[0:00] After 4:30, so we're going to go ahead and
get the safety committee started for
[0:04] Wednesday, September 9th.
[0:05] I'll do the prayer, and I've asked
Commissioner Markham to lead us in the
[0:10] Commissioner Markham to lead us in the
pledge.
[0:10] If you will, please stand.
[0:11] Father God, we are, we are eternally
grateful, Father, for the,
[0:15] for the many blessings that you have
bestowed upon us, Father.
[0:19] We thank you for your Son, Father. We
thank you for what he did for us on the
[0:23] thank you for what he did for us on the
cross.
[0:23] So that we might be reconciled to you,
Father.
[0:26] Father, I pray that you would be with us
tonight.
[0:29] I pray that you would grant us wisdom, an
abundance of wisdom,
[0:32] as we do these people's work.
[0:34] I pray, Father, that you be with each and
every commissioner as we go through these
[0:39] meetings and help us, Father, do the right
thing for the people.
[0:42] Father, I pray now that you would just
bless our families, watch over them,
[0:47] bless the first responders, bless those
young men, women,
[0:50] and boys across the seas who are are
fighting for us so that we might be able
[0:54] fighting for us so that we might be able
to
[0:54] assemble here to do this, Father.
[0:56] Father, I pray that you just—
[0:58] whatever we do and say here tonight would
bring glory and honor to you.
[1:02] For it is in Jesus' name we pray.
[1:04] Amen.
[1:04] If you would put your hand on your heart
or salute if you're a veteran.
[1:10] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[1:15] Republic for which it stands.
[1:17] One nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.
[1:22] All right, first order of business is the
[1:28] election of a chairman,
[1:32] and I will now open the floor for
nominations.
[1:39] Uh, Commissioner Rossmann.
[1:43] I nominate Kevin Markham.
[1:44] Kevin Markham has been nominated. Are
there any other nominations?
[1:47] No.
[1:47] If not, I will take a motion to, uh, close
nominations and elect by acclamation.
[1:53] I got a motion from Commissioner Hope and
a second from Commissioner Harlan.
[1:59] All those in favor, please say aye.
[2:01] Aye.
[2:02] Congratulations, Mr. Chairman.
[2:05] Well, thank you very much.
[2:06] It's yours.
[2:12] Don't forget your tools.
[2:15] Yeah, I'm just trying to get out a little
bit. We'll put you to work.
[2:19] I know.
[2:20] Thank you, ma'am. You're welcome.
[2:23] Thank you, Danny, and thank you,
committee,
[2:28] for electing me chair.
[2:31] Um, I will mention that all members are
present, uh,
[2:37] per the roll call here.
[2:39] But, uh, next item to do is elect the vice
chair.
[2:45] At this time, I'll take nominations for
vice chair.
[2:51] Chair, I'd like to nominate Commissioner
Holt.
[2:55] Okay, Commissioner Mullen nominates Tim
Holt.
[2:59] Any other? Uh, Mr. Harlan? Commissioner
Harlan?
[3:03] Uh, I got a nomination for—
[3:05] I want to nominate Wayne. Wayne Romesburg?
Okay.
[3:09] Do I have any other nominations?
[3:12] Seeing none, uh, somebody make a motion
for nomination to cease.
[3:18] Commissioner Romesburg second. Anybody
got— I can second that.
[3:23] That nomination ceased.
[3:25] So what we'll do here is we'll just take a
quick roll call vote.
[3:31] Tim Holdt, and I'll start with you,
Commissioner Mullen, for Tim Holdt,
[3:38] yes or no?
[3:39] Yes.
[3:39] Commissioner Harlan?
[3:42] No, I don't.
[3:44] Okay. Commissioner Holdt?
[3:48] Yes.
[3:49] And you can vote. That's 4. Oh,
Commissioner Romesburg, I'm sorry. No.
[3:55] And I'm going to vote no.
[3:58] So Commissioner Romesburg, Commissioner
Mullen.
[4:02] Commissioner Mullen?
[4:10] And Commissioner Harlan?
[4:15] Yes.
[4:16] Commissioner Romesburg?
[4:17] Yes.
[4:17] Commissioner Holt?
[4:19] No.
[4:19] And I vote yes. And I don't have anything
against you,
[4:23] but Wayne asked me to vote for him the
other day, so I'm a man of my word.
[4:28] So Wayne Romesburg is vice chair. Do I
need to move back there now?
[4:33] You can sit wherever you want to. It
doesn't matter.
[4:36] I'll just sit right up here.
[4:37] That'd be fine. That'll be fine.
[4:39] Okay, the next thing on the agenda is the
approval Of the agenda, and per—
[4:45] it was too late to make a change on the
published agenda, but if you'll turn over—
[4:51] well, if you go to the bottom under new
business, discussion of flock cameras.
[4:57] Commissioner Sumner's asked that we put
that on the agenda,
[5:02] and then he's trying to do some homework
to get everybody a little more educated,
[5:08] and he needs a little more time, so we
want to push that to our October meeting.
[5:14] Is that okay with you, Commissioner—
Sheriff? You're going to— okay.
[5:19] And, uh, so, uh, you want— do you want to
do that or you want to take it off?
[5:25] Okay, we'll take that off. Okay, uh, so
someone, uh, needs to make a motion.
[5:31] I guess I can't do that, right? To approve
the To approve the agenda as amended.
[5:37] Commissioner Romsberg, I need a second.
Second by Commissioner Holt.
[5:42] All in favor say aye.
[5:43] Aye.
[5:44] All right, so that'll be delayed until
October.
[5:48] And now, now we will, uh, now that we have
a— do we have to, uh, vote for the, uh,
[5:55] for the amended agenda? So, uh, a motion
for the amended agenda. Commissioner Holt.
[6:03] Second by Commissioner Romsberg. All in
favor say aye.
[6:07] Aye.
[6:08] Now we have an approved agenda. All right.
[6:12] The August minutes have been presented to
us,
[6:16] and if anybody has any comments or
discussion, we'll do that now,
[6:21] but I don't see any lights on, so the
agenda—
[6:25] the minutes from August stand as
presented.
[6:29] Uh, do we have anybody signed up for
public comment?
[6:33] No, sir.
[6:33] So we can move through that.
[6:36] All right, next item on our agenda is, uh,
[6:40] Sheriff Rowland.
[6:48] I don't think—
[6:49] I don't think we have to introduce you to
anybody.
[6:51] Uh, well, welcome to the new ones and
congratulations to everybody.
[6:55] The parliamentary procedure part of it, it
gets a little bit easier as you go along.
[7:01] So, but congratulations on all of your
successful campaigns.
[7:05] We have sent out our monthly report,
[7:07] and I'd be happy to answer any questions
at this time with it.
[7:11] Just for everybody's information, when,
when,
[7:14] when Lisa and Cindy send out the agenda,
if it's in blue,
[7:18] that's an automatic link to that report.
[7:21] You can just click on that and study that
report prior to the committee meeting.
[7:27] No questions on that right now.
[7:29] All right.
[7:30] And well, with that, with it being some
new ones, uh, just with our monthly
[7:35] new ones, uh, just with our monthly
report,
[7:36] just to kind of make you familiar with it
if you're not,
[7:40] of course it has warrant service, uh,
[7:42] the folks that come through our judicial
building, uh, new building or part 2, uh,
[7:48] calls that we're Dispatched throughout the
county and within city municipalities and
[7:54] all, then average populations with our
corrections,
[7:58] and then any revenue that's collected from
any warrant service or inmate revenues or
[8:04] anything like that. Second page is going
to be what our jail clinic,
[8:09] Southern Health Partners, what they do
within that month. That's on the second
[8:14] within that month. That's on the second
page.
[8:15] Okay.
[8:16] 3rd page. It's just really a big thank you
to our reserve unit that we have.
[8:21] These are the— well, it's all men that's
currently serving.
[8:25] They do a phenomenal job.
[8:27] They're business people that serve
somewhere else to make their living,
[8:32] but it's in their DNA to come out and
serve in that deputy role.
[8:36] They go through extensive training,
[8:39] and if you see a deputy at a If we have a
special event, Mule Day, fair, rodeo,
[8:44] things like that, it's most likely it's
going to be a reserve deputy.
[8:49] And, and I'd put them against anybody.
They are phenomenal.
[8:53] But it's the amount of hours that they put
in each month and take,
[8:57] and that doesn't come out of our budget to
go out and serve the citizens of this
[9:03] county.
[9:03] Sheriff, I know at the rodeo you honored
[9:07] 2, I believe, One of them was David
[9:11] Thomas.
[9:12] David Thomas.
[9:13] He had 20 years or something. So like you
said, it ain't a hobby, it's DNA.
[9:16] No, it's— he was out serving last night. I
mean, he's a sergeant in that unit.
[9:22] He and Ricky Sims, 20-plus-year veterans
and just phenomenal.
[9:26] Ricky Sims, of course, former commissioner
for many years, just a heart of service.
[9:32] His family has kind of followed suit with
him.
[9:35] They're just Public servants, phenomenal.
[9:38] He's actually, uh, if you see Ricky, thank
him for his service.
[9:43] He's getting ready to retire.
[9:45] Uh, we're trying to work on his
replacement, uh, but at the end of the
[9:50] replacement, uh, but at the end of the
year, I,
[9:51] I think he'll probably, uh, retire and
enjoy those grandbabies.
[9:55] So, um, The next— I don't know if that's
the 4th or 5th— 4th page.
[10:00] Uh, that's just a little bit of update as
far as our programs within the jail, uh,
[10:06] with the inmate, uh, Rehabilitation to
reduce our recidivism.
[10:10] And then SRO report, of course, this was—
[10:13] we're a month behind with our reporting
just because we're the first ones out of
[10:19] just because we're the first ones out of
the
[10:19] gate normally. So they were out of school
for summer break.
[10:23] So just to kind of bring everybody up to
speed as far as what our monthly report
[10:29] consists of. The only other 2 Okay.
[10:31] The next 2 acts of business that we have
is 2 budget amendments. This is 2 grants.
[10:37] It's just cleanup more than anything.
[10:40] The first one, I don't know how they were
listed on the agenda,
[10:44] but the first one is going to be— it's a
Justice Assistance Grant contract.
[10:50] It's just moving— we're taking $2,756 from
one line and placing that in a different
[10:56] line per the budget office.
[10:58] So the way we do that,
[10:59] we have to make a motion and second to
move it to the budget committee.
