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All right, good evening, ladies and
gentlemen.

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We're going ahead and start the admin
committee for the month of August 2026.

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Thanks everyone for attending tonight. Uh,
first order of business is our roll call.

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Second item is the roll call, and, uh,

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let the record show that all members are
present except for Commissioner Brandon

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Nutt. And so in his absence, Commissioner
Scott Saunders is sitting in.

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Thank you for doing that.

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And that said, we'll go to our next item,
which is the approval of the agenda.

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I need a motion to approve it. I have it
from Mr. Grooms. I have a second from Mr.

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Miller. Any discussion on the agenda?
Seeing none, we'll vote. All in favor say

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Seeing none, we'll vote. All in favor say
aye.

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Aye.

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Any opposed? Okay, we have an agenda.
Thank you for that.

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Next item on the agenda is the approval of
the July 2026 meeting minutes.

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Unless there's any changes or additions,
those will stand as presented.

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And seeing no lights, those will stand as
presented. Thank you for that.

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Next item on the agenda is the legislative
report.

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Mayor Butt, you have the floor, ma'am.

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Thank you.

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We had that report at the last full
commission meeting, and in September,

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the county mayors across the state will
meet and we will set our legislative

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meet and we will set our legislative
agenda.

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So when that agenda is set, I will
certainly come back and report to all of

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certainly come back and report to all of
you.

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Thank you.

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All right, any questions for the mayor?
Seeing none, we'll move forward.

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That's the public comment.

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Uh, anybody wishing to speak back public
comment can come forward.

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Is there anybody signed up for public
comment? All right, thank you.

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So in light of that, we won't read the
statement unless somebody does.

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Next item on the agenda are the notaries,
and that will go to Vice Chair Miller.

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You You have the floor, sir. Thank you,
Mr. Chairman.

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This month's notary list includes Machen
Nicholas Azar Jr.,

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Joseph Demarest Jr., Lisa Dyer, Natasha
Inglett,

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Maria Mayta Fuentes, Anna Gabriela Gomez,
Dora A.

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Gonzalez, Alicia G.

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Hickman, Demi Lamp, Kimberly Reed, Janet
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Paula Lee Thompson, And renewal applicants
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Lamita S.

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Atkinson, Leslie Hazard, Mark Elliott
Munkris,

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Lawrence Michael Nobles, Cassie Sisk, and
Stephanie D.

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Webster.

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That is in the form of motion.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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Thank you. I have a motion. Does it have a
second? I have a second from Mr. Grooms.

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I do have one light. Mr. Bridenbaugh, your
light's on, sir. You're up.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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Just as an acknowledgment, one of the
names on this list is an employee of our

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names on this list is an employee of our
firm.

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Condition of her employment and any
employment in our firm is to either be a

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employment in our firm is to either be a
notary

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or get licensed as a notary.

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As that is a condition of employment,

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it's not any personal benefit to me in any
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I will not be recusing myself and will be
voting on the motion.

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Understood. Thank you for that. Any other—
I do have another light.

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Who's on the floor? Mr. Dobies.

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Thank you, Chairman.

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Yeah, I just wanted to say that that was
all appropriate and correct, sir.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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Yep.

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All right. Seeing no other lights, we'll
vote. All in favor say aye. Aye.

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Any opposed? All right. That passes. Thank
you for that.

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Next item on the agenda is the library
report, and our director is here. Come on

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report, and our director is here. Come on
up.

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Good evening. You saw my report. Do you
have any questions?

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Any questions for Meghan? Seeing none.

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We did wrap up our summer reading over
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over the weekend on Saturday at Murray
County Park. We had a foam party.

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Quotes from kids were, best day ever. So
they had a blast.

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We had 150 people show up for our event
and we're killing it.

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So last fiscal year we had 700 programs,
even with the closure,

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that we offered to the community. And
we're ready to keep on going.

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So thank you for your support.

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All right.

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All right.

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What else you got?

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There's—

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I got a whole list on here.

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Uh, well, the next part—

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The next thing I've got is the library
board application of, uh, let's see.

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I'm sorry, Mr. Strand, your light was on.
Go ahead, sir.

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I just have a quick question. Um, I've had
concern from some, some folks.

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When are we going to have our, uh,
security guy back?

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He's, he's back.

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He's back now?

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Mm-hmm.

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Good.

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Thank you.

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He has been.

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Thank you, Chair.

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He's there for open hours.

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All right. The next item on my list is the
library board application of Tonya

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Burgett. So I guess, does the chair want
to come up and make that recommendation?

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And then we'll— of the board? I'm sorry?
Okay, I'm looking at the document list.

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I'm sorry. All right, well, yeah, let me
do that and go ahead and go back then,

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guys.

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So, um, we have an applicant that is here
tonight, Tanya Burdette.

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All right, Tanya Burdette, and that is the
name that the board— as far as,

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uh, that's the only application you have
received? All right.

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The floor is open for any other additional
nominations or to move her

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forward. I'm sorry?

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City.

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City. I need a motion to move her forward.

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So moved.

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I have a motion from Mr. Bridenbaugh. I'll
second it. Any other nominations?

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No.

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All right. We'll vote to move her to the
full commission. All in favor say aye.

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full commission. All in favor say aye.
Aye.

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Any opposed? All right, that takes care of
that. Thank you.

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Let me— now we will go back to item B
here.

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I'm looking at a computer and a piece of
paper.

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Approval of the amended library swap
resolution.

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We do have the Mount Pleasant attorney and
city manager here.

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Y'all come on up and tell us what we got
going on.

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Finance director.

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I'm sorry, finance director. Sorry,
finance director.

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Good afternoon, Mayor and commissioners.

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So This is the library swap that we
negotiated last year,

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I think in November or December with the
full commission.

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Um, and what's happening is Murray County
is building a new library on what is

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Howard Field in Mount Pleasant.

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And then when that new library is built,
then, uh,

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y'all give the current Mount Pleasant
library back to Mount Pleasant.

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So that's what the existing MOU said. That
came through kind of Quickly.

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Um, after that, we started ironing out the
details.

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And so the new agreement and what has
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actually been approved in your budget is
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Howard Field is a big property. It
currently has a baseball field on it.

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So half of that, roughly half of that
property would be deeded to Murray County

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property would be deeded to Murray County
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the use of the library, for the
construction and use of the library.

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And then on the other side,

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Murray County would build a softball field
to replace the existing baseball field

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that's there.

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Okay.

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It also has a dog park that Mount Pleasant
will continue to own.

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And so, like I said, y'all did pass the
MOU.

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You've already had most of these items in
your budget,

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but the MOU does not reflect the actual
plan that's in place and already moving

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forward. So the first thing on y'all's
agenda is an amended MOU.

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The changes to that document are that
Howard Field will be split in half,

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and that's going before the Mount Pleasant
Planning Commission this month.

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Yes.

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Um, like I said, one side will be for the
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and then any future improvements that
y'all might want to do.

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The other side, the county—

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it says the county will build the softball
field and then Mount Pleasant will

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maintain that softball field.

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Um, there's also a dog park will continue
to be owned and maintained by Mount

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Pleasant. And then there's an existing
restroom on that property that will be

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continually maintained by Murray County.

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Um, So that is the changes to the MOU
that's there.

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And the second resolution is to accept the
deed to the portion of the property that

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is going to have the library on it.

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All right. I'm assuming we're going to
take these separately, but I need—

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I want to go to the attorney first. Mark,
go ahead.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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I just want to make a very sort of
30,000-foot view comment, which is that

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30,000-foot view comment, which is that
I'm—

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this precedes me, but there's been a lot
of due diligence and a lot of hard work

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from Prior county attorney and Corey, and
they've coordinated a lot.

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So there's a lot of thought and blood,
sweat into this one.

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So, you know, I looked over everything,
and I think the documents look great.

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And, you know, from the standpoint of what
we saw prior, I think this is, you know,

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I kind of bless it from my office
standpoint.

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All right.

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Well, my question to you is, so we have
multiple items here,

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the approval of the amended library swap
resolution, the amended MOU,

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quitclaim deed, and the library deed CMP
to Murray County.

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Do we take that all as one action or do
everything as a separate action?

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Okay, so the first action is the approval
of the MOU.

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I have a motion from Commissioner Sumner,
a second from Commissioner Grooms.

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Any discussion on this? I do have a light
on. Commissioner Strand, you're up, sir.

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Thank you, Chair.

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Say we're going to build a softball
diamond. I, I've been out there.

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I know that the ground's flat. Should be
fairly easy from that perspective.

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But when you say softball, softball
diamond, does that mean bathrooms,

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refreshment stands, bleachers, and
lighting?

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There is already a restroom there, so that
restroom is staying.

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There's already been a site plan approved
through Mount Pleasant.

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It looks small, but there is just a
softball field.

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It really abuts up to the property right
there.

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I don't think that there's anything else
other than the softball field,

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but that was not— I think that would be
what was in y'all's budget.

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Again, my question, lighting?

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I don't know.

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Well, but we're using half the field,

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so the lights aren't all on that part of
the field.

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There's no refreshment stand except that
little ghetto thing back in the

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corner. Is that included for us to build
that as well?

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The removal of the baseball field and the
adding in the softball field is all that

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the MOU states. I was not part of this,
um,

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original discussion about the softball
field.

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So I'm not sure what y'all have approved
as far as what's in your budget to go

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forward. I don't think there's anything
other than the softball field itself.

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Is that correct?

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Hang on, Mr. Grooms, let me turn on your
light there.

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Go ahead.

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The softball field's in the GMP with
bleachers,

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with everything that comes with a softball
field.

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If you don't have bleachers, you don't
have a concession stand,

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then it's not a softball field.

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Yeah, and they've got bleachers out there
already.

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Yeah, so I mean, so all of that was in— is
in the GMP, and all of that was—

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has already been discussed.

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Okay, okay, thank you. All right, Mr.
Grooms, your light is on. You were up

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Grooms, your light is on. You were up
next.

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Um, no, I was just going to be in response
to Okay, that's all I got then.

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Yes, Commissioner Koslawinski, you're up,
sir. Thank you, Chairman.

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Uh, just a real quick question.

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So I understand this, um,

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Mount Pleasant is going to maintain the
softball field and the dog park,

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and so Murray County is just going to be
just responsible for maintaining the

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bathrooms out there and the library? And
the library.

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And another thing I forgot to mention is
the parking lot will be on the library

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property, the one that's owned by Murray
County.

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But it also says in the MOU that both
Mount Pleasant and Murray County can use

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Mount Pleasant and Murray County can use
that

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parking lot for the softball field and for
the library.

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Okay.

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I don't know.

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It seems kind of odd to me to—

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for the county to take responsibility of
the bathrooms if it's going to be for the

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softball field, but maybe I'm
misunderstanding something there.

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It seems like— It's on our side of the
line.

228
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It's on our side.

229
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Okay.

230
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Very good. Well, then that answers it.

231
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I don't think that's— I'm not sure that
that's accurate.

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Yeah, I thought the bathrooms were Right
there by the parking area.

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Oh, I'll have to look at the subdivision
plat,

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but I believe that the softball—

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the line is drawn to where the restroom
that exists is

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going to be on the Mount Pleasant portion.

237
00:12:12,226 --> 00:12:16,348
Oh, then I raise my question again.

238
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Thank you, Chairman.

239
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All right, uh, Commissioner Morrow, you're
up, sir.

240
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

241
00:12:22,153 --> 00:12:25,833
Uh, does that— is that field even— does it
even have lights?

242
00:12:25,833 --> 00:12:28,592
Uh, best I recall, that was a practice
field.

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I don't know that it's even got lights.

244
00:12:30,984 --> 00:12:34,846
Okay. All right, I don't see any other
lights.

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So from the motion for the approval of the
amended library swap resolutions, uh,

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motion by Commissioner Sumner, seconded by
Commissioner Grooms.

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All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?
All right, then that one passes.

248
00:12:52,897 --> 00:12:58,522
Oh, yeah, that can go on the consent
agenda. Is that correct, Mark?

249
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Or does that need to go to budget? I mean,
or just does it need to be standalone?

250
00:13:05,323 --> 00:13:06,897
There's no money.

251
00:13:06,897 --> 00:13:11,995
Well, I mean, but can it be on the full
commission consent agenda?

252
00:13:11,995 --> 00:13:16,783
Okay, well, we won't. All right, next item
is the amended MOU.

253
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I need a motion to approve it. I have it
from Commissioner, um, Grooms.

254
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I need a second. I have it from
Commissioner Miller.

255
00:13:26,284 --> 00:13:32,231
Any discussion or questions on that? All
right, seeing no lights, we'll vote.

256
00:13:32,231 --> 00:13:33,853
All in favor say aye.

257
00:13:33,853 --> 00:13:34,338
Aye.

258
00:13:34,338 --> 00:13:38,337
Any opposed? That passes. Item D, the
quitclaim deed.

259
00:13:38,337 --> 00:13:44,524
I need a motion to approve and a second. I
have a motion from Commissioner Grooms.

260
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I'll second it. Any discussion on that?
All right, there's a light.

261
00:13:49,579 --> 00:13:52,672
Commissioner Bridenbaugh, you're up, sir.

262
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Mr. Chairman, just for clarity, I think
there's, there's 2 documents related.

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One is the actual deed and one is a
resolution.

264
00:14:00,341 --> 00:14:03,186
Are we voting on these 2 together or
separate?

265
00:14:03,186 --> 00:14:08,985
The way the Agenda as written, Item D is
the quitclaim deed.

266
00:14:08,985 --> 00:14:13,066
If this is— if we're talking about the
deed itself, I do have a question on that.

267
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All right, go ahead.

268
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And just for clarification, in the last
paragraph of the deed,

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in the reverter clause,

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it says that in the event the new library
has not been completed within 2 years from

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the commencement of construction, and my
question is,

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that's kind of a broad statement.

273
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What is considered completion What is
considered commencement of construction?

274
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Is it when the equipment shows up? Is it
when they first turn dirt?

275
00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,789
Completion is certificate of occupancy or
unlocking the doors?

276
00:14:44,789 --> 00:14:50,039
That's a pretty broad statement for a
reverter clause if Mount Pleasant is going

277
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reverter clause if Mount Pleasant is going
to

278
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take it back.

279
00:14:51,023 --> 00:14:52,920
I agree with all of those comments.

280
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I copied that language directly from the
existing MOU,

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so I didn't feel comfortable answering
that question without guidance from this.

282
00:15:00,184 --> 00:15:03,301
And I don't know, it I admire your work,
Corey.

283
00:15:03,301 --> 00:15:08,208
I mean, we know each other and, and, um, I
don't want to overly detail it,

284
00:15:08,208 --> 00:15:13,313
but I do know things like that can come
back to bite if they're not detailed.

285
00:15:13,313 --> 00:15:18,552
At least there's an understanding of what
the start and finish identifiers are.

286
00:15:18,552 --> 00:15:21,372
I think a certificate of occupancy is a
good finish line.

287
00:15:21,372 --> 00:15:25,770
I would agree with that statement. What
about commencement?

288
00:15:27,561 --> 00:15:32,175
I think they're about to build, to move
dirt here in a same permit, you know,

289
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a building permit or—

290
00:15:33,433 --> 00:15:37,274
And as long as the commission knows what
timeline they're working under is what I'm

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concerned with.

292
00:15:37,968 --> 00:15:40,346
And we can revise that, you know, in—

293
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we can revise it in the deed without
revising it in the MOU.

294
00:15:44,202 --> 00:15:47,929
But I just was tracking the language that
we already have.

295
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I appreciate that. I'll leave that up to
the county attorney.

296
00:15:51,334 --> 00:15:52,447
And Mark, your light was on.

297
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Go ahead.

298
00:15:52,900 --> 00:15:53,381
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

299
00:15:53,477 --> 00:15:55,541
Yeah, I think that's a very good point.

300
00:15:55,541 --> 00:15:57,287
Is it something that we would do—

301
00:15:57,287 --> 00:16:00,357
is it too hasty to do a verbal amendment
to change it now,

302
00:16:00,357 --> 00:16:03,532
or is it something we can do in a later
committee to change?

303
00:16:03,757 --> 00:16:04,029
Do it now?

304
00:16:04,478 --> 00:16:04,719
Okay.

305
00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:05,264
Okay.

306
00:16:05,264 --> 00:16:08,504
So you wish to make an amendment to add
language, or—

307
00:16:08,504 --> 00:16:11,391
Mr. Sumner is going to straighten it out.

308
00:16:11,391 --> 00:16:16,583
I would be more comfortable changing the
language if I could work with the county

309
00:16:16,583 --> 00:16:21,198
attorney or let him work on his own and
have it for the full commission.

310
00:16:21,198 --> 00:16:23,250
We don't have to rewrite it now,

311
00:16:23,250 --> 00:16:28,185
but I would like a definitive start and
ending event, not necessarily a date,

312
00:16:28,185 --> 00:16:29,211
but event. Okay.

313
00:16:29,357 --> 00:16:30,717
Mr. Saunders, did you want to add to that?

314
00:16:30,717 --> 00:16:33,363
No, no, I just have a question about this.

315
00:16:33,363 --> 00:16:34,486
Go ahead, you're up.

316
00:16:34,486 --> 00:16:39,369
The attachment here that says library deed
CMP to Murray County,

317
00:16:39,369 --> 00:16:43,948
that's just an attachment to the actual
resolution, correct?

318
00:16:43,948 --> 00:16:49,441
Okay, so it's not— it's, it's the actual
deed For the attachment to the,

319
00:16:49,441 --> 00:16:52,112
to the resolution. Okay. Thank you.

320
00:16:52,192 --> 00:16:52,658
You're passing.

321
00:16:52,851 --> 00:16:54,392
We're not, we're not voting on this twice.

322
00:16:54,456 --> 00:16:57,905
I think that's what you have. 2
resolutions. The first one was approving

323
00:16:57,905 --> 00:16:58,288
resolutions. The first one was approving
the MOU.

324
00:16:58,288 --> 00:17:00,156
The second one approves the deed. Okay.

325
00:17:00,156 --> 00:17:05,565
And, uh, I mean, I don't know, does he do
these things?

