1
00:01:23,410 --> 00:01:53,310
I'm going to call our Montgomery County Board of Commissioners' regular session, August 18th at 6 p.m. to order. And our first line is for our invocation. And Pastor Tony is supposed to be here, but he had some family sick, so he's not able to be with us. So I'm going to open this up in prayer tonight. And so let us pray. Heavenly Father, we do come to you, God, and we thank you for all the many blessings. And God, we thank you for this great nation.

2
00:01:53,310 --> 00:01:58,390
that you've given to us. We thank you for this great county that we live in. And God, we come here

3
00:01:58,390 --> 00:02:03,190
tonight to do your will and to serve you and to serve this community, Father. And as we come

4
00:02:03,190 --> 00:02:09,050
together, we ask for your guidance. God, we ask for your wisdom. And we ask most of all for your

5
00:02:09,050 --> 00:02:15,550
unity, God, to work in this meeting. Have your way tonight. We thank you for each one of these that

6
00:02:15,550 --> 00:02:20,590
are here to serve. And Father, God, we thank you for this great county that we get to do it in.

7
00:02:22,890 --> 00:02:23,290
And

8
00:02:23,290 --> 00:02:28,810
tonight and continue to guide us and we ask it all in Jesus' name and everybody said

9
00:02:28,810 --> 00:02:29,070
Amen.

10
00:02:30,190 --> 00:02:31,930
Alright, let's stand for our pledge tonight.

11
00:02:32,670 --> 00:02:41,720
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

12
00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:50,340
which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all, may be seen.

13
00:02:52,820 --> 00:02:58,560
all right we'll get started here looks like we need approval for an agenda for

14
00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:04,780
our agenda there need a motion and a motion got a motion got a second all in

15
00:03:04,780 --> 00:03:11,940
favor all right and Commissioner Shaw will not be with us tonight he had some

16
00:03:11,940 --> 00:03:17,980
other things to come up so he did let us know that and I guess right now Frank

17
00:03:17,980 --> 00:03:22,900
time for our public forum. Indeed. Um, we do not have anyone signed up for public forum. Okay.

18
00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:28,200
Anybody here that didn't get signed up that would like to real quick for you any further.

19
00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:35,900
There you go. All right. All right. Frankie, uh, let you have it here for the agenda.

20
00:03:36,060 --> 00:03:41,300
Let's bring this to the people's agenda. Um, we have a handful of items here, about a half dozen.

21
00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:46,660
We have the approval of the regular session minutes on July 21st, a budget amendment number two

22
00:03:46,660 --> 00:03:51,620
for a memorandum of agreement for grant funds with Richmond County and this is from the Health Department.

23
00:03:52,260 --> 00:03:59,520
We have the juvenile Crown Prevention Council 2627 funding plan, resolution and support of tobacco of 21.

24
00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,400
This is the resolution that was presented last month.

25
00:04:03,380 --> 00:04:06,640
Fireworks Permit Application and the Register of Debt Report.

26
00:04:09,330 --> 00:04:10,730
All right, looks like I need a motion.

27
00:04:11,330 --> 00:04:12,130
I'm making motion.

28
00:04:12,530 --> 00:04:12,850
All right.

29
00:04:13,210 --> 00:04:14,930
We've got a motion in a second. All in favor?

30
00:04:15,810 --> 00:04:16,350
All right.

31
00:04:19,780 --> 00:04:24,760
I might be wrong to say this, but that tobacco 21, I think it's a good idea, but if someone's

32
00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,960
active in military here would be able to smoke cigarettes and come here at least 20

33
00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:28,220
euros.

34
00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:29,000
I'm sorry.

35
00:04:29,660 --> 00:04:30,460
The old school would be there.

36
00:04:30,460 --> 00:04:32,280
If he's active in military, he would be able to have an exemption.

37
00:04:32,660 --> 00:04:32,880
Yes.

38
00:04:34,420 --> 00:04:34,980
We're all.

39
00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,140
I see where you come in from.

40
00:04:37,620 --> 00:04:37,640
Yeah.

41
00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,940
It's a good job for his country and our country, you know what I mean.

