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Okay, OEA, silence is commissioned by the honorable commission. All those having business dropped near.

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Good morning, and you may be seated at this time.

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Let me ask you to be seated to check your electronic devices.

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We've got an abundance of share of deputies with us today, and I don't want them to take your, even the chief deputies here.

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And I don't want to take your cell phone, your electronic device, to our bright bed and breakfast.

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Because it will take you a while longer than you think to get it back.

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All right, so please, please, check them, commissioners check yours.

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All right?

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So that we can stay on task.

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And I'll ask you to be seated at this time as we get ready for our inspiration and our inspiration.

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in vocation and when the Dr. Larry S. Murray gets ready to lead us in prayer, I'm going

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to ask you to stand again and then following that prayer, I'm going to ask the vice chair

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if she will lead us in the pleasure of leading us to the play. We are grateful to have Dr.

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Larry S. Murray, he's from Fayetteville, North Carolina,

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on native.

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He served 21 years in the U.S. Army earning numerous awards

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and distinguished before retiring in 1999.

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He holds a doctor degree from Jacksonville

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at theological Seminary.

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He began his past as journey in Korea,

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and later founded the Fellowship of Love,

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worship center in Savannah, Georgia in 2004.

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Dr. Murray and his wife, Dr. Mayor Murray, our core also co-passes of the Hydenville campus

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of fellowship of love, ministries, and we're so glad to see you again and have you

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in our presence.

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And we thank you and we ask you now that you will come to the podium and the mic is yours.

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And when you get ready for prayer, if you will sing me so that we can stand with you in prayer.

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And again, good morning and thank you for being here.

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Amen.

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Good morning, everybody.

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Good morning.

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To Chairman Ellis, God bless you, sir.

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Thank you for the invitation to come into all the commissioners.

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What are privilege and what are honored to be in the space this morning?

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I just found out how I got here through Sister Gail.

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I'm so grateful that you extended the invitation for me to come.

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I was just sharing with my minister that drove me here this morning.

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I went to bed with this on my mind and I woke up early this morning thinking that I had missed this opportunity.

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And I just took a big sigh of relief because my wife, she's excited about this door, been open.

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And then that you've given a little about who I am, my wife and I, we've been married for this year we're going to be celebrating 40 years and I just wanted to acknowledge her absence.

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If she was not working, she would be here.

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I am the father of three adult children and I have four grandchildren in the old boys.

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And so I'm grateful for all the things that the Lord has done.

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And I tell you something else that I'm grateful for.

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I'm not only the invitation to be here, but to know that I was city.

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We'll invite a local pastor in such as myself to acknowledge God

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because in all that we do, we are to acknowledge Him

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because He has all the answers.

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And it's all about Him.

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Whatever we do, it's always a good thing to acknowledge God and so with that being said,

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I want to share a scripture reference with you that you all are probably familiar with that comes from

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Proverbs chapter 3 verse 5 and verse 5 and 6 and it simply says, trust in the Lord with all

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hard and lean not to gain own understanding. In all of our ways, acknowledge him and he

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shall direct the past. And so the very fact that this city will honor God and a session

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Like this it gives me

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And I don't take it for granted that I'm here and in this space because I realize all the things that God has done for all of us, and all that we do, we acknowledge him. And the first scripture in Genesis chapter 1, it says, in the beginning, God. And so as we begin, this meeting this morning is in the beginning, God.

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because we're nothing without him and we are to trust him and lean to our own understanding

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and with this, the way we're seeing things that are happening in our country, there are so many concerns

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about what we are facing, what we are being confronted with, but I'm reminded of another scripture

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and second Chronicles chapter 7 verse 14 that simply says, if my people, we are his people,

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which are called by his name, if we will seek him, turn from our wicked ways, he will

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forgive us out of our sins and he will heal the land. My prayer recently has been that God

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will heal our land, that He will bring unity to our community.

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And I know that there are different things, different lenses that we look through, but in

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all that we do, it's all about Him.

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Paul says in the book of Acts chapter 17, it's in Him that we live, move and have our very

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So we can't do nothing without the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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I am committed to serving in the capacity that I serve in.

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I love to see God's people being blessed.

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I'm really blessed to see and to know again that our community is God's center.

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God focus and Chairman Ellis, I know that you are a man that walked by faith.

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I know that you are man that a concern is concerned about God's people.

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And so again, I cannot express it enough that I'm so grateful for being here in this city

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and to know the things that the Lord has done for us and I believe that the city of Savannah

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has great potential, it has great future.

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These commissioners, you all that are leading us as servant leaders in our community, thank you for your services that you are rendering to the people that you serve.

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Some of us, we don't take it for granted, we appreciate your concerns and all that you offer assistance wise to the people that you are serving.

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And I want to represent the voice of those that you may not have heard from lately and tell

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you again, thank you for all that you do, the services that you are rendering, it is not

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taken for granted.

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At this time, I'm going to transition into prayer.

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May we stand?

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Father in heaven, we thank you for this privilege and this opportunity.

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This is the day that you have made and Lord, we are rejoicing and we are glad in it.

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We thank you for this face, we thank you for this opportunity, we thank you for these

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servant leaders, thank you for our community, we thank you for every pastor, we thank you

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for every community worker, everyone that is involved and Father, we ask you that you will

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put us, even right now, that you will forgive us of our sins, our transgressions, and anything

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that we may have said or done that we hinder our progress. Father, we are asking that you will

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show us the error of our ways. You've been so current to us. Father, you kept food on our tables.

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You kept us out of hurt harm and danger. Father, we pray that you will cover this city by the

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of Jesus. We pray, O God, that you will help us, O God, to make the right decisions.

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We love you all today. We appreciate you for who you are. And Father, all the things that you

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done for us and all the ways that you have kept us and even in the midst of evil and

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confrontations, we yet look to you, we look to the heels on what's

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And all our help comes from you. So again, we speak blessings upon Chairman Ellis. We thank you for these commissioners and Lord made you continue to bless them and inspire them as they continue to walk by faith and not by sight. This is our prayer in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.

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God bless you.

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Thank you.

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And you may be seated, too.

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Dr. Murray.

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We're so grateful that you had time in your schedule, too.

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Honor us with your presence today, and today's just a start.

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Of you being here at our County Commission meeting and being a part of what we do in here,

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because we do depend on the press of the righteous to get us through all the toll and turmoil

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that we must deal with. Thank you again so much for being here and God bless you and

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and do we have the orcif we don't have it? We have it? Where's it? You gave it to him? All right, thank

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you. Thank you so much. I want to make sure you get. We can't pay you. But we do want you to know

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that we appreciate you being here with us this morning. God bless you. All right, roll call.

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Mr. A. Ellis Chairman.

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President.

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Melinda Scott Hodge District 2 by Chairman.

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President.

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Dean Kicklatter District 7 Chairman.

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Program.

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Here.

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Anthony Wayne Noah District 1.

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Bobby Lockett District 3.

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Patrick A. Farrell District 4.

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Tony Milton District 5.

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And Whiteley District 6.

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Marcia Bueford District 8.

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All right.

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Commissioner Farrell.

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step down a moment, but he was in pre-meeting and he will be back joining us shortly, all right?

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At this time, I want to call on Commissioner Milton or the introduction of our youth commissioners.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, everyone.

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And as always, we're excited to have the young people to join us.

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So today, we have Sachi Patel, who is a 10th grader at Savannah Christian,

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and along with her is Tarth Patel who is also a tenth greater as Savannah Christian and did not

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relate it. So I told him I was going to ask them what the inspirations as far as moving

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further in their careers and I'm going to ask them now so they can tell me.

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would like to move on to go into the medical field somewhere. After high school, I would

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love to make an impact to my community. I'm interested in law because I think it's interesting

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how it works. I think I'm leaning more towards medical, but I would love to get a more

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Brotsco best to what goes on in our community for everything. It's really interesting how we function

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What about you turn after after after

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After high school. I want to I want to go to college and become a aerospace engineer. Wow, that's awesome

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So I want to say welcome to you and I want you to you know get involved and have any questions

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Please ask them and again you're welcome. We're glad to hear

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We're so thankful for you all being here today, and so being part of our youth commission, and we hope that you will learn from this, and especially now I'll tell you a lot of my experience excited about what you said because I have a grandson who is a junior this year at Tuskegee, and he's an aeronautic engineering.

