[0:00] short introduction about yourself and then we'll get started with the

[0:03] questions hi uh so I'm David Gil I was born in Washington state moved to Utah

[0:08] when I was about eight uh lived there until I joined the military at age

[0:15] 24 uh my first station was out in Nashville uh sorry not Nashville

[0:20] Clarksville at Fort Campbell was there for five and a half years with two

[0:23] diplom to Iraq decided the active duty was not for me went to reserves went

[0:29] back to Utah for I don't know 10 9 10 years decided

[0:35] that the reserves was where I was meant to be it was a good place I enjoyed it

[0:39] so I went to full-time status with the reserves got moved to Las Vegas stayed

[0:43] there for three years got moved to here I've been here for four years I just

[0:47] retired in March and I decided to let everything grow out

[0:53] um so that's a a nutshell I'm married I have two children 191 it's going to turn

[1:01] 17 in a couple weeks uh 17y oldold still goes to Brighton High School and getting

[1:07] 19y old kicked out to college here pretty soon how long you lived in the to

[1:11] uh the whole four years okay one thing I did forget I got to make a note to tell

[1:16] everybody else so just show you're I hope you're you're understanding how

[1:20] this works but whoever the board appoints tonight um that the way to work

[1:27] is you'll be formally put on the board at our June 11th meeting you will fill

[1:32] that position from till the November election yes okay and then if you choose

[1:38] to continue and you want you can always put your pull a thing to be on the

[1:43] ballot in the November election um but you know this is the position we're

[1:48] Filling tonight is strictly from when we appoint you on June 11th till we get to

[1:54] whoever gets that yes that's okay all right well thank you very much sir we're

[2:00] going to start over to my left with Alderman Chris schaer hey how are you

[2:05] thank you for coming tonight um first question is why are you interested in

[2:10] serving on the board of Mayor and Alman Chris is your name is your light there

[2:14] we go there we go I'll repeat it um why are you interested in serving on the

[2:18] board of Mayor and otman I feel that the country and whole

[2:22] is headed a negative Direction and I feel the best way to make a difference

[2:26] is starting with local um there's like you said people think you're crazy or

[2:31] think you're trying to lie in your pockets or whatever but it doesn't

[2:35] matter if if I want to make a change I feel like it's got be start at the local

[2:39] level I don't think going National is going to do any

[2:43] good um second question is what are the most

[2:49] pressing issues in your opinion fac in our community and how would you address

[2:54] them that's a large question for two minutes so I have haven't been very

[3:00] involved I don't know a lot of what issues you're facing right now I do know

[3:05] that as a citizen one of my biggest concerns is the condition of some of the

[3:12] roads and um I know we're also facing a a budget

[3:18] issue um and that's part of what Tuesday's meeting is going to or I guess

[3:23] what the main part of Tuesday's meeting is going to be um I have no experience

[3:27] in this now flat out me that right front but I do have a a good head of my

[3:33] shoulders and I do look out for what helps the

[3:38] individual and if I can find a way to help the individual residents then

[3:42] that's what I'm going to do while seeing within all the

[3:47] needs thank you okay um Alman rro hi thank you for

[3:55] coming I'm Christy rro um my first question is is how do

[4:00] you plan to balance the interests of a TOA with the Practical limitations of

[4:08] governance so again I like I said I don't have much experience with this

[4:13] it's going to be a learning curve and I I really feel protecting the

[4:18] individual's rights is going to be the beneficial to everybody in the community

[4:23] so regardless of what the issue is looking at what is going to best take

[4:29] care of the IND ual citizen is what's the route that I I look at um it doesn't

[4:33] matter if it's voting in election it doesn't matter if it's Road repair it

[4:37] doesn't matter what it is you know if you're doing something completely

[4:41] unacceptable like for instance I have no idea what cost to repair a pole but if

[4:46] we're looking at $50 versus $100,000 you got to look at the benefit

[4:52] to the cost in whatever it is whether it's Financial or moral or anything um

[4:58] you have to do what's going to make the most sense and be most beneficial to the

[5:02] citizen okay

[5:06] and how would you balance the need for development and growth with maintaining

[5:12] the character of our community so I feel especially in I I

[5:19] live over in the blades Estates area and I feel especially Thea idil Road and uh

[5:26] me Lake Road intersection that and the bridge right there

[5:30] that's a huge constriction area and I feel that any development that would

[5:36] adversely affect that or increase the traffic flow there would be problematic

[5:40] because I understand that there's been attempts to widen that bridge in the

[5:43] past and it's been a fight between the state and the railroad and everything

[5:47] else so there are limitations there and I think the first priority needs to be

[5:53] to take care of the current citizens that live here and secondary would be

[5:57] development and growth and development and growth I see no problem with that

[6:01] happening as long as it happens outside of that area to keep that area as

[6:05] minimally impacted as possible okay thank

[6:09] you we do share your concerns about that bridge and that intersection very much

[6:15] so very I do love the new round about that's on the other end of the road it

[6:20] helped a lot over there yeah we're putting another one in where at uh right

[6:25] here at Main Street and mford til yeah it's our next choke point if you

[6:31] will so we'll start over here to my right and Cody

[6:36] Pace thank you for coming tonight um as mayor said my name is Cody Pace um I do

[6:42] want to thank you first off because this is a huge thing and it's very hard to do

[6:46] I know myself and Alman rro have sat in that seat as well answering these

[6:51] questions so it it's very uh trying sometimes um going into this first

[6:56] question though um what are your primary goals and objectives

[7:00] first if you're pointed on this board I don't know if I have a specific

[7:05] primary goal or object or objective um as far as any agenda being to taken care

[7:10] of my number one goal is to make sure that I do what I feel is best for each

[7:17] individual citizen of the

[7:22] town and um kind of piggybacking with that a little bit um what do you feel is

[7:28] the shortterm and at the same time long-term

[7:31] goals for this board and the community um and how would you plan to achieve

[7:37] that so I have no idea what your goals are um but I hope that my goal of

[7:45] helping the city or the town do what it needs to do to take care of its citizens

[7:49] and its infrastructure and be a uh transparent

[7:56] organization I feel that that's my

[8:00] and both short and long term it doesn't matter what's going on that that's just

[8:03] where I am um and I just hope that that would blend in with whatever the board

[8:08] is do inicial and as far as the projects or anything else I don't think it

[8:13] matters just those same guidelines

[8:18] apply anything else all B all right we have to my right again AL

[8:26] John Mar good evening again as board says thank you for sitting in the H seat

[8:32] um how would you handle disagreements or conflicts with maybe one of your fellow

[8:37] board members or maybe if you had a conflict with the with a

[8:42] citizen I feel that conflict can be healthy um obviously not to the point of

[8:49] a a loud shout out drag out fight but um I kind of feel if there's not some

[8:57] conflict then you're not doing your job um if you're trying to appease everyone

[9:01] make everyone happy then you're not looking out for what the best of best

[9:06] situation is for the town you're looking at how do I keep everyone happy and off

[9:09] my back which I don't think is right want these you're going to have people

[9:13] mad at you and that's just life um I spent 20 years in the military and I

[9:19] constantly had people very angry with me because I knew what the right thing was

[9:24] I knew what the rules and regulations were and I said this is what we're going

[9:27] to do and they people this is so much easier this is f i don't care this is

[9:32] the right way that's the way it's going to be done and that's the same attitude

[9:35] I bring towards this now as far as inter personal conflict I've been told that

[9:40] I'm a very likable and B very abrasive um so I get along well with

[9:46] people but I also will Stand My Ground and and let you know if I think what

[9:50] we're doing is wrong maybe it's facial hair yeah I gra

[9:56] been born facial hair thank so yeah um can you give me an

[10:03] example of when you had to stand up for what you believe was right even when

[10:08] that decision was unpopular oh okay so my most recent one

[10:16] of my most recent responsibilities in the military as I was in charge of

[10:18] driver's training for the unit um when I got here I was not in charge of it the

[10:24] person who was was reassigned to another place up in Kentucky and when he left

[10:29] responsibility felt need to take care of that we have very specific rules on how

[10:33] we conduct driver's training how we document everything to make sure that

[10:37] everyone's trained accordingly and correctly and that you know we can

[10:41] operate the equipment as safely as possible when I took control of that I

[10:47] went through all the paperwork and found everybody was missing paperwork so I

[10:50] have a unit of 112 soldiers whose job we are a transportation company our job is

[10:56] to move 7,000 gon t of fuel um I found six individuals that had complete

[11:05] packets that were legally everyone else ioke their

[11:10] licenses and I caught a ton of right for that um my hir command I was like what

[11:17] are you doing no we have to run these missions we have to do this I said

[11:19] that's fine run them we going to run with six people and if you don't like it

[11:24] send us the Personnel we need so we can get these other people trained and

[11:27] document correctly so we can make sure things are done

[11:31] safe unfortunately that hindered that unit's progress for two years because

[11:36] they wanted to spend the first year fighting with me over the rules and

[11:39] regulations and how to get around them when it was a very simple statement they

[11:44] will have this paperwork that's not in there they don't

[11:47] drive um through that we were actually able to get active duty army training

[11:53] command to step in and come and assist and get our our stuff taken care of um

[11:59] so that that was a very hard fight because I had a general telling me let

[12:04] them drive and I showed them regulations and pay for and said sir no this is this

[12:10] is the way it is like you don't get to just tell us we have to do our thank

[12:16] you all right sir so we've got uh let me turn that on all right so we've got

[12:22] attending uh virtually because uh he is doing some military service we've got

[12:26] Alman Brett Jan and Brett I'll turn it over to you thank you Mr Mayor hi Mr

[12:33] Gail I want to First say thanks for offering to serve and no matter how

[12:36] tonight goes I hope you'll uh consider running in November or at least you know

[12:42] offer yourself to the mayor for a committee

[12:45] assignment uh kind of brings me to my first question have you made a decision

[12:50] on whether you're going to run for one of the offices in November I have not I

[12:54] figured this was an excellent chance to f it out and see how

[13:00] it is um and we're looking at what 6 months so it' be a good chance to get my

[13:07] feet wet and see a if I'm a fit for both the town and the team and the board or

[13:13] or if I'm even just a fit for this type of environment at

[13:16] all great thank you sir and my next question is uh how will you respond or

[13:23] what will your actions be to a constituent who confront you or asked

[13:27] you about an issue with a city surfice well it would depend on how the

[13:32] confrontation goes I'm sure um but I've had to deal with a lot of conflict I'm

[13:38] sure you've had in the military with other Personnel um I was in E7 I was in

[13:44] charge of platoons and and there was a time I was leaving the entire unit I had

[13:48] to deal with conflict all the time the best way is to deescalate answer the

[13:52] questions as best you can be honest with them if you don't know the answer tell

[13:55] them I don't know I'll get back with you take their information and if they start

[13:58] getting bigant or aggressive just walk away okay and maybe that was my fault

[14:04] for using the word uh confront just a minute if a if a citizen contacts you

[14:09] and say hey I've got a problem with with a ditch or you know a pothole how do you

[14:15] think you would handle that I'd take the information um that they're giving me

[14:21] and ask questions about what the issues are and where it's at and everything and

[14:24] then I contact city services this was just reported to me you guys aware of

[14:28] this can you get this taken care of of I unless there's some other policy that

[14:31] prevents me from doing something like that that's how I probably go around

[14:35] doing it thank you sir I appreciate you answering my questions and good luck to

[14:40] you thank you all right um I believe his mic is

[14:50] D we'll just wait

[15:02] Mr I didn't say you got some nice fine Aran water in front of feel

[15:10] free cuz I know we're going to I

[15:14] know all right I guess that leaves myself so uh you mentioned it in your

[15:22] opening and as you are probably aware we're have been in for several months uh

[15:27] trying to come up with a budget for the town so my first question has to do with

[15:32] budgeting and this will be a very relevant

[15:38] question for you so some background last year the town had over

[15:46] $700,000 of unexpected infrastructure repairs this year we're also looking at

[15:52] over $700,000 in infrastructure uh we got a

[15:57] bridge that is in very bad need of being repaired replaced

[16:02] we've got CS failing so forth and so on considering that like everything else

[16:09] all the cost to the town have increased that we need more staff in

[16:15] almost all of our departments to adequately provide needed Town

[16:20] services and that we have to always be aware and we are competing with other

[16:25] municipalities when it comes to our employees and that has to do with not

[16:30] only recruitment of those employees but retention of those

[16:35] employees um again the infrastructure is only going to

[16:40] get older and going to have stress put upon it so with all that stuff kind of

[16:47] give you a little feel for what we're looking at and what we go through

[16:52] considering all those things how do you go about how would you go about in AO in

