Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting

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Agenda

[1:20:54] To request approval of the following budget amendments and transfers. In Fiscal year 2020 - 1) make the following adjustments related to year-end audit and budget close-out: a) in the General Fund M & O, Special Service District, Special Revenue, Internal Service, Capital Improvement, and Enterprise Funds, increase revenues and expenditures as documented on the resolutions. 2) In the General Fund a) transfer $2,000,000 from fund balance to the Capital Improvement Fund. b) transfer $2,000,000 from fund balance to Debt Service. 3) In the Special Service District transfer $3,000,000 to the Capital Improvement Fund. 4) In the Multiple Grant Fund, increase revenues and expenditures $2,063. 5) In the Sales Tax VI fund transfer budgets between projects as listed. In Fiscal Year 2021 - 1) In the General Fund, transfer $16,600 from Contingency to Board of Assessors operating budget. 2) In the Multiple Grant Fund Increase revenue and expenditures $1,213,764.06 for various grants as listed. 3) In the Confiscated Revenue fund transfer $2,000,000 from contingency to DA - Confiscated.

[1:23:54] Request Board approval to create a full-time grant funded Project Specialist position for a duration of twenty-four (24) months for the Chatham County Police Department (CCPD) as a result of receiving a U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Targeted Violence and Terrorism Grant. (NOTE: No matching funds required.)

[1:24:54] District Attorney $2M Asset Forfeiture Distribution to Victim Services Non-Profits.

[1:30:54] Request Board approval to accept a grant award from Center for Tech and Civic Life up to $572,264. (NOTE: No matching funds required.)

[1:34:54] ACTION CALENDAR

[1:34:54] Approval of the minutes of the regular meeting on September 18, 2020, as distributed.

[1:34:54] Claims vs. Chatham County for the period of September 10, 2020 through September 30, 2020.

[1:34:54] Request Board acceptance of a non-matching grant through the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) for $85,000 to purchase equipment and training for the newly formed SWAT Unit.

[1:34:54] Request Board approval to accept the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant for $430,000 for twenty-four months. (NOTE: No matching funds required.)

[1:34:54] Request approval to apply for and open an account with Georgia Fund 1 for the new Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax 7 proceeds.

[1:34:54] Request Board approval of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Chatham Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) and the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) for the purpose of providing storage space in Warehouse 83B for the Mobile Emergency Operations Center (MEOC).

[1:34:54] Request Board approval of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Chatham Emergency Management Agency (CEMA), the Chatham County Animal Services and The Atlanta Humane Society for the purpose of providing resources to support the evacuation of household pets during emergency or disaster events.

[1:34:54] Request Board approval of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Chatham Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) and Big Red, Inc for the purpose of offering resource support during an emergency event.

[1:34:54] Request Board approval of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Savannah Chatham County Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) for the State Route 307 Corridor Study.

[1:34:54] Request from Doug Hill for the County to declare a portion of the unopened right-of-way (ROW) on Second Avenue as surplus and to quitclaim the ROW. [District 4.]

[1:34:54] Request Board approval to record the subdivision plat for Cottonvale, Phase 1, accept the Owner’s Warranty agreement and financial guarantee, approve the constructed improvements, initiate the twelve-month warranty period and create a new streetlight assessment district. [District 5.]

[1:34:54] Request Board approval to enter into an Intergovernmental Agreement with each participating municipality for the County-wide Canal Maintenance Program.

[1:34:54] Request Board approval to award bids as follows: (Please note that purchase thresholds of $25,000 or more have been enacted: however, contract and change orders of a lesser amount still will appear.)

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[3:18] Good

[3:21] morning, welcome, please be seated.

[3:31] I asked you to be seated.

[3:35] The time being,

[3:41] I asked you.

[3:44] Restan when it's time for prayer and remains standing to the pledge of allegiance. We'll be led in the pledge of allegiance.

[3:54] It's my and my

[3:59] homes of the second.

[4:05] It's a pleasure to have back with us,

[4:14] Patel,

[4:16] and he referred to it as his team,

[4:21] but there are members

[4:22] of

[4:28] Mandir of Savannah.

[4:31] And it's a spiritual volunteer-driven organization dedicated

[4:40] to improve and society, to growth by fostering the Hindu ideals and faith, the unity

[4:52] and selfless service.

[4:57] And

[5:00] with that, sure, I shall tell you, the floor is yours, and if you would introduce the members of the team, if you would.

[5:14] Yes, good morning, everyone.

[5:16] He is our little Patel, our go-insurma, Dr. Maholik Patel, Iransmami and Nilsurma, Myself Suras Patel.

[5:34] Welcome back.

[5:35] Thank you very much sir.

[5:36] Thank you.

[5:42] Yes, I'm in a line.

[6:13] Santire di jatoyata samihase tato no avayam kuru sanna kuru prayabyo baya napa su guha miswani de vasavirtadurita nipara suva jatpadrantanna asuva

[7:22] Thank you,

[7:27] to translate most your song, unto heaven be peace, unto the sky and the earth be peace, peace be unto the water, unto the herbs and trees be peace, unto all the gods be peace, unto grama, unto all be peace, and may we all realize that peace,

[7:48] on peace, peace, peace.

[7:52] And I'd like to welcome Dr. Molly Patel to briefly explain the prayer.

[8:07] Our prayer emphasized peace and truly all gather,

[8:11] organizing, collaborate so that we can create such peace in our homes,

[8:15] families and communities and beyond.

[8:18] Through the organizations such as BAPS and its lineage of spiritual leaders,

[8:22] we can aim to perceive that peace through the vibrancy of its

[8:28] And specifically, one here in Chatham County on Cambridge Road since 2004.

[8:34] We currently have an ongoing expansion and renovation project, which has been slow going due to the pandemic,

[8:38] but we truly appreciate the county commission and their assistance to help complete this project in any obstacles that come in the way.

[8:45] In March, before any public mandates, we close the Monday out of abundance of caution due to the pandemic.

[8:50] Yet, our spirituality remained ever strong through the virtual engagement for children, adolescents, young adults,

[8:58] and everyone in the family.

[9:00] We stress the importance of following all guidelines,

[9:02] like wearing a mask, social distancing,

[9:04] hand hygiene and utmost vigilance

[9:06] for the vulnerable population.

[9:08] We know that COVID has changed the world in many ways.

[9:11] To address this, BAPS charities,

[9:13] this organization BAPS has implemented,

[9:16] humanitarian efforts to reach all people

[9:18] and rose to the challenge.

[9:20] Worldwide efforts were made to help with the pandemic,

[9:23] specifically in the USA between March and June of 2020,

[9:26] Over 83,000 meals were given to health care providers, over 113,000 personal protective equipment was delivered,

[9:34] and over 130,000 dollars were given to community health in over 100 health centers across the USA.

[9:41] Out of his compassion for humanity, in our spiritual leader,

[9:44] 3rd-year-old leader, Bremont-Soy-Maharaj, Karlesi visited over 17,000 villages, towns and cities,

[9:50] replied to over 760,000 letters, and personally counseled over 810,000 people.

[9:57] In September 2017, our current spiritual leader, Monsoy-Maharaj met with former President

[10:02] Barack Obama in Washington, D.C.

[10:04] They both spoke about how encouraging service requires helping individuals to see goodness

[10:09] in one another.

[10:10] Monthly Madurai specifically explained that explained the Hindu principle that each individual

[10:15] soul is divine, and so service of each individual is a selfless act of devotion.

[10:21] Monthly Madurai's greatly values unity in all of the building blocks of society, including

[10:26] our families.

[10:28] BAPS charities has worked to respond effectively to the needs of the hour, whether that is the current

[10:33] pandemic or the hurricanes or the wildfires that affect and devastate many of the families

[10:39] across America. Maybe I'll continue to devote ourselves for the betterment of all of our

[10:44] families, of our communities, in our nation. Thank you.

[10:49] Thank you.

[10:58] May we stand for the pledge of allegiance, please.

[11:17] Thank

[11:23] you all for leading that devotional portion of the program, and also thank you for all

[11:30] but the Hindu community did to assist during this time of the COVID pandemic.

[11:38] Thank you so much.

[12:03] The clerk will call the roll.

[12:05] Albert J Scott Chairman.

[12:07] Just your Ellis District 8 by Chairman.

[12:11] Helen Elstone District 1, Chairman Protem.

[12:14] Yvonne Holmes, District 2.

[12:17] Bobby Lockett, District 3.

[12:19] President.

[12:19] Patrick K. Farrell District 4, Tabitha Odel District 5, James J. Jones District 6, in Kicklider District 7.

[12:31] Here,

[12:36] Commissioner Farrell and Odel and Jones will be joined us shortly, Jones by Zim and Commissioner Farrell and Odel in person.

[12:50] I would like

[13:00] to, at this time, invite Dr. Lawton Davis, who is the director of the Coastal

[13:08] Health District, to give us

[13:15] a co-vert update

[13:18] in Chatham County and

[13:25] any of the information

[13:26] that he may have as it relates to the co-vert pandemic and I'm certain that he will be happy

[13:34] to take any questions that the members of the commission may have,

[13:39] Dr. Davis, to floor

[13:42] Thank you, commission staff, fellow commissioners, everyone else.

[13:49] Briefly start off with some numbers, and I will try to be brief, but as of this morning,

[13:54] we were at 8,800 in nine cases in Chattam County that have been reported.

[14:01] Our statistics are about the same, we are 44 percent male, 56 percent female, but those

[14:07] to have succumb to the illness, it's reversed, it's 55% male, 45% female.

