[0:21] Okay, good evening. I'll call the
meeting to work order
[0:25] and we have several different agenda
items to take care of tonight and
[0:32] naturally we have two different legal
and public hearings and what we're going
[0:37] to do both agenda eyes there's a 5:00
start time we're going to choose to
[0:44] start with the Canyon County Ambulance
District fiscal year 2026 budget hearing
[0:51] so uh With that, um, I'll call the
meeting to order acting as the board of
[0:57] commissioners for the Kenny County
Ambulance District.
[1:01] And so, uh, call to order. So, present
is Commissioner Brooks, Commissioner
[1:07] Dani, and I'm Commissioner Bolton again
for the record. And so, start with the
[1:13] agenda item, and it's approval of board
meeting agenda notice postings. Has the
[1:18] postings been made?
>> Yes.
[1:20] » Okay.
It's been made. So, do I have a motion
[1:24] to receive the secretary's agenda notice
postage report?
[1:27] » Chairman, I move that we accept the
agenda.
[1:30] » Second. All right. Motion's been made,
seconded to accept the agenda as posted.
[1:34] All those in favor say I.
>> I.
[1:37] » I. Motion carries unanimously. So, is
there's no need to amen the agenda
[1:42] tonight?
>> Nope. All right. So, new business public
[1:47] hearing for teny fiscal year 2025 to
2026 budget. So, I would open the uh
[1:55] public hearing for the tenant budget and
it's been posted and is there anyone who
[2:02] would like to address the board on the
proposed budget?
[2:11] All right, last call.
All right. Being there's none, I would
[2:16] like to have the chief come up and go
through the budget presentation as as
[2:23] has been advertised presented and if
there's any additional things that you
[2:28] would like to call out and make.
[2:33] So, Mr. Chair,
and audience members, thank you for
[2:37] being here tonight to hear the
presentation for the county district
[2:41] budget. I'd also like to thank uh all my
co-workers, the staff. It's been a
[2:46] really rough year. We've shared a lot of
data over the last couple years and
[2:49] they've uh they've carried on through
quite a bit of some tough times and turn
[2:53] over and everything and so really
appreciate them. Uh and also really
[2:58] appreciate the voters this year. Uh we
went out for a couple levy overrides
[3:03] that failed the first few times and it
did end up passing. I do have a slide in
[3:06] here that will show a little bit about
that and we just couldn't be more
[3:10] thankful for the voters. Uh it is going
to be a game changer for for our
[3:14] community from everything from the
hospitals, fire, police, everybody's
[3:19] going to benefit from annual service. So
this is the long overdue and I think fin
[3:30] that their tax dollars are at work. So,
so we really appreciate that. So, start
[3:36] off with
uh
[3:42] okay, I always have this slide. I just
have four slides, I think, tonight. Just
[3:45] always put this up just so people can
have kind of a little bit idea of who we
[3:49] are. We have about 70 paramedics and
EMTs on staff. Kind of comes up goes up
[3:54] and down depending on the year. 12
administrative staff. We do have eight
[3:58] ambulances in service each day if we're
fully staffed. We have one ALS chase
[4:03] vehicle in Wilder. I just have a single
paramedic that responds ambulance and we
[4:09] have nine stations that we function out
of and we really work well with the fire
[4:14] department. So you can see we co-house
with Middleton, Wilder, Nampa and
[4:18] sometimes we're at the call fire station
if we are fully staffed fiscal year call
[4:23] volume. So we hover right around 20,000
uh probably going to be up around 21,000
[4:29] this next year just with growth. So
pretty consistent there.
[4:34] So just to put up a little bit of levy
override information. I know probably
[4:38] most everybody in this room has seen it
because we were all over everywhere news
[4:42] you name it for uh starting at the end
of 2023
[4:46] and end of 2024. So we asked for $7.9
million for two years temporary
[4:52] override. We will be back before the
voters in two years uh to ask for that
[4:57] to continue on. Uh the main focus was to
rebuild the station in Amb torn down to
[5:04] build a new station in Calwell because
we haven't built one here in Calwell in
[5:07] 22 years and so we're long overdue for
that station. Want to add an ambulance
[5:11] to the station to that station. Had
seven paramedics with competitive wages
[5:16] that we're already working on. And then
these just last two bullet points are
[5:20] things that people probably don't
realize happens. This is some of the
[5:23] data we got really good sharing on
monthly basis that people we got a lot
[5:27] of feedback that they couldn't believe
some of these numbers. So level zero
[5:31] means there are no ambulances available
to take a call and so this data was from
[5:36] July. So 13 times during that month
there every ambulance on a call could
[5:40] not go and the number of times that
ambulance were shut down. So when we
[5:46] shut down ambulances is typically the
one in Middleton one of the n units and
[5:50] the wild unit. So 58 times units were
shut down and that's hard to think of
[5:55] but literally without that $1, we would
have continued that. So that's hard to
[6:01] fathom that that's the case. We live the
reality. So it's it is the case.
[6:08] So here is our fiscal budget for 2026
and it has the 2025 2026 and the
[6:16] difference. So salaries and benefits um
you'll see that went up significantly
[6:21] for 2026 because that is part of that
those levy dollars. One was to add more
[6:26] staff and then to get competitive wages
because our turnover rate much the same
[6:31] as the sheriff's department several
years ago was you know as high as 20%.
[6:36] We just couldn't keep people with the
wages that we were paying. They'd start
[6:39] with us and off to the next department
they go once they're trained. So that's
[6:43] why that went up so much that the tax
dollars are paying for that and we're
[6:47] going to be able to retain people and
hire more people and then keep them
[6:51] which will actually cause some of those
expenses to go down. So uh benefits,
[6:56] same thing. So a total there a budget of
$1.9 million
[7:02] down to Budget. Uh so the reason that
first capital expenses and purchase went
[7:08] up is because of the stations that we
need to build. So that's uh that's a
[7:12] higher number than normal, but that will
cover those two stations. Leases went up
[7:17] slightly because we're leasing the space
at Middleton fire this year where we
[7:21] have that ambulance service agreements
just the typical that goes up.
[7:26] Professionals took our fees. This is
part of the reason that one went up
[7:30] because we need to pay fees for the A&E
because we're going to build a building.
[7:34] We've got to actually budget for which
we haven't had in the past. that
[7:38] definitely raise that line by item.
Supply is pretty typical goes up.
