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Okay, I'll call to order the Tuesday's preventive meeting of personnel, ways and means. I have a one request to speak to the commission on an agenda item. Todd Gilman.

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Good morning. My name is Todd Gilman. I'm from Cambridge Township. I'm also a sitting member of the Michigan Republican Party and the President of Illinois County Conservatives. I would like to speak today about the administrator's contract.

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I don't believe since we are less than 60 days from the general election I don't think

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it's prudent for this board to take up an expense like this I believe it's supposed

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to be for three years I don't think it's physically responsible for the board to vote on this

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as we are going to be getting three minimum three new members or the board and I believe

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that would be handcuffing the future board I believe this administrators contract should

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be pushed back to at least January to allow the new board members to be seated and to

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vote on them because it's going to handcuff them for future budget proposals.

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I also believe it's such a bad precedent for the rest of the county employees that if

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we give one employee a three-year contract, I believe all the other employees will then

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have reason to believe that they deserve a three-year contract.

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This has nothing to do with the abilities of the county administrator.

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She could be doing a great job, that would be awesome, but a three-year contract handcuffs

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the new board that's going to be coming in in January, and I don't think it's physically

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responsible to vote on such an expense right now with three members of this board that will

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no longer be a part of the board come January 2025.

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five. These take that under advisement, as this is something that you should leave to

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the next board that's going to be sitting for four years, not two. So, thank you very

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much. Thank you, sir. I will move to approval of the minutes from the previous meeting.

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Some of what was part of the range of discussion. Very not all of them forever say hi.

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I, I, both same sign, Ocean Carey's.

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We'll now move to personal business.

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You all have a copy I believe or it's in your packet

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of the employee, employee changes within the county.

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Are there any questions, comments, concerns?

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Every nun will move to next item on the agenda

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the administrators contract.

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I'll open the floor for discussion.

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Mr. Chairman.

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So the reason I asked for that to be on the agendas because as we all know, there's an evergreen clause in the contract for six month notice and I just wanted a commission to be aware that the contract automatically renews without any action on that part.

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So it's actually an action item under paragraph two so that's the reason I had to put on the agenda. I have no problem with the commissioner or excuse me.

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The administrator having a contract for

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the discussion.

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Mr. Martis.

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I want everybody to be aware that I did take the time to call administrator Murphy before I went on vacation to let her know that I have no issues with the performance.

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And my only concern with the contract is the evergreen clause.

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I think it's bad policy to for the county or anybody in their own business for that matter to enter into a contract that automatically renews without affirmative action.

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But I don't intend to make any motion at this point for

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the discussion or request for a or make sure to tell us.

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Well, I don't see any reason why we ever had to ever green part of the contract.

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I said here and listen to all nine commissioners give her an outstanding review.

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And then is outstanding as that review is have a concern because we would have a

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contract for three years, I think it's really foolish because number one, you can look all over

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Midwest to come up with a person that has done or would do equally as well as she has.

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And I really think that I don't think a three year contract is long, long, long at all

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in that particular instance, either I misunderstood this board when she had a review.

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Everybody gave her an outstanding grade.

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So I just, I think really, we just need to, number one, I'd like to get rid of that, that evergreen clause, but I think a three-year contract is to our advantage as well as it is to her advantage, and I don't know where I would go out and find somebody.

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She got any more capability than she has, and she showed it.

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This isn't something you just thought about for three months.

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She showed that she has that ability, and today's world, when you got somebody that does

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the job the way you need it to be done, it's a situation where why is anybody trying to

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to fix something that ain't broke.

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I just don't understand that.

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Maybe the rest of you people can explain that to me.

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Mr. Stipson, because members of this board, Ralph,

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went about, and their campaign

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about cleaning up corruption in the Administrator's office.

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They made speeches about it.

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That's why we're here today.

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There's nothing to do with Administrator Murphy.

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Because they're here because they're trying

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to fulfill campaign promises that they made.

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Every green clauses are in almost every executive contract I've ever reviewed over in 20 plus years.

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They're standard clauses and they made promises they were going to get rid of this Murphy.

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So they're here to try to do that.

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Now they're not making a motion because they know they don't have support.

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That's why.

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That's the plain simple truth.

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This is the fourth time members of this board are trying to bring this contract forward.

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cost in the taxpayers hundreds of thousands in legal fees because they don't like it, but it is

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the contract. Any action on this contract, quite frankly, would open us up to some significant

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liability. If I were to counsel Ms. Murphy as an attorney, I would tell her that she has significant

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causes of action against those members.

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But that's the truth. They want to talk about transparency,

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They want to talk about how we're going to do things this way, but that's not how they act.

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So yes, I'm being a little bit chastising of the people who brought this forward because it's ridiculous.

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It's not being open and honest.

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They have grudges to bear, and they're trying to bear them out.

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So it is ridiculous.

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I will not vote in support of changing any aspect, and her contract should be renewed.

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Mr.

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Bales. Thank you. And I have to say this contract has been repeatedly

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attacked for two years, reviewed four times by multiple attorneys, and they found

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it legally found and bailed every time. Yet some continued a question

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administrator Kim Murphy's contract for what logical person would say as a

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personal vendetta. And they do this at the taxpayer's expense. We you know ask

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yourself how many times that went to the attorneys to be reviewed and the taxpayers paid that.

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We run and take political office, our constituents have a place,

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have placed the power with us to make decisions that impact the residents of Lennwy County.

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That role is powerful and vital in our governmental process. When we violate that trust by making

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our personal agendas, the forefront of our plans for the county and not what is best

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interest of our residents. We not only violate the very principles of our country was founded

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on, but we violate our friends, neighbors and the very people that we care about and trust.

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I can no longer sit idly why this continues to happen. Some of the Newark commissioners

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ran their platforms on transparency, why challenge them in that transparency as they are the

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same commissioners who continually challenge the administrators contract and ran their own

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political platform on reforming the dysfunctional administrators office. You beg the question,

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are you doing what Lenway County residents need or are you self-serving your own propaganda,

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and thus far it proves the letter.

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Thank you.

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For the comments, discussion,

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Mr. Bolton.

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Thank you.

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I just want to say we are not a lame duck commission.

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Kim Murphy has had an open to her policy

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for all of our commissioners, for all of the employees

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to come and talk to her on any issue

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and I truly appreciate it.

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She has brought consistency not only to the board,

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but to the employees of the county as well as the constituents and that is very

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important for continuation and planning for the future. We have momentum

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through Kim. One of the things that I have stated earlier is that I have sat

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with four different administrators for our county. I am the most excited at this

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time for the future of our county because of her administration.

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Her review was great

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and I don't know why this question has come up, but we need to give our administrator confidence

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in her job without continual questions on the contract and leaving her up in the air or time

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and time again. Thank you.

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Mr. Bandoorn. Okay, this is my second time, so I know it's my final time,

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I'm a little perplexed here, I don't know what you wanted me to do.

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I mean, there's an action item in the contract.

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So I just brought it to everyone's attention.

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I agree, Administrator Murphy has done an outstanding job.

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I think she had a great review process.

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I think that speaks for all the commissioners

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and how they rated the administrator and the fact

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that they addressed any issues and gave her high marks, so I'm just a little befuddled

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while we've taken this so personally here and defensive because we're all in support

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by the review process that we appreciate everything that she's done. She's done an outstanding job.

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You know, there's I can I can name the action items. I mean from Marie Spira campus to the budget to the personnel adjustments and wages to all the studies. I mean phenomenal job. So please. I mean don't take this that there's some sort of berating of the administrator in this action. It's an action stuff that you put in the contract.

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That says that six months ahead of time, the contract, if you want to do something with

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the contract, you should do with it, otherwise it automatically renews.

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So I just brought that to the attention of the commissioners.

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So please don't take it personally, you're doing an outstanding job.

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Thank you.

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Mr. Murph.

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Which is precisely why I took the time to preemptively reach out to Administrator Murphy on this very

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issue to explain that I simply had one concern, and that's that I don't think auto renewing

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contracts are good policy. And to continue to hear allegations that were seeking to do other

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things, some sewing seeds of discord and distrust is frankly beneath dignifying with a response.

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The comment, discussion. I too had some concerns about this when I heard it was going to be on the

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agenda. One, it is not a rarity. It exists in several contracts. The county

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to our immediate east, Madrow, has such a clause in the administrator's

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contract. I have looked around and such a clause exists in many county and

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city administrators contracts. This is not rare. This is not uncommon. Let me pose

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the question. If in fact we don't have such a clause, the six month notice. And we wait

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till the final hour and say, we're not renewing, you're done. That gives us virtually no time

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to find a new administrator. That gives the existing administrator virtually no time to find

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other employment. I think the six month clause is adequate. Secondly, I don't see it as an

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action item. It's not an action item unless we're willing to to take advantage of it. So I've no

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Nobody here, and I'm not hearing anybody. That says they have an issue with Administrator Murphy.

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Why they need to speak up now at the final hour. The six month notice is in the contract.

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The contract has existed for two years. In that two year period, it has not been bought

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up until the final hour. If someone wanted to terminate the contract, it should have been

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discussed and bought up, then we could bring it up. I'm not hearing anybody saying they

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wanted to eliminate the contract. And I'll sound a bit redundant because this contract

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has been under review multiple times, multiple times at significant expense, and multiple

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times has been shown to be valid and legal.

