEY FEEL A SENSE OF SELF-EFFICACY, THAT THEY FEEL LIKE THEY COULD LEAVE OR MAKE CHOICES IN A SITUATION WHERE, UM, THEY'RE EXPERIENCING VIOLENCE, THEY HAVE EXPECTATION OF SUPPORT, WHETHER IT'S FROM THEIR FAMILY, THEIR FRIENDS, THEIR SOCIAL CIRCLE, OR FROM THEIR STAR SPECIALIST. 
          THEY HAVE SOME EXPECTATION OF SUPPORT. 
          AND THEN TRADE-OFFS. 
          TRADE-OFFS IS THEIR ASSESSMENT OF WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAVE TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES SIGNIFICANTLY IN ORDER TO AVOID BEING HARMED. 
          LIKE, I HAVE TO TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE ON MY COMMUTE TO WORK, OR I HAD TO CHANGE DAYCARES TO AVOID, UM, PUTTING MYSELF IN DANGER. 
          AND SO THE IMPROVEMENT THAT WE SAW OVER THE 1053 UNIQUE CLIENTS THAT WERE SURVEYED, UM, ARE STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT, MEANING THAT WE CAN ATTRIBUTE THAT IMPROVEMENT DIRECTLY TO THE SERVICES THAT WERE PROVIDED BY THE STAR PROGRAM. 
          WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THIS BECAUSE THAT MEANS THAT THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING IS IMPACTFUL. 
          THAT THE, THE CLIENTS THAT WE SERVE BELIEVE THAT THE IMPROVEMENT, THAT THEY HAVE IMPROVEMENT IN THEIR LIVES. 
          AND OUR ANALYSIS SHOWS THAT IT IS BECAUSE OF THE PROGRAM THAT YOU HAVE FUNDED. 
          UM, NOW MOVE ON TO THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER. 
          UM, BECAUSE WE DID, YOU KNOW, BUILD UP OUR, OUR, UM, LIST OF RELATIONSHIPS, WHETHER IT WAS HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITIES, NONPROFITS, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, UM, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD A PERSON WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IT WAS TO ESTABLISH THESE RELATIONSHIPS TO BE IN RELATIONSHIP WITH COMMUNITY AND NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, OUR DEPARTMENT JUST MANAGING CONTRACTS. 
          UM, AND SO WE HAVE, UM, OVER 50 PLUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS, UM, OVER THE PERIOD FOR THIS DATA COLLECTION, UM, MORE THAN 2000 PEOPLE WERE ENGAGED, ATTENDED 35 PREVENTATIVE HEALTH EVENTS. 
          UM, AND WE TRACKED, EVERY TIME WE GO OUT, WE ASK SOMEONE FOR THEIR ZIP CODE. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE ON THE MAP. 
          UM, AND THESE, THESE ARE, UM, NOT WHERE WE ATTENDED EVENTS, BUT THESE ARE ACTUAL ZIP CODES OF THE PEOPLE WHO ATTEND THAT TOLD US THEIR ZIP CODE. 
          AND SO THESE ARE WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE, UM, LOCATED, ACTUALLY LIVE THAT ATTEND AN EVENT WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, INTERACT WITH THEM, GIVE THEM MORE INFORMATION, WE GIVE THEM INFORMATION ABOUT RABIES, WE GIVE THEM INFORMATION ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 
          WE, UM, ONE OF OUR MOST POPULAR IS OUR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH RESOURCE GUIDE. 
          UM, AND ANY, AND ANY KIND OF FOLLOW UP INFORMATION, AND SOMETIMES THEY ASK US, I NEED HELP FROM THE COUNTY CLERK, OR I NEED HELP FROM ANOTHER COUNTY DEPARTMENT. 
          AND WE MAKE SURE THAT WE CONNECT THAT PERSON WITH THE APPROPRIATE COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES TO SOLVE THEIR ISSUE. 
          NOW WE GO TO, UM, THE ARPA POSITIONS THAT ARE IN THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DIVISION. 
          UM, THE PRE-CRISIS PROGRAM MANAGER. 
          UM, I THINK IT, IT, IT'S MORE ACCURATELY PRE-CRISIS IS SORT OF, YOU KNOW, A VERY VAGUE TERM, BUT IT CAN BE MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS PRE PREVENTION AND RESPONSE TRAINING. 
          UM, AND WAS INITIALLY CONCEPTUALIZED AS, UM, TRAINING LAW ENFORCEMENT IN ADVANCED CRISIS INTERVENTION TRAINING. 
          UM, AND THROUGH THAT PROGRAM, UM, WE HAVE TRAINED OVER 79 ACTIVE TRAINING PART OR A ADVANCED CRISIS INTERVENTION TRAINING PARTICIPANTS. 
          UM, THEY WERE ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT, UM, FROM BCSO AND FROM MANY OTHER JURISDICTIONS, INCLUDING SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS, UM, AND OTHER MEMBERS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT INTERACT WITH THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, AND THIS IS ESPECIALLY, UM, IMPORTANT, I THINK WHEN WE, BECAUSE WE ALSO ADDED A DIFFERENT MODULE TO THE A CIT TRAINING CALLED CALM AND CALM IS A TACTICAL 
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TRAINING, UM, THAT IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE LAW ENFORCEMENT WITH A NON-LETHAL INTERVENTION FOR, FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT BE RESPONDING TO SOMEONE IN CRISIS. 
          UM, SO THAT IF THAT PERSON NEEDS TO BE RESTRAINED, THEY DO IT IN A WAY THAT CAUSES THE LEAST HARM TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT THIS PERSON MIGHT BE GOING THROUGH A CRISIS. 
          UM, AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, 257 PERSONS WERE TRAINED THROUGH BEAR CARES. 
          THAT'S ADULT AND YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID. 
          UM, AND THEN WE ALSO PROVIDED THAT TRAINING TO A NUMBER OF, UM, BEXAR COUNTY DEPARTMENTS. 
          AND THIS IS INTENDED BEAR CARE IS INTENDED FOR PEOPLE, UH, WHETHER IT'S, UM, PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY OR WHETHER THEY WORK FOR A NONPROFIT OR A BEXAR COUNTY DEPARTMENT. 
          UM, THOSE THAT WORK WITH THE PUBLIC THAT MIGHT ENCOUNTER SOMEONE WHO, UM, MIGHT BE HAVING A BAD DAY, MIGHT BE GOING THROUGH MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES. 
          UM, AND SO THESE ARE WAYS TO RECOGNIZE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF MENTAL HEALTH CRISES AND TO, UH, AND THEN THEY'RE TRAINED IN A NUMBER OF DEESCALATION TACTICS, UM, AND ON THE CIVILIAN SIDE UNTIL MAYBE THEY MIGHT NEED TO CALL BACK UP WITH A SMART TEAM, UM, OR HAVE SOME OTHER WAY TO DIFFUSE THE SITUATION. 
          UM, AND I WILL ADD THAT, UM, THE A CIT TRAINING, UM, THIS IS OVER AND ABOVE WHAT LAW ENFORCEMENT RECEIVE AS SORT OF THEIR, UM, BASELINE MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING WHEN THEY GO THROUGH THEIR T COLE CERTIFICATIONS. 
          THIS IS ADVANCED TRAINING. 
          UM, AND THESE ARE THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, UM, THAT WE WOULD WANT TO APPLY FOR SMART POSITIONS OR THAT WE WOULD WANT TO APPLY FOR SA CORE POSITIONS. 
          SO THIS IS REALLY NOT JUST ABOUT TRAINING THESE INDIVIDUALS, BUT ABOUT BUILDING THAT WORKFORCE. 
          UM, AS WE KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE SMART TEAM IS, YOU KNOW, BUSY AND HAS GREAT OUTCOMES, BUT IF WE WERE EVER TO, YOU KNOW, IN A PERFECT WORLD, EXPAND THE SMART TEAM, THESE WOULD BE THE OFFICERS THAT WOULD BE MOST QUALIFIED TO JOIN THAT TEAM. 
          UM, WE ALSO HAVE TWO POSITIONS THAT WERE CREATED BY ARPA FOR CONTRACT MANAGEMENT, BECAUSE YES, WE DID KNOW THAT WE WERE GONNA HAVE, UH, AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF CONTRACTS THAT JUST NEEDED TO BE MANAGED FOR COMPLIANCE, FOR INVOICING, UM, FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, ENSURING COMPLIANCE WITH, UM, OUR OWN INTERNAL AUDITING. 
          UM, AND SO THESE CONTRACT MANAGERS REALLY PROVIDE STEWARDSHIP BY IDENTIFYING BEST PRACTICES AMONG VENDORS AND, UM, PREVENTING WASTE, IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL OVERSPENDING BECAUSE THEY'RE ANALYZING THESE, UM, CONTRACTS VERY CAREFULLY. 
          UM, SO DURING THE ARPA PERIOD, WHICH IS WHAT YOU SEE REPRESENTED, UM, ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE LEFT HAND PART OF THE, UM, SLIDE, UM, THE NUMBER OF CONTRACTS THAT WERE MANAGED, UM, 34 THAT WE HAD, UM, 468, UM, AGENCY MONITORING MEETINGS. 
          AND SO THESE WERE WEEKLY MEETINGS THAT OUR CONTRACT SPECIALISTS HAD WITH ALL OF THE INDIVIDUAL GRANTEES TO ENSURE THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST CONVERSATION, TALKING THROUGH CONTRACTS, MAKING SURE THAT THERE WAS OPEN LINE OF COMMUNICATION. 
          UM, WE DID NOT WAIT FOR PE FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR CONTRACT ISSUES TO ARISE THESE WEEKLY MEETINGS MADE SURE THAT WE WERE, UM, ENSURING COMPLIANCE. 
          THEY CONDUCTED 68 SITE VISITS ACROSS ALL OF THE, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES MORE VISITING, SOME MORE THAN ONCE, UM, TO GO PUT EYES ON. 
          AND, AND NOT JUST THEM, BUT OTHER MEMBERS OF THE TEAM ALSO JOIN THEM. 
          I JOIN THEM DEPENDING ON THE ORGANIZATION. 
          UM, AND THEN ATTENDED OVER, UM, 22 OUTREACH AND TABLING EVENTS WITH OUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER, UM, GOING FORWARD. 
          UM, AND, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THE, THE FORECASTED WORKLOAD IN TERMS OF CONTRACTS FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR, UM, WE DO HAVE A NUMBER OF OPIOID, UM, CONTRACTS THAT, UH, WE, THAT ARE, WE'RE CURRENTLY MANAGING, AND WE DO HAVE ADDITIONAL OPIOID MONEY THAT WE EXPECT TO BE DISTRIBUTED. 
          UM, AND SO THERE WILL STILL BE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT THAT IS NECESSARY FOR THE DEPARTMENT. 
          UM, WE HAVE SAMHSA GRANTS THAT ARE IN PROGRESS FOR SY, CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE, SYSTEMS OF CARE, UM, AND THEN THE GENERAL FUND CONTRACTS THAT STILL EXIST WITH ACOG STRAT SMART, UM, AND THEN THE, UH, CONTRACTS THAT ARE PART OF THE DIVERSION PROCESS IN, UH, THE JAIL. 
          SO GOING FORWARD, UM, WE DO HAVE REDUCED FUNDING, BUT THE VOLUME OF WORK REMAINS. 
          AND SO CONTRACT MANAGEMENT IS STILL A HIGH PRIORITY TO ENSURE THAT EFFICIENT STEWARDSHIP OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS. 
          UM, LASTLY, UH, LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION, UM, AS THE DEPARTMENT HEAD, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU ALL KNOW WHAT DEPARTMENT HEADS DO OVER THE FOUR DIVISIONS. 
          I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STRATEGIC DIRECTION PLANNING EVALUATION, UM, FOR ALL OF THESE DIVISIONS. 
          UM, I, YOU KNOW, REPRESENT THIS COURT AT A NUMBER OF, OR ANY NUMBER OF COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS, COMMUNITY COALITIONS. 
          UM, AND SO IT IS, YOU KNOW, IMPORTANT THAT I REPRESENT PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY THAT IS CREATED BY THIS COURT, UM, PROVIDE, HOPEFULLY I PROVIDED SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE, UM, TO THIS COURT AND TO OTHER COUNTY, UM, STAFF AND DEPARTMENTS, UM, AND REALLY JUST TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF BEXAR COUNTY THROUGH BOARD 
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MEMBERSHIP, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, UM, BUT REALLY HOW, HOW IS BEXAR COUNTY SHOWING UP FOR PUBLIC HEALTH? AND I HAVE GOTTEN TREMENDOUSLY POSITIVE FEEDBACK FROM OUR PARTNERS IN THE COMMUNITY THAT, UM, HAVE BEEN VERY, UH, ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE WAY THAT THIS COURT HAS, HAS INVESTED THEIR DOLLARS, UM, FOR PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION. 
          UM, WE DO HAVE A BUSINESS SERVICES MANAGER AND THE, UM, EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT THAT WAS MENTIONED IN THE BUDGET PRESENTATION. 
          UM, THEY, THEY HAVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL FOUR OF THESE DIVISIONS, UM, FROM BUDGET MANAGEMENT COORDINATION, FISCAL IMPLEMENTATION, PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT, UM, COORDINATION COMMUNICATION WITH COMMISSIONER'S COURT, UM, FOR, UH, SCHEDULING, UM, ALL, ALL FOUR DIVISIONS, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY APPOINTMENTS, SCHEDULING WITH YOU GUYS, UM, RQS, RFB, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE, THE INVOICING AND THINGS THAT T CARDS, P CARDS, UM, AND THEN THEY ALSO PROVIDE ESSENTIAL STAFFING. 
          SO FOR WHEN WE'RE CREATING A COALITION LIKE THE SAC FOR PREVENTION OF ELDER ABUSE, OR THE PUBLIC HEALTH SUMMIT, OR ANY NUMBER OF COMMUNITY EVENTS, ALTHOUGH OUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS PERSON IS THE LEAD ON THAT, WE OFTEN NEED THE LOGISTICS PERSON IN THE BACKGROUND, THE PERSON THAT IS HELPING PROCESS THE PAYMENTS FOR WHATEVER EXPENSES ARE RELATED TO THAT EVENT. 
          AND SO OUR ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF, UM, PROVIDES THAT STAFFING TO SUPPORT THOSE EVENTS. 
          UM, THEY ARE ALSO OUR HR LIAISON FOR, AND, YOU KNOW, GO THROUGH OUR ONBOARDING PROCESS. 
          THEY'RE THE ONES THAT MANAGE WORKDAY AND TIMEKEEPING AND, UM, THE VOLUME OF WORK IS, UM, SUFFICIENT FOR, TO MAINTAIN OUR CURRENT LEVEL OF STAFFING. 
          SO LOOKING FORWARD, UM, YES, ARPA HAS ENDED, BUT THE WORK CONTINUES. 
          UM, PREVENTATIVE HEALTH PRIORITIES, LIKE I SHOWED YOU UNDER THE PREVENTATIVE HEALTH DIVISION DIRECTOR, UM, STILL IS, WE'RE VERY ACTIVE IN THOSE EFFORTS. 
          OBVIOUSLY, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS ONE WHERE WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME. 
          UM, BUT ALSO ELDER ABUSE PREVENTION, UM, OUR UNHOUSED INITIATIVES AND WORKING WITH OTHER COUNTY DEPARTMENTS TO HELP FORM A HOMELESSNESS STRATEGY, UM, AND WHAT BEXAR COUNTY IS DOING TO ADDRESS THAT. 
          CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION, RESTRUCTURING, HEALTH INSPECTION FEES. 
          THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE IN THAT AREA. 
          UM, ADVANCING COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH THROUGH THE, UM, PARTNERSHIPS AND THEN JUST STRENGTHENING OUR DATA PRACTICE, UM, AND HOW WE LOOK AT ANALYTICS AND HOW WE PRESENT AND QUANTIFY THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING. 
          AND THESE ARE ALL THINGS THAT WILL EXIST IN THE FUTURE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE STAR PROGRAM. 
          UM, BUT THAT WILL EXIST IN THE FUTURE WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL FUNDING. 
          THESE ARE THINGS THAT WILL CONTINUE, UH, UNDER, YOU KNOW, THAT WILL BE WHAT WE ALREADY DO, UM, FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PRIORITIES. 
          WE, UM, LOOK AT OUR PRIORITIES, UM, THROUGH THE LENS OF THE SEQUENTIAL INTERCEPT MODEL, EDUCATION, EARLY IDENTIFICATION. 
          SO FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE PRIORITIES THAT YOU SEE REPRESENTED THERE, UM, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF PROGRAMS AND CONTRACTS PRIORITIES THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON. 
          AND, AND AGAIN, THIS IS ONLY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND PREVENTATIVE HEALTH. 
          WE HAVE SIMILAR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FOR ANIMAL CARE AND AGRILIFE. 
          UM, AND TO YOUR POINT, COMMISSIONER MOODY, UM, YES, UM, STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. 
          AND I WORK RIGHT ALONGSIDE MY COUNTERPARTS, DOCTORS, CLAUDE JACOB, AND DR. CAROL HUBER AT THE INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH FOR, UH, UNIVERSITY HEALTH. 
          CLAUDE JACOB IS WITH METROPOLITAN HEALTH DISTRICT. 
          UM, AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING FOR SEVERAL MONTHS TO ALIGN OUR INDIVIDUAL STRATEGIES, NOT TO CREATE ONE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTY, BUT TO TAKE EACH OF OUR INDIVIDUAL STRATEGIES AND THE THINGS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON AND ALIGN THEM FIRST WITH THE 10 ESSENTIAL PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES. 
          THIS IS A FRAMEWORK THAT'S PROVIDED THAT BY THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACCREDITATION BOARD, BUT IF YOU RECEIVE, UM, ACCREDITATIONS A PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT, YOU HAVE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU'RE MEETING ALL OF THESE NEEDS OR THAT SOMEONE IN YOUR COMMUNITY IS MEETING ALL OF THESE NEEDS. 
          UM, AND, YOU KNOW, WITH THE YEAR THAT WE FACED WITH FEDERAL CUTS LAST YEAR WITH ADDITIONAL CUTS THIS YEAR, UM, AND THE CITY, UM, IS ALSO GOING THROUGH TOUGH TIMES WITH, YOU KNOW, MAKING HARD DECISIONS, UM, THROUGH THEIR BUDGET PROCESS. 
          UM, BUT WE HAVE BEEN, UM, HAVING THESE DISCUSSIONS TO SAY, WHAT IS THE CITY DOING? WHAT IS, UH, DOING, WHAT IS THE COUNTY DOING? HOW DO THEY ALIGN? HOW DO THEY DOVETAIL? UM, ARE THERE GAPS? AND CAN THAT GAP BE FILLED BY A COMMUNITY PARTNER? SHOULD IT BE FILLED BY UNIVERSITY HEALTH? SHOULD IT BE FILLED BY CITY OF SAN ANTONIO? UM, AND SO THIS, THIS SLIDE THAT YOU HAVE HERE IS JUST A REPRESENTATION OF THE TYPE OF, WE HAVE A, A DRAFT POWERPOINT, HAPPY TO SHOW IT TO ANY OF YOU IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE IT. 
          UM, BUT GETTING DOWN TO THE PROGRAMMATIC LEVEL, UM, FOR ALL OF US. 
          SO NOT JUST KIND OF OVERARCHING POLICIES OR, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, LARGER, UH, PUBLIC HEALTH PRIORITIES, BUT REALLY LIKE, ARE YOU DOING ASTHMA? ARE YOU DOING DIABETES? LIKE, WHERE IS THAT INVESTMENT GOING? AND WHO ARE YOU SERVING AND HOW ARE YOU SERVING THEM? AND WHERE 
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IS THE FRONT DOOR TO THAT RESOURCE SO THAT WE CAN ALIGN ALL OF OUR STRATEGIES, OUR NEXT MEETING? UM, WE SCHEDULED IT PURPOSEFULLY, UM, AFTER THE 1ST OF OCTOBER BECAUSE WE, YOU KNOW, WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH ANY CHANGES THAT MIGHT, THAT MIGHT ARISE THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS FOR THE CITY AND THE COUNTY. 
          SO I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY IN SUMMARY THAT, UM, WHEN I STARTED IN NOVEMBER OF 2022, UM, COMMISSIONER COURT ESSENTIALLY ASKED US TO BUILD A PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
          AND I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE CREATED A COHESIVE, EFFICIENT PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UM, WHERE EACH DIVISION IS, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, CROSS-TRAINED, UM, IN THE WORK OF THE OTHER DIVISIONS WHERE WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, UH, COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN OUR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM AND OUR ANIMAL CARE PROGRAM WITH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, COLLABORATING WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, YOU KNOW, TO ASSIST THE, THE GOALS OF ENFORCEMENT, BUT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE NEEDS OF SOMEONE WHO MIGHT BE SUFFERING A MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGE. 
          AND SO WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT, EACH OF THEM REALLY HAVE AN INTEGRATED, UM, APPROACH TO HOW THEIR WORK IS DONE AND HAVE BEEN ABLE, BEEN ABLE TO SEE HOW EACH DIVISION CAN EFFECTIVELY OPERATE WITHIN THE UMBRELLA OF PUBLIC HEALTH, BUT HOW THEY CAN COOPERATE TOGETHER TO BETTER SERVE THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE THAT COME THROUGH OUR DOORS. 
          SO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          QUESTION, COMMENT. 
          UM, YEAH, I'LL, I'LL START, I GUESS, UH, DR. 
          A, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU. 
          THAT WAS, UH, LOT, PRETTY SUBSTANTIVE. 
          YEAH. 
          A LOT OF INFORMATION. 
          UM, AND I KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WERE KIND OF FACED WITH THE DECISIONS ABOUT INVESTING, UH, THE ARPA DOLLARS, UH, PUBLIC HEALTH WAS A SIGNIFICANT, UM, CONSIDERATION AS YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE WERE COMING OUT OF, UH, A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS AND WE NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING, UH, TO SET UP A MORE RESILIENT COMMUNITY. 
          UH, SO, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO THANK YOU AND YOUR TEAM, UH, OBVIOUSLY THAT IS, UH, LIKE WITH A LOT OF THINGS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, RIGHT? YOU DON'T SOLVE ALL THE ILLS OF, UH, DECADES IN, IN THREE OR FOUR YEARS. 
