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so

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right um

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good evening how are you doing tonight

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i guess basically back to you we've got
three candidates to get through in a 30

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minute period
so we'll give each candidate 10 minutes

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i would say
two minutes per council person

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and then if you want to start or end
with two minutes kind of telling us a

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little bit about yourself

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you want me yes

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well i am nicole here i
work for jefferson county commission in

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their courthouse in the finance
department

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nicole terry okay okay
okay okay all right i'm sorry um well

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i live in newtown alabama i
was unemployed for a little while um

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until i got into the marriage system
with the county um

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prior to that being unemployed my father
passed away and we had to kind of think

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of
how i was going to get a job and so that

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came about with the
jefferson county commissioner is there

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i'm sorry in their
finance department so i have been there

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with them for four years
i work heavily under the um cfo and the

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deputy
director i'm working mainly with

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accounts receivable i get in the checks
for this

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for jefferson county i handle the
deposits the entries into our

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munich system with everything that comes
in from there

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um not married no kids
so if you know anyone that you know

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but um just let's say just me just um

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coming through the system i used to be a
senior medicare auditor i did medicare

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for 13 years i got laid off
there because they saw a different way

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to go so we lost the contract with the
mac with that so that's how i ended up

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at
jefferson county at their clients

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we still got another 30 seconds is there
anything else you would like to tell us

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about you
i think that's it about me i'll hold the

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book pretty much if you guys have any
questions just

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feel free to ask me i don't have a
problem with answering those questions

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for you okay
perfect we'll go ahead and uh go in and

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worry about this manner
councilman deploy yours for two minutes

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okay um one of the things we discussed
as terry was the treasurer's being the

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cfo
and the fact that they work with the

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bond payments because the city does have
some debt

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uh and also in preparing them with our
city's annual budget

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can you talk to me a little bit about
your experience

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in calculating and or taking care of
bond payments

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for jefferson county well currently i
do not take care of those actual blind

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payments i did the reconciliation
of those buying payments to actual

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statements that are submitted from the
bank

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so i would look at those and we had a
principal account and that actually did

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in the
he did dead management and while he was

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looking for a senior accountant i just
worked with him

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just to help him reconcile those bond
payments to the rest of the initiative

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okay and how about the budgeting process
are you involved in any of the buddy

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budding process for
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budget
department they normally get with our

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general ledger team
and they are the ones that uh will talk

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about the actual budget in itself i'm on
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that side of it no the question came
from that

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thank you mr i'll go ahead and defer to
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well hi mr cherry we appreciate you
coming out

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um you just said that you work in the ar
department

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right okay and what all uh type of
receivables

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do you fall under your domain there
pretty much kind of all of them so just

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just general
general accounting suffer you expensive

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specifically handle tax collections or
tax collection has they have their own

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area they collected in for that
what i would do is i would invoice out

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different customers
and they would send in different

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payments to me i was even payments from
the states in regards to

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business privilege taxes i also do
journal entries from

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the tax collector's office in order to
submit out the road tax which

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sydney arnold should receive that check
once a year as well as the business

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privilege tax check
um other ones will be just those various

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odd and end
checks that come in tax collectors send

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us a lot of checks but most of them are
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and they're also coming from those
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monthly basis
very good do you deal with any

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delinquent accounts or collect
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actually do um
before i got there um there was the

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process of changing over to that human
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and the immune system we didn't
understand at that particular time

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how to retrieve our people that were the
oldest money

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so what i did was i kind of researched
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asian report
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out statements and send them out to
our customers um those that are 60 days

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prior to the um the date so if you say
we're in april now anybody that's

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january has legals in january and back
into 2015 because we converted software

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in 2015
we will send them an actual statement so

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we'll also reach out to them
via email in the email my name is

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attached to the email so if they want to
set up payment arrangements

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they can contact me and we'll keep those
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actually having those payment branches
where they should be okay very good so

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then you're very well versed i will take
it in as well in

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just clear the principles of being able
to administer things that

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disseminate information to the council
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the mayor
different things like that operating

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programs what all operating programs
of them as far as i care excel kosher

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word we pretty much use all of them um
my main one is excel i use it the most

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because i'm sending out mostly
spreadsheets to different areas and

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if i need to get in touch with the
department heads i would send this

