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Item 9. Review and Comment on a grant/loan application to the United States Department of Agriculture, from Community Health Service Agency, in the amount of $300,000, for funds to purchase a building to be used for a medical facility located in Cooper, Delta County, Texas. (to be presented by staff member Genevieve Burtchell) Item 10. Review and Comment on a grant application to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, from Ark-Tex Council of Governments, in the amount of $285,000, for "Our Bodies Should be Un-Leaded" project through the Community Action for Renewed Environment program, to service Bowie, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar, Morris, Red River and Titus Counties, Texas, and Miller County, Arkansas. (to be presented by staff member Genevieve Burtchell) Item 11. Review and Comment on an Environmental Assessment for Lamar Electric Cooperative, who is applying to the Public Utility Commission of Texas to design and construct a new single circuit overhead transmission line starting at the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline Pump Station and ending near the existing LEC Cooper-Enloe Substation in Delta County, Texas, in order to provide electric service to the TransCanada Pump Station. (to be presented by staff member Paul Prange) Regular Business Item 12. Review and consider approval of resolution authorizing submission of application for 2009- 2010 State Planning Assistance Grant in the amount of $62,500 to the Office of the Governor, Criminal Justice Division. (See Attachment 1) (to be presented by staff member Genevieve Burtchell) Item 13. Review and consider approval of revised method of distribution for disaster recovery funds as required by the Office of Rural Community Affairs. (Handout to be provided at Board Meeting) (to be presented by staff member Genevieve Burtchell) Item 14. Review and consider approval for a member of the Regional Criminal Justice Advisory Committee to switch representation from Titus to Morris County. (See Attachment 2) (to be presented by staff member Patricia Haley) Item 15. Review and consider approval of new appointment to the Regional Criminal Justice Advisory Committee representing Titus County. (See Attachment 3) (to be presented by staff member Patricia Haley) Item 16. Review and consider approval of the Ark-Tex Council of Governments' (ATCOG) Homeland Security Implementation Plan for 2009. (See Attachment 4) (to be presented by staff member Brenda Stone) Item 17. Review and consider approval of ATCOG's Financial Statements and Auditor's Reports for the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2008. (Copies of proposed Audit to be distributed at Board Meeting) (to be presented by Todd Pruitt of Pattillo, Brown & Hill, L.L.P., as introduced by staff member Brenda Davis) Other Business Item 18. Review and consider approval to return the issue of FY 2008 Homeland Security Grant funds back to the Homeland Security Committee for further consideration of distribution of the funds throughout the region, as requested by Lamar County. (to be presented by representative of Lamar County)