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all right so you guys want to explore the universe and that's good all right so again thank

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you and if you have anything you need to say I want to know all right just signal us by raising

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your hand and then one of us if I don't see one of us will see and make sure you are part

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All right.

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We have any constitutional officers.

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I don't see anybody.

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I do see our chief deputies here and a fire cap to see our police.

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Our chief was here.

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Uh, is here.

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She'd say so.

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We thank you all for being here.

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And all of you who have come to be a part of these proceedings.

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We are grateful that you're in the house with us today.

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All right.

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Anybody else you want to bring with you, Mr. Town, if you all will come to the podium. In case there are some other folks in the audience with you.

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I'm going to read this in part and then I'll turn it over to you at the mic. The County of Chatham, Georgia, Proclamation, where as Chatham County has a story history with committee and much of the credit goes to Judge Arthur Solomon, who served as the Chatham County Commission.

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for 40 years and whereas just Solomon along with the Savannah Men's Garden Club is credited

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for founding American comedians society in 1945 and just Solomon would often travel on the

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Queen Mary to bring plans to the United States and where and in 2000 Gene Phillips

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the second generation committee in Grozao.

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The need to bring back to public presence of committee

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for a gardeners to enjoy and to coastal garden.

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John, coastal Georgia, Botanical Garden was chosen

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as a location to showcase.

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Committees and pay homage to the work of Joyce Solomon.

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Now, therefore, I, just a L.S. Chairman of the half

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of the Chattam County Board of Commission,

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do here by proclaim February 26th as committee in one.

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and Chatham County to bring awareness to these beautiful plants and encourage citizens to attend.

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If a meeting festival at the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens on February the 20th through the 22nd,

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2026, and witness where I'm right here to set my hands and call the seal of Chatham County

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Georgia to be a fixed, the 13th day of February the 2026, the mic is yours.

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Thank you, sir.

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Chairman, we appreciate you and the commissioners and your continued support.

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At the gardens, we play a small part in terms of maintaining and sustaining the judge's

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solemn and familiar trail.

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But at the same time, if you haven't been out to the Botanical Garden lately, you need

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to make the trip.

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It's 52 acres of lush growth, and we are working within the garden to be designated as an

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national gardener garden of excellence. They're only seven in the United States. So it will help.

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Put the garden on the map. It will help in terms of promoting Chattam County in the public and

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promote tourism and we all know that that all brings money in with it as well. So thank you so much.

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We appreciate it. We thank you all for what you do and anything that we can do to aid you and

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as well. We're here for you, and just let us know.

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Thank you. All right, no coming.

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Two kisses.

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Good.

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It's no widely.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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Mr. Taylor, thank you for joining us.

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And it was good seeing you at the dinner, the other weekend.

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I just want to echo your sentiments of reference to the gardens out there.

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I think they are one of many untouched jewels in our community.

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And of course, you all know it's in the beautiful, beautiful, six districts.

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So I urge everyone to come on out, it came great.

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Come on out, it came great and check out the gardens.

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It's a great experience.

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I know my kids have gone and had a picnic

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and studied over there, a very serene place.

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And I'm just proud to see the preservation of so much history

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through gardening and horticulture.

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So thank you all for your service out there.

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Thank you.

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Can I just know what?

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Yeah, again, thank you very much, everyone.

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So that's, thank you.

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I know what valued S.A.E.U.R. and your team, there's a group of about probably 10 of you that

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pretty much keep that garden up, named after Judge Solomon, who was a county commissioner.

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And I was pleased and honored to serve as the President of the Coastal Georgia Community Society

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for several years. And I promise you, I'm going to get back once things slow down, but thank you

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It's left of several weeks, but not many of

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familiar blooms so get out and see them while you can,

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because this year, I don't know if the cold

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denitor what, but they're really beautiful this year.

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So thank you again.

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And if you get a chance, come see us this weekend.

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It's going to be a beautiful show.

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Good.

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All right, thank you.

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All right, we'll go from there.

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We'll go to chairman's item and under chairman's item.

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We have transit services, and I want to read this

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to the records and then ask for a motion in a second that we pass it, all right?

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The Chatham County Board of Commissioners direct staff to begin the process necessary to proceed.

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Request for our qualification, for our providers of public transit service, and chat them counting.

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And to evaluate and provide recommendations for a pair of transit service and perform a study of potential efficiencies for all transit service in chat them counting. Is there a motion?

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Mr. Chairman, I move that we accept that statement. That's right.

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All right, so I'm probably mostly in a second that we adopt a statement and put it in the motion or the underreddinance, I see Commissioner, Noah.

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I just wanted to make one comment.

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I think it's always prudent to see competitive bids, review contracts and ensure that we're spending the community's money's appropriately.

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I am still very hopeful, and I'm confident that the cat board in this commission can sit down and bargain at the table and do what is in the best interest of chat and tell these citizens as a whole. All citizens.

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All right, now let me let me I'm straight now a part of it and these are not these are not anybody did know anything.

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What we're doing now is we're setting the staff and motion to get folks who are qualified to present us with transit services.

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All right. I want to make sure we know that. Okay. All right. That's why I was brought. Yes, sir.

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Commissioner White. Thank you. And I agree with Commissioner Noha. I appreciate his sentiments. And I just want to say for public consumption.

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I hope that this is more proof that we are adamant that public transit is not going away. So anybody who says anything on the contrary is not telling the truth.

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we do not want public transit to end, we do not want public transit to stop, we do not want

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public transit to be not as effective as it can be and so this is just a step in the direction

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to make sure that we are doing everything that we have in our power to ensure that we are providing

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for the public transit for our county. Thank you. Anyone else? All right, Commissioner Hart.

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And to piggyback on what my fellow commission, thank you, Chairman. But to piggyback on what my

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commissioners have said because of my district is heavily impacted by transit. And so we do not want

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to experience any breaking service and we're just putting some safe guards in place to make sure

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that doesn't happen. Anyone else? Yes sir. I would like to say this. Third district is probably

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one of the most land-wise, the longest district in the county, and we certainly need public

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transportation and we are behind this all the way.

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All right.

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Do you have everyone?

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Please cancel your votes?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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No.

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Third district.

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Third district.

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Third district.

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Yes.

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Third district.

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that on the agenda, let me call on Ms. Jenins, Mr. Chair. I mean, Mr. Managing, please call

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Ms. Jenins to the podium. I want the, I think I've told all the commissioners, and if

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I miss anybody, it wouldn't blame it on the head and not the hard, okay? But I do want

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the public to know what this commission is doing and the things that we are into, Ms. Jenins,

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If you will. Good morning. Good morning. So, many of you may be aware, but Madam County did submit a few projects through the congressional directed spending request. Last year and have worked with our federal delegates to ensure that those projects have moved forward. Last week, we were notified that two projects are in the budget in FY 26 budget. One project will be awarded in the amount of 1.6 million seven eight thousand for East Savannah and the early learning center for some

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recreational and security equipment, and then additionally we have 1.2 million which will support

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the villages at Carter Manor, which is our housing development, and Port Wentworth, and

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partnership with Habitat.

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Both of those will be under the transportation housing and urban development funding bucket,

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and as we move into meeting with our federal delegates in the next couple of weeks if you could

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to thank them for their continued support at Chattam, and we will staff is already working

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to prepare additional requests as the portal for the upcoming funding is now open.

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So we will continue to explore those options.

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I just wanted to say you all tonight we have not-

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We received official grant notifications or agreements when we do, as you know, this will come back to the board.

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So there might be some changes in what we submitted and requested and what they actually authorized us.

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All we know is the total amount at this moment.

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All right. Thank you.

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Any announcements any questions?