[14:15] Actually, we're 44.5% Caucasian, 47.5 African-American, 8% other ethnicity,

[14:26] and as far

[14:27] as the breakdown of death, we're 45% Caucasian, 52% African-American, and 3% other.

[14:36] I want to take just a moment, it's been brought to my attention, some people look at the state

[14:42] website and they look at our data and sometimes there are little discrepancies.

[14:47] We were updating our website only weekly and so some things would be a little different.

[14:54] Something else is different with state side is that when a case is reported.

[15:00] The test is reported. It initially goes in on whatever date it was reported. But eventually the state goes back and tries to determine the date of symptom onset of that patient.

[15:12] Well, that case. And so if their test was reported positive on 925, and then eventually they found out that the symptoms started on 920, they'll move that case from 925 back to 920. So their date of change is a little bit.

[15:27] So, if you look at our community transmission rate and our new daily cases per 100,000,

[15:36] they may be a little different, but it won't be great.

[15:40] For example, this morning, their 14-day community transmission, excuse me, yesterday morning was 141,

[15:48] and ours was 146, not a big difference.

[15:51] And the change, you know, going back and move, we don't have the horsepower so to speak

[16:00] to go back and manually change everything in our system and with our 36 to 48-hour turnaround

[16:05] time on reported tests.

[16:07] Man, as long as we're consistent, I don't think it really makes much of a difference.

[16:11] So let's look at the numbers quickly.

[16:14] I think there are fear on the screen, and if I can remember how I can even change it.

[16:19] As of yesterday, our 7-day rolling average was 29.57, that's a little bit lower than the

[16:26] 14-day rolling average. That's good because it means that the most recent 7 days were better

[16:31] than the 7 days before that, which obviously if you look at the graph, it's slowly coming down.

[16:38] The death rate in Sodom County per 100,058.9, the state rate is 68.8, so we're still

[16:46] bearing a little better than the state overall.

[16:50] That peak, you see, 136.57 was on July the 24th, and we've come down fairly steadily since

[16:59] that time.

[17:01] Next is the 14-day community transmission index.

[17:05] Again, this is the one that the governor tagged.

[17:08] It's less than a hundred, I'm excuse me, if it's over a hundred, you can adopt a mask

[17:13] and he wouldn't be angry with anyone.

[17:17] Our peak, as you can see, was on July 23rd at 6.21, basically.

[17:23] 5.72.6 corresponds to the day that we put,

[17:26] that you guys put the Chatham mask ordinance into effect.

[17:30] And you can see we're again dropping down.

[17:34] If my math is correct, our 14-day community transmissions decrease

[17:39] 78% since July, 24th, I didn't calculate that one, but it's obviously down as well.

[17:46] As are the new daily cases per 100,000,

[17:52] again, the scale that goes with this is less

[17:54] than 1 is green, which basically means you don't have any 1 to 10 to the yellow 10 to 25 is

[18:01] orange, and you can see we're flirting with that magic 10 level, which is a good thing.

[18:09] hospitalizations again just kind of look at the trend we don't have the date of

[18:12] ignition in the day discharge but obviously from Lajuli we've been coming down

[18:18] relatively steadily there was a little blip around Labor Day but it's

[18:25] trending downward the percentage of tests that are positive you'd like to

[18:30] have you know over 10% is the red zone according to the feds you'd like to have

[18:35] and five, and you can see that we're getting there.

[18:40] Breakdown of the reported cases by age category,

[18:44] no surprise, as before most of our cases.

[18:50] The two largest demographics are from 20 to 29 and 30 to 39.

[18:54] Those are the adults that would probably be the most socially active.

[18:59] What I call the young adults is kind of funny when I was 15.

[19:02] if you tell me somebody who's 39 was young, I thought you were crazy, but anyway.

[19:08] And then weekly testing is what?

[19:11] Now we've got weekly testing.

[19:14] There has been a decrease in demand, I think that's, you know, for several reasons,

[19:20] number one, our cases are coming down, if your people have been exposed.

[19:24] So if your people are coming to be tested, but they're also more providers who have access

[19:29] to antigen testing, sort of a rapid turnaround test, and some more people are going elsewhere.

[19:36] I mentioned antigen testing, that'll be reported on the state website as a presumptive

[19:40] case, and it'll be somewhere different than where you see the PCR report.

[19:49] So, to kind of wrap up here, the last good study I've seen, which was probably 10 days ago,

[19:57] suggests that the rate of penetration of COVID in the general population of the U.S. is about 9.3%.

[20:05] If we could assume that all 9.3% were immune, that would mean that we only have 70.7% to go to get to our magic number of 80% herd immunity.

[20:21] But there's means there's just a lot of people out there who've not been exposed.

[20:25] As far as treatment, there's nothing earth-shattering that's come up in the last couple

[20:31] of weeks.

[20:33] A couple of drug companies have applied for emergency use authorization for an antibody cocktail

[20:38] sort of, probably like what the President received during his treatment, whether these will

[20:44] approved I don't know you can read the news as well as I do and whether they will be effective

[20:51] presumably there will be some data that shows that they're effective where they would not

[20:55] get an EUA. When I was here last, which was I think three weeks ago we talked about AB8,

[21:02] a biomolecule that seems to be effective. I was searching the internet at about 530 this morning

[21:10] to see if I could provide you with an update on that,

[21:12] but I couldn't find anything new,

[21:14] they anticipate that human testing will begin

[21:16] in early 2021, whenever that, yes, probably in January.

[21:23] Transmission, you know, there's been a lot of talk

[21:25] about how is this thing really spread,

[21:27] is it just droplets, is it aerosol, whatever?

[21:31] You need to remember that, we'll be aware,

[21:33] that there are actually zero studies

[21:37] that conclusively document how this thing is spread.

[21:42] So all the recommendations are made based on the modeling

[21:45] of similar viruses like the original SARS and MERS

[21:49] and influenza and observation at the moment.

[21:53] Now I didn't mean that people aren't gathering data

[21:55] in doing studies.

[21:56] They certainly are.

[21:57] And there's some smaller studies looking at droplets

[21:59] and aerosols and do they contain viral particles, et cetera.

[22:04] But at the moment, there is no definitive peer-reviewed study that nails down exactly how this

[22:12] thing is spread.

[22:12] But the best guess is that, yes, droplets, the big things that come out when you call for

[22:16] sneeze, that somebody calls for sneezes, right on you, yes, you can get it.

[22:21] Aristotle, smaller droplets that are produced when you call for sneeze and may hang around

[22:25] in the air for a little while, like dust particles or cigarette smoke, yes, if you're close

[22:30] up somebody for long enough you can inhale those in yes you'll probably get sick and then contact.

[22:37] If I call for sneeze on my hand and shake your hand you rub your eye yes you might get it but

[22:43] contact from a surface like this going to the grocery store picking up something that suddenly

[22:48] it's may have handled does not seem to be the way that this is transmitted. So continue to

[22:53] clean continue to be vigilant continue to wash your hand and don't rub your eyes to be careful

[22:57] But probably the most likely mode of transmission is airborne, big droplets, small droplets

[23:06] when you close to somebody.

[23:12] Influenza is a promise.

[23:14] We know that we don't know exactly what COVID will do with this year's flu season.

[23:21] COVID and flu are very similar in many ways, including how we think they're spread.

[23:27] that most of their symptoms, the only one that's really just different is an osmere and

[23:32] osmere, the loss of sense of smell.

[23:35] That means if somebody has had a fever, chills, and cough, and they go to see their health

[23:42] care provider, we're probably going to have tests for COVID and influenza, so I wouldn't

[23:49] prize if we may see some shortage of testing, ability, a COVID is a little more contagious

[23:57] among most populations than its flu, in fact it's a good bit more contagious, and it also

[24:02] obviously has a higher incidence of mortality. So if you ever on the fence about whether

[24:10] you ought to get a flu vaccine, this is probably the year to get it. We know that flu vaccine

[24:17] is not perfect. It does not prevent everyone who gets it from catching the flu, but it'll probably

[24:21] prevent about 50%, maybe 60% if we have a really good match in a given year. And another reason

[24:29] for taking that vaccine is that if we can achieve herd immunity for influenza, we not only protect

[24:37] ourselves when we take the vaccine, but we protect those people in the society who are perhaps

[24:43] more vulnerable or have some reason that they can't take the vaccine and cannot be protected.

[24:48] So if we've got 7% of the population that's immune to influenza, that means that the person

[24:54] who is immunocompromising couldn't take the vaccine is very unlikely to bump into somebody

[25:00] that is contagious with influenza and therefore won't catch it. We will have a drive through

[25:07] blue vaccine clinic. This coming thirsty. I guess that's the 15th at the Civic Center. We'll be featuring

[25:15] blue shots instead of COVID tests that day. Excuse me, so if you need a blue shot, we'll

[25:24] have them. Lots of other providers and pharmacies have them. We don't really care where you get it.

[25:28] We just urge you to get it and this is the ideal time. The middle of October plus a minus

[25:33] week is probably the best time, so please get a flu shot. Lastly, somebody mentioned Hurricanes

[25:43] earlier, and obviously there's a big one out there. We're not out of the wood yet.

[25:50] There's an yellow egg floating across the Atlantic, so stay tuned.

[25:55] Thank you.

[26:27] I have today. We've tested 95,158 individuals. Between public health and all the other

[26:41] testing facilities, memorial, countless, and gel, when,

[26:48] as well as J.C. Lewis, health,

[26:59] and

[27:00] Do you have any idea of how many of those are repeat people who have had more than one test?

[27:09] I don't know how many are repeat tests but we don't count multiple positive tests as multiple positives.