326
00:17:05,565 --> 00:17:08,810
Things need to go through budget.

327
00:17:08,810 --> 00:17:15,989
There's no money, anything monetarily
there, but I mean, Okay. Thank you.

328
00:17:15,989 --> 00:17:18,351
Yeah, he just said no. He just— go ahead.

329
00:17:18,351 --> 00:17:18,913
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

330
00:17:19,009 --> 00:17:22,758
Yeah, I mean, my, um, I'm with
Commissioner Bridenbaugh on this,

331
00:17:22,758 --> 00:17:27,502
and maybe 3 of us can sort of get together
and work out some language before full

332
00:17:27,502 --> 00:17:30,782
commission. It's okay, up to you,
commission, of course.

333
00:17:30,782 --> 00:17:33,125
All right, I don't see any other lights.

334
00:17:33,125 --> 00:17:37,518
I have a motion from Commissioner Grooms,
second from Commissioner Previti.

335
00:17:37,518 --> 00:17:41,853
All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?
All right, that passes. Thank you.

336
00:17:41,853 --> 00:17:46,246
Next item is the library deed CMP to
Murray County. I need a motion to move

337
00:17:46,246 --> 00:17:46,539
Murray County. I need a motion to move
that.

338
00:17:46,539 --> 00:17:49,585
I have it from Commissioner Grooms. I need
a second.

339
00:17:49,585 --> 00:17:53,392
I have a second from Commissioner Miller.
Any discussion on that?

340
00:17:53,392 --> 00:17:55,793
No.

341
00:17:55,793 --> 00:17:59,302
All right, we have none. All in favor say
aye. Wait a minute, I do have a light on.

342
00:17:59,302 --> 00:18:01,204
Commissioner Grody, you're up. I see you
now.

343
00:18:01,204 --> 00:18:04,946
We got 3 attorneys in the room and I'm not
one of them.

344
00:18:04,946 --> 00:18:10,660
And so I wanted to ask the question, When
I see the word deed, I think it's forever.

345
00:18:10,660 --> 00:18:15,763
It's not a number of years. It's forever.
When you move it over, it's ours.

346
00:18:15,763 --> 00:18:18,348
It's Murray County's. Is that correct?

347
00:18:18,348 --> 00:18:18,797
Yes.

348
00:18:18,797 --> 00:18:23,382
There's no timeline? There's no timeline.
This deed is a little bit unusual.

349
00:18:23,382 --> 00:18:28,147
If you remember, this is a property that
was originally owned by Murray County,

350
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and then y'all gave it to Mount Pleasant
with a restriction on it that said it had

351
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to be used for recreational purposes only.

352
00:18:35,627 --> 00:18:39,609
Then sometime last year when y'all were
contemplating the library,

353
00:18:39,609 --> 00:18:44,314
we realized that that language might not
be broad enough to allow the library.

354
00:18:44,314 --> 00:18:48,959
So Mount Pleasant and Murray County
amended that restriction and says that it

355
00:18:48,959 --> 00:18:49,321
amended that restriction and says that it
has to

356
00:18:49,321 --> 00:18:52,397
be used for recreational purposes and/or a
library.

357
00:18:52,397 --> 00:18:55,112
So that is always on there, that
restriction.

358
00:18:55,112 --> 00:18:59,274
And so if that restriction were to be
broken, then it would, I guess,

359
00:18:59,274 --> 00:19:03,316
go back to the other entity, but also we
had that reverter that Mr.

360
00:19:03,316 --> 00:19:05,125
Bradenbaugh was talking about,

361
00:19:05,125 --> 00:19:09,650
that if the library is not constructed for
some reason, it would come back.

362
00:19:09,650 --> 00:19:13,510
So those are the only things that would
change the forever part,

363
00:19:13,510 --> 00:19:15,018
but it is an actual deed.

364
00:19:15,018 --> 00:19:19,724
So what y'all are actually approving with
that resolution is acceptance of the

365
00:19:19,724 --> 00:19:22,800
property. So the restriction was filed?
Yes, ma'am.

366
00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:23,202
Okay.

367
00:19:23,202 --> 00:19:26,080
It was approved by this board and also by
Mount Pleasant.

368
00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:28,755
And then it was filed against the
Property, you know,

369
00:19:28,755 --> 00:19:31,431
so if you pulled up a title search for
that property,

370
00:19:31,431 --> 00:19:34,157
you would see this restriction? It's on
the deed. Yes.

371
00:19:34,157 --> 00:19:34,349
Yeah.

372
00:19:34,542 --> 00:19:35,828
Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

373
00:19:35,828 --> 00:19:39,395
All right. Seeing no other lights, we'll
vote. All in favor say aye.

374
00:19:39,989 --> 00:19:40,038
Aye.

375
00:19:40,391 --> 00:19:44,365
Any opposed? And that passes. That
concludes the library business.

376
00:19:44,365 --> 00:19:46,774
Thank y'all for being here this evening.

377
00:19:46,774 --> 00:19:51,712
Next item on the agenda is the Visitors
Bureau with Erin Jaggers and their monthly

378
00:19:51,712 --> 00:19:54,570
report. Over to Renee.

379
00:19:57,570 --> 00:20:00,296
Hi, everybody. So we gave you our report.

380
00:20:00,296 --> 00:20:02,624
We gave you the calendar of events.

381
00:20:02,624 --> 00:20:05,749
So I was wondering if y'all have any
questions.

382
00:20:05,749 --> 00:20:06,531
No.

383
00:20:06,531 --> 00:20:10,941
And if not, the only thing I want to talk
about is I know that y'all know about the

384
00:20:10,941 --> 00:20:12,588
brick sales for the courthouse.

385
00:20:12,588 --> 00:20:15,989
We want to make sure y'all are reminding
people, getting people—

386
00:20:15,989 --> 00:20:18,858
we have a lot of people that are picking
up the forms,

387
00:20:18,858 --> 00:20:21,515
but they don't know what they want to put
on them.

388
00:20:21,515 --> 00:20:23,693
So we need to remind them, turn those in.

389
00:20:23,693 --> 00:20:26,244
So it's $100 for a 4x8 and it's $200 for
an 8x8.

390
00:20:26,244 --> 00:20:30,388
So they have little boxes that they can
fill in if you haven't bought one yet.

391
00:20:30,388 --> 00:20:34,055
Our office, we can run even a credit card.
So just sell these bricks.

392
00:20:34,055 --> 00:20:37,562
We need to sell some bricks. The other
thing is I have great news.

393
00:20:37,562 --> 00:20:41,812
Well, I'm excited about our group tour
that's coming this Friday because they're

394
00:20:41,812 --> 00:20:41,972
that's coming this Friday because they're
not

395
00:20:41,972 --> 00:20:45,053
just coming to Columbia, they're coming to
Mount Pleasant.

396
00:20:45,053 --> 00:20:46,435
Spring Hill, and Columbia.

397
00:20:46,435 --> 00:20:50,526
So they're getting to see all Murray
County, or as much as you can, you know,

398
00:20:50,526 --> 00:20:52,917
in one day. So it's going to be a great
tour,

399
00:20:52,917 --> 00:20:55,946
and then they're even going to stay and do
First Fridays.

400
00:20:55,946 --> 00:20:59,878
So should be a good group, it's like 42
people, so I'm excited about that.

401
00:20:59,878 --> 00:21:03,066
Otherwise, we're getting ready for the
Tennessee State Fair,

402
00:21:03,066 --> 00:21:05,563
we're getting ready for the Murray County
Fair,

403
00:21:05,563 --> 00:21:07,582
and we're getting ready for Fall Fest.

404
00:21:07,582 --> 00:21:10,558
So our office is a little busy, but y'all
need anything?

405
00:21:10,558 --> 00:21:14,298
Kathy, you asked a question last night.

406
00:21:14,298 --> 00:21:18,326
The forms, there's not an online fill-out.

407
00:21:18,326 --> 00:21:20,148
You go pick one up.

408
00:21:20,148 --> 00:21:24,685
I was going to say, are you going to have
them at First Friday, the brick forms?

409
00:21:24,685 --> 00:21:28,994
Oh, no, ma'am. We have them in our office,
but we can email the form to you.

410
00:21:28,994 --> 00:21:31,206
Okay, that'd be great. Okay, thank you.

411
00:21:31,206 --> 00:21:32,891
Yes, ma'am. Mayor Butt, you're up, ma'am.

412
00:21:32,891 --> 00:21:37,509
I just have a question. When these 42
people come, where do they come from?

413
00:21:37,509 --> 00:21:40,956
How are they recruited? How do they decide
to come here?

414
00:21:40,956 --> 00:21:44,220
It kind of depends on the travel group
tour operator,

415
00:21:44,220 --> 00:21:48,160
but this particular group is coming from
Lawrenceburg, actually.

416
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:48,420
Okay.

417
00:21:48,420 --> 00:21:50,068
So they're not spending the night,

418
00:21:50,068 --> 00:21:54,090
whereas usually our group will spend the
night because they're coming from Michigan

419
00:21:54,090 --> 00:21:55,399
or, you know, further away.

420
00:21:55,399 --> 00:21:58,985
A lot of times our group will come because
they've traveled from Michigan,

421
00:21:58,985 --> 00:22:00,293
let's just say, to Alabama,

422
00:22:00,293 --> 00:22:04,219
and then we'll get them for half a day or
something while they're traveling back,

423
00:22:04,219 --> 00:22:07,369
or we might get them overnight. So it just
depends on that group.

424
00:22:07,369 --> 00:22:08,629
Okay, thank you very much.

425
00:22:08,629 --> 00:22:12,932
Can you get them to bring a couple of
briskets up with them from Schaefer's?

426
00:22:12,932 --> 00:22:14,378
I sure wish I could.

427
00:22:14,378 --> 00:22:18,130
All right, uh, any other lights for, uh,
them? Nope. Thank you guys.

428
00:22:18,130 --> 00:22:22,764
I know y'all have a fair board meeting to
get to, so thanks for being here for that.

429
00:22:22,764 --> 00:22:25,964
Next item on the agenda is the building
and zoning report.

430
00:22:25,964 --> 00:22:28,833
Robert is not here, but his report's been
submitted.

431
00:22:28,833 --> 00:22:31,260
If you have any questions, reach out to
him.

432
00:22:31,260 --> 00:22:35,067
Next item on the agenda, human resources
and Dana. She's always here.

433
00:22:35,067 --> 00:22:41,838
Good afternoon. I have before you my
monthly

434
00:22:41,838 --> 00:22:48,762
report. I'd be happy to answer any
questions.

435
00:22:48,762 --> 00:22:53,565
Any questions for Dana on her report?
Seeing no lights, go ahead, ma'am.

436
00:22:53,565 --> 00:22:58,466
The next item, requesting to approve the
updated Title VI complaint

437
00:22:58,466 --> 00:23:00,587
procedures policy. All right,

438
00:23:00,587 --> 00:23:04,025
basically some addresses were changed on
those.

439
00:23:04,025 --> 00:23:08,437
And those are in your packet, and
hopefully everybody has taken a look at

440
00:23:08,437 --> 00:23:08,739
hopefully everybody has taken a look at
that.

441
00:23:08,739 --> 00:23:13,333
I'll need a motion to move that forward. I
have it from Commissioner Grooms.

442
00:23:13,333 --> 00:23:17,140
I need a second. I have a second from
Commissioner Bridenbaugh.

443
00:23:17,140 --> 00:23:22,036
Any discussion on that? All right, seeing
none, we'll vote. All in favor say aye.

444
00:23:22,036 --> 00:23:24,937
Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that passes. Okay,
Dana.

445
00:23:26,671 --> 00:23:32,163
Parks and Rec Department is requesting to
reclassify the park supervisor position to

446
00:23:32,163 --> 00:23:33,732
assistant park director.

447
00:23:33,732 --> 00:23:37,328
The job description for the assistant park
director is—

448
00:23:37,328 --> 00:23:42,101
was attached and it's in my packet. This
will require a budget amendment.

449
00:23:42,101 --> 00:23:44,824
And Al talked about that the other night,

450
00:23:44,824 --> 00:23:49,804
so we will need a motion to move this
forward to the Budget Committee and a

451
00:23:49,804 --> 00:23:52,858
second. I'll make the motion. I need a
second.

452
00:23:52,858 --> 00:23:58,237
I have a second from Commissioner Grooms.
For discussion, any discussion on this?

453
00:23:58,237 --> 00:24:00,002
Yes, Commissioner Saunders.

454
00:24:00,002 --> 00:24:01,815
Commissioner Saunders, your light's on,
sir.

455
00:24:01,815 --> 00:24:03,480
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

456
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:08,545
I'm just going to say this once for
everything here on this— left on this

457
00:24:08,545 --> 00:24:09,031
everything here on this— left on this
agenda.

458
00:24:09,031 --> 00:24:12,777
Item B through— excuse me, C through F.
I've asked Ms.

459
00:24:12,777 --> 00:24:18,536
Gibson to Actually come up with a policy
to help with this commission going forward

460
00:24:18,536 --> 00:24:23,670
to, uh, to stop these things from coming
up during the, during the budget,

461
00:24:23,670 --> 00:24:29,082
during the normal, during a normal, uh,
normal year instead of within the, uh,

462
00:24:29,082 --> 00:24:33,522
you know, when it's supposed to come up
during the budget cycle.

463
00:24:33,522 --> 00:24:39,072
So, uh, I just want everybody to know that
I've, I've asked her to work on that,

464
00:24:39,072 --> 00:24:41,848
and I think she's going to work with Mr.

465
00:24:41,848 --> 00:24:46,496
Dubbies on that going forward, but That's
just how I feel about it.

466
00:24:46,496 --> 00:24:48,508
I think these things— I mean,

467
00:24:48,508 --> 00:24:53,712
we're a month into the budget and we're
spending money like it's, you know,

468
00:24:53,712 --> 00:24:58,430
it's burning a hole in our pocket. So
that's just my thoughts on it.

469
00:24:58,430 --> 00:25:01,829
But if it, you know, whenever she gets
that done,

470
00:25:01,829 --> 00:25:07,241
she'll present it to this committee
whenever that's done in this next month or

471
00:25:07,241 --> 00:25:07,449
whenever that's done in this next month or
the

472
00:25:07,449 --> 00:25:12,514
month after or whenever. So I just want to
let everybody know. Thank you.

473
00:25:12,514 --> 00:25:14,751
All right. I see no other lights on this.

474
00:25:14,751 --> 00:25:17,315
All in favor of moving this to budget, say
aye.

475
00:25:18,198 --> 00:25:18,247
Aye.

476
00:25:18,521 --> 00:25:19,279
Any opposed?

477
00:25:20,698 --> 00:25:20,844
All right.

478
00:25:23,457 --> 00:25:23,957
Did you vote?

479
00:25:25,052 --> 00:25:25,229
Okay.

480
00:25:25,293 --> 00:25:31,182
Mr. Sumner voted no, so that passes 4 to
1. Next item on the agenda. Go ahead,

481
00:25:31,182 --> 00:25:31,560
1. Next item on the agenda. Go ahead,
Dana.

482
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:36,388
Building Maintenance Department is
requesting to increase the hours for the

483
00:25:36,388 --> 00:25:36,903
requesting to increase the hours for the
building

484
00:25:36,903 --> 00:25:39,865
maintenance administrative assistant
position.

485
00:25:39,865 --> 00:25:42,826
This position currently works 35 hours a
week.

486
00:25:42,826 --> 00:25:46,882
Um, he is requesting for that position to
work 40 hours a week.

487
00:25:46,882 --> 00:25:50,809
This will require a budget amendment of
approximately $5,700.

488
00:25:50,809 --> 00:25:55,987
I'll need a motion and a second to carry
this forward to go to the budget committee

489
00:25:55,987 --> 00:25:59,731
if it passes. I have a motion from
Commissioner Bridenbaugh.

490
00:25:59,731 --> 00:26:04,285
I'll second it for discussion. Any
discussion on this? Seeing none, we'll

491
00:26:04,285 --> 00:26:04,597
discussion on this? Seeing none, we'll
vote.

492
00:26:04,597 --> 00:26:07,966
All in favor say aye. Wait, I'm sorry,
it's grow down.

493
00:26:07,966 --> 00:26:10,898
Sorry, Lisa's getting a little slow on me
here.

494
00:26:11,492 --> 00:26:15,518
I have a question between Scott and Dana.

495
00:26:15,518 --> 00:26:16,259
Go ahead.

496
00:26:16,259 --> 00:26:20,192
So why is this happening like the next
meeting?

497
00:26:20,192 --> 00:26:27,221
I mean, why do these department heads wait
to do this like when the next shoe drops?

498
00:26:27,221 --> 00:26:33,664
Do you have any idea about how that did—
like, for example, I love Matt Hill.

499
00:26:33,664 --> 00:26:38,350
So did Matt not see this coming during the
budget thing?

500
00:26:38,350 --> 00:26:44,877
I mean, why is this happening? I really
can't answer for the department heads.

501
00:26:44,877 --> 00:26:51,237
Don't shoot the messenger. I'm just
presenting. For Mr. Hill, I do know that

502
00:26:51,237 --> 00:26:51,488
presenting. For Mr. Hill, I do know that
Mr.

503
00:26:51,488 --> 00:26:55,421
Hill, I think it was just an oversight for
him.

504
00:26:55,421 --> 00:26:56,176
Okay.

505
00:26:56,176 --> 00:27:00,647
Suzanne retired, the previous employee
retired,

506
00:27:00,647 --> 00:27:05,783
and I think the remainder of his staff
works 40 hours,

507
00:27:05,783 --> 00:27:09,968
and I think it was just an oversight on
him.

508
00:27:09,968 --> 00:27:12,251
When did Suzanne retire?

509
00:27:12,251 --> 00:27:14,802
In June.

510
00:27:14,802 --> 00:27:19,504
Okay, she just, she just retired. Okay, so
sometimes you can't see that stuff.

