1 00:00:21,439 --> 00:00:29,920 Okay, good evening. I'll call the meeting to work order 2 00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:34,719 and we have several different agenda items to take care of tonight and 3 00:00:32,399 --> 00:00:42,000 naturally we have two different legal and public hearings and what we're going 4 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:46,879 to do both agenda eyes there's a 5:00 start time we're going to choose to 5 00:00:44,559 --> 00:00:54,079 start with the Canyon County Ambulance District fiscal year 2026 budget hearing 6 00:00:51,039 --> 00:00:59,520 so uh With that, um, I'll call the meeting to order acting as the board of 7 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:05,280 commissioners for the Kenny County Ambulance District. 8 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:10,479 And so, uh, call to order. So, present is Commissioner Brooks, Commissioner 9 00:01:07,439 --> 00:01:15,600 Dani, and I'm Commissioner Bolton again for the record. And so, start with the 10 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:19,759 agenda item, and it's approval of board meeting agenda notice postings. Has the 11 00:01:18,479 --> 00:01:21,439 postings been made? >> Yes. 12 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:26,479 » Okay. It's been made. So, do I have a motion 13 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:28,880 to receive the secretary's agenda notice postage report? 14 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:32,240 » Chairman, I move that we accept the agenda. 15 00:01:30,159 --> 00:01:35,680 » Second. All right. Motion's been made, seconded to accept the agenda as posted. 16 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:40,960 All those in favor say I. >> I. 17 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:43,920 » I. Motion carries unanimously. So, is there's no need to amen the agenda 18 00:01:42,799 --> 00:01:51,200 tonight? >> Nope. All right. So, new business public 19 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:59,040 hearing for teny fiscal year 2025 to 2026 budget. So, I would open the uh 20 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:06,560 public hearing for the tenant budget and it's been posted and is there anyone who 21 00:02:02,719 --> 00:02:10,040 would like to address the board on the proposed budget? 22 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:20,239 All right, last call. All right. Being there's none, I would 23 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:25,840 like to have the chief come up and go through the budget presentation as as 24 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:32,200 has been advertised presented and if there's any additional things that you 25 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:32,200 would like to call out and make. 26 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:38,959 So, Mr. Chair, and audience members, thank you for 27 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:43,840 being here tonight to hear the presentation for the county district 28 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:48,080 budget. I'd also like to thank uh all my co-workers, the staff. It's been a 29 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:51,920 really rough year. We've shared a lot of data over the last couple years and 30 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:55,440 they've uh they've carried on through quite a bit of some tough times and turn 31 00:02:53,680 --> 00:03:00,800 over and everything and so really appreciate them. Uh and also really 32 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:04,800 appreciate the voters this year. Uh we went out for a couple levy overrides 33 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:08,239 that failed the first few times and it did end up passing. I do have a slide in 34 00:03:06,879 --> 00:03:12,400 here that will show a little bit about that and we just couldn't be more 35 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:17,120 thankful for the voters. Uh it is going to be a game changer for for our 36 00:03:14,959 --> 00:03:21,840 community from everything from the hospitals, fire, police, everybody's 37 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:28,360 going to benefit from annual service. So this is the long overdue and I think fin 38 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:38,319 that their tax dollars are at work. So, so we really appreciate that. So, start 39 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:41,319 off with uh 40 00:03:42,319 --> 00:03:47,440 okay, I always have this slide. I just have four slides, I think, tonight. Just 41 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:51,280 always put this up just so people can have kind of a little bit idea of who we 42 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:56,480 are. We have about 70 paramedics and EMTs on staff. Kind of comes up goes up 43 00:03:54,560 --> 00:04:01,200 and down depending on the year. 12 administrative staff. We do have eight 44 00:03:58,799 --> 00:04:05,920 ambulances in service each day if we're fully staffed. We have one ALS chase 45 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:11,599 vehicle in Wilder. I just have a single paramedic that responds ambulance and we 46 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:15,840 have nine stations that we function out of and we really work well with the fire 47 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:20,400 department. So you can see we co-house with Middleton, Wilder, Nampa and 48 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:26,639 sometimes we're at the call fire station if we are fully staffed fiscal year call 49 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:31,840 volume. So we hover right around 20,000 uh probably going to be up around 21,000 50 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:36,400 this next year just with growth. So pretty consistent there. 51 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:40,160 So just to put up a little bit of levy override information. I know probably 52 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:44,639 most everybody in this room has seen it because we were all over everywhere news 53 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:49,600 you name it for uh starting at the end of 2023 54 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:54,479 and end of 2024. So we asked for $7.9 million for two years temporary 55 00:04:52,160 --> 00:05:00,880 override. We will be back before the voters in two years uh to ask for that 56 00:04:57,759 --> 00:05:05,520 to continue on. Uh the main focus was to rebuild the station in Amb torn down to 57 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,440 build a new station in Calwell because we haven't built one here in Calwell in 58 00:05:07,199 --> 00:05:14,880 22 years and so we're long overdue for that station. Want to add an ambulance 59 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:18,880 to the station to that station. Had seven paramedics with competitive wages 60 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:21,919 that we're already working on. And then these just last two bullet points are 61 00:05:20,479 --> 00:05:26,080 things that people probably don't realize happens. This is some of the 62 00:05:23,919 --> 00:05:29,919 data we got really good sharing on monthly basis that people we got a lot 63 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:33,680 of feedback that they couldn't believe some of these numbers. So level zero 64 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:38,560 means there are no ambulances available to take a call and so this data was from 65 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:43,600 July. So 13 times during that month there every ambulance on a call could 66 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:47,840 not go and the number of times that ambulance were shut down. So when we 67 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:53,840 shut down ambulances is typically the one in Middleton one of the n units and 68 00:05:50,639 --> 00:05:58,080 the wild unit. So 58 times units were shut down and that's hard to think of 69 00:05:55,520 --> 00:06:04,560 but literally without that $1, we would have continued that. So that's hard to 70 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:13,280 fathom that that's the case. We live the reality. So it's it is the case. 71 00:06:08,479 --> 00:06:19,199 So here is our fiscal budget for 2026 and it has the 2025 2026 and the 72 00:06:16,479 --> 00:06:23,919 difference. So salaries and benefits um you'll see that went up significantly 73 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:28,560 for 2026 because that is part of that those levy dollars. One was to add more 74 00:06:26,479 --> 00:06:33,759 staff and then to get competitive wages because our turnover rate much the same 75 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:38,240 as the sheriff's department several years ago was you know as high as 20%. 76 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,680 We just couldn't keep people with the wages that we were paying. They'd start 77 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:46,080 with us and off to the next department they go once they're trained. So that's 78 00:06:43,919 --> 00:06:49,520 why that went up so much that the tax dollars are paying for that and we're 79 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:53,840 going to be able to retain people and hire more people and then keep them 80 00:06:51,759 --> 00:06:59,599 which will actually cause some of those expenses to go down. So uh benefits, 81 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:06,160 same thing. So a total there a budget of $1.9 million 82 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:10,400 down to Budget. Uh so the reason that first capital expenses and purchase went 83 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:14,639 up is because of the stations that we need to build. So that's uh that's a 84 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:19,520 higher number than normal, but that will cover those two stations. Leases went up 85 00:07:17,759 --> 00:07:23,680 slightly because we're leasing the space at Middleton fire this year where we 86 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:29,039 have that ambulance service agreements just the typical that goes up. 87 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:33,120 Professionals took our fees. This is part of the reason that one went up 88 00:07:30,639 --> 00:07:36,000 because we need to pay fees for the A&E because we're going to build a building. 89 00:07:34,479 --> 00:07:40,080 We've got to actually budget for which we haven't had in the past. that 90 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:45,120 definitely raise that line by item. Supply is pretty typical goes up. 91 00:07:42,479 --> 00:07:49,360 Telephines went down. Um repair and maintenance just your typical up and 92 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:55,199 down. And then the big one down at the the bottom we have to because those levy 93 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:59,840 funds are going to come in. We usually just zero out our budget. You know, we 94 00:07:57,039 --> 00:08:03,199 need to balance. So we have to show what we're going to have in that reserve fund 95 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:07,759 by the end of the year. And that is because we won't expend all those levy 96 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:12,479 dollars the first year. They will carry into the next year to go into those 97 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:17,039 projects that we have budgeted for. So there's your total fiscal year budget. 