[0:06] Okay everybody 10 o'clock. >> Mr. Buckley

[0:09] » here. >> Mr. Kater

[0:10] » here. >> President.

[0:12] » Okay. All pledge of allegiance and invocation if

[0:17] you would stand. Thank you. I

[0:20] » aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which

[0:26] it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice

[0:32] for all. >> Father God, we thank you for all

[0:36] everything that you give us and bestow on us, all the gifts. We ask your help

[0:42] for those that are hurting, those that are sick. We ask wisdom to make good

[0:47] decisions today in the business that we have at hand. And all these things we

[0:51] ask in your son's name, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

[0:54] » Amen. >> Thank you, K.

[0:57] Okay.

[1:01] Okay. The consent agenda is on the board and I say Jeff on on the two-year hire

[1:06] and they're replacing people. It's gone. >> Yes.

[1:10] » Okay. >> I make a motion we accept the consent

[1:14] agenda. >> I'll second that. Any questions?

[1:19] » All in favor? I >> I

[1:22] Okay, moving on.

[1:29] Yeah. >> Okay. On on the website, we kind of uh

[1:34] uh took this under adisement last week because we didn't have the prices, but

[1:38] the prices on that are 10,000. >> We aren't going to talk price because

[1:42] it's an RFP. >> Oh, okay. So, they're going to I I'm

[1:46] going to make a motion that we accept the RFP for the to Moss Media for the

[1:51] website and we don't talk prices in that because when we take the RFP then

[1:56] they'll bid that out later on. So, >> no, you've already done the RFP.

[2:00] » Yeah, we've already accept awarding

[2:04] » $10,745 setup and $375.

[2:09] » I'm sorry. >> We're wanting to award

[2:11] » I'm going to catch up on email. >> Thank you. I'm sorry. Carrie. Yeah,

[2:14] Carrie, you're writing. >> We've already done it. Yeah.

[2:18] » So, uh, I'm going to make a motion that we approve the award for the RFP for the

[2:23] website Moss Media. $10,745 and setup and 375 and this was budgeted

[2:33] » out of it. >> Thank you, buddy. I'm going to second

[2:36] that. >> Okay. Any questions?

[2:38] » Yeah, I want to make a comment on on this this our website. We started it u I

[2:44] don't know if it started before 8, but it was pathetic when we

[2:47] » got here. We took money out out of our department's budget because we had a

[2:50] little money to get it started and it was a nice first effort, but there

[2:54] hasn't been anything brought up to date in that last eight years. This should

[2:58] bring it up. So, which makes it easier for the people that want to get on

[3:02] because people talk about uh transparency. Every expense is on there.

[3:07] every uh minutes from every meeting for the past I think it's 15 years is now on

[3:12] there there lots and lots of information and it needs to be easier to get to and

[3:18] when when election times come and people want to get up a s sample ballot it

[3:22] should be easier for them to go to that directly and pull it up rather than have

[3:26] them come to our office and get get a sample we're happy to give it to them

[3:29] but we needed to be more user friendly uh especially for some of our seniors I

[3:34] know and he did a great job working with the elections to try I get the word out.

[3:38] So, uh, >> this helps your office. It actually you

[3:41] can go on there and the calls you get, it's already on there so they can pick

[3:45] it up. >> And a lot of them are like that and if

[3:48] you know somebody wants to see something in the budget, the it's all on there and

[3:52] it's has been for a few years. Um, it's helped us with some of the sunshine

[3:56] requests because people say, "Well, we need to know when this was passed."

[4:00] Well, it's it you you said it was passed in in

[4:05] whatever 2024. [clears throat] So, you can look up the

[4:10] minutes and see what was patched just as well soon as as we paying somebody here

[4:14] to look up those same minutes. So, uh it hopefully the result will make it a lot

[4:18] more user friendly, easier to get results for election, easier to find out

[4:22] if something was bid on or expens expense was made or anything like that.

[4:28] » It's just making our system better. Yes, abs.

[4:30] » Absolutely. Most people are are looking at stuff first on the internet to now to

[4:36] to get their answers. So, >> and if you guys have noticed, Chris has

[4:40] already done some things to it that >> it's a lot faster. I don't know if you

[4:44] guys noticed that, but I have uh getting on the website and using it. It's It's a

[4:49] lot faster. And just the little stuff he's done, just things with this.