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question to them
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need and this is what i'm trying to
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mostly you could stay over time very
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um thank you for coming tonight thank
you for having me um

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you know we all have strength and
weaknesses so

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in our jobs uh that we currently uh
perform

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but what do you consider one of your
biggest weaknesses

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if you were chosen as the ironyoc card
my biggest weakness i think we'll have

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based on the description of the job
i don't really have a lot of resolution

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and ordinance
experiences resolutions i do read them

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because i do have to incorporate them
into i have to do a little voice entry

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for accounts payable i have to make sure
that resolution has been

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signed and is in the minute book prior
to me sending out those

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information just like with the city of
iowa when they receive that

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road tax or their business privilege tax
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their information that's due to the city
of irondale i also have to include that

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resolution from
the commission to let them know that

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this is okay for us to go ahead
and pay this because this is not our

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money this is money that needs to be
distributed out to those other

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municipalities but for my weakness that
would be the one that i

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i really don't have a lot of experience
in but like i said i'm

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a learner so i'm very very teachable so
if i get in there and um

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get started on it i don't have a problem
with reading up on it

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and just now let it focus out okay
thank you thank you very much

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one question that i have is basically
let's talk about a time where maybe it

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was a disagreement that you might have
had with your

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supervisor or a peer how did you work
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a negative confrontation when maybe
you were right the other person was

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wrong and you had to find common ground
okay um well first thing i usually do

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when that happens
is we try to meet together not

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necessarily in a group setting because
that's not the type of place to handle

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whatever confrontation we need to handle
right then

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so we would get together and we would
kind of talk about it and to see

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my point and see that person's point and
if if they're right

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i have a problem with it being you know
hey i'm sorry i've

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maybe read that wrong or i just
interpreted that and

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it's fine it's not a problem but we
didn't have a conflict where we just

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kind of
didn't like each other anymore and just

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didn't talk to yourself because angela
jobs you

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even though you may not get along you
still have to work together to

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make one common ground thank you very
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that comes right to the end of our time
here uh is there

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any last follow-up questions for this
young lady before we move

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to our next candidate

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i want to thank you again mister for
being here thank you thank you

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in person thank you thank you it's been
it's mutual beautiful i said i hear

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names but
don't know who they are but it's great

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to put face to everyone now so i really
appreciate you having me here today i

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hope it's good
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thank you very much for your time miss
terry and uh

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i believe mr frank will see you out and
everything

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and uh have a lovely evening once again
thank you for your time all right thank

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you
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good evening how are you doing tonight
good how are you perfect and what's your

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name
my name is jackson

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all right perfect well thank you very
much for joining us this is a 30-minute

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meeting with three candidates so we're
assigning 10 minutes to each one

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there's four of us a full-person panel
right now we're missing someone so

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what we will do is uh if you could just
take two minutes just kind of talk about

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yourself
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to kind of ask you some questions
we have your information in front of us

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so please explore yours
so again my name is rude jackson and i'm

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a resident of
birmingham i grew up in birmingham and

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went to school to age harvard high
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there i was involved in the segment
program which was science and

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engineering
and also future business leaders of

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america
and from there i went to college i

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pursued a degree in history
as well as accounting and starting on a

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master's in public administration
and from there i've been working in

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banking
auditing and government

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in our discussion is that our treasurer
when you fill in the

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old city clerk and treasurer the
treasurer is the most important

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person uh within this newspaper because
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our chief financial officer and so
what can you tell me about um your

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experience
in calculating and or taking care of

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bond payments
of a municipality you have experience in

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that and so can you please explain
yes um so i do calculate and

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make the general measure injuries for
our bond payments

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our bond payments are made according to
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that was figured when the bond was
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and so each month that we do make those
payments

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i apply the payments according to the
amortization schedule

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and then at the end of the year i
reconcile our geo accounts

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to the amortization schedule to make
sure that the totals match

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very good do you have experience in
preparing the municipality's annual

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budget
i do have experience in working on the

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sales tax and business license portion
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of course i do monthly calculations as
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sales tax revenue and business license
revenue

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and also quarterly and we send those
projections

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to the revenue manager and the finance
director

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and so those numbers are used in
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and any reports that are used to prepare
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and comprehensive annual report
all right one last question based on

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your experience
what is the most challenging task for

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you when dealing with the public
and how do you approach these challenges