[27:17] So if I wouldn't have five tests and they were all positive, I would only be counted one time.

[27:22] But I don't know how many of those are repeat tests.

[27:25] The

[27:31] other thing, what advice would you offer the community as it relates to the upcoming?

[27:40] I really don't call it the holiday, but the Halloween festivals that usually take place in this community.

[27:51] I would encourage people number one to go to two websites and look and then I'll make some specific comments myself.

[27:57] but CDC actually has some very practical common sense guidelines for Halloween and other

[28:03] festivals that take place in the fall and winter and also Hershey chocolate. You can just

[28:09] Google Hershey Halloween recommendations. They've got a really nice website and they list

[28:15] activities that are low risk, slightly higher risk, you know, more significant risk. And basically

[28:26] It's the same variation of the same things we generally say, avoid crowds if you can get together with your family.

[28:36] That's the safest if you can get together just in your neighborhood with a small group outdoors.

[28:42] That's fairly low risk.

[28:44] When you start bringing in other people and people from outside your community that may be coming from places with a higher rate of transmission,

[28:51] you're increasing likelihood that you may encounter somebody who has it.

[28:57] So basically,

[29:00] virtual things like this are the safest small gatherings outdoors are pretty

[29:08] good, particularly if you're wearing a mask, then the more people you have and the more

[29:12] you go inside, the greater the risk of transmission.

[29:17] The CDC recommends that people, if you're going to have trick-or-treating that you mark your

[29:24] walkway so that the groups that come by, the children come back and stay six feet apart,

[29:30] and then maybe you consider putting things on the table and letting the child pick something

[29:35] up, you know, or sell for rather than some a reaching in the bag and handing it out.

[29:41] And also, you know, the obvious low hanging fruit is that if you think you're sick or

[29:46] symptomatic don't participate and don't go.

[29:51] So outdoors is better than indoors if you're

[29:55] going to be indoors smaller groups for short periods of time or better than larger groups.

[30:00] It was for longer periods of time, places with great ventilation, our safer than places with poor ventilation,

[30:09] and so I would say use common sense, where you mask is far, far as possible.

[30:19] Thank you for that. We extended the mask, mandate throughout each other county,

[30:29] and in doing so, I really had,

[30:32] Halloween in mind, I will extend it again because of Thanksgiving and, of course, Christmas

[30:41] coming up.

[30:41] I'm really concerned about the holiday in November and December where those are really

[30:50] not outdoor type events where families gather to eat and to share that holiday experience.

[31:03] I'm really concerned about that, perhaps, causing the trend line to go the other way and not just in

[31:12] each other in county but throughout the states.

[31:15] So I want to just echo what you said and encourage people to,

[31:22] when possible,

[31:25] avoid large

[31:26] together in where a mask maintain this much physical distance is possible into a stage

[31:37] safe as much as possible until such time that we have a bona fide verifiable support

[31:48] by the medical community vaccine that can be widely distributed and from all I hear I hopefully

[32:00] that will be sometime in the very near future.

[32:04] We all hope so.

[32:05] Yes, sir.

[32:06] I'm not agree with you.

[32:09] Jim, it's time I would like to be able to speak of code and then we'll be about

[32:17] very good.

[32:21] And this is Commissioner Jones.

[32:27] Did you hear the question down?

[32:31] I'm first as, as if you could acknowledge if I can't speak this, I'm going to say if I talk.

[32:35] Yeah, you, you're all right, go ahead.

[32:38] Okay.

[32:39] Thank you, part of my story, we've got to stop in traffic.

[32:42] Two things, could you re-could you re-highlight the number difference since we implemented the mass mandate on behalf of County?

[32:52] Sure, July 31st is when the mask ordinance was reinstituted and we were our 14-day community

[33:01] transmission index at that time was 572.6 and as of yesterday, it was 146.1 which is a significant decrease in the

[33:12] day rolling average. Actually, I can't. I have to pull up my spreadsheet. I don't remember what

[33:19] it was on the 31st, but it was somewhere north of a hundred. And it's not on the left and

[33:27] 30. And my other two points was, is there any information out there? And I know it was preliminary

[33:33] as far as the effects were COVID-19 and the flu season. I know influenza and I know you kind of

[33:42] affecting immune system, and so are there, is there any kind of that mutation information

[33:49] not there and how detrimental it could be having both of them out there in this community?

[33:57] I look for studies on that as well from the Southern Hemisphere where they're just emerging

[34:01] from their flu season and I really couldn't find anything good, but they both affect the respiratory

[34:08] contract significantly and their different germs or viruses and so I would imagine that one

[34:17] would potentiate the adverse effects of the other meaning it would be a situation where

[34:22] one in one rather than equaling two one in one might equal three.

[34:27] So I would think that each would tend to make the other worse.

[34:32] Okay, and my last point was I heard you mentioned that in multiple positive tests, you

[34:37] only counted as one, but I have heard in some instances that people have gotten coronavirus

[34:43] maybe this month and in too much later may have gotten what contracted with the end.

[34:48] Are those two incidents deemed separate?

[34:53] I think if it's confirmed that it is a true reinfection rather than being just one of those

[35:00] people who continue to test positive for a long time, if that would be considered a second

[35:07] case.

[35:08] But those are very few and far between officially so far, hedging my bets here.

[35:15] Some of us think it may happen a little more often than what is officially published so far.

[35:26] All right.

[35:27] My fellow commission was supporting the fact that we'd equal to the mass mandate and the

[35:32] shows and the numbers that couldn't have on the mass actually does help us prevent the

[35:37] transmission that keeps us healthy and safe in the community.

[35:40] Thank you, Chair for allowing me to speak.

[35:45] Any other questions about?

[35:48] I see two hands, Dr. Commissioner Stone, Commissioner Holmes, and that already.

[35:55] Mr. Chairman, Dr. Davis, is there any, and maybe our effects question?

[36:00] Any comparisons on the number of deaths to blue versus deaths to?

[36:08] Yes, the question that you commissioned on cut out there a little bit.

[36:13] The question is the number of deaths related to influenza versus the number of deaths related to COVID-19 and the infection, fatality ratio,

[36:25] or the case mortality rate is significantly higher for COVID-19 than it is for influenza.

[36:34] I can't quote you. The numbers I actually looked at them last night and I can't remember

[36:38] what they are, but it's significantly higher. There have already been what over 200,000 deaths

[36:43] from COVID and we've only had it since February and typically the flu will have 20 to 40,000 deaths

[36:52] year from influenza. I've been asked that question a lot and I was just curious, because I didn't

[36:59] have any statistics to base an answer upon. But what could be the case to Cali Ratio is much

[37:06] higher for COVID than it is for influenza. Thank you.

[37:14] Did you want to do flu shot? Did you talk

[37:20] children. Yes.

[37:24] Thank you. And, you know, if you're one of, like me, if you're north of 65, there

[37:30] is a high dose available. What the high dose has is, I think it's four times as much of

[37:37] the goody in it that makes your immune system respond.

[37:43] The idea is that by kicking your immune

[37:46] system a little harder. You might get a better response and it does seem to help. So makes

[37:52] your arm hurt more, but it may protect you better.

[38:01] Commissioner Alas of the Eighth,

[38:02] our right share. Morning. Morning sir. Well, we'd be tracking just like a while ago.

[38:09] We tracked those who were 0 to 7, 20 to 29. Well, we'd be tracking just like we were tracking

[38:18] the COVID, will we be tracking the flu in the same way, will we have those as to who's affected

[38:26] the most and and how many deaths are caused in that age group?

[38:32] I think the answer to that is yes. At least at the state level, I don't know that we will have the capacity to

[38:39] keep up and do contact tracing with each one of the flu incidents in Chattam County.

[38:48] We're

[38:48] be available, yes? Okay, from the state. Okay, thank you. And we'll be able to extract, you know,

[38:55] how many cases are reported and documented in Chattam County? Now, every case of influenza

[39:01] may not be reported. You know, when there's a whole lot of it, you don't even test everybody,

[39:09] you know, the tests is usually reserved to document that there's widespread influenza. And in previous

[39:16] years when you know that it's widespread and somebody comes in with, you know, fever chills

[39:21] cough and, you know, if it looks like it sounds like a horse, walks like a horse, smells

[39:25] like a horse, it looks like a horse, it's probably a horse, but this year, it's going to be

[39:32] a little different because COVID basically causes the same symptoms, so it's going to be very

[39:37] interesting.

[39:38] That's a good question.

[39:39] I just wonder if we will track it the same way so that folks will know, you know, we will do this as we talk about kids.

[39:49] All right.

[39:49] We will do our best.

[39:50] Thank you.

[39:56] Appreciate the update.

[40:37] Next on agenda.

[40:40] We're going to invite the interim director, Brenda Davis, up to give us an update on front porch.

[40:49] And then after the update, I'm going to ask Commissioner Stone, I'll put him, if she would

[41:00] really park a nation declaring the week of October 19th, 2020 at the front porch we can

[41:07] I'm counting.

[41:08] Thank you.

[41:10] And our current presiding juvenile court judge, Lisa Cobbett is here, who was hopefully

[41:24] will soon be our newly elected superior court judge after the November elections, officially

[41:30] we realize that election and with that Mr. Stavers, if you would give us an update.

[41:41] Good morning again, and thank you for allowing me to speak to the commissioners to share information

[41:47] about the front porch.

[41:50] I'm going to try to bolt out to ask and do the work of this clicker.

[41:55] Okay, the mission statement for the front porch, where your family and your youth and families

[41:59] together is established as a community-based risk reduction program designed to identify children

[42:05] and families who are at risk of becoming involved with the court for dependency, the

[42:09] link will see in children in need of services and to utilize available community resources

[42:15] for the purpose of developing and implementing intervention actions or plans to divert the

[42:21] children and their families from becoming involved in the court.