          UH, SO, SO, UH, SOME OF THIS IS, IS IMPORTANT WORK, A LOT OF IT'S IMPORTANT WORK. 
          UM, SO I WANNA FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE AND GOOD INFORMATION, UH, REALLY, UM, LIKE I SAID, SUBSTANTIVE IN TERMS OF, UH, OUTCOMES AND, AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. 
          WHAT I WANTED TO GET A CLARIFICATION JUST BRIEFLY FROM BUDGET AND TANYA TO COME UP IS, UH, WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER HOW THERE WAS AN INITIAL PROPOSED BUDGET. 
          UM, SOME OF THOSE THINGS WERE PUT IN CONTINGENCY. 
          SO HAS ANYTHING CHANGED IN THIS PARTICULAR, UM, DEPARTMENT FROM WHAT YOU RECOMMENDED, UM, STAY IN CONTINGENCY THAT'S, IT'S NOW COMING OUT OF CONTINGENCY? OR, OR JUST GIVE US KIND OF A, A BREAKDOWN OF, OF, UH, A SNAPSHOT OF WHERE IF ANYTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE THE INITIAL PROPOSED BUDGET? SO INCLUDED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET ARE ALL THE POSITIONS FOR POST ARPA INCLUDING, UH, PUBLIC HEALTH. 
          SO EVERY SINGLE POSITION, NINE MONTHS OF IT HAS BEEN PLACED IN CONTINGENCIES. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE ARE PRESENTING TO YOU OUR RECOMMENDATIONS, WHICH HAVE BEEN SHARED TO THE OFFICES AND DEPARTMENTS THAT HAVE POST ARPA POSITIONS. 
          SO THE PROPOSED BUDGET DOES NOT INCLUDE TODAY'S RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          RIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, SO THEY'RE ALL IN CONTINGENCY. 
          CORRECT. 
          GOT IT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND, UM, SO THEY'LL BE FUNDED AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT, YOU SAID NINE MONTHS, SO THEY'RE FOR SURE FUNDED THROUGH THE END OF DECEMBER. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN DEPENDING ON THE DIRECTION FROM THE COMMISSIONERS, UM, FOR THE ADOPTED BUDGET, THOSE POSITIONS EITHER CONTINUE PAST DECEMBER AND THEN FOR THE FUTURE. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          I APPRECIATE IT. 
          UM, SO, SO I PROBABLY NEED TO VISIT DR. 
          A AT SOME POINT WITH YOU BETWEEN NOW AND, UM, THE NEXT FEW DAYS. 
          UH, 'CAUSE IT'S A LOT AND I THINK WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT TO PRIORITIZE. 
          UM, AND I KNOW IT'S DIFFICULT FOR YOU BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL YOUR BABIES, RIGHT? I MEAN, WHAT DO, WHAT IS THE FAVORITE BABIES? UH, SORRY TO SAY THAT, BUT I MEAN THAT'S, I THINK KIND OF THE POINT WHERE WE'RE AT. 
          I MEAN, SOME OF THIS WE KNEW, UM, WAS GOING TO COME OFF THE BOOKS WHEN ARPA ENDED. 
          AND AT THE SAME TIME, I, I DO BELIEVE THAT, UH, ONE OF OUR CORE FUNCTIONS IN COUNTY GOVERNMENT IS, IS THE WELFARE OF OUR COMMUNITY, AND THAT'S PUBLIC HEALTH. 
          AND SO, UM, SO I, I THINK, UH, IF WE CAN SPEND A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME AGAIN OFFLINE ON WHAT, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU THINK ARE THE HIGHEST PRIORITIES, THE HIGHEST NEEDS? UM, I, I, I KNOW WE OUTSOURCED A LOT OF THE PROGRAMMATIC STUFF TO, UH, PARTNERS. 
          UH, SO WHATEVER WE'VE INTERNALIZED, UM, WHEREVER WE CAN, YOU KNOW, UH, LOOK AT CUTTING ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS, I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE A PRIORITY FOR ME. 
          BUT I, I 
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DO THINK THE PROGRAMS THAT ARE IN PLACE THAT ARE, ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE, UM, THAT STILL NEED A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO SHOW, UM, OUTCOMES, UM, WOULD BE MY FOCUS. 
          SO I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT TO YOU. 
          I DON'T HAVE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS NOW, BUT, UM, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK WE'RE GONNA REALLY HAVE TO, UM, ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS AND FIGURE OUT WHAT IS THE BEST, UM, OUTCOME FOR, UH, I GUESS INSTITUTIONALIZING SOME OF THESE, UH, PROGRAMS. RIGHT. 
          IF THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          YOU, YOU BRING UP A GOOD POINT BECAUSE I'LL, I JUST, IN YOUR BUDGET PRESENTATION, THERE WAS THE POSITIONS OF THE DIETICIAN AND THE NUTRITIONISTS THAT WERE ALLOCATED. 
          UM, AND IT, YOU KNOW, IT, IT WAS CLEAR IN THE VERY BEGINNING WHEN WE WERE DOING STRATEGIC PLANNING THAT IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO BUILD A DEPARTMENT WHERE YOU HAD A TEAM OF NUTRITIONISTS TO GO AND DO DIRECT SERVICE PROVISION, WHICH IS WHY THE $35 MILLION INVESTMENT FROM ARPA ALLOWED US TO INVEST IN EXISTING PROGRAMS. UM, AND SO WE MOVED THOSE TWO POSITIONS TO AGRILIFE BECAUSE THEY DO EMPLOY NUTRITION PROGRAMS AND THEY DO DIRECT SERVICE. 
          UM, AND AGRILIFE ELECTED NOT THAT BASICALLY THEY WERE FULL CAPACITY IN THAT FUNCTION WITH, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THEY'RE A HYBRID STATE, UM, COUNTY PROGRAM. 
          AND SO THOSE ARE POSITIONS THAT WE HAVE NOT UTILIZED. 
          NUMBER ONE. 
          'CAUSE AGRILIFE SAID, WE, WE ARE NOT IN NEED OF THOSE FUNCTIONS RIGHT NOW. 
          BUT ALSO BECAUSE WE WERE NOT ABLE TO HIRE A TEAM OF NUTRITIONISTS AND ONE NUTRITIONIST IS NOT GOING TO SOLVE THE ENTIRE PROBLEMS OF THE COUNTY. 
          UM, SO THOSE ARE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE CAN HAVE TO KIND OF RIGHTSIZE WHAT IS THE REALITY OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
          AND, AND, AND THAT IS WHY, ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE HAVE PUT SO MUCH TIME AND ENERGY INTO CREATING RELATIONSHIPS. 
          'CAUSE WE KNEW THERE WOULD BE AN ABSENCE OF ARPA FUNDING, BUT TO ACTUALLY LEVERAGE THOSE RELATIONSHIPS TO ACT AS A CONVENER. 
          BECAUSE I CAN'T TELL YOU THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT WE HAVE THIS PROGRAM THAT IS DOING THIS THING AND THEY JUST GOT A GRANT, BUT THEY NEED MATCHING AND, YOU KNOW, AND MAKING THOSE CONNECTIONS WHERE WE DON'T HAVE A FINANCIAL INTEREST, BUT IT'S FOR THE GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY TO MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS, LEVERAGE RELATIONSHIPS SO THEY CAN LEVERAGE DOLLARS TO MEET A COMMUNITY NEED. 
          YEAH. 
          AND, AND ON THAT POINT, THE LAST THING I'LL SAY IS, UM, AND THIS WON'T GET SOLVED IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, BUT I THINK ONGOING DISCUSSION RELATED TO PARTNERS IS I THINK WE NEED TO LEAN IN TO OUR PARTNER AT UNIVERSITY HEALTH ON SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS AND WHERE COULD THEY, UH, POTENTIALLY, UH, PICK UP SOME OF THE COSTS OF, UH, SOME OF THE PROGRAMS, RIGHT? BUT AGAIN, UM, THAT'S A LONGER TERM CONVERSATION. 
          ANYTIME WE HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS, PARTICULARLY ABOUT KEEPING PROGRAMS AND CUTTING POSITIONS, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T WANT THE MESSAGE TO BE TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM THAT THEY, THEY, WE DON'T VALUE THE WORK. 
          'CAUSE I THINK IT HAS MADE A DIFFERENCE. 
          UM, THESE ARE JUST NECESSARY CONVERSATIONS AND, UH, WE KNEW IT WAS COMING AT SOME POINT, RIGHT? 'CAUSE OF THE ARPA DOLLARS. 
          BUT PLEASE KNOW, UH, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AND ON BEHALF OF MY CONSTITUENTS, THERE'S A TREMENDOUS VALUE IN WHAT, UH, THE WORK YOU'RE DOING. 
          AND I THINK WE'VE GOTTA FIGURE OUT A WAY, UH, TO CONTINUE TO, TO CHANGE, UM, THOSE OUTCOMES THROUGH SOME KIND OF INVESTMENT AND MAYBE LESS THAN WE'D LIKE, BUT I THINK WE HAVE TO, UM, WE CAN'T JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, PICK UP, UH, STAKES AND, AND MOVE ON. 
          IT'S, IT'S STILL, I THINK WE'RE VESTED IN MAKING SURE THAT WE DO HAVE A, A MORE RESILIENT AND HEALTHY COMMUNITY MOVING FORWARD. 
          SO THANKS FOR YOUR WORK. 
          THANK YOU, MY TEAM. 
          THANKS . 
          SO, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION HERE AND, UM, I'M GONNA ASK FOR TANYA, THOMAS, YOURSELF AND PAIGE TO SET UP, UM, WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK TO SET UP A MEETING WITH MY OFFICE BECAUSE THERE'S JUST A LOT OF, UH, DETAILS THAT WE, WE NEED TO GO THROUGH. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS RUNNING THE FIRST TIME I WAS IN PUBLIC HEALTH KNOCKING ON DOORS IN THE HEIGHT OF COVID, GOT SWORN IN, IN THE HEIGHT OF COVID. 
          AND SO THIS IS OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING THAT I PUSHED FOR. 
          UM, AND THERE'S JUST A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT, UM, WERE STILL NOT ANSWERED IN ALL OF THIS PRESENTATION THAT WE NEED TO DISCUSS BECAUSE, UM, I THINK YOU ALL HAVE MADE IMPACT AND, UM, DEFINITELY YOUR TEAM, A LOT OF THEM HAVE REALLY WORKED CLOSELY WITH MY CONSTITUENTS AND MYSELF AND MY STAFF TO, TO MAKE, UM, TO MOVE THE NEEDLE. 
          BUT WE, THERE'S STILL SOME UNANSWERED QUESTIONS LIKE, WHAT HAVE YOU GUYS DONE FOR DIABETES WHEN, SADLY, SAN ANTONIO IS THE TOP IN THE COUNTRY FOR AMPUTATIONS. 
          SO THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THAT WE NEED TO TACKLE. 
          WHAT'S THE PLAN? HOW DO YOU CONTINUE PLAN TO CONTINUE TO IMPACT, UM, PUBLIC HEALTH EVEN THOUGH THE DOLLARS ARE GONE, WE REALLY DO NEED BOOTS ON THE GROUND. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DIETICIAN, NUTRITION. 
          I UNDERSTAND 
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YOUR EXPLANATION, BUT STILL, THESE ARE TWO POSITIONS THAT WERE JUST VACANT. 
          UM, BUT I THINK WE HAD OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING WITH. 
          SO I THINK WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF DECISIONS TO DO. 
          AND, UH, THANK YOU FOR THE WORK OF YOUR, OF YOUR TEAM FROM, UH, PREVENTATIVE HEALTH TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH. 
          UM, AND KNOWING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE COULD PICK UP THE PHONE AND MAKING SURE THAT YOU GUYS WERE GONNA TAKE CARE OF OUR CONSTITUENTS. 
          SO I'LL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT MEETING IN THE NEXT WEEK. 
          HAPPY TO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COMMISSIONER MOODY. 
          I'LL JUST BE REALLY BRIEF. 
          UM, BUT JUST IN THINKING ABOUT THIS, UH, THE FIRST QUESTION IS, YOU KNOW, IS IT THE PROPER ROLE SCOPE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT? DO WE NEED TO BE DOING THIS, RIGHT? IF THAT'S YES, THEN IS IT ALREADY BEING DONE? RIGHT? AND THIS GETS TO THE REDUNDANCY ASPECT OF MY PREVIOUS, LIKE COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS. 
          UH, IF IT'S ALREADY BEING DONE, THEN MAYBE WE DON'T NEED TO DO IT SEPARATELY, RIGHT? AND THEN IF IT'S NOT ALREADY BEING DONE, THEN I STILL THINK I APPRECIATE COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ'S COMMENTS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE RIGHT HOME FOR SOME OF THESE, UH, UH, SERVICES, RIGHT? AND MAYBE THAT, YOU KNOW, IS NOT BEXAR COUNTY, BUT AT UHS AND THE WORK STILL NEEDS TO BE DONE. 
          PEOPLE ARE STILL GONNA HAVE TO BE EMPLOYED. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ONE WAY THAT WE CAN LEVERAGE THEIR EXPERTISE AND POTENTIALLY HAVE A, A HOME FOR, FOR THE SAME SERVICES AND EVERYTHING, UH, JUST IN ANOTHER PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
          SO, JUST MY, UH, HIGH LEVEL THOUGHTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THAT'S PRECISELY WHY WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE EXERCISE OF ALIGNING, LIKE I SAID, DOWN INTO A VERY GRANULAR LEVEL OF, YOU KNOW, AT THE PROGRAMMATIC LEVEL. 
          UM, NOT JUST SORT OF AN OVERARCHING STRATEGIC PLAN, BUT WHAT IS BEING DONE AT THE CITY AND UNIVERSITY HEALTH, UM, AND WHAT WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, UM, THE DEPARTMENT LOOKS LIKE AFTER, UH, BUDGET APPROVAL SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY GET A HANDLE ON WHAT IT IS. 
          UM, WHAT SHOULD WE BE DOING, WHAT SHOULD WE NOT BE DOING, WHO'S DOING IT BETTER? HOW, AND IF WE'RE BOTH DOING IT, LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, SA CORE AND SMART, UM, THE STAR PROGRAM AND THAT ITS COMPLIMENT AT THE CITY BOTH BEING DONE, BUT IN TWO DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHIC AREAS AND IN, YOU KNOW, IN A DIFFERENT WAY TO SERVE ALL PARTS OF THE CITY. 
          UM, SO GOING THROUGH THAT ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT SO THAT WE CAN ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT YOU'RE ASKING. 
          WELL, I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          I, I THINK WE ABSOLUTELY SHOULD BE DOING THAT. 
          I WOULD JUST SUGGEST THAT, YOU KNOW, MAKING A DECISION ABOUT CONTINGENCIES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FY IS PROBABLY PREMATURE UNTIL WE COMPLETE THAT ANALYSIS AND ACTUALLY THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THOSE, THOSE REDUNDANCIES WITH THOSE OTHER PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENTS. 
          BUT THOSE ARE, WE HAVE A PRELIMINARY DRAFT OF A SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON. 
          HAPPY TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE WHERE, WHERE WE'RE ALL SORT OF LANDING. 
          UM, BUT AGAIN, WE WERE GONNA WAIT UNTIL TO DO THE FINAL SORT OF, UM, RUN THROUGH, UH, YOU KNOW, FINAL TO FINISH THAT PRESENTATION. 
          IT IS A PRESENTATION THAT WE HAD ALL, WE HAD ALL THREE HOPED TO PROVIDE TO OUR VARIOUS OR RESPECTIVE BOARDS, COUNTY AND UH, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND CITY COUNCIL SO THAT YOU ALL HAVE THAT INFORMATION. 
          BUT ACKNOWLEDGING THAT, UM, IF WE'RE ANALYZING AT THE PROGRAMMATIC LEVEL, SOME OF THOSE PROGRAMS MIGHT NOT EXIST AFTER BUDGET APPROVAL. 
          SO WE REALLY WANTED TO GET AN ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF, YOU KNOW, AFTER BUDGET APPROVAL, WHAT IS, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE ACROSS THE THREE ENTITIES? OKAY. 
          ANYTHING ELSE, DR. 
          GER? LET ME MAKE SOME COMMENTS. 
          FIRST, LET ME THANK THE UH, COURT PRIOR TO, I BELIEVE ME AND COMMISSIONER MOODY, UM, THE THREE OTHER COURT MEMBERS WERE HERE WHEN THE DECISION TO CREATE THIS PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH WAS MADE. 
          AND SO I APPLAUD Y'ALL FOR THE VISION AND THE COURAGE TO MOVE FORWARD, UH, INTO THIS NEW REALM FOR THE COUNTY. 
          AND WHAT MY OBSERVATIONS ARE IS ONE, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO ALL THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS, THIS BUDGET DISCUSSION IS PROBABLY THE MOST DIFFICULT ONE FOR ME BECAUSE OF THE SCOPE OF THE WORK, THE POSITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED AND THE IMPACT TO THE COMMUNITY AND THE DIRECTION THAT THE COURT BEFORE COMMISSIONER MOODY AND I GAVE TO THE DIRECTOR. 
          IN FACT, I BELIEVE YOUR DATE OF STAR WAS PRIOR TO ME BECOMING COUNTY JUDGE. 
          AND SO I'VE COME TO KNOW YOU OVER THESE PAST FOUR YEARS AND I THINK THE COUNTY MANAGER MADE THE RIGHT DECISION TO PICK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND YOU BROUGHT YOUR SKILLSET, YOUR VISION, AND YOUR ABILITY TO COLLABORATE. 
          UNFORTUNATELY, I THINK, AND I'M MAKING THIS COMMENT TO THE BUDGET OFFICE 
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AND TO THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS, THEY'RE LIKE, YEAH, WELL YOU KNOW, WHAT ABOUT OUR, WHAT ABOUT OUR POSITIONS? AND SO I APPRECIATE THE DISCUSSION THAT WE'RE HAVING FOUR YEARS LATER ABOUT, AND WE KNEW THIS WAS COMING, DR. 
          GROVE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          SO EVERYBODY WHO HAD ARPA FUNNEL, I WANNA PUT ON THE RECORD, EVERYBODY WAS TOLD THAT COME JU 20, 26 YEARS, 2026 CALENDAR YEAR, THERE WERE GONNA BE A DAY OF RECKONING. 
          AND HERE WE ARE AND SOME PEOPLE WERE GONNA PROBABLY BE ABLE TO, AND EXCUSE MY LANGUAGE, SOME ARE GONNA WIN AND SOME ARE GONNA LOSE AND WE'RE AFFECTING, I'VE MADE THIS COMMENT EARLIER, BUT I HOPE THAT THIS COURT NEVER LOSES ITS SENSE OF HUMANITY AND THE IMPACT THAT THESE BUDGET DECISIONS MAKE UPON OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND THIS IS ONE OF 'EM. 
          I APPLAUD COMMISSIONER CLAY FLORES FOR HER ADVOCACY OF MENTAL HEALTH SINCE SHE'S BEEN ON THIS COURT. 
          AND I WOULD BELIEVE THIS IS A PROGRAM THAT YOU'VE EMBRACED AND YOU CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AND YOU'RE GONNA SIT DOWN AND DIGEST ALL THIS INFORMATION. 
          AND QUITE FRANKLY, IT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION THAT I'M GONNA HAVE TO SIT DOWN AND DIGEST TO COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ, YOU'VE PUT OUT THE FACT THAT WE NEED TO LOOK. 
          AND THEN DID DR. 
          GARRA AND HER STAFF BECOME A VICTIM OF THEIR OWN SUCCESS? THEY'RE SO SUCCESSFUL THAT THEY CAN FIX THINGS AND THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DELIVER SERVICES AT THE SAME TIME. 
          THIS IS A BIG TICKET ITEM. 
          AND SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO JUST MAKE SOME REALLY TOUGH CALLS. 
          AND AGAIN, I WANNA APPLAUD THE COURT FOR THE NO PROPERTY TAX INCREASE. 
          'CAUSE WE COULD HAVE FIXED IT BY JUST SAYING, LET'S JUST INCREASE THE TAXES AND EVERYBODY WOULD'VE BEEN COVERED, INCLUDING THE COAL IS FOR OUR EMPLOYEES AND THE COAL IS FOR US AS ELECTEDS. 
          BUT WE CHOSE NOT, OR AT LEAST AT THIS POINT, WE'LL SEE WHAT THE FINAL BUDGET LOOKS LIKE. 
          I WOULD HOPE THAT WE COULD FIND SOMETHING FOR OUR EMPLOYEES. 
          BUT WE ALSO GOT A REPORT AT THE LAST WORK SESSION THAT OUR HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM IS VIBRANT, IT'S HEALTHY, IT PROVIDES THE BEST COVERAGE. 
          AND GUESS WHAT? WE'RE NOT PASSING ANY COST THAT OTHER COUNTIES HAVE DONE FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES. 
          PERHAPS THEY GOT A COLA. 
          BUT I CAN TELL YOU KNOWING HOW THIS BUDGET PROCESS WORKED WOULD'VE BEEN AN EMPLOYEE OFFICIAL. 
          YEAH, YOU GET A COLA, BUT THEN YOUR INSURANCE EATS IT ALL UP. 
          AND SO THAT'S THE REASON WHY SOME PEOPLE GIVE, THEY'RE NOT HAPPY. 
          'CAUSE THE COST OF LIVING YEAH. 
          KEEPS GOING UP. 
          SO I THINK THE COUNTY HAS DONE ITS VERY BEST TO BE GOOD STEWARDS. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO PUT ON THE RECORD, DR. 
          GULL, IS YOUR SUCCESS AND THE SUCCESSES THAT I WANNA MAKE SURE FOR THE RECORD, YOU GET PROPER CREDIT AND IF THERE'S OTHER SUCCESSES THAT YOU HAVEN'T MADE, YOU HAVEN'T PUT ON RECORD, LET'S PUT IT ON RECORD. 
          SO THAT WAY WHEN WE AS A BODY AND GIVE DIRECTION TO THE BUDGET, WE'LL HOPEFULLY MAKE THOSE DECISIONS THAT KEEPS OUR SENSE OF HUMANITY. 
          SO LET'S START, YOU GOT TO START DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE UP AND RUNNING, CORRECT? YES SIR. 