42
00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:42,220
I believe he did.

43
00:04:42,340 --> 00:04:43,340
He might have felt like that too.

44
00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:43,780
I'm sure.

45
00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:44,300
I'm sure.

46
00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:44,620
I'm sure.

47
00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:44,980
I'm sure.

48
00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:46,040
I'm sure.

49
00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,360
All right, Frankie.

50
00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,440
All right, I do have a few items here on our county manager's report, a couple that

51
00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:54,140
needs some action.

52
00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:58,720
The first would be the consideration of a budget amendment to provide funding for retention

53
00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,160
bonus for Montgomery Community College.

54
00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:07,440
Typically those bonuses are accomplished through a budget amendment at the end of the fiscal

55
00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:07,840
year.

56
00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:14,320
We did not do that this year and last month we discussed briefly the given additional

57
00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:20,020
consideration to those employee retention bonuses that MCC has given out for the last

58
00:05:20,020 --> 00:05:20,920
couple of years or so.

59
00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:26,580
And to accomplish that this year would require, in the current fiscal year, would at this

60
00:05:26,580 --> 00:05:30,260
point, would require budget amendment, and that's what's before you tonight.

61
00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:36,040
It would seek a budget amendment and approval of retention bonuses, and I would add that

62
00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:42,700
we also discuss distributing those in some sort of uniform fashion across MCC employees, and

63
00:05:42,700 --> 00:05:46,400
that would be included in the recommendation for you guys tonight.

64
00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,320
All right, so we need a motion that would be

65
00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:51,440
giving out wind.

66
00:05:55,500 --> 00:05:59,680
I did not specify this here. I would have to coordinate with them a little further

67
00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:01,760
to know when they would disperse that.

68
00:06:01,820 --> 00:06:04,040
I would like it to go ahead and be sooner or later

69
00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:06,060
if you can put that in the notes.

70
00:06:06,940 --> 00:06:08,480
I can I'll convey that to them.

71
00:06:08,660 --> 00:06:10,720
We can get it transmitted to them quickly.

72
00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:11,260
Okay.

73
00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:13,460
I'll make a motion.

74
00:06:14,020 --> 00:06:14,160
All right.

75
00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:14,660
Got a motion?

76
00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:15,340
Need a second.

77
00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:16,180
I'll second it.

78
00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:17,620
Got a motion in a second.

79
00:06:18,580 --> 00:06:19,580
And all in favor?

80
00:06:20,540 --> 00:06:21,240
All right.

81
00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:22,100
Motion approved.

82
00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:25,200
Uniformly.

83
00:06:25,980 --> 00:06:26,460
Uniformly.

84
00:06:28,340 --> 00:06:33,420
Second item I have for the board's consideration is we have an interim vacancy on our planning board.

85
00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:35,760
And I'll rewind just a little bit.

86
00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:43,060
But the board usually gives each member a nomination for a planning board member and the

87
00:06:43,060 --> 00:06:47,300
political courtesy is for the board to approve the nomination of each individual member.

88
00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:54,720
Mr. Schaul's not seeking reelection and the appointment where the nomination is his and

89
00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,980
he's deferred that to the board to make the official appointment.

90
00:06:58,980 --> 00:07:07,860
We have one individual to consider, Mr. Jonathan Sedbury, and if Mr. Sedbury's application

91
00:07:08,380 --> 00:07:13,140
is agreeable, a motion to approve Mr. Sedbury to the plaintiff board would be in order.

92
00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:13,780
All right.

93
00:07:14,060 --> 00:07:14,740
I'll make a motion.

94
00:07:15,220 --> 00:07:15,420
All right.

95
00:07:15,580 --> 00:07:16,060
We've got a motion.

96
00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:17,520
And got a second.

97
00:07:17,740 --> 00:07:18,200
All in favor?

98
00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:19,420
All right.

99
00:07:19,540 --> 00:07:20,180
Motion passes.