[42:31] Our philosophy is to meet

[42:33] individuals where they are, services are tailored to build upon the strengths of the individual,

[42:38] leading towards the ability and improve quality of life.

[42:47] I hear it through the problems and why there was a need for the multi-agency, multi-agency resource

[42:54] center, which it was performed for, which was formally known as.

[42:57] The problem number one was very costly.

[43:00] It was very costly to detain youth and there are more effective ways to intervene on youth

[43:05] are getting in trouble, problem 2, low risk view for using resources of the juvenile court

[43:11] and local law enforcement agencies, problem 3, too many barriers to available resources for

[43:18] a coordinated method to identify resources and link youth and families was needed.

[43:26] The enrollment criteria for the front porch is a safe place for youth and their families

[43:32] to receive guidance.

[43:33] You must be a resident of Chattam County under the age of 18.

[43:38] Our services are free and walk-in are welcome.

[43:43] You two are referred to the front porch.

[43:45] I assessed to identify any needs concerning behaviors

[43:49] or situations that may warrant intervention.

[43:52] The front porch staff would then connect youth and families

[43:55] with appropriate services to address those needs.

[43:58] Services are family center taking it to account each family's unique needs and recommendations

[44:04] concerning treatment and referrals.

[44:08] Some of the services and resources we've heard for out to are for mental health services,

[44:14] educational support, mentoring, job search assistance, counseling services, and other programs

[44:20] that are defined as appropriate for needs.

[44:23] We also have a clothing closet on site for families to shop in that are in need and we also

[44:30] have non-parasual food items and hygiene packs that are donated by pack, which stands

[44:36] for people of action care for kids, which is a nonprofit organization here in Chattam

[44:42] County, fighting hunger.

[44:48] Our partner in agencies, our Chattam County Board of Commissioners, Chattam County

[44:52] Juvenile Court, Chattam County Safety Net Planning Council, City of Savannah, Coastal

[44:57] Georgia, Indicator's Coalition.

[45:00] The District Attorney's Office of Chatham County, Gateway Community Service Board, the Mediation Center of Coastal and Pire, Savannah Chatham County Public School System, St. Joseph Canle Hospital, and State of Georgia Division of Family and Children Services.

[45:17] We have a one page referral that has since this PowerPoint was done has been revised so

[45:24] that we can capture where our referrals are coming from and is easy to complete and the referrals

[45:30] are usually walked in, fact stand, or their email to the front porch.

[45:36] Let me go back for a minute.

[45:37] Our referral sources are local law enforcement, which is one of one of the Shabon County

[45:44] Police Department, SBD, Guard and City Pool and Fort Wart and Tabby.

[45:50] The school system, which includes our social workers, some teachers, our school resource

[45:55] officers, and our behavior interventions and other counselors, the juvenile court,

[46:07] the

[46:07] from parent university.

[46:11] The goals, goal number one was to

[46:13] divert as many youth as possible

[46:15] consistent with public safety from

[46:17] entering into the juvenile justice

[46:18] center.

[46:19] System, I'm sorry.

[46:21] goal number two was to enhance

[46:23] public safety through early

[46:25] intervention, comprehensive assessment

[46:27] and referral to supportive services

[46:29] and positive strategies.

[46:31] Tele to address each

[46:32] youth and families individuals

[46:34] needs. We complete the pediatric symptoms checklist which is a brief questionnaire that

[46:42] helps identify and assess changes in emotional and behavioral problems in children. We also

[46:48] use the CRIF Screening Tool which is a short clinical assessment tool designed to screen for

[46:54] substance abuse, substance related risk in problems and adolescents. Since October 2018,

[47:00] When the front porch opened its doors to now, the front porch staff have conducted 450 assessments

[47:08] on children and families and completed 552 referrals to behavioral health.

[47:16] The front porch staff is comprised of eight case managers from the juvenile court, the district attorney's office,

[47:24] Defects, Savannah Chavocani Public School System, and Gateway, and now more recently we have an intern,

[47:31] Master's Level 2 year intern from Savannah State University.

[47:37] We have now engaged in a partnership with Savannah Police Department of Behavioral Health Unit,

[47:45] in which their goal is to reduce the use of jails for adults, young adults, and juveniles,

[47:50] who may need an alternative services, or may have behavior health,

[47:55] a substance of abuse problems.

[47:57] The VA choose comprised of three vital components

[48:00] to accomplish the mission, enhance, and they are number one,

[48:04] enhance crisis intervention team,

[48:07] two, the behavior health response team,

[48:09] and three service coordination.

[48:12] Major Gavin is the unit commander and their two VAG officers

[48:16] in one licensed clinical social worker.

[48:21] The behavioral health unit resource referral sources are from Savannah PD, Chattam County District Attorney's Office,

[48:29] Chattam EMS, Behavior Health Crisis Center, Gateway, Tulsa Hover, Recovery Place, and now the front porch.

[48:37] We met with the behavioral staff about two weeks ago and since then we've received six referrals from that unit.

[48:46] We've been able to get those families in, assessed and linked to services.

[48:52] I also want to mention that as a result of COVID-19,

[48:57] the referrals had declined, which was obvious,

[49:01] obvious reason is why.

[49:03] We had to strategize on how to engage the community

[49:06] to let the community know that we were still open.

[49:10] So a lot of outreach was done, and as a result,

[49:13] As of yesterday, October 8th, for this month so far, we received 21 referrals.

[49:25] Also, I'm excited to announce that the front porch are now members of the National Assessment Center Association.

[49:32] The NAC guides a partnership of assessment centers that advance best practice through advocacy, education, technical assistance and community engagement.

[49:41] We

[49:45] are located at 2203 Abacorn Street, Savannah, Georgia,

[49:51] and our phone number is 652, 655, 655.

[49:58] I'll offer hours of operation on Monday through Friday, 8 to 5 p.m.

[50:04] Thank you.

[50:09] Thank you.

[50:13] Commissioner, lock it.

[50:15] Third district has a question mark.

[50:17] Thank you.

[50:17] This is a great program.

[50:19] Where are you getting the majority of your referrals?

[50:24] The majority of our referrals, I believe we're neck and neck basically with

[50:29] law enforcement and our school system. That's what a majority.

[50:34] Here lately we've been getting a lot of walk-in referrals from parents along, but since

[50:40] school, this virtual school year has started, we've gotten a lot of referrals from

[50:45] the favela pubs.

[50:47] Thank you. That's what I was leading up to to find out if you have been

[50:50] walking and you have to do that question.

[50:52] That's definitely true.

[50:57] Commissioner, I want to accept the eighth of, right?

[51:00] She has a question for you.

[51:02] I was paying close attention to the partners that you had.

[51:07] And I know she mentioned partnership with many of the law enforcement officers

[51:14] and all the jurisdictions about three.

[51:18] Are we doing any outreach to get those involved in the partnership?

[51:24] Yes, sir.

[51:25] We are meeting during roll calls and with some command staff.

[51:32] We've met with CCPD command staff and some of their new recruits.

[51:37] We've gone out to Garden City.

[51:40] and we're just waiting on target to give us a date to come back out and meet with them.

[51:45] But we've also participated in gave a presentation with the School of Resource Officers

[51:51] when at the start of the school year, when they do their annual training.

[51:55] And I know the school system and the county police and the City Police, the Savannah Police,

[52:00] and others, but I noticed that there are some who haven't signed on yet as partners

[52:05] That you're meeting with now

[52:08] Because when you call the list

[52:10] All right, there was some missing

[52:12] Of those police departments who have partnered with the front porch

[52:17] Yes, there was some missing. Well, the list is not all they're inclusive, but we do partner with all the municipalities in town County

[52:24] It's all eight new municipalities are taking part all seven. I should say yes, sir. Yes, sir. Okay. All right

[52:32] Or just want to make sure we connect those together because kids live all over this country.

[52:37] Oh, definitely. Yes, we're meeting in part with all the municipalities.

[52:41] Okay. Thank you.

[52:46] Any additional question?

[52:49] If not, I'll recognize our Program Commissioner Stone of the First to

[52:56] with your Proclamation and I will invite Judge COVID and co-led up to accept this Proclamation.

[53:07] Thank you Mr. Chairman, it's an honor to re-occlamation because we do have many children

[53:13] and unity that are at risk for a myriad of reasons, and we don't know what's going on

[53:21] in the kind of a child and what they're trying to deal with, especially now face with

[53:27] cut of it.

[53:27] So I think going forward, this is going to be even more of a critical issue.

[53:32] So, let me read the Proclamation.

[53:36] Whereas the front porch is a community-based risk reduction program designed to identify youth

[53:42] families at risk of becoming involved with the court and link them to community-result

[53:48] birth from the court system.

[53:51] And whereas the Chatham County Board of Commissioners take pride in recognizing organizations

[53:57] that fist in the development and well-being of our youth and their families and in that

[54:03] regard, we salute the front porch, where is the front porch previously called.

[1:00:29] It's not

[1:01:41] a question. I wanted to say that I remember when you were talking about pulling the project together and how excited you were.

[1:01:49] to speak to everybody and gain support throughout the community and I'm really proud that all of you work together to bring this extremely

[1:01:58] needed and valuable resource and asset to our community and I am very happy that our county commission was able to play a part and bring in that dream to fruition.

[1:02:10] And I just want to say good luck to everybody in the future on, you know, more continues success and turn in our kids around so that they know that there's a

[1:02:19] other than, you know, gang banging, slinging, and going to jail.