          AND WE'VE HEARD A TREMENDOUS OUTREACH FROM THE COMMUNITY DON'T CUT THAT PROGRAM AND WE'RE MAKING SOME ADJUSTMENTS, BUT I BELIEVE THE CORE PROGRAM IS GOING TO CONTINUE AND WE ACTUALLY CONTINUE IT, EVEN THOUGH THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO BASICALLY PULLED OUT. 
          IS THAT A CORRECT STATEMENT? YES. 
          AND IT IS A VERY SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM IN CONNECTING VICTIMS CITIZENS TO THE SERVICES THEY NEED. 
          CORRECT? IT IS, AND I WOULD ALSO ADD THAT IT'S AN ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT. 
          WE ALSO GOT THE NAMI, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MENTAL HEALTH, THEIR HOTLINE. 
          AND WE'VE BEEN A BIG PROPONENT OF THE CONFERENCE SET WHO JUST HAD, AND I THINK I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY, AND COMMISSIONER CLAY FLOS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THAT WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM OF OVER 1400 PEOPLE, BOTH LOCALLY AND IN THE REGION THAT CAME TOGETHER TO DISCUSS HOW WE PROVIDE BETTER MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 
          CORRECT? YES SIR. 
          AND THAT'S A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS, CORRECT? YES SIR. 
          IT WAS ONE OF THE GRANTS THAT YOU'VE BEEN ABLE TO SECURE IS THE SENIOR JUSTICE ASSESSMENT CENTER, WHICH WE CALL SJ. 
          THAT IS REALLY A CUTTING EDGE PROGRAM. 
          IT'S BASICALLY MODELED AFTER THE, WHAT IS OUR FAMILY VIOLENCE CRISIS OR FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER. 
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CORRECT. 
          IT WAS ACTUALLY MODELED AFTER THE HARRIS COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE ASSESSMENT CENTER. 
          WE GOT THE SAME GRANT FROM THE STATE TO THAT THEY DID TO BEGIN THEIRS IN 2018. 
          UM, BUT YES, IT IS FOR THE PREVENTION OF ELDER ABUSE. 
          AND YOU AND YOUR DEPARTMENT ARE GONNA GET IT UP AND RUNNING WITHIN THE YEAR, CORRECT? YES. 
          IT IS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS THAT SHOULD, THAT IS GOING TO BE A CUTTING EDGE FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE, OUR SENIORS THAT GET UNFORTUNATELY EXPLOITED IN OUR CURRENT WORLD, CORRECT? YES, SIR. 
          THE OTHER BIG SUCCESS IS THE DEDICATION AND THE COMMITMENT TO USE OUR OPIOID SETTLEMENT MONEY. 
          I THINK IT WAS A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT THAT WE'VE ALREADY RECEIVED, AND WE'VE DISPERSED IT AND WE DISPERSED IT FOR DIRECT DELIVERY OF SERVICES, MAINLY EITHER INPATIENT OR OUTPATIENT, TO SUPPORT OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, SPECIFICALLY OUR SPECIALTY COURTS AND OUR COURTS AND OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM. 
          AND I BELIEVE IN OUR CIVIL SYSTEM THROUGH OUR FAMILY DRUG COURTS TO SUPPORT DRUG TREATMENT, WHICH IS A FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE, A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 
          IS THAT CORRECT? YES. 
          ABOUT $15 MILLION HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO THE COMMUNITY SO FAR, BECAUSE I KNOW FOR THE RECORD THAT OTHER COUNTIES HAVE DIVERTED THAT MONEY FOR GENERAL REVENUE, WHICH MEANS THEY'VE GONE AND PAID THEIR BILLS WITH THAT PARTICULAR MONEY. 
          AND SO I WANNA PUT THAT ON THE RECORD, THAT THIS COURT HAD THE DISCIPLINE TO MAKE SURE WE COMMITTED THAT MONEY TO THE MOST VULNERABLE. 
          WE ALSO HAD A LOT OF PUBLIC HEALTH CONTRACTS THAT PROVIDE DIRECT WELLNESS, UH, SERVICES AND WELLNESS, NUTRITION AND SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT. 
          I PRESUME IF I LOOKED THROUGH YOUR POWERPOINT, YOU'VE LISTED ALL OF THEM. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE PUT ON THE RECORD THAT THEY'VE BEEN VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THE COMMITMENT THAT THIS COM AND IN THIS, IN THE SUB SUBSTANTIVE WAY, HOW THE COUNTY HAS PLAYED ITS ROLE IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF THIS COMMITTEE. 
          CORRECT? YES. 
          AND THOSE, THOSE ARPA DOLLARS WERE ALWAYS LIKE, AS YOU SAID, TEMPORARY DOLLARS. 
          AND WE COMMUNICATED THAT THESE ARE SEED DOLLARS. 
          AND OUT OF ALL OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WERE FUNDED THROUGH ARPA, ALL BUT TWO, INCLUDING THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, ARE, WILL STILL CONTINUE SOME LEVEL OF THE PROGRAM THAT WAS STARTED THROUGH YOUR INVESTMENT. 
          SO THOSE PROGRAMS, AND THAT WAS A STRATEGY AND VISION FOR THIS PROGRAM TO BE THE SEED MONEY AND THAT THEY WOULD SEE THE METRICS AND THE SUCCESS AND SOME OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND SOME OF THE NONPROFITS HOPEFULLY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO INCORPORATE IT. 
          AND IT'S A LESSON LEARNED FOR THAT COMMUNITY THAT YEAH, WE, WE GIVE UP THE, WE GIVE OUT THE MONEY, BUT THEY HAVE TO FIGURE OUT THE SUSTAINABILITY FOR THEMSELVES. 
          CORRECT. 
          AS I SAID, ALL BUT TWO, WHICH IS AN EMPOWERMENT, SO TO SPEAK, OF THE NONPROFIT COMMUNITY. 
          YES. 
          WHICH IS THE NEW PARADIGM. 
          CORRECT. 
          YES, SIR. 
          NONPROFITS, AND I'M PUTTING THIS OUT, THEY CAN'T LOOK AT CITY, COUNTY, STATE, FEDERAL AND TO SAY, HEY, WHERE'S THE MONEY? NOT, WHILE WE'RE HAVING DISCUSSIONS LIKE THIS, AND I KNOW THEY'RE HAVING A BIG DISCUSSION OVER AT THE CITY, BUT I THINK THE COUNTY HAS STOOD UP AND BEEN THERE, AND WE HAVE RUN EVERYTHING THROUGH YOUR DEPARTMENT PRETTY MUCH. 
          CORRECT. 
          I KNOW WITH CRIMINAL JUSTICE TOO, I WANT TO GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR THE GRANTS AND THE ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES. 
          BUT YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BASICALLY MANAGE A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR OPERATION THROUGH YOUR DEPARTMENT, CORRECT? YES. 
          WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM. 
          AND I THINK ONE OF THE BIG PROGRAMS WAS OUR MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, WHAT, 13 SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
          YES. 
          AND WE HAVE GOTTEN DIRECT FEEDBACK, AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE HAVING REPORTS BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR FROM THOSE SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
          IS THAT ON YOUR AGENDA? IS THAT UNDERSTOOD? I EXPECTED THAT TO BE DONE BEF WELL, SO THE, THIS IS, OR IS IT ALREADY DONE? WELL, ARPA JUST ENDED ON JUNE 30TH. 
          WE ARE PROCESSING, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE DATA THAT, UM, HAS BEEN COLLECTED. 
          OBVIOUSLY SCHOOLS ENDED SOONER. 
          MY EXPECTATION IS I'LL HAVE A REPORT YES. 
          FOR THE COURT, AND I WANT ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS REPORTING FOR DUTY, SO TO SPEAK, TO REPORT IT. 
          OH, WE CAN ARRANGE THAT. 
          YES. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          AND OBVIOUSLY I THINK COMMISSIONER MOON, I AGREE WITH YOU, YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THIS INCORPORATE WITH OUR PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM, NAMELY UNIVERSITY HEALTH? AND I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY YOUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE, DR. 
          GIRL. 
          HOW DO YOU WORK WITH THE OTHER GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES SO THAT BEAR COUNTY DOESN'T HAVE TO CARRY THE ENTIRE LOAD? AND THAT'S GONNA BE YOUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE BECAUSE TODAY WE CAN MAKE DECISIONS TO SAY, SORRY, WE AIN'T GOT THE MONEY, WE GOT OTHER NEEDS THAT GOTTA BE MET. 
          AND SO THOSE HOPEFULLY, CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND, ARE THOSE DISCUSSIONS BEING HAD? YES. 
          FOR, FOR SEVERAL MONTHS NOW, WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING 
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THE ROLE OF EACH ENTITY AND HOW TO ALIGN THE WORK THAT WE EACH DO IN A RESPONSIBLE FOR. 
          CAN THAT, CAN THOSE TALKS BE INCORPORATED INTO THESE BUDGET DISCUSSIONS OR ARE WE AT A UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES? ZERO SUM. 
          UM, I HAVE THE PRELIMINARY, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? RIGHT. 
          YES. 
          THE PRELIMINARY WORK THAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR IN OUR THREE PERSON WORKING GROUP, I HAVE PROVIDED TO BUDGET. 
          UM, AND THEY HAVE A DRAFT OF THE PRESENTATION WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON. 
          AS I SAID, WE JUST ARE WAITING TO FINALIZE THE, YOU KNOW, STRATEGIES UNTIL WE KNOW SORT OF WHAT, UM, RESOURCES WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO US. 
          AND ONE OF THE IMPORTANT SUCCESSES I FIND IS IN REGARDS TO THE SERVICES THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PROVIDE FROM BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AT THE JAIL. 
          CORRECT. 
          THE CONSOLIDATION OF HEALTH SCREENS AT THE MAGISTRATION GIA. 
          YES. 
          ALSO TWO, I THINK THROUGH YEAR COORDINATION. 
          WE GOT THOSE, WHAT, A HUNDRED PLUS BEDS OVER AT APPLEWHITE ON THE DUAL DIAGNOSIS FACILITY AND UHS BECAUSE WE COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET PRESCRIPTIONS OVER THERE. 
          AND YOU DID THROUGH YOUR LEADERSHIP AND YOUR TEAM, CORRECT? YES. 
          AND HOW MANY PEOPLE DO WE HAVE OVER AT APPLEWHITE THAT WE PULLED OUT OF OUR BEAR COUNTY JAIL? DO YOU KNOW? UM, UH, WHEN THAT PROGRAM STARTED, IT WAS A LITTLE OVER A HUNDRED PEOPLE THAT WERE AT THE JAIL WAITING TO BE TRANSFERRED FOR LACK OF MEDICATION. 
          YES. 
          I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE THE SPECIFIC NUMBER TODAY, BUT I CAN FIND THAT FOR YOU. 
          WELL, I THINK MR. JARVIS ANDERSON, THE ADULT CHIEF PROBATION ADULT PROBATION OFFICER, CAME IN AND SAID THAT HE WAS VERY APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR EFFORTS AND BECAUSE OF YOUR EFFORTS, WE WERE ABLE TO GET THOSE BEDS OPEN. 
          AND WHAT WAS THE LESSON LEARNED THERE FROM THAT PARTICULAR SITUATION SO THAT EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS? HOW DID YOU GET IT DONE IN A NUTSHELL, SO TO SPEAK? UH, COMMUNICATION IS THE LESSON. 
          UM, IT, WHEN AS WE WERE, WE WERE ACTUALLY HAVING THE LARGER DISCUSSION PREPARING FOR THE DIVERSION, UH, PRESENTATION THAT, UH, DEPUTY COUNTY MANAGER THOMAS EVADO WAS PREPARING, UM, AND THE, THE SUBJECT OF APPLEWHITE CAME UP AND THAT IT HADN'T BEEN FULLY UTILIZED TO CAPACITY. 
          AND SO I CALLED JARVIS AND ASKED HIM WHY. 
          AND YOU'RE NOT ASKING TODAY FOR STAFF TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION? NO, NO. 
          WE WORK REALLY WELL WITH OUR PIO, UM, AND THEIR OFFICE. 
          AND HAVE, SO IN OTHER WORDS, YOUR STAFF CAN CONTINUE TO WORK AND BECOME MORE EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT IF ALL DEPARTMENTS WOULD'VE LEARN THAT FROM THAT LESSON? CORRECT. 
          I MEAN, I JUST PICKED UP THE PHONE AND SAID, HOW CAN I HELP? AND HE TOLD ME THE PROBLEM. 
          UM, AND WE WORKED WITH, UH, TO COME UP WITH SOME SOLUTIONS. 
          IT WAS REALLY JUST ABOUT CONNECTING TWO PARTNERS THAT NEEDED ONE THAT NEEDED A RESOURCE AND ANOTHER THAT HAD IT. 
          AND WE HAD SOME CREATIVE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM AND WHO WERE PROBLEM SOLVERS. 
          AND IT WAS, I HATE TO SAY IT WAS AN EASY FIX. 
          I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S A LOT BEHIND IT. 
          BUT, UM, AND THEN WE DID ASK THE COURT TO APPROVE AN ADDITIONAL A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, UM, IN OPIOID FUNDS FOR, UM, ANY OF THE MEDICATIONS THAT WE MIGHT NEED TO PURCHASE THAT WEREN'T AVAILABLE THROUGH THE RESOURCES THAT, UH, IS ABLE TO PROVIDE. 
          AND IS THAT HAPPENING RIGHT NOW? YES, WITH OUR MAGISTRATE AND OUR, UH, HEALTH ASSESSMENTS AT THE GA IN REGARDS, SPECIFICALLY IN REGARDS TO THE JAIL DESKS THAT HAVE BEEN NOTED BY THE MEDIA AND UNFORTUNATELY HAVE BLAMED THE SYSTEM, SO TO SPEAK, OF PEOPLE THAT ARE MEDICALLY FRAGILE, THAT ARE BEING PLACED IN OUR BEXAR COUNTY JAIL. 
          IS COMMUNICATION HAPPENING AND BASICALLY HAVE DIED OF OTHER CAUSES OTHER THAN BECAUSE OF THE ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF THE COUNTY EMPLOYEES, THE DEPUTIES? ISN'T THAT A TRUE STATEMENT? YES. 
          ARE YOU ASKING, IS COMMUNICATION HAPPENING? YEAH. 
          YES, ABSOLUTELY. 
          THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE GOTTEN, GIVE US THE EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU'VE BEEN ABLE TO HELP DO, UM, WITH THE, UM, TRANSITION TO UNIVERSITY HEALTH PERFORMING THE MENTAL HEALTH HEALTH ASSESSMENTS THAT ARE ORDERED UNDER THE 1622 PROCESS. 
          UM, BECAUSE UNIVERSITY HEALTH IS THE MEDICAL PROVIDER IN THE JAIL. 
          SO WHEN FOLKS COME IN ON INTAKE AND THEY RECEIVE A MEDICAL ASSESSMENT, UM, THEY BECOME BASICALLY PATIENTS OF UNIVERSITY HEALTH. 
          UM, BECAUSE UNIVERSITY HEALTH IS ALSO DOING MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENTS, THERE IS A SEAMLESS LINE OF COMMUNICATION BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL ON THE SAME EPIC, UH, ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD. 
          AND THEN WHEN THAT PERSON, THAT ARRESTED PERSON IS, UM, TRANSFERRED INTO HOUSING AND CATEGORIZED, AND SO, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THERE FOR A LONGER STAY. 
          UNIVERSITY HEALTH IS ALSO THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL PROVIDER IN THE MAIN JAIL, SO TO SPEAK. 
          AND SO THERE IS JUST SEAMLESS COMMUNICATION ACROSS ALL FUNCTIONS THAT, THAT YOU, THAT HAVE TO DO WITH EITHER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH OR PHYSICAL HEALTH. 
          UM, AND THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE GOTTEN FROM OUR PARTNERS THERE AND FROM UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP IS THAT, UM, IT, IT IS IMPROVING PUBLIC SAFETY BECAUSE IT'S, THEY DON'T HAVE TO TAKE A HANDOFF FROM ANOTHER ENTITY WHO MIGHT NOT BE ON THE SAME EMR AND THEY HAVE COMMUNICATION AMONGST THEIR OWN STAFF. 
          YES. 
          AND I'LL CLOSE WITH THIS, AND I'M NOT POINTING FINGERS IN ANY WAY, BUT TO TELL THE REALITY SO THAT THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDS HOW COMPLEX THAT JAIL 
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SYSTEM IS AT THE CURRENT TIME THEY'RE IN THE ROOM. 
          WE HAVE NOT HAD THOSE COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE JUDICIARY OR THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AS TO HOW THEY IMPACT AND HOW THEY PLAY A ROLE, SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THE PROCESSING OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ACCUSED OF CRIMES AND ARE ARRESTED. 
          I PUT ON RECORD THAT WE NEED TO END DOUBLE MAGISTRATION. 
          I PUT ON RECORD THAT THAT PROCESS AFFECTS THE RIGHT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF PEOPLE GOING THROUGH THAT SYSTEM. 
          WE'VE HAD PEOPLE THAT CAN VERIFY WHAT IT MEANS TO SIT IN THAT SYSTEM FOR HOURS. 
          WE'VE HAD PEOPLE DIE BECAUSE OF THEIR LACK OF BEING ASSESSED OR GETTING THE MEDICAL NEEDS THEY NEED. 
          THEY'VE DIED AT THE HOSPITAL AND YET THE COUNTY GETS BLAMED. 
          WE IN FACT, GET SUED. 
          WE'VE BEEN FORTUNATE TO HAVE LEGAL COUNSEL AND HIS CRACK TEAM PRETTY MUCH BE ABLE TO PROVIDE GREAT LEGAL SERVICES IN THAT. 
          BUT THAT'S THE COMPLEXITIES THAT WE HAVE. 
          HOW DO I PROTECT THE TAXPAYERS AND SHOW COMPASSION THE HUMANITY WE NEED FOR THOSE THAT ARE BEING ARRESTED AND PROCESSED THROUGH OUR JAIL SYSTEM? SO I'VE PUT THIS OUT, I PUT IT OUT ON THE RECORD. 
          I PUT IT OUT FOR THOSE IN THE ROOM FOR THE PEOPLES THAT ARE LISTENING AND WATCHING FOR THE PEOPLE WHO CARE. 
          IT'S ALL HANDS ON DECK. 
          WE HAVE A SYSTEM THAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED. 
          I'M HOPING THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, WOOLWORTH BEAR COUNTY, I'M OPTIMISTIC THAT THEY CAN SEE THE NEED, BUT WE NEED ALL ELECTEDS, ALL DEPARTMENT HEADS, EVERYBODY, ESPECIALLY AT THAT JAIL TO COME TOGETHER. 
          IT CAN'T BE DONE THROUGH YOU. 
          AND IT'S UNFAIR FOR US TO EXPECT YOU TO FIX IT. 
          AND THAT'S THE CONUNDRUM YOU'RE PUTTING PUT IN. 
          AND THAT'S THE CONUNDRUM OF US AS ELECTEDS. 
          WE CAN'T FIX IT. 
          ALL WE CAN DO IS GIVE DIRECTION AND HOPE THAT PEOPLE WILL GET THE JOB DONE. 
          BUT YOU'VE ALREADY STATED IT FOR THE RECORD, IT DOESN'T GET DONE UNLESS WE COMMUNICATE, WE COLLABORATE AND WE COORDINATE AND WE COME UP WITH THE SOLUTIONS. 
          I SO THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. 
          LET'S FIX THESE THINGS. 
          I HOPE TO FIX IT BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR. 
          OTHERWISE, I'M HAPPY TO PASS THIS ON TO MY SUCCESSOR AND I WISH HIM THE BEST OF LUCK. 
          ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? YES, JUDGE. 
          I HAVE A, I JUST NEED TO MAKE A STATEMENT. 
          SO, UM, COMMISSIONER MOODY, I UNDERSTAND YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT IS THIS NEEDED? UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE AS JU  POINTED OUT, YOU WEREN'T HERE AND HE WAS NOT HERE. 
          SO I JUST HAVE TO REITERATE WHY WE CREATED THIS AND WHY THIS WAS NEEDED. 
          I WAS WORKING IN PUBLIC HEALTH BEFORE I BECAME COMMISSIONER. 
          I WOKE UP, I I I WORKED UNTIL CHRISTMAS AND THEN I GOT SWORN IN ON THE FIRST. 
          AND THE REASON WE NEEDED THIS IS BECAUSE WHERE I WAS WORKING, THEY WERE NOT MAKING AN IMPACT, OR TO BE CLEAR, THEY WEREN'T DOING ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF THE CITY IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO ALL THE RESIDENTS, UNINCORPORATED BEAR COUNTY, THEY WERE NOT IMPACTING. 
          AND FROM ONE DAY TO THE NEXT, WE WERE AT WORK. 
          AND THEN THE NEXT DAY, TAKE YOUR LAPTOPS HOME. 
          WE AREN'T WORKING FROM HOME. 
          AND ON A ZOOM MEETING, I ASKED, DO YOU HAVE PARTNERSHIPS IN THE SOUTHERN SECTOR? AND MY BOSS, ONE OF THE ASSISTANT DIRECTORS THERE SAID, WELL, NO, ACTUALLY REBECCA, WE DON'T, BUT IF YOU DO, THAT'D BE GREAT. 
          IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC IS NOT THE TIME TO TRY TO MAKE COMMUNITY PARTNERS. 
          SO IS THIS NEEDED? YES. 
          AND UHS DOES EXCELLENT WORK. 
          THEY ARE A HOSPITAL AND THEY HAVE BEEN DOING EXCELLENT WORK BEING A HOSPITAL AND TAKING CARE OF THINGS LIKE GETTING MY BLEEDING CANCER TUMOR OUT OF MY COLON AND DIABETES AND ALL THESE THINGS THAT HOSPITALS DO. 
          IT WASN'T UNTIL WE CREATED THIS DEPARTMENT AND OUTTA OUR DIRECTIVE, THEY CREATED THE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH THAT WE SUPPORTED WITH ARBOR FUNDS. 
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SO HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE WORK THAT WE PUSHED AND THAT YOUR TEAM CAME IN TO GET THE BALL ROLLING, WE'D STILL BE IN THAT SITUATION. 
          SO WE DON'T WANNA WAIT FOR ANOTHER BIG ISSUE TO THEN BE LIKE, OH MY GOODNESS, WHAT ARE WE DOING? WE SHOULD HAVE KEPT THE BEXAR COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
          SO TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS NOT ON THE CHOPPING BOARD. 