511
00:27:19,504 --> 00:27:23,784
So we caught it that, yeah, that the new
employee was working 40 hours,

512
00:27:23,784 --> 00:27:26,798
and I addressed it with Matt and told him,
I said,

513
00:27:26,798 --> 00:27:31,440
if you've told her during the interview
process that this was a 40-hour week,

514
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,177
we can take it to the commission. to
increase the hours to 40.

515
00:27:35,177 --> 00:27:36,480
Okay.

516
00:27:36,561 --> 00:27:40,069
It just seems like a trend with department
heads.

517
00:27:40,069 --> 00:27:45,869
So I'm 100% behind the new policy to talk
to department heads about not coming up

518
00:27:45,869 --> 00:27:51,167
with something brand new the first week we
get out of the gate. Thank you.

519
00:27:51,167 --> 00:27:53,833
Thank you for that. I don't see any other
lights,

520
00:27:53,833 --> 00:27:55,900
and I'll just say this before we vote.

521
00:27:55,900 --> 00:28:00,361
You know, the other committee meetings,
these items were brought up and discussed,

522
00:28:00,361 --> 00:28:01,449
and so they're here.

523
00:28:01,449 --> 00:28:05,856
In this committee as a procedural thing,
and, and, and if we pass them to budget,

524
00:28:05,856 --> 00:28:10,262
it goes to budget. But I definitely think
the department heads had better be here

525
00:28:10,262 --> 00:28:13,799
when budget committee gets here to, to, to
defend, uh, their ask.

526
00:28:13,799 --> 00:28:17,770
I know they, you know, that Al talked
about it, and, and, uh, I don't— of

527
00:28:17,770 --> 00:28:18,151
about it, and, and, uh, I don't— of
course,

528
00:28:18,151 --> 00:28:22,231
I don't remember. Matt wasn't here the
other night to give his report, but,

529
00:28:22,231 --> 00:28:26,257
you know, they, they need to be here at
budget if this all passes through.

530
00:28:26,821 --> 00:28:27,450
Uh, one more light.

531
00:28:27,547 --> 00:28:28,611
Commissioner Saunders, you're up, sir.

532
00:28:28,611 --> 00:28:29,268
Never mind.

533
00:28:29,268 --> 00:28:32,732
You're good? Okay. That said, we have a
motion from Previti,

534
00:28:32,732 --> 00:28:36,715
a second from Grooms on that one, and— no,
I'm sorry, that was— yeah,

535
00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:37,466
that's right.

536
00:28:37,466 --> 00:28:38,030
Bridenbaugh.

537
00:28:38,030 --> 00:28:38,917
I'm sorry, Bridenbaugh.

538
00:28:38,917 --> 00:28:41,432
Bridenbaugh made the motion, you seconded.

539
00:28:41,432 --> 00:28:44,140
Yeah, okay, Bridenbaugh and myself. All in
favor say aye.

540
00:28:44,994 --> 00:28:45,043
Aye.

541
00:28:45,655 --> 00:28:49,928
Any opposed? I have 2 nos on that. Y'all
need to speak up.

542
00:28:50,170 --> 00:28:50,364
Okay.

543
00:28:50,573 --> 00:28:53,152
All right, so that passes 3 to 2.

544
00:28:53,152 --> 00:28:57,920
The 2 nos were, uh, Grooms and Sumner's,
if you need to know.

545
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,421
Okay, next item. Go ahead, Dana.

546
00:29:00,421 --> 00:29:06,333
The trustee is requesting to approve, um,
a new position.

547
00:29:06,333 --> 00:29:10,482
It's trustee senior accountant position.

548
00:29:10,482 --> 00:29:15,980
The job description was attached and is in
my packet.

549
00:29:15,980 --> 00:29:21,581
This will require a budget amendment of
approximately—

550
00:29:21,581 --> 00:29:28,116
for salary plus benefits of about $84,260
for 10 months for the

551
00:29:28,116 --> 00:29:35,169
remainder of the fiscal year. For a full
year, it would be $112,351.

552
00:29:35,169 --> 00:29:41,142
All right, I need a motion and a second to
move this for discussion and

553
00:29:41,142 --> 00:29:46,695
forward. I'll make the motion for
discussion. Do we have a second?

554
00:29:46,695 --> 00:29:50,144
I have a second from Commissioner Miller.

555
00:29:50,144 --> 00:29:54,855
The floor is open for any discussion, and
trustees here,

556
00:29:54,855 --> 00:30:01,081
if you want to come up and talk about this
for a minute. Yeah, no, that's—

557
00:30:01,902 --> 00:30:05,878
thank y'all, and I'm not trying to butter
you up.

558
00:30:05,878 --> 00:30:11,395
You all have a tough job, but I want to
thank all of the commission.

559
00:30:11,395 --> 00:30:17,237
You all do have a very tough job. I think
your job is tougher than ours.

560
00:30:17,237 --> 00:30:22,348
And as I say, I'm not trying to get a vote
whenever I say that,

561
00:30:22,348 --> 00:30:27,785
but I don't know how many are leaving, but
I value your friendship.

562
00:30:27,785 --> 00:30:34,032
And whether I get what I want or not
tonight and next week, I appreciate you.

563
00:30:34,032 --> 00:30:37,034
To answer what Ms. Brody said and Mr.

564
00:30:37,034 --> 00:30:42,227
Sumner's, I can't speak for the others,
but I can speak to mine.

565
00:30:42,227 --> 00:30:44,823
The timing is terrible. I agree.

566
00:30:44,823 --> 00:30:50,422
And I've actually talked to maybe all of
the admin committee members,

567
00:30:50,422 --> 00:30:55,533
and I probably told each one of you that
if I'm a commissioner,

568
00:30:55,533 --> 00:30:58,941
my first question is going to be, why now?

569
00:30:58,941 --> 00:31:02,349
Because we just finished our budget talks.

570
00:31:02,349 --> 00:31:08,677
My reasoning is Within the last few
months— now, we've lost tons of knowledge,

571
00:31:08,677 --> 00:31:14,357
60 to 70 years of knowledge, and I knew
that going into budget season.

572
00:31:14,357 --> 00:31:20,848
But I still felt like we could make it.
And I'm not saying we can't make it now.

573
00:31:20,848 --> 00:31:24,742
If you all vote it down, we're going to
make it.

574
00:31:24,742 --> 00:31:29,205
But recently, we managed 19 accounts, 19
bank accounts.

575
00:31:29,205 --> 00:31:30,353
That's a lot.

576
00:31:31,416 --> 00:31:35,257
Recently we added 3, one for the archives,
Mr.

577
00:31:35,257 --> 00:31:41,770
Price, animal shelter, and animal shelter
archives in the building and zoning.

578
00:31:41,770 --> 00:31:45,361
And that's been within the last few
months.

579
00:31:45,361 --> 00:31:50,204
And honestly, our office manager that
reconciles the bank,

580
00:31:50,204 --> 00:31:55,798
she came to me and she said, I'm
absolutely whipped. I I need help.

581
00:31:55,798 --> 00:31:59,055
I got it by just hearing that from her.

582
00:31:59,055 --> 00:32:04,984
So immediately, within the next few days,
I went to sit down with Doug.

583
00:32:04,984 --> 00:32:11,330
I talked to Doug. But I said, Doug, what I
want from you, if you don't mind,

584
00:32:11,330 --> 00:32:13,835
is for you to come downstairs.

585
00:32:13,835 --> 00:32:19,930
I want you to speak to our bookkeeper and
our office manager by yourself.

586
00:32:19,930 --> 00:32:24,105
I'll be outside the door, outside the
closed door.

587
00:32:24,105 --> 00:32:29,366
If you have any questions for me, I'll do
my best to answer it.

588
00:32:29,366 --> 00:32:29,655
That's right.

589
00:32:31,565 --> 00:32:35,971
So he met with them and he pondered on
that for a week or two,

590
00:32:35,971 --> 00:32:38,173
and then he and I talked again.

591
00:32:38,173 --> 00:32:43,076
And, and, and I'm not trying to throw Doug
under the bus by no means,

592
00:32:43,076 --> 00:32:45,777
because I'm the one that asked for it.

593
00:32:45,777 --> 00:32:51,390
But he said, honestly, I think you're to
the point that you need an accountant.

594
00:32:51,390 --> 00:32:55,085
Not just an accountant, he said a senior
accountant.

595
00:32:55,085 --> 00:32:57,714
After that, Doug and I met with Dana.

596
00:32:57,714 --> 00:33:03,115
And she came up with the job description
and, and all those types of things.

597
00:33:03,115 --> 00:33:07,378
Once again, we're going to be friends if
you all approve it.

598
00:33:07,378 --> 00:33:13,134
We're going to be friends if you don't.
But I just feel like that's where we are.

599
00:33:13,134 --> 00:33:18,818
The timing is terrible. It did not help on
my part that we added 3 new accounts.

600
00:33:18,818 --> 00:33:20,666
That was totally my fault.

601
00:33:20,666 --> 00:33:24,929
Now, I did that because I want to help all
3 of the offices.

602
00:33:24,929 --> 00:33:28,838
But more so than the department heads in
those offices,

603
00:33:28,838 --> 00:33:34,167
I did it to help the taxpayers of Murray
County that go into those offices.

604
00:33:34,167 --> 00:33:36,796
They're the ones that pay our salary.

605
00:33:36,796 --> 00:33:40,491
And whether we get the money or the
position or not,

606
00:33:40,491 --> 00:33:46,247
we'll continue to do everything we can to
help each department because ultimately

607
00:33:46,247 --> 00:33:51,363
that's helping the taxpayers of Murray
County, those people that pay us.

608
00:33:51,363 --> 00:33:53,424
So that, that's my reasoning.

609
00:33:53,424 --> 00:33:59,037
If I'm sitting in your seat, I'm not so
sure I would approve it, just honestly,

610
00:33:59,037 --> 00:34:04,935
because the timing is not good. But I did—
and I hope I'm not taking too much time.

611
00:34:04,935 --> 00:34:05,419
You're good.

612
00:34:05,419 --> 00:34:11,239
We have a great staff. The folks that
retired, they left on good terms.

613
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,616
60 to 70 years of experience.

614
00:34:13,616 --> 00:34:19,353
I think I've heard some of you all say
that's institutional knowledge.

615
00:34:19,353 --> 00:34:21,074
That's exactly right.

616
00:34:21,074 --> 00:34:26,648
But we're going to continue to do
everything that we can to help the

617
00:34:26,648 --> 00:34:27,386
everything that we can to help the
different

618
00:34:27,386 --> 00:34:31,402
departments. 19 bank accounts are hard to
manage.

619
00:34:31,402 --> 00:34:35,418
Sometimes it's a challenge for me to
manage mine,

620
00:34:35,418 --> 00:34:40,336
and I promise you mine is not that big, my
personal account.

621
00:34:40,336 --> 00:34:43,205
But, you know, that's where we are.

622
00:34:43,205 --> 00:34:43,486
Thank you.

623
00:34:44,453 --> 00:34:50,447
I went back and I've done a little bit
research to see what it would take to

624
00:34:50,447 --> 00:34:53,681
try to sell it to the best of my ability.

625
00:34:53,681 --> 00:34:55,811
2018, when I came on board,

626
00:34:55,811 --> 00:35:01,016
the population was around 95,000 with the
parcels of about 46,500.

627
00:35:01,016 --> 00:35:05,196
2026 population, according to Google,
well, you know,

628
00:35:05,196 --> 00:35:08,509
I always believe Google is around 120,000.

629
00:35:08,509 --> 00:35:08,644
Wow.

630
00:35:09,862 --> 00:35:15,635
Number of parcels, from what I understand,
for 2026 is over 59,000.

631
00:35:15,635 --> 00:35:20,202
So, you know, that's more transactions in
our office.

632
00:35:20,202 --> 00:35:26,319
But that's just a little bit of
information. We did add 3 new accounts.

633
00:35:26,319 --> 00:35:32,868
I mentioned that. I went back and our
earned interest that we got this year,

634
00:35:32,868 --> 00:35:35,883
I believe it was like $7.2 million.

635
00:35:35,883 --> 00:35:43,035
And we will continue to do our very best
to move money around to earn the very best

636
00:35:43,035 --> 00:35:45,706
interest rates that we can get.

637
00:35:45,706 --> 00:35:47,601
That's pretty well it,

638
00:35:47,601 --> 00:35:53,202
and I'll be glad to answer any questions
that you all might have.

639
00:35:53,202 --> 00:35:57,543
All right. I just want to add, Doug had to
go to the school board meeting.

640
00:35:57,543 --> 00:35:57,981
Okay.

641
00:35:57,981 --> 00:36:01,007
And he really wanted to be here to address
these items,

642
00:36:01,007 --> 00:36:04,858
and so I'm hoping that this will pass this
committee and go to budget.

643
00:36:04,858 --> 00:36:09,039
And then Chairman Sumners and his group
and Doug can have those discussions.

644
00:36:09,039 --> 00:36:12,505
I do have a light on. Commissioner
Bridenbaugh, you're up, sir.

645
00:36:12,505 --> 00:36:16,510
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I did have a
question, but it was answered.

646
00:36:16,510 --> 00:36:20,987
Thank you for that. And as you were
talking about everything that you all go

647
00:36:20,987 --> 00:36:23,402
through, obviously I'm not an accountant.

648
00:36:23,402 --> 00:36:27,997
I know Kathy probably can answer this
better than me. I know she's lived that.

649
00:36:27,997 --> 00:36:31,884
But my wife is, not only for her job, but
for the church treasury.

650
00:36:31,884 --> 00:36:36,361
And I have seen her stressed out at night
trying to balance the books and do

651
00:36:36,361 --> 00:36:39,777
everything else, and that's just when you
invite mistakes,

652
00:36:39,777 --> 00:36:42,251
and we can't make mistakes for the public.

653
00:36:42,251 --> 00:36:46,846
Our job as the Admin Committee is to
determine the validity of the request and

654
00:36:46,846 --> 00:36:47,023
determine the validity of the request and
the

655
00:36:47,023 --> 00:36:49,673
policy side of it, not the budget side of
it.

656
00:36:49,673 --> 00:36:51,322
That's the Budget Committee,

657
00:36:51,322 --> 00:36:56,035
and I agree with Chairman Previti that I
think we need to pass this out of Admin

658
00:36:56,035 --> 00:36:57,566
because the need is there,

659
00:36:57,566 --> 00:37:01,748
and then let Doug come back with the
Budget Committee and determine the

660
00:37:01,748 --> 00:37:02,396
Budget Committee and determine the
feasibility

661
00:37:02,396 --> 00:37:03,221
of the actual—

662
00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:03,317
Thank you.

663
00:37:04,449 --> 00:37:09,778
But I know the stress that those folks are
under, especially at this time of year,

664
00:37:09,778 --> 00:37:14,522
and I would agree that if the need is
there, we need to serve the public,

665
00:37:14,522 --> 00:37:18,356
and the last thing we need to do is send
out bad tax bills.

666
00:37:18,954 --> 00:37:19,244
Thank you.

667
00:37:19,244 --> 00:37:24,431
And I might add to that, if there's ever
any doubt about anything,

668
00:37:24,431 --> 00:37:26,552
I reach out to our auditor.

669
00:37:26,552 --> 00:37:32,760
I mean, I've tried to be as open and
transparent as To them as I am to you all.

670
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,668
I don't think it— well, I don't know.

671
00:37:35,668 --> 00:37:41,955
I hope it's not a finding, but because
we're working diligently now to fix that.

672
00:37:41,955 --> 00:37:45,412
And as you said, Ms. Rodye is an
accountant.

673
00:37:45,412 --> 00:37:50,442
I don't know exactly how they did, how
they go about doing that,

674
00:37:50,442 --> 00:37:56,414
but I always try to be as open and
transparent to them as I possibly can be.

675
00:37:56,414 --> 00:37:56,623
Thank you.

676
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,804
But I'll do my best to be here next week,
and then if it gets through that,

677
00:38:00,804 --> 00:38:04,220
I'll do my very best to be here for the
full commission meeting.

678
00:38:04,220 --> 00:38:06,257
Is that all you have, Jerry? That's all I
have. All right.

679
00:38:06,257 --> 00:38:08,470
Chair recognizes Commissioner Summers,
sticking with committee.

680
00:38:08,470 --> 00:38:11,877
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I got a couple of
things.

681
00:38:11,877 --> 00:38:13,785
First, for you, Mr. McNiece.

682
00:38:13,785 --> 00:38:17,260
I wasn't supposed to be sitting right here
tonight.

683
00:38:17,260 --> 00:38:18,900
You said you were not going to say a word.

684
00:38:18,900 --> 00:38:22,632
I wasn't, because I wasn't supposed to sit
here.

685
00:38:22,632 --> 00:38:27,841
I'm here because of my colleague being
out. That's why I'm talking.

686
00:38:27,841 --> 00:38:31,884
I wasn't going to say anything. I did tell
you that.

687
00:38:31,884 --> 00:38:35,228
This isn't about sending out bad tax
bills.

688
00:38:35,228 --> 00:38:40,048
This is about balancing the— balancing
your books every month,

689
00:38:40,048 --> 00:38:43,547
reconciling cash and all that stuff,
correct?

690
00:38:43,547 --> 00:38:44,980
We are balanced to the penny.

691
00:38:44,980 --> 00:38:46,558
You don't send bad tax bills out.

692
00:38:46,558 --> 00:38:47,234
Do what now?

693
00:38:47,234 --> 00:38:50,986
You don't send bad tax bills to people.
You don't send errors.

694
00:38:52,820 --> 00:38:54,500
Oh, I certainly hope not.

695
00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:55,793
Okay, because I just mentioned Mr.

696
00:38:55,793 --> 00:38:58,227
Bridenbaugh said that, and it kind of
threw me off a little bit.

697
00:38:58,227 --> 00:39:00,280
But this is about balancing your books
monthly. Right.

698
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,858
And we're balanced. Our office and Doug's
office are joined at the hips.

699
00:39:04,858 --> 00:39:08,482
You know, if there's a problem on our end,
we go to them.

700
00:39:08,482 --> 00:39:12,043
If they see something out of line, they're
coming to us.

701
00:39:12,043 --> 00:39:15,985
Now, and I think Doug— I don't want to put
words in his mouth,

702
00:39:15,985 --> 00:39:19,037
but I think this is something that he
would say.