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Let us thank you for what we're doing and so that you know every day we are in concert with our federal partners.

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And to show you how fast it worked, the President signed the bill, the budget to keep the government from shutting down at 415 at 416 and I got the call that says your money is on the way and money is there.

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And so we continuously put in applications as we go.

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And let me say, I have to give Ms. Jenins and her team

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of Kudos because now I work them hard.

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All right.

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I mean, I worked them hard because I constantly,

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every day, scan over federal and state buddies

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and conversations.

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and if there's a way for us to get money out of anywhere.

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I don't care whether it's on the state level, on the federal level.

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I ship it up to them in ten.

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In fact, I've got you doing watching three right now.

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Because the money is available.

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All right.

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And I'm telling you, I learned this from my colleague,

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who I know from Neko and Neko is the National Organization

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for all counties.

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And we meet twice a year.

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In February, we're going to DC for our legislative caucus with them, and then in July, we will be going to Vegas, New Orleans.

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Okay, we're going to New Orleans to meet with them again, and that's county commissioners from throughout the whole country.

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But the good part of that is we want to bid and we want the process for 2027.

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So in July of 2027 we're going to have at least 15,000 commissioners in Chattam County.

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All right.

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And so that's what we're competing with everything is competitive.

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All right. And so you got to make sure you cross on eyes and dot all the T's,

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but most of all when they send them money down,

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you have to make sure you spin it according to what the congressional,

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but it's going to be from the congressional budget out to our HUD.

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And then we have the HUD because we are doing the project just as a reminder, we are doing the project out at

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Pull Wentworth, and we are doing forces with Habitat for Humanities.

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And we are going to build 85 homes out there for single families and let own apartments may come out of that too, but we are doing more of that

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because we do have a need to provide housing in Chattam County right now one of the

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things that I want to just this information purpose of letting you know we're working with the

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the folks at four-stool at Hunter, all right, because we need for a military housing to be in this

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County, because 75% of the soul of your station at Hunter cannot live on the base. There must

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out in the community and it's hard now, based upon that housing allowance for them to attain

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housing and so we're working on a project right now with the military and we'll be traveling

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late on this month to meet folks at the Pentagon so that we can see if we can pull down

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some of that money from going to other places and come here in Chattam County. So it's new to us

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But it's good to us because we've been very good at it and I just want to make sure now

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We don't have any commission on items. We don't have any table items. We go to items for individual action

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Appointment

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Appoint

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Anthony Wayne North to the greatest of an original alliance

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GSRA board is their motion

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Some movies to turn

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There's a problem.

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Probably the motion is second that, um, uh,

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or commissioner, no, I'll be appointed to these, uh,

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joint, uh, uh, uh, uh,

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uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

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and questions.

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Please catch your votes.

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A point, Aaron Wightly, to the greatest

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of an original alliance board is their motion.

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Probably the motion is second that, um, commissioner

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Wightly, be appointed to the greatest of an, uh,

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On the lines, any questions? Please catch your votes.

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To a questionable approval of the following budget amendments and transfer, one in the general fund, appropriate fund balance, $51,000, increased public defense, agency, payment, B transfer, $22,000 from juvenile court salaries to professional services, two, and the multi-grant fund, increased revenues and expenditures, $134,000, $8,000 for all.

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the victim of crime at grant 3 in the capital and improvement program fund transfer 394,305

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dollars from contingency to increase the scene. The seam of build and project be increased

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state revenue, $1,157,383 to increase the engineering project, is their motion.

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Mr. Chairman, I move that we approve the budget, amendments and traps, transfers that

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state.

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Second.

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Probably the motion in a second that it'd be approved for the budget transfer and

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amendments.

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Are you ready to put a question?

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All those famous things I'm trying to say in I, you know what I mean by, put it on the

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gun, put it on the bullet. I pressed the button. I'd rather listen to a doctor

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knew Georgia building code and amendment and recommended to the Georgia Department of

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Community Affairs, DCA by the state code advisory committee, SCAC, is their

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motion.

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Chairman.

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Yeah.

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I've got to have the motion first.

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Mr. Chairman, I move that we adopt the Georgia building codes and amendments as

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recommended as recommended.

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Second.

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All right.

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Now, I'm ready to miss a manager.

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Yes, sir.

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I'm going to have Mr. Latson kind of walk you through those changes, so you'll be aware of what

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we're recommending and also for the public, so they'll also be aware.

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So, floor is yours, Mr. Mark.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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Marcus lives in building safety and regulatory services, so staff is requesting that the board

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approve a resolution to adopt the new Georgia codes and amendments as recommended by DCA for

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2026,

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pardon me.

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The new mandatory state codes along with the corresponding amendments have been

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adopted by the Department of the Community Affairs through their authority within the uniform

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court codes act of the Georgia Code. Those codes and amendments are recommended to the DCA

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by the state codes advisory committee. That is a 21-person panel that's appointed by the state

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various building professionals throughout the state that review the codes make those recommendations

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to the Department of Community Affairs and this periodic review allows the state of Georgia

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to be in line with both changes that are specific to our area, as also any federal changes

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that take place, for example, within the ADA codes, Americans with disabilities at.

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The county, when those codes are adopted by the state, adopt those codes to be consistent

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with the state regulations.

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Some examples of some of the things that are addressed in these codes can include, when

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design criteria, pardon me again, energy efficiency,

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and as I mentioned earlier updates within

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ADA as examples, these are a list of the codes that are been adopted.

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They include the National Electrical Code and Minimum Institute of Natural Electrical Code, the

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residential and building codes, fuel gas, fire, mechanical plumbing, and the swimming pool

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in spot. So there's a long list of code that are applicable to our community and an effort

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to stay consistent with public safety or criteria. We asked that the board adopt these

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codes.

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All right, question. I'll just have a question for either Marcus or the manager has the builders

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Association, been aware of this, did we reach out to you, and they were good with these kids?

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In fact, they're part of the process.

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I'd just like to throw this out there. I believe we're at a point with the unincorporated area of the county in a similar situation to Pooleur. It's a poor, went worth, and blew them down, and all the areas that's just exploding with the growth. I'd like us to not only prove this today, but to be able to do that, but to be able to do that, and to be able to do that, and to be able to do that, and to be able to do that, and to be able to do that, and to be able to do that.

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But I understand when a area is trying to grow that you have very lenient ordinances, but we're

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at a point now where all we can do, we can't stop the growth, but we can guide the growth.

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I would like for us to consider, really having a sit down with Hilton Head, with their

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city government, and taking a really good look at their buffer ordinances, tree ordinances,

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set back ordinances, sign ordinances, construction ordinances, and the things that's built

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from now on in the unincorporated areas can actually, no matter what it is, if done right,

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can be visually pleasing, can have trees left, and can actually be nice. And again, I get it

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when you're developing, start from scratch and you need business. But that's not the case.

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We're

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us to not make the rest of the undeveloped areas super nice when they develop, because they're

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going to develop. It's just a matter of how are we going to allow them to. So I would love

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for us to take a look at, I mean, a serious one. And I'm going to recommend the same for

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the city of Poole, also. Well, all of them actually should do so.

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All right.

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So Mr. Man, do we put that on your plate so you can arrange that meeting with us in

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And let me tell you, I'm in the same vein that you are simply because, as we develop, we take away green space.

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And as you take away green space out of one area, you can cause flooding in another area.

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That's one of the reasons why Jackie and Jackie Jones and the folks up on the engineers,

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And since Mike retired not a name, he escaped me, who was up there in engineering.

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Angela?

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One of the things we have to watch and guide against it up here is we have to guide against

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the flooding.

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Because if you leak as far as you lay concrete, if you clouds us, and we're in water used

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to soak in that land, and now you don't soak in on me, and run somewhere.

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Okay, and and it runs to another neighborhood. So that's why these things are very important

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and I'm glad that on the state level they recognize that on this coastal region that you've got to take a good look at it

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and because I agree with you because he also has this on the coast just like we do the first getting all the rest of them.

