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Good afternoon. I'm about to call this
meeting to together.

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At this time, Carman County Council
special call meeting here at beautiful

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Savannah Lakes Rec complex.
At this time, I'm ask

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Mr. Cook to hand off.

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Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for the
gathering here today. You already know

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the purpose. Ask that I will touch
hearts, minds, souls, and spirits so

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that we can come together and do what's
best for our county and hear our

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residents and the issues that they bring
before us and that we as council can do

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what we can do about those issues. We
thank you for the gathering. We thank

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you for everyone that's here. Bless and
touch all those across this county, this

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state, and this nation. Your son's name
we pray. Amen.

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» Amen.

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To the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for it

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stands one nation under God indivisible
with liberty and justice for all

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Present
>> Charles

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» present

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» David
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we do have a quum at this time. We will
enter our decision item which is

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ordinance 256 and ordinance amending
ordinance 1307 to increase the solid

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waste fee to be paid to the co to the
cost of the management and disposal of

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solid waste generated within the car
county from $80 to $100 per year. This

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is council second. What do I hear?
>> Second and second is excuse me. Any

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further discussion?
I would just mention this fee has not

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been increased in many many years and
majority of you folks have used the

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recycling center. So that waste goes
from there to a transfer station in

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Edill County and then from there it's
loaded on tractor trailer trucks and

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transferred to south of the Savannah
River site in Aken County where

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processing
made sales. So, uh, there's been a huge

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increase in the cost to hauling this
waste those distances, but that's kind

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of why we're asking for a $20 increase
to cover some of that cost. So, all in

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favor of the increase right hand, please
carries.

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At this time, we will be entered into
our town hall meeting. Uh, Mr. Coop want

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to speak. you know, he never shy words,
but we'll get to give you the mic in

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just a second. But I will personally ask
I want to introduce everyone, have

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everyone introduce themselves to you
folks. We don't have our name tags

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tonight. Miss Barnes, I apologize for
that, but we we pull this together kind

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of short notice, but uh I think it's
important everyone, we'll start with Mr.

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uh James. He's our new administrator and
he's not aware, but I'd like for him to

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take about three minutes to introduce
himself since he's the new guy.

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I want to, you know, just been recently
hired as administrator and I'm sure he

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might have a couple words to share with
you folks about how excited he is to be

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here representing county.
>> Mr.

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Board of Mr.
We need to formally adjourn the special

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call meeting before we go into the town.
>> I so move that second.

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» We got a first second. Any no further
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All in favor?

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Now we can do the introduction.

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We going to get this thing over here
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Go ahead.

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» I think I have about 60 seconds left
now, so I'll make this quick. I'm James

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Up Church. I'm excited to be your new
county administrator here in McCormic

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County. Um, the last two weeks, this is
day 12. The last two weeks, I've had the

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opportunity to meet with all of our
department heads. This past week, met

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individually with our council members.
And then next week, we'll be at the

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state conference and after that and
meeting individually with our local

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community groups. So, I'm excited to be
here as part of this town hall. I know

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we have several more scheduled
throughout the county over the next

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couple weeks. And I'll be working with
Crystal to make sure that we're

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communicating as effectively as
possible, sharing this video on social

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media and online platforms to make sure
those who can't attend tonight will

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still have access to the meeting. I will
have cards to hand out at a later time

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and I forward to hearing your comments
tonight, learning more about county uh

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and working with you forward.

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» Good evening. I am Charles representing
district 4 chair. I'd like to say thank

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you for for inviting us out into the
town hall meeting. is great for showing

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how how he cares about the government
and the government is no stronger than

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the people that repres

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the chairman of karma county and I too
as Mr. says, "Want to particularly thank

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the staff and administration and the
residents of this great community for

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allowing us to come before y'all." And
typically in the past, we used to take

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county council meetings on the road, but
because of the technology and we're on

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YouTube and those type of things, we
felt it'd be best to start doing town

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hall meetings uh throughout the entire
county to give y'all the opportunity to

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share with us your issues and concerns.
And this meeting is not about county

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council. You know, it's not official now
that we're out of our official care of

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our official business. This meeting is
for y'all to ask those questions. We

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might not have all the answers, but we
definitely recorded it and working

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together, we will resolve some of the
main issues that this county faces. So,

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thank each and everyone for coming out
on such a hot day and just having a very

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good meeting. Uh I'm looking forward to
it being here with you and for you.

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» Mr. Chairman, I'm very proud and happy
and fortunate to be the district 3

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county councilman.
We may be the smallest district in terms

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of total area, but based on the latest
population counts, we are certainly the

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most numerous. So, I'm very proud to be
here. I'm very proud to represent you

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and look forward to answering your
questions to the best of our ability.

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Thank you.
>> Jackie Brown County District 5. Echo all

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the comments have been said before. Glad
to be here.

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» Definitely want to thank Mr. barns by
setting this up and the technology staff

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that help set the the electronics that
up and don't want to forget them. So,

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she does a great job for us and she I
don't think she's probably got enough to

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hand out tonight, but she took the time
to uh give McConn County government

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things to know list us administration.
uh she's saying on this and please if

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you're interested if you haven't signed
up to get all our announcements and

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alerts, please get this uh from her. Uh
and it tells you step by step how to

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sign up to get every one of the notices
that she sends out for us. uh regular

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meetings, official call meetings, some
of our board meetings, CTC and planning

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and a couple others that she sends out
the notices to the public. And speaking

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of public notices has started is working
very well the public part of our county

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council meeting which is on the third
Tuesday of each night uh not each night

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but each
month uh we give you the opportunity as

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you come in to sign up to speak for
three minutes and that's working out

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real well. Uh we are just we felt the
need to be a lot more transparent. We

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need we need the public's involvement
more. We're very excited about James

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wanting to be seen more out in the
public. And so uh his door is open. I

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have a lot of SLB
uh talent, not only SLB talent and

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expertise calling me wanting to get
involved in the county as an advisory

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positions and those things which we'll
be working on in the near future. Uh can

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make things better. This is a great
We're very proud to uh the process uh

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the process I think we going to like I
said we we did one at uh Mr. W at the

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Delow went real well. So tonight we're
going to try doing I think uh you guys

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can line up at the mic that want to ask
us questions. I ask that you sort of

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keep the questions brief as possible
depending on how many you know how many

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folks you want to ask us. We we well
aware that the number one question that

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people asked over and over again is the
water situation we find ourselves in. We

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don't have a lot of answers. We have
some, but uh there's after we after the

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meeting and the closing part, I've got a
couple ideas I think that we're going to

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try to balance out and see if we can
make a get some better answers than what

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we have here tonight. So, at this time,
we'll start taking questions. This is

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y'all's meeting.
Yes, sir. I'd like for you to just

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please say your name and give us your
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Hello, my name is Ferrer. I'm with
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» I went to the Thank you for taking me
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» I bring to you guys a very important
issue which is our farmers market

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pavilion. Uh I built two farmers markets
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Falls. I needed very little government
money. It was mainly donations from

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organizations and uh a few from
individuals. Uh we have a need for a

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pavilion in McCord County. We started at
door mill 2016. There was my first

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farmers market that I opened before I
started this program. I had four more

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years. I retired. This is my last
infrastructure project in my resume. So

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we have a potential to have 80 by 40
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where the farmers market is right now.
Uh we have a chance to apply for a

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$25,000 grant with the mass which is
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The city promised us something and I'll
go after other big donors and McCormic

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Greenwood Greenville Greenville
Columbia. So I'll be chasing all those

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individuals who believe in local food.
McCormic has driven our farmers market

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region. So we usually have 16 vendors in
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go to Abbyville to Donalds to Donald's
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McCorm became kind of like the hub of
all these members because and most of

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because of you guys at 7 that has been
supporting us so greatly. Thank you so

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very much for all your support from our
farmers market. So with the chance we

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have now to build a 80 by40 pavilion, we
have a chance to double the amount of

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vendors that we have. Just think about
this. You're a vendor produce farmer and

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that's hot 95 degrees F and has
cultivate. You have to water plants. You

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have to do weed. So, it's just not easy.
And then you bring all the stuff to your

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truck and then put a canopy.
>> So, what's your question?

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» You're supposed to be asking a question.
>> This is a telephone. Do you do you have

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a presentation that you can pass out?

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» The question is,
>> do I keep your support?

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» Yes, sir. I think that's an honor. We
have very excited presentation that you

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presented to council and you go back to
YouTube get all his details of what he's

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trying to do.
He takes a lot of pride in his work.

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Next person.

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» I have a few short questions.
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» My first question is I know you rented
the place on 28 and I'd like to know

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what kind of progress is being made to
get that open and what they're going to

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be producing. You're talking about Micro
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building that's laid shallow for five
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» Yes, sir. If you pass I pass by there
just about daily. Uh they poured the

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concrete. There's probably five trucks
out there presently. They're doing the

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electrical, the plumbing, uh that's
those food added a German company who

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signed a contract with. And so it I'm
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Have you heard any updates?
>> They're supposed to be opening in

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October.
>> All right. And what are they going to be

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producing?
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mainly for animal food.
>> Okay. The other question I have is I

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know you sold a piece of property down
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be creating a solar field.
>> That's correct.

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» Have they cleared the land and when do
they expect to plant the solar field?

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» From Mark and Tom. last update that we
got is going to be probably a 3 to 5

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year project to get that in place and
it's all it's out way outside of parks

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for prices road is paper company land
that they own previously and it's a

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great location for it's not like one
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two
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some of the land that you know where
they are. We really just entered into

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agreement.
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power from Little River Electric
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» right?
>> It gets its power for Santi Cooper who

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got together with Stana to build a
nuclear power plant down south somewhere

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that never opened and now has an 8.2
billion dollar debt which is going to be

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paid by the rateayers. Is there any way
we can get out of getting electric from

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Santi Koopa or Little River Little River
Electric so we don't have to pay that

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bill?
Um, South Carolina has a system in which

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areas of responsibility and service are
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commission and the area in which we
reside as been assigned to the Little

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River Electric Cooperative.
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request being taken out from that
service area of Little River, their area

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of responsibility would be so
substantially reduced that their

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viability with continued viability would
probably be in question. So I don't I

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don't think there's um there's much of a
chance at all of getting a different

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provider. Now having said that,
there are other things that are going on

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in the legislature and in the state
house that may revise

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that assignment system,
particularly with respect to the need to

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generate a lot more electric power for
data centers.

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Um that may change in the next couple of
years, but we'll have to wait and see

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what happens and see what what
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Thank you.
>> I do know from a personal friend of mine

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who's actually they have reopened that
project and it started by putting that

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reactor back together. They're going to
complete that project. Now don't ask me

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how they pay for it. I hope it's not
another several billions. But I do know

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because of the needs for power as Mr.
Cook mentioned uh that project has

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started back. It was abandoned but uh
they they are working

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Yes, ma'am.
>> Good evening. My name is Katherine

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Cross. I'm SL resident. I have two
questions. One, um, at some point in the

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past, we've heard that there would be an
engineering um, personnel in the county

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to handle water runoff, grading issues
for new builds. Um, here in SLV, we have

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an architectural committee that used to
review, but they didn't have an

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engineer, so it was back to the county.
Has that position been filled?

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We don't have we're not trying to fill a
position that I'll pass this to Mr. Up

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Church if he's got a data on. We get our
consulting engineering firm to do that

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drainage study for us.
>> But what about every new house that goes

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in that has to have drainage evaluation,
water runoff so it doesn't go on

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neighboring lots? My understanding was
someone had to evaluate them for each

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case.

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The problem the problem that we have
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» is that the builders didn't like the
architectural

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um
review the ACC reviewing drained systems

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in the building. So they went to court
and got an injunction to stop us from

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doing that. Now, the only the only thing
that remains

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with respect to a review of drainage for
individual homes

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is
the issuance of a certificate of

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occupancy by the county's building
department,

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which means that those plans have to go
to the building uh department for

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approval,
and they can only disapprove those on an

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extremely limited basis.
Now, as most of you are aware, we have a

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new development that Capital wants to
build on Garden Drive. Uh that is a um I

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think a 20 unit townhouse development
that is large enough and impacts enough

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land that that approval must go to the
state. Um used to be called DK. I'm not

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sure the appropriate acronym for the new
organization, but has that has to be

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reviewed by uh by DA. Now, if you look
at some of the other legal requirements,

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normally the um the review of that would
be done by the planning commission

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because that normally involves a
reszoning of the land. In this

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particular case, since all the land in
the village is planned development and

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since plan development already includes
um townhouse development because we have

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town houses in the in the village, the
planning commission is uh is probably

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not going to make a decision and doesn't
need to make a decision on on that issue

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because it doesn't involve in

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Having said all of that, if the planning
commission is not going to make a

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decision, then county council is not
going to make a decision. And that that

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really means that council is neither
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are going to have an opportunity to turn
this thing down based on the drainage

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situation.
And um the same applies to individual

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housing units. It doesn't go to the
planning commission. It doesn't go to

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council.
If a certificate of occupancy is issued

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by the building department, then that is
sufficient and there's very little that

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we can do to intervene.
>> So there's nothing we can change in the

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county council guidelines because
there's people that are being not

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myself, but there's people being
impacted with new housing and water

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significantly onto their property. There
is a significant problem with that

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throughout the county, but particularly
in SLB with the amount of development

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that we have going on. The amount of P
properties that are being cleared,

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we've exacerbated the drainage problem
that we've never had until the last

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three, four, five years.
>> So, would that be something to do?

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» We have discussed with the building
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opportunities that we have to to amend
the existing county ordinances. If you

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look at the existing county ordinances,
there is a requirement in the existing

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ordinances for the review of any changes
that are made in the drainage of any

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property in the county
that exceeds three.