703
00:39:19,037 --> 00:39:23,743
You know, there are times that That
someone from our office and his office

704
00:39:23,743 --> 00:39:23,997
someone from our office and his office
have

705
00:39:23,997 --> 00:39:27,812
spent a lot of time together, but I know
he's one short now.

706
00:39:27,812 --> 00:39:31,754
His assistant finance director, Ben, is
out, so Doug is short,

707
00:39:31,754 --> 00:39:33,598
but we're balanced with them,

708
00:39:33,598 --> 00:39:37,159
but this is balancing or reconciling the
bank statement,

709
00:39:37,159 --> 00:39:39,448
the 19 banker statements each month.

710
00:39:39,448 --> 00:39:41,267
Yeah, this has nothing to do with—

711
00:39:41,267 --> 00:39:45,387
but I didn't want people to be confused
that they were getting bad, you know,

712
00:39:45,387 --> 00:39:48,544
tax bills, because I don't want people You
know, I'm sorry,

713
00:39:48,544 --> 00:39:49,882
I didn't pick up on that.

714
00:39:49,882 --> 00:39:53,948
Reappraisals happen and, you know, people,
yeah, you know, that whole thing.

715
00:39:53,948 --> 00:39:58,229
So just didn't want anybody to think that,
but it is about balancing your check,

716
00:39:58,229 --> 00:40:00,690
pretty much your checkbooks and your
accounts.

717
00:40:00,690 --> 00:40:01,700
Reconciling the records.

718
00:40:01,700 --> 00:40:02,260
Reconciling, yes.

719
00:40:02,260 --> 00:40:02,760
That's right.

720
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:03,020
All right.

721
00:40:03,020 --> 00:40:05,122
Second thing, Mr. Previti, I, you know,

722
00:40:05,122 --> 00:40:09,004
I was sitting here thinking I don't really
have the authority to ask Ms.

723
00:40:09,004 --> 00:40:12,832
Gibson to do anything. It comes from this
committee or this commission.

724
00:40:12,832 --> 00:40:16,875
And so I, you know, I apologize for that,
but I did talk to her about that.

725
00:40:16,875 --> 00:40:20,433
But if the committee wants that, that's
fine. If not, that's fine.

726
00:40:20,433 --> 00:40:24,853
I just, just wanted to recognize that I do
not have the authority to ask her to do

727
00:40:24,853 --> 00:40:28,735
something. Just, just I have the authority
to ask her questions on that.

728
00:40:28,735 --> 00:40:31,053
So just want to make that clear. Thank
you.

729
00:40:31,053 --> 00:40:32,558
All right, uh, Commissioner, uh,

730
00:40:32,558 --> 00:40:35,661
Chair recognizes the distinguished lady
from the 6th District. Ms.

731
00:40:35,661 --> 00:40:36,931
Gerdau, you have the floor.

732
00:40:36,931 --> 00:40:39,793
Thank you. Um, I love it that you asked
Doug.

733
00:40:39,793 --> 00:40:42,401
I love it that he sat down with 2 people,

734
00:40:42,401 --> 00:40:47,236
and I love it that he wants a senior
accountant because this money You know,

735
00:40:47,236 --> 00:40:52,388
it's really smart money to spend this to
balance our cash because that's going to

736
00:40:52,388 --> 00:40:57,095
help us not get an audit finding, which
relates to lower interest— I mean,

737
00:40:57,095 --> 00:41:01,611
higher interest that we make or lower
interest that we pay on our debt.

738
00:41:01,611 --> 00:41:04,728
So in the long run, it will come out in
the wash,

739
00:41:04,728 --> 00:41:10,071
but we can't have losing employees and we
can't have somebody stressed out trying to

740
00:41:10,071 --> 00:41:14,524
balance our cash, 19 different cash
accounts. That's just a recipe for

741
00:41:14,524 --> 00:41:15,096
accounts. That's just a recipe for
disaster.

742
00:41:15,096 --> 00:41:18,277
So I'm glad that we're hiring a senior
accountant,

743
00:41:18,277 --> 00:41:23,556
and I'm glad we're putting the money where
our mouth is to get this balance so that

744
00:41:23,556 --> 00:41:24,956
it won't be a finding,

745
00:41:24,956 --> 00:41:29,917
because that's the first thing a lot of
auditors do is who are the new people,

746
00:41:29,917 --> 00:41:31,571
who are the new positions.

747
00:41:31,571 --> 00:41:36,532
They're going to go after those jobs and
what those people are required to do,

748
00:41:36,532 --> 00:41:41,303
balancing cash. So they're going to be
looking at that cash being balanced.

749
00:41:41,303 --> 00:41:41,939
Thank you.

750
00:41:41,939 --> 00:41:44,944
All right, I see no other lights.

751
00:41:44,944 --> 00:41:50,135
We have a motion, it has a second to pass
this to budget.

752
00:41:50,135 --> 00:41:53,686
All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

753
00:41:53,686 --> 00:41:59,696
I have a single no from Commissioner
Saunders. That passes 4 to 1.

754
00:41:59,696 --> 00:42:02,702
Next item, Dana, go ahead please.

755
00:42:02,702 --> 00:42:06,253
Pull your mic down a little bit please.

756
00:42:06,990 --> 00:42:07,070
Sorry.

757
00:42:07,070 --> 00:42:13,867
The Animal Services Director is requesting
to make the veterinary position

758
00:42:13,867 --> 00:42:16,715
full-time at 30 hours per week.

759
00:42:16,715 --> 00:42:21,032
Um, the reason for this is to provide
benefits.

760
00:42:21,032 --> 00:42:24,523
The current position is salary exempt,

761
00:42:24,523 --> 00:42:30,677
and it is working approximately 25 or a
little more hours per week,

762
00:42:30,677 --> 00:42:35,637
so they are not requesting that the salary
be changed.

763
00:42:35,637 --> 00:42:40,414
They are just requesting, um, for a
benefit package,

764
00:42:40,414 --> 00:42:47,211
and for 8 months that would be around
$16,641 to provide benefits for this

765
00:42:47,211 --> 00:42:48,038
position.

766
00:42:48,038 --> 00:42:50,867
All right, uh, in order to pass this to
budget,

767
00:42:50,867 --> 00:42:55,501
I need a motion and a second to get it out
of this committee. Do I have that?

768
00:42:55,501 --> 00:43:00,196
I'll make the motion for discussion. I
have a second from Commissioner Miller.

769
00:43:00,196 --> 00:43:02,844
All right, the floor is open for
discussion.

770
00:43:02,844 --> 00:43:04,295
No discussion.

771
00:43:04,295 --> 00:43:11,443
All right, that said, I do have a light.
Mr. Grooms, you said that—

772
00:43:11,897 --> 00:43:12,659
thank you, Mr. Chairman.

773
00:43:12,789 --> 00:43:14,280
You said that was for 8 months.

774
00:43:14,345 --> 00:43:15,399
What is it for a year?

775
00:43:15,399 --> 00:43:18,454
All right, I didn't calculate that.

776
00:43:18,454 --> 00:43:24,738
The reason I did 8 months is because once
she begins, if this is passed,

777
00:43:24,738 --> 00:43:30,323
Once she begins working 30 hours a week
and becomes a full-time,

778
00:43:30,323 --> 00:43:37,044
our benefit package will not be available
to her until the first of the month

779
00:43:37,044 --> 00:43:41,407
following 60 days. So, but I can send that
to you.

780
00:43:41,407 --> 00:43:45,073
I'll calculate that and email that to you.

781
00:43:45,073 --> 00:43:46,303
Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

782
00:43:46,303 --> 00:43:46,530
All right.

783
00:43:46,595 --> 00:43:47,971
Commissioner Strand, your light's on, sir.

784
00:43:47,971 --> 00:43:49,137
Thank you, Chair.

785
00:43:50,817 --> 00:43:55,347
Dana, how many part-time salaried people
do we have? Working for the county.

786
00:43:55,347 --> 00:44:01,213
I believe this is the only position that
is.

787
00:44:01,213 --> 00:44:01,374
One?

788
00:44:01,374 --> 00:44:02,212
Mm-hmm.

789
00:44:03,645 --> 00:44:03,742
Yes.

790
00:44:03,742 --> 00:44:07,981
So what would it be doing putting her in
line with

791
00:44:07,981 --> 00:44:10,354
everybody else, every other—

792
00:44:10,354 --> 00:44:12,982
every other permanent employee?

793
00:44:12,982 --> 00:44:16,280
It would be. I suggested when Ms.

794
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:22,177
Rafolph requested the position I wanted it
to be full-time.

795
00:44:22,177 --> 00:44:29,273
I felt like it would be easier to recruit
offering the benefit package,

796
00:44:29,273 --> 00:44:33,770
but at the time, I don't think she wanted
to.

797
00:44:33,770 --> 00:44:39,402
Yeah, so actually the exception that we've
made is,

798
00:44:39,402 --> 00:44:45,145
is we had a salaried employee that wasn't
full-time.

799
00:44:45,145 --> 00:44:50,446
So should we just put her in line with
everybody

800
00:44:50,446 --> 00:44:50,998
else?

801
00:44:52,407 --> 00:44:52,536
Right?

802
00:44:53,328 --> 00:44:56,294
I mean, this is not some unusual thing
that we're doing,

803
00:44:56,294 --> 00:44:59,101
trying to save a job or trying to
advantage somebody.

804
00:44:59,101 --> 00:44:59,424
I understand.

805
00:44:59,424 --> 00:45:01,747
Some situation has changed.

806
00:45:01,747 --> 00:45:04,241
I don't know what it is, but—

807
00:45:04,241 --> 00:45:09,833
There may be some fear that we would
snowball and other part-time

808
00:45:09,833 --> 00:45:14,737
employees would want to take advantage of
this situation.

809
00:45:14,737 --> 00:45:16,199
But I think most—

810
00:45:16,554 --> 00:45:16,990
am I right?

811
00:45:17,038 --> 00:45:19,765
Most part-time employees want to stay
part-time employees.

812
00:45:19,765 --> 00:45:23,793
Correct. But she will become a full-time
employee, right?

813
00:45:23,793 --> 00:45:26,479
She will need to work 30 hours a week.

814
00:45:26,479 --> 00:45:28,050
I think that's something that—

815
00:45:28,050 --> 00:45:30,877
I think that's something that has to be
said out loud.

816
00:45:30,877 --> 00:45:31,314
Yes.

817
00:45:31,314 --> 00:45:33,578
This will require more hours.

818
00:45:33,578 --> 00:45:37,463
And she is aware of that, right? Ms. Rafaf
is. Thank you.

819
00:45:38,421 --> 00:45:38,696
Thank you, Chair.

820
00:45:38,696 --> 00:45:43,511
All right. Seeing no other lights, we have
a motion that's been seconded.

821
00:45:43,511 --> 00:45:47,600
All in favor to pass this to budget say
aye. Aye. Any opposed?

822
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:52,216
I have a no from Commissioner Saunders.
That passes 4 to 1. All right.

823
00:45:52,216 --> 00:45:55,316
So the next item is the job performance
review.

824
00:45:55,316 --> 00:46:00,460
So this is the part— this is the part of
the meeting where we talk about Dana.

825
00:46:00,460 --> 00:46:05,671
So Dana and I met this past week, and of
course I've worked with Dana the Thank

826
00:46:05,671 --> 00:46:05,934
course I've worked with Dana the Thank
you.

827
00:46:05,934 --> 00:46:11,211
I've known Dana for the past 12 years on
this commission as either vice chair or

828
00:46:11,211 --> 00:46:15,497
chair or chairman of the commission
itself, and you are fabulous.

829
00:46:15,497 --> 00:46:18,729
And you got all-star ratings from this
committee.

830
00:46:18,729 --> 00:46:21,103
And so keep doing what you're doing.

831
00:46:21,103 --> 00:46:25,456
You know, this is the last meeting for
this commission to do this.

832
00:46:25,456 --> 00:46:29,413
And so I open the floor if anybody has any
comments on Dana.

833
00:46:29,413 --> 00:46:31,392
But thank you for what you do,

834
00:46:31,392 --> 00:46:35,349
and I'll get you those copies to put in
your permanent file.

835
00:46:35,349 --> 00:46:38,713
There were no— it's all 5 gold stars for
you, Dana.

836
00:46:38,713 --> 00:46:43,725
So, uh, that said, I see no other lights.
Again, thank you for your service.

837
00:46:43,725 --> 00:46:48,078
You get to start all over again next
month, so have fun with that.

838
00:46:48,078 --> 00:46:48,799
Thank you.

839
00:46:48,799 --> 00:46:52,916
Yes, ma'am. All right, next item on the
agenda is old business,

840
00:46:52,916 --> 00:46:58,013
and that is Murray County Clerk Joey
Allen's request for his office employees,

841
00:46:58,013 --> 00:47:01,868
and he is present. Uh, come on up. You
have the floor, sir.

842
00:47:01,868 --> 00:47:04,336
Well, I guess this is round 2.

843
00:47:04,336 --> 00:47:07,708
I was here in, I believe it was November,

844
00:47:07,708 --> 00:47:11,327
but since then a lot of things have
changed.

845
00:47:11,327 --> 00:47:17,579
Reason I'm back, we now have a county
clerk's office retention bonus policy.

846
00:47:17,579 --> 00:47:21,115
And I'll just— I'll go over it right
quick.

847
00:47:21,115 --> 00:47:27,367
The purpose of this policy is to recognize
employees' commitment and promote

848
00:47:27,367 --> 00:47:33,947
employees' retention within the clerk's
office by providing a one-time retention

849
00:47:33,947 --> 00:47:36,250
bonus to eligible employees.

850
00:47:36,250 --> 00:47:42,831
Uh, policy upon approval by the County
Commission is subject to the availability

851
00:47:42,831 --> 00:47:43,077
Commission is subject to the availability
and

852
00:47:43,077 --> 00:47:49,575
appropriate funds. Employees of the county
clerk's office who have completed at

853
00:47:49,575 --> 00:47:56,485
least 1 year of continuous employment with
the County Clerk's Office shall receive a

854
00:47:56,485 --> 00:47:58,541
one-time retention bonus.

855
00:47:58,541 --> 00:48:01,502
To qualify for this retention bonus,

856
00:48:01,502 --> 00:48:07,342
an employee must be a regular full-time
employee of the Clerk's Office,

857
00:48:07,342 --> 00:48:13,923
have completed a minimum of 1 year of
employment with the Clerk's Office as the—

858
00:48:13,923 --> 00:48:17,953
as of the date of the County Commission
approval.

859
00:48:17,953 --> 00:48:24,862
Be actively employed by the County Clerk's
Office on the date the retention bonus is

860
00:48:24,862 --> 00:48:27,988
paid unless otherwise required by law.

861
00:48:27,988 --> 00:48:34,322
Bonus amount: each employee shall receive
a one-time gross retention bonus of

862
00:48:34,322 --> 00:48:40,326
$2,700. The retention bonus shall be
processed through the county payroll

863
00:48:40,326 --> 00:48:41,149
processed through the county payroll
system and

864
00:48:41,149 --> 00:48:44,932
shall be subject to all federal payroll
taxes,

865
00:48:44,932 --> 00:48:51,760
required retirement contributions and any
other mandated reductions or withholdings

866
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,626
required by law and authorized by the
employee.

867
00:48:55,626 --> 00:49:02,206
Payment: the redemption bonus shall be
paid through the county payroll system in

868
00:49:02,206 --> 00:49:02,453
paid through the county payroll system in
the

869
00:49:02,453 --> 00:49:06,319
month following the county commission
approval.

870
00:49:06,319 --> 00:49:12,899
Employees must remain actively employed
with the clerk's office through the date

871
00:49:12,899 --> 00:49:13,146
with the clerk's office through the date
The

872
00:49:13,146 --> 00:49:17,834
retention bonus is paid unless otherwise
required by law.

873
00:49:17,834 --> 00:49:19,644
The clerk's office is—

874
00:49:19,644 --> 00:49:25,731
with the human resources department and
finance department shall determine

875
00:49:25,731 --> 00:49:26,389
finance department shall determine
employee

876
00:49:26,389 --> 00:49:32,146
eligible and administer payment in
accordance with this policy and all

877
00:49:32,146 --> 00:49:33,051
accordance with this policy and all
federal and

878
00:49:33,051 --> 00:49:34,614
state payroll laws.

879
00:49:34,614 --> 00:49:37,588
All right.

880
00:49:40,588 --> 00:49:45,569
The reason for my— my reasons for a bonus
is, uh,

881
00:49:45,569 --> 00:49:52,888
these are things that's happened just
since I was here, uh, in November.

882
00:49:52,888 --> 00:49:57,260
Uh, I've lost 2 employees, uh, in
November.

883
00:49:57,260 --> 00:50:04,376
Uh, one went to Lister Hill for a better,
better job, better pay, and,

884
00:50:04,376 --> 00:50:09,967
you know, we, we know we can't compete
with the Public.

885
00:50:09,967 --> 00:50:16,981
But the other one left, stayed with the
county, went to a better job.

886
00:50:16,981 --> 00:50:22,979
Said county clerk's office was basically
driving her crazy,

887
00:50:22,979 --> 00:50:25,622
and that's understandable.

888
00:50:25,622 --> 00:50:32,026
It's a very difficult job, and it will and
can drive you crazy.

889
00:50:32,026 --> 00:50:39,346
I know somebody said that a lot of people
You know, said it wasn't fair,

890
00:50:39,346 --> 00:50:45,140
you know. Well, so I had 2 job openings,
60 applications.

891
00:50:45,140 --> 00:50:53,069
Everybody in the county knows that I fight
for my employees' pay because it is

892
00:50:53,069 --> 00:51:00,084
a difficult job. But out of 60
applications, no one in the county No,

893
00:51:00,084 --> 00:51:00,795
applications, no one in the county No,
nobody,

894
00:51:00,795 --> 00:51:07,199
no, from another department applied for
the county clerk's job,

895
00:51:07,199 --> 00:51:09,233
and they never will.