          DO WE DO OUR WAY WITH THE DEPARTMENT? NO. 
          WE JUST NEED TO UNDERSTAND BETTER THE IMPACT. 
          HOW ARE WE GONNA MOVE FORWARD AND WHAT WE CAN TWEAK, WHAT WE NEED TO LET GO OF AND WHAT WE NEED TO SUPPORT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, CAN WE MOVE ON? ANYTHING ELSE? NO, SIR. 
          THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER MOODY. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT, WE'RE MOVING ON. 
          UH, B REQUEST FROM CIVIL DISTRICT COURT REGARDING THE FILING PROGRAM CHANGES. 
          ONE, A PROGRAM CHANGE ADD ONE, PEARL EAGLES COURT MANAGER TWO, THE GENERAL FUND IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $116,541, WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY FUNDED BY THE PEARLS, EAGLES GRANT. 
          MS. ? YES, SIR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, TODAY WE'RE PRESENTING A REQUEST FROM THE CIVIL DISTRICT COURTS. 
          UM, CAN I ASK YOU TO PAUSE? I WANT TO REMIND THE COURT WE WE'RE, I THINK COMMISSIONER MOODY HAVE EATEN LUNCH. 
          SO, UH, COURT, WE'RE CONTINUING TO WORK THROUGH LUNCH AND THE STAFF, IF THERE, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S LUNCH FOR Y'ALL, BUT IF THERE IS, I'M I'M GIVING YOU PERMISSION. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          OH, WE, THEY CAN'T GET PERMISSION. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SORRY. 
          UH, BUT WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE ON. 
          WE'RE POWERING THROUGH. 
          I'LL BE RIGHT BACK. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO END OF THIS WORK SESSION. 
          CONTINUE, MS. KAAN AS I GO GET SOME TEA . 
          OKAY. 
          UM, SO THE CIVIL DISTRICT COURTS IS REQUESTING, UH, $218,000 TO FUND TWO COURT MANAGERS OF THE FOR THE PEARLS EAGLE AND ONE FOR THE EARLY CHILDHOOD COURT THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY FUNDED BY GRANTS. 
          AND JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, UH, THE NEXT COUPLE OF AGENDA ITEMS ARE NOT RELATED TO POST ARPA. 
          THESE ARE JUST, UH, NORMAL BUDGET ISSUES, UH, FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR. 
          UM, SO THAT, ONCE AGAIN, THIS INCLUDES TWO COURT MANAGER POSITIONS THAT WERE, ARE PREVIOUSLY FUNDED BY GRANTS. 
          THE BUDGET AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT DOES NOT RECOMMEND FUNDING THESE POSITIONS. 
          CURRENTLY, THE CIVIL DISTRICT COURTS HAVE FOUR COURT MANAGERS THAT MANAGE THEIR SPECIALTY DOCKAGE, AND EACH OF THEM OVERSEE THREE EMPLOYEES. 
          UNDER THIS RECOMMENDATION, THE REMAINING TWO EMPLOYEES WOULD OVERSEE THE DOCKETS AND SUPERVISE SIX EMPLOYEES EACH. 
          UH, THIS GIVES YOU A VISUAL OF WHAT THE CURRENT ORGANIZATION LOOKS LIKE. 
          AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE ARE FOUR COURT MANAGERS, THE FAMILY DRUG COURT, THE EARLY INTERVENTION COURT MANAGER, UH, THE FP FVPP MANAGER, AND THE PEARLS AND EAGLES COURT MANAGER. 
          UM, AND EACH OF THEM OVERSEE THOSE THREE MONITORS. 
          UNDER THIS PROPOSED ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATIONAL CHART, THE FAMILY DRUG COURT MANAGER WOULD ABSORB THE EARLY INTERVENTION COURT STAFF AND THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION MANAGER WOULD ABSORB THE PEARLS, EAGLES, AND COLLEGE BOUND STAFF. 
          AND I'M AVAILABLE TO ANY QUESTIONS, UH, THAT YOU MAY HAVE ON THE RECOMMENDATION. 
          ANY QUESTIONS FOR TANYA? WHY DON'T WE GET THE COURT TO EAGLES COURT FOLKS TO COME ON UP. 
          RYAN? JUDGE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAVE A FORMAL PRESENTATION OR WE DO. 
          RYAN WILL, UM, HAND YOU ALL THE PRINTED VERSION. 
          GREAT. 
          YOU HAVE THE FLOOR, JUDGE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, AND THANK YOU ALL FOR, UH, RECEIVING US HERE TODAY. 
          UM, I DID WANT TO ADDRESS A COUPLE OF, UM, MISSTATEMENTS, UH, THAT WERE JUST MADE. 
          UH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE PRETTY SERIOUS AND I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THAT. 
          UM, BUDGET AT THIS TIME OF YEAR IS GENERALLY, UH, VERY BUSY, AND ESPECIALLY THIS YEAR HAS BEEN VERY BUSY, SO I'M SURE THEY WERE INADVERTENT, UH, MISSTATEMENTS. 
          UM, FIRST OF ALL, UM, OUR PROPOSAL IS NOT ACTUALLY AS IT WAS JUST STATED. 
          UH, WE CURRENTLY HAVE TWO, UH, COLLEGE BOUND DOCKET MONITORS. 
          ONE IS GRANT FUNDED, ONE IS FUNDED BY, UM, GENERAL FUNDS, AND, UH, WE HAVE PROPOSED TO CONVERT THE GENERAL FUND COLLEGE BOUND DOCKET MONITOR INTO THE PEARL'S EAGLES COLLEGE BOUND MANAGER POSITION, WHICH IN A MOMENT YOU'LL SEE HOW THAT ALSO HELPS WITH THE REQUIREMENT FROM VOCA. 
          VOCA IS THE, UM, GRANT THAT IS PROVIDED TO, UM, FUND PEARLS AND EAGLES. 
          UH, BUT BEFORE WE GET THERE, ALSO, UM, IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT NO ONE FROM BUDGET SPOKE WITH ANY OF THE, 
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UM, MANAGERS, WHETHER IT WAS FAMILY, UH, DRUG COURT MANAGER, OR THE FVPP MANAGER REGARDING THEIR CURRENT CAPACITY AND HOW THIN THEIR CAPACITY IS, UM, TO TAKE ON THE OTHER, UH, PROGRAMS AND POSITIONS AND THE DUTIES OF THOSE POSITIONS. 
          UH, FIRST OF ALL, AND I AM NOW ON, UH, SLIDE NUMBER TWO, EARLY CHILDHOOD COURT. 
          ECC STARTED IN 2016. 
          THE PROGRAM WORKS WITH FAMILIES, UH, THAT HAVE CHILDREN UNDER FIVE YEARS OF AGE BY PROVIDING WRAPAROUND SERVICES TO STABILIZE THE FAMILY AND CREATE HEALTHIER HOME ENVIRONMENTS LEADING TO REUNIFICATION OF THE FAMILY. 
          THE REASON THAT WE FOCUS ON THIS SPECIFIC, UM, AGE GROUP IS BECAUSE THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT, UM, TIME IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT. 
          UM, SO SINCE ITS INCEPTION, ECC HAS SIGNED CONTRACTS AND WORKED WITH A TOTAL OF 436 BIOLOGICAL PARENTS. 
          UM, JUST OVER 52% OF WHOM HAVE SUCCESSFULLY GRADUATED THE PROGRAM AND REUNIFIED WITH 349 INFANTS AND TODDLERS IN TERMS OF DOLLARS SAVED BY REUNIFYING FAMILIES AND REMOVING CHILDREN FROM THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM. 
          ECC HAS SAVED 44,828,000, $55 AND 40 CENTS. 
          UM, ECCS, UM, IT IS A TIME INTENSIVE ROLE. 
          UH, THE, THE COURT MONITORS HAVE A TIME INTENSIVE ROLE. 
          THIS PROGRAM IS AN INTENSIVE REHABILITATIVE PROGRAM, WHICH REQUIRES THE COURT MONITORS TO ASSESS FAMILIES TO DETERMINE SERVICES NEEDED AT THE OUTSET. 
          AND THROUGHOUT PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM, ONE INTAKE MONITOR REVIEWS EVERY SINGLE REMOVAL AFFIDAVIT TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL FAMILIES, WHICH AVERAGE ABOUT FIVE A DAY, AND THEN ATTENDS COURT HEARINGS INVOLVING POTENTIAL FAMILIES. 
          THE INTAKE MONITOR THEN SCREENS THE REFERRALS, AND IF THE FAMILY IS ACCEPTED INTO THE PROGRAM, IDENTIFIES AND OBTAINS INITIAL SERVICES TO STABILIZE THESE FAMILIES. 
          TWO MONITORS TAKE OVER THE CASE AT THAT POINT AND GUIDE THE FAMILIES THROUGH THE REST OF THE PROGRAM. 
          THEY MUST DEVELOP TRUSTING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE FAMILY THROUGH CONSTANT COMMUNICATION AND SUPPORT TO ENSURE THE FAMILIES REMAIN IN THE PROGRAM AND SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE EACH OF THE SERVICES FOSTER. 
          UM, THEY FOSTER AND MAINTAIN RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE FAMILIES, THE SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND THE COURT. 
          THE CURRENT CASELOAD AT THIS TIME IS 18 FAMILIES. 
          THEIR MAXIMUM CAPACITY IS 25 FAMILIES. 
          NOW, UM, WE WOULD TAKE ON MORE FAMILIES. 
          HOWEVER, UH, THIS, THIS PROGRAM DEPLETES THE AMOUNT ALLOTTED FOR SERVICES YEARLY. 
          UM, SO IF WE TOOK ON MORE FAMILIES, WE WOULD NEED MORE FOR THOSE SERVICES. 
          UM, EARLY CHILDHOOD COURT MANAGERS POSITION IS, WAS CREATED AT THE REQUEST OF THE HOPES GRANT. 
          THAT IS THE GRANT THAT FUNDS THIS, UH, PROGRAM. 
          THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR GRANT COMPLIANCE AND ADMINISTRATION, RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION, FOR BUDGETS, FOR COURT DOCKET MANAGEMENT, MANAGEMENT, UH, FOR PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT. 
          THEY PROVIDE OVERSIGHT OF THE PROGRAM. 
          THEY COORDINATE MONITORS, COURTS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND THE DEPARTMENT. 
          REMEMBER THAT THOSE MANAGER MONITORS ARE CURRENTLY HELPING THE ACTUAL FAMILIES. 
          SO WE NEED MANAGEMENT TO BE ABLE TO DO THE REST OF THIS ADMINISTRATIVE WORK. 
          THEY MANAGE WEEKLY MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM STAFFINGS TO ENSURE THAT EVERY CASE IS REVIEWED TWICE PER MONTH, AND THEY MANAGE SERVICE PROVIDERS TO ENSURE CONTINUITY AND QUALITY OF SERVICE. 
          AGAIN, THIS IS AN INTENSIVE REHABILITATIVE PROGRAM, UH, THAT TARGET FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN WHO ARE AT A VERY, UH, VULNERABLE POINT IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT SO THAT THEY CAN RETURN THE FAMILY, UH, TO A SAFE, STABLE, AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT. 
          ECC IS EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS. 
          THEIR TARGET SEPTEMBER OF 2025 WAS 32. 
          THEY ACTUALLY SERVED 65. 
          THAT PERCENT, UH, IS A TWO OVER 200%, UM, SERVICE RATE 
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IN AUGUST OF 2026. 
          WE ANTICIPATE WELL OUR, OUR ACTUAL SERVED WILL, AGAIN, EXCEED THE AMOUNT THAT WE HAVE TARGETED TO BE ABLE TO SERVE. 
          NOW IN, NOW I'M ON SLIDE SIX. 
          UM, IN 20 21, 20 22 YEAR, THERE WAS LEGISLATION THAT AFFECTED THE WAY THAT REMOVALS WORKED. 
          DUE TO THAT CHANGE, THERE WAS, UH, DECREASE IN THE NUMBER OF REMOVALS THAT WERE FILED. 
          THAT IS WHY YOU SEE THE IMPACT TO THOSE NUMBERS. 
          HOWEVER, IF YOU SEE WE ARE BACK AT AN UPWARD TREND, UM, ONCE, UH, MORE COURTS HAVE HAD INTERPRETED THE MEANING OF THE CHANGE IN THE STATUTE, NOW WE ARE SEEING AN UPWARD TREND. 
          UM, SO WE ARE STILL IN NEED OF THE BENEFITS OF THE EARLY CHILDHOOD COURT. 
          THE MANAGER POSITION TO BE ELIMINATED IS THAT OF MACY CLARK. 
          SHE INTERNED WITH US IN 2014 AND 2015 AS A GRADUATE STUDENT AT UTSA AND, UM, INTERNED IN THE FAMILY DRUG COURT, UH, PROGRAM. 
          SHE WAS HIRED TO BE A CASE MONITOR IN ECC. 
          AND WHAT THEN WAS PROMOTED TO PROGRAM MANAGER IN 2022. 
          UM, ECC COURT COSTS THE GRANT, THE HOPES GRANT HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH 2029. 
          NOW, IN ORDER TO GET THIS EXTENSION, WHAT THEY REQUIRED OF US WAS THAT WE HAVE THIS MANAGEMENT POSITION. 
          THEY PAY 325,000 ANNUALLY TO COVER THE TWO MONITORS, THE WRAPAROUND SUPPORT, AND THE WRAPAROUND PARENTING COUNSELING. 
          BEAR COUNTY HAS BUDGETED 372,000, UH, 622. 
          UH, FOR THIS PROGRAM, THE COST OF THE MANAGER POSITION IS $102,899 AND 7 CENTS. 
          THE TOTAL COST OF THE PROGRAM TO BEXAR COUNTY IS 475,521 AND 7 CENTS. 
          THAT AMOUNT SAVES US 44 AND BY US THE STATE $44,828,055 AND 40 CENTS. 
          WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? WELL, TO A FAMILY DURING COVID, MOM AND DAD WERE REFERRED TO ECC AND SIGNED A CONTRACT. 
          THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN. 
          THEY WERE REFERRED DUE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND DRUG. 
          BOTH WORKED THE SERVICES SUCCESSFULLY AND GRADUATED FROM THE PROGRAM. 
          THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CONTINUED. 
          MOM REACHED OUT TO ECC EVEN THOUGH SHE'D ALREADY GRADUATED. 
          IN ORDER TO GET THE HELP THAT SHE NEEDED TO GET OUT OF THAT VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION AND TO ENSURE THAT THOSE THREE CHILDREN DID NOT HAVE TO GO BACK INTO THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT, SHE WAS ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY LEAVE THAT HARMFUL SITUATION. 
          AND JUST A WEEK AGO CALLED TO UPDATE US THAT SHE IS DOING WELL. 
          SHE IS STABLE AND IS WORKING TOWARD THE GOALS THAT SHE HAS SET FOR HER. 
          AND THOSE THREE CHILDREN NOW, PEARLS AND EAGLES AND COLLEGE BOUND PEARLS WAS FOUNDED IN 2015 TO SERVE, UH, HIGH SCHOOL AGED FEMALE FOSTER YOUTH. 
          THE PARENTS OF THE YOUTH THAT WE SERVE IN PEARLS AND EAGLES, THEIR RIGHTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN TERMINATED. 
          THEY ARE WARDS OF THE STATE. 
          THEY VOLUNTEER TO BE A PART OF THESE PROGRAMS. PEARLS AND EAGLES, THEY ARE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 14 AND 18. 
          SO YES, THEY'RE ABOUT TO AGE OUT AND WE PREPARE THEM FOR A SUCCESSFUL ADULTHOOD. 
          THERE IS THE COURT DOES THE CASE MANAGEMENT, AND WE SET UP THREE PRONGS OF A THREE LEGGED STOOL. 
          WE HAVE LIFE SKILLS TRAINING AT LEAST TWICE A MONTH WITH DAYS OF OPPORTUNITY AND DAYS OF SERVICE TO GIVE BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY WITH THOSE CHILDREN. 
          WE PROVIDE, UH, DIALECTIC BEHAVIORAL THERAPY 
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IN A GROUP SETTING AND SEND OUR THERAPIST OUT INTO THE FIELD TO MEDIATE ISSUES BETWEEN THEIR CURRENT PLACEMENT AND THE YOUTH SO THAT THEY DON'T KEEP HAVING TO FIND NEW PLACEMENTS. 
          OUR YOUTH IN THIS AGE GROUP, AND BECAUSE OF THE TRAUMA THAT THEY HAVE FACED HAVE, WHETHER IT IS BEHAVIORAL ISSUES DUE TO MENTAL HEALTH OR EVERYTHING ELSE THAT THEY HAVE TO FACE, BUT THAT IMPACTS HOW MANY PLACEMENTS THEY HAVE DURING THEIR VERY YOUNG LIVES. 
          THIS IMPACTS THE VILLAGE THAT THEY HAVE AROUND THEM TO HELP THEM WITH THEIR FUTURE. 
          WHETHER IT IS APPLYING TO COLLEGE OR RENTING AN APARTMENT, OR HOW TO BUY A CAR, THAT IS WHERE THE COURT COMES IN AND THIS PROGRAM COMES IN TO HELP THEM FILL THAT GAP. 
          FURTHER, DATA SHOWS THAT THE WAY THAT WE HEAL FROM TRAUMA IS BY SAFE, STABLE, LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS. 
          THAT IS WHERE OUR MENTORS COME IN. 
          OUR MENTORS SERVE A MINIMUM OF ONE YEAR. 
          AND LET ME TELL YOU THAT THE MAJORITY OF OUR MENTORS HAVE BEEN WITH US FOR A LOT MORE THAN ONE YEAR, AND THEY ARE THEREFORE THE THE YOUTH. 
          OUR COLLEGE MOUND DOCKET WAS FOUNDED IN 2019. 
          BY THE WAY, PEARLS WAS FOUNDED IN 2015 AND EAGLES WAS FOUNDED IN 2020 DURING COVID AND HAS STILL BEEN A SUCCESS ON COLLEGE BOUND DOCKET THAT WAS FOUNDED IN 2019 AND IS AN EXPERIENTIAL, UH, PROGRAM FOR EXPERIENTIAL PROGRAM FOR FOSTER YOUTH AGING OUT OF CARE TO SUPPORT AND PROVIDE GUIDANCE AS TO AS THEY MOVE FORWARD INTO HIGHER EDUCATION AND SKILLED CAREERS. 
          COLLEGE BOUND DOCKET IS THE COUNTY'S LARGEST PROGRAM BY VOLUME. 
          THEY SERVE 342 FOSTER YOUTH BETWEEN THE GRADE, BETWEEN EIGHTH AND 12TH GRADE, PRIORITIZING SENIORS. 
          THEY OBTAIN ADMISSION TO COLLEGE, HOUSING AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT, OR WE HELP DIRECT THEM TO PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE THEM WITH MARKETABLE SKILLS AND TRADES. 
          WE HAVE 39 REMAINING YOUTH IN AFTERCARE PEARLS. 
          EAGLES AND COLLEGE BOUND HAVE SEEN A SIGNIFICANT UPWARD TREND. 
          WE HAVE CHILDREN IN EACH OF THESE PROGRAMS THAT ARE ON A WAITING LIST IN ORDER TO BE SERVED. 
          WE HAVE MORE CHILDREN NOT ONLY NEEDING THESE SERVICES, BUT ASKING FOR THESE SERVICES THAN WE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO SERVE BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH. 
          UM, HELP OUR CHILDREN IN THESE PROGRAMS NOT ONLY COME TO US WHILE THEY'RE ENROLLED IN THE PROGRAM, BUT THEY ALSO COME TO US AFTER WHILE THEY'RE A PART OF THE PROGRAM. 
          UM, WE HAD A SIBLING PAIR. 
          THEY ARE TWINS WHO RAN AWAY. 
          THAT HAPPENS A LOT WITH OUR FOSTER YOUTH. 
          THEY FELT COMFORTABLE ENOUGH WITH THE PROGRAM TO STAY IN TOUCH TO LET US KNOW THAT THEY WERE SAFE, TO LET US KNOW WHEN THEY NEEDED HELP REFILLING MEDICATION, WHEN THEY NEEDED HELP, UM, TO GET BACK OFF THE STREET AND TO COME BACK INTO CARE. 
          WE HAD A GRADUATE OF PEARLS THAT WAS HAVING A MENTAL BREAK BECAUSE SHE WAS UNABLE TO FILL HER PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION. 
          SHE WAS HALLUCINATING AND WAS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. 
          SHE RETURNED TO THE COURT, REACHED OUT AND ASKED FOR HELP. 
          OUR MANAGER WAS THERE TO HELP HER GET THE AID THAT SHE NEEDED SO THAT SHE WOULDN'T JUST BECOME ANOTHER STATISTIC. 
          THE CASE FOR EXPANSION, AS I SAID BEFORE, DEMAND IS OUTPACING CAPACITY IN FISCAL YEAR 2027. 
          WE ANTICIPATE ALL THREE PROGRAMS ARE ON PACE TO FIELD FAR MORE REFERRAL AND OUTREACH VOLUME THAN IS CURRENTLY, UH, A THAN WE CURRENTLY HAVE AVAILABLE TO SERVE OUR YOUTH. 
          THE COLLEGE BOUND DOCKET HAS A 
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HUNDRED ANTICIPATED REFERRALS PLUS OUTREACH, AND WE ARE ANTICIPATING TO BE ABLE TO SERVE 50 YOUTH. 
          THAT IS A TWO TIMES GAP. 
          THE MANAGER THAT IS IN PLACE NOW GOES OUT TO FIND THE YOUTH, UM, THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN THE DEPARTMENT'S CARE TO SEE WHICH OF THESE PROGRAMS BEST FITS THEM. 
          THE MONITORS THEN GO OUT AND EXPLAIN THE PROGRAM AND THE YOUTH ARE THE ONES THAT VOLUNTEER TO COME IN. 
          EACH YOUTH IN THAT GAP IS ALREADY IDENTIFIED BY THE COURT, A CASEWORKER OR AN AGENCY PARTNER. 
          THEY ARE GOING UNSERVED FOR LACK OF STAFF CAPACITY. 
