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President of the United States of America, into the Republic for which it stands, one nation

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

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Thank you all very much.

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Okay, we have no financials and no madness as unusual or pretty we'll call it up on that.

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We need to, the items under consideration will start in order and finish in or do we

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need to have a close session at the end, the motion to approve the agenda consent and

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to the state. So we've got motion in a second. All in favor say aye, aye, aye. Okay, first

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item on the agenda day is purchasing Miss Kim. And we have Amy Smith with Sheriff's Office.

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She is our former master. It's Amy. Basically a metaphor control. So this is for a contract

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We are picking backing off of Jasper County's contract for this purchase.

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This is for four stopper and tenor radio units from Cherokee Mobile.

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Our attorney office has reviewed and there was no issues.

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The cost on this would be $13,260 and my recommendation to approve the contract using Jasper County's contract.

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I had to purchase these radar units.

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These are an additional funds, this is asking for additional funds, this is already in

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the budget.

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That's going to be the budget.

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So is this a radar unit that solves the antenna?

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Yes, it's a radar.

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It's a different technology than what?

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No, it's not a different technology.

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It's just in addition to what we currently have.

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Oh, I'm out of the fashion.

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But I know the dash and they catch the speeders.

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Oh, okay.

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All right.

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Front target.

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Any other comments, questions?

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I don't know.

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Okay.

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The motion.

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I'll make a motion to approve the JCI CC232820010.

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Okay, we've got a motion.

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Incorrect.

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Your one.

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So sorry.

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JSCO20.

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I'd rather online.

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I'll make a motion to approve the JSCO2021-001.

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Second.

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Okay, the motion and second, all in favor say aye, aye.

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Thank you very much.

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Okay, the next item is also Ms. Camper,

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seeing contract amended.

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Mr. Regard coming out.

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So we came to you back in July to approve the JTI contract

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to do fire inspections and fire monitoring over the new campus

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and we were looking around and asked some other quotes

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for the rest of the county and they came back to us

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and said, we would like to lower our price

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and we would like to not lie to them for three years

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and we were like, okay, we will do that.

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So now it's going to be a yearly contract for the new campus.

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They reduced their price from $850 to $600,

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which totally, again, we did not approach them on this.

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And that's very important to say that.

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But our attorney house in fact has reviewed it.

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And this is just for the fire alarm monitoring annually.

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And you're happy with that.

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This is the renewal of their...

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This is, this is, we just had the contract done in July.

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So this will be...

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We have to update the price.

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We have to update the price.

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I'm going from three years to one year renewals.

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Okay, so contract amendment.

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This is the contract amendment.

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the number one yes. Okay very very good. Unusual but good. I'm already practice this number so I think I can see. I'll make a motion if nobody has anything else for the contractor with the JCI

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I proceed to see two, three, two, eight, two, zero, zero, one, zero.

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We have motion, second, all of a favor, say aye.

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All right.

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If not, please.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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The next item is highway.

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It's an M-way on Grand Bridge replacement project.

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Good morning.

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Good morning.

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Good morning.

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Before you today is an M-O-A between several groups, which I will list out here in a second.

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Basically, it declares that all of these groups will work together to do our best to operate

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under the sort of perturbation which is required of the red bridge structure of this unread

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bridge road.

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So, it is an eligible structure to be on the NHRP, but it is not on there, however, if you're

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eligible, you generally go through the same procedure you would as if you were actually listed

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visited from the register of historic places.

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So this MLA for a service reached out

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to a bunch of groups.

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The Osage Nation, SAC and Fox Nation of Oklahoma,

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but they have declined to participate in Christian County

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Commission, which is what's happening today,

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National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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The Legacy Retreat Center, which

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is a group that had originally put in to take the bridge.

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however, they didn't have any funding to do so, so their request was denied that they'd still like to participate.

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And Dr. Robert Kippher, who owns some lands down there by the bridge, and he also has a really good book about that

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full-green crossing that you could buy from this very state, which he didn't tell me to plug his book, but it is a really good book.

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So again, it's an MOA between all of these groups, and also including the Forest Service that we will abide by the state historic preservation offices requirements,

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We've already done our pre-construction Archaeological Day in Missouri State Student Archaeology

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with this project.

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Didn't find anything, but of course, when a contractor gets down there and starts digging,

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there are procedures that you have to follow if you find anything once you start digging.

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So this M.O.A. takes us through the reek of the project and I believe a few years after

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the project as well, if we are to find any.

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anything of archeological significance. So if you have any questions, I'm happy to answer.

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It's questions.

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The red bridge project is popped up on social media.

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You're likely to, since we're recording live, do you have an estimated timeline of constructions

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so we can put the rumors to rest publicly?

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It's a very tough question.

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I understand.

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That's why I'm asking you.

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If the project was in the county's hands,

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I'd have a lot easier time answering that question.

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But for services lead agency, it's being directed out

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of their Ava office.

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And they are not, well, they're all office

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and some other offices have dealt with bridge products in the past.

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This is Ava's first, as I'm understanding it.

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So we're doing our best to push them along. This historic preservation effort has taken

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a lot longer than normal. But again, with it being outside in the county's hands, it's

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a little tough. However, the design heart is mostly complete. We're just awaiting some

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more of this information and what we're required to do from the state. Then we can enter into

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Radoway Negotiations, which really are only on the west side of the bridge because the east

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side is all for a service. So they're handling that internally. I am hoping fingers crossed

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that we can go out to the next spring.

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I would never make that promise to anybody because

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again this is something that's 80% of the time so far for the entire length of this project

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and it's not been in the county's hands. So even though it's our bridge and we pay for

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it, that's just kind of how these bridge projects go.

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So best case scenario, spring, we go out to bid.

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Spring, we go out to bid.

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We have a plan actually to go ahead and remove the bat seatable trees during the down periods.

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That doesn't impact construction, which is November through April.

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So even if it's awarded in spring, they won't have to then wait until November to start instruction.

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My thought would be if it's awarded in April, they can probably start in June.

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and it's about six months of total construction.

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Maybe faster, but it's just a little bit difficult to get to this site

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when you're delivering the beams and stuff, so we best made it about six months.

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I will say I do my best to keep the transparency site.

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There's a project link that you can click on through the auditor.

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And whenever we have big updates, we put them through there as well as

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like attaching permits that we received, so people can follow along that way as well.

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Sure, unfortunately they don't, they follow along on the chit chat, so.

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So we're looking best case scenario, we need to be first quarter 28 best case scenario.

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Listen, I'm selling you, I don't normally...

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That's why I said best case.

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Best case, yeah, December 27th, January 28th, February 28th in there.

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If there's any other significant delays, like obviously I'll come to the commission and report those

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But really once we get to ride away negotiation and is back into the county's hands, and I think we can ask that I think

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Better that way

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We have to somewhere going on the Hawkins Bridge similar time frame. Yeah, we don't obviously that's not a forced service project

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But we do have mode at as our main agency on that one

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And we're still in right away with negotiations.

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We've got some of it worked out.

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The Hawkins family, we're still working on that group.

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And once we can get them, at least back to the deal to discuss right away, we should

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be able to be pretty disciplined if that went out to the government.

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I think that, I'm glad we're having that discussion.

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I'm glad you're making the comments because, just like Commissioner Jackson said, I mean,

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were aware of what the citizens are saying and any time that you stop a bridge and you

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can't go through the bridge or the bridge and you have to go around. It does put our

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shift on our citizens and they don't understand. It's been a real learning process for me to

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know that when we were working on Green Bridge we all talked about the fact that we thought

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all three bridges, Green Bridge would be first, but we thought Hawkins and

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Green Bridge would be after that, and sooner. Now we're looking at much later

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than what we've done, but when you start dealing with bed girl and you start having to

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go through all the hoops that they make you go through besides this state, that's

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really taken a lot longer than I think we ever planned.