896
00:51:09,233 --> 00:51:15,840
They know it's a— they know it's a bad,
difficult, dangerous job.

897
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:23,668
A lot of employees thank me for standing
up for my employees and And thank me

898
00:51:23,668 --> 00:51:31,292
for trying to, to get them more money. Uh,
circuit court starts at grade 8.

899
00:51:31,292 --> 00:51:39,221
We're grade 7. I don't understand that,
uh, but, uh, I guess there's a reason.

900
00:51:39,221 --> 00:51:45,219
I have 15 employees, 6 of those being here
2 years or less.

901
00:51:45,219 --> 00:51:47,354
The job is difficult.

902
00:51:47,354 --> 00:51:54,775
Many laws, many policies from the state of
Tennessee that change, I mean,

903
00:51:54,775 --> 00:52:01,891
just every month or two. So there's so
many things you have to retain.

904
00:52:01,891 --> 00:52:09,515
I just can't tell you how hard a job
working in a county clerk's office is.

905
00:52:09,515 --> 00:52:13,674
It's—

906
00:52:13,674 --> 00:52:16,827
just in the last few months,

907
00:52:16,827 --> 00:52:24,823
we've had customers call my employees I
don't know whether to say these

908
00:52:24,823 --> 00:52:28,427
words or just— I won't say them.

909
00:52:28,427 --> 00:52:35,973
I'll just— bad words, spitting in our
glass. You know, they're mad.

910
00:52:35,973 --> 00:52:42,279
They didn't bring something they needed,
so they're mad.

911
00:52:42,279 --> 00:52:47,910
That's not what I meant. Guess who they're
mad at?

912
00:52:47,910 --> 00:52:54,668
They're mad at the clerk waiting on them.
They're mad at me.

913
00:52:54,668 --> 00:53:01,988
We've had to get the sheriff's deputy from
upstairs to come down.

914
00:53:01,988 --> 00:53:06,493
Well, I'm going to thank Bucky for that.

915
00:53:06,493 --> 00:53:14,263
We've had the city police there in the
last year at least I know of 3

916
00:53:14,263 --> 00:53:22,034
times. You know, The last time I asked for
an employee was October of

917
00:53:22,034 --> 00:53:26,877
2021. 2021, I hadn't asked for an
employee.

918
00:53:26,877 --> 00:53:33,634
Now, we've had to replace a bunch that's
left. They're gone.

919
00:53:33,634 --> 00:53:35,886
You know, we've had—

920
00:53:35,886 --> 00:53:42,418
y'all know how many people we've had move
into the county?

921
00:53:42,418 --> 00:53:48,838
Just a tremendous amount. I hadn't asked
for an employee.

922
00:53:48,838 --> 00:53:54,356
These women have stepped up, worked hard,
worked—

923
00:53:54,356 --> 00:53:58,973
I can't tell you how hard they've worked.

924
00:53:58,973 --> 00:54:04,830
You know, we don't need a budget amendment
for this.

925
00:54:04,830 --> 00:54:10,123
What I'm asking for, the money's already
there.

926
00:54:10,123 --> 00:54:14,627
And it, it regenerates, uh, every month.

927
00:54:14,627 --> 00:54:18,682
I'm asking for right around $35,000.

928
00:54:18,682 --> 00:54:26,565
That money will be back in this fund in 3
months, 3 and a half months.

929
00:54:26,565 --> 00:54:34,111
So And, you know, we can, we can use the
money anywhere we need to.

930
00:54:34,111 --> 00:54:38,841
And somebody said something about a kiosk.

931
00:54:38,841 --> 00:54:45,147
We've got kiosk machines in Spring Hill,
Mount Pleasant.

932
00:54:45,147 --> 00:54:51,792
They do very well. We're about to have one
in Walmart here,

933
00:54:51,792 --> 00:54:59,563
hopefully any day. It's ready, supposedly.
And, you know, on its way.

934
00:54:59,563 --> 00:55:06,320
I'm not going to read the rest of this
because it's all bad.

935
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:11,951
It's people that's, like I said, that's,
you know,

936
00:55:11,951 --> 00:55:14,541
Threatening our clerks.

937
00:55:14,541 --> 00:55:22,762
I'm going to come over this county and
beat your— you know, the spitting,

938
00:55:22,762 --> 00:55:29,182
the cussing. You know, I get involved, ask
them to leave,

939
00:55:29,182 --> 00:55:31,884
and if they don't leave,

940
00:55:31,884 --> 00:55:38,079
I get the deputy that's upstairs at the
mayor's office.

941
00:55:38,079 --> 00:55:42,583
to come down and help us, and they have.

942
00:55:42,583 --> 00:55:48,777
You know, had just the other day had one
say something.

943
00:55:48,777 --> 00:55:54,183
A clerk was trying to tell a customer
something,

944
00:55:54,183 --> 00:55:57,900
and another one of my clerks was—

945
00:55:57,900 --> 00:56:02,742
just stepped in to try to defuse the
thing,

946
00:56:02,742 --> 00:56:09,387
and he told her that you shut your mouth
and fix your face.

947
00:56:09,387 --> 00:56:17,158
before I have to come across this counter.
We've got a dangerous job.

948
00:56:17,158 --> 00:56:23,690
I don't know if any of y'all have ever
thought about that.

949
00:56:23,690 --> 00:56:28,983
But I'm going to always fight for my
employees.

950
00:56:28,983 --> 00:56:36,528
I don't know— I don't know what's going to
happen in a few minutes,

951
00:56:36,528 --> 00:56:38,781
but however it goes,

952
00:56:38,781 --> 00:56:44,862
I'm going to always fight for my employees
some money.

953
00:56:44,862 --> 00:56:46,149
Okay. This is—

954
00:56:46,326 --> 00:56:51,706
I'm trying to keep my employees. This job
is way too hard.

955
00:56:51,706 --> 00:56:57,827
It takes a year to train them. It just—
you know, they're leaving.

956
00:56:57,827 --> 00:57:05,062
You know, I've heard of another one
that's— Looking for a job, and truthfully,

957
00:57:05,062 --> 00:57:11,091
they're all looking for a job. I think
it's such a difficult job.

958
00:57:11,091 --> 00:57:18,511
I think this is a very minimal amount to
give them for the good job that they do

959
00:57:18,511 --> 00:57:25,560
and stay with me. I appreciate them
staying with me, and I try to tell them,

960
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:30,754
and I try to tell them every day how good
a job they do.

961
00:57:30,754 --> 00:57:31,030
Thank you.

962
00:57:31,384 --> 00:57:38,308
I speak to them every single morning as
they come in and speak to them or say good

963
00:57:38,308 --> 00:57:40,673
night to them as they leave.

964
00:57:40,673 --> 00:57:46,162
They've took good care of me and I've
tried to take care of them.

965
00:57:46,162 --> 00:57:52,917
I'd ask you to pass this on to the budget
committee and that's all I got to say.

966
00:57:52,917 --> 00:57:54,809
All right. Thank you for that, Joey.

967
00:57:54,809 --> 00:57:58,697
Before I take any comments, I want a
motion and a second to For discussion

968
00:57:58,697 --> 00:57:59,170
motion and a second to For discussion
purposes,

969
00:57:59,170 --> 00:58:01,587
I have a motion from Commissioner
Bridenbaugh.

970
00:58:01,587 --> 00:58:04,739
I have a second from Commissioner Miller.
The floor is open.

971
00:58:04,739 --> 00:58:06,946
Commissioner Sumner, you're up first, sir.

972
00:58:06,946 --> 00:58:09,517
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I got a question
for Ms.

973
00:58:09,517 --> 00:58:12,874
Gibson and you, Joey, but can I ask Ms.
Gibson a question first?

974
00:58:12,874 --> 00:58:22,018
Yep.

975
00:58:25,018 --> 00:58:28,393
Ms. Gibson, do— does the county commission
need to adopt this policy?

976
00:58:28,393 --> 00:58:33,464
That's an internal policy for his office.

977
00:58:33,464 --> 00:58:39,665
Is there anything that the commission can
approve that would make it, I guess,

978
00:58:39,665 --> 00:58:43,878
more palatable for future commissioners to
say, yeah,

979
00:58:43,878 --> 00:58:47,932
we've got a policy for the county clerk to
do this?

980
00:58:47,932 --> 00:58:54,610
You know, and he can just do it instead of
having to have the county commission have

981
00:58:54,610 --> 00:58:58,743
to approve it every year. It could just be
a policy.

982
00:58:58,743 --> 00:59:04,864
I mean, instead of some internal policy,
let the county commission, you know,

983
00:59:04,864 --> 00:59:11,224
adopt a policy for the county clerk. I
mean, is that something that we could do?

984
00:59:11,224 --> 00:59:12,889
Resolution?

985
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:17,446
I mean, it's, it's not, you know,
anything—

986
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:21,254
it's not a contract, so it wouldn't be
like a yearly thing.

987
00:59:21,254 --> 00:59:26,199
Um, I mean, I— because I think if it's a
policy, I mean, I mean, I, I get that,

988
00:59:26,199 --> 00:59:30,456
you know, it's a retention policy for the
county clerk using— and I,

989
00:59:30,456 --> 00:59:35,214
I'd like for the policy, even his
internal— but if it just stays an internal

990
00:59:35,214 --> 00:59:35,652
internal— but if it just stays an internal
policy,

991
00:59:35,652 --> 00:59:38,845
I'd like for it to say— this is my second
question—

992
00:59:38,845 --> 00:59:43,728
I'd like to say what fund it comes out of,
you know, not just out of wherever,

993
00:59:43,728 --> 00:59:45,732
you know, any type of, you know,

994
00:59:45,732 --> 00:59:50,552
we're pulling it from the fund balance
from the 101 one year because we don't

995
00:59:50,552 --> 00:59:50,803
from the 101 one year because we don't
have

996
00:59:50,803 --> 00:59:52,368
enough in the other fund.

997
00:59:52,368 --> 00:59:55,122
I'd like for it to say where that, you
know,

998
00:59:55,122 --> 00:59:57,939
those restricted funds are for the
retention.

999
00:59:57,939 --> 01:00:00,506
I'm not— what fund does that come out of?

1000
01:00:00,506 --> 01:00:04,388
It comes out of a restricted fund within
the 101 fund balance.

1001
01:00:04,388 --> 01:00:09,459
That's what I would like it to come from
because it's the county clerk funds that

1002
01:00:09,459 --> 01:00:10,961
they collect Title fees.

1003
01:00:10,961 --> 01:00:11,251
Yeah.

1004
01:00:11,251 --> 01:00:16,836
So I'd like it to— I'd like— if it stays
inter— if it stays as an internal policy,

1005
01:00:16,836 --> 01:00:22,284
that's fine, but I would like for your
internal policy to say that it's going to

1006
01:00:22,284 --> 01:00:23,782
come from those funds.

1007
01:00:23,782 --> 01:00:29,095
I can support it if it says that it's
coming from that internal fund, or that—

1008
01:00:29,095 --> 01:00:32,260
excuse me— that line item in the 101 fund.

1009
01:00:35,260 --> 01:00:35,693
Yes, please.

1010
01:00:36,914 --> 01:00:37,171
Yes.

1011
01:00:38,038 --> 01:00:45,315
Um, I'm kind of, I think it should be a
county policy and here's why.

1012
01:00:45,668 --> 01:00:48,704
Uh, anybody can create an internal policy.

1013
01:00:48,704 --> 01:00:50,471
Okay. That's what I was thinking too.

1014
01:00:50,471 --> 01:00:52,157
We've got a lot of elected officials.

1015
01:00:52,334 --> 01:00:52,446
Yeah.

1016
01:00:52,527 --> 01:00:54,628
We've got a lot of appointed officials.

1017
01:00:54,628 --> 01:00:58,452
Next thing you know, as long as they
create an internal policy and they

1018
01:00:58,452 --> 01:00:59,099
create an internal policy and they
identify it,

1019
01:00:59,099 --> 01:01:03,354
it could, everybody's getting bonuses and
we're wondering where the money went.

1020
01:01:03,354 --> 01:01:06,155
future commissions would be like, where
did that go?

1021
01:01:06,284 --> 01:01:06,928
Or, yeah.

1022
01:01:06,993 --> 01:01:09,299
So it should be a countywide policy.

1023
01:01:09,299 --> 01:01:14,168
And this is something you see in other
counties, you know, that it gets very

1024
01:01:14,168 --> 01:01:14,552
counties, you know, that it gets very
broad,

1025
01:01:14,552 --> 01:01:16,410
uh, or it gets very specific.

1026
01:01:16,410 --> 01:01:21,342
You know, we, we have treated it in the
past and going forward as this is one

1027
01:01:21,342 --> 01:01:26,467
organization. These are the policies that
we have and everybody acknowledges and

1028
01:01:26,467 --> 01:01:29,478
follows those policies. It's in my private
act.

1029
01:01:29,478 --> 01:01:29,575
Yeah.

1030
01:01:30,467 --> 01:01:35,317
And so I think as long as, you know, all
of those functions are consolidated,

1031
01:01:35,317 --> 01:01:37,711
the policy should be consolidated too.

1032
01:01:38,176 --> 01:01:43,159
And if there are special deviations of pay
or bonus or whatever,

1033
01:01:43,159 --> 01:01:48,454
that it should be included in a countywide
policy so that, you know,

1034
01:01:48,454 --> 01:01:50,245
folks just don't start—

1035
01:01:50,245 --> 01:01:56,829
Yeah. Ms. Gibson, would you be okay with
that as a county policy instead of an

1036
01:01:56,829 --> 01:01:59,693
internal policy?

1037
01:02:02,693 --> 01:02:02,757
Yes.

1038
01:02:02,757 --> 01:02:05,133
I'll write it however you want.

1039
01:02:05,133 --> 01:02:10,652
Basically, we just wanted to put something
in place for his employees to

1040
01:02:10,652 --> 01:02:13,718
know that it was a one-time bonus, that—

1041
01:02:13,718 --> 01:02:16,557
Just one time only, or one time, or one
time each year?

1042
01:02:16,557 --> 01:02:22,236
No, I'm only— not each year, one time
only, period. One time, one and done.

1043
01:02:22,236 --> 01:02:28,352
Oh, okay. See, I thought it was going to
be a retention year

1044
01:02:28,352 --> 01:02:31,613
every That's about— that's okay,

1045
01:02:31,613 --> 01:02:37,423
because I didn't read that all the way
through, and Joey,

1046
01:02:37,423 --> 01:02:42,621
you didn't read it either all the way.
Yeah, sorry.

1047
01:02:42,621 --> 01:02:47,106
You stopped at the effective date here,
sir.

1048
01:02:47,652 --> 01:02:50,193
I suggested the internal policy, okay,

1049
01:02:50,193 --> 01:02:55,541
that his employees would Know that it is a
one-time and that there would be some

1050
01:02:55,541 --> 01:02:59,820
type of eligibility there and that it
would— if you all pass it,

1051
01:02:59,820 --> 01:03:02,160
it will be supported by resolution.

1052
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:03,875
Okay, that's fine. Okay.

1053
01:03:04,292 --> 01:03:04,677
All right.

1054
01:03:05,238 --> 01:03:07,860
So if he ever wants to do it again,

1055
01:03:07,860 --> 01:03:12,054
he'd have to redo the policy another time,
another year,

1056
01:03:12,054 --> 01:03:13,477
another year. Okay.

1057
01:03:13,590 --> 01:03:14,487
All right.

1058
01:03:15,722 --> 01:03:21,682
Well, if I'm back I'm just going to bring
this document back up and say this was a

1059
01:03:21,682 --> 01:03:23,281
1-year deal with Joey.

1060
01:03:23,281 --> 01:03:26,987
No, uh, I, I, I can appreciate the, the
policy, uh,

1061
01:03:26,987 --> 01:03:31,930
on this as opposed to just saying, hey, I
want to do this, you know.

1062
01:03:31,930 --> 01:03:37,308
So I, you know, I can, I can appreciate
that. So thank you. Thank you, Mr.

1063
01:03:37,308 --> 01:03:37,962
that. So thank you. Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.

1064
01:03:37,962 --> 01:03:40,558
All right, uh, Attorney Dobies, you had
your light on.

1065
01:03:40,558 --> 01:03:43,346
Yeah, I mean, based, based on the way the
discussion goes,

1066
01:03:43,346 --> 01:03:47,192
it sounds more like a Like a resolution
thing rather than a policy thing. That's

1067
01:03:47,192 --> 01:03:47,336
thing rather than a policy thing. That's
it.

1068
01:03:47,336 --> 01:03:49,884
All right, we're going to stick with
committee first.

1069
01:03:49,884 --> 01:03:52,576
Commissioner Grooms, you're up. Thank you,
Mr. Chairman.

1070
01:03:52,930 --> 01:03:59,785
Uh, Joey, the retention— why, why 1 year?
Why wouldn't it be 3 years?

1071
01:03:59,785 --> 01:04:02,070
That's a good question.

1072
01:04:02,070 --> 01:04:08,229
I could have, uh, I could have just as
well asked for 3 years?

1073
01:04:08,229 --> 01:04:15,084
You talking about giving them something
every 3 years if I wanted to?

1074
01:04:15,084 --> 01:04:16,248
No, I'm talking about—

1075
01:04:16,378 --> 01:04:23,884
you saying that they're eligible after 1
year of continuous employment

1076
01:04:23,884 --> 01:04:31,175
with the county? Well, like I said, I'm
trying to keep my employees.

1077
01:04:31,175 --> 01:04:36,000
I want to do it now. I mean, they're
leaving.

1078
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:41,361
I went— when I come 12 years ago, I had
200 years,

1079
01:04:41,361 --> 01:04:45,435
over 200 years of combined experience.

1080
01:04:45,435 --> 01:04:52,190
I don't have nowhere near that now. I
mean, a fraction of that.

1081
01:04:52,190 --> 01:04:56,316
I can't wait 3 years.

1082
01:04:59,316 --> 01:05:00,277
It's—

1083
01:05:00,277 --> 01:05:01,422
They're saying they got to be in the
office.

