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All right, we're calling the Courthouse
and Property Committee meeting to order.

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Um, if y'all would, bow your heads.
Dear heavenly Father, thank you for

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allowing us to be public servants of
this great county.

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Um, just be with us as we go through
these reports and um, we continue to do

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the business of the county. Uh, let us
keep you in light of every decision that

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we make and the constituents of this
county. In Jesus' name, amen.

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All right. Uh, we do have everybody
present except for uh, Commissioner

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Thomas. Uh, we do have a quorum and um,
first order of business is the approval

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of the July 21st, 2026 minutes.
>> Second.

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» Got a motion and a second. Any changes
or alterations? All in favor?

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» Aye.
>> All right. Public comments, anybody?

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All right, not seeing any. Continue
moving on. Our first reports are codes

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report.

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» Good afternoon.
Uh,

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I know you guys got my report a little
late this month. Wanted to just review

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real quick. We are on a path to be
issuing more

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permits uh, month over month as compared
to last year.

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Uh, this July we issued 22 new house
permits compared to last July of 16.

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And
of course that increases our

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department's revenue when we do it do
those increases. Um, inspections are I

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included that this time, the inspections
performed. As you can see, month over

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month compared to the prior year, we
have definitely increased the number of

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inspections. So, the demand is
definitely there. Our department is

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hiring. Um,
just working on finding the time to

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interview those applications I'm
getting. It's very very hard for us to

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find a fully qualified person.
Any questions?

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» Any questions? Thank you.
I would like to say thank you for the

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last 3 years that I've been chairman and
four as I've been on the committee. I

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always appreciate your reports and I
know you've been here almost every time

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and I just appreciate you being here and
and giving the reports and keeping the

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county and up to date with kind of where
where growth growth is coming and all

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those and so I just appreciate you and
and the work that you're doing. So,

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thank you.
>> Thank you for all your work.

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» Thank you.

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Next item is planning and zoning. I
didn't see a report in here. So, we'll

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just kind of move over that one.
Fourth is the IT reports. You got that

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in front of you as well as by email.

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Does anybody have any questions for
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» No. Well, I did want to mention
something. First of all, I see that

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there's a few of you that are leaving
and and you're finishing up your terms.

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I haven't spoken on to any of you about
it, but just want to say thank you for

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stepping out here and uh supporting our
community.

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As a lifelong member of the Bedford
County with a lot with a big family

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roots here, I just want to say thank you
for for trying to push things forward

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and improve our community. I have
children growing up in the school

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system.
It's really important for people to step

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up and uh
and stick their neck out there and it's

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a difficult task to run for public
office and I just want to say I admire

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you and I appreciate you to do that. Um
specifically I would like to address uh

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Commissioner Hooker and uh Commissioner
Maddox.

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Uh when you guys came on board, I
remember you telling me we had a a

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disastrous email system. Um
which, you know, it it served its

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purpose for what we were trying to do.
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uh
to to make sure that we provide a

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service um and with the with the budget
in mind. And uh the cost is is a an

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important factor, but
in looking in in analyzing what we had,

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uh we went ahead and requested that we
were able to try to make some forward

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movement on that. It's taken us a few
years because we had to rebuild some of

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our infrastructure to be able to
leverage some of the new technologies

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that most of your enterprise is doing.
And while we might be a little bit

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behind the the private sector, as we
probably should be in some areas because

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of the cost factor, um I would say that
we're making

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great strides in pushing forward a more
modern the Microsoft M365 system across

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the board. That will enable us to do
single sign-on, active synchronization

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technology with calendars and email
across multiple devices. So,

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uh I I recognize the need uh and and I
appreciate you guys bringing it to my

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attention. Uh we were able to get the
funding. I I commend the commission for

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uh for being able to to give us the the
funding to push this forward for the for

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the county government. I think it'll
help with productivity. And um I think

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it's a really good move for us uh going
forward. So, I just wanted to

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acknowledge that and tell you that we uh
have purchased those licenses for the

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entire organization. Uh we're in the
process right now of migrating all the

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domains over to a a new Microsoft
domain. Uh and that will allow us to

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synchronize those uh users with more
better security controls and more

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accessibility. So, as we talk about
accessibility of information and uh as

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we talk about transparency and things of
that nature, I have to consider

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cybersecurity that piece as well because
from the audit end, that's important,

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too. But, all these things are are were
made possible by you guys uh jumping

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forward into this initiative. And I just
want to say thanks for giving us a

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chance to do that because we're we're
moving forward with that. I just want to

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say as you're walking out, uh
Commissioner Hooker, uh that we're we're

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we're we're we're deploying that. So.
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just
always enjoyed our conversations. You've

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always been open with me and we've
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I've always had a lot of respect for
you. I've known you for a long time. I

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mean, probably 25 years now and
again, I do appreciate you and your

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team. You have a hard job. It's a big
county. You only have a handful of

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employees and you do a great job of
making sure everything's, you know,

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seamless. So, I do appreciate that and
making sure all those meetings.