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Well, in the, you know, I've been a engineer for 24 years now, and when I first started in less than a year, you could design, you could get all the way from preliminary design to advertising your bridge in less than a year.

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Now it's like three and a half years to get through that, and it's not, it's not because of anything like your local agency does.

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We do the same thing almost on every bridge, but you do have different apartments

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almost every year that you move into these things, especially with the different

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agencies. This is new for us as well, working with Forest Service, but you know there

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might be something attached to the bottom of the bill that has a much bigger

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subject to it, but there's a little paragraph at the end that now you have to go

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through this particular procedure. Very similar to like FEMA, you know, FEMA wants

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So you know, like if you remove a down tree from your road, when did you pick it up?

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How did you pick it?

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Did you cut it?

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Like, all the way to ashes.

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Where did you take it?

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Did you burn it?

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Where did you put the ashes?

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Like, there's just all these new requirements that haven't always been there, and we have to

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navigate those every year.

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But yeah, I've had to adjust my schedule when projects start because the behind the scenes

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didn't use to take longer than the construction, but now that behind the scenes is three or four

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years construction six months completely turned around but you know I think I think we're

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all kind of realizing even if it's not a bridge project behind the scenes are incredibly

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longer than these to be able to do well and I know we're new and the best we can and I'm hoping

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that we get Hawkins bridge completed before they have a lot of chances now.

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Good thing

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but it could be, we don't know if we can be sure that we do have a lot of cycle inspections

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in January. They do those inspections and we don't know. And so hoping that we can get

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that one down before we have it shut down, but very good. Need a motion to bring them away.

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So I'm going to get a motion and second all in favor say aye. Okay. Passers, thank you.

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I'll grab signatures at the end.

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Okay, the next item is commission.

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Show me Christy County.

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We've got a request for funding.

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Ladies here.

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I'm going to apologize first.

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I woke up with a little cold.

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So I'm going to kind of start off with

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Separate yourself.

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I don't know, get sick.

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So I'm going to highlight a couple things

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and then I'm going to leverage how to get some highlights, so and then I'll chime in every once in a while.

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But we did provide a report for you guys to get a highlight understanding

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of the things that we've been working on really since the beginning of this year.

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The things, and again, I don't...

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We need to bring everything to you guys. I'm just going to make a couple of highlights. The first one is that I want to talk about is what are a couple of our projects that actually are in the county and that is moving forward. And the first one is straight line canvas. It was one that was approved earlier this year. All behind the scenes stuff is going on right now, but that is about a $2 million project. And it's going to have about 20 new jobs that are going to be located here in the

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County and then with that there's there's actually going to be relocation of some people that will

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be from outside of Christian County that will be coming into the area as well. So it's not just

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that the 20 jobs there's other people coming in and it would come a almost a destination and it's

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to breathe that there were the bringing in to the area.

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Proline metal fabrication is one that we recently assisted.

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They, we worked with SimPog on this project

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and it was a brand new company who was getting up and started

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and we were able to, could I come to be able to create

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a small business revolving loan fund for their inventory

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were to be able to keep things going there. So they were just a startup as of January and

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they had a tight timeline of September to get these funds secure and so we were able to

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meet that deadline with our partners and they were also both of these projects also were able

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to use some of the state programs as well. The other one I wanted to point out was our

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Highlandville Comprehensive Plan. That's one that has been on our report for several years now.

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The holdup was all along has been funding for that project and to be able to get that done.

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It was about $25,000. We were actually able to help secure about $18,000 of that for Highlandville

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and it took a little bit of time, but it is in progress. They've started the meetings,

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Rachel is attending and participating in that, and it will be about a year-long project

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in partnership again with Syncog on this as well.

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That pilot book conference plan will set Highland fill-up for about a decade of growth

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and development when people come in, they will have a plan.

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This is their first one they've ever done, and they've really neat a bit, so when people

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come in and want to build a storage unit facility along the highway, they can say, well, that

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doesn't actually fit with our conference of plan or zoning and it gives us a city, some

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teeth to say this is what our community has voted that they actually want there, they

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want commercial retail there. And it just helps give them better guidance when people

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are wanting to come and develop and they've really needed a document like this for a long

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time, but it's expensive and it's a long process. And so now we started that and we're hoping

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to wrap that up in about a year.

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Another big highlight from our development pillar

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our organization was the project Maribelau and then of course, Ozark Marketplace

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meeting was that. But we had the groundbreaking for Maribelau this year and

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we'll expect it to use over 500 units that will be located up there with a

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commercial component as well. And in Ozark Marketplace, we're just continuing to

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see the work that we did early on is bringing in those additional new projects you guys heard

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the announcement about Chipotle and Chick-fil-A, so we're really excited about them coming

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too.

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We should be counting too.

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The developer that works in that project is on our board as well, so continuing to have

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conversations with them about additional potential projects in the area which is exciting.

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And then last year we reported that four of our projects had generated $136,000 and that

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sales tax to the county and in a couple of conversations we had revenue protections

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are higher.

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So there is an expectation that there will be a higher than that dollar amount this year

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generated.

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And that doesn't include any of the new funds from Ozark Marketplace or anything like that.

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So we're seeing that ROI as well from the projects that we've been working on.

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And so I know I have a little low key today.

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Okay, Rachel has a little more energy.

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So the other two pillars of our organization, so we've got business development, which you touched on,

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and then community enhancement, and then promoting Christian County.

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So on the community enhanced that side, you guys know we were working on receiving our 501-C3

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public charity status from the IRS and the state of Missouri. We got that approved in the end of January.

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That was a requirement for us to be able to apply for the DMO destination marketing organization,

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which we talked from the Division of Tourism for Missouri.

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So we were able to turn around, get that approved, get that applied for,

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and thank you guys for supporting us in that effort.

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with that 501c3 status though we've now been able to apply for several grants

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this year that we were not eligible before we had that 501c3 status we've received

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several small grants some from the Louisville Community Foundations which

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has been great and one of those we were able to use we got awarded $7,500 to purchase

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park benches for the Oath Park development in NYXO which is 100 acres worth of

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Parkland that we're working with them to develop to be open to the public and so

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So we officially purchased those park benches.

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We worked with the city of NYXA on that.

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And so they've got that project started.

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The other one for teeny enhancement

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is our work with the city of buildings

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to establish their wild cat camp.

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They only have a four-day school week.

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So they have no school on the nays,

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and they did not have adequate childcare services

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in the city of buildings for the kids that go to their school.

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So families were having to take their kids to childcare services

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outside of the city of buildings

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and then come back to work if they work in the city.

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and it was starting to create a lot of issues there.

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So they had it initially started inside the school,

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but the school wasn't able to handle the facilitation of it.

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So OCAC stepped up, we've worked with them

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on advertising it, helping them probably,

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we've applied for a few grants to receive additional funding

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for that program for SNACs and programming for the kids.

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But OCAC is doing the programming for it.

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So all three of us, us, the city and OCAC,

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we are all working together.

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they now have a building that they're using and I believe their community

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building that their firehouse takes care of to facilitate that and have all the

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kids there on Monday. So that started this week which we're excited about this

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year is the first year that's outside of the school and the city is really taking

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on the burden of trying to help their citizens by having child care of

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they will afford those kids. So I believe they have 25 kids that are started in

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that program and they will have room for up to 50. So as that grows, if they meet all

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the needs for the kids in buildings for that that need that care, then they are going

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to potentially extend it to clever children as well. That might need that extra care.