[1:02:25] Thank you.

[1:02:26] Yes, and I'm sure Judge Berkwood was very instrumental in persuading everybody to support this effort.

[1:02:37] Very proud of all the work we have done to continue it.

[1:02:40] Thank you so much.

[1:02:41] Thank you.

[1:03:09] Thank you.

[1:03:10] Did you give them a copy of the proclamation?

[1:03:30] Next, we have a proclamation to clear an october to 20, as domestic violence, awareness

[1:03:37] from I think, Shadow County.

[1:03:41] We have branches of executive director of Safe Shelter will be here to accept it and we're

[1:03:47] to have our Vice Chair, Commissioner Ellis,

[1:03:54] to present the Registrar Proclamation, Commissioner

[1:03:56] Ellis.

[1:04:01] Thank you for the Chairman and good morning.

[1:04:06] The county of Chattam, Georgia, Proclamation.

[1:04:11] Whereabouts?

[1:04:12] Domestic violence between, excuse me, intimate partners.

[1:04:17] The right is the safety, health, and welfare of our community, and our sworn police force

[1:04:25] in Chetam County.

[1:04:27] And whereas Chetam County Police Department is dedicated to the protection of all citizens,

[1:04:34] including those who are threatened by intimate partners.

[1:04:38] And whereas Safe Shelter is a center for domestic violence services whose mission is to prevent

[1:04:47] domestic violence, protect victims, and promote changes in our community.

[1:04:54] And whereas, Safe Shelter has been Chairman County's only shelter dedicated to the victims

[1:05:01] of domestic violence since 1979, and is celebrating his 40th year of service to our community.

[1:05:11] Excuse me, and whereas safe shelter prevents, presently provides direct, emergency housing

[1:05:22] service to those victims, in addition to partnering with the Chattam County Police Department

[1:05:28] to end domestic violence, and whereas nationally, more than one in three women, 35.6%

[1:05:39] have experienced physical or sexual violence by intimate partners and 85% of the victims

[1:05:46] of domestic violence or women. And whereas in 2020, one of the many problems caused by

[1:05:56] global health pandemic have been an increase in domestic violence as shelters in home.

[1:06:03] orders and clothing schools system have victims more than isolated than ever.

[1:06:13] Now therefore, I, I would J. Scott Chairman on behalf of the Chattam County Board of Commissioners,

[1:06:21] do hereby proclaim October 2020 as domestic violence awareness month in Chattam County,

[1:06:29] So, as to assist those Chattam County families, encourage all citizens to be good neighbors in understanding and

[1:06:39] properly reporting isolated cases of domestic violence, and witness whereof I have here to set my hand and

[1:06:48] called the seal of Chattam County, Georgia, to be a fix this night day of October 2020.

[1:06:58] I would J. Scott Chairman, Chattam County Commission,

[1:07:02] Chester A. Ellis Vice Chairman, District 8 Commissioners.

[1:07:09] Thank you so much. This means a lot to me.

[1:07:13] I have some of my support with me today.

[1:07:16] I have Julie Calber, Assistant County Police Chief.

[1:07:20] He's on my board of directors.

[1:07:22] Oh, I've got more help than I thought.

[1:07:26] And I've got Jennifer Davenport, he is also on our Board of Directors, Barbara Suzanne.

[1:07:34] Anyway, last year, Safe Shelter provided direct services to 1,332 victims of domestic violence.

[1:07:43] And with the increase this year, we're anticipating that at the end of 2020, our numbers will be more like 1500.

[1:07:52] not on wood. I say this every year when I come before you so far since 1979, none of our clients

[1:08:00] and any of our programs have been killed by their abusers. We all had a horrific reminder

[1:08:06] a few weeks ago in the county where a man poured gasoline over his girlfriend and set her on fire.

[1:08:14] And I don't think it gets much worse than that.

[1:08:18] The last I heard she's still in August in the Burn Unit.

[1:08:21] That's what happens with domestic violence.

[1:08:23] And I'm willing to bet that that relationship

[1:08:26] have been fraught with domestic violence for quite a while

[1:08:29] until it culminated into that horrific event.

[1:08:33] So we're here throughout the pandemic.

[1:08:34] We kept our doors open.

[1:08:37] Our numbers were low at the very beginning

[1:08:40] because I think people were just afraid to go anywhere.

[1:08:43] But the middle of summer, the floodgates opened

[1:08:46] And for a month or so we had families and hotels because we were so full and I 48-bed shelter.

[1:08:54] Today our numbers are around the high 30s, 40s, so we're still pretty full, but we are doing our best,

[1:09:04] mask-or-required, social distancing is nearly impossible in the shelter, but we have hand-cleaning stations,

[1:09:12] We inform our clients all the time about doing what they can, but we have no control when they leave the shelter

[1:09:21] so

[1:09:22] Anyway, I'm gonna shout out because y'all that know me. I can talk about safe shelter all day

[1:09:27] This month marks 24 years after they were the agency

[1:09:31] So as you can see it's clearly a passion. Does anyone have any questions?

[1:09:40] Yes, I like to ask you a question

[1:09:42] In Chattam County, have you noticed and thank you, excuse me, for being rude, Mr.

[1:09:49] Chairman.

[1:09:51] In Chattam County, have you noticed and increase in domestic violence?

[1:09:57] I'm going to turn to Chief Calder.

[1:10:02] I have just, I won't take me long, but I have a brief update for the commissioners

[1:10:07] as it relates to domestic violence and the response from Chattam County police department.

[1:10:12] Through October 6th of this year, Tatum County PDE has responded to 800 and 95 domestic disturbance calls for service, which is actually 6.4% less than last year numbers, which represented 956 calls for services.

[1:10:34] of the 1895 calls this year a total of 417 resulted in some type of domestic violence.

[1:10:46] However, serious acts of domestic violence are down this year within Chatham County's jurisdiction.

[1:10:55] Throughout the month of October and leading up to the department has only had 13 domestic

[1:11:03] aggravated assaults, which is a 57% decrease from last year this time when they were 30.

[1:11:11] And we have only had one domestic related homicide between the years of 2019 and 2020.

[1:11:21] Usually when an officer responds to a domestic disturbance call for help, and there is clear

[1:11:27] physical abuse that exists, there's usually going to be an arrest that occurs.

[1:11:34] Either way,

[1:11:35] the victim of that domestic violence act receives notification of safe shelters resources

[1:11:43] to help them get through the RDA. Some of them accept, and some do not. Either way, the officers

[1:11:50] do what they can do to try to provide them with other assistance from other agencies that

[1:11:57] necessary. In the United States, six approximately six million women are beaten each year by

[1:12:05] either their husband or boyfriend and about 4,000 annually is murdered. Many of the cases

[1:12:13] of domestic violence are not reported because of the feeling of fear, the feeling of shame,

[1:12:21] are the feeling of helpless, or hopelessness.

[1:12:24] In 80% of the cases, children are present and witness this abuse.

[1:12:31] They learn that violence is the answer, and approximately a thousand times or more, they

[1:12:39] become abusive themselves.

[1:12:42] And so, again, to answer your question, sir, for Tatum County thus far, our numbers are showing

[1:12:49] a decrease and that is the direction that we would like for the numbers to continue to go.

[1:12:56] Thank you.

[1:12:58] Thank you.

[1:13:01] Any further questions?

[1:13:08] Well, thank you.

[1:13:09] Thank you so much.

[1:13:10] I hope all of you do.

[1:13:12] I appreciate it very much.

[1:13:14] Your support means more than you know.

[1:13:58] Next, we have a Proclamation declaring.

[1:14:02] October 2020 as a community planning month in Shadow County,

[1:14:09] and we have Ms. Wilson, who is

[1:14:11] our executive director, the Metropolitan Planning Commission, is here to accept the

[1:14:19] Proclamation to make some comments.

[1:14:27] I'm going to read just a portion of it and then invite Ms. Wilson to make some comments.

[1:14:36] Change is constant and affects all cities, towns, suburbs, counties, rural areas, and other

[1:14:45] places in community planning and plans can help manage this change in a way that provides

[1:14:53] better choices for how people work live and live in their communities.

[1:15:02] And whereas, community planning provides an opportunity for all residents to be meaningfully involved

[1:15:13] in making choices that determine the future of their community,

[1:15:23] the county and the city of Savannah.

[1:15:27] Whereas, the full benefit of planning requires public officials and citizens who understand, support,

[1:15:35] and demand excellence in planning and plan implementations,

[1:15:44] and whereas the month of October

[1:15:48] is designated national community planning month throughout the United States of America,

[1:15:55] as well as all territories, and whereas the American Plan of Association and its professional

[1:16:03] Institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners, 2020 theme, planning is essential to

[1:16:13] recovery, highlighting how planning and planners can lead communities to equitable resilience

[1:16:21] and long lasting recovery from the effects of COVID-19 pandemic.

[1:16:27] This theme is to remind us to learn with the future, prepare for uncertainty and help

[1:16:41] planners navigate this disruptive change.

[1:16:48] And with that chairman

[1:16:53] on behalf of this entire commission,

[1:16:59] we do hereby proclaim the month

[1:17:01] of October 2020, in Chatham County, and urge all local citizens to join in saluting in the

[1:17:09] metropolitan planning commission as a celebrate community planning month in conjunction with

[1:17:18] the celebration of the national community planning month to strengthen Chatham County's

[1:17:23] communities and how I have planning and planners can lead our

[1:17:29] community to equitable resilience and long last and recovery from

[1:17:35] the effects of COVID-19 pandemic.

[1:17:39] And with that, we'll sign I invite you up for some comments.