1084
01:05:03,129 --> 01:05:10,777
Yeah, I was— I'm not— I mean, I, I mean,
one year, I mean, you know,

1085
01:05:10,777 --> 01:05:14,150
how much turnover do you have?

1086
01:05:14,150 --> 01:05:18,536
I mean, this $2,700, if you give it to,

1087
01:05:18,536 --> 01:05:24,272
to an employee that's only been there one
year, um,

1088
01:05:24,272 --> 01:05:30,120
I understand you're trying to keep them,
but I mean,

1089
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:36,980
shouldn't it be a little harder to attain
is what I'm saying.

1090
01:05:36,980 --> 01:05:39,905
I hear what you're saying.

1091
01:05:39,905 --> 01:05:43,278
You think it should be longer,

1092
01:05:43,278 --> 01:05:49,239
they should be there longer before I give
it to them.

1093
01:05:49,239 --> 01:05:49,838
Yeah.

1094
01:05:49,838 --> 01:05:54,344
And I understand that, but 6 of them,

1095
01:05:54,344 --> 01:06:00,555
it's 6 of them that's been there less than
2 years.

1096
01:06:00,555 --> 01:06:06,036
All the other ones have been there, you
know,

1097
01:06:06,036 --> 01:06:08,106
longer than that.

1098
01:06:10,619 --> 01:06:10,716
Yeah.

1099
01:06:10,716 --> 01:06:11,769
Does he have anybody less than a year?

1100
01:06:11,769 --> 01:06:15,436
It's—

1101
01:06:15,452 --> 01:06:18,376
do you have anybody a year or less? No.

1102
01:06:18,376 --> 01:06:22,724
These, yeah, the 2 that I'm training that
I just replaced,

1103
01:06:22,724 --> 01:06:28,197
The one that went to Lister Hill and the
one that went to Randy's office.

1104
01:06:28,197 --> 01:06:29,921
I'm training those now.

1105
01:06:29,921 --> 01:06:34,494
And that's a good thing, because when I
was here in November,

1106
01:06:34,494 --> 01:06:38,392
there was 15 that I was asking for, and
now it's 13,

1107
01:06:38,392 --> 01:06:41,166
because they hadn't been here a year.

1108
01:06:42,826 --> 01:06:45,859
So it's—

1109
01:06:45,859 --> 01:06:50,404
Okay.

1110
01:06:53,404 --> 01:06:59,877
I know that things are getting harder and
harder and harder

1111
01:06:59,877 --> 01:07:06,459
every single day, every month. I don't
want to wait 3 years.

1112
01:07:06,459 --> 01:07:09,531
I'd rather not wait 3 years.

1113
01:07:09,531 --> 01:07:15,675
I'd like to give— you know, I didn't get
it in November.

1114
01:07:15,675 --> 01:07:20,173
I tried, tried my hardest, and, you know,

1115
01:07:20,173 --> 01:07:25,658
if I don't get it tonight, I'll be back,
you know,

1116
01:07:25,658 --> 01:07:32,021
fighting again, you know. I understand
what you're saying.

1117
01:07:32,021 --> 01:07:33,667
I get it. Yeah.

1118
01:07:36,090 --> 01:07:41,053
And, you know, I want to do everything I
can for the employees.

1119
01:07:41,135 --> 01:07:46,802
I always have.

1120
01:07:49,802 --> 01:07:54,080
This, this, this is the problem I have
with it.

1121
01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:57,720
You're asking me to do something that I,

1122
01:07:57,720 --> 01:08:03,909
that I know I can't do for the rest of the
employees of this county.

1123
01:08:03,909 --> 01:08:08,642
Well, I, I hear you, but I can't speak for
the Yeah.

1124
01:08:08,642 --> 01:08:12,374
The rest of the county and, uh, you know,

1125
01:08:12,374 --> 01:08:19,291
the elected officials and the directors
of, you know, their employees. Yeah.

1126
01:08:20,098 --> 01:08:24,560
Um, that's, you know, that's not to say
I'm not,

1127
01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:29,021
I'm not going to support it and move it
forward,

1128
01:08:29,021 --> 01:08:29,672
Joette.

1129
01:08:30,416 --> 01:08:32,329
Uh, that's just some of my concerns.

1130
01:08:35,329 --> 01:08:38,924
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. All right, we're
going to stick with committee.

1131
01:08:38,924 --> 01:08:41,621
Commissioner Summers, you already spoke
twice on this.

1132
01:08:41,621 --> 01:08:45,565
I do have 2 other commissioners in the
gallery that want to speak, so I'm going

1133
01:08:45,565 --> 01:08:45,715
gallery that want to speak, so I'm going
to—

1134
01:08:45,715 --> 01:08:48,012
huh? Okay, well, go ahead, you have the
floor,

1135
01:08:48,012 --> 01:08:50,409
but then we're going to let the other ones
talk.

1136
01:08:50,409 --> 01:08:52,103
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

1137
01:08:52,103 --> 01:08:57,751
Uh, so I don't think he was saying you
needed to wait 3 years to give the bonus.

1138
01:08:57,751 --> 01:09:03,327
I think he was saying that Employee needs
to have 3 years of service to get the

1139
01:09:03,327 --> 01:09:03,751
bonus.

1140
01:09:03,751 --> 01:09:04,713
Right.

1141
01:09:04,713 --> 01:09:08,255
Okay. Doug, what's the account

1142
01:09:08,255 --> 01:09:12,033
number for that line item in the

1143
01:09:12,033 --> 01:09:12,859
budget?

1144
01:09:12,859 --> 01:09:17,368
You know how our fund balance is $39,000
assigned?

1145
01:09:17,368 --> 01:09:19,533
This one's like $34,525.

1146
01:09:19,533 --> 01:09:22,689
I'm going to get you the exact one.

1147
01:09:22,689 --> 01:09:42,731
Give me the exact one because I want to
put on the— I want to amend this. Motion.

1148
01:09:57,381 --> 01:10:02,141
It is 34515-52503.

1149
01:10:02,141 --> 01:10:03,561
Say that again, please.

1150
01:10:03,561 --> 01:10:10,102
34515-52503.

1151
01:10:10,102 --> 01:10:11,187
0 what?

1152
01:10:11,187 --> 01:10:11,883
3.

1153
01:10:11,883 --> 01:10:12,515
Okay.

1154
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:19,115
Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make an
amendment to this motion that we,

1155
01:10:19,115 --> 01:10:24,409
that we take the funds out of that
34515-525-03 line item.

1156
01:10:24,409 --> 01:10:26,234
That's my amendment.

1157
01:10:26,234 --> 01:10:31,192
All right, I have an amendment. It was
seconded by Commissioner— Chairman Grooms.

1158
01:10:31,192 --> 01:10:35,415
Yes, sir. All right, so that said, we have
an amendment on the floor.

1159
01:10:35,415 --> 01:10:39,883
I do have some other lights. We're going
to stick procedurally with this.

1160
01:10:39,883 --> 01:10:42,638
Is your remarks going to be on the
amendment?

1161
01:10:42,638 --> 01:10:47,595
I'd rather go ahead and pass the amendment
and then get back to the discussion if

1162
01:10:47,595 --> 01:10:50,227
everybody in the gallery is okay with
that.

1163
01:10:50,227 --> 01:10:55,063
Any discussion on the amendment that
Commissioner Sumners has made a motion for

1164
01:10:55,063 --> 01:10:55,246
Commissioner Sumners has made a motion for
and

1165
01:10:55,246 --> 01:11:00,143
Commissioner Grooms has seconded? Seeing
none, we'll vote. All in favor say aye.

1166
01:11:00,143 --> 01:11:00,951
Aye.

1167
01:11:00,951 --> 01:11:03,555
Any opposed? Okay. So now we have an
amended motion.

1168
01:11:03,555 --> 01:11:07,311
We're going to go back to the lights.
Commissioner Stovall, you're up, sir.

1169
01:11:07,311 --> 01:11:08,414
Appreciate it.

1170
01:11:08,463 --> 01:11:13,087
Thank you very much.

1171
01:11:13,087 --> 01:11:20,024
My concern is, um, I'd like to

1172
01:11:20,024 --> 01:11:27,654
make sure that Mr. Allen get what

1173
01:11:27,654 --> 01:11:30,660
he needs, Mr.

1174
01:11:30,660 --> 01:11:32,907
McNeese get what he asked for,

1175
01:11:32,907 --> 01:11:36,953
and any other department head to come here
and ask for

1176
01:11:36,953 --> 01:11:39,200
something for their employees.

1177
01:11:39,200 --> 01:11:39,220
Okay.

1178
01:11:39,885 --> 01:11:45,732
I think that we ought to be concerned and
try

1179
01:11:45,732 --> 01:11:50,539
to make sure that we take care of the

1180
01:11:50,539 --> 01:11:51,838
employees.

1181
01:11:51,838 --> 01:11:56,590
I've been all over the county here
campaigning.

1182
01:11:56,655 --> 01:12:00,726
A lot of people ask, what's your platform?
I don't have a platform.

1183
01:12:00,726 --> 01:12:04,128
My platform is the people, the employees
of this county.

1184
01:12:05,164 --> 01:12:05,342
Thank you.

1185
01:12:05,342 --> 01:12:07,200
Make sure that they get what they need.

1186
01:12:08,282 --> 01:12:09,139
That's my platform.

1187
01:12:11,580 --> 01:12:15,898
I'm a former employee myself from the City
of Columbia,

1188
01:12:15,898 --> 01:12:21,785
and I want to make sure that this county
is taking care of their employees.

1189
01:12:21,785 --> 01:12:25,318
I know we got to go through proper
procedure,

1190
01:12:25,318 --> 01:12:31,598
but we need to try to make sure we keep
all employees that we have because a lot

1191
01:12:31,598 --> 01:12:31,755
all employees that we have because a lot
of

1192
01:12:31,755 --> 01:12:37,485
employees are leaving this county going
elsewhere and getting better pay.

1193
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:43,817
So my platform is— anybody listening and
want to know,

1194
01:12:43,817 --> 01:12:46,895
my platform is the employees of this
county,

1195
01:12:46,895 --> 01:12:49,693
and I think we should take care of them.

1196
01:12:50,418 --> 01:12:52,853
That's all I have, Chairman. Thank you.
All right, next slide.

1197
01:12:52,853 --> 01:12:54,384
Commissioner Hessler, you're up, ma'am.

1198
01:12:54,384 --> 01:12:57,799
Thank you, Chair.

1199
01:12:57,799 --> 01:13:02,395
Pull your mic up, or hang on. No, you
keyed up more on Oh, I'm sorry.

1200
01:13:03,415 --> 01:13:03,771
Sorry.

1201
01:13:04,516 --> 01:13:05,018
There we go.

1202
01:13:05,099 --> 01:13:10,058
Thank you, Chair. It sounds like this is
just a Band-Aid for the

1203
01:13:10,058 --> 01:13:14,939
real problem of the employees not making
enough. Is that right?

1204
01:13:14,939 --> 01:13:18,429
It—

1205
01:13:18,429 --> 01:13:20,803
yeah, partly it is. Yeah, they—

1206
01:13:20,803 --> 01:13:23,758
Did you mention the bracket?

1207
01:13:23,758 --> 01:13:27,290
It's just a token, I guess you'd say,

1208
01:13:27,290 --> 01:13:32,255
of My appreciation. They don't make enough
money for

1209
01:13:32,255 --> 01:13:33,782
the job they do.

1210
01:13:36,529 --> 01:13:36,885
It's—

1211
01:13:36,918 --> 01:13:43,837
I just can't tell you, explain to you how
hard a job they do and a dangerous job.

1212
01:13:43,837 --> 01:13:49,047
Why the county clerk has never been
robbed, it blows my mind.

1213
01:13:49,047 --> 01:13:53,769
It generates a lot of money every single
day.

1214
01:13:56,769 --> 01:13:57,686
It's—

1215
01:13:57,863 --> 01:14:04,956
I just— Yeah, it's just a token of my
appreciation for what they do.

1216
01:14:04,956 --> 01:14:08,190
I can't be constantly training,

1217
01:14:08,190 --> 01:14:14,344
and nobody was cross-trained when I got
there 12 years ago,

1218
01:14:14,344 --> 01:14:21,750
and we're still cross-training because
people come and And then they go

1219
01:14:21,750 --> 01:14:26,965
and it's just an ongoing thing. It always
will be.

1220
01:14:26,965 --> 01:14:29,677
But yeah, it is about pay,

1221
01:14:29,677 --> 01:14:35,310
but it's a token for my appreciation for
them staying.

1222
01:14:35,310 --> 01:14:39,214
I just don't think it's going to solve the
problem.

1223
01:14:39,214 --> 01:14:44,496
What would it take to put those employees
in a higher income bracket?

1224
01:14:44,496 --> 01:14:47,634
I don't know how these things are set up.

1225
01:14:49,404 --> 01:14:49,501
Money?

1226
01:14:49,501 --> 01:14:51,849
Well, yeah, but I mean, why?

1227
01:14:51,849 --> 01:14:53,778
Like he said, you know,

1228
01:14:53,778 --> 01:14:57,888
the other office makes more than those
people do.

1229
01:14:57,888 --> 01:14:59,565
Do they work longer?

1230
01:14:59,565 --> 01:15:02,092
A salary study. Need to do another salary
study.

1231
01:15:02,092 --> 01:15:04,327
Okay. Well, maybe that—

1232
01:15:04,327 --> 01:15:06,109
Yeah, it's been approved, so.

1233
01:15:06,109 --> 01:15:11,919
I would really love to know that answer.
I'm glad you asked it.

1234
01:15:11,919 --> 01:15:13,550
Because this is a Band-Aid.

1235
01:15:13,550 --> 01:15:16,873
It's not going to— it'll help a little
bit, but I mean,

1236
01:15:16,873 --> 01:15:19,953
a few thousand dollars doesn't go very far
anymore.

1237
01:15:19,953 --> 01:15:23,820
And then next year or next month, they'll
have the same problem.

1238
01:15:23,820 --> 01:15:28,048
And if they're not making enough— and I
know we gave raises last year,

1239
01:15:28,048 --> 01:15:30,706
and I definitely appreciate that because
we,

1240
01:15:30,706 --> 01:15:34,210
we can't continue to be lagging behind the
other counties.

1241
01:15:34,210 --> 01:15:38,318
It'll just end up being a revolving door
and all that kind of stuff.

1242
01:15:38,318 --> 01:15:43,211
And with more and more people moving out
here, we want them to, to work out here.

1243
01:15:43,982 --> 01:15:44,271
But—

1244
01:15:44,271 --> 01:15:51,048
You're right, it is somewhat of a
Band-Aid, but at least You got, well, my

1245
01:15:51,048 --> 01:15:51,506
Band-Aid, but at least You got, well, my
word,

1246
01:15:51,506 --> 01:15:57,458
and I'd have to have County Commission
approval to do this again.

1247
01:15:57,458 --> 01:16:03,227
So, you know, so it's like we said before,
it's a one and done,

1248
01:16:03,227 --> 01:16:05,883
but it's something, you know.

1249
01:16:05,883 --> 01:16:10,880
So who would do a salary study, Eric? How
is all that done?

1250
01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:12,444
That would be a Dana question.

1251
01:16:12,444 --> 01:16:14,546
Okay.

1252
01:16:14,546 --> 01:16:15,504
Or Doug question.

1253
01:16:16,403 --> 01:16:20,143
Thompson Burris usually does it, but we
put it out for bids.

1254
01:16:20,143 --> 01:16:24,507
So a consultant comes, they compare our
job titles and grades to other

1255
01:16:24,507 --> 01:16:25,255
job titles and grades to other
governments,

1256
01:16:25,255 --> 01:16:29,245
and they also create those job
descriptions and do those things.

1257
01:16:29,842 --> 01:16:31,780
But that will be done by Dana.

1258
01:16:32,544 --> 01:16:37,233
She'll basically put this out for
competition and have someone come do a

1259
01:16:37,233 --> 01:16:37,624
competition and have someone come do a
salary

1260
01:16:37,624 --> 01:16:42,313
study for us. The last one we did was more
of a high-level salary study,

1261
01:16:42,313 --> 01:16:43,616
not an in-depth one.

1262
01:16:43,729 --> 01:16:48,944
This is an in-depth one that will be like
the one we did in 2021 and will result in

1263
01:16:48,944 --> 01:16:50,891
some positions changing grades,

1264
01:16:50,891 --> 01:16:56,476
which changes the minimum and maximum of
how much an employee could make.

1265
01:16:59,476 --> 01:17:04,122
It is budgeted for, and we have the
ability to move forward with it this fall.

1266
01:17:04,122 --> 01:17:11,031
Move forward with another salary study?
Okay. Well, that's good news.

1267
01:17:11,031 --> 01:17:17,139
So there's a possibility that your
employees could make more.

1268
01:17:17,139 --> 01:17:18,441
Is that true?

1269
01:17:18,441 --> 01:17:24,454
So there's a possibility that many
employees could, not just my department.

1270
01:17:24,454 --> 01:17:25,759
Mm-hmm.

1271
01:17:26,802 --> 01:17:26,932
Yeah.

1272
01:17:29,245 --> 01:17:32,532
Well, that sounds like it'd get more to
the root of the problem.

1273
01:17:32,532 --> 01:17:35,767
I mean, I know we're not just rolling in
the dough around here,

1274
01:17:35,767 --> 01:17:37,154
but This keeps coming back.

1275
01:17:38,692 --> 01:17:42,176
And that's all.

1276
01:17:42,257 --> 01:17:42,886
All right.

1277
01:17:43,031 --> 01:17:43,128
Thank you.

1278
01:17:43,128 --> 01:17:47,218
Before I take the next slide, I want to
add something real quick on a side note.

1279
01:17:47,218 --> 01:17:49,621
You have multiple times tonight said
dangerous.

1280
01:17:49,621 --> 01:17:53,609
And I've been to your office many times
and we've talked a lot over the years.

1281
01:17:53,609 --> 01:17:56,933
But this is the first time that I've heard
that kind of language.

1282
01:17:56,933 --> 01:18:00,205
So I would strongly recommend— and I'll
use this as the example—

1283
01:18:00,205 --> 01:18:02,046
we just built a new judicial center.

