[4:49] Serve on the admin committee, raise your
hand,
[4:53] and we'll take your names down and we'll
vote on that.
[4:58] So I got Greg Cohen.
[5:00] Brent Coen.
[5:07] Steve Burford, Kenny Morrow,
[5:12] Sam Barnes, Mikę Kuzawinski.
[5:17] Is that 5?
[5:19] Sam Barnes and Mikę Kuzawinski.
[5:21] Yeah.
[5:22] Yes.
[5:22] So that's 5.
[5:24] That's 5.
[5:24] All right. I have a motion by Commissioner
Sumners to approve by acclamation.
[5:29] Do I have a second? I have a second by
Commissioner Holt. Is there any
[5:34] Commissioner Holt. Is there any
discussion?
[5:35] Seeing none, we'll vote.
[5:36] Can you say those names out loud one more
time?
[5:39] Yes, I can.
[5:41] I'm sorry.
[5:43] That would be Mikę Kuzawinski, Sam Barnes,
Kenny Morrow, Steven Burford,
[5:49] and Brent Coen.
[5:54] That's 5.
[6:00] All right.
[6:07] Please
[6:12] vote.
[6:15] 22 ayes.
[6:22] That passes with 22 in the affirmative.
[6:25] We'll move on to 02604, election of 7
members to the Budget Committee.
[6:30] I'm going to do the same thing.
[6:32] You can only serve on one committee until
we get to the Budget Committee— I mean,
[6:37] to the Building Committee, and then you
can volunteer again.
[6:42] But so, everyone who would like to be on
the Budget Committee, if you will,
[6:47] raise your hand.
[6:48] Chad Brothers.
[6:51] Commissioner Haynes?
[6:56] No, uh, Miss Commissioner
[7:01] Phillips. Richard Baud.
[7:06] Y'all got them back up?
[7:11] Scott Sumners. Connie Green.
[7:17] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. That's 5. We're missing
someone.
[7:25] We're missing someone, so raise your hands
again. Chad Brothers.
[7:31] Missy— Commissioner Phillips. Commissioner
Bald. Commissioner Sumners.
[7:38] Commissioner Green.
[7:44] Yep.
[7:44] That's 5. So I need 2 more. I'll put me on
there.
[7:51] Yeah, you can because you're chairman.
[7:53] So I need 1 more. Any brave souls?
Commissioner Haines? All right.
[8:01] I'll accept the motion.
[8:03] I got a motion by Commissioner Sumner,
[8:08] seconded by Commissioner Markham. Any
discussion?
[8:13] If not, we'll proceed to vote.
[8:17] Please
[8:23] vote.
[8:51] That passes with 22 in the affirmative.
[8:54] We'll move on to O2605,
[8:57] election of 5 members to the Health and
Environment Committee.
[9:03] If you'd like to serve on the Health and
Environment Committee,
[9:09] raise your hand. Commissioner Strand,
Commissioner Hollinsworth,
[9:15] Commissioner Stovall. I need 2 more.
[9:18] Health and— yeah, Health and Environment
and Education. So I got 3.
[9:25] Did you get Combs? Greg, did you raise
your hand? Commissioner Combs.
[9:32] I need one more.
[9:41] Who? Mr. Miller. Mullen. Mullen.
[9:47] Mr. Mullen, would you like to serve on
the—
[9:49] okay. I'll abstain.
[9:54] Cindy? All right. Let's just keep those
and we'll go on.
[10:00] Yeah, we'll wait till last. We'll move on
to 9/26/06.
[10:05] It would be election of 5 members to the
Safety Committee.
[10:11] So please raise your hand if you'd like to
be on the Safety Committee.
[10:18] I got Commissioner Mullen.
[10:20] Commissioner Markham, Commissioner
Hessler, Commissioner Holt,
[10:26] Commissioner Ronsberger, and Commissioner
Harlan.
[10:32] Well, we got to vote. Right.
[10:35] We'll have to vote on them.
[10:40] All right. Mullen. Holt,
[10:45] Wayne, Harlan, Hestla,
[10:50] and Markham.
