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offer a motion that Miss Kim Adams be

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immediately suspended through December

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the 5th with pay due to

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insubordination pending further

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investigation we also asking that Miss

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Shannon Wagner meet with Miss Adams on

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1119 24 in order to retrieve any

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personal belongings that she may need

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during that time frame she's also asked

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to surrender all keys and IDs in any

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other property of Jones County dur the

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period of suspension Miss Adams is asked

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to appear at the next vaa regular board

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meeting to be held on 12 524 at

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4M it has been properly motioned do I

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hear a

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second been properly motion and second

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on the motion all those in favor of the

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motion please raise your

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hand those against by the same sign

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motion carries read the motion

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again the next item on the uh agenda is

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item number seven which is public

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comments

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excuse me

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you remember a mon and give you a phone

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call thatone I HR

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issue I had I had HR is

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I said there

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Ed let me say this at your request I

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call this individual I don't know this

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individual I don't even

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know I to this

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individual office

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evener May her exper could

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Beed that was the

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I didn't get I didn't get a complaint

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but let me just say this I think on

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several

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meeting I am receiv

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a lot of what chair just

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said it's hard to believe that we can we

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can sit here and say we didn't know we

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didn't know we didn't know hey you all

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have annual training that teaches you

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know to run

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this so you can't say you didn't know I

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find it very ironic that the chairman is

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going to make a comment to the only

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person that can give them legal advice

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to let them run the meeting as the

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chairman instead of uh making chairman

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and

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advice when you didn't reach out for the

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last 12 weeks that we've been going

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through this mess hadn't reached out at

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all you say you didn't know this you

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didn't know that you didn't ask even you

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had the chairman of our board contact

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you you had the emails being sent back

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and forth from where they were sent to

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our HR Director but yet nothing's done

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except we didn't know you knew on

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September the 3 when those when those

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staff members came out and said

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something you should have known there

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was going to be a hostile work

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environment from that point on everybody

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that came up here earlier tonight and

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talked said there was not a problem they

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were all friends they for each other get

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CES for each other everybody was happy

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everybody was good until they came out

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and said something you don't think that

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is part of the reason why there's a

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hostile work environment because that

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divided the

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department that's nobody's

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responsibilities but Tony and y'alls to

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know that's a problem and not do

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anything about it because if you didn't

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think when they came out that there was

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going to be a problem and then the the

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department fall apart like it does

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because everybody said there was not a

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problem until then except for years ago

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when the people that left for the same

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reason so but I do want to clarify one

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thing chairman you've called for votes

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tonight asked for a a hand raising

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that's a that's a roll call vote but

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you're not raising your hand are you not

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voting

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or okay so when there's only three

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people on this board you got to have

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three people to make a quum right

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that's right in order to make a quorum

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it's he required to vote the law says

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that the appreciate you can quote the

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law now you didn't know what the

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attorney was going to tell you five

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minutes ago if you finished you ask me a

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question okay and I'm answer you a

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question okay and I'm not going to raise

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my voice like I got pretty good hear

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okay and I hope you do too so I ra my

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voice but according to what I read ier

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to the attorney tax consist

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is still three of of a five okay is not

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three of a

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no three member board is the three

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members here is a Corum but you ask me

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and I told you minimum number

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tax I didn't that I asked what a for was

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it how many does it take to pass a vote

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but let me say this in in in reading the

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state law it says that when there is a

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vacancy on the board of tax assess and

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the Board of Commissioners should

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immediately work to replace those

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members I'll P back on I'm just telling

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you what the language says sir I

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appr I don't these MERS

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okay Council I would ask that you

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research that and see if that is act

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okay the chairman I am I am completely

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disappointing this board I will make one

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other comment since we got 10 last time

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we got 10 minutes it looks like

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um there was a comment made about the

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meeting here I think one of the ladies

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in the office made a comment about U

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some of the staff members saying that I

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wanted to fire them all I think M Morgan

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said something about it before I went

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back and listened to that and what I

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said was we've got a problem we want to

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know what the problem is and we want it

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fixed if it's his board that's the

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problem it needs to be fixed if it's the

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uh department head is the problem it

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needs to fixed if it's the staff is the

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department it needs to be fixed and I

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stand on that all day long whatever the

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problem is but I will remember remind

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y'all the the head of this process sits

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in these

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seats and I asked you three times it's

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the third time what are y'all going to

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do and your answer is

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to suspend we just did so yeah you

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suspended the one person that brought

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the problem to life that's an

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embarrassment I will Echo what James

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Collins said before I would recommend

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all three of y'all resign your position

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because you're incompetent and you're an

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embarrassment to this County period well

