County Commissioners · Meeting · May 26, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAhZIzRcU4s Hickman County Legislative Body 05/26/2026 18:4818 minutes, 48 secondsHey, all serious. How do I get the switch? Is it not working good? 18:5318 minutes, 53 secondsWhat's I'll quit giving you a hard time. 19:1819 minutes, 18 secondsOne of my many 19:4719 minutes, 47 secondsYeah. 20:0620 minutes, 6 secondsWe're going to call the May 26th meeting of the Hippie County Legislative Body to order. The clerk can call. 20:1420 minutes, 14 secondsThe clerk can call the RO. 20:1720 minutes, 17 seconds12 present, two absent, Todd Thomas and Ron Mayberry are absent. 20:2320 minutes, 23 secondsWe have a quorum. Uh if you'll rise, we're going to have our opening prayer and pledge. The prayer is going to be led by Commissioner Picker and the pledge by Commissioner Puck. 20:3520 minutes, 35 secondsOur heavenly father, we thank you so much for this beautiful day and we thank you for the blessings of living in this country, in this state, and in this community. 20:4320 minutes, 43 secondsHeavenly Father, you've been so good to us and I pray that we never take those blessings for granted. Heavenly Father, there are so many in the world who just do not have the simple things that we 20:5120 minutes, 51 secondstake for granted daily. We thank you for everyone who's here tonight, for all the families that are represented, for all the groups of departments that are 20:5820 minutes, 58 secondsrepresented. I pray that you bless us, heavenly father, as we discuss the business of this community, of this county, Lord, that we would do the things that are most prudent, that are 21:0621 minutes, 6 secondsmost needful, that would benefit us and you in the most glorious way. Heavenly Father, we pray for those who are sick, for those who are struggling. We pray that you'd send them those things that 21:1521 minutes, 15 secondsthey're in most need of. We thank you so much for your son, heavenly father, who died in ourstead. We pray heavenly father that we might see that and that 21:2221 minutes, 22 secondsthrough him we might have heaven one day in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. 21:2821 minutes, 28 secondsI pledge alce to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under 21:3821 minutes, 38 secondsGod indivisible with liberty and justice for all. 21:5421 minutes, 54 secondsOld habits die hard. So I may keep on saying in your packet you received even though you uh but in your package you 22:0222 minutes, 2 secondsyou got an agenda uh the chair entertain a motion in regards to the agenda. 22:0822 minutes, 8 secondsCommissioner Gox uh Mr. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make a motion to set aside the rules and add a discussion uh and 22:1522 minutes, 15 secondspossible action regarding the school general purpose fund 141 uh to the new business section of the agenda. Uh I have a motion by Commissioner Gianis. 22:2622 minutes, 26 secondsDid everybody understand that motion? 22:2822 minutes, 28 secondssecond by Commissioner Jordan. Uh that we're going to add uh under new business a 22:3722 minutes, 37 secondssection for discussion and possible action regarding the general the school general purpose fund 141 budget. 22:4622 minutes, 46 secondsEverybody understand that? Okay. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose. 22:5222 minutes, 52 secondsSure. 23:0223 minutes, 2 secondsIn the old days, he would have just written this out. 23:1623 minutes, 16 secondsNo pressure. 23:1923 minutes, 19 secondsSo, set aside the rules and have discussion. 23:5823 minutes, 58 secondsWow, there we go. 24:0224 minutes, 2 secondsAre there any other changes to the agenda? 24:0724 minutes, 7 secondsDo I have a motion to accept the agenda as amended? Motion by Commissioner Calakott, second by Commissioner Thomasson. 24:2024 minutes, 20 secondsAll those in favor say I. 24:2224 minutes, 22 secondsI. All those agenda is approved. 24:3024 minutes, 30 secondsThat was painless. Learning pain. 24:3724 minutes, 37 secondsThe uh next on the agenda is the public comment period. Mr. Calott, did you see what we got there? 25:0725 minutes, 7 secondsOkay, we have three people that asked to speak tonight. And I'm gonna apologize. 25:1225 minutes, 12 secondsI think I'm getting this right. Mary Monday. 25:1625 minutes, 16 secondsOkay. Did I pronounce that right? Mary Monday. Monday. Uh, and she's to talk about the resoning uh, exception right here. 25:2725 minutes, 27 secondsYes, ma'am. Okay. Um, I filed a complaint. 25:3525 minutes, 35 secondsA man neighbor, he built a garage 25:4225 minutes, 42 secondstold me he was going to restore antique cars. I ain't got no problem with that. 25:5125 minutes, 51 secondsBut the garage is about maybe 30 35 ft away from my property 26:0126 minutes, 1 secondand he started doing business over there. He had a business license. I checked with the 26:0926 minutes, 9 secondsclerk and suddenly there's about 30 vehicles 26:1626 minutes, 16 secondsold, not running and parked in the front yard now. 26:2326 minutes, 23 secondsOkay, it's your house now. Okay, it's your house and somebody 35 ft away from you opens a 26:3326 minutes, 33 secondsgarage. You seen them u transmission shops with 40 cars out front and everything? 26:4326 minutes, 43 secondsStrangers. 26:4426 minutes, 44 secondsStrangers you don't know, including sheriff deputy pulling your driveway looking for his garage. 26:5226 minutes, 52 secondsbecause he was maintaining and said, "I've got a contract with the sheriff 27:0027 minutesdepartment to maintain their vehicles." Some kind of agreement. 27:0727 minutes, 7 secondsYes, he did. Because they came every day. Every day. Plus all them other cars and everything. 27:1327 minutes, 13 secondsThe way his property sits, I can't even go out my back door. 27:2327 minutes, 23 secondsbecause their house is turned like this and that garage is like that. He's got big lights 27:3027 minutes, 30 secondsshining in my uh windows at night and day and everything. So, I went down to 27:3927 minutes, 39 secondszoning. That was on March 2nd. 27:4527 minutes, 45 secondsAnd they were supposed to go out there and see what was going on. 27:5027 minutes, 50 secondsAnd then the young man, he's a young man, I don't see him here. He came out and talked to me. He told me that he 27:5927 minutes, 59 secondswent out there. Well, I showed him some pictures. 28:0328 minutes, 3 secondsI said, "Did you see this?" I said, "Well, he moved some of them vehicles to the back." Okay. 28:1228 minutes, 12 secondsThat's all he did. That's all he did. 28:1528 minutes, 15 secondsHe's still doing business. I think the sheriff has cut him off, 28:2228 minutes, 22 secondsbut as a tax pay taxpayers, all of y'all are tax payers. 28:3128 minutes, 31 secondsYou're paying for those vehicles to be maintained. 28:3828 minutes, 38 secondsNow I'm paying for them, but it's ruined my property. The value of my my value of my 28:4928 minutes, 49 secondsproperty is being hurt and you want it next to you. No. If you 28:5728 minutes, 57 secondsput your house up for sale and somebody comes in there and wants to buy it and they see all that, they're not going to 29:0529 minutes, 5 secondsbuy. They're not going to buy. And the value is going to be slash. Now, I know y'all got your assessments the other day. 29:1429 minutes, 14 secondsAnd it much much higher. Much higher. How much money am I going to lose? 29:2229 minutes, 22 secondsMarch 2nd. and they will not do nothing until y'all pass these amendments to the zoning. 29:3329 minutes, 33 secondsOkay. They told me they can't do nothing. 29:3729 minutes, 37 secondsMiss Mary, you you you your your your time of their public comment is is over. 29:4229 minutes, 42 secondsBut um Mr. uh Brown, Austin Brown, the young man you're talking about, he will be here in a in a bit in this meeting. 29:5229 minutes, 52 secondsAnd I would make sure that before you leave, you get with him and the chairman of the planning commission is right 29:5929 minutes, 59 secondshere, Mr. Calakott, and let them see if they can help address your issues. Okay. 30:0630 minutes, 6 secondsThank you. 30:0930 minutes, 9 secondsThe next uh person who's asked to speak is Mr. Ethan Post. 30:1530 minutes, 15 secondsAll right, guys. Uh I'll be short. Uh I saw that the uh lighting thing. I don't know much about what's going on. We're 30:2230 minutes, 22 secondsapproving some lighting uh maintenance at Highway 50. I'll just say on that if in any way that allows us to have better 30:3130 minutes, 31 secondssignage for tourism, the wineries, um what might be happening with the A pavilion. I just heard another story 30:3930 minutes, 39 secondsabout people visiting uh coming through from England. Uh we heard a story earlier from a fella that is going to 30:4630 minutes, 46 secondsruns the uh banana pudding festival about people coming out for the rodeo from Ireland and stuff like this. If if anyway that gives us leverage over that 30:5430 minutes, 54 secondsintersection to put some nice big signage, clear signage and things like that. I think that would be a good thing. Uh speaking on the schools, uh 31:0331 minutes, 3 secondskeep it short. I watched as much of the meetings I had time the last meeting that they have. I just want to reiterate a statement here. I I One of their 31:1231 minutes, 12 secondsseemingly strong points is that uh the Higgman County is only uh the schools are only receiving about 16 to 18% of 31:2031 minutes, 20 secondsthe budget from the local government in comparison to other uh counties in the in the state putting us in the bottom 25%. Well, first of all, I might say 31:2831 minutes, 28 secondsmaybe that puts us in the top 25%. Okay, because maybe that's good spending. But I want to make sure that if that is ever 31:3631 minutes, 36 secondspresented that we hear what counties they're talking about because it needs to be apples to apples, not apples to oranges. And I did look at some of that 31:4431 minutes, 44 secondsdata and I pulled out a few apples and I found that they had significantly different uh sales tax revenue and other things like that. So, uh, if that 31:5331 minutes, 53 secondsbecomes something that's a deciding factor, we need to hear what counties they're talking about, and I'd be happy to go do research on those counties, see where their school budgets are at, uh, 32:0232 minutes, 2 secondsratios and things like that, and share that with everybody. That's all I've got. Thanks. 32:0932 minutes, 9 secondsAnd the last person who signed up to speak is Mr. Tim Hops. 32:1732 minutes, 17 secondsHere's 32:3432 minutes, 34 secondsthe data that gentleman was talking about. 39.3% is the average Tennessee revenue for schools. 32:4132 minutes, 41 secondsThe next page shows a barcode. It shows Hickman County schools. 32:4632 minutes, 46 secondsLast year, 2025 at 18%. 32:5332 minutes, 53 secondsI'm sorry. 33:0233 minutes, 2 secondsI was talking about some schools. I've been to 95 counties, Tennessee for my lifetime and I've seen the schools and 33:0933 minutes, 9 secondsI've seen a lot of we're at the 25% of all schools in in Tennessee as far as funding. 33:1733 minutes, 17 secondsAnd you can see from the charts and you can see how we average. This is information you can find on the web individual counties that you can look at 33:2633 minutes, 26 secondsand see. We're not going to compete with Murray County. We're not going to compete counties a lot of tax revenue, but we still have to teach kids. We 33:3333 minutes, 33 secondsstill have to train them. We still have to educate. We still got to transport them back and forth. One of our biggest things is our county. It's huge. And we spent a lot of money on transportation. 