100
00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:26,180
Did have one thing I'd like to mention, and this is a little less for the board and more

101
00:07:26,180 --> 00:07:30,500
for our audience that may be joining us out there on YouTube or

102
00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:34,820
and or through our website. The county is in the process of updating our

103
00:07:34,820 --> 00:07:39,080
website, our agenda software, agenda management, minutes, all those

104
00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:44,140
things wrapped in the one. Part of this is, you know, some of our

105
00:07:44,140 --> 00:07:48,960
technologies in the life, some of it's to comply with the new 88 federal

106
00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:54,200
88 requirements for our website. Tonight for the first time there's access to

107
00:07:54,200 --> 00:08:00,540
the general public and you guys and everyone else to some of our agenda items and what the

108
00:08:00,540 --> 00:08:05,860
new look will be. For those folks out there to access the information through our website,

109
00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:12,220
you'll see the exact same thing our board is seeing. You have the ability to even ask

110
00:08:12,220 --> 00:08:16,820
a few questions, put it in more of an accessibility mode, and I believe there's even an option

111
00:08:16,820 --> 00:08:23,880
to get some assistance for those that may be impaired. But look for this to evolve as we

112
00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:28,860
go forward. We are pointing folks to the website because there's more opportunities to interact

113
00:08:28,860 --> 00:08:35,400
with our agendas and minutes and historical documents through the website. So any feedback

114
00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,840
is appreciated as well as this is still new to us.

115
00:08:39,300 --> 00:08:43,300
And we continue to update upgrade and I like that. I mean we always need to be doing better

116
00:08:43,300 --> 00:08:47,600
looking better. You can't do much with this anyway so make it look as good as you can.

117
00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:56,040
I mean, all right, before beauty, right, didn't say beauty was a horse, though, so I don't know.

118
00:08:56,740 --> 00:09:01,420
Anyway, it's ain't comedy hour, sorry, I was waiting for a little, but it's okay, go ahead, Frankie.

119
00:09:01,980 --> 00:09:08,780
And I will mention that I've had some feedback about flock cameras or automation license plate readers.

120
00:09:08,780 --> 00:09:15,480
The one that's in the county does not belong to the county and there seems to be confusion

121
00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:15,980
about that.

122
00:09:16,220 --> 00:09:18,720
We do not own or operate any license plate readers.

123
00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:19,240
Yeah.

124
00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:20,980
We'll have anything to do with it.

125
00:09:21,940 --> 00:09:26,840
And any that have been placed in the county have not been placed by the county commissioner's

126
00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,700
or any county entity.

127
00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:30,240
Correct.

128
00:09:30,660 --> 00:09:30,840
Yes.

129
00:09:31,060 --> 00:09:31,300
Okay.

130
00:09:31,420 --> 00:09:32,300
All right.

131
00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:34,780
All right.

132
00:09:37,580 --> 00:09:38,240
Is that it?

133
00:09:38,580 --> 00:09:39,220
That's all I have.

134
00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:40,780
I've got something to say.

135
00:09:40,780 --> 00:09:48,000
All right go for it. Our election is coming up in November 3rd and our community building

136
00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:53,780
out in El Dorado. The concrete is just the concrete needs some attention really bad.

137
00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,560
Safety wise, I would appreciate it if we could get into that.

138
00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:03,940
Okay, definitely get that on the list. Move it up to the list. Thank you.

139
00:10:04,580 --> 00:10:12,700
you buy out? I got three things. First of all we discussed previously maybe

140
00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:15,540
getting a contract where you literally get to northern end of the county some

141
00:10:15,540 --> 00:10:20,500
fire protection help. I want us to try to move that along and see what we can

142
00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:26,020
work on. I got citizens up there that still concerned so we owe it to them to

143
00:10:26,020 --> 00:10:33,760
give it our attention. Second thing is solar water. I'm ready to see a new

144
00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:38,200
building, sitting out here with the eggs, with the clothes to Christie and them, let's get

145
00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:42,680
so on and more out of this building out here, get rid of it, whatever they need to do,

146
00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,980
but let's get them down there and get a new conference room built so they'll have somewhere

147
00:10:46,980 --> 00:10:47,700
to do their meetings.

148
00:10:47,940 --> 00:10:49,380
I concur completely.

149
00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:51,960
And my third thing is the hardest part.