[16:59] the creation of a budget for the town and what would you do if it was

[17:03] determined that the town's Revenue was going to fall short of needed

[17:10] funds that is a very loaded question um it's a it's a real life question I

[17:17] know

[17:21] um I I feel like I would need a lot of information to make a good solid

[17:26] decision um I I think the infrastructure is probably one of the biggest issues

[17:33] facing the town as far as financials go um I do know as I've seen some of the

[17:40] roads not only here in TOA but throughout uh tipon and Shelby County

[17:45] they don't seem as though they're built very well to begin with um I've never

[17:51] seen a place that develops P so easily and so

[17:55] quickly um I feel that maybe there's a more quality method that can be used to

[18:02] build and repair roads and maybe if they're done better in the first place

[18:07] they would last longer and be cheaper to maintain in the long run um I would not

[18:13] be adverse to spending more upfront to save more in the long run and that's

[18:18] just one of the options I would look at um I know it'd be vastly more expensive

[18:23] to rip out an existing Road and relay the sub the foundation of the road and

[18:27] redo the road would be just to patch it or fix a section that and that just

[18:31] makes sense to me but I also wouldn't be I wouldn't shy away from it if there was

[18:35] a better way to make it last longer and be more fiscally responsible for the the

[18:39] residents okay um with that being said you also have to work with what you have

[18:46] um so I I I don't know how how i' handle that at the

[18:51] moment maybe I'll I'll restate it in a little this way what kind of budgeting

[18:57] background budgeting experience do you have

[19:02] uh not a whole lot other than personal finances but I will tell you why I'm

[19:06] dead for you to live in my house

[19:11] okay all right and uh my second question probably kind of goes with what Alderman

[19:17] G and any asked and it'll give you a little more insight into the town and

[19:21] how it functions uh our Charter actually states that the Town Administrator is

[19:27] responsible for the administration of the Town including

[19:32] employee management and operations so how would you as an alderman handle a

[19:38] situation where a town employee approach you directly with a concern or an

[19:44] issue well first I'd have to know what the town's policies are on this but from

[19:51] a personal standpoint I listen to concerns and i' BR some

[19:55] BO okay because my understanding is we are the supervisory panel over all the

[20:01] employees with town okay all right I believe that finishes the

[20:09] questions do you have any questions for us that we haven't as far as the process

[20:15] and the overview uh no I don't think

[20:20] so okay well if not uh as has been said many many times thank you for putting

[20:27] your name in is speaks a lot about you that you would even be willing to devote

[20:32] time out of your personal life and your schedule in public service for the town

[20:37] and it's very much appreciated and like Alman J en said uh I'm going to keep

[20:42] your name let's you know let's say that you don't get appointed but if you want

[20:47] to continue and do some type of involvement I'll reach out and give you

[20:51] a holler b means okay well thank you very much thank you appreciate it thank

[20:56] you

[21:10] okay board will give this time we've got minutes 10 minutes so next candid is

[21:14] your you can um add your scores up or take this time to get your thoughts in

[21:21] order

[21:43] if we add it up yall going to check our addition anyway

[21:47] right please okay cuz I'm I'm trying but I might just miss add something

[21:55] here I think there's a little calculator at the end of the

[21:59] I got one on my phone

[22:24] too that do that any B question we

[22:29] are we going to keep the door open I mean are the other candidates they can't

[22:32] hear what's being answered right because okay good I want to make sure

[22:43] yeah we staged them up there in that Bullpen

[22:46] area turn the air conditioner off so it gets real hot up

[22:51] there sweat May sweat who's going to be the next uh person Mr Jessie

[23:21] so Brett I don't know if you heard you with me can you hear so I can yeah you

[23:28] can um hold your sheets and then at the end if you want to like I guess take

[23:32] pictures and send it to Mark or however you want to get it to him right okay all

[23:37] right good all right

[23:44] good we'll give them two more minutes and then we'll start at 6:40 instead of

[23:48] 6:45 okay yes sir I got

[23:54] extra no any comments did that anything we need

[23:59] change the one thing we can't change now is it's difficult because we don't ask

[24:04] the

[24:08] availability judge that

[24:13] aspect I'm sorry Cody I missed that man can you say it again yeah yeah sorry

[24:18] about that um the one the one thing I'm saying is we don't really ask on the

[24:23] availability um what Christy just said is she's you know kind of the same way

[24:27] of they're putting the interest in they're they're going to be available

[24:31] but we don't explicitly ask about availability here so we're referring to

[24:35] that last category yeah commit

[24:48] AV I believe we have a an ordinance or something in the charter says if you

[24:54] miss five meetings unexcused I guess you're off

[24:57] the board but yeah is there five meetings in between

[25:02] now and November I doubt

[25:06] ity I'll tell youall I like the questions I think that's a good yeah a

[25:10] good wide range of uh stuff well they they really are cohesive with each other

[25:16] too without even planning that I think Alles was yours one of

[25:22] yours I originally was going to have that as my second question oh I take it

[25:26] from no I no I just decided on this one instead and it good cuz I wanted to know

[25:33] that all right let's go ahead with candidate number

[25:41] two y want [Music]

[25:44] to yeah we can hold on to CU you might want to go back right I

[25:49] guess why you do the do theb yeah

[25:58] you got a Min or

[26:06] something no the doctor the doctor I hope you got a

[26:12] [Laughter]

[26:21] shot all right Mr Mr P is it have a seat right there

[26:32] well uh Mr Po uh my name is bar aen I'm the mayor of town M to I think we've met

[26:39] each other once or twice in the past um wanted to just go over some overviews

[26:45] some guidelines for tonight um you were or we put all the candidates that said

[26:50] they wanted to be interviewed we put them into a random number generator and

[26:54] that's how the order came out so you're number two for this evening

[26:59] um as we tell all of uh candidates and as you know we uh are very much

[27:05] appreciative of you willing to take time out of your personal life not only to be

[27:10] interviewed but to possibly serve public service with the town that says a lot of

[27:17] you uh I know that's been a big part of a lot of your life we are going to be

[27:22] asking two questions a piece including Alderman J which is with us virtual

[27:28] and we're going to to try to keep it fairly where we're not here till

[27:33] midnight we're going to try to limit you to two minutes per question for answer U

[27:38] Miss Debbie will hold up a yellow folder you want to demonstrate Miss Deb it's 15

[27:43] seconds and then you'll hear a little beep if you go all the way to the end of

[27:48] the two-minute time so uh of course of course uh we are not singling

[27:56] you out as far as all questions that you will be asked tonight will be asked of

[28:01] all of the candidates the same questions as far as that after everybody we've

[28:09] after we've talked to everybody we're going to score our sheets and you are

[28:14] welcome we then bring everybody back in you're welcome to stick around until

[28:19] that last person is finished if you want to go home we will notify you regardless

[28:25] of the outcome has absolutely no bearing on

[28:28] your score whether you stay or go home uh you'll notice this looking down uh

[28:34] we've got some paper in front of us we'll take notes we'll make probably

[28:39] some notes on your answers just to help us uh when it comes time to score you so

[28:44] please don't let that be of concern um and just to in case you're

[28:50] not aware so when let's say you are the person tonight with the highest score by

[28:56] the board um you will be officially appointed at the June 11th meeting uh to

[29:02] actually sit uh with us and at the end of that meeting I think it's new

[29:07] business and then you can fill that position until November and if you

[29:11] choose to actually pull a ballot or whatever it's been a while a whole year

[29:20] and a half for me but if you pull a packet of petition then of course you

[29:24] would be running in the November election but this appointment night is

[29:29] from now the June 11th meeting until the November election you got some water

[29:33] there in front of you feel free uh everybody up here will be partaking of

[29:38] it and with that said uh if you'd like to give a short introduction and then

[29:44] we'll get started with the questions uh Jesse P we T 5 six M Mary children

[29:53] grandchildren um former Chief of Police 24 years plus

[29:58] um little side note it's been a little less than 28 years ago is the last time

[30:04] I sat in front of this board May Alderman in the interview for the chief

[30:08] of police job so uh I I have sat out here many

[30:16] years and I'd always wanted to further by sitting up there um in helping

[30:22] progress with the city see the city going further

[30:28] okay all right well Mr P we will start to my right with Alderman Pace with the

[30:36] first two questions Chief good to see you sir um I

[30:40] saw you seen you at the last meeting um I do want to commend you right now on

[30:45] the um interest in this position I know how hard it is to sit through this um

[30:50] between myself and Al rro we've sat through one of these before and and it

[30:54] can be a little taxing on the mind on some of these questions so um I do want

[30:58] to commend you on that leading into that though um my first question for you

[31:02] would be what are your primary goals and objectives if you were appointed primary

[31:06] goal objective is to help uh make good choices for the citizens in the town um

[31:15] we have an infrastructure problem and I I want to be part of that going forward

[31:20] um I've seen that over the years um our growth has been

[31:26] astronomical and I see the growth continuing and i' like to be part of

[31:31] solution of that and being a part of that decision

[31:36] making thank you for that um second question here um what are your shortterm

[31:42] and long-term goals for the board and the community and how would you plan to

[31:48] achieve those shortterm and longterm is Happ the first meeting is look uh I'm

[31:55] familiar with budgets um and you will have that pass before I take that before

[32:01] whoever takes the seat um is interact with with the board with each board

[32:09] member um while we're here and uh citizens um talk with some

[32:18] citizens um they're what we're here for the citizens that's why we're we're all

[32:23] here or you're there um that would be some of the goals

[32:30] thank you for that all right uh Alman Harbor mayor

[32:38] it's good to see you thank sir um how would you handle disagreements or

[32:43] conflicts if you had a disagreement with one of your fellow board members or

[32:46] possibly one of our citizens in the community complect with a citizen if

[32:52] it's over services or something going on in the city that's what we have a town

[32:56] manager for and we have St have there there's places to to concerns with the

[33:03] the S town website as with another Alderman um older person excuse me

[33:09] that's okay uh I believe Everyone's entitled to

[33:14] their opinion I firmly believe that if if you ask somebody their opinion and

[33:19] someone disagrees with you you should not take that personally that is their

[33:24] right and we should respect that thank you um can you give me an example

[33:31] of a time when you had to stand up for something that you felt was right even

[33:36] when that decision was

[33:43] unpopular yes it would be budget

[33:49] process um knowing that we had to cut some things and I disagreed with it but

[33:55] I still had to do it for the betterment of the

[33:58] town the budget that that was probably some of the biggest challenges okay

[34:04] budget thank you all right thank you all

[34:08] nor Mr Po I will ask my questions you mentioned budget as you know we have

[34:15] been for several months now and are currently trying to get our budget

[34:19] passed for fiscal year 2025 um going to try to give you some

[34:25] very real very relevant uh budget facts and then ask you how you would kind of

[34:32] take all this into consideration so last year the town had over $700,000 in

[34:37] unexpected infrastructure repairs this year we're also looking at

[34:42] over $700,000 in infrastructure repairs or

[34:48] replacement of um as you know like everything else the town all cost to the

[34:55] town have increased um when it comes to staff almost all of

[35:01] our departments could use some more staff to adequately provide needed Town

[35:06] Services um when it comes to employees and staff you need you're always having

[35:12] to compete with other municipalities that I'm sure you can identify with that

[35:17] that that involves not only recruiting somebody new to the town but retaining

[35:22] somebody to the town again the aoke infrastructure is

[35:27] only going to continue to age and have stress put upon it so with all those

[35:33] things to consider how would you approach uh the creation of the budget

[35:39] for the town and what would you do if it was determined that the town's Revenue

[35:45] was going to fall short of the needed budget

[35:50] amount first of all I did look at your budget and it looks like your budget for

[35:55] this fiscal year coming up you have balanced it um within I think it was 14

[36:01] or $15 um that I did notice I think we'd

[36:06] have to take every line item every department and you would have to go

[36:11] through it um as we all know there's wants and there's needs and I think

[36:16] you'd have the needs you have no options the wants I think you'd have to look at

[36:21] those and prioritize those

[36:25] okay all right a second question our town Charter

[36:31] states that the Town Administrator is responsible for the day-to-day

[36:35] administration of the Town including the employee management and operations so

[36:40] how would you as an alderman handle a situation where a town employee approach

[36:45] you directly with a concern or an issue I would direct that individual

[36:52] uh if he had an issue to go to his department head his direct super ADV

[36:57] visor and or go to the town manager if it was not um settled there there

[37:05] there's a chain of command as I call it yes and that should be utilized and if

[37:10] it's egregious he can always go or he she could always go to the next level I

[37:15] believe that would be in the town hbook if I'm not mistaken okay yes sir all

[37:21] right well thank you very much she that concludes my questions we're going to go

[37:25] to Alderman jini which is ending virtually

[37:30] tonight thank you mayor good evening Chiefs good to see you again sir good