[11:05] So that's what we'll be looking for now is
a budget amendment,
[11:10] a motion for budget amendment for $2,756.
[11:13] Motion by Commissioner Romsberg, seconded
by Commissioner Holdt.
[11:18] Seeing no questions or comments, all in
favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?
[11:24] Okay, Sheriff, that one moves.
[11:26] All right, second one, same scenario.
[11:29] This is going to be the evidence-based
programming grant,
[11:34] asking that $676 be moved from said line
to the,
[11:38] to the appropriate line that's listed in
the budget amendment.
[11:45] I think I know what he's going to say.
Consent.
[11:48] I thought of it about the time we said
aye. So we'll do this one.
[11:52] Basically, that goes to the Budget
Committee in their consent agenda,
[11:57] and then it'll go to full commission if
they vote for it. Commissioner Sumner?
[12:02] That's it.
[12:03] That's it.
[12:04] Okay.
[12:05] Okay. So, so a motion to send this to the
Budget Committee As a consent
[12:11] item is what we're looking for here.
[12:14] Motion by Commissioner Holt, second by
Commissioner— did you—
[12:20] Commissioner Romsberg. All in favor? Any
comment?
[12:24] He still wants—
[12:25] Oh, you still want to talk?
[12:26] Yeah, I just, just briefly, I, you know,
explain the consent agenda.
[12:30] Those, those are for routine business
items, you know, that we have,
[12:34] and it doesn't necessarily need to be a
separate resolution.
[12:38] It helps us to kind of keep the meeting
flowing and goes a little quicker with
[12:43] flowing and goes a little quicker with
that
[12:43] since it's just a routine business item.
[12:45] So anything that's a routine business item
will go to consent.
[12:49] If it hits— if the budget amendment hits
fund balance,
[12:52] then we typically vote on that separately
as a separate resolution.
[12:56] Just want to let you know. Thank you.
[12:59] Some things like insurance recovery and,
you know,
[13:02] those kind of things that just are simple
or it doesn't cost the taxpayers anything,
[13:07] It's just moving money or accepting money.
So, okay.
[13:10] So we have a motion and a second. All in
favor say aye.
[13:13] Aye.
[13:14] Any opposed? All right.
[13:16] I have a couple lights on.
[13:17] Okay, we got a couple lights on.
[13:19] Winston Harlan.
[13:22] Commissioner Harlan.
[13:23] My question is on the consent.
[13:25] Is there like a max amount of money before
it can be consent?
[13:33] Commissioner Summers?
[13:33] It's, it's, it's basically if it hits fund
balance, pretty much.
[13:37] If it's just like— it could be any amount
of money if you're transferring it just
[13:42] from one line item to the other,
[13:44] but if it hits the fund balance where it's
not been budgeted before, then it,
[13:49] then it, then it doesn't, you know, then
it's not a consent agent— consent item—
[13:54] consent agenda item.
[13:55] So if it's— doesn't matter how much it is,
it just matters what how it,
[14:00] how it lands on the, on the, on the
ledger.
[14:03] Okay. Okay.
[14:04] This is money that we've already had in
our budget.
[14:07] It just needed to be moved from one line
to another line.
[14:10] And it, with it being a grant, it needed
to go through budget.
[14:14] Okay.
[14:14] And the commission.
[14:15] Okay.
[14:15] All right.
[14:16] Thank you.
[14:16] All right. Another light. Commissioner
Mullin.
[14:18] Thank you, Chair. Sheriff, pleasure to
meet you formally.
[14:23] My experience is 13 years prior to law
enforcement.
[14:27] I'm used to looking at these monthly
reports.
[14:30] My question to you comes from the
dispatched calls answered.
[14:35] You got a number of 3,120 in there.
[14:37] How many of those are actually dispatched
versus officer-initiated action?
[14:43] And what does your time consumption look
like for deputies?
[14:48] It, it would be both of those.
[14:50] It would be a call received, whether they
called our dispatch directly, uh,
[14:55] if we receive the call from Murray Ecom
911, or if it's a traffic stop.
[15:00] It's a call for service.
[15:02] Can we, uh, look at the CAD and have those
reports break down those call for
[15:07] service types so we can see what your
deputies are dealing with on a daily
[15:13] basis?
[15:13] We can, we can break that.
[15:15] I mean, I don't know if you want
everything as far as, uh, Broken down?
[15:19] I mean, some could get very minute, but,
uh, sure, or, you know,
[15:24] your top 3 or 5 or something like that.
[15:26] I just want to know what the ground troops
are dealing with, right?
[15:29] Yeah, chaos.
[15:31] Well, you can summarize it like that, but
we'd like to see details. Thank you.
[15:35] Okay, Commissioner— oh, Commissioner Holt,
one minute.
[15:39] You got a question real quick?
[15:41] Yeah, Commissioner Doby— I mean, Councilor
Doby. Sorry about that.
[15:45] That's all right, Chairman. Thank you.
[15:47] I just had a real quick question, and this
might be for Chairman Summers,
[15:50] but is this something that both of these
budget amendments can go to consent,
[15:54] you think?
[15:54] Yes. Okay.
[15:56] Okay. So maybe we have to vote on that
too.
[15:57] You mean go back to the first one?
[16:02] I think what we can probably do is pass
this and then say send them both to budget
[16:09] amendment.
[16:09] Okay.
[16:10] Or I'm sorry, consent. Sorry. Motion to
send both to consent.
[16:13] All right. Motion by Commissioner Holdt,
seconded by Commissioner Romesburg.
[16:17] To send both the budget amendments to the
consent agenda on budget.
[16:20] All in favor say aye.
[16:21] Aye.
[16:23] Any opposed? All right, thank you.
[16:25] Yes, sir.
[16:26] And Commissioner Mullen, uh, also to
follow up that, that's going to be, uh,
[16:31] your civil deputies that serve in civil
process.
[16:35] I mean, it's anything that a deputy
touches that, that is catted up,
[16:39] that they have made or attempted to make
contact with, uh,
[16:44] with Turn Commissioner Mullen back on.
[16:46] Sure.
[16:47] I guess my concern was just the overall
calls answered.
[16:51] Like I said, were those officer-initiated
actions or actual calls for service that
[16:58] were called into E911 or otherwise?
[17:00] That's what I'm saying. It could be
initiated by a deputy.
[17:05] It could be initiated by a citizen calling
to our dispatch or
[17:09] Murray E911.
[17:12] Yes, sir.
[17:12] You good, Commissioner Mullen?
[17:17] Yes. Okay.
[17:18] All right, Commissioner Holt, you turned
his light off.
[17:22] Okay.
[17:23] Oh, I'm sorry. All right, Sheriff, you got
something else?
[17:27] You all have a blessed evening.
[17:29] Oh, all right. Thank you. All right,
Highway Department, Mr. Ken McKee.
[17:40] Good afternoon, Chairman.
[17:41] Yes, sir. Welcome.
[17:42] I have a few things on my agenda for
tonight.
[17:46] I guess we'll start with the budget
amendments.
[17:51] The first one is for $4,267.40, uh, sale
of scrap metal.
[17:57] And 2 consent agenda, so we'll say that up
front.
[18:02] I need a motion to send this to budget and
their
[18:07] consent agenda to accept the $4,267.40
into your
[18:12] general fund.
[18:13] Uh, it goes to a specific line item.
[18:17] It goes to the line item you had to
approve.
[18:19] Um, oh yeah, that's all right. We go—
we'll send it to budget, right?
[18:25] Okay.
[18:26] All right, motion.
[18:29] Commissioner Holt.
[18:29] Seconded by Commissioner Romesburg. All in
favor say aye.
[18:35] Aye.
[18:35] Any opposed? Okay, that one goes to
consent agenda.
[18:39] The next one is a budget amendment in the
amount of $13,915.48.
[18:44] It's, uh, insurance recovery where
somebody ran over one of our
[18:49] guardrails.
[18:50] Okay, this will go to the consent agenda
on the budget. Need a motion.
[18:56] Commissioner Romesburg. Anybody second?
Commissioner Harlan. All in favor say aye.
[19:03] Aye. Any opposed? All right, that goes to
the budget consent agenda.
[19:10] Uh, all right, got a big one here.
[19:13] Uh, the next one is a budget amendment in
the amount of $351,883
[19:19] Uh, that should have been a capital
carryover from prior year.
[19:24] And, uh, that goes to consent as well,
Commissioner Summers? Okay.
[19:28] And that's just clean up last year's
budget, moving it forward,
[19:32] right?
[19:33] Okay.
[19:35] Okay. Uh, motion please. Commissioner
Holt.
[19:39] Second, Commissioner Harlan. All in favor
say aye. Any opposed?
[19:46] All right, one more.
[19:48] The next one is a budget amendment in the
amount
[19:52] of $466,394, and that's their state aid
money.
[19:57] Okay. All right, this consent also. Okay,
so I need a motion.
[20:02] Commissioner Romsberg. Commissioner Harlan
seconds that.
[20:07] All in favor say aye.
[20:10] Aye.
[20:10] Any opposed? All right, that goes to the
consent agenda at the budget meeting.
[20:15] All right, right-of-way guidelines.
[20:16] So, uh, right now, currently,
[20:18] the county doesn't have any guidelines for
people working within the right-of-way,
[20:24] so we have developed a set, um,
[20:27] that I'd like the commission to adopt for
the county.
[20:30] So I'll need a resolution to send this
forward.
[20:34] Uh, can you give me an example? You mean
working in the— like contractors digging?
[20:41] Anybody working in the county
right-of-way,
[20:44] this will make them responsible to the
county.
[20:47] They'll have to provide the insurance
plans, bonds.
[20:50] Okay.
[20:52] All right. Need a motion on that. And then
this would probably go to admin?
[20:56] No, no, this will still go to—
[20:58] There's no money involved, so full
commission?
[21:02] This, this will go to full commission? All
right, let's get a motion.
[21:08] Let's get a motion. Yeah, get a motion.
Uh, Romesburg makes the motion.
[21:13] And a second? Commissioner Holt.
[21:16] All right, Commissioner Romesburg has a
question for you.
[21:20] Ken, this is just a simple question.
[21:22] Like, when I'm on my farm out there, and a
lot of times I bush hog right along,
[21:27] right in the right-of-way, because it goes
25 foot from centerline.
[21:30] Is that— would that be affecting something
like that or not?
[21:33] No.
[21:34] Okay.
[21:36] Thank you.