98 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:21,039 Then down into the revenue to property taxes. That's where you will see the 99 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:28,080 reflection of that temporary override funds came in. That's why it went up by 100 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:32,479 $8 million. The 7.9 plus the 3% that that all goes in there. So that's why 101 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:37,200 that is higher than normal for us. ARPA we will expend all of our ARPA 102 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:42,240 funds in the current fiscal year. So that's why that will be zeroed out for 103 00:08:38,959 --> 00:08:47,120 2026 because those funds service fees we kept um that's the 104 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:52,720 ambulance fees that people pay when they take a trip. We kept that flat because 105 00:08:49,839 --> 00:08:57,519 it's gone up and down so much this year that uh we just thought rather than 106 00:08:54,959 --> 00:09:00,720 taking it up to do more let's just keep it flat. We want to make sure that we 107 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:07,279 get through our budget in case it goes down slightly. So, we just kept that one 108 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:12,800 flat. Other uh that one went up uh slightly 109 00:09:08,959 --> 00:09:16,240 1.2 $1.4 million. And that is those some possible funds that we can get. Uh 110 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:21,040 there's some Medicaid funds, federal dollars, and we hope those come in. 111 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:25,839 We're not budgeting to to rely on them, but that's why that 112 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:29,839 number is there because of possible that we're really hoping to get, but not 113 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:34,959 necessarily counting on totally to get that. 114 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:38,800 that is so definitely a different one for us 115 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:41,760 just because of the funds the levy funds that like I said we could not be more 116 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:46,240 thankful we're going to be very transparent we move through whether it's 117 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:50,160 building stations hiring staff you know that's going to be on the social media 118 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:54,000 we're going to show the taxpayers each time that we do something that said 119 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:59,600 we're going to do so they can see that we actually are doing what they what 120 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:01,920 they look for that's 121 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:11,760 only one and that it's just more a matter of record on total bad debts 122 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:16,000 makes it look like we're not pursuing those skip that line but that actually 123 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:20,320 includes the contractually adjusted portion which you can't legally pursue. 124 00:10:17,839 --> 00:10:23,360 So that's a little bit of a conr that we can't break that out. 125 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:28,320 » Yep, correct. I probably have my top line down through there. So yes, that is 126 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:32,240 an is an odd one. It has to do with the Medicare write offs that we are forced 127 00:10:30,079 --> 00:10:37,279 to. It is not something that's sent off to collections. Uh they do dictate what 128 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:42,160 charge for a call and so they dictate what writing off. So that is correct. 129 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:47,680 That is not our department is not doing their job. That's mandated. It's 130 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:50,839 unfortunate, but you got to show it. Thanks for 131 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:58,000 a great job. good about presenting your budget and 132 00:10:56,399 --> 00:11:01,839 being fiscally conservative to the point where you didn't take 133 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:06,560 increase yourself for several years dedicated to completing that department 134 00:11:04,079 --> 00:11:12,240 and it's tough when you don't have the wages to support that you're correct 135 00:11:08,959 --> 00:11:16,240 that turnover is very costly and so we should be able to 136 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:20,000 facilitate >> we're looking forward to keeping people 137 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:24,720 up so the the cos too they they don't like seeing people coming down so we're 138 00:11:22,959 --> 00:11:28,480 looking forward to it. That'll be a new day. 139 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:32,079 » Yeah. >> I'm in favor of passing this budget as 140 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:36,480 it's been presented. There's been a lot of work. We met probably more times with 141 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:40,880 the ambulance district than we did any other department or office in Ky County. 142 00:11:39,519 --> 00:11:43,880 There's a lot of work that went into this. 143 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:52,360 » We have we spent several quite a few meetings. They're all published in the 144 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,360 records. 145 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:06,079 So I would entertain discussion or motion to approve resolution 146 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:13,519 25-21 year 2025 to 2026 budget. 147 00:12:11,279 --> 00:12:20,240 Mr. Mr. Chair, I move that we approve and sign resolution number 2521, 148 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:23,120 the resolution on board county district 149 00:12:22,079 --> 00:12:26,320 » as presented. >> I second. 150 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:28,560 » All right. Motion's been made and seconded. All those in favor say I. 151 00:12:28,079 --> 00:12:33,760 » I. >> I. I. Motion carries unanimously. 152 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:38,800 All right. So that brings us to the third agenda item and it's to approve 153 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:44,320 the 2025 dollar certification of the budget request to board of 154 00:12:41,839 --> 00:12:48,839 board of county commissioners and commonly referred to as the L2 155 00:12:49,519 --> 00:12:59,360 and it literally is says L204. So there you go. So I have discussion or a motion 156 00:12:55,519 --> 00:13:02,160 to to approve that. Chairman, I move that we approve the L2 157 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:07,120 as presented. >> I second. All right. Motion's been made 158 00:13:04,959 --> 00:13:10,880 and seconded. All those in favor say I. >> I. 159 00:13:07,519 --> 00:13:15,279 » I. I. Motion carries unanimously. >> All right. 160 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:18,399 Care of the business for this. Uh do you have any closing comment? 161 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:22,959 » I do not. I appreciate. >> We're just I think all of us are just 162 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:28,639 really thankful to be in this position and moving forward. 163 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:34,279 We will we will stay open and transparent as we make those decisions 164 00:13:30,639 --> 00:13:34,279 on those stations. 165 00:13:34,639 --> 00:13:38,959 » All right, Mr. Chairman, I move that we adjourn. All right, 166 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:42,399 » I second. >> Motion's been made and seconded to 167 00:13:40,399 --> 00:13:47,440 adjournment. All those in favor say I. >> I. 168 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:50,680 » I. We are pass the county district board of commissioners. 169 00:13:50,959 --> 00:13:54,839 All right. Thank you. 170 00:14:01,839 --> 00:14:11,279 So with that we will now I would like to open 171 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:17,839 the Canyon County Board of Commissioners uh meeting. So present is Commissioner 172 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:23,600 Brooks Commission by Commissioner Brad Holton. And tonight on the agenda item, 173 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:30,000 it is a budget hearing for Canyon County, Canyon County Pest Control 174 00:14:26,079 --> 00:14:33,839 District and the Melbour District. So we're going to do a public hearing on 175 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:41,560 the Oregon gun increase also will be held in conjunction with county's annual 176 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:41,560 annual budget hearing this evening. 177 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:55,440 So with that um the audience that that came there is a packet and have a a 178 00:14:53,120 --> 00:15:01,279 public hearing agenda. So what I'd like to do is welcome 179 00:14:58,639 --> 00:15:07,440 everyone here for the the county's portion of the public hearing on the 180 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:12,079 budget tonight. And uh for the audience that's tuning in, we have I don't know, 181 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:18,880 I'm guessing in the neighborhood of what 3540 people in the gallery. And so we 182 00:15:16,079 --> 00:15:25,199 appreciate you taking the time to join us by internet. 183 00:15:22,399 --> 00:15:30,320 With that, um I would like to ask either of my fellow 184 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:35,120 commissioners if you have an open statement that you care to or just get 185 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:41,680 right into the agenda. I have closing comments, but I prefer 186 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:45,839 just a public. >> You can be a real 187 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:51,759 good >> um I I would you want to pass I have a 188 00:15:49,839 --> 00:15:56,240 couple straight public. 