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Commissioner Maddox.

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» Uh first of all, I want to say I know my
name was was mentioned, but

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you have done an amazing job over the
past several years. I know you and I

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have had a lot of conversations and
you've been you've been

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also very professional
each time and your team is one of the

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hardest working teams
in this county. Not to take anything

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away from anybody else, but y'all are at
every meeting. You you try your best to

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make sure everything is is broadcast
out. You know, there's some counties

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that don't do that. And
but I just wanted to commend you and

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say, you know, job well done and many
thanks to you.

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We we have had some some some email
conversations about

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the functionality of a lot of those
platforms, but it's good to see that

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we're we're going to move forward, but
I commend you for the work that you and

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your team are doing and I sincerely mean
it. Thank you for that.

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» Thank you. Appreciate it.
You have any questions about my report?

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» All right. Thank you, Josh.
>> Thank you. All right. Appreciate it.

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» All right. Moving on to the fire
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» Uh I have nothing to add to
my report, Mr. Chairman. I will tell you

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that the front page those numbers are
accurate.

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We just changed softwares and it went
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transition and trying to figure out
where all of our numbers were and we

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spent a couple of days digging for this
and we're still digging. Uh we think in

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the long run it's going to be better for
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We we cut our
cost down probably around 6, 7,000

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dollars and
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it is to me. That's a set of turnout
gear for me, so

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uh we do think that we're moving in the
right direction and and save a little

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money there, but it's taking us a little
while to get all that data transferred

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over. Make sure the state and federal
government gets their numbers like

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they're looking for and we concentrated
on that more than getting our numbers

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for a report, but I know that front
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And and we audit that, so we keep a
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and then we go back and compare it to
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And so we're working through that and
hopefully we'll get a better report.

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Now, I'm not
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request it, I I won't put it in color.
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if you want it in color, I think I email
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we are working through that transition
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» Anybody got any questions for Mark?
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months, any possibility of our our land,
anything come about that?

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» tell you this and and we've had to keep
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we had a contract, I think Drew came and
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several of y'all I've talked to.
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somebody offered more money for it, so
we lost that piece. We are under

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contract right now
and it looks good and it did cost us a

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little bit more money than I had
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the money
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through other capital projects I saved
we're going to funnel that and so it was

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no new money basically.
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ready to build on. It already has the
utilities on it. It already has the

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storm retention pond, detention pond,
whatever you want to call it. It's all

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It already has all of that. It was going
to be developed and the developer backed

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out and
they told us based on our drawings that

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we have for our building that we would
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that we would need a minimum of 2 acres.
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this will work out and we won't
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somebody come in and buy it out from
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in saying that, that's this is the only
step that we've got and we've worked on

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this for about 3 years. I thought well,
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4 years. Yeah. I mean, we've been
working on this and I can't tell you how

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many ant bites, chiggers I've gone home
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and some of them I didn't even know what
kind of bites they were, but we have

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walked a lot of property and
this one seems to be

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good. It's in the zone where we're at.
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our future plans, we've already bought a
piece of property on Union Hill decent

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road several years ago and we're looking
how we're going to finance that through

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the volunteer system, but that will
eventually our plans that will be a

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manned station. So we'll have one on
this side and one on this side. So we're

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working our way in instead of being in
the middle working our way out. So we

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think
everything will go good. I have all the

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documentation right there of all the
properties we've looked at, all the

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communications,
the dollar figures.

