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[7:39] At this time I'd like to call the meeting to order, if we'd all stand please, and the Reverend
[7:47] Melvin Simpson from the First Church of God and Christ and Coffinville lead us in the morning
[7:51] invocation.
[7:53] First kind of graces, Father God, we thank you, God, for all your many blessings.
[7:58] God, we thank you, God, for all to see this day that we had never seen before.
[8:02] God, we ask your blessings to the keepers, God, that send our will, bless our homes
[8:06] our schools, bless our towns, our counties, bless each and every one of us, Lord.
[8:11] And God, we do thank you, God, for all your many blessings. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
[8:18] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which
[8:24] it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
[8:36] Commissioners, if you had a chance to look over the agenda for the July meeting and voices.
[8:47] I move we accept the consent agenda.
[8:50] Second.
[8:52] Got a motion and a second call for the vote.
[8:55] Yes.
[8:57] Yes.
[8:59] Yes.
[8:59] On today's agenda, commissioners, on data concerns, we have Kiana Kroger, old business,
[9:12] we have Corey White, county administration regarding the janitorial services, new business
[9:19] can affect with director on juvenile services, or JCAB board appointment, and
[9:29] then after today's meeting we'll go immediately into a budget work session.
[9:35] Mr. Is there anything else you'd like to add to the agenda or any questions?
[9:41] Motion to accept.
[9:42] Motion in a second. Call for the vote.
[9:52] Is Diane Grozier here by chance?
[10:00] She was on the agenda here, so we'll start her off.
[10:03] Corey.
[10:16] Good morning.
[10:19] Last Monday at our regular meeting, I was asked to bring forward some quotes for outsourcing
[10:27] janitorial and we went over those quotes and it was just a discussion to
[10:32] review them and on Thursday I was asked to bring some more information regarding
[10:41] if this would be a potential savings and what it would look like and in
[10:46] between Monday and Thursday I met with department heads and elected officials
[10:51] officials. And I also met with the facilities maintenance staff. And as I said, on Thursday,
[10:59] the elected officials and department heads really very much value having our in-house
[11:05] janitorial services. They not only provide janitorial services, but they also do a
[11:12] lot of maintenance as well. And after talking to them, I presented the pros and cons
[11:18] of outsourcing and as you can see in the packet there are more pros to keeping
[11:26] janitorial in-house and there's also more savings as our current director of
[11:34] facilities will be retiring and the assistant is moving up so that is the
[11:39] savings. So the total savings to keep janitorial services in house from this
[11:51] year of 2026 going into 2027 would be 114,000 which is more savings than
[12:00] outsourcing.
[12:07] So I'm basically just asking would you guys prefer to keep
[12:11] our janitorial staff in-house or proceed with getting informal bids that
[12:19] would be posted as a publication? I think in my opinion it I think it's better to
[12:25] have it in-house keeping our personnel on and I know the janitorial crew help
[12:31] other departments when they need to move or when they need something they call
[12:35] them and and they they do that you get a contractor in here they're not
[12:40] going to be here they're not going to you know be willing to do that kind of
[12:44] thing. I feel like it's better to keep it in house. Okay. Yeah I'm in complete
[12:50] agreement too we need just keep it in house with the complexity of the
[12:54] different services I think it gives us a little more diversity to have them
[12:59] there to pick up daily. And I understand you guys are looking at ways
[13:04] to save money which is what we're supposed to do but I also would agree
[13:09] that we want to keep staff well as much as we can understand that right in
[13:16] house was going to be how much savings 114,000 and Corey I just want to say
[13:22] we're looking at all avenues to save money yes you are that's that's the
[13:25] reason we looked at this it was not a done deal we were just looking at it
[13:29] that's right that okay anything else on that so noted action take them we'll
[13:37] Like we're going. Yep. Okay. Thank you.
[13:42] Okay.
[13:45] Good
[13:54] 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.
[14:08] And so I have a recently opened J.C.A.B. general position and Chris is wanting to stay on the board.
[14:17] And so I'm asking that you appoint him to that position because right now he represents the sheriff's office,
[14:22] which Ron has been made aware of that we would need a replacement.
[14:27] He has time because our next meeting is not until January.
[14:32] 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.
[14:49] That's your recommendation.
[14:51] Yes, sir.
[14:51] With that, I'll make a motion to accept that recommendation.