189 00:15:53,600 --> 00:16:02,480 » Okay. So, I just like to to put on the record that uh everyone in Idaho lives 190 00:15:59,199 --> 00:16:09,600 in one of the 44 counties. And these counties range in size from under 7,000 191 00:16:05,519 --> 00:16:16,560 people to somewhere above 535,000 people in a single county. And so, 192 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:21,680 Canyon is uh by numbers, you can look one of the higher numbers that is on the 193 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:27,759 internet, it's 267,000 people. I I believe is more than likely 194 00:16:24,639 --> 00:16:33,920 above that, but that's that's the data that was was mined off of the internet 195 00:16:30,639 --> 00:16:40,000 this afternoon. So, the thing that's interesting about counties is we have 196 00:16:37,199 --> 00:16:46,639 many things that are mandated by the state and some of them are not paid for. 197 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:55,199 They are paid for out of our property taxes. And so um it makes things tough 198 00:16:51,759 --> 00:17:02,079 as budgets get tight and we are still mandated to perform the services and we 199 00:16:58,639 --> 00:17:08,240 are moving towards critical mass on that and I think some of the details of that 200 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:14,240 concern will come out later during the u the presentation and the public hearing. 201 00:17:11,039 --> 00:17:20,480 So I just want to to make note of that. Further into the meeting, I'm going to 202 00:17:15,919 --> 00:17:26,559 give you some data on uh the jail and the population in the jail and what that 203 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:32,320 cost us as taxpayers. It's probably some information that some 204 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:38,160 people are going to find that's pretty frustrating. But any rate, I am glad 205 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:44,240 that we have got to this point. Uh we have gone through numerous meetings to 206 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:49,440 get to where we are tonight. and they are delineated on the annual 207 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:56,000 packet. This uh same packet that that we're referring to and have printed out 208 00:17:51,840 --> 00:18:02,799 is also available on the web page on our agenda as a PDF that was posted earlier 209 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:08,320 this afternoon and before the meeting. So, if you that are tuning in want to to 210 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:13,840 go to the Cany County website, click on that commissioner's agenda page. That 211 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:20,000 PDF is right there on the agenda I have posted for the five o'clock meeting that 212 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:24,880 we are in right now tonight. So with that um I would Is it okay with you too 213 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:27,440 if I open public? >> Yes. 214 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:34,080 » All right. So I would like to open public testimony. Is there anyone in the 215 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:39,480 gallery that would like to address the board of commissioners tonight 216 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,480 concerning the budget? 217 00:18:40,799 --> 00:18:51,039 All right, last call. All right, I would uh ask that we make a 218 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:54,320 motion to close public testimony. >> Go ahead. 219 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:58,960 » Second. >> Is it full of words tonight? Okay, 220 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:01,200 motion's been made and seconded. All those in favor say I. 221 00:19:00,559 --> 00:19:06,559 » I. >> I. Motion carries unanimously. So now 222 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:11,520 we're in the portion of the agenda that is the deliberation to a budget decision 223 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:17,679 and any statements that by each commissioner that they might have. So uh 224 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:23,440 we can discuss priorities for the fiscal 2026 budget or whatever items you have 225 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:26,440 in your statement that you would like to share. 226 00:19:30,799 --> 00:19:37,840 » Well, chairman, thank you. This has been a pretty big process. You have indicated 227 00:19:35,039 --> 00:19:43,039 that on page seven, that's where you're going to find the data that you 228 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:48,000 referenced, 26 days of budget meetings with more than 65 budget related 229 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:53,360 discussions on the record. So, uh, the board has adopted a philosophy of trust, 230 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:57,360 transparency, respect, and unification, service, and teamwork. So we have tried 231 00:19:55,600 --> 00:20:02,400 to the very best of our ability to be inclusive in that process and welcome 232 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:06,880 anyone that wants to come. And to our recollection there was not one citizen 233 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:10,960 that showed up. There were a lot of elected officials, chief deputies, 234 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:15,440 people in the department that were interested in coming that which makes 235 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:20,240 sense. It's a big deal to have a budget, particularly coming out of a previous 236 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:25,039 board where there was a reduction of $14 million, an increase in $9 million of 237 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:29,840 salaries and other ancillary costs that really made it challenging. So, the 238 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:33,600 priorities for this board were to be able to bring stability to the budget 239 00:20:31,919 --> 00:20:37,840 while continuing excellence in service and retaining employees. That was 240 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:41,520 important to us. So, thank you everyone that's bothered to come. This is a a 241 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:45,919 less attended meeting, but I think it's a direct reflection of the unity with 242 00:20:44,159 --> 00:20:49,600 within the board of county commissioners and really rolling up their sleeves and 243 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:54,159 getting to the job with collaborative efforts between all the elected 244 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:58,880 officials, the added presence of Rick Hob. And then, um, I want to really 245 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:02,960 highlight the efforts of our chief operating officer, Greg Brass. He's 246 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:06,400 dedicated. He's strategic and his leadership he's tenured in the public 247 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:09,840 sector and he understands Fonda County accounting. His ability to lead and 248 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:13,679 network and bring people together has contributed to not only the success of 249 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:18,159 this budget but the overall county operations. So, thank you for that. You 250 00:21:16,159 --> 00:21:22,480 deserve a lot of recognition for what you do for Kenyan County and um you've 251 00:21:21,039 --> 00:21:28,720 been in government service a long time and and thank you. I also appreciate 252 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:34,799 that that our controller Kyle Wilmont and the clerk have brought together the 253 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:39,440 reflective efforts of the board to retain employees to work together with 254 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:43,120 this to reflect what it is that we want to do to provide stability and at the 255 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:47,280 same time deliver that excellence and service that we talked about. So the 256 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:52,159 dedication of the taxpayer dollars are really evident across county for capital 257 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:56,320 projects, long range planning and retaining employees and the produ 258 00:21:54,640 --> 00:22:00,480 productive government is really something I don't want to take for 259 00:21:57,679 --> 00:22:04,240 granted. Um inviting is difficult to work in a climate like that. Thank you 260 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:08,880 for helping get some of that worked out. Um but 261 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:12,320 um it's evident across the county with the capital projects. There's a listing 262 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:16,000 of those in there. What the tax dollars are doing from the sheriff's 263 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:20,159 administration building. Um I've heard that there are is a group of people who 264 00:22:17,919 --> 00:22:23,679 are wondering why commissioners are not moving more on the geo project. So 265 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,559 obviously their lack of attendance at a budget hearing, they're not 266 00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:30,640 understanding that we have a women's facility that is phase one underway. I 267 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:35,200 want to recognize Doug Hart as well because without his leadership and his 268 00:22:32,799 --> 00:22:38,720 ability to articulate a budget, it would not be the same scenario that we're 269 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:43,360 talking about to move that effort forward. There are long range plans for 270 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:48,320 a public safety facility. We have Chris Boyd here who really does a marvelous 271 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:52,320 job even earlier in the game at representing what prosecution should 272 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:58,640 look like in Kenya County. Thank you. Appreciate that your team. Uh so it is a 273 00:22:54,799 --> 00:23:03,760 fantastic team and uh budget is just one part of what 10 274 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:08,640 county commissioners do. Um coming early in 2026, the war county commissioners 275 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:13,600 will be focused on policy. So enhanced services, increased public safety, 276 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:18,480 answering the call of phase one for a jail facility and managing growth, 277 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:22,880 adding to the recreational opportunities in Kenya County. That all contributes to 278 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:27,280 where we're at today. It's a privilege to serve as a commissioner in Kenya 279 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:32,799 County and what we're doing to move this forward to be really a leader in the 280 00:23:29,679 --> 00:23:36,000 state of Idaho and what we do. It's our directors are amazing. I appreciate 281 00:23:34,559 --> 00:23:40,159 their presence here tonight. All of you that are here if you're not mentioned by 282 00:23:37,679 --> 00:23:44,640 name. Uh but you're a great team to work with and as chief operating officer 283 00:23:42,799 --> 00:23:48,720 reports back to the board. You're a pleasure to work with. So, thank you for 284 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:53,200 letting me express. I do want to also call out Aaron Williams uh that 285 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:57,360 constituent services position in managing the public interface with the 286 00:23:55,520 --> 00:24:02,720 citizens of Kenya County. He's an unsung hero. He has a list of qualifications 287 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:07,440 that is amazing and he brings them to bear here in Kenya County and we really 288 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:10,440 appreciate what's being given for us. So, 289 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:22,880 Good job. You're the best hype man around. 