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So they've got big plans. They're really excited about it, but we've been working on that

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involvement of that program over the past few years and they've been appreciative of our

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help. We're happy to help them with that, but that's been a really big one because it helps

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with the child care but also facilitates workforce participation for families because if your

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kids able to be in child care you can go to work. So it just provides a lot of different

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opportunities. So an OKCAC is using this as a pilot program. So if this goes well they're

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going to try this out in other cities partnering with other city communities to have this where

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their schools can't function or don't have the capacity to do a program like this on their

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off days. So okay, it's trying to see how this could work in other communities. So it could

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start a domino effect of other communities around here that have 40 school weeks. We'll see.

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So I'm going to move on to promoting Christian County. You guys know the tourism promotion that

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we started a few years ago with Explore Christian County. Our website that we have in our social media

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channels. We now, now that we have the designation of the destination marketing organizations,

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there's a Missouri division of tourism. We now have access to up to $30,000 worth of matching funds

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to be able to market and advertise Christian County outside of this

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area. So those are matching funds so that means we have to raise up to 30,000

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to get an extra 30,000 so this year we only applied for 6,000 because that's

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what we had that we could put towards it but we're hoping in the future to be

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able to generate additional revenue to be able to put in that

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pot so that we could potentially max out at 30 grams to be able to

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really let people know all of the cool things we have to do here and bring more

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vendors and tourists into this area to spend money here. So with that we've got, we've just launched

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spending some of those dollars and we are going to be, you'll see some billboards around and

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they have to be outside of a 50 mile radius to truly bring people in. So we've got some enjoupling

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Lebanon, Northwest Arkansas and I think just out of the Kansas City area. So it's really cool to

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you're coming in. We've got on our social media, we've got 22,000 unique website visitors to

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Explore Christian County, which is awesome. We get those from all different states across the US.

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We're able to track that on the back end of our website. We've had 2.1 million combined impressions.

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That means people that have interacted with our content across all of our social media channels.

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We've almost doubled in the past month. Our social media followers across all our platforms.

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and that's crazy. That's before we even started using the state dollars to help push some of that

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advertising. So that's organic, which is great. So people are looking at our stuff to see what

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there is to do here, especially as we get into the fall with a lot of our all festivals and stuff.

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That's just going to grow. As far as being the DMO, there are only 40 in the state destination

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marketing organizations and now we're one of those 40. So it's pretty cool to be able to say that.

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We also worked with the James River Basin partnership a few weeks ago, or two months ago actually,

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to do an educational video series on reverse safety. As people are fishing, kayaking in the rivers here,

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we wanted to have some reverse safety instructional videos. James River Basin partnership was super excited to work with us on that.

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We gave them some content, they gave us some content, and we did all the filming, editing, and online promotion for that.

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And then we went to the Missouri Connections content summit in Columbia that the

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Department of Innovation of tourism put on. We were able to represent Christian

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County alongside Springfield was there too and Brighton was there but we were

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able to represent Christian County which is really cool to be in the room. And then

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we've got the governor's conference on tourism. We'll actually be hosted in

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Springfield this year. Last year, it was in Kansas City and travels around the

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state but that's right in our backyard and so we will be going and we will be

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attending that to represent Christian County as well which is gonna be our

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first year going to that so we're excited to be able to participate. We also last

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year you guys know it's the last thing I'm gonna touch on but we work on having

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the official Christian County area guide which last year we will be able to make

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a digital area guide because printing costs are not cheap so we wanted to at

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least have something out there and that was also a requirement for us to

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prerequisite for us to apply for the DMO there was a lot of work and steps

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and the seeds that had to go into being able to even apply for that.

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This year, now that we have one in our adult, we are going to print one this year, which

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are really excited.

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We're looking at printing about 2,500 of those.

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We have gotten several local businesses that have purchased advertising in that area guide,

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which is exciting, and that has helped us to be able to fund some of the printing costs

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for that.

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So, we put funding aside, we know we want to print it, but that has helped us cover some

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of this cost which is great. So we will have a physical book that says Explore

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Christian County that will have all the cool things to do here. So we'll be able

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to hand out. The cities will be able to have some inside their buildings. The

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chambers will be able to have some to hand out. A lot of chambers still do relocation

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packets when people are looking to move here and they want to know what there is to

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do here. A lot of times the chambers will send in a packet of some different

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things. We'll be able to help you move this in that packet. That's our goal. So

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a lot of really cool things that we'll be able to do with that. So we'll have that printed

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January-ish of 2027 so early this next year we'll have the printed ready to go.

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I know you guys started a kind of in hand-in-hand with the new development the index of the

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198 because can you guys talk about the development where you are with that? Yeah and so that we've

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been working on that project just over a year now and a great partnership with Breaking and

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million are leading up different sections of that project and it is going to be a mixed

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use development. About 50% will be housing. The rest of it will be park space. There's

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an adventure park included in it. Quite a bit of commercial space opportunity. In that development

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they're looking to have a square built-in that overlooks, that has the walkable almost

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create almost like a downtown s-field for Knicksa as well. Not the historic line, we're not

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taking away from that, but we're enhancing the connectivity for the whole community and have a

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space together. So there will be designated space for a hotel. There is plans to have probably

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more of the big box retail type of development in there. Alongside the commercial use that are

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going to be more local businesses as well. The smaller business will have a component of that.

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The 20-ish acre adventure park is going to be indoor about a, I think it was a 60,000-square-foot building that's gonna have an indoor space, so it's a year-round attraction.

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We do think that this will be more of a regional draw.

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We do believe that tourists will come into the communities as well, but the idea with

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a developer is that it's going to be more something that local people in the region

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that will want to access that.

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So where we are right now in the process is, and I also want to mention real quick, that

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we're out in all of these conversations. We've had a lot of

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Community meetings to hear from the community on what they would like. We talked through and looked at the comprehensive plan to try to help meet the needs of what people are already saying that they want. This was not just them coming in with their own intention. They were very deliberate on listening to people to create development. Yes, that more people want. So where we are in that process.

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is we OTO, the city, and Brad, they're all working together for the traffic study right now.

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There is hope that there would be another stoplight within on the 160 boardwork, so

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they're navigating that part of it right now.

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It's been going on for a few months now back and forth with Moda trying to get that to happen.

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And in addition to that, there was a presentation

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and the reason I went to share all of this

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is because there was a presentation to City Council.

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And the attorneys came in to kind of get the highlight,

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the overview of the project.

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And then right now, but it's all the behind the scenes

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with the attorneys discussing on incentives

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about the cost of the massive improvements to 160

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or that how are they going to fund this?

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And so that's the behind the scenes right now

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and there's been no package presented.

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So we're gonna have to wait for that

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to be able to even continue the conversation.

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So don't they expect them to have to come in?

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Well, I talked with Brad last week

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and he's pushing his own attorney to help push it along.

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They're hoping to have a package

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by the end of the year, early next year to present

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and start that discussion with the city.

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The adventure progressed like that.

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I'm sure you guys are familiar with like Fritz's adventure

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in Branson, the same guy that helped bring that to life

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as a state with this project.

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So not to make any promises that it will be

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similar to the exact same thing,

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but that is one of the initial ideas

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that kind of spurred on some of this, too.

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And that would be really cool to have some things

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that would work to that in this area.

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that's Billy has he's an aerospace engineer and he built out dolling wood he

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worked for the versions so he did a lot of the roller coasters there in the

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design he does the butterfly pallets and prints his adventures so he's he has

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a very successful record in development and perverships and so he's he's been very

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excited about coming into Christian County. He's all over so working on a big project in Branson right now.

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It's the Bible experience, I believe, is what it's called but it's been in that life, too.

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So they created a very good team to try to get this thing done.

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And this is going to be years in the late making.

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Yeah, it's another large good development.

