Absent were board members Ricardo Calderon and Joaquin Rodriguez.  Present were Board Chair JM Farias, Rito Valdez and Humberto Duran to make the motion to prepay the Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center IGT for a 1115 Waiver which will be utilized for the UC program.

"The Maverick County Hospital District has an agreement for being able to pay the Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center for indigent care in our community," stated new CEO Terry Contreras, "What happens with those indigent payments is that we participate on their behalf by contributing to the state program that then gets matched by federal funds for this program.  Right now we're looking to contribute to the program on their behalf an amount of $1.7 million and what we'll get in return for this community are 42.7 million.  That allows the hospital to not only pay for uncompensated care, but to also expand on services.  This is one of the collaborative efforts where the district works closely with FDRMC to be able to provide better health care and to improve the quality of care in our community."

After this, the board moved into Executive Session to discuss personnel matters, real property and to consult with their attorney to address contracts for clinic physicians, board member reimbursement of expenses, employment contracts for the CEO and CFO positions, the status of the movement toward sale of the Bibb Street property and pending litigation.

"We need to have all of the other board members present to make the proper motions on the items covered in the Executive Session," stated board member Duran.

Thus ended the gathering with the tabling of these items until the board's June meeting.