[37:34] evening sir all right um thank you again for for

[37:40] offering to this seat and uh no matter what happens tonight I hope you'll

[37:45] consider running in November for one of the seats and um at least you know offer

[37:51] yourself up to the mayor to serve on a committee or something um but having

[37:56] said that have you decided if you're going to run in November for one of the

[37:59] seats no sir I I haven't made that decision just yet no

[38:04] sir all right thank you and my second question is how will you respond to a

[38:09] citizen or what will your actions be to a citizen who contacts you about uh City

[38:14] service I would direct them to the online concern or The Sound

[38:20] Manager uh is what I would do that that would be in their purview that that's

[38:25] that's their staff's function right thank you for answering my

[38:30] questions Chief take care good luck thanks

[38:33] sir all right that water right there if you need

[38:38] it good okay thank sir Alderman Chris inro is next go ahead M Chris hi Chief

[38:44] how are you all right ma'am thank you good how do you plan to balance the

[38:50] interests of a TOA with the Practical limitations of governance

[38:57] I think there's we're up here for the citizens for the People by the people I

[39:02] firmly believe in that and I think it's a delicate balance and and I think that

[39:08] you you've got to balance that with what you've got in front of you it it it it's

[39:14] a it's just a tough decision to make and I I've sat in these meetings where

[39:20] wasn't very popular to make the decisions you made but you make them

[39:23] it's in the best interest of the community and sometimes it takes

[39:27] explaining I think sometimes um I lay this out there sometimes maybe we don't

[39:33] do a good job of educating folks sometimes on the um what's needed and

[39:39] how it works um that that's would be my answer to that man okay thank you and

[39:47] how would you balance the need for development and growth with maintaining

[39:50] the character of our community I said in you I I believe you

[39:55] made that that next step with two things one the industrial board I think it is

[40:00] you call it you've done that and then that's that's starting to take shape

[40:05] second thing of is is is uh one of your employees you just made economic or

[40:10] economic um it was a man of farbo I was in the meeting that you to to help

[40:16] solicit businesses and I think that that's been probably long overdue for

[40:21] our community our size is to help bring in that um but then again that also

[40:26] comes with our infrastructure too thank you sir thank you

[40:33] ma'am all right Alman schaer hey chief just want to say thank you for showing

[40:38] interest in this and thank you for coming out tonight to speak with us

[40:41] thanks sir my first question is why are you interested in serving on the I'm

[40:46] sorry board of Mayor and hman as you know I've been Community

[40:50] oriented for for many years and and I believe that with sitting in those last

[40:56] few board meeting meetings some of the obstacles that are going to be coming

[41:00] about is making those informed decisions and choices and and I believe that

[41:06] having some knowledge of government workings um that I could benefit that

[41:11] benefit the community and the board and the town um and that's I just firmly

[41:17] believe in community involvement thank you my second question

[41:22] is what are the most pressing issues faced in our community and how would you

[41:26] address them

[41:30] probably the Imp of traffic traffic's an issue and I know that to roundabout it

[41:34] three way is hopefully coming but when you ride around you see some of the

[41:39] roads um I know that you're you're working on those with money one I

[41:43] culverts and bridges that that that's a big issue those are going to come to B

[41:48] and they're not going to be cheap and unfortunately the longer it's put off

[41:53] the more expensive it's going to get and where to find the money is going to

[41:57] become a greater issue um and I believe those are the priorities right now if

[42:02] the economic uh businesses come in and we

[42:07] control the growth I think that can be off set we got growing two fast in the

[42:14] 2000s and we outgrew our services dramatically and I think that's some of

[42:22] that's where we've gotten now that we're paying for was some of what's going on

[42:27] the bridges of Cs traffic traffic is uh there's got to be a way to get Walker

[42:33] Parkway all the way through the 51 I don't know how there's got to be a way

[42:36] there's got to be some relief I mean you sit down here at the

[42:41] three-way it's scary it's backed up all the way around and school's not even in

[42:46] right now thank you thanks

[42:50] sir well all right uh chief that finishes all of our questions if you

[42:55] have a question for us about the process or anything I didn't go over Now's the

[43:00] Time I believe you explained it very detailed mayor and I appreciate the

[43:05] opportunity from all of you to be here tonight um and I'm out all right sir

[43:12] well thank you very much and again thanks for putting your your name in and

[43:17] being willing to serve thanks sir all right bu

[43:43] just a reminder I'll try to catch be sure you use your microphone

[44:20] people

[44:43] so when are we uh is 7:15 yes

[44:48] wow if I see him come into the room early we can get started early if you're

[44:53] ready next steer

[45:18] spe

[45:42] how we going to do since he's since he's attending

[45:49] virtually how we going to let him know when his time's running

[45:54] out uh actually we are on camera we can he should be able to sh If he if

[46:01] he seems like he's still going not on camera but

[46:05] I'm yeah so on the candidate camera okay upper left hand corner I

[46:10] don't okay de and I are in the sh we're sitting here very Stone fa right yes

[46:17] please I'm good right now thank you sir Mr

[46:23] infrastructure I'm good

[46:43] are we still y'all y'all good are y'all still

[46:47] grading everybody good good um yes sir all right thanks br

[46:59] I so Mark is he going to be ready like let's say a five after who Mr schau uh

[47:07] soon as I see him come in waiting room okay he's not there yet he's not there

[47:11] yet okay when I see him I'll ask you if yall are ready okay and then uh we can

[47:16] let him get it that's good so am I supposed to look over

[47:20] here yeah he'll be on that camera this camera here to addressing

[47:32] [Music]

[47:37] smack I saw April go candy just a minute ago April is the candy

[47:45] lady I'm good thank

[47:52] you I think I would probably smack all that stain

[48:00] now if you had a

[48:05] mint John you can bring you those mints from your church those are

[48:12] good I L it when I used to walk in there and that bowl sitting right there when

[48:15] you walked

[48:18] in sorry no man man that that dates me uh oh I heard

[48:29] B he's in the waiting room so if the board is ready

[48:35] if ready we could start yes sir I am okay that sounds

[48:41] good

[48:53] yeah could you put that on one speaker view so that we he take us he'll be on

[48:58] the whole screen there you

[49:02] go he should be able to hear you I think Mr sh can you hear us

[49:08] okay yes sir I can mayor okay all right well um going to go over uh just kind of

[49:16] an overview of what you can expect tonight and

[49:21] um you were your we took all the names of people that uh submitted themselves

[49:27] for an interview we put them actually on a random number generator and you came

[49:32] up you were number three this evening um totally random I want to

[49:38] thank you for um putting your name in and uh

[49:44] taking time out of your life to um devote to Public Service as um you know

[49:52] um or may maybe you don't know you'll be accused of uh

[49:57] everything from being ignorant to uh lying your uh pockets for your own

[50:03] Financial uh vment so it's it's a thankless job most of the time but again

[50:10] thank you very much for uh being willing to uh be interviewed for this we're

[50:16] going to all ask each person here tonight uh including uh Alman jini which

[50:21] is virtual like yourself we're going to ask two questions a piece um we're going

[50:26] to try to limit you to 2 minutes per answer and um you are being asked the

[50:34] same questions that every other candidate's going to be asked there's

[50:38] nothing uh being pulled out special just for you um all candidates get the same

[50:44] questions um if the time starts running down uh I will kind of give you a notice

[50:53] M Deb's going to hold up a yellow folder when you got about 15 seconds left but

[50:58] if you can't see her I'll also kind of say Hey you know you need to start

[51:02] winding it down and then um we actually have a timer that'll go off after two

[51:07] minutes we are going to be looking down uh making notes please do not let that

[51:13] concern you that is just as we're going and kind of evaluating your answers uh

[51:19] you might notice us looking down and don't take any notice with that uh just

[51:25] I think you're aware but just to make sure um the position that we feel so the

[51:32] the person tonight that gets the highest point score will be officially placed on

[51:39] the board at the end of the June 11th meeting and your position will run from

[51:46] June 11th from that night you were appointed until the November election

[51:52] and then if you determine that you would like to put your name in to run again uh

[51:57] to run for the position then that would be required of you to do that um I would

[52:03] say that you have some water in front of you but hopefully you've got some in

[52:08] your hotel room there uh maybe you don't need it that's all good and so with that

[52:15] being said if you would give us a short introduction about yourself and then

[52:21] we'll get started with the questions yes sir uh thank you mayor and

[52:26] first first and foremost I just want to say thank you uh to you and the board

[52:30] for allowing me the opportunity to interview with yall today and I also

[52:33] want to say again thank you for working with me as I'm traveling uh I did have

[52:38] intentions to be there however I had an opportunity that came up to work and uh

[52:42] just like Alman janini I ended up getting placed on some military orders

[52:46] and so um I'm I'm working from DC currently but I just wanted to say thank

[52:51] you for that uh so many of you have known me throughout the years um again

[52:56] name is Steven scheler uh I have served as a county commissioner for District 4

[53:01] uh which when I served for it was for the greater TOA area I did that for four

[53:06] years for one term um I've also served on the um Planning Commission for the

[53:12] town and currently on the uh Board of zoning appeals for the town uh I've also

[53:17] been involved in several issues as far as state legislation goes uh and work

[53:22] with the state of Tennessee with the administrative office of the Court the

[53:25] Tennessee Supreme Court uh and I've even done work uh recently

[53:30] with um and at the US capital with with State and a House

[53:35] Representatives um I've been on multiple boards for nonprofits as I stated in my

[53:39] letter um throughout the years and trying to help agencies kind of grow and

[53:44] establish themselves and so I I firmly do believe out of uh those you are

[53:50] interviewing I don't I don't know the other candidates too well I don't

[53:53] believe but out of those I I don't believe anyone else is going to bring

[53:57] the experience that I've been with the table uh that I that I also bring to the

[54:01] table as well as um someone who is if I'm not present at meetings for the past

[54:07] 10 years I've been able to watch them digitally and keep up so I'm very

[54:11] informed of what the town's doing and where you're at and I've also been

[54:14] involved with the town comprehensive and strategic planning process as far as

[54:18] that is concerned so I really do feel like I can step into the seat pick pick

[54:23] right up and we can continue working um and moving forward so if there's nothing

[54:29] else I'll just get to the questions I guess and thank you again all right well

[54:34] thank you so much uh appreciate it we're going to start with uh Alderman Renfro

[54:41] tonight Hey Stephen how are you got your mic

[54:45] on sorry can you hear me yes ma' how are you

[54:52] tonight doing well how are you good how do you plan plan to balance the

[54:57] interests of a Toco with the Practical limitations of

[55:03] governance oh well that's in my eyes honestly it's it's a pretty easy uh easy

[55:10] platform to to stand on I mean everything that we do is for the

[55:14] betterment of our citizens and so uh there are times when you have to make

[55:20] negotiations and Deals there are times when you can't uh support certain

[55:24] projects and so you have to work on how to to prioritize certain things even

[55:29] departments uh as far as prioritizing them over one another but I really do

[55:33] feel like it's allit to talk to those agencies and just

[55:37] kind of let them know where they are and your priority rankings and what you

[55:41] think is fit again for the betterment of the town and the community and then also

[55:46] asking public opinion on uh on what they want to see and uh and what they think

[55:50] pH is important as well thank you and my second question is

[55:56] is how would you balance the need for development and growth with maintaining

[56:00] the character of our

[56:04] community well I think I think we have to start back to what the mayor said

[56:08] when he when he ran for office two years ago is you know currently aoka is in an

[56:13] identity crisis and so we have to figure that point out again if we uh if we want

[56:19] to be a vetan community then let's be the best bedroom community that we can

[56:22] in the state of Tennessee uh if we want to be an urban community

[56:26] let's be the best urban community that we can in the state of Tennessee if we

[56:29] want to be a mixture of both things uh then let's do the best job that we can

[56:33] for that um but at some point in time the the town of aoco we we need to put

[56:38] our foot on the gas pedal a little bit more in my opinion uh and we need to

[56:43] start moving more I know that there's plenty of plans that we've been in over

[56:48] the past few months and years and and I think it's time for us really to to

[56:52] start nailing those down thank you

[56:57] thank you all right our next person this evening our next board member uh will be

[57:03] Alman haror thank you mayor good evening stepen thank you uh John yeah thank you

[57:09] for your willingness to step up into the hot

[57:13] seats thank you um how would you handle any disagreements or conflicts with a

[57:19] fellow board member or maybe a potential conflict with a member of the

[57:25] community well I think you do it with morals and ethic uh first and foremost

[57:29] and then and then you show respect I mean I feel like that's the only way uh

[57:33] that you can do it we're not always going to disagree or we're not we're

[57:37] always going to disagree and we're always not going to agree either right

[57:40] um so you have to learn to have those conversations uh with one

[57:45] another and and that's really where just open lines of communication is the way

