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After 4:30, so we're going to go ahead and
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Wednesday, September 9th.

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I'll do the prayer, and I've asked
Commissioner Markham to lead us in the

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Commissioner Markham to lead us in the
pledge.

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If you will, please stand.

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Father God, we are, we are eternally
grateful, Father, for the,

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for the many blessings that you have
bestowed upon us, Father.

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We thank you for your Son, Father. We
thank you for what he did for us on the

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thank you for what he did for us on the
cross.

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So that we might be reconciled to you,
Father.

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Father, I pray that you would be with us
tonight.

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I pray that you would grant us wisdom, an
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as we do these people's work.

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I pray, Father, that you be with each and
every commissioner as we go through these

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meetings and help us, Father, do the right
thing for the people.

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Father, I pray now that you would just
bless our families, watch over them,

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bless the first responders, bless those
young men, women,

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and boys across the seas who are are
fighting for us so that we might be able

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fighting for us so that we might be able
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assemble here to do this, Father.

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Father, I pray that you just—

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whatever we do and say here tonight would
bring glory and honor to you.

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For it is in Jesus' name we pray.

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Amen.

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If you would put your hand on your heart
or salute if you're a veteran.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the

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Republic for which it stands.

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One nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.

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All right, first order of business is the

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election of a chairman,

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and I will now open the floor for
nominations.

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Uh, Commissioner Rossmann.

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I nominate Kevin Markham.

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Kevin Markham has been nominated. Are
there any other nominations?

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No.

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If not, I will take a motion to, uh, close
nominations and elect by acclamation.

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I got a motion from Commissioner Hope and
a second from Commissioner Harlan.

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All those in favor, please say aye.

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Aye.

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Congratulations, Mr. Chairman.

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Well, thank you very much.

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It's yours.

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Don't forget your tools.

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Yeah, I'm just trying to get out a little
bit. We'll put you to work.

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I know.

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Thank you, ma'am. You're welcome.

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Thank you, Danny, and thank you,
committee,

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for electing me chair.

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Um, I will mention that all members are
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per the roll call here.

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But, uh, next item to do is elect the vice
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At this time, I'll take nominations for
vice chair.

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Chair, I'd like to nominate Commissioner
Holt.

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Okay, Commissioner Mullen nominates Tim
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Any other? Uh, Mr. Harlan? Commissioner
Harlan?

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Uh, I got a nomination for—

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I want to nominate Wayne. Wayne Romesburg?
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Do I have any other nominations?

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Seeing none, uh, somebody make a motion
for nomination to cease.

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Commissioner Romesburg second. Anybody
got— I can second that.

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That nomination ceased.

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So what we'll do here is we'll just take a
quick roll call vote.

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Tim Holdt, and I'll start with you,
Commissioner Mullen, for Tim Holdt,

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yes or no?

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Yes.

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Commissioner Harlan?

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No, I don't.

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Okay. Commissioner Holdt?

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Yes.

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And you can vote. That's 4. Oh,
Commissioner Romesburg, I'm sorry. No.

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And I'm going to vote no.

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So Commissioner Romesburg, Commissioner
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And Commissioner Harlan?

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Commissioner Holt?

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No.

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And I vote yes. And I don't have anything
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but Wayne asked me to vote for him the
other day, so I'm a man of my word.

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So Wayne Romesburg is vice chair. Do I
need to move back there now?

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You can sit wherever you want to. It
doesn't matter.

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I'll just sit right up here.

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That'd be fine. That'll be fine.

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Okay, the next thing on the agenda is the
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it was too late to make a change on the
published agenda, but if you'll turn over—

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well, if you go to the bottom under new
business, discussion of flock cameras.

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Commissioner Sumner's asked that we put
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and then he's trying to do some homework
to get everybody a little more educated,

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and he needs a little more time, so we
want to push that to our October meeting.

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Is that okay with you, Commissioner—
Sheriff? You're going to— okay.

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And, uh, so, uh, you want— do you want to
do that or you want to take it off?

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Okay, we'll take that off. Okay, uh, so
someone, uh, needs to make a motion.

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I guess I can't do that, right? To approve
the To approve the agenda as amended.

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Commissioner Romsberg, I need a second.
Second by Commissioner Holt.

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All in favor say aye.

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Aye.

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All right, so that'll be delayed until
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And now, now we will, uh, now that we have
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for the amended agenda? So, uh, a motion
for the amended agenda. Commissioner Holt.

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Second by Commissioner Romsberg. All in
favor say aye.

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Aye.

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Now we have an approved agenda. All right.

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The August minutes have been presented to
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and if anybody has any comments or
discussion, we'll do that now,

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but I don't see any lights on, so the
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the minutes from August stand as
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Uh, do we have anybody signed up for
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No, sir.

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So we can move through that.

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All right, next item on our agenda is, uh,

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Sheriff Rowland.

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I don't think—

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I don't think we have to introduce you to
anybody.

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Uh, well, welcome to the new ones and
congratulations to everybody.

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The parliamentary procedure part of it, it
gets a little bit easier as you go along.

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So, but congratulations on all of your
successful campaigns.

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We have sent out our monthly report,

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and I'd be happy to answer any questions
at this time with it.

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Just for everybody's information, when,
when,

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when Lisa and Cindy send out the agenda,
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that's an automatic link to that report.

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You can just click on that and study that
report prior to the committee meeting.

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No questions on that right now.

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All right.

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And well, with that, with it being some
new ones, uh, just with our monthly

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new ones, uh, just with our monthly
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just to kind of make you familiar with it
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of course it has warrant service, uh,

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the folks that come through our judicial
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calls that we're Dispatched throughout the
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all, then average populations with our
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and then any revenue that's collected from
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anything like that. Second page is going
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Southern Health Partners, what they do
within that month. That's on the second

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within that month. That's on the second
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3rd page. It's just really a big thank you
to our reserve unit that we have.

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These are the— well, it's all men that's
currently serving.

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They do a phenomenal job.

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They're business people that serve
somewhere else to make their living,

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but it's in their DNA to come out and
serve in that deputy role.

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They go through extensive training,

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and if you see a deputy at a If we have a
special event, Mule Day, fair, rodeo,

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things like that, it's most likely it's
going to be a reserve deputy.

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And, and I'd put them against anybody.
They are phenomenal.

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But it's the amount of hours that they put
in each month and take,

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and that doesn't come out of our budget to
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county.

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Sheriff, I know at the rodeo you honored

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2, I believe, One of them was David

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Thomas.

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David Thomas.

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He had 20 years or something. So like you
said, it ain't a hobby, it's DNA.

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No, it's— he was out serving last night. I
mean, he's a sergeant in that unit.

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He and Ricky Sims, 20-plus-year veterans
and just phenomenal.

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Ricky Sims, of course, former commissioner
for many years, just a heart of service.

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His family has kind of followed suit with
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They're just Public servants, phenomenal.

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He's actually, uh, if you see Ricky, thank
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He's getting ready to retire.

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Uh, we're trying to work on his
replacement, uh, but at the end of the

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replacement, uh, but at the end of the
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I think he'll probably, uh, retire and
enjoy those grandbabies.

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So, um, The next— I don't know if that's
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Uh, that's just a little bit of update as
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with the inmate, uh, Rehabilitation to
reduce our recidivism.

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And then SRO report, of course, this was—

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we're a month behind with our reporting
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just because we're the first ones out of
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gate normally. So they were out of school
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So just to kind of bring everybody up to
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consists of. The only other 2 Okay.

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The next 2 acts of business that we have
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It's just cleanup more than anything.

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The first one, I don't know how they were
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but the first one is going to be— it's a
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It's just moving— we're taking $2,756 from
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line per the budget office.

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we have to make a motion and second to
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So that's what we'll be looking for now is
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a motion for budget amendment for $2,756.

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Motion by Commissioner Romsberg, seconded
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Seeing no questions or comments, all in
favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

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Okay, Sheriff, that one moves.

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All right, second one, same scenario.

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This is going to be the evidence-based
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asking that $676 be moved from said line
to the,

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to the appropriate line that's listed in
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I think I know what he's going to say.
Consent.

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I thought of it about the time we said
aye. So we'll do this one.

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Basically, that goes to the Budget
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and then it'll go to full commission if
they vote for it. Commissioner Sumner?

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That's it.

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That's it.

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Okay. So, so a motion to send this to the
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item is what we're looking for here.

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Motion by Commissioner Holt, second by
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Commissioner Romsberg. All in favor? Any
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He still wants—

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Oh, you still want to talk?

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Yeah, I just, just briefly, I, you know,
explain the consent agenda.

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Those, those are for routine business
items, you know, that we have,

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and it doesn't necessarily need to be a
separate resolution.

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It helps us to kind of keep the meeting
flowing and goes a little quicker with

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flowing and goes a little quicker with
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since it's just a routine business item.

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So anything that's a routine business item
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If it hits— if the budget amendment hits
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then we typically vote on that separately
as a separate resolution.

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Just want to let you know. Thank you.

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Some things like insurance recovery and,
you know,

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those kind of things that just are simple
or it doesn't cost the taxpayers anything,

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It's just moving money or accepting money.
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So we have a motion and a second. All in
favor say aye.

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Aye.

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Any opposed? All right.

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I have a couple lights on.

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Okay, we got a couple lights on.

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Winston Harlan.

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Commissioner Harlan.

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My question is on the consent.

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Is there like a max amount of money before
it can be consent?

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Commissioner Summers?

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It's, it's, it's basically if it hits fund
balance, pretty much.

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If it's just like— it could be any amount
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from one line item to the other,

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but if it hits the fund balance where it's
not been budgeted before, then it,

232
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then it, then it doesn't, you know, then
it's not a consent agent— consent item—

233
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consent agenda item.

234
00:13:55,671 --> 00:14:00,062
So if it's— doesn't matter how much it is,
it just matters what how it,

235
00:14:00,062 --> 00:14:02,722
how it lands on the, on the, on the
ledger.

236
00:14:03,285 --> 00:14:03,833
Okay. Okay.

237
00:14:04,412 --> 00:14:07,180
This is money that we've already had in
our budget.

238
00:14:07,180 --> 00:14:10,273
It just needed to be moved from one line
to another line.

239
00:14:10,273 --> 00:14:13,637
And it, with it being a grant, it needed
to go through budget.

240
00:14:14,091 --> 00:14:14,221
Okay.

241
00:14:14,496 --> 00:14:15,128
And the commission.

242
00:14:15,618 --> 00:14:15,861
Okay.

243
00:14:15,943 --> 00:14:16,186
All right.

244
00:14:16,251 --> 00:14:16,510
Thank you.

245
00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:18,895
All right. Another light. Commissioner
Mullin.

246
00:14:18,895 --> 00:14:23,252
Thank you, Chair. Sheriff, pleasure to
meet you formally.

247
00:14:23,252 --> 00:14:27,149
My experience is 13 years prior to law
enforcement.

248
00:14:27,149 --> 00:14:30,589
I'm used to looking at these monthly
reports.

249
00:14:30,589 --> 00:14:35,175
My question to you comes from the
dispatched calls answered.

250
00:14:35,175 --> 00:14:37,850
You got a number of 3,120 in there.

251
00:14:37,850 --> 00:14:43,506
How many of those are actually dispatched
versus officer-initiated action?

252
00:14:43,506 --> 00:14:48,015
And what does your time consumption look
like for deputies?

253
00:14:48,015 --> 00:14:50,217
It, it would be both of those.

254
00:14:50,217 --> 00:14:55,721
It would be a call received, whether they
called our dispatch directly, uh,

255
00:14:55,721 --> 00:15:00,932
if we receive the call from Murray Ecom
911, or if it's a traffic stop.

256
00:15:00,932 --> 00:15:02,693
It's a call for service.

257
00:15:02,693 --> 00:15:07,955
Can we, uh, look at the CAD and have those
reports break down those call for

258
00:15:07,955 --> 00:15:13,079
service types so we can see what your
deputies are dealing with on a daily

259
00:15:13,079 --> 00:15:13,494
basis?

260
00:15:13,494 --> 00:15:15,229
We can, we can break that.

261
00:15:15,229 --> 00:15:19,967
I mean, I don't know if you want
everything as far as, uh, Broken down?

262
00:15:19,967 --> 00:15:24,238
I mean, some could get very minute, but,
uh, sure, or, you know,

263
00:15:24,238 --> 00:15:26,840
your top 3 or 5 or something like that.

264
00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,120
I just want to know what the ground troops
are dealing with, right?

265
00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,180
Yeah, chaos.

266
00:15:31,180 --> 00:15:35,420
Well, you can summarize it like that, but
we'd like to see details. Thank you.

267
00:15:35,420 --> 00:15:39,580
Okay, Commissioner— oh, Commissioner Holt,
one minute.

268
00:15:39,580 --> 00:15:41,260
You got a question real quick?

269
00:15:41,260 --> 00:15:45,540
Yeah, Commissioner Doby— I mean, Councilor
Doby. Sorry about that.

270
00:15:45,540 --> 00:15:47,337
That's all right, Chairman. Thank you.

271
00:15:47,337 --> 00:15:50,789
I just had a real quick question, and this
might be for Chairman Summers,

272
00:15:50,789 --> 00:15:54,430
but is this something that both of these
budget amendments can go to consent,

273
00:15:54,430 --> 00:15:54,903
you think?

274
00:15:54,903 --> 00:15:55,840
Yes. Okay.

275
00:15:56,309 --> 00:15:57,940
Okay. So maybe we have to vote on that
too.

276
00:15:57,940 --> 00:16:02,814
You mean go back to the first one?

277
00:16:02,814 --> 00:16:09,173
I think what we can probably do is pass
this and then say send them both to budget

278
00:16:09,173 --> 00:16:09,948
amendment.

279
00:16:09,948 --> 00:16:10,336
Okay.

280
00:16:10,336 --> 00:16:13,159
Or I'm sorry, consent. Sorry. Motion to
send both to consent.

281
00:16:13,159 --> 00:16:17,220
All right. Motion by Commissioner Holdt,
seconded by Commissioner Romesburg.

282
00:16:17,220 --> 00:16:20,801
To send both the budget amendments to the
consent agenda on budget.

283
00:16:20,801 --> 00:16:21,923
All in favor say aye.

284
00:16:21,923 --> 00:16:23,095
Aye.

285
00:16:23,095 --> 00:16:25,119
Any opposed? All right, thank you.

286
00:16:25,119 --> 00:16:25,520
Yes, sir.

287
00:16:26,146 --> 00:16:31,624
And Commissioner Mullen, uh, also to
follow up that, that's going to be, uh,

288
00:16:31,624 --> 00:16:35,084
your civil deputies that serve in civil
process.

289
00:16:35,084 --> 00:16:39,985
I mean, it's anything that a deputy
touches that, that is catted up,

290
00:16:39,985 --> 00:16:44,166
that they have made or attempted to make
contact with, uh,

291
00:16:44,166 --> 00:16:46,905
with Turn Commissioner Mullen back on.

292
00:16:46,905 --> 00:16:47,226
Sure.

293
00:16:47,483 --> 00:16:51,712
I guess my concern was just the overall
calls answered.

294
00:16:51,712 --> 00:16:58,017
Like I said, were those officer-initiated
actions or actual calls for service that

295
00:16:58,017 --> 00:17:00,708
were called into E911 or otherwise?

296
00:17:00,708 --> 00:17:05,100
That's what I'm saying. It could be
initiated by a deputy.