[4:51] » Well, this this is just one thing we're doing really with the county to help

[4:55] update in the future the way the county is going to operate. So it it helps us

[4:59] out. Any other questions? >> All in favor?

[5:03] » I >> I

[5:04] » Okay.

[5:08] Okay. This is permission to purchase it. It's not a mower. It's a mower part.

[5:13] Brian talked about it last week. We had a mower that had an arm broke on it. We

[5:17] had to We had to uh soul source this to >> and it come out of a what? A northern

[5:24] state. >> South Dakota.

[5:26] » Yeah. And uh I'm I'm going to make a motion for permission to purchase the

[5:31] mower part so we can get the mower going, finish uh finish the job.

[5:39] » Price on that. >> Uh I'd say the actual price of the part

[5:43] $2,459. I would say I don't know what the

[5:48] shipping's going to be from South Dakota. I'd say not to exceed 3,800

[5:54] because I don't know what cost. You never know what the shipping's going to

[5:57] be for a part. And it's a it's a good size part. So,

[6:01] » yeah, >> we want to make this when we make this

[6:04] uh on there, just put not more than so much.

[6:08] » I make a motion to purchase the part not to exceed $3,800

[6:14] from the soul source side. >> I will second that.

[6:20] » Any questions? >> Yes, I do.

[6:22] » Okay. Why wouldn't this come out of their

[6:25] normal maintenance budget >> and and why would we why would a vote

[6:31] have to be taken for a part like this? Well, Rich, we tried to duplicate it and

[6:38] we we couldn't. We we tried to make it oursel to say but he took it off. We

[6:43] just the inside of it built so strong we could not. And we're getting behind on

[6:49] mowing down in the south end, right? I think the question might be is is uh is

[6:55] » how are we paying for this department? >> It's coming out my budget just the way

[7:00] we >> purchase. So legally we could have just

[7:02] bought the part. It it's an expensive part but they thought they better do it

[7:07] outright since it was just a sole source one person. We weren't shopping around

[7:12] because they're the only one that had the arm. Uh so that was but legally

[7:16] you're right. We could have just taken out of his money and went on.

[7:19] » My thing was just I couldn't go to who manufactured this diamond. They

[7:24] wouldn't sell it to me. >> No, understood.

[7:26] » It has to go to John Deere, then I have to buy it from

[7:28] » the points. Understood. >> So, it's just it's a soul source.

[7:32] » That answer your question, Rick? >> Thank you.

[7:34] » Okay. >> Okay. Any other questions? All in favor?

[7:39] » I I

[7:43] Okay. Permission to hire a new employee collector. I know, Angie. What this is,

[7:48] we have a gal that's on disability, right?

[7:52] » She's been out on >> She's been out two years.

[7:55] » Been out a year, but the accident >> the accident happened two years ago.

[8:01] » She is definitely informed you she's not coming back. Now, normally we probably

[8:07] would not do this until it was completely gone, but you're needing to

[8:10] get somebody in and train. season is coming and we will be missing a person

[8:14] like we did last year and it really put the office and the taxpayers

[8:19] » well we we normally we've been against doing this but we know you got to train

[8:23] them you you're you're actually fill on a window when the taxpayers come in so

[8:28] uh I'm going to make a motion I know we normally don't do this I I think you're

[8:33] in a situation uh to hire the new employee for the collector to fill the

[8:39] slot uh for actually help public than the

[8:43] taxpayer >> because otherwise we'll have to close

[8:45] the window again and taxpayers were not happy last year because we were missing

[8:50] a person up there to wait on them. >> Yes.

[8:52] » Amen. >> I second.

[8:54] » Okay. Is there any questions? Okay. All in favor?

[9:00] » I I All right. Moving on. Okay. This is another one here. This is actually

[9:07] the end of our ARPA money, right, Bridget? This is it. And what we did, we

[9:12] went ahead out out and and he's got a disc harl grapple bucket, augur, stump

[9:18] grinder for a total of 32,417. That pretty well spends all of our offer

[9:24] money. Yep. >> Now, the reason we do this, we got two

[9:26] guys out there. No labor. The equipment we have is really efficient with two

[9:32] guys. They can do their job. uh they do do the labor, but uh I'm going to make a

[9:40] motion that we approve the purchase, reimburse remaining ARPA money funds,

[9:44] and the total is 32,41787.