[21:37] Thank you, Chairman.
[21:37] Yes, sir. Okay. Any other questions?
[21:41] Seeing none, all in favor say aye. Aye.
Any opposed? Seeing none.
[21:47] All right. Inventory list.
[21:49] So I'm required to present the inventory
list to the mayor and then Acknowledge
[21:55] it, I guess, to the commission so that it
gets recorded in, um, Joey's office.
[22:03] So this is equipment, tools, whatever?
[22:05] Yeah, it's just the, the list of our
inventory of equipment.
[22:10] Okay, do we need to vote on that? Okay, we
just accept that list for information.
[22:15] It goes on.
[22:15] Okay, thank you. Uh, Monsanto Bridge
replacement.
[22:19] A lot of people want to hear about this.
[22:22] Yeah, so we bid out the Monsanto Bridge,
[22:27] and we've decided to award the contract.
[22:31] And the amount is $1,655,820.
[22:35] The contractor is Capital Cities
Construction Services.
[22:41] They from Nashville?
[22:47] I'm not sure where their office is.
[22:49] Okay.
[22:49] But they're in the Middle Tennessee
region.
[22:52] Okay.
[22:54] This needs to go to budget, and this will
not go to consent.
[22:58] So a motion to send this to budget?
[23:01] I don't know.
[23:02] The budget's already approved the money. I
have it in my line item.
[23:06] This was just mainly so the commission
would be aware of what's going on.
[23:09] Scott, what do you think?
[23:16] Has it already been approved previously?
We did appropriate the money last year.
[23:21] Yeah.
[23:22] You probably don't need to go back.
[23:26] You're just accepting it?
[23:29] I don't require a resolution or anything.
It's just for acknowledgment.
[23:33] Well, you, you can verify if it, if it
needs to go to budget.
[23:36] We're just accepting the contract.
[23:38] If it needs to go to budget, We can bring
it up back in budget, right?
[23:42] Sure.
[23:43] Okay.
[23:43] We don't have a contract yet.
[23:45] Oh.
[23:45] We've just awarded the bid. We're in the
process of doing the contract.
[23:50] Oh, okay. So we don't need to do anything
yet?
[23:53] No.
[23:53] Right. Okay. All right.
[23:55] All right. Well, thank you for that
information.
[23:58] I know a lot of people would be glad.
[24:00] I mean, you still probably, what, got 6, 8
months?
[24:02] Yeah. Actual construction probably won't
start for 6 months.
[24:07] And then the actual work will probably
take 18 to 24 months.
[24:11] They have to order beams,
[24:13] and there's not really much they can do
until the beams are constructed.
[24:18] And they can't do anything until we have
an actual contract.
[24:22] OK.
[24:23] I want to ask you a question.
[24:25] I know it's not county business, but if
you know, on the Mount Olivet Road bridge,
[24:30] I mean, is that truly going to be a 3-year
deal?
[24:34] Or is it being expedited, or do you— have
you heard?
[24:37] I don't know. That project's being totally
managed by the state of Tennessee, TDOT,
[24:42] right? So I don't know where they're at in
their process.
[24:45] Okay.
[24:48] Uh, Commissioner Harlan.
[24:51] Okay, I have a question, uh, just based on
the bid, the bid process.
[24:56] Uh, I know it's—
[24:58] you said Capital City was the lowest
responsible contractor.
[25:05] And, you know, I'm— I know I'm new at
this,
[25:09] but is there a committee that oversees the
bid,
[25:14] picking the company?
[25:16] I mean, I'm quite sure you are involved,
but what's the process on that?
[25:20] We advertise it for bid. They submit the
bids to the Yes.
[25:25] The purchasing department has a public
opening.
[25:29] So there's— on this bid, there was
probably 200 line items.
[25:34] So the engineering firm then has to verify
that all the math adds up between all the
[25:41] bidders to come up with the total.
[25:44] And then they send it back to us to
determine who we want to award it to.
[25:51] Okay, who is us?
[25:52] I mean, who is the committee?
[25:53] The Cumberland County Highway Department.
[25:55] Okay.
[26:00] Okay.
[26:00] All right.
[26:00] Thank you.
[26:01] Commissioner Romesburg.
[26:03] Ken, just a quick question.
[26:04] On the Montana Bridge,
[26:05] are we going to be tearing the old bridge
down first and replacing it,
[26:09] or are we going to be building it side by
side and take the old one out then?
[26:13] It's rehabilitation of the existing
Structure.
[26:17] So half the bridge is still good,
[26:20] the other half is needing to be repaired.
[26:23] So will the road be closed then for a
while?
[26:26] The road's been closed for 5 years.
[26:28] Oh, okay.
[26:29] I didn't realize it. I don't go out that
way. I have no reason to go to Monsanto.
[26:33] I didn't realize it'd been that long, but
wow.
[26:36] Did you need to correct something? No.
[26:39] Okay, Commissioner Mullen.
[26:41] Thank you, Chair. Sir, with that bridge
replacement,
[26:46] you said it's been closed for 5 years.
[26:49] Is rehabilitation based on engineer
recommendations?
[26:54] Yes.
[26:56] So it's a repair versus replace after
being closed for 5 years based on an
[27:01] being closed for 5 years based on an
engineer?
[27:02] Right.
[27:03] Okay. Thank you. Councilor Doby?
[27:10] Yeah, thank you, Chairman. Um, uh, Mr.
[27:12] McKee, do you know, do you know if the
project will last longer than a year?
[27:17] Doug— I was just talking to Doug about it.
[27:19] He said that was just one stipulation to
look out for, for us.
[27:23] Yes, the project will last more than 1
year.
[27:25] Okay.
[27:27] Um, okay, he said we don't have to unless
the project will last longer than 1
[27:31] year. I asked him If we have to send a bid
through budget, he—
[27:34] that was his response.
[27:35] So we should send it?
[27:38] That's, that's my read on it.
[27:39] Yes, sir.
[27:40] Yeah, I don't think that shouldn't be a
problem.
[27:43] All right, so let me get a motion to send
this to budget. Commissioner Holt.
[27:48] Commissioner Harlan seconds it. All in
favor say aye.
[27:51] Aye.
[27:52] Any opposed? All right, so that moves on
to budget.
[27:55] All right, that's all I have on my agenda.
If anybody else has any questions No.
[28:02] Okay, thank you.
[28:02] Thank you very much.
[28:03] All right, uh, Emergency Management,
[28:07] Jeff Hardy. You still got a skeleton
[28:12] crew?
[28:12] Yes, sir.
[28:13] All right, Mr. Hardy's got a
[28:17] PowerPoint presentation for
[28:21] us.
[28:33] Good evening, afternoon.
[28:34] Um, so we submitted our monthly report.
[28:37] Be glad to answer any questions regarding
the monthly report.
[28:41] Seeing none.
[28:45] All right, uh, some things that are not on
the monthly report, uh, just as a recap,
[28:50] um, we told you guys the other night we do
have a team In Texas,
[28:54] they're about a little more than halfway
through their deployment cycle right now.
[28:59] They're scheduled to come home on the 13th
of this month.
[29:03] I talked to them this morning.
[29:05] They're healthy, they're well, they have
all the resources they need and then some.
[29:10] They were bragging that they got some good
Texas brisket the other night,
[29:14] so one of the locals cooked for them.
[29:17] So they're, they're fat and healthy and—
Enjoying it and rubbing it in my face.
[29:22] What's the status of the fire?
[29:23] Um, so last I'd heard yesterday, uh, a
little over 90,000 acres still burnt.
[29:29] Uh, they're at about 57% containment.
Texas has had several other wildfires jump
[29:35] Texas has had several other wildfires jump
up.
[29:35] They had one yesterday.
[29:37] It was about 500 acres that they were able
to handle outside of this fire.
[29:43] They've got quite a few going right now.
So it's hot and dry down there.
[29:48] You know, it's hot and humid here. It's
hot and dry there.
[29:52] So they're looking at about 100,
[29:55] 110-degree temperature with a humidity
level of less than 20%.
[29:59] Okay.
[30:00] So super hot, super dry. And so
everything's a big tinderbox right now.
[30:04] But right now, the Tennessee team, the
Tennessee Task Force team that's down
[30:09] Tennessee Task Force team that's down
there,
[30:09] the strike team, they're slated to come
back on the 13th. So they, uh, they're
[30:14] back on the 13th. So they, uh, they're
good.
[30:14] Uh, they're, they're getting rest, they're
getting plenty to eat.
[30:18] Uh, so, and they're, they're working hard.
They're, they're representing us well.
[30:23] Um, so I wanted to just refresh on that.
Uh, next, uh, that's not on the agenda.
[30:28] I just wanted to touch on the Murray
County Fair. Uh, we had a great fair.
[30:32] Uh, we couldn't have done it without all
of our partners.
[30:36] Um, the Sheriff's Department showed up and
showed out.
[30:39] Uh, Fire Department was amazing. EMS was
there with us.
[30:43] If you didn't get around at the fair, I
challenge you to come see us next time,
[30:47] the next fair that we have. See what we
put into it.
[30:51] See what resources we're devoting to the
fair to make sure that people have a fun,
[30:56] safe time.
[30:57] It was good.
[30:58] It was a good event. It was hot.
[31:00] We had several medical emergencies while
we were out there,
[31:04] but they were all quickly handled and no
major catastrophes.
[31:08] Unlike the state fair, Wilson County Fair,
who had some mechanical failures,
[31:13] we did not. So everything went well, went
according to plan,
[31:18] but we couldn't have done it without our
partners. So big hats off to them.
[31:23] They make everything work well.
[31:25] So with that, if you will indulge me,
[31:27] I know we've got several new commissioners
and there's a budget amendment.
[31:32] Yes.
[31:33] I know we have a budget amendment on our
agenda tonight,
[31:37] but I just quickly wanted to cover our
radio project to make sure that everybody
[31:44] radio project to make sure that everybody
was
[31:44] on the same page going forward and that it
was as transparent as possible.
[31:51] So if you guys will indulge me for a
minute. This has been a long, lengthy
[31:57] minute. This has been a long, lengthy
process.
[31:57] We've been going on 5 years now.
[32:01] Right, Sheriff?
[32:02] 18 months.
[32:03] Um, so what we're doing is we're upgrading
and changing all of the infrastructure
[32:09] for our emergency radio communication
system for all of public safety in Murray
[32:14] County. So it's not just buying some
radios and putting them in patrol units
[32:20] radios and putting them in patrol units
and
[32:20] fire trucks and calling it good.