33:4533 minutes, 45 secondsIn 2020, the average bus is $92,000. Same bus today is $147,000. 33:5233 minutes, 52 secondsSo, think about that. We need to work on our budget. We're not looking for the Cadillac. We're just looking to survive. 33:5933 minutes, 59 secondsThank you. 34:0634 minutes, 6 secondsThe next item on the agenda is the adoption of the minutes from the Monday, April 27th meeting. Have a motion by 34:1434 minutes, 14 secondsCommissioner Clark to approve. Second by Commissioner Barnhill. Any discussion? 34:2634 minutes, 26 secondsAll those in favor say I. I. All opposed. 34:3234 minutes, 32 secondsThe chair is unaware of any special recognitions or memorials, commendations, anything from the body. 34:4134 minutes, 41 secondsAlso unaware of any elections. 35:0635 minutes, 6 secondsNow I don't know if I don't um so there's been a a request to approve the following notaries. Randy 35:1535 minutes, 15 secondsAnderson, Elizabeth Coffee, April Hughes, 35:2135 minutes, 21 secondsEvangelina Rose, Sarah Swanson, Christy 35:3135 minutes, 31 secondsChrista Turner, Christa Turner, Emily Warren, and Christina White. Those are the folks 35:4035 minutes, 40 secondsthat have been placed the nomination for notaries. Motion approved. 35:4435 minutes, 44 secondsMotion to approve by Commissioner Gillian, second by Commissioner Chester. Any discussion? 35:5435 minutes, 54 secondsSeeing none, roll call vote. 36:1036 minutes, 10 secondsHey, I pushed my button. Don't have a button. 36:2236 minutes, 22 secondsWhere's your chest? Chest. 36:3736 minutes, 37 secondsDoes yours say anything to me? Nope. It says not. How you vote? 36:4436 minutes, 44 secondsYes. 36:4736 minutes, 47 secondsIs the judge's hammer laying up there? I can work. I'm not I'm not Does anyone wish to change his or her vote? 36:5936 minutes, 59 secondsSorry. 12 yes, two absent. 37:0337 minutes, 3 seconds12 yes, two absent. The notaries are approved. 37:0837 minutes, 8 secondsAre there any other appointments? Board approvals. Are there any quarterly reports? 37:1737 minutes, 17 secondsNo quarterly or annual reports. 37:2037 minutes, 20 secondsNext item on the agenda is communication from the county mayor. 37:2437 minutes, 24 secondsThank you, Mr. Chairman. Commissioners, I apologize. I did not have my notes um in your packets. That is by all means my 37:3237 minutes, 32 secondsfault. I just want to give you an update on the EMS station if I would. Uh week before last, I I was sitting down with the fire marshall, me and several 37:4037 minutes, 40 secondsothers, and uh what I was explaining was the the plans that they got was not exactly what we were trying to do. 37:4937 minutes, 49 secondsSo, they requested that I put a plan of action um or correction into them. Um 37:5737 minutes, 57 secondsafter conferring with the county attorney on the letter, um I emailed them a plan of correction action. So 38:0438 minutes, 4 secondsbasically what it amounts to instead of working 24 hours a day that ambulance station will be at 12 hours a day 38:1238 minutes, 12 secondsuntil um there's some things that we may have to do in order to get it there and I 38:1938 minutes, 19 secondswant that subject matter to come up in our um emergency services and properties meeting because it's going to be a lengthy conversation I'm sure. So that's 38:2838 minutes, 28 secondswhere we're standing right now. The station is not shut down. Um, I'm waiting on word right now from the the fire marshal himself and that should be 38:3838 minutes, 38 secondscoming tomorrow. So, that's where we're at. Any questions? Yes, sir. 38:4538 minutes, 45 secondsIs the station open today? 38:4638 minutes, 46 secondsNo, it's not open today. Um, uh, Director Lamg Good opted to not open it until the fire marshall paid a visit. 38:5438 minutes, 54 secondsThey just visited us last week. Um, so he's running that unit out of the east station until we find out for sure from 39:0239 minutes, 2 secondsthe fire marshals um from the email that I send you on the due date. 39:1039 minutes, 10 secondsAnd so what do you in your understanding what is going to be required for us to make that a 24-hour facility? 39:1939 minutes, 19 secondsWell, they brought up the law that there was a sprinkler system involved. Um now again this is going to be a lengthy 39:2639 minutes, 26 secondsconversation that I need to bring up during the u emergency service public safety. 39:3439 minutes, 34 secondsUm that way interim director Woodall will be here as well to have this conversation. 39:4839 minutes, 48 secondsI know you're frustrated. Um, I'm very frustrated and I know everybody in this room is. I looked it up 722 days 39:5739 minutes, 57 secondsago. We plus or minus 30 days we started this. 40:0440 minutes, 4 secondsUm, we we've we've we've done a lot of good 40:1140 minutes, 11 secondsthings I believe on this court in the last four years, but this is not one of them. 40:1740 minutes, 17 secondsUm, there was a commissioner who was sitting around this table about 722 days ago who, and I understand it was, I think it 40:2540 minutes, 25 secondswas for drama's sake, but said that there were, you know, somebody was dying every day as a result of that facility not being open. 40:3640 minutes, 36 secondsUm, we we had a member of this 40:4340 minutes, 43 secondsvery close to a county employee who had a medical emergency the last couple of days who would have benefited by that 40:5240 minutes, 52 secondsfacility being open. I mean, thank God he survived and seemingly is going to do well. Could have been bad 41:0041 minutesnot having access to an ambulance. And so, it's just a very, very frustrating thing. 41:0641 minutes, 6 secondsUm, and I I I know there there I I know Mr. Mayor, you're frustrated as you should be. All 14 around this table are 41:1441 minutes, 14 secondsfrustrated as we should be. Um, I I'll just say this, and I mean, who 41:2141 minutes, 21 secondsknows? August is coming. May only have a couple more months here. Maybe 14 new people around this table, but I will not vote for one more penny to go into that 41:2941 minutes, 29 secondsstation under any circumstances. 41:3341 minutes, 33 secondsWell, if it makes you feel better, I'm not going to ask for one more. I I understand. 41:3841 minutes, 38 secondsUm, it's been a it's not been a good situation. It's needed. There's no question about it, but it has been it's been a train wreck. 41:5041 minutes, 50 secondsI yield. 41:5341 minutes, 53 secondsAny other comments? Any questions for the mayor? Thank you. 42:0242 minutes, 2 secondsCommittee reports, planning commission. Uh we did not beat 42:0842 minutes, 8 secondsum last month. Uh the only news um the 42:1542 minutes, 15 secondsuh the land use plan um Smith's updated. 42:2142 minutes, 21 secondsI'm pretty sure it's been on the website for a while. all of that. It'll be next month it'll be it'll have its first 42:2942 minutes, 29 secondspublic hearing. That'll be in June. July be the second public hearing and then we will vote in July. So, uh it's out 42:3642 minutes, 36 secondsthere. It's been out there to review and all the things. So, just be prepared for that coming. That's all I got. 42:4542 minutes, 45 secondsAny questions for planning commission, solid waste committee? We did have a 42:5242 minutes, 52 secondsmeeting in the minutes packet. I will bring up we've got two resolutions coming up later on uh to 43:0243 minutes, 2 secondshelp solid waste grow and be able to pay our way pay our way. Uh but any 43:1043 minutes, 10 secondsquestions for solid waste? Ask me and Jordan's here I think and ask me he'll answer. 43:2143 minutes, 21 secondsAny questions for solid waste at this time health safety and properties committee. 43:3043 minutes, 30 secondsThe minutes are in the packet from the meeting. I'll take any questions if there are any. There were no motions or resolutions came out of it. All we did 43:3843 minutes, 38 secondswas approve the cabinets financial report. Any questions for public safety? 43:4943 minutes, 49 secondsFinance committee. 43:5043 minutes, 50 secondsWe did meet the minutes in your packet and I would like to make a motion to approve financial summary for April. 43:5943 minutes, 59 secondsHave a motion by Commissioner Jordan to approve the financial summary uh for April. Second by Commissioner Calcott. 44:0644 minutes, 6 secondsAny discussion? Seeing none, roll call vote. 44:2144 minutes, 21 secondsYes. 44:2344 minutes, 23 secondsI'm not going to do I guess. 44:3044 minutes, 30 secondsYou switched out. So it's got you absent. It pop back up. No. 44:3644 minutes, 36 secondsI switched back and forth, but he came back with an error. 44:4044 minutes, 40 secondsWayne, if you voted yes, you're on air message just in case he messed something up. 44:4844 minutes, 48 secondsDoes any commissioner wish to change his vote? 12 yes, two absent. 44:5544 minutes, 55 seconds12 yes, two absent. 44:5844 minutes, 58 secondsMotion is agreed to. Anything else from finance committee? 45:0545 minutes, 5 secondsCommissioner Jordan, is there anything else from the finance committee? No. Answer any questions anybody has? Any questions for finance? 45:1445 minutes, 14 secondsBudget committee. 45:1645 minutes, 16 secondsThank you, Mr. Chairman. We met uh multiple times. Uh tonight we have about 11 amendments to approve and I am going to dive right in talking about these. 45:2845 minutes, 28 secondsUm, we're putting together budget amendment 26,64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 45:3645 minutes, 36 secondsand 74. Uh, these were all approved in the budget committee, but I will uh kind of recap these in in order. So 64 is in the amount of $131,100. 45:4745 minutes, 47 secondsThis is in 101. It's a year- end cleanup. Uh 65 is in the amount of $18,729. 45:5545 minutes, 55 secondsThis is for 101. some more gearing cleanup as well as to purchase a vehicle. Uh budget amendment 67 is the amount of $40,572. 46:0746 minutes, 7 secondsThis is uh in 101. This is some sheriff cleanup u of of those accounts. Budget amendment 68 is in 2000. This is uh for 46:1746 minutes, 17 seconds101. This is a K9 reertification um uh in the amount of $2,000 to to 46:2446 minutes, 24 secondsreertify the K9. Uh budget amendment 69 is the amount of $1,200. This is for 125 the UFT. 46:3446 minutes, 34 secondsUh this is needed for the trustee commission. Budget amendment 70 is in the amount of $88,32.34. 46:4346 minutes, 43 secondsUh this is for 127 re uh to recclass uh purchase some heart monitors. Uh budget 46:5246 minutes, 52 secondsamendment 71 is the amount of $10,840 and this is for 151. And budget amendment 74 is in the amount of 14,000 47:0147 minutes, 1 secondand this is for 207. Uh and this is for some legal fees for some debt collections for solid waste. So I'll make a motion to approve all these budget members. 47:1147 minutes, 11 secondsI've got a motion to approve uh eight uh total budget amendments. 26 64 65 67 68 69 70 71 and 74 by Commissioner Guaka. 47:2647 minutes, 26 secondsSecond by Commissioner Jordan. Any discussion? 47:3747 minutes, 37 secondsSeeing none 47:5347 minutes, 53 secondsI'm guess it's not I'm doing something wrong. I'm sure it is. Why you don't? 47:5947 minutes, 59 secondsYes. 48:0348 minutes, 3 secondsDoes any commissioner wish to change his vote? Well, yes, two pass. 48:1148 minutes, 11 secondsBudget amendments are agreed to. Commissioner Ginis. 48:1448 minutes, 14 secondsAll right. Uh there's three more budget amendments. Uh I'll go over. The first one is budget amendment 66 in the amount of 22,000. This is for uh 101 and this 48:2448 minutes, 24 secondsis contribution to the Hitman County Prevention Now program. So I'll make a motion to approve this budget. 