Regular Session

Good evening everyone. Packed house tonight. Um, tonight is Monday, October 12th. This is our regular session, our first regular session for the month of October. and and we will start. Um I'm going to read the public charge and the land acknowledgement and then I'll ask uh Commissioner Jacobs to lead us in the pledge. Is that okay? All right. And then we'll get moving here. The board of commissioners ask his members and residents to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner both with the board and fellow residents. At any time should any member of the board or resident fail to observe this public charge, the chair will ask the offending person to leave the meeting until the individual regains personal control. Should the quorum fail to be restored, the chair will re recess the meeting until such time that a genuine commitment to the public charge is observed. Now for the land acknowledgement. As we convene for the Durham County Durham County Commissioners meeting, it is crucial to recognize the painful truth of history. We stand on the stolen ancestral lands of the Kataba, Eno, Okaniji, Shakori, and Tuscora peoples um whose deep connection connection to this land predates our arrival. We acknowledge with humility and unjust displacement and violence the unjust displacement and violence that occurred leading to the dispossession of indigenous pe of indigenous peoples from their homelands. Their resilience in this face of such adversity is a testament to their strength and spirit. May we humbly honor the ancestors and elders of these nations, both past and present, by committing ourselves to fostering understanding, healing, and justice for all who inhabit this land. Let us walk forward together with with

open hearts, acknowledging the past, and embracing a future guided by compassion, respect, and unity. Um, Commissioner Jacobs, would you lead us in the pledge? To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

All right. Thank you. Um, as we get started, you may notice that we're missing a couple commissioners. both are are not feeling well tonight and so we I will need a motion. I'll accept a motion to for excuse absences for both uh vice chair Nitam and Commissioner Steven Valentine.

So move second.

Has been moved and properly seconded. We do um absences official absences for um excuse absences for the both commissioners. Any further discussion? All in favor say I.

I.

All oppose, please use the same sign. Pass unanimously. Next item on our agenda, the agenda adjustments. Um agenda adjustments. Are there any changes to the agenda? If not, I'll accept a motion to accept the agenda as pres presented.

So moved. Second.

It's been moved and properly seconded. We approve the agenda as presented. All in favor say I.

I.

All oppose, please use the same sign. Passes unanimously. Again, next item on our agenda are the announcements. Clerk Wallace.

Good evening. Excuse me. [clears throat] Good evening, everyone. I will read the announcements published in tonight's agenda. Applications are now being accepted for Durham County's food security grant program. A total of $250,000 is available to support local projects that strengthen food security for Durham residents. Grant awards range

from 20,000 to 50,000. The deadline to apply is Monday, October 26 at 12 p.m. Projects may use a wide range of strategies, including but not limited to providing direct food assistance, helping residents access nutrition programs, building organizational capacity, improving coordination between service providers, and offering training in growing, preparing, or s sourcing food. For more information, you can visit uh durhamces.ncsu.edu. It's also linked on our county website. Durham County students in third through 12th grade are invited to show off their creativity and knowledge in our conservation contest. The contest challenge students to illustrate their knowledge through a poster, essay, slideshow, or public speaking presentation. The contest is open to all Durham County public, private, charter, and homeschool students, as well as student clubs. This year's theme is soil and water, yours for life. For more information, you can visit the county website. Flu season is here. The CDC recommends getting your flu shot by the end of October for the best protection. Visit the Durham County Department of Public Health's immunization clinic Monday through Friday for flu shots. No appointment is needed. Um though appointments are available. Call 919-560-7608 to schedule. Insurance is also accepted. Flu shot. Flu shots are available at reduced or no cost for people who are uninsured or underinsured. For more information, you could visit dcopublichealth.org. And lastly, the October 2026 episode of InTouch with Durham County produced by the public information office is now live. This month's show highlights two important areas of county service. Sheila Bowen's Bratz, director of the

youth home, discusses expanded services designed to support youth in a safe and structured environment as they navigate the court process. The episode also features internal internal audit director Shirley McFadden, who shares how the internal audit department works to ensure county programs remain um accountable, efficient, and well managed. You can watch the full episode on the county's YouTube channel. And that concludes the announcements published in tonight's agenda.

