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All right, we are going to get started here.

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We have a full house today in recognition of major ms. We're going to get to that in seconds. But thank you all for being here. I know I want to say a raise here, because we're passing the budget today, but perhaps it's major ms. That is drawn the crowd. So we don't want to be delusional. So anyways, thank you all for being here. This is legislative meeting of the Hamilton County Board of County Commission.

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It is December 18, 2025.

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We start our meetings with silent prayer and the pledge of allegiance.

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So please join us in silent prayer.

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Foundation underground.

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Individual with liberty and justice.

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Let's view introductions from the days.

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Chris, the initial assistant clerk.

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Leslie, her reclurct to the board.

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Stephanie, some are all doing this commissioner.

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Hamilton County Commissioner, Alicia Reath.

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Affleito County Administrator,

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Attric Dressing Assistant Prosecuting Attorney.

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I'm County Commissioner Denise Dreehouse.

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All right, I'm going to make a motion that we approve the minutes of the previous session.

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Commissioner Dreehouse?

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Commissioner Summary Dremance?

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Yes.

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Commissioner Reaves.

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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All right, next on our agenda is a presentation.

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This is a proclamation honoring major M's.

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Major M's, will you please come to the podium?

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So everyone can see you as we do this proclamation.

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I just want to say we'll read through all of the accolades here.

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In fact, why don't we do that first and then I'm sure all three of us will have comments

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to add before we turn it over to you for some comments from yourself.

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So this is a proclamation celebrating the retirement of Major Dan M's.

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Whereas Major Dan M's retired from his service at the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office on Friday, December 12, 2025.

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And whereas Major M's has dedicated his life

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The public service joining the United States Marine Corps at 17 years old and serving for 12 years and whereas Major

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Ames joined the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office in January 1996 rising to the role of jail services sergeant in 1998

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Lieutenant in 2008 in jail services major in 2021 and whereas as a lieutenant he was not only

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assigned to oversee the operations of a single area in the jail but was also assigned throughout

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the years as the intake OIC, Sheriff's Office Recruiter, Corrections Academy Commander,

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and Operations Commander for the jail services division.

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Whereas, when Major Ames was appointed by Sheriff, Charmama Guffy as the jail services major

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in 2021, he oversaw the operation of the largest division in the Sheriff's office, managing

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over 400 uniformed and support staff, as well as ensuring that care, custody, and control

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of over 1,000 inmates every day for the last five years, and whereas Major M's was also involved

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in various local and state-level committees, such as the Hamilton County Addiction Response

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Coalition, where he shaped practice and policy on everything from Ohio jail standards to community

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addiction response. And whereas the board of County Commissioners of Hamilton County, Ohio,

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wishes to recognize Major Dan Ems for his decades of service and his lasting impact

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on the safety and will being of all within our county. Now, therefore, be a proclaimed

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that the Board of County Commissioners of Hamilton County, Ohio,

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this year by express its sincere appreciation and gratitude to Major Dan Ems for his

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outstanding service to our community and extends best wishes for a happy, healthy and well-earned

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retirement and as hereby proclaim December 18th, 2025 as major Dan M's day in all of Hamilton

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County.

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All right.

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Now we have a couple of comments and I just want to say, you know, you've got this distinguished

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career that we've just heard about a long time career in public safety, but I got to know

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major M's for the addiction response coalition.

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And we, I am the chair of the coalition and we have reorganized a couple of times over

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the past and we have all these committees that are serving in different sectors, prevention,

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treatment, law enforcement, all the things.

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And so, major M's was an individual that was coming to the meetings and adding so much

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to this conversation, trying to connect the dots for people in addiction and how we serve

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those people and keep them from being in the jail, basically.

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And major M's wasn't part of any of the steering committee subcommittees, and so we created

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especially category called Friends of H-C-RQ because we definitely want to

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major M's to be there in the room and continue to participate and so he is

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a friend of the coalition and is added so much to the work particularly for those

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that are just as involved helping with recovery pods they're over in the

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Justice Center very forward thinking we did get a state grant for that a number

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of years ago and now we've got individuals that are entering that pod on a

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military bases, men and women, saying yes to recovery, and we've got them in that facility

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and providing supports when they get out, so they don't come back to the facility.

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Major M's was critical to that success, and I am so grateful for your partnership.

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Really, it wouldn't have happened without you.

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I do want to mention that sure, sure, I made my Guffy.

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It wouldn't have happened without you either, but Major M was on the ground, so just

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really do want to thank you for your heartfelt service to this community.

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you are sincerely dedicated to everybody in the community no matter where they come from and

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making sure that people have the supports to do their best and live their best life. So

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really, really grateful for your service. Commissioner, some of them. Thank you for your service.

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And I'm looking at all of the things that we've listed since 1996, but I think I'm not running

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to use several times, always so pleasant and professional. But I'm thinking about all the things that

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not on here. The impact that you've had, that we didn't even list, that we don't even know.

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Maybe the sheriff doesn't even know, but just from your heart and you're giving.

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There are many more things and more people that you've impacted. So I thank you for that.

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Thank you.

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Fisheries.

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Major hands.

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I don't know. We need a new proclamation that declines retirement. All these great people leave in a sheriff.

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would go for you. I do let this happen. No, just kidding. But no, thank you for your service. You

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ever had a very tough job. And going in there and being able to just really build from the bottom

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up. And when you build from the bottom up, you have a better understanding when you become in charge of it.

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And I do want to thank Sheriff, what's up, you're recognizing that she had someone like yourself

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that could lead this effort and take us to a new height.

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But I just want to recognize that I know

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it wasn't easy every day.

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And we put you in a tough place.

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You were up for the challenge and leaving it

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in a lot better shape than probably when you found it.

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So just want to say thank you again, enjoy your retirement,

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but if you happen to change your mind on the way out,

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We'll give we'll get Frank from HR and should have made McGoffy share of we love to keep you

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But Merry Christmas happy new year and have a wonderful retirement. Thank you. I just wanted to say that when everyone came in in uniform

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I was looking for major ms and couldn't find him because he's already retired look at him

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All right, this is all you and clothes. I'm like. Oh, no, it's already done it

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So anyway, thank you

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So much for coming in. Thanks to all of you for being here in support. So we're going to turn it over to you.

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Well, thank you, commissioners for this honor. Thanks, Chair. We'll go for you for having to face the confidence and me to put me in my position.

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The men and women you see in uniform here with the ones behind me supported me every day, day in and day out. I couldn't have done it without them.

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in this various trees, Laura, I couldn't have done it without them, they made my success.

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And I do feel like I'm leaving the place in a better place than what I got it.

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I'm looking forward to retirement, I don't know if my wife is, but I'm looking forward to it.

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And thank you for this honor, I appreciate it.

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Thank you so much.

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All right, we're going to come down and take a, we're going to go down, yeah.

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We're going to go down and take a photo with yourself, and then we'd love to have the team

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I'm getting the second photo and the walk is part of the team, right, to give me the first button.

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Let me take one.

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You want to come up?

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One more.

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You want to go on the back?

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Probably.

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I think I need to.

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We're going to have our friends back here.

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We get a bar.

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I'm gonna do

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it!

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Take

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care of your eyes.

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I'm gonna do it!

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I'm gonna do it!

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I'm gonna do it!

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Oh we're

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gonna see it!

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You guys are gonna stand!

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It's good!

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All right, everybody!

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You know

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what I mean?

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That's fun!

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You

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know what I mean?

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We gotta step in on the blade.

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Yeah?

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All right, okay!

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All right, everybody!

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All that's pretty ready.

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One, two, three.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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One, two, three.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I'm just done.

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I just got a message.

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I'm just going to be an official.

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It's a real service holiday.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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You're welcome.

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And my gosh.

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I'm glad.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Gill, welcome to stay. We're going to be talking about the budget. On a wire of

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raise leaving,

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all right. I know, I know. It's so sad.

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Room is emptying out here. All right. The next item is public comments and I do

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have a few public comment cards. So we will take them next. Got a few folks in the room

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and then we've got one on Zoom. Larry Falcon, you're at the top of my list.

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We've got the pleasure of the floor for two minutes.

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Welcome.

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Thank you. Good morning commissioners. I'm here to ask you to direct MSD to start billing

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for excessive runoff and to put it in the 2026 budget. We've spoken before about the reasons for

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charging for excessive runoff. Two important facts have come to light since the budget

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hearings two weeks ago that I want to share with you. First during those budget hearings

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director Christie told you that stormwater discharge is pay for stormwater as part of

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their sewer bills, she said nobody gets a free ride. It turns out that's not true.

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An MSD report identified 49,000 properties that generates stormwater and have no water

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meter. And you know, if they have no water meter, there's no sewer bill, 49,000 properties,

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generating storm water that have no sewer bill. Second, some of the free loaders are

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really big. I give you the example of CSX Corporation. 23 parcels with more than two acres

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each of impervious surface have as they registered address CSX headquarters in Florida.

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They total more than 170 acres of pavement, if they were build for the runoff from those properties,

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it would come to more than a million and a half dollars a year, and they are not build for

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any of that stormwater runoff. Why am I subsidizing CSX? And all the other big landowners

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like CSX. So county commissioners, please direct MSD to start billing for excessive runoff.

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Put that revenue in the 2026 budget. I see that there is a by-leave item on your agenda today

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to address this issue and I appreciate that. I wish it moved us further and faster. Got us to actual

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revenue and I appreciate it being on your by-leave agenda. Thank you. Yeah, I was going to note that by

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I believe number one does directly address this, but thank you for your comments.

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Appreciate it. Our next speaker is Bishop Sunny James.

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Welcome.

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Thank you. Good morning.

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I didn't come to preach today.

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Time doesn't go.

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The pleasure of the floor for two minutes.

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Hope all of Northwood is watching.

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I wanted to come today to first celebrate

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with all of you administrators. I'm celebrating in advance simply because as our

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public defenders office has submitted a proposal to you all I certainly

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understand that there are certain restraints that we have to consider and

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giving the budget. But I came to celebrate today as I'm so used to

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speaking that thing is the would work. It's just how I live. But I want to make

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sure that as we clamp down on all of our final decisions, that we do so understand that,

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you know, folks might say, we're bishop this evening to church, but I want to step a

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little further and remind us, we are the church, and we are responsible for every decision

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that we make. And looking at the needs, I understand by cutting some things, it opens the door

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for others. But what we don't want to do is we don't want to cut some things that would

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actually cause us to spend more money statewide on the other end. So again, I just came

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to say, hello, I just came to say, I trust you, but I also came to remind you that we as

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people of faith have a stronger commitment to the people and to God. And I trust that that

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budget for the public defender's office will go through simply because there are multiple

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layers and we never want to reinvent the wheel.

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If it's not broken, let's not try to fix it.

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So I stand with you in all confidence knowing that we all do this work together.

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Amen.

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And then I want to just announce to everybody, come together.

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2.0 has been rescheduled because I messed up on the invites.

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God bless you all and happy holidays to you all.

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That's my minute.

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Thank you.

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Happy holidays to you.

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Our next speaker is Dean Nightingale.

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Good morning.

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Dean Nightingale, Sierra Club, Kufa, communities United for Action, and I support just what Larry just said.

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It's a really important finding.

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I'm here today to urge County Commissioners to adopt a purpose-surface fee for the Metropolitan Sewer District.

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This was incentivized all landowners, including schools, churches, residents, and businesses, to adopt a more efficient, best managed practice and save our city and money in the long run.

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Building such incentives into the right structure would effectively invite the whole community to become active and part of the solution to Cincinnati sewer problems.

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If more of us showcase green infrastructure projects on their properties, and we could together create a more resilient city for the future.

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Our Cincinnati Zoo offers a perfect zero-waste model of managing stormwater by capturing, storing, and reusing rainwater in their systems and rain gardens.

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Slows run off into the city, reduces water bills, wind, wind.

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Schools like Robert's Academy, Clark Monosori, Hartwell, and UC have all been installing bioswales, beautifying their campuses, educating the community and saving the city money.

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The Fairview German School in Clifton is now partnering with a neighboring church to install a bioswale,

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where they see an environmental justice issue here, as well as keeping the reins from flooding their shared parking lots.

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If more of us did this, we could pretty much solve the problem.

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A more equitable fee structure would offer the city a win-win solution, offering financial incentives to implement these win-win projects with help.

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Thank you. Thank you very much. Our last speaker is on Zoom. I believe it's Marie Kakoshis.

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Marie, are you with us?

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On mute. Yes, good morning. This is my husband's laptop. My name is Marie Kakoshis.

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I am a member of the Miami group of this year club. I am here today to talk about the MSD budget.

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We know that MSD has a storm water problem.

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The storm water causes havoc with our combined sewer system.

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We are proposing and supporting a storm water fee, which will help the problem.

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Help solve the problem in addition to the items that G9 and Gil has mentioned.

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We think that a storm water fee will overdo.

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do. We also believe that the fee will not go into place unless it's in the budget. So I

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ask you to put it in the MSC budget today and move forward to relieve our system of these

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huge stormwater impacts. Thank you very much. Thank you, Marie. All right, that's all the speakers,

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cards I have for today. So we'll move on to comments and motions of the commission's commissioner,

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Thank you so much.

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Should I say my budget comments until we get to the budget would you prefer?

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Think that makes sense.

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All right.

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So I participated in our 911 EMA, new brand new building out in Springdale.

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It's been years and years in the plan and it's absolutely beautiful.

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It was all over the news about accessibility for each department.

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and how it's going to really make their services more efficient.

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So it was glad to see that happen.

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Also, participate in an executive session with visits

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and see there are some changes that are coming out of there.

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And I am on their board and looking forward

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to the future for visits, since I also participated

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in interviews for a new JFS director, as we move forward

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and look at how we want to, I guess, the vision to fulfill the vision that the commission has

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had. And also the direction that job and family services is taken as a good one. And we want

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to continue that progress. And other than that, that's about it, Kim's in, so I didn't get my

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report today, but I remember those things. And so, well, I want to say that I've been looking at

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budget just as we all have just I think Jeff is a little I don't I

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want to use a little tired of me but I think outside of the box a little and I

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research a lot and I'm very detailed and you know just question after question

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which is my responsibility self I'll talk about the staff a little later thank you

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Commissioner Reese yes thank you and I will reserve my comments when we get to

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budget most of the things that we've been focused on is the budget and so did a lot of that obviously

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these last few weeks. One that's also say that

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The ribbon cutting at the 911 EMA was amazing. It was good news. Certainly, we look at combining services,

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state-of-the-art technology, which we have to have if we're going to be safe. And it's just a huge

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move. I think they were saying that we haven't had a new building in decades. So for our

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to be able to partner and have 911 EMA ribbon cutting that we had and now have a new joint facility out in Springdale.

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It was great when I was like everyone that had a hand in that of course Andy and Nick,

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but all of the architects, all of the people that worked on the project, you know, everything,

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it just really looked very good, but more importantly for the workers that are out there.

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have a very tough job. They're on the front lines many times the first person that you're here

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from all the coordination that's done in our county and in our region to keep our county safe from a

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lot of these disasters and different things that are happening. So that was a huge, huge deal.

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And so it was happy to see it go from a concept to actual reality. So I want to thank all of them

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and thank the administrator, Ludo, and his staff, and getting this done. This is a huge, huge improvement.

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So was this happy to be a part of that and certainly several elected officials because this is regional.

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But of course we were in, we were in Mayor Hawkins backyard and of course he said he says lots of

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other things that's available, but it was just great to do that and be out there.

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The other thing, the met with regarding the 2026, 513 relief bus and certainly looking

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to expand partnerships and more help is our mobile services and it's been doing a phenomenal

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job.

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They would have pivot when snap benefits were cut and I would have to say they're still are cut because they're not all the way

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Put back whole but when they were

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Almost eliminated the bus was able to partner with a number of church pantries and freeze through a food bank and was able to pivot and so just it's helped so many people

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So I'm excited about

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Expanding we are very

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I think unique in having an asset like this with results of helping and providing services

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of 30,000.

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I think that's a huge thing in these days and times, no co-pay, which I'm about to rise

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in medical costs.

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We want that bus, there's no co-pay, big savings, life savings, and financial savings.

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people have gotten jobs and been on that bus. People have had their lives say cancer

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screenings from that bus. So many things back to school, going on there and getting

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is the coolest parents can't afford it on that bus. So there's just happy to hear

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about it and we're going to do a much better job and being able to track all of the

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because we've been under reporting and I'm looking forward to a new system that will be able to capture

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the real stories, the financial benefits, and the cost savings to the taxpayers around Hamilton County.

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Those were some of the things. We also participated in looking into the next JFS director

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and we look forward to having that announcement soon. One of the things I've always said,

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We want to move from a welfare concept to a customer service-based concept.

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Look forward to that.

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The next director will have a lot of challenges.

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We'll have to hit the job running quickly.

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And so I'm looking forward to the next chapter with that.

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We probably will be talking about the budget.

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So I want to say this to everybody out there.

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I want to wish everybody a happy holiday season.

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be hopefully be able to enjoy it with their families and certainly look forward to a

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prosperous new year but I know it will be challenging but a prosperous new year and then

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I want to personally thank my staff, I had a medical challenge and I want to thank

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Beta Stevens and my office, my chief of staff that kept it going so as it has been great

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with the training because he knows what to do.

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And he's been in all of these negotiations as well.

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But on top of that, I've been unable to drive

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and do all the other kind of things.

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So we've been able to communicate.

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And I just want to thank him.

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And I want to thank Jackie Taggart Boyd also

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from my office for keeping this thing moving.

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We haven't missed a beat.

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And we've been able to continue to represent the people.

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But I definitely appreciate that.

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And then last but not least, if you've lost a loved one,

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This is a grieving time for a lot of people during this time and mental health is important to us.

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Check on your friends, your family, because this is a tough time when you go through these times.

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And some people have lost loved ones.

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And some of the people you think are the strongest who help everyone else.

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They may need some help.

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So please check in on them and pray for those.

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We have people that's outside that's homeless.

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And we're working every day to try to get them inside where they can have a home.

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So that's what I have.

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I just want to say just being thankful for the opportunity to serve and being thankful to

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represent Hamilton County citizens.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I too want to start with the 911 EMA building consolidation up in Springdale.

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It was a wonderful event.

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The facility is so much better than either EMA or 9-1 have had in the past.

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We are asking people to do very difficult things, particularly at 9-1-1 when they're answering

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the phone on people's worst day and the old building, I know all three of us have been there.

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Dark, close, no room to decompress after a difficult call and so we wanted to provide better

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situation there for those employees and help us recruit because we really have had a

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difficult time keeping people in some ways because of the environment in which they

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had to work. So very excited about that, the consolidation of EMA and 911 together, it

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has a lot of synergies and so it made all the sense in the world to do that consolidation.