290 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:26,720 Um, Mr. Chairman, I really have prepared remarks other than I appreciate the 291 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:31,520 process that we go through every year. I think the 292 00:24:29,279 --> 00:24:37,679 at least I would like to think the lack of 293 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:42,720 folks that have signed up to to give remarks on the budget good, bad 294 00:24:39,679 --> 00:24:50,640 or different is indicative of how thorough the process is, how transparent 295 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:54,799 it is um and you know right, wrong or indifferent I like to say but basically 296 00:24:53,279 --> 00:25:00,799 by this time through the process which we've gone crew and the numerous 297 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:07,840 meetings that we have held because it's basically cooked, you know. Um 298 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:11,840 I would point out a few of these. I've just been looking through it and think 299 00:25:09,279 --> 00:25:17,520 until I sit here, but you can you can see that the overall budget is up and if 300 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:22,000 you look at that that you know instantly can cause you great concern if you do 301 00:25:19,679 --> 00:25:27,840 not go through this and actually review what is the cause of that. 302 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:33,279 um you know and and most of that would be centered around the uh the sheriff's 303 00:25:31,279 --> 00:25:38,880 budget and rightly so in this case because the sheriff's office building 304 00:25:36,159 --> 00:25:46,880 that we need to complete and the female detention facility that um we definitely 305 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:52,400 need to get moved on in my opinion. Um, but if you go through and look at this 306 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:57,120 as far as other expenses on the what we call BB budget side, 307 00:25:54,799 --> 00:26:02,480 a lot of these are down and down considerably. And I would give kudos to 308 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:08,240 those of you here in the room that have participated in that. We request that 309 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:14,320 you keep your budgets flat. and if we were going to entertain the idea of 310 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:18,799 adding any employees that you came with um how that employee was going to be 311 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:25,440 paid for and I think at this point we are adding one employee because 312 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:30,559 um because the revenue is covering that other than that you guys have all done a 313 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:36,000 remarkable job um in in crafting your own budgets and working with the board 314 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:40,240 and our in our desire to keep this as wide as we possibly we could, but yet 315 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:47,200 still provide the services that we feel that we need to at the level that the 316 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:50,200 taxpayer expects and is acceptable with. Um, 317 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:56,559 and as Commissioner Bambi said, it is a group effort. It's been very 318 00:26:54,799 --> 00:26:59,840 collaborative. Um, 319 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:06,480 we haven't always agreed on everything and I kind of enjoy that sometimes, 320 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:11,840 maybe too much. But, um, yeah, 321 00:27:08,799 --> 00:27:18,159 this is I voted to I voted to print this, Mr. Chairman. Um, and I'm still in 322 00:27:14,799 --> 00:27:25,279 support of it. I would I would like to potentially make one small change, and 323 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:31,679 it's not up or down. It would be the clerk's gonna love this. Um, 324 00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:38,880 we've been holding on to $30,000 out there for uh that loud thing that goes 325 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:42,480 by every day multiple times. I'm not exactly wanting to get rid of 326 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:47,919 that. I would like to uh I would like to move that into the reserve account. At 327 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:52,200 this time, I'm not entirely impressed with or 328 00:27:54,399 --> 00:28:02,399 expectant that our city partner is is going to meet us where I would feel 329 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:07,360 comfortable meeting partway with those spots. So I 330 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:11,200 would rather move those into the reserve account that if we were to need them 331 00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:16,279 later that we would have them availility. 332 00:28:13,279 --> 00:28:16,279 » Okay. 333 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:26,880 » Yes. And fisher, do you mind speaking a little bit about the 334 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:33,279 I guess some of the confusion that's created by the receipt of the ramp arbor 335 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:40,760 funds and then the expenditure of those were the onetime expenses. Can you talk 336 00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:40,760 a little bit about that again? 337 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:48,159 » Just I think it's important because there was 338 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:52,799 a lot of rhetoric that was inaccurate information around the ARPA funds that 339 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:56,799 have been receeded. So um there's going the rest of those funds are going to be 340 00:28:54,640 --> 00:29:00,720 expended by the end of this year. But it makes the budget look funny. I guess 341 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:05,200 there I don't want to say anything different than that. Oh, it makes it 342 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:08,399 makes it look much larger than it otherwise would be. I mean, if you look 343 00:29:06,799 --> 00:29:16,080 here page four, it looks like we're spending 344 00:29:13,279 --> 00:29:24,880 Democrats, if you will. My apologies Democrats, but um that 345 00:29:21,039 --> 00:29:28,799 number for what everything I understand is is 346 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:34,640 definitely going to go down. we have to expend those ARA funds by the end of 347 00:29:31,919 --> 00:29:38,480 calendar year 2026. Um, 348 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:44,159 you know, that's partly why we're we're doing the projects that we are we had to 349 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:48,559 pick something and roll with it. We we had deadlines to meet or we were going 350 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:52,000 to have to get those back. And um you can make the argument whether or not we 351 00:29:50,159 --> 00:29:58,559 should have accepted them or kept them or spent them. and uh we've we've chose 352 00:29:55,200 --> 00:30:02,320 to keep them and expend them and in ways that we think are going to benefit the 353 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:07,360 citizens of Canyon County as best as we can. So, by building that building, it's 354 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:13,279 going to open up space the rest of the county, the county uh 355 00:30:10,399 --> 00:30:18,159 courthouse, uh so that we can potentially remodel in the next three or 356 00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:23,679 four years to better serve the public and have have the uh courthouse better 357 00:30:21,279 --> 00:30:27,440 arranged. and some of the interest on that money which you know we received 44 358 00:30:25,919 --> 00:30:31,840 million we're expending 8 million of that this year but over those years were 359 00:30:29,919 --> 00:30:35,440 between the time that we received and the time we were charged it's going to 360 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:39,919 help offset some of the expenses on the sheriff's administration building the 361 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:43,600 revenue still has to be booked to match the expense on that so it's a little bit 362 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:48,640 confusing and the reason that I'm bringing it out is not to confuse the 363 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:55,039 public but to say that that narrative if people don't understand accounting or 364 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:59,279 the history and how we got here. Um, but there just needs to be a statement on 365 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:04,240 there that that's what's happening with the budget is if we had to receive that 366 00:31:01,919 --> 00:31:08,640 revenue or to spend it on projects that we've identified. 367 00:31:05,919 --> 00:31:12,960 » Correct. And it it is appropriate to point out because it's used as a 368 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:17,760 political weapon against us for again looking like spend 369 00:31:15,279 --> 00:31:22,720 commissioners that have now fiscal responsibility. 370 00:31:19,919 --> 00:31:28,799 um you know especially come election time. So 371 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:32,960 » right and I mean you can we can we can explain it to local interface some are 372 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:38,240 still going to choose not to not to understand it 373 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:40,399 choose to weaponize it. So it is what it is. 374 00:31:39,039 --> 00:31:44,399 » Thank you for the discussion. I want to say too that on the impact fees that's 375 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:48,720 also moving forward. the countyy's allowed to take the impact fees for four 376 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:53,279 different reasons under Idaho state statute and um Darren Williams has led 377 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:57,519 that effort that's going to continue move forward. People ask about that. 378 00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:02,559 He's really wellqualified and suited to put that together but um establishing 379 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:08,159 what as particularly as we look at the sher and the jail people think impact 380 00:32:05,679 --> 00:32:12,960 fees will pay for that initial and I would I don't think that it will. It 381 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:17,279 won't. And so to evaluate that and establish the plan, we have an impact 382 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:21,120 fee committee in place which again director Williams is in charge of and 383 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:25,519 really we're really proud of his efforts on that. It was what the public was 384 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:31,600 asking for. We're answering that call but that's coming and we'll be more 385 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:36,159 active next year. So chairman too I want to point out on 386 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:41,519 the AR projects which is in there but um Chief Soul talked about the ambulances. 