[9:50] » I'm going to second that. >> Any questions?

[9:52] » When did that ARCA money have to be spent by?

[9:54] » End of the month. >> Yep. End of this month.

[9:57] » We've looked at something that would fit the thing and and could use the money

[10:00] before the end of the month. And if you actually go out and walk the park,

[10:04] you're starting to see now where they planted. They've got their fields, the

[10:08] uh uh I forgot what they told me they call it for the wildlife. It's natural

[10:15] grasses. Uh they've eradicated a lot of cedars. And if you started at the first

[10:20] of the parking lot watch and you go out there now and you can see it all opening

[10:24] up and the equipment they run like any other job when you got good equipment

[10:30] you don't need all them people working they can actually do it by theirel uh

[10:35] you know equipment don't come and argue with you if you just hook it up and work

[10:39] it. So you know it's actually a good thing you don't have to argue with

[10:43] somebody about what you're doing. I agree with it and them guys are doing

[10:48] a good job. Rich, >> uh, I'd just like to comment that it was

[10:52] very fortunate we've got these funds to work with.

[10:56] » Yes, >> I know other other local are fortunate

[10:59] making use of this money and uh, appears to me you put it to good use. And not

[11:05] only this, I mean, I'm for there's some of this stuff that Roen Bridge, we can

[11:11] function when they have an issue, they can go over and get this equipment and

[11:16] and it makes the job. So, anytime you're out there on a job and you have

[11:20] equipment, you're saving money because the equipment works hard and you don't

[11:25] have to have all that labor out there. So, this is a road and bridge. if they

[11:30] need stump grinder, we've got uh uh stuff that we can use that we can swap

[11:36] around and it actually helps on the job. So

[11:39] » to your point though, a lot of entities spent money on things that are going to

[11:44] be a continuous expense, >> and they did a pretty good job of

[11:48] looking at one-time expenditures that needed to be done and use the federal

[11:52] money appropriately, not creating a a monster that has to be fed now, you

[11:58] know, and no money to feed it. That's going to be happening a lot. You're

[12:02] going to hear cuts all over the state and and that didn't happen. So,

[12:06] » one thing that really tickles me about the arbit money when I first come in, I

[12:12] know you toured the jail. >> The jail was like a dungeon.

[12:19] » You go out there now, it's like school. I mean, Jeff and them, I mean, it's

[12:23] painted, it's up to date, and and believe me, that money was spelt well,

[12:29] spent well, and then, you know, we took the juvenile two different places. We

[12:34] added on the juvenile. They're in one section now. They got 14 new offices. We

[12:38] took that money and did a really good job for the county in the future. I

[12:42] mean, we've adapted to it and updated our buildings. Never stops, but but I

[12:48] mean, that was well spent. >> Okay. All in favor?

[12:51] » I I

[12:58] did. I put two on there. I don't know. Did I even put the next one?

[13:02] » Sorry, guys. There you go. Okay. This sheriff's department purchased two cars.

[13:06] Jeff, tell them how you done this. >> What we're doing is we're asking

[13:10] permission to purchase two cars. I believe uh sign for to be two Ford

[13:15] Explorers. Um this will be paid for uh through the 287g

[13:22] contract we have. Um they allowed us and that'll be on state bid I think through

[13:27] Sizzles. Um Buck should have sent over the exact dollar amount. I think it's

[13:32] 46,000 >> and some change.

[13:36] » Linds in that >> per car.

[13:38] » Great. >> 46,000 and some change per car.

[13:43] » Um, >> I do not have that exact number. Linda,

[13:46] do you have it? >> Mr. Auditor, would you prefer them to

[13:50] make it not to exceed 40 whatever the next?

[13:54] » Not to exceed 50,000. >> Not to exceed 50,000. Is this is this

[13:59] and and this is with your lights all everything?

[14:02] » No. Uh then we'd have to upfit it. I think he said about 15,000.