Thank you, Clerk Wallace. Next item on our agenda is the appro I'm sorry, additional um announcements from the commissioners.

Thank you, Chair Lee. Um I just only have a couple of well three announcements real brief. First, I want to give a really um acknowledge um our colleagues, Commissioners Wendy Jacobs and Commissioner Steven Valentine, as well as our sheriff, Sheriff Clarence Burkehead, for serving on a panel last Wednesday night sponsored by the Durm branch of the NAACP. Um it was really, really great. I know you want to talk more about it, but talking about mental health and um criminal justice, our youth mental health and um the heart program and how we can collaborate more. So, I just I'm really grateful that the Durham branch of the NAACP is doing these forums to get information out to the community. So, I just wanted to give you all a shout out for that. Um, also I wanted to say that I had the opportunity today to go out to the forest at Duke where they celebrated six centinarians who live at the forest of Duke. Um, I gave brief words on behalf of the county and it was just really a delightful occasion. Um, to celebrate these six individuals, one of them was Jean Bradley Anderson who wrote Durham County, a history of Durham County, North Carolina. She lives out at the forest of Duke. If you all haven't read

the book, it's quite an interest a really good historical read about our county. I believe she's 102 and I joked with her and said elected officials, if you want to be an elected official or if you are elected official, it should be required reading. Um so that happened today. And then finally, um on a final note, I want to send condolences um to the family of Andrew Brooks. um his untimely death um that happened on last Thursday on October 8th during fighter fighter who was in who got killed in the line of duty um off of Marley Drive. Um there was a beautiful procession for him back to his hometown of Burlington on I 85 and 40. um they were bringing his body back from the state medical's examiner's office and it was really a beautiful sight to see to see all the first responders and fire trucks escorting his body home. So that's all I have for now. Thank you so much,

Commissioner Jacobs.

Uh thank you, Commissioner Burton. I want to echo um that it was a a great conversation at the Zafa Temple about how we can collaborate and I believe that we can work together to ensure that people who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis in our community are able to get directly connected to the mental health resources they need and to get the care um they need and deserve. serve during that moment of crisis. So, I appreciate that um acknowledgement and also to the family uh firefighter broker who's a true hero and has paid the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of all of us and I also want to send sympathies to

the Durham Fire Department and to his family. Um I I did want to share um related to what you also experienced at the forest at Duke. Um, thank you to uh Eddie Davis who never fails to email me about this acknowledgment uh that um our very famous Katherine Ferrell who is the second oldest living person now in the United States and the oldest known living person in North Carolina turned 114. 14 114 years old on October 12th. Uh so I just want to make sure that our entire community uh knows and can celebrate her life and her birthday. She was born in Warsaw, North Carolina in a two- room house and graduated validictorian from Frederick Douglas High School in 1931. And since then she has been actively involved throughout her life teaching Sunday school and she remains very mobile still uh with the help of a cane and she was recognized for her longevity and community contributions uh from Joe Biden, President Biden and uh North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on her 110th 10th birthday. And last year in 2025, she received the was awarded the Order of the Longleaf Pine, which is the state's highest honor, making her the oldest recipient of the Order of the

Longleaf Pine in North Carolina's history. So, happy birthday, Mrs. Frell, from all of us. All right. Thank you. And um I do apologize. I had on my other computer I make notes on on my agenda and I had to do a moment of silence before we started our meeting for uh firefighter uh Andrew uh Broker. So, um, as we get into the meat of the meeting, I would call for a a moment of silence for firefighter, um, Andrew Brooke. Thank you. All right. Next item on our agenda is the approval of the minutes dated September 28th, 2026, our regular session.