297
00:17:05,100 --> 00:17:09,718
It could be initiated by a citizen calling
to our dispatch or

298
00:17:09,718 --> 00:17:10,627
Murray E911.

299
00:17:12,078 --> 00:17:12,808
Yes, sir.

300
00:17:12,808 --> 00:17:17,382
You good, Commissioner Mullen?

301
00:17:17,382 --> 00:17:18,387
Yes. Okay.

302
00:17:18,728 --> 00:17:22,029
All right, Commissioner Holt, you turned
his light off.

303
00:17:22,531 --> 00:17:22,709
Okay.

304
00:17:23,598 --> 00:17:27,723
Oh, I'm sorry. All right, Sheriff, you got
something else?

305
00:17:27,723 --> 00:17:29,146
You all have a blessed evening.

306
00:17:29,146 --> 00:17:37,038
Oh, all right. Thank you. All right,
Highway Department, Mr. Ken McKee.

307
00:17:40,038 --> 00:17:41,154
Good afternoon, Chairman.

308
00:17:41,154 --> 00:17:42,399
Yes, sir. Welcome.

309
00:17:42,399 --> 00:17:46,872
I have a few things on my agenda for
tonight.

310
00:17:46,872 --> 00:17:51,543
I guess we'll start with the budget
amendments.

311
00:17:51,543 --> 00:17:57,109
The first one is for $4,267.40, uh, sale
of scrap metal.

312
00:17:57,109 --> 00:18:02,299
And 2 consent agenda, so we'll say that up
front.

313
00:18:02,299 --> 00:18:07,383
I need a motion to send this to budget and
their

314
00:18:07,383 --> 00:18:12,467
consent agenda to accept the $4,267.40
into your

315
00:18:12,467 --> 00:18:13,844
general fund.

316
00:18:13,844 --> 00:18:17,499
Uh, it goes to a specific line item.

317
00:18:17,499 --> 00:18:19,625
It goes to the line item you had to
approve.

318
00:18:19,625 --> 00:18:25,595
Um, oh yeah, that's all right. We go—
we'll send it to budget, right?

319
00:18:25,595 --> 00:18:25,891
Okay.

320
00:18:26,137 --> 00:18:26,743
All right, motion.

321
00:18:29,055 --> 00:18:29,718
Commissioner Holt.

322
00:18:29,718 --> 00:18:34,915
Seconded by Commissioner Romesburg. All in
favor say aye.

323
00:18:35,530 --> 00:18:35,546
Aye.

324
00:18:35,999 --> 00:18:39,058
Any opposed? Okay, that one goes to
consent agenda.

325
00:18:39,058 --> 00:18:44,128
The next one is a budget amendment in the
amount of $13,915.48.

326
00:18:44,128 --> 00:18:49,198
It's, uh, insurance recovery where
somebody ran over one of our

327
00:18:49,198 --> 00:18:50,083
guardrails.

328
00:18:50,083 --> 00:18:56,436
Okay, this will go to the consent agenda
on the budget. Need a motion.

329
00:18:56,436 --> 00:19:03,877
Commissioner Romesburg. Anybody second?
Commissioner Harlan. All in favor say aye.

330
00:19:03,877 --> 00:19:10,048
Aye. Any opposed? All right, that goes to
the budget consent agenda.

331
00:19:10,048 --> 00:19:13,134
Uh, all right, got a big one here.

332
00:19:13,134 --> 00:19:19,015
Uh, the next one is a budget amendment in
the amount of $351,883

333
00:19:19,015 --> 00:19:24,713
Uh, that should have been a capital
carryover from prior year.

334
00:19:24,713 --> 00:19:28,824
And, uh, that goes to consent as well,
Commissioner Summers? Okay.

335
00:19:28,824 --> 00:19:32,748
And that's just clean up last year's
budget, moving it forward,

336
00:19:32,748 --> 00:19:33,122
right?

337
00:19:33,672 --> 00:19:34,593
Okay.

338
00:19:35,450 --> 00:19:39,741
Okay. Uh, motion please. Commissioner
Holt.

339
00:19:39,741 --> 00:19:46,027
Second, Commissioner Harlan. All in favor
say aye. Any opposed?

340
00:19:46,027 --> 00:19:48,023
All right, one more.

341
00:19:48,023 --> 00:19:52,654
The next one is a budget amendment in the
amount

342
00:19:52,654 --> 00:19:57,093
of $466,394, and that's their state aid
money.

343
00:19:57,093 --> 00:20:02,643
Okay. All right, this consent also. Okay,
so I need a motion.

344
00:20:02,643 --> 00:20:07,738
Commissioner Romsberg. Commissioner Harlan
seconds that.

345
00:20:07,738 --> 00:20:09,649
All in favor say aye.

346
00:20:10,263 --> 00:20:10,440
Aye.

347
00:20:10,828 --> 00:20:15,033
Any opposed? All right, that goes to the
consent agenda at the budget meeting.

348
00:20:15,033 --> 00:20:16,920
All right, right-of-way guidelines.

349
00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:18,982
So, uh, right now, currently,

350
00:20:18,982 --> 00:20:24,812
the county doesn't have any guidelines for
people working within the right-of-way,

351
00:20:24,812 --> 00:20:27,016
so we have developed a set, um,

352
00:20:27,016 --> 00:20:30,784
that I'd like the commission to adopt for
the county.

353
00:20:30,784 --> 00:20:34,126
So I'll need a resolution to send this
forward.

354
00:20:34,126 --> 00:20:41,539
Uh, can you give me an example? You mean
working in the— like contractors digging?

355
00:20:41,539 --> 00:20:44,276
Anybody working in the county
right-of-way,

356
00:20:44,276 --> 00:20:47,203
this will make them responsible to the
county.

357
00:20:47,203 --> 00:20:50,449
They'll have to provide the insurance
plans, bonds.

358
00:20:50,449 --> 00:20:51,378
Okay.

359
00:20:52,644 --> 00:20:56,105
All right. Need a motion on that. And then
this would probably go to admin?

360
00:20:56,105 --> 00:20:58,813
No, no, this will still go to—

361
00:20:58,813 --> 00:21:02,517
There's no money involved, so full
commission?

362
00:21:02,517 --> 00:21:08,074
This, this will go to full commission? All
right, let's get a motion.

363
00:21:08,074 --> 00:21:13,791
Let's get a motion. Yeah, get a motion.
Uh, Romesburg makes the motion.

364
00:21:13,791 --> 00:21:16,368
And a second? Commissioner Holt.

365
00:21:16,368 --> 00:21:20,958
All right, Commissioner Romesburg has a
question for you.

366
00:21:20,958 --> 00:21:22,887
Ken, this is just a simple question.

367
00:21:22,887 --> 00:21:27,120
Like, when I'm on my farm out there, and a
lot of times I bush hog right along,

368
00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:30,711
right in the right-of-way, because it goes
25 foot from centerline.

369
00:21:30,711 --> 00:21:33,926
Is that— would that be affecting something
like that or not?

370
00:21:33,926 --> 00:21:34,474
No.

371
00:21:34,474 --> 00:21:35,215
Okay.

372
00:21:36,970 --> 00:21:37,243
Thank you.

373
00:21:37,243 --> 00:21:37,968
Thank you, Chairman.

374
00:21:37,968 --> 00:21:41,213
Yes, sir. Okay. Any other questions?

375
00:21:41,213 --> 00:21:47,073
Seeing none, all in favor say aye. Aye.
Any opposed? Seeing none.

376
00:21:47,073 --> 00:21:49,417
All right. Inventory list.

377
00:21:49,417 --> 00:21:55,987
So I'm required to present the inventory
list to the mayor and then Acknowledge

378
00:21:55,987 --> 00:22:02,474
it, I guess, to the commission so that it
gets recorded in, um, Joey's office.

379
00:22:03,067 --> 00:22:05,983
So this is equipment, tools, whatever?

380
00:22:05,983 --> 00:22:10,326
Yeah, it's just the, the list of our
inventory of equipment.

381
00:22:10,326 --> 00:22:14,973
Okay, do we need to vote on that? Okay, we
just accept that list for information.

382
00:22:15,021 --> 00:22:15,470
It goes on.

383
00:22:15,726 --> 00:22:19,122
Okay, thank you. Uh, Monsanto Bridge
replacement.

384
00:22:19,122 --> 00:22:21,895
A lot of people want to hear about this.

385
00:22:22,557 --> 00:22:27,207
Yeah, so we bid out the Monsanto Bridge,

386
00:22:27,207 --> 00:22:31,858
and we've decided to award the contract.

387
00:22:31,858 --> 00:22:35,230
And the amount is $1,655,820.

388
00:22:35,230 --> 00:22:41,624
The contractor is Capital Cities
Construction Services.

389
00:22:41,624 --> 00:22:45,278
They from Nashville?

390
00:22:47,698 --> 00:22:49,497
I'm not sure where their office is.

391
00:22:49,497 --> 00:22:49,705
Okay.

392
00:22:49,705 --> 00:22:52,387
But they're in the Middle Tennessee
region.

393
00:22:52,387 --> 00:22:53,045
Okay.

394
00:22:54,490 --> 00:22:58,689
This needs to go to budget, and this will
not go to consent.

395
00:22:58,689 --> 00:23:01,138
So a motion to send this to budget?

396
00:23:01,138 --> 00:23:02,631
I don't know.

397
00:23:02,759 --> 00:23:06,171
The budget's already approved the money. I
have it in my line item.

398
00:23:06,171 --> 00:23:09,888
This was just mainly so the commission
would be aware of what's going on.

399
00:23:09,888 --> 00:23:13,337
Scott, what do you think?

400
00:23:16,337 --> 00:23:21,379
Has it already been approved previously?
We did appropriate the money last year.

401
00:23:21,379 --> 00:23:22,758
Yeah.

402
00:23:22,758 --> 00:23:26,974
You probably don't need to go back.

403
00:23:26,974 --> 00:23:29,548
You're just accepting it?

404
00:23:29,548 --> 00:23:33,193
I don't require a resolution or anything.
It's just for acknowledgment.

405
00:23:33,193 --> 00:23:36,721
Well, you, you can verify if it, if it
needs to go to budget.

406
00:23:36,721 --> 00:23:38,687
We're just accepting the contract.

407
00:23:38,687 --> 00:23:42,735
If it needs to go to budget, We can bring
it up back in budget, right?

408
00:23:42,735 --> 00:23:43,007
Sure.

409
00:23:43,007 --> 00:23:43,553
Okay.

410
00:23:43,553 --> 00:23:45,461
We don't have a contract yet.

411
00:23:45,461 --> 00:23:45,894
Oh.

412
00:23:45,894 --> 00:23:50,224
We've just awarded the bid. We're in the
process of doing the contract.

413
00:23:50,224 --> 00:23:53,014
Oh, okay. So we don't need to do anything
yet?

414
00:23:53,014 --> 00:23:53,302
No.

415
00:23:53,302 --> 00:23:55,115
Right. Okay. All right.

416
00:23:55,756 --> 00:23:58,288
All right. Well, thank you for that
information.

417
00:23:58,288 --> 00:24:00,239
I know a lot of people would be glad.

418
00:24:00,239 --> 00:24:02,876
I mean, you still probably, what, got 6, 8
months?

419
00:24:02,876 --> 00:24:07,086
Yeah. Actual construction probably won't
start for 6 months.

420
00:24:07,086 --> 00:24:11,297
And then the actual work will probably
take 18 to 24 months.

421
00:24:11,297 --> 00:24:13,051
They have to order beams,

422
00:24:13,051 --> 00:24:18,104
and there's not really much they can do
until the beams are constructed.

423
00:24:18,104 --> 00:24:22,314
And they can't do anything until we have
an actual contract.

424
00:24:22,314 --> 00:24:22,651
OK.

425
00:24:23,662 --> 00:24:25,567
I want to ask you a question.

426
00:24:25,567 --> 00:24:30,954
I know it's not county business, but if
you know, on the Mount Olivet Road bridge,

427
00:24:30,954 --> 00:24:34,108
I mean, is that truly going to be a 3-year
deal?

428
00:24:34,108 --> 00:24:37,524
Or is it being expedited, or do you— have
you heard?

429
00:24:37,524 --> 00:24:42,172
I don't know. That project's being totally
managed by the state of Tennessee, TDOT,

430
00:24:42,172 --> 00:24:45,364
right? So I don't know where they're at in
their process.

431
00:24:45,364 --> 00:24:48,531
Okay.

432
00:24:48,531 --> 00:24:51,410
Uh, Commissioner Harlan.

433
00:24:51,410 --> 00:24:56,570
Okay, I have a question, uh, just based on
the bid, the bid process.

434
00:24:56,570 --> 00:24:57,784
Uh, I know it's—

435
00:24:58,422 --> 00:25:05,597
you said Capital City was the lowest
responsible contractor.

436
00:25:05,597 --> 00:25:09,824
And, you know, I'm— I know I'm new at
this,

437
00:25:09,824 --> 00:25:14,443
but is there a committee that oversees the
bid,

438
00:25:14,443 --> 00:25:16,409
picking the company?

439
00:25:16,894 --> 00:25:20,378
I mean, I'm quite sure you are involved,
but what's the process on that?

440
00:25:20,378 --> 00:25:25,223
We advertise it for bid. They submit the
bids to the Yes.

441
00:25:25,223 --> 00:25:29,217
The purchasing department has a public
opening.

442
00:25:29,217 --> 00:25:34,232
So there's— on this bid, there was
probably 200 line items.

443
00:25:34,232 --> 00:25:41,371
So the engineering firm then has to verify
that all the math adds up between all the

444
00:25:41,371 --> 00:25:44,261
bidders to come up with the total.

445
00:25:44,261 --> 00:25:50,465
And then they send it back to us to
determine who we want to award it to.

446
00:25:51,825 --> 00:25:52,505
Okay, who is us?

447
00:25:52,634 --> 00:25:53,540
I mean, who is the committee?

448
00:25:53,540 --> 00:25:55,028
The Cumberland County Highway Department.

449
00:25:55,028 --> 00:25:57,230
Okay.

450
00:26:00,230 --> 00:26:00,407
Okay.

451
00:26:00,488 --> 00:26:00,729
All right.

452
00:26:00,794 --> 00:26:01,164
Thank you.

453
00:26:01,164 --> 00:26:03,450
Commissioner Romesburg.

454
00:26:03,450 --> 00:26:04,835
Ken, just a quick question.

455
00:26:04,835 --> 00:26:05,963
On the Montana Bridge,

456
00:26:05,963 --> 00:26:09,553
are we going to be tearing the old bridge
down first and replacing it,

457
00:26:09,553 --> 00:26:13,502
or are we going to be building it side by
side and take the old one out then?

458
00:26:13,502 --> 00:26:17,295
It's rehabilitation of the existing
Structure.

459
00:26:17,295 --> 00:26:20,016
So half the bridge is still good,

460
00:26:20,016 --> 00:26:23,396
the other half is needing to be repaired.

461
00:26:23,396 --> 00:26:26,737
So will the road be closed then for a
while?

462
00:26:26,737 --> 00:26:28,728
The road's been closed for 5 years.

463
00:26:28,728 --> 00:26:29,323
Oh, okay.

464
00:26:29,387 --> 00:26:33,178
I didn't realize it. I don't go out that
way. I have no reason to go to Monsanto.

465
00:26:33,178 --> 00:26:35,057
I didn't realize it'd been that long, but
wow.

466
00:26:36,149 --> 00:26:39,298
Did you need to correct something? No.