[1:17:45] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

[1:17:47] And I want to thank all of the county commissioners for your

[1:17:50] continue support of the Metropolitan Planning Commission, as well as the citizens that are listening

[1:17:57] to this broadcast. Today, I've got two of my board members with me, Ms. Tanya Melton and Mr. Wayne Noah.

[1:18:07] They serve on the Planning Commission and are appointed. The Planning Commission is appointed

[1:18:12] by both the city and the county for those of the community that don't know how we are currently set up.

[1:18:19] This is really important, especially now as we are dealing with a variety of challenges, not only with COVID-19, but still another seven weeks to deal with storm and other environmental impacts that totally impact the city and the county will regards to dealing with resiliency and planning for that.

[1:18:49] This is also the time that we are looking at starting the

[1:18:56] comprehensive planning process and I do want to take a moment to just talk about that.

[1:19:00] That is the document that we are required to update by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.

[1:19:06] It is used as a guide for reports to determining funding for a variety of projects that we've

[1:19:12] throughout the city and the county, we will be asking all of you as well as people listening

[1:19:18] to this broadcast and others in the community to participate and this effort through a variety

[1:19:24] of means we will have focus groups and surveys to gather as much information as we possibly

[1:19:30] can and we will come back to you all with our more formal presentation. We'll regard to this process,

[1:19:35] But I do want to take that opportunity to make a note that we have started gathering that work.

[1:19:42] That has to be complete by October of 2021 in order for us to continue to receive funding

[1:19:52] only wide for variety of projects.

[1:19:55] In addition to that, we have just received a grant from the State of Georgia that is a coastal

[1:20:03] empower resiliency network grant. And that's really important because it really echoes what we've

[1:20:09] been hearing today, the importance of partnership and collaboration. And one of the things that we

[1:20:14] would be charged to do is set up a collaborative regional resulting network working with our partners

[1:20:24] in the region to deal with resiliency, to deal with the impacts from the various

[1:20:32] the candidates that we have currently experienced.

[1:20:36] So again, thank you again for your support.

[1:20:38] I want to thank my board and the commission of the MPC for their support.

[1:20:43] And I'll be glad to answer any questions that you might have.

[1:20:47] Thank you.

[1:20:48] Also acknowledge Mr. Tonya Milton, who's passed chair of the Metropolitan Planning Commission.

[1:20:56] And then there's a Democratic nominee for the Fifth Commission District, so she'll be changing

[1:21:01] hats in January.

[1:21:04] So, thank you for your service.

[1:21:08] Thank you.

[1:21:18] We have no chairman, items are commissioner, items for consideration today.

[1:21:23] Nothing has been tabled that we need to remove from the table or consider, that takes us

[1:21:31] to add in for individual action.

[1:21:34] And the first is to request approval to follow in budget amendments and transfers in fiscal

[1:21:41] year 2020, one, make the following adjustments related to year-end audit and budget

[1:21:48] close-out.

[1:21:49] In the general fund, M&L's special service district, special revenue,

[1:21:57] internal service,

[1:21:58] capital improvement and enterprise fund,

[1:22:01] increased revenues and expenditures as documented

[1:22:05] on the resolution to, in the general fund,

[1:22:09] transfer of two million dollars from fund balance,

[1:22:14] to capital improvement fund, and B transfer of two million

[1:22:18] dollars from fund balance to debt service,

[1:22:22] three in the special service district,

[1:22:26] transfer of three million dollars to capital improvement,

[1:22:28] fund, and in the multiple grant fund, increase revenues and expenditures by $263,000, $5

[1:22:37] and sales tax, six fund transfer budget between projects as listed.

[1:22:45] And in fiscal year 2021, one in the general fund transfer of $16,000, $6,000 from

[1:22:52] continuously to the board of assessors operating budget to in the multiple grant fund,

[1:22:59] increase revenues and expenditures by 1 million, 213,000, 764 dollars and 6 cents for various

[1:23:10] grants as listed in three in the confiscated revenue fund transfer to me and dollars from

[1:23:20] Continuously to DEA confiscated.

[1:23:26] This is our motion.

[1:23:28] So, is that second?

[1:23:31] Second.

[1:23:33] Properly moved in second.

[1:23:37] Is there any discussion here or none?

[1:23:41] Is there any awareness here or none all in favor

[1:23:44] of the motion indicated by voting yes,

[1:23:49] are saying yes, commissioning,

[1:23:55] Yes.

[1:23:56] Yes.

[1:23:57] This has been moved.

[1:23:58] How do you vote Commissioner Jones?

[1:24:01] As that move for progress?

[1:24:02] Yes.

[1:24:03] Commissioner Kickliner.

[1:24:06] Yes.

[1:24:11] As everybody voted.

[1:24:17] The motion carries.

[1:24:27] The second item for the individual action is the request vote approval to create a four-time

[1:24:33] grant-funded project specialist position for the duration of 24 months for the Chalum County

[1:24:41] Police Department as a result of receiving a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office

[1:24:49] of Targeted Violence and Terrorism Grant.

[1:24:54] No, there's no match fund required.

[1:24:57] that this is a grant that was applied for and received by the

[1:25:02] Madam County Police Department, and it requires someone to

[1:25:06] administer this grant so you are creating a position.

[1:25:09] Is that motion?

[1:25:11] Two minutes.

[1:25:12] Is that second?

[1:25:15] Two minutes.

[1:25:15] That's second.

[1:25:16] It's probably moved in second.

[1:25:20] Is there any discussion of questions?

[1:25:22] Here are nine Indian rainers, here are nine all in favor of the motion, indicate by

[1:25:28] voting, yes, a saying, yes, commission of Jones, how do you vote?

[1:25:32] I say yes, commission of kicklider, yes,

[1:25:40] the motion carries,

[1:25:45] the third item on the agenda.

[1:25:49] There's a district attorney to me in our assets, forfeiture that you just moved,

[1:25:57] She wrote it to victim services and non-profits.

[1:26:05] We have the DA here who is going to talk about it.

[1:26:11] I don't know how she came about arriving at the list of the non-profits that will get

[1:26:17] this money perhaps she can provide us further explanation.

[1:26:26] And also if you would, Madam DA, if you can just talk about where this two million came from

[1:26:32] And in terms of the forfeiture.

[1:26:34] Yes, sir.

[1:26:35] Good afternoon.

[1:26:37] Thank you all for allowing me to be here.

[1:26:39] I was contacted by the Maken County Circuit

[1:26:43] that there had been a statewide investigation done

[1:26:47] by the Department of Revenue and the lottery

[1:26:50] in terms of illegal gambling that had occurred.

[1:26:54] And based on there were 21 stores here in Chattam County

[1:26:57] as well as stores across the state of Georgia.

[1:27:00] They brought charges, it's my understanding, when you have a lottery machine in your store,

[1:27:06] there are four master licensors that are by the state of Georgia and that they can, they

[1:27:12] only want to give licenses and then you have a location license for to have it in your store.

[1:27:17] So the asset forfeiture was seized in making county, and I was contacted to say that

[1:27:23] we will pursue the local stores here for the gambling that was done.

[1:27:27] but that the money that would be coming to Chad and County would be $2 million.

[1:27:32] When we received the ask that forfeature money, I have with me and I think Cheryl stepped out.

[1:27:37] I had the four victim service providers.

[1:27:39] I contacted the prosecuting attorney's counsel, Gary Bergman, who is my attorney who works all

[1:27:45] on asset forfeiture, aspects, weight-haring, with Hunter McLean.

[1:27:50] The money can only be used for services, for service providers that provide direct services

[1:27:56] two victims. That's the only thing by law that it can be given to.

[1:28:01] And working with my forced victim service providers here, which is the Coastal Children's

[1:28:05] Advocacy Center, the Great Crisis Center, safe shelter for better women, and the Family

[1:28:12] Justice Center, I know that they have struggled immensely over the past since March, because

[1:28:19] of COVID that they have not been able to have fundraisers. I know that safe shelter was

[1:28:24] over almost $300,000 in the whole, I know that right crisis and speaking, they were almost

[1:28:29] coming to the front where they're going to have to lay off people, so in that the money

[1:28:33] can only be given by law to people who deal directly with victims, provide direct services

[1:28:39] to victims, I asked them if they would be accepted, if they would accept the money.

[1:28:45] And the reason I wanted you to explain it because I, Tim,

[1:28:49] members of the Commission question as to wouldn't green-brie a qualify for some of this grads since there I involved just some extent because when you have domestic violence or a victim or anything else that goes on a lot of times those kids are sent to green-brie on a temporary place.

[1:29:14] for them to be sheltered, and they too were struggling with financial needs.

[1:29:20] So a couple of members of the Commission have brought that to my attention.

[1:29:24] And I tried to reach out to yesterday just to mention it to you that that was a concern

[1:29:29] of a couple of members of the Commission.

[1:29:33] But I wanted to probably to understand this was a statewide reco action that confiscated

[1:29:41] size of a amount of funds from a statewide basis.

[1:29:47] And to me, and all those is Chattam County

[1:29:50] share of that distribution, and clean through these offers. All funds have to be appropriate

[1:29:56] by this commission. And so that's why it's all now our calendar.

[1:30:00] Members are to really authorize and to enter into the memorandum of understanding and to make distribution

[1:30:06] of these funds. Is there any questions of the DA?

[1:30:14] Any further comments, mounting?