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So it was excited to join my colleagues and others at that ribbon cutting thanks to Nick

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and Mayor Hawkins up in Springdale for welcoming us and taking us on tours through the building.

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It was a really a celebratory event.

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I also participated in the kindness for kids.

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So kindness for kids is something that JFS, job and family services here at the county has stood up to provide gifts for kids during the holidays.

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These are kids that are in foster care.

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And so this program has stood up every year.

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I know John Nelson is here.

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Thank you for your participation in helping do this, John.

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So we have this QR code that you can scan,

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and I'm going to encourage everybody in the room to do it.

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Go to JFS as website, scan the code for kindness for kids.

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Takes you right to Amazon and you can donate some gifts

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for some of the kids that are in care.

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So at the Bangle's game on Sunday,

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we ask people to come by and drop off gifts

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as they were going to the game or scan the code

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and do it later on when they were a little bit warmer.

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It was very cold on Sunday.

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And so I want to thank those that we collected over 400 gifts

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for kids.

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So that's in a lot of people scan the code.

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It's so hopefully donated after.

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Nobody wanted to take their gloves off

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and I get it, right?

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But they did, they did it.

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But thanks to Brigid D'Arty, Amanda Quinn, Jeff was out there.

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So we could only last for about an hour.

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So it was really cold.

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But anyway, thank you for that.

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there's still an opportunity to give is my point. So please go to JFS website if you'd like to donate

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a football or a paint set or some slippers to one of the kids in our foster care system.

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I too wanted to say Happy Holidays to everyone. This is the last time we will be together this year,

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a presuming that we passed the budget, which I am presuming that we're going to pass the budget.

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And so Happy Holidays to staff, it's been a challenging year, a good year, but a challenging year when it comes to the finances

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and so I wanted to thank everybody for their service to the county through all of our departments

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and thank especially the budget staff, Rob is in the room. So thank you for your service to the county.

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Very grateful for that. So with that, Jeff, I'm going to turn it over to you. I know there are many

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I leave items so why don't we run through those and then we will move into the conversation regarding the budget.

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Thanks Commissioner. I'll get the by leaves and just as I can just a couple of quick comments. I do just want to double down on what all three of you indicated about the news with the 911 Center 911 EMA Center and it could be very upset if I've done on behalf of the board and the residents of this county I just wanted to and my comments this year thanking them for all of their of their work.

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And as you indicated, Commissioner, we do have a substantive by leave list today, which I will get into.

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The first item, actually, I'm going to defer it to Holly.

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For the actually the first two items, we're going to walk us through an MSD item and then a property disposition item as well.

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So Holly.

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Good morning, Gordon.

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Thank you.

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Finally, one is a resolution directing the Metropolitan Sewer District to further evaluate and develop its proposed program to recover costs for excess,

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wet weather flow in the combined sewer area. You've heard public comments on this earlier.

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This program concept was shared with the board in July in which MSD would evaluate

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billing properties with large amounts of impervious area and wet weather flow impacting MSD sewer

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system. This will also potentially create opportunities for collaboration with property owners and

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MSD on solutions to reduce the amount of wet weather flow entering the system.

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This program is an outcome and alternate to the impervious surface task force that the board

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set up several years ago and I really want to applaud MSD for their efforts to find alternatives

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that still help meet the intent of the issue.

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I want to be clear, this resolution, though, does not constitute board approval for the program.

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It only directs MSD to come back with a plan for board review, no later than the end of the first quarter of 2026.

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And MSD is here if there are specific programs, questions on this program.

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Thank you.

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I'm wondering if we should rule through all of these.

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We're all through all of them.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Thank you so much.

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Sure.

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By the way, two is a resolution declaring certain property no longer needed, and authorizes the Community Improvement Corporation of Greater Cincinnati to act as agent to sell the property.

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This property is the southern portion of 355 Hunt Road.

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It's the portion south of Ronald Reagan Highway and consists of roughly 15 acres.

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So I'm happy to answer any questions.

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Thank you.

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I think we've got an information on that one too.

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So thank you for that.

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Let's thank you.

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Commissioner's please interrupt a few of questions.

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Thank you.

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Commissioners by leave number three is resolution number 27 adopting a cybersecurity program.

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I was going to ask John, if John is thought John would say, oh, there he is.

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Harry.

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Normally John comes in from the hallway here, so that threw me off a little bit.

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So I expected there could be more response to Holly's proceed.

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She was very thorough.

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The cyber security program, this was actually required under Hustle 96 this fall by the state

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and it requires all jurisdictions,

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counties, cities, everybody really

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to have a program in place that just secures

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our technology environment.

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And what's wonderful about this is

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it's a very collaborative effort.

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So our director of technical services

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has worked with the IT staff across every department

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in the county that come up with a plan that's

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00:42:55,500 --> 00:42:57,900
based on national standards for cybersecurity.

453
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,000
And we're glad to present that to you today.

454
00:43:00,780 --> 00:43:01,140
OK, very good.

455
00:43:01,140 --> 00:43:08,640
Thank you, commissioners. Item number four, I'll take the ones that get substance

456
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:14,760
will easier here. Item number four is authorizing the use of credit cards for the use of

457
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:21,900
the Veteran Services Commission, the amount of $88,500. Item number five actually is a

458
00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:28,660
more substance of item that the board acted on portions of this project last week, but this is a

459
00:43:28,660 --> 00:43:34,960
resolution authorizing agreement with alpha video and the board for the remainder of the

460
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:41,780
pay course to idiom jungle vision upgrade project. This is in the amount of 19.5 million.

461
00:43:42,380 --> 00:43:49,500
As the board is aware, folks are watching at home, jungle vision is the system which is the

462
00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:55,980
nerve center, if you will, of all of the audio visual interactions that occur down at the stadium.

463
00:43:55,980 --> 00:44:01,580
So, this is for any event, not just football, but for any event that occurs that would take

464
00:44:01,580 --> 00:44:06,240
would make use of audio visual at this public asset.

465
00:44:06,980 --> 00:44:11,900
The jungle vision system is the nerve center of that, and it's at the end of its life

466
00:44:11,900 --> 00:44:13,000
needs to be replaced.

467
00:44:13,740 --> 00:44:19,640
Last week, the board passed a resolution approving agreements for the electric work and for

468
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:21,560
the general construction portion of the project.

469
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:28,280
today we have this agreement for the remainder and the video mainly the video portion of this

470
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:33,620
project. It's in the total of, as I said, 19.5 million. The good news is it is approximately

471
00:44:33,620 --> 00:44:41,160
one million dollars under under budget. So that is the jungle vision project commissioner.

472
00:44:41,740 --> 00:44:50,720
Commissioners item by leave six is budget adjustment number 55. This is for the general fund.

473
00:44:50,720 --> 00:44:56,960
This is the sheriff in the amount of 1.2 million this is mainly for over time holiday pay

474
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,680
There are also some small wreck

475
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:07,900
Congratulations there from the share of and probation, some recommendations and transfers to close-out grants effectively.

476
00:45:08,780 --> 00:45:16,520
Commissioners, I did have a question about this when I just want to raise it. Do you see that there is for the share of its one cent? There's a reconciliation for one penny.

477
00:45:17,580 --> 00:45:27,460
I just want to say what doing a good job here. No. I was like, whoa, and I thought it was a misprint and the 15.26 isn't 15.26 million. It's $15.26.

478
00:45:27,460 --> 00:45:33,560
sense. So good job budget staff for reconciling to the penny, literally to the penny.

479
00:45:33,820 --> 00:45:34,660
That's right. Good.

480
00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:37,400
They are definitely accurate. Yes.

481
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:43,680
Commissioners, item seven and eight are appointments. I didn't know.

482
00:45:43,980 --> 00:45:45,000
I wanted to be sure.

483
00:45:45,740 --> 00:45:47,240
So by leaving number seven is resolution,

484
00:45:47,500 --> 00:45:50,380
appointing members to the Community Development Advisory Committee,

485
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,040
the Laura's Peterson and William Basel.

486
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,140
And then number eight is a resolution,

487
00:45:55,140 --> 00:46:01,160
appointing a member to the economic and community support advisory council, rely a picket.

488
00:46:01,780 --> 00:46:05,200
So those two are the advisory committee appointments.

489
00:46:06,420 --> 00:46:12,520
Thank you, Commissioner. Item by leave nine is a budget adjustment. This is 15.7

490
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:18,780
million for capital projects and grant balance close out. So a lot of this is the closing out

491
00:46:18,780 --> 00:46:24,640
of capital projects returning to remaining funds to their fund of origin. There are a couple

492
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:31,220
of projects in here that are appropriating dollars for new projects or ongoing projects.

493
00:46:31,900 --> 00:46:39,200
There's funding in there for the build-out of the facility where we do commitment hearings

494
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:44,260
for appropriate court out at Summit Behavioral Health, that's a project that's in cooperation

495
00:46:44,260 --> 00:46:52,420
with the state. There's funding for a permanent for the permit automation facility redesign

496
00:46:52,420 --> 00:46:57,240
up in planning and development, now that they're going with virtual electronic permitting,

497
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:01,600
they've needed to do some workflow redesigns in their offices, and there are also some

498
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:06,880
revisions to the Central Campus project as well, included in that budget adjustment.

499
00:47:08,460 --> 00:47:13,500
By leave 10 commissioners is a resolution authorizing the acceptance of donations for the

500
00:47:13,500 --> 00:47:20,460
prosecuting attorney's victim support program. This is actually for the donation of a therapy dog

501
00:47:20,460 --> 00:47:27,120
in the prosecutor's office that's being donated so we need to pass a resolution in order to accept that donation.

502
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:32,880
I'm going to commissioners if you don't mind, hold by by leave 11.

503
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:39,180
That actually relates directly to the passage of the 2026 budget.

504
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:45,320
So I think it would be appropriate just to lump that item in with that discussion, which we'll have momentarily.

505
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:58,420
And finally, Commissioner's resolution by the 12th, this resolution number 30, this comes at the request of the courts related to the increase of jurors paid to $30 per day from $19 a day.

506
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:05,120
I believe this was discussed in the courts' presentation to the board during their budget presentation.

507
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:07,220
Happy to answer any questions, Commissioner.

508
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:09,020
Thank you very much.

509
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,760
So, are there any questions related to the by-lays?

510
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:18,180
I have a call, I believe one, I just wanted to indicate what MSD and the plan that's coming forward

511
00:48:18,180 --> 00:48:20,780
that is really happy about that.

512
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:26,700
I'm getting started and also that there's a time when the draft plan should happen.

513
00:48:27,240 --> 00:48:35,100
And also, I believe three, I think John talked about it, the cyber security program, I don't know,

514
00:48:35,100 --> 00:48:39,520
because AI included in our cyber security program.

515
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:40,820
Because I ended

516
00:48:43,250 --> 00:48:44,090
up, okay.

517
00:48:49,830 --> 00:48:51,170
We may be getting out of my depth.

518
00:48:56,170 --> 00:48:59,910
I'm going to throw this out if our IT director is on the line.

519
00:49:00,030 --> 00:49:03,270
I believe Chris Walsh may be on the line and may want to chip in here.

520
00:49:03,470 --> 00:49:05,910
I don't know that AI is specifically referenced in it,

521
00:49:05,970 --> 00:49:09,470
but I'm sure that the general security premises

522
00:49:09,470 --> 00:49:15,510
premises extend to that, but I think Chris may be on the line and may want to say more.

523
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:26,840
Good morning, commissioners. Chris Wallace here. And John is correct that AI is not called

524
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:32,200
out specifically in the program in and of itself. However, it is covered with the national standards

525
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,460
that we've adopted through this cybersecurity program.

526
00:49:37,510 --> 00:49:41,170
Okay, thank you. I want to get certified in this

527
00:49:41,170 --> 00:49:49,390
And I have mentioned that we need Christmas policies and procedures as it relates to internally how we can use it, what it can be used for.

528
00:49:49,530 --> 00:49:57,170
So I would just suggest that we kind of upgrade what we're doing our policy internally that would be great.

529
00:49:57,230 --> 00:49:58,790
I think for the county.

530
00:50:01,450 --> 00:50:02,270
Do you agree?

531
00:50:06,110 --> 00:50:14,490
I think we do this program is really specifically around security and where there are vulnerabilities.

532
00:50:14,490 --> 00:50:22,790
where as I think what we probably will be looking at and what each office will be looking at more individually is how do they effectively use AI.

533
00:50:23,550 --> 00:50:25,910
That's really separate from a security program.

534
00:50:29,130 --> 00:50:32,930
And Commissioner Appalda, as I lost the ability to speak there for a minute.

535
00:50:35,610 --> 00:50:38,990
We've actually have some processes we're starting.

536
00:50:38,990 --> 00:50:47,990
that it's very much in the infancy, but working with Deputy Commissioner Anson where we've started

537
00:50:47,990 --> 00:50:52,450
in AI committee when we're starting to do just as John described, we're looking at how this

538
00:50:52,450 --> 00:50:58,210
can be used in the business and the various businesses offices and then we're looking at what

539
00:50:58,210 --> 00:51:03,310
policies and procedures that we need to put in place. So effectively put guardrails on it, right?

540
00:51:03,470 --> 00:51:08,870
We don't want to have data expiltration or inappropriate use of those tools. So that is in

541
00:51:08,870 --> 00:51:15,350
process. Although it's not called out specifically. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. That's all I have. Thank you. Commissioner risk.

542
00:51:17,410 --> 00:51:26,490
Yes. Thank you. On item number by leave number five. I'd like to have that voted on separately.

543
00:51:29,190 --> 00:51:39,510
And I believe that's still in with the video and audio jungle vision. So I do have more questions.

544
00:51:39,510 --> 00:51:45,630
can't get answered today so I'd like to have that separately done. I know that there was

545
00:51:45,630 --> 00:51:56,430
some issues outside of that as it related to attendees, spans, ethygames and the seats

546
00:51:56,430 --> 00:52:03,530
not being cleared and I know that my colleague, Mr. Lewis I'd read she had also expressed concerns.

547
00:52:03,530 --> 00:52:13,210
We can't do this one-sided thing when it comes to something for the fans or the attendees

548
00:52:13,210 --> 00:52:20,870
or comes to the taxpayers, they're fixing to be fallen last in this thing.

549
00:52:21,190 --> 00:52:32,570
And we've had this pattern of behavior, and for me I just can't keep funding stuff on our side.

550
00:52:32,570 --> 00:52:38,070
And then on the side, when it's so well, we couldn't clean off the seats, I mean the weather

551
00:52:38,070 --> 00:52:42,330
man told us we knew when it was going to start and stop, or they could have caught Nick

552
00:52:42,330 --> 00:52:42,910
Crossley.

553
00:52:43,150 --> 00:52:49,390
He has all the information, and it's just, we just can't keep just turning a blind eye to

554
00:52:49,390 --> 00:52:50,370
this stuff.

555
00:52:51,230 --> 00:52:57,130
At the same time, I remember, you know, there was fans, I said, hey, why don't we have a free

556
00:52:57,130 --> 00:52:59,630
watch party brought it forward.

557
00:53:00,090 --> 00:53:02,910
They went head over heels to say it couldn't be done.

558
00:53:02,930 --> 00:53:06,950
And only to come back a year or two after it was done.

559
00:53:07,130 --> 00:53:08,430
And it was done everywhere else.

560
00:53:08,590 --> 00:53:10,110
Detroit did it, everyone did it.

561
00:53:10,110 --> 00:53:11,350
Then it came back and figured out,

562
00:53:11,390 --> 00:53:14,510
oh, we can charge people 99, 99 dollars.

563
00:53:14,830 --> 00:53:15,850
Now it can be done.

564
00:53:16,450 --> 00:53:20,230
So we've just got a, we just can't turn a blind eye.

565
00:53:20,530 --> 00:53:23,350
And if we're going into a 11 year deal,

566
00:53:23,830 --> 00:53:26,790
I don't know why we have to pay a lot of stuff all up front.

567
00:53:26,790 --> 00:53:34,650
it fits over 11 year period. So the season is over. So we won't be needing a jungle vision this week

568
00:53:35,550 --> 00:53:41,250
or I'm going to need it after the playoffs, we won't be going in the playoffs. So I just think we just

569
00:53:41,250 --> 00:53:45,710
could have had a little more time and I like to know a little bit more of what's going to be available

570
00:53:46,250 --> 00:53:51,730
for even other, hopefully other events that are coming. But we can't get those answers today. So I just

571
00:53:51,730 --> 00:54:00,990
to pull this out and hold into, I can get some more information on it. So I have that one.

572
00:54:01,390 --> 00:54:07,490
The other one, I do want to just thank the people who are serving on these boards.

573
00:54:07,810 --> 00:54:15,970
Thank them for stepping up and serving on the board. And yeah, I'm interested to the cybersecurity

574
00:54:15,970 --> 00:54:24,010
security program is very important. Of course, going to have to be evolving as new technology

575
00:54:24,010 --> 00:54:32,830
continues to be continued, we continue to look at that. And then also, I think item

576
00:54:32,830 --> 00:54:40,690
number one, the resolution or the rise in MSD to proceed with further evaluation, I think,

577
00:54:40,810 --> 00:54:45,730
is important with the service charge pilot program. So I was certainly interested in

578
00:54:45,730 --> 00:54:51,350
supporting those. But those are the things that I like to have that one pulled out and again

579
00:54:51,350 --> 00:54:56,270
thanking those who are willing to serve and be on these boards with us. We really appreciate it.

580
00:54:56,990 --> 00:55:02,390
Thank you. I too wanted to highlight by leave number one. We've talked about this. We've heard a

581
00:55:02,390 --> 00:55:06,990
lot of public comment about this. So we'll move within the first quarter of next year to get something

582
00:55:06,990 --> 00:55:13,450
a pilot program launched, hopefully. So I'm excited about that. And by leaf three, the cybersecurity

583
00:55:13,450 --> 00:55:16,450
security one. Is there a cost associated with this?

584
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:22,620
Okay, I'm very good. That's a good answer.

585
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:27,480
All right, just curious. And one another, one of those recommendations from the state,

586
00:55:27,660 --> 00:55:32,200
and it's like, oh wait a minute, what's going on here? We got a lot of that going on.

587
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:37,040
Okay, and then the jurors pay on to highlight number 12, increasing the jurors pay.

588
00:55:37,180 --> 00:55:42,240
I hopefully that will encourage people to do their civic duty and participate on jurors.