[14:06] » Tell you what, why don't you give your report? Let me see if we I can get a

[14:09] hold of him and get an exact number. >> Yeah, we'll need the dollar amount on

[14:12] the equipment upfitting and each vehicle.

[14:15] » Now, what' you say? 247G. >> 287G.

[14:19] » Tell them what that is. >> Okay. That's our agreement with ICE, uh

[14:22] where we have a task force of four deputies. Uh this is when you encounter

[14:26] somebody in a uh roadside or something and you determine that they may be here

[14:31] illegally. We have one of our uh deputies, it's a task force officer, uh

[14:35] respond. They know what questions to ask. They know what documents to look

[14:39] for and they have a direct line with ICE. So it helps ICE, our nearest ICE

[14:43] office is out of St. Louis. U instead of us possibly removing somebody who is who

[14:49] is here legally, we have the ways to figure that out and to get a direct line

[14:53] to ICE. So, that was an agreement we went into.

[14:57] I forgot how long ago that's been, but uh

[15:01] we finally got all the money through parks. Is that correct that that did

[15:04] come through? Correct. That check. So, we got reimbursed for our participation

[15:09] in this program and it it allows us to buy buy cars. So, it's no additional

[15:14] cost to the taxpayer. This is all through the assistance from the federal

[15:18] government. Well, and then another thing I I really agree with. We've talked

[15:23] about it before. This is something they created. They created money for theirel

[15:28] and I'm for keep doing it cuz every time you create money for yourself, which you

[15:34] wrote the grants, you did it all yourself. Uh

[15:38] it it allows them to do this and and I'm all for that. That that helps.

[15:42] » Well, it also trains our deputies to do it the correct way where we don't do

[15:46] something that might violate somebody's rights. So, it's it's it's a good

[15:49] program. We've utilized it and uh now it's paying off for us.

[15:52] » Yep. Yes. I mean, job well done. >> If you want me to come back, get the

[15:57] totals, I can do that. >> Well, we can probably uh let me see

[16:01] here. >> I think this is the last thing we have.

[16:05] If we want to continue with the meeting and take a minute, just do the meeting.

[16:09] Sorry about >> Well, why don't we do this?

[16:12] » You want to Nothing yet. >> I back there. Uh the amounts for the

[16:18] cars are just under 92,000. So you can for two for two and [clears throat] for

[16:23] the equipment is just under 24,000 something you know changed and things

[16:28] » and I believe I believe we received $130,000.

[16:33] » I believe that's correct. So you're you're under that. So we'd be under

[16:36] that. But I think you'd be safe if you approve it for not to exceed 93 for the

[16:41] two vehicles, not uh >> I would say approve it for under

[16:45] 120,000. We're at 117. It'll be under

[16:49] » and I believe in that contract that that money has to be spent for vehicles and

[16:54] equipment. >> That's right. And then Buck said he was

[16:57] not he was servicing something someplace else. So he wasn't at his office, but he

[17:01] knew the amounts. He didn't know the >> the pennies and the exact. It was just

[17:06] just under 93 and just under 24. So Bridget's got some

[17:09] » Bridget >> just a suggestion like on the equipment

[17:13] you might just want to wait to approve that at a later date because I know last

[17:18] time Buck thought it was under state contract

[17:21] and it wasn't. So he might need to do >> some bidding out.

[17:26] » I think he's worked on that but you're you're correct.

[17:28] » So maybe just do the vehicles and then if you don't mind like do the equipment

[17:34] like next time. That way we know like who they purchased from.

[17:38] » Just just do the vehicle not to exceed 93 and then go ahead and have me get the

[17:43] exacts on the equipment and we can get that exact on this week. Anyway,

[17:46] » I do know one of the cars is going to be equipped as a K9 vehicle. So that has

[17:50] some additional expense over the other car because it has to have a special

[17:53] cage and some special equipment. >> What was that? What was that called? The

[17:57] money you got, Jay? What was the >> 287g?

[18:00] » 287g. Okay. And that's the grant

[18:05] for say >> it's a contract grant.

[18:07] » Okay. >> So I make a motion that we uh give

[18:10] permission for the uh sheriff's department to buy purchase two cars not

[18:14] to exceed $93,000 and for that to come out of the 287g

[18:21] agreement whatever you want to call it. And we're

[18:26] going to do the equipment just >> Yeah, we'll take under that on the

[18:31] agenda for next week and have him get the exact amounts of equipment.