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um so the most challenging task is just
providing the answer the right answer to

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the question
a lot of our taxpayers and citizens

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come in wanting a simple answer and we
do have to find out what the complete

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picture
is before we can answer them and provide

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assistance a lot of them come in wanting
to start a business

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and they want to know how do i start a
business do i just get a business

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license
and there is a whole process that we

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have to take them through
but of course i do provide information

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about the business license process of
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the sales taxes that applies to their
business

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and giving them the information that
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do what they need to do in their
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um you have said this you are currently
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and how does that interface with your
city clerk's job

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so i recommend certain items to the city
council to be placed on the agenda

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mainly dealing with abc licenses
for the city as well as other

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information regarding the budget
and i give that information to the city

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clerk
and they prepare it for the agenda um we

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also have penalty waivers
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they have to be proven
approved by the city and so that goes on

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the council agenda
to be approved and there are certain

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other majors that have to be able to
counsel very good uh and do you have any

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accounts receivable or any invoice or
building experience in

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and really the last question i have is
as far as operating systems what

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operating systems are you proficient and
familiar with

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in the job you're in now or even outside
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well there are a lot of there may miss a
few but um

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i'm familiar with oracle quickbooks
we use munis

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microsoft dynamics and
lotus notes um peoplesoft

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i can't think of all of them but those
are the primary ones that i've used

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as well as microsoft office for

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thank you thank you jackson for for
coming tonight uh taking the time

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to come and talk to us one of the
questions i have is we all have

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strengths and weaknesses
as we perform our daily duties but what

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would you consider one of your biggest
weakness

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if you want to become a simpler idea um
i think one of my big biggest weaknesses

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is that i'm very analytical
and um some may think that i'm too

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analytical but i like to present all
sides of the

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issue and provide as much information as
possible

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so it might seem like information
overload but i just like

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to be able to provide what is needed to
fully understand the big picture of the

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problem
okay i noticed on your resume you stated

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you're a certified revenue
examiner so it's that um

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as far as the classes or or any
uh conferences well not conferences but

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uh
to be certified is this an annual

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recertification or every six months it's
an annual recertification

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i have to take 40 hours of trouble and
eight of those hours i take through the

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altus board
and then the remaining hours i usually

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take to the alabama society of cpas
and so i'm taking classes almost on a

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monthly basis to
maintain my hours and there is a county

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so forgive my hatreds but you said cpa
so you're served by cba i guess

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no i'm not a first-rate cpa
but we can't take classes through

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that organization because they are a
certified body

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okay um classes that are regarding your
county

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or anything dealing with taxes um policy
that will uh that meets the requirements

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for the cra
certification okay okay

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that's all i have thank you sir just one
question for me

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i see you can be a little over
analytical i know the detriment that

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that comes up just
bring to the table how give me um

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an example uh i'll leave the names out
obviously

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but a time where you had to boil down a
complicated

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potentially negative situation to either
someone you worked with or possibly a

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citizen that was asking a question
so a lot of times we have citizens who

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will
come in and they've already started

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operating their business
and they don't know where to start

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because they didn't
obtain the proper licenses they didn't

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get the proper education
and they didn't set up a sales tax

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account
in most cases so what i have to do is

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just understand where they are find out
what it is that they're doing in their

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business
and then communicate with them what i

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think that they should do going forward
making sure they get the business

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license they set up the tax account
and they meet with the sba or other

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departments in the city that can help
them

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and that usually will help resolve the
problem are you guys going to do that

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process
yes all right thank you very much

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one minute left for any follow-up
questions mrs jackson i just want to let

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you know
that i'm delighted to personally meet

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you finally and i want to thank you for
your interest

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in filling this position thank you
i too want to thank you for your time ms

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jackson and thank you for your interest
in this position

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bless someone see you now

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um

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good evening how are you doing tonight
good evening council members it's a

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pleasure

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we've got about 10 minutes here um and
so and there are four of us we've got a

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gentleman that is missing so
feel free to take about two minutes to

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describe yourself
tell us a little bit about yourself and

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then we'll take about two minutes to ask
you some follow-up questions

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okay um would i like to
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introduce myself on vanita brown i'd
like you to know that i

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am a very driven person
i think that i i

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lead from integrity i have

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extensive background with
acting as a liaison between various