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I think administrative move we have done an

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outstanding job as administrator, as everybody else has said. I see no reason to take any action.

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The only reason to have this on the agenda would have been to take action and to say,

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well, it's an action item so the commissioners need to know. Is there any commission here that

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doesn't have or hasn't had a copy of this contract?

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If there are none, why didn't they read that?

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Why didn't they know that before?

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It's not all of a sudden actual action item.

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It's an item that has been in existence for two years.

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To say that we burden a future commission with the non-action,

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if you would now, because we are lame duck,

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then why are we voting on that budget here shortly?

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Why are we voting on a multi-million dollar budget

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and that will affect the next commission.

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That doesn't make sense.

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That's to say lame duck commissioners

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that just set their chairs,

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have a meeting for the rest of their tenure

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and open a meeting, close a meeting, go home.

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If your lame duck commissioners can vote,

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you still have a responsibility.

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So I, for one, I'm angry when I saw it,

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I'm angry now that it had even was even bought up

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unless there was gonna be some action taken on it.

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We're the comment.

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Okay, here you go. I got a question. Yes, sir. Minerow, what's the extent of the

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I don't know the length. The length of it. I don't think it's the entirety of the contract.

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Administrator Bussamick has a three-year contract and every year upon his evaluation another year is

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added. So his contract continues to be a three-year contract. Is

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there any other personnel business

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we bought to this committee. Any other personnel business,

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very none, we'll move to ways and means

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for the finance report.

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Okay, the finance reports here in your packet and they are as of August

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26th. I will start with the governmental funds and within that is the revenue for general fund.

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And currently, to date, we have a budget of 37 million for the revenue totals, and we

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are at 14 million 137,000.

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That is approximately in total, 38% of the budgeted revenue.

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As you all know, tax bills are going out and over the next few months, you're going to

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see that revenue total climb.

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As we move on to the expense, you can see that against a budget of 37 million, we have

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have a year-to-date actual expenditures of just over $23 million,

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which is at about 63% of the budgeted expenses.

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As we move on to the Fund Equity Changes Report,

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again, just as a highlight of the governmental funds,

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General Fund have year-to-date revenues of $14,137

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against year-to-date expenses of $23,299,000.

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Moving on to your special revenue funds.

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You have year-to-date revenues of 17,882,000 against year-to-date expenditures of 18,094,000.

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We continue on to the debt service funds, which show year-to-date revenues of just over

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1.4 million against year-to-date expenses of 1.5 million.

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The Fund type capital projects fund have year-to-date revenues of $791,000 against expenditures

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of $1.1 million.

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Moving down to the Capital Project Fund Special Assessment Districts, we have year-to-date

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revenues of $4.2 million with expenditures of $3.6 million.

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So total for all of your governmental funds, you're showing year-to-date revenues of $38

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$8,498,000 against expenditures of $47,687,000.

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From here we'll move on to the proprietary funds, more specifically the enterprise funds.

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These are more of your business-like funds for those of you that are wondering.

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These show revenues of $21,273,000 against expenditures of $15,996,000.

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Our internal service funds are showing revenues of 216,000 against expenditures of 321,000.

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So your total for your proprietary funds to date is 20,490,000 in revenues against 16,317 in expenditures.

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grant total for all county funds at a beginning balance of 96,694,000 year-to-date revenues

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are currently at almost 60 million year-to-date expenditures are just over 64 million.

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And with that, if you have any questions, I will try to answer those.

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As I mentioned earlier, the bulk of the revenue that we're going to be seeing will be coming

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coming in in the next couple of months as tax bills are paid.

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Questions, comments,

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the fourth quarterly, allotment of appropriation,

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Senator Murphy?

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So moved.

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Spoons and supporters are in discussion.

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They're not known for every say aye.

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Aye.

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Most same side, motion carries.

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Review of the 2025, Illinois County budget.

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So you may I'm going to come up to the podium.

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It's

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been a while since I've been on this side.

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So all of you have been made aware.

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We have a draft budget we're going to be talking about today.

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Some of you as commissioners have requested the budget workbook.

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So if you requested one, it is at your desk for your review today.

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If any of you decide after hearing this proposal and some of the proposals that are coming forward

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after this, you want a printed copy.

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please let us know and we can get you a copy for your review.

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This is a PowerPoint overview of a very detailed and lengthy process that the county has been undergoing as we have gotten to today's ability to present you with our 2025 draft budget.

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So we can move forward with the slide.

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There's a, we're going to be highlighting a number of things.

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You have a table of contents as you can see it in your presentation.

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This budget has been put together through a team work of people.

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I would like for these individuals to stand if they are in here to be recognized.

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Shannon Elliott, the deputy administrator.

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Daniel Zamolzac, who is our new finance director.

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Bev Aillers, our HR director.

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Tracy Stase, our budget analyst.

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And Jennifer Ambrose, our communications and marketing coordinator.

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All of these individuals are responsible for working with all of the departments and do a large amount of analysis in order to get what we are doing presented to you today.

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So I just want to thank them.

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So what does county government do?

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For those of you that are commissioners, you're pretty much aware of that.

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As residents, oftentimes, our residents are not necessarily as familiar with what lunaway county government is.

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So county government provides some oversight.

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We work with public works we obviously we have elections which we're in the thrust of right now

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We have courts public safety emergency management health. There's so many different departments within the county

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It takes all of these departments the ability to work together to be able to provide the services that our residents are able to enjoy

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As we go on to the budget process there's a lot of collaborative effort that happens

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I just mentioned some of the individuals that are responsible for helping put this budget together,

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but it also takes all of the departments, those leading the departments,

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and their ability to understand what they have going on and what their needs are moving forward.

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We work with them in great detail to make sure that we are able to identify their needs

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and quantify the expenses associated with that and the determine if it's something that we can do moving forward or not.

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The budget timeline, if you recall, you approved a budget calendar back in April, which is when

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the budget team was formally put together. Through the months of May and July, the human resources

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was putting together what we call personnel projections. This is looking at average single

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position within the county, both elected and non-elected, understanding where everyone is in the

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wage and compensation study, a step increase as a result of an anniversary date, assigning

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a COLA adjustment in January, and taking a look at anticipated insurance increases and

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guesstimating what those are.

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It takes a lot to understand the largest expenditure of the county and our largest asset, which

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is our personnel.

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So, there's a lot that needs to be done there before we can move it on to finance.

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In the meantime, finance is working on revenue and working with the Equalization Department

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to determine what does that look like for our biggest resource is our property taxes and trying

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to figure out what does that look like because we have to have an idea of what our revenue looks

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like before we can then put the final budget together. So once we've gotten through all that we begin

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working with the department to find out what their needs are and working all that we've put it all

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together into a budget document which is a document that is several hundred pages long

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And for those of you who are interested, it will be on our website so you can look at the detail behind it.

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We are currently at the admin draft budget timeline on here, where we are present.

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Well, excuse me, we are actually at the Board of Commissioners, but we have put together in August this draft budget and are presenting it to you today.

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The hope is after reviewing the budget, you've had a copy to look at and talking about it today that we will be moving this budget on to the Board of Commissioners tomorrow.

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and asking that the Board of Commissioners set a public hearing in October to be able to approve

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the budget. This goes along with the timeline that the Board of Commissioners established earlier

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this year and then will then allow us the ability to publish this and have it available for public

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inspection. The hope is then in October we have the hearing and it will then be adopted and then we

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can move on to regular business as we close out the end of this year.

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So moving on is an overview

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for what you were looking at for the 2025 budget that is balanced, this is a budget that is $41,662,899.

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Of that, we have planned to use $4.6 million in fund reserve.

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A large portion of that is going into our capital fund.

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We have heard the commission indicate that they want to make a priority of looking at our building infrastructure,

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our technology needs, our vehicles, and make sure that the fundamentals of our ability

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to operate are addressed.

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So we are including a $3.5 million into our capital fund we're in the past that was

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only a $1 million expenditure.

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We also have a healthy contingency built into the budget of $1 million.

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This is a take care of any unexpected expenditures that we may see in 2025.

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And last year was the first year that we moved the debt service payments out of delinquent

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tax and into the general fund.

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So you will see $1.2 million for those debt expenditures in the 2025 budget.

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In order to kind of project forward, we also look backwards.

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We look at trending and what have we seen.

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And you can see here what the trending has been with revenues and expenditures.

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we just heard the audit report for 2023 and so we are able to actually formally identify the actual amount of revenues and the expenditures.

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For 2024, which is where we are working at right now, we are working with a budget of approximately $37 million.

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And next year at this time, we'll be able to see how that actually computed out with revenues and expenses.

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There's a few things I want to point out that we have seen over the last few years with our revenue and expenses.

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So you may recall, in 2022, we did make a $9 million transfer out of delinquent tax into the capital fund.

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In 2023, we saw increases in revenue as a result of some COVID funds that were coming in.

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In 2024, this year, we're starting to finally see our revenues and our expenses normalize to our new normal post-COVID.

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And as I said, in 2025 we are increasing the amount we're putting into our capital fund.

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Investments, meaning our infrastructure, by another 2.5 million compared to what we have been

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doing previously. So as we move on to the 2025 revenue considerations, I wanted to point

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out that overall we are anticipating in 2025 about a 4% increase in revenue. Where does

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that come from? The biggest portion of that as I talked about in our finance reports earlier

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is from property taxes. We are expecting an increase of about 3% in property

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tax values in 2025. We do try to budget conservatively to make sure that we

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are not overestimating revenue coming into the county. It's also included

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includes revenue from the state which is part of our revenue sharing and then we

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We have state and federal grants that remain consistent, and as a reminder, we manage just

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over 120 state and federal grants in the county.