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And that and that review that review is
done by the by the

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um the soil and water
conservation district. Now, solar water

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conservation district has insufficient
staff to do that on on a a countywide

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basis. If we were to change that and
reassign that responsibility, for

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example, to the building department and
assign that and and reduce the number of

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acres that we're requiring down to
virtually any property, then we would

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create a problem with respective
enforcement because the building

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department does not have the staff in
order to do that. So even though we can

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change the ordinance, we also have to be
aware of the impact that's going to have

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on our ability to enforce it. It's not
that we're going to ignore the problem,

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but it's something that's going to have
to be taken care of on a longer term

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basis rather than simply amendment or
thanks for your answer. Um my second

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question was having to do with the men
center wondering if it's become a

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sustaining um venue. Does the incoming
rental cover the monthly operational

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funds and personnel or are we running a
monthly deficit? And if so, what's the

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average deficit? And is there a plan to
do something about it if there is a

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deficit? Um, I checked other nearby
venues and they charge more per rental

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for three hours or four hours or per day
and also have extra charges for setup

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tear down or if alcohol is brought in.
There's a fee for that. My daughter

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works at a similar facility and um their
rates are double or higher of what's

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being charged.
There is a plan that's being currently

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reviewed.
Staff is working on reviewing the prices

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for that. We recognize that that's very
low um for this area. Um as far as the

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staffing, the recession was already over
there. So those staff salaries were

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already included in the budget. Um the
rest of it, you know, we're just taking

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it as we come until we can come to a
plan to do that. The facility just

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opened. It's not been done a year. So,
we're working on trying to get those

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things resolved.
>> Does anybody know off the top of your

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head what the monthly deficit is and who
is the county paying for that?

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» Yeah, county is paying for it. It's the
county building.

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» Was there plans before it got built to
cover the operation?

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» There were some plans in place for that
when Columbus was here. But as he's

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gone, we're now having to revamp what we
were doing previously.

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» Who was Columbus?
>> He was the county administrator.

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Thank you.
>> Thank you.

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» Just a brief comment now. Um you
mentioned the drainage. I'd like to

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comment on it. Are you headed to your
seat? Um many folks don't know but Mr.

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Curt Smith, Mr. Cook, myself and Mr.
Tomorrow we are meeting almost monthly

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uh to discuss those issues with uh with
council to representatives of council

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and there we are well aware of the
problem that drainage is creating

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amongst the the homeowners and so it is
high on our part as you heard M cookie

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the solution is not simple uh but we are
discussing We're waiting on this study.

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Hopefully, it's going to help us some.
Uh, like I said, we've got our new

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administrator. We're going to task him
on, uh, trying to resolve some of the

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issues. Like I say, um, there's a lot of
lot sold that you, you know, it's going

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to be a problem in the future and we
don't have those answers yet, but I want

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to assure y'all that we are aware of it.
We are discussing it frequently

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and u actually going to probably I know
Mr. Smith we last time we met we

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discussed a meeting with our building
department and all people being impacted

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calling a special meeting just to start
brainstorm some solutions for that

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problem drain. So know it's not glance
you wanted here but we are aware of it

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and we want to fix it in any way
possible or make it less impact on the

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Mr. Mark,
>> uh Mark, before you make your comment, I

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just want to uh say that
one of the things this council is trying

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to do is to change openness and
transparency to make things more evident

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and to involve our stakeholders. One of
the problems that we had with the

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drainage study, that was a a grant
request that we made to the rural

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infrastructure authority. They provided
us funds to do that study.

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There were strong recommendations at
that time to the county administrator to

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open that process up so that
stakeholders could make substantial

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input into that process to identify the
specific problems that arose. One of the

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reasons that we did that grant was
because we knew we had significant

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drainage problems in the village and we
wanted to have the opportunity to make

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input to that study. Unfortunately,
uh the decision was made to award that

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study to our contract engineers. There
was no input by stakeholders and as a

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result uh we have we have not seen the
final product although I understand that

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it's going to be discussed at the next
council meeting and I'm looking forward

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to doing that. But what we're trying to
do is to change all of the processes

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that are involved so that we make sure
we have the opportunity to do something

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and we get full input from our
stakeholders so the problems can be

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identified as well as potential
solutions.

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» Okay, Mark, change gears on a little
bit. Um, we went through reassessment.

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What I would say is probably the highest
point.

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» So, we we just went through reassessment
I understand this probably isn't

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something

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but
I I contend that we reassess at a point

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in time real estate was at its highest
and it's already come down sales

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even in the village construction slowed
down

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our labor just sold at considerably less
than what the house was worth

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ass.

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» Yes.
>> One of the things about reassessment is

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determined by state. The county has no
control over when that happens. And

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every resident has the right to go to
the assessor and make their case for why

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they believe that whatever their
assessment is is not correct. And

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there's a board that meets um to review
those things. So don't say that there's

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not you don't have any hope of it not
happening. It could happen but you have

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to go through the process to do that.
>> And I will comment to the one thing that

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most people if if you live in McCormack
County and you're a resident of SO is

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your primary residence your assessment
cannot increase over 15% over a 5year

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period. It goes up by about 3 years. So
388 protects us. So the person buying

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the new house next to you at the the
higher rates can his taxes could

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possibly be double what yours is because
you're locked in whatever you purchase

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your house from. you know, every five
years where we do reassessment, there is

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that cap that you cannot go over. And if
you feel that's like Miss Brown said, if

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that's still unfair, it's too high from
when you initially, you know, bought

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your house, whatever, appeal it. Uh he's
he works very good. Uh he doesn't like

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for it to go to the appeals board. He'd
rather resolve it amongst uh you know,

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amongst the residents.
He's been working with us quite some

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times and does a good job. We only have
just a very few, not even a handful that

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go all the way to the to the board. So,
please remember to take that into

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consideration. Yes, sir.
>> Let me just let me just add to that that

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although act 388
2006, which uh mandates the five-year

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review and puts a cap on the amount that
uh a house

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can be reassessed upwards 15%. There is
no limitation with respect to a change

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in the assessment of a property at the
point of sale. So that when that that

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property is when that property is sold,
if it is sold for considerably less than

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the assessment, that sale price will go
into the calculations in determining the

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next five-year assessment. So as those
If if the values of those properties

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drop over that period of time, that'll
take that that will eventually not

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immediately but eventually uh impact the
market. The other thing I might add is

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that with the uh re with the
reassessments being higher,

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there is a roll back that is involved in
that under law, which means that total

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property tax collections
in the county may not increase as a

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result of the reassessments.
So when when you take that into

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consideration, that means that for most
individual taxpayers who are not

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impacted by point of sale, their taxes
are probably not going to increase

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substantially if at all. In succeeding
years, even though that those property

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reassessments are higher,
county is limited by act 388 to the

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amount of increases in tax levies that
it can implement based on increases in

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the cost of living uh the u the CPI and
in the growth of the population. So even

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though your assessments may be um um
inaccurate or high. It's It's really not

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going to affect your property tax, is
it?

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» Next question.

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» Hi, my name is Paula Golden. I want to
thank you for coming here. I really

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appreciate you taking your time and
effort to

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they heard me say that. Um, I uh want to
know if there's possibility of getting

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glass recycling. We do such wonderful
recycling here,

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but I have to take my glass to Georgia
to get recycled and I would like to see

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us have recycling.

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So that's a great question. That is a
tough tough because there's no market

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for recycling.
You can't find anyone can be buying

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ahead.

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» Okay. recycling
at Tri County is looking into all aspect

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trying to find a market to be able to
take on recycling

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if it was tough.
At one time no problem we had

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trying to protect anything

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but now trying to take a lot of our

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So that's why I never

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my comment serving on the board at Tri
County. Uh the cost to to deal with the

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glass and know where to put it. It
presents a major cost to us. I know my

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environmental friends and many of you
are that here it's still where does it

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end up? You know, hopefully not in the
lake. I'm constantly picking up balls

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around my shoreline. Sometimes it really
just disturbs me what people might be

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doing with this glass if we don't do
something with it. But, uh, Mr.

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I can continue to address that issue at
our tri county board meetings.

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» Trad
get more expensive every day.

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» You're going to pay more because a sale
that going to be built down the tree

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road. You talking about 28 million for
mankind.

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as well

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to be
make sure don't get back

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to the ladies to drink water. So that
taking care all that made so expensive

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because

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to then it had to be transferred over to
Johnson

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from Johnson
another 49

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That's just how it is. When we get down
there, that's when they have to be

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putting these
very very

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cause

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to go up
to come down here not the kind

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of moment we want to do what the law

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Next person.

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» We're old friends.
>> Regular. You regular. That's fine. Thank

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you.
>> Hi, my name is Randy Fos.

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I live at 305 Green View Court.
Over a year ago, I started attending

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county council meetings and since that
time, I've met with individual council

422
00:39:49,599 --> 00:40:00,240
members first minute, CBW, and CWS
to better understand the water quality

423
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:05,119
and pressure issues in SLB. Not to
mention the information on the web

424
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:10,000
concerning Calvin Falls.
After gathering information and then

425
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:15,040
submitting a list of questions to CWS,
the county council over the last two

426
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:17,920
weeks, they were responded to this
morning.

427
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:23,200
It has become apparent the
infrastructure in SLV has been taken for

428
00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:28,800
granted over the years.
Council has known of the water pressure

429
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:33,280
problem since the discussion of where a
water tower has been placed for six

430
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:37,200
years.
The recent engineering study by Thomas

431
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:41,200
and Hutton
identifies approximately 20 million in

432
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:46,000
projects
which include the water tower for sob

433
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:52,680
and the surrounding area.
A resident of SOV did a recent water

434
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:52,680
pressure monitoring study

435
00:40:53,440 --> 00:41:02,800
over 20 hours on his property
and showed that the water pressure was

436
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:08,160
in half with at 7:00 in the morning and
another time during the day. I wonder

437
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:11,160
why. You've been watching what section
is

438
00:41:12,079 --> 00:41:19,760
» Magnolia.
>> Right down the road from Chuck, by the

439
00:41:17,359 --> 00:41:24,720
way.
>> And what's interesting, I went out

440
00:41:22,079 --> 00:41:30,960
yesterday morning. I turned my
sprinklers on at 7:00 and I live a mile

441
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:36,640
away. My sprinklers wouldn't work
either.

442
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,640
» We got a problem.

443
00:41:40,079 --> 00:41:48,079
If we can't water our lawn, there
probably isn't enough water at 7:00 in

444
00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:51,680
the morning to put out a fire.
Okay.

445
00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:56,319
So, are we going to schedule when we're
going to have fires?

446
00:41:53,839 --> 00:42:00,560
Can't do that.
I won't spend time going through all the

447
00:41:58,079 --> 00:42:07,720
responses to the questions asked except
one which was it's too soon to put

448
00:42:04,079 --> 00:42:07,720
together a plan.

449
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:16,400
» It's been six years.
Council's had six years and a plan

450
00:42:13,599 --> 00:42:22,720
begins when a goal is identified and is
a living document.

451
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:28,160
Right? We have a goal
clean water and water pressure.

452
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:32,720
There should be a plan with milestones
assigned tasks to individuals including

453
00:42:30,319 --> 00:42:37,280
completion dates which all residents of
a county can see so we can monitor the

454
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:42,119
progress
and I think that's where our new

455
00:42:39,119 --> 00:42:42,119
administrator

456
00:42:43,359 --> 00:42:50,000
some of the task may include residents
of SLB

457
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:55,200
but we got to go lobby
the federal government the state

458
00:42:52,240 --> 00:43:00,960
government and go raise Well, we got
lots of people

459
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:05,480
with a lot of experience and I'm an
sales guy. I love talking.

460
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:15,839
The council needs to become transparent
and overcommunicate.

461
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:20,720
There's that transparency word, Chuck.
Transparent

462
00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:25,520
to the residents of sob. There have been
600 homes added to the water system

463
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:31,119
since the discussions on the water tower
began and we can't wait another six

464
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:34,800
years.
So what's the plan? Which is what I

465
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:39,119
asked you guys about a year ago in
presentation.

466
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:44,640
» Five times.
>> Thank you. Waiting on the answer.

467
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:49,920
That is that is the question I've been
expecting basically all night and

468
00:43:48,079 --> 00:43:56,240
particularly with the situation that we
have in C Falls and I know uh and I

469
00:43:53,520 --> 00:44:02,160
think talking with our new administrator
and with our my colleagues

470
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:08,079
uh you mentioned plan to me my number
one concern or our number one concern is

471
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:14,240
a contingency plan on what happens if we
have immediate failure of Catherine fall

472
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:19,760
water supply. That's critical. I know
the pressures, all this stuff part of

473
00:44:17,599 --> 00:44:25,200
that study that's been do another one of
those times conducting studies that

474
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:31,839
we're paying for that I'm anxiously
waiting on the results. Uh but I feel

475
00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:38,560
that we need to call a immediate board
meeting uh with CPW and find out exactly

476
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:42,560
what they can and can't do to support us
in the future.