[14:56] Second.
[14:57] Motion in second.
[14:58] Call for the move.
[14:59] Thank you.
[15:00] Yes.
[15:01] Yes.
[15:02] Yes.
[15:04] How long is that term for? What do they say? This term will be for three years.
[15:10] Yes, sir.
[15:14] Anything else? That's all I've got.
[15:16] Oh.
[15:17] All right. Thank you.
[15:19] I do have chats in the audience. Chad, can you come forward? I do have question. I've been contacted
[15:28] and by a few of the citizens wanting to know how
[15:36] on this planning and zoning,
[15:38] if there's gonna be like a board or a steering committee
[15:41] or what we're kind of headed towards.
[15:44] I know we do have a plan.
[15:45] For the zoning planning that's coming up,
[15:47] starting in January.
[15:49] Whether there's already a planning and zoning board,
[15:52] which by the way,
[15:53] we need an appointment from Coffeeville.
[15:56] 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
[16:05] Which I was going to talk to you about as soon as I got a chance
[16:11] Tomorrow there's a meeting of Cory and I and and the company that's been hired
[16:18] 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
[16:23] So I'm hoping to learn a lot more tomorrow
[16:25] But I know we did state that we will have some public
[16:30] Comment times that meetings to where they can come up and in the evenings and visit on that
[16:37] But I've had a couple of them that were showing interest on sitting on the
[16:42] Steering committee or board if we did have anything of that nature there there is a meeting coming up
[16:49] I can't remember the date for our cell phone towel. Do you remember the date?
[16:54] Second, August 20th.
[16:58] 27th.
[16:58] 27th.
[16:59] 27th.
[16:59] Look at my calendar.
[17:00] It's Thursday.
[17:04] And it is for the August...
[17:11] Yeah, 27th is a Thursday.
[17:13] I believe that's the right day.
[17:14] Yeah, 27th.
[17:15] It's been the paper of record twice.
[17:19] It's been...
[17:20] I think we're going to put it out on social media.
[17:22] This is for request zoning in a three mile zone for a cell phone tower on 4,000
[17:28] just east of 3,900 and that meeting will be here in the basement at 7 p.m. on the
[17:37] 27th but it has been published or actually it will be published tomorrow in
[17:44] the reporter and then again the following week actually I think it was
[17:48] last weekend in this tomorrow.
[17:51] Are we getting a lot of petitions on cell phone or cell towers?
[17:56] This is the only one that I'm aware of.
[17:58] Here in the lab?
[17:59] And this one I inherited, they actually had a zoning meeting for it in May.
[18:07] That's what I was going to say.
[18:08] And they didn't have enough board members for a quorum, so they had to cancel the
[18:13] meeting.
[18:13] So we're trying it again.
[18:17] Yes, I'm Mr. Beaver.
[18:20] I noticed Kenneth walked in the meeting you're having tomorrow.
[18:24] Hopefully, of course, Kenneth is on your board with that.
[18:27] Does he have him involved tomorrow, if all possible?
[18:30] Who's that?
[18:30] Kenneth.
[18:31] Okay.
[18:32] And that was one of the conversations we had about a month ago,
[18:35] Jonathan, I did with Kenneth, not being informed on some of what's
[18:40] happening and the changes and that type of thing.
[18:42] So he needs to be 100% involved.
[18:44] involved. Glad you made it, Kenneth. And maybe visit with him afterwards. Maybe you
[18:51] guys already have, I don't know. I know you're hitting this thing running. So,
[18:55] Kenneth, if we would wrap you in chat and have conversation today sometime or
[19:01] something, if you would, go ahead. That's all I got. I appreciate it. I don't know
[19:07] the process. I think that you just nominate someone and then you guys
[19:11] vote on, yeah, or maybe just to point them, I'm not sure how that works.
[19:15] You'll bring someone to us that you recommend and then we'll approve them or just approve them.
[19:24] Okay.
[19:24] And you just have the one position.
[19:26] One position in my district.
[19:27] And we have that filled.
[19:29] Yes, sir.
[19:29] We can do it.
[19:31] Yeah, thanks, Chad.
[19:34] Okay, commissioners, any other questions before we start
[19:40] the budget work session?
[19:44] No.
[19:44] motion. Okay. With that, we need a motion to close the regular meeting. Second.
[20:05] Motion