[32:22] We're building new tower sites, we're
running fiber lines, we're running Uh,
[32:28] we're doing microwave shots from tower to
tower,
[32:31] and there's a lot of work that goes into
that on the back end.
[32:35] So we're building the infrastructure for
the future.
[32:39] We're trying to make sure that it's as
future-proof as possible.
[32:43] And so part of that is upgrading our
dispatch consoles through 911.
[32:48] So, uh, this is kind of just a snapshot
what their dispatch screens look like.
[32:54] These are some of the old legacy things.
[32:57] We have so far replaced all of the
consoles at the dispatch centers,
[33:01] and we're working currently at upgrading
all of the fiber connectivity to all of
[33:07] them so that they have a connection to the
Nashville core.
[33:11] So you, you reference dispatch centers?
[33:14] Yes, sir.
[33:15] Plural?
[33:16] Yes, sir.
[33:17] So is that private information?
[33:19] No, sir, it's not. Uh, so we have 3
dispatch centers.
[33:23] We have 1 PSAP, which is Murray County
911.
[33:26] They take the 911 calls, and they dispatch
Columbia Police and Fire,
[33:31] Murray County Fire, Mount Pleasant Police
and Fire from that center.
[33:36] If it is a medical call,
[33:38] they roll the call or roll the information
to Murray Regional EMS.
[33:43] Murray Regional EMS, their ambulance
service, has their own dispatch center,
[33:48] and they dispatch there. Sheriff's
Department's the same way.
[33:53] They have their own dispatch center out at
Lawson-White.
[33:57] And so— We've got 3 separate dispatch
centers,
[34:01] and so this will connect them all so that
they will have connectivity to the radio
[34:07] system. One of the things that this system
does is it is there's a computer system
[34:13] backbone to it, not like the old computers
that had crystals in it and you had to
[34:19] tune it, right? We've gone long ways away
from that.
[34:22] Everything's computer-based now,
[34:25] so this allows us to have a really solid
connection. With a microwave shot backup.
[34:31] So we have multiple redundancies built
into it and allows us to have multiple
[34:37] into it and allows us to have multiple
ways
[34:37] to communicate from our dispatch centers
to our folks in the field.
[34:42] So just a quick overview. This is a quick
diagram.
[34:46] If you'll look and see the circles are
where our towers are.
[34:50] Now, That's a network of towers built
throughout the county.
[34:54] The green lines represent microwave shots
that are already in place.
[34:59] Those are up and functioning, but not—
we're not totally online yet,
[35:04] but those lines are set in stone.
[35:07] The blue lines with the red X through,
[35:10] we don't have those set in place because
we're waiting on that top left one,
[35:15] that top left circle, that tower site is
in the Hampshire community,
[35:20] and we're going to get to that here in a
minute.
[35:24] And we need to address some things with
that one.
[35:27] But you can see the blue squares or blue
squares with the yellow lines.
[35:33] Those are dispatch centers.
[35:35] The yellow lines represent that fiber
connectivity,
[35:38] so they're able to talk to the radio
system,
[35:42] which allows them to talk all the way
across the state of Tennessee.
[35:47] So, really brings us to the 21st century.
So, here's some more pictures.
[35:52] A lot of this is gibberish.
[35:54] I don't expect anybody to really get into
the details of it,
[35:58] but this is kind of how our fiber backhaul
works, right?
[36:03] And so, that just represents the 3
centers. CPWS is providing us the fiber.
[36:08] And then it goes to Nashville through an
AT&T line.
[36:12] So we've been actively working on all of
that.
[36:15] On top of that, we've been working on all
of the codeplug development and fleet
[36:21] mapping. So basically,
[36:23] those are big terms for we've got to
figure out which order all of the radio
[36:28] channels need to be in, because each
agency has a different need.
[36:33] So When you look at all of the different
agencies and even inside in each agency,
[36:39] agencies and even inside in each agency,
a—
[36:39] the sheriff has a different need than an
SRO officer.
[36:43] The SRO has a different need than the SWAT
commander.
[36:47] So we have to build each one individually.
[36:50] That's a lot of work that goes into
programming all of that.
[36:55] It's not a simple thing. And then fleet
mapping.
[36:58] So we're working with all of our public
safety partners and the school system on
[37:04] timeline on when we can install all of
this equipment into their apparatus and
[37:10] this equipment into their apparatus and
their
[37:10] vehicles with minimal downtime, right?
[37:13] That's a, that's a huge challenge when you
have officers and deputies on the road
[37:19] every day. It's hard to take a fire truck
out of service for days on end when we
[37:25] have to install radio equipment.
[37:27] We can't take school buses off the road to
install radios.
[37:32] So we have to work through all of that and
schedule all that.
[37:36] So that's a big piece of what we've been
doing in the background.
[37:41] So let's talk about the sites for a
second.
[37:44] So up here, this represents all of the
sites that we will have.
[37:49] Either our equipment on or the state's
equipment is on it and we have access to
[37:55] equipment is on it and we have access to
it.
[37:55] So those top 4, Hampshire, Coleoca,
Columbia, Coleoca, Fire Station 30,
[38:00] which is Lecia, those are all being worked
on. The yellow ones are not there.
[38:06] They haven't been constructed yet.
Anything in green is already constructed.
[38:11] So steel in the sky, building is set. We
have power there, we have fiber there.
[38:17] All of that is already done.
[38:19] The 2 outstanding is the Hampshire one and
the one at Lecia.
[38:24] We struck a deal with the state.
[38:26] They are funding 100% of the one at Fire
Station 30.
[38:30] We own the property, we will own the
tower, we own the building,
[38:35] we own all of the equipment. They're
paying for it.
[38:38] Okay.
[38:40] It benefits the state because of THP,
TDOT, all of those.
[38:44] When you look at their map,
[38:46] there was a huge hole between Murray and
Giles County down to the state line where
[38:51] they didn't have radio communications.
[38:54] So this benefits them,
[38:55] but we get the benefit of it covering the
eastern part of Murray County.
[39:00] The one in Hampshire is the last one that
we are fiscally responsible for that we
[39:06] have to pay pay for. We have most of the
money, if not all of the money for that.
[39:11] Let me go— we'll get into that.
[39:13] So just some more information about what's
already there.
[39:17] So this is the one in Culebra. Here's a
picture of that.
[39:21] This is what the building looks like.
[39:23] So all of these buildings are precast
concrete structures that can withstand a
[39:29] pretty significant storm.
[39:30] These towers range anywhere from 200 to
300 feet in height. depending on location.
[39:36] They all have backup generators with
multiple ways to continue functioning
[39:41] multiple ways to continue functioning
should
[39:41] they need to. So this is what the inside
looks like. They don't let me in there.
[39:47] Jeremy, my radio tech,
[39:48] said I'm not allowed to take my pipe
wrench back in there anymore.
[39:53] He gets real nervous when I show up and I
have a pair of dikes in my hand.
[39:58] But that's what it all looks And so you
can see,
[40:01] if you're familiar with radio systems,
[40:04] the black boxes on the left side there
towards the bottom of that rack,
[40:09] that's the brains of the unit, right? It's
essentially— it's called a 6-pack.
[40:14] It's 6 computers that run the system,
right? And they're all working in tandem.
[40:19] And then you have some network switches in
the middle,
[40:23] and then you have some repeaters on the
far right-hand side.
[40:27] Okay.
[40:29] And you can see from that picture,
[40:32] we have a lot of room for expandability in
the future.
[40:35] So we can expand the system as the
community keeps growing.
[40:40] Here's the Columbia site. So just again,
it's a lot of the same.
[40:44] They look very similar, and they're done
that way on purpose.
[40:49] That helps cut down on maintenance and
upkeep and all of those things.
[40:54] This one was in conjunction with the City
of Columbia.
[40:58] We signed an MOU with the City of
Columbia. That is technically their tower.
[41:03] It is our building. It is all of our
equipment on their tower.
[41:08] And we've signed a legal MOU with them
that allows us access to that.
[41:13] The site in Mount Pleasant, very similar.
It is near a water tank.
[41:17] The difference with this one is there is
quite a bit of land up there at the top.
[41:23] That allowed us to build the water tank
far away from their infrastructure.
[41:29] So if they get to the point where they
need to expand or maintain their tank,
[41:34] do anything with it,
[41:36] what you can't see in this is that tower
is actually outside of their fence.
[41:41] It's in a separate fenced-in area. So
we're a good 50 to 75 feet from their
[41:47] we're a good 50 to 75 feet from their
tank.
[41:47] Okay.
[41:51] Again, Fire Station 30 is yet to be
constructed.
[41:55] All of the steel for the tower, the
building,
[41:58] all of the other equipment that goes in it
is on site. We have it. We're ready.
[42:04] We're waiting on the state to finish the
studies, the environmental studies.
[42:10] Once they finish the environmental
studies, they'll start construction.
[42:15] We anticipate the environmental studies to
come back in the next couple weeks.
[42:21] So this is the one that is a little bit of
our issue right now.
[42:26] So originally when we started this
process,
[42:29] the general plan was to put this site
adjacent to a county—
[42:34] Murray County Water System water tank.
[42:37] And that was the the game plan from the
get-go.
[42:40] Murray County Water System had voted to
approve that. They did have some
[42:46] approve that. They did have some
questions.
[42:46] We felt very confident answering all of
their questions,
[42:51] but it was in close proximity to their
tank.
[42:54] Recently, we received a letter from their
attorney that said, "Hey, listen,
[43:00] we know we agreed to it, but we're not."
Real fond of you guys building this here.
[43:06] There's a lot that goes into this, so we
reconvened and we talked about it,
[43:11] and we looked for alternatives that we can
solve the problem.
[43:16] One of the challenges faced with building
it where we had originally planned is we
[43:22] only had a 50-foot by 50-foot area to
build this tower and building.
[43:27] We can fit it on there, but the
construction piece of it leaves a lot to
[43:33] construction piece of it leaves a lot to
be desired.
[43:34] It raises a whole lot of challenges with
the current property owner's current
[43:40] property. Realistically, we need— we would
need to buy more property.
[43:45] We dealt with— we brought Robert into the—
Robert Caldeiro into that conversation.
[43:51] The mayor was in that conversation. And so
we started looking at other alternatives.
[43:57] What alternatives? What we came up with is
less than a quarter mile down the street,
[44:04] there's a parcel for sale.