150
00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:57,720
I just want to, as a commissioner, thank you for the job you're doing, thank you for any

151
00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:03,740
time I call this man, he gets me that I don't know anything, but I can call him again.

152
00:11:03,740 --> 00:11:08,160
get the answer for when the citizen calls me and asks me something. I'm going to call

153
00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:12,140
you back shortly, but then I'm going to press for him. So Frankie's the next number you

154
00:11:12,140 --> 00:11:17,840
got. For me, I appreciate you. We give it to him. He has all the answers because he has

155
00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:23,360
the money and all the ordinances and we cannot get a good answer and a fair answer. I try

156
00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,700
to give an answer. They not be the ones who want to hear always. But it's not going to

157
00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:30,180
always be. Well, is it right? I don't care if it's the ones who want to hear or not.

158
00:11:30,780 --> 00:11:33,600
The right one, always right one, that's it, that's it.

159
00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,100
And one thing I'll say about Frankie and I appreciate even

160
00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:41,160
before I came on the board is Frankie, he's like,

161
00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,020
we may not can fix this, but let's get away through where we are.

162
00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,700
He tries to get us through what we're going through,

163
00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:48,740
get us the end result.

164
00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:51,340
And like you said, it's not always what we want to hear,

165
00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:53,860
but you give us a path through it and we all appreciate that.

166
00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:56,820
Dan has a saying in the planning department,

167
00:11:57,860 --> 00:11:58,960
trying to get you to guess.

168
00:11:58,960 --> 00:11:59,120
Yes.

169
00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,300
Is that how you say it exactly?

170
00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:02,740
How's that?

171
00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:05,840
I mean, you're way, but we're going to get there.

172
00:12:05,980 --> 00:12:06,180
Yeah.

173
00:12:06,420 --> 00:12:07,600
Trying to get you to yes.

174
00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:10,940
It's my share of questions, too.

175
00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:14,220
I mean, he asked questions made when he interned at 12 years ago.

176
00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:16,220
He asked me questions.

177
00:12:16,740 --> 00:12:18,040
Well, and I'll say this.

178
00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:19,520
There you go.

179
00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:26,380
But to have folks that work here, but not only live here, but grew up here, and I think it's

180
00:12:26,380 --> 00:12:33,320
an honor to be able to serve in your home. Where you live, where you, we know folks that

181
00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,580
live here. I mean, I care about this place. I live here. I'm not just trying to make

182
00:12:37,580 --> 00:12:43,580
decisions on, you know, to make me better off. I want this place to be here for my kids and

183
00:12:43,580 --> 00:12:50,370
my grandkids. I think we share that. I'm grateful to work with commissioners like we have

184
00:12:50,370 --> 00:12:56,050
But now I think we do real well together and I appreciate the opportunity to do this.

185
00:12:57,910 --> 00:13:03,650
There's been a lot of good folks before us that have made some strides for us to be able

186
00:13:03,650 --> 00:13:04,490
to be where we are.

187
00:13:04,590 --> 00:13:09,890
I can't take credit for a lot of what's going on now because it's previous commissioners.

188
00:13:10,110 --> 00:13:10,730
You still talk?

189
00:13:11,410 --> 00:13:11,910
I can't.

190
00:13:12,990 --> 00:13:19,250
I had a supervisor tell me if I put my hands in my pocket, I couldn't talk, but anyway.

191
00:13:20,530 --> 00:13:24,150
It is comedy hour tonight, and I have to start a show.

192
00:13:25,110 --> 00:13:28,590
Frankie, if that's it, I'm going to give a couple of folks an opportunity if that's all

193
00:13:28,590 --> 00:13:28,850
right.

194
00:13:29,930 --> 00:13:36,570
I'd like to give Superintendent Wade Almond a chance here to give us a little update

195
00:13:36,570 --> 00:13:37,030
from school.

196
00:13:37,030 --> 00:13:44,130
School started, and now it's in full swing, hottest blue blazes out there, Mr. Almond, and tell

197
00:13:44,130 --> 00:13:44,830
us how it's going.