I move that we approve the minutes from September 28, 2026.

Second.

It's been moved and properly seconded. We approve the minutes dated September 28th, 2026. Um, any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. I.

All oppose, please use the same sign. Passes unanimously.

Next item on our agenda is the consent agenda. We have one item that needs to be pulled for two public comments. Okay. And that is it's actually the last item on the consent agenda which is 2600538. That is the approval of the property tax releases and refunds for September 2026. Go ahead.

Um and um chair Lee, I also wanted to pull because I had some com uh questions

um 26-0525 and I also had a suggestion of something to be added to um 26-0530. just amended for that the resolution.

So, we're pulling 0538, 0525, and 0530. Is that what you said? Uh,

yes.

Yes, that's correct.

Now, the U early childhood. Okay. So, we will do the agenda the consent agenda approval absent the items 0525 05. Well, let me just make the motion. So, I'll accept a motion to approve the consent agenda with the removal of items 0525, 0530, and 0538. So moved.

Second.

All right. Um there's a motion on the floor. Has been properly seconded. Any further discussion?

All in favor say I.

I.

All oppose, please use the same sign. Passes unanimously. So the items we will let's do the one with the public comment first. Get it out of the way. And then um at the end we'll do a motion to approve the three items. all at the same time. Okay. All right. So, the item that has the public comment is 260538. We have two public comments. We'll do three minutes each. Um we have uh Randy Cohen

and then um Pablo Freriedman. First of all, I apologize because I don't hear very well.

Okay.

But the second thing is I'm not here to step on anybody's toes, attack anybody, or accuse anybody.

That's not me. But on June the 1st, you had Mr. Doyle in here and asked questions that I couldn't didn't know how to ask about why taxes went up. and his answer from what I understand on this article was I don't know I can't answer that but then the final thing he said was it was due to outside data error so I let it go I said okay it'll be corrected uh then tax forms came out this year and instead of to me being corrected mine went up some more and it felt like it was swept under the carpet after the 1st, June the 1st, instead of telling the citizens of Durham County what's going on and why people got refunds or deductions, which was high corporations, big apartment complexes, the little residential people didn't. And at a single elderly person still working a full-time job trying to make ends meet when your property tax jumps up from one figure to almost double that figure and you're not prepared for that. And then you go to talk to them about it and you are basically dismissed, disrespected, told you should have been expecting this to come. Told it's your fault to live where you want to live or your choice to live where I live. I've been there for 76 years. My parents lived there their married life. My grandparents built the place in the 20s. So, at the risk of losing all that, I do

get upset and I don't know how to express that. But I feel like we as the residents, not just me, but all the D County residences were not treated fairly on this and was left out in the cold and just told one time I was told, "Well, that's what you got to pay. You got to pay it. There's nothing we can do." So, I think we need answers and Mr. Do needs to answer those questions that y'all asked him and he didn't have answers for. not accusing him of anything, but just as a citizen of Durham County, I feel like we're left out. And that's all I have to say cuz I'm not a speaker. I'm sorry.

Oh, no. [laughter] That's perfectly fine. And uh Mr. Colet, um we will we have your information here. We'll make sure that Mr. Doyle gets this and reaches out to make sure he can answer questions that you have.

At 79 years old, I didn't even think about you know, my age and my income on asking for a reduction on that part,

right,

on the house that I live in. I'm not making I've got three, but I'm not making any income on them. It's family members living there. We've lived there our whole lives,

right? So, we'll we'll make sure that he or his staff reaches out and make sure he answers all of your questions to make sure, but also I would love the staff to see,

you know, to work with Mr. Coley to see if there's any of the programs that we do for um

because this I picked it up by accident and it broke down Janu June 1st meeting.

Is that the Indie

Indie? Yeah, there are some challenges with that. I don't know.