[44:06] We don't own the parcel that we would be
putting this on per the plan as it stands
[44:12] today. The proposal is to buy the piece of
property down the street. It's 3 acres.
[44:18] It's within 10 feet of elevation.
[44:21] To what we currently are, so we feel very
confident.
[44:24] We've talked with all the engineers at
Motorola.
[44:28] We feel very confident that we won't have
any issues moving it a quarter mile down
[44:34] the street. At the end of the day, Murray
County would own the property,
[44:40] the building, the tower, every bit of it,
and nobody can kick us off.
[44:45] If we build it where it currently was
planned to be built,
[44:49] we don't own the property. Murray County
Water System owns the property.
[44:55] So that lies a challenge.
[44:57] If they need to service the tank, if we
need to service the tower, if we grow,
[45:03] if we need to expand, if they need to
expand, there's no room to do so.
[45:08] And it boxes us in. So that leads us to
the last agenda item is a Budget amendment
[45:14] to purchase 3 acres of property down the
street from where we originally had looked
[45:20] at this. The price tag on it is $150,000.
[45:23] It's a local property owner, local farmer
that owns the land.
[45:28] He came down on the price and met us at
$150,000 for these 3 acres.
[45:33] It would allow us to own the property,
build on the property. We can fence it
[45:39] build on the property. We can fence it
off.
[45:39] We can do whatever we want with it at that
point.
[45:43] and give us the ability to expand in the
future if we need it.
[45:48] The budget amendment shows 2 things on
there. The total will show $320,000.
[45:53] It is not $320,000. Let me make that
perfectly clear, because when I saw that,
[45:59] I had a slight heart attack.
[46:01] And the finance director and deputy
finance director clarified to me it's
[46:07] finance director clarified to me it's
moving
[46:07] money, $160,000, from debt services to
Capital and then spending the money from
[46:13] capital. So that's why it shows the total.
[46:16] The total amount for the piece of property
is $160,000.
[46:21] So that's the budget amendment. Be glad to
answer any questions.
[46:25] I know that's a lot of information,
[46:28] but I wanted to make sure everybody was up
to speed.
[46:32] Some of you have heard this spiel for the
last several years,
[46:37] and I appreciate your patience. We just
want to do it right from the get-go.
[46:42] Okay.
[46:45] Attorney Delvis.
[46:46] Thank you, Chairman. I just wanted to make
a comment.
[46:49] I've been working with Director Hardy on
this,
[46:51] and I think he's been very thorough and
diligent in his analysis with the
[46:55] diligent in his analysis with the
different
[46:56] options that are sort of laid before us.
[46:58] And so I've, you know,
[46:59] I just wanted to sort of speak to the fact
that this was looked at in a very
[47:03] intelligent way, I think, and that from a
legal standpoint,
[47:06] this seems to me to be the sort of the
clearest path forward to allow us the
[47:11] autonomy we need and also to kind of not
obstruct us from like a zoning and
[47:15] obstruct us from like a zoning and
building
[47:15] standpoint as well. So I just wanted to
say, uh,
[47:18] that there was a lot of time spent looking
at this.
[47:21] So, um, that's it.
[47:22] Thank you. Thank you.
[47:26] Commissioner Mullen.
[47:26] Thank you, Chair. Uh, Director Hardy, is
that $160,000—
[47:31] is that equitable to the property
appraisal?
[47:34] Has that property been appraised?
[47:37] Um, Mark, has that come back yet? There— I
know they were working on it.
[47:42] I have not seen it come back,
[47:44] but that's something that obviously we
would need to make sure that that property
[47:50] appraises for that amount. I don't think
it should be a problem.
[47:54] And then beyond that $160,000, what is the
total build-out of that tower?
[47:59] Um, each tower, rough Rough estimate,
because each one's a little bit different,
[48:05] we're looking at about $1.5 million,
[48:07] but that's already been budgeted and
accounted for.
[48:11] There may be a little, um, you know,
additional, possibly,
[48:15] just for complete transparency, if we ran
into, you know,
[48:19] a huge rock or something crazy. We haven't
core drilled the property yet.
[48:24] We do have a site walk with Motorola
Today's the 9th? Tomorrow.
[48:28] And so we'll have a site walk with them
tomorrow.
[48:32] That was the soonest we could get out here
with them.
[48:36] But for everything that we've talked with
them, looked at it,
[48:40] we don't foresee any major issues going
forward.
[48:43] We do have some money set aside for
contingencies.
[48:47] So if we ran into a small issue,
[48:49] we do have a little bit of funding to be
able to absorb that into the current
[48:54] budget.
[48:55] Okay. But you were already going to build
on the previous location,
[48:59] so that money's already been set aside?
[49:01] Yes, sir.
[49:01] Yes, sir. So all the construction funds
are already there.
[49:05] We're just trying to buy the property to
go with it.
[49:08] Last question, is the environmental study
still standing,
[49:11] or does that also change with it being a
quarter mile down the road?
[49:15] So we'll have to redo the environmental
study.
[49:18] So we talked— we had to do an
environmental study, FAA study, FCC study,
[49:23] all of that. So the NEPA and SHEPA
studies, all of those will have to be
[49:27] studies, all of those will have to be
redone.
[49:28] The FAA study will have to be redone, but
it's in the same, you know,
[49:32] it's within a few hundred yards.
[49:34] Same airspace.
[49:36] Yeah, it's in the same airspace and
nothing really changes.
[49:39] We do have to jump through those hoops,
but that should be expedited.
[49:42] Thank you, Director.
[49:44] Thank you.
[49:45] Yes, Attorney Dobies.
[49:47] Thank you, Chairman.
[49:48] I just wanted to Sort of touch on
Commissioner Mullen's question regarding
[49:52] appraisals. They're sort of in a weird,
like, interesting area in terms of the
[49:56] like, interesting area in terms of the
law.
[49:56] I think the reason being is they don't
typically like to release appraisal
[50:00] typically like to release appraisal
numbers
[50:00] before a deal is finalized,
[50:02] and I think that's to sort of effectuate
the county to actually make a deal,
[50:06] you know, so that there's not, you know,
[50:08] other parties kind of in the way trying to
buy up that property and adjust the price
[50:12] and conflate things and change things. So—
[50:15] Okay.
[50:15] I'm unaware of sort of the appraisal
aspect of that, but, you know,
[50:19] I don't know if this ties in, Director
Hardy, but, you know,
[50:22] there's a pretty hearty, I would say,
like,
[50:25] inspection aspect of the agreement that
we're looking into that I think provides
[50:29] we're looking into that I think provides
us
[50:29] a lot of credence to make sure that the
property that we need is also, you know,
[50:33] appropriate for what we're trying to do.
[50:36] So, yeah.
[50:37] Commissioner, if I can add into that.
[50:40] So in that agreement with the property
owner for that price,
[50:45] there is a clause in there that allows us
to walk away in the next 45 days should we
[50:52] determine that through engineering that
this is not a viable option for whatever
[50:58] reason. We walk away, and there's no harm,
no foul to either party.
[51:04] And that was courtesy of Mr. Doby.
[51:07] Okay. You done?
[51:12] Yes, sir.
[51:13] Thank you. Commissioner Holt. Jeffrey,
easement and roadway to this tower?
[51:20] Yeah. So neither one of them—
[51:22] neither one of them is an issue because we
have plenty of road frontage.
[51:27] It's 3 acres, so it meets all zoning
ordinances.
[51:31] The other place, the The previous property
at the water tower,
[51:35] it has a right-of-way with the landowner
to the property,
[51:39] and there is no road frontage to it.
[51:42] We would have to buy a minimum of an acre
of his property,
[51:46] which would dissect his property in half.
[51:49] And I don't think that property owner
really wants to dissect his property in
[51:55] really wants to dissect his property in
half,
[51:55] if possible.
[51:56] Thank you, Chairman.
[51:59] Commissioner Romesburg.
[52:00] You know, I know probably a lot more about
what's going on than some people because
[52:07] of my history and everything. And I
support this goal.
[52:11] But I will say $50,000 an acre gives me
some heartburn. It really does.
[52:16] And I just want to make, make that
statement.
[52:20] But, you know, I'm behind you 100% and we
need this. But $50,000 an acre.
[52:25] Thank you, Chairman.
[52:27] Yes, sir.
[52:28] Commissioner Stovall. Thank you, Chairman.
Jeff, I was just checking.
[52:33] I know some of those pictures had propane
tanks and stuff.
[52:37] And propane is pretty high right about
now, I heard.
[52:44] Is there any natural gas pipelines in
those areas that you could connect to to
[52:48] those areas that you could connect to to
use
[52:48] instead of propane?
[52:49] Instead of those propane tanks? Because in
the future it's going to be, I know.
[52:56] Sir, so our current locations, no. They're
pretty remote locations.
[53:01] Most of them are on top of a big hill
somewhere, well off the roadway.
[53:06] So it would not be cheap to run natural
gas if it was available at the road.
[53:12] The good news is the propane runs the
emergency generator.
[53:17] So we typically don't have to fill those
maybe once a year, if that.
[53:23] One of our current sites, we fill it on an
as-needed basis,
[53:27] and we haven't filled it in probably 2
years.
[53:31] So it really, really isn't a huge concern
just because we've got a pretty robust
[53:37] power system there. So it's usually
non-issue.
[53:41] It's just there just in case the power
goes out.
[53:45] Gotcha.
[53:45] Gotcha.
[53:45] Yes, sir.
[53:46] Thank you.
[53:47] Yes, sir.
[53:49] Commissioner Burford?
[53:50] Yes, sir.
[53:52] Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a couple of
quick questions.
[53:55] Sir.
[53:55] What's the footprint required for the
tower and the building and the accessories
[54:02] with it? Ideally, minimum's 100 by 100.
[54:05] We can squeeze it into a 50 by 50 area if
needed,
[54:09] but 100 by 100 gives us ample room to work
around there.
[54:14] One of the challenges though, even on the
100 by 100 platform,
[54:19] is getting the crane in there and being
able to stage equipment and then move the
[54:25] equipment to raise that 300-foot tower.
[54:29] So we, if we only have 100 by 100,
[54:31] that really limits That's how we can
construct it. That takes a little bit
[54:37] construct it. That takes a little bit
longer.
[54:38] It costs a little bit more because we have
to bring in specialized cranes to do
[54:44] that. So that's— does that answer your
question, sir? Yes, sir.