[1:30:16] Yes, sir. It's these people here are those that each shout out because the crime has not stopped and they

[1:30:22] have continued to work for the victims of crimes, which assist us in prosecuting these cases. So we work so closely and

[1:30:29] collaborative for so many years. It was just a way to get back to note it has to be direct

[1:30:33] services that are provided under the statute and that's why I conferred with two different

[1:30:37] attorneys outside my office to verify that what we were doing is correct. The MOUs have gone to

[1:30:42] Mr. Hart, it's my understanding, and we have put things in place for SOPs going forward.

[1:30:49] Okay. Thank you, sir. Thank you. There's no questions. It's down motion.

[1:30:55] I'm there.

[1:30:59] Bob, may I move in a second?

[1:31:03] Any further discussion?

[1:31:06] Here and here and here and here and here and there and there and all in favour please indicate

[1:31:12] by voting years of saying years, Commissioner Jones, how do you vote?

[1:31:16] Yes.

[1:31:18] Commissioner Kikwala?

[1:31:20] Yes.

[1:31:23] As everybody voted,

[1:31:26] the motion is approved.

[1:31:33] Item 4 on the agenda.

[1:31:38] It's a request board approval to accept a grant award from the Center for Tech and Civic

[1:31:48] Life up to, on not to exceed, 572,264 dollars.

[1:31:57] There's no match required and I thought that perhaps to help the public understand what we

[1:32:12] received.

[1:32:12] This was a grant that the county applied for and been approved to spend up to the dollar

[1:32:20] amount.

[1:32:20] You have to justify, of course, and one of the things that we're doing with this

[1:32:27] This grant is to help protect the November 3rd election by helping protect, I mean I,

[1:32:35] this money can be spent to pre-clean facilities that we're using for election sites.

[1:32:44] It will also be used to post-clean after we use those facilities.

[1:32:50] we can use some of these funds to clean the facilities and schools, etc. before or at the

[1:33:00] end of the election. This fund can all, but so we use for providing personal protection

[1:33:05] equipment to help make certain that the elections are held as safely as possible in the

[1:33:17] face mass, petitions, et cetera, to help protect voters.

[1:33:23] And so this is what some of the things our Assistant County

[1:33:29] Manager, Ms. Kramer, has a list of potential stuff that can be used for

[1:33:35] and will be used for including the cleaning and sterilizing of machines, et cetera.

[1:33:41] But we're also providing stiles and all the polling places, so people who really don't have

[1:33:49] to text to screen, they can use the stiles, so they should choose to do their voting.

[1:33:58] So all those items are included, but it's really an effort to help protect the voters as much

[1:34:04] as possible.

[1:34:05] I'm doing this upcoming election.

[1:34:09] The squammy, you have anything you want to add to it.

[1:34:16] And with that said, are there any questions before we entertain a motion?

[1:34:22] If not, is there a motion?

[1:34:24] That's a move?

[1:34:25] Thank you.

[1:34:27] Probably more than a second.

[1:34:29] Any further discussion here and none, if any on readiness, here and none, all in favor of

[1:34:36] the motion.

[1:34:37] In the case by voting, yes, a saying, yes, Commissioner Jones, how do you vote?

[1:34:42] I vote yes.

[1:34:43] Commissioner Kicklider?

[1:34:45] I vote yes.

[1:34:49] Yes.

[1:34:49] Does everybody vote it?

[1:34:53] The motion carries.

[1:34:55] I want to thank staff for their expedited application for this grant.

[1:35:02] And it will certainly help us make this a fortune that November as safe as possible.

[1:35:15] Next, we have the action calendar, I have not gotten any calls from any members of the commission who wish to vote on anything separately on the action calendar with that said.

[1:35:29] Mr. Chairman? Yes.

[1:35:33] If possible, could we, I didn't know that I was supposed to go ahead and start.

[1:35:36] Can we possibly pull the canal maintenance agreement number 12 or either just have

[1:35:43] stopped elaborating on what exactly that is before or before either way?

[1:35:50] I'm going to request both approval to enter and enter an animal government agreement with

[1:35:55] each participate in municipality for county-wide canal maintenance program.

[1:36:00] Yes, I just think it would be good to get stopped and it's paying for a library on that.

[1:36:05] Okay? I'm going to invite our Assistant Manager Cagler to address that issue before we entertain

[1:36:18] a motion. And if you want to go on separately, we can. Commissioner Cagler,

[1:36:27] this is our annual

[1:36:28] can now make this program, where the county cleans throughout the entire county over 150 miles of

[1:36:36] canals. We enter into a, and you contract with the jurisdiction that allows us to go through

[1:36:43] and do that cleaning, that cleaning consist of going through and removing the breathe from the canal. Once a year,

[1:36:51] We moved the right away three times a year,

[1:36:54] and we also applied her besides.

[1:36:56] So this is the, you know,

[1:36:58] you with the different municipalities

[1:36:59] allows us to go in and perform that work.

[1:37:05] With that said, Commissioner Kikai,

[1:37:06] you have any questions of Mr. Kegler?

[1:37:11] No service chairman.

[1:37:12] I just thought I'd be given the point

[1:37:14] that I'll put those to me and my opinion.

[1:37:16] This is one of the greatest things we do

[1:37:18] for accounting while basis.

[1:37:19] and I just thought that we should highlight that for the public to say. Thank you.

[1:37:24] Mr. Chair. Thank you.

[1:37:28] Commissioner Láquita, the third.

[1:37:29] I just want to ask one question that this other matter could mean the unincorporated areas would be included.

[1:37:36] Yes, sir. It's unincorporated and all the municipalities.

[1:37:39] Unincorporated and all the municipalities, countywide.

[1:37:42] Thank you.

[1:37:44] And Councilor Warren to make a comment.

[1:37:47] John Hart.

[1:37:48] Yes. I just wanted to say that this is basically something

[1:37:52] the county does because these canals run through multiple jurisdictions and the unincorporated

[1:37:58] county.

[1:37:59] And if somebody in one city doesn't clean up and has a pinch coin in the canal program, it affects

[1:38:07] all the downstream providers and the stream providers.

[1:38:11] We do this on limited basis, the cities know that.

[1:38:15] They have the primary responsibility of taking care of their canals within the city, but within

[1:38:20] confines into the limited extent that these agreements allow us to go in and try to tackle

[1:38:26] some of the major things we do. We do not build drainage facilities for example, but we

[1:38:32] would come in and maybe remove their breath around them if we found something that we thought

[1:38:37] we needed that needed some work. We would then turn that over to the jurisdiction and question

[1:38:44] and let them know what we found and then they would be the ultimate decided or whether they

[1:38:49] going to go in there and make the changes within the canal system, but we found it helpful

[1:38:56] because it gets the whole system at some point, at least once a year, looked back and it's

[1:39:05] been a good relationship with the cities.

[1:39:09] We appreciate them and they appreciate us.

[1:39:14] Let's be chair.

[1:39:16] Thank you to Gloria Dean for the commissioning kick line.

[1:39:20] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

[1:39:22] I appreciate the link description,

[1:39:25] but I don't believe that it actually did

[1:39:28] justice for what we're actually doing

[1:39:30] because it's actually one dead cycle as well.

[1:39:33] I'll say, I believe a few known cycles

[1:39:36] and some spraying of weak killer cycles.

[1:39:39] So we're not in there just once.

[1:39:41] We're in there multiple times every year.

[1:39:43] but it's once a year from a major bit else,

[1:39:46] but it's just a great thing to help the entire county

[1:39:50] drain a little better, so thank you.

[1:39:54] And you're correct with that commissioner.

[1:39:56] Commissioner Jones, did you have something?

[1:39:58] Yes sir.

[1:40:00] I echo the sentiments within just state,

[1:40:03] I'm a colleague, Commissioner Kicklater just stated,

[1:40:05] and rep is still making sure we looked into this piece.

[1:40:08] I have been asking for an actual visual map of what this looked like

[1:40:12] for the last two, three years.

[1:40:13] every time we bring this piece up when we vote on it because I want to share this with this

[1:40:17] constituents in our communities because a lot of times like Commission kick like I said

[1:40:22] we get underserved on what the capacity we do when we do things I'm not community and so if I

[1:40:28] could once again get a copy of a map showing how this thing looks for our whole community so we

[1:40:36] can share it with our constituents based so they can notice one more thing that all the community

[1:40:41] people who deserve it. Thank you. This is, we have a master diagram of map of all the drainage

[1:40:48] system minutes. I actually kept our engineering department and if we can't make you one, we

[1:40:55] can certainly schedule a time when you can come down and review the map. We'll see if we can

[1:41:01] reduce it to a size that you can look at it but they have it upstairs in engineering and if we

[1:41:11] to make an available to you. We will, if not, we will see when we will be a appropriate

[1:41:17] time commissioner, Jones for you to come down and review the map. I don't know whether

[1:41:23] or not, how easy it's going to be to copy it.

[1:41:26] Well, we'll make the request.

[1:41:28] They can put it into a bigger map size. I got one of the big maps already in the house.

[1:41:31] That works too.

[1:41:39] Anything else on the action calendar?

[1:41:44] If not, at this time, I'll entertain a motion for approval.

[1:41:47] You have it.

[1:41:48] Mr. Chairman, just real quickly, I am.

[1:41:51] The commissioner's down.

[1:41:52] Very much in support of the canal maintenance,

[1:41:55] but I also want to call attention to the fact

[1:41:59] that we need ditch maintenance, too, throughout this camp.

[1:42:03] So I'm all in favor of this, but we've got to finish the job.

[1:42:10] OK,

[1:42:13] is that a motion to approve the action count?

[1:42:16] Mr. Chairman, there's a second.

[1:42:20] Any further discussion?

[1:42:22] Commissioner Kipri.

[1:42:23] Thank you.