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Uh once we
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I'll
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all. Uh Uh
I'm no attorney and so

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uh you know
we kept everything above board and we

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just couldn't make it public because
like say the first property we tried to

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close a deal on somebody
come in there with a whole lot more

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money and
snatched it right out from under us and

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and this property we're looking at it's
already passed all environmental

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studies.
So, they go to digging and

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there's nothing there for anybody to
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So, and the other properties we were
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there was two
three other properties we signed a

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contract with.
And then after I got uh

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Jeff Sweeney to look at those properties
and then I went out and got a

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independent contractor outside of him to
look at to see what it would cost to

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develop those lands and they both come
back within about a hundred thousand

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dollars of each other and that was
anywhere from eight hundred thousand to

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a million dollars just to remove the top
soil and get it where you could be on

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it, build on it. And one of them there's
a moratorium on the water and sewer so

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they wouldn't even allow us to use that
piece property. So, unless we wanted to

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build that infrastructure and
that's just more money. So,

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but that's where we're at on it and I
hope I've answered your questions and I

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and I apologize for keeping you in the
dark on all of it. I I think I've talked

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to you individually about where we're at
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I'm telling you land in Bear Fork County
I talked to a guy last night who has

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piece property
kind of over toward Marshall County and

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he's been offered an astronomical dollar
amount. He's going to sell it and walk

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away. He said I can't afford not to.
So, it's it's just unreal.

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» Anybody got any other questions for
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Mark, I do want to just I'm trying to
address everybody as I come through cuz

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y'all have done so much for me over the
last 4 years and out of this room I've

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probably known you the longest between
you and Brian Bruce and Brian Cantrell.

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You helped me get my start in public
safety and you know and so I really

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appreciate, you know, what you've done
for me over the years and I've

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appreciated your guidance as I came onto
the commission. I know we've had a lot

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of conversations and and I always admire
your ability to in the middle of the

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crazy to be able to kind of to talk
through it and and be a calm in the

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storm and so I do appreciate all that
you've done. I appreciate your

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friendship and your leadership as over
the fire department and

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you know and our personal relationships.
I I really appreciate you.

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» Well, I I appreciate you too and and and
I I go back a long way cuz Drew taught

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our first responder class. And I think
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you know
and so and and they they put on a class

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10 days and they the state I think told
you it couldn't be done. And we did it

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in I think it was 2 weeks, wasn't it?
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I think out of that group of 20 or so
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didn't go get his license and I was one
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the very end but I still passed my test.
I couldn't believe it, you know. So they

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did something right and I appreciate
that cuz they did put in a lot of hard

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work. They didn't get paid for it.
They were teaching us 10 hours a day.

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Bam bam bam, you know, just one subject
after another. They did a great job and

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and we can see the fruits of that labor
now as to the lives that have been saved

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in Burke County just by training these
people to be first responders and

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and it's even advancing a little bit
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I remember Drew we was kind of mean to
him when he first come on but he's he

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still pushed through and uh did did well
on training us and and you've got that

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talent and we appreciate it.
>> That was fun class, wasn't it, Brian?

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» It was.
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Yeah, well, it was it was probably the
first in the state that taught it all in

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a straight time period. Um at the time
Donna Tidwell was the state director and

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she told us in absolutely no way, form,
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there's no way they'll pass.
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that taught the class. It was over at
the fire hall. And uh I will tell you

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that was
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ever taught cuz everybody cared.
Everybody knew that what we had to do,

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which was we had a short time to get a
first responder program started. And

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everybody in there was committed. We
actually had a couple members

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uh from the community that were high
school one was a high school student and

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she's now a a paramedic.
Or is she an EMT? EMT. And um there was

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a lot come out of that class. So, I
thank you for bringing that up.

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All right, E911 report. You have any
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» And
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building is complete. It's functional.
They got their furniture delivered

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Tuesday. It was two truck loads of the
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dispatch consoles.
Uh it's specially made. So, and they

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were in the process they said it would
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that put together. I know Josh has been
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rearranging of cables and stuff, but uh
hopefully we're waiting on AT&T now to

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move the 911 lines out there and then
the rest of it will go in

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to hooking up and and then doing a test
phase on it and making sure it's ready

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to go, but
I hate to say a deadline cuz I mean, if

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I said October,
it could be October next year. I just

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don't know.
If you've ever dealt with AT&T and and

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we deal with them a lot on car wrecks
when the poles get torn down, they're

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not on no time frame. And they'll get to
you when they get to you. And then

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they'll call us a year later, "Do you
have a report on who hit that pole?" You

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know. So, that's kind of what we do.
But, yeah, they are moving forward, but

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it's been a slow process.
>> All right. Thank you. Media GIS.