477
00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:47,920
some of their representatives here.
They'll be involved. Council will be

478
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:53,760
involved. Uh we need to get in a room
and come up with that plan. If if things

479
00:44:50,800 --> 00:45:01,280
really go a lot worse in K Falls and
they could well, you know, I only update

480
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:07,280
I get is on YouTube or TV and it sounds
like most everyone's quit out there and

481
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:13,920
so I think I'm going ask Mr. Up Church.
He hadn't asked him yet, but We need to

482
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:20,480
also include Avenue because we have
signed on know we started making our

483
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:25,040
almost $40,000 a month payments directly
to them because the money was

484
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:31,200
disappeared in Cal Falls. So they they
are a key player. Uh we need a plan for

485
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:36,800
them what they plan to do with whatever
our legislators. We're meeting with them

486
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:40,720
real soon. Uh we continue to ask them
what's going to everybody's just kind of

487
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:45,520
running around circles and we're not
coming up with that plan. I think that

488
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:49,440
to me right now is the most critical
thing that we need to put together. It's

489
00:45:47,599 --> 00:45:55,200
what happens.
uh if for some reason everyone walks off

490
00:45:53,200 --> 00:46:01,280
the job and the line blows out and we
have no water coming you know from

491
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:08,880
because the way we're set up now we
depend on both CPW and C

492
00:46:05,599 --> 00:46:14,640
was really distribution falls and a lot
of you folks don't know but we do have

493
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:20,560
we do buy some water from Columbia
County on the south end of plantation so

494
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:25,280
you Is that an option to get water? We
we need to look at options finding

495
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:31,839
emergency water supplies from other
places and not depend on

496
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:38,000
fall between those and to disray. So
that's kind of my answer. It's not a

497
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:42,800
very good answer, but we going to work.
James, you want to comment on it?

498
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:46,240
» I think since I've been here, the
biggest thing that we need is a plan,

499
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:49,680
not just for water, but for many other
services that we provide. So, we're

500
00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:53,760
going to get together with those who
provide us water and also those who pay

501
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:56,880
also to provide us water that aren't
currently. Um, but then we also need to

502
00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:00,400
plan out how we're going to pay for it.
It's great if we have a $20 million plan

503
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:04,240
for water, but we have to all get
together and and find the funding. And

504
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:08,400
so, my commitment is we're going to put
together a plan. I feel like every day I

505
00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:12,640
have a council member walk in my office
and talk about what we're going to do

506
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:16,079
with water. Um, some of the water issues
right now are out of our control. So, we

507
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:22,520
need to take control of our situation,
figure out how to That's my favorite.

508
00:47:19,359 --> 00:47:22,520
» Thank you.

509
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:30,640
» The issue,
this is a this is a very complex issue

510
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:36,720
and I'm I'm not going to try to
simplify. Obviously, this is one of the

511
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:40,960
the most serious problems that we have
in the county and particularly in SLE.

512
00:47:39,359 --> 00:47:46,560
If we're going to continue to be able to
market properties here effectively,

513
00:47:44,079 --> 00:47:52,079
we need to have good quality water and
we need to have adequate pressure in

514
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:57,760
order to use that water for the purposes
for which it's intended. We know

515
00:47:55,839 --> 00:48:03,920
based on
anecdotal evidence, people bring their

516
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:08,800
their water filters to county council
that we have water quality issues,

517
00:48:06,319 --> 00:48:12,480
particularly Senate.
But

518
00:48:10,319 --> 00:48:15,839
it's not that we're not doing anything.
It's not that we're not talking to

519
00:48:14,240 --> 00:48:20,400
anybody.
We are

520
00:48:17,599 --> 00:48:24,400
uh we're talking to a lot of people
there. and that there's

521
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:30,000
» there are the voters if you have if you
haven't seen them.

522
00:48:26,240 --> 00:48:35,440
» Um but there are there are legal issues
that are when we asked the question with

523
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:40,559
respect to some of the legal issues
um as to whether or not we can cancel

524
00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:50,240
our contract
with Abbyville and Calvin Falls.

525
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:55,839
Um we probably can based on the uh the
clauses that are in the current contract

526
00:48:52,800 --> 00:49:01,040
based solely on water quality. But there
are other legal issues that are

527
00:48:57,359 --> 00:49:07,920
involved. Uh if you didn't know, we have
money in the bank

528
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:14,960
that we have to we have to maintain
in order to to assure the loans that

529
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:19,839
were taken out by Calhoun Falls to build
their water treatment plant.

530
00:49:17,839 --> 00:49:24,160
and we are the assurityity for those
loans.

531
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:31,760
So if we cancel our contract with Khoon
Falls and they are unable to make their

532
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:36,960
loan payments to USDA for that,
how how how is that going to impact us

533
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:40,400
from a financial standpoint? Are we
going to have to make an outlay? Do we

534
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:46,559
have to buy our way out of that
contract? Uh in terms of sharing there

535
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:52,160
are technical issues, serious technical
issues that are involved in terms of

536
00:49:49,119 --> 00:49:58,160
finding an alternate source for the
water

537
00:49:54,000 --> 00:50:03,040
um capacity, water pressure,
we talk about an SLV water tower and

538
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:08,240
where it's going to be located.
Um if we do all of the things that are

539
00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:14,640
required, and I've had conversations
with Cheryl Daniels and other staff at

540
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:20,720
CPW, they are perfectly capable of
supplying water to the entire county.

541
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:24,720
» Now, to do that,
they have to put on an additional they

542
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:29,520
have to put on add an additional shift,
which means they have to go out and

543
00:50:26,079 --> 00:50:36,319
recruit uh some very scarce technicians
uh which would create a problem. They

544
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:43,839
would they they the their information is
we would have to build a 1 milliongalon

545
00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:48,319
capacity water tower at a place in the
village

546
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:53,040
that would be able to supply water
pressure to the entire northwest

547
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:56,240
quadrant of the county. It's not just
SLV.

548
00:50:54,480 --> 00:51:00,559
» You've got to you got to supply all the
way to Mount Carmel

549
00:50:57,839 --> 00:51:08,559
» in the Abbyville County line. That's
going to take a lot of pressure not just

550
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:14,720
for ISA SLB but for for everybody else.
Um we need to have

551
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:21,040
um engineering studies done with respect
to the size and location of the water.

552
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:26,000
If CPW is going to supply that water and
fill that water tower

553
00:51:23,359 --> 00:51:31,760
um are those mains sufficient in order
for them to do that and we need an

554
00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:37,119
engineering study. We don't know and we
don't know the cost if we have to make

555
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:43,040
infrastructure improvements to do that.
There are obvious financial issues. I've

556
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:47,760
had discussions with a number of people
um our legislative delegation and uh and

557
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:52,880
Billy Garrett who's been very
instrumental in getting even though he's

558
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:56,880
no longer on the legislative delegation
he's been very instrumental in getting

559
00:51:54,480 --> 00:52:02,559
money for us through the legislature.
Billy's recommendation

560
00:51:59,359 --> 00:52:07,040
in terms of funding is that we do a
special tax district.

561
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:10,880
Now,
my response to Billy was, well, if you

562
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:14,880
do a special tax district, that's
probably going to require referendum.

563
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:20,400
Now, what do you think the the the
chances are that SLB is going to pass

564
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:26,240
another special tax district to be taxed
for that? And even if they do,

565
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:30,640
there's no guarantee that we could get
this for within the 8% constitutional

566
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:37,440
limit. So we might have to do another
referendum in order to get the the money

567
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:42,559
through a special tax district. So we're
looking at a variety of sources. For

568
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:49,359
example, RAIA, we could get a $ 1.5
million grant, which would probably fund

569
00:52:45,359 --> 00:52:55,839
about 20% or less of what we need for
that project.

570
00:52:51,119 --> 00:53:02,079
Um, we could get a loan through USDA,
but uh, right now the rural development

571
00:52:59,359 --> 00:53:06,319
loan program through USDA is in the
process of being zeroed out. So, we

572
00:53:04,720 --> 00:53:12,079
don't know whether those funds would go
to that. We could go to the legislature

573
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:19,200
and try to get money through a proviso.
Uh but during the last budget cycle uh

574
00:53:16,079 --> 00:53:25,200
the uh the legislature zeroed out
essentially all the provisor.

575
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:32,160
So when we look at financing to do an
alternate plan, we're not sure how how

576
00:53:28,559 --> 00:53:37,599
that's how that's going to happen. Um
there are organizational issues. If we

577
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:41,839
ban with CPW
>> in order to provide water for the entire

578
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:47,839
county,
that would mean that uh the vast

579
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:53,280
majority of their customers are not
going to have representation on the CPW

580
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:58,800
board of directors. Now, there have been
bills introduced in the legislature in

581
00:53:55,359 --> 00:54:04,240
the past that would enable municipal
CPWs to have repres

582
00:54:01,839 --> 00:54:07,440
from all of their customers, including
customers who are not within the

583
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:13,680
municipality.
I have asked the legislative delegation

584
00:54:09,599 --> 00:54:18,480
to look into that and to make some
progress in terms of getting a bill

585
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:23,359
reintroduced that would provide some
representation to the county. And that's

586
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:28,640
easier said than done. Even if we
provide the opportunity to do that, we

587
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:33,599
still need uh approval from the town of
Corman in order to expand that uh that

588
00:54:31,599 --> 00:54:37,359
representation.
So, we've got organizational issues.

589
00:54:35,359 --> 00:54:42,800
We've also got project planning and
management issues. If we're going to go

590
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:46,960
into partnership with CPW
and the town of McCormick, then we need

591
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:53,599
to work out a protocol with respect to
who's going to do what and where.

592
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:57,680
Um, so there are a number of issues. We
have raised these questions and we are

593
00:54:55,599 --> 00:55:04,240
working on trying to get answers to
them. But before we can develop a firm

594
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:09,680
plan in terms of alternative sources of
water, what we need to do, what how we

595
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:13,920
need to reorganize, how we need to
obtain funding, how we need to obtain

596
00:55:12,079 --> 00:55:19,440
the engineering expertise that is
required to do all of that. It's going

597
00:55:16,559 --> 00:55:26,079
to take a little bit of time.
Miss Cook and just as a comment, he

598
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:30,880
keeps mentioning CPW and he's been the
one meeting with CPW. If you heard me

599
00:55:28,319 --> 00:55:38,720
mention earlier, we have all got to get
in a room together. Uh cuz to hear from

600
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:44,319
them what they can or can't do. Uh and
putting all our eggs in one basket uh

601
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:49,760
could also create a problem for the
future far as water supplies. So, I'm

602
00:55:47,119 --> 00:55:55,440
going to lean more toward alternate
supplies. Uh, it's been brought to one

603
00:55:53,760 --> 00:56:00,720
person that's very familiar with our
water system. He mentioned Greenwood.

604
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:06,799
Uh, we'd be glad to service us. It's all
downhill. Our pressures would be great.

605
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:11,760
So, those type things is what we have
got to come together as a group and come

606
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:17,040
up with a plan. Individually, we can't
answer all these questions and I this is

607
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:22,079
not the place to try to
But that's why I think it's so important

608
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:27,280
uh as the leadership of this county that
we come together with these groups

609
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:32,240
Aville included. Uh we probably won't
get anyone from C Falls and that's fine.

610
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:37,280
We met with them before and
basically not anything. So those are our

611
00:56:35,359 --> 00:56:46,240
suppliers.
the option was probably me Lincoln

612
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:50,559
County would be quicker, cheaper, uh far
as doing,

613
00:56:48,079 --> 00:56:54,799
you know, depending solely on city.
That's just my comment. We're not going

614
00:56:52,160 --> 00:57:00,640
to get into that discussion tonight, but
we are definitely seriously

615
00:56:57,839 --> 00:57:06,079
going to address it shortly as we talk.
Mr. church up church knows that that's

616
00:57:03,599 --> 00:57:10,799
probably his largest sale starting out
shoot and we're excited about what he's

617
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:16,079
going to bring and we're going to get
you some lot better answers so you can

618
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:19,280
bring us a clean filter every month
versus

619
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:24,240
» I'd love to
s

620
00:57:21,599 --> 00:57:28,480
» this
Hutton study

621
00:57:26,559 --> 00:57:34,720
» how much we pay for it
>> the is that which study is it

622
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:39,200
That's the one that um McCorman County
water capacity update December 16th,

623
00:57:37,359 --> 00:57:43,920
2024.
>> How much do we pay for this?

624
00:57:41,839 --> 00:57:49,040
» We can get the amount. Yeah, I can't
recall. I know

625
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:54,280
I know our water director's here. Can
you answer that question right off the

626
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:54,280
bat without

627
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:02,000
» Right. You did that presentation.

628
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:15,599
and he's asking, "Do we know the amount
that we could I as I asked Mr. Up Church

629
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:19,440
just yesterday that I wanted some
numbers on how much money we pay these

630
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,599
folks for these days."
>> Yeah.

631
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:25,599
» And so we're going to get you some
answers because I think it's very

632
00:58:23,359 --> 00:58:28,400
important accountability and
transparency that we haven't been

633
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:33,760
perceived,
>> right?

634
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:39,200
We're on the right track. This continue
trust. I don't like being a politician

635
00:58:36,319 --> 00:58:41,520
saying trust me. That's not a good word.
>> But uh

636
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:45,920
» that's what people in Washington
>> I know say it all the time. So that's

637
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:50,720
why I hesitated, but we want to resolve
this. We want you folks to know what's

638
00:58:48,319 --> 00:58:54,720
going as much as we want to know what's
going on

639
00:58:52,079 --> 00:59:00,160
» cuz we y'all hold us accountable. So
that's why we here today. We going to

640
00:58:57,040 --> 00:59:05,040
continue to do this. Please continue to
come before council. If you want to come

641
00:59:02,559 --> 00:59:10,880
every month and sign up, please do
because squeaky wheel gets

642
00:59:07,599 --> 00:59:17,119
» pretty. I know you do. And we and you're
making you you're getting attention and

643
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:22,000
we here we're recording and we're going
to we're going to work through this.

644
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:26,319
» Yeah. Because the frustration
>> that we're all having here. I'm saying,

645
00:59:24,319 --> 00:59:29,200
but it could be a lot worse and that's
what need

646
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:34,559
» it's going to get worse. We have people
that came from Colorado that live in s

647
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:37,680
and said this is how we started in
Colorado.