589
00:55:42,240 --> 00:55:52,440
I actually can miss you if you like. I could say this security program may actually come with some cost savings because I think as these IT folks get together and learn where they might be duplicating

590
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:57,300
Services and security services we're starting to consolidate some of that stuff. So it's a positive.

591
00:55:57,720 --> 00:55:58,780
Very good John.

592
00:55:59,820 --> 00:56:01,380
I'm glad to get some clues today.

593
00:56:02,020 --> 00:56:04,540
All right, so we're going on if there are no further questions.

594
00:56:05,140 --> 00:56:08,760
I am going to move that we approve of by leaves.

595
00:56:10,060 --> 00:56:16,540
And we can we can we can buy for Kate number five. I think we've got a majority ready to move on that one, but I will pull it out.

596
00:56:17,100 --> 00:56:26,080
So by leaves making a motion approval by leaves 1 through 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12.

597
00:56:28,410 --> 00:56:28,750
Second.

598
00:56:30,050 --> 00:56:31,070
Commissaire three homes.

599
00:56:31,430 --> 00:56:31,530
Yes.

600
00:56:31,530 --> 00:56:32,650
Commissaire some are doing this.

601
00:56:32,770 --> 00:56:33,290
Yes.

602
00:56:33,330 --> 00:56:33,370
Yes.

603
00:56:33,670 --> 00:56:35,190
Thank you.

604
00:56:35,250 --> 00:56:37,770
So let's vote on by leave five.

605
00:56:37,770 --> 00:56:40,090
I'm going to make a motion to approve of by leave five.

606
00:56:41,430 --> 00:56:42,290
Commissioner Trey House?

607
00:56:42,590 --> 00:56:43,030
Yes.

608
00:56:43,030 --> 00:56:43,970
Commissioner Summer, do you miss?

609
00:56:43,970 --> 00:56:44,410
Yes.

610
00:56:44,750 --> 00:56:45,470
Commissioner Reeves.

611
00:56:46,310 --> 00:56:46,990
Thank you.

612
00:56:47,270 --> 00:56:50,850
And then by leave 11, Jeff, how do we, how do you, I know you want to hold this because

613
00:56:50,850 --> 00:56:51,850
it pertains to the budget?

614
00:56:52,070 --> 00:56:52,490
Yes.

615
00:56:52,590 --> 00:56:54,730
So at some point that we have to pass this.

616
00:56:54,990 --> 00:56:55,070
So.

617
00:56:55,070 --> 00:56:59,610
So it, we've got the regular agenda item number one, which relates to the budget.

618
00:56:59,630 --> 00:57:01,570
And so this will just be included.

619
00:57:01,770 --> 00:57:02,110
Okay.

620
00:57:02,110 --> 00:57:07,610
I will make a, I will ask the commissioners to consider by leave item 11 and

621
00:57:07,610 --> 00:57:10,190
regular agenda. I just don't want to stress a bit.

622
00:57:10,270 --> 00:57:14,130
I won't. We won't let a solution and Rob is burning holes through me.

623
00:57:14,130 --> 00:57:17,550
All right. We're going to leave by leave a letter alone for the moment. All right.

624
00:57:17,630 --> 00:57:23,470
Let's move into then regular agenda item number one, which is the general

625
00:57:23,470 --> 00:57:25,130
fund. Well, all funds budget.

626
00:57:25,630 --> 00:57:30,590
Thank you, commissioner. So this is right into that. So before you say are two

627
00:57:30,590 --> 00:57:37,230
resolutions associated with the 2026 budget, the first is item number one in

628
00:57:37,230 --> 00:57:44,390
packet, this establishes a 1.36 billion dollar all funds operating budget for a 2026

629
00:57:44,870 --> 00:57:49,930
of that amount, 403.8 million is appropriated to the county general fund.

630
00:57:50,590 --> 00:57:55,350
That amount includes several adjustments to the administrators recommended budget,

631
00:57:55,350 --> 00:58:00,990
which I presented back in early November. Many of those adjustments, which we reviewed publicly

632
00:58:00,990 --> 00:58:05,650
on Tuesdays, in Tuesdays, to after meeting for transparency purposes.

633
00:58:06,290 --> 00:58:13,030
The purpose, those include an increase of 950,000 in the prosecutors budget, an increase

634
00:58:13,030 --> 00:58:20,470
of 305,000 in the sheriff's budget, an increase of 203,534 in the better and services commission

635
00:58:20,470 --> 00:58:27,670
budget, 100,000 in economic development to support the building futures program, 75,000 increase

636
00:58:27,670 --> 00:58:33,830
in the probate court budget and an increase of $46,100 in the public defenders budget.

637
00:58:34,870 --> 00:58:40,910
The budget, as adopted, also holds the transfer tax rate at the 2025 level and does not

638
00:58:40,910 --> 00:58:44,590
incorporate an additional mill as was proposed in my recommended budget.

639
00:58:45,570 --> 00:58:51,370
We also simultaneously commissioned a budget adjustment number one in front of you, which

640
00:58:51,370 --> 00:58:56,410
is contained as by leave item number 11, which was also a part of the budget process.

641
00:58:56,410 --> 00:59:00,370
This adjustment appropriates funding from the General Fund Reserve.

642
00:59:00,550 --> 00:59:07,910
It's just implemented various programs where we still are not quite certain that operating revenues are going to support the long run.

643
00:59:08,370 --> 00:59:15,050
But the board wanted to ensure that we continue these programs while we assess the revenue environment in 2026.

644
00:59:15,750 --> 00:59:22,430
These include an increase of $250,000 to the large tourism event grant program for a total of $1 million.

645
00:59:22,430 --> 00:59:30,430
And increased to the small community event grant program of 150,000 to a total of 250,000.

646
00:59:31,290 --> 00:59:37,510
And increased to the community revitalization grant program of $400,000 for a total of $1.55 million.

647
00:59:38,370 --> 00:59:42,150
And increased to the pitch night small business day programming of $10,000.

648
00:59:42,830 --> 00:59:50,130
And allocation of $100,000 to the Sports Commission, an allocation of 150,000 to support bike trail development,

649
00:59:50,130 --> 00:59:57,850
and an allocation of, and I would say that last one is consistent with my initial recommended budget.

650
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:11,540
An allocation of 1 million to support affordable housing development or programming in the community, which we will discuss further the programming of that funding in 2026.

651
01:00:13,100 --> 01:00:26,260
So, Commissioner, as you were aware, this was a tight, challenging budget. To balance as evidence by the various service needs we heard from departments that just didn't align with our revenue availability this year.

652
01:00:26,260 --> 01:00:30,520
So in the final document, we made a effort to account for some of those.

653
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:36,680
But unfortunately, there just wasn't the revenue availability to address all of them.

654
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:41,380
So I want to thank the board for its guidance through this process.

655
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:47,460
Thank all the department heads, all the elected officials for their cooperation as we've navigated the process.

656
01:00:48,300 --> 01:00:52,340
The budget department for all their hard work and getting us to this point.

657
01:00:52,340 --> 01:00:58,500
And most importantly, all the employees of the county do the day-to-day work of our organization

658
01:00:58,500 --> 01:01:00,320
to deliver value for the taxpayer.

659
01:01:01,020 --> 01:01:07,800
We're going to need to monitor this budget closely as we always do, but very closely over

660
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:12,260
the course of the year, staying in close touch with departments, elected offices, and agencies,

661
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:18,100
as we know that there are several offices where budget pressures are going to be particularly

662
01:01:18,660 --> 01:01:26,080
I think it's important to note that we expect departments to remain within budget during the coming year.

663
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:34,260
But I think we've prided ourselves in the past and over the years on being able to work and cooperate with departments and elected offices,

664
01:01:34,380 --> 01:01:42,000
where there are challenges to ensure that those departments can accomplish their missions successfully on behalf of the residents of the county.

665
01:01:42,420 --> 01:01:45,600
And we'll continue to work towards that same goal in 2026.

666
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:47,980
So in the end commissioners, we have a balanced budget.

667
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:50,800
One that supports the mandated functions of the county.

668
01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:55,780
And also one that continues to provide programming important to the boards,

669
01:01:55,780 --> 01:01:58,620
specifically as it relates to helping this county grow and prosper.

670
01:01:59,340 --> 01:02:02,340
So with that commissioners, I turn it back over to you for any comments or questions.

671
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:04,200
Thank you. Thank you very much.

672
01:02:04,620 --> 01:02:05,740
I do have some comments.

673
01:02:06,580 --> 01:02:09,060
First of all, I want to thank the administration for all the hard work.

674
01:02:09,260 --> 01:02:10,840
This has been a very challenging process.

675
01:02:12,780 --> 01:02:18,420
particularly UJF, John Brugin, Robin Wagner, the entire budget team, I know there's been

676
01:02:18,420 --> 01:02:23,300
a lot of conversation back and forth with the different departments, and it's been

677
01:02:23,300 --> 01:02:23,680
challenging.

678
01:02:23,900 --> 01:02:27,560
I've heard from some of them myself, and I know the budget team has heard from them over

679
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:30,300
over again about some of the challenges that exist.

680
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:35,300
I want to also thank the Chiefs of Staff who have been doing the negotiating on behalf

681
01:02:35,300 --> 01:02:39,920
of the county commissioners since we are not able to do that ourselves, so thank you

682
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:43,640
to the chiefs for productive conversations.

683
01:02:44,540 --> 01:02:46,440
So as has been said, oh, and I also want to thank

684
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:48,300
the citizens, we had a couple of public hearings.

685
01:02:48,740 --> 01:02:51,400
So thanks to those who came out and testified

686
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:54,480
at those hearings, I think this budget reflects a lot.

687
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:57,740
It reflects a lot of what we heard by way of the changes

688
01:02:57,740 --> 01:02:59,380
from the Administrator's recommendation

689
01:02:59,790 --> 01:03:01,020
to where we are today.

690
01:03:01,780 --> 01:03:06,280
So it's been challenging because our expenses are up

691
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:08,580
and our revenues are fairly flat.

692
01:03:08,580 --> 01:03:17,480
And that creates a real challenge for us, the primary source of revenue as everyone knows is the sales tax and the sales tax has been pretty flat.

693
01:03:17,940 --> 01:03:25,080
And so that's created a problem when it comes to some of the requests that came in from the different departments.

694
01:03:26,100 --> 01:03:33,900
When you think about the what drove the increase because we've got a like a 3% increase in this budget, which is very nominal.

695
01:03:34,580 --> 01:03:39,880
But remember, we're doing a 3% increase to wages for the folks that work through the county

696
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:41,420
throughout all of the systems.

697
01:03:42,020 --> 01:03:44,340
Trying to make sure we can recruit and retain individuals.

698
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:48,460
And so that is responsible for a lot of that growth.

699
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:50,380
I think that's where we need to be.

700
01:03:50,620 --> 01:03:53,800
Years ago, before I got here, we were not in this position.

701
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:57,760
And we declined to give raises for five years in a row.

702
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:00,680
We lost a lot of people during that time.

703
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:06,020
And these are people with a lot of experience and expertise, and we really don't want to be in that position again.

704
01:04:06,100 --> 01:04:14,560
So I am very proud that this has been a primary focus of this county to make sure that we've got good individual serving the public of Hamilton County.

705
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:21,080
So I also want to thank these departments and the other elected officials throughout the county.

706
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:33,020
We had budget hearings with them many months ago making sure they understood the landscape of reduced or flat revenues and many of them responded in kind and said okay

707
01:04:33,020 --> 01:04:41,920
we are going to come in with less than what we would like to come in with as a request acknowledging that we've got a pretty flat revenues source going here.

708
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:51,700
So I just also want to point out this budget is no different than those in the past where the bulk of the money over 70% is going to safety.

709
01:04:52,220 --> 01:05:11,300
When you think about safety for the county, we're talking about the courts, the Justice Center, the Office of Reentry, 9-1-1, emergency management, the coroner's office, the prosecutor's office, the public defenders office, the dog warden, the list goes on, this is a budget build around public safety.

710
01:05:11,300 --> 01:05:17,540
And I think that's what our constituents expect from us, and that is what we've delivered here on this budget.

711
01:05:18,100 --> 01:05:25,120
The other piece where we had some movement was some of the economic development opportunities that we have.

712
01:05:25,180 --> 01:05:32,440
And I want to say that, well, give us some of these grants that were highlighted, the revitalization grant, for instance, with a large event grant.

713
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:36,560
While they are great for the community and their community building grants,

714
01:05:37,140 --> 01:05:40,980
what they're meant to do is drive revenue into the coffers of the county.

715
01:05:41,660 --> 01:05:46,360
Increase economic activity through some of these grants and so that we've got more

716
01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:51,220
by way of sales tax. We've got more by way of property tax. We don't collect income tax.

717
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:55,860
Otherwise we would see a benefit by way of income tax, but our 49 jurisdictions do.

718
01:05:56,420 --> 01:06:01,040
And so these grants are in partnership with the 49 jurisdictions throughout the county,

719
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:08,160
particularly the community revitalization grant. So these were moved into the category against the

720
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:12,820
reserve. I think it's a really important distinction, because these will be evaluated every year.

721
01:06:13,140 --> 01:06:17,480
So these are not ongoing expenses. We couldn't build them into the bulk of the budget, but rather

722
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:23,140
put them against reserve. And there are many of them are lesser amounts than we have funded in the past.

723
01:06:23,420 --> 01:06:28,300
So it is a recognition that we still want to do these things to create this economic activity out in

724
01:06:28,300 --> 01:06:33,540
communities, but we've got less to do it with, and so we are providing a little bit less in

725
01:06:33,540 --> 01:06:34,400
many of these categories.

726
01:06:34,940 --> 01:06:39,760
So those would include the large event and small event grants, the community revitalization

727
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:43,820
grants, and we just heard, I think it was last week, from a couple of communities that have

728
01:06:43,820 --> 01:06:48,360
received these and done some catalytic projects in their communities, and we're really grateful

729
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:49,260
for that partnership.

730
01:06:49,900 --> 01:06:52,640
Building futures is one of those as is the sports commission.

731
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:57,480
So again, all of us are amounts, but important work that we're doing here.

732
01:06:57,480 --> 01:07:03,320
some of the increases came in the other category which is ongoing expenses. You cannot create a

733
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:08,660
budget where say the prosecutor asked for additional dollars and you put that against reserve. We

734
01:07:08,660 --> 01:07:14,720
can't do that. That is not sustainable because those costs are ongoing. So we had the build that

735
01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:22,020
into the budget which was a significant challenge. So we increase some investments. They're all through

736
01:07:22,020 --> 01:07:27,140
public safety. The sheriff, the prosecutor, the public defender and the courts. And so we heard

737
01:07:27,140 --> 01:07:31,280
lot during the hearings about this. We also heard a lot about some of the economic development

738
01:07:31,280 --> 01:07:36,980
stuff. And so this budget or our recommendations to the Administrator reflect a lot of what

739
01:07:36,980 --> 01:07:42,440
we heard. We also heard about veteran services that is being fully funded in this budget. And we

740
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:47,140
still have a substantial reserve. Although, as the Administrator indicated, we need to keep an eye

741
01:07:47,140 --> 01:07:52,580
on that. Some of our other economic development partners support, ready, and ally, all are taking

742
01:07:52,580 --> 01:07:58,980
here cut in this budget. There's still being funded, but we have provided a few less dollars

743
01:07:58,980 --> 01:08:03,900
there, something else that I think is concerning, but something that we had to do.

744
01:08:04,340 --> 01:08:09,840
The Affordable Housing piece, the one million, I think this again is against the reserve,

745
01:08:10,140 --> 01:08:13,820
am I right about that? It's against the reserve. Yeah. This is something else that we will

746
01:08:13,820 --> 01:08:18,260
be evaluating year after year, but I do think it shows the ongoing commitment of this

747
01:08:18,260 --> 01:08:20,500
commission to affordable housing in this community.

748
01:08:20,860 --> 01:08:25,360
Whether we're spending it on one thing or the other, this commitment, I think is really

749
01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:29,340
important to individuals that are watching this work and putting in, right?

750
01:08:29,340 --> 01:08:33,620
Because this commitment leverages money from the city, from the state, from the private

751
01:08:33,620 --> 01:08:34,140
community.

752
01:08:34,580 --> 01:08:38,880
And so I think it's really important that we, while it's only a million dollars, I think

753
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:43,680
it is a significant indicator that we're interested in continuing this work.

754
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:53,220
The budget also funds key social services, things that the community relies on, especially those that are in stressful situations.

755
01:08:53,620 --> 01:08:57,360
A lot of that is relevant to the levees. We haven't talked a whole lot about the levees here.

756
01:08:57,480 --> 01:09:02,960
We're going to have ongoing conversations come the new year on the levees and some of the challenges there.

757
01:09:03,580 --> 01:09:09,320
But it is important that we recognize that we have seven levees under the control of the county commission.

758
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:12,840
those being for seniors, for kids, for people with disabilities, for

759
01:09:12,840 --> 01:09:16,820
indigent care, these are important services that we deliver to this county,

760
01:09:17,420 --> 01:09:21,640
to the citizens of this county, especially those that are living in the margins.

761
01:09:22,240 --> 01:09:28,220
And we need to make sure that we are funding those as we can and relying on the

762
01:09:28,220 --> 01:09:31,700
taxpayers, obviously, to vote for those levees.

763
01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:35,380
And so more conversation to come next year related to levees.

764
01:09:35,380 --> 01:09:40,000
So in 2026, we're going to face some headwinds.

765
01:09:40,100 --> 01:09:41,740
We've already referenced some of these things.

766
01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:44,480
There are changes going on at the federal level.

767
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:45,960
Snap comes to mind.

768
01:09:46,580 --> 01:09:50,940
We are going to suffer from policy directives of this administration

769
01:09:50,940 --> 01:09:52,760
at the federal level regarding SNAP.

770
01:09:53,020 --> 01:09:55,760
We are going to have to pay more to administer that program.

771
01:09:56,060 --> 01:09:59,640
And if our air rate doesn't improve, we are going to pay a lot more.

772
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:05,080
And so that is something that I'm very concerned about related to the JFS loving

773
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:09,380
It's created a lot of uncertainty and that is never good for the economy.

774
01:10:09,740 --> 01:10:11,560
We've got some headwinds coming from the state.

775
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:13,760
We've referenced House Bill 335.

776
01:10:13,820 --> 01:10:15,840
This is the property tax relief bill.

777
01:10:16,420 --> 01:10:20,740
So property taxes or inside millage for the county will be held at the rate of inflation.

778
01:10:21,420 --> 01:10:27,140
That is our answer to how do you provide relief to citizens whose property tax bills are

779
01:10:27,140 --> 01:10:28,480
going way up and spiking.

780
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:30,560
This will keep that from happening.