          ADDITIONAL STAFF WOULD ALLOW EACH DOCKET TO CONVERT MORE OF ITS PIPELINE INTO SERVED YOUTH WITHOUT DILUTING THE INDIVIDUALIZED ATTENTION THAT MAKES THESE PROGRAMS WORK. 
          THE PROGRAM MANAGER TO BE ELIMINATED, ISTA, HE WAS HIRED AS A COLLEGE BOUND MONITOR IN 2022. 
          HE WAS THEN PROMOTED TO THE PEARLS, EAGLES, AND COLLEGE BOUND MANAGER POSITION IN 2026. 
          HE IS INSTITUTING AND INNOVATING PROGRAMS TO ADDRESS OUR YOUTH'S NEEDS, WHETHER THAT IS AUTISM OR SPECIFIC MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS. 
          HE IS THE ONE THAT IS INNOVATING THOSE PROGRAMS. HE IS EXPANDING THE NETWORK OF UNIVERSITIES AND PROFESSIONAL OR ORGANIZATIONS THAT SERVE AN AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THESE PROGRAMS. HE IDENTIFIES AND RECRUITS YOUTH INTO EACH OF THE THREE PROGRAMS. NOW, THE COST OF KEEPING THE PROGRAM MANAGER, AS I SAID BEFORE, THERE WERE SOME SIGNIFICANT MISTAKES IN THE, UH, CHART AND INFORMATION THAT WAS RECENTLY OR JUST NOW PRESENTED TO YOU. 
          THEY REPORTED THAT THE ECC MANAGER IS AN E NINE POSITION. 
          IT IS NOT. 
          IT IS AN E EIGHT POSITION. 
          THEY REPORTED THAT THE BUDGET COST TO THE COUNTY WOULD BE $218,955. 
          THAT IS NOT CORRECT. 
          THE COST TO THE COUNTY WOULD BE $136,545 AND 91 CENTS. 
          WE PROPOSED ELIMINATING ONE OF THE, UH, ECC, I'M SORRY, ONE OF THE COLLEGE BOUND DOCKET MONITOR POSITIONS AS THE PEARLS EAGLES COLLEGE BOUND MANAGER POSITION. 
          THE VOCA GRANT THAT FUNDS PEARLS AND EAGLES REQUIRES THAT WE HAVE A, A POSITION FROM THE COUNTY THAT IS NOT FROM THE, THE GRANT THAT WE RECEIVE, THAT PROVIDES 50% OF THEIR TIME TO SUPPORTING PEARLS AND EAGLES. 
          SPECIFICALLY, IF YOU WERE TO TAKE ONE MANAGER FROM, I BELIEVE THEY PROPOSED FBPP, NOW YOU WOULD BE PLACING THAT ONE MANAGER OVER FOUR DIFFERENT PROGRAMS WITHOUT HAVING ASKED THAT MANAGER IF THEY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO SERVE THOSE FOUR DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. THE OVERSTATED COST AT THIS TIME IS $82,409 AND 9 CENTS. 
          WE UNDERSTAND THE POSITION THAT THE COUNTY IS IN. 
          WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS A TOUGH YEAR AND THAT MOM AND DAD AND THOSE THREE KIDS THAT NEEDED THE EARLY CHILDHOOD COURT ALSO NEED FROM THIS COUNTY, THAT YOUNG WOMAN THAT WAS HAVING THAT MENTAL HEALTH EPISODE THAT NEEDED HELP AND KNEW WHERE SHE COULD RETURN TO FOR THAT SAFETY AND THAT HELP. 
          THEY ALSO NEED THE HELP FROM THE COUNTY. 
          IF THERE IS GOING TO BE A CONSOLIDATION OF POSITIONS, SHOULDN'T IT BE OUR ROLE TO DETERMINE HOW THAT 
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COMES ABOUT. 
          NOW, THE HOPE GRANT EXTENDED THEIR SUPPORT, THEIR FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION THROUGH 2029 BECAUSE THIS COUNTY APPROVED THAT MANAGEMENT POSITION PREVIOUSLY. 
          SO BY DOING AWAY WITH THAT POSITION, WE ARE NOT FOLLOWING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE HOPES GRANT BY DOING AWAY WITH THE PEARLS, EAGLES, COLLEGE BOUND MANAGEMENT POSITION. 
          WE ARE NOT MEETING THE VOCA REQUIREMENTS. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          IS ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? JUST A QUICK CLARIFICATION, JUDGE. 
          THE, THE VOCA REQUIREMENTS ARE THOSE, UM, ARE THOSE MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS? ARE THEY SUGGESTED REQUIREMENTS? WHAT, WHAT HAPPENS IF WE'RE NOT IN COMPLIANCE, I GUESS IS MY QUESTION. 
          THEY ARE MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS. 
          THEY HAVE ASKED THAT, UM, THE COUNTY, UM, ALLOCATE, TELL ME THE DOLLAR AMOUNT. 
          IT'S A CASH MATCH. 
          IT, IT WAS A CASH MATCH, A SPECIFIC CASH CASH MATCH THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE. 
          AND THIS IS THE WAY THAT THE COUNTY HAS DONE IT WAS THROUGH HAVING PROVIDED THIS MANAGEMENT POSITION FOR AS LONG AS YOU ALL HAVE. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YES. 
          ANYTHING ELSE? THANK YOU, JUDGE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OH, FOR THE RECORD, JUDGE, I DID, I WANTED TO READ OUT FOR THE AGENDA WE DID INCLUDE THEN, UH, B TWO, WHICH WAS THE PROGRAM CHANGE ADD ONE EARLY CHILDHOOD COURT MANAGER TO THE GENERAL FUND IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $102,414, WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY FUNDED BY THE HOPES GRANT, YOU, I THINK YOU CORRECTED THE AMOUNT, BUT THAT YOU, YOU HAVE MADE THAT PRESENTATION, CORRECT? NO. 
          YES. 
          TO BOTH. 
          BOTH. 
          AND YOU MADE BOTH PRESENTATIONS. 
          CORRECT. 
          AND, UH, WILL YOU CORRECT THAT? WE'VE ASKED, SO THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN TWO, UH, COLLEGE BOUND DOCKET MONITORS, UH, THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE. 
          OKAY. 
          AND WE ARE ASKING TO ELIMINATE ONE OF THOSE POSITIONS. 
          THE, THE GENERAL FUND POSITION AND USE THAT MONEY FOR THIS PEARLS, EAGLES COLLEGE BOUND MANAGER. 
          SO DOES THAT NEED TO BE CORRECTED ON THE RECORD? MS. GUYTON DOES. 
          I I WE'RE GETTING TOWARD THE END WHERE I CAN'T, UM, SO ALL THESE NUMBERS AND POSITIONS, WHEN WE INITIALLY WE PUT THE ORIGINAL REQUEST, THEY HAVE, WE HAVE HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH GRANT'S TEAM ABOUT SWITCHING OFF POSITIONS AND TRYING TO FIND FUNDING FOR THE POSITION. 
          SO WE JUST PUT THE OFFICIAL, THE ORIGINAL REQUEST. 
          SO IT'S NOT INCORRECT. 
          YOU'RE ASKING TO BE AMENDED? YES. 
          NO. 
          YES. 
          THAT'S, WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM. 
          AND YOU NOTED THE AMENDMENT. 
          WE KNOW WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR, JUDGE. 
          YES. 
          MR. ANDERSON, ANYTHING YOU NEED TO ADD TO CORRECT THE RECORD OR THE ONLY, THE ONLY THING I WOULD ADD TO CORRECT IT IS FROM THE GET GO, WHEN WE SUBMITTED BUDGET, WE PROPOSED ELIMINATING THE MONITOR POSITION FROM COLLEGE BOUND, CONVERTING IT TO THE COLLEGE BOUND PEARLS EAGLES MANAGER, BECAUSE THAT'S AN $85,000 DIFFERENCE SAVING THE COUNTY. 
          WE WEREN'T JUST ASKING FOR A POSITION. 
          AND I THINK IN THESE HARD TIMES WE'RE BEING REALLY REASONABLE AND WE'RE LOSING A MANAGER. 
          WHY DON'T YOU, AS YOU KNOW, LORD TO LAWYER PUT THAT IN WRITING TO THE BUDGET. 
          IT, IT'S ALREADY BEEN, BUT I'LL CORRECT IT AGAIN. 
          OKAY, GOT IT. 
          YEAH, NO, YOU GET, I WAS JUST GONNA ASK, UH, IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S A, A LITTLE BIT OF, UM, EITHER A MISCOMMUNICATION OR DISCREPANCY BETWEEN WHAT YOU'RE, WHAT YOU LAID OUT WITH THE BUDGET OFFICE, EITHER, UM, ANALYZED OR RECOMMENDED. 
          IF YOU GUYS CAN WORK THAT OUT AND GET BACK TO US, TANYA, THAT'D BE GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, WE'RE MOVING ON TO C REQUEST FROM CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURTS REGARDING A PROGRAM CHANGE TO ADJUST THE EXISTING COURT COORDINATOR PAY TABLE EXTENDING STEPS ONE THROUGH 10 TO ONE THROUGH 20 AND THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF 99,500 MS. GUY. 
          THANK YOU, JUDGE. 
          UH, THE NEXT REQUEST IS FROM THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURTS. 
          UM, THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURTS ARE REQUESTING TO EXTEND THEIR EXISTING COURT COORDINATOR STEP PLAN FROM 10 TO 20 STEPS FOR A COST OF $99,000. 
          IT'S AN ESTIMATED COST. 
          THE STEP PLAN WAS ORIGINALLY CREATED IN 2020 AND INCLUDED ALL COURT COORDINATORS IN THE COUNTY COURTS AND THE DISTRICT COURTS. 
          EACH STEP CORRESPONDS WITH THE NUMBER OF YEARS THAT ARE WORKED BY THE COURT COORDINATOR UP TO 10 YEARS. 
          EMPLOYEES MOVE TO THE NEXT STEP ON THEIR ANNIVERSARY DATE IN THE POSITION, AND THE TABLE IS UPDATED EACH YEAR THAT THE COURT HAS ADOPTED THE COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT. 
          THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT EVALUATED THE REQUEST AND DOES NOT RECOMMEND EXTENDING THE 
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STEP PLAN. 
          THE PROPOSAL DOES NOT ALIGN WITH THE COUNTY'S CURRENT STEP PLAN STRUCTURE. 
          AND AS AN EXAMPLE, THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE DETENTION PLAN ENDS AT NINE YEARS AND THE ELLIE STEP PLAN ENDS AT 11 YEARS. 
          INCREASING THE MAXIMUM SALARY WOULD CREATE COMPRESSION ISSUES WITH OTHER HIGHER LEVEL POSITIONS, INCLUDING SUPERVISORS. 
          OTHER COUNTY EMPLOYEES AT THE MAXIMUM SALARY ARE ELIGIBLE ONLY FOR ONE TIME LUMP SUM PAYMENTS. 
          IF A COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT IS APPROVED WITH A STEP PLAN A COLA ADJUST THE ENTIRE STEP PLAN, MEANING THAT THE LONG TERM EMPLOYEES ARE STILL ELIGIBLE FOR THAT PERMANENT SALARY INCREASE, IT'S ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF BEING ON A STEP PLAN. 
          UH, ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSIONERS? I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, I KNOW WE HAVE STEP PLANS FOR THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND FOR THE CONSTABLES AND, AND THERE'S A FEW OTHER AREAS, BUT LIKE, WHY, WHY DO SOME AREAS HAVE A STEP PLAN AND OTHERS DON'T? I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THAT. 
          UM, I BELIEVE IT'S WHEN THE OFFICE REQUESTED HR WILL EVALUATE IT. 
          UM, I, I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE, I THINK, I DON'T BELIEVE THIS A TEAM, THIS, THIS PARTICULAR, UM, STEP PLAN WAS DEVELOPED BACK IN 2019 AND IT, AND THERE WE WERE JUST HAVING ISSUES ONBOARDING COURT COORDINATORS. 
          SO A JUDGE WOULD COME IN AND WANT TO PAY THEIR COURT CO COURT COORDINATOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT AND IT WOULD START, WE WERE STARTING TO GET A LOT OF COMPRESSION. 
          SO WE DEVELOPED THE STEP PLAN JUST TO SMOOTH THINGS OUT SO THAT WHEN A JUDGE COMES IN, THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEIR COURT COORDINATOR'S GONNA GET PAID AT YEAR ONE AND THEN, YOU KNOW, MOVE FORWARD AS THEY, OR THEY BECOME MORE TENURED. 
          OKAY. 
          JUST CURIOUS, LEMME FOLLOW UP. 
          SO YOU'RE SAYING, AND I BELIEVE WHEN I WAS ON THE JUDGE SIDE YEAH. 
          COURTS WERE ABLE TO MAKE INDIVIDUAL REQUESTS FOR THEIR MM-HMM . 
          AND, RIGHT? CORRECT. 
          SO NOT ONLY COMPRESSION, BUT THERE WAS THIS INCONSISTENT. 
          WE HAD A, JUST AN OPEN RANGE. 
          SO WHEN DID, AND THEN THE BUDGET OFFICE WANTED TO CREATE CONSISTENCY WITH ALL COORDINATORS. 
          YES, THAT'S CORRECT. 
          AND WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN? IT WAS IN, WE IMPLEMENTED IT IN 2020. 
          AND THAT'S THE PLAN, WHAT THE JUDGES IS WHAT WHAT YOU'RE REFERRED TO. 
          CORRECT. 
          AND SO WE PUT A STEP PLAN. 
          IS THERE ANY OUTLIER SITUATIONS WHERE COURT COORDINATORS GET DIFFERENT PAY? UM, THERE WAS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE STEP PLAN, BUT IT'S NOW THEY'RE WITH TURNOVER AND SUCH, IT'S SMOOTHED OUT. 
          SO EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ON THE RIGHT STEP FOR THEIR, UH, THEIR NUMBER OF YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AS A COURT COORDINATOR. 
          SO FROM A SIMPLE LANGUAGE, THEY'RE JUST INCREASING THEIR CEILING? YES. 
          THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE REQUESTING. 
          AND IS IT FOR ALL THE COURT COORDINATORS? YEAH. 
          YES. 
          INCLUDING JUVIE? CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          GOT IT. 
          ALRIGHT, IS THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I BELIEVE, JUDGE, GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          THANK YOU, UM, JUDGE AND COMMISSIONERS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS YOU. 
          UM, THIS PARTICULAR, UM, ITEM WAS ONE OF OUR PRIORITIES. 
          UM, I FELT LIKE IT WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT NEEDED TO BE ADDRESSED. 
          UM, WE HAVE COURT COORDINATORS WHO HAVE BEEN HERE 17, 18, 14 YEARS, AND I CAN UNDERSTAND THE BENEFIT OF THE STEP PLAN. 
          UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T THINK THAT THE STEP PLAN, UM, GOES HIGH ENOUGH BECAUSE OUR COORDINATORS CURRENTLY ARE TAPPING OUT AT UNDER $80,000. 
          AND YOU DO HAVE A HANDOUT THAT WAS HANDED TO YOU. 
          UM, AND ANA DID A LITTLE BIT OF RESEARCH AND LOOKED AT OTHER JURISDICTIONS. 
          AND I THINK THAT IS THE MOST STRIKING THING THAT YOU CAN SEE HERE. 
          UM, WHERE DALLAS COUNTY'S LOWER END, OURS IS $7,000 LOWER THAN THAT. 
          AND I'M NOT EVEN ADDRESSING THE LOWER END. 
          I'M ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT, UH, REWARDING, I GUESS THOSE EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE LONGEVITY WITH US. 
          THERE'S NOT A HUGE TURNOVER. 
          THE TURNOVER IS WHEN A JUDGE LOSES IF A JUDGE LOSES OR RETIRES, UM, THAT PARTICULAR COORDINATOR WILL LOSE THEIR POSITION POSSIBLY. 
          UM, THEY ALSO DON'T HAVE ANY ROOM FOR PROMOTION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT. 
          THEY HAVE ROOM TO PROMOTE UP. 
          COORDINATORS DO NOT. 
          THERE'S NOWHERE TO GO. 
          THIS IS THEIR POSITION. 
          AND I WOULD REALLY COMPARE THEIR POSITIONS. 
          I THINK IT'S A MISNOMER TO JUST CALL THEM COORDINATORS. 
          UH, THEY'RE ACTUALLY MORE LIKE OUR CHIEF OF STAFF. 
          LIKE YOU HAVE CHIEF OF STAFF, THEY'RE OUR CHIEF OF STAFF. 
          THEY COMMUNICATE WITH THE PUBLIC, THEY COMMUNICATE WITH THE DEFENDANT, THEY COMMUNICATE WITH THE ATTORNEYS. 
          THEY ARE 24 7. 
          OUR COORDINATORS, UM, ANSWER THE PHONE, ANSWER THE TEXT MESSAGES, SEND THE EMAILS, SET OUR DOCKETS FOR TRIAL, FOR MTRS, FOR ANY TYPE OF HEARING. 
          THEY DIRECT PEOPLE. 
          UH, THEY SOLVE THESE ISSUES, UH, THAT WE HAVE SO THAT WE CAN DO THE WORK, UH, THAT OUR SYSTEM REQUIRES 
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OF US TO DEAL WITH THE DEFENDANTS, TO HAVE THE TRIALS, TO TAKE THE PLEAS, UH, TO HOPEFULLY CLEAR OUT, UH, THAT JAIL POPULATION AND MOVE SOME OF THOSE JAIL CASES. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THE TRUTH IS, IS, YOU KNOW, UM, JUDGE SKAY, YOU MENTIONED THE, THE ADDED COURTS, UH, THAT ARE REQUIRED. 
          THERE IS A STUDY, A WORK STUDY THAT REFLECTS THAT WE ACTUALLY NEED 2.7 ADDITIONAL COURTS. 
          AND AT THIS TIME, THAT'S NOT MY PRIORITY. 
          BUT KNOWING THAT THAT REFLECTS THE FACT THAT OUR COORDINATORS ARE DOING THE WORK, THE COURTS AND THE COORDINATORS ARE DOING THE WORK OF THOSE ADDITIONAL THREE COURTS THAT WE DO NOT HAVE. 
          UM, THERE ARE MANY, UH, THEY HAVE, THEY HAPPENED TO MOVE OUR COVID. 
          WE WERE PROBABLY ONE OF THE HIGHEST RATED, UM, JURISDICTIONS THAT WERE MOVING COVID CASES EVEN DURING THAT TIME. 
          UM, AND THESE COORDINATORS WERE THERE, UH, THEY WERE WORKING FROM HOME. 
          UH, THEY WERE MAKING SURE OUR DOCKETS WERE MOVING AS LONG AS THOSE PLEAS WOULD TAKE BECAUSE THEY TOOK A LONG TIME. 
          I HELPED TO DEVELOP THAT PLEA SYSTEM. 
          UM, IT JUST TOOK A, A VERY LONG TIME, BUT OUR FELONY DISPOSITIONS HAVE RISEN BY 20% OVER THE LAST YEAR. 
          YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBERS FROM THE OCA THAT REFLECT THAT FROM 2021 JANUARY TO JANUARY TO 2025, OUR NUMBERS HAVE DOUBLED. 
          UH, YOU ALSO SEE THE INDICTED NUMBER OF CASES. 
          AND EVEN THOUGH OUR CASES HAVE ARE INDICTED CASES, UH, SOME OF THEM HAVE GONE DOWN. 
          UH, WE ARE STILL DEALING WITH THE DOUBLE NUMBER OF HEARINGS OF CASES, UM, OF EVERYTHING THAT'S INCLUDED IN WHAT WE DO. 
          UM, AND SO YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THERE ARE FOUR. 
          WE CURRENTLY ONLY HAVE 1, 2, 3, 4 CRIMINAL DISTRICT COORDINATORS, COURT COORDINATORS WHO HAVE 20 18, 18 AND 14 YEARS. 
          UM, FOR US, THAT'S 43,531. 
          I THINK THE NUMBER THAT GETS US TO 99,500 IS THE FACT THAT THERE IS A JUVENILE COORDINATOR, UH, WHO WOULD ALSO BE AT THAT LEVEL. 
          AND THERE ARE THREE COUNTY COURT COORDINATORS, UM, WHO ALSO, UH, WOULD BE DUE A, A RAISE, UH, BASED ON THE STEP PLAN INCREASE. 
          NOW, THERE WOULD PROBABLY NOT BE, AT LEAST ON THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURTS, I CANNOT ANSWER IN TERMS OF COUNTY AND JUVENILE, BUT THERE WOULD BE ONLY ONE COORDINATOR FOR US IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS WHO WOULD STEP UP AGAIN. 
          SO, UM, WE ARE LOW ON THE BEGINNING SALARIES, AND I THINK THAT'S WHY THE COURTS AND THE JUDGES WOULD COME, UM, TO ADVOCATE FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES BECAUSE THEY WORK VERY HARD. 
          AND I PROMISED THE COORDINATORS THAT I WOULD CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR THEM. 
          THEY DIDN'T HAVE A VOICE EVEN IN OUR DISTRICT COURT COMMITTEES. 
          AND I ASKED ONE OF OUR LJS TO ADD THEM TO OUR COURT REPORTER COMMITTEE SO THAT THEY ALSO HAD A VOICE AND WE COULD ADDRESS THEIR NEEDS AS WE GO FORWARD, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES THEY ARE IGNORED. 
          UM, I WILL NOTE THAT WITH THE JUDICIAL COMPENSATION, THERE ARE NEW METRICS FOR JUDGES. 
          WE ARE REQUIRED TO MOVE OUR DOCKETS. 
          WE'RE REQUIRED TO MOVE CASES. 
          THEY CANNOT BE, YOU KNOW, WE GET DINGED OF, THEY'RE OVER A YEAR OLD. 
          AND OF COURSE WE DO HAVE CASES OVER A YEAR OLD, BUT THAT'S ALSO PART OF THAT COORDINATOR'S JOB. 
          IT IS THEIR JOB TO MOVE THOSE CASES. 
          UH, I'M ALWAYS AMAZED AT WHAT THEY REMEMBER. 
          I DON'T REMEMBER. 
          I'M JUST SEEING PERSON AFTER PERSON. 
          BUT THEY'LL SAY, YES, REMEMBER JUDGE, THIS HAPPENED. 
          REMEMBER WE GOTTA BRING THIS ONE BACK. 