648
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:44,880
» I understand but my concern is that we
do have drinking water uh is is highest

649
00:59:41,839 --> 00:59:51,119
on the list to work out this issue if we
have a failure of the cow falls water

650
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:54,079
system. And so that's
>> has been a problem for over six years.

651
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:58,319
» I'm safe.
>> And maybe we should stop building new

652
00:59:56,559 --> 01:00:02,200
homes.
>> We don't want to do that.

653
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:11,359
» Stop building.
>> All right. Thank you.

654
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:14,640
» Uh hold one sec.
Just one thing. When we talk about water

655
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:20,799
pressure, of course, some of that is
predicated too on how much is used, how

656
01:00:17,599 --> 01:00:25,040
many homes are on on the sle what's on
the cold the sack all of those things

657
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:29,359
contribute to low water pressure as well
so council is well aware of that and as

658
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:33,839
Mr. H state that we are looking at how
we can resolve those issues. As far as

659
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:37,920
the studies for Thomas and Hutton, part
of those studies were paid for with the

660
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:43,960
grant. I know they didn't come out extra
county money, but uh we'll get the

661
01:00:39,839 --> 01:00:43,960
information for you and get closer.

662
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:50,640
» Yes, sir.
>> We're good to go. All right. My name's

663
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:55,920
my name's Wes Nim and I'm in Shannidoa.
So, you know, I got the water issues

664
01:00:53,119 --> 01:01:02,160
every day as well. At the last county
council meeting, it was mentioned that

665
01:00:59,119 --> 01:01:08,040
there might be restrictors put in our
water lines. Has that been investigated?

666
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:13,599
» And
survey says

667
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:17,680
» yes. So we're going to get Rico to
answer that. The question the answer is

668
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:22,160
we have investigated that three of those
I believe have been removed at this

669
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:30,599
point. Um I believe there's possibly one
left but it's not in the area in

670
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:30,599
But can you confirm or deny?

671
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:36,440
» Can you speak up? This is water.

672
01:01:38,799 --> 01:01:46,880
» Hey there, I'm Drew Langston. I work
with um so we did some field

673
01:01:43,839 --> 01:01:51,599
investigation on those four pressure
reducing valves. And just for everyone's

674
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:56,640
information, pressure reducing pressure
reducing valves are put in lines to

675
01:01:54,559 --> 01:02:01,599
protect against excessive pressure that
may cause blowouts in the distribution

676
01:01:59,119 --> 01:02:05,040
system. So at one point the engineer
designed the system and said hey there

677
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:11,040
needs to be pressure reducing valves
here. Um we went and looked back at some

678
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:16,799
of the maps that the the county
maintains and three of those four have

679
01:02:14,319 --> 01:02:24,400
been removed. There is one still in
service and it is in the Martin Drive

680
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:28,319
area. Um, so we can if someone is
experiencing low pressure on Martin

681
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:33,200
Drive, we're happy to continue to
investigate that. But we we did confirm

682
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:37,680
on the maps as well as we did some field
investigation back up that those

683
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:40,920
pressure reducing guys are no longer in
the system.

684
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:48,160
» All right. So, I got a question for
Jackie. At the first town hall meeting

685
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:52,480
we had,
>> I talked about you. You know, you have

686
01:02:49,599 --> 01:02:56,000
to go in for
There's a lot of people talking about

687
01:02:54,319 --> 01:02:59,680
me,
>> but you spearheaded putting together a

688
01:02:58,319 --> 01:03:04,559
correspondence.
>> I spearheaded putting together addresses

689
01:03:02,079 --> 01:03:08,079
and information, not a letter.
>> We did not say we would do a letter. We

690
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:12,480
said you guys to write about what your
issues were to those guys.

691
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:15,599
» Interesting. But that's not what we
>> That's not what you understood.

692
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:20,640
» Well, not
the two other people involved in this

693
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:25,839
conversation. So, what can we get done?
Here's the deal. We're trying to get

694
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:32,640
together some type of a letter
to send to our state officials,

695
01:03:28,799 --> 01:03:38,319
governors, uh, state reps, whatever.
Tell them what's going on down here with

696
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:44,000
the infrastructure issues
and invite them to come down here and

697
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:48,720
look at it because I spent 10 minutes on
the web looking at grants.

698
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:56,640
There is insane amount of still out
there. Billions of dollars available for

699
01:03:52,880 --> 01:04:02,799
streets, roads, water, infrastructure,
cell phones, schools, fire departments,

700
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:07,920
EMS, plus a ton more. When I asked at
one of the county council meetings if

701
01:04:04,559 --> 01:04:15,280
anyone was actively researching us, I
was told no. Okay, so one of the deals

702
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:20,480
here is maybe we can get somebody to
help us write a letter and then talking

703
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:26,400
to Kirk. It's going to go out on the
link and we're just going to start a

704
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:31,839
campaign and emailing all of our elected
officials and tell them here's what's

705
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:36,400
going on. Come down here for yourselves.
We got midterm elections coming up in

706
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:40,960
about 15 months,
>> you know, and it's like, hey, take care

707
01:04:39,119 --> 01:04:48,880
of us. Help us out. At least give us
some ideas. Do something for us. So, we

708
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:53,119
need someone to write that letter. I
But maybe somebody out here has a

709
01:04:51,119 --> 01:04:58,079
background in writing something like
that to a politician or a group of

710
01:04:56,000 --> 01:05:04,400
politicians
and asking them, "Hey, here's what's

711
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:09,359
going on. What can you do for us?"
All right. So, Jackie, that explains why

712
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:17,680
you've never replied so much in emails.
>> All right, Bernie, your turn.

713
01:05:13,839 --> 01:05:24,799
I did want to add to that comment that
Mr. Brown submitted. Uh Daniels Daniels

714
01:05:21,359 --> 01:05:31,119
says Dixon is our house rep not far down
the road toward Greenwood has done an

715
01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:35,520
excellent excellent job being our voice
for this little county which he

716
01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:39,440
represents. He's brought what three or
four years ago sheriff I noticed our

717
01:05:37,599 --> 01:05:46,559
sheriff who showed up. Appreciate you
coming tonight. Uh he brought us about

718
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:51,280
$500,000 for new vehicles. Uh so uh
great guy. Give him a call. He didn't

719
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:57,359
have to have a letter. It works. You
blow his phone up. That's And then our

720
01:05:54,160 --> 01:06:03,039
other representative that's uh highly
senior is Senator Massie uh in

721
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:07,839
Edgeville. Call when they're out of
session, blow the phones up. You know,

722
01:06:06,079 --> 01:06:12,640
that's what we do. Every time we see
them, we hit them up. But if it's just

723
01:06:09,839 --> 01:06:17,440
us, you know, we just kind of like a
little squeaky wheel that we need some

724
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:22,000
louder squeaks. So I I just recommend
each and every person not only do the

725
01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:26,240
letter, that's a great idea, but a
personal call goes a long way with

726
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:31,359
someone particularly that might be
coming up for reelection. But uh he's

727
01:06:29,359 --> 01:06:36,160
very sincere. He's not your typical
everyday politician.

728
01:06:33,119 --> 01:06:39,119
» Okay, that's great. I still think no I
still think we need to get as many

729
01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:43,599
people involved as we can
>> and the letter

730
01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:48,000
email call call.
>> Okay. We've got a lot of people living

731
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:53,359
here and if we even get a third of the
folks at the village to contact them

732
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:58,319
once I think they will take notice.
>> Yes sir. That's how it works.

733
01:06:55,119 --> 01:07:01,359
» So can we work with you guys and maybe a
couple folks here at SLB to put this

734
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:02,720
thing together?
>> Yes sir.

735
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:07,440
» Is that possible?
>> Yes sir. Okay,

736
01:07:04,799 --> 01:07:12,599
» one of your representatives.
He needs some assignments.

737
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:12,599
» Oh, there's

738
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:19,359
» I'm getting on on the new another new
guy. I got the new guys down on this

739
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:24,319
season. So, yeah.
>> Okay. So, kind of along the same lines,

740
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:27,440
you and I have had a discussion or two
about focus groups.

741
01:07:26,319 --> 01:07:32,160
» Yes, sir.
>> We've got a wealth of information with

742
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:36,960
people that live here. fantastic
backgrounds, infrastructure,

743
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:42,240
grants,
road repair, small business development,

744
01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:46,880
tourism.
We've got one of the best areas to bring

745
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:52,720
people in as tourists to spend their
money here. Fishing, honey, whatever. We

746
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:56,960
got a dor fishing complex sitting there
empty most of the time. We should be

747
01:07:54,720 --> 01:08:02,400
beating that thing up with competitions
all the time. Amen.

748
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:07,119
when the airport gets built, you know,
fly and fish. It may not take off the

749
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:13,200
first year or two,
>> but the word's going to get out.

750
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:18,239
» Okay. So, we need to get these focus
groups going. So, I've asked you, I sent

751
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:21,920
you an email. I've never heard back.
Have you done anything along these lines

752
01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:25,839
to get this?
>> Mr. Church, could you take that for me,

753
01:08:24,159 --> 01:08:28,560
please? What was our discussion
yesterday?

754
01:08:26,239 --> 01:08:32,400
» Why does the new guy get over? because
I've been waiting on him because I

755
01:08:30,799 --> 01:08:35,920
couldn't deal with our former governor
until I got a good administrator and

756
01:08:34,480 --> 01:08:40,000
that's why we
>> So, you've

757
01:08:38,480 --> 01:08:43,920
talked about this several times since
I've got here. There are some committees

758
01:08:42,239 --> 01:08:50,239
that were talking about creating some
formal, some informal. Um, my before I

759
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:53,440
came here, I worked some in tourism. My
background is in economic development

760
01:08:51,839 --> 01:08:57,759
and so some of those things that you
mentioned are items I already have on my

761
01:08:55,199 --> 01:09:01,600
list. I work with Mr. and the rest of
the council that put those groups

762
01:08:59,279 --> 01:09:05,279
together. Um, you all have lived here
and been involved longer than I have and

763
01:09:03,440 --> 01:09:08,480
so I'm going to rely on you and the
information you provide. I've already

764
01:09:06,719 --> 01:09:11,600
been told that you all have a wealth of
knowledge and we want to make sure we

765
01:09:09,759 --> 01:09:15,759
put all of you together in one room and
figure out a way forward. So, Mr. Hamby

766
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:19,520
has been talking about that extensively.
We need to figure out exactly what that

767
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:23,040
role would be, who those people were
going to be, and then how to assign

768
01:09:21,279 --> 01:09:27,520
them. So, that Mr. Hy has been talking
about that and we will get together.

769
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:33,480
» Do you have a time frame?
I don't want to give you a time frame

770
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:33,480
because here two weeks

771
01:09:33,759 --> 01:09:40,640
before we think about that and I won't
go into too much detail in it tonight

772
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:44,080
but um there will be a tourism committee
that will be put together. We have some

773
01:09:42,319 --> 01:09:48,239
funds that have been coming in to create
a tourism committee and money that can

774
01:09:46,319 --> 01:09:52,159
be spent that has to be spent for
advertising, marketing, other things.

775
01:09:50,239 --> 01:09:55,760
So, your representatives will be
appointing someone to serve on that

776
01:09:53,679 --> 01:09:59,239
committee and we can expand that
informal matter.

777
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:06,800
» I don't know Jack about it, but if you
need another pair of hands, I'm there.

778
01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:13,199
Okay. All right.
So, finally, everybody that's here, this

779
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:17,520
was an a turnout. I was expecting a lot
more.

780
01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:22,480
A lot more. But do you know we have a
county council meeting

781
01:10:20,159 --> 01:10:27,920
the third
>> Tuesday of every month.

782
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:33,440
» You need to come to us because this is
where these guys here from YouTube. It's

783
01:10:30,239 --> 01:10:39,920
a different format completely,
but it's nice to stand up and heard. I

784
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:46,640
mean, we are elected paid off sitting
here and bring stuff to their attention.

785
01:10:43,679 --> 01:10:51,440
let them know what the heck is going on
because I tell you, griping to your

786
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:56,400
neighbor ain't going to get it. Okay?
And man, people know I'm on one of the

787
01:10:54,080 --> 01:11:01,840
committees here. They stop me on the
street when I'm walking my dogs and

788
01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:09,280
start bending my ear. Great. Go to the
council meeting. Bend their ears. Okay.

789
01:11:06,239 --> 01:11:14,800
All righty. So, again, I invite you all
to go there. So, really, I mean, the

790
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:20,080
goal, my goal, and all your goals. Make
this a much I mean it's a great place to

791
01:11:17,199 --> 01:11:25,040
live now. We can make it even better.
And maybe if we can bring a little more

792
01:11:22,159 --> 01:11:32,080
business to downtown McCormick, pull
McCormic out of that where they are

793
01:11:28,320 --> 01:11:37,520
basically listed as being depressed. You
know, there's a 25%

794
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:42,320
poverty level right down the street in
the sun. Wouldn't it be nice to pull

795
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:46,960
that out?
So, anything you can do to help, get

796
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:51,760
involved. That's all I can say is get
involved. Thank you so much.