781
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:36,400
And so it is our way of addressing that problem, I should say one of the ways, but it's

782
01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:37,140
going to cost money.

783
01:10:37,780 --> 01:10:40,520
I mean, this cost will cost millions of dollars to the county.

784
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:45,200
This is our, I mean for us to be for myself, this is my idea of partnership, right?

785
01:10:45,220 --> 01:10:50,240
We have to do something and so we know it's going to cost money, but we have to recognize that

786
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:54,580
in the next budget, this is going to come to pass and we're going to have less revenue at

787
01:10:54,580 --> 01:10:58,760
our disposal because of some of that, something that we're doing in by way of partnership

788
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:02,760
with the citizens and property tax payers in this area.

789
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:08,080
And then the uncertainty in the economy, I mean, in some ways this budget looks towards

790
01:11:08,080 --> 01:11:12,260
the future and says we are hopeful that our sales tax revenue will improve.

791
01:11:13,020 --> 01:11:20,380
I am hopeful that we have a lot of good things going on in this county, I think about the Convention

792
01:11:20,380 --> 01:11:24,140
Center redevelopment and all the economic activity that that's going to bring in.

793
01:11:24,180 --> 01:11:25,940
We've done that in partnership with the city.

794
01:11:25,940 --> 01:11:31,320
we will benefit from that through sales tax, the city will benefit through income tax.

795
01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:37,340
But hopefully we will see that some of our investments start to pay off by bringing some

796
01:11:37,340 --> 01:11:40,940
more revenue into our budget, and so that next year is not so difficult.

797
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:43,580
But we will know that soon enough, right?

798
01:11:43,660 --> 01:11:47,860
We will have predictions in the first corner that are indicators of how we are doing.

799
01:11:48,020 --> 01:11:51,820
And we're going to have to keep an eye on it because it's not as if our costs are going

800
01:11:51,820 --> 01:11:52,360
down.

801
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:59,700
the cost will continue to go up as we continue to invest in our workforce and the workers that provide services to this county.

802
01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:08,360
And so we are going to have to keep a close eye on how those revenues will come in and make sure they're we're exercising all of our options.

803
01:12:09,380 --> 01:12:11,560
So that's what I've got related to this budget.

804
01:12:11,820 --> 01:12:13,000
I once again want to thank everybody.

805
01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:19,340
There's been a lot of adjustment from the administrative recommendation to the budget.

806
01:12:19,340 --> 01:12:24,540
we've got in front of us now and so I'm grateful to my colleagues and to staff for working with all of us

807
01:12:24,540 --> 01:12:28,960
to make sure that we got this right. So that's what I have. I'm going to turn it over to you,

808
01:12:28,980 --> 01:12:35,980
commissioner. So thank you so much. I just wanted to make a comment as a relay. So I could have it on the

809
01:12:35,980 --> 01:12:42,020
record. There was a gentleman, John, from Georgia, who sent me an email as a relay to the

810
01:12:42,020 --> 01:12:46,760
bevel's game and kindness for kids and I want to submit it to the clerks. I just wanted to say that

811
01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:54,680
clean case. She's watching. As a relates to the budget, certainly one of the

812
01:12:54,680 --> 01:13:03,540
thanks staff and staff in the finance department, my colleagues, for all the work

813
01:13:03,540 --> 01:13:09,460
that they've done as a relates to this budget, my concern was not to add any additional

814
01:13:09,460 --> 01:13:15,840
cost on our residents, if it all possible. And that's why the transfer of fee, which we didn't

815
01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:22,600
I have to vote on, but I said no to the transfer fee, also, to make sure that did not happen.

816
01:13:23,540 --> 01:13:27,960
So I really want to thank the Chiefs of Staff, how hard they've worked specifically.

817
01:13:28,940 --> 01:13:35,960
My Chief of Staff, Bishop Bobby Hilton, who had to go back and forth with me and make sure

818
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:39,820
that he communicated what I needed and I'm sure he did that.

819
01:13:39,820 --> 01:13:46,380
And it seems like the things that I was interested in as a commissioner came through in the budget.

820
01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:49,480
But for me, it's about trust.

821
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:55,240
It was brought up earlier about trust by the Bishops and for administration.

822
01:13:56,200 --> 01:14:03,300
When I asked all those questions that I asked, I had to trust that the answers were truthful.

823
01:14:03,300 --> 01:14:11,620
They were coming forward to give me more enlightenment on making a decision.

824
01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:20,400
It's not blind trust when you work with people for a while and you know that they're there for the greater good at this county.

825
01:14:20,500 --> 01:14:25,600
And I truly believe that administration is here for that and also finance.

826
01:14:25,700 --> 01:14:29,440
So I appreciate you answering all those questions.

827
01:14:30,660 --> 01:14:33,240
we're living in a perilous time.

828
01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:43,460
There is no business as usual. I'm a very positive person. One of the most positive of you ever need, I think.

829
01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:56,680
But we don't know what tomorrow may bring. We really don't know. Every day from day to day, some people are literally now living from day to day.

830
01:14:57,560 --> 01:14:58,700
As a government week

831
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:10,020
We can't live from day to day. We have to be able to look ahead and have a reserve and plan ahead. But it's really hard in these times.

832
01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:19,300
We do not have the millions of the ARPA monies that we had before to fall back on. We have to spend all our monies by the end of 2026.

833
01:15:20,160 --> 01:15:25,860
And one of my concerns, one of my major concerns, when we started this budget discussion was,

834
01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:33,980
how long are we going to continue to fund those new programs that we were able to start

835
01:15:33,980 --> 01:15:40,600
because of the art from money? But I will say that I'm satisfied that we were able to reduce

836
01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:45,940
the amount of money that we were putting toward those programs, but I still say, how long?

837
01:15:45,940 --> 01:15:52,440
how long are we going to continue to undergird these different programs they were doing well

838
01:15:52,440 --> 01:15:58,300
before we gave them additional money of course they did better but i think they will do

839
01:15:58,300 --> 01:16:06,540
find without the money that we're giving from the county i've said there is i said before it

840
01:16:06,540 --> 01:16:13,380
our public hearing there's one pie we only have one pie we have to divide it up and who says that somebody

841
01:16:13,380 --> 01:16:18,860
should get more than others, where, of course, public safety always traditionally everywhere

842
01:16:18,860 --> 01:16:25,840
gets more. And that's okay with me. But some of the central items for me on the budget

843
01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:36,020
were, of course, public safety children services, seniors, housing, food insecurity. Some say the return

844
01:16:36,020 --> 01:16:42,240
of investment is needed to ensure that money is coming in, for instance, that economic development

845
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:48,380
programs that we have, and I also agree with that. But I think that they will do fine without

846
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:54,960
all the money that we give them from the county. I'm really happy about the developments. I voted

847
01:16:54,960 --> 01:17:00,700
on the new developments, and I think they're good for the county, of course. I'm one, as I said,

848
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:05,600
the visits, the board, and I encourage them to continue doing what they're doing.

849
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:15,860
I don't believe we can, the fans will not, they've cut our money.

850
01:17:19,780 --> 01:17:21,480
We don't know what else they're going to cut.

851
01:17:21,540 --> 01:17:23,120
They may cut snap again.

852
01:17:24,220 --> 01:17:26,700
So we're still trying to meet the needs of the needy.

853
01:17:26,700 --> 01:17:29,520
Every group that we cluster funding is a need.

854
01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:33,280
Everyone that I mentioned, children, seniors, property owners,

855
01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:35,220
there's nine profits affordable housing,

856
01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:39,200
share of court system prosecutors, just to name a few.

857
01:17:39,780 --> 01:17:44,400
As your commissioner, it's my job to fund these requests,

858
01:17:44,740 --> 01:17:45,780
keep a reserve.

859
01:17:46,100 --> 01:17:47,960
Our reserve is down, not a lot,

860
01:17:48,060 --> 01:17:50,580
I think it's down about 3%

861
01:17:50,580 --> 01:17:53,000
than where we're used to having that.

862
01:17:53,300 --> 01:17:56,640
Because we don't know, as I said about SNAP or anything else.

863
01:17:56,760 --> 01:18:01,200
I mean, HUD is cutting, we don't know about housing for people.

864
01:18:02,360 --> 01:18:08,120
I can remember several months ago when JFS came in here and they had a hundred million dollars

865
01:18:08,120 --> 01:18:09,020
reserves.

866
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:16,180
And then we'll talk about why don't we use some of that money for other things and I said absolutely not.

867
01:18:17,040 --> 01:18:22,220
Our children have lots of needs and we need to keep that money in that offer.

868
01:18:22,700 --> 01:18:30,860
We're now JFS is looking at a possible 34 million dollar deficit in 2016 if they don't do something different.

869
01:18:30,860 --> 01:18:32,300
and we do something different.

870
01:18:32,780 --> 01:18:35,860
So I'm real happy that we kept that money in there.

871
01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:44,400
One initiative that my started and my colleague supported

872
01:18:45,140 --> 01:18:46,540
was inspired initiative,

873
01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:49,020
which will be funded this time.

874
01:18:49,180 --> 01:18:52,600
It has impacted over 30,000 children.

875
01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:56,860
Like I said at the start, we have to be ready to respond.

876
01:18:57,340 --> 01:18:59,980
That's why when we were asked to put in

877
01:18:59,980 --> 01:19:08,860
billion dollars for the renovation at the pay core stadium, 1.3 billion, and we said no, you

878
01:19:08,860 --> 01:19:16,300
have to do better than that. We reduced it all the way to 350 million for the board to, and

879
01:19:16,300 --> 01:19:21,820
also, of course, the bingles will be putting in some money, and F.L.W. also be putting in money,

880
01:19:21,940 --> 01:19:29,700
but we have been fighting for our residents and for the tax dollar. It's very lean, as was said,

881
01:19:29,700 --> 01:19:36,640
before. But my wish since I didn't give a wish for Christmas yet, I was going to wait, but

882
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:46,840
my wish for this season is that the people of Hamilton County do your research, read, you

883
01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:55,020
listen to us, but don't take everything that we say, research it, look at the details, not

884
01:19:55,020 --> 01:20:01,620
listening, but here what we say, because everything you hear is not the fact. You need

885
01:20:01,620 --> 01:20:07,800
the fact check. That's my wish for our residents. And look at my voting record on the

886
01:20:07,800 --> 01:20:15,780
issues that concern you. Take a real hard look where your money is going. That's my wish for

887
01:20:15,780 --> 01:20:20,380
all of these, all of our residents and I'm the county. This is a lot of money we're hopefully

888
01:20:20,380 --> 01:20:22,900
getting ready to pass this budget for.

889
01:20:23,220 --> 01:20:25,700
Don't just accept what's being set up here,

890
01:20:26,020 --> 01:20:28,680
but look into a research because this is your money.

891
01:20:36,350 --> 01:20:43,890
And that's my wish, my prayer for 2026 as we move forward.

892
01:20:44,450 --> 01:20:46,910
We're hoping that these money will suffice.

893
01:20:47,390 --> 01:20:50,050
And as I say, we are not fortune tellers.

894
01:20:50,190 --> 01:20:51,790
We don't know what's going to come forward.

895
01:20:52,170 --> 01:20:54,650
And we're hoping that our reserve will handle it.

896
01:20:55,690 --> 01:21:01,530
But if not, we have to do what we have to do as a commission, so that's all I have.

897
01:21:01,890 --> 01:21:02,290
Thank you.

898
01:21:02,370 --> 01:21:02,930
Missionaries.

899
01:21:05,900 --> 01:21:06,980
Thank you.

900
01:21:07,860 --> 01:21:17,940
This budget process, which I've been here, has probably been maybe one of the toughest.

901
01:21:17,940 --> 01:21:18,280
I don't know.

902
01:21:18,460 --> 01:21:25,700
My first one probably was tough because we were looking to get some going and a new direction on some things.

903
01:21:25,700 --> 01:21:27,200
But this one was really tough.

904
01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:35,280
For me, my focus was three things from what I heard from citizens, not at the town hall meeting.

905
01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:42,220
Not just in this room, but what I would hear from people at the grocery store.

906
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:45,120
What I would hear from people coming out of church.

907
01:21:45,880 --> 01:21:48,040
What I would hear from people at the gas station.

908
01:21:49,100 --> 01:21:53,940
People would stop me and talk about what they wanted to see.

909
01:21:53,940 --> 01:21:59,820
Now county government ours has been in existent over with 200 plus years

910
01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:04,300
Most people don't even know what the county does

911
01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:12,480
They're getting a little better at it, but basically they know it if they get a child support order or if they got to pay property taxes

912
01:22:13,500 --> 01:22:22,500
Similar to that, but outside of that they don't really know it's not like when they go down the local city government and those kind of things and so

913
01:22:23,680 --> 01:22:30,720
As I talk with them and listen to them and call their office in different things, there's

914
01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:37,860
three things that I wanted to fight for in this, for me, it has to be the people's budget.

915
01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:41,960
It's not my personal budget, it's the people's budget.

916
01:22:42,600 --> 01:22:47,720
There were three things that came into my, based on what they said, and these would be people

917
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:51,760
also that I see when I go out to the five, one through relief bus, a lot of people that we

918
01:22:51,760 --> 01:22:59,480
run into. Number one, they want to make sure that their safe safety was important. Number

919
01:22:59,480 --> 01:23:07,340
two, and not in his order, but the other issue was affordability. So safety of affordability

920
01:23:07,340 --> 01:23:20,520
is huge right now. And they didn't want any new taxes. So as I looked at this budget and we

921
01:23:20,520 --> 01:23:26,080
difficult because you have to go through your cheeses staffs. We can't talk directly and do our own

922
01:23:27,060 --> 01:23:31,520
negotiations as we've been able to do at the State House and they're able to do at the city

923
01:23:32,440 --> 01:23:39,600
which is part I really love. But our cheeses staffs I think did a good job trying to articulate

924
01:23:40,260 --> 01:23:42,740
and keep up with as this thing was moving.

925
01:23:45,220 --> 01:23:46,420
In this budget

926
01:23:47,600 --> 01:24:14,400
When a first was presented, there was as presented, I couldn't have supported it, as is presented because then the presented budget, it had that there would be an additional tax if you will, on your real estate, you were to sell it, it was going to be a transfer tax, and I had heard from people they didn't want anymore new taxes.

927
01:24:15,360 --> 01:24:22,240
At the hearings, and I appreciate as hearing from people and saying, yes, we're going to take

928
01:24:22,240 --> 01:24:23,140
that out.

929
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:28,720
And I want to thank the Greater Cincinnati, Religious Alliance, the Relicist Association,

930
01:24:29,160 --> 01:24:36,500
Home Builders Association, and other alliances, Mary Huttingler and Felicia Bill and Heather

931
01:24:36,500 --> 01:24:42,640
Cough, and so many others that came and testified in that area, and how that would affect

932
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:49,620
even new home buyers, it would affect affordable home buyers.

933
01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:51,860
And so it would be counterproductive

934
01:24:51,860 --> 01:24:54,920
to what we have been promoting, affordability.

935
01:24:55,400 --> 01:24:57,240
We've been saying we have affordable housing,

936
01:24:57,760 --> 01:25:00,600
but we would have inadvertently put something in

937
01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:05,120
that made it unaffordable for a person to have a house.

938
01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:08,340
And so I'm happy that that is out.

939
01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:11,020
I was not forward when I first saw it

940
01:25:11,020 --> 01:25:18,700
And I want to thank those who were in this industry who came out and talked about it and even one lady came

941
01:25:18,700 --> 01:25:24,800
Who does the mortgage is he doesn't for the major banks you're doing for and she really gave a good

942
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:30,140
cliff note lesson that even some as much as 10 dollars more could just

943
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:38,540
Cut it off you could have the you could have done all the work and got all your down payment. Got all the

944
01:25:38,540 --> 01:25:44,680
We're a pair of credit and everything but they have a stop and if it's $10, even $10,

945
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:46,500
it would kill the deal.

946
01:25:47,320 --> 01:25:53,380
So I'm glad that that is not in here and so that moved me to it will maybe I can go with

947
01:25:53,380 --> 01:26:00,500
this budget because with that in there it would have been a no for me because no new taxes

948
01:26:00,500 --> 01:26:06,260
was a big deal. First a lot of people was a big deal from what I heard affordability.

949
01:26:08,700 --> 01:26:09,940
People right now

950
01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:16,660
suffering and not people that you get to think is not just low income. When we look at

951
01:26:16,660 --> 01:26:21,660
everyday in these companies they're laying off and getting rid of me these are big jobs and it's

952
01:26:21,660 --> 01:26:28,760
hard to get a big job again and it takes three and four and five interviews sometimes months before

953
01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:34,040
you get another opportunity and the bills don't stop because you oh I don't have a job

954
01:26:34,040 --> 01:26:39,720
it's gonna stop now it's rough out here for every bunker who you are so I'm not out here

955
01:26:39,720 --> 01:26:46,560
judge anybody on their bills bills are killing us medical just getting ready to go up is already

956
01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:55,360
killing us now it's gonna go up higher for medical go to the grocery store people barely can get

957
01:26:55,360 --> 01:27:04,080
some eggs and some bacon. It's too expensive. It's too expensive. So those who are not getting

958
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:14,060
any help can't hardly make it now, which does affect our sales tax to the person. I can't

959
01:27:14,060 --> 01:27:19,900
get no whole cart and I get this time. So there's spending less. And those who have a little

960
01:27:19,900 --> 01:27:24,520
bit of money, they try to hold on to it because they don't know which way this economy is going

961
01:27:24,520 --> 01:27:33,740
go. So the affordability led by the Washington, trickle down to stake and then hit

962
01:27:33,740 --> 01:27:40,960
nuts at the county level. So we must, for me, I must put affordability

963
01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:49,360
top notch in front. It's not so much balancing just this binder. I got to make sure

964
01:27:49,360 --> 01:27:54,800
But in this binder, is this something a grandma will be able to balance so she can hold on

965
01:27:54,800 --> 01:27:57,660
until we hopefully get through these crazy times.

966
01:27:58,700 --> 01:28:03,520
It's got to be something in this binder, not just this binder, is it some foot of veteran

967
01:28:03,520 --> 01:28:09,640
that just came home or is home and trying to make it and serve our country and trying to hold

968
01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:11,020
on.

969
01:28:11,020 --> 01:28:20,960
This is not just a binder, a budget, or we balanced it, we structurally balanced, but that

970
01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:26,460
has been as unstructured we balance and can't send us keys to college, can't make it,

971
01:28:26,480 --> 01:28:32,300
don't know how you're going to pay the next mortgage, because if they're unsuccessful, then

972
01:28:32,300 --> 01:28:34,420
this binder is unsuccessful.