446
00:33:13,300 --> 00:33:18,480
So I guess our request today is for you guys to consider

447
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:25,180
continue to support, show me in our efforts and economic development realm and we

448
00:33:25,180 --> 00:33:30,680
just wanted to come today and give you guys an update on what we've been doing

449
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:36,120
and how your dollars are going to continue just for the efforts of sustainably

450
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,940
growing the community. We'll see, too, before we get to that. Last time we told you

451
00:33:40,940 --> 00:33:46,000
guys we did have a request for us to increase, asked from some of the public

452
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:52,480
sector organizations to kind of help us with some of what we're doing. We have had another

453
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:57,540
school district that has come on board. Clever schools have decided to join Show Me Christian

454
00:33:57,540 --> 00:34:02,500
County and support us financially. This year, so it's the first year they've done it and they're

455
00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:09,000
really excited about that. We've also had an increase from next the public schools, which is great.

456
00:34:09,540 --> 00:34:15,100
And so we have been working on that process to get more people involved from the public sector

457
00:34:15,100 --> 00:34:20,780
help support what we're doing but again it's you know we know it's a big ask for a lot of these

458
00:34:20,780 --> 00:34:25,820
things and so we're trying to do our due diligence to or what you guys have asked us to do so.

459
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:30,940
Which is good because we talked about you know the schools are being benefit to that program and

460
00:34:30,940 --> 00:34:37,300
wanting to come in and you know meet some of the aspects of some of the stuff and you guys came

461
00:34:37,300 --> 00:34:44,520
in last year and in the past you know we had we had donated $50,000 for many years in the program

462
00:34:45,180 --> 00:34:50,520
and we were making some pretty big cuts across the county last year, we cut over seven full-time

463
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:55,460
positions, we got rid of our recycling, we had dialed back and asked other positions not to

464
00:34:55,460 --> 00:35:01,060
be hired and really went, you know, would dope into that. And you guys were asking for 60 last year

465
00:35:01,060 --> 00:35:06,400
and we actually took 50 and cut you guys to 40, which was a 20% cut and we know that was tough

466
00:35:07,860 --> 00:35:12,800
and looking and even this year we're looking at making what cuts and areas and things like that.

467
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:18,240
My recommendation today would be to keep you guys where you weren't before, and I know

468
00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:19,100
you're asking for 50.

469
00:35:19,220 --> 00:35:22,560
We don't have that funding and we're trying to make those cuts, but it would be to keep

470
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:27,300
you guys where you are because you took such a big cut last year, even that we will be

471
00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:31,940
cutting some things from some other organizations, but they didn't take the amount of cut that

472
00:35:31,940 --> 00:35:33,180
you guys took last year.

473
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:39,240
It's not to say you're not doing a good job, or it's not worth a $50,000, it's just where

474
00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:46,780
we are budgetarily in moving into this, so let them speak on anything else that they have.

475
00:35:46,940 --> 00:35:47,600
That's just my opinion.

476
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:52,420
Yeah, I think it's great to hear that some of the other organizations are stepping up.

477
00:35:52,580 --> 00:35:58,220
I mean, still, I don't know what that is in comparison to what the ask is of us.

478
00:35:58,220 --> 00:36:05,360
I know that, you know, when you look at some of those districts, annual budgets are greater

479
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:06,040
than ours.

480
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:13,940
and our participation level is greater than that or is monetarily, you know, we had to discuss it

481
00:36:13,940 --> 00:36:15,940
and we were worried about sales tax revenue.

482
00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:18,380
Again, this year's sales tax revenue is down.

483
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,580
From last year, we were not keeping up with it when I say down.

484
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,580
We're not keeping up with the pace of inflation.

485
00:36:26,220 --> 00:36:27,620
Our sales tax revenue is not.

486
00:36:27,620 --> 00:36:37,580
And that's alarming and concerning as we're looking at how do we continue to fund the

487
00:36:37,580 --> 00:36:43,080
necessities of our local government with revenues that aren't keeping up.

488
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:54,060
And I mean we are, we're looking at there's potential more cuts and I almost feel like I

489
00:36:57,170 --> 00:36:57,370
know

490
00:36:57,370 --> 00:36:59,870
So that $50,000 is not something I'm comfortable with.

491
00:37:00,090 --> 00:37:01,450
$40,000 is isolated.

492
00:37:02,530 --> 00:37:06,390
In my gut, I feel like there needs to be at least a five to 10%

493
00:37:06,390 --> 00:37:09,490
reduction of expenditure here and studying.

494
00:37:09,670 --> 00:37:12,530
And yes, what you guys are doing is what kind of message

495
00:37:12,530 --> 00:37:16,630
are we sending to our own staff in all these different

496
00:37:16,630 --> 00:37:19,070
departments when we're asking them to continue to cut.

497
00:37:20,170 --> 00:37:22,070
We're asking them to find cost saving measures.

498
00:37:22,250 --> 00:37:23,670
We're asking them to do all these things.

499
00:37:23,890 --> 00:37:25,430
Not filling, back filling positions.

500
00:37:25,430 --> 00:37:31,890
and we don't backfill positions in theory that's putting more pressure on the existing employees.

501
00:37:33,690 --> 00:37:38,150
And that bothers me, we've got to take care of our own house first.

502
00:37:42,030 --> 00:37:46,070
If my neighbors' kids are hungry, I've got to feed my own children first,

503
00:37:46,250 --> 00:37:49,410
and then I help, or the analogy when you're on the airplane.

504
00:37:50,170 --> 00:37:54,450
So the oxygen masks fall, put your own zone first, and then help your neighbor.

505
00:37:55,730 --> 00:38:02,570
We've got an organization, we've got to continue to fund, we're under funding roads, we're under funding, different aspects.

506
00:38:03,550 --> 00:38:10,950
Mr. Team behind you is trying to darn this to keep these buildings in great condition, but we keep finding issues and problems that keep popping up.

507
00:38:12,730 --> 00:38:21,650
I understand that your organization can be beneficial to the continued growth of the county and the revenues coming in.

508
00:38:21,650 --> 00:38:24,770
and we're just not seeing that through the sales tax I have.

509
00:38:25,490 --> 00:38:27,450
And when all of these businesses come in

510
00:38:28,830 --> 00:38:32,730
and the property taxes bill up,

511
00:38:32,730 --> 00:38:35,430
we don't see much of the property tax bill

512
00:38:35,430 --> 00:38:38,770
and we're in my new portion of the property tax bill

513
00:38:38,770 --> 00:38:39,790
that's being collected.

514
00:38:42,990 --> 00:38:46,630
Other organizations are primarily or only funded

515
00:38:46,630 --> 00:38:48,610
through the property tax.

516
00:38:48,610 --> 00:38:51,430
And so where are they at at the table in relation to us?

517
00:38:53,590 --> 00:38:59,970
So I'm kind of undecided, my initial is I think we should have a 5% to 10% reduction in

518
00:38:59,970 --> 00:39:00,950
external expenses.

519
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:12,000
I don't know if that would be a favorable option, but I guess I can't see us doing a back

520
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:12,880
up-of-the-fade announcement.

521
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:13,660
Let

522
00:39:17,180 --> 00:39:23,860
me make some comments to, I agree with both the commissioners that have made comments

523
00:39:23,860 --> 00:39:29,280
and I think their valid comments kind of take it from a different person.

524
00:39:29,420 --> 00:39:31,020
Thank you for being here ratio today.

525
00:39:31,780 --> 00:39:32,760
You explained everything.