[10:52] Okay, I got you. We got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
We have 6.
[11:00] 6. So we'll have to vote on them.
[11:06] Yeah, one will have to come off.
[11:12] So we're going to vote on them one at a
[11:18] time, and we're going to start with, uh,
[11:25] Commissioner Holt. Would anybody like to
[11:32] decline and serve on something else?
[11:39] Nope, we got to vote. Go ahead.
[11:44] Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, how many are,
are wanting to be on safety?
[11:49] 6.
[11:49] 6.
[11:50] Okay. All right.
[11:50] Thank you.
[12:12] So you can only vote for one. All right.
[12:16] So whoever you're going to vote for, vote
for them only. There's no no votes.
[12:22] It's just you vote for whoever you want to
be on that.
[12:26] Whoever you're voting for, vote for that
person. If not, don't vote.
[12:32] Yes.
[12:40] Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So we're voting
on one person at a time?
[12:43] Yes.
[12:44] And then if it's a yes, if you support
that person for the chair, for the
[12:47] that person for the chair, for the
committee,
[12:48] vote yes. If you don't want to support
them for the— then vote— don't vote at
[12:52] them for the— then vote— don't vote at
all.
[12:52] Thank you.
[12:52] Yes.
[12:54] You had to vote 5 times.
[12:55] No.
[12:59] No.
[12:59] Wasn't it?
[12:59] No.
[13:00] You got 6 now? Mm-mm. We got 1, 2, 3, 4,
5.
[13:05] Yeah, that was the only time we got Tim
Holtz.
[13:11] We're going to have to vote on it. All
right.
[13:17] So let's just go ahead and do this. And
make it easy.
[13:24] Buford has his light up.
[13:25] Yeah, well, just— I'm going to just make
it easy.
[13:29] We're going to vote on them one at a time.
[13:33] If you want— if that's who you want to
vote for, vote for them.
[13:38] If you don't— yeah, come up here, Eric.
[13:48] Just can't stay away, can you?
[13:50] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[13:51] Having done this a lot of times, what you
do is, and for the committees,
[13:55] just have them raise their hands for the
votes,
[13:58] just write them down real quick and then
tally them up.
[14:01] And the top 5 ones get it instead of— if
you do this machine-wise,
[14:05] you'll be here 45 minutes. But if you just
do quick hand votes and you pick the 5—
[14:09] We're ready to go.
[14:10] But you still got to put it in each time.
[14:12] Well, okay, well then that's still— but
It's still— you vote,
[14:15] you're voting for 5 people. It's not
you're only voting for 1.
[14:17] You're going to be voting for 5 people.
The top 5 voters win.
[14:20] Tim Holt.
[14:22] Yeah.
[14:26] Whatever way is quickest, but the top 5
voters.
[14:28] So it's not just a matter of voting 1 and
you're done.
[14:30] You'll be voting 5 times or 6 times, but
the top, the top 5 win.
[14:33] So.
[14:34] No.
[14:35] Whatever she says.
[14:41] Yeah, you gotta vote for 5 out of 6.
[14:44] Tim Holt.
[14:45] All right, Commissioner Buford.
[14:49] Um, yes, sir.
[14:51] If—
[14:52] since we're voting one at a time,
[14:53] would you indulge us by reading the list
of 6 again?
[14:56] Tim Holt, uh, Wayne Romesburg,
[15:02] uh, Winston Harlan, Cindy
[15:06] Hestla.
[15:07] Kevin Markham.
[15:09] And Tim Mullen.
[15:39] I'm going to close the vote. Is everyone
done voting?
[15:41] No.
[15:43] No.
[15:51] Now?
[15:55] Okay, we have 26.
[15:56] It's 22 and an affirmative for
Commissioner Holt,
[16:01] so he'll be on the safety committee.
[16:04] All right, who's next?
[16:06] Wayne Romesburg.
[16:09] Wayne Romesburg is the next one.
[16:12] Please
[16:16] vote.
[16:20] Has
[16:22] everybody
[16:28] voted?