[57:49] to do it again you present and debate uh your side of the story and how you see

[57:54] things and and why you're willing to vote certain issues and topics and how

[57:57] you feel the way you feel and then respect those opinions of

[58:01] others thank you um sir thank you can you provide an example of a time that

[58:07] you had to stand up for something that you believe was right even when that

[58:11] decision was unpopular uh yes sir I think that would

[58:16] be my entire County Commission experience to be honest

[58:19] with so I mean there there there are numerous

[58:24] times I I do think that that's to tra you know if if I do firmly believe in in

[58:29] certain things and certain aspects and uh have talked to community members and

[58:33] this is what they want um well then you know you know by goly that's what I'm

[58:39] going to do I'm just going to stand up on it uh I'm I'm going to stand up and

[58:42] I'm going to you know I I'll vote no if I need to if I need to vote no um I have

[58:47] no problem being on an island and standing up for things that I believe

[58:51] in uh and that I think are important so I think one of the

[58:56] uh biggest ones that stands out is uh County Executive hutman had brought a

[59:03] piece of legisl or piece of property to the public welfare uh on the general

[59:10] welfare um committee which I was on for the County Commission and uh that

[59:16] property wasn't owned by the county it was still owned by a a private

[59:23] individual um and the county in the deals to Clos on it on a Friday however

[59:28] this is a Monday morning meeting uh so we or Monday afternoon meeting so we had

[59:34] the meeting and they wanted to rezone the property and uh and I just acally

[59:39] stood up and said No in fact I was the only one that was standing up and saying

[59:43] no at the time uh because the county didn't own it and that the person who

[59:47] owned it at the time wasn't even president for the meeting and didn't

[59:50] request for the reason um I felt like that was a uh very drastic and dangerous

[59:56] approach for local government to to rezone a piece of property that again

[1:00:01] that they didn't own and that the owner at the time hadn't even requested um so

[1:00:05] we ended up tbling that and then later after listening to all the citizens who

[1:00:10] came to the meeting they they didn't want that property reone to that um I

[1:00:14] was the only County Commissioner who who listened to those people they weren't

[1:00:18] even in my district and uh voted no on the matter thanks

[1:00:23] okay thank you all right Alan

[1:00:30] J yes sir thank you mayor how you doing Mr schauffer I'm doing all right man if

[1:00:35] I didn't have to travel good how are you good I'm fine thanks first I want to

[1:00:41] thank you for your putting yourself up for this seat and also the other boards

[1:00:46] and the way that you have served a TOA in the past uh kind of leads me to my

[1:00:51] next question or my first question rather do you plan on running in

[1:00:54] November for one of the yes sir yes sir I do good deal short and sweet all right

[1:01:00] and my second question is how are you going to uh handle or what will you say

[1:01:05] to a citizen who or ask you about uh needing a service from the

[1:01:10] city uh well again I think that's open lines of communication and just being

[1:01:15] open and honest with them you know that's one of the things that I said

[1:01:17] when I worked in the court system uh as a county commissioner and still to this

[1:01:21] day you can say uh is that uh it might not be what you want to hear but but I'm

[1:01:26] going to tell you the truth about it um you know and if it's something that the

[1:01:30] that the town can do to help out then you know I firmly believe that we'll

[1:01:34] help out uh if it's something that we're not able to then I will go through the

[1:01:39] steps and explain the process to them why we're not able to do that um but

[1:01:43] like I said anytime um anytime we're able to help you know I just I I reflect

[1:01:49] back what my grandfather once told me when I was little you know if you have

[1:01:53] the means and the ability then you have the responsibil

[1:01:56] um so there are times that we can uh that maybe we can't do things as a as a

[1:02:01] government entity but maybe we can do things privately or set up through other

[1:02:04] organizations that can help out and if that's possible then that's what uh

[1:02:08] that's what I firmly believe that we do all right thank you that concludes my

[1:02:13] questions I appreciate your answer thank you

[1:02:17] sir all right I believe Alman schaer

[1:02:22] next hey Mr schaer can you hear me yes sir I can just want to say thanks for um

[1:02:28] your interest in this seat and thank you for uh taking the time to talk to us

[1:02:32] tonight my first question is why are you interested in serving on the board of

[1:02:36] Mayor and

[1:02:39] otman well I mean to be honest with you I've always been interested in in

[1:02:44] government and politics uh my entire life uh like I said I think even going

[1:02:51] back to the first opportunity why I expressed interest in it was actually in

[1:02:54] 2016 um started digging and finding

[1:02:58] information out and then ended up running for office in

[1:03:01] 2018 um and so I just uh I don't know it's it's just one of kind of one of

[1:03:07] those things that uh I still in the like Alman gen any you know you have the the

[1:03:12] means and the ability then you have the responsibility to do it and I feel like

[1:03:17] I have the means and the ability to do so um you know it's one of those things

[1:03:22] too that I take pride in uh being a remember you know being a deacon in my

[1:03:27] church and again you know that term and why I hold that so important to me is

[1:03:33] because Deacon it's a thirst and that's that's what you are you're there to

[1:03:36] serve people your church and so I I firmly believe that I can serve the

[1:03:40] members of our community will thank you my second question is in your opinion

[1:03:45] what are the most pressing issues fac in our community and how would you address

[1:03:50] them uh infrastructure it's uh it's

[1:03:53] infrastructure I mean just that that is infrastructure infrastructure

[1:03:58] infrastructure uh and so I think we've got a solid plan in our comprehensive

[1:04:02] plan I think we've got in our strategic plan and I think we just need to again

[1:04:07] put that put that pedal down on the gas and let's let start solving some issues

[1:04:11] and start moving forward on um that's really what it boils down to I I firmly

[1:04:16] believe once we can fix that infrastructure and and better get that

[1:04:20] under hand and control um then then we're going to be in a better seated

[1:04:24] position than we are today thank you thank you all right Mr cheler

[1:04:30] I believe I'm the last one uh as you know we have for several months we have

[1:04:36] been working on creating a budget for our fiscal year

[1:04:40] 2025 and my question first question has to do with uh budget experience so last

[1:04:47] year the town had over $700,000 of unexpected infrastructure

[1:04:52] repairs this year we're also looking at another over

[1:04:58] $700,000 of infrastructure repairs and replacement so considering that and like

[1:05:07] everything else all of our costs to the town have

[1:05:11] risen when it comes to Staffing U almost all departments would need more staff to

[1:05:18] provide adequate Town services and of course you have to

[1:05:22] remember when you're talking about employees and staff we are competing

[1:05:26] with other municipalities around us and that involves not only the recruitment

[1:05:32] of employees but retaining and the retention of our employees and the uh as

[1:05:38] you said the infrastructure is only going to continue to age and have stress

[1:05:43] put upon it with all that being said how would you go about creating uh the

[1:05:50] budget for the town and what would you do if it was determined that town

[1:05:55] Revenue was is going to fall short of the needed budget

[1:05:59] amount well again I think we we look at prioritizing you know what what is most

[1:06:06] important uh down to the least important um and you can start with uh kind of how

[1:06:12] I do now my work um so most of you don't know but you know I financial analyst by

[1:06:17] trade now as well as doing strategic planning and uh and data analytics um

[1:06:23] so to me it's just you know meeting with each department you establish what their

[1:06:28] priorities are and and how much those costs are going to be um then all of a

[1:06:33] sudden you you break those down and we list those as priorities for the town

[1:06:36] what they and what the town feels like um needs to be placed uh as a top

[1:06:41] priority and start working on and focusing and then you start calculating

[1:06:45] what you can't afford and what you can't uh if you can't afford it you know you

[1:06:48] look at doing something for for future years planning um if it's something that

[1:06:53] uh that can wait of course you put it on for future planning but you really stop

[1:06:57] knocking out those top priorities uh as much as humanly possible that's that's

[1:07:02] kind of where I would analyze that and how it go okay thank you a second

[1:07:07] question has to do it it says our Charter states that the Town

[1:07:12] Administrator is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the town

[1:07:16] that of course includes employee management and operations how would you

[1:07:21] as an alderman handle a situation where a town employee approaches you directly

[1:07:27] with a concern or an issue well again open lines of

[1:07:33] communication they can do that but my my first topic and question that I'm going

[1:07:37] to ask them about is have you informed your

[1:07:40] supervisor uh and you know and work properly through your training command

[1:07:44] um you know it's it's of course they also have the ability to to contact

[1:07:49] alans um but supervisors can't fix problems and that's their top priority

[1:07:55] they're top priority is to stand up and specialize for their people that's what

[1:07:58] they do as managers uh and so you know if they're not aware of the problem then

[1:08:03] they don't have the ability to fix it now if it's an issue with that manager

[1:08:07] or anything then we go up the chain and we can go up to the next size person you

[1:08:11] know we have HR people that are available we have um and I put extra

[1:08:15] duties and task on Miss Debbie but you know Miss Debbie is wealth of knowledge

[1:08:19] that this town has um that can go out and and help and seek out you know if

[1:08:23] it's something that Mark needs to be aware of as a t of administrator we can

[1:08:26] go to Mark's time administrator uh but first and foremost we have to give those

[1:08:30] supervisors the ability to to manage that's what that's what you put them in

[1:08:34] those positions for all right well thank you very much

[1:08:38] mayor I saw two questions as well I am so sorry Al Pace Alman Pace has two

[1:08:45] questions for you this evening Mr schauffer yes sir Stephen it's good to

[1:08:50] see you um thank you again for for doing this and U you know me and Alman rro

[1:08:56] have have sat in that seat as well and and you were sitting in it with us um so

[1:09:01] this is a a huge piece um and it is a really hard hard thing to do and taxing

[1:09:06] on the mind to think of these answers um with all that being said though my first

[1:09:11] question is uh what are your primary goals and objectives if you're

[1:09:15] appointed serve the

[1:09:19] people that's

[1:09:23] it okay and um along those lines as well what what

[1:09:29] are your shortterm and long-term goals for the board and our community as a

[1:09:33] whole and how do you plan to achieve them uh well I mean the goals are simple

[1:09:39] they're I just want to see the town do the best job that it can do I want to

[1:09:43] see the town put forth the best I I want to see the town of AA as the as the best

[1:09:48] municipality as I I think that it is and I think that it can be for the you know

[1:09:52] for tiffon County for West Tennessee for all the Tennessee and then again of

[1:09:57] course it's Southwest and then it's the nation as whole I just want to see the

[1:10:01] town of AA to um to really be the tip of the spear you

[1:10:06] know we're going to be we're going to Le from the front and um you know it's it's

[1:10:12] a that's that's just just that simple that's where I wanted to see and that's

[1:10:15] what I Inspire for this town to be in uh I kind of go back to what Alman Harbor

[1:10:19] said you know several months ago and he said it repeatedly throughout the years

[1:10:23] you know as uh prior service military like I am I've had the ability to travel

[1:10:28] all over the world and yet we choose a TOA and we do that for several reasons

[1:10:33] and so um I'm in love with this town uh like I said we devote our time effort

[1:10:38] energy and money into this town as a family and that's what we uh it's what

[1:10:43] we plan to continue to do I love the town of AA and I just want to see it

[1:10:48] again lead lead from the front we're going to we're going to be the example

[1:10:51] and and let everybody else uh learn from us

[1:10:56] all right thanks sir thank you sir all right Mr chord now

[1:11:03] I believe that's everybody as far as questions uh do you have any questions

[1:11:09] for the board as far as the process uh did I lay it out pretty clearly for you

[1:11:15] as far as uh tonight uh no sir as utman pay said you

[1:11:20] know um myself him and and otoman weren't refero set in that spot a few

[1:11:24] years but back things uh and kind of went through this process and so um you

[1:11:29] know as far as I'm concerned and my family is concerned you know we're going

[1:11:33] to pray for you guys um to make the best decision that you can uh if it's me

[1:11:38] that's great it's awesome and I'm 100% for that if it's not we're still

[1:11:41] supporting this town and we're still going to show up November uh so whoever

[1:11:45] is uh is ready to go then uh then let's go let's run an election and let's see

[1:11:51] what we can do and uh let's get this town on on track of where it needs to be

[1:11:54] and uh let's move forward and let's go all right well again thank you very much

[1:12:00] for being willing to serve and as you have served and uh we will uh say good

[1:12:07] night to you I know you're an hour ahead in DC so hopefully you've gotten supper

[1:12:13] if not go get you something to

[1:12:16] eat thank you yes sir uh and thank you guys again for working with me and and

[1:12:21] for the opportunity to interview with you all right

[1:12:25] bye bye

[1:13:23] okay

[1:13:37] Cody thank you for jumping in buddy sorry I forgot about you no you're right

[1:13:42] that's I sitting there I'm like wait we've got one more you know Bo boom boom