467
00:26:39,298 --> 00:26:41,675
Okay, Commissioner Mullen.

468
00:26:41,820 --> 00:26:46,521
Thank you, Chair. Sir, with that bridge
replacement,

469
00:26:46,521 --> 00:26:49,956
you said it's been closed for 5 years.

470
00:26:49,956 --> 00:26:54,657
Is rehabilitation based on engineer
recommendations?

471
00:26:54,657 --> 00:26:56,180
Yes.

472
00:26:56,180 --> 00:27:01,739
So it's a repair versus replace after
being closed for 5 years based on an

473
00:27:01,739 --> 00:27:02,415
being closed for 5 years based on an
engineer?

474
00:27:02,415 --> 00:27:03,174
Right.

475
00:27:03,174 --> 00:27:10,691
Okay. Thank you. Councilor Doby?

476
00:27:10,691 --> 00:27:12,897
Yeah, thank you, Chairman. Um, uh, Mr.

477
00:27:12,897 --> 00:27:17,310
McKee, do you know, do you know if the
project will last longer than a year?

478
00:27:17,310 --> 00:27:19,749
Doug— I was just talking to Doug about it.

479
00:27:19,749 --> 00:27:23,349
He said that was just one stipulation to
look out for, for us.

480
00:27:23,349 --> 00:27:25,931
Yes, the project will last more than 1
year.

481
00:27:25,931 --> 00:27:26,334
Okay.

482
00:27:27,125 --> 00:27:31,349
Um, okay, he said we don't have to unless
the project will last longer than 1

483
00:27:31,349 --> 00:27:34,750
year. I asked him If we have to send a bid
through budget, he—

484
00:27:34,750 --> 00:27:35,957
that was his response.

485
00:27:35,957 --> 00:27:38,125
So we should send it?

486
00:27:38,125 --> 00:27:39,489
That's, that's my read on it.

487
00:27:39,618 --> 00:27:39,890
Yes, sir.

488
00:27:40,420 --> 00:27:43,372
Yeah, I don't think that shouldn't be a
problem.

489
00:27:43,372 --> 00:27:48,045
All right, so let me get a motion to send
this to budget. Commissioner Holt.

490
00:27:48,045 --> 00:27:51,304
Commissioner Harlan seconds it. All in
favor say aye.

491
00:27:51,818 --> 00:27:51,866
Aye.

492
00:27:52,300 --> 00:27:55,735
Any opposed? All right, so that moves on
to budget.

493
00:27:55,783 --> 00:28:02,048
All right, that's all I have on my agenda.
If anybody else has any questions No.

494
00:28:02,048 --> 00:28:02,859
Okay, thank you.

495
00:28:02,859 --> 00:28:03,703
Thank you very much.

496
00:28:03,703 --> 00:28:07,922
All right, uh, Emergency Management,

497
00:28:07,922 --> 00:28:12,140
Jeff Hardy. You still got a skeleton

498
00:28:12,140 --> 00:28:12,726
crew?

499
00:28:12,726 --> 00:28:13,792
Yes, sir.

500
00:28:13,792 --> 00:28:17,694
All right, Mr. Hardy's got a

501
00:28:17,694 --> 00:28:21,456
PowerPoint presentation for

502
00:28:21,456 --> 00:28:30,111
us.

503
00:28:33,111 --> 00:28:34,794
Good evening, afternoon.

504
00:28:34,794 --> 00:28:37,529
Um, so we submitted our monthly report.

505
00:28:37,529 --> 00:28:41,806
Be glad to answer any questions regarding
the monthly report.

506
00:28:41,806 --> 00:28:45,848
Seeing none.

507
00:28:45,848 --> 00:28:50,971
All right, uh, some things that are not on
the monthly report, uh, just as a recap,

508
00:28:50,971 --> 00:28:54,921
um, we told you guys the other night we do
have a team In Texas,

509
00:28:54,921 --> 00:28:59,981
they're about a little more than halfway
through their deployment cycle right now.

510
00:28:59,981 --> 00:29:03,499
They're scheduled to come home on the 13th
of this month.

511
00:29:03,499 --> 00:29:05,351
I talked to them this morning.

512
00:29:05,351 --> 00:29:10,473
They're healthy, they're well, they have
all the resources they need and then some.

513
00:29:10,473 --> 00:29:14,979
They were bragging that they got some good
Texas brisket the other night,

514
00:29:14,979 --> 00:29:17,262
so one of the locals cooked for them.

515
00:29:17,262 --> 00:29:22,138
So they're, they're fat and healthy and—
Enjoying it and rubbing it in my face.

516
00:29:22,138 --> 00:29:23,821
What's the status of the fire?

517
00:29:23,821 --> 00:29:29,517
Um, so last I'd heard yesterday, uh, a
little over 90,000 acres still burnt.

518
00:29:29,517 --> 00:29:35,512
Uh, they're at about 57% containment.
Texas has had several other wildfires jump

519
00:29:35,512 --> 00:29:35,737
Texas has had several other wildfires jump
up.

520
00:29:35,737 --> 00:29:37,460
They had one yesterday.

521
00:29:37,460 --> 00:29:43,006
It was about 500 acres that they were able
to handle outside of this fire.

522
00:29:43,006 --> 00:29:48,402
They've got quite a few going right now.
So it's hot and dry down there.

523
00:29:48,402 --> 00:29:52,748
You know, it's hot and humid here. It's
hot and dry there.

524
00:29:52,748 --> 00:29:55,147
So they're looking at about 100,

525
00:29:55,147 --> 00:29:59,793
110-degree temperature with a humidity
level of less than 20%.

526
00:29:59,793 --> 00:30:00,178
Okay.

527
00:30:00,178 --> 00:30:04,522
So super hot, super dry. And so
everything's a big tinderbox right now.

528
00:30:04,522 --> 00:30:09,171
But right now, the Tennessee team, the
Tennessee Task Force team that's down

529
00:30:09,171 --> 00:30:09,538
Tennessee Task Force team that's down
there,

530
00:30:09,538 --> 00:30:14,310
the strike team, they're slated to come
back on the 13th. So they, uh, they're

531
00:30:14,310 --> 00:30:14,616
back on the 13th. So they, uh, they're
good.

532
00:30:14,616 --> 00:30:18,593
Uh, they're, they're getting rest, they're
getting plenty to eat.

533
00:30:18,593 --> 00:30:23,548
Uh, so, and they're, they're working hard.
They're, they're representing us well.

534
00:30:23,548 --> 00:30:28,442
Um, so I wanted to just refresh on that.
Uh, next, uh, that's not on the agenda.

535
00:30:28,442 --> 00:30:32,970
I just wanted to touch on the Murray
County Fair. Uh, we had a great fair.

536
00:30:32,970 --> 00:30:36,457
Uh, we couldn't have done it without all
of our partners.

537
00:30:36,457 --> 00:30:39,760
Um, the Sheriff's Department showed up and
showed out.

538
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,125
Uh, Fire Department was amazing. EMS was
there with us.

539
00:30:43,125 --> 00:30:47,958
If you didn't get around at the fair, I
challenge you to come see us next time,

540
00:30:47,958 --> 00:30:51,140
the next fair that we have. See what we
put into it.

541
00:30:51,140 --> 00:30:56,156
See what resources we're devoting to the
fair to make sure that people have a fun,

542
00:30:56,156 --> 00:30:56,768
safe time.

543
00:30:57,925 --> 00:30:58,359
It was good.

544
00:30:58,407 --> 00:31:00,600
It was a good event. It was hot.

545
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,643
We had several medical emergencies while
we were out there,

546
00:31:04,643 --> 00:31:08,755
but they were all quickly handled and no
major catastrophes.

547
00:31:08,755 --> 00:31:13,963
Unlike the state fair, Wilson County Fair,
who had some mechanical failures,

548
00:31:13,963 --> 00:31:18,075
we did not. So everything went well, went
according to plan,

549
00:31:18,075 --> 00:31:23,215
but we couldn't have done it without our
partners. So big hats off to them.

550
00:31:23,215 --> 00:31:25,339
They make everything work well.

551
00:31:25,339 --> 00:31:27,875
So with that, if you will indulge me,

552
00:31:27,875 --> 00:31:32,946
I know we've got several new commissioners
and there's a budget amendment.

553
00:31:32,946 --> 00:31:33,091
Yes.

554
00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:37,980
I know we have a budget amendment on our
agenda tonight,

555
00:31:37,980 --> 00:31:44,667
but I just quickly wanted to cover our
radio project to make sure that everybody

556
00:31:44,667 --> 00:31:44,917
radio project to make sure that everybody
was

557
00:31:44,917 --> 00:31:51,102
on the same page going forward and that it
was as transparent as possible.

558
00:31:51,102 --> 00:31:57,287
So if you guys will indulge me for a
minute. This has been a long, lengthy

559
00:31:57,287 --> 00:31:57,956
minute. This has been a long, lengthy
process.

560
00:31:57,956 --> 00:32:00,630
We've been going on 5 years now.

561
00:32:01,252 --> 00:32:02,198
Right, Sheriff?

562
00:32:02,198 --> 00:32:03,657
18 months.

563
00:32:03,657 --> 00:32:09,358
Um, so what we're doing is we're upgrading
and changing all of the infrastructure

564
00:32:09,358 --> 00:32:14,918
for our emergency radio communication
system for all of public safety in Murray

565
00:32:14,918 --> 00:32:20,267
County. So it's not just buying some
radios and putting them in patrol units

566
00:32:20,267 --> 00:32:20,478
radios and putting them in patrol units
and

567
00:32:20,478 --> 00:32:22,731
fire trucks and calling it good.

568
00:32:22,731 --> 00:32:28,080
We're building new tower sites, we're
running fiber lines, we're running Uh,

569
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,458
we're doing microwave shots from tower to
tower,

570
00:32:31,458 --> 00:32:35,822
and there's a lot of work that goes into
that on the back end.

571
00:32:35,822 --> 00:32:39,482
So we're building the infrastructure for
the future.

572
00:32:39,482 --> 00:32:43,986
We're trying to make sure that it's as
future-proof as possible.

573
00:32:43,986 --> 00:32:48,702
And so part of that is upgrading our
dispatch consoles through 911.

574
00:32:48,702 --> 00:32:54,192
So, uh, this is kind of just a snapshot
what their dispatch screens look like.

575
00:32:54,192 --> 00:32:57,007
These are some of the old legacy things.

576
00:32:57,007 --> 00:33:01,793
We have so far replaced all of the
consoles at the dispatch centers,

577
00:33:01,793 --> 00:33:07,424
and we're working currently at upgrading
all of the fiber connectivity to all of

578
00:33:07,424 --> 00:33:11,506
them so that they have a connection to the
Nashville core.

579
00:33:11,746 --> 00:33:14,615
So you, you reference dispatch centers?

580
00:33:14,904 --> 00:33:15,241
Yes, sir.

581
00:33:15,321 --> 00:33:15,609
Plural?

582
00:33:16,042 --> 00:33:16,747
Yes, sir.

583
00:33:17,405 --> 00:33:19,216
So is that private information?

584
00:33:19,585 --> 00:33:23,500
No, sir, it's not. Uh, so we have 3
dispatch centers.

585
00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:26,676
We have 1 PSAP, which is Murray County
911.

586
00:33:26,676 --> 00:33:31,698
They take the 911 calls, and they dispatch
Columbia Police and Fire,

587
00:33:31,698 --> 00:33:36,721
Murray County Fire, Mount Pleasant Police
and Fire from that center.

588
00:33:36,721 --> 00:33:38,494
If it is a medical call,

589
00:33:38,494 --> 00:33:43,368
they roll the call or roll the information
to Murray Regional EMS.

590
00:33:43,368 --> 00:33:48,982
Murray Regional EMS, their ambulance
service, has their own dispatch center,

591
00:33:48,982 --> 00:33:53,488
and they dispatch there. Sheriff's
Department's the same way.

592
00:33:53,488 --> 00:33:57,624
They have their own dispatch center out at
Lawson-White.

593
00:33:57,624 --> 00:34:01,021
And so— We've got 3 separate dispatch
centers,

594
00:34:01,021 --> 00:34:07,078
and so this will connect them all so that
they will have connectivity to the radio

595
00:34:07,078 --> 00:34:13,135
system. One of the things that this system
does is it is there's a computer system

596
00:34:13,135 --> 00:34:19,118
backbone to it, not like the old computers
that had crystals in it and you had to

597
00:34:19,118 --> 00:34:22,958
tune it, right? We've gone long ways away
from that.

598
00:34:22,958 --> 00:34:25,322
Everything's computer-based now,

599
00:34:25,322 --> 00:34:31,379
so this allows us to have a really solid
connection. With a microwave shot backup.

600
00:34:31,379 --> 00:34:37,066
So we have multiple redundancies built
into it and allows us to have multiple

601
00:34:37,066 --> 00:34:37,361
into it and allows us to have multiple
ways

602
00:34:37,361 --> 00:34:42,310
to communicate from our dispatch centers
to our folks in the field.

603
00:34:42,310 --> 00:34:46,003
So just a quick overview. This is a quick
diagram.

604
00:34:46,003 --> 00:34:50,435
If you'll look and see the circles are
where our towers are.

605
00:34:50,435 --> 00:34:54,867
Now, That's a network of towers built
throughout the county.

606
00:34:54,867 --> 00:34:59,889
The green lines represent microwave shots
that are already in place.

607
00:34:59,889 --> 00:35:04,912
Those are up and functioning, but not—
we're not totally online yet,

608
00:35:04,912 --> 00:35:07,349
but those lines are set in stone.

609
00:35:07,349 --> 00:35:10,156
The blue lines with the red X through,

610
00:35:10,156 --> 00:35:15,769
we don't have those set in place because
we're waiting on that top left one,

611
00:35:15,769 --> 00:35:20,792
that top left circle, that tower site is
in the Hampshire community,

612
00:35:20,792 --> 00:35:24,337
and we're going to get to that here in a
minute.

613
00:35:24,337 --> 00:35:27,957
And we need to address some things with
that one.

614
00:35:27,957 --> 00:35:33,201
But you can see the blue squares or blue
squares with the yellow lines.

615
00:35:33,201 --> 00:35:35,195
Those are dispatch centers.

616
00:35:35,195 --> 00:35:38,962
The yellow lines represent that fiber
connectivity,

617
00:35:38,962 --> 00:35:42,212
so they're able to talk to the radio
system,

618
00:35:42,212 --> 00:35:47,234
which allows them to talk all the way
across the state of Tennessee.

619
00:35:47,234 --> 00:35:52,553
So, really brings us to the 21st century.
So, here's some more pictures.

620
00:35:52,553 --> 00:35:54,547
A lot of this is gibberish.

621
00:35:54,547 --> 00:35:58,978
I don't expect anybody to really get into
the details of it,

622
00:35:58,978 --> 00:36:03,115
but this is kind of how our fiber backhaul
works, right?

623
00:36:03,115 --> 00:36:08,654
And so, that just represents the 3
centers. CPWS is providing us the fiber.

624
00:36:08,654 --> 00:36:12,421
And then it goes to Nashville through an
AT&T line.

625
00:36:12,421 --> 00:36:15,819
So we've been actively working on all of
that.

626
00:36:15,819 --> 00:36:21,654
On top of that, we've been working on all
of the codeplug development and fleet

627
00:36:21,654 --> 00:36:23,279
mapping. So basically,

628
00:36:23,279 --> 00:36:28,892
those are big terms for we've got to
figure out which order all of the radio

629
00:36:28,892 --> 00:36:33,693
channels need to be in, because each
agency has a different need.