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And so as we develop on the west side and that's where the development is on the west side.

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We need to be cognizant of the fact that what we're developing and then what we are causing.

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All right, so that's why we're there, yes, sir.

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I just want to piggyback on totally agree with my fellow commissioner about that.

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But we really need to focus when we're talking about development.

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That's water and sewer.

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Water and sewer is the engine of this development train, and I think we're way behind

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with the county and it enables us to other municipalities just to annex and gobble up the unincorporated

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area, which causes a multitude of other issues with public safety and everything else.

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So if we could please, as a commissioner, God, staff, the manager, to truly look at

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Warner and Sue were in this unincorporated area where it's not.

436
01:24:14,420 --> 01:24:22,020
And we talk about the rising, you know, the coastal area, it's, I mean, it is going to

437
01:24:22,020 --> 01:24:26,320
get fed really quick and then we're going to be by Naipol and I really don't want to be in

438
01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:26,860
that position.

439
01:24:27,480 --> 01:24:31,920
So if you could please do that, and that's why we played, that's why we picked

440
01:24:31,920 --> 01:24:38,860
close attention to climate change and ocean rise, alright? Don't kid yourself that the

441
01:24:38,860 --> 01:24:43,320
climate is not changing and ocean is not rising, right? Because we in February and

442
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:47,360
9 it's going to be real kind of warm the day, alright? That just lets you know that's the

443
01:24:47,360 --> 01:24:53,500
signal. So let us stay there, alright? Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So one question, I

444
01:24:53,500 --> 01:24:55,620
am Mr. Lotson, when will this go into a fair?

445
01:24:55,620 --> 01:24:59,980
or a pundit option. Okay, and maybe we'll get started. And just in

446
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:05,960
In reference to what my colleagues were saying. I think, as we talk about that growth, I agree 100% with

447
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:15,200
Commissioner Kicklider as it relates to trying to be intentional on guiding the growth. I think we definitely need to have an

448
01:25:15,200 --> 01:25:24,280
a strategy to enforce zoning conditions that are imposed at the MBC, but also here, because what I have seen with some of our unincorporated

449
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:31,380
constituents is that there are zoning conditions that are put in effect at the NPC, but then

450
01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:40,560
we're playing the Spider-Man mean as to who supposed to police it, where, you know, whether it's city or county or pool or blooming down.

451
01:25:40,700 --> 01:25:45,640
So I think we definitely, as we're looking at those strategies, Mr. Manager, if you can

452
01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:51,500
consider some strategies for us and some, excuse me, and for some of the zoning conditions

453
01:25:51,500 --> 01:25:56,600
because if we're putting conditions and giving guardrails to guide the growth,

454
01:25:56,760 --> 01:26:02,280
it means nothing if we're not actually following up and enforcing it on the long run.

455
01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:05,720
And then the last thing is, saying with code enforcement,

456
01:26:06,460 --> 01:26:12,640
because as we're growing, I know I have a number of constituents in my email today,

457
01:26:13,340 --> 01:26:16,060
actually, in reference to code enforcement issues,

458
01:26:16,060 --> 01:26:25,960
And I know that the Georgia State law is very broad when it comes to how we can enforce and what we can do.

459
01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:34,860
So for example, if we have somebody who is a habitual offender and by the time they go to court, they're always everything's cleaned up.

460
01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:41,200
By the time they go to court, but then we're going to be right back in court six months from now.

461
01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:47,020
feel like there should be some sort of penalty for that because ultimately it is utilizing

462
01:26:47,020 --> 01:26:53,740
the resources that are given to us by the taxpayers and ultimately a waste of everybody's

463
01:26:53,740 --> 01:27:00,200
time not to mention an eye sore in a lot of communities so I hope that as we're talking about

464
01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:05,440
this deeper discussion and guiding growth and development that we are also looking at ways

465
01:27:05,440 --> 01:27:14,140
we can kind of cinch up our existing operations to include, again, strategy to enforce zoning

466
01:27:14,140 --> 01:27:20,180
conditions that are implemented at the NPC and at this commission, but also code enforcement,

467
01:27:21,460 --> 01:27:25,180
or excuse me, getting a little bit more strict or stringent when it comes to code enforcement,

468
01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:31,300
so those habitual offenders who keep getting someone's to court and have everything cleaned up

469
01:27:31,300 --> 01:27:35,420
by the time they get to court, that they have some other incentive to get it right the first

470
01:27:35,420 --> 01:27:36,880
time and keep it right.

471
01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:42,480
Mr. Chairman, just board, along with those lands, the County Attorney's Office along

472
01:27:42,480 --> 01:27:47,740
with building safety, they are looking at updating the blight ordinance, and that will

473
01:27:47,740 --> 01:27:52,000
be coming to you pretty soon for y'all to vote on.

474
01:27:52,280 --> 01:27:59,880
It will come with the need for additional revenue, but we've seen a lot of properties out there

475
01:27:59,880 --> 01:28:02,760
that really have been nice so we haven't been maintained.

476
01:28:03,800 --> 01:28:06,300
We've commissioned an award here last week.

477
01:28:06,620 --> 01:28:09,680
We've got a couple in your area that we're dealing with.

478
01:28:10,140 --> 01:28:12,760
So we are going to be making recommendations

479
01:28:12,760 --> 01:28:15,920
for this commission to strengthen our applied ordinance.

480
01:28:16,780 --> 01:28:17,000
Mm-hmm.

481
01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:18,000
All right.

482
01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:19,380
Good morning, everyone.

483
01:28:19,780 --> 01:28:21,080
All right, can I see what, oh yeah, I'm sorry.

484
01:28:21,340 --> 01:28:21,780
Commissioner Hart.

485
01:28:23,140 --> 01:28:24,020
Thank you, Chairman.

486
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:28,440
A part of it, Mr. Kegler, isn't it?

487
01:28:28,440 --> 01:28:37,480
It doesn't have a lot to do with educating the public on what is considered an ordinance violation because I know a lot of it's well because I'm in the city

488
01:28:38,160 --> 01:28:52,520
When it comes to like parking a person can park parallel to their driveway they have conditions where they can do things that are outside of what the normal would be but there are some things that are considered violations and a lot of citizens don't know or understand

489
01:28:52,520 --> 01:28:56,520
So there is a education component that comes with that, right?

490
01:28:56,820 --> 01:29:02,540
You correct? And we try our best that we don't find anyone on the first attempt.

491
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:08,340
We go out and we put out notices, we let them know what's in compliance, what's out of compliance.

492
01:29:09,200 --> 01:29:15,900
And if they take the necessary corrective action, then we don't, you know, the issue just dies.

493
01:29:15,900 --> 01:29:20,800
I think what commissions or the commissions are referring to are these pre-complired, these folks

494
01:29:20,800 --> 01:29:29,000
who are perpetually break the rules, they don't keep the property up, there's garbage everywhere.

495
01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:32,380
There's just a number of ordinance violations.

496
01:29:33,860 --> 01:29:40,760
So where we go out and we inspect the property if it's something that's the education piece we provide

497
01:29:40,760 --> 01:29:46,280
that but when we go beyond that is when we need to strengthen, it's why we need to strengthen

498
01:29:46,280 --> 01:29:47,300
our black ordinance.

499
01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:49,740
All right, got him.

500
01:29:49,920 --> 01:29:49,980
Yes.

501
01:29:50,060 --> 01:29:50,840
Commissioner Mill.

502
01:29:51,160 --> 01:29:57,300
And I think a lot of news, I don't know, as an excuse, when you know, because somebody

503
01:29:57,300 --> 01:29:59,980
was here two weeks ago and explained it all to me.

504
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:05,640
The bill is in court, was at the house already told no one need to be done and then when the sign

505
01:30:05,640 --> 01:30:07,500
go to court they claim I don't know.

506
01:30:07,780 --> 01:30:08,420
I will say that.