48:2948 minutes, 29 secondsHave a motion by Commissioner Dianakus to approve budget amendment 26-66. 48:3448 minutes, 34 secondsSecond by Commissioner Barnhill. Any discussion? Yes. 48:4348 minutes, 43 secondsSeeing none, roll call vote. 48:5548 minutes, 55 secondsDoes any commissioner wish to change the vote? 12. Yes. Two abs. 12. Yes, two absent. 49:0249 minutes, 2 secondsthe the amendment and agreed to commission. 49:0749 minutes, 7 secondsNext budget amendment is number 72 and this is amount of 1.2 million. This is for the FEMA note allocation uh and it's 49:1549 minutes, 15 secondsin regards to uh account 171. So I make a motion to approve this budget. 49:1949 minutes, 19 secondsHave a motion to approve uh budget 267 second by commissioner picker. 49:3049 minutes, 30 secondsAny discussion? Seeing none, roll call vote. 49:4449 minutes, 44 secondsMr. Thomas. Yes. 49:4749 minutes, 47 secondsDoes any commissioner wish to change the vote? 12 yes, two. 49:5249 minutes, 52 seconds12 yes, two absent. 2672 is agreed to commission. 49:5749 minutes, 57 secondsBudget amendment number 73 in the amount of 122 87544. 50:0450 minutes, 4 secondsThis is for the school 141. This is some insurance recovery as well as a TCAT revenue and it was approved in their uh 50:1250 minutes, 12 secondslast board meeting that they discussed this and I make a motion to approve this budget. 50:1850 minutes, 18 secondsHave a motion to approve uh resolution 2673 by Commissioner Guanakis, seconded by Commissioner Barnhill. 50:2750 minutes, 27 secondsAny discussion? Seeing none, roll call out. 50:4250 minutes, 42 secondsDoes any commissioner wish to change his vote? 12. Yes. Two abs. 12. Yes. Two absent. 50:4950 minutes, 49 seconds2673 is agreed to. Commissioner Ganox. 50:5250 minutes, 52 secondsAnd that is all the budget amendments and minutes where it should be in your packet. If anybody has any questions, let me know. 51:0251 minutes, 2 secondsCommissioner Gox, I've got a couple questions real quick. Um, if I put my hat on and go back to the way back machine, 51:1151 minutes, 11 secondstonight is May 26 and we should be voting on a completed countywide budget tonight. That was our schedule. 51:2051 minutes, 20 secondsUh so we're not so why why what's caused 51:2751 minutes, 27 secondsour issue with not voting uh on the uh on the budget? Mr. Chairman, we got two issues that are outstanding. One is that 51:3551 minutes, 35 secondsthe solid waste of which we have some resolutions tonight that will hopefully be able to to get passed uh in order to 51:4251 minutes, 42 secondsapprove their budget uh at the next meeting as well as the the school uh budget that has not yet been uh passed. 51:5151 minutes, 51 secondsSo when when we look at the schedule and looking towards potentially um voting in 51:5751 minutes, 57 secondsJune now on a countywide budget 207 budget, we've got an issue with that, but we're going to remedy that by way of a resolution tonight. 52:0952 minutes, 9 secondsSo when Yeah. 208. So but that would enable us to take up a 207. 52:1652 minutes, 16 secondsCorrect. this but and when when when what's your thought process in regards to the budget committee meeting again in order to take up 207? 52:2552 minutes, 25 secondsJune the 4th is when we are scheduled to meet again and we will take that up. 52:3252 minutes, 32 secondsThat will enable us to put it in the paper by June 5th. Uh if uh both the 52:3952 minutes, 39 secondsschool and the solid waste budgets are approved. So, and I'm just looking at my the schedule 52:4752 minutes, 47 secondsthat you just said. June 4th is not the regular meeting of the budget committee. No. 52:5352 minutes, 53 secondsSo, we're going to end up having it, you know, it won't be a necessary special call meeting, but we're going to post in our monthly calendar an additional 53:0153 minutes, 1 secondmeeting for the budget committee on June the 4th. 53:0653 minutes, 6 secondsCorrect. And if uh you know there's something from the school system that could be taken up again, that would be 53:1453 minutes, 14 secondsan opportunity on June the 4th when we meet for solid waste. But because we're already meeting for the solid waste, correct? Correct. 53:2253 minutes, 22 secondsAnd um that June the 4th then allows us by law all the predates, all the other public hearings, all the public notices. 53:3353 minutes, 33 secondsI'm looking at Crystal. Crystal shaking her head. That's going to give us the opportunity to hit the June regular schedule June meeting of the county 53:4253 minutes, 42 secondscommission to approve the countywide budget. 53:4353 minutes, 43 secondsThat is correct, Crystal. That's going to be enough time. 53:4753 minutes, 47 secondsUm, so what happens on uh if that June 4th, 53:5553 minutes, 55 secondsif we if we don't get all these uh budgets done by June 4th, what what's the next step? 54:0354 minutes, 3 secondsUh what we would have to vote on on June 4th if we do not have the budgets um prepared is that we would have to go into a continuing resolution situation. 54:1354 minutes, 13 secondsUh which means that current funding uh would either uh for the county would stay the same. It's my understanding you can't pass part of the budget. You have 54:2254 minutes, 22 secondsto pass the whole budget uh for the whole county. You can't pass parts of it. Um so we would go into a continuing 54:2954 minutes, 29 secondsresolution and then we would be required to fund certain departments based off of um what 54:3654 minutes, 36 secondsthe funding uh the state says that the funding has the minimum amount that the state says. So u so just making sure I 54:4654 minutes, 46 secondsunderstand. So, um, if we don't pass these budgets out of the budget committee June 4th, which allows us to 54:5454 minutes, 54 secondsget everything done appropriately so it can be done at our regular meeting in June, then we're going to end up having to pass a continuing resolution in June. 55:0455 minutes, 4 secondsI'm looking again at you, Crystal. That would but that's only that would only get us to 55:1255 minutes, 12 secondsfor two months to what what how does that that would get us to to for July and August 55:1955 minutes, 19 secondsand uh by August 31st we would we would u basically go into um have to have have 55:2755 minutes, 27 secondssome decisions to be made in order to to continue on. Um, so I would uh like us to reserve that date in case it's 55:3655 minutes, 36 secondsneeded. I would also like to make a motion to go ahead and instruct the finance department to go ahead and start that continuing resolution uh as a 55:4455 minutes, 44 secondscontingency because obviously we don't know what the the future holds in regards to the budget. So, uh because we would need to vote on that on the 4th if budgets aren't completed by that day. 55:5655 minutes, 56 secondsAnd so and and and I can get it set up for us to have a special meeting on August the 31st, which will be the last day of the term of this this body. 56:0656 minutes, 6 secondsBut from what I understand, so by law on August 31st, if we don't have 56:1356 minutes, 13 secondssome budgets done, then the budgets that have been approved, they they're approved and the only the budgets that 56:2156 minutes, 21 secondsaren't approved, they fall back to that minimum funding. That that is correct and we did reach out to CASS and some of 56:2856 minutes, 28 secondsthat minimum funding um that that the direction that we got in regards to the schools. Uh it is as as we look at the 56:3656 minutes, 36 secondspreliminary from the state it looks like Hman County had lost 25 ADM I guess that's the average daily uh students 56:4456 minutes, 44 secondsbasically. So um the county legislative board could reduce the revenue by $53,478. 56:5256 minutes, 52 secondsUm the current MOE is based on 6.1 or 6 6,18,655 57:0157 minutes, 1 secondum is is what the current is. But if we get to that 831 date, it would actually drop by 53,000. 57:0957 minutes, 9 secondsAnd and and what I saw was it just said I mean it's not a vote. It's just operational law. It just take place. There's there's two functions of thee. 57:1757 minutes, 17 secondsNumber one is basically so if the state uh funding increases, the state doesn't 57:2457 minutes, 24 secondswant local funding to decrease. That's number one function. The second function is to default to in case an agreement 57:3257 minutes, 32 secondscan't be reached between uh the CLB and the respective department for their budgets. 57:3957 minutes, 39 secondsSo, so you're going to you've already I've got a motion by Commissioner Dianeus uh and I apologize I should have stopped 57:4757 minutes, 47 secondsright then. a motion by Commissioner Dianis to instruct the finance department to go ahead and uh put together the continuing resolution that 57:5457 minutes, 54 secondswould be we required if a budget is not agreed to uh and again I want to say this that June 4th if we don't have a 58:0258 minutes, 2 secondsbudget then we can't vote on a budget uh at the end of the month just because that's the way this schedule or works. 58:0858 minutes, 8 secondsSo, I've got a motion by Commissioner Gnak, a second by Commissioner Jordan for them to go ahead and construct the process process constructing 58:1758 minutes, 17 secondsuh that resolution, which I last time I saw one of those, which is a long time ago. It wasn't that lengthy, but it's pretty detailed. 58:2658 minutes, 26 secondsI talked to Cass on the continuing. I don't even think we have to have a continuing resolution now. I think it automatically continues that last year's 58:3558 minutes, 35 secondsbudget until August 31st and then anything past that you'd have to have controllers approval. Okay. Okay. 58:4358 minutes, 43 secondsBut you'll follow up on that if necessary. You've got the instruction to to get that. So we have a motion in a second. All those in favor say I. 58:5158 minutes, 51 secondsI. All opposed. Let's have it. 58:5658 minutes, 56 secondsUm Mr. Chairman, yes. on a continuing resolution. Is it the 100% of the budget? 59:0459 minutes, 4 secondsI think it's the same thing as they got last year, you can't exceed it for anything. 59:0959 minutes, 9 secondsSo, I mean, the way I've understood that, I mean, the county attorney's in here, but I believe what I understood was if we do a continu if we don't pass 59:1759 minutes, 17 secondsa budget on July one, the the raises that have been approved for the rest of the county, I mean, what it's just last 59:2659 minutes, 26 secondsyear's money. So, We're not there's no raises. We're just kind of status quo moving forward for the next 60 days. And 59:3459 minutes, 34 secondsthen the the next deadline or drop dead date is the August 31st when some things by you know literally I'm not sure how 59:4259 minutes, 42 secondsmuch we even got to do. It just happens on August 31st. So uh but that's a good question. Any other 59:4959 minutes, 49 secondsany other questions in regards to what we just talked about? I want to make sure everybody understand the process going forward. So every every department 59:5759 minutes, 57 secondseverything is working off of 25 26 budget. 1:00:041 hour, 4 secondsYes. Yep. 1:00:091 hour, 9 secondsAny other thing for the out 1:00:191 hour, 19 secondsfoundation, Agriculture Extension Committee, 1:00:351 hour, 35 secondsPublic Records Committee, economic development. 1:00:481 hour, 48 secondsThank you, Mr. Chairman. Um the April May monthly status report for economic development are in the digital packet. 