973
01:28:36,790 --> 01:28:43,970
So for me, that's where I'm when I come into the budget, yes I know numbers, I've been

974
01:28:43,970 --> 01:28:49,290
on the finance, the city, and the state, I know the numbers, but I'm trying to match it

975
01:28:49,290 --> 01:28:57,050
with the people, what are their needs, what are they saying, what can we do? And it requires

976
01:28:57,050 --> 01:29:07,430
us to go non-traditional. So what we've been doing for 200 years, 285 years, no good anymore.

977
01:29:08,410 --> 01:29:15,050
So we can say, oh, we do it this way all the time and it's over. It's time for new concepts, new

978
01:29:15,050 --> 01:29:23,490
ideas, very strong negotiations and leveraging every penny. That's all we'll, you know,

979
01:29:23,490 --> 01:29:28,430
missioners before did it so so what that's all we used to be all horses and

980
01:29:28,430 --> 01:29:32,270
buggies and we ain't on it no more so it's going to challenge us all

981
01:29:32,270 --> 01:29:38,570
departments and I said this in our meeting that we had over at the Memorial Hall we

982
01:29:38,570 --> 01:29:45,350
got to look at it from a different lens we got to be more nimble now we got to meet

983
01:29:45,350 --> 01:29:52,010
the knees and the challenges because that's what we're here to do so at least for

984
01:29:52,010 --> 01:29:57,570
So safety, affordability, and no new tax burden.

985
01:30:00,210 --> 01:30:26,650
Now I will say that I'm disappointed and I won't continue to say it. The new bingo deal counted out the taxpayers. They got less than they got another deal. The other deal was terrible, but at least you can try to get 30%. You could look at it each year. You could vote on it. This new deal could cut them out and say you ain't getting 30% ever.

986
01:30:28,230 --> 01:30:33,150
So you cut them out, the only way that would have cut them in is if we put it on the ballot

987
01:30:33,150 --> 01:30:34,810
because then you got to talk to them.

988
01:30:35,070 --> 01:30:38,530
You put them on the ballot, they won't be running down trying to meet with our officers.

989
01:30:38,890 --> 01:30:41,190
They'll be out in the community trying to meet with these homeowners.

990
01:30:41,470 --> 01:30:42,870
That's what happened the first time.

991
01:30:43,270 --> 01:30:47,190
They didn't go down the county commission office and come here and get two minutes.

992
01:30:47,510 --> 01:30:51,770
They had to go to these neighborhoods, they had to go to the bingles, had to get out of that

993
01:30:51,770 --> 01:30:56,350
stadium they was in and get out here and find some people and talk the grandma and talk

994
01:30:56,350 --> 01:31:03,190
some other people now. It ended up not being truthful, but they had to talk to them. This time

995
01:31:03,190 --> 01:31:07,610
they didn't have to talk to nobody in the neighborhood. They didn't have to lead that stadium.

996
01:31:08,430 --> 01:31:11,830
They didn't have to go into these communities. They had to go to the Anderson Township here with

997
01:31:11,830 --> 01:31:15,030
they had to say, they didn't have to go to the Co-Rain Township, see what they got to say.

998
01:31:15,250 --> 01:31:19,290
They didn't have to go into everything, see what they got to say. They just stayed in there

999
01:31:19,290 --> 01:31:24,510
offices that we paid for and all they did was have their lawyers and I lawyers and we was

1000
01:31:24,510 --> 01:31:31,490
have those doors. So that's why I'm disappointed that we're going from 30% to 4.5%

1001
01:31:32,150 --> 01:31:37,770
when the homeowners are the ones that's struggling right now. They lose their home,

1002
01:31:37,770 --> 01:31:42,830
they won't be able to pay it off and then the home goes into a land bank that pays zero dollars.

1003
01:31:44,590 --> 01:31:50,650
So that's why I was fighting for that because that's what I heard from them and some people

1004
01:31:50,650 --> 01:31:55,870
they built. I heard from them. It's not something you got to listen to me, y'all you

1005
01:31:55,870 --> 01:32:01,870
got to do is look at your bill. Your bill will tell you what it is. With that being said,

1006
01:32:03,450 --> 01:32:12,670
this budget, this portion of the budget, does fund our veterans, which is super important.

1007
01:32:14,200 --> 01:32:24,180
If funds safety, we increase our budget for the shares, we increase the budget that was proposed,

1008
01:32:24,460 --> 01:32:32,100
we increase that for the prosecutor's office, we increase the probate court, so we put

1009
01:32:32,100 --> 01:32:39,660
some increases around and, sincerely, around safety, so that's why I can support it.

1010
01:32:39,660 --> 01:32:47,260
The veterans are not counted out. They're counting it in fully funded. I can support it

1011
01:32:48,520 --> 01:32:52,460
The 513 relief bus mobile was more needed now than ever before

1012
01:32:53,080 --> 01:33:00,040
over 30,000 people and services is the county going all over this county. No matter where they go

1013
01:33:00,480 --> 01:33:02,080
There's a need

1014
01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:07,600
They go out to Harris and one time they water was getting ready to be turned up. There was a need

1015
01:33:07,600 --> 01:33:12,380
people going in there getting they're gonna need even more now because the

1016
01:33:12,380 --> 01:33:16,820
coat pays and when I go there at least get your blood pressure check to get your

1017
01:33:16,820 --> 01:33:22,540
diabetes check to those kind of things at no coat pay people now I look

1018
01:33:22,540 --> 01:33:26,880
for discounts when I was in programs and ladies looking this is all

1019
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:30,680
now that they don't say I'll put it down even though it was only two dollar

1020
01:33:30,680 --> 01:33:36,880
difference they got to look croaker card everybody put it on my car and when you

1021
01:33:36,880 --> 01:33:42,640
you're done. You got $3.50. You're going to give me my $3.00. People are looking for discounts.

1022
01:33:43,340 --> 01:33:49,020
So as a county, any discount we can pass on. And that's what the bus is trying to do.

1023
01:33:49,180 --> 01:33:56,980
To connect you to the services in the discounts. So I'm happy that the bus is in here mobile and

1024
01:33:56,980 --> 01:34:01,140
other counties are trying to follow us because they didn't have no bus. Now they're trying to get a bus.

1025
01:34:01,140 --> 01:34:08,100
And so I'm happy with the five one three relief buses in here, so I can support small businesses.

1026
01:34:09,140 --> 01:34:12,620
Now, we were there to help them in their toughest times.

1027
01:34:13,060 --> 01:34:20,700
But the times of steel talk, restaurants every day, been open 30 years, 25 years every day.

1028
01:34:20,780 --> 01:34:23,400
This one done went out of business after 25 years.

1029
01:34:23,740 --> 01:34:26,300
This one's going out of business out of 30 years.

1030
01:34:26,300 --> 01:34:33,860
Small businesses if if if they companies are laying off small businesses got new money

1031
01:34:35,740 --> 01:34:39,500
So I'm happy that in here we keep

1032
01:34:39,500 --> 01:34:45,520
So funding for the office and small business and try to help people some people will be forced to go in the small business

1033
01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:47,400
Is they got no job?

1034
01:34:47,400 --> 01:34:50,600
And they got to try to make some money. They got to become a entrepreneur

1035
01:34:50,600 --> 01:34:55,800
So I'm glad that we have that in the budget small business data help connect them

1036
01:34:55,800 --> 01:34:57,300
Uh, is in there.

1037
01:34:57,600 --> 01:35:02,820
On pitch tonight is not just a pitch, and I had said this, I want more money going to the actual entrepreneur.

1038
01:35:04,740 --> 01:35:05,900
That's what I want.

1039
01:35:06,220 --> 01:35:11,660
So they can try to help stay afloat and be able to continue.

1040
01:35:12,100 --> 01:35:15,960
I know we rolled the facade program, but it's very important with facade programs.

1041
01:35:16,180 --> 01:35:19,760
Most of my business don't have time to do the outside and all that.

1042
01:35:20,080 --> 01:35:24,160
And these business districts is very important for economic development.

1043
01:35:24,160 --> 01:35:32,400
Now, the community revitalization grants, I support that, because we've been doing nothing

1044
01:35:32,400 --> 01:35:36,900
with revitalizing our tomorrow look up, and believe me, I mean, I'm born and raised

1045
01:35:36,900 --> 01:35:40,220
this name, but it took my look up as the downtown major project.

1046
01:35:40,680 --> 01:35:46,540
So people in the other areas say, we can't have all our money going downtown, what about

1047
01:35:46,540 --> 01:35:51,380
our business districts, and mountain healthy, and local and other places?

1048
01:35:51,380 --> 01:35:59,340
they want something too. Springfield Township. So the community revitalization allows us

1049
01:35:59,340 --> 01:36:04,040
to get around and know that it's one Hamilton County, 49 minutes of

1050
01:36:04,040 --> 01:36:10,440
Palli so it can be strong and be able to collect taxes. If it's empty, then collect

1051
01:36:10,440 --> 01:36:15,860
enough. Then collect enough and buy enough and we're not getting enough. The other

1052
01:36:15,860 --> 01:36:20,340
thing that we make our money on, they say property taxes, they say sales tax, we make

1053
01:36:20,340 --> 01:36:27,100
money also on hotel motel tax. Now what we got to do is put given it away all over place

1054
01:36:27,100 --> 01:36:33,820
if it doesn't bring something back we got to get something to and so I do support the large

1055
01:36:33,820 --> 01:36:41,460
tourism grants. Now this is not this is for me it's not this one no COVID program. What this is is

1056
01:36:41,460 --> 01:36:48,220
if the people are bringing heads to the bayets because this competitive now you can go other places

1057
01:36:48,220 --> 01:36:56,120
you don't have to come here. If you put heads in these beds, we get paid. And I'm willing

1058
01:36:56,120 --> 01:37:02,800
to support those who have events. Why would I want to get rid of or let some other place

1059
01:37:02,800 --> 01:37:08,600
come in and cut them out and they not bring heads to the beds? Now, some things they bring

1060
01:37:08,600 --> 01:37:15,340
no heads to the beds. I ain't really too, you know, that's okay. But I look at for how many

1061
01:37:15,340 --> 01:37:22,340
The hands to the beds have we brought versus how much we don't put into this large, as

1062
01:37:22,340 --> 01:37:23,460
why I put the word tourism,

1063
01:37:25,800 --> 01:37:26,240
grants.

1064
01:37:27,220 --> 01:37:32,840
This is to get outside people who don't live here, bring the money, stand these hotels

1065
01:37:33,420 --> 01:37:39,480
so we can use the money to be able to reinvest in our county.

1066
01:37:40,020 --> 01:37:45,360
So that's why that's important because we can't keep cutting and we bring a net, we bring

1067
01:37:45,360 --> 01:37:47,760
and then forward to bring old money in.

1068
01:37:47,900 --> 01:37:51,140
Lord can we bring ideas and things forward

1069
01:37:51,140 --> 01:37:53,500
and then we cut taxes.

1070
01:37:54,000 --> 01:37:56,340
We bring development forward and they say,

1071
01:37:56,740 --> 01:37:57,420
no tax.

1072
01:37:58,420 --> 01:38:01,880
So it's also developer and tax free for five things years.

1073
01:38:02,060 --> 01:38:05,180
In reach on grandma grandpa, I've got to pay extra taxes.

1074
01:38:06,060 --> 01:38:08,320
So I'm not interested in bringing a lot of things in

1075
01:38:08,320 --> 01:38:10,080
as given no taxes.

1076
01:38:10,180 --> 01:38:12,960
We might have to put our foot down on some of that stuff.

1077
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:23,380
But this large event and the community revitalization, I think we could do a better job of looking at how much money did it bring in.

1078
01:38:23,720 --> 01:38:25,080
But it has to be here as in a band.

1079
01:38:25,200 --> 01:38:26,880
It's not just I got a great event.

1080
01:38:28,320 --> 01:38:29,940
So that's what I think is important.

1081
01:38:30,380 --> 01:38:31,460
Sports Commission.

1082
01:38:32,520 --> 01:38:33,240
I support it.

1083
01:38:33,340 --> 01:38:35,540
I want us amateur sports facility.

1084
01:38:36,060 --> 01:38:38,060
We're losing money every day.

1085
01:38:38,060 --> 01:38:40,600
and could nor the Kentucky, we hold nothing, and they say,

1086
01:38:40,780 --> 01:38:43,000
oh, nor the Kentucky is going to build one, and we get the grant.

1087
01:38:44,340 --> 01:38:47,580
We brought in a person that's aggressive, that's going to lead.

1088
01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:49,560
We revitalize this sports commission.

1089
01:38:51,140 --> 01:38:53,260
And the Convention Center can only do so many

1090
01:38:53,260 --> 01:38:57,480
because if you do a convention, you book three, four years out,

1091
01:38:57,780 --> 01:39:00,280
then you can't have the tournament all the time.

1092
01:39:01,160 --> 01:39:03,760
So, but I'm glad that they're doing some things.

1093
01:39:03,760 --> 01:39:07,460
This person has proven we gave them 150,000 last year

1094
01:39:07,460 --> 01:39:13,480
to market and bring in sporting events and they have brought in sporting events and we've

1095
01:39:13,480 --> 01:39:17,180
got, I want to do more, I want to be more aggressive and I want to bring more opportunities

1096
01:39:17,180 --> 01:39:19,420
to kids that live here.

1097
01:39:19,680 --> 01:39:24,520
If you bring these outsides sporting events you bring national coaches and we bring the national

1098
01:39:24,520 --> 01:39:29,200
coaches they get to see our kids and when they see our kids our kids get a chance to get

1099
01:39:29,200 --> 01:39:35,780
the scholarships and that's very important to me so I support this budget having the sports

1100
01:39:35,780 --> 01:39:42,300
commission because they also got what hands in the beets and when those hands get on those

1101
01:39:42,300 --> 01:39:50,880
beets we as a county get money. So I support that and I'm also happy since I'd like me to

1102
01:39:50,880 --> 01:39:56,360
talk things in here because it's funded through restricted funds. No general fund. So I'm happy

1103
01:39:56,360 --> 01:40:02,540
about that that is in here has 300,000 visitors that have come. We got to click it down there. I

1104
01:40:02,540 --> 01:40:05,640
I think it's more than 300,000, that was the October numbers.

1105
01:40:05,840 --> 01:40:08,380
I don't know what the other numbers are gonna be,

1106
01:40:08,540 --> 01:40:11,720
but it's 300,000 coming down there.

1107
01:40:12,500 --> 01:40:14,640
So there are certain things I think this budget

1108
01:40:14,640 --> 01:40:18,860
is diversified, economic development, safety,

1109
01:40:19,860 --> 01:40:24,780
small business, low new taxes on the real estate,

1110
01:40:25,180 --> 01:40:27,060
transfer fee is out of there.

1111
01:40:27,680 --> 01:40:31,380
And I agree that we've got to keep our eye on this

1112
01:40:31,380 --> 01:40:35,100
on a month or month because things are changing

1113
01:40:35,600 --> 01:40:37,500
to the children's services level.

1114
01:40:38,020 --> 01:40:42,700
I'll say this and wrap up to the home owner that's out there

1115
01:40:42,700 --> 01:40:47,880
or the citizen that's out there who they're the ones who pay for that.

1116
01:40:47,940 --> 01:40:52,920
The level is paid by home owners property taxes.

1117
01:40:53,960 --> 01:40:57,580
When they see a $100 million and then all of a sudden

1118
01:40:57,580 --> 01:41:02,760
now it's time for a new leddy and now we're talking about we broke. They're almost the

1119
01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:08,980
answers. And so we've had some preliminary things. But as we move forward, I want to make

1120
01:41:08,980 --> 01:41:12,080
sure we shouldn't be able to get from 100 million all the way down. And now we ain't got

1121
01:41:12,080 --> 01:41:16,680
no money. And now we ready to do something. I need to know if it's starting looking like

1122
01:41:16,680 --> 01:41:25,660
your count going down. We got to hold up time out. Let's have a real. I mean, just a

1123
01:41:25,660 --> 01:41:31,500
thing on this and so I know that the administrators said now we'll get I think every month will be

1124
01:41:31,500 --> 01:41:36,940
looking at our money and we'll be doing that but to the person on the outside this was I mean I

1125
01:41:36,940 --> 01:41:41,660
could I would think it too I wasn't sitting in here I'm still kind of thinking I don't know where we go

1126
01:41:41,660 --> 01:41:47,140
from a hundred million dollars a year ago an extra money and then you come back to your later

1127
01:41:47,140 --> 01:41:52,460
now you talk about you you don't ran out of money people get a little dicey with that and then they

1128
01:41:52,460 --> 01:41:57,080
looking at their own home, Bill, and they ain't getting no break in the property tax going

1129
01:41:57,080 --> 01:41:57,700
up.

1130
01:41:57,900 --> 01:42:03,460
And they get a love saying, so I'm looking forward to, again, doing it different.

1131
01:42:04,320 --> 01:42:07,220
You know, I want to look at this, I want to make need to look at it every week.

1132
01:42:07,480 --> 01:42:11,140
We know that these companies are doing some new things to us.

1133
01:42:11,300 --> 01:42:16,760
They need to be exposed, that they overcharge the county, that I'm for exposing these

1134
01:42:16,760 --> 01:42:17,080
companies.

1135
01:42:17,520 --> 01:42:21,360
That's overcharge in the county and trying to bankrupt the county.

1136
01:42:21,360 --> 01:42:26,920
who are these companies? So that's another thing. We're not voting on that today.

1137
01:42:28,100 --> 01:42:32,920
But, and I'm happy that we got a million dollars for affordable housing, but I'm

1138
01:42:32,920 --> 01:42:40,400
not forgiven it to a specific entity yet. Bring a project. What's the quickest we can

1139
01:42:40,400 --> 01:42:46,100
get some people in some housing? Is it vouchers? Is it building something new? Because

1140
01:42:46,100 --> 01:42:53,840
The goal is to get people this unhoused house, and so I'm happy that that is in the budget.

1141
01:42:54,440 --> 01:43:02,020
So with that, I will support this budget, again, I do want to thank the administration and

1142
01:43:02,020 --> 01:43:07,300
the budget of people that everybody that works on this, because I know you said, man,

1143
01:43:07,320 --> 01:43:12,540
it's a lot of questions, because when I walk out of here, there's a lot of questions

1144
01:43:12,540 --> 01:43:16,240
So I'm going to have to answer to the people that are out here struggling.

1145
01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:18,960
So thank you all for working on this.

1146
01:43:19,100 --> 01:43:20,160
Thanks to the cheese.

1147
01:43:20,300 --> 01:43:21,740
I know it's a lot of back and forth.