[54:50] My other question is, that's a relatively
small area for 3 acres.
[54:55] Any potential use for the rest of the
land? Whatever you want to dream up.
[55:01] We're open. The property that we're
looking at,
[55:05] not all 3 acres is viable just because of
the terrain.
[55:09] The back probably acre, acre and a half,
[55:13] maybe acre and a quarter is on a pretty
steep hill.
[55:17] Okay.
[55:18] So realistically, there's only about an—
[55:21] about a 2-acre area that we could build
on. on this 3-acre parcel.
[55:27] And that's the parcel that was for sale.
[55:30] That would—
[55:32] I'd kind of echo Commissioner Romsberg
with the land not being viable.
[55:37] That's, that's an awful lot of money per
acre for nonviable property except for
[55:43] acre for nonviable property except for
this
[55:43] one area. But thank you very much for your
work on it.
[55:47] Commissioner Barnes.
[55:52] Hi, Director Hardy. How you doing?
[55:54] Good, sir.
[55:55] How are you?
[55:55] Good.
[55:56] I just have some, some quick questions.
[55:59] If, if this was not to come to fruition,
this purchase is not made,
[56:03] how much longer would that extend the
timeline on trying to get this radio
[56:08] timeline on trying to get this radio
system up
[56:09] and going?
[56:09] Uh, that's a great question, um, and I,
[56:13] I don't have an exact answer for you.
[56:17] Um, I can tell you that my fear is It—
[56:21] if we continue pushing forward with our
current location,
[56:27] that it could come to lawsuits,
[56:30] and that would delay it however long that
would take.
[56:35] Give me an honest belief of timeline.
[56:37] If it didn't go through,
[56:38] how long would it take to find another
property and/or continue with the current
[56:43] property? What type of an extension Would
you expect on something like that if this—
[56:48] 6 months to a year minimum.
[56:49] Another year. Sheriff Rowland, can I ask
you a question real quick?
[56:53] Hopefully you don't
[56:58] have to use them
[57:01] today.
[57:03] Sheriff, how poor is the radio reception
in some of our outlying areas for your,
[57:08] for your deputies?
[57:10] Nonexistent. Several.
[57:11] You take Vestal Hollow, the Bethel area,
you take Hampshire, Cathage Creek and all.
[57:17] I mean, it— we have several just
completely dead spots all throughout the
[57:22] completely dead spots all throughout the
county.
[57:22] So it's—
[57:23] so nothing's changed as far as the
deputies being able to reach the
[57:26] deputies being able to reach the
dispatcher,
[57:27] the dispatcher being able to reach the
deputies,
[57:30] imperative information being relayed to
other agencies that may be responding,
[57:34] or Lord forbid, one of our deputy sheriffs
being in trouble and not being able to
[57:39] tell anybody. Nothing's changed.
[57:41] I think it's pretty imperative that
something move forward. That's all I have.
[57:45] Thank you.
[57:46] Commissioner Cohen.
[57:49] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[57:52] Jeff, I got a question. What is—
[57:54] who maintains the towers and what does it
cost us to maintain them?
[57:58] We maintain them in-house.
[58:00] Right now I have one radio tech that
maintains everything.
[58:04] So we we look at it in two different ways.
One, we have to maintenance the property.
[58:10] So our office maintains the property. We
bush hog it. We weed eat it.
[58:14] We spray for weeds. We do all of that in
house. We take care of every bit of that.
[58:20] The actual tower, the building, the
generator, all of that again,
[58:24] we take care of that.
[58:26] The radio communications equipment because
we're going on the state's. Network.
[58:31] We've got an agreement with TACN,
Tennessee Advanced Communications Network.
[58:36] They maintain all of the computer systems
that are running everything because it
[58:42] benefits the state. So they pay for that
maintenance.
[58:45] We pay for the building, the generator,
the fuel, the fencing, that stuff.
[58:50] And that's all internal to our office, and
I have one guy that does that.
[58:55] Okay, thank you.
[58:57] Yes, sir.
[58:58] Commissioner Morrow.
[58:59] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[59:00] For those of you who think that that
2-acre site might not be viable,
[59:04] let me remind you of one thing. There's 2
kinds of land in Hampshire.
[59:08] There's hills and valleys.
[59:09] If you put a radio tower in a valley, you
get zero signal out.
[59:13] You put it on a hill, you're not going to
have much space to put it.
[59:17] So if you've got 2 acres that you can
build on,
[59:19] that will work as well as anything around
there because there's not much of it
[59:24] there. Thank you.
[59:25] Yes, sir. Commissioner Sumner.
[59:26] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[59:28] Jeff, can you tell everybody the total
cost for this project?
[59:32] I think you didn't mention that.
[59:34] Could you just set— just so everybody
knows what we're talking about here?
[59:39] So originally, 5-ish years ago,
[59:41] the county commission agreed to pay $10
million for the system.
[59:45] About 2 years into the project, we
expanded that by another million dollars.
[59:50] So we've got an $11 million project here.
[59:53] We've expended— and Doug can correct me if
I'm wrong— we're at about $8,
[59:58] $8.5 million so far into this project.
[1:00:01] So in the grand scheme of things, $160,000
is not a very large—
[1:00:05] It's 1.5% of the total cost of the
project.
[1:00:09] So it's not that much of the total cost
there.
[1:00:13] Correct.
[1:00:14] So just wanted to get that out there so
everybody—
[1:00:17] We kind of know what the percentage of
the, of the, of the land, of the,
[1:00:21] of the tower site purchase was in
conjunction with, you know,
[1:00:24] the total cost of the project, because
it's really a minuscule amount.
[1:00:28] If you want to talk about the grand scheme
of the project, that's kind of—
[1:00:32] That's true.
[1:00:33] That we talked about 5 years ago in 2021,
2022, when we funded it, you know,
[1:00:36] it's going to be a game changer for the
whole county, all the,
[1:00:39] all the public safety in the county.
[1:00:42] Absolutely.
[1:00:42] The whole county. And this with
interoperability with other neighboring
[1:00:46] interoperability with other neighboring
counties as
[1:00:47] well as Nashville.
[1:00:48] Yes, sir.
[1:00:49] Thank you.
[1:00:50] Commissioner Barnes.
[1:00:52] I'm going to leave you alone after this
one.
[1:00:54] You're good.
[1:00:55] What's the size of the current water tower
lot versus the size of the property that
[1:00:59] you're looking at right now? I know it's 3
acres, what you're looking at now.
[1:01:03] What's the water tower property size?
[1:01:05] I want to say it's It's 50 by 50, 75 by
75,
[1:01:09] and then they purchased a 50 by 50 area
adjacent to it,
[1:01:13] and that's what they allotted for us, 50
foot by 50 foot.
[1:01:18] And their current site is— it's either 50
by 50 or 75 by 75.
[1:01:23] It's not very big, sir.
[1:01:25] Thank you.
[1:01:33] Jeff, I, I don't see— Commissioner Grooms,
go ahead.
[1:01:40] Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just have a
statement. $8.5 million in?
[1:01:46] Yes, sir.
[1:01:46] You talking about citizen safety?
[1:01:48] Absolutely.
[1:01:49] Officer safety?
[1:01:51] More than ever.
[1:01:52] First responder safety?
[1:01:53] Yes, sir.
[1:01:54] It's a no-brainer. Thank you. Thank you,
Mr. Chairman.
[1:01:58] Yes, sir. Uh, one quick question from me.
[1:02:01] Yes, sir.
[1:02:01] Just because I think it should be asked.
The present owner wouldn't sell 2 acres?
[1:02:07] No, sir.
[1:02:09] Even if we offered him more per acre?
[1:02:12] I don't believe so.
[1:02:13] Okay.
[1:02:14] He, he, um, the, the property behind and
to the side of it, uh,
[1:02:19] is a chert pit that he owns and operates
out of.
[1:02:24] He'd been round and round with building
and zoning regarding some of that,
[1:02:30] and so he deeded off 3 acres and is
willing to sell that.
[1:02:35] Okay.
[1:02:38] Commissioner Combs.
[1:02:39] Jeff, how are you? Good, sir. You? Good to
see you again.
[1:02:43] Yes, sir.
[1:02:44] Being intimately familiar with towers,
owning some myself, And this is just—
[1:02:50] forgive my ignorance, and I know you
wouldn't want to do this probably,
[1:02:55] but is it possible that you can lease out
space on your towers to gain more income?
[1:03:01] Absolutely not. When you do that, you run
the risk of dealing with nonpayment.
[1:03:07] You have the potential for other people to
interfere with our public safety
[1:03:13] infrastructure. This is critical
infrastructure to protect not only our
[1:03:18] infrastructure to protect not only our
citizens but
[1:03:19] our first responders.
[1:03:21] And while I can see the financial value in
doing so,
[1:03:25] I don't think the risk is worth the
reward.
[1:03:28] Are there some—
[1:03:31] now I understand about frequencies and
bleedover and things like that.
[1:03:36] Is there any avenue that would be low
risk?
[1:03:39] And just something— I just thought it was
something to consider. Yes, sir.
[1:03:44] We've talked about that.
[1:03:46] That would need to be addressed through
the land use policies the county has as
[1:03:52] the land use policies the county has as
far
[1:03:52] as cell towers and those type things.
[1:03:54] There was some conversation a while ago
about us putting stuff on cell towers,
[1:04:00] but again, those things change hands very
quickly and ownership And then who owns
[1:04:06] it, who has access to it. And we're
talking critical infrastructure.
[1:04:10] Um, you know, again, you know, buying this
piece of property, building a tower,
[1:04:16] we own it, we control it. Um, and nobody
can tell us different.
[1:04:20] Well, I agree with that.
[1:04:22] Um, thank you for what you're doing and
thank you for your time. Yes, sir.
[1:04:27] Yes, sir. Seeing no more lights,
[1:04:30] I'd like to ask for someone to make a
motion to send this to budget.
[1:04:35] Commissioner— we did already have— we
already had a— we did not have a motion.
[1:04:41] already had a— we did not have a motion.
Okay.
[1:04:42] Commissioner Romsberg, and a second would
be Commissioner Mullen.
[1:04:47] Not consent, you're correct. This will go
to the budget for their consideration.
[1:04:53] All in favor say aye.
[1:04:55] Aye.
[1:04:56] Any opposed? It moves forward.
[1:04:58] Thank you all very much.
[1:04:59] Thank you for Thank you for taking a few
minutes of your time tonight.