526
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:39,300
Well, Chris and you and I had a great discussion yesterday and we kind of just went over the

527
00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:48,780
things of what's been going on the last several years, and you know, everything that

528
00:39:48,780 --> 00:39:54,440
crews from Jackson said about our budget is correct. We are still struggling. One

529
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:58,640
of the things I think you and I talked about yesterday, and what I want people to hear

530
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:03,640
that's watching this, either live, or there are going to be people watching it later on

531
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:10,640
today or this week, is sooner or later, these other two commissioners and our new presiding

532
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:15,960
commissioner and you guys as a business as a business because you're a

533
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:22,280
business the county is a business. Our business model is not working. We're

534
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:28,640
not collecting enough money to provide the services that we really need to do

535
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:33,360
when just like commissioner Jackson said. Ms. Miranda and her people were working

536
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:38,380
really hard both on the eastern west side but we don't have enough money to

537
00:40:38,380 --> 00:40:44,400
really make our roads like we want them to make and what the citizens are wanting.

538
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:53,840
It's not our fault but we just don't have the money. I look at you guys and you're struggling

539
00:40:53,840 --> 00:41:03,020
trying to figure out how to meet your budget and then I was thinking last night that if you left

540
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:12,480
and we stopped showing me Christian County. The chambers back in the 70s, when I

541
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:17,100
belonged to 12 different chambers and I'd go over the area where my stores were

542
00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:22,220
and I would go to every chamber meeting, they used to take care of tourism, they

543
00:41:22,220 --> 00:41:26,980
took care of development, economic development. The cities didn't take care of

544
00:41:26,980 --> 00:41:30,100
They're only 3 or 4,000 people in those arcane nicks

545
00:41:30,100 --> 00:41:31,800
that are back in the 70s.

546
00:41:32,140 --> 00:41:33,740
And things have changed.

547
00:41:34,780 --> 00:41:38,400
But if you disappear, the chambers aren't already

548
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:39,660
to take it over again.

549
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,800
And so we have no economic development in one

550
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,940
of the vastest growing counties in the state.

551
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,980
It would be expected that you guys as a county would take

552
00:41:48,980 --> 00:41:51,920
on an entire team of people to be employed.

553
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,300
Which is a lot more expensive than what you've got.

554
00:41:54,300 --> 00:41:54,800
That's a problem.

555
00:41:54,940 --> 00:41:55,960
That's a problem, Richard.

556
00:41:55,960 --> 00:42:01,900
We don't have the money, we don't have the money, so our business model is going to have to change too.

557
00:42:02,460 --> 00:42:08,200
And that's what these gentlemen will be tasked to do is we're going to have to change our business model.

558
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,480
And I think we can't do it.

559
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,920
We're always going to do well in this county, but we're going to have to change it.

560
00:42:16,020 --> 00:42:18,840
And you already have to change it too.

561
00:42:18,980 --> 00:42:21,460
Figure out ways to fundraise and things.

562
00:42:21,700 --> 00:42:23,240
I mean, it's just the way it is.

563
00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:29,120
and we've been doing that. That's been part of our major planning for the next five years we've

564
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:33,100
been working with our board for additional revenue streams and trying to figure out how to

565
00:42:33,100 --> 00:42:39,000
supplement that and I would also challenge you guys you know after today to just speak with other

566
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:44,760
county commissions and see how they're funding their economic development organizations because

567
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:50,460
comparatively in other counties we're very unique usually in other counties their local government

568
00:42:50,460 --> 00:42:55,480
entities are funding their economic development organizations if they're not

569
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,680
employed through their county they're funding them a between 50 and 70% of

570
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:05,980
their budget. Right now ours with just the county is about a six of our budget.

571
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:12,740
If we take all of our public entities that are funding us it's around 40%. So the

572
00:43:12,740 --> 00:43:17,000
fact that we're still we have so much support from the private sector is

573
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:21,540
It's really an anomaly, but I think that shows how much support we have in this area and

574
00:43:21,540 --> 00:43:25,740
how much growth and how many people want to be here, but it is still pretty significantly

575
00:43:25,740 --> 00:43:26,420
different.

576
00:43:26,540 --> 00:43:30,700
We've talked with our partners in other counties, and they ask us how are we doing it because

577
00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:34,440
we don't have a majority of our funding from our public sector.

578
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:39,460
And so it is really unique, and I think that speaks a lot to our, you know, hit the ground

579
00:43:39,460 --> 00:43:41,440
running to try and get the support where we can.

580
00:43:41,620 --> 00:43:46,140
But I would just encourage you to maybe even if you're looking at changing how you're doing

581
00:43:46,140 --> 00:43:49,440
things and how you're able to support. I would just challenge you to maybe ask

582
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:51,860
some of the other commissioners and the other counties to see how are they

583
00:43:51,860 --> 00:43:55,380
making it work because they are doing that and that's what we're seeing in

584
00:43:55,380 --> 00:43:58,300
other communities. They don't, they're just, they're just dealing with things

585
00:43:58,300 --> 00:44:01,440
differently and I know their dynamics are different but I would also be just

586
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,640
curious to hear from their perspective and that might, that might be

587
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,620
helpful to you it might not but I would just challenge you to talk to them and see

588
00:44:08,620 --> 00:44:12,560
how, how they're making that work. And I think that we can definitely do that we

589
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:17,500
We have a meeting coming up with the Southwest Missouri Commissioners Association in October,

590
00:44:17,740 --> 00:44:23,900
so we can definitely ask that in the comment section when they ask for just general

591
00:44:23,900 --> 00:44:27,060
lives, comments to see what they're doing now.

592
00:44:27,260 --> 00:44:33,500
I don't really know what some of those counties, what they're doing with respect to economic

593
00:44:33,500 --> 00:44:38,460
development, you know, Barry County and McDonald County and some of the very rural counties,

594
00:44:38,460 --> 00:44:42,360
So, but that's who we deal with regularly, you know.

595
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,880
It's just a tough, it's just a tough and moving piece, you know.

596
00:44:48,020 --> 00:44:55,140
We get excited about anything that's commercial that has a sales tax component, and here recently,

597
00:44:55,340 --> 00:44:59,860
you know, some of the big wins that we see are heavily driven.

598
00:45:00,980 --> 00:45:30,800
The residential component, and we understand that it takes rooftops to bring the commercial in, but some of those would not have had the commercial component that they do have now without our team fighting for that commercial spot. It would have just been residential. It's hard for us to get really excited about residential because we just look black and white, right? So we're looking at, if you lose, if you use, say FBI statistical value, any one law enforcement officer for every

599
00:45:31,500 --> 00:45:37,960
what is it? 700 people roughly. We don't we can't we can't nearly keep up with

600
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:41,480
that number. So I think that our local agencies were probably looking at more

601
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:46,160
about 1,000 1200 people versus the 700. We feel the same way. We get more excited

602
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:51,640
about commercial too. We look at all of the roads that they get built out and

603
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:55,340
then donated back to the public sector for us to maintain a perpetuity.

604
00:45:58,580 --> 00:45:59,100
The

605
00:45:59,100 --> 00:46:04,240
my background in the municipality and that street lights are being donated back to the city

606
00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:10,680
in our elected bill and when you look at the makeup of the municipality or county being

607
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:16,700
you know 80 plus percent funded through sales tax versus property tax when we take

608
00:46:16,700 --> 00:46:21,940
on all of those additional liabilities we come out on the losing end if there's no sales

609
00:46:21,940 --> 00:46:28,740
tax revenue to offset it right now we still have this huge problem in our county of

610
00:46:30,340 --> 00:46:37,920
not supporting local businesses. I just heard of one yesterday that it's going to be closing soon.

611
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:45,920
And we have a bad habit of taking off this right field or shopping online or whatever the case may be.

612
00:46:46,100 --> 00:46:51,160
And that's where our pinch is because our sales tax revenues can't keep up.

613
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:57,820
For at least four years that I've been here, our sales tax revenues have not kept up

614
00:46:57,820 --> 00:47:01,200
of a CPI which has caused us that had the opportunity

615
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,500
to raise the lip on our citizens,

616
00:47:04,540 --> 00:47:07,740
which we didn't do for three years, we did this year,

617
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,540
but that's a tough position.