1148
01:43:22,340 --> 01:43:23,480
We've gotten there.

1149
01:43:23,740 --> 01:43:30,380
We've got this, you know, and what we do is celebrate each day and take it day by day.

1150
01:43:30,640 --> 01:43:35,100
So today is a good day, safety of affordability and no new taxes.

1151
01:43:35,720 --> 01:43:36,160
Oh, yes.

1152
01:43:36,500 --> 01:43:38,040
Thank you.

1153
01:43:38,100 --> 01:43:38,860
Thank you.

1154
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:43,080
I'm going to make a motion that we approve of item number one.

1155
01:43:43,220 --> 01:43:43,600
Second.

1156
01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:45,800
Commissure three house?

1157
01:43:45,940 --> 01:43:46,380
Yes.

1158
01:43:46,380 --> 01:43:47,180
Commissure some I do.

1159
01:43:48,220 --> 01:43:48,280
Commissioner.

1160
01:43:48,620 --> 01:43:48,920
Yes.

1161
01:43:49,320 --> 01:43:49,720
Thank you.

1162
01:43:49,880 --> 01:43:50,780
Thank you again, Jeff.

1163
01:43:51,460 --> 01:43:52,440
Oh, and I'll buy leave.

1164
01:43:52,640 --> 01:43:53,700
I leave number 11.

1165
01:43:53,700 --> 01:43:54,500
I'm going to make a motion.

1166
01:43:54,680 --> 01:43:55,840
We approve a buy leave number 11.

1167
01:43:56,060 --> 01:43:56,420
Second.

1168
01:43:57,160 --> 01:43:57,980
Commissure three house?

1169
01:43:57,980 --> 01:43:58,420
Yes.

1170
01:43:58,420 --> 01:43:58,960
Commissure some.

1171
01:43:59,280 --> 01:43:59,640
Yes.

1172
01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:02,240
Thank you.

1173
01:44:02,440 --> 01:44:03,940
I don't number 11.

1174
01:44:03,980 --> 01:44:04,700
That was at $30.

1175
01:44:06,220 --> 01:44:07,160
Which one is that?

1176
01:44:07,160 --> 01:44:07,800
it was the,

1177
01:44:12,140 --> 01:44:17,020
okay, great, I just want to make sure, okay, thank you, all right, we're going to move on.

1178
01:44:17,560 --> 01:44:20,100
Let's go to the engineers, items, items two and three.

1179
01:44:22,570 --> 01:44:25,630
Thank you, commissioners, Todd Long, Chief Deputy in here.

1180
01:44:26,790 --> 01:44:30,670
Item number two refers to some progress in snow and ice removal.

1181
01:44:30,890 --> 01:44:37,530
So I just before I get to item I'd like to thank our hardworking men and women who have been working diligently through our snow and ice season,

1182
01:44:37,790 --> 01:44:41,650
although it's just begun, we know we have worked to prepare to continue to clean the road.

1183
01:44:41,650 --> 01:44:45,670
So I just want to thank them for all their work being away from their family, their hours they have to work.

1184
01:44:45,830 --> 01:44:47,150
So I appreciate that.

1185
01:44:47,530 --> 01:44:52,450
But with no further ado, my item number two is a resolution for an intergovernment agreement with Miami Township,

1186
01:44:52,730 --> 01:44:56,970
with a rental of a rubber tire loader for the 2025-26 snow season.

1187
01:44:57,690 --> 01:44:58,710
The agreement is...

1188
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:12,040
For $2,000, the Reptile Relator portion, with a 25% app on the engineer's costs, out of road and bridge funds, up to $10,000 for any loader repair.

1189
01:45:13,980 --> 01:45:23,820
Item number three is a resolution to allow the 2026 resurfacing program project 502602 to put it to put out the bid.

1190
01:45:23,820 --> 01:45:28,900
This is located in an Anderson, Coloring, Harrison, Sikomora, and Sims Townships.

1191
01:45:29,860 --> 01:45:32,420
The bid opening date would be January 15, 2026.

1192
01:45:33,300 --> 01:45:36,060
The engineer's estimate is $5 million, $60,000,

1193
01:45:37,600 --> 01:45:40,700
of which two million will be coming from the Road and Bridge Fund,

1194
01:45:41,060 --> 01:45:44,380
and $3 million, $60,000 will be coming from the Road and Bridge Fund.

1195
01:45:45,900 --> 01:45:49,220
The Road list, I'd like to just read that briefly for everyone.

1196
01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:52,340
We've got Campbell Road from the city of Harrison Corp.

1197
01:45:52,340 --> 01:46:00,120
to an address of 10444. We've got an entirety of Dell view road from Shea to Springdale Road on

1198
01:46:00,120 --> 01:46:07,440
list. We've got Dry Ridge Road from 6404 to the Dead End, which is the vast majority of Dry Ridge Road.

1199
01:46:07,840 --> 01:46:13,260
Edgewood Road from Lee's Creek to about 500 feet north of Trailhead place. That's a northern section

1200
01:46:13,260 --> 01:46:18,500
of Edwood, Edgewood rather. Newtown Road from Bartle's Road to Ragland, which is approximately

1201
01:46:18,500 --> 01:46:24,860
two-thirds of the roadway from Newtown, Pottenger Road, Stout Road, between the Struble Road

1202
01:46:24,860 --> 01:46:29,900
and Pippin Road, and then Snider Road in both North and South sections, the North section being

1203
01:46:29,900 --> 01:46:35,820
from Bridalmager Lane to approximately 100 feet south of Pine Cove Court, and then from Cornell Road

1204
01:46:35,820 --> 01:46:41,420
to East Cover Road. If you're keeping track, I didn't list the mileage, but the total is about

1205
01:46:41,420 --> 01:46:47,580
10.5 total miles for that particular cost to be happy to answer any questions. Thank you.

1206
01:46:47,580 --> 01:46:51,960
And thank you for recognizing the employees that were out there in the scene, the cold.

1207
01:46:52,060 --> 01:46:54,860
It was so cold and it was really challenging to clear the roads.

1208
01:46:54,940 --> 01:46:58,400
I didn't get any complaints after the bad weather.

1209
01:46:59,320 --> 01:47:03,120
I personally couldn't get up a hill in my neighborhood, but it's in the city.

1210
01:47:03,700 --> 01:47:05,360
So, and I did not complain.

1211
01:47:05,420 --> 01:47:06,660
I just waited for it to melt.

1212
01:47:07,240 --> 01:47:10,400
But anyway, thank you for recognizing we too want to recognize that hardware.

1213
01:47:11,020 --> 01:47:15,460
Commissioner Summer, do you want to say thank you all for bringing that up and I was going to ask

1214
01:47:15,460 --> 01:47:18,100
with the manager was and you are already told it was 10 to five.

1215
01:47:18,680 --> 01:47:19,700
So thank you so much.

1216
01:47:19,880 --> 01:47:20,520
That's all I have.

1217
01:47:20,600 --> 01:47:21,240
Commissioner Reese?

1218
01:47:21,460 --> 01:47:25,440
Yeah, I just want to join and thanking the staff,

1219
01:47:25,620 --> 01:47:28,440
that's out there, it's like you said, really cold.

1220
01:47:29,080 --> 01:47:32,020
Last, now we're going to have some more cold coming up.

1221
01:47:32,120 --> 01:47:34,080
We're just getting into the stick of it.

1222
01:47:34,260 --> 01:47:36,160
We'll be, you know, this is our last meeting,

1223
01:47:36,380 --> 01:47:38,140
but we'll be hit January, February.

1224
01:47:38,780 --> 01:47:42,880
And last time after the salt, I don't know,

1225
01:47:43,000 --> 01:47:44,860
they said we had some different kind of salt coming in

1226
01:47:44,860 --> 01:47:47,520
because we were at a salt, now I'm not an expert

1227
01:47:48,060 --> 01:47:50,340
on solid except seasoning for my food,

1228
01:47:51,520 --> 01:47:54,540
but can you, it created these,

1229
01:47:54,540 --> 01:47:56,940
not just little pot holes on me, these things were.

1230
01:47:57,240 --> 01:48:00,560
And then we created more of them,

1231
01:48:00,560 --> 01:48:02,500
and we had to get more people kind of out there,

1232
01:48:02,740 --> 01:48:04,320
do you, is there something different

1233
01:48:04,320 --> 01:48:06,560
that we're gonna be able to do this time or?

1234
01:48:08,380 --> 01:48:10,140
Well, there's a number of different types

1235
01:48:10,140 --> 01:48:11,660
of salt products that are put out in the room.

1236
01:48:11,760 --> 01:48:13,320
It's a vast majority of the attitudes

1237
01:48:13,320 --> 01:48:18,380
For that, or a colorant, and that's what we talked about, and last season we were looking at that.

1238
01:48:18,600 --> 01:48:25,500
I believe the company that we have already did from is not using that blue colorant as more of a straight non-color assault additive.

1239
01:48:26,640 --> 01:48:31,020
County engineers office typically utilizes straight road salt.

1240
01:48:31,820 --> 01:48:40,580
We have some limited pre-treatment that we do, but because of the roadway systems that we have in place, we have the ability to do more with the plow.

1241
01:48:40,580 --> 01:48:45,480
So pushing the off of the road is the first line of defense.

1242
01:48:46,160 --> 01:48:54,360
Salt is then going to clear that with a little bit of temperature and with a little bit of water actually bring it to a solution that it can actually start to begin to doing so that melting work.

1243
01:48:54,580 --> 01:48:57,720
The potholes themselves are actually created from the freeze-thaw cycle.

1244
01:48:58,380 --> 01:49:03,500
So when water infiltrates into a crack or something that's in the pavement, that's actually where we get the freeze-thaw.

1245
01:49:03,640 --> 01:49:08,420
So when we go from these really, really frigid times to these much more warmer times, that's when the damage starts to occur.

1246
01:49:08,420 --> 01:49:13,060
And that's the, so the salt won't be a preventative for that particular function.

1247
01:49:13,260 --> 01:49:17,360
That's something that we have to continue to put cold patch asphalt in place while the

1248
01:49:17,360 --> 01:49:22,160
cold season is out and then wait to come out of the thaw until we can put down a more

1249
01:49:22,160 --> 01:49:28,040
formalized hard surface with, you know, a hot substance asphalt that makes sense.

1250
01:49:28,660 --> 01:49:33,100
Well, thank you for the explanation. I just, my biggest thing was we had bigger

1251
01:49:33,620 --> 01:49:39,720
pod holes and we ever had seen before and I mean these things I was like you

1252
01:49:39,720 --> 01:49:43,880
going all the way down so I didn't I know they had mentioned something was out

1253
01:49:43,880 --> 01:49:50,060
of stock or whatever I don't know whatever we can do to prevent that or

1254
01:49:50,060 --> 01:49:54,560
or in front of it I know we can't predict everything but try to be in front of it

1255
01:49:54,560 --> 01:50:00,100
because we've been doing it for years it's just last year was crazy and

1256
01:50:00,100 --> 01:50:08,040
Student temperatures. Yeah, so anyway, just wanted to highlight that. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to move that we approve of items two and three.

1257
01:50:08,700 --> 01:50:13,760
Commissioner Drey House. Yes, I'm sure some are doing this. Yes, Mr. Reese. Yes. Thank you. Thank you.

1258
01:50:13,900 --> 01:50:29,140
Thank you. All right. We're on to MSD. I'm going to ask that we move it with your difference commissioners the budgets because we've got some folks from the public that are still here waiting for this item. So these are items number 10 11 and 12.

1259
01:50:30,120 --> 01:50:35,240
so I'll learn with us. Diane is not here today but Lawrence here. Thank you for being here.

1260
01:50:35,300 --> 01:50:40,060
Please walk us through these. We've had quite a bit of conversation about the budgets and we've

1261
01:50:40,060 --> 01:50:46,480
had some public hearings. So thank you for being here. Please give us the highlights of these items.

1262
01:50:47,540 --> 01:50:50,880
Good morning, commissioners. Director Christie had a family matter this morning.

1263
01:50:50,980 --> 01:50:56,880
Couldn't be here but I'm here as well as several others from MSD to support. As you said,

1264
01:50:56,880 --> 01:51:03,620
our last three items on your general, I'm sorry, yes, regular agenda, our annual budgets and

1265
01:51:03,620 --> 01:51:09,760
rate adjustment for 2020-6, Director Christie previously presented on these and two public

1266
01:51:09,760 --> 01:51:15,640
hearings have been held, so I'll just briefly summarize. For our 2020-6 operating budget

1267
01:51:15,640 --> 01:51:24,780
item 10, we're seeking an appropriation of 255,069,450 dollars. We've worked with the administration

1268
01:51:24,780 --> 01:51:36,020
to reduce this by approximately $7 million from our initial request, but are still confident that this request is sufficient to fund our daily operations in 2026.

1269
01:51:37,080 --> 01:51:43,640
Item 11 is our revised sewer rate schedule to be effective as of January 1 of 2026.

1270
01:51:44,820 --> 01:51:52,200
As we've discussed, it's meant to term in that we need a 4.5 increase in revenue to fund the district to accomplish this.

1271
01:51:52,200 --> 01:51:55,960
We're proposing to keep all the minimum base charges flat,

1272
01:51:56,600 --> 01:51:58,600
surcharge, and industrial pretreatment charges.

1273
01:51:58,920 --> 01:52:00,120
We'll also not increase.

1274
01:52:00,700 --> 01:52:03,000
The only change is to our commodity charge,

1275
01:52:03,040 --> 01:52:06,120
which is the charge for water usage over 3CCF.

1276
01:52:06,300 --> 01:52:09,280
That is moving from the current two-tier declining rate

1277
01:52:09,280 --> 01:52:11,580
structure, where you get a cheaper rate,

1278
01:52:11,820 --> 01:52:13,100
if you use more water essentially.

1279
01:52:14,480 --> 01:52:17,200
We'll move to a single rate for all water usage

1280
01:52:17,200 --> 01:52:20,660
over 3CCF, that is our minimum allowance.

1281
01:52:20,660 --> 01:52:27,320
and that is anticipated to generate enough revenue that is determined to be needed to fund

1282
01:52:27,320 --> 01:52:35,140
the district's activities. Moving on to the last item item 12. This is our 2026-2030 capital

1283
01:52:35,140 --> 01:52:43,580
improvement program and 2026 capital budget. The proposed capital budget for 2026 is 153

1284
01:52:43,580 --> 01:52:49,540
1,600, 4,637 dollars of that amount.

1285
01:52:50,040 --> 01:52:57,740
We are requesting a appropriation today of 84 million, 418,116 dollars.

1286
01:52:58,360 --> 01:53:02,200
We will come back as we always do throughout the year for the remainder of that budget as

1287
01:53:02,200 --> 01:53:04,320
these projects are ready to proceed to construction.

1288
01:53:05,140 --> 01:53:06,320
So, with that, we recommend approval.

1289
01:53:07,020 --> 01:53:09,940
Okay, thank you very much to those who are items 10, 11, and 12.

1290
01:53:09,940 --> 01:53:17,280
I just have a few comments, particularly related to the operating budget and some of the folks

1291
01:53:19,020 --> 01:53:23,440
that are the coming and testified the public hearings we heard from some of them today.

1292
01:53:24,140 --> 01:53:29,220
I just do want to note that we heard some of these concerns in our responding here in this

1293
01:53:29,220 --> 01:53:29,620
budget.

1294
01:53:30,040 --> 01:53:37,400
Primary of them all is that we are keeping rates flat for residential property owners in the coming

1295
01:53:37,400 --> 01:53:45,100
year, there is a shift in how we charge individuals and corporations for the sewer system.

1296
01:53:45,900 --> 01:53:52,580
We have, when I say we, I mean MSD and us, have made an attempt here to right size that

1297
01:53:52,580 --> 01:53:58,160
so that the residential property owners are not bearing the brunt of that, but rather those

1298
01:53:58,160 --> 01:53:59,400
that use more paying more.

1299
01:53:59,760 --> 01:54:04,320
And so I am grateful for that shift, I think that's been a long time coming, I know there's

1300
01:54:04,320 --> 01:54:09,960
more to do, but I think it's good news that the rates will not increase for residents in

1301
01:54:09,960 --> 01:54:10,540
this community.

1302
01:54:11,800 --> 01:54:17,060
The other one is the impervious surface we just passed a resolution about this to make sure that

1303
01:54:17,740 --> 01:54:22,660
we hold ourselves accountable to some of the recommendations that came out of the affordability

1304
01:54:22,660 --> 01:54:23,540
task force.

1305
01:54:23,760 --> 01:54:27,720
I know there was in consensus, but there was interest about impervious surface and thinking

1306
01:54:27,720 --> 01:54:33,720
through how we can do better there to not only capture some of the stormwater that's running

1307
01:54:33,720 --> 01:54:38,820
off into the system, but also make sure that those that are responsible for that run off

1308
01:54:38,820 --> 01:54:43,780
are paying either their fair share or doing something to ameliorate, which would be better.

1309
01:54:44,040 --> 01:54:48,700
I keep that water out of the system to begin with, so I'm glad that we are moving forward on that.

1310
01:54:48,980 --> 01:54:52,940
And then the SPU program we always talk about this, but there is plenty of money in the sewer

1311
01:54:52,940 --> 01:54:58,040
backup program for relief for citizens that continue to struggle with sewer backups. We've done

1312
01:54:58,040 --> 01:55:03,140
quite a bit of prevention work. And again, I want to shout out MSD for this. It's an approach

1313
01:55:03,140 --> 01:55:09,800
that keeps sewers from backing up to begin with so that we put quite a bit of money in there from the SPU program

1314
01:55:09,800 --> 01:55:20,420
So I'm glad that that is it's a more forward-thinking kind of approach and so I'm really grateful that MSD has recommended that to us and we have approved of those shifts

1315
01:55:21,480 --> 01:55:28,500
So not much else to say about the operating budget one question about the capital budget. So we heard a

1316
01:55:28,500 --> 01:55:35,180
months ago, about an example, a thing was a treatment facility that had gone up dramatically

1317
01:55:35,180 --> 01:55:38,880
in price due to economic uncertainties and tariffs.

1318
01:55:39,820 --> 01:55:46,240
What is your forecast moving into the next year related to what is slated here for the

1319
01:55:46,240 --> 01:55:52,860
capital budget and how what's happening at the national level might negatively impact the numbers

1320
01:55:52,860 --> 01:55:54,040
that we're looking at today?

1321
01:55:54,500 --> 01:55:54,640
Sure.

1322
01:55:54,760 --> 01:55:55,660
Thank you for that question.

1323
01:55:55,660 --> 01:55:59,620
and Deputy Director of Restronson is here this morning.