          AND THEY'RE THE ONES WHO KEEP OUR COURTS RUNNING. 
          UM, SO I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT AND SIGNIFICANT, UH, FOR THEM TO GET THAT, UH, PAY RAISE OR THAT STEP PLAN INCREASED. 
          UM, I THINK WHEN THEY STARTED THE STEP PLAN, I UNDERSTAND THE REASON FOR BUDGET CREATING THAT STEP PLAN, BUT IT, WE DIDN'T BUILD IN ADEQUATE NUMBER OF STEPS BASED ON THE FACT THAT THEY CAN EVER BE PROMOTED. 
          UM, THERE IS NOT ANOTHER POSITION SIMILAR TO THAT ONE, UH, THAT THEY CAN GO TO. 
          WE HAVE HAD COORDINATORS LEAVE TO GET PAID MORE MONEY BY, UH, PRIVATE ATTORNEYS. 
          AND SO THE PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS THAT WE HAVE HERE ALIGN COORDINATOR COMPENSATION WITH THEIR ACTUAL TENURE, THEIR WORKLOAD DEMANDS, THEIR INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE. 
          SO MANY OF THEM KNOW SO MUCH MORE ABOUT HOW THESE THINGS WORK. 
          THEY'VE HAD TO LEARN ODYSSEY LIKE EVERYBODY, LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. 
          UM, THEY ARE OUR, OUR CHIEF OF STAFF. 
          AND SO FOR THAT REASON, UH, WE ARE ASKING FOR THAT INCREASE IN STEPS. 
          AND I WILL, I'VE BROUGHT MY TRUSTEE COLLEAGUE, UH, JUDGE ROBERTSON, WHO HAS WORKED ON BOTH SIDES, UH, CIVIL AND CRIMINAL. 
          AND HE CAN MORE THAN I CAN ATTEST TO THE WORKLOAD, UH, 
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THAT WE HAVE IN THE CRIMINAL COURT. 
          SO I WANT TO TURN IT OVER, UH, TO JUDGE ROBERTSON. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. 
          UH, JUDGE SHAKI COMMISSIONERS, UH, I'M HERE TODAY. 
          IT'S A TIMELY TIME BECAUSE WE'RE COMING UP ON LABOR DAY AND I'M SPEAKING FOR THE WORKERS' RIGHTS OF THE WORKERS THAT MOVE OUR COURT SYSTEM. 
          UH, I WAS APPOINTED FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW LAST YEAR TO BE THE JUDGE OF THE 226 DISTRICT COURT. 
          WHEN I ASSUMED THAT POSITION, UH, MY COURT HAD THE MOST AMOUNT OF PENDING CASES OF THE 10 CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURTS OVER THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF. 
          I HAVE MOVED IT TO THE LEAST AMOUNT OF PENDING CASES FROM ABOUT A THOUSAND TO A LITTLE OVER 300. 
          THAT'S 700 PEOPLE THAT ARE EITHER NOT ON BOND OR NOT SITTING IN OUR JAIL. 
          THAT WOULDN'T BE DONE IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE LEADERSHIP AND WORK OF THE COURT. 
          BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE THAN THE LEADERSHIP, THE WORKER AND MY COURT, MY CO COORDINATOR, LEANNE BOSSMAN, WHO HAS HELPED MOVE MY DOCKET. 
          AND I THINK THERE'S, UH, A DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE FROM THOSE OF US WHO HAVE OUR HANDS OUT ASKING FOR MONEY THAT MAYBE YOU'RE NOT APPRECIATED BY THE COMMISSIONERS AND WE MAYBE DON'T APPRECIATE THE BREADTH OF KNOWLEDGE YOU HAVE ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE HOLDING THEIR HANDS OUT. 
          SO I HOPE I'M HERE TODAY TO GIVE YOU SOME MORE DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE. 
          SO YOU'LL SEE THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE POSITIONS BECAUSE I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE WHEN I CAME INTO THIS JOB HAVING HAD A CIVIL BACKGROUND. 
          AND I DO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE NOW. 
          THESE PEOPLE MOVE OUR CASES. 
          MY COORDINATOR'S A SINGLE MOM. 
          SHE WORKS EVERY NIGHT. 
          SHE'S AFTER HOURS. 
          SHE'S DEALING WITH, UH, DEFENSE ATTORNEYS WHO SAY, HEY, CAN YOU BRING OVER MY GUY FROM THE JAIL TOMORROW? WE HAVE A DEAL WORKED OUT. 
          WE CAN GET HIM OUT OF JAIL. 
          SHE'S TEXTING ME. 
          SHE'S TEXTING LAW ENFORCEMENT. 
          SHE'S WORKING AFTER HOURS. 
          IT'S NOT A NINE TO FIVE JOB FOR HER. 
          AND WE HELP MOVE PEOPLE OUT OF THE JAIL. 
          AND I CAN'T DO THAT WITHOUT HER. 
          AND I NEED HER. 
          AND THESE PEOPLE, OUR WORKERS DESERVE OUR SUPPORT. 
          I KNOW THAT THERE'S A POLITICAL SENSITIVITY TO THE SITUATION BECAUSE OF THE ISSUE GOING ON WITH THE PRESIDING IN THE CIVIL COURTS TELL YOU, I'M DOING MY PART TO MOVE A LAWSUIT. 
          WE'LL SEE IF IT HAPPENS IN NOVEMBER. 
          BUT CIVIL COORDINATORS ARE NOT THE SAME THING AS CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT COORDINATORS. 
          THE CIVIL COORDINATOR POSITIONS. 
          I THINK, UH, COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ HAD PROPOSED THE SHARED POSITION AMONG THE TWO COURTS THAT HAVE PULLED OUT PRESIDING. 
          I THINK THAT WAS A, A VERY PRAGMATIC PROPOSAL AND I THINK IT'S WORKABLE. 
          THAT'S NOT WORKABLE, OBVIOUSLY IN THE CRIMINAL COURTS. 
          AND THEN THE CRIMINAL COURT'S DEPOSITION IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. 
          IT'S AN APPLES TO APPLES COMPARISON. 
          THEY DON'T DO THE SAME JOB. 
          AND A CIVIL COURT, A COORDINATOR RECEIVES EMAILS FIRST SETTING AND DOES A SETTING AND A CRIMINAL COURT, A CO COORDINATOR HAS TO TAKE THE INITIATIVE TO SET THOSE CASES. 
          THE COORDINATOR, EV MY COORDINATOR EVERY WEEK, GETS A SCHEDULE FROM, UH, CRIMINAL ADMIN AND HAS TO SET ALL THOSE CASES OUT, APPOINT ATTORNEYS IF THEY NEED TO BE APPOINTED AND DO ALL OF THE MATTERS TO HAVE THOSE THINGS READY TO GO. 
          AND WHEN MY COORDINATOR TAKES A BREAK, MY NUMBERS SUFFER. 
          AND THAT'S HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE TO US. 
          SHE TAKES A WEEK OFF. 
          MY NUMBERS SHOOT UP BY 50, 60, 80. 
          THAT'S 25 50 PEOPLE IN JAIL THAT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN IN JAIL IF SHE DIDN'T TAKE A BREAK. 
          THESE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN OUR SYSTEM, IN OUR CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURTS. 
          I HOPE THAT YOU WILL SUPPORT THEM. 
          AND I HAVE. 
          I'M WELCOME TO ANY QUESTIONS ON EITHER THE CIVIL OR CRIMINAL SIDE. 
          THANK YOU, JUDGE. 
          IF, IF, IF I COULD DE SYNTHESIZE WHAT YOU SAID, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND. 
          HAVING BEEN ON THE OTHER SIDE, ON THE CRIMINAL COURTS, THEY ARE COURT DRIVEN DOCKETS AS OPPOSED TO THE CIVIL SITE. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING THOSE. 
          THAT DISTINCTION. 
          COMMISSIONER CLAY FLOS. 
          OH, I SAID I DIDN'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. 
          . 
          COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ. 
          COMMISSIONER MOODY. 
          COMMISSIONER COWARD. 
          OH, SORRY. 
          HAVE A GOOD DAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          ALRIGHT, WE'RE MOVING ON TO D REQUEST BY CONSTABLE PRECINCT THREE. 
          REGARDING AND FOLLOWING, UH, I'M GONNA CALL 'EM ALL UP AND CONSTABLE OR HIS REPRESENTATIVE CAN ADDRESS 'EM IN THE WAY THEY SEE FIT. 
          ONE REQUEST TO DISCUSS THE PROPOSED BASELINE BUDGET AS RECOMMENDED WITHIN THE PROPOSED BUDGET PRESENTED ON AUGUST 18TH, 2026. 
          TWO, THE PROGRAM CHAIR REQUESTS TO ADD FIVE DEPUTY CONSTABLES, UH, IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $472,322 THREE. 
          A PROGRAM CHANGE REQUEST TO ADD ONE PERMANENT PART-TIME ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF 17,000 416 4. 
          A PROGRAM CHANGE FOR A SUPERVISORY PAY FOR EIGHT DEPUTY CONSTABLES AND ONE OFFICE ASSISTANT IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF 82,578 MS. CATAN. 
          THANK YOU JUDGE. 
          UM, TODAY THE CONSTABLE'S OFFICE IS REQUESTING TO ADD FIVE DEPUTY CONSTABLES, FOUR FOR TRAFFIC, AND ONE FOR CIVIL 
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PROCESSES, ONE PERMANENT PART-TIME ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK, LEVEL ONE, AND A SUPERVISORY PAY FOR EIGHT DEPUTY CONSTABLES AND ONE OFFICE ASSISTANT FOUR FOR A TOTAL REQUEST OF $572,000. 
          THE REQUEST FOR PAY IS BEING ASSIGNED TO, UM, THE SUPERVISORY PAY IS BEING ASSIGNED TO ONE CAPTAIN, ONE LIEUTENANT, THREE SERGEANTS, THREE CORPORALS, AND ONE OH A FOUR. 
          UH, THE BUDGET DEPARTMENT DOES NOT RECOMMEND, UM, ADDING THE FIVE CONSTABLE POSITIONS FOR THE TOTAL COST OF $472,000. 
          UM, AS YOU CAN SEE THE PRECINCTS COMPARING ACROSS EACH OF THE PRECINCTS, UH, THIS TABLE INCLUDES THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PAPERS, UH, CIVIL AND CRIMINAL, THE NUMBER OF DEPUTIES AND SIDE BY SIDE COMPARED TO EACH PRECINCT. 
          UH, THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE, UM, ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T, OR ANY POSITIONS RATHER THAT SERVE, UH, PAPERS, UM, OR WARRANTS AND EXCLUDES, BAILIFFS, PARKS, UM, THE KOMAL, ISD, THE G, THE JJA DEPUTIES, ET CETERA. 
          UM, SO AS YOU SEE HERE, UM, ESTIMATED BELOW ON THE LAST LINE, UM, THE PRECINCT THREE HAS ONE OF THE LOWEST, UH, WORKLOADS, UM, AND HAS 19 POSITIONS, WHICH IS PRETTY COMPARABLE TO THE OTHER PRECINCTS. 
          THE OFFICE IS REQUESTING ONE. 
          SO, I'M SORRY, JUST TO CLARIFY, WE'RE NOT RECOMMENDING TO ADD THOSE POSITIONS, UH, FOR THE NEXT PROGRAM CHANGE. 
          THE OFFICE IS REQUESTING ONE PERMANENT PART-TIME ADMIN CLERK. 
          ONE, THE CLERICAL STAFF MUST PRINT CITATIONS, UH, SERVICE, UH, FOR THE DEPUTIES SO THEY CAN SERVE THE PAPERS. 
          AND THIS IS A NECESSARY, UM, REQUIREMENT FOR THE DEPUTIES TO COMPLETE THEIR SERVICES. 
          THE OFFICE WAS EXPERIENCING PRINTING ISSUES, UH, BETWEEN CIVIL SERVE AND ODYSSEY, WHICH WAS THE PRIMARY JUSTIFICATION OF THE THIS POSITION. 
          HOWEVER, BCIT HAS CONFIRMED THAT THOSE PRINTING ISSUES HAVE BEEN RESOLVED, THEREFORE, WE'RE NOT RECOMMENDING TO ADD THIS POSITION. 
          LASTLY, THE OFFICE IS REQUESTING SUPERVISORY PAY FOR EIGHT DEPUTY CONSTABLES AND ONE OFFICE ASSISTANT. 
          FOUR. 
          HUMAN RESOURCES EVALUATED THIS AND DOES NOT RECOMMEND THIS REQUEST. 
          A SIMILAR REQUEST WAS MADE IN THE LAST BUDGET PROCESS AND WAS NOT APPROVED. 
          AND THE CONSTABLE OFFICE CURRENTLY HAS ONE CONSTABLE, ONE CHIEF DEPUTY, AND TWO CAPTAINS, WHICH THE OFFICE CHOSE TO UNDERFILL WITH DEPUTY CONSTABLES, WHICH ARE LOWER LEVEL POSITIONS TO OVERSEE 36 DEPUTY CONSTABLES. 
          THE EMPLOYEE COUNT DOES NOT JUSTIFY WITH THE NUMBER OF SUPERVISORS, UH, THAT THE, THE CONSTABLE'S REQUESTING TO, UM, HAVE IN HIS OFFICE. 
          UH, NEXT THE OFFICE IS REQUESTING FOR THEIR, UH, THEIR ENTIRE BASELINE REQUEST ALONG WITH NEW ADDITIONAL REQUESTS THAT WERE ADDED, UM, AFTER THE ORIGINAL REQUEST. 
          THIS TABLE RIGHT HERE SHOWS THAT THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THIS OFFICE, WHICH IS ON THE THIRD COLUMN, THE $330,000 HAS INCREASED FROM THIS YEAR'S ADOPTED BUDGET AT $307,000. 
          THIS IS AN 8% INCREASE TO THEIR BASELINE BUDGETS. 
          UM, WE DID RECEIVE DETAILS OF SPECIFIC ACCOUNTS THAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $63,000 AND IT INCLUDES VEHICLE FUEL, REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE POSTAGE, UM, OFFICE EQUIPMENT REPAIRS, AND COPIER RENTAL. 
          UM, SO WE DID REEVALUATE THE REQUEST FOR THOSE SPECIFIC ACCOUNTS AND WE DO AGREE THAT THOSE, UH, ACCOUNTS DO NEED TO BE INCREASED. 
          AND WITH THAT INCREASE, UH, COMPARED TO THIS YEAR'S CURRENT BUDGET, THIS WOULD INCREASE THEIR BASELINE BUDGET BY 28%. 
          UH, THIS WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE PROPOSED, SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD RECOMMEND IN THE CHANGE MEMO. 
          AND I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. 
          GREAT, THANK YOU. 
          TANYA, ANY QUESTIONS FOR TANYA? NO, THANK YOU. 
          GO AHEAD COMMISSIONER MOODY. 
          UH, CAN YOU JUST CLARIFY ON, UH, THE BASELINES HERE? SO, UM, LAST YEAR WAS 3 0 7, THE REQUEST WAS 4 88 AND YOU PROPOSED THREE 30, BUT WHAT, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING IS ACTUALLY GONNA BE IN THE SEPTEMBER 15TH? SO WE PROPOSED 330 AND WE'RE REQ, WE'RE RECOMMENDING TO ADD 63,000, SO IT WOULD BE 393,000. 
          94,000. 
          OKAY. 
          COMPARED TO THE 3 0 7 THAT WAS ADOPTED THIS YEAR. 
          HAS THAT BEEN SHARED WITH THE CONSTABLE'S OFFICE? ARE THEY AWARE? NO. 
          NO, WE HAVE NOT. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL I GUESS NOW, YOU KNOW. 
          ALRIGHT, UM, OH, WELL I MAY COME BACK, BUT GO AHEAD. 
          OKAY. 
          YOU'RE DONE TANYA. 
          YEAH, I'M DONE WITH MY PRESENTATION. 
          UH, CONSTABLE, DO YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION? GO AHEAD. 
          THE FLOOR'S, YOURS. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAVE ANY PRESENTATION THAT'S AVAILABLE, ALTHOUGH BEING LAST IN LINE, I HAVE TO GET SOME KIND OF A, A DEGREE OF ATTENTION. 
          I KNOW WE'RE ALL AT THE LUNCHTIME AND ALL THAT, BUT IN THE 18TH CENTURY, HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON HAD A STORY CALLED THE KING'S NEW CLOTHES THAT BASICALLY CRITICIZED LEADERSHIP FOR BLINDNESS TO FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS. 
          SOME, WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS, I'M TALKING ABOUT FACTS THAT CANNOT BE IGNORED. 
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AND THAT'S TRUE EVEN IN THE 21ST CENTURY. 
          IN MY OBSERVATIONS, I CREDIT THE, UH, THE COUNTY MANAGER, UH, THE BUDGET OFFICE, UH, COMMISSIONER MOODY AND COMMISSIONER CALVERT IN THEIR EFFORTS TOWARDS CLARITY AND EFFORTS HAVE TRANSPARENCY AND RESPECT FOR FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS AND FAIRNESS. 
          ON THE FIRST SLIDE BASICALLY IS JUST TALKING ABOUT WE, WE ALL KNOW THAT POPULATION'S GONNA BE INCREASING NO MATTER WHAT THAT WE ESTIMATE BETWEEN NOW AND 20 20 36 AT THE MINIMUM OF 300,000, MAYBE EVEN MORE THAN THAT. 
          I KNOW YOU'RE ALL ALREADY LOOKING AT THAT, BUT AS THE DEMAND GOES UP, SO DOES THE REQUEST THAT NEEDS FOR OFFICES. 
          EVEN WHEN WE DON'T HAVE AN INCREASE IN PAPERS OR IN COURT ORDERS, WE STILL HAVE TRAVEL TIME. 
          WE HAVE CONGESTION THAT IS NOT CALCULATED BY BUDGET AND NOT CONSIDERED. 
          SO THAT EVEN IF WE HAVE NOT ONE NEW COURT ORDER NEXT YEAR, WE'RE GONNA REQUIRE MORE STAFF TO DO THAT AND MORE RESOURCES. 
          IF YOU'VE DRIVEN THE STREETS OF, OF SAN ANTONIO, YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. 
          THAT'S A FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH. 
          AND I'LL MAKE SURE HOW I KNOW HOW THOSE THINGS. 
          LEMME SEE IF I CAN GET TO THE NEXT PAGE FOR US. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE OLD ASSUMPTIONS PART OF THAT IN, IN THERE IS THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT WE LOOK AT GROWTH IN COUNTY GOVERNMENT. 
          THIS IS MY 17TH YEAR. 
          I'VE SEEN SEVERAL DOWNTURNS IN COUNTY GOVERNMENT AND FUNDING, UH, EACH TIME IT USUALLY COMES BACK TO THE 5,400 OR WHATEVER NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES WE HAVE. 
          THEY'RE THE ONES WHO HAVE TO SHOULDER THE BURDEN OF WHATEVER PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN CREATED BY LEADERSHIP. 
          UH, WE HAVE IN THE PAST IT'S BEEN ASSUMED TO BE ABOUT 4%, UH, ANNUAL PROPERTY TAX GROWTH. 
          THAT HAS NOT BEEN THE CASE. 
          AND WE HAVE ACTUALLY SEEN THAT THE WARNINGS HAVE BEEN SOUNDED. 
          IF ANYBODY HAS BEEN LISTENING TO THE COUNTY MANAGER OR THEIR STAFF OR OTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO WORK IN THE DAY-TO-DAY OFFICES, WE'VE SEEN A DECLINE IN THOSE THINGS FOR FIVE YEARS. 
          ANYBODY IN REAL ESTATE KNOWS THAT THE MARKET HAS BECOME STAGNANT AND THOSE NUMBERS WERE PREDICTABLE AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN OBSERVED COMING IN. 
          WE ALSO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE TERM COURSE SERVICES AND CORE FUNCTIONS. 
          UH, WE FUND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN NICE TO HAVE FUNCTIONS RATHER THAN HAVE TO HAVE THINGS. 
          AND WE SHIFT THOSE COSTS, BUT WE ALSO DON'T TAKE THE CHANCE OF SHIFTING THE MONEY THAT WE HAVE THE TAXPAYER BURDEN ONTO THE PEOPLE WHO USE OUR SERVICES OR VIOLATE THE LAWS. 
          THAT'S A FUNDAMENTAL PROOF WE SHOULD BE USING THOSE FUNDS VERSUS MAKING THE TAXPAYER PAY ADDITIONAL MONEY. 
          WE ACTUALLY GAVE YOU A CHART IN SEVERAL PRESENTATIONS AGO THAT WHEN PRECINCT THREE IS MAKING ITS CHOICES, WE HAVE LOWERED THE TAX BURDEN TO LIKE 1% OF OUR OFFICE BEING FUNDED BY THE TAXPAYER. 
          THE REST OF IT WAS BEING MADE UP BY FEES, AUTHORIZED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE BY WARRANT FEES AND TRAFFIC. 
          OPERATING COSTS WILL ALWAYS GO UP EVERY YEAR. 
          WE HAVE THE SAME CONDITIONS NOW, UH, THE BUDGET IMPLICATIONS OBVIOUSLY IS WE'RE GONNA REQUIRE MORE FUNDING EACH YEAR BECAUSE OF INCREASES IN LABOR, INCREASES OF INCIDENTAL COSTS, AND UH, IN INFLATION. 
          YOU SEE IT EVERY YEAR. 
          IT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD BE CALCULATED. 
          I ALSO HAVE TO TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT IN THE BUDGET PRESENTATION THAT ALL OF OUR COSTS WERE COVERED AND THAT WE DO HAVE SOME AREAS THAT ARE NOT COVERED THAT SHOULD BE PROBABLY LISTED. 
          MAYBE THEY'VE TAKEN CARE OF THAT, BUT, UH, WE ALWAYS HAD A ZERO BALANCE FOR COMP TOWN PAYOUT, OVERTIME, AND STEP PACES. 
          THOSE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ZEROED OUT IN OUR BUDGET BEFORE. 
          ARE THOSE GONNA BE ACCOUNTED FOR IN THE NEW BUDGET PROPOSAL? THEY'RE NOT GONNA DO THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          THEY'RE NOT RECOMMENDING THAT. 
          BUT THAT IS A CALCULATION AND A COST FOR EACH ONE OF THESE THINGS. 
          THAT HAS TO BE PAID OUT ON THE OFFICER'S ANNIVERSARY DATE. 