618
00:47:10,900 --> 00:47:13,160
It compounds more and more of the problem.

619
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:14,760
So that's just kind of where,

620
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,160
kind of the next one issue of where my brain is going

621
00:47:18,860 --> 00:47:22,020
with regards to getting old though.

622
00:47:22,260 --> 00:47:23,780
I understand if you're not growing your diet.

623
00:47:26,340 --> 00:47:30,760
So can you can you just clarify for me for the sales tax revenue?

624
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,400
I know last year we talked about it and I know it's been it's been tough and

625
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:39,080
you've seen a decline in that do you see that if there is on the flip side of

626
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:44,300
that if there's an increase in local sales tax revenue that if we're being

627
00:47:44,300 --> 00:47:48,000
held to will our sales taxes down so we can't fund you as much when the sales

628
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,400
tax goes up will you see a shift in that to where we could have some

629
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:56,900
additional funding? I mean, that is a potential. I mean, that was an auditor's

630
00:47:56,900 --> 00:48:06,700
suggestion from maybe last year or last year before. Tie your revenue

631
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:11,920
reimbursement or whatever you want to call it back to sales tax. So if the sales

632
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:17,080
tax is climbing and we know that and I don't think that Christensen was a huge fan

633
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:20,560
of being recognized just on the sales tax. Well, it makes us feel like we're

634
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:25,100
responsible sure sure all the sales tax in the entire county when we're

635
00:48:25,100 --> 00:48:29,060
showing the businesses we've brought in have brought in more sales tax than

636
00:48:29,060 --> 00:48:32,020
even what you guys are funding us at I feel like that's what we can show

637
00:48:32,020 --> 00:48:35,780
we are responsible for sure and that's kind of where we're in where it's a tough

638
00:48:36,300 --> 00:48:41,880
dynamic that's why I'm looking you know maybe three years ago we ask help us with

639
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:47,920
the campaign for the shop yeah you know use that as a deliverable no

640
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:52,940
different than the City of Los Arts contract with those are Chamber of Commerce. Here are these

641
00:48:52,940 --> 00:48:57,040
deliverables if we're going to give you X number of dollars. We need something back in return.

642
00:48:58,860 --> 00:49:03,080
And we do have the opportunity for the county to enter into a contract with us if they would like

643
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:07,520
to have specific deliverables like that. That is an option that we have on the table in the county

644
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:12,840
has just never agreed to do that. So but that is something that we are willing, full and willing

645
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:17,500
to do and that is something you guys would like to see us and have measurable

646
00:49:17,500 --> 00:49:22,480
performance on specific asks. We are more than happy to have those discussions

647
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:26,100
and go into a contract because we do with the city of NYXDA and the city of

648
00:49:26,100 --> 00:49:30,460
Ozark and they say love having that because they have specific measurable things

649
00:49:30,460 --> 00:49:34,000
that we can do. So just something to consider. As you dive into that, is that

650
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,900
something that you feel like you could put together in a reasonable amount of time

651
00:49:36,900 --> 00:49:40,700
if we tabled what we have proved today or do you feel like that's something that

652
00:49:40,700 --> 00:49:42,660
that we're talking about for next year.

653
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,700
I will assure that we had that stipulation

654
00:49:45,700 --> 00:49:48,100
that set up at 50,000 and higher

655
00:49:48,100 --> 00:49:50,800
when we did the enter into the agreement with people.

656
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:57,420
So that would be the caveat is that we're launching

657
00:49:57,420 --> 00:50:00,640
a funding campaign that is in our bylaws every five years

658
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:01,800
that we need to launch it.

659
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:04,860
So we're actually at a first meeting yesterday

660
00:50:05,900 --> 00:50:09,240
and we're revamping all of our...

661
00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:11,400
so that we can have three to five-year agreements

662
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,160
and things like that from different organizations

663
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,180
and businesses so that we can budget for the future

664
00:50:15,180 --> 00:50:16,500
so that we can know if we have jobs

665
00:50:16,500 --> 00:50:18,100
and we can know what we're able to do.

666
00:50:18,780 --> 00:50:20,700
So, but that is how we're able to do that.

667
00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:23,140
With that, because as you know,

668
00:50:23,580 --> 00:50:25,980
you guys are trying to set budgetary things for you.

669
00:50:26,860 --> 00:50:27,980
And then, you know, with us,

670
00:50:28,100 --> 00:50:29,500
we're trying to do the exact same thing.

671
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:31,140
We don't know what we have year to year.

672
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:33,800
Last year, the reason we got hit so hard

673
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:35,480
is we have hit with so many things

674
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:36,680
that were outside of our control.

675
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:42,920
So, we had one rainstorm where Miranda's department wouldn't be spend on that one rainstorm.

676
00:50:43,260 --> 00:50:44,060
It's close to 300.

677
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:46,580
Yeah, almost $300 from one storm.

678
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:47,900
We weren't counting on it.

679
00:50:47,940 --> 00:50:51,480
We had a million dollars that we spent on the sewer from the jail.

680
00:50:51,660 --> 00:50:53,600
We had no idea we were going to have to spend on it.

681
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:55,300
So last year we were like, then.

682
00:50:55,860 --> 00:50:56,880
So it's so hard.

683
00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:59,900
And we don't want to feel like we're printing on you at all.

684
00:51:00,020 --> 00:51:03,660
We're just saying that's how our organization, our board, has voted just as great to talk

685
00:51:03,660 --> 00:51:03,900
about.

686
00:51:08,340 --> 00:51:15,100
It's tough for when you look at the other old taxing organizations in this county, they're dealing with property tax.

687
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:17,860
And property tax is a steady income.

688
00:51:18,100 --> 00:51:25,300
We've never, in my lifetime, I mean, we had a couple of small financial crisis and housing market crisis in 2008.

689
00:51:25,500 --> 00:51:29,280
This property tax pretty much is always on the clock.

690
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:34,240
you can always see it. I mean in the past 12 years, Christian County's known for one billion

691
00:51:34,240 --> 00:51:40,280
assets valuation, two billion assets valuation. And so they can project and they can look long-term,

692
00:51:40,420 --> 00:51:45,740
they can look five years. Municipality's counties on the sales tax work, we're more of a rollercoaster,

693
00:51:46,240 --> 00:51:52,880
you know, we're up and down, up and down, up and down every single month and it can get nauseous riding

694
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:58,800
the rollercoaster as we're trying to prepare and plan. And we're trying to help not only on the

695
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:05,540
development side with that. But as you said, the shop local campaign, now that that is a few years behind us and

696
00:52:05,540 --> 00:52:10,940
and morphing into the Explore Christian County, which is an even bigger, you know, entity not just

697
00:52:10,940 --> 00:52:16,140
encouraging people that are here to find local things to do and come to local festivals and events and

698
00:52:16,140 --> 00:52:22,180
shop at your local stores and highlight the, you know, retail stores and things that we have here, but

699
00:52:22,180 --> 00:52:28,240
also to bring in outside dollars to our community so that we're not just relying on the local spending

700
00:52:28,240 --> 00:52:32,940
their dollars a year but we're also encouraging other people to come and see what we have here

701
00:52:32,940 --> 00:52:37,020
and spend their dollars a year. So trying to kind of hit that from both sides will really

702
00:52:37,020 --> 00:52:41,980
I believe start to see a really good return on that here in the next years as that continues

703
00:52:41,980 --> 00:52:47,720
to grow especially as we have some state funding that can match what we're able to spend to kind of

704
00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:52,740
help boost that. So with this being the first year to do it we're really excited to see what that

705
00:52:52,740 --> 00:52:57,320
will look like and I can't wait to be able to report back to you guys with that. So when I can speak

706
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:02,180
you know, just from only being in office almost two years and just being around and seeing

707
00:53:02,180 --> 00:53:05,740
the things that you guys are involved in, the things you're doing, and what it can doubt

708
00:53:05,740 --> 00:53:09,660
that one did. You know, you guys doing an amazing job.