630
00:36:33,693 --> 00:36:39,676
So When you look at all of the different
agencies and even inside in each agency,

631
00:36:39,676 --> 00:36:39,824
agencies and even inside in each agency,
a—

632
00:36:39,824 --> 00:36:43,739
the sheriff has a different need than an
SRO officer.

633
00:36:43,739 --> 00:36:47,653
The SRO has a different need than the SWAT
commander.

634
00:36:47,653 --> 00:36:50,756
So we have to build each one individually.

635
00:36:50,756 --> 00:36:55,187
That's a lot of work that goes into
programming all of that.

636
00:36:55,187 --> 00:36:58,733
It's not a simple thing. And then fleet
mapping.

637
00:36:58,733 --> 00:37:04,642
So we're working with all of our public
safety partners and the school system on

638
00:37:04,642 --> 00:37:10,403
timeline on when we can install all of
this equipment into their apparatus and

639
00:37:10,403 --> 00:37:10,772
this equipment into their apparatus and
their

640
00:37:10,772 --> 00:37:13,579
vehicles with minimal downtime, right?

641
00:37:13,579 --> 00:37:19,562
That's a, that's a huge challenge when you
have officers and deputies on the road

642
00:37:19,562 --> 00:37:25,470
every day. It's hard to take a fire truck
out of service for days on end when we

643
00:37:25,470 --> 00:37:27,834
have to install radio equipment.

644
00:37:27,834 --> 00:37:32,118
We can't take school buses off the road to
install radios.

645
00:37:32,118 --> 00:37:36,624
So we have to work through all of that and
schedule all that.

646
00:37:36,624 --> 00:37:41,425
So that's a big piece of what we've been
doing in the background.

647
00:37:41,425 --> 00:37:44,601
So let's talk about the sites for a
second.

648
00:37:44,601 --> 00:37:49,254
So up here, this represents all of the
sites that we will have.

649
00:37:49,254 --> 00:37:55,089
Either our equipment on or the state's
equipment is on it and we have access to

650
00:37:55,089 --> 00:37:55,311
equipment is on it and we have access to
it.

651
00:37:55,311 --> 00:38:00,555
So those top 4, Hampshire, Coleoca,
Columbia, Coleoca, Fire Station 30,

652
00:38:00,555 --> 00:38:06,242
which is Lecia, those are all being worked
on. The yellow ones are not there.

653
00:38:06,242 --> 00:38:11,856
They haven't been constructed yet.
Anything in green is already constructed.

654
00:38:11,856 --> 00:38:17,691
So steel in the sky, building is set. We
have power there, we have fiber there.

655
00:38:17,691 --> 00:38:19,759
All of that is already done.

656
00:38:19,759 --> 00:38:24,191
The 2 outstanding is the Hampshire one and
the one at Lecia.

657
00:38:24,191 --> 00:38:26,554
We struck a deal with the state.

658
00:38:26,554 --> 00:38:30,395
They are funding 100% of the one at Fire
Station 30.

659
00:38:30,395 --> 00:38:35,122
We own the property, we will own the
tower, we own the building,

660
00:38:35,122 --> 00:38:38,889
we own all of the equipment. They're
paying for it.

661
00:38:38,889 --> 00:38:39,867
Okay.

662
00:38:40,316 --> 00:38:44,191
It benefits the state because of THP,
TDOT, all of those.

663
00:38:44,191 --> 00:38:46,027
When you look at their map,

664
00:38:46,027 --> 00:38:51,601
there was a huge hole between Murray and
Giles County down to the state line where

665
00:38:51,601 --> 00:38:54,184
they didn't have radio communications.

666
00:38:54,184 --> 00:38:55,680
So this benefits them,

667
00:38:55,680 --> 00:39:00,575
but we get the benefit of it covering the
eastern part of Murray County.

668
00:39:00,575 --> 00:39:06,081
The one in Hampshire is the last one that
we are fiscally responsible for that we

669
00:39:06,081 --> 00:39:11,588
have to pay pay for. We have most of the
money, if not all of the money for that.

670
00:39:11,588 --> 00:39:13,695
Let me go— we'll get into that.

671
00:39:13,695 --> 00:39:17,570
So just some more information about what's
already there.

672
00:39:17,570 --> 00:39:21,377
So this is the one in Culebra. Here's a
picture of that.

673
00:39:21,377 --> 00:39:23,893
This is what the building looks like.

674
00:39:23,893 --> 00:39:29,195
So all of these buildings are precast
concrete structures that can withstand a

675
00:39:29,195 --> 00:39:30,895
pretty significant storm.

676
00:39:30,895 --> 00:39:36,469
These towers range anywhere from 200 to
300 feet in height. depending on location.

677
00:39:36,469 --> 00:39:41,500
They all have backup generators with
multiple ways to continue functioning

678
00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:41,908
multiple ways to continue functioning
should

679
00:39:41,908 --> 00:39:47,346
they need to. So this is what the inside
looks like. They don't let me in there.

680
00:39:47,346 --> 00:39:48,842
Jeremy, my radio tech,

681
00:39:48,842 --> 00:39:53,329
said I'm not allowed to take my pipe
wrench back in there anymore.

682
00:39:53,329 --> 00:39:58,360
He gets real nervous when I show up and I
have a pair of dikes in my hand.

683
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,623
But that's what it all looks And so you
can see,

684
00:40:01,623 --> 00:40:04,206
if you're familiar with radio systems,

685
00:40:04,206 --> 00:40:09,033
the black boxes on the left side there
towards the bottom of that rack,

686
00:40:09,033 --> 00:40:14,267
that's the brains of the unit, right? It's
essentially— it's called a 6-pack.

687
00:40:14,267 --> 00:40:19,638
It's 6 computers that run the system,
right? And they're all working in tandem.

688
00:40:19,638 --> 00:40:23,309
And then you have some network switches in
the middle,

689
00:40:23,309 --> 00:40:27,388
and then you have some repeaters on the
far right-hand side.

690
00:40:27,388 --> 00:40:27,581
Okay.

691
00:40:29,645 --> 00:40:32,097
And you can see from that picture,

692
00:40:32,097 --> 00:40:35,991
we have a lot of room for expandability in
the future.

693
00:40:35,991 --> 00:40:40,245
So we can expand the system as the
community keeps growing.

694
00:40:40,245 --> 00:40:44,860
Here's the Columbia site. So just again,
it's a lot of the same.

695
00:40:44,860 --> 00:40:49,259
They look very similar, and they're done
that way on purpose.

696
00:40:49,259 --> 00:40:54,307
That helps cut down on maintenance and
upkeep and all of those things.

697
00:40:54,307 --> 00:40:58,201
This one was in conjunction with the City
of Columbia.

698
00:40:58,201 --> 00:41:03,682
We signed an MOU with the City of
Columbia. That is technically their tower.

699
00:41:03,682 --> 00:41:08,152
It is our building. It is all of our
equipment on their tower.

700
00:41:08,152 --> 00:41:13,128
And we've signed a legal MOU with them
that allows us access to that.

701
00:41:13,128 --> 00:41:17,887
The site in Mount Pleasant, very similar.
It is near a water tank.

702
00:41:17,887 --> 00:41:23,728
The difference with this one is there is
quite a bit of land up there at the top.

703
00:41:23,728 --> 00:41:29,137
That allowed us to build the water tank
far away from their infrastructure.

704
00:41:29,137 --> 00:41:34,689
So if they get to the point where they
need to expand or maintain their tank,

705
00:41:34,689 --> 00:41:36,132
do anything with it,

706
00:41:36,132 --> 00:41:41,612
what you can't see in this is that tower
is actually outside of their fence.

707
00:41:41,612 --> 00:41:47,020
It's in a separate fenced-in area. So
we're a good 50 to 75 feet from their

708
00:41:47,020 --> 00:41:47,381
we're a good 50 to 75 feet from their
tank.

709
00:41:47,641 --> 00:41:48,776
Okay.

710
00:41:51,776 --> 00:41:55,405
Again, Fire Station 30 is yet to be
constructed.

711
00:41:55,405 --> 00:41:58,807
All of the steel for the tower, the
building,

712
00:41:58,807 --> 00:42:04,779
all of the other equipment that goes in it
is on site. We have it. We're ready.

713
00:42:04,779 --> 00:42:10,525
We're waiting on the state to finish the
studies, the environmental studies.

714
00:42:10,525 --> 00:42:15,893
Once they finish the environmental
studies, they'll start construction.

715
00:42:15,893 --> 00:42:21,790
We anticipate the environmental studies to
come back in the next couple weeks.

716
00:42:21,790 --> 00:42:26,553
So this is the one that is a little bit of
our issue right now.

717
00:42:26,553 --> 00:42:29,804
So originally when we started this
process,

718
00:42:29,804 --> 00:42:34,264
the general plan was to put this site
adjacent to a county—

719
00:42:34,264 --> 00:42:37,137
Murray County Water System water tank.

720
00:42:37,137 --> 00:42:40,690
And that was the the game plan from the
get-go.

721
00:42:40,690 --> 00:42:46,133
Murray County Water System had voted to
approve that. They did have some

722
00:42:46,133 --> 00:42:46,889
approve that. They did have some
questions.

723
00:42:46,889 --> 00:42:51,123
We felt very confident answering all of
their questions,

724
00:42:51,123 --> 00:42:54,450
but it was in close proximity to their
tank.

725
00:42:54,450 --> 00:43:00,120
Recently, we received a letter from their
attorney that said, "Hey, listen,

726
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:06,319
we know we agreed to it, but we're not."
Real fond of you guys building this here.

727
00:43:06,319 --> 00:43:11,989
There's a lot that goes into this, so we
reconvened and we talked about it,

728
00:43:11,989 --> 00:43:16,601
and we looked for alternatives that we can
solve the problem.

729
00:43:16,601 --> 00:43:22,800
One of the challenges faced with building
it where we had originally planned is we

730
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:27,941
only had a 50-foot by 50-foot area to
build this tower and building.

731
00:43:27,941 --> 00:43:33,384
We can fit it on there, but the
construction piece of it leaves a lot to

732
00:43:33,384 --> 00:43:34,216
construction piece of it leaves a lot to
be desired.

733
00:43:34,216 --> 00:43:40,037
It raises a whole lot of challenges with
the current property owner's current

734
00:43:40,037 --> 00:43:45,254
property. Realistically, we need— we would
need to buy more property.

735
00:43:45,254 --> 00:43:51,453
We dealt with— we brought Robert into the—
Robert Caldeiro into that conversation.

736
00:43:51,453 --> 00:43:57,804
The mayor was in that conversation. And so
we started looking at other alternatives.

737
00:43:57,804 --> 00:44:04,154
What alternatives? What we came up with is
less than a quarter mile down the street,

738
00:44:04,154 --> 00:44:06,120
there's a parcel for sale.

739
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:12,319
We don't own the parcel that we would be
putting this on per the plan as it stands

740
00:44:12,319 --> 00:44:18,518
today. The proposal is to buy the piece of
property down the street. It's 3 acres.

741
00:44:18,518 --> 00:44:21,013
It's within 10 feet of elevation.

742
00:44:21,013 --> 00:44:24,944
To what we currently are, so we feel very
confident.

743
00:44:24,944 --> 00:44:28,573
We've talked with all the engineers at
Motorola.

744
00:44:28,573 --> 00:44:34,773
We feel very confident that we won't have
any issues moving it a quarter mile down

745
00:44:34,773 --> 00:44:40,216
the street. At the end of the day, Murray
County would own the property,

746
00:44:40,216 --> 00:44:45,432
the building, the tower, every bit of it,
and nobody can kick us off.

747
00:44:45,432 --> 00:44:49,817
If we build it where it currently was
planned to be built,

748
00:44:49,817 --> 00:44:55,261
we don't own the property. Murray County
Water System owns the property.

749
00:44:55,261 --> 00:44:57,151
So that lies a challenge.

750
00:44:57,151 --> 00:45:03,048
If they need to service the tank, if we
need to service the tower, if we grow,

751
00:45:03,048 --> 00:45:08,415
if we need to expand, if they need to
expand, there's no room to do so.

752
00:45:08,415 --> 00:45:14,615
And it boxes us in. So that leads us to
the last agenda item is a Budget amendment

753
00:45:14,615 --> 00:45:20,889
to purchase 3 acres of property down the
street from where we originally had looked

754
00:45:20,889 --> 00:45:23,989
at this. The price tag on it is $150,000.

755
00:45:23,989 --> 00:45:28,601
It's a local property owner, local farmer
that owns the land.

756
00:45:28,601 --> 00:45:33,666
He came down on the price and met us at
$150,000 for these 3 acres.

757
00:45:33,666 --> 00:45:39,487
It would allow us to own the property,
build on the property. We can fence it

758
00:45:39,487 --> 00:45:39,790
build on the property. We can fence it
off.

759
00:45:39,790 --> 00:45:43,494
We can do whatever we want with it at that
point.

760
00:45:43,494 --> 00:45:48,182
and give us the ability to expand in the
future if we need it.

761
00:45:48,182 --> 00:45:53,852
The budget amendment shows 2 things on
there. The total will show $320,000.

762
00:45:53,852 --> 00:45:59,749
It is not $320,000. Let me make that
perfectly clear, because when I saw that,

763
00:45:59,749 --> 00:46:01,865
I had a slight heart attack.

764
00:46:01,865 --> 00:46:07,384
And the finance director and deputy
finance director clarified to me it's

765
00:46:07,384 --> 00:46:07,838
finance director clarified to me it's
moving

766
00:46:07,838 --> 00:46:13,810
money, $160,000, from debt services to
Capital and then spending the money from

767
00:46:13,810 --> 00:46:16,986
capital. So that's why it shows the total.

768
00:46:16,986 --> 00:46:21,144
The total amount for the piece of property
is $160,000.

769
00:46:21,144 --> 00:46:25,982
So that's the budget amendment. Be glad to
answer any questions.

770
00:46:25,982 --> 00:46:28,628
I know that's a lot of information,

771
00:46:28,628 --> 00:46:32,560
but I wanted to make sure everybody was up
to speed.

772
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:37,171
Some of you have heard this spiel for the
last several years,

773
00:46:37,171 --> 00:46:42,917
and I appreciate your patience. We just
want to do it right from the get-go.

774
00:46:42,917 --> 00:46:44,841
Okay.

775
00:46:45,483 --> 00:46:46,156
Attorney Delvis.

776
00:46:46,156 --> 00:46:49,070
Thank you, Chairman. I just wanted to make
a comment.

777
00:46:49,070 --> 00:46:51,599
I've been working with Director Hardy on
this,

778
00:46:51,599 --> 00:46:55,612
and I think he's been very thorough and
diligent in his analysis with the

779
00:46:55,612 --> 00:46:56,107
diligent in his analysis with the
different

780
00:46:56,107 --> 00:46:58,306
options that are sort of laid before us.

781
00:46:58,306 --> 00:46:59,516
And so I've, you know,

782
00:46:59,516 --> 00:47:03,694
I just wanted to sort of speak to the fact
that this was looked at in a very

783
00:47:03,694 --> 00:47:06,938
intelligent way, I think, and that from a
legal standpoint,

784
00:47:06,938 --> 00:47:11,117
this seems to me to be the sort of the
clearest path forward to allow us the

785
00:47:11,117 --> 00:47:15,240
autonomy we need and also to kind of not
obstruct us from like a zoning and

786
00:47:15,240 --> 00:47:15,680
obstruct us from like a zoning and
building

787
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:18,319
standpoint as well. So I just wanted to
say, uh,

788
00:47:18,319 --> 00:47:21,123
that there was a lot of time spent looking
at this.