387 00:32:39,039 --> 00:32:47,440 So the $2 million was out of the arc funds that commissioners dedicated to 388 00:32:43,919 --> 00:32:51,679 serve the public in 911 events. The animal shelter, there has been a lot of 389 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:57,120 discussion around West Valley Humane Society and the county dedicates a lot 390 00:32:54,480 --> 00:33:01,360 of inind resources as well as financial dollars to support 391 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:06,159 animals in Canyon County. The new elections building was a huge win. 392 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:11,440 County warehouse that we stopped paying a lease payment. Now, we own the land 393 00:33:07,919 --> 00:33:15,679 and we own the building. The residential properties where we're expanding those 394 00:33:13,279 --> 00:33:19,919 and making capital purchases is a win for Canyon County. We've acquired a 395 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:26,080 property that will help save taxpayers money for fleet and our facilities as 396 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:31,440 they build a lot of furniture. And then again, the sheriff's administration 397 00:33:27,519 --> 00:33:35,440 building really will be a great state-of-the-art emergency operations 398 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:39,440 center and locate our command staff in one place. They're a little bit 399 00:33:36,399 --> 00:33:43,039 scattered right now. Building that is, you know, all these facilities are where 400 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:47,279 the statistics are out there. We wanted to ask the sheriff's office to proide 401 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:52,080 those on the year that jail facilities and sheriff's courouses all that were 402 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:59,000 built that they are aging infrastructure and we're answering the call before 403 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:59,000 and building for the future. 404 00:34:00,399 --> 00:34:03,399 » Okay. 405 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:15,359 Okay, I do a u Okay, I do a short uh pick up and uh 406 00:34:12,720 --> 00:34:22,159 delineate a little bit deeper on the animal shelter society. The county owns 407 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:28,240 the facility. The county does not operate the facility. The West Valley 408 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:34,639 Humane Society operates the facility. the county increased our budget that we 409 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:40,159 give for that nonprofit to operate the facility. We increased our budget 410 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:46,800 $40,000 this year because we felt it was our proportional share of what was 411 00:34:43,119 --> 00:34:53,359 needed to uh continue in operation. I know that it may come up in the news a 412 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:59,760 lot and I want to make it clear that for uh this year we put almost a million 413 00:34:56,159 --> 00:35:05,520 dollars in ARPA funds and fixing and restoring portions of that building that 414 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:12,000 we didn't charge the humane society for. And so I want to make it clear that even 415 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:16,960 though the keyboard warriors are really upset at different things about the 416 00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:21,839 animal shelter, this commissioner knows that we are more than paying our 417 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:27,920 proportional share. Now, that encumbers other municipalities 418 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:31,440 uh about what to do. And I I uh have compassion for those other 419 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:37,680 municipalities because they're working in in budget struggling, 420 00:35:35,359 --> 00:35:44,720 throttling positions that the state legislature has put us into. But, um 421 00:35:41,599 --> 00:35:50,560 just wanted to make that clear is it is our building, but that's as far as that 422 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:57,680 part goes. What I'd like to do is pivot a little 423 00:35:52,960 --> 00:36:04,480 bit and I did a teaser on this at the opening and u why are we now suddenly 424 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:09,119 building a jail and the jail's been before you three times with bond levies 425 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:14,800 that called everything from the Taj Mahal to not needed. Um the state 426 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:19,839 legislature in its infinite wisdom for for many 427 00:36:17,839 --> 00:36:26,560 decades and possibly over a hundred years determined that counties run 428 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:35,040 jails. The sheriff runs the jail and where the prisoners and his officers the 429 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:39,280 county commissioners own and maintain the building. 430 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:43,839 It's a It's a strange deal how that all works, but in Ky County, it works 431 00:36:41,599 --> 00:36:52,880 flawless. We have a great relationship with the sheriff and and his people. So, 432 00:36:49,280 --> 00:37:00,240 real numbers, today's population is 489 inmates. Today, 411 of them are males, 433 00:36:56,720 --> 00:37:07,839 92 of them are females. So out of that population, inmates sentenced to time in 434 00:37:03,119 --> 00:37:14,880 the prison today is 55 termers. Today there's 61 parole holds, meaning 435 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:19,280 that they have no other pending charges, but they've done something and they've 436 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:26,960 been thrown in jail. Seven sentenced to a writer. Total is 437 00:37:23,359 --> 00:37:32,000 123 in our jail today. that should be moved to Idaho Department of 438 00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:38,320 Corrections. It should be out of here. 18 of those inmates ready to be moved to 439 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:43,680 IDOC are female. 43 of the inmates have a local charge 440 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:49,440 but also have a parole hold and is not able to be bonded down. So these 441 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:55,280 inmates, the state does not have to pay for county health, but it's on a state 442 00:37:53,119 --> 00:38:01,280 charge writer that they're in the system, but yet Cany County gets to hold 443 00:37:57,839 --> 00:38:08,400 that. So I say thank you to the taxpayers of Canyon County. The state in 444 00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:13,760 its infinite wisdom pays Canyon County for the first seven days of 445 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:21,839 incarceration for their prison. they pay $55 446 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:26,960 for the after that they pay $76 a day. So if you if you give them slack and you 447 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:31,280 say well they maybe they only owe us $55. 448 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:37,119 So if you take 55 and today's just a normal day. It's not a it's not a 449 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:43,359 holiday. It's not go on a binge drinking day. It's a normal middle day of the 450 00:38:39,839 --> 00:38:52,000 week day. 123 prisoners that should be on the state system. That's $6,765. 451 00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:57,200 You multiply that by a year, 365. You come out to, and thank you, Kenny County 452 00:38:54,240 --> 00:39:03,160 taxpayers. We're subsidizing the state of Idaho, Idaho Department of 453 00:38:59,119 --> 00:39:03,160 Corrections, 2,469,225. 454 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:17,800 and we're sitting here trying to figure out how to get through a budget and that 455 00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:17,800 part frustrates me to no end. 456 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:28,480 Moving right along. I have been more than pleased that we 457 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:34,640 asked the county employees, their directors, and the 458 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:41,760 elected officials to hold the budget as best as they can and they've done that. 459 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:46,800 So for this year out in the county 460 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:54,560 we have had a increase 461 00:39:50,720 --> 00:40:00,920 of building now I've lost the number 462 00:39:57,599 --> 00:40:00,920 chat page 463 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:11,839 we are tonight or today and it's past this since this number was taken we're 464 00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:17,839 at 106 6,000 parcels, 593. When I got into office, we were 465 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:22,400 somewhere between 98,000 and 101. 466 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:28,320 So, we're growing. One of the things that's going to be really important for 467 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:32,800 public to get into their mind is this chart here. 468 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:40,720 If you look very careful, it's over several years. 2017 clear ups 2024 does 469 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:48,160 not include this year but look and see where those lot divisions are occurring. 