507
01:30:09,580 --> 01:30:19,320
We'll say that Mr. Latzon has stepped up again. We're seeing more court violations, we've got

508
01:30:19,320 --> 01:30:24,280
inspectors out on a daily basis, so we're catching a lot of them, but we've got some issues

509
01:30:24,280 --> 01:30:30,620
where we're going to have to step in and maybe do some demolition or some other remedial

510
01:30:30,620 --> 01:30:33,160
kind of activities to get that property up to code.

511
01:30:34,300 --> 01:30:34,520
Okay.

512
01:30:35,200 --> 01:30:35,560
Yes, sir.

513
01:30:35,740 --> 01:30:42,340
One final commenter's question, I'll actually learn something on our visit, Alan Ferguson

514
01:30:42,340 --> 01:30:50,080
Avenue this week, and we have, I'm sure it's in every district, but where multiple people

515
01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:54,260
living on the same property and that necessarily in the house.

516
01:30:56,320 --> 01:31:02,860
And Mr. Watson, if you could, what you told me about, I believe it was you said, the number

517
01:31:02,860 --> 01:31:08,060
of people that can live on a piece of property, I think it's very important for the public

518
01:31:08,060 --> 01:31:12,520
to know because I didn't know when I thought I was informed.

519
01:31:12,520 --> 01:31:23,720
So as a matter of individuals living in a single family residence, and one of the things just to back up a little bit, one of the things that Mr.

520
01:31:23,840 --> 01:31:29,800
Noin, I experienced for people who are not living inside a house, but just quote unquote on the property, which is not permitted.

521
01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:40,880
So we addressed that frequently. However, unrelated people, the maximum number of six that can live in the home, so if you're roommates, essentially.

522
01:31:42,460 --> 01:31:46,560
If you're related, then matter, you can have a big family, you know, as many people as you

523
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:52,340
can accommodate, but that's part of it is the difficulty in policing that, but oftentimes

524
01:31:52,340 --> 01:31:58,860
people that my staff encounters out, you know, they have some relationship with the folks

525
01:31:58,860 --> 01:32:04,220
that get to know who lives in these places and when you've got, you know, quite a number of

526
01:32:04,220 --> 01:32:09,580
people living in a residence, it can become pretty obvious, especially in most of the places

527
01:32:09,580 --> 01:32:14,260
that we have to address in the unacoperated area,

528
01:32:14,340 --> 01:32:16,380
a lot of those places are on septic systems.

529
01:32:17,080 --> 01:32:18,080
So that becomes an issue.

530
01:32:19,860 --> 01:32:23,780
And the thing is, is that we have to depend on staff

531
01:32:24,420 --> 01:32:27,600
to get to know the end and outs.

532
01:32:28,360 --> 01:32:30,180
And who's there?

533
01:32:30,180 --> 01:32:33,680
So that we know that we're not overstepping our bounds,

534
01:32:34,320 --> 01:32:34,620
and we're correct.

535
01:32:34,760 --> 01:32:38,480
We're going there, so listen, I don't envy you, Jara.

536
01:32:38,480 --> 01:33:08,180
All right, I'm gonna tell you probably, I don't want you y'all, all right, because looking at what was on Ferguson Avenue the other day and then looking at what was in village green the other day. Okay, so you're on the kind of it is like I raised my children. I only had to tell you what your child was once. I'm coming back and tell you again and this over and over and we continue to get the same people.

537
01:33:08,800 --> 01:33:15,580
violating the same codes, and I was going to say it to the judge and you all got to stop playing with them.

538
01:33:15,820 --> 01:33:20,700
All right, because this same person had been in front of the judge seven times.

539
01:33:21,520 --> 01:33:26,940
And they do enough to warrant that the judge said, OK, you're trying.

540
01:33:27,100 --> 01:33:28,200
And so they let them go.

541
01:33:28,720 --> 01:33:30,060
And they go right back out there.

542
01:33:30,140 --> 01:33:38,460
And next time you go out there, you have two more truckloads of mess that you,

543
01:33:38,460 --> 01:33:43,600
my hats off to you and your team for the things you do and the people that you encounter and

544
01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:50,560
I know sometimes they want to make it a few short all right but we haven't said that please

545
01:33:50,560 --> 01:33:51,900
catch your votes.

546
01:33:55,160 --> 01:33:59,160
I'll come and be. I saw you late, but I'm coming. Now go ahead, miss Patel.

547
01:34:01,590 --> 01:34:03,690
Pull the mic down to you. Stay there, Mr. Larson.

548
01:34:05,710 --> 01:34:11,990
So how are rules and audiences different and unincorporated places like Pillar and Altanette before

549
01:34:11,990 --> 01:34:17,930
we work to make the changes and to change how things were working and unincorporated places like

550
01:34:17,930 --> 01:34:22,730
you're talking about earlier. How are the rules prior to that prior to those changes and then

551
01:34:22,730 --> 01:34:25,730
how are we going to change them? Cara, Cara, heard through the steps that you had just

552
01:34:25,730 --> 01:34:29,430
your team to. And I think, well, are you referring to the comment that Commissioner

553
01:34:29,430 --> 01:34:33,430
Kicklater May regarding Hill and Had Island? I think one of the things that he was describing

554
01:34:33,430 --> 01:34:40,430
with some of the development requirements for that particular town. Each town or city has their own

555
01:34:40,430 --> 01:34:41,490
development standards.

556
01:34:43,550 --> 01:34:46,790
So within a town or a city each property has its own classification

557
01:34:47,470 --> 01:34:51,150
and that zone in classification has certain standards that are required for developing

558
01:34:51,150 --> 01:34:56,730
something. So that might include things like buffers which might be vegetation or fences,

559
01:34:57,250 --> 01:34:59,970
it includes lighting, it includes signage, it includes...

560
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:13,740
How big your building can be, and all those kind of rules. And I think that's what Commissioner Kicklade was speaking to, is that we need to look at a mending some of our ordinances that are not quite as strict as some other places in our region.

561
01:35:15,240 --> 01:35:27,900
And also to help the parliament, please, a part in what they do, because you run into some places where you're talking about safety tanks, right? And some places you're talking about whales, whether they're in connecting to the water system,

562
01:35:27,900 --> 01:35:34,040
connect into the solar system. So when they go out, they have to make sure they got all those factors

563
01:35:34,040 --> 01:35:40,500
involved in some time that requires them to call in the health department. So that the health

564
01:35:40,500 --> 01:35:48,320
department can give the permits. If you're operating on a septic system, there's less

565
01:35:48,320 --> 01:35:55,120
residential density is permitted because of the way you have to deal with your waste. So if you're

566
01:35:55,120 --> 01:36:00,420
public system. You can have higher density residential, whereas if you're in an

567
01:36:00,420 --> 01:36:04,820
unnecoperated area that's not have public sewer, then your density is going to be lower.

568
01:36:06,780 --> 01:36:08,920
All right, I'm coming. Come here to wipe it.

569
01:36:09,140 --> 01:36:15,260
Ms. Battel, I heard you mentioned spots like pooler and Bloomingdale, and so those places

570
01:36:15,260 --> 01:36:19,940
aren't considered unincorporated because they have a city council. All right, so anywhere that

571
01:36:19,940 --> 01:36:24,620
if they have a council, then a mayor, if you will, then they are not unincorporated, but there are

572
01:36:24,620 --> 01:36:30,500
certain areas in Chano County. An example would be out like with marsh island woman to

573
01:36:30,500 --> 01:36:35,660
island. Those areas are unincorporated. Meaning that yes, when you send them a piece of

574
01:36:35,660 --> 01:36:40,900
mail, it says Savannah. But the city council does not make the rules for their area. Technically

575
01:36:40,900 --> 01:36:47,700
this body, the county commission, service, their sole local representative. So each municipality

576
01:36:47,700 --> 01:36:54,400
can set its own rules. When I say municipalities city of pool or any city city, city of

577
01:36:54,400 --> 01:36:59,600
how they want, and as it relates to what Commissioner Keak Lighter was saying, if you have

578
01:36:59,600 --> 01:37:05,520
you've been over to Hilton Head and Bluffton, so you notice how everything looks like

579
01:37:05,520 --> 01:37:07,300
a dentist's office, even the Wendy's side.