[16:33] 16 in the affirmative, so that will put
Mr. Romesburg— Mr.
[16:39] Romesburg— Commissioner Romesburg on that
committee as well.
[16:49] Next is— not necessarily, but we'll wait.
[16:54] Well, Winston Harlan will be next.
[17:15] Everybody voted? We have 16 ayes.
[17:20] 16 for Wayne Romesburg.
[17:23] Winston Harlan, excuse me.
[17:27] The next is Commissioner Hestla.
[17:31] Please vote.
[17:38] Were you able to
[17:46] get back in?
[17:53] Okay.
[17:56] Has everybody
[18:03] voted?
[18:06] We have 13 ayes.
[18:15] Okay.
[18:18] 13 ayes for Cindy Hestla. And next one is,
uh, Commissioner Markham.
[18:29] Please
[18:33] vote.
[18:41] Everybody voted?
[18:42] We have 21 ayes.
[18:45] That's 21 for Mr. Commissioner Markham.
[18:48] Next is Tim Mullen.
[18:50] And our next one is Commissioner Mullen.
[18:57] Please
[19:02] vote.
[19:05] Did you
[19:10] take Combs?
[19:21] Everyone voted?
[19:22] We have 13 ayes. Okay, we have a tie
between Cindy Hestla and Tim Mullen.
[19:30] Okay, so we have a tie between
Commissioner Mullen
[19:34] and Commissioner Hestla, so we'll have to
re-vote.
[19:39] Yeah, you can ask if one of them wants to
step off.
[19:43] One of y'all want to step off? Nope. All
right. We're going to do this the easy
[19:48] right. We're going to do this the easy
way.
[19:48] We're going to vote for— we're going to
vote on Commissioner Hessler the first
[19:53] vote on Commissioner Hessler the first
time.
[19:54] Raise your hand.
[19:57] Yeah, and we're going to raise your hand.
[19:59] So all those in favor of Commissioner
Hessler, please raise your hand.
[20:12] I think I had 10.
[20:13] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
[20:18] 10.
[20:19] So that's 10 for Commissioner Hestla.
[20:21] All right, all right, we're going to be
voting for Commissioner Mullen.
[20:26] All those in favor of Commissioner Mullen,
please raise your hand.
[20:31] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
[20:33] 10.
[20:34] 11. There you go. It's 12.
[20:37] Yeah, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12.
[20:41] So Commissioner Mullen will be on that
committee.
[20:46] Commissioner Hessler, that will put you
on, uh,
[20:50] Health and Environment Committee.
[20:53] Okay, she's good with that. Yep.
[21:00] All right.
[21:10] Okay.
[21:12] Next is the election of 5 members or 7
members to the building
[21:18] committee. So raise your hand if you want
to be on the building
[21:23] committee. All right.
[21:25] Commissioner Markham, Commissioner Marr,
Commissioner Sumners,
[21:31] Commissioner Green, Commissioner Strand.
How many you got to be?
[21:40] Keep your hands up, please.
[21:43] Call them slow too.
[21:47] Markham, Markham, Mara,
[21:53] Sumners, Barnes. Green and
[21:59] Strand.
[22:01] Can 2 commissioners be on one?
[22:04] 2 commissioners from the same district?
[22:08] I think we—
[22:09] That was on budget, I believe.
[22:11] Oh, okay.
[22:11] Yeah.
[22:11] We still only have 6. We need 7.
[22:14] Is that 6 or 7?
[22:16] 6.
[22:16] 6, need 7? Put me on there.
[22:18] Okay.
[22:19] All right,
[22:22] so that's 7.
[22:27] Call out those
[22:32] names, Sharon.
[22:37] Okay. I've got Jerry Strahan, Connie
Green, Scott Sumners,
[22:42] Sam Barnes, Kenny Morrow, Kevin Markham,
and Danny Grooms.
[22:46] Okay. All right. 7.
[22:50] We'll move on to 9.20.608 is election of 4
members to the Financial Management
[22:55] Board, and I will take volunteers for that
one as well.