Yeah. Okay. Were you going to say something to

Yes. This is not directly related, but I did want to make sure that you knew about our low uh long-term homeowner tax

relief program. Have you you're aware of that?

Yeah, I've been there. I grew up there.

Oh, I'm sorry. Um, we have a special program for residents like you, um, to help with their tax pay with their tax payments. I just want to make sure you know about the program and there's been an evaluation to see whether you qualify. Do you know about this program?

Yeah, I'm I'm make too much to

Okay.

to to get part of it. I see. But then Mr. Dor told me about one of them. Okay. And I called and they said that program is not available anymore.

Okay. It it is um I'm not asking.

Okay. We'll make sure that we have staff follow up with you. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am. That's all I have. All right. Um, good evening, chair. Um, good evening, county manager, county attorney, tens of folks in the audience, millions of folks who care about democracy online, and all the news reporters who watch these meetings. So, I know in past county commissioner meetings, you all approve these reports pro fora, but I wanted to devote my comments tonight in two parts, actually three parts. The first part is the gentleman who came up before us. I feel for him, but I think the net impact of some of our policy decisions at the county level have forced residents to shoulder these incredible tax burdens. And I really think this is an opportunity for us to reset what has been going on here at the county level. And I want to be clear, this is not a me

versus you all as county commissioners. I do want to thank your comments when I spoke here two months ago and you all were supportive of more transparency, but I want to push this further along, which leads me to point number two. The report tonight has large amounts of money being refunded. And I looked detailed line by line and what appears to be the Chesterfield building in here in downtown Durham. Almost a million dollars of tax revenue is being withheld due to that building based on the report that you were about to prove pro- fora tonight. And I think at a minimum you can approve that or you can ask questions. I think the taxpayers have been getting particularly the residential taxpayers have sort of been taking the short end of the stick recently. Why is the Chesterfield being having almost a million dollars in tax revenue being withheld on the report? I understand there's a couple hundred overpayments here and there, $1,000, but a million that's a lot. And I think the public needs to understand why that's occurring. And I think some more sunlight from the electeds would be helpful here. But I also want to talk about point number two, which is what I talked about two months ago, which is the minutes, right? You electeds um had asked the tax administrators to release them. I checked the website today. They're still not posted. And I'm really really concerned because I actually think the tax administrator is incorrectly applying state statute to why he's not trying to withhold it. Um, if you look at the Public Records Act, particularly section uh um and I'm going to give the the citation here 132-1.1B, it defines what tax information can be withheld by state statute in minutes of a board of equalization review do not qualify. County attorney, you can check my citation if you want, [snorts] but I really think this board needs to hold this tax administrator accountable. billions of dollars of rebates having given to commercial property owners and the sunlight still has not been shown on how the inner workings of that board did that. We as a taxpayers deserve that. Um

you know the next step in this process would be going to mediation of public records act disputes. I want to avoid that. Um I think you all have the right to do that. I want to push you all to lean into your oversight powers, the electeds like you did last go around and please publish those minutes. No one's asking here for confidential income information. Just release those minutes so we have greater understanding of how those decisions were made. Thank you.

Thank you. All right. Go ahead. Um I'm going to go to Commissioner Burton first and then I'll come back.

Um thank you Chair Lee. And so I want to go back to this meeting that Mr. Freeman talked about. I believe um vice chair Lom had made the request about the board of equalization review minutes to be put out um on the website and I believe you know county manager wanted to talk more about it or we want to discuss it more. I think that's my recollection. I don't think we said do this. I believe chair vice chair Lam had made a request. So I just want to make sure that's um put out there. And then also just wanting to understand more about um because I want us as a board to be transparent, right? I believe in that. But I also want to understand more about the confidentiality of the records, how much you can put out. Um the board of the equalization review handled the appeals once from what I understand what's Mr. Doyle has done his work and then people put in the appeals. It goes before the board of equalization and review. So clearly I think people think there's some secrecy or something like that which I don't think that's the case. But how do we make this process transparent? Because I it it's kind of cumbersome to keep hearing that we as a board are not being transparent and