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let me tell you this sir I thank you for

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your comments I don't agree with

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them but you can say what you

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say yes sir anybody else

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how you

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talked

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anybody

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else let me chairman um unless again I'm

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skimming very quickly the policies and

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procedures um specific to this board

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unless there's something I'm missing in

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my scheming it would require the

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majority votee of the a total board so

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it would require three votes for you to

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pass anything unless there's something

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that I'm missing as an quick

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schem no ma'am the total board is still

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five you're a

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five yes but to pass anything and have

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the Quorum you've got to have three that

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vote alike right so what we need to do

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oh I'll let you finish yes

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sir

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so I don't remember how many years ago

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but I know Tony has offended some

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people um whether it

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be Brash talk

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or the nature of his demeanor but that's

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not reason to take off or fire some

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somebody um there have been a lot of

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properties that have been put on the

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rooll um and some of those same

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individuals have some

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concerns um these properties were not on

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the rules for what five six seven

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years um you don't get commended for

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that you get slapped on the wrist

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evidently um there's been

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talk about addressing some of the issues

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and the only thought thought that I had

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was that you had

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to incite what was incited on September

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3rd for it to happen because you

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couldn't do it

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yourself there's been a long issue

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with maybe how he does business or who

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it impacts and the reality is

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that at the end of the day

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more properties have been put on the tax

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R since he's been here than any other

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time and at the end of the day we went

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through State and then we had an

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arbitration hearing and at that last

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hearing they

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said that he was

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clear and

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that the new sales ratio was 33% which

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was higher than the

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31 then the data that's used to see if

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he's sales chasing was within range so

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he was not sales chasing the other data

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and I don't remember all the the the

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numbers or the names was also in line

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which said that whatever he was doing

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was

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congruent in the sales

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study so

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if that is the case and Jones County was

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Vindicated as was the

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department then the events of September

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3rd were not

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warranted but it happened in that same

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meeting said that we'll protect you in

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the

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hallway yes ma'am I was standing right

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there and I

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heard correct thank you

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amen amen they counties too right so so

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it gave the impression that there was

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some wrongdoing because it wasn't to

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protect him or them it was the

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individuals that came up to speak if

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they had been whistleblowing and the

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office was out of order the arbitrators

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would have said so and the county would

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not have been

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Vindicated that's the problem I have

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where did it start

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to my fellow Commissioners I understand

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there's a

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frustration but at the end of the day we

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don't have to stoke any

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fires because there was so much

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commentary about the sky is falling the

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world is at an end and we're going to

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have to pay this money back and be in

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debt this and be charged this parcel

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none of that came to fruition

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so I know that the fire was stoked

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here and when they came they added more

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to

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it which is much to do about

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nothing if it was my decision I'd fire

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them

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both because you can't us cert my

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authority in my department still have a

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job I know you wouldn't do it

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say there's no way because it causes a

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problem in the office and it did because

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they thought they had whistleblower

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protection and what happened was an

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innocent bystander got caught in The

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Fray I don't know what would make an

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officer hit

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somebody it doesn't make sense

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I don't understand why someone who would

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file a complaint on a paper that she

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printed on a Thursday running to the

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human resource department will wait till

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Friday

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morning to take it to the authorities

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walking past human resources and a

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sheriff make it make

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sense as a commissioner of this County

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and I've been here the

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longest I'm highly disappointed in US

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because we had a way to manage

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this never have I been here and an

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employee got

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arrested doesn't make

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sense I don't get

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it but tonight you all ruled and you

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were favorable that was

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nice wouldn't have been me because I've

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seen people fired for Less

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I

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hope that this department does what's

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needed to be done to set every mind

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clear and every record straight and I

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hope you go to $106

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$130 a square foot then everybody in

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this County will have something to

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say because then it'll really be an

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issue and I understand his compassion

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for trying not to hurt the the tax

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perence and he said that I didn't feel

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like and the state said that's not your

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job so he was wrong in that

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regard let us do our job bring the

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values up to

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106 130 and then let us roll back the

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millit

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rate and let the nashing of

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teeth happen on our

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watch threers board it's ironic that the

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only incompetent board is the

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Blackboard I'm going to say

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it

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when and I defend it let me tell you

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something when when I sat

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here and y'all

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allowed that zoning and planning to put

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containers in my

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district but you won't allow them to put

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them in your District that's a problem

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erene should not sit on two boards

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that's in the ordinances yall allow it

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for years y'all know what's right and

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y'all do what's wrong and y'all allowed

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it when I said that board was

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incompetent it need to be replaced

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nobody thought it because it was okay

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because it was in my district but it's