[22:59] We'll vote on— yeah, vote on the, uh,
building committee. I'm sorry.
[23:03] Please
[23:10] vote.
[23:15] 22
[23:18] ayes.
[23:23] That's 22 in the affirmative.
[23:26] So 9.2608 is election of 4 members to the
Financial Management Board,
[23:32] and I'll take volunteers for that.
[23:35] Commissioner Sumners, Commissioner
Burford, Commissioner, uh, Baud,
[23:42] and I need one more. Commissioner
Hollingsworth. Is there anybody else?
[23:48] Burford, Bald, Hollingsworth, and Sumners.
That's all I need is 4.
[23:55] All right.
[23:56] So we'll vote on that.
[24:10] 22 ayes.
[24:11] That passes with 22 in the affirmative.
[24:14] Sharon, could you go back and read what
committee everybody's on,
[24:19] just so we got it clear?
[24:21] Yes, sir.
[24:24] Admin, I have Kuzawinski, Barnes—
[24:28] sorry.
[24:30] Admin, I have Kuzawinski, Barnes, Morrow,
Burford, and Cohen.
[24:37] Budget, I have Green, Sumners, Haynes,
Baud, Phillips, Grooms,
[24:44] and Brothers. Health and Environment, I
have Strand, Hollinsworth,
[24:52] Stovall, Hesla, Combs.
[24:55] Safety, I have Holt, Romesburg, Harlan,
Hestla, Markham, Mullen.
[25:02] No, not Hestla.
[25:04] No, Mullen?
[25:05] No, Hestla is not on there. No.
[25:08] Oh, this is from the original.
[25:09] Sorry, sorry.
[25:12] Yes, go ahead, Commissioner Brothers.
[25:14] Hey, do we need to go back and vote on the
health and environment?
[25:18] We had skipped that one.
[25:19] We do. Thank you, sir.
[25:23] Okay, I'm gonna repeat safety. Holt,
Romesburg, Harlan, Markham, and Mullen.
[25:31] Yes.
[25:31] Building, I have Strand, Green, Sumners,
Barnes,
[25:37] Morrow, Markham, and Grooms.
[25:40] Financial management, I have Hollinsworth,
[25:45] Sumners, Baud, and Burford.
[25:49] All right, we're going to go back and vote
on the, uh,
[25:52] Health and Environment and Education
because we didn't vote on that,
[25:55] on that committee.
[25:56] What?
[26:01] Go back and vote on the Health and
[26:05] Environment because we didn't vote on
[26:09] it.
[26:09] Oh, okay, please vote.
[26:12] I'll tell you who's on there.
[26:17] Strand, Hollingsworth, Stovall, Hessler,
[26:25] and Combs. So that's what we're voting
[26:33] on, the Health and Environment
[26:39] Committee. That's 22 in the affirmative,
[26:47] so we have our committees.
[26:52] Public comment. Chris Gramling.
[26:58] Everyone, Chris Gramling, District 9.
Congratulations to all the new faces.
[27:04] It's exciting to see you all here, and
congratulations to those returning.
[27:10] Um, I just want to briefly make a comment
to try and get the conversation going
[27:16] about honesty, uh, specifically as it
relates to the applications for
[27:22] relates to the applications for
subdivision
[27:22] and for rezoning. Um, I've been here, I've
watched, uh, for, you know,
[27:28] intensively the last year here, and I've
been coming to these, uh, off and on for,
[27:34] for now over 5 years, and I've repeatedly
seen, with respect, developers be deeply,
[27:41] deeply dishonest in their applications and
their comments.
[27:46] They've been caught flat out putting
forward information that's simply not
[27:51] forward information that's simply not
true.
[27:52] Last Monday, we saw them being dishonest
in the—
[27:56] just talking about the ownership of of the
property that they were trying to take
[28:02] actions on. And I'm going to ask,
[28:05] just like I asked about the public records
request process to have more
[28:10] transparency, I'm going to ask that
regarding dishonesty,
[28:15] we have some teeth and use them.