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So getting into a little bit more detail of what that revenue looks like and how it's

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broken up, there are some main classifications in which revenue is identified.

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And as you can see in the top line, the property tax is a count for the majority of what we see

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in revenue.

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I want to point out the very bottom line here where it says other financing sources.

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You're seeing 5.644 million.

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That is, the revenue that comes in under other financing sources is the transfers in for

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indirect cost, as well as the transfer in from fund balance to utilize towards the capital

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fund that we were talking about earlier, so that $4.6 million in total that we're bringing

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from fund balance is reflected in the other financing sources.

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So you can see over the last few years, we have been increasing that transfer in from

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indirect costs and other sources to increase our revenue.

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As we move on, there's some other items that are typically talked about and when we hear

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annually from the Equalization Director, what that report looks like for our property

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values.

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And I wanted to include this screen so that you can see the breakdown

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between real property and personal property, as well as the priority of where

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the bulk of our revenue comes from and you can see that the bulk of our revenue

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comes from residential classifications, the second largest one is our

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agricultural classifications. One of the questions that comes to me quite often is

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when we had the pipelines go in, where's the pipeline money go? Is there a line item

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in our budget for pipeline money? The answer to that is no. There's not a line for

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pipeline because that is considered property that is identified in this screen. That is considered

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and it goes to not only just the county but to all of the tax and jurisdictions where that pipeline

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runs. So I wanted to make sure that was identified here. As we move on to some of the other items that

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revenue comes from, there is something that came around a few years ago called the local community

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stabilization fund. This is a replacement form of revenue that the state is

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providing us as they have allowed small businesses to increase their

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exemption in personal property tax revenue. This is fairly consistent and we've

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budgeted about $1.1 million in revenue for this purpose. Anyone who's been

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watching what's going on at the legislature you can see where MAC has been

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advocating on behalf of county governments to come up with a better formula for

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revenue sharing. Currently, we have received our funding notification from the State of Michigan

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that we will be receiving about $2.6 million in revenue sharing, which is about a 7.9 percent

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increase over last year. And the other big one that we're asked about a lot of times is the

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marijuana tax revenue. Well, I'll indicate there are two forms of marijuana money that comes

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in the first is medical. That was when people had their medical marijuana cards. That funding

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that comes in is dedicated specifically to the Sheriff's Department. However, that funding has

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gone down drastically since recreational marijuana became allowable, I will say, in the state of Michigan.

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So we are budgeting conservatively of about $801,000 in revenue. We are waiting to see how this revenue

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may be impacted as Ohio has started to change their state laws and since we are a border

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county we're waiting to see what that will look like going forward.

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So as we move on to some of the 2025 expense considerations, on the expenditure side we have seen

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an overall increase of about 11% in increases compared to last year. That is a result of a number

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of different things. Personnel is a large portion of that. It has increased by about 2.25 million.

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And if those of you that have a workbook, if you look under tab six of that workbook,

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you're going to see where a lot of those positions and stuff are coming from.

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Because we have done some additional staffing, some additional staffing is included

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in the 2025 budget.

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We do have a few positions.

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We also have a couple of offices that are going through a total reorganization.

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Those are included in your, in this budget.

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That only did we have a wage and compensation study, which the first year took effect

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in 2024, and so it will be the second year of those changes in 2025.

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We also did a study on all of the elected positions, commissioner positions as well

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as the other elected that we have in the county.

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Those recommendations that were voted on earlier this year have been included in the compensation

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study for 2025, and not only is that for as commissioners, not only the wages, but any changes

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that we made to produce or anything else that would have happened throughout that recommendation.

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Also, we have budgeted an increase in our health insurance premium. When we were preparing

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the budget, we did budget a 10% increase in that premium. Good news. You will be getting more

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detail on this next month, but we have preliminary numbers that it looks like the overall blended

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increase for the county is going to be just under eight and a half percent.

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So we do have a little bit of extra budget in the budget.

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We also are seeing some increases in non personnel expenses.

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As I mentioned, we're putting extra money into the capital fund this year.

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That amount will be going directly into the contingency fund,

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that extra to allow the full board to use that funding for any kind of infrastructure

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improvement that it has, as well as we walk through the considerations of what we are

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going to do with the judicial building. We know that we're going to have some expenditures

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there, so that is what we're trying to plan for through the budget process. And then, of course,

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we do have our normal inflationary cost of operations.

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General fund is also divided into various

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functions of government. We've got the legislative judicial. You can read these up here. One of the

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questions that are often asked is what is under the health and welfare because that's a big number?

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And under this function you're going to see the medical examiner, the health department,

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veterans affairs, MSU extension, department aging, some of those offices you're seeing contained in

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that line item. The other one is community and economic development. Although we don't have much

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there. I did want to pull that out. That is actually more of the land bank and housing and

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stuff like that. That's what's classified in the community and economic development right now.

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So I just wanted to kind of point out that the fund expenses are contained in all these various

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different functions, which is bringing us to our $41,662,000 2025 proposed budget. As we move on to

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the debt service. This is where we have, we currently have two bonds that we are continuing

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to pay on a few years ago. We did some improvements to the Sheriff's Office. So we do have a 2018

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bond for that. That final payment will not be until 2038. And in 2020, we implemented a bond

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for the restoration and renovations of the old courthouse. That final payment will not be

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until 2040. I am very excited about the due diligence on behalf of the commissioners

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that we are able to do a $20 million improvement to Morisphere Campus without incurring an additional

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bond on behalf of our taxpayers. So we will continue with these two bonds as we are able to make

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major improvements at Morisphere Campus. As we move on to basically a summary of the budget

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The 2025 budget is balanced, although we are using some of our fund balance.

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You did also hear that we did put a little bit back as part of our audit process, and

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we are trying to use this to look forward to our infrastructure improvements that we know

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that we have.

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We have worked with every single department within the county.

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We have held meetings with almost every single department brought them in, reviewed their

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their budgets line by line to make sure that we are all on the same page. We're

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appropriate and we're helpful to the individual departments. We have added more

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detailed account numbering so that we could identify costs more easily. All of

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the personnel projections that I have listed earlier have been included and all

433
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,720
non-general funds appropriations have also been considered and included in your

434
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:21,200
budget. If you have any questions, I will try to answer those. Oh, I'm sorry. I have one more

435
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:27,220
screen or two. I got excited. Future considerations. This is important. As we move forward, we were just

436
00:40:27,220 --> 00:40:31,600
talking about the board that may be coming on in January and what they're going to be looking at.

437
00:40:33,780 --> 00:40:38,800
This Human Services Committee has actually brought forward the thought of doing a

438
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:44,160
Lennon Way County's strategic plan. This is for Lennon Way County government for 2025.

439
00:40:46,260 --> 00:40:51,560
The administrator's budget does include $50,000 to put towards that sort of planning.

440
00:40:52,460 --> 00:40:56,580
So we will look to see what that looks like as we move forward into 2025.

441
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,900
We have considerations that the Rex B. Martin's judicial building.

442
00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:07,040
We did have a study performed and evaluation and some ideas of what that could look like,

443
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:12,940
But what we will move forward doing is yet to be determined, but we do know that whatever

444
00:41:12,940 --> 00:41:15,140
we do is going to cost money.

445
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:21,460
The collective bargaining agreements will still be impacting the budgets going forward.

446
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,920
Those were brought into consideration for 2025.

447
00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:28,720
They were three year bargaining agreements that were settled in 2023.

448
00:41:29,660 --> 00:41:33,300
So we will be dealing with those collective bargaining agreements over the next few years.

449
00:41:33,300 --> 00:41:43,220
And of course, as we continue to look at infrastructure and you're going to hear me say this, we will continue to build what we can into the capital fund for those improvements.

450
00:41:45,370 --> 00:41:48,630
I don't know whose telephone that is, but you might want to get it.

451
00:41:51,990 --> 00:42:03,490
So the next steps, as I mentioned earlier, would be if this commission would so deem is to recommend the 2025 draft budget to the board of commissioners for publication.

452
00:42:03,490 --> 00:42:07,730
and to hold the public hearing on Wednesday, October 9th, 2024.

453
00:42:08,610 --> 00:42:11,910
And with that, I will answer any questions that you may have.

454
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:21,760
Before I begin discussion, I'll ask for a motion to accept and forward it to the full board and then we can have discussion.

455
00:42:22,260 --> 00:42:22,680
Full motion.

456
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:24,680
The motion is supported.

457
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:25,780
Now is your discussion.

458
00:42:26,260 --> 00:42:26,540
Questions?

459
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:29,040
Mr. Martin.

460
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:34,160
I just want to say again, I appreciate the time you've taken with us in the last two years to review the budget.

461
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:39,100
I think that's been very useful to give us a good baseline of understanding as we worked on that together.

462
00:42:39,100 --> 00:42:40,660
It's been a very collaborative process.

463
00:42:41,140 --> 00:42:47,080
I'm also very pleased with your plan to try to forward budget for the any improvements to the courthouse.

464
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:51,240
I think that's very sound policy and I'm glad we're taking that approach.

465
00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:52,060
For

466
00:42:55,330 --> 00:42:59,130
the questions, kind of, Mr. Stimson.