797
01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:58,000
» I do have a comment for you also about
the talent that's performing tonight and

798
01:11:54,560 --> 01:12:03,360
particularly in this community. Uh it's
just no words to describe what is

799
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:08,719
available. People I get calls all the
time. I'm sure my colleagues do want you

800
01:12:06,560 --> 01:12:14,400
folks wanting to get involved, wanting
to make Carmen County a better place in

801
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:21,199
which to live. And so that's why we are
going to focus uh on these groups. So we

802
01:12:18,159 --> 01:12:25,600
haven't decided. I really personally
don't want to set nominate a bunch of

803
01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:29,920
boards where we have to vote and do
that. But this advisory kind of thing

804
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:35,120
where you would a group of people that
are chosen would meet with whoever the

805
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:40,400
different groups that we put together.
Uh they're very excited about using the

806
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:46,239
potential that exists here. And I want
to go a step further and mention it's

807
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:52,159
not only SLB
uh Modoc Shores where I live. You never

808
01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:57,360
hear me mention it, but there is some
brilliant, brilliant uh business folks

809
01:12:55,600 --> 01:13:03,040
down there. If you've never been through
our own little community, you'll be

810
01:12:59,920 --> 01:13:09,199
amazed. and his plantation
and other other things with him. There's

811
01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:16,159
a lot of lot of talent even throughout
the county there's a lot of experience

812
01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:21,520
particularly sewer I there's some people
that know have had a lot of experience

813
01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:26,800
with and so those are the people we've
got to reach out to get involved

814
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:33,760
uh the comments you mentioned about
coming to our meeting is very important

815
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:39,520
enough enough. We want to hear from
y'all. We want to work together because

816
01:13:36,239 --> 01:13:46,080
I totally agree. Dropped in around the
village a couple days ago. They were

817
01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:50,800
talking about the priority should be of
the business and I agree. I said this

818
01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:54,520
economic one of our most important
economic ven

819
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:07,360
county everywhere I go someone ask where
you from I don't say I'm from shores I

820
01:14:03,360 --> 01:14:15,600
say I'm from county and y'all are from
county we we proud to have those folks

821
01:14:11,440 --> 01:14:19,600
here what y'all brought in the father
that's what I want mentioned, you

822
01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:24,800
mentioned the dorm boat at the city. The
most impressive thing that I witnessed

823
01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:29,760
this summer, I've got the flyer here.
Two volunteers, I want to recognize them

824
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:37,679
tonight, is
Karen Love and Dan Hil put together on

825
01:14:33,679 --> 01:14:43,520
their own to cast for kids. And I showed
up just by accident to that fishing

826
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:49,679
event. And I was getting calls every
time I mention what I saw as people as

827
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:53,920
little kids, handicapped kids, some of
them severely handicapped, getting so

828
01:14:52,239 --> 01:14:59,120
excited about getting a little fishing
rod in the tackle box and going fishing.

829
01:14:56,560 --> 01:15:03,520
And then I know I think the power
squadron. I don't even know who all

830
01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:09,120
think. There's a ton of volunteers. We
had about 20 kids, but I want to have 40

831
01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:16,400
or 50 kids like that fishing next year
at that event. Uh you mentioned at Nor

832
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:23,520
facilities we just requested uh uh new
lighting uh LED lighting. Uh we do we

833
01:15:21,120 --> 01:15:28,400
got a lot of plans to improve that place
has been neglected for quite some time.

834
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:34,080
That is a gold mine and the potential is
there. But there's where just us as a

835
01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:39,280
decision making group. We can't do all
this. We've got to have you folks. And

836
01:15:36,480 --> 01:15:45,120
I'm clean with you. Uh George is sitting
there. he's put together. He wants to be

837
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:52,080
on out of protecting tourism. You know,
he's one of the biggest u well it's the

838
01:15:48,159 --> 01:15:58,800
largest probably on the lake and he's
very proud of it for those that attended

839
01:15:55,679 --> 01:16:04,239
the patriotic celebration. We just an
awesome awesome crowd there. Five or 600

840
01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:10,159
people by land probably several hundred
boats showed up and all 30 minute

841
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:16,000
firework show. Uh, so he has the vision.
We need you folks with the vision to

842
01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:21,920
partner with us and help us make it the
place that we know it can be. I love it

843
01:16:18,480 --> 01:16:25,840
to death. I mean, I've already I know
this is going a bit too far, but I've

844
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:31,760
already made my will out. I'm going to
be cremated. I have a beach on my

845
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:35,480
pocket. Put me there. I'm never leaving.
>> Anyway, thank you.

846
01:16:35,520 --> 01:16:42,640
» Oh, one second.
Before we go on, I just want to make one

847
01:16:40,719 --> 01:16:48,239
comment about the the talent that we
have in the county and particularly SLB.

848
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:52,000
When we were interviewing candidates for
the new uh county administrator

849
01:16:50,480 --> 01:16:56,320
position,
uh one of the questions that I asked Mr.

850
01:16:54,480 --> 01:17:02,239
Upurch and a number of the other
candidates was

851
01:16:59,679 --> 01:17:08,640
under the circumstances when you have
far more things to do than you have

852
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:17,840
staff, what experience have you had with
respect to the use of volunteers

853
01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:22,480
and unpaid experts with respect to uh
doing the staff work that is required of

854
01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:29,520
which we cannot get done with our
existing staff and one of the things

855
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:36,239
that um that I admired about Mr. Pep
Church was the experience that he has in

856
01:17:32,320 --> 01:17:43,920
doing so um I know that Mr. We met with
with M Mr. H up church for his one on

857
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:50,000
oneonone at what 4:00 in the afternoon.
I met with him at um 10:11

858
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:56,400
and one of the things that I presented
to him was a proposal that I had put

859
01:17:53,920 --> 01:18:02,640
together last March
um while we were still in the the

860
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:09,120
interview processes that laid out a plan
as to how we can identify that

861
01:18:05,120 --> 01:18:14,800
professional talent, how we can quantify
the abilities that we have and how we

862
01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:20,880
can put all of that together to use it
to the best advantage to do that staff

863
01:18:17,440 --> 01:18:26,719
work uh for which the county does not
have internal staff. So I think we've

864
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:31,760
made some progress on that. I think it's
something that we absolutely need to do.

865
01:18:29,440 --> 01:18:35,760
We're going to get make some progress
and I think there's a way to do it.

866
01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:40,239
» Yes,
>> Kathy Ross again. Um after hearing some

867
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:47,679
of the discussion I just have a few more
questions comments first to Mr. church

868
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:53,600
and to the lawyer, whoever it is, I
would highly encourage you to try to

869
01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:59,760
break that car contract so we're not
under their

870
01:18:56,239 --> 01:19:06,400
problems. Um, second, I don't know if
everybody here knows the water issues

871
01:19:03,199 --> 01:19:14,719
besides their own problem with, you
know, poor quality or poor pressure. you

872
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:20,719
might take a moment um question um
defining the difference between clear

873
01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:28,719
water the the city system and what's
going on with everybody might not know

874
01:19:24,719 --> 01:19:34,480
so just like a brief over the issues um
and lastly my antennas went up when it

875
01:19:32,159 --> 01:19:41,440
was mentioned to give us a second
special tax district a couple moment

876
01:19:39,120 --> 01:19:46,960
after saying that this was not just an
so issue. It's a county issue for like

877
01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:51,440
the whole upper part. This shouldn't be
a special tax just for

878
01:19:49,679 --> 01:19:58,159
» this
county.

879
01:19:54,239 --> 01:20:03,520
» We just at night we represent our
county.

880
01:19:58,719 --> 01:20:10,760
» Mr. Cook mentioned the special tax for
>> my opinion it should be.

881
01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:10,760
» Thank you. Before

882
01:20:13,920 --> 01:20:19,000
we do anything, we got to do

883
01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:30,800
» we have to look to see what best
the we have because we don't know a

884
01:20:27,120 --> 01:20:34,560
study which said CP can do the job
because

885
01:20:32,320 --> 01:20:41,600
we we have to provide water for the
entire not just one egg.

886
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:46,719
to be able to
provide water

887
01:20:44,800 --> 01:20:54,920
and
work from the surrounding area. We need

888
01:20:50,960 --> 01:20:54,920
we have to sign a contract.

889
01:20:55,840 --> 01:21:02,960
We had borrowed money to do that
to be paid.

890
01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:07,280
We may
find a way to get out. We may still have

891
01:21:05,199 --> 01:21:15,679
to pay pay that
pay that bill as well because

892
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:23,600
» we talking about a lot of cost but that
would stand with you can't make no

893
01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:29,199
decision right now it's up church we be
talking to peoples of

894
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:36,239
you we be talking to people
at the same time in the future be

895
01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:42,719
looking at what's green what county at
What can they do? And I said this like

896
01:21:39,199 --> 01:21:46,880
to have everyone get involved with the
kind of government not like running the

897
01:21:45,199 --> 01:21:54,159
business.
I work in the business. Government is

898
01:21:50,400 --> 01:21:59,920
totally different. So you still have to
follow the rules. You just can't come in

899
01:21:57,120 --> 01:22:06,560
and run as you did when you were on
private jobs. It just don't work that

900
01:22:02,239 --> 01:22:12,920
way. But we still need all expertise
throughout this country.

901
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:12,920
We here in great county

902
01:22:13,199 --> 01:22:22,320
that's a water problem.
The county is working on

903
01:22:19,440 --> 01:22:27,360
it. We're not here to scare nobody
tonight. So I hope nobody get upset. But

904
01:22:25,199 --> 01:22:32,960
then we have to be careful when we use
the water.

905
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:40,000
We fill it up above our
keep this time

906
01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:46,719
our grass. We still want to keep green.
So excess

907
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:50,040
and that's why we
doing that.

908
01:22:50,239 --> 01:22:56,000
Thank you. The attorney and I are
looking into the contract and what can

909
01:22:53,760 --> 01:23:00,960
be done to possibly get out of it. I
know that there's a contract that is

910
01:22:59,199 --> 01:23:05,120
very long and length. You know, I know
we still have quite some years left in

911
01:23:02,719 --> 01:23:08,400
that contract. It's obvious that Falls
is having some issues and so we're

912
01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:14,080
investigating and seeing if there's a
way out. Um at this time this is my 12th

913
01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:17,840
day and I'm still still learning but um
I'm working with the attorney on that

914
01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:21,840
and that is being investigated and we're
bringing in other partners to make sure

915
01:23:19,440 --> 01:23:25,440
that that's being taken care of. On the
other side you talked about

916
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:28,560
communication. That's another thing as
I'm learning the difference between all

917
01:23:27,040 --> 01:23:32,880
the different water systems and who
provides what service and the contract

918
01:23:30,239 --> 01:23:36,960
links to those. I'm working on putting
my own notes and once I get a firm

919
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:40,719
understanding of the current situation,
I'll make sure to share that information

920
01:23:38,960 --> 01:23:44,400
whether it's on Facebook, on YouTube,
Instagram, um whether that's with the

921
01:23:42,719 --> 01:23:48,080
newspaper. I know the newspaper here
today um to make sure that we're being

922
01:23:46,400 --> 01:23:52,159
more transparent. But I encourage you
all come to the council meetings to

923
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:55,520
share share your input, bring your
questions. It was very informative in

924
01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:58,400
the first meeting I went to when people
brought forward questions and I went

925
01:23:57,199 --> 01:24:03,120
straight to the water department to
investigate. So I don't hear your

926
01:24:00,719 --> 01:24:06,480
questions. Sometimes it may for me to
know what issues are in the community.

927
01:24:04,719 --> 01:24:09,679
So, I appreciate your question. Would be
more to be transparent and that's the

928
01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:13,800
thing that I
>> and I'll turn it back to my husband.

929
01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:22,239
» Let me help you out.
>> Let me help you out. CPW does 600,000

930
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:30,719
gallons a day.
>> When they turn the valve on to SLV, it's

931
01:24:25,440 --> 01:24:34,159
1.2 million. Their capacity is 2.5
million a day.

932
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:41,040
» Yes, they have to add
>> 3.5 and put on an additional shift.

933
01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:45,600
» That's not what he told me. So 2.5.
>> They have enough capacity.

934
01:24:42,480 --> 01:24:52,880
» Okay, let me um let me make one thing
very clear. When I when I mentioned a

935
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:58,000
special tax district for SLB,
um that was a recommendation made by

936
01:24:55,600 --> 01:25:03,840
Billy Garrett, not me.
And I told Kelly that uh the chance of

937
01:25:01,280 --> 01:25:10,280
passing another special tax district in
the village um would have about as much

938
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:10,280
chance as an

939
01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:18,719
» Yes, sir.
>> So I have a question would ask

940
01:25:16,239 --> 01:25:25,280
anybody that's here.
I have a question and would ask the

941
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:32,880
wholebody that's here to have the county
council have a meeting here at town hall

942
01:25:29,199 --> 01:25:38,080
every third month so that we know and we
see the results of what we're looking to

943
01:25:35,760 --> 01:25:44,639
have done and what we would like to see
done. So I would like to find out in the

944
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:53,280
audience every third month that they
were here and reporting back to us about

945
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:57,840
the water and the pressure and all that.
>> We will record that. I'm not sure we

946
01:25:56,159 --> 01:26:03,360
that's a decision that we'll have to
make if we want to do something that

947
01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:09,600
quarterly. As I mentioned, we do meet
with Kurt uh almost monthly particularly

948
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:14,480
with issues going on. We need to meet
monthly. Uh we give him updates. He

949
01:26:12,639 --> 01:26:19,840
documents it. I don't know how he
disseminates that information, but

950
01:26:16,239 --> 01:26:26,639
that's a a good way to get it on y'all's
neighbor link. Uh but yeah, more public

951
01:26:24,480 --> 01:26:33,880
uh public needs, but I don't see it
having to be full counsel. Maybe your

952
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:33,880
representatives, which is three of us.