[7:42] Telephines went down. Um repair and
maintenance just your typical up and
[7:46] down. And then the big one down at the
the bottom we have to because those levy
[7:53] funds are going to come in. We usually
just zero out our budget. You know, we
[7:57] need to balance. So we have to show what
we're going to have in that reserve fund
[8:01] by the end of the year. And that is
because we won't expend all those levy
[8:05] dollars the first year. They will carry
into the next year to go into those
[8:09] projects that we have budgeted for. So
there's your total fiscal year budget.
[8:15] Then down into the revenue to property
taxes. That's where you will see the
[8:18] reflection of that temporary override
funds came in. That's why it went up by
[8:23] $8 million. The 7.9 plus the 3% that
that all goes in there. So that's why
[8:29] that is higher than normal for us.
ARPA we will expend all of our ARPA
[8:35] funds in the current fiscal year. So
that's why that will be zeroed out for
[8:38] 2026 because those funds
service fees we kept um that's the
[8:45] ambulance fees that people pay when they
take a trip. We kept that flat because
[8:49] it's gone up and down so much this year
that uh we just thought rather than
[8:54] taking it up to do more let's just keep
it flat. We want to make sure that we
[8:58] get through our budget in case it goes
down slightly. So, we just kept that one
[9:02] flat. Other uh that one went up uh
slightly
[9:08] 1.2 $1.4 million. And that is those some
possible funds that we can get. Uh
[9:14] there's some Medicaid funds, federal
dollars, and we hope those come in.
[9:18] We're not budgeting to
to rely on them, but that's why that
[9:23] number is there because of possible that
we're really hoping to get, but not
[9:27] necessarily counting on totally to get
that.
[9:32] that is
so definitely a different one for us
[9:36] just because of the funds the levy funds
that like I said we could not be more
[9:40] thankful we're going to be very
transparent we move through whether it's
[9:44] building stations hiring staff you know
that's going to be on the social media
[9:48] we're going to show the taxpayers each
time that we do something that said
[9:52] we're going to do so they can see that
we actually are doing what they what
[9:56] they look for
that's
[10:05] only one and that it's just more a
matter of record on total bad debts
[10:10] makes it look like we're not pursuing
those skip that line but that actually
[10:14] includes the contractually adjusted
portion which you can't legally pursue.
[10:17] So that's a little bit of a conr that we
can't break that out.
[10:21] » Yep, correct. I probably have my top
line down through there. So yes, that is
[10:25] an is an odd one. It has to do with the
Medicare write offs that we are forced
[10:30] to. It is not something that's sent off
to collections. Uh they do dictate what
[10:35] charge for a call and so they dictate
what writing off. So that is correct.
[10:39] That is not our department is not doing
their job. That's mandated. It's
[10:44] unfortunate, but you got to show it.
Thanks for
[10:51] a great job.
good about presenting your budget and
[10:56] being fiscally conservative to the point
where you didn't take
[11:00] increase yourself for several years
dedicated to completing that department
[11:04] and it's tough when you don't have the
wages to support that you're correct
[11:08] that turnover is very costly and so we
should be able to
[11:14] facilitate
>> we're looking forward to keeping people
[11:17] up so the the cos too they they don't
like seeing people coming down so we're
[11:22] looking forward to it. That'll be a new
day.
[11:26] » Yeah.
>> I'm in favor of passing this budget as
[11:30] it's been presented. There's been a lot
of work. We met probably more times with
[11:34] the ambulance district than we did any
other department or office in Ky County.
[11:39] There's a lot of work that went into
this.
[11:44] » We have we spent several quite a few
meetings. They're all published in the
[11:49] records.
[11:57] So I would entertain discussion or
motion to approve resolution
[12:04] 25-21
year 2025 to 2026 budget.
[12:11] Mr. Mr. Chair, I move that we approve
and sign resolution number 2521,
[12:17] the resolution on board county
district
[12:22] » as presented.
>> I second.
[12:24] » All right. Motion's been made and
seconded. All those in favor say I.
[12:28] » I.
>> I. I. Motion carries unanimously.
[12:31] All right. So that brings us to the
third agenda item and it's to approve
[12:35] the 2025 dollar certification of the
budget request to board of
[12:41] board of county commissioners and
commonly referred to as the L2
[12:49] and it literally is says L204. So there
you go. So I have discussion or a motion
[12:55] to to approve that.
Chairman, I move that we approve the L2
[13:01] as presented.
>> I second. All right. Motion's been made
[13:04] and seconded. All those in favor say I.
>> I.
[13:07] » I. I. Motion carries unanimously.
>> All right.
[13:12] Care of the business for this. Uh do you
have any closing comment?
[13:16] » I do not. I appreciate.
>> We're just I think all of us are just
[13:20] really thankful to be in this position
and moving forward.
[13:25] We will we will stay open and
transparent as we make those decisions
[13:30] on those stations.
[13:34] » All right, Mr. Chairman, I move that we
adjourn. All right,
[13:38] » I second.
>> Motion's been made and seconded to
[13:40] adjournment. All those in favor say I.
>> I.
[13:42] » I. We are pass the county district board
of commissioners.
[13:50] All right. Thank you.
[14:01] So with that we will now
I would like to open
[14:09] the Canyon County Board of Commissioners
uh meeting. So present is Commissioner
[14:14] Brooks Commission by Commissioner Brad
Holton. And tonight on the agenda item,
[14:21] it is a budget hearing for Canyon
County, Canyon County Pest Control
[14:26] District and the Melbour District. So
we're going to do a public hearing on
[14:31] the Oregon gun increase also will be
held in conjunction with county's annual
[14:37] annual budget hearing this evening.
[14:42] So with that um the audience that that
came there is a packet and have a a
[14:53] public hearing agenda.
So what I'd like to do is welcome
[14:58] everyone here for the the county's
portion of the public hearing on the
[15:03] budget tonight. And uh for the audience
that's tuning in, we have I don't know,
[15:10] I'm guessing in the neighborhood of what
3540 people in the gallery. And so we
[15:16] appreciate you taking the time to join
us by internet.
[15:22] With that, um
I would like to ask either of my fellow
[15:28] commissioners if you have an open
statement that you care to or just get
[15:33] right into the agenda.
I have closing comments, but I prefer
[15:38] just a public.
>> You can be a real
[15:44] good
>> um I I would you want to pass I have a
[15:49] couple
straight public.
[15:53] » Okay. So, I just like to to put on the
record that uh everyone in Idaho lives
[15:59] in one of the 44 counties. And these
counties range in size from under 7,000
[16:05] people to somewhere above 535,000
people in a single county. And so,
[16:12] Canyon is uh by numbers, you can look
one of the higher numbers that is on the
[16:18] internet, it's 267,000
people. I I believe is more than likely
[16:24] above that, but that's that's the data
that was was mined off of the internet
[16:30] this afternoon. So, the thing that's
interesting about counties is we have
[16:37] many things that are mandated by the
state and some of them are not paid for.