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departments

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and i also
currently work as a senior accountant

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where
i am responsible for

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bookkeeping also responsible for

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bank reconciliations

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making reports that we need to turn into
the state every month

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i have experienced
leading i have experienced um

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dealing with the public

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conflict resolution

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and if
if you choose me for this position i

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believe that i would be a great fit
because i am able to

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um i'm able to
just uh i'm sorry i'm nervous

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i'm not able to um
act with precision

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and my in any given duty that i'm
i'm assigned to

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and
overall i just i think that i would be a

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good fit
because i'm able i'm ready

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and eager to learn new things and also
bring the skills that i currently have

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to the city of irondale in this position
and i guess that's it

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council on customer
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and i want to thank you for your
interest in this position

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um we've done phone interviews and so
i'm going to focus on the questions that

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i've asked
of all the two prior candidates yes and

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that is
your experience as because i'm looking

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at it
for the treasurer you have you've given

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me information on city clerk
the treasure is my concern here what is

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your
experience in calculating and we're

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taking care of bond payments of the
municipality

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if you have it can you please explain
what you do

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in bond payments

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we
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i have experience in
cash management i also have experience

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in um
receiving payments from municipalities

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and also giving payments to
municipalities

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as far as bond payments
in particular i don't have

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that kind of experience

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do you have experience in preparing the
municipality's annual budget

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we're all just so real quickly um you
did say that you worked some

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with i guess receivables in some of the
cities and then also

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payment processing for those correct
that's correct okay

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and how does that dovetail into any
administrative or clerical leads

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which you know as the treasurer as
councilmember taylor is alluding to

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that's going to be a very important part
of the position

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but the city clerk part of being able to
disseminate the information

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what operating systems or
tools you have in that realm or is that

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something you rely more on a team today
we do work as a team and in the tax

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collector's office
but we do utilize the

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earring system and
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what that does what we what it does is
we'll um

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enter the information into the e-ring
system

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and it will determine what the
millage for each parcel is it really

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breaks down
all of the calculations for us

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so that we're able to
pull that information um

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after we're able to navigate once we're
able to navigate through the software

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we're able to pull up that information
with ease okay so you're fairly

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comfortable using
several different platforms of

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information dissemination and also
calculation or retention

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that's correct because the we use e-ring
there's also munis that we use

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we also i have experience in
some of the gis mapping software

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that's used at the city as well all of
that information we use

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to get whatever the situation is we use
it

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to get an overall
understanding of the big picture and

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we're also
able to get

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disseminate that information into
various reports that need to be sent to

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the state every month and the reader as
well

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yes good evening thank you for
coming tonight thank you for having me

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the question i have is you know we all
have a

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strength and weaknesses when it comes to
performing our jobs

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what would be one of your biggest
challenges

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or weakness if you were chosen as the
city clerk here in ireland

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one of the things that i have been
working on

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is i tend to be an introvert
speaking in front of people may

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sometimes
come off a little a little

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um challenging for me i understand
councilman

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we're just right but we're just regular
people

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we are we are but one of the things that
um i have done is i've taken

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speech classes to help me um

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to help me speak better and portray my
thoughts better to

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everyone and also i've joined the
toastmasters my local toastmasters

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club that i'm able to speak better
and feel more comfortable speaking in

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front of
an audience regardless of what the

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subject is
how long are you man i've i've been in

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it for a year now
okay yes birmingham city classic

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massachusetts
manchester um

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so that would probably um be my biggest
challenge

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um it's something that i continue to
work on

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vigorously so that it isn't a challenge
for me anymore

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well thank you and greetings and thank
you for your interest in the position in

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your time tonight
one question uh you mentioned conflict

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resolution
previously um can you kind of take us

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through
a time maybe where you had to enter into

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some conflict resolution
with either maybe a citizen that was

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going through some things or possibly a
supervisor or work here

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and how that was handled and resolved
sure

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um there was a particular
instance in the department that i

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currently work in
and there is a particular way

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that my new supervisor wanted
me to a new a particular format that my

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supervisor
wanted me to turn in for bank

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reconciliation
and it was

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it wasn't um it wasn't a hard thing to
do

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but it would have at the time we were
at the height of our tax collection

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season and some of the things that she
wanted me to do

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would have been it would have been more
time consuming than it normally was