470 00:40:45,119 --> 00:40:52,400 News flash the majority of them are not in Kenny County they are within the 471 00:40:50,320 --> 00:41:00,319 municipalities. So when we get the ownerous of growth 472 00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:03,839 leveled at the Ky County Board of Commissioners, 473 00:41:01,839 --> 00:41:08,960 we're not in the driver's seat in the majority of those land divisions and the 474 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:15,760 growth of Ky County. It's within the incorporated municipalities. Another 475 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:21,440 thing that just bores me, a municipality does not does not ever ask permission to 476 00:41:19,599 --> 00:41:26,640 annex. The state of Idaho set up that a county 477 00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:31,200 has the ground out there in the county and anytime that a city wants to annex 478 00:41:29,119 --> 00:41:35,359 in. There's rules on the annexation for them to be continuous, but a city can 479 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:40,720 choose without permission from the county to annex in anything and continue 480 00:41:37,839 --> 00:41:46,640 to grow. So what I'm trying to tell you is when you have great frustrations 481 00:41:43,599 --> 00:41:51,839 about the growth, please go back and refer to the new subdivision last for 482 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:57,200 municipality. Find out that the county is proportionately very small 483 00:41:54,880 --> 00:42:02,000 responsibility. So 484 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:08,960 the other thing that is fascinating is that the value of that growth is 485 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:14,720 somewhere just over $3 billion. And if you take that as a percentage of 486 00:42:11,359 --> 00:42:18,520 increase from last year to this year, you go from 37.460,590,000. 487 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:33,680 You go up to 41 billion which is a 9.77% increase. 488 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:44,160 What have we increased our budget? 2.12 growth is not paying for growth. 489 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:49,119 And this track that we're on growth and expenses is going to collide and pass 490 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:55,280 each other and it probably might next year. That's why we're asking everybody 491 00:42:51,680 --> 00:43:01,200 to to hold their budgets flat because the way the legislature has written the 492 00:42:57,599 --> 00:43:07,280 rules on House Bill 389, 10% of all new growth value has taken off and it's 493 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:13,200 taken off again and again. It is a compound negative effect. 494 00:43:10,319 --> 00:43:17,920 It is a very complicated formula. I spent several hours today deciding 495 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:23,520 whether I was going to attempt to describe the club with the formula. 496 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:28,720 I decided that I'm not other than the very simplistic thing that you need to 497 00:43:25,599 --> 00:43:32,960 keep in mind is automatically pay for itself because the legislature has 498 00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:40,880 instructed that whatever that value is, it's a $100. We can only incur the $90 499 00:43:37,119 --> 00:43:45,119 value out of the 100 10% off. Who picks up the other 10%? 500 00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:50,720 we do everybody that's living here and we keep getting less and less money to 501 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:56,640 work with to try to provide the services that we provide. The other thing that's 502 00:43:52,880 --> 00:44:01,920 fascinating is House Bill 673 further constrain new construction. It's 503 00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:06,560 the only business that I know of that you can put you can buy 504 00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:13,119 and you can put improvements for several years in a row and sell it and you will 505 00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:17,280 never pay for the increased value of what you built. 506 00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:22,240 I I'm not aware of another business in the state of Idaho who's allowed to own 507 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:28,960 things for multiple years and put hundreds if not millions of dollars into 508 00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:34,720 it and the property value, the taxable value of that is locked in at 509 00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:39,680 price of the sweet deal. Maybe one we need to look 510 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:43,200 into with our legislators. I'd like a deal like that with my 511 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:49,040 electronics business. I think it' be great. It'd be wonderful. Maybe I should 512 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:55,680 be a land developer. Nah, I don't think so. Anyway, 513 00:44:53,200 --> 00:45:05,839 what what I've experienced going through this is hundreds of people working 514 00:45:00,319 --> 00:45:10,480 really hard to tow the line. And I know I'll be asked this simple, 515 00:45:08,319 --> 00:45:17,200 this simple question. Did you raise the budget any? And my answer is, yeah, but 516 00:45:14,319 --> 00:45:21,040 not proportional to the growth. We raised it a little, but not 517 00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:28,480 proportionate to what the expenses will be. Those 3,000 new parcels, 518 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:32,800 we hope they all come with really good people, but the reality is they come 519 00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:36,079 with some bad and those bad will enter our system. 520 00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:41,200 There's another thing, boy. I can just think of thing after thing that we're 521 00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:45,760 mandated to provide to you property tax dollars. Just think of it. Everybody 522 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:51,200 that gets arrested, we help pay for the sheriff. Then we 523 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:56,480 help pay for the jail. Then we help pay for the building that the judges sit in. 524 00:45:54,640 --> 00:46:01,920 We help pay for the maintenance and upkeep of that ground. I mean, it just 525 00:45:59,599 --> 00:46:07,119 goes on and on and on. and the prosecution. He's a good guy, too. And 526 00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:12,160 the prosecution and they did take off the table for the cost of of the defense 527 00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:17,920 attorneys, but even that is not as advertised and 528 00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:23,520 uh we're still paying on that even though the legislature said that they 529 00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:28,880 took it all. But uh they're housed in this building and we've been told that 530 00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:32,319 we shall maintain that space for them and we pay all of the electricity, all 531 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:36,640 of the cleaning bills, all the maintenance bills 532 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:41,200 for the next three years if I if I have the numbers right. I could be wrong off 533 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:48,240 a little bit. It's another one of those things that is a unfunded mandate that 534 00:46:45,119 --> 00:46:55,440 they make the press with. And yet who picks up the dollar? bill property tax 535 00:46:51,280 --> 00:47:01,839 payers. So, I don't like property tax 536 00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:06,720 any more than the next guy, but this is the tool 537 00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:15,200 by statute that we've be been given to work in and and we're we're doing the 538 00:47:10,079 --> 00:47:20,640 best we can and I encourage anyone who has questions in specifics to first 539 00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:26,800 listen to that budget category on the audio record. Just go to Cany County, 540 00:47:24,720 --> 00:47:32,000 look at the commissioner's page, look at the agenda, and start searching back 541 00:47:29,359 --> 00:47:38,079 through that date. Also, on this day's agenda, it will have within this packet, 542 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:42,240 it has all those dates or those meetings. So, you can get right to the 543 00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:48,400 right date to the right time, find out the subject that you're most interested 544 00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:54,240 in. And so I think that as far as I'm aware of, we have done the very best 545 00:47:51,200 --> 00:48:01,920 that we could do to be as transparent as we can be. And so um can somebody have a 546 00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:07,599 different opinion than mine? Absolutely. All day long. 547 00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:12,720 So, I think that we've done uh an outstanding job and I think that our our 548 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:18,319 workers are some of the best and we've attempted to bring uh them up to market 549 00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:23,200 rates which is critically important. You have a employee that's been here for 550 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:29,920 six, eight, 12 years and they're working for $10 an hour as an example and out in 551 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:34,559 the public sector they're working for 14 and we lose that long-term employee at 552 00:48:32,079 --> 00:48:40,160 that dollar rate. We will never get them put back in. We have to match what the 553 00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:47,040 market rate is. And we've attempted to do that over the last several years. and 554 00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:53,359 uh Marty that's our HR director has worked tirelessly with us and so in 555 00:48:50,319 --> 00:48:58,400 doing that adjustment we don't have we didn't end up with any 556 00:48:55,920 --> 00:49:05,040 extra money for cola which is cost of living entries and a lot of counties and 557 00:49:02,079 --> 00:49:10,000 a lot of public entities do colas and I would have loved to have done cola but 558 00:49:07,599 --> 00:49:17,040 there wasn't enough funds to do a cola what we did as as Our interrum is our 559 00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:21,119 health cost is going to go up. It it hasn't in the last several years, but 560 00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:28,160 it's going to go up this year and it will likely continue to go up. And so we 561 00:49:24,559 --> 00:49:36,960 voted to give the majority of the employees a $2,300 562 00:49:32,079 --> 00:49:43,520 onetime payment. out of the $2,300 each will get a little bit of a variance 563 00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:49,200 because their personal tax status will be deducted out of the the $2,300. So in 564 00:49:47,599 --> 00:49:55,680 in round numbers, they're getting approximately $2,000 to go towards those 565 00:49:53,280 --> 00:50:03,119 increasing health care costs where we weren't able to give a raise. Do I like 566 00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:09,839 that? No. It sucks, but that's the best we could do with what we've been handed. 567 00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:15,920 And so, um, I I really appreciate the employees, and if I could have had a 568 00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:20,720 cola of even a half percent or 1%, whatever that is, I would have tried to 569 00:50:18,079 --> 00:50:26,400 have done that, but it was not there to have it. So, 570 00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:33,440 my apologies, but I did the best that I know how to do. 571 00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:37,200 So that's what I have. Do you have any comments, questions? 