580
01:37:09,320 --> 01:37:16,800
It's kind of, so that's an example of them using their rules to create some level of uniformity

581
01:37:16,800 --> 01:37:21,300
when it comes to signage and stuff like that, so you don't have random signs all over

582
01:37:21,300 --> 01:37:28,520
place and things of that nature. Another way that those rules you talk about, another way that

583
01:37:28,520 --> 01:37:34,760
you may see enforcement is basically, as we talked about code enforcement. So, in some places,

584
01:37:35,300 --> 01:37:40,960
they might let you let the grass grow up to a foot tall. We don't, you know, in some places,

585
01:37:41,160 --> 01:37:47,460
they may allow you to have several broken down cars parked in your yard, but in other places,

586
01:37:47,460 --> 01:37:50,780
that's not the case. So those are some of those rules that we use to try to

587
01:37:50,780 --> 01:37:53,540
affect black and things that I need to do.

588
01:37:53,540 --> 01:37:54,800
All right, Commissioner Hart.

589
01:37:56,140 --> 01:37:57,560
My comments are not necessary.

590
01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:00,160
Commissioner Hart may my point. I was never

591
01:38:00,160 --> 01:38:02,720
saved the sign as the student sign.

592
01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:08,840
No matter what your branding colors are, they have guidelines, so that's no point in my

593
01:38:08,840 --> 01:38:09,880
point isn't this thing.

594
01:38:09,940 --> 01:38:10,700
Okay, Commissioner.

595
01:38:11,820 --> 01:38:15,440
I'm coming. Commissioner, yeah. Are you good? All right, Commissioner.

596
01:38:16,320 --> 01:38:35,900
Yeah, my son and I went to a football game down in Tampa to watch the Falcons play, and we stayed in a hotel, and it just really hit me because we drove off the main highway, went down a road, and then all of a sudden we were at the hotel, and everything was not clear cut.

597
01:38:35,900 --> 01:38:55,000
I mean, it was literally we saw a little nice sign and saw it turned in. There was trees everywhere and there was a hotel sitting there and imagine that. I mean, that's how hilton head does it and that's how we can require things to be done and we can at least not my thoughts.

598
01:38:55,000 --> 01:39:01,720
I live in Poole, but my thoughts are a lot of my thoughts are with the city of Poole right now

599
01:39:01,720 --> 01:39:03,660
because it's just exploding.

600
01:39:03,960 --> 01:39:09,900
Yeah, the growth in Poole is insane in the past few years, especially in terms of traffic

601
01:39:09,900 --> 01:39:11,660
and how things are changing.

602
01:39:11,940 --> 01:39:14,300
And I think that regulations would have better at the city.

603
01:39:14,480 --> 01:39:15,000
Absolutely.

604
01:39:15,560 --> 01:39:22,880
And I've been thinking I want to recommend Poole to do just what I just said, but why not

605
01:39:22,880 --> 01:39:29,020
try to lead by example and then try to get them to follow along and do what we're doing.

606
01:39:29,440 --> 01:39:36,380
So hopefully we'll set the right example and future things you might be sitting in a parking lot

607
01:39:36,380 --> 01:39:40,760
and not realize the area is a Walmart right from up you bet it'll be right in that area.

608
01:39:41,300 --> 01:39:44,740
And that helps us with the uniformity that we look at for absolutely.

609
01:39:44,900 --> 01:39:45,940
Commissioner Melton.

610
01:39:46,040 --> 01:39:46,980
Thank you, Mr. Tim.

611
01:39:46,980 --> 01:39:59,980
Also, too, we had developers who will go before NPC and ask for a variance and they will explain how important it is that they would be too free to hide in what the ordinance is.

612
01:40:00,140 --> 01:40:16,160
And most of the time they get it. So that's where you got the signs that are up and down there. Because it depends on, you know, I guess they say who has to go and make the rule. Sometimes that matters, it goes into play.

613
01:40:16,360 --> 01:40:23,360
And oftentimes let me just add this before we finish here perhaps, you know, development almost always outpaces the regulation.

614
01:40:23,360 --> 01:40:32,280
Right, so we have to catch up a lot of times because we all know we've all been here long enough to remember pool of 15 years ago

615
01:40:33,080 --> 01:40:35,120
Not even you know

616
01:40:35,120 --> 01:40:39,680
The kind of one stop light down on that people used to say so I'm

617
01:40:39,680 --> 01:40:45,020
That's an example of the development outpace and the regulations and but it's never too late to start

618
01:40:45,020 --> 01:40:49,920
Catching or you know, so if we can address some of the things that have been described here today

619
01:40:49,920 --> 01:40:58,780
We know that the growth areas that we have now, the future growth will reflect, but visually, how you all want it to be.

620
01:40:59,300 --> 01:41:10,920
And a lot of developers will rush to get what they want to develop so that when we do have to go through the steps in order to get an ordinance and place or to get regulation and place,

621
01:41:11,660 --> 01:41:15,520
Then they come up and say, what I ought to be grandfathered in, you know?

622
01:41:16,020 --> 01:41:17,980
And so that's why we played, that's why that happened.

623
01:41:18,220 --> 01:41:19,060
But you right.

624
01:41:19,700 --> 01:41:25,700
Most of the times we come, who would have thought that Chatham County was blossomed?

625
01:41:26,060 --> 01:41:33,420
The way this blossoming now, to the port started, maybe 12, 14 years ago, started growing.

626
01:41:33,580 --> 01:41:34,980
And that started the whole thing.

627
01:41:35,140 --> 01:41:38,080
And then you started, Hyundai coming along and all these other business.

628
01:41:38,080 --> 01:41:41,700
And I just, I mean, that just put the accelerated to,

629
01:41:41,720 --> 01:41:43,100
they say in the truck in the world,

630
01:41:43,140 --> 01:41:44,540
that got the pedal to the metal.

631
01:41:45,300 --> 01:41:46,400
And we got to catch up.

632
01:41:46,980 --> 01:41:48,020
All right, so thank you, sir.

633
01:41:48,160 --> 01:41:48,620
Thank you.

634
01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:50,960
All right, at this time, we will have the Trans-Mil,

635
01:41:51,860 --> 01:41:54,520
our Trans-Mil, of our fiscal year, 2020-25,

636
01:41:54,680 --> 01:41:58,560
2020-26, second quarter financial report from Mr. Manager.

637
01:41:58,740 --> 01:42:01,260
Yes, sir, I'm going to ask Ms. Davis to come to the podium

638
01:42:01,260 --> 01:42:04,080
mesh, and she's got a brief flat presentation.

639
01:42:06,950 --> 01:42:08,070
Good morning, Chairman.

640
01:42:08,070 --> 01:42:13,930
posters listening to the whole of that. I'm so happy all I do is report the numbers.

641
01:42:16,150 --> 01:42:23,530
And this is for the second quarter. I don't know about you, but it seems like just yesterday I was

642
01:42:23,530 --> 01:42:31,890
saying happy New Year. We're already in the eighth month of our fiscal year. So this is as of December 31,

643
01:42:35,290 --> 01:42:44,290
And for the general fund, we have revenues of 174.2 million, expenditures of 139.4 million.

644
01:42:45,170 --> 01:42:54,010
And in the SSD, we had 50.8 million in revenues and 29.0 million in expenditures.

645
01:42:54,890 --> 01:43:07,030
And just a little close-up of where those come from, as you can see, about 80% of our revenues come from our property taxes and other taxes as well.

646
01:43:09,050 --> 01:43:20,490
Our sales tax collections, we collected 30.2 million in splawst for the second quarter, second quarter, sorry about that I didn't catch that.

647
01:43:21,250 --> 01:43:25,750
And total collections of since inception for this

648
01:43:25,750 --> 01:43:29,270
Blost is 590.7 million.

649
01:43:30,290 --> 01:43:34,130
And lost, we have collected 8.7 million for this quarter.