467
00:43:00,670 --> 00:43:07,690
Again, I echo the commentary that you've done an excellent job, your staff has done an excellent job, and the departments have done an excellent job.

468
00:43:08,710 --> 00:43:14,470
I want to point out one particular fact that if you look at that budget, you're a little over 2% of debt service.

469
00:43:15,190 --> 00:43:15,730
That's it.

470
00:43:16,670 --> 00:43:21,110
Meaning of all the county funds going back decades,

471
00:43:21,110 --> 00:43:28,030
This administration, these commissioners who have been here for decades, have been very, very responsible with money.

472
00:43:28,850 --> 00:43:36,390
If you look at most private enterprises or even governmental enterprises, they have way more debt service than 2% of their total dollar.

473
00:43:37,070 --> 00:43:38,030
That's amazing.

474
00:43:43,150 --> 00:43:44,270
Questions, comments?

475
00:43:44,270 --> 00:43:51,690
that's being done. All those in favor say hi. Oh, same side motion carries.

476
00:43:53,070 --> 00:44:02,210
Moving down to the E at 911 five years strategic plan. Everybody has received a copy of the capital fund.

477
00:44:02,670 --> 00:44:08,650
Oh, I'm sorry. Let's keep my record. We're at the capital improvement plan by mistake.

478
00:44:09,470 --> 00:44:13,010
That's okay. It's a tall order to follow the administrator.

479
00:44:13,950 --> 00:44:22,890
I'm warning commissioners, you will find in your budget books should you have one under tab seven, the capital improvement plan, the proposed capital improvement plan, excuse me.

480
00:44:23,610 --> 00:44:30,930
The capital improvement plan projects out five years in areas such as infrastructure, IT, county vehicles and department projects.

481
00:44:31,450 --> 00:44:38,570
Creating the capital plan assists the county in future forecasting and allows for a more seamless resource delivery service to the residents of Lenaway County.

482
00:44:38,570 --> 00:44:51,070
The 2025 capital budget proposes a $3.5 million allocation from the general fund with a 216,500 coming from other funds for a project total of just over $3.7 million.

483
00:44:52,210 --> 00:44:56,390
If you're looking at your budget summary, you could move down to that.

484
00:45:00,180 --> 00:45:29,840
The operational budget for 2025 is broken down by division. You will see the building and site division has a total of $654,985 with $200,500 coming from the meeting from the human services building, fund for the lot, seal, meeting and panels and interior and a capital distribution in the amount of $454,485. This distribution will cover various building infrastructure needs throughout the county and can see into $20,000 contingency.

485
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:34,940
As well as two department requests for the jail, a control center, and the amount of $50,000,

486
00:45:35,340 --> 00:45:39,940
and a restructure of the emergency operations center for emergency management in the amount

487
00:45:39,940 --> 00:45:41,440
of $24,500.

488
00:45:42,580 --> 00:45:46,840
Moving down to the risk of your campus division, you will see that is a request in the amount

489
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:51,620
of $200,119, again, with the $20,000 contingency bill to end.

490
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:57,120
This request will cover things for the administrative building, exterior border, cocks, seal, things

491
00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:03,180
of that nature as well as roof replacement for the existing detention facility. Nothing to do with

492
00:46:03,180 --> 00:46:09,240
the expansion or remodel of Reese for campus. The park division has a division total in the

493
00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:16,520
amount of $105,606 with a building contingency of $5,000. This will address various projects in

494
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:22,320
Garber Park as well as the basketball slash pickup ball resurfacing at Medina Park. This total also

495
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:26,980
So as an 8,606 dollars to the fund balance for future projects.

496
00:46:27,500 --> 00:46:29,160
As we're again, we're forecasting out her parks.

497
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:36,880
We recognize that there is a need to put more funding into our parks, as well as for our parks survey and our parks plan, which we've heard from our residents.

498
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,980
They would like some more infrastructure built into our parks.

499
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:50,060
The IT division has a total of 235,000 with a $25,000 contingency for several projects such as computer replacement for accounting employees.

500
00:46:50,060 --> 00:46:54,600
Excuse me, not all county employees, but it's a rolling replacement for county employees

501
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:59,720
and departments, as well as several projects such as Cisco agreements and replacements.

502
00:47:00,580 --> 00:47:06,240
The Sheriff's Vehicle Division has a total of $405,200 for the purchase of four vehicles,

503
00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:11,240
and then we have our lease obligations, as you can see for the years 1921 and 23.

504
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:16,680
We are moving towards no longer leasing vehicles, just purchasing them outright, so we will see

505
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:18,640
those legacy costs continue to fall off,

506
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:20,080
allowing for a little more flexibility

507
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:21,640
in the purchase of those vehicles.

508
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,780
Building and grounds vehicle division has a department

509
00:47:24,780 --> 00:47:28,720
total of 78,590 with a capital distribution,

510
00:47:28,900 --> 00:47:31,160
the amount of 62,590.

511
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,120
There is also an allocation from parks

512
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:37,560
and the human services building in the amount of $16,000.

513
00:47:38,060 --> 00:47:41,720
And again, the allocation is utilized because those two entities

514
00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:44,280
often utilize the building and grounds vehicles,

515
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,640
bills, plows, trucks, all those kinds of things, if you will.

516
00:47:48,940 --> 00:47:53,140
Vehicles other department has a proposed distribution of $20,000 for the replacement of vehicles

517
00:47:53,140 --> 00:47:54,340
within other county departments.

518
00:47:54,860 --> 00:47:56,800
You will see that there's not a request there currently.

519
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,920
However, we do have some aging vehicles in some of the other departments.

520
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:05,040
Again, those departments are trying to be as frugal as possible with expenditures, but we

521
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,880
do want to make sure that we have some money in case something should happen in the interim

522
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:10,640
of the capital plan.

523
00:48:11,700 --> 00:48:16,760
To come see products, division has $17,000 for grounds keeping throughout the year.

524
00:48:16,860 --> 00:48:20,560
We've been monitoring our expenditures at the Come See products site and we feel that

525
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:25,580
$17,000 is a good place to stay or bush hogging, mowing, all of those kinds of things.

526
00:48:26,860 --> 00:48:30,300
And lastly, we've been discussing an administrative murky, took a lot of my thunder and that's

527
00:48:30,300 --> 00:48:34,840
when she talked about the capital improvement plan, but we've talked a lot about large projects

528
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:38,820
in the horizon for Lenaway County and again, she's specifically called out one of the judicial

529
00:48:38,820 --> 00:48:40,460
additional building, the rest of the martin judicial building.

530
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:43,120
We know that something must take place there.

531
00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:47,740
We had a need assessment that showed that there are significant operational deficits within

532
00:48:47,740 --> 00:48:48,260
that building.

533
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:52,340
And so something will have to take place in the future, whether near or the next five years.

534
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:57,460
And so what we were able to do is put $2 million in the contingency component of the capital

535
00:48:57,460 --> 00:49:03,240
fund to plan for those large expenditures that we know are on the horizon for Lenaway County.

536
00:49:03,720 --> 00:49:05,940
And that reduces what we'll have to put on our taxpayers.

537
00:49:05,940 --> 00:49:20,460
So, again, having that too many contingency allows us to plan, utilize different mechanisms for example the needs assessment in itself was really helpful to understand where we have those deficits in the judicial building as opposed to just kind of going in and starting to build and make additions.

538
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:28,320
Now we actually have an idea, if you will, of where those deficits really lie and how do we address those deficits, not in the short term but in the long term.

539
00:49:28,740 --> 00:49:31,020
So that can be really helpful for us moving forward.

540
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:44,820
You will also find in the appendices of this plan, you will find the airports five-year plan from 2025 to 2030 with expenditures as well as funding sources for what the airport plan would look like.

541
00:49:45,300 --> 00:49:53,900
Previously, this mission had asked that we blend these two entities and we have one place for our projected long-term plans, our capital plan, our airport plan.

542
00:49:53,900 --> 00:49:55,660
and then the following will kind of see B,

543
00:49:56,020 --> 00:49:58,960
excuse me, appendix B, you will see the 911 surcharge.

544
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,380
That is an executive summary of that plan

545
00:50:01,380 --> 00:50:03,260
as you will, that plan will be presented to you.

546
00:50:03,860 --> 00:50:05,620
Immediately after me is Commissioner Collins

547
00:50:05,620 --> 00:50:07,260
called that, called for that.

548
00:50:08,260 --> 00:50:10,160
There is no action requested of you today.

549
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:12,800
As you know, you heard from Administrator Murphy

550
00:50:13,140 --> 00:50:16,820
that this, the capital plan is built into the overall 2025 budget

551
00:50:17,140 --> 00:50:19,920
and upon should you adopt the 2025 budget,

552
00:50:20,140 --> 00:50:22,640
you will be adopting this capital improvement plan as well.

553
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:27,120
But I can answer any questions, or I will attempt to answer any questions, should you have them?

554
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:30,760
I think it's better require the action.

555
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:31,820
That's correct.

556
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:41,220
And stated before, this does not require action at this time.

557
00:50:41,420 --> 00:50:44,160
So for any questions or comments, that was the time.

558
00:50:48,820 --> 00:50:50,220
During that, thank you.

559
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:55,040
We will now, to the E-9-1-1 strategic five-year plan.

560
00:50:55,840 --> 00:51:01,340
I assume you all have a copy of the plan. I've received it a chance to review it.