[1:05:02] I greatly appreciate it. Is there any
other questions, sir?
[1:05:04] Oh, I'm sorry, Commissioner.
[1:05:07] I have an unrelated question, so I was
waiting for you to get through that.
[1:05:11] Jeff, a few years ago, uh, when we were—
15 of us were first new commissioners,
[1:05:16] you folks were good enough to let us know
what you do for a living and the equipment
[1:05:21] that you do and how you do your operation,
and we got some CTAS credit for that.
[1:05:25] We've talked about this before.
[1:05:27] Would you be willing to do that again for
this group?
[1:05:30] Absolutely. Several have asked for that.
[1:05:33] We've looked for— we started looking for a
date that would be conducive to that,
[1:05:39] probably this winter, maybe before
Christmas, if that's acceptable.
[1:05:44] That's perfect. Yeah, sometime in the
winter.
[1:05:48] For the commissioners, we're working on—
we, Lisa, We're working on a couple,
[1:05:54] couple projects that may be able to give
us full credit for the year.
[1:06:00] I would highly recommend that we do the
one that Jeff does.
[1:06:05] Of all the classes I've taken, the CTAS
classes I've taken, most in Nashville,
[1:06:11] because it was local,
[1:06:13] but it was probably the most informative
class that we attended.
[1:06:18] Thank you.
[1:06:19] We know the people, you know the
equipment, you know what goes on up there.
[1:06:22] There's a lot goes on up on that top of
that hill that nobody knows about.
[1:06:25] Yes, sir.
[1:06:26] Those funny little people that work up
there.
[1:06:31] Thank you, Jeff. Thank you, Chair.
[1:06:33] Yes, sir. Mr. Holdt. Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
[1:06:37] I just wanted to address— speak if you
can— just wanted to address this
[1:06:43] can— just wanted to address this
committee.
[1:06:44] And the other commissioners to be upfront
and let everybody know this fine man is my
[1:06:51] son-in-law. And I think of him as a son.
There you go.
[1:06:55] So, so I'm just trying to be upfront.
[1:07:00] Thank you, Chairman.
[1:07:00] Yes, sir. Thank you, Jeff. I believe
that's all of it.
[1:07:03] Thank y'all very much. Thank you, Dad.
[1:07:10] Thanks, Dad.
[1:07:11] Murray County Fire Chief Periut.
[1:07:13] Good evening. We submitted our
[1:07:19] report. We included last month
[1:07:25] and also the last 12 months.
[1:07:33] If you have any questions on that, I'd be
happy to go over it.
[1:07:36] If you don't, Deputy Chief Schatz has a
little presentation.
[1:07:40] Okay, move forward. See no lights.
[1:07:44] Excuse me.
[1:07:45] Uh, good afternoon. Uh, just our normal
monthly, uh,
[1:07:48] we try to run through just some of our
incidents, uh,
[1:07:52] for the month and just give you our run
numbers.
[1:07:55] Uh, for the month of August, uh, we made
251 incidents.
[1:07:58] I believe that's the first time we broke
250 calls in a month.
[1:08:02] You can just see the year-over-year call
volume,
[1:08:05] 1,797 year-to-date through August 31st,
compared to last year was 1,383.
[1:08:10] August 3rd, just commercial vehicle
rollover on Snow Creek Road in the Santa
[1:08:15] rollover on Snow Creek Road in the Santa
Fe
[1:08:15] community. August 5th,
[1:08:16] we had a vehicle extrication on New
Lewisburg Highway at Kinzer Lane.
[1:08:20] I think Chief Prude—
[1:08:22] it almost happened like directly in front
of him on his way home from the fire
[1:08:27] station. So just glancing head-on
collision there.
[1:08:30] August 7th, we had a house fire on Steve
Drive off Williamsport Pike.
[1:08:34] Multiple cars in the front of the driveway
or in the front of the home.
[1:08:39] There was a high chance of someone being
in the home.
[1:08:42] There's a passerby that reported the fire.
[1:08:45] We requested mutual aid immediately from
the City of Columbia.
[1:08:49] It's outside of our auto aid agreement
with them where they're automatically
[1:08:53] dispatched. So they immediately sent
engine company and battalion chief.
[1:08:58] Their engine and our engine showed up
simultaneously, went to work,
[1:09:02] just worked really well together,
seamless. Just a couple pictures there.
[1:09:07] August 8th, we had a head-on collision on
Pulaski Highway near the Giles County
[1:09:12] line. Had, I believe, 6 patients,
[1:09:14] a total of 3 ambulances transported about
4 people from that incident.
[1:09:18] August 10th, had another commercial
vehicle rollover. This one was on I-65.
[1:09:23] 65 at the 40-mile marker.
[1:09:25] Good thing about this is, uh,
[1:09:27] I was in a really bad spot as far as like
visibility and those new TDOT trucks
[1:09:32] arrive very quickly, the help trucks that
are outside of the metropolitan areas.
[1:09:37] And so they're going all the way to the
state line now.
[1:09:40] And so we had 2 of those show up in a, um,
as soon as we requested them,
[1:09:45] they're there immediately and they're
showing up even faster now.
[1:09:49] Um, so that's been a big benefit and a big
safety for our responders.
[1:09:53] Both of us, law enforcement on the
interstate,
[1:09:56] having those help trucks set up and get
traffic off of it. So it's been nice.
[1:10:01] August 10th, New Lewisburg Highway near
Sevi Heights had a motor vehicle accident
[1:10:06] rollover. Elderly female was trapped in
there and we extricated her.
[1:10:10] Brick Heights Road on August 10th had a
camper fire.
[1:10:14] Again, vehicle in— is a permanently
occupied Camper, not really supposed to
[1:10:18] occupied Camper, not really supposed to
happen,
[1:10:19] but it's how it is. And there was a
vehicle in the driveway,
[1:10:23] so they were reporting that there was
somebody possibly inside.
[1:10:27] Our members arrived, forced entry, and
luckily nobody was inside there.
[1:10:31] Middle August, 5 of us traveled to Idaho
and did a final inspection on our boat.
[1:10:36] It was provided by the Gary Sinise
Foundation.
[1:10:39] It was a grant that paid for the entire
boat.
[1:10:42] It's just, it's already changed the way we
operate on the Duck River with an inboard
[1:10:47] jet, so we're not tearing up props and
stuff anymore.
[1:10:51] But it's a completely different boat than
what we're used to,
[1:10:55] a lot of different maintenance things.
[1:10:57] So they went through the entire
maintenance,
[1:11:00] how to break down all the filters and all
that,
[1:11:03] and then took us out on the river and
showed us how to operate it properly
[1:11:07] showed us how to operate it properly
because
[1:11:08] it's a different boat than what we're used
to operating.
[1:11:11] So August 14th, we had an interagency
water supply training with Columbia Fire
[1:11:16] Department. I think both up at emergency
management and at their Station 3 off Bear
[1:11:22] Creek Pike. Just something that we're
doing monthly or multiple times a month
[1:11:26] doing monthly or multiple times a month
with
[1:11:27] Spring Hill, Columbia, Mount Pleasant,
[1:11:29] and that you'll see in a little bit how
that's already paid off.
[1:11:33] Same day, grass fire in Cathy's Creek in
the Hampshire community.
[1:11:37] Uh, had a vehicle fire on Mikey Court and
Cullyoca.
[1:11:41] Uh, just quick shout out to the 911
dispatchers.
[1:11:44] They were dealing with a subject on the
phone, uh, on that incident that was, uh,
[1:11:49] pretty abrasive, um, asking, you know, uh,
where— when we're going to be there,
[1:11:54] his house was going to catch on fire.
[1:11:56] And they, they really took a berating on
that one.
[1:11:59] So, uh, our 911 dispatchers don't get, uh,
enough credit, but They do a great job.
[1:12:04] Had a low-angle rescue on Carpenter's
Bridge Road. This is actually the Duck
[1:12:09] Bridge Road. This is actually the Duck
River.
[1:12:10] Had a staircase and an elderly person fell
down a metal staircase down to the
[1:12:14] river's edge. So just did a low-angle rope
rescue and set up a landing zone for air
[1:12:20] evac. August 17th, I-65 at the 48-mile
marker.
[1:12:23] Had 2 subjects trapped in a vehicle that
was overturned and the roof was flattened
[1:12:28] down pretty Pretty, pretty low and, uh,
just removed both sides of the vehicle,
[1:12:33] landed a helicopter on the interstate for
that one.
[1:12:36] Uh, next day, August 18th, on the
interstate, uh,
[1:12:39] I was actually at our pre-bid meeting for
the fire station at Marcy Jo's for 431.
[1:12:44] So we were at Carter's Creek when this
incident came in.
[1:12:48] Um, this was just inside the city limits
of Spring Hill.
[1:12:51] Uh, but again, the volume of fire, uh, we
have tankers.
[1:12:55] Yeah.
[1:12:55] You know, to bring the water.
[1:12:57] So we initially dispatched 5 tankers,
responded to the incident.
[1:13:01] They shuttled about 15,000 to 18,000
gallons of water.
[1:13:04] And due to the amount of fire and the heat
of the day, the decision was made.
[1:13:09] We added 2 additional engines to the
incident and our ladder truck.
[1:13:13] They set up on the south end of the
incident and laid out about 1,800 feet of
[1:13:18] incident and laid out about 1,800 feet of
hose
[1:13:18] to a hydrant. Um, and supplied about over
50,000 gallons of water, uh,
[1:13:22] to the incident, which allowed—
[1:13:24] the Spring Hill personnel were pretty
strapped or pretty exhausted at that
[1:13:29] strapped or pretty exhausted at that
point.
[1:13:29] You know, they've been treating patients,
uh, and, you know,
[1:13:33] just pulling hand lines and everything in
the middle of the day on that nice—
[1:13:37] I think the pavement was a day old. So
pretty hot out there, uh, for them.
[1:13:42] So it gave them a good break and we were
able to mitigate the incident much,
[1:13:47] much quicker. August 18th, that same day,
[1:13:49] had some 2 subjects changing a tire on the
side of New Lisbonburg Highway,
[1:13:54] 3:30 in the morning. Jack fell and they
were both trapped underneath the vehicle.
[1:13:58] Hmm.
[1:14:00] Rescue got there and they lifted the car
off of them, and luckily they were,
[1:14:05] I believe, non-critical. Vehicle rollover,
Dotson Gap on August 19th.
[1:14:09] We had 4 personnel attend swift water
training in East Tennessee.