[1:42:25] I just want to say I agree with the commissioner just said that the cities are chartered

[1:42:30] with the day-to-day maintenance of the regular drainage ditches, as we as the county commission

[1:42:35] are chartered with the day-to-day maintenance of all of the ditches in the unincorporated area.

[1:42:41] This is about major canals that drains like the attorney said.

[1:42:45] We're in major cities as well as the unincorporated area.

[1:42:48] in one clogging one of the cities

[1:42:50] can destroy the entire drainage program

[1:42:53] for many areas of many services.

[1:42:55] So this is us just ensuring that the major,

[1:42:59] I guess, our is our unclogbed,

[1:43:01] where the entire county can drain properly

[1:43:04] if the municipalities are doing their jobs with the small ditches

[1:43:07] and if we, as the county are doing good jobs

[1:43:10] with the on a corporate area ditches, so thank you.

[1:43:20] any further discussion, any unreadness, not all in favor of the motion to approve the action

[1:43:27] count and indicate by voting, yes, the saying, yes, commission, the Jones, how do you vote?

[1:43:33] I vote, yes, sir. Commission, I kick like that. I vote, yes,

[1:43:40] is everyone voted.

[1:43:43] The motion carries.

[1:43:53] Are there enough first readers?

[1:43:59] You know, second readers?

[1:44:06] Ms. Kramer, you know, now a second reading. We have a couple of second readers as a

[1:44:12] back with staff. Can you tell us what's been done on those,

[1:44:22] get the fire, the garbage, and

[1:44:24] yes, we're still working on a couple of these. We should have probably by the next meeting,

[1:44:29] the farmer's market ordinance back with you. We've had to pull out a lot of the language

[1:44:35] about the mobile food trucks out of that because of the state sandwich bill which was

[1:44:43] recently passed. We also should have the garbage removal ordinance back in front of you.

[1:44:51] The parking ordinance we're working with Chad and County Police about how to collect parking

[1:44:56] so we have a meeting on that coming up.

[1:45:00] Next week, and then the fire subscription we are working on the survey. You heard Melanie Wilson talk about the

[1:45:09] complaint. One of the things they're doing is some surveying in the community around the comprehensive

[1:45:14] plan, and they have agreed to include three or four of our questions on fire service in that survey.

[1:45:23] And they were also talking about, you know, other ways to put that survey out, be it through

[1:45:31] kind of more social media or survey monkey or those sort of means versus a male-out survey

[1:45:38] by Georgia Steader.

[1:45:39] And so we're still trying to balance that.

[1:45:41] And that's where we are with those.

[1:45:43] I think the other four, the burn ordinance, general offenses, marine and revenue were all approved.

[1:45:51] That's our current staff.

[1:45:52] Anybody have any questions, Commissioner Alice of the Eighth, I'm right here?

[1:45:59] I have staff received any emails, especially concerning with the fire subscription to have you gotten those emails?

[1:46:11] Because what I've been doing is everyone who sends London me, I've been following it into you all

[1:46:18] Because I know we can't, and I ever had to explain on the phone, we can't have a meeting

[1:46:25] where we invite the public to come in here and make their comments.

[1:46:28] We can't do that because of COVID.

[1:46:32] So, say to the public again, if they have any concerns, a comments concerning garbage collection,

[1:46:39] concerning price, discretion that they need to, if they're not emailing their commissioners,

[1:46:45] need to email it to the staff. I'll send it to the staff to get it there. That's the only way.

[1:46:50] We can know what their concerns are, because we don't have a place big enough that we can

[1:46:56] invite folks to stay socially distance and hear their complaints. So they have to put it in email

[1:47:02] form or they have to send it to us in some kind of way to the staff. All right, so what I've been

[1:47:09] And every time I get one, I fall with it to you all so that you all would know what people are saying to me.

[1:47:16] And I'm getting them from all over the county.

[1:47:18] Yeah, I would thank my child and would be another tool that key advantages that they could use to make comments.

[1:47:25] That's our my child and access.

[1:47:29] They're making put it on that they can call in and put it on or they can email it in and put it on the child.

[1:47:35] So maybe we need to say that, how to do that again out loud so they don't know.

[1:47:40] Well, there's a tab on our webpage, my chatem, and they can click on that, and it will

[1:47:44] do them to that feature.

[1:47:47] And there's also an app for my chatem, which, and let's see, is taking her

[1:47:51] ahead because she looks at everything that comes straight.

[1:47:55] Okay.

[1:47:59] The status of the community survey, have we?

[1:48:06] What'd you say the status of a sat?

[1:48:07] Are you talking about the comprehensive plan survey that NPCs developing are the fire survey?

[1:48:18] And we were also talking about having a workshop for members of the commission.

[1:48:21] Yes.

[1:48:22] So we were going to get the survey results in and then schedule the workshop.

[1:48:27] That's kind of our timeline right now.

[1:48:30] All right.

[1:48:31] Thank you.

[1:48:32] Thank you.

[1:48:33] Is there any other request we got to request about the drainage system, hopefully we can replicate that mapping, get it for it?

[1:48:43] Any, Mr. Commissioner Kiel?

[1:48:47] Thank you, Chairman. Can you hear me?

[1:48:52] Yes.

[1:48:54] All right, I just wanted to inform the commission chair and commission that once again, I guess,

[1:49:01] West China County specific point they already have over by waste management and the fifth

[1:49:07] district of the county is kind of under attack again.

[1:49:12] We have a, I just wanted you to know that there is currently a request from waste management

[1:49:17] to resume 847 acres to heavy industrial and they want to put a dump in and it will actually

[1:49:26] back up to the multi-million dollar park that we have Scottsdale Park. It's also going to add

[1:49:32] tons of traffic in the area. And as we all know that area is slated to eventually down the road

[1:49:39] to have 15,000 homes or 15,000 residents in that area. So although the area that's been requested was

[1:49:48] and that's done, but it was, and it's done by Savannah.

[1:49:52] So we on the commission, we have no authority or controls

[1:49:56] to do anything with it.

[1:49:58] I don't think we can, we can, we can adopt a revolution.

[1:50:01] We can fight that, we can really harm a lot of our own

[1:50:03] corporate area of our country.

[1:50:05] We can do a business business,

[1:50:08] I would greatly, greatly

[1:50:10] appreciate consideration of doing that,

[1:50:13] because the current landfill that's sitting there,

[1:50:17] but I don't know the exact size,

[1:50:18] But throughout the years, it's been, I'd say we've had to contact the EPA several times because it hadn't been run properly, so they have not set a good, good example of what they would do, especially with a 847 acre expansion.

[1:50:36] I mean, it's been a disaster. There's trash up and down the roads now from the garbage trucks when they just flies out and they don't clean it like they're sure.

[1:50:44] and anything like that,

[1:50:46] sometimes I hope to send to the MPC or the City of Savannah

[1:50:50] with the, I believe a huge help and greatly appreciate it,

[1:50:54] but all those residents in the fifth district

[1:50:55] and in the southern district out there.

[1:51:01] All right, thank you, sir.

[1:51:07] All right, sure, I'd give that a statement of comment.

[1:51:10] This commissioning,

[1:51:14] all right.

[1:51:16] Over the last couple of months,

[1:51:18] I have over there on Cambridge Road.

[1:51:21] The temple has been going back and forth and references some trees who cut trees down,

[1:51:27] who didn't cut trees down, and I gave the county manager's office information and

[1:51:32] references that and now we're going on two months.

[1:51:35] And I haven't had any clarity on how you need to move forward on it, they're saying that

[1:51:42] the property was acquired by the city of Savannah, so it's no longer county property.

[1:51:46] But I'm trying to get closure on this piece right here.

[1:51:49] They call me all the time and I want them to call the county, but when they call the county, we're not getting any kind of closure on it.

[1:51:56] So I just want to make sure for public documentation and record that I brought this up and we need to ask some kind of mitigation, some kind of meeting and reference to the situation.

[1:52:14] No, sir.

[1:52:33] This is Jay Jones. I'm saying yes.

[1:52:36] Yes.

[1:52:55] And Ms. James, can you call the telephone?

[1:53:02] Thank you, sir.

[2:17:43] Very giving people and it's just a wonderful community to be part of. Census 2020 is a complete count of all people in the United States. It only happens every 10 years.

[2:18:00] Well, the census is important because it is linked to so many resources that support pretty much everything throughout to Adam County.

[2:18:09] If we don't know how many of us there are, we don't know how many resources we need.

[2:18:13] So I know that there's a big push to make sure everybody is counted, so that we'll have adequate resources to support our whole community.

[2:18:24] I would want to help young people and their families understand that they don't really have anything to worry about with completing it.

[2:18:32] It's a safe way to contribute to this big picture of who we are, but it doesn't really reveal too much about us individually.

[2:18:45] Everyone counts.

[2:18:57] My name is Thurmond Tillman. I am pastor first after I've come back to church here in Savannah, Georgia.

[2:19:06] The census is extremely important because it's mandated by the U.S. Constitution.

[2:19:11] And we should count everyone living in America.

[2:19:19] We want folks to be very honest with putting out the form.

[2:19:22] If there are 10 people living in the house and it's only supposed to be three,

[2:19:26] still fill it out and put the 10 people down because the landlord can't get it,

[2:19:30] but we need everyone to get counted.

[2:19:35] And if somebody happens to be sleeping on your couch

[2:19:38] on April 1st which is Census Day,

[2:19:41] please count them as being on your couch.

[2:19:43] It does not mean they have to stay.

[2:19:45] They can leave in the time they need to leave,

[2:19:47] but they will count it once and only once.

[2:19:52] Everyone counts.