1284
01:18:02,046 --> 01:18:05,267
They have to go through multiple deputies
and a metal detector,

1285
01:18:05,267 --> 01:18:07,568
and when they get up to Sandy's clerk
office,

1286
01:18:07,568 --> 01:18:10,584
there's still an inch-thick piece of glass
separating them.

1287
01:18:10,584 --> 01:18:14,521
I would strongly recommend you take some
of this fund and build yourself some

1288
01:18:14,521 --> 01:18:18,612
bulletproof glasses all the way across
that front line and protect those people.

1289
01:18:18,612 --> 01:18:21,373
So if danger is an issue, you've got funds
to do that,

1290
01:18:21,373 --> 01:18:23,213
and I would use some of those funds.

1291
01:18:23,213 --> 01:18:27,406
And I know we've talked about renovating
and using that fund for different things.

1292
01:18:27,406 --> 01:18:31,650
But I would do something about the safety
of that place and put up some bulletproof

1293
01:18:31,650 --> 01:18:35,791
glass for those girls because you don't
have deputies at the front door screening

1294
01:18:35,791 --> 01:18:40,035
and all that. So that's my recommendation
and we can talk about it at a later time.

1295
01:18:40,035 --> 01:18:42,080
But Commissioner Morrow, you're up next.

1296
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:43,715
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

1297
01:18:43,715 --> 01:18:49,369
I think the cleanest way for Joey to get
what he wants is for us to do some kind of

1298
01:18:49,369 --> 01:18:53,320
study and upgrade his employees from grade
7s to grade 8s.

1299
01:18:53,320 --> 01:18:55,704
That way you keep it by department.

1300
01:18:55,704 --> 01:18:59,724
You— we can't do something across the
board for the county.

1301
01:18:59,724 --> 01:19:05,378
We just passed a 3% raise for them. That
brings the total raises since 2000 to 28%.

1302
01:19:05,378 --> 01:19:09,669
I've been in the workplace, in the
workplace for over 50 years.

1303
01:19:09,669 --> 01:19:14,983
I never had a job where I went up 28% over
a 5 or 6 year period without either

1304
01:19:14,983 --> 01:19:19,888
changing positions or increasing my skill
level. They're not doing that.

1305
01:19:19,888 --> 01:19:22,749
I understand the economy stinks right now.

1306
01:19:22,749 --> 01:19:25,610
I understand fuel is ridiculous right now.

1307
01:19:25,610 --> 01:19:29,356
I'm paying fuel just like everybody else
is. I hate it.

1308
01:19:29,356 --> 01:19:33,784
I love the county employees and I wish we
could do more for them,

1309
01:19:33,784 --> 01:19:37,940
but we just added $1 million to the budget
for that 3% raise.

1310
01:19:37,940 --> 01:19:43,049
That's every year going forward. That
don't— that's not a one-time expense.

1311
01:19:43,049 --> 01:19:46,659
That's a, that's $1 million going forward
every year.

1312
01:19:46,659 --> 01:19:51,360
You know, we, we can't keep doing that
unless we want to raise taxes,

1313
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:53,540
and I don't want to raise taxes.

1314
01:19:53,540 --> 01:19:58,581
Because we started this year with a $6
million deficit. We're in the hole.

1315
01:19:58,581 --> 01:20:03,894
We're looking at firehouses. We're looking
at, you know, land for a fire hall.

1316
01:20:03,894 --> 01:20:07,709
We're looking at ball fields. We cannot
keep doing this.

1317
01:20:07,709 --> 01:20:12,409
Part of the trade-off for working for the
government is job security.

1318
01:20:12,409 --> 01:20:17,587
The government doesn't close. Murray
County government will be here from now

1319
01:20:17,587 --> 01:20:17,791
County government will be here from now
on.

1320
01:20:17,791 --> 01:20:20,243
I worked for a factory for 24 years,

1321
01:20:20,243 --> 01:20:25,353
and one day corporate people from New
Jersey walked in at 10 o'clock in the

1322
01:20:25,353 --> 01:20:25,898
Jersey walked in at 10 o'clock in the
morning.

1323
01:20:25,898 --> 01:20:31,484
At 2 o'clock that afternoon, they said, 60
days from now, we're shutting her down.

1324
01:20:31,484 --> 01:20:36,388
Didn't matter we'd been there 24 years.
Didn't matter we'd had all that.

1325
01:20:36,388 --> 01:20:39,045
They can do that in the private sector.

1326
01:20:39,045 --> 01:20:44,495
They can't do that in government because
you're not going to shut the government

1327
01:20:44,495 --> 01:20:46,811
down. That's part of the tradeoff.

1328
01:20:46,811 --> 01:20:50,898
My understanding from Dana, when she
talked about retention,

1329
01:20:50,898 --> 01:20:56,007
her retention's down around 1% or less
turnover rate. That's where we were.

1330
01:20:56,007 --> 01:21:01,117
That's why we have done the 28% over that
period of years, is to get it up.

1331
01:21:01,117 --> 01:21:04,727
We want— we want to retain our employees.
I get that.

1332
01:21:04,727 --> 01:21:07,247
But we can't keep doing this forever,

1333
01:21:07,247 --> 01:21:12,288
and we can't keep doing countywide things
forever. Now, Joey's got issues.

1334
01:21:12,288 --> 01:21:15,695
I think we need to station a deputy in his
office,

1335
01:21:15,695 --> 01:21:18,079
let him get some bulletproof glass.

1336
01:21:18,079 --> 01:21:23,120
And I think, you know, we need to look— if
people need to be reclassified,

1337
01:21:23,120 --> 01:21:24,891
let's do it by department.

1338
01:21:24,891 --> 01:21:29,319
But this countywide raise business is
going to have to slow down,

1339
01:21:29,319 --> 01:21:34,292
or we're going to have to do tax increase.
Now, I'm not in favor of that.

1340
01:21:34,292 --> 01:21:37,834
To me, tax increase is a last resort kind
of a deal.

1341
01:21:37,834 --> 01:21:40,831
That's, that's the one thing you don't
want.

1342
01:21:40,831 --> 01:21:43,965
is to raise people's taxes because it's
tough.

1343
01:21:43,965 --> 01:21:49,687
You know, the people that are paying those
taxes are suffering from the economy too.

1344
01:21:49,687 --> 01:21:54,728
They're suffering from fuel prices.
They're suffering from grocery prices.

1345
01:21:54,728 --> 01:21:56,363
I don't know the answer,

1346
01:21:56,363 --> 01:22:01,541
but I know that I don't think a countywide
increase right now is a solution.

1347
01:22:01,541 --> 01:22:06,854
We just did one that was another million
dollars for every year going forward.

1348
01:22:06,854 --> 01:22:08,423
But this is not a countywide—

1349
01:22:08,423 --> 01:22:12,536
we're talking about a specific item for
him out of a Out of a specific fund.

1350
01:22:12,536 --> 01:22:14,981
We are for him out of a specific fund, but
Doug was—

1351
01:22:14,981 --> 01:22:17,426
when we were talking about the policy,
Doug said no,

1352
01:22:17,426 --> 01:22:18,930
he wanted to make it countywide.

1353
01:22:18,930 --> 01:22:21,469
Well, if it's countywide, it applies to
all employees.

1354
01:22:21,469 --> 01:22:25,966
No, because this is a fund that is only
for him. This is his fund.

1355
01:22:25,966 --> 01:22:27,683
I'm fine with that for him.

1356
01:22:27,683 --> 01:22:32,835
I would rather see him upgrade his people
from 7 to 8 so that it's ongoing and it

1357
01:22:32,835 --> 01:22:34,870
falls within the policy you get.

1358
01:22:34,870 --> 01:22:38,559
But if he can do this out of a one— out of
his fund, fine.

1359
01:22:38,559 --> 01:22:42,820
I'm— it's What I'm talking about is going—
is countywide increases.

1360
01:22:42,820 --> 01:22:45,809
We've got to watch what we're doing
countywide.

1361
01:22:45,809 --> 01:22:46,854
Okay.

1362
01:22:46,854 --> 01:22:52,971
Because like I say, we, we have done a lot
in terms of raises over the years,

1363
01:22:52,971 --> 01:22:57,976
and I'm probably making every county
employee in the world mad,

1364
01:22:57,976 --> 01:23:03,855
and I'll apologize for that. But I know,
you know, I'm on Social Security.

1365
01:23:03,855 --> 01:23:05,921
I feel the economy myself.

1366
01:23:05,921 --> 01:23:12,038
But we can't keep— we just cannot keep
going up and up and up and up forever.

1367
01:23:12,038 --> 01:23:14,088
But I need to get us back on this topic.

1368
01:23:14,088 --> 01:23:15,493
All right, that's fine.

1369
01:23:15,493 --> 01:23:20,562
Well, see, that's what got me stirred up
was when Doug said the countywide deal and

1370
01:23:20,562 --> 01:23:23,006
he wants to make it a countywide policy.

1371
01:23:23,006 --> 01:23:27,587
And I— that's what— that's what I'm
against right now is doing a countywide

1372
01:23:27,587 --> 01:23:27,892
against right now is doing a countywide
deal.

1373
01:23:28,134 --> 01:23:28,295
Okay.

1374
01:23:28,553 --> 01:23:29,441
All right, thank you.

1375
01:23:29,441 --> 01:23:32,480
Yes, sir. All right, Commissioner
Bridenbaugh, you're up, sir.

1376
01:23:32,480 --> 01:23:34,441
Keep it short and To the, to the motion.

1377
01:23:34,441 --> 01:23:38,808
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Absolutely. Joey,
thank you for being here again.

1378
01:23:38,808 --> 01:23:41,345
You know, I supported you back in
November.

1379
01:23:41,345 --> 01:23:45,712
I wish we'd have done it then so we
weren't back here tonight doing it all

1380
01:23:45,712 --> 01:23:45,948
weren't back here tonight doing it all
over

1381
01:23:45,948 --> 01:23:48,073
again. You did, and I appreciate it.

1382
01:23:48,073 --> 01:23:52,852
And I, like Commissioner Previti, I've
been in your office a lot, and I've never—

1383
01:23:52,852 --> 01:23:55,862
I've not seen the danger, but I've seen
the crowds.

1384
01:23:55,862 --> 01:23:59,580
And wherever you have that many people and
there's frustration,

1385
01:23:59,580 --> 01:24:02,294
Who knows what's going to happen, but this
is,

1386
01:24:02,294 --> 01:24:05,658
this is a fund that the state legislature
granted to you.

1387
01:24:05,658 --> 01:24:09,671
We, we had no say-so in that. We don't
have anything to do about it.

1388
01:24:09,671 --> 01:24:13,624
It'd be nice if they did it for every
department, but they haven't.

1389
01:24:13,624 --> 01:24:18,050
But that should not prevent you from being
able to do with it what you feel

1390
01:24:18,050 --> 01:24:22,181
necessary to reward your employees, and
that's what this is. This is a

1391
01:24:22,181 --> 01:24:22,889
that's what this is. This is a
recognition.

1392
01:24:22,889 --> 01:24:26,253
It is a, it is a reward to them for their
service to you,

1393
01:24:26,253 --> 01:24:30,147
and the long and the short of it is,
that's what it is. It is your

1394
01:24:30,147 --> 01:24:30,915
that's what it is. It is your
appreciation.

1395
01:24:30,915 --> 01:24:32,803
You have the ability to do that.

1396
01:24:32,803 --> 01:24:36,285
The state legislature has given you the
ability to do that.

1397
01:24:36,285 --> 01:24:39,412
The other issues that have been discussed,
those can,

1398
01:24:39,412 --> 01:24:44,251
those can be addressed through the salary
study or whatever else needs to be done,

1399
01:24:44,251 --> 01:24:47,851
but the long and the short of it is, the
question tonight is,

1400
01:24:47,851 --> 01:24:52,690
are we going to let you do with the money
that the state legislature has allocated

1401
01:24:52,690 --> 01:24:57,411
to you through this fee to be able to
reward your employees for a job well done.

1402
01:24:57,411 --> 01:25:01,246
I will tell you this, I said it last
November, I'll say it again.

1403
01:25:01,246 --> 01:25:05,259
I have the opportunity from time to time
to talk to other employees,

1404
01:25:05,259 --> 01:25:08,387
and I would ask every one of them, what do
you think?

1405
01:25:08,387 --> 01:25:10,806
And all of them said, we're not offended,

1406
01:25:10,806 --> 01:25:14,819
we think it's a great thing for Joey to
have the ability to do that.

1407
01:25:14,819 --> 01:25:16,353
I wish we could do it too,

1408
01:25:16,353 --> 01:25:20,897
but our feelings are not hurt just because
Joey can do it for his own people.

1409
01:25:20,897 --> 01:25:22,785
They deserve it. And so I think,

1410
01:25:22,785 --> 01:25:26,385
not even getting into the issue of
fairness or anything else,

1411
01:25:26,385 --> 01:25:28,155
you have the ability to do it.

1412
01:25:28,155 --> 01:25:29,454
I support you in this,

1413
01:25:29,454 --> 01:25:34,292
and I implore the commission to support
you as well and pass this through the full

1414
01:25:34,292 --> 01:25:37,420
commission later this month. Thank you,
Mr. Chairman.

1415
01:25:37,420 --> 01:25:38,928
Mr. Green, you're up, ma'am.

1416
01:25:38,928 --> 01:25:43,901
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Out of this fund,
can we put a security person in there?

1417
01:25:43,901 --> 01:25:46,356
I mean, if we've got one at the library,

1418
01:25:46,356 --> 01:25:49,303
I think he needs one more than even the
library.

1419
01:25:49,303 --> 01:25:54,061
Well, that's up to him and his fund. I
mean, that's not part of this motion.

1420
01:25:54,061 --> 01:25:56,943
But can that fund be used for—

1421
01:25:56,943 --> 01:26:01,287
He can do whatever he wants. It's for
whatever his need out of his office is.

1422
01:26:01,287 --> 01:26:02,077
Well, I think—

1423
01:26:02,077 --> 01:26:04,393
If he's using the county clerk's office,
we can do—

1424
01:26:04,393 --> 01:26:07,658
The security needs to be improved.

1425
01:26:09,580 --> 01:26:09,877
Thank you.

1426
01:26:09,877 --> 01:26:14,313
Yes, ma'am. Uh, Commissioner Kozlowski.
You're up, sir. Thank you, Chairman.

1427
01:26:14,313 --> 01:26:15,480
Uh, thank you, Joey.

1428
01:26:15,480 --> 01:26:19,741
I, I can say I definitely appreciate your
passion for your employees, uh,

1429
01:26:19,741 --> 01:26:21,492
your fight for your employees.

1430
01:26:21,492 --> 01:26:23,360
Um, I don't work in your office,

1431
01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:26,862
but I was ready to quit after hearing your
stories on there.

1432
01:26:26,862 --> 01:26:31,240
Um, the bad behavior is obviously
unacceptable, um, with, with all of that,

1433
01:26:31,240 --> 01:26:33,107
that something's got to be done.

1434
01:26:33,107 --> 01:26:37,543
I appreciate you standing up for them,
doing what needs to be done on there.

1435
01:26:37,543 --> 01:26:41,045
To be honest with you, when this
conversation first started,

1436
01:26:41,045 --> 01:26:45,598
I was kind of hesitant of being supportive
of it just because of the timing of

1437
01:26:45,598 --> 01:26:49,275
everything. The more you talk, the more I
listen on this stuff.

1438
01:26:49,275 --> 01:26:54,062
You know, I can understand that you've got
those funds there available to do that.

1439
01:26:54,062 --> 01:26:58,206
I can see both sides of all the arguments
that are coming through here.

1440
01:26:58,206 --> 01:27:02,700
One of the commissioners had brought up
about the timeframe as far as whether

1441
01:27:02,700 --> 01:27:06,611
employees should be there 1 year, 2 years,
3 years, whatever it is.

1442
01:27:06,611 --> 01:27:10,813
From my understanding, you only have 2
people that won't get this bonus.

1443
01:27:10,813 --> 01:27:11,747
Is that correct?

1444
01:27:11,747 --> 01:27:13,016
That's correct.

1445
01:27:13,016 --> 01:27:18,261
Okay. And besides those 2 people,
everybody else has been there at least 2

1446
01:27:18,261 --> 01:27:18,686
everybody else has been there at least 2
years?

1447
01:27:18,686 --> 01:27:20,324
Yes.

1448
01:27:20,324 --> 01:27:25,975
Okay. So I think that's where the
confusion on the wording of that was, you

1449
01:27:25,975 --> 01:27:26,352
confusion on the wording of that was, you
know,

1450
01:27:26,352 --> 01:27:32,305
was, hey, if we just made this for 2 years
or whatever, either way, regardless,

1451
01:27:32,305 --> 01:27:34,641
we do it for 1 year or 2 years,

1452
01:27:34,641 --> 01:27:39,463
So this is going to include everybody
except for those 2 people.

1453
01:27:39,463 --> 01:27:42,553
Again, as it's been brought up, you know,

1454
01:27:42,553 --> 01:27:46,396
this is very clear that it is a
one-and-done bonus.

1455
01:27:46,396 --> 01:27:49,108
And so for that, I can support this.

1456
01:27:49,108 --> 01:27:54,760
I do hope that future security will come
into play as well for that office,

1457
01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:57,171
because I'll be honest with you,

1458
01:27:57,171 --> 01:28:03,049
$2,700 would not keep me at a job if I
felt like I was being threatened and in

1459
01:28:03,049 --> 01:28:03,576
danger.

1460
01:28:03,576 --> 01:28:04,042
Yeah.

1461
01:28:04,042 --> 01:28:05,101
So I do appreciate you—

1462
01:28:05,101 --> 01:28:10,356
Something I didn't say is I think a lot of
this is caused by so many people that's

1463
01:28:10,356 --> 01:28:14,202
moved in here from other states. And we
hear this every day.

1464
01:28:14,202 --> 01:28:18,560
Well, that ain't how we done it in
Oklahoma or Nevada or California.

1465
01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:22,597
And we have to tell them, but you're not
in California anymore.