1324
01:56:00,280 --> 01:56:04,560
Ultimately, involved in the development and overseeing the implementation of our CIPs.

1325
01:56:04,580 --> 01:56:06,280
I'm going to ask him to come up and respond.

1326
01:56:07,000 --> 01:56:07,740
Thank you.

1327
01:56:09,920 --> 01:56:10,400
Thank you, Lauren.

1328
01:56:11,400 --> 01:56:11,960
Commissioners.

1329
01:56:12,300 --> 01:56:19,500
So if I heard a question correctly, what would be the impact of potential tariffs on the ACIP in the coming year?

1330
01:56:19,860 --> 01:56:24,300
So we've seen that impact already in projects that we've approved of.

1331
01:56:24,300 --> 01:56:28,400
What I'm wondering is, what is your forecast for that moving into next year?

1332
01:56:28,780 --> 01:56:34,400
We're saying closely aligned with our contractors and our consultants to understand where

1333
01:56:34,400 --> 01:56:37,520
their cost estimates are coming for and reviewing those very closely.

1334
01:56:38,420 --> 01:56:43,180
We don't have a better crystal ball than anybody else does about those.

1335
01:56:44,060 --> 01:56:49,200
So we're keeping a very close eye on that and continuing to watch our costs and our cost estimates.

1336
01:56:49,200 --> 01:56:54,300
We don't have a workcast one way or the other besides the cost estimates that we have today.

1337
01:56:54,940 --> 01:57:02,940
We're expecting to continue to work through the uncertain times as the commissioners have mentioned that we're in those very uncertain times.

1338
01:57:03,340 --> 01:57:04,320
Okay, thank you very much.

1339
01:57:04,520 --> 01:57:18,720
And just to remind or to anybody that might be viewing this meeting, the operating budget is for the consent decree, which is an unfunded mandate from the federal government.

1340
01:57:19,220 --> 01:57:24,520
and for asset management, so making sure the system, which is over a hundred years in some

1341
01:57:24,520 --> 01:57:32,040
areas, is functioning properly and provides the utility to every single resident and every single

1342
01:57:32,040 --> 01:57:36,320
business owner in this community. So I just, just as a broad reminder of what we're doing here

1343
01:57:36,320 --> 01:57:40,920
today, this is an annual budget, we approve it every year and so that's what we're looking at.

1344
01:57:41,000 --> 01:57:44,780
So thank you for your response. I, I too am concerned about what's happening at the federal level,

1345
01:57:45,200 --> 01:57:49,080
but I'm glad you're all keeping an eye on it. And if you could provide us as you come in,

1346
01:57:49,200 --> 01:57:53,800
for these projects. I mean, if you're always coming in, as we need to allocate additional

1347
01:57:53,800 --> 01:57:58,520
dollars that have been budgeted but need to be allocated, I would appreciate that kind of

1348
01:57:58,520 --> 01:58:05,200
analysis as to how we're doing and if the budgets have gone up and what are the things contributing

1349
01:58:05,200 --> 01:58:08,960
to that because I think it's really important for us to understand. So we've been working very closely

1350
01:58:08,960 --> 01:58:14,360
with the county administration on the procedures by which we would bring those forward and highlighting

1351
01:58:14,360 --> 01:58:19,760
And the reasons for this cost increases so that we would understand, oh, that was just because

1352
01:58:19,760 --> 01:58:25,400
cost of this materials went up or because there's a particular tariff on that type of

1353
01:58:25,400 --> 01:58:27,120
tarry labor or stuff.

1354
01:58:27,360 --> 01:58:30,860
So we've been working closely with them that I identify and how to bring that forward as

1355
01:58:30,860 --> 01:58:31,220
those companies.

1356
01:58:31,380 --> 01:58:31,400
Yeah.

1357
01:58:31,480 --> 01:58:32,040
Okay, great.

1358
01:58:32,140 --> 01:58:33,060
Thank you very much.

1359
01:58:33,200 --> 01:58:34,440
Mr. Summer doing this.

1360
01:58:34,900 --> 01:58:36,100
Thank you.

1361
01:58:36,520 --> 01:58:37,740
I asked you a question there.

1362
01:58:37,740 --> 01:58:46,600
item 10 was good to hear about reducing the amount 7 million. And so I appreciate you working with stay

1363
01:58:46,600 --> 01:58:52,760
AF and everyone working to try to reduce. I know we'll probably see you again if you need more.

1364
01:58:52,980 --> 01:59:02,180
We oftentimes do. And then as a relates to item 12, the 84 million. I guess I'll be, and I know I will

1365
01:59:02,180 --> 01:59:10,660
for now and 26 and on, be repetitive as it relates to telling people that are listening,

1366
01:59:10,980 --> 01:59:17,480
that I'll say the life person where this money is coming from, like the 84 million, where

1367
01:59:17,480 --> 01:59:18,680
does that come from?

1368
01:59:19,740 --> 01:59:20,380
So, you understand what I'm saying?

1369
01:59:20,380 --> 01:59:21,360
Sure, it's just a joke.

1370
01:59:21,580 --> 01:59:27,360
I mean, as a, I'm thinking, you couldn't give me 100,000 for this, but it's 84 million

1371
01:59:27,360 --> 01:59:27,860
for that.

1372
01:59:27,860 --> 01:59:32,720
So, just in general, I'm going to be asking you and anybody else that comes up, where

1373
01:59:32,720 --> 01:59:33,800
that money comes from.

1374
01:59:34,020 --> 01:59:35,060
So, if you could just say.

1375
01:59:35,060 --> 01:59:39,120
Yes, generally, I mean, it varies by expense, but generally, we're funding things with

1376
01:59:39,120 --> 01:59:39,520
cash.

1377
01:59:39,820 --> 01:59:43,600
We are a rate payer funded organization, restricted fund.

1378
01:59:43,960 --> 01:59:50,000
We use bond financing, we receive a lot of financial support from our state revolving loan

1379
01:59:50,000 --> 01:59:54,920
fund, WPCLF, so those are the three primary sources.

1380
01:59:56,020 --> 01:59:56,520
Okay.

1381
01:59:56,520 --> 01:59:58,500
reason to let people know it's not.

1382
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:10,260
I mean, out of our general budget, we couldn't do it before anyway, but just to let people know, this is not the money that we use to take care of your basic needs.

1383
02:00:10,520 --> 02:00:12,460
So, thank you, I appreciate it. That's all I have.

1384
02:00:12,660 --> 02:00:13,380
Thank you, commissioner.

1385
02:00:15,740 --> 02:00:17,280
Thank you.

1386
02:00:18,360 --> 02:00:25,240
Item number 10 and 11 and 12, they all kind of go together.

1387
02:00:25,240 --> 02:00:32,180
Yes, and what I'm concerned is I don't necessarily want to be on the record for any type of

1388
02:00:33,580 --> 02:00:39,580
I don't mind looking at the increase on a year by your bases, but if I go into this 2026-2030 plan

1389
02:00:39,580 --> 02:00:44,640
it does have some step-bladders in terms of the plan.

1390
02:00:46,760 --> 02:00:53,740
So that is correct. It's a five-year planning period, but we have always brought back rates every single year to look at

1391
02:00:53,740 --> 02:00:57,380
what's going on and what is needed for the district but you're right. We are looking

1392
02:00:57,380 --> 02:01:01,480
five years out in terms of our little projects and what we foresee doing and what spending

1393
02:01:01,480 --> 02:01:09,980
is associated with that. Yeah, and I'm sure saying yes to it. The other thing is I kind of want to

1394
02:01:09,980 --> 02:01:16,140
see how this plays out because we're doing a shifting this year and when you hear commercial you think

1395
02:01:17,100 --> 02:01:23,720
of it was a testimony earlier, you're thinking of the big company. But what startled me

1396
02:01:23,720 --> 02:01:26,900
when they said some restaurants could be affected.

1397
02:01:27,380 --> 02:01:29,780
So I kind of want to see how that's going to play out,

1398
02:01:29,940 --> 02:01:31,780
because I know it's up to 15%.

1399
02:01:31,780 --> 02:01:35,660
We kind of don't know yet when I was hearing.

1400
02:01:36,560 --> 02:01:40,520
Right, it very much depends on what those individual organizations,

1401
02:01:40,720 --> 02:01:43,400
businesses, and their water usage is,

1402
02:01:43,660 --> 02:01:45,800
and what they're paying surcharge.

1403
02:01:45,800 --> 02:01:48,420
If they haven't deduct to meter, and maybe they're using more water,

1404
02:01:48,480 --> 02:01:49,620
but they're putting it into a product.

1405
02:01:50,060 --> 02:01:51,100
So they're really charged for that.

1406
02:01:51,100 --> 02:01:53,540
It really does vary whereas with residential properties,

1407
02:01:53,540 --> 02:01:57,760
they tend to be pretty similar. And we can determine what the impact is going to be.

1408
02:01:58,040 --> 02:02:02,080
Those commercial and industrial. I mean, we can say those who are using over approximately

1409
02:02:02,080 --> 02:02:09,940
58 CCF per month are going to see an increase, but giving you a general impact or average,

1410
02:02:10,560 --> 02:02:14,660
as we're just not able to do that, or it wouldn't be meaningful at least.

1411
02:02:14,680 --> 02:02:23,520
Yeah, no, I got you. And I know they would, we have more time. They would probably be able to

1412
02:02:23,520 --> 02:02:29,360
the roses calling me saying they went out and the pizza went up and all that so let

1413
02:02:29,360 --> 02:02:34,120
um those are just kind of my concerns but I do appreciate a creativity we do have something

1414
02:02:34,120 --> 02:02:40,980
that we're going to be looking at um yeah we just passed and kind of see how that plays out

1415
02:02:40,980 --> 02:02:46,420
um but when we play these scenarios out because what we're doing is kind of a shifting I just

1416
02:02:46,420 --> 02:02:52,760
like to have all the people that not just one group that'll be affected I want to know so

1417
02:02:52,760 --> 02:02:55,380
I don't inadvertently end up hurting

1418
02:02:55,380 --> 02:02:58,400
because a lot of times this is the little guy,

1419
02:02:58,560 --> 02:02:59,080
the little guy, the little guy,

1420
02:02:59,080 --> 02:03:00,940
all day the ones that get hit,

1421
02:03:00,960 --> 02:03:03,700
the big companies, they have lawyers,

1422
02:03:04,200 --> 02:03:08,100
and they have more staff to kind of navigate it,

1423
02:03:08,180 --> 02:03:11,040
versus some of the smaller folks.

1424
02:03:11,680 --> 02:03:13,220
Okay, those are the questions I had.

1425
02:03:13,300 --> 02:03:14,040
Thank you.

1426
02:03:14,320 --> 02:03:15,220
Thank you.

1427
02:03:15,380 --> 02:03:17,340
All right, let's go ahead and take these items

1428
02:03:17,340 --> 02:03:20,580
that I'm gonna move that we approve of items 10, 11 and 12.

1429
02:03:21,220 --> 02:03:25,400
Commissioner Dree House? Yes. Commissioner Samarjumis. Commissioner Rees.

1430
02:03:25,440 --> 02:03:26,020
That's thing.

1431
02:03:28,980 --> 02:03:31,840
Okay. Let's go back to item number four.

1432
02:03:33,280 --> 02:03:38,980
Item four five and six are similar. So I'll summarize those together. They are all legislation

1433
02:03:38,980 --> 02:03:44,760
off-rise design of three sewer assessment projects. Two sewer lateral projects located at

1434
02:03:44,760 --> 02:03:52,800
five six five seven and five six two one work road and a local sewer to serve two properties on

1435
02:03:52,800 --> 02:03:57,500
facilitate the elimination of the household storage treatment systems that currently serve these properties

1436
02:03:57,500 --> 02:04:04,420
and all projects have a hundred percent support of the property owners. These are all zero-dollar requests.

1437
02:04:04,720 --> 02:04:12,660
The funding necessary will be moved from the 2020-5HSTS elimination allowance. Moving on to item seven,

1438
02:04:13,020 --> 02:04:17,560
this is a resolution to cancel the Coldstream Drive and Asbury Road Local Super Project.

1439
02:04:17,560 --> 02:04:23,660
This project was initiated in 2011 by petition with 54% supports, just barely a majority.

1440
02:04:24,680 --> 02:04:28,480
We're recommending canceling the project at this point primarily due to its cost.

1441
02:04:29,060 --> 02:04:35,800
We discovered various challenges through the design phase that will result in a significant increase in construction costs,

1442
02:04:36,160 --> 02:04:42,720
including utility conflicts, necessary rock excavation, coordination with ODOT and easement appropriations.

1443
02:04:42,720 --> 02:04:53,380
We're also recommending canceling this project due to the low level of homeowner support as I said 54% at the beginning and just 51% based on a reporting performed in 2021.

1444
02:04:54,420 --> 02:05:05,500
Per Hamilton County Public Health, all of the HSTS systems are operable, except for three, those owners will need to pursue repair or replacement of their systems.

1445
02:05:05,500 --> 02:05:11,600
Item 8 is legislation to approve an intergovernmental agreement with Green Township for the

1446
02:05:11,600 --> 02:05:17,500
Wesselman Trailside sewer extension project, which is intended to expand sewer service and

1447
02:05:17,500 --> 02:05:23,600
development capacity in Green Township. Under the proposed agreement, Green Township will be funding the

1448
02:05:23,600 --> 02:05:29,570
design and construction of the project and will transfer ownership of the newly constructed sewer to the

1449
02:05:29,570 --> 02:05:31,970
be operated and maintained by MSD in the future.

1450
02:05:33,090 --> 02:05:39,470
Item 9 is to authorize an agreement with UDF, under which UDF will perform work requested by

1451
02:05:39,470 --> 02:05:45,230
MSD as part of their expansion of their operations on bridge town road in Miami Township.

1452
02:05:45,230 --> 02:05:52,130
We're requesting a appropriation of $225,000 for MSD to reimburse UDF for the actual cost

1453
02:05:52,130 --> 02:05:57,550
to relocate an existing MSD sewer to a better location for purposes of ongoing operation,

1454
02:05:57,550 --> 02:06:01,710
maintenance as well as potential expansion in the future.

1455
02:06:02,370 --> 02:06:03,730
And that is all I have.

1456
02:06:03,970 --> 02:06:04,870
Could you take any questions?

1457
02:06:06,510 --> 02:06:07,630
Thank you.

1458
02:06:08,370 --> 02:06:12,630
I would like to ask a question about item number nine.

1459
02:06:12,830 --> 02:06:15,230
Could you say I missed that one.

1460
02:06:16,390 --> 02:06:20,310
And so the cost to the utility is the 225.

1461
02:06:20,510 --> 02:06:22,310
Up to 225.

1462
02:06:22,370 --> 02:06:25,270
It will be for their actual costs of relocating that sewer,

1463
02:06:25,270 --> 02:06:27,330
which they'll submit to us.

1464
02:06:29,990 --> 02:06:30,650
Okay, all right.

1465
02:06:30,990 --> 02:06:33,470
They're asking us to move the sewer.

1466
02:06:34,810 --> 02:06:41,350
So they came to us for permits associated with their expansion of their operations at their current location on bridge town road.

1467
02:06:41,790 --> 02:06:48,350
We took a look at it and noticed that our sewer that is in that location is really not in a desirable location.

1468
02:06:48,610 --> 02:06:50,710
It's very difficult to reach and maintain.

1469
02:06:51,670 --> 02:06:57,390
So we're always looking for opportunities to collaborate and take advantage of them doing the work.

1470
02:06:57,390 --> 02:07:03,010
any way, causes less disruptions, more cost-efficient. So this will move it to a location. It's easier

1471
02:07:03,010 --> 02:07:08,550
for us to maintain. It's also much easier for us to extend in the future if there is desire to expand

1472
02:07:08,550 --> 02:07:15,290
sewer service in that area. So to be clear, it's to the benefit of MSD. Yes, to do this. I know Jim

1473
02:07:15,290 --> 02:07:19,050
Brett is here. Also from Miami Township, do you have any comment to this one?

1474
02:07:24,310 --> 02:07:25,510
Thank you. First,

1475
02:07:26,650 --> 02:07:32,750
UDF and represented as an permemesty of kept the township involved and everything.

1476
02:07:34,010 --> 02:07:44,990
We see this as a big plus or MSD for maintenance and we also see some opportunity to get some expansion in the area.

1477
02:07:45,470 --> 02:07:48,950
So, eliminate some failing on the sewage treatment system.

1478
02:07:50,030 --> 02:07:54,350
So, township is a very impovery this and just to give you any questions.

1479
02:07:54,350 --> 02:08:00,530
Okay, great. Thank you very much. Thanks for coming in. All right, commissioners any other questions.

1480
02:08:00,790 --> 02:08:01,450
No questions.

1481
02:08:03,130 --> 02:08:09,330
Okay. All right. I'm going to make a motion to approve of items four through nine.

1482
02:08:09,650 --> 02:08:09,850
Second.

1483
02:08:10,310 --> 02:08:11,230
Commissioner 3 House.

1484
02:08:11,250 --> 02:08:11,730
Yes.

1485
02:08:11,730 --> 02:08:12,730
Commissioner 3 House.

1486
02:08:12,730 --> 02:08:12,850
Yes.

1487
02:08:13,390 --> 02:08:19,210
Thank you. Thanks to the MSD team for being here. Appreciate it. Happy holidays to you all.

1488
02:08:19,210 --> 02:08:27,010
Commissioner just said the risk of blabbering things just a bit just on that 514 project. I just wanted to say just at a very high level

1489
02:08:27,010 --> 02:08:34,090
Board hasn't seen a lot of these recently, but it seems like when they come they do come in and and bunches sometimes

1490
02:08:34,090 --> 02:08:37,090
And this is as a policy has put in place years ago

1491
02:08:37,090 --> 02:08:38,850
There was a really

1492
02:08:39,910 --> 02:08:49,190
Innovative way of trying to ensure that when a private developer needs to do something that involves sewer infrastructure that this the utility was not

1493
02:08:49,210 --> 02:08:54,910
otherwise planning to do anything for. But it does serve to the benefit of the utility that

1494
02:08:54,910 --> 02:08:59,970
it allows that development to move forward and MST then reimburses the cost of it. So it was

1495
02:08:59,970 --> 02:09:04,890
something that we were needing to do anyway just wasn't on the plans. And it helps that private

1496
02:09:04,890 --> 02:09:09,150
development also helps the utility. So you could be seeing more of these. I just wanted to

1497
02:09:09,830 --> 02:09:14,650
put it out there when they do come forward. We typically call them a 514 project. So just for a future

1498
02:09:14,650 --> 02:09:19,990
I just want to make sure that the public benefit was there for that project to be part of it.