953
01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:41,280
» Yeah.
I think it's a great idea, but I don't

954
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:44,800
want this is a question, you know, I
don't want to answer that question for

955
01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:50,000
us tonight. That's not We need to
discuss how we want to, you know, make

956
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:53,840
be more transparent because you I hope
y'all here

957
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:59,840
that we are serious about getting more
involved, being staying uh our new

958
01:26:57,840 --> 01:27:05,199
administrator will keep me reaching in.
He'll tell you right quick, his door is

959
01:27:02,400 --> 01:27:09,280
open, his phone line, I had a couple
people. I said, "Go ahead and call and

960
01:27:07,040 --> 01:27:15,040
set up an appointment. He's ready to
meet y'all and listen to y'all." That's

961
01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:20,480
we pay him big bucks
with you. And I'll say I'll add to that.

962
01:27:18,560 --> 01:27:23,840
I pretty much have a lunch or a dinner
meeting scheduled with the resident

963
01:27:22,400 --> 01:27:27,440
almost every day for the next three
weeks. And so if you have questions or

964
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:30,639
you want to meet with me, my doors open.
I'll have lunch with you. You can come

965
01:27:28,639 --> 01:27:34,080
to my office. We go to dinner. Whatever
you need so we can address your

966
01:27:32,480 --> 01:27:37,360
concerns. I'm willing to do it. So
weekday, weekend, I'm here to help you

967
01:27:36,719 --> 01:27:42,639
out.
>> Right. It was just a suggestion so that

968
01:27:39,679 --> 01:27:48,560
we as a village see the progress that's
being made. There's a lot of people here

969
01:27:45,679 --> 01:27:53,600
versus a few going to the council
meetings and then as long as that

970
01:27:51,199 --> 01:27:59,360
information is brought back to the
residents. But I think that that would

971
01:27:56,800 --> 01:28:03,840
be just something we see the progress
being made.

972
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:08,800
» Is Mr. Smith here tonight? He's he's
hiding on the back row. We're not going

973
01:28:05,760 --> 01:28:13,679
to let you get by. But you hear that,
you know, we discuss it quite frequently

974
01:28:11,199 --> 01:28:20,239
uh in our meetings. Let's address that
and come up with a very good something

975
01:28:16,880 --> 01:28:24,320
that U will help inform particularly
with the water. We all know the water

976
01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:29,840
and you keep mentioning the village but
the issue if the water fails here guess

977
01:28:27,280 --> 01:28:35,280
what it's going to fail the rest of the
county too. So this is not an isolated

978
01:28:33,199 --> 01:28:42,320
situation that the county finds itself
in. So that's I lose sleep over that

979
01:28:39,120 --> 01:28:48,080
because the lady mentioned and I'm not
cuz only my information comes off

980
01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:54,639
YouTube and we know how YouTube is. But
we sent them almost what $400 to

981
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:59,199
$600,000 a lot of money to pay for our
water and they have no clue where the

982
01:28:56,800 --> 01:29:05,280
money went. They haven't done an audit
in three years. Uh why some people up

983
01:29:02,480 --> 01:29:10,480
there not incarcerated yet? I don't
know. Again, I'm I'm not a speaker

984
01:29:07,760 --> 01:29:14,960
because I don't have facts, but that's
go on YouTube. I know Greenwood Index

985
01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:20,960
Journal is carried some good articles
about the situation, clinical situation

986
01:29:18,080 --> 01:29:26,080
up there. Research it because it it's
not pretty scary. And that's why I

987
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:30,560
mentioned y'all don't hear a lot of
things I'm trying to say, but we have

988
01:29:28,080 --> 01:29:36,960
got if we don't have a contract with
Evanville. We did a little ordinance to

989
01:29:33,440 --> 01:29:42,320
pay our payments directly to them so
that money would continue to disappear

990
01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:48,800
because they threatened what uh two
months ago on a Friday they want to turn

991
01:29:44,400 --> 01:29:53,120
our water off. Uh that that's scary and
so we are paying our money straight in

992
01:29:51,040 --> 01:30:01,360
but we need to get involved with them on
this contingency plan on what happens if

993
01:29:56,400 --> 01:30:10,639
they whole little town collapses. So
that's all mentioning water and sewer

994
01:30:05,600 --> 01:30:15,120
and particularly I know Rico miss upset
with me but I do that at all. I probably

995
01:30:12,560 --> 01:30:21,360
he knows what I'm fixing to do. I'm
fixing to say please

996
01:30:17,520 --> 01:30:27,360
call in all your issues with your water
because he I went and asked him one time

997
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:33,760
about the issues and it was just a very
few. They document every complaint and

998
01:30:31,360 --> 01:30:38,639
that's how they get they can pull trends
and see areas that maybe are being

999
01:30:36,719 --> 01:30:45,040
overlooked that they need to focus more
on. So ring their phones, ringers before

1000
01:30:42,880 --> 01:30:50,159
ours
just being a little facicious there, but

1001
01:30:47,120 --> 01:30:54,880
uh it's very important they document
where these locations are. So if there

1002
01:30:52,800 --> 01:31:01,360
is something that water department can
do in the interim uh they got they know

1003
01:30:58,480 --> 01:31:05,880
where to go. It's not asking much just
call that number and they'll take your

1004
01:31:02,880 --> 01:31:05,880
information.

1005
01:31:06,639 --> 01:31:15,920
For those of you who um are not familiar
or don't attend the public affairs

1006
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:23,840
committee meetings,
uh I would highly recommend that you go

1007
01:31:19,199 --> 01:31:29,199
on the SLB website for those SLB
citizens and residents.

1008
01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:33,920
Scott Warham who's the new chair of the
public affairs committee has brought up

1009
01:31:32,159 --> 01:31:40,080
a website
in which the information from various

1010
01:31:37,920 --> 01:31:46,159
public meetings including the council
meeting and those discussions and

1011
01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:52,239
decisions are are timely posted on that
website. So, if you're looking for

1012
01:31:49,120 --> 01:31:56,560
immediate feedback uh on a lot of things
that are happening in the county, maybe

1013
01:31:54,800 --> 01:32:01,679
you don't find them on the county's
website,

1014
01:31:58,080 --> 01:32:07,360
uh Scott and the the members of the
public affairs committee, uh including

1015
01:32:04,239 --> 01:32:11,920
West Wes Newman and others are going to
these meetings. They're collecting that

1016
01:32:09,520 --> 01:32:16,320
information. They're coming back and
it's going on to the public affairs

1017
01:32:14,400 --> 01:32:20,920
website. So, if you're looking for some
timely information, check that website.

1018
01:32:21,120 --> 01:32:24,360
Yes, sir.

1019
01:32:27,600 --> 01:32:37,000
Um, just show
up. How many before this meeting

1020
01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:37,000
had

1021
01:32:41,040 --> 01:32:46,960
the poor sucker from Colorado been
through this before?

1022
01:32:45,360 --> 01:32:54,840
I'm the guy from Colorado that's been
through this once before.

1023
01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:54,840
So, I can't stress enough to all of you.

1024
01:32:54,960 --> 01:33:03,400
Communication is huge here. Chuck, thank
you for all the responses to the

1025
01:32:59,840 --> 01:33:03,400
questions that we

1026
01:33:05,199 --> 01:33:14,239
just emphasizes more
serious problem.

1027
01:33:12,000 --> 01:33:19,760
It's not right now.
just I see it. I've been through this

1028
01:33:16,960 --> 01:33:27,120
before and all I can ask and pray that
you all do for us here at SLB is

1029
01:33:23,199 --> 01:33:31,920
communicate and have some great ideas
how to do that so that these folks can

1030
01:33:29,360 --> 01:33:41,199
stay more informed and understand
because we are here to do this one. You

1031
01:33:36,560 --> 01:33:50,199
need us to talk to state level.
We'll do it and we'll do it for you.

1032
01:33:44,880 --> 01:33:50,199
Will get you tell us what you need.

1033
01:33:50,960 --> 01:33:58,159
Please open communication and
transparency.

1034
01:33:55,360 --> 01:34:01,159
These folks need that
help.

1035
01:34:02,800 --> 01:34:06,600
But if we don't do anything

1036
01:34:14,080 --> 01:34:21,560
you guys have to make some tough
decisions as this thing gets worse and

1037
01:34:18,560 --> 01:34:21,560
worse

1038
01:34:26,480 --> 01:34:35,360
artificial in the golf course
but those things I've seen

1039
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:40,639
and I've seen the board go through that
process of telling citizens

1040
01:34:38,719 --> 01:34:45,520
we're stuck.
So thank you for being aware for the

1041
01:34:43,840 --> 01:34:52,480
last six years there is a potential
problem. I think it's got to point where

1042
01:34:48,719 --> 01:34:58,560
we would love to come and help you with
whomever it is however it is you need

1043
01:34:55,120 --> 01:35:03,840
done so we can get something
and Dr. I know it's complex. You explain

1044
01:35:01,199 --> 01:35:09,679
a lot of different things that have to
happen and he's correct. Again, I've

1045
01:35:06,639 --> 01:35:14,159
seen this before, but please keep us in
the loop in terms of, you know, you have

1046
01:35:12,159 --> 01:35:18,960
a plan. You have these items that you
have to get accomplished. Show us those.

1047
01:35:17,040 --> 01:35:26,679
Let us know how those are going. So, if
you do need help, maybe we can. But

1048
01:35:22,400 --> 01:35:26,679
please don't sit back and do nothing.

1049
01:35:28,320 --> 01:35:35,159
So, And I'm not here to scare people.
I'm not. Trust me. These guys

1050
01:35:35,920 --> 01:35:42,239
know what they're doing.
It's just we need to get together and

1051
01:35:39,360 --> 01:35:45,239
help you too so that we can get that
money.

1052
01:35:54,960 --> 01:36:03,000
We got to do something and do it
quickly.

1053
01:35:59,040 --> 01:36:03,000
whatever it is you can do.

1054
01:36:05,040 --> 01:36:13,440
» Thank you very much. Yes, sir.
>> Hey, Ron Beach, 306 Andrews Lane. So,

1055
01:36:12,159 --> 01:36:19,120
I'm going to talk about water, but a
whole different

1056
01:36:16,560 --> 01:36:24,080
responsible for repairing leaks related
to water.

1057
01:36:21,760 --> 01:36:27,120
» Where's the leak? Is it between?
>> Well, if it's on the if it's on the

1058
01:36:25,440 --> 01:36:28,719
main, you know, if it's out on the road.
Oh,

1059
01:36:27,520 --> 01:36:31,360
» yeah. I'm saying like on the side of the
road.

1060
01:36:29,280 --> 01:36:35,600
» That's one of those
>> That's one of those situations you have

1061
01:36:33,280 --> 01:36:38,480
to report because we do not we've got
hundreds of miles of lines.

1062
01:36:37,600 --> 01:36:44,639
» Different question.
>> Okay.

1063
01:36:40,639 --> 01:36:49,840
» Who is responsible for repairing those?
What entity in the county?

1064
01:36:46,480 --> 01:36:52,639
» If it's in if it's in the village, it's
county roads, then it's going to be

1065
01:36:51,840 --> 01:36:55,679
county
Well, any water line is going to be a

1066
01:36:54,719 --> 01:37:00,239
challenge. Yeah.
>> Okay. All right. So, I got to tell you

1067
01:36:58,159 --> 01:37:06,320
about something and I and I I guess I'm
not sure who pays for this because

1068
01:37:03,600 --> 01:37:12,639
uh River Drive is near my house in St.
Andrews, near St. Andrews Lane. And I've

1069
01:37:09,360 --> 01:37:18,480
watched this twice on that road where it
was like different spots broke and it

1070
01:37:15,679 --> 01:37:23,199
was repaired three times. I'm from Ohio
and I don't know, maybe things are

1071
01:37:19,920 --> 01:37:28,239
different up there. situation. But when
we repair holes or repair water,

1072
01:37:26,320 --> 01:37:33,840
typically I don't see anybody out there
for a few years. Here, you guys,

1073
01:37:31,360 --> 01:37:37,600
somebody is repairing it, not repairing
it, right? Then it leaks some more, then

1074
01:37:36,320 --> 01:37:40,480
it might go on for a couple more weeks
and then someone else comes out and

1075
01:37:38,880 --> 01:37:45,360
repairs. I've literally seen it on that
road three times.

1076
01:37:43,119 --> 01:37:51,360
And I'm then I'm wondering like, well,
we're losing water. See, nobody's going

1077
01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:57,360
to charge for that. two, who's paying
for that? Am I Am I Are we paying the

1078
01:37:55,040 --> 01:38:01,600
whoever? Is it an employee of the county
to do that three times or is it the

1079
01:37:59,440 --> 01:38:05,840
contractor that does the water system? I
don't know.

1080
01:38:02,960 --> 01:38:10,080
» But basically, when we lose water,
people really get upset about losing

1081
01:38:08,719 --> 01:38:14,719
water. They think the price
>> only you guys don't or someone. Well, we

1082
01:38:11,920 --> 01:38:20,639
do get upset, but what most people don't
realize with these long-term contracts,

1083
01:38:17,520 --> 01:38:28,719
there's minimums, and we don't get
charged extra. We pay a flat rate

1084
01:38:24,719 --> 01:38:34,080
uh for say a million gallons. And if if
we use if there's like a gigantic leak

1085
01:38:31,679 --> 01:38:39,520
and you run way over a million, then
that's when ching the county, the water

1086
01:38:37,280 --> 01:38:45,920
department gets start charging a higher
fee for lost water. So lost water is a

1087
01:38:42,800 --> 01:38:49,920
problem, but if it's a small leak and
we're not pumping the immediately, it

1088
01:38:48,080 --> 01:38:54,639
sounds like to me we're responding, but
we just got a poor line that's breaking.