[16:44] They are paid for out of our property
taxes. And so um it makes things tough
[16:51] as budgets get tight and we are still
mandated to perform the services and we
[16:58] are moving towards critical mass on that
and I think some of the details of that
[17:04] concern will come out later during the u
the presentation and the public hearing.
[17:11] So I just want to to make note of that.
Further into the meeting, I'm going to
[17:15] give you some data on uh the jail and
the population in the jail and what that
[17:23] cost us as taxpayers.
It's probably some information that some
[17:29] people are going to find that's pretty
frustrating. But any rate, I am glad
[17:35] that we have got to this point. Uh we
have gone through numerous meetings to
[17:42] get to where we are tonight.
and they are delineated on the annual
[17:46] packet. This uh same packet that that
we're referring to and have printed out
[17:51] is also available on the web page on our
agenda as a PDF that was posted earlier
[18:00] this afternoon and before the meeting.
So, if you that are tuning in want to to
[18:06] go to the Cany County website, click on
that commissioner's agenda page. That
[18:10] PDF is right there on the agenda I have
posted for the five o'clock meeting that
[18:16] we are in right now tonight. So with
that um I would Is it okay with you too
[18:23] if I open public?
>> Yes.
[18:25] » All right. So I would like to open
public testimony. Is there anyone in the
[18:30] gallery that would like to address the
board of commissioners tonight
[18:35] concerning the budget?
[18:40] All right, last call.
All right, I would uh ask that we make a
[18:48] motion to close public testimony.
>> Go ahead.
[18:52] » Second.
>> Is it full of words tonight? Okay,
[18:56] motion's been made and seconded. All
those in favor say I.
[19:00] » I.
>> I. Motion carries unanimously. So now
[19:04] we're in the portion of the agenda that
is the deliberation to a budget decision
[19:09] and any statements that by each
commissioner that they might have. So uh
[19:14] we can discuss priorities for the fiscal
2026 budget or whatever items you have
[19:21] in your statement that you would like to
share.
[19:30] » Well, chairman, thank you. This has been
a pretty big process. You have indicated
[19:35] that on page seven, that's where you're
going to find the data that you
[19:39] referenced, 26 days of budget meetings
with more than 65 budget related
[19:45] discussions on the record. So, uh, the
board has adopted a philosophy of trust,
[19:50] transparency, respect, and unification,
service, and teamwork. So we have tried
[19:55] to the very best of our ability to be
inclusive in that process and welcome
[19:59] anyone that wants to come. And to our
recollection there was not one citizen
[20:04] that showed up. There were a lot of
elected officials, chief deputies,
[20:09] people in the department that were
interested in coming that which makes
[20:13] sense. It's a big deal to have a budget,
particularly coming out of a previous
[20:17] board where there was a reduction of $14
million, an increase in $9 million of
[20:22] salaries and other ancillary costs that
really made it challenging. So, the
[20:27] priorities for this board were to be
able to bring stability to the budget
[20:31] while continuing excellence in service
and retaining employees. That was
[20:35] important to us. So, thank you everyone
that's bothered to come. This is a a
[20:39] less attended meeting, but I think it's
a direct reflection of the unity with
[20:44] within the board of county commissioners
and really rolling up their sleeves and
[20:48] getting to the job with collaborative
efforts between all the elected
[20:51] officials, the added presence of Rick
Hob. And then, um, I want to really
[20:56] highlight the efforts of our chief
operating officer, Greg Brass. He's
[21:01] dedicated. He's strategic and his
leadership he's tenured in the public
[21:04] sector and he understands Fonda County
accounting. His ability to lead and
[21:08] network and bring people together has
contributed to not only the success of
[21:12] this budget but the overall county
operations. So, thank you for that. You
[21:16] deserve a lot of recognition for what
you do for Kenyan County and um you've
[21:21] been in government service a long time
and and thank you. I also appreciate
[21:25] that that our controller Kyle Wilmont
and the clerk have brought together the
[21:31] reflective efforts of the board to
retain employees to work together with
[21:37] this to reflect what it is that we want
to do to provide stability and at the
[21:41] same time deliver that excellence and
service that we talked about. So the
[21:45] dedication of the taxpayer dollars are
really evident across county for capital
[21:49] projects, long range planning and
retaining employees and the produ
[21:54] productive government is really
something I don't want to take for
[21:57] granted. Um inviting is difficult to
work in a climate like that. Thank you
[22:02] for helping get some of that worked out.
Um but
[22:06] um it's evident across the county with
the capital projects. There's a listing
[22:10] of those in there. What the tax dollars
are doing from the sheriff's
[22:13] administration building. Um I've heard
that there are is a group of people who
[22:17] are wondering why commissioners are not
moving more on the geo project. So
[22:22] obviously their lack of attendance at a
budget hearing, they're not
[22:25] understanding that we have a women's
facility that is phase one underway. I
[22:29] want to recognize Doug Hart as well
because without his leadership and his
[22:32] ability to articulate a budget, it would
not be the same scenario that we're
[22:37] talking about to move that effort
forward. There are long range plans for
[22:40] a public safety facility. We have Chris
Boyd here who really does a marvelous
[22:46] job even earlier in the game at
representing what prosecution should
[22:50] look like in Kenya County. Thank you.
Appreciate that your team. Uh so it is a
[22:54] fantastic team and uh
budget is just one part of what 10
[23:00] county commissioners do. Um coming early
in 2026, the war county commissioners
[23:06] will be focused on policy. So enhanced
services, increased public safety,
[23:11] answering the call of phase one for a
jail facility and managing growth,
[23:16] adding to the recreational opportunities
in Kenya County. That all contributes to
[23:20] where we're at today. It's a privilege
to serve as a commissioner in Kenya
[23:24] County and what we're doing to move this
forward to be really a leader in the
[23:29] state of Idaho and what we do. It's our
directors are amazing. I appreciate
[23:34] their presence here tonight. All of you
that are here if you're not mentioned by
[23:37] name. Uh but you're a great team to work
with and as chief operating officer
[23:42] reports back to the board. You're a
pleasure to work with. So, thank you for
[23:46] letting me express. I do want to also
call out Aaron Williams uh that
[23:50] constituent services position in
managing the public interface with the
[23:55] citizens of Kenya County. He's an unsung
hero. He has a list of qualifications
[24:00] that is amazing and he brings them to
bear here in Kenya County and we really
[24:05] appreciate what's being given for us.