709
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:13,280
If it wasn't, we wouldn't have been like, okay, we would have cut the money completely.

710
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:17,960
We didn't think that what, you know, the irrevaluable and what you guys do.

711
00:53:18,660 --> 00:53:21,420
We just looked at it kind of why we talked about that contract thing.

712
00:53:21,460 --> 00:53:24,480
We'd be able to commit to, you know, five years that have set them out for us.

713
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:28,040
why that's so hard is because we don't know the year we're going to spend a million dollars on

714
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:33,900
sewer or where we're going to have those as we dial in year to year. We almost have to have

715
00:53:33,900 --> 00:53:38,480
that flexibility for our own budget to go oh my gosh what did we get hit with or what happened

716
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:42,600
or what's there you know what this or that that's why I think it makes it a little bit harder for us

717
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:49,880
to come in to that and people that don't understand you know 80% of our budget is through sales tax.

718
00:53:51,460 --> 00:53:57,900
And as we go forward, you know, and you can't continue to be the fastest, one of the fastest growing counties

719
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,960
continue to add the services with the new road subdivisions and all the things

720
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:05,180
that then have your sales tax go stagnant.

721
00:54:05,420 --> 00:54:10,540
Because we talked about it a million times in here, it's because people are purchasing more online.

722
00:54:10,900 --> 00:54:14,400
That's why in the very first year I said, I put forth the use tax.

723
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:17,520
I know it's not popular, it's never popular when you say, hey, we need to ask for this,

724
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:22,220
but we can see, long-term, we don't do something here,

725
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:24,620
we're gonna continue to just be stagnant

726
00:54:24,620 --> 00:54:27,400
and it only hurts the growth that hurts

727
00:54:27,820 --> 00:54:29,580
what we're able to provide for people.

728
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:33,320
So I feel you're getting it completely

729
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:35,920
and that's why, you know, I felt like you guys took

730
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,440
such a massive cut last year and that's why,

731
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,900
that's why I speak to that as if I could see what we're not here.

732
00:54:44,580 --> 00:54:46,000
I think you're sharing about that,

733
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:49,320
But I think it's it's one of those things that it's important everyone understands

734
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:52,480
It'd be no different for your organization if you were in and you were like oh my gosh

735
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,480
All of a sudden money gets super tight. You can't do anything. You can't go

736
00:54:55,480 --> 00:55:00,780
Well, we were gonna donate 10 grand to this or whatever it is and we can't this year or whatever and that's what yeah

737
00:55:00,780 --> 00:55:06,480
We would also just like you guys to think of this more as an extension of your team that you guys have here

738
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:11,800
That other people are also paying in to utilize our organization like all the other cities and

739
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:19,520
And private businesses too are paying for our organization to help everyone across the county that's wanting to expand and do business here.

740
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:25,800
I would use the City of Ozark as a great example. They really see us as an extension of their City of Ozark team.

741
00:55:26,100 --> 00:55:32,060
And they call upon us when they have questions about staff or if there's a development going on, like they see us as that,

742
00:55:32,140 --> 00:55:36,980
unless of a donation and more of an extension of the team that they have within the county.

743
00:55:36,980 --> 00:55:41,560
so it's just it's a cool way that they've really kind of modeled that and we've

744
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:45,540
been really excited that they've they've really kind of taken that all on as

745
00:55:45,540 --> 00:55:49,540
they really do see us as an extension of their employees and their team which

746
00:55:49,540 --> 00:55:52,500
is really cool so I would just encourage you to think about it more of that

747
00:55:52,500 --> 00:55:57,600
aspect and less of just a terrible donation because we do the work that we do as

748
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:02,140
you guys know stands to benefit the county as a whole more than anyone else and

749
00:56:02,140 --> 00:56:06,360
so we we look at ourselves as an extension of your team and we would love to see

750
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,580
that was imricated, and whatever way that was.

751
00:56:08,580 --> 00:56:13,440
I think that's the easiest way to look at is because when we do make donations to other

752
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:18,620
things, they provide services and do things where yours is more generated and it comes

753
00:56:18,620 --> 00:56:19,060
back.

754
00:56:19,300 --> 00:56:20,340
There's return to that.

755
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:26,120
And one of the biggest things when you're self-tax is going to stay out doing that is to

756
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:28,940
work with entities to help that grow and how we do that.

757
00:56:29,180 --> 00:56:32,300
And that's why you come in and you give us reports and you're like, here you want to come

758
00:56:32,300 --> 00:56:32,680
in here.

759
00:56:32,780 --> 00:56:33,840
So we've been working with stuff.

760
00:56:34,020 --> 00:56:34,840
We appreciate you guys.

761
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:35,360
Thank you.

762
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:45,300
But hopefully, Rachel, we can, we've got Commissioner Williams as a new board member for you guys.

763
00:56:45,580 --> 00:56:50,360
And I think that in the future, maybe we can do more of that.

764
00:56:50,500 --> 00:56:56,720
I just want to point out, and, you know, thinking again, Chris, what we talked about yesterday,

765
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:02,120
listening to Mr. Brandon today, talking about how long it takes to build a bridge.

766
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:07,280
It's nothing that we ever thought this was going to happen on Green Bridge, our red

767
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:08,500
bridge, our Hawkins.

768
00:57:08,500 --> 00:57:11,220
This is all taking longer.

769
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:18,940
And what you guys do is a process that you don't get through overnight.

770
00:57:19,420 --> 00:57:21,520
In fact, you don't even get through in one year.

771
00:57:22,060 --> 00:57:27,540
Most of your projects, because I think about the project building the road that we talked

772
00:57:27,540 --> 00:57:35,040
about in front of Chevrolet and bringing those six-figure incomes jobs behind

773
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:40,160
creative audio and we finally got the grant money and we're finally going to

774
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:45,060
get the road started maybe this fall or you know so next year and we

775
00:57:45,060 --> 00:57:50,960
completed and we can start building buildings to get jobs but we talked about

776
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:56,580
that three or four years ago so it's kind of hard very long term planning for

777
00:57:56,580 --> 00:58:02,540
And so generally, it's a little different in growing your garden that you have to do a

778
00:58:02,540 --> 00:58:06,300
whole bunch of stuff, but you get produce in the same year.

779
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:12,760
But in you guys, you're not getting any produce for a few years, and it makes it hard.

780
00:58:13,740 --> 00:58:18,200
The chat with fire branch was the process for grant writing on that, that our team told

781
00:58:18,820 --> 00:58:22,580
produce some of the grant writing for to get that bridge secured.

782
00:58:22,580 --> 00:58:26,920
That happened before I was even at Shelby, and I'm going into my fit here, being here.

783
00:58:27,220 --> 00:58:27,620
Yeah, yeah.

784
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:30,560
That's adjusted the risk for that, so it takes a while.

785
00:58:31,140 --> 00:58:31,900
That's a problem.

786
00:58:32,700 --> 00:58:37,360
But that's the nature of economic development, it's not a short trip thing, it's for the long

787
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:37,580
haul.

788
00:58:37,820 --> 00:58:42,360
So I'm trying to set up the county and the community for our kids and grandkids, and it's

789
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:43,100
just a lot of fun.

790
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,980
I am grateful that we have, show me a Christian County.

791
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:46,520
Thank you.

792
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:48,300
I think you guys are very important.