          IT'S AN EASILY CALCULABLE NUMBER. 
          WE DID IT AND WE'VE DONE IT OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, BUT IT'S NOT REFLECTED IN OUR BUDGET. 
          WHERE THAT HURTS US LATER IS TOWARDS THE END OF OUR BUDGET YEAR. 
          THIS TIME PERIOD NOW IS THEY START TO EAT UP THESE COSTS. 
          THEY TAKE THOSE COSTS OUT OF OUR EXISTING BUDGET. 
          SO WE ARE BEING DENIED THE USE OF OTHER BUDGET FUNDS AS WE MOVE ALONG THERE. 
          THAT'S A FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH, AND THAT'S SOMETHING IN BASIC ACCOUNTING THAT SHOULD BE COVERED. 
          CONSTRUCTION COSTS, I'VE HEARD Y'ALL MENTION THAT BEFORE. 
          IT'S GONNA BE LITERALLY BE DOUBLING YOUR CONSTRUCTION COSTS, UH, OVER THE NEXT 48% TO 79% IN A 10 YEAR TIME PERIOD. 
          AND I'VE HEARD THAT IN CAPITAL PLANNING, WE OFFER PLANS IN CAPITAL AND TRYING TO MANAGE OUR CAPITAL COSTS. 
          WE'VE OFFERED VARIOUS WAYS TO SAVE MONEY, AND WE DO IT CURRENTLY EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT RECOGNIZED THAT WE DO THESE THINGS. 
          THE FACT THAT POPULATION CONTINUES TO GROW, UH, WHICH MEANS WE HAVE TO PLAN FURTHER ON IT. 
          UH, LOOKING AT WHAT WE DO IN PRECINCT THREE, WE'VE ASKED NUMEROUS TIMES TO WORK WITH COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO WORK WITH BUDGET, TO FIND WAYS TO LOWER COSTS AND TO INCREASE OUR USE OF, OTHER THAN TAXPAYER MONEY TO LOWER OUR COSTS TO THE TAXPAYERS. 
          THAT HASN'T BEEN SUCCESSFUL. 
          COMMUNICATIONS HAVE NOT BEEN 
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SUCCESSFUL TO A LARGE DEGREE, UH, SINCE THE COUNTY JUDGE IS NOT HERE. 
          I'M NOT GONNA MENTION MY EFFORTS IN THAT AREA, BUT WE DO TRY TO COMMUNICATE AND WE TRY TO WORK WITH EVERYBODY ON THAT. 
          WE TRY TO DO THE BEST WE CAN WITH TAXPAYER MONEY THAT WE ARE ENTRUSTED WITH. 
          AND THERE'S VERY LITTLE RECOGNITION OF THE FACT THAT WE SAVE MONEY EVERY YEAR THAT NO OTHER CONSTABLE'S OFFICE DOES REVENUE. 
          WE KNOW THAT THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TOO. 
          UH, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT IF WE HAD A 3% GROWTH OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS, THAT'S MOSTLY TREADING WATER. 
          THAT MEANS YOU'RE NOT GONNA HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO COVER YOUR NEW COSTS FOR ROADS, INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          A LOT OF YOUR FLOOD OFF THINGS, THE OTHER THINGS OF SERVICES THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE, 3% JUST MEANS YOU'RE TREADING WATER. 
          YOU'RE NOT EVEN PROVIDING THE ADDITIONAL SERVICES FOR NEW PEOPLE MOVING IN. 
          THAT 300,000 ESTIMATE IS PROBABLY LOW FOR THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WILL BE MOVING INTO BEXAR COUNTY. 
          FROM THE NUMBERS THAT I'VE BEEN SEEING THAT MAY BE CONSIDERABLY HIGHER THAN THAT, UH, I THINK IT'S FAIRLY CONSERVATIVE. 
          IF THE GROWTH SLOWS TO 1%, THE GAP WIDENS EVEN FURTHER. 
          UH, AND THAT'S ALREADY BEEN SHOWN. 
          IT'S BEEN SHOWN BY THE COUNTY IN ITS OWN BUDGET PROJECTIONS THAT WE CROSS THE LINE BETWEEN THE NEEDS FOR SERVICES AND THE COSTS AND THE MONEY THAT WE HAVE FOR REVENUE. 
          I KNOW THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT'S BEEN PUSHED BACK BY ONE YEAR, BUT WE'RE STILL EXPERIENCING A, A SHORTAGE NOW. 
          WE'VE ALSO HAD TO USE WHAT, A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN RESERVES. 
          AND WE'VE BROUGHT THE RESERVES DOWN FROM APPROXIMATELY 400 MILLION TO ABOUT 300 MILLION ON THINGS THAT MAY NOT FALL INTO THE CATEGORY OF THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FOUR NEW POSITIONS OR IN ONE NEW POSITION FOR CIVIL AND WARRANTS FOUR TRAFFIC POSITIONS. 
          BRINGS ME UP TO THE STAFFING THAT I HAD IN 2016 FOR TRAFFIC OFFICERS. 
          THAT DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FACT THAT WE'VE HAD POPULATION GROWTH. 
          WE HAVE INCREASED TRAFFIC VOLUME, WE HAVE INCREASED REQUESTS FOR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT. 
          THAT'S ONE OF OUR BIGGEST REQUESTS FOR SERVICE. 
          AND THAT WE HAVE THE CONTINUED EXPANSION OF ROADS IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          THERE HAVE BEEN THREE TRAFFIC FATALITIES IN BEXAR COUNTY HERE IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS. 
          TWO OF THEM WERE INCREASING. 
          THREE, ALL OF THEM ARE RELATED TO SPEED AND TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT MAY HELP. 
          THOSE KIND OF THINGS. 
          AND THAT'S THE GOAL OF TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT. 
          THE FACT THAT I'VE HEARD OTHER DATA THAT THERE ARE CONCERNS LIKE FOR IN THE MOTORCYCLES, THAT THEY WERE A, A THREAT TO THE OFFICER OR THEY WEREN'T VERY EFFECTIVE, UH, OR THAT OTHER CONSTABLES DON'T USE IT. 
          IT, I DISCOUNT THOSE TO A LARGE DEGREE. 
          WE HAD MOTORCYCLES IN THE PAST. 
          THEY ARE VERY EFFECTIVE IN DOING THE TRAFFIC CONTROL ENFORCEMENT ROLE. 
          AND IF WE HAD FOUR MORE POSITIONS TO IT, THAT FURTHER TAKES US INTO THE AREA WHERE WE DON'T HAVE TO USE TAXPAYER FUNDS. 
          AND WE ARE TAXING OR TAKING THOSE COSTS FROM THE TAXPAYER AND BRINGING IT BACK TO THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE VIOLATED THE LAW OR ARE USING OUR SERVICES AS FAR AS CIVIL OR COURT'S ORDERS. 
          THE ADDITIONAL OFFICER FROM THE CIVIL SIDE, WE WANNA DO THAT AS AS WELL. 
          UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS. 
          WE BRING US UP ON OUR STAFFING. 
          WE'LL BRING THAT PAST THAT. 
          IT'S A STRATEGIC INVESTMENT. 
          WE HAVE BEEN OFFERING. 
          ANYTHING THAT WE ASK FOR HAS A REVENUE COMPONENT TO IT. 
          UH, THAT'S NOT ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. 
          IT IT'S GOOD ACCOUNTING PRACTICES. 
          YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOUR EXPENSES ARE. 
          YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOUR REVENUES ARE. 
          AND THAT INCLUDES REVENUE FEES FROM CIVIL PROCESS AND CIVIL, UH, AND COURT ORDERS. 
          IT INCLUDES WARRANTS, IT INCLUDES TRAFFIC FINES. 
          AND THIS COURT IN THE LAST THREE YEARS HAS COLLECTED APPROXIMATELY $40 MILLION ON TRAFFIC FINES, WHICH KIND OF NEGATES THE CONVERSATION OF, WELL, THEY AFFECT SOMETHING PEOPLE, POORER PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE THAT CAN'T AFFORD THOSE. 
          BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT OUR JUDGES CAN TAKE CARE OF IN ADJUDICATION. 
          THEY CAN WAIVE THOSE FEES ALL THE WAY DOWN THE LINE. 
          THEY CAN GO DOWN AND WAIVE THE FEES. 
          THEY CAN WAIVE, UH, AND PROVIDE COMMUNITY SERVICE. 
          AND IF COMMUNITY SERVICE DOESN'T WORK BECAUSE OF A PHYSICAL DISABILITY, OUR JUDGES WAIVE THOSE ROUTINELY. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE THAT DECISION PROBABLY SHOULD BE. 
          AGAIN, WE'RE TRYING TO GET THAT THE TRAFFIC DATA WE LOSE ON, ON THE FOUR POSITIONS FOR TRAFFIC. 
          THIS IS A SIMPLE GRAPH ON IT. 
          IT JUST SHOWS, SHE SHOWS THE RELATIONSHIP OF WHAT A MOTOR OFFICER CAN DO VERSUS A FOUR WHEELED TAHOE OPERATOR. 
          IT SHOWS THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE ABOUT A $3.5 MILLION ADDITIONAL SPREAD OVER FIVE YEARS. 
          THAT'S INCLUDING THE CAPITAL COSTS GOING INTO IT. 
          UH, THE REPLACEMENT OF MOTORCYCLES AT 60 MONTHS. 
          SIMILAR REPLACEMENT PHASE FOR TAHOES. 
          BOTH OF THEM ARE ABOUT THE SAME COSTS, BUT IN THE END, WE, THE DATA DEFINITELY SUPPORTS THE FACT THAT A TAHOE IS SECOND BEST IN A TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT ROLE. 
          IT COSTS MORE MONEY IN THE CAPITAL ACQUISITION AND THE MOTORCYCLES COME IN AT A MUCH LOWER COST. 
          MOTORCYCLES ARE COMING IN. 
          WE GET, IF WE WOULD GET TWO OF THOSE, IT'S $103,000. 
          IF WE HAD TWO ADDITIONAL ON THE TAHOES, THEY'RE 84,000, A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN THAT ONE, THEY'RE FITTED OUT. 
          SO WE ACTUALLY SAVE MONEY ON THE CAPITAL ACQUISITION COSTS BY USING MOTORCYCLES. 
          AND THEY'RE MORE PRODUCTIVE IN THE TRAFFIC ROLL. 
          UH, IT'S AGAIN, THAT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE TRUTHS THAT CAN'T GET BE AROUND THERE. 
          IT'S A PUBLIC SAFETY FEATURE AND WE NEED TO HAVE IT. 
          THE STAFFING 
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LEVELS. 
          UH, A LARGE THING ABOUT THE LAST, UH, LEGISLATIVE SESSION WAS HOW FAST WE WERE ABLE TO GET RISK OF POSSESSION AND AN EVICTION SERVED. 
          UH, THOSE WERE RUNNING SOMETIMES AS LONG AS 40, 50, 60 DAYS. 
          UH, NOW IT'S DOWN TO ABOUT 15 DAYS 'CAUSE WE'VE HAD ADDITIONAL HELP ON THAT. 
          BUT THE GOLD STANDARD, WHAT THE STATE WOULD LIKE YOU TO DO IT IS IN, IS FIVE DAYS. 
          THE FIVE DAYS STARTS FROM THE DATE THAT THEY FILE THE, FOR THE ORDER IN COURT. 
          SO IF THEY FILE IT IN COURT ON ONE DAY AND THEN THE COURT TRANSMITS US ON THE NEXT DAY, THAT MEANS WE HAVE FOUR DAYS TO SERVE IT TO TRY TO GET IT OUT IN THAT TIMEFRAME. 
          WITH AN ADDITIONAL CIVIL DEPUTY, WE CAN DROP THAT TIME DOWN TO 11 DAYS. 
          SO THAT'S A BIG IMPORTANT FACTOR FOR, UH, THE HOLDERS OR THE LANDLORDS, UH, BEING ABLE TO TURN OVER THAT PROPERTY. 
          AND IT ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM THAT THE STATE HAS BEEN TRYING TO ADDRESS THE NEED FOR A PART-TIME. 
          UH, WE STILL HAVE TO PRINT. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE THE PART-TIME CLERK DOING. 
          UM, A LOT OF PRECINCTS, THE COURT PRINTS ALL THE PAPERS IN PRECINCT THREE. 
          THAT'S NOT WHAT THE PROCESS IS. 
          THE PROCESS IS WE PRINT THEM AND WE HAVE TO DISTRIBUTE THEM. 
          WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE TOTALLY COMPLETE. 
          AND THEN OF COURSE THE CLERKS ALSO DO SOME PRELIMINARY CHECKING TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S ANY HAZARDS INVOLVED. 
          THERE'S ANYTHING A LEO A NOTICE TO LEO THAT THAT HOUSEHOLD HAS SOMEBODY THAT'S HOSTILE TOWARDS LAW ENFORCEMENT OR HAVE HAD PREVIOUS ROUTING. 
          CROWDERS THE OFFICERS CHECK AND SEE IF THERE'S WARRANTS ON ANYBODY THAT'S GONNA BE AT THAT HOUSE. 
          'CAUSE WHEN WE WALK UP TO THAT DOOR, UH, ANYBODY IN THAT HOME MAYBE JUST WE THINK WE'RE THERE FOR THE MOST SERIOUS UNDETECTED CRIME THEY'VE EVER COMMITTED IN THEIR CRIME. 
          WHEN WE'RE THERE JUST TO SERVE THAT COURT ORDER. 
          THAT COURT ORDER IS ONE OF THE FEW COURT ORDERS THAT WE ARE ALLOWED TO USE FORCE ON. 
          WE HAVE TO FORCE ENTRY OFTEN AND WE ALSO HAVE TO MAKE A TACTICAL ENTRY. 
          BUT THAT HELPS WHEN WE HAVE A CLERK WHO CAN ACTUALLY LOOK AT SOME OF THAT INFORMATION AND AHEAD OF TIME. 
          THAT REDUCES MY OFFICER TIME FOR THEM HAVING TO LOOK AT THAT INFORMATION. 
          WE START TALKING ABOUT SUPERVISORY PAY AND THE FACT THAT WE HAVE TWO UNDERFILLED CAPTAINS POSITIONS. 
          WE NEVER ASKED FOR TWO CAPTAINS. 
          THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT BUDGET CAME UP WITH. 
          WE ASKED FOR LOW LI LOWER LEVEL SUPERVISORS. 
          IT'S NOT THAT WE HAVE 43 PEOPLE ALL ON DAY SHIFT. 
          WE HAVE A DAY SHIFT AND A NIGHT SHIFT. 
          WE HAVE A SEPARATE CORE GROUP THAT'S SUPERVISED IN THE SCHOOLS. 
          THOSE ARE ALL SEPARATE FUNCTIONS. 
          THEY'RE SEPARATED BY DATE AND TIMES AND DISTANCE AS WELL AS FUNCTION. 
          UH, WE TRY TO MAXIMIZE. 
          WE WANNA HAVE SUPERVISORS ON THE DAY SHIFT AND THE NIGHT SHIFT. 
          WE, WE DO WORK TWO SHIFTS. 
          I THINK WE'RE THE ONLY CONSTABLE'S OFFICE THAT DOES. 
          UH, WE ALSO WORK SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, 365 DAYS A YEAR, INCLUDING THE HOLIDAYS. 
          WE DON'T SERVE CIVIL PROCESS ON SUNDAY, BUT WE STILL HAVE OTHER DUTIES THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR US TO PERFORM. 
          THE SUPERVISORS DO DOUBLE DUTY. 
          THEY ARE STILL OUT ON THE LINE AND YET THERE'S NO COMPENSATION FOR THEM AS SUPERVISORS. 
          BEXAR COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS A VERY DISTINCT LEVEL OF SUPERVISION. 
          AND IT'S A SPAN OF CONTROL OF FOUR TO FIVE PEOPLE. 
          AND THEY USE THE SAME CATEGORIES WE DO WHEN THEY HAVE A TRAFFIC DIVISION. 
          THE TRAFFIC DIVISION'S UNDER A TRAFFIC SUPERVISOR. 
          'CAUSE IT'S A DIFFERENT FUNCTION. 
          IT'S THE SAME THING THAT WE DO. 
          WE COMBINE OUR NIGHT SHIFT. 
          WE USE A NIGHT SHIFT, BUT THEIR TRAFFIC SUPERVISION IS DONE BY WHATEVER SUPERVISORS ON THAT THAT EVENING. 
          WE HAVE FOUR POSITIONS AUTHORIZED FOR THAT NIGHT DIFFERENTIAL. 
          WE WOULD ACTUALLY LOVE TO HAVE MORE THAN THAT TOO. 
          'CAUSE OUR NIGHTS ARE ACTUALLY VERY, UH, PRODUCTIVE FOR US. 
          WHEN WE DON'T, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE UNDERFILLED CAPTAINS POSITIONS, THOSE GUYS ARE DOING LINE DUTIES THERE. 
          THAT'S A SAVINGS TO THE COUNTY. 
          'CAUSE WE HAVEN'T BEEN SPENDING THAT MONEY ON THE SIDE THAT'S BEEN COLLECTING. 
          WE ALSO, IN 2024, WE REQUESTED A $5 INCREASE IN CIVIL PROCESS FEES. 
          AND IT WAS ACTUALLY APPROVED AT $7 PER DOCUMENT. 
          UH, SPECIFICALLY FOR IT TO PROVIDE SUPERVISORY FEES. 
          UH, IT'S AN INCENTIVE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ALL, EVERYBODY'S ALWAYS TRYING TO GET ALL THE CONSTABLES TO AGREE TO ONE STRUCTURE. 
          EACH PRECINCT IS DIFFERENT. 
          UH, WHAT WE HAD BEEN TRYING TO GET TO DO IS LET'S GET TO LET THE STRUCTURE BE DECIDED BY THAT CONSTABLE WHO IS THE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT THERE. 
          UH, WE DON'T NEED TO TELL PRECINCT TWO HOW TO RUN THEIR BUSINESS. 
          THEY DON'T TELL US HOW TO RUN OURS. 
          WE WORK TOGETHER COOPERATIVELY, BUT FOR RUNNING THE OFFICE, IF WE HAVE SUPERVISORY MONEY THAT WE CAN USE AND WORKDAY ALLOWS THAT TO WHERE WE CAN ASSIGN THOSE FEES OUT THERE, UH, WE COULD ACCOMPLISH THIS EASILY. 
          AND WE HAVE A SUGGESTED PAY THAT WE WOULD USE IN PRECINCT THREE. 
          BUT THE $7 FEES BEEN COLLECTED FOR TWO YEARS, BUT IT'S NOT BEEN USED FOR SUPERVISORY PAY. 
          AND SUPERVISORY PAY IS WHAT KEEPS THE COUNTY OUT OF A LAWSUIT. 
          UH, THEY'RE THE ONES THAT MAKE SURE THAT STANDARDS AND LAWS ARE ENFORCED WITH THEIR OFFICERS. 
          THEY'RE THE ONES WHO INTERVENE ON A TRAFFIC STOP OR A USE OF FORCE INCIDENTS. 
          THEY REVIEW USE OF FORCE AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE OBSERVING ALL THE LAWS AND THE THINGS THAT WIND US UP IN COURT. 
          I KNOW I USED, I USED, I USED TO HATE POLICY AND PROCEDURE WHEN I WAS A SLICK SLEEVE. 
          UH, BUT THEN I LEARNED IT WAS MORE PROTECTION FOR US BECAUSE IT PREVENTS US FROM GETTING IN TROUBLE. 
          IT PREVENTS LAWSUITS, IT PREVENTS 
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ENDING OF CAREERS. 
          UH, WE APPRECIATE WHAT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE DOES. 
          WHEN WE HAVE A QUESTION, WE TRY TO ASK AND SAY, IS THIS THE CORRECT WAY THAT WE'RE DOING IT? AND WE PUT THAT IN OUR POLICY PROCEDURE TO MAKE SURE IT'S GUIDED TO THE OFFICERS GOING IN THE FUTURE. 
          WE HAVE A CAPTAIN, WE HAVE A LIEUTENANT, WE HAVE FOUR SERGEANTS, WE HAVE FOUR CORP, THREE CORPORALS. 
          A SERGEANT CAN ONLY WORK SO MANY DAYS PER WEEK. 
          SO IN THE TIME THAT A SERGEANT'S NOT PRESENT, A CORPORAL IS PRESENT TO PROVIDE THAT SUPERVISION. 
          OUR OFFICE MANAGER, SHE HAS TO COORDINATE EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON IN THAT OFFICE. 
          OUR BUDGET AREAS, OUR PURCHASING, UH, WE ACTUALLY PUT AN ALLOCATION IN HER FOR $600 A MONTHLY. 
          EVEN WHEN WE DO THAT, WE STILL COME UP WITH A, A PROJECTION THAT WE BRING IN ABOUT $116,000 WITH THAT $14 OR THE, THE $7 FEE ON, ON CIVIL PROCESS DOCUMENTS WHERE WE COULD, WE COULD AFFORD TO DO THAT. 
          AND THIS IS NOT WHAT, SAYING THAT WE NEED TO DO THIS IN EVERY PRECINCT. 
          PERHAPS EACH PRECINCT GETS THAT BASIC AMOUNT OF MONEY, $75,000 AND THEY CAN CREATE THEIR OWN WHATEVER THEY NEED. 
          THEY MAY, THEY NEED FIVE CAPTAINS. 
          WE ARE PUTTING OURS TOWARDS THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE LOWEST TO THE PROBLEM. 
          THE, THE LOWEST PERSON IS ALWAYS THE BEST PERSON THAT WHO OBSERVES THE PROBLEM THAT'S OCCURRING. 
          THAT'S MY LEAST EXPERIENCED OFFICER. 
          HE'S IN CHARGE UNTIL SOMEBODY COMES ALONG AND TEACHES HIM SOMETHING DIFFERENTLY. 
          THAT CORPORAL OR THAT SERGEANT IS THE ONE THAT GETS INTO THE MORE COMPLEX SITUATIONS, UH, ESPECIALLY IN CIVIL PROCESS. 
          AND IN SOME OF THE ORDERS THAT WE GET THAT WE HAVE TO REALLY EXAMINE AND WE REFER THOSE BACK TO THE DA'S OFFICE. 
          SOMETIMES WE GET AN ORDER TO SEARCH EVERY HOUSE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD TO LOOK FOR A MISSING CHILD. 