So,
[24:15] Good job.
You're the best hype man around.
[24:20] Um, Mr. Chairman, I really have prepared
remarks other than I appreciate the
[24:24] process that we go through every year. I
think the
[24:29] at least I would like to think the lack
of
[24:33] folks that have signed up to
to give remarks on the budget good, bad
[24:39] or different is indicative of how
thorough the process is, how transparent
[24:44] it is um and you know right, wrong or
indifferent I like to say but basically
[24:53] by this time through the process which
we've gone crew and the numerous
[24:58] meetings that we have held because it's
basically cooked, you know. Um
[25:05] I would point out a few of these. I've
just been looking through it and think
[25:09] until I sit here, but you can you can
see that the overall budget is up and if
[25:14] you look at that that you know instantly
can cause you great concern if you do
[25:19] not go through this and actually review
what is the cause of that.
[25:24] um you know and and most of that would
be centered around the uh the sheriff's
[25:31] budget and rightly so in this case
because the sheriff's office building
[25:36] that we need to complete and the female
detention facility that um we definitely
[25:42] need to get moved on in my opinion. Um,
but if you go through and look at this
[25:48] as far as other expenses on the what we
call BB budget side,
[25:54] a lot of these are down and down
considerably. And I would give kudos to
[26:00] those of you here in the room that have
participated in that. We request that
[26:04] you keep your budgets flat. and if we
were going to entertain the idea of
[26:11] adding any employees that you came with
um how that employee was going to be
[26:16] paid for and I think at this point we
are adding one employee because
[26:21] um because the revenue is covering that
other than that you guys have all done a
[26:27] remarkable job um in in crafting your
own budgets and working with the board
[26:32] and our in our desire to keep this as
wide as we possibly we could, but yet
[26:37] still provide the services that we feel
that we need to at the level that the
[26:42] taxpayer expects and is acceptable with.
Um,
[26:50] and as Commissioner Bambi said, it is a
group effort. It's been very
[26:54] collaborative.
Um,
[26:58] we haven't always agreed on everything
and I kind of enjoy that sometimes,
[27:02] maybe too much. But, um,
yeah,
[27:08] this is I voted to I voted to print
this, Mr. Chairman. Um, and I'm still in
[27:14] support of it. I would I would like to
potentially make one small change, and
[27:21] it's not up or down. It would be
the clerk's gonna love this. Um,
[27:29] we've been holding on to $30,000 out
there for uh that loud thing that goes
[27:34] by every day multiple times.
I'm not exactly wanting to get rid of
[27:40] that. I would like to uh I would like to
move that into the reserve account. At
[27:44] this time, I'm not entirely impressed
with or
[27:54] expectant that our city partner is is
going to meet us where I would feel
[28:00] comfortable
meeting partway with those spots. So I
[28:04] would rather move those into the reserve
account that if we were to need them
[28:09] later that we would have them
availility.
[28:13] » Okay.
[28:19] » Yes. And fisher, do you mind speaking a
little bit about the
[28:25] I guess some of the confusion that's
created by the receipt of the ramp arbor
[28:30] funds and then the expenditure of those
were the onetime expenses. Can you talk
[28:36] a little bit about that again?
[28:41] » Just
I think it's important because there was
[28:46] a lot of rhetoric that was inaccurate
information around the ARPA funds that
[28:50] have been receeded. So um there's going
the rest of those funds are going to be
[28:54] expended by the end of this year. But it
makes the budget look funny. I guess
[28:59] there I don't want to say anything
different than that. Oh, it makes it
[29:03] makes it look much larger than it
otherwise would be. I mean, if you look
[29:06] here
page four, it looks like we're spending
[29:13] Democrats, if you will.
My apologies Democrats, but um that
[29:21] number for
what everything I understand is is
[29:27] definitely going to go down. we have to
expend those ARA funds by the end of
[29:31] calendar year 2026.
Um,
[29:36] you know, that's partly why we're we're
doing the projects that we are we had to
[29:41] pick something and roll with it. We we
had deadlines to meet or we were going
[29:46] to have to get those back. And um you
can make the argument whether or not we
[29:50] should have accepted them or kept them
or spent them. and uh we've we've chose
[29:55] to keep them and expend them and in ways
that we think are going to benefit the
[30:00] citizens of Canyon County as best as we
can. So, by building that building, it's
[30:04] going to open up space
the rest of the county, the county uh
[30:10] courthouse, uh so that we can
potentially remodel in the next three or
[30:15] four years to better serve the public
and have have the uh courthouse better
[30:21] arranged. and some of the interest on
that money which you know we received 44
[30:25] million we're expending 8 million of
that this year but over those years were
[30:29] between the time that we received and
the time we were charged it's going to
[30:33] help offset some of the expenses on the
sheriff's administration building the
[30:37] revenue still has to be booked to match
the expense on that so it's a little bit
[30:42] confusing and the reason that I'm
bringing it out is not to confuse the
[30:45] public but to say that that narrative if
people don't understand accounting or
[30:51] the history and how we got here. Um, but
there just needs to be a statement on
[30:56] there that that's what's happening with
the budget is if we had to receive that
[31:01] revenue or to spend it on projects that
we've identified.
[31:05] » Correct. And it it is appropriate to
point out because it's used as a
[31:10] political weapon against us for again
looking like spend
[31:15] commissioners that have now fiscal
responsibility.
[31:19] um you know especially come election
time. So
[31:25] » right and I mean you can we can we can
explain it to local interface some are
[31:31] still going to choose not to not to
understand it
[31:35] choose to weaponize it. So it is what it
is.
[31:39] » Thank you for the discussion. I want to
say too that on the impact fees that's
[31:42] also moving forward. the countyy's
allowed to take the impact fees for four
[31:46] different reasons under Idaho state
statute and um Darren Williams has led
[31:51] that effort that's going to continue
move forward. People ask about that.
[31:55] He's really wellqualified and suited to
put that together but um establishing
[32:00] what as particularly as we look at the
sher and the jail people think impact
[32:05] fees will pay for that initial and I
would I don't think that it will. It
[32:10] won't. And so to evaluate that and
establish the plan, we have an impact
[32:15] fee committee in place which again
director Williams is in charge of and
[32:19] really we're really proud of his efforts
on that. It was what the public was
[32:22] asking for. We're answering that call
but that's coming and we'll be more
[32:28] active next year.
So chairman too I want to point out on
[32:33] the AR projects which is in there but um
Chief Soul talked about the ambulances.