561
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:05,460
I'll entertain a motion before we have discussion.

562
00:51:07,720 --> 00:51:08,000
Report.

563
00:51:08,420 --> 00:51:11,700
It's moved and supported. Now is there any discussion or questions?

564
00:51:17,650 --> 00:51:19,230
During none, all those in favor say aye.

565
00:51:19,430 --> 00:51:19,670
Aye.

566
00:51:20,170 --> 00:51:22,830
Oh, same sign. Motion carries. Thank you.

567
00:51:23,070 --> 00:51:23,690
All right.

568
00:51:24,790 --> 00:51:25,590
I like those.

569
00:51:25,850 --> 00:51:26,010
Yes.

570
00:51:29,870 --> 00:51:35,530
We move now to the Mr. Michigan Neighborhood Grant, Mr.

571
00:51:35,650 --> 00:51:35,870
Murphy.

572
00:51:40,610 --> 00:51:43,430
Sorry, that is off of the agenda.

573
00:51:44,170 --> 00:51:49,510
The reason for that is that there was some confusion between the granting authority and

574
00:51:49,510 --> 00:51:56,070
the county on the documentation that we needed in order to act on that today.

575
00:51:56,070 --> 00:52:05,310
So we are working with Mishda today on that my neighborhood grant application to try to get the appropriate documentation if we do get it.

576
00:52:05,710 --> 00:52:11,450
It will be on your agenda tomorrow for consideration for those of you that are not aware.

577
00:52:12,210 --> 00:52:20,250
We have verbally been advised that we may have a $75,000 grant available to us for Gerber Park.

578
00:52:20,250 --> 00:52:25,890
work. So that is something that we are working towards. We just need to get the finalized paperwork

579
00:52:25,890 --> 00:52:31,870
so that we can get your authority to approve that, to accept that grant and to move forward

580
00:52:31,870 --> 00:52:34,530
with the process. So more to come on that tomorrow.

581
00:52:37,710 --> 00:52:44,530
Questions, comments? Hearing none, we'll move to the energy efficiency request.

582
00:52:57,800 --> 00:52:58,320
Again,

583
00:53:04,300 --> 00:53:06,440
are we not being asked to act on this today?

584
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:08,320
That's what I thought.

585
00:53:09,820 --> 00:53:10,420
I'm sorry.

586
00:53:10,660 --> 00:53:11,940
It's a review and it's not in time.

587
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:12,180
I'm sorry.

588
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:12,720
Okay.

589
00:53:13,180 --> 00:53:15,540
I move that we reject the solar part of this proposal.

590
00:53:16,220 --> 00:53:16,480
Support.

591
00:53:18,240 --> 00:53:21,160
I'm sure you say that you reject the solar portion of the solar part.

592
00:53:21,380 --> 00:53:21,900
Is that too?

593
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:23,940
Is that to say except the...

594
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:25,300
No, I'm husband.

595
00:53:25,460 --> 00:53:26,920
I just addressing that one part.

596
00:53:27,140 --> 00:53:27,280
Okay.

597
00:53:29,820 --> 00:53:32,180
Mr. Simpson, I just a point of order.

598
00:53:32,180 --> 00:53:39,440
I think the proper process would be to either approve positively a motion forward on what you do except

599
00:53:40,580 --> 00:53:42,240
rather than a

600
00:53:42,240 --> 00:53:50,000
negative motion that elicits some sort of other aspect because that's that's the typical manner in which you would do it correctly under Robert's rules

601
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:56,320
You can check with our parliamentarian if I'm out of order, but I think that's the proper way to do that. I'll turn it a little

602
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:58,480
And my within legal balance with my motion.

603
00:53:59,180 --> 00:54:08,900
I believe the commissioner Stimson, the way it was presented in the agenda packet is that the request was to review and consider the specific proposals generated.

604
00:54:09,740 --> 00:54:15,120
You are certainly within your right to move to reject the proposal submitted.

605
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:23,300
And then it would be much more feasible, so to speak, to go back to the drawing board and consider other options.

606
00:54:23,300 --> 00:54:24,740
questions. Do

607
00:54:28,420 --> 00:54:33,560
we have a motion to reject the solar portion, other proposal, Mr. Stemson?

608
00:54:34,060 --> 00:54:38,620
I think just what I'm trying to get at is what should be said is that if you want to reject

609
00:54:38,620 --> 00:54:43,840
a proposal fine, then you need to put for a positive motion of I wish to accept X, Y,

610
00:54:43,980 --> 00:54:48,680
and Z Commissioner Mardis. That's really where I'm getting at. So there's a positive motion

611
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:54,060
on the floor that can be voted on. When you say something as big as the solar part, you're

612
00:54:54,060 --> 00:54:57,680
unclear in your motion, which is why I'm asking for clarification and point of

613
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:04,140
point. Again, attorney Galuli, is my motion clear? Is it legally defensible?

614
00:55:09,770 --> 00:55:15,430
Your motion is clear to me without a doubt. I still think it would be better,

615
00:55:16,350 --> 00:55:22,530
sort of as an in-between to both proposals. The proposed recommendation was to vote on the

616
00:55:22,530 --> 00:55:31,990
proposal generated by Verigee. If you're not satisfied with the proposals generated by Verigee,

617
00:55:32,270 --> 00:55:41,090
my recommendation would be a motion to decline the proposal submitted and then bring up a motion

618
00:55:41,090 --> 00:55:49,650
to that which you would approve. If I may amend my motion, is that acceptable now? Does

619
00:55:49,650 --> 00:55:51,050
does not have to withdraw his second.

620
00:55:53,330 --> 00:56:00,430
You can amend it with approval of the supporting individual or you can withdraw your motion.

621
00:56:01,770 --> 00:56:04,210
Can I amend it with your approval, Commissioner Crandy?

622
00:56:04,890 --> 00:56:05,690
Yes, sir.

623
00:56:06,070 --> 00:56:06,530
Thank you, sir.

624
00:56:07,510 --> 00:56:13,570
I amend my motion to say I move that we reject the solar portion of this proposal and delay

625
00:56:13,570 --> 00:56:18,350
any action on the lighting portion until we receive two additional bids from local contractors.

626
00:56:19,070 --> 00:56:19,750
support.

627
00:56:23,240 --> 00:56:30,220
Been moved and supported that we reject the proposals as it relates to the solar

628
00:56:30,220 --> 00:56:39,500
portion and defer the request on the lighting and tell such time as we have two competitive

629
00:56:39,500 --> 00:56:48,000
bids. My question I would submit is what is your most to say if we don't get to if we

630
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:48,440
one.

631
00:56:51,230 --> 00:56:53,790
I stand by my motion and I can answer that question.

632
00:56:58,240 --> 00:56:58,920
Mr. Vendorn.

633
00:57:01,940 --> 00:57:07,860
Thank you. We have some discussion about this prior to the meeting. So did you have a chance?

634
00:57:09,060 --> 00:57:16,800
Administrator Murphy looked at the contract to see if there's any clause in there about getting additional people to bid on it.

635
00:57:17,660 --> 00:57:22,760
I'm sorry. Did we who's we and when did we recognize the administer recognized? I'm sorry.

636
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:26,200
All right. Okay. I'll clarify that. The administrator and I.

637
00:57:28,970 --> 00:57:33,710
So should you decide not to go forward with this project, there's a letter in your packet.

638
00:57:33,710 --> 00:57:36,930
It's called the letter of intent. We will need to repay

639
00:57:37,570 --> 00:57:42,230
Verigee for the worth that they've done, and that is the amount of $29,250.

640
00:57:43,190 --> 00:57:50,850
As it applies to the bidding, I think it's important to recognize that this project as part

641
00:57:50,850 --> 00:57:56,590
of variegies, due diligence, did bid it through what's called, I'm going to get this

642
00:57:56,590 --> 00:58:05,030
wrong, GP1-1GP, okay, which is very similar to the Michigan Mydeals that more of us

643
00:58:05,030 --> 00:58:11,290
are familiar with, where the state does receive bids and then they post the low bid and that's

644
00:58:11,290 --> 00:58:16,510
how we oftentimes purchase vehicles or other services. There is a very similar service which

645
00:58:16,510 --> 00:58:23,890
the county is a member of or these types of services and it has been vetted through that service.

646
00:58:24,450 --> 00:58:30,890
So any vendor who wishes to bid on projects, lighting projects, solar projects,

647
00:58:30,890 --> 00:58:35,530
anything that falls into the realm of what we're speaking of today has the ability to submit

648
00:58:35,530 --> 00:58:41,710
bids on what their prices would be and then to be considered. So although we did not specifically

649
00:58:41,710 --> 00:58:48,630
as a county go out and ask local bidders to bid specifically on a particular project,

650
00:58:49,350 --> 00:58:54,650
much like we have done with other projects where we purchase vehicles and don't put out an RFP,

651
00:58:55,330 --> 00:58:57,870
it has been vetted through this agency.

652
00:58:58,410 --> 00:59:04,970
So I'll follow up on that, sorry, just so basically my understanding of what you just told me

653
00:59:04,970 --> 00:59:17,810
is that our liability is the extent of the original liability where we said that if we reject the project we owe 30 whatever the amount is that's the amount of our liability.

654
00:59:18,190 --> 00:59:20,610
That is the amount we would owe back to Verigee correct.

