At this time I'd like to call the meeting to order, if we'd all stand please, and the Reverend
Melvin Simpson from the First Church of God and Christ and Coffinville lead us in the morning
invocation.
First kind of graces, Father God, we thank you, God, for all your many blessings.
God, we thank you, God, for all to see this day that we had never seen before.
God, we ask your blessings to the keepers, God, that send our will, bless our homes
our schools, bless our towns, our counties, bless each and every one of us, Lord.
And God, we do thank you, God, for all your many blessings. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which
it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Commissioners, if you had a chance to look over the agenda for the July meeting and voices.
I move we accept the consent agenda.
Second.
Got a motion and a second call for the vote.
Yes.
On today's agenda, commissioners, on data concerns, we have Kiana Kroger, old business,
we have Corey White, county administration regarding the janitorial services, new business
can affect with director on juvenile services, or JCAB board appointment, and
then after today's meeting we'll go immediately into a budget work session.
Mr. Is there anything else you'd like to add to the agenda or any questions?
Motion to accept.
Motion in a second. Call for the vote.
Is Diane Grozier here by chance?
She was on the agenda here, so we'll start her off.
Corey.
Good morning.
Last Monday at our regular meeting, I was asked to bring forward some quotes for outsourcing
janitorial and we went over those quotes and it was just a discussion to
review them and on Thursday I was asked to bring some more information regarding
if this would be a potential savings and what it would look like and in
between Monday and Thursday I met with department heads and elected officials
officials. And I also met with the facilities maintenance staff. And as I said, on Thursday,
the elected officials and department heads really very much value having our in-house
janitorial services. They not only provide janitorial services, but they also do a
lot of maintenance as well. And after talking to them, I presented the pros and cons
of outsourcing and as you can see in the packet there are more pros to keeping
janitorial in-house and there's also more savings as our current director of
facilities will be retiring and the assistant is moving up so that is the
savings. So the total savings to keep janitorial services in house from this
year of 2026 going into 2027 would be 114,000 which is more savings than
outsourcing.
So I'm basically just asking would you guys prefer to keep
our janitorial staff in-house or proceed with getting informal bids that
would be posted as a publication? I think in my opinion it I think it's better to
have it in-house keeping our personnel on and I know the janitorial crew help
other departments when they need to move or when they need something they call
them and and they they do that you get a contractor in here they're not
going to be here they're not going to you know be willing to do that kind of
thing. I feel like it's better to keep it in house. Okay. Yeah I'm in complete
agreement too we need just keep it in house with the complexity of the
different services I think it gives us a little more diversity to have them
there to pick up daily. And I understand you guys are looking at ways
to save money which is what we're supposed to do but I also would agree
that we want to keep staff well as much as we can understand that right in
house was going to be how much savings 114,000 and Corey I just want to say
we're looking at all avenues to save money yes you are that's that's the
reason we looked at this it was not a done deal we were just looking at it
that's right that okay anything else on that so noted action take them we'll
Like we're going. Yep. Okay. Thank you.
Okay.
Good
morning. I'm here for JCAP appointment because as, as you may know, Chris Williams is my chairperson of the JCAP board and he is retiring on September 30th.
And so I have a recently opened J.C.A.B. general position and Chris is wanting to stay on the board.
And so I'm asking that you appoint him to that position because right now he represents the sheriff's office,
which Ron has been made aware of that we would need a replacement.
He has time because our next meeting is not until January.
But I'm asking that you appoint Chris to the open, recently opened general position so he can run on board and remain my chairperson on my board.
That's your recommendation.
Yes, sir.
With that, I'll make a motion to accept that recommendation.
Second.
Motion in second.
Call for the move.
Thank you.
Yes.
How long is that term for? What do they say? This term will be for three years.
Yes, sir.
Anything else? That's all I've got.
Oh.
All right. Thank you.
I do have chats in the audience. Chad, can you come forward? I do have question. I've been contacted
and by a few of the citizens wanting to know how
on this planning and zoning,
if there's gonna be like a board or a steering committee
or what we're kind of headed towards.
I know we do have a plan.
For the zoning planning that's coming up,
starting in January.
Whether there's already a planning and zoning board,
which by the way,
we need an appointment from Coffeeville.
I've got a name for you. That's why I was calling you yep all the other positions are filled that there's one vacancy in your district
Which I was going to talk to you about as soon as I got a chance
Tomorrow there's a meeting of Cory and I and and the company that's been hired
So we can start getting a plan as you know, I'm really new into this. Yeah, so I don't know a lot about it
So I'm hoping to learn a lot more tomorrow
But I know we did state that we will have some public
Comment times that meetings to where they can come up and in the evenings and visit on that
But I've had a couple of them that were showing interest on sitting on the
Steering committee or board if we did have anything of that nature there there is a meeting coming up
I can't remember the date for our cell phone towel. Do you remember the date?
Second, August 20th.
27th.
Look at my calendar.
It's Thursday.
And it is for the August...
Yeah, 27th is a Thursday.
I believe that's the right day.
Yeah, 27th.
It's been the paper of record twice.
It's been...
I think we're going to put it out on social media.
This is for request zoning in a three mile zone for a cell phone tower on 4,000
just east of 3,900 and that meeting will be here in the basement at 7 p.m. on the
27th but it has been published or actually it will be published tomorrow in
the reporter and then again the following week actually I think it was
last weekend in this tomorrow.
Are we getting a lot of petitions on cell phone or cell towers?
This is the only one that I'm aware of.
Here in the lab?
And this one I inherited, they actually had a zoning meeting for it in May.
That's what I was going to say.
And they didn't have enough board members for a quorum, so they had to cancel the
meeting.
So we're trying it again.
Yes, I'm Mr. Beaver.
I noticed Kenneth walked in the meeting you're having tomorrow.
Hopefully, of course, Kenneth is on your board with that.
Does he have him involved tomorrow, if all possible?
Who's that?
Kenneth.
Okay.
And that was one of the conversations we had about a month ago,
Jonathan, I did with Kenneth, not being informed on some of what's
happening and the changes and that type of thing.
So he needs to be 100% involved.
involved. Glad you made it, Kenneth. And maybe visit with him afterwards. Maybe you
guys already have, I don't know. I know you're hitting this thing running. So,
Kenneth, if we would wrap you in chat and have conversation today sometime or
something, if you would, go ahead. That's all I got. I appreciate it. I don't know
the process. I think that you just nominate someone and then you guys
vote on, yeah, or maybe just to point them, I'm not sure how that works.
You'll bring someone to us that you recommend and then we'll approve them or just approve them.
Okay.
And you just have the one position.
One position in my district.
And we have that filled.
Yes, sir.
We can do it.
Yeah, thanks, Chad.
Okay, commissioners, any other questions before we start
the budget work session?
No.
motion. Okay. With that, we need a motion to close the regular meeting. Second.
Motion