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» Don't have a [clears throat] whole lot
to add to to the report unless there's

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any questions. It was a busy month. It's
going to be really busy at the end of

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this month. I've been thinking about it.
I'm going to be busy

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changing out names on the website.
You know, cuz you can't I can't do it

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really till right around the day of, you
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But, uh we'll be we'll be swapping
things out. There's one one There's a

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picture on the front page that we'll
have to

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put a ticket in with the provider to to
get that changed cuz that's part of the

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design.
Anyway, we'll we'll try try our best to

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to try and
keep up with that, but I

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Other than that, nothing really to add
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» Any questions?
John, thank you for all that you do for

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our county and keeping everybody
informed. So, thank you so much.

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All right. County Buildings Project, you
have that enclosed.

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Yes, sir.

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Yeah, they'll make you go up there.
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we have started using your new morgue.
It is now It's I appreciate you guys

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because the other one was not
functional. It is now in function. We're

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waiting on
uh the rack system. So, we're still kind

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of in a little modified stage with it,
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we're something happened with the
bidding process of that. So we're

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waiting on the lift and the rack system
to come in so they can be fully

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functional, but we are out of that old
building now and we do have a

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functioning county morgue that we that
we are in dire need of. So

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I know we started back this process 17
18 months ago here and I appreciate you

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guys getting that, you know, on the
agenda cuz we had to have that. I mean,

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and I want to reiterate that's not an
EMS morgue, that's your morgue, but

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we're we it is functioning now and we
have a place that in the event that we

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need to take a citizen in to identify
one of their loved ones, we have a place

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that we can do that where we did not.
So with that with that, I do have one

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question and I don't know if you guys
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because I'm we'll be coming onto the
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um have you guys started any process of
getting rid of these other buildings

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like the old workhouse and
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» Yeah, I'll I'll tell you it came up a
couple months ago, but because it's so

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close to the election, we felt like that
the new commission needed to weigh in on

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some of that and the other thing is is,
you know, it has to go through the

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appraisal process and all that to be
able to start talking about those, but

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we do have probably three or four
buildings that need to have some

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consideration for that.
I know that, you know, there's been some

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conversation about, you know, animal
control needing space and things like

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that. So again, I think as the new
commission comes on, that's probably

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something that they need to to bring up
and be able to kind of weigh in on

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because again, as someone that's
outgoing, I wouldn't feel comfortable

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with trying to make that decision for
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» sure exactly when they're going to move
the juvenile detention. I know it's

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close. They were in the finals with it
cuz we toured it the other day just for

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public safety purposes to make sure we
knew how to get in and get somebody if

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they needed this, but
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surplus building stuff. That's
that should be ready. So, I just kind of

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figured out where we're at on on getting
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if you've been if you've not been in it,
you should go down there.

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» I I'm sure it's much different than when
I went in it last.

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Yeah, but thank you for that and
>> Keith, put it on your list.

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» All right. So, I'll take a motion to
approve the reports.

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» Second.
>> Got a motion and a second. Any

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Anything? All right, all in favor?
>> Aye.

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» All right. Any other reports that you're
aware of? Any old business?

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Any new business? Any announcements?
>> I'm going to take this opportunity.

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You've known Drew since what? 20 I I I
knew him when he was Yes, thank you, at

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the boy's wedding.
I've known him since he was a kid

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and he's been an inspiration. And Drew,
you know I love you. You're my brother.

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And and I'm going to miss you.
And I know bigger and brighter things

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are ahead. And thank you for everything
you do, everything you've done, the

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guidance that you've given everyone. And
you know I love you and appreciate you.

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» Well, I should get to say something,
too. I did not know you, Drew, until you

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came on, but I think we've developed a
friendship and I've really enjoyed

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serving with you these past 4 years. And
we've got Troy down there on the end

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that I did kind of know when he came on,
but I've also really enjoyed serving

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with you. I've learned a lot from both
of you and I appreciate all that both of

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you brought to the table.

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» Yeah, and I'm going to just finish this
up with Diane. Thank you. I've learned a

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lot from you. You know how to read a
budget better than anybody I've ever met

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and I've learned so much from you, so I
appreciate that. Keith, you've always

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been a friend and thank you. And I've
I've enjoyed you ever since you come on

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the commission. I take pride that I got
to make the motion to to make you as a

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commissioner and I'll bring you on. And
so, never regretted the moment I did

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that. And Troy, you've been a great
friend, uh

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fellow coach, and
just a great person. And thank you for

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everything you've done. Great
friendship. So,

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uh anything else?
>> Adjourn.

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» Motion to adjourn.