we're not doing the due diligence as a county commission. Um, and I'm just trying to figure out how can we um maybe if we had the board of equalization review come before us the previous to talk about what the process is, would that help? I'm just trying to make sure that we're doing our role as commissioners and making sure that our residents um have confidence in the process. So I just wanted to ask that question. Yeah, we will follow up. We have um explained the process for um the board of equalizations review and um there are some Q&As's about how the business um valuations differed from residential and that those steps and processes. we can definitely have a conversation about the overall revaluation process and what happened as a reminder. Um, and I'll weigh in I'll ask the attorney to weigh in further. Okay. Um what I will add as far as the minutes are concerned is that there are tax specific statutes that um go towards what can be released and what cannot be released. And so just um just to further explain what we would do is go through the minutes there. There's probably information that can be released, but there are a lot of minutes. And so everything would have to be reviewed in order to make sure that the information that is considered confidential is

redacted. Um because there are consequences to releasing protected information. And so that takes time. There are multiple levels of review that would that those minutes would have to go through. Um and so depending upon how far back the board wishes to release um the minutes that will take time that will take um staff having to go through at the tax level but then also through my office as well and I appreciate that we I am just going to put this on the record um that that was my first year as a county commission and I have the utmost confidence in our tax administrator Mr. Mr. Doyle, um we had an enormous task um because there were so many new properties that had been built in Durham County from 2019 all the way to 2025. And there are a lot more new properties that are being built. Um and the values that went up on a lot of the properties were unprecedented, particularly at the residential level. Um, so and we want to make sure that we are transparent and we're doing the job of the county and making sure our residents know that we are doing the best job and that we hear them. Um, and we also have these state laws that we have to abide by as well. So, thank you for um listening and we can continue to talk about this and how we can make the information, you know, open and respecting state statutes. So, thank you,

Commissioner Jacobs.

I think Commissioner Burton, I don't need to repeat what she said. I was going to basically say some of the same things. I appreciate you raising the issue, Mr. Freeman. But I I do recall that we did direct the manager to come

back to us just explaining what the process would be because I think it's like something like 10,000 pages of minutes. So the reality or maybe it was more. So it's just the reality of what the work that staff has to do. um it's going to take time and whatever the process needs to be done and make sure that we follow the rules about it. So, thank you and I hope you can be patient as the staff works through that. Thank you.

Okay, any other comments on that particular item? That was 0538. All right, the next item that was pulled was 0525 and that is the budget ordinance amendment. Uh, Commissioner Jacobs, you wanted to pull that?

Yeah. I just I just wanted to raise this kind of a bigger picture. I've already talked to the county manager, but just um the reality that this is how much it costs for us for one month uh to provide health care in [clears throat] the detention center and the youth home. um is is very concerning and that I especially would like to for us to be able to dig in further um as we move forward with looking at other options um for care especially around the youth home contract. I know after being there I saw I read through the scope that's in the I mean the draft contract and it lists a lot of different um staff people who were supposed to be providing services to the youth home. We did see one nurse um there in the health clinic. But I would I just would like to really understand better like what services in reality are being um provided to the youth home. I know there have been some concerns and

also for instance it says in the contract that there's going to be four hours of psychological services per week. Um I I just would like to know is that really happening? Um, and how how are we at this point able to assess can we figure out a way to assess whether the services that are supposed to be provided by well path are in fact being provided I guess is what I'm trying to say. And I think it's going to be important as we move forward with a new RFP that we really really dig into these issues um very deeply. Um, and also it just really hits home what was discussed at the panel last week is that it's much more coste effective to invest upstream and to invest in prevention and make sure that we keep people out of our youth home and out of our jail. and to make sure that um things that we can address like recidivism or you know our pre-trial release program which actually saves 11.2 million a year by people being um under the Justice Services Department awaiting trial instead of in the detention center. That's a great example of how we can save money. but also looking at our behavioral health crisis system and how we can make sure that when people call 911 that they're going to get the help they need. I think we have to just look really seriously at this because when you think about uh spending a half a million dollars a month, that's you know like six or seven million dollars a year. I I know everyone sitting here can think of a lot of things that we could be