655
00:59:21,330 --> 00:59:28,870
Otherwise, if we accepted it, then that would have been included in the bid process and absorbed within the bill, right?

656
00:59:29,730 --> 00:59:33,010
That is included in the cost that we would have to pay for the project, yes.

657
00:59:33,010 --> 00:59:33,130
Yes.

658
00:59:33,230 --> 00:59:33,870
Thank you.

659
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:38,040
Let me boil the stock order further.

660
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:45,360
Obviously, to reiterate what Ms. Radorn said, if we refuse in totem, then we have to pay

661
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:47,240
very GD $30 plus $1,000.

662
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:51,880
And let me go further and boil the stock if I can.

663
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:56,640
Other entities have had the opportunity to bid on this.

664
00:59:58,160 --> 00:59:59,980
So, I want to make clear, we did, we, it's-

665
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,880
The county did not put out an RFP saying Lenaway County may have this project and may be looking for bidders. However, we don't do that with vehicles either when we are considering the mydeal contract because the state already bids all of that out and says, here's the product it has been vetted and this is the best price available to you. That is the same situation with this organization in that for the lighting or for the solar or for any of the other types of services.

666
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:38,140
that are providers of this contract, they have already bid out the specific product and so if we

667
01:00:38,140 --> 01:00:45,040
were to go with what Verigee is quoting, they are pulling that bid from that particular program.

668
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:52,220
So, in a sense, we would not have to do another RFP because it's already been vetted by another

669
01:00:52,220 --> 01:00:58,720
this other agency. Mr. Martin. Just to be clear, I have no problem with Verigee doing the lighting

670
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:10,780
base of this project, I simply want a couple independent vids to prove that we're paying fair market value, and it may be entirely possible that a couple of local contractors can save us the $30,000

671
01:01:11,260 --> 01:01:22,520
dollar feasibility payment that we're at risk right now. And until we ultimately reject the entire project, I don't believe we're going to be encumbered by that, but right now we don't know.

672
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:29,220
We don't have any competitive bids on the lighting side to know whether or not their numbers are as good as we can get for the taxpayers.

673
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:46,900
I think what I understood Minister Murphy to tell me is that it has already been vetted to know that this is in fact the best pricing for this specific project through the third party agency, which is pretty commonly done in projects like this.

674
01:01:46,900 --> 01:01:52,860
Not to mention all the aspects that are associated with our past dealings with Verigee and their

675
01:01:52,860 --> 01:01:56,900
predecessors and interests in the work they've done all over the county as a preferred vendor.

676
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:03,840
We could all vote no on this particular motion and then we have the opportunity to turn around

677
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:07,920
and offer a motion approving the lighting portion of this without all the conditions

678
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:13,200
that were proposed by the motion in support. That is something that would still be allowable,

679
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:17,120
would avoid any of the penalties associated with it, and we can move forward right away

680
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:21,340
and try to get those done with the incentives that are in place, which is a big part of this.

681
01:02:21,980 --> 01:02:26,640
This feels like a delay tactic in order to just push it off to another time period.

682
01:02:26,780 --> 01:02:31,160
This project was before us two, three months ago, and we wanted to make sure it had as due diligence

683
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:35,860
and some people had time to look at it. And what we found is it has been embedded and has gone out

684
01:02:35,860 --> 01:02:40,220
for the lowest bid, and we're still here today to move forward on the project one way or the other.

685
01:02:40,220 --> 01:02:47,980
I mean, I know that I will be voting no on this motion and then if it fails, I will be offering a motion to approve the lighting portion of this contract immediately.

686
01:02:50,060 --> 01:02:55,820
So let me, let me ask her, you know, I'm not so much for clarification, maybe just statement.

687
01:02:56,500 --> 01:03:04,000
If in fact, we neglect this, excuse me, refuse this, because we don't have competitive bits,

688
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:10,520
We're going to do so also when we buy vehicles off the statement, we're going to ask local

689
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:17,040
car dealers for competitive bids, but it's the same thing, it's the same comparison.

690
01:03:18,700 --> 01:03:19,560
Mr. Krasnick.

691
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:27,500
That comparison to a labor-filled project to an item that is commonly purchased by local

692
01:03:27,500 --> 01:03:33,360
units of the government, like a law enforcement vehicle, is not even close to being germane.

693
01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:42,780
When you're talking of millions of cars that are produced and put out there has nothing to do with how much it's going to cost to change a light bulb in different facilities.

694
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:47,200
So I do not accept that association at all.

695
01:03:47,660 --> 01:03:54,180
We don't buy millions of cars and I will stand by my position even though this is labor intensive.

696
01:03:54,660 --> 01:03:59,220
It is vetted through the state program much the same as a vehicle purchase.

697
01:03:59,220 --> 01:03:59,880
You

698
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:03,740
should tell us.

699
01:04:04,420 --> 01:04:05,260
A question.

700
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:13,780
Locally, we all like to be involved as much as possible.

701
01:04:15,180 --> 01:04:17,980
Under the state guidelines,

702
01:04:20,260 --> 01:04:26,240
does people in our local Lenaway County

703
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:36,780
and engage with the state as to bidding situation like this.

704
01:04:37,060 --> 01:04:37,380
Arditelle.

705
01:04:40,090 --> 01:04:43,710
It's my understanding that that is available to anybody within the county.

706
01:04:44,350 --> 01:04:48,950
As it relates to vehicles, for example, I can tell you from previous experience.

707
01:04:49,610 --> 01:04:52,270
The state that's out the vehicles.

708
01:04:53,030 --> 01:04:59,670
and let's say, well, back to the older days, it was a Chevy Caprice, and they will pick

709
01:04:59,670 --> 01:05:05,530
dealers who will submit bids also. Those dealers would have to comply with the state-bid

710
01:05:05,530 --> 01:05:09,930
program, and all dealers will. In fact, most dealers won't, because that's a lower price.

711
01:05:10,890 --> 01:05:17,610
So the opportunities exist there for them to make sure to tell us about that.

712
01:05:17,610 --> 01:05:21,830
And that's what I'm trying to find out

713
01:05:22,550 --> 01:05:30,870
is to local people have to belong to this state organization

714
01:05:30,870 --> 01:05:33,550
in order to bid and rat.

715
01:05:35,710 --> 01:05:37,170
I just don't understand.

716
01:05:37,230 --> 01:05:37,750
Mr. Mandor.

717
01:05:38,130 --> 01:05:41,770
I think it's a much like the process

718
01:05:41,770 --> 01:05:45,890
where they put this out Ralph and everyone has an opportunity

719
01:05:45,890 --> 01:05:46,710
to do it.

720
01:05:46,710 --> 01:05:51,270
but they just put a general RFP out and bring them in,

721
01:05:51,350 --> 01:05:54,790
but I happen to agree with Commissioner Crazney

722
01:05:54,790 --> 01:05:58,110
to some extent in the fact that automobiles

723
01:05:58,110 --> 01:06:01,130
versus getting down into electrical suppliers

724
01:06:01,130 --> 01:06:04,170
here in Oneway County, they probably,

725
01:06:04,470 --> 01:06:06,230
there's so many of them that they probably

726
01:06:06,230 --> 01:06:08,950
don't even get involved in the state building.

727
01:06:09,170 --> 01:06:10,850
Maybe that's their fault, maybe they should

728
01:06:10,850 --> 01:06:12,630
and then they've been involved in this, so.

729
01:06:12,630 --> 01:06:25,150
but the fact that, you know, the state knows that they contacted every one of them to see if they wanted to bid on it, probably in most of them in Loneway County or not.

730
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:30,020
For the questions, comments.

731
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:33,520
We have the motion read again for clarification.

732
01:06:36,250 --> 01:06:36,790
Do you have it?

733
01:06:42,180 --> 01:06:44,040
The original motion.

734
01:06:47,060 --> 01:06:54,280
by Commissioner Morris was to reject the solar portion of the proposal. The motion was amended

735
01:06:55,090 --> 01:07:02,120
to reject the solar portion of the proposal and change the current proposal to obtain two

736
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:08,640
additional bids from local contractors. Is there any question on the motion? Is it cleared everyone?

737
01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:13,420
just to be clear, are we voting on the amendment first?

738
01:07:17,900 --> 01:07:20,580
That's the only motion that's pending is the amended motion.

739
01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:22,420
There's no other motion available.

740
01:07:22,660 --> 01:07:24,840
It's not an amended to the first motion.

741
01:07:25,100 --> 01:07:27,040
It is. It's an amended motion.

742
01:07:27,900 --> 01:07:29,280
The first motion was amended.

743
01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:31,900
That means the first motion was taken off the table.

744
01:07:32,460 --> 01:07:32,680
Okay.

745
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:34,860
The only thing you're voting on is the.

746
01:07:35,100 --> 01:07:35,440
With you.

747
01:07:36,060 --> 01:07:36,760
Thank you.

748
01:07:37,220 --> 01:07:37,940
For the questions.

749
01:07:37,940 --> 01:07:45,280
There's an indication, there ain't none, nor a roll call vote, roll call.

750
01:07:46,100 --> 01:07:47,460
Commissioner Bales,

751
01:07:50,970 --> 01:07:58,090
Commissioner Bolton, no, Commissioner Collins, no, Commissioner Crasney,

752
01:07:59,710 --> 01:08:06,690
Commissioner Jenkins Arno, Commissioner Mardis, yes, Commissioner Simpson,

753
01:08:09,070 --> 01:08:09,890
Commissioner Tillerson,

754
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:31,720
We move forward with the lighting portion of this contract while rejecting the solar portion.