198
00:13:47,630 --> 00:13:53,430
We are up in rolling and that's one of the first things I've got on my little list here is that

199
00:13:54,270 --> 00:13:59,830
again I always like to thank you guys for everything y'all do for us I mean because we couldn't operate if it wasn't for y'all support

200
00:13:59,830 --> 00:14:06,650
so but we we have had a good start to the school year we're we're up and running always some little issues

201
00:14:07,070 --> 00:14:10,970
there were some little issues with transportation we're getting all that kind of stuff worked out

202
00:14:10,970 --> 00:14:16,550
It's always kinks but, you know, we're committed to doing better and that's what we're working on.

203
00:14:17,490 --> 00:14:21,670
I also wanted to kind of let you guys know because you're kind of tied in with us on this one.

204
00:14:22,290 --> 00:14:27,870
The school resource officer grant is open. It's due Monday, Dr. Jack Kegel and I are working on that.

205
00:14:29,010 --> 00:14:39,210
So we're in the finalizing process of that grant so we should hear some feedback on that in the next, you know, maybe 30 to 60 days after we get that submitted.

206
00:14:39,750 --> 00:14:44,670
because I know you guys are committed to the SRO's been in all of our schools but predominantly at the

207
00:14:44,670 --> 00:14:49,930
elementary level where this grant kind of fills in. So I'll have more information on that after we

208
00:14:49,930 --> 00:14:56,330
get it all submitted and we get feedback on it. So that's in the works. Our finance department of course

209
00:14:56,330 --> 00:14:59,930
they just finished up their audit last week. Everything's kind of looking good there.

210
00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:29,920
I won't have the number until they present our report to us and that should be at our next board meeting, which will be on the 14th of September. But I should have you guys some numbers looking at how much we actually used out of our fund balance this year, because that's part of that audit process is getting down to the actual nuts and bolts of what we used and down to the penny. So I'll have some information on that. But they are working on keying all the raises that were awarded to the state.

211
00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:34,780
because we got our first payroll for everybody this month, so I know that they're working

212
00:15:34,780 --> 00:15:38,140
very hard and I just appreciate our finance office for everything that they do.

213
00:15:38,780 --> 00:15:43,600
The last thing that I wanted to kind of touch on today was we actually are in the process

214
00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:49,020
of finishing up our five-year facility needs assessment that's required by the state.

215
00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:52,660
It's required that we get signatures by you guys and all that.

216
00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:58,820
It is due by the end of the month, so I hope to have a finished copy for you guys soon.

217
00:15:58,820 --> 00:16:04,340
And I actually would like, if I'm able to get on the agenda to actually present that

218
00:16:04,340 --> 00:16:09,420
to you at next month's meeting, I know that's after I need your signature on it.

219
00:16:09,620 --> 00:16:12,680
But it's kind of where we're at in the timeframe aspect of it.

220
00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,540
But we just, we met on it this morning.

221
00:16:16,060 --> 00:16:21,860
It's looking like right now the company that we're working with to do the needs assessment.

222
00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:24,340
They look at everything.

223
00:16:24,340 --> 00:16:28,860
Now, that includes like deferred maintenance and things that we can kind of push down the

224
00:16:28,860 --> 00:16:33,440
road and they look at the most critical needs, but they have assessed all of our buildings

225
00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:40,200
and they have projected a $48 million needs comprehensive package again. It's not going

226
00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:45,500
to require $48 million because some of those things can be kicked down the road, but that's

227
00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:49,820
what they have assessed. But again, I'll come to a presentation on there. We're going

228
00:16:49,820 --> 00:16:55,100
go through after we get the finalized product and everything is set in stone and we're going to

229
00:16:55,100 --> 00:17:00,100
prioritize that and we're going to again use some of those funding sources that we've got through

230
00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:04,240
the lottery R&R funds and some of those core scent sales tax money, all those kind of things,

231
00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:08,340
but we're going to start addressing those most critical needs and kind of moving forward on those

232
00:17:08,340 --> 00:17:13,220
things. Sounds good. Yeah, I have any questions for you. I appreciate you getting a good

233
00:17:13,220 --> 00:17:17,980
higher over the transportation department. Jamie's a good fellow. It was good to bring somebody from

234
00:17:17,980 --> 00:17:24,600
here home and I kind of concur with what Mr. Pope said I'm the product of the county and I am

235
00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:29,400
very honored to be able to serve. And Jamie says he's not scared to be his hands breezy.