1:00:571 hour, 57 secondsJim, um our active project right now, our biggest one is the $100,000 broadband free Wi-Fi project on the square and the 1:01:061 hour, 1 minute, 6 secondsad pavilion. It is underway at least the first steps as we wait for the formal letter from the state uh to confirm the 1:01:131 hour, 1 minute, 13 secondsagreement. We went ahead and launched the bid process um by putting in the paper and on our website. The grant 1:01:211 hour, 1 minute, 21 secondsrequires that we secure three bids for three tech companies to install this and and to get things moving. Any questions 1:01:301 hour, 1 minute, 30 secondson that one? We're really excited about it. Um we already had some takers and have some people come to the county and walk the properties at least I escorted 1:01:381 hour, 1 minute, 38 secondsthem off so we hadn't seen their paper that land availability farmer's friend purchase and this comes up because people are saying Carla if I get a call 1:01:471 hour, 1 minute, 47 secondsif somebody's looking for a place to put a business what do you have uh in your inventory well as you all know most property here in the county is privately 1:01:561 hour, 1 minute, 56 secondsowned however in the last couple weeks things are coming up and I thought maybe I should just share and just let you all know what's out there and people call me 1:02:031 hour, 2 minutes, 3 secondshere's what I tell them farmer's friend purchased 30 acres from the distillery uh last month. You remember the distillery sold their 30 acres. Well, 1:02:111 hour, 2 minutes, 11 secondsthey are willing to sell parts of that packet or that acreage for business or industry if it comes up. Also, um Randy 1:02:201 hour, 2 minutes, 20 secondsJenkins and I Randy took me to go see the land at Fabrication Specialties. You know Fabrication Specialist? They have 1:02:271 hour, 2 minutes, 27 secondsjust merged with Freeman Lumber and they will be moving their operations to the Freeman's Lumber uh new site on Highway 1:02:361 hour, 2 minutes, 36 seconds100. So, Fabrication Specialist is now leaving their 20 acre multiple building site. Is it 20 acre Brandy? Was it 20 and change? 1:02:451 hour, 2 minutes, 45 secondsUh 18 acres and he's got an additional 23 acres. 1:02:511 hour, 2 minutes, 51 secondsSo, fabrication specialist has left that compound uh and the build audit and and wants it 1:02:581 hour, 2 minutes, 58 secondsto be uh considered for future buildings. I mean future business or industry. And by the way, that compound is behind the middle school if you had seen it. I hadn't seen it and I was 1:03:071 hour, 3 minutes, 7 secondssurprised square footage and how much is out there and what's useful. Finally, quick job update. There are many open 1:03:141 hour, 3 minutes, 14 secondspositions in the county. I'm telling you, we're going to need uh we we're letting the word out on post and social media and um we also need word of mouth. 1:03:251 hour, 3 minutes, 25 secondsand newspapers and on the website. 1:03:271 hour, 3 minutes, 27 secondsHere's what we got right now. A grown needs 40 people. They say they will even take temporary part-time for those students looking for summer jobs. To do 1:03:361 hour, 3 minutes, 36 secondshealth snack company, they're looking to double their production line from 40 to 80. They're taking applications right 1:03:431 hour, 3 minutes, 43 secondsnow. Aid Energetics needs 20. Reliant, the company that supports T-Rex uh with their sewing textiles and their wearables, they need additional staff. 1:03:531 hour, 3 minutes, 53 secondsthe new porch company at Rinkers and Distro Park. They're looking for two new full-time positions. He just told me today they can't find a full-time 1:04:011 hour, 4 minutes, 1 secondshipping specialist and a woodworking shop craftsman. These are all full-time street benefits position benefits. And 1:04:091 hour, 4 minutes, 9 secondsfinally, the street sweeping company named CPM. You may have seen it out there in with the sign that says hiring 1:04:161 hour, 4 minutes, 16 secondsout. They're looking for a few more CDL drivers to drive their uh trucks. Their pay is north of $20 an hour of course 1:04:241 hour, 4 minutes, 24 secondswith benefits. So again the word of mouth shar I just named a hundred jobs right here and people are calling we we want to 1:04:331 hour, 4 minutes, 33 secondsensure that our business people and our entrepreneurs and our business owners know that we can fill positions that are 1:04:401 hour, 4 minutes, 40 secondsin their operations. Any additional thoughts or questions? 1:04:471 hour, 4 minutes, 47 secondsThank you very much Mr. Chairman. That's all I have for you right now. Anybody have any questions for Miss B? 1:04:591 hour, 4 minutes, 59 secondsBoard of Zoning Appeals. 1:05:021 hour, 5 minutes, 2 secondsWe've had no business, so there should be no report. Any report? 1:05:091 hour, 5 minutes, 9 secondsIndustrial board. 1:05:121 hour, 5 minutes, 12 secondsI think they met opioid settlement board. 1:05:181 hour, 5 minutes, 18 secondsWell, we got all new uh board members um that replaced the ones that were coming off and we have applications updated and 1:05:261 hour, 5 minutes, 26 secondswe're fixing to go into that cycle again. Animal animal shelter advisory board. 1:05:341 hour, 5 minutes, 34 secondsWe are meeting June 4th, 6th first after public safety. 1:05:441 hour, 5 minutes, 44 secondsThank you sir. 1:05:471 hour, 5 minutes, 47 secondsJune 1st after public safety and Miss Bates has informed us there's some significant business we need to talk about. So want to make sure that meeting stays on the calendar. 1:06:001 hour, 6 minutesLibrary board library board met. We elected new officers. The minutes are in the packet. 1:06:091 hour, 6 minutes, 9 secondsBeer board. We had no business so we didn't have a meeting. Are there any other committees or board report? 1:06:181 hour, 6 minutes, 18 secondsMr. Chairman, there were two of budget amendments that I that were in our packets that we did not discuss. We'll be taking those up at the next uh budget 1:06:261 hour, 6 minutes, 26 secondsmeeting. I just wanted to mention that and I believe that was 74 and 75 I believe or 75 and 76 I'd have four 1:06:351 hour, 6 minutes, 35 secondsthose had not been yet discussed in uh the the chair entertain a motion that all these uh minutes and board reports 1:06:431 hour, 6 minutes, 43 secondsget promulgated into our minutes. Motion by Commissioner Clark, second by Commissioner Chester. All those in favor say I. All oppose. 1:06:541 hour, 6 minutes, 54 secondsGet this calendar meeting calendar. 1:07:111 hour, 7 minutes, 11 secondsSo, we have uh animal control Monday, June 1st. Got that on there. And that's at 6:30. Is that correct? 1:07:231 hour, 7 minutes, 23 secondsIt's after the public safety. After public safety. 1:07:261 hour, 7 minutes, 26 secondsAnd then we have a an additional budget committee. 1:07:391 hour, 7 minutes, 39 secondsOn June. On June the 4th. What time will that meeting be at? 1:07:481 hour, 7 minutes, 48 secondsFive. 5:30. 5:30. Yep. 1:07:541 hour, 7 minutes, 54 secondsAnd uh then just so I can kind of get this thing 1:08:001 hour, 8 minutesfilled out. Uh what about the uh that that public hearing would take place on June the 8th? 1:08:081 hour, 8 minutes, 8 secondsWe're actually going to move that to June the 15th. 1:08:111 hour, 8 minutes, 11 secondsJune the 15th because we'll put that in the paper. Okay. Uh Crystal put submitted on the 5th. 1:08:171 hour, 8 minutes, 17 secondsthat'll get in the paper on the 11th and that'll uh we'll have that okay public hear on the 15th and then that'll enable us to vote on everything on the 22nd. 1:08:281 hour, 8 minutes, 28 secondsSo the the the changes are for what's listed the public hearing is on June the 1:08:351 hour, 8 minutes, 35 seconds15th at 6 and we have another budget meeting uh June the 4th at 5:30. 1:08:441 hour, 8 minutes, 44 secondsAre there any other changes that you look at that the upcoming month calendar? Anybody else got anything? 1:08:521 hour, 8 minutes, 52 secondsWe'll get uh get those put together and be out for everybody. 1:09:021 hour, 9 minutes, 2 secondsThe next item up on the agenda is the unfinished business. 1:09:111 hour, 9 minutes, 11 secondsThe first item is resolution 2614 amending Hickman County zoning resolution relative to section 7.090 1:09:211 hour, 9 minutes, 21 secondsamendments. This is the second hearing is sponsored by Commissioner Calakott and Commissioner Clark. Do either of you wish to speak? 1:09:321 hour, 9 minutes, 32 secondsMr. Chairman. Yeah. And uh our director Austin's got paper copies of this u and 1:09:401 hour, 9 minutes, 40 secondsu of this resolution. Uh what this resolution does is it establishes a 1:09:471 hour, 9 minutes, 47 secondscooling off period after a um a a zoning 1:09:541 hour, 9 minutes, 54 secondshas been denied. U there's other counties that have had to do this. Um and um the problem that we're having is 1:10:041 hour, 10 minutes, 4 secondsis that the way it's set up right now is if a uh a reszoning has been denied by this body, um they can reapply the next 1:10:131 hour, 10 minutes, 13 secondsday um and sets up the process of the uh planning commission 1:10:221 hour, 10 minutes, 22 secondsuh reviewing it. There's public hearing there. This body has two public hearings uh and then we vote and uh the nothing 1:10:321 hour, 10 minutes, 32 secondshas changed with the property. Nothing has changed with our zoning ordinances and so the votes are not going to change. Um what is happening is is that 1:10:411 hour, 10 minutes, 41 secondsthe um is the the tone of it is a little bit of a retaliation. Uh not against 1:10:481 hour, 10 minutes, 48 secondsthis board or the planning commission because we've got to be at the meetings anyways. So, it's not any skin off our backs, we're going to be there. If it's 1:10:561 hour, 10 minutes, 56 secondspulled from the agenda, it's withdrawn or whatever. Uh but the uh when the resoning is uh applied for, the office 1:11:051 hour, 11 minutes, 5 secondssends out uh notifies the neighbors, puts a sign out um and those neighbors come uh to speak at every public hearing 1:11:141 hour, 11 minutes, 14 secondslike they have when it when it was denied the first time or and um u applications are withdrawn or the 1:11:211 hour, 11 minutes, 21 secondsprocess whole process has gone through and and uh we've had um uh some 1:11:281 hour, 11 minutes, 28 secondsinstances where uh it gets withdrawn uh at the 11th hour uh before any of the public can be notified and so the public 1:11:361 hour, 11 minutes, 36 secondsshows up to speak uh it's not on the agenda anymore. uh that it's done repeatedly repeatedly and um and I 1:11:431 hour, 11 minutes, 43 secondsplanned commission chairman I go back tell them it's been pulled it's not on the agenda and they've wasted their time and so this sets up a uh cooling off 1:11:531 hour, 11 minutes, 53 secondsperiod um and uh just after after the vote is done by this body um and you can 1:12:011 hour, 12 minutes, 1 secondread the uh you can read the resolution uh it's a 12-month waiting period uh upon denial and if a um a request is 1:12:091 hour, 12 minutes, 9 secondswithdrawn. It's a six-month uh because that's that prevents somebody from just putting in an application and withdrawing to get their money back and 1:12:171 hour, 12 minutes, 17 secondsuh but still causing all the office work and the the public hearings. Um and uh but in this in no way is anybody's 1:12:261 hour, 12 minutes, 26 secondsrights to reszone their property being taken away uh because it's this is after that that it's been denied or it's been 1:12:331 hour, 12 minutes, 33 secondswithdrawn. Uh, and it's I was asked about um if there was a if somebody was 1:12:431 hour, 12 minutes, 43 secondsasking for a reasonzoning and it was coming before the planning commission and something like sickness comes up and that does happen. Uh, in order for a 1:12:511 hour, 12 minutes, 51 secondsreasonzoning to be heard, you do not have to be the owner does not have to be present. Um, there have been several times that the director uh has presented 1:12:591 hour, 12 minutes, 59 secondsthe reszoning. Uh, the owner sends an email or anything like that or just calls the office and says, "This is what 1:13:061 hour, 13 minutes, 6 secondsI'm asking for. This is why I'm asking for it. I'm not going to be able to be there." Not a problem at all. Uh, they don't have to be present. And the the uh 1:13:141 hour, 13 minutes, 14 secondsthe director um presents it to the planning commission. Uh but uh other this problem, we have this problem, but 1:13:221 hour, 13 minutes, 22 secondsit just establishes a uh uh just a cooling off period uh until it can be u 1:13:291 hour, 13 minutes, 29 secondsreapplied. Um the uh it did go through the planning commission. Um the the 1:13:361 hour, 13 minutes, 36 secondscity's uh they they saw it as well. Uh they did not um recommend um but they 1:13:441 hour, 13 minutes, 44 secondsplanning and zoning has no jurisdiction within the city limits of centerville. 