789
00:47:21,267 --> 00:47:22,777
So, um, that's it.

790
00:47:22,985 --> 00:47:25,651
Thank you. Thank you.

791
00:47:26,213 --> 00:47:26,903
Commissioner Mullen.

792
00:47:26,903 --> 00:47:31,071
Thank you, Chair. Uh, Director Hardy, is
that $160,000—

793
00:47:31,071 --> 00:47:34,406
is that equitable to the property
appraisal?

794
00:47:34,406 --> 00:47:36,907
Has that property been appraised?

795
00:47:37,436 --> 00:47:42,413
Um, Mark, has that come back yet? There— I
know they were working on it.

796
00:47:42,413 --> 00:47:44,418
I have not seen it come back,

797
00:47:44,418 --> 00:47:50,018
but that's something that obviously we
would need to make sure that that property

798
00:47:50,018 --> 00:47:54,442
appraises for that amount. I don't think
it should be a problem.

799
00:47:54,442 --> 00:47:59,576
And then beyond that $160,000, what is the
total build-out of that tower?

800
00:47:59,576 --> 00:48:05,197
Um, each tower, rough Rough estimate,
because each one's a little bit different,

801
00:48:05,197 --> 00:48:07,727
we're looking at about $1.5 million,

802
00:48:07,727 --> 00:48:11,310
but that's already been budgeted and
accounted for.

803
00:48:11,310 --> 00:48:15,385
There may be a little, um, you know,
additional, possibly,

804
00:48:15,385 --> 00:48:19,390
just for complete transparency, if we ran
into, you know,

805
00:48:19,390 --> 00:48:24,520
a huge rock or something crazy. We haven't
core drilled the property yet.

806
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:28,946
We do have a site walk with Motorola
Today's the 9th? Tomorrow.

807
00:48:28,946 --> 00:48:32,389
And so we'll have a site walk with them
tomorrow.

808
00:48:32,389 --> 00:48:36,113
That was the soonest we could get out here
with them.

809
00:48:36,113 --> 00:48:40,399
But for everything that we've talked with
them, looked at it,

810
00:48:40,399 --> 00:48:43,772
we don't foresee any major issues going
forward.

811
00:48:43,772 --> 00:48:47,285
We do have some money set aside for
contingencies.

812
00:48:47,285 --> 00:48:49,534
So if we ran into a small issue,

813
00:48:49,534 --> 00:48:54,944
we do have a little bit of funding to be
able to absorb that into the current

814
00:48:54,944 --> 00:48:55,436
budget.

815
00:48:55,436 --> 00:48:59,415
Okay. But you were already going to build
on the previous location,

816
00:48:59,415 --> 00:49:01,731
so that money's already been set aside?

817
00:49:01,731 --> 00:49:01,940
Yes, sir.

818
00:49:01,988 --> 00:49:05,214
Yes, sir. So all the construction funds
are already there.

819
00:49:05,214 --> 00:49:08,106
We're just trying to buy the property to
go with it.

820
00:49:08,106 --> 00:49:11,592
Last question, is the environmental study
still standing,

821
00:49:11,592 --> 00:49:15,750
or does that also change with it being a
quarter mile down the road?

822
00:49:15,750 --> 00:49:18,680
So we'll have to redo the environmental
study.

823
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:23,267
So we talked— we had to do an
environmental study, FAA study, FCC study,

824
00:49:23,267 --> 00:49:27,854
all of that. So the NEPA and SHEPA
studies, all of those will have to be

825
00:49:27,854 --> 00:49:28,300
studies, all of those will have to be
redone.

826
00:49:28,300 --> 00:49:32,695
The FAA study will have to be redone, but
it's in the same, you know,

827
00:49:32,695 --> 00:49:34,734
it's within a few hundred yards.

828
00:49:34,734 --> 00:49:36,019
Same airspace.

829
00:49:36,019 --> 00:49:39,099
Yeah, it's in the same airspace and
nothing really changes.

830
00:49:39,099 --> 00:49:42,701
We do have to jump through those hoops,
but that should be expedited.

831
00:49:42,701 --> 00:49:44,002
Thank you, Director.

832
00:49:44,066 --> 00:49:44,500
Thank you.

833
00:49:45,608 --> 00:49:47,263
Yes, Attorney Dobies.

834
00:49:47,263 --> 00:49:48,326
Thank you, Chairman.

835
00:49:48,326 --> 00:49:52,260
I just wanted to Sort of touch on
Commissioner Mullen's question regarding

836
00:49:52,260 --> 00:49:56,406
appraisals. They're sort of in a weird,
like, interesting area in terms of the

837
00:49:56,406 --> 00:49:56,618
like, interesting area in terms of the
law.

838
00:49:56,618 --> 00:50:00,552
I think the reason being is they don't
typically like to release appraisal

839
00:50:00,552 --> 00:50:00,924
typically like to release appraisal
numbers

840
00:50:00,924 --> 00:50:02,359
before a deal is finalized,

841
00:50:02,359 --> 00:50:06,399
and I think that's to sort of effectuate
the county to actually make a deal,

842
00:50:06,399 --> 00:50:08,525
you know, so that there's not, you know,

843
00:50:08,525 --> 00:50:12,990
other parties kind of in the way trying to
buy up that property and adjust the price

844
00:50:12,990 --> 00:50:15,223
and conflate things and change things. So—

845
00:50:15,223 --> 00:50:15,495
Okay.

846
00:50:15,977 --> 00:50:19,583
I'm unaware of sort of the appraisal
aspect of that, but, you know,

847
00:50:19,583 --> 00:50:22,812
I don't know if this ties in, Director
Hardy, but, you know,

848
00:50:22,812 --> 00:50:25,127
there's a pretty hearty, I would say,
like,

849
00:50:25,127 --> 00:50:29,433
inspection aspect of the agreement that
we're looking into that I think provides

850
00:50:29,433 --> 00:50:29,540
we're looking into that I think provides
us

851
00:50:29,540 --> 00:50:33,846
a lot of credence to make sure that the
property that we need is also, you know,

852
00:50:33,846 --> 00:50:35,999
appropriate for what we're trying to do.

853
00:50:36,064 --> 00:50:37,557
So, yeah.

854
00:50:37,557 --> 00:50:40,580
Commissioner, if I can add into that.

855
00:50:40,580 --> 00:50:45,481
So in that agreement with the property
owner for that price,

856
00:50:45,481 --> 00:50:52,343
there is a clause in there that allows us
to walk away in the next 45 days should we

857
00:50:52,343 --> 00:50:58,878
determine that through engineering that
this is not a viable option for whatever

858
00:50:58,878 --> 00:51:04,352
reason. We walk away, and there's no harm,
no foul to either party.

859
00:51:04,352 --> 00:51:07,129
And that was courtesy of Mr. Doby.

860
00:51:07,129 --> 00:51:12,990
Okay. You done?

861
00:51:12,990 --> 00:51:13,680
Yes, sir.

862
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:20,408
Thank you. Commissioner Holt. Jeffrey,
easement and roadway to this tower?

863
00:51:20,408 --> 00:51:22,520
Yeah. So neither one of them—

864
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:27,765
neither one of them is an issue because we
have plenty of road frontage.

865
00:51:27,765 --> 00:51:31,261
It's 3 acres, so it meets all zoning
ordinances.

866
00:51:31,261 --> 00:51:35,777
The other place, the The previous property
at the water tower,

867
00:51:35,777 --> 00:51:39,929
it has a right-of-way with the landowner
to the property,

868
00:51:39,929 --> 00:51:42,552
and there is no road frontage to it.

869
00:51:42,552 --> 00:51:46,776
We would have to buy a minimum of an acre
of his property,

870
00:51:46,776 --> 00:51:49,763
which would dissect his property in half.

871
00:51:49,763 --> 00:51:55,372
And I don't think that property owner
really wants to dissect his property in

872
00:51:55,372 --> 00:51:55,736
really wants to dissect his property in
half,

873
00:51:55,736 --> 00:51:56,610
if possible.

874
00:51:56,610 --> 00:51:58,259
Thank you, Chairman.

875
00:51:59,713 --> 00:52:00,757
Commissioner Romesburg.

876
00:52:00,757 --> 00:52:07,113
You know, I know probably a lot more about
what's going on than some people because

877
00:52:07,113 --> 00:52:11,248
of my history and everything. And I
support this goal.

878
00:52:11,248 --> 00:52:16,685
But I will say $50,000 an acre gives me
some heartburn. It really does.

879
00:52:16,685 --> 00:52:20,131
And I just want to make, make that
statement.

880
00:52:20,131 --> 00:52:25,720
But, you know, I'm behind you 100% and we
need this. But $50,000 an acre.

881
00:52:25,720 --> 00:52:27,252
Thank you, Chairman.

882
00:52:27,252 --> 00:52:28,328
Yes, sir.

883
00:52:28,328 --> 00:52:33,851
Commissioner Stovall. Thank you, Chairman.
Jeff, I was just checking.

884
00:52:33,900 --> 00:52:37,464
I know some of those pictures had propane
tanks and stuff.

885
00:52:37,833 --> 00:52:43,517
And propane is pretty high right about
now, I heard.

886
00:52:44,433 --> 00:52:48,528
Is there any natural gas pipelines in
those areas that you could connect to to

887
00:52:48,528 --> 00:52:48,686
those areas that you could connect to to
use

888
00:52:48,686 --> 00:52:49,683
instead of propane?

889
00:52:49,812 --> 00:52:56,085
Instead of those propane tanks? Because in
the future it's going to be, I know.

890
00:52:56,085 --> 00:53:01,405
Sir, so our current locations, no. They're
pretty remote locations.

891
00:53:01,405 --> 00:53:06,964
Most of them are on top of a big hill
somewhere, well off the roadway.

892
00:53:06,964 --> 00:53:12,998
So it would not be cheap to run natural
gas if it was available at the road.

893
00:53:12,998 --> 00:53:17,604
The good news is the propane runs the
emergency generator.

894
00:53:17,604 --> 00:53:23,003
So we typically don't have to fill those
maybe once a year, if that.

895
00:53:23,003 --> 00:53:27,688
One of our current sites, we fill it on an
as-needed basis,

896
00:53:27,688 --> 00:53:31,261
and we haven't filled it in probably 2
years.

897
00:53:31,261 --> 00:53:37,614
So it really, really isn't a huge concern
just because we've got a pretty robust

898
00:53:37,614 --> 00:53:41,267
power system there. So it's usually
non-issue.

899
00:53:41,267 --> 00:53:45,078
It's just there just in case the power
goes out.

900
00:53:45,078 --> 00:53:45,415
Gotcha.

901
00:53:45,736 --> 00:53:45,913
Gotcha.

902
00:53:45,913 --> 00:53:46,876
Yes, sir.

903
00:53:46,876 --> 00:53:47,839
Thank you.

904
00:53:47,839 --> 00:53:49,781
Yes, sir.

905
00:53:49,781 --> 00:53:50,647
Commissioner Burford?

906
00:53:50,647 --> 00:53:52,268
Yes, sir.

907
00:53:52,333 --> 00:53:55,189
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a couple of
quick questions.

908
00:53:55,189 --> 00:53:55,623
Sir.

909
00:53:55,623 --> 00:54:02,200
What's the footprint required for the
tower and the building and the accessories

910
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:05,407
with it? Ideally, minimum's 100 by 100.

911
00:54:05,407 --> 00:54:09,435
We can squeeze it into a 50 by 50 area if
needed,

912
00:54:09,435 --> 00:54:14,039
but 100 by 100 gives us ample room to work
around there.

913
00:54:14,039 --> 00:54:19,137
One of the challenges though, even on the
100 by 100 platform,

914
00:54:19,137 --> 00:54:25,796
is getting the crane in there and being
able to stage equipment and then move the

915
00:54:25,796 --> 00:54:29,002
equipment to raise that 300-foot tower.

916
00:54:29,002 --> 00:54:31,798
So we, if we only have 100 by 100,

917
00:54:31,798 --> 00:54:37,882
that really limits That's how we can
construct it. That takes a little bit

918
00:54:37,882 --> 00:54:38,457
construct it. That takes a little bit
longer.

919
00:54:38,457 --> 00:54:44,952
It costs a little bit more because we have
to bring in specialized cranes to do

920
00:54:44,952 --> 00:54:50,132
that. So that's— does that answer your
question, sir? Yes, sir.

921
00:54:50,132 --> 00:54:55,476
My other question is, that's a relatively
small area for 3 acres.

922
00:54:55,476 --> 00:55:01,560
Any potential use for the rest of the
land? Whatever you want to dream up.

923
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:05,424
We're open. The property that we're
looking at,

924
00:55:05,424 --> 00:55:09,863
not all 3 acres is viable just because of
the terrain.

925
00:55:09,863 --> 00:55:13,152
The back probably acre, acre and a half,

926
00:55:13,152 --> 00:55:17,345
maybe acre and a quarter is on a pretty
steep hill.

927
00:55:17,345 --> 00:55:18,419
Okay.

928
00:55:18,419 --> 00:55:21,812
So realistically, there's only about an—

929
00:55:21,812 --> 00:55:27,412
about a 2-acre area that we could build
on. on this 3-acre parcel.

930
00:55:27,412 --> 00:55:30,805
And that's the parcel that was for sale.

931
00:55:30,805 --> 00:55:32,558
That would—

932
00:55:32,864 --> 00:55:37,834
I'd kind of echo Commissioner Romsberg
with the land not being viable.

933
00:55:37,834 --> 00:55:43,443
That's, that's an awful lot of money per
acre for nonviable property except for

934
00:55:43,443 --> 00:55:43,727
acre for nonviable property except for
this

935
00:55:43,727 --> 00:55:47,561
one area. But thank you very much for your
work on it.

936
00:55:47,561 --> 00:55:51,051
Commissioner Barnes.

937
00:55:52,667 --> 00:55:54,738
Hi, Director Hardy. How you doing?

938
00:55:54,738 --> 00:55:55,428
Good, sir.

939
00:55:55,476 --> 00:55:55,909
How are you?

940
00:55:55,909 --> 00:55:56,182
Good.

941
00:55:56,937 --> 00:55:59,495
I just have some, some quick questions.

942
00:55:59,495 --> 00:56:03,889
If, if this was not to come to fruition,
this purchase is not made,

943
00:56:03,889 --> 00:56:08,742
how much longer would that extend the
timeline on trying to get this radio

944
00:56:08,742 --> 00:56:09,332
timeline on trying to get this radio
system up

945
00:56:09,332 --> 00:56:09,988
and going?

946
00:56:09,988 --> 00:56:13,900
Uh, that's a great question, um, and I,

947
00:56:13,900 --> 00:56:17,611
I don't have an exact answer for you.

948
00:56:17,611 --> 00:56:21,423
Um, I can tell you that my fear is It—

949
00:56:21,423 --> 00:56:27,140
if we continue pushing forward with our
current location,

950
00:56:27,140 --> 00:56:30,250
that it could come to lawsuits,

951
00:56:30,250 --> 00:56:35,566
and that would delay it however long that
would take.

952
00:56:35,566 --> 00:56:37,616
Give me an honest belief of timeline.