1466
01:28:22,597 --> 01:28:24,520
You know, you're in Tennessee.

1467
01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:28,310
I agree. And like I said, I appreciate
your passion for your people.

1468
01:28:28,310 --> 01:28:32,268
I think that's got to be commended, and
hopefully this will go through.

1469
01:28:32,268 --> 01:28:33,550
So thank you, Chairman.

1470
01:28:33,550 --> 01:28:34,160
Thank you, Joey.

1471
01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:37,883
All right. Seeing no other lights, we are
going to move forward.

1472
01:28:37,883 --> 01:28:40,675
Doug, you want to add something? Go right
ahead.

1473
01:28:40,675 --> 01:28:43,816
But otherwise, we're going to take a vote.
Yeah. Okay.

1474
01:28:43,816 --> 01:28:47,655
So we have a motion from Commissioner
Bridenbaugh. It was amended.

1475
01:28:47,655 --> 01:28:51,843
It was seconded by Commissioner Miller,
and it was amended. That passed.

1476
01:28:51,843 --> 01:28:55,450
All in favor say aye to pass this to
budget. Aye. Any opposed?

1477
01:28:55,450 --> 01:28:59,463
That passes unanimously to budget. Thank
you for that. We'll move on.

1478
01:28:59,463 --> 01:29:01,092
We're done, Joey. That's it.

1479
01:29:01,092 --> 01:29:03,020
All right, thank y'all. Thank every one of
you.

1480
01:29:03,020 --> 01:29:07,364
All right, next item of business is the
Historical Courthouse Committee.

1481
01:29:07,364 --> 01:29:11,829
This is something that I brought to the
mayor and to the county archivist,

1482
01:29:11,829 --> 01:29:14,906
and we do have Tom Price here as well this
evening.

1483
01:29:14,906 --> 01:29:19,793
So several field trips over the past few
years have been taken over to Rutherford

1484
01:29:19,793 --> 01:29:24,439
County to look at their museum and how
their old courthouse was turned into a

1485
01:29:24,439 --> 01:29:28,904
museum. And they supplied us with the
documentation and stuff on how their

1486
01:29:28,904 --> 01:29:29,327
documentation and stuff on how their
museums

1487
01:29:29,327 --> 01:29:31,016
were created and everything.

1488
01:29:31,016 --> 01:29:35,420
And so, you know, it says in the
resolution itself that the Murray County

1489
01:29:35,420 --> 01:29:36,024
resolution itself that the Murray County
Commission

1490
01:29:36,024 --> 01:29:38,980
and other historians deem it necessary,
critical,

1491
01:29:38,980 --> 01:29:41,937
and pertinent to tell the story of Murray
County.

1492
01:29:41,937 --> 01:29:46,341
And because Murray County Commission
approved renovations of the historic

1493
01:29:46,341 --> 01:29:46,945
approved renovations of the historic
courthouse

1494
01:29:46,945 --> 01:29:49,117
in 2022 under Chairman Eric Previti,

1495
01:29:49,117 --> 01:29:53,763
for this reason and to keep the history of
our county alive and ever-present,

1496
01:29:53,763 --> 01:29:57,805
Murray County is creating the Courthouse
Historic Museum Committee.

1497
01:29:57,805 --> 01:30:02,753
Now, this is not the steering committee
that has been working with the renovations

1498
01:30:02,753 --> 01:30:07,278
of the courthouse, and this is not the
operations of the, uh, of the museum

1499
01:30:07,278 --> 01:30:07,700
operations of the, uh, of the museum
either.

1500
01:30:07,700 --> 01:30:12,044
This is just to create the committee to
set the policy. It's an advisory

1501
01:30:12,044 --> 01:30:12,648
set the policy. It's an advisory
committee.

1502
01:30:12,648 --> 01:30:17,294
There's no compensation. The mayor will
appoint the members of the committee.

1503
01:30:17,294 --> 01:30:20,431
The list of where that pool will come from
is there.

1504
01:30:20,431 --> 01:30:23,267
And I need to take a motion to pass this
on to—

1505
01:30:23,267 --> 01:30:25,680
there's no compensation for any of this.

1506
01:30:25,680 --> 01:30:29,783
And so I just— I need a motion and a
second to send this to the full

1507
01:30:29,783 --> 01:30:30,447
second to send this to the full
commission.

1508
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:31,940
The mayor has a point.

1509
01:30:32,406 --> 01:30:33,641
The mayor, your light's on, ma'am. Go
ahead.

1510
01:30:33,641 --> 01:30:34,364
Yes.

1511
01:30:34,637 --> 01:30:38,838
And we may talk about this in the full
commission if you send it on,

1512
01:30:38,838 --> 01:30:41,988
but I didn't view that as a policymaking
committee.

1513
01:30:41,988 --> 01:30:43,780
But as an advisory committee,

1514
01:30:43,780 --> 01:30:47,548
because the museum will be under the
auspice of the Archives.

1515
01:30:47,548 --> 01:30:50,698
So I think the policy would come from the
Archives,

1516
01:30:50,698 --> 01:30:55,764
but this would be an advisory committee
with a different role than setting policy.

1517
01:30:55,764 --> 01:30:57,679
That's the way I understand it.

1518
01:30:57,679 --> 01:31:01,860
Yes, ma'am. All right, I'll make a motion
for discussion. Do I have a second?

1519
01:31:01,860 --> 01:31:05,986
I have a second from Commissioner Miller.
Any lights on discussion for this?

1520
01:31:05,986 --> 01:31:08,049
Commissioner Sumner, is your light on?

1521
01:31:10,315 --> 01:31:13,056
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Can I talk to—
can I ask Mr. Price a question?

1522
01:31:13,056 --> 01:31:16,502
You sure may. That's why he's here. Thank
you for waiting so late, Tom.

1523
01:31:16,502 --> 01:31:22,883
Yeah, how you doing?

1524
01:31:22,883 --> 01:31:23,463
Fine.

1525
01:31:23,641 --> 01:31:23,931
Good evening.

1526
01:31:23,931 --> 01:31:27,874
Good. I don't— I hate to put you on the
spot here, but I'm going to.

1527
01:31:27,874 --> 01:31:29,208
Uh, do you— I mean, do—

1528
01:31:29,370 --> 01:31:29,499
does—

1529
01:31:30,338 --> 01:31:32,363
does your department—

1530
01:31:32,363 --> 01:31:35,930
do you feel like you need an advisory

1531
01:31:35,930 --> 01:31:38,341
committee For the museum?

1532
01:31:38,341 --> 01:31:41,602
So if you look at who the committee is
composed of,

1533
01:31:41,602 --> 01:31:46,973
they're people in the community that have
a vested interest in the history of Murray

1534
01:31:46,973 --> 01:31:50,362
County. I think it's always wise in a
museum setting.

1535
01:31:50,362 --> 01:31:54,774
I think it's typical within the museum
world to have community input.

1536
01:31:54,774 --> 01:32:00,145
So the folks that are going to be on this
advisory role would meet intermittently to

1537
01:32:00,145 --> 01:32:02,127
help really with content issue.

1538
01:32:02,127 --> 01:32:06,667
So when we're talking about how we're
going to develop this museum out,

1539
01:32:06,667 --> 01:32:09,033
we basically have 2 galleries, right?

1540
01:32:09,033 --> 01:32:13,829
I foresee one gallery being one that
interprets the whole history of Murray

1541
01:32:13,829 --> 01:32:14,212
interprets the whole history of Murray
County

1542
01:32:14,212 --> 01:32:17,473
using 3-dimensional objects as your, as
your guide.

1543
01:32:17,473 --> 01:32:20,926
Those objects can be traded out and
changed over time.

1544
01:32:20,926 --> 01:32:26,042
The other gallery I foresee as being a
changing exhibit gallery where we'll do 3

1545
01:32:26,042 --> 01:32:26,169
changing exhibit gallery where we'll do 3
or

1546
01:32:26,169 --> 01:32:29,111
4 exhibits a year that will be
thematic-based.

1547
01:32:29,111 --> 01:32:34,290
We want to do the history of Mule Day in
Murray County or the history of James K.

1548
01:32:34,290 --> 01:32:37,231
Polk in Murray County, you know,
thematically.

1549
01:32:37,231 --> 01:32:40,556
I think that's where that committee comes
into play.

1550
01:32:40,556 --> 01:32:42,666
They're members of the community.

1551
01:32:42,666 --> 01:32:46,759
It brings community voice into the
interpretation of the museum.

1552
01:32:46,759 --> 01:32:49,636
I'm happy to have an advisory board for
that.

1553
01:32:49,636 --> 01:32:49,925
Okay.

1554
01:32:50,022 --> 01:32:50,343
All right.

1555
01:32:50,407 --> 01:32:52,271
Yeah. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.

1556
01:32:52,271 --> 01:32:53,777
All right. I see no other lights.

1557
01:32:53,777 --> 01:32:56,470
All in favor of moving this to the full
commission say aye.

1558
01:32:56,905 --> 01:32:57,034
Aye.

1559
01:32:57,709 --> 01:32:58,192
Any opposed?

1560
01:32:59,472 --> 01:32:59,570
All right.

1561
01:32:59,618 --> 01:33:03,536
That passes. Next, let's see here.

1562
01:33:05,580 --> 01:33:07,336
Hang on just a second.

1563
01:33:10,336 --> 01:33:13,714
Next item on the agenda is public comment.

1564
01:33:13,714 --> 01:33:19,665
Is there anyone that wishes to speak
publicly? Tim, you're the only public

1565
01:33:19,665 --> 01:33:20,067
publicly? Tim, you're the only public
here.

1566
01:33:20,067 --> 01:33:26,018
Okay. All right, uh, next is, uh, item 15,
appointments and announcements.

1567
01:33:26,018 --> 01:33:28,269
Excuse me. Item A, announce—

1568
01:33:28,269 --> 01:33:33,497
announcement of 5 members' terms expiring
on the Admin Committee.

1569
01:33:33,497 --> 01:33:38,402
B, announcement of 3 members expiring on
the Audit Committee.

1570
01:33:38,402 --> 01:33:44,353
C, announcement of 2 members expiring on
the Regional Planning Commission.

1571
01:33:44,353 --> 01:33:50,706
Item D is the announcement of a public
hearing for an amendment to the approved

1572
01:33:50,706 --> 01:33:56,898
planned development, comma, let's see,
that's Firefly located at 3071 Highway

1573
01:33:56,898 --> 01:33:57,220
that's Firefly located at 3071 Highway
431.

1574
01:33:57,220 --> 01:34:02,608
The meeting will be held in the
Barner-Prym Commission Room Monday,

1575
01:34:02,608 --> 01:34:04,458
August 17th at 6:00 PM.

1576
01:34:04,458 --> 01:34:10,811
Item E, announcement that a public meeting
will be held to develop a new Murray

1577
01:34:10,811 --> 01:34:16,521
County Comprehensive Land Use Plan on
Thursday, August 13th at 5:30 PM.

1578
01:34:16,521 --> 01:34:22,311
The meeting will take place in the
cafeteria at Battle Creek High School

1579
01:34:22,311 --> 01:34:23,115
cafeteria at Battle Creek High School
located at

1580
01:34:23,115 --> 01:34:27,216
130 Battle Creek Way, Spring Hill,
Tennessee 37174.

1581
01:34:27,216 --> 01:34:33,006
The purpose of this meeting is to
establish a new comprehensive land use

1582
01:34:33,006 --> 01:34:33,811
establish a new comprehensive land use
plan which

1583
01:34:33,811 --> 01:34:39,359
develops a planning guide for the most
appropriate use of land in the

1584
01:34:39,359 --> 01:34:40,485
appropriate use of land in the
unincorporated

1585
01:34:40,485 --> 01:34:45,069
county. And do I have any other lights for
announcements?

1586
01:34:45,069 --> 01:34:50,538
Commissioner Bridenbaugh, you had the
floor, sir, for announcements.

1587
01:34:50,538 --> 01:34:53,111
Is your light— no, it's not him.

1588
01:34:53,990 --> 01:34:55,334
I'm sorry. Scott Saunders.

1589
01:34:55,463 --> 01:34:56,257
Commissioner Saunders.

1590
01:34:56,257 --> 01:34:57,869
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

1591
01:34:57,869 --> 01:35:03,109
The public meeting at Battle Creek is
actually going to be taking place at the

1592
01:35:03,109 --> 01:35:03,378
actually going to be taking place at the
same

1593
01:35:03,378 --> 01:35:08,483
time the I-65 corridor study is going to
be taking place in Spring Hill, uh,

1594
01:35:08,483 --> 01:35:10,364
for Murray County residents.

1595
01:35:10,364 --> 01:35:15,738
That corridor study is going from Thompson
Lane in Nashville all the way to Bear

1596
01:35:15,738 --> 01:35:16,141
Creek.

1597
01:35:16,141 --> 01:35:16,896
I've seen the map.

1598
01:35:16,896 --> 01:35:19,730
Yeah, and so this couldn't be at a worse
time.

1599
01:35:19,730 --> 01:35:24,043
This meeting right here couldn't be at a
worse time because I-65 is a,

1600
01:35:24,043 --> 01:35:28,848
is a huge issue in Murray County. And of
course, this is a critical issue too.

1601
01:35:28,848 --> 01:35:31,990
And you can't— I'd love to be at both of
them, but—

1602
01:35:31,990 --> 01:35:34,728
Well, we talked to Robert and then we'll
see how it goes.

1603
01:35:34,728 --> 01:35:38,043
This involves the school building as well.
He's already published it.

1604
01:35:38,043 --> 01:35:39,729
Yeah, it's been published.

1605
01:35:39,729 --> 01:35:44,285
So, I mean, it couldn't be at a worse
time, but I was just, you know,

1606
01:35:44,285 --> 01:35:49,435
there's an announcement here too that
there is an I-65 corridor meeting at the

1607
01:35:49,435 --> 01:35:53,859
Spring Hill Event Center at the same time
as that, as that meeting.

1608
01:35:54,132 --> 01:35:54,774
Thank you.

1609
01:35:55,160 --> 01:35:57,103
All right, uh, Commissioner Vara, your
light's on, sir.

1610
01:35:57,103 --> 01:35:58,452
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

1611
01:35:58,452 --> 01:36:02,779
Do we know which members of the Planning
Committee or Planning Commission are

1612
01:36:02,779 --> 01:36:04,296
expiring which ones' terms?

1613
01:36:04,296 --> 01:36:06,463
Not at this time.

1614
01:36:06,463 --> 01:36:09,032
Not at this time. It's just an
announcement.

1615
01:36:09,032 --> 01:36:09,947
Okay, thank you.

1616
01:36:09,947 --> 01:36:11,328
All right, all right.

1617
01:36:11,328 --> 01:36:16,194
So that said, before we adjourn, um,
again, as I did last night, you know,

1618
01:36:16,194 --> 01:36:19,087
this is the last meeting for this
committee.

1619
01:36:19,087 --> 01:36:24,150
On this commission, and I want to thank
everybody for allowing me to serve as

1620
01:36:24,150 --> 01:36:28,096
chairman. I've been on this committee for
the past 12 years,

1621
01:36:28,096 --> 01:36:31,778
but I want to turn the spotlight over here
on Miss Lisa,

1622
01:36:31,778 --> 01:36:35,132
and I want to thank Miss Lisa because she
has been—

1623
01:36:35,132 --> 01:36:38,091
if you've ever chaired a committee with
Lisa,

1624
01:36:38,091 --> 01:36:41,773
she's like a professional ball catcher on
the team here.

1625
01:36:41,773 --> 01:36:46,573
She's got her hand signs that she signals
the pitcher, and you know, you,

1626
01:36:46,573 --> 01:36:50,913
you either get the swipe Or the point, or
the point, or the nudge.

1627
01:36:50,913 --> 01:36:52,491
You get the nudge, okay?

1628
01:36:52,491 --> 01:36:56,765
And so I want to thank Lisa, you know, so
much for you to— Patty,

1629
01:36:56,765 --> 01:37:01,302
in my chair right there is a bag, if
you'll run that over here to me.

1630
01:37:01,302 --> 01:37:06,826
And so I've known you for a long time, and
so Cindy didn't spill the beans, did she?

1631
01:37:06,826 --> 01:37:07,068
No.

1632
01:37:07,068 --> 01:37:07,843
Okay, good.

1633
01:37:10,230 --> 01:37:10,672
Thank you, dear.

1634
01:37:11,016 --> 01:37:15,482
So this is my gratitude and thank you
Thank you for the years and everything.

1635
01:37:15,482 --> 01:37:17,454
Thank you so much. You're welcome.

1636
01:37:17,454 --> 01:37:20,469
And everybody, everybody give— I mean,
because Lisa,

1637
01:37:20,469 --> 01:37:24,993
Lisa keeps these committees flowing and
she keeps the full commission flowing.

1638
01:37:24,993 --> 01:37:28,415
And so, so that's, that's, uh, anyway,
thank y'all so much.

1639
01:37:28,415 --> 01:37:32,126
And you get to start all over again with a
new group next month.

1640
01:37:32,126 --> 01:37:33,692
And so, yeah, I can't wait.

1641
01:37:33,692 --> 01:37:37,114
And And, um, and I know— and while I've
got the floor here,

1642
01:37:37,114 --> 01:37:40,942
I don't know if you're coming next to the
Budget Committee or not,

1643
01:37:40,942 --> 01:37:45,465
but I want to thank Chairman Grooms for
serving as chairman because you're not

1644
01:37:45,465 --> 01:37:45,755
serving as chairman because you're not
going

1645
01:37:45,755 --> 01:37:50,395
to be here at the full commission meeting
this month. I'm going to be in Alaska.

1646
01:37:50,395 --> 01:37:54,919
And so Vice Chairman Grooms, yeah, you're
going to be in Alaska catching fish,

1647
01:37:54,919 --> 01:37:59,500
brother. So I want to thank you for your
service as chairman and, and all that.

1648
01:37:59,500 --> 01:38:03,618
And with that said, seeing no other
lights, I take a motion to adjourn.

1649
01:38:03,618 --> 01:38:05,590
I have it from Miller and a second