1:13:491 hour, 13 minutes, 49 secondsWe only have outside the city limits of centerville and so that goes to them so that they can't because they do have u 1:13:581 hour, 13 minutes, 58 secondsthey do recommend to us anything that's in that urban growth boundary. And I'm sure they're not seeing the same problems that we are um at at our 1:14:061 hour, 14 minutes, 6 secondsplanning commissions. Uh but it did go through both commissions. It's had two public hearings. Uh nobody spoke for or 1:14:131 hour, 14 minutes, 13 secondsagainst it tonight. Um and so but that's that's all I've got to say. I don't know if Commissioner Clark wants to say anything. 1:14:231 hour, 14 minutes, 23 secondsWell, the there's two sides to this. the there are a lot of people that stay very anxious 1:14:321 hour, 14 minutes, 32 secondsabout this that now at least will get a six months to a year relief from having to worry about it. 1:14:421 hour, 14 minutes, 42 secondsI've got friends that uh will leave for 3 months. 1:14:491 hour, 14 minutes, 49 secondsSo at least they know it's if it's within this year, they don't have to worry about it it 1:14:561 hour, 14 minutes, 56 secondshappening while they're not going to be in town to speak against it. That's the side that that 1:15:031 hour, 15 minutes, 3 secondsit's it's not for or against the developers. I think this is something for the neighborhoods that that are being affected by this. And another 1:15:121 hour, 15 minutes, 12 secondsthing that we need to think about, uh, we'll probably be talking about it in planning and zoning. I've been doing a 1:15:191 hour, 15 minutes, 19 secondslot of reading lately on these damn data centers. 1:15:271 hour, 15 minutes, 27 secondsWe have not dealt with a developer. We have some people that date property. 1:15:351 hour, 15 minutes, 35 secondsThat does not make them a developer. The shade tree developer maybe. 1:15:421 hour, 15 minutes, 42 secondsthere's a chance that we can see a real developer and I feel like this would be 1:15:491 hour, 15 minutes, 49 secondseffective in in that because they'll come back every month. They've got they've got the time, the lawyers, the money, and everything else. So, 1:15:581 hour, 15 minutes, 58 secondsplanning and zoning is going to have to start looking at what we may or may not do about that little threat. 1:16:071 hour, 16 minutes, 7 secondsAnd I think this would be an effective tool in it. At the end of the day, 1:16:141 hour, 16 minutes, 14 secondsClaus said it if if it is not appropriate to reszone it tonight, it won't be appropriate next month. 1:16:251 hour, 16 minutes, 25 secondsNothing can change that fact in that way. That's all I've got to say. I got one more thing. I I will say this. 1:16:321 hour, 16 minutes, 32 secondsthe um the the public that has been that has come to the planning commission to speak public hearing and then I've had 1:16:401 hour, 16 minutes, 40 secondsto go back and tell them that that item is no longer on the agenda. They have been extremely polite. They've been very frustrated and they do feel like that 1:16:481 hour, 16 minutes, 48 secondstheir time has been wasted. Um but they well the first the first month they did 1:16:551 hour, 16 minutes, 55 secondsnot understand they thought it was finished and why it came back up and they didn't understand the process. Uh 1:17:021 hour, 17 minutes, 2 secondsbut after that the next months they they they they've always been very polite to me very understanding that we have to go 1:17:101 hour, 17 minutes, 10 secondsthrough the process if the application has been made. Um which is the right that's the right thing to do. Um but but 1:17:171 hour, 17 minutes, 17 secondsthey they've been they've been great to me, but they have been frustrated about having to keep showing up just in case 1:17:241 hour, 17 minutes, 24 secondsit does stay on the agenda. So any other comments, questions about resolution 2614. 1:17:331 hour, 17 minutes, 33 secondsCommissioner Barney, I'd like to amend it to where it says 12 month and section 1 to 6 month it to where it says 12 month to 6 month. 1:17:431 hour, 17 minutes, 43 secondsI think six months is a good enough cooling off period instead of a home year. 1:17:471 hour, 17 minutes, 47 secondsUm, so you're saying in section one where it says a 12 month waiting period, you're going to change that to a six-month waiting period. And I've got a 1:17:551 hour, 17 minutes, 55 secondsmotion to amend the resolution by Commissioner Barnhill and a second by Commissioner Picker. Any discussion on the motion to amend? 1:18:041 hour, 18 minutes, 4 secondsIf we're commission, if we're going to amend that, seems that if they're if they withdraw, we should probably 1:18:121 hour, 18 minutes, 12 secondsuh change that to a three. It would make sense. So, I I'd like to make a motion if we're going to do that to 1:18:181 hour, 18 minutes, 18 secondsI'll just add that to my uh Commissioner Barnhill, are you 1:18:261 hour, 18 minutes, 26 secondswilling to modify your motion? 1:18:281 hour, 18 minutes, 28 secondsYeah. Motion and Commissioner Picker, are you willing to go ahead with that? 1:18:341 hour, 18 minutes, 34 secondsUm, it would be that section two would be uh changed from a six-month waiting period to a three-month waiting period. 1:18:431 hour, 18 minutes, 43 secondsAnd while I slow the floor, um, I don't know that we can do this with the beer board, but I can tell you that 1:18:501 hour, 18 minutes, 50 secondswe denied we denied a permit in in our district and the the applicant said, "What if I bring it back next month?" 1:18:581 hour, 18 minutes, 58 secondsAnd what if I bring it back the next month? And what if I bring it back the next month? And what if I bring it back the next month? So, um there's I think some validity in this um for that 1:19:071 hour, 19 minutes, 7 secondsparticular situation. Like I said, I we can't I don't know if we could do that for the beer board, but I can I can see where um it's and it's a little 1:19:161 hour, 19 minutes, 16 secondsdifferent with beer board. They have to show up to oppose if they live within so many feet and then we don't even vote on it. But in this it's it's it's a little 1:19:241 hour, 19 minutes, 24 secondsbit different. But just wanted to make that statement. I yield. Commissioner Kai. 1:19:291 hour, 19 minutes, 29 secondsUh yeah. I I could probably get on board with the um uh with section one being cut down to six months uh but not on the 1:19:371 hour, 19 minutes, 37 secondssection two being gone down to three months because if they if they withdraw um they'll get their money back and so 1:19:441 hour, 19 minutes, 44 secondsthere's no there's no real deterrent um to them doing that and and I think that 1:19:511 hour, 19 minutes, 51 secondswe will be u and you might be right three months might be enough for everybody to get kind of you know clear their head and everybody kind of you 1:19:591 hour, 19 minutes, 59 secondsknow but Uh, but I mean that's and I I mean I'd be fine with the vote with six months on on each one of them, but I'm I'm not 1:20:061 hour, 20 minutes, 6 secondsgoing to be able to vote for three months on the second one. So, any other discussion on the motion to amend? 1:20:171 hour, 20 minutes, 17 secondsSeeing none, Paul. 1:20:191 hour, 20 minutes, 19 secondsThis is the motion. This is the amendment. The motion to amend. 1:20:281 hour, 20 minutes, 28 secondsYes. 1:20:381 hour, 20 minutes, 38 secondsDoes any commissioner wish to change the vote? 1:20:431 hour, 20 minutes, 43 secondsAES 402 absent. AES 402 absent. The resolution is amended to reflect 6 1:20:501 hour, 20 minutes, 50 secondsmonths in section one and three months in section two. 1:21:011 hour, 21 minutes, 1 secondIs there any other discussion on the uh resolution? 1:21:101 hour, 21 minutes, 10 secondsSeeing none, roll call vote on resolution 2614 as amended. 1:21:221 hour, 21 minutes, 22 secondsYes. 1:21:241 hour, 21 minutes, 24 secondsDoes any commissioner wish to change his vote? 1:21:291 hour, 21 minutes, 29 seconds11 yes, one no, two absent. 11 yes, one no, two absent. Resolution 2614 is agreed to. 1:21:391 hour, 21 minutes, 39 secondsThe next item is resolution 2615. This is reszoning property located at 10375 North Tibble Road in Bon Aqua, 1:21:481 hour, 21 minutes, 48 secondsTennessee. uh from A1 agriculture to R1 1:21:551 hour, 21 minutes, 55 secondsuh suburban residential. This is the second hearing on that. It's sponsored by Commissioner Calcott and Commissioner Clark. 1:22:051 hour, 22 minutes, 5 secondsDo either of you wish to speak to this? 1:22:101 hour, 22 minutes, 10 secondsI don't have the ability to pull the packet up, Mr. Chairman, can you refresh my memory a little bit? 1:22:201 hour, 22 minutes, 20 secondsYeah, I mean the the planning commission was unanimous on recommending this one. 1:22:251 hour, 22 minutes, 25 secondsIt fall everything was within u all it falls all within the requirements uh for that reasoning. 1:22:361 hour, 22 minutes, 36 secondsSo it was a unanimous recommendation. Thank you. 1:22:461 hour, 22 minutes, 46 secondsSo, either of you want to speak to this anymore? 1:22:481 hour, 22 minutes, 48 secondsI'll just agree with now that I realized I couldn't match the number up to Gotcha. 1:22:571 hour, 22 minutes, 57 secondsI didn't have any problem with it in planning. I don't have any problem with it. There's great benefits to two hearings. The only problem is that we're 1:23:041 hour, 23 minutes, 4 secondsgetting older. We do not remember as well when it was three months ago. Any other discussion on resolution 2615? 1:23:161 hour, 23 minutes, 16 secondsRoll call vote. 1:23:251 hour, 23 minutes, 25 secondsThere's any commissioner wish to change their vote. 12 guests, two absent. 1:23:311 hour, 23 minutes, 31 seconds12 yes, two absent. Resolution 2615 is agreed to. Resolution 2616 is reszoning 1:23:381 hour, 23 minutes, 38 secondsproperty located at 2908 Highway 100 in Centerville, Tennessee from A1 1:23:451 hour, 23 minutes, 45 secondsagriculture to C1 general commercial. Uh this is sponsored by Commissioner Calcott and Commissioner Clark. Do either of you wish to speak to it? 1:23:541 hour, 23 minutes, 54 secondsSame thing on this one. Uh it it met the requirement and is in a spot that's that makes sense and so it was a unanimous 1:24:021 hour, 24 minutes, 2 secondsrecommendation from the planning commission. Anybody else want to discuss 26? 