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wrong it's in the ordinance

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clearly I'm sorry is that 10 minutes

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dang it my bad

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sorry I don't think I use my

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minutes how many morees

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[Music]

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thank

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you reason I call commissioner Martin

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out for being wrong when he wants to

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bring race into an issue nobody fired

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the two white people that were on this

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board they chose to leave so that has

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nothing to do with us when he talked

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about stoking fires up here that came

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after two employees that Tony asked to

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come out and talk and tell us what the

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problem was that he was blaming on the

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state so that's another um

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misrepresentation of the truth the

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second the other parts of the story that

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really sound great although not very

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true from what I heard or anybody else

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in that room the state never said we

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were Vindicated of anything the state

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said you went up 2% but we are still far

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below the 40% that we should be

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at arrat the arbitrators their only

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decision was to listen to it they went

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into a closed session they came out with

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a decision to raise it up two points

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they didn't say anybody was Vindicated

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they didn't say the state was doing the

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I mean the county was doing the right

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thing they didn't say Tony was

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great all I know is we have failed the

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state requirements for the second year

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in a row and looking that way for the

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third year according to what they've

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told us so when we don't do anything for

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2 years we're required to do something

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we were not we're not we are a lot

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better than we were from 31.4 to 33.9

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that's obvious but we're nowhere near

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where we're supposed to be based on the

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state guidelines and for us to say that

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we were Vindicated by that we weren't

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Vindicated by anything we were told what

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our problems are and they still are and

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the only stoken that was was done was

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after everything started blowing

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up and I have no problem being told I

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stoked the fire not when a fire needs to

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be stoked the one thing I heard from

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somebody tonight was this department

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will never be the same I hope not I hope

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it is never the same because this

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department is where we got us is got us

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to where we are now this department this

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board it starts at the top goes all the

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way down I agree I wouldn't have fired

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uh the two of them tonight I would have

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already fired

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somebody thank you Mr K

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did that close

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out iuse my

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minut you you just provide information

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person this is public comments

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commissioner Martin said that we're

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totally Vindicated in the last meet when

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I got up here last the first time I got

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up here September

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3rd I

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said we our grades were all over the

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place they are they were I I said we had

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way too many

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overrides due to sales

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chasing they were I said we needed to

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start doing sales ratio studies instead

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of just throwing numbers at

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neighborhoods in the last two meetings

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Tony has St set stood up here and said

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he's fixing the sales ratios we're

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starting to do sales ratios he said

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we're going to CH we change the

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grades everything I said he said we're

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now working on correcting him how y'all

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can not see the problem is beyond me he

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stood up there and said that he is

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fixing the three main problems I

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outlined are y'all that blind you cannot

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see it it's on record it's on YouTube

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look at

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it let's pause for a second I ask for

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civility I to be of calm minds and calm

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thoughts I can tell you at this point

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the chair is totally disappointed with

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those

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people because they have not shared fair

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or civility in their they've done

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all for that reason for that

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reason we serve at the pl and our

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appointed

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Meers but we're not a lap dog I'm not

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one and I'm not going to be one and I'm

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going to say

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this hopefully in the future if you

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can't retain yourself with a certain

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level of fairness

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andil then we as a board will turn a

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blind ey

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and thank you anyone else

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yeah I'm Elizabeth Williams I live in gr

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Georgia I so

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incredibly

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disappointed in everything in a lot of

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things I raised my children I've had

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children of all colors right now I have

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seven and I've had every color Under the

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Sun and I'm going to tell you I've

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always looked at the

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facts I don't care what color the facts

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are that's what I'm looking at I'm a

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researcher and I'll look at the

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research and I think that's what needs

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to be done here look at the facts take

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out any comment you could possibly have

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written down somewhere whatever look at

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the facts look at the numbers look at

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the numbers on the paper look at what

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the numbers are going to

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be make your decisions from that all

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this hoopla about black white whatever

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that's

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crap it's the numbers numbers don't

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lie they

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don't I know statistics back and forth

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left and

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right numbers don't

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lie and that's what needs to be looked

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at all these com all this whatever

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whatever whatever that's just drama and

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I always teach my kids you stay out of

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it you look at the numbers what are the

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whatever those numbers are make your

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decisions on

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that this drama is too

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much we're a county we don't deserve all

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this drama we deserve you all to look at

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the numbers and make the decisions

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accordingly that's what we deserve as

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taxpayers we don't care about your drama

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don't care about their drama nobody's

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drama we care about the numbers and how

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that affects

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us especially when your mom with seven

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freaking kids you care about the numbers

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I don't care about none of your drama

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not one bit of

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it I do care about treat being treated