[32:39] So the $2 million was out of the arc
funds that commissioners dedicated to
[32:43] serve the public in 911 events. The
animal shelter, there has been a lot of
[32:49] discussion around West Valley Humane
Society and the county dedicates a lot
[32:54] of inind resources as well as financial
dollars to support
[32:59] animals in Canyon County. The new
elections building was a huge win.
[33:04] County warehouse that we stopped paying
a lease payment. Now, we own the land
[33:07] and we own the building. The residential
properties where we're expanding those
[33:13] and making capital purchases is a win
for Canyon County. We've acquired a
[33:17] property that will help save taxpayers
money for fleet and our facilities as
[33:24] they build a lot of furniture. And then
again, the sheriff's administration
[33:27] building really will be a great
state-of-the-art emergency operations
[33:33] center and locate our command staff in
one place. They're a little bit
[33:36] scattered right now. Building that is,
you know, all these facilities are where
[33:41] the statistics are out there. We wanted
to ask the sheriff's office to proide
[33:44] those on the year that jail facilities
and sheriff's courouses all that were
[33:49] built that they are aging infrastructure
and we're answering the call before
[33:55] and building for the future.
[34:00] » Okay.
[34:05] Okay, I do a u
Okay, I do a short uh pick up and uh
[34:12] delineate a little bit deeper on the
animal shelter society. The county owns
[34:19] the facility. The county does not
operate the facility. The West Valley
[34:24] Humane Society operates the facility.
the county increased our budget that we
[34:31] give for that nonprofit to operate the
facility. We increased our budget
[34:36] $40,000 this year because we felt it was
our proportional share of what was
[34:43] needed to uh continue in operation. I
know that it may come up in the news a
[34:49] lot and I want to make it clear that for
uh this year we put almost a million
[34:56] dollars in ARPA funds and fixing and
restoring portions of that building that
[35:02] we didn't charge the humane society for.
And so I want to make it clear that even
[35:08] though the keyboard warriors are really
upset at different things about the
[35:14] animal shelter, this commissioner knows
that we are more than paying our
[35:19] proportional share. Now, that encumbers
other municipalities
[35:24] uh about what to do. And I I uh have
compassion for those other
[35:29] municipalities because they're working
in in budget struggling,
[35:35] throttling positions that the state
legislature has put us into. But, um
[35:41] just wanted to make that clear is it is
our building, but that's as far as that
[35:47] part goes.
What I'd like to do is pivot a little
[35:52] bit and I did a teaser on this at the
opening and u why are we now suddenly
[36:02] building a jail and the jail's been
before you three times with bond levies
[36:07] that called everything from the Taj
Mahal to not needed. Um the state
[36:12] legislature
in its infinite wisdom for for many
[36:17] decades and possibly over a hundred
years determined that counties run
[36:24] jails. The sheriff runs the jail and
where the prisoners and his officers the
[36:30] county commissioners own and maintain
the building.
[36:36] It's a It's a strange deal how that all
works, but in Ky County, it works
[36:41] flawless. We have a great relationship
with the sheriff and and his people. So,
[36:49] real numbers, today's population is 489
inmates. Today, 411 of them are males,
[36:56] 92 of them are females. So out of that
population, inmates sentenced to time in
[37:03] the prison today is 55 termers.
Today there's 61 parole holds, meaning
[37:11] that they have no other pending charges,
but they've done something and they've
[37:16] been thrown in jail.
Seven sentenced to a writer. Total is
[37:23] 123 in our jail today. that should be
moved to Idaho Department of
[37:28] Corrections. It should be out of here.
18 of those inmates ready to be moved to
[37:34] IDOC are female.
43 of the inmates have a local charge
[37:40] but also have a parole hold and is not
able to be bonded down. So these
[37:46] inmates, the state does not have to pay
for county health, but it's on a state
[37:53] charge writer that they're in the
system, but yet Cany County gets to hold
[37:57] that. So I say thank you to the
taxpayers of Canyon County. The state in
[38:04] its infinite wisdom pays Canyon County
for the first seven days of
[38:09] incarceration for their prison.
they pay $55
[38:16] for the after that they pay $76 a day.
So if you if you give them slack and you
[38:25] say well they maybe they only owe us
$55.
[38:28] So if you take 55 and today's just a
normal day. It's not a it's not a
[38:33] holiday. It's not go on a binge drinking
day. It's a normal middle day of the
[38:39] week day. 123 prisoners that should be
on the state system. That's $6,765.
[38:48] You multiply that by a year, 365. You
come out to, and thank you, Kenny County
[38:54] taxpayers. We're subsidizing the state
of Idaho, Idaho Department of
[38:59] Corrections, 2,469,225.
[39:06] and we're sitting here trying to figure
out how to get through a budget and that
[39:12] part frustrates me to no end.
[39:18] Moving right along.
I have been more than pleased that we
[39:25] asked the county
employees, their directors, and the
[39:31] elected officials to hold the budget as
best as they can and they've done that.
[39:38] So for this year
out in the county
[39:44] we
have had a increase
[39:50] of building
now I've lost the number
[39:57] chat page
[40:02] we are tonight or today and it's past
this since this number was taken we're
[40:06] at 106 6,000 parcels, 593.
When I got into office, we were
[40:14] somewhere between 98,000
and 101.
[40:19] So, we're growing. One of the things
that's going to be really important for
[40:24] public to get into their mind is this
chart here.
[40:30] If you look very careful, it's over
several years. 2017 clear ups 2024 does
[40:36] not include this year but look and see
where those lot divisions are occurring.
[40:45] News flash the majority of them are not
in Kenny County they are within the
[40:50] municipalities.
So when we get the ownerous of growth
[40:58] leveled at the Ky County Board of
Commissioners,
[41:01] we're not in the driver's seat in the
majority of those land divisions and the
[41:06] growth of Ky County. It's within the
incorporated municipalities. Another
[41:11] thing that just bores me, a municipality
does not does not ever ask permission to
[41:19] annex.
The state of Idaho set up that a county
[41:24] has the ground out there in the county
and anytime that a city wants to annex
[41:29] in. There's rules on the annexation for
them to be continuous, but a city can
[41:33] choose without permission from the
county to annex in anything and continue
[41:37] to grow. So what I'm trying to tell you
is when you have great frustrations
[41:43] about the growth, please go back and
refer to the new subdivision last for
[41:48] municipality. Find out that the county
is proportionately very small
[41:54] responsibility.
So
[41:58] the other thing that is fascinating
is that the value of that growth is
[42:05] somewhere just over $3 billion.
And if you take that as a percentage of
[42:11] increase from last year to this year,
you go from 37.460,590,000.
