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Mhm.

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» Mhm.

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» Mhm.

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» Mhm.

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» I think we're set up here.
All right, it's uh 2:00 so we'll call

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this administrative meeting. I want to
welcome everybody for being here today.

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Thankful for the rain even though the
weather's not the most beautiful

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uh today. I do want to before we get
started, I do want to acknowledge um

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Mayor Saliba
and Kimberly Trotter and Commissioner

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Ivey that showed up yesterday as well as
a few other folks in the Liberty Tree

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planting.
Um just had a small very very small

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simple ceremony to commemorate the
Liberty Tree planting in Houston County.

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Every county, my understanding is every
county in America gets one of those.

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And the original Liberty Tree was uh the
tree that the Sons of Liberty would

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gather under on the Boston, I believe
the Boston Common uh back before the

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Revolutionary War, the British uh used
that elm tree for firewood

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during the siege of Boston.
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and uh
a descendant of that of that of that

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original Liberty Tree uh still exists in
Southern Gardens scenes road seedlings.

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And so, uh the elm tree that we have now
at Farm Center is a descendant of the

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original Liberty Tree. I thought that
was pretty pretty neat. So,

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anyway, thanks everybody shout out for
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» Um Chairman, also with yes. Um thanks to
our maintenance crew that went and

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picked it up and also helped with
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making sure it got back safely. That's
right. They did the real work. Yeah. We

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just we just post post,
you know, you you you'll know how that

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works.
Yeah, thank you, Tommy.

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You and your team as well.
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» All right, any other comments before we
get started?

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Okay.
All right,

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uh I don't we have three items under
awards and presentations. Item number

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one is uh National Police Week via
proclamation.

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Any objections placing that item on the
agenda? No objection.

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Item number two is a proclamation for
National Salvation Army Week uh Major

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Olivia Payton,
core officer from the Salvation Army.

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She will be here. This will be the last
time that she is with us with this. She

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is retiring at She's having a
retirement luncheon I want to say next

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week. Thursday. Actually, yeah.
Thursday. Next Thursday. Any objections

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placing this item on the agenda? No
objection.

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Item number three, Mr. Charles McKinley
reached out to me. He is putting on a

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event called Freedom Ignited. He wants
to be here to describe that event and

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invite the commission uh to that event
as well.

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Uh any objection to placing that item on
the agenda?

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» No objection.
All right, moving on to the proposed

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regular agenda. We have six proposed
items. Uh item number one is a request

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to adopt resolution for municipal water
pollution prevention program.

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This is something that we do
every year.

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» Yeah.
And feel free to ask all the questions

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you want to, but I will not be able to
answer any of them.

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Any questions or discussion on this
item? Any disclosure? Any objection to

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placing this item on the agenda?

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Hearing no objections, I will place that
item on the agenda.

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Uh item number two is a request for a
020 retail

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Excuse me, a request for a 020
restaurant retail liquor license at

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Gabbay Azul located at 14750 West US
Highway 84 Suite A, Newton Alabama

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36352. It's actually in Wicksburg. Mhm.
Uh old Hardee's restaurant location. Any

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questions, comments
on this item? Any discussion, any

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objection to placing this item on the
agenda? No objection.

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Item number three
is a request to approve contract for

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architectural services for concession
stand project Cottonwood

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sports complex. Um

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Let's see the letter in the packet. We
have uh

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there's a resolution. We we met
extensively about this item on Monday.

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Um this Cottonwood sports complex
project has not gone I think as smooth

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or as quickly as anybody would have
wanted. It's just a lot of people

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complexities
uh have gotten in the way, but but uh we

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own this property now. It's in our name.
The school board, if you remember, at

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the meeting or a couple meetings ago
donated this property to the uh to the

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county. So, we own the property. Um so,
we have to approve everything.

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Everything has to be bid out according
to the public works law.