953
00:56:37,616 --> 00:56:38,946
If it didn't go through,

954
00:56:38,946 --> 00:56:43,378
how long would it take to find another
property and/or continue with the current

955
00:56:43,378 --> 00:56:48,032
property? What type of an extension Would
you expect on something like that if this—

956
00:56:48,032 --> 00:56:49,771
6 months to a year minimum.

957
00:56:49,771 --> 00:56:53,859
Another year. Sheriff Rowland, can I ask
you a question real quick?

958
00:56:53,859 --> 00:56:58,250
Hopefully you don't

959
00:56:58,250 --> 00:57:01,947
have to use them

960
00:57:01,947 --> 00:57:03,334
today.

961
00:57:03,334 --> 00:57:08,926
Sheriff, how poor is the radio reception
in some of our outlying areas for your,

962
00:57:08,926 --> 00:57:10,184
for your deputies?

963
00:57:10,184 --> 00:57:11,592
Nonexistent. Several.

964
00:57:11,592 --> 00:57:17,157
You take Vestal Hollow, the Bethel area,
you take Hampshire, Cathage Creek and all.

965
00:57:17,157 --> 00:57:22,051
I mean, it— we have several just
completely dead spots all throughout the

966
00:57:22,051 --> 00:57:22,521
completely dead spots all throughout the
county.

967
00:57:22,521 --> 00:57:23,057
So it's—

968
00:57:23,057 --> 00:57:26,889
so nothing's changed as far as the
deputies being able to reach the

969
00:57:26,889 --> 00:57:27,518
deputies being able to reach the
dispatcher,

970
00:57:27,518 --> 00:57:30,263
the dispatcher being able to reach the
deputies,

971
00:57:30,263 --> 00:57:34,724
imperative information being relayed to
other agencies that may be responding,

972
00:57:34,724 --> 00:57:39,357
or Lord forbid, one of our deputy sheriffs
being in trouble and not being able to

973
00:57:39,357 --> 00:57:41,187
tell anybody. Nothing's changed.

974
00:57:41,187 --> 00:57:45,648
I think it's pretty imperative that
something move forward. That's all I have.

975
00:57:45,648 --> 00:57:46,220
Thank you.

976
00:57:46,220 --> 00:57:49,995
Commissioner Cohen.

977
00:57:49,995 --> 00:57:51,459
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

978
00:57:52,650 --> 00:57:54,025
Jeff, I got a question. What is—

979
00:57:54,284 --> 00:57:58,815
who maintains the towers and what does it
cost us to maintain them?

980
00:57:58,815 --> 00:58:00,574
We maintain them in-house.

981
00:58:00,574 --> 00:58:04,497
Right now I have one radio tech that
maintains everything.

982
00:58:04,497 --> 00:58:10,178
So we we look at it in two different ways.
One, we have to maintenance the property.

983
00:58:10,178 --> 00:58:14,844
So our office maintains the property. We
bush hog it. We weed eat it.

984
00:58:14,844 --> 00:58:20,390
We spray for weeds. We do all of that in
house. We take care of every bit of that.

985
00:58:20,390 --> 00:58:24,786
The actual tower, the building, the
generator, all of that again,

986
00:58:24,786 --> 00:58:26,207
we take care of that.

987
00:58:26,207 --> 00:58:31,550
The radio communications equipment because
we're going on the state's. Network.

988
00:58:31,550 --> 00:58:36,690
We've got an agreement with TACN,
Tennessee Advanced Communications Network.

989
00:58:36,690 --> 00:58:42,100
They maintain all of the computer systems
that are running everything because it

990
00:58:42,100 --> 00:58:45,685
benefits the state. So they pay for that
maintenance.

991
00:58:45,685 --> 00:58:50,690
We pay for the building, the generator,
the fuel, the fencing, that stuff.

992
00:58:50,690 --> 00:58:55,627
And that's all internal to our office, and
I have one guy that does that.

993
00:58:55,627 --> 00:58:56,831
Okay, thank you.

994
00:58:57,537 --> 00:58:57,794
Yes, sir.

995
00:58:58,436 --> 00:58:59,126
Commissioner Morrow.

996
00:58:59,126 --> 00:59:00,477
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

997
00:59:00,477 --> 00:59:04,362
For those of you who think that that
2-acre site might not be viable,

998
00:59:04,362 --> 00:59:08,247
let me remind you of one thing. There's 2
kinds of land in Hampshire.

999
00:59:08,247 --> 00:59:09,710
There's hills and valleys.

1000
00:59:09,710 --> 00:59:13,201
If you put a radio tower in a valley, you
get zero signal out.

1001
00:59:13,201 --> 00:59:17,029
You put it on a hill, you're not going to
have much space to put it.

1002
00:59:17,029 --> 00:59:19,676
So if you've got 2 acres that you can
build on,

1003
00:59:19,676 --> 00:59:24,067
that will work as well as anything around
there because there's not much of it

1004
00:59:24,067 --> 00:59:25,024
there. Thank you.

1005
00:59:25,024 --> 00:59:26,459
Yes, sir. Commissioner Sumner.

1006
00:59:26,459 --> 00:59:28,040
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

1007
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:32,059
Jeff, can you tell everybody the total
cost for this project?

1008
00:59:32,059 --> 00:59:34,168
I think you didn't mention that.

1009
00:59:34,168 --> 00:59:39,043
Could you just set— just so everybody
knows what we're talking about here?

1010
00:59:39,043 --> 00:59:41,196
So originally, 5-ish years ago,

1011
00:59:41,196 --> 00:59:45,572
the county commission agreed to pay $10
million for the system.

1012
00:59:45,572 --> 00:59:50,851
About 2 years into the project, we
expanded that by another million dollars.

1013
00:59:50,851 --> 00:59:53,699
So we've got an $11 million project here.

1014
00:59:53,699 --> 00:59:58,700
We've expended— and Doug can correct me if
I'm wrong— we're at about $8,

1015
00:59:58,700 --> 01:00:01,339
$8.5 million so far into this project.

1016
01:00:01,339 --> 01:00:05,715
So in the grand scheme of things, $160,000
is not a very large—

1017
01:00:05,715 --> 01:00:09,565
It's 1.5% of the total cost of the
project.

1018
01:00:09,565 --> 01:00:13,683
So it's not that much of the total cost
there.

1019
01:00:13,683 --> 01:00:14,228
Correct.

1020
01:00:14,228 --> 01:00:17,034
So just wanted to get that out there so
everybody—

1021
01:00:17,034 --> 01:00:21,074
We kind of know what the percentage of
the, of the, of the land, of the,

1022
01:00:21,074 --> 01:00:24,497
of the tower site purchase was in
conjunction with, you know,

1023
01:00:24,497 --> 01:00:28,425
the total cost of the project, because
it's really a minuscule amount.

1024
01:00:28,425 --> 01:00:32,577
If you want to talk about the grand scheme
of the project, that's kind of—

1025
01:00:32,577 --> 01:00:33,010
That's true.

1026
01:00:33,010 --> 01:00:36,853
That we talked about 5 years ago in 2021,
2022, when we funded it, you know,

1027
01:00:36,853 --> 01:00:39,989
it's going to be a game changer for the
whole county, all the,

1028
01:00:39,989 --> 01:00:41,809
all the public safety in the county.

1029
01:00:42,260 --> 01:00:42,582
Absolutely.

1030
01:00:42,582 --> 01:00:46,677
The whole county. And this with
interoperability with other neighboring

1031
01:00:46,677 --> 01:00:47,312
interoperability with other neighboring
counties as

1032
01:00:47,312 --> 01:00:48,350
well as Nashville.

1033
01:00:48,350 --> 01:00:49,074
Yes, sir.

1034
01:00:49,074 --> 01:00:50,329
Thank you.

1035
01:00:50,329 --> 01:00:52,000
Commissioner Barnes.

1036
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:54,443
I'm going to leave you alone after this
one.

1037
01:00:54,443 --> 01:00:55,005
You're good.

1038
01:00:55,005 --> 01:00:59,407
What's the size of the current water tower
lot versus the size of the property that

1039
01:00:59,407 --> 01:01:03,490
you're looking at right now? I know it's 3
acres, what you're looking at now.

1040
01:01:03,490 --> 01:01:05,452
What's the water tower property size?

1041
01:01:05,452 --> 01:01:09,077
I want to say it's It's 50 by 50, 75 by
75,

1042
01:01:09,077 --> 01:01:13,714
and then they purchased a 50 by 50 area
adjacent to it,

1043
01:01:13,714 --> 01:01:18,519
and that's what they allotted for us, 50
foot by 50 foot.

1044
01:01:18,519 --> 01:01:23,577
And their current site is— it's either 50
by 50 or 75 by 75.

1045
01:01:23,577 --> 01:01:25,516
It's not very big, sir.

1046
01:01:25,516 --> 01:01:30,462
Thank you.

1047
01:01:33,462 --> 01:01:40,369
Jeff, I, I don't see— Commissioner Grooms,
go ahead.

1048
01:01:40,369 --> 01:01:46,170
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just have a
statement. $8.5 million in?

1049
01:01:46,170 --> 01:01:46,843
Yes, sir.

1050
01:01:46,843 --> 01:01:48,975
You talking about citizen safety?

1051
01:01:48,975 --> 01:01:49,792
Absolutely.

1052
01:01:49,792 --> 01:01:51,410
Officer safety?

1053
01:01:51,410 --> 01:01:52,260
More than ever.

1054
01:01:52,260 --> 01:01:53,830
First responder safety?

1055
01:01:53,830 --> 01:01:54,279
Yes, sir.

1056
01:01:54,279 --> 01:01:58,429
It's a no-brainer. Thank you. Thank you,
Mr. Chairman.

1057
01:01:58,510 --> 01:02:01,362
Yes, sir. Uh, one quick question from me.

1058
01:02:01,362 --> 01:02:01,891
Yes, sir.

1059
01:02:01,891 --> 01:02:07,804
Just because I think it should be asked.
The present owner wouldn't sell 2 acres?

1060
01:02:07,804 --> 01:02:09,070
No, sir.

1061
01:02:09,070 --> 01:02:12,290
Even if we offered him more per acre?

1062
01:02:12,290 --> 01:02:13,909
I don't believe so.

1063
01:02:13,909 --> 01:02:14,390
Okay.

1064
01:02:14,390 --> 01:02:19,914
He, he, um, the, the property behind and
to the side of it, uh,

1065
01:02:19,914 --> 01:02:24,124
is a chert pit that he owns and operates
out of.

1066
01:02:24,124 --> 01:02:30,613
He'd been round and round with building
and zoning regarding some of that,

1067
01:02:30,613 --> 01:02:35,611
and so he deeded off 3 acres and is
willing to sell that.

1068
01:02:35,611 --> 01:02:37,557
Okay.

1069
01:02:38,538 --> 01:02:39,358
Commissioner Combs.

1070
01:02:39,358 --> 01:02:43,975
Jeff, how are you? Good, sir. You? Good to
see you again.

1071
01:02:43,975 --> 01:02:44,591
Yes, sir.

1072
01:02:44,591 --> 01:02:50,328
Being intimately familiar with towers,
owning some myself, And this is just—

1073
01:02:50,328 --> 01:02:55,687
forgive my ignorance, and I know you
wouldn't want to do this probably,

1074
01:02:55,687 --> 01:03:01,952
but is it possible that you can lease out
space on your towers to gain more income?

1075
01:03:01,952 --> 01:03:07,840
Absolutely not. When you do that, you run
the risk of dealing with nonpayment.

1076
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:13,501
You have the potential for other people to
interfere with our public safety

1077
01:03:13,501 --> 01:03:18,860
infrastructure. This is critical
infrastructure to protect not only our

1078
01:03:18,860 --> 01:03:19,766
infrastructure to protect not only our
citizens but

1079
01:03:19,766 --> 01:03:21,351
our first responders.

1080
01:03:21,351 --> 01:03:25,276
And while I can see the financial value in
doing so,

1081
01:03:25,276 --> 01:03:28,522
I don't think the risk is worth the
reward.

1082
01:03:28,522 --> 01:03:30,068
Are there some—

1083
01:03:31,856 --> 01:03:36,754
now I understand about frequencies and
bleedover and things like that.

1084
01:03:36,754 --> 01:03:39,762
Is there any avenue that would be low
risk?

1085
01:03:39,762 --> 01:03:44,939
And just something— I just thought it was
something to consider. Yes, sir.

1086
01:03:44,939 --> 01:03:46,619
We've talked about that.

1087
01:03:46,619 --> 01:03:52,146
That would need to be addressed through
the land use policies the county has as

1088
01:03:52,146 --> 01:03:52,356
the land use policies the county has as
far

1089
01:03:52,356 --> 01:03:54,944
as cell towers and those type things.

1090
01:03:54,944 --> 01:04:00,402
There was some conversation a while ago
about us putting stuff on cell towers,

1091
01:04:00,402 --> 01:04:06,069
but again, those things change hands very
quickly and ownership And then who owns

1092
01:04:06,069 --> 01:04:10,826
it, who has access to it. And we're
talking critical infrastructure.

1093
01:04:10,826 --> 01:04:16,354
Um, you know, again, you know, buying this
piece of property, building a tower,

1094
01:04:16,354 --> 01:04:20,761
we own it, we control it. Um, and nobody
can tell us different.

1095
01:04:20,761 --> 01:04:22,441
Well, I agree with that.

1096
01:04:22,441 --> 01:04:27,618
Um, thank you for what you're doing and
thank you for your time. Yes, sir.

1097
01:04:27,618 --> 01:04:30,139
Yes, sir. Seeing no more lights,

1098
01:04:30,139 --> 01:04:35,495
I'd like to ask for someone to make a
motion to send this to budget.

1099
01:04:35,495 --> 01:04:41,639
Commissioner— we did already have— we
already had a— we did not have a motion.

1100
01:04:41,639 --> 01:04:42,033
already had a— we did not have a motion.
Okay.

1101
01:04:42,033 --> 01:04:47,153
Commissioner Romsberg, and a second would
be Commissioner Mullen.

1102
01:04:47,153 --> 01:04:53,455
Not consent, you're correct. This will go
to the budget for their consideration.

1103
01:04:53,455 --> 01:04:55,109
All in favor say aye.

1104
01:04:55,711 --> 01:04:55,760
Aye.

1105
01:04:56,216 --> 01:04:58,542
Any opposed? It moves forward.

1106
01:04:58,542 --> 01:04:59,496
Thank you all very much.

1107
01:04:59,496 --> 01:05:02,280
Thank you for Thank you for taking a few
minutes of your time tonight.

1108
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:04,626
I greatly appreciate it. Is there any
other questions, sir?

1109
01:05:04,626 --> 01:05:06,714
Oh, I'm sorry, Commissioner.

1110
01:05:07,517 --> 01:05:11,848
I have an unrelated question, so I was
waiting for you to get through that.

1111
01:05:11,848 --> 01:05:16,411
Jeff, a few years ago, uh, when we were—
15 of us were first new commissioners,

1112
01:05:16,411 --> 01:05:21,262
you folks were good enough to let us know
what you do for a living and the equipment

1113
01:05:21,262 --> 01:05:25,882
that you do and how you do your operation,
and we got some CTAS credit for that.

1114
01:05:25,882 --> 01:05:27,672
We've talked about this before.

1115
01:05:27,672 --> 01:05:30,733
Would you be willing to do that again for
this group?

1116
01:05:30,733 --> 01:05:33,777
Absolutely. Several have asked for that.