[1:14:13] Uh, on the Hiawassee River. So this is the
highest certification they get.
[1:14:18] They already went to 1. And so they spend
3 days over on the Hiawassee River.
[1:14:23] So we got 4 additional trained personnel.
They do night operations. It's a long day.
[1:14:28] They do all day Saturday and then all
through the night, uh,
[1:14:32] till the wee hours of the morning
training, uh, doing all their night
[1:14:36] training, uh, doing all their night
operations,
[1:14:37] boat work, um, all that kind of stuff.
[1:14:39] So, uh, vehicle extrication on Clara
Mathis Road.
[1:14:42] August 20th, this was a vehicle that was
impacted actually at Industrial Park,
[1:14:47] traveled several hundred yards to the
front of a business down the road,
[1:14:52] and we extricated that person and they
were flown to Vanderbilt and some serious
[1:14:57] injuries. Parsons Bend Road brush fire,
[1:14:59] that was I think about 4 or 5 acres that
they had there on that fire.
[1:15:04] Carter's Creek Pike had a person They had
to get out of a deep ditch there,
[1:15:08] back up to the roadway, and then they were
flown.
[1:15:11] You can barely see the helicopter, but
they're from the Carter's Creek Fire
[1:15:16] they're from the Carter's Creek Fire
Station.
[1:15:17] It's used pretty regularly for a landing
zone, so that's,
[1:15:20] that's turned out really well. Their large
parking lot there to land helicopters.
[1:15:25] Tractor hay baler field fire on August
25th on Tom J. Hitch Parkway.
[1:15:30] Again, heat of the day, it was like about
3 o'clock in the afternoon.
[1:15:34] It was in the afternoon when this call
came in.
[1:15:37] It was several acres and a couple hay
bales on fire.
[1:15:40] August 26th, Pulaski Highway at
Stiversville Road had one occupant trapped
[1:15:45] Stiversville Road had one occupant trapped
in a
[1:15:45] vehicle. They had non-critical injuries.
[1:15:48] We went to Marshall County, Bryant Station
Road.
[1:15:51] The house was actually only a few hundred
feet into Marshall County.
[1:15:55] There's—
[1:15:57] they initially responded Got there.
[1:16:00] Once they got there, they called for us a
little later into the incident,
[1:16:05] and we responded with some tankers and
some manpower to help them.
[1:16:09] And then another hay baler on fire in a
field on August 31st on Campbellsville
[1:16:14] field on August 31st on Campbellsville
Pike.
[1:16:15] This got about 4 acres. It was
fast-moving.
[1:16:18] Wind was pretty brisk that afternoon,
extremely hot.
[1:16:21] So, and just a few personnel there
mitigating that incident.
[1:16:25] Uh, the cardiac arrests we had this month,
um, uh,
[1:16:28] for sure on one on Bear Creek Pike,
[1:16:31] I just wanted to give the members a quick
shout out.
[1:16:34] They had an airway in, had the AutoPulse
on the patient,
[1:16:38] and had already shocked the patient prior
to the ambulance getting there.
[1:16:43] For sure on that one.
[1:16:44] On the rest of them, I'm not sure about,
but Yeah,
[1:16:48] several cardiac arrests this month across
the county. That is our boat.
[1:16:53] It has arrived and we've been training on
it.
[1:16:56] It'll be lettered tomorrow and we're
really excited about that.
[1:17:00] And we've already put it to use with a
couple incidents already on the Duck
[1:17:05] couple incidents already on the Duck
River.
[1:17:05] And it's just, it's just nice.
[1:17:07] I'd always get anxiety when we get these
calls on the river because we're always
[1:17:13] tearing up props and hitting shoals and
dealing with dealing with that.
[1:17:17] You know, we've explored jet drives, we've
done, we've done it all.
[1:17:22] But having this inboard jet is a game
changer. And it was no cost to the county.
[1:17:27] So—
[1:17:28] How shallow will it travel?
[1:17:30] Well, it'll jump shoals, like it'll jump
out of the water when it has a poly
[1:17:35] out of the water when it has a poly
bottom.
[1:17:36] But they say 3 inches of water is what it
needs.
[1:17:39] But yeah, we've definitely gone across
pretty much no water.
[1:17:43] And it's You know, you just scoot right
across the shoals. So, yep.
[1:17:47] And then I saw something yesterday or the
day before,
[1:17:51] a missing kayaker off the duck.
[1:17:53] Yeah, we— 911 was getting some calls from
some,
[1:17:56] some concerned people that this kayak was
on the river all day and nobody's around
[1:18:00] it. They couldn't find anybody. So some
people were worried about, about the
[1:18:05] people were worried about, about the
person.
[1:18:05] So they went and checked it out, got all
the numbers, ran them.
[1:18:09] I think Shane ran them. from OEM and just
nothing came back on them.
[1:18:13] So luckily the person after the social
media, it worked.
[1:18:16] They reached out to us yesterday
afternoon. We're like, hey, it's mine.
[1:18:20] They broke a paddle and close to dark on,
I believe he said Saturday,
[1:18:24] and just ended up walking through the
woods and calling for a ride on the road.
[1:18:28] woods and calling for a ride on the road.
So.
[1:18:28] But naturally people considered he drowned
or something.
[1:18:32] Yeah.
[1:18:33] Yeah.
[1:18:33] They had, they had concerns.
[1:18:34] Yeah.
[1:18:34] About, about their well-being. So, um, and
I just had one video.
[1:18:39] Um, we had a, uh, we had an incident on
Friday, uh, the downpour we got.
[1:18:44] We, I think, had 4 to 5 motor vehicle
accidents responded to almost
[1:18:48] accidents responded to almost
simultaneously.
[1:18:50] Um, our rescue truck is, uh, is equipped
with an in-car camera.
[1:18:54] Um, not all of our vehicles are,
[1:18:56] but It's something we've been trialing and
just really wanted to, I guess,
[1:19:01] showcase the expertise of our full-time
staff.
[1:19:04] Just compare it to you driving your
personal vehicle and you are used to
[1:19:09] personal vehicle and you are used to
driving
[1:19:10] your own vehicle and you know its
capabilities and limitations.
[1:19:14] In my opinion, us having the full-time
staff, you know,
[1:19:18] this gentleman has driven this truck
thousands and thousands and thousands of
[1:19:23] thousands and thousands and thousands of
miles
[1:19:24] and to hundreds and hundreds of calls.
[1:19:26] So he's, he's very comfortable in it, uh,
[1:19:29] versus like maybe a volunteer that gets in
it once every couple of weeks.
[1:19:34] Um, so in my opinion, I feel like, you
know,
[1:19:37] the money we've been investing in the
full-time staff to have them there and his
[1:19:43] skills and abilities, uh, kept us from
spending $1 million to replace this
[1:19:48] spending $1 million to replace this
vehicle.
[1:19:48] So I don't know if you can play it up
there or not.
[1:19:52] There you go.
[1:20:12] A person's making a U-turn.
[1:20:13] Looks like they're backing up to get out
of their way,
[1:20:16] and then they decide they don't want to
wait.
[1:20:19] And then they—
[1:20:26] And they wanted to outrun him.
[1:20:27] Oh my goodness.
[1:20:28] So, uh, so, um, we, uh,
[1:20:34] We rewarded him Friday.
[1:20:40] We appreciated his, uh,
[1:20:46] his efforts.
[1:20:49] Uh, did you call the sheriff?
[1:20:50] A few, a few, a few jokes.
[1:20:52] Yeah.
[1:20:52] But, uh, definitely a close call. Um, and
just happy it turned out like it did.
[1:20:57] But again, just him being comfortable with
that vehicle,
[1:20:59] knows its limitations and those kinds of
things.
[1:21:02] Luckily it wasn't a vehicle that carries
water where it can, you know,
[1:21:05] cause I think, you know, even talking to
him, he's like, you know,
[1:21:09] I wouldn't have probably made that
abrasive action to the right because it
[1:21:13] abrasive action to the right because it
would
[1:21:13] have turned over, you know, carrying water
that, That's our heavy rescue,
[1:21:16] so it carries all the equipment, but it
doesn't carry water.
[1:21:20] So that also contributed to it. So, but
any questions?
[1:21:22] I don't see any questions. Thank you.
[1:21:26] All right, thank you.
[1:21:29] Commissioner Morrow.
[1:21:29] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[1:21:31] Based on what I've seen from the videos
and from that last little—
[1:21:34] of the video and all the extrications,
[1:21:37] I would say the county needs some kind of
a remedial driver's education Thank you.
[1:21:41] All right. Thank you.
[1:21:45] Thank you.
[1:21:47] Yep.
[1:21:49] All right. That's all the— well, let's
see. We don't have any old business.
[1:21:55] The new business has been moved to the
October meeting. Has anybody else signed
[1:22:01] October meeting. Has anybody else signed
up?
[1:22:02] Mr. Dial? Got one. Is that for the admin
meeting or for the— oh, well,
[1:22:07] we don't need it right now.
[1:22:09] All right, we've got a couple appointments
and announcements.
[1:22:14] Appointment of one member to the Civil
Service Board.
[1:22:18] We don't have anybody yet because she does
not wish to be reappointed.
[1:22:24] Barry Boyd's position. Okay, so will that
come from the mayor's office?
[1:22:30] No, that That will come from safety.
[1:22:32] Oh, so we need to come up with— yeah, so
you guys that are on item B,
[1:22:37] you got to find 3 now instead of 2, right?
Is that what you're saying?
[1:22:42] All right, so we're looking for somebody
for that one, uh,
[1:22:46] and then if anybody's got anybody in mind,
let's bring it up.
[1:22:50] But, uh, we do need to talk to them before
we bring it to the committee,
[1:22:55] make sure they're Uh, acceptable.
[1:22:57] But anyway, the announcement of 2
vacancies on the Civil Service Board
[1:23:02] vacancies on the Civil Service Board
because of
[1:23:03] Commissioner Romsberg and Commissioner
Holt's resignation from the Civil Service
[1:23:08] Board, uh, upon their— can't serve on the
commission and the Civil Service Board.
[1:23:15] So we—
[1:23:17] I guess we'll move that out a month,
right?
[1:23:19] Yeah. Okay.
[1:23:20] All right, seeing no other people, does To
comment.
[1:23:24] Uh, looking for a motion to adjourn.
[1:23:27] Motion by Commissioner Rosberg, seconded
by Commissioner Holt. We're adjourned.