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what i did was simply get
a make a copy and of the format of how

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she wanted me to do it as opposed to
what it is now

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and also explain how
that what changes that need to be made

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and how that would affect my time
management

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with other deadlines that needed to be
met

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so after speaking with her about it
we were able to come up with a

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resolution where
we can incorporate some of the ideas

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that she
had wanted me to incorporate into

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performance as well as
keeping without me having to spend a lot

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of time doing it
so and that well that's the charge with

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the supervisor
there's been times when i worked in the

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tag unit
with jefferson county where we would

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have
specific different customers that may

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come in and they don't realize that they
have a fine

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that they have to pay in order to get
their tenants they may

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get really upset and
they're they're they're wanting to take

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it out on the
cashier that's in front of them and the

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cashier
is really just doing their job telling

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them this is i can't take your payment
unless you pay the whole thing

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there's been plenty of times that i've
had to come and just explain it to the

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customer
again just to let them know it really

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isn't anything that we can do
but we want to help you in every way

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that we can so
after explaining to them and also making

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suggestions
how they can go about resolving the

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issue
and even going as far sometimes as to

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even
like speak with someone in montgomery to

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get them to
maybe extend the payment period so that

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this person can actually
save money to make a payment without

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having to incur
further fines and that kind of thing so

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i've done that many times and it really
helps when

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the customer knows that they're being
hurt

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and also that you genuinely want to help
them

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you're not just passing them along or
just saying that

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we can't do anything for you they really
want to know that you're there for them

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and and you're listening to them and you
want to help them

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and most times when i have gone through
that process

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we've had a smooth transition you know
we've made it so that they can come back

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and make their payments and
get their tags so that they can drive to

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work and continue life as
it was before perfect thank you very

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much
you're welcome uh before you let the

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show let you go is there any final
follow-up question

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no questions but thank you so much mrs
brown for coming and for your interest

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thank you so much thank you very much

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um
that concludes our our workstation for

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the evening we're now going to go ahead
and transition into our special call

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council meeting
uh councilman boxing if you're not going

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to open this up

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everybody would join me for a moment we
thank you that you're allowed us to be

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here
thank you that you've provided a pathway

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to join you again
help us to understand and know the

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things you have us to do
helps to serve the citizens here's the

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best of our ability give us your ability
to do it what

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for which it stands one nation under god

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indivisible with liberty and justice for
all

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thank you sir we'll go ahead and go into
roblox

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council wilson and myself president john
mullen is absent this evening

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all right so our one and only uh agenda
item

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tonight uh basically the members of the
city council

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the city needs to convene an executive
session for two purposes

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number one to discuss with the attorney
the legal ramifications of legal

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of and legal options for controversies
not yet being

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litigated but immediately likely to be
litigated

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number two to discuss preliminary
negotiations

461
00:36:53,839 --> 00:36:59,280
involving matters of training or
commerce in which the city of irondale

462
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:03,200
is in competition
with other governmental entities in

463
00:37:01,359 --> 00:37:07,119
alabama and thirdly
to discuss the consideration the city

464
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:11,280
council is willing to offer or accept
when considering the purchase sale

465
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:15,839
exchange lease or market value
of real property ms danielson has

466
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:18,480
provided the city council with a written
statement

467
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:23,040
that executive session is appropriate
under alabama code

468
00:37:20,839 --> 00:37:28,240
36-25a 83
and 8-7 to discuss pending litigation

469
00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:32,400
therefore i need a motion to go into
executive session

470
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:36,800
i'll make a motion to go into exactly
session

471
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:40,079
wilson has made a all right we have a
second

472
00:37:37,839 --> 00:37:46,320
mr pennington uh please conduct a roll
call vote of this motion and record

473
00:37:41,839 --> 00:37:46,320
each councilman's council person's vote

474
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:53,520
council owned bear yes councilman box
yes

475
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:55,839
joshua wilson yes and myself yes thank
you

476
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:58,640
those presidents are advised that this
body has voted to enter into executive

477
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:02,400
session
as required by law any deliberation

478
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:06,400
between the members of this body
relating to these issues will be

479
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:10,160
conducted in an open meeting this
council will not reconvene

480
00:38:08,079 --> 00:38:14,160
after this executive session the city
council will now enter executive session

481
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,839
thank you