1089
01:38:52,880 --> 01:38:58,560
» Yeah. Yeah. So this is my real concern.
What I saw there on that one street for

1090
01:38:56,159 --> 01:39:01,760
example, is that whoever is going out
there, it sounds like an accounting

1091
01:39:00,800 --> 01:39:04,560
employee.
>> Yeah, it's got to be the only ones

1092
01:39:03,920 --> 01:39:06,480
authorized.
>> It's not the contractor, right? It's not

1093
01:39:06,159 --> 01:39:11,199
that.
>> Well, we contract our water service.

1094
01:39:09,280 --> 01:39:16,880
Well, look at it. But as far as repairs
go, it's a county employee.

1095
01:39:13,840 --> 01:39:21,600
» Is is the county issues, CSW is managing
the water for the county. So they're

1096
01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:25,199
employee of CW.
>> That's what I was trying. That's a very

1097
01:39:23,040 --> 01:39:30,880
simple answer to what I was trying to
get answer. So CSW is doing. Okay.

1098
01:39:28,080 --> 01:39:33,840
» So is CSW charging you three times when
they don't prepare it right the first

1099
01:39:32,159 --> 01:39:37,600
time?
>> All part of the same thing.

1100
01:39:35,119 --> 01:39:42,800
» Okay. And part of the issue might be one
of the things that we have not talked

1101
01:39:38,960 --> 01:39:44,320
about is how old all of these lines are
throughout the county.

1102
01:39:43,679 --> 01:39:49,040
» No question.
>> And sometimes the repair doesn't take

1103
01:39:47,520 --> 01:39:53,760
» and they have to do something different.
>> Do we have standards that we are there

1104
01:39:52,159 --> 01:39:55,920
procedures that are set up for how that
is supposed to be done?

1105
01:39:54,639 --> 01:39:59,440
» Is that in writing that someone could
send to me

1106
01:39:57,119 --> 01:40:04,400
» because I'd love to see them
>> because uh because I can tell you that

1107
01:40:01,440 --> 01:40:08,320
there's something called the nsf.org
that has a six standard 61 that talks

1108
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:12,719
about the materials.
>> And the only reason I'm getting into

1109
01:40:09,840 --> 01:40:16,880
that is that actually they one of those
uh repairs happen in front of a guy who

1110
01:40:14,400 --> 01:40:21,360
was a pipe header for 40 years and moved
down here and he couldn't be here.

1111
01:40:19,840 --> 01:40:26,400
But he actually watched the guy do the
work. He said it was like watching a a

1112
01:40:23,760 --> 01:40:29,199
child play with a child. So I mean they
they obviously did not know what they

1113
01:40:27,840 --> 01:40:31,840
were doing. They didn't do it right,
which is why they haven't come back

1114
01:40:30,239 --> 01:40:36,400
again because he he didn't do it right
the first time. So I think I' I've got a

1115
01:40:34,480 --> 01:40:40,400
question of I'd like to see the
standards for doing this and and what

1116
01:40:38,480 --> 01:40:43,840
materials you have to use, what
processes they're supposed to follow

1117
01:40:41,920 --> 01:40:47,280
because I don't think they exist. But I
could be wrong. I'd like to be I'd like

1118
01:40:45,760 --> 01:40:50,880
to be right.
>> So I'd like to see that in writing and

1119
01:40:49,119 --> 01:40:54,880
then I'd like to know that there's some
confirmation from somebody CSW or

1120
01:40:53,520 --> 01:40:59,360
somebody that they're following the
standards that are supposed to be used

1121
01:40:57,760 --> 01:41:03,040
because I have a funny feeling they're
not.

1122
01:41:00,960 --> 01:41:06,000
Um, and I'm worried about that only
because I'm paying for it. You're paying

1123
01:41:04,880 --> 01:41:09,679
for it.
>> We're all paying for it. And if it's not

1124
01:41:07,840 --> 01:41:13,840
done right,
then maybe it doesn't happen again for 5

1125
01:41:11,920 --> 01:41:18,000
years, but maybe in 10 years it it
happens again. And maybe if it was done

1126
01:41:15,520 --> 01:41:21,440
with the right process and standards, it
would happen in 25 years that you have a

1127
01:41:20,239 --> 01:41:26,320
link there. I realize you got other
issues, but I'd really like for someone

1128
01:41:23,840 --> 01:41:29,600
to somehow provide that to me. And then
also, I'd like for someone to provide

1129
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:33,840
me, and I think you guys ought to get it
as a dashboard. CSW every month. How

1130
01:41:32,400 --> 01:41:40,159
many times have they had to go back and
re-repair something in the last two

1131
01:41:35,520 --> 01:41:43,360
years by address? I'd like to get it in
the next month or so. I'd like for you

1132
01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:47,840
guys to get it and I think they ought to
provide it to you every month as part of

1133
01:41:45,760 --> 01:41:52,960
the dashboard of what they're doing out
there because they are making at least

1134
01:41:50,080 --> 01:41:57,600
that's any example of it. I have a funny
feeling we're all just wasting a lot of

1135
01:41:54,560 --> 01:42:03,520
time and not doing things right.
And I do know that we do get a monthly

1136
01:42:00,400 --> 01:42:08,239
report on that report just says the
numbers of repairs and the number of

1137
01:42:06,239 --> 01:42:10,800
tabs and different things.
>> So not the number of times it might say

1138
01:42:10,239 --> 01:42:15,679
25.
>> Yeah. Your street or your it doesn't say

1139
01:42:13,760 --> 01:42:20,000
but we went there many times. It just
gives me a total a monthly total of the

1140
01:42:18,320 --> 01:42:21,520
number of repairs that the water
department.

1141
01:42:20,800 --> 01:42:25,679
» I think
>> James is recording. We hear you.

1142
01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:29,119
Yeah,
>> I don't know how I get this information

1143
01:42:26,960 --> 01:42:32,800
from you, but I'd like to see it.
>> Do I give you my name and number or

1144
01:42:30,800 --> 01:42:36,719
what?
>> Because I I'm very adamant about this

1145
01:42:35,040 --> 01:42:40,320
being changed because I don't think
people are doing their jobs.

1146
01:42:38,880 --> 01:42:44,000
» Yeah. Hey, there's many ways you can do
this and give me your information. I can

1147
01:42:42,080 --> 01:42:47,360
provide an update and I will provide an
update, I guess, at the next council

1148
01:42:45,600 --> 01:42:51,440
meeting, but also reach out to the water
department. Reach out to them. They have

1149
01:42:49,199 --> 01:42:56,159
all that. We also get one of their
representatives to comment on this. Um,

1150
01:42:54,560 --> 01:42:59,679
» that would be great. But I would love I
think what you guys know is you need

1151
01:42:57,679 --> 01:43:03,280
that so you can say
>> they're screwing it up if they are if

1152
01:43:01,679 --> 01:43:06,000
they are. But I can just That's just one
street

1153
01:43:04,320 --> 01:43:11,199
» in the county.
>> Yeah. Um, happy to address that. So, you

1154
01:43:09,280 --> 01:43:14,159
know, first of all, what we do is dirty
work. So,

1155
01:43:12,239 --> 01:43:16,480
» what is dirty work? So,
>> who are you?

1156
01:43:15,760 --> 01:43:20,800
» Who are you?
>> My name is Drew Langston. I'm the

1157
01:43:18,080 --> 01:43:24,719
regional director for CWS
and I I support this project. I've been

1158
01:43:23,199 --> 01:43:29,040
in and out of this project for three
years and helping support the

1159
01:43:26,800 --> 01:43:34,159
distribution system from a technical
perspective. So, we do follow NSF61

1160
01:43:32,400 --> 01:43:39,199
standards. We have standard operating
procedures that the county has

1161
01:43:36,000 --> 01:43:44,800
maintained for a long time to to fix the
leak. Um, and anyone who's ever fixed a

1162
01:43:42,400 --> 01:43:50,320
water leak knows that it is is very
dirty business and as uh

1163
01:43:47,600 --> 01:43:54,560
Brown said there are old degraded
infrastructure in the ground and so

1164
01:43:52,800 --> 01:44:00,400
sometimes you get into a situation where
you fix a leak and the the pipe is

1165
01:43:58,159 --> 01:44:04,960
deteriorating. You may chase that leak
and it may crop up at the same spot.

1166
01:44:03,600 --> 01:44:08,960
There are times where you have a hard
time getting the water to stop flowing

1167
01:44:07,040 --> 01:44:14,639
when you're fixing the leak because it's
hard to isolate that amount of flow and

1168
01:44:11,440 --> 01:44:20,960
it it becomes a very dirty job. We've
had guys fixed very difficult

1169
01:44:18,480 --> 01:44:26,000
situations where it's 40 degrees outside
and you got to keep the water. We have

1170
01:44:23,520 --> 01:44:31,040
to we have to fix it. So, you know,
>> but when I saw it twice on the same

1171
01:44:28,400 --> 01:44:33,280
street and it happened three times to
get fixed, there's something else going

1172
01:44:32,719 --> 01:44:36,400
on.
>> Sure. Humble opinion

1173
01:44:35,040 --> 01:44:41,920
» and and I think you bring up a great
opinion or a great uh point there that

1174
01:44:39,679 --> 01:44:47,920
it's great to know how many breaks are
you having in a certain area.

1175
01:44:45,760 --> 01:44:53,360
Yes, because then you can start to cut
it from a budgetary standpoint to say,

1176
01:44:50,320 --> 01:44:58,960
"Hey, this section of line, maybe it's
old, maybe it's thin wall PVC, maybe we

1177
01:44:56,239 --> 01:45:04,960
can replace it with something with that
can hold greater pressures and sometimes

1178
01:45:02,400 --> 01:45:10,000
there's defects in the pipes when it's
original. Sometimes it depends on the

1179
01:45:07,360 --> 01:45:14,159
ground. There's a number of issues. So,
>> so is that being recorded somehow in the

1180
01:45:12,480 --> 01:45:19,440
system or something?" That's really what
you would want to do. Great, great

1181
01:45:15,920 --> 01:45:24,400
question. So, we do maintain a record of
every work order when we go out to fix

1182
01:45:21,920 --> 01:45:28,480
the leak, when we are responding to a
meter, when we have to pull a water

1183
01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:35,840
quality sample, a pressure complaint,
that is all recorded within the county's

1184
01:45:31,679 --> 01:45:44,560
database. So we we can now when you say
GIS there is not a geospatial component

1185
01:45:40,480 --> 01:45:50,040
of of those that database but if you say
okay there was a leap of say

1186
01:45:50,320 --> 01:45:59,280
» little we we could we can query that to
see what uh workers were

1187
01:45:57,679 --> 01:46:05,440
» I'd like to see a report the last two
years to show how many times my

1188
01:46:02,639 --> 01:46:11,520
multiple times.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. We we uh we'll

1189
01:46:09,119 --> 01:46:15,360
get into that and query the database for
as much information as you like to see.

1190
01:46:13,679 --> 01:46:19,880
» Okay. How do I contact you?
>> You can call the water department

1191
01:46:22,960 --> 01:46:31,360
and you'll you'll get in touch with our
personal and they'll get you.

1192
01:46:28,560 --> 01:46:35,400
» Okay.
I got one com

1193
01:46:38,960 --> 01:46:44,199
and then the next day or the next time
follow

1194
01:46:47,440 --> 01:46:50,600
the next

1195
01:46:55,520 --> 01:47:01,440
spot the same spot to come back and then
the other

1196
01:47:00,159 --> 01:47:04,719
I think it's like five months in the
same road.

1197
01:47:02,159 --> 01:47:11,280
» Yeah. And and sadly that's that's not
uncommon. Um you know maybe like I help

1198
01:47:08,800 --> 01:47:16,560
support another system that uh we saw
maybe in a three mile stretch and just a

1199
01:47:13,760 --> 01:47:22,880
three or four year period over 20 weeks
and it it came down to they used a bad

1200
01:47:19,840 --> 01:47:29,440
batch of PDC and they had to do to
replace it. So it's it's not it is it is

1201
01:47:26,480 --> 01:47:32,400
a complex system. But it's a lot it's a
lot more common in the village than you

1202
01:47:31,440 --> 01:47:36,800
would think.
>> I think it is.

1203
01:47:33,280 --> 01:47:41,920
» Kirk Smith and I have have experienced a
number of these in which there have been

1204
01:47:39,119 --> 01:47:47,119
multiple leaks over a very short period
of time essentially for the same pipe

1205
01:47:44,560 --> 01:47:53,360
and in the same area. One of the one of
the problems that we have in the village

1206
01:47:50,239 --> 01:47:57,360
is that all of our utilities are
underground.

1207
01:47:54,719 --> 01:48:02,880
» That's a good thing. So, so we've got
water, sewer, electricity,

1208
01:48:00,719 --> 01:48:11,520
telecommunications,
and when those were initially laid to be

1209
01:48:08,000 --> 01:48:15,119
tapped into by new homes coming in,
when there is new construction in the

1210
01:48:13,440 --> 01:48:21,520
village
and you need to tie into

1211
01:48:18,639 --> 01:48:26,880
um whether it's a a water tap or
whatever,

1212
01:48:23,600 --> 01:48:30,560
a line may have to be run under a
roadway.

1213
01:48:28,320 --> 01:48:36,000
» Now, if you look at the uh the kind of
thing that happened on St. Andrew's

1214
01:48:33,679 --> 01:48:38,159
» um where that was had to be repaired
multiple times.

1215
01:48:36,960 --> 01:48:41,119
» Oh, yeah.
>> Look at look across the street.