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Uh but we are
uh because this is a project for

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Cottonwood, uh you know, we're not
getting into choosing vendors

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necessarily or
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I think it would be the correct position
that for us to not have any opinion

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about what gets built. This is the
dealing with a lodging tax funds

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that we are really spending on on their
behalf. The way this project has kind of

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worked out. So,
Cottonwood has submitted a request of us

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for us to engage the architect Billy
Snell to do the design work for this for

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this project. After that is done, we
will have to bid that project out. So,

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that'll be an item we'll have to vote in
the future to to approve that bid that

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comes in our budget.
But, that's what this is.

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That's it. The town wants to use that
suit that the parent organization wants

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to use. So, it'd be my recommendation
that we approve this as requested by the

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town of Cotton.
I'll entertain any questions on this

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item.
Mr. Adams, do you have any comments on

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this? No, but but
like that it's been a process and this

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is just the next step to get everything
done. Yeah.

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I appreciate everybody's
patience. This has been trying at times.

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So,
any objection to placing this item on

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the agenda? No objection, gentlemen.
Item number [clears throat] four is a

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request to approve budget amendment in
the amount of $75,000 for Gordon boat

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landing road
repair. So,

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this is
this is money being received. So, we

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worked out a deal where um
the Port Authority is going to reimburse

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us partially for some of the work that
we did not on the boat landing project,

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but on the boat landing road repair. Um
so, you know, when you

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a lot of times when you're hauling dirt,
rocks, you just tear up the road. So, we

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got to go back and fix the road and
they wanted to help us out, help fund

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some of that some of that work. So, this
is $75,000 that we are receiving from

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Houston County Port Authority
for work that really has already been

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done. So,
any questions on this item? No sure.

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Any objection placing this item on the
agenda? No objection. Okay.

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Um item
number five is request sell 16 dump

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trucks and purchase 16 new dump trucks
with no additional money requested as a

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current fiscal year fund was and
approved accompanying budget amendment.

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So, Barkley called me um
uh last week and he is not here today.

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They're up at um at the uh
Cox and Perdido

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along with um chief administrative
officer. But, he called me last week and

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we have an opportunity. You know, we not
bought we didn't buy dump trucks didn't

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didn't have that in the budget
uh this year. That market had changed.

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You know, for a little while we were
selling dump trucks for more money than

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it cost to buy new dump trucks. Um
the market is is not quite as strong as

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it used to be, but we did get contacted
from the firm uh requesting to buy our

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dump trucks. There is a guarantee the
price that we have to to to uh acquire

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the new the new dump trucks.
The difference between the price we

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could sell it and the price that we
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I want to say about $90,000.
Um yes. I think it's about $90,000.

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Um
but they're not asking for any

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additional funds from the general fund.
They're going to utilize some unused

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funds for that. But, if we can get rid
of you know, just call it 16 year and a

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half almost two year old dump trucks
and get 16 brand new dump trucks

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for less than $100,000, I think we need
to take that deal every day of the week.

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So, Absolutely. Anyway, any questions on
this item? No sure. Any objection

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placing this item on the agenda?
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Um
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» Item number six is request sell 32
chemical totes on GovDeals. I have no

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idea what a chemical tote is, but y'all
have questions I'm sure y'all can ask

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Barkley on Monday 1999.
Okay, there we go. Plastic container.

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Any any
questions or objections to place this

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item on the agenda? Next week. Do you
have an alibi? Sure.

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If we'll get that far.
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the all right.
So, any uh

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uh items to be considered adding to
Monday's agenda?

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Excuse me. Okay. You had one. I just
want to make sure we made it May Fair in

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Ashland on uh Saturday.
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going to be a pretty big event they got
set up and looking for a great

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attendance and more can come. Okay,
Saturday.

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This Saturday? Right.
In Ashland. Right. Hopefully the weather

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is going to uh Yeah, that's for me.
Yeah.

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Okay. Okay.
Any other comments? No, sir.

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All right. It's time to entertain a
motion to adjourn. I signed up to speak

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with George Proctor and I never spoke on
that.

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Record