755
01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:32,100
I

756
01:08:39,590 --> 01:08:42,480
don't hear a second support.

757
01:08:43,480 --> 01:08:49,460
It's moved in support that we move forward with the lighting portion of this contact and reject the solar portion.

758
01:08:54,530 --> 01:09:00,330
If I might have a friendly amendment to just approve the lighting portion and then address

759
01:09:00,330 --> 01:09:03,990
perhaps the solar portion on a third motion, I would be up to that.

760
01:09:04,990 --> 01:09:09,310
If there is so inclined, otherwise again, I will be asking to vote no, and it will offer

761
01:09:09,310 --> 01:09:13,270
a motion following that, if it's defeated, to simply pass the lighting portion.

762
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:18,500
There's caution.

763
01:09:18,500 --> 01:09:19,400
So

764
01:09:21,450 --> 01:09:27,070
I guess I'll move to amend the motion at this time to remove the provisions associated

765
01:09:27,070 --> 01:09:30,730
with solar and adopting only the provisions associated with lighting.

766
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:37,440
If that is an amendable motion in that form, it could be contradictory to the entirety.

767
01:09:37,780 --> 01:09:41,480
I go to Mr. Lulee as it relates to that aspect.

768
01:09:42,440 --> 01:09:44,620
He rejected your proposed friendly amendment.

769
01:09:44,620 --> 01:09:50,600
amendment. I think your proposed motion there needs to be a vote on the maker's original motion.

770
01:09:52,540 --> 01:09:56,380
So no vote back to what I was discussing and then I could offer another motion.

771
01:09:56,820 --> 01:10:00,400
You could. We'll call vote please.

772
01:10:01,100 --> 01:10:04,400
Well, we were not over discussion. Commissioner, tell us.

773
01:10:05,380 --> 01:10:09,280
Before we vote, I would like to understand the motion.

774
01:10:11,750 --> 01:10:15,770
The motion before you is to move forward with the lighting portion of the project and reject the

775
01:10:15,770 --> 01:10:16,910
solar portion of the project.

776
01:10:17,750 --> 01:10:18,430
That's correct.

777
01:10:18,990 --> 01:10:19,150
Yes, sir.

778
01:10:19,170 --> 01:10:19,690
You want to see.

779
01:10:21,670 --> 01:10:23,230
You have some.

780
01:10:23,230 --> 01:10:23,970
You want to say commissioner?

781
01:10:24,410 --> 01:10:24,730
No.

782
01:10:25,090 --> 01:10:26,010
Somebody here.

783
01:10:26,250 --> 01:10:26,510
All

784
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:28,680
right.

785
01:10:28,840 --> 01:10:29,880
Let's roll call vote.

786
01:10:31,140 --> 01:10:31,980
Commissioner Bolton.

787
01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:34,080
No.

788
01:10:35,340 --> 01:10:36,440
Commissioner Collins.

789
01:10:37,620 --> 01:10:37,980
No.

790
01:10:38,440 --> 01:10:39,680
Commissioner Cresney.

791
01:10:39,980 --> 01:10:40,340
No.

792
01:10:41,460 --> 01:10:42,520
Commissioner Jenkins.

793
01:10:42,700 --> 01:10:42,900
Arnold.

794
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:44,880
I'm sorry.

795
01:10:46,780 --> 01:10:47,820
Commissioner Martis.

796
01:10:48,060 --> 01:10:48,240
Yes.

797
01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:50,060
Commissioner Stimson.

798
01:10:50,480 --> 01:10:50,620
No.

799
01:10:51,420 --> 01:10:57,680
Commissioner Tillerson, Commissioner Vandoren, and Commissioner Bales.

800
01:10:59,260 --> 01:11:02,640
Eight knees, one yay, motion, Bales.

801
01:11:02,880 --> 01:11:06,300
I move to adopt and approve the lighting portion of the proposal.

802
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:13,480
So far, smooth and supportive to accept the lighting portion of the proposed misery of discussion.

803
01:11:14,950 --> 01:11:21,210
Mr. President, by all that grandstanding that we just saw wasting everybody's valuable time,

804
01:11:21,390 --> 01:11:26,870
all we did is negate local companies from being able to bid on this project.

805
01:11:27,330 --> 01:11:31,230
For the public that's viewing this, for the people in the audience, that is all that took place

806
01:11:31,230 --> 01:11:34,630
through all those shenanigans that we just saw.

807
01:11:37,110 --> 01:11:40,130
They're all the shenanigans we just saw, or it currently saw.

808
01:11:43,490 --> 01:11:48,550
Mr. Stimson, echo that statement, that's grandstanding. What took places,

809
01:11:48,550 --> 01:11:52,270
is what we asked for. You could have avoided that. That's just

810
01:11:52,270 --> 01:11:58,490
grandstanding and blowhardness. And it continued. You do a

811
01:11:58,490 --> 01:11:59,850
wonderful job at Commissioner Mardis.

812
01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:05,360
Volkhovo. Volkhovo.

813
01:12:06,910 --> 01:12:09,640
We have a motion to continue with the lighting portion of this

814
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:12,500
project only. Commissioner Collins. Yes.

815
01:12:12,980 --> 01:12:16,600
Commissioner Crasney. No. Commissioner Jenkins Arno.

816
01:12:18,020 --> 01:12:19,340
Commissioner Mardis.

817
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:36,600
Commissioner Stimpson, Commissioner Tillerson, Commissioner Vandoren, Commissioner Bales, Commissioner Bolton, six years, three days, motion passes.

818
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:37,400
Mr.

819
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:43,880
Stipson? No, no further motion at this time.

820
01:12:46,150 --> 01:12:47,490
Any other motions to be offered?

821
01:12:51,030 --> 01:12:51,450
Thank you, sir.

822
01:12:52,050 --> 01:12:52,850
Thank you very much.

823
01:12:52,910 --> 01:12:53,150
Thank you.

824
01:12:53,390 --> 01:12:54,550
We'll do a good job for you.

825
01:12:55,170 --> 01:12:55,550
Thank you.

826
01:12:55,770 --> 01:12:55,990
Thank you.

827
01:12:57,310 --> 01:13:01,330
Okay, we move down to committee referrals and recommendations.

828
01:13:02,350 --> 01:13:06,430
There's a request for the Exxon Taser Time Track.

829
01:13:06,910 --> 01:13:07,570
Sheriff Guillaume.

830
01:13:11,400 --> 01:13:13,820
Everybody has a copy of this request.

831
01:13:13,820 --> 01:13:21,800
The request is the approval of the axon with the axon for the upgrade of taser 10 devices.

832
01:13:23,220 --> 01:13:26,900
Just, I thought it, when I first looked at this, it's not 10 tasers.

833
01:13:27,440 --> 01:13:29,420
This is the taser 10 project.

834
01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:31,400
That's your sentence.

835
01:13:31,660 --> 01:13:32,900
Move to approve the request.

836
01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:33,580
Support.

837
01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:36,180
Support is a rain discussion.

838
01:13:38,430 --> 01:13:38,710
Any none?

839
01:13:38,870 --> 01:13:39,810
I would never say aye.

840
01:13:40,010 --> 01:13:40,310
Aye.

841
01:13:40,890 --> 01:13:42,410
For the same side, motion carries.

842
01:13:42,710 --> 01:13:43,130
Thank you, Sheriff.

843
01:13:43,550 --> 01:13:43,870
Thank you.

844
01:13:45,980 --> 01:13:50,980
Yeah, you're articulate today, Sheriff. Both counts.

845
01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:59,420
Have we have a request for military grounds, whether approval to accept Adrien mechanical

846
01:13:59,420 --> 01:14:08,500
quote of $65,780, or the installation of eight electronic shower controls, 11 lavatory

847
01:14:08,500 --> 01:14:17,620
controls, and programming of controllers contingency of 15% over $9.87, $67.

848
01:14:17,620 --> 01:14:22,520
doubling amount of the request 75,647.

849
01:14:22,920 --> 01:14:23,680
Oh my name.

850
01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:24,140
Support.

851
01:14:26,270 --> 01:14:27,790
Motion support is a discussion.

852
01:14:28,450 --> 01:14:29,370
Mr. Crasney.

853
01:14:29,470 --> 01:14:30,910
Did we put this out for an open bid?

854
01:14:33,360 --> 01:14:35,000
Building and grounds did bid this out.

855
01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:35,480
I think we don't.

856
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:36,140
Just check it.

857
01:14:36,300 --> 01:14:40,600
They attached some of the bidding attachments were included in the physical resources meeting

858
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:42,260
which I believe we had last week.

859
01:14:42,500 --> 01:14:42,600
Right.

860
01:14:43,060 --> 01:14:44,020
Did I share it?

861
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:44,440
Thanks.

862
01:14:44,620 --> 01:14:45,720
That's because it's not a car.

863
01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:49,940
It's enough.

864
01:14:50,180 --> 01:14:50,500
I'll see.

865
01:14:50,920 --> 01:14:51,380
Both of you.

866
01:14:51,440 --> 01:14:51,780
That's enough.

867
01:14:51,780 --> 01:14:59,960
All right, we move now to the request for the MSC Extension Project Noob Fiber 2.