[28:17] The application itself for out-of-building
and zoning does have penalties prescribed
[28:24] in there, and it very clearly talks about
omissions and you know,
[28:29] falsified information.
[28:31] So I think if that had been adhered to, we
wouldn't be in the,
[28:36] the mess that we're in right now.
[28:39] Thank you.
[28:40] Come on up, sir. Say your name,
[28:44] your district. You have 3
[28:48] minutes.
[28:49] Jordan, District 9. I actually wasn't
going to speak, and I thought, yeah, why
[28:54] going to speak, and I thought, yeah, why
not?
[28:54] Um, so I think most folks in here profess
Christ.
[28:57] That are on, on this commission, which is
exciting.
[29:01] I'm going to admonish each of you that the
authority that this body has is a
[29:06] delegated authority by Christ.
[29:08] And each of you have an obligation not
only to your constituents,
[29:12] but before God himself,
[29:13] to legislate and to conduct yourself
righteously with integrity. End of
[29:18] righteously with integrity. End of
discussion.
[29:19] You do that, the ethics issues become a
non-issue.
[29:22] I congratulate each of you for winning
your respective elections.
[29:26] I look forward to hearing and seeing what
comes from this.
[29:30] There are some things that I'm looking
forward to,
[29:33] I hope y'all taking up and considering and
moving the conversation forward on.
[29:38] I haven't heard a lot of folks talking
about what happens long-term with Marshall
[29:44] County should Landfill issues start
showing up.
[29:47] That's something that requires a lot of
long-term thinking.
[29:51] I would love to hear that start moving
forward.
[29:54] There's opportunities to better the access
to information for your constituents from
[29:59] the website, making it easier to get into
the data, the transcripts,
[30:04] and what's being said and by who. I've got
ideas. I'll share them in the future.
[30:09] There is no progress, as far as I'm aware
of,
[30:12] on a study on the impact of data centers
Which was part of the moratorium on data
[30:17] centers. I would encourage y'all to get
with the Regional Planning Commission and
[30:22] help them move that, to encourage them to
move that along.
[30:26] On the note of the Comprehensive Land Use
Plan, it is dismally behind schedule.
[30:31] October, that moratorium is done and there
is no plan in place.
[30:35] We need y'all's help to help them Move
that forward.
[30:39] It is unacceptable that it is where it's
at now.
[30:42] Don't know what the cause was, but we
deserve better as citizens of Murray
[30:47] deserve better as citizens of Murray
County.
[30:47] And then something, just tossing this out
here, that's been on my mind.
[30:52] I've seen some conversations about the
Justice Center and how parking is really
[30:57] Justice Center and how parking is really
bad.
[30:57] There are some creative ideas that this
body could consider to help alleviate
[31:02] body could consider to help alleviate
that,
[31:03] not least of which, and maybe I'm stepping
on people's toes,
[31:07] Is there a reason why there has to be
reserved spaces for lawyers, judges,
[31:11] and police officers when it is a parking
lot for the citizens?
[31:15] So I'll just toss that out there. I've got
ideas about that as well.
[31:20] Happy to entertain them. Anyway, thank
you, and may the Lord bless your work.
[31:25] Thank you. Anybody else? You have 3
minutes, Miss Sparks.
[31:32] Theresa Sparks, District 9. Welcome.
Congratulations to all the new faces.
[31:37] At the last meeting, which was the end of
a 4-year term, I asked the commission,
[31:43] I was like, how did we do compared to our
strategic plan? Did unemployment improve?
[31:49] Did infrastructure keep pace with growth?
[31:52] That's okay.
[31:52] How much farmland did we lose? What about
our high school graduation rates?
[31:57] How about our cost of living? How did we
do compared to our strategic plan?
[32:03] What's the plan? Well,
[32:05] we couldn't answer that because we don't
have a strategic plan.
[32:09] So what I would encourage is this body to
adopt a countywide strategic plan.
[32:15] A budget isn't a strategic plan. I've been
a CFO for 30 years. It's great.