spending that money on that we everyone in our community would rather do. So I that's the reason I push pulled this is just because I do have concerns when I read the contract and especially after you know being at the youth home. Um, and I know we this is important and we have to move forward with it, but just pin putting a pin in it for a way forward. And I'll let you talk about this further, Madam Manager, because I know we we already talked about this.

Well, and I'll I'll speak briefly. We are evaluating the health care cost associated with this contract looking at it more carefully as you've mentioned because of um overall inflationary increases. We have the same challenges um with our own health plan and we bid it out in 2025 and then we rebid it the next year trying to see could we have more competitive um offerings and we we were able to successfully uh get better rates. And so uh for this contract we are trying to establish a short-term solution as we look at our longer term um strategies if there have been shifts um at the state level in how we handle um behavioral health, mental health at the detention centers um and which does have a a more complex approach in how you um do your care. And so we want to make sure for our um longer term contract that we're better informed and um as we look at the RFP, what's best now as well as in the future as we're trying to serve those who are within the detention center and within the youth home because we do want them to have the best care while they're

here. Um but we also recognize the cost that's associated with it and ensuring the services um whether it is in the detention center or other support um entities we're making the right approach and I'll ask Dr. Jenkins if it's any additional information he'd like to add.

No additional uh comments. The other only other thing I will say um manager Hager and uh members of the board is that we do hold uh well past feet to the fire as far as quarterly updates statistics uh to ensure that they're meeting their contractual obligations. But I wholeheartedly agree with the manager uh with a number of different things that have changed to include uh Iran's law and um you know all the inflationary items that she just mentioned. uh there is a dire need to ensure that we're getting more bang for our buck.

Thank you.

Okay. And that's okay. So that's 0525. The next item is the that was pulled off was 260530 and that is the approve the resolution amending the resolution establishing the Durham County Early Childhood Task Force and approve the task force members. Uh, Commissioner Jacobs.

Yes, thank you. I just had one suggestion. And I had emailed the county manager and the county attorney earlier about this which is I know in the resolution we it there it says that the task force has up to two years. Um I was going to suggest that we include some wording about reporting to the board of county commissioners within that two-year period. Um so um in consultation with the attorney u was going to suggest every at least every

six months a report to the board of county commissioners just an update. So that was going to be one of my suggestions of what how to amend the language. Um the other and you know it's really just a suggestion but when I looked at and the board looks great the suggestions of the appointees um I I would love to hear your thoughts about I know Ramsey Richie will be the be on there from the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce and I just had one thought whether we would want to have maybe an actual representative from the business community who is providing child care to also serve and I just want to hear your thoughts on that.

Um, absolutely. Um, thank you for your question, Commissioner Jacobs. Um, and good evening, fellow commissioners and county manager. Um, I yes, I I think many of us were were hoping for the same for the task force. We are actively recruiting folks from the business community who are supporting child care in a variety of ways as as Durham companies are doing. Some have on-site child care. Some are subsidizing child care for their employees. Um what what Ramsay and and some others on the task force have had some challenges with is just the time commitment. And so if if you notice in the amendment, it has some details about subcommittees. And I think some some of those folks were more comfortable with the time commitment of being on a subcommittee than being in the full task force. But certainly if if there are suggestions that you have or that other board members have, we would we would be happy to reach out to those folks.

And have you did you consult with Andy Miracle at all? I'm thinking about some of the companies in RTP.

So I believe Commissioner Alam I she she is not here tonight. Um I believe she had consulted with him and and had conversations with him, but I I'm happy to follow up with her to get her answer to that question.