[1:13:47] I didn't go

[1:13:51] back as long as questions get out there we're good

[1:13:57] so 7:45 is the next one yes sir okay I am I was going to say I'm going to take

[1:14:03] a take a break

[1:14:08] and come back and the next person is going to be Mr

[1:14:12] Price is it price yeah

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[1:26:01] Scout America the other thing you're testing

[1:26:05] next year right now all the girl troops are completely separate you have only

[1:26:09] boy troops and only troops and

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[1:26:25] I mean I can tell you what summer camp at Camp Mar was

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[1:26:47] yeah good evening Mr Price you can have a seat right there

[1:26:53] sir good evening evening how are you good uh I am mayor mayor Barry yaken I

[1:27:00] don't believe we've met uh not formally no okay good I'm always I'm always kind

[1:27:05] of throwing it out there because I meet a lot of people and then they go yeah we

[1:27:10] no I don't think we have good good good good uh want to give you a little

[1:27:15] overview uh tonight as far as how everything's going to kind of play out

[1:27:20] and um then we'll go from there okay um for the very first thing I just want

[1:27:27] to let you know that we took all of the people that wanted to be a candidate for

[1:27:33] the position we randomized them with a number generator on the internet and

[1:27:39] that's the order and I believe you're number four tonight so it was strictly a

[1:27:44] random order um but uh I definitely want to tell you thank you for considering um

[1:27:52] taking you know time out of your personal life to devote to Public

[1:27:56] Service uh for the town that and of itself says a lot about your character

[1:28:04] um it is as I think most of the board members up here would testify that it is

[1:28:09] a thankless job a lot of the times you will um be referred to on social media

[1:28:16] as either ignorant or line in your pockets for your own personal gain and

[1:28:22] you can take it from there so um just know what you're getting into

[1:28:28] um we are going to be asking each person on the board and we also have Alderman

[1:28:34] ganini is virtual tonight and we're all going to be asking you two questions a

[1:28:39] piece uh we would ask that you would limit your answers to around two minutes

[1:28:44] we'll be timing you and when you get close Miss Debbie over here will hold up

[1:28:49] her yellow folder that let you know you got about 15 seconds left and then if

[1:28:54] you keep going just know that when you hear the beat wind it down okay um you

[1:29:00] are not going to be ask any questions that the other we are asking the same

[1:29:03] questions of all the candidates we are not singling you out and picking certain

[1:29:08] questions for you these are all the question same questions across the board

[1:29:12] uh after every candidate has been interviewed after we are totally have

[1:29:17] done all of them then we're going to score uh our answers up here we're going

[1:29:23] to calate who gets the the highest points if you wish to remain around when

[1:29:29] we bring everybody back in to hear the totals that's fine if you want to go on

[1:29:35] home we will notify you one way or the other uh as far as that you're going to

[1:29:41] notice that while you're answering the questions we might be looking down we've

[1:29:46] got sheets up here and we'll be making mental notes and scoring you know maybe

[1:29:51] there's something in your answer that we're going to write down and when we

[1:29:54] when it comes time to score you uh so don't let that concern you that we're

[1:30:00] not just locked totally eyeball to eyeball with you and uh just so you

[1:30:05] understand I I hope you you realize it so when we do come up with that person

[1:30:11] that that has scored the highest by the board you will be officially appointed

[1:30:16] to the board at our June 11th meeting during toward the end of the meeting and

[1:30:20] that's when you'll actually be sworn in and take your place up here and so this

[1:30:26] position this appointment will be filled from when you get appointed June 11th

[1:30:32] till the November election if you wish to put your name in for to pull your

[1:30:37] packet um to be on the ballot for the November election that is something you

[1:30:42] would have to do in addition so um you do have a Bott

[1:30:48] of water there on you and we've all got our Waters up here so please feel free

[1:30:53] uh to uh take that as you need to and so I guess with that if you want to give us

[1:31:00] a short introduction about yourself we'll get started with the question my

[1:31:05] name is Josh Joshua price Josh um I've been in a TOA since

[1:31:11] 2019 uh I am in the Navy um which we I discussed with Mr Warner here

[1:31:19] um I will be retiring officially retiring October 31th first my last day

[1:31:25] of actual Navy uh Duty being August 9th um

[1:31:33] U I'm involved heavily in uh U Sports um I'm I'm with the scouts I'm a scout

[1:31:39] leader I was a cub master for two and a half years there before my kids moved up

[1:31:44] to the to the Scout level um and I I were pretty involved there um so I got a

[1:31:52] pretty big space in the community between here and mford a lot of I

[1:31:57] probably coach half the kids that have played you Sports yeah between the two

[1:32:02] so being yelled at by parents coaching Youth Baseball is not

[1:32:06] a an abnormal thing okay so yeah yeah so um that's about

[1:32:15] uh that's about as much I my career here and you know okay so all right well

[1:32:22] that's excellent uh again thank you so much for just uh putting your name in

[1:32:28] the to be interviewed and we'll start off our questions this evening with

[1:32:33] Alman janini on the virtual uh Mr price thank you Mr Mayor hi Mr Price and

[1:32:40] welcome and first thanks for your service and thanks for your um ability

[1:32:45] or your willingness to to serve on the board and also with the the youth there

[1:32:50] coaching them up can't be easy like you said with the parents it'll be the same

[1:32:54] if you're seated but anyway no matter what happens no matter what happens

[1:32:59] tonight I'd encourage you to run in November or if you don't want to do that

[1:33:03] offer up your yourself to the mayor to to serve on a

[1:33:07] committee um having that in mind that's my first question do you plan on running

[1:33:12] and for one of the seats in November I do um I do intend on

[1:33:17] running good good deal all right and next how do you think you'll respond to

[1:33:22] or what will your what will your ctions be to a citizen who comes to you with a

[1:33:26] concern um I guess it depends on how they come to me with that concern if

[1:33:30] it's a social media concern uh my typical reaction is don't respond um uh

[1:33:38] especially if it's a a public form um I tend to just back off from it I don't

[1:33:46] don't respond because I'm also very easily suuck into arguments uh so on

[1:33:51] social media well which is supp say it's a concern about an overgrown grass or a

[1:33:55] ditch or a pothole um I think I'd probably just

[1:34:01] prer to the appropriate source of whatever the concern is so if it's a

[1:34:06] code thing refer to code enforcement uh if it's a HOA thing refering to the HOA

[1:34:14] um well would would I would find the correct source of information and give

[1:34:18] them the correct answer

[1:34:21] and whether they like it or not that's that's what they got accept or change so

[1:34:27] all right thank you sir for answering my questions that's it okay thank youman

[1:34:31] Jen NY we will proceed to Alderman shefer to my left all right hey Mr Price

[1:34:38] uh thank you for taking the time out your evening to come and talk to us and

[1:34:41] also thank you for your interest in this seat um my first question is why are you

[1:34:46] interested in serving on the board of Mayor and hon um most most of my public

[1:34:52] service I say that like coaching Scouts getting involved in uh in almost

[1:34:59] everything I get involved in um comes down to the future of my kids and they

[1:35:05] are the future of of me really and and us so um if I can help mold that in any

[1:35:12] way um that is that is a motivation and this town is a lot like

[1:35:17] my hometown um and I I did put that in my

[1:35:21] uh interest letter um my hometown is a lot like this one even that surrounding

[1:35:26] towns are it's it's very similar um I've seen what this can turn into uh with the

[1:35:32] growth and there's ways I think that that can be managed

[1:35:37] um and and the answer isn't stunt the

[1:35:43] growth like you you can't so it just needs to be managed in a in

[1:35:49] a you a a man it needs to be managed correctly I guess so

[1:35:56] okay all right and my second question is in your opinion what are the most

[1:36:00] pressing issues fac in our community and how would you address them uh

[1:36:06] infrastructure

[1:36:09] um we are just from my understanding um I

[1:36:14] don't I haven't been to every one of these board meetings I don't understand

[1:36:17] our utilities 100% but toen is not self-

[1:36:22] sustaining we in other communities um so I know that we there's been proposals

[1:36:29] for

[1:36:32] um like additions uh uh subdivisions to go in here and they haven't happened and

[1:36:39] I believe is because utility issues

[1:36:44] um so I think infrastructure is a big a big issue here um and just from a parent

[1:36:50] level another one is uh I think a lot of a lot of just from a

[1:36:57] personal perspective a lot of people that came into this uh Community 10 five

[1:37:02] 10 years ago kind of expected the growth um

[1:37:06] to push for uh like we don't have a middle

[1:37:10] school I kind of expected a middle school here by this point

[1:37:14] but I don't know if we I really don't know the numbers I don't think we have

[1:37:18] enough kids for it you know so um I think that's an expectation that some

[1:37:23] lot L people have but we don't thank

[1:37:28] you all right and continuing to my left we have Alman

[1:37:32] rfer hi thank you for coming my first question is how do you

[1:37:38] plan to balance the interests of a TOA with the Practical limitations of

[1:37:51] governance I think a lot of that comes down

[1:37:56] to it comes out of taxes right so if you if you want a service it has

[1:38:04] to be paid for and we really do have we're basically tied to the lowest

[1:38:12] taxes in the county um and I don't I people don't realize that

[1:38:19] um and yeah I think it it comes out of

[1:38:24] taxes that's okay about it and I think you

[1:38:28] just need to explain that people need to understand I think it needs to be maybe

[1:38:35] communication you know in a way that this is what we want this is what we

[1:38:39] need and just transparency of the numbers so okay thank you my second

[1:38:44] question is how would you balance the need for development and growth with

[1:38:48] maintaining the character of our community

[1:38:59] that's a tough that's tough that's a good

[1:39:02] one this is what my community that I grew up in uh struggle with because uh

[1:39:09] the one big industry that moved in there was kind of like the people that worked

[1:39:14] there weren't desirable you know it was a it's a is Forest River trailer

[1:39:19] manufacturer is a company that moved in there I did not know that and uh is

[1:39:23] Dallas Oregon right so and so people the type of people that work there you know

[1:39:27] people start working there right out of high school and the people that stay

[1:39:30] there and raise their families that are either those people um or they're the

[1:39:36] people that work an hour away and it turns into a bedroom community um so I

[1:39:43] think the benefit we have in this town and a little bias I guess is that we

[1:39:49] have a lot of military retired military and

[1:39:54] um this place is uh people want to move here when they

[1:40:01] live on that base you know and um I think keeping keeping up our with

[1:40:09] our schools or good schools I think are are key one of the key things in here

[1:40:19] um but as far as keeping the small town feel um

[1:40:26] that's organic uh like my hometown is grown

[1:40:30] it's double in size right but it still feels like a small town when you get

[1:40:34] there so um I think it comes down to like not

[1:40:41] overcrowded you know managing the space okay thank

[1:40:46] you all right sir uh to my right aln Harper

[1:40:53] thank you for choosing to sit in the hot seat tonight so turn the M on um so my

[1:40:59] first question um is how would you handle a disagreement with a fellow

[1:41:05] board member conflict and or uh maybe anual with a member of the

[1:41:13] community well it hasn't be un Civ like for one just number one you got to it's

[1:41:19] it's got to be professional right so um

[1:41:26] ideally it's it's going to be a a lot of things are going to be

[1:41:31] opinion but you can bring facts to a lot of tables

[1:41:36] um and I do this I do this a lot um

[1:41:41] especially when it comes to uh project type stuff um you got what

[1:41:48] people want and you got what people need um and

[1:41:55] I think it just comes down to understanding each other's

[1:41:58] expectations

[1:42:01] so yeah I think you you got to feel out each other's

[1:42:07] expectations um can you provide an example of a time when you had to stand

[1:42:12] up for what you felt was the right thing to do even when that decision was

[1:42:19] unpopular yep uh I so early in my career um I

[1:42:28] had this kid was he was 18 U rarely in the military anymore do

[1:42:34] you get a 18-year-old to come in um at a boot camp I've had maybe two

[1:42:40] um two since I've been in the Navy at since two years so in 19 years about 2

[1:42:48] 18 uh but this uh this young sailor um did driver's license

[1:42:56] um he had one of his uh Barracks roommate buddies they

[1:43:04] weren't roommates but they lived in the barracks uh left a bar went to a

[1:43:09] 7-Eleven and when he got to 7-Eleven decided he was no good drift um called

[1:43:15] him he walked over there he walked like a mile to 7-Eleven to drive his car on

[1:43:22] base got pulled over leaving cuz he didn't have headlights on then he didn't

[1:43:25] have a driver's license he got a $600 ticket um had to call our boss at the

[1:43:32] time and then they sent him to C's Mas which is like non-judicial punishment

[1:43:38] judge and jur is the captain the co you know stuff like that and I was the only

[1:43:43] character witness that stood up for him like he did the right thing he got you