[42:21] You go up to 41 billion which is a 9.77%
increase.
[42:28] What have we increased our budget? 2.12
growth is not paying for growth.
[42:39] And this track that we're on growth and
expenses is going to collide and pass
[42:46] each other and it probably might next
year. That's why we're asking everybody
[42:51] to to hold their budgets flat because
the way the legislature has written the
[42:57] rules on House Bill 389, 10% of all new
growth value has taken off and it's
[43:04] taken off again and again. It is a
compound negative effect.
[43:10] It is a very complicated formula. I
spent several hours today deciding
[43:16] whether I was going to attempt to
describe the club with the formula.
[43:21] I decided that I'm not other than the
very simplistic thing that you need to
[43:25] keep in mind is automatically pay for
itself because the legislature has
[43:30] instructed that whatever that value is,
it's a $100. We can only incur the $90
[43:37] value out of the 100 10% off. Who picks
up the other 10%?
[43:42] we do everybody that's living here and
we keep getting less and less money to
[43:47] work with to try to provide the services
that we provide. The other thing that's
[43:52] fascinating is House Bill 673
further constrain new construction. It's
[43:59] the only business that I know of that
you can put you can buy
[44:04] and you can put improvements for several
years in a row and sell it and you will
[44:10] never pay for the increased value of
what you built.
[44:15] I I'm not aware of another business in
the state of Idaho who's allowed to own
[44:19] things for multiple years and put
hundreds if not millions of dollars into
[44:24] it and the property value, the taxable
value of that is locked in at
[44:32] price of the
sweet deal. Maybe one we need to look
[44:37] into with our legislators.
I'd like a deal like that with my
[44:41] electronics business. I think it' be
great. It'd be wonderful. Maybe I should
[44:46] be a land developer.
Nah, I don't think so. Anyway,
[44:53] what what I've experienced going through
this is hundreds of people working
[45:00] really hard to tow the line.
And I know I'll be asked this simple,
[45:08] this simple question. Did you raise the
budget any? And my answer is, yeah, but
[45:14] not proportional to the growth.
We raised it a little, but not
[45:18] proportionate to what the expenses will
be. Those 3,000 new parcels,
[45:26] we hope they all come with really good
people, but the reality is they come
[45:30] with some bad and those bad will enter
our system.
[45:34] There's another thing, boy. I can just
think of thing after thing that we're
[45:37] mandated to provide to you property tax
dollars. Just think of it. Everybody
[45:43] that gets arrested,
we help pay for the sheriff. Then we
[45:48] help pay for the jail. Then we help pay
for the building that the judges sit in.
[45:54] We help pay for the maintenance and
upkeep of that ground. I mean, it just
[45:59] goes on and on and on. and the
prosecution. He's a good guy, too. And
[46:04] the prosecution and they did take off
the table for the cost of of the defense
[46:10] attorneys,
but even that is not as advertised and
[46:15] uh we're still paying on that even
though the legislature said that they
[46:19] took it all. But uh they're housed in
this building and we've been told that
[46:26] we shall maintain that space for them
and we pay all of the electricity, all
[46:30] of the cleaning bills, all the
maintenance bills
[46:34] for the next three years if I if I have
the numbers right. I could be wrong off
[46:38] a little bit. It's another one of those
things that is a unfunded mandate that
[46:45] they make the press with. And yet who
picks up the dollar? bill property tax
[46:51] payers. So,
I don't like property tax
[46:58] any more than the next guy, but this is
the tool
[47:04] by statute that we've be been given to
work in and and we're we're doing the
[47:10] best we can and I encourage anyone who
has questions in specifics to first
[47:18] listen to that budget category on the
audio record. Just go to Cany County,
[47:24] look at the commissioner's page, look at
the agenda, and start searching back
[47:29] through that date. Also, on this day's
agenda, it will have within this packet,
[47:35] it has all those dates or those
meetings. So, you can get right to the
[47:40] right date to the right time, find out
the subject that you're most interested
[47:44] in. And so I think that as far as I'm
aware of, we have done the very best
[47:51] that we could do to be as transparent as
we can be. And so um can somebody have a
[47:59] different opinion than mine? Absolutely.
All day long.
[48:04] So, I think that we've done uh an
outstanding job and I think that our our
[48:10] workers are some of the best and we've
attempted to bring uh them up to market
[48:15] rates which is critically important. You
have a employee that's been here for
[48:20] six, eight, 12 years and they're working
for $10 an hour as an example and out in
[48:26] the public sector they're working for 14
and we lose that long-term employee at
[48:32] that dollar rate. We will never get them
put back in. We have to match what the
[48:37] market rate is. And we've attempted to
do that over the last several years. and
[48:43] uh Marty that's our HR director has
worked tirelessly with us and so in
[48:50] doing that adjustment
we don't have we didn't end up with any
[48:55] extra money for cola which is cost of
living entries and a lot of counties and
[49:02] a lot of public entities do colas and I
would have loved to have done cola but
[49:07] there wasn't enough funds to do a cola
what we did as as Our interrum is our
[49:13] health cost is going to go up. It it
hasn't in the last several years, but
[49:19] it's going to go up this year and it
will likely continue to go up. And so we
[49:24] voted to give the majority of the
employees a $2,300
[49:32] onetime payment. out of the $2,300
each will get a little bit of a variance
[49:39] because their personal tax status will
be deducted out of the the $2,300. So in
[49:47] in round numbers, they're getting
approximately $2,000 to go towards those
[49:53] increasing health care costs where we
weren't able to give a raise. Do I like
[49:58] that? No. It sucks, but that's the best
we could do with what we've been handed.
[50:06] And so, um, I I really appreciate the
employees, and if I could have had a
[50:12] cola of even a half percent or 1%,
whatever that is, I would have tried to
[50:18] have done that, but it was not there to
have it. So,
[50:23] my apologies, but
I did the best that I know how to do.
[50:31] So that's what I have. Do you have any
comments, questions?
[50:35] » Great comments and I appreciate all that
you put on the record. That was a lot. I
[50:38] do want to say that in fairness, the
wages we've been trying to get to what
[50:45] you've indicated is a fair market for
retention. Um, again, Chief Hart is here
[50:50] and we had this conversation during this
budget. The amount that we were paying
[50:55] officers was we were somewhere 56%
retention. Extremely costly for the
[51:00] taxpayers. Now we're up around 97%. Our
numbers across the county are reflecting
[51:05] that we are paying at the right level.