1:24:121 hour, 24 minutes, 12 secondsExcuse me. 2616. Seeing none, roll call vote. 1:24:261 hour, 24 minutes, 26 secondsDoes any commissioner wish? 12. Yes. Two absent. 12. Yes. Two absent. 2616 degree 2. 1:24:361 hour, 24 minutes, 36 secondsUnder new business, resolution 2617 is a resolution granting the sheriff 1:24:441 hour, 24 minutes, 44 secondsauthority to enforce regulations against unauthorized public solicitation. This is sponsored by Commissioner Clark. It 1:24:511 hour, 24 minutes, 51 secondsalso has Commissioner Collins with the co-sponsor. Uh Commissioner Collins is not present tonight. Does anybody want Commissioner Jordan? 1:25:061 hour, 25 minutes, 6 secondsDid either of you wish to speak to this? 1:25:091 hour, 25 minutes, 9 secondsCommissioner Jordan, there's two for the sheriff, isn't there? This is the first one. 1:25:211 hour, 25 minutes, 21 secondsThis is the one. It was in the package, but I just can't pull it up right now. 1:25:261 hour, 25 minutes, 26 secondstechnology uh about the the door to door solicitations and the taking up the 1:25:341 hour, 25 minutes, 34 secondsmoney at the intersections and stuff like that. They'll have to clear it through the sheriff. He he asked for this. He's willing to do it. So, I 1:25:421 hour, 25 minutes, 42 secondsencourage you to vote for it. I think that both uh you3 we heard I think both 1:25:491 hour, 25 minutes, 49 secondsTodd and Danny spoke last time about it also fraudulent collection stand out the intersection of 1:25:571 hour, 25 minutes, 57 secondsseven and 100 46 over in buckets with eagles on them and they're not affiliated with high schools out there. 1:26:051 hour, 26 minutes, 5 secondsSo, and it goes over to other things, too, like door to door solicitation by out of town. Uh, vote for the seal your 1:26:141 hour, 26 minutes, 14 secondsdriveway, paint your bond. Uh, so I would encourage everybody to vote for it. 1:26:221 hour, 26 minutes, 22 secondsAny other discussion on resolution 2617? 1:26:281 hour, 26 minutes, 28 secondsWe'll call vote. 1:26:381 hour, 26 minutes, 38 secondsDoes any commission wish to change his vote? 12 yes, two 12 yes, two absent. 1:26:451 hour, 26 minutes, 45 secondsResolution 2617 is agreed to. Resolution 2618 is a resolution amending resolution 1:26:521 hour, 26 minutes, 52 seconds1707 and 24/19 to modify solid waste fees. Um, this is sponsored by 1:27:011 hour, 27 minutes, 1 secondCommissioner Pickard and Commissioner Heron. 1:27:041 hour, 27 minutes, 4 secondsDo either of you wish to speak to this matter? 1:27:091 hour, 27 minutes, 9 secondsUm Jordan Sachs has done an amazing job with our solid waste department since 1:27:161 hour, 27 minutes, 16 secondshe's come on board in my opinion and he has been facing 1:27:241 hour, 27 minutes, 24 secondslogical difficulties with increase in diesel and labor and equipment and the list goes on and on. 1:27:331 hour, 27 minutes, 33 secondsUh, this fee has been in place for about 30 years now. 1:27:401 hour, 27 minutes, 40 secondsUm, I can tell you that I've been in business 26 years and the barbecue sandwich I sell today is a lot 1:27:481 hour, 27 minutes, 48 secondsmore expensive than the one was 26 years ago. And we all understand econ the economy and so there's a lot of pieces 1:27:551 hour, 27 minutes, 55 secondsto the this pizza. He's explained it at nauseium the last two or three meetings. 1:28:011 hour, 28 minutes, 1 secondSo, at the end of the day, we we hired Jordan to do a job. He's done it well. He is our consultant. 1:28:091 hour, 28 minutes, 9 secondsHe his strong opinion is that this needs to take place in order for solid waste to continue at the level that we needed 1:28:181 hour, 28 minutes, 18 secondsto, especially with losing the possibility of losing Perry County's income coming from that and other things. So, um I I I know no one likes 1:28:261 hour, 28 minutes, 26 secondsto raise taxes and fees. I get it. but he made it very clear that if something's not done, uh, we're headed off a cliff with regards to our trash. 1:28:351 hour, 28 minutes, 35 secondsSo, I would encourage everybody to vote yes to this. Any other discussion on resolution 2618? 1:28:431 hour, 28 minutes, 43 secondsCommissioner Clark, this has been talked about for most of the years that I've been down here, a lot in the last 10 or 12 years. 1:28:551 hour, 28 minutes, 55 secondsI've been a hard node the whole time. 1:29:001 hour, 29 minutesMy unwillingness to raise the fee was wasn't about anything that Deon talked about. 1:29:081 hour, 29 minutes, 8 secondsIt was the fact that we weren't collecting what we were already charging. 1:29:151 hour, 29 minutes, 15 secondsIf you want to give Jordan a pat on the back, it would I would tend to give him pat on the back more. He he has done something about that. The I don't know 1:29:241 hour, 29 minutes, 24 secondsthe exact percentage numbers, but his percentage of his his group, he didn't do it by himself. Anita, kill me if I 1:29:311 hour, 29 minutes, 31 secondsleft her out of this. Uh it his group has has really stepped the game up on 1:29:381 hour, 29 minutes, 38 secondscollecting the the fee. Uh and if they can hold that percentage of collecting, but we don't collect all the property 1:29:451 hour, 29 minutes, 45 secondstax. We've got a lot stronger mechanism if they don't pay than solid waste does. 1:29:521 hour, 29 minutes, 52 secondsBut I intend to vote yes for it. And not because diesel fuels went up or Perry counties found somewhere else to put 1:30:001 hour, 30 minutestheir trash, but because the solid waste office has done a lot better the past couple of years of collecting the fee. 1:30:121 hour, 30 minutes, 12 secondsAny other discussion on resolution 26 18 say in the last 26 years my barbecue sandwiches got smaller. 1:30:321 hour, 30 minutes, 32 secondsDeon and Danny, I just I trust Jordan and the job that he's doing and okay, we haven't raised fees in so long. 1:30:401 hour, 30 minutes, 40 secondsAnd then I just see something that's kind of kick the can down the road and and I fully support this 100%. 1:30:521 hour, 30 minutes, 52 secondsAny other discussion on 26 18 and can we get some call sir for this side over here? 1:30:591 hour, 30 minutes, 59 secondsYeah, I think so. See none. Roll call vote. 1:31:191 hour, 31 minutes, 19 secondsDoes any commissioner wish to change the vote? 12 yes, one no, two absent. 1:31:261 hour, 31 minutes, 26 seconds12 yes, one no. 1:31:301 hour, 31 minutes, 30 secondsUh 11 yes, excuse me, just repeating what you said. Got math. 1:31:371 hour, 31 minutes, 37 seconds11 yes, one no, one absent. Resolution 2618 is agreed to. Resolution 2619 1:31:461 hour, 31 minutes, 46 secondsis regarding amending resolution 1707 and 24/19 uh pertaining to solid waste fees. This 1:31:531 hour, 31 minutes, 53 secondsis a slightly different uh view different uh component of this. This is sponsored by Commissioner Gillianas and 1:32:001 hour, 32 minutesCommissioner Barnhill. Do either of you wish to speak to this matter? Commissioner Gianis. 1:32:051 hour, 32 minutes, 5 secondsYes. This is a fee put into place for business and commercial properties uh in the amount of $120 a year. Uh it's very 1:32:141 hour, 32 minutes, 14 secondssimilar to some what we do for surrounding uh some of the other surrounding counties do. Um and then it's also includes includes the increase 1:32:221 hour, 32 minutes, 22 secondsof the tipping fee from $60 to $100 a ton. Um it's not unusual for businesses 1:32:291 hour, 32 minutes, 29 secondsand commercial uh places to be able to um get charged for this. So I you know I'd encourage you to vote for it. And um 1:32:381 hour, 32 minutes, 38 secondsthat's all I got to say. I don't know if Matthew wants to say anything. just another income. 1:32:441 hour, 32 minutes, 44 secondsI guess one additional thing I will say is that uh we were initially looking at a $120 increase in in not $120 increase 1:32:531 hour, 32 minutes, 53 secondsincreasing the fee from 90 to 120 and by adding this in place it reduced it down to $110 versus the $120. So um that helped us in regards to that budget. 1:33:081 hour, 33 minutes, 8 secondsAny other discussion on resolution 2619? 1:33:111 hour, 33 minutes, 11 secondsCommissioner Chester, I was on solid waste for for years and chaired it for a couple of years and that was uh very eye opening at what all 1:33:191 hour, 33 minutes, 19 secondsthis department does. And if anyone's never served on that committee or tour the facility and seen what goes on out there, it's it's a lot. Um 1:33:291 hour, 33 minutes, 29 secondswhen I was on that committee, I was like Commissioner Clark. My problem with raising any of the fees was we were having a hard time collecting. U but 1:33:361 hour, 33 minutes, 36 secondsI've also been impressed with what Jordan's done with that. And um I'll say this, 1:33:431 hour, 33 minutes, 43 secondsthe the positive of doing this if it allows us to maintain funding solid waste with a fee structure as opposed to the alternative which some counties do 1:33:511 hour, 33 minutes, 51 secondspaying it as part of property tax. I think if you ask most people in the community, this forces more accountability on the 1:33:591 hour, 33 minutes, 59 secondsdepartment to operate within their means as opposed to if they're funded through property tax like the general fund. It makes it easier to come back year after 1:34:081 hour, 34 minutes, 8 secondsyear asking for more. I think that's proven by the fact that this hasn't been raised in 30 years. So, uh, no one wants 1:34:151 hour, 34 minutes, 15 secondsto pay extra than they have been paying, but I think if you look at it through that lens of the alternative is you're either going to have your services cut 1:34:221 hour, 34 minutes, 22 secondssignificantly or we're going to start paying for it out of property tax like everything else. I think paying that extra each year is is what most people 1:34:311 hour, 34 minutes, 31 secondswould would overwhelmingly support. And so I'm I'm a yes on this as well as the one we just voted on. 1:34:391 hour, 34 minutes, 39 secondsAny other discussion on resolution 2619? Seeing none, roll call vote. 1:35:011 hour, 35 minutes, 1 secondDoes any commissioner wish to change his vote? 11 yes, one no, two abs. 11 yes, one no. 1:35:081 hour, 35 minutes, 8 secondsUh, one absent, two absent. 1:35:151 hour, 35 minutes, 15 secondsI'm sorry, that's one, two absent. There we go. I don't mess up. 1:35:201 hour, 35 minutes, 20 secondsUm, okay. The resolution 2619 is agreed to. 1:35:261 hour, 35 minutes, 26 secondsResolution 2620 is a resolution authorizing Hitman County to accept maintenance and utility 1:35:331 hour, 35 minutes, 33 secondsresponsibilities for the T dot lighting at the I40 and State Route 50 interchange which is exit 148. This is 1:35:411 hour, 35 minutes, 41 secondssponsored by Commissioner Clark and Commissioner Calakott you wish to speak to this? 1:35:471 hour, 35 minutes, 47 secondsUh yeah, this is the lighting 148 exit uh that T dot's doing. um what's listed on the resolution is going to cost 1:35:561 hour, 35 minutes, 56 seconds$6,000 annually. Um but uh that is probably going to be uh reduced um when 1:36:021 hour, 36 minutes, 2 secondsthey and Mary correct me if I'm wrong on this, but um when they finish the project um the Hickman Humphre County 1:36:111 hour, 36 minutes, 11 secondsline is right at that exit and uh the Humphre County u that they will pay their part for whatever lighting is on 1:36:201 hour, 36 minutes, 20 secondsuh on their side of the line. Um, and so that that conversation has just happened uh within the last I guess week or so. 1:36:291 hour, 36 minutes, 29 secondsAnd so of course everything always had to be submitted. So that the number that it's going to cost is is going to be less than what is listed in the in the 1:36:371 hour, 36 minutes, 37 secondsresolution. Uh and so uh but I mean it's a good thing and I mean it's visibility 1:36:441 hour, 36 minutes, 44 secondswill improve there and should help the county. Any other discussions on 2620? Mr. Clark 1:36:541 hour, 36 minutes, 54 secondsto to Mr. Mr. Post spoke earlier about about signage out there. This is this is 1:37:011 hour, 37 minutes, 1 secondprimarily about safety. The if you've been around that exit at 1 or 2 o'lock 1:37:081 hour, 37 minutes, 8 secondsin the morning, it's it's pretty dark for you there. That's the reason that T dot's doing it. 1:37:141 hour, 37 minutes, 14 secondsBut it would be an opportunity. He would be right. it would be an opportunity. 