Well, we don't have to, you know, make an amendment now, but if there if there is the opportunity for somebody, a business uh representative to actually serve on the task force, please do come back to us to have them appointed because I do think there's a difference between actually serving on the task force and being like a decision maker versus a subcommittee. It does make a difference. So I I'd love to get that level of commitment from a representative from the business community if the opportunity is there because ultimately we are not going to solve this problem alone with the p with the public sector. This is going to have to be a public private partnership um solution for this uh workforce issue in our community. So yeah, thank you. And I will just add that we expect to come back to you with additional members. So, you know, we actually had some additional suggestions and we only brought you the members who were confirmed and there are a few other individuals that we feel we'll probably be bringing back to you. So, again, if you do have business community representatives and we certainly will talk with Andy and others to see if we can um find some folks there because I I think we we all we certainly agree as staff that it would be more powerful to have um those business members actually on the task force if possible. and how were the members selected?

So, it's it's a combination. So, commission, you know, Commissioner Lom originally brought this idea both to the board and to us and had been collaborating with um the Durham Chamber on that. So, some of the organizations particularly the partnership for children early years Durham Tech are already engaged in this work through their work um with young children. um Kathy Collie uh Robinson is um with the early childhood program at Durham Tech and of course so those organizations make a lot of sense. We also wanted to make sure there were people actually working in the field and so for example

the parent representatives one is actually a welcome baby parent and volunteer and another is uh part of the early head start program um is also on the early head start policy council. So we sought recommendations um from individuals who work in the sector um in particular because we identified that um that we definitely wanted people who worked in family childcare homes, childcare centers and parents who experience these issues along with the business community and and key organiza partner organizations who've really put a lot of their time and energy already into you know really thinking deeply about this issue. But we would welcome if there are additional suggestions, I think this did come together pretty quickly over about a month, right? So if there are suggestions that you all have or or people that you think we should uh reach out to, um we would love to talk about that and I'm sure Commissioner Lman would be very open to exploring that as well.

Thank you. So, I guess I would just like to amend the um resolution to add that where where it says that there will be a two-year term. Uh the maximum length of the task force is two years just to add language that reflects there'll be a at minimum a six month um every six month reporting on progress to the board of county commissioners. So, that's my friendly amendment. Okay. Well, no. Um, do you have any comments about it? All right. So, you can you can make that motion.

Okay. I'd like to make a motion that we um amend the language to also add that there the TA child early childhood task force will um report um at a minimum of every six months um an update on their progress to the board of county commissioners.

Second.

Okay, there's been we have a motion of an amendment with text. Well, I'm sure somebody wrote that down. Um, has been properly seconded. So, we're just going to vote on this one separately and then we'll vote on the other two together since we have an amendment on it. And this is for item 0530. So the motion for the amendment to the amendment to the um resolution that is amendment to the resolution has been properly moved in a second. All in favor say I.

I.

I. All oppose please use the same sign. It passes unanimously. Okay. You good? Good. Okay. So now we need to vote on the two items left which is 260538 and 260525. I'll accept a motion to up what?

Okay. Okay. So, that was a vote on the language and now we have to vote to approve um approve the item that that's really that was taken off a consent agenda. So, we'll do all three just to be clean, make everything [laughter] clean there. Um, so we have three items that were pulled from the consent agenda and we need approval and those items are 260525, and then 260538. Um, and then a motion to approve those three items.

So moved, second.

Has been moved and properly seconded that we approve the items that were pulled from the consent agenda as mentioned previously in the motion. All

in favor say I. I

I

All oppose, please shoot the same sign. Those items pass unanimously. And that concludes our agenda for tonight. I'll accept a motion to adjurnn.

So move second.

It's been moved and properly second that we adjourn. All in favor say I.

I.

All oppose.

We are adjourned. Thank you all.