572 00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:42,800 » Great comments and I appreciate all that you put on the record. That was a lot. I 573 00:50:38,720 --> 00:50:46,720 do want to say that in fairness, the wages we've been trying to get to what 574 00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:52,400 you've indicated is a fair market for retention. Um, again, Chief Hart is here 575 00:50:50,559 --> 00:50:58,160 and we had this conversation during this budget. The amount that we were paying 576 00:50:55,119 --> 00:51:03,680 officers was we were somewhere 56% retention. Extremely costly for the 577 00:51:00,559 --> 00:51:08,559 taxpayers. Now we're up around 97%. Our numbers across the county are reflecting 578 00:51:05,839 --> 00:51:12,000 that we are paying at the right level. And so 579 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:17,359 what we're that's going to say is that our a budget will start. It'll be a 580 00:51:14,319 --> 00:51:20,640 neutral next year. We'll we'll punt the season at the same rate we are this 581 00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:24,640 year. We've tried to mitigate that a little bit as you indicated on the 582 00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:32,720 benefit side because we are looking at something that in the long run I believe 583 00:51:28,079 --> 00:51:38,559 will be better and more friendly for the budget and the taxpayer. So wins in 584 00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:42,800 there. I I think thankfulness is always a posture when we went through the co we 585 00:51:41,119 --> 00:51:51,359 did not lay people off. We did not furlow people. we did not um fail to 586 00:51:48,240 --> 00:51:57,200 to do our job. There were some difficult circumstances that were given to this 587 00:51:53,760 --> 00:52:01,359 board. A reduction of $14 million by the previous board. I did not vote for that. 588 00:51:59,359 --> 00:52:05,839 And an increase in salaries of $9 million. I did not vote for that because 589 00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:10,960 I didn't pencil out. Not because we didn't have um the need, but because you 590 00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:16,319 have to be able to balance the budget. At the same time during that period, 591 00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:20,800 Chief Hart and his words predates him, but his team put together this 592 00:52:18,559 --> 00:52:24,480 continuing law enforcement pay schedule for commissioned officers. There's a 593 00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:28,800 commitment to support that to keep the command staff and public safety top 594 00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:33,119 priority in Kenyon County and we are going to honor that and move forward. 595 00:52:31,119 --> 00:52:40,160 There is value in it and the numbers are legitimate and solid. So all of that 596 00:52:37,599 --> 00:52:45,119 a tremendous lift for Marty. Thank you for the work that you've done. It 597 00:52:43,359 --> 00:52:51,359 it's it's been a great effort on your part and part of the team. So, as you 598 00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:56,800 indicated, we've tried to mitigate the some of the downfalls of the budget 599 00:52:54,319 --> 00:53:00,240 that we were given, but I think we've done a great job. I am proud to work 600 00:52:58,319 --> 00:53:04,240 with Commissioner Brooks, Commissioner Bolton. It's been again a privilege to 601 00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:07,680 be a part of this team. They're dedicated. They understand government 602 00:53:06,079 --> 00:53:12,760 and they are here to move this county forward. singles is what we share. 603 00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:17,240 » Mr. Chairman, 604 00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:27,640 » I didn't have it on my public hearing bingo card that you were going to talk 605 00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:27,640 more than commissioner, but here we are. 606 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:37,839 I say that I you're spot on. Your comments are are 607 00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:42,400 well made. Um you take this position and you 608 00:53:40,240 --> 00:53:47,839 understand that you have to play the the hand that you're dealt and good bad, 609 00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:54,240 you just got to go forward with it. And fortunately, we have a lot of good 610 00:53:49,839 --> 00:53:59,680 people around us uh that are very willing and capable to to do good work 611 00:53:57,119 --> 00:54:04,720 and give us a lot of good information, advice on how to put this budget 612 00:54:02,720 --> 00:54:11,359 together. So, normally I get a little nervous when we use the word we in this 613 00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:15,040 process, but again, like I said earlier, uh at this point, we've had so many 614 00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:20,800 meetings and discussions on the record that um it's my opinion, this budget is 615 00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:26,000 what it is by the time we get to this point. And I actually appreciate that. 616 00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:32,319 I've been coming to these off and on since I think 2016 and 617 00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:38,000 I don't mind that it's not as contentious as some of those ones that I 618 00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:41,920 came to a decade ago and you know they didn't they didn't follow that same 619 00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:50,000 process that we have this year. I think it's very beneficial to to all of us. 620 00:54:46,559 --> 00:54:55,680 It is. It is. And and uh you and I attend the Treasure Valley Partnership. 621 00:54:52,559 --> 00:55:01,280 Commissioner Van gets to at times. And the price for admission has got to be an 622 00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:07,280 elected official. And we were talking in the last two meetings about the turnout 623 00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:13,280 in Treasure Valley in our political subdivisions on budget hearing. And it's 624 00:55:10,240 --> 00:55:17,599 a weird phenomenon that you are an anomaly. How many people showed up 625 00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:23,680 tonight? Let's put it that way. It's not uncommon for nobody to sh that's a sad 626 00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:29,040 state of politics. Something that we might 627 00:55:26,240 --> 00:55:34,640 another thing that I want to quickly u sometimes numbers are really hard to 628 00:55:31,599 --> 00:55:40,640 grasp. So let's let's talk about the growth not this way. So let's say that 629 00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:45,680 we have a we have a potluck. Who know who doesn't know what a potluck is? So 630 00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:50,240 pot luck is when a group gets together and they say everybody bring enough food 631 00:55:47,839 --> 00:55:56,079 for yourself and maybe some some people that are not as privileged as you to 632 00:55:52,960 --> 00:56:02,880 have extra food. So you do it for 100 people but the rules somebody else 633 00:55:58,720 --> 00:56:06,720 outside the rule said no you only bring food for 90. You're going to have 100 634 00:56:05,119 --> 00:56:12,400 people there but you're only bringing food for 90. And you keep doing that and 635 00:56:09,359 --> 00:56:16,400 it keeps increasing and that 10% keeps growing to 20%, keeps growing, keeps 636 00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:21,839 growing. Pretty soon you're going to be having a potluck and you're going to 637 00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:28,880 have to decide what percentage of you is not going to get to eat. That's what 638 00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:34,880 house 389 is doing to us. And next year will be the dividing year. And after 639 00:56:31,599 --> 00:56:39,680 that, most likely it will be a few less patrolman. There'll be a few less here, 640 00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:45,040 be a few less there. And I get it. There's people out there that hate taxes 641 00:56:42,319 --> 00:56:50,160 so much that they don't care if the ambulance is not available on those 58 642 00:56:48,240 --> 00:56:54,079 times we saw on the screen. They don't care. And there's people out there that 643 00:56:52,400 --> 00:57:00,400 don't care if there's one less patrol car, there's one less prosecutor, 644 00:56:56,319 --> 00:57:04,640 there's one less whatever that is. And I really would encourage them to 645 00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:09,760 reconsider that we have lived really well the way it is now and to start 646 00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:17,359 defunding whether it's the police or something else is really not the best 647 00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:20,880 method to take. Really isn't. And if you feel that way, why don't you come in and 648 00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:26,720 attend some of our meetings and let's try to decide what we maybe could get or 649 00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:31,200 we could we could make different choices on. I don't know, but it's going to 650 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:36,480 start coming down to choices. And I wanted to make that painfully clear at 651 00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:42,799 this budget hearing because my suspicion is um it's going to be a little bit more 652 00:57:39,599 --> 00:57:47,680 difficult this year. And so, not that I'm going to tell you I told you so, but 653 00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:53,760 I might tell you I told you so. So, I really love to be proved wrong. Take it. 654 00:57:50,000 --> 00:58:02,839 Take it away legislature. Get it done. That'd be great for me. All right. I'm 655 00:57:58,559 --> 00:58:02,839 I think enough said 656 00:58:03,119 --> 00:58:13,760 I'm interested in if you would like to deliberate towards making a decision on 657 00:58:10,079 --> 00:58:20,000 we have three budgets. Um budgets are fascinating. Out of the 44 counties we 658 00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:24,559 have more political subdivisions than any other county of the state. The next 659 00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:30,240 closest one is Ada County. They have 40ish. We have 64. And what's a 660 00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:36,160 political subdivision? Political subdivisions, anything from city, school 661 00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:42,240 district, cemetery district, library district. It the list goes on for quite 662 00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:46,880 a ways. And so county is pretty pretty blessed. We have we have like nine 663 00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:52,799 school districts that encroach into Canyon County, but are outside of the 664 00:58:48,799 --> 