236
00:17:29,580 --> 00:17:34,780
And he is not. He's not. And I have met quite a few times in his short two weeks of being with

237
00:17:34,780 --> 00:17:38,440
this guy. It's pretty smooth out in the high school for transportation. It's one of the two buss

238
00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:43,020
that may have a few extra people on there. But everything's going to smooth in the top

239
00:17:43,020 --> 00:17:45,680
It's my fifth year driving out in the high school, which is pretty smooth.

240
00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:47,240
Well, we appreciate you doing that.

241
00:17:48,020 --> 00:17:54,520
One thing that one thing I'll add is we still are in that 10-day window of where we're

242
00:17:54,520 --> 00:18:00,000
seeing what our ADM is and that's what the state uses to kind of base all of our funding

243
00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:00,720
off of.

244
00:18:01,220 --> 00:18:04,700
But one thing that Jamie and I've already talked about from the transportation perspective

245
00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:09,600
is we're going to start looking at consolidating some of the bus routes to try to take some of

246
00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:14,260
that fuel off because he's already identified a couple schools where we may be able to take

247
00:18:14,260 --> 00:18:18,780
a bus off which would help. I don't want to make the bus routes too long so we're going

248
00:18:18,780 --> 00:18:23,180
to evaluate all of those things before we make a call on it but he's got some ideas

249
00:18:23,180 --> 00:18:26,280
and we're going to be meeting on that. One thing I like about the next budget is there

250
00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:31,140
a better route and system than the teams. The team just 30 something years old and it's

251
00:18:31,140 --> 00:18:36,920
such. If y'all can talk with our state representatives because they're the ones that kind

252
00:18:38,860 --> 00:18:43,600
We've got to meet Monday, don't we, so we can see them still on the table.

253
00:18:44,380 --> 00:18:44,760
Yes sir.

254
00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,500
So many kids we've got, how many people in school this year?

255
00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:56,380
The last I saw, we are right at where we were at last year, and that's just under $3,500,

256
00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:02,120
about $34.50 from a student, and that's pre-K-12.

257
00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:08,660
We have had some hiccups, and we have not officially started the Head Start Classroom that

258
00:19:08,660 --> 00:19:15,880
I mentioned last month at Mount Gillian, yes, I'm not exactly sure what the hold up is,

259
00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:16,920
but it's on their end.

260
00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:21,800
We have done everything that we have committed to, but they have said that they're going to

261
00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:23,000
start on September 1st.

262
00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,000
Now, originally it was supposed to be August 10th.

263
00:19:25,300 --> 00:19:30,600
Now they've pushed it to September 1st, originally we had 10 kids signed up, and now we're

264
00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:31,100
up to 12.

265
00:19:31,100 --> 00:19:34,600
So that is a positive that we've got two more kids signed up to do it

266
00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:38,940
But we are going to be kind of three weeks into the year before they officially open up

267
00:19:38,940 --> 00:19:42,380
Okay, and you guys he just had a birthday. I

268
00:19:42,380 --> 00:19:43,920
Did it. Thank you from a phone call. I'm sorry

269
00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,740
Happy birthday. You've been covered up. It's okay. We'll forgive

270
00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:53,460
Again, we appreciate y'all support. Thank you for the opportunity to meet with you guys each month

271
00:19:53,460 --> 00:19:58,080
Absolutely, and I'll work with Frankie about trying to get on the agenda to present that five-year needs assessment

272
00:19:58,660 --> 00:20:00,520
Thank you guys all right

273
00:20:02,020 --> 00:20:06,840
All right, and got a little time here for our sheriff and sheriff handler.

274
00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,700
If you got something for us, I know you always come with prepare for something, I'm sure.

275
00:20:11,140 --> 00:20:13,640
He always told me to keep it 10 minute in my billboat.

276
00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:21,020
So, I want to bring to your attention something that's really troubling to me and it's broad

277
00:20:21,020 --> 00:20:21,740
and scams.