And so
[51:10] what we're that's going to say is that
our a budget will start. It'll be a
[51:14] neutral next year. We'll we'll punt the
season at the same rate we are this
[51:19] year. We've tried to mitigate that a
little bit as you indicated on the
[51:22] benefit side because we are looking at
something that in the long run I believe
[51:28] will be better and more friendly for the
budget and the taxpayer. So wins in
[51:34] there. I I think thankfulness is always
a posture when we went through the co we
[51:41] did not lay people off. We did not
furlow people. we did not um fail to
[51:48] to do our job. There were some difficult
circumstances that were given to this
[51:53] board. A reduction of $14 million by the
previous board. I did not vote for that.
[51:59] And an increase in salaries of $9
million. I did not vote for that because
[52:03] I didn't pencil out. Not because we
didn't have um the need, but because you
[52:09] have to be able to balance the budget.
At the same time during that period,
[52:13] Chief Hart and his words predates him,
but his team put together this
[52:18] continuing law enforcement pay schedule
for commissioned officers. There's a
[52:22] commitment to support that to keep the
command staff and public safety top
[52:26] priority in Kenyon County and we are
going to honor that and move forward.
[52:31] There is value in it and the numbers are
legitimate and solid. So all of that
[52:37] a tremendous lift for Marty. Thank you
for the work that you've done. It
[52:43] it's it's been a great effort on your
part and part of the team. So, as you
[52:47] indicated, we've tried to mitigate
the some of the downfalls of the budget
[52:54] that we were given, but I think we've
done a great job. I am proud to work
[52:58] with Commissioner Brooks, Commissioner
Bolton. It's been again a privilege to
[53:02] be a part of this team. They're
dedicated. They understand government
[53:06] and they are here to move this county
forward. singles is what we share.
[53:13] » Mr. Chairman,
[53:17] » I didn't have it on my public hearing
bingo card that you were going to talk
[53:21] more than commissioner, but here we are.
[53:28] I say that
I you're spot on. Your comments are are
[53:34] well made. Um
you take this position and you
[53:40] understand that you have to play the the
hand that you're dealt and good bad,
[53:46] you just got to go forward with it. And
fortunately, we have a lot of good
[53:49] people around us uh that are very
willing and capable to to do good work
[53:57] and give us a lot of good information,
advice on how to put this budget
[54:02] together. So, normally I get a little
nervous when we use the word we in this
[54:07] process, but again, like I said earlier,
uh at this point, we've had so many
[54:13] meetings and discussions on the record
that um it's my opinion, this budget is
[54:18] what it is by the time we get to this
point. And I actually appreciate that.
[54:23] I've been coming to these off and on
since I think 2016 and
[54:30] I don't mind that it's not as
contentious as some of those ones that I
[54:34] came to a decade ago and you know they
didn't they didn't follow that same
[54:39] process that we have this year. I think
it's very beneficial to to all of us.
[54:46] It is. It is. And and uh you and I
attend the Treasure Valley Partnership.
[54:52] Commissioner Van gets to at times. And
the price for admission has got to be an
[54:58] elected official. And we were talking in
the last two meetings about the turnout
[55:04] in Treasure Valley in our political
subdivisions on budget hearing. And it's
[55:10] a weird phenomenon that you are an
anomaly. How many people showed up
[55:14] tonight? Let's put it that way. It's not
uncommon for nobody to sh that's a sad
[55:20] state of politics.
Something that we might
[55:26] another thing that I want to quickly u
sometimes numbers are really hard to
[55:31] grasp. So let's let's talk about the
growth not this way. So let's say that
[55:37] we have a we have a potluck. Who know
who doesn't know what a potluck is? So
[55:43] pot luck is when a group gets together
and they say everybody bring enough food
[55:47] for yourself and maybe some some people
that are not as privileged as you to
[55:52] have extra food. So you do it for 100
people but the rules somebody else
[55:58] outside the rule said no you only bring
food for 90. You're going to have 100
[56:05] people there but you're only bringing
food for 90. And you keep doing that and
[56:09] it keeps increasing and that 10% keeps
growing to 20%, keeps growing, keeps
[56:14] growing. Pretty soon you're going to be
having a potluck and you're going to
[56:18] have to decide what percentage of you is
not going to get to eat. That's what
[56:24] house 389 is doing to us. And next year
will be the dividing year. And after
[56:31] that, most likely it will be a few less
patrolman. There'll be a few less here,
[56:37] be a few less there. And I get it.
There's people out there that hate taxes
[56:42] so much that they don't care if the
ambulance is not available on those 58
[56:48] times we saw on the screen. They don't
care. And there's people out there that
[56:52] don't care if there's one less patrol
car, there's one less prosecutor,
[56:56] there's one less whatever that is. And I
really would encourage them to
[57:01] reconsider that we have lived really
well the way it is now and to start
[57:07] defunding whether it's the police or
something else is really not the best
[57:14] method to take. Really isn't. And if you
feel that way, why don't you come in and
[57:18] attend some of our meetings and let's
try to decide what we maybe could get or
[57:24] we could we could make different choices
on. I don't know, but it's going to
[57:28] start coming down to choices. And I
wanted to make that painfully clear at
[57:33] this budget hearing because my suspicion
is um it's going to be a little bit more
[57:39] difficult this year. And so, not that
I'm going to tell you I told you so, but
[57:44] I might tell you I told you so. So, I
really love to be proved wrong. Take it.
[57:50] Take it away legislature. Get it done.
That'd be great for me. All right. I'm
[57:58] I think enough said
[58:03] I'm interested in if you would like to
deliberate towards making a decision on
[58:10] we have three budgets. Um budgets are
fascinating. Out of the 44 counties we
[58:17] have more political subdivisions than
any other county of the state. The next
[58:22] closest one is Ada County. They have
40ish. We have 64. And what's a
[58:28] political subdivision? Political
subdivisions, anything from city, school
[58:33] district, cemetery district, library
district. It the list goes on for quite
[58:39] a ways. And so county is pretty pretty
blessed. We have we have like nine
[58:45] school districts that encroach into
Canyon County, but are outside of the
[58:48] county with their school buildings. Uh
we have most
[58:55] of your property taxes have at least
seven lines and most of them have more
[59:02] than 10.
And that's because where you choose to
[59:06] live is a cross-section of four. You can
think of it as this overlay zone. And so
[59:11] you could be in this library district
but you should not be in two. You should
[59:16] be in this school district but not two.