[1:43:49] know he got caught he should have called us before

[1:43:53] but you know he went to pick someone up that should have been driv drunk you

[1:43:59] know I by the book you know they both should have been in trouble but he

[1:44:06] shouldn't have he shouldn't have gone down 100% for you know and he didn't he

[1:44:11] ended up he end up walking away from from

[1:44:15] it thank you all right thank

[1:44:20] you and continuing to my right a and Pace Mr price thank you for being here

[1:44:26] tonight um it's a very hard seat to be sitting in um I've sat in that as long

[1:44:33] as much asman Renfro has as well in the last one so we know we know kind of

[1:44:37] those feelings and and just the taxing of motion there on the mind on trying to

[1:44:42] think these questions um going into this um what are your primary goals and

[1:44:47] objectives if you're appointed

[1:45:17] agendas I guess the the purpose of getting this

[1:45:23] isn't to to change anything but to help manage

[1:45:32] um how we how we govern I guess as as a a town

[1:45:39] um because I don't think any one person makes a decision right but I've sat

[1:45:43] through I've only been to two Town meetings and um like the the last one uh

[1:45:53] like I think uh if I would have been at the one before or even read ahead on the

[1:46:00] agenda I would have been able to fill in that thing and speak on some of the um

[1:46:07] on some of the issues that uh Alman jimy or uh J spoke on with uh with the budget

[1:46:16] and one of the big things is uh fees um I don't I don't necessarily agree with

[1:46:24] like I understand that taxes need to go up and and prices need to go up and that

[1:46:31] um the utility fees that were proposed didn't even meet inflation like it was

[1:46:36] you know um so that was fair but the the penalties for getting your your water

[1:46:43] turned off and having turn it back on those some I think some of them might

[1:46:47] have doubled there's at least $25 in each one so it's expensive to be poor

[1:46:52] sometimes right right so you know Bank fees uh late fees turnning stuff off

[1:46:58] turn it back on I don't see the purpose and stuff like that you I'd like to be

[1:47:02] able to speak on stuff like that good okay um and kind of following along the

[1:47:08] same lines here um what are your shortterm and long-term goals for that

[1:47:13] matter for the board and Community as a whole and how do you plan to achieve

[1:47:18] those uh I'd like to improve our recreational or uh I'd like to help push

[1:47:25] some Recreation um improvements uh like with um Nancy L Walker Park I know

[1:47:33] there's I know there's kids like I know there's kids that would love to have

[1:47:38] um more prevention around those ditches balls go on those things uh our softball

[1:47:45] fields can do some work um uh what was was there two parts of

[1:47:50] that what was the second part so it's your short short term and long term and

[1:47:54] how you achieve them and how to just it'd be working

[1:48:00] working here at this level and

[1:48:05] um trying to

[1:48:10] uh I guess impress the importance of those things um because it's not just

[1:48:15] our community that plays there you know like at at a TOA it's not just our

[1:48:20] community play there like we we are with other communities in those in those

[1:48:26] areas you know um like right now look at Brighton used to be the the the mecca of

[1:48:34] baseball in this area and now you can't compete with mufford you know um on

[1:48:40] baseball you you can't they're more competitive in soccer um

[1:48:46] they're uh they just I think their program is better managed I think we can

[1:48:51] do better

[1:48:55] all right all right so I believe am I the last one so thank you

[1:49:02] okay all right Mr Price so um my questions my first question has to do is

[1:49:08] and and you've uh talked a little bit about it so as you know the last few

[1:49:12] months we've been working on budget for our fiscal year

[1:49:16] 2025 and I just wanted to kind of paint a word picture for you what you

[1:49:23] would be up against and that's not the right word what what facts you have to

[1:49:28] consider when making that budget so last year the town had over $700,000 of

[1:49:35] unexpected infrastructure repairs um this year we're also looking

[1:49:41] at over $700,000 and either we have a big a

[1:49:46] bridge that needs to be replaced and we've got several coverts that have to

[1:49:50] be replaced so repairs and replac of those um with that in mind and

[1:49:57] considering that like everything else and like everyone else all the cost of

[1:50:01] the town have risen since Co um almost all of our

[1:50:07] departments need more staff to adequately provide Town

[1:50:12] Services um you mentioned parks for an example um you always have to be in mind

[1:50:19] that we're competing with the municipalities around us and and in that

[1:50:24] case I'm talking about not only recruiting staff but retaining staff you

[1:50:29] always have to keep that in mind uh employee Recruitment and Retention and

[1:50:34] again to go back to the infrastructure uh it's only going to get older and it's

[1:50:39] only going to be stressed so with all that um you're

[1:50:44] going into a budget season you have to create a budget how would you go about

[1:50:50] create creating a budget for the town and what would you do if it was

[1:50:54] determined the town's Revenue was going to fall short of the needed budget

[1:51:01] amount well I I think you guys have have done it um well You' done what

[1:51:09] I think I would have done um with the the deficit from last year and

[1:51:17] um I think it's just going up to 83 cents or 85

[1:51:21] cents yeah um like so last year we shorted you know and I

[1:51:26] um and I I have some friends that live from the base that live up here and

[1:51:33] they've complained about taxes and what they're complaining about you know

[1:51:37] compared to Shelby County you know but when you look at what we're paying and

[1:51:43] what we're paying for um I I think

[1:51:49] that's that's the answer and then PRI prioritization

[1:51:53] you know um sometimes things need to go on the

[1:51:56] back bur what's wants and what's needs so that's a I mean that's a meeting on

[1:52:02] its own it's a whole another discussion is what do we need what do we want you

[1:52:07] know and what's older you know so okay all right thank you sir my my

[1:52:16] second question now I got my mic on my second question uh so our town Charter

[1:52:23] states that the Town Administrator is responsible for the day-to-day

[1:52:28] administration of the Town including employee management and operations how

[1:52:34] would you as an Alman handle a situation where a town employee approaches you

[1:52:40] directly with a concern or an

[1:52:45] issue uh well I I guess first thing I'd ask is who they

[1:52:52] first person they talking to

[1:52:55] um so how we got into where you're asking an alderman um who's not really

[1:53:01] in your I'm not in your chain of employment um so I guess I also don't

[1:53:07] know what effect we would have um on that issue uh if a town employee

[1:53:14] came to me do I have an influence on the Town

[1:53:19] Administrator um other than a voice um so I don't know the answer to that part

[1:53:25] but um but I would figure that out first and

[1:53:30] then I would encourage them to go through the right channels and if

[1:53:34] they've already done that

[1:53:39] um you'd have to manage who you're talking to not

[1:53:44] to I guess um to keep their trust right so you

[1:53:50] don't want someone that's coming to you with a problem trust you so now how do

[1:53:54] you manage um who's the next person to talk to so okay yeah all right and I

[1:53:59] think I guess it might be you it may be and you know and I'm I'm like you first

[1:54:07] question I'm going to ask is who have you talked to before coming to me so um

[1:54:14] well all right that is all of our questions this evening do you have uh

[1:54:19] any questions again about the process the the procedures for tonight and how

[1:54:24] we're going to do this so you guys are determining yeah y I see you

[1:54:30] guys good you'll be determining this uh position tonight yes sir okay um

[1:54:40] yeah and then you would be I he mentioned about sticking around he did

[1:54:44] yeah yeah but there's two more interviews after this uh just one one

[1:54:48] more okay yeah we had one person drop um I I did want to ask you um is it okay if

[1:54:55] I email you guys after this um or sometime next week to get feedback on

[1:55:01] this I haven't had an interview since I was 17 years old

[1:55:06] okay yeah uh I don't at all no definitely I think that's not a bad idea

[1:55:11] at all it's always good to find out you know self feedback so but regardless of

[1:55:19] of what we do tonight we will score and then if you want to hang around or if

[1:55:24] you want to go home the Town Administrator will be reaching out to

[1:55:27] you can I hang here or I need to go out yeah go out and then we'll call

[1:55:32] everybody that's still around we'll call all of y'all back into the room and

[1:55:35] that's when we'll do our announcement thank you thank you sir thank

[1:55:49] you minutes

[1:55:53] we

[1:55:56] doing he took

[1:56:51] there was there was about

[1:57:07] because when people are interviewing you can definitely see how their mind works

[1:57:12] yeah he's

[1:57:17] verys to get it right they

[1:57:26] actually just this year moved over TR and since I'm

[1:57:33] not Henry Henry Rec

[1:57:39] yeah over

[1:57:43] main just a bunch of stuff started com fly

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[1:58:06] [Laughter] we need negative

[1:58:13] test

[1:58:17] May yeah yeah this is not

[1:58:24] my

[1:58:36] last hey BR I won't call on you first this

[1:58:40] time sir I won't call on you first this time oh that's okay

[1:58:57] joh you started started to do thatand thing again

[1:59:36] got first Friday none of yall come first

[1:59:45] Friday you don't you don't come in the older woman role you come if he's a

[1:59:50] member of the chamber you're like hey I can give a plug just in Cas security

[1:59:57] [Music]

[2:00:01] to no might cuz they do that all the time people stand up and they're like

[2:00:06] hey like we'll ask you know say anybody first time here or you just want to get

[2:00:10] up and talk about your company hey just in case

[2:00:14] security you can say he I need to

[2:00:20] go are you all ready for the next candidate mayor May I'm Sor ready for

[2:00:26] the next candidate we got one more minute Mr

[2:00:34] administrator oh actually my clock just turned go ahead Miss whoever Miss

[2:00:41] [Music] Rachel

[2:00:47] a I'm looking okay that's what I thought I

[2:00:52] didn't want to mess it

[2:00:56] up

[2:01:14] yeah come on in Mr D if you want to sit down at the chair there thank you

[2:01:22] evening everyone so uh thank you very much for

[2:01:28] putting your name in to uh possibly fill this uh vacancy we have on the board um

[2:01:36] just want to kind of give you an overview of how things are going to play

[2:01:39] out this evening and uh we'll go from there uh first thing is just uh to let

[2:01:45] you know we took all the names that were submitted and we put them through a

[2:01:50] random number generator and you happen to come up the final one

[2:01:57] might be a good thing might be a bad thing but it was a random totally random

[2:02:00] thing um again thank you very much uh I think that if U the board members here

[2:02:10] and Alderman G which is virtual uh they would uh tell you that it is not most of

[2:02:18] the time it is a thankless position you will be called all sorts of names on

[2:02:23] social media from ignorant to lining your pockets for personal gain and

[2:02:30] anything else um so but we do appreciate uh you

[2:02:35] being you being willing to serve uh the way we're going to do it tonight each

[2:02:40] and every one of us are going to ask you two questions a piece we would ask that

[2:02:45] you limit your answers to around two minutes um Miss Debbie over here will

[2:02:50] hold up a yellow folder when you're getting down to about 15 seconds left

[2:02:55] and then we actually will have a beeper go off when we hit the two-minute point

[2:02:59] you don't have to just stop in mid sentence but just you know Cal be

[2:03:04] closing it up uh the questions that we're going to ask of you are not

[2:03:08] picking specific questions for you every person that is set there is getting all

[2:03:14] of the same questions fantastic so uh we that way we can evaluate everybody

[2:03:20] equally uh and then after you're finished we're going to ask you to step

[2:03:25] out or actually we'll call everybody back in and we're going to hand our

[2:03:30] score sheets to the town recorder and the Town Administrator they're going to

[2:03:34] grade their add up the the totals check our math and uh then we'll be announcing

[2:03:41] who gets the uh who gets the position um you're going to notice as you answer

[2:03:47] we're going to look down we've got all sorts of papers up here might be

[2:03:51] something your answer we want to make a note of kind of mentally stick us so

[2:03:56] please don't be concerned about that it's perfectly normal and uh I hope

[2:04:01] you're aware but I wanted to go over so the way to work let's say that you get

[2:04:06] the highest totals tonight uh you will actually be officially appointed on our

[2:04:11] June 11th board meeting toward the end of that meeting the position you will

[2:04:16] fill will be from June 11th when you are appointed till the November election

[2:04:22] uh if you want to put your name in pull a packet and be on the ballot for the

[2:04:28] November election you would need to do that that is because this appointment is

[2:04:32] strictly until that position is filled by the voters yes sir uh you got some

[2:04:37] water in front of you there we all have it up here please uh feel free to

[2:04:43] partake of that and with that I would ask you if you could give us just we do

[2:04:49] have your your letter up here but if you want to give us a a short introduction

[2:04:53] and then we'll get going with the questions good evening everyone I

[2:04:56] realized that I'm the only thing standing between you and bed so brief um

[2:05:01] my name is christii I uh I've lived here Ina now for about four or five years I

[2:05:06] uh retired from the Navy last June uh picked TOA because aoka is is our