793
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:52,520
There are so many things important in this county, and we just have to figure out a way

794
00:58:52,520 --> 00:59:00,920
work together and we appreciate you guys we understand it's a tough decision to begin so

795
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:08,640
and Johnny I think going back to your question about the contract I feel like it might be something

796
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:17,000
that we do like work on in the next couple of months but like I said we are launching and trying to

797
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:25,260
to do a five-year commitment and rather someone that you mentioned earlier to about taking

798
00:59:25,260 --> 00:59:32,900
care of internal 13. The organization showed me they were started with the county commissioners,

799
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:40,620
the city of NYXS, the city of Rosarth and to me that is our foundation and having the three

800
00:59:40,620 --> 00:59:47,300
you guys on board and supporting the organization is so key and it shows the

801
00:59:47,300 --> 00:59:53,740
business community to that this is the collaborative effort and I think that

802
00:59:53,740 --> 00:59:59,620
our partners really do look at that and they do care that everybody is at the

803
01:00:00,340 --> 01:00:28,680
And so, I look at you guys as our foundation. And so, as Rachel said, we're going to be an extension of the team. We're trying to partner with everybody to make all of this stuff happen. We can't do it by ourselves. And we know that. And so, you talk about Chevin Plyar. I mean, that was 30 different parties together. And it was you guys going to Northwest Arkansas a long time ago. It's always bringing everybody together to think this happens.

804
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:37,740
So for our foundation, though, having you guys be a solid base for the organization to continue, I think it's just, it's very important.

805
01:00:38,780 --> 01:00:40,160
That's how I look at it.

806
01:00:40,700 --> 01:00:41,060
I

807
01:00:49,540 --> 01:01:00,160
want to make a motion today, take a vote or do we want to spend a week or two and decide what we want to do.

808
01:01:01,700 --> 01:01:07,120
I'm open to whatever you all decided to do, so I'm going to go and need a direction as well.

809
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:09,320
That's a matter to me.

810
01:01:09,860 --> 01:01:10,340
If

811
01:01:13,730 --> 01:01:19,530
you made a motion to set at 40, stay at 40, I would second that motion.

812
01:01:20,350 --> 01:01:23,950
I was going to say we have anything left to research or anything to wait.

813
01:01:24,430 --> 01:01:29,510
I'm talking about more of the contractual stuff in the future, given us your time to look at that.

814
01:01:29,510 --> 01:01:36,090
Yeah, I would prefer that if we if we were to do that any year that we've had a couple of months built up

815
01:01:37,150 --> 01:01:39,090
Expectations, so we don't lose any time

816
01:01:39,090 --> 01:01:42,490
So I make that motion to

817
01:01:43,430 --> 01:01:45,790
Approved $40,000 for the new contract

818
01:01:47,990 --> 01:01:50,630
Second, okay, we've got a motion

819
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:55,320
Let's do a growth conflict

820
01:02:04,330 --> 01:02:15,270
Okay, so what you guys can do is go ahead and kind of research and we'll look at, I don't know,

821
01:02:15,730 --> 01:02:24,550
we'll look at and see what you guys can propose and what we think that we can do,

822
01:02:24,730 --> 01:02:27,510
and we'll work with the auditor and work with other people.

823
01:02:29,990 --> 01:02:36,930
You know, one of the things I'm always concerned about is, and maybe now the other citizens

824
01:02:36,930 --> 01:02:42,530
in this county are concerned about it, but I am concerned, I mean, we're still working

825
01:02:42,530 --> 01:02:49,030
on the auditorium where we can even afford to have a co-op for our employees this year.

826
01:02:49,790 --> 01:02:56,290
Not everybody gets a raise in our county every year, and so if we don't have enough money

827
01:02:56,290 --> 01:03:03,590
to do a COLA, just a simple COLA to try to keep up with the cost of living. Our

828
01:03:03,590 --> 01:03:12,350
employees just continue to go down and our employees deserve better than that

829
01:03:12,350 --> 01:03:16,750
because they're providing the services for all of our citizens.

830
01:03:17,750 --> 01:03:23,830
We understand we're in a state of emergency, we're not doing that either, yeah, yeah, so you're all in the same

831
01:03:23,830 --> 01:03:31,190
This is problems that we have, but I believe that we're going to overcome the problems.

832
01:03:31,630 --> 01:03:33,130
This is not the end.

833
01:03:33,770 --> 01:03:38,210
This is the beginning of something I believe that will be better in the future.

834
01:03:38,410 --> 01:03:42,710
I still believe this county will continue to grow and be better.

835
01:03:43,370 --> 01:03:44,290
I really believe it.

836
01:03:44,430 --> 01:03:44,890
We do too.

837
01:03:45,490 --> 01:03:47,730
And I'm not going to give up on that county.

838
01:03:48,610 --> 01:03:53,490
So, but those are other considerations that's always in my mind.

839
01:03:54,750 --> 01:03:59,110
I want to take care of you guys, because you take care of everything.

840
01:03:59,730 --> 01:04:02,070
But I also want to take care of all the employees.

841
01:04:03,090 --> 01:04:04,430
We want you to, for sure.

842
01:04:04,890 --> 01:04:06,050
It doesn't help me any.

843
01:04:06,730 --> 01:04:08,770
But I'm fighting for the employees.

844
01:04:10,930 --> 01:04:13,930
Well, we appreciate that.

845
01:04:13,930 --> 01:04:18,730
We'll do our own research too and try to figure out something that sounds fair to everyone

846
01:04:18,730 --> 01:04:21,830
and that makes sense for the work that we're doing, but we want you guys to feel really

847
01:04:21,830 --> 01:04:22,630
good about it too.

848
01:04:23,350 --> 01:04:27,730
And we want us, you know, if there's a potential for contracts, like we want a little bit more

849
01:04:27,730 --> 01:04:29,870
I know we've got our work study coming up, our workshop.

850
01:04:30,450 --> 01:04:30,490
Yeah.

851
01:04:30,650 --> 01:04:31,030
We're going to talk.

852
01:04:31,290 --> 01:04:31,390
Yeah.

853
01:04:31,690 --> 01:04:35,230
And maybe we just have more of those, maybe quarterly, where we sit down and talk.

854
01:04:35,390 --> 01:04:36,090
There's some of that stuff.

855
01:04:36,270 --> 01:04:36,550
Yeah.

856
01:04:36,550 --> 01:04:37,070
Maybe we'll do this.

857
01:04:38,270 --> 01:04:39,050
You know, so great.

858
01:04:39,190 --> 01:04:40,310
That way we're constantly communicating.

859
01:04:40,910 --> 01:04:40,950
Yeah.

860
01:04:41,150 --> 01:04:41,850
Let's think it would be good.

861
01:04:41,850 --> 01:04:47,070
Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. Thank you. Have a great day.

862
01:04:47,630 --> 01:04:57,410
All right, me. Next item is, next item is communications. New gentlemen have any communications.

863
01:05:02,060 --> 01:05:10,340
Okay, so it's got a couple real quick. September 28th is a good neighborhood day in the state of Missouri.

864
01:05:10,340 --> 01:05:21,240
So that is coming up. And then also National Good Neighbor Week is September 28th through October 4th.

865
01:05:21,240 --> 01:05:27,080
Miss Brenda and I will be sending information out to all the chambers today and tomorrow.

866
01:05:27,780 --> 01:05:35,960
So they will have it. We're going to try to get the chambers to talk this up and communicate to all of their members

867
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:43,340
and try to see if we can get some more entries into our contest every year.

868
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:49,600
We did have a Christian County winner last year in the state and I'd like to see more entries this year.

869
01:05:50,180 --> 01:05:55,080
It makes our communities better when we have good neighbors and promoting good neighbors.

870
01:05:55,940 --> 01:06:00,920
So those are the only two things that I have right now.

871
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:09,120
and if there's no water business, we will go into recess and they know when to close session.

872
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:09,800
We

873
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:22,250
will go into recess and we'll sign.

874
01:06:22,250 --> 01:06:25,470
So I'm just going to start charging my quarter...