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fairly and equally as we all do that's

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our right as United States citizens of

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America is to be treated fairly and

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equally and we don't want to be told

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that a blind eye is going to be

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turned we're expecting you all to take

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it all into account when it comes to the

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numbers that man is telling you

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numbers take in the

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numbers put aside any feelings you have

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or whatever whatever I get it but when

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people that know more than you do take

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in the numbers listen to them that is

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the one thing I've learned in life

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listen to the people that know more than

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I

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do listen to them I've listen to y'all

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I've been listening to y'all for quite

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some time y'all don't know everything

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they don't know everything but the

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numbers don't

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lie I've never had a math equation

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that's worked out correctly be a lie

519
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never I've never ran statistics and had

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it be a complete lie when it's ran

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correctly never and I've been doing it a

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long time a very long

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time look at your numbers make your

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decisions the right way and just my God

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least in drama out of it and be

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respectful to us taxpayers because we

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deserve you to look at the numbers and

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do what's right

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right thank

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you anyone

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else well that'll close out the public

532
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comment portion of our meeting now Mr BR

533
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we need to go back and revote on the one

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two

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four five items do we need to restate

536
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them and just go

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back you said you didn't vote on

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anything I didn't vote on anything so I

539
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just need to go back

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and you just corrected us by reading the

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legal V is not a valid okay and we

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follow legal counsel and I thank you for

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that so to correct that there five items

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that we voted well really we had five it

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Ved so we need to restate those motions

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how you how you ad I will I

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commission

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coms

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that's so it's a little bit of a tricky

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situation um I don't know that it would

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be completely

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improper when I tell them they can't

553
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vote on something after comments it is

554
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usually a new matter that has come up

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during

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comments and so if you want to move

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forward with addressing it tonight then

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yes you would have to each item have all

559
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three of you V okay we'll do that since

560
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:29,600
you brought it to our attention now we

561
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,880
know right um yes and we w we don't want

562
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to be in Def because none of those V

563
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:38,600
will okay so let me roll through these

564
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:40,559
votes chair calls for a motion on the

565
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:43,840
approval of today's

566
00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:47,559
agenda hear a motion on that

567
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:52,519
item second call for the vote all show

568
00:31:47,559 --> 00:31:52,519
by ra your hands motion

569
00:31:53,279 --> 00:31:58,360
carries the next item approve of the

570
00:31:55,559 --> 00:32:03,120
minutes from November 724 regular

571
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:03,120
executive session chff calls for a

572
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:12,480
motion I hear second on that

573
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:15,639
motion call for the vote all those in

574
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:18,240
favor of the motion raise your

575
00:32:15,639 --> 00:32:20,279
hand next item approval of the time

576
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,600
limit of two minutes for each taxpayer

577
00:32:20,279 --> 00:32:25,200
to address the board of tax assess at a

578
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:28,039
meeting this will update the policy and

579
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:30,799
procedures man

580
00:32:28,039 --> 00:32:32,840
properly moved do I hear second I been

581
00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:37,440
properly moved second all the vote

582
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:40,480
approve this amendment raise your

583
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:43,519
hand the next item is approval of four

584
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,799
VA Homestead exemptions chair calls for

585
00:32:43,519 --> 00:32:48,039
a

586
00:32:44,799 --> 00:32:52,120
motion hear second proper motion to

587
00:32:48,039 --> 00:32:55,960
Second it vote all in favor raise your

588
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:58,600
hands uh chair calls for a approval of

589
00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:01,279
the executive session to address person

590
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:03,639
issues hear a motion on that

591
00:33:01,279 --> 00:33:06,200
item he

592
00:33:03,639 --> 00:33:08,679
second call for the vote all Inay that

593
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:13,840
motion please raise your

594
00:33:08,679 --> 00:33:13,840
hand and the last itemer

595
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:20,240
to chair calls for a motion ENT back

596
00:33:17,039 --> 00:33:22,559
into session a motion on that

597
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:25,120
it

598
00:33:22,559 --> 00:33:28,760
second second in favor of the motion

599
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,760
please ra hand

600
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immedately supended withay decemberthe

601
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:44,279
toin pending investigation we are

602
00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:58,399
asking during that time frame she also

603
00:33:53,799 --> 00:33:58,399
asked to surrender and ID

604
00:34:09,240 --> 00:34:13,159
moot do I hear

605
00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:14,639
second all in favor of the motion please

606
00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:17,240
raise your

607
00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:21,040
hand chair calls for an adjournment of

608
00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:21,040
tonight's meeting motion on that

609
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:28,560
item seconder motion second forj this

610
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,560
meeting ised

611
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spe