[2:05:12] forever home uh we discovered this city that uh was it met everything that we

[2:05:17] liked we liked the community we like the people here just a great wonderful place

[2:05:21] to live when I told my wife I was considering

[2:05:24] this she looked at me she goes I thought you were not going to do anything like

[2:05:27] this for a while I said well I live here and I need to contribute to the place I

[2:05:32] live and I want to make it a better place uh not for me but for everybody so

[2:05:36] that's why I'm here all right thank you very much

[2:05:40] sir okay we are going to start this evening uh questions from Alderman

[2:05:45] Harbor okay thank you mayor chce thank you for coming out tonight for being

[2:05:49] willing to be in the hot seat uh my first question for you is is uh how

[2:05:53] would you handle uh a conflict a disagreement between you and a fellow

[2:05:58] board member uh and war between you and and a TOA citizen I'll start with the

[2:06:03] board member uh I believe that anytime that the alderman uh get together and

[2:06:09] sit uh we should have Frank conversations we shouldn't be afraid to

[2:06:13] tell the truth to each other in fact if you can't tell the truth to each other

[2:06:17] you probably shouldn't be sitting in this room uh however there's a time and

[2:06:20] a place for that uh it's important that the voters and our residents of aoka see

[2:06:26] a unified front so if you're going to argue you probably want to argue in

[2:06:30] private um if we come to a meeting we make a decision we slap the table we

[2:06:35] walk out that's the decision walking out and then afterwards saying you know uh

[2:06:39] we agreed but Chris really was a jerk about it and it wasn't really a good

[2:06:43] idea I don't think his ideas are any good what is that I mean it shows a

[2:06:46] fracture of leadership and you can't have that so you have to stand together

[2:06:50] once we slap the table that's the final decision you keep it to yourself you can

[2:06:54] come behind closed doors and argue at uh having an argument with one of our

[2:06:58] residents taxpayer here you got to be respectful we work for them we serve the

[2:07:03] the people of the TOA that's our job uh you know so are we going to agree on

[2:07:07] everything no but you can you can disagree sometimes and and still walk

[2:07:13] away feeling good about yourself and the other one as well there's no reason to

[2:07:16] get Petty or ugly about things and and mayor to your point about uh being

[2:07:21] called all sorts of hateful things you know my time in the military I sat in

[2:07:25] some pretty senior seats uh and and I find that very often people will use us

[2:07:31] as a a uh a lightning rod because they're frustrated and sometimes they

[2:07:36] just need to be heard and someone needs to sit and listen to them and if you do

[2:07:40] that very often you can walk away both you and the people you're having

[2:07:43] arguments with feeling pretty good about each other thank

[2:07:48] you uh my second question now that my mic is on um can you give me an example

[2:07:54] of a time um when you had to stand up for what you believe was right even when

[2:07:59] that decision was unpopular oh absolutely I've I've done that a number

[2:08:02] of times in my military career uh most recently uh before I retired we were

[2:08:07] working on a program for the Navy uh that required in order to get promoted

[2:08:12] you had to take a challenging position somewhere else uh not very popular a lot

[2:08:16] of people like to stay where they're stationed and stay where they're at

[2:08:20] however we we're at the point where we had about 7 a half thousand uh senior

[2:08:26] billets not getting filled and so my my boss and I came to the decision that

[2:08:30] this is what we need to do and we we rolled that policy out it was not

[2:08:34] popular however it made the military stronger sometimes we have to make

[2:08:38] unpopular decisions for the best for the betterment of our community or our our

[2:08:43] Command thank you thanks job all right Mr we're going to go down to my left

[2:08:50] Alderman Al schaer thank you great

[2:08:57] name thank you for taking the time to come and speak with us tonight and also

[2:09:02] thank you for your interest in filling the seat my first question is um why are

[2:09:06] you interested in serving on the board of Mayor ottoman uh because I believe

[2:09:11] that if you're going to live somewhere you can be serving and and helping your

[2:09:15] community um it just seems like a natural progression in life that you

[2:09:20] know you go from C you we're we're servant leaders and it's our

[2:09:24] responsibility if we're going to live in a community to take care of it cultivate

[2:09:27] it make it a stronger better place to live and that's what I want to do is

[2:09:31] help and and as I told the mayor uh you know if I'm not selected for this that's

[2:09:36] okay I'm still going to be working with the idb I'm still going to come to the

[2:09:39] town hall meetings I'm still going to provide feedback uh to the city because

[2:09:43] I love it here thank you my second question is um in your opinion one of

[2:09:49] the most pressing issues fac in our community and also how would you address

[2:09:53] them a deficit that's that's our biggest problem is that we need Revenue tax re

[2:09:59] we need Revenue uh and we have a we have a we have a a need for more money and

[2:10:07] and the question is how do you get there from here I believe uh you know you see

[2:10:11] construction slowing down on housing right so we had a big boom of housing in

[2:10:15] TOA and now it seems like they're crossover street over Mumford so what do

[2:10:19] we do um I think that's by providing incentives for National businesses and

[2:10:26] local businesses bring them into uh into a Tok um you know you take a look at

[2:10:31] some things and it'll be hard for some local businesses to catch so how do we

[2:10:36] raise generate tax revenue find something that people are going to know

[2:10:39] already uh that doesn't bring us down but it's a national brand that we bring

[2:10:44] in here uh of some of some retail or or food or drink or whatever and use that

[2:10:51] to raise money and through tax revenue for the city uh tax cars cost money uh

[2:10:57] parks cost money police cost money fire departments cost money um believe me I

[2:11:03] do not want to be the guy or the person whose house is on fire and the fire

[2:11:07] truck doesn't come fast enough because it's broken I want to make sure that we

[2:11:11] are completely funded in all of our utilities um that kind of stuff you

[2:11:15] can't go cheap on and it doesn't come cheap thank you thanks Chris

[2:11:21] all right also to my left is otman Renfro good evening my first question is

[2:11:29] how do you plan to balance the interest of a TOA with the um excuse

[2:11:35] me with the Practical limitations of governance honest

[2:11:40] conversation a lot of times you can you know people get nervous and they get

[2:11:45] excited when something new is coming in I want to keep it the way a TOA is you

[2:11:49] know city was established in 187 say we got to keep it the way it was we can't

[2:11:54] uh and so you sit down you have those Frank conversations you lay it out for

[2:11:58] people very simply and plainly hey this is what we have this is what we need and

[2:12:03] this is how we can get there and if you tell tell the voters that uh I would

[2:12:07] hope that they would understand and sometimes they're not going to sometimes

[2:12:11] you have to tell them look this is what we have to do if we're going to have a

[2:12:14] city that's safe if we're going to have a city that can respond to emergencies

[2:12:18] uh if we're going to have safe places to drive we're going to have to raise money

[2:12:22] and give people the options well we could raise your taxes nobody wants to

[2:12:26] do that or we could find other sources of revenue for the town of AA and I

[2:12:31] think there's a lot of opportunities we could do here uh through tax incentives

[2:12:35] through business incentives to get people to come here okay thank you and

[2:12:40] my second question is how would you balance the need for development and

[2:12:44] growth with maintaining the character of our community that's a great question uh

[2:12:49] you know you don't want to you want to cheapen a TOA right I don't want to you

[2:12:54] know talk down about our friends to the south of Millington but it seems like

[2:12:57] there's a lot of growth there and what happens when everyone gets tired of all

[2:13:02] this growth at once lots of growth happening right now when it when it gets

[2:13:05] old and don't worry we're going to go back to the way Millington was back in

[2:13:08] the 90s where you know every it was just uh Walmart and all these other

[2:13:12] businesses were closing I think you have to do it carefully you don't flood the

[2:13:17] place with we need 16 fast food restaurants and 25 stor stores in aoka

[2:13:22] by next month I don't think you do that I think you do it slowly I think you do

[2:13:26] it carefully and that's we're coming into having National brands that people

[2:13:31] understand and people already have that mindset of oh okay I can go this place

[2:13:34] I'll go here because I like that I've I'll shop there that is how you get uh

[2:13:39] you know your Tactical employment of businesses all right thank you thanks

[2:13:45] CHR all right thank you Alman rro Alman Jen is is our I believe our last one

[2:13:53] beside me and I'm going to turn it over to you for your question

[2:13:57] sir I did it

[2:14:05] again go ahead thank you mayor I appreciate it good evening Mr dii am I

[2:14:10] saying that right absolutely okay appreciate it well first

[2:14:14] of all thank you for um being willing to put yourself up for

[2:14:20] this seat uh and your service and also your service on the the ID board uh kind

[2:14:26] of leads me to my next question or my first question rather are you going to

[2:14:30] run for one of the seats in November absolutely for Alman absolutely good

[2:14:35] deal all right and second is if how are you going to respond to or what will

[2:14:42] will your actions be to a citizen who comes to you with a concern by the city

[2:14:46] service said well first I'm going to listen uh I want to make sure that the

[2:14:51] citizens have a chance to express what their concern is I want to hear it I

[2:14:54] want to make sure that I understand it and repeat it back to them of okay this

[2:14:57] is what you're saying is your problem this is what we uh we have to do and

[2:15:01] then before I said well this is what we need to do probably need to come back

[2:15:05] and talk to the Alman talk to the mayor make sure that we have the mayor's

[2:15:08] message uh before before I go talking on my own that's important uh at the end of

[2:15:13] the day we need to make sure that we are keeping one message one team here it's

[2:15:18] not a board of alterman individuals Alderman and a mayor it's the city of

[2:15:23] aoka so I would probably listen to the person's concerns and bring it back to

[2:15:26] the Alderman and the mayor and go from there and and make sure that I get back

[2:15:31] to that person in a town manner because that's something that drives people

[2:15:34] crazy is you listen to their problems and they they think okay well this

[2:15:39] person's listening and then they never get back to you and it's got to be in a

[2:15:43] timely manner can't be six months later like hey Bob you remember 6 months ago

[2:15:46] you told me that you had this leap C in your backyard well well yeah yeah it

[2:15:52] flooded my entire house okay sorry we we can't help you we got to get back in a

[2:15:57] timely minute you got to make sure those conversations happen right away so

[2:16:00] people know that you're listening and know that you

[2:16:03] care all right thank you sir that's all I have I appreciate you answering my

[2:16:06] questions thank you very much hope you're having a good time where you

[2:16:09] where are you now Maxwell Alabama yes sir from ear I

[2:16:15] fun that's possible sorry but he's but he's there for us he's going to have

[2:16:20] have much better

[2:16:25] facility just saying say I've never served on a submarine I'll hold on my

[2:16:30] comments till he votes

[2:16:33] okay uh I can't believe I did it but uh our last one beside myself is uh OT and

[2:16:39] paste please go ahead with your question sir thank you sir thank you for coming

[2:16:44] tonight in the interest um myself and and all all woman rro know that the

[2:16:51] difficulty of these answers and and taxing questions that can be had as we

[2:16:55] both sat through this before so again thank you for this um and that leads me

[2:17:00] into my first question um what would your primary goals and objectives be

[2:17:05] pointed I'm sorry can you repeat that sure uh what are your primary goals and

[2:17:09] objectives if you were appointed uh to support the city of Atoka uh make it a

[2:17:14] better place uh work with the other alterman and the mayor and the rest of

[2:17:18] the uh the town to make this the premier place to live in Tennessee and let other

[2:17:24] make sure that other people know it too because I already know

[2:17:27] that thank you for that and and kind of going along those same lines um what

[2:17:33] would your shortterm and long-term goals be for the board and the community as a

[2:17:38] whole and what would you do to achieve them so short term uh get to know as

[2:17:43] much about the city government as as possible uh and be a contributing member

[2:17:47] uh not just the guy who sits in the corner and votes along with the team but

[2:17:51] person who learns and understands what what's going on here uh long-term um my

[2:17:58] goal is to make sure that aoka is just continues to be a great place to live

[2:18:03] how do I do that uh coming and being part of the community uh whether it's

[2:18:08] being an alderman whether it's being on the idb whether it's being a person who

[2:18:11] comes to a flag raising ceremony uh being just involved supporting the

[2:18:15] community supporting local events that that's just part of what you do it just

[2:18:22] be there for others thanks sir thank you all right

[2:18:27] sir as you are aware we have been for the last few months working on our

[2:18:32] fiscal 2025 bu and I just wanted to kind of paint a word picture for you um some

[2:18:41] of the things that you have to consider when you're coming up with that budget

[2:18:46] and then I have a question about that at the end so last year the town had over

[2:18:51] $700,000 in unexpected infrastructure

[2:18:56] repairs this year we're also looking at over

[2:19:01] $700,000 of unexpected actually we have a bridge that needs to be replaced and

[2:19:05] then we have several culs that are in need of replacement as

[2:19:10] well uh like everyone else all of our costs to the town have

[2:19:16] risen like like everyone knows um we need more staff in almost all of our