1:37:181 hour, 37 minutes, 18 secondsThe sign wouldn't have to be lit because there's going to be you've seen where the state has done this. There's an abundance of lumas wherever they do it. 1:37:261 hour, 37 minutes, 26 secondsSo, the sign would be able to be read even in in the dark. That's something to think about. It's about safety. And if you've got any family that use that 1:37:351 hour, 37 minutes, 35 secondsexit, there's nothing wrong with the light. Any other discussion on 2620? 1:37:461 hour, 37 minutes, 46 secondsSee none. 1:37:571 hour, 37 minutes, 57 secondsDoes any commission wish to change the vote? 1:38:021 hour, 38 minutes, 2 seconds12 yes to absent 12 yes to absent resolution 2620 agreed to. We have no further resolutions. Next item on the 1:38:111 hour, 38 minutes, 11 secondsamended agenda is the uh uh school uh budget. Uh it is n it is 7:20. We're 1:38:201 hour, 38 minutes, 20 secondsgoing to take a 10-minut break. We'll be back here at 7:30 and we'll take that up. 1:38:481 hour, 38 minutes, 48 secondsIt's not keeping connection. 1:39:011 hour, 39 minutes, 1 secondHow are you like chicken and raisin? 1:39:161 hour, 39 minutes, 16 secondsYeah, that's 1:39:301 hour, 39 minutes, 30 secondsnot smart. 1:39:371 hour, 39 minutes, 37 secondsYeah. 1:39:521 hour, 39 minutes, 52 secondsHow's your brother? How you doing? 1:40:151 hour, 40 minutes, 15 secondsAnd then I can do any 1:40:271 hour, 40 minutes, 27 secondsI give you words. 1:41:081 hour, 41 minutes, 8 secondsWhat's his picture? 1:41:341 hour, 41 minutes, 34 secondsThey're trying to put this in. 1:50:351 hour, 50 minutes, 35 secondslegislative body come back to order. 1:50:391 hour, 50 minutes, 39 secondsThe next item on the agenda uh as it was amended was to 1:50:471 hour, 50 minutes, 47 secondsdiscussion and possible action regarding the school general purpose fund 141. Is there anyone here to present on behalf of the school system? 1:51:031 hour, 51 minutes, 3 secondsI don't know quite where to stand in here. Is this okay? As long as you don't mind having your back to Barnhill and Crowcott, you're okay. 1:51:111 hour, 51 minutes, 11 secondsTurn around. Okay. So, thank you for adding me to the agenda and for letting me speak tonight. I wanted to start by just saying um some of you may know 1:51:201 hour, 51 minutes, 20 secondsthis. I don't know if everybody does, but when the school board originally began their discussions around our budget for this school year, the 1:51:271 hour, 51 minutes, 27 secondsoriginal proposal was for a 13 cent property um tax increase. And um 1:51:361 hour, 51 minutes, 36 secondsI personally had thought about that for days and went back to the school board and asked them to decrease that amount 1:51:431 hour, 51 minutes, 43 secondsthinking about the difficult position you all are in and the difficult position it is to ask anybody to um you know increase their property taxes. me 1:51:511 hour, 51 minutes, 51 secondsbeing a property owner myself. Um that that second um uh decision was made 1:51:591 hour, 51 minutes, 59 secondsaround 8 cents which was around exactly the amount as you all know I discussed that the other night or um on the May 7th meeting around u what it would take 1:52:081 hour, 52 minutes, 8 secondsto fund our teacher payraises. The exact amount that it would take to fund our teacher payraises. I bring that up only 1:52:141 hour, 52 minutes, 14 secondsto say um as a school system we we need your support. We actually need a lot of 1:52:211 hour, 52 minutes, 21 secondsyour support right now. Um, unfortunately, I inherited um a position 1:52:281 hour, 52 minutes, 28 secondsor a situation that is kind of dire right now. We have a lot of um things 1:52:341 hour, 52 minutes, 34 secondsthat we need to do to get our spending under control. And um since we met on 1:52:421 hour, 52 minutes, 42 secondsMay 7th, I've already begun that work. I did tell you um when we the last time we met that I uh had plans to do some of 1:52:501 hour, 52 minutes, 50 secondsthe difficult work to cut positions um and since we met on May 7th I've actually um 1:52:571 hour, 52 minutes, 57 secondsmade that decision to cut 14 positions so that is um certified positions that is parapros pair professionals and that 1:53:051 hour, 53 minutes, 5 secondsis central office employees that is very difficult because these are people often uh that live in the county people that I 1:53:141 hour, 53 minutes, 14 secondsUm, but I'm committed to doing the right thing by this school system and getting that under control. Um, I just wanted to 1:53:211 hour, 53 minutes, 21 secondsremind you all that Pney County Schools is the largest employer in this county. 1:53:281 hour, 53 minutes, 28 secondsWhen we make those personnel cuts, it is often people who live in this county, families who live in this county, people 1:53:361 hour, 53 minutes, 36 secondswho are providing their taxpayer dollars in this county. 1:53:411 hour, 53 minutes, 41 secondsUm to me this causes a spiral effect because when people lose their positions their families also lose that support 1:53:501 hour, 53 minutes, 50 secondsand often they are forced to move out of the county in order to find work and it's kind and this that in essence would hurt the the county's broader economy. 1:54:011 hour, 54 minutes, 1 secondSo I just want you to all keep that in mind. Tonight we bring back to you a budget um that reflects the four cents that this committee originally 1:54:101 hour, 54 minutes, 10 secondsunanimously voted um that we bring back to you um along with the $45,000 1:54:181 hour, 54 minutes, 18 secondsin uh maintenance projects. There was a slight change made in sales tax. It was switched to um $3,100. That is the one 1:54:271 hour, 54 minutes, 27 secondschange that was made. But I would attest to you, what greater impact can this county commission have um on the 1:54:351 hour, 54 minutes, 35 secondscommunity than to support the education in this system. A vote from you would mean that you are supporting your local educators and their muchdeserved 1:54:431 hour, 54 minutes, 43 secondspayraises. A vote of yes from you would mean that you're protecting local jobs. 1:54:491 hour, 54 minutes, 49 secondsand a vote from a vote of yes from you would mean that you are um investing in this county's most precious resource 1:54:581 hour, 54 minutes, 58 secondswhich is its children. So, thank you for your time. 1:55:031 hour, 55 minutes, 3 secondsUm hang on a minute. Uh couple real quick question I suppose. 1:55:111 hour, 55 minutes, 11 secondsUh I'm assuming did everybody get a copy of the proposed budget in the packet? 1:55:181 hour, 55 minutes, 18 secondsDid any of that get transmitted to the body? Okay, everybody got Okay, good. Um, so the 1:55:271 hour, 55 minutes, 27 secondslast time that the budget committee met, they sent a a revised budget back to the 1:55:351 hour, 55 minutes, 35 secondsschool board. That was reflective of two cents and I'm not sure what else. 1:55:411 hour, 55 minutes, 41 secondsUm, what what happened to that? the proposal for two cents. Um, we met on last 1:55:491 hour, 55 minutes, 49 secondsThursday night as a school board or the school board met, I should say. I'm not actually part of the school board yet. 1:55:541 hour, 55 minutes, 54 secondsThe school board met uh last Tuesday night and um lots of discussion uh around you know what what they would 1:56:021 hour, 56 minutes, 2 secondswant to present moving forward. And the decision by the school board was made to come back with reflective of a four 1:56:091 hour, 56 minutes, 9 secondscents that was originally again um kind of a a commitment on on this county commission's part and um but then 1:56:181 hour, 56 minutes, 18 secondschanging the mainten maintenance of effort by changing the sales tax dollars. 1:56:251 hour, 56 minutes, 25 secondsBut the the but the revised budget that the budget committee sent back when I look at your minutes it appears as if it was not even voted on. 1:56:351 hour, 56 minutes, 35 secondsThe revised budget was was voted on. I'm sorry. The revised budget was voted on. 1:56:411 hour, 56 minutes, 41 secondsThe the the two cent budget was voted on by the Oh, okay. No, I'm not sure about that. 1:56:481 hour, 56 minutes, 48 secondsit. Well, I I mean, I just glanced at your minutes and it said it appeared to me that that the revised budget that the budget committee had sent back to the 1:56:561 hour, 56 minutes, 56 secondsschool board had a motion, but no second, and therefore that budget wasn't even put to a vote. 1:57:041 hour, 57 minutes, 4 secondsOkay. So, there was a proposal by one of our board members to um to Yes. to um 1:57:131 hour, 57 minutes, 13 secondscreate a budget that reflected the two cents. That proposal never got a second. So it failed on the floor. 1:57:201 hour, 57 minutes, 20 secondsIt failed proposal last lack of a second. Yes, that is correct. 1:57:241 hour, 57 minutes, 24 secondsAnd you guys operate under I mean I'm assuming, correct me if I'm wrong, you're not a member of the school board, but you're correct. The director um what 1:57:331 hour, 57 minutes, 33 secondswhat what's the what what rules has the county school board adopted in order to hold a meeting? 1:57:391 hour, 57 minutes, 39 secondsRobert's rule. They are they so they you guys operate under Robert's rule which would mean it would require a second for it to be budgeted up. Correct. 1:57:461 hour, 57 minutes, 46 secondsOkay. Um and so the budget that you did pass um did it get a a motion in the second? 1:57:571 hour, 57 minutes, 57 secondsYes. 1:57:581 hour, 57 minutes, 58 secondsOkay. And it was your you operated rock rules. And so the motion when I read your minutes, it appears that the 1:58:051 hour, 58 minutes, 5 secondschairman of the committee made the motion and that's not a valid motion under Robert's rules. 1:58:161 hour, 58 minutes, 16 secondsRobert's rules. The chairman cannot make a motion. Okay. Nor can he second a motion or he or she. 1:58:231 hour, 58 minutes, 23 secondsUm I'll have to go back and review the minutes that were presented to you all. 1:58:281 hour, 58 minutes, 28 secondsI'm I'm assuming they were correct. I do not know. I don't I just I mean all I got was what what I read. 1:58:341 hour, 58 minutes, 34 secondsSo um our deputy director I don't believe is here tonight so I don't know she couldn't speak to that because she keeps the minutes but I don't know what minutes you got. 1:58:441 hour, 58 minutes, 44 secondsUh I mean just out of my curiosity. So but back to the original comment was that that we sent a budget to you and 1:58:521 hour, 58 minutes, 52 secondsand for a better way of saying it was ignored. 1:58:591 hour, 58 minutes, 59 secondsI don't think it was ignored. It was about there was a um a proposal to accept that and it just didn't get a second. So there wasn't really an 1:59:071 hour, 59 minutes, 7 secondsignoring of it. It just couldn't there was no support for it to get a second. 