1499
02:09:20,090 --> 02:09:23,080
We are in the community and we hear from MSD. So thank you very much.

1500
02:09:23,930 --> 02:09:26,550
All right, Jeff, we're back to you with item number 13.

1501
02:09:27,090 --> 02:09:29,690
All right. I don't this is your consent agenda commissioners.

1502
02:09:30,850 --> 02:09:36,630
Item number 13 is approving the use of credit cards in the office of addiction response for

1503
02:09:36,630 --> 02:09:43,890
$20, $26, $90,000. Item number 14 is the auditor statement of financial transactions for

1504
02:09:43,890 --> 02:09:52,390
November of 2025. Item 15 is authorizing credit card use in the auditor's office for $60,000.

1505
02:09:53,390 --> 02:10:01,650
Item number 16 is the action of the administration for November of 2025. Item number 17 is a

1506
02:10:01,650 --> 02:10:10,450
resolution authorizing agreement with Tribium Interactive for $210,232. Item number 18 is authorizing

1507
02:10:10,450 --> 02:10:13,150
the administration to finalize an agreement with Mr.

1508
02:10:13,250 --> 02:10:15,070
for construction management services

1509
02:10:15,070 --> 02:10:18,710
to complete the club VT vertical transportation projects

1510
02:10:18,710 --> 02:10:20,730
down at Pekor Stadium.

1511
02:10:21,710 --> 02:10:24,930
Item 19 is authorizing the use of credit cards

1512
02:10:24,930 --> 02:10:26,850
under the Board of County Commissioners

1513
02:10:26,850 --> 02:10:28,470
for $180,000.

1514
02:10:29,510 --> 02:10:33,110
Item number 20 is authorizing the use of credit cards

1515
02:10:33,110 --> 02:10:34,890
in the Office of Media and Engagement

1516
02:10:35,600 --> 02:10:38,470
for $240,000 in 2026.

1517
02:10:38,470 --> 02:10:52,470
Item number 21 is approving the for the record the bid awards and contracts executed by the purchasing department in November of 2025 for 4.6 million dollars.

1518
02:10:52,470 --> 02:10:58,590
item 22 is a resolution establishing parking rate changes for

1519
02:10:58,590 --> 02:11:05,610
finley market garage for 2026. These are actually slight reductions in the 24-7 and

1520
02:11:05,610 --> 02:11:15,710
monthly charges at that garage. Item 23 is a resolution authorizing, I'm sorry this is the

1521
02:11:16,370 --> 02:11:21,590
authorizing the county auditor to process approved payments on behalf of the Board of County

1522
02:11:21,590 --> 02:11:31,390
commissioners. For 2026, item number 24 is an agreement with for with company. This is

1523
02:11:31,390 --> 02:11:36,870
for move services associated with the central campus project at $391,000.

1524
02:11:37,630 --> 02:11:47,130
Item 25 is then and now between the county and carousel of technology for 31,958 dollars.

1525
02:11:47,130 --> 02:11:57,830
Item 26 is an agreement with Mayor Electric for a fire alarm replacement project at great American ballpark $1.28 million.

1526
02:11:58,530 --> 02:12:05,450
Item 27 is the use of credit cards by the coroner's office in 2026 at $12,000.

1527
02:12:06,170 --> 02:12:12,330
There's also item number 28 which is also credit cards in the coroner's office for $24,000.

1528
02:12:12,330 --> 02:12:15,270
The first of those relates to fuel purchases.

1529
02:12:15,270 --> 02:12:22,950
items 29, 30, and 31 are all facade projects occurring in Springfield Township,

1530
02:12:23,110 --> 02:12:24,210
Chiviot and Wyoming.

1531
02:12:25,570 --> 02:12:29,550
Item 29 is Springfield Township for $51,000.

1532
02:12:29,550 --> 02:12:33,590
I do want to acknowledge Kathleen Kennedy being here from Springfield Township.

1533
02:12:33,650 --> 02:12:40,270
If there's any questions that the Board has, item 30 is with the City of Chiviot.

1534
02:12:40,270 --> 02:12:49,490
at 65,000 item 31 is Wyoming for 52,000 item 32 is an agreement with the Port Authority

1535
02:12:50,910 --> 02:12:57,070
for renovation and revitalization of the former Perry and Derek facility in Norwood.

1536
02:12:57,090 --> 02:13:03,710
This is for asbestos abatement and very structural upgrades to that former paint facility.

1537
02:13:03,710 --> 02:13:08,110
I believe Melissa Johnson is here, although she is over on the other side of the room.

1538
02:13:08,110 --> 02:13:12,190
If there's any questions, commissioners, that's at $755,000.

1539
02:13:13,470 --> 02:13:19,370
Item 33, commissioners is the agreement with the Hamilton County General Health District for

1540
02:13:19,370 --> 02:13:25,290
facility inspection services on behalf of the Solid Ways Management District, $339,000.

1541
02:13:26,390 --> 02:13:33,030
Item 34 is a tentative collected bargaining agreement with AFSME Field Operations in planning and development.

1542
02:13:33,030 --> 02:13:39,450
Item 35 is a resolution declaring December 26th a paid holiday of the county.

1543
02:13:40,910 --> 02:13:49,410
That's the day right after Christmas obviously, but falls on a Friday, so that would make it a seamless weekend for employees.

1544
02:13:50,370 --> 02:13:58,110
Item 36 is a resolution off these are all JFS items, authorizing an amendment to an agreement

1545
02:13:58,110 --> 02:14:04,350
with the, between the Ohio Region Workforce Investment Board in Princeton City School District

1546
02:14:04,350 --> 02:14:06,430
for Career Navigation Services.

1547
02:14:06,870 --> 02:14:09,990
I believe that's just an extension of time associated with that agreement.

1548
02:14:10,890 --> 02:14:16,610
Item 37 is an amendment for an agreement with Prestige Travel, for travel arrangement

1549
02:14:16,610 --> 02:14:18,950
and related services, $14,000.

1550
02:14:19,690 --> 02:14:25,330
Item 38 is an amendment to an agreement with Legacy Residential Home for Group Home Services

1551
02:14:25,330 --> 02:14:35,570
at $240,900 at $39 is a resolution authorizing credit cards in the Law Library for $1,700.

1552
02:14:36,710 --> 02:14:42,090
Item 40 is authorizing credit card usage in the Prosecutor's Office at $6,000.

1553
02:14:42,590 --> 02:14:48,950
Item 41 is a report on the use of detack funds in the Prosecutor's Office for 2025.

1554
02:14:50,050 --> 02:14:57,870
item 42 is a resolution authorizing the use of credit cards in the public defender's office for $85,000.

1555
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:09,120
And item 43 is the monthly investment report for the Treasurer, for the month of November 2025. I believe that is the consent agenda commission.

1556
02:15:09,360 --> 02:15:13,160
I don't want to miss anything. I believe it is, too. So let's just go with that.

1557
02:15:14,240 --> 02:15:28,800
So I just a couple of things. Item 22, which is the Finley Market Garage, you know, when we built this garage, it was in response to a need by FC Cincinnati, but most primarily a need from the community.

1558
02:15:28,800 --> 02:15:35,620
both for the finley market operations and the employees that work there in the vendors and the customers,

1559
02:15:36,020 --> 02:15:39,940
but also the residents that live in that area and their plenty of them and more to come.

1560
02:15:40,240 --> 02:15:42,260
And so I am glad that we are doing this.

1561
02:15:42,640 --> 02:15:45,200
I personally always felt that the rates were a little too high,

1562
02:15:46,020 --> 02:15:50,740
not by way of the transient population but rather the residents and the business owners.

1563
02:15:51,140 --> 02:15:57,120
And so I am glad we're making this adjustment to make this more accessible community asset

1564
02:15:57,120 --> 02:15:59,340
to those that live and work in that area.

1565
02:15:59,700 --> 02:16:01,980
So I appreciate the adjustment there.

1566
02:16:02,000 --> 02:16:03,820
I know it's not always easy to do that work,

1567
02:16:03,960 --> 02:16:06,260
but I think that's right, the right thing to do.

1568
02:16:07,060 --> 02:16:08,060
Under economic development,

1569
02:16:08,060 --> 02:16:10,720
29, 30, and 31, we just talked about the importance

1570
02:16:10,720 --> 02:16:14,520
of economic development and revitalization in neighborhoods.

1571
02:16:14,700 --> 02:16:16,800
And these are three pretty good examples of that

1572
02:16:16,800 --> 02:16:18,720
in Springfield, Chiviet and Wyoming,

1573
02:16:18,780 --> 02:16:20,760
so I did want to shout those out.

1574
02:16:21,620 --> 02:16:23,940
The item 32 is the Perian Derrick

1575
02:16:23,940 --> 02:16:26,660
and Norwood, Melissa Johnson is here.

1576
02:16:26,660 --> 02:16:33,020
Would you just come forward and could you just briefly describe this investment, because we talk

1577
02:16:33,020 --> 02:16:39,640
quite a bit about site readiness and getting sites available for businesses in our community

1578
02:16:39,640 --> 02:16:45,520
and government doing the work of the cleanup so that a private developer will go in and invest

1579
02:16:45,520 --> 02:16:50,900
and create jobs on these locations. So we've talked about this in terms of the budget a little bit,

1580
02:16:51,320 --> 02:16:54,280
but help us better understand the importance of this one.

1581
02:16:54,280 --> 02:16:59,280
I'm happy to, afternoon, Melissa Johnson, with the Cincinnati Port Authority, I want to start

1582
02:16:59,280 --> 02:17:02,620
up by saying that we do appreciate your acknowledgement of the priority of economic development.

1583
02:17:02,700 --> 02:17:06,980
You've continued to invest in writing the spree years. It takes time to pay dividends,

1584
02:17:07,120 --> 02:17:12,420
but it is a patient game, and we appreciate your patience in that game, but we value even

1585
02:17:12,420 --> 02:17:17,780
inside of this difficult budget that you continue to prioritize that and invest in this initiative.

1586
02:17:17,780 --> 02:17:23,040
But Perry and Derek has been a problematic property for the city of Norwood for some time.

1587
02:17:23,300 --> 02:17:29,040
Over, as they passed 12 or 15 years, it had unstable and inconsistent ownership, which resulted

1588
02:17:29,040 --> 02:17:34,520
in a need in a partnership between the port and the city of Norwood where they asked us to step in

1589
02:17:34,520 --> 02:17:35,560
and pursue ownership.

1590
02:17:36,240 --> 02:17:42,180
That ultimately was funded via a subrecipient grant from what I understand from the city of Norwood.

1591
02:17:42,180 --> 02:17:45,080
I think that we've purchased it for about 178,000.

1592
02:17:45,080 --> 02:17:50,640
I think both parties kind of recognize the importance of public ownership to reach a point

1593
02:17:50,640 --> 02:17:51,200
of stabilization.

1594
02:17:51,540 --> 02:17:53,900
So this has been a rather chronic piece of real estate.

1595
02:17:54,760 --> 02:18:00,480
Since the ports ownership, we've invested about $260,000 by demolishing three pretty unstable

1596
02:18:00,480 --> 02:18:04,660
structures on the property, which totals about just under four acres.

1597
02:18:05,420 --> 02:18:09,500
We've also tried to be creative and leverage other resources around the project, asking

1598
02:18:09,500 --> 02:18:16,000
for some technical brown field assistance from the Ohio EPA, which has funded kind of subsidized

1599
02:18:16,000 --> 02:18:19,660
if you will, directly to an environmental consultant, their work for Phase I and Phase II

1600
02:18:19,660 --> 02:18:20,340
site assessments.

1601
02:18:21,460 --> 02:18:25,600
We also had prior to the Ports ownership, the U.S. EPA invested about a million dollars

1602
02:18:25,600 --> 02:18:29,140
to remove pretty chronic hazard assistance that was throughout the property.

1603
02:18:30,140 --> 02:18:34,620
So, your funds today is truly gap funding, some of the traditional avenues that we would

1604
02:18:34,620 --> 02:18:41,180
in the Ohio Department of Development or other U.S. or Ohio EPA funds aren't directly available

1605
02:18:41,180 --> 02:18:47,280
given the timing of some of the site assessment work that was done, so your 750,000 will

1606
02:18:47,280 --> 02:18:52,240
provide a structural assessment stabilization. The removal of a specialist which will be critical

1607
02:18:52,240 --> 02:18:57,620
to moving the project forward in any railway and making development possible. From what I understand

1608
02:18:57,620 --> 02:19:03,420
the U.S. EPA did also do a conceptual plan in partnership with support and I believe the city of

1609
02:19:03,420 --> 02:19:08,480
would with a part of that process, which kind of started the conversation around like, of

1610
02:19:08,480 --> 02:19:13,080
ideas and what could this property be moving forward? So, to be transparent with you,

1611
02:19:13,140 --> 02:19:18,140
it still has a long way to go after this, but this will be, you know, I think one of the

1612
02:19:18,140 --> 02:19:22,140
the times where we do see a true need for some gap funding to kind of move it forward,

1613
02:19:22,280 --> 02:19:26,100
get over a couple of hurdles and be able to hope to find other free development funds and

1614
02:19:26,100 --> 02:19:31,280
development funds moving forward. We do have support letters from the City of Norwood and Alloy,

1615
02:19:31,280 --> 02:19:39,980
which I think maybe we're provided to you but it's I think then a long standing issue for the city of Norwood and so we're happy to be partnered with them.

1616
02:19:40,480 --> 02:19:44,960
Thank you so much for the explanation really appreciate it. Thank you. Commissioner Samarodimus.

1617
02:19:46,220 --> 02:19:50,160
I have no questions for Melissa. Or I'm finished with all of my questions.

1618
02:19:50,900 --> 02:19:53,600
Well I'm sorry. Well so far so good, right?

1619
02:19:53,860 --> 02:20:00,360
Okay. Yeah that's right. That's right. Leave the podium. Leave the podium. I have no further questions.

1620
02:20:00,360 --> 02:20:20,600
I just wanted to bring up item 26 as we look at the farm system replaced and it's just, I think, reminiscent of our commitment to follow through on upgrading facilities, not only pay core, but the very American ballfarks, so we need to do that and we're doing it.

1621
02:20:21,020 --> 02:20:31,100
Thank you, commissioners. Yes, items 29 to 31. Yeah, if you said someone who he was here from Sprinkles to

1622
02:20:33,740 --> 02:20:39,720
She come up and tell us about the facade. Oh, there she is. I'm sorry. We have this poll. So we're like is it this way?

1623
02:20:40,020 --> 02:20:43,020
Yeah, I can't talk around them. Yeah, hi there.

1624
02:20:43,020 --> 02:20:44,640
Was there a question?

1625
02:20:44,780 --> 02:20:46,660
I'm just telling us about the Fusat.

1626
02:20:46,980 --> 02:20:49,100
Will that be in Springfield Shore?

1627
02:20:50,380 --> 02:20:51,940
So Springfield Township, so I'm Kathleen Kennedy

1628
02:20:51,940 --> 02:20:53,020
and the Assistant Administrator

1629
02:20:53,020 --> 02:20:53,880
was Springfield Township.

1630
02:20:53,980 --> 02:20:56,100
Thank you, Simon, for having us.

1631
02:20:56,260 --> 02:20:58,900
And for your continued commitment to economic development

1632
02:20:58,900 --> 02:21:01,240
in the campus here in Hamilton County.

1633
02:21:02,000 --> 02:21:05,560
The $51,000 that is being recommended for award

1634
02:21:05,560 --> 02:21:07,780
to the Township would be to reinvest

1635
02:21:07,780 --> 02:21:10,500
in the facade of many of our local businesses

1636
02:21:10,500 --> 02:21:16,100
in our main business corner for in sprinkle township. So along Whitton Road, but we also have businesses

1637
02:21:16,100 --> 02:21:23,460
on Galberth Road and Daily Road and Hamilton Avenue, we're quite spread out just to continue to

1638
02:21:23,460 --> 02:21:28,820
invest in the appearance of those businesses. Great, that's what I was wondering because I was like,

1639
02:21:29,080 --> 02:21:33,780
it's spread out was not one business district, so it could be able to help multiple. So sprinkle

1640
02:21:33,780 --> 02:21:38,840
township actually already currently has something similar, so this is going to be able to

1641
02:21:38,840 --> 02:21:41,420
stretch that funding with the township even further.

1642
02:21:42,200 --> 02:21:46,480
As you can imagine, the solid improvements have become very expensive, especially if you're

1643
02:21:46,480 --> 02:21:48,840
a small business or a local business owner.

1644
02:21:49,620 --> 02:21:53,820
And so to be able to increase the funding that we have for that program and the township,

1645
02:21:53,940 --> 02:21:56,740
I'm excited to take that even further than we have in the past.

1646
02:21:57,360 --> 02:21:58,260
Thank you.

1647
02:21:58,260 --> 02:21:58,980
Thank you very much.

1648
02:22:00,160 --> 02:22:01,960
No, that's all I had.

1649
02:22:02,500 --> 02:22:04,780
Just wanted to acknowledge that again.

1650
02:22:04,780 --> 02:22:09,880
This does help like she said small businesses. They don't have the money to the outside

1651
02:22:09,880 --> 02:22:13,660
This is great and it's good to know it will be able to stretch

1652
02:22:14,360 --> 02:22:15,600
Multiple here. So

1653
02:22:16,340 --> 02:22:21,000
Happy to support them. I think this is a very good program. So

1654
02:22:24,080 --> 02:22:25,700
Okay, all right

1655
02:22:26,380 --> 02:22:34,100
I am going to make a motion that we approve of consent agenda items 13 through 43 second commissioner three

1656
02:22:34,100 --> 02:23:04,080
Yes. Yes. Mr. Samaradhuma. Yes. Commissioner Reese. Yes. Thank you. This is the last meeting of the year for us. And because of that, it is my last meeting as President. And so I just wanted to thank everyone for all the hard work over the last year. We'll be passing the gavel. If all goes as planned to commissioner Samaradhuma's in the upcoming year. So just wanted to say it's been a pleasure to serve as President. Thank you for all the work. And.

1657
02:23:04,840 --> 02:23:10,100
forward to moving into the next year. With that commissioner, I'm going to make a motion that we adjourn.

1658
02:23:11,480 --> 02:23:12,460
Be safe, second.

1659
02:23:13,760 --> 02:23:14,560
Commissioner Dree House.

1660
02:23:15,040 --> 02:23:16,160
Commissioner Dree House.

1661
02:23:16,220 --> 02:23:16,360
Yes.

1662
02:23:16,760 --> 02:23:17,400
Thank you.