[2:19:23] departments to continue to provide the level of town service that our citizens

[2:19:29] deserve um talking about staff and employees you have to remember that

[2:19:34] you're always competing with other municipalities around us and that's

[2:19:38] whether you're recruiting those individuals or you're talking about the

[2:19:43] retention and keeping and making sure that the town of AA is a great place to

[2:19:49] work um um as I said again the aoka infrastructure is only going to continue

[2:19:55] to age and have more stress put upon it so these are just a few this not this is

[2:20:01] not a comprehensive but with those things in mind how would you go about

[2:20:06] entering into and creating a budget for the town and how would you what would

[2:20:13] you do if it was determined that the town's Revenue was going to fall short

[2:20:19] of the needed budget amount well first first and foremost is you've

[2:20:25] got to figure out what is the most important things for you what is the

[2:20:28] most important things for the uh for the residents uh quality of life things

[2:20:32] we're talking police we're talking fire we're talking water we're talking sewage

[2:20:37] uh those are the things that keep people up at night uh I'd make sure that

[2:20:41] they're funded I'd make sure that uh we are doing everything in our power to

[2:20:46] come up with ways that are uh cost cost effective smart uh there's always ways

[2:20:55] uh to sometimes do things as efficiently uh that cost less certain things in life

[2:21:02] though you shouldn't chinson uh police fire water sewage for to name a couple

[2:21:10] if we decide if it should come that uh we have a deficit that we can't meet um

[2:21:18] sometimes hard decisions have to be made and it's not always popular but there

[2:21:23] are some things that we would might have to cut back on uh there's also you know

[2:21:28] I don't know I have to talk to the legality of it but you know getting

[2:21:33] private funding for things uh public private funding uh works very well uh in

[2:21:39] certain areas I don't necessarily think I want to start slapping a logo on the

[2:21:43] side of everything in a TOA and turn this into a NASCAR race but uh figuring

[2:21:47] out ways that we can utilize our resources outside of the community to

[2:21:52] bring in resources to the community um whether that's through

[2:21:58] businesses or leveraging I couldn't begin to tell you maybe figuring out

[2:22:04] ways to bring people into a TOA that don't cost us a lot of money take a look

[2:22:09] for example white foot Farms right and you see where they started with their

[2:22:13] Farmers Market we could do something like that over at the park we are

[2:22:16] starting now we have our our uh our Farmers Market over here we could do

[2:22:21] that and get grow ours just as big thank you all right thank you sir my second

[2:22:29] question so so our uh our town Charter states that the Town Administrator is

[2:22:35] responsible for day-to-day administration of the Town including

[2:22:39] employee management and operations how would you as an alderman handle a

[2:22:45] situation where a town employee approaches you directly with a concern

[2:22:51] or an issue oh again as I said earlier I would

[2:22:56] listen to the uh the concern first and foremost uh I would make sure that the

[2:23:01] person is safe uh that it's not something that's life-threatening or a

[2:23:06] cause for any kind of harm to come to the person uh and then after that then I

[2:23:12] would go talk to Mark and then if not uh if it was about him I don't come talk to

[2:23:17] you uh you know it's one of those things you don't want to start going around and

[2:23:21] it's not that I we try to keep secrets remember you anybody but when it's

[2:23:25] something about a member of the Town depending on how high not really

[2:23:30] depending on how high just if it's somebody in the town you want to keep it

[2:23:32] a small circle right because people will often convict you before you're found

[2:23:38] guilty and you don't get to pull that back so you want to keep small thing you

[2:23:43] want to keep things if someone has a complaint about somebody small into a

[2:23:46] small circle and address it properly if if it's founded then you know bring the

[2:23:51] decision to you on what to do if it's unfounded you sit down to the person who

[2:23:55] made the complaint say look this is what we did this is what we found out this is

[2:23:58] what we've got we don't believe that this is a cause for a serious complaint

[2:24:04] uh but if you'd like to have five minutes with the mayor we can do that

[2:24:08] for you all right well thank you sir that I

[2:24:13] believe I'm looking over here believe I believe that that that finishes all of

[2:24:18] our questions um do you have any questions for us as far as the process

[2:24:26] and the procedure no sir okay just want to thank everybody for their time

[2:24:30] tonight again I realize I'm the only thing standing between you and bedtime

[2:24:33] or ice cream so ice cream yeah thank you thank you sir appreciate it you're

[2:24:40] welcome to stay uh Miss Rachel if you want to have everybody come back in

[2:24:44] that's still out there uh the Board needs to finish up uh toing their

[2:24:52] meets so we'll take about well as long as it takes so

[2:25:23] yes

[2:26:01] no no

[2:26:32] he had to mention ice

[2:26:57] I'm what Reese's peanut butter pie wizard

[2:27:02] sounds there you go or or F those are my

[2:27:11] two Mr administrator yes when we're done you all the scores

[2:27:16] you just got to ask the top score I'm okay I'm giv

[2:27:20] I mean I'm just in terms of the announcement I'm okay with just the top

[2:27:23] yeah yeah as far as the announcement we'll yeah yeah I think that's the pr

[2:27:28] thing to do yeah all right sir Mark glad you're still there one Mr I've got one

[2:27:36] question yes sir can we be you know without the

[2:27:42] scorer name on it or the evaluator's name can we have have the score sheets

[2:27:46] emailed to us sure I put my name on mine but they

[2:27:52] can cross that out they want to I

[2:27:57] did I didn't put it on mine either but sent to us all the sheets will be sent

[2:28:01] to all the board members thank you thank you

[2:28:20] [Music] like Miss America a few years

[2:28:25] ago it was the Steve yeah he said the wrong or

[2:28:43] something I just wanted to say that we are very very fortunate to

[2:28:50] have such a deep well of excellent candidates

[2:28:57] um very impressed by by uh everybody that participated tonight and um yeah I

[2:29:07] think I think U we got we got an opportunity to really

[2:29:11] do some great things for the town continue to do great things for the town

[2:29:20] I don't know how many citizens are there I can't see but uh you know something

[2:29:24] that would be nice if we can do next time if there's not too many there have

[2:29:29] a citizen ask a question of each candidate yeah that's a good idea yes

[2:29:33] sir I think we I think we had the is that Miss Gale

[2:29:38] you the wife okay we we I don't know if we had anybody else we had a lot of

[2:29:45] Staff

[2:29:49] look IES no

[2:29:53] no well I think it was absolutely rude and

[2:29:58] um and disrespectful for Wesley not to offer me a

[2:30:04] water you want water it's a little late

[2:30:09] now I'm fing it up right now sending it to

[2:30:14] you thank you director of course saving the town money will choose the

[2:30:20] United States Postal Service to get that so you might get it in two three

[2:30:29] [Music] weeks be in the mail in the

[2:30:33] morning really we evaporated by the time it gets there just send him an empty

[2:30:45] bottle mayor do not have any public comment at this any signed up on the

[2:30:51] sheet okay thank you

[2:31:15] sir did I did I do the uh where I read some of the actual social media

[2:31:21] comments I should have done that Chris did I do

[2:31:26] that we we were interviewing and I pulled actual comments off of Facebook

[2:31:32] about the board of Mayor Alman and I read them and about mayor Walker and I

[2:31:37] read them boom boom boom and I said okay so then how do you feel about social

[2:31:42] media and a part it we

[2:31:47] did De whatever it's called some of the questions they asked they pulled from

[2:31:51] our social media yeah yeah they were pretty rude dogs too well you know you

[2:31:57] can imagine on the public yeah when I did that one time I actually read

[2:32:02] quoted the mayor Walker was you know it is didn't know what he was doing and

[2:32:07] board and this and that they all line their

[2:32:10] pockets I love the the town I heard that I heard I was like I bought my house in

[2:32:16] 2008 I didn't run till 18

[2:32:45] was

[2:32:50] I got

[2:32:54] was oh yeah I knew you putting one talked about is it

[2:33:01] all concrete lands only thing I do have a place for

[2:33:07] recess hot Tu that I was originally but because constraints I mixed it now

[2:33:14] probably just going to go to Costco just drop

[2:33:18] thatle Amanda just

[2:33:30] got it's like weight liting

[2:33:40] equip run some good

[2:33:47] chemical youat

[2:33:57] [Music]

[2:34:08] yes

[2:34:11] yes

[2:34:17] the I do

[2:34:21] everybody

[2:34:27] stre

[2:34:36] this that I definitely show

[2:34:43] [Music]

[2:35:00] you know Linda was a dental assistant long and they always had to most of the

[2:35:07] dentist she worked for if the dentist took off that's when you took off yeah

[2:35:12] had to kind of work with

[2:35:16] him it it wouldn't like at all for the

[2:35:20] [Music]

[2:35:24] most yeah like today I had this morning I had to go to my dentist and she said

[2:35:30] the hygienist at C she said well the dentist is not here today so you're good

[2:35:34] you're ready to go you know all he does is come in and kind of look everything

[2:35:38] over yeah think they do just as much that

[2:35:43] I've heard

[2:35:46] mine is like oh yeah you're right

[2:36:05] yeah Linda working for him for a he's a

[2:36:12] great Lind Linda always he had to be a top-notch dentist she worked for a guy

[2:36:20] one time I think for maybe three days she

[2:36:23] came I'm not she did not

[2:36:31] just you know his

[2:36:37] brother brother ribbon cutting for the charger

[2:36:44] and he comes out there and he's talking talking something

[2:36:51] [Music]

[2:37:01] connect it's very

[2:37:04] interesting from India children have like Bob have American names every one

[2:37:12] of them

[2:37:21] 80th anniversary D it is very very very read

[2:37:36] day pass yeah I saw that I was like Wow got

[2:37:44] MRN John he's going to be 102 all the businesses got together

[2:37:52] he's a I met him

[2:38:09] at myad to go back in the Pacific Theater of Wisconsin

[2:38:15] it's a museum now in nor you know kind like us it actually refurbished that

[2:38:23] ship wased that whole ship

[2:38:43] back I hate the term bucket list but I I would love to go over to

[2:38:49] see a lot of the World War II we had some you know Marty and Kelly

[2:38:56] man they did two three months

[2:39:01] ago they had a lot of different areas be like Liss

[2:39:11] [Music]

[2:39:21] well I'm to see so much staff here I

[2:39:47] know it's already got a name

[2:39:51] M frame

[2:39:57] [Music] frame no I don't I just thought okay

[2:40:24] saying I wonder if it supposed to area and they just when that building became

[2:40:30] available they just wanted to Retro cuz you know when he was doing

[2:40:34] manyi probably two three years ago whenever when he was looking at putting

[2:40:38] battery plant somewhere I was like yeah let's get that we didn't get I just you

[2:40:45] know it's very refreshing that's absolutely correct now I wasn't

[2:40:52] surprised by the resources that it's consumed talking about million gallons

[2:40:57] of water it is a day yes A day I think it's all it's the

[2:41:04] computer is all

[2:41:08] water thinking they're talking like they're not going to be a to reuse the

[2:41:13] water and I'm thinking you're just running it through pipes cuz that's all

[2:41:16] it's doing is cooling I mean there will be some maybe you treat it say there'll

[2:41:21] be some treatment of it but they'll be able to reuse probably 80% of

[2:41:27] it you know like your car keep back so

[2:41:40] we so everybody's on the wagon it's just

[2:41:45] the buzz is just if you're not something

[2:41:55] blow that up biger you said you don't need glasses

[2:41:59] come on now I can do it I'll SP but I can I'll do

[2:42:12] it just go bing bing and there it is did okay but I'm not working with a mouse

[2:42:18] say Bing oh that's

[2:42:23] that's all right so

[2:42:28] total got something sure don't pull a Ste barie yeah I don't want to do a

[2:42:32] Steve Barbie okay yeah right here at the top number three row number three okay

[2:42:39] number three all right again I would like to say thank you so much for

[2:42:44] everybody that took time to put your name in and like Alman and any he

[2:42:50] said please don't let your service if if your name's not tonight don't let that

[2:42:55] we stop of your public service there's a lot of places and we got a lot of things

[2:43:00] going on we can try to get you plugged in helping the town out uh that being

[2:43:05] said our total score tonight our top score and our alderman appointee that

[2:43:11] will have to be a motion made at the June 11th meeting is Alman Chris D

[2:43:17] welcome aboard sir [Applause]

[2:43:24] and with that we're no public comment no public

[2:43:29] comments so do I have a motion to adjourn from

[2:43:33] Alderman P have a second second from Alman Renfro all in

[2:43:38] favor say

[2:43:42] I we are Jour good night everybody night night

[2:43:49] I'll take on that one

Town of Atoka - Board of Mayor and Aldermen Work Session - 6/6/24

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