1216
01:48:40,000 --> 01:48:44,960
» No, there was nothing going on.
>> There were new

1217
01:48:43,040 --> 01:48:48,400
» there were there were new homes built
there. I'm just talk I'm talking about

1218
01:48:46,719 --> 01:48:51,199
the length of little river that had to
be

1219
01:48:49,119 --> 01:48:54,719
» there was no new homes built. You're
talking about

1220
01:48:52,159 --> 01:48:58,480
» uh but I'm I'm I'm talking about the
lake that was at St. Andrews because it

1221
01:48:57,600 --> 01:49:00,320
was the same problem.
>> Oh, you're talking the one out the main

1222
01:48:59,840 --> 01:49:03,840
road.
>> It had turned on.

1223
01:49:01,920 --> 01:49:08,880
» It had to be repaired multiple times.
Got it. Got Some of some of the times

1224
01:49:05,840 --> 01:49:13,840
when that when that occurs,
you've got equipment going in and

1225
01:49:11,679 --> 01:49:20,560
particularly if you have to bring in a
backhoe or or heavy piece of equipment

1226
01:49:17,040 --> 01:49:24,320
in repairing one leak, the weight of the
back, particularly if you've got a

1227
01:49:22,400 --> 01:49:28,719
deteriorating pipe,
>> it it causes a problem elsewhere. And

1228
01:49:26,960 --> 01:49:33,360
then you and then you have to go back in
and fix that. And every time you fix

1229
01:49:30,960 --> 01:49:36,639
something, you may have to follow it up
because the equipment that you've used

1230
01:49:35,440 --> 01:49:41,760
is damaging. Right?
>> So just just be aware that in the

1231
01:49:39,119 --> 01:49:47,840
village we have a problem with multiple
lines. Um and sometimes when uh the

1232
01:49:46,080 --> 01:49:53,199
people come in to fix it, no matter how
good a job they do, no matter how

1233
01:49:50,480 --> 01:49:58,000
careful they are, they create multiple
problems. So it's not unusual

1234
01:49:56,000 --> 01:50:01,679
» to have to go back to the same location
multiple times. These were just regular

1235
01:50:00,159 --> 01:50:06,400
houses that have been there for 20 years
and so it wasn't that specific issue.

1236
01:50:04,320 --> 01:50:09,679
But u I would just like to say that I
hope you as an administrator will start

1237
01:50:08,239 --> 01:50:13,600
and you guys as a board will start
requesting CSW to give you that because

1238
01:50:12,320 --> 01:50:19,840
I think there is something going on
there. I'm not saying there's something

1239
01:50:16,880 --> 01:50:23,920
going on. So I would hope that you guys
could add that to our information and

1240
01:50:22,480 --> 01:50:28,800
then I'm going to go see him and then
I'll I guess I'll call you.

1241
01:50:26,800 --> 01:50:33,920
» All right. Thank you. Thank you very
much. We got about 10 minutes left. Been

1242
01:50:31,360 --> 01:50:36,880
a great meeting.
Take another.

1243
01:50:34,800 --> 01:50:43,840
» My name is Brad Peterson. I am not going
to talk about water.

1244
01:50:39,760 --> 01:50:47,360
Um I brought this up at the um DA town
hall. We did not have our county

1245
01:50:45,600 --> 01:50:50,719
administrator, Mr. Upurch at that point
in time.

1246
01:50:48,239 --> 01:50:54,800
» I live in Monell and I have gray water
pressure. Sorry guys, but I do. It's

1247
01:50:53,360 --> 01:50:59,920
still dirty, so I still have those dirty
filters like Randy has. Um, but not

1248
01:50:57,760 --> 01:51:04,719
talking about water. What my issue is,
um, I have no cell service at my home.

1249
01:51:02,639 --> 01:51:09,280
So, when when the power goes out, which
may go out tonight with this storm, the

1250
01:51:07,119 --> 01:51:13,520
Wi-Fi goes down, I have a battery backup
on, I get a couple hours out of it. But

1251
01:51:11,119 --> 01:51:17,360
once that power goes out, my Wi-Fi is
down. I have no communications with the

1252
01:51:15,840 --> 01:51:22,560
outside world through my cell phone,
which is my only phone. So, if I have an

1253
01:51:19,280 --> 01:51:27,119
emergency situation, I got to call 911,
I can't get to her. Okay? So, I'm

1254
01:51:25,280 --> 01:51:32,800
advocating for cell phone towers in the
area to improve our communications.

1255
01:51:30,480 --> 01:51:37,199
Um, it's an issue when we lose power.
And a couple weeks ago, right before the

1256
01:51:34,639 --> 01:51:42,560
town hall in Ohio, we lost power three
times in one week. Each time is for more

1257
01:51:39,840 --> 01:51:46,239
than three or four hours, right? And so,
I was without, you know, without power.

1258
01:51:44,239 --> 01:51:51,119
So, I was without cell phone service.
And so, you need cell phone power from

1259
01:51:48,080 --> 01:51:55,440
an emergency perspective. So, I just
wanted to make sure

1260
01:51:52,960 --> 01:51:59,840
was aware of it. aware of it. And as one
person said, quit building homes in

1261
01:51:57,360 --> 01:52:03,199
order to get more sales coverage, we've
got to convince Verizon to invest in

1262
01:52:02,239 --> 01:52:05,599
another tower.
>> Exactly.

1263
01:52:03,840 --> 01:52:12,960
» Because of the number of people living
there and I think we're at a couple

1264
01:52:08,400 --> 01:52:19,199
thousand, 1800 to a,000 2,000 people
>> uh for them to I don't know what it cost

1265
01:52:14,880 --> 01:52:24,800
to build a several hundred foot tower.
And it's not only there, it's

1266
01:52:21,040 --> 01:52:30,239
throughout. It's it's east, west, south.
We've got a horizon tower mod. So I'm

1267
01:52:28,000 --> 01:52:31,920
blessed. I got signals down there.
>> I've been trying to raise that as an

1268
01:52:31,599 --> 01:52:38,000
issue.
>> No, keep keep raising and we need that.

1269
01:52:34,960 --> 01:52:44,560
Yeah. Thank you.
>> Just uh just one comment. Um and I have

1270
01:52:42,400 --> 01:52:50,320
to go back to the water issue. One of
the things that uh we discussed in

1271
01:52:47,440 --> 01:52:58,080
looking at locations of a water tower at
SLB is putting it on high ground and

1272
01:52:54,239 --> 01:53:03,599
building a tower on top of it. uh which
would be a very inexpensive way to do

1273
01:53:00,159 --> 01:53:09,440
that because we're aware that most of
our telecommunications problems or cell

1274
01:53:06,800 --> 01:53:16,000
phone problems are in the northern part
of the village up in the Monello

1275
01:53:12,480 --> 01:53:22,560
and Savannah Point areas. So, uh if we
can if we can properly locate a water

1276
01:53:18,159 --> 01:53:28,080
tower and and put an antenna on on top
for a cell phone tower, I think that'll

1277
01:53:24,880 --> 01:53:33,520
go a long way to fixing that problem.
Speaking of towers, I'm looking at Miss

1278
01:53:30,239 --> 01:53:39,440
T White here. I think when I talk to her
cell phone, she's got a spot out in her

1279
01:53:35,840 --> 01:53:45,199
cow pasture. She says, "Wait a minute. I
don't have a signal. Let me run out into

1280
01:53:41,679 --> 01:53:49,639
the cow pasture." And she is out 378,
not too far out of town. So,

1281
01:53:59,679 --> 01:54:04,920
Oh, they told you how to get around.
>> Yeah.

1282
01:54:05,599 --> 01:54:14,040
» That's because of your Wi-Fi.
>> Yeah. Yeah. But it's still riding down

1283
01:54:10,800 --> 01:54:14,040
the road.

1284
01:54:17,119 --> 01:54:23,280
» See if they can help you improve that.
One last question.

1285
01:54:23,679 --> 01:54:29,520
Yes, sir.
>> I've been going to county council

1286
01:54:27,920 --> 01:54:32,960
meetings for about the last three years
that I've lived out here and

1287
01:54:32,159 --> 01:54:36,960
» can't hear you.
>> The discussion that we had tonight about

1288
01:54:34,960 --> 01:54:42,639
concerns about the contract that exists
with the water company has not been the

1289
01:54:39,360 --> 01:54:48,000
first question that I've had with this
same issue on contract after contract

1290
01:54:45,920 --> 01:54:52,320
after contract. It's my understanding
that our county attorney's been here

1291
01:54:49,520 --> 01:54:56,800
about 30 years and he clearly has not
done his job of protecting the county in

1292
01:54:54,639 --> 01:55:00,719
these contracts. What are we going to do
about getting a county attorney that's

1293
01:54:58,960 --> 01:55:05,280
going to put provisions in our contracts
that protects the county from these

1294
01:55:03,119 --> 01:55:09,440
kinds of issues?
That's a critical issue for this county

1295
01:55:07,280 --> 01:55:13,760
going forward. going to cost us tons and
tons of money trying to deal with

1296
01:55:11,360 --> 01:55:18,159
litigation, being out of contracts when
we have a county attorney who is not

1297
01:55:15,360 --> 01:55:21,760
doing his job properly.
The other thing I'd like to just point

1298
01:55:19,520 --> 01:55:26,800
out as a as a quick comment for the
folks here in SLB, Chuck's done a great

1299
01:55:24,400 --> 01:55:31,840
job passing me out on neighbor giving
information, but most people may not

1300
01:55:28,800 --> 01:55:37,280
know that Bernie Hammy and David Mora
all are representatives of SLV and we're

1301
01:55:35,199 --> 01:55:43,040
lucky to have three members on the
county council that are representatives

1302
01:55:39,199 --> 01:55:47,440
of SLV in in the county council. We need
to stay in touch with them and make sure

1303
01:55:45,280 --> 01:55:50,880
that they're aware of all of our issues
and hopefully we get all three of them

1304
01:55:49,199 --> 01:55:56,080
communicating with us the way the truck
does. Thank you.

1305
01:55:53,520 --> 01:56:01,520
» Well, okay. This is it.
>> This is not a commercial, but I will let

1306
01:55:58,320 --> 01:56:07,040
you know for those that have Verizon,
we switched back to T-Mobile. They have

1307
01:56:04,400 --> 01:56:13,639
5G.
The service is phenomenal. T-Mobile, I'm

1308
01:56:09,920 --> 01:56:13,639
just know

1309
01:56:15,520 --> 01:56:20,800
No, I
>> This is Verizon country.

1310
01:56:18,719 --> 01:56:25,920
» Well, I know it is. And we had to switch
to Verizon when we came here. We were

1311
01:56:22,960 --> 01:56:31,599
previously T-Mobile. So, we went to
Verizon for two years and then it

1312
01:56:29,040 --> 01:56:37,520
happened to go to T-Mobile and Costco.
They said yes, we ultra and we had no

1313
01:56:35,119 --> 01:56:41,679
issues at all.
>> Thanks for that information. And in

1314
01:56:39,520 --> 01:56:45,679
closing,
Miss Barnes is here. I'm going put her

1315
01:56:43,679 --> 01:56:51,760
on the spot just briefly. I was going to
catch our EMS director, but she's left.

1316
01:56:49,119 --> 01:57:00,480
Another important uh tool that the
county offers is code red. U I get

1317
01:56:56,320 --> 01:57:04,560
emails, I get texts and voice and
voicemail

1318
01:57:02,000 --> 01:57:09,520
all when situations occur in the county.
So if you're not on code red, Crystal,

1319
01:57:07,840 --> 01:57:12,560
could you just briefly say what they
need to do to get signed up for code

1320
01:57:11,440 --> 01:57:17,760
red?
>> You can go from the county website off

1321
01:57:14,880 --> 01:57:22,880
of the number one web page and there is
a link to the code red sign up. You can

1322
01:57:20,719 --> 01:57:29,199
receive your text messages, phone calls,
and emails. If you have any problems,

1323
01:57:25,920 --> 01:57:34,280
you can call myself or India who is our
911

1324
01:57:31,280 --> 01:57:34,280
director.

1325
01:57:34,800 --> 01:57:41,000
Um, and even I think Stacy does a lot of
water.

1326
01:57:43,199 --> 01:57:51,520
So any of us would be glad to help you
get on that. But do remember that with

1327
01:57:48,880 --> 01:57:56,159
water sewer they send out a certain area
probably not if you're not in that area

1328
01:57:53,599 --> 01:58:01,960
will will get that phone call
issue is the question. So you're not in

1329
01:57:58,480 --> 01:58:01,960
a certain area.

1330
01:58:02,080 --> 01:58:09,920
» Thank you, Miss Farms. At this time, uh
I personally once again want to thank

1331
01:58:06,719 --> 01:58:16,320
everyone that has come out. We again
thank Mr. Smith and the staff and

1332
01:58:13,840 --> 01:58:21,760
residents for showing up a very good
meeting. I was we thought that it would

1333
01:58:19,040 --> 01:58:25,920
probably be twice as many folks, but the
heat's probably got a lot of folks

1334
01:58:24,239 --> 01:58:30,639
staying under the air conditioning and
so on was joking. Is it going to get

1335
01:58:27,599 --> 01:58:36,560
hotter inside inside there than it is on
the outside? But it didn't. So, y'all

1336
01:58:33,040 --> 01:58:42,880
did a great job. Thank you. And uh you
know, all our contact information is on

1337
01:58:39,760 --> 01:58:49,520
our website, the county's website. Uh
please text or call us. Uh, I'm probably

1338
01:58:45,599 --> 01:58:53,560
worse to call, but text me. I get I read
I never I never

1339
01:59:11,599 --> 01:59:16,280
How are you? Nice to meet you.

1340
01:59:31,760 --> 01:59:38,560
No, I'm just going to grab my phone.
Yes, sir.

1341
01:59:35,679 --> 01:59:38,560
Thanks for the