1117
01:05:33,777 --> 01:05:39,865
We've looked for— we started looking for a
date that would be conducive to that,

1118
01:05:39,865 --> 01:05:44,963
probably this winter, maybe before
Christmas, if that's acceptable.

1119
01:05:44,963 --> 01:05:48,609
That's perfect. Yeah, sometime in the
winter.

1120
01:05:48,609 --> 01:05:54,847
For the commissioners, we're working on—
we, Lisa, We're working on a couple,

1121
01:05:54,847 --> 01:06:00,437
couple projects that may be able to give
us full credit for the year.

1122
01:06:00,437 --> 01:06:05,217
I would highly recommend that we do the
one that Jeff does.

1123
01:06:05,217 --> 01:06:11,537
Of all the classes I've taken, the CTAS
classes I've taken, most in Nashville,

1124
01:06:11,537 --> 01:06:13,238
because it was local,

1125
01:06:13,238 --> 01:06:18,423
but it was probably the most informative
class that we attended.

1126
01:06:18,423 --> 01:06:18,618
Thank you.

1127
01:06:19,247 --> 01:06:22,423
We know the people, you know the
equipment, you know what goes on up there.

1128
01:06:22,423 --> 01:06:25,557
There's a lot goes on up on that top of
that hill that nobody knows about.

1129
01:06:25,557 --> 01:06:26,139
Yes, sir.

1130
01:06:26,139 --> 01:06:28,954
Those funny little people that work up
there.

1131
01:06:31,202 --> 01:06:33,402
Thank you, Jeff. Thank you, Chair.

1132
01:06:33,402 --> 01:06:37,199
Yes, sir. Mr. Holdt. Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.

1133
01:06:37,199 --> 01:06:43,190
I just wanted to address— speak if you
can— just wanted to address this

1134
01:06:43,190 --> 01:06:44,034
can— just wanted to address this
committee.

1135
01:06:44,034 --> 01:06:51,122
And the other commissioners to be upfront
and let everybody know this fine man is my

1136
01:06:51,122 --> 01:06:55,678
son-in-law. And I think of him as a son.
There you go.

1137
01:06:55,678 --> 01:06:59,176
So, so I'm just trying to be upfront.

1138
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:00,862
Thank you, Chairman.

1139
01:07:00,862 --> 01:07:03,632
Yes, sir. Thank you, Jeff. I believe
that's all of it.

1140
01:07:03,632 --> 01:07:07,957
Thank y'all very much. Thank you, Dad.

1141
01:07:10,957 --> 01:07:11,496
Thanks, Dad.

1142
01:07:11,496 --> 01:07:13,081
Murray County Fire Chief Periut.

1143
01:07:13,081 --> 01:07:19,522
Good evening. We submitted our

1144
01:07:19,522 --> 01:07:25,964
report. We included last month

1145
01:07:25,964 --> 01:07:31,976
and also the last 12 months.

1146
01:07:33,135 --> 01:07:35,111
If you have any questions on that, I'd be
happy to go over it.

1147
01:07:36,609 --> 01:07:40,217
If you don't, Deputy Chief Schatz has a
little presentation.

1148
01:07:40,217 --> 01:07:43,745
Okay, move forward. See no lights.

1149
01:07:44,246 --> 01:07:45,523
Excuse me.

1150
01:07:45,523 --> 01:07:48,817
Uh, good afternoon. Uh, just our normal
monthly, uh,

1151
01:07:48,817 --> 01:07:52,175
we try to run through just some of our
incidents, uh,

1152
01:07:52,175 --> 01:07:55,216
for the month and just give you our run
numbers.

1153
01:07:55,216 --> 01:07:58,701
Uh, for the month of August, uh, we made
251 incidents.

1154
01:07:58,701 --> 01:08:02,629
I believe that's the first time we broke
250 calls in a month.

1155
01:08:02,629 --> 01:08:05,670
You can just see the year-over-year call
volume,

1156
01:08:05,670 --> 01:08:10,231
1,797 year-to-date through August 31st,
compared to last year was 1,383.

1157
01:08:10,231 --> 01:08:15,046
August 3rd, just commercial vehicle
rollover on Snow Creek Road in the Santa

1158
01:08:15,046 --> 01:08:15,173
rollover on Snow Creek Road in the Santa
Fe

1159
01:08:15,173 --> 01:08:16,566
community. August 5th,

1160
01:08:16,566 --> 01:08:20,938
we had a vehicle extrication on New
Lewisburg Highway at Kinzer Lane.

1161
01:08:20,938 --> 01:08:22,205
I think Chief Prude—

1162
01:08:22,205 --> 01:08:27,147
it almost happened like directly in front
of him on his way home from the fire

1163
01:08:27,147 --> 01:08:30,314
station. So just glancing head-on
collision there.

1164
01:08:30,314 --> 01:08:34,686
August 7th, we had a house fire on Steve
Drive off Williamsport Pike.

1165
01:08:34,686 --> 01:08:39,184
Multiple cars in the front of the driveway
or in the front of the home.

1166
01:08:39,184 --> 01:08:42,542
There was a high chance of someone being
in the home.

1167
01:08:42,542 --> 01:08:45,202
There's a passerby that reported the fire.

1168
01:08:45,202 --> 01:08:49,130
We requested mutual aid immediately from
the City of Columbia.

1169
01:08:49,130 --> 01:08:53,945
It's outside of our auto aid agreement
with them where they're automatically

1170
01:08:53,945 --> 01:08:58,507
dispatched. So they immediately sent
engine company and battalion chief.

1171
01:08:58,507 --> 01:09:02,751
Their engine and our engine showed up
simultaneously, went to work,

1172
01:09:02,751 --> 01:09:07,376
just worked really well together,
seamless. Just a couple pictures there.

1173
01:09:07,376 --> 01:09:12,381
August 8th, we had a head-on collision on
Pulaski Highway near the Giles County

1174
01:09:12,381 --> 01:09:14,472
line. Had, I believe, 6 patients,

1175
01:09:14,472 --> 01:09:18,907
a total of 3 ambulances transported about
4 people from that incident.

1176
01:09:18,907 --> 01:09:23,658
August 10th, had another commercial
vehicle rollover. This one was on I-65.

1177
01:09:23,658 --> 01:09:25,242
65 at the 40-mile marker.

1178
01:09:25,242 --> 01:09:27,079
Good thing about this is, uh,

1179
01:09:27,079 --> 01:09:32,021
I was in a really bad spot as far as like
visibility and those new TDOT trucks

1180
01:09:32,021 --> 01:09:37,089
arrive very quickly, the help trucks that
are outside of the metropolitan areas.

1181
01:09:37,089 --> 01:09:40,574
And so they're going all the way to the
state line now.

1182
01:09:40,574 --> 01:09:45,135
And so we had 2 of those show up in a, um,
as soon as we requested them,

1183
01:09:45,135 --> 01:09:49,253
they're there immediately and they're
showing up even faster now.

1184
01:09:49,253 --> 01:09:53,625
Um, so that's been a big benefit and a big
safety for our responders.

1185
01:09:53,625 --> 01:09:56,539
Both of us, law enforcement on the
interstate,

1186
01:09:56,539 --> 01:10:01,417
having those help trucks set up and get
traffic off of it. So it's been nice.

1187
01:10:01,417 --> 01:10:06,549
August 10th, New Lewisburg Highway near
Sevi Heights had a motor vehicle accident

1188
01:10:06,549 --> 01:10:10,857
rollover. Elderly female was trapped in
there and we extricated her.

1189
01:10:10,857 --> 01:10:14,151
Brick Heights Road on August 10th had a
camper fire.

1190
01:10:14,151 --> 01:10:18,903
Again, vehicle in— is a permanently
occupied Camper, not really supposed to

1191
01:10:18,903 --> 01:10:19,346
occupied Camper, not really supposed to
happen,

1192
01:10:19,346 --> 01:10:23,148
but it's how it is. And there was a
vehicle in the driveway,

1193
01:10:23,148 --> 01:10:27,139
so they were reporting that there was
somebody possibly inside.

1194
01:10:27,139 --> 01:10:31,637
Our members arrived, forced entry, and
luckily nobody was inside there.

1195
01:10:31,637 --> 01:10:36,705
Middle August, 5 of us traveled to Idaho
and did a final inspection on our boat.

1196
01:10:36,705 --> 01:10:39,620
It was provided by the Gary Sinise
Foundation.

1197
01:10:39,620 --> 01:10:42,470
It was a grant that paid for the entire
boat.

1198
01:10:42,470 --> 01:10:47,792
It's just, it's already changed the way we
operate on the Duck River with an inboard

1199
01:10:47,792 --> 01:10:51,150
jet, so we're not tearing up props and
stuff anymore.

1200
01:10:51,150 --> 01:10:55,015
But it's a completely different boat than
what we're used to,

1201
01:10:55,015 --> 01:10:57,422
a lot of different maintenance things.

1202
01:10:57,422 --> 01:11:00,210
So they went through the entire
maintenance,

1203
01:11:00,210 --> 01:11:03,187
how to break down all the filters and all
that,

1204
01:11:03,187 --> 01:11:07,875
and then took us out on the river and
showed us how to operate it properly

1205
01:11:07,875 --> 01:11:08,319
showed us how to operate it properly
because

1206
01:11:08,319 --> 01:11:11,867
it's a different boat than what we're used
to operating.

1207
01:11:11,867 --> 01:11:16,808
So August 14th, we had an interagency
water supply training with Columbia Fire

1208
01:11:16,808 --> 01:11:22,067
Department. I think both up at emergency
management and at their Station 3 off Bear

1209
01:11:22,067 --> 01:11:26,945
Creek Pike. Just something that we're
doing monthly or multiple times a month

1210
01:11:26,945 --> 01:11:27,198
doing monthly or multiple times a month
with

1211
01:11:27,198 --> 01:11:29,606
Spring Hill, Columbia, Mount Pleasant,

1212
01:11:29,606 --> 01:11:33,660
and that you'll see in a little bit how
that's already paid off.

1213
01:11:33,660 --> 01:11:37,778
Same day, grass fire in Cathy's Creek in
the Hampshire community.

1214
01:11:37,778 --> 01:11:41,010
Uh, had a vehicle fire on Mikey Court and
Cullyoca.

1215
01:11:41,010 --> 01:11:44,050
Uh, just quick shout out to the 911
dispatchers.

1216
01:11:44,050 --> 01:11:49,182
They were dealing with a subject on the
phone, uh, on that incident that was, uh,

1217
01:11:49,182 --> 01:11:54,187
pretty abrasive, um, asking, you know, uh,
where— when we're going to be there,

1218
01:11:54,187 --> 01:11:56,531
his house was going to catch on fire.

1219
01:11:56,531 --> 01:11:59,699
And they, they really took a berating on
that one.

1220
01:11:59,699 --> 01:12:04,894
So, uh, our 911 dispatchers don't get, uh,
enough credit, but They do a great job.

1221
01:12:04,894 --> 01:12:09,709
Had a low-angle rescue on Carpenter's
Bridge Road. This is actually the Duck

1222
01:12:09,709 --> 01:12:10,089
Bridge Road. This is actually the Duck
River.

1223
01:12:10,089 --> 01:12:14,967
Had a staircase and an elderly person fell
down a metal staircase down to the

1224
01:12:14,967 --> 01:12:20,226
river's edge. So just did a low-angle rope
rescue and set up a landing zone for air

1225
01:12:20,226 --> 01:12:23,140
evac. August 17th, I-65 at the 48-mile
marker.

1226
01:12:23,140 --> 01:12:28,335
Had 2 subjects trapped in a vehicle that
was overturned and the roof was flattened

1227
01:12:28,335 --> 01:12:33,340
down pretty Pretty, pretty low and, uh,
just removed both sides of the vehicle,

1228
01:12:33,340 --> 01:12:36,571
landed a helicopter on the interstate for
that one.

1229
01:12:36,571 --> 01:12:39,675
Uh, next day, August 18th, on the
interstate, uh,

1230
01:12:39,675 --> 01:12:44,807
I was actually at our pre-bid meeting for
the fire station at Marcy Jo's for 431.

1231
01:12:44,807 --> 01:12:48,355
So we were at Carter's Creek when this
incident came in.

1232
01:12:48,355 --> 01:12:51,903
Um, this was just inside the city limits
of Spring Hill.

1233
01:12:51,903 --> 01:12:55,387
Uh, but again, the volume of fire, uh, we
have tankers.

1234
01:12:55,387 --> 01:12:55,565
Yeah.

1235
01:12:55,756 --> 01:12:57,526
You know, to bring the water.

1236
01:12:57,526 --> 01:13:01,433
So we initially dispatched 5 tankers,
responded to the incident.

1237
01:13:01,433 --> 01:13:04,730
They shuttled about 15,000 to 18,000
gallons of water.

1238
01:13:04,730 --> 01:13:09,430
And due to the amount of fire and the heat
of the day, the decision was made.

1239
01:13:09,430 --> 01:13:13,520
We added 2 additional engines to the
incident and our ladder truck.

1240
01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:18,221
They set up on the south end of the
incident and laid out about 1,800 feet of

1241
01:13:18,221 --> 01:13:18,465
incident and laid out about 1,800 feet of
hose

1242
01:13:18,465 --> 01:13:22,738
to a hydrant. Um, and supplied about over
50,000 gallons of water, uh,

1243
01:13:22,738 --> 01:13:24,630
to the incident, which allowed—

1244
01:13:24,630 --> 01:13:29,148
the Spring Hill personnel were pretty
strapped or pretty exhausted at that

1245
01:13:29,148 --> 01:13:29,514
strapped or pretty exhausted at that
point.

1246
01:13:29,514 --> 01:13:33,177
You know, they've been treating patients,
uh, and, you know,

1247
01:13:33,177 --> 01:13:37,877
just pulling hand lines and everything in
the middle of the day on that nice—

1248
01:13:37,877 --> 01:13:42,395
I think the pavement was a day old. So
pretty hot out there, uh, for them.

1249
01:13:42,395 --> 01:13:47,034
So it gave them a good break and we were
able to mitigate the incident much,

1250
01:13:47,034 --> 01:13:49,537
much quicker. August 18th, that same day,

1251
01:13:49,537 --> 01:13:54,054
had some 2 subjects changing a tire on the
side of New Lisbonburg Highway,

1252
01:13:54,054 --> 01:13:58,999
3:30 in the morning. Jack fell and they
were both trapped underneath the vehicle.

1253
01:13:58,999 --> 01:14:00,390
Hmm.

1254
01:14:00,390 --> 01:14:05,180
Rescue got there and they lifted the car
off of them, and luckily they were,

1255
01:14:05,180 --> 01:14:09,528
I believe, non-critical. Vehicle rollover,
Dotson Gap on August 19th.

1256
01:14:09,528 --> 01:14:13,625
We had 4 personnel attend swift water
training in East Tennessee.

1257
01:14:13,625 --> 01:14:18,288
Uh, on the Hiawassee River. So this is the
highest certification they get.

1258
01:14:18,288 --> 01:14:23,141
They already went to 1. And so they spend
3 days over on the Hiawassee River.

1259
01:14:23,141 --> 01:14:28,435
So we got 4 additional trained personnel.
They do night operations. It's a long day.

1260
01:14:28,435 --> 01:14:32,216
They do all day Saturday and then all
through the night, uh,

1261
01:14:32,216 --> 01:14:36,565
till the wee hours of the morning
training, uh, doing all their night

1262
01:14:36,565 --> 01:14:37,258
training, uh, doing all their night
operations,

1263
01:14:37,258 --> 01:14:39,653
boat work, um, all that kind of stuff.