650
01:43:35,790 --> 01:43:40,030
And year to date, yeah, year to date, 14.5 million.

651
01:43:43,420 --> 01:43:48,920
So in our cash and investments, we had a total of 720.7 million

652
01:43:48,920 --> 01:43:58,000
in cash and investments. Most of that in the general fund, 255 million plus seven came in

653
01:43:58,000 --> 01:44:05,920
second place at 174. And cash on hand was 21.1.

654
01:44:08,260 --> 01:44:16,560
Highlighting a few other things in other funds, our street lighting fund has collected $549,000,

655
01:44:16,560 --> 01:44:25,100
which is 91% of their budget, that is all billed in the second half of our tax collections,

656
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:32,060
as well as the curbside pickup on the bottom of the page there, that's also billed

657
01:44:32,060 --> 01:44:39,360
at the second tax billing, so that's most of, that'll be most revenue we receive this

658
01:44:39,360 --> 01:44:46,540
year. Building safety fund had revenues exceeding expenditures 32 million, which is

659
01:44:46,540 --> 01:44:52,780
I like that because they have been in the red in recent years, so it's a turnaround

660
01:44:52,780 --> 01:44:59,740
same with the parking garage, we are actually in the block with the parking garage too.

661
01:45:00,020 --> 01:45:06,800
That's always good news. And I guess the one little linen spot is our sewer fund.

662
01:45:08,980 --> 01:45:14,380
We are still in the red with our sewer fund.

663
01:45:15,280 --> 01:45:22,060
And it's continuing a trend. I think I looked back 10 years, nine out of the 10 years we've had a loss.

664
01:45:23,820 --> 01:45:25,960
and that concludes my presentation.

665
01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:27,280
All right, questions?

666
01:45:28,740 --> 01:45:28,900
Yep.

667
01:45:29,080 --> 01:45:29,480
Question?

668
01:45:30,180 --> 01:45:32,820
32 million in the...

669
01:45:33,440 --> 01:45:34,800
I'm sorry, 32,000.

670
01:45:35,100 --> 01:45:35,320
I'm sorry.

671
01:45:35,480 --> 01:45:35,720
Okay.

672
01:45:35,860 --> 01:45:36,740
I speak in the mail.

673
01:45:36,940 --> 01:45:37,040
Sorry.

674
01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:39,360
All right.

675
01:45:39,660 --> 01:45:40,160
Yes, sir.

676
01:45:40,440 --> 01:45:40,760
Mr.

677
01:45:42,060 --> 01:45:42,520
Fell?

678
01:45:43,040 --> 01:45:43,220
Yeah.

679
01:45:43,540 --> 01:45:45,920
In the sewer fund, that's pretty good deficit.

680
01:45:46,580 --> 01:45:51,660
What strategies are we looking at to balance that budget?

681
01:45:51,660 --> 01:46:00,980
Well, we had the rates analyzed by our financial advisors several years ago and they recommended that we increase our rates 30%.

682
01:46:00,980 --> 01:46:03,400
We didn't want to do that all at once.

683
01:46:04,260 --> 01:46:10,700
So, in 2025, we increased at 10%.

684
01:46:10,700 --> 01:46:15,060
In 2026, we increased at 10%.

685
01:46:15,060 --> 01:46:18,360
and then the next year we'll increase it 10% too.

686
01:46:18,680 --> 01:46:21,760
But it doesn't seem to be keeping up with the expenses.

687
01:46:23,540 --> 01:46:25,600
A lot of that is capital improvements.

688
01:46:25,860 --> 01:46:27,640
We've made a lot of system improvements.

689
01:46:28,440 --> 01:46:31,420
And so maybe it will kind of taper off going forward,

690
01:46:32,100 --> 01:46:35,260
but a lot of it is just operational costs.

691
01:46:38,910 --> 01:46:39,970
No money and so.

692
01:46:40,570 --> 01:46:42,050
No, there's no money and so.

693
01:46:42,050 --> 01:46:42,510
You've got it.

694
01:46:42,510 --> 01:46:43,790
Yes sir.

695
01:46:44,250 --> 01:46:44,530
Thank you.

696
01:46:44,990 --> 01:46:46,970
So I know you said it was so running deficit

697
01:46:46,970 --> 01:46:53,250
over the last nine of 10 years has the deficit been shrinking those far as this is the percentage.

698
01:46:54,530 --> 01:47:00,550
We have made almost $7 million in contributions from the general fund over this period.

699
01:47:01,710 --> 01:47:06,770
And so without those contributions we'd be in a very tight situation.

700
01:47:08,050 --> 01:47:14,490
Right now we have a fund balance of about $8 million and about two and a half million of that is

701
01:47:14,490 --> 01:47:16,630
in the capital infrastructure?

702
01:47:17,350 --> 01:47:17,650
Yeah, see.

703
01:47:17,970 --> 01:47:25,310
Well, if you don't mind, just want to take this moment to highlight our need for a regional

704
01:47:25,310 --> 01:47:30,930
water authority, because I know we are not the only community on the coast seeing these issues

705
01:47:30,930 --> 01:47:36,210
with water and remember correctly, I think, our neighbors and city of savages instituted a storm

706
01:47:36,210 --> 01:47:36,990
water fee.

707
01:47:37,470 --> 01:47:42,230
So water water waters, causing a lot of our challenges, Commissioner Noha, mentioned how water

708
01:47:42,230 --> 01:47:46,570
driving development side, just like to say this moment to urge everybody to ask your state,

709
01:47:46,590 --> 01:47:52,550
let's us later, and your local elected about a regional water authority together, we are

710
01:47:52,550 --> 01:47:54,010
better. Thank you.

711
01:47:54,870 --> 01:47:55,490
Anybody else?

712
01:47:56,530 --> 01:47:57,330
Thank you, man.

713
01:47:57,390 --> 01:47:57,710
Thank you.

714
01:47:57,950 --> 01:47:58,170
Hello.

715
01:47:58,210 --> 01:48:00,050
Hello, we have been pregnant in that PSA.

716
01:48:00,530 --> 01:48:00,950
Yes.

717
01:48:02,370 --> 01:48:03,110
Yes, yes.

718
01:48:03,110 --> 01:48:03,310
Yes, yes.

719
01:48:03,870 --> 01:48:05,010
It's like you'd be pregnant.

720
01:48:05,250 --> 01:48:05,970
It's like you'd be pregnant.

721
01:48:05,970 --> 01:48:06,210
It's like you'd be pregnant.

722
01:48:06,750 --> 01:48:08,890
It's like you'd be pregnant.

723
01:48:11,950 --> 01:48:14,010
There's no separation on our action count.

724
01:48:14,190 --> 01:48:17,330
So may I have a motion to accept the action countness of charging?

725
01:48:18,570 --> 01:48:19,450
Some moved.

726
01:48:20,150 --> 01:48:24,610
Probably the motion in a second that we accept the action countness of charging ready for the question.

727
01:48:25,370 --> 01:48:26,410
Please catch your votes.

728
01:48:31,780 --> 01:48:32,880
We don't have a first reader.

729
01:48:32,980 --> 01:48:35,260
We don't have a second reader, so Mr. Manager.

730
01:48:35,980 --> 01:48:36,800
We have a new hand.

731
01:48:37,120 --> 01:48:37,820
Yes, Mr. Chairman.

732
01:48:37,820 --> 01:48:40,680
We only update that we have this time.

733
01:48:40,680 --> 01:48:46,780
And just to remind her, we've got the Gaila that's about a tag on February 26th.

734
01:48:47,300 --> 01:48:53,160
Please, if you want to attend, please let the clerk know and we'll put you on the list.

735
01:48:54,120 --> 01:49:00,940
Also the updates from the health department and the updates from the lab hope of lab resistance.

736
01:49:01,440 --> 01:49:02,660
And those are updates of the chairman.

737
01:49:03,420 --> 01:49:10,560
All right now, because she's here, I'm going to ask the director from the library to come up to the podium.

738
01:49:10,560 --> 01:49:15,560
I know, I knew that you was hoping you'd get back without me calling you, but come on up here.