[32:20] We need it. But that's not a strategic
plan.
[32:23] A strategic plan defines what kind of
county we want Murray County to be and
[32:29] establishes measurable goals to determine
whether we're getting there.
[32:34] Economic, education, infrastructure,
public safety, all of that.
[32:39] Choose the metrics, publish them, measure
them annually,
[32:43] and give commissioners and citizens a
meaningful way to evaluate our progress.
[32:48] Second, you heard prioritize the
comprehensive land use plan.
[32:53] It's important to know what the vision of
our land looks like.
[32:57] That informs the rest of our strategy.
[33:00] And third, I would ask you to establish a
North Star for farmland preservation.
[33:06] If we don't preserve our farmland and all
of our decisions look through that lens of
[33:12] farmland preservation, we're not going to
recognize this county.
[33:17] Well, we actually might recognize it,
[33:19] and no offense to the good citizens of
Spring Hill,
[33:23] but it's going to look like Spring Hill.
[33:26] And, and there is just as concerned as the
rest of the county is.
[33:31] So I would just ask, get a strategic plan,
choose your measurements,
[33:36] and use it to guide your decisions. Thank
you.
[33:39] Thank you. Anyone else might like to make—
I can't get rid of you.
[33:44] Well, Theresa asked me if I was going to
join the 3-minute club,
[33:48] so this is my initiation. Mr. Chairman,
congratulations on your election.
[33:52] My name is Eric Privetti. I live at 101
Casey Valley Drive in Columbia, Tennessee.
[33:57] Thank you, all of you, for willing to
serve and do this job.
[34:00] You've got a lot ahead of you.
[34:02] I just, I just heard 2 things to remind
you is that I'm chairman of the
[34:06] Comprehensive Land Use Advisory Committee.
[34:08] That committee has some meetings scheduled
for all of the Thursdays in September.
[34:13] They've all been canceled except for the
one on the 24th.
[34:16] And that's because we're waiting on all of
you to go through your first county
[34:20] commission, full commission meeting. I
encourage you to come to these meetings.
[34:25] I encourage all the public.
[34:26] So one of the things that I've learned,
and I want to, you know,
[34:30] will continuously remind you guys, is that
I'm on this side of the podium now,
[34:34] and technically I got more power than I
had when I was sitting there.
[34:38] Because if you look at the organizational
chart for Murray County,
[34:42] the top of that chart is the voters, is
the citizens.
[34:45] And so I know how the game works. And so—
[34:47] Thank you.
[34:48] I'm on this side now. I'm part of the
3-minute club.
[34:50] But anyway, come to that committee
meeting, be involved,
[34:53] and thank you for everything that y'all
do. Congratulations, Mr. Chairman.
[34:57] Thank you.
[34:57] Thank you. Anyone else like to speak? Come
on up.
[35:01] Katie.
[35:02] Katie Martin, District 10.
[35:04] Um, I just had some comments about the
Industrial Development Board and how the
[35:10] information on the county's website is,
um, not up to date.
[35:14] You have, uh, Bill White's term says it
expired January 26th,
[35:19] and Stuart Parker's is January 24th, which
is, you know, 2 years ago.
[35:24] And then, um, there's also no meeting
minutes or agendas published.
[35:30] And there's also, um, the set of meeting
and location list is from 2024.
[35:35] And I think there needs to be more
transparency with the Industrial
[35:41] transparency with the Industrial
Development
[35:41] Board.
[35:42] Thank you.
[35:43] Especially as it concerns the Innovation
Campus that is a designated brownfield,
[35:47] as I understand. I would like to hear more
information about that from the
[35:52] Industrial Development Board in the
meetings. And I just— I don't know.
[35:56] I know there's a level of secrecy there.
[35:58] I'm not under— I'm just a regular person,
so I don't understand why.
[36:02] But I would like to hear more about the
work that they do, the money they bring
[36:07] work that they do, the money they bring
in,
[36:07] and everything in a way that's palatable
for the everyday person to understand.
[36:12] And that's all.
[36:13] Have a great one.