1:59:121 hour, 59 minutes, 12 secondsUm does anybody else have m any questions from this? 1:59:181 hour, 59 minutes, 18 secondsI want to clarify something. You said that uh 14 positions eliminated. They were all central office. No teachers were eliminated. 1:59:271 hour, 59 minutes, 27 secondsNo, I'm sorry that was not clear. They there were teachers. I said teachers, parapros, and central office. I said 1:59:341 hour, 59 minutes, 34 secondsthose three. The 14 positions were a combination. Well, I said certified, and really that means teachers. I said 1:59:421 hour, 59 minutes, 42 secondscertified employees, parapros, and central office, which means teachers, parapros, and central office. Okay. I'm I'm not a in school system. 1:59:511 hour, 59 minutes, 51 secondsSorry. Yeah. 1:59:521 hour, 59 minutes, 52 secondsSo, my wife certified employees are My wife does that to me. She's a nurse and she says all these things I have no idea. 1:59:581 hour, 59 minutes, 58 secondsI'm sorry. Yeah, certified employees could be teachers, but then um they they aren't always just teachers. It could be 2:00:052 hours, 5 secondsum it could be interventionists, it could be nursing staff, it could be um mental health workers. It's just anybody 2:00:132 hours, 13 secondswho is certified and licensed. So yes, there were some teachers in those cuts. Yes. 2:00:182 hours, 18 secondsMy second question is and I think the chairman hit on it. the budget what this 2:00:262 hours, 26 secondsbody rejected last time and you took it in two cents was tossed around. 2:00:342 hours, 34 secondsBasically what school did was send us back the same budget that we vetoed we voted down before. Right. 2:00:412 hours, 41 secondsWe sent back a budget actually that was voted down but also voted for. It was two. So we we sent back a budget that 2:00:482 hours, 48 secondswas actually unanimous unanimously voted for. There was a slight change to that budget which would impact the maintenance of effort 2:00:562 hours, 56 secondsbut the vote so it's not exactly what the vote that counts the last that's what and this this what we are bringing back 2:01:052 hours, 1 minute, 5 secondsto you is not exactly the same it's it is slightly different in terms of in terms of how it impacts the maintenance of how many dollar differences 2:01:142 hours, 1 minute, 14 secondsum the sales tax dollars were I want to say around $200,000 difference I don't have it directly in front of But in 2:01:212 hours, 1 minute, 21 secondsterms of what the difference was in that sales tax amount. Is that what you're asking? 2:01:262 hours, 1 minute, 26 secondsI'm asking the bottom line on either one. If it were two cents or if it were 4 cents. 2:01:322 hours, 1 minute, 32 seconds4 cents. What's the difference in the amount? was about the same amount and it was really covered the one that was 2:01:402 hours, 1 minute, 40 secondsrejected last time that you said and it was approved the first time when it uh so with the budget that was passed 2:01:512 hours, 1 minute, 51 secondsyou're saying it's not exactly like the one that this body sent back in the last budget meeting tell me what the difference is now sales 2:01:592 hours, 1 minute, 59 secondstax 200 that's right I guess what I'm saying is it it This the budget that we br we're 2:02:072 hours, 2 minutes, 7 secondsbringing to you tonight isn't exactly like the one that was submitted back the first time. That's it's it's quite a bit 2:02:152 hours, 2 minutes, 15 secondsdifferent than the one you rejected last I mean the one you sent back for last time. Yes. It's it is 4 cents instead of two cents. Right. Monetarily. Yeah. 2:02:232 hours, 2 minutes, 23 secondsDollar for dollar. Remember I'm just an old broken down cowboy made a living salesman. So how much difference is that? 2:02:292 hours, 2 minutes, 29 secondsHow much difference is I mean from what we send back to to from two cents to four. Is there any difference? 2:02:382 hours, 2 minutes, 38 secondsFrom two cents to four cents, it's about $180,000 difference. Is that what you're asking? 2:02:432 hours, 2 minutes, 43 secondsI'm not making the question clear. Thank you. I'm not any other questions for Miss T. 2:02:512 hours, 2 minutes, 51 secondsUh appreciate you all coming back and appreciate you meeting and and having some discussion. you know, I made the 2:02:582 hours, 2 minutes, 58 secondsmotion that we we add this to the agenda um and possible action in regards to that. So, I think, you know, I'd like to 2:03:072 hours, 3 minutes, 7 secondsmake a motion to consider as if we are a full committee because the budget committee is separate. 2:03:122 hours, 3 minutes, 12 secondsUh make a motion to consider as if we are a full committee of the whole or any discussion or actions pertaining to the 2:03:192 hours, 3 minutes, 19 secondsgeneral purpose uh fund 141. So, I'll make that motion. 2:03:232 hours, 3 minutes, 23 secondsgot a mo and just clarify the that uh the motion that the commissioner is making is that we will be acting as a 2:03:322 hours, 3 minutes, 32 secondscommittee of the whole. So we'll be acting as the budget committee in this particular process. So I got a motion by commissioner to move as a committee of the whole. Got a second by commissioner 2:03:402 hours, 3 minutes, 40 secondsJordan. Any discussion on moving to a committee of the whole? 2:03:472 hours, 3 minutes, 47 secondsOkay. Thank you. Uh, any other questions for Miss Miss T before we start that discussion? 2:03:582 hours, 3 minutes, 58 secondsWell, we need a we need a vote on that uh motion. 2:04:032 hours, 4 minutes, 3 secondsI'm sorry. You're right. All those in favor of moving to a committee of the whole say I. I. All oppose. 2:04:122 hours, 4 minutes, 12 secondsEyes have it. You're now acting as a committee of the whole. What is the will of the body? 2:04:242 hours, 4 minutes, 24 secondsDoes the It's kind of a unique situation that we are in. Uh maybe the budget committee chairman could kind of review 2:04:332 hours, 4 minutes, 33 secondswhere we're at and and what we do going forward. 2:04:402 hours, 4 minutes, 40 secondsSo, as stated earlier, um we do have another budget meeting, uh committee meeting set up for June the 4th. Uh if 2:04:502 hours, 4 minutes, 50 secondswe do not have a school budget, um and a solid waste budget approved for the total budget for the this this board, 2:04:582 hours, 4 minutes, 58 secondsthen we will go into a continuing resolution situation. um the funding would revert to uh the maintenance of of 2:05:062 hours, 5 minutes, 6 secondseffort um on July 1st and would be basically under the current budget that we we are currently under. On August 2:05:142 hours, 5 minutes, 14 seconds31st, it would go to the minimum required maintenance of effort um and and that I discussed. So you want to take this? 2:05:292 hours, 5 minutes, 29 secondsWell, we could either take it up. I mean, you know, unless a commissioner wishes to make a motion, then, you know, 2:05:372 hours, 5 minutes, 37 secondsreally, um, the school board, I think, has a revised budget from us. Um, and 2:05:432 hours, 5 minutes, 43 secondsand it doesn't I I understand that there was a motion. There was no seconding, but there was no vote, you know, to to 2:05:512 hours, 5 minutes, 51 secondssay state one way or the other. So somebody would have to commission 2:05:592 hours, 5 minutes, 59 secondssomebody we sorry I didn't he I know I know it gets a little confusing because I am the budget chairman sorry 2:06:082 hours, 6 minutes, 8 secondssomebody said he's chairman now right no he is okay he's still the acting budget chairman 2:06:162 hours, 6 minutes, 16 secondsbecause but the committee that we're in he's he's just a member of the body okay as far as sol the uh resolutions that were passed 2:06:242 hours, 6 minutes, 24 secondstonight will rectify that situation and we'll present that June June 4th to make sure that budget is in there. So 2:06:312 hours, 6 minutes, 31 secondsI guess all we got really left is school board and as budget chair or chairman 2:06:372 hours, 6 minutes, 37 secondshow do you want to proceed as commissioner Jordan? I mean, the the the 2:06:482 hours, 6 minutes, 48 secondsbudget committee has sent a budget, a revised budget to the school board that has not been voted on. They've asked us 2:06:552 hours, 6 minutes, 55 secondstonight to to make take up a different budget. Um, there's going to have to be a somebody's going to have to make that 2:07:022 hours, 7 minutes, 2 secondsmotion. If not, then we're going to it still sits with them having the budget that we had currently had 2:07:112 hours, 7 minutes, 11 secondspreviously sent back. Um, and again, under this particular rule that we're under, 2:07:182 hours, 7 minutes, 18 secondssomebody somebody's going to have to make a motion. If not, then we'll end up 2:07:252 hours, 7 minutes, 25 secondsclosing this session out and the status quo goes back to where it was prior to this meeting. 2:07:392 hours, 7 minutes, 39 secondsI just I'd like to make a comment. I feel like we kind of made a gentleman's agreement 2:07:472 hours, 7 minutes, 47 secondswith the uh with the four cents that we said to them. 2:07:542 hours, 7 minutes, 54 secondsBut uh after watching that meeting Thursday night um I I have some concerns. 2:08:082 hours, 8 minutes, 8 secondsI was very disappointed in that meeting. 2:08:102 hours, 8 minutes, 10 secondsUh but but again I I feel like we sent this to them from the beginning again that we would uh agree on the four 2:08:192 hours, 8 minutes, 19 secondscents and I know that got changed at last but but I just I'm just going to make my case because I will not be here the June the 4th 2:08:272 hours, 8 minutes, 27 secondsand I would just u say want to give my comment. 2:08:342 hours, 8 minutes, 34 secondsAny other comments in regards to school 141? 2:08:382 hours, 8 minutes, 38 secondsAnd I'll make a comment as a budget chairman. I I admitted that there was I should have when when we sent the four cents back. I because Matthew had made 2:08:472 hours, 8 minutes, 47 secondsmade the uh motion to reject and then tied in some uh some guidance and and I 2:08:542 hours, 8 minutes, 54 secondsshould have separated those two and and requested that that we actually take a a a vote on rejecting the budget and then 2:09:022 hours, 9 minutes, 2 secondsanother vote on uh giving them some guidance. if that was tied together and I think some folks obviously voted yes 2:09:092 hours, 9 minutes, 9 secondsfor that that probably wouldn't would not have and we'd have probably had some deeper con discussion in regards to 2:09:152 hours, 9 minutes, 15 secondsthat. So and I stated that at the budget meeting and I'll state it again. I I'll take responsibility for that. So any other any other discussion? 2:09:282 hours, 9 minutes, 28 secondsIf there's not, I'll take a motion to close out the committee of the whole and I'll make a motion that the committee of the whole is discharged from further consideration on the subject. 2:09:372 hours, 9 minutes, 37 secondsMotion by Commissioner Gakus to discharge the committee. Second by Commissioner Jordan. 2:09:442 hours, 9 minutes, 44 secondsAny discussion? All those vote say I. I. All opposed. 2:09:532 hours, 9 minutes, 53 secondsAre there any announcements or statements at the end? 2:09:582 hours, 9 minutes, 58 secondsof the G of the May meeting of the Hitman County legislative body. If not, take a motion to adjourn. Motion by Commissioner Jordan, 2:10:072 hours, 10 minutes, 7 secondssecond by Commissioner Picker. Thank you. Yeah. 2:10:302 hours, 10 minutes, 30 secondsI agree.