739
01:49:16,480 --> 01:49:22,920
Um, because there's some, and, and, and I voting just in an action calendar there. Come on. Come on. Come on.

740
01:49:22,920 --> 01:49:25,200
Move up this way. Mike, y'all come on. Come on.

741
01:49:29,310 --> 01:49:34,210
We're getting ready to let out the RFP on the new library.

742
01:49:35,410 --> 01:49:39,770
This old thought mall library, but it's going to be located on, um,

743
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:29,760
May the morning everyone, Michael Summers, I'm the director of construction and facility for the library. Glad to be here this morning. Just briefly talk to you a little bit about the project. The older the project is basically replacing the existing one that's located at the mile an hour. It will be located on the across the street from the DMV, basically the corner bounds of how the water is sitting directly in that parking lot. We were in the procurement process with Chattam County, Jean and her team didn't have a standing job with that. So we had.

744
01:50:30,000 --> 01:50:38,840
A lot of interest from architects to do this project, I guess an excess of 20 people probably showed up to the event.

745
01:50:39,220 --> 01:50:40,880
We went through the vetting process.

746
01:50:41,260 --> 01:50:47,120
We had a team that consisted of Chattam County employees as well as labelled for the library employees.

747
01:50:47,840 --> 01:50:48,680
We went through that process.

748
01:50:49,500 --> 01:50:55,480
And they're already down to six of those six we've added those six and then we scored them.

749
01:50:55,480 --> 01:51:03,420
And the architect that's listed on page 11, currently, which is GM Shave, there are the ones

750
01:51:03,420 --> 01:51:06,140
that came through the negotiation process again.

751
01:51:06,140 --> 01:51:11,740
We use all the processes of that, it's got a kind of equipment office use, and so we're

752
01:51:11,740 --> 01:51:15,340
very excited to say that we're at the point now where we need to go and share it and I think

753
01:51:15,340 --> 01:51:18,120
there we're at a pretty good price we've done.

754
01:51:18,720 --> 01:51:20,280
I guess that's all I have to say.

755
01:51:21,300 --> 01:51:38,300
Mr. Chairman and board as the library as they go down the road with this when make sure I make sure that you're kept in the loop in terms of design and those things so you all have some ideas of what we're getting ready to do there

756
01:51:39,560 --> 01:51:49,160
All right, and I want to point out that's one of the reasons I wanted you all to come and just talk about your process and what you did is because when you talk about shame and those are local

757
01:51:50,280 --> 01:51:55,940
folks right here in town, I'm kind of that had the one to be it to do the

758
01:51:55,940 --> 01:52:03,020
architectural outlay for the library and so I'm always I'm always proud that we

759
01:52:03,760 --> 01:52:12,020
have engineers and designers and architects and and and builders locally so that

760
01:52:12,020 --> 01:52:17,300
those dollars stay here locally that we've spent and so my hats off to you for

761
01:52:17,300 --> 01:52:24,500
process that you went through and vetting all everyone who are applied and then getting it

762
01:52:24,500 --> 01:52:33,100
even into deeper evaluation of the last six and to come out with the one, all right. So I just

763
01:52:33,100 --> 01:52:38,960
wanted to make sure that the board members knew what the process was and what they were you went

764
01:52:38,960 --> 01:52:44,240
through. So we look forward to the library coming out of the ground, all right. We get through the

765
01:52:44,240 --> 01:52:53,460
The design process and the board will get updated as the design and things are done and let

766
01:52:53,460 --> 01:53:01,960
you know that we work in hand and hand with the library, with the library board to get

767
01:53:01,960 --> 01:53:02,960
these things done.

768
01:53:04,120 --> 01:53:08,980
But let me ask you a question now because the next one on the board is the one in pool, are

769
01:53:08,980 --> 01:53:14,940
We somewhere close to being on the same page with the full folks at Poodle.

770
01:53:15,300 --> 01:53:18,640
We're going to have to have a lot of discussion on that.

771
01:53:19,700 --> 01:53:19,880
All right.

772
01:53:19,960 --> 01:53:22,580
We've got some issues that we need to talk with you about with Poodle.

773
01:53:22,680 --> 01:53:22,960
I agree.

774
01:53:23,540 --> 01:53:26,640
I think we've got a funding deficit there, and we're going to have to look at that.

775
01:53:26,820 --> 01:53:30,620
Let me ask you, let me ask you to do a favor for this board, all right.

776
01:53:31,860 --> 01:53:38,280
include commissioner kicklarker, all right, you know, some of that is just going on, all right.

777
01:53:38,600 --> 01:53:43,460
I think he can be more of an ally than anything else to help you with what's going on out there, okay?

778
01:53:43,600 --> 01:53:51,280
Mr. Chairman, I will say that as far as the design of the library, it's 9% complete.

779
01:53:51,300 --> 01:53:54,740
Does the gay bill, you know, they are here? The architect is doing a project.

780
01:53:55,620 --> 01:53:57,780
That part is moving very well.

781
01:53:57,780 --> 01:54:04,540
Okay, and I'm just hoping that we can move through a smooth transition with the pool of our breweries

782
01:54:04,540 --> 01:54:12,480
We do, that's why I'm asking you all to include him and all emails and all kinds of conversations just like you do me all right

783
01:54:12,480 --> 01:54:14,140
So that we can have them

784
01:54:14,820 --> 01:54:15,300
Sometimes

785
01:54:16,080 --> 01:54:17,980
One of us need to be at the table

786
01:54:17,980 --> 01:54:21,540
So we can get things done for you. All right

787
01:54:21,540 --> 01:54:27,400
So you have that you have that invitation to I'm doing that. I'm sure he will be more than willing

788
01:54:27,400 --> 01:54:35,260
All right, so get to know him and get to talk to him and and go through that with him. All right. All right. All right. Now get everybody.

789
01:54:35,780 --> 01:54:38,400
That everything this man. All right.

790
01:54:39,140 --> 01:54:40,540
Commissioner on fell.

791
01:54:41,020 --> 01:54:41,180
Yeah.

792
01:54:41,900 --> 01:54:50,120
I just wanted to mention, I see this little token from kill winds, and I'm just going to let everybody know that they.

793
01:54:50,120 --> 01:54:59,920
It's a new candy store that opened at 205 West Congress Street that had their grand opening yesterday and was fortunate enough to attend.

794
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:06,160
I slipped out for a minute, the visits of Anna had their 50th year anniversary over the Chamber and they had

795
01:55:06,160 --> 01:55:13,740
a little event over there, and I just, it was very nice and just wanted to shout out to visits of

796
01:55:13,740 --> 01:55:29,540
Anna that they are celebrating 50 years of interfacing and building our visitor business here in

797
01:55:30,100 --> 01:55:36,700
But it's the same time, and I can't leave here to go with that, all right, so have a said that we do have a need for executive session.

798
01:55:37,340 --> 01:55:38,660
Well, thank you. Thank you.

799
01:55:38,900 --> 01:55:39,600
Thank you.

800
01:55:39,600 --> 01:55:40,240
Great practice.

801
01:55:40,460 --> 01:55:41,940
You could fill in for you.

802
01:55:42,380 --> 01:55:43,840
All right.

803
01:55:44,060 --> 01:55:48,740
We do have a need for executive session for appointments and litigation.

804
01:55:49,480 --> 01:55:49,560
All right.

805
01:55:49,880 --> 01:55:52,680
So now have a motion to recess to executive session.

806
01:55:53,120 --> 01:55:54,820
Some of it.

807
01:55:54,820 --> 01:55:58,800
Probably motion a second that we are recessed to executive session.

808
01:55:58,800 --> 01:56:01,240
Please cash your votes before you move.

809
01:56:08,120 --> 01:56:08,780
We are in recess.

810
01:56:42,070 --> 01:56:53,690
For their own protection and just provide resiliency for the community, and now I know one of the big driving points of the rescue money.

811
01:56:53,910 --> 01:56:56,930
The need for fire protection out here is...