[36:14] Thank you.
[36:16] Anybody else? Mr. Hardy.
[36:22] Good evening. My name is Jeff Hardy.
[36:24] I live in the 2nd District,
[36:26] but I come to you tonight as the Director
of Emergency Management here in Murray
[36:31] County. This is my first opportunity to
see all of you, so welcome.
[36:35] Glad that you guys all stepped up and were
elected, so congratulations on that.
[36:39] I just wanted to take a brief second and
brag about our team.
[36:43] You may or may not have seen it on social
media or heard it on the news.
[36:48] No.
[36:48] There's quite a few wildfires going on in
Texas right now.
[36:51] The state of Tennessee has answered that
call.
[36:54] We partnered with the City of Columbia,
Franklin, Brentwood, Murfreesboro,
[36:58] Knoxville, and Madison County and sent
teams Sunday morning.
[37:02] They left out about 3 o'clock Sunday
morning to drive just west of Fort Worth.
[37:07] They're at the Ross Fire. It's a little
over 90,000 acres right now.
[37:11] It's about 140 square miles that are
burning.
[37:13] Last count was 157 structures that were
damaged or destroyed by the fire,
[37:17] and our team is there supporting them.
[37:20] So I just wanted to take a moment to give
you guys some good news,
[37:24] something to be proud of. That we're
supporting them.
[37:27] But our Tennessee folks, our Murray County
folks, are in Texas doing good work,
[37:31] and everybody's safe and sound.
[37:33] I talked to them right before I came in
here,
[37:36] but I just wanted to take a moment to brag
about them.
[37:39] You'll hear more about that at the Safety
Committee meeting and as they go through.
[37:44] That's a 16-day deployment, so we've still
got a little ways before they come home.
[37:49] So that's all I just want to say. Thank
you, Chairman.
[37:52] Thank you.
[37:52] Appreciate you.
[37:53] Thank you, Mr. Hardy. Congratulations on
being new commissioners.
[37:58] It can be rewarding and it can be hectic
sometimes,
[38:02] but I'm sure your phone will start ringing
pretty quick, so be ready for that.
[38:08] But I just want to remind us all to be
respectful of one another as we go forward
[38:14] this year. We all have ideas.
[38:16] We all have things that we would like to
get accomplished,
[38:20] but I would like for us to, to do it in a
respectful manner.
[38:25] I also want to mention that the department
heads report to the mayor,
[38:30] so if you would like to talk to a
department head, go through the mayor to
[38:36] department head, go through the mayor to
do that,
[38:36] if you don't mind. Elected officials, you
can, you can go to them yourself,
[38:42] but make sure that you go through, through
the mayor to get to the department heads.
[38:49] Um, Commissioner Combs.
[38:50] Mr. Chairman, I'd like to ask a question
to Mr. Peretti who spoke just a minute
[38:57] to Mr. Peretti who spoke just a minute
ago.
[38:57] Uh, where do you—
[38:58] didn't mention where you have your
meetings at.
[39:00] In this room right here.
[39:02] Okay, that's easy.
[39:05] Thank you.
[39:05] Commissioner Markham. Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
[39:08] I just want to recognize it may be the
first time people have seen them.
[39:13] We've got Highway Superintendent Mr.
[39:15] Ken McKee, our County Trustee Randy
McNeese,
[39:17] and then Chief Perreault back there also
from the Murray County Fire Department.
[39:22] And then of course Jeff Hardy, the
director of OEM.
[39:25] So, all right, thank you, Commissioner
Markham. Any more? Anyone else?
[39:29] Yes, Mr. Romesburg.
[39:31] Commissioner Romesburg.
[39:34] I just got to say to Jeff, so Tennessee's
got to save Texas again?
[39:40] Sounds like that's what we did. All right.
All right. No further comments.
[39:46] I'll take a motion. Commissioner Sumners.
Commissioner Sumners.
[39:52] Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yeah, our
meetings are—
[39:55] Yeah, I got it down.
[39:56] Okay. Next Tuesday at 4th.
[39:58] Yes.