          AND WE WILL REFER THAT BACK, OBVIOUSLY TO THE DA'S OFFICE AND WE TAKE IT BACK TO THE JUDGE THAT SIGNED IT AND SEE IF THAT'S REALLY WHAT HE INTENDED TO DO. 
          WORKDAY SUPPORTS A PAYMENT STATUS FOR, UH, SUPERVISORY OFFICERS. 
          IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DO ON A MONTHLY BASIS. 
          UH, WE COULD COMPENSATE OUR CAPTAIN A LIEUTENANT IF SOMETHING CHANGES AND HE'S NO LONGER IN A SUPERVISORY POSITION, JUST LIKE WE DO FOR THE NIGHT DIFFERENTIAL. 
          WE COULD REMOVE THAT MONEY BACK FOR THE OFFICER OR THE PERSON WHO TAKES THAT POSITION AND GOES FORWARD. 
          WHAT WE'RE STILL OFFERING AND WHAT WE'RE STILL TRYING TO DO IS WE STILL WANNA BE PART OF THE STRUCTURE. 
          WE WANNA BE PART OF SOLUTIONS, BUT IT'S HARD TO DO WHEN WE ARE DISREGARDED TO A LARGE DEGREE. 
          IT'S NOT THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING AS THE COURT. 
          YOU'RE NOT EXPECTED TO KNOW HOW TO FIX ELEVATORS. 
          YOU'RE NOT EXPECTED TO FIX, KNOW HOW TO FIX ROADWAYS OR WHAT THE ROAD MIX IS. 
          YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS THAT DO THAT. 
          THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, THEIR SPAN OF CONTROL IS FOUR TO FIVE PEOPLE TO A SUPERVISOR. 
          AND AGAIN, WE USE A LOGICAL DIFFERENTIATION AS WHEN WE NEED A SUPERVISOR. 
          IF IT'S SEPARATED GEOGRAPHICALLY AND IN FUNCTION LIKE THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT, UH, THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE SUPERVISORS. 
          AND WHEN WE HAVE TWO DIFFERENT SHIFTS, THAT'S WHERE WE SEE OUR ADDITIONAL SUPERVISORS. 
          WE HAVE AN OFFICER WHO DOES NOTHING BUT TRAINING IN TCO, MAKING SURE THAT WE DON'T GET IN VIOLATION OF TCO RULES, WHICH WOULD EARN US A JUDGMENT OR A FINE FROM T COLE, WHICH THE COUNTY IS THE ONE THAT GETS STUCK PAYING IT. 
          THEY PERFORM A LEGITIMATE FUNCTION. 
          IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S NOT PRESENT. 
          IT'S PRESENT IN EVERY OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IN BEXAR COUNTY. 
          THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE IS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE, AND YET CONSTABLES DON'T HAVE PAID SUPERVISORS. 
          SO WE'RE JUST ASKING FOR THAT PROPORTION OF IT. 
          AS WELL AS THE OTHER ITEMS WE PUT IN HERE. 
          WE ARE TRYING TO REDUCE THE TAXPAYER'S BURDEN BY USING THE MOST THAT WE CAN ON FEES THAT REIMBURSE US FOR OUR EFFORTS, WHETHER IT'S WARRANTS, TRAFFIC FINES, OR COURT ORDERED PROCESS. 
          AND THERE ARE SOME COURT ORDER PROCESS THAT WE DON'T GET PAID FOR. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU CONSTABLE. 
          UM, ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE CONSTABLE? COMMISSIONER MOODY? NOT SURE HOW MANY QUESTIONS. 
          JUST HAVE SOME COMMENTS AND, AND THOUGHTS HERE. 
          WELL ACTUALLY, UM, ONE QUESTION. 
          THE BUDGET OFFICE MENTIONED THE, UH, THAT THIS BCIT ISSUE WITH PRINTING HAS BEEN CORRECTED. 
          CAN YOU CONFIRM THAT OR, I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT THAT WAS AS A PROBLEM. 
          WE DID HAVE SOME PRINT PROBLEMS FROM BCIT, BUT WE STILL PHYSICALLY PRINT ALL THE PAPERS OURSELVES. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE THE WORKLOAD COMES IN IS NOT ONLY JUST THAT, BUT THEN THEY ALSO DO THE INITIAL DIVISION OF, OF, OF WHO, WHICH OFFICER RECEIVES THAT PAPER AND HELPS US ACCOUNT FOR IT. 
          SO WHEN WE, SOMEBODY CALLS US UP AND SAYS, WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS PARTICULAR CASE CAUSE NUMBER, WE CAN LOOK IT UP AND SAY THAT'S MARK V. 
          HE'S GOT THAT ONE THAT WE, WE RETRIEVE THE MOST DECENT INFORMATION FROM IT. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, IS WE'RE TRYING TO ADDRESS THE WORKLOAD FOR IT. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UH, IF THE COURT WAS PRINTING ALL OF THE PAPERS, THERE'S SOME PROBLEMS WITH THAT BECAUSE THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T WORK FOR THE SAME BOSS. 
          SO IF THERE'S PROBLEMS ON THE PAPER, THEY'RE OUTTA ORDER OR THERE'S SOME DOCUMENTS MISSING, IT COULD INVALIDATE THE SERVICE. 
          YOU KNOW, IF THE CITATION'S NOT PROPERLY CORRECTED, NOT DONE, AND WE DON'T HAVE EVERYTHING THAT'S REQUIRED BY LAW, WE WOULD GO OUT AND HAVE TO REPOST IT. 
          IF WE MISS COURT DATES, UH, WE HAVE TO RETURN THOSE TO THE COURT. 
          THEY HAVE TO BE REISSUED IF WE'RE OUT OUT OF TIME ON THE DATES THAT WE HAD TO SERVE THE INITIAL NOTICE OF THE, OF THE 
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EVICTION FORZA. 
          OKAY. 
          I JUST WANTED TO, IF THERE WAS AN ISSUE THAT STILL REMAINED, WHETHER IT BE CIT OR PRINTERS THAT, UH, THAT, THAT WE HAVE A, A SOLUTION OR THAT WE PUSH A SOLUTION WITH THAT. 
          YEAH, AS FAR AS I KNOW, BCIT IS TAKING CARE OF EVERYTHING WE HAD, WE NEEDED. 
          IT'S MORE OF A PERSONNEL ISSUE. 
          RESPONSIVE. 
          UM, THE, UH, THE OTHER QUESTION I HAD, GOING BACK TO THE, THE CHANGE BETWEEN WHAT WAS PROPOSED AND THE UPDATED NUMBER, WHAT, WHAT CHANGED IN THAT AND, AND WHY, WHY WASN'T IT INCLUDED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET? IS MY, UH, 'CAUSE THESE WERE A PART OF HIS BUDGET ISSUES, SO WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO PUT IT INTO THE, WHAT WE, WE EVALUATED AFTER THE PROPOSED. 
          OKAY. 
          DID THAT AFFECT ALL THE PRECINCTS OR JUST PRECINCT THREE? IT JUST ALL OFFICES AND DEPARTMENTS. 
          OKAY. 
          ANY LIKE, SO WHAT HAPPENS DURING THE PROCESS IS WE PROVIDE OUR RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, AND THEN WE EITHER CONFIRM OR SAY, HEY, YEAH, WE NEED TO INCLUDE THIS IN THE PROPOSED, BUT SOMETIMES IT, UH, JUST TIMING, IT'S EASIER JUST TO WAIT AFTER PROPOSED. 
          SO WE ARE STILL GOING THROUGH THE EVALUATION OF ANY BUDGET ISSUES, UH, FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS. 
          AND THEN WE'LL INCLUDE THAT IN THE CHANGE MEMO. 
          SO THERE'S NOTHING UNIQUE ABOUT THIS, IT'S JUST BECAUSE HE BROUGHT IT AS A, USUALLY WE DON'T TALK ABOUT BASELINES FOR WORK SESSIONS, BUT IT WAS ONE OF THE CONSTABLE'S ISSUES, SO WE JUST BROUGHT IT TODAY. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UM, JUST SOME OTHER THOUGHTS HERE. 
          JUST WANNA HIGHLIGHT, FIRST OF ALL, CONSTABLE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO PRECINCT THREE AND YOUR TEAM, YOUR DEPUTIES, UH, AS YOU MENTIONED, SERVING TWO SHIFTS SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. 
          UM, YOU DO A LOT OF WORK, UH, FOR OUR PRECINCT, AND THAT'S GREATLY APPRECIATED. 
          UM, YOU, YOU HIGHLIGHTED ONE OF THE QUESTIONS, RIGHT? AND WE PREVIOUSLY TALKED ABOUT MOTORCYCLES. 
          WE'VE HAD OTHER CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR CONSTABLES, NOT JUST PRECINCT THREE. 
          AND I DO THINK WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB AS A COURT, UH, DEFERRING TO OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO CONSTABLES WHO ARE IN A UNIQUE, UH, POSITION DOING A UNIQUE JOB, UH, AND, AND OBVIOUSLY HAVE THE EXPERTISE IN THEIR DOMAIN. 
          I THINK THAT, UM, SHARE MANY OF YOUR THOUGHTS IN TERMS OF THE OVERALL BUDGET SITUATION AND HOW WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THIS AND, AND NOT JUST TRY TO MAKE SHORT TERM SOLUTIONS, BUT THINKING ABOUT THE MIDTERM AND LONG TERM AND THINKING ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR NEXT YEAR AND THE YEAR AFTER THAT. 
          UH, I SHARE YOUR CONCERNS, RIGHT, WHEN IT COMES TO THE LONG TERM GROWTH AND INFLATIONARY COSTS AROUND CAPITAL PROJECTS AND, AND OTHER INVESTMENTS, PERSONNEL, INFLATION COSTS, UH, OVER THE COMING YEARS. 
          AND, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO, UH, SOLVE THAT, WHICH IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I HAVE TALKED ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT I THINK IT IS THAT WE HOLD THE LINE ON, ON, UH, UH, OUR SPENDING THIS YEAR. 
          ESPECIALLY THE DISCRETIONARY SPENDING THAT ARE NICE TO HAVES AS AS YOU HIGHLIGHTED. 
          UM, BECAUSE ULTIMATELY, YOU KNOW, WE ARE EATING INTO OUR RESERVES AS WE DID THIS PAST YEAR, AND WE WILL IN THIS BUDGET, BUT I WANNA AT LEAST SEE PROGRESS THAT WE'RE, WE'RE REDUCING, THAT WE'RE, WE'RE MOVING TOWARDS STRUCTURAL BALANCE BETWEEN OUR REVENUE AND EXPENSES AS WE GO FORWARD HERE. 
          I'LL JUST SAY THERE'S, YOU KNOW, AS WE WENT THROUGH A LOT OF DIFFERENT TOPICS HERE TODAY AND, AND WE, PREVIOUS WORK SESSIONS, WE'VE DONE THE SAME. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I'M CONFLICTED OBVIOUSLY, BECAUSE I THINK PUBLIC SAFETY AND OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CONSTABLES ARE, UH, VERY MUCH A CRITICAL PIECE OF WHAT WE NEED TO, TO DO TO, TO PROVIDE THAT SAFETY IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR OUR COMMUNITY, FOR OUR KIDS AT SCHOOLS. 
          AND, UM, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO BALANCE THAT WITH, WITH OUR COSTS. 
          NOW ULTIMATELY LONG TERM, WE'RE GONNA NEED ADDITIONAL CONSTABLES. 
          WE ARE GONNA NEED ADDITIONAL DEPUTY SHERIFFS. 
          I MEAN, THERE'S NO DOUBT. 
          AND SO TRYING TO WRESTLE WITH, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE MANAGE THIS BUDGET CYCLE VERSUS FUTURE BUDGET CYCLES? WE CANNOT NOT INVEST, UH, OVER THE MIDTERM AND LONG TERM IN ADDIT ADDITIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY AND ADDITIONAL DEPUTY SHERIFFS AND CONSTABLES. 
          UM, THAT'S MY POSITION NOW AS WE GO THROUGH ALL THESE ITEMS TODAY AND IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS, I GET CONCERNED WITH, UH, A LOT OF CONSIDERATION ON OTHER BUDGETARY ADD-ONS AND OTHER, UH, POSITIONS THAT ARE LIKELY TRYING TO CREEP THEIR WAY BACK INTO THE BUDGET OR COME OUTTA CONTINGENCIES INTO THE GENERAL FUND. 
          BUT IF WE'RE GONNA DO THAT, THEN I WOULD SAY WE SHOULD, UH, DEFINITELY FIRST CONSIDER PUBLIC SAFETY AND CONSTABLE ASKS VERSUS ALL THE OTHER ASKS THAT ARE GONNA 
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BE COMING AT US AND CAME AT US TODAY AND, AND WILL NO DOUBT OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. 
          SO THAT'S, THAT'S HOW I VIEW THIS. 
          UH, I'M TRYING TO, TO BALANCE THE BUDGET OR MOVE TOWARDS A BALANCED BUDGET AND, AND YET THINK ABOUT MY PRIORITIES, UH, WHAT, WHICH I THINK ARE THE PRIORITIES OF MY CONSTITUENTS IN PRECINCT THREE. 
          BUT, UM, THAT ALSO REQUIRES, YOU KNOW, THE, THE COURT TO, TO HOLD THE LINE ON THESE OTHER INVESTMENTS, THESE NICE TO HAVES AS, AS YOU HAVE LAID OUT THERE, CONSTABLE. 
          AND, UH, I AGREE WITH YOU ON THAT. 
          THE, UH, THE LAST THING I'LL JUST MENTION IS THE SUPERVISORY PAY. 
          I KNOW THAT WE GOT WHERE I THOUGHT WE WERE PRETTY CLOSE TO A, A COMPROMISED DEAL ON THAT. 
          UH, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS LAST YEAR OR THE YEAR BEFORE. 
          UM, AND IT WAS KIND OF GONNA MAYBE BE NOT ACROSS ALL THOSE POSITIONS, BUT MAYBE THAT'S AT THE CORPORAL SERGEANT LEVEL OR LIEUTENANT LEVEL WHERE YOU ARE NOT IN A SEPARATE CATEGORY IN TERMS OF PAY. 
          YOU ARE THERE WITH A LOT OF OTHER CORPORALS AND SERGEANTS AND YOU ARE BEING ASKED TO DO ADDITIONAL WORKLOAD. 
          AND THAT, TO ME MAKES A LOT OF SENSE. 
          I ADVOCATED FOR THAT AT THE TIME, YOU KNOW, I WOULD STILL FULLY SUPPORT THAT. 
          YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY RIGHT NOW IS A REALLY DIFFICULT TIME TO, TO TRY TO FIT THAT IN. 
          I APPRECIATE THE INNOVATIVE, UH, SOLUTION THAT YOU PROPOSED THERE, BUT I, I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD STILL LOOK AT BECAUSE AS A COURT, WE SHOULDN'T BE ASKING PEOPLE TO DO, UM, ADDITIONAL WORK WITH, WITHOUT ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION. 
          RIGHT? AND WE'RE ASKING THEM TO LEAD, WE'RE ASKING THEM TO BE SUPERVISORS, UH, BUT THEN WE'RE NOT GOING TO, UH, TO PAY THEM, UH, FOR THAT TIME AND FOR THAT EFFORT. 
          I DON'T KNOW ANY RESPONSE. 
          WELL, IF, IF THE LONGER WE DELAY USING THESE ALTERNATIVE SOURCES TO, TO FUND THE CONSTABLE'S OFFICES, WHICH IS THE STATUTORY PAPER THAT'S, UH, THE, THE TWO STATUTORY METHODS ARE THE TRAFFIC FINES, WARRANT FEES SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED TO OFFSET THE COSTS OF THOSE SERVICES. 
          THE SAME THING GOES WITH THE CIVIL PROCESS THAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE. 
          WE DO NOT COME ANYWHERE CLOSE TO TAKING CARE OF OUR CIVIL PROCESS FEES. 
          THAT WAY, IF WE DID, WE WOULD BE FAR OUTSIDE THE REALM OF ANYBODY WHO COULD AFFORD US. 
          SO PART OF IT'S GONNA BE A COST THAT GOVERNMENT HAS TO EAT. 
          UH, WE ALSO TRY TO GET TO A POINT WHERE BY DELAYING WHAT WE ASK FOR THIS YEAR, YOU CAN GO BACK AND LOOK OVER THE CHART THAT I PROVIDED BEFORE OF HOW THE INCREASES HAVE CREPT UP EVERY YEAR WHEN THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE MAKE WERE, WE'RE DISREGARDED. 
          AND INSTEAD IT WAS A STAFF DECISION OR A A, UH, MAYBE AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET SAYING 10% OFF. 
          UH, IT JUST COMPOUNDS FROM 1%, 1 CENT ON EVERY DOLLAR TO NOW IT'S AT 38 CENTS FOR EVERY DOLLAR THAT THE TAXPAYER HAS TO PROVIDE. 
          MY GOAL IS TO GET IT BACK UP TO WHERE IT WAS TO, OR IS IT 1% WHERE IT'S BEING PROVIDED AND WE'RE USING THE STATUTORY WAYS TO REIMBURSE BEXAR COUNTY BY MAKING THE PEOPLE WHO USE OUR SERVICES PAY THE COSTS. 
          WE HAVEN'T INVENTED ANYTHING NEW AND WE'RE TRYING TO USE IT, THE BETTER PROCESS TO DO THAT, AND IT'S GONNA NOW TAKE A LONGER TIME PERIOD. 
          THE LONGER WE DELAY TAKING THESE KIND OF STEPS, THE MORE WE'RE GONNA FALL INTO, YOU'RE GONNA BE PAYING THE COST OF CONSTABLES OUT OF TAXPAYER MONEY VERSUS OUT OF THE TWO OTHER FUNDS THAT THE 200 METHODS THAT ARE DESIGNED TO US BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE. 
          YEAH, AND I, I UNDERSTAND THE USER FEE ARGUMENT AND, UM, I I THINK WE HAVE INCREASED, LEO, IS, ARE, ARE THESE DIFFERENT USER FEES, PROCESS FEES, OR ARE THESE THE ONES THAT WE HAVE MADE CHANGES OR RECOMMENDED CHANGES ON? UH, THAT IS THE FEES, UH, THAT, UH, THE CONSTABLE IS TALKING ABOUT THAT WE'VE INCREASED THOSE. 
          UH, I BELIEVE THERE WAS FOUR OR FIVE OF THE FEES THAT WE WENT UP MM-HMM . 
          AND IT, IT'S AN INVOLVED PROCESS. 
          I MEAN, WE BRING IN THE, THE CONSTABLES IS MANAGEMENT, ALL THE OFFICES, ALL THE DEPUTIES, THEY TELL US THEIR CONCERNS, AREAS THAT THEY'RE HAVING DIFFICULTIES WITH. 
          WE TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION. 
          WE HAVE A WEIGHTED SCHEDULE WE'VE USED FOR YEARS. 
          UH, WE'VE GOT A CAP ON THERE, WE CAN'T GO OVER. 
          IT'S 400 AND SOMETHING DOLLARS. 
          AND SOME OF THOSE WE'RE AT 3 75. 
          SO, UM, WE, WE, THERE'S A LOT OF FACTORS GO INTO THAT. 
          BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, COMMISSIONER, YES, THOSE ARE FEES AND, UH, CIVIL PROCESS FEES HE'S TALKING ABOUT. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          UM, IT STILL DOESN'T REALLY GET AT THE WHOLE TRAFFIC CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE HAD BEFORE. 
          AND, AND THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A FEW PEOPLE WHO GET UPSET ABOUT THAT CONVERSATION. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK THAT CONSTABLE AND I ARE ALIGNED IN THE FACT THAT TRYING TO KEEP OUR OUR STREETS SAFE FOR OUR KIDS AND FOR OUR FAMILIES, DRIVING HOME FROM SCHOOL OR WORK, UH, IS IMPORTANT. 
          AND SOMETIMES THAT INVOLVES, UH, TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT, UM, WHICH, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK IS AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF KEEPING OUR STREETS SAFE. 
          SO, AND WE HAVE OVER 100 SCHOOL ZONES IN PRECINCT THREE, AND ABOUT THE ONLY WAY I CAN SERVICE THOSE IS A MOTORCYCLE. 
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I CAN DO, I CAN TRY TO DO IT WITH A FOUR WHEEL VEHICLE, BUT THAT INCREASES THE HAZARD THAT WE'RE GONNA BE INVOLVED IN A COLLISION. 
          UH, AND IT ALSO KEEPS US FROM GETTING INTO SOME OF THE MOST SERIOUS AREAS THAT NEED OUR ATTENTION. 
          UNDERSTAND. 
          WELL, I, I SHARE YOUR, YOUR CONCERNS ON THIS. 
          YOU KNOW, WHEN IT COMES TO THE SUPERVISORY PAY, I, I'M COMMITTED TO CONTINUING TO WORK WITH YOU ON THAT AND, AND SEE IF WE CAN GET TO A, UH, UH, POSITIVE SOLUTION AND MOVE IN THAT DIRECTION FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT NEED TO BE COMPENSATED FOR THEIR TIME. 
          THE, UM, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF THE ADDITIONAL CONSTABLES, UH, THIS, THIS YEAR MAY BE, UH, YOU KNOW, REALLY CHALLENGING TO PROVIDE. 
          BUT I THINK WE, WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THAT AS A COURT. 
          IF WE ARE GOING TO ADD, UH, TO SOME OF THESE OTHER PROGRAM CHANGE REQUESTS, THEN WHY ARE WE GOING TO LEAVE OUT LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CONSTABLES BEING, YOU KNOW WHAT? I WOULD, I WOULD GO FIRST TO IF I WAS GONNA SPEND ADDITIONAL MONEY ON PERSONNEL RIGHT NOW, I'LL LEAVE IT THERE. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU COMMISSIONER CONSTABLE, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. 
          UM, SEEING NO OTHER QUESTIONS. 
          I BELIEVE THAT IS THE LAST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA FOR THIS WORK SESSION. 
          SO WE, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN. 
          MOVE TO ADJOURN MOTION. 
          IS THAT A SECOND? COMMISSIONER MOODY. 
          SECOND. 
          WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SEAT BY SAYING AYE. 
          AYE. 
          AYE. 
          WE ARE ADJOURNED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU EVERYBODY.
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