00:58:59,280 county with their school buildings. Uh we have most 665 00:58:55,680 --> 00:59:04,319 of your property taxes have at least seven lines and most of them have more 666 00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:09,359 than 10. And that's because where you choose to 667 00:59:06,319 --> 00:59:14,000 live is a cross-section of four. You can think of it as this overlay zone. And so 668 00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:19,280 you could be in this library district but you should not be in two. You should 669 00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:25,280 be in this school district but not two. You should be in a cemetery district, 670 00:59:21,599 --> 00:59:31,440 but not to but everybody's in King County's tax district. Everybody's in 671 00:59:28,559 --> 00:59:39,440 the ambulance district. And from there, the divisions start. And so even within 672 00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:44,720 Canyon County's taxi line, we have just as uh we have multiple ones that are 673 00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:50,880 within that mill levy rate. What is a mill levy rate? Mill levy rate is the 674 00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:58,160 net taxable value of all of those properties all out there divided by the 675 00:59:54,160 --> 01:00:04,319 budget. That's your multiple of what it is. So when you look down through the 676 00:59:59,920 --> 01:00:08,079 taxes it says the county is 0135 or whatever the number is. That's the 677 01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:14,160 rate that you're looking. So you take that multiple 678 01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:20,000 multiply it against the value net value of the property figure out what the 679 01:00:16,799 --> 01:00:24,240 exact bill that you pay to county that you paid to the ambulance district or 680 01:00:21,839 --> 01:00:28,880 you pay to the cemetery or you the library district whoever it is that's on 681 01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:35,359 property tax. So tonight we're talking about three of 682 01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:39,680 them, but I don't see Does anybody live here from Melba? See, nobody's here from 683 01:00:38,079 --> 01:00:45,040 Melba. We're going to be dealing with theirs. You are not going to have that 684 01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:50,480 on your property. And um so we're going to deal with with three. So which one 685 01:00:48,319 --> 01:00:53,680 would you like to deal with right away first? 686 01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:57,760 Let's do the big one. >> Do the big one. All right. So that's 687 01:00:55,440 --> 01:01:07,760 that's Cany County. That would include like the jail, a sheriff, the uh lastly 688 01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:13,440 assessor and department of service and and we have a we have a whole we 689 01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:18,079 have 15 directors. Right. Right. Have 15 directors and you can look this up on 690 01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:23,359 the internet. We got a great page that shows all of the trees, all of the all 691 01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:30,480 of the way that lines out who's under who and who does what. And uh and if you 692 01:01:28,079 --> 01:01:36,400 have an idea how we might be able to do that better, you can get a hold of Karen 693 01:01:32,799 --> 01:01:43,359 Williams and he'll get on it. And he he's our he's our public guy. We our our 694 01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:52,559 goal is to try to communicate as most effectively as we can and uh we try. 695 01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:59,359 So Mr. Chairman, I have a question. >> Yes. Um, we have the dollar amounts for 696 01:01:56,079 --> 01:02:06,680 these three budgets. Guess normally we have a resolution to go along with them 697 01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:06,680 to refer to. So I don't 698 01:02:07,119 --> 01:02:11,319 I don't want to do that. 699 01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:16,760 We can just approve. 700 01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:36,799 So, Mr. Mr. Chairman, I would move that we would approve the fiscal year 2026 701 01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:41,240 budget of 161,870,45 702 01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:48,040 say 44. 703 01:02:48,559 --> 01:02:51,559 Okay. 704 01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:59,799 All three together. >> Okay. 705 01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:59,799 So there's there's 706 01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:11,280 uh in included in that Mr. Chairman would be 707 01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:16,240 I guess we didn't have discussion on this so I just take shot so we can shoot 708 01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:23,599 it down. Uh that would include moving the 30,000 that was awarded for the 709 01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:27,760 quiet zone rail crossings to be moved into our reserve fund. 710 01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:32,160 Um, as well as part of this motion, I would 711 01:03:29,599 --> 01:03:36,640 move that we approve the uh 712 01:03:35,119 --> 01:03:40,280 budget for the Canyon County Pest Control of $369,563 713 01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:47,880 and the budget for Melba Gopher of $12,000. 714 01:03:48,799 --> 01:03:53,720 Do we need to include the portions? 715 01:03:55,680 --> 01:04:03,280 Make a motion. >> Okay. I will second chairman or 716 01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:09,480 commission motion. >> So you read those 717 01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:09,480 straight off the Mr. 718 01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:19,640 » Okay. Very good. Okay. And you included your 30,000 if you wanted to change. 719 01:04:20,079 --> 01:04:25,760 So yes. All right. I entertain a second. >> And I second. 720 01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:31,520 » You did second. All right. >> All right. Motion has been made and 721 01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:33,440 seconded for all three of those budgets. All those in favor say I. 722 01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:42,640 » I. >> I. Motion carries unanimously. So now 723 01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:49,280 it would be best to Yeah, we had a So now it would be best 724 01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:53,240 to make a motion to approve separately a motion. You could do all three. 725 01:04:55,359 --> 01:05:00,200 So once the budget budget 726 01:05:00,799 --> 01:05:08,720 Mr. Chairman, I move that we adopt uh the L2 worksheets that we have been 727 01:05:05,599 --> 01:05:15,280 presented for the Canyon County for Canyon County for Noble Go for the 728 01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:18,960 King County Pest control. >> I second. 729 01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:20,960 » Okay. Motion's been made and seconded. All those in favor say I. 730 01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:29,119 » I. >> I. I. Motion carries unanimous. 731 01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:33,319 All right, Mr. Chairman. Yes. uh in 732 01:05:42,480 --> 01:05:50,160 so for Mr. on the we've been provided it's 733 01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:54,480 recovering 1% and I'm in favor of 1% 734 01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:59,119 3% 3% would be a larger dollar amount that 735 01:05:56,640 --> 01:06:03,599 we could use for capital expenses but the 1% amount 736 01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:09,839 [Music] that goes into the total base that we 737 01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:16,720 can for next year and considering the uh the decision that was made 738 01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:22,240 by two when commissioners before we took these seats. U 739 01:06:19,599 --> 01:06:29,039 I it is my opinion that it it necessitates that we take the 1% for 740 01:06:24,559 --> 01:06:32,720 them to try to claw back some of that which was not corrected before 741 01:06:31,119 --> 01:06:39,160 we got here is causing some of the issues that that we are dealing with 742 01:06:35,359 --> 01:06:39,160 today. Okay. 743 01:06:39,599 --> 01:06:44,760 And that dollar amount Mr. chairman is $632,693. 744 01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:51,559 Okay. There was a forgone amount for 745 01:06:56,400 --> 01:07:04,760 it. Yes. Yes. Yes. So the go is $76 for 746 01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:16,440 Oh, that's reserved. I'm sorry. >> Yes. That's the 747 01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:16,440 » text. 748 01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:20,280 I second the motion. 749 01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:26,680 » Let's do these because two 750 01:07:27,119 --> 01:07:33,559 back. So, Mr. Chairman, I move that. >> Okay. 751 01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:44,640 » Mr. Chairman, I move that the um that we adopt 752 01:07:41,839 --> 01:07:50,599 portion of the L2 considering recovered for gone of 1% in the amount of $632,693 753 01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:55,599 for the Ky County budget. >> I second. 754 01:07:53,680 --> 01:08:00,559 » Okay. Motion has been made and second. All those in favor say I. 755 01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:03,559 » I. I. Right. 756 01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:12,079 » So, Mr. Mr. Chairman, I move that we reserve foregone for Mel Gopher in the 757 01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:15,680 amount of $76. >> I second it. 758 01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:17,359 » Okay. Motion's been made second. All those in favor say I. 759 01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:24,480 » I. >> I. I. Motion carries unanimously. 760 01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:29,080 Mr. Chairman, I move that we reserve uh the amount of $14,182 761 01:08:29,279 --> 01:08:35,839 and foregone for Kenny County Pest control. 762 01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:42,000 » I second. Okay. Motion has been made and seconded. All those in favor say I. 763 01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:45,080 » I. I. Motion carries. All right. 764 01:08:58,400 --> 01:09:03,159 Do you see anything else that is left? 765 01:09:07,839 --> 01:09:14,199 We've covered everything that's on the agenda. Is there any closing remarks? 766 01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:32,040 » I think the clerk has some conation about something. 767 01:09:33,279 --> 01:09:40,199 Okay, we can test later. Okay, 768 01:09:50,159 --> 01:09:54,960 » chair move. >> Second. 769 01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:59,920 » All right, motions been made and seconded for adjournment. All those say 770 01:09:56,719 --> 01:10:04,199 in favor say I. I motion carries unanimous considering 771 01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,520 So party.