278
00:20:22,580 --> 00:20:27,020
And as you all out and about, I'm sure that you get phone calls from folks in the county

279
00:20:27,020 --> 00:20:31,940
I'm telling you about folks that they know have been scammed or they've been scammed

280
00:20:31,940 --> 00:20:32,420
themselves.

281
00:20:33,220 --> 00:20:36,780
I do want to share with the National Sheriff Association and I did a public service

282
00:20:36,780 --> 00:20:38,480
announcement on scams.

283
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:45,520
I take it so serious that on our Sheriff's app, and if you go to Montgomery County Sheriff

284
00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:50,460
NC on your app store, you can download our app.

285
00:20:50,660 --> 00:20:54,140
Now there's plenty of Montgomery County's around the nation, so you've got to make sure

286
00:20:54,140 --> 00:21:00,860
where you put the NC in there and on there we've done videos and we also do a news feed.

287
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:07,520
So if we hear about a scam, we'll push that out on our news feed right away so if you

288
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:14,020
have that app, you can find out real time what scams, what frauds are going on.

289
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:19,020
Just today we had four folks come into the Sheriff's Office that were scammed today.

290
00:21:19,020 --> 00:21:24,740
So look, what I want to tell you is to tell the folks that talk to you, folks that you know

291
00:21:24,740 --> 00:21:29,660
and just get the word out to them, is that the Sheriff's Office and no law enforcement

292
00:21:29,660 --> 00:21:37,080
agency will ever call them asking for money, never email them, never text them asking for money at all.

293
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:44,780
Today, their folks portraying themselves as being the bank, they've called folks and told them

294
00:21:44,780 --> 00:21:50,480
there's something wrong with their account and that they need to transfer their money

295
00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:54,680
out of their account and of course they're transferred into a different account.

296
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,180
Hang the phone up.

297
00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:03,460
When you hang the phone up, call your bank, ask them if they called you, there's something

298
00:22:03,460 --> 00:22:04,380
wrong with your account.

299
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:10,080
You have the right to hang up on somebody, you don't have to talk to them.

300
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:15,740
If someone is pressuring you, hang the phone up, they're trying to scam you.

301
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:20,860
If someone calls and tells you that they're a deputy from the Montgomery County Sheriff's

302
00:22:20,860 --> 00:22:26,580
Office or any other law enforcement agency, you can hang the phone up and you can call us

303
00:22:26,580 --> 00:22:32,000
at the Sheriff's Office and ask us, did I get a warrant from my arrest for not being in

304
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:32,580
jury duty?

305
00:22:33,140 --> 00:22:34,540
Is there a warrant from my arrest?

306
00:22:35,180 --> 00:22:38,240
And we'll be able to tell you that, but we'll never call asking for money.

307
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:44,120
I love the folks in Montgomery County and they have worked hard for their money and I hate

308
00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:51,060
to see money stolen from them by scammers so I'll continue to be as proactive as I can

309
00:22:51,060 --> 00:22:55,560
as a sheriff getting the word out and I'd love to y'all to partner with me doing that and

310
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:56,340
I know y'all will.

311
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:56,900
What do you mean?

312
00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:01,080
Man, I thank you guys for the opportunity every month to come and speak to you.

313
00:23:01,220 --> 00:23:01,400
Thanks.

314
00:23:01,620 --> 00:23:02,280
Thank you, Sheriff.

315
00:23:02,700 --> 00:23:03,400
Thank you very much.

316
00:23:04,540 --> 00:23:11,560
And, you know, any kind of money online, I'm old school, I got to shake some of my hand.

317
00:23:11,700 --> 00:23:13,400
I need to see him face-to-face.

318
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,980
All right, I think that's it, Frankie, let's see it, right?

319
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:25,340
I need a motion to adjourn, I make a motion, I need a second, I've got a motion in a second,

320
00:23:25,780 --> 00:23:28,180
all in favor, I'm meeting in adjourn.

321
00:23:28,940 --> 00:23:29,880
Thanks for coming out guys.

322
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:30,020
Thank you very much.