You should be in a cemetery district,
[59:21] but not to but everybody's in King
County's tax district. Everybody's in
[59:28] the ambulance district. And from there,
the divisions start. And so even within
[59:35] Canyon County's taxi line, we have just
as uh we have multiple ones that are
[59:42] within that mill levy rate. What is a
mill levy rate? Mill levy rate is the
[59:48] net taxable value of all of those
properties all out there divided by the
[59:54] budget. That's your multiple of what it
is. So when you look down through the
[59:59] taxes it says the county is 0135
or whatever the number is. That's the
[1:00:06] rate that you're looking. So you take
that multiple
[1:00:10] multiply it against the value net value
of the property figure out what the
[1:00:16] exact bill that you pay to county that
you paid to the ambulance district or
[1:00:21] you pay to the cemetery or you the
library district whoever it is that's on
[1:00:26] property tax.
So tonight we're talking about three of
[1:00:31] them, but I don't see Does anybody live
here from Melba? See, nobody's here from
[1:00:38] Melba. We're going to be dealing with
theirs. You are not going to have that
[1:00:41] on your property. And um so we're going
to deal with with three. So which one
[1:00:48] would you like to deal with right away
first?
[1:00:52] Let's do the big one.
>> Do the big one. All right. So that's
[1:00:55] that's Cany County. That would include
like the jail, a sheriff, the uh lastly
[1:01:02] assessor and department of service
and and we have a we have a whole we
[1:01:10] have 15 directors. Right. Right. Have 15
directors and you can look this up on
[1:01:15] the internet. We got a great page that
shows all of the trees, all of the all
[1:01:20] of the way that lines out who's under
who and who does what. And uh and if you
[1:01:28] have an idea how we might be able to do
that better, you can get a hold of Karen
[1:01:32] Williams and he'll get on it. And he
he's our he's our public guy. We our our
[1:01:40] goal is to try to communicate as most
effectively as we can and uh we try.
[1:01:49] So Mr. Chairman, I have a question.
>> Yes. Um, we have the dollar amounts for
[1:01:56] these three budgets. Guess normally we
have a resolution to go along with them
[1:02:02] to refer to. So I don't
[1:02:07] I don't want to do that.
[1:02:12] We can just approve.
[1:02:28] So, Mr. Mr. Chairman, I would move that
we would approve the fiscal year 2026
[1:02:35] budget
of 161,870,45
[1:02:44] say 44.
[1:02:48] Okay.
[1:02:52] All three together.
>> Okay.
[1:02:56] So there's there's
[1:03:05] uh in included in that Mr. Chairman
would be
[1:03:09] I guess we didn't have discussion on
this so I just take shot so we can shoot
[1:03:13] it down. Uh that would include moving
the 30,000 that was awarded for the
[1:03:19] quiet zone rail crossings to be moved
into our reserve fund.
[1:03:26] Um,
as well as part of this motion, I would
[1:03:29] move that we
approve the uh
[1:03:35] budget for the Canyon County Pest
Control of $369,563
[1:03:41] and the budget for Melba Gopher of
$12,000.
[1:03:48] Do we need to include the portions?
[1:03:55] Make a motion.
>> Okay. I will second chairman or
[1:03:59] commission motion.
>> So you read those
[1:04:05] straight off the Mr.
[1:04:11] » Okay. Very good. Okay. And you included
your 30,000 if you wanted to change.
[1:04:20] So yes. All right. I entertain a second.
>> And I second.
[1:04:24] » You did second. All right.
>> All right. Motion has been made and
[1:04:28] seconded for all three of those budgets.
All those in favor say I.
[1:04:32] » I.
>> I. Motion carries unanimously. So now
[1:04:39] it would be best to
Yeah, we had a So now it would be best
[1:04:45] to make a motion to approve separately a
motion. You could do all three.
[1:04:55] So once the budget budget
[1:05:00] Mr. Chairman, I move that we adopt uh
the L2 worksheets that we have been
[1:05:05] presented for the Canyon County
for Canyon County for Noble Go for the
[1:05:12] King County Pest control.
>> I second.
[1:05:16] » Okay. Motion's been made and seconded.
All those in favor say I.
[1:05:20] » I.
>> I. I. Motion carries unanimous.
[1:05:24] All right, Mr. Chairman. Yes.
uh in
[1:05:42] so for Mr.
on the we've been provided it's
[1:05:47] recovering 1%
and I'm in favor of 1%
[1:05:52] 3%
3% would be a larger dollar amount that
[1:05:56] we could use for capital expenses but
the 1% amount
[1:06:01] [Music]
that goes into the total base that we
[1:06:05] can for next year and considering
the uh the decision that was made
[1:06:13] by two when commissioners before we took
these seats. U
[1:06:19] I it is my opinion that it it
necessitates that we take the 1% for
[1:06:24] them to try to claw back some
of that which was not corrected before
[1:06:31] we got here is causing some of the
issues that that we are dealing with
[1:06:35] today. Okay.
[1:06:39] And that dollar amount Mr. chairman is
$632,693.
[1:06:45] Okay. There was a forgone amount for
[1:06:56] it. Yes. Yes. Yes. So the go is $76 for
[1:07:06] Oh, that's reserved. I'm sorry.
>> Yes. That's the
[1:07:13] » text.
[1:07:16] I second the motion.
[1:07:22] » Let's do these because two
[1:07:27] back. So, Mr. Chairman, I move that.
>> Okay.
[1:07:34] » Mr. Chairman, I move that the um
that we adopt
[1:07:41] portion of the L2 considering recovered
for gone of 1% in the amount of $632,693
[1:07:50] for the Ky County budget.
>> I second.
[1:07:53] » Okay. Motion has been made and second.
All those in favor say I.
[1:07:57] » I. I.
Right.
[1:08:04] » So, Mr. Mr. Chairman, I move that we
reserve foregone for Mel Gopher in the
[1:08:09] amount of $76.
>> I second it.
[1:08:13] » Okay. Motion's been made second. All
those in favor say I.
[1:08:16] » I.
>> I. I. Motion carries unanimously.
[1:08:21] Mr. Chairman, I move that we reserve
uh the amount of $14,182
[1:08:29] and foregone for Kenny County Pest
control.
[1:08:33] » I second. Okay. Motion has been made and
seconded. All those in favor say I.
[1:08:38] » I. I. Motion carries.
All right.
[1:08:58] Do you see anything else that is left?
[1:09:07] We've covered everything that's on the
agenda. Is there any closing remarks?
[1:09:26] » I think the clerk has some conation
about something.
[1:09:33] Okay, we can test later.
Okay,
[1:09:50] » chair move.
>> Second.
[1:09:52] » All right, motions been made and
seconded for adjournment. All those say
[1:09:56] in favor say I. I motion carries
unanimous considering
[1:10:24] So party.