868
01:15:08,350 --> 01:15:24,500
All those in favor say, hi, motion carries, we start up here. Now we will ask for the MSC extension project, Mr. Mayor Murphy.

869
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:31,860
This project was recommended also through building insight, and this is to recommend approval.

870
01:15:31,860 --> 01:15:37,400
So for an allocation of funding to put in a new fiber runs from MSC administration building,

871
01:15:37,820 --> 01:15:42,480
to the old detention and chapel to the things in the amount of $26,329.

872
01:15:43,100 --> 01:15:43,360
Oh.

873
01:15:43,860 --> 01:15:43,980
Sport.

874
01:15:45,700 --> 01:15:47,140
Sport is a very discussion.

875
01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:53,840
During non-nose and paparazzi, I, both same sign, motion carries.

876
01:15:59,900 --> 01:16:03,480
Is there any other business or ways and means?

877
01:16:03,480 --> 01:16:08,780
If there are any other business or ways and means,

878
01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:22,000
any additional items for the consent agenda, any additional items for the consent agenda, any none out of the board of public comment?

879
01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:32,440
I just want to comment, although the budget did receive a unanimous motion to move forward

880
01:16:32,440 --> 01:16:37,620
to the Board of Commissioners, it will be shown as a separate line item on your agenda

881
01:16:37,620 --> 01:16:39,920
to take formal action for the setting and public hearing.

882
01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:43,760
I'm on the table.

883
01:16:44,540 --> 01:16:46,700
My name is Todd Giltman, again, Cambridge Township.

884
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:51,940
The few things I'd like to talk to, John, a few of the commissioners talked about transparency.

885
01:16:52,920 --> 01:17:05,960
I would like to know about the lack of transparency with the sale of the to come see products especially after it was just brought to my attention that we spent $17,000 a year to maintain grounds on a piece of property that we should have sold already.

886
01:17:07,340 --> 01:17:12,260
Where was the transparency when we started when we approved cutting down trees around the airport.

887
01:17:13,060 --> 01:17:15,680
Those people in that area did not know about it until the last moment.

888
01:17:19,780 --> 01:17:29,500
I'm kind of really taken aback by we're going to use a bidding system out of Lansing and we're going to box out our local contractors and we're going to spend this kind of money.

889
01:17:30,200 --> 01:17:35,520
Why don't we give local contractors the opportunity to do the job and keep the money in Lennon Way County.

890
01:17:37,160 --> 01:17:46,580
There was no transparency on that you're just going off some system up in Lansing and now we're going to send that kind of money out of our county when we could have kept it in our county.

891
01:17:47,380 --> 01:17:49,860
We struggle to provide jobs in this county as it is.

892
01:17:49,980 --> 01:17:52,080
We've lost a lot of businesses over the years.

893
01:17:54,640 --> 01:17:59,420
Where was the transparency when you guys voted to take away the road commission's health insurance.

894
01:18:00,220 --> 01:18:02,580
And then provide health insurance to the pay raise to yourself.

895
01:18:03,060 --> 01:18:07,000
There was a few members of this board that were upset that their names were going to become public.

896
01:18:07,300 --> 01:18:09,200
We're taking taxpayer funded health insurance.

897
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:15,100
They did not want that information to be known to the public, no transparency there.

898
01:18:15,100 --> 01:18:22,860
We're the transparency on Commissioner Stimson's property that joins the

899
01:18:22,860 --> 01:18:28,140
dependency products. He stands to personal money, personal gain, when that

900
01:18:28,140 --> 01:18:32,040
property is eventually sold, but it doesn't, they don't want, you guys don't want

901
01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:33,160
to sell it for the next four years.

902
01:18:36,430 --> 01:18:40,350
I don't understand why you guys are doing

903
01:18:40,350 --> 01:18:43,870
some of the things you're doing. You don't have a problem spending other people's

904
01:18:43,870 --> 01:18:48,770
money. If you're going to spend our money, give it to people that live in the county.

905
01:18:51,380 --> 01:18:54,550
Going through some bidding system out of Lansing is unacceptable.

906
01:18:57,420 --> 01:19:00,840
Casual Republicans, act like it. Thank you.

907
01:19:10,910 --> 01:19:15,210
I have everybody. My name is Deborah Comstad. I'm the editor and publisher of the Lentaway

908
01:19:15,210 --> 01:19:21,810
Voice. One of the reasons we started this paper was because we needed objective news,

909
01:19:21,810 --> 01:19:27,790
good journalism, and we needed to heal this community with good information.

910
01:19:28,750 --> 01:19:35,110
It's tough to build a team. It's tough to find talent here. I haven't had a terrific

911
01:19:35,110 --> 01:19:43,230
team that puts out a paper that goes to 19,000 people in this county, and we haven't

912
01:19:43,230 --> 01:19:50,680
even reached our one-year anniversary. My comment is about him. She's put together a

913
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:54,840
terrific team here. Not hard to do. I mean, it's hard to do in

914
01:19:54,840 --> 01:19:58,980
Illinois County. We just don't have talent. And in terms of

915
01:19:58,980 --> 01:20:02,180
bidding on projects, sometimes we don't have the talent required

916
01:20:02,180 --> 01:20:05,400
to do these big projects. We have to rely on

917
01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:08,120
Lansing, just like we have to rely on Lansing now for solar,

918
01:20:08,580 --> 01:20:11,260
because our local talent chips were not competent, making good

919
01:20:11,260 --> 01:20:15,940
decisions. So here's my thought about it, my takeaway. When

920
01:20:15,940 --> 01:20:20,540
you got a good team, and you got good talent, and you got good

921
01:20:20,540 --> 01:20:28,850
people, you reward them, you protect them, you keep them because you know what? In this county,

922
01:20:29,010 --> 01:20:35,830
you may not be able to replace them. My thought is I value my newspaper team more than I can tell

923
01:20:35,830 --> 01:20:41,390
you because they're exquisite in their talents and we have the same thing here. I think we should stop

924
01:20:41,390 --> 01:20:46,670
quibbling about silly little contractual things and get down to the business that's in the best

925
01:20:46,670 --> 01:20:52,730
interest of this county and what's in the best interest of this county is economic development

926
01:20:53,230 --> 01:21:00,150
bringing in solar, bringing in new corporations so we can have good jobs and when we get those jobs

927
01:21:00,150 --> 01:21:05,950
and just like Adrian and Sienna has the biggest class this year ever we need to figure out how to

928
01:21:05,950 --> 01:21:13,350
keep those kids here because if we don't it's a dead zone you've got a good team I'm not here to

929
01:21:13,350 --> 01:21:17,810
recommend anything. I'm here to say when I got a good team, I take care of them.

930
01:21:21,900 --> 01:21:23,120
Any further public comment?

931
01:21:25,220 --> 01:21:27,780
Any further public comment?

932
01:21:29,340 --> 01:21:31,040
I'll go to Commissioner's comment.

933
01:21:32,080 --> 01:21:35,080
The Commissioner's having comments to make.

934
01:21:36,140 --> 01:21:37,420
Commissioner Bolton.

935
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:45,020
I'm just extremely disappointed in myself and other commissioners not to bring up

936
01:21:45,020 --> 01:21:53,680
the motion for the solar because that is something that is the future of our community.

937
01:21:55,020 --> 01:22:02,360
And I really think that that is something that will be savings to us.

938
01:22:02,500 --> 01:22:07,220
And I think it's something that is important, especially for the human service building.

939
01:22:07,220 --> 01:22:12,200
If we can reduce the rent because of the energy that is being saved there.

940
01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:19,240
If we can put in charging stations for the employee's vehicles to encourage

941
01:22:21,700 --> 01:22:28,760
clean vehicles, if we can put one in in the Sheriff Department area to encourage the

942
01:22:28,760 --> 01:22:31,460
clean vehicles in that.

943
01:22:31,860 --> 01:22:38,560
I really think that this is something that we are missing out for our future.

944
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:44,400
So I just want to say I'm ashamed of myself for not bringing that up at that time.

945
01:22:44,980 --> 01:22:47,660
Let me pose a question for council at this time.

946
01:22:48,440 --> 01:22:55,700
There was not a motion that passed that negated the solar proposal, by correct?

947
01:22:56,540 --> 01:22:56,740
Correct.

948
01:22:57,220 --> 01:23:00,300
So that's going to exist, the proposal is going to exist.

949
01:23:00,460 --> 01:23:06,280
The proposal exists, so it would have to be brought back to the board for deliberation and vote.

950
01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:13,120
So subject to the contractor willing to abide by the same terms.

951
01:23:15,320 --> 01:23:17,560
Any further partner, excuse me, commissioner coming.

952
01:23:21,100 --> 01:23:22,960
We're in now, now we're going to entertain the motion to adjourn.

953
01:23:23,220 --> 01:23:23,300
Hello.

954
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:24,640
The board.

955
01:23:25,280 --> 01:23:26,140
Moving supported.

956
01:23:27,300 --> 01:23:28,480
The board will never say hi.

957
01:23:28,820 --> 01:23:28,920
Hi.

958
01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:30,140
No, same sign.

959
01:23:30,480 --> 01:23:30,980
Motion carried.

960
01:23:31,400 --> 01:23:32,200
We are adjourned.

961
01:23:33,260 --> 01:23:33,700
Thank you.

962
01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:36,240
That's it.

963
01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:36,880
That's it.

964
01:23:36,880 --> 01:23:37,780
no barriers in the bedroom.