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9:05 a.m. Held a Board of Equalization meeting 9:12 a.m. Adjourned the Board of Equalization meeting and returned to the regular meeting. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION — Chair Richardson called for public participation and no one responded. 5. JUVENILE DIVERSION RANDY SEE—APPROVE HALL COUNTY'S THREE YEAR JUVENILE SERVICE PLAN — Randy was present and distributed information to the board members and the 2018—2019 budget. He reviewed the grant dollars that they received, There is also the executive summary that was included in the packet and it is a requirement to present this. The community based grant talks about the priorities and they have had seven to nine. They feel it is important to address promotion, prevention and early intervention and they're looking at system improvements. He has the full report that is 50 pages long. Quandt questioned if it is difficult to get the grants and Mr. See stated that it is not the funding is based on the number of juveniles that are served and then there is the 10% match. Right now the funding is secure. He noted that there is dissaportionate number of minors that are arrested but that is not just in Hall County it is across the state. That may be a long process to address. The funding is not a problem. Before when the funds that were not spent in the current grant year they were able to be rolled over but they cannot do that now. Lancaster stated that we appreciated the program and Hall County has one of the strongest programs in the state and she appreciates that the programs has thrived. She ask if they can make line item changes and Rand stated that they can make sub grant changes and reallocate the funds if they can justify the changes. Arnold made a motion and Lancaster seconded to authorize the chair to sign the letter. Arnold, Bredthauer, Lancaster, Lanfear, Quandt, Richardson and Schuppan all voted yes and none voted no. Motion carried 8. DISCUSSION REGARDING FUTURE SPECIAL AUDITS - Lancaster stated that the county has always had a special audit when an official is leaving and Peg Pesek County Treasurer will be leaving July 13 that will only be 13 days after the regular audit starts. They are proposing to have the new treasurer to sign off on the cash and that should be sufficient. They wanted to bring this to the board. There was no action listed so it will be on the next agenda. 9. DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING ELIMINATING ALL INTERNAL COMMITTEES — Lanfear made a motion and Bredthauer seconded to eliminate all internal committees except for regional committees and full board committees. Discussion was held and Schuppan expressed concern on how this would work with all of the other meetings we already have scheduled like all of the Board of Equalization meetings Arnold expressed concern on the length of the meetings because a lot of work is done in the committees. The committees keep the board informed. Discussion was held to have meetings on the off weeks. Quandt said he does not care on what day it is done they need to make sure that all of the board members are informed. 2