1264
01:14:39,653 --> 01:14:42,741
So, uh, vehicle extrication on Clara
Mathis Road.

1265
01:14:42,741 --> 01:14:47,656
August 20th, this was a vehicle that was
impacted actually at Industrial Park,

1266
01:14:47,656 --> 01:14:52,194
traveled several hundred yards to the
front of a business down the road,

1267
01:14:52,194 --> 01:14:57,236
and we extricated that person and they
were flown to Vanderbilt and some serious

1268
01:14:57,236 --> 01:14:59,694
injuries. Parsons Bend Road brush fire,

1269
01:14:59,694 --> 01:15:04,042
that was I think about 4 or 5 acres that
they had there on that fire.

1270
01:15:04,042 --> 01:15:08,769
Carter's Creek Pike had a person They had
to get out of a deep ditch there,

1271
01:15:08,769 --> 01:15:11,857
back up to the roadway, and then they were
flown.

1272
01:15:11,857 --> 01:15:16,583
You can barely see the helicopter, but
they're from the Carter's Creek Fire

1273
01:15:16,583 --> 01:15:17,088
they're from the Carter's Creek Fire
Station.

1274
01:15:17,088 --> 01:15:20,680
It's used pretty regularly for a landing
zone, so that's,

1275
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:25,785
that's turned out really well. Their large
parking lot there to land helicopters.

1276
01:15:25,785 --> 01:15:30,070
Tractor hay baler field fire on August
25th on Tom J. Hitch Parkway.

1277
01:15:30,070 --> 01:15:34,419
Again, heat of the day, it was like about
3 o'clock in the afternoon.

1278
01:15:34,419 --> 01:15:37,381
It was in the afternoon when this call
came in.

1279
01:15:37,381 --> 01:15:40,658
It was several acres and a couple hay
bales on fire.

1280
01:15:40,658 --> 01:15:45,321
August 26th, Pulaski Highway at
Stiversville Road had one occupant trapped

1281
01:15:45,321 --> 01:15:45,574
Stiversville Road had one occupant trapped
in a

1282
01:15:45,574 --> 01:15:48,094
vehicle. They had non-critical injuries.

1283
01:15:48,094 --> 01:15:51,120
We went to Marshall County, Bryant Station
Road.

1284
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:55,405
The house was actually only a few hundred
feet into Marshall County.

1285
01:15:55,405 --> 01:15:57,749
There's—

1286
01:15:57,868 --> 01:16:00,223
they initially responded Got there.

1287
01:16:00,223 --> 01:16:05,136
Once they got there, they called for us a
little later into the incident,

1288
01:16:05,136 --> 01:16:09,578
and we responded with some tankers and
some manpower to help them.

1289
01:16:09,578 --> 01:16:14,828
And then another hay baler on fire in a
field on August 31st on Campbellsville

1290
01:16:14,828 --> 01:16:15,164
field on August 31st on Campbellsville
Pike.

1291
01:16:15,164 --> 01:16:18,058
This got about 4 acres. It was
fast-moving.

1292
01:16:18,058 --> 01:16:21,558
Wind was pretty brisk that afternoon,
extremely hot.

1293
01:16:21,558 --> 01:16:25,596
So, and just a few personnel there
mitigating that incident.

1294
01:16:25,596 --> 01:16:28,961
Uh, the cardiac arrests we had this month,
um, uh,

1295
01:16:28,961 --> 01:16:31,316
for sure on one on Bear Creek Pike,

1296
01:16:31,316 --> 01:16:34,816
I just wanted to give the members a quick
shout out.

1297
01:16:34,816 --> 01:16:38,584
They had an airway in, had the AutoPulse
on the patient,

1298
01:16:38,584 --> 01:16:43,497
and had already shocked the patient prior
to the ambulance getting there.

1299
01:16:43,497 --> 01:16:44,911
For sure on that one.

1300
01:16:44,911 --> 01:16:48,276
On the rest of them, I'm not sure about,
but Yeah,

1301
01:16:48,276 --> 01:16:53,054
several cardiac arrests this month across
the county. That is our boat.

1302
01:16:53,054 --> 01:16:56,082
It has arrived and we've been training on
it.

1303
01:16:56,082 --> 01:17:00,322
It'll be lettered tomorrow and we're
really excited about that.

1304
01:17:00,322 --> 01:17:05,370
And we've already put it to use with a
couple incidents already on the Duck

1305
01:17:05,370 --> 01:17:05,774
couple incidents already on the Duck
River.

1306
01:17:05,774 --> 01:17:07,793
And it's just, it's just nice.

1307
01:17:07,793 --> 01:17:13,177
I'd always get anxiety when we get these
calls on the river because we're always

1308
01:17:13,177 --> 01:17:17,955
tearing up props and hitting shoals and
dealing with dealing with that.

1309
01:17:17,955 --> 01:17:22,464
You know, we've explored jet drives, we've
done, we've done it all.

1310
01:17:22,464 --> 01:17:27,848
But having this inboard jet is a game
changer. And it was no cost to the county.

1311
01:17:27,928 --> 01:17:28,217
So—

1312
01:17:28,217 --> 01:17:30,817
How shallow will it travel?

1313
01:17:30,817 --> 01:17:35,848
Well, it'll jump shoals, like it'll jump
out of the water when it has a poly

1314
01:17:35,848 --> 01:17:36,311
out of the water when it has a poly
bottom.

1315
01:17:36,311 --> 01:17:39,489
But they say 3 inches of water is what it
needs.

1316
01:17:39,489 --> 01:17:43,461
But yeah, we've definitely gone across
pretty much no water.

1317
01:17:43,461 --> 01:17:47,896
And it's You know, you just scoot right
across the shoals. So, yep.

1318
01:17:47,896 --> 01:17:51,544
And then I saw something yesterday or the
day before,

1319
01:17:51,544 --> 01:17:53,678
a missing kayaker off the duck.

1320
01:17:53,678 --> 01:17:56,335
Yeah, we— 911 was getting some calls from
some,

1321
01:17:56,335 --> 01:18:00,972
some concerned people that this kayak was
on the river all day and nobody's around

1322
01:18:00,972 --> 01:18:05,269
it. They couldn't find anybody. So some
people were worried about, about the

1323
01:18:05,269 --> 01:18:05,665
people were worried about, about the
person.

1324
01:18:05,665 --> 01:18:09,227
So they went and checked it out, got all
the numbers, ran them.

1325
01:18:09,227 --> 01:18:13,072
I think Shane ran them. from OEM and just
nothing came back on them.

1326
01:18:13,072 --> 01:18:16,238
So luckily the person after the social
media, it worked.

1327
01:18:16,238 --> 01:18:20,252
They reached out to us yesterday
afternoon. We're like, hey, it's mine.

1328
01:18:20,252 --> 01:18:24,154
They broke a paddle and close to dark on,
I believe he said Saturday,

1329
01:18:24,154 --> 01:18:28,620
and just ended up walking through the
woods and calling for a ride on the road.

1330
01:18:28,620 --> 01:18:28,790
woods and calling for a ride on the road.
So.

1331
01:18:28,790 --> 01:18:32,645
But naturally people considered he drowned
or something.

1332
01:18:32,645 --> 01:18:33,014
Yeah.

1333
01:18:33,191 --> 01:18:33,271
Yeah.

1334
01:18:33,352 --> 01:18:34,508
They had, they had concerns.

1335
01:18:34,556 --> 01:18:34,861
Yeah.

1336
01:18:34,942 --> 01:18:39,370
About, about their well-being. So, um, and
I just had one video.

1337
01:18:39,370 --> 01:18:44,352
Um, we had a, uh, we had an incident on
Friday, uh, the downpour we got.

1338
01:18:44,352 --> 01:18:48,988
We, I think, had 4 to 5 motor vehicle
accidents responded to almost

1339
01:18:48,988 --> 01:18:50,025
accidents responded to almost
simultaneously.

1340
01:18:50,025 --> 01:18:54,384
Um, our rescue truck is, uh, is equipped
with an in-car camera.

1341
01:18:54,384 --> 01:18:56,598
Um, not all of our vehicles are,

1342
01:18:56,598 --> 01:19:01,719
but It's something we've been trialing and
just really wanted to, I guess,

1343
01:19:01,719 --> 01:19:04,901
showcase the expertise of our full-time
staff.

1344
01:19:04,901 --> 01:19:09,883
Just compare it to you driving your
personal vehicle and you are used to

1345
01:19:09,883 --> 01:19:10,367
personal vehicle and you are used to
driving

1346
01:19:10,367 --> 01:19:14,726
your own vehicle and you know its
capabilities and limitations.

1347
01:19:14,726 --> 01:19:18,532
In my opinion, us having the full-time
staff, you know,

1348
01:19:18,532 --> 01:19:23,859
this gentleman has driven this truck
thousands and thousands and thousands of

1349
01:19:23,859 --> 01:19:24,205
thousands and thousands and thousands of
miles

1350
01:19:24,205 --> 01:19:26,835
and to hundreds and hundreds of calls.

1351
01:19:26,835 --> 01:19:29,671
So he's, he's very comfortable in it, uh,

1352
01:19:29,671 --> 01:19:34,722
versus like maybe a volunteer that gets in
it once every couple of weeks.

1353
01:19:34,722 --> 01:19:37,767
Um, so in my opinion, I feel like, you
know,

1354
01:19:37,767 --> 01:19:43,302
the money we've been investing in the
full-time staff to have them there and his

1355
01:19:43,302 --> 01:19:48,422
skills and abilities, uh, kept us from
spending $1 million to replace this

1356
01:19:48,422 --> 01:19:48,975
spending $1 million to replace this
vehicle.

1357
01:19:48,975 --> 01:19:52,504
So I don't know if you can play it up
there or not.

1358
01:19:52,504 --> 01:20:09,339
There you go.

1359
01:20:12,430 --> 01:20:13,944
A person's making a U-turn.

1360
01:20:13,944 --> 01:20:16,972
Looks like they're backing up to get out
of their way,

1361
01:20:16,972 --> 01:20:19,495
and then they decide they don't want to
wait.

1362
01:20:19,495 --> 01:20:26,493
And then they—

1363
01:20:26,493 --> 01:20:27,298
And they wanted to outrun him.

1364
01:20:27,298 --> 01:20:28,296
Oh my goodness.

1365
01:20:28,296 --> 01:20:34,354
So, uh, so, um, we, uh,

1366
01:20:34,354 --> 01:20:40,412
We rewarded him Friday.

1367
01:20:40,412 --> 01:20:46,469
We appreciated his, uh,

1368
01:20:46,469 --> 01:20:49,630
his efforts.

1369
01:20:49,730 --> 01:20:50,970
Uh, did you call the sheriff?

1370
01:20:50,970 --> 01:20:52,670
A few, a few, a few jokes.

1371
01:20:52,670 --> 01:20:52,970
Yeah.

1372
01:20:52,970 --> 01:20:57,000
But, uh, definitely a close call. Um, and
just happy it turned out like it did.

1373
01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,857
But again, just him being comfortable with
that vehicle,

1374
01:20:59,857 --> 01:21:02,306
knows its limitations and those kinds of
things.

1375
01:21:02,306 --> 01:21:05,877
Luckily it wasn't a vehicle that carries
water where it can, you know,

1376
01:21:05,877 --> 01:21:09,244
cause I think, you know, even talking to
him, he's like, you know,

1377
01:21:09,244 --> 01:21:13,020
I wouldn't have probably made that
abrasive action to the right because it

1378
01:21:13,020 --> 01:21:13,275
abrasive action to the right because it
would

1379
01:21:13,275 --> 01:21:16,999
have turned over, you know, carrying water
that, That's our heavy rescue,

1380
01:21:16,999 --> 01:21:20,060
so it carries all the equipment, but it
doesn't carry water.

1381
01:21:20,060 --> 01:21:22,815
So that also contributed to it. So, but
any questions?

1382
01:21:22,815 --> 01:21:26,490
I don't see any questions. Thank you.

1383
01:21:26,621 --> 01:21:27,617
All right, thank you.

1384
01:21:29,264 --> 01:21:29,814
Commissioner Morrow.

1385
01:21:29,814 --> 01:21:31,196
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

1386
01:21:31,196 --> 01:21:34,997
Based on what I've seen from the videos
and from that last little—

1387
01:21:34,997 --> 01:21:37,186
of the video and all the extrications,

1388
01:21:37,186 --> 01:21:41,908
I would say the county needs some kind of
a remedial driver's education Thank you.

1389
01:21:41,908 --> 01:21:45,967
All right. Thank you.

1390
01:21:45,967 --> 01:21:47,648
Thank you.

1391
01:21:47,648 --> 01:21:49,200
Yep.

1392
01:21:49,767 --> 01:21:55,715
All right. That's all the— well, let's
see. We don't have any old business.

1393
01:21:55,715 --> 01:22:01,980
The new business has been moved to the
October meeting. Has anybody else signed

1394
01:22:01,980 --> 01:22:02,218
October meeting. Has anybody else signed
up?

1395
01:22:02,218 --> 01:22:07,770
Mr. Dial? Got one. Is that for the admin
meeting or for the— oh, well,

1396
01:22:07,770 --> 01:22:09,911
we don't need it right now.

1397
01:22:09,911 --> 01:22:14,749
All right, we've got a couple appointments
and announcements.

1398
01:22:14,749 --> 01:22:18,952
Appointment of one member to the Civil
Service Board.

1399
01:22:18,952 --> 01:22:24,267
We don't have anybody yet because she does
not wish to be reappointed.

1400
01:22:24,267 --> 01:22:30,754
Barry Boyd's position. Okay, so will that
come from the mayor's office?

1401
01:22:30,754 --> 01:22:32,745
No, that That will come from safety.

1402
01:22:32,745 --> 01:22:37,519
Oh, so we need to come up with— yeah, so
you guys that are on item B,

1403
01:22:37,519 --> 01:22:42,362
you got to find 3 now instead of 2, right?
Is that what you're saying?

1404
01:22:42,362 --> 01:22:46,376
All right, so we're looking for somebody
for that one, uh,

1405
01:22:46,376 --> 01:22:50,596
and then if anybody's got anybody in mind,
let's bring it up.

1406
01:22:50,596 --> 01:22:55,578
But, uh, we do need to talk to them before
we bring it to the committee,

1407
01:22:55,578 --> 01:22:57,861
make sure they're Uh, acceptable.

1408
01:22:57,861 --> 01:23:02,704
But anyway, the announcement of 2
vacancies on the Civil Service Board

1409
01:23:02,704 --> 01:23:03,396
vacancies on the Civil Service Board
because of

1410
01:23:03,396 --> 01:23:08,932
Commissioner Romsberg and Commissioner
Holt's resignation from the Civil Service

1411
01:23:08,932 --> 01:23:14,536
Board, uh, upon their— can't serve on the
commission and the Civil Service Board.

1412
01:23:15,906 --> 01:23:16,646
So we—

1413
01:23:17,097 --> 01:23:19,207
I guess we'll move that out a month,
right?

1414
01:23:19,207 --> 01:23:20,269
Yeah. Okay.

1415
01:23:20,978 --> 01:23:24,523
All right, seeing no other people, does To
comment.

1416
01:23:24,523 --> 01:23:27,025
Uh, looking for a motion to adjourn.

1417
01:23:27,025 --> 01:23:32,515
Motion by Commissioner Rosberg, seconded
by Commissioner Holt. We're adjourned.