[18:35] » That'd be perfect. Thank you. >> Okay, we're just going to take that

[18:38] under adisement for next week and we'll have it on next week's.

[18:42] Okay, you I'll second that. Any questions, Rich?

[18:45] » Yeah. Uh Jeff, this is a net ad to the amount of equipment you now have. Two

[18:51] more vehicles. >> Yes. So, how does this impact your

[18:54] maintenance costs? >> Well, we keep wrecking them and so every

[18:59] time we we take wreck one, we don't have to maintain it anymore.

[19:03] » We have a lot that are hell damaged that we're not on the insurance.

[19:06] » So, this will help us and we're our fleet is getting older and we need to

[19:11] keep that. Uh, >> but the number the total number in the

[19:14] fleet has is not been growing. >> I just don't want you to overwork, you

[19:18] know. >> No, I don't think we

[19:20] » How many do we have total with the hail? It was

[19:26] » I gave you a number. I'm going to give you the wrong number. I

[19:27] » think there's 12. >> I think the sheriff department has 12.

[19:32] » Yeah. So, we we uh eliminated a lot of remnants.

[19:36] » Well, 12 are the 12 of the ones that are being fixed that we're going to get.

[19:41] » Some of them are old enough that it's not worth

[19:44] » turning the claim in. And we'll have >> and we're trying to get some of that

[19:47] money back through FEMA. >> We we may as get be able to get as much

[19:52] as 85% of that back. Maybe uh we filed it all, but some of them were below. We

[19:58] just had liability and stuff on it, but we can

[20:02] » take the the 85% from FEMA on the damage for the hail.

[20:05] » Yes. >> Thank you.

[20:09] » It's always dry nice to drive a new car instead of one that's got 300,000 miles

[20:14] on it. >> Well, this this helps you also be able

[20:17] to rotate those bottom ones out that >> aren't worth fixing. Okay. Is there any

[20:21] other questions? We'll move on here. Okay. All in favor?

[20:25] » I >> I

[20:27] » Okay, that's uh that's getting us down to the meeting. Uh next meeting will be

[20:34] next week, September 15th, Tuesday. And uh

[20:40] shut >> Louie

[20:44] » commissioners. uh audit bids were to be open at this meeting and we requested it

[20:50] to be on the agenda for this meeting. It was not. So, we will award the bids next

[20:53] week. >> Okay. Thanks, Louie. Thank you.

[20:58] » Okay. Other business. Is there any

[21:01] correspondence?

[21:05] » Public comments?

[21:09] » Sure. Tonight at 6:30 at the North County Middle School, there's a data

[21:13] center town hall meeting. Um there will be representation of all views on data

[21:20] centers and uh everybody's invited to come and share their views.

[21:25] » When was that? At >> it's at 6:30 tonight at North County

[21:29] Middle School, which is the old high school that I went to.

[21:32] » Okay. There'll be a data center meeting at 6:30 tonight at the North County

[21:38] Middle School >> County Middle School, aka the old North

[21:40] County High School. >> Okay. Who's who's presenting that?

[21:44] » Uh they're going to be I think Becky Lobinger will be on there, Mike Costlo

[21:52] um and a couple of others. uh and also someone representing the anti-data

[21:59] center view >> some representatives from Amaran

[22:04] » are going to be basically presenting >> I I can fill in the blanks a little bit

[22:08] she's right on the representatives >> Jeff Meyer and Mike Costello will be

[22:13] there is supposed to be there were going to have a list of questions they had

[22:18] sent to the department of natural resources answered and back so they

[22:22] could read those to the crowd because the natural resources people said we

[22:26] don't do those uh town hall meetings but that list has not come back yet so they

[22:32] probably won't have that tonight and there may be another one or two people

[22:36] speaking I'm not sure of but that's the latest from this morning's conversation

[22:40] I had with Stephanie city administrator of the exploratory there are no real

[22:46] proposals right now >> it's informationational

[22:49] » yeah the city wants to see what they need to do to be able to regulate this

[22:54] if if there is a proposal. You know, Perryville has the best regulations that

[22:59] I've seen from any city. So, they may want to look at their they've been

[23:02] adopted in the last month or two. Their their attorney actually

[23:06] uh spent lots of time in the military besides being an attorney on sound. He

[23:13] was sub, you know, so that things so tight on the noise ordinance part of it.

[23:19] So the other stuff there's things on water usage and power, but but that was

[23:25] the best one I've seen far as sound because it differentiates exactly what

[23:30] the different levels and and and so they for a small town they've done a real

[23:34] good job of getting that's >> and and I will say yesterday I was over

[23:38] at the picnic which went great. I had a lot of people ask me about it and I have

[23:44] not heard anybody approached us on a data center or anything. Not not here.

[23:49] Nothing's I don't know about they I mean we haven't been approached or talked to

[23:53] about any kind of data center in the county.

[23:56] » Hey, does Perry County have planning and zoning?

[23:59] » Does Perry County have planning and zoning? They don't. Do they?

[24:01] » It's the city that is adopting because I was

[24:04] » I'm just curious. I know we were talking about the city.

[24:07] » I was with the county's uh clerk this past week for the weekend. They do not.

[24:11] That's the the same issues facing them is we we can't stop it with them and

[24:17] neither does Cape. And that's what he was lamenting. He said they were talking

[24:21] about are you going to do planning zoning? Well, it's going to be pretty

[24:25] difficult between the two bigger counties next to us, St. Francis and and

[24:29] Cape, and neither one of them had planning zoning. He said the city, he's

[24:32] with the county. said the city's doing that's where I got to know about this

[24:37] this has really tightening up their stuff making sure but the county has no

[24:44] » well then I've had a couple >> thing from my friend in Perryville so

[24:48] yeah but they they're that they're getting serious about it but we're in a

[24:52] heavy that's even more agricultural than we are in St. Francis County.

[24:56] » Yes. >> And I hear that, you know, data centers

[24:58] have had an adverse, you know, effect on livestock,

[25:02] » you know, not to mention the water that farms need to irrigate.

[25:08] » Well, I guess if that'd be veryformational then if they want to go

[25:12] and listen to

[25:16] » Rich, >> uh, I'm going to belabor my point. The

[25:20] elephant in the room is planning and zoning. And I know it's not nice to talk

[25:27] about, but it will be when a data center shows up next door and we can't do

[25:32] anything about it. So let please keep that in the back of your brain. It's not

[25:39] a happy thing to do, but at some point in time, let's fight it before it bites

[25:45] us. >> Thank you. Well, and then like I said,

[25:48] if we get into planning and zoning, we're talking about, you know, a whole

[25:53] different part of the county that'll have to be added to on planning and

[25:58] zoning. Plus, I've been getting a lot of calls recently, and matter of fact,

[26:03] probably next week, maybe the week after, there's going to come in and

[26:07] speak on these yards that are getting full of

[26:12] more or less filled with uh uh items for sale or whatever. We're starting to get

[26:18] more and more. >> You don't know if they're yards for sale

[26:20] or they're having a yard sale. >> Yeah. You don't you don't know if it's a

[26:22] yard sale or they're just dumping stuff off. But the problem we're going to run

[26:26] into when the county gets I mean with road and bridge I I I understand their

[26:32] point. I'm going to let her come in and talk because we're going to have to look

[26:36] at either ordinances some way to start combating it. But I mean a lot of people

[26:42] just look at their neighborhood. I look at the whole county

[26:46] » and and when we go to make an issue to clean something up, it's just not that

[26:51] area. We're talking about countywide is going to be very expensive.

[26:55] » Don't tell me. >> And who's gonna clean it up?

[26:57] » Don't tell me how rich my yard >> for two decades.

[27:02] » Vice versa. >> For two decades, I've been far more than

[27:05] that for planning and zoning. Going back to the mayor days and stuff because the

[27:10] problem we had on the edges probably was voted on I think twice 2 to one. I went

[27:14] and looked it up the other day. 7 something,000 votes to 3,000 against it

[27:19] and vote against it. We did surveys at the time and it's very interesting

[27:23] because the survey said that the people wanted the ability to tell their

[27:29] neighbor restrict their neighbor but they didn't want their neighbor had the

[27:32] ability to restrict them. >> Uh and that that's where in St. Genevie

[27:38] faced the same thing. They passed planning zoning to keep a the dump that

[27:42] went to Richwoods out and then the next year they they everybody said we don't

[27:47] want anybody telling us hey and they passed it and threw it out.

[27:51] » So it's interesting dynamic. >> Sorry. Uh how long ago was it last voted

[27:56] on? >> It's been 20 years at I look it up to

[28:01] see how close we were >> because I'm thinking 20 years have gone

[28:05] by. There's been a lot of development out in the rural areas and I used to get

[28:10] calls all the time from people out in the county saying, "Well, why can't we

[28:14] do anything about this?" >> Well, Kevin, what you're saying, I see

[28:17] what you're saying. It'll have to come for the people in the vote.

[28:20] » Oh, absolutely. >> Yeah.

[28:21] » Right. >> It'll be their choice. I

[28:24] » I'm a little surprised that people haven't [clears throat] directed that a

[28:26] little bit more because the likelihood of a data center coming to this count

[28:30] in the county is a lot higher than in a city.

[28:34] Well, maybe planning and zoning on coming back up again.

[28:40] » Okay. Any other any other public comment?

[28:44] » Okay. Department reports. Sheriff Sheriff K.

[28:52] Sheriff, we're still in the meeting. Sheriff, if

[28:56] if you would like to inform them that the equipment's cost is $26,985,

[29:01] you all can still act on. And that's to the he went back to the office to get

[29:05] the exact amount. >> 26,000

[29:08] » $26,985. So you can take that up since we're not

[29:14] close the meeting out. If you choose if you want to wait till next week, that's

[29:17] totally fine. Since we've got the exact amount,

[29:19] » I would say if we got the exact amount, let's run it.

[29:22] » Yeah, let's get it done. >> So I will make a motion that we purchase

[29:27] the vehicles at 26,000. >> Hold on. Hold on. Go ahead.

[29:31] » So who are we purchasing it from? is in his on the state contract.

[29:35] » You know that >> I don't know.

[29:37] » Okay. Wait till next week. >> And please inform whoever we have to

[29:41] have that stuff. >> Good answer.

[29:43] » Good question. Yes. >> This kind of came together quick check

[29:46] came in. >> That's that's why we really appreciate.

[29:50] » Okay. Let's continue. >> Okay. Just some quick numbers. Uh again,

[29:54] uh our yearly calls for service are stand at 14,335.

[29:58] That was up by about 19 to 458 per last week. Inmate population is up two to

[30:07] 138. That's 120 males and 118 females. This weekend's totals will be on next

[30:14] week. We have a very busy and tragic weekend in the county. So, got a lot

[30:20] going on, but deputies are still out there.

[30:23] » They were very busy over the weekend. I know. Well, I don't know if you've ever

[30:26] noticed that on 67 was closed down twice. So, last

[30:29] » week, yeah, we had some incidents that uh working with some other agencies on.

[30:34] I can't discuss that, but uh yeah, it's been a busy weekend.

[30:38] » Great job. >> Okay, J. Thank you, Ryan. Ro Bridge.

[30:48] Last week we had a send a crew out on Russell Road that did a lot of ditching

[30:53] out there along had some erosion. Place some rip wrap clean up some several

[30:57] crossroad pipe that had stuff clogged clogged up in the pipe. Let them blow.

[31:02] Uh we did some prep work out on uh Pinville Road which is an upcoming

[31:07] project we will probably try to do next Monday. Uh the road will be shut down.

[31:12] We'll probably let the school bus go through in the morning and we'll let 911

[31:16] know that it'll be probably closed down for most of that day. Like I say, it's

[31:20] we went out and did the saw cutting ahead of time to save time, but it's a

[31:24] 60in crossroad pipe we're going to have to replace out there. So, just be

[31:27] advised if you're traveling that way on next Monday. It will be out. Um it's

[31:34] closer towards the uh St. Joe State Park entrance sign near that location if

[31:39] you're traveling that way. Uh crews trimmed olive road. We had a lot of low

[31:44] hanging limits, opened it up with our bucket truck, trimming it back entire

[31:49] route. Crews graded several uh gravel roads in the area since we was unable to

[31:54] get asphalt from our asphalt plant was down last week. They graded Old St.

[31:58] Louis Valley Mines, Robinson, Waffleman, Adam Cemetery. Also did some ditch work

[32:04] on Olive and uh graded along that route. Like I say once again, our mowing crews

[32:10] are out in the north and south. We do have one tractor down with that arm. Uh

[32:15] trying to wait to get our parts in for it. Hopefully they'll be in soon to get

[32:18] it back up and running. Uh we got most of our salt order in last week. We had

[32:22] an order of 500 tons. They should uh finish it up tomorrow getting that in.

[32:28] Our barn at the jail, it's currently full with 300 tons. We should be pretty

[32:33] good on our salt material and the braces for the winter. Uh, our crews went out

[32:38] and pothole patched Berry Road from Cash Lane south and we had a large list of

[32:44] roads and nippy pothole patch got over most of the county. Last week we

[32:49] installed 80 ft of uh 15-in pipe on College Road for a new driveway

[32:54] entrance. Our prison crew, we eated areas along Bismar Lake, Buck Mountain

[32:59] Road, Watson, Russell Road, Grider, Loftboro, Lake Avalon, Arnaldi, O

[33:04] Vandergriff, Hampton Road. Picked up 280 lbs of trash. Uh, like I say, our

[33:10] mechanics were a lot of time trying to see if we could fix that uh for the part

[33:15] that was damaged but was unable to. So, that's it for now.

[33:20] » Okay. Thank you, >> we're about to run out of meeting. And I

[33:24] did want to say um Louie, go ahead. No. Uh I wanted to thank all the employees

[33:31] for filling out theformational uh on the insurance. I know it was kind

[33:36] of difficult or a lot of them got it done. I want to tell them all thank you

[33:41] for filling out that information on the insurance. Uh go ahead.

[33:48] So, everyone knows this Friday marks the

[33:52] 25th anniversary of the attack on the United States. In the lobby of this

[33:58] building, as you come through by the elevators, there's two large American

[34:02] flags. And I bet you passed by that and you never stopped to actually read the

[34:07] letter that accompanies those two flags. It mentions, one flag mentions all of

[34:13] the names of the civilians that perished on that day in Shanksville at the

[34:19] Pentagon, the two World Trade Centers. The other flag represents all of the

[34:23] emergency responders that pass on that day.

[34:28] Flag was presented to Sheriff Dan Bullock on the 15th anniversary of that

[34:33] Christian motorcycle ride. And I think everyone here, I think, probably

[34:40] remembers where they were on that day, on that beautiful Tuesday morning 25

[34:45] years ago. This Friday, we should reflect on the

[34:49] events that happened 25 years ago and think of the events that are going on in

[34:53] the world today. Stop by and take a look at those names.

[34:58] » Thank you. >> Thanks for that, Lou. And I I I I'm glad

[35:01] you said that. But I I also heard on the news that after it's over now, more

[35:07] people have died after than happened during during the attack that the

[35:13] medicals >> have surpassed what actually died on on

[35:18] that day. >> Kevin,

[35:21] » couple things. Um was at our meetings last week, mandatory meetings, and uh

[35:26] big discussions on the election. We don't know what the hell is going to

[35:30] happen. we'll decide something go in the Supreme Court, but fortunately it does

[35:34] not affect us. Senator, I mean, Congressman Smith's

[35:39] territory did not change either way. So, there was no change in the the

[35:44] August election, >> right?

[35:46] » So, but four or five others changed. So, they voted on people that aren't don't

[35:52] live in those districts now. Now, they're going to vote on uh So, I don't

[35:56] know how they're going to do that. and like Boone has to change their whole

[36:00] county, everybody's codings on which uh congressional district they're in. And

[36:06] we start voting um in two weeks, the 22nd. So uh that's the

[36:14] first uh voting you can start absentee balloting them and October 7th is the

[36:20] last day to register. Uh so those are the two days coming up that are

[36:24] important. >> Thank you. Thanks, Kevin.

[36:29] » Okay. >> Yeah, I just took his picture.

[36:33] » I